Gundam Wing: Ended Waltz

By: Qasur Zephlar Exlarr

Chapter 4: Operation Clean Sweep

"Sir, Operation Armageddon did not complete as planned. All of the mobile dolls were totally destroyed and the facility was completely ruined. The computer terminal was shut down first, then destroyed," the messenger said to the Barton Foundation's leader. "What did you say?" he asked as he looked over at the man with anger on his face. "Operation Arm--" he was saying, before being cut off. "I heard you! Damn it!!" he yelled. "That was a big advantage we had over them! They didn't know we had those suits being constructed on earth," he said as he smashed him fist against a nearby wall. "Tell them to send a 2 wings a Serpent mobile suits to the earth to take over Moscow, I don't want to here the same outcome this time!" he said, turning and screaming at the messenger. "Ye.. Yes sir!" he said, saluting before leaving the Baron's office.

"They don't have a clue what's about to hit them," he said to himself. He was looking out of his office's window aboard the Peacemillion as it was far off from earth, but away from the colonies near the asteroids. "This is going to be an even more sneaky attack. Just wait Luxembourg, I don't think you'll want to miss this. The capital always takes the biggest hit!" he said laughing.

Back at command on the ORSC colonies, Fenald was preparing 3 squadrons of Virgo II's to send to the Earth Sphere colony to 'shake' them up. He had already placed 2 squads at the Earth Sphere Colony on the outer rim. The pilots of the mobile suits and transports, plus the transport's passengers, were now all captives of ORSC during this war.

"Sir, I just got a report from Peacemillion, they wish us to send 2 wings of Serpent Mobile suits to Moscow to capture it," the messenger on the Colony had said. "Prepare them, I don't want to waste any time. Crippling Moscow will be a good move; it will leave Luxembourg less protected and allow us to take over the Earth Sphere," he said happily thinking about what he was going to do when the war ended in their sweet victory. "After having taken the Mars Project out of the picture, we'll be able to once and for all take care of the Earth for ourselves!" he said aloud with glory and triumph in his words. "We'll soon finally have the Earth Sphere for ourselves, it's only taken us 20 years!" he said balling his right hand into a fist.

* * *

Back on Colony X-199987, everyone was devising a plan to rescue the people that were trapped on the old colony, Z-11192. The idea was a simple diversion of forces. They would lure them from one colony to another colony that was being attack, so that Duo, who was in disguise, could sneak a transport in and rescue everyone.

"Ok, Duo, we want you to take your mobile suit and get as close to the colony nearest the rebel command colony. Once there, their mobile suits will attack most likely. Play it off by taking a little bit of damage, then crash land on board the colony. Set it up so that it looks like they shot you down, then find a place to hide," Sally told him, "Oh, and make sure you leave them thinking you're dead."

"Damn, I have to sacrifice my mecha!" Duo argued. "Well, it's not a gundam," Heero added. "What?!" Duo yelled out again. Heero then said, "As for me, I'll be flying to the colony on the opposite side of where you'll be. There, I'll also start a battle; but I will be there to destroy the mobile suits. It should attract their attention from the main headquarters. Most likely, they will send the suits from the old colony and the other close colonies. I can take care of them."

"As for myself and Wufei," Sally started to say, "We'll be piloting a second transport to Z-11192, and Wufei is going have a Serpent suit on board in case I need protection from any unwanted visitors," she said smiling at Wufei, who agreed to go along with the plan.

"Trowa is going to pilot a Serpent and follow Heero and help him fight off the suits. We think it will make them want to send more suits their way," Sally said to them. "And Duo, once they send troops toward them, take over a mobile-suit carrier and pilot it toward the colony. When you get close enough, Trowa will fire a smoke dart into you. It will look as if you've been hit, and you will have to veer off toward the old colony to land. Make another crash landing, except make sure the transport is alright," she told him as he almost blushed, "we want to get everyone out alive."

"Alright, so I get to be the chauffeur today?" Duo said sighing. "Oh, well, at least I'm not a target for hundreds of mobile suits to shoot at me," he said laughing at Trowa and Heero. "Maxwell, you're weak," Heero said.

"Wha..," Wufei said opening his eyes, "nicely said Yuy, you beat me to it." Everyone laughed at Wufei's remark. Duo was getting mad, "That's not funny!"

When everyone stopped laughing, Sally continued with the plan. "After Wufei and I sneak past the colonies, we're going to ram this transport into the command colony's main office," she said, "it ought to piss them off. Then when they threaten us with hostages, we'll laugh at them, because we'll have rescued them."

The plan sounded good to all of the pilots and the Preventor's. Relena wasn't into the plan as much because of the war that it was bringing, but she said they could do it. The operation would start at 08:00 the next morning.

* * *

Heero woke up and got dressed and ready to go quite fast, and quiet too. He ate a quick breakfast, then he walked over to Solo, who was still sound asleep, and yanked his braid. "Oowww..." he barely said as his eyes crept open. "Get up sleepy. We leave in 15 minutes," Heero said as he walked out of the room. Solo yawned and fell out of the bed screaming, "Shit!" He jumped up off of the metal floor and his braid just jumped around with a mind of its own. "Damn that's cold!" he yelled out rubbing his arms. He finally felt a little warmer, so he decided it was time to put his clothes on as. He found some stuff for breakfast and quickly ate so he wouldn't be starving. His appetite was quite different than his father's, the bottomless pit. He ran after Heero in the mobile suit room.

Heero and Solo went up the elevator to their gundams. "Well, lets go to space and see what we can do," Solo said, before stretching. He then gave out a little yawn, before rubbing his eyes. He was still tired as hell. They both walked to their respective gundams and jumped into the cockpits. Heero had located an old base where experimental mobile suit launching boosters had been tested. They were external boosters fitted to mobile suits to allow them to be shot into outer space without the need of a large carrier. They fitted theirs own the night before and were now ready to go.

Each of them walked out of the base and stood side by side. Within seconds the large booster systems ignited and the small mobile suits were propelled into the air onward toward space. Each set his boosters to max and they zipped on through the air toward their destination.

* * *

"It's time, we start now," Sally said as Duo nodded. He ran over to his suit and jumped into the black Leo. He built it out of some of the Neo Titanium, making it quite strong. "I'm ready to go," he said as he flew out of the hangar. Heero and Trowa followed him out and they parted their separate ways. Wufei and Sally got inside of the transport and were waiting until 08:30 to start their mission.

"Aunt Relena," Wind asked curiously from behind the crowd of people, "why wasn't I included into this mission?"

"They wanted you to stay behind and protect us. You are the only hope we have against any army," she said to him, "we have only 10 pilots with not-so-great mobile suits, so your help is greatly needed," she replied to him smiling. "Oh, ok. That can make since," he said. They walked back into the large command room aboard the colony.

It was a deep room with computers on the walls. They were the only visible lights besides the light from earth and the stars in the viewport. There were only two doors leading in or out of the room. One was on the right side and the other in the rear. Relena and Wind stood right next to the large, 6-foot high viewport. It was as wide as the room. The room was not lit at all by artificial light, making it one of the most peaceful areas aboard the loud colony.

"Space… it's so cold," Wind said in a whisper. Relena heard him. He looked out the large viewport and toward Earth, which was barely visible in the far right of the window. "Aunt Relena," Wind said, "what is earth like?"

"Huh," she said looking at him, "well, It's very peaceful. Fresh air, small towns and cities, lots of people," she replied closing her eyes and imaging places that she grew up in. "There is the beach, which is quiet and calm. It's nothing like the space colonies," she said. "And it's not like Mars either," he said to her comment.

* * *

Duo came flying passed a colony without being seen. Good thing his suit was solid black, it helped. He started to approach the correct colony, so he ignited his beam sabre. When he got close enough, he fired a few shots at the suits, which had not noticed him yet. He figured out they were manned suits, not mobile dolls. He shot at one, and it connected with the suit and caused it to blow up. "Whoa, lucky shot!" he said with his wicked fighting smile on his face as he flew into the mob. "Look out boys," he said, "Shinigami is back!"

Duo flew into the large group of suits shooting many more random shots. He fired a shot right into the cockpit of a Taurus suit, causing it to explode. He spun around and sliced another suit, then shot it to make it exploded as well. When he flipped back around, he was shot a few times in the chest of his suit by beam rifles from other suits. "Thank Shinigami that this suit was made with neo titanium alloy!" he said as he shot the suit and blew it up. A laser rifle shot off his suit's left arm, with the shield and beam sabre. "Damn! A laser rifle, I have to be careful!" He cursed out, spinning around shooting at the laser rifle-toting suit. It dodged him and then fired again, but he was quick enough to fly above the suit. He fired a few shots at it in a scattered formation. The suit tried to dodge, but the pilot was un-experienced and didn't know what to do, and one of the many shots hit the main camera destroying it. He took the liberty to fire a clear shot at the cockpit. It blasted right through as the suit was knocked back. The suit flashed a bright light, then exploded into a million pieces. He wiped the sweat from his head, as he flew toward the landing bay of the colony that he was fighting closer too. One of the suits shot him with a beam cannon and it blew one of the legs off and caused his suit to smoke.

"Hey, great, you added to the fake effects!" Duo said as he laughed. Except he knew he had to be careful since they actually damaged him. His black suit slammed against the far inside wall of the landing bay. It didn't take long for Duo to fly out of the cockpit. He set the self-destruction device for only 8 seconds, so he had to hurry. He was lucky that a door to the inside of the colony was partially opened. He squeezed himself inside and shut it behind him quickly. He continued to run until he found a place in an air duct to hide in, from which he could wait until 09:45, when his next mission began.

His black suit made a huge explosion that rocked the landing bay. It destroyed 4 other mobile suits that were nearby. The attacking mobile suits presumed that the shot blew it up. Duo laughed to himself, knowing that the plan had worked, or the alarm would have sounded. Just then, an alarm sounded. "Holy shit!" he said almost too loud, but then he calmed down. The intercom system was announcing that they needed mobile suits from this colony to go help in the fight against 2 rebellious suits fighting near Z-202021. Duo nodded to himself knowing that everything was going well so far.

Heero and Trowa had already battled off nearly 40 mobile suits. Trowa flew the Serpent up in front of two mobile suits, then just rapidly fired the two double-gattling guns that he toted. The Serpent was much like the HeavyArms, so Trowa could make use with it easily. The two Taurus' were riddled with ammunition, before they both exploded. He spun around and fired two missiles into the on-coming Taurus suit. They destroyed the suit easily.

Heero wasn't using his buster rifle much at all. He just held it in his left hand just in case. Most suits were trying to run away from him. He just flew up behind them and either sliced them into pieces, stabbed the cockpits from the rear, or used his vulcans to destroy them. Three Taurus' tried to take him on by firing their beam cannons at him. One hit him and bounced off as the other scored a hit, causing a small piece of the gundanium alloy to break off and that spot lightly smoked. They continued to fire, while Heero maneuvered passed the shots and sliced two of them in half with once swipe, then spun around and used his vulcans to riddle the other Taurus, until they all exploded.

"Hey, Heero, I have a group of 18 more suits coming in. They are from the colony Duo went too," Trowa told him. "All right, then we just need to take care of them too, as well as these last 5 stragglers," he said back to Trowa. "Roger," Trowa replied before shooting many rounds through a Taurus. It creaked as it tried to move, then exploding hurling bits and pieces of titanium into the face of the Serpent.

Sally had flown up extremely close to the colony. She was surprised that they haven't caused any attention to the nearby suits. Her pass codes seemed to work for getting by two patrols. "We're almost to the colony Wufei," she said to him, while he sat in the Serpent suit. "You'll be able to come up here soon, the colony is within range," she continued to tell him. She took his quietness as a reply to the answer.

Wufei had his eyes closed and his arms crossed. He was waiting the moment that he would have to fire up the Serpent and jump out of the transport to help protect Sally until she could find a safe dock. He sighed before almost falling asleep.

Duo has successfully stolen a transport that was going to the old colony to drop off food supplies. The old colony was basically just a huge, round hunk of metal. No supplies at all were left there, not even while the Barton Foundation used the colony to rebuild the Peacemillion. He saw Sally's transport far off, and realized he was right on time. He sent the authorization code and it was accepted. He flew the transport into the dock and some of the men went to work. He went out acting like he was going to take a break in the lounge, then disappeared into the colony. It was indeed very old. Most of the floors creaked when walked on and there was dirt, grime and lots of very black-looking walls everywhere. "Man, and I thought some other colonies were bad," he said shaking his head in shame.

"Ah ah," he said as he reached the weather control room of the colony. He thought a little 'natural disaster' would be good for the colony. He was amazed that it still worked when he started the rain system. He made sure to over power the system, so it was more like a thunderstorm, just without the thunder and lightning…

The soldiers guarding the hostages started to get wet fast, so they decided to move them inside a building. Just then, Duo came up behind them and put a gun to one their heads. The others looked at him. He had his wicked smile on his face. "Ok, put your weapons down!" he yelled at them. They did as he told, even the one with gun pointed at him. He was shaking now, not only because he was wet, but also because he was very nervous.

He hit the guy on the back of the neck with the but of the pistol and he fell over knocked out. The other 3 were pushed away by Duo to an area where he locked them in a room. He made the locks on the door worked and then took off back toward the hostages.

"Hey, all of you come with me, we're escaping this colony," he said to them. "Just follow me," he said as he brought them through a back passage through the colony to the transport ship. He had to sneak them on slowly because of the Barton Foundation workers whom were doing maintenance on suits and filling up the transports with empty containers.

"Duo, come in," Sally said over their personal headsets. "Yeah, I'm here. What's going on?" he said to her. "The Earth Sphere Colony is under attack," she told him. "Damn! Well, at least Wind is there," he said to her, "they bombed the hangar on their first run and it crippled the Tallgeese III's left arm and vernians," she said to him, "it also blocked the hangar so no other suits could leave."

"Shit, well, I just got the hostages out. We are heading out of the landing bay now," he said as the transport finished backing out of the colony.

"Heero and Trowa got a load of Serpent suits that are being sent their way, which means they should be passing you shortly," she said. Duo glanced out the viewport and saw a mob of suits approaching the colony, about to fly around it to the battle on the other side. A few flew from over the top of the transport toward the colony. "Well, I'm outta here," Duo said to her as he fired the transports engines into full power after swinging the huge vessel around.

The Wing Zero's radar showed the new group of suits coming his way, so Heero flew the Wing Zero toward the old colony. Another dozen suits showed up after Heero and Trowa managed to destroy the other 5 suits. Many of them followed Heero as he flew close to the surface of the colony, just barely skimming it. Trowa was away from him still shooting apart mobile suits.

Heero flew near the center of the colony, then yanked back on the controls. The Wing Zero did a pitch straight up into the air. It did a 540 before flipping over. He came down positioning himself high above the colony, before holding up the twin buster rifle. "Trowa, get back, I'm going to blow up this colony," he said. And without any further warning, he gladly pulled the trigger. A huge, arc of power blazed out of the cannon as the beam struck the top of the colony. The outer material caused a delay in the beams' entrance to the colony's insides, but before long it melted through. It continued to shoot through the insides of the colony. The blast vaporized a few miles of an old business district in the colony. It finally reached the other side of the colony, where it busted out. The sides of the colony started to explode and huge gaps of fire erupted from holes left by the explosions. The colony sparked and flared with fire.

The Serpent suits that were skimming across the surface of the colony toward Heero didn't see him aim his energy cannon. Before they had time to think, the bright blast blinded them. In mere seconds the suits were engulfed in the bright yellow-organ energy beam. From far off, Trowa saw the beam from the rifle as it hit the colony. Soon after, a few small explosions could be seen around the top of the colony where the blast hit. "Heh, some people never learn to keep clear," Trowa said smirking.

The recoil energy hit the Wing Zero with great force. It ripped apart the wings of his suit a little bit and some of the gundanium on the chest started to melt. "Damn it!" Heero cursed, "I thought I fixed the recoil energy enough to not do this damage!"

Trowa, and many other pilots, just watched as the colony made its final explosion sending it into molten pieces that melted away from the colony that not longer exists.

"Mission," Heero said taking in deep breath, "complete." The buster rifle was emitting electricity all around it's barrels, which the ends were completely melted away. The right side of the rifle exploded, causing the other side to enter the same dangerous state of self-destruction. Heero took action quickly, and tried to the drop the rifle and fly away, but the he was caught in the blast, which melted away more of the front armor of his gundam. "Damn!"

He fired the thrusters and took off back toward the Earth Sphere Colony. Trowa finished destroying the last suit near the other colonies, then headed back himself. Duo was about one-third the way back to the colony already.

* * *

"Sir, we have reports that a gundam and a Serpent suit destroyed the colony Z-11192," the messenger from earlier told his boss. "What?!" he said spinning around quickly. "There were many Earth Sphere workers and officers aboard that colony," he told him. "I know sir, but just go word that they were rescued during this recent attack," he said trying not to shudder at the thoughts of a raging mad Barton. "DAMMIT!!" he yelled aloud. "Get me a direct link to Fenald this instant!" he demanded. "Yes, sir!" he replied back, before calling up communications to link him to the command colony.

The main screen buzzed, then an image of Fenald appeared. "Sir, we have had unexpected difficulties here, I can't believe it," he began to say holding reports from the recent actions. "I don't wish to hear it, Fenald, I am just thankful that it happened now, rather than much earlier," he said to him. Earlier would have probably crushed them. They would have lost the Peacemillion most likely and then Part C of their operation would be halted. By having the suits on earth destroyed, Part B went bad to say the least. "We are in position here," he said to Fenald. "Sir, what do you--" he was trying to say. "I want you to take charge at the head of the suits heading toward Moscow! You can manage from there!" he said. "Leave my site at once," he demanded, turning away waving his hand at the image as it disappeared from the screen.

* * *

Solo and Heero came flying toward the Earth Sphere Colony. They had picked up a few dozen suits attacking it on their radar. Many small explosions were visible from where they were. They noted that there were only 28 suits left. "Hey, they're under attack!" Solo yelled to Heero. "I wonder where everyone else is?" Heero said to him. They watched, as the colony's few beam cannons shot again and again at the mobile dolls. It didn't take much of the dolls to make short work of a few of the cannons. "Anyway, let's go get those suits. We don't want to loose anyone on that colony," he said firing his thrusters harder and he flew to the colony. Heero followed him close behind.

They both flew right into combat, taking out a few of the mobile dolls easily. "Hey, these suits have just the same amount of planet defensers' as the others did on earth," Solo said to Heero. "Yep, but these are faster and they don't have as quite as much fire power," he replied to Solo. Heero was using his laser rifle more in space since it was working so well. He melted 5 suits at once with a good, high powered double barrel shot. It overloaded the cooling unit, so he had to put it back into storage. The suits that he hit slowly exploded. He flew up to another and sliced it with his beam sabre. He spun around to one shooting at him, so he took the opportunity to use his laser vulcans against it while its shield was down. The shots nailed through the mecha, but he slammed into it with the sabre just to make sure, as it blew up.

Solo flew up to a few and sliced them into titanium shreds. They were much easier than the Mercurius and Vaye-Ate suits they had fought a day earlier. He sliced one into halves with his warblades. An explosion followed behind his vernians boost. He flew right into another one, which caused it to break, literally, into pieces. The cheap titanium suits were like toys. He kicked the weak suit with the spike on the tip of his right foot. It ripped up through the bottom of the suit to the cockpit. Solo swung the huge scythe at the suit and sliced it horizontally taking its main camera off. The edges where the slice was were read from the heat of the weapon. The suit's insides glowed red. Momentarily each system was destroyed as the damage caused the suit to explode in a violent sphere of fire.

Some of the suits fired at him, but the shots bounced off of the chest of his suit. "Ha, you stupid mobile dolls!" he said as he thanking himself for installing the added defense of the energy shield. Solo had already learned their strategy of fighting by watching them for not long. They were all the same. The suit hurled through space as he flew into another mob of suits in the distance. Small explosions could be immediately seen.

* * *

Relena and Wind watched the battle take place outside. "It's those suits again!" Sally said as she came up behind Relena. "I'm back, we took care of our job, but we had to lose the transport when it was finally attacked at the last checkpoint," she said to her, "I rod back in the cockpit with Wufei in the Serpent."

"Oh, well, I'm glad you are alright," she said toward her. "So, these are the mystery suits?" she said pointing toward the gundams that were fighting outside. "Yeah, but they are helping us, so they must be good," Sally said taking a good look for herself. "Aunt Relena," Wind said, "are these not the Deathscythe and Wing Zero?"

"Well, technically they are, but they aren't the real ones. They must be copies," she said to her nephew. "Oh, strange," he replied thinking about it.

Heero came falling down, slicing one suit into two pieces. He spun around, then flew backward firing his vulcans. The shots hit and destroyed another suit. He ran into another mobile doll flying backward, but he had his beam sabre pointed backward. The blade went through the cockpit. He pulled it out, then turned and gave it a diagonal swipe across the chest making it break into pieces. This suit didn't explode, so he shot his vulcans at it. The main body blew up afterward, but the limbs didn't. "Heh, strange suits," Heero said to himself. "Hey, that's all of them," he said to Solo. "Yeah, I know," he replied. "What now?" he asked.

"Let's go inside. I know they would like to know what's going on," Heero said flying toward the colony. Solo came up right behind him and turned off his massive, thermal scythe.

Trowa and Heero had just returned to the colony when the last suits were being destroyed. They went to the hangar and broke it open, then entered and landed their suits. Heero came out of his cockpit. "Hey, can you get to work on my suit?" he asked Duo's sweeper friend. "Sure Mr. Yuy, I'll get on it right away," he replied as he whistled to his fellow workers to come up to the suit. Trowa got out of his suit and jumped down to the main deck. "That plan went very well I must say," he said, "I had my doubts."

"I did as well, but good thing it worked," Heero replied as they walked down the hall to the control room.

Heero and Solo came and landed in the hanger as well. The workers turned and starred at them as they made their way through the crowded and damaged bay. They walked the suits to the far corner in the back, away from the workers, before they jumped out. Heero motioned Solo to the direction of the door. They both floated down to it then went inside. "I guess we'll go see our parents," Heero said as he walked down the hall. He found a computer and quickly located the control room, which was being used at the command center. "It's this way," he said to Solo walking to an elevator. They reached a new floor with a lot of people. He walked down the hall in front of them, then took a left. He came to the door and stopped. He stood there for a minute with his finger about to push the button to open the door. "Heero?" Solo asked him. "I'm sorry, It's just that I haven't seen my mother or father in a long time," he said, "and then to have a gundam."

He looked at Solo who nodded to him. Heero pressed the button and the door hissed open. He walked in, followed by Solo who looked around at the people inside. There was a group of people standing at the far end of the darkened room looking out of the window into space. It was quite dark in the room, with most of the light coming from outside in space.

"HEERO!" Relena yelled out as she spotted her son across the room. "Yes, Relena?" the older Heero said as he looked at his fiancé. Her eyes were wide. "No, over there, our son," she said pointing. "What?!" he said as he turned to see him. "Heero," the father said to his son in a low mannered tone.

"Mom… dad…" he couldn't keep from saying in almost a whisper. Relena rushed over to him and gave him hug. She had tears coming down her face. "You're alright!" she said to him. "Yes, I'm fine mother," he said as he hugged her back. His father walked over to him with his arms crossed. "And where have you been?" Heero said, continuing his death glare and harsh tone of voice. "Do you really want to know?" he replied. "Yes!" his father screamed. Everyone was looking at them now. No one had ever seen Heero mad. It was a new experience for everyone. "I was in Edward, California. I stayed at their military base for the last few months and I, with the help of my friend," he said pointing to Solo, who was leaning against the wall, almost camouflaged with it because of his black attire, "built those two gundams that have been seen on TV."

"Huh?! … But," Heero began to say, "…how?" Heero made a mental note to ponder on that thought later when he was alone. "So, you two are the pilots of those new gundams!" His father yelled at him. "Yes, we are," he replied, "and thanks for telling us about your past too, father."

Heero narrowed his eyes even smaller than they were at his son. "It was erased for a reason, Jr.," he said to him, "It was painful and it brings back dreaded memories every time I see a mobile suit." Heero Jr. just took the answer and was left without another question. He continued to look at his father. His mother stood back and just watched the feud between father and son. It was weird. Looking at two, identical twins. Relena's son was just about 4 inches shorter than his father was. They were both wearing the same attire also. Heero's classic green, tank top shirt and tight, black pants.

"You must be Solo, right?" Heero said looking at him. "My name is shinigami," he said to him. "Heh, just like your father," he said smirking, "a Maxwell is a Maxwell."

"Well, I can't deny that," he said as the Maxwell wicked grin came up on his face. "You're right," Heero said, then hearing a loud beeping sound, "ah, and here comes your father now."

Duo accidentally came too close when he was docking the transport next to the colony. There was a second transport that was with him. "Hey, guys, I'm back," Duo said jumping out of the transport. He landed on the ground and looked at his son. He had a shocked look cross his face. "Solo?" he asked. "Yeah, it's me dad," he replied. "What the hell are you doing here?" he demanded to know narrowing his eyes on him. "I..." he said, as he started to mumble some things.

"Look, Maxwell," Heero said getting his attention, "he's one of the pilots of those new gundams. And my son is the other," he said to him. "You've got to be kidding me!" Duo said with a stone cold voice starring at his son. He walked over to him and pulled him into a backroom by his braid, which caused much pain in Solo.

The passengers were getting off of the two transports and pouring into the open area in the colony. One of them approached Relena, Sally, and the gundam pilots. "Trowa?" she said to him. "Hmm?" he replied, "who are you?"

"You don't' recognize me, Trowa," she said, holding up the white cross that he once wore one time as a child many years ago. His memory flashed back to that day nearly 20 years earlier. His eyes widened in shock. "Oh… it's you," he slowly said out, "Mi.. Middi?" he said. "Yes, it's me Trowa," she said as she gave him a hug while smiling. "What are you doing here?" he asked her. "I am one of the few survivors that the Earth Sphere transport found on Mars. We were attacked by mobile suits and they destroyed everything, and I didn't think I was going to survive," she said as she looked into his eyes. They were sparkling and Trowa had one of his rare smiles on his face. Everyone else decided to leave them alone as they walked back inside. "I'm glad to see that you are all right. Please, come inside with us. I want you to meet some of my friends," Trowa said as he took her hand and led her into the command center in the colony.

Wind looked at the group of people coming into the colony as he walked toward the door. He first thought he was daydreaming, but then he saw his father. "DAD!" he yelled out as he ran to his aid. His father's left arm was in a sling and his left leg had a splint on it, with heavy bandaging and tape. "Wind," he said very relieved as his son came up to him. Wind put his father's right arm around his neck as he tried to support him. He had tears coming down his face. "I thought you died father, when I saw the building collapse and explode when I left," he said to him. "So did I son, so did I; but then there was hope," he said, "your Aunt had sent a transport to Mars to see what was going on, but they didn't realize what they were in for."

"I'm just glad that you're ok," he said. "Milliardo!" Relena screamed out as she saw her injured brother. "Hey sis," he said as he groaned in pain. Relena called for someone to get him a doctor immediately. Wind was still trying to hold him up. "I'm alright, I can stand for now," he said to her. "I'm glad you're all right brother."

"Yeah, so am I, but," he said, "I can't say that about my wife." He looked the other way out into the darkness of space. "I think she died in the attack," he finished telling her. "I couldn't find her, nor any of the others."

"She… died?" Relena said shocked. Her eyes widened in pain, then they started to tear. "Oh, no, that can't be…"

Relena started to cry over her lost friend. Noin was close to all of the pilots and their wives and families. "Who attacked you?" she asked him. A wheelchair was brought to him with the doctor and he sat down in it. Milliardo was wheeled off to the medical lab to treat his injuries. Everyone else walked went back to command room saddened greatly.

In the morning, Relena and the others filled everyone in on the current situation. "Yuy, I see you're sill alive," Zechs said as he saw Heero walk up from far behind them. "Zechs," Heero said shocked to see him, "and you look like you've seen hell."

He nodded. "I have and it's not a pleasant place," he replied.

"Yesterday was a big day," Sally said to everyone in the room. "We've all gotten some needed rest for today I hope," she said, "because I know that the Barton Foundation won't be pleased with what we have done to them." They all started planning for the rest of what was to come. They were not even half way done with stopping their enemy in his tracks. At the present time, the Barton Foundation still has the upper hand.

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"Sir, Operation Daybreak is under way. We will reach the earth's atmosphere in the next 4 hours," said the Commander of the Peacemillion to his leader, Max Barton. "I have arranged for the broadcast of the Moscow Massacre to be live here for you," he said before bowing and leaving the Barton to himself. "Well, lets see how well you do now Fenald! Dare to let me down," he said smirking. "He better not fail in bringing down Moscow, it's too critical a move in this strategic chess game of mine," he said before laughing, "until morning, my dear earth!"

Chapter 5: Twin Massacres