~*The Greatest Loss*~
Part IX: Introducing:Neo-Zero

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing; I leave that to Sotsu Agency Sunrise ANB

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Wing Zero arouse from the ground and into view of the people who came to see it. The elevator stopped at ground level and Wing Zero stood towering over them all. This one looked completely different from the old one. Wing Zero was now completely black, save the hands, shins, and markings on the chest and head. The eyes glowed bright neon green. This Gundam had some of the same weapons as the older one, but a few new ones also. It still had the two Beam Sabers, the Buster Rifle, two 40 mm Machine Cannons, two 20 mm Vulcan head guns, and the large shield for toe-to-toe battle. Now, it also had heat seeking missiles hidden within the chest cavity right above the waist, a large Army Knife was implanted in the left wrist, highly receptive sensors, and along with the ability to turn into the jet, it also is capable of high-quality underwater travel. This Gundam, now known as the Gundam Neo-Zero, was clearly twice as powerful as Wing Zero had been. Neo-Zero stood 55 feet 6 inches tall, and weighed roughly 7.8 tons. Therefore easily making this the most powerful mobile suit ever created.

Everyone walked up to the Gundam, Heero trailing behind, and started to look it over. Trowa Barton was the first to go up to the cockpit. Once up there, Trowa sat inside and looked at the new controls. Heero came up and sat in front of Trowa. "How do you like it? I tried to adapt the controls so that is practically effortless to control all of the modifications. Just as easy as before."

Trowa sat, working the controls as Heero talked. He nodded in silent approval. "Hey Trowa! Come here! You gotta see this!" Quatre shouted from on the ground. Heero moved and Trowa jumped down to join the others who were standing nearly twenty yards in front of it. Once there, when asked, Quatre pointed to Neo-Zero's head. Trowa joined their gazes to see what was up.

The eyes of Neo-Zero that were once bright neon green had now turned into a hellish, indistinct color of deep red. They look as if evil, and the Gundam seemed to morph itself as if preparing itself for something. Neo-Zero warned Heero, who was sitting on the frame of the ledge in the entrance, that something was coming. He jumped up onto his feet, "Everyone! Get back into the house!" Heero climbed into Neo-Zero, and activated it. Under Heero's guidance, Neo-Zero shot straight up into the air with speed faster than the Tallgeese had. Heero had adjusted quicker than Zechs had, and to a faster speed. Heero searched the screens and found where his target was. He looked down and saw the others watching him and the other suit coming. He shouted to them to get back into the house again, this time they listened and did so, some with slight hesitation. He looked back to his rival. He didn't want the fight to happen near the manor so he flew towards the other suit to meet it somewhat half way. With Neo-Zero's speed though, he met it close enough to halfway. Once it was close enough to see it clearly, a thought shot into his mind: That's Gibson's Gundam.

Heero prepared Neo-Zero for combat. The other Gundam, Nombre, stopped a hundred yards in front of him. His face appeared inside Neo-Zero on the front screen. Heero's eyes went wide. "Hello Mister Yuy."

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Inside the house, the others were worried about Heero, but the still followed his orders and stayed inside. What could they do anyway? They don't have suits to help fight, especially against another powerful Gundam. Neo-Zero should be able to handle him okay, mainly because Heero Yuy is it's pilot. These were the thoughts of everyone as they walked through the rubble in the living room. The week had been busy and no one felt like doing much, the staff didn't either therefore they still hadn't cleared it up yet. They brought Gibson's body to the coroner after they had Zechs, and still hadn't received any news, and it was anxiously awaited news.

They were all sitting down on the couch when they received a phone call. Relena answered it; it was the coroner. "Hello, is this Relina Peacecart?" a very ditzy sounding voice came through the receiver.

"I am Relena Peacecraft, yes."

"Oh, sorry 'bout that. I'm sorry it has taken me so long to do the autopsy on Mr. David Gibson, but it has been completed now. Although most things were normal, we found a small contraption in the roof of his mouth, and his bone structure didn't match up correctly with previous x-rays that we had recovered from his hospital records from St. Johns. Another very strange thing we found was that according to his past records, Mr. Gibson has a -B blood type. But when I performed the autopsy, I found +A blood in his system. I further checked his fingerprints on some suspicions that I had received from my boss. I couldn't believe it but they weren't Mr. Gibson's fingerprints! They belonged to a one Mr. Kyle Maddox. How did Mr. Gibson come into possession of Mr. Maddox's fingerprints and blood type? How odd. How on Earth do you explain this? I still have to write out my report and I have no clue on what I should do. I mean, how often does it happen that someone looks like someone else, but has only a few characteristics of it and I can't understand"

"Woah! Shut up for a second! You said the fingerprints belong to Kyle Maddox?" Relena responded as soon as she realized what the hell was going on and could cut into the woman's ramblings.

"Yes I did."

"Did you ever stop and think that it may actually BE Mr. Kyle Maddox's body?"

"Ya know it just might be."

"Are you a blonde?" Relena asked very frustrated.

"Yes."

"Natural?"

"Ah huh!"

"Mou!" and with that Relena hung up the phone and turned around to tell the news. "Everyone, I think Heero's in danger." Everyone replied with odd looks. "That was the coroner. It wasn't even David Gibson that was here, it was a man named Kyle Maddox."

"If the man that died was Maddox, then that means Gibson is fighting Heero as we speak," WuFei said, mostly just saying his thoughts aloud.

"Oh God, he's in deep shit now," Noin replied.

"You think he'll find out?" Quatre asked.

"I hope so," Relena answered. "If he doesn't he may be skrewed."

"I pray he does find out. David Gibson is not a person that should be messed with." Trowa complied.

"That's true, but I bet Heero can still beat him with the Neo-Zero," WuFei said.

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"David Gibson, you son of a bitch. You're supposed to be dead," Heero said angrily, realizing he wasn't avenging the death of Zechs by killing this man- again.

"Yes, it is I. Please, tell me, how it my dear Relena doing? She must be in so much pain right now with the loss of her brother."

"Oh, don't worry, she's fine. I've been taking care of her," Heero replied, noticing that Gibson didn't much like the fact that 'Heero' had been taking care of her.

"Well aren't you just special than? You bastard! If I ever hear that you touch her again I will hunt you down like a dog and slaughter you the same way I killed your friend Chris," Gibson yelled as he charged Nombre at Neo-Zero who quickly moved out of the way. Gibson silently marveled at the speed of this new Gundam. He had thought there were no Gundams left. He decided that he could still take him out, so he drew out Nombre's Beam Saber and prepared for combat.

Heero, slightly shocked at the news of Chris's death, quickly pulled out Neo-Zero's Beam Saber. Why hadn't Duo told me? he thought to himself. He must have known... He snapped back into reality as Nombre took a swipe at Neo-Zero. The attack was quickly dodged and countered and Neo-Zero made contact. There was crackling and sparks as the Beam cut through the left side of Nombre's torso. "What?!? You hit me?!? You will pay dearly for that my friend," Gibson shouted to Heero.

"I am NOT your friend. You killed my friends." A small amount of surprise hit as he realized he considered Zechs a friend. "You are the one who will pay for what you have done." Neo-Zero attacked Nombre with his Beam Saber, making contact in the right arm this time. Nombre attacked back and hit Neo-Zero in the left leg.

"You shouldn't have to worry about your friends anymore, Mr. Yuy. They will all be dead soon enough. Well, except Relena, she will be mine, and I will be her first," Gibson said with a smile. Heero smirked back. "Why are you smiling?" Gibson asked.

"You think that you will be her first? Sorry sir, but she has been tainted," Heero answered with a wry look on his face. Although it was not the truth, Gibson wouldn't know that. "You still gonna fight or just stay there, Pussy?"

"WHAT? Pussy? Oh that's it!" Gibson's face grew angry and the Gundams fought recklessly, causing them both to lose their Beam Sabers. As a result, the two Gundams began to play a small game of mercy.

This was the opportunity Heero had been waiting for. He pushed Neo-Zero forward and as soon as they were close enough, shot out the Army Knife, hitting Nombre in the chest cavity, right above the area in which Gibson himself sat. Gibson countered with the machine guns he had in the chest cavity that was still operational. Neo-Zero flew back and then plowed its way forward through the shower of bullets, pulling the other Beam Saber out. "Oh come on, is this the best you can do?" after receiving an angry look he added. "Bring it on Pussy." Gibson had nothing left to use, he lost his Beam Saber, and his Gundam wasn't even fully developed yet, only about 72%, and didn't have most of his weapons. He hadn't counted on them having a Gundam and therefore hadn't bothered to bring more of his weapons. He saw Neo-Zero charging with its other Beam Saber and new had nothing left to do. He looked down at his left hand, trying to think of something quickly in his panic. Then he saw it. The self-detonation switch. "Good-by my beloved." He pushed the switch. The head, waist, and center of the chest began to glow a bright red, and Heero saw this before Neo-Zero had reached Nombre. Neo-Zero shot straight up once again and watched as the Gundam Nombre exploded, sent a heat-seeking missile into the blast, and then flew back to the Peacecraft Mansion.

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The semi-agitated people in the house were sitting patently as they awaited the return of the Gundam Neo-Zero and it's pilot. "What the hell can be taking to long? I mean, yeah, battles usually take quite a while, but come on! With how Neo-Zero is built, Gibson's Gundam shouldn't take that long to destroy."

"Duo, calm down. Heero's doing his best. When he's done he'll come back," Noin said trying to calm the braided boy.

Relena stood over by the window, watching, waiting for Heero to come back. Not even aware of the others' bickering. She closed her eyes and sighed. So much has happened these past few months. First she lost Heero, then she was kidnapped, she found Heero, only to be taken away by her brother, she almost died, Heero was almost killed, Gibson supposedly died but it was some guy named Kyle Maddox, then Milliardo died, now Heero is out fighting in a brand new Gundam model that he made from Wing Zero called Neo-Zero. It's faster than the Tallgeese and more powerful than any other mobile suit ever created. What if Heero doesn't win the fight with Gibson? She thought. What will become of me, I lost my brother, and I don't think I'll be able to handle loosing Heero. Again. Oh Heero. Please, defeat that man.

"He's coming!" The other ran over to the window where Relena was. "There he is, look!" she pointed to the object flying in the sky. Relena stepped back from the window and started running to the door to go out and greet him. The others quickly followed her.

They all stood outside as Neo-Zero landed, and deactivated. The door opened and Heero jumped out, landing on the ground with barely any audible sound other than a small grunt on impact. Relena ran as fast as she could to Heero, and once she was there she threw herself into his welcoming arms. The others were jogging up slowly behind and would be there soon. But until then, Relena found this an ideal time to talk to Heero. "I'm so glad you're okay," she said into his ear, since her head was still on his shoulder, leaning on his head. She could feel him smile. "The coroner called, what happened to Gibson?"

"He self-detonated. What did the coroner say?"

"The body that we gave them was of a man named Kyle Maddox. The coroner was a total dumbass though; the last thing she did was check for fingerprints, blood type, and dental records. She said she couldn't understand how on Earth, that Mr. Gibson came into possession of Mr. Maddox's fingerprints and blood type. I just don't get it," Relena said, mimicking the blonde coroner.

The others approached and she reluctantly let Heero go, but he didn't let he go. "Hey Heero, where is Gibson?"

"He self-detonated."

"Did you check to see if he was still there?" Duo asked.

"Duo, I'm not like you. And besides, from that explosion, not even I could have lived through it," Heero explained.

"Oh Ha Ha, very funny Yuy. I could so kick your ass," Duo said the last part quietly to himself but Heero heard it.

"Whatever Maxwell."
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Okay everybody! This one was shorter by about half a page or so from the others but its okay because this is the end of The Greatest Loss. If I get persuasion I may do some sort of continuation, but that's up to you. Thanks for reading and please tell me what you thought of it.

~Angel Yuy~