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Gundam Wing & Sailor Moon
X Pi
Episode 3:
The Fire and Dreams
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Johan sat on the log that he claimed as his own while he stared into the fire as if he was searching for his own answers within the flames and smoke. As he searched within the fire he heard something come from the woods around him. In the instant he heard this his instincts as a fighter and solider drove him to reach for the sword that he was given. He pulled the blade from the sheath and waited for something to come out of the woods like a hunter waiting for his game. He stood on the tips of his toes waiting to jump or dodge or perhaps run from anything that would be fired at him.
But through the trunks of the forests Johan saw glints of light, they were reflections of eyes from the fire. Soon the glints of light became familiar faces that came into the range of the campfire. He saw the Gundams as well as the Senshi, as soon as they came around the campfire Johan sheathed his katana.
"What are all of you doing out here?" Johan asked
"We were a little worried about you Johan." Quatre explained, "But actually these girls here were a little more worried about you."
"I'm fine."
"What we're you thinking about?" Rei asked sympathetically
Johan sat back down on the log and went back to looking into the flames of the campfire.
"I was thinking about my wife, Haruka." He explained
"What was she like?" Minako asked with starry eyes hoping to hear a romantic story. And probably her wish will be granted.
"Haruka Tenou." Johan smiled, "My wife, she was a real tomboy. She loved to work on machines but she loved to work on mobile suits. When I met her she had just resigned out of the Oz Women's Mobile Suit Infantry. She was an extremely great pilot even as much as a Gundam. But when I met her at the time I had already lost my first fiancé and so I was just in a great state of mourning. I had lost my desire to fight and defend, but after spending a month with her I had regained it. She gave back my heart, my will and my life. Even though I never slept with her or even kissed her for that matter."
"Why not?" Minako asked
"MINAKO!" Rei shouted
Johan laughed, "It's alright. But the reason why I didn't was because I had my standards plus I don't exactly have loose morals. But a few months after we were married I came home and found her dead on my black baby grand piano. And now I'm back and living through this hell called mourning."
Silence around the campfire as the Gundams and Senshi sat down on the ground or any other logs that might be near it. The scene was like that of some kind of Anime summer camp.
"I think I understand you now." Haruka (who is Sailor Uranus) thought, "You have a pure heart."
Johan's eyes began to tear up, but he reached into the pocket of his gray trench coat to wipe away any tears. Even though none had formed in the first place.
Duo looked at Johan's face and saw his pupil's began to dilate, at least from where he sat.
"What are you thinking about now?" He asked
"I'm thinking about my past." Johan answered, "My beginning. We all have our beginning, an episode zero I think one would call it. How many of you have your own episode zero?" He rose his hand.
Slowly around the campfire the Gundams and Senshi rose their hand.
"Then we are more alike than we realize." Johan whispered to anyone he could be near or rather to himself, "I have a rare group of friends."
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"I will see you in you're dreams." The Dream Watcher Lain had explained after she had given the swords or rather when the swords chose them.
Johan thought about this while he was lying down on the bed in the guest bedroom of the Sank Kingdom's Institute. He lay by himself, which is something unusually because he hadn't slept by himself every since he married Haruka.
He began to dream.
"Johan." A long sweet voice called out to him.
All Johan saw in this was darkness total pitch-black darkness. But like a blank computer screen that had been woken up the darkness slowly became light. And Johan found underneath his feet what looked like an ocean but it could have been any kind of body of water. But that's all he could see around him was just water and sky. So it was definitely an ocean, he looked under his feet and the first fear that gripped him was falling into the water. But for some reason he didn't fall, it was like some kind of biblical miracle, he was standing on top of the water.
As soon as this feeling left Johan's system he looked at the beauty around him. The ocean under his feet looked like the color of a tropical ocean, the colors of light blue and green. It was probably the most beautiful visage of an ocean. Although within what may have been a few minutes a sense of rationality came back to Johan.
"I'm dreaming." He thought
"That's right." A voice called out
Johan looked and he found Lain, the Dream Watcher, he saw the same paleness of her skin that was offset by her slightly pink nightgown. She stood on the water surface just like Johan; she stepped closer to him until she was face to face with him.
"I've come to give you the answers you need." She explained, "The sword that you've been given will kill the heart of any demon in any man's heart. All you need to do with Treize is take the sword and plunge it into his heart."
"Why are you telling me all this?" Johan asked, "Why can't you tell the others this?"
"You of all people should know this. Treize took your wife away, he's the one whose put you through this hell of yours. So you should be the one that should rid him of this demon. The others will support you, in their own way."
"But what of my wife Haruka?"
"Only you know how to save her Johan. And only you know the way."
In a flash of heat and light Johan woke up. He could feel the droplets of sweat all over him; he could even feel the droplets rolling down his face and under his sleeping clothes. But as the sweat began to roll down his skin while he sat up in bed something began to stir within his mind and his brain.
"Only I know how to save her."
Just as this sentence that was spoken to him crossed his mind the synapse in his brain began to connect and link together. The plan was formulating in his head as he sat bed looking at the door at the foot of his bed. He knew what had to be done. He threw back the covers, he didn't care where they landed he just wanted to get out as soon as possible. Not just out of bed but right out of the institute and out of the Sank Kingdom.
He went to the closet to the left of his bed and threw open the doors of the closet. Within the closet Johan found his gray trench coat, tan pants, tie die shirt and his high top shoes that were similar to work boots. He immediately got dressed while he summoned for the butler, Pagan.
"You called, Sir Rodriguez." Pagan announced
Johan turned to face him, "That's right Pagan. Please send a message to the office of Preventer. Tell them to bring the Gundam mobile suits to earth. And have them parachuted 100 miles southeast the mansion of Treize Kushrinada. Also, please wake the other Gundams and the Sailor Senshi."
Pagan never questioned any of it nor did he ask why, because he saw the look within Johan's eyes, "Very well sir." He said as he turned and walked out the door.
While Johan went back to the closet and went for the most important item, the sword that had chosen him. The katana, he reached for it and it leaped into his hand and Johan wrapped the belt under the trench coat and buckled it up. He was ready to go.
"Mission accepted." He said holding onto the belt.
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Johan stood at the door of a personal car that was waiting for him to take him to the airport. There at the airport would be a personal plane provided by Preventer to take him to the drop off site where the Gundam mobile suits will be waiting for him.
While Johan was at the door of this stretched limousine the Gundams and the Senshi were behind him a few steps up to the institute.
"Johan?" Heero asked, "Are you sure about this? Isn't it a bit crazy to go charging in like this?"
"You know as well as I do, Heero. That the best defense is a very good offense, so we must attack first, and if what the Dream Watcher has told me is true than Haruka is waiting for me."
"Isn't it a bit dangerous to trust a woman?" Wufei asked, "And a young girl for that matter."
"It is a risk Wufei." Johan responded, "But there are some things that have happened in the past couple of days that I can't ignore. So I have to answer to my call of duty."
Duo beamed at Johan straight in the eye, "Johan, this is crazy. You know as well as I do that even if you do go to Treize and if he is possessed most likely he'll be guarded."
"That's why I need all of you to come with me. I haven't asked a lot of any of you, but I ask you in this time. Please, I need your help, because there is only so much one man can do."
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It was settled the Gundams and the Senshi boarded the Preventer plane and flew to the destination. While onboard they were given a briefing that Johan had prepared before heading out. The Gundams and the Senshi were gathered around a wooden table that had a map on it and the map was of the mansion that Treize Kushrinada would be staying in. Even though the briefing that Johan had laid out may be well thought out but there are some things that are left out.
"This is the plan." Johan began as pointing outside the square walls of the mansion. "According to what we know, Trieze has already mobilized several mobile suit troops outside his mansion. Along with that they aren't mobile dolls these are manned suits. So when fighting these we're going to only have to disable them, so no killing. Got it?"
The most prestigious killers of the Gundams (meaning Heero, Trowa and Wufei) understood this.
"The Gundams and I will begin out assault on the manned suits outside the mansion. As soon as we've cleared them out then we shall rendezvous with the Senshi."
"How are we going to do that?" Haruka asked
"There are a set of parachutes in this plane." Johan explained, "As soon as the pilots of this plane received the word from us, all you have to do is put them on and just jump off the plane."
"Jump off the plane?" Minako asked with a scared tone
"Don't worry, just pull the chord and you'll be fine." Johan pointed to the inside of the square wall of the mansion. "Here, we'll switch from out mobile suits to hand to hand combat. So we'll use guns, don't worry I've asked Preventer to stock the Gundams with hand to hand guns for us. As soon as we've gone into the mansion, more than likely, Treize will be in the library."
"How have you come to that conclusion?" Wufei asked
"I know how Treize thinks. That is the same place where he gave Heero Yuy the Gundam Epyon. So it would be the ideal spot to do it. But as soon as we've arrived there then I'm going to have to go alone. I'm sorry everyone, this is a fight I'm going to have to face alone."
Silence over the group.
"Johan?" Heero called
"Yeah?" Johan answered
"A few things have come up in my mind, such as why don't we call in Zechs and Noin to take care of Treize?"
"Zechs has finished his fight with Treize a long time ago. He's put that behind him I don't think we should excavate that between them. That's why we're going to do this."
"Even if Treize is possessed," Quatre postulated out loud to Johan, "Why haven't Lady Une or Mariemea done anything about it?"
"I'm not sure."
"Ladies and Gentlemen" said the pilot over the PA system, "We will be arriving at the rendezvous point in just about 45 minutes."
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15 minutes left until the plane would land at where the place where the Gundams would be dropped off.
Johan was asleep slightly in the comfortable chair in the drop off plane. Haruka Tenou, (who had transformed in Sailor Uranus, as did the other Senshi) came over by Johan along with Sailor Neptune by her side. But as they were stepping up to where Johan was sleeping in his chair he opened his eyes. He looked at them straight in the face.
"You're going to have to do better than that if you want to sneak up on me." He said
"I was about to warn them, Johan." Duo called, "but I figured I'd let them learn the hard way."
"How did you do that?" Sailor Uranus asked
"I could hear your footsteps a mile away, it almost sounds like elephants coming down a steel bridge."
Neptune smiled, "I did say that she is eating a little too many sweets."
Uranus leaned over to whisper; "I won't hear that talk out of bed."
Neptune looked at Johan, "You really do love your wife, the one you know as Haruka Tenou."
"That's right, Neptune. I do love her, truly, deep and madly. Ever since I lost her, it's felt like half of me was missing. I was like the circle that was missing a piece of itself."
"What's that?"
"It's an old children's story. It was about a circle that had a pie shaped hole in itself. It searched, it found one piece and it was too small. Then it found another piece that seemed it would fit and it was too large. And it kept searching and searching, but it could never find a piece that would fit. Until one day it found a piece, but the circle was afraid that this piece wouldn't fit. And sure enough, the piece fit, just right. And thus the circle was once whole."
"That's a beautiful story." Neptune complemented
"It is, it's very Zen I think." Johan shrugged, "Haruka Tenou was that piece that I had lost and gained. But now it seems I'm going to have to fight once again to regain her. And I'm willing to die to see her just once, that would be the only thing I would take with me to paradise is the memory of her before I died."
"My god you're a romantic." Sailor Venus cried out
"I agree." Uranus said with a loose jaw, she herself couldn't believe that a guy like this could exist.
"Well guys!" Johan called out as he got up out of his seat, "It seems we'll have to suit up once again."
"Hell yeah." Duo smiled like a devil over a man's shoulder, "I'm going to show those guys that the God of Death is back from Hell and there's going to be hell to pay."
"Ladies and Gentlemen." The pilot called over the PA; "We are now arriving at the rendezvous point."
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The Gundams walked out with the Senshi behind them and there they were. The Gundam Custom series still attached to their parachutes. Wing Zero, DeathScythe Hell, Heavyarms, Sandrock, Nataku, and Ryu. They looked like giant Gundanium statues that had been frozen in time within this forest near the mansion of Treize Kushrinada.
Johan turned back to the plane where the Senshi stood looking at the mobile suits with awe. Even Mercury was in awe, in her own way, she had her palm top out examining the mobile suits from where she stood.
"Wow." Uranus whispered, "Now that is some impressive pieces of machinery."
"That's right Sailor Uranus." Duo called, "I'm going to open up some whoop ass!"
"Should we or they be afraid?" Sailor Venus asked
Johan turned to face the Senshi and said to all of them, "I'll be afraid later, right now I'm just mad. A man should not take another man's wife away from him like this. So I'm just pretty goddamn mad." He turned and headed off to the Gundams, "Alright my friends. Let's kick some ass. Sailor Senshi, we'll see you all at the next rendezvous point."
"Good luck." Sailor Uranus whispered
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The Gundams launched, one hundred miles to the Gundam mobile suits wouldn't be that much although it would use a good deal of fuel. But thanks to the bird mode for the Gundams Wing Zero and Ryu the 100 miles felt more like two. Now it was just one more green, slightly tree covered hill to go.
"Johan." Quatre called from the Sandrock.
"What is it, Quatre?" Johan asked in a calm voice
"Don't you think that Treize would be expecting us to attack him like this?"
"Yes."
"Then wouldn't this be like suicide?"
"No, Treize might be expecting this, but I don't think he would think that we would attack head on so if that's the case then we have the element of surprise on our side. But remember Quatre, we are Gundam pilots."
"Good point."
Johan reached for the CD case and pulled out another Rage against the Machine CD. This time he picked the song, Bomb track. He listened to the guitar chords as he came over the hill. And there he could see the mansion surrounded by a multitude of former Oz Mobile Suits, Aries, Leo's and Taurus. All of them stood around the mansion like toy soldiers around a play set.
"Let's go." Johan whispered as he transformed from bird mode into mobile suit form.
Just as he did, the Wing Zero pulled out its beam saber and charged at the Aries, Leo's and Taurus suits. As did the Nataku with it's beam trident, the DeathScythe with it's beam Scythe, the Sandrock with it's curved blades, and last of all the Heavyarms taking out it's double-vulcans and firing them at the Taurus suits that flew up above and the other suits down on the ground. And last of all, the Gundam Ryu that took its beam sword out and slashed at the mobile suits. But amazingly enough they made sure that no one was killed, the last thing that they needed was to have fatalities on their hands even though enough have died in the pursuit of peace.
As the Gundams were fighting Johan was fighting as hard as he could to reduce the numbers of the enemy mobile suits. As he was he was speaking symbolically again.
"I'm coming Haruka." He whispered, "Please, hold on."
To be continued…
Author's Notes: This chapter was more of a conversation piece between the Gundams and the Senshi. I've always heard arguments from both sides of which was the better Anime. Why Sailor Moon is better than Gundam Wing, and why Gundam wing is better than Sailor Moon. That is one reason why I made this crossover, not to see who is better but to see how well each side can cooperate with each other. That is why I do crossovers, I do have more in store but that will be saved for another time.
Come back for more chapters of this exciting story.