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Readers Note: This is a re-post
Gundam Wing & Sailor Moon
X Pi
Episode 4:
The Drop and Fight
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The Gundams sliced and diced the enemy mobile suits while others just shot them all to hell. But the still amazing part was that from the wreckage of the damaged mobile suits the pilots crawled out and fled their way to the woods. The number of enemy suits had dropped dramatically. At the beginning of this, there were about 500 enemy suits stationed at the mansion but now the numbers were down to 75. And the Gundams were still fighting as hard as they ever had in their lives.
Still, this is the odd part of this. Their not fighting for some great cause at least that was in their mind at the present moment. They were fighting along side of their friend, Johan, they were fighting with him and for him. This is what friends are for, and the Gundams were not only doing this as a job for Preventer or that some great catastrophe would come if they did nothing, but for Johan, their friend.
45, that's how many more enemy mobile suits there were and the Gundams were running low on ammunition, bullets and missiles. Even the Heavyarms was running low in its bullets within it's twin Vulcan as well as the missile packs in it's legs and shoulders. But they will have to keep fighting if they want to reach the mansion.
Meanwhile back on the Preventer's plane the Senshi were watching the battle on a small screen within the planes cabin walls. They watched with awe that a group of boys could do this much damage.
"It's incredible." Mars whispered
"How's that Mars?" Venus asked
"It amazes me that these boys could pilot these machines."
"It's probably safe to say that they were trained to pilot these things ever since they were kids." Uranus hypothesized.
"If that's the case," Mercury added, "Then hardly any of these boys even had a childhood since they trained so much."
"Now I feel sorry for all of them." Venus sympathized, "That they didn't have a normal life."
"Then again," Jupiter pointed out, "We haven't either, we decided to give up our chance at a normal life to become Sailor Soldiers."
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10 enemy mobile suits remaining, the Gundams were getting close to the mansion. Soon all that one of them needed to do was signal the plane to parachute in the Sailor Senshi. Now that it was down to only this many mobile suits it was left up to those Gundams who had enough ammunition left to deal with it. And those mobile suits were the Heavyarms and Ryu, the two of them shot and sliced through those mobile suits. Although it wouldn't exactly be fair to say that no one died that day, a few did but it was probably due to the fact that the Gundams went a little overboard and didn't consider their lives at certain moments. Or it was simply that the soldiers under the direct guidance of Treize were so brainwashed that they'd rather die than run away.
0 enemy mobile suits remaining. There was no telling what the casualties are but in the heat of this battle it didn't matter. Johan in the pilot seat of the Gundam Ryu reached up for the COM switch.
"Gundam Ryu to Dropper." He called to the plane that held the Senshi, "Gundam Ryu to Dropper, come in please."
"This is the Dropper, go ahead." The pilot of the Dropper responded
"The path is clear, deliver the package."
"Roger that."
As Johan reached up to turn the COM switch off he watched through the 30-inch monitors the destruction that he and his friends have caused. The enemy Taurus, Leo and Aeries mobile suits lay upon the ground like a scrap yard. Except this was no scrap yard, this is a battleground.
"Let's go." Johan whispered as he slowly pushed the joysticks forward and headed over the broken pieces of enemy mobile suits to the mansion. Slowly the others followed him over this miserable battlefield.
"Why Treize?" Johan thought, "Why are you doing this?"
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Meanwhile, back on the Dropper, the plane that is supposed to parachute the Senshi to the Treize Mansion the Senshi were having some trouble with getting off the plane. All of the Senshi had their parachutes on and the door was open. It was blowing in all the air of the plane traveling so fast. Even though they were ready to go, there were some who were a little reluctant.
"Look Venus." Jupiter explained, "You just jump out of the plane and then after five seconds you just pull the chord."
Jupiter showed Venus the little red chord on the right side strap that was clearly marked by the word "pull".
"I can't do it." Venus whined, "I'm afraid of heights."
"I'll help." Uranus volunteered as she led Venus to the door, "Just close your eyes."
"Alright." Venus said
"Now count to three."
"Right, One, two."
Just as Venus was about to hit three Uranus shoved Venus right out the door of the plane.
"I can't believe you did that!" Neptune shouted
"She'll be alright." Uranus smiled as she too jumped out the plane's door, then it was Neptune, followed by Jupiter, Mercury, and finally Mars.
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Back on the ground at the mansion walls, the Gundam mobile suits just stood around the walls while their pilot doors were open. They were just getting their gear together, their guns and explosives just in case they would run into any troublesome doors. Slowly the Gundam pilots came down to the ground. They met at the great doors of the mansion walls that looked a little like the Emerald City doors from the Wizard of Oz. It seemed a little ironic that a city of such wisdom could also be the name of an organization that has made so many suffer.
Johan looked up to the sky; "They should be here any minute now."
"Shouldn't we have gone inside the walls of the mansion?" Heero asked, "I think it's a bit stupid of us to be waiting out here like this."
"Knowing Treize, these doors are probably unlocked. Let's see."
Johan walked up to the doors, and gave a slight push and the doors opened with a great creek and with a longer shove the doors opened completely to show the green grass courtyard.
"This is going to be easier than I thought." Wufei shrugged
Johan looked up at the sky again, Duo looked too and saw six little dots come closer to the ground. And it was definitely the Senshi, as they came down, Duo could see up their Fuku skirts and he had to comment. He placed his hands at his mouth to imitate a megaphone.
"Hey ladies!" He called, "Nice view from down here!"
It shocked some of the Senshi
"PERVERT!" Mars shouted
"Duo!" Johan scolded, "We don't have time for this."
"Sorry dude." Duo smiled, "I was just having a bit of fun."
The Senshi landed and as they were unbuckling their parachutes, Mars was coming up to Duo and she raised up her hand as if she was about to slap him. But Johan dashed in front of her and grabbed her hand before she slapped Duo.
"We don't have time for this." He whispered
Mars saw the look in Johan's eyes and knew that he could be respected and trusted.
"Alright, let's go through it." Johan announced, "Do you have your guns?"
They nodded.
"Bombs?"
They nodded
"Swords, for those of you who have been chosen?"
Duo and Quatre nodded holding onto the hilts of their swords, so did the other Senshi who had their swords at their sides. Johan made sure he had his guns and his own bombs.
"Let's go!" Johan called as they marched into the courtyard.
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The Gundams and Senshi walked side by side into the green grassed courtyard. The Gundams kept their eyes on the front doors but they kept their eyes open for anything else, just in case of any kind of sneak attack.
Johan went to his side and pulled out his handgun, which looked like an old fashioned Colt .45 but the barrel was a little longer and the way it opened for access to the cylinder that held the bullets wasn't anything like an old .45. The way it opened was Johan reached with his thumb to a small lever near the barrel. And he pushed forward and the gun split in half the barrel and cylinder popped open so that the cylinder was facing up. And Johan went to the pocket of his trench coat and pulled out the six bullets for the cylinder, which looked like regular bullets for a .45 but looked more like shells for a shotgun.
"You're going to use the Outsider, aren't you?" Duo asked referring to the handgun that Johan had.
"I have to," Johan answered as he filled up the cylinder, "There's no telling what might be in there. I know this goes against my principles."
"What principles?" Uranus asked
"When I'm fighting someone face to face I prefer to fight them with a sword. To me fighting with a gun takes the honor out of fighting someone face to face, wouldn't you say so?"
"I think it does." Uranus agreed
"But in times like these I guess we all have to bastardize our own ethics in order to save lives."
"Pretty half hearted way of fighting." Uranus commented
Duo walked up to Sailor Uranus and stared at her in the face
"What?" She asked
"Let me ask you something Uranus." Duo beamed "Is your heart as cold as your attitude?"
Uranus stood silent.
Johan finished up loading the cylinder and clicked the cylinder and barrel back into place to make it look like a complete gun. He placed it back into the leather holster at his right side like an old time gunslinger. He himself was like a gunslinger and a swordsman at the same time with the katana at his left side.
"This really seems to be too easy." Wufei said
Just as he said this, the doors to the mansion opened wide and about 50 soldiers came pouring out of it like water out of a floodgate. Each of them was carrying guns but at the same time they were carrying what looked like Shakespearean rapiers at their sides. They still poured out of those doors like the running of the wild bulls in Spain.
Johan went to his handgun and fired so fast that it sounded like one shot and nearly 25 of the 50 soldiers fell to the ground like flies. Most of them were still moving but they weren't dead. At the same time the other Gundams went for their own guns and shot down the remaining soldiers. But the ones that remained, Johan dashed from side to side until he was nearly at the door. And he used the door for leverage and jumped from the door to the last soldiers neck and gave it such a kick that he fell to the ground. While Johan came down on his feet with his hands at his sides while one of them still held his Outsider handgun.
While the Senshi were surveying the damage the Gundams were reloading their guns. But as they were reloading another cadre of soldiers poured out of the mansion into the courtyard. And now the courtyard that held such beauty of flowers and plants was now another battlefield.
There wasn't enough time to shoot at the soldiers so the Senshi stepped in and used their powers.
"Deep Submerge!" Neptune called
"World Shaking!" Uranus called
Their attacks too out the first onslaught of soldiers while the next few attacks took out the next.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" Mars shouted
"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!" Mercury commanded
"Impressive." Johan whispered, "I like this group. It's a shame they weren't around when the colonies were in trouble. We could have used a few good women like them."
The attacks continued, between this small army and the one that Treize had compiled. As the fighting continued, the soldiers no longer had their guns, this time it was a sword fight between them and the Gundams alongside the Senshi. Now the courtyard was like a scene from a battle between Scottish Clans.
While Johan was fighting with the katana he knew that this was not his battlefield, the one he needed to get to was inside the mansion with Treize. He fought as long as he could until he had to tell the others what he needed to do.
"Duo!" He called
"I'm a little busy here Johan!" Duo shouted while he was fighting with his Scottish claymore, from Johan's perspective, Duo looked like a Scottish clansman.
"Keep fighting Duo! I'm going into the mansion."
"Good luck Johan. Go kick ass!"
"I'll be sure of that."
Johan sliced at the opponents and made his way into the mansion. He remembered where the library was and he made his way to the elevator at his left.
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Johan stood in the elevator holding onto his Outsider and loading the last bullet into the cylinder. He clicked it shut and placed it back into the holster under his coat. He leaned against the wall and he thought back to the fight in the courtyard and watching the Senshi fight with their magic. It was a great contrast between the two of them. It is a thought that had occurred to Johan, his team the Gundams, guys and their machines while the Senshi were girls with magic. But the thought about having the Senshi in Operation meteor was a thought that did seem slightly appealing to Johan, although he wasn't sure about how the others would feel about it.
He looked up at the numbers above the doors of the elevator and he saw that they were coming close to the "L" on the far left. He knew that he was going down to the library.
"Here I come Treize." Johan thought, "You'd better get ready."
In case this would be like the last time Johan met Treize he reached for the Outsider at his side. He held onto the sandal wood handle tightly while his arm was hanging at his side. And suddenly he felt the elevator stopped and the doors began to open.
Johan held onto the Outsider even tighter and stepped out of the elevator. The library didn't look at all different from the last time that Johan came to this place with Heero Yuy. The library was dark, only the light from a few windows pierced through the darkness. It looked like some kind of abnormally realistic nightmare and one could just pray to wake up soon.
"Welcome once again, Johan Peacecraft Rodriguez." A voice said and Johan pointed the gun up and looked up the stairway to the second level of the library and he found that high dressed classed noble, Treize Kushrinada.
"I think you know why I'm here Treize." Johan stated
"Yes, things have progressed as I had planned."
"Tell me something Treize." Johan said while he stared and squinted down the barrel of the Outsider, "Why did you take my Haruka away from me?"
Treize simply stared down at him, "She was a distraction."
"A distraction?"
Treize stepped down the stairway to where Johan stood pointing the Outsider at him, "Haruka Tenou was a distraction for you, Johan. Don't you remember? There is nothing more beautiful than a soldier with no distractions, one could say he is the closest thing to God. Don't you remember I told you that as well as Heero Yuy?"
"Yes I do remember." Johan said still holding onto the Outsider as Treize was at point blank range.
"Then you must understand that Haruka Tenou is merely a distraction for you. She was a millstone around your neck holding you down from completing your goal of being a perfect soldier."
"A distraction, Treize." Johan said nearly squeezing the trigger, but he remembered he needed to plunge the sword at his left side into Treize before this is over, "You're wrong Treize. She was the reason why I kept fighting."
"Why is that?"
"A soldier needs a reason to fight or something to protect. Be that something personal or something much larger than himself like his country. Haruka was that something that I needed to protect and fight for; it was her who gave me back my will to fight. She filled the gaps in my heart."
Treize scoffed, "You're not a soldier then, you're simply a sentimental fool."
"It's better to be a fool than an old fart like you."
Treize sneered and walked passed Johan to a wall near a long panel of windows while the stairs were at his left side. From Johan's point of view Treize pulled a book from the wall and the bookcase moved and turned around to reveal something. It was a blank wall, but on this wall there was someone there. Johan couldn't see who it was, but he heard Treize say something.
"Your love is here." Treize said
Johan pointed the gun at Treize back, "Alright Treize, quit playing your damned mind games!" He shouted
Treize turned around and stepped to the right and showed who it was on the wall. There on the wall that was a bookcase and hung like a crucifix was Haruka Tenou. The Haruka Tenou that is Johan's wife, at the very sight of her Johan lowered his gun to his waist while his eyes became so teary that he could barely stand it. He couldn't tell whether he was feeling elation or whether he was feeling sadness to see Haruka like this.
Haruka looked starved, exhausted and ragged. Her clothes looked torn and ripped at their seams as if someone had taken a whip and beat her with it. She even had scratches up and down her body, from her toes to her nose. And her hair was longer than what Johan remembered, it was ragged and it was in a very messy pony tail that looked as bushy as a raccoon's tail.
Treize beamed at Johan, "I know why you're here Johan. You're here to kill the demon I have within me and to take you're wife back. But let's make this a duel for Haruka's life, if you loose, she dies and so do you. Both of you will be united in death. But if you win then you mean rid me of the demon and you may take Haruka back."
Johan took his gun and set it down on the ground and took off his trench coat and lay it down in a pile near the Outsider. While he took off the leather holster and placed it on the trench coat and he took out his sword and took off the belt that was connected to the sheath.
While Treize took out his sword, and the two of them looked at each other from the piercing light. Johan looked down the blade, and at Treize.
"Please God." Johan thought, "Let me win this fight. I love Haruka with all the light I have within my heart and soul. I don't want to loose her again. Please God, let me win this fight."
To be continued…
Author's Notes: I've always been a great fan of certain types of dramatics. So I put in this small bet between Treize and Johan in which if Johan wins he can take Haruka back and rid Trieze of the demon but if Johan looses then both he and Haruka die. There was something else that I've always wanted to do in crossovers is try to have one side point out something in the other. Such as Duo asking Sailor Uranus if she was truly cold down deep.
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