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Readers Note: This is a re-post. Also this contains major spoilers for Trigun, so if you haven't seen the whole series I wouldn't recommend reading this.
Gundam Wing & Trigun
Trigundam
Episode 6: On My Command
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The song was "Everything I do - I do it for you" by Bryan Adams and it was drawing to a close as the Peace Guns as well as the Gundams and their couples were dancing to this slow melodic song. Each of them danced slowly and with a loving affection for one another's partner. The speed of their dance was like that of softly falling snowflakes, it was moving but it wasn't fast, it was gentle.
This was the event of last night, a time of happiness for whatever loss maybe ahead.
Each of the Gundams as well as the Peace Guns slept peacefully; others slept in the same bed out of love for one another, though some slept along. Yet this was only last night, which was a peaceful set of hours until it was broken by the alarms. The soft yellow light in the sleeping quarters as well as the fluorescent hard white lights in the hallways broke into flashing red.
As if struck by lightning, the Gundams and the Peace Guns leapt from their beds in their sleeping clothes and dashed for Peace Millions Bridge. At least the Gundams were doing that, the Peace Guns were just following behind.
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At Peace Million's bridge, the situation was being assessed.
"What's going on?" Duo asked
Inside the Bridge, it was chaos, Lady Une as well as Sally Po and Howard were frantically trying to figure out what was going on and what had just happened. Each of them dashing from console to console, reading reports that were coming in by the pages on each screen.
"All we know," Lady Une huffed still dashing from one spot to another, "Is that Heero Yuy's gone and so is the Vindicator."
"We know that much but where did they go?" Johan asked
"We're working on that."
Wufei added his own thought, "Knowing him, he's gone in the Vindicator to fight whoever is on that colony."
The Peace Guns heard this startling news, panic began to run within them like the Indianapolis 500 on overdrive. The adrenaline was working through their veins like poison in a water stream. But what was needed now was rational thought.
"Shouldn't you go after him?' Wolfwood asked nervously with his Cross-Punisher over his shoulder (it was like an American Express card, never leave home without it). He asked nervously because it had already been a day since he had a cigarette. Now he was suffering the withdrawal of it. He wasn't quitting cold turkey, he called it "quitting cool chicken", where you only have a little bit of it before going off of it completely. Just winging off of it gradually, this was quitting cool chicken to Wolfwood.
"We can't." Lady Une explained, "Peace Million Scans show an increase in space mines, laser mines and most dangerous of all, this."
The laser mines that Lady Une was referring to were just as they sound, like space mines that rack heat signals in space with explosives inside a laser mine stays stationary. The laser mine sits in its position and using multiple lasers it locks onto heat signatures from a distance of 2 miles and continually fires until the heat signature no longer registers.
This not only surrounded the colony but the space mines as well as the thing that Lady Une displayed on the computers screen. A mobile suit was displayed, though this wasn't like anything that any of the Gundams or the Peace Guns had ever seen. It was like a combination between Oz' Taurus Space suit with it's transformability that was shown on the screen and the Virgo Mobile doll with it's weapons that were randomly displayed. This suit had a Beam Bayonet (a Beam Rifle that could convert into a beam sword as well), and a heat rod that looked just like the Epyon's.
"What is it?" Duo asked looking closer at the screen
"It's been given the name Scorpio." Lady Une explained
"Scorpio?" Meryl asked from behind the Gundams
"That's right. In Oz, also known as Organization of the Zodiac, we name all our mobile suit models after astrological signs, such as Aries, Leo, Taurus, Cancer, and Virgo. Though the last to bear a name in this line was a battleship named Libra."
"Now it seems." Vash added looking seriously at the screen, "You have one more that has been added to the line."
"That's the problem." Lady Une added as she went back to dashing between consoles, "We don't know how or what it's fighting abilities are, so to go out there like this would be like walking into an uncharted mine field."
"But we must go after Heero." Quatre pleaded, "We don't even know if Knives has any pilots or any soldiers in that colony."
"Our heat sensors found no pilots in those mobile suits. So they're all mobile dolls."
"That'll make things a little easier." Trowa smiled
"This is a real mess." Johan threw his arms behind his head, "Not only has Heero gone AWOL, but he's going into a potentially dangerous area."
Lady Une turned around and looked at him from point blank range, "That's why I need all four of you to go out there."
"Would this be the time to attack?" Johan asked
"No, simply bring him back."
"Mission accepted."
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Johan stood in Peace Million's weaponry room, a room that held all of the weapons that were needed for hand to hand combat, swords, knives, guns, grenades, and so on. They were laid out along the wall like a storehouse, wall after wall, isle after isle. Johan stood at a table at the front of the isles. He had laid out on the table his weapons that he needed for any kind of hand to hand combat. His Outsider custom revolver lay upon the table under the fluorescent light gleaming with it's silver glow against it's black letters along the cylinder that read "double action". Next to it was its side holster in brown leather. Towards Johan were two golden plated .45 mm hand guns each with a tiger on one side of the handle and the dragon on the other side, Yin and Yang as Johan said it was. The 45's were tucked into a special holster in which Johan could draw from behind or under his coat. And last of all, his beam saber his newly constructed weapon of close hand combat.
He strapped on his weapons, but before he knew it behind him was the newly met guest, Vash the Stampede leaning against the doorway with his face looking towards the opposite door jam.
"It looks like you're doing more than just going out there after him." Vash stated, "It looks like your going to do a sneak attack."
"I'm not saying that now Vash, because I'm not allowed to give you that information. If you want to know what to do, just ask Lady Une and she'll give you your instructions."
Vash turned his head to look at Johan who was dressed in a white trench coat with all his weapons underneath it.
"You've had something planned all along haven't you?" Vash asked with a smile
"No comment." Johan smiled back.
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On Colony X-18999, Knives and the other Gung-Ho guns were watching the sensors as to what was coming. They looked up at a large monitor the size of a theater screen and there they only saw Peace Million sitting as still and steady as a rock.
Knives leaned on the console waiting for something, while Id and Dominique were behind him anxiously waiting to hear their masters' orders. Dominique looked at Peace Million with her good unblinking eye waiting for anything to come out, a transport a mobile suit, anything since she wasn't' informed as to what was going on. Although Id on the other hand knew that a single Gundam was coming and he was fidgeting with anticipation, wanting his master to tell him to kill the Gundam.
"What are we waiting for?" He asked Knives
"This seems peculiar." Knives commented, "Organizations like this attack in waves, but in this case only one is coming after us. He must be acting without orders."
"That doesn't matter, let me go out there and kill him, I must avenge my family."
"Foolish nonsense." Knives sneered, "That is the only motivation you have for killing the Gundams? You must remember your not human, so put these human thoughts aside Id."
"My Master, please." Id pleaded on one knee with his Gunblade at his side
"Id!" Knives shouted as he spun around, his eyes were narrow and his face was scrunched up with lines as he beamed at Id, "My authority is absolute, we discussed that before and I will not tolerate questioning! Besides I have a feeling that the Gundams will try to come into the colony. So we'll send out the Scorpio's after them and let them come in here."
"I understand my master."
Knives face resumed it's peaceful calm look like a serial killer and looked over at Dominique who was now kneeling before her master, "I expect you both to entertain our guests with a good display of your powers."
"Yes master." Id and Dominique said in unison.
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Back in space, Heero Yuy was flying in the Gundam Vindicator while the Midas system was arguing with him.
"Are you sure we're clear for launch?" Midas asked, "My memories say that we were not given the clearance to launch."
Heero didn't say a word, he kept his eyes on the colony in front of him as it was growing bigger and bigger with each second of flight.
"I think I'm entitled to an answer to that question Heero." Midas stated
Silence.
Then there was a beeping, and Heero saw in the 360-degree panoramic view within the Vindicator cockpit that one of the mobile suits was coming after him. It was only a streak in space like a shooting star but the Midas system magnified it and verified that it was the Gundam Ryu.
"Good." Heero thought as he smiled that sparkled some evil intent
A hailing call came in through a small blinking button on the Vindicator's console, Heero reached out and pressed it he knew what his part was. He opened the channel.
"What is it, Johan?" he asked
"Heero." Johan called, "I'm to take you back to Peace Million until Lady Une gives the order to attack."
"Johan." Heero spoke in a firm tone, "I'm not leaving, there's a colony that needs to be protected."
"Then I'll bring you back by force."
The fight began between Ryu and the Vindicator, Gundam against Gundam, as the Ryu transformed into its mobile suit form. It came at Heero with full force like a train on a non-stop course. The two battled, each drew out their beam sabers and locked each other in a clash of swords. As they fought they drew closer and closer to the mobile doll field, yet the mobile dolls didn't attack, they stayed motionless like mannequins but the Vindicator and Ryu flew like falcons in space. They banged their swords against each other with electrical sparks arching across each other but neither one of them fired a shingle shot as their fight drew closer and closer to colony X-18999.
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On Peace Million Lady Une was watching the fight and was making her judgement about to give the order. Her face itched with irritation, her face had small droplets of sweat from the tension.
"Is it ready, Howard?" she asked nervously hoping that the plan will go well
"It's all ready and waiting your command." Howard reported, he smiled knowing the surprise that would hit those on that colony
Meanwhile within the colon X-18999, confusion ran through and among the Gung-Ho Guns, they looked at Peace Million and saw that nothing changed about it, it was just sitting there motionless like a rock in space, while the two Gundams were fighting each other.
"I thought you said they were friends." Dominique stated to Id.
"I thought so too." Id answered, his jaw was dropped open and his eyes widened as he watched the screen with the two Gundams flying and fighting, flying and fighting.
"Now." Lady Une commanded from the bridge of Peace Million
Howard's hand was like a rabbit on some super speed drug as it dashed for the COM button and his mouth opened wide and the words came out in a loud burst of noise, "Launch the Gundams!" He ordered
Inside the colony, the picture changed, Peace Million was now so close to the colony that the Gung-Ho Guns could read it's Preventer registration number off it's hull on the monitor.
Knives changed the view of the monitor and he saw over a hundred mobile suits launch from Peace Million like hornets out of its nest. The computer was now over running with identifications of what the mobile suits were, whom they belonged to, their weapons, and their battle skills. It was mind boggling to see window after window pop up with data, it was a computer nightmare for Knives, the data was raining in from every monitor like some kind of proverbial computer virus.
"Launch the Scorpio's!" Knives commanded
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Outside the Scorpio mobile dolls switched on their one eye camera light like a fairy tale monster. Each one began to attack but the retaliation by the Gundams was too quick for them to calculate their battle data.
Heavyarms with it's quadruple gattling arms it fired at the mobile dolls making them into metallic Swiss cheese. While Sandrock with it's curved blades it sliced the Scorpio's like produce at a Benny Hanna, and Nataku reached out with it's extendable arms with it's metal crushing claws at the end it smashed the heads of the mobile dolls like walnuts. The only ones who weren't attacking were Ryu, Clockwork and DeathScythe Hell. They flew towards the colony in a triangular formation with their Gundanium wings spread out like vampire bats.
In the center of their formation as an odd looking ship that looked like a cross between a biological virus and a hypodermic needle.
"Get ready to break formation." Johan commanded
"Got that." Duo reported
"Me too, me droog." Alexandria smiled
The three were flying towards the colony wall at a high speed like a Pelican making it's downward dive to the ocean. They dove with stray laser shots hitting their hulls but they stayed together with the pod between them like a precious egg.
1000 feet
The lasers were hitting their wings, upsetting their balance but they regained formation and still headed for the colony.
500 feet
"Almost there." Johan said, as the gray shinning hull of the colony grew larger and larger within his field of vision like falling onto a bed face down.
100 feet
"Break formation!" Johan shouted as he pulled hard back on the joysticks at his side and felt the G force pushing him back into his seat like the drop of a roller coaster ride. His Gundam flew up and away from the colony, as did the DeathScythe Hell and the Clockwork, "Activate cloak!"
All three of them, Alexandria, Duo, and Johan switched on their active cloak. As the silvery pod drilled it's way through the colonies hull. But as it drilled through, the 15-foot diameter hole was being filled with a white paste like cookie dough. This was what the colony engineer call "Hull putty", this was an emergency system that would activate when the hull is breached. This hull putty would act like a fast acting concrete sealing out the oxygen-less space and preserving the oxygen inside.
Inside the colony Knives, was furious, he saw the best of his plan go wrong, and worst of all to him, he's been outsmarted by a group of kids!
"They're kids," he thought, "They're not a day over fifteen or sixteen and yet they're defeating this supposedly undefeatable mobile dolls that Id told me about."
"They're just kids!" Knives shouted
"Sir?" Id asked as he knelt once more from behind him, "Should I go out and battle the Gundams?"
"Yes." Knives said, "You may, battle the Gundams, kill them for the death of Treize Kushrinada."
Id bowed his head as his long red hair touched the floor like the bottom of a long robe, "Thank you, Master." Id groveled, "I will not fail you."
Knives turned around and looked down at Id who was kneeling and groveling, but then got back up to his feet. But Id saw something in Knives eyes, he saw that his eyes were widened and his mouth was open. Id slowly turned around and saw the Peace Guns at the door that lead to the Colony Hall's lobby. Vash stood hold out his custom revolver at Knives, while Wolfwood at his side has the gattling of his Cross-Punisher out and facing Knives as if saying in a insinuating way, "You move I'll fill you so full of lead you'll be using your dick for a pencil."
At the same time from behind Vash and Wolfwood were Millie and Meryl who had their guns out and ready to fire.
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Outside the Colony Hall the Gundams Ryu, DeathScythe and Clockwork were in their active cloak mode. This was part of the plan, the plan was to get the Peace Guns into the pod that was called, "the virus ship", it's operation was to penetrate the hull of a ship and drill through it and release it's occupants inside it. That is how Vash and the others got in, they drilled their way through the colony's hull with the hull putty forming around them they drilled into the colony's interior. Since they were coming in from the ceiling they had to use the Virus ships cables to get down to the ground.
Johan looked up and saw the hole with four cables coming down to the colony hall. It went according to plan, they made it seem like he and Heero were fighting so it would distract the Gung-Ho guns, while they were doing that Peace Million would transmit a signal to the colony. This signal would carry a movie of Peace Million staying still while the Gundams fought each other in the same spot. This movie would repeat over and over again on the colony's monitor. Once the time was right, the attack would be made and the enemy wouldn't know what his them until it was too late. And now it's too late for the Gung-Ho Guns.
But something caught Johan's eye, not only did he see the Wing Zero in front of the Colony Hall, but he saw another mobile suit next to it. At first Johan thought he was suffering déjà vu but he rubbed his eyes and saw that the Gundam was definitely the Epyon. The computer saw that it was the Epyon.
"Did Treize build that devil of a machine again?" Johan thought
He couldn't think about that now, he had to go and help the Peace Guns with Duo and Alexandria.
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"It's over Knives." Vash said staring from behind his circular framed sunglasses
"I think not Vash, right Dominique?" Id smiled
Vash heard that name before and his mind froze in fear remembering his rough time in dealing with the Gung-Ho Gun named Dominique the Cyclops.
Suddenly he felt a dull thud against his stomach and he flew backwards through the door, over Meryl and onto his back against the tiny-tiled lobby. Vash sat up feeling a bruising in his abdomen as his blurred vision from the fall saw in the doorway, Dominique the Cyclops.
"Oh no." Vash thought, "Not her, give me anyone but her."
"It's nice to see you gunman." Dominique smiled, "That punch you felt was for me back at L & R City."
"Finish him!" Knives commanded
Vash swelled in fear, his sweat was dripping down his face, and he could feel the sweat soaking into his clothes even though this is an air-conditioned environment. Vash suddenly heard the voices of his friends.
"I can't move!" Wolfwood shouted
"Meryl I feel funny." Millie stated
"My body's moving by itself." Meryl said
The three Peace Guns moved into the lobby and stood over Vash pointing their guns at Vash.
"I can't move Vash." Meryl cried, her single shot Derringer was aimed at Vash's face yet she was shedding tears, "I can't move!"
"No, I have to keep moving." Vash thought
As he thought that, he heard gunshots coming from his right, which was the direction of the door. His vision quickly looked and saw the shadows of three Gundams firing their guns at the glass. The glass came down to the tiled floor of the lobby like sharp hail.
Vash quickly shut his eyes hoping that it wouldn't cut him, but the glass rain soon stopped and he saw the Gundams standing outside in their proud glory. While the Gung-Ho Guns were dashing to the lobby to find out what the hell was going on. They looked through the thin twisted metal frame that once held the glass and saw the Gundams, standing over them like metallic giants.
"How the hell did they get in here?" Knives asked
"I don't know." Id said
Knives turned sharply and punched Id across the face, "You said you knew the Gundams goddamn it!"
Through that metal frame they saw a cockpit open and down came it's pilot, a boy no more that seventeen with black hair and green eyes. He pointed a silver gun that looked strikingly similar to Vash's revolver, at least to Knives.
"Millions Knives." The boy stated, "I am Johan Rodriguez of the Office of Preventer. Your under arrest under the charges of theft of Preventer property namely the Wing Zero Custom, kidnapping namely the citizens of Colony X-18999, and resisting arrest. You have the right to remain dead!"
Knives smiled and laughed at him, "Foolish boy." He laughed, "Do you really think that you can combat a superior being like me?"
Knives concentrated on Johan trying to make him point the gun against himself but Johan stood still as a rock with the gun still pointing at him.
"Sorry Knives. Game over." Johan laughed, "Your mind powers don't work on Gundam Pilots, our minds are too heavily trained for that."
"But I can still control your machines." Knives smiled
A loud metal screech was heard from outside and Johan turned to see the Gundam Ryu pointing it's Buster Rifle at Johan directly.
"Are you really that stupid?" Johan asked, "You fire that thing you'll kill us all."
"At least I'll kill you, imperfect human."
"Oh yeah?" Johan sneered, "DUO!"
A cockpit opened and another Gundam pilot jumped out to the tiny-tiled glass covered floor. He held out a Cross-Punisher like that of Wolfwood's, he didn't even ask questions he started shooting Knives. Though he only wounded him enough to knock him out, he didn't kill him. Knives went flying against the wall with bullet holes popping all over his body except for the vital areas like his chest and head.
Id looked and lifted his Gunblade towards Johan, he knew that he wouldn't get a cleaner shot at a pilot. The rage within him swelled like an infected boil as he aimed down the barrel at the Gundam pilot named Johan Rodriguez. He didn't care which Gundam he would kill, he just wanted to kill them all.
"Die Gundam!" Id shouted
Johan raised his Outsider revolver and fired right at Id the Lion, "You first!" He shouted as he and Id pulled their triggers together. The loud bang of their guns echoed through the colony hall like an amphitheater. Yet, neither one of them fell to the ground from the gunshot, they stood looking at each other completely dumbfounded with their jaws dropped open. Neither one of them made the hit, then their eyes were draw to the floor and their eyes widened as their jaws dropped to their chests. They saw both of their bullets smashed together, heads to head in a metal clump on the floor.
Johan knew this was the perfect time, he reached under his trench coat and pulled out his beam saber and dashed at Id. While Id brought back up his Gunblade and held it ready for attack, but it was no use, Johan made only one swipe and half of the Gunblade was on the floor.
Id looked at the stub that was now half of his Gunblade and looked at it on the floor. He dropped the remaining half of it with the anger swelling up enough to burst through his veins and eye sockets. He reached back with his fist and was ready to punch until Johan pulled out the Outsider. The nozzle was only an inch away from Id's nose; he could smell the grease and gunpowder from the barrel.
Johan also drew out his golden 45 and pointed it at Dominique the Cyclops.
"Don't try your hypnotic charm on me." He sneered, "Or Duo's going to bust a cap in your ass, got it?"
Dominique looked at both Duo and Johan with her lips parted and her one good eye opened wide as quarter.
"How could boys do this?" She asked
"We're not boys." Duo corrected, "We're Gundams."
"Don't screw with me. This isn't over Gundams."
She opened her Demon's eye, the Gundams and the Peace Guns were frozen solid as she picked up Knives and the other weapons and escaped with their lives.
The Gundams moved and saw that not only was the Gung-Ho Guns was gone but the Wing Zero that was outside was gone as well as the Epyon.
"Mission failed." Johan moaned.
To be continued…
Author's Notes: I felt that I had come up with a very sneaky plan against Knives and his bandits. Make it seem like the pilots are fighting each other so that the Gung-Ho Guns would let their guard down and then when that happens, Preventer attacks. It was a pretty devious idea though it hasn't worked entirely. Now that Knives has escaped a new plan has to be made.
Come back soon for more chapters of Trigundam…