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Readers Note: This contains some spoilers for G-Gundam, so if you haven't seen the whole series I wouldn't recommend reading this.

G Gundam & Gundam Wing

G- W Gundam

Chapter 7: The Fellowship of the Gundam

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The Gundam fight began later that day. The fans of the Neo Spain colony were all out in the crowd waving banners Neo Spain's flag, and painted in Neo Spain's colors as if this was a soccer game. It was pure madness when Johan looked out to see the raging fans screaming for their champion. He went back inside the Gundam Ryu and waited for the Mobile Trace System to start up. He allowed the suit to come down over him and cling to his body. It had the colors of green, black and white. On his chest was a star with a dragon wrapping itself around it. He waited as the screens warmed up in their 360-degree directions. There across the battlefield he saw his opponent: The Flamingo Gundam. It looked a little bit like Allenby's Noble Gundam, except for the fact instead of wearing a schoolgirl uniform this suit was wearing a multicolored dress with what looked like a fruit had on the top of its head. It was a strange mobile suit by Johan's standards of what he had seen in Preventer. Then he had a thought about this fight, he never found out who the fighter was or whom he was fighting. That was when he heard the announcer blare:

"Ladies and Gentlemen! Now it's the fight you've been waiting for, Neo Spain's prized fighter, the Flamingo Gundam with its pilot Shakira."

"Shakira?" Johan asked himself, "The girl at the restaurant."

He thought about the ramifications of this fight as the announcer shouted out his name. Why was this girl singing when she had her pride as a fighter? Then again, could have just been a coincidence that she happened to meet Johan at that restaurant or was it all planned? That was when Johan snapped back to reality with the announcer blaring:

"Gundam Fight!"

"Ready?" Shakira asked

Johan brought himself back to reality, "Go!"

Johan watched as the Flamingo Gundam began to dance as greatly as Shakira had earlier in that restaurant. Shaking her hips and moving her shoulders, it was as if she was trying to hypnotize Johan with her dance moves. Though Johan had other plans.

"Ryu!" Johan called, "Dragon Mode!"

Outside the Gundam Ryu began to transform, its parts moving and it became a dragon, with its buster shield forming a neck and head while the Gundam legs formed the tail, and the arms became claws. As it became a dragon it flew up into the high ceiling of the Gundam Dome. Leaving everyone below amazed at what had just happened.

Inside the Gundam Ryu, Johan held onto the holographic reigns of his Gundam. He pulled them left and right as he flew around above the head of the Flamingo Gundam.

"Why are you fighting me?" Johan asked

"You should be asking yourself that." Shakira answered

"In that case why do you sing?"

"Because I want to, I only fight because it's the only other thing that I'm good at."

"You had your eyes set on me, didn't you?"

"I did until I saw you with that other girl, so if I can't have you then she can't! I'll show you how I can kick ass with my golden feet!"

Johan watched as the dress of the Flamingo Gundam rose. The Gundam itself began to dance. It danced until within a few seconds its feet began to glow a golden color.

"Dancers Shuffle!" Shakira called as the Flamingo Gundam flew into a spin and a small wave of golden light like a wave came right at the Gundam Ryu.

The attack had knocked the Gundam Ryu. It struck it in its left side, Johan felt the searing pain that the attack inflicted. Yet, Johan had something else in store.

"You may have those golden feet." He said, "but I have these wings made of stars. Ryu, mobile suit mode!"

The Gundam Ryu transformed back into its mobile suit form with its buster shield in its left hand and the twin buster rifle in its right hand. It spread out its dragon like wings as it floated high above the Flamingo Gundam. It raised up its buster shield and brought it back down again like a sword. Out from the Buster Shield came its heat rod similar to the Epyon or the Tallgeese III, it came out and wrapped itself around the Flamingo Gundams neck. That was when Johan pulled back and yanked off the head of the Flamingo Gundam as if it was a cheap doll head. It came down to the ground and the fight was over by the rules but not to Johan. The Gundam Ryu came down to the ground to meet where the Flamingo Gundam had fallen. Using the Gundams hand he opened the cockpit of the Flamingo Gundam and took out its pilot Shakira. She was wearing the same kind of jumpsuit all mobile fighters wear. Except hers had the colors of Spain, red and yellow with a white eagle on her chest.

Johan opened up the cockpit and when to meet Shakira who was lying in Gundam Ryu's hand. She woke up and looked at Johan.

"I lost." She said mournfully, "again."

"You still have a choice, Shakira." Johan said

"What do you mean?"

"You can either be a Gundam Fighter or be a singer. At least you have the choice of it, while most people never have that kind of choice. Do you understand?"

Shakira smiled, "I understand now."

The Announcer blared, "Johan has won the fight, that means that he and his Gundam Ryu shall represent Neo Spain"

The crowd cheered uproariously for Johan, calling out his name and chanting, "Neo Spain."

Johan looked to the crowd; "Fans really are fickle aren't they?"

"Yeah." Shakira agreed.

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Well now everyone, it's all come down to this last fight. Everyone has already fought and won their titles to represent different nations. Yet, all of this is only a front for the Preventers and Shuffle Alliances' true objectives of finding the Devil Gundam. Today's fight is between the Preventers Sky King, Haruka Tenou and her Gundam Nemesis. Let's get things started! Gundam Elimination Final Fight. Ready, Go!

"Congratulations, Johan." Haruka smiled as she threw her arms around her love. Johan reciprocated as he placed his arms around Haruka and smiled

"I won the fight and no one had to die." Johan thought.

"It's not exactly over yet." He then whispered into his loves' ear.

Haruka drew back, "What do you mean, Johan?"

"I mean that the final fight rests on you." Johan explained

"Who am I fighting then." Haruka drew up her fists and began to crack her knuckles. She smiled thinking about who she was going to have to fight. Then it was Quatre who told her who the opponent would be.

"You'll be fighting Neo Australia's champion, the Gundam Crocodile, piloted by Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee, also known as The Crocodile Hunter."

"Let's get going then." Haruka said, "By the way, how's the update for my mobile suit coming?"

"Just finished it." Howard reported, "This mobile trace system was a real pain in the ass to install as well as try to integrate it with the regular cockpit system. But thanks to the help of Rain it was made a hell of a lot easier. The core landers for most of the Gundam has been installed and so has yours Haruka."

"Good." Haruka smiled, "Now, I'm going to kick ass."

The Neo Australia colony was no different than the Australia of the Earth. It was an enormous island in space. The interior had the large cities as well as the Sydney Opera House that sat on the edge of the colony. While the rest of the colony had deserts, forests and farm land. Yet this was only on the surface of the colony, below the surface were the multiple levels of the colony like so many of the others. The levels that housed the power plants and other works that fueled the colony like a great creature of enormous size. This was the place for the final elimination.

At the contestants' entrance of the Gundam Dome, Haruka and Johan met together for the only time until that they would part.

"Good luck." Johan smiled at his love.

"Now Johan." Haruka said back, "You know that I can win this match. Remember I am the Sky King."

"You wished me luck." Johan backfired politely.

"True." Haruka said as she kissed Johan lightly and then headed down the dark tunnel.

"I'll be rooting for you." Johan called

"You better." Haruka answered laughingly, "Or I'll come out there and kick your ass."

Johan smiled as he heard his wife's footsteps go deeper and deeper into the tunnel.

Haruka Tenou on the other hand felt pretty confident on the outside. Inside it was a different story. She did feel scared because this was an entirely new situation. She had seen the others take care of this in their own way, but how was she going to rise to that kind of challenge. And what if she fails? Will she not be able to go searching for Trieze Kushrinada and Lady Une? Will she have to stay behind like a fairy tale maiden waiting for her true love to come back from the crusades? Haruka wouldn't stand for that; she had fought along side Johan and the other Gundams for too long to be thrown out like a used tampon. No, Haruka Tenou, Preventer Sky King and pilot of Gundam Nemesis couldn't allow that to happen. She couldn't loose this fight.

She walked out proudly into the stadium hearing the cheer and the jeer of the crowd as she climbed up to the Gundam Nemesis that was awaiting her to step inside. She looked down at her opponent a Gundam that looked like a crocodile that had been made out of Gundanium.

Haruka shook her head and thought, "The designs of suits in this universe get stranger and stranger."

She looked back at the Gundam Nemesis whose design was similar (if not exact) to the Gundam Epyon, except for the fact that this suit was painted in the colors of black and white. Inside the suit was also a very experimental system that was in place before the Mobile Trace System was installed. It was a type of artificial intelligence system that allowed the pilot to speak to the suit. This system was called Hal after the computer in the Arthur C. Clark novel, "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Haruka looked up to the Gundam Nemesis, "Hal!" She called, "Open the door and lower the cable."

The Gundam Nemesis opened its cockpit door and down came the cable to where Haruka stood. She climbed up into the cockpit and spoke out to the computer inside.

"Hal, is the Mobile Trace System in place?" She asked

"Yes, Haruka." Hal responded, "Though like the Zero system once you've activated the Mobile Trace System I will be shut down."

"I understand, Hal." Haruka said, "Start the Mobile Trace System."

"Initiating." Hal stated

Haruka stood up at the chair sunk into the floor. She looked up as the three rings of the Mobile Trace System began to spin. The suit came slowly down over her body. She looked and saw its colors of white, blue and red. Feeling the suit coming over her felt strangely pleasurable. Strange as it may be it felt like hundreds of hands coming over her body, until at last the suit covered her entire body. She looked down at its colors and upon her chest was another set of wings and even though she couldn't see them they were also on her back.

The screen came on warming up in their 360-degree directions. All around her she saw the crowd of the Gundam dome all of them cheering for their hero. As a child Haruka was once told of the Gladiator completions in Rome, in which fights were held in a similar atmosphere, but Haruka also knew of a Gladiator woman, known as Gladiatrix. She now knew what it must have been like for her.

"Today's Gundam fight," the announcer blared, this time like a Spanish Soccer telecast, "Is between our favorite player, Michael J. Dundee and his Crocodile Gundam and against a Sheila named Haruka Tenou in her Gundam Nemesis. Let's see, which of these fighters will win today's fight. Gundam Fight! Ready?"

"Go!" Haruka shouted as she imagined herself flying over the battlefield of the Gundam dome. The Nemesis glided along the ground with only a foot of space between the Gundams feet and the concrete. As she glided she took out the Nemesis' Beam Sword. Inside the cockpit it looked like she was truly gripping onto the sword. Outside, the sword shined its color in the broad daylight.

She came within good swiping distance of the Crocodile Gundam. She made the swipe but something went terribly wrong. She didn't see how it happened but she certainly felt the effects of it. The Crocodile Gundam had its jaws wrapped around the Nemesis' arm. The pain was unbearable to Haruka, she did experience pain before but nothing this intense. It was the kind of pain that bordered upon mind-altering. She even looked down to her arm to find the electronic outlines in her suit to be bright blue but her arm looked like it was twisting in the same way as if the true jaws of a crocodile.

As Haruka wriggled around from the pain she reached about for the beam saber. She reached up with it and looked down on the crocodile. In this mad state of pain the crocodile looked like it was smiling from its catch. In that she grew angry and raised the beam sword and brought it down on the crocodile's head. The sound it made was the same as what Haruka had heard before in using this weapon. The metal screeched apart as the intense heat and energy of the beam saber sliced through it like a chainsaw to a tree. She knew that it was the Gundam head, as it fell to the ground, but not too far, just a small great thump and the crocodile's jaws loosened. Haruka dropped the beam sword and immediately cradled her arm, feeling the soreness and piercing pain from the teeth of this Gundanium monster. As she held her arm trying to massage all the pain out of it she heard the verdict of the fight.

"Oh crikey!" The announcer gasped, "the Sheila has won the fight!"

"My name is Haruka Tenou." Haruka said under her breath.

"The Gundam Nemesis will now represent Neo Australia in the Gundam Fight! Let's hear it for her! Chippy, chip, chip, hurrah!"

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Later that day on the Preventer Ship Tabris, in the mess hall there was a celebration between the Shuffle Alliance and the Preventers. They had come this far and so far no one has dropped out or lost the fight. To add onto the celebration, the Gundam Fight was only a week away. This meant that all of the participating fighters must go to their separate colonies in order to receive their launch bud and to be sent to earth. What other reasons did they need to celebrate?

They drank; they danced and spoke to each other.

"It's hard to believe that we'd be competing in an actual tournament." Quatre commented

"Hey, we're Gundam pilots," Duo spoke out, "we can really kick ass."

"I couldn't agree more." Haruka smiled, "Though, there is one thing we didn't take into account."

"What's that?" Trowa asked

"Since we are competing in a tournament," Haruka postulated, "then that means we'd have to fight each other."

"It does pose the question of who'd win in a fight if we were put together." Duo agreed

"I don't think we should worry about that now." Johan suggested

"Johan's right." Domon said looking down into his glass, "Our main priority is the Devil Gundam, to destroy it once and for all."

The Shuffle Alliance and the Preventers were in a soft murmur of agreement. It was the Devil Gundam that had brought these two groups together and it is this one goal why they should work together.

A thought had occurred to the Star Dragon, Johan. He took the ring that was around his neck. He looked at it intently remembering back to the very day when he received this ring and took the vows for which it stood for. He held it by its rim and tapped the side of his glass, as the sound echoed through the room the chattering between the Shuffle Alliance and the Preventers stopped. Johan rose his glass out and to chest level.

"I'd like to propose a toast." He said, "When we began this quest we were divided as the Shuffle Alliance and the Preventers. Ever since we discovered our common enemy, The Devil Gundam we have united as one force. I say we should no longer know ourselves as the Shuffle Alliance or the Preventers. I say we should be known as the Fellowship of the Gundam."

"Here, here." George De Sand rose his glass

"I agree." Domon said

"To the Fellowship!" Quatre proclaimed

"To the fellowship!" All said in unison.

"Here's to the success of our mission." Heero said with a very eerie smile

"To the rescue of Lady Une and Trieze Kushrinada." Zechs added

"And to the death of the Devil Gundam." Domon said with vengeance

"Death to the Devil Gundam." The Fellowship rose their glasses in their toast.

To be continued…