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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 9: The Warning
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Well now everyone, the 16th Gundam Fight has already stared. The Preventers have already had a taste for their first fights as competitors. Already a month has passed, the Shuffle Alliance and the Preventers (who now call themselves the Fellowship of the Gundam) have searched for the Devil Gundam as well as its hostages Trieze Kushrinada and Lady Une. Let's get things started! Gundam Fight, ready, go!
The search had continued, with no leads, no finds and no results. For all of the Fellowship it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack of needles. Everyone in the group had been given a picture of Trieze and Lady Une. For Domon Kasshu it had resurfaced some very unpleasant memories about the 13th Gundam Fight. In how he had lost half of his family, his mother, his brother, and his teacher Master Asia because of the Devil Gundam. Yet, he had also gained so much. He learned how to calm his body, mind and spirit to obtain a clear and serene state of mind. He had also gained a great number of friends, Chibodee, George, Argo, Sai-Saici, Allenby, and his love Rain.
Domon sat in the passenger side of the core lander from God Gundam. He smiled as the streets of Neo Hong Kong passed him by. Next to him, driving the core lander, Rain saw out of the corner of her eye that Domon was smiling.
"What are you smiling about?" She asked
"Oh, nothing." Domon answered as he kept the smile on his face and just sat back as Rain continued to drive.
"You know, it's been over a month since we began on the search." Rain stated the obvious.
"Yeah." Domon agreed, "I know that."
"And we still haven't found Mister Trieze or Lady Une."
Domon thought for a moment and said, "Do you remember how long it took us to find Kyoji?"
"Yes, nearly a year."
"Exactly, so all we do is just keep our eyes open."
"That's pretty clear headed of you, Domon." Rain said with a hint of surprise.
"Thanks to Swartz Bruder, I can now have a clear mind."
"That's true." Rain shrugged, "How do you think the others are doing?"
"Probably in the same place, unless the found the right lead. So, let's keep our search going."
* * *
Thousands of miles away, Duo Maxwell stood upon the cockpit platform of DeathScythe Hell. He looked out across the wasts of the Kalahari Desert. He had made his way to that place all the way from Neo Scotland. In all the palaces between the Highlands of Neo Scotland and the blistering heat of the Kalahari Duo had tried his part to search for the leaders of Preventer.
No results.
Yet, it wasn't the search that Duo was concentrating on. It was the heat of the dester that was starting to get to him. Especially since he was still wearing his black priests collar shirt and black balloon pants. He could only stand to be in that heat only for a few moments. He then climbed back into the cockpit of DeathScythe Hell just to feel cool again. He fell back onto the seat, hearing the cockpit door close and feel the wonderful sensation of cool air blowing over him. Then he had to ask himself an odd question.
"Hey, DeathScythe old buddy." He spoke to his Gundam, "What the hell are we doing in this tournament?" DeathScythe couldn't have answered. This was simply something Duo did whenever he wanted an answer to an obvious question. "Yeah, that's true." Duo had placed his hands behind his head as he relaxed, "The only people allowed to come to Earth during this time are Gundam Fighters, their crews, and government officials. Rules are rules, even if I like to break them. From what Domon told us, this has happened before to him and the rest of the Shuffle Alliance. So, history can and does repeat itself doesn't it?"
Duo closed his eyes for a moment as the cool air flowed over him. He felt a little bit tired since he did travel quite a long way from the Sahara, over the Congo and into the Kalahari. He yawned in thinking how far he had to go across the Earth. It tired him even further with the thought of how much further he had to go.
He then opened his eyes again to survey the land again. As he did he noticed something approaching him from the west. At first glance it only looking like an animal of some species. Yet, as he kept looking at it there was something that wasn't quite right about it. He reached over and zoomed in on the approaching object. As it drew closer Duo found out what it was. It was a Gundam, but a Gundam of a very different design. To Duo's eyes it was about the oddest thing that he had ever seen. Instead of what he considered the normal Gundam design, this particular Gundam was designed after an animal. From the looks of it, it looked like a tiger design. The feature of this tiger machine that made Duo think or rather conclude that it was a Gundam was the yellow spikes on its forehead. The entire machine was white and from what Duo could see it had no weapons whatsoever. Just the fact that he saw how weapons on this machine made him smirk in thinking that he could beat it in a Gundam fight.
"Oh, someone's come to challenge the God of Death have they?"
He reached out for the COM button and called to the approaching Gundam.
"This is Duo Maxwell, representing Neo Scotland, identify yourself."
Duo only got a response back in audio only, "I am Conta N'Doul, the Gundam Fighter representing Neo Kenya, and pilot of the Liger Gundam. May I ask what you are doing in this place?"
"I am searching for someone that has gone missing." Duo answered truthfully. That was Duo in a nutshell, he may run and hide but he'll never tell a lie.
"You should have filed a missing persons report." The pilot of Liger Gundam stated.
"Gee!" Duo said sarcastically, "Why didn't I think of that? Now, are you here to challenge me to a Gundam fight or what?"
"As a matter of fact I am. I hereby challenge you to a Gundam fight. The nearest one here is 30 kilometers from here. Meet me there in one hour. I look forward to our fight, Neo Scotland."
"Count on it, dude." Duo smiled. He stood up the awkward cockpit and began to take his clothes off. It was the best way to link up with the DeathScythe Hell if there was no obstruction between himself and the mobile trace system. Duo had to admit that it was the oddest way to do this, but what other choice was there. He didn't both folding his clothes he just threw them onto the cockpit seat. Then when he was done he had the idea that perhaps having the air conditioning on full force wasn't exactly the best idea, especially since he was about the change to the mobile trace system. Though he decided to endure it, he placed his clothes in the storage compartment, which was right behind the headrest of the cockpit chair.
He then looked over to that little stripped oblong piece to the chairs right. Like most of the Preventer Gundams, all of them had the same type of switch for the mobile trace system. He opened it, flipped the switches and pushed the button. Standing in the awkward position of inside the cockpit became a little more natural as the controls began to give way to the triple rings of the mobile trace system. Duo looked up to see the small hole in the ring, he remembered from what the Shuffle Alliance told him he had to stick his head through it. The rings spun and came down over him, he slipped and tugged his way into the mobile trace suit. He looked down at himself to see the symbol he had chosen for his suit. It was an infinity symbol wrapped around a cross to signify that Duo was the God of Death.
As Duo took a deep breath feeling the stretch of the mobile trace suit on his skin he looked out the 360-degree panoramic view screens. He thought of a map that he needed to get to the Gundam Dome. Just then a small window appeared out of nowhere on the screen that showed the direction of the Gundam Dome. It was only 30 miles in the northwestern direction. Duo smiled as the DeathScythe Hell began to fire up its engines and flew to the Gundam Dome.
Duo made his way to the Gundam dome. It was a wonderful experience to use the Gundam in that fashion. Especially with such a system like the Mobile Trace System, Duo looked all around for any sign of the Gundam Liger that had challenged him earlier. He thought that maybe its pilot got scared and ran off. Then he thought that he wouldn't have the opportunity to try out the DeathScythe with the Mobile Trace System.
Something caught his attention, at the other end of the Gundam Dome, Duo saw his opponent enter the ring. It certainly was the same Gundam that he met in the desert but it was different. The lion-like Gundam was no longer white, it was bright orange like that of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Duo zoomed in on the Gundam and found it to be stranger than before. It was as if the armor for the Gundam Liger was purely for show. At least that's what Duo thought, until he heard his opponent boast his armor.
"Say hello to Gundam Liger, Schneider system!" Conta smiled
"Nice armor." Duo said, "But you still have no chance against me, the God of Death."
"How cocky, but enough of this, let's fight."
"Works for me. Gundam Fight!"
"Ready?"
"Go!"
The Gundam Liger charged across the ring at the DeathScythe Hell. To Duo, he had thought that the orange armor was still for show, but that when he found out that he made a huge mistake in judgement. As the Gundam Liger charged across the ring, its four Gundanium paws banging against the ground something came to its front. IT took Duo a fraction of a moment to understand what was happening. That was he heard Conta shout something.
"Buster Slash!" Conta shouted
That's when Duo made his connection. At the sides of the Gundam Liger in this Schneider system, as Conta called it, there were several blades. As far as Duo could assess in such a fraction of time there were 5, all of them came down around the face of the Liger. The blades curved to a singular point like fingers holding a pencil. Yet it was the point that made Duo's heart rush within his chest but he was too scared to think. In all the time that he's fought nothing like this had ever happened. He never had to face a suit that was in the shape of a lion with blades attached to it. As a matter of fact it was damn near ridiculous for him. That was before the pain started.
"AAHH!" Duo screamed
He looked down to his left arm where the pain screamed through his nerves. Upon the suit for his Mobile Trace System there were lines like a circuit board that were glowing red against the black material of the suit. Yet, it was the pain that surged through the arm, it felt as if something had ripped it off of Duo's body. He looked through the 360-degree screens and found the arm of the DeathScythe lying on the ground next to him. It was the very same arm that had the shield attached to it. It lay on the ground next to him the marks that the blade made was visible in the scars of the Gundanium. Duo felt tears streaking down his face, originally he liked this Mobile Trace System because of its quick response time. He knew of the dangers that this system had, much like the Zero System, but he never anticipated the kind of suffering that he'd have to endure.
"You son of a bitch!" Duo cursed. The searing burn in his arm reaching up to his shoulders and the tears streaking against his hot face.
"You're easier prey than what I originally thought." Conta responded to Duo's cries.
"How dare you mock, the God of Death!" Duo shouted at the top of his lungs. That was when he drew out the beam weapon with only one hand. His only good hand that he could use, since the Mobile Trace System made his left arm feel limp. He looked at the holographic outlines of the Beam Scythe in his hand and his mind enraged with defeat nearing, he thought of the DeathScythe's best ability.
On the other side of the battlefield, Conta glowed in the cockpit (in a metaphorical sense) as if he knew that he won. He couldn't believe that an amateur could be a Gundam fighter that was when Conta made his very serious error in judgement. The DeathScythe had its beam scythe out, its wings were open, and it vanished. Conta's eyes grew large trying to grasp what had just happened in front of him. He never saw it coming until he saw a small glimpse of the beam scythes blade within his cockpit. After that the entire system went black.
"What in the hell happened?" Conta asked
"I won." Duo said as the DeathScythe reappeared next to the fallen Gundam Liger. He had his beam scythe in his hand as the head of his opponent fell from its animal like shoulders to the floor of the ring.
* * *
Half a world away from the deserts of the Kalahari desert, Quatre Raberba Winner wasn't having any more luck in his search for the Devil Gundam than his comrades who were scattered across the globe.
He stood on the rocky shores of Neo New Zealand looking into the oceans that crashed around the rocks. He came to this island after leaving the confines of the Neo Saudi Arabian deserts. It felt cooler and much more peaceful in the part of the world that he was in. The whole terrain of the island reminded Quatre of all those books that he read by the author named J.R.R. Tolkien and the stories of Middle Earth. That place was untouched as it had for God knows how long and that fact that he was far away from civilization calmed him in a great sense.
Except it was no time to stop and smell the ocean, he had to continue his search for Trieze Kushrinada, Lady Une, and most of all the Devil Gundam. He brought the Gundam Sandrock down to the sandy shores leaving enormous footprints behind him in the sand. Piloting the Gundam Sandrock in the Mobile Trace System was a wonderful experience for Quatre. It allowed him and his dear Sandrock to work as one, he even liked the suit that was designed for him. It was a tan color from the neck down to his feet, yet on his chest was a black sword, much like the blades that Sandrock used.
Sandrock walked along the beach, Quatre couldn't help but still admire the beauty as well as the smell of the ocean. The waves crashed and crashed again more violently, this time something came out of the water. Quatre's eyes when wide as he looked at the greatest monstrosity since the Devil Gundam itself. In an instant he saw a gaping mouth that lead down into dark depths with metallic overlaps growing smaller as the darkness lead ever downward. At the edge of the gaping mouth Quatre was petrified. He saw teeth, rows and rows of teeth in triangular shapes all pointing down into the darkness as if leading him into it. His instincts brought his arm against his face and tried to cover his eyes from the horror he was witnessing. He wished against wish that it was all a hallucination that it didn't exist.
Then the pain started for Quatre, he couldn't scream because there was no pain at first. Not only whatever had gotten a hold of his arm had taken him down into the waters off the shore of Neo New Zealand. Quatre felt the force of whatever was pulling him on his arm. The Mobile Trace System made it even more real with that feeling of being pushed once he was down in the water.
It was a good thing that the Preventer mobile suits were all water and air-tight. Otherwise Quatre would have drowned with all that's happened. Even with the pain in his right arm, Quatre opened his eyes and found out what he met on the beach. It was a Gundam, yet a Gundam of a very unique design. Quatre had read up on the Gundam Fight and remembered that in the 13th Gundam Fight from Neo Denmark there was the Mermaid Gundam that could transform into a fish when in water. This Gundam was very similar, yet it was in the form of a shark, a great shark that resembled that of either a Bull Shark or a Great White. Quatre even remembered his lessons from childhood, he learned of a great shark that lived on Prehistoric Earth that was so large that it could bit into a Humpback whale.
The Gundam that has its grip on Quatre was just like a shark in every design. Its body was designed so that its tail fin could move from side to side like a shark, unlike the Mermaid Gundam from Neo-Denmark. The size of this Gundam was a little greater to that of Sandrock. Even with all the observations that Quatre made in an instant the pain in his right arm still seared greatly. He couldn't help but fear this Gundam, especially with those great eyes that were like dolls eyes, dark and always staring.
"What do you want?" Quatre cried
"Quatre Raberba Winner of Neo Saudi Arabia and pilot of Gundam Sandrock." The pilot of the unnamed Gundam called, "I am Paul Reynolds of Neo New Zealand and pilot of the Shark Gundam. I challenge you to a Gundam Fight."
"You made the first move." Quatre cried out trying to block out the multiple Gundanium teeth that were penetrating Sandrock's arm. Quatre looked and found the circuit-board like lines that were burning red with his pain. "I'd say the fight has already started."
"I'd say so too." Paul acknowledged, "And I think I'd win this match since I have the better atvantage over you in the water."
"You underestimate Sandrock." Quatre called as he reached for the curved blades that were at his disposal. Yet in the position he was in, he couldn't make a clean swipe at the Gundam head since the head of this Gundam was blended so well into its body. Then Quatre's eyes were attracted to the motion of the Gundam Shark's tail. That was when Quatre raised the blade and within seconds he brought it down against the tail. He heard Paul's cry when he made the move.
"NO!"
"Sorry." Quatre said as he sliced off the tail of the Gundam Shark.
The Shark let go of Sandrock's arm and Quatre was free. He watched as the Gundam shark sank into the dark blue depths of the Pacific Ocean. Putting his blade away, Quatre made the desperate swim to the surface.
* * *
Another half a world away, over the tropical island of Bermuda, the Gundam Nemesis was flying in bird mode over the Atlantic Ocean. Inside Haruka Tenou was looking out the windows and surveying the scene, but it was just more of the same blue ocean from morning until night with the occasional island. It was actually very hypnotizing at time for her, still her mind was set on her mission, but when thinking about the mission Haruka kept thinking to the ring on its golden thread around her neck. She took her hands away from the controls and held it for a moment, but then brought her hands back to the controls. To her right she saw a small island.
"I think I deserve a little break." She said to herself. She then looked at the gauges for Nemesis and thought, "I should refuel anyway."
She directed Nemesis down to the island, which the computer identified as the island nation of Neo Bermuda. Suddenly she thought about all those stories she heard about this part of the Pacific Ocean called "The Bermuda Triangle", where all these ships and planes disappear without a trace. Then she brushed it off like a silly child's like fear.
"I'm in a Gundam." She said to reassure herself that nothing bad would happen. Until someone would dare to challenge her then she'd definitely kick his or her ass.
She landed upon the tropical beaches of Neo Bermuda. She got out of the cockpit, stepping onto the cockpit platform, and breathed in the tropical air of that place. The soft wind was blowing from the west where the sun was about to slowly sink into the vast ocean. Haruka looked up to the sky and saw that it was slowly giving up its blue hue for the warm colors of sunset. It had been a long day, she wanted a few pleasures out of this break. She dreamed of lying down in a bed of roses and being wrapped in satin sheets.
"A good cheesecake would be nice." She thought then she heard the AI cockpit system Hal call out. Haruka spun her attention back into the cockpit as if the voice had a body.
"Haruka." It called calmly, "There is an unidentified object heading from the south and its coming right toward us."
Haruka looked and from out of nowhere storm clouds began to roll in against the wind that was blowing from the west. It was as if God was coming down to Earth the in form of a storm. The black clouds rolled and rolled upon one another like a cascading stream in the sky, the lightning sparked between the ocean and the bottoms of the clouds. Soon the clouds were at the doorstep of the beach where Haruka stood. She climbed back into the cockpit of the Gundam Nemesis. She looked to the storm and that was when she got a call on her COM channel.
"Haruka Tenou." A very low voice called, "I challenge you to a Gundam fight."
"Who wants to fight?" Haruka asked defensively.
"My name is of no importance, but I am the representative of Neo Bermuda and pilot of the Oblivion Gundam."
Haruka didn't like the situation at all, first this weird storm comes out of nowhere then someone who refuses to give a name challenges her. Then again, she's had taken bigger risks while she was in Preventer.
"I accept your challenge, whoever you are!" Haruka shouted as she took off her clothes in the cockpit and shoved them into the storage compartment.
"Good." The low unnamed voice said, "Come into the storm to find me."
Haruka took in the information and called up to the Nemesis computer, "Hal." She called, "Switch to the Mobile Trace System."
"Acknowledged Haruka, shutting down and switching to Mobile Trace System." Hal said as his system was shut down and the cockpit gave away to the three rings of the Mobile Trace System. Haruka looked up to the hole and waited anxiously for it to come down, because she wanted to get to the fight and in a very odd sort of way she loved the feel of that suit against her skin. She grunted and she tried to get the suit on. Her Mobile Trace Suit was a chameleon like color, it depended upon the angle of the light what color it would be. In one angle it would be red, another blue, and another purple. Yet on her chest that contrasted the fabulous colors were a pair of white wings that stretched from the center of her chest out to her shoulders.
As soon as everything was ready she flew out into the storm like some kind of bible hero facing whatever awaited her in that place. She left the comfortable place that would be her rest stop to go and fight the person who was residing in the storm. She got into the clouds and amazingly enough with all the lighting that was going on outside there was none that was sparking within the clouds. It was as if all the lightning and dark clouds were simply the covers or maybe they were hiding something more dangerous inside.
Inside the storm clouds that were rolling in over the island of Bermuda, Haruka was in the eye of it. She suddenly had an even better understanding of the bible story of David and Goliath. She understood the feeling of going up against something that was so much bigger than her or rather so much more greater than her. In every direction, left, right, up, and down, everywhere it was dark and gray. Until Haruka looked forward and in plain sight was a Gundam.
The Gundam was completely black from head to toe. Not even the Gundam DeathScythe was this black, at least the DeathScythe had parts of yellow, white and gray. The Gundam (that Haruka made the connection was the Oblivion Gundam that challenged her) was totally black, even the spikes on its head were black including the lenses over its eyes that covered the cameras, all black. Its body looked like The Wing Zero a little bit, yet its arms were like the Sandrock but more muscular, its head looked like the Master Gundam and it even had the wings of the Master Gundam. This was the Oblivion Gundam and Haruka was scared of this machine.
She felt herself tremble at her knees, in her ankles and in her wrists as she stood within the Mobile Trace System. She kept thinking about how she was going to fight in such an awful place and with such a system. She lost all thought about the weapons she had, the beam sword and the heat rod. Yet, it was just looking at this terrible looking Gundam that made her feel like a scarred kid at a horror movie. Then those words coming from that deep low voice suddenly made all those dark clouds of fear and doubt vanish.
"Gundam fight!" The pilot of Oblivion stated, "Ready?"
Haruka smiled, everything cleared from her mind, fear, doubt, disbelief, all of it was foreign to her at that moment when those words were stated to her. Both she and her husband, Johan had this unusual ability that music made them feel empowered, as if the music was their strength. Johan always had the habit of playing Rage against the Machine, Motorhead, AC/DC, or anything that was fast and loud to get him into battle. Haruka felt the same way about this Gundam fight, she loved to do battle, which is why she was such a great Gundam pilot with the rest of Preventer, even though Wufei Change still had that chauvinistic attitude about her. She responded back to the request.
"GO!" She shouted as she flicked out her arm, which brought up the hologram of the heat rod was on her left arm, and she reached for her right hip that had the beam sword. She brought it up and the hologram of it was in her hand as she charged against the Oblivion Gundam.
"Black hole!" The pilot fo the Oblivion Gundam shouted as a black mass began to vent from its exhausts.
It was like liquid smoke that poured out of the machine like a never ending river or a faucet that was on full blast. Haruka was left in the dark, though her senses didn't stop. Even with the black mass pouring out of the Oblivion Gundam she drew back her sword and made the swipe. Though when the sword made its swing, there was no feeling of friction, it just felt like it passed through air. The Darkness was all around her, though Haruka wasn't fooled, inside the cockpit thanks to the emergence of technology the cockpit could show heat signatures. She only had to look to her left and there was the shape of the Oblivion Gundam, she retraced the heat rod and then shoved out her arm to the Gundam in the darkness. The heat rod snapped out like a chameleon's tongue to an insect, the heat rod wrapped itself around the legs of the Gundam and began to heat up.
"What the hell?" The pilot of Oblivion asked then he began to scream as Haruka knew that whatever pain the Gundam would feel the pilot would feel. She then pulled the heat rod back and the legs of the Oblivion Gundam came with it.
The liquid black mass cleared and along with the black mass the black and gray storm clouds began to vanish. Haruka couldn't help but laugh and smile at the fact that she had beaten the storm. She watched as the Oblivion Gundam fell down and down to the depths of the Pacific Ocean. She thought about how Wufei would always be chauvinistic about her just because she was a woman.
"Whose the weaker sex now?" She asked as the Oblivion Gundam sank.
* * *
In the streets of Amsterdam, Heero Yuy was walking and then he ran into a very familiar face that he had not seen within four months. The familiar face walked right into Heero Yuy without even knowing it. The two locked eyes at each other like magnets, it was Johan Peacecraft Rodriguez, his comrade in Preventer and member of the Fellowship of the Gundam. Yet, Heero wasn't' the type of person to start jumping up and down screaming that he had found a friend of his. No, Heero was the type of man to just look at Johan neutrally and say just one thing.
"It's been a long time, hasn't it?" He asked in that flats neutral passionless tone.
"It has." Johan answered back, "Any luck in the search?"
"None." Heero answered, "But there is someone following you."
Johan was about to turn his head and his body to look into the crowd to find that person that Heero was talking about. Yet as he was about to make his move, Heero placed his hand on his shoulder like a caring comrade behind that neutral face.
"Don't look." Heero said keeping eye contact with Johan and not even giving the person in the shadows a glimpse.
"What do we do?" Johan asked the Perfect Soldier for a plan.
"Let's walk, and try to get him into a corner." Heero answered
Though the plan that Heero had backfired, in the shadows of the streets in Amsterdam the shadowy figure that Heero kept an eye on drew something. Heero couldn't tell what it was from the lack of light, but as it came out Heero knew what it was or had a pretty good instinct about it. It was a weapon, a gun as the shadow of it came out.
"Get down!" Heero commanded silently
The two of them were thrown down to the cobblestone ground as the figure fired off shots which sent the crowd into a panic. It always seemed to happen anywhere in the world when a gun is fired unexpectedly, the crowd begins to panic and stampede like cattle. Heero and Johan looked up from the ground and saw the figure escape. It went into the shadows of the alleyway and within mere moments a bright light came out of the alleyway like sunlight coming through a patch of clouds. Out from that alleyway came a vehicle that looked like a core lander, Heero had his suspicions that it could be another Gundam fighter, but who?
"Call for your Core Lander." Heero ordered Johan
"Got it." Johan said getting to his feet, "GO CORE LANDER!" Johan called and from out of nowhere a great motorcycle whirred its way to Johan, it was green and black much like the Mobile Trace System suit that Johan wore. The motorcycle looked like a capsule with wheels, the front wheel sticking out at a low angle. It was so low to the ground it was like a seat with wheels for legs. It came up to Johan without someone behind the wheel like an automatic pilot. As it came to Johan it stopped and Johan climbed down into the motorcycle, Heero called for his core lander.
"GO CORE LANDER!" He shouted and out from the shadows of a different alleyway his core lander arrived. Then came Heero's core lander which looked a little bit like Domon's core lander for the God Gundam but more fitting for the Wing Zero, except it didn't take the Angelic Gundanium wings with it. It was just a simply sleek triangular like vehicle. It came up to Heero with its cockpit glass door opened. Heero jumped into it.
Heero and Johan rode off into the night after their shadowy assassin. As they made their car chase through the streets of Amsterdam everyone who could hear the whir of the Core Lander got out of the way. They parted like the Red Sea or like cars that go to the side of the road to make way for the fire truck or an ambulance. The chase lasted for what seemed like an hour. Until the chasing parties came to the dirt covered roads that lead out to the country. The only things that were out there were abandoned farmhouses, unused farmland, decrepit fencing and trees growing sporadically. Though the good part was that Heero and Johan definitely had their suspect.
The roads curved and twisted, the subject that was being chased never seemed to slow down or even looked back. That was something that made both the Perfect Soldier and the Star Dragon a little on edge about this person. The roads began to lead ever onward and into the middle of a field, a field where there was no farmhouse, no house, no trees, and not even a fence. Just Heero, Johan, and the man they chased. The headlights of the core lander for Heero and Johan shined upon the man they chased. They saw his core lander as being a blue and gray vehicle much like Heero's. The first one to make any communication was Johan. He got up from his motorcycle keeping a leg over the seat just in case he needed a quick getaway.
The suspect stood up in his core lander as the cockpit glass opened. The headlights of the core lander didn't seem to show his face. They could only see his body, which was covered in a black spandex like material that was similar to the Mobile Trace System suit.
"Who are you?" Johan demanded as his voice echoed across the wasteland, "Why did you try to kill me?"
The dark figure spoke only one phrase, "Rise, Gundam Nexus!"
The ground below the core lander began to shake. It felt even more unstable for Johan since one firm foot was on the ground while the other was over the seat of his motorcycle. He looked to the core lander that he and Heero had been chasing. From the light of his core lander he watched something rise in the darkness, initially he didn't recognize it but then he made the connection that it was the Gundam that the suspect had called for. Without taking his eyes off of the slowly rising figure, Johan reached down for the high beams of his motorcycle and that made the difference. He saw in full force what the Gundam Nexus was.
The Gundam Nexus was just like the core lander that he and Heero had been chasing. It was blue and gray; it had the body, arms and legs of the Wing Zero Custom that Heero had. Except it didn't have Gundanium Angelic wings, it had the wings of the Epyon, the shield and heat rod from the Tallgeese III. Then in the Gundam's right hand was a buster rifle, just like the one that Heero and Johan would use in their Gundams. It felt violating to see another possess a weapon that Johan and Heero prided themselves upon using. It felt like going to a costume party and finding someone with the exact costume that they had. The Gundam stared down at Johan and Heero like bugs on the ground. Its eyes blazed in its, at near unholy glow, a hue of green that were like the eyes of a demon out of Dante's Inferno or Clive Barker's Hellbound Heart.
Johan had to act, "Heero!" He shouted
Heero nodded as he stood up raising the cockpit glass, "Rise, Gundam Wing Zero!" He called
Johan looked up to the sky, "Rise Gundam Ryu!"
Out of the sky, like twin comets coming down to the Earth, the Wing Zero and the Gundam Ryu came down to where Heero and Johan had called them. Within a matter of a minute as the Gundam Nexus rose to its feet, Johan and Heero brought their core landers to their Gundams and mounted their cockpits.
Though, before Johan and Heero could act, it was already too late. In the darkness, which was already illuminated by the special cameras that were installed in the Preventer Gundams they saw the Nexus. It had its heat rod out, at least in the first instant, in the next instant both Heero Yuy, the Perfect Soldier and Johan Rodriguez the Star Dragon had fallen to the ground. Their Gundams were in shambles, all of what happened was so instant it was like a blur, like swerving in a car that was about to get into an accident and the only next reasonable thought was, what happened?
At that point when the question of what happened, then came the very cryptic message from the very same voice that piloted the suspicious core lander.
"This a warning." The voice said, "Mess with the best, die like the rest."
To be continued…
