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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 16: The Devils Knights
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Well now everyone. The Battle Royal has already started and this is to determine who is the greatest among the Fellowship of the Gundam. Some have said that it would be the Wing Zero, others say the Tallgeese III, then there's the God Gundam, as well as Gundam Ryu. Who among the Fellowship will truly be the Gundam of Gundams? Let's get things started! Gundam Battle Royal! Ready, GO!
On one side of the island where Wufei Chang and Sai-Saici were fighting, their fight had been equal on all ground. Their speed matched one another, so did their weapons, tactics and martial arts skills. It became frustrating to both sides that they fought for so long and didn't manage to get a single dent in each other. It was just like fighting a mirror image of each other.
They grew tired of fighting each other, they began to lean to their sides, and use their weapons as support for their exhaustion. Even in their exhaustion they kept an eye on each other making sure that they'd be ready just in case the other side was going to make a sneak attack. On the other hand they asked themselves why would the other side do that since the other side was just as exhausted as they were.
"This is proving futile." Wufei panted
"Yeah." Sai-Saici agreed, "I thought that I would have won there a few times."
"So did I."
"Neither of you will win!" A voice called out
Both of them heard where the voice was coming from and they looked to where the voice was coming from. It came from the high mound that stood above from where they were fighting. They saw a Gundam that was built like a regular person, yet it seemed as if it was wearing Chinese cloths and had a ponytail in the back of its head. Wufei recognized that Gundam on the spot, even though the last time that it fought that suit was nearly a year ago back in the elimination rounds. It was the former champion of Neo-Hong Kong.
"Kung Fu Gundam." Wufei exhaled as he looked to the machine, "Ranma Soatome."
"I'd been waiting a year to find you, Wufei Chang!" Ranma shouted, "I want revenge!"
Wufei and Sai-Saici watched as the Gundanium of the Kung Fu Gundam began to expand. It expanded like water being filled into a balloon that was until a part of the Kung Fu Gundam snapped revealing something else underneath it. The Kung Fu Gundam was breaking apart from whatever enormous force was within the suit itself. From the part that had snapped away, both Sai-Saici and Wufei saw a more enormous and orange forearm. Its hand was no longer gray from the Gundanium alloy but more of a gold color. Pretty soon, the entire Gundanium casing of the Kung Fu Gundam snapped and crumbled away like old bark from a tree. From within the old Gundam came a machine that was three times as big as the old one. It had wings spreading out like the wings of a bat and upon those wings were paintings that looked like eyes. From behind it was a tail that looked similar to the Epyon's heat rod that swished from left to right. Upon its chest was the golden metallic head of a lion.
"Behold, Wufei Chang." Ranma's voice sounding colder than before, "Warrior Gundam."
* * *
Over on the other side of the island where Argo Gulski and Quatre Raberba Winner were fighting, they were about to meet someone.
Quatre held on tightly to the blades of the Sandrock as he waited for Argo and the Bolt Gundam to make their first move. He couldn't tell how long they had been in this standoff. Quatre couldn't look at his watch, for one reason if he moved the slightest inch, Argo may launch at him at a very unguarded moment. He only kept his eyes looking forward and never taking them off the Bolt Gundam.
Suddenly, Quatre saw the ocean move. It didn't move with the normal rolling in onto the shore. It moved with a motion as if something underneath the waves was moving the water. Quatre froze as his eyes moved from the Bolt Gundam to the enormous wave that rolled in passed and under the barrier. It grew in size like a person rising up headfirst from the water. The water then began to part at the peak of the rising figure. The peak was pointed like the nose cone of a fighter plane. It trickled away from a gaping mouth.
"Shark Gundam." Quatre uttered as he lowered his blades
"What?" Argo asked, then he noticed water coming down around his Gundam like rain. He then looked to his far right to the ocean and there he found what Quatre was talking about. It was a shark made entirely out of Gundanium.
"He's not in this Gundam Fight!" Argo protested
"Stay out of this!" The pilot of Shark Gundam demanded, "This fight doesn't concern you!"
The head of the Shark Gundam rested on the shore with the waves rolling up and past its head. Its jaws were just but its lifeless blank doll eyes were staring out. Yet there was something unusual about them. They were seemed to be emitting a gas or a kind of smoke. A red smoke was pouring from the eyes of the Shark Gundam.
"Quatre Raberba Winner of Neo-Saudi Arabia." The pilot of Shark Gundam (Paul Reynolds), "And pilot of Gundam Sandrock. Do you remember how you defeated me?"
"Yes." Quatre answered still frozen by those eyes in the face of Shark Gundam. He remembered that fight with this pilot, Paul Reynolds of Neo-New Zealand. The Shark Gundam had Sandrock in its jaws and was pulling it down to the dark depths of the ocean, but Quatre had sliced off its tail. The act had freed himself and defeated the Shark Gundam in one swift blow, but that was months ago and the past had returned for Quatre.
"I hated you for my defeat." Paul snarled, "I vowed that I'd avenge myself, my Gundam, and my people. Even if I had to sell my soul to the Devil Gundam!"
"The Devil Gundam?" Argo uttered to himself
The red smoke that poured from behind the black eyes of the Shark Gundam began to shoot out. They shot out from behind the eyes like steam jetting form a teakettle. As the red smoke jetted out, the eyes of the Shark Gundam cracked and fell away like broken glass. Underneath it a new eye began to glow an unholy red like the smoke that came before it. Not like the stationary black eyes of the Shark Gundam the new eyes moved in their own sockets like cameras that had souls of their own but that wasn't the end of it.
The Shark Gundam opened up its jaws and a shriek came out that sounded like a cross between a woman's scream and metal screeching against on another. As the scream became louder and louder, the Shark Gundams exterior began to crack and break apart. It's graying metal gave away to a bright blue shinning metal underneath it. It looked as if it was scaled like a fish or a snake reflecting the suns glare off of them. The head still had chips of its old Gundanium flaking away like old paint. It was never noticed but the tail of the Shark Gundam had already broken away and fell to the bottom of the bay. In place of it a long tail grew, it slithered out into the bay and coiled between the shore and the barrier. At last, all of the old Gundanium had come undone from the Shark Gundam as the new form began to stand back like a King Cobra ready to strike.
The new Gundam was in full view as it towered high above both the Bolt Gundam and Gundam Sandrock. It was bright blue from it sleek head all the way down its snake-like body that entered into the water. Its new scaly Gundanium exterior sent multiple reflections against the beach and splitting the sunlight into rainbows. The head looked down on the Sandrock and Bolt Gundam, both of its red glaring eyes starting at them both.
"This is my newest form." Paul introduced his new Gundam, "A gift from the Devil Gundam. The Gundam Leviathan!"
* * *
"Had enough?" Johan asked Haruka very playfully as he deflected another one of her attacks.
"You wish!" Haruka answered back with a laugh in her voice
"Fun's over!" A deep voice called out as the sky above the Gundams Ryu and Nemesis began to darken like a fast storm that was rolling overhead. As the sky became black like the bottom of an inkpot and the lightning flashed, a Gundam came down from the sky above. It descended with the force of its thrusters behind it. From the light of both the thrusters and the flashing lighting it could bee seen that the Gundam was black. It was completely black like space-itself from the top of the head to the bottoms of its feet.
"I know that Gundam." Haruka uttered her throat dry and eyes wide.
"What is it?" Johan asked with a little bit of fear in his voice.
"It's Oblivion Gundam from Neo-Bermuda…" She paused, "It's not supposed to be here."
"Haruka Tenou…" The deep voice called out as its feet touched the ground and the sky still black above them with the lightning flashing. "It's time for my retribution. I will not be defeated again by a woman!"
"AHHH!" The pilot of Oblivion Gundam cried out in pain as the Gundam began to turn in on itself. It bent down as if it was trying to touch its toes, but he then tucked in his arms. The legs were bending downwards as if it was kneeling. It had rolled itself into a ball, but that wasn't the end of it. From the back of the Oblivion Gundam came two black spikes. They tore right through the Gundanium surface like knives through paper. Both spikes were in an angle such that they were in a V-Shape.
In the light that was available form the flashing lighting, the legs and the arms of the Oblivion Gundam merged into each other. For a moment they were like melted wax coming together to form something greater.
The lighting flashed again. This time the black shinning Gundanium of the arms became transparent showing an intricate network of wires that lead to a camera in the center. Both arms had transformed themselves into eyes. As they set themselves inside the mass that used to be the Oblivion Gundam they glowed a bright green in the darkness between the flashes of lightning.
In the next flash of lightning, which lasted much longer than the rest, both Haruka and John saw what they were up against. It was the floating head of a Gundam, so enormous that it could over take both Ryu and Nemesis.
"I shall not loose to a woman!" The voice of the pilot sounded deeper than before, "Go! Black Hole Gundam!"
* * *
"Zechs!" Heero shouted as he made the swipe against the Tallgeese III, but the Lightning Count answered back by thwarting the Wing Zero's assaults.
The Wing Zero and the Tallgeese III fought each other back and forth. As they two fought like rams butting each other's horns, the God Gundam watched from a distance. Domon tried to imagine why these two had such distaste for each other. He had to ask himself the question.
"How long have they been fighting?" He asked himself, then he came to the thought, "If they keep this up, I think I'll win without even throwing a punch."
"Heero Yuy!" A voice called out
Heero looked to his right, to where the voice was most dominant in the speakers. Yet he was careful to keep an eye on the Tallgeese III so that it wouldn't take advantage of the situation. In the back of his mind he knew that Zechs wouldn't do such a thing. He had too much honor and nobility to hit someone while they were down or not paying attention. So, when Heero turned in his MTS to look at what was coming, Zechs had sopped to look in that direction.
Over the hills of the island came a strange looking Gundam. The whole body of this Gundam was a grotesque gray like dead skin. Spread out from the body were wings of tightly pulled skin yet it had to be some kind of synthetic material. Trailing behind the Gundam was a long tail that had a spade-like point to it. It had horns like a devil, but they were the yellow spikes of the Gundam split in half and placed on either side of its head. As it drew close, Domon, Heero, and Zechs noticed that the Gundam was very organic in its design. It then landed near the Wing Zero.
"Who are you?" Heero demanded
"I am Selena Falcon!" The pilot of the White Gundam announced, "The pilot of the Demon Gundam. Do you remember me, Heero Yuy of Neo-Korea? You defeated me by taking my Gundams head. You disgraced me to my family. The undefeatable Falcons whose roots go back to the undefeated warrior princess of the Mediterranean!"
"Are you finished now?" Heero asked, "I have a fight to finish."
"And I have a bone to pick with you, Heero Yuy!" Selena screamed
The Demon Gundam fell over onto its back, then rolled over onto its front. Its wings, arms, and legs curling into its body, even the Demon-like tail ran itself between the legs of the machine like a frightened dog.
"AHHHH!" Selena shrieked
The Demon Gundam curled up into a tighter ball and the skin of the back broke open. The Gundanium shell split and exploded outward like an overheated potato. From within the old Gundam came a great gray mass in a similar form to a human brain. Yet the mass was stripped horizontally to show the over lapping Gundanium plates. The mass moved itself out of its old body and sat in front of the Wing Zero, Tallgeese III, and the God Gundam (with Fuunsaiki) in the background. The mass of gray Gundanium began to twitch and limbs began to rupture from tis sides. First came a pair of feet, short and clawed. They planted themselves in the ground as two spike ripped out from the rear-end of the gray mass. The spikes extended out and out until they were merged with the enormous gray mass. The mass was starting to look like a Wyvern (a dragon with two legs) but was missing its head and neck. Again, the mass twitched, this time its front exploded outward. From that one hole came 8 stems similar to the vines of the Devil Gundam. Each stem over-towered the Gundams. Then from the ends of each stem came a head. The head was like that of a dragon, their heads were long, and their jaws opened to expose their numerous steak-knife-like teeth. From behind the teeth there was a small barrier like a gun barrel. Then there were the eyes…the eyes blazed green as the back of their heads spiked outward like horns. The heads of this bizarre Gundam looked down at the mobile fighters at its base.
"Look at me, Heero Yuy!" Selena shouted, her voice sounded as if it was multiplied. As if somewhere in the belly of that Gundanium monster was Selena Falcon and 7 other copies of her and they were all speaking at once, "You don't stand a change against me now. I have Gundam Hydra!"
"Maybe not on my own." Heero answered back, "But I have them!"
The Tallgeese III and the God Gundam came to the side of the Wing Zero, all of them had their beam weapons out, ready to fight the monstrous Gundam Hydra.
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Despite the size of the Gundam Leviathan, Quatre and Argo stood their ground. They held their wills together and gave each other the vote of confidence.
"If this Gundam is working for the Devil Gundam," Argo stated, "it'll lead us to it, so we mustn't give up!"
"No argument from me." Quatre agreed, "Sandrock and I have come too far."
"Perhaps we could help." A very familiar voice suggested.
Quatre and Argo looked together and standing between the mountain ranges that lead to the beach were Gundam Rose and Heavyarms. The two stood side by side like toy soldiers. Quatre felt like signing for joy that help was there. But he couldn't help but ask
"How did you know?" He asked
"We saw something odd over the horizon." George De Sand explained, "So, we delayed our own fight and came here. Now, let's fight our common enemy."
"One should never give up until the end." Trowa proclaimed, "That is what Heavyarms has taught me."
"Yeah!" Quatre smiled so blissfully happy even with the monster Leviathan Gundam towering above him. They watched the Leviathan Gundam in awe and renewed hope of winning the battle against the monster.
"ROLLING WAVE!" Paul shouted and the Leviathan rolled its coiled in the water and that was when the water began to rise like a wave. The wave crested near the barrier and rolled on down, passed the Gundam Leviathan that rose its head above the wave. It crashed down on the Bolt Gundam, Rose Gundam, Sandrock, and Heavyarms. It tossed and turned all four of them around as if they were pieces of rock being pushed to the shore. The Gundams of the Fellowship were up against the mountains near the beach as the wave rolled back.
Paul Reynolds looked down through his MTS system. His body was covered from head to toe in DG cells and the cockpit a mess of DG vines. He watched, as the Fellowship Gundams were already defeated in his wave. He had to laugh.
"It's so easy!" He laughed
"Not…. So... Fast…!" Quatre yelled as he brought Sandrock to its feet and the others followed him. "We're outmatched in size."
"But not in wits." George counter-stated, "Messiour Trowa and I shall distract it, you two attack it head on and find the cockpit."
"Got it." Quatre answered
Trowa and George took their stance against the Gundam Leviathan, in the split moment that happened before the distraction was to take place Trowa and George spoke only a few words to each other. It was as if they were going to say good-bye to each other if they weren't going to succeed.
"It's a pleasure fighting with you, Messior Trowa." George smiled
"Same here." Trowa answered
The cape compartment of the Rose Gundam opened and so too did all the artillery compartments of the Gundam Heavyarms. The two were then like twin battleships ready to strike back at their enemies. This was the distraction, both mobile suits turned a gold color as they took aim against the sea-snake-like machine.
"ROSE BITS HURRICANE!" George shouted as the rose bits flew out of his Gundam like swarms of bees that had their hive disturbed.
Trowa's Heavyarms was pure as gold could be as his compartments were open. He too then made the statement, "My ultimate attack." He thought to himself then shouted out, "ARTILLERY ARMAGEDDON!"
Both the rose bits, the missiles and bullets of the Gundam Rose and Heavyarms rocketed their way to the Leviathan Gundam. The rose bits only swarmed around the snake-like body firing off their lasers in different directions. Yet the bits were spinning around the Gundam so fast that the Leviathan was becoming dizzy in trying to follow them. If that wasn't enough, the bullets and missiles knocked the enemy Gundam backward to the water and the barrier.
Argo and Quatre looked at this with wide eyes of wonderment, "This was supposed to be a distraction?" The asked together.
"Now!" George shouted, "Do it now!"
"Right!" Quatre shouted, "It's my turn!" He looked over the Gundam in a matter of split seconds asking in quick succession, "Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?" Amidst the flurry of bullets, missiles, rose bits, laser fire and explosions, Quatre had a very hard time trying to figure out where the cockpit was. Then he looked towards the neck and found something odd there. A spot that looked out of place in the scaly design of this machine, but it wasn't a hole in the scales. It was more like a scale that was too large to fit. It poked out from the evenly distributed scales like an egg that's larger than the rest of the batch. Quatre made the connection of what that scale was.
"There!" He shouted to Argo, he pointed to that point in the Leviathan Gundams neck, "Attack there!"
"Right!" Argo said as he raised the firsts of the Bolt Gundam as it once again turned gold, "GAEA CRUSHER!" His fists came down and the rocks in the path of his attack spurted upward like eruptions from a volcano as Quatre made his move.
Quatre held onto the blades of the Sandrock as he concentrated on that one spot in the Gundam's neck. As his mind became clear of its objectives like the man on a mission that he was, the entire body of the Gundam turned gold with his thoughts.
"Here goes!" Quatre shouted, "DIAMOND CUTTER!"
The blades of the Gundam Sandrock didn't burn red that time, instead they began to glow white like a bright fluorescent lamp. He then held out the blades away from his body as if his arms were like wings that he was spreading along with the blades. Then in one quick and easy motion he brought his hands back together to his front as if the blades were balls that he was trying to throw at the same time. This time the blades went for their target in the motions of two spinning wheels. Quatre had used a move similar to that, but not in this fashion. He watched as both blades sliced through that scale, cutting the head from the rest of the Gundam clean away. The head of the Gundam Leviathan fell right off and down into the water.
Quatre looked into the cockpit that he had aimed at he realized how close of an attack he made. Inside the cockpit he found the body of the pilot named Paul Reynolds, his head had been sliced away like a victim of beheading in medieval France. The cockpit itself was a mess, everywhere inside of it there were DG vines that wrapped themselves to the controls and to the pilots body. But no more his body leaned forward and then the blood spilled out from his neck, the vines had released him and the body of the Gundam Leviathan fell to the waters below.
"We win." Trowa finished
* * *
The experienced Martial artists Sai-Saici and Wufei felt cold and stiff from looking at the Warrior Gundam. They kept switching sights from the enormous lion head on its chest that had an eerie feeling like it was an extra set of eyes upon them and the head itself. The enormous body of the Gundam made them both feel like insects. Every aspect of it was so frightening that neither one could speak until Sai-Saici tried to ask.
"Sh…" he stammered, "should we c…call for h…help?"
"I tried that." Wufei reported, "No one on the outside would respond."
"I didn't m…mean on the outside." Sai-Saici restated, "I mean…in…h..here."
Before Wufei could answer or even consider the idea his sensors picked up something from the east. He turned to that direction and saw two figures on top of a mound. The automatic zoom within the cockpit brought it all into focus. It was the Gundams Clockwork and Nobel Gundam. The two weren't standing on the mound, but were lying down on it like two scouts for an army.
"What are you two doing here?" Wufei called to them
"Nice to see you too, Wufei Chang." Allenby smiled from the Nobel Gundam. "I think everyone in Neo-Tokyo could see that thing." She pointed to the Warrior Gundam, "Need a hand?"
"Yes." Sai-Saici said in bringing his hands together in prayer thanking God for brining back up.
Wufei sighed in frustration, "Great, just what we need, women to help us."
"Oh yeah?" Allenby answered back, "Watch this!"
The Nobel Gundam came down from the mound and charged at the Warrior Gundam. Her beam whip out and ready to strike at the enemy in her own beautiful style. She twirled the beam whip until it became one enormous swirl of energy. She came up to the Gundam with it ready to slice but Ranma had other plans for her.
The hands of the Warrior Gundam had lost their color. They changed from their black color to a gray metallic luster. As the luster began to shine in the sunlight the surface of both hands divided themselves into hexagonal pieces like the holes in a hornets next. The hands of the Warrior Gundam were breaking down into DG cells, but it was just the first step. In the DG cell form they started to rearrange themselves. The cells scattered then came back to their new set order, a new set of hands. A set of clawed hands much larger than the previous set, all of its fingers were long, curved and had triangular tips. As the new set was done setting itself in place the color black came back and replaced the metallic luster.
Allenby watched the claws take their shape and she froze when the claws made their swipe at her. The force of the claws not only knocked Allenby from her attack but flung her across the valley and into another range of mounds.
"Sis!" Sai-Saichi called to the Gundam Fighter
Wufei looked to where Allenby had fallen. He suddenly felt something within his body. A hot burning feeling that began to rise into his chest, into his throat and then erupted into his mind.
"That's it!" He snarled. He held out the fists of the Nataku and got them ready. As his mind erupted with the burning hot feeling, his mind became clear of his objective. His sights were set upon the Warrior Gundam.
The Warrior Gundam then held out his right clawed hand. It too then changed to DG cells and shifted its form like a dealer shuffling his cards. This time the hand became the face of a lion similar to the one in his chest, but its jaws were open. The lion looked as though it was roaring out and from the jaws of it sprung a great blade that burned with a green fire.
Wufei was not moved at all by the size of his opponents' sword. His objectives hadn't changed, his mind was clear as a crystal and filled with the burning drive that he had gotten from seeing Allenby fall. It could have been rage, but Wufei was far too proud to admit to something as frivolous as that. He would probably say that he was administrating justice.
His Gundam then turned gold.
"DOUBLE DRAGON FANG CRUSH!" Wufei called out as both Dragon Fangs fired out to the Warrior Gundam at a speed that Sai-Saici nor Alexandria (in the Clockwork Gundam) had ever seen. The right fang went right for the head while the other one went for the lions head in the chest. The fangs opened their jaws like the dragons that they were and came crashing down on their targets. The right one slammed its jaws around the head of Warrior Gundam while the left one simply pierced through the Gundams chest.
The Gundam Nataku lost its golden shine as it drew back its fangs. Wufei exhaled in his cockpit thinking that he had won the fight, but he was wrong.
In the chest of the Warrior Gundam where Wufei had placed a hole was soon infested with DG cells. They swarmed over the hole like files to dead meat. They packed themselves together to form a new chest. The same happened where the head used to be. The Dg cells stacked themselves together to form the new head.
"No…way…" Wufei thought to himself
"Let me try, Droog." Alexandria suggested as she came down to the Warrior Gundam. In the great speakers of the cockpit of the Gundam Clockwork, Alexandria had played on of the greatest pieces known to man (or machine). The 9th Symphony by Ludwig Van Beethoven. As the chorus to "Ode to Joy" blared into the cockpit Alexandria felt gooseflesh all over her body as if the music was water that flowed over her, and that was when her Gundam turned gold. The wings of the Clockwork Gundam opened up exposing the hidden missile compartments. She brought about both of her double barrel gattling as the attack was about to start.
"I'll help too!" Sai-Saici called out as his Gundam turned gold too and began to spread out a pair of green flaming butterfly wings.
"LUDIVIKO TOLCHOK!" Alexandria shouted as she allowed the bullets and missiles to fire out at the Warrior Gundam.
"SHIN RYUUSEI KOCKOUKEN!" Sai-Saici chanted as both Ultimate Attacks rained down upon the Warrior Gundam.
The explosion from the attacks sent up so much dust and smoke that it took a while before Wufei found that Alexandria and Sai-Saici were victorious, and the Warrior Gundam was in pieces on the ground. Pieces of its head where near the feet of the Gundam Clockwork, Alexandria only raised the foot of her Gundam and slammed it down on the rubble.
"Real horrorshow." Alexandria smiled as the music died down.
Everyone looked over to where Allenby had fallen after the Warrior Gundam was defeated. The Nobel Gundam got up to its feet and looked to where the enemy had fallen. She couldn't help but be surprised since the thing gave her such a whack that even Allenby could feel the bruises in her chest through the MTS.
"Damn…" she said in surprise at the amount of damage that was done.
* * *
"Haruka." Johan uttered, "I think you picked the wrong guy to be your enemy."
"I know that." Haruka responded her knees shaking from fear, "How do you want to fight him?"
"Sorry, Haruka." Johan apologized, "I'm scared beyond the ability of thought."
"That helps." Haruka said in sarcasm.
"What about them?" Johan asked pointing to the rear. Behind the Gundams Ryu and Nemesis were two familiar faces or more appropriately two familiar Gundams. The Gundams Maxter and DeathScythe Hell, their forms and color shined brightly in the flashes of lightning.
"So this is what's causing the storm." Chibodee's voice called out from the Gundam Maxter, just as cocky and brash as ever.
"I don't know about you but that's one screwy Gundam." Duo commented referring to the Black Hole Gundam that floated before the Gundams Ryu and Nemesis. As all eyes looked ot the Black Hole Gundam, they saw something happen in its design. In the flashes of lightning they saw the faceplates of the Gundams open outward like doors that swing out to the open air. Within the mouth of the monster was nothing but blackness. As the mouth of the Gundam was open Johan had noticed something odd.
He noticed that the dust on the ground was moving. It was as if the wind was blowing it, but blowing it towards the Black Hole Gundam. In Johan's mind he thought that dust in the wind has a backward C-shape to it when being blown. There wasn't such a shape in the dust, there was only a steady and continuous line that ran across the ground. Johan looked to the line running across the feet of his Gundam. His eyes followed it and it led forward, and then up, and up to the mouth of the Black Hole Gundam. It made sense.
"Everyone get away!" Johan shouted
"What?" Chibodee asked, "Why?"
"Don't ask questions just go!"
Johan spread out the wings of the Ryu and sped out across the valley. The engines burnt their fuel to a white-hot flame, but he realized that he wasn't getting any closer to the Gundams Maxter or DeathScythe Hell. He looked down and saw that he wasn't moving at all. He then looked to the Gundam Nemesis and saw it was sliding away from him.
"Haruka." Johan uttered, he reached out to the Gundam Nemesis. He reached out and knew that he had to stop what was going on. The Gundam Nemesis responded and reached out to grab Ryu's hand. There was a small stumble but the white hot burning engines kept them stable.
"It's sucking us in!" Johan reported as the wind that blew into the Black Hole Gundam grew faster and stronger, "Someone fire something at it!"
"I got it!" Chibodee volunteered and in the darkness that the Black Hole Gundam generated the Gundam Maxter shined gold like a magnificent statue. This was Chibodee's special attack that he made for Domon Kasshu. He never knew that he would have to use this attack to save members of the Fellowship at least not in that fashion. Chibodee sidestepped to get a clear shot at the Black Hole Gundam.
"BURSTING MACHINE-GUN PUNCH!"
The fists of the Gundam Maxter had split into 10 fists that went straight for the Black Hole Gundam. Each fist, as Chibodee wanted it, crashed into the Black Hole Gundam, but the reality was far much worse. The fists did fly to the Black Hole Gundam, but the wind caught them like they were pieces of debris and began to such them in. Each fist went down into the mouth of the Black Hole Gundam like candy.
As the fists were sucked in Chibodee couldn't believe what just happened. Yet, he couldn't wallow for too long since he too felt himself being pulled in by the Black Hole Gundam and so was DeathScythe Hell. Except Duo had brought out his beam scythe and planted it in the ground and held on tightly to it. As the Gundam Maxter tried to gain stable ground, the DeathScythe stepped forward but made sure not to get pulled in.
"I'll try." Duo said as he too turned into gold, "This is the technique to the God of Death! HELL, FIRE, AND DAMNATION SLICE!"
The beam scythe in its own hue began to grow, and grow, and grow bigger, and bigger. Until it towered over the Gundams in the valley. Its bright glow illuminated everything including the dust that was being sucked down into the mouth of the Black Hole Gundam. Duo brought about the beam scythe and made his swipe at it. It looked as though Duo would finish this fight, but he too was sorely mistaken, for as the winds grew stronger and stronger the mouth of the Black Hole Gundam sucked in the beam of the scythe. It sucked down the beam as if it was just another piece of debris, and as the beam was sucked down the DeathScythe lost its gold.
"Haruka!" Johan called to his love, "Fire your engines and burn them as hot as you can!"
"Right." Haruka answered as the Nemesis began to burn its engines as white hot as the Gundam Ryu. As the engines burned the Gundam Ryu had let go of the Nemesis. As Haruka had allowed Johan's hand to slip away from hers she had to know what was going on in her loves mind. But it was too late to ask.
"This is the Star Dragons Ultimate Technique!" Johan shouted as the music in his cockpit blared, an uproarious tune that spoke of victory to his heart. Again, the Gundam Ryu turned gold, but that wasn't the end of the technique.
"STAR ENERGIZE!"
The Gundam Ryu in its bright golden moment began to emanate a white aura coupled into the gold that burned like the sun. In this made state of being Johan turned around and his white-hot burning engines jettisoned him across the valley and towards the mouth of the Black Hole Gundam. As the Gundam Ryu came closer the white light that was once an aura around the machine soon consumed the Ryu. It was just a ball of white light that was rocketing towards the Black Hole Gundam and it wasn't moving from its course.
"Johan!" Haruka called, "Pull up! Do you want to die today!"
Her words were in vain, they didn't carry across the valley to Johan. The Gundam Ryu still rocketed across the valley and to the Black Hole Gundam and the ball of white light entered its mouth. Yet before he even went down into the mouth he uttered one last phrase as the Gundam Ryu still shined in its final glory.
"STAR FIRE!" Johan shouted as his Gundam entered the blackness of the enemies' mouth.
"NO!" Haruka screamed, and her scream echoed through the valley and possibly across the whole island. Her scream was echoed throughout the whole of the Gundam Nemesis and it reacted to her sorrow and anguish. It became brighter, its white metallic luster gave away to gold as she screamed at the departure of her loved one. She mind was a torrent of what she could do, what had become of her loved one, and how to kill the Black Hole Gundam. It was then that the torrent in her mind turned to the Black Hole Gundam and the words burned in her heart, then reached up through to her voice box, and spilled passed her lips.
"HURRICANE WIND WALTZ!" The words poured out and the Gundam Nemesis began to spin, and spin, and spin until it was just one golden blur. At least until something began to emerge from the blur, a bright green streak that blended itself into the golden blurs. It spun so violently that somehow it was able to maintain its position of where it was even in the strong currents that were pulling it into the mouth of the Black Hole Gundam. Then the golden blur shot straight for the mouth of the enemy. From a distance Chibodee and Duo could see small glimpses as the Gundam Nemesis in its super form went down into the mouth of the Black Hole Gundam.
"Is she crazy!?" Duo asked in such surprise
Then to his and Chibodee's surprise they saw cracks appear in the Black Hole Gundam. They wouldn't have seen the cracks in the darkness of the storm if it weren't for the light that came from the cracks. As each new one appeared, so too did another beam of light appear from it, until the Black Hole Gundam was a mesh of these cracks, and it began to shake. It shook and shook from left to right and right to left and made the occasional twist and turn in mid air when it collided with the cliff face. It scratched and twisted into the cliff while the cracks consumed it made even more pathways in the mesh. The Black Hole Gundam then lost its levitation and fell right to the ground where it broke open. The cracks had given way and fell apart like a house of cards on unstable ground. It lay upon the ground like a fallen leaf never moving or showing any signs of activation in its eyes or pieces of its eyes that lay upon the valley floor. It crumbled even further as the sky became gray, the storm clouds rolling away and the sun coming out to say "hello" with its warm rays to the Gundams. The sun shined upon the remains of the Black Hole Gundam and from its fallen pieces and ashes came the Gundams Ryu and Nemesis. They rose together as casually as if they were coming out of a swimming pool.
"We did it!" Duo shouted in glee, "We did it!"
"That's right!" Johan raised up the thumb of his Gundam Ryu
Duo then stated a line that he remembered as a child on the streets, "Yea, for I walk through the valley in the shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil. 'Cause I'm the meanest son of a bitch in the valley!"
To be continued…
