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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 17: The Rescue

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Well now everyone, the fights in the 16th Gundam fight truly have gotten quite exciting. Shadows from the past have come back with full force of DG cells with them against the Fellowship of the Gundam. Three out of The Four Devils Knights have already been defeated. One still remains. Let's get things started! Gundam Battle Royal! Ready, Go!

Domon Kasshu raised up his beam saber over his head and kept his eye upon the Gundam Hydra. It's metallic neck swerving as he brought down his saber like a battle-axe. He reveled in how easily the head came off of the neck. He landed on the ground as he watched the head fall. He took one glance at the fallen head and then looked back to the body of the Gundam Hydra. He just wanted to revel even further in how great of a job he did in slicing up the enemy.

Above the God Gundam, one of the necks of the Gundam Hydra was missing its head. It squirmed and looked as though it was about to fall to the ground foot by foot. His hopes were high but the nagging feeling at the bottom of his heart told him it wasn't over. The hope was crushed (as his heart told him) when from the wound that he made came a swarm of DG cells. They clustered together until a new head sprouted like a new tail of a lizard.

The eyes of the new Hydra head blazed as each one looking in different directions. Some looked and chased the Tallgeese III, others followed the God Gundam, but most of them were going after the Gundam Wing Zero. Each time the heads went for the Wing Zero the multiplied voice of Selena Falcon shouted:

"Heero!" She snarled, "Fight me, Heero Yuy! Fight me and die!"

Heero ignored this, he knew that Selena hated him, but he had a bigger priority on his mind. That was trying to stay alive. He flew over and past the heads; he then made a new pas and buzzed over the heads making sure none of them sunk their teeth into his mobile suit. As he flew past the heads he brought up his twin buster rifle and took aim. The target sights went from green to red as if it was set between the mass of heads and necks. He didn't hesitate when he pulled the trigger in his mind.

"ANGEL LIGHT!" He shouted as the bright yellow beam shot at the Gundam Hydra. The beam cut through the heads and it flew across the island until it slammed against the barrier that encompassed the island. The glare from the Angel fire attack cleared and Heero felt proud when he saw that the Hydra had been reduced to a headless beast. All of the necks squirmed and wriggled like the worms that they were as they fell to the ground.

Then the DG cells began to swarm from the wounds, they made new heads, and repaired the holes in the Gundam. As the eyes of each new head activated and rose again Heero felt frustration from seeing the events happen before him. It seemed amazing until the fact that it was the enemy that was regenerating came back to the forefront.

"Damn it." Heero cursed quietly as the Gundam Hydra slowly finished its regeneration. All seemed so hopeless like a dark cloudy day that would never allow the sun to shine again. Until Heero's cobalt blue eyes saw several dots on the horizon of the island. Automatically zooming in he found that the rest of the Fellowship had arrived.

"Reinforcements." He whispered to himself and began to laugh out loud

"Hey, Heero." Duo called from the DeathScythe Hell, "Looks like you and your friends could use some help."

"Duo." Heero uttered, as he calmed down from laughing the Fellowship came over the hills to join the battle.

It came down to a battle of 15 Gundams against the 8 heads of the Gundam Hydra. The funny thing about this fight was that the ones who were once fighting each other were paired up against one head. There was Duo and Chibodee, Trowa and George, Wufei and Sai-Saici, and so on. Yet each time they went to cut off a head of the monstrosity, a new head would grow back in its place.

"I think it's my turn to use my technique." Selena stated as her voice echoed over 8 times.

From the heads of the Hydra came a soft yellow glow within their opening jaws. It was as if the Hydra heads was trying to swallow up a sun but couldn't contain them any longer.

"HYDRAS EIGHT!" Selena shouted as the Hydra fired out its shots against the Preventers.

Inside the DG vine filled cockpit, Selena lay naked within the vines that covered her like mad snakes. Her hands, feet, face, and a few other parts of her body were visible in the tangled confusion. She smiled, as she watched on the screens, that the Preventers were unable to dodge the blinding yellow flash that was her attack. She had to laugh as she relished her victory, after all she could only concentrate upon the Wing Zero. That accursed Gundam that took her head all that time ago or at least until she met…him.

It was after he mothers' death that Leo Travis had walked into her life, the life that was shattered by one Gundam Fighter and another's death. Leo had held out his hand to her and offered her another chance at defeating the one named Heero Yuy. She couldn't refuse such an offer, especially from a man as beautifully handsome as Leo.

Selena was never a woman who believed in love at first sight. She still didn't after meeting Leo, but she certainly had "lust at first glance" and "powerful urges at second sight". She did take Leo's hand and allowed the DG cells to consume her body. This was the power she received, though in that time between her mothers' death and the birth of the Gundam Hydra she had grown attached to Leo, the person and not his other half, the Knight Blazer. Leo the one who taught her how to control the Devil Gundam cells as if they were another set of muscles. It was that time she had grown fond of him.

"Bah." She thought to herself, she didn't want to loose herself to such thoughts. She wanted to savor the victory that she had obtained in the defeat of the Wing Zero.

"I did it, Mama!" She called from the mess of tangled DG vines. "I defeated Heero Yuy! The one who has disgraced the Falcon family! And I have Leo Travis to thank for such a sweet, sweet victory, mama."

"Not so fast!" A darkly familiar voice called out. Selena looked through the glare that her attack had made and saw the Wing Zero come at her head on. Her eyes widened, her eyebrows raised, and her heart was going like Hummingbirds wings in her ears as the Wing Zero spread out its Gundanium feathered wings. It had its buster rifle in hand and it burned a white color and the Wing Zero became that of gold.

"These hands of mine are burning red!" Heero stated, "Their loud roar tells me to kill you and complete my mission. ANGEL FIRE ZERO!"

Selena's screens went from the color that was white as a sheet before everything went dark like being knocked unconscious.

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The Wing Zero's ultimate technique had been used to defeat the Gundam Hydra. While the Fellowship had sought shelter upon the ground, Heero Yuy made his move. All of the Fellowship upon the ground had seen the Wing Zero in its ultimate glory and to think that it was once feared. After seeing it perform such a move it was clear that it was a very valuable suit, especially since its pilot was the Perfect Soldier.

The Wing Zero came back down after it had lost its golden shine. It surveyed the wreckage that was once the fearful Gundam Hydra. Its heads were nothing but cinders, its necks lifeless, the body charred, black, and no movements at all like a tree stump.

"Is it dead?" The young Sai-Saici asked

"If it isn't," Duo theorized sarcastically, "Its going to be a pain in the ass to kill it again."

"Ha, ha, ha, ha!" Heero laughed

"Ha, ha, ha, ha!" Another laugh came out and this time it wasn't from Heero or any member of the Fellowship. Every member looked in each direction for where the laugh was coming from. North, south, east, west, near, as well as far as the laugh continued. Every way that they looked there was still no sign or vindication of who or what was the cause of it all. It was frightening to some but was frustrating to others. Trying to find a laugh that came out of no where, at least no where around.

Johan Rodriguez in the Gundam Ryu was one of the first in the Fellowship to look up. Even in that direction there was nothing…at first. Above was the blue sky that was dotted with white clouds beyond the invisible barrier of the Gundam Battle Royal. From that came the outlines of two new Gundams, the outlines looked yellow against the blue sky and white clouds. From those outlines came their shapes, they poked out like a hand reaching through a latex sheet. Once the shapes took their own forms and that was when the color poured into them. The Fellowship could see their fears coming true like fearing a car crash, then seeing that car coming at full speed, and doing nothing about it.

It was the Devil Gundam with the Gundam Nexus. They came down to the ground together, sending tremors of their extreme weight through the feet of the Fellowship. The Devil Gundam was just as it was during that fight on St. Thomas Island. The same was true for the Gundam Nexus, nothing had changed in either one.

"Why won't you bastards die?!" Duo demanded at the top of his lungs

"Are you sure you want to know?" The Knight Blazer asked from within the Gundam Nexus.

"Yeah, Goddamn it!" Duo answered

"They were copies." The Knight Blazer answered, "The ones that you killed on St. Thomas Island were all carbon copies of ourselves with the use of DG cells, completely indistinguishable from the real thing."

"How are we supposed to know that you yourselves aren't a DG cell Xerox?" Domon asked

The Knight Blazer laughed, "Do you think I would really tell you?"

"Aren't you going to?" Johan asked, "You're just like a James Bond villain, you'll tell us about it all so we can be amazed and stupefied by your genius, right?"

"You've read those too much." The Knight Blazer retorted, "And do you think I'd use the same trick twice?"

That was a tricky question, because on the one hand if that trick weren't used twice then he'd be exposing himself to be killed. On the other hand if it were a copy then the real Devil Gundam and Nexus would be in another location. The bad part was, no one knew the answer to it.

"Now that we have that out of the way," The Knight Blazer announced, "shall we get to the fighting?"

"Works for me!" Chibodee smirked as he charged at the Gundam Nexus, "BURSTING MACHINE GUN PUNCH!"

Gundam Maxter fists split into ten fists and all of them were directed at the Gundam Nexus. He knew that it would be hard to stop such an attack. That was what he thought until he saw the Gundam Nexus stand its ground. Chibodee thought that the Knight Blazer might have a death wish. Then he saw the punch impact the Gundam Nexus. They defiantly hit their target, but the punches began to sink, they sank into the Gundam Nexus like a stone into water.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Chibodee said in disbelief

"Let me try." Zechs stepped up holding out his enormous cannon at the Gundam Nexus. He took aim against it and his Gundam turned gold for his attack. His mind was clear as a crystal as his vision blocked out everything else in sight as he aimed at the Gundam Nexus.

"MEGA BEAM CANNON FIRE!" He called as he pulled the trigger. The beam streaked out across the landscape up to the Gundam Nexus and the Devil Gundam that sat behind it like a king behind his knight.

Again, the Gundam Nexus never moved, it stood its ground as still as a statue. Then the beam hit it and there was no explosion. The beam was sucked into the Gundam like water down a drain. Zechs, in his disbelief, allowed the weight of the Mega Cannon to fall to the ground. He was in such shock at what had just happened that he couldn't believe his own eyes as he stared from behind his mask.

"We're screwed." Duo uttered

"No we're not!" Domon Kasshu refuted, "To me! To me! Shuffle Alliance to me! Let us all attack the Gundam Nexus together!"

The Shuffle Alliance didn't say anything, they only knew what had to be done.

"These hands of our are burning red!" The Shuffle Alliance said in unison, "Their bright cry tells us to defeat you!"

All of the Shuffle Alliance Gundams began to glow. Their exterior Gundanium shells shined a golden luster as they made the attack.

"BAKENETSU!" They all said together in one harmonious voice, "SHUFFLE CREST ATTACK!"

From the hands of each Shuffle Alliance Gundam came a beam of pure gold. It looked just like the one that would be fired from the Buster Rifle of the Wing Zero. Yet, this was coming from their hands and the amazement turned to hope when all eyes turned to the Gundam Nexus. It tried to absorb the beams when they struck, but it was too much. It felt the full force of the Shuffle Alliance Attack. It tried to hold its ground but the attack was still too much as its painted exterior began to char and peel away like burnt paper. Then the metal began to crumble like an old cookie, and that was the end.

The Gundam Nexus had been turned to ashes as the Shuffle Alliance recovered from their attack. Victory was theirs but there was one last enemy to take care of, The Devil Gundam. It sat upon the high mound far from where the smoking remains of the Gundam nexus lay. It roared out in anger as it looked down at the remains of its knight. It turned its frightening gaze to the Shuffle Alliance and its eyes glared with an unholy shade of green. It brought up its arms in defense as it made the first offensive move. From its bulky shoulders came a barrage of laser fire. As the barrage became fiercer, one member of the Fellowship wasn't very fortunate.

It was the Sandrock, it had tried to cover itself from the attack. Then the laser fire of the Devil Gundam had pierced through the arms of its protective armor and shot through the Sandrock's face. The head of the Sandrock didn't even fall to the ground since the laser fire had disintegrated the head while it was still in its socket. As it turned to ask everyone could hear Quatre scream. It was a scream that they knew a man could produce and the Sandrock fell to the ground.

"QUATRE!" Duo screamed as he watched the Sandrock fall, but then as he heard no response he set his sights on the Devil Gundam. From within Duo's belly burned a hatred for that machine, hatred so deep that his fear vanished as quickly as the head of Sandrock from the laser fire. As he looked to the Devil Gundam that towered over the Fellowship on its mound they noticed something odd.

The Devil Gundam's chest began to shake. Then it began to separate. It was splitting in half. As it opened like double doors the blue paint was like mucus as it began to break with the opening of the doors. Behind those doors was what shocked the Fellowship of the Gundam.

Inside the cockpit was a tangle mess of DG vines and they held the leaders of Preventer in their grasp. Entangled in the vines were Treize Kushrinada and lady Une. They hung above the cockpit floor like puppets and the DG vines holding them up by their wrists and ankles. Yet, at the seam time Trieze and Lady Une were inches from each others embrace but were held back by the DG vines. Both of them seemed asleep as well as if they had no clue at all as to what was going on outside.

"Dear God." Domon uttered, "the Tragedy of Kyoji will have to be repeated."

"No, it won't!" Johan cried out as his mobile suit knelt down and he jumped out. He dashed across the valley, up the slopes of the mound, and with his beam saber in his hand.

"What are you doing, you crazy bastard!?" Chibodee shouted

"DOING MY JOB!" Johan answered still running as fast as he could up the dirty slopes of the mound, "JUST COVER ME!"

"Roger that." Heero answered as he flew the Wing Zero past the Devil Gundam, and it took the bait. The enemy began its barrage again as the double doors of the cockpit closed up again like a turtle curling back into its shell. The other Gundams joined in distracting the Devil Gundam but some became simple targets.

The Gundam DeathScythe decided to be clever and used its active cloak. It moved around quickly and squeezed off a few shots from the Vulcans mounted in its head. He never saw it coming because the Devil Gundam was tracking his movements from the Vulcan fire and it made its shot. Duo saw it in a split second before the laser fire disintegrated the head of the DeathScythe Hell.

One by one as Johan ran up the slop to the Devil Gundam the battle grew ever more fierce. He heard and felt the thunderous slam that was the Gundams falling to the ground. He felt like a true soldier running into the line of fire and hoping to God that the doesn't get his head blown off, or in this case squashed by the Gundams themselves.

He reached it, he reached the feet of the Devil Gundam. He had come to it without even being noticed. Secretly he thanked God for getting him this far and hoping that he'd go further to complete this mission.

In Johan's hands he had a magnetic tow cable and his beam saber. He aimed the tow cable at the cockpit and pulled the trigger. The magnetic tip of the tow cable connected to the equally magnetic surface, Johan set the cable to reel itself back in, and he held on for dead life as the length grew between the ground and his feet. He came closer to the hatch of the Devil Gundams cockpit. He remembered how the cockpit doors opened down the center. He brought out his beam saber, activated it sending the hues of green out against the painted blue surface of the Devil Gundams chest.

Holding the toe cable on one hand and the beam saber in the other Johan drove the saber into the chest of the Devil Gundam. He heard a metallic sounding roar form the Devil Gundam, a roar of pain that sounded like a very twisted and metallic cow being branded. The sound of the roar from the Devil Gundam sent its vibrations through the cable, into Johan's hand and throughout his body as he made the hole in the door.

He carved into the cockpit door with the saber in his left hand. At that moment he carved into the Gundams chest it felt weird, like walking backwards, but Johan set it aside. For the treasure inside was what he needed. In one swift odd motion, Johan opened a hole in the cockpit door, but he made sure that it would be big enough for him to slide through. As he shoved down the loose piece he crawled in and came face to face with his long lost leaders. The very people that he had spent the past year finding and preparing for. He saw their faces in the green glow of his beam saber and he wanted to cry in joy to see them. He then looked at the DG vines and smirked as the tears came down his face.

"You two are free." He uttered as he swiped at the vines that held his friends in bondage. It seemed so easy as he caught both Lady Une and Trieze, but he made sure to lay them down on the cockpit floor easily. He then made his escape route by making a bigger hole in the cockpit door. As he made the enormous circle he kicked the doors out with his foot, hearing once again that metallic groan giving way to the laser fire outside.

Johan looked down and back to Trieze and lady Une. He saw his opportunity. He took the DG vines that he had cut from the cockpit and wrapped them around Trieze and Lady Une. As he grabbed the tow cable he deactivated his beam saber. As he came down he felt the enormous strain that his body and his friend had upon the cable. He continued downward with Treize and Lady Une connected to his waist like weights. As he was about halfway down he thought he was home free. Then the Devil Gundam moved, its motion had separated the powerful magnet from its attached surface, and Johan with Trieze and Lady Une fell to the ground.

The impact wasn't that bad, at least to Trieze and Lady Une since Johan broke their fall. Johan on the other hand had the very unpleasant feeling of the forces behind him shoving him against the rocks that were underneath. He ignored the dull pain and picked up Trieze and Lady Une heaving their combined weight in both arms, he slowly dashed across the valley to where his Gundam knelt down and was surprisingly untouched. He knew that he was at a safe distance when he screamed out to the Fellowship.

"NOW!" He screamed, "KILL THE DEVIL GUNDAM NOW!"

"Got it!" Domon called out as he approached the Devil Gundam that groaned loudly like a true demon. It was in pain since its pilots had been separated from it.

"This hand of mine is burning red!" Domon stated his incantation, "Its loud roar tells me to defeat you and break the curse! The School of the Undefeated of the East! The Ultimate Secret Technique! SENKIHA TENKYOUKEN!"

Once again and like the others before it, the God Gundams metallic exterior was flooded by gold. At its finest moment it shine greatly like the brightest star in the darkest hour of the night. Within its hands was a light that burned with the same fire that made the God Gundam shine like a beacon of hope that it was. Then the hands of the God Gundam shot out towards the Devil Gundam that still howled and roared out across the island. Then the beam that shot out from the hands of the God Gundam consumed it like a fire that consumes a bush. The light was so bright that the remaining Fellowship had to cover their eyes as the light cleared away.

To be continued…