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Chapter 8- Darkness: The War Begins
Date: 14, 12, AC-198
Time: 10:30AM
Location: outskirts of Lunar Base
Two Leos stood guard on the northeast perimeter of Lunar Base, and there were this type of arrangement of groups for each mile of lunar mile. This was one of the bases that took it at heart when the Preventors had increased its military presence in the colonies along with earth. Out of all of the Preventor bases stationed in the colonies, this was truly a very formidable force short of the gundams themselves. This force, though, consisted of mainly Leos and several Virgos. The dark side of the moon approached, but was still a mile away from them.
"Harrison, why are we out here again?" one of the pilots commented.
"Guarding this base," Harrison replied.
"From what? Nothing has even come here other than shuttles in ten months."
"We must always be prepared. We have no other choice."
The dark side of the moon grew closer to them.
"I guess your right, but still. What enemies?" the pilot continued. "I haven't heard anything about them, yet we should be afraid of them?"
"Sometimes the most dangerous enemy isn't seen at first." Harrison noticed the dark side of the moon was approaching them. "Heads up the dark side is almost on top of us."
"The dark side is almost upon us? Don't you dare, do your Darth Vader impression."
"You have no sense of humor do you? Anyway, remember it gets cold in there."
"I know the guidelines and procedures," the pilots paused for a moment. "Lets get going."
The Leos turned around and began the walk back to the base. The dark side finally passed over them.
"Man it got to us. At least the base has lights."
As the Leos continued on, a small, round, glowing yellow light appeared behind them and seemed to have kept its distance. The Leos haven't noticed it. Then, the yellow light enlarged and got closer. A straight blue light showed up under the yellow light, and the two picked up speed after the Leos.
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Time: 11:00AM
Location: L4H1-38457 Colony
Telecommunications Center
The operators are relaxed in their chairs has there was little traffic on the frequencies most of the day. Though paid, they were bored and had breaks frequently. One of the operators noticed a flashing red button, which only indicated mobile suit attacks, and pushed it.
"Can anyone hear me?!"
"This is telecommunications center on L4H1-38457. What is the matter?"
"Lunar Base is being attacked by unidentified black mobile suit."
"What!"
"We can't hold up against it. It's impossible to think, but it's already destroyed 80% of our operating mobile suits..."
The operator began to panic. "Hold on, I'm going to get someone."
"I just can't wait here. There is no telling if that suit will get in… oh my God… there is a yellow mobile suit as well…" Static filled the line.
"Come in.."
"Lunar Base, respond.."
"Lunar Base, please respond.."
Nothing came from the other side of the transmission.
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Lady Une stood in a control room of one of the docking bays in the L4H1-38457 colony and opened a video link to a military shuttle docked in the bay. Quatre appeared on the other side of the video link.
"Lady Une, what is it?"
"You are aware that this is a rescue operation right?"
"Quite aware, except I'm not sure if there is anyone left alive."
"That's why you must go immediately, if you get there quickly enough you might be able to find some survivors. Another thing though, the mobile suits that attacked Lunar Base might still be there, so be careful. That is also why you and Duo are being sent immediately. Duo should arrive about 45 minutes after you."
"Affirmative."
The military shuttle began to take off.
"And good luck," Lady Une thought. "The enemy has finally shown itself, and there is nothing left for us to do except to see what happens."
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Location: Lunar Base
Time: 4:55pm
Lunar Base used to be the proud base of OZ, White Fang, and the Preventors and saw a lot of action during the Earth-Sphere Colony Conflict. It helped make its share of existing mobile suits and new models, and was called one of the best bases that man has ever made. Now though, smoke fumed from a huge gapping hole in the moon's surface near the top of the base. The interior of the base has been reduced to nothing but a pile of rubble. Where mobile suit plants used to be, scrap metal and smoldering concrete lie. The glass offices of officials have been hollowed out and dangled by some steel cable anchors. The hangars have completely caved in from the carnage. Mobile suits lay around wrecked on the moon's surface, and it is also stained with blood and oil.
Sandrock finally landed on the lunar surface near Lunar Base, and began to survey the damage. Shortly after his landing, a brigade of Taurus mobile suits land behind Sandrock.
"Look at this carnage," Quatre thought. "There is nothing but senseless violence here."
A communication link pops up in Sandrock's cockpit. "Where do you want to start?" The pilot asked, but got no answer at first. Quatre had been too distracted by the scene in front of him. The soldier repeated his question and got Quatre's attention.
"Right.... Stay together, and begin searching for any survivors. If you encounter the guys who did this in this awful thing, tell me immediately. As for me, I'm going over to the other side then the interior." Quatre commented, "Be on your guard."
Sandrock activated its thrusters and headed over to the other side of the base. Quatre searched the area, but found nothing other than wrecks of Leos that fumed smoke. Sandrock glanced back over to where the Tauruses were, and saw explosions like they were fireworks.
"Damn it, I told them to contact me," Quatre pounded his fist into an unused part of his control panel. "Now those guys are being slaughtered. I have to move quickly."
Sandrock started to thrust in the direction of the Taursuses, but a beam of energy forced it to dodge to the side and halted its advance. Sandrock's head turned to caught sight of where the energy came from, and saw Toteis on the lunar surface about fifty yards away.
"That mobile suit... its the one that destroyed Icedig, but who does it work for?" Quatre thought as Sandrock faced Toteis.
A communication link appeared in Quatre's cockpit, and the pilot cockily said. "Now, where do you think you are going?"
"To stop the massacre from continuing, and monsters like you won't stop me!"
"Come now, we're all sensible humans here." The pilot's eyes seemed to have no remorse for what had happened.
"Humans wouldn't butcher their own kind!"
"Oh, I'm so hurt." The pilot said sarcastically.
"Who are you?!" Quatre realized he had yelled, and calmed himself down.
"The name is Niou. Do you also want my rank and serial number while I'm at it? Maybe you would want to know why this attack occurred as well." Niou smirked as he struck a cord in Quatre.
"Don't treat me like a child," Quatre kept his composure as he said that.
"A gundam pilot being treated like a child, why I never heard of such a thing. Then again, maybe if you took your mission more seriously back in AC-195. This might not have happened."
"Don't you dare, patronize me." This guy was striking nerve after nerve, and Quatre knew what he was up to. He had to keep his anger down or else.
"Would I do such a thing?"
"Bingo," Quatre thought. He looked Niou straight in the eye. "I wouldn't know. I couldn't help, but notice the fact that your mobile suit was responsible for taking a life. Back on the L3T-99012 colony, you destroyed an unusual tan mobile suit, and I want to know why."
"I was merely taking care of old parts gone bad, nothing more," Niou smirked at the question. "If you really want to know, your friend begged for his life right up to the very end as I was beating his mobile suit into a pulp."
"I've had enough of this," Quatre thought as he grinded his teeth together. Sandrock pulled out its heat shotels and wielded them in an x pattern. "Take that back!"
"I'm sorry. I forgot that his last words were, 'Quatre, why have you forsaken me here'." Niou did an impression of someone in a begging position while he said those words.
"That's enough!"
Sandrock's thrusters warmed up and its heat shotels began to glow red. Suddenly, the explosions from the area where the Tauruses were had stopped and Sandrock took a quick look in that direction.
"They are already gone?" Quatre was in shock as he thought this.
"Looks like my comrade has already finished off your backup. It's a shame really; I thought they would have lasted another minute. Heck, I even put a bet on it too."
"How dare you, putting money before humans!"
In the distance, two black objects approached the two; one was walking and the other was being dragged. Sandrock picked up on the possible enemies and decided to charge at Toteis. If he could defeat this mobile suit quick enough, he would only have to fight one on one with the other mobile suit. This proved to be more futile than Quatre had expected. Every time he attacked with the heat shotels, Toteis gracefully dodged each attack like they were nothing to it.
"That mobile suit has a lot more speed than I expected. Crap, the other mobile suit is nearly within range." Quatre panicked in his mind, but forced himself to focus on the enemy at hand.
Sandrock took one final swipe with its left arm then a backward slice with its right, and this caught Toteis off guard. The beam cannon, it had carried in its right arm during this little scrimmage, had been sliced in half and Toteis forced to ditch the weapon before it exploded.
"Awesome, I got its primary weapon."
"Damn it. I was too wreckless around this guy." Niou wanted to beat himself for the careless mistake, but knew that this wasn't the time to do so.
Toteis jetted backwards, and landed thirty meters on the lunar surface from Sandrock. Toteis ignited its green beam saber, and the mobile suits stared at each other for a moment.
The staring contest ended though, when a Taurus was thrown in between the two. Its head was thoroughly smashed in, and the cockpit was crushed. When the Taurus crashed into the lunar surface, it stirred up a small dust cloud, which settled shortly there after. Sandrock looked from where the Taurus had been thrown from, and saw that the black mobile suit had arrived. The mobile suit looked hauntingly familiar to Quatre, but he couldn't think of where he could have seen this suit before. He now knew that he was in big trouble with the arrival of this mobile suit.
"Two on one? This doesn't look good. "
"Nicely done. I thought those Tauruses would have given you more grief, but I'm guess I was wrong. Since they weren't much of a challenge to you." Niou said to the newly arrived pilot. "Try out the BlitzWavine on this gundam. It 'might' prove to be a good test of your skills." The pilot nodded to Niou's suggestion.
BlitzWavine looked straight at Sandrock, and pulled out a gundanium sabre. Quatre recognized that weapon from being from Icedig, but it couldn't be. Icedig was destroyed along with all of it weapons, or at least so he thought. Some sunlight glared off of BlitzWavine, and now Quatre saw the head of it. There was no doubt now, this mobile suit had a great similarity to that of Icedig. The main differences between the suits were the paint job, and several suit features. It had a second outcropping on the shoulders, a stabilizer wing in the middle of its back, and additional thrusters on its upper arm and leg areas.
"This mobile suit is so similar to Icedig, but it can't. It just can't be." Quatre opened up a communication link to BlitzWavine's cockpit. "Identify yourself…" Quatre saw the face of the pilot and couldn't believe his eyes. "Alex?! How can it be? I saw you die with my own eyes."
Alex didn't respond, but gave a strange look. His eyes had the look like some tragic happened to them, but didn't have any depression behind it.
"Answer me," Quatre exclaimed.
"How do you know my name?"
"You don't remember me? I fought along side…."
"He is lying, Alex." Niou interrupted Quatre. "He is nothing more than an enemy. You shouldn't listen to him at all."
"How dare you…."
"Brother, please stop his insistent whining. It is annoying." Niou smirked while Alex nodded.
BlitzWavine jetted off at Sandrock while it wielded its sabre. Sandrock charged forward at BlitzWavine, and the x pattern of the heat shotels held back the gundanium sabre as it was forced down. The two mobile suits pushed back and forth as they tried to get the advantage in this stalemate. Sandrock slid its shotels to the sides as it backed off of BlitzWavine. BlitzWavine stumbled forward as the sabre came down, and Quatre had his first chance at the vulnerable suit. Sandrock lunged forward with one of its trademark attacks, and BlitzWavine moved to the right; it barely dodged the attack, which might have just shreddered the armor easily. Quatre saw BlitzWavine dodge the attack with what he thought was some grace, and jetted off to its left. Sandrock just barely dodged BlitzWavine's downward cut as it scooted away. BlitzWavine's sabre smashed and had dug into the lunar surface and it looked up at Sandrock, who had by now turned around and held its shotels for its next attack.
"I'm sorry, Alex." Quatre let out some tears.
Sandrock activated its rear thrusters and moved in. Just as Sandrock was about on top of BlitzWavine, it swiped its sabre out of the ground and flung moon dust into Sandrock's camera and partially jammed up its radar. It then quickly backed up, and Sandrock stopped after getting nailed by dust. Sandrock had stopped, but it flailed around with its heat shotels; this way it would be guarded to a degree. Quatre was as blind as a bat in Sandrock; there was no radar and cameras that could have given him a location of the mobile suit. Finally the dust got out of the camera, but the radar was still scrabbled until a blip appeared behind him on the screen.
"Crap."
Sandrock tried to turn around and block the attacker, but it was too late. In one swipe, Sandrock's right arm was out of commission, the heal shotel held in that hand snapped in half and flew helpless to the ground, and the rear thrusters were destroyed.
"Damn it."
Before Quatre had a chance to react, BlitzWavine flew up to Sandrock; it promptly impaled Sandrocks through the upper torso and pulled out its sabre. Sandrock stood there and BlitzWavine looked at the gundam as the sparks flew. During the course of the battle, they had gotten closer and closer to the gap made during Lunar base's destruction, but Quatre didn't realize this and had Sandrock back up slowly as BlitzWavine stared on.
"What made you do this Alex?" Alex didn't respond.
Sandrock took a step back again, but this time BlitzWavine took a step forward as well.
"What happened back on L3T-99012? What did they do to you?"
Sandrock took another steap back, and BlitzWavine matched the movement.
"Answer me!"
"You are nothing more than an enemy. Try to stop acting like you're a friend of mine, and maybe I'll spare you."
BlitzWavine ignited its blue beam saber, and took a step forward. Sandrock picked up the pace as it tried in vain to escape BlitzWavine. Suddenly, Quatre felt a slight tremor under Sandrock, and then saw cracks that began to form around him. Quatre tried to activate its thrusters, but had forgotten that his opponent had taken them out. The ground collapsed, and Sandrock plunged into a four hundred-foot drop through twisted metal and concrete. Parts of Sandrock flung off like paper being toren away, but the ground below stopped what had remained of Sandrock, was its cockpit and life support system. BlitzWavine took a look down at the wreck, and then walked back to Toteis.
"Dead or alive."
"I believe he is still alive down there."
"Good. You followed Ito's orders to a tee."
"For some reason, I didn't want to kill anyway. Something about his personality."
Niou partially cringed at what Alex had said. This might mean that, his brother might have begun to remember everything, but put his fears aside for the time being.
"He might been the only one who gave you sympathy during the time you were captured." Niou replied in hope that Alex wouldn't remember anymore.
"Yes. That would make sense. I wondered why he knew my name."
"Anyway, we have best rendezvous with the others," Niou said as he shut down the link. He let out a breath of relief.
Toteis and BlitzWavine flew off into space and stirred up moon dust in the region.
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Deathscythe Hell landed near the base and saw smoke fumes everywhere, but no sign of Quatre's group and no enemy. Deathscythe Hell walked over to a large pile of smoldering wreckage and paid close attention to it.
"They could have at least left me some to fight, but they had to be greedy." Duo smiled hesitantly. "Wait, the report said there were two mobile suits. These had to have come from at least…."
Duo saw a Taurus head that was stuck out of the ground, and backed off from the wreckage. This was a nightmare; it had to be a nightmare. He was asleep and that was that.
He pinched himself. "Crap this is very real."
Duo began to scan for anything else that remotely resembled a mobile suit, and he did with the Taurus that lay lifeless off in the distance.
"Quatre, where are you man?! Don't play hide and seek on me."
As he flew toward the Taurus, he saw what looked like one of Sandrock's heat shotels near the huge gap in moon. Deathscythe Hell landed by the shotel and noticed faint marks in the lunar surface that approached the gap. It walked closer and took a look down the hole. He saw mobile suit parts scattered, as his camera zoomed further down the hole. Duo finally saw the head of Sandrock on his screen.
"QUATRE!"
Chapter 8- Darkness: The War Begins
Date: 14, 12, AC-198
Time: 10:30AM
Location: outskirts of Lunar Base
Two Leos stood guard on the northeast perimeter of Lunar Base, and there were this type of arrangement of groups for each mile of lunar mile. This was one of the bases that took it at heart when the Preventors had increased its military presence in the colonies along with earth. Out of all of the Preventor bases stationed in the colonies, this was truly a very formidable force short of the gundams themselves. This force, though, consisted of mainly Leos and several Virgos. The dark side of the moon approached, but was still a mile away from them.
"Harrison, why are we out here again?" one of the pilots commented.
"Guarding this base," Harrison replied.
"From what? Nothing has even come here other than shuttles in ten months."
"We must always be prepared. We have no other choice."
The dark side of the moon grew closer to them.
"I guess your right, but still. What enemies?" the pilot continued. "I haven't heard anything about them, yet we should be afraid of them?"
"Sometimes the most dangerous enemy isn't seen at first." Harrison noticed the dark side of the moon was approaching them. "Heads up the dark side is almost on top of us."
"The dark side is almost upon us? Don't you dare, do your Darth Vader impression."
"You have no sense of humor do you? Anyway, remember it gets cold in there."
"I know the guidelines and procedures," the pilots paused for a moment. "Lets get going."
The Leos turned around and began the walk back to the base. The dark side finally passed over them.
"Man it got to us. At least the base has lights."
As the Leos continued on, a small, round, glowing yellow light appeared behind them and seemed to have kept its distance. The Leos haven't noticed it. Then, the yellow light enlarged and got closer. A straight blue light showed up under the yellow light, and the two picked up speed after the Leos.
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Time: 11:00AM
Location: L4H1-38457 Colony
Telecommunications Center
The operators are relaxed in their chairs has there was little traffic on the frequencies most of the day. Though paid, they were bored and had breaks frequently. One of the operators noticed a flashing red button, which only indicated mobile suit attacks, and pushed it.
"Can anyone hear me?!"
"This is telecommunications center on L4H1-38457. What is the matter?"
"Lunar Base is being attacked by unidentified black mobile suit."
"What!"
"We can't hold up against it. It's impossible to think, but it's already destroyed 80% of our operating mobile suits..."
The operator began to panic. "Hold on, I'm going to get someone."
"I just can't wait here. There is no telling if that suit will get in… oh my God… there is a yellow mobile suit as well…" Static filled the line.
"Come in.."
"Lunar Base, respond.."
"Lunar Base, please respond.."
Nothing came from the other side of the transmission.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Lady Une stood in a control room of one of the docking bays in the L4H1-38457 colony and opened a video link to a military shuttle docked in the bay. Quatre appeared on the other side of the video link.
"Lady Une, what is it?"
"You are aware that this is a rescue operation right?"
"Quite aware, except I'm not sure if there is anyone left alive."
"That's why you must go immediately, if you get there quickly enough you might be able to find some survivors. Another thing though, the mobile suits that attacked Lunar Base might still be there, so be careful. That is also why you and Duo are being sent immediately. Duo should arrive about 45 minutes after you."
"Affirmative."
The military shuttle began to take off.
"And good luck," Lady Une thought. "The enemy has finally shown itself, and there is nothing left for us to do except to see what happens."
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Location: Lunar Base
Time: 4:55pm
Lunar Base used to be the proud base of OZ, White Fang, and the Preventors and saw a lot of action during the Earth-Sphere Colony Conflict. It helped make its share of existing mobile suits and new models, and was called one of the best bases that man has ever made. Now though, smoke fumed from a huge gapping hole in the moon's surface near the top of the base. The interior of the base has been reduced to nothing but a pile of rubble. Where mobile suit plants used to be, scrap metal and smoldering concrete lie. The glass offices of officials have been hollowed out and dangled by some steel cable anchors. The hangars have completely caved in from the carnage. Mobile suits lay around wrecked on the moon's surface, and it is also stained with blood and oil.
Sandrock finally landed on the lunar surface near Lunar Base, and began to survey the damage. Shortly after his landing, a brigade of Taurus mobile suits land behind Sandrock.
"Look at this carnage," Quatre thought. "There is nothing but senseless violence here."
A communication link pops up in Sandrock's cockpit. "Where do you want to start?" The pilot asked, but got no answer at first. Quatre had been too distracted by the scene in front of him. The soldier repeated his question and got Quatre's attention.
"Right.... Stay together, and begin searching for any survivors. If you encounter the guys who did this in this awful thing, tell me immediately. As for me, I'm going over to the other side then the interior." Quatre commented, "Be on your guard."
Sandrock activated its thrusters and headed over to the other side of the base. Quatre searched the area, but found nothing other than wrecks of Leos that fumed smoke. Sandrock glanced back over to where the Tauruses were, and saw explosions like they were fireworks.
"Damn it, I told them to contact me," Quatre pounded his fist into an unused part of his control panel. "Now those guys are being slaughtered. I have to move quickly."
Sandrock started to thrust in the direction of the Taursuses, but a beam of energy forced it to dodge to the side and halted its advance. Sandrock's head turned to caught sight of where the energy came from, and saw Toteis on the lunar surface about fifty yards away.
"That mobile suit... its the one that destroyed Icedig, but who does it work for?" Quatre thought as Sandrock faced Toteis.
A communication link appeared in Quatre's cockpit, and the pilot cockily said. "Now, where do you think you are going?"
"To stop the massacre from continuing, and monsters like you won't stop me!"
"Come now, we're all sensible humans here." The pilot's eyes seemed to have no remorse for what had happened.
"Humans wouldn't butcher their own kind!"
"Oh, I'm so hurt." The pilot said sarcastically.
"Who are you?!" Quatre realized he had yelled, and calmed himself down.
"The name is Niou. Do you also want my rank and serial number while I'm at it? Maybe you would want to know why this attack occurred as well." Niou smirked as he struck a cord in Quatre.
"Don't treat me like a child," Quatre kept his composure as he said that.
"A gundam pilot being treated like a child, why I never heard of such a thing. Then again, maybe if you took your mission more seriously back in AC-195. This might not have happened."
"Don't you dare, patronize me." This guy was striking nerve after nerve, and Quatre knew what he was up to. He had to keep his anger down or else.
"Would I do such a thing?"
"Bingo," Quatre thought. He looked Niou straight in the eye. "I wouldn't know. I couldn't help, but notice the fact that your mobile suit was responsible for taking a life. Back on the L3T-99012 colony, you destroyed an unusual tan mobile suit, and I want to know why."
"I was merely taking care of old parts gone bad, nothing more," Niou smirked at the question. "If you really want to know, your friend begged for his life right up to the very end as I was beating his mobile suit into a pulp."
"I've had enough of this," Quatre thought as he grinded his teeth together. Sandrock pulled out its heat shotels and wielded them in an x pattern. "Take that back!"
"I'm sorry. I forgot that his last words were, 'Quatre, why have you forsaken me here'." Niou did an impression of someone in a begging position while he said those words.
"That's enough!"
Sandrock's thrusters warmed up and its heat shotels began to glow red. Suddenly, the explosions from the area where the Tauruses were had stopped and Sandrock took a quick look in that direction.
"They are already gone?" Quatre was in shock as he thought this.
"Looks like my comrade has already finished off your backup. It's a shame really; I thought they would have lasted another minute. Heck, I even put a bet on it too."
"How dare you, putting money before humans!"
In the distance, two black objects approached the two; one was walking and the other was being dragged. Sandrock picked up on the possible enemies and decided to charge at Toteis. If he could defeat this mobile suit quick enough, he would only have to fight one on one with the other mobile suit. This proved to be more futile than Quatre had expected. Every time he attacked with the heat shotels, Toteis gracefully dodged each attack like they were nothing to it.
"That mobile suit has a lot more speed than I expected. Crap, the other mobile suit is nearly within range." Quatre panicked in his mind, but forced himself to focus on the enemy at hand.
Sandrock took one final swipe with its left arm then a backward slice with its right, and this caught Toteis off guard. The beam cannon, it had carried in its right arm during this little scrimmage, had been sliced in half and Toteis forced to ditch the weapon before it exploded.
"Awesome, I got its primary weapon."
"Damn it. I was too wreckless around this guy." Niou wanted to beat himself for the careless mistake, but knew that this wasn't the time to do so.
Toteis jetted backwards, and landed thirty meters on the lunar surface from Sandrock. Toteis ignited its green beam saber, and the mobile suits stared at each other for a moment.
The staring contest ended though, when a Taurus was thrown in between the two. Its head was thoroughly smashed in, and the cockpit was crushed. When the Taurus crashed into the lunar surface, it stirred up a small dust cloud, which settled shortly there after. Sandrock looked from where the Taurus had been thrown from, and saw that the black mobile suit had arrived. The mobile suit looked hauntingly familiar to Quatre, but he couldn't think of where he could have seen this suit before. He now knew that he was in big trouble with the arrival of this mobile suit.
"Two on one? This doesn't look good. "
"Nicely done. I thought those Tauruses would have given you more grief, but I'm guess I was wrong. Since they weren't much of a challenge to you." Niou said to the newly arrived pilot. "Try out the BlitzWavine on this gundam. It 'might' prove to be a good test of your skills." The pilot nodded to Niou's suggestion.
BlitzWavine looked straight at Sandrock, and pulled out a gundanium sabre. Quatre recognized that weapon from being from Icedig, but it couldn't be. Icedig was destroyed along with all of it weapons, or at least so he thought. Some sunlight glared off of BlitzWavine, and now Quatre saw the head of it. There was no doubt now, this mobile suit had a great similarity to that of Icedig. The main differences between the suits were the paint job, and several suit features. It had a second outcropping on the shoulders, a stabilizer wing in the middle of its back, and additional thrusters on its upper arm and leg areas.
"This mobile suit is so similar to Icedig, but it can't. It just can't be." Quatre opened up a communication link to BlitzWavine's cockpit. "Identify yourself…" Quatre saw the face of the pilot and couldn't believe his eyes. "Alex?! How can it be? I saw you die with my own eyes."
Alex didn't respond, but gave a strange look. His eyes had the look like some tragic happened to them, but didn't have any depression behind it.
"Answer me," Quatre exclaimed.
"How do you know my name?"
"You don't remember me? I fought along side…."
"He is lying, Alex." Niou interrupted Quatre. "He is nothing more than an enemy. You shouldn't listen to him at all."
"How dare you…."
"Brother, please stop his insistent whining. It is annoying." Niou smirked while Alex nodded.
BlitzWavine jetted off at Sandrock while it wielded its sabre. Sandrock charged forward at BlitzWavine, and the x pattern of the heat shotels held back the gundanium sabre as it was forced down. The two mobile suits pushed back and forth as they tried to get the advantage in this stalemate. Sandrock slid its shotels to the sides as it backed off of BlitzWavine. BlitzWavine stumbled forward as the sabre came down, and Quatre had his first chance at the vulnerable suit. Sandrock lunged forward with one of its trademark attacks, and BlitzWavine moved to the right; it barely dodged the attack, which might have just shreddered the armor easily. Quatre saw BlitzWavine dodge the attack with what he thought was some grace, and jetted off to its left. Sandrock just barely dodged BlitzWavine's downward cut as it scooted away. BlitzWavine's sabre smashed and had dug into the lunar surface and it looked up at Sandrock, who had by now turned around and held its shotels for its next attack.
"I'm sorry, Alex." Quatre let out some tears.
Sandrock activated its rear thrusters and moved in. Just as Sandrock was about on top of BlitzWavine, it swiped its sabre out of the ground and flung moon dust into Sandrock's camera and partially jammed up its radar. It then quickly backed up, and Sandrock stopped after getting nailed by dust. Sandrock had stopped, but it flailed around with its heat shotels; this way it would be guarded to a degree. Quatre was as blind as a bat in Sandrock; there was no radar and cameras that could have given him a location of the mobile suit. Finally the dust got out of the camera, but the radar was still scrabbled until a blip appeared behind him on the screen.
"Crap."
Sandrock tried to turn around and block the attacker, but it was too late. In one swipe, Sandrock's right arm was out of commission, the heal shotel held in that hand snapped in half and flew helpless to the ground, and the rear thrusters were destroyed.
"Damn it."
Before Quatre had a chance to react, BlitzWavine flew up to Sandrock; it promptly impaled Sandrocks through the upper torso and pulled out its sabre. Sandrock stood there and BlitzWavine looked at the gundam as the sparks flew. During the course of the battle, they had gotten closer and closer to the gap made during Lunar base's destruction, but Quatre didn't realize this and had Sandrock back up slowly as BlitzWavine stared on.
"What made you do this Alex?" Alex didn't respond.
Sandrock took a step back again, but this time BlitzWavine took a step forward as well.
"What happened back on L3T-99012? What did they do to you?"
Sandrock took another steap back, and BlitzWavine matched the movement.
"Answer me!"
"You are nothing more than an enemy. Try to stop acting like you're a friend of mine, and maybe I'll spare you."
BlitzWavine ignited its blue beam saber, and took a step forward. Sandrock picked up the pace as it tried in vain to escape BlitzWavine. Suddenly, Quatre felt a slight tremor under Sandrock, and then saw cracks that began to form around him. Quatre tried to activate its thrusters, but had forgotten that his opponent had taken them out. The ground collapsed, and Sandrock plunged into a four hundred-foot drop through twisted metal and concrete. Parts of Sandrock flung off like paper being toren away, but the ground below stopped what had remained of Sandrock, was its cockpit and life support system. BlitzWavine took a look down at the wreck, and then walked back to Toteis.
"Dead or alive."
"I believe he is still alive down there."
"Good. You followed Ito's orders to a tee."
"For some reason, I didn't want to kill anyway. Something about his personality."
Niou partially cringed at what Alex had said. This might mean that, his brother might have begun to remember everything, but put his fears aside for the time being.
"He might been the only one who gave you sympathy during the time you were captured." Niou replied in hope that Alex wouldn't remember anymore.
"Yes. That would make sense. I wondered why he knew my name."
"Anyway, we have best rendezvous with the others," Niou said as he shut down the link. He let out a breath of relief.
Toteis and BlitzWavine flew off into space and stirred up moon dust in the region.
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Deathscythe Hell landed near the base and saw smoke fumes everywhere, but no sign of Quatre's group and no enemy. Deathscythe Hell walked over to a large pile of smoldering wreckage and paid close attention to it.
"They could have at least left me some to fight, but they had to be greedy." Duo smiled hesitantly. "Wait, the report said there were two mobile suits. These had to have come from at least…."
Duo saw a Taurus head that was stuck out of the ground, and backed off from the wreckage. This was a nightmare; it had to be a nightmare. He was asleep and that was that.
He pinched himself. "Crap this is very real."
Duo began to scan for anything else that remotely resembled a mobile suit, and he did with the Taurus that lay lifeless off in the distance.
"Quatre, where are you man?! Don't play hide and seek on me."
As he flew toward the Taurus, he saw what looked like one of Sandrock's heat shotels near the huge gap in moon. Deathscythe Hell landed by the shotel and noticed faint marks in the lunar surface that approached the gap. It walked closer and took a look down the hole. He saw mobile suit parts scattered, as his camera zoomed further down the hole. Duo finally saw the head of Sandrock on his screen.
"QUATRE!"
