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Chapter 9- Lost Souls

Date: 15, 12, AC-198

Time: 9:00AM

Location: Preventor Shuttle #45

Quatre lay unconscious in an infirmary bed surrounded by curtains, while Duo was asleep in a chair next to the bed. Quatre had a blood stream down his face, and his hair was stained with blood. His left leg had been broken in several places, but has been splintered up by a medic onboard. Quatre's right arm was covered in bandages to stop the bleeding, and most of the bandages were the color of rusty blood. Quatre soon began to come out of unconsciousness, and saw the world blurry. At the same time, Duo was slowly, but surely, sliding to his right, and fell off the chair; he slammed hard into the ground.

Duo jumped up from shock. "I'll never fall asleep in those chairs again."

"Must have hurt," Quatre commented after he heard Duo fall out of his seat.

"You're telling me. I keep an eye on you for the night, and what do I get? A knock on the head, sheesh...."

Duo looked over at Quatre, and joy filled his eyes.

"What is it?" Quatre started to get his vision back.

"Well, I wasn't sure if you were going to make it." Duo sat back down.

"What are you talking about?"

Quatre stared at Duo for a second. Then, the memories of the day before started to come back to Quatre. Quatre remembered how the Lunar Base was destroyed by the time he got there, and the battle with BlitzWavine. A shock went through Quatre when he remembered whom the pilot was.

"Duo." Quatre continued, "The pilot of the mobile suit I fought was Alex."

Duo stared at Quatre with an eyebrow raised. "That guy must have bumped you on the head too much. I mean Alex was killed ten months ago. You saw it with your own eyes. There is no way a dead man can pilot a mobile suit."

"I'm not imagining things, Duo. I saw Alex on the other side of that link."

Duo still was in denial, "It's impossible."

A Preventor soldier opened the curtain. Duo turned around and glared at the soldier.

"I told no one to come in here, other than the doctor."

"Sir, I know that, but there is something you need to see."

"What is it?"

"Our technicians managed to bring up the data of Sandrock's last battle."

Duo walked toward the soldier, "stand guard over him."

He proceeded down toward the shuttle's holding bay through poorly lit hallways. The hallways reminded him of the Earth-Sphere conflict when the five gundam pilots were fighting together for the first time, and were not doing a very good job at it. Each light Duo passes, it reminded him how much he was appreciated by the others, which was few and far between.

Finally, Duo reached the holding bay where a group of technicians were by the remnants of the cockpit of Sandrock. The cockpit had several scars from the fall, and charred wires lay limp on top of the cockpit. He jumped over the rail, and glided over to the group.

"Have you guys found anything?"

"Yes, take a look."

For the next few minutes, Duo was in shock as BlitzWavine began battle with Sandrock, and had beaten it without much trouble. Even more of a shocker, was the sight of Alex on the other side of the communication link Quatre had opened. Duo was in disbelief when he walked out of the cockpit abruptly.

"How could this be? Alex was killed on that colony; it's impossible that he could have survived. Let alone turn against us." Duo thought, "It just can't be Alex."

Duo jumped up and slowly glided to the rail above. He grabbed the rail, and flipped himself onto the walkway. Duo walked to a lounge room and relaxed on a green couch. Too many things had troubled him lately; the first was Hilde's disappearance, then Lunar Base, and now the possibility that a dead friend was an enemy. It was too much for him to have handled, and Duo fell asleep once again.

Location: L4H1-38457 colony

Docking Bay- Conference Room

Date: 15, 12, AC-198

Time: 1:00pm

Duo sat in a corner away from the others. Wufei and Trowa sat on a blue, 70's style couch and talked about what had happened on Lunar Base. Heero leaned up against a wall and listened to Trowa and Wufei's conversation.

"I thought he had some sense of justice in him, but not now." Wufei commented.

"We should have done a better job of keeping an eye on him. " Trowa said. "From the photo I got of him, his eyes seemed so cold to me. Nothing like the photo I got a year ago." Trowa glanced at the pictures taken from Sandrock's data on the table.

"Sometimes, some people can't be understood fully."

"I know, but it does seem that something tragic happened to him. You can almost see in it those eyes." Heero looked at the picture Trowa had referred to and saw what he was talking about.

"If this new cause of his is good, he'll defeat me."

"I wouldn't take it that far. Look at what happened to Quatre. It very well could happen to any of us. We really haven't even seen what that yellow mobile suit and this guy Niou can do yet." Trowa paused. "I've seen how Alex fought on that data, and whatever happened to him he has gotten better by a huge sum." Wufei nodded in agreement.

Duo's mind wandered on the past few days of activity, from finding out that Hilde had vanished to Alex's sudden change of sides. A tear ran down Duo's face as he thought of Hilde being missing, and the other eye wept for Quatre along with Alex. Heero glanced over at Duo, and pushed himself off the wall. He slowly walked toward Duo, and rested against the wall.

"It isn't your fault," Heero whispered.

Duo looked at Heero with a confused look on his face.

"Quatre fought his best against him. If you had gotten there earlier, you might be in the same place that Quatre is or worse."

"That doesn't make me feel better." Duo snapped back while whispering.

"As for Alex, I'm going to kill him for his own sake."

"What?" Duo stood up and glared at Heero.

"On that link, he was begging to be killed."

"I didn't see that."

"Look at his eyes and you'll see."

The two were silent for a few minutes as they stared at each other. Duo opened his mouth to say something, but Lady Une came in with a briefcase in hand.

"I'm sorry to say this, but we're moving off to the L4W-77321 colony." Lady Une stated.

"How come?" Duo said.

Trowa, Wufei, and Duo walked over to Lady Une while Heero continued to lean up against the wall.

"I thought that colony was under construction?" Trowa comments.

"That's correct, only a construction crew is present there. There hasn't been a transmission from them for hours now."

"Maybe, they had a power failure?" Duo stated.

"We sent out two Leos to check out the colony."

"They haven't been heard from?" Wufei comments.

"That is correct."

Heero got off the wall, and headed toward the door.

"Heero, where do you think your going?" Duo asked.

"L4W-77321."

"We haven't proved anything yet."

"They are going to use the colony as a base," Heero replied.

"Positioning themselves, then..." Wufei said.

"Checkmate." Trowa added on.

"Wait whose they?" Duo asks.

"Who do you think?"

Duo face went pale as he realized who would do that. Trowa, Wufei, and Heero left the room, leaving Duo still stunned. Lady Une looked at Duo, and put her hand on his shoulder.

"They'll need your help. Whether they admit it or not."

"I just can't...."

"I know what your going through, but the world needs you again. Hilde needs you."

Duo finally came out of his disillusion state, and began to leave the room.

"I don't care whether he is part of the enemy. Here is still my friend and I will save him. Then, find Hilde. I'm going to save them both."

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Location: L4W-77321 colony

Battleship Orion

Date: 15, 12, AC-198

Time: 6:00pm

Battleship Orion was based off the design of Battleship Libra, so the two bare a remarkable appearance to each other. Except, that Orion has a ring that encircles the crystal shape arms, and the main cannon is round rather than square. The only thing that hindered Orion is that it has mobility issues with its outer ring. The battleship easily dwarfed mobile suits and can accommodate a thousand mobile suits, excluding specially made mobile suits. It currently hovered by the colony, until further military activity.

Niou and Alex were in a locker room, near the north end of the battleship, as they put on their space suits.

"I can't believe how easy that gundam was," Niou bragged as though he was the one responsible for the defeat of Sandrock. "And here I thought the gundam pilots from Operation Meteor were suppose to be tough."

Alex wasn't paying attention to Niou, and stared his space suit gloves. His eyes seemed to have no personality behind them, and only one thought went through his mind. The meeting he had with one of the prisoners on board.

~~~flashback~~~

Alex stood in front of a prison cell door and patiently waited as a guard checked his authorization. He had only came to his cell for one reason, to find out what he had seen days earlier and again the day before.

"Why did they react the way they did?" Alex thought as he stared at the door.

"Sir, you have permission, now, to talk to the prisoner, Hilde Schbeiker." The jail door slid open and Alex walked inside.

Alex took another step further into the room while he grabbed a chair to sit on. Hilde had kept an eye on him since he came in as she sat in her bed; she feared what he might do to her, but she also felt that he wasn't here to hurt her, yet. He had cold, unsympathetic eyes as she stared back at him.

"Do you want something?"

Alex stayed silent for a minute at her words. "I came to ask you something."

"If you think I'm interested in betraying Duo and the others, like you have? Then you've come to the wrong place."

"Traitor? I don't know what you are talking about. I merely came to find out something that has been bugging me since yesterday."

"What might that be?"

"You and a gundam pilot I fought yesterday, both had stunned or shocked faces when you both saw me for the first time. It was like you had seen some sort of ghost, yet I know I have never seen the two of you before."

"A gundam pilot?!"

"Yeah, he had blonde hair and piloted a white gundam." Hilde had a half-hearted smile when she heard Quatre's description. Duo was safe for the moment, but Quatre might be dead. "I left him alive, though. I had orders to do so."

"What do you mean orders?"

"That is classified."

"Classified, huh?" Hilde stood up. "What about the events that lead up to ten months ago? Is that classified too?"

"I wouldn't know. Your gundam pilot friends would more than me. I can barely remember what happened four months, when I came out of a coma in a hospital on this ship. Six months before that, I was told I had escaped from prison complex run by the Preventors. Where they gave me this." Alex rolled up part of his shirt's right sleeve and showed scars on his upper shoulder. "This covers my entire back. I want revenge for what they did to me."

Hilde saw the scars in horror. Whatever happened to him the past ten months had some sort of brainwashing and amnesia effect on Alex.

"What have they done to you?"

Alex stood up and pushed her back down into her bed. "I don't know what they did to me, but according to my brother. It was awful. Incredibly awful." Alex backed off a little bit.

"I meant what these people have done to you. Wait, you have a brother?"

"These people are my family, and yes I do have a brother. It was proven through genetics. He pilots along side me in battle, now." Alex spoke each word with anger.

Hilde paused a moment for she didn't know what to say.

"I guess it was futile asking you these questions, you haven't been straight with me." Alex turned his back to Hilde as he headed toward the door.

She got up and walked forward in a pleaded gesture. "Alex, wait." Alex turned around. "You really want to know why? It's the fact that we knew you personally over ten months ago. You stayed at the junkyard that me and Duo ran for a couple of months. You helped out with business, and you had fun with Duo. Quatre knew your name from being introduced to you. Don't you see? We were your friends."

"Nice try," Alex faced the door again. "I won't fall for such lies. This is where I belong, and I will have my revenge. Open the door." The door opened and Alex stepped forward. Hilde tried to run for the door, but the door slammed in her face.

"Alex! Listen to me, you've been brainwashed!" Hilde yelled at the top of her lungs while she pounded on the door and cried. "Alex don't listen to them, they are just using you! Alex!" She slid against the wall and stopped on the ground. Hilde cried all the while. "Duo, whatever you do. Don't fight him, he doesn't know what he is doing."

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"I knew I should have been one of those chosen for Operation Meteor, but no they let scientists choose who should go. That was asking for trouble if you ask me." Niou finally noticed that Alex hadn't paid attention to him, "Didn't you hear a word I have been saying."

Alex stayed silent for a moment and looked up. "I'm sorry brother. I was just thinking of something, nothing important though."

"Ok." Niou stared at him for a moment. "Don't tell me that he is regaining his memory at this time. Shit this isn't good. I have to tell Ito, but I don't want to lose my brother at the same time." Niou quietly thought with concern. "Alex, are you ready for our next assignment."

"Who is our next target?"

"Any of the remaining pilots."

"Affirmative." Alex gets up. "We have to report to Ito now."

Alex put on his helmet and headed toward the hallway. Niou followed close behind. As they walked down the hall, the lights slowly flickered and Alex saw black.

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He stood in a dim-lighted room with an angled table that had restraints on it. Light crept in through a door that had just opened, and three men came in. Two of the men dragged the third, but this man looked strangely familiar to Alex. It was as though this man was himself, but from a third person perspective. If it were he dragged in, he would be in the man's eyes. As Alex thought more deeply from his sight, the man was strapped into the table and a scientist stepped in with a needle in hand. The prisoner struggled to get out of the restraints, but couldn't make any of the restraints bung.

"What are you doing? Fight back, you can do it." Alex yelled.

The scientist spoke some words that he couldn't understand along with prisoner. The prisoner's face went pale after the conversation as he saw the man got closer. Alex threw a punch at the scientist but it through him.

"Its nothing but a dream." Alex looked in horror as the man got injected and lost consciousness.

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Niou shook Alex a little bit and he snapped out of it. Alex looked in front of him and saw the door to Ito's office. He rubbed his eyes

"Bro. Don't zone out on me like that again. Ok?"

"Understood."

Niou pressed his palm against the scanner on the door, and it opened like a charm.

"Ito, we're here to check-in." Niou said as they walked in.

Ito turned around in his chair. Ito had short-gray hair, emerald green eyes, and wore a blue military suit without a hat; he was also sixty years old. He looked at them with his arms crossed, and had the look on his face that he shouldn't be messed with.

"I must say. Excellent work at Lunar Base, I couldn't have done it better myself."

"Thank you, sir." Niou yelled but Alex didn't reply.

"I have some good news for both of you."

"What might that be sir?"

"As we have expected, my contacts have confirmed that the Preventors are mobilizing against us. This means that within a few hours, they should attack this battleship. Our strategy lies in the destruction of the gundams, simple as that. With them out of the picture, there will be nothing stopping us from taking over the world. I expect the best from both of you in dealing with the four remaining gundams."

"Yes sir." Niou said alone.

Niou left the room, but Alex stood still there.

"Is there sometime wrong?"

"I think there is something wrong with my mind."

"How come?"

"I had this bizarre dream when I came down here. It seemed like I was being tortured or something."

"I know what it is. It is one of your memories of being trapped in that Preventor prison. They torture people there frequently. Don't worry about it otherwise."

"Ok. Thank you, sir." Alex began to walk toward the door.

"Please send in Niou real quick."

Alex left the room and, a few moments later, Niou walked in. The doors slammed shut behind him.

"You wanted to see me alone, sir?"

"When were you going to tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

"That his memory is starting to come back?"

"What do you mean? I saw nothing of the sort."

Ito pounded his fist on his desk, and Niou eyes reflected fright to what might come next.

"He said on his way here that he had a vision of what looked like a man being tortured. Do you know what that means?" Niou stood perfectly still, but was trembling on the inside. He remembered Alex had zoned out just before arriving there. "It means that we will have to just get rid of him, if he regains more. It would be a waste of resources, but once he regains that memory he won't be able to be controlled again."

"I know we would have to do that, sir, but he is my brother. I could talk some sense into him after the battle."

"And risk the possibility of him regaining the rest of his memory, even if he didn't get it back during the battle. That has to the dumbest thing I've heard out of your mouth! You know that in war there are losers and there are winners." Niou gulped at the words with nervous sweat that ran down his face. "Remember things happen for reasons that we may not like. If Hirofumi Jukodo hadn't have interfered with our plans in AC-184, the conflicts right now would never have happened. Don't you agree?"

The eighteen year-old shook his head in agreement. "I do hate that man for what he did. Wiping out all of those children at that facility, but why did he take Alex if he had wanted all of those children dead?"

"I honestly don't know, but that isn't the issue right now. What does matter is this battle." Ito turned his chair around and stared into space. "The most he can take on is two of those gundams, if we are lucky. Keep the other two occupied if possible."

"Yes, sir." Niou said without letting out a nervous expression.

"Oh yes. Don't be too defensive of your brother, otherwise you might find yourself on the wrong side."

The message was crystal clear to Niou. "Affirmative."

"Dismissed."

Niou marched out of the room to find Alex leaned up against a wall a little ways down the hall. The door slammed shut behind Niou.

"What did Ito want to talk to you about?"

"It's nothing. Just a prep talk, that's all."

"Ok, but I swore I heard yelling in there." Red lights flashed down the hallway and sirens rang off. "They are here."

"Let's get going."

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Deathscythe Hell, Wing Zero, Heavyarms kai, and Altron flew through space with an army of Leos behind them. Deathscythe Hell got within sight of Battleship Orion and the group stopped. Deathscythe Hell glazed at the battleship as though it were a nightmare from the past.

"Is that Libra?" Duo thought. "No, it can't be. It has to be something else."

"Looks like we came to the right place." Trowa commented.

"Duo and I will get the west side. Trowa and Wufei get on its north side." Heero commanded, "Leos break up into two and get the east and south side."

The mobile suits broke up into their groups and jetted off to their objective.

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Wing Zero and Deathscythe made it to the west side of Orion and encountered heavy Taurus resistance. The Taurus concentrated their beam rifle fire as they tried to destroy the two gundams, but Wing Zero and Deathscythe Hell began to make short work of them with their beam saber and beam scythe.

"We have to break through, no matter what."

"Affirmative."

Wing Zero pulled out its twin buster rifle and charged it up. Deathscythe Hell provided some cover for Wing Zero, and then it fires a beam of energy that plowed through anything while it produced explosions from fifty Tauruses. Wing Zero put its twin buster rifle away, and ignited its beam saber again. More Taurus mobile suits headed their way from docking bays from across Orion.

"How many are there?" Deathscythe Hell took a swipe and destroyed three Taurus mobile suits.

Heero didn't reply, and continued to destroy more Taurus mobile suits.

Toteis observed their battle from the shell on the battleship. He saw Wing Zero and Deathscythe Hell tore apart the mobile suits like finely tuned machines was making Niou mad, yet understood how much stronger they are compared to the Taurus. He had hoped the mobile dolls could have held off the two gundams, but that became less likely. Niou cringed as each explosion rang out. He had to stop both gundams with the aid of his primary weapon, and to keep them from fighting BlitzWavine. Niou felt a nervous shake flow through his body, but forced Toteis to get off the battleship. Toteis flew toward Deathscythe, while the Taurus mobile suits fell back and retreated.

A communication link opened in both Duo's and Heero's cockpit, "I hope that you both enjoyed the last easy victories you'll ever have. This is the beginning of the end for both of you. Prepare to die."

Duo recognized the face and couldn't keep a hold of his anger. "It's you. I'll have pleasure tearing your heart out."

Duo is completely focused on defeating Toteis. Deathscythe Hell fired up its rear thrusters, but Wing Zero pushed it out of the way.

"Heero, what do you think you are doing?"

"I'll take him on. Go on without me."

"And leave you alone with that jerk. No way."

"He wants to fight both of us. Can't you see that? Join up with Wufei and Trowa. That's where Alex will appear at."

"How could you tell that?"

"I figured one of the two would take us on, then the remaining would take on the others. Since this one showed up."

"It would only makes sense that…" Duo shook his head as he thought about it.

Deathscythe Hell maxed out its thrusters, and began to get out out of range of the battle between Wing Zero and Toteis.

"Where do you think you are going!" Niou exclaimed as he dodged Wing Zero and almost caught up to Deathscythe Hell.

"The speed behind that guy is horrific." Duo thought as Deathscythe Hell reignited its beam scythe in its defense.

Toteis suddenly stopped in its tracks as Wing Zero grabbed a hold of it, and flung it away from Deathscythe Hell.

"Duo, don't make me repeat myself." Duo nodded.

Deathscythe Hell blasted off and didn't take another look, as he got further and further away from the two.

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Heavyarms kai and Altron had encountered no resistance on the north side of the battleship. This greatly troubled the two for they knew the enemy must have detected them.

"Something is wrong here."

"I agree. There should be some defense here." Wufei looked over the area for anything.

"This has 'trap' written all over it."

A brigade of Virgo dolls charged up their beam cannons and fired a volley of energy at the gundams. Heavyarms kai moved to its left while dodging the energy beams and began to open fire with its gatling gun. Altron jetted up and out and dodged the beams of energy as well. Altron pulled out its double-sided beam trident and ignited it. Wufei prepared to charge the Virgos, when he saw something unidentified on his radar. Altron looked into the direction of the target, but saw nothing in camera view at first. He patiently looked at the screen and a yellow dot moved differently than the stars around it. It had to be BlitzWavine.

"Trowa, take care of these guys. I'm going after Alex."

Heavyarms kai continued to fire its gatling gun and ripped apart the Virgo dolls. "Affirmative."

Altron jetted off to catch up to the yellow light, except it didn't take much effort since the yellow light had been approaching it. Altron spun its double-sided beam trident around and thrust slashed at BlitzWavine. BlitzWavine ignited its beam saber and blocked the attack. The beam weapons held the other mobile suit at bay, and neither could move an inch. Altron backed off and spun its double-sided, beam trident over its head. It then brought down the double-sided, beam trident on BlitzWavine, but BlitzWavine blocked the attack to a stand still.

Wufei thought, "We're are at a stalemate again. There has to be a way to get past it. Nataku lend me your strength."

Altron pulled back its double-sided, beam trident, and flew backwards while Alex was there mystified by the move.

"Another frontal attack? Both of us grounded to a halt when he did that last time." Alex thought as he tried to figure out what the next move was going to be.

Altron rose up its left arm and fired the dragon claw at BlitzWavine.

"Crap!"

BlitzWavine desperately dodged attack only to find out that a second dragon claw had come up from behind it. The second dragon claw smashed into BlitzWavine's back and knocked it forward where the dragon claw crashed and pierced the cockpit door. Alex put his hands over his eyes, but no explosion came. He looked again and saw Altron had just backed off from BlitzWavine. Cold sweat ran down his face and his breathed a little faster than he normally did.

"What the hell was that?" Alex wiped the sweat off his face. "Wait… The attack is coming…"

Altron raised up its left arm and prepared to fire its dragon claw. BlitzWavine charged at Altron and forced it to defend itself with both arms holding the trident. Altron attacked again with a swiping movement of the double-sided, beam trident. BlitzWavine jetted backward to avoid the attack, but came at Altron again. Alex wasn't about to allow those dragon claws a chance, but allowed closer and closer calls with the double-sided, beam trident. Altron then lunged the double-sided, beam trident forward at the cockpit of BlitzWavine. BlitzWavine activated it left thrusters and dodged the attack by spinning to its right. BlitzWavine thrusted forward with its beam saber and knocked back the double-sided beam trident. Alex seized the opportunity; he had the beam saber slice through the right arm and to the upper part of the torso. The right arm fell off with the double-sided, beam trident, and the melted gundanium armor began to give way collapsing on Altron.

"What Treize couldn't do years ago, this man has managed to do. I wished it had been Treize who defeated me." Wufei smiled as he said his final words. "Nataku, thank you for allowing me to fight with you, again."

BlitzWavine forced the beam saber through the rest of the way, and melted armor flew off of Altron. BlitzWavine jetted back as Altron began to explode. Small explosions erupted in the area where the beam saber went through, and began to spread. The two halves of the mobile suit separated farther apart, and two explosions send shockwaves through the area.

"Too close for comfort." Alex breathed a sigh of relief as his breathing rate went down.

Heavyarms kai sent another wave of missiles toward the remaining dolls. The Virgos exploded in an almost massive unity, and then the shockwave of Altron's explosion hit Heavyarms kai. Trowa was shaken up in his cockpit.

"What's happening?"

Heavyarms kai looked in the direction where Altron was fighting, but saw a long, glowing, blue light and a round, glowing, yellow light.

"Wufei, are you there? Do you copy? ... WUFEI!"

Heavyarms kai flew toward the area where the explosion had come from. He saw Altron's right arm with deactivated, beam trident in hand fly by him. Trowa's anger erupted to new heights knowing a friend was killed practically on top of him. BlitzWavine detected Heavyarms kai's approach and charged at him, but Alex soon found out his mistake. Heavyarms kai pointed its galting gun at BlitzWavine and open fired. BlitzWavine was hit by the swarm of bullets, but was barely damaged; except when some of the bullets found their way to its joints. BlitzWavine moved to its left and barely dodged the rest of the hail of bullets. BlitzWavine activated its front thrusters and backed off from Heavyarms kai. Heavyarms kai's shoulder plates slid upwards and leg panels popped open to reveal the missiles stored inside. An aiming tool on Trowa's cockpit screen homed in on BlitzWavine's signature, and Trowa pushed a button to launch the missiles. The missiles traveled viciously toward BlitzWavine, some of them passed each other and came back to pass the other. BlitzWavine flew backward as it tried to avoid the missiles and thrusted to its left. The missiles passed BlitzWavine only to be corrected on the target area and curved to adjust to its movements. More missiles came at BlitzWavine from Heavyarms kai, so BlitzWavine maxed out its thrusters and flew toward the colony. It managed to confuse some of the missiles and destroyed themselves, but most of the missiles stayed on target. BlitzWavine hooked left and spiraled upwards in a desperate bid to get rid of the missiles. The move backfired, instead of following the spiral it had made, and the missiles went straight to it; BlitzWavine got nailed in the leg. The explosions knocked out part of the leg thrusters, but the legs were still able to hold the weight of the mobile suit.

"This guy is good," Alex thought. His breathing rate went up. "If this continues, I won't being living much longer."

BlitzWavine turned in the direction of Heavyarms kai and full throttled its remaining thrusters. BlitzWavine charged straight at Heavyarms kai, and Heavyarms kai was quick to react by firing its gatling gun at it. The bullets had little effect as BlitzWavine continued with the missiles behind it. At the last possible second, BlitzWavine shifted its weight upward and flew out of the path of the bullets and missiles. Trowa realized what Alex had done and ejected Heavyarms kai's red-hot gatling gun toward the missiles. The first missile hit the gatling gun and exploded; the missiles that followed it did the same thing, and saved Heavyarms kai from massive damage. Heavyarms kai thrusted backwards, and then Trowa came to the realization that the explosion was a diversion. Trowa had lost track of BlitzWavine and it would cost him. A yellow, glowing camera lens appeared behind Heavyarms kai, just as it appeared on Heavyarms kai's radar. BlitzWavine put its right hand on Heavyarms kai's shoulder and spun Heavyarms kai around. Trowa looked as BlitzWavine quickly ignited its beam saber and began to swing its blue beam saber forward.

"I'm sorry Catherine. I won't be coming back this time around."

The beam saber went through the cockpit; it melted away the cockpit like it was nothing in a mere second. BlitzWavine held the beam saber there for a few seconds, while Alex felt very relieved that the battle was over though it also felt he had killed someone who he might have known. He brushed away the thought. BlitzWavine forced the beam saber through the left side of Heavyarms kai and flew away. The cockpit exploded, and engulfed the rest of Heavyarms kai; then four additional explosions occurred and sent shrapnel in all directions. BlitzWavine was caught off guard and shrapnel hit its left arm, the left arm lost some of its functionality.

"Damn it. I'll need to get it repaired."

Deathscythe Hell arrived after encountered some Taurus mobile suits and found nothing, but a debris field of scrap metal. Duo thought nothing of it at first and this only proved that Trowa and Wufei were still in the area; until he remembered that Trowa and Wufei were supposed to be seen in the area. Duo opened a communication link to both, but didn't get a response from either. Duo tried again but had concern now, and still got no response. Duo was panicking now. He almost opened another communication link, but then he saw the head of Heavyarms kai float toward him. Deathscythe Hell flew towards it and identified what he feared and realized that the other set of debris must have belonged to Altron.

"What happened here?" A cold sweat came over him as he knew the question was rhetorical.

Duo began to cry for his comrades, and anger came over him; one that can only be satisfied by the blood of the enemy. BlitzWavine flew towards the colony, but spotted Deathscythe Hell on its radar. It headed toward Deathscythe Hell and stopped fifty meters away from Deathscythe Hell.

Duo opened up a communication link to Alex. Alex saw that the pilot was very upset, but he didn't know why or who he was. The only thing was he swore he had seen him before; maybe this was the one named Duo that the prisoner had yelled out.

"Why Alex?"

"This one knows my name as well. Shit. How many of them knew I was in that prison?" Alex thought.

"WHY DID IT HAVE TO COME TO THIS!"