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Chapter 11- The war ends: Light blooms

The smoke from Alex's gun fumed upward and dispersed into the clean air around. Alex looked down the barrel of the gun and saw one of the two guards lying on the ground in a pool of blood. He looked over at the other guard and saw the guard up against the wall. The man spat out blood and whispered something under his lips. His hands held onto his stomach, and seemed to hope that the blood would stop flowing. Alex looked up and saw the trail of blood on the wall from when the guard had stood. He looked back down to and put his gun to the guard's head.

"I'm sorry that I put you through that much pain. I meant for it to be quick." Alex whispered so that only the guard could here it.

Alex pulled the trigger. A cloud of blood sprayed the wall and the guard slumped over. Alex got back up and looked at his suit, which was soaked in blood. He looked toward Hilde to find her staring at him like he was some sort of demon, and was prepared to run through the door. Alex slowly put his gun away while he stared back at her. He reached his hand out to Hilde.

"You expect me to come with you after what you've done?" Hilde was extremely mad along being frightened out of her mind.

"Hilde. Please come with me." Alex said in a sincere and caring manner. "Duo is waiting for you, and I'm here to begin fixing my mistakes."

Hilde saw his eyes weren't the same when he had walked through the door, and grabbed his hand.

"Let's go."

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BlitzWavine and Deathscythe Hell charged at one another and their beam weapons clashed with the electricity that jolted everywhere. Deathscythe Hell thrusted backwards, and this made BlitzWavine off balance and it fell to the ground. Deathscythe Hell flew back and swiped low at BlitzWavine. BlitzWavine saw this just in time and activated its left shoulder thruster. It tumbled across the colony floor, and dodged Deathscythe Hell's attack. BlitzWavine crawled back to its feet though the left leg was having a hard time getting into place. BlitzWavine finally stood wielding its beam saber in its left hand. Deathscythe Hell looked at BlitzWavine for a moment and BlitzWavine began to walk toward his opponent.

"I'm not giving up on you Alex, even if I have to kill you. You'll be better off than this pathetic excuse of a man."

BlitzWavine's right leg took a step forward. The left leg joint area sprayed out oil, and tubes that carried the oil lashed around violently. The joint mechanism completely unglued and the left leg gave way, and this left BlitzWavine in a kneeling position for which there was no hope of winning. Alex looked over the suit's diagnostics and saw nothing that could have happened during his fight with Deathscythe Hell. He then remembered his fight with Trowa and the gatling gun.

"The bullets from it hit the left leg joint.... In space, it didn't matter, but the centripetal force on this colony would have amplified the effects of the damage. That pilot has played me for a fool. If I didn't defeat him, he probably would have gone to this colony and done me in...." Alex cringed at the thought how far forward that pilot had thought.

BlitzWavine tried to stand, but failed in every attempt. Deathscythe Hell stood still and watched as the mobile suit he had just fought on even terms was down for the count. Deathscythe Hell unignited its beam scythe and raised its left arm. BlitzWavine saw this and desperately tried to get up.

"I'm sorry, Alex."

Deathscythe Hell fired its buster shield at BlitzWavine. Alex could only look in horror as it approached, and then an idea came to his head. BlitzWavine thrusted to its right, but put up its arms in self-defense. The move worked, except the buster shield compensated for the movement and BlitzWavine's beam saber tried to block the attack. The beam saber melted away, and then exploded shredding the left arm. The buster shield continued through the left arm and took care what was left. Between the two explosions, BlitzWavine was tossed and crashed across the floor of the colony. The cockpit shook violently and Alex banged his head on the control board. His head laid on the control board once BlitzWavine came to a stop. Alex's eyes were wide open, but had a blank look. Deathscythe Hell looked over at the belly-laying BlitzWavine and ignited its beam scythe. It slowly walked up to BlitzWavine. For several moments, Alex didn't make a move, but a single tear left his right eye. He finally sat back up and had more tear running down his face.

"Where am I?" Alex examined his head. "Why do I have a splitting headache?" He felt the tears that rolled down his face. "What am I crying for?"

BlitzWavine flipped over onto its back and its cameras locked onto Deathscythe Hell that was about to deliver a deathblow.

A communication link popped up in Deathscythe Hell's cockpit. "Stop! Duo! What the hell do you think your doing?"

Duo was thrown for a second, but thought this might be a trick. "Finishing you off."

"For what? I'm an ally of yours!"

Duo looked again at Alex and saw his eyes. "Alex your back. I can't believe it. Its so good to see you."

"Duo... you are acting like you've seen a ghost..." Alex began to regain his memory of the past few days and realized what he, in some sort of rage, had killed Trowa and Wufei. More tears came from Alex's eyes and this time he knew why. "What have I done...."

"Don't worry about it.... Now, that you are back. I need your help with something."

"What kind of help would you possibly need from me?"

"It's Hilde. I need you to…."

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Alex pushed a button and the cell door shut. Hilde looked at him; still confusion flowed through her mind about what had happened. Alex turned around and put his hand on her shoulder.

"We got to get going."

Alex turned his head toward the hall and started to walk. Hilde followed hesitatively all from the fear of being caught by guards that wandered around the battleship. The corridor seemed to have kept going on forever in Hilde's mind, yet finally an office came up on their right. Alex walked in while Hilde stayed out of sight. After a few moments, Alex walked out carrying a space suit and handed it over to Hilde.

"You'll need this to get into the docking area." Alex pointed down an adjacent hall. "There is a women's bathroom down there. You'll need to change in there."

Alex escorted Hilde over to the women's bathroom, and he leaned up against the wall while Hilde went in. Alex pulled out his gun and looked at it with a stare of realization; that he had just killed someone cold-bloodedly and that he was no better than the next man in purity of morality. He gave a big sigh and put the gun away. A moment later, Hilde walked out of the bathroom wearing a space suit while she held a helmet to her side. Alex looked at her for a second then turned around to get back to the docking bay. Hilde put on her helmet while she followed Alex.

"Alex, how did Duo get through to you?"

"This is not the time for discussion. First priority is to get off this ship. Second is to get you a safe distance away from it. Then we can talk if you want."

"Ok."

The hallway again seemed to go on forever as Hilde walked down it, but a door stopped the everlasting walk. Alex gestured to Hilde to put down her visor as he put his down and she complied. Alex pushed a button that activated the airlock and they walked in. The first airlock door shut behind them and the second door opened to the docking bay. BlitzWavine was in sight with workers that tried to finish up the repairs that they could manage. Alex pushed off the ground and glided toward BlitzWavine with Hilde shortly behind him. Alex grabbed a hold of a rail and stopped to see a worker.

"How are the repairs coming?"

"The left leg joint has been fully repaired, though some oil was lost and have yet to fill that up. The cameras have been fixed to a degree, and we also have your gundanium sabre recovered. We haven't gotten a replacement for that arm though."

"Excellent, I'm going back out then."

"Wait. We should get the arm back on it and who is that?"

Hilde grabbed a hold of the rail Alex is on.

"Oh her... She's a rookie that I promised to show how an advanced mobile suit handled."

"Who gave you permission to do that?"

"Ito. If you want to argue, talk to him."

"That won't be necessary, sir." The worker glided away in fear.

Alex pushed off the rail toward BlitzWavine and Hilde followed closely behind him. Alex stopped at the cockpit door and had Hilde go in first.

"Trying to be a gentleman, are we?"

"No. More like a dog on watch."

He turned around to see if anyone had figured out anything. The same worker, which Alex had talked to a few moments ago, looked up at Alex and finally saw the blood stained space suit Alex had been wearing.

"He must have shot that girl in one of her arteries or something to produce that much blood..." The worker thought about the girl that was just with Alex. "Unless..."

The worker landed on the walkway and frantically ran toward the nearest videophone. He had gotten to one, but he saw his own blood come out of his chest. The worker turned around to see where the shot came from and saw Alex holding a gun. The worker spat out some blood and floated in the low gravity. The other maintenance crew ditched the area after their co-worker got blown away. Alex forced himself into the cockpit and the door shut behind him.

The officers in the control room to the docking bay watched in horror as this went on. They activated an alarm that alerted the entire battleship. Upon hearing this, Alex mumbled something under his breath and saw the restraints on his suit were still in place. BlitzWavine began to push off the wall to put a lot of strain on the restraints. The right arm flung forward which allowed BlitzWavine to grab a walkway and crushed it while pulling it down. Two Virgo dolls flew into the docking bay for maintenance and spotted BlitzWavine struggling. The cameras flashed and the Virgos raised their beam cannons. Alex had enough now, all of BlitzWavine's remaining thrusters cranked up to full power and the restraints snapped off like twigs. The Virgos fired their beam cannons at BlitzWavine, but it flew up and grabbed its gundanium sabre from the salvage unit. Explosions ensued from the beams of energy on the wall of the docking bay. The Virgos fired at BlitzWavine as they tried to lead the mobile suit this time, but BlitzWavine rolled to the right and the beams of energy crashed into the control room; this killed everyone in the control room instantly. BlitzWavine jetted up to the first Virgo and impaled it, and forced the sabre through the rest of the Virgo while the movement sliced in half the second Virgo. The two Virgos exploded, and BlitzWavine flew through the smoke and made it outside of the battleship. BlitzWavine was headed toward the east side of the battleship when a squad of Taurus began their attack on it.

"I don't have time for this..." Hilde had thus far watched the entire fight from behind Alex's seat, but she could only watch at they sped toward the first Taurus.

A pair of green eyes appeared behind the Taurus they were about to attack. For a second, nothing happened, but in a few blurs of green neon light the Taurus mobile suits were destroyed.

"Well, What do you know? Duo has arrived. Aren't you a little early?"

"I know I am. The plan worked thus far?" Duo saw Hilde behind the Alex's seat. "Forget about that question."

"Let's continue on then."

Deathscythe Hell appeared from in view of BlitzWavine and both cockpits opened up. Alex and Duo stepped out and stood on their doors. Duo nodded his head and Alex headed back into the cockpit. Hilde came from the cockpit and she glided over to Deathscythe Hell. Hilde got into Deathscythe Hell with Duo, and the cockpit door shuts; BlitzWavine's cockpit shuts as well.

"Duo. The plan has been completed in full. I'm heading over to defeat Toteis."

"The what?"

"That's the name of the yellow mobile suit. My brother is inside of it."

"A brother?"

"Yeah, Alex apparently has a blood brother, though he never fully explained it to me." Hilde had jumped into the conversation.

"Yeah. That's for another time."

"First, I have to confront him. I don't want to, but I have to."

"Before you go, what's the name of the mobile suit you are in?"

"This mobile suit is called BlitzWavine. Get out of here with Hilde, and I'll force Heero to go with ya. As for me…."

"Don't say anything. I understand. "

Deathscythe Hell jetted off toward the south end of the battleship and BlitzWavine hovered there for a few moments. Alex wanted to collect his thoughts before he headed off, but something seemed a bit odd. Horrifyingly, cold sweat came down his face and began to lose the feeling in his eyes. His breath became short and began to cough to the point of hacking. Alex pounded his chest and regained most of his control over his breath. He began to feel his eyes again as well.

"What's wrong with me..."

A communication link opened up in his cockpit with Ito on the other side.

"Ito..."

"Alex, so you've finally gained back your memory I take it? It's a shame that our best efforts failed to keep you under our control."

"What are you talking about … what did you do to me!"

"Consider it a training of the mind to come under control of our authority."

"You think I'm that naive..."

"Well, it doesn't affect normal people, only those we had designed for a special purpose."

Alex raised an eyebrow. "A genetically altered human…"

"That is correct. We called that project, Project Stark Oak. It would have accompanied Operation Meteor in taking over the world. This project was designed to make soldiers stronger in mind and fight with no remorse. In other words, the perfect soldier."

"You mean…"

"You're one of our assets for the project. In fact, you were our one of our best candidates for the project, though I must say that your birth was an oddity even for test tube babies. We would have sent you along with others, except things didn't quite go as planned."

"Meaning..."

"The one you knew as Rio Cros interfered with our plans, by destroying one of our facilities and killed hundreds of embryos along with twenty children. He had disappeared shortly afterward, but we didn't know you were with him. We hunted him down, yet couldn't find him and had to scrap the project from lack of interest from the Barton Foundation."

"Yeah right. Rio wouldn't do that at all... You're lying."

"Believe what you want. I don't care either way, since you are expendable now. First though, my forces will crush the one so-called perfect soldier. Heero Yuy." Ito smirked and the communication link died.

Alex looked around to see where Wing Zero could have been located, and noticed that the battleship was in a different position than it had been at the beginning of the battle.

"My God.... They are going to vaporize Wing Zero...."

BlitzWavine blasted off toward the general area where Duo said he had left Wing Zero and Toteis fighting.

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Wing Zero clashed its beam saber with Toteis' beam saber at high speed and both mobile suits flew back. Wing Zero arched toward its right to compensate for Toteis' change in direction. Both of them charged at each other; clashed and backed off for a renewed attack. This has been the battle for the entire time that Deathscythe Hell had left Wing Zero alone, except the battleship had been maneuvering for its main cannon to work against Wing Zero. Heero noticed the move, and continued to keep the main cannon from being able to fire its shot. Deathscythe Hell flew by along the battleship's surface, and saw the battle going on. Duo knew he couldn't do anything and continued on. That is until he saw BlitzWavine charging at the two from a distance. Duo opened a communication link to Heero.

"Hey Heero."

"What is it Duo... and why aren't you fighting that black mobile suit."

"Heads up, BlitzWavine is on our side now; don't attack him. Alex will be assisting us from here on out."

Heero gave his typical death stare. "Okay, but I'm going to have a talk with him after this along with Wufei and Trowa."

"Sure... Heero..."

Duo didn't let Heero see his eyes after his last statement by closing the communication link.

"Duo. Why didn't you tell him?"

"He would kill Alex on the spot if he found out."

"Good point."

"I'll talk to him about it once the battle is over, and before he has a talk with Alex. For Alex's sake."

BlitzWavine flew toward the Wing Zero and Toteis battle. Alex saw that Wing Zero had no trouble fighting Toteis, but was worried about the battleship's main cannon.

He opened a communication link to Heero.

"Heero. Um… Do you know that the battleship is about to fire it main cannon at you?"

"Affirmative."

"That's right... I forgot that mobile suits could easily dodge the attack, except... the colonies can't..."

"I know that. I plan on taking out that battleship's main cannon once this mobile suit is defeated."

"We don't have time for this... We honestly don't!"

Niou saw BlitzWavine's approach and was thrilled that his brother had come to join the fight. He thought that all of the gundams had been defeated, and only Wing Zero was left. The plan in his mind was working out, but he didn't pick up on Deathscythe Hell that had traveled against the battleship.

Wing Zero flew back after it clashed with Toteis again, but this time something smashed Wing Zero's head back. When Wing Zero's cameras came back into focus, Heero saw BlitzWavine in a position with its right arm down. BlitzWavine pulled out its gundanium sabre and hovered itself between Toteis and Wing Zero.

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The main control center on the battleship was buzzing with activity as the battle continued on. People ran around giving orders to the dolls and to the men repairing malfunctions. Ito sat calmly through the chaos, and watched Toteis, BlitzWavine, and Wing Zero stand off. He smiled in delight.

"Tell me. When will the main cannon be at full power?"

"Any moment, sir."

"Make it quicker, those mobile suits won't just be sitting there for long."

"But sir, Niou is there as well."

"I know he is, but he also knows the dangers. Just do it!"

The crew scrambled even faster now. Ito turned his chair away from the main screen and turned on a videophone with a static filled face on the other side.

"You know that we are about to crush the gundam known as Wing Zero. Having Alpha Company travel here was a waste of time and effort. You can have them turn back now."

"Has the gundam's destruction been confirmed?" A voice seemed to almost murmur over the link.

"No, it hasn't."

"Ito, Alpha Company will continue to travel there then. Another thing, is 235 under our control still?"

"He isn't."

"What!"

"He regained his memory."

"Damn it. Tell me that he is dead then."

"I'm about to wipe him out along with Wing Zero."

"Ito, you idiot. As long as he lives, there is no telling what might happen."

"Eizo, please understand. I'm in control of this operation. He will die a painful death. Besides, he can't do anything to this battleship. The Virgos would eat him alive."

"Anything happen with Camar in him?"

"Camar had little effect on him."

"Let's just hope that you can kill him quickly, then; for both our sakes. Eizo over and out."

The video link died.

"Me an idiot? I'll show him."

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"I'm sorry Heero," Alex said to Heero. "But I won't allow a colony to go up in smoke."

BlitzWavine turned around and looked directly at Toteis.

"Alex, it's good to have you here. I was starting to wear a little bit out." Niou breathed at an irregular rate but nothing else seemed to be wrong.

"Niou, my brother. I know you have been treating me well the past several months. We got along, and fought together. Under better circumstances, we might have been unbreakable and could have grown into a family." Alex paused with a tear that ran down his eye.

"Don't tell me Ito wants you dead, now. I'll kill the bastard if he said anything close to that."

"Unfortunately, I remember everything that happened. Please forgive me, for what I must do."

"What do you talking about?" Niou saw his brother in tears, and couldn't help but stare.

BlitzWavine charged at Toteis, and partially caught Niou off-guard. Toteis braced for impact by as it held out its beam saber to stop the gundanium sabre, but BlitzWavine moved its sabre to the right, which allowed the beam saber to plunge into its left shoulder. Niou was taken back by this move, but then realized why Alex had done it. BlitzWavine stabbed its gundanium sabre through the upper torso area of Toteis, which disabled the right arm of Toteis and most of its thrusters. The beam saber unignited and the melted armor of BlitzWavine fused with the saber grip. Niou regretted letting his guard down, and he knew is at the mercy of Alex.

"Those pilots got to him. Damn it, Alex. Why couldn't you have stayed the same!"

Wing Zero looked on as BlitzWavine's action and flew back to avoid further interference. Deathscythe Hell arrived back to the battle to find Wing Zero having backed off and BlitzWavine with Toteis in an odd position to human eyes.

"What's happening?"

"A fool-hearty move. An honorable one at that."

"What do you mean?"

"You'll see."

"What!" Hilde and Duo said in unison.

BlitzWavine began to reposition itself so that its head is underneath Toteis' chest and began to warm up its thrusters.

"Alex I beg of you, don't do whatever you are about to do."

"I'm again sorry."

BlitzWavine's thrusters went to full power and they cranked BlitzWavine's speed to an unstable maximum. BlitzWavine's head was crushed under the weight of Toteis and debris fell off of the front of BlitzWavine. The communication link scrambled up on Alex's side.

"You're insane!"

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Ito looked in horror as BlitzWavine charged at full blast with Toteis being dragged along in front of it.

"500 meters..."

"Fire now!"

"Sir, we can't. The power hasn't gotten to full yet..."

"400 meters..."

"I said fire now..."

"We'll almost there..."

"300 meters..."

"Fire! Damn it! Fire!"

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BlitzWavine continued on with Toteis in front of it. Within two hundred meters of their approach, a glow of blue formed at the base of the main cannon. BlitzWavine went on until it reaches the one hundred meter mark. BlitzWavine began to glow red in all of its joints, and the rest of the mobile suit glowed orange.

"He is sending me to my death… along with himself. I've killed my brother after all."

BlitzWavine exploded, which sent shockwaves through space, but more than doubled the speed at which Toteis was dragged. Toteis sped uncontrollably toward the main cannon of Orion.

"I'll see you again. Brother…"

Toteis disappeared into the main chamber of Orion's main cannon, and an explosion erupted out of it. The next few moments seem very calm and tranquil as the two explosions settled down with a debris field having being formed. A blue beam of energy shot out of the east of the battleship, then three more beams of energy blasted out of the batteship on the remaining directions of the battleship. Orion began to sway towards the colony, while small explosions appeared on the surface of the battleship. The explosions subsided, and then the outer ring of Orion exploded. The huge explosion continued on toward the center of the battleship as it ripped apart the armor like it was nothing. The explosion reached the center of Orion and engulfed the main cannon, and another explosion erupted, which formed a pillar on both sides of the main explosion.

Deathscythe Hell and Wing Zero just watched as the carnage unfolded. There was mystifying feeling about the explosion, and another moment later. Half of the original Leo forces came to them; apparently they fought off their attackers successfully. Hardly a thing was left of the battleship, except a few blips on the radar of both gundams.