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Chapter 8: The Coming War
A young man arrives in downtown Tokyo via train.
"It has been quite some time since I've been here," the young boy says to himself. "I hope it isn't to hard to find them. I also hope that she is happy to see me."
He quietly walks down the street toward the near north side of Tokyo getting more excited and anxious as he goes.
'I've got to remember why I am here though,' the boy soberly thinks to himself, 'It may be happy news that I'm back for a while, but the news I bring isn't.'
---Meanwhile (GW - Winner Corporation Headquarters)---
Quatre sits at his desk looking at the paperwork for the week. 'Hmm, more shipments headed to earth than usual. I guess that is what summer will do for the northern hemisphere. It is amazing how much you miss when you are actually involved in world events.' Quatre smiles to himself and sits there enjoying the moment of peace. 'Heero, Trowa, I hope you guys are having a little time to relax yourselves.'
"Quatre!" a girlish voice bellows over the speaker, "Can I come in for a second?"
Quatre smiles again thinking of his well-intended sister being obnoxious again, "Sure, come on in."
The door opens and his older sister walks in. "Are you busy brother?"
"Actually, I'm enjoying a little lull. What is on your mind?" Quatre sweetly replies.
"I'm sorry to do this behind your back, but an old friend of ours is having some tough times and I told her you would set aside some time and catch up." Quatre's sister musters with an anxious look.
"A her? Why? And I guess more importantly when? You know how busy my schedule is," Quatre reminds her somewhat firmly.
"Well she is right outside the door now, so you said there was a lull, so why not." His sister pokes.
"Outside the door? How could you, sister? How could you be this reckless? Now I have no choice but to," Quatre complains.
"Great, I'll send her in," his sister quickly quips as she exits.
Quatre drops his head in shame. 'Why does she always do things like this?' The door opens and Quatre rises to greet his guest and when she clears the door his heart and mind stop all together in utter and complete shock.
"Hi, Quatre. It has been a long time. I think even before my grandfather died. How have you been." The blonde girl nervously begins.
Quatre still paralyzed faintly mutters, "I've been good."
The girl shuffles her feet nervously and grabs her elbows nervously, "Quatre, you are making me nervous. Please sit down and talk to your old friend, Sylvia."
At the sound of her name Quatre snaps out of his trance and smiles at his long lost acquaintance. He sets out from behind his desk and walks toward her opening his arms, "Sylvia Noventa, how are you!"
"That's the sweet Quatre I remember!" she gleams as she jumps into his arms for a friendly hug.
After the embrace he directs her to the chair and begins the typical small talk.
"Wow Sylvia, you have grown up to be quite a pretty girl since the last time I saw you." Quatre begins.
"Oh come on Quatre," Sylvia giggles, "I'm only a year behind you. Besides you have grown up to be quite handsome man yourself."
Quatre blushes while passing it off saying, "Well I guess growing up in these times will do that."
Sylvia smiles at him, but quickly trails off as his words settle in.
"That reminds me," Quatre sadly remembers why she is here, "My sister said you have hit some tough times."
"Yes, let me explain from the beginning, but please let me make some tea first. She goes over the counter and begins pouring tea. "Tell me about what is going on with you first," Sylvia requests.
"Well, as you probably know since my father's passing I have taken over and am putting most of this company's energy into rebuilding what was lost in AC195. I also stay actively involved in supporting Ms. Darlian and the Preventers financially." Quatre explains.
"Those are quite some interesting friends," Sylvia sweetly adds as she puts the tea down for each to drink. 'You have no idea,' Quatre thinks.
"Well, on to your story," Quatre requests.
"Okay, it all started with my grandfather's death, which was a shock to everybody. Especially considering the circumstances." Sylvia begun.
Quatre hid his regretful thoughts about that tragic day the Gundams mistakenly wiped out a shuttle containing important political peace advocates, most importantly Marshall Noventa, her grandfather. Though Quatre wasn't the direct cause, he still felt guilt over that day.
"Soon after, a boy by the name of Heero Yuy came to my mansion and requested I kill him to atone for his mistake. He was the pilot of Gundam Zero-One, the one that destroyed my grandfather," Sylvia continued. "I was shocked, and told him he was a coward, but I couldn't kill him because it wouldn't fix anything. He left and I never saw him again."
Sylvia reached down and takes a sip of tea. She looks up at Quatre and smile at him for being such a good friend to listen to her.
"Anyway, I talked to my grandmother who had gotten a similar visit. That boy was amazing. Despite one critical mistake he wanted to make things right as best he could. With my grandmother's blessing, I took over my grandfather's scientific research company in order to better humanity like the Gundams obviously were trying and eventually did."
"You did this because of that Gundam pilot?" Quatre interrupted shocked that one encounter with Heero could change someone's life.
"I wanted to be strong like him, and I wanted to honor my grandfather. Things went great for a while, until I ran into a charismatic man named Audric and his budding company, Terranean." Sylvia continued.
Quatre's ears perked up. 'She's involved in this? Oh my goodness, she could be the key were looking for. Of course, the scientific research.'
"Have you heard of them Quatre?" Sylvia asks seeing Quatre's reaction.
"Yes, the Preventers have warned me about doing business with them due to some back handed ethics they have been committing." Quatre explains but not in full truth.
"Well, I'm their latest victim. After working for the better part of this year with them, they've completely pulled out of our contract and left me hanging and in a precarious financial situation." Sylvia groaned.
"What were they doing and why did they leave," Quatre interrogates, "Did they tell you why?"
Sylvia looks at the floor, "They never told me what they were doing with the research equipment, materials, and spaces I was loaning them use. It had something to do with an explosion's pulse frequency. Once they had most of the research done, they left to do it on their own for secrecy and to cut the costs of using my services."
"Sylvia, I will help you out of your financial troubles on one condition," Quatre maneuvers.
"Go ahead," Sylvia speaks knowing good old Quatre won't put her into a bad situation. 'He has always been so sweet to me,' she muses.
"I would like you to come with me to Preventers headquarters and see if you can help them figure out some strange problems they have been having with Terranean." Quatre asks firmly.
"It's a date!" Sylvia jokes getting Quatre to blush.
---Meanwhile (SM - Andrew's Arcade)---
The girls are sitting around the table, not so quietly enjoying their conversation.
"I love Saturdays, you get to sleep in and then do what you want the whole day," Usagi yelps in glee.
"It is definitely nice to relax, but do we have anything planned?" Makoto brings up.
"Not really, we've been so busy messing around with the Verse and school, I don't think we've even considered having free time," Rei explains.
The girls muse over the comment quietly, and then bust out giggling together at the sudden silence. A boy walks in the door heads straight to the counter, talks to Andrew, which in turn points over to their table. Minako spots Andrew pointing and looks to see what the deal is. She sees the boy and freezes. The girls, save Ami enveloped in her book, notice Minako freeze and quickly go to her side and ask what happened. Minako silently points to the smaller boy headed their way. They all gasp. The boy looks at the girls and smiles, but begins looking at each, but passing over from one side to the other as if searching from someone.
Ami notices the rare sudden silence and looks up to see them all staring behind her in awe. She stands up and turns around.
The boy all of a sudden catches a blue-haired girl stand up in front of the group of girls with her back turned. Almost like magic, she wistfully turns around to meet his gaze. His heart beats a million times in that second. He musters all the strength he has to exclaim the name of the person he came to see, "Ami!"
Ami turns around and the face looking back at her catches her completely off guard. She stands there for a moment, tears of happiness welling up in her eyes, but she is immobile until the boy yells, "Ami!"
"Ryo!" Ami returns joyously as she jumps out of the booth, nailing the unsuspecting Minako who literally flies into the next booth. Ami dashes into the awaiting arms of her long missing boyfriend.
After the firm embrace, Ryo walks Ami back to the table as they exchange pleasantries. The girls, still speechless, stand and watch Ami with a bigger smile than the one she had put on the day before. They snap out of it as Minako, all busted up, moans in the next booth. They go and help her up.
"Please warn me when you are going to do that again, huh, Ami," Minako moans.
"Sorry Minako, it was just I was so surprised to see Ryo again," Ami reasons.
And thus the group begins it expected barrage of questions to Ryo, who stands in awe.
Ryo quickly quiets them down saying, "Yes, it is good I'm back, but not for the reason you may think. I've had another vision."
Silence hits him like a brick wall as the girls remember what happened last time he had his visions.
"Let me explain," Ryo begins, "My vision showed all of you enjoying yourselves and all of a sudden a huge, metal looking monster attacked and all of you became trapped. Soon after, another huge metal monster came with wings like and angel and saved you all. It and you went into a fighting stance as I could see hordes of those monsters crossing the terrain."
Ryo continues, "Like my visions usually go, I never see the outcome, but this looks like a different battle than you are all used to."
"Wow Ryo, that is amazing," Rei adds.
"Well, I think we should enjoy Ryo's company before all this hits, any ideas?" Ami thinks aloud.
"Picnic!" Usagi squeals to the cheers of the rest of the group, "I know the perfect spot just outside the east side of the city."
The group sets off making preparations for the joyous afternoon before the serious times come again.
---Meanwhile (SM - Heero and Trowa's Apartment)---
"Well, I'm glad we finally have some time to investigate the crash site and figure out what Vanguard is doing out here," Trowa states.
"Yes, I will set out right after I get the possible crash area, and I will search that area thoroughly, while you wait nearby in HeavyArms in case your assistance become necessary." Heero briefs.
"Then, let us go," Trowa returns.
The two set out in their respective directions and Heero quickly makes it to the east side of the city and begins a thorough search of the area. He spends nearly an hour pacing a forest fifteen minutes outside of the city until he finds something familiar to him. He leans over and notices jet burns on the ground, but covered up. They are around her somewhere. All of a sudden he hears a beam rifle fire and screams shriek from that direction, Heero races that way while stating on the communication device, "I'll need you HeavyArms."
"Roger that," Trowa darkly mutters back.
---Meanwhile (SM - The picnic)--- The five girls and Ryo all enjoy catching up on events in their life and of course scout's life.
"Yeah, I kept having visions when you all would be going into battle, but I knew your resiliency and knew you would win. So, I didn't even bother contacting you out of the ordinary." Ryo explains.
"And sure enough, we keep winning!" Usagi cheers.
"What brought you back this time then Ryo?" Ami asks looking deeply into his eyes hoping he would say her.
"Well, the feeling I got from this vision was a lot worse than my usual vision of you guys. It also so happened that my father was coming back here for some business for a while so I jumped at the chance to see you again also Ami," Ryo uneasily states.
Ami blushes and wraps her arm around his and Ryo smiles sweetly. The rest of the girls, jealous, quickly move on asking more questions about Ryo's arrival. Then, a man walks out of the forest seemingly out of nowhere.
"Excuse me folks, this is government grounds. You are too close to a secret facility and therefore cannot be here. I request that you leave immediately or we will remove you ourselves," the man in an oddly military suit with a V-insignia on his chest pocket orders.
"We come here all the time. We have as much right to be here as you do," Makoto fires back at the threat.
"I did warn you," the man darkly remarks heading back into the forest.
"What in the world was that all about," wonders Rei.
All of a sudden machinery noises are heard and the group gasps as a 50 foot black robot rises out of the forest. "Leave immediately or face the consequences!" the man's voice yells out.
The group is frozen at the sight. "Too slow!" the man yells as he raises a giant gun attached to the robot's left arm. The group scatters away from the picnic blanket as he fires into the blanket vaporizing it. The girl scream and Rei yells out after them, "Everybody transform!"
The girls transform in Mercury, Venus, Mars, Moon, and Jupiter.
The pilot thinks to himself, 'What in the hell did they do?'
"Supreme Thunder," Jupiter calls out raising bolts to strike the mid section of the machine. The bolts strike it, but don't seem to do anything.
"Bothersome," the pilot mutters as he fires another shot off the hip. Misses Jupiter by quite a distance but hits a tree near when Mercury and Ryo were standing. Ryo jumps on top of Mercury to shield her from the shockwave. The shockwave from the blast hit him and send him flying about 10 feet and lands rough.
"Ryo!" Mercury cries as she sees Ryo hit hard, but recover quickly.
"I'm okay, Mercury, but," Ryo's eyes fill with fear as he notices something behind Ami, "Behind you!"
The tree that got stuck behind Ami is now falling right towards her. Mercury shrieks waiting the impending blow, Ryo helpless to do anything. Out of nowhere, Heero jumps out of the brush, scoops up Mercury, and whisks her out of danger.
"It's you," Mercury speaks softly. Heero glances at her not noticing the resemblance.
"I'm here," a familiar voice to Mercury barks over a radio Heero had with him.
"You are all safe now," Heero states to the group as the ground begins to shake.
"What is going on?" Mars demands.
With that another giant robot, even more menacing than the black one emerges. The red robot's eyes glow green.
"You have no honor attacking innocent civilians. Therefore, I have no reason to let you live," the voice over the radio sinisterly threatens.
The black suit hops backwards nervously and raises its rifle as the red suit's left arm unleashes a giant army knife. The red machine lunges at the black one and slices it in half diagonally, from the black's left to right side, across the midsection. Using the momentum, it continues the spin and swings around once more lopping off the head of the black machine. Not satisfied, continues once more around and with all the momentum of the spin plunges the knife through the midsection's cockpit. The suit stays suspended by the knife shortly, until HeavyArms tears the knife free by cutting from the cockpit to its left waist and out the left side of the black suit. The black suit falls backwards out of the girls view and multiple small explosions are heard flowed by a consider boom. The red suit turns towards the girl's position and stands still. The chest cavity opens up to reveal Trowa standing on the entrance.
'Who are these guys' Jupiter ponders horrified and confused.
Chapter 8: The Coming War
A young man arrives in downtown Tokyo via train.
"It has been quite some time since I've been here," the young boy says to himself. "I hope it isn't to hard to find them. I also hope that she is happy to see me."
He quietly walks down the street toward the near north side of Tokyo getting more excited and anxious as he goes.
'I've got to remember why I am here though,' the boy soberly thinks to himself, 'It may be happy news that I'm back for a while, but the news I bring isn't.'
---Meanwhile (GW - Winner Corporation Headquarters)---
Quatre sits at his desk looking at the paperwork for the week. 'Hmm, more shipments headed to earth than usual. I guess that is what summer will do for the northern hemisphere. It is amazing how much you miss when you are actually involved in world events.' Quatre smiles to himself and sits there enjoying the moment of peace. 'Heero, Trowa, I hope you guys are having a little time to relax yourselves.'
"Quatre!" a girlish voice bellows over the speaker, "Can I come in for a second?"
Quatre smiles again thinking of his well-intended sister being obnoxious again, "Sure, come on in."
The door opens and his older sister walks in. "Are you busy brother?"
"Actually, I'm enjoying a little lull. What is on your mind?" Quatre sweetly replies.
"I'm sorry to do this behind your back, but an old friend of ours is having some tough times and I told her you would set aside some time and catch up." Quatre's sister musters with an anxious look.
"A her? Why? And I guess more importantly when? You know how busy my schedule is," Quatre reminds her somewhat firmly.
"Well she is right outside the door now, so you said there was a lull, so why not." His sister pokes.
"Outside the door? How could you, sister? How could you be this reckless? Now I have no choice but to," Quatre complains.
"Great, I'll send her in," his sister quickly quips as she exits.
Quatre drops his head in shame. 'Why does she always do things like this?' The door opens and Quatre rises to greet his guest and when she clears the door his heart and mind stop all together in utter and complete shock.
"Hi, Quatre. It has been a long time. I think even before my grandfather died. How have you been." The blonde girl nervously begins.
Quatre still paralyzed faintly mutters, "I've been good."
The girl shuffles her feet nervously and grabs her elbows nervously, "Quatre, you are making me nervous. Please sit down and talk to your old friend, Sylvia."
At the sound of her name Quatre snaps out of his trance and smiles at his long lost acquaintance. He sets out from behind his desk and walks toward her opening his arms, "Sylvia Noventa, how are you!"
"That's the sweet Quatre I remember!" she gleams as she jumps into his arms for a friendly hug.
After the embrace he directs her to the chair and begins the typical small talk.
"Wow Sylvia, you have grown up to be quite a pretty girl since the last time I saw you." Quatre begins.
"Oh come on Quatre," Sylvia giggles, "I'm only a year behind you. Besides you have grown up to be quite handsome man yourself."
Quatre blushes while passing it off saying, "Well I guess growing up in these times will do that."
Sylvia smiles at him, but quickly trails off as his words settle in.
"That reminds me," Quatre sadly remembers why she is here, "My sister said you have hit some tough times."
"Yes, let me explain from the beginning, but please let me make some tea first. She goes over the counter and begins pouring tea. "Tell me about what is going on with you first," Sylvia requests.
"Well, as you probably know since my father's passing I have taken over and am putting most of this company's energy into rebuilding what was lost in AC195. I also stay actively involved in supporting Ms. Darlian and the Preventers financially." Quatre explains.
"Those are quite some interesting friends," Sylvia sweetly adds as she puts the tea down for each to drink. 'You have no idea,' Quatre thinks.
"Well, on to your story," Quatre requests.
"Okay, it all started with my grandfather's death, which was a shock to everybody. Especially considering the circumstances." Sylvia begun.
Quatre hid his regretful thoughts about that tragic day the Gundams mistakenly wiped out a shuttle containing important political peace advocates, most importantly Marshall Noventa, her grandfather. Though Quatre wasn't the direct cause, he still felt guilt over that day.
"Soon after, a boy by the name of Heero Yuy came to my mansion and requested I kill him to atone for his mistake. He was the pilot of Gundam Zero-One, the one that destroyed my grandfather," Sylvia continued. "I was shocked, and told him he was a coward, but I couldn't kill him because it wouldn't fix anything. He left and I never saw him again."
Sylvia reached down and takes a sip of tea. She looks up at Quatre and smile at him for being such a good friend to listen to her.
"Anyway, I talked to my grandmother who had gotten a similar visit. That boy was amazing. Despite one critical mistake he wanted to make things right as best he could. With my grandmother's blessing, I took over my grandfather's scientific research company in order to better humanity like the Gundams obviously were trying and eventually did."
"You did this because of that Gundam pilot?" Quatre interrupted shocked that one encounter with Heero could change someone's life.
"I wanted to be strong like him, and I wanted to honor my grandfather. Things went great for a while, until I ran into a charismatic man named Audric and his budding company, Terranean." Sylvia continued.
Quatre's ears perked up. 'She's involved in this? Oh my goodness, she could be the key were looking for. Of course, the scientific research.'
"Have you heard of them Quatre?" Sylvia asks seeing Quatre's reaction.
"Yes, the Preventers have warned me about doing business with them due to some back handed ethics they have been committing." Quatre explains but not in full truth.
"Well, I'm their latest victim. After working for the better part of this year with them, they've completely pulled out of our contract and left me hanging and in a precarious financial situation." Sylvia groaned.
"What were they doing and why did they leave," Quatre interrogates, "Did they tell you why?"
Sylvia looks at the floor, "They never told me what they were doing with the research equipment, materials, and spaces I was loaning them use. It had something to do with an explosion's pulse frequency. Once they had most of the research done, they left to do it on their own for secrecy and to cut the costs of using my services."
"Sylvia, I will help you out of your financial troubles on one condition," Quatre maneuvers.
"Go ahead," Sylvia speaks knowing good old Quatre won't put her into a bad situation. 'He has always been so sweet to me,' she muses.
"I would like you to come with me to Preventers headquarters and see if you can help them figure out some strange problems they have been having with Terranean." Quatre asks firmly.
"It's a date!" Sylvia jokes getting Quatre to blush.
---Meanwhile (SM - Andrew's Arcade)---
The girls are sitting around the table, not so quietly enjoying their conversation.
"I love Saturdays, you get to sleep in and then do what you want the whole day," Usagi yelps in glee.
"It is definitely nice to relax, but do we have anything planned?" Makoto brings up.
"Not really, we've been so busy messing around with the Verse and school, I don't think we've even considered having free time," Rei explains.
The girls muse over the comment quietly, and then bust out giggling together at the sudden silence. A boy walks in the door heads straight to the counter, talks to Andrew, which in turn points over to their table. Minako spots Andrew pointing and looks to see what the deal is. She sees the boy and freezes. The girls, save Ami enveloped in her book, notice Minako freeze and quickly go to her side and ask what happened. Minako silently points to the smaller boy headed their way. They all gasp. The boy looks at the girls and smiles, but begins looking at each, but passing over from one side to the other as if searching from someone.
Ami notices the rare sudden silence and looks up to see them all staring behind her in awe. She stands up and turns around.
The boy all of a sudden catches a blue-haired girl stand up in front of the group of girls with her back turned. Almost like magic, she wistfully turns around to meet his gaze. His heart beats a million times in that second. He musters all the strength he has to exclaim the name of the person he came to see, "Ami!"
Ami turns around and the face looking back at her catches her completely off guard. She stands there for a moment, tears of happiness welling up in her eyes, but she is immobile until the boy yells, "Ami!"
"Ryo!" Ami returns joyously as she jumps out of the booth, nailing the unsuspecting Minako who literally flies into the next booth. Ami dashes into the awaiting arms of her long missing boyfriend.
After the firm embrace, Ryo walks Ami back to the table as they exchange pleasantries. The girls, still speechless, stand and watch Ami with a bigger smile than the one she had put on the day before. They snap out of it as Minako, all busted up, moans in the next booth. They go and help her up.
"Please warn me when you are going to do that again, huh, Ami," Minako moans.
"Sorry Minako, it was just I was so surprised to see Ryo again," Ami reasons.
And thus the group begins it expected barrage of questions to Ryo, who stands in awe.
Ryo quickly quiets them down saying, "Yes, it is good I'm back, but not for the reason you may think. I've had another vision."
Silence hits him like a brick wall as the girls remember what happened last time he had his visions.
"Let me explain," Ryo begins, "My vision showed all of you enjoying yourselves and all of a sudden a huge, metal looking monster attacked and all of you became trapped. Soon after, another huge metal monster came with wings like and angel and saved you all. It and you went into a fighting stance as I could see hordes of those monsters crossing the terrain."
Ryo continues, "Like my visions usually go, I never see the outcome, but this looks like a different battle than you are all used to."
"Wow Ryo, that is amazing," Rei adds.
"Well, I think we should enjoy Ryo's company before all this hits, any ideas?" Ami thinks aloud.
"Picnic!" Usagi squeals to the cheers of the rest of the group, "I know the perfect spot just outside the east side of the city."
The group sets off making preparations for the joyous afternoon before the serious times come again.
---Meanwhile (SM - Heero and Trowa's Apartment)---
"Well, I'm glad we finally have some time to investigate the crash site and figure out what Vanguard is doing out here," Trowa states.
"Yes, I will set out right after I get the possible crash area, and I will search that area thoroughly, while you wait nearby in HeavyArms in case your assistance become necessary." Heero briefs.
"Then, let us go," Trowa returns.
The two set out in their respective directions and Heero quickly makes it to the east side of the city and begins a thorough search of the area. He spends nearly an hour pacing a forest fifteen minutes outside of the city until he finds something familiar to him. He leans over and notices jet burns on the ground, but covered up. They are around her somewhere. All of a sudden he hears a beam rifle fire and screams shriek from that direction, Heero races that way while stating on the communication device, "I'll need you HeavyArms."
"Roger that," Trowa darkly mutters back.
---Meanwhile (SM - The picnic)--- The five girls and Ryo all enjoy catching up on events in their life and of course scout's life.
"Yeah, I kept having visions when you all would be going into battle, but I knew your resiliency and knew you would win. So, I didn't even bother contacting you out of the ordinary." Ryo explains.
"And sure enough, we keep winning!" Usagi cheers.
"What brought you back this time then Ryo?" Ami asks looking deeply into his eyes hoping he would say her.
"Well, the feeling I got from this vision was a lot worse than my usual vision of you guys. It also so happened that my father was coming back here for some business for a while so I jumped at the chance to see you again also Ami," Ryo uneasily states.
Ami blushes and wraps her arm around his and Ryo smiles sweetly. The rest of the girls, jealous, quickly move on asking more questions about Ryo's arrival. Then, a man walks out of the forest seemingly out of nowhere.
"Excuse me folks, this is government grounds. You are too close to a secret facility and therefore cannot be here. I request that you leave immediately or we will remove you ourselves," the man in an oddly military suit with a V-insignia on his chest pocket orders.
"We come here all the time. We have as much right to be here as you do," Makoto fires back at the threat.
"I did warn you," the man darkly remarks heading back into the forest.
"What in the world was that all about," wonders Rei.
All of a sudden machinery noises are heard and the group gasps as a 50 foot black robot rises out of the forest. "Leave immediately or face the consequences!" the man's voice yells out.
The group is frozen at the sight. "Too slow!" the man yells as he raises a giant gun attached to the robot's left arm. The group scatters away from the picnic blanket as he fires into the blanket vaporizing it. The girl scream and Rei yells out after them, "Everybody transform!"
The girls transform in Mercury, Venus, Mars, Moon, and Jupiter.
The pilot thinks to himself, 'What in the hell did they do?'
"Supreme Thunder," Jupiter calls out raising bolts to strike the mid section of the machine. The bolts strike it, but don't seem to do anything.
"Bothersome," the pilot mutters as he fires another shot off the hip. Misses Jupiter by quite a distance but hits a tree near when Mercury and Ryo were standing. Ryo jumps on top of Mercury to shield her from the shockwave. The shockwave from the blast hit him and send him flying about 10 feet and lands rough.
"Ryo!" Mercury cries as she sees Ryo hit hard, but recover quickly.
"I'm okay, Mercury, but," Ryo's eyes fill with fear as he notices something behind Ami, "Behind you!"
The tree that got stuck behind Ami is now falling right towards her. Mercury shrieks waiting the impending blow, Ryo helpless to do anything. Out of nowhere, Heero jumps out of the brush, scoops up Mercury, and whisks her out of danger.
"It's you," Mercury speaks softly. Heero glances at her not noticing the resemblance.
"I'm here," a familiar voice to Mercury barks over a radio Heero had with him.
"You are all safe now," Heero states to the group as the ground begins to shake.
"What is going on?" Mars demands.
With that another giant robot, even more menacing than the black one emerges. The red robot's eyes glow green.
"You have no honor attacking innocent civilians. Therefore, I have no reason to let you live," the voice over the radio sinisterly threatens.
The black suit hops backwards nervously and raises its rifle as the red suit's left arm unleashes a giant army knife. The red machine lunges at the black one and slices it in half diagonally, from the black's left to right side, across the midsection. Using the momentum, it continues the spin and swings around once more lopping off the head of the black machine. Not satisfied, continues once more around and with all the momentum of the spin plunges the knife through the midsection's cockpit. The suit stays suspended by the knife shortly, until HeavyArms tears the knife free by cutting from the cockpit to its left waist and out the left side of the black suit. The black suit falls backwards out of the girls view and multiple small explosions are heard flowed by a consider boom. The red suit turns towards the girl's position and stands still. The chest cavity opens up to reveal Trowa standing on the entrance.
'Who are these guys' Jupiter ponders horrified and confused.