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Chapter 18: Battle of the Worlds

Trowa and Makoto run into the shrine as Heero is directing the conversation with a chalkboard with markings all over it.

"Great of you to join us," Duo gawks, "We have some distressing news."

"Already know," Trowa mutters, "It is really soon as well."

"Then sit," Heero orders, "The layout will be simple. We will be vastly outnumbered, so they will try to surround us. It is our job to prevent this by of our superior strength. You girls keep the youma at bay as best you can. You must stick together to be most effective. All of you together poses a strategic risk if you get surrounded, but if you combine attacks, you should be more effective and can deter any specific maneuver."

"Any guess when this will go down or how?" Minako asks politely.

"It is probably going to start as one of your countless one youma battles with an ambush at the end, or they will just march the suits on the city," Heero states as if it was a normal thing to see giant robots stomping Tokyo flat.

"Well, if it doesn't happen that way, we will need some communication," Hilde adds. Duo doesn't miss a beat and begins handing out small radios set to a specific channel.

"That'll work," Rei concludes. They all test their radios and look back to Heero who is just staring at them oddly.

"Heero?" Ami worries.

'How many times must I kill that girl and her dog?' Heero goes over painfully in his mind, 'Any of these girls could be lost because of a fight I couldn't stop in time. Why do such innocent people have to be involved all the time.' Heero's face becomes extremely serious as he looks into Ami, 'I can't and won't let that happen. My mission is to protect these girls and this world at all costs.'

"Mission Accepted!" Heero speaks while only Duo and Trowa know what is going on.

"What mission?" Makoto inquires. Trowa lays his hand on her shoulder and shakes his head.

"You will know in due time," Trowa comforts, "You do not want to know now or you may change your natural reactions, leave it at that." All the girls nod in return.

Usagi stands up and Heero notices his time has passed.

"Once again girls, the world is in peril and it is our duty to protect it," she begins, "With the help of our unlikely allies I'm certain love and justice will prevail once again. Remember to trust in each other no matter how bad it gets. Together we have and will accomplish anything we set out to do. Now, hopefully for the last time, let us transform together!"

All the girls stand together with very determined looks on their faces. While raising their hand with similar objects in each, they transform in a brilliant array. The three boys and one girl look on in amazement at how confident and purposeful the scouts look.

"We are ready, when do we begin?" Moon beams proudly. As if she had planned in advance, smoke begins rising from the north edge of town. The entire group gazes out the entrance staring at the smoke.

Trowa steps forward to the door, "And so it begins."

---Shortly thereafter (SM - North side of town)---

A eight foot dragon youma roars loudly as it charges energy in its mouth and fires it into a nearby empty building flattening it. Afterwards, it stands tall while rearing its head skyward and roars terrifyingly.

"We know your diabolical plans now," Moon starts as the nine scouts arrive on scene, "In the name of the Moon, we shall punish you. We will wipe you and your allies off this planet once and for all."

The dragon looks fiercely at the group. Its neck gets fluffs out as it taunts the scouts by roaring challengingly. The scouts ready to attack when it hops onto a nearby building and begins roaring skyward again. Before the scouts know it five beams rain down on their area as black objects begin filling the sky to their south. The shots weren't aimed for them, but it leveled the area trapping them in the immediate area. Four Taurus land on top of the rubble of the building and point their guns at them.

"Where are you friends little girls," one taunts, "Or did you come to fight by yourselves." Before the sound fades from hearing a flash is seen and the far left Taurus is gored in the chest by a beam sword from a Leo.

"A Leo with cloaking abilities?" another gasps as DeathScythe ominously appears behind the remaining three and gleams his weapon already in hand. The pilots scream their last breath as DeathScythe slices through each midsection with ease with one defining swipe. The Leo, sporting black spots from salvaging Taurus, reaches down and clears the rubble so the scouts can move. As she does that, youma start piling over the lowered hill out of nowhere and the Leo jumps backward to avoid losing herself in the stampede. Without missing a beat the scouts begin teaming up and firing two and three strike combos into the massing youma.

If that wasn't enough the large Taurus army begins landing and attacking the two suits. As they begin dodging and evading the attacks, a shower of bullets rains down on the front lines and the enemy fall and explode. HeavyArms breaks its grip from Wing Zero in jet form and falls right on top of the spot he cleared and unloads his missiles into the advancing foes.

"Duo, Hilde," Heero barks over the radio, "They are massing from the south, while the youma are appearing from the northwest. Trowa will protect the girls while they fend off the youma. Duo and I will take the advancing armies head on while Hilde acts as artillery."

Hilde reaches down to one of the downed Taurus and removes his beam rifle and sets it to full power, "Roger Heero."

Wing Zero transforms and falls to the ground as it fires the buster rifle through numerous suits and buildings. Duo flies up racing his scythe through various suits as he reaches Zero's position. The two begin fighting fiercely as they chew through suit after suit.

"Why are you all fighting?" Duo yells over the mass radio

"We want to live in a perfect world," one foolishly proclaims, "Where we don't have to be worried about combat every couple years."

"So, you fight foolishly to accomplish this?" Hilde screams.

"It is the only thing I can do to make sure my future family can live in peace," the man preaches. He flies his Taurus up high and dives at the Leo, "This is for my family's future."

A blinding shot flashes and envelops the suit. The suit explodes and the remains slump to the ground. The Leo stands up straight, "You won't have a family if you are that fanatical."

A couple suits slide past Wing Zero and charge HeavyArms. He in turn raises his guns and fires them quickly. Two suits fly high to avoid, while the third gets caught and explodes. The two race toward the occupied girls position. HeavyArms jumps into the air and in one beautiful motion unsheathes the army knife and in a full rotation slices both suits in half diagonally.

"The suits are repeatedly attacking the girls," Trowa informs.

We are fine, just watch our backs," Jupiter calls back, "The youma actually aren't attacking that fiercely."

'I wonder why,' Heero ponders as a nearby building, the one with the dragon, begins to shudder. The battle halts momentarily as the dragon roars once again as two figures emerge next to it.

"Quite a view, wouldn't you say Audric," a shrouded man comments.

"I would say quite so, Ubel," Audric returns.

The scouts gasp as Moon pipes up, "Ubel? How is that possible? You were destroyed right in front of us."

"Foolish girls, did you think that I would be defeated so easily," Ubel gloats, "I wanted to slow things down and analyze the situation further so I went on hiatus until an opportunity came."

"Which it did perfectly," Audric states now his term to gloat.

"Now prepare yourselves, we will conquer you together and be rid of our enemies once and for all!" Ubel yells.

Wing Zero adjusts its position and raises it rifle toward the upper half of the building.

"Ahh yes, Wing Zero," Audric arrogantly beams, "We knew you would be the first to foil our plans. Do you not think we would have a surprise to foil the "Perfect Soldier" once and for all?"

"You can't do anything to stop me, Audric," Heero proposes.

Audric begins to cackle loudly and evilly. Ubel smiles. "This will be your undoing Zero, listen to my words for they will ring through your mind for the rest of your existence as your defeaters! Project: Star-Breaker, commence!"

A sea of explosions rattle the entire area behind the group to the north and northeast. Suits numbering four times what they were fighting emerge from the surging explosions. As the explosions subside one lone explosion ignites in front of the new army. A large blue and black suit boldly struts out, not looking like any suit to date. It has black horns extending from the ominous blue helmet. The body is that of a medieval knight with a dark blue cloak completing the ensemble. The suit reaches towards its shoulder and reveals a curved serrated beam sword.

A voice laughs loudly. "I am Triage, main general to Vanguard," the radio booms, "The beast standing before you is the next generation mobile suit. I will use it to defeat all you Gundams."

"No mobile suit has been able to stand up to the Gundams since Epyon was destroyed," Duo informs angrily.

"Well this is different," Triage continues to cackle, "You haven't fought another Gundam since Zero-Six."

"A what?" Hilde gasps.

"Audric in his travels acquired a small amount of Gundanium for a specific use," Triage tells sternly, "As the leader of his army, I knew to create a superior mobile suit to combat you old foes. Introducing for the first time on the battlefield, Gundam Zero-Seven, or as I affectionately call him, Golbez."

"Names mean nothing," Heero mutters, "It will end up scrap metal like the rest of your organization."

"You impudent fool," Triage angrily yells, "Do not underestimate my power and Audric's wisdom. Together we have created the perfect organization and now the perfect war machine."

"Then, let us see it," Wing Zero returns as he rips out his beam sword and lunges at Golbez. The battle recommences with the new forces engaging the desperate HeavyArms. The scouts break out of the shock of literally watching a full-blown battalion appear from nowhere. The youma slow even further as the numbers of their allies seemingly shocking them too.

"I'm stuck Trowa," Duo barks over the radio.

"I'm sorry, I am too Trowa," Hilde adds as she and Duo are tied up with the fiercely fighting first group. She fires the rifle into one that dodged Duo's swipe. She turns back to see HeavyArms step up to the dormant army. Off to his right Wing Zero and Golbez are exchanging one blow after another, pretty evenly matched. HeavyArms stops and assesses the situation.

"Don't you even think it, Trowa!" Michiru screams at the pondering suit defending them.

"Yes, go ahead and self-destruct, so you can save the girls right?" a female pilot edges on, "But, I doubt it would make more than a dent in this force."

A light grunt is heard over the intercom as in flash, HeavyArms lunges forward, fires his gatling gun left, shoulder vulcans right, and swipes the army knife multiple times in forward. Twelve suits crumble and explode in a heartbeat. "Do not take me so lightly," Trowa threatens.

The female voice pipes up audibly shaken, "You cannot be good enough to take us all." A few Taurus jump at HeavyArms. He downs two as a third, fourth, and fifth grapple with the suit. HeavyArms tosses one away which disables at the impact with the ground. The other two begin tugging on the arm without the gun. Out of the middle of the army a lone Taurus jumps out a charges its rifle up only to land directly in front of HeavyArms pointing the rifle at its head.

"Die, Gundam," a male voice emits. A flash is seen and the suit lurches backward and a spiral formation of explosions follow as the attacker become evident, Saturn.

"The girls can handle the slow youma," Saturn steps forward, "I can assist here, I can destroy a planet remember."

"Be careful, Hotaru," Trowa warns as she screams.

"Death Ribbon Revolution!" she screams and two Taurus tumble backwards and explode.

You are no match for me Yuy," Triage argues over the radio, "You will not win."

"Stop talking," Heero warns as he strikes the curved sword causing it to shudder and he fires the shoulder vulcans into the opposing suits midsection. Golbez stumbles but opens its shoulder hatch revealing a new beam vulcan which fires a brilliant multicolored barrage into Zero which stumbles from the new sensation.

"I've got plenty more surprises, Zero," Triage taunts as Zero stands tall once again. The two suits begin fencing once again in a lightning quick manner.

The battle rages on with HeavyArms and Saturn losing the most ground. DeathScythe and Leo stand their ground and are removing their opponents slowly, but are still making progress. Wing Zero and Golbez are going blow for blow with neither gaining any ground. The scouts fight boldly as the youma are beginning to increase ferocity.

"It appears that the invincible Gundams are losing!" Audric pokes.

"We aren't losing anything," Duo belts out. Just as he yells that HeavyArms fires into three suits eliminating them, but multiple clicks are heard as his main weapon runs out of ammunition.

"Haha, the main front will now advance and overtake Zero-Three and the girls," Ubel points out, "Once they are out of the way you have no option but to surrender or lose your lives. We will win once and for all!"

"Not so fast, Ubel," a male voice rings out over the communication circuit, "I've been watching the fight thus far and now is the best time to start managing it."

"Ryo!" Mercury cries, "Where have you been? I have been so worried."

"Sorry Mercury," Ryo apologizes, "I had to reevaluate our relationship because of feelings I was experiencing since Heero showed up. We will talk later, but first Heero you need to break away and take Duo's spot. Duo, you assist Trowa while Hilde starts firing into the youma. That should open up Uranus and Neptune to start fighting alongside Heero and take some load."

"Excellent," Heero mutters as he fake a shoulder slice and drives the beam sword into Golbez's left foot pinning it in place.

"What the hell?" Triage babbles as Zero races away to relieve Duo. DeathScythe slices through two more suits, and fires his wrist shot into a third as he and Leo race to the girl's side. Hilde begins firing into the youma, which drop like flies in the overkill. DeathScythe and HeavyArms stand shoulder to shoulder and commence firing their vulcans together in a sweeping motion dropping fifteen suits in one volley. Duo does a quick scan and sighs that more than a hundred are left.

The battle quickly swings back into the defenders favor as Ryo's strategy works like a charm. Uranus and Neptune actually are exceptionally effective in knocking out suits alongside Zero, which is using its rifle as if the world depended on the number of shots it takes. It is a slow go for Saturn, HeavyArms and DeathScythe who keep the forces at bay, but not very effectively and the efficiency is decreasing with time. The remaining scouts are fighting for their lives as the youma launch a full-blown offensive in order to counteract Leo's destructive positioning. Golbez remains pinned, but is slowly freeing itself. Audric and Ubel remain on the building top watching the battle rage.

"Haha, finally," Triage booms, "Now to break the back of this little operation you pesky kids." Golbez heaves the beam sword out of its foot leaving a nasty hole and tosses it away. It quickly turns its attention to its right and transforms its arm quickly to a large, round cannon (like MegaMan) and fires a huge beam.

"Hilde, watch out!" Duo yells as he throws DeathScythe in the path of the blast. The blast hits DeathScythe true in the back and numerous small explosions rake its back as it falls to the ground.

"Duo!" Hilde screams as she turns and tries to help DeathScythe to its feet. DeathScythe doesn't move.

"DeathScythe is disabled, Hilde," Duo angrily snaps, "I'm out of this fight."

"I'm almost too," Trowa announces as nine suits get within reach and begin firing at close range as he swats them away slowly.

"I'm still tied up," Heero replies, "You got anything Ryo?"

"I'm thinking, I'm thinking," Ryo quickly states.

"It is getting hairy down here too," Jupiter claims as she kicks a youma away and fires a thunderbolt after it.

"All positions are getting overrun," Ryo yelps, "We need a miracle."

"Screw that, I'll kill you Triage!" Hilde screams as she fires multiple shots towards Golbez who dodges leaving three Taurus in its path. Two narrowly escape the shots, while the third takes one in the chest and falls backwards and explodes. Smoke rises from the remain as another explosion happens. And then it explodes a third time. One of the evading Taurus comes to the suit's remains as a fourth explosion rings out.

"What is going on?" the pilot wonders. The suit turns its back to the fight to closer inspect the fallen comrade when he himself heaves over and explodes. The smoke clears to reveal a green trident sticking out of a haze.

"I think it is time I even this fight!" Wufei yells.