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FIRST BLOOD
The next day, in the wilderness clearing, the group of gundam fighters gathered as the King of Hearts, Domon Kasshu again stood in the role of instructor. He had directed all the fighters to the clearing to continue in the instruction of the ultimate technique of the School of the Undefeated of the East.
This time, he had the rest of the fighters join him and the rest of the Shuffle Alliance as he gave instruction.
"Okay everybody. Now I want you all to focus your fighter's spirits again and aim it at the ground in front of you."
Argo looked at him and inquired, "Is this similar to my technique, the Gaia Crusher?"
"Similar in that we'll be focusing energy to the ground. But that's where the similarity ends." At those words Domon continued, "We will be working on controlling the vast energy unleashed by Sekiha Tenkyouken by attacking the ground at various degrees of concentration."
"How do we do that?" Allenby wanted to know.
Domon glanced over at her and replied, "By focusing your fighter's spirit into your fists, the energy generated by that spirit will come forth." He then closed his eyes and concentrated as he reached for the serene state of mind that the greatest power of the true fighter's spirit came from. The rest of the Shuffles, Kiral, Allenby and Saette all followed suit as they drew from their collective fighter's spirits. And then bright balls of energy appeared at their hands, hovering like small suns.
Domon cried out, "These hands of ours are burning red! Their loud cry tells us to defeat you! SEKIHA TENKYOUKEN!"
"SEKIHA TENKYOUKEN!!" every fighter bellowed at the top of their lungs as the balls of energy flew toward the ground with the force of a landing meteor. The ground before them opened up with an ear-splitting din and holes of different shapes and sizes appeared.
Each fighter opened his or her eyes to survey the havoc wrought by the ultimate technique. They were amazed by the variation of the severity of the attacks, some were more extreme than others. The expressions on their faces were ranging from amazement to disappointment on the sharp features on the Queen of Spades.
"Aw, man. I thought mine would be bigger, I really concentrated," Chibodee groused as he examined the crater made by his fighter's spirit.
Domon spoke laconically, "The size isn't important. This was an exercise on learning control. Controlling the attack is far more valuable."
"So, Domon we are to control the energy of the attack by controlling the spirit?" George asked.
The King of Hearts nodded. "The serenity of your peace of mind should allow you to control the attack and the amount of energy in your attacks."
All the fighters stood silently digesting the directions.
Meanwhile, in the busy metropolis of Sapporo in Neo Japan, it was business as usual, with life going on for an average day. The streets were teeming with a stream of humanity, each individual attending to the daily activities that made up their lives, each life a separate but precious value in its own right. The sky canopied over them was cloudless, a sparkling blue and the sun stood sentinel over as a doting entity, sending warm rays to light the way. Then there appeared in the sky, like a swarm of locusts, an advancing army of mobile suits, wave after wave, darkening the sphere in an artificial and ominous cloud that began raining destruction on the unsuspecting populace. The heat and energy waves they produced pulverized buildings, sending people in sheer terror, in waves down the streets like an overflowing flood. The air was filled with screams of panic as everyone sought cover from the ensuing attack from the revived Dark Army.
Domon and the group of gundam fighters were coming out of the wilderness and were about to enter the Neo Japan gundam hangar when Akino came running out to greet them in alarm. She approached the King of Hearts and grasped his arms in urgency.
"Domon-san, Domon-san, you must come right away! Sapporo is under attack!"
Domon grabbed her arms like a vice and demanded, "Nani? What are you talking about?"
She took a deep breath and continued as the rest of the fighters gathered around to hear. "I was just contacted by Karato-sama and he said that the city is under siege by an army of Dark Gundam mobile suits."
Domon released her and gasped, "You gotta be kidding!"
A military transport then sped over and Prime Minister Karato jumped out and scurried to the group, huffing and puffing. "Domon Kasshu, have you heard? Sapporo's under attack, you and the rest of these fighters must get over there, on the double!"
There was no need for further prompting as Domon called to the other fighters. "Okay everybody to your gundams, it's time to meet the monster again! Are you ready?"
"YEAH!" was the answer.
"Then let's go!" The fighters scattered and snapped their fingers to summon their gundams. The obedient machines immediately appeared from all directions to collect their pilots.
Once inside, each fighter entered the MTS and donned the skintight mobile trace suit in the gundam that would propel the machine to synchronize to the fighter's every move. Once that was done, they all stood at the ready as the King of Hearts sounded the battle cry.
"GO!" and they were off. . . .
In what was the downtown area of Sapporo, the ruins of the business district lay scattered like children's discarded blocks as the eerie Cyclopes used their energy guns to destroy and terrorize. In the safety of his underground bunker, within the Dark Gundam Soujiro watched the proceedings with delight and amusement from his voluminous monitor. He rose and went over to the Dark Gundam control center and faced the captive life force with a snide smile.
"My dear Dr. Mikamura are you enjoying this as much as I am? Your enchanting life force is adding to the invincibility of my lovely Dark Army. How utterly delicious!"
From the inside of her chrome prison, Rain watched the relentless pounding of the defenseless city with horror, as she was powerless to stop it. Her own life, the trilogy of her heart, mind and soul were the unwilling devices that were orchestrating this travesty. Her eyes filled with tears, rivulets that ran down her silvery cheeks and dropped down in wet circles as Soujiro laughed.
"Now there, there. There's no need to shed tears, be happy with me that I've made you a part of this campaign, a first step to victory." He caressed her cheek to wipe the tears away but they came out even harder. . . .
In the southern sky, the Shuffle Alliance with their allies came streaking across, their jets leaving wispy entrails etched over the azure clime. They spread around the parameter of the city taking separate vantage points as they all huddled and devised their battle plan. Domon addressed them crisply.
"Okay everybody, listen up. The best way that we should approach this is to come from all directions. We'll steal a page from Master Asia's strategy when he attacked us in the Guyana Highlands and bombard them with our attacks, they won't know where to defend themselves first." He then passed out the assignments.
"Here's how we'll do it. Chibodee and George you cover the north and northeast, Argo and Sai Saici, you take the east and southeast. Allenby, you and Kiral will cover the south and southwest and Saette and I will come from the west and northwest. Any questions?"
Sai spoke up, "What about using the Sekiha Tenkyouken, Bro? I bet we could wipe 'em out with that."
"No," Domon replied his mind on Master's final words to him about senseless destruction. "We have to use our other attacks, the power generated by the ultimate attack could cause even more destruction and the citizens should be spared at all costs. These are Dark Army mobile suits, they can be defeated with our first line."
"Well, let's split then," Chibodee chimed. "C'mon sir knight, let's get it on," he said to George as the Jack of Diamonds nodded grimly. They took off.
"Well, mister are you ready?" Sai asked as the Black Joker grunted.
"Yeah, let's get to it," he said as they too flew off.
Kiral in Mandela Gundam addressed the pilot of Nobel Gundam. "Miss Allenby, are you ready to go?"
Concerned, Domon asked, "Allenby, are you okay?"
Allenby stood there in the formation, hesitating as she thought of Hans. Her emerald eyes welled up and her mind went back to the recent times, times spent growing close as they each were following the orders of their nations to investigate the falling fragments of the once defeated Dark Gundam. It was a time of great joy as she and Hans found themselves to be kindred in many areas of their lives. She was filled with fear of what could have happened to him and then shaking from the self-indulgent melancholy she was in, she fiercely wiped her tears away and responded in determination.
"You bet I am! Let's go!" And she blasted Nobel Gundam's jets to zoom off as Kiral followed suit.
Domon glanced at Scythe Gundam and he spoke to Saette. "You all set to go?"
Saette returned the look as he nodded. "Just say the word, King of Hearts."
Domon answered in action as Burning Gundam shot off and Scythe Gundam trailed behind.
Down in what was left of the downtown business district of the city of Sapporo the Dark Army was busy obliterating stately skyscrapers and small buildings alike, leaving destruction in random paths along the prefectures, causing mayhem among the masses. It was this scene of chaos that Gundam Maxter and Rose Gundam came upon and got right to work.
Chibodee raised his hands as tightly balled fists and roared, "Burning Machinegun Punch!" as a fiery burst of energy emitted in a stream from Maxter. Engulfing the Dark Army suits and causing them to burst into flames the evil creations exploded, shooting black palls of smoke into the air.
The Queen of Spades let loose a whoop as good as any cowboy that would have done Roy Rogers proud. "WHOOHOOOEEEEE! Take that, Dark Army courtesy of Chibodee Crocket!"
George then added his attack as he bellowed, "Rose Hurricane!" At that summons, the rose shaped missiles whirled in a vortex as they shot at the Dark Army, overwhelming them and blowing them apart.
"Taste the sweet defeat at the hands of my blooms!" the Jack of Diamonds announced with alacrity as the Dark mobile suits disintegrated in the laser maelstrom.
Over at the eastern section of the city, Sai Saici and Argo were using their weapons to level the Dark Army, as the suits were picked off and obliterated by the Ace of Clubs and Black Joker acting in tandem.
"Dragon Fire with Fieron Flags!" Sai cried as he sent forth the two-tiered attack, surrounding the Dark Army suits and immobilizing them, the poles adorned with flaming pennants. He then used Dragon Gundam's serpentine arms to shoot dragon fire at the poles in a burning whirlwind, making the suits erupt into a fiery ball.
Argo's battle cry resounded as he swung the energy ball and chain above in a rapid pinwheel of sheer power. "Graviton Hammer!"
The Bolt Gundam unleashed the projectile and like a hard thrown bowling ball it mowed down the one-eyed monsters like hapless pins, causing them to burst into smoking fragments.
"Way to go, Mister!" Sai crowed as the gargantuan ex-pirate gave the diminutive martial arts expert a thumbs up.
In the southern quadrant, Nobel Gundam and Mandela Gundam both were in the heat of battle, and they were relentless, mowing down Dark Army mobile soldiers left and right with both Kiral's Concealed Blade attack and Allenby's Nobel Hula Hoop attack.
"Excellent job, Miss Allenby," the ex-assassin praised. "It is always a pleasure to have an ally such as your caliber fighting with me."
"Oh Kiral, you're sweet," Allenby quipped. "We just make a great team, that's all." Her attention was wrenched away as another foolhardy Dark Army mobile suit made an attempt at an offensive. "GET LOST YOU SORRY PIECE OF JUNK!" she railed as she let loose the lethal circles of energy that blasted the machine, blowing it to bits.
Kiral laughed at the young woman's fierce tenacity as he joined her in destroying the mobile suits.
And to the west, Burning Gundam and Scythe Gundam manned by Domon and Saette were busy as the other gundams were, blasting the Dark Army as the suits advanced with the Burning Slash and Scimitar Attack as they worked in tandem. With his teeth grit, Domon shot from his laser cannons as well as he let his fury about Rain's disappearance fuel his attacks, as he did on the trees the other day.
Saette watched as Domon relentlessly hacked away at the one-eyed mobile suits, as if he were on a mission and marveled at the sheer rage displayed in the attacks. He ventured to remark, "You're really into this."
"That's what we're here for, isn't it?" was the cryptic response from the King of Hearts. "So let's cut the chatter and get to work."
Saette grunted and swung his scimitar, his attempts at conversation at an end as he too slashed at the Dark Army.
Meanwhile, Soujiro was watching everything on his communication screen with a mounting non-compos mentos fury as he slammed his fists into the control board. "This can't be! That fool Domon Kasshu and his friends are mutilating my beautiful Dark Army! They aren't serious!"
He snatched a microphone and barked, "Get out to the city immediately and crush those imbeciles! MOVE!"
A hatch opened and out flew Lumber Gundam, Mermaid Gundam, Cobra Gundam, and Tequila Gundam, each covered in DG cells making them immensely powerful. They all headed toward the battleground in Sapporo. . . .
In the besieged winter resort town, the Shuffle Alliance and their three allies all gathered in the aftermath of the one-sided victory over the Dark Army to catch their collective breaths and figure out the next move of the madman behind the resurrection of the Dark Gundam.
The gundams were huddled in a circle as Domon in Burning Gundam addressed the group. "Good job everybody. But be on your guard, it's too quiet and I have a bad feeling that Soujiro's only just beginning."
"Uh-huh," Chibodee agreed as he glanced about cautiously. "I have a bad feeling too, like the calm before a storm."
It appeared the King of Hearts and Queen of Spades were prophetic as four dots appeared in the eastern sky, silhouetted against the clear azure. Instantly, the Alliances' crests lit up and began blinking like warning lights as the dots became advancing gundams. They dove down on the gathered group like attacking bombers raining laser shots on them.
"Everybody scatter and go after them!" Domon commanded. "Stick with your partner and don't get separated." He and Scythe Gundam took off as the rest spread out to meet their attackers.
The team of Gundam Maxter and Gundam Rose were the first to make contact, spotting the advancing gundams soaring toward the battle sight. The four marauding gundams split up and Tequila Gundam with its pitchfork brandishing as an enraged farmer toward a trespasser came to them on the offensive, causing the Queen of Spades and Jack of Diamonds to jump in surprised defense.
Chibodee drew his energy guns and aimed them at the Neo Mexican gundam. He tried to subdue the attack but was dismayed and then alarmed to see the energy shots from his guns float like lightning balls over the head of Tequila Gundam and enter into the mobile suit and then into the pitchfork giving it an eerie glow. He then tried his ultimate attack.
"Burning Machinegun Punch!"
The next spectacle was the most unbelievable as the flame energy was sucked into the head of Tequila Gundam, and power radiated from it like an aura.
"Holy cow, that's incredible!" Chibodee exclaimed as George watched in stunned awe.
The elegant knight then decided to add his contribution to the battle. He raised his hand and called, "Rose Hurricane!" sending the lethal buds into the fray, with their energy rays swirling toward Tequila Gundam like a maelstrom. But like Chibodee's best effort, the Neo Mexican mobile suit ingested the vortex of energy and it became even stronger.
A maniacal laughter boomed as Chico Rodriguez's voice mocked them. "Neo America, Neo France you're both pathetic! To think that you in your puny powers could even think of defeating me!"
"Oh yeah? Well we'll see about that!" Chibodee bellowed in rage as he prepared another attack but Chico pointed his pitchfork and sent forth waves of recycled Shuffle Alliance power, blasting him and sending him back.
"Chibodee!" George cried as fury overtook him and he lifted his powerful saber to slash at Tequila Gundam.
But the energy rays from the pitchfork shot out and pinned the knight as Gundam Rose fell to its knees then the serape bearing mobile suit tossed the mighty gundam as a spoiled child carelessly casts a toy away. He landed by the barely conscious boxer in a heap.
"G-George!" Chibodee gasped as he tried to get into a sitting position. "Are you all right?"
George groaned as he too tried to rise. "I-I think so."
Chibodee shook his head to clear it. "Man oh man, was that a powerful attack. I don't remember Rodriguez ever packing that kind of wallop before."
George brushed a hand across his head as he nodded. "Yes indeed. But I noticed something just before he attacked me."
"Yeah? Well, don't keep me in suspense, rich boy out with it."
George sighed and informed him, "I saw the growth of DG cells on Tequila Gundam."
Chibodee did a double take. "You gotta be kidding. No wonder he sucked up our energy from our attacks."
The knight nodded gravely. "I wonder how the others are faring."
Over what was the commerce center of the once beautiful winter resort town, Dragon Gundam and Bolt Gundam were on an uneasy patrol when Andrew Graham's deep baritone intoned menacingly, "Argo Gulskii!"
Argo's ice eyes were drawn to the enormous Lumber Gundam as it came forward with its axe weapon raised. With a fierce war cry, it came forward to attempt to split Bolt Gundam in two.
"Mister!" Sai Saici cried as he sent forth the Fieron flags to surround Andrew but the axe slashed the poles like spaghetti and then poised to again attempt to sever Bolt Gundam.
Argo had taken the opportunity to loose his Graviton Hammer and swung it like a mace to knock the axe out of the way. But the attack was thwarted by the energy from the axe that was like pulsating waves, causing both weapon and fighter to fall with the force of an earthquake.
Sai shot forward in Dragon Gundam, his dragon serpent arms out and ready. "Okay, you asked for it! Dragon Fire!" he shrieked as he shot the formidable flames at Lumber Gundam. But the flames were knocked aside by the axe as it miraculously absorbed them, becoming infused with the energy and appearing as if on fire.
"Huh?" Sai gasped as a force suddenly blew him back hot like flames that rendered him helpless, pinned to the ground. He fought to remain alert, his compact body screaming in agony.
"Sai Saici!" Argo bellowed as he tried to rise but Andrew Graham rammed him into the ground with a brute strength that surpassed anything he had been capable of before. Then the Black Joker noticed the metallic scales that had the Lumber Gundam looking like a suit of mail and he shuddered.
"DG cells," Argo said in a flat voice as a cold chill gripped him. "It's starting all over again."
Over about ten miles to the south, near the shoreline, Kiral in Mandela Gundam and Allenby in Nobel Gundam were scanning the parameter looking for any further offensives that might be launched at them. But everything appeared quiet and for the time being calm. However, both fighters were not lulled into a sense of false security as they looked about with an uneasy eye.
"It's too quiet, Kiral," Allenby said with a scowl. "I've got a bad feeling."
The ex-assassin was in agreement. "Me too, Miss Allenby. I feel that we are about to be ambushed."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Kiral was rammed in the back by a force that emerged from the waves of the Sea of Japan. The momentum threw Mandela Gundam forward and then the blue fishlike Mermaid Gundam hovered above.
"No, it can't be," said a horrified Allenby. "This has to be a nightmare!"
She watched in disbelief as Mermaid Gundam used its energy trident to trap Mandela Gundam, ready to sever its head. The blue haired beauty from Neo Sweden was momentarily frozen, unable to move as she attempted to comprehend that Hans, the man who could be so fierce as a fighter, yet so gentle as they grew closer was capable of the merciless treatment of the gundam from Neo Nepal. She just could not believe what her emerald orbs were telling her.
She was snapped out of her musings by the strangled cry of Kiral. "Miss Allenby, please help me!"
She rushed to her comrade's assistance and let loose an energy ring. "Nobel Hula Hoop!" and the circles of laser light knocked the trident weapon out of Mermaid Gundam's hands. The machine reflected the fury of the pilot as it turned its attention to the feminine Nobel Gundam.
"Allenby," Hans' voice echoed as Mermaid Gundam rose up and made as to charge. The fish gundam came forward like an advancing great white shark.
"Hans, no!" Allenby beseeched as she took off, with Mermaid Gundam in hot pursuit. But it was an act of futility as Mermaid Gundam captured her, pinning Nobel Gundam in a vice like grip.
"AHHHH!" Allenby screamed as the energy from the Neo Denmark Gundam sent shock waves into Nobel Gundam as she became paralyzed and was rapidly losing consciousness.
"Allenby!" Kiral bellowed as Mermaid Gundam tossed Nobel Gundam down like a rag doll and then disappeared. Mandela Gundam flew over to the battered and still Nobel Gundam. Kiral scooped the limp fighting machine containing the unconscious young woman and headed where the team had met earlier.
To the north, on the outskirts of town, Burning Gundam and Scythe Gundam were standing sentinel as the eerie sound of an oboe playing strange music surrounded them.
Domon shook his head as he said brusquely, "That can't be who I think it is." He looked up and saw the unmistakable serpentine Cobra Gundam. "Chandra Shijima, what do you think you're doing?"
Shijima laughed evilly in a high pitched cackle. "So, Domon Kasshu we meet again." He put his instrument to his mouth and played the hypnotic tune that brought forth his king cobra with it's hood raised, coiled and ready to strike.
Domon smirked as he boasted, "Shijima, I defeated you before, in the Tournament and I'll beat you again. This hand of mine glows with an awesome power, its bright cry tells me to defeat you! Erupting Burning Fin--Huh?"
He was alarmed to see that the energy from his Burning Finger was sucked into the snake's mouth as if it were a vacuum, draining from him as Shijima continued playing his bizarre melody and the serpent glowed with a white energy that made it more insidious and formidable. It opened its jaws and wrapped around Burning Gundam.
"AHHHH!" Domon screamed as the snake tightened its hold on the King of Hearts.
"Domon!" Saette yelled as he tried to use his laser scimitar weapon to slash viciously at the serpent but to no avail, the monster was unfazed.
Shijima laughed at the two gundam fighters. "It's pointless to struggle. You both are powerless to stop us and the Dark Gundam."
Saette's onyx eyes widened as he spotted the tangible proof of the Neo India gundam and fighter being under the power of the entity known as the Dark Gundam, DG cells. The gundam and king cobra were covered in them.
Shijima then all of a sudden stopped playing and the snake released the Burning Gundam. It sunk to the ground in a collapse as Scythe Gundam came to its aid. He blasted his jets and hovered above the two mobile suits.
"Face it King of Hearts! This time, the Dark Gundam is undefeatable. Your pathetic Shuffle Alliance and your allies cannot win so accept it." He laughed like a lunatic as he took off.
Domon was on the ground and Saette was looping the gundam's arm around his neck as he assisted the Neo Japanese fighter and gundam to their feet.
"C'mon Domon, let's go see how the others are doing." The two gundams hobbled over to where the others were.
They walked until they saw where the others in their group had somehow regrouped. They all looked battle weary and battered but Domon's eyes shot open in horror as he saw Mandela Gundam cradling Nobel Gundam which lay limply in its arms.
"Oh no, Allenby!" Domon cried out as he wrenched himself from Scythe Gundam's grasp. He demanded of Kiral, "What happened?"
Kiral replied grimly, "She received a full frontal attack from Mermaid Gundam. It was infected by DG cells."
"So was Cobra Gundam who we fought," Domon said tersely as he came to lean in to speak to the Neo Sweden fighter. "Allenby, can you hear me? Are you all right?"
Nobel Gundam moved in Mandela Gundam's arms as Allenby raised her head. "Yeah, I'm okay. I just can't believe that Hans is under the spell of that monster!" She moaned softly as she again laid her head down against Mandela Gundam.
Domon leaned back and directed, "Kiral, take her back to the base in Tokyo and get her looked after. We'll be right there shortly."
Kiral nodded as he answered, "You can count on me, Mr. Domon." He took off with his cargo and headed for the neo Japan gundam complex as Domon watched worriedly.
The other members of the Shuffle Alliance came forward, all worse for wear and gathered before their leader.
Chibodee in Gundam Maxter being supported by George in Gundam Rose spoke weakly, "Me and George just got waylaid by Chico Rodriguez in Tequila Gundam and he was covered in DG cells."
Argo and Sai Saici who were standing but looked ready to collapse nodded in agreement. "Andrew Graham in Lumber Gundam was our opponent and he was infected as well."
Domon shook his head as he said tiredly, "Well then let's head back to the base and get some rest so we can plan our next move." He and Saette fired their jets and took off and the others found the strength somehow to do the same. . . .
Later that night, Domon could not sleep so he got out of his quarters and went for a walk. The pale moonlight, unobscured by clouds accompanied him as he walked along, his shoulders slumped in defeat, his dark thoughts hanging about him like a miasma as the day's events played over and over.
He found himself in the clearing in the wilderness where he held the training sessions with the other Shuffles, Allenby, Saette, and Kiral. He sank onto a rock as he held his head low, his unruly raven hair hanging over his face.
We were beaten, beaten so badly I can't believe it! This whole thing is unreal and those kidnapped gundams and their fighters were unbelievably powerful. If they attack us again, stick a fork in us, we'll be done.
A sneering baritone sounded, startling him. "You are so pathetic! Is that always your answer even with the techniques and power I helped you unleash?"
Domon looked up in bewilderment as he recognized the voice. "Master? Is that you?"
Master Asia as a specter materialized beside him. "Domon, as the successor to the School of the Undefeated of the East, I am surprised that you are so willing to give up so easily. It shames me."
Domon stared at his teacher. "But Master, I saw the power that the Dark Gundam has now in this incarnation. It's even more powerful than before if you can believe it."
Master threw his head back and laughed in scorn. "Nonsense. The ultimate secret attack of the School of the Undefeated of the East has power that is far greater. And didn't you teach it to your Shuffle comrades and the others?"
Domon opened his mouth to answer but Master's image evaporated and in its place was his brother, Kyoji.
"And didn't you make a promise to Rain when you rescued her before, that you would never let her go? What about that?"
Domon thought about that incident and how Rain burst from the Dark Gundam cockpit as it groaned in its last throes of life and catapulted her into his arms.
"Domon, I'm so sorry I'll never leave you again," she promised.
"I'll never let you go," he answered as he crushed her to him in his arms.
Domon leapt to his feet as both apparitions vanished and his objective was clear, clear as the cloudless clime above him. With new resolve, he made his way back to the gundam base.
NEXT---RETURN TO LANTAU ISLAND