Part 16
My eyes snapped open and the sound of Duo's 'Yahoo!" I knew I would fall asleep soon after I took the pills, so I wasn't to surprised I had, and thanks to my training I was able to skip the drowsy stage some people go through and instead went to complete awareness. Immediately I saw the reason for Duo's happiness, mobile suits, a lot f them were heading in our direction. We moved in a pre-determined configuration. Duo, Trowa, and I would deal with the mobile suits, while Heero, Quatre, and Domon pushed through to find Scorpio. Duo's scythe extended to its full length, and HeavyArms got ready to fire, I closed my eyes and prayed to Nataku while grasping the controls for my Dragon's Fang.
Opening my eyes again I found that rather then coming closer, the mobile suits had almost retreated and with them the ship we believed to be carrying the Scorpio.
"What the?" Duo suddenly asked.
"Follow!" Heero yelled and gave chase.
While the night sky looked clear, but for the retreating shapes of the ship and suits, something seemed to call to me, to tell me to look out. What it was I couldn't tell, it appeared to be nothing there yet still...
I suddenly felt Nataku grow sluggish.
"Something's wrong with Sandrock!" Quatre cried out.
"It's all the Gundam's." Trowa said.
"Except mine." Domon said, as his face joined those of Trowa's and Quatre's on the screen.
"Stupid freaky Gundam." Duo muttered, though his face didn't appear. As if sensing the surprise, Duo answered our unspoken question, "I'm having trouble seeing now, I don't think Heero and Wufei want to lose even more vision."
"Hn." Sounded from one speaker.
"See Heero agrees with me." Duo said, I could almost hear his smirk.
"I never said I agreed with you."
"It was in your 'hn'. I know I heard it."
I tried to get my Gundam free and was only successful in getting it stuck even more.
Heero didn't bother to try continue the argument with Duo. "Domon can you see anyway to free us?"
Domon moved toward us then froze, "What the-?"
"Well?" Duo asked.
"It looks like a big spider web."
"WHAT?" Quatre cried, a sudden fear coming from no where.
"What's wrong?" Trowa asked him, he didn't try to move his Gundam.
"Spiders?!" Quatre yelped out, his face had lost all color and he had his eyes closed.
"I take it Q-man is scared of little tiny spiders." Duo teased.
"It had to be one really big spider to do this."
"Ok, then one hell of a big spider, happy now?"
"No." Quatre whimpered out. He looked almost ready to pass out.
"Duo enough." Heero said, the Yuy death-glare had made it into Heero's voice.
"It couldn't have been a spider." I muttered.
Quatre looked up hopefully, of course he couldn't see me, the screen wasn't set to show me, as was the same with Heero and still with Duo.
"Are you sure?" He asked, worry clear in both his voice and eyes.
"I'm sure, they can't breathe in outer space." I said pointing out the logical answer.
"But what about-"Duo started.
"DUO SHUT UP!" Trowa screamed, getting ticked.
"Yes mama." Duo said, actually sounding scared.
Quatre looked a little better.
"We need to get un-stuck so we can get to that carrier." Heero muttered, trying to see the webbing. Aside from a glint every once and a while, you couldn't see it.
"How much heat can your Gundam's take?" Domon asked.
"Reentry... why?" Heero asked, as he no doubt death-glared the webbing.
"Then brace yourselves." Domon said and backed up. An energy, golden in color, surrounded his Gundam and concentrated on one of the Gundam's hands. Suddenly over the speakers I heard Domon cry 'Shining finger!' God appeared to reach forward and a fire-type of energy hit us, eliminating the webbing.
"Yep, fun." Duo muttered.
"Everyone ok?" Domon asked as he came closer, checking to see if we were still alive, and if the webbing was really gone.
"Yes we're fine." Heero said, he seemed distracted by something, chances are it was the target.
"Domon, why didn't you get caught in the webbing?" Quatre asked, now that he knew there were no spiders he was back to his normal strange self.
Domon smiled at us, a sly smile. "I felt the web when it hit my Gundam and backed off before it could catch me. Seems my 'freaky Gundam' does have good points."
Duo was heard muttering curses about Domon in the background.
"We still have to eliminate the target." Heero said and took off again.
"Maybe we should get oh so cool Domon to fly ahead." Duo muttered.
"I would, but I don't know where I'm going." Domon retorted.
"Hn." Duo muttered, taking over Heero's line.
As one we took off after the ship and suits that were no longer in site.
**
(several hours later)
"I think we can say we lost them." Duo muttered. He had by now added his face to the ones on the screen, as had Heero and myself.
"Ya think?" Domon asked. He and Duo had been going at it for a good 2 hours.
"I don't think, I know." Duo muttered, and let his Gundam drift near a meteor.
"Where could they have gone?" Quatre wondered.
"All of their trails led here then just vanished." Trowa muttered.
Everyone was fed up and tired. To top it off I was in enough pain to make me want to take another pill.
"Can we just go home?" Duo asked, letting his Gundam drift still closer to the rock.
"Not till we find Scorpio." Heero told him. The rest of us had our Gundams farther away from the meteor by quite a lot and we were keeping them in place.
"We're almost out of gas, lost, and I'm hungry damn it!" Duo said. He was clearly mad.
Domon looked up from the seat he had taken cross-legged on the floor of his Gundam. "Oh just grow up."
Duo was about to respond when a sudden laser beam flew out and hit his Gundam, he screamed and his face vanished from our screens.
"Duo!" Quatre screamed.
Laughter sounded in all of our cabins, followed by a male voice. "I shouldn't think your friend will be able to answer for a while."
"What why?!" Heero demanded.
A face appeared on our screens, someone none of us knew. The face had a scar and an evil smirk, along with a very arrogant expression. "That beam knocked out all of his Gundam's electrical impulses. It should take him several hours to get his power back."
"That's not possible!" I said.
"But it is." The male said.
Suddenly the suit known as Scorpio appeared in front of us. It was larger then ours and more heavily armed. The man smiled once at us and then closed his connection. At the same time a swarm of mobile suits launched from the seeming smooth meteor. All of the video screens closed, so as not to obstruct our view during the battle, and Trowa moved to protect Duo. Scorpio moved as if to attack Wing and Heero positioned his Gundam to fight. I knew Yuy would enjoy this battle, however something kept shouting in the back of my mind that something was off, something about this battle was horribly wrong. Why couldn't I figure out what it was? I watched as Scorpio turned it's back to attack Wing. Then it hit me, why would he turn his back on HeavyArms and DeathScythe when he knew they could attack him?
The beam that shot out of the back of Scorpio answered my question. The weapon for Scorpio was located in the back of the mobile suit, or at least the major one was, the suit was proving it had more then one weapon. I traced where the beam was heading and the sudden realization hit me a split second later.
"Trowa!" I screamed at the same time the beam hit HeavyArms. The bulky Gundam spun for a second as Trowa fought to get control over it before he lost all power. The Gundam crashed into DeathScythe, and then stopped.
"That's it." I muttered and prepared to attack the mobile suit myself, its back wasn't facing me so I should be fine.
Heero's face suddenly appeared on the screen, anger clearly marking his blue eyes.
"He's going down now."
The phrase alone would normally make me pause, Heero didn't talk like that. The anger also threw me, this was completely un-Heero like. Heero didn't show emotions like this, and for a second I pitied the person who made Heero this mad. That of course vanished when the abomination of a mobile suit started to move to try and take out someone else.
A now crippled Leo flew by, not under it's own power, leaving a trail of debris, forcing my eyes from Scorpio. Domon had thrown the suit to get our attention back to the battle that we should have been fighting and off of the suit Heero, Quatre, and I were all focused on.
"Come on kid, let's see what you can do." Domon called to me.
"I told you not to call me kid." I muttered.
God seemed to have a smug expression/aura around it, if a Gundam could have an aura.
"Only a kid would let himself get distracted like that." Domon shot back.
Heero 'Hn'ed at that comment and took out several Leo's.
"What about Scorpio?" Quatre asked.
"Let me get this one kids." Domon said and moved to attack it.
"So you must be my true target." The person in the suit said, sounding very, very happy.
'True target'? I wondered to myself as I almost mindlessly took out Leo after Leo, this got very old after a while, I could do it without paying attention to what I was doing anymore.
"What do you mean by true target?" Domon asked, mirroring my thoughts.
"The one I was ordered to kill."
Domon backed God away somewhat to take up a defensive position.
"What did you think all this was for the little kids?" The man taunted.
"Why didn't you just challenge me, I would have shown up?" Domon asked.
"Well that wouldn't have been any fun, at least this way I get to kill things."
That reminded me of Duo. As soon as I thought that my eyes went to DeathScytheHell and HeavyArms, we still hadn't heard anything from them and that was worrying me more then it should have. I decided to start to move Nataku toward the two floating suits while I battled.
The next second I heard a scream from Domon and watched as God was thrown back into a group of Leos. His Gundam appeared to glow for a second and I opened communications to him. Once he appeared on screen his whole left side was glowing a faint green color.
"What's wrong?" I demanded.
"The whole left side of the Gundam went dead." Domon explained.
I didn't ask how.
"Quatre cover him." Heero suddenly said.
I turned back to try and save Duo and Trowa when I realized two things. This battle had turned against us, and the chances of us getting away were getting slim. The second was that Scorpio had repositioned it's self so it could fire on me. I felt as if time actually stopped for a second as I watched the gun power up, the light from it glowed. And just as it was about to fire... a sudden forced pushed me out of the way...
I found myself in the arms of another Gundam. A Gundam that looked somewhat like mine...
"Saisaishi!" I heard Domon scream over the speakers.
Pulling myself away from the other Gundam I turned back to the battle. Aside from this new Gundam there was another one, the other one was next to Sandrock which was near God. The insane laughter of the pilot of Scorpio reached my ears.
"How cute the Shuffle alliance is reuniting."
Domon pulled his Gundam up so it was standing up. I glanced down to where I could see his screen and saw a kind of clear determination in his eyes.
"I'd move if I were you." A young male voice told me. It was the voice of Saisaishi, as Domon had called him, the pilot of the Gundam which had pushed me out of the way. He didn't open the screen so I couldn't tell what he looked like, but when he moved I followed him so Domon could have a direct line for Scorpio.
I watched as God Gundam suddenly seemed to shimmer, Domon muttered several phrases that I couldn't hear and the hand of the Gundam began to glow. He suddenly screamed "Bakaretsu God Finger" and I watched as a fire seemed to shoot out of the hand and hit Scorpio. After several seconds of flame it vanished and Scorpio was reviled to be damaged.
"That should have destroyed it." Saisaishi said, he had opened a window so we could see him. He was standing the same and the person in the other Gundam was, once she opened her view window too. Saisaishi was Chinese, I found out to my somewhat amusement.
"Um Heero?" Quatre suddenly asked, he and Heero also opened windows.
"Video conference time!!!" Duo shouted suddenly as his Gundam came back online.
"Duo you're alive!" Quatre cried out.
"Maxwell remind me to kill you later." I muttered under my breath.
Duo looked a little hurt and seemed to glance around his cockpit. "I have 1/1000th power." He told us.
"Which means?" Heero asked.
"I can talk to you." Duo said, ever present smile still there.
"And?" Heero demanded.
"Well, that's all for now."
"He gets his power back and has to talk to us rather then try to fight." I muttered to myself.
"Well Wu-Wu I thought you would want to know I was alive, since I know you couldn't live with out me."
"Shut up." I muttered back.
"Duo it's nice that you have power back," Heero began, "but we need you to have weapons."
"I'm working on that."
"Then shut up until you have them." Heero told him in his calm voice.
I heard Duo sigh then continue to check out the two new pilots.
"Watch out!" Quatre suddenly cried, Scorpio had began to move again.
"Hmmm." I heard Heero muse as he stared at the suit, true to what Quatre had said, the suit was moving again. It was actually moving almost the same as it had before it had been attacked. The suit turned to fire at us.
"Um so what do we do?" someone asked.
"We attack." I answered and watched as light again filled the cannon of the weapon that had taken out Duo and Trowa.
"Now!" Domon cried out.
As one, all of the able Gundams fired their weapons on Scorpio and the darkness of space was filled with a sudden blinding white light.
TBC in the last chapter....
*****
A/N: Yes I made up the whole thing about Quatre being scared of spiders. Domon's Shining Finger came first so I'm making it as if it would be the lesser form of his current God's Finger, I'm not to sure on here, and it's been a while since I've seen G Gundam.
I slightly altered Scorpio's design to make it stronger.
Next chapter is the last one, aren't you guys happy?
My eyes snapped open and the sound of Duo's 'Yahoo!" I knew I would fall asleep soon after I took the pills, so I wasn't to surprised I had, and thanks to my training I was able to skip the drowsy stage some people go through and instead went to complete awareness. Immediately I saw the reason for Duo's happiness, mobile suits, a lot f them were heading in our direction. We moved in a pre-determined configuration. Duo, Trowa, and I would deal with the mobile suits, while Heero, Quatre, and Domon pushed through to find Scorpio. Duo's scythe extended to its full length, and HeavyArms got ready to fire, I closed my eyes and prayed to Nataku while grasping the controls for my Dragon's Fang.
Opening my eyes again I found that rather then coming closer, the mobile suits had almost retreated and with them the ship we believed to be carrying the Scorpio.
"What the?" Duo suddenly asked.
"Follow!" Heero yelled and gave chase.
While the night sky looked clear, but for the retreating shapes of the ship and suits, something seemed to call to me, to tell me to look out. What it was I couldn't tell, it appeared to be nothing there yet still...
I suddenly felt Nataku grow sluggish.
"Something's wrong with Sandrock!" Quatre cried out.
"It's all the Gundam's." Trowa said.
"Except mine." Domon said, as his face joined those of Trowa's and Quatre's on the screen.
"Stupid freaky Gundam." Duo muttered, though his face didn't appear. As if sensing the surprise, Duo answered our unspoken question, "I'm having trouble seeing now, I don't think Heero and Wufei want to lose even more vision."
"Hn." Sounded from one speaker.
"See Heero agrees with me." Duo said, I could almost hear his smirk.
"I never said I agreed with you."
"It was in your 'hn'. I know I heard it."
I tried to get my Gundam free and was only successful in getting it stuck even more.
Heero didn't bother to try continue the argument with Duo. "Domon can you see anyway to free us?"
Domon moved toward us then froze, "What the-?"
"Well?" Duo asked.
"It looks like a big spider web."
"WHAT?" Quatre cried, a sudden fear coming from no where.
"What's wrong?" Trowa asked him, he didn't try to move his Gundam.
"Spiders?!" Quatre yelped out, his face had lost all color and he had his eyes closed.
"I take it Q-man is scared of little tiny spiders." Duo teased.
"It had to be one really big spider to do this."
"Ok, then one hell of a big spider, happy now?"
"No." Quatre whimpered out. He looked almost ready to pass out.
"Duo enough." Heero said, the Yuy death-glare had made it into Heero's voice.
"It couldn't have been a spider." I muttered.
Quatre looked up hopefully, of course he couldn't see me, the screen wasn't set to show me, as was the same with Heero and still with Duo.
"Are you sure?" He asked, worry clear in both his voice and eyes.
"I'm sure, they can't breathe in outer space." I said pointing out the logical answer.
"But what about-"Duo started.
"DUO SHUT UP!" Trowa screamed, getting ticked.
"Yes mama." Duo said, actually sounding scared.
Quatre looked a little better.
"We need to get un-stuck so we can get to that carrier." Heero muttered, trying to see the webbing. Aside from a glint every once and a while, you couldn't see it.
"How much heat can your Gundam's take?" Domon asked.
"Reentry... why?" Heero asked, as he no doubt death-glared the webbing.
"Then brace yourselves." Domon said and backed up. An energy, golden in color, surrounded his Gundam and concentrated on one of the Gundam's hands. Suddenly over the speakers I heard Domon cry 'Shining finger!' God appeared to reach forward and a fire-type of energy hit us, eliminating the webbing.
"Yep, fun." Duo muttered.
"Everyone ok?" Domon asked as he came closer, checking to see if we were still alive, and if the webbing was really gone.
"Yes we're fine." Heero said, he seemed distracted by something, chances are it was the target.
"Domon, why didn't you get caught in the webbing?" Quatre asked, now that he knew there were no spiders he was back to his normal strange self.
Domon smiled at us, a sly smile. "I felt the web when it hit my Gundam and backed off before it could catch me. Seems my 'freaky Gundam' does have good points."
Duo was heard muttering curses about Domon in the background.
"We still have to eliminate the target." Heero said and took off again.
"Maybe we should get oh so cool Domon to fly ahead." Duo muttered.
"I would, but I don't know where I'm going." Domon retorted.
"Hn." Duo muttered, taking over Heero's line.
As one we took off after the ship and suits that were no longer in site.
**
(several hours later)
"I think we can say we lost them." Duo muttered. He had by now added his face to the ones on the screen, as had Heero and myself.
"Ya think?" Domon asked. He and Duo had been going at it for a good 2 hours.
"I don't think, I know." Duo muttered, and let his Gundam drift near a meteor.
"Where could they have gone?" Quatre wondered.
"All of their trails led here then just vanished." Trowa muttered.
Everyone was fed up and tired. To top it off I was in enough pain to make me want to take another pill.
"Can we just go home?" Duo asked, letting his Gundam drift still closer to the rock.
"Not till we find Scorpio." Heero told him. The rest of us had our Gundams farther away from the meteor by quite a lot and we were keeping them in place.
"We're almost out of gas, lost, and I'm hungry damn it!" Duo said. He was clearly mad.
Domon looked up from the seat he had taken cross-legged on the floor of his Gundam. "Oh just grow up."
Duo was about to respond when a sudden laser beam flew out and hit his Gundam, he screamed and his face vanished from our screens.
"Duo!" Quatre screamed.
Laughter sounded in all of our cabins, followed by a male voice. "I shouldn't think your friend will be able to answer for a while."
"What why?!" Heero demanded.
A face appeared on our screens, someone none of us knew. The face had a scar and an evil smirk, along with a very arrogant expression. "That beam knocked out all of his Gundam's electrical impulses. It should take him several hours to get his power back."
"That's not possible!" I said.
"But it is." The male said.
Suddenly the suit known as Scorpio appeared in front of us. It was larger then ours and more heavily armed. The man smiled once at us and then closed his connection. At the same time a swarm of mobile suits launched from the seeming smooth meteor. All of the video screens closed, so as not to obstruct our view during the battle, and Trowa moved to protect Duo. Scorpio moved as if to attack Wing and Heero positioned his Gundam to fight. I knew Yuy would enjoy this battle, however something kept shouting in the back of my mind that something was off, something about this battle was horribly wrong. Why couldn't I figure out what it was? I watched as Scorpio turned it's back to attack Wing. Then it hit me, why would he turn his back on HeavyArms and DeathScythe when he knew they could attack him?
The beam that shot out of the back of Scorpio answered my question. The weapon for Scorpio was located in the back of the mobile suit, or at least the major one was, the suit was proving it had more then one weapon. I traced where the beam was heading and the sudden realization hit me a split second later.
"Trowa!" I screamed at the same time the beam hit HeavyArms. The bulky Gundam spun for a second as Trowa fought to get control over it before he lost all power. The Gundam crashed into DeathScythe, and then stopped.
"That's it." I muttered and prepared to attack the mobile suit myself, its back wasn't facing me so I should be fine.
Heero's face suddenly appeared on the screen, anger clearly marking his blue eyes.
"He's going down now."
The phrase alone would normally make me pause, Heero didn't talk like that. The anger also threw me, this was completely un-Heero like. Heero didn't show emotions like this, and for a second I pitied the person who made Heero this mad. That of course vanished when the abomination of a mobile suit started to move to try and take out someone else.
A now crippled Leo flew by, not under it's own power, leaving a trail of debris, forcing my eyes from Scorpio. Domon had thrown the suit to get our attention back to the battle that we should have been fighting and off of the suit Heero, Quatre, and I were all focused on.
"Come on kid, let's see what you can do." Domon called to me.
"I told you not to call me kid." I muttered.
God seemed to have a smug expression/aura around it, if a Gundam could have an aura.
"Only a kid would let himself get distracted like that." Domon shot back.
Heero 'Hn'ed at that comment and took out several Leo's.
"What about Scorpio?" Quatre asked.
"Let me get this one kids." Domon said and moved to attack it.
"So you must be my true target." The person in the suit said, sounding very, very happy.
'True target'? I wondered to myself as I almost mindlessly took out Leo after Leo, this got very old after a while, I could do it without paying attention to what I was doing anymore.
"What do you mean by true target?" Domon asked, mirroring my thoughts.
"The one I was ordered to kill."
Domon backed God away somewhat to take up a defensive position.
"What did you think all this was for the little kids?" The man taunted.
"Why didn't you just challenge me, I would have shown up?" Domon asked.
"Well that wouldn't have been any fun, at least this way I get to kill things."
That reminded me of Duo. As soon as I thought that my eyes went to DeathScytheHell and HeavyArms, we still hadn't heard anything from them and that was worrying me more then it should have. I decided to start to move Nataku toward the two floating suits while I battled.
The next second I heard a scream from Domon and watched as God was thrown back into a group of Leos. His Gundam appeared to glow for a second and I opened communications to him. Once he appeared on screen his whole left side was glowing a faint green color.
"What's wrong?" I demanded.
"The whole left side of the Gundam went dead." Domon explained.
I didn't ask how.
"Quatre cover him." Heero suddenly said.
I turned back to try and save Duo and Trowa when I realized two things. This battle had turned against us, and the chances of us getting away were getting slim. The second was that Scorpio had repositioned it's self so it could fire on me. I felt as if time actually stopped for a second as I watched the gun power up, the light from it glowed. And just as it was about to fire... a sudden forced pushed me out of the way...
I found myself in the arms of another Gundam. A Gundam that looked somewhat like mine...
"Saisaishi!" I heard Domon scream over the speakers.
Pulling myself away from the other Gundam I turned back to the battle. Aside from this new Gundam there was another one, the other one was next to Sandrock which was near God. The insane laughter of the pilot of Scorpio reached my ears.
"How cute the Shuffle alliance is reuniting."
Domon pulled his Gundam up so it was standing up. I glanced down to where I could see his screen and saw a kind of clear determination in his eyes.
"I'd move if I were you." A young male voice told me. It was the voice of Saisaishi, as Domon had called him, the pilot of the Gundam which had pushed me out of the way. He didn't open the screen so I couldn't tell what he looked like, but when he moved I followed him so Domon could have a direct line for Scorpio.
I watched as God Gundam suddenly seemed to shimmer, Domon muttered several phrases that I couldn't hear and the hand of the Gundam began to glow. He suddenly screamed "Bakaretsu God Finger" and I watched as a fire seemed to shoot out of the hand and hit Scorpio. After several seconds of flame it vanished and Scorpio was reviled to be damaged.
"That should have destroyed it." Saisaishi said, he had opened a window so we could see him. He was standing the same and the person in the other Gundam was, once she opened her view window too. Saisaishi was Chinese, I found out to my somewhat amusement.
"Um Heero?" Quatre suddenly asked, he and Heero also opened windows.
"Video conference time!!!" Duo shouted suddenly as his Gundam came back online.
"Duo you're alive!" Quatre cried out.
"Maxwell remind me to kill you later." I muttered under my breath.
Duo looked a little hurt and seemed to glance around his cockpit. "I have 1/1000th power." He told us.
"Which means?" Heero asked.
"I can talk to you." Duo said, ever present smile still there.
"And?" Heero demanded.
"Well, that's all for now."
"He gets his power back and has to talk to us rather then try to fight." I muttered to myself.
"Well Wu-Wu I thought you would want to know I was alive, since I know you couldn't live with out me."
"Shut up." I muttered back.
"Duo it's nice that you have power back," Heero began, "but we need you to have weapons."
"I'm working on that."
"Then shut up until you have them." Heero told him in his calm voice.
I heard Duo sigh then continue to check out the two new pilots.
"Watch out!" Quatre suddenly cried, Scorpio had began to move again.
"Hmmm." I heard Heero muse as he stared at the suit, true to what Quatre had said, the suit was moving again. It was actually moving almost the same as it had before it had been attacked. The suit turned to fire at us.
"Um so what do we do?" someone asked.
"We attack." I answered and watched as light again filled the cannon of the weapon that had taken out Duo and Trowa.
"Now!" Domon cried out.
As one, all of the able Gundams fired their weapons on Scorpio and the darkness of space was filled with a sudden blinding white light.
TBC in the last chapter....
*****
A/N: Yes I made up the whole thing about Quatre being scared of spiders. Domon's Shining Finger came first so I'm making it as if it would be the lesser form of his current God's Finger, I'm not to sure on here, and it's been a while since I've seen G Gundam.
I slightly altered Scorpio's design to make it stronger.
Next chapter is the last one, aren't you guys happy?