Jacen was a bit shaken at how hard he threw Laura and got back up.
"You are such a fool Jacen," Drake said again, "Your heart is clouded. You fight...but you don't kill...what happened to Jacen the angel of death that I once fought along side battles with a year ago?!"
Jacen got back up.
"You alright Laura?"
"I'll be find..." Jacen stands up and looks straight on at Drake.
"Drake...our days of battle is over...It ended a year ago when Libra was destroyed...when Trieze died."
"It is not over yet...you see around you...it never ends...when one battle end, another waits to be started. War will crept back to us and the world will ignite in flames!"
"What are you planning, Drake?"
"After Deckim takes over, I will kill him. Leaving that little bitch alone in the chaos. Without control there can only be chaos. And the world will fall into conflict once again. And I...I will rise out from the fire and bring a new order...my order..."
"I see. so you are just using Deckim for your own gain? I can't believe you would do that to your uncle."
"He tried to kill me once before, so I'll return that favor and kill him...but enough talk..you are an obstacle in my path to glory." Drake takes out two beam sabers and ignites them in a glow of orange fire of pure energy. "And since you are so great, I'll make sure I'll leave a place for you in the history I'm creating!"
Drake attacks, slashing down on Jacen, but Jacen raised up and blocks.
"I want no part in your history...nor do I intend to leave my mark in this current one. I just want to bring peace and maintain it!" Drake parries Jacen's next attack and kicks him.
Drake then stops and looks at Jacen, then he looks at his own suit for a bit.
"This kind of game is too trivial...I perfer something more real." Drake opens his cockpit and steps out. He was holding onto two short swords and he jumps down onto the ground. "Well, aren't you coming? I don't want to freeze out here waiting..."
Jacen opens up his cockpit and jumps out. Jacen had his sword to his side as well.
"I wanted a duel as men..." Drake said "...not as machines..."
Drake then draws his swords, and Jacen does as well. The two were at a stand-still for a moment and then. Drake charged first, with Jacen responding as well. The two screamed and Jacen drew his sword in a Battaou-jutsu. The two clashed, but they were pretty much equal. Their swords shook as the two tried to gave an upper hand. Then, they seperated and jump back from each other.
"Well...I see that you are not out of practice..." Drake said and grins.
"I never knew that you are quite skilled with the sword...at least not a real one."
"If one must be an immortal, he must master mortality first." Drake raised his swords again and attacks. "But right now, swords speak louder than words!"
Jacen blocks and knocks him back. Drake jumps forward and attacks Jacen's legs, but he hit air, and sees Jacen flying up, with his sword pointed up as well. Jacen began to fall, but he was also going to slash down on Drake. Drake blocks off the attack crossing his swords and Jacen connects with blades instead of flesh. After he connected, Jacen flips around and lands behind him. Jacen's sword began to glow and he swung it back to attack, but Drake jumps away, dodging an energy wave attack coming from the blade. The attack made a burn mark on the floor.
"So...You still use your magic tricks in your fights." Drake runs at Jacen again and they clashed, "You can't fight fair can you?"
"What makes you the one that's fair!" Jacen said back, "You think you're on the side of justice!"
"No...I know my intentions are evil! But that doesn't mean that the world you live in is black and white."
Drake pushes Jacen back and tries to attack when Jacen lost his balance, but Jacen back flipped and threw Drake's sword up into the air. Right after, Jacen brought his sword back down and slashed down from Drake's right shoulder to his left lower torso area. Then, Jacen spun around and swung his sword up and cut against Drake again.
Now, Drake had a red X-mark on him. The two were a bit out of breath, but still persist on going.
"...give up?" Jacen asked.
"Heh...you wish..." Drake dragged his sword to the ground as he ran toward Jacen and then sweep some snow into Jacen's face, blinding him a bit. "Ha! Now you will die!"
Jacen saw it coming and jumps up, avoiding Drake's slashing attack, but Drake looked up with more determination.
"You think you've won? Jacen!" Drake bend his knees a bit and thrusts himself into the air and connected with flesh with one of his swords
Laura watched in horror, that Jacen got stabbed in the lower left torso area.
"Oh no, Jacen!" Laura shouted.
But Jacen managed to decrease the effectiveness of the stab by parrying it to the side a bit. But Drake twisted his sword a bit and threw Jacen to the ground.
"You might have avoided my stab that would have killed you, but I could easily turn it into a side sweeping attack without hesitation...you see, you are no match for me." Jacen got up and was catching his breath. "AS the person you are, you're nothing."
Drake flipped his swords and was holding them backhanded. Jacen got up and puts his sword back in his sheath, and stands ready for the attack.
"Any last words, Jacen?" Drake asked, but Jacen didn't answer, but kept his eyes closed. "Fine then. I'll finish you!"
Drake ran at an incredible speed and jumps up toward Jacen, but at the same time, Jacen remembers something. He can see Trieze in his memories, teaching him how to use his father's sword. A katana is a japanese sword, Jacen's inhiert memories were able to teach him the succesion technique of a style that existed before his family even existed on Earth. It was called, Ama Kakeru Ryu No Hirameki "Heaven's Soaring Dragon Flash", the final attack of the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu style. This was the style that Jacen inheirted from his memories of his ancestor, from the japanese portion of his family.
In an instant, Jacen opens his eyes again and drew his sword again, first knocking Drake's sword out of his hand, but in the same instant, he cuts him again in the stomach with the amazing force of air pressure from his attack. He then spun around and flipped his sword around and hit Drake on the dull side of his sword, but the force also sent Drake flying back toward his Gundam. Drake tumbled backward and landed on his face. Jacen was out of breath again and fell to one knee, using his sword to keep him up, but when he looked up, he saw Drake getting up.
"What?" Jacen was shook that Drake was still able to move, after that attack. Drake showed a large gash from his bottom right torso up to his left shoulder, but...with that kind of wound it would of killed him.
Drake gets up, staggering a bit. He was pissed off. He didn't bother to take his swords back and walks back into his gundam. But before he did, he looked back at Jacen.
"...You didn't kill me..." Drake said
"I rather see you suffer alive than in hell...It would feel much better."
Drake looks around a bit and then smiles a little.
"Well my day might be bad, but your's going to get a whole lot worse." Drake gets in his suit and takes off. "See you again...Jacen Fanel..."
Jacen watches Drake leave and gets back in his suit.
"Initiating armor repair," Jacen said and his suit was healing itself. Jacen then looks within himself and thanks a part of him, "Thank you again...Kenshin Humura..."
He walked around and then senses another presence.
"...Wongfei!?" Jacen turned around and gets rammed into a building by Wongfei.
He gets back up and jumps away as Wongfei fires his claw at him.
"...this time I won't lose..." Jacen jumps onto a part of the mountain get in an attack position.
"So this is the new Excalibur that I've heard about?" Wongfei said
Jacen starts to walk toward him and then stop as Wongfei activates his jets and flies toward him.
"Here I come Jacen!" then, he takes out his halibur. Jacen pulls out his swords and combined them.
"I won't go easy on you," Jacen shouted and swings his sword.
"I'm going to tear you apart!!" Wongfei lands in front of him and they clash.
Wongfei swings his weapon up and then chop down on Jacen, but was blocked and then Jacen tried to attack, but missed. Then, they crossed weapons again and Jacen pressed Wongfei backward. Wongfei tried again to attack Jacen, again, but was blocked again. He tries to launch a claw at Jacen, but didn't have the chance to stop and aim. Then, Wongfei lost his balance a little and Jacen swung his sword and hit Wongfei's chest. Then, Jacen jumped on him and pushed him down the mountain. They both sided all the way down back to the city area. They quickly got back up to clash again and again.
"Wongfei, I don't want to fight you!" Jacen shouted and then jumped back from him." I don't want to fight another friend."
"Where's your sense of honor Jacen? Fight me!"
"Where's your sense of justice? This battle is destroying peace. We must stop this at once."
"Peace will never last forever! And this incident proves it!"
"That's because you help cause it! I don't want to fight you. I've already given up fighting, and continuing on will be meaningless." Jacen puts his sword down."We should put down our arms and accept the peace that we worked so hard to achieve."
"You fool!" Wongfei charges him and knocks him down, but Jacen quickly got back up,"Then you will burn!!"
A shoulder cannon pops up from Wongfei's back and he unleased a storm of hot flames at Jacen's suit.
"I'm going to burn you from inside your suit! You can't withstand intense flames, even with your Gundam, but with your muscle trace system, you will be a fried chicken in no time! DIE!!!"
He was right, with the MT system, Jacen will be scorched. Jacen tried his best to defend himself, but the flames were too rough.
Then, the flames gave him a horrorible flashback of his childhood.
"Mother!" He heard himself screaming for his family as he remembers everything.
The horrible nightmares he had. His family was all killed. No one was left alive. He floated in a shuttle far off in the distance as his colony burned from the inside.
The he remembers seeing his father...lying on the ground...dying, but this was both a visison of the past and his deep conscience telling him something. His father looked to him in the face. His eyes were blanked and it seems to be just a dead corspse, but the face talked to him as if it was still alive.
"Fight Jacen..." Jacen's father shouted to him, "The king of our country never runs from his enemies...fight! Fight him Jacen! Fight!!"
Jacen snapped out of the vision and then screamed as he moved his hands and blocked the flames, then pushing back at Wongfei. His hand closed the flame cannon's opening and his sealed by crushing it, then pushes Wongfei back.
"What the hell is this!!" He takes out a beam saber and stabs at Jacen, but hits his shoulder. Jacen's own shoulder started to bleed from the same spot,"I missed?!"
Jacen then, shoves Wongfei back and slashes at his chest.
"I'LL KILL YOU!!!" Jacen shouted in anger and then chopped at Wongfei's head and breaks one of his eyes and then stabs at his cannon and dices it. then pushes him into a cliff part of the mountain.
He then, chopped at Wongfei's joints so hard that he damaged them, disabling his suit. He then, started to punch at it and then bashing it with his sword.
"My enemies die!!" He takes his saber and fires burst of shots at Wongfei and then smacked him some more.
Wongefei was helpless to stop Jacen.
"I'll Kill you! I'll kill you!" Jacen shouted over and over again as he pratically went berserk.
"Damn it!" Wongfei shouted as he could do noting from stopping Jacen, but then aimed his shoulder cannons at Jacen and shot him back and then continued firing at him, until his guns overheat and went offline.
Then smoke parted, and stood there not too far off was Jacen's suit. Inside, those beam burst attacks only caused minor bruses all over Jacen's body. Jacen had his swords in hands and was ready for a final attack.
"He's...not...human..." Wongfei said in fear, and Jacen brought his swords together and points them high up into the air as they charge.
Jacen then brought his swords down and aimed at Wongfei's suit. His face seemed calm, but of course that means that the ZERO system has got to him again. He lifted up his weapon high and then took aim at Wongfei and was about to unleash is fury. He fired, but someone pushed him out of the way and he fired a beam in the air. The beam struck the clouds and made a shockwave that clear the heavens to reveal the night sky.
Wongfei got out of his trashed suit and runs away. He then remembers what Jacen had said to him.
"We should put aside our weapons and live on...."
Laura got out of her suit and ups Jacen's. Jacen was unconcious.
"Jacen!" Laura tries to wake him, but he was silent, "Jacen wake up! You are not dead! Get up...don't leave me..."
She held Jacen's lifeless body in her arms. Of course Jacen is not dead...he is just in a state of being both dead and alive. For the moment, he is neither living nor dead.
He wakes up in a dark place...there were no doors...no ceiling...no walls...just plain darkness....
"Where...am I?" Jacen was walking around in the darkness, but he was going nowhere fast.
Then, a voice from nowhere said to him.
"Where are you going?" Jacen turned to the voice. "You're still the clueless aprentice I taught...It's a wonder why you are still alive in the state you are in..."
"...Trieze..." Jacen said as his former teacher appears from the shadows,
"Is that how you greet your master?"
"I have no time to reminience about the past...or talk about the present."
"Oh...but we have all the time in the world...You keep on forgetting the one thing that I've taught you."
"What..."
Trieze smiles a bit. He was holding his sword and points it up at Jacen.
"You idiot appentice...the will to live is absolutely essential...live on Jacen...it is not your time to die, yet."
Then, Excalibur reactivated and stood up on its own. A surge of white electricity ran through the outer armor of the suit and then the suit's color from black changed to pure white. Excalibur changed into dragon mode. Jacen and Laura stood on its back.
"Laura..." Jacen said as he gets back up.
"Jacen..." Laura reaches out and embrace him.
"You alright...it's going to be a little dangerous from here on...get to safety..."
"No....I will stay by your side, Jacen. I want to be with you...."
Excalibur took flight and flew up high.
In the underground presidential palace, Relena looks at the now white dragon that circles the skies.
"The dragon has regain its wings and now is heading back into the face battle." Relena said softly. "...live on Jacen..."
"Get all forces ready!" Dekim commanded, "Where is Drake!?"
"Sorry, sir! Commander Drake is not showing up on our sensors anymore!!"
"What!!"
Outside, Excalibur hovers above the Barton Mobile Suits.
"White dragon!!" a soldier shouted, "...he's coming right for us!"
Excalibur flew toward the army of Serpents and Sagittarians. It transformed and readies itself.
"You ready Laura?"
An extra chair came down from the ceiling of the cockpit and set itself nearly on top of Jacen's lap. Laura sits on it. Behind the chair a screen pops out to show what is in front of him since the entire chair is blocking him.
"Ready when you are, Jacen."
"Alright, let's get them!"
Jacen charged at the army of suits and attack. He dashed pass two suits and quickly turned around and sliced them with his two swords and then moved on to the next group and too out his guns and got a lot more. Then he ran out of ammo and swung the guns around to knock some enemies down and drop them. Then, swoop down into another street dodging all the shots that the enemy suits throw at him. Then, he pauses for a moment and throws both his swords at two suits, disabling them instantly, then dash in close and activates his forearm beam saber and claws. He then dices the legs of three more suits. Then, his hands attracted his swords back into his hands and he moved on. He connected his swords on the sides and charged forward with his beam shield up. Then, increasing more power to his thrusters and crashing into a whole cluster of troops and then as he did that with his shield arm, his other arm points behind him and fires a EMP blast in the direction of a line of suits behind him, knocking them all down. He stands back up and slashes more with some incoming Serpents, but even though he is Jacen, he seemed overwhelmed for a moment.
"Well, they certainly are getting bolder...too bad their not getting any smarter!" he opened up his head vulcans which turns out to be laser powered. He fires powerful red beams at the troops of Mobile Suits.
He then did a disappearing act and reappears behind some suits and dices them before they can react.
"This is battle is lagging on..." David said as he retreats a bit. Then two Serpents jumped him, but by the time he looked back to see his enemies, they were shot down, "What?!"
Then he looked up and sees three Federation class warships and they each launch suits down into the city.
"How many troops do we have?!" David asked
"Sir, we has about over 50...that's as much as we can gather!" a pilot said
"Guess we made it just in time," Mark said as he fires his pulse rifle at the enemies.
"Let's take'em all out!" Shiro shouted as he fires his beam rifle.
"Alright, let's charge them!" David shouted as he points his sword forward and him and some suits dash into battle.
Amuro tries to kill a Serpent, but Zechs pushes him, throwing off his aim and disables the suit instead.
"We don't want any deaths in this battle...none other than us." Zechs said, "We are peacemakers not killers."
"Alright, then," Amuro said, "Alright everyone listen up. Our objective is to secure the city, but...no killing, just disable the enemies!"
There were a chorus of sigh, and disappointing grunts, but all agree.
Just right after Jacen chops down another opponent, he looks up at the sky and sees two falling object heading toward the nearby body of water. It was Heero and Wufei.
Zero opens up its wings again and Altron pulls up a parachute and then cuts it loose. The two draws weapons again and clashes.
"I don't approve of Relena Peacecraft's ways. It's wrong to think you can achieve peace by just throwing away the weapons and locking up the soldiers!"
"Is that why we should allow Mariemeia to be a dictator?!"
"It will be something for the soldiers to go by-!" Wufei dashes up and slashes Heero's chest. His gundam flickers sparks from external damage. "Humanity needs wars to learn its lesson! That's why I must keep fighting!"
Wufei slashes Heero's suit again and picks off a pick of Zero's shoulder guard.
"That may be fine for now, but she's only repeating history. The sad and miserable history of war! If we don't stop it now, they'll need soldiers like us again! The tragedy called history will just be repeated...Wufei, tell me, how many more people do we have to kill?" Heero gets another flashback of that same girl that Heero met and killed almost two years ago, "...How many more times must I have to kill that little girl?"
"What?" Wufei said as that statement shocked him.
Heero then shuts off Zero and it falls to the water,
"Zero never gave me an answer...Tell me, Wufei."
Zero falls into the water and the water ripples as Zero sinks to the bottom. Wufei seemed to show a sad face as he remembers his home colony get destroyed in front of him.
"Would an incident like that have to be repeated again..." Wufei said as he hovers over where Heero fell.
Meanwhile elsewhere in Space. Quatre, along with Trowa and Duo gets ready to go to Earth.
"Are you both ready?"
"Yeah, any time!" Duo said
"This is how Operation Meteor should have been carried out." Trowa said
"Then, let's go now!" Quatre gets his shotel ready and slices open the main door and they all jumped out. Quatre opens a channel, "Jerry, is your forces ready?"
"Ready when you are,"
"We're heading to Earth now,"
"Roger that Quatre," Jerry said and turned to Dread, "Aina, lead them out."
"Yes, sir. All Federation forces move out!"
Jerry, along with Carl, Daniel, and some Federation troops fell toward Earth.
Back on Earth, the forces there that came with David and the others were getting pinned down.
"Tallgeese, Taurus, and a battalion of Federation troops have passed defense line 3, point D!" A soldier said to Dekim, "The Excalibur units and another Federation battalion are heading toward defense line 6 point F!"
"What can they do with such few suits? Send counterattack troops to all those points!!"
"Yes sir!"
"What a shame. I don't think you'll be able to meet your brother again," Mariemeia said to Relena.
Outside. Mark and Shiro dashes through another line of suits with their beam sabers. As they do, they hear battle chatter and Dekim speaking to the world.
"There are fools who still resist our newly found law and order. You must all think of the true meaning of the blood that is going to be spilled!"
"Pitiful bastards, this battle is not accomplishing anything. Why are we fighting this battle?" Shiro said
"Unfortunately, the world is not as reasonable as you are Shiro," Mark said, and they charge on, Jacen happens to be listening to that conversation.
"But in fact the people are too reasonable. There are far too few people who will stand up against Mariemeia." Jacen said
Inside the underground base, Lady Une manages to infiltrate it. She stands on the security room, watching the screens depicting the battles outside.
"This is Treize's ideal? They don't even realize that Dekim is manipulating them. Mariemeia is just a puppet for him!"
Outside, Noin and some suits tries to advance forward, but a few get shot down. Zechs and Jacen dashes through a crowd. Zechs jumps over one, while Jacen disappeared through it and they both ended up behind the suits, where they slash and stab away. David and Mark flies in the air trying to press forward and provide air support, but then, David was shot down by a laser weapon from a warship, but landed softly on the ground. David then retreated to where Noin. Noin got hit again, and her shields failed. Zechs fell back as well; he looks up at his screen and sees that his sensors detected more suits. Suits were coming from all over the place. Then, there was a barrage of missiles that hit where Zechs and Noin is. They braced in and defend their position. A few more Federation suits went down from the attack.
"We've reached our limit..." Zechs said
"I'm not saying any goodbyes, yet, Zechs!" Noin said
"Of course not, Noin!"
The enemy suits dashed closer to their prey and open fire at them. Jacen himself and his forces withdrew while firing and they were soon back to back in a wide area of the city. More Federation suits fell to the power of the Serpents and Sagittarians and their overwhelming number against their. Then, Jacen's forces were trapped and surrounded. The Barton suits then stopped, stood their weapons down, and hold their positions. Jacen received a communicate from Dekim.
"You have all fought well...Worthy of the History books...but, I'm, afraid that this is the end...surrender now, and join us...or die defending your lost cause..."
"We will not be your pawns Dekim!" Jacen shouted.
"Well then I'm sorry..." Dekim nodded to someone and ended the conversation. "I guess this will be the last conversation we'll have...Duke Fanel."
The Barton army raised their weapons again for a final attack. Jacen raised his saber and so did some suits that ran out of weapons except that. They were all ready to die.
Just then, three suits got their head chopped off by two whirling blades from nowhere. It was Sandrock, with a few dozen Federation Vanguards dropping from behind him.
"Looks like we've arrived just in time." Quatre said as he detached his cloak. "Not that you guys can't take care of yourselves."
"Quatre!" Noin shouted.
Some Serpents fired at him, but he charged forward and sliced off their heads.
"You guys are amazing. All this fighting and not a single soldier killed, at least for the enemy side."
"I'm glad that we can be an example for you." David said back. "We just want to teach these people something, here!"
Some Sagittarians fired beam cannons and then detected a new enemy. They looked far at the end of a street and Jerry decloaks from stealth mode and fired his claws at their heads, knocking down three suits Then, from above, Duo and Carl appeared, dropping behind the enemies and dicing them up.
"Let's only take their weapons and war itself with us to Hell!" Duo said
Other suits tried to fire at the Gundams, but then they were shot down by gattling and energy blasts. Daniel, Mike, and Trowa jumped into the air, with Trowa doing a flip in his Gundam and Mike and Daniel barrel rolling. They landed and brought all their weapons to bear. The Barton suits were instantly disabled.
"About 400 suits left. We have about 100, each group. If were just getting rid of the Mobile Suits I think we could manage it." Trowa said
Elsewhere, people from all over the world watch the battle just beginning to unfold. Inside the Presidential palace, Dekim gets mad at the resistance.
"Those brats! How long do they plan to resist me?!"
"Even if they destroy the Mobile Suits, they can't reach this shelter. Their resistance is futile." Mariemeia said calmly.
Relena then gets up.
"I..."
"What is it, Relena?"
"I...I was running away. " Relena runs to a console and opens a channel with the world.
"People, you must not be afraid of what you see." He face appears on a screen, "Peace is not something that someone gives to you! Nor can it be forced! Peace must be earned. You must long for it in your hearts!-"
But she was cut off.
"Who was that?!" Someone asked
"That was Queen Relena..." another replied.
"Your appearance is yet to come, Your Majesty." Dekim said angered and a bit sarcastically.
Relena had a grim look of determination.
"Are you guiding the people to battle?" Mariemeia asked, "Aren't those actions against your total peace policy"
"I no longer consider myself as a Peacecraft. It is not policy or assertion we need now, but the desire for peace! I realized that to gain peace takes more than just words."
"But your way failed! The people won't fight back. I've already won."
At a certain town nearby, the people talk about the battle that is happening right before their eyes.
"What's going on?" someone asked
"Isn't the war over?"
"Gundams are fighting?"
"Wasn't that Duke Fanel's Gundam?"
They all chattered about, until someone interrupted them.
"You people going to continue standing in awe and do nothing!?" a female voice cried out. The crowd turned to see that it is Dorothy, "Is Mariemeia the master you've been waiting for? Come on go wag your tails in front of her."
"Hey! You comparing us to dogs?!" a man shouted out.
"Oh pardon me. You're not the dogs that wag their tails in front of their masters...in fact, you're the tail that gets wag."
"Shut your mouth lady! You're looking at a man who shot down 10 Mobile Suits in the war, so don't you be calling us names!"
"Oh, I don't see any men here...The only men that I see...are either buried-or always have their faces up displayed on that screen!" she points to the screen showing the battle in progress.
The screen showed shots from all over the city, from far off views, to close ups.
We see Deathscythe, and Thor slashing left and right. Then, we switched to Heavyarms and Nu blasting away. Then, we see Jacen doing an overhead slash.
The crowd's faces changed as they realize the situation.
Then, we see each and every pilot, as they fight. Sweat pour down their faces as they fight, not to kill, but to save others souls from their mistakes.
"I guess peace is not just handed to us...right."
They all remembered what Relena said. We see Zechs flying all over the place, dodging the enemy fire and hanged back to see Federation suits firing and going down, as they pick off several Serpents and Sagittarians. Vanguards and Dreads took cover behind buildings, as they laid heavy fire on their enemies.
"You're right...we should be fighting ourselves...of course we don't have anymore weapons to fight with!"
"Is that the responsible given to us, survivors?"
"We must prove that we deserve this peace we worked so hard to achieve...we must prove that we deserve this freedom."
"Hm, ok, I'm going to where Miss Peacecraft, if anyone wants to follow!?"
"Right here!"
"I'm going too, I just can't wait around and do nothing!"
"Count me in!"
"Yeah, I'm ready to join you!"
The crowd was all getting excited.
"Well I have no choice" She picks up her cell phone, "Send them in."
Then, all of the sudden, some strange transport ships appear in the sky.
"Whoever wants to fight for their freedom, please board the ships!" Dorothy said as she led the mob in, "To arms!"
Inside each transport ships were brand new Mobile Suits.
Back with the battle. Some Barton suits flew up and fired beam cannons at Heavyarms and his group. The suits missed him, and Heavyarms group fired back, knocking the suits down. One suit fell on top of another.
A Serpent fires its gattling gun, but Sandrock jumped on it and sliced off and arms, knocking it off balance. Then, two suits jumped on him, in an attempt to put him into submission. Quatre got mad and jets up high. Then pushes off the suits and cuts them down.
On the ground, Shiro, Aina, and Mark fires their beam weapons at opposing suits on the other line and knocks them down. Serpents from the air were swooping down on them and firing their gattling guns. Then Shiro picked up a missile launcher and fired a salvo at a Serpent's leg and shot it down. A Vanguard was holding a chain gun and fires at the other flying Serpent and knocks it down.
Then, two commander types, one a Serpent Custom, the other a Sagittarian Custom, charge up at them. They fly up into the air and was spotted by the three Federation aces. They all fired at the two new suits, but the Barton commander types skillful dodged all their shots. Mark and the Vanguard with the chain gun tried to shoot down the enemy, but then, two bazooka shots blows off Marks left arm, and downed the guy behind him. Mark looked down at his severed arm to see that it is still moving, then look back up to see the Serpent with a big barrel bazooka. It was a little bigger than his suit. Then, the other suit, which was smaller and faster, equipped with a machinegun. Their heads had visor eyes, unlike the regular units with the square looking one, these were narrow looking.
"Split up Shiro! I'll get big, ugly!" Mark said and Shiro head off to chase after the other one while the Serpent one remained,
Mark continues to fire at the new type, but the Serpent popped up laser turrets from its shoulders and fired at Mark, who retreated, firing, and then slides into an alley. Shiro and the other one dashed away from the battle, then split up in between buildings and then jumped. Shiro got on top of a building. The Sagittarian commander unit flew far above him and fired missiles from launchers from its back. Shiro then blasted out his thrusters and dodged them all.
Back with Mark, he fired continuously, then jumps back onto a main street an breaks a piece of the Serpent's head, but the Serpent fires back with its big cannon, and makes a big dent on Marks right chest. He falls on his legs, but his suit seemed to be failing him. He looks at his opponent, who drops its depleted cannon and takes out his gattling gun. But after it equips its gattling gun. Mark flew back a little, dropped his blaster, takes out his beam saber, and dashes right up to it. He then chops up his opponent.
Back with Shiro, he seemed to have eluded the enemy. As the enemy suit looks around for Shiro, Shiro drops in front of him and fires his machine gun. The suit also fires his machine gun, but Shiro destroys the guy's weapon. The Sagittarian drops his destroyed weapon, along with some other back parts and then charge up to Shiro with a left arm beam saber weapon. He tried to cut Shiro up, but Shiro flew back and blasted up the guy's suit and still did not kill him.
Then, we go to Deathscythe, who stabs a suit with the other end of his scythe, and knocks it down, then smacks another one from behind. He sees two more Serpents trying to rush him, but he jets up and cuts their heads off. The suits fell and Duo moves on. He then reached a position that had some Federation Dreads covering it, but they were knocked down as more Barton suits laid heavy fire as Duo enters the area.
"Damn, they just keep on coming all at once!" Duo then dashes forward with his weapon ready to slam into enemies, "Here I go, AHH!"
Duo plowed through a whole line of Barton suits.
We move to Heavyarms and Nu, they hold their positions well, then a Serpents fires all its missiles. Heavyarms used its gattling guns as an AMS and takes down all the incoming missiles. Daniel then raised a hand and launched his funnels at the enemies and fired them.
Then, we go back to Sandrock as he takes up another offensive stance.
"Looks like were fighting another losing battle." Quatre said as he then jets up into a crowd of suits.
Jacen chopped up one suit after another, but the numbers seemed endless.
"Damn, where are all these suits coming from?!" Jacen shouted after he got hit.
"We must fall back and regroup. We can't stand against this many at once if we are not killing them." Laura said
"We would be able to finished this more quicker if I was able to fire a few buster shot!"
"If we wanted to kill them all,"
"(Sigh) All units regroup near the center of the east part of town!" Jacen regains one of his gattling guns and fires it as he retreats.
Meanwhile, underwater. Zero lied still on the floor. Then, the suit started to reactivate itself. It was like it was alive...or it was just the backup system. This woke up Heero.
"Hm?"
The suit started to move on its own again.
"Zero...Don't fail me now?" The suit's power started to raise to full and it got back up...Heero looked at the screen and then, "We still have a job to do."
Heero punches his throttle to full and the suit was off.
Back at the battlefield, The Federation suits were getting rounded up as they retreat.
"Now! Give them all you got!" Jacen shouted as he fired his reloaded guns.
Everyone else was trying their best.
"Running low!!" Jerry shouted
A Dread's machinegun then clicked empty.
"I'm out!" Aina said
"Here! Make them count!" Carl shouted as he tosses her a Serpent gattling gun.
Duo tries to press back forward, and chops down a few suits, but was knocked back from bazooka shots. Then, we go to Zechs.
"Gundam pilots, that's enough. Leave us, and retreat!"
"What! Retreat!?" Quatre said, and then one of his swords got destroyed, "If this was a battle to take lives, it would have ended long ago. But if we did, that would've defeated the point of us coming here!"
Noin flies back and fires her rifle. One of her arms was already gone.
"But at this rate you'll die in vain." Noin said
Jacen then kicks down a suit, then takes out his cannon and shoots it.
"If we were gonna retreat, we would've been on the run from the start." Jacen explained, "But it's a bit ridiculous going on like this."
Trowa and Daniel seemed to have ran out of ammo and Daniel switched to beam saber and a bazooka of his own. Trowa dropped both his guns and then popped out heat blades from each arms.
"They are the way we used to be like during the war." Trowa said, "Dekim is manipulating their purpose in life."
"But you'll die!" Noin said
"Don't let it bother you." Jerry said, "We're used to having our asses kicked all the time."
"That's what makes us special!" Duo shouted.
Then, Quatre runs up and punches an enemy, then defends from a barrage.
"And that's why we can be who we are." Quatre said
Inside the Presidential palace again,
"I did not return to being Darlian for my father's revenge. Nothing comes from revenge. Hatred will only create more hatred!"
"That is because you lost. But I am different. I will be the victor of this battle." Mariemeia said
"The Gundams and Federation forces are trapped! They are all now seemed to have run dry of ammo!"
"You see? What they can hope to do?"
Deathscythe walks back as his blade switches off from lower power.
"I got nothing left!" Duo said
"Me too!" Jerry said
"I'm out!" Carl said
"So am I!" Daniel said
"We could clear half of them if we self-destruct. Should we?" Duo suggested.
"If you're going to self-destruct, don't take anybody else with you." Trowa said, "We're the only ones who should die."
"Heh, guess your right," Duo said back in defeat.
Everyone stood there didn't seem to be a way out.
"Everyone else that has one, go to sabers and prepare to make one final charge!" Jacen ordered, "If we go down...we go down as warriors."
The Gundams themselves, were handed either sabers or have something left, and gets ready to make a final move. Then, something appears on their sensors.
"Huh!" Quatre said
"Where!?" Trowa said
"Above us!" Duo shouted
Everyone looked up to see Wing Zero. A little mess up, but battle ready with the Buster Rifle charging.
"Wing Zero!" Zechs said.
Wing Zero was covered with new Federation models. It locks on and waits for orders.
"Locked onto the target," Heero said, "Waiting for next order..."
Jacen then disappears up to join him. He connected a saber in each arm and readies them for attack.
"Gundam Wing Zero has appeared right above us with a small detachment of new Federation suits." A Barton soldier said
"Suit, we are being hailed by Supreme Commander Fanel!"
Jacen's face appears on their large screen.
"Jacen?" Relena said
"This is your final warning...open your shelter doors, and surrender, or we'll give it a new one."
"What do you think you can do? -You are the one to surrender."
"Hmmm, Heero." Jacen turned to Heero and so does the screen.
"Heero," Relena said
"Confirm that your shelter shields are up." Heero said, "I hope for your sake, that those shields are as strong as you say...Do you feel safe in your cage?"
"You can't hurt us!" Mariemeia said, "You are powerless against us!"
"You asked for it then..." Heero ended the transmission,
"Let's give'em hell, Heero!" Jacen shouted and the two suits fired on the shield doors.
Two huge wide beams struck from the sky as they made the whole structure shook under the stress. When the first volley ended, there was still some surge of energy left on the doors of the presidential palace.
"Gather all available units here, shoot down those suits!!" Dekim commanded.
"S...such wretched men." Mariemeia said, "It's a w...waste of time d...doing such a thing..."
"You're sweating...are you afraid, Mariemeia?" Relena asked, as if she had too, since she could see right through her,
Excalibur and Wing Zero fired again, but the stress of the next shot blew off one of Zero's arm. The two beams met again and hit their target.
Inside power was being cut off and lights were flickering.
"Impossible, how could this be happening?!!" Dekim said
"Shield defense is down by half. Excalibur's and Wing Zero's aim is accurate by 100 of a unit. Though Excalibur looks like it could not fire anymore, but Wing Zero still could. If he hits the same place again, the shelter will collapse!"
"Stop! Relena Peacecraft is here, too!" But neither Heero nor even Jacen took that threat seriously.
Both the suits were cracking with energy. Excalibur withdrew its weapons.
"Heero...I can't fire anymore...you must end this...but...if you do fire...there is a strong possibility that your suit will blow itself up..." Heero did not answer, "You can go ahead, but are you willing to do it at the cost of your life."
"Heero..." Relena said. Somehow in a way, she heard him calling back to her.
"Relena..."
Barton units tried to shoot down Zero, but were not effective. Then, Heero thought for a moment and then sees that little girl again.
"I'd gladly paid-" Heero said and fires his weapon one last time. The last shot was more powerful than all the others and raged down at the gate protecting the presidential house.
From far below, everyone watched as Wing Zero was destroying itself. The blast from the last attack was short-circuting Zero's systems.
"Heero!!" Quatre cried out.
Inside the compound, the whole place was being destroyed. Then, as a beam was about to fall on Relena and Mariemeia, Lady Une jumps in and pushes them down.
Outside, Heero's beam ended and the whole mountain shook from the shock and there was a huge explosion. Wing Zero started to fall, but Jacen catches him and lowers him to the ground.
Back inside the compound, Lady Une helps the two she saved up.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah, who are you?"
"Even if you're in the wrong, I cannot let his Excellency, Treize's, daughter to die."
"There's another Gundam on defense line 4, point E and also..."
"Sir, were detecting a large dispatchment of unknown Mobile Suits attacking us!"
The screen was covered with an overwhelming number of new suits. The former veterans of the war piloted most.
"We're not listening to you anymore!" One said
"We don't want war!" another one said.
The Barton suits seemed to be intimated by the sight.
"We will protect our peace!"
Then, we see Altron standing behind a large group of citizens rioting.
"Battles like these are not decided by the soldiers...At last I can leave the fighting behind me. This Trieze is my goodbye..."
"Zechs..." Noin said
"This way...this way, I won't have to give up hope again." Zechs said
"The self-destruct was wasted again." Trowa said
"What the hell are they?!" Dekim shouted.
"Sir, we're receiving a communicate from the leader of the group, calling themselves the Federated Commonwealth of Earth!"
"What!!"
A new face appears on the screen.
"This is Commander Kyrensky of the Congressional coalition forces. You will all surrender now, or we will show no mercy to any of you." Then, the screen went back to normal, showing clips of every detail of what is happening outside.
"While his Excellency was fighting losing battles..." Lady Une said, "Treize loved people with the will and determination to fight, even in bad times. And that is why people will accept the Gundams. It's not the victor who moves the heart of the people."
Excalibur then drops Zero to the ground and both pilots came out.
"Ridiculous! We know no defeat! The Barton Family is the true ruler of the World! Mariemeia now is the time to stand at the head of the Nation!" Dekim shouted
"I am the victor..." Mariemeia moves forward and starts to act like a drone, "I will fulfill my father's will..."
Then, Lady Une moves to block her.
"Hmp, do forgive me." Lady Une moves to slap Mariemeia, but Relena beat her to it and hits her hard.
"Excuse me, but it's time you realized, Mariemeia."
"Uh, Relena..."
"Now you understand real fear and you should be able to accept your own mistakes."
"That's enough, Relena Peacecraft." Dekim points his gun at her. "I wish you wouldn't put ideas into my Mariemeia's head."
"Shoot me if you wish. I am resolved!"
"Heh! Then I'll tell you the truth before you die. The public is always expected to obey the victor!"
Dekim pulls the trigger, but Mariemeia get in the way and is hit. She falls to the ground and a pool of her own blood is spilled.
"Mariemeia!" Relena shouted as she helps her up.
"I can replace Mariemeia easily. Even she's the one that I-" just as he was about to finish, he points his gun again and aims.
"Dekim!!" Une shouted as she jumps up with her gun ready, but something else happens. Deckim was not able to pull the trigger to his gun. Instead he felt an intense pain from his chest.
There was a sword that went right through him from behind. The sword was straight and had chinese design. Deckim turned his head around to see a cloaked figure, and only could see some long strands of silver colored hair. The figure's face was not entirely revealed. But his eyes was almost glowing red, and he smiled.
"That was for me..." the cloaked figure said and pulls the sword of and Deckim falls to his knees. "And this...this is just for the hell of it..."
He raised his sword again and swung it at Deckim's neck, cutting through it in one swipe. Deckim looked stunned for a moment and then his head fell off and rolled on the floor.
"I guess I took the pleasure from Jacen of killing him," the figure said and left, with his claok swaying behind him.
When he left, everyone paid attention to Mariemeia.
"Mariemeia, hold on." Relena said as she holds her up.
"I was wrong...I...I'm so sorry..."
"Mariemeia-"
"-I'll relieve you of your pain..." Heero said as everyone turned to see him put up his gun.
"Heero?"
"Oh...it's you, again...I would have never guessed it would be you to end it..." Mariemeia said, "I thank you..."
Heero pulls the trigger to his gun, but it clicks empty.
"I've killed Mariemeia." Heero said, most likely meaning it symbolically, "I...I won't kill anyone, anymore... I...I don't have to anymore..."
Heero then collapse.
"Oh Heero!" Relena runs to him and catches him. "...Heero..."
But then, Jacen enters to room. His black hair was not sweaty and wet, and his military uniform was ruined in blood and dirt. He had his family sword drawn and walked into the room.
Jacen runs to check on Mariemeia,
"There's still hope! Get her to the medical room quickly!" Jacen ordered
"Yes, sir!" a soldier obeyed and moved to help.
"Finally...it's all over..." Relena said as she nursed Heero in her arms.
Jacen stood up and looked at the head of Deckim that rolled onto the floor.
"Who killed him?" Jacen asked.
"Someone cloaked..." Wongfei said as he walked up to him, "He used a strange looking sword. It bore the same symbol that your sword had."
Jacen looked at his sword, and smiled a bit.
"Well, clean up the mess here Commander Hung...I'm tired..." Jacen turns and walks out.
"Heh...yes sir..." Wongfei said.
Outside, soldier from all side, disarmed and stood down. The soldiers of Mariemeia stood down and got out of their suits. Then, in a public gathering, they burned their weapons and clothes of war (Their hats, arm bands, etc.)
Wufei watches with everyone, as this appears to be a renewal of peace.
Sometime later, on Earth. Three Gundam pilots were about to destroy their suits.
"Well it's goodbye for real," Duo said, "...buddy."
Duo was the first to press the self-destruct button. Deathscythe, Sandrock, and Heavyarms, slowly glowed and destroyed themselves.
"I'm back to being nameless." Trowa said
"I don't think it makes a difference. Trowa sounds fine with me..." Quatre said, "Why don't you just keep it."
"Names are for other people to call you. It's no use trying to change that. What's important that w have a place we can call home...right"
"Yeah, you're right Duo."
Elsewhere, in China most likely, Wufei also is preparing to blow up his suit and does so. Altron lights up and then explodes from a safe distance.
"Nataku...may you rest in peace."
"Wufei," Sally said, "Noin and Zechs have disappeared somewhere. How about it? You want to work with me?"
"A Preventer, eh? Heh, why not?"
Up in Space, in a shuttle.
"Are you sure? Mars Terraforming still isn't in the operational stage." Noin said
"It's something Relena's working on. It's bound to be rash. That's why someone who's already dead has to do it. Noin, you don't have to..."
"Don't make me repeat myself, Zechs...again."
The shuttle zooms off to a distance.
Back on Earth, where Deathscythe, Heavyarms, and Sandrock was destroyed, Jerry and Carl walks on the field.
"Hmmm, it seems that they have left," Jerry said, "Alright send the recovery team in..."
A MS transport and savage team came swiftly and picks up the pieces of the Gundams.
"I hope you forgive us guys," Carl said, "Like Prof. G have said 'Think of a better way to use it than destroy it'. These we still need."
Then, Carl's cell rang.
"Yes?"
"Sir, we have already completed in salvaging Gundam Altron."
"Good, take it to Mars..."
Several days later, on colony Giaea Alpha, Jacen and Laura toast to each other.
"Happy Anniversary, Laura,"
"And Happy New Years to you as well..."
Then, they both felt something and turned around to the doorway. There was someone in the shadows.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything?" the figure asked.
"Well...I was beginning to wonder..." Jacen said "it was your doing with Deckim right?"
"I really wanted to let you have the fun in killing him. him being your last target on your list."
"Don't worry about it. I was actually going to spare him. I didn't have what it took to be a killer again."
"That's what I said to myself...before I realized again that killing is just the way of life..." The cloaked figure walked out of the shadows and pulls down his hood. The man was about the same age as Jacen is, and looked almost like him, but had a bit of long silver colored hair tied in a pony tail. He had red eyes and at his side was the same sword that was used to kill Deckim. "So, when's the party going to start, brother?"
"Heh, after all this time you still haven't changed much haven't you, Dante..."
Jacen looked up at the artificial sky.
"Another time of change is upon us already... Dante said "but now it is up the the next generations of leaders to take action for it. They will blame on their fathers and mothers for it, but I hope their children will forgive us for it."
Elsewhere on the colony, Relena was invited to Jacen's New Years party as well. She walks around Jacen's finished castle and then looks out a balcony. Then, just when it seems a bit too quiet, Heero creped up behind her. Relena turned around.
"Heero?"
"Relena...I'm sorry...to keep you waiting...for so long..."
The two got closer together and embraced under the false moon.
"...don't leave me again...ever..."
Relena returns to her work as a minister of peace, with Heero at her side, protecting her. Duo, going back to his usual job as a machinical and computer parts technician. Trowa back at the circus. Quatre running his family business and head of his House. And Wfuei off on some other purpose as the Preventer "Earth".
After Colony year 197. The people have regained their peace. And from there on, the people hope that...peace will last forever...but...that is only what the people hope for... The desires of man...always gets in the way...How long will this peace last?
The End? ...Or is it?
"You are such a fool Jacen," Drake said again, "Your heart is clouded. You fight...but you don't kill...what happened to Jacen the angel of death that I once fought along side battles with a year ago?!"
Jacen got back up.
"You alright Laura?"
"I'll be find..." Jacen stands up and looks straight on at Drake.
"Drake...our days of battle is over...It ended a year ago when Libra was destroyed...when Trieze died."
"It is not over yet...you see around you...it never ends...when one battle end, another waits to be started. War will crept back to us and the world will ignite in flames!"
"What are you planning, Drake?"
"After Deckim takes over, I will kill him. Leaving that little bitch alone in the chaos. Without control there can only be chaos. And the world will fall into conflict once again. And I...I will rise out from the fire and bring a new order...my order..."
"I see. so you are just using Deckim for your own gain? I can't believe you would do that to your uncle."
"He tried to kill me once before, so I'll return that favor and kill him...but enough talk..you are an obstacle in my path to glory." Drake takes out two beam sabers and ignites them in a glow of orange fire of pure energy. "And since you are so great, I'll make sure I'll leave a place for you in the history I'm creating!"
Drake attacks, slashing down on Jacen, but Jacen raised up and blocks.
"I want no part in your history...nor do I intend to leave my mark in this current one. I just want to bring peace and maintain it!" Drake parries Jacen's next attack and kicks him.
Drake then stops and looks at Jacen, then he looks at his own suit for a bit.
"This kind of game is too trivial...I perfer something more real." Drake opens his cockpit and steps out. He was holding onto two short swords and he jumps down onto the ground. "Well, aren't you coming? I don't want to freeze out here waiting..."
Jacen opens up his cockpit and jumps out. Jacen had his sword to his side as well.
"I wanted a duel as men..." Drake said "...not as machines..."
Drake then draws his swords, and Jacen does as well. The two were at a stand-still for a moment and then. Drake charged first, with Jacen responding as well. The two screamed and Jacen drew his sword in a Battaou-jutsu. The two clashed, but they were pretty much equal. Their swords shook as the two tried to gave an upper hand. Then, they seperated and jump back from each other.
"Well...I see that you are not out of practice..." Drake said and grins.
"I never knew that you are quite skilled with the sword...at least not a real one."
"If one must be an immortal, he must master mortality first." Drake raised his swords again and attacks. "But right now, swords speak louder than words!"
Jacen blocks and knocks him back. Drake jumps forward and attacks Jacen's legs, but he hit air, and sees Jacen flying up, with his sword pointed up as well. Jacen began to fall, but he was also going to slash down on Drake. Drake blocks off the attack crossing his swords and Jacen connects with blades instead of flesh. After he connected, Jacen flips around and lands behind him. Jacen's sword began to glow and he swung it back to attack, but Drake jumps away, dodging an energy wave attack coming from the blade. The attack made a burn mark on the floor.
"So...You still use your magic tricks in your fights." Drake runs at Jacen again and they clashed, "You can't fight fair can you?"
"What makes you the one that's fair!" Jacen said back, "You think you're on the side of justice!"
"No...I know my intentions are evil! But that doesn't mean that the world you live in is black and white."
Drake pushes Jacen back and tries to attack when Jacen lost his balance, but Jacen back flipped and threw Drake's sword up into the air. Right after, Jacen brought his sword back down and slashed down from Drake's right shoulder to his left lower torso area. Then, Jacen spun around and swung his sword up and cut against Drake again.
Now, Drake had a red X-mark on him. The two were a bit out of breath, but still persist on going.
"...give up?" Jacen asked.
"Heh...you wish..." Drake dragged his sword to the ground as he ran toward Jacen and then sweep some snow into Jacen's face, blinding him a bit. "Ha! Now you will die!"
Jacen saw it coming and jumps up, avoiding Drake's slashing attack, but Drake looked up with more determination.
"You think you've won? Jacen!" Drake bend his knees a bit and thrusts himself into the air and connected with flesh with one of his swords
Laura watched in horror, that Jacen got stabbed in the lower left torso area.
"Oh no, Jacen!" Laura shouted.
But Jacen managed to decrease the effectiveness of the stab by parrying it to the side a bit. But Drake twisted his sword a bit and threw Jacen to the ground.
"You might have avoided my stab that would have killed you, but I could easily turn it into a side sweeping attack without hesitation...you see, you are no match for me." Jacen got up and was catching his breath. "AS the person you are, you're nothing."
Drake flipped his swords and was holding them backhanded. Jacen got up and puts his sword back in his sheath, and stands ready for the attack.
"Any last words, Jacen?" Drake asked, but Jacen didn't answer, but kept his eyes closed. "Fine then. I'll finish you!"
Drake ran at an incredible speed and jumps up toward Jacen, but at the same time, Jacen remembers something. He can see Trieze in his memories, teaching him how to use his father's sword. A katana is a japanese sword, Jacen's inhiert memories were able to teach him the succesion technique of a style that existed before his family even existed on Earth. It was called, Ama Kakeru Ryu No Hirameki "Heaven's Soaring Dragon Flash", the final attack of the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu style. This was the style that Jacen inheirted from his memories of his ancestor, from the japanese portion of his family.
In an instant, Jacen opens his eyes again and drew his sword again, first knocking Drake's sword out of his hand, but in the same instant, he cuts him again in the stomach with the amazing force of air pressure from his attack. He then spun around and flipped his sword around and hit Drake on the dull side of his sword, but the force also sent Drake flying back toward his Gundam. Drake tumbled backward and landed on his face. Jacen was out of breath again and fell to one knee, using his sword to keep him up, but when he looked up, he saw Drake getting up.
"What?" Jacen was shook that Drake was still able to move, after that attack. Drake showed a large gash from his bottom right torso up to his left shoulder, but...with that kind of wound it would of killed him.
Drake gets up, staggering a bit. He was pissed off. He didn't bother to take his swords back and walks back into his gundam. But before he did, he looked back at Jacen.
"...You didn't kill me..." Drake said
"I rather see you suffer alive than in hell...It would feel much better."
Drake looks around a bit and then smiles a little.
"Well my day might be bad, but your's going to get a whole lot worse." Drake gets in his suit and takes off. "See you again...Jacen Fanel..."
Jacen watches Drake leave and gets back in his suit.
"Initiating armor repair," Jacen said and his suit was healing itself. Jacen then looks within himself and thanks a part of him, "Thank you again...Kenshin Humura..."
He walked around and then senses another presence.
"...Wongfei!?" Jacen turned around and gets rammed into a building by Wongfei.
He gets back up and jumps away as Wongfei fires his claw at him.
"...this time I won't lose..." Jacen jumps onto a part of the mountain get in an attack position.
"So this is the new Excalibur that I've heard about?" Wongfei said
Jacen starts to walk toward him and then stop as Wongfei activates his jets and flies toward him.
"Here I come Jacen!" then, he takes out his halibur. Jacen pulls out his swords and combined them.
"I won't go easy on you," Jacen shouted and swings his sword.
"I'm going to tear you apart!!" Wongfei lands in front of him and they clash.
Wongfei swings his weapon up and then chop down on Jacen, but was blocked and then Jacen tried to attack, but missed. Then, they crossed weapons again and Jacen pressed Wongfei backward. Wongfei tried again to attack Jacen, again, but was blocked again. He tries to launch a claw at Jacen, but didn't have the chance to stop and aim. Then, Wongfei lost his balance a little and Jacen swung his sword and hit Wongfei's chest. Then, Jacen jumped on him and pushed him down the mountain. They both sided all the way down back to the city area. They quickly got back up to clash again and again.
"Wongfei, I don't want to fight you!" Jacen shouted and then jumped back from him." I don't want to fight another friend."
"Where's your sense of honor Jacen? Fight me!"
"Where's your sense of justice? This battle is destroying peace. We must stop this at once."
"Peace will never last forever! And this incident proves it!"
"That's because you help cause it! I don't want to fight you. I've already given up fighting, and continuing on will be meaningless." Jacen puts his sword down."We should put down our arms and accept the peace that we worked so hard to achieve."
"You fool!" Wongfei charges him and knocks him down, but Jacen quickly got back up,"Then you will burn!!"
A shoulder cannon pops up from Wongfei's back and he unleased a storm of hot flames at Jacen's suit.
"I'm going to burn you from inside your suit! You can't withstand intense flames, even with your Gundam, but with your muscle trace system, you will be a fried chicken in no time! DIE!!!"
He was right, with the MT system, Jacen will be scorched. Jacen tried his best to defend himself, but the flames were too rough.
Then, the flames gave him a horrorible flashback of his childhood.
"Mother!" He heard himself screaming for his family as he remembers everything.
The horrible nightmares he had. His family was all killed. No one was left alive. He floated in a shuttle far off in the distance as his colony burned from the inside.
The he remembers seeing his father...lying on the ground...dying, but this was both a visison of the past and his deep conscience telling him something. His father looked to him in the face. His eyes were blanked and it seems to be just a dead corspse, but the face talked to him as if it was still alive.
"Fight Jacen..." Jacen's father shouted to him, "The king of our country never runs from his enemies...fight! Fight him Jacen! Fight!!"
Jacen snapped out of the vision and then screamed as he moved his hands and blocked the flames, then pushing back at Wongfei. His hand closed the flame cannon's opening and his sealed by crushing it, then pushes Wongfei back.
"What the hell is this!!" He takes out a beam saber and stabs at Jacen, but hits his shoulder. Jacen's own shoulder started to bleed from the same spot,"I missed?!"
Jacen then, shoves Wongfei back and slashes at his chest.
"I'LL KILL YOU!!!" Jacen shouted in anger and then chopped at Wongfei's head and breaks one of his eyes and then stabs at his cannon and dices it. then pushes him into a cliff part of the mountain.
He then, chopped at Wongfei's joints so hard that he damaged them, disabling his suit. He then, started to punch at it and then bashing it with his sword.
"My enemies die!!" He takes his saber and fires burst of shots at Wongfei and then smacked him some more.
Wongefei was helpless to stop Jacen.
"I'll Kill you! I'll kill you!" Jacen shouted over and over again as he pratically went berserk.
"Damn it!" Wongfei shouted as he could do noting from stopping Jacen, but then aimed his shoulder cannons at Jacen and shot him back and then continued firing at him, until his guns overheat and went offline.
Then smoke parted, and stood there not too far off was Jacen's suit. Inside, those beam burst attacks only caused minor bruses all over Jacen's body. Jacen had his swords in hands and was ready for a final attack.
"He's...not...human..." Wongfei said in fear, and Jacen brought his swords together and points them high up into the air as they charge.
Jacen then brought his swords down and aimed at Wongfei's suit. His face seemed calm, but of course that means that the ZERO system has got to him again. He lifted up his weapon high and then took aim at Wongfei and was about to unleash is fury. He fired, but someone pushed him out of the way and he fired a beam in the air. The beam struck the clouds and made a shockwave that clear the heavens to reveal the night sky.
Wongfei got out of his trashed suit and runs away. He then remembers what Jacen had said to him.
"We should put aside our weapons and live on...."
Laura got out of her suit and ups Jacen's. Jacen was unconcious.
"Jacen!" Laura tries to wake him, but he was silent, "Jacen wake up! You are not dead! Get up...don't leave me..."
She held Jacen's lifeless body in her arms. Of course Jacen is not dead...he is just in a state of being both dead and alive. For the moment, he is neither living nor dead.
He wakes up in a dark place...there were no doors...no ceiling...no walls...just plain darkness....
"Where...am I?" Jacen was walking around in the darkness, but he was going nowhere fast.
Then, a voice from nowhere said to him.
"Where are you going?" Jacen turned to the voice. "You're still the clueless aprentice I taught...It's a wonder why you are still alive in the state you are in..."
"...Trieze..." Jacen said as his former teacher appears from the shadows,
"Is that how you greet your master?"
"I have no time to reminience about the past...or talk about the present."
"Oh...but we have all the time in the world...You keep on forgetting the one thing that I've taught you."
"What..."
Trieze smiles a bit. He was holding his sword and points it up at Jacen.
"You idiot appentice...the will to live is absolutely essential...live on Jacen...it is not your time to die, yet."
Then, Excalibur reactivated and stood up on its own. A surge of white electricity ran through the outer armor of the suit and then the suit's color from black changed to pure white. Excalibur changed into dragon mode. Jacen and Laura stood on its back.
"Laura..." Jacen said as he gets back up.
"Jacen..." Laura reaches out and embrace him.
"You alright...it's going to be a little dangerous from here on...get to safety..."
"No....I will stay by your side, Jacen. I want to be with you...."
Excalibur took flight and flew up high.
In the underground presidential palace, Relena looks at the now white dragon that circles the skies.
"The dragon has regain its wings and now is heading back into the face battle." Relena said softly. "...live on Jacen..."
"Get all forces ready!" Dekim commanded, "Where is Drake!?"
"Sorry, sir! Commander Drake is not showing up on our sensors anymore!!"
"What!!"
Outside, Excalibur hovers above the Barton Mobile Suits.
"White dragon!!" a soldier shouted, "...he's coming right for us!"
Excalibur flew toward the army of Serpents and Sagittarians. It transformed and readies itself.
"You ready Laura?"
An extra chair came down from the ceiling of the cockpit and set itself nearly on top of Jacen's lap. Laura sits on it. Behind the chair a screen pops out to show what is in front of him since the entire chair is blocking him.
"Ready when you are, Jacen."
"Alright, let's get them!"
Jacen charged at the army of suits and attack. He dashed pass two suits and quickly turned around and sliced them with his two swords and then moved on to the next group and too out his guns and got a lot more. Then he ran out of ammo and swung the guns around to knock some enemies down and drop them. Then, swoop down into another street dodging all the shots that the enemy suits throw at him. Then, he pauses for a moment and throws both his swords at two suits, disabling them instantly, then dash in close and activates his forearm beam saber and claws. He then dices the legs of three more suits. Then, his hands attracted his swords back into his hands and he moved on. He connected his swords on the sides and charged forward with his beam shield up. Then, increasing more power to his thrusters and crashing into a whole cluster of troops and then as he did that with his shield arm, his other arm points behind him and fires a EMP blast in the direction of a line of suits behind him, knocking them all down. He stands back up and slashes more with some incoming Serpents, but even though he is Jacen, he seemed overwhelmed for a moment.
"Well, they certainly are getting bolder...too bad their not getting any smarter!" he opened up his head vulcans which turns out to be laser powered. He fires powerful red beams at the troops of Mobile Suits.
He then did a disappearing act and reappears behind some suits and dices them before they can react.
"This is battle is lagging on..." David said as he retreats a bit. Then two Serpents jumped him, but by the time he looked back to see his enemies, they were shot down, "What?!"
Then he looked up and sees three Federation class warships and they each launch suits down into the city.
"How many troops do we have?!" David asked
"Sir, we has about over 50...that's as much as we can gather!" a pilot said
"Guess we made it just in time," Mark said as he fires his pulse rifle at the enemies.
"Let's take'em all out!" Shiro shouted as he fires his beam rifle.
"Alright, let's charge them!" David shouted as he points his sword forward and him and some suits dash into battle.
Amuro tries to kill a Serpent, but Zechs pushes him, throwing off his aim and disables the suit instead.
"We don't want any deaths in this battle...none other than us." Zechs said, "We are peacemakers not killers."
"Alright, then," Amuro said, "Alright everyone listen up. Our objective is to secure the city, but...no killing, just disable the enemies!"
There were a chorus of sigh, and disappointing grunts, but all agree.
Just right after Jacen chops down another opponent, he looks up at the sky and sees two falling object heading toward the nearby body of water. It was Heero and Wufei.
Zero opens up its wings again and Altron pulls up a parachute and then cuts it loose. The two draws weapons again and clashes.
"I don't approve of Relena Peacecraft's ways. It's wrong to think you can achieve peace by just throwing away the weapons and locking up the soldiers!"
"Is that why we should allow Mariemeia to be a dictator?!"
"It will be something for the soldiers to go by-!" Wufei dashes up and slashes Heero's chest. His gundam flickers sparks from external damage. "Humanity needs wars to learn its lesson! That's why I must keep fighting!"
Wufei slashes Heero's suit again and picks off a pick of Zero's shoulder guard.
"That may be fine for now, but she's only repeating history. The sad and miserable history of war! If we don't stop it now, they'll need soldiers like us again! The tragedy called history will just be repeated...Wufei, tell me, how many more people do we have to kill?" Heero gets another flashback of that same girl that Heero met and killed almost two years ago, "...How many more times must I have to kill that little girl?"
"What?" Wufei said as that statement shocked him.
Heero then shuts off Zero and it falls to the water,
"Zero never gave me an answer...Tell me, Wufei."
Zero falls into the water and the water ripples as Zero sinks to the bottom. Wufei seemed to show a sad face as he remembers his home colony get destroyed in front of him.
"Would an incident like that have to be repeated again..." Wufei said as he hovers over where Heero fell.
Meanwhile elsewhere in Space. Quatre, along with Trowa and Duo gets ready to go to Earth.
"Are you both ready?"
"Yeah, any time!" Duo said
"This is how Operation Meteor should have been carried out." Trowa said
"Then, let's go now!" Quatre gets his shotel ready and slices open the main door and they all jumped out. Quatre opens a channel, "Jerry, is your forces ready?"
"Ready when you are,"
"We're heading to Earth now,"
"Roger that Quatre," Jerry said and turned to Dread, "Aina, lead them out."
"Yes, sir. All Federation forces move out!"
Jerry, along with Carl, Daniel, and some Federation troops fell toward Earth.
Back on Earth, the forces there that came with David and the others were getting pinned down.
"Tallgeese, Taurus, and a battalion of Federation troops have passed defense line 3, point D!" A soldier said to Dekim, "The Excalibur units and another Federation battalion are heading toward defense line 6 point F!"
"What can they do with such few suits? Send counterattack troops to all those points!!"
"Yes sir!"
"What a shame. I don't think you'll be able to meet your brother again," Mariemeia said to Relena.
Outside. Mark and Shiro dashes through another line of suits with their beam sabers. As they do, they hear battle chatter and Dekim speaking to the world.
"There are fools who still resist our newly found law and order. You must all think of the true meaning of the blood that is going to be spilled!"
"Pitiful bastards, this battle is not accomplishing anything. Why are we fighting this battle?" Shiro said
"Unfortunately, the world is not as reasonable as you are Shiro," Mark said, and they charge on, Jacen happens to be listening to that conversation.
"But in fact the people are too reasonable. There are far too few people who will stand up against Mariemeia." Jacen said
Inside the underground base, Lady Une manages to infiltrate it. She stands on the security room, watching the screens depicting the battles outside.
"This is Treize's ideal? They don't even realize that Dekim is manipulating them. Mariemeia is just a puppet for him!"
Outside, Noin and some suits tries to advance forward, but a few get shot down. Zechs and Jacen dashes through a crowd. Zechs jumps over one, while Jacen disappeared through it and they both ended up behind the suits, where they slash and stab away. David and Mark flies in the air trying to press forward and provide air support, but then, David was shot down by a laser weapon from a warship, but landed softly on the ground. David then retreated to where Noin. Noin got hit again, and her shields failed. Zechs fell back as well; he looks up at his screen and sees that his sensors detected more suits. Suits were coming from all over the place. Then, there was a barrage of missiles that hit where Zechs and Noin is. They braced in and defend their position. A few more Federation suits went down from the attack.
"We've reached our limit..." Zechs said
"I'm not saying any goodbyes, yet, Zechs!" Noin said
"Of course not, Noin!"
The enemy suits dashed closer to their prey and open fire at them. Jacen himself and his forces withdrew while firing and they were soon back to back in a wide area of the city. More Federation suits fell to the power of the Serpents and Sagittarians and their overwhelming number against their. Then, Jacen's forces were trapped and surrounded. The Barton suits then stopped, stood their weapons down, and hold their positions. Jacen received a communicate from Dekim.
"You have all fought well...Worthy of the History books...but, I'm, afraid that this is the end...surrender now, and join us...or die defending your lost cause..."
"We will not be your pawns Dekim!" Jacen shouted.
"Well then I'm sorry..." Dekim nodded to someone and ended the conversation. "I guess this will be the last conversation we'll have...Duke Fanel."
The Barton army raised their weapons again for a final attack. Jacen raised his saber and so did some suits that ran out of weapons except that. They were all ready to die.
Just then, three suits got their head chopped off by two whirling blades from nowhere. It was Sandrock, with a few dozen Federation Vanguards dropping from behind him.
"Looks like we've arrived just in time." Quatre said as he detached his cloak. "Not that you guys can't take care of yourselves."
"Quatre!" Noin shouted.
Some Serpents fired at him, but he charged forward and sliced off their heads.
"You guys are amazing. All this fighting and not a single soldier killed, at least for the enemy side."
"I'm glad that we can be an example for you." David said back. "We just want to teach these people something, here!"
Some Sagittarians fired beam cannons and then detected a new enemy. They looked far at the end of a street and Jerry decloaks from stealth mode and fired his claws at their heads, knocking down three suits Then, from above, Duo and Carl appeared, dropping behind the enemies and dicing them up.
"Let's only take their weapons and war itself with us to Hell!" Duo said
Other suits tried to fire at the Gundams, but then they were shot down by gattling and energy blasts. Daniel, Mike, and Trowa jumped into the air, with Trowa doing a flip in his Gundam and Mike and Daniel barrel rolling. They landed and brought all their weapons to bear. The Barton suits were instantly disabled.
"About 400 suits left. We have about 100, each group. If were just getting rid of the Mobile Suits I think we could manage it." Trowa said
Elsewhere, people from all over the world watch the battle just beginning to unfold. Inside the Presidential palace, Dekim gets mad at the resistance.
"Those brats! How long do they plan to resist me?!"
"Even if they destroy the Mobile Suits, they can't reach this shelter. Their resistance is futile." Mariemeia said calmly.
Relena then gets up.
"I..."
"What is it, Relena?"
"I...I was running away. " Relena runs to a console and opens a channel with the world.
"People, you must not be afraid of what you see." He face appears on a screen, "Peace is not something that someone gives to you! Nor can it be forced! Peace must be earned. You must long for it in your hearts!-"
But she was cut off.
"Who was that?!" Someone asked
"That was Queen Relena..." another replied.
"Your appearance is yet to come, Your Majesty." Dekim said angered and a bit sarcastically.
Relena had a grim look of determination.
"Are you guiding the people to battle?" Mariemeia asked, "Aren't those actions against your total peace policy"
"I no longer consider myself as a Peacecraft. It is not policy or assertion we need now, but the desire for peace! I realized that to gain peace takes more than just words."
"But your way failed! The people won't fight back. I've already won."
At a certain town nearby, the people talk about the battle that is happening right before their eyes.
"What's going on?" someone asked
"Isn't the war over?"
"Gundams are fighting?"
"Wasn't that Duke Fanel's Gundam?"
They all chattered about, until someone interrupted them.
"You people going to continue standing in awe and do nothing!?" a female voice cried out. The crowd turned to see that it is Dorothy, "Is Mariemeia the master you've been waiting for? Come on go wag your tails in front of her."
"Hey! You comparing us to dogs?!" a man shouted out.
"Oh pardon me. You're not the dogs that wag their tails in front of their masters...in fact, you're the tail that gets wag."
"Shut your mouth lady! You're looking at a man who shot down 10 Mobile Suits in the war, so don't you be calling us names!"
"Oh, I don't see any men here...The only men that I see...are either buried-or always have their faces up displayed on that screen!" she points to the screen showing the battle in progress.
The screen showed shots from all over the city, from far off views, to close ups.
We see Deathscythe, and Thor slashing left and right. Then, we switched to Heavyarms and Nu blasting away. Then, we see Jacen doing an overhead slash.
The crowd's faces changed as they realize the situation.
Then, we see each and every pilot, as they fight. Sweat pour down their faces as they fight, not to kill, but to save others souls from their mistakes.
"I guess peace is not just handed to us...right."
They all remembered what Relena said. We see Zechs flying all over the place, dodging the enemy fire and hanged back to see Federation suits firing and going down, as they pick off several Serpents and Sagittarians. Vanguards and Dreads took cover behind buildings, as they laid heavy fire on their enemies.
"You're right...we should be fighting ourselves...of course we don't have anymore weapons to fight with!"
"Is that the responsible given to us, survivors?"
"We must prove that we deserve this peace we worked so hard to achieve...we must prove that we deserve this freedom."
"Hm, ok, I'm going to where Miss Peacecraft, if anyone wants to follow!?"
"Right here!"
"I'm going too, I just can't wait around and do nothing!"
"Count me in!"
"Yeah, I'm ready to join you!"
The crowd was all getting excited.
"Well I have no choice" She picks up her cell phone, "Send them in."
Then, all of the sudden, some strange transport ships appear in the sky.
"Whoever wants to fight for their freedom, please board the ships!" Dorothy said as she led the mob in, "To arms!"
Inside each transport ships were brand new Mobile Suits.
Back with the battle. Some Barton suits flew up and fired beam cannons at Heavyarms and his group. The suits missed him, and Heavyarms group fired back, knocking the suits down. One suit fell on top of another.
A Serpent fires its gattling gun, but Sandrock jumped on it and sliced off and arms, knocking it off balance. Then, two suits jumped on him, in an attempt to put him into submission. Quatre got mad and jets up high. Then pushes off the suits and cuts them down.
On the ground, Shiro, Aina, and Mark fires their beam weapons at opposing suits on the other line and knocks them down. Serpents from the air were swooping down on them and firing their gattling guns. Then Shiro picked up a missile launcher and fired a salvo at a Serpent's leg and shot it down. A Vanguard was holding a chain gun and fires at the other flying Serpent and knocks it down.
Then, two commander types, one a Serpent Custom, the other a Sagittarian Custom, charge up at them. They fly up into the air and was spotted by the three Federation aces. They all fired at the two new suits, but the Barton commander types skillful dodged all their shots. Mark and the Vanguard with the chain gun tried to shoot down the enemy, but then, two bazooka shots blows off Marks left arm, and downed the guy behind him. Mark looked down at his severed arm to see that it is still moving, then look back up to see the Serpent with a big barrel bazooka. It was a little bigger than his suit. Then, the other suit, which was smaller and faster, equipped with a machinegun. Their heads had visor eyes, unlike the regular units with the square looking one, these were narrow looking.
"Split up Shiro! I'll get big, ugly!" Mark said and Shiro head off to chase after the other one while the Serpent one remained,
Mark continues to fire at the new type, but the Serpent popped up laser turrets from its shoulders and fired at Mark, who retreated, firing, and then slides into an alley. Shiro and the other one dashed away from the battle, then split up in between buildings and then jumped. Shiro got on top of a building. The Sagittarian commander unit flew far above him and fired missiles from launchers from its back. Shiro then blasted out his thrusters and dodged them all.
Back with Mark, he fired continuously, then jumps back onto a main street an breaks a piece of the Serpent's head, but the Serpent fires back with its big cannon, and makes a big dent on Marks right chest. He falls on his legs, but his suit seemed to be failing him. He looks at his opponent, who drops its depleted cannon and takes out his gattling gun. But after it equips its gattling gun. Mark flew back a little, dropped his blaster, takes out his beam saber, and dashes right up to it. He then chops up his opponent.
Back with Shiro, he seemed to have eluded the enemy. As the enemy suit looks around for Shiro, Shiro drops in front of him and fires his machine gun. The suit also fires his machine gun, but Shiro destroys the guy's weapon. The Sagittarian drops his destroyed weapon, along with some other back parts and then charge up to Shiro with a left arm beam saber weapon. He tried to cut Shiro up, but Shiro flew back and blasted up the guy's suit and still did not kill him.
Then, we go to Deathscythe, who stabs a suit with the other end of his scythe, and knocks it down, then smacks another one from behind. He sees two more Serpents trying to rush him, but he jets up and cuts their heads off. The suits fell and Duo moves on. He then reached a position that had some Federation Dreads covering it, but they were knocked down as more Barton suits laid heavy fire as Duo enters the area.
"Damn, they just keep on coming all at once!" Duo then dashes forward with his weapon ready to slam into enemies, "Here I go, AHH!"
Duo plowed through a whole line of Barton suits.
We move to Heavyarms and Nu, they hold their positions well, then a Serpents fires all its missiles. Heavyarms used its gattling guns as an AMS and takes down all the incoming missiles. Daniel then raised a hand and launched his funnels at the enemies and fired them.
Then, we go back to Sandrock as he takes up another offensive stance.
"Looks like were fighting another losing battle." Quatre said as he then jets up into a crowd of suits.
Jacen chopped up one suit after another, but the numbers seemed endless.
"Damn, where are all these suits coming from?!" Jacen shouted after he got hit.
"We must fall back and regroup. We can't stand against this many at once if we are not killing them." Laura said
"We would be able to finished this more quicker if I was able to fire a few buster shot!"
"If we wanted to kill them all,"
"(Sigh) All units regroup near the center of the east part of town!" Jacen regains one of his gattling guns and fires it as he retreats.
Meanwhile, underwater. Zero lied still on the floor. Then, the suit started to reactivate itself. It was like it was alive...or it was just the backup system. This woke up Heero.
"Hm?"
The suit started to move on its own again.
"Zero...Don't fail me now?" The suit's power started to raise to full and it got back up...Heero looked at the screen and then, "We still have a job to do."
Heero punches his throttle to full and the suit was off.
Back at the battlefield, The Federation suits were getting rounded up as they retreat.
"Now! Give them all you got!" Jacen shouted as he fired his reloaded guns.
Everyone else was trying their best.
"Running low!!" Jerry shouted
A Dread's machinegun then clicked empty.
"I'm out!" Aina said
"Here! Make them count!" Carl shouted as he tosses her a Serpent gattling gun.
Duo tries to press back forward, and chops down a few suits, but was knocked back from bazooka shots. Then, we go to Zechs.
"Gundam pilots, that's enough. Leave us, and retreat!"
"What! Retreat!?" Quatre said, and then one of his swords got destroyed, "If this was a battle to take lives, it would have ended long ago. But if we did, that would've defeated the point of us coming here!"
Noin flies back and fires her rifle. One of her arms was already gone.
"But at this rate you'll die in vain." Noin said
Jacen then kicks down a suit, then takes out his cannon and shoots it.
"If we were gonna retreat, we would've been on the run from the start." Jacen explained, "But it's a bit ridiculous going on like this."
Trowa and Daniel seemed to have ran out of ammo and Daniel switched to beam saber and a bazooka of his own. Trowa dropped both his guns and then popped out heat blades from each arms.
"They are the way we used to be like during the war." Trowa said, "Dekim is manipulating their purpose in life."
"But you'll die!" Noin said
"Don't let it bother you." Jerry said, "We're used to having our asses kicked all the time."
"That's what makes us special!" Duo shouted.
Then, Quatre runs up and punches an enemy, then defends from a barrage.
"And that's why we can be who we are." Quatre said
Inside the Presidential palace again,
"I did not return to being Darlian for my father's revenge. Nothing comes from revenge. Hatred will only create more hatred!"
"That is because you lost. But I am different. I will be the victor of this battle." Mariemeia said
"The Gundams and Federation forces are trapped! They are all now seemed to have run dry of ammo!"
"You see? What they can hope to do?"
Deathscythe walks back as his blade switches off from lower power.
"I got nothing left!" Duo said
"Me too!" Jerry said
"I'm out!" Carl said
"So am I!" Daniel said
"We could clear half of them if we self-destruct. Should we?" Duo suggested.
"If you're going to self-destruct, don't take anybody else with you." Trowa said, "We're the only ones who should die."
"Heh, guess your right," Duo said back in defeat.
Everyone stood there didn't seem to be a way out.
"Everyone else that has one, go to sabers and prepare to make one final charge!" Jacen ordered, "If we go down...we go down as warriors."
The Gundams themselves, were handed either sabers or have something left, and gets ready to make a final move. Then, something appears on their sensors.
"Huh!" Quatre said
"Where!?" Trowa said
"Above us!" Duo shouted
Everyone looked up to see Wing Zero. A little mess up, but battle ready with the Buster Rifle charging.
"Wing Zero!" Zechs said.
Wing Zero was covered with new Federation models. It locks on and waits for orders.
"Locked onto the target," Heero said, "Waiting for next order..."
Jacen then disappears up to join him. He connected a saber in each arm and readies them for attack.
"Gundam Wing Zero has appeared right above us with a small detachment of new Federation suits." A Barton soldier said
"Suit, we are being hailed by Supreme Commander Fanel!"
Jacen's face appears on their large screen.
"Jacen?" Relena said
"This is your final warning...open your shelter doors, and surrender, or we'll give it a new one."
"What do you think you can do? -You are the one to surrender."
"Hmmm, Heero." Jacen turned to Heero and so does the screen.
"Heero," Relena said
"Confirm that your shelter shields are up." Heero said, "I hope for your sake, that those shields are as strong as you say...Do you feel safe in your cage?"
"You can't hurt us!" Mariemeia said, "You are powerless against us!"
"You asked for it then..." Heero ended the transmission,
"Let's give'em hell, Heero!" Jacen shouted and the two suits fired on the shield doors.
Two huge wide beams struck from the sky as they made the whole structure shook under the stress. When the first volley ended, there was still some surge of energy left on the doors of the presidential palace.
"Gather all available units here, shoot down those suits!!" Dekim commanded.
"S...such wretched men." Mariemeia said, "It's a w...waste of time d...doing such a thing..."
"You're sweating...are you afraid, Mariemeia?" Relena asked, as if she had too, since she could see right through her,
Excalibur and Wing Zero fired again, but the stress of the next shot blew off one of Zero's arm. The two beams met again and hit their target.
Inside power was being cut off and lights were flickering.
"Impossible, how could this be happening?!!" Dekim said
"Shield defense is down by half. Excalibur's and Wing Zero's aim is accurate by 100 of a unit. Though Excalibur looks like it could not fire anymore, but Wing Zero still could. If he hits the same place again, the shelter will collapse!"
"Stop! Relena Peacecraft is here, too!" But neither Heero nor even Jacen took that threat seriously.
Both the suits were cracking with energy. Excalibur withdrew its weapons.
"Heero...I can't fire anymore...you must end this...but...if you do fire...there is a strong possibility that your suit will blow itself up..." Heero did not answer, "You can go ahead, but are you willing to do it at the cost of your life."
"Heero..." Relena said. Somehow in a way, she heard him calling back to her.
"Relena..."
Barton units tried to shoot down Zero, but were not effective. Then, Heero thought for a moment and then sees that little girl again.
"I'd gladly paid-" Heero said and fires his weapon one last time. The last shot was more powerful than all the others and raged down at the gate protecting the presidential house.
From far below, everyone watched as Wing Zero was destroying itself. The blast from the last attack was short-circuting Zero's systems.
"Heero!!" Quatre cried out.
Inside the compound, the whole place was being destroyed. Then, as a beam was about to fall on Relena and Mariemeia, Lady Une jumps in and pushes them down.
Outside, Heero's beam ended and the whole mountain shook from the shock and there was a huge explosion. Wing Zero started to fall, but Jacen catches him and lowers him to the ground.
Back inside the compound, Lady Une helps the two she saved up.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah, who are you?"
"Even if you're in the wrong, I cannot let his Excellency, Treize's, daughter to die."
"There's another Gundam on defense line 4, point E and also..."
"Sir, were detecting a large dispatchment of unknown Mobile Suits attacking us!"
The screen was covered with an overwhelming number of new suits. The former veterans of the war piloted most.
"We're not listening to you anymore!" One said
"We don't want war!" another one said.
The Barton suits seemed to be intimated by the sight.
"We will protect our peace!"
Then, we see Altron standing behind a large group of citizens rioting.
"Battles like these are not decided by the soldiers...At last I can leave the fighting behind me. This Trieze is my goodbye..."
"Zechs..." Noin said
"This way...this way, I won't have to give up hope again." Zechs said
"The self-destruct was wasted again." Trowa said
"What the hell are they?!" Dekim shouted.
"Sir, we're receiving a communicate from the leader of the group, calling themselves the Federated Commonwealth of Earth!"
"What!!"
A new face appears on the screen.
"This is Commander Kyrensky of the Congressional coalition forces. You will all surrender now, or we will show no mercy to any of you." Then, the screen went back to normal, showing clips of every detail of what is happening outside.
"While his Excellency was fighting losing battles..." Lady Une said, "Treize loved people with the will and determination to fight, even in bad times. And that is why people will accept the Gundams. It's not the victor who moves the heart of the people."
Excalibur then drops Zero to the ground and both pilots came out.
"Ridiculous! We know no defeat! The Barton Family is the true ruler of the World! Mariemeia now is the time to stand at the head of the Nation!" Dekim shouted
"I am the victor..." Mariemeia moves forward and starts to act like a drone, "I will fulfill my father's will..."
Then, Lady Une moves to block her.
"Hmp, do forgive me." Lady Une moves to slap Mariemeia, but Relena beat her to it and hits her hard.
"Excuse me, but it's time you realized, Mariemeia."
"Uh, Relena..."
"Now you understand real fear and you should be able to accept your own mistakes."
"That's enough, Relena Peacecraft." Dekim points his gun at her. "I wish you wouldn't put ideas into my Mariemeia's head."
"Shoot me if you wish. I am resolved!"
"Heh! Then I'll tell you the truth before you die. The public is always expected to obey the victor!"
Dekim pulls the trigger, but Mariemeia get in the way and is hit. She falls to the ground and a pool of her own blood is spilled.
"Mariemeia!" Relena shouted as she helps her up.
"I can replace Mariemeia easily. Even she's the one that I-" just as he was about to finish, he points his gun again and aims.
"Dekim!!" Une shouted as she jumps up with her gun ready, but something else happens. Deckim was not able to pull the trigger to his gun. Instead he felt an intense pain from his chest.
There was a sword that went right through him from behind. The sword was straight and had chinese design. Deckim turned his head around to see a cloaked figure, and only could see some long strands of silver colored hair. The figure's face was not entirely revealed. But his eyes was almost glowing red, and he smiled.
"That was for me..." the cloaked figure said and pulls the sword of and Deckim falls to his knees. "And this...this is just for the hell of it..."
He raised his sword again and swung it at Deckim's neck, cutting through it in one swipe. Deckim looked stunned for a moment and then his head fell off and rolled on the floor.
"I guess I took the pleasure from Jacen of killing him," the figure said and left, with his claok swaying behind him.
When he left, everyone paid attention to Mariemeia.
"Mariemeia, hold on." Relena said as she holds her up.
"I was wrong...I...I'm so sorry..."
"Mariemeia-"
"-I'll relieve you of your pain..." Heero said as everyone turned to see him put up his gun.
"Heero?"
"Oh...it's you, again...I would have never guessed it would be you to end it..." Mariemeia said, "I thank you..."
Heero pulls the trigger to his gun, but it clicks empty.
"I've killed Mariemeia." Heero said, most likely meaning it symbolically, "I...I won't kill anyone, anymore... I...I don't have to anymore..."
Heero then collapse.
"Oh Heero!" Relena runs to him and catches him. "...Heero..."
But then, Jacen enters to room. His black hair was not sweaty and wet, and his military uniform was ruined in blood and dirt. He had his family sword drawn and walked into the room.
Jacen runs to check on Mariemeia,
"There's still hope! Get her to the medical room quickly!" Jacen ordered
"Yes, sir!" a soldier obeyed and moved to help.
"Finally...it's all over..." Relena said as she nursed Heero in her arms.
Jacen stood up and looked at the head of Deckim that rolled onto the floor.
"Who killed him?" Jacen asked.
"Someone cloaked..." Wongfei said as he walked up to him, "He used a strange looking sword. It bore the same symbol that your sword had."
Jacen looked at his sword, and smiled a bit.
"Well, clean up the mess here Commander Hung...I'm tired..." Jacen turns and walks out.
"Heh...yes sir..." Wongfei said.
Outside, soldier from all side, disarmed and stood down. The soldiers of Mariemeia stood down and got out of their suits. Then, in a public gathering, they burned their weapons and clothes of war (Their hats, arm bands, etc.)
Wufei watches with everyone, as this appears to be a renewal of peace.
Sometime later, on Earth. Three Gundam pilots were about to destroy their suits.
"Well it's goodbye for real," Duo said, "...buddy."
Duo was the first to press the self-destruct button. Deathscythe, Sandrock, and Heavyarms, slowly glowed and destroyed themselves.
"I'm back to being nameless." Trowa said
"I don't think it makes a difference. Trowa sounds fine with me..." Quatre said, "Why don't you just keep it."
"Names are for other people to call you. It's no use trying to change that. What's important that w have a place we can call home...right"
"Yeah, you're right Duo."
Elsewhere, in China most likely, Wufei also is preparing to blow up his suit and does so. Altron lights up and then explodes from a safe distance.
"Nataku...may you rest in peace."
"Wufei," Sally said, "Noin and Zechs have disappeared somewhere. How about it? You want to work with me?"
"A Preventer, eh? Heh, why not?"
Up in Space, in a shuttle.
"Are you sure? Mars Terraforming still isn't in the operational stage." Noin said
"It's something Relena's working on. It's bound to be rash. That's why someone who's already dead has to do it. Noin, you don't have to..."
"Don't make me repeat myself, Zechs...again."
The shuttle zooms off to a distance.
Back on Earth, where Deathscythe, Heavyarms, and Sandrock was destroyed, Jerry and Carl walks on the field.
"Hmmm, it seems that they have left," Jerry said, "Alright send the recovery team in..."
A MS transport and savage team came swiftly and picks up the pieces of the Gundams.
"I hope you forgive us guys," Carl said, "Like Prof. G have said 'Think of a better way to use it than destroy it'. These we still need."
Then, Carl's cell rang.
"Yes?"
"Sir, we have already completed in salvaging Gundam Altron."
"Good, take it to Mars..."
Several days later, on colony Giaea Alpha, Jacen and Laura toast to each other.
"Happy Anniversary, Laura,"
"And Happy New Years to you as well..."
Then, they both felt something and turned around to the doorway. There was someone in the shadows.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything?" the figure asked.
"Well...I was beginning to wonder..." Jacen said "it was your doing with Deckim right?"
"I really wanted to let you have the fun in killing him. him being your last target on your list."
"Don't worry about it. I was actually going to spare him. I didn't have what it took to be a killer again."
"That's what I said to myself...before I realized again that killing is just the way of life..." The cloaked figure walked out of the shadows and pulls down his hood. The man was about the same age as Jacen is, and looked almost like him, but had a bit of long silver colored hair tied in a pony tail. He had red eyes and at his side was the same sword that was used to kill Deckim. "So, when's the party going to start, brother?"
"Heh, after all this time you still haven't changed much haven't you, Dante..."
Jacen looked up at the artificial sky.
"Another time of change is upon us already... Dante said "but now it is up the the next generations of leaders to take action for it. They will blame on their fathers and mothers for it, but I hope their children will forgive us for it."
Elsewhere on the colony, Relena was invited to Jacen's New Years party as well. She walks around Jacen's finished castle and then looks out a balcony. Then, just when it seems a bit too quiet, Heero creped up behind her. Relena turned around.
"Heero?"
"Relena...I'm sorry...to keep you waiting...for so long..."
The two got closer together and embraced under the false moon.
"...don't leave me again...ever..."
Relena returns to her work as a minister of peace, with Heero at her side, protecting her. Duo, going back to his usual job as a machinical and computer parts technician. Trowa back at the circus. Quatre running his family business and head of his House. And Wfuei off on some other purpose as the Preventer "Earth".
After Colony year 197. The people have regained their peace. And from there on, the people hope that...peace will last forever...but...that is only what the people hope for... The desires of man...always gets in the way...How long will this peace last?
The End? ...Or is it?