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Gundam Wing: The Missing Chapter
Episode 2: Revival of the crimson Gundam
Alec was in shock at what he was seeing and hearing. His once calm and wonderful town was thrown into chaos. Where houses once stood, there is now only rubble. The gentle air was replaced with thick black smoke. The songs of birds was replaced with the sounds of explosions and the cries of the civilians.
"No.....What's.......going on?" Was all Alec could mutter out. Then an especially large explosion caught Alec's attention. It was near his and Tom's houses. Alec gasped, "Mom! Dad! Tom!". He ran down the hill and sprinted as fast as he could towards his home.
Meanwhile Kyo and the defectors of White Fang are currently situated near some mountains. Kyo began wondering what to do next.
"The White Fang outnumber us greatly. We've got limited MS and our supplies are also running out. This looks bad. Still-"
"Captain!" Kyo turned around. "What is it Reef?"
"Our scouts have reported in. They say the White Fang have already started attacking the colony!"
"What?!...........So Hadrian....you really have done it. You've started another journey to despair for all of us. Reef!"
"Yes Sir!"
"Prepare 8 Taurus MS and get hold of 6 men and suit yourself up!"
"But Sir, that makes only 7 men."
"I know. I will go too."
Hadrian is sitting in the bridge of one of the 5 remaining shuttles. He has his hand on his chin as he looks on a screen. "Hmm, the MS have already taken over this section, and also this one. This is turning out to be easier than I thought. Many people on this colony have died I see but I guess that's what they get for refusing to help us heheh. Still, it is taking a long time." He turned around and faced one of the men who was at the controls. He is no older than 20. He has black curly hair and has blue eyes like Hadrian's. He is Trajan, Hadrian's first son. "Trajan, how long until we can get the Mobile Dolls working again?" Trajan stood up as he calmly replies, "Father, unfortunatly, seeing as how the main control unit for our Mobile Dolls was destroyed along with Libra, we cannot reactivate the Mobile Dolls."
Hadrian grew angry, "What?!! You mean to tell me we can't use our Mobile Dolls?!"
Trajan remained calm as he answers, "Not at this time. But the capital New Manchester may have what we need to rebuild new control units."
Hadrian's mood lightens, "Ah good! Then we will proceed to the capital shortly."
But Trajan responds, "If I may, perhaps we won't need to use Mobile Dolls. See how well we are doing now without them."
Hadrian then eyes Trajan suspiciously, "You know Trajan you are starting to sound like that dog Kyo."
But Trajan reassures, "I'm loyal to the White Fang father, I too want to fight the Earth again...."
"Good, that's what I like to hear. Now, go to the armoury and see how we fare on supplies."
"Yes Sir."
Trajan leaves the bridge and as the door closes behind him he silently says to himself, "But I want to fight the Earth in an honorable way. Not by souless machines like Mobile Dolls, and not by these acts of brutality."
"So I take it his mind hasn't changed."
Trajan turns to his left and sees a young White Fang officer who looks like Trajan, only younger of course. He is Hadrian's second son, Florian.
Trajan sighed, "No brother, he still determined to use Mobile Dolls. I just wish we could change his mind. somehow."
Florian noticed his brother's sad expression. He hates seeing his brother sad. He places one hand on Trajan's shoulder. "Don't worry, I know we'll think of something."
Trajan smiled at Florian, "Yeah, but we stick with fathers plan until then." Florian nods.
"Mom! Dad! Where are you?!" Alec desperatly tries to find his parents. Everywhere he turns he can see rubbles, ashes, complete destruction. "MOOOOMMM! DAAAAAAAAD!!" He yells out even louder. No reply, only more explosions nearby. He ran even further and then stopped dead in his tracks, shocked at what he sees, his house, or rather what used to be his house. The upstairs was literally gone and part of the house was on fire. Still, Alec ran in. "Mom! Dad!" Are you in here?" No response. Alec tries searching for his parents but all the thick smoke makes it hard for him to see and breath. Eventually, the smoke was too much and Alec had no choice but to run outside, hoping that his parents escaped too as his house finally collapses. Alec coughed from all the smoke, just then he remembered Thomas's house, which was quite near so he sped off hoping to find his friend.
It was horrible, Alec could see people lying on the floor dead or dying. Little did he know the worst was yet to come. Finally he reached his friend's house, only to see it in ruins much like his own though to a lesser extent. Alec looked around until he saw a familiar body lying next to the house. It was Thomas. Alec ran to his friend. It was clear that Thomas was wounded.
"Tom! Say something! Tom!"
Thomas opened his eyes.His vision was blurry but he could make out the person in front of him was Alec.
"Hey.....Alec....Guess I shoulda kept my mouth shut eh?"
"Tom....."
"Man....what a way to go..killed by the very thing I.....wanted to be.."
"What you wanted to be? You don't mean.."
"Alec...there are mobile suits...here....Tauruses.....from White Fang"
"What, that's impossible!!"
"Alec!!...Beh.....behin........behind.y.."
"Tom....TOOOOOOMMMM!
Alec had no time to grieve, there was a familiar noise behind him, almost mechanical. Alec turned round and to his great shock, it was indeed a Taurus Mobile Suit.
The cockpit opened up and a White Fang officer stepped out and said to Alec.
"Well what do we have here? Some Earth supporting kids who were unfortunate enough to get in our way?"
Alec clenched his fists in anger.
"You! You did this?!!"
"Well, me and my boys. Seeing as how this colony loves the Earth so much we just figured we show this colony exactly what we'll do to Earth afterwards, hahahahaha! Ah yes I, Lt Klein can't wait to get back to fighting that planet. It'll be marvellous!"
"You......You'll pay for this!"
In anger, Alec grabbed a rock nearby and with all his strength, hurled it at Klein which hits him in the head. He reels in pain as he clutches his head which starts to bleed. Alec was about to throw another one but then he sees in the distance, two more Tauruses so he ran. The two Tauruses caught up with Klein who was stil holding his head.
"Lt. Klein! Are you alright?"
"Rrrargh! That punk will pay for this!"
Klein went back into his MS and closed the cockpit.
"You two, follow me! We're going hunting!"
"Yes Sir!"
Alec ran as fast he could before Klein could fully recover. As he ran he shed tears for his fallen friend Thomas, as well as what's happened to his town. He eventually reached the area that's been restricted by the authorities, which was blocked by a gate. He then faced a dillema. If he goes through the gate, he will have absolutly no idea where he will go and he might get lost. However, if he continues going the direction he's going he will lead the Tauruses straight into the next town, where Ellen lives. The Tauruses are fast approaching. Alec made his decision. He climbed over the gate and ran deeper into the restricted area.
After reaching the gate, the Klein and the two WF officers stopped.
"This is a waste of my time!" Exclaimed Klein. "You two, continue pursuit and kill that kid for me! No wait. Bring him to me alive, I want to kill him myself."
"Yes Sir!"
And with that, Klein retreats whilst the other 2 Tauruses continued pursuit.
Alec ran as fast as he could through the area. Until he sees the object that had crashed through the colony. It looked like a part of some kind of battleship. (Actually it's a piece of Libra). "Maybe, I can hide in here." Thought Alec and he ran inside. It was dark, he could hardly see anything. Fortunatly some of the internal lights still worked, although they had very little power left. Alec heard a noise outiside and knew that it was a the Tauruses.
"Come out, come out wherever you are!"
Alec heard one of the pilots speak through the MS. Alec now feels trapped. Hell, he is trapped. suddenly he tripped over some wires. As he stood up his eyes caught something in front of him. It looked like a foot of a mobile suit. It couldn't be...could it? He looked up and whilst it wasn't too clear, it looked like it was definatly a mobile suit.
"Come out kid!"
Sounds of explosion follows the pilot's yelling. Clearly he was trying to force Alec to come out.
"This mobile suit...." Alec thought. "Maybe I could....." Alec thought back, he remembers Thomas telling him that back on Earth, soldiers were encouraged to play games like Mobile Suit: Virtual Battle because it's similar to real mobile suit controls. "Could that....be true? Would I be able to pilot this?"
More explosions, this time getting nearer to Alec. "Like I have a choice?"
He climbed up to the cockpit and hoped that it would open. It does. And once it opened Alec looked inside and found....no-one, the MS is empty. The cockpit closed and Alec studied the controls. Indeed, they look a bit similar to that of the games he played but looks can be deceiving. With nothing else to lose, Alec prayed as he tries to activate the MS. At first....nothing, then a bleep, then a mechanical whirring sound, suddenly the whole cockpit lit up, the screens in front of Alec shows the outside. For the first time since the whole incident, Alec smiles. "It works!" Alec prayed as he pushes the control stick forward. It struggles as it slowly steps forward. Clearly this mobile suit has been damaged.
The Taurus pilots were getting impatient. "I'm tired of this! How can one kid..huh?"
Somthing begins to stir inside that large object they were facing. The two WF officers readied their beam rifles.
"Hey is it just me or does that look a lot like a piece of Libra?"
"Now that you mention it, it does...huh? What's that?"
An arm suddenly came out of the ruins, then the whole body of a Mobile Suit, or to be precise, a Gundam.
Alec sees the two Tauruses.
"Alright, now I'm ready to fight. I won't let you people...huh? Wait a second, where's my beam rifle? This....this is not good!"
Alec now sees what his mobile suit is. He's in the cockpit so all he can see is that it's arm is red, wait arm? Yes, one arm is missing! the legs are red too but it's also black from fire. Alec was stunned.
"What kind of mobile suit is this? I can't fight like this! There's no beam rifle, not even a machine gun!"
Meanwhile the other two pilots were shocked beyond belief.
"That.....that's Gundam Epyon!"
"How...did it get here?"
Alec overhears this on Epyon's transmitter.
"Epyon...is that what this is called? And it's a Gundam?"
"Epyon is in the hands of the enemy!! Destroy it!"
"Rodger that!"
Alec turns and sees that the Tauruses are readying their beam rifles.
"Alright, I guess vulcans will have to do."
But as he reaches to push the button to activate the vulcan guns, he finds there is none.
"You gotta be kidding me. Whoever built this Gundam was on Crack!!!!!"
The Tauruses fires and hits Epyon, damaging it a bit more.
"Arrghh! Does it at least have a melee weapon?"
He pushes other buttons and then Epyon automatically drew out it's beam sword.
"Finally! Take this!"
The Epyon uses it's boosters and charges at the enemy, but then the boosters deactivated and slowed Epyon considerably. Enough for the Tauruses to easily dodge it's attack. The pilots were amused.
"Heh, I guess it's just a shadow of it's former self."
"Yeah, this will be an easy battle."
The Tauruses continues their assault on Epyon. Shooting it whilst avoid it's clumsy attacks. Alec was getting frustrated.
"All that...and it was for nothing!! GGaaghh!"
In frustration he slammed his hands at the controls, which manages to drop a helmut above him onto him. As soon as the helmut closed, something..strange happened. Alec wasn't sure what was happening but he starts to see numbers and then, pictures of himself, and the two Tauruses outside. for some reason, the actions the pilots do hasn't happened at all. Unknown to Alec this causes the Epyon to stop. The pilots stopped too.
"Why did he stop?"
"Maybe he's given up. Finish him!"
"With pleasure!"
And the Taurus speeds towards the Epyon.
"That's......that's what he'll do. That's what he'll do!" Cried Alec. Suddenly he gets another mental image, this time showing him a control stick to the right with a button. Alec snapped out of the trance and looks around and indeed there was a control stick. He grabbed it and pushes the button. This activated the Gundam's Heat Rod. With it's remaining arm, Epyon extends it towards the charging Taurus and the whip like weapon shoots out and impales the taurus.
"AAAARRRRRRGGHHHH!" With that last cry, the White Fang officer explodes along with the Taurus.
Alec's head really starts to hurt. So much that he tore off the helmut and was just in time to see the second Taurus aiming it's rifle.
"Game Over kid."
Alec closes his eyes in defeat, just then another Taurus arrives. The White Fang officer turns around.
"Oh Lt Klein, I forgot you want to kill him right?"
No response.
"Uh Liutenant?
Then the Taurus aims it's beam rifle at the Taurus who was aiming at Epyon and fires and took it's arms off.
"Lt Klein! What are you doing?"
??? "I don't know what Lt Klein is doing. But I'm killing you."
"What you're not-NAARRRRRRRRGHHHH"
One last shot destroys the White Fang Taurus.
The other Taurus then turns to the heavily damaged Epyon.
"Hey kid! You ok in there?!"
"Wha.....Who are......you??
Alec then passed out from the pain in his head.
"Captain! This is Reef. I found another survivor! And that's not all I've found."
Pitch black was replaced by blinding lights when Alec woke up.
"Aargh my eyes!"
"Calm down kid, you're safe now."
"Where am I?"
Alec's vision became clearer and he finds himself in a small room on a bed, it looks like an infirmary. He turns left and sees Reef, who by the way was still wearing the White Fang uniform. Needless to say, Alec freaked out.
"Argh! You people!!!!"
"Whoa whoa calm down! I'll explain everthing."
Half an hour later.....
"And that's what happened. We couldn't save the towns but we did manage to find a few survivors."
Alec was still in shock at what he was hearing. He clenched his fists. "Hadrian..." He slowly spoke, "I....will make him pay for this!!!!"
Reef stood up. "Well.." He started, "You might just get that chance." A confused Alec looked up. "What?"
Reef continued, "We've been watching you from our cameras. Not only did you manage to pilot a damaged Gundam considerably well, but you also destroyed one of the enemy with one attack. A normal civilian wouldn't even know how to start up a MS, never mind fighting with one. You definatly have something. And our captain wishes to see you about that." With that, the infirmary door opened and Kyo came out.
"Greetings, Alec Mugetsu. How do you feel?"
"Lousy."
"That's expected. You have been through a lot. Anyway I'm gonna get to the point, we are trying to stop the White Fang but we are outnumbered. Any help at all will be appreciated. We won't force you if you don't want to but, will you help us?"
Alec just sat there. His mind is having difficulty digesting everything. So much has happened with very few explainations. He just looks around him and thinks back to his house, to his parents, to Thomas, to Ellen. Finally he looked up at Kyo and stood up as he faced him. And he sighed once before answering,
"This is not something I want to do.........but I feel it's something I HAVE to do. Captain, I am at your service."
Kyo smiled at this answer, "Thank you." Was all he said. Then he added, "My name is Kyosuke Mori but you can address me as Captain Kyo."
"Captain? Before I forget I need to ask, how did you know my name?"
"Well, when we brought you in the shuttle there is one girl we rescued who recognised you. Here she is."
Alec looked behind Kyo and his eyes widened as he saw who Kyo was talking about. Ellen.
"Alec!!"
"Ellen!!"
Ellen ran and hugged Alec. Alec gladly returned the hug.
"I should leave you two for a moment." Said Kyo and he left the infirmary and made his way to the bridge.
"Our next destination is the capital New Manchester, we have to warn them about the White Fang's invaision."
"Yes Sir!"
"Captain?"
"Yes Reef?"
"The capital might see us as one of the enemy. We are wearing White Fang uniforms."
"Good point."
Kyo walked a few steps forward before stopping. He then removed his captain hat and looked at it. Then threw it away.
"From this moment on, we will no longer be part of the barbaric group known as White Fang!"
Back to Ellen and Alec.
"So they managed to rescue you and a few other people too?" Alec asked Ellen.
"Yeah, although some are injured, but the people here are doing their best to help them."
Alec than thought of something.
"Ellen, what about my parents? Are they on board this ship too? Are they safe?"
Ellen made no reply, but just stared at the floor with a sad expression. Alec understood what this meant. He stared at the floor too and slowly tears starts forming around his eyes as he realised the very high possibility that his parents did not survive the invaision. Ellen saw this and hugged Alec again.
"I'm...so sorry Alec....."
End Episode 2
Next Episode: The launching of Orion! Part 1
Gundam Wing: The Missing Chapter
Episode 2: Revival of the crimson Gundam
Alec was in shock at what he was seeing and hearing. His once calm and wonderful town was thrown into chaos. Where houses once stood, there is now only rubble. The gentle air was replaced with thick black smoke. The songs of birds was replaced with the sounds of explosions and the cries of the civilians.
"No.....What's.......going on?" Was all Alec could mutter out. Then an especially large explosion caught Alec's attention. It was near his and Tom's houses. Alec gasped, "Mom! Dad! Tom!". He ran down the hill and sprinted as fast as he could towards his home.
Meanwhile Kyo and the defectors of White Fang are currently situated near some mountains. Kyo began wondering what to do next.
"The White Fang outnumber us greatly. We've got limited MS and our supplies are also running out. This looks bad. Still-"
"Captain!" Kyo turned around. "What is it Reef?"
"Our scouts have reported in. They say the White Fang have already started attacking the colony!"
"What?!...........So Hadrian....you really have done it. You've started another journey to despair for all of us. Reef!"
"Yes Sir!"
"Prepare 8 Taurus MS and get hold of 6 men and suit yourself up!"
"But Sir, that makes only 7 men."
"I know. I will go too."
Hadrian is sitting in the bridge of one of the 5 remaining shuttles. He has his hand on his chin as he looks on a screen. "Hmm, the MS have already taken over this section, and also this one. This is turning out to be easier than I thought. Many people on this colony have died I see but I guess that's what they get for refusing to help us heheh. Still, it is taking a long time." He turned around and faced one of the men who was at the controls. He is no older than 20. He has black curly hair and has blue eyes like Hadrian's. He is Trajan, Hadrian's first son. "Trajan, how long until we can get the Mobile Dolls working again?" Trajan stood up as he calmly replies, "Father, unfortunatly, seeing as how the main control unit for our Mobile Dolls was destroyed along with Libra, we cannot reactivate the Mobile Dolls."
Hadrian grew angry, "What?!! You mean to tell me we can't use our Mobile Dolls?!"
Trajan remained calm as he answers, "Not at this time. But the capital New Manchester may have what we need to rebuild new control units."
Hadrian's mood lightens, "Ah good! Then we will proceed to the capital shortly."
But Trajan responds, "If I may, perhaps we won't need to use Mobile Dolls. See how well we are doing now without them."
Hadrian then eyes Trajan suspiciously, "You know Trajan you are starting to sound like that dog Kyo."
But Trajan reassures, "I'm loyal to the White Fang father, I too want to fight the Earth again...."
"Good, that's what I like to hear. Now, go to the armoury and see how we fare on supplies."
"Yes Sir."
Trajan leaves the bridge and as the door closes behind him he silently says to himself, "But I want to fight the Earth in an honorable way. Not by souless machines like Mobile Dolls, and not by these acts of brutality."
"So I take it his mind hasn't changed."
Trajan turns to his left and sees a young White Fang officer who looks like Trajan, only younger of course. He is Hadrian's second son, Florian.
Trajan sighed, "No brother, he still determined to use Mobile Dolls. I just wish we could change his mind. somehow."
Florian noticed his brother's sad expression. He hates seeing his brother sad. He places one hand on Trajan's shoulder. "Don't worry, I know we'll think of something."
Trajan smiled at Florian, "Yeah, but we stick with fathers plan until then." Florian nods.
"Mom! Dad! Where are you?!" Alec desperatly tries to find his parents. Everywhere he turns he can see rubbles, ashes, complete destruction. "MOOOOMMM! DAAAAAAAAD!!" He yells out even louder. No reply, only more explosions nearby. He ran even further and then stopped dead in his tracks, shocked at what he sees, his house, or rather what used to be his house. The upstairs was literally gone and part of the house was on fire. Still, Alec ran in. "Mom! Dad!" Are you in here?" No response. Alec tries searching for his parents but all the thick smoke makes it hard for him to see and breath. Eventually, the smoke was too much and Alec had no choice but to run outside, hoping that his parents escaped too as his house finally collapses. Alec coughed from all the smoke, just then he remembered Thomas's house, which was quite near so he sped off hoping to find his friend.
It was horrible, Alec could see people lying on the floor dead or dying. Little did he know the worst was yet to come. Finally he reached his friend's house, only to see it in ruins much like his own though to a lesser extent. Alec looked around until he saw a familiar body lying next to the house. It was Thomas. Alec ran to his friend. It was clear that Thomas was wounded.
"Tom! Say something! Tom!"
Thomas opened his eyes.His vision was blurry but he could make out the person in front of him was Alec.
"Hey.....Alec....Guess I shoulda kept my mouth shut eh?"
"Tom....."
"Man....what a way to go..killed by the very thing I.....wanted to be.."
"What you wanted to be? You don't mean.."
"Alec...there are mobile suits...here....Tauruses.....from White Fang"
"What, that's impossible!!"
"Alec!!...Beh.....behin........behind.y.."
"Tom....TOOOOOOMMMM!
Alec had no time to grieve, there was a familiar noise behind him, almost mechanical. Alec turned round and to his great shock, it was indeed a Taurus Mobile Suit.
The cockpit opened up and a White Fang officer stepped out and said to Alec.
"Well what do we have here? Some Earth supporting kids who were unfortunate enough to get in our way?"
Alec clenched his fists in anger.
"You! You did this?!!"
"Well, me and my boys. Seeing as how this colony loves the Earth so much we just figured we show this colony exactly what we'll do to Earth afterwards, hahahahaha! Ah yes I, Lt Klein can't wait to get back to fighting that planet. It'll be marvellous!"
"You......You'll pay for this!"
In anger, Alec grabbed a rock nearby and with all his strength, hurled it at Klein which hits him in the head. He reels in pain as he clutches his head which starts to bleed. Alec was about to throw another one but then he sees in the distance, two more Tauruses so he ran. The two Tauruses caught up with Klein who was stil holding his head.
"Lt. Klein! Are you alright?"
"Rrrargh! That punk will pay for this!"
Klein went back into his MS and closed the cockpit.
"You two, follow me! We're going hunting!"
"Yes Sir!"
Alec ran as fast he could before Klein could fully recover. As he ran he shed tears for his fallen friend Thomas, as well as what's happened to his town. He eventually reached the area that's been restricted by the authorities, which was blocked by a gate. He then faced a dillema. If he goes through the gate, he will have absolutly no idea where he will go and he might get lost. However, if he continues going the direction he's going he will lead the Tauruses straight into the next town, where Ellen lives. The Tauruses are fast approaching. Alec made his decision. He climbed over the gate and ran deeper into the restricted area.
After reaching the gate, the Klein and the two WF officers stopped.
"This is a waste of my time!" Exclaimed Klein. "You two, continue pursuit and kill that kid for me! No wait. Bring him to me alive, I want to kill him myself."
"Yes Sir!"
And with that, Klein retreats whilst the other 2 Tauruses continued pursuit.
Alec ran as fast as he could through the area. Until he sees the object that had crashed through the colony. It looked like a part of some kind of battleship. (Actually it's a piece of Libra). "Maybe, I can hide in here." Thought Alec and he ran inside. It was dark, he could hardly see anything. Fortunatly some of the internal lights still worked, although they had very little power left. Alec heard a noise outiside and knew that it was a the Tauruses.
"Come out, come out wherever you are!"
Alec heard one of the pilots speak through the MS. Alec now feels trapped. Hell, he is trapped. suddenly he tripped over some wires. As he stood up his eyes caught something in front of him. It looked like a foot of a mobile suit. It couldn't be...could it? He looked up and whilst it wasn't too clear, it looked like it was definatly a mobile suit.
"Come out kid!"
Sounds of explosion follows the pilot's yelling. Clearly he was trying to force Alec to come out.
"This mobile suit...." Alec thought. "Maybe I could....." Alec thought back, he remembers Thomas telling him that back on Earth, soldiers were encouraged to play games like Mobile Suit: Virtual Battle because it's similar to real mobile suit controls. "Could that....be true? Would I be able to pilot this?"
More explosions, this time getting nearer to Alec. "Like I have a choice?"
He climbed up to the cockpit and hoped that it would open. It does. And once it opened Alec looked inside and found....no-one, the MS is empty. The cockpit closed and Alec studied the controls. Indeed, they look a bit similar to that of the games he played but looks can be deceiving. With nothing else to lose, Alec prayed as he tries to activate the MS. At first....nothing, then a bleep, then a mechanical whirring sound, suddenly the whole cockpit lit up, the screens in front of Alec shows the outside. For the first time since the whole incident, Alec smiles. "It works!" Alec prayed as he pushes the control stick forward. It struggles as it slowly steps forward. Clearly this mobile suit has been damaged.
The Taurus pilots were getting impatient. "I'm tired of this! How can one kid..huh?"
Somthing begins to stir inside that large object they were facing. The two WF officers readied their beam rifles.
"Hey is it just me or does that look a lot like a piece of Libra?"
"Now that you mention it, it does...huh? What's that?"
An arm suddenly came out of the ruins, then the whole body of a Mobile Suit, or to be precise, a Gundam.
Alec sees the two Tauruses.
"Alright, now I'm ready to fight. I won't let you people...huh? Wait a second, where's my beam rifle? This....this is not good!"
Alec now sees what his mobile suit is. He's in the cockpit so all he can see is that it's arm is red, wait arm? Yes, one arm is missing! the legs are red too but it's also black from fire. Alec was stunned.
"What kind of mobile suit is this? I can't fight like this! There's no beam rifle, not even a machine gun!"
Meanwhile the other two pilots were shocked beyond belief.
"That.....that's Gundam Epyon!"
"How...did it get here?"
Alec overhears this on Epyon's transmitter.
"Epyon...is that what this is called? And it's a Gundam?"
"Epyon is in the hands of the enemy!! Destroy it!"
"Rodger that!"
Alec turns and sees that the Tauruses are readying their beam rifles.
"Alright, I guess vulcans will have to do."
But as he reaches to push the button to activate the vulcan guns, he finds there is none.
"You gotta be kidding me. Whoever built this Gundam was on Crack!!!!!"
The Tauruses fires and hits Epyon, damaging it a bit more.
"Arrghh! Does it at least have a melee weapon?"
He pushes other buttons and then Epyon automatically drew out it's beam sword.
"Finally! Take this!"
The Epyon uses it's boosters and charges at the enemy, but then the boosters deactivated and slowed Epyon considerably. Enough for the Tauruses to easily dodge it's attack. The pilots were amused.
"Heh, I guess it's just a shadow of it's former self."
"Yeah, this will be an easy battle."
The Tauruses continues their assault on Epyon. Shooting it whilst avoid it's clumsy attacks. Alec was getting frustrated.
"All that...and it was for nothing!! GGaaghh!"
In frustration he slammed his hands at the controls, which manages to drop a helmut above him onto him. As soon as the helmut closed, something..strange happened. Alec wasn't sure what was happening but he starts to see numbers and then, pictures of himself, and the two Tauruses outside. for some reason, the actions the pilots do hasn't happened at all. Unknown to Alec this causes the Epyon to stop. The pilots stopped too.
"Why did he stop?"
"Maybe he's given up. Finish him!"
"With pleasure!"
And the Taurus speeds towards the Epyon.
"That's......that's what he'll do. That's what he'll do!" Cried Alec. Suddenly he gets another mental image, this time showing him a control stick to the right with a button. Alec snapped out of the trance and looks around and indeed there was a control stick. He grabbed it and pushes the button. This activated the Gundam's Heat Rod. With it's remaining arm, Epyon extends it towards the charging Taurus and the whip like weapon shoots out and impales the taurus.
"AAAARRRRRRGGHHHH!" With that last cry, the White Fang officer explodes along with the Taurus.
Alec's head really starts to hurt. So much that he tore off the helmut and was just in time to see the second Taurus aiming it's rifle.
"Game Over kid."
Alec closes his eyes in defeat, just then another Taurus arrives. The White Fang officer turns around.
"Oh Lt Klein, I forgot you want to kill him right?"
No response.
"Uh Liutenant?
Then the Taurus aims it's beam rifle at the Taurus who was aiming at Epyon and fires and took it's arms off.
"Lt Klein! What are you doing?"
??? "I don't know what Lt Klein is doing. But I'm killing you."
"What you're not-NAARRRRRRRRGHHHH"
One last shot destroys the White Fang Taurus.
The other Taurus then turns to the heavily damaged Epyon.
"Hey kid! You ok in there?!"
"Wha.....Who are......you??
Alec then passed out from the pain in his head.
"Captain! This is Reef. I found another survivor! And that's not all I've found."
Pitch black was replaced by blinding lights when Alec woke up.
"Aargh my eyes!"
"Calm down kid, you're safe now."
"Where am I?"
Alec's vision became clearer and he finds himself in a small room on a bed, it looks like an infirmary. He turns left and sees Reef, who by the way was still wearing the White Fang uniform. Needless to say, Alec freaked out.
"Argh! You people!!!!"
"Whoa whoa calm down! I'll explain everthing."
Half an hour later.....
"And that's what happened. We couldn't save the towns but we did manage to find a few survivors."
Alec was still in shock at what he was hearing. He clenched his fists. "Hadrian..." He slowly spoke, "I....will make him pay for this!!!!"
Reef stood up. "Well.." He started, "You might just get that chance." A confused Alec looked up. "What?"
Reef continued, "We've been watching you from our cameras. Not only did you manage to pilot a damaged Gundam considerably well, but you also destroyed one of the enemy with one attack. A normal civilian wouldn't even know how to start up a MS, never mind fighting with one. You definatly have something. And our captain wishes to see you about that." With that, the infirmary door opened and Kyo came out.
"Greetings, Alec Mugetsu. How do you feel?"
"Lousy."
"That's expected. You have been through a lot. Anyway I'm gonna get to the point, we are trying to stop the White Fang but we are outnumbered. Any help at all will be appreciated. We won't force you if you don't want to but, will you help us?"
Alec just sat there. His mind is having difficulty digesting everything. So much has happened with very few explainations. He just looks around him and thinks back to his house, to his parents, to Thomas, to Ellen. Finally he looked up at Kyo and stood up as he faced him. And he sighed once before answering,
"This is not something I want to do.........but I feel it's something I HAVE to do. Captain, I am at your service."
Kyo smiled at this answer, "Thank you." Was all he said. Then he added, "My name is Kyosuke Mori but you can address me as Captain Kyo."
"Captain? Before I forget I need to ask, how did you know my name?"
"Well, when we brought you in the shuttle there is one girl we rescued who recognised you. Here she is."
Alec looked behind Kyo and his eyes widened as he saw who Kyo was talking about. Ellen.
"Alec!!"
"Ellen!!"
Ellen ran and hugged Alec. Alec gladly returned the hug.
"I should leave you two for a moment." Said Kyo and he left the infirmary and made his way to the bridge.
"Our next destination is the capital New Manchester, we have to warn them about the White Fang's invaision."
"Yes Sir!"
"Captain?"
"Yes Reef?"
"The capital might see us as one of the enemy. We are wearing White Fang uniforms."
"Good point."
Kyo walked a few steps forward before stopping. He then removed his captain hat and looked at it. Then threw it away.
"From this moment on, we will no longer be part of the barbaric group known as White Fang!"
Back to Ellen and Alec.
"So they managed to rescue you and a few other people too?" Alec asked Ellen.
"Yeah, although some are injured, but the people here are doing their best to help them."
Alec than thought of something.
"Ellen, what about my parents? Are they on board this ship too? Are they safe?"
Ellen made no reply, but just stared at the floor with a sad expression. Alec understood what this meant. He stared at the floor too and slowly tears starts forming around his eyes as he realised the very high possibility that his parents did not survive the invaision. Ellen saw this and hugged Alec again.
"I'm...so sorry Alec....."
End Episode 2
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