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Kim Possible & Gundam Wing:
Silent Wars
Chapter 8: Attack on the Sank Kingdom
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It had been over a week since the Gundams, Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable came to the Sank Kingdom. It had also been a week since Kim and Ron had secretly admitted their love for each other. That week had been the happiest of times with Kim and Ron. In their spare time they would take small walks on the scenic grounds of the St. Gabriella Institute. A favorite spot of theirs was under a very old Sakura tree on a hilltop. The tree was so thick that it could have been the pillar of a great tree house. Its roots were so huge that they were like seats, each winding and weaving into comfortable curves. In that season, it had already bloomed and its petals were falling to the ground like snow. Kim and Ron would sit there for hours and watched the petals fall. From where they sat they could watch the tide roll in and out. Sometimes they'd stay there long enough to watch the sun set into the ocean. Neither of them knew that love could be this sweet. They had searched for it so long in those around them, but the love that they were looking for was standing next to them. Even though they admitted love to each other, they never actually made love. The reason why, is inexplicable.
It was early in the morning when Kim and Ron woke up. The two had been sharing the same room despite certain implied rules of the institute. They only had single beds so they couldn't share the same bed. It didn't matter in the big picture, just being near each other was enough.
The peace didn't last long. The door banged open, instantly sending Kim and Ron into a wide-awake state. Both of them were having the expression as if they were stoned, in a daze or just had shock treatments.
"Everybody come to the roof!" The person at the door shouted.
Kim and Ron knew the voice belonged to Quatre. He sounded like a bomb was about to go off in the building and he desperately wanted to get everyone out. Still wavering between waking and sleeping they dashed out the door, their eyes blurry from sleep tried to follow the blur that was Quatre. They followed him up several flights of stairs, but made sure not to trip on them. Soon they saw the fuzz-ball that was Quatre open a door that let in the blazing sunlight. Kim and Ron finally rubbed their eyes as they stepped into the light. Everything came into focus, on the roof were all the Gundam pilots, all dressed as if they were ready for combat at any moment. Kim and Ron realized that they were the only ones still in their pajamas.
"Quatre," Kim asked rubbing the last bit of sleep out of her eyes, "what's the sitch?"
When she opened her eyes fully, Kim saw that Quatre was looking out to sea with a set of binoculars. He handed them to Kim, as if they were a message of death.
"Take a look at what's coming." He said
Kim took the binoculars, brought them up to her eyes, and her eyes opened even wider when she saw what was coming over the horizon. She saw the Gundam Epyon, it was fully repaired and flying in bird mode, but that wasn't the end of it. Around the Gundam Epyon were more Virgo type mobile dolls. Kim took the binoculars away from her eyes and handed them to Ron who looked through them and started to panic.
Kim went for her "Kimmunicator", she had to know how many there were and which direction they were coming from.
"Wade," She called. "Come in, Wade."
The screen came on and Wade was on the screen half asleep in his pajamas and holding a teddy bear.
"Kim, do you know what time it is?" He asked moaning
"There's no time for that," Kim answered. "We have mobile dolls coming in on the Sank Kingdom. I need you to tap into any satellite and show how many there are and which direction they're coming from."
"Got it." Wade said
The screen changed to a map of the Sank Kingdom with small blinking dots coming in from the sea. In one corner of the Kimmunicator screen was a counter, and the counter came to the number 666.
"What do you plan to do?" Wade asked
"What else can we do?" Kim asked, "We'll fight them."
"No." Quatre refuted, "not here, this is a pacifist nation, we can't fight on their soil."
"Well, what do you suggest we do?"
Heero was the one to answer, "We take the battle far out to sea, away from the Sank Kingdom."
"But some of the Gundams can't fly," Ron pointed out, "like the Heavyarms."
"We did make some modifications to them." Heero stated, "all of them should fly, but we have to act now. They'll be here any minute."
Heero turned and went to the staircase. Opening the door to the staircase, he was followed by the other Gundams. Ron and Kim were the only ones left. She looked back at the Kimmunicator to find Wade drifting in and out of sleep. She wanted to give him some peace, so she simply turned off the Kimmunicator and placed it back in her pocket. She along with Ron went down the staircase to change into their, "mission clothes". The mission clothes were tan cargo pants, black long sleeve shirts, and black gloves. As Kim got dressed she had a feeling that this wouldn't' be the last time that they'd face Shego. It was either from her experience of the bad guys always getting away or it was just an intuition she had. The feeling still hung over her head like a dark cloud, even when she got into the newly repaired Vayeate.
The Gundams launched, Kim watched the blue sea and the Sank Kingdom landscape pass by her screens. It felt like she was leaving a home again, but this time she would be defending this place that was so kind to her, the place where she fell in love and the place where she gave away her heart. She looked to the horizon and the approaching enemy. She narrowed her eyes, tightened her grip, and allowed the battle to begin.
The Gundams engaged and destroyed the mobile dolls in the same instant of time. The Wing Zero blasting away mobile dolls with its enormous Buster Rifle. The DeathScythe Hell slicing them like a farmer with a sickle. The Heavyarms now being able to fly bulleted the mobile dolls until most of the legion was like Swiss cheese. The Sandrock sliced the mobile dolls just like the DeathScythe Hell. The Gundam Altron used the numerous weapons it had to destroy the mobile dolls. Last of all the Mercurius guarded itself against the mobile doll fire but used its beam sword to decimate the mobile doll army with the Vayeate firing its cannon time after time. Still with the numbers going down and down the Epyon was just beyond several lines of Virgo mobile dolls. It was floating in mid-air, waiting, waiting for its enemies to come closer and finish the battle.
As the war off the shore of the Sank Kingdom raged on, Kim heard Shego chuckling over the COM systems.
"You may win the battle, Kimmie." Shego laughed, "but you'll loose the war. I'm going to win, Kimmie."
Kim gritted her teeth at Shego's laughing, but it only made Kim fight the mobile dolls harder. The minutes spent fighting this small army stretched into what felt like hours. Kim ached for the opportunity to go after Shego. The ache burned and twisted within Kim yet every time the opportunity was open more mobile dolls blocked her. There were only 666 in the beginning but their numbers seemed endless. Kim wanted this to be over, but she had to stick to this war until the end. That was her oath, to be there until the very end.
After more minutes turned to hours the numbers of the mobile dolls were growing thin and the path to the Epyon was closer.
"My victory will be sweeter, Kimmie!" Shego boasted
The path was now clear to Kim and she took it. She shoved the controls forward, so hard that she'd thought that they'd break under the force. It sent the Vayeate flying to the Epyon at such a speed that the Epyon was within fighting distance within an instant. In that instant the Epyon drew out its beam sword and Kim brought up her beam sword. The two locked in each other's beam swords and neither side was willing to back down. Now that Kim was fighting Shego like this she wished she could use her whole body to fight the Epyon.
"You're going to loose, Kimmie." Shego laughed, "With this suit, I'm invincible!"
"No, you're not." Kim refuted, "and I'm not going to loose." Kim had a good reason to say that. For within the right hand of the Vayeate was the enormous beam cannon which had been charging in the whole time Kim and Shego were butting their beam sabers. She brought it up and pulled the trigger. The following flash and explosion took up so much space in the 30-inch screens that she had to wait for it to clear.
Even if Kim had made a direct hit at the Epyon she still felt that she'd face Shego again. She couldn't exactly figure out why but it was still there. That feeling of inevitability and not for the last time.
Soon, the smoke bright light and its after images cleared. That was when Kim's fears were answered. The Epyon still remained the only damage the beam cannon inflicted was simply burning off its left arm. They very arm that had that troublesome heat whip. Amazingly enough it didn't take much off of the Epyon's left wing. From the socket of the left arm there were only disconnected wires that sparked continuously. The demon mobile suit floated in mid-air as if it was in a confused daze. It looked like Kim Possible was going to win, but she heard Shego laughing.
"You may have won the battle, but I'll win the war, Kimmie. Take a look at the Sank Kingdom."
Kim looked back to find the Sank Kingdom under attack from the legions of the mobile dolls that Shego controlled. The Gundams were trying to fight them off but to no avail.
"Later, Kimmie." Shego said as the Epyon turned to Bird mode and flew off into the distance. She wanted to follow it but then a cry came out.
"Kim!" The call came
Kim knew the voice to be Ron's and now the Gundams needed help. Kim gritted her teeth as Shego escaped, turned the Vayeate around and came to the air of the Gundams. Over the rooftops of the Sank Kingdom, the Gundams fought the mobile dolls until the very last one was gone. At last when the battle was lost and won, Kim couldn't help but look to the setting sun in the west, the very direction Shego escaped to. She then heard Ron ask a simple question.
"Aren't you going to follow her?" Ron asked
Kim took in Ron's question, should she follow Shego? She kept looking towards the setting sun, mulling over that question if it would be the proper choice. Then she had a thought about it, and she formulated an answer.
"No," She said. "I have a better idea."
To be continued…