So you obviously know that this will be the tragic ending, having previously read the good ending. I hope you enjoy. This will be the last chapter of course.

Disclaimer: Thank You, whoever owns GW, for not destroying me and allowing me to use the ideas created by you for an awesome story. They aren't mine of course.

By the way, this chapter starts out like its predecessor, so if you want, look on and go to the line break.

After Eve Gundam Wing: A New Heero

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Jin! Shouted Stephen. You're nuts! Get back here, or you'll get killed! There's no time for playing hero! Answer me Jin! Jin reached over and shut off the communications function in his cockpit. Stephen's voice stopped, and he looked up at the balls of explosions ahead of him.

A Tauros was locked against a towering black Mobile Suit in fierce battle. The Tauros fired its beam cannon, which the black MS dodged easily, and the black on closed in on the Tauros. In an instant, its arm was cut.

"You cannot beat me Colonel," said Max. "I'm far superior to you! Not only is my skill better, but you don't have a chance with an old Tauros against my new Scorpion!" Vance walked backwards slowly, activating a beam saber with its remaining arm.

"I never should have taken you in Max," said Vance. "You and your father are both examples of skilled pilots who lack any fundamentals of how to live." He charged forward and raised his sword to attack.

"My father was the greatest pilot to ever exist!" said Max. "And I will not allow you to put him down like that!" The Scorpion flew forward to attack with its own saber.

The Scorpion's saber stopped in mid-swing, clashing with Wing Zero's. "You're wrong Max," said Jin. "The greatest pilot ever title... goes to my father."

"Jin! You're supposed t be leaving!" said Vance. "Get out of here!"

"This is my battle Vance," said Jin. "You would... only be dying in vain. Go and tend to your family. They... need you now more than ever. Allow me to take care of this." Wing Zero kicked Scorpion in the side, grounding it. "GO!" shouted Jin.

"Thank you Jin," said Vance. The Tauros took flight and left the battle, heading for the retreating Gundams.

"Now," said Jin. "The final battle."

"Indeed it is," said Max. "This is going to be the last battle you fight!" Scorpion attacked with its purple beam saber as quick as lightning. Jin barely avoided it, sidestepping, but Max attacked again and again, forcing him into defense.

"Dams he's fast," said Jin.

"Like the new Scorpion?" asked Max. "It's Gundanium now, and it's a lot faster." Wing Zero flew backwards and fired from its machine cannons. The shells mostly just bounced off of Scorpion's hull.

"Having a Gundam isn't enough," said Jin. He charged in with his own beam saber and thrust forward. Scorpion rolled backwards and bicycle-kicked Zero over his head. Jin landed hard a distance away, and he was having trouble getting up.

He coughed blood onto the monitor in front of him, and quickly wiped it up. "You're injured," said Max. "Oh what a delight. This will be easy for me then." Scorpion once again darted forward and raised its saber. It was all Jin could do to roll back and forth to avoid being killed by his stabs at the ground. Finally, Jin got a powerful kick into Scorpion's chest, and he got up.

"Injured," said Jin. "But not dead yet." He activated his second beam saber and charged in at Max at top speed. The G's were undoubtedly crushing his injured ribs, and the pain was practically blinding him. ZERO II took full effect and plunged him into darkness, only to be reawakened in its virtual realm of the battlefield.

Wing Zero slashed furiously using both beam sabers, and Scorpion was forced into defense, not able to attack and block both at once. Finally, Max saw a chance and took it. As he jumped backwards, he lashed out with the long whip on his arm, and it caught Jin by the leg, pulling him down onto his back and dragging him toward Max.

Max slashed with his saber, and Jin raised a saber to block. He rolled away again and got back on his feet. "Dammit," breathed Jin. "...I...can't fight...much longer like this..." Another volley of slashes came his way, and Wing Zero performed a brilliant back-hand-spring, flipping backwards away from the Scorpion.

The heat rod whip once again came at him at blinding speed. It wrapped around his left arm, and a surge of electricity pulsed through the whip into the body of Wing Zero. The shock didn't stop outside the cockpit either. Jin screamed in pain as sparks flew everywhere around him. Alarms started going off everywhere. The pain was unbearable, but he kept his vision focused on the Scorpion ahead of him. He jerked back with his arm, pulling the whip, and the Scorpion, with him. It was enough to unbalance the Scorpion, and it fell forward, releasing it grip.

Jin breathed in rapid breaths. He was having a hard time staying conscious. "Focus," he said to himself. "No dying yet...no matter how much it hurts." Max got back up.

"You can sure take a beating Jin," he said. "You're not going down as easily as your father did. He wasn't able to put up such a fight."

"Never...speak...of...him!" said Jin as he raised his saber and charged in on Max. Their sabers clashed and lightning surged around them in all directions. "You...will never...be as strong....as my father!"

They flew backwards from each other and went at it again. They attacked and blocked for minutes, not able to land a hit anywhere. Finally, Max took an opportunity to attack while they were in another grapple of swords, and he lashed out with the heat rod once more.

Wing Zero caught the whip in its free hand and used his saber to cut it at its middle. However, the Scorpion got in another attack. Its large beam saber pierced straight through the chest armor just below the right shoulder. He dropped his beam saber.

Wing Zero staggered back. In the cockpit, sparks were emitting from the right arm controls. Scorpion attacked again, and slashed across the chest, throwing him backwards of balance. He landed on his back, but quickly rolled backwards and stood again.

"You are going to die Jin," said Max. The Scorpion raised its arms and pointed its open palms at Jin. A light formed between both its palms. "I have one of those now too."

The energy grew into a large ball of charged particles, and Jin's eyes opened wide with shock. He quickly raised his own arms as Max fired a beam of purple of energy at Wing Zero. The beam stopped just in front of Wing Zero's hands. He was just barely keeping it back with a beam fired from his own hands.

Their beams had collided and were engulfing the entire area with blinding light. The Gundams and Vance turned to see Wing Zero barely withstanding the attack of Scorpion with its own beam.

"That's impossible!" said Max. "He matched my exact power in less time and with perfect accuracy. He could pinpoint the beam's exact location of impact at the exact second."

"I...will...not...let...you...win!" shouted Jin as he pushed as hard as he could with Wing Zero's arms. Their beams continued to clash into a big ball of energy, which neared Jin quickly.

"Come on Zero," said Jin. "Give me...all...you...have..." Wing Zero's eyes flashed and the amount of energy output from the hands increased dramatically. The beam grew in width, forcing the point of impact back towards the Scorpion.

"NO!" shouted Max as it neared him now. "I cannot lose! I'm superior!"

"You aren't even superior to an insect!" shouted Jin. He fully extended Wing Zero's arms, and the beam engulfed the Scorpion. The blinding light faded, and the Scorpion's crispy form fell to the ground. It was blackened and both its arm were incinerated. It was also completely immobile.

"You lose...Max," said Jin quietly. He was wheezing, barely able to breathe.

"JIN!" shouted Vance. "The reactor! Quick! It's too unstable!"

Wing Zero jumped over to the small machine in the middle of the ring of cannons. It was on fire, and there were alarms going off all around it."

"Is everyone out of the area yet?" asked Jin.

"No," said Vance. "There are still a lot of people trying to get out. You have to disable it."

"How?" asked Jin. "Wing Zero's out of Buster Energy anyway."

"Buster energy would just set of the bomb," said Vance. "Energy will catalyze the nuclear reaction, and it will explode. You need to set off some other kind of explosion to disable it."

"What?" asked Jin.

"It sounds weird, but it's set up so that another explosion wouldn't set it off," said Vance. "Some powerful energy, like your Buster Rifle, would blow it up for sure. You need a weaker explosion. You have to hurry, because it will blow soon."

"I'm coming," said Rachel. "A missile should do it."

"No!" commanded Jin. "It'll go off before you get here. You'll only...get killed..."

"Then what can we do?" asked Anita. "How can we generate an explosion quick enough?"

"Wing Zero has the means," said Jin. With a weak smile, Jin flipped a switch. A red button extended from the panel t his side.

"No Jin!" shouted Stephen.

Jin punched the button, and all the lights in the cockpit flashed red. Self destruct mechanism has been activated. Detonated in T-minus thirty seconds

"No," whispered Rachel.

"There's no other way," said Jin. "It's what I have to do."

"You're very brave Jin," said Vance. "You no doubt make your parents very proud."

"I'll be seeing them soon," said Jin with a smile. "I'm sorry guys...that it had to come to this...but you have to understand... It's the only way I can...save those people."

"We all understand Jin," said Stephen.

"I don't have long, so I'll make it quick," said Jin. "I'm proud... to have served with you all... I know you'll all be great people in the future, because you're great people right now...Stephen, you've been my buddy since we met in the TAC. Keep that sense of humor. Kreed and Anita, you welcomed me into your home very kindly... Kreed, you should ease up a little now and then...and forgive your father. Anita, you're strong and smart. Sue your intelligence for good in the future... And Rachel... You too are very strong. Your heart is pure and you have a very strong sense of emotion. Let those emotions guide you...but don't allow them to control you... I love you."

T-minus five seconds

"Time for me to go now guys...See you on the other side...Signing out"

Wing Zero stood next to the reactor core and glowed white. The light was blinding, and the Gundam finally detonated into a huge explosion. When the dust and smoke had settled, the reactor was revealed, slightly smoldering, but stable once again. Wing Zero, however, was gone.

One year later...

A young adult with long red hair walked out of a room full of people in business suits. She herself was dressed in a blouse with a pink tie and a business skirt. She was holding a clipboard and sighed as she leaned against the wall.

"That was a very nice speech ma'am," said a man as he left the room. Others began leaving, all of them congratulating her on a nice presentation and giving their hopes for a peaceful future.

"They believe in you," said a tall boy with white hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a white suit and a wide grin. "Congratulations sis."

"I hope we can do what's right Kreed," said Rachel. "I hope I'm up to this job."

"Now, now," said Kreed. "You have to trust in yourself. You wouldn't have been voted the head of the Preventers's Department is they didn't trust you."

"You're right," said Rachel. "...It's been...one year now."

"Yeah," said Kreed, the smile on his face falling flat. "You up for a quick trip?"

"Sure," replied Rachel.

Rachel and Kreed stood above a small flat stone in a Varsity City Cemetery. Looking down at it, the words on it read Jin Yuy: 1 A.E. 16 A.E.

Rachel lowered a rose to the gravestone, and then looked over at the combined gravestone of Heero and Releena. She left a rose for them also.

"Figured you guys would be here," said Stephen as he walked up from behind them. He was wearing a long, black leather trench coat and black shades. "How you doing?"

"Fine," said Rachel.

Stephen looked down at the grave and lowered a rose of his own to it.

"Hey guys," said girl with long blonde hair and glasses. It was Anita.

"So were' all here," said Kreed.

"Yeah," said Anita. "I guess it was inevitable."

"It's been too long Jin," said Stephen, looking back down to the ground. "But I guess I shouldn't be talking to the ground. Should I?" He looked up at the sky. There were few white clouds, and the sun was just peeking out from behind one of the smaller ones.

"We are all making a difference," said Anita. "Like you told us to."

"I can't lie to you buddy," said Stephen. "It's hard to not have you here to guide us. But we're surviving."

"It's what you would want us to do," said Kreed with a smile. "Survive in spite of the sadness of it all."

"But you're where you've wanted to be for so long now," said Rachel, "and that's with your parents. We all know you're having a good time...where peace lasts forever."

"See you around buddy," said Stephen. "I've got a trip to take. Turns out someone's trying to build a new weapon, and I gotta go keep them in line. Part of being a Preventer." He walked away with a wave of his hand. "See you guys later."

"And I teach classes," said Anita. "I'm a battle instructor. As promised, I'm using my intelligence for good, teaching youngsters how to defend themselves." Anita followed Stephen out.

"I'm head of the newly revived Preventers Corps now," said Rachel. "Kreed's been helping a lot recently. It's hard, but I'm getting through it. Lots of demands and pressure. I think...the only thing that pushes me to do better is you. I do what I think you would do, and everything gets better."

"Well, have fun up there man," said Kreed. "Keep an eye on us every now and then. Let us know if we do something wrong. Have God send a lightning bolt our way or something." Kreed left Rachel to stand alone at Jin's grave.

"I miss you," said Rachel. "I love you." She bent down and touched the stone that labeled his place of burial. "Goodbye."

THE END

This story was a lot of fun guys. I can't thank you all enough for the awesome reviews I received from you. You are what fueled me to do better. I know it sounds corny and cheesy and all, but it's true. Without you people reading and helping me along, I wouldn't have finished.

But this is most certainly not the end. There will be a sequel. I'm still thinking it all up, but it will come along. I don't know what it will be called, so you guys have to keep an eye out by checking into my bio on the net. It will likely be a sequel to the good ending, the previous chapter. So I hope you all liked it best. Tell me which ending you liked best. I still want reviews from you all!!!