Chapter 8

Wings of War Rise again

Ryan wakes up and discovers that he is in a hospital bed, without the hospital. Ryan looks up to see a ceiling fan above him.

"I'm in a building, I think…" Ryan says to himself. Then a knock at his door, then the door opens up to reveal Jack, smiling.

"I never knew that a guy like you could have enough guts to take on those Zent 2 units on your own, but here you are, at your victory climax!"

"Are you trying to be sarcastic?" asked Ryan, with a smile on his face, trying to get up.

"Hey, don't do that, the doctors said not to move you!" yelled Jack.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Ryan starts to get up, then gets a painful stabbing sensation in his back, then falls back onto the bed.

"You are bandaged up quite a bit. When we found you, you were pretty much dying…" replied Jack.

"Hm… well, I'll have to get back onto my feet sooner or later, otherwise, my Gundam will be worthless…" said Ryan.

"Speaking of which, we took the liberty of repairing your old buddy there!" replied Jack, with a smile on his face.

"Repairing? You have Gundanium alloy!"

"Yeah, we found it at a base the other day while you were still in your coma. We made it a top priority to find it, it's the least we could do since you helped us you know!"

Ryan's vision then went black, and went fast asleep for a while. When Ryan woke up, there was gun shots and explosions happing all around him. Ryan jumped out of bed, and was amazed that his wounds had healed.

Ryan stepped outside and saw two Zent 2 units attacking the area, and the Black Gundam at their side.

Ryan ran towards his Gundam, covered with camouflage, and got inside.

The Gundam's eyes glowed bright green and stood up against the Zent 2 units and the Black Gundam.

"So, it's you again, Ryan…" said Kyle in his Black Gundam, "I see that you aren't dead yet, that's great! You're the first person that kept their promise to fight me again."

"I won't be defeated so easily!" Ryan yelled.

The Gundam Magna picks up a bazooka cannon and fires it at one of the Zent 2 units, twice. The Zent 2 unit explodes and disappears in the flames. The second Zent 2 dashes towards Magna. The Gundam Magna was about to fire the bazooka cannon when the Zent 2 exploded.

When the explosion cleared, Ryan saw that the Black Gundam fired it's own weapon and destroyed his comrade.

"Only I will get the pleasure to kill you, for as the leader of the Vengeful Wings of War, I will rid the Earth from existence!" yells Kyle.

The Black Gundam dashes forward with it's yellow beam saber activated and slashes down on the Gundam Magna. The Gundam Magna quickly activates it's saber and blocks the attack wit the saber.

"What do you mean by 'Leader'?" Ryan asked.

"I am not of the Earth Empire, but of the Vengeful Wings of War, and I will not be denied the chance to destroy earth at the same time to destroy my rival!" The Black Gundam jumps backwards, then dashes forward to give another blow to the Magna Gundam.

The Gundam Magna jumps out of the way and Ryan asks, "We're both enemies of the Earth Empire, help me finish the mission to gain the colonies their freedom then!"

"No," Kyle spoke, "the Earth Empire will give colonies independence, but then there will still be war, so to prevent war, earth must be destroyed and the colonies will rule over the solar system!"

"Your mad!" Ryan exclaimed.

"Am I? Or do you want to agree with me because it's true?" The Black Gundam slashes down onto the Gundam Magna, damaging the hull a bit. The Gundam Magna slices off the Black Gundam's right arm with a vertical slice and pushes the Black Gundam back.

"There can be peace, but we can't kill innocent people to gain peace, don't you understand that!" Ryan said.

"I must have my revenge, they destroyed my colony seven years ago, my family were on that colony, my wife and son are now dead thanks to them, I will never forgive them! All earthlings are the same!" cried out Kyle.

Ryan gains a shocked look on his face, then replies, "I know how you feel, I… I also lost my…"

The Black Gundam stands normally and Kyle says,

"Give up the Magna Gundam, we can go to space and tell the mission command that the Gundam was captured, then they'd launch the nuclear warheads to earth. There would be no more pain a suffering for the people of the colonies!"

Ryan thinks for a minute, then replies, "No, not every person on earth is evil, people can change from the this event of Operation M1, even earth…"

"If you think that way, then we can not be friends, nor allies. Good-bye Ryan." The Black Gundam activates it's thrusters and boosts away.

The Gundam Magna deactivates, and Ryan gets out of the Gundam to try to help the survivors of the village. Eventually Ryan meets up with Jack on the ground.

"Ryan, we have to get out of hear, the United States headquarters has surrendered to us and have disengaged with the war against the colonies, we've won here!"

Ryan smiles and says, "Where to now?"

"Europe, our vessel is ready!"

"Vessel, what vessel?"

"The IRV-021 'Sword Lucifer' battleship!" Jack replies, "I've never been on the ship before, this should be fun!"

Eventually, The Gundam Magna and the survivors of the village meet up at the edge of the land to the Pacific Ocean. They watch in marvel as they see this ship enter into port.

"And Ryan, it's also a Mobile Suit carrier!" said Jack, patting Ryan on the back.

"Hey, what happened to Sheila?" asked Ryan.

"She's the captain of the thing, she's already on the ship." replied Jack.

"Is she the leader of your little band of rebels?" asked Ryan.

"No, not the little band," replied Jack, "The entire organization though."