Chapter 12

"Fall of Russia"

The red beam blade from Gundam Magna's saber collides with the red hot Heat Shotel blade and both stand against one another with their blades stuck together, trying to force each other through the other.

"What? How can a steel blade withstand a beam saber attack?" asked Ryan.

"I already told you, this is a Heat Shotel!" replied Kyle, pushing his joystick forward.

The Heat Shotel, a new age piece of weaponry used for close-range combat. The blade of the Shotel increases it's temperature to the point that a machine's armor would melt way before the blade would actually touch the metal of the armor. The Heat Shotel is extremely hard to create, for the metal actually used to mold the blade is Gundanium Alloy. Since Gundanium's melting point is 10,900 degrees Celsius, the heat on the shotel increases up to 10,000 degrees Celsius, only this metal would work, for every other type of metal used for weaponry's melting point is only up to 8,900 degrees Celsius. Ironically, the beam saber heat and the heat from the highest point of the Heat Shotel equals the same temperature!

"I won't lose to you!" cried out Ryan, pushes the beam saber's temperature to the fullest, and still couldn't move the F-Gundam back.

The gears inside the F-Gundam begins to overheat and begins to fall to it's knees.

"What! This Gundam isn't layered enough with the alloy? Damn it all!" yelled Kyle, slamming his fist onto his console. "Well, Ryan, looks like I'll be seeing you later!"

The Gundam Magna slashes down onto the F-Gundam's head and begins to crush the cockpit located inside the head.

"What are you doing!"

"I'm ending this fight, one way or another!"

A beam shot hit's the Magna Gundam, and makes it fall to the ground. The Gundam Magna looks up to see a black Zent 2, hovering over the fallen F-Gundam.

"Are you alright Captain Cole?" asked the pilot inside the black Zent 2.

The F-Gundam stands up and Kyle replies, "yeah, but

what are you doing here?"

"The warship 'Voyage' sends it's complaints to you for your inability to defeat this menace, however, America is still pleased of your abilities, so your Black Gundam is ready, thanks to the Russians. Your mission here is now transferred to me, step aside, Captain," replied the pilot of the black Zent 2.

The F-Gundam activates it's thrusters and boosts away, leaving the black Zent 2 and the Gundam Magna for their own encounter.

"So, you're the Gundam pilot from the colonies, correct am I?"

Ryan stayed quiet for a moment, then said, "Correct, what do you want?"

"Besides your life? Information."

"What kind of information?"

"What is your name, your Gundam's origin, the colonies' wishes, that kind of information."

"My name is Ryan, the origin of my Gundam is none of your business, and the colonies only want their freedom, anything else?"

"Yes, I've seen someone pilot that Gundam before, in 230, I believe. It was in a colony that I was ordered to destroy…"

Ryan's eyes shrink as the pilot says this new piece of information.

"I was the pilot of a Buster Armor back then, I didn't get to fight you back then, so I'm glad that I get to fight you today. I'm George Shen, I am also called Black Dragoon!"

The black Zent 2 pulls out it's red beam saber and goes into a battle stance. "Have at thee!" yelled Black Dragoon, as the machine dashes towards the Gundam Magna.

"I will never forgive you people!" The Gundam Magna's red beam saber glows gold, instead of red, and the Gundam blocks the black Zent 2's attack with the beam saber.

With the two sabers clashed together, the two machines try to push back each other with their over powering strength, but neither move an inch.

Finally, the Gundam Magna boosts backwards and slices off the black Zent 2's right arm, which held the beam saber, and the Zent 2 falls to it's knees. The Gundam's beam saber turns from Gold, back to red again.

The Gundam Magna deactivates it's beam saber, then relaxes into a normal stance. The black Zent 2 stays on it's

knees.

"Why don't you kill me?" asked the Black Dragoon, a.k.a. George.

"Did you… see a little girl, looking as the age of five or six?" asked Ryan, "In the colony you invaded, I mean."

George looks back at the Gundam and responds, "yes, I did, her mother was dead, and the little girl had a large bump on her head."

Ryan looks up and asks, "And? Was she…"

"The girl was alive, I took her from the colony, only to discover that she had lost her memory, except for her own name, Karen… why are you asking me?"

"Is she alright now? I… I have to know…" asked Ryan, barely able to form his words.

"She lives with my wife nowadays… But why?… Was she your--"

Ryan sighs in relief, then says, "take care of her, and I won't kill you, that's all I can ask from you…"

The Gundam activates it's thrusters and heads back to the ship. The fallen black Zent 2 activates it's own thrusters and boosts back to it's own ship as well.

Six days pass…

The Sword of Lucifer battleship flies overhead of a completely destroyed base. The battleship then stops in front of the last building standing, then the leader of Russia peers through the window, right outside where the battleship Sword of Lucifer waited at.

The leader of Russia presses a button, which destroys the building, in which where he was. A single machine survives the explosion of the building, the F-Gundam.

"Holy shit!" cried out Sheila as she saw the Gundam in front of her ship, "Why isn't it attacking?"

The glass eyes break as a bright light passes through the said glass. The machine begins to explode.

"Get us the hell out of here!" yelled Sheila to the helmsman. The ship turns 90 degrees and activates it's thrusters and begins to boost away. Just as the ship begins to boost away, the Gundam explodes, and a shockwave follows the ship. The ship almost clears the distance that the shockwave had, when the shockwave caught up the rear of the ship, and destroys one of the thruster engines. The ship loses it's balance, and collides into a wreckage of a fallen building, and remains motionless…