What If?
What if, in the course of humanity's Endless Waltz Heero were killed? What if Wufei were to be just a little bit more effective and to destroy Wing Zero? Marymaya's autocracy would rein supreme. Or would it?
"Tell me, Wufei, how many more people must we kill?"
The Chinese youth's eyes narrowed as he surveyed the battered and sparking hulk that had once been the Gundam Wing Zero, its beam saber flickering and a few of the jets in its artistic wings failing to function properly.
"How many more times must I kill that little girl and her dog?"
His eyes widened as he realized that he hadn't been the only one to kill both accidentally and unnecessarily in his bloody life as a Gundam pilot.
"Zero will not answer me, Wufei."
His eyes became that much wider as Wing Zero's propulsion was turned off, the beam saber deactivated, and the green light of the Gundam's "eyes" faded away to nothingness.
The fall was a full thirty stories by anyone's standards, and the impact was enough to batter the Gundam that much further. The left wing was the first thing to hit, and the water was like concrete to the Gundam due to its achievement of terminal velocity.
Made of Gundanium alloy or not, anything that had been hit repeatedly with the equivalent of a beam saber it will crack and break under pressure.
The force was sufficient to spin the rest of the Gundam and slam it facedown into the water in one of the worst belly flops known to mankind.
Spider-web cracks appeared in the signature green cockpit area of a variable Geometry Mobile Suit and flooded water into the pilot's housing areas.
"That task falls to you. Make the right choice, Wufei. Make the right choice."
As the suit sunk beneath the surface a brilliant light shone from where the Gundam had fallen.
"No! No, Heero, no!" It was too late. The water blossomed upward with a tremendous explosion to ensure that none would ever again be capable of building the machine that had ended so many lives, yet saved so many more.
Tears for his dead friend still in his eyes Wufei stared down at the blinking lights and controls of the Ntaku Gundam and remembered it's first act- preventing the agenda of one to take over the world and doom millions by destroying a colony. By killing the people he had grown up with, known and loved. By killing his own family.
"Would an incident like that have to be repeated?"
Yes. The answer came to him instantly. If Marymaya is allowed to take control of Earth and bring about The United Earth Sphere monopoly once again more people will want freedom of her tyranny. More people will be like us, forced to fight and kill those that they cared about. To kill their own souls
"There is evil here," he said, repeating his vow from almost a year ago. "I will… I will…" he looked up from the controls with a quick jerk of his head sending the tears for his friend flying onto the view screensand yelling out the last part of his oath, "I will fight until I see no more evil! I have become evil itself to find what happens to those who can't stop fighting. I must fight evil until I too am gone. I must fight evil until I see it no more."