Five new fighters emerge

After the introductions were made, Domon had a new problem to deal with. The five teens; Heero Yuy, Wu Fei Chang, Dou Maxwell, Trowa Barton, and Quatre Reberba Winner, all wished to enter the Gundam fights. The only problem was that countries had already sent their representatives out so if any new fighters emerged there'd be chaos!

To this dilemma, Rain had a simple solution. And that solution consisted of two words; Backup Fighters! Every colony was permitted a backup incase the first fighter was ill or died during the fights. This would prevent other competitors from taking out the fighters when they were incapacitated and unable to fight. The only question was, which nations should the five youths represent?

It ended up like this;

Wu Fei—Neo-Hong Kong

Trowa—Neo-America

Quatre—Neo-France,

Dou—Neo-Russia

Heero—Neo-Japan

Each of the young Gundam pilots were now officially part of the tournament and members of the secret organization called the Shuffle Alliance. Captain and his friends decided to help protect the mechanics from any injuries caused by the fights.

"Tell me again why I ended up with Neo-Russia?!" grumbled Dou.

"Because Heero wouldn't have gotten along with the other pilot and you were the only one left," Trowa answered, "Besides, your Gundams are very similar!"

"Um, what exactly can we do?" asked Captain Gundam.

"That's a good question. What do you think, Domon?" asked Rain.

"You can stay out of the other Gundams way," replied Domon.

"Yeah really," muttered Heero.

"Sounds reasonable enough…" said Zero.

During the next fight, the Shining Gundam was being repaired. So, Heero took the Shining Gundam's place and won with disturbing ease. Dou fought the next day since the regular pilot fell ill and like Heero, won with uncanny ease. And so it went every time the replacements fought. The people in charge of the Fights were becoming unnerved at their power.

But during one of the fights which the Gundam pilots fought, something strange happened to the Chibi Gundams! It happened so fast that no one could believe their eyes. Here's what happened.

Captain was getting worried about Quatre and went to see if he was okay even though the match was still officially going. When Sandrock rose up, his opponent charged and almost caused Quatre to fall again. He held his ground; then he took a quick step back. What he didn't realize until it was too late was that he accidentally stepped on Captain!

"What the…oh no! I stepped on one of the living Gundams!" exclaimed Quatre.

He quickly finished the match and everyone went to look at the damage. To many eyes, it appeared as though this was the end of Captain. But Shute wouldn't accept that; he rebuilt his friend and placed the Soul Drive in the new Suit. It took five minutes for the core to adjust, and then Captain rose back up to his feet.

"What happened to me?!" he exclaimed.

"You stepped into the middle of a match and got squished by Sandrock by mistake," Heero said, bluntly.

"I still can't believe that you weren't killed!" said Quatre.

"Yeah, we all thought that was the end of Captain Gundam, but Shute wouldn't listen and rebuilt you from the ground up!" laughed Dou.

"Thanks Shute!" said Captain.

"It was nothing! You've saved my life more times than I can count!" replied Shute with a laugh.

Great, just when I thought that at least one of those annoying Chibi Gundams was gone, some runt goes and brings it back to life! Why me?! Heero muttered in his mind.