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Chap. 15

OZ HQ

Zechs had been requested to meet up with Trieze following the victory over the Sank Kingdom. Zechs enter to room where Trieze was currently residing.

"By now, you must have a better grasp of things, eh Lightning Baron. Or should I call you Lightning Count."

"Your Excellency, I wish to stay in your service a bit longer."

"That would please me. But are you sure?"

"I have one last thing to take care of."

"The gundams." It was a statement, not a question.

"Yes, sir."

"In that case, do as you wish."

"Thank you." Zechs turned to walk away, but Trieze wasn't quite finished with him yet.

"Oh, Zechs. Won't you be taking that mask off? Now that you've succeeded in your revenge, there's no need for it anymore."

Zechs turned his head to the side, "My personal hatred still accompanies me in battle. Think of this as my mark of distinction."

Trieze nodded, "Of course. You are a true soldier which is why I can trust you with anything..." A grin came up over his face, "Millardo Peacecraft."

"That name...please don't."

"I wait for the day when you remove that mask of yours, Zechs"

"Yes, sir."

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A large crowd of OZ soldiers were gathered before Lady Une, who was in charge of the briefing for their next mission.

"Your mission is to escort the Taurus Advanced Sol-Tekkas through their transport routes. Once done, OZ can be able to launch them into space."

Noin gave a slight frown, "Why was I not told of this?"

Lady Une looked at her coldly, "Our lack of confidence in the Victorian base has lead to this transfer."

"Hmph." was all Noin could get out. Une continued.

"So far, there have been no problems in the plans, but OZ is taking no chances. The enemy won't get their way this time."

"You mean those gundam tekkamen?" one of the other soldiers spoke out.

"They possess the greatest threat. But our defeats have only been because cowardly soldiers lapsed in compiling their data. But this time, OZ is dead series. This transfer in fact two parts. One is to transport the Taurus and two is to destroy the gundams. This plan will no doubt attract their attention, so this can serve as bait. I will give a detail explanation of each of the tekkamen's abilities. It may not be much, but it may aid you in a battle against them."

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Elsewhere, unknown.

Heero, Duo, and Quarte had all retreated in a lone apartment building. Heero was currently looking over his next mission when Quatre and Duo came up behind him.

"So...you too huh?"

Heero merely cast a steely gaze at him and continued.

They're planning on shipping the Taurus Sol-Tekkas." Quatre informed them, although they already knew.

Duo nodded, "From the information I studied, they're using two routes. Air and land. Since there are three of us, only one can attack a transport."

"There are still the others." Quatre added. "Surely they will come as well."

Duo leaned back against the wall and shook his head, "I don't like this. It's too good to be true. Heero, what do you...?"

The laptop was gone and so was Heero.

"How the...Hey, where did you go?"

A light shining outside gave them the answer. They watched as Tekkaman Wing soared through the air and disappeared.

"Heero? Hey Heero, wait! What does he think he's doing?"

"He must still regret what he did." Quatre noted.

Duo frowned, "He's crazy. There's no way he'll be able to take on both routes."

"He'll take the air route. We should take the land one."

Duo looked at the blond boy strangely, "How do you know he'll take the air route?"

Quatre was quiet for awhile before finally answering in a low voice.

"I don't know. I just...know."

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Lady Une pointed to the screen and an image of Tekkaman Wing came up.

"We will refer to this one as 01. It is possibly the most basic of the five, but possesses greater abilities in the air. Shoot it out of the sky with positron cannons and destroy it while grounded. Next, the 02 uses stealth abilities." The image switched to Deathscythe. "Lock onto it once it appeared and use an all-out assault." Heavyarms then came up, "03 uses long range weaponry, but the energy use drains its energy of the host allowing an opening for a barrage attack."

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Elsewhere, unknown.

Trowa silently walked away, leaving Wufei behind who was staring down at his sword, which was stabbed into the ground. Trowa took one last glimpse at him before driving away in a truck. Wufei didn't budge. Nataku, I'm sorry. I do not deserve you.

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"Both 04 and 05 uses heightened close-range combat to their ends. Destroy them from a distance. Beware of the Voltekka cannons on 05 and 01. That ends the briefing." She moved over to Zechs. "I was hoping you would take on the 01 one-on-one with the Tallgeese. What do you think?"

Noin objected, "By himself against a gundam? That's too dangerous. I'll back him up."

Zechs turned to her, "Noin."

She looked up at him, "There are still some Aries units at the Victoria base." She then turned back to Lady Une, "Request permission to lead the units into battle."

"Sorry, but you'll will be accompanying me at the HQ as my assistant. Any problem with that?"

Noin glared, but she couldn't refuse a superior officer, "No"

Zech added to her, "I was actually hoping you would be stationed at the HQ. When the time comes, we'll need quick, accurate thinking. I'll need your support there."

Zechs approval was enough for her to calm her slowly growing anger, "Yes, sir."

That over with, Une backed away. "Commence operations."

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Arabian territory

The two payloads traveled across the terrain, one of which is carrying there precious transport. So far, it had been smooth sailing, but you know what they say about the calm before the storm.

In this case, the storm came in the form of several showers of light.

"It's a gundam. Confirmed to be 03."

"All units, attack!"

The bulky tekkaman flew out from the sky and continued its deadly shower of energy, wiping out the Sol-Tekkas quickly.

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Land route…

A train transport rolled through the desert lands, accompanied by several Leo Sol-Tekka's on top. As they continued searching for enemies, a dark shimmer appeared. As the train moved closer to it, it began to take form. A curved weapon appeared and the Sol-Tekka saw too late the green eyes of Death. Or rather, Deathscythe.

"Haaaaaaa!!!"

Deathscythe materialized and sliced the Sol-Tekkas on top of the train. The ones in the back fired on the tekkaman, but before they could do any more, a pair of curved weapons appeared as well, slicing them in half.

"We have to move fast."

Sandrock and Deathscythe work in tandem, slicing down the Sol-Tekkas with relative ease. The train suddenly stopped and both tekkamen leaped off. The doors opened revealing scores of Sol-Tekkas. The machines swarmed around and surrounded them.

"I guess now we know which is the fake one." Duo muttered.

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"02 and 04 have been spotted at land route. Also we have confirmed that 01 has arrived and attacking the air route."

Noin got on the comm., "Come in, Zechs. 01 has appeared and is attacking the air route where we are fighting 03."

"That's fortunate. It'll be close, but I'll catch him mid-way."

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The tekkaman flew in, body covered with energy and flapping like a bird. Wing swooped through the Sol-Tekkas, wiping out four of them in one pass. Stopping its deadly flight, Wing took out its lancer and began its destruction. However, it was only partly finished when a new object appeared in the sky.

That's not an Ares. It looks like a Leo, but bigger.

The white object came closer and Wing summoned his Voltekka. However before he could fire, the white Sol-Tekka veered upward at an incredible speed and fired down at Wing, causing him to halt his Voltekka.

"That enough, Gundam 01. We shall have no need for beam weapons between us."

 Wing looked surprised as Zechs ejected his cannon and pulled out a blade weapon.

"We'll fight for recognition of superiority. You are a gundam, so that should suit you fine."

Tallgeese landed in front of Wing, saber ready for battle. Wing's voltekka cannon de-materialized and he held onto his lancer. The two charged and Wing struck first. Zechs pushed up his shield, blocking the strike effectively, much to Wing's surprise. Tallgeese then struck out, but Wing ducked and slashed upward. Tallgeese reacted quickly and parried the slash before sending one of his own. Wing swooped up, but Tallgeese followed at high speed and they clashed in the air at high speed. Wing was continually surprised by Tallgeese's speed and power. It seemed to match his own, despite being a Sol-Tekka. The two warriors landed on the ground, readying for their next attack

I'll defeat you without taking Tallgeese to its full limit.

This won't be easy, but I'll try to destroy it.

However, before either of them could make a move, an audio transmission came out from the OZ base. Lady Une was at the other end.

"Attention gundams. We are now set up to launch an all out assault against the colonies. Simply stated, we control the fate of the colonies. You have a choice. Either you surrender yourselves of the colonies will be attacked. Even if the missiles don't destroy the colonies, the damage will attract the Radham. You can guess what will happen then. You will surrender yourselves immediately and drop your Tekka-Sets. Otherwise, the colony will be destroyed."

Deathscythe grimaced, "They want us to surrender?"

Sandrock added, "They targeted the colonies?" That doesn't make sense. They would attack the very thing they're from?

"Sounds like OZ's tricks." Heavyarms muttered

"Hell of a time for tasteless tactics." Zechs growled.

Tallgeese launched itself and clashed with Wing.

"You guys can fight? Well, can't you!"

The two struggled and Wing finally pushed forward and slashed upward, cutting off Tallgeese's saber hand.

"I can't fight in that case. Noin please, get me Lady Une."

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"The gundams have stopped, but show no signs of surrendering."

Une patience ended, "Fire a missile. I don't care which."

But before the order could be carried out, Zech's image appeared in one of the screens.

"What are you doing? His Excellency wouldn't want this."

"I am doing nothing more than fulfilling his Excellency's wishes." Une shot back.

"You clearly don't understand..."

Lady Une didn't give him a chance to finsh as she cut the channel.

"You're the one that doesn't understand him."

Noin spoke up, "But His Excellency wouldn't want to involve civilians that could be hurt."

Reaching the brink of her control, Une suddenly turned and slapped Noin. Noin stepped back a bit, clearly angry but doing nothing.

"I will do whatever it takes to win. Even destroying a few insignificant colonies." She was about to repeat her previous order when another image came up, this time one all the screen. An old man with silver shades appeared.

"Another transmission, this time on all channels."

"Attention OZ. I never thought that you would be so incredibly foolish. You would dare attack the colonies in this manner just to win. If that is the case, then I have no choice but to surrender."

"Accepted. Tell them to stand down."

"I will surrender. But the Gundams will not. Understand?"

Wing gundam listened to Dr. J's words and spoke one thing.

"Mission accepted."

With that, Wing suddenly began to glow and flash with radiant energy.  Tallgeese managed to back away as Wing suddenly exploded in a column of pure energy. Everyone watched in shock at his act.

He self-destructed...to protect the colonies.

He sacrificed his life in exchange for the colonies.

He didn't even give it a second thought

Sandrock knelt down in pain. Ahhh. The pain. My body. My soul.

"We must retreat. There's nothing we can do for him. He's accepted all orders."

"All because they bluffed with the colonies."

"We can't fight any longer." Sandrock admitted sadly.

The three remaining tekkaman quickly took to the sky and disappeared. With all the disheartened and surprised thoughts and comments going through everyone's heads, no one noticed a thin pink trail of light flying out of the column, holding a darkened body with it.

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The gundams have been defeated. With the colonies used as shields, the warriors are unable to fight. With little options, each pilot goes their separate way, but they are unaware of the fate of Heero Yuy. Meanwhile Relena returns to the Space Knights and new questions arise. Next on Gundam Tekkaman: The Whereabouts of Happiness