Disclaimer: Same as always. I don't own the characters (sigh).

Chap. 27

Lunar Base.

A dark shadow descends in one of the docking bays and disappears. A moment later, a guard passes by on his daily watch when a hand suddenly grabs him and pulls him in the back. No other sounds are heard as the soldier now come out, but it is not the same person as before. Looking up, Heero smoothly walked out of the area and toward his destination. As he did, he could faintly hear the loud explosion coming from the other side of the corridor, no, the base. Alarms were blaring off as soldiers ran toward the source, taking no consideration to the single soldier who was walking in the opposite direction. As he continued on his path, his tekka-set suddenly glimmered beneath the hat. But he didn't have time to consider who it was. Chances are it's one of the captured tekkamen. But seeing as how he was going to kill them all anyway, it didn't matter. His destination was more important. He walked down the adjourning corridor and into another room. It was there that he found what he was looking for.

'The core. A few well-placed explosives should be more than enough.'

Reaching into the jacket, he fingered one compact explosive device and moved on. As he walked, he calmly planted the device behind on of the power line. He did this two more times, but began to feel strange. The tekka-set had not gone away. Also, something else was amiss. Despite the explosion he set up, this was still the core. 'Shouldn't it be better guarded than this?' As he set about planting the next explosive, a sound came from behind.

"We have an intruder."

'That voice...' Despite that, Heero's instincts went off and he swiftly grabbed his gun. But before he could pull it out, a soft click alerted him that the guy behind him was also holding a gun. Other soldiers then came in a surround the gundam tekkaman.

"We found these planted around here."

The soldier was holding the bombs that Heero had planted. The head soldier nodded.

"Well, it looks like we found the culprit. Good work, Cadet Barton."

Heero finally turned his head fully to see his captor. It was Trowa, also garbed in an OZ uniform. Unknown to the others, his tekka-set glimmered beneath his hair. Heero's eyes locked with his briefly and then he slowly dropped the gun and stood with his hands up.

"Take his to the cell with the others."

"Yes, sir."

As the soldiers carried him off, Trowa simply watched them take him away. Then after awhile, he left off by himself.

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Middle of the ocean, unknown

"Good morning."

Zechs awoke inside a small cabin room. His arm was bandaged as well as his head, but he was alive. 'But how?' The last thing he remembered was leaving the battlefield at full throttle. 'I guess I pushed the Tallgeese once again.' Looking up, he saw a thin man with a Hawaiian shirt, hair on the sides of his head and dark triangular shades.

"You're finally awake."

Zechs slowly sat up and looked out the window. From the look of things, he was on some sort of barge ship. Piles of debris and parts were collected at one corner of the ship. Zechs turned his attention to the man.

"Who...are you?

"Name's Howard." He said simply. "I found you and that Sol-Tekka a bit a way's from here. Luckily, you were still alive so I and my men treated you. We also repaired your machine too."

Zechs blinked and stood up from the bed. Staggering to the door-side, he saw a nearby garage space on the barge. Within it, several technicians were working and polishing up the Tallgeese.

"She's a beauty, I'll say. Quite a machine really." commented Howard. He then looked to Zechs, "Oh, are you heading to outer space?"

Zechs looked at him strangely, "Space?"

Howard stepped toward the garage, "Yeah. Lots of commotion going on up there now a days."

Zechs looked from him to the Tallgeese. The white Sol-Tekka was fully repaired and there was more for Zechs to do now. Since space is now open, he would begin there.

"It would appear...that Tallgeese's strength would be needed there, in outer space."

Howard nodded, "I have a ship ready for you." He motioned to the side where Zechs saw a medium-sized ship. It looked like a standard Sol-Tekka carrier, but modified and brought down to size. "It's not much, but it can hold a Sol-Tekka. You can use it if you wish."

Zechs gave him a questioning look. He could believe that this guy was just being helpful earlier, but now he was giving out way too much just to help a guy they just picked up from out of nowhere. So it's only natural that Zechs would now be cautious.

"Why are you helping me so much?"

Howard shrugged, "Well, just wanted to help the guy who was able to tame that machine." Howard looked at the Tallgeese further, and Zechs was able to see recognition in his eyes. However, before he could ask him anything, Howard beat him to it.

"That reminds me, I didn't get your name."

He almost said Zechs, but stopped himself. His mask was no more; therefore Zechs Marquise is also gone as well. Killed in battle as befitting a true soldier. But without that, who was he now?

"My name's Milliardo Peacecraft."

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Space Knight HQ

The Space Knight's once again assembled for duty under Chief Aki's call. However, the one missing spot before them only reminded them of their injured comrade. Aki saw it in their eyes, even Dead's. But they had to get pass that and focus.

"Space Knights, you are to move out immediately. There are reports of a possible Radham tekkaman destroying facilities out in space. It hasn't been stopped and the few OZ forces that have been sent were destroyed."

"A single Radham tekkaman doing all of that?" Natasha voiced out. "That doesn't sound right."

'So far, so good.' Aki thought. If it's one person she can rely on to be focused on a mission, it would be Natasha.

"No, it doesn't. It may be possible that this could be another human, so you are all to proceed with extreme caution."

They saluted, "Yes Chief."

As they silently walked out of the room, Hayato stopped and turned to the Chief.

"Chief, how is Yumi?

The others stopped as he asked the question, hoping for good report. Aki, gratefully, could give one.

"Yumi is better. She still needs rest, but she is expected to make a full recovery."

"Thanks Chief." With that, they continued on to their mission. Aki gave a brief smile at this, but she was still worried. Yumi may be fine, but that did little to ease the tensions in the air. Mostly between Dead and Natasha. But they couldn't afford to break up now.

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Lunar Base...

The five scientists were gathered around a table loaded with schematics of the Sol-Tekkas. They examined them repeatedly and began to put their genius to work.

"These Taurus are quite an interesting design." Prof. G stated, "They're fast, but weak. If not for the disruptors, they would have been destroyed easily by the gundams."

Dr. S agreed, "True. We'll have to work on the designs for power and defense while keeping the speed modifications."

Dr. J nodded, "Hmm. Speaking of modifications... He then turned to the guard, who was watching them from outside the lab. "We need you to bring one of the gundams."

The guard gave no replied and just glared sternly. Dr. J continued, "We need one in order to improve on the design for the neural networking."

The guard remained as he was for a brief moment before nodding to the guard next to him. He then turned back, "You will be watched. If you even try anything, you will be jettisoned into space."

Dr. J didn't show the least bit of worry, "Of course."

As the guard left, another one took his place to watch them. A familiar looking guard…

"Heero is here as well." he whispered and said nothing more. But that was more than enough for the scientist as he went back to his task. Dr. J grinned. 'So now four of them are here. But where is Tekkaman  Sandrock? Where is Quatre?'

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Space...

The Blue-Earth 2 cruised through space, heading toward the area where they believe they would find the rouge tekkaman. Their destination was to an OZ resource satellite. They weren't equipped with any Taurus Sol-Tekka so the team would be fine to fight. But even still, Aki called in ahead to tell them of their presence. The officer in charge wasn't too thrilled with having them around, but he had his orders from Trieze. 'So D-Boy pulled it off after all.' As they soared on past it, a blink of light appeared within the light of the sun.

"There's an object approaching us." Natasha announced. "Fast."

"Magnify."

The scanners zoomed in to reveal a shear of light energy flying right at them. But the energy had a strange shape. It looked like a bird flapping its wings. A crystal hawk…

"That's it."

David shot up from his seat, "Then what are we waiting for?"

The others nodded and went into the cargo bay, leaving Aki behind.

"Tek-Setta!"

The adjourning ships separated as the three beams of light shot out of the Blue Earth.

"Tekkaman Vesna!"

"Tekkaman Sommer!"

"Tekkaman Dead!"

The three tekkamen boarded their carriers and waited for the arrival of their mysterious foe. However, the OZ satellite suddenly opened fire.

"What are they doing?" Sommer growled.

The beams rained down on the flying object and one of them caused an explosion. However, amid the explosion, the object continued to come. It then curved upward and the glowing faded away, revealing its true form. A tekkaman in a familiar color of white and yellow. One they all recognized.

"Quatre? That's Quatre?"

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Quatre has appeared before the Space Knights. However, he is not the same person as he displays new powers in a maniacal rage. On Earth, Relena reappears and begins to recreate the Sank Kingdom. Milliardo now heads into space as the Sank Kingdom's ambassador, but meets up with resistance. Fera leaves for space as well on a personal mission. Her destination, the Lunar Base. Next on Gundam Tekkaman: Sandrock Zero.