Disclaimer: See previous chapters
AN: Sorry for taking so long with this. So much on my mind these days.
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Chap. 64
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"These are conditions for the creation of complete peace…"
Standing amid the floating debris of countless Dolls and Sol-Tekkas, Tekkaman Epyon unfurled his armored wings and summoned forth his sword lancer.
"First, all weapons must be eliminated…"
High above him, Tekkaman Zero continued on his rapid approach toward the crimson tekkaman standing atop the Libra.
"And second, the desire to fight must be erased from people's minds."
Without another second of wait, Epyon jumped off the Libra and began to come toward his continuous rival. Not wasting any time, Zero shot his arm forward, opened the voltekka cells within and fired a blast at Epyon. But Epyon easily evaded it and continued coming.
"Libra plunging to Earth...it's the only way to achieve total pacifism!"
Now in close quarters, Epyon let out the first bow, slashing at Zero with a high strike. Zero raised his lancer to block, but the force was enough to knock him downward toward Libra's direction. Zero managed to stop from falling completely.
"The people who have lost the earth will hate you and the colonies will rely on you." Zero began to fly toward him again. "The same mistakes will be made as long as you live!"
But before Zero could get close enough, Epyon's heat rod weapon unfurled and came at him. As Epyon did earlier, Zero spun around, avoiding the attack completely, and continued toward Epyon. Epyon brought his weapon back and made his own charge. The two gundam tekkamen came at each other full speed and with full force, their lancers slamming heavily against each other in a terrific clash. Despite the force, Epyon pressed hard after the clash and struck out again, making a clean blow Zero's shoulder. Zero returned the favor soon afterward, swinging upward to catch Epyon in the arm. Passing that, their lancers connected once more in a brilliant display of energy. As they continued their duel, nearby, Noin watched from her vantage view point, the only one witnessing the battle between them.
'Zechs considers this place his grave. And it's not because he wishes to die a brave man in battle. He intends to pay for the sin of purging humanity all by himself.'
Despite her devotion to Zechs (or because of it), she could do nothing more than watch him do what he set out to be his ultimate fate. But there was a glimmer of hope to be found in this; however, it didn't reside with her. Rather, it felt upon the one person who stood in Zechs way.
Heero…
'I'm sure Heero's figured that out by now' her thoughts finished. 'He should have anyway...'
As this lonely battle went on with its sole witness, the engines of the Libra flared up to the full, sending both it and the wrecked Peacemillion on a path toward the earth. A path of complete and utter destruction for it…
Radham Mothership
Spprrooott!
No sooner did Blade echo his name did the ground suddenly erupt with metallic tentacles and entangle around him in grip. Blade had to struggle just not to be totally crushed to death.
"Gruah!"
"I've waited so long a time for this."
"But…how…?"
"…Did I survive? Not easily, thanks to you." Memories of his final battle with Blade flowed through his mind, causing him to tighten the grip on his lancer in rage. "After my defeat at your hands, Omega abandoned me completely and left me to die."
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KABOOOOMMMMM!
"An explosion?"
"Hey look. There's a body."
"This man's still alive. Quick. We have to get him to a hospital!"
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It would be years before I managed to recover, with the Earth fools unaware of my true form. But by that time, you had grown more powerful than ever. Powerful enough to even defeat Omega. I knew that despite my hatred, I would not be able to fight you, given my weakened condition. So I waited. Waited for a time when I would be able to exact my revenge. Then I found the remnants of Omega's ship, so of which like me, were only barely alive. It would take it many more years to re-grow the ship, during which I watched and waited, as you created your own set of halfwit tekkamen."
Blade continued to struggle, but Dagger Omega ignored him and stretched his hands out to the ship, continuing his story.
"As the ship grew, so did my powers. The infused tekka-system allowed me to make to complete evolution into an Omega class tekkaman. But more was needed. Then that's when the notice of gundamium was heard. Through use of my minions, I acquired a great deal of this material and managed to fuse it with the ship's superstructure and me along with it, as you can see."
Dagger now decided to focus on Blade, indicating the tentacle coils that was holding him in place. Blade managed to glance at it to realize what he meant. Unlike when he faced Omega, the coils were much stronger and he found that escape was fading away as they tightened once more.
"Nahhhh!"
"The gundamium has made me more powerful than Omega ever was. And now, as new master of the Radham, I will succeed with Omega had failed!" His arms raised dramatically and his cape billowed backward for further effect. "I will conquer the Earth!"
"N-Never!"
Blade renewed his efforts to escape the tentacles, but it wasn't working out. The gundamium coils weren't giving any slack and they managed to hold the white tekkaman.
"Struggle all you want. It's futile." Dagger repeated. "His crimson eyes shimmered. "At last, I will have my revenge." He turned around and a bubble appeared before him, revealing the outside and showing the ship moving toward the Earth.
"Now, stay put and watch, as I have. Watch…and suffer."
MO-II
"How's the troop evacuation coming along?"
On the bridge of the resource satellite, Une continued organizing efforts to bring back their forces. After declaring their surrender, they pulled back what was left of their forces to the satellite.
"80 of our soldiers have returned safely, but there's substantial damage to our mobile suit force. " the officer answered. He then went on further to say. "It appears that 67 of them have been destroyed."
"Then destroy our remaining mobile suits as soon as they are retrieved."
The officer turned to her in surprise. "What?"
"It's important that we rid ourselves of all weapons left on Earth." Une answered, her arm remaining folded. "Those are his Excellency's orders."
"Hmm… I understand now."
Blinking, Lady Une turned around to see Howard, Milly, Relena, Miyuki and Sally, who had spoken, standing at the entryway.
"So Trieze Khushrenada objective was total pacifism as well, huh?" Sally finished.
"Hey, who are you?" the aide officer spat, rising from his seat. However, Une raised a silencing hand to him and then addressed the girl in between them.
"I welcome you, your Majesty."
At this, some of the other soldiers in the room took notice of the situation and too saw the young girl who was formerly the Queen of the World. Whispers went in among them as they all recognized her. But Relena was hardly happy to be recognized in that way and quietly replied to Une.
"Please... I really wish you wouldn't refer to me that way any longer."
Space
"The Earth surrendered?" Hiver exclaimed, riding along with Sommer on Beta.
"Didn't see that one coming." Goliate agreed. "That's for sure."
"I doubt its over yet though." Vesna added, landing on Gamma after an attack.
Sommer looked on at the battlefield and the retreating Leos. "For now, we better back off as well."
"Back off?" Hayato exclaimed. "Are you saying we should quit?"
"No. But if the World Nation surrendered, then anything more we do right would only aggravate things." Looks followed the direction of the Sol Tekkas. "Let's move to MO-II for now. If they turn, we'll be ready."
The team soon realized Sommer's reasoning. Because of the drastic change, events would now follow a different direction, one that they had to be ready for when it came. So for now, they had to wait for it, no matter how odd it came or seemed.
"Roger that."
Space Ring
The fight between Slayer and Dead continued. The two dark tekkamen kept the battle confined to the Space Ring so there was no notice of them, despite how close they were beginning to move toward MO-II in the near distance. But that didn't really matter to them. This fight was about them alone anyway.
"Syyyaahhhhhh!"
Slayer lunged in with a punishing blow to Dead's face, nearly sending him into the Space Ring again. But, with a burst of his boosters, Dead sharply reversed direction and struck back, his lancer tearing across Slayer's arm and shoulder. Slayer let out a roar of pain and anger and returned the 'compliment' with a slash of her own, ripping across his chest. The two soon landed back on the Space Ring, gasping and touching the inflicted wounds, which were many.
"This is so much better. But you're still holding back, Dead!"
Slayer lunged again, with greater ferocity than before. Dead met the charge with one of his own and the lancers clashed in a spark of energy. Yet, they continued to hold the lock, despite how much their bodies were hurting right now. Especially Dead, who was still trying to find a way to pull through to his sister beneath. But as the battle went on, it became quite clear that she only wanted to kill him, nothing more. And he began to sink deep into his own bloodlust, his attempt to just survive turning into a drive to fight.
He felt this before. When he targeted the Space Knights, he tried to discard his sadness and despair and it turned into an obsessive need to destroy. And the end result was he became an empty shell, wanting to die, but needing to fight and kill so to not feel the pain. He wasn't there yet of course, but it was only a matter of time before he succumbed and gave into all his pain and put it in the fight, making him the soulless dark tekkaman of the past.
"Rah! Rrrrraaaaahhhhh!"
Pulling his lancer back, Dead lashed his leg upward in a solid kick, causing Slayer's face to snap upward and the rest of her to fly away. Dead could feel a grin come up upon his face as for once, she slammed into the Space Ring structure. But she wasn't done yet. No sooner had she hit the structure did she then soar toward the Earth briefly and then shoot right at him, rushing her shoulder into him and holding him until he smashed against the Space Ring, after which she hopped back.
"Come on. Is that all you can take?"
Dead soon arose from the smashed structure, damaged heavily, but showing no signs that he would stop. Slayer seemed to marvel at this. He was taking all of her best punches and still getting up. She smiled at this; this was a fight to enjoy. But it couldn't last. She had to end this nonsense now and return to her master where they could complete their conquest of the Earth and Space.
Besides, he was still holding back…
"Is this how it is going to be Dead? You can't fool me with your halfhearted fighting. If you won't fight to save your life, then why don't you just stand still and die?"
"Live in the present…" he whispered. "Fight…for the future…"
Slayer was uncertain by these words, nor did she care anymore. If he was going to be a fool and die, then so be it. She didn't want her time wasted on this.
"Have it your way then!"
Her speed was so fast, Dead almost didn't catch it. Almost… At the last possible second, Dead had sidestepped her stabbing blow and slammed his lancer into her back, propelling her out into space. Slayer nearly roared in anger and stopped herself from flying further. She was going to make him suffer for this! But upon turning around, she was greeted with a very shocking sight. Dead's lancer had doubled…Dark lightning was cracking around him…The cells of the voltekka had formed…He was going to…
"VOLTEKKAAAAAAAAAA!"
The beam of black energy swarmed right at her, threatening to engulf her. But Slayer's speed saved her once again as she now sidestepped his attack. Her crystal hawk flared brightly and she charged back, while he was still open. This time, she would get him. By the time he was able to stop discharging energy, her lancer would have decapitated him and end this squabble. And as she soared in for the kill, one thing was certain.
It ended here…
Peacemillion
After a long and difficult trip through the hordes of Virgo Sol-Tekka Dolls and explosions, Hellscythe manages to make it to an entrance of the Peacemillion's hanger that led to the power supply room. Slashing open the door, he then pulled in the five engineers, who miraculous had all managed to remain on the cord.
"Alright. We made it."
"Thanks for your help, Duo." Prof. G replied, entering into the Peacemillion along with the others.
The dark gundam nodded. "Now it's up to you." He turned his head slightly. "I'll do my thing with the guys outside."
"Hey. Don't get to rowdy." G warned. "We need to concentrate."
Hellscythe wheeled around just as a unit of Dolls came at him and began attacking him. He shook his head somewhat and grinned within.
"Tell that to the enemy, will ya?"
His armored wings spread, Hellscythe swooped back into the fray of battle.
MO-II
Back on the bridge, Lady Une pulls out her gun and slowly holds it to Relena. Relena looked at it questioningly and then back up at the OZ leader.
"I am like a body that has lost its soul. Now is your chance. Take revenge for your father's life."
Closing her eyes, Une waited for Relena's response. In truth, this was what she deserved for all the pain she had caused Relena. If there was anything she learned from this war, it was that some actions must come with a price. For murdering Vice Foreign Minister Dorlian, she must now leave her fate to his daughter. Relena looked at her for a moment and, after walking up to her, places her hands on the gun and Une's hand and pushes it down. Une opened her eyes, quite surprised by this.
"Let's put an end to all of this." Relena spoke. "The revenge and the war."
Une didn't quite know what to say to such mercy and forgiveness, save for one word. "Yes…"
The moment past, Howard moved over to the seated aide. "Now...what can we do about Libra and Peacmillion."
"We have already estimated the location of impact and issued evacuation warning.
Howard looked at the panel for a moment and then turned with an incredulous look through his shades at the aide. "Evacuation? You're not serious? If those two battleships hit ground, the entire world will be affected."
Moving his hand forward, Howard punched in on the keys, bringing up the schematics on both the Libra and Peacemillion and displaying their power generators
"If those battleships enter Earth's atmosphere and explode on ground, the initial explosion might be limited to a radius of few hundred kilometers. But the enormous amount of dust spreading across the sky will block solar rays, resulting in a dramatic decrease in temperatures around the world."
"That's terrible." Relena exclaimed.
Milly added further. "And people won't be able to live on the Earth any longer."
"The only way to avoid this is to change their orbit or blow them up in space." Howard explained. He then lowered his head sadly. "Both are next to impossible."
"No. There's still hope."
The group turned to Lady Une as she said this and the colonel indicated to the screen showing the moving wreckage of the Libra/Peacemillion.
"There's a gundam tekkaman close to Peacemillion's main power supply."
"Is it Heero?" Relena questioned.
Lady Une shook her head. "No. I think it's 02."
"Duo. Then they're likely with him." Howard reasoned. That would be the only reason why he would leave Libra and come back to the Peacemillion. Realizing this, he affirmed. "Well then, we still have hope."
"But where are the other tekkamen?" Sally asked with concern. "The gundams and the Space Knights?"
"There's too many Mobile Dolls moving about to make sure." the aide answered. But then he added. "However, we have confirmed that the Space Knight tekkamen are in close proximity to this base."
Lunar Orbit
The Radham mothership continued on its slow, yet steady course toward the Earth. However, the reason it moved this way was not because it was a slow vessel, but because its master wanted to bide his time for the unleashing. Within, Dagger Omega watched events unfold, seeing the retreat of the World Nation to MO-II. It was perfect. The Dolls were every bit as powerful as he had wanted. And thanks to Sliver's tekka-virus, which was implanted when they were first created on the Lunar Base, they would now follow his commands.
"And now the time has come." He raised his lancer high. "Awaken my Dolls! Bring forth the destruction you were created for."
"Rhhaaahhhhh!"
Blade finally managed to escape from the gundamium coils and tear them apart, freeing himself. Dagger turned to the cry of the tekkaman and saw him free. But it meant little, if nothing to him.
"Ah, stubborn to the end. But it's too late. The tekka-virus has already taken over." He indicated to the bubble screen. "All of the Dolls are now under my command."
The emerald eyes of Blade glowed as he whirled his lancer. "Then I guess I'll have to take you out to stop them."
"You never did know when to quit. Very well, then." Dagger turned around fully to face his most hated opponent. Now that Blade was free, he would have to beat him to within an inch of his life and then show him what would be the end result. The complete Radham takeover of this system…
"Come, Tekkaman Blade. Let the true suffering begin!"
Libra
As events continued to unfold around, Dorothy remained in place, her head lowered as the will to fight had almost fully drained out of her. Sandrock's words had struck her at the core, and the current events, especially the death of her cousin, Trieze, had taken the fight out of her and left her in a state of loss. Heavyarms simply stood by, looking up at the chaos.
"I've continually fought, and with each battle, I've lost something. And my heart has been complete void of feeling for some time now. Maybe my life doesn't have value anymore. But I have to keep on living."
For the first time in a long while, Dorothy spoke. "Why is that?"
His gaze remained skyward, but if anyone realized, Heavyarms was looking in the direction of his now home colony, L3.
"I've got a home to go back to."
This did little to help Dorothy. "Well, unlike you, I don't have any place left to go back to."
His head lowering, Heavyarms moved over to Sandrock, who had regained consciousness. His breathing was still ragged, but his wound was no longer bleeding out in space. "Can you stand, Quatre?"
"Listen to me Trowa." the tekkaman said shortly. "You've got to do me a favor. Look after her and forget about me."
Dorothy was surprised by this. Here was the man she had just run through with a lancer, all the while declaring him to be weak and soft. And now he wanted his friend to watch her on the off chance she might think about ending her live here? What was sad was, she understood this. He was a kind person. As she was…
"Don't worry about it." Heavyarms reassured, helping his friend to his feet. "I'm sure she's strong enough to take care of herself."
Sandrock took another ragged breath and then nodded in agreement. "Yeah... I guess you're right."
Holding Sandrock upright, Heavyarms turned around, preparing to fly off into space. But before he did, he turned back to Dorothy.
"You had better get going."
Sandrock glance over at her as well and simply spoke, uttering the same concern as earlier. "Don't die…please…"
Dorothy didn't move, but the sound of tears could be heard in her voice. It could have been dismissed as their imagination, but tiny bubbles of tear flowed out into space and floated before her. The two were ready to turn again when Dorothy suddenly gasped. Her eyes flashed and she raised her head upward.
"Dorothy?"
"Something's wrong…" she stammered out. "My connection…I can't control them." Her eyes flickered as she sought to regain control. "Something else…another mind."
Heavyarms looked up as the Dolls flew away from the Libra. "So, the Radham are making their move."
Elsewhere, Hellscythe, who was currently fighting the Dolls, was puzzled when he saw them suddenly turn tail and fly away from him.
"What the…? They're leaving?"
He watched them depart, but saw that they were not going toward the Libra. Rather they were gathering around to far end of it and stopping.
"No. They're regrouping."
Space
"Space Knights. Come in. Respond…"
The transmission came out of static, but Anita managed to catch it as well as the speaker. "Commander Noal?"
"Finally." The man sighed aloud. He then warned. "You've got a serious problem heading your way."
"What do you mean?" Hayato asked. Like everyone else, he had seen the retreat of the Sol-Tekka Dolls, so the danger should have passed. But it was then that Goliate broke in with additional information.
"Hey guys. I'm picking up something on radar. Something big."
Both Anita and Hayayo checked the radar screen. "The Blue Earth?" Hayato suggested uncertainly.
Anita shook her head. "No. This is way bigger."
Noal overheard the communications and informed. "It's a Radham mothership. It was buried beneath the Moon surface."
Before there could be further talk or even surprise and shock at the news, the attention of the Space Knights was diverted to the Dolls, all of whom had finished gathering at their point and were now swarming in to attack. If that didn't make things worse, a crown of Radham monsters also joined alongside them, forming a strange, but lethal combined force of alien and machine. The Dolls lead off with energy fire and the Knights was forced to spread out and enter in a new battle.
"Here we go again!"
MO-II
"Lt. Noin! Lt. Noin! This is MO-II. Please respond!"
As the aide tried to get in contact with Noin, Sally moved beside Une, who had requested for them to find her.
"How come you're trying to reach Lt. Noin?"
"You'll know soon enough." Une answered, turning to her. "The real question is whether the times have changed more than even I expected."
"Colonel! We've got her!"
The channel screen opened, revealing the woman in question. She had her hand raised in salute, but her face gave nothing away. Une wasn't too surprised by this. Noin didn't have any reason to like her any more than Relena did. Despite this, Noin remained civil.
"It's good to see you're well, Colonel."
"Noin, are you monitoring the battle between Zechs and Heero?" Une asked her.
"Yes."
"Relay those images to our line right away."
Noin was silent for a moment and then responded. "I'm not with OZ any longer. I won't take your orders."
"This isn't an order." Une replied, her voice softening. "It's a favor, as a fellow believer of peace."
Sally was surprised by this act, but Noin simply looked on. It was clear to the two that Noin didn't trust Une before she said those words. When she said them, though, Une was able to see her eyes to determine if she was trying to trick her . But Lady Une was sincere in her request; her eyes told Noin this.
"Very well, then."
Noin's face disappeared from the screen, replaced with the titanic struggle between Zero and Epyon. Relena saw this with concern, her brother in battle with the most important man in her life.
"Heero…"
"Send this image at once to Earth and Space." Une ordered quickly.
"Yes..."
The transmission went out immediately, flashing before people's eyes as they lit up the televised screens of the colonies. Not a single screen showed anything aside for the battle between the tekkamen. As the fight went on, the colony citizens watched in awe and horror as the fight raged. Many didn't even know that the war was still going on, but they watched nevertheless.
-"The battle you are witnessing has no significance to either Earth or the colonies."- Lady Une voice came over the speakers. -"But it is necessary just the same, because in reality, it's a fight to save the colonies. This year, in AC 195, the history of battle is finally about to come to an end. Unless these two continue to fight, peace will never be achieved. Can you feel it? Can you feel the misery of this combat? And can you see the peace that awaits us? This battle is making each one of us look for a solution to secure peace."-
The broadcast also being watched by the colony delegates, who saw the scene to the two battling tekkamen with the same shock as everyone else. And in addition, they recognized the colonel's voice.
"Representative Une...?"
"So she's alive..."
Une took a pause from speaking, and it was then that one of the aide shot out.
"Colonel Une! We have an emergency! Sol Tekka Dolls have resumed their attack!"
Une blinked in surprise. "What?"
The screen lit up, revealing the re-approaching Sol-Tekka Dolls. What were they doing? The World Nation surrendered. Why were they still attacking?
The aide went on further to speak. "There are also reports that there are Radham attacking alongside them."
"The Radham are making their move." Milly spoke. "Somehow, they're in control of the Dolls now."
"So now we've got two problems." Sally replied. "Libra and the Radham."
"Hold on. I'm also detecting tekkaman signals within the battle."
"The gundams?" Relena questioned.
Howard looked over at the console panel. "No… The Space Knights. They've moved away from MO-II and engaging the Radham forces."
Punching it up on screen, Howard showed them the fighting force of Tekkamen Hiver, Vesna, and Sommer, all fighting against the massive force of Radham and Doll. Une looked at the scene and whispered to herself
'Master Trieze… It is as you have said. We must rely on them now.'
But she wasn't the only one to regard this battle with more that wonder. From behind everyone, Miyuki watched silently as the trio of tekkamen moved in against the horde, fighting with everything they had and more. Yet even they may not be able to hold back such a force completely for long. Looking down and her hand, her pink crystal materialized into view. She gripped it delicately at first and then, after taking another glance at the battle, she tightened the hold. And as silently as she watched the scene, she turned around and retreated back out the main entrance.
Peacemillion propulsion room
"The regular booster alone won't be enough to change its course."
"We've got to take out the pressure limit controller and the power cylinder."
The voices of the scientists echoed through the abandoned Peacemillion as they set about their work of redirecting Libra and Peacemillion away from the Earth. At the main console, Dr. J and Professor G were busy chatting to each other as they finished up.
"We're stopping this disturbance by causing another disturbance." J joked humorlessly. "Seems to be our specialty, doesn't it."
The engineers had finally finished their work when a voice yelled out a warning from the darkness. Turning toward it, they found Quinze on the platform, holding a gun on them.
"Freeze! Don't move a muscle!"
J calmly began to move toward Quinze. "Quinze... Long time no see..."
But Quinze made good on his threat and shot the wizened scientist in the arm, causing him to back away and grasp it in pain.
"I told you not to move."
"Go ahead and kill us." J strained out. "We're all done here."
Quinze frowned at the group. "You people have caused me nothing but headaches. How many times do you have to interfere with Operation Meteor? If it weren't for you people changing the orders of gundam tekkamen, mankind would have come to its senses a lot sooner than this."
"Probably. But we rate Earth and mankind a lot higher than you ever did."
"Enough." Quinze raised his gun arm, targeting them once again. But G simply glared down at the man and replied.
"We're going to interfere just one more time."
Reaching back to the control panel, he flicked a switch…A gunshot rang out…and an explosion followed…
Libra
On the outside, the Peacemillion's engines start up flared to life, bring the two hulking bodies to a slow descent and then stopping them altogether. But this event changed nothing on the part of Tekkamen Epyon and Zero, who continued to strike at each other with increasing force. Noin continued to watch amid the debris, standing outside the fight as they tore at each other furiously, becoming nothing more than flashes of light against the black of space.
"You're the same as Trieze, claiming to fight for justice to protect the weak." Zero dove in with a lunge and followed by a forceful strike, sending Epyon backward. "But in fact, you're not helping to protect the weak at all!"
"It's the stronger who create the weaker!"
Epyon charged back and met with Zero's clash. He then followed up with a double swing of his lancer, now driving Zero back. "It was the strong Earth that made the weak colonies and almost drove them to destruction!"
In a fury, Epyon pressed with a third and fourth strike. Zero was forced to back away, settling on the deck of the Libra. The platform beneath his feet trembled, causing him to loose his footing a bit. Just enough for the crimson gundam to soar in close and knock Zero's lancer away and level his own at the tekkaman's head.
"Now victory is mine!"
Zero stared down the sharp blade. "I can't stand the weak. They're always worried about when they'll be next attack. They can't trust anyone and they never have an opinion of their own. I can't stand such people!"
"Strong people make them that way!" Epyon retorted, bringing his lancer back for the finishing blow. But it was then that the full impact of the engineers' work came in and the shift back into space caused an explosion on the section they were on. It was strong enough that Noin was caught in it as well and tossed away
"Oh no!"
Seeing Epyon faltering back from the explosion, Zero made his move, ducking down to retrieve his lancer and now holding it at Epyon's head. Epyon hissed in shock at the sudden reversal.
"Zechs…No one is strong… All of mankind is weak. And that includes us as well."
MO-II
"The Peacemillion and Libra are heading away from the earth."
Cheering erupted from some of the soldiers there, but that until another aide came with from bd news.
"Colonel Une! Some of the Dolls have turned around are attacking the Peacemillion's engines."
"What?!"
True to word, the screen showed the latter portion of th Sol-Tekka Dolls retreat from their advance and fire at the Peacemillion's booster rockets. The soulless machines managed to destroy the boosters one by one, with some actually crashing into it to damage it further.
"Looks like Zechs has some help." Sally murmured.
"Of the worse kind." Howard added. Soon, all of the Peacemillion's booster were destroyed and the two structures floated in the dead of space for a moment and then begin to slowly, but surely drift back to Earth.
"Without the engines online, the Libra and Peacemillion will drift back toward Earth again."
Just then, another aide announced to them. "The colony delegation making an official statement."
Switching it to speaker, everyone heard the voice of the lead representative as he spoke on the same open broadcast Lady Une had used in hers.
-"In accordance with the declaration of defeat given by the World Nation, we the colony delegation have an announcement from all colonies. We wish to pursue the withdrawal of the White Fang's demands, and hereby announce our desire to coexist with the World Nation. We further declare our rejection of any combat, regardless of the reason and strongly hope that the World Nation will follow suit."-
It was hard to believe it, but it was happening. Amid the chaos and conflict, peace was finally and truly coming together. And not just for the Earth alone, but for the colonies as well. Earth and Space coexisting. Just as Relena had wanted. Just as Trieze had wanted. Just as everyone had really wanted.
The statement went on. -"We would also like to apologize for the suffering endured by many people as a result of our unclear stand."-
Zero and Epyon too heard the broadcast. For Zero, for Heero, it was the fulfillment of all that he had fought for. For Epyon, for Zechs, it was simply the end of it.
"You're finished, Zechs." Zero declared.
Epyon sneered lightly and then retorted. "Not yet."
Whipping away from Zero's lancer, he lashed out with his heat rod at Zero. Zero jumped away and the weapon tore out a hole in the Libra.
"I still have yet to acknowledge that I'm one of the weak people of the world."
With that, Epyon dived into the hole, with Zero following in pursuit. Peace may be coming, but their fight would continue on within the Libra…
MO-II
"Looks like we're out of options."
"There's got to be something we can do." Relena said exasperatedly.
"But what?" Sally replied. "Libra is falling back to Earth. On top of that, the gundams are nowhere to be found."
Miily strode up the to aide's side. "Contact the Space Knights. Tell them that they have to stop the Libra."
"But how?" Une spoke. "Reactor Voltekka isn't strong enough to stop both Libra and Peacemillion."
"No. But that's not the only weapon they have." Turning to the aide. "Get me a channel to them."
"But what about my brother and Heero?" Relena asked. Surly now that peace was coming about, they should have stopped fighting, right?
But Lady Une revealed otherwise. "They're not going to quit until it's all over."
"No! Stop it you two!" Relena cried out. "Noooooooo!"
Peace is finally on its way. But can it make it through that battles and chaos that continue on in these final moments? Gundams, Space Knights, Radham, Earth, Space, all must succumb to their fates and destinies as the curtain begins to come to a close on this act. Next on Gundam Tekkaman – The Final Victor