Author's Note: And Archsage Soren gets it right with The Great Mouse Detective. No prize this time my friend but a pat on the back. For the rest of you, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing.

Warning: language, violence, death?

Battle of the Juggernauts

"Sigmund!" Yuuan cried out as he saw his friend ram into Solo, his large hands and beefy fingers wrapping around the blond's upper arms. Upon lifting Solo off the ground, Solo brought a knee up into his chin, the sound of Sigmund's jaw breaking audible even from where Yuuan was standing. He'd be okay from that since his friend could regenerate at an accelerated rate but it didn't mean that he liked it.

Solo kicked a foot into the giant's gut once, twice, three times until Sigmund finally let go of him in which the blond took the opportunity to slug him in the side of the face. However, Sigmund caught Solo's next punch with his hand and clamped down tightly on it, preventing Solo from retracting it. Pushing Solo back with his strength, Sigmund pulled him back, his large fist impacting Solo's torso, sending him flying away as he simultaneously let go of the captured fist.

Solo landed ungracefully on his back but flipped back up an instant later, pushing off the earth and rushing Sigmund, landing a punch into Sigmund's gut and an uppercut on his chin. Sigmund interrupted this barrage prematurely by wrapping his arms around Solo and picking him off the ground, proceeding to squeeze the blond tightly as he could. Even though his arms were free, Solo's spine popped from the pressure placed on it and he punched at Sigmund's arms, trying to free himself from the tight hold. Crying out, Solo grabbed Sigmund's head and headbutted him once, twice, and Sigmund relinquished his hold as blood streamed from a broken nose. Wrapping his own arms around Sigmund, Solo bent over backwards and did a suplex, bashing Sigmund's head against the ground.

Not able to continue watching, Yuuan turned away from the fight to come face to face with somebody else's chest. Slowly looking up, he was captured in curious brown-changing-back-into-emerald eyes that were eyeing him curiously with a hint of hostility in them. Immediately, he held his hands up in the universal gesture of surrender, knowing full well that he wouldn't be able to fight without getting his ass kicked and handed to him. Unlike Kyle, he hadn't been trained in the martial arts at all. The superiors in charge had had another purpose for him altogether and it in no way involved physical activity.

The newcomer, someone that Yuuan recognized from back at the church, raised an eyebrow in questioning. "Aren't you with them?" the stranger asked.

"Yes…" he answered unsurely, "…and no…"

"Yes and no?" the stranger repeated.

"I can't fight," Yuuan admitted shamefacedly. "I don't know how to…"

"Nobody trained you how to fight with your powers offensively?" the stranger with the unibang asked, surprised.

"No," he whispered quietly in answer. "I was judged to be useful in other occupational faculties and prevented by the superiors from learning how to offensively use my abilities in a combat situation."

The unibanged stranger's eye widened in awe, at least he thought it was awe, at his use of extended vocabulary. Back at headquarters, he was mocked mercilessly by the other boys because he liked using such words all the time. It was just the way he was.

"I guess I'll just have to keep an eye on you then," the stranger replied, shrugging his shoulders.

"Okay," he whispered worriedly.

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Duo strained as he was slowly pushed back by Jason's latest attack. The ball of wind was unsurprisingly powerful and was being helped by the surrounding tornado's wall that was speeding up and sucking away all his air. It was making it harder to breathe and weakening him inches by inches as he sunk lower and lower in the air.

He put more power behind his barrier and managed to push back a few inches only to loose them as Jason pushed him back easily.

"It's over!" Jason called down at him. "Surrender now and this all stops."

"Fuck you," Duo gritted his teeth as he poured even more power out into his barrier, finally stopping his slow descent. "I ain't going back there; I'd rather die than go back there."

Jason retorted, "Orders are orders. I haveta bring you and Solo back in so that it's not my hide on the line."

"You think he'll let you live?" Duo shot back at him. "You're just a thing to him! Once you've outlived your purpose, he'll kill you anyway."

"Don't you think I already know that?" Jason said. "I saw what he did to Mobias; you think I don't know he won't do the same to me? I'd rather live a bit longer, thank you, and if bringing you in ensures that then so be it!"

"Why don't you run?" Duo shouted back.

"Because there is no escape," Jason told him solemnly. "There's no escape in this life, only the next."

"How about I send you there?" Duo said and blasted his full might into his barrier, pushing not only the shield of frozen time but the ball of ferocious winds back at Jason who was immediately overwhelmed by it. To lighten the blow delivered onto his person, he dispelled his own attack so all he had to feel was the wall of frozen time slam into him like some invisible physical force.

Unable to hold himself where he was, Duo dropped down the tornado's shaft but managed catch himself a few yards above the ground itself. Panting hard, Duo stared up above himself, waiting for Jason to come back at him. He needed time for his well of power to refill some before he could pose a credible force.

He wasn't disappointed as Jason rocketed down at him from above, his hands held in front of his body, holding another orb of razor-sharp wind but unlike last time where he had thrown it as a long distance attack, he was coming in to do close quarters combat.

Duo filled the space before him with slowed down time which bought him some time as Jason's advance was dawdled when he entered the field of time. He gritted his teeth as he form another thick wall of frozen time between himself and the field of slowed time, waiting anxiously as Jason slowly made headway towards him, every bit of distance he passed done in slow motion. Gradually, the Wind Master encountered the wall and when he did, Duo dropped the field of slowed time to focus more of his power into the wall. The return to normal time seemed to make Jason's collision more forceful and once again Duo found himself being pushed backwards inch by inch. These inches, though, were ones he couldn't afford to lose but that was precisely what was happening. He was getting close enough to the ground that he could see that the tornado they were in was not staying in one place but moving about.

He had to put that out of his mind as he put all his concentration in trying to shove Jason back, flashes of pure white light escaping from the point where time wall and ball of wind touched.

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Solo pulled and pressed with all his might, succeeding in finally breaking his opponent's arm at the elbow, the bones snapping audibly from within the muscular body. A large palm slamming into his torso shoved him away, the large boy he was fighting getting to his feet as he did so. Grabbing his arm by the shoulder, the larger boy ripped the broken and lame arm off and threw it accurately at the stunned blond who was hit back onto his back in the process.

Focusing with a pain-filled mask of concentration, the larger boy sprouted a whole new arm the same size and shape as the previously torn off one, gummy afterbirth covering the newly grown appendage.

Gaping at the sight, Solo said out loud, "Gross!"

Not taking any offense, the larger boy lunged at Solo and succeeded at grabbing the blond by his broad shoulders, lifting him up off the ground and throwing him harshly back against the ground. Raising a foot up, he tried to crush Solo but Solo rolled away at the last second as the foot slammed into the earth. Getting to his feet, Solo pulled a large rock out of the ground and bashed the piece of earth against the other's skull, blood splattering out of the blood wound as the bone beneath nearly caved in. That too was healed up but Solo, refusing to quit, swung the rock and slammed it into the side of the other's face, blood flinging away as the large boy's head snapped to a side from the force of the blow.

With the rock falling into pieces by now, Solo discarded it and tried imitating a high kick into the other's gut. The other boy caught the foot and, holding it tightly, proceeded to throw Solo up in the air again. Acting quickly, Solo caught the other's head in his hands as he was passing it and quickly headbutted it twice, freeing his captured foot. Holding himself in his upside down position, he brought his knees down harshly into two large shoulders and shoved off so that he flipped over and rolled down the broad back of the stunned boy. Landing on his back, Solo kicked both of his feet into the back of the other's knees, calling out "Timber!" as his opponent fell forward onto his front.

Rolling forward, Solo slammed his ass down on the back of his opponent's head, imprisoning it between his gluteus maximus and the rocky earth. Throwing his elbows back, he rammed the two joints into the boy's shoulder blades and did this action two more times before pushing his ass up and slamming back down again.

Panting, he got up off the prone figure and looked down at it, braced for any sudden movement that he was sure was coming.

His mind began to register some loud cries and he looked up to see the scrawny kid from other calling out a name as Trowa held him from behind. Sig…mund? This guy's name was Sigmund? Boy did he feel sorry for him; what kind of person named somebody else Sigmund? Looking back down at Sigmund and seeing no movement, he finally relaxed as it looked like the fight was over and Sigmund was down for the count.

Bending down on his legs, he shot up and leapt over the distance separating him and Trowa and the little guy he was holding, landing right in front of the two. Bending down, he grabbed hold of the smaller boy's chin and asked, "Is there anything else ya gonna throw at us? Well?"

The boy shook his head side to side, his eyes wide with fear. For a moment, Solo saw an image of a wide-eyed Duo that was replaced by another image, one of a boy with short, scraggy blond hair held up in a ratty bandana and wide, innocent green eyes, an image he had only seen once when he had looked at a window once. Shaking that away, he returned back to the present where a small boy with black hair and brown eyes was giving him a desperate looking, as if begging him not to beat him up.

It was just too pitiful to look at that any plans Solo might've had were discarded. The blond could count on Trowa to handle this kid if he tried anything funny. Looking up at Trowa, he saw that the guy's visible eye was starting to widen, giving the blond an ominous feeling in his gut. Clenching a fist, he spun around and socked the now-standing Sigmund on the right side of his face, Sigmund's neck twisted to the point where his head was almost on backwards. That seemed to be the final blow that was needed to exhaust Sigmund and cause him to fall and not get up.

"Sigmund!" Trowa's captive cried out, struggling against Trowa's hold and failing to escape it. "How could you!" the boy wailed.

"He was askin' for it," Solo shrugged, ignoring the boy's hysterics. "You saw 'um sneakin' up on me."

"But you didn't have to…have to do that!" the boy exclaimed, referring to the unconscious body. "You could have almost killed him!"

Raising an eyebrow, Solo said, "Almost?"

"He's taken worse than that," he was told by the boy.

"Then why are ya so worried if ya know he's gonna be all right?" Solo asked, puzzled.

"I don't like seeing him get hurt…" the boy said, his voice trailing off quietly.

As the wind blew against them, Solo said bluntly, "You make no sense, ya know that?"

Trowa winced, whether it was from his words or something, the blond didn't know. "Maybe you could be more tactful about this?" Trowa suggested. "He seems to be very good friends with this 'Sigmund' and it's most likely mutual. Seeing you beat his friend up must have been the hardest thing he had to see right now. You decking him couldn't have been helpful."

Solo shrugged even as the wind whipped around them. When his hair got into his face, he pushed it away irritably. "Hey, if he can't handle it, then why da hell is he still here?"

"Would you leave if it was Duo getting the crap beat out of him?" Trowa countered.

"'Course not," Solo said. "If he was gettin' the crap beat outta him, I'd jump in there and rescue his monkey ass. I wouldn't stand around and do nothin', ya know?" As the wind blew harder, the blond suddenly snapped, "What da hell is with this wind all of a sudden?"

He probably shouldn't have said that because as soon as he had finished, a torn piece of the landscape collided into him, burying him into the ground. Snapping to a side, Trowa and Yuuan saw an enormous tornado heading straight for them and if they squinted their eyes enough, they could see two figures near the bottom of it, one being Duo and the other Jason. Duo's back was practically scrapping itself against the ground and Jason was throwing all his might into pushing him back with some sort of attack, a white light sparking from between the two.

"We have to find cover!" Trowa yelled out over the fierce winds. Being as they were too close to the funnel cloud, Trowa summoned several plants to try and burrow himself and Yuuan into the ground but as the plants sprouted from the earth, they were ripped out, roots and all, and swept up into the powerful winds.

"Do that again!" Yuuan shouted at him as he dug his finger into the ground, drawing lines into the dirt that weren't being disturbed by the storm that was descending on them. "Try to make it a tree if you can!"

Curious and nearly scared senseless at their predicament, Trowa obeyed the request, the beginnings of a tree sapling emerging from the ground, right in the middle of Yuuan's drawn design. Yuuan seemed to be chanting something to himself, as if focusing his mind before slamming his hands on a line, light erupting all over the drawn lines and being absorbed into the growing tree.

Just as the tree was being consumed by the light, it was ripped out of the ground and sucked in to the storm, Yuuan crying out in surprise as this happened. Still consumed by the strange light, the glowing tree was pulled towards the bottom of the tornado where Duo and Jason were, the glowing object impacting exactly as another spark of white light flashed.

And then everything descended into chaos.