Chapter 28 The Last Angle Part 1
Wing Angel stood on the edge of the cliff overlooking the sea, with a single graceful move Heero extended his suit has left arm as its wing framed out behind him. At the same time a beam saber shot out of its holder on his right arm and into its hand. The green energy sword activated at once it reached his hands. Heero closed his eyes for a moment as he prepared himself; finally, he opened his eyes again and looked at the incoming Tallgeese mark III.
He was not the only one watching the oncoming mobile suit, just as before the Angel Squadron had taken over the Preventer satellites and was broadcasting the battle live across all of Earth and Space.
"Zechs." said Noin as she watched back in mainland Italy from the same airbase her husband and taken off from hours earlier.
"So it is about to happen, the clash of titans." said Dorothy as she along with other loves one of the gundam pilots sat in the living room of one of Quatre's multiple homes in the colonies.
In low Earth orbit the transfer of refugees off the Peacecraft was already underway as the refugees where transferred over to the Enternal, even as they were leaving a small team of Phantoms where moving through the ships getting it ready for its part in the final operation. Outside the gundams where providing over watch but none expected anything and all of them had a small window pulled up watching the broadcast.
"Heero." said Luna as she prayed, she was not religious but it felt like the right thing to do right now.
"It is time." said Heero as he placed his hand on the engines control and pushed it forward. Outside Wing Angel extended its wings as its engines kicked up dirt as it shot forward out over the water toward the Tallgeese.
Zechs pulled his own sword as both pilots clashed against each other over the water. Their combined engine output sending streams of water flying away from the battle. Hero was cutting down while Zechs blocked him for long moments the two machines pushed against each other, metal groining a bit from the forces. Then ever so slowly, Wing Angle's blade began to move closer to Tallgeese. Realizing this Zechs opened up with his face mounted machine cannons sending high explosive rounds straight into Wing Angle's face. While the rounds did little damage to the Gundamiun Phase Shift Armor of Wing Angle the explosions so close to most of the major sensors located in the face was causing static to appear on Heero's screen.
Seeing what was happening Heero reversed his thrusters as he opened up with his own beam chain guns. Zechs seeing Heero pulling back activated the heat rod whip located in the shield. He sent the whip flying forward only to have Heero flipped Wing Angle head over heels so that he was upside down. Then using the energy shield built into the arm blocked the super-heated whip before righting himself.
"I must admit I have on some levels been looking forward to facing you again Zechs," admitted Heero as his voice was broadcasted not only to Zechs but over the broadcast so that all Earth and Space would hear him as well Zechs.
"Tell me Heero why did you kill her?" inquired Zechs not knowing that his voice was being transmitted across Earth and Space. "She loved you."
"Do you really think I enjoyed that?" countered Heero "Do you think I enjoy this? I would rather that we have met again as friends but Relena was blinded by her hate of coordinators who she blamed for me leaving. Do you think she would accept me married to one?"
"Even if that is so it wasn't worth her life." cursed Zechs "I will stop you from destroying the world, Heero."
"I am not going to destroy the world." countered Heero as Wing Angel flew backwards opening up with its twin beam shoulder mounted guns. Zechs raised his own small shield taking the blows with ease. "I never wanted this; I tried at every turn to prevent this. It is you who choose what happens today not me."
"It was you who killed Relena, it was you who waged war." countered Zechs as the heat rod whip built into his shield came out again. He bolted forward lashed out at Heero only to miss by a few yards. "I am don't care about the Coordinators but it was you who refused any peace."
"And who stood in the way of any deal, Zechs? Your sister the woman of peace who was so blinded by her fantasy world and she could not handle the fact she would never have me. All we wanted was to leave and she wouldn't let us," countered Heero as multiple feathers flew off his back. "I never even wanted to come here, but it was you who forced my hand."
With that the feathers began to fire on the Tallgeese and Zechs fried back at the small white feathers each of whom contained beam cannons. Zechs instantly began to dodge the fire even as Heero pulled back and after splitting his buster rifle began to fire at him; Zechs now had to deal with ten beams firing at him.
"I will stop you Heero, I will protect this world." said Zechs "I will not let you burn the world."
"Zechs did not wonder why I invited you here?" inquired Heero "It wasn't just because I wanted to settle our differences once and for all. No I had a better reason."
"What reason is that?" inquired Zechs as he blasted at the feathers with his own beam cannon, however they were too fast and small. He did manage to hit three of the eight but they took the blow with their own shields. Even though he did not destroy them, the feathers flew back to Heero to recharge because using their shields took too much power.
"You were the only real threat to the pull out of Malta, those cannon of yours combined with your speed was a threat to retreat." explained Heero "So I had to take you out of play and for that I turned to a basic principle of warfare."
"If you want to move an enemy entice him with something he is sure to take." finished Zechs "I read the art of war in school."
"But yet it seems that you haven't been able to listen." countered Heero with a slight laugh.
"What do you mean?" inquired Zechs
"What did I tell Duo?" inquired Heero as the lightening count detected a slight smirk to Heero's voice.
"That you are going to watch the world burn," reported Zechs "What of it?"
"Correct, I would "watch" the world burn." said Heero as he stressed the word watch. Zech's eyes widened as he realized what was really going on.
"You don't have any control over what is coming do you?" inquired Zechs
"No, did you really think I would invite you here and give you a chance to stop the storm, I trigged it the moment the ships carrying the refugees left earth." explained Heero "It has already begun and there is no way to stop it."
High above his head a high orbit between Earth and the nearest colony thirty five shipping containers size boxes opened up to show five missiles all pointed toward the Earth. With their containers gone the robotic arms at the center of the group of missiles extended to give the missiles more room to fire. The onboard computers of each missile activated at the same time as the preselected targets where plotted and the missiles primed to fire.
The missiles separated from their holders and fired their engines which sent them flying toward Earth. Alarms began blaring across multiple preventer radar stations around the world as they tracked the incoming warheads.
"Commander Zechs we have 175 missiles flying toward Earth." reported a Preventer Radio operator
"Target?" inquired Zechs
"Everywhere." stated Heero as the two of them moved toward each other, their swords hitting each other causing a shower of sparks with each hit.
Far above their heads, the missiles entered the upper levels of the atmosphere it was here that the missiles separated into two major groups. The first group of 100 missiles kept on its path toward Earth, the other 75 broke open to show five smaller warheads. The 375 warheads streaked toward their targets. There targets where the very backbone of the modern world the massive satellite network which surrounded the world.
Each of the smaller heads headed toward the satellites before exploding their nuclear warheads, the explosions where so high above the planet that it would hurt any person on the ground, even the EMP effect was limited but that was not their mission. The explosions did more than just destroy satellites it filled the area around Earth with millions of metal shards from the satellites which would make massive space launches next to impossible. Earth was now all but cut off from space, the only link between Earth and space right now was the Angel Squadron controlled spacecraft the Peacecraft which was broadcasting images from Heero's and Zech's battle. The other one hundred missiles headed into the atmosphere making a meteor shower which could be seen around the world.
"Let me guess you're N-Jammers?" inquired Zechs while not the total source of power around the world nuclear energy provided over half of the energy needs for the world.
"Correct, with a nuclear warhead thrown in, if too many of them go off line the nukes will explode plunging the world into a nuclear winter." explained Heero neither of them had to explain to the other what the effects of a world without power would be like. People would panic and riots would fill every street, in time the world would recover but it would take months if not years to even start the process.
Zechs did not say anything as he fired his beam cannon at Heero; Heero dodged the attack only to see that Zechs had sent his heat rod forward. The whip wrapped around Wing Angel's leg, Heero did not have much time as Zech's sent a power serge down the whip before he sent Heero flying backwards. Heero was slammed into the cliff face.
Heero responded by flying straight up as the few feathers which hadn't returned to Wing Angle kept Tallgeese at bay.
"Time for me to end this Zechs." said Heero as he raised his buster rifle in one hand and his sword in the other. His wings spread out behind him as the powerful engines kept the gundam hovering in midair. Inside Wing angle the targeting system locked onto the white mobile suit below.
Zechs who was dodging the fire from the feathers looked up and saw the glow gathering at the end of barrel, in Heero's other hand was his sword which was out for some reason. Heero pulled the trigger as a beam of energy shot down toward the Tallgeese
"There it is." said Zechs with one graceful move Zechs moved out of the way of the beam and then slammed his engines to their max. He came up behind Wing Angel sword raised, Wing Angle's back was to him, and with the buster rifle still firing down and his sword was pointed the wrong way to help him, the feathers where either destroyed or still in their holders so Heero was helpless.
"Goodbye Heero." said Zechs as he moved to bring his sword down only to find that his computer system had frozen. That is when he saw it, there was a second blade coming out of the back of Heero's sword making it a duel blade. The blade must had activated right as he appeared shooting out under Wing Angle's arm and had come out striking Tallgeese right below the cockpit.
"No." said Noin as she watched on TV as her husband's suit was speared clean though.
"It's over." said Dorothy as she sat around with the fellow loved ones of the gundam pilots up in space.
"Did you think I showed you everything I had earlier, I am sorry it came to this Zechs." said Heero over his radio as he pulled the sword out spinning it around as he turned to face the Tallgeese. Wing Angle faced him with the buster rifle in one hand, a duel bladed sword in the other. "Goodbye."
Then before the eyes of the world Heero raised his own sword and brought it crashing down, the cut went straight through the Tallgeese from shoulder to hip, through the cockpit. Then to finish the job before the Tallgeese could exploded Heero spun his buster rifle around and pulled the trigger. At point blank range and at its max setting the Tallgeese was vaporized leaving only some smoking bolts to fall to earth.
"ZECHS!" yelled Noin as she fell to her knees, there was no tears she was too numb for that instead she simply shook unable to wrap her mind around what she had just seen.
Inside Wing Angel Heero lowered his head as he just sat there, he had done it, his rival the man who had stood in his way so many times had been defeated once and for all by his own hand. He had prevented any possibly of an organized threat to his home; he could live the rest of his life as peaceful as he could. Yet he did not feel like he had won.
He turned his gaze toward the skies which was still full of falling missiles which looked like a meteor shower.
"Time to go." said Heero as he checked his systems and sealed the visor on his helmet. With that Wing Angle powered up into space even as the warheads where falling all over Earth.
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the fight between Heero and Zechs. I have one last chapter planned to finish the story. So until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75.