Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ An Old World Drowning in Blood ❯ To Save The Innocent ( Chapter 7 )
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By: charachu 
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Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Sci-fi / Post-apocalyptic / Mecha / Fantasy / Angst / Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.02.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 193 | Status: Completed
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Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Sci-fi / Post-apocalyptic / Mecha / Fantasy / Angst / Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.02.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 193 | Status: Completed
An Old World Drowning in Blood
By: Jared T.
Acknowledgements: As always I guess, you, the reader, my parents, friends, internet, YTV, Bandai, Sunrise…yah. Thanks to you all.
The AOWDIB series should only be seen/read at these sites: http://www.mediaminer.org, http://www.geocities.com/j_tca and http://www.geocities.com/gundam_wing_colosseum/ and http://www.yaoijanai.com. If you see this anywhere else, then please notify me at charachu@hotmail.com or jared_t2001@hotmail.com Thanks again. P.S. If you steal my stuff without my permission, I will rip off your head, fingers, toes, tongue, and finger-NAILS, piece by piece, very very VERY slowly. DO NOT TAKE MY STUFF WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. THIS FANFIC IS PROPERTY OF CHARACHU CORP. AND THE CHARACTERS (SOME) BELONG TO BANDAI. THIS IS A WORK OF PURE FICTION. THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING. DO NOT STEAL MY STUFF. I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YAH, THAT’S RIGHT, YOU! RIGHT THERE READING THIS. I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU STEAL MY STUFF. Have a nice day! =)
*Everything in this story is fictional. It does not relate to anyone, real, imaginary, alive or dead. This is a work of pure fiction. All aspects of Gundam, (except for this story series) are copyright of Sunrise Corp.
In a world where peace rules, war is a shattering ideal. In this world, an enemy has arrived from beyond the solar system. They are the Parsacle. The Earth is not completely without defense. Five teenagers have risen to protect the Earth from this foe. Pike, the youngest, Edward, the polite one, Marcus, the technological genius, Marissa, the daughter of a dead commander, and Meilluardo, the newest commander of the Gundam Defense. This is their story. At the end of the last chapter, Meilluardo and Pike were escaping from the Parsacle base, with Marissa on her way. But bad fortune has befallen them. In their hurry to escape, they are stalked by a multi-armed killing machine...
Raiden clasped Meilluardo in one mighty hand, as he lifted off. In a streak of light, Raiden appeared out of the range of the Parsacle base, towards where they had come from. Upon landing, Raiden knelt down, letting Meilluardo leap from his hand. Meilluardo ran towards the powered down form of Tenjin. He quickly hopped into the cockpit, and powered up. He began to initiate the power up sequence. "All Gundams, calling all Gundams! Marcus, Edward, get your butts in gear and get here fast! We need to engage the enemy! Hurry and get to the underground Parsacle base." Meilluardo shouted over the comm. as he continued the power up sequence. To his surprise, Marissa’s voice came over the comm.
"Are you guys alright? I was just coming to rescue you!" said Marissa, somewhat hysterically.
"Don’t worry about it, we got everything well in hand!" said Pike cheerfully.
"Pike! Look out!" Meilluardo shouted a warning, but it came a second too late. At that moment, Raiden’s arm suddenly fell from its socket, and in its place, a gaping, smoking hole. Pike turned with a gasp. Just beyond them, an energy blade crackling with energy, held in the insectile hand of Animus. The grainy, bloodthirsty voice of Hylifar came over the pilots’ headsets.
"Greetings. And goodbye!" he shouted as he brought the Majestic’s hyper mega launcher rifle to bear, aiming it straight into the cockpit of Raiden. For that slight moment, time was frozen in place. Marissa’s voice shouting over the comm, Pike trying desperately to move Raiden out of the way, Tenjin lunging for Animus, and Animus, standing above them all, triumphant in the fact that one among his enemies would die. As if with deliberate slowness, Animus pulled the trigger, releasing a full ton of explosive power right into the cockpit of Raiden. Marissa and Meilluardo could only watch and listen to Pike’s screams rise and stop, as the projectile ripped through Raiden, trailing a liquid red ribbon behind it as it exploded on the other side of Raiden. Pike’s blood spilled across the landscape, scattering in all directions, leaving a bloody red stain on the face of the planet.
"Hylifar..." Meilluardo spoke quietly, his voice calm and cool. "You will be stopped. You will die." He continued to speak, his voice the same, "I will be your EXECUTIONER!!!" he shouted as he forced Tenjin into a forward lunge, energy rifle blazing.
"Come boy, and meet your doom!" cried Hylifar, pushing Animus into the fray, arms raised high.
Marissa, unsure of what to do, hung back, unable to fight, but only able to stand and watch. To her relief, Edward’s voice came over the comm.
"Marissa, what’s going on down there?" asked Edward hastily, as Dracon landed deftly beside Vierge.
"Pike...he’s...he’s..." Marissa’s voice was quiet, resigned.
"He’s what Marissa?" Marcus asked as he landed beside her as well in Hardshell.
"He’s dead." she replied. They stood in silence. They stared with empty eyes as Meilluardo and Hylifar danced a death waltz around them.
"YAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!" screamed Marcus as he plunged into the dance as well.
"THIS IS FOR PIKE!!" shouted Edward, losing his normal cool and jumped headlong into the frightening waltz. Yet, all Marissa could do was watch from a distance.
Meilluardo continued to fight, eyes aflame with rage, striking out at Hylifar with everything he had. Suddenly, a voice in the cockpit said "Zero System activated". He was confused because he had never encountered the Zero System before. A visor lowered in front of his eyes, and electrodes attached themselves to his body. "Integrating..." the voice stated again, calmly. "Integration complete."
Meilluardo’s eyes opened, and what he saw astounded him. He had become Tenjin. He was watching from its optical sensors.
"Warning, attack imminent." Said the voice.
"Huh?" Meilluardo looked around. "I don’t see anything." But he felt it. He jumped backwards, vernier burning the forest around them. Just as he had jumped back, Animus landed on the place where he was previously, all eight of its arms striking the dirt where he had last stood. Legs had pulled out of its booster and it was trying to pull its claws from the ground. It succeeded and shot towards Meilluardo. Meilluardo dodged aside, and caught the Parsacle mobile suit with a glancing blow, cutting off 2 of its arms with a slash from his saber. "Whoa. This is different." He said as he thought about what was going on. Then a scene flashed into his mind, a scene of him dying, just a few moments from now. "That seems the best course of action to avoid." He said to himself as he steeled himself for another attack. Swinging and shooting, Animus completely ignored Hardshell and Dracon, even as they gave chase, their shots connecting, one after the other.
Beyond them, Vierge was no longer sitting idle. She was under attack by five Parsacle mobile suits. She struck each one down quickly with a slash from her rod, but they got back to their feet and let loose a volley of shots from their guns.
"Warning: Damage Critical" a voice stated inside the cockpit.
"This isn’t good!" Marissa said to herself as she shot off a flurry of vulcan at one of the suits.
"Hyper-mode activated." The voice stated calmly. The suit began to shudder and change, and dead panels came to life.
The fighters beyond stopped and stared in amazement at the metamorphosis that Vierge was going through. Her colours changed from pink and white to a blazing gold. She irradiated a new, more powerful energy. The Parsacle mobile suits, not knowing what to do, continued to fire at the new Vierge.
"Charge complete." The voice said.
"Good-bye boys." Marissa said, a smile creeping across her face.
In a sudden flash, Vierge burst to life, crushing the heads of each and every mobile suit surrounding her, then decimating each with a Heart attack.
"Hyper-mode ended." The voice stated.
Vierge sunk to the ground, mobile suit and pilot exhausted. Her colours reverted to normal, and the suit began to repair itself.
With that battle over, the other battle began anew.
"You gnats are beginning to annoy me." Said Hylifar. He dodged Tenjin and began to rip at Dracon, first pulling its guns away, then pulling its arms from its body. Dropping the useless shell to the ground, Animus moved on to Hardshell. He quickly slashed away at Hardshell, tearing through the armor like a can opener. Throwing the scarred doll to the ground, Animus advanced towards Tenjin. Inside, Meilluardo shuddered with rage. His friends had been badly hurt, maybe even killed, and he didn’t make a move to stop it. Dropping his rifle, Meilluardo grasped his beam sabre in both hands and raised it slowly.
"Hylifar. Let us put an end to this ordeal." He said without looking up.
"Fine gnat. I will put an end to your suffering." With this, Hylifar crushed the chests of Hardshell and Dracon. From within, a sticky, red liquid began to seep. The sight of this infuriated and sickened Meilluardo. Infused with a new rage, he charged Hylifar, who deftly slipped aside, and cut across his back, cutting the fuel lines to his vernier. Digging his heels into the ground, Meilluardo swung around, sword raised high, and dashed again, slashing the air around him. Hylifar slashed low, cutting Meilluardo’s legs out from under him, causing him to crash to the ground. Rolling out from under Hylifar’s massive foot, Meilluardo caught him with an upward slash, tearing open Animus’ armour.
"A lucky strike. You shall not get another." Hylifar said as he shot across the forest floor, lighting the trees with his vernier.
Caught in a circle of flame, the duel continued, each warrior battling furiously, with neither gaining a large upper hand at any given time. Marissa could only watch as Hylifar and Meilluardo continued to battle, her heart was about to burst from her chest from all of the tension. She sat within the cockpit of her immobilized suit, unable to do anything except watch and wait for the victor.
Yelling with a primal fury, Meilluardo charged again, thrusting and parrying Animus into a wall. His suit was quickly overheating because of the flames outside. He needed to either finish the battle, or leave. He decided to finish it. He continued to slash at the battered alien suit, cutting deep grooves into its skin. Animus shot forward, spearing Meilluardo and knocking him to the ground. Shooting his spider-arms at Meilluardo, Animus successfully pinned him to the ground.
"Well, it seems that this battle is over." Hylifar said through the loudspeaker. He wanted to make sure everyone heard. "You have lived, and now you shall die. Goodbye vile gnat." He said as he moved Animus in for the kill. With each thundering step, Meilluardo struggled to break free of the spears pinning him to the ground, but he couldn’t. At last he gave up, ready to accept his fate with honour. Soon, Animus stood over him like a black pillar.
"It is over." Hylifar spoke as he raised his hyper-mega launcher rifle.
"Not quite!" Marissa’s voice rang loud and clear through the forest air. Beyond the flames, a giant heart flew towards Animus, sending him flying through the flames and into the bush. In the direction that the heart came from came a now-awakened Vierge.
"Marissa? I thought Vierge was deactivated." Meilluardo said as she helped pull out the spears.
"Yah well. She wasn’t. When I heard Hylifar yelling that he was gonna kill you, I wasn’t about to stand by and let that happen!" She said with a grin. Vierge helped Meilluardo to his feet. "Come on. Let’s finish this scum." She said with a thumbs up. Tenjin nodded in agreement. They both ran into the bush, to end the battle for good.
Lying in the forest, Hylifar sat and waited for his prey as Animus regenerated from the great deal of damage given to him by Vierge. Eyes closed, he sat in the suit, waiting. "I should be careful of the female...I shall kill her first." He spoke with rage flowing through his voice. "When I have won this battle, the Star Chamber can begin its destruction of this worthless sphere. If I lose...", his eyes flared open, "That shall not happen."
"Warning. Enemies approaching." Stated a male voice inside his cockpit. Animus rose to its feet and strode out into the clearing where the two suits stood. They both turned in shock, but too late. Animus fired burst after burst from his hyper-mega launcher rifle into Vierge, shredding her armour, and sending her flying back into the bush.
"Marissa! Are you alright?!" Meilluardo screamed over the comm, "Marissa!!! Respond!" Only static responded to his pleas. "No...no..." tears began to well in Meilluardo’s eyes. "I..I told your father I would protect you, but I couldn’t protect you or the others." Swallowing his tears, he stood up straighter. "But, I shall protect the earth. For all of you." With these words, a bright flash shot out from Tenjin and light flowed luxuriously through the forest. "What?! What’s happening? I remember this feeling! It was the same one from when I was almost vaped by that Pasacle ship!" Suddenly, Tenjin began to shift and change. He became larger, new armour pulling across his own, damaged circuits being repaired, new vernier engines came, and his weapons became new and more powerful. His beam sabre had turned into a beam sword, its blade thicker, but it was lighter and easier to swing. His energy rifle had become a Buster Rifle, like the one that Wing Zero Custom had, but with three barrels. His colours changed from white and blue to silver and gold. Crowned by a ring of light, Tenjin stood before Animus, each the hero and the antihero respectively.
"Should I be scared of your new lights? Or of your words, gnat? It doesn’t matter how you’ve changed. You will still fall under the crushing might of the Parsacle!" Thrusting forward, Animus shot round after round at Tenjin, only to have each bounce off his new armour. Turning, Animus pulled out its beam sabre and slashed viciously at Tenjin, only to leave nothing but smoke as he struck the armour.
"Now. It’s my turn." Pulling his beam sword in close, Meilluardo swung down, and cut straight through Animus’ repaired armour. Slicing up, he cut off one of Animus’ arms. He pulled back and waited.
"How...how is that possible? I’LL KILL YOU HUMAN SCUM!!" Hylifar yelled with even more rage, Animus seemed to glow red as he charged with Dracon’s rifle, pulling it from behind him and charging as he circled Tenjin. As Animus swung around more and more, he began to move faster and faster, becoming a blur, almost impossible to see, much less hit. Suddenly, a stream of energy shot from the blur, enveloping Meilluardo in flame. Hylifar, thinking Meilluardo was finished, stopped circling and began to fire shot after shot at Meilluardo, laughing maniacally all the while. Finally running out of ammunition, he threw the rifle into the column of flame.
"I TOLD YOU FOOL! YOU WOULD DIE! AS YOUR FRIENDS DIED! AS YOUR PLANET WILL DIE!!" He screamed, his eyes wide open and red. Then, he stopped laughing. Out of the smoldering flame walked Tenjin, unscathed.
"Psycho." Said Meilluardo as he raised his triple Buster Rifle to bear. Unable to move, Animus stood their, his pilot aghast, unable to speak. A low hum filled the air as Meilluardo charged the rifle. The pitch of the hum rose higher and higher, as more energy accumulated within the weapon’s barrel. A low voice growled from Tenjin, "It’s finished." The triple Buster Rifle let loose with a massive charge of energy, vaporizing what was left of the forest around them. Striking Animus straight on in the chest, it threw him back through the trees. Out of energy, Tenjin went back to normal, its colours and its weapons changing back. "Finally." Said Meilluardo with a sigh. There was the sound of crashing and a loud thumping. "Guess not!" Meilluardo gritted his teeth and flew towards the area where Animus had landed, only to find Animus fully repaired.
"Fool! I told you that you would die. Animus absorbed your energy blast, and used it to repair itself! Now. Die gnat!" the Parsacle leader spat as he charged towards Tenjin.
Tenjin, weapons destroyed, tried to block Animus’ massive fists, but so powerful and so numerous were Animus’ blows, that they quickly wore down Tenjin’s defences. Tenjin crumpled to the floor, low on energy, high on damage. Unable to move, he lay there, taking hit after hit after hit from Animus. Meilluardo tried to roll Tenjin away, but to no avail. The Parsacle sneered from inside the cockpit. "What a waste of time. I’ll leave you here, since you can do no more, and I’ll go kill that female of yours. Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon." He smiled sadistically.
"N.o.o..Marissa.." Meilluardo could only groan, as the damage taken by Tenjin had also happened to him. Trying to stand, Meilluardo stumbled towards Animus and grabbed him in a bear hug from behind. "No. You’ll die first." Meilluardo said, through blood and broken teeth. "Marissa. Marissa, can you hear me?" Meilluardo’s voice rang over the comm of Vierge. "Meilluardo! Are you all right?" Marissa’s frantic voice shot back.
"I’m...gonna self destruct..It’s the only way. Vierge doesn’t have the power and I’ve got no more weapons and I’m too heavily damaged." Meilluardo groaned.
"NO! You can’t! I won’t let you!" Marissa shouted over the comm, unable to contain herself.
"Marissa, you’ll be okay. The whole world will be okay. And Marissa?"
Through tears and quiet sobs, Marissa answered. "Yes?"
"I love you." Meilluardo said just before he shut off the comm.
Getting only static after those few words, Marissa tried frantically to power up Vierge, it worked but she arrived too late. With a flick of his head, Tenjin exploded into a thousand points of light and dark all at once before erupting with the fury of an atomic bomb. Vierge was thrown backwards into the forest once more, and Marissa could only watch from the viewport as the shockwave from the explosion rushed past her, mobile suit parts raining from the sky. Trying to make Vierge rise, Marissa tried again and again, tears blurring her vision. Vierge wouldn’t start. Marissa jumped out of the cockpit onto the scorched landscape and ran towards the site of the explosion. Finally getting there, she found nothing but mobile suit parts and some unidentifiable shreds of clothing. Screaming at the top of her lungs, she blacked out.
Waking up at home, in her bed, Marissa woke with a start and in a cold sweat. Breathing heavily, she drank a cold glass of water. "A dream...it was all a dream...none of it happened..." she told herself quietly. Walking to her window, she looked out across the skyline, looked out on the stars, and found herself looking at the moon. She was looking for something, but she didn’t know what. Then she spotted it. A huge crater was on the face of the moon. Her face turning sheet white, she screamed.
The End.
-Charachu August 22, 2002
And that would be it. That’s the end. Over. Fini. Fin. Etc.
By: Jared T.
Acknowledgements: As always I guess, you, the reader, my parents, friends, internet, YTV, Bandai, Sunrise…yah. Thanks to you all.
The AOWDIB series should only be seen/read at these sites: http://www.mediaminer.org, http://www.geocities.com/j_tca and http://www.geocities.com/gundam_wing_colosseum/ and http://www.yaoijanai.com. If you see this anywhere else, then please notify me at charachu@hotmail.com or jared_t2001@hotmail.com Thanks again. P.S. If you steal my stuff without my permission, I will rip off your head, fingers, toes, tongue, and finger-NAILS, piece by piece, very very VERY slowly. DO NOT TAKE MY STUFF WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. THIS FANFIC IS PROPERTY OF CHARACHU CORP. AND THE CHARACTERS (SOME) BELONG TO BANDAI. THIS IS A WORK OF PURE FICTION. THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING. DO NOT STEAL MY STUFF. I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YAH, THAT’S RIGHT, YOU! RIGHT THERE READING THIS. I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU STEAL MY STUFF. Have a nice day! =)
*Everything in this story is fictional. It does not relate to anyone, real, imaginary, alive or dead. This is a work of pure fiction. All aspects of Gundam, (except for this story series) are copyright of Sunrise Corp.
In a world where peace rules, war is a shattering ideal. In this world, an enemy has arrived from beyond the solar system. They are the Parsacle. The Earth is not completely without defense. Five teenagers have risen to protect the Earth from this foe. Pike, the youngest, Edward, the polite one, Marcus, the technological genius, Marissa, the daughter of a dead commander, and Meilluardo, the newest commander of the Gundam Defense. This is their story. At the end of the last chapter, Meilluardo and Pike were escaping from the Parsacle base, with Marissa on her way. But bad fortune has befallen them. In their hurry to escape, they are stalked by a multi-armed killing machine...
Raiden clasped Meilluardo in one mighty hand, as he lifted off. In a streak of light, Raiden appeared out of the range of the Parsacle base, towards where they had come from. Upon landing, Raiden knelt down, letting Meilluardo leap from his hand. Meilluardo ran towards the powered down form of Tenjin. He quickly hopped into the cockpit, and powered up. He began to initiate the power up sequence. "All Gundams, calling all Gundams! Marcus, Edward, get your butts in gear and get here fast! We need to engage the enemy! Hurry and get to the underground Parsacle base." Meilluardo shouted over the comm. as he continued the power up sequence. To his surprise, Marissa’s voice came over the comm.
"Are you guys alright? I was just coming to rescue you!" said Marissa, somewhat hysterically.
"Don’t worry about it, we got everything well in hand!" said Pike cheerfully.
"Pike! Look out!" Meilluardo shouted a warning, but it came a second too late. At that moment, Raiden’s arm suddenly fell from its socket, and in its place, a gaping, smoking hole. Pike turned with a gasp. Just beyond them, an energy blade crackling with energy, held in the insectile hand of Animus. The grainy, bloodthirsty voice of Hylifar came over the pilots’ headsets.
"Greetings. And goodbye!" he shouted as he brought the Majestic’s hyper mega launcher rifle to bear, aiming it straight into the cockpit of Raiden. For that slight moment, time was frozen in place. Marissa’s voice shouting over the comm, Pike trying desperately to move Raiden out of the way, Tenjin lunging for Animus, and Animus, standing above them all, triumphant in the fact that one among his enemies would die. As if with deliberate slowness, Animus pulled the trigger, releasing a full ton of explosive power right into the cockpit of Raiden. Marissa and Meilluardo could only watch and listen to Pike’s screams rise and stop, as the projectile ripped through Raiden, trailing a liquid red ribbon behind it as it exploded on the other side of Raiden. Pike’s blood spilled across the landscape, scattering in all directions, leaving a bloody red stain on the face of the planet.
"Hylifar..." Meilluardo spoke quietly, his voice calm and cool. "You will be stopped. You will die." He continued to speak, his voice the same, "I will be your EXECUTIONER!!!" he shouted as he forced Tenjin into a forward lunge, energy rifle blazing.
"Come boy, and meet your doom!" cried Hylifar, pushing Animus into the fray, arms raised high.
Marissa, unsure of what to do, hung back, unable to fight, but only able to stand and watch. To her relief, Edward’s voice came over the comm.
"Marissa, what’s going on down there?" asked Edward hastily, as Dracon landed deftly beside Vierge.
"Pike...he’s...he’s..." Marissa’s voice was quiet, resigned.
"He’s what Marissa?" Marcus asked as he landed beside her as well in Hardshell.
"He’s dead." she replied. They stood in silence. They stared with empty eyes as Meilluardo and Hylifar danced a death waltz around them.
"YAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!" screamed Marcus as he plunged into the dance as well.
"THIS IS FOR PIKE!!" shouted Edward, losing his normal cool and jumped headlong into the frightening waltz. Yet, all Marissa could do was watch from a distance.
Meilluardo continued to fight, eyes aflame with rage, striking out at Hylifar with everything he had. Suddenly, a voice in the cockpit said "Zero System activated". He was confused because he had never encountered the Zero System before. A visor lowered in front of his eyes, and electrodes attached themselves to his body. "Integrating..." the voice stated again, calmly. "Integration complete."
Meilluardo’s eyes opened, and what he saw astounded him. He had become Tenjin. He was watching from its optical sensors.
"Warning, attack imminent." Said the voice.
"Huh?" Meilluardo looked around. "I don’t see anything." But he felt it. He jumped backwards, vernier burning the forest around them. Just as he had jumped back, Animus landed on the place where he was previously, all eight of its arms striking the dirt where he had last stood. Legs had pulled out of its booster and it was trying to pull its claws from the ground. It succeeded and shot towards Meilluardo. Meilluardo dodged aside, and caught the Parsacle mobile suit with a glancing blow, cutting off 2 of its arms with a slash from his saber. "Whoa. This is different." He said as he thought about what was going on. Then a scene flashed into his mind, a scene of him dying, just a few moments from now. "That seems the best course of action to avoid." He said to himself as he steeled himself for another attack. Swinging and shooting, Animus completely ignored Hardshell and Dracon, even as they gave chase, their shots connecting, one after the other.
Beyond them, Vierge was no longer sitting idle. She was under attack by five Parsacle mobile suits. She struck each one down quickly with a slash from her rod, but they got back to their feet and let loose a volley of shots from their guns.
"Warning: Damage Critical" a voice stated inside the cockpit.
"This isn’t good!" Marissa said to herself as she shot off a flurry of vulcan at one of the suits.
"Hyper-mode activated." The voice stated calmly. The suit began to shudder and change, and dead panels came to life.
The fighters beyond stopped and stared in amazement at the metamorphosis that Vierge was going through. Her colours changed from pink and white to a blazing gold. She irradiated a new, more powerful energy. The Parsacle mobile suits, not knowing what to do, continued to fire at the new Vierge.
"Charge complete." The voice said.
"Good-bye boys." Marissa said, a smile creeping across her face.
In a sudden flash, Vierge burst to life, crushing the heads of each and every mobile suit surrounding her, then decimating each with a Heart attack.
"Hyper-mode ended." The voice stated.
Vierge sunk to the ground, mobile suit and pilot exhausted. Her colours reverted to normal, and the suit began to repair itself.
With that battle over, the other battle began anew.
"You gnats are beginning to annoy me." Said Hylifar. He dodged Tenjin and began to rip at Dracon, first pulling its guns away, then pulling its arms from its body. Dropping the useless shell to the ground, Animus moved on to Hardshell. He quickly slashed away at Hardshell, tearing through the armor like a can opener. Throwing the scarred doll to the ground, Animus advanced towards Tenjin. Inside, Meilluardo shuddered with rage. His friends had been badly hurt, maybe even killed, and he didn’t make a move to stop it. Dropping his rifle, Meilluardo grasped his beam sabre in both hands and raised it slowly.
"Hylifar. Let us put an end to this ordeal." He said without looking up.
"Fine gnat. I will put an end to your suffering." With this, Hylifar crushed the chests of Hardshell and Dracon. From within, a sticky, red liquid began to seep. The sight of this infuriated and sickened Meilluardo. Infused with a new rage, he charged Hylifar, who deftly slipped aside, and cut across his back, cutting the fuel lines to his vernier. Digging his heels into the ground, Meilluardo swung around, sword raised high, and dashed again, slashing the air around him. Hylifar slashed low, cutting Meilluardo’s legs out from under him, causing him to crash to the ground. Rolling out from under Hylifar’s massive foot, Meilluardo caught him with an upward slash, tearing open Animus’ armour.
"A lucky strike. You shall not get another." Hylifar said as he shot across the forest floor, lighting the trees with his vernier.
Caught in a circle of flame, the duel continued, each warrior battling furiously, with neither gaining a large upper hand at any given time. Marissa could only watch as Hylifar and Meilluardo continued to battle, her heart was about to burst from her chest from all of the tension. She sat within the cockpit of her immobilized suit, unable to do anything except watch and wait for the victor.
Yelling with a primal fury, Meilluardo charged again, thrusting and parrying Animus into a wall. His suit was quickly overheating because of the flames outside. He needed to either finish the battle, or leave. He decided to finish it. He continued to slash at the battered alien suit, cutting deep grooves into its skin. Animus shot forward, spearing Meilluardo and knocking him to the ground. Shooting his spider-arms at Meilluardo, Animus successfully pinned him to the ground.
"Well, it seems that this battle is over." Hylifar said through the loudspeaker. He wanted to make sure everyone heard. "You have lived, and now you shall die. Goodbye vile gnat." He said as he moved Animus in for the kill. With each thundering step, Meilluardo struggled to break free of the spears pinning him to the ground, but he couldn’t. At last he gave up, ready to accept his fate with honour. Soon, Animus stood over him like a black pillar.
"It is over." Hylifar spoke as he raised his hyper-mega launcher rifle.
"Not quite!" Marissa’s voice rang loud and clear through the forest air. Beyond the flames, a giant heart flew towards Animus, sending him flying through the flames and into the bush. In the direction that the heart came from came a now-awakened Vierge.
"Marissa? I thought Vierge was deactivated." Meilluardo said as she helped pull out the spears.
"Yah well. She wasn’t. When I heard Hylifar yelling that he was gonna kill you, I wasn’t about to stand by and let that happen!" She said with a grin. Vierge helped Meilluardo to his feet. "Come on. Let’s finish this scum." She said with a thumbs up. Tenjin nodded in agreement. They both ran into the bush, to end the battle for good.
Lying in the forest, Hylifar sat and waited for his prey as Animus regenerated from the great deal of damage given to him by Vierge. Eyes closed, he sat in the suit, waiting. "I should be careful of the female...I shall kill her first." He spoke with rage flowing through his voice. "When I have won this battle, the Star Chamber can begin its destruction of this worthless sphere. If I lose...", his eyes flared open, "That shall not happen."
"Warning. Enemies approaching." Stated a male voice inside his cockpit. Animus rose to its feet and strode out into the clearing where the two suits stood. They both turned in shock, but too late. Animus fired burst after burst from his hyper-mega launcher rifle into Vierge, shredding her armour, and sending her flying back into the bush.
"Marissa! Are you alright?!" Meilluardo screamed over the comm, "Marissa!!! Respond!" Only static responded to his pleas. "No...no..." tears began to well in Meilluardo’s eyes. "I..I told your father I would protect you, but I couldn’t protect you or the others." Swallowing his tears, he stood up straighter. "But, I shall protect the earth. For all of you." With these words, a bright flash shot out from Tenjin and light flowed luxuriously through the forest. "What?! What’s happening? I remember this feeling! It was the same one from when I was almost vaped by that Pasacle ship!" Suddenly, Tenjin began to shift and change. He became larger, new armour pulling across his own, damaged circuits being repaired, new vernier engines came, and his weapons became new and more powerful. His beam sabre had turned into a beam sword, its blade thicker, but it was lighter and easier to swing. His energy rifle had become a Buster Rifle, like the one that Wing Zero Custom had, but with three barrels. His colours changed from white and blue to silver and gold. Crowned by a ring of light, Tenjin stood before Animus, each the hero and the antihero respectively.
"Should I be scared of your new lights? Or of your words, gnat? It doesn’t matter how you’ve changed. You will still fall under the crushing might of the Parsacle!" Thrusting forward, Animus shot round after round at Tenjin, only to have each bounce off his new armour. Turning, Animus pulled out its beam sabre and slashed viciously at Tenjin, only to leave nothing but smoke as he struck the armour.
"Now. It’s my turn." Pulling his beam sword in close, Meilluardo swung down, and cut straight through Animus’ repaired armour. Slicing up, he cut off one of Animus’ arms. He pulled back and waited.
"How...how is that possible? I’LL KILL YOU HUMAN SCUM!!" Hylifar yelled with even more rage, Animus seemed to glow red as he charged with Dracon’s rifle, pulling it from behind him and charging as he circled Tenjin. As Animus swung around more and more, he began to move faster and faster, becoming a blur, almost impossible to see, much less hit. Suddenly, a stream of energy shot from the blur, enveloping Meilluardo in flame. Hylifar, thinking Meilluardo was finished, stopped circling and began to fire shot after shot at Meilluardo, laughing maniacally all the while. Finally running out of ammunition, he threw the rifle into the column of flame.
"I TOLD YOU FOOL! YOU WOULD DIE! AS YOUR FRIENDS DIED! AS YOUR PLANET WILL DIE!!" He screamed, his eyes wide open and red. Then, he stopped laughing. Out of the smoldering flame walked Tenjin, unscathed.
"Psycho." Said Meilluardo as he raised his triple Buster Rifle to bear. Unable to move, Animus stood their, his pilot aghast, unable to speak. A low hum filled the air as Meilluardo charged the rifle. The pitch of the hum rose higher and higher, as more energy accumulated within the weapon’s barrel. A low voice growled from Tenjin, "It’s finished." The triple Buster Rifle let loose with a massive charge of energy, vaporizing what was left of the forest around them. Striking Animus straight on in the chest, it threw him back through the trees. Out of energy, Tenjin went back to normal, its colours and its weapons changing back. "Finally." Said Meilluardo with a sigh. There was the sound of crashing and a loud thumping. "Guess not!" Meilluardo gritted his teeth and flew towards the area where Animus had landed, only to find Animus fully repaired.
"Fool! I told you that you would die. Animus absorbed your energy blast, and used it to repair itself! Now. Die gnat!" the Parsacle leader spat as he charged towards Tenjin.
Tenjin, weapons destroyed, tried to block Animus’ massive fists, but so powerful and so numerous were Animus’ blows, that they quickly wore down Tenjin’s defences. Tenjin crumpled to the floor, low on energy, high on damage. Unable to move, he lay there, taking hit after hit after hit from Animus. Meilluardo tried to roll Tenjin away, but to no avail. The Parsacle sneered from inside the cockpit. "What a waste of time. I’ll leave you here, since you can do no more, and I’ll go kill that female of yours. Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon." He smiled sadistically.
"N.o.o..Marissa.." Meilluardo could only groan, as the damage taken by Tenjin had also happened to him. Trying to stand, Meilluardo stumbled towards Animus and grabbed him in a bear hug from behind. "No. You’ll die first." Meilluardo said, through blood and broken teeth. "Marissa. Marissa, can you hear me?" Meilluardo’s voice rang over the comm of Vierge. "Meilluardo! Are you all right?" Marissa’s frantic voice shot back.
"I’m...gonna self destruct..It’s the only way. Vierge doesn’t have the power and I’ve got no more weapons and I’m too heavily damaged." Meilluardo groaned.
"NO! You can’t! I won’t let you!" Marissa shouted over the comm, unable to contain herself.
"Marissa, you’ll be okay. The whole world will be okay. And Marissa?"
Through tears and quiet sobs, Marissa answered. "Yes?"
"I love you." Meilluardo said just before he shut off the comm.
Getting only static after those few words, Marissa tried frantically to power up Vierge, it worked but she arrived too late. With a flick of his head, Tenjin exploded into a thousand points of light and dark all at once before erupting with the fury of an atomic bomb. Vierge was thrown backwards into the forest once more, and Marissa could only watch from the viewport as the shockwave from the explosion rushed past her, mobile suit parts raining from the sky. Trying to make Vierge rise, Marissa tried again and again, tears blurring her vision. Vierge wouldn’t start. Marissa jumped out of the cockpit onto the scorched landscape and ran towards the site of the explosion. Finally getting there, she found nothing but mobile suit parts and some unidentifiable shreds of clothing. Screaming at the top of her lungs, she blacked out.
Waking up at home, in her bed, Marissa woke with a start and in a cold sweat. Breathing heavily, she drank a cold glass of water. "A dream...it was all a dream...none of it happened..." she told herself quietly. Walking to her window, she looked out across the skyline, looked out on the stars, and found herself looking at the moon. She was looking for something, but she didn’t know what. Then she spotted it. A huge crater was on the face of the moon. Her face turning sheet white, she screamed.
The End.
-Charachu August 22, 2002
And that would be it. That’s the end. Over. Fini. Fin. Etc.