Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Crossover ❯ Hermione Granger ( Prologue )
Prologue
The Great Hall of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was deadly quiet. That meant, by no means, that it was empty.
Indeed, the whole student population was in attendance, all of them with their attentions fixed on the rapidly shifting images that were being projected in their midst.
A tri-dimensional battle, fought in space, between humanoid looking mecha. "The war to end all wars" they'd dubbed it, but Hermione Granger mentally scoffed at the name. After all, hadn't they said that very same thing about every single previous war??
She was still immersed in her mental rant about bloody idiots, as images of a ship impacting the battle fortress appeared before everyone in the hall. Explosions everywhere made the images look as if the very space were on fire. And yet, through it all, the Gundams fought on.
Treize Kushrenada was dead and, with him, his ideals. All that remained was for a victor to appear and the fate of humanity would be sealed. For better or for worse, this battle had to end the war. There was no way that…
Screams from everyone in the room drew her attention back to the images, just in time to see the terrifying image of Libra toppling towards Earth.
A quick calculation by Professor Sinister had brought forth the sheer terror about her. Nuclear winter, and the death of all those in Europe, which would be the point of impact.
The Gundams were coming out of Libra (how they got inside, she had no idea), but only four of them appeared. Too bad muggle devices didn't work on Hogwarts' grounds, since she was pretty sure there were cameras inside the fortress. At least that way they would know what was going on inside and…
Libra's explosion interrupted her thoughts (which, it seemed, she wasn't entitled to finish) and no one could keep in a sigh of relief: they were safe!!
The happiness, though, was short lived, as someone screamed
-"It's falling!!"
Horror struck again as a piece of Libra, still big enough to destroy life as they knew it, continued to fall.
Several seconds of suspense followed, as they all watched doom approaching.
And then Hermione caught sight of it, the angel-winged Gundam was falling alongside the piece of the fortress, both of them beginning to burn, as their angle of reentry was erroneous.
And yet, the small-looking Gundam kept falling, slowly gaining on.
And then, it was spinning, pointing a pathetically small-looking beam cannon at the falling colossus. The shot went clear, and they watched in unadulterated joy as the last threat vanished.
Screams of happiness and relief surrounded her, and yet, her eyes still followed the small figure that continued to fall… the now incredibly frail-looking angel that had saved them all…
The images disappeared as Dumbledore stood up and wished them a Happy Christmas and then sent them to bed.
But still, the images haunted her, as her mind kept her awake and frozen in time…
Still watching that tiny-looking Gundam fall towards Earth.