Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ To Look Back and Cry ❯ Remembrance ( Chapter 7 )

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To Look Back and Cry

By Sabersonic

Disclaimers: I do not own Gundam Wing, nor the song "Don't wanna lose you now"

Chapter 6: Remembrance

It had been five months since the Crongus Edante has conquered the Earth, five months since the Galactic Alliance arrived to liberate the Earth, five months since the campaign had begun, five months of hell….

"This is Vulcan 5 to base, we have no- OH MY GOD IT'S AN ATTACK GROUP! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

"There are multiple contacts near the colony, all mecha pilot to launch stations. Repeat, all mecha pilots to launch stations."

"This is Galaxy Frigate Rodger Young to base, the ship is heavily damaged and need reinforcements. Repeat, we need reinforcements."

"We have Invid mecha on our site, all units open fire!!!"

"-We are under heavy attack! Repeat, we are under heavy attack! AAAAAAAAA-"

"Multiple enemy units! I repeat, multiple enemy units! All units scramble!"

"This is Colony Control to anyone who can hear us. The Tl'ams are breaching the colony and are sending in troops! Repeat, the Tl'ams are breaching the colony and are sending in troops!"

"I don't care if we're undermanned, we have Invid Mecha coming in and we are to protect this colony at all cost! Arm the civilians if we have to, we can't let them have this colony!"

"I'm hit! I'm hit! Mayday, mayday! I need help! Repeat, I need help!"

"The Calgary is down! I repeat, the Calgary is down!"

"This is Galaxy Frigate Archangel, we are now approaching the Energy Barrier. Escort fighters have engaged combat. Preparing ship for atmospheric entry."

"The enemy has launched multiple attack shards. Activating defense systems."

"A Radiation Cannon is aimed at us! All personnel, brace for impact!"

"In Alah's name….they've destroyed the Osman……"

"All pilots to their Space Power Armor! I repeat all pilots to their Space Power Armor! This is no drill!"

"Targeting the bridge- What the- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

"We have a soldier down! Repeat, soldier down!"

"Fire all nukes. Kill the fucking bastards!!"

"Security Team Alpha 1 respond! Security Team Alpha 1 respond! God damned it respond!"

"The enemy have breached defense line 1 and 2 in sectors Alpha, Delta, Juliet and Zulu."

"We got them on the run! Let's- what the fuck? PULL BACK!!!!!"

"Don't give me fucking protocols, that civilian transport's in danger! Send out fighters now!!"

"All units fall back! I repeat all unit's fall back-"

"Holy shit they're on our tail! We need assistance immediately and I mean now!"

"Stupid piece of junk, can't you aim right? Tact Comm, I need some Mecha for cover!"

"We have a fire in the landing bay, we need extinguisher units to put out that fire! We have fighters still out there that need to reenergize and reload. Fuck, where are those extinguisher units!"

"Tact Comm, this is Red Leader. The Transport has been destroyed. Repeat, the transport has been destroyed."

The Earth has become a fortress to the Crongus Edante. The Exo-Sphere has become an energy shield barrier to deflect any attacks. There are multiple gates to pass through the barrier and they are guarded by Bio-Spheres, Orbital Hives and capitol ships of the Grongus Edante. The colonies have been modified to have beam turrets and a Colony Cannon and the moon has become the headquarters and main supply depot of the Galactic Alliance and is armed with Gravity cannons and a space ring. The two forces have taken their ground and are fighting one another. The UCE have sent many Galaxy Frigates to start uprisings on Earth, none have returned.

~*~

On one of the L1 Colonies, a group of Tyrolian/Atlaneans has made a sector of the colony their home and it has become a successful market place where the colonists can go and purchase exotic foods and other items that are found only by Tyrolian/Atlanteans. Relena, Jean and Heero were walking down the Market Place and just doing it for the fun of it and to forget the war that rages outside the metal of the colony. Then Relena spots a Tyrolian/Atlantean fabric shop and the trio go there to look over the beautiful fabrics that are even softer then silk. Heero looks upon this and gets a flashback of a time long ago.

~Flashback~

Heero was standing on a sidewalk across from a Wedding dress Parlor and can see Relena through the windows trying to find that perfect dress, tears were streaming from his eyes. She seemed so happy from finding that one dress. All he had was a duffel bag of all his possessions, jeans, the yellow sneakers, the tank top, a leather jacket and a cap and he was heading towards the spaceport to where his pick up will be and his new life as a UCE soldier. He then sees Relena go out of the parlor and he started to clench his hand so hard that his nails drew blood. Then he refitted his cap and walked away. All that would have shown his presence was once there were the droplets of blood and salty tears upon the concrete.

~Flashback ends~

"Heero, what do you think of this?" Heero snapped out of his flashback and looks at the fabric that Relena was holding. It was a perfect shade of blue in which matches her eyes and the ancient gold designs of dragons and firebird seem to seem to give it a slight medieval look.

"It'll look good on you Relena." Heero smiled and Relena blushed.

"Thank you Heero." After a few sheets of Tyrolian/Atlantean cloth were bought, they left to shop at the other market stores that had other authentic Tyrolian/Atlantean products. As the group walked and Heero carried the bought items, he starts to have another flashback of his past

~Flashback~

Heero was walking through the gardens of the Darlian Estate. Today was Relena's 18th birthday and he wants to give Relena the best birthday she would yet to have his heart. For some time since the War with the Barton Foundation, he has pondered about his emotions and after about a year and a half, he has concluded that not only that he had feelings for Relena but also he was in love with her. He couldn't go on without Relena and so he was at the estate to visit Relena and tell her his feelings towards her.

I never thought that I would lose my mind

That I could control this

Never thought that I'd be left behind

That I was stronger than you, baby

Girl if only I knew what I've done

He was traveling through the gardens when he saw Relena, with HIM, and she was laughing and smiling that made him feel so alight if it wasn't for him. He was about to reveal himself when Relena kissed the other man. He started to shed tears of sadness and ran. He didn't know where he was going, nor did he care. Heero just wanted to get away from what he saw. He then reached a secret hangar where Zero was stored. He went into the cockpit and just cried. The Zero system found that its pilot was emotionally unbalanced and tried to probe into the mind of Heero Yuy Heero also felt the probing of the Zero system.

You know, so why don't you tell me

And I, I would bring down the moon and the sun

To show how much I care

"Not now Zero, I am not in the mood." Heero barely said as he choked upon his tears. The Zero system was very agitated, of all the times it has calculated missions and tactics, it had never faced the obstacle of human emotions. It was something that it was unable to understand even though it was a machine design to meld with the consciousness of a human being.

Don't wanna lose you now

Baby, I know we can win this

Don't wanna lose you now

No no, or ever again

~*~

I've got this feeling you're not gonna stay

It's burning within me

The fear of losing

Of slipping away

It just keeps getting closer, baby

A few days later, he was a wreck. Heero didn't sleep for the last three days, he had nothing to eat for the last twenty days and he hasn't bathed for who knows how long. All the few possession that he had was scattered all over the floor. He was cut off from the outside would, left alone with his sadness and his loneliness from any other human beings.

Whatever reason to leave that I've had

My place was always beside you

And I wish that I didn't need you so bad

Your face just won't go away

Everyday Heero was going over Zero in the secret hangar and when he was not doing anything he would just cower in some corner in a fetal position for some time and just cry silent tears as he sees Relena's beautiful face and her angel light laughter and how she kissed HIM. Then one day he just couldn't take it anymore and was about to kill himself when he got a mysterious letter in the mail. He saw that the envelope was addressed to him and nothing else. He opened it and this was what was said.

To the one code named Heero Yuy,

We have heard of your skills as a mecha pilot and an expert soldier and we are in dire need of your skills. Your expert piloting on such a powerful mecha and your skills of espionage and weaponry are a desired skill for my organization. And no, this isn't an invitation from some rebel faction that want's to take over your Earth Sphere. We are not interested in conquering this world, but to save humanity from a horrific enemy. We also know that you have no other occupations and we have decided that now is the perfect time to enlist you to our forces. If you are interested, come to the Brussels Spaceport on Wednesday, 8:46 PM at Gate 46 where a transport is awaiting your arrival and others. Humanity needs your help Heero Yuy, you may be the factor that turns the tide of our war against the Crongus. I will be awaiting you personally.

Captain Takagora Akira

UCES-1472485 Galaxy Frigate and Blockade Runner "Yamato"

148th Earth Expeditionary Force Armada Group, United Colonies of Earth

Don't wanna lose you now

Baby, I know we can win this

Don't wanna lose you now

No no, or ever again

This was unbelievable, how can this unknown faction know who he was, his skills and his current employment. Then he felt something else in the envelope and when he pulled the object out, they were officer lapels that showed an unfamiliar symbol and then there was something else on the letter that he has missed.

I never thought that I would lose my mind

That I could control this

Never thought that I'd be left behind

That I was stronger than you

P.S. If and when you do become a soldier of a UCE, you shall be appointed 1st Lieutenant and you will have command of a Mecha Squadron upon my ship.

Don't want to lose to loneliness

Girl I know we can win

Don't want to lose to emptiness, oh no

Never again

Heero just didn't know what to do. Then he spied today's newspaper with the headlines "Vice Foreign Minister Relena Darlian Accepts Marriage Proposal" and he looks at the clock and it said 7:58 PM, then he knows what his decision was. He then starts to pack everything he had in his apartment in a duffel bag. A few set of clothing, his laptop, two sniper rifles, his handgun, the computer parts of Zero and other items. Then he dressed into something that would not draw attention to him and when he was at the door frame of the apartment, he looked back.

Don't wanna lose you now

Baby, I know we can win this

Don't wanna lose you now

No no, or ever again

"Mission accepted." Then he closed the door of his apartment.

Don't wanna lose you now

~Flashback ends~

They then reached Heero's temporary quarters on the colony. It wasn't large and lavish, nor was it small and cramped. It was just enough for Heero and Jean to live in. As Relena and Jean looked over the stuff that they bought in the market place, Heero looked out the window and looked upon the colony and it's buildings and agricultural fields and this reminds him of a time when he was starring out a window like this several years ago.

~Flashback~

Heero looks out the window of an orbital Galaxy Frigate and Blockade-Runner starship. From the window he can see the beauty of the Earth. Upon the earth laid his first love, Relena Peacecraft. Then the captain of the ship walks up to Heero and places a hand upon his shoulder.

"You should take a good look at your home world Lieutenant Yuy, it may be the last time you'll ever see it." Captain Takagora Akira said. Indeed it would be the last Heero would ever see the planet of his birth when there was a klaxon alarm and there were multiple wormholes opening and from the wormholes were billions of Crongus Bio-ships.

"The Crongus!" The captain was about to tap on his comm badge when several Bio-Capitol ships of the attacking armada surrounded the earth in strategic points and each fired a plasm bolt that hit the earth and each plasm bolt destroyed an area of about 150,000 square miles. But the bolts continued to fire as the atmosphere was thrown into space and the crust of the earth vaporized until it showed the molten mantle hardening from the cold of space. Then there were small quakes on the surface and then subspace waves erupted from the harden magma surface and then the planet exploded, sending planet/asteroids in all directions. The Crongus have destroyed the earth.

~Flashback ends~~

Heero then hears a beeping sound from his comm badge. He tapped upon the comm badge and then First Mate Jordan appeared.

"Lieutenant Colonel Yuy, we have a situation. A force of approximately one Flagship, thirteen Heavy Warcruisers, forty-five Heavy Battle Dreadnoughts and Armored Battleships and a thousand Attack Runners and Frigates. All forces are to intercept the enemy battle fleet. Report to launch station 2471 Alpha on the Kamikaze please."

"Yes ma'am." Heero saluted as the hologram disappeared. He felt the fabric of his pants being pulled and he looked down to see a tear eyed Jean.

"Unkey Heero, are you-" Heero nods.

"I'll be back. I promise." He then gave Jean and Relena a kiss on the cheek and left for the launch area. Relena never liked it when Heero had to go into battle with the Crongus. It always felt like she'll lose him like her Heero several years ago.

~Flashback~

Relena was at a podium outside a building and making a speech. She was so busy this past week that she was unable to even celebrate her 18th birthday. Her speech was about the prosperity of the Earth Sphere and how peace has reigned ever since the war with the Barton Foundation. Her bodyguard, the ever vigilant Heero Yuy and as silent as ever, stood at some distance from her and yet close enough to protect her. She was nearing the end of her speech when Heero roughly pushed her aside and Relena felt blood splatter upon her and she heard the crowd go into a state of panic.

Relena stood up and to her horror she saw Heero shot by three different bullets: One to his shoulder, another that grazed the side of his neck and opened a major artery and another that pierced his chest. The shot wounds have shed heavy blood and Relena brought Heero to her lap to try and wake him up, his blood staining her suit.

"Heero, Heero please wake up! Please don't leave me!" Medics arrived at the scene and Preventers chased after the assassins. The medics brought Heero to a hospital, with Relena at his side. But by the time they reached the hospital it was too late, Heero had already died. Scans showed that the third bullet struck dead center of his heart, and if that wasn't enough, the bullet went through his heart and hit his spinal cord, ripping it apart. Heero took the bullets that were meant for her and died to save her life.

~*~

Some days later, a funeral was held and many close friends and comrades attended. Relena was affected the most from Heero's death and cried the hardest. She couldn't believe that the first person other than family that she had close emotional ties to had died after three years of him protecting her. Even though that it was a one way relationship and Heero didn't do anything remotely affectionate toward her, Relena always believed that Heero had feelings towards her and now she'll never know. Even though many would see it as a hopeless crush, to her it was the first time she had ever fell in love with another and now her first love had died, protecting her. Though Relena can still visit Heero and have some conversations with Heero just listening, but from now on there would be no response from her first love, he was long gone.

~*~

Relena continues a daily routine of waking up, getting ready for her career as Vice Foreign Minister, going to meetings and endless paperwork, returning home, have a light dinner, take a bath and then spend the rest of her nights crying until she fell asleep. Though she does have time away from work, but most of it was spent either crying some more or visiting Heero's grave. She was no longer the head strong woman that she was before, now she was an empty shell of her former self and waiting for a prince that had already died. Every night she would have the same dream of Heero getting killed because off her and she would either shoot out of bed screaming, in a cold sweat or cry. She was in an endless rut of pain and sorrow and she has no relief of seeing the light of life again.

~Flashback ends~

"Heero, please don't die on me…" She whispers to herself as she saw Heero's transport leave the apartment building from the window and towards the space dock.

~*~

Heero launched in the new and improved Gundam Wing Zero. It was a mix of the old Gundam Wing Zero and the Bio-Gundam, the exterior looks like that of the Wing Zero and the insides and most of the weaponry were that of the Bio-Gundam. It had the same hydraulics, weapons systems and armor as the Bio-Gundam. But it also had the computer core of both the Bio-Gundam and the memories of Wing Zero, the Twin Buster Rifle of the Wing Zero and a Mecha Energy Pulse Rifle of the Bio-Gundam along with the Energy Blades. Heero, along with his 27th attack Wing, have intercepted the attack fleet and fired their first folly of nuclear weapons at the enemy. The explosions were absorbed by the enemy's shields and made enough confusion for the 27th and other wings to penetrate deep within the fleet and destroy the enemy.

Heero used his Twin Buster Rifle to take out a Warship, he must not take the Crongus lightly for they can create order out from chaos quicker then any human. The Crongus sent out their Bio-Fighters and intercepted the attack wings. Then several Galactic Alliance Capitol Ships joined the fray and soon it turned into a bloody battle. The batttle lasted for three hours before the Crongus retreated, leaving behind a quantum singularity mine in which only a few Galactic Alliance units and capitol ships have escaped from. For Heero this was an everyday experience. Fighting in a war that caused only massacres in a grand scale that involved every sentient being that it touches.

~*~

The gang had decided that they should all go to a restaurant and found that they've never been to the new Tyrolian/Atlantean Tavern that people have been talking about. They felt like they wanted wanted to try what cuisine that they have made and since Heero had tried some of it before, he could tell them what the best to eat.

"Are you sure? Tyrolian/Atlantean cuisine aren't exactly something that you would normally eat."

"Who cares. I've seen nastier." Then Hilde yanked at Duo's braid.

"DUO!"

"What?" Heero fully knows just how unsettling to the stomach Tyrolian/Atlantean foods can be to modern Earth raised humans. The island/continent of Atlantis had something of an alien ecology. Many of the produce of the Tyrolian/Atlantean are of creatures that have been long since died off from the Earth since Atlantis' demise.

~*~

The group were then shown to their seats and as soon as they were seated, a bowl of………..something was placed in front of them and their only utensils for this bowl were something they were not familiar with.

"Um Heero….what is this?" Dorothy asked as she tried to put the stuff into her mouth to try it out.

"They're sort of an appetizer. They normally bring it out for us before we order our meal."

"Yah but what is it?" Duo slipped the unknown stuff from his hand and onto his lap. "Aw man! Is this stuff impossible to get out."

"Well not that I know of, since the appetizer is mainly a slimy grain." After a few moments of trying to eat the slimy grain, in which half of them have resorted to either eating it with their hands or drinking it, one of the tavern keepers walked up to them. She seems to be around the earth age of 24 and had green hair and violet eyes. The group, minus Heero and Jean, were surprised that a human could have odd hair and iris pigment coloring.

"Hello there, my name is Musse Tomoqua. What will you be ordering this evening ?" The otheres had no idea what the tavern keeper just said, they unfortunately were not fluent with the Tyrolian/Atlantean dialect.

"No not really, were not ready to order yet miss. May we have the menus so we can order ?" The tavern keeper nodded and pulled out some sheets of paper written in Earth English and handed it to each one. The group just looked at Heero with puzzled eyes.

"Um Heero…..how did you know hot to speak their language?" Catherine asked Heero.

"It was a requirement that a UCE solder should be fluent with at least one off-world language. The Tyrolian/Atlantean language is a bit more easier on the human tongue then the other alien dialect, though mine was slightly off."

"Okay, so what shall we order?" The group looked at the menus and tried to figure out what they all wanted to eat, though they asked Heero what the dish was before deciding.

"What's a Krandabar Qualma?" Duo asked, trying to sound out the word.

"It's like a steak, but tougher and spicier."

"What is this Quese Demontque?" Quatre asked as he was puzzled with what was on the menu.

"Trust me, you don't want to know."

"Ooo, this Auslanka Tomar sounds good." Hilde asked.

"I wouldn't recommend it, it's a bit too sweet for a meat sandwich."

"Then I'll get that one! It sounds good!" After they decided upon their orders, the tavern keeper left and in about 20 minutes, came back with their orders. Unfortunately for them, their orders didn't look as appetizing as Heero described them to be. For Relena, she had the leg of some reptilian animal that was glazed and topped with some fruit, surrounded by some yellow leafy vegetable and the sides looked liked baked turnips. Heero and Jean both had some kind of a breaded patty the size of a large steak and covered in some read sauce and blue cheese. The patty was atop of some slices of what seemed to be roast beef and the sides were steamed berries the size of a quarter and some stirringly object. Both Trowa and Sally had an egg the size of an ostrich egg and was soft boiled and dashed with some kind of spices. Their sides were different, with Trowa having longitude cuts of some meat and covered in a greenish sauce with black spots and Sally had mainly vegetable cuts. Duo and Wufei had the Krandabar Qualma, but the meat was oddly pink and not a more appetizing cooked brown. Their sides looked like mash potatoes mixed with carrots and peas, but they knew better that it wasn't so since it was covered in whitish gravy. Hilde had the Auslanka Tomar sandwich, that was drenched with an orange sauce/gravy and the side was mainly fruit and grains. Quatre had some kind of a dish in a bowl that seems to be like spaghetti and meat balls, but the spagetti was a mix of grains and meats and the "meat balls" were actually berries. The sauce was a dark brown and had unusual "lumps" within it and the side seems to be bread sticks with cuts of meat baked into them. Dorothy and Catherine both had a fried small animal that was glazed and had a whitish gravy. Their sides were soups in which shrimp like creatures were baked. Noin had a simple plate of some slices of roast beef like meat, sliced turnip like plants and berries, which were covered in a kind of gravy. Her side was unfortunately a salad that had worms in them. Milliardo had the thorax of a rather large beetle with it's legs fried and the side was a soup in which spider like creatures swam in the soup alive.

"Ugh…..why did I have to order this……" Milliardo said, with a hint of whining in his voice.

"Because you didn't want to follow Heero's advice." The whole group laughed as they tried to eat their orders. Heero and Jean were the first to finish their food, and seemed to enjoy it the most. The others had the unfortunate pleasure of eating their meals that didn't seem as appetizing and smelled faintly horrific which made the taste of the cuisine more disgusting then it was actually was. A few moments later, the entire group had finished and the same Tavern keeper picked up their dishes. Then she came back to their table.

"Would you like any desert?"

"What did she say?" Wufei asked.

"She asked of any of you would like any dessert."

"No thank you, I'm already grossed out from what I just ate…." Duo said as his face showed a hint of green, the others agreed. Heero merely shrugged and stated his order. As the tavern keeper returned, the group was astonished that the desert looked like Sundays. The tavern keeper handed the two Sunday to both Jean and Relena, whom promptly begun to dig into it.

"Well their deserts aren't very popular to the local Earthors." Heero said.

"And what would these 'deserts' be Yuy?" Heero pointed to a passing tavern keeper carrying three large insect heads in which were opened to reveal the brain.

"They called it Hashanka Tomor Kregger, or boiled Kregger brains for short." Now the majority were sickened as to what Heero had just told them. Soon the group paid for their dinner and left. Then suddenly Quatre asked Heero a question.

"Heero, do you know what were those gravies and sauces were that we had?"

"Well I'm not sure…-"

"Heero, just tell us." Duo said, some of the others were nodding their heads.

"Well their actually made from the testicles of a male Karmondire lizard. Only the white gravy and sauces were made without them, it was considered a delicacy among the Tyrolian/Atlanteans." Just as Heero finished his sentence, the group dashed to the nearest restroom and regurgitated the contents of their stomachs in which what used to be their dinner.

~*~

Within the war room upon the moon, military leaders of the Galactic Campaign within this dimension gathered to discuss how to finally drive out the Crongus. Filling most of the room was a hologram of the Earth Sphere with military forces clearly marked. A man in a black uniform was speaking.

"According to what Intel has supplied to us, there is a weakness in the Crongus Edante's defense grid. There is a small gap that is lightly defended above the former country of El Savador. I suggest that we exploit this weakness and begin the invasion of Edante occupied Earth." The hologram shows the weakpoint in the defenses.

"Yes but what if it's a ruse from the enemy, that in actuality they have a gravity cannon poised to strike us down in one shot?" A general said.

"Yes, but we must exploit that weakness immediately! The enemy is growing stronger each day that we don't make direct assaults against their defenses." The man in the black uniform said.

"Well if the advent of that ever happening, we have created and advent to penetrate an invasion force. There is another weak point that is slightly stronger then the one over El Salvador. Unlike the El Salvador weak point, in which it is an unused Shield Gate, this point is an actual weak area of the Global Shield. This weak area is directly over the Giza area of Egypt. We could send two fleets to those areas, at least one of them could give us a foot hold in the downfall of the Crongus on this Earth." Another General said.

"Will this be possible?"

"We have no other choice, the Green Berets that we've sent to Earth have not been entirely successful. There were only groups of resistance who are only making strikes upon enemy units and freeing a few prisoners. We must act now or all chances of success will be gone."

"Then the Galactic Alliance Military Board of Dimention 1442674-F Campaign sees it as a plan of action. Are there any other plans that should be mentioned?" Not one of the other military leaders spoke up. "Then it is decided. General Ackbar Soloman's twin fleet strike plan is now authorized and will put into effect. We shall meet tomarrow for the date of the attack." The Head of the Board said as the war room was emptying. The plan to liberate the Earth Sphere will soon be put into effect and the hope of billions of human lives upon the Earth will be put to stake.

~*~

Well there we go people, another chapter of To Look Back and Cry finished. Sorry for the chapter being somewhat short, but I have writer's block and I needed to finish this chapter. Please review my story and no flames please. Thank you.