MOBILE SUIT
GUNDAM H. Z.
Episode 2: On the Road to Destiny
(It’s a peaceful quiet setting, but is interrupted by a large explosion, a Taurus mobile doll falls to the ground sliced in half)
Kert: I like this better than yesterday!
Dr.T: Don’t speak too soon! Here come the Virgos.
(A whole platoon of Virgos start advancing on Heavy Arms, they start firing and HA dodges behind some cover)
Kert: That many huh? I’m flattered!
(HA comes out from cover and lets off a few rounds from the beam gatling, but they are stopped by the virgo shields)
Kert: Blasted shield! Try this on for size!
(HA lets off a lot of missiles that sail clear over the Virgo’s heads)
Dr.T: Kert! What are you doing?!
Kert: Remember the simulator?
(Suddenly the missiles do a vertical u turn and blast most of the Virgos from behind)
Kert: Yeah!
Dr.T(smiling, looking over to an assistant):Well, he definitely didn’t get that from the text books!
Kert: let’s see…outta missiles…guess I’m gonna have to get in their faces!
(The combat knife flips out and HA charges a Virgo and Slices it in half then while still in mid air he turns around and blasts most of the remaining Virgos from behind. The remaining Virgos start firing again, HA charges and slices two with a round house then jets away and slices another one, there is one left and HA picks up a beam cannon from one and fires at the remaining one destroying it.)
Dr.T: YES!! HE DID IT!!
Kert: Did you ever doubt me? I’m coming home now
(A little later, in a briefing room of sorts)
Dr.T: Well Kert, I’m proud to say that after you completed our final training course you are now a fully qualified gundam pilot. You’ve been trained since you were 8, a total of 7 years now.
(Kert smiles)
Dr.T: I promised a few years ago to tell you why you were being trained to be a gundam pilot, that time is now, but before I do I want to show you what you will be piloting.
Kert: huh? I thought I was gonna be piloting the Heavy Arms.
Dr.T: No, lord no! The mission you will going on requires much more weaponry and devices than even the Heavy Arms has, since you’ve taken such a skill to that gundam we’ve made a couple of modifications. (He walks up to a door and slips in a keycard in the slot, the door is hear unlocking and Dr.T walks through, Kert Follows)
Kert: Well, where is this mobile suit of…(looks up)…wow…
(The suit is massive, it has a shield with two beam gatlings on the left arm, a missiles launcher on the right arm and a double buster rifle stored on the back, on the shoulders are two vulcan machine cannons each)
Dr.T: So, how do you like it?
(Kert nods, speechless)
Dr.T: The controls of this gundam are nearly identical to Heavy Arms, but with the added weapons come new controls, we made this as you progressed, fitting it to your changing style of combat until today, we think this is the best mobile suit you could possibly have, now on to a more grim subject, why you were trained. It’s a bit of a long story, but I can shorten it quite a bit for you to get the point, It all started in the Year AC 175, when the colony leader Heero Yuy was assassinated by a yet to be known gunman, after that the Earth Sphere Alliance took over and persecuted the colonies, twenty years later in the year AC 195, each of the colony clusters at the five Lagrange points dispatched armaments to earth in the disguise of shooting stars, these armaments were the Five gundams you’ve read so much about, along the course of the year power shifted and the gundams and their pilots kept fighting, until eventually there were two sides, the World Nation and the White Fang rebel group. These two sides met in an awesome clash, but the World Nation won, and peace was achieved when the non rebellious colony citizens which highly outnumbered the White Fang agreed to co exist in peace with the the Earth, it has been about 6 years since then. Not even now do some people accept peace, but one in particular has threatened more than any other,10 years ago, he sent us a message, that he would give us a reminder of what would always be and what could never be avoided…war, he said a war would start in ten years, shortly after that call he destroyed a resource sattelite to show us he wasn’t kidding, we’ve been trying to find him ever since, but have failed. Now our air bases are being destroyed one by one and that can’t be coincidence. He has been code named Plague.
Kert:………
Dr.T: I hate to put this much pressure on you so soon Kert, but it is unavoidable, you must destroy him! If you do not he will surely blow down one barrier after anothr until his plan is completed and the Earth is thrown into Chaotic war!
Kert:……I understand……what has happened thus far?
Dr.T: Well he has been attacking only airbases, we have only 4
left through out the world.
Kert: He will most likely sever communication between the
Colonies and Earth, the trigger an event which would lead to war
between the two
Dr.T: What?
Kert: All we have to do is prolong the existence of only one and in that prolonged time…I’ll kill him
(Dr.T looks at Kert with a puzzled expression, he’s never seen this dead serious behavior in Kert before)
Dr.T: Thinks: What happened?! I knew this was serious but I never expected that much of a change so quickly! Oh well, let it be, if he’s more focused on his mission than there is a better chance that the world will be saved from war, I just hope he doesn’t turn out like the gundam pilot Heero Yuy, but he may have to if he’s to defeat this opponent.
Kert:……We’ll wait till another airbase is attacked, then we’ll secure one and go after him. I’m turning in for the night.
(Kert walks out of the hanger and goes to his quarters and falls on his bed looking up at the ceiling)
Kert: Thinks: What happened to me? he mentioned war once and I totally lost all thought of everything else…this matter is serious, the world’s fate has been put completely in my hands. I guess my instincts as a warrior and what I’ve been taught since childhood just took over in an instant, but I never have felt these instincts before… (pauses and drifts to sleep)
(Next day, afternoon, Phoenix Airbase.)
Tower: All mobile troops keep an eye out, sources say Plague has set us in his sights.
Leo Pilot: roger
(long pause, everything is silent and operating smoothly so far)
Leo Pilot 2: Sir my radar has gone AAHHH!
Tower: He’s here! (The tower gets sliced in half)
Leo Pilot 3: Where is he?! (Is destroyed)
Leo Pilot 1: FIRE! JUST FIRE!
(All the mobile suits start firing in random directions hoping to hit Plague)
Plague: Innocent fools, they know they can’t see me and that I can dodge their every shot, and they are resisting destiny, so I’ll strip them of their destinies completely!!
(Now the Mobile Suits have huddled in a circle firing in all directions)
Leo pilot: Where is he?! WHERE IS HE?!?!
(A dark shape holding a scythe appears in the middle of the circle, Leo Pilot looks behind him slowly)
Leo Pilot: N…noo!!
(The dark shape does a roundhouse and destroys the rest of the suits)
Plague: The coming of war is upon us…don’t you fools realize you cannot stop it? (Gets an odd blip on the radar) huh? (Looks up and sees a mobile suit carrier approaching) I guess they don’t yet…
(The dark shape fires a buster shield at the carrier and destroys it, then turns around and is about to walk away when a silhouette of a mobile suit is seen in the explosion, Plague looks back again, a giant beam comes from the explosion)
Plague: Whoa!
(Plague jets out of the way just in time to narrowly avoid being hit, some armor from the right side shaves off, Plague looks at the arm)
Plague: This must, it must be, another gundam…seems the higher ups of UESA are trying even harder in their desperate time.
(Plague watches as the shape comes out of the smoke and is seen in more detail, it’s the suit from the hanger in the training facility, it lands)
Plague: Who the hell are you?
Kert: My name is Kertani Williams, I’m a peacekeeper from the UESA and with the authority it has I order you to disarm yourself and surrender.
Plague: Some peacekeeper, gundam were not meant for peace.
Kert: I am a peacekeeper because I fight so no one else will have to lose their lives in this battle.
Plague: No matter, I don’t really care anyhow, you’re about to die anyway!
(The shape charges with a scythe ready to slice it’s target in two, but it is easily blocked by the shield)
Kert: You’ve underestimated me and my suit..
(Kert fires off the double vulcans on the shoulders and the shape is riddled with bullets, it backs off a bit with minimal damage)
Plague: Hmm, I see your more powerful than I thought and from the looks of your suit you have much more up your sleeve, well since I think we are equals we should fight on equal terms.
(The shape walks into the light, it is black and carries two triple bladed scythes in it’s hands, on it’s shoulders are two small cannons and below them are two beam cannons, both hands have buster shields on them)
Kert: You took it’s design from the Death Scythe I see.
Dr.T(over radio): We’ve codenamed that suit Death Scythe X
Plague: Because it instills fear in it’s enemies, it embodies death second only to shinigami himself, maybe even more so. Enough talk then….DIE!!!
(Death Scythe X fires off the cannons on the shoulders repeatedly)
(Heavy Zero dodges the shots and come closer and closer..)
Plague: (Thought) what?! A suit that size couldn’t move that fast! It must have some new thruster…
(Heavy Zero fires off the missile launcher on the right arm fives times, Death Scythe X stops firing and jets away but the missiles veer after it, it keeps dodging but the missiles aren’t being deterred)
Plague: Well that’s enough of that!
(Death Scythe X turns around and fires off the head cannons destroying the missiles, but there are more from behind. DSX turns around and fires but is too late, DSX puts up the buster shield and is hit by the missiles)
Plague: C’mon…is this it?! You’ll die if that’s it!!
(DSX comes out of the smoke but is immediately ambushed by HZ with the double beam gatling, DSX is riddled with bullets again)
Plague: SEE HOW YOU LIKE THIS!!!!!
(DSX launches both buster shields and HZ jets up, the shields follow it)
Kert: What?! He has tracking too?! Where’d he get this stuff?!
(HZ flies among the buildings, the buster shields still won’t be lost, then shots start coming from DSX, HZ blocks them as it flies from one building to another, but then DSX disappears)
Kert: huh, where’d he go?
(DSX appears behind HZ and lodges both scythes into the pack on the back)
Kert: No, those were the mark two super verniers. No..
(Both buster shields screw into HZ and explode, BIG!) (DSX lands)
Plague: Another sad death in my way to destiny, but it is no matter now, I’ve only one more target before my plan can proceed.
(HZ gets up from the wreckage and charges, DSX quickly blocks the attack with the arms and slashes again, but the attack is stopped. Plague looks up and sees his attack has been stopped by a planet defensor field)
Plague: So those are what the circles on the shoulder were for…
(HZ reaches on it’s back and brings out a large double barreled weapon off it’s back)
Plague: Th…that…it’s a…buster rifle…
(HZ fires and DSX is thrown back into a building and receives the brunt of the blast before the building collapses)
(DSX lies there extremely damaged, and arm is completely blown off and there’s a huge hole in the chest plate)
Plague: H, how can this be……I can’t loose…
(HZ collapses and struggles to get up, when it finally does it limps over to the messed up DSX and points it’s double beam gatling at it)
Kert: You loose…
(HZ fires but DSX throws a large piece of wreckage at it and it falls over, DSX flies away, HZ gets up and crouches on one knee and fires the beam gatling at DSX but misses. Kert gets out)
Kert: No matter where you go plague, I’ll be there to protect the innocent that you target, until you are destroyed!
Dr.T: (over radio) Kert! Kert are you alright?! That fight was short and bloody!
Kert: Yeah I’m fine, he got away though…
Dr.T: Don’t worry, you had each other pretty much matched move for move, and it likewise ended in a tie. We’ll send a pickup crew to get you and repair you gundam.
Kert: Cancel that
Dr.T: What!?
Kert: I he tracks us to the hanger he’ll attack and I’ll be too busy protecting us to protect the remaining airbase, I’ll repair it somehow, but for now it would be safer for you to just pretend I don’t exist.
Dr.T: But Kert what abou….*
(Kert turns off the radio)
Kert: from now on I won’t accept charity, I wouldn’t want the people who gave me that charity to become a target of plague.
(Somewhere off in the mountains Plague sits by a fire, DSX stands in the trees.)
Plague: I’ll have to postpone my war against the world, and point all my power at him…(Smiles evilly)
(DSX eyes glow an evil green, those little symbols appear in the corner)