Bewildered Warriors



Heero wakes up in a bed, and the first person he sees is Cathrine, but he thinks it's Relena. As Cathrine sees he's finally awake, she offers to go get Trowa. Heero apparently has no idea who that is, and only stares at Trowa as he arrives. Cathrine goes off to make him soup, and Trowa and Heero talk about the month Heero has been unconscious. Heero is angry, he had to die back there, but Trowa comments that he's already dead, as far as the OZ is concerned. They talk about the political situation, and Trowa brief Heero on the past month's events.

Wufei has retreated to China to consider his options and what to do. Meanwhile nearby, Sally Po has attacked a base and is returning home when they get attacked by Federation soldiers. Suddenly, Gundam 05 appears and intereferes, saving Sally and her group. Wufei doesn't understand why Sally is fighting although no one is giving her orders. Sally invites Wufei in to stay with her group. Meanwhile, the commander of the military unit Sally attacked, Bund, is given the news about the Gundam.

The day after the surpise attack of the Gundam, Sally and Wufei drives to a town to get food for the troops. In a nearby shop, Federation soldiers suddenly cause a fight, and Sally and Wufei interfere to stop the fight, helping the shopkeeper against the Federation soldiers. As Sally gets attacked, Wufei once again protects her. But this doesn't make Wufei feel any better, and he once again questions his own motives. It seems to him that he only fights the weaker ones that he knows he can beat, but was himself beaten by a stonger man. Sally objects, this doesn't make Wufei a quitter. Wufei claims he has no right to pilot his Gundam, before he leaves.

Meanwhile, the Federation soldiers discuss what to do with the Gundam they encountered the day before. Bund suggest they ask OZ for help, but the other officials protest loudly - this would give OZ too much power over their country, they can do it themselves.

Back at the camp in the forest, one of the guerilla members asks where Wufei is after Sally returns, but she only shrugs. She mentions to the man about Wufei's problems, and then enemy forces suddenly attack the camp. Wufei is still gone, and the enemy forces soon find the intert Gundam. Major Nagaki gives the order to approch the Gundam, when suddenly OZ forces arrive and take out the local Federation soldiers. Bund has staged a scenario to have the OZ forces help him - he requested help from the OZ to deal with the Gundam and claimed that some of his own soldiers protested against this, and went over to the enemy side instead. OZ promised him that the country would still rue itself, and Bund would be their leader. The one who protested was Nagaki, of course, and he gets killed by OZ forces who believes this made up scenario.

The fight continues, and eventually Wufei shows up. Two men die in front of his eyes while asking him to help them, but Wufei is still hesitant of fighting. Sally decides to shake Wufei up a bit, and approaches an enemy mobile suit unarmed... She claims that Wufei can do something for the weak, and that this will perhaps wake him up... Eventually, Wufei snaps out of it, and picks up a weapon to continue the fight, before returning to his Gundam. He makes matters short with Bund and the other OZ forces.

Later on, Sally and Wufei have a chat, and Sally tells him not to give up, he has a strong heart. She asks him to come fight with him again, when he feels ready for it.

At the circus camp, the Ringmaster announces that their next performance will be at an OZ base, and Trowa volunteers to make something spectacular for the show. Before fetching his Gundam, he tells Heero he left the car-keys and some food. He also tells Heero about the true reason for the Gundams and their mission on earth, and comments that this next move is his own decision, not theirs.