The Lunar Base Infiltration
Duo and Heero have retreated to a room in the city, and plan their next move. Heero has information that many Gundam parts are being delivered to the base on the moon, and says he'll go there. He orders Duo to stay and recuperate, because he'll only get in the way otherwise, and says Duo can go to school instead of him, as he used Duo's name to sign up for it. Duo is not too happy about any of this, but stays behind anyway, as Heero leaves.
The Gundam scientists discuss OZ strategy of making everything better again after the Federation's opression, only to gain total control over the colonies. They say they must now make a new "bad boy" to annoy OZ, and proceed working on their two new mobile suits - Mercurius and Vayeate. Apparently Lady Une will recruit new pilots from the colonies, but the professors think Heero would choose a direct strategy (than to join up).
Colony leaders discuss all the nice things that happened after the OZ took the control from the Federation, but some are concered as the OZ wants the colonies to build them an army, using their resources.
Lady Une and Nicols talk about how the colonies feel about the OZ, but Lady Une is certain that they'll get what they want from them. Lady Une arrives at the meeting with the colony representatives, and they discuss the formation of one nation.
On earth, Sally Po infiltrates a base with the mission to destroy the wrecked pieces of Quatre's Gundam, that has been assembled and largely put back together. Before she can blow it up, three Maganacs appear and order her to hand over the detonator. Sally refuses, and tries to blow the Gundam up, but the explosion doesn't harm it in any way. Instead, the alarm goes off. The Maganacs are annoyed, but decide to try and retrieve Quatre's Gundam even if it'll cost them their lives. A battle between Sally and the OZ forces begin, while the Maganacs load the Gundam pieces onto a plane. Before they can take off though, Sally stops them. She says that the person she knows would want her to destroy the Gundam, but Auda comments that the person they know would be sad if they did, and that they want to repair it for him. Sally lets them go, and decides to go looking for the other ones indstead.
Duo walks through the colony city, ripping down wanted posters of himself from the walls, as a news broadcast tells about a test of OZ recruits for piloting their new mobile suits. On a TV screen, the test is being broadcasted.
At the test site, all of the recruits are doing really bad, with the exception of one of them, who hits all his targets without problems. The OZ officers are stunned at his exceptional results, and demand to know his name. The pilot is none other than Trowa Barton. Nicols comments that Trowa's result are abnormal, no matter how much training in a simulator the recruits have, the results are never this good, and thinks Trowa must've been extensively trained. His background has already been checked, but didn't reveal anything out of the ordinary, so Lady Une thinks he's just got a hidden talent. Nicols thinks Trowa could be a Gundam pilot, and Lady Une tells him that they'll soon find out...
Trowa is chosen for some extra training - to destroy Gundam Deathscythe. (Back on the colony, Duo drops his soda in surprise over seeing his Gundam on TV...) As Trowa hesitates to fire, Nicols becomes convinced that Trowa is a Gundam pilot, and asks if he can kill him. Trowa asks Nicols if he can borrow the beam rifle, his Leo's weapons aren't good enough, and then proceeds to destroy the Gundam, much to Duo's rather vocal dispair. Lady Une thinks he's the perfect pilot, and someone who understands OZ. Meanwhile, little droplets if moisture floats by in Trowa's mobile suit, and it takes a while before he realises it's his own tears...
At the moon base, Heero has infiltrated a control room and finds out about the new mobile suits that are in production - the Mercurius and Vayeate. He decides to destroy them.
Back at a base, Trowa is scheduled for a personal meeting with Lady Une (the nice version), despite Nicols increasingly desperate protests. He still thinks Trowa could be a Gundam pilot. Lady Une comments that she better see him personally, and talk with him as two people who loves space, and understands OZ. Trowa, dressed in an OZ uniform, speaks with Lady Une who comments on his exceptional mobile suits skills, and asks him to make space peaceful with her. Trowa tells Lady Une that OZ's dirty methods suits him just fine, but she doesn't understand. Not seeing Lady Une's confusion, Trowa continues to tell her that OZ is a nice place for sly people like him. Lady Une becomes increasingly agitaged, protesting this to herself, before she is led away by some OZ soldiers. Nicols points his gun to Trowa's head, and tells him he's to pilot the new mobile suits in two hours. He also tells the suddenly confused Trowa about how Lady Une in a uniform may just kill him if he ever hesitates. Back in her room, Lady Une asks herself is she's Lady Une for OZ, or for Treize.
Trowa is introduced to the Gundam scientists (who doesn't show if they recognise him or not) as their new test pilot. When Lady Une (the army version...) asks why they had to develop two different suits, they explain that they're working on the concept of offence and defense. Each suit is equipped with special weapons - Vayeate with a beam weapon, and Mercurius with a shield to absorb that beam. Lady Une asks what happens if the two suits attack each other, and they explain that then the better pilot will win. The professors test the suit to display their fuctions, as suddenly Vayeate attacks them. Out of the mobile suit, Heero jumps, with his gun drawn. Unfortunately for him, Trowa (while showing (off) his excellent acrobatic skills) interferes, and makes him surrender instead of killing the scientists. Dr. J. comments that his weapon is rather smart, for coming to kill them...