Chapter 3

The Dragon takes Flight

By Blackharted Angel

As the Virgo rushed forward with their planetary deflectors circling around them, the Wing charged into the battle beside the dragon-like Epyon. The two gundams stood back to back. The Wing carried its buster rifle in its hands. The Epyon carried his hands at forty-five degree angles outstretched. In each hand a glowing yellow-green orb of energy looked dangerously inviting. With a sudden simultaneous movement from the two gundams, the green orbs shot out followed by twenty more, as a golden beam ripped through the last of their defenses. The two turned as one. Epyon destroyed their defenses as the Wing blasted the last of them.

Suddenly the Epyon dropped off the back of Wing and plummeted to the ground, as it fell, the shape started to change. "Heero? What's going on in there?" Duo stammered over the comm.

"What do you mean 'in there'?" Heero said with a confused look on his usual expressionless face.

"The Virgo have used their Planetary Deflectors to encircle you and Epyon. Arys is trying to get in by blasting the shield but every time one of those things are destroyed they close in and make the shield smaller."

"Epyon… it seems to have a fighter mode. And it might be-" suddenly the transmission was cut short.

The Wing dropped as the red dragon smashed the back. "You are the enemy, Heero Yuy!" A demonic voice that was similar to Lance's whispered through the comm.

"Lance! What are you doing? We have to fight the Virgo, not each other! OZ is the enemy, not me!" Heero crackled to the mic of the comm.

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The silver Gundam quickly sped back and forth, Vulcan and Shiv cannons flaring. "There's no point in doing that… You know you need a real pilot to do the job." A girl's face appeared on the comm screen. She seemed to be a year or two Arys senior.

"Who are you?!" Arys snapped at this new person. Too many new faces.

A gundam cloaked in crimson floated behind the two. The cloak retracted revealing a body of rustic looks. A long staff reached across its back like bony fingers. The Vulcan cannons looked as if they hadn’t been used in years. From the right arm a shield was suspended it was also a rustic colour with a symbol in the center. From the back, three long spikes jutted, they looked, a very set of dangerous teeth. "Sarah Tessier, Bloodsickle." With that the Gundam flew into and through the shield taking virtually no damage. As soon as she was in the shield, the gundam made a move for the rod on its back. It was flung out and a long, curved blade of blue shot out of the end. The blue sickle was taken to many of the Virgo and the shield was disbanded after it closed in on many of the Virgo and Aries that floated in the sphere. As soon as she broke the shield she blasted off towards the battling mobile suits.

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The Epyon's tail slashed at the buster rifle in Wing's hand. Wing floated back narrowly dodging the attack. He placed the rifle on his back and drew the long yellow blades. With that the Epyon backed off and changed back to the original humanoid form. A larger green blade appeared in the hands of the Epyon. It charged forward but as it did the rustic mobile suit flashed in front of the Wing and pulled it to safety then shot back at the stunned gundam. "Lance! Stop this now! Gain control over the system! This is a small barrier in your way." Sarah cried to Lance through the comm.

With the sudden plead Lance snapped out of the Epyon's grasp and became himself again. He looked around at the retreating Virgo. "We won…? What happened?"

"We'll explain later." Sarah laughed.