BATTLE 12

RISE AND FALL OF THE SHOOTING STAR

PROLOGUE

This story takes place in the Macross year 2052 and in the Gundam wing era AC 195

"Space, its funny that people love it so much......there are so many ways to die......"

"Heero its Libra ! she's still fallin!" Duo Maxwell screamed over the communicator, a short pause in comm lag allowed his thoughts once hidden within his clouded mind to surface. It's funny that he and his companions fought so hard to destroy the earth sphere and now there doing everything in their power to save it....funny as hell.

"Mission accepted!!!" Heero screamed as he pushes himself and his mobile suit to the absolute limit. Roaring through the atmosphere like Icarus falling towards the heavens. Along side him, the Earths worst nightmare, Libra. Even in its defeat, it continues its mission to destroy the earth. The hull burns and twists in its dance of destruction. May god have mercy on us all......

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"May god have mercy on all your souls!!" One man stands above all, a leader , a messiah , a madman. His long silver hair floats around his weathered face covered in blood, is uniform soaked red. He holds a semi automatic pistol, seven shells spent, points it to his head and fires.......

"L.T.!! That sunofabitch Jaxon activated the self destruct, we got ten minutes before we ALL join the void!" Lancer screams over the comm. He pushes his throttle full forward and turns toward the Battle 12, one of the last U.N.spacy Macross class vessels, soon to become extinct unless he and his partner can change the situation.

"Fuck!, Lutanent Banwell to Battle12, Battle12 respond! Captain Hayes!!!" Lutanent Nex Banwell, nearly broken up with fear, hurtles towards the Battle 12, his VF-19s Excalibur burns through space with the same desperation as its pilot."Banwell 6-6-3-9-2-5-7 override security command"

His computer responds"Voice print confirmed Override confirmed"

"PDC command, access B12 self destruct! "

"...Unable to comply, access command level gold..."

"Damn it!!" sweat pours down Nex's face, then suddenly an Idea appears in his mind. "Lancer, head for B12 and get to the bridge!"

"Excuse me sir!!??"Lancer almost wets his flight suit as he approaches the deck."Why??"

"Just do it buddy.. I got a plan" Nex takes off his helmet, and reaches for a small device imbedded into his right temple. The device is small and alien but part of him. He touches the device and suddenly his thoughts expand past his body and into the computer".....Interface....access command delta....control command access....access space fold drive....override."

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Relena peacecraft. Rich, Spoiled and obsessing. She had a chance encounter with a devil ronin who's mission was to destroy all the she held dear...and if she were to get in his way ,she would be his next target. On countless occasions did she try to stop his bloodshed and on countless did he threaten her life...

"So why didn't he kill me , why is he sacrificing himself for a world that doesn't want him."Relena runs toward the view monitor aboard the OZ asteroid base MO2 . The video feed from Noin fills the screens of every citizen of the earth and the colonies. The assassin of war now a guardian of peace hurtles towards earth, a fallen angel, Wing Zero.

Relena closes her eyes as tears flow down from her face."I love you Heero, please come back to me."

"Heero!!"

Fire burns all around his cockpit. The Heads Up Display offers no help as the targeting HUD bounces across the screen. Libra barrels towards him. The true face of death was revealed, Heero..was afraid...to die.

Gripping the controls sticks, he fights with the wing zero to stabilize. Images of people flowed through his mind as the heat rises inside his cockpit. "Trowa, Quatre, WuFei ,Duo ,Relena....Relena." He refused to believe what he allowed himself to think. Seconds pass like minutes as the image of her face reappears in his mind, memories of all the times he encountered that bothersome girl. "But why is she the one person I refused to let die. I guess if things were different...I could be in love....with her." The fear of death passed as that word touched his mind. Before he had nothing to go back to, just more bloodshed, but now...now its different."Imp tired of all this bullshit...no more running away from her..I will survive for her....I will.....I will...I WILL SURVIVE!!!!!"

A flash of light envelops around Heero and the Zero as a beam of energy surges from the twin buster rifles towards Libra. Strike true....immortal arrow.

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"Nex, tminus 30 seconds until full core melt down!!" Lancer now aboard the bridge of the Battle12, screams but gets no answer."L.T.!!!!"

Nex Banwell uses that he has left in him to save his friends and crew. Seventeen thousand six hundred and thirty-two people rests in his hands as he tries desperately to save them." I hope this works!!, Computer activate Space Fold sequence, spatial grid -67216.3 by +21352 by 712303.3.!!" If he's right hopefully the space fold will drain the reactor and prevent total meltdown otherwise, as Nex puts it," I am so dead..."

The fold drive reactor glows blue with energy. All ship monitors flash with warning as B12 prepares for space fold. Lancer looks over to see the navigators helm as coordinates and grids fill the screen."Oh shit!!"

A blinding flash of energy surged throughout space. The hull of the Battle12 glows bright as a sphere of energy surrounds it along with Nex, His veritech is barely able to compensate for the stress. Then suddenly the monitors aboard the B12 flash red as the words "WARNING : ENERGY SURGE DETECTED, SPACE TIME DISRUPTED" blink across the screen. Lancer jumps towards the emergency shutdown controls.. but is too late.

Time and space bends itself around the crew of the B12, all is frozen. For the remainder of time the Battle12 remains in hyperspace Nex looks out into space as flashes of another fighter screams towards him "HOLY SHIT!!!!!....."

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Libra, the assassin of earth, enveloped within a massive explosion, disappears in a wave of energy. Cheers and roars fill the ears of every human in the earth sphere. Everyone applauded, the earth was saved.

Lady Une walks over to Relena and places her hand on her shoulder "He was wonderful."

A spark of cold shoots through Relena as the debris clears, nothing came out. No words can reach her lips, only a whimper and a tear. She jerks around and wraps her arms around Lady Une. All Une can do is hold her, she strokes her hair as Relena bursts into tears.

Duo Maxwell froze in fear as the unthinkable happened." Heero....? NO!!!!!"

Trowa Barton fell to his knees, his fist makes contact with his forward monitor " Damn it..."

WuFei Chang gripped his controls a little tighter "He died with honor, we could be so lucky.."

Quatre Raberba Winner cringed unconsciously in Doherty's lap, aware of what happened. He murmured in his sleep."Heero...."

only silence filled their minds

the shooting star has fallen.

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Heero yui , twice fallen for the people he cared for .....sits in a void of colors and light, floating in a tunnel flowing towards some unknown destination. His mobile suit floats with him, unaware of the outcome.

The light brightens as streaks of energy fly past him....then suddenly..........nothing but empty space surrounds him....

Nex opens his eyes, and looks around "Hey it worked, Holyshit it worked!?!" But his happiness fades as he looks out into space. His HUD Blinks "BOGEY UNKNOWN SHALLOTTE"...Nex blinks.

Two pilots once destined for death now stare each other down, each as confused as the other.

"Who the hell is that?"

To be continued