| Ext. Space. A Taurus transport with a red spacecraft
attached to its framework speeds on its way to X18999. |
|
Duo: |
We fought hard to
achieve peace. Someone's got to fight to maintain it… Right, Heero?
|
| Duo looks over at Heero, who is sleeping in the co-pilot’s
chair next to him. |
|
Duo: |
Heero? Oh, you're
asleep. You act like a machine when you're awake, but when you're sleeping
you almost look… human. |
| Title: #2 Colony X-18999. |
| Flashback to: Interior of a colony and an aerial view of an
Alliance base with multiple buildings. Heero is running away from a tall
wire security fence that encloses the compound. |
|
Title: |
AC 194, Two Years
Ago. |
|
Heero: |
I must destroy the
alliance base. |
|
Heero: |
The bomb is set.
I'll finish the job tonight. |
| He runs across a grassy park next to the facility, tumbles
to the ground and lays on the grass in the field, watching the clouds pass
in front of the view of the colony above him, arms and legs extended. |
|
Heero: |
Phew. |
| The voice of a young girl interrupts his rest. |
|
Little Girl: |
Are you lost? Well
are you? |
|
Heero: |
…Yeah, I've been
lost all my life. |
| Heero sits up, and the girl reveals that she's wearing a
dress with a sun hat, and holding a yellow flower in one hand, and a leash
attached to a young puppy in the other. |
|
Little Girl: |
Oh… I'm sorry. I'm
not lost. I'm walking Mary. |
|
Heero: |
Okay. Good girl,
Mary. |
| The little girl waits next to Heero, and Heero pets her
puppy. |
|
Little Girl: |
Yeah. Cheer up. |
| The puppy pulls the little girl off in another direction,
and she follows, shouting and laughing at the dog as she runs. She waves
back at Heero. |
|
Little Girl: |
Bye! |
| Switch to same military facility, now after dark, and Heero
is standing next to the perimeter fence and holding a detonation switch. He
presses the switch with his thumb. Explosions cascade through the Alliance
facility. |
|
Heero: |
Mission
accomplished. |
| A mobile suit collapses over the fence and crashes into a
nearly residential building. |
|
Heero: |
Oh, no! The
explosion hit the residential quarters! |
| Switch to same scene, now daylight, and Heero walks through
the cooled rubble and bent steel of the buildings and looks over the
wreckage of the buildings. |
|
Heero: |
I went too far. |
| His eyes settle on the dead body of Mary, the little girl's
puppy. He picks up the body of the puppy and cradles it to his chest.
|
|
Heero: |
…. |
| Switch to view of Heero, walking slowly in a spotlight,
still cradling the body of the puppy and holding his flower. While he walks,
Dekim Barton and Dr. J discuss the outcome of Heero's mission. |
|
Dekim: |
That boy? He's too
green for Operation Meteor. |
| Dr.
J: |
Gundam is a symbol
of peace, not a bringer of death! |
|
Dekim: |
This is war! Forget
compassion. He's not ready to fight! |
| Dr.
J: |
You're wrong. I’ll
make him the best pilot we've ever had. But is wiping out humans on the
Earth what the real Heero Yuy wanted? |
| End flashback and return to an interior view of the shuttle
cockpit and of Heero waking from sleep. |
|
Heero: |
Heero Yuy. |
|
Duo: |
Hey, Heero! You
awake? The little girl’s speech is starting. |
| They both turn their attention to the monitor in front of
them. |
|
Mariemaia: |
Attention people of
the earth sphere! |
|
Heero: |
Mariemaia Barton. |
|
Mariemaia: |
We at Colony
X-18999 seek independence and declare war against the E.S.U.N.! I’m the true
heiress to the E.S.U.N. -- the daughter of Treize Khushrenada -- Mariemaia
Khushrenada! |
| Int. Lady Une's office, she is sitting at her desk. |
| Une: |
What?! The general
had a daughter? |
| Lady Une’s phone rings and she answers the call. |
| Une: |
That's what she
said. |
|
Zechs: |
Is that possible?! |
| Ext. Snowy night in a city plaza. Zechs Merquise stands next
to a sports car and watches a large video screen on the outside of a
building that is broadcasting Mariemaia’s speech. He is speaking on a cell
phone with Une. |
|
Zechs: |
Lady Une, if I'm
going to investigate, I need code name. How about "Wind" for putting out a
fire? I'll also be needing an MS. how about Treize's last suit, "Tomboy"? |
| Une: |
Agreed, "Wind."
Here's your assignment… |
| Ext. view of the interplanetary transport ship manned by
Quatre and the Maganacs, followed by an interior view of the main command
cabin. |
|
Title: |
Meanwhile somewhere
near Venus, Quatre and his Maganac guard are in pursuit of the resource
satellite Vulkanis, which carries the Gundam units towards the sun. |
|
Quatre: |
Once again, we need
the Gundams to solve our problems. We never should have tried to destroy
them. |
|
Rashid: |
No one could have
expected this, Master Quatre. |
|
Quatre: |
Let's focus on our
mission. You're right, Rashid. |
|
Auda: |
The plan will work
without a hitch, sir. This ship is the fastest transport in the Earth
Sphere. We’ll catch up. |
|
Quatre: |
I hope you're
right. We can't afford to fail. The Gundams of the key to solving this
crisis. I'll bring them back no matter what. |
| Int. Preventer shuttle near X-18999. |
|
Sally: |
We're in X-18999
territory. Let's see what our scanners pick up. |
|
Noin: |
Look! An
unidentified shuttle is approaching the colony |
|
Sally: |
The MD will shoot
it down! |
|
Noin: |
Attention shuttle,
fall back immediately! You’re in danger! |
|
Duo: |
Hey, girls! Funny
meeting you out here?! |
|
Sally: |
Duo! |
|
Noin: |
Heero! |
| Duo appears in a video communication window and waves at
Sally and Noin. |
|
Duo: |
We heard there was
a party, so we decided to drop in uninvited! |
|
Sally: |
But without your
Gundams you're terribly outmatched! |
|
Duo: |
Hey, give us some
credit. Well, gotta run! We’ll leave a piece of pie for ya! |
|
Noin: |
Duo! |
| Duo ends the transmission and the screen fades to static and
then disappears. |
|
Sally: |
I guess we'll have
to give them some backup. |
|
Noin: |
I just hope they
know what they're getting into. |
|
Sally: |
Those two? They'll
be fine. I’m glad they're here. |
| Duo and Heero's shuttle approaches X18999 and comes under
fire from the Mobile Doll troops surrounding the colony. |
|
Duo: |
Here comes the
welcome wagon. Release the micro missiles! |
| The shuttle evades fire and continues to approach the
colony. |
|
Duo: |
How do you like
them apples?! |
| The fire from the Mobile Dolls increases. |
|
Duo: |
Uh oh! Looks like
we missed a few! |
|
Heero: |
I'm counting on
you, Duo. |
|
Duo: |
You're counting on
me? I like the sound of that! |
| The shuttle takes direct fire as it nears the docking bay of
the colony. The spacecraft separates from the Taurus carrier, and the Taurus
carrier smashes against the side of the colony, while the shuttle lands in
the docking bay. |
|
Duo: |
Goal! |
| Noin and Sally pilot the Preventer shuttle out of the area. |
|
Noin: |
I can’t believe it.
They actually made it. |
|
Sally: |
Good! Now, let's
get out of here. |
| Ext. X-18999. |
|
Security: |
Security alert!
Intruders in Section W-359! |
|
Security: |
Two Leos have been
captured! Respond immediately! |
| Int. X-18999, followed by a view of the outside of an estate
building. Then the interior of the building, and Relena and Mariemaia.
Relena watches as Mariemaia consults privately with one of her soldiers. |
|
Relena: |
What's going on? |
|
Mariemaia: |
Nothing to concern
yourself with, Relena. |
| Now, I believe I have a dance to get to. Come along. It's
too noisy here. |
|
Relena: |
Heero? |
| Colony interior: Heero and Duo (now in Leo MS), are under
fire from a squad of Mariemaia's soldiers, also in Leos. Duo and Heero
maintain contact with each other via the video monitors in the interior of
their mobile suits, but the battle forces them in opposite directions. |
|
Duo: |
These Leos aren’t
bad, but they're not going to last as long as our Gundams! |
|
Heero: |
Let's take out as
many as we can and move in. |
|
Duo: |
Roger! |
| Duo and Heero head off in different directions. Duo flies
his mobile suit to the end of a corridor, a door opens, and a Serpent mobile
suit stands waiting. |
|
Duo: |
Whoh! A new MS? |
| Duo's mobile suit moves away from the wall and attacks the
Serpent MS. |
|
Duo: |
YAA! |
|
Duo: |
That technique! It
can't be! |
| The new suit opens fire on Duo. Duo takes evasive action,
taking shelter behind an outcropping in the wall as he studies the new suit…
and begins to recognize the soldier he faces. |
|
Duo: |
There's only one
pilot with moves like that… Trowa Barton! |
|
Trowa: |
…. |
| Trowa opens fire on Duo. |
|
Duo: |
No! Don't! |
| Heero pilots his MS down a long empty corridor. |
|
Heero: |
This is too easy… |
| He turns the corner and finds Altron Gundam blocking his
path, |
|
Heero: |
!! Altron Gundam! |
|
Wufei: |
I've always wanted
to fight you, Heero Yuy. |
|
Heero: |
Wufei. |
| Wufei is now wearing the uniform of Mariemaia's Army. Wufei
attacks Heero, and Heero responds. |
|
Wufei: |
Are you sure you're
on the right side?! |
|
Heero: |
What?! |
|
Wufei: |
Are you sure you're
fighting on the right side?! |
|
Heero: |
You're out of
control, Chang. Self-destruct, now! |
|
Wufei: |
Yaaah! |
| Wufei knocks Heero’s MS to the ground. |
|
Wufei: |
Is that the best
you can do with a Leo? I expected better from the pilot of Wing Zero. |
| Heero's mobile suit drops back from the fight, and Heero,
wearing a spacesuit, emerges from the cockpit to address Wufei. |
|
Heero: |
We’re Gundam
pilots. We can't let ourselves lose control. |
|
Heero: |
I’ll tell you
again… self-destruct! |
|
Wufei: |
Hrmph. |
| Duo's Leo takes a direct hit and is thrown backward to the
ground by the force of the Serpent's attack. In the interior of Duo's mobile
suit, Duo tries to reason with Trowa. |
|
Trowa: |
….. |
|
Duo: |
Trowa?! How could
you betray us?! |
| The Serpent's shoulder cannons take aim at Duo's mobile
suit. |
|
Trowa: |
Trowa… Who's that? |
| The Serpent fires, and the missiles head directly at Duo's
mobile suit. |
|
Duo: |
Missiles?! Is this
it?! |
| Flashback to: A Leo mobile suit walks slowly through a
wooded area along with a troop of other mobile suits. Switch to an interior
view of a much younger Trowa at the controls of the mobile suit. He is
wearing a green army fatigue jacket and a cross on a chain. |
|
Trowa: |
I'm not Trowa
Barton. I'm just a nameless soldier who's always in a battlefield. I've been
piloting MS since I was ten. |
| Exterior of a colony, and then an interior view of a large
room with the Gundam Heavyarms. |
|
Trowa: |
Somehow I ended up
working at a secret Gundam plant in colony L-3. I worked as a guard for
Heavyarms. The real Trowa Barton was there. |
| Trowa Barton (Dekim's son) is addressing Doctor S and his
assistant. |
|
Trowa Barton: |
What?! Target only
OZ? You're changing the plan Doktor S! |
|
Doktor S: |
Operation meteor
will kill 20 billion people on Earth. Isn't that going too far? |
|
Trowa Barton: |
The colonies are
meant to rule the Earth Sphere. We’ll take humanity to new heights. |
|
Doktor S: |
That sounds like
your father, Dekim talking. |
|
Trowa Barton: |
You don't want us
to take the earth, do you traitor?! You're jealous, the once we take over,
the Barton family will be in charge. I'm telling my father! I’ll carry out
Operation Meteor, and the people of Earth --! |
| Doktor S's assistant shoots Trowa Barton in the chest. Trowa
falls to the ground and dies. |
|
Doktor S: |
Now you've done it! |
|
Assistant: |
I'm sorry. I have
family on Earth. I just couldn’t allow that to happen. |
| Doktor S hears the sounds of a someone else approaching. |
|
Doktor S: |
Who's there?! |
| Trowa walks around a corner and towards the two men, hands
raised. Doktor S's assistant points the gun at Trowa. |
|
Trowa: |
I don't have a
name. I'm nobody. Kill me if you want, but you'd be throwing away an
opportunity. |
|
Doktor S: |
Hold it! They'll
find that anyway. |
| Doktor S reaches over and forces his assistant to lower the
gun. |
|
Assistant: |
Doktor S….. |
|
Trowa: |
I don't care about
taking the earth. |
|
Doktor S: |
What? |
|
Trowa: |
I could take his
place. I could take his name. |
|
Doktor S: |
You would pilot
Heavyarms for him? |
|
Trowa: |
I like this MS.
Life here isn’t bad but… the battlefields suit me better. |
|
Doktor S: |
Alright. From this
day forth, you are Trowa Barton. You'll carry out operation your own way. |
|
Trowa: |
Roger. |
| Flashback ends, and Trowa fires and turns his MS away from
his battle with Duo. |
|
Trowa: |
…. |
| In the cockpit of the Leo, Duo braces for the impact of the
Serpent's missiles. The charge from the missiles' impact creates a burst of
flame and smoke. |
|
Duo: |
I'm alive?
|
| Duo realizes that the missiles have created a hole in the
wall of the colony. Duo opens the hatch on his suit and looks at the crater. |
|
Duo: |
Well I’ll be. He
made me an exit. Trowa… You coulda warned me! |
| Elsewhere on X18999, the charge from the missiles' impact
sends a burst of flame and smoke exhaust down the corridors of the colony,
and across the space between Wufei's Altron and Heero's Leo. When the smoke
clears, Heero has disappeared. |
|
Wufei: |
Heero! We’ll settle
this later. |
| Ext. City. Back on Earth, scenes of the Christmas
decorations and people in the streets of the city are followed by a view of
Lady Une looking out at the city from the plate glass windows of her office,
high above the city streets. It is snowing. |
| Une: |
War has been
declared… but no one sees Mariemaia as a threat. The earth isn’t prepared
for another attack. She’ll overthrew the Earth government in a matter of
hours. General Khushrenada… I’ll save the Earth you loved. |
| Ext. Preventer shuttle in space. Switch to exterior view of
the shuttle cockpit with Noin and Sally. |
|
Noin: |
They're taking a
roundabout route, but those Tauruses do seem to be heading towards Earth.
Did you detect the new model mobile suit during our last battle? |
|
Sally: |
No. Just Leos and
Tauruses. He heat sensors show they were primarily mobile dolls. |
|
Noin: |
That means that the
main force with the new MS is somewhere else. |
|
Sally: |
You mean…? |
|
Noin: |
Yes. That first
group was just a diversion. |
|
Sally: |
So where is the
main force?! |
| Exterior of MO III; then an interior showing Dekim standing
on a command bridge. |
|
Title: |
Resource satellite
MO-III, Low Earth Orbit. |
|
Dekim: |
Commence Operation
Earth Seizure! I will not make the same mistake is Quinze. My plan is
perfect! |
| The Serpent transports heading from MO-III to Earth begin to
explode. |
|
Dekim: |
The shuttles are
under attack?! What the blazes is going on?! |
|
Comm. Officer: |
MS ahead, sir! It's
a… Tallgeese! |
| The Communications Officer brings up an image of the
Tallgeese III on the monitor. |
|
Dekim: |
That’s Treize’s
Tallgeese! But Treize is dead. ….Zechs?! |
| Int. Tallgeese III cockpit. |
|
Zechs: |
You'll never
succeed, Dekim! |
| Int. MO III control bridge. |
|
Dekim: |
Zechs Merquise is
alive?! |
|
Comm. Officer: |
Tallgeese is
closing in on us! The Serpent troop can't intercept it in the atmosphere! |
| Int. Tallgeese III cockpit. |
|
Zechs: |
I may not be a
peaceful man… but I can be useful in bringing peace. |