Chapter 1
Welcome to Remnant
Year 325 [P.D]
It was a battlefield that could be described as hell itself, so many Mobile Suit pieces were scattered everywhere and they littered many areas of Mars.
However, among all of the Mobile Suits present, three stuck out the most.
The first one was the color of sand and missing two of its four arms.
The second one a dark green and in the similar form of a Gjallarhorn Graze.
The third one, arguably the most predominant one, was white. It missing an arm, a foreboding golden crest adored its head, and fear inducing red eyes glared at everything in sight.
Actually, the white MS was far worse than any other present and functioning MS, it was missing more than an arm, a part of its crest had been broken off, an axe was stuck onto the cockpit and many armored parts from the legs and the remaining arm were missing.
[Mikazuki's POV]
My other half was shattered.
Everything was collapsing around me.
And I was too tired to dodge.
Three rounds hit the armor covering the cockpit, I could feel the metal break just a little more.
The cracks spread, and I could tell Barbatos was in agony. The cockpit fractured just a little more around me, in creaking spiderwebs.
I could hear a voice, a girl's voice scream through the shattered intercom.
"Why is it? Why do you still resist?1 It's useless! What cause do you have to fight such a purposeless battle?" Julieta Juris asked, hoping to get some kind of reply out of the pilot whose name she didn't even know.
[Regular Pov]
Three Gjallarhorn Grazes charged in, roaring out of the dust. They raised their weapons, preparing to fire at the Barbatos.
"No! Don't go near him!" Julieta scream.
The Barbatos moved around from Julieta's Graze and grabbed one of the Graze's and threw it into the other two
'More lambs to the slaughter.'Mikazuki thought as the Barbatos' tail reached out, the blade angled just so, coming from underneath... and impaled the two Graze's through the cockpits. The Grazes fell to the ground, limp, motionless, skewered.
'I love my tail.'Mikazuki thought, rather sadistically.
Barbatos charged at the last Graze, ducking under the wild swing of the MS' axe, angling its claw up from below and going around it, then under it. The thick forward thrust of nano-laminated armor crashed into the inner frame. The cockpit in the Graze models was always weak from below, where no one could normally angle the hit. The Barbatos claw tore into the cavity, and it ripped out the Graze's cockpit and crushed it. Blood and oil dripped to the ground.
"You... you devil..." that was all Julieta could say about the Barbatos as it was holding the head of a Graze while the cockpit was still attached.
Things were silent for just a moment for Mika, no soldiers moved, and Barbatos' remained stationary.
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"I used to have nothing at all... but so many things are... overflowing from my hands now." Mikazuki said as his he was slowly losing life
Barbatos turn towards the Reginlaze it's, red eyes still glaring at everything in sight even as it began to breakdown.
'Yeah…we've already made it...'
[Mikazuki's pov]
I charged her wordlessly. But I was so tired... my tail couldn't even reach her, and all it did was drop lazily beside her. I couldn't move my body to dodge her bullets at all, and that allowed the enemy to shatter my armor and crack open. I could feel the wind.
It was warm.
A voice came over the intercoms. "He's already unconscious..."
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Will this... be the end for me?
Yeah, I could already tell with how silent things were, and I knew that this girl had a reason to fight this war, and that reason was to defeat me.
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I don't mind though... if this is the end for me, then I would be able to say that I gave it all I got to everyone else... when we meet again...
*CRASH!*
She stabbed me, and twisted her sword.
My head erupted in agony, but it felt strangely distant. The connection from me to Barbatos was severed now, and it was just me... just Mikazuki, a crippled teenager. I couldn't hear him anymore... I couldn't hear Barbatos. My heartbeat began to slowly cease as the Gundam went dark around me. Blood poured from my eyes and my body, and a river ran down my arm... staining Atra's special wristband.
'Ah... I've gotten it dirty again... Atra's going to be mad at me. I wonder... if Kudelia... will help me apologize...to her.'
[End of Mikazuki's pov]
It was so quiet now, and everything was black... it was cold... and yet, all of it was comforting.
It made death feel like falling asleep, only this time... Mika would never wake up again...
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... At least, that was what he thought...
"Wake up… Wake Up…"
There was a voice, a new voice. Those words came out as echoing and somewhat rasp, making the voice unidentifiable. More accurately, it was hard to decipher what race that kind of voice belong to .
Mikazuki didn't recognize that voice, and he was confused. He was dead... wasn't he?
"...Who are you?" Mika asks, very tiredly.
With everything that has happened right now, his mind and body screamed for rest. But with the unknown speaker keeping him awake, his expression and his voice came out... lazy...
"You know who I am... Mikazuki Augus... after all, we have fought so many battles together... haven't we?" the Voice said, with knowingness and courteously.
They've met before... how? Mika has never heard this person's voice ever, and they have fought together? Was this a Tekkadan soldier which he never got to know personally? Was this a liar? Or someone he had forgotten?
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Realization suddenly dawned on Mikazuki , and he found out who was speaking to him, "Barbatos...? But... I thought you were... dead." said Mika, not really sure about that fact himself, "When our connection was severed... we both should be dead now... so... how?" Mikazuki asked, confused and yet astounded.
"There is... much you don't know about me yet, Mikazuki..." replied Barbatos, "...even though my head was cut off... doesn't mean I'm dead. We have a strong connection, stronger than what you can imagine." the answers were vague for Mika, however, they were better than nothing.
But, what he really wants to know is how he and his Gundam were still alive.
"We have completed our mission Mikazuki, but we are not done yet... after all..." Barbatos paused briefly, as if getting ready to say something important for Mika.
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"...you and the others deserve so much better than this."
Julieta didn't understand, they had defeated Tekkadan.
They had defeated all of their remaining Mobile suits.
And as far as she was concerned, all of the pilots were deceased.
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... So why was it... that Mobile Suits were... rebuilding themselves...?!
The Gundam Frames, Barbatos and Gusion, and all of the other MS', Shiden's and Man Rodi, were glowing. In their damaged state, and the damage pieces of the armor and limbs of all them came back to them and reattached themselves onto the bodies of the suits, and repaired the gashes, scratches, and burns done to them
The axes fell off the Barbatos, and the swords fell off of Gusion.
In space was the remains of the Flauros glowed as its pieces and limbs began to come back together and repair itself after a few minutes the pink Gundams shoulder cannons reattached themselves to the main body. finally, the Gundam Flauros was completely restored
Soon enough, Julietta retreated from the machine she had just combated with. She had no idea if she was going to be in any real danger, but that risk was not to be taken.
It took about a few minutes... but soon, all of the Tekkadan mobile suits were gone. Every single piece of scrap that had belonged to a Tekkadan machine had all but vanished, and it left petrified Gjallarhorn soldiers, and a rooted Julieta.
And as of now... the field of hell was all but empty...and not a trace of their enemy remained... anywhere...
Hekija...
Flauros...
Gusion...
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Barbatos...
Location-forest outside of Vale...
Laying on the ground was Mikazuki out cold. In the fetal position wearing nothing but his baggy pants and his combat boots.
His sleep was a dreamless, silent one, and he looked so defenseless and innocent. Though, his short rest would not last long...
... for a shadow came over his form
"Mika… Mika... oi wake up... Mika!" another new voice woke Mika up, and he wasn't say appreciative of being awakened from a nap unless necessary.
But, compared to the voice of Barbatos, this voice was not new... this one was one he remembered.
And boy... he remembered that voice all too well.
his eyelids were lifted, and at first he saw earth. But then his whole body turned from his original position, and his blue eyes came into contact with gold eyes.
Yet another thing he remembered too well...
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He was dead... he died... that's happened before the war started...
And yet... all of those features, the deep voice, the lilac hair, and those eyes... those only belonged to one person he's ever truly known...
"...Orga?"
OK, he must be dreaming now. There was no way, by any means of logic, that Orga was alive. He was shot multiple times in the back, and with the amount of blood he loss, and the fact that he was no longer breathing when they recovered his body, his death was confirmed with no doubt.
So... how?
"You too huh?" said Orga, making Mika turn his body a little to see him better, "You must've died as well..." is last sentence was spoken with a sad smile.
His eyes wider than he ever allowed his eyelids to open up, and his mouth agape.
So he did die... though, if that was so; "How am I alive right now, then?" he asked, more confused than he's ever been.
"If I'm honest with myself... I don't know... but, I think what Akihiro told us turned out true after all..." Orga's smile became a bit brighter, and his eyes reflected his nostalgia, "'When a person dies, their soul is reborn somewhere else'."
Orga then looked at the now rising sun, and that got Mika to sit up and straighten his posture to do the same, "I guess this is where our souls were reborn." said Orga, looking back at Mika now.
His eyes caught Mika's eyes, and right away, he noticed something very different. His right eye was supposed to be cloudy, lifeless, indicating that Mika was half blind. However, looking at it this time, they weren't the same anymore.
Those eyes had colour now, they were filled with life.
"Looks like being reborn has its perks." there was a bit of a chuckle while Orga said that, and it got Mika to raise a brow.
One of his fingers pointed at his eye, and Mika, knowing that it meant something, raised one of his big hands to his right eyeball.
And he realized something that he did not know how he missed for this long-
-his other eye was operable. And what that means is that he is able to see from his other eye that was supposed to be unusable, unless he was connected to Barbatos' via the Alaya-Vijana system.
Hold on... if he could use his other eye, then... what about the rest of his other half?
They were not an exception, they were able to move around as well, "How...?" wondered Mika, as he began to flex his muscles.
"Hehe, no idea either, but it doesn't matter now. What matters," Orga offered a hand to the very bewildered Mikazuki, who was still moving around his once unmoving limbs, while looking like an innocent child who just learned something new, causing him to chuckle again. It was only when Mika looked up at him did he continue, "is that you're now able to go places again, on your own two feet."
Mika had looked at the hand that was offered two him, and it was Orga's right hand. This time, he had a hand to grab it, and he was pulled up when he did.
Is this a familiar scene...? Possibly...
The boy with a blue eyes stumbled a bit when standing up. It's been awhile since he stood up without the weight of capables weighing him down. Just walking was strange now, yet, Mika was not complaining in any way.
He looked at his right hand, clenching his fingers as if it was a new, but at the same time familiar experience. The contradictions made moving any of his right organs strange.
Speaking of strange, he noticed something... absent.
"Barbatos?" Realizing that his Gundam had disappeared, Mika then began to examine his surroundings.
Orga, hearing the name of the mech that belonged to Tekkadan's Devil, began to search around as well, hoping to help.
Nope, nowhere in sight, only trees and the grass. Does that mean that only he came to this place?
"Mikazuki..." turns out he was incorrect.
"Huh?!" Mika's sudden gasped, getting the older one among them to look back at the shorter teen with a raised eyebrow.
"To be blunt... I have entered your mind now, Mikazuki... and as of now, this will be where I reman..." Barbatos, which Mika could only infer as a "he", clarified for him.
"... Oh..." he blurt out, not really having much to in order to reply.
"You okay, Mika?" asked Orga, because from his perspective, it looked like Mika was just talking to himself.
"Eh? Uh... yeah."/'Did Orga not hear not hear Barbatos?' he asked the last part internally.
"No... your human partner is not able to hear what I say, I am inside your mind after all... so only you can hear me." Answered Barbatos.
It did make sense for Mika, because that was the equivalent of someone not being able to hear your thoughts. Though, this did make things awkward between the two now.
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"So... where are we now, Orga?" asked Mika, looking up to those golden orbs that he would look to for guidance.
"I don't know, this looks like the Earth that we know of, but... I don't know, I just have this strange feeling in my gut that we're in another place entirel-"
*HOOOOOOOOOOOOWL!*
A roar stopped Orga and shook the forest, making birds fly, and getting Mika and Orga to turn their heads to the left.
"I think that kind of confirms my thoughts..." Orga whispered, a small bead of sweat falling down his cheek.
Mika's entire body turned to the direction of the howl, and gaze hardened.
"I guess that even in an a different... world... I still need to do what I do best." said Mika, with his right hand clenching into a fist.
A smirk appeared on Orga's face when he looked at his life long partner, as he asked a question while already knowing the answer to it, "And what would that be?"
"Fight..." Mika said
The two boys looked at one another and nodded at each other and took off into the direction the howl came from.
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Hello everyone this is the edited version of chapter 1
Huge thank you to my buddy FortressHunter for the help editing and also thanks everyone for being patient with me
Also everyone I'm almost done with Chapter 2 also I'll be going on a trip the 28 and ill be back on the 5th of next month so ill try to finish this new chapter to post so please hang on