Review by Chris

February 10, 2001

The shuttle carrying Heero, Wufei, and Sally docks with Peacemillion. Wing Zero, Heavyarms, and Altron are loaded onto the ship so that repairs can begin. Duo sees that Heero is the pilot of Wing Zero and doubts his ability to control it. Heero says he can because of his experience with Epyon. Duo is shocked that he piloted the suit Zechs is using now. On colony C-421, Catherine and the ringleader notice that the animals are in a state of unrest. Moments later, several OZ Tauruses land inside the colony and take control of it. They demand that White Fang hand Libra over to OZ, or the citizens will be killed. Zechs hears the demands and orders Libra to change direction and fire on the colony. Quinze objects, and Dorothy tells him that history will remember this as a glorious sacrifice for freedom. The OZ officers report to Treize, but he stops speaking to them. He doesn't like the way that OZ has changed in his absence, so he has those soldiers dismissed.

Trowa watches a video of the colonists held captive and sees Catherine. He decides he has to save her. He finds that Heavyarms is under construction, so he steals Wing Zero. Duo and Quatre go after him because they think the Zero System would be too much for him to handle. Trowa attacks the Tauruses guarding the outside of C-421 as the Zero System activates. Catherine and the ringleader protest the bad treatment, and the OZ soldiers beat up the ringleader. Trowa is about to fire at an enemy and destroy C-421 when Quatre stops him. He reminds him that he fixed the mistake that occurred earlier with Wing Zero. Trowa is overcome by memories and finds that they have all returned. Duo sneaks inside the colony and destroys all the Tauruses. Libra finishes its turn and prepares to fire. Relena's shuttle enters firing range as she tries to convince Zechs to stop. He orders Quinze to fire anyway. Relena's shuttle barely escapes as the massive energy beam goes past C-421 and hits an island on Earth. Zechs considers this an official challenge to Treize.

There's actually quite a bit going on in this episode. Finally, all five Gundam pilots reunite after separating in episode 8. Now Trowa is the last of the pilots to use Wing Zero and nearly be driven insane by it. When are people going to learn to not use that suit? Zechs seems to be quite cold now. He was ready to fire on Dorothy, but she convinced him otherwise. He was even ready to shoot at Relena and did. He shot at his own sister. For someone who is supposed to be a copy of Char Aznable, he certainly does some weird things.

Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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