Review by Chris

February 2, 2001

Three mobile dolls surround the crippled Wing Gundam and are about to destroy it when three Treize Factions soldiers make a kamikaze run and destroys them. Heero is forced to abandon the Wing Gundam and finds a dying soldier. The soldier tells Heero to protect Treize and then dies. Duke Dermail expects the battle to be over, but a lackey tells him that it isn't. Zechs destroyed many of the mobile dolls in space, and now Heero is fighting them in Luxembourg. Heero enters a castle outside the city with his gun drawn. He takes an elevator downstairs and finds Treize in a library. Treize asks him to shoot, but Heero doesn't. Treize tells him that his battle is over, and Heero says that's not true because many men are sacrificing themselves for him. Heero says that Treize once had the power to change history and must do so again. Treize has no intention of doing that, and he pulls a gun on Heero. He decides that his death and Heero's are connected. He puts down his gun and opens a secret wall. Behind the wall is a brand new red Gundam.

In space, OZ soldiers find the abandoned Wing Zero and lay explosives on it to destroy it. Nearby, Zechs and Howard watch them. Zechs decides to take Wing Zero. He attacks the soldiers and destroys most of them. One of them manages to call for help, and Barge sends a carrier with Taurus mobile dolls to fight Zechs. Zechs finds that he is outnumbered, and the Tallgeese is heavily damaged. He sets the self detonation device and abandons the Tallgeese. It explodes and destroys the mobile dolls. One of the soldiers detonates the explosives on Wing Zero, but it has no effect. Zechs destroys the remaining soldiers and is amazed by Wing Zero's power. On Earth, Treize tells Heero that the new Gundam Epyon can show him the future. If Heero has no future, then Treize wants them both to die. Heero goes out into the battle and destroys the mobile dolls. The Zero System activates and takes control of him. He destroys all the mobile dolls and Treize's soldiers as well. When he returns, Treize gives him a gun, but Heero says he has no right to kill him.

This episode would have been more enjoyable had it not been for Heero and Treize blathering on about God and destiny and other things. The Epyon is a weird looking suit, but it's very powerful. It can transform into bird mode, and it has a powerful heat rod and beam saber that is powered by the internal reactor. That makes it one fierce suit. It was a shame that Zechs destroyed the Tallgeese, because I liked that suit. One thing about Wing Zero that bothered me was what happened to Trant, and why was it just sitting there? Did he die or abandon it? Who cares, he was just a side character.

Overall Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

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