On the peak of the highest mountain in the Arctic Wasteland, Ky Kiske stood in his mobile trace suit, beside Gundam Halo's foot, as he marveled at how calm and clear the peak was compared to the torturous journey to get here. As he climbed back into the cockpit, his sensors picked up two mobile suits slowly approaching.
Suddenly an extremely damaged Nataku came limping over the horizon, held up by Devil Ex Gundam. "Woah," Ky said, "what happened to you two?"
"We ran into Raziel a few days ago," Yoh said, panting slightly, "It came down to him or us, and it was barely us. Seifer's doing pretty rough."
Ky was about to respond, when suddenly a blast hit Nataku in the leg, causing it to collapse. As he turned to see where it came from, a second blast hit Nataku's cockpit, killing Seifer instantly. He ran with Yoh to look for the shooter, but they didn't have to look long.
Dark-Side Hell stood up from behind the snowbank it had been crouching near, Bullseye in hand. "Well," said Aoshi, putting away his Bullseye, "It looks like I wasn't the only one to make it up the mountain alive. Too bad I'm going to be the only one leaving."
"Listen Ky," said Yoh, "we only have one chance to get out of this intact. Just stand still." SD Amidamaru came flying out from behind Devil EX Gundam. "Amidamaru!" he shouted, "Co-integrate Gundam Ha..."
Suddenly Special Unit Zero Kai appeared behind them, Aoshi's Excaliber in hand. "We won't be needing this," said Xellos, grabbing SD Amidamaru by the head, "Now will we." He threw the little gundam up in the air, slicing through it in a single slash.
Aoshi climbed to the top of the snowbank. "About time you got here Xellos," he said, "I was beginning to think I was going to have to kill these fools alone. That's just a tad too boring for me. Now we can spice things up." He drew his Dragon Buster Sword. "Complete Alchemic Fusion!" he shouted.
Both Dark-Side Hell and Special Unit Zero Kai became more and more transparent as they floated towards each other. Gradually, both gundams completely disappeared, leaving only Aoshi and Xellos hovering in mid-air. A shaft of lite appeared around each one of them, expanding until they met. Suddenly there was a massive clap of thunder as both of the shafts combined. The light finally faded, leaving a massive, blazing white mobile suit in it's place, holding a huge, two-handed sword easily the length of Gundam Halo, held up by four pairs of beating angel wings.
"Now I am no longer Aoshi or Xellos, I have become something more. Behold the might of Xeshi and Dark-Side Kai!" said Xeshi, "Now you will fall before the Draconic Blade!"
Before Ky could react, Xeshi had swooped down on Devil Ex Gundam and sliced it in two. He jumped to the side to avoid the explosion, only to be caught by a slash from the Draconic Blade. He quickly drew his Sword of Heavens and slashed at Dark-Side Kai, but he managed to graze it.
Xeshi laughed. "You can't honestly expect to beat me, especially when you took so much damage from a single slash!" he said, nodding towards the gash in Gundam Halo's side. Then he noticed it. The gash was gone! "What the..." Xeshi began.
"Why Xeshi," said Ky, "I'm surprised at you. It wasn't like Aoshi to underestimate an opponent." He quickly re-routed his EMP laser to charge his Sword of Heavens and slashed at Dark-Side Kai, barely grazing it again, but disabling it's entire right side, causing it to lose balance and fall over. He launched all of his homing missiles off.
"I guess playtime's over," Xeshi said, activating his super mode, causing a massive shockwave of energy that destroyed all thirty missiles. Dark-Side Kai stood up, burning white, shaking off the last of the effects of the EMP. "Now, let's try that again." he said, launching off all twelve of his homing lightning missiles.
"Heh...my turn," Ky said, holding his right arm folded behind him, hand balled into a fist. "SHINING..." he yelled, activating his super mode. As his super mode activated, his right hand began to glow green. Just before the missiles would've hit, he thrust his palm outwards. "...FINGER!" he roared, sending out a massive green blast, destroying all the missiles in a huge explosion. Suddenly, twelve more missiles appeared in the cloud of dust from the explosion, blowing Gundam Halo backwards.
Once Xeshi saw his homing ghost missiles hit, he flew down and landed beside Ky's fallen suit. "Poor, poor Ky. Alive and confident one moment, then dead the next." he said, raising his Draconic Sword for the killing blow.
Suddenly Gundam Halo spun around and plunged Durandel into Dark-Side Kai's hip. Ky pulled it out, training lightning, and stabbed it back into Xeshi's suit, stabbing again and again until it hit the cockpit, sending Dark-Side Kai stumbling backwards.
A massive flash of light illuminated Dark-Side Kai's cockpit as Xeshi de-fused. Aoshi looked down at Xellos's crumpled body, lying dead on the floor. "Congratulations," he said, standing back up, "you now have my FULL," a shockwave of energy came out of the suit as the stab wounds dissappeared, "attention." He rose his Draconic Sword to the sky. "You've heard perhaps of the Dragon of Dark Destruction?" he said, "Well, for every ying, there is a yang. In this case, the ying greatly outweighs the yang. I summon forth the Holy Dragon!" A bolt of white lightning shot down from the sky and struck the mountain at its base. The ground began to rumble and suddenly a massive white dragon's head came bursting from the earth. The huge beast started winding around the mountain, so massive that even once it's head had reached the top, it's tail was nowhere in sight.
"Surprised?" said Aoshi, "Well, there's still one more treat in store." He took out his Requiem Blaster and pointed it towards the dragon as he flew upwards. Both the Holy Dragon and the Requiem Blaster began to glow brilliantly. Suddenly there was a blinding flash of light and a clap of thunder, and, when it faded, Dark-Side Kai was flying high above the battlefield, holding a massive, two-handed cannon, embellished with a white dragon head on the end.
Ky saw Dark-Side Kai's eight wings start beating faster and faster as the cannon charged. He had only one option left at this point. The sheer level of effort required might kill him, but then again, he was going to die anyway. He walked over to the wreckage of Nataku and found what he was looking for. As Aoshi had said, there was a ying for every yang, and there, in the smoking hulk, was his yang, the Sword of Apocalypse. He picked up Seifer's sword and drew his own. Instantly he felt the strength drained from his body as the blades battled for dominance. It took an almost hurculean effort, but he finally managed to touch his hands together. In a flash of light, both swords dissappeared, replaced by a mundane looking beam saber. "This is the legendary blade?" he thought to himself. He could feel the massive strain that even maintaining the saber put on his body. Now he finally understood why no one had managed to survive using it in battle, much less long enough to give it a name, but he didn't need to survive it, just tolerate it long enough. As he poured more energy into it, it gradually grew until it was twice the length of a mobile suit.
Aoshi let out a laugh as his cannon finished charging. "Well Ky, I'm afraid this is goodbye." He felt a jolt go through him as a massive blast was let loose. He saw Ky fly up to meet the blast, an extremely long beam saber in tow. "How honorable, yet pitiful. Coming to meet your death." He saw the massive explosion as the blast hit, followed by the satisfaction of watching Gundam Halo plummet to the ground. Suddenly his cannon exploded, sending him falling to the ground himself.
When he finally regained conciousness, he saw the smouldering wreckage of Special Unit Zero Kai lying beside him. Now he realized what Ky had been doing. He hadn't been trying to block the blast with that beam saber, he'd been trying to separate Dark-Side Kai, and he had succeeded too. If Ky had survived that blast, he wouldn't be alive right now. As it was, he could barely move. Aoshi drug himself off the ground and picked up his Dragon Buster Sword, summoning up the strength to raise it to the sun. He let out a cheer of victory. He had one the Battle Royal!