Relena's back on Earth, being driven home in a pink limousine (...pink?) and hounded by reporters. She muses with some sadness that all of them believe that the colonies were responsible for the assassination, and that they're trying to start a war with Earth.
Inside, she runs into her mother, who doesn't seem particularly surprised at all this (but then, she must have known this would eventually happen), and tries to tell Relena the whole Peacecraft bit again, but Relena doesn't want to hear it. No, no, away with your evil truth!
Meanwhile, at school, Heero's transferring himself elsewhere to continue his fight, using his James Bond, Jr. hacking skills to alter the necessary records. Outside, he hears the other students getting ready for a party (why are they partying? we don't know) and mutters "I'm not involved."
Elsewhere, Une reports in to Treize, and asks for authorization to clear up a loose end - namely, Relena. Treize recommends the ol' take a bunch of mobile suits and raze the place gambit, since they can always blame it on terrorists. Une looks surprised that Treize has suggested taking along so many suits, but he's figured out by this point that the Gundams seem to pop up where-ever his forces go. He muses, however, that all that firepower probably won't be enough if a Gundam actually shows.
Meanwhile, Wu Fei takes out an Alliance aircraft carrier and a major port facility. Yeah, whatever. Color me bored.
Elsewhere, Quatre pokes around and discovers the reports of other Gundams attacking Alliance facilities, which perks him right up. Other Gundam pilots! Yay! Really, someone should have told him already.
Duo hangs out on his little floating base, staring up at the moon and remarking how cool it looks from Earth. And wondering what the hell Heero's problem is. His crew, meanwhile, have coffee... hey, wait, that's not coffee! That's booze! Curse you, lying voice-actors!
Trowa's at the circus (his day job... why? we /don't know/), wearing half of a clown mask and apparently getting to be the target for a knife-throwing girl named Charlotte. Or was it Charlene. Aw, can't remember. Anyway, C-chan is soon gleefully throwing knives at Trowa, who stands very still and doesn't get hit. C-chan starts to get a little pissed, however, that he's not in the least bit scared, until she realizes he /wants/ to get hit. Oh, great, another angsting pretty boy. She loses her cool a bit, and nicks him with the last knife. Not that we, y'know, see any blood, since it's, y'know, edited.
C-chan finds Trowa after the act, asking him why he didn't dodge the last knife. His reply - "I'm not paid to dodge." She muses that his eyes are weird, like the lion's (which annoys the nearby lion), and apologizes, but is pretty much ignored. Predictably, this makes her more interested than before.
Meanwhile, back at school, Relena shows up and is fawned over by her friends, who are, of course, all torn up. She's just sort of in a spaced out daze, and comments that they shouldn't be sad, her father wouldn't want it that way. She wanders around and interrupts Heero packing, and gets a gun pointed at her again for her troubles. She forestalls any problems, however, by telling Heero that 1) he'd have a hard time explaining things if he popped her right now, and 2) she's met Dr. J and knows all about what he's up to. Hey, wait, didn't Dr. J specifically say "Stay the heck away from Heero"? Moron. Heero gets all befuddled, which allows Relena to prod him into going to the dance with her.
They dance a bit. Music plays. Predictably, giant robots attack.
Une argues with one of her mobile suit pilots, who isn't keen on attacking a school (which is more restraint than any of our heroes have shown about attacking anything so far), but she finally pesters him into going by threatening to revoke his command and send another minion in his place. Throwing subtlety to the winds, Une sends three of her suits to attack, only to lose one immediately. Heero noticed the mobile suit carrier and has already zipped over to his Gundam. Lots of shooting ensues, and part of the school is levelled. Relena, through this, stays cool (cool? she's sub-zero) and shoos away her panicking school-mates so she can stand there in plain sight and watch the battle. Moron! Heero, one by one, dispatches the enemy mobile suits, first with his ludicrously large gun, then with his blazing sword... er, energy saber, er... whatever. However, one fires past him, and blows up part of a building, which promptly falls towards Relena. Heero dives and puts part of his Gundam above the girl to shield her from falling masonry. Much confusion by Heero ensues, since he's, y'know, supposed to kill her. Aww... he's just a big softy. Besides, if he killed her, the plot would probably end in short order. Or not. Anyway, the surviving enemy suit notices this and radios it in, causing Une to muse. The pilot blazes away at Heero for a bit, doing no noticeable damage, until Heero finally gets up and casually disposes of him.
Une decides to go down herself, but Treize calls up and orders her to return, despite her objections. On his other line is none other than Noin, who is ever so pleased that Treize called off the attack - apparently it's a request from Zechs. Treize considers this the repayment of the debt he owes Zechs for years of dependable service, but muses, after he's hung up, as to Zechs' motive. "So Zechs has a living blood relative after all..." Whoa! Plot twist ahead!
Meanwhile, Relena, of course, decides to push her luck, yelling at Heero to come and kill her, if he's going to. Heero almost does so, but changes his mind at the very last minute. He wonders why he can't kill her (she has plot immunity, you dolt) and finally simply takes off and leaves. Run away!
Next episode: Just how stupid ARE our heroes? Treize decides to find out!
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