(A Formidable Enemy! The Hero Chapman's Challenge)
George de Sand, Neo-France gundam fighter, stood in a misty battleground. His senses and his gundam's monitoring capabilities down because of the heavy mist. He is then attacked by multiple gunshots.
In a gambling table, Gentle Chapman, Neo-England's gundam fighter, wins another round again. Enters a grinning Domon Kasshu of Neo-Japan, he said he only wants a card game with the infamous hero Chapman. Next we find both men sitting facing each other. A woman opens a new deck of cards and began to deal. Domon showed his card revealing all aces. Chapman tops it off as usual and wins again. Unperturbed, Domon casually took hold of the lady's arm, shaking it to reveal some playing cards. Several men surrounding them drew out their guns to point it straight in Domon's face. From this tense moment, enters an innocent Rain, who was greeted in like fashion as her companion. Surprised, she clumsily held out her hand in mock surrender.
In the next scene, we find Domon and Rain being led to a room. Inside, they study a portrait of Chapman. Enters an injured George de Sand. Rain immediately played doctor while Domon insensitively asked questions. George said Chapman is not what he seems. He is everybody's hero including himself. But when they fought, George was attacked by several mobile suits without warning because his sensors were not working properly. Domon, unable to believe this, asked George to reveal more. George barely able to answer, manages to gasp a warning. He said they should be wary of the hero Chapman and the mist that hids all. Whatever he was trying to say is muffled by the pain in his body. Rain told Domon he can't be interrogated anymore.
That night, Chapman is shown having an attack. He drinks a medicine provided by his wife,Manon, the woman dealing the cards earlier on. Chapman then promised his wife they will go to Mars to settle down from all the fighting. His wife said if Chapman is tired of fighting. He suddenly asked what his wife thinks of Domon and that if she likes him. She said yes, taking his face between her hands, said that Domon reminds her of Chapman's sharp eyes when he was young. Chapman agrees and decided to invite him to tea.
The next morning, both Domon and Rain headed towards Chapman's mansion, obviously accepting the lord's invitation. Rain said it might be a trap. Domon said the better and besides, he wanted to see if what George was saying were true. Rain then commented why Chapman when, by now, it should be obvious he has no connection to the Devil. Domon said he wants to know what Chapman knows, him being an experienced veteran and all. On their way, they pass several strange looking devices. Ignoring it, they went on ahead to the mansion.
In the table, Rain is sipping tea. In front of her, Chapman's wife. In the table head Chapman opens up a pill and put the contents in his drink. Rain notices this. Domon, tired of the tiresome manners, untactfully challenges Chapman to a fight to which Chapman only told him to have patience. Chapman then told Domon that he is too rash and like everyone like him won't last long because of their juvenile stupidity and enthusiasm. Domon is furious at this and would have taken exception had Rain not intervened and said she needs to go to the toilet. Excusing herself, she then pretends to unattractively trip to get the pill. Manon, seeing through the act, ask if she is alright and that the bathroom is just straight ahead. At her departure, she signals one of the guards hovering to follow her. In the comfort room, Rain inspects the pill. She then sneaks inside the mansion, snooping at doors, until one led her to an underground storage of mobile suits. Before she could report back, she is struck in the gullet by the guard who followed her.
Meanwhile, Chapman finally agreed to fight Domon. Somewhere inside the mansion, Rain lay sprawled on a carpetted floor. When she woke, she saw Manon doing in front of some controls in a room which screens Chapman's battle with Domon. Seeing her awake, Manon apologizes excusing herself by saying she is only a woman.
In the battleground, the fight starts. Chapman suddenly getting his usual attacks, this time, the pill won't work. In desperation he swallowed a handfull of pills, going insanely drugged as a result. Domon, confused, noticed the large strange looking devices sounding a siren. And then mist starts to gather about him. In his sights, Chapman's John Bull starts to fade in and out until wholly swallowed by the mist. His sensors won't work because of the mist. Now understanding George de Sand's forewarning, Domon readies for any attack, groping blindly in the dark. The other mobile suits gather round, aiming at Domon, while Chapman aims for Shinning's head. In this instant enters Rose Gundam to help Domon out. George takes care of the other mobile suit while Domon concentrates on Chapman. George told Domon to stop Chapman from taking the pill or else he'll loose any hold on sanity. Chapman is a formidable fighter as Domon finds himself in the defensive. Chapman seem to be suffering from an overdose of the pill, seeing him go instantly berserk and thirsty for blood.
In the control room, Manon confesses her part in this whole scam, even providing Chapman with those horrid pills. She said she knows how her husband loves to fighting and that he has a reputation to uphold in being a hero and invincibly undefeated, that she came up with this plan. She wants Chapman to be forever a hero in the eyes of the people. She will do everything for Chapman because she loves him. She then looks at Rain directly and said she will know the feeling. Rain listens silently, concern etched in her face.
Just when Chapman's about to shoot a hole smackdown Shinning's face, Chapman reels in and stops. It is the sane and normal-minded Chapman speaking, the real hero. He then told Domon to take advantage of the situation and do his stuff, like a real fighter would do. He told Domon to end it for him here while Chapman can still hold himself down. Domon, hesitant at first but seeing the opportunity, straightens up and do the Shinning finger on Gundam John Bull's head. Domon, unable to stomach the act, closes his eyes in disgust as his figners closes on in JohBull's head to smash it asunder. This time, the heat blew away the head off. Manon runs off to the cockpit to hold her dying husband. Chapman smiles weakly and regretfully apologized at not being able to keep his promise to go to Mars with her. Rain looks on, saddened and pensively thoughtful. Manon told Domon not to worry because she doesn't blame him in the least. She only wants him to learn from this situation and not to repeat their mistake because it only ends in grief.
THE END
