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The Victoria Nightmare is the fourth episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. It first aired in Japan on April 28, 1995 and in North America on March 9, 2000.
Synopsis[]
Noin contacts Zechs.
Zechs's shuttle flies with the Tallgeese inside. Zechs examines information obtained from Walker about the Heavyarms and Sandrock Gundams. Lieutenant Noin from the Lake Victoria Base contacts Zechs. She is the instructor of the pilots there. Wufei, who is watching the Victorian Base from a cliff, jumps on a motorcycle and heads off; Shenlong is laying on a nearby cliff.
Wufei about to head out on his mission.
Otto informs Zechs that Wufei is near, but they can't find the Gundam. Zechs and Noin both graduated from the Lake Victoria Base, where they were the top 2 students. In her quarters, Noin looks at a collage of Zechs and calls him 'Peacecraft'. The next day, Noin instructs her students and their Taurus space mobile suits are brought outside. Zechs arrives. They talk that night in a lounge area of the base. Noin, who is clearly infatuated with Zechs says that they'll transport the Taurus mobile suits tomorrow.
The Taurus mobile suit.
Otto calls Zechs, and tells him that while many are working on the Tallgeese, it will be a month before it is finished. Later, after everyone has gone asleep, Wufei arrives outside the base. He pushes a button, triggering a huge explosion. The worst area hit is the trainee's quarters. Noin heads there, where most of the trainees are dead. Leos head out, although there is no sign of the enemy.
Noin and Zechs.
Noin heads out in an Aries suit and locates Wufei riding a bike using a heat sensoring system. Two more Arieses head out with a space laser. She fires at Wufei, knocking him off his bike. She realizes that Wufei is just a boy, and when she pauses Wufei, who notices that she is a woman, takes the opportunity to escape. He gets in his Gundam, destroys the two other Aries mobile suits and then attacks Noin's suit.
Noin pursues Wufei in her Aries.
Meanwhile, an OZ officer has the Taurus mobile suits loaded onto an air carrier and prepared for takeoff. Zechs thinks that this is a bad idea and that the Gundam won't come to the base. The carrier is launched anyway and Wufei uses the space laser to blast it out of the sky. He tells Noin he won't kill bleeding hearts or women and leaves.
The Gundam Shenlong.
On Duo's sea carrier, Heero uses his laptop to determine the necessary repairs for Wing Gundam. Duo offers to have both of their Gundams repaired simultaneously by his crew, but Heero refuses to let anyone else touch his mobile suit. He then gets a message in his Gundam's cockpit about a mission to destroy an OZ carrier transporting Gundanium Alloy. Meanwhile, Relena stands on a cliff calling Heero's name. At an Alliance meeting, the leaders conclude that the Gundams are their enemies, and are from the colonies. Mr. Dorlan doesn't believe this and thinks the colonies want peace. He believes that the Alliance is the problem. The other leaders argue with him and General Septum asks him to leave. Treize, elsewhere, tells Lady Une to take care of the situation with Dorlan.
Duo finds out Heero repaired Wing Gundam with stolen parts from Deathscythe.
Back on the sea carrier, Heero works all night repairing Wing Gundam and takes off early the next morning. Duo is impressed that he was able to repair his Gundam by himself in just one night, but then realizes that Heero stole the necessary parts from Deathscythe, which is now inoperable. Heero locates the OZ carrier and blasts it out of the sky with his Gundam's buster rifle, accomplishing his mission.
Trowa and Quatre.
Meanwhile, at Quatre's home, he plays a violin while Trowa plays a flute. The Magunac Core, Quatre's desert troop friends, fix both of their Gundams and wonder about Trowa. A defeated Noin returns to the Lake Victoria Base and talks to Zechs. She accepts Zechs' offer to join him in taking on the Gundams. Meanwhile, Wufei comes upon a pack of wolves. He screams, scaring them away and despairs over how empty he feels about defeating such a weak enemy.
Staff[]
- Script: Katsuyuki Sumisawa
- Unit Director: Tetsuya Watanabe
- Animation Director: Atsushi Shigeta
Important Events[]
- Characters Introduced: Lucrezia Noin, Lady Une, Rasid Kurama
- Mecha Introduced: Taurus
Trivia[]
- In the Glory of the Losers manga re-telling of the series, it's revealed that the OZ carrier Heero destroys with the Wing Gundam in this episode was meant to deliver its Gundanium Alloy to Treize to begin the construction of his own Gundam.