Disclaimer: Gunnm, and most of the characters in the story are created by Yukito Kashiro, and 
trademarked to Business Jump Weekly in Japan, and Viz Select Comics in the US as Battle Angel: 
Alita. I'm not making any money off of this story, it is merely fanfiction. If you send me money for 
this story, I will use it to hire an assassin to kill you. ;) So don't sue me, after all, the highest form of 
flattery is imitation. 
Note: This story takes place between the events of Gunnm Vol. 2 and 3, and Battle Angel: Alita 
volume 1 and 2. In other words, she's defeated Maikaku, but hasn't met Yugo (Hugo in America) 
yet. As such, she is still young, still getting use to her cyborg body, kicking ass and taking heads, 
and not even thinking about love. And neither have met that nasty Nova yet (nasty in a lovable way, 
of course)
Gunnm: Gun Dream (Note: That's what it means, literally. But the name fits for the story)
Chapter 1:
In dreaming, there is usually a sort of slowness to motion, a resistance that feels like running when 
you're neck deep in water, or you have all the world against your movements. Certain details, like 
the creature or person who is chasing you become crystal clear, a clarity which would become even 
more horrifying if they were to catch you, for everything done to you would be very leisurely and 
your senses would be hyperalert. If the adversary tore through you with claws, you would feel then 
slowly rip through your flesh with an alertness that is too horrible to contemplate. And if your 
enemy burned you in some way, you would feel the flesh popping and melting, your bones 
incinerated, your hypersensitive nerves screaming in agony. 
For that very reason, Bahka ran as quickly as he could from the woman chasing him. He felt his 
movements slow, and he became aware of every rise and fall of skin, the feel of the air resisting his 
movements, his hair flying behind him as if it too were defying his flight. Behind him he could hear 
her animal growl, and her metallic feet hitting the street much faster than his own flesh could hope 
to. He let out a single scream as he tripped over a crack in the street, and crashed to the ground 
scraping his flesh everywhere it met the pavement. He vainly attempted to rise again and continue 
his flight, but firm hands gripped his shoulder, and crushed it. He fell to the ground once more, 
landing on his pulverized shoulder and rolling onto his back to face his adversary once more. The 
very same women who killed his brother was driving her fingers towards his skull. He had barely 
enough time to let out half a scream, but it was cut short by plasma scorching his flesh. He could 
feel his brain leaking out of the left side of his head, and consequently could no longer feel or move 
his right side. He tried to speak, but the words would not come as her hand arced and struck the 
side of his neck, and he felt the flesh and bone part as if nothing more than the sheer force of will 
had kept it together in the first place. The last thing his fading eyes and pain shocked brain saw was 
a burlap bag closing around him, and cutting out the light.
Bahka rose from bed screaming as he had done for the past two weeks straight, since he and his 
outlaw brother Mahku had met the cyborg hunter-warrior Gally. In less time then it takes to 
swallow, Mahku's chest was scorched into oblivion, and his head landed 3 meters from where his 
body lay. Without wasting a movement, she ran towards him with murder in her eyes. The only 
thing that saved him that day was another criminal who apparently had a grudge against her had 
tackled her. He did not wait around to see her toss him into a wall in one fluid countermotion, and 
did not see her kick sever his head, nor her penetrating gaze catching sight of his fleeing form too 
late. The only thing that was on his mind at this point was keeping himself alive, and away from 
Gally.
Bahka spent almost a month in constant fear, wondering if Gally would find him, and kill him like 
she did to Mahku. After that, depression set in. He moped around, and cried for his fallen brother, 
and cursing the fate that seperated them. It was perhaps almost a week after that where Bahka 
started to become angry at himself, and then ultimately at Gally. His rage built up to the point where 
he had a tantrum, throwing around furniture, and breaking anything he could until his anger faded, 
and he collapsed to the ground, spent. Tears would stream from his eyes, and his head would roll 
forward gently. Usually he fell into a troubled sleep after these tantrums, and wake up with tears 
and saliva dried on his face, and a soreness from crying, and striking objects. 
Bahka spent the next day or so alternating between rage and depression until finally he stopped 
short, and considered his situation. He knew one on one in his current situation Gally would kill 
him just as easily as she did his poor brother. The vestiges of a plan came to him late one night, and 
he considered it from every angle. Then he called up a friend of his who was a scientist, and owed 
him a favor, since he had kept the scientist's sister Seina, out of a life of crime by convincing her of 
how hopeless and unrewarding it really was. Now he described his plan to the scientist, Mairu, and 
asked him to build him a special metallic suit, or armor. The scientist was not thrilled at the idea, but 
his honor bound him to keeping his promise. The scientist, whose name was Gergae, planned out 
various suits, using different materials before he had one that would work.
Bahka carried out the second part of his play in the meantime, which was learning what he could 
about the she-demon, Gally. Bahka followed Gally home one day, from high up on the roofs. It was 
ironic, because he had always been afraid of heights, now all that was left in his mind was gaining 
revenge on this evil bitch from hell. The final pieces of his plan fell into place when he saw Dr. 
Daisuke Ido walk out and hug her like a father would. They walked back into his repair shop 
together, as Bahka smiled, and settled back to look at the layout of the area. He then returned to his 
home, and found the armor suit was ready. He put it on, then flexed his muscles, and tested his 
movements. He felt satisfied, and waited until the following night to make his move.
After Gally left the repair shop, Bahka moved in, and knocked on the door. Ido opened it up, and 
was immediately struck in the side of the head. Bahka left a note inside the shop, and held Ido up 
on his shoulder, and returned home. He at first sat on a stool, and made sure the joints of his suit 
were well lubricated, but then he became impatient and nervous, and started to pace. He felt anxiety 
and fear well up inside him, and he began to panic, and considered trying to get Ido back to the 
repair shop, and shredding the note before Gally came home and saw it, but had to lay this thought 
aside as he heard movement outside. He cursed his ill fortune at being forced to follow through 
with his plan now, but he realized it was much better this way, no chance of turning back. He had to 
follow through now. He stepped into the shadows, and waited for the cyborg woman to step inside. 
Gally walked carefully into the room, and assumed a fighting stance. Her eyes traveled slowly 
around the room, getting the specific details of it firmly in her mind. She also noticed Ido lying still, 
with blood on the side of his head, and his glasses were broken, and half hanging off his face. She 
could not however tell whether he was breathing or not. She also noticed a slightly movement in the 
shadows, and concentrated on it. A figure stepped out of the shadows, and she saw it was a face she 
recognized, the face of the criminal who had escaped her so many weeks ago. Bahka and his 
brother Mahku had killed a friend of hers, a bartender from Kansas whom had been one of the first 
in the bar to be friendly to her, which is why she originally sought out the pair. After killing Mahju, 
she was jumped by a relative of a previous bounty, who had been seeking a beautiful young girl to 
rape, and murder.
Bahka smiled, and gestured almost dismissingly at the fallen Ido, "You killed my brother, I killed 
your father, now we're even." The simplicity of the statement was almost insulting. How can you 
compare the life of a loving, giving man such as Daisuke Ido to the barbaric, destructive life of the 
outlaw Mahku? The only similarity, a tie of love, in family. But that did not matter to Gally, what 
mattered was Ido's life was in danger, or perhaps had been taken away from her. The thought of 
being alone, without Ido was worse than anything someone could do to her. This was beyond a 
bounty, this was deeply personal now.
Gally growled, and the rage snapped in her mind like a rubber band pulled too tight. She tackled 
Bahka, and flared up her plasma, and brought it down on his head. She stepped away, and then 
noticed Bahka's head was still whole, and he was unharmed. Upon realizing this, Bahka sneered at 
Gally. This sparked a deeper rage, and she hit him with lightning fast strikes, and jets of plasma all 
over his body, but when she was done he stood laughing at her, completely unharmed. "Wha.. 
what?" she stammered. "How are you still alive!?"
Bahka couldn't keep himself from gloating. "Simple, this armor was specially designed to absorb 
shocks, like from your strikes, and be resistant to heat, such as your plasma. Even the stress of your 
repeated blows won't damage the suit, or me. So you may as well just die, and make me happy." 
With that, he started striking her everywhere he could. He didn't do too much damage, because the 
suit was not designed to augment his strength, but the fact that he could strike her with impunity 
made what damage he did add up. Soon her nose was bleeding, and she had bruises on the flesh of 
her face. An eye had swollen shut, and she was frustrated at her lack of damage to Bahka.
It was then that she had a flash of memory, her early days of training when she was Yoko. Her 
teacher had an egg inside a transparent metal of some sort, and told her to break the egg without 
damaging the metal. After numerous tries, she couldn't do even the slightest damage to the egg, and 
she told him it was impossible, that you had to crack the metal to get to the egg. Her teacher snorted, 
and said she gave up too easily, that she was approaching the problem wrong. He brought his palm 
down lightly on the metal, and the egg inside burst, and fried at the same time. Yoko had been so 
surprised she couldn't speak. He told her the technique was named Hertza Haeon, and was a wave 
of energy passed through her hand, through the metal, and into the egg to heat it and burst it from 
the inside. The same technique could be used to fry an enemy's brain inside his skull, whether it be 
bone or metal. After a week or two of practice, she started getting the eggs to crack, then burst.
Gally's eyes focused on Bahka's head, and the remembered technique flowed naturally through her 
body, a testement that she practiced it until it became instinct. In one fluid motion, she tapped 
Bahka's helmet. In those fleeting moments, Bahka's brain, had it been functioning normally may 
have realized that it was roasting, and the cerebro-spinal fluid was boiling. In what seemed to take 
hours, but really took less than a second, the pressure from the sudden heat inside Bahka's brain 
caused his eardrums to burst, and his melting brains to rush out like lava reaching a crack in the 
crust of the earth. It spewed out with boiling cerebro-spinal fluids, and blood, and Bahka fell to the 
ground, blood foaming out of his nose and mouth as well.
Gally was already at Ido's side, crouching down, and running a gloved hand over his face. His lack 
of movement made her fears seem realized, and she cried out in anger and sorrow at the death of 
Ido. Tears welled up in her eyes, and one fell lazily down her cheek, and fell onto Ido's face. 
Through her tear-blurred vision, Gally saw Ido's cheek twitch, and a low moan escaped his lips. 
Gally cried out in surprise and joy, and cradled Ido's head. His eyes slowly cracked open, and he 
smiled at her tiredly. "Gally... I'm glad to see you... I have a terrible headache, could you get me 
something for it?"
Gally let her tears of joy fall from her eyes, and nodded. "I thought I lost you Ido... don't ever leave 
me again. I couldn't stand losing you again, I think I would go insane."
Ido smiled tiredly, and felt his eyes drooping. "I promise Gally, I will never leave you. I'm going to 
sleep now... I'm so tired..." With that Ido's eyes closed, and he fell into a deep sleep. Gally looked 
up at the sky, and saw a shooting star fly by. She prayed that Ido would be able to keep his 
promise.
End of Chapter 1.