Gundam, Gravity Elegy

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When Lieutenant Barbery came to his senses, he found that his body had honestly followed the voice of the communication and lay down.

'Boom'

He forced his weary body to turn over, only to see a dark figure flying directly above him.

"Keep yourself safe and survive!"

The echoing voice in the communication stimulated the soldiers' consciousness.

Although it was somewhat ridiculous, at that moment, thoughts completely unrelated to the battlefield surfaced in his mind.

"Good...young."

He didn't know that the Mie particle was interfering with the result, but the voice sounded incredibly young.

However, what was completely different from that voice was that graceful movement.

Mobile Suit Federation's black giant leaps towards the surrounding enemies with a dance-like agility, enveloped in azure propulsion flames.

'bang bang bang'

The demons called Zaku kept firing, but their 120mm 'cannons' failed to cause any damage to the black angel.

'Clang clang clang clang'

It was like a symphony played on the battlefield. Amidst the flashes of light, he saw the flame in the 'angel's' hand.

That's a 100mm caliber machine gun:

"dong dong dong"

At close range, the rapidly firing bullets accurately landed around the cockpit. Once close enough, they used machine guns to knock it down, and then used shields to smash into the cockpit.

'boom'

Two.

Then it turned around and used the enormous torque generated by the force field motor to slap the shield into the Zaku's 'face'. After the Zaku fell down, it kicked the cockpit like a gladiator in a fighting arena.

'boom'

"Three."

Silently counting the numbers, Gao Ren's eyes darted around.

But just as he maneuvered his machine toward the fourth one and prepared to launch an attack, he heard a certain sound:

"Danger!"

"Ok?"

'call out'

"The enemy... no, wire-guided missiles?"

Amidst the roar, Gao Ren looked up at the sky. Under the heat source indicator, a missile swayed from side to side and directly hit a Zaku that had already raised its rocket launcher, blowing it up from behind.

'boom'

The explosion caused by the impact on the power pipes and engine produced intense sparks, and the Cyclops slowly fell to the ground as if hit by a sniper rifle.

At that moment, Gao Ren could see a man holding a Queen Elizabeth II wire-guided missile at the edge of the mine.

Beneath the surging heat source marker, he could see an injured man panting heavily:

"Are you okay?"

"fine……"

He wanted to answer that way, but before he could finish speaking, a tremor deep within him made Gao Ren grip the control lever tightly.

Even though he was sitting in the cockpit, surrounded by various sophisticated instruments, he could now hear a different, heavy breathing sound that was completely different from his own.

It was a fury enveloped in coldness, like that of a wounded predator.

"Oh right, that last cannon shot did seem to be aimed at the shoulder shield."

Gao Ren looked towards a mine pit, from which a deafening roar echoed in the night.

"Damn Federation, you think you can defeat me like this?!"

Elmer Snell roared.

When he finally recovered from the impact of gravity and artillery fire, what lingered in his heart was an extremely strong sense of humiliation!

"It's just a Zaku clone..."

Just as he was driving the Zaku out of the mine again, the black figure that appeared in front of him made him stop talking.

Even though he was separated by cold steel and observing through a viewfinder, those scarlet eyes almost made him freeze.

"Die!"

He tried to pull the trigger, but the flash of fire from the head was faster.

'Bang bang bang bang bang'

"A head-mounted machine gun?!"

By the time Elmer realized this, the echoing explosion was already shaking the cockpit.

"The machine gun was... damn it!"

With a sharp pull of the lever, the white Zaku threw the shattered machine gun into the mine pit, then stomped heavily on the ground and retreated.

But just as he instinctively began to maneuver on the ground, he discovered that the pursuit that was supposed to come had not followed.

"Hmph, as expected, even with MS, the Federation lacks combat experience."

Elmer glanced at the weapons inventory displayed on the computer and sneered:

"Then let's end it here!"

'boom'

With a slam on the pedal and a push forward, the white Zaku lunged forward, its somewhat human-like limbs reaching out to retrieve the battle axe stored on its skirt armor.

'Swish'

Under electric heating, the rapidly heating axe blade gleamed with a sharp light.

"Hmph, you want to shoot?"

Seeing the man raise his machine gun, Elmer smiled disdainfully:

"If you want to aim, try this!"

Pressing the launch button, the nozzles around the Zaku, originally designed for use against human targets, unleashed a barrage of grenades.

But unlike the anti-personnel grenades that his subordinates were usually equipped with, he preferred something else!

'boom'

A violent explosion rang out, and a blinding flash of white light streaked across the very center of the quarry.

Flashbang!

"A great opportunity!!"

'boom'

After the white light dissipated, the White Zagu advanced at full speed:

"Close combat is to my advantage!!"

This is no joke.

Elmer genuinely believed this, his Zaku was firing at full power, the generator had heated the thermal axe to its limit, and the guy in sunglasses on the other side hadn't even given up his ranged weapon!

"Wait, sunglasses?"

When Elmer got close to the black MS, he saw it simply turn to the side, and the flashbang had no effect whatsoever.

As Zaku approached, all he could see was the huge, reddish 'lens'.

"Protective devices?"

Just like a human wearing sunglasses, at close range, within a distance where Minovsky particles cannot interfere, he could even clearly see the 'scarlet' behind the lenses.

"There's no escaping it..."

'boom'

Then, the shield just slammed right up.

The earth's gravity was pulling, and the close-range impact caused the thrusters to lose balance. Under full power, the white Zaku fell to the ground like a real human being.

The unbearable impact of the seat sent a tearing shock directly to Elmer's body, making his teeth chatter.

But by the time he truly came to his senses...

"Oops……"

The only thing displayed on the screen was the black figure captured by the single-lens viewfinder.

'Click'

'Click click'

A surge of shadows appeared, and the mobile suits charged forward, slamming their shields down:

"and many more!"

"Operation... over."

'boom'

Chapter 19: The Maintenance Team's Rage

"boom"

"Hey, why is there a pit here?"

"How is Gannon doing?"

"Where's Gundam?"

"Collect some internal information about the Zaku."

"Hey, are you still conscious?"

My head is foggy, and I can't tell the direction of the sound.

Lieutenant Barbery even felt that he had lost his sense of time and could not tell when the sounds came.

When the restlessness, like the static of a radio broadcast that couldn't receive a signal, disappeared, what appeared before my eyes was a white glow.

"Sky?"

No, that light should be something I'm very familiar with:

"The sun...is it dawn?"

"Yeah, the sun's shining on your butt... I think that's what everyone on Earth says, right?"

With a shift of the gaze, a hideous face covered in scars appeared before them.

Behind the dark sunglasses, he could see those red eyes that seemed to be smiling:

"Speaking of which, Lieutenant Barbery, can you tell how many digits this is?"

The man simply held up one finger, but to Lieutenant Barbery, there were clearly more important things to do than this nonsense.

For example...

"Who are you people?"

"Captain Cuvatro Bagina, commander of the fourth squad of the G4 experimental unit."

“I am Ben Barberley.”