Gundam: A Gundam Enthusiast's Journey with a Mecha Girl

Gundam: A Gundam Enthusiast's Journey with a Mecha Girl

Author: Mass-produced Gugu

Work summary:

For model kit enthusiasts, the most romantic thing is to sit in the steel giant they built themselves and soar among the stars with their own unique mechanical girl, all the way to the ends of the earth.

Despite having such a simple dream, Raven is always drawn into the flames of war. To survive, he has to fight on the brink of death time and time again.

But unbeknownst to many, after the smoke of war cleared, he had quietly planted seeds of peace and hope in one world after another.

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P.S.: This game starts with Seed, and players will also travel to other worlds later.

Volume 1: Plastic Guys, Mecha Girls, and SEED

Chapter 1 The Beginning

Research lab at the Industrial University, located on the colony satellite Heliopolis.

Raven woke up to the alarm clock, rubbed his messy black hair that he hadn't tidied up, and yawned. The fatigue caused by lack of sleep hadn't completely subsided, but after glancing at the time, Raven could only struggle to get out of bed.

"El, turn off the alarm clock."

Raven told his AI assistant to turn off the annoying beeping sound, stood up, stretched, picked up the coffee cup on the table, and walked towards the water dispenser.

This is Raven's second life. Since his previous life, Raven has always had a dream of building Gundam with his own hands. Even after his accidental death and reincarnation into this world, he has not forgotten this dream.

With the foundation laid in his previous life and his efforts in this life, Raven quickly made a name for himself in academia. He received an invitation from Brigadier General Halbarton to join the G Project team and become a core member of the team, thanks to a paper he published during his university years on the application of humanoid robots. He was able to personally build the steel giant of his dreams.

"Next up is the development of the new OS. With this level of completion, were those guys from before just sitting around doing nothing? Looks like we'll be working overtime again tonight."

Raven brewed instant coffee while complaining about the mess his ex had left behind.

"Why don't we hurry up and get ZAFT here, take the stuff away, and free me from this hell of overtime?"

As soon as Raven finished speaking, the entire laboratory building suddenly began to shake. The quiet and peaceful street scene outside the laboratory window was suddenly engulfed in flames, and explosions and alarms filled the entire Heliopolis in an instant.

"what happens?"

Ignoring the shattered coffee cup he had just smashed, Raven quickly went to the window to look outside.

A towering Cyclops descended from the sky, bringing an atmosphere of war and death to the peaceful city of Heliopolis.

Collapsed high-rise buildings, burning vehicles, and bodies blown away by the explosion.

Just minutes later, everything changed.

Raven's face instantly turned ugly.

"Is that King? Is today the day ZAFT comes to steal the Gundam?"

Raven's memory of the original Gundam SEED plot was already hazy, but he still remembered where the story began.

In an attempt to seize the G Project's mobile suits, ZAFT's Kruze team launched an attack on Heliopolis. Ultimately, ZAFT successfully captured four of the five G Project mobile suits, while Heliopolis was destroyed in the ensuing battle.

We cannot sit idly by and wait to die.

A sense of urgency spurred Raven to take action.

As a member of the G Project development team, Raven knew that if he fell into the hands of ZAFT forces, he would definitely not have a good ending.

Coincidentally, the machine that Raven had rushed to build for this day had just been assembled.

After taking a few deep breaths to dispel his fear, Raven took the AI ​​"El"'s mind core, pushed open the door, and ran towards the MS warehouse.

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The warehouse storing the G Project machines was hidden beneath a scenic artificial hill on the colony. When Raven arrived in his car, the warehouse was already engulfed in flames.

"The Duel, Storm, and Thunder have been stolen from outside. You're really something, ZAFT."

A giant steel foot suddenly appeared in front of him, and Raven swerved the steering wheel, narrowly avoiding a fatal crash.

"The Aegis was also stolen, then..."

Behind the Aegis, a mobile suit stood out from the sea of ​​fire.

The powerful assault stood firm on the earth.

Raven's car sped past the Strike's feet, his target being the newly assembled MS—GAT-01A1 Dagger—stored deep within the warehouse.

The original G Project only included five units: Duel, Storm, Thunder, Aegis, and Strike. However, with Raven's involvement, the project progressed faster than expected, allowing the Dagger to be released ahead of schedule as the first mass-produced unit of the G Project.

Although the Dagger omitted the PS armor and many experimental electronic devices for ease of production, replacing them with readily available off-the-shelf products, the specifications of the machine's parts were not lowered. In terms of performance alone, it was not much inferior to the prototype Strike. In addition, it retained the ability to equip the Strike backpack, making it a truly high-end mass-produced machine in the great war of C.E. 71.

After parking the car, Raven displayed agility beyond his professional capabilities, flipping into the cockpit and connecting El's mental core to the machine's system.

A fully autonomous, thinking artificial intelligence—this is the name of the "girl" that Raven created himself.

Raven pressed the start button, and the screens in the cockpit lit up one by one.

"El, how is the machine's condition?"

[The machine itself is in normal condition, but Raven, the current OS is not yet capable of combat. Piloting such a machine in battle is a dangerous act.]

Raven was aware of the problem El was referring to. Previously, Raven's focus was not on writing the Natural Man OS. Just as Raven finished his work and took over the OS writing, ZAFT began their operation.

Raven brought El along specifically to solve the problem of the OS being unusable.

"El, I'm giving you full access to the machine and adjusting the OS to the backup Coordinator version. I'll leave the parts I can't process to you for real-time calculation."

"I understand, please leave it to me."

A few seconds later, after confirming that El had completely taken over the short sword's system, Raven took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, and stepped on the pedal.

Amidst the sea of ​​fire, another 18-meter-tall steel giant stood tall.

Who was in that aircraft?

The assault's communications came through.

“It’s me, Captain Maru.”

"Mr. Raven?"

Raven could sense that Maru had breathed a sigh of relief. After all, four of the six G-Project mobile suits had already been stolen by ZAFT. Although Raven was not a soldier but a technician, it was still better than letting the mobile suits be taken by the enemy.

"Could that voice be... Mr. Raven?"

Another voice came from Maru's side, and a brown-haired boy's face came closer to the camera from behind his seat.

During his time working on development projects in Heliopolis, Raven's official identity was that of a young, externally hired teacher at the Heliopolis Institute of Technology. He taught a few classes to Kira and his classmates, and it was during that time that Kira and Raven met.

"Kira-kun? I'm glad to see you're alright, but enough chit-chat, it's too dangerous to stay here any longer. Let's get out of here."

The situation was indeed as urgent as Raven had described. The fires around them were growing more and more intense, and the artillery fire from the battle between the two sides outside could reach them at any moment. Kira silently retreated to the back of the driver's seat without saying anything more.

Unfortunately, just as Dagger and Strike were about to leave the warehouse, a ZAFT King fell from the sky and landed right at the exit.

"That's an Earth Force mobile suit. Since we couldn't get it, I'll shoot it down myself!"

Without the slightest hesitation, King quickly locked onto Dagger and Assault, who were stranded in the warehouse. His 76mm heavy assault machine gun spewed fire, and the line of fire formed by the shells swept across the location of Assault and Dagger.

"what!"

Despite the protection of the PS armor that could withstand live ammunition, the shockwave from the machine gun hitting the fuselage still made Maru scream.

[Hostile behavior confirmed. Please take evasive action.]

As a mass-produced Dagger, it was not equipped with high-end equipment such as PS armor, so Raven could only dodge. However, with El's rapid calculations, even though Raven could not control the machine well, the Dagger still drew a beautiful S-shaped arc with El's assistance, leaving all the shells fired by King behind.

"Such a move! Are there really people among humans who are skilled at it?"

The Dagger's movements surprised King's pilot; its fluidity was unmatched by the other captured mobile suits.

"Simply avoiding the situation won't break the deadlock, El, we need to counterattack!"

The Vulcan cannon on the head of the short sword fired, spraying bullets at King at an extremely high rate of fire to restrain him. At the same time, Raven hid the hilt of the beam saber in his hand. Taking advantage of the moment when King stopped firing and dodged the Vulcan cannon, the short sword's thrusters were turned on at full power, quickly closing the distance between the two machines.

"Get out of here!"

"what!"

King's pilot clearly hadn't expected the seemingly frail mobile suit, Dagger, to have such a high output of power. King was forcefully pushed out of the warehouse door by Dagger and crashed directly into the building behind it.

"Don't push your luck, you're a human being!"

Caught off guard, King reached for the heavy slash sword at his waist, but before he could, Raven ignited his beam saber and severed King's right arm before he could swing the heavy slash sword, then plunged the beam saber into King's cockpit.

Seeing King's dimmed single eye, Raven finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Chapter 2 Kruze, the Attack

King, whose cockpit had been destroyed by the short sword, fell completely silent, while Maru had just stepped out of the warehouse in her Strike.

"That move... was amazing."

The current Naturals' OS is quite poorly developed. Without professional training, Murrue would find it difficult to even make Strike walk steadily, let alone fight.

Raven's ability to wield the short sword with fluid movements to shoot down enemy planes was truly astonishing.

'This movement is exactly like a Coordinator piloting a vehicle; I've never heard of a Natural being having an OS developed.'

Such a thought flashed through Maru's mind, but then Raven's call came through the communication.

"Captain Maru, watch out!"

A mobile suit named Sigur chased after the Mobius Zero as it emerged from the colony's central axis, but Sigur quickly abandoned the pursuit of the Mobius Zero, which had lost its wired cannons, and instead locked onto the slow-moving Strike.

The XIK is a new generation of aircraft developed by ZAFT, with performance far exceeding that of the GINN. Those qualified to pilot it are usually elites or commanders in the ZAFT military.

The pilot of this XIK was none other than Raúl Kruse, the renowned ace pilot and commander of the ZAFT forces.

"Is that the last G-class aircraft left in the Earth Forces? Like the others, it's not fully operational? Let's shoot it down now!"

"Rau Le Creuset, you won't get away with this!"

Upon discovering that Xigu had changed its target, Mu immediately realized Kruze's intention. Even though his Mobius Zero was now just a bare shell, he still turned his aircraft around and fired the linear cannon below Xigu's nose to cover the assault.

However, with only the physical form remaining, Mobius Zero could only do so much. Shigu skillfully dodged Mobius Zero's shot, seized the opening when Mobius Zero was turning around, drew his physical sword, and slashed down, intending to cut Mobius Zero in two.

Mu instinctively pulled up the nose of the plane, dodging the fatal blow, but his only remaining means of attack—the linear cannon on the nose—was severed by Xigu in his place.

Higu fired a burst of 76mm heavy assault rifle bullets, which accurately struck the Strike, knocking it to the ground. Although the Strike's PS armor could effectively withstand attacks from ballistic weapons, this also meant that it would rapidly deplete the mobile suit's battery power. Once the battery was depleted, the PS armor would also become ineffective.

'This won't do, we'll be shot down!'

In the cockpit of the Assault, the surrounding battle and the imminent threat made Kira make up his mind.

"Excuse me, please!"

"You, this is a military machine, do you know what that means?"

"Won't the military's machines be shot down? With the current operating system, they simply can't function properly, right?"

The boy's straightforward gaze and words put Maru in a dilemma. Her duty as a soldier prevented her from entrusting the assault rifle, a military secret, to a civilian to operate, but it was also true that she herself could not operate the assault rifle under enemy fire.

"Leave it to Kira, Captain Murrue. Now we must do everything in our power to preserve the last fruits of Project G."

Raven's communication approach.

Although Raven can no longer remember the details of the original work, he still recognizes the protagonist and the protagonist's mech. Moreover, putting aside the original plot, if the Strike is shot down here, it means that the results of Project G will be in vain, and Raven's efforts over the past few months will also be in vain.

"but……"

"We'll talk about the reasons later, but in short, that boy will definitely be able to launch the assault."

After saying that, Raven stopped paying attention to the situation on the Strike side and instead had his short sword lock onto Shigu in the sky.

Although the Strike is protected by the PS armor, the unit's battery power is ultimately limited. Once the battery power reaches zero, even the Xigu, which is only equipped with live ammunition, can easily shoot down the Strike.

"We're going in, El. We can't let the Strike be shot down here."

Raven slammed the pedal to the floor, and the short sword's thrusters sprang into the air, instantly propelling the machine into the sky. It rapidly approached the Xigu, and the overwhelming G-force pressed Raven firmly into the seat, making it difficult for him to breathe, as he wasn't wearing the standard suit.

[Warning: The current G-force exceeds the human body's tolerance limit. It is recommended to limit the thruster power.]

"No, the enemy in front of us can't be dealt with by simply limiting our performance!"