Why would I join the army if I can’t drive a Gundam!

Chapter 251 The Dog Kicked to Death by the Red Dragon

"The Federation Forces' Gundam..."

Having lost his limbs, replaced by cold, mechanical prosthetics, and with his mental power directly connected to the machine's operating system, the pilot of the Zaku MK2, Anabelcato, a former member of the Zeon Undead Division, looked at the Gundam in front of him, gripping its beam saber tightly, and his eyes instantly turned blood red.

"It is because of you that Zeon lost the war..."

"Fire! Fire! Take him down!"

Before Kado could finish his rambling, the group of Water GMs standing opposite him began firing, blasting harpoons and missiles with a whooshing sound. Along with the intense firepower, Atlas, wielding a beam saber, also charged forward.

Zagu, with his spiritual power, did not directly confront the firepower. In fact, his presence here was against Lei Fanhu's orders, because he should have been fighting alongside the monk soldiers.

However, due to the explosion by Io and others, Gato's plans were disrupted. Therefore, he chose to go alone, wanting to engage in a fateful duel with the Federation's Gundam as a mobile suit pilot determined to seek revenge.

Amidst the whistling bullets, the mental Zaku was like a nimble acrobat, rolling over and grabbing a Federation Army-issue shield to protect itself. Then, with a swift somersault, it leaped from the high ground behind cover.

"Asshole, don't even think about running away!"

Seeing the shield with the crescent and star emblem removed, Io was also furious. After all, that thing was obviously salvaged from the trash by the Nanyang Alliance. It might have been a relic of a Federal Army pilot. Now that the other side was holding it, it was a desecration and a great disrespect to his fallen comrades!
Under the powerful flames from its jets, the Atlas Gundam leaped into the air, blocking the path of the Psycho Zaku. Then, Io swiftly activated the maximum power mode of its beam saber and thrust it fiercely at its opponent.

"What the hell?"

Startled by the beam saber that had grown several times in length and size, Kado instinctively smashed away the incoming beam saber with his sword and axe. Then, his psychic Zaku stepped forward and delivered an extremely skillful elbow strike to Atlas, causing Atlas to stagger.

"Damn, this thing is so agile!"

Io reacted just as quickly. He swiftly adjusted his machine's posture, using his beam saber to block the incoming heat sword. Then, he controlled the Atlas Gundam to raise his fist and punch the psycho-Zaku.

But the attack missed. The Psycho Zaku took a step back, swung its heat sword with its left hand to slash at the Atlas Gundam, and swung its axe down with its right hand, gliding past Io's beam saber, and then thrusting it toward the cockpit.

Io could only once again cross his twin swords to block the incoming attack. Although the Nanyang Alliance's Spirit Zaku was a pre-assembled piece, it was much stronger than the original in terms of specifications. The powerful output brought by the high-powered furnace was enough to make it compete with Atlas.

In addition, the more sensitive operation feedback speed makes his battle with Atlas a pure contest of skill in close combat.

"Asshole, go to hell!"

As the two sides were locked in a struggle, a Water GM finally bypassed the obstructing production facilities and arrived close to the two. Firing the harpoon gun at this distance would cause collateral damage to the Atlas Gundam, so the Water GM's pilot quickly drew his beam pick and slashed it down at the Psycho Zaku.

Meanwhile, the Psycho Zaku remained calm. He suddenly released his right hand holding the axe, then changed the direction of his left hand and chopped downwards, causing Atlas's beam saber to slide to the other side. The downward chopped heat sword prevented Io from pushing forward to pursue. Then, the Psycho Zaku activated its posture thrusters, slid to the side, dodged the Water GM's attack, and appeared behind him.

After Io finished adjusting his mech's posture, he saw a thermal sword pierce through the Water GM that had already turned halfway around, and behind him, the Psycho Zaku was slowly pulling the weapon out of the Water GM's body.

At that moment, Io felt as if something inside his head had broken off in half.

"what!"

He roared angrily and raised his twin swords to attack the Psycho Zaku, but the latter chose to retreat and dodge. Io's attack was violent but chaotic, cutting down various facilities around him, but the Psycho Zaku was unharmed. Even when the Water Jim chasing behind Io finally saw the exposed Psycho Zaku, he opened fire, but Io blocked the angle of the shot in the next moment.

"Damn it, Lieutenant Io!"

Water Jim's captain could only shout reminders to the other party over the channel, but his voice went unanswered.

Meanwhile, the psychic Zaku continued to provoke the out-of-control Io. Although he was no longer equipped with beam weapons, the Southern Alliance still managed to assemble a set of equipment for him, including an additional heat sword axe and an MMP80 rifle. Now, without the heat sword axe, the psychic Zaku dodged Io's attacks while drawing two more weapons from the weapon rack on his back.

Then, when Io's beam saber became unstable due to excessive energy consumption, the psycho-Zaku began its counterattack.

"Damn it, I owe you something!"

The captain of the Water GM knew that if the fight continued, Atlas would be in trouble, so he had no choice but to step forward and fight alongside the enemy. Io had finally regained some of his senses, but because the two had no coordination, they could only fight back and forth with the Psycho Zaku in close combat, until the Psycho Zaku suddenly seized an opportunity and jumped to the side, turning the enemy they were facing back into the Atlas Gundam.

"Kid, your knife's out of battery. Back off, I'll handle this!"

"It's alright, leave it to me!"

Io ignored the warning and continued to clash with the Psycho Zaku until he suddenly seized an opening. When the Psycho Zaku's axe was smashed high into the air, Io seized the opportunity and thrust straight in, raising his beam saber to pierce the Psycho Zaku's armpit.

"Die!"

"Fool, you've been fooled!"

The Psycho Zaku released the heat axe in its right hand, letting it fall to the ground, dimmed and lifeless, while its right hand quickly retracted. At the same time, it tossed the heat sword up with its left hand, caught it with its right, and then, keeping the blade facing down, sliced ​​through the Atlas Gundam's hand armor, severing half of its hand holding the beam saber.

"Io!"

Seeing that Io was unarmed and about to be cut down, Captain Water Jim had no choice but to throw his beam pick to force the psychic Zaku to give up the pursuit of Io.

However, after losing their melee weapons, the two mobile suits were left to face the Psycho Zaku in front of them with their bare hands, while the Water GM behind them could not get close due to battlefield restrictions.

"Kid, you retreat first, I'll hold him off!"

"You retreat first! I still have a beam saber!"

As they were talking, Atlas's beam saber in his left hand also went unresponsive, leaving only a bare hilt.

"Alright, let's all go together and hold him off. We outnumber him, so it doesn't matter if we take him down!"

"no problem!"

Although he lost an arm, Atlas was not otherwise injured. At worst, he could just keep kicking. If he broke it, he could go back and be promoted to officer in the maintenance squad!
"Go!" Atlas grabbed the half-chain from the ground and was about to step forward when he suddenly stopped and threw the chain back down, standing there as if he were being captured.

"Have you given up resistance, Federation pilot?"

Kado thought the other party had given up and was about to step forward when the mental Zaku's radar started alarming frantically.

Without even looking down, he had already scanned the area, and a brand new signal appeared in the manufacturing plant.

"You bunch of stray dogs were pretty arrogant when I wasn't around!"

Accompanied by the arrogant sound blaring from all channels, a brand-new Gundam that looked rather bulky appeared in everyone's view.

"So, pilots of the psycho-Zaku, state your names!"

"Anabelcardo!"

As the Gundam, whose general shape was indistinct, appeared, an invisible pressure enveloped Kado's heart. After being touched on the head by Lei Fanhu, he was considered a half-baked Newtype. Therefore, he could also sense the extremely powerful aura of the person in front of him.

Even so, Anabelcardo still gave an answer.

"Anabelcardo, I remember now, that good-for-nothing who got kicked out of the Royal Guard. Weren't you and Diraz on pretty good terms? What, he didn't save you? Looks like your charm isn't all that great after all!"

Makarius never expected to run into Anabelcardo here; he even thought the other man had long since died in some unknown corner.

"The General has his own difficulties, but you, Gundam pilot, are you only good at empty talk?"

With heavy footsteps, Gundam slowly walked into the emergency lights in the darkness, and then Anabelcardo felt his heart and lungs stop.

"A red Gundam?"

"Yes, it's red. So, is there anything else you'd like to say?"

Marcarius took the beam spear from his back, held it in the machine's hand, and then lit the light blade.

"go to hell!"

Anabelcado suddenly launched an attack, about to pounce on the Atlas Gundam, which had not yet withdrawn from the battle. However, NT1's reaction exceeded his expectations. The MG79 held in its left hand went into full firepower, accurately unleashing its ammunition on the Psycho Zaku's body at close range.

Although Kado chose to dodge to the side the moment the hit warning sounded, his machine was still penetrated by several armor-piercing bullets.

What terrified Kado was that the moment he dodged to the side, his opponent also turned his gun and fired three grenades at the spot where he landed.

With almost no chance to dodge, three grenades whistled as they slammed into the landing psychic Zaku. Kado could only raise his shield to barely defend himself. He knew his opponent wouldn't let this opportunity pass, so he was prepared to deal with it.

However, NT1's movements were faster than he had imagined. Almost as soon as the explosion ended, the beam spear, flashing with purple light, pierced through the smoke and dust of the explosion and went straight through Kado's shield. The terrifying heat of the spear tip even melted away a layer of the left breastplate of the Psycho Zaku.

Under the threat of death, Kado used almost all his strength to turn the shield around, but the next second, the spear tip spun and slashed horizontally, cleanly slicing the shield in two.

Then, the beam spear thrust forward again. If Kado hadn't rolled away in desperation, he might have really died here. But even so, half of his left arm had been cleanly and neatly cut off by the beam blade. Now, that left arm was hanging loosely on the machine.

"My arm? My arm!"

Unable to feel any feedback from his left arm, Kado screamed in agony. After his limbs were severed, the mobile suit's limbs became extensions of the pilot's body, which is why its feedback was more flexible than that of the Atlas Gundam. However, the feedback after the mobile suit was injured was also cruel, equivalent to stripping the pilot's limbs away once again.

"Give me back my arm!"

Kado roared as he scrambled to his feet, drew his heat sword, and lunged at Macarius. But before he could even raise his sword, Macarius revealed the 110mm cannon in his left wrist joint. Accompanied by the rhythmic, crisp sound of the cannon, Kado's right wrist joint erupted with a burst of electric sparks once again.

The 110mm armor-piercing round was equally devastating at close range, instantly tearing through the shoulder armor of the Gato machine, as well as the internal pipes and circuits, crippling another arm of the psycho-Zaku.

"Look at yourself, how are you any different from a stray dog ​​on the street?"

Marcarius swiftly raised his beam spear and severed the right arm of the psycho-Zaku, which had lost control. Then, he stepped on the psycho-Zaku, grabbed the spear handle, and with two downward slashes, Kado's machine was once again reduced to a mech.

"Do you like this feeling?"

As Macarius spoke, he retracted his beam spear, then grabbed the arm he had severed and swung it fiercely down at the head monitor of the Psycho Zaku. The arm, which had been used as a flail, collided intimately with the head monitor, causing a large number of parts to shatter. But Macarius didn't care. He continued to swing it fiercely, and when the arm was damaged, he switched to the leg, until the head monitor of the Psycho Zaku was completely deformed. Then NT1 kicked it hard.

"Where is your Zeon righteousness, Gato? Where is your commander-in-chief? Why didn't he come to save you? Shout it out! Shout your slogans again! Let me hear them!"

After crushing the head monitor, Macarius, as if still not satisfied, tore off the head of the psycho-Zaku right in front of Io, who was already stunned with fear.

Kado was now engulfed in intense pain. His vision was completely black, and his limbs were attached to the machine in the cockpit, rendering him unable to move. In fact, he couldn't escape the cockpit even if he wanted to. All he could hear were the voices of the Federation Gundam pilots coming from outside the dark and stuffy cockpit.

"Assholes! You guys are a bunch of assholes!"

Overwhelmed by the phantom pain of losing limbs, Kado could only roar. His face was covered with a liquid that was hard to tell whether it was tears or cold sweat, mixed with snot, which flowed down his neck and soaked into his military uniform.

Amidst the roar, Kado heard the sound of metal tearing. Then, he noticed that a few rays of light seemed to be shining into the cockpit in front of him. Afterward, accompanied by a teeth-grinding tearing sound, the cockpit armor of the Psycho Zaku was ripped off by Macarius and the one-armed Atlas beside him.

"Yes, he's still alive. Let's go, Kado, say hello to the monks you see as your salvation!"

With that, Makarius used the severed half of the mental Zaku's body as a shield in front of him, and then walked towards the battlefield outside the factory where fierce fighting was still taking place.

(End of this chapter)