Gundam: From Piece to Player

Chapter 310 The Little Lover in My Pocket

In Liberl, a city in side 6, Barney, dressed in a Union military uniform, is carrying his luggage.

"Young man, have you become a high-ranking official in the Space Alliance now?"

"It's alright, it's alright."

"Dad, why are you asking this?" Christina was not happy.

"So what? We'll be family sooner or later. It's really rare... By the way, was it because of Barnard that we got immigration slots to the Space Alliance?"

"I wouldn't say, it's just a rule... The shuttle bus is here." Barney chuckled.

The unmanned automated moving truck arrived at the scene. Barney glanced at his fiancée, who was dressed in casual clothes and had her hair in a single ponytail.

The Space Alliance's immigration agreement with the federal government solved his problem.

Christina earned her a senior engineer degree from the University of Granada and has work experience at a company under AE Corporation, which naturally qualifies her for skilled worker immigration... and Your Excellency also reminded yourself that this is the best time to push this matter forward.

Once the parents-in-law realized that their old age was secure and that their daughter's job and love life were about to come to fruition, they finally agreed to the immigration process.

Because Christina is quite filial, this issue cannot be avoided.

"What's wrong."

Christina, being a highly intuitive new human, quickly noticed Barney's gaze.

"It's nothing, I just think you look very beautiful today."

Christina's face flushed instantly. Her father-in-law turned his head away, seemingly because he was too old to bear the sight. Her mother-in-law, however, chuckled and continued to urge them to get married: "You two should get married soon."

Barney finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing his parents off on the bus and boarding the ship... The pressure of getting along with his parents-in-law was immense, and it felt much more exhausting than fighting.

But now we can enjoy some alone time together.

"Even though Mom and Dad have left, it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want."

"Know it."

Barney mentally questioned whether he was really a blond guy, since his fiancée was his parents' precious daughter.

Drop drop drop.

Just as Barney was thinking of secretly taking a day off to go on a date with Christina, his communicator suddenly beeped.

He is the captain of the immigrant ship escort fleet.

"what's up."

"Commander Barnard, three unknown mobile suits have been detected 1000 kilometers outside of side 6 and are approaching us."

"Find out their origins, issue radar warnings when they get within 800 kilometers, and launch an attack when they are less than 600 kilometers away."

"receive."

Barnard pondered that the Alliance, the Moon, Zeon, and the Federation each had their own set of dynamic friend-or-foe identification codes. Those without identification codes were either pirates or remnants of the hawkish faction.

The phone rang again 30 seconds after being turned off.

"Sir, I need to report to you that their mothership seems to be spreading Minovsky particles. Major Shirou has already dispatched drones to intercept them."

Looks like we can't rest today. The enemy chose this time to launch a terrorist attack... their target is the Alliance.

Besides, my parents-in-law had just boarded the immigration ship, and we absolutely couldn't let anything unexpected happen.

"Christina, the enemy is coming. You should go to the shelter first...Christina?"

"I want to protect my mom and dad too." Christina's eyes were very firm, and Barney knew he couldn't go against her wishes.

His fiancée is not only an engineer, but also a soldier.

After boarding the flagship, the two ran straight to the hangar. Barney ran towards his gray-green backpack-type Zaku, while Christina ran towards the white Detective Zaku III (Sekumi version).

Looking at the screen that flashed when the operating system started, Barney thought to himself that he had to protect all of this.

If Barney's guess is correct, what's arriving at this moment should be Colonel Dini's hawkish remnants.

After Basque and Djamitov were captured and executed in Blue Noah, some soldiers who did not recognize the peace agreement signed between the federal government and the Space Alliance launched a rebellion with their own troops.

It was called a rebellion, but in reality, it was more like using the military force at hand to become a warlord.

However, due to their relatively small size, they are more cautious in selecting targets.

They call themselves "New Disis" and have become a kind of "pseudo-pirates," with Side 6 being their guerrilla activity area.

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I saw five sniper-type Warriors and five Jingbaofans appear in front of me.

"The Space Alliance is actually using old aircraft from the One Year War?" Bref Kord squinted at the aircraft in front of him. "Then I won't hold back."

The machine piloted by Brev is called MK-V, a machine developed by the Augusta Institute... After General Djamitov's downfall, this machine was taken to Neo-Diseth by researchers from the Augusta Institute.

This machine was piloted by him, the instructor of the training team.

(ORX-013 Gundam Mk-V)

Its most distinctive feature is that it is equipped with two wired quasi-psycomi guiding weapons, allowing non-NT or non-enhanced humans to control these quasi-psycomi weapons through their mental power to launch three-dimensional, all-around attacks.

Before he arrived, he had destroyed three Faz units developed by AE Corporation in an attack on the Lunar Army.

Although its formidable firepower impressed Brave, some flaws in the pilot's skill and the machine's design allowed him to easily close the distance and destroy it during the gaps in its firepower.

It's rather funny that the enemy machine doesn't have any melee weapons.

(FA-010A Faz)

It's just scary-looking; it's ultimately a paper tiger.

Coupled with the success of the suppression operation in Ellis City, he was full of confidence in this mission to sabotage the Space Alliance immigrant ship. It was time to turn these guys who wanted to become astronauts, and who had already become astronauts, into cosmic dust.

He glanced at his wingmen on his left and right sides out of the corner of his eye.

RMS-141 Cyk Zwa.

Zwa is a high-performance mass-produced mobile suit that incorporates technologies from Zeon and the Federation. It is a cutting-edge mobile suit developed with an emphasis on heavy weaponry and mobility.

"Lieutenant Josh, you'll come up from the left. Captain Tosh, you'll come up from the right."

"Yes, Major."

Brave gave instructions to his comrades. Lieutenant Josh was a young man in his early twenties. He was said to come from a noble family on Earth. He admired and even revered space, but disliked the new humans and, consequently, the new Federation.

He believed that the innate skills of the new humans rendered the hard work and effort of ordinary people meaningless.

Captain Tosh was 33 years old and had published several articles on space colonization during his student days. One of his papers, titled "The True Spirit of Colonies," asserted that humans should live under the pull of nature and that the true spirit of colonization was living on other planets, not in the void—making no attempt to conceal his aversion to the Space Alliance.

As for Bref himself, he was a simple conservative. Anything new made him unhappy... He even wished he could travel back to before the Universal Century began, when his hobby was piloting mobile suits.

"A positive outlook? It seems I've been underestimated."

While piloting the Flying Tiger, Shiro Amada, who had been commissioned by Barney to conduct drone tests, looked at the three drones that had suddenly appeared in front of him, inputted instructions to the drone team, and gave the order to begin the attack.

Five sniper-type Warriors picked up their sniper rifles and began firing at the three machines. They immediately dispersed, displaying a high-speed maneuverability that was disproportionate to the size of the three machines.

It seems there's a reason why the enemy is so arrogant... their machines are all high-performance machines.

Chapter 311 Is MK-V a Gundam?

Through the sensing devices, Shirou already had a grasp of the speed and approximate thrust of the three machines.

From a four-dimensional perspective, it is undoubtedly a fourth-generation fighter jet.

The Jingbao Fan and the modified Warriors that I was piloting could only barely be considered first-generation drones... These were drone systems that the league had phased out for testing.

Of course, it's not without its advantages.

"Special attack?"

Seeing the enemy machine floor its throttle, Josh quickly maneuvered the VAZ to dodge, and the KJ-BF roared past, followed by the second KJ-BF... highlighting its recklessness.

There's a little-known fact about high-speed melee combat in mobile suits: if you're wielding a physical weapon or fighting with your fists, your mobile suit's speed can't be too high. Otherwise, not only will you miss, but more importantly, the impact will cause structural deformation—so avoid kicking unless absolutely necessary.

And if the opponent charges like a bull, and gets hit, WAZ will at least be badly damaged.

As Waz pulled the trigger at one of the departing MS, he saw the other unit brake suddenly, dodging the first shot. Then, with various maneuvers that could be described as shaking one's brains, it dodged the second and third shots fired by Waz.

Josh had seen a similar maneuver during a sparring session with Major Brave.

It's surprising that the Space Alliance, with so many elites, doesn't have any good mechs to pilot.

"Josh, watch your back."

"Hmm?" Just as Josh was focusing his attention on the two Jingbaofans, Brave's laser communication went off... He then saw the third one rushing towards him from behind.

Unable to dodge, Josh pulled the trigger, unleashing a powerful shot from his Elf Beam Cannon, striking the enemy directly in the cockpit at the waist.

Logically speaking, it should indeed be over.

As Josh was thinking this, he didn't expect that Jingbaofan would still be moving at full speed and collide with Vaz at 600 kilometers per hour.

The furnace instantly overloaded, transforming into a miniature nuclear bomb that engulfed the young elite.

"Josh!" Captain Tosh was furious at the sight before him, but the crossfire from the three modified Warriors forced him to retreat.

Although the opponent's ranged MS attack coordination was not complicated, it strictly followed the textbook.

Even if Toshu's mobile suit has excellent defensive capabilities, he wouldn't dare to stand still and face the concentrated fire of sniper beam rifles.

However, it can only be said that there are differences even among aces. Compared to his embarrassing teammate, Brave took down a Jingbaofan that tried to approach him as a proximity bomb.

After taking down the Vanguard, Gundam's superior propulsion and firepower allowed him to catch up with and eliminate the two troublesome sniper-type Warriors.

Just as he was about to get rid of the two Jingbao Fans, he saw three one-eyed machines that looked like elite units appear.

"It seems the astronauts don't value their lives much. The grunts are almost wiped out; is it now the elites' turn to strike?"

Brave's understanding cannot be said to be a complete misunderstanding, because they were indeed dealing with grunts—unmanned combat units.

Christina and Barney finally arrived in the area in their mobile suits.