Gundam: From Piece to Player

"It seems that there has been another breakthrough in drone technology."

The two circular beam turrets on the Cross Iron Armor began to rotate left and right to adjust their positions, and then began to fire continuously. Behind him, the Jupiter Squad—50 mass-produced ZZs—also raised their high-output mega particle cannons to provide fire support for their leader.

Faced with the mega particle beam below, the Flying Tigers triggered their evasion program, performing omnidirectional evasive maneuvers without warning. Each maneuver was within 500 meters. After two rounds of firing, Sirocco realized that neither his own artillery fire nor the Jupiter Squadron's beam had hit them, and the enemy had not fired a single shot.

"All, close the distance," Sirocco said. "You are not allowed to fire until you are 1.5 kilometers away."

If humans can't keep up with machines, then what about the new humans?

I saw it!

Sirocco saw the trajectory of a Flying Tiger—its location a few seconds later.

Cross Ironman raised his hand and placed a shot at that position.

Just as the MS was about to move to that position, the Flying Tiger suddenly applied emergency brakes at the same moment Theo pulled the trigger.

The beam grazed Flying Tiger's right arm, causing injury.

Flying Tiger then retreated rapidly and took over from the other aircraft behind it.

Sirocco realized a fact—could the opposing MS counter the Newtypes' predictions?

When the Jupiter team entered the firing range of 1.5 kilometers, the opposing Flying Tigers suddenly opened fire. Facing the elite Jupiter team, it only took 3 minutes for the casualties to turn into 16:0—more than a third of the mass-produced ZZ were lost, and that was under the command of Sirocco.

"Is this the man who returned from Jupiter? He's truly unworthy of his reputation." Barnard sighed, looking at the one-sided situation. "Does he really think that our offensive capabilities, which have broken through the defensive lines in such a short time, are weak?"

“It must be the first time he’s encountered this kind of system, so he suffered a great loss,” Christina said. “He was too confident in his New Human abilities, and his arrogance blinded him, which is why he suffered such a loss. We need to continue to put pressure on him before he realizes what’s going on… We can’t let this guy think.”

"That's easy."

Backpack-shaped, horned flying green Zaku takes the lead, with the laser on its head shining at a specific frequency at Theo's head monitor.

Morse code?

Sirocco read it, his face turning icy: "Saying I'm good at summarizing failures?"

Sirocco can accept being called a demon, Judas, or a traitor, but he finds it hard to tolerate being called a loser.

Because he sees himself as a guide for humanity, as a god, how could he possibly fail?

However, due to the constant setbacks, Sirocco even began to doubt whether he was truly incapable. Whether as a mechanical genius or a new human, this was his pride and his identity.

"You arrogant scoundrel who spouts nonsense, do you have the right to judge me?... I'll take you down right now."

Driven by Sirocco's ability, Cross Iron emitted a blue light. In this "Super Output" mode, Cross Iron could unleash 3 times the output and speed within 5 minutes through the Psycommu system deployed throughout the machine, while reducing the precision of operation.

At the same time, 20 MEGA funnels flew out from all over his body, targeting only the backpack-type Zaku piloted by Barnard.

"Don't try to succeed."

Seeing the Crosstighton rushing towards her husband, Christina quickly inputted commands into the seven electronic warfare Tigers.

The electronic warfare-type Flying Tigers fly in a circle, connected to each other via quantum communication, and simultaneously activate a "brainwave interference field" that can hijack and distort the brainwave signals emitted by the enemy, thereby rendering the enemy's floating cannons ineffective.

Initially, floating cannons were used for this experiment, but later, considering the survivability of the floating cannons themselves, it was decided to simply use mobile suits as submachine guns, since the Alliance had no shortage of production capacity.

The mothership is the electronic warfare Zaku piloted by Christina.

"Suffer to death!"

Sirocco shouted, and the floating cannons had flown to the best positions around Barnard. He then issued the attack order.

Logically, Barnard's machine should have been torn apart by the beams of the funnels.

However, the reality was that the floating cannons circled around the enemy's commander aircraft, but they seemed to be malfunctioning—they couldn't fire no matter what they did.

"What, does Your Excellency wish to perform a circus ball-throwing trick for us?"

Was the other person subtly mocking him as a clown?

I'll kill you!

Sirocco had never been so angry in his elite life of the past twenty-odd years, but the elite education he received from childhood made it difficult for the words he uttered to be considered profanities.

They also ignored those "disobedient" floating cannons.

Cross Iron drew six beam sabers, wanting nothing more than to tear the guy in front of him to shreds.

At this moment, Barney used laser communication to give his wife a countdown.

Christina, of course, understood.

Just moments before Crosstio crushed the backpack-shaped tiger into pieces,

She shut down the jamming system, and the hovering drones that had been under attack command finally regained their functionality—launching an attack.

Dense beams of floating cannons blasted towards Barney's original location—at this moment, Cross Iron had also arrived at three times the speed, and Cross Iron crashed into his own firepower.

Sirocco never expected that he would be the first to bear the brunt of the attack.

"Is this what a suicide attack looks like? No wonder he's Governor Sirocco."

The opponent continued to taunt, and Sirocco still wanted to take the opponent to hell.

However, in that moment of distraction, Shirou Amada, who was already prepared, had already rushed close by in his slashing Flying Tiger.

The ship-slaying sword in his hand had already been swung down.

With a premonition of impending death, Sirocco bravely blocked the attack.

"General."

Just as his attention was drawn to the Flying Tiger, the backpack-type Zaku approached from behind and launched five E-CAP magnetic anti-armor spiking mines—the magnetic surfaces on them had a very strong attraction effect on Gundam Nim alloy.

After several explosions, seven holes, each 5 meters deep and 60 centimeters in diameter, were dug at the location where the cross-shaped ironworks were magnetically attracted.

"Damn it, it's not over yet."

Seeing that the MA was severely damaged, Sirocco still wanted to activate the separation of the outer armor.

Amada Shirou had already rushed forward, and his ship-slaying sword cleaved the main body of the ship, Teo, in half at the waist.

The light on Theo's monitor slowly faded, and then it landed rather undignifiedly in the low gravity of the moon. Seeing that their commander's machine had been destroyed, the remaining Jupiter team still wanted to fight to the death through close combat.

It was a foolish choice, and under Christina's cautious control of long-range fire, it only resulted in even greater casualties.

Less than a third of the mass-produced ZZ were eventually forced to retreat, and Brigadier General Barnard relentlessly pursued the remnants until he reached the command post in Livermore City.

Although the New Federation's command center had been moved, they were unable to capture the enemy.

But this doesn't mean the raid was meaningless: the Livermore command center was completely destroyed and out of contact.

Brest was able to calmly concentrate his superior forces and completely overwhelm the leaderless New Federal Army in front of him.

The outcome is decided.

Livermore City has returned to the hands of the Allied forces.

Chapter 352 The New Human MS Army

The unicorns traveled along both sides of the main lunar road, and were still 3 kilometers away from reaching Von Braun.

Karma then received news of the victory from Barney.

"Well done, Barney," Karma muttered to herself after hearing the news.

The Jupiter Demon Lord, Sirocco, has been defeated.

They were not defeated by another new human or a "new type of human," but by ordinary people.

This proves that humans can defeat powerful new humans even without relying on brainwaves.

Although Karma knew that Barney was unlikely to be taken down by direct confrontation but rather by cunning—scheming itself is also part of strength.

There was good news, but bad news was also plentiful—the lunar capital, von Braun, was fast-forwarded by the Newtypes.

However, it's no wonder the lunar army didn't resist; they had done their best.

Kalmar slowly raised his head. Several kilometers away, more than 70 New Human standard-issue special machines were floating in the air, giving people an unprecedented sense of pressure from the sheer number of them—the intelligence had mentioned that the New Federation was developing the Titania series.

Based on the brainwave detector, they were all new humans of Grade A or above, and none of them had any similarities to each other, making them look like a fully armed army of mutants.

—If we look at this number ten years from now, it will probably increase tenfold. It will not only be more numerous but also more high-quality. Compared to other forces, it will be particularly “cheap” in terms of cost, and there will be no possibility of turning it against us (leaving aside some idealists, the average new human cannot refuse this privilege that comes with their birth).

However, it's far from being unmanageable yet.

"We meet again, Brigadier General Shiko." Karma greeted the blue-green mecha in front of her with her brainwaves.

"Kalma Zabi...you've become a cyborg?"

"More or less. You've gone from being the perfect victim to the perpetrator. Aren't you comfortable sitting on the moral high ground?"

In the past, Kalma might have felt apologetic, but now, no one can claim to have clean hands—almost every time the New Federation launches a war of aggression, Sugai Shiko is one of the most aggressive.

"I have nothing to say to the murderer who killed Miss Anna."

The blue-green commander charged directly at Karma's unicorn, and the other 70 units immediately followed suit.

Karma simply signaled to everyone to use kiting tactics to harass them first.

With just one explosive growth, the unicorns widened the gap between themselves and the Titanias.

They turned around and fired Magnum artillery, but none of the shots hit their mark—the weapon was fun, but it was only useful as a melee weapon against the Newtypes.

Meanwhile, the opposing mechs tried to catch up... but found that even with the accelerator floored, they couldn't keep up; the Unicorn held an absolute advantage in both energy and speed.

"If you're so capable, don't try to run away."

"If you're so capable, then catch up with us."

Shiko immediately ordered several of the white-painted Titanias to move forward, and discovered that the cyromaniac factor in the air had increased dramatically.

Karma knew what the other party wanted to do.

The 10 Unicorns were only frozen for less than a second before breaking free.

"Sirocco is truly incompetent! He actually left the secrets of the magic book system to the enemy."

Shiko also clearly discovered why they were able to crack it so quickly.

"Miss Shiko, what happened to you? Why are you like this today?"

At that moment, someone interrupted the communication.

"Amuro?" Shiko looked up and saw a white Gundam with a long-range hovering unit flying over the Unicorn.