The Gundam Wars

Chapter 2

The Battle of Middleton

While they were heading to battle, Ron found the time to ask the squad leader a question. "Hey, Lieutenant, you have any idea why the enemy would attack this back water base?"

"My guess is that they are really after the Middleton Space Center, since it provides supplies to our boys in space, which is why we can't let them get near here. Alright, pal let's get to work." Despite not trusting Josh Manky back in high school Ron became good friends with him in boot camp. They, as well as Monique and Tara were surprised that their drill instructor was their old vice principal Barkin. "Ron, contact base Intel, see what we're up against."

"Yes, sir," Ron did as he was ordered.

"Hey, Sally, you mind telling us how many guys we have to fight?"

"Well, radar and GPS scanning shows about fifty mobile suits. We've identified eighteen Ginns, seven Bucues, thirteen Dinns, eleven Zuoot and one Cgue," Sally told him.

"That's more than twice what we got!" Ron exclaimed. The Middleton base only had ten Leos, six Aries, and four Tragos. This was going to be a tough fight. Just then Ron got another call from Sally.

"Thirteen enemy mobile suits are heading toward the southeast flank. Manky team move to intercept them," Sally said.

"Roger that," Josh replied. They headed toward the southwest and came face to face with the enemy units. This team consisted of eight Ginns, two Dinns, two Bucues and the Cgue.

"Alright, Manky team, open fire." And they began the barrage. Before the enemy saw them they took out six suits. Monique in her Aries took to the air and engaged the two Dinns. While the rest of the team continued using their machine guns, or in the case of Josh, beam rifles and beam cannons. Despite the immense numbers Ron and his colleagues were holding their own. Then one of the Bucues was heading towards Tara's mobile suit with its beam sabers ignited. Tara could tell this pilot was good because he was skillfully dodging her fire. But Tara had an idea. She began shooting at the ground in front of her, creating a cloud of dust. When the Bucue passed through the cloud its pilot learned that Tara's Leo was gone. He looked around, but suddenly his Bucue came under fire from above. The colonial soldier realized that his enemy had used the Leo's jump jets to get into the air while hiding behind the cloud, right before his Bucue exploded.

The other Bucue was heading towards Josh's Leo cannon and was doing a good job at avoiding Josh's shots. Josh then fired his cannons taking out the Bucue. Ron meanwhile had taken down another Ginn. He then checked his monitor and saw that Monique had taken out the two Dinns. He was going to congratulate her over the comm. link when his warning alarm sounded. A Ginn was heading towards him with its sword in hand. Ron reacted fast enough to stop the sword before it hit. However, his alarm went off again, it detected a Ginn ready to launch its leg mounted missile launchers. When a missile was fired Ron turned around so the Ginn he was grasping by the wrist was in front of him when it exploded.

"I got him! I got him!" said the Ginn pilot right before his suit was hit by fire coming from the smoke cloud. The smoke cleared revealing Ron's Leo to be completely intact. Ron then looked at the two destroyed Ginns.

"Sorry 'bout that boys, but this is war!" he told the now deceased pilots. Despite his calm tone, Ron still had a heavy heart he still hadn't gotten used to killing and he hoped he never would. With that he resumed the battle.

Scene cut: North Africa

Malcos pilot, Kim Possible was in the cafeteria of the new Ethiopian base, the Colonial forces captured just the other day. She then noticed that several soldiers including her team were looking at the big screen T.V. She decided to have a look.

"What's going on?" she asked.

"There's a big battle in our home town, going on right now," her old high school rival and now wing mate Bonnie Rockwaller replied.

"Oh, do you think Middleton will be O.K.?" Kim said; hiding the fact she was worried about Ron.

"Don't worry Kimmie Cub, the battle hasn't spread beyond the base and besides our forces are losing, despite their superior numbers," said Norris Packard. Norris was the eldest pilot and commander of the mobile suit team Kim was assigned to. He was also a close friend of both the Possibles and the Stoppables, which is why he was the only person besides Kim's dad that called her Kimmie Cub. Kim considered Norris a second father, but she didn't tell him that.

"Yeah, let me tell you there are some pretty impressive people in Middleton," Norris continued. Those made Kim think of something.

"Ah, Norris, you don't think Ron is…," Norris cut her off before she could finish.

"Come on Kim, Ronald in a mobile suit? Ha! Hahuhm!" Norris chuckled a bit.

"Thanks, Norris."

Scene cut: Middleton Base

After half an hour of fighting, the Manky team had wiped out most of the enemy unit they had intercepted. Ron was currently firing on the one remaining mobile suit.

"Since the Cgue is used mainly by ace pilots and commanders I'm guessing you must be in charge of this operation," Ron said more to himself than to the Cgue pilot. Ron kept firing until something he didn't expect happened.

"Rats, what a time to run out of ammo!" Ron exclaimed about his predicament. Seeing no other options Ron removed his beam saber from the shield on his arm. Being carful of his movements, Ron got close enough to use the saber. Using it he successfully got rid of both the Cgue's machine gun and its Vulcan shield.

"Looks like we're both out of fire power buddy!" realizing his predicament the Cgue grabbed his sword, and lunged at Ron's suit. Ron was able to parry it. The Cgue then tried attacking from the left but Ron blocked it with his shield. They went at it for a few minutes until finally the Cgue took a swipe to Ron's right, but he ducked and stuck the saber into the Cgue's cockpit. With that the Cgue exploded.

"Nice job, Ron," said Tara as she and Josh joined Ron.

"Yeah with the commander gone, the enemy will be in disarray," Monique said while she was landing her Aries.

"Alright team the battle is still going on. So let's get back to work and help out our comrades," Josh told his team.

"Sir, yes sir," they all said simultaneously. With that they went to the other side to aid the Rigor unit. An hour and a half after the battle began it finally ended. After all the enemy mobile suits had been destroyed, Ron and his pals could finally catch their breath.

"Not bad for our first battle," Ron told his teammates.

"Yeah, but we suffered as well," Josh replied. The federal forces had lost eight mobile suits and their pilots, as well as twenty-two other soldiers.

"Uh, man, is this was going to end any time soon?" Monique cried out.

"Don't think so, Monique. From what I can tell things are probably going to get worse," Tara told her. Just then they all got a call on their communications screen. It was Corporal Majors, she was looking very happy.

"Congratulations Manky team, you've been granted twelve hours of R. & R."

"Thank you Corporal. We're gonna need it, "Lt. Manky replied.

"Alright team, let's hit the sack," he continued. However, nine hours of resting later, Sally's voice made an announcement on the intercom.

"Manky team, report to Captain Burnings office. Repeat. Report to Captain Burning's office.

"I wonder what the Captain wants with us. We still got three hours of R. & R. left," Monique exclaimed.

"Do you think we did something wrong?" Ron asked.

"Perhaps, or maybe he wants to congratulate us on our performance in the battle," Josh countered.

"We won't know until we see Burning," Tara told her friends. With that they headed to Captain Burning's office.

"Ahh, Lt. Manky, I must say. I'm impressed with the skills your team displayed during the attack today," the Captain told him.

"Score one for the L.T., "Monique whispered.

"Tell me how on Earth you all got so good at piloting mobile suits?" the Captain continued.

"Well sir, our drill instructor was really strict and really, really tough and demanded that we put our machines to their full potential," Ron answered. He couldn't remember the last time he was thankful to Barkin.

"Well he sure did a good job teaching you Sergeant Stoppable."

"We all take your praise deeply sir. Oh wait…Sergeant?" Ron said remembering he was only a Corporal.

"That's right Stoppable, you've all been promoted one r rank," the Captain explained to their shocked faces. Josh eventually regained his composure.

"We all thank you for the promotion, sir."

"It's not my idea it's from the top brass. But I must admit it was an honor to be your commanding officer," Burning told them. This caught them all off guard.

"What do you mean was sir?" Monique asked.

"I sent the details of the battle to high command. They were impressed, which is why you're being transferred to a new unit. A transport will be sent here to pick you up in the morning," Burning explained.

"Uh, sir, what unit are we being transferred to?" the now Lt. Commander Josh Manky asked.

"Don't know, they didn't tell me"

"In that case, sir, we'll return to our quarters and await pick up. It was an honor to serve you sir." Josh responded. With that they saluted and returned to their barracks.

Authors notes:

1.I'm sorry for giving any descriptions. For those of you who are not gundam fans, go to .

2.I forgot to say this earlier, but this my first fanfic.