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UC 0078, The Moon
In the pitch black of the moon, the light of a mono-eye shone in the darkness. To an observer in the distance it would've looked as if the light was disembodied, but upon closer observation, one would see a black Mobile Suit coming up from behind a ridge.
"It sure is dark…" Gaia said.
"Of course it's dark. It's nighttime on this side of the moon." Erika said over the comms. Their Zanzibar-Class ship, the Herja was remaining stationary some distance away.
"This is taking too long." Cima groaned,
"No jumping. We have plenty of time." Ramba chided her right as she began to activate her boosters.
"Remind me why we have to walk to Mare Smythii within twelve hours? We have the Herja for a reason." Mash asked,
"We can't afford to be detected. That's why," Ramba explained "And it's no five star hotel, but Ryan and our red friend is up ahead waiting for us with coffee."
"Char, you mean?" Cima asked,
"I swear, I can't stand that asshole." Gaia snorted
"I heard he's greener than Ryan. Got made an MS pilot with no training at all!" Mash told them.
"Must've sucked up to Dozle hard then." Ortega sneered
"I don't know about that. But he has talent nonetheless." Ramba said to them.
"Is our good Captain Ral going soft on us?" Cima teased.
"Gaia! Make them shut up!"
"Sorry, you'll have to grin and bear it. They're all worked up after all. Apparently this will be the first Mobile Suit battle in history after all."
Ryan and Char sat in their respective cockpits, with their MS facing each other. They both drank coffee,
"So you've been piloting the Zaku I for the past year?" Char asked
"Yeah, and the B type is vastly different from the original YMS. Better cooling, easier to use, etc." Ryan sipped his coffee.
"In your honest opinion, what good will this do?" He motioned to the Suits.
Adrian thought about the question, then spoke at last. "A lot of good. I've piloted even some of the earlier models, like the YMS-03 or MS-04, even saw the simulations and test flights for the EMS-04 Zudah. A single Bugu can decimate a cruiser like the Salamis class on it's own with no trouble. It has the firepower of a battleship and speed and agility greater than that of something like the FF-3."
"I've never heard of the Zudah." Char said at last,
"It was a failed bid from Zimmad. It was set to win the contract too until we discovered a fatal flaw in it's design."
"Really?" Char asked, "And that was?"
"The nuclear reactor is unstable. Push the engine too far and the whole thing goes boom."
"A moving bomb?"
"In essence, yes."
"Hey! Red! Adrian!" Gaia yelled at them, "Why aren't you where you're supposed to be?! And why haven't you sent up a beacon."
"I did. It's up your ass." Adrian responded curtly, resulting in hoots from Ramba and Cima, and snickers from the other two Tri-Stars.
"Anyway," Char interrupted, "We didn't send one because it would be seen by the enemy. After all, you managed to find us without it, didn't you?"
"Simmer down you three." Erika interrupted at last. "The rabbit is getting close."
"Alright! Rabbit hunting eh?!" Mash smiled,
Adrian moved first, leaping in front of the buggy, causing it to serve past Ramba's Bugu.
"Problem, you guys got company!" Erika said over the comms.
"What? Who is it?!"
"A single Dolos Class presumably equipped with mobile suits. And 6 FF-1F Hog fighters to boot."
"Shit," 'According to the data, a Dolos can equip itself with 12 MS. Me, Char, the Tri-Stars, Cima, and my father go for a total of seven.'
"The Herja will come to back you up, hold on until then!"
"Right!" Ramba said
The Hogs came first, a lone Hog circled around the battlefield, only to met an explosive end at the receiving end of Char's 176mm rifle.
Adrian switched to private comms with his father, "Dad. I have an idea."
"I'm all ears."
"The enemy will likely deploy their suits on that ridge over there-" He pointed the rifle at a ridge over looking the chase, "We should take some of our suits and flank them,"
"We could be spotted,"
"Then they'll be forced to split their forces between us. We have the upper hand when it comes to experience. Their Guncannons are designed for long-range combat and their strength lies in their range and numbers, our Zaku's are meant to act as a general purpose armored unit. I doubt a Guncannon can take a Zaku in one on one combat."
Ramba thought about it, then said: "I like your idea." He switched back to public comms, "Gaia! Mash! Ortega! On me! Cima! Char! Follow Ryan!"
"You guys have a plan?" Erika asked,
"More like Ryan does, but yes."
"Dolos Class in sight! So are the other 5 Hogs!"
"Damn!" Adrian ran straight for the ridge, and flattened himself against it. Char and Cima did the same soon after, right then, the Dolos dropped the RCX-76s some 100 feet away from them. Like he predicted, they began to approach the ridge...
"Enemy 500 meters! The doctors car is under assault!"
"Adjust firing alignment!"
"Targets 01 - 04! Range, 400 meters" Lt. Erdush ordered, "Fire!" The Guncannons lined up and fired one after the others, all of the shells impacting on and around Ramba and the Tri-Stars.
"Direct impact! target is-" The pilot was cut short as a solid black Zaku rocketted up, slamming his heat hawk into the Guncannon's crotch and cleaving it from the pelvis up as he jumped. The seperated pieces of guncannon exploded.
"What the?!" Another guncannon was destroyed by a hail of gunfire from a red Zaku.
'W-where'd they come from?! I thought there were only five?!' Erdush wondered incredulously.
Then the smoke from their first salvo cleared, and Ramba jumped up towards them, raining down on a RCX-76 with gunfire before landing. He then smashed the Guncannons sensor with the but of his rifle, and kneed it in the crotch before upperkicking it in the chin, causing it to fall down limp.
The Tri-Stars cleared the jump right after him, Mash laughed as he launched into the air and unleashed a hail of gunfire against a defenseless Guncannon, the bullets smashed through it's cockpit and chest before it exploded.
The Guncannons desperately began shooting at the Zaku's, but from behind, Gaia and Cima slid behind them. Cima sliced a Guncannon's head clean off and kicked it down, Gaia chose a less fancy manuever, "Your ass is mine!" He shouted as he fired his Bazooka directly into the unaware Guncannon, blowing it's limbs in seperate directions.
Ortega slid in front of another Guncannon, and poured bullet after bullet into it until it exploded.
Char ran straight at a Guncannon and cut it in two, before swinging the axe around directly into another Cannon's cockpit and cut it in half.
"Let's show them what real MS can do!" Ramba yelled, then noticed that the Doctor's car was beginning to escape.
"No you don't!" Ramba began to chase the buggy, it drove towards and past two missile-configured Guncannons. They fired their rockets at Ramba, who deftly dodged them all and shot off a wheel from the buggy, and it flipped on it's side, taking out the other two tires that remained on it's left side.
Dolos
"Captain! They'll be wiped out!"
"Shit!" The captain swore, "Recover them! Recover them and retreat!"
Suddenly, a Mega-Particle beam sailed right in front of them,
"What?!" The captain stood up,
"Its...a Zanzibar Class sir! It's shooting at us!"
"Aim all machine guns! Hurry!
ZSAF Herja
"Captain Erika, Dolos-Class is turning it's machine guns towards us."
"Charge Mega Particle guns. Lay down covering fire with our AA guns."
"Yes ma'am."
Erika sat down, 'It's over feddies.' She smirked.
"Mega Particle guns charged!"
Erika sighed, 'May you rest in Valhalla.'
"Fire."
Dolos
"Sir! Mega-Particle guns on the Zanzibar are preparing to fire!"
"Evade! Evade!"
"Too late!" A man screamed right as a beam evaporated the bridge of the Dolos-Class.
Two more beams ripped straight through it's hall,
Herja
"Dolos-Class heavily damaged but still afloat."
"Recharge the Mega-Particle Guns, aim for the engines!"
"Yes ma'am!" The Mega-Particle Guns fired again, tearing through the engine and hull Dolos-Class crashed and exploded as a chain reaction of munitions, electronics, and fuel all exploded and ripped the ship apart from the inside.
The Zanzibar turned towards the two remaining missile Guncannons. "01st Mobile Assault Team, clear the area!" The team scattered right as the Zanzibar layed waste to the two missile-equipped Guncannons.
"Hey Gaia! Why don't we try the Jet-Stream?" Mash asked
"Intresting! Alright!" Gaia agreed, throwing his bazooka he shoulder-bashed it's cockpit. Immediately after Mash appeared behind him, using Gaia as a springboard, he launched his mobile suit upwards and fired at the Guncannon, vaporizing it.
Adrian grabbed a Guncannon and slammed it into the ground before pumping it full with bullets. It exploded as he stepped off it.
Erdush climbed out of his Guncannon, 'No...way.' He thought in amazement, he watched as one of the missile equipped Guncannons was sliced in half by Char. "We...should've won...we had numbers...we had...everything!"
Meanwhile, Dr. Minovsky was helped out by a Federation agent, right on the path of a fleeing Guncannon that was running from Gaia.
"Gaia! Leave that one alone!"
Gaia ignored him and continued chasing the mobile suit, meanwhile, unknown to any of them, the Guncannon that Ramba first attack was miraculously still operational, and was beginning to stand,
"Don't do it!" Ramba screamed,
Several things happened, the Guncannon aimed it's final shot, right at Gaia's cockpit..
Adrian felt a shock reverberate through his body, and knew that the Guncannon was still active.
Gaia prepared to finish the other Guncannon off.
"Gaia! Look out!" Adrian pushed Gaia back and took the shot on his shield, and immediately threw it into the cockpit of the Guncannon, finally finishing it off as it exploded.
"How the...why did…"
"We're comrades." Adrian panted, "You probably would've done the same, besides, too many people I prize are dead or gone."
"Don't go getting soft on me kid." Gaia chuckled
Char, meanwhile, said nothing, but overlooked the destruction they caused.
Felsin Headquarters, Lunar City of Von Braun
"It was a shutdown ma'am. Zeonic's mobile suits wiped the RCX-75 out 12 - 0." An assistant to Katherine Felsin, CEO of the Felsin Defense Contracting company walked beside her, "Investors will pull out. Our stock will plumet, our value will probably tank below 1 billion."
"I see…"
"Our only way out of this is to-"
"No, I've told you. I'm not giving in to those Anaheim bastards. I'll rather be bought out by Zeonic or - god forbid - even Zimmad."
"Zeonic and Zimmad are blatantly siding with the Federation. And neither showed any interest in acquiring us."
"And am I supposed to just turn our thousands of employees over to the horrible conditions of Anaheim?"
"Wages have been cut almost 20% since 0076 and are only falling further. We need this merger."
"No, means no. Tell them that." Katherine said with finality, 'Felsin may be doomed, but I won't let those greedy assholes at Anaheim have their way with my families company…'
Nijmegen
"Here we are at what's now being dubbed the Battle of Mare Smythii, or the Mare Smythii tragedy. We can see the remains of Federation tanks…"
Rosary and her new roommate, Cadet Bright Noa watched the screen with a mix of curiosity and worry. This kind of thing was the prelude for war, and both of them here knew it.
"The Guncannon was a complete flop by Felsin." Bright analyzed, ever since Arleen graduated, Bright had been her roommate for her final year "How can we expect to beat Zeon if that's what we're going up with?"
Rosary said nothing, but stood up and almost slipped as she stepped on a notebook.
A notebook which should've been in her bag.
"Hey...uh Bright. Did you leave this out here by any chance?"
"No. You had it, don't you remember?"
"No, I didn't."
"Yes, you did." Bright looked at her, "You were hunched over it like it was your baby last night, remember?"
"No way. I don't remember that." She picked up the handbook, and opened it and almost dropped it out of fear as she read what's inside.
The knight and his steed
A valkyrie and her gold
Woe unto they
Who repeat a tale so old
A star born in fire
Cries for Gaia
A white devil's plight
Ends in a fight
The light of a miracle
Makes hearts cry out
As a legend draws to a close
A new era comes about
"What the fuck?" Rosary wondered. 'It's my hand-writing...but I don't remember this...at all!'
The Battle of Mare Smythii
Combatants:
Zeon Space Defense Forces
1x Zanzibar-Class Carrier
7x MS-05A Zaku I
Earth Federation Forces
1x Dolos-Class Carrier
6x FF-1F Hog Defense Craft
12x RCX-76 Guncannon First Type (Rollout Unit 1)
Casualties:
Earth Federation Forces
12x RCX-76 Guncannon First Type
1x FF-1F Hog Defense Craft
1x Dolos-Class Carrier
UC 0078, October 18th: Ryan Sahalin is promoted from Ensign to Junior Lieutanant for his role in the battle of Mare Smythii
UC 0078, October 19th: Char Aznable receives a promotion from Private to Junior Sergeant
UC 0078, October 20th: Dr. Torenov Y Minovsky was placed under house arrest.
UC 0078, October 24th: The Autonomous Republic of Zeon officially becomes the Principality of Zeon
Simultaneously declares total independence from the Earth Federation.
Gihren Zabi becomes the official Supreme Commander of Zeon.
UC 0078, October 27th: The Riah Republic declares neutrality
UC 0078, October 30th: Zeon begins full-scale mobilization
UC 0078, November 1st: The Earth Federation begins full scale mobilization
UC 0078, November 5th: Kycilia Zabi is promoted to Rear Admiral
Garma Zabi is promoted to Captain
Dozle Zabi is promoted to Grand Admiral
UC 0078, November 10th: MS-06A Zaku II enters mass-production along with the Chivvay II class.
UC 0078, November 11th: The standard Musai Class enters mass-production
UC 0079, January 1st: Earth Federation forces clash once more with Zeon forces on the moon. A trio of Musai Early Production Types are engaged by a lone Magellan Class. Two Musai's are destroyed, with a third escaping with heavy damage.
UC 0079, January 2nd: The MS-06C Zaku II enters mass-production, making the tenure of the MS-06A extremely brief, with only approximately 400 units being produced.
UC 0079, Jaunary 3rd: The Principality of Zeon officially declares war on the Earth Federation.
The One Year War begins.