Hello everyone and I have returned with Chapter 2 of "Zeta Fighters". Thank you guys for your early support and reviews for this crossover story between Zeta and Build Fighters. After being unknowingly sent to UC Earth by Adam Winslow's ZERO System, Sekai and his friends showed up to New Hong Kong where they begin their "armed intervention" on the Psycho Gundam, believing it's a simulation while catching attention of Kamille, Amuro and Karaba.
Response to the Guest review(s):
Guest: It's okay and I'm glad you liked this story and also "Meister of Your Future Chronicles" too as well. And yes, it's a Take That! jab at Chronicle Bringer as he had escaped to the 00 universe so he can have a fresh start, not surrendering to the Gunpla Police and spending time in prison for his crimes as an ex-Gunpla Mafia hitman.
Lol, indeed. Mr. Ral has learned his lesson and won't do it again behind Mrs. Hamon's back.
Yeah, the love triangle is a thing in Gundam franchise in a nutshell, and Sekai did use a sword when in Gunpla battle such as when he used the Heat Blade of a Dom (a Build Burning Gundam in disguise in Episode 1 of Build Fighters Try) Gunpla, and later manifested a flaming sword against Wilfrid Kijima during the final match of Gunpla Battle Tournament.
So his Build Burning Gundam having Exia's signature weapon works well for him and it will come in handy in battle.
MrBrute: Take a chill pill, dude and there is no need to get openly aggressive with other reviewers expressing their ideas and suggestions as if it offended you on a personal level. Besides, I have my own plans for this crossover story and I can choose to consider if it will fit into it or not.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Zeta and Gundam Build Fighters series. They both belong to Sunrise and Yoshiyuki Tomino.
Enjoy and don't forget to review. :D
Chapter 2
At New Hong Kong City, UC Earth
After pushing back the Psycho Gundam in its gigantic mobile suit form with a Dynamic Entry-style kick, Sekai Kamiki landed his Build Burning Gundam on the ground in the middle of the abandoned streets of New Hong Kong, cracking the surface. He directed the controls for his mobile suit to make a martial arts stance with the unfolding of Exia's GN Sword towards the gigantic black and red machine and his GN Drive is humming with potent blue particles.
"Your opponent is me!", he yelled, charging at full speed towards the Psycho Gundam to slash at it.
Gritting her teeth and fighting off the headaches she suffered, Four Murasame sensed something really strange and dangerous from the unknown Gundam-Type machine's blade with her Cyber Newtype powers. That includes the strange blue particles emitting from its back and the Titans Second Lieutenant is not taking that chance. She controlled her Psycho Gundam's cockpit joysticks to activate its large rocket propulsion thrusters and evaded the hostile mobile suit's bladed attack by flying up in the air.
"I don't know who you are but since you attacked me... you must be my enemy! Die!", the female Titans pilot yelled and fired her Psycho Gundam's Diffuse Mega Particle Cannons at the enemy below her.
In response, Sekai lunged his Build Burning Gundam in the air, facing Four's powerful beam attack head on and threw a powerful straight punch imbued with blue particles and green waves of light through its left forearm. "Jigen Haō-Ryū:... Shippū-Zuki!"
His powerful attack punched through the Diffuse Mega Particle Cannons' destructive blast, disintegrating them away which caused a huge shockwave of wind and particles across the city of New Hong Kong. Several buildings' glass windows were all shattered and blown away all at once, knocking around and injuring numerous civilians caught in the radius of the attack. After breaking through the Psycho Gundam's blast, the Build Burning Gundam charged towards the gigantic Titans mobile suit but the latter sidestepped away to the right with its rocket thrusters from its punching range.
However, Sekai immediately turned his Gundam around and shouted, "Jigen Haō-Ryū:... Senkō Majutsu-Geri!"
His GN Drive-powered mobile suit struck the Psycho Gundam in the chest with a diving kick, followed by a particle booster-assisted knee strike using the other leg! Four screamed as her gigantic machine was sent flying down into the ground hard and it caused a massive crater that brought down a lot of buildings around her, sending unlucky civilians still around on the streets flying.
Even Kamille Bidan flew out of the way with his Gundam Mark II and saw the aftermath of the destruction.
"Hey, watch it! There are people living in the city!", the AEUG pilot yelled at the newcomer's Gundam with a blade after his cockpit's visual showed him several people trying to get out of the compromised buildings with their wounded.
Suddenly, Kamille saw the Psycho Gundam slowly getting up from the crater albeit it seemed to have suffered a major damage on the chest inflicted by the unknown Gundam-Type machine despite its Gundarium Alloy for some reason. Seizing the opportunity before him, he brandished a beam saber of the Gundam Mark II from the backpack and jumped high in the air.
"Take this!", he shouted as he swung down his weapon at the Titans mobile suit.
But Four brought up her Psycho Gundam's Anti-Beam Barrier in time after sensing an enemy attack and protected herself from Kamille's beam saber slash with the raising of her machine's right arm. Then she backhanded the Gundam Mark II away, sending it flying. Although Kamille regained balance mid-air and flew to get out of the way of the gigantic red and black machine's stomach particle cannons firing at him.
Suddenly, a dark blue Gundam-Type mobile suit with purple particles emitting from 3 reactors on the back and backpack appeared after it instantly transformed from its fighter to mobile suit form. Then the said machine landed on the ground in front of the Psycho Gundam's blast and fired its own two huge blasts of purple energy. The attacks clashed with each other briefly before they detonated in a massive particle explosion, further causing more destruction of the surrounding area.
Four sneered after her attack was thwarted by a new machine that has the similar particle propulsion just like the one with the blade, "Another Gundam? No matter, you're nothing to me!"
"Yuuma! You made it!", Sekai shouted to his fellow Try Fighter as his Build Burning Gundam floated down next to him.
Pushing up his glasses, Yuuma Kousaka stated while checking out stats of his Lightning Raphael Gundam's three solar reactors after firing his twin GN Big Cannons' blasts. "Can't let you have all the fun, Sekai."
"Where's Senpai and Shia?", the redhead martial artist asked.
"They're catching up when we went ahead here. Let's play around with the Psycho Gundam for a while until they get here. I want to test more of Lightning Raphael's performance against it.", the bespectacled Gunpla Builder explained.
"Alright then, let's do this!", Sekai agreed with his friendly rival in the Try Fighters.
Together as one, the two mobile suits with solar reactors engaged the gigantic machine who raised both of its Beam Cannon fingers and unleashed a powerful area-of-effect beam barrages at them, devastating more of New Hong Kong in the process. The Build Burning Gundam raised its GN Blade to rapidly slash in several directions, deflecting the enemy's beam blasts away while the Lightning Raphael Gundam fired the GN Big Cannons to intercept the attacks with its purple particle beam blasts, hitting them in mid-air.
Unfortunately, this caused more collateral damage as a result of the parry and deflect manuever by Sekai and Yuuma.
"That's not how you fight it! You'll never defeat it that way!", Amuro Ray angrily called out after witnessing the reckless destruction in the battle between Gundams in the city but it seemed that he was completely ignored.
Not to mention, the pilots of these unknown Gundams. They're kids! Just like me in the past but way too reckless and ignorant! Do they even know what they have done?! Playing around with the enemy?! It's like as if it's a game to them!, he thought after hearing the newcomers' voices and witnessing the civilians' suffering of being caught in the crossfire.
The former RX-78-2 Gundam pilot had also deduced that the two boys were at Katz Kobayashi's age judging from the tone of their voices. I hope Char would teach Katz to not be this reckless in proper mobile suit training after returning to space with the AEUG!, he internally noted while taking cover with Stephanie Luio to avoid getting hit by the beam attacks striking the remaining buildings.
Kamille joined in the attack, shooting his Gundam Mark II's Beam Rifle at the Psycho Gundam, distracting it to get hit on the right shoulder by the dark blue Gundam-Type's beam blast from a bazooka-type weapon. The shoulder suffered extensive damage with its pad broken into pieces, which it shocked Four that her Anti-Beam Barrier was like shredded paper to whatever new kind of beam weaponry her new enemy possessed.
"No! Impossible!", the Cyber Newtype said with her eyes widened and cold sweat formed on her face, fearful of this new enemy and their deadly capabilities.
This was enough for Sekai to charge towards her at full speed while she was distracted.
"Jigen Haō-Ryū:... Ryugeki!", the redhaired martial artist shouted as his Build Burning Gundam closed in and landed a short-ranged, downward strike on his opponent's left shoulder with the GN Blade.
The said weapon enhanced by GN Particles had sliced through the Psycho Gundam's Gundarium Alloy like a hot knife through butter!
"Holy crap! What kind of blade is that?!", Kamille remarked upon seeing the results before his eyes.
After being severed, the left arm of the Psycho Gundam fell into the ground with a mighty thud that cracked the streets of New Hong Kong. Glancing at her machine's decapitated arm, Four snarled at the red and white Gundam with a blade standing in front of her. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!", she angrily shouted before moving her Psycho Gundam's feet to punt the Build Burning Gundam, sending it flying through several buildings.
The said buildings instantly collapsed like a house of fragile cards.
"Gaaaaaaaah!", Sekai shouted as he felt his machine getting thrown like that and it felt way too real for an experimental simulation made by Adam Winslow.
"Sekai!", Yuuma shouted as he turned to the direction where his fellow Try Fighter got punted away.
Activating the Psycho Gundam's rocket propulsions, the Titans Second Lieutenant charged her gigantic mobile suit and throw a punch at the Lightning Raphael Gundam with its remaining arm. But the Gunpla Builder dodged out of the way and flew to where Sekai landed, leaving behind Kamille to take over and try to press on the advantage after seeing the Psycho Gundam being damaged.
"Who developed such those incredible machines?", Stephanie Luio questioned after seeing the two being able to damage the Titans' mobile suit. Even though she did acknowledge that the Psycho Gundam was no pushover either after seeing it kick away the red and white machine with a blade.
"It's not from the Regular Federation Forces or the Titans obviously since they attacked the giant Gundam.", Amuro noted in observation. "Probably one of the anti-Federation rebel groups that might have business with Anaheim or something."
The older blonde woman nodded in agreement, "I see. That makes sense."
The former RX-78-2 Gundam pilot stated, "Yeah, we will ask Hayato about that when this is over. Come on, let's head for the Audhumla!"
Gripping his fists as he and Stephanie ran off to the Audhumla to safety so they won't caught in the middle of the raging battle, Amuro doesn't know the name of this new anti-Federation rebel group that opposed the Titans and recruited and brainwashed the poor child pilots into thinking and acting this way...
But he's going to find them and beat the crap out of them.
On the other hand, few of the blue-colored Hi-Zacks, whose pilots are ordered to scout and survey the battlefield in New Hong Kong from a far distance, witnessed the battle and relayed their report to the Sudori.
-O-
Meanwhile at the the Garuda-class Sudori somewhere nearby the airspace of New Hong Kong
"Captain Wooder, our Hi-Zack scouts have reported that the Psycho Gundam is currently engaging two more enemy mobile suits in New Hong Kong! They're Gundam-Types!", a Titans subordinate informed his superior officer at the bridge of the Titans' Garuda-class airship.
Ben Wooder was shocked with his eyes widened upon learning it. "What?! Gundam-Types! Were they the Mark II units stolen by the AEUG?", he demanded, having known of the theft of the Gundam Mark II at the Green Noa 1 space colony in the Titans' reports.
Showing him visual through the Hi-Zacks' cameras sent to him that showed the battle between mobile suits in New Hong Kong where the Psycho Gundam is on the losing side of the battle, the Titans member shook his head. "No, sir. They seemed different with beam weapons more advanced than anything we've had seen. And it looked like they used Minovsky Particles as a propulsion to fly.", he said.
Using Minovsky Particles as propulsion? That sounded like they're experimental prototypes. Could Anaheim be behind this?... No. Highly unlikely but if they were, they would have given such machines to the Earth Federation or even the AEUG already by now. Those greedy corporate bastards would sell their advanced mobile suits to any organization so long there's profit to fill up their bottomless pockets..., the man with fading brown hair thought before issuing out orders.
He declared with a wave of his hand, "Mobilize a squad of Hi-Zacks immediately! Back up Second Lieutenant Four Murasame and wipe out anyone that stands in the Titans' way!"
"Yes sir!", his subordinate obeyed and called out to the Titans pilot squad to get into their mobile suits and deploy.
The Hi-Zacks flew out of the back of the Sudori with the Base Jabbers to fly towards New Hong Kong at full rocket speed.
Namicar Cornell frowned at seeing the footage of the Psycho Gundam being toyed with by two unknown enemies as if the gigantic mobile armor was not much of a threat to them despite its fearsome firepower and strength. "Who are these pilots? Are they underestimating the Psycho Gundam and its Cyber Newtype pilot?", the chief instructor of the Murasame Institute wondered.
Although she was pleased and somewhat amused that the new opponents of Four had paid for their arrogance with the red and white Gundam that wielded a large blade getting kicked by the Psycho Gundam into several buildings in the visual.
"Whoever they are, they are now enemies of the Titans and the Earth Federation.", said sternly the former second-in-command of deceased Major Buran Blutarch.
Although, Ben Wooder couldn't deny that visual showing the large red and black machine punting the enemy mobile suit in a pedestrian way like a petty adult would do to a toddler was indeed funny.
-O-
Back at the battle in New Hong Kong
Reaching towards the heavily damaged tall building where the Build Burning Gundam had crashed landed and laid its back on there, Yuuma called out to his friend/rival in concern. "Sekai, are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks Yuuma!", Sekai reassured as he tried to move his machine back on its feet albeit slowly for some reason. "Man, it felt too real. I didn't expect to feel that kick from the Psycho Gundam!"
The bespectacled teen mused with a mischievous glint from his eyes as the Lightning Raphael Gundam helped its fellow GN Drive-powered mobile suit up, "Punted by a Psycho Gundam. That's worse than getting "The Char Kick". I can imagine what happens if I tell the others about this when this is over."
He added, "Maybe I should call it... "The Psycho Punt" for this."
"Please don't tell Senpai and Shia about it! They'll never live it down!", the redhead martial artist begged with pleading eyes after stabilizing the Build Burning Gundam's balance.
"Sure, but you owe me a favor after this.", Yuuma coolly shrugged while he thought with a lovey dovey inner expression. A favor to convince Mirai Kamiki to go on a date with me when Adam Winslow's experimental simulation campaign is over! It's gonna be the best day of my entire life!
Sekai nodded with grateful expression, "Okay, thanks, Yuuma! You're the best!"
Activating Build Burning Gundam's GN Drive, Sekai flew off to return to the battlefield and pay the Psycho Gundam back for punting him across the city. On the other hand, Yuuma is about to follow him but overheard cries of wounded and traumatized civilians of New Hong Kong through his cockpit's visuals shown to him. The simulation is way too realistic. So much blood and dead people that weren't even shown in Episode 17 of Zeta show despite Tomino's tendency to show why war is horrible despite the appeal of mobile suits and their battles in the show., he thought.
Engineer Winslow really wanted to make his ZERO System look as real and authentic as possible. How disturbing and sick of him to do that..., he believed before flying out his Lightning Raphael Gundam and tried not to think too hard on the dying civilians.
Meanwhile, Kamille kept up the assault against the damaged Psycho Gundam by firing more blasts from his Beam Rifle in the sky but unlike the two unknown Gundam-Types, his attacks were ineffective. Four fired her machine's Diffuse Mega Particle Cannons at the Gundam Mark II, which blew up its physical shield when the AEUG pilot tried to block it from hitting him.
Pointing her thumb at herself, the Cyber Newtype pilot mocked with her confidence returning after the two new enemies were not around to back up Kamille anymore. "Hahahahahahaha! So much for mobile suits! So much for the Gundams! They're nothing but a joke! Toys to trash!"
"How's this for a toy then?! WINNING... BEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMM!", a voice of a young teenage girl loudly retorted which got the attention of Four and also Kamille as well.
The Psycho Gundam turned around to see a massive W-shaped beam attack made of yellow particles heading towards its way and Four tried to dodge it to the right in response. But it was too fast for Four and the Winning Beam blasted through the right side of the gigantic machine! The right arm and leg had been vaporized by the yellow particle beam and the Psycho Gundam collapsed into the ground disabled.
After passing through the enemy machine, the Winning Beam pierced through the buildings of New Hong Kong before it dissipated away.
Four got knocked out from the hard impact even as her cockpit's alarm sounds rang loudly to her eyes. "No, it can't be... true... They're... only toys... No... I must... complete the mission... and regain... my memories...", she muttered before her weakened consciousness left with darkness overtaking her.
Kamille could not believe his eyes as the Psycho Gundam had been taken down and it laid damaged in the middle of New Hong Kong's ruins but remained relatively intact. Thank God that the mobile armor did not explode after it was defeated. And I really need to get some of those new armor-piercing beam weapons they have!, the green haired young man thought before he saw two more of the unknown Gundam-Types but they have feminine shapes and possessed yellow and green particles respectively for propulsion.
"Wow, that was overkill, Fumina. Not to mention impressive that it's way stronger than your previous Winning Beam.", the other voice of a graceful sounding young teenage girl remarked from the green mobile suit.
"What? Four Murasame was asking for it, Shia! Besides, she is gonna have a headache in the morning when she wakes up.", the one named Fumina defended herself as her yellow mobile suit did the shrug.
Four Murasame? That's the name of the Titans pilot?, Kamille raised an eyebrow upon overhearing it and decided to get their attention. "Hey! Whoever you guys are, thanks for the help!", he shouted, hoping to get their response.
What puzzled the AEUG pilot is that when he saw one of the two unknown Gundams acting surprised that he was talking to them and acted as if he is like a ghost to them. I wonder what they're talking about in their private channel?, Kamille thought with narrowed eyes upon observing how their machines looked at each other before angrily calling out through his mobile suit's speaker. "That's very rude of you two to talk to each other as if I'm not here!"
Shocked that how very responsive and human-like the main character of Gundam Zeta show was in Winslow's experimental simulation, Fumina Hoshino awkwardly responded, "Um, yeah... We're sorry about that. Kamille Bidan of the AEUG, right?"
"Yup, that's me. But... how did you know my name? I never told you my name.", Kamille suspiciously wondered with narrowed eyes as he was not that famous and well-known compared to the likes of Amuro Ray and Char Aznable who is under alias of Quattro Bajeena in the AEUG.
Shia Kijima stepped in as she explained to him in a half-lying manner, "You're that guy who stole the Gundam Mark II from the Titans and fought against them with it. Despite the Titans' attempts to suppress the truth with their lies, your name and actions had reached to the Colonies and Earth, Mr. Kamille."
The green haired young man nodded in agreement that it was technically true and it gave him quite a confidence boost from the sincere compliment, "I see. And thanks. Who are you guys and what group were you from?"
Just when the white haired Celestial Sphere member was about to answer, Sekai showed up as his red and white Gundam flew up to the two female-shaped mobile suits. "Senpai, Shia! You showed up!", he said before noticing the defeated remains of the Psycho Gundam and comically lamented. "Oh man! I missed it! No fair, Senpai!"
"Maybe next time, Sekai.", Fumina reassured her crush before asking. "Although where have you been?"
Yuuma appeared as his Lightning Raphael Gundam flew next to the Build Burning Gundam. "The Psycho Gundam was tougher than it looked, Fumina. Four Murasame was not someone to be underestimated despite her... attitude adjustment problem.", he explained as he pushed up his glasses.
True to his word, he kept the truth so long Sekai will fulfill the favor he owed him and the redhaired martial artist sighed in relief, thanking his fellow Gunpla Battle player for covering him from embarrassment.
Unfortunately, this didn't last long as Kamille had to rain on their parade albeit unintentionally. "That's true. This "Psycho Gundam", you called it, kicked your friend through the city's buildings and your other friend had to check out if he was alright.", he honestly said, shocking Yuuma and Sekai in the process.
The two male members of Try Fighters jaw dropped that their cover story was blown because of the main protagonist of Gundam Zeta show opening his mouth. While Fumina and Shia looked at each other through the heads of their Star Winning Gundam and G-Portent respectively, and the girls laughed together as they found it hilarious.
They're laughing? Their comrade was kicked through the buildings of New Hong Kong and they're laughing?, the pilot of the Gundam Mark II incredulously thought at their apparent lack of empathy and concern.
"Why did you do that for?! Not cool!", Sekai comically shouted at him.
Yuuma overdramatically lamented, "Nooooo! My plans for dating Mirai Kamiki are gone. Reduced to ashes!"
What a dysfunctional bunch of Gundam pilots... Their chain of command must be way too lax compared to the AEUG!, Kamille thought as he rolled his eyes at the peanut gallery scene before him.
Suddenly, their cockpit sensors alarmed the Gunpla Battle players that there are new contacts and they looked up to see two Nemos with beam rifles riding on Dodai Kai aircraft in the sky. And those said mobile suits were observing the aftermath of the battlefield as their camera feeds had given Hayato Kobayashi and the members of Karaba visual and recorded footage of the newcomers that showed up out of nowhere.
Kamille immediately reassured to the pilots of advanced-looking Gundam-Types to prevent a misunderstanding, "Don't shoot! They're from Karaba!"
Then a particle beam out of nowhere shot down a Dodai Kai carrying the Nemo and they crash landed into the ground with a fiery explosion!
Shia frowned upon noticing a squad of blue Hi-Zacks with beam rifles flying on the Base Jabber aircraft heading towards them at full rocket speed from her visual. "I guess those Zaku-looking machines aren't?...", she commented.
Taking immediate action, the white haired girl calmly raised her Gundam Portent's GN Smash Rifle to fire green beam blasts and accurately shot down every single Titans mobile suits from the sky from a far distance. They were consumed in a fiery explosion and their remains crash landed into different parts of New Hong Kong city, causing explosions there.
Kamille was amazed and terrified at such accuracy and precision the green female-shaped Gundam-Type machine had possessed.
"Wow that's cold.", Fumina commented with a wince at how the enemy forces were taken down before they could even fire their first shots at them.
"Total annihilation.", Yuuma agreed at the merciless display.
"That's awesome, Shia!", Sekai complimented with a smile.
Putting away the GN Smash Rifle, Shia did a ladylike curtsy bow through her machine. "Thank you."
However, the Try Fighters and Shia received a subsequent incoming call alarm which they opened it and it's revealed to be the visual screen of Mr. Ral contacting them. "Everyone, you need to get back to White Base! We have a bad situation!", the older man said as he looked shocked and worried.
Fumina's eyes widened in surprise as she hastily asked, "Wh-what's going on, Mr. Ral?! What are you talking about?! And what do you mean White Base?!"
"I'll explain later when you get there! Here are the coordinates to the meeting point! JUST DO AS I SAY!", Mr. Ral insisted in a stern manner as he sent them the numbers before ending the emergency call with the Gunpla Battle players.
"S-se-senpai, what's going on?", Sekai wondered in confusion.
"I-I think... I think we should do what Mr. Ral told us...", the brown haired teen girl numbly answered with cold chilling down on her spine as she laid her eyes on the coordinates on her cockpit's visual and flew her Star Winning Gundam away from New Hong Kong.
Yuuma grimly nodded as he remembered what he thought of the dead or injured civilians among the debris whom he saw and brushed off previously, "Indeed. I hope it's not some sort of cruel prank when we get there."
As the Lightning Raphael Gundam followed suit, Kamille called out upon seeing the newcomers leaving. "Hey, hey! Where do you think you're going?!"
"We're called by our commanding officer to withdraw. I apologize for that, Mr. Kamille.", Shia answered before telling her crush. "Come on, Sekai. We're leaving."
"Oh-oh, okay... See ya...", the redhaired martial artist said with an unsure tone before following the G-Portent and the other Gundams.
Watching the four Gundams with particle propulsions leave New Hong Kong, the pilot of the Gundam Mark II stared at their departing forms until they're out of it. Now he is only left standing in the middle of a city in ruins, shot down mobile suits and many civilians in need of medical and humanitarian aid. Aside from the one last Nemo in a Dodai Kai flying around in the sky.
Then he heard a call from Hayato Kobayashi in his mobile suit's communication system albeit fuzzed out. Wait a minute, were those special kind of particles the reason why I couldn't get any form of contact until they left the city?!, he thought in realization.
"Ensign Kamille, do you read me? Are you there?", the director of Karaba asked, hoping to get a clear and straight answer.
"Y-yeah! I read you, Director Hayato!", the green haired young man responded.
The voice of Hayato sounded like he had breathed a sigh of relief and easiness, "That's good. Get back to the Audhumla, Kamille. Amuro had already came back with Miss Stephanie Luio representing the Luio & Co."
He added, "We are going to hold a meeting."
"It's about those four new Gundams right?", Kamille noted with a nod while he thought. And their leader was apparently named Mr. Ral from what I overheard from their conversation. Especially this "White Base" too. Perhaps Amuro and Hayato might know if I ask them...
"Indeed, since you've made first contact with them and fought to stop the Titans' assault on New Hong Kong. I'd like to know from your point of view about them.", Hayato confirmed.
Just as the Gundam Mark II pilot was about to leave, he made a quick suggestion upon staring down the downed intact remains of the gigantic machine and its unconscious Cyber Newtype pilot. "Director Hayato, the giant mobile suit called Psycho Gundam had been neutralized. I think you should get your guys to capture it and its pilot. Before the Titans come and get them back."
"Sure thing, I will send my men to do that.", Hayato stated before ending contact.
-O-
Meanwhile at the Sudori
"GODDAMMIT!"
An enraged Ben Wooder shouted as he smashed his hand on the metal wall of the bridge of the Garuda-class transport ship/mobile headquarters. He had been absolutely livid after watching a squad of Titans pilots in their Hi-Zacks got easily shot down by one of the four Gundam-Types with particle reactor propulsions before they could even break formation and engage the enemy.
The scouting Hi-Zacks were wise enough to withdraw from New Hong Kong and return to the Sudori as fast as they can.
Now, his Titans task force unit were almost all out of mobile suits and they are currently outnumbered by Karaba and whatever anti-Federation group that possessed the four new Gundams that appeared out of nowhere which no one had saw it coming.
Not to mention the Psycho Gundam had been brought down so easily after they were done toying around with it like used up garbage! Second Lieutenant Four must have been killed in action! There's no way she can survive such one-sided slaughter!, he added in his frustrated thought.
Namicar Cornell sighed with a look of annoyance than concern about the defeat of the emerald green haired pilot, "Great, Four Murasame has fallen in battle despite her power as a Cyber Newtype and the Psycho Gundam. The Murasame Institutions are not going to like this."
"Same I can say for the higher ups in the Titans once they learn what happened at New Hong Kong.", Captain Wooder said with a frown as he knew that failure is intolerable in the Titans and those who failed will be punished severely.
"How do we get out of this?", the now former handler of Four Murasame asked.
The man with fading brown hair explained, "The best thing to mitigate the punishment if we showed them the scouting Hi-Zacks' recorded footage of these four new Gundams that possessed particle reactors for propulsion. Hopefully that will get their interest above all else."
No doubt Admiral Jamitov Hymen and Colonel Bask Om would be intrigued once they see the footage. Especially The Man From Jupiter, Captain Paptimus Scirocco..., he added in his thought.
After all, it is not something those powerful and dangerous men in the Titans can easily ignore. Plus, he won't be surprised if news about the Battle of New Hong Kong would end up becoming global and viral with the appearance of four unknown Gundams the likes the world had never seen before.
Namicar agreed with Wooder as the Sudori turned around and left the airspace nearby New Hong Kong, leaving behind the captured Four Murasame and her Psycho Gundam at the hands of Karaba.
-O-
En-route to the White Base post-battle somewhere in the skies of UC Earth
After departing from New Hong Kong as far away as they can, the Try Fighters and Shia Kijima flew their respective solar reactor-powered mobile suits to the destination which is White Base through the coordinates provided to them by Mr. Ral. Although, judging from the tone of the normally goofy man, they never expected the Blue Giant of all people to be acting this serious and stern.
"This has to be a prank by Mr. Ral right?...", Yuuma said as his hands holding the controls of his Lightning Raphael Gundam felt cold and numb.
"I don't think so. Mr. Ral sounded so dead serious and afraid there... And that worries me...", Shia shook her head as she recalled back to her very precision shots that took out the squad of Hi-Zacks instantly from the sky with her GN Smash Rifle. Don't tell me that I... actually killed real pilots..., she thought with cold fear and sweat at the terrifying implications.
Sekai tried to reassure his teammates and himself as well, "Um, I hope Mr. Ral has a perfectly good explanation why he called us... Perhaps he wants us to take another campaign as part of Mr. Winslow's cool simulation."
Fumina gave a weak smile and said, "T-thanks Sekai but I don't think we're going to like this..."
"Heads up, guys. White Base dead ahead!", the bespectacled Gunpla Builder announced with an uneasy look which they saw the massive warship flying in the air before their eyes.
The Pegasus-class Mobile Suit Assault Carrier that had served as the base of operations for Amuro Ray and his ragtag group of comrades led by Bright Noa throughout the entire episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam 1979 show until it was eventually destroyed at the Battle of A Baoa Qu in the finale of Episode 43. Now the White Base looked like it came back from the land of the dead and it's good as new as if it never was obliterated at all in the first place.
"Wow, it looked way bigger than in the anime.", the leader of Try Fighters commented as she observed the details of the ship with her friends agreeing.
Then, the Gunpla Battle players received an incoming transmission and they hear a mechanical voice of a robotic woman making an official statement meant for them. "Mobile Suit Identification Confirmed... GNBG-012B Build Burning Gundam. GN-237S-01 Star Winning Gundam. GNLG-91-2 Lightning Raphael Gundam. GNW-101P Gundam Portent."
After that, the said voice greeted as the hangar bays of the warship opened for them to enter. "Welcome to White Base. Please proceed with the docking procedure one at the time."
Yuuma volunteered as his machine flew forward, "I'll go first. Follow my lead."
The Lightning Raphael Gundam made a safe landing on its feet and entered the hangar bay of the White Base, followed by its fellow mobile suits of the Gunpla Battle players one at the time. After that, all four machines with GN Drives have been accounted for and then the doors of the White Base's hangar bays closed themselves from the world.
The Try Fighters and the Celestial Sphere member saw that their respective machines were surrounded by a group of numerous colorful Haros piloting Karels or rolling around on the metal floor of the White Base as they greeted the Gunpla Battle players happily and cheerfully with adorable childlike voices.
"Welcome back! Welcome back!"
"Nice to meet you! Nice to meet you!"
"Begin maintenance! Begin maintenance!"
"Roger! Roger!"
"We are Haro! We are Legion!"
"Haro! Haro! Haro! Haro!"
Fumina commented with a nervous tone, "Well that's a welcoming committee."
"Agreed. So many Haros...", Shia agreed while she noticed the Dom R35 and the Queen Qubeley stored within the hangars of the White Base too as well.
"Glad you made it in time! Come out of your cockpits. We have so much to talk about.", the voice of Mr. Ral called out to them which the four Gunpla Battle players had visual of the older man standing below their machines alongside his wife, Mrs. Hamon.
This brought the existential chills down on the young teenagers' spines. Even Sekai felt unease too as well despite being hotblooded and passionate. They hoped that when the cockpits opened before them, the experimental simulation will be over by now and they're back in the room with Adam Winslow waiting for them at the Nielsen Laboratory.
It's all just a really too good Gunpla Battle simulation and he would frantically apologize to them for making it too much realistic which his ZERO System needed some bugs to work out and improve it, right?
Right?
Unfortunately, their hope died after they emerge from the opened cockpits and saw that everything is indeed real all along. The four teenagers look at each other with widened eyes and shocked faces after realizing that their respective Gunplas have been turned into actual-honest-to-God mobile suits as Gundams. And the battle at New Hong Kong city where they have participated was actually real all along.
The said battle was filled with actual deaths of civilians and mobile suit pilots, and massive destruction in real life compared to the Gundam Zeta show.
Along with their interactions with some of Zeta's certain prominent characters, Kamille Bidan and Four Murasame, they turned out to be actually real people, not simulated at all.
"Oh my God! Our Gunpla have became Gundams!", Fumina shouted in surprise as she could not believe it herself.
Sekai was conflicted in between amazement and terror that his Gunpla is now a giant robot from his perspective, "Whoa, you're right Senpai! Build Burning Gundam became real! That's cool but scary! Scary though! But still cool!"
Yuuma muttered as he was going to hyperventilate, "This can't be happening! This can't be happening! This can't be happening! This can't be happening!"
"Mr. Ral, Mrs. Hamon... W-wh-what the hell is going on and where are we really?!", Shia asked in a pleading manner, trying to keep herself composed to little success.
Looking at her solemn-faced husband who nodded, Mrs. Hamon sadly replied to the Try Fighters and one Celestial Sphere member.
"Welcome to the Universal Century Earth where there is only war, children. And we're trapped in here."
Author's Note: Okay, the second chapter of "Zeta Fighters" is done and I hope you like it. Sekai and his friends now realized the reality that they are in the actual world of Gundam UC after Mr. Ral and Mrs. Hamon relayed them the bad news of their situation while Four Murasame had been captured and taken into custody of Karaba alongside her defeated Psycho Gundam too as well at request from Kamille Bidan of course.
On the other hand, Ben Wooder would have to report to his certain superiors in the Titans about the appearance of four new Gundams that possessed new technology that seemed more powerful and advanced than anything the Zeta era of U.C. has to offer.
Since I saw the KRX-001 Full Burst Psycho Gundam and its backstory in the Gundam Wiki, this gave me a wonderful idea to have Psycho Gundam be captured and then modified by Karaba as their new ace in the hole or trump card against the Titans and eventually the Axis Zeon in this story in the future.
From the Gundam Wiki's entry:
"Classified as a build MS, the Full Burst Psycho Gundam is actually a modified Gunpla of the Psycho Gundam. The backstory given by its builder is that the Psycho Gundam was captured by Karaba during the battle in New Hong Kong. Hayato Kobayashi orders it to be modified for Amuro Ray, in the image of the G-Fighter and the RX-78-2 Gundam."
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