Chapter 6: Operation Star One has begun!?! Episode 11: Bye, my green planet.
The year is UC0079, December 16. Brock is in the communications room. This room is in one of the several towers in the California Base. Gen. Deliaz's face is on the screen.
"Ok, so you understand right?"
"Yes ma'am, I will be stationed at the California Base until further notice!"
"Good, Then I'll see you on the battle front."
Brock turns around on his heel and walks out of the room. As he walks down the hall he thinks about the new transfer. Yes, Brock will leave his home base but at least he gets to keep the Gundam he only got by luck. That thing was supposed to stay in storage. Yup, one of Jaburo's RX-78-1's was used to keep the only surviving Federation base in the United States alive. Brock stops in the hallway an inch away from Lt. David Rias, the only familiar face from the academy in this base. Yea he outheighted Brock by about five inches but his facial expression is the only thing aggressive about him.
"Not too much activity, huh Brock?"
"Heh. I got promoted to Lieutenant so it isn't all a waste."
"Things will probably become calm now that the operation is over."
"Yes, I guess so."
The Zeon have reasonably pulled out of the area so everyone is relaxed.
Meanwhile 3rd class officer Hector Brodri and 2nd class officer Andrew Mahade have been sent on recon duty outside the base using mass produced Coreboosters.
"Man, I don't see anything! Why did Books send us to do this!?!"
"To keep us busy, duh! Hey, do you see that thing over there, Hector?"
"Take your safety off Andrew, although we may just land and investigate."
Both Core boosters, land near the wreckage of a downed Zaku II. Hector goes to investigate. He puts his hand on the foot but it burns him. "Stupid me, the Zaku must have been working hard during the battle for it to still be warm." Hector then turns to his right and sees the Zaku hand, lying flat on the ground with its arm connecting to shoulder like a staircase. When Hector touches the hand he feels that it is cool. He climbs on it and walks up the arm to the shoulder. He walks up to the highest point of the Torso and slides down on top of the Reactor hold. He crawls to the side in front of the cockpit. Hector feels the cockpit for an open switch and soon opens the door. When Hector looks in, he sees the pilot. He looks pale and dead, but who would not after two days out of sunlight. Soon the pilots' eyes begin to open. His pupil turns to Hector and widens. The Zeon pilot grabs his gun and fires at Hector. Hector jumps to his right side dodging the bullet. The pilot jumps out of the cockpit and stands up aiming at Hector. Andrew aims his handgun out of the Core Booster cockpit and fires hitting the solider in the right leg.
The Core Boosters land with Hector and the captured solider on board one of them. The captured solider is rushed to the medical building of the base. Later on, the prisoner is presented to the base commandant. The commandant took one look at the almost lifeless body and took no interest in it.
Elsewhere ion the base, Brock is getting some very deserved rest. Well, this may be getting a bit boring so lets see Lt. Books in a command building viewing an electric chart of all people reassigned to the California Base. Three days ago the Federation had begun its space offensive. Brock and the Gundam would be a valuable source to this offensive. Suddenly an explosion is heard. It rattles the whole base at its foundation. Outside, a [G] GM Sniper has used its rifle to blow up one of the missile silo's of the base. The rifle is attached by a power cord to a stationed reactor in a hangar. Soon Brock is woken up by a knocking on his door. A startled Brock is quickly thrown into his uniform and rushed out into his Gundam to stop the GM's rampage.
When Brock steps out of a hangar he thinks to himself, I know that suit is better at long range combat so I'll take it on in close range! When the Zeon pilot sees the Gundam, he turns on and fires at Brock. Brock boosts into the air, pulls out his beam saber, and stabs downward at the GM. Unfortunately the GM pilot blocks the attack with his shield. As the GM pierces the shield it causes an explosion, which the pilot uses to thrust to his right. The Zeon pilot is about to hit the Gundam's head when a normal GM blasts the gun out of the GM Sniper's hand. Now the Zeon pilot can only fight him in close range combat. The Zeon pilot says to himself, If I can destroy the beast not even Commander Char could, then I will be a hero! The Zeon pilot removes his beam saber but Brock pulls out his rifle and fires several shots into the GM. The suit begins to turn to it's left by its share weight before it explodes in a huge, hot, ball of fire.
When Brock returns he meets Lt. Books in the hallway. Books, informs him of his newest exchange to the 2nd command fleet that's going to participate in Operation Star One. In the next scene we see two Salamis and a Magellan flying outside the Earth's atmosphere over the California Base. They pick up a re-entry capsule from the base with Brock onboard. This is the last force to leave Jaburo to catch up the 2nd Command fleet but was detoured to pick up Brock and his RX-78-1.
Episode 12: Of Pilots, and Gundams
Space, a dark and lonely place to live, and especially fight. The three ships that have left Jaburo, have now joined the re-entry capsules from the California Base. General Revil, has informed the small force that they only have five days to join the 2nd command space fleet for the Solomon offensive that will happen on UC0079, December 25.
Brock floats through the halls of the Magellan battleship on his way back to his quarters. While in deep thought he accidentally rams into a solider. The whole incident makes Brock lose his grip of the mobile hand rail and floats to the roof ramming his head into the ceiling. "Never been in space before huh?" Brock looks at the solider in confusion, who is this weird person? The soldier's dog tags fall out of his shirt and flash in the light. Brock glances them.
"Lt. Osvaldo Leonarde?"
"Yea, that's me so have you or not?"
"Have I, or have I not, what?"
"Have you or not been in space before!?!"
"Oh, no. This is my first time, in space I mean."
Lt. Leonarde searches with his eyes for Brock's dog tags. Finally he gives up on the search.
"Hey kid, what's your name?"
"I'm not a kid, and my name is Brock Gray!"
Lt. Leonarde drags Brock down, and pats him on the shoulder
"So, YOU'RE that ace pilot everyone talks about huh!?!"
"Yea, I guess so."
"Well I don't see the fuss. I mean, I am better than you."
"Heh, wanna bet."
"Well, we'll have four days before we reach Solomon. That should be more than enough time to clean paint off two Gundams."
"TWO! So you are the one with the other RX-78-1 huh? Fine then thirty minutes from now!"
"Ok!"
Thirty minutes later, while the Salamis crew is on break, Leonarde's appears on the communication system.
"Uhh, we have seen the enemy and are going to investigate. Rapidly Oh yeah and we're taking the Gundams with us./Rapidly"
"Huh!?! Repeat that!"
Brock's RX-78-1 drops out of the Magellan and Lt. Leonarde's RX-78-1 drops out of the Salamis. Both thrust towards a "shoal zone" where some debris from the colony drop was left during the One Week Battle. Brock, is having trouble becoming used to the Gundam in space while Lt. Leonarde flies through like the ace he is.
Ok, the dueling field has been set up: Five miles long and five miles wide. The rules have been set: first one to get eight paint ball shots on their suit other than the shield, or leaves the dueling field loses. Brock says to himself, now this is the way the Alex test should have been done. Not like how Lt. Riveral did it. Lt. Leonarde interrupts by saying "Are we gonna get this done BEFORE the war ends!?!" Brock dashes behind a piece of metal and thrusts toward Lt. Leonarde. When he gets into firing range, Brock fires three paint ball shots all missing Leonarde since he dodged. Leonarde counters, but only hits the plate Brock is carrying. Leonarde then decides the best strategy to use would be to ambush Brock, so he thrusts off to find shelter.
Back on board the Magellan Ship Captain Necilas Richard, enters the bridge.
"So did any new messages come in while I was away?"
"Just one, ma'am-"
"Really? What did it say?"
"Lt. Leonarde said to the Salamis crew that he spotted the enemy. He even took the Gundams with him."
"Solider, do a check of the area for enemies!"
"Nothing, ma'am. All I see are two suits."
Cap. Richard looks blankly and says "Get a shuttle ready."
Lt. Leonarde has found shelter, and Brock is about to head straight into his line of fire when he glances a shuttle at the corner of his eye. Brock sees Leonarde's RX-78-1 and takes this chance to man-handle it and throw it out of the dueling field. The shuttle then flies between Brock and Lt. Leonarde. Cap. Richard says to both of them through his microphone:
"I'll have your ranks for this!"
In the next scene Brock is inside a cell staring out his small window into space. Space is a lonely place to be.
Next week on Mobile Suit Gundam: Frontline America will be another operation! Next time in Chapter 7: Solomon's compromise.
The year is UC0079, December 16. Brock is in the communications room. This room is in one of the several towers in the California Base. Gen. Deliaz's face is on the screen.
"Ok, so you understand right?"
"Yes ma'am, I will be stationed at the California Base until further notice!"
"Good, Then I'll see you on the battle front."
Brock turns around on his heel and walks out of the room. As he walks down the hall he thinks about the new transfer. Yes, Brock will leave his home base but at least he gets to keep the Gundam he only got by luck. That thing was supposed to stay in storage. Yup, one of Jaburo's RX-78-1's was used to keep the only surviving Federation base in the United States alive. Brock stops in the hallway an inch away from Lt. David Rias, the only familiar face from the academy in this base. Yea he outheighted Brock by about five inches but his facial expression is the only thing aggressive about him.
"Not too much activity, huh Brock?"
"Heh. I got promoted to Lieutenant so it isn't all a waste."
"Things will probably become calm now that the operation is over."
"Yes, I guess so."
The Zeon have reasonably pulled out of the area so everyone is relaxed.
Meanwhile 3rd class officer Hector Brodri and 2nd class officer Andrew Mahade have been sent on recon duty outside the base using mass produced Coreboosters.
"Man, I don't see anything! Why did Books send us to do this!?!"
"To keep us busy, duh! Hey, do you see that thing over there, Hector?"
"Take your safety off Andrew, although we may just land and investigate."
Both Core boosters, land near the wreckage of a downed Zaku II. Hector goes to investigate. He puts his hand on the foot but it burns him. "Stupid me, the Zaku must have been working hard during the battle for it to still be warm." Hector then turns to his right and sees the Zaku hand, lying flat on the ground with its arm connecting to shoulder like a staircase. When Hector touches the hand he feels that it is cool. He climbs on it and walks up the arm to the shoulder. He walks up to the highest point of the Torso and slides down on top of the Reactor hold. He crawls to the side in front of the cockpit. Hector feels the cockpit for an open switch and soon opens the door. When Hector looks in, he sees the pilot. He looks pale and dead, but who would not after two days out of sunlight. Soon the pilots' eyes begin to open. His pupil turns to Hector and widens. The Zeon pilot grabs his gun and fires at Hector. Hector jumps to his right side dodging the bullet. The pilot jumps out of the cockpit and stands up aiming at Hector. Andrew aims his handgun out of the Core Booster cockpit and fires hitting the solider in the right leg.
The Core Boosters land with Hector and the captured solider on board one of them. The captured solider is rushed to the medical building of the base. Later on, the prisoner is presented to the base commandant. The commandant took one look at the almost lifeless body and took no interest in it.
Elsewhere ion the base, Brock is getting some very deserved rest. Well, this may be getting a bit boring so lets see Lt. Books in a command building viewing an electric chart of all people reassigned to the California Base. Three days ago the Federation had begun its space offensive. Brock and the Gundam would be a valuable source to this offensive. Suddenly an explosion is heard. It rattles the whole base at its foundation. Outside, a [G] GM Sniper has used its rifle to blow up one of the missile silo's of the base. The rifle is attached by a power cord to a stationed reactor in a hangar. Soon Brock is woken up by a knocking on his door. A startled Brock is quickly thrown into his uniform and rushed out into his Gundam to stop the GM's rampage.
When Brock steps out of a hangar he thinks to himself, I know that suit is better at long range combat so I'll take it on in close range! When the Zeon pilot sees the Gundam, he turns on and fires at Brock. Brock boosts into the air, pulls out his beam saber, and stabs downward at the GM. Unfortunately the GM pilot blocks the attack with his shield. As the GM pierces the shield it causes an explosion, which the pilot uses to thrust to his right. The Zeon pilot is about to hit the Gundam's head when a normal GM blasts the gun out of the GM Sniper's hand. Now the Zeon pilot can only fight him in close range combat. The Zeon pilot says to himself, If I can destroy the beast not even Commander Char could, then I will be a hero! The Zeon pilot removes his beam saber but Brock pulls out his rifle and fires several shots into the GM. The suit begins to turn to it's left by its share weight before it explodes in a huge, hot, ball of fire.
When Brock returns he meets Lt. Books in the hallway. Books, informs him of his newest exchange to the 2nd command fleet that's going to participate in Operation Star One. In the next scene we see two Salamis and a Magellan flying outside the Earth's atmosphere over the California Base. They pick up a re-entry capsule from the base with Brock onboard. This is the last force to leave Jaburo to catch up the 2nd Command fleet but was detoured to pick up Brock and his RX-78-1.
Episode 12: Of Pilots, and Gundams
Space, a dark and lonely place to live, and especially fight. The three ships that have left Jaburo, have now joined the re-entry capsules from the California Base. General Revil, has informed the small force that they only have five days to join the 2nd command space fleet for the Solomon offensive that will happen on UC0079, December 25.
Brock floats through the halls of the Magellan battleship on his way back to his quarters. While in deep thought he accidentally rams into a solider. The whole incident makes Brock lose his grip of the mobile hand rail and floats to the roof ramming his head into the ceiling. "Never been in space before huh?" Brock looks at the solider in confusion, who is this weird person? The soldier's dog tags fall out of his shirt and flash in the light. Brock glances them.
"Lt. Osvaldo Leonarde?"
"Yea, that's me so have you or not?"
"Have I, or have I not, what?"
"Have you or not been in space before!?!"
"Oh, no. This is my first time, in space I mean."
Lt. Leonarde searches with his eyes for Brock's dog tags. Finally he gives up on the search.
"Hey kid, what's your name?"
"I'm not a kid, and my name is Brock Gray!"
Lt. Leonarde drags Brock down, and pats him on the shoulder
"So, YOU'RE that ace pilot everyone talks about huh!?!"
"Yea, I guess so."
"Well I don't see the fuss. I mean, I am better than you."
"Heh, wanna bet."
"Well, we'll have four days before we reach Solomon. That should be more than enough time to clean paint off two Gundams."
"TWO! So you are the one with the other RX-78-1 huh? Fine then thirty minutes from now!"
"Ok!"
Thirty minutes later, while the Salamis crew is on break, Leonarde's appears on the communication system.
"Uhh, we have seen the enemy and are going to investigate. Rapidly Oh yeah and we're taking the Gundams with us./Rapidly"
"Huh!?! Repeat that!"
Brock's RX-78-1 drops out of the Magellan and Lt. Leonarde's RX-78-1 drops out of the Salamis. Both thrust towards a "shoal zone" where some debris from the colony drop was left during the One Week Battle. Brock, is having trouble becoming used to the Gundam in space while Lt. Leonarde flies through like the ace he is.
Ok, the dueling field has been set up: Five miles long and five miles wide. The rules have been set: first one to get eight paint ball shots on their suit other than the shield, or leaves the dueling field loses. Brock says to himself, now this is the way the Alex test should have been done. Not like how Lt. Riveral did it. Lt. Leonarde interrupts by saying "Are we gonna get this done BEFORE the war ends!?!" Brock dashes behind a piece of metal and thrusts toward Lt. Leonarde. When he gets into firing range, Brock fires three paint ball shots all missing Leonarde since he dodged. Leonarde counters, but only hits the plate Brock is carrying. Leonarde then decides the best strategy to use would be to ambush Brock, so he thrusts off to find shelter.
Back on board the Magellan Ship Captain Necilas Richard, enters the bridge.
"So did any new messages come in while I was away?"
"Just one, ma'am-"
"Really? What did it say?"
"Lt. Leonarde said to the Salamis crew that he spotted the enemy. He even took the Gundams with him."
"Solider, do a check of the area for enemies!"
"Nothing, ma'am. All I see are two suits."
Cap. Richard looks blankly and says "Get a shuttle ready."
Lt. Leonarde has found shelter, and Brock is about to head straight into his line of fire when he glances a shuttle at the corner of his eye. Brock sees Leonarde's RX-78-1 and takes this chance to man-handle it and throw it out of the dueling field. The shuttle then flies between Brock and Lt. Leonarde. Cap. Richard says to both of them through his microphone:
"I'll have your ranks for this!"
In the next scene Brock is inside a cell staring out his small window into space. Space is a lonely place to be.
Next week on Mobile Suit Gundam: Frontline America will be another operation! Next time in Chapter 7: Solomon's compromise.
