Chapter 1: The Legend is Born
January 15,U.C. 0079 The Battle of Loum begins and a 14yr old boy named Alex sits in the pilot seat of a Zaku IIF unit readying himself for the battle at hand. The Musai carrier that he prepares to launch from makes it's way to the battlefield and a voice over the com. circuit says " All units launch now, and engage the enemy battle ships!" so Alex makes his final preparations.
"I'm launching now!" at that moment the hatch opened, the eye of his Zaku lights up and he launches then turns to face the enemy ahead of him. He had his mobile suit grasp it's bazooka in both hands, "Let's go!!" and with that he dashed towards the enemy fleet until his thrusters were almost to the point of overheating, which brought a Salamis class ship into range. Knowing that his weaponry had limited ammo he decided to dash upwards to the bridge of the ship, and while dodging the beam canons of the battle ship he fired 3 shots at the bridge causing a chain explosion that destroyed the first ship. "Yeah!! I did it!" just then another Salamis hit him with a beam cannon which easily disposed of his shield and he's knocked around a bit in the cockpit. "What?! On my right!?!?" immediately he began to dodge left and right as he made his way to the ship, then he released his bazooka and knowing that it would just float around for a while he grabbed his heat hawk. Then dashing under the ship he slashed in a large X shape and put one of his cracker grenades into the opening made by the attack and went back for his main weapon. As he got his weapon, back the Salamis exploded from the inside because of his grenade, "Is that all? Too easy."
"This is Admiral Dozle, we can't drop the colony now so just hold off the enemy until we can capture the federation's general!" these were the words of the Principality's commander, indicating that they couldn't drop Side 5 like they had done to Side 2 during Operation British. "Damn, I guess I should keep fighting for as long as I can!" so Alex flew up to the nearest warship which was another Salamis "Okay so I guess I'll take out another one" so he moved his bazooka over to his left hand and while holding his heat hawk in his right hand he charged at the oncoming ship. He fired 4 shots until he got close enough at which point he went beneath it, put his heat hawk up and dragged it along the bottom until he made his way to the front, then he turned around and fired 2 more shots causing the ship to explode "Yeah!, another one down". After saying this he saw 2 Zakus get destroyed by a large Magellan class battleship.
"Dammit my allies, they're getting wiped out!" before he could think any further his bazooka was destroyed by a large group of saberfish fighters, but since they had come so close to him he was able to destroy several of them with his heat hawk and eventhough he was low on fuel, had no shield or far range weapons he charged toward the warship. He continued wiping out any fighters that came near him on his way to the ship but while attacking one his left arm was blown off by the Magellan "Forget these damn fighter planes! I'm settin my eyes on that ship!" and Alex made his way up to the ship and began attacking, but as he was destroying turret after turret his right leg was shot. "I wont let up!!" he kept attacking despite the saberfish shooting at him every chance they got. However one saberfish used up all his missiles on him and although it only destroyed his right forearm it meant that he had nothing else to fight with "Damn, he's pretty good!". Then, just as a cannon of the Magellan took aim at the weakened Zaku 6 beams fired at the ship from the right, and because of the damage the ship had already taken and the precise aim of the Musai that was firing, it was destroyed. "You over there, your alright?" Alex heard this voice over the com. system but it was distorted and not coming in very well but he could still make it out, "Yeah, thanks to you".
As Alex returned to his carrier hoping to get back out there, if there were any suits still left. However on his way back he got a transmission, "All units return! We have captured the enemy general. I repeat all units return! We've got general Revil!". "Hm so that's it, well I guess I did pretty well for my first time in real combat." Alex was able to make his way back to the Musai, and they headed back to the Zeon homeland of Side 3. Once they had returned he was rewarded with a promotion to CPO for destroying 3 enemy ships on his first mission, and by order of Commander Dozle he was sent to assist Garma in capturing the North American Territory. He was also given permission to customize his Zaku and paint it his personal color, so he had it painted a darker green with a dark black on certain parts and raised it's output in order to give it a more powerful heat hawk along with higher thruster capabilities, also he created for himself a custom weapon which he derived from the new prototype machine gun MMP-80, and along with all this he had a knuckle shield designed for him, which had a golden Z overlapping the Zeon emblem near the spikes of the shield. This was the beginning of Alex's career as a pilot, however from this point on he will be known as Zander the Green Demon of Zeon.