Mobile Suit Gundam Knights
Disclaimer: I do not own any actual Gundam series or the concepts thereof. However, I do own this fan-made series, mobile suits, characters, and plot thereof. You have been warned; this is not UC, Wing, Seed, or anything else.
Eight hundred and fifteen years ago, mankind established its first self-sustaining colony in space. This accomplishment gave way to a new era of technological advancement which was given the timeline name "Space Immigration." Many other technological marvels were created during this time, including giant mechanical humanoid instruments piloted by humans for construction purposes. These machines were given the name "mobile suits." However, the peace that came with this time would not last long.
In the year SI 700, tensions and insecurities between individual colonies and Earth resulted in wars that stretched out into the far expanses of space. During this time, mobile suits became the greatest tool for the war effort. That is until the year 705 when a group of superhuman mobile suit pilots with the ability to briefly see into the future ended the wars. Believing that these human were to become the next step in human evolution, they were later dubbed "Newtypes."
In the year 800 of the Space Immigration timeline, further technological advances have allowed mankind to clone their first Newtype, and they have since then continued to produce more military purposes. They have been called "Artificial Newtypes." However, fifteen years later, the Artificial Newtypes gathered together and revolted against the human race. With the belief that they are the next step in human evolution and far more superior, they formed the Newtype Federation. In their defense, the normal humans formed the Human Defense Alliance. During the course of the war, the powers and abilities of the Artificial Newtypes proved to be too much for the ones that created them. However, that is about to change.
---The Revolutionary Machine---
Aboard the Graham space colony, a sixteen year-old boy is running down the street in a big hurry. He soon ran inside a large building, through the halls, and into his classroom just as the bell rang. He took his seat and desperately tried to catch his breath when he heard a voice from behind him say, "Your timing is absolutely impeccable, Rocko Menkero."
Rocko looked at his friend, Mike, and dryly replied, "Yeah. Nice to see you, too."
Mike then said, "It's not like you to be late. What happened?"
"I missed the bus."
"Whoa! You really did haul some butt to get here!"
"Yeah, well, you do what you have to do."
Mike then handed Rocko a drawing book and said, "By the way, you left this in Art class the other day."
Rocko took the book and said, "Thanks. I needed it."
Then the teacher entered into the room and started class. Everyone took to their individual seats and started taking notes. For every student in that classroom, it was just another day at school.
Meanwhile, inside a mountain base aboard the colony, two men were standing in a hanger bay looking at a unique mobile suit. "So has the Swordbuster Knight Gundam been completed?"
The other man replied, "Yes sir, but we can't seem to find a pilot who is able to pilot it effectively."
"What?" the first man responded.
"All of our pilots seem to be having trouble with the weapon conversions in our simulation runs. We've created something that none of our pilots can possibly handle!"
"Don't you dare tell me that. We have to find a pilot for the Gundam and send it to Earth immediately."
"Pardon me for asking, sir, but why Earth? Isn't space the Newtypes' area of dominion?"
Another man walked in, stood next to them, and replied, "Yes, but the Newtypes are steadily gaining a foothold on Earth. If we can't defend our own territory, then we can't assault theirs."
"Captain LeBau!" they responded and saluted.
LeBau smiled and calmly replied, "At ease, gentleman. You guys are civilians, so there's no need for formalities. Just call me Nick."
The two scientists put their hands down and Nick then asked, "So Keel, how's the Gundam coming along."
The first man responded, "The Gundam is complete and everything works. It's just that none of our pilots can handle using the new technology."
"That's going to be a problem. There's got to be somebody who can use this kind of technology."
It was lunchtime at Rocko's school, and he sat down at his usual table with Mike. Mike started the conversation by saying, "Sorry for being nosy, but were they supposed to be mobile suits?"
"Huh?" Rocko replied.
"Those drawings in your book. Were they supposed to be mobile suits?"
"You went through my drawing book?!"
Mike sheepishly replied, "Sorry. I couldn't help it. They were really good if it makes you feel any better."
"Oh. Well, yeah. They are mobile suits. I guess I always had a fascination for them since my dad was a pilot before he died. Sometimes I even dream about them."
"Dude, that's not a fascination. That's an obsession," Mike replied.
"No, I mean lately I've been dreaming that I'm piloting this ultra-powerful mobile suit and killing Newtypes left and right and I come back as a hero."
"Uh huh. You have serious delusions of grandeur, you know that?"
"It was just a dream! Is that so wrong? Plus, I'd like to get off this colony someday. Nothing happens here."
"Don't I know it," Mike agreed.
Lunch soon ended and the two went back to their classes. As Rocko went back to his class, he thought about the dream he just mentioned. "Me go into battle and come out a hero? Mike's right. There's no way that'll happen."
Outside, a Newtype warship steadily began to approach the Graham colony. Inside, a man named Jeis Alkern stared out into the vast of space. Then an officer knocked on the door of the chamber he was in. "Enter," he responded.
The officer then entered the room, saluted, and replied, "Sir, we will arrive at the Graham colony in 12 hours."
"Good. Prepare a mobile suit assault force. I want them ready to be deployed immediately after we arrive at the colony."
"Sir!" the officer replied, saluted, and exited the room.
Once the officer left the room, Jeis said to himself, "The Norms must be getting desperate. They're constructing some new kind of weapon to use against us, but what is it?"
It was evening time at the Menkero house, and Rocko was in his room drawing when he heard his Aunt Teemil calling to him. "Rocko, it's time for dinner."
"Okay. I'll be right down," he replied.
He then placed his pencil down on the drawing and went to wash his hands. After completing this task, he went downstairs to the dinner table. The drawing he left behind was yet another mobile suit, but it looked fairly similar to the Swordbuster Knight Gundam.
He quickly sat down to the dinner table as well as his uncle, the Gundam developer Keel. Teemil then brought each of them their plates of food and sat down with them. "So, Rocko, how was your day at school today?" she asked as they started eating.
"Same-old, same-old," he answered.
Keel then asked, "Doesn't anything new and interesting come up in your school?"
Rocko then replied, "Uncle Keel, this is Graham. Nothing happens here."
Keel smirked and replied, "I beg to differ."
"Well, maybe except for that big project you've got going on. When are you going to tell me what it is, anyway?"
"With any luck, never unless you want to be shot. All I can tell you is that the Alliance is sponsoring this project."
"Whoa. With this secrecy and the Alliance's involvement, it must be big," Rocko replied.
Keel nodded and Teemil then asked, "Can you say how the project is coming along?"
He nodded and said, "What we've been working on is complete, but we can't seem to find anyone to work it."
"Why is that?" Rocko asked.
"It has a great deal of new technology, and you know how that is. It's something not everyone knows how to work. If you want my opinion, if you let some kid play around with it, they'll figure it out."
"If only that were true, and if only it were a mobile suit or something," Rocko commented.
"Rocko, I know you're in to mobile suits and that you really want to help, but the battlefield isn't the place for someone your age," Teemil said.
"Why not? Dad would let me do the mobile suit simulators all the time before he died, and that was back when I was a little kid! I could do it! I can handle any kind of mobile suit!"
Keel then said, "You sound just like your father, always believing that he could do anything."
"He could though, right?" he asked.
"Yep. Your father was in incredibly skilled pilot, but you're much too young to fight in a mobile suit."
Rocko heaved a sigh and said, "I guess you're right. May I be excused?"
"Sure," Teemil replied.
"Thank you," he said as he left the table and went back into his room.
Teemil watched him leave and said, "A boy and his dream."
Keel then said, "A dangerous one at that."
It soon came time for everyone in the Menkero household to go to bed. However, as night passed the Newtype warship floated outside the Graham colony. There, Jeis looked at the colony. He then accessed his communication computer to talk to the people in the hanger. When they greeted and saluted him, he gave the order, "Launch the mobile suit strike team immediately."
"Sir, will you be coming with us?"
"Only if I deem it necessary. Besides, this colony should be easy enough to take."
"I'm heading off for school," Rocko said as he was about to leave the house.
"Okay. Have a good day," Teemil replied.
Rocko then went out the door and headed for school. Once he got to the bus stop and met up with Mike, there was a massive vibration underneath their feet. "What was that?!" Mike asked in surprise.
Then there came a voice over the PA that said, "The colony is under heavy mobile suit fire. Please remain calm and go to the nearest shelter. This is not a drill. I repeat we are under heavy mobile suit fire."
"A mobile suit attack?! Here?!" Mike replied in shock.
"Just go ahead and get to a shelter!" Rocko said to him.
Once Mike started running in one direction, Rocko ran in the opposite. Mike quickly noticed that Rocko wasn't following him and he turned around. "Where the heck are you going?! The shelter is the other way!"
Rocko quickly turned around and said, "Don't worry about me! Just get to a shelter!"
Mike did so, and Rocko continued to run to the mountain base where Keel was working. As he approached the gate, he was stopped by a guard. "What are you doing here? You should be in a shelter!"
"I need to speak with my uncle, Keel Menkero."
"Okay, but you had better go to a shelter right afterwards. You can probably find him in the hanger."
"Thank you," he said as he ran to the hanger.
Sure enough, he found Keel there. "Uncle Keel!" he called out to him.
"Rocko?! What are you doing here?! You should be in a shelter!"
Rocko approached him and asked, "What's going on?"
Keel answered, "The colony is being attacked by Newtype Tera mobile suits."
The developer then turned to a soldier and asked, "Have all our mobile suits been deployed?"
"All of our Gigas, but not the new one, sir."
"Rocko, I'm going to go up to the control room and see what's going on from there. Go find a shelter somewhere and stay there. Understand?"
Rocko nodded and Keel left the hanger. The teenage boy then looked around and saw the Swordbuster Knight Gundam. "This must be the new suit that that guy was talking about. If they were going to use it, they would have launched it by now."
Rocko quickly climbed up some hanger stairs and went inside the cockpit. Once he got inside and closed the hatch, he found an instruction manual on the controls and began to read it. "Amazing! This must be what Uncle Keel was working on!"
Nick then entered into the hanger and saw the lone Gundam. Then he turned to a soldier and asked, "Who's piloting the Gundam?"
He saluted and replied, "No one. All of our pilots have already been dispatched."
"I see. It's been a while since I've piloted a mobile suit, but we don't have a choice in this matter. I'll sortie in the Gundam."
"Yes sir. We'll make preparations for launch."
Nick nodded and went to the cockpit of the Swordbuster Knight Gundam. Once he opened it, he looked inside and saw Rocko reading the manual. "Huh? What are you doing in here?"
Rocko quickly put the manual away and sheepishly replied, "Well, I was trying to find shelter, and I thought this mobile suit would..."
"Never mind, kid. Just move over and let me take the controls."
Rocko did so, and Nick took to the pilot seat. Once he was given the clearance, Nick moved the Swordbuster Knight Gundam to the launch pedals. "This is Nick LeBau launching in the Swordbuster Knight Gundam," he said into the comm.
Shortly afterwards, the pedals moved out the launch bay door at incredible speed, and the Gundam was sent into the space battlefield. "Are you sure about this? This mobile suit may be able to fight in space, but it wasn't made for it."
"It's all we've got to work with," Nick said as he thrust the massive mechanized giant into the battle.
As he moved into the fight, he saw most of the Alliance Giga suits being destroyed by Newtype Teras. He then looked at a screen on the Gundam's HUD. "Okay, what do I have for weapons?"
Rocko quickly answered, "You have four Vulcan guns, two mounted on the head and two mounted on the shoulder, then you have the Swordbuster weapon, which can..."
"Do I have a gun or not?" Nick sharply replied.
"From what I've read in the manual, there's the Swordbuster weapon in rifle mode. It looks like it's in that mode now, so yes."
With that, Nick aimed the Swordbuster at a group of Teras, pulled the trigger, and a massive beam of yellow energy came out from the weapon, destroying two suits in one shot. "Whoa!" Rocko exclaimed as he watched the energy blast do its damage.
"That's impossible! How could I have not seen something like that?!" one of the Newtype pilots asked in a panic.
"I couldn't foresee something like that either! What have these Norms created?!" another one responded.
"We have to destroy it now!" another pilot shouted.
After this statement, all of the Teras fired their beam rifles on the Gundam. Nick quickly brought his shield up to bear, and all of the beams were absorbed into the shield. Rocko watched and responded, "It absorbed the beams? How is that possible?"
"Who cares?" Nick replied as he continued to fire the Swordbuster.
More mobile suits were destroyed with each shot, but the Teras charged the Swordbuster Knight. Jeis looked on and asked, "How can any Norm pilot destroy so many of our units with just one mobile suit?"
Jeis then got on the video comm to the hanger and said, "Prep my Tera suit."
Back in the space battle, a Tera managed to get in close, but Nick fired the Vulcan guns and destroyed it. As the space between each mobile suit and the Gundam kept closing, Nick flew away and kept firing the Swordbuster. "I can't keep this up! These mobile suits are getting too close for my comfort!"
"Then pull out the beam saber!" Rocko replied in frustration.
"You want to drive, kid?!"
"It'd be my pleasure! I probably know more about this Gundam than you do anyway!"
Nick groaned in frustration and moved over as Rocko took the controls. The teenage boy then attached the Swordbuster's barrel onto the left side of the leg cover, moved the handle back, detached the base from the barrel, and pulled it out along with a long green energy beam. "Okay. Now it's my turn. Come and get it, Newtypes!"
As the Newtype mobile suits closed in on Rocko, he rocketed his way forward, slicing through each suit that came in his path. Now Nick was watching Rocko's piloting abilities with complete awe. He thought to himself, "This kid is amazing! His skill is incredible! Who is he?!"
Jeis soon launched out of his ship in his custom red Tera and charged at the Gundam. "You've got some skills, Norm, but let's see if you can handle the Newtype Nightmare."
Soon, the remaining Gigas pulled back as they saw the red Tera. "It's Jeis Alkern! The Newtype Nightmare is here!"
Nick heard this announcement and said, "We better retreat. Jeis Alkern is..."
"I know who Jeis Alkern is, but I'm not running. I won't sit back as Newtypes destroy my home!"
"You're insane. You're good, kid, but what you're doing is stupid. I say we retreat now."
"In case you haven't noticed, I'm still at the controls, so if that's what you have to say, then shut your mouth and don't say anything else. Besides, if we run, Graham is as good as gone anyway, along with this mobile suit."
Jeis soon approached the Swordbuster Knight and drew a magenta beam saber. He then charged at Rocko, and the two soon went into a heated sword fight. As this went on, one of the Teras fired its beam rifle at the Gundam in the back. While Rocko took the hit, the blast did very little damage. "It's not possible! That was a direct hit!" the pilot exclaimed.
Rocko then turned his attention to the suit that fired at him. "Cheap little pansy!" he yelled as he fired off his Vulcan guns and destroyed it.
He then put the beam saber back in the barrel and returned the Swordbuster to its rifle mode. He aimed at another group of Teras where Jeis was in the line of fire and shot his own blast of energy. Although Jeis managed to dodge, five other suits were destroyed in the process. Jeis than got on his comm and said, "All units fall back. We have to reassess the abilities of this new mobile suit."
The remaining Teras did so, and Rocko and Nick just watched them retreat. "We...we won!" Rocko said with excitement.
"Nice work, kid. What's your name?"
"It's Rocko. Rocko Menkero."
