Chapter 5

The Big Apple

"New York City… The Big Apple… What in God's name were the guys drinking when they made that nickname up for a city! I don't see a big apple!" Ryan walks down a sidewalk and enters inside a bar. Ryan sits on a stool at the counter and waits to be served.

When the bartender saw, he walked over to Ryan and asked, "What will it be?"

Ryan looked up to see the bartender and replied, "One bottle of Sune."

"Coming up," then the bartender walked away and took a bottle of alcohol called "Sune" and brought it over to Ryan.

Ryan looked at the bottle for a moment, then took the cap off, and started to guzzle the "Sune" down his throat. Ryan coughed a bit, then started to guzzle more of the stuff down like no tomorrow.

A man then sits next to Ryan and said, "You know, a man who drinks like that is going to die!"

Ryan turned to the man and replied, "When?" Then Ryan turned back to his drink and guzzled down the rest of the alcohol "Sune."

"Bartender! Another one please," said Ryan, sounding normal, not in a drunken voice.

"Man, how long have you been drinking like this?" asked the man in an amazed voice.

Ryan thinks for a moment, then replies with, "for a year," then the bartender gave him another bottle of "Sune."

"My name is Jack Richardson," holds his hand out to Ryan, "What's yours?"

"Jack, I don't really care about what your name is, but in utter kindness, my name is Ryan," then Ryan takes a guzzle of the "Sune" again.

Jack looks at his hand, unshaken, then pulls back his hand and says, "Well, Ryan, I was just trying to be neighborly, but no, you had to refuse my kindness, isn't that right!" Jack folds his arms and puts his chin up into the air.

"Sorry, not used to being kind to for a while," replied Ryan, sincerely.

"Hey, don't worry about it!" Jack pats Ryan on the back with a joyful look on his face, "It's not the end of the world you know, with any problem you have is probably fixable, right?"

Ryan looks down again and finally says, "I have a problem, but it's not fixable…" Ryan guzzles the last of his "Sune" and asks Jack, "Why are you being nice to me anyway?"

"Hm? It's because I'm always nice, man!" laughs Jack, patting Ryan on the back, "Oh, I'm late for my mission briefing, see ya!" Jack then puts on an Earth Empire hat (part of the Earth Soldier uniform) and runs out the door.

"Oh God…" Ryan then looks down on the counter and puts twenty dollars onto the table and leaves the bar.

Ryan renters the harsh cold of the falling snowflakes and continues to walk down the sidewalk.

"Can these people be the enemy? Then why aren't all good people like that young fellow?" Ryan continues to mumble to himself when suddenly Ryan feels a poking sensation to his back.

"This is a stick-up, give me all your money!" said a muffled voice behind Ryan.

"You got to be kidding me…" Ryan said to himself as he did a backward kick to the robber's family jewels. The robber falls to his knees and Ryan kicks him in the face while he was down. Ryan takes the gun out of the robber's hand. Ryan takes a look at the gun, then scoffs and throws it into a garbage can. Then Ryan started to walk away.

The date is November 15, 231 N.E., and in New York, people are planning for the parties and celebrations in New York. Besides the traditional holidays for the years in A.D., November was remembered as the month of miracles, Cure for Cancer Day, Nation of Native Americans Day, and several other days related. However, it was also the month when the United Earth Government became the Earth Empire.

Ryan looks into one of the toy stores and sees a electronic science kit for kids. "No, she wouldn't have liked that…" Ryan says to himself. Then he walked over to a professional electrical equipment store and saw an electric scanner for studs in walls. "Now that she might've thought as child's play, (chuckles) she might've dissected it for just the fun of figuring on how the thing works!"

Ryan walks away from the stores and headed into the military base there. Ryan gets to the wired fence and starts to climb over the fence. Once he reached the top of the fence, he discovered that there was barbed wire in the top. Ryan jumps back down to his beginning point and thinks about what to do.

Finally, Ryan gives up and walks away. Ryan walks back into the city and says to himself, "I have no other choice, just have to use the Gundam, that's all."

An hour later, Ryan reaches the Gundam Magna, in the woods, gets inside the cockpit, and activates it. The Gundam activates it's thrusters and boosts into the air and flies over to the base.

Several Mobile Suits at the base spot the flying Gundam and begins to fire at it. Sirens sound as more Buster Armors appear out of nowhere.

The Gundam Pulls out it's saber and activates the red beam blade from the saber. The Gundam lands onto the ground and starts running to avoid the attacking Machines.

"(Thinking) now, if I just destroy the control tower, there won't be anymore trouble, right? Right!"

The Gundam Jumps into the air and slices through the tower, horizontally, and lands on it's feet. The remaining piece of the tower explodes and the Buster Armors close in on the Gundam Magna.

There are exactly six Buster Armors and five Gene Mobile Armors.

Gene Mobile Armor, operating number EMA-003. This Mobile Armor is a tank with arms and hands. It has caterpillars as legs and feet, and a bazooka top cannon as a head. The left arm is a gatling gun and the right arm is a missile launcher that holds nine missiles.

Three of the Gene Mobile Armors fires their bazooka cannons and fires several missiles at the Gundam Magna. The Gundam Magna dodges each missile and bazooka round by each passing one. Then the Gundam Magna slashes through all three of them in one slice from the left to the right. The mobile armors explode in a bright light that engulfs Magna, but gives no real damage.

The Gundam Magna dashes forward and slices in half two more of the Gene Mobile Armors in two different vertical slices, again the mobile armors explode.

Before the Gundam Magna could attack the mobile suits, one of the Buster Armors went rogue at started to attack the other Buster Suits.

"What's going on here, Jack? Why have you betrayed us!" asked one of the Buster Armors being attacked.

"There is no betrayal, do the 'Ireland Revolutionaries' sound familiar?" asked Jack in the attacking Buster Armor, blowing up another Buster Armor with his bazooka.

"Damn you!" One of the attacked Buster Armors heads towards Jack's mobile suit.

As the machine closed in on Jack's Machine, the Gundam Magna collides with the machine and slices the cockpit in half. Then the Buster Armor fell to the ground.

Jack fires at the last enemy Buster Armor, making it explode. Jack throws his bazooka to the ground and walks up to the Gundam Magna.

Just as Jack was headed towards The Gundam Magna, the Gundam points it's saber at Jack's machine.

"Hey, we're allies now, don't have to be a party pooper!" exclaimed Jack.

"Allies? Just a minute ago, we were enemies!" yelled Ryan.

"Ryan! You're the pilot of Gundam! Wow, and I thought you were just a new comer!" Jack laughs as he couldn't believe his ears.

Ryan stays silent, then points the sword down, then deactivates the saber.

"That's good. Now, I'm part of a rebel group called the 'Ireland Revolutionaries,' we attack Earth Empire bases our own way."

Ryan then finally says, "Show me… I wonder if we can truly become allies against the Earth Empire."