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Gundam World: The War of the Cosmic Era

Phase 1

Episode 3

Kira woke up the next morning to a headache, much of which owing to the fact that he had barely slept last night. In fact, he didn't sleep, but was kept up all night by the worry and anxiety that surrounded him.

When the lights turned on in his dorm at exactly 04:30, he felt sick, he didn't want to get up, but didn't want to stay in bed either. Life must hate me, he thought.

The boy groaned and slowly rolled off of his bed and dressed himself in his blue and white Earth Alliance Uniform. After he had cleaned up his bed, Kira exited his dormitory and headed towards the majestic, rubbing his eyes to revive himself. Today was going to be a long day.

Kira was supposed to meet his advisor at 05:30 sharp at the Strike Gundam hanger, so that gave him some time to eat. Kira yawned as he pushed open the doubles doors and entered the cafeteria. It was already crowded, as many soldiers had already begun their breakfast in preparation for their tasks. Except today there seemed to be a lot of younger soldiers and very few veterans could be seen. Kira looked from left to right, look for his friends.

"Kira! Over here!" He turned his head and saw his friends crowded around a large table near the back and proceeded towards it, the first smile of the day slowly working its way to his tired lips. Luna was the one that was calling him, waving enthusiastically at the same time.

Kira walked up to the table.

"Good morning," he said to several people before sitting down. "Where are Aoshi and Tolle and the rest of them?" He asked as he looked around the table curiously and only finding 3 people there.

"They were called in to handle some paperwork for the moon attack mission, some ships have already launched." Soujirou, a smiling boy beside Kira said while the other two nodded.

"Are any of you assembled for the Ptolemaeus base assaultmission?" Kira asked, dread beginning to sink into his stomach at the mention of the formal name of the attack. The girls suddenly stared up from their food and looked at Kira questioningly.

"Our rank isn't involved in the moon mission. We are still in training as second rank soldiers." Luna said as if it were the most obvious fact. Kira fell silent and decided to not talk anymore, when Luna began asking questions, she could go on for hours.

"Where's your breakfast Kira? Didn't you get any?" Luna looked at him curiously.

"I don't feel like eating, I feel sick." Kira replied truthfully.

"Didn't you get any sleep? You look like a panda!" A black haired girl with large blue eyes said, seemingly pop out of nowhere.

"I'm fine, Misao," Kira smiled, a yawn made its way to his face,"I'm just tired, no need to worry." He said and turned to Soujirou. "How's your M.S. training going Soujirou?"

The boy grinned cheerfully. "I'm doing fine. " His smile faltered a bit as he stopped for a moment. "But truthfully, I really am beginning to think about changing to a communicator on a battleship." He said, still smiling, the smile never seem to fade from Soujirou's lips,"I just think that mobile suits don't fit me that well."

"Same here," Kira said half heartedly, but I don't think I have a choice now. "Have you filed a transferreport yet?" he asked. But knowing Soujirou, the boy would be whipped before he troubled anyone.

"No, I don't think I'll be allowed to switch since it is war time and the people at the ministry of financejust don't have time to deal with things like this." Soujirou said in a downcast tone though still smiling. Kira patted him on the back in reassurance, he yawned again.

"I'm sure the war will be over before any of us have to fight." Kira said cheerfully while he knew that was far from the truth.

At 05:30, after a forced breakfast thanks to his three ecstatic friends who always seem to be full of energy, Kira walked towards the Strike hanger, his stomach churning loudly while trying to wake up with a heavy load of food already in it. As he approached, he saw, leaning on the wall beside the keypad, a tall, blonde haired Major(judging by his uniform) who was reading a popular magazine. Kira walked up to him and snapped off a brisksalute.

"Kira Yamato, are you major Mwu La Flaga?" he asked politely. TheMajor stopped reading and lifted his face to look at the young man before him, a surprised look entering his gaze.

"You are Kira Yamato?" The major asked as if he couldn't believe it, he closed the magazine. Then he laughed. After calming down a bit, he looked over Kira again and said, "When the Captain told me to brief a 'Kira Yamato' about the specs of the Strike, I thought this 'Kira' would be an experienced ace. But you are a second grade soldier aren't you?" he said as his laughter became a fatherly smile.

"Yes sir, I am a second grade soldier in training for the third Earth Alliance M.S. battle division." Kira answered, standing rigidly. The Major's behavior had caught him off guard, making him a little cautious, standing as rigid as he can is all that kept him from fidgeting, which would probably not be good.

"Well, you aren't a second grade soldier anymore, be glad that the captain has such a keen sight for future aces." Mwu said, "a new uniform will be delivered to your dorm before tomorow, it should have double yellow stripes and black squares on the shoulder, make sure of that. You are now part of the special ops M.S. pilot group. I am the commanding officer of the Special Ops M.S. team that you belong to; You will be taking orders from me."

"Yes sir," Kira said, becoming tense, and saluted again, "I will do my best to be of assistance to you and the team sir!"

"Just call me Mwu, we'll be fighting as a team from now on." Mwu said and turned around, then he punched in a series of numbers into the keypad and the gate began to open slowly. "There'll be many dangerous missions where we'll have to act as shadows and go behind enemy lines. Your mobile suit's self destruct code is 2083, remember that in case you'll need it."Mwu said and led Kira to the foot of the Strike Gundam, where an elevator was waiting. "Now, power up the strike and contact the bridge of Majestic from there. Then launch strike; the coordinates will be sent to you from the bridge, I'll be briefing you about the specs of the Strike at the specified coordinates."Major Mwu La Flagasaid and pushed Kira onto the elevator, then he pressed the up button and it shot straight up.

The major waved, then he turned around and headed for his own, Burning Gundam.

The elevator stopped right in front of the chest of the Strike where the cockpit was located. Kira stepped up to it and it opened automatically. He jumped inside and seated himself in the pilot seat, realizing for the first time, how much more comfortableGundam cockpits are compared to the junky, outdatedEAMSs that they used for training. Kira looked around, noticing that the cockpit was a rather cramped space. All around him were control mechanisms similar but different to the Mobile suits that he was used to piloting. In front of him was a screen with a series of buttons around it; several joysticks and levers are placed around him. The controls are similar to that of the EAMS but much more advanced and sophisticated.

Kira saw, beside the screen, the red ON button and pressed it with his thumb. And then the strike came to life. The whole unit groaned and hummed around him as if waking up for the first time. The cockpit entrancesnapped shutand for a moment everything was dark. But the next second, all around Kira things lit up, large field projections all around him showed a 360 degrees view of horizontal and lateral space outside, filling his field and peripheral vision. The smaller screen right in front of him flashed and turned on. First, there appeared, on the screen, the Earth Alliance symbol. Then, the letters G.U.N.D.A.M. appeared and following it the words General Unilateral Network Drive Assault Module. The words disappeared and after a beep, commands appeared on it

"WELCOME TO M.O.S.G. MOBILE SUIT OPERATING SYSTEM GUNDAM 8.0.0. FIRST BOOT UP SEQUENCE INITIATED. PLEASE ENTER NAME"

"Kira Yamato" Kira said clearly and his name appeared out of a list of names, which appeared on the screen. Kira's eyes lit up, forgetting all about the sleepiness, this was cool.

"Kira Yamato, Earth Alliance Special Operation mobile Suit Division. Correct?"

"Yes."

"Mission from Majestic: Please proceed to sector L7, coordinates x, 178.79. Y, 58.62 for battle simulation with major Mwu La Flaga in Burning Gundam. Return to Majestic at 15:00 for repairs and maintenance. Understood?"

Kira felt a little weird talking to a screen that spat out orders at him, but he proceeded to say, "Yes, command understood." As he said that, all the words disappeared from the screen and in its place was a power meter and list of weapons. Then, on the large outside projection screen before him, an inset popped up that showed the circular launch gates above him opening for his launch.

"Opening communication circuit." The communicator in the cockpit buzzed and from it came the voice of the operator.

"Kira Yamato, do you copy?"

"Yes, I copy, over."

"Please stand by while the striker pack is equipped for Strike Gundam, then you have clearance to launch."

"Yes, understood." The inset on the field projection switched to a shot from the back of strike Gundam as a wing like, red armor clicked into place.

"Kira yamato on Strike, please launch." Taking this as his cue, Kira pushed the thruster lever to maximum.

"Kira Yamato, Launching!" The thrusters on the striker pack roared to life and the whole unit blasted off from the floor, ripping through all the wires and cables that were connected to it. Then, it emerged from the launch window above the Majestic and blasted towards its destination.

end of phase

Author's notes, this is where the introductions and most of the basis for GUNDAM World is set. I have to apologize for the amount of reading for you guys that you already know. But you see, this is a politics novella, which I have to write for my politics class, and I would be darned if my politics teacher knows what GUNDAMS and Cosmic Era is lol. So thanks for reading up till now. I promise to deliver an exciting ride from now forward!

I would also like to thank Gundam seed Genesis , seedgenesis . net for all the information on Gundam Seed and gundam Seed destiny which has provided me with literally everything I needed to know about when writing this. The site corrected many mistakes which I made throughout the writting of this story!