"Reality" 5 hours since arriving at the Mendel colony

Noah smiled as he saw the looks on the faces of the baker team. Not long ago he had ridden back to the Mendel colony on the eternal and had set to work preparing for the intense battles to come. This all started with upgrading the baker team's mobile suits.

So he had stuffed himself and the three coordinators into the Gabriel's cockpit as well as had Luke stuff Nicol and Nina into the blitz' cockpit. Once everyone was "safely" inside they had both cut the simulation and introduced the 5 coordinators to "reality"

Obviously comments were made regarding the differences in technology and advancement of said tech. also Nils insisted the five formerly fictional characters got a quick exam by the labs medical team. Once everyone was deemed in top health and introduced the meijin Kawaguchi, Sei Lori and Nils Neilson Noah decided to explain just what they were all doing there while transportation to Lori hobbies was arranged.

"So…I know I told you three that you`d receive upgraded units when and if your survived orb…which you did. You all did. Which makes me proud to admit I have decided rather than waiting till the final battles for you all to make your own custom gundam units you will get the chance to try your hand at customizing your own personal units but I have conditions." Stated Noah as he looked to the group of technically fictional characters.

"so for starters you can choose to either have open customization of a grunt level suit, which means you can do anything from adding weapons and tech to just a simple paint job. While this limits what your base model will be able to do, aside from the advanced series "gundam seed destiny" which takes place after this current war you`ll have a much wider array to choose from since I won't restrict which series you pick from." Stated Noah to which Alfred raised his hand.

"Sir could you define the differences between the different level of mechs?" asked the English/American coordinator.

Noah nodded. "So I classify mechs based on who mainly piloted them. If no one of real value piloted them or it was just an ace like…well like Miguel…"said Noah, motioning towards Nicol who nodded, understanding what he meant. "Then it's a grunt suit cause usually that ace, if a pilot was even named, either doesn't live long or quickly moves up to something stronger in the series. Sorry Nicol. Anyways from there you jump into command suits, sometimes also mass produced suits usually beefed up from their grunt counterpart. Like say in the new iron blooded orphan series a standard graze has a flat head but the commander variant, and most grunt suits are like this, has an added antennae to help with communications." Said Noah as the van that would be transporting them pulled up.

"Then you have machines designed as commander specific units, limited yet mass produced like the CGUE or the new GUIAZ. Usually a bit more expensive to produce so they reserve them for ace pilots and commanders. Often they have custom color schemes as well. If you guys pick a command suit you`ll be limited not only in your selection but limited in terms of what I'll allow you to do to it because again they are already usually beefed up." With that the group climbed into the van and Sei began to take them on the long drive back to his shop.

"Then you get specialized suits which vary between the different levels between grunt and commander types. These are just units that specialize in a type of combat like Valeria's zaku striker. It's a sniper but makes up for CQC with the beam scythe/pole arm I added. These suits are good if you guys wanna kinda pick where we will field you till the final battle." Noah looked between the three as he could see their brains working on what they wanted their MS to do.

"Then you have proto-gundams like the strike and the gat series. Advanced machinery that is at the top of its class but is not completed…well in terms of the series. A gundam in general falls in the same category but I classify gundams like the gat series as "proto gundams" because eventually something better comes out like the freedom. But over all a gundam not only will have it in its name and is unavailable to you guys at the moment but basically if it has a more human face it's a gundam. The golden V-fin sensor suite is also a strong indicator." stated Noah, stopping to let them absorb all the information.

The three pilots all seemed deep in thought. After all they were being told they could design their own mobile suits. Most pilots didn't get to custom tailor a mobile suit to their preferences.

A whole new world

Nina smiled as she looked out the window though. She didn't care about all this. She was just happy to see where Noah came from. This…"reality" was beautiful. It seemed so different from the cosmic era and not for the obvious reasons. There were no N-jammers so nothing blocked the radio as it played. There wasn't that obvious tension of whether or not the war would hit this area or any obvious signs of a military base close enough for MS to be training.

It just seemed so peaceful.

As they pulled into the city Nina watched as people interacted with one another. She heard the others ohhh and ohhh at things and even saw some people with different colored hair. She guessed they had died it as the oddly colored hair was basically a coordinator signature and no one seemed bothered by them.

Eventually she noticed they left the city and was confused when they began heading into a suburban area.

They pulled into an alley and stopped next to a two story house though she had noticed it looked like the bottom floor had been remodeled into a small shop. As they all filed out and followed Sei back out of the alley and around she heard some kids playing and looked down when a soccer ball hit her foot.

She looked up to see the kids waiting for her to kick it back and smiled, gently kicking the ball to them. It was nice not to see a group of kids see her white hair and instantly show concern at the obvious fact…well not to them but obvious fact of what she was. Nina hadn't exactly gotten to enjoy her time back in Africa because of that…and her paladin had needed so much maintenance.

Once she remembered what they were doing she noticed Noah smiling as he held the door open for her. She thanked him and walked in, noticing Alfred already holding two model boxes and looking them over carefully while Valeria browsed and Cecil was busy talking to Sei as they looked at his display case.

Noah took her hand and she looked to him, smiling as he lead her through the small store and stopped in front of a group of models. He sifted through them and eventually held up one that looked like her paladin.

"The OZ-00MS tall geese. It's the base model the zero system used for your paladin." stated Noah as he handed it to her. She looked it over. The full original model was beautiful…or maybe it was the fact it wasn't the piece of trash she used against her lover.

Noah then walked away and she followed him. He stopped and set another model on top of the tall geese box. It was a launcher/sword strike set. Both models were of the "MG" scale. She looked up to him and blinked.

"I didn't know if you might wanna remake your paladin or even better you could customize it. Whatever you want, just go ahead and put it on my tab. I`m gonna go see how the others are doing. And feel free to add full models or whatever you need to make what you want." he said, kissing Nina on the lips before walking off to check on his pilots.

Nina looked at the two models she held and at the ones around her. Her coordinator mind was quickly putting together so many possibilities based just on what she could see but she knew some things were hidden and after watching Noah and seeing all he had built she knew she was likely thinking small time compared to what he could teach her to build. With that in mind she went to find the front counter to put her models down before searching for more.

A whole new world

Valeria was biting on her thumb as she looked through the "HGCE" or High Grade Cosmic Era section while trying to decide what to use as her base. She had to admit getting back into a DINN would be nice but she couldn't think of going through the process of customizing it for space.

She saw the GINN's and remembered what Noah had said about how customizable grunt suits were both in terms of actual customization and the options they would be allowed. But there was also to her the thought of still running a sniper unit.

Sei walked up and noticed her struggling. "Having trouble deciding on which unit to go with?" he asked as the zaft pilot jumped in surprise. Valeria turned to him and nodded, biting her lip as she went back to looking.

"From what I remember you were a sniper right? The custom zaku sniper Noah came and built." Stated Sei as he grabbed a ginn and waited for her response.

"Yeah…but zaft doesn't have a sniper unit, especially for space." She said sadly. Sei though shook his head.

"Actually zaft designed a variant of the GINN called the "long range recon GINN" with its optional equipment being a sniper rifle. It's mostly a recolor and some custom parts added. After that the sniper rifle is your choice if you want to "straight build it" basically build this ginn to be just that, no extra customizing." Stated Sei. Valeria's eyes lit up.

"Really? Could you show me what all id need to make it?" she asked, hoping the master builder would help her get everything she needed. Sure enough Sei nodded and began to lead her through the store.

A whole new world

Alfred already had been through the same isle as Valeria. He had grabbed a pair of CGUE models with plans to make something he hoped Noah allowed. Now he was just wanting to add onto it. So after talking with the woman at the counter, china Lori, about various weapons he liked the idea of these "funnel" things. So he had grabbed a pair of option kit sets with funnels in them, found a model known as the Kshatriya which had a unique "quad wing" set up and after examining the box it had funnels in each wing…

To be honest the amount of funnels he already wanted to attach he felt it was overkill. He had no idea how to handle these and yet he was wanting to pile as many onto his suit as possible.

Noah walked up and saw the stack of models and parts next to Alfred's name. He felt china was being very helpful by doing that. Going over the stack the variable combinations in his head he turned around to see Alfred set an options set on his stack that had a pair of katanas and various explosives in it along with a HWS GINN.

The English coordinator turned to his boss and waited for his approval.

"Ok first explain your thought process. You do realize this many funnels on a single mobile suit...I shouldn't allow it but you're gonna be stuck with guard duty. I mean hell add some antennae and radar dishes and you could be a one mobile suit army backing us up by extending the range of those things. "Said Noah as he shook his head at the amount of possibilities here.

Alfred smirked. "That's the plan. I wanna sit back and play bodyguard for the ship. I intend to put one of those chain gun shields on each arm of a CGUE base. From there I wanna replace it's shoulders with the quad wings and replace the side skirt armor with two of these funnel shield, skirt things." He said pointing to the option pack. At this point the amount of funnels he could field at once while having them on automated settings certainly rivaled the amount the MA from gundam 00: awakening of the trailblazer put out. Clearly though Alfred had more to say.

"I wanna add some missile racks to the legs from the GINN and the potato mashers from this option set here. Gonna mount a single katana on the back of the waist for CQB…annnnd….that's about it." He said, his accent certainly making the description interesting.

"What about colors? Any color changes?" asked Noah as he mulled over the concept and walked away down one isle.

"I was thinking green and black sir. Unless we have specific colors." stated Alfred as he followed his commander.

"Green and black is fine. My only requirements will be on the decals. Each machine will be required to have celestial beings symbol on it. But if your gonna go that whole route here's my suggestion. Till the final battle you are gonna be on patrol and guard duty for the colony and the ships. So along with those funnels which I'll help you write a program to allow you to launch and scatter them to turn them into mines that will activate if anyone enters an area, I want you to add extra thrusters for maneuvering and some speed…"he said, grabbing a model off the shelf and offering it to Alfred. It was a zaku mine layer.

"I want you to add on this backpack and whenever you're on patrol I want you to lay a mine field. Again I'll help you set up your OS to handle this but I think we can make you a great guard dog of sorts and great with laying traps and such." he stated as he watched Alfred think it over and finally nod.

"Yes sir. I think I can work with this. So my build is approved?" he asked.

Noah nodded. "For now. If you add anything else come to me first. Your machine is gonna be very handicapped by relying on so many funnels so if you go through with it your sticking yourself to the ships until you can master these." Stated Noah.

The coordinator nodded and went back to the counter to make sure he had everything.

A whole new world

Noah found Cecil looking in the iron blooded orphans section. What intrigued Noah was he had only a single unit in his hand, a modernized zaku two from the origin set, and was looking at the gusion rebake gundam.

"You know…the iron blooded orphans series really is quite unique in their gundam designs for one reason. Can you tell me what that is? The hint is the weapons." Stated Noah as Cecil jumped and looked at him.

Cecil then turned and looked at all the models from the aforementioned series. He picked a few up and looked them over. "No beam weapons. But why? Did they not wanna research it?" he asked as he set his model choices down.

Noah shrugged. "If I ever go there I'll ask. But to me it gives them a handicap in any gunpla battles. My guess is it has something to do with the fact they talk about something called the calamity war 300 years before the series starts. They don't show anything of it or go too deep into it but supposedly it brought humanity pretty close to annihilation or something. I can't remember. Been a while since I watched it." Said Noah, rubbing the back of his head.

"Either way during that war they made 72 gundam frames due to the difficult process it took to power them. It's also something that makes the models unique and highly customizable." said Noah as he opened a nearby 1/100th version of the gusion rebake box and pulled the still packed riggings out. "See these?" he asked, opening the instruction manual and showing the coordinator how the gundam had you build its frame first.

"Aside from certain parts even the high grades are like this. A lot of the series shares the same frame so parts are easily swapped. It's also how in the series the gusion rebake is even built. It is the definition of a salvage gundam. See after beating the gusion in battle, tekkaden takes it and breaks it down, rebuilding it and utilizing parts from it and the barbatos to make a new gundam on top of the gusions frame. They even use the gusions back armor to make the shield and its leg armor as the housing for the sub arms." Stated Noah, getting excited as he looked over the model.

Cecil smiled, seeing his boss in his natural element was surprising.

It was then Noah got an idea. "Tell you what. Since you lead the baker team and zaft is getting ahold of beam technology, therefore putting anything here at a disadvantage…if you wanted…and stay out of anything super advanced or beam technology from the weapon kits…I'd be ok with approving the use of a gundam from here as your upgrade. Besides with the gat series prototypes on the field and the freedom and justice now on the scene these are all technically outdated and outmatched….technically." said Noah with a smirk.

"But a smart coordinator like yourself can get around that can't you?" he asked to which Cecil smiled.

"I certainly can sir. But before I start what would you define as super advanced?"

Noah thought for a moment. "Basically remote weapons and beam technology for now. Other than that feel free to play around with whatever catches your eye." said Noah, patting Cecil's back before he walked off, knowing he had put plenty of ideas in the commander's head.

A whole new world

A couple hours later Noah finally decided to call it and had everyone grab the finishing touches on their models. They all had grabbed good selections in his opinion, even Nicol finding a few things to try his hand at modeling.

Cecil had grabbed basically every GUNDAM hg in the IBO section as well as all of the add-on kits. He also grabbed a few other high grades throughout the store. It looked to Noah like he may have had multiple ideas.

Valeria's pile on the front counter was somewhat small. It looked like she had a clear and definitive picture of what she wanted her custom suit to be.

Then there was the pile previously mentioned that Alfred had. Noah could only shake his head at the English-American coordinators plans. But at least that's what he and Cecil were. Coordinators. Both likely would build suits that even heero, master of the zero system would have trouble with.

He then looked to nicol's pile. It was small. A few Zeon kits, an hg cgue deep arms kit, and then a master grade kit of each of the gat series. Noah smiled at the, figuring he planned to remake the four proto-gundams out of nostalgia.

Finally he came to Nina's pile. Hers was almost as unique and tall as Cecil's but hers were all master grades or at least in the 1/100th scale. The issue Noah had was he couldn't get a feel for what all she was building.

The gundam builder turned pilot looked to Sei with a weak smile. "I can put all this on my tab right?" he asked. There was easily upwards of at least 2-3 grand worth of gunpla on the counter and that didn't count the Plaplate and paint they'd be adding during the build process. Noah could hear his banker screaming at him.

The famous creator of the build series of gunpla walked over and put a hand on his shoulder. "Tell ya what. You let me have a chance to go into your simulation, maybe even try piloting that build strike you had them build in orb…and it`s on the house." Said Sei, his grip firm on Noah's shoulder as both men chuckled.

"I think I can arrange something. Maybe backstage passes to lacus' next concert…err I guess it'd be Meer…anyways so…we all good?"

Sei nodded. "Just pay for the paint and styrene and yeah…we can call it even." He stated to which Noah nodded.

Noah turned to the five coordinators that he had brought with him and sighed. "Ok…now then each of us will be helping you guys build your own custom units…well mainly you three." He stated as he motioned to the three former DINN pilots.

"Nina, Nicol if you guys wanna just try building we can help but Nicol you have the blitz jaeger and Nina…sorry Hun but we can sort out a new machine for you later." He said to which they both nodded.

"That's kind of why I grabbed the models that I did. I figured I'd try my hand at "straight building" I think I've heard you calling it…before I try customizing." Said Nicol while Nina walked over to china and wrapped her arm around the world champs. "Me and china actually were gonna go upstairs and work on some things. She agreed to help me earlier." Stated the snow haired coordinator before she began gathering her pile of models and the two girls headed upstairs, leaving Noah, Luke, Nils and Sei to split up between the four pilots.

The group each found a spot to build in that fit their needs. Sei was helping Valeria at the register so she could get her recon GINN perfect wile Nils took Alfred so as to work out the complex machine he had imagined and Nils being an expert on complex gunpla.

Luke offered to work with Nicol as he was the least experienced builder out of the four and knew he could at least help him get down the basics with straight building.

That left Noah to help Cecil with his project…or projects as Noah discovered when him and Cecil began using the arena as a building space along with Nils and Alfred.

Whenever customers came in Sei would stop and help them or let them admire all the work being done as the models were built. Nicol just acted like he was a VERY dedicated cosplayer, even letting people take a few photos.

Noah would occasionally promote the game version of the simulation, usually boosting sales as people would love the idea of joining their favorite gundam characters in battle using certain mobile suits or they would see what everyone was building and get inspired for a custom unit.

Valeria was the first one done. Her model built and painted. An almost exact replica of the recon GINN except with celestial beings symbol added via decals to the radar dishes.

She was quick to try it on an old rival of sei's, sazaki when he came in who Sei was proud to basically spill the beans of Valeria's true identity as the gyan user had at this point become a world champion and was as cocky as ever…I mean he had to at some point right?

Of course she ended up fighting him on a space map with an asteroid belt. It didn't take long for her to make great use of her advanced recon abilities and hide till he ended up in a perfect position for her to finish him with a single shot through his cockpit.

As usual he couldn't understand how a rookie beat him, the 10th World Series champion, even after she explained just what all she did.

As the day went on Alfred finished his personal unit, currently a "no-name" mobile suit as he was not sure what to call it. The English-American coordinator though sadly spent the rest of the day working with Noah on coding his OS to work with all of the funnels.

The day ended with everyone gathering for a group photo, the machines they would be using for the foreseeable future in front of them.

Nina's aptly named "recon GINN" to shorten the title was a mixture of a midnight purple, black and with gold highlights. It stood proudly posed with its sniper rifle in hand in a relaxed posed.

Alfred's mobile suit was an olive green CGUE with the quad wings from the Kshatriya for its shoulders and modified CGUE shields on both arms, the main modifications being mounts to make them similar to the gouf custom shield. He had forgone the katana's and instead added storage racks for a pair of DINN heavy swords. A back up GINN rifle was stored on the back skirt but his side skirts had indeed been replaced with the MS option part set funnel skirts. The last modification was a pair of triple tube missile launchers on the legs.

The model was posed with its arms open along with the quad wings and skirt plates open as if it was launching the massive amount of funnels.

Cecil had decided to go with quite the unique creation in Noah's opinion. It was a gundam astaroth, a rather new and very customizable IBO model. The astaroth was painted in the gusion rebakes colors and had its legs swapped out with the gusion rebakes. The left arms was also switched and made to hold the rebakes shield. It had the rebakes binders aka the housing for its sub arms as well as the right arm was modified to have the larger support hand of the astaroth on it. He assumed this was to help it hold the gusion hammer which he had equipped it with.

Mounted on the back skirt armor was the gusion chopped and the sub arms were deployed for the posing in the picture. The right sub arm held the gusion rebakes long rifle while the left was holding the rebakes large axe. He could see the handle of the astaroths sword poking from the top of the shield and the left hand held the small submachine gun from the gusion kit. It seemed he intended to utilize the best of all three kits.

Finally the side skirts had been replaced with the thruster units from a barbatos sixth forms.

Nicol had his straight built master grade blitz in front of him and Nina had her rebuilt paladin in front of her.

Everyone smiled and was certainly proud of their builds. Some of the unbuilt or unused kits were put back to lower Noah's debt. Some were replaced with kits that would be needed for replacement parts and some, mainly Nina and Cecil, had the kits from their pile bagged up and ready to go back.

In truth Noah wished he could have brought everyone. He felt the whole group of the now formally made "three ships alliance" needed some R&R but this had mainly been an excursion for him to see just what his people may prefer in terms of fighting style and for Nina to get a glimpse of where he was from.

Nicol had been brought along basically as Noah's second in command. Dearka had been offered a spot but had instead opted to stay behind.

Once all was said and done they all rode the in van back to Nils's labs where the simulator cockpits were. While it had been a fun day for the most part everyone fell asleep on the way, Nils and Noah in the front discussing the nearly ready to launch game version of the simulator.

Nils had managed to make a clone of the zero system but had removed the bits of coding he identified had caused the system to evolve and trap Noah in the seed universe originally. It still held its predictive capabilities but with tighter security protocols that would prevent any further fourth wall breaking.

Right now the Yamaji Corporation was beginning production of the simulator cockpits and setting up deals with various arcades and hobby shops to allow them the rights to have the cockpits in their stores or arcade venues.

When Noah had come back for the gunpla that would become the baker teams mobile suits for the battle of orb it had only been about a half hour in "reality" but in the time since then almost a month had passed. It seemed the time flux was so far unable to be accurately pinpointed in terms of the difference in the passage of time.

It did concern Noah that by the time the bloody valentine conflict ended who knew how much time would pass. While in truth it didn't entirely matter. He whole heartedly planned to basically "vacation" here but otherwise live in orb…unless of course Nina decided otherwise.

He already knew the coordinator wanted kids. And while that was hard enough for a coordinator to conceive naturally it was made even harder by him being a natural. Ultimately they likely would have to go the coordinator route, which was not possible here in reality.

Adoption was an option but he couldn't see Nina being over joyed at that prospect. She was artificially created by the zero system. She'd want an actual family of her own given her "memories" of her family were not only false but hazy at best.

Regardless when he did come here he feared he'd come back to some kind of sci-fi, cryogenically frozen into the future scenario where all his friends and fellow builders were all old, old men while he was still young and had a long life ahead of him.

When they pulled into the labs parking area Noah gently woke everyone. The group made their way back to the cockpits sleepily, Noah surprised such "advanced and superior beings" could be so sleepy after just a day of model building.

Eventually everyone was piled into the two cockpits and Luke was awake enough to run the program. Once on the other side the group made their ways to their assigned bunks, Noah though still wide awake so he helped Nina into bed before he went to explore the ship.

He was proud of Alice not only for such an amazing job building the ship but the fact she had been so proud of her "baby" she had somewhat taken control of ship operations, leaving Noah time to prepare for the upcoming battles.

He found her passed out in the hangar at one of the modeling benches, the framework for some new ship half built. Finding a blanket he covered her up and went to the other work bench, getting some supplies of his own he grabbed from reality out and started work on repairing his array of custom models.

A whole new world

Lunar base shipyard, 8 hours since battle of orb

Natarle looked over the information one more time as she sat on the bridge of her new command. Made a captain, she was appointed as the captain of the new vessel known as the dominion. The second ship of the archangel class she could only find it ironic as she looked over the ships specs. She remembered murrue telling her she'd be an amazing captain one day. Would she?

They already had their first assignment and the next day they would begin running combat training sims in a module developed around the known capabilities of the archangel and her mobile suit compliment.

Thanks to the battles at orb they had a good idea of the new blitz and busters capabilities so she was developing strategies to get around them. The three other mobile suits that were unknowns however she didn't bother with, knowing they were ground based mobile suits, amphibious in the blue monstrosity's case. They wouldn't be facing them in space.

Those three pilots…well two unless the pilot of the unidentified artillery suit survived his suits destruction. But those three would be an unknown variable in any fight they had.

Then there was the new ship that clearly was owned by celestial being if the GN drives were any indication. What secrets it held they would likely find out in their first engagement. Another unknown.

All this and throw in Noah's new beast and she was worried about how well they would fair in a fight.

And what about those mobile suits that randomly appeared amidst the battle? Would they make another appearance?

Finally the new captain threw the tablet…well as best she could in zero gravity. "Azreal you bastard…you're gonna get us all killed." She growled. She had looked over footage from the battle to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the new gat series prototypes. They were uncoordinated, undisciplined, and violent. They fired on the enemy, on friendly troops, hell they fired on each other.

The best one out of them all was the sword calamity. And he had disobeyed orders just to hunt down Noah! And to top it off long side them they had mostly green MS pilots in strike daggers and the new buster daggers, a customized variant of the strike dagger built based on the combat data from the buster.

Because also of the battle of orb they were having to take extra time to restock their supply of mobile suits. Given Noah's aggressive stance along with all of celestial being and the mystery mobile suits towards the daggers she assumed that was Noah's goal.

That gave Natarle some relief. It would give them time to rest and repair the archangel while her battle group was assembled. Originally they were going to just send the dominion after the archangel but after orb azreal was certain they`d need a full battle group.

It would be made up of eight frigates, 5 destroyers and three refit carriers, all of which aside from the frigates would have even a small MS compliment.

She was looking at nearly 150 mobile suits and 50 mobile armors all together. A massive force to be sure but she knew half of that was to try and tie up Noah.

She pushed herself out of her chair and began to trip down to her quarters. She was getting a headache trying to work all the potential strategies out.

A whole new world

Mendel colony, 2 hours since Noah returned with the baker team

Rozene had just come on duty and sat in what was deemed the captain's chair for the bridge on the purgatory. The crew was preparing the ship to head out and start creating a screen of GN particles to try and mask the hangars entrance from the enemy.

As she got reports from the bridge crew she glanced to her personal terminal to see the blitz jaeger returning from its patrol. Because of how many pilots the four ships had the patrols often overlapped so as Nicol came in she also watched on another camera as the justice returned and the freedom was launched.

Once the hangar doors closed with Nicol securely on board she heard they were ready to launch. "Let's take it slow people. Consider this our maiden voyage. I have approval from the other captains for us to use this as a chance to familiarize ourselves with the ships operations so we will be running a few drills. Bring the ship to level 2 battle stations and have the baker team, on standby." She commanded and within moments the orders were being given out.

She glanced back to her monitor and saw the freedom beside them, likely guiding them out before it broke off after they were clear of the hangar.

"Captain we've reached the designated distance from the hangar." Called out her helmsman.

"Good. See if you can bring us to a full stop and slowly increase our particle output. Weapons do we have anything in the way of depth charges?" she asked as she felt the ship slowly come to a halt.

The woman manning the weapons station turned to her captain. "We have a few ma'am though they are in missile form with a proximity setting." She stated.

"Good. I want you to plot out a good screen amongst the asteroids to seed with those. Any idea the life span of the missiles or the payload?" the captain asked.

"The payload is interchangeable via a system in the missile bay I guess but they are currently set to a heavy particle smoke screen designed for beam diffusion I guess. And life span as makeshift depth charges…I'm not certain." Stated the green haired girl.

Rozene nodded. "Good. Plot out that screen and prep the missiles. I don't want them sneaking up on us without a surprise of our own."

The weapons operator nodded and set to work prepping the requested screen.

"Is the baker team prepped?"

"Yes ma'am. Should I have them launch?" asked one of the CIC members.

"Yes. I want them to run some maneuvers in their machines, get adjusted to them. Weapons coordinate with Alfred for his "funnel defense". Communications have Valeria head out to the edge of the belt and see what her radars pick up." Ordered the blue haired coordinator.

"And what about Cecil ma'am?"

"Have him run time trials on his machine. Plot an obstacle course amongst the nearby asteroids that will have him going out as far as possible and then coming back to us. Add in simulated targets along his route."

With that her crew began to carry out her orders. So far everything was going smoothly. She hoped their first battle would go just as smooth.

A whole new world

Cecil grunted as he jinked to the right, dodging a shot from one of his simulated targets. They may only shot up on his radar and monitor in a video like format but to combine an actual moving time trial with this…well suffice to say he was smiling as he used his side skirt thrusters too boost past the fake strike dagger, aiming his gun and pulling the trigger at its back. In the program his left arm raised and his submachine gun opened up, all but a couple rounds out of a five round burst finding their target and causing the dagger to blow up.

So far his new machine was beating out every expectation. Turning from the remains of the dagger he boosted along his plotted route. Diving under an asteroid he flew close and used the slipstream effect to launch out from under it and right into a group of programmed daggers.

His first pass he caught one dagger on his axe and bisected it at the waist. Catching a beam saber on his shield he grimaced as the reinforced shield began to melt under the saber, slowly but still it wouldn't hold as well as he hoped.

Activating his sub arms he pulled his long rifle and the gusion hammer off his back, the long rifle targeting a dagger that tried to sneak up on him and nailed it in the cockpit.

The sub arm holding the hammer meanwhile brought it around and bashed the strike dagger away from him. As the dagger was pushed back it tried to go for its rifle but Cecil beam them to it, burying the massive axe in the enemy torso. Letting it go for now as he reached back and grabbed the gusion chopper.

Spinning to meet the final dagger he used his melted shield to bash away the pilots beam rifle and then activated the jets on the back of the chopper, bringing the massive blade down on the enemy's shield, through that and again burying it in his torso.

With the fact the weapons were currently simulated, his mobile suit technically going through the motions but not actually grabbing say weapons or firing said guns, he boosted off, knowing he needed to pick up the pace.

When he got back to the ship finally captain Rozene pinged him on his comms. Opening it he saw a displeased look on her face.

"Sorry captain. I need to make some modifications to the gundam I think." He stated as he sent over the footage the simulation captured.

"Speed wise you did fine getting between checkpoints. Your thrusters on the side skirts certainly helped make up for any distance between you and each checkpoint after a fight. Those fights however are my only concern. One on one you do fine, even against 2 opponents. But when you encounter an entire squad your machine can barely keep up." She stated.

"Yes ma'am and I am aware of that but those are the modification I need to make. If you look at the footage my shield can't block beams and my axes can only cut through an enemy if I have speed behind them. I need to somehow upgrade them to be heat weapons." He said as the hangar doors opened and he took that as his cue to come inside.

"Well make sure you make those upgrades quick. We used Noah's zero system for the data on those daggers so it should be spot on accurate. We need that gundam ready for when we get company." She stated.

Cecil nodded as he landed his mobile suit in the hangar. He certainly had some work to do.

A whole new world

Dearka took a sip from his canteen as he sat in his bunk, his flight suit open and tied around his waist as miriallia sat behind him on her knees, massaging his shoulders. She was only wearing her uniform coat and had gotten off her shift on the bridge just as he had returned from his patrol. To say they were in somewhat of a honeymooners phase of their budding relationship was an understatement.

But it was also understandable. After all with her on the bridge and him a mobile suit pilot both were in high risk positions. And they were both 16…what teenager is gonna pass up a chance to have another warm body in bed with them when they could die at any time in their next battle?

The natural brunette pressed herself to him and kissed his cheek, the blonde coordinator reaching up t to hold one of her hands. Even if Dearka had met her on one of his deployments in zaft, like any soldier did he used to check out the local girls, but even if he met her on some deployment to earth a relationship like there's would almost be considered taboo with where his parents were in the food chain.

She looked to the new model sitting in dearka's quarters. To cut down on launch times he left the buster panzer scanned and stowed in the hangar. Murdoch had his scanner so that post operations he can de-scan the buster and do what repairs he could or just de-scan it and re-scan it in so as to refresh its ammo.

On his desk though was the master grade model of the buster that Nicol built for him. Getting up the brunette grabbed the model, her bare rear swaying slightly knowing Dearka was obviously watching. Coming back she literally fell/plopped down on the bunk they basically shared and examined the model of dearka's former mobile suit.

"You ever miss the normal controls?" asked miriallia, leaning against him as she messed with the gunpla's arms.

Dearka shrugged. "Sometimes. The haptic controls are interesting but I need something better to control all those missiles." He said as he reached out to put a hand on her leg.

She brought one of the hands up and looked at it, the finger piece to make it a balled fist currently installed. "You know I've always wondered and never bothered to ask Kira. I`ve seen mobile suits pick up people and other things…since it wouldn't be scripted in the operating system to pick up every little object in the world…how do you do it?" she asked softly, admiring nicol's work.

Her fellow teen chuckled. "That's an odd question to ask. But I can see how it'd be something interesting to you." He said and watched her smile. "It's actually pretty cool and why some pilots can treat a mobile suit as an extension of themselves if they pilot it long enough." He said, sitting up and closing his eyes as he envisioned himself in the buster's cockpit. His hands came up and gripped invisible bars, the control sticks for the arm.

The natural girl watched as he separated each finger to sit on invisible buttons. "The arm rakes of a mobile suit cockpits have five buttons. One for each finger. You put pressure on each one to control each finger. In theory a mobile suit could be used in a super delicate manner. There was one time during my time at the academy I had a dream I took a GINN to someplace snowy, like Siberia or something and used the fact I could control the hands like that to make this giant snow man." he said listening to her giggle at his dream.

"That actually sounds like fun. Maybe when the war ends we could take the buster panzer and make some snowmen like that." She said to which he kissed her forehead.

"Maybe…first I'll have to put in for some time off with Noah." Joked the blonde coordinator to which she gave him a gentle nudge.

"Honestly if we are gonna make this work you have to try and not focus so much on work." She joked back before leaning against him again.

"I'll try to work on that." He said before he laid back and she rolled on top of him.

And once again that is left behind closed doors.

A whole new world

Noah was busy on his tablet, working on trying to sort out an operating system that would work for the buster panzer. His Gabriel gundam stood in the berth next to the formerly proto-type gundam while he was aboard the archangel.

The gunpla builder/genius growled as he ran a simulation and once again ran into the same issue of his latest attempt to separate the different missile types and launchers so Dearka didn't have to fire almost all of them at once. Still only the knees could be properly separated. Otherwise the missiles tracking software switched to heat seeking and ended up targeting friendlies by accident even if he previously had the enemy targeted.

This was mostly due to the justice and freedom's thrusters producing so much heat while giving them their speed they over rode the tracking.

Finally Noah resorted to trying to add in basically haptic haro's like in the dynames line of mobile suits.

One haro almost did it but the fact it was still tied into the same system overloaded the haro as it tried to process it all.

Two haro's and they didn't get overloaded but still they could barely handle the load.

Deciding three haro programs would crowd the cockpit he gave up. There was only one solution.

He needed help…

Closing the program and resetting the buster back to where Dearka had it he headed towards the ready room and then on into the ship. He had to find the Casanova coordinator.

They were gonna take a little trip.

A whole new world

So I hope you guys enjoy that I'm posting like…2 updates and two chapters all at once. I also hope you're enjoying the story so far. Currently Alfred and Cecil's mobile suits have no names. Alfred's isn't super important but considering I may leave Cecil in his custom IBO machine I am putting out a contest for ideas for a name.

Also let me know what you think of my designs. I figured I'm making Alfred want a challenge. What's a better challenge then being brand new to remote weapons and yet you now have to control like…almost 100 funnels.

Concerning Dearka and miriallia. If I recall as I'm writing this the story is set as teen rated. So writing smut is out of the question at the moment. As previously stated I am not getting many reviews. So those of you wanting that door opened and some bed action written in I'm gonna wanna see a nice jump in reviews…though the ones only regarding the gundam name contest and with no other feedback will be disregarded.

Speaking of contest actually also gonna copy a page out of nemesis' book again and let you know I'm looking for help making a new OC for the side story I'm gonna start involving Dearka and Noah's trip to gundam 00.

My only requirements are:

I`m looking for a female

And sadly I'm looking for custom crossbone gundams for her machine…so not really looking for a custom machine to go with her unless it has the crossbone for a base.

And no this has nothing to do with the one girl in another one of the spin off. I recently build the MG ver. Ka crossbone and have been somewhat obsessed with the designed. Especially the cloak, not the full cloak, that fabric cloak.

Oh and it must be capable of having a GN drive for the power source though I'd prefer it not be another variation of the crossbone/exia fusion that I already have Alice assigned to.

Also these entries won't count towards the review count for the upgrade to m-rating.

As always please review, don't care if your gonna flame me, just say good job keep it up, whatever.

Hope you're enjoying the fic.