Autumn woke up in a cold sweat, he gasped for air as he put his hand on his moist forehead. He took deep breaths trying to calm himself down. He rolled out of his small cot into the zero gravity sleeping quarters. He looked around the room, he could hear snoring from a few of the cots, it looked like he was the only one awake. He effortlessly floated down towards a window in the sleeping area. He gazed out into the blackness of space, each star twinkled with it's own unique pattern, it almost hypnotized Autumn. He closed eyes and thought back to his nightmare. The old battleship, the poor child in the GM being stepped on, Wally's face after they had their fight. It had been days since the incident and everything had been relatively quiet. Wally hadn't spoken to him since, whenever they would see each other it was just awkward silence. Wally was always a follower, Autumn knew this. This war would change him, and not for the better.
He thought back to his days as a young child on Side 3. How he wanted so badly to soar the stars in a mobile suit. Now that he got where he wanted to be, was it really what he wanted? He wasn't sure anymore after seeing what combat was really like. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He remembered the smell of his mother's cooking before she passed away. He would give anything just for a bite.
When he opened his eyes, he saw something peculiar outside the window. A beam blast flew by out of nowhere and struck the side of a near by Musai class cruiser. The small explosion cascaded and the ship eventually blew itself to pieces. The explosion rocked the carrier that Autumn was on causing all of the sleeping soldiers to wake up. People started crawling out of their cots trying to figure out what was happening. The alarm in the ship blared and the captain came over the intercom. "All pilots report to your mobile suits! We are under attack! All hands to your battle stations! Defend this ship at all costs!" said the captain in a panic. Autumn sprinted his way down to the hanger bay, every bone in his body was telling him to run to the escape pods, but he would be shot on sight for that. When he reached the hanger bay everyone was rushing about trying to get into their mobile suits. Autumn opened his cockpit and quickly climbed inside sealing the door behind him. His old Zaku powered up and grabbed it's large machine gun. Before he could fuel his mobile suit, a beam crashed into the rear of the hanger bay detonating the fuel reserves. The explosion knocked Autumn's mobile suit out of the hanger bay and into the blackness of space.
Autumn fiddled with the controls and tried to regain control of the tumbling mobile suit, but without fuel he wasn't going to go anywhere. It was silent, except for the sound of Autumn's heavy breathing and some faint jazz playing through his mobile suit radio. Whoever was destroying the fleet was also listening to music. Autumn's Zaku slammed into a chunk of building debris, the mobile suit pulled itself up and out of the debris and took position on the building with it's gun ready. He tried to get a lock onto the enemy mobile suit but it was way too fast for his tracking to keep up. The enemy mobile suit blasted through all of the ships in his fleet with ease. By now some GMs had also joined the fight. Autumn fired aimlessly towards the mobile suits, hoping one of his stray shots would hit, but to no avail. The enemy mobile suit stopped for a moment and fired it's last shot. It then retreated into the darkness toward the main colony. Autumn was still breathing heavily, he rubbed his face with his hands and tried to calm himself down. He reached back for the controls and reloaded his Zaku machine gun.
The flaming carrier slowly drifted above Autumn, although the ship was essentially destroyed, no escape pods were launched from what it looked like. The crew intended to stick it out until the end. Autumn saw no other choice but to leap for the ship. He had to get back to his squad somehow and without any fuel, it was his only choice. His Zaku leaped up off of the debris and sped towards the damaged carrier. The Zaku slammed into the hull of the ship thrashing Autumn's head into his control console. Autumn went numb for a moment as his Zaku slid down the hull of the massive ship. Autumn regained his bearings and tried to grab at the metal of the ship with his mobile suit. The large Zaku hands scraped across the hull as it tried to get a grip. The mobile suit slid off the end of the ship and into the vastness of space.
Wally punched the wall of the ship. "That damn traitor! I knew something was up with him! First the scavenging incident and now this, I'll have him for treason." said Wally blinded by Zeon patriotism. The rest of the carrier crew was taking refuge in the sleeping quarters of the ship. The on-board science team was planning on detonating the engine room in the event of any Federation forces boarding the damaged vessel. The crew, what was left of it, was not in the best shape. Many people had burns, cuts, and severed limbs. Small droplets of blood, sweat, and maybe even tears floated throughout the room. Over the intercom, all that was playing was some slow and calming music. Some of the crew were mouthing along with the words, others were humming softly, and the rest were just sitting in silence.
Autumn took a deep breath, when he exhaled he saw a cloud of his own breath. His cockpit was freezing cold and the controls were stiff. His mobile suit had run out of power and was now drifting through space aimlessly. Small chunks of debris would bounce off the armor of his Zaku. All he could do now was hope someone would stumble across him. Autumn had gotten control over his breathing, his exterior appeared still and calm no matter how panicked he was on the inside. That's one thing he was praised for when he was a kid, no matter how hurt or scared he was, he would never cry. The adults in the slums liked that, being a cry baby where he grew up was unacceptable. Autumn pulled his legs up to his torso and wrapped his arms around them. He was doing whatever he could to stay warm, he didn't want to be an ice cube for whoever found him.
Autumn heard a sound come from outside the cockpit. It didn't sound like debris or gunfire, but it sounded like mechanical arms working around. Before he could pinpoint what it was his cockpit started shaking. Something outside was moving his mobile suit, he shouted and banged on the side of the cockpit to get the attention of whoever was out there. There was no response. Before he could try anything else, his mobile suit smashed into something. Autumn's head smashed into the side of the cockpit knocking him out cold.
Back at the fleet, a gunfight had broken out on the carrier. Federation forces had boarded the ship and were attempting to take what was left of the ship. Something happened with the science team, they had failed to detonate the engine room leaving the crew to fend off the overwhelming Federation force. Wally had fled the sleeping quarters and was running down to the escape pods, if there were any left. He ran down hallways as smoke choked his lungs. When he turned the corner he saw that one escape pod was still left. He quickly opened the hatch and climbed inside. Without hesitation he launched the pod from the crippled carrier. As he speeds away from the carrier, a massive explosion rocks what's left of the ship. 3 GMs and a Guncannon back away as the final explosion destroys the ship.
The resulting shockwave sends Wally's escape pod into an uncontrollable spin. Wally feels around the cockpit for anyway to control the spiraling escape pod. Just when Wally had run out of hope, his pod suddenly stops dead in his tracks. He looks out the window and his eyes light up. A Zeon Gelgoog had caught his pod. The mono-eye twisted toward the cockpit before rolling back forward. Two more Gelgoogs fly past Wally and his ally towards the ruins of the carrier. They both open fire on the retreating GMs and Guncannon. The Guncannon twists around and fires it's large shoulder cannons at the two incoming mobile suits. They counter these shots with their shields and return fire with their beam rifles. One of the shots hits the Guncannon's ammo reserve causing the top half of the mobile suit to explode leaving behind a floating pair of legs. The GMs rush forward with their beam sabers drawn. The first Gelgoog thrusts forward and grabs the closest GM by the arm. The GM struggles to get out of the Zeon mobile suit's grasp. The Gelgoog rips the beam saber out of the GM's hand and twists it into the cockpit. It throws the limp mobile suit at the second GM knocking it back. The second Gelgoog carefully picks off the two GMs with it's beam rifle.
The two Gelgoogs return to the one holding Wally's escape pod. They all seem to stare at each other, but Wally knows they're probably talking to each other via their radios. After a few moments, The three mobile suits get into formation and fly off back to their fleet with Wally in their grasp...