SUPER ROBOT WARS LW
CHAPTER 01
Three years had passed.
Thanks to efforts of the brave men and women, the world had been saved from destruction brought upon by the likes of the Ze Balmary Empire, the Divine Crusaders, the Einst and the Shadow Mirror, and mankind once again owned their existence to these warriors. They, who were referred to as the Super Robot Heroes, banded together and joined force as one, fighting against the impossible and braving the odds to reach victory.
With peace, came a new threat.
An interstellar crime organization that would be known as the Green Sphere began their bid to unleash terror under their New World Order flag. Provoking a global-scale war for their own benefit, the Green Sphere would stop at nothing to achieve their goal of total supremacy -- even at the cost of humankind's survival.
Now, again, our bands of heroes shall rise again and raise the flag of peace. They, whom people had revered for their blazing spirit and never-ending courage, will once again pierce through the highest of heavens above and fly beyond tomorrow to fight for freedom and justice.
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// Iwo Jima //
"PLASMA SPIRAL DIVE!!!!!"
The DaiRaiOh crashed. The surrounding drones were obliterated by the powerful dive kick the Dynamic General Guardian. An impact crater was what was left from the Plasma Spiral Dive, and from within the dust the DaiRaiOh emerged in its prowess.
"Damage reading was over 9000," Minaki Tomine informed. "Good job, DaiRaiOh."
The DaiRaiOh's pilot sighed. "Hey, come on. Can we redo the training run? I need to break the ten thousand-barrier record," Touma Kano uttered.
"That's enough, Touma," Minaki replied. "You've been pushing yourself too much today. Let's give it a break, okay?"
"What? Don't tell me you didn't know what we had done the other day," Touma chided. "It was the most hot-blooded fight we had ever gone through! And the east… the east… IT WAS BURNING RED!!!!"
"Cut it out," Minaki sighed. "Get down here. I need to show you DaiRaiOh's latest data."
"Okay, okay."
The DaiRaiOh knelt. Its cockpit opened, and Touma jumped off the super robot as to meet up with Simon and Yoko. "You were so awesome," Kittan Bachika praised. "Your dive kick was the greatest attack I've ever seen." His sisters nodded to agree.
Touma laughed braggingly. "But I have to say Simon and his Gurren Lagann are the best ever. I mean, GIGA DRILL BREAKER? What kind of winning attack is that?"
Kittan grinned. "I bet Simon will be happy to hear it."
Touma, Kittan and the sisters headed to the camp. There, they meet the crews of the Kurogane, and things did not look quite well. "What's the commotion we're having here?" Touma asked.
"One of our allies in Siberia reported the sighting of an unknown mecha attacking the Earth Federation's patrols," Brooklyn "Bullet" Luckfield said as he approached them. "Kyosuke and Excellen have been sent to the area to investigate as we speak. Amuro is also there to help."
"Is there any problem going on, Bullet?" Yoko asked.
"Let me show you." Bullet showed them a video playback of an encounter between the Earth Federation patrol team and an unknown jet black-painted Real Trooper. "This video was sent to the Kurogane twenty minutes ago by the Earth Federation Army. They were asking for our opinion regarding the recorded event," he explained.
Touma watched the video, as so did Simon, Yoko and the rest of the crews. His attention was fixated on the jet black Real Trooper, and his curiosity rose as to see the machine's combat capability against the patrolling units.
"Holy crap! Is that a Huckebein?!"
Touma's eyebrow arched upward. "Huckebein?"
"Not only a Huckebein," Sanger Zonvolt spoke (standing next to him, Irui was sweetly smiling to Kittan's sisters). "It's a Mark III. As far as we're concerned, the possibility for a third Mark III to exist is close to none, and yet the video just showed us."
"It seemed the patrol had dealt with an entirely new version of Huckebein," Hikawa Ryoto added. "Whoever built the Mark III must have acquired the blueprints from Mao Industries."
"That doesn't sound good, does it?" Kittan asked.
Ryoto nodded. "Until we can figure out who built it and what they're up to with the Mark III, it is best that we investigate the incident."
Touma took no attention to the ongoing conversation. His eyes were completely glued onto the jet black Huckebein; his curiosity turned into awe when the Huckebein performed a series of kick-based attacks and ended the spree with a dive kick not too dissimilar to Plasma Spiral Dive.
"Whoever performed those moves must be an expert martial artist or have trained under an accomplished guru," Sanger spoke.
"What does that supposed to mean?" Kittan asked.
"That means whoever piloting that Huckebein is now officially my rival!" Touma declared and suddenly cried hot-blooded tears of manliness. "That dive kick… it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my whole life!"
"Oi, oi," Bullet murmured.
"Yosh! It's been decided!" Touma bellowed and pointed to the ceiling. "I shall pierce through tomorrow with my heavenly kick and challenge that person into a duel!" Everybody laughed at Touma's imitation of Simon's "heaven-transcending" speech and clapped hands to his antics.
"I think Simon won't be happy when he heard that," Kittan chuckled.
"Ne, Bullet-kun," Irui spoke and shattered everyone's attention to the DaiRaiOh operator as they looked at the little girl, "where's Kusuha-oneechan?"
"Oh, Kusuha? I think she's preparing her health drink again," Bullet said.
(At the Kurogane's kitchen, Kusuha was preparing the health drink with the help of Rätsel Feinschmecker when she suddenly sneezed. "Cold, Kusuha?" Rätsel asked.
"It must be Bullet again," Kusuha mumbled.)
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// Siberia //
"Did you find anything down there?"
The Alt Eisen Riese slowly waded through the debris, stopping as it feet was entangled in branches and woods. "How am I supposed to find anything if I'm getting stuck here every minute?" Kyosuke Nanbu retorted.
"Because you're the only one who can handle the wreckage," Excellen Browning replied. "You don't have to be grumpy, you know?"
"Then come down here and give me some hand," Kyosuke insisted.
The Weiss Ritter descended to ground level. Excellen took her time observing the football pitch-sized crater that stretched across the forest. "Talk about impact," she cooed. "Kyosuke, you think anything can produce a crater this size?"
"I don't know," Kyosuke answered and brought the Alt Eisen Riese towards remains of a Strike Dagger. "And this doesn't look like it was attacked by…"
"This is Amuro. Kyosuke, Excellen, do you find anything useful?"
The two custom-built Gespensts looked up, and saw the Hi V Gundam hovering over their head. "Not even a single piece of the wrecks is useful," Excellen muttered. "I mean, look. All of them are totally busted. What we can do about it?"
The Mobile Suit hovered next to the Weiss Ritter. "It's better that we continue investigating," Amuro said. "Though I'm wondering of who would do this, too."
"You know, you sound as cool as always, Amuro," Excellen said and was about to follow the Mobile Suit when the Weiss Ritter's alarm set off. "Enemy? Kyosuke! What's your radar reading?"
Kyosuke noticed the map was showing sudden influx of activities, marked by blipping red dots that riddled the LCD screen. "We have unknown units all around us!"
From nowhere, tens of Gespensts and Doms surrounded them, pinning them down with machinegun assault and rocket bombardment. The Alt Eisen Riese and the Weiss Ritter immediately jumped out of danger and counterattacked with their long-ranged weapons. The Hi V Gundam fired its Beam Rifle at the attacking Doms and flew over the custom-built Gespensts.
"Rätsel! We're under attack! Can you hear us?" Excellen shouted into the intercom and screamed in dismay as one of the Gespensts pounced at her. "Hey! You don't want to learn to respect other woman, do you?" she growled and fired the Oxtongue Rifle at the opposing Gespenst.
"Our communication's jammed!" Amuro yelled and dodged an incoming missile fired from the Dom. "We can't contact the Kurogane! We're cut off!"
Kyosuke discharged the Revolver Bunker cartridges. He dodged another Gespenst's missiles and counterattacked with 60mm Vulcan. "What the hell's going on?" he demanded.
"There's just too many of them!" Excellen moaned and fired her Oxtongue Rifle at several Doms. "How are we supposed to deal with them!?"
The Hi V Gundam repelled a Heat Sabre and fired its pulse rifle through the Mobile Suit. It deployed its Fin Funnel to create a moving barrier to keep the assailants away from it and Team ATX. "We can't get through them, either! Kyosuke, Excellen, stay close to me," Amuro said.
"Roger!"
Amidst the confusion and disorder from the ambush, the three units manage to hear a news report broadcasted on their frequency, and were aghast to hear the news. "This just in. The Baikonur Cosmodrome has fallen to the Green Sphere in a pre-emptive strike that killed 200 Kazakh soldiers. Led by their Heavenly General Lords, the Green Sphere gains control over the space centre and is broadcasting their supreme leader's speech around the world."
Amuro gasped. "Terrorists?"
"What? No way!" The Weiss Ritter fired a shot at the pouncing Gespenst and approached the Alt Eisen Riese for cover. "What are we supposed to do now? Kyosuke, got any idea?"
"Everybody, duck!"
Amuro, Kyosuke and Excellen were not sure who was shouting at them, but they did what the voice told them. Immediately the three mechas ducked low, and instantly afterwards a loud bang was heard from across the pine forest. A super-compressed energy bullet was fired from beneath the woods and exploded over the grunts, wiping out one-quarter of the divisions.
"What is that?" Excellen asked and squealed in dismay when another energy bullet exploded overhead.
"Team ATX! This is your chance! Counterattack!"
They were unsure of what the help was for.
"Do it!"
And they did.
The Alt Eisen Riese jumped out of its crouching position and fired its Vulcan at one of the Doms. The Mobile Suit was knocked out of its feet, and the Alt Eisen Riese pounced at the Dom.
"Eat this!"
The Revolving Bunker penetrated the Dom's armour, and the iron stake slammed into the Mobile Suit in quick succession before the Dom was released from its grip. The Dom crashed onto several Gespensts and exploded. The Alt Eisen Riese walked away from the exploded, cartridges unloaded from the Revolving Bunker.
"Wow! Kyosuke is always cool!" Excellen turned around and dodged a Gespenst's Jet Magnum. "Now, now, would you like to have some lesson about respect?" She stabbed the Oxtongue Rifle into the Gespenst's midsection and disintegrated the Personal Trooper with a well-aimed E-Mode. "How about that?" she said and reloaded the rifle.
Amuro regained control of the Fin Funnel and turned to the other Gespensts and Doms. "Go! Fin Funnel!" The weapon system swarmed the robots and pinned them down, allowing Amuro to fire the Beam Cannon at the robots.
The threat was eliminated. The three robots met with each other and gathered at the empty patch of the area. They looked around them; while they felt accomplished with what they had achieved, they could not help feeling suspicious of the sudden act of aggression.
"Terrorists? I can't believe such thing does actually exist," Excellen mumbled and kicked one of the crippled Doms. "Just what the hell happened?"
"Excellen, calm down," Kyosuke said.
"How am I supposed to calm down," Excellen murmured and continued kicking the Dom, "when nobody here can tell me the actual truth?"
"Are you alright, Team ATX?"
They turned around. Two robots came out of their hiding spot and walked toward them. "That looks like Advanced Real Troopers," Kyosuke spoke. "Are you here to investigate the incident as well?"
"That's true, Team ATX. However, that is all you need to know," one of the Advanced Real Troopers' pilots spoke.
"Why are you… no! That's not the problem," Excellen replied. "Who are you?"
The Advanced Real Troopers halted. They looked at each other, nodded and turned back to the Rein Weiss Ritter. "We are the Pistoleros," the pilot replied. "Pleased to meet you."
"The Pistoleros…" Amuro murmured. "I thought I had heard of this name before." He noticed one of the Doms arising from the ground and jumped towards the Advanced Real Trooper. "Behind you!"
The robot turned around. The Dom was aiming the Heat Blade at its head.
"Watch out!"
The Heat Blade was deftly blocked.
The Advanced Real Trooper was slightly pressed into the ground as it endured the head-on attack. Everybody looked at the robot and saw a strange-looking sword held in its hand.
"So, shall we dance?"
The Advanced Real Trooper kicked the Dom out of the way.
"Let's go, Beowulf!"
The Advanced Real Trooper fired away. The Dom received six precision-aimed attacks and was crippled all over again as the HE bullets exploded. The second Advanced Real Trooper took action and fired its rifle at the Dom, further damaging it.
The green/white Advanced Real Trooper knelt down.
"Gun Blade Strike Mode… Execute!"
It pounced at the Dom. The Advanced Real Trooper -- the Beowulf -- incapacitated the Dom's limbs and left it without arms and legs. The attacking spree ended when the Beowulf impaled the sword into the Dom and fired six HE bullets into it. It kicked the Dom out of the way as to allow the other Advanced Real Trooper to finish off where it had left.
"Saunion Rifle Ballistic Mode!!"
The Advanced Real Trooper fired multiple solid projectiles at the Dom. The attack completely destroyed the Mobile Suit, and nothing was left as the Dom was caught in a massive explosion that lit the sky. The robot turned away from the explosion and unloaded empty cartridges off the Saunion Rifle.
The Advanced Real Troopers glanced at them. "We don't have much time," the Beowulf's pilot spoke. "We should be going to Hokkaido right away. Your presence will be highly welcomed."
"Wait! Just wait!" Excellen exclaimed (and stopped the Advanced Real Troopers on their tracks). "I don't know what really happened, but… are we at war again?"
"Sadly, yes," the pilot replied. "It's unlike anything anyone of you has faced before."
The Advanced Real Troopers headed towards an arriving airship. Team ATX and Amuro were left behind in the wilderness of Siberian outback. They were confused; what kind of war the Pistoleros were talking of? It could not be happening: with the threats of the Aerogaters, the Ze Balmary Empire and the Divine Crusaders gone, the world should have been at peace. It should have been, and yet with the terrorists rising, they could not afford to let peace slip away in harm.
"Okay…" Excellen uttered and turned to Kyosuke and Amuro. "What are we supposed to do now?"