Mobile Suit Gundam Resurrection
Episode 4: Encounter at Luna 12
Temuro Maki, a 17 year old boy struggling to live in the lunar city of Fra Maura finds himself in the middle of a battle between the Federation and the Sedition. Like many boys before him, he finds himself in the Gundam, the Federation's secret weapon. Now the Pegasus arrives at Luna 12 after suffering two enemy assaults, but there will be little rest for them.
The Pegasus docks in the huge spaceport of Luna 12. Some crew members disembark the ship along with Captain Senion, Temuro, Masaki, and Alissa. Alissa looks around in awe at the huge spaceport and rows of Federation ships.
"Whoa, this place is huge."
The Captain walks up to Alissa.
"Of course, this is a major base for the Federation. The Federation established a huge space weapons research facility here before the war the began.."
A Federation admiral in his forties approaches the Captain. All the crew members salute him except Temuro.
"Who's this guy?"
Alissa elbows him in the stomach.
"That's Admiral Palan, the supreme commander of the Federation space forces."
"There's no need for such formalities. Captain Senion I would like to speek with you in my office. The rest of you may have some rest and get something to eat."
"Alright, all we've been eating for the past couple of days were those disgusting emergency rations in the ships mess hall."
Masaki puts arm around Temuro and tugs him away.
"Now your talking like a pilot kid. You have to eat right to fight."
Palan arrives in his office followed by Senion. They both sit and Palan serves Senion a drink.
"So you were being chased down by Magato and his fleet."
"Yes sir, we had to leave the moon to protect the civilian population. We had barely any supplies and only two mobile suits. We were lucky to have the Gundam and it's pilot."
"That boy is newtype isn't he?"
"I had our chief medical officer run some tests and that seems to be the case."
"We'll have to run our own tests before you depart. We also received some new conversion parts for the Gundam that can only be used by a newtype. I'm also assigning eight of our new models."
"New models sir?"
Palan brings up the new models data on his computer and shows Senion."
"We just began mass production last week. They are the mass production version of the Gundam, the RGM-279 Gemini. There the highest performance mass-produced unit in existence. When you depart, you'll be deployed in Earth's orbit. Some intelligence we have received suggests that the Sedition may try to invade Earth soon."
"We'll do our best sir."
In a dining hall, Temuro sits down at a table with Masaki and starts to eat.
"Alright this is great! I haven't had anything this good in a while."
Masaki picks at it with his fork and looks at it with a sour look on his face.
"It's not that great."
"Well I've been living in poverty for the past few months. So I'm happy to have something this good."
"Poverty?"
"My mother died when I was younger and since my since my dad went to Earth, it's been really hard for us. I hope my sister got out of Fra Maura alright. I'm worried about her because she was ill and I don't know where she is."
"It's kind of the same for me. My family was killed when a damaged Sedition ship was rammed into my home colony and exploded. That damn Sneed was the one who ordered that ship to ram the colony."
"I bet you miss your family about as much as I do."
"Yes and I won't stop until I kill that bastard."
An officer walks up to the table.
"Excuse me, Temuro Maki?"
"That's me."
"I'm in charge of overseeing and testing the new components for the Gundam. I need you to come with me so we can began testing."
Temuro walks away with the officer as Alissa walks up to the table with a tray in her hand.
"Hey Temuro, where are you going?"
"We're to go start the testing of the new Gundam components."
"Oh really? I'll join up with you all later after I eat."
A fleet of four Hy-Musai class ships hang around a small debris field near Luna 12. Sneed is in command of the fleet and briefs the other pilots on their assault on Luna 12.
"We will stage a frontal assault on the main spaceport by secretly placing charges in key areas around the port. After the enemy is distracted by this my team will fly in from the rear through this debris field. We'll plant a nuclear explosive on the opposite side of the asteroid and cause major damage to their base."
"But sir that's crazy! You know that nuclear weapons are banned. We shouldn't even have any on the ship!"
"This is an order that was entrusted to me by Lord Zeken himself. You will follow my orders if you do not want to be executed. If we are successful in crippling the Federation's largest space fortress, we will be highly commended."
The soldier looks away with a reluctant look on his face.
"Yes sir."
At Luna 12, Temuro watches as armor components are being placed on the Gundam's chest and legs. Fin Funnels are also loaded on its back.
"Whoa, what are those fin things?"
"They're called fin funnels. When you master using these you will be almost invincible in combat."
"How do I use them?"
"You send commands to them menatally through the psychommu system in the Gundam."
Temuro enters the Gundam and launches out into an asteroid field outside the station.
"Ok Temuro, I want you to mentally command the funnels to fly out and shoot at the assigned targets."
Small probes fly around the field and Temuro chases one down. He concentrates and tries to get the funnels to operate.
"What's going on? I can't get these damn things to move."
In the control center the techs review the Gundam's data.
"Sir, I'm not detecting any mental activity in the psycho frame."
"Temuro, try harder and concentrate."
"Alright."
One of the funnels move fly off after the probe.
"Hey alright! I got the thing to go, now fire!"
The funnel starts fly around and shoots random pieces of debris. All the other funnels fly off and after the probe.
"Alright Temuro, now call them back."
The funnels turn around, come back but then they fire on Temuro.
"Ah crap!"
"Quickly, deactivate the funnels."
"Funnels disengaged."
"I think I need more practice with these things."
Mobile suits launch from the Sedition and Sneed prepares to launch.
"I really don't give a damn about Lord Zeken's orders. There's only one thing I want to destroy today."
5 - Showdown at Luna 12