A/N: It's almost here, the RX-78T-1 Golden Gundam!
KnightOfZaku: Unfortunately, I have decided already on who Rosary's lover will be.
February 17th, UC 0079 - Above earth's atmosphere
Garma Zabi sat in his FS Zaku II, looking outside, the new J-type Zaku Is and IIs. Their pilots all had their hatches closed inside the HLV, aside from one. A young man, likely Garma's age, looked around nervously, Garma waved.
He looked somewhat surprised, but after a few moments, he waved back as well.
Luna II
Rose bent over a meal of hastily warmed military rations when the emergency sortie bell went off. 'What? We're sorting?' Rose stood up, around her, other pilots looked just as surprised as she was.
"There shouldn't be any Zeon ships all the way out here…" One pilot she knew was South Burning, an older officer from prior to the war.
"Alright! Showtime huh?!" Another pilot, Bernard Monsha pounded his fist and palm together eagerly.
"No time to lose then." An Asian pilot told them, quickly grabbed his helmet, he left the room.
Rose grabbed her own gold-colored helmet and followed Yuu out.
'Right before I head out too…'
"I'm sure you're wondering why I called you out here, correct?" Yi-Lei asked, "Well, it turns out Zeon is making their move. They expected negotiations to fall through, so right now, a large Zeon fleet appears to be preparing for an Earth drop, if successful, they'll land right on top of California Base, so now our mission now is to intercept this fleet, and stop the drop." Yi-Lei explained,
Yuu Kajima raised a hand, "What about escorts?" He asked,
"That's the issue, isn't it?" Yi-Lei muttered, "We estimate that they have a battlegroup-sized force. Approximately 2 Gwazine Class Battleships, 4 Chivvay-II Class Cruisers, 6 Zanzibar-Class Carriers and 8 Musai-Class, the new types."
Rose did some math, according to data from the battle, a Gwazine could carry 20 mobile suits, a Chivvay could carry 12, a Zanzibar could carry 8, and a Musai could carry 6. That meant there would be approximately 168 mobile suits as escorts. That wasn't counting for the Papua-Class ships that would be present either.
"So what's the plan?" Yuu asked,
"The plan is that we'll be gathering what remains of our air-power and concentrating it in an anti-ship attack." Yi-Lei said, "We've outfitted six Magellan-Class with Trafalgar-Class modifications. In total, our force should amount to about 200 strike craft, 4 Magellan-Class, all 6 Trafalgars, 15 Salamis-Class, and 20 Lepanto-Class, and 7 Columbus Class."
'Such a small force?' Rose wondered,
"Any more questions?" Yi asked, no one spoke.
"Alright then," Yi sighed, "I'm no politician, and I'm not going to shovel crap down your throats. But I'll tell you this, we aren't done yet!" He barked, "Zeon thinks that they can have their way after what happened at Loum, but they can not! We are pilots, and by god if we don't do what we do best, get in a plane and start blowing shit up!"
E.F.S.F Gran Colombia
Rose leaned back in the cockpit of her new RCX-79 Goldcannon. 'Time to see how this thing holds up in a real fight…' In all honesty, it turned out alot better than it should've, considering the bastardizing that went on during the Goldcannon's development. Particularly the complete rewiring of the power system to handle the output of a nuclear reactor rather than a battery.
She floated out the cockpit, noticing a few pilots admiring the machine.
"You guys like it?" She landed near them,
"Is this a Mobile Suit?" Yuu asked,
"Yeah," Rose chuckled, "Whoever designed these things would have a stroke if they got a load of this, we've bastardized so many parts I'll be surprised if it moves."
"It hasn't been tested yet?" He asked,
"Well...it has...but..." Rose gave an uncertain smile and a shrug,
"Battlestations." The PA sounded, "All crew take Level 1 Battlestations."
"Well, it may be ugly, but I'll fly it anyway!" Rose leaped up to the cockpit.
"Initializing OS...rerouting power supply to vernier thrusters…power check complete."
"Lets do this!" Rose moved the throttle forward, her backpack flaring with power, she shot out of the Colombus Class.
Musai-Class Z.S.A.F Diesel
"Enemy formation! Approaching from 9' o clock!" The radio-operator shouted.
"Damn!" The captain shook his head, "Launch mobile suits to intercept!"
"All crew, Level 1 Battlestations!" Ryan looked up,
"Breaks over guys," Ryan said, he looked up, "Let's move,"
Mash smiled, "Show time!" He growled happily.
"Let's show those Feddies what for!" Ortega grinned,
Ryan smiled, "Let's go,"
"Listen up!" South Burning "Rose, you're our ace up our sleeve. We need you to protect our Public-Class boats. Join up with Tenneth's squadron and defend them, the rest of us will engage the Mobile Suits!" Right as he finished, he broke off before Rose could object,
'Seriously? He's itching to get himself killed.' Rose thought, 'Instead of rushing in and trying to blow things up, we should've divided our forces and caused a diversion!'
Rose flew after the Public Class, grabbing her 120mm gun, she chambered a round of ammunition.
"Mobile suits! Six o' clock!" Tenneth warned her, and Rose pulled back on the joystick, bringing her Goldcannon to a sudden stop and turning to face the enemy. Sure enough, a group of five Zaku's made an approach.
Rose flew towards them, slamming into the first one, she pumped its cockpit full of bullets at a point-blank range before proceeding to use it as a shield when a Zaku II came behind it and fired a bazooka at Rose. Using the explosion as cover, she burst out of the smog, ambushing the Zaku with a punch to it's face before proceeding to kick it between the legs, denting its armor. She threw the disabled Zaku aside.
"Three down, two to go." She muttered,
Gaia, Ortega, Mash, and Ryan descended on the battlefield. Drawing his heat sword, Ryan rushed at an approaching Saberfish, cleaving it in two before putting his new MS-06FS to full throttle, he rapidly stabbed another TIN Cod, leaving it to flounder slightly before exploding.
Pulling out his bazooka, he fired at an approaching Lepanto Class before it proceed to fire its missiles. Pulling his sword out, his mono-eye swerved around. And then focused on something to his right,
'What is that...a Guncannon?' He looked towards his monitor, 'They're so desperate they're deploying scrapped mobile suits? Wow.' He scoffed, however, he quickly readjusted his position when he saw the damage it was doing. Already, six mobile suits had been downed by it.
"It's going to cause problems later…" Drawing his bazooka, he lined up his sights...
Electricity sparked throughout Rose. 'Rocket!' She thought quickly. Jetting to the side to dodge the rocket. Two more sailed towards her, and she dodged them both.
Finally, her fire control system pinned down the target, a new model Zaku.
'A new F-type? And it's black...is it the ace from before?!'
Ryan fired again, 'A golden MS...could it be that Saberfish pilot?' Ryan thought, he fired his bazooka again, only to be met with a dead click.
"Damn!" He began to reload, but the enemy gave him no time to do so, charging straight at him and forcing him to switch from his bazooka back to his sword. Barely raising it in time to block a punch.
Ryan kicked at the enemy suit, 'It maneuvers way too well for a Guncannon! They must've used scrap parts!' Right as he thought that, its shoulder-cannon fired, impacting his Zaku and jostling him around. However, he quickly recovered, bursting out of the gunsmoke, he ripped into it with his 120mm machine gun. However, it ducked behind some debris, using it as a shield before rounding the corner and firing back with its own machine gun.
Ryan weaved through the gunfire, but unknown to him, the enemy had shifted position, emptying the last of her ammo, Rose dived down on Ryan, grabbing on to him and punching him in the sensor.
His screen went dark for a moment as the sensor rebooted, quickly refocusing on the oncoming enemy. Before Rose could throw another punch, Ryan grabbed her hand and twisted her off him.
'It's been a good fight...but it's over!' Grabbing his heat sword, he sliced through its arm right as Rose went in for a final attack, grabbing Ryan's neck and ripping out his Zaku's power cables, Ryan was left to drift helplessly as power was cut to his head, almost totally blinding him aside from a few sensors along it's body.
Rose backed away, and turned around, 'The Publics!' She remembered, but she gasped as she witnessed the sight. She had been delayed long enough. Their escorts were almost entirely devastated, and the Public's themselves were no more than scrap.
"Rose!" Burning said, "It's done, we're retreating."
"But…!" She began to object, but Burning cut her off.
"We need to go, the missions a bust. For all our losses we took down only two Papua-Class…"
"You're kidding!" Monsha complained, "It's over that quickly?!"
Rose looked down, 'It doesn't matter...no matter what we try...it doesn't matter!' She slammed her fist against the dashboard in frustration.
Two days later
"-but this will change things!" Tem Ray said eagerly, "Anaheim has finally done it! With the resources of the forces we've the first model right as Zeon begins it's invasion-"
"Exaggeration," Isan Ryer said flatly, "The 78T has yet to be tested, correct?"
"Well...erm…" Tem scratched his head, "No…"
"We have no time to wait, it's been two days since the drops began. We've and we've already lost the West coast of Europe to Zeon, as well as Caribbean and Florida. California Base is on the verge of falling, And virtually every side except 7 has been taken by Zeon." Revil placed his hands on the table.
"Well we need a test pilot!" Tem complained, "All the fools from the Iron Calvary are dead!"
Wakkein coughed, "Actually...I know someone. A girl, by the name of Rose Sahalin."
"The Valkyrie of Loum? She's only been in the military for about three months…!"
"And besides, why not the RX-78-2 for her?" Isan asked, "It's more conventional."
"Well, Rose has more experience with planes and conventional fighters. I figured that the RX-78T would be better…" Tem shrugged,
"I see, very well then." Revil stood, "It's decided. Rose Sahalin...will be our first Gundam pilot!"
A/N: So we've finally got a teaser of the titular Golden Gundam. 100+ Social Credit if you can guess what type of mobile suit it is or what the T in RX-78T stands for. ( ̶I̶T̶'̶S̶ ̶I̶N̶ ̶T̶H̶E̶ ̶F̶A̶N̶D̶O̶M̶!̶)
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