The news that shocked Lady Jane was not a lie; it was about a machine that resembled a Gundam, a unit that had been characterized as a nightmare to scare pilots into following orders. Before he was defeated by the first Ace of the empire in a brand-new machine called the Zeong, a machine called the Gundam had long ago dominated most of the early empire's armies. It is said that the Zeong can only be operated by those who possess psychic abilities.
Why was that true? Because that pilot was Lady Jane's father, and a machine made from the remains of the Zeong was in the hangar of her ship. Her enormous red machine, which she called the Gourai, resembled samurai armor—more precisely, the Akai Oni Kachi armor worn by Akai Naomasa during the Sengoku period. The robot was nicknamed the "red demon of the empire" because of its demonic appearance. It even had the armor's golden detailing, but few knew the true meaning of the name.
It had two beam swords, a metal samurai sword called the Sword of the Tengu, a beam shot launcher, and a rack that contained four remote beam-gun weapons known as Bits.
Lady Jane's identity was a mystery. She was from an unknown place; she was equipped with a plasmatic blade and battle armor. Her crimson red hair earned her the nickname "red demon," and her psionic abilities and high-level response time made her one of the Imperial army's faster pilots. She quickly rose through the ranks of the empire to become an Ace.
She smiled.
"A Gundam? It seems that I will have a chance to test my skills against him," Lady Jane said.
-meanwhile-
Kira's system informed him that he had several new mobile weapons at his disposal while he was developing his mobile suit. The first two, known as the Saber Fish and the Gun-tank, came from the V-project; the second two, the Talgeese and the Leo, were from the Operation Meteorite units; the third pair was the Gundam Air Master and the Gundam Leopard; the fourth pair was the Duel Gundam and the Buster Gundam, from the G-project; and lastly, there are the 0-Gundam and the Gundam Astraea were from Operation Celestial Being. In order to create the Exia and the Gundam 00, Kira still needed to develop the technology for the Seven Swords.
Kira began investing in the development of the units because they were still only schematics and would take at least four days to be ready for purchase.
"Oi, Kira, we have made headlines," Alice said.
Kira viewed a live newscast footage.
"Terrorists known as the Knights of the Crusade have recently been wreaking havoc throughout the empire. They launched a freighter loaded with nerve gas into the public execution grounds, stormed the Imperial Garrison, and prevented rebel leader Senator William Veidt from being put to death in front of the public. Then the image of Master Gundam appeared. According to rumors, this is the terrorist's machine, which is thought to be one of the legendary Gundams from the past.
" I am Talullah James is signing off now. Back to you, max,"
As the newsfeed came to an end, Alice gave Kira a worried look.
"Kira, what do we do? We are in trouble now," she said.
"No, this is good. Since there are more people in opposition to the empire than there are in favor of it, we will be able to recruit more allies now that we have publicity," Kira told the terrified mechanic.
"...Okay," Alice said, having faith in Kira.
The alarm abruptly went off while the two were in Kira's ship, the Integrator, warning Kira that an enemy was on the horizon. Along with Kira in his Master Gundam, which was now armed with a beam rifle and a samurai sword code-named the Dragon Blade, the 25 units on board the ship scrambled. It was constructed using supposedly photonic energy-channeling technology that had been lost during the Republic Era.
A force of seven Imperial Bushi and a Red unit traveling at three times the speed of light encountered the frantic force.
Kira remarked, "That thing is fast." As he managed to dodge it, if only thanks to his enhanced physical abilities that God gave him.
As Kira performed an aileron roll, he fired a shot from his beam rifle, which the unit defended against with an anti-beam shield.
"Hmm, impressive maneuverability; not just anybody can dodge my rocket kick," said Lady Jane in her cockpit.
Kira managed to take out Lady Jane's shield by tackling her with a shoulder block. Kira then attacked Lady Jane using his Dragon Blade Sword. She responded by drawing her blade, the Sword of the Tengu.
The two swords clashed as Kira focused his Gundam's power into the sword, resulting in a discharge of photonic energy in the form of a wave of power.
"What was that?" said Lady Jane, unaware that the Gundam she was facing was a machine that had the power to pull off shonen anime-style special attacks.
"I guess I'll call that my photonic wave." Said Kira.
The enemy's sword was damaged, so she quickly drew her beam sabers and attacked Kira, quickly checked his unit for beam weaponry, and found out it had a thermal energy beam cloth.
Quickly, Kira activated it, and he launched the ribbon-like beam weapon at the enemy mobile weapon.
"Get over here," he shouted in a demonic voice. Kira was wearing his armor to disguise himself in case his feed got leaked to the other rebels and they found out his identity.
She boosted back once again, relying on her beam shot launcher and now using her bits, only to be surprised whenever the Gundam's wings folded over its body, forming a cloak that repelled the beams and generated a barrier field around his head since that was where its cockpit was.
"Damn, that anti-beam cloak is too strong," she said as she took aim at the head only to find out she was out of ammo.
"Oh no," she said. She tried to order her Bits to attack, but they too had been drained.
She swore.
"Mark my words, you rebel scum, I will defeat you and your Gundam," she said then she escaped to her ship.
The bushi, which were basically mass-produced Burai, meaning they lacked the unit's trademark sword, and Bits were quickly dealt with by the force of Kira's group that consisted of 2 of each of his initial mobile weapons.
"That enemy was strong. If it weren't for my enhanced reaction timing, developing that attack, and using my anti-beam cloak, I would've been done for," said Kira.
[You Have Completed A Hidden Objective]
[Reward: one free mecha voucher]
Apparently, mecha vouchers were able to get me any mecha that ever existed. Knowing that I would need a wingman who could keep up with me in terms of speed, power, and martial arts abilities, Kira knew exactly what mecha I wanted. It was a machine from another robot-based tactical JRPG called The Vangray. He planned on giving it to the wingman his father had assigned to him, and she would be here in four days.
(time skip)
Four days later, a woman with blond hair, blue eyes, and one of the biggest busts Kira had ever seen on a real woman stood before Kira. Her name was Belle Pandropolos. She was a pilot who was once viewed as the empire's next ace until she became conflicted when she was ordered to execute a child for helping a prisoner and was dishonorably discharged for it. The Rebellion recruited her. Fortunately, Kira's father had been able to recruit her to act as his wingman; however, it took her four days to get to Kira. Because she had to get discharged from her planet's militia that she had been serving under at the time.
as a favor to them, Kira decided to send them a couple of Gun-Cannons and Taurus that became available to him recently. He also began developing a few Duel Gundams and Buster Gundams, and with the system's access to facilities, Kira managed to begin developing the mass production models of these machines, the Buster Dagger and the Long Dagger, which would eventually become the Duel Dagger.
"Lord Veidt, I am Belle Pandropolos. Starting today, I will be serving as your wingwoman," said Belle.
"Well then, Miss Belle, welcome aboard, and please call me Kira," said Kira with a friendly smile.
"Very well, I am glad to be of service, Lord Kira," she said.
'Well, guess that's good enough,' thought Kira.
"One more thing, we're a bit more laid-back here in the rebellion, and even though you are my wingman, you are allowed to have a life of your own," Kira explained, giving her a brief rundown of the way things worked.
"I see, so you're not as straight-laced as the Empire," Belle said, "but you know what... I like that." She said in a laid back friendly manner
He laughed at Belle's chill attitude
" You and I are going to do just fine,"
"Come on, I got you a special unit," said Kira, leading her to the hangar.
Belle couldn't help but notice that Kira had quite the lean build on him, as Kira's outfit consisted of a black, form-fitting shirt and blue, form-fitting jeans. While simple in looks, he could make it into a fashion statement with his lean build and muscular body.
They arrived at the hangar where she found her new unit.
"What the hell is even that?" she said.
The Vangray was a large heavily armored mobile suit more of a flying fortress than a robot and Armed to the teeth with different kinds of guns.
"My lord, we've got an enemy ship approaching. It appears to be an imperial Inazuna class," said the ship's comms officer.
"Are they showing any signs of negotiation?" I asked.
"Um, no," said the operator.
"How long have they been following us?" I asked.
"Um, two hours, sir," said the communications officer.
"Good Let's drop some lead on those motherfuckers," I said, doing my best crotchety old battleship captain impression.
"Um, excuse me, did he just say what I think he did?" asked Belle.
"Ladies, there's one thing you need to know about my ways of handling things: I'm old school," said Kira as he went to the bridge and ordered the ship to open fire on the pursuing vessel.
The enemy ship didn't know what hit them; the attack was powerful, swift, and straight to the point. After this, a squad of fighters, mainly consisting of the GMs and Zakus, scrambled to collect whatever they could from the ship's wreckage.
In total we collected seven Imperial Bushi mobile suits and six Suzaku Mobile armors which were basically Starfighters, the Mobile armors were red with a bird shaped form, living up to the creature of their namesake
After taking the fighters and reverse engineering them I was able to build a new set of Saberfish Mobile armors for battle against the Enemy mobile armors,
" Master Veidt, the enemy has deployed a number of mobile suits after us," said Uzumé a robot maid that My father had ordered my I modeled her after the sekirei of the same name.
" Well now care to show me what you've got as my wing man," Kira told Belle while challenging her to prove herself yet also teasing her in a playful sport.
Kira was joined by Belle in a squad joined by five elite pilots.
This was known as black bullet Squadron.
" Let's kick ass," said Kira and the two boosted into battle.
The first enemy came into grow and Kira quickly defeated it using his Beam Cloth.
Belle was surprised at how fast her machine was and as the enemy Bushi came into grow She turned the control sticks of her machine quickly dodging it while she jammed the fire button as the rapid fire of her Railgun hammered the enemy machines.
The black bullet Squadron leader known as Joe Danny evaded an enemy machine using His Zaku F-types Vernier thrusters while taking aim with his Bazooka he shot down the enemy mobile suit as it erupted in flames " Jack, Jeff, Warner, let's take out that ship," he ordered his squad mates as three Mobile suits, A white Ginn, a Blue Leo, and A Violet M1 Astray, Boosted towards the Enemy carrier with two taking aim using their Bazookas, 1 using His Recoilless Assault rifle and 1 using His beam rifle, The 3 Top aces of the Rebellion Shot down the ship in a single union attack.
Guile Kinhank, And Terry Gordon Both Took out several enemy machines using their Moebius Zero and GM One enemy came closed to attacking Terry's Blindside only for Guile To shoot it down with His 200.mm Linear Gun.
" Thanks Guile," Terry said.
Kira dodged an enemy mobile suit and delivered a powerful Rolling Axe kick down it's Centerline as a cry of anguish could be heard.
" Learned that one from Fatal Fury," said Kira with a chuckle.
Belle evaded a ships missile salvo before she flipped a switch as her Vangray pulled 2 cannons from its hips and fired them off at the enemy ship launching two Widely dense beams at the destroyer Ending it in a Explosion of Hellfire and Debris.
" Oh Yeah~" she said in a perfect impression of Macho man or in her case Macho woman.
The battle ended with the enemy fleet retreating.
" Looks like we Made a statement," said Kira.
After they returned to their base Kira Got an update from his his system.
[ You know have Five Level 1 Gold Star Mobile suits,] said the systems A.I. Haro.
" Explain what you mean by Star rank system,] asked Kira.
The system then explained about the New feature called the Star rank system.
[ As you battle Your Mobile suits will Gain experience and Get stronger as they when their experience level capitalizes they receive a Gold Star the Highest level for Gold Stars is 5 after 5 they receive a platinum star Ranking, after 5 platinum stars you earn a Diamond Star which only 1 unit is able to reach Each Rank Has a Title,] Harp explained
[ Star rank Titles: Gold Star rank 1 is Sergeant first class, Gold Star rank 2 is Master Sergeant, Gold Star Rank 3 is a Captain, Gold Star rank 4 is a Major Gold Star rank 5 is Major General, and Platinum Star is a General, 2 Platinum stars is a 2 star General Or High General and Platinum Star 3 Is A 3 Star General or Elite General Platinum Star 4 is a Marshal, Platinum Star 5 is a Chief Marshal and Diamond Star Grand Marshal.]
[ Depending on their level some units can be exchanged for high level mobile suits include Gundam Types,] the system said.
" This is similar to the Ranking system from The Gundam Versus Series," said Iira
( * A series of 3rd person shooters for the PS2, similar to Star Wars Battlefront, Not to be mistaken with the Extreme Versus Series.)
With this feature I could gain stronger machines as well preferably The Gundam Types.
" Haro please Bring up the available machines," Kira asked.
[ Name: Kira Veidt; Status: Lvl 2 Rebellion Commander: Title: Prince Cordelia capital planet of the dubhe Sector/Commander of the Rebellion Tactical Assault Squadron AKA Black Bullets Squadron, Commander of the special Revolutionary forces AKA Knights of the Holy crusade]
Available Star Ranking units: MS-06F Zaku-F Type: Unit Ranking Level-1 Gold Star , ZGMF-1017Ginn: Unit Ranking Level-1 Gold Star, MBF-M1 M1Astray: Unit Ranking Level-1 Gold Star, TS-MA2Mod.00 Moebius Zero: Unit Ranking Level-1 Gold Star, RGM-79 GM: Unit Ranking Level-1 star,]
[ Special Units: Personal Unit: GF13-NH001II Master Gundam: Unit Ranking Level-1 Gold Star, Wing woman Unit: VTX-01 Vangray: Unit Ranking Level-1 Gold Star Unit]
"So basically It's Just my Squad Right Now," said Kira.
After he had been finished running over the units his maid servant Uzumé approached him.
" Yes what is it Uzumé," asked Kira.
" Master Kira, it Is time to give a speech," said his maid servant Uzumé.
" Alright,Guess I shouldn't leave them waiting" said Kira.
To be continued.