Mobile Suit Gundam Uc 0079 【TESTED ✮】

The Zaku pilot paused. The battlefield was silent. The fires were dying. He saw the crippled Ball (Darius) and one surviving Ball (Milos) fleeing in the opposite direction. But the third one—the one that had thrown the rock—was gone. No heat signature. No comms. Just a ghost.

Ensign Aris Thorne had never seen Earth. She was born on Side 2, the "Hatakaze" colony, a lush O’Neill cylinder of rolling hills and artificial rain. By the time she turned nineteen, Side 2 was a graveyard. The Principality of Zeon, in their desperate blitzkrieg, had gassed the entire habitat. Aris survived only because she had been on a supply shuttle, delivering munitions to the fragile Federation fleet.

The first Zaku, painted in desert yellow, pivoted with terrifying speed. Its 120mm machine gun barked, and tracers the size of Aris’s arm ripped through the formation. Maggot Four—Ensign Pavel—simply vanished. One moment he was there, the next his Ball was a cloud of shrapnel and vaporized coolant.

“Remember,” Darius said, “we are not here to destroy the Zakus. We are here to pop the fuel tanks and leave. If you see a mono-eye, you run. Understood?” mobile suit gundam uc 0079

But Aris Thorne, hiding in her cold, dead Ball behind a wrecked supply container, watched his every move. She had no weapons. But she had the claws. And she had the hatred of a girl who had watched her entire home turn to vacuum.

She closed her eyes and saw the red mono-eye of the Zaku, frozen for that single second before the rock hit. She saw the fear in it. The surprise.

But the first Zaku was enraged. It vaulted over a burning fuel tank, machine gun blazing. Darius’s Ball took a hit to the thruster assembly. He spun out of control, tumbling toward the lunar surface. The Zaku pilot paused

“Aris! The ridge!” Darius yelled.

That was three months ago. Now, in November of UC 0079, she found herself staring at a different kind of grave: the lunar surface around the Zeon stronghold of Granada.

As the Zaku turned its back to search for Milos, Aris fired her emergency cold-gas thrusters. The Ball launched silently, like a fist from the dark. She slammed into the Zaku’s back, her claw arms latching onto its backpack thrusters. He saw the crippled Ball (Darius) and one

Aris woke up in a Federation field hospital aboard the carrier Troy Horse . A nurse told her she had three cracked ribs, a concussion, and mild frostbite on her fingers. She also told her that Lieutenant Croft had survived—his Ball had crash-landed, but he’d been pulled out by a recovery team.

The Zaku pilot scanned the crater rim. He was a soldier of the Principality. He didn’t believe in ghosts.

She killed her Ball’s reactor and went dark.

“Now,” Darius said.