Machine War: Starting from Gundam OO

Chapter 1226: Critical Support
"We are quite good at fighting!"

"Yeah! It's easy for me to do this!"

The five members of the [Rabbit Team] have officially graduated from the MJP agency's Granzere City College, were appointed second lieutenants, and received the latest AHSMB-5 aircraft developed by the MJP agency. They are piloting their new aircraft for the first time to carry out exploration missions in the Ararat space.

AHSMB-001 BLUE ONE-FORWARD: Shunichi Asagi's personal machine, with a dark blue body and a golden metal ribbon-like decoration on the head. The arms are wrapped with dark blue ribbons that can be used as shields. The main armaments are the Type 88 variable axe gun [Ye Ji] and a physical samurai sword. It is positioned as a general-purpose type that can be used in all battle fields, and serves as the vanguard of the team.

AHSMB-002 PURPLE TWO-CONTROL: Kugimiya Kei's personal machine, mainly purple in color, with a humanoid torso but no arms or legs, and ring-shaped enhanced detectors all over its body. Its main weapon is a light particle cannon that slides on the circular detectors. It is positioned as a wide-area tactical alert and control type, and serves as the ears and eyes of the team.

AHSMB-003 ROSE THREE-BOOSTER: Irie Tamaki's special machine, mainly pink in color, and its entire body is like a giant butterfly. However, the tail is equipped with a huge jet, which gives ROSE THREE a terrifying explosive propulsion force. Its main weapons are a built-in missile launch cabin, waist lenses, and double-wing heavy particle cannons. It is positioned as a highly mobile guerrilla type and is the team's shortstop and disruptor.

AHSMB-004 GOLD FOUR-GUNNER: Junhezhong's special machine, with a golden structure all over. The entire head is covered with precision artillery sensors. The right arm is replaced by a high-position charged particle cannon, and the left arm is equipped with a rapid-fire cannon. The attached position and right arm can be equipped with and replaced with almost all shooting weapons of GDF and MJP. It is positioned as an ultra-long-range support artillery type and is the sniper of the team.

AHSMB-005 RED FIVE-LEADER: A special machine produced by Hitachi. It is a command-general purpose AHSMB developed by MJP. It has improved the main computer and other configurations based on the general-purpose fighter BLUE ONE, and enhanced the command and management functions. The main weapon is a composite weapon-HEP beam cannon, which can be transformed into a close combat chainsaw, beam rifle or railgun depending on the situation. It also supports a wide variety of optional weapons. It is positioned as a command-general purpose and is the captain of the team.

Originally known as the "Regretful Five", they were very confused and uneasy at first, because their grades were at the bottom of the Granzere Urban Academy, and they were definitely not excellent. Even if they graduated early and were equipped with new machines, it would not be their turn.

But the appointment has already been made, so no matter how many doubts you have, you have to keep them to yourself and accept the appointment from the military top brass.

With anxiety and panic, they immediately carried out their first mission. During the combat briefing, they were only told that the mission goal was to explore the abandoned colony satellite in the Ararat space, and there was no danger. But who would have known that not long after the attack, before they had time to enter the abandoned colony satellite, they encountered Ulugaru's army.

Seeing the densely packed enemies, the five Hitachi soldiers immediately panicked, causing the five AHSMBs equipped with the [Julia System] to move randomly and could not be driven normally.

At this time, the MJP Supreme Commander in charge of the first combat command, Shimon Yatang, explained to them that the [Julia System] was developed based on genes, and it could improve the affinity between the pilot and the body by identifying the genes of the exclusive pilot, thereby achieving human-machine integrated operational performance.

However, it also has a certain degree of artificial intelligence and will follow the most primitive survival instinct of human beings. Therefore, the [Julia System] sensed the panic and fear of the pilot and activated the automatic defense instinct. It subconsciously wanted to escape. At the same time, the output power of the body dropped sharply and lost the will to fight.

It was also Simen Yatang's reminder that made the five people slowly calm down, suppress the fear in their hearts, restart their bodies, and restore their will to fight.

It has to be said that the performance of these five people in the mock battle at school was really bad, but in the real battle, it was still remarkable. Everyone performed their duties, PURPLE TWO was responsible for controlling the overall situation, and everyone followed the instructions of Kugimiya Keisuke and easily wiped out Ulugaru's vanguard. That's why Junhe Zhong and Irie Huan were so confident, and even made some conceited remarks.

"Don't be careless! The enemy's main force has been observing the situation from beginning to end!"

"If those troops also launch an attack, I'm afraid we will be defeated with just a few of us..."

Unlike Jun and Zhonghe Irie Kan, Hitachi Izu, Asagi Shunichi and Kugimiya Kei remained calm and rational, and were not carried away by the victory in front of them. The Ulugaru army they had just dealt with was just a vanguard composed of ordinary fighter planes and a few humanoid mechas. Although the number seemed large, it was actually just a drop in the ocean compared to the main force watching in the rear.

If the main force in the rear were to attack, it would be difficult for the five of them...

"Be careful! Something is approaching... this is it!"

At this moment, a civilian ship came into everyone's sight. As soon as the civilian ship entered the combat area, it was targeted by Ulugaru's fighter jets.

"Run! You're being targeted by Ulugaru!" Seeing this, Irie Huan immediately reminded them and wanted to rescue them as quickly as possible, but she was too far away from the civilian ship and could not catch up at all.

"No! It's too late!" Ding Gonggui was also very anxious. Her hands kept moving on the operating table, anxiously trying to find a way to rescue. However, no matter how she calculated, she only got the result that she could not catch up, which made her extremely desperate.

"Uoooooohhhhhhh!"

Everyone gave up except for one person, and that was Hitachi Izu. RED FIVE's eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly appeared between the civilian ship and the Ulugaru fighter at an abnormally fast speed, blocking the attack of the fighter for the civilian ship and saving the innocent civilians on the entire ship.

"I...we...are saved?" Looking at the red MS that they had never seen before, the people on the ship had a dreamy sense of unreality, as well as relief and joy for surviving the disaster.

"Retreat now!" Hitachi Izumi immediately reminded, while protecting the civilian ships, he destroyed the approaching Ulugaru fighters.

"Okay... okay! Thank you so much!" Suppressing the joy of being alive, the civilian ship immediately turned around and fled this war-torn space as quickly as possible.

"Go! Come back quickly!" Kugimiya Kaede reminded Hitachi Izu, "The enemy's main force is heading towards you!" "But... if I run away now, the ship just now will..." Hitachi Izu also knew that he was just trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm, but... the civilian ship had not gone far. If he got out of the way, Ulugaru's army would soon catch up, and then the civilian ship would be destroyed without a burial place. This was something he absolutely could not do.

"This is too much, come back quickly!" Asagi Shunichi cursed.

"If you don't mess around, you can't be a hero."

"You are not that kind of character."

“Isn’t this different from your usual positioning?”

"What's wrong with you? Why are you so hot-blooded?"

"Hero? Are you serious?"

Sure enough, Hitachi's passionate speech was criticized by his teammates, but no matter how much they criticized, they had been together as a team for so long, it would be a lie to say that they had no feelings for each other. While they were complaining, the other four machines also kept adjusting their positions and moving closer to RED FIVE. Soon, the five machines came together and acted as small mantises, trying to block the big car, Ulugaru.

"Everyone..." Hitachi was very moved. Everyone had acquiesced to his impulsive behavior and had fallen into crisis with him.

"Ah! Damn it! I didn't expect something like this to happen when I complained about you!" Asagi Shunichi is a typical example of a person who says one thing and does another. He kept complaining and complaining, but his body did not stop moving. He kept protecting the left side of RED FIVE from being broken through by Ulugaru.

"We have to think of a solution first!" Ding Gonggui accelerated his calculations, trying to find a way to resolve the current crisis.

"As expected...it's better to run away..." Jun Hezhong said dejectedly.

"The enemy is surrounding us. We can't escape, right?" Irie Huan said naturally.

"Fight... run away... fight... run away... fight... run away..." The two completely different choices kept echoing in Hitachi's mind, attacking each other left and right. In the end, the choice to fight defeated the choice to run away. A piece of music and singing inexplicably sounded in his mind, igniting the firewood in his chest, burning fiercely, "Fight! Haah~!!!"

In an instant, RED FIVE's eyes lit up again, and they burst out with extraordinary fighting power. They transformed into wolves and pounced into the flock of sheep, killing them all.

Unfortunately, Hitachi is just a young wolf, and Ulugaru is not a defenseless sheep.

"Out! Right!"

"Oops!"

While RED FIVE was slaughtering Ulugaru's fighter jets, two humanoid robots had already arrived to RED FIVE. One of them punched RED FIVE hard, knocking it out, while the other one had begun to condense a beam of light in its palm, targeting RED FIVE. The unbalanced RED FIVE had no time to adjust its balance and once again became a lamb to be slaughtered.

At this moment, a bright pink beam of light cut through the universe, crossed the barriers of the battlefield, accurately pierced through the chest of the humanoid robot, and saved RED FIVE.

"Good job, little rabbits. Not bad."

"Huh? Who is this?"

"Have the reinforcements arrived?"

"Look! The battleship is coming!"

The next second, several orange-black heavy particle beams cut the dense Ulugaru army into several pieces. All the Ulugaru fighters and humanoid robots on the beams were swallowed up. Even the approaching enemy planes exploded due to the aftermath of the energy. For a moment, the battlefield fell into silence.

Looking in the direction where the heavy particle beam came from, the huge [Drestriga] appeared in everyone's sight. At the same time, right in front of [Drestriga], there were about ten MSs quickly rushing into the battlefield.

"Members of the Rabbit Squad, I am the captain of the Drestriga, Lieutenant Colonel Mitsuba Greywallis, and I have received a request from Colonel Four of the GDF to begin providing cover!"

(End of this chapter)