Gundam, Iron Banner

What she didn't expect was this moment: You Bai was waiting for this moment.

After confirming that the opponent had lost control of the machine, You Bai did not hesitate to discard the beam saber held in his right hand, and instead released the five camouflage balloons that had been prepared in his palm.

Three of the balloons flew to the "Warrior"'s chest, and the other two floated to the back of the "Warrior", which was the ideal position that You Bai believed.

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

Seizing the right moment, he pressed the fire button of the joystick hard, and tongues of flame spewed out from both sides of Gundam's head. Countless 60mm shells shot away, hitting the camouflage balloon and the torso of the "Warrior" at the same time.

The newly inflated balloons exploded one after another, and the hidden mines inside were detonated. Coupled with the impact caused by the successive hits of the Vulcan cannon, the "Warrior" completely lost its balance.In addition to the main body, the main propeller of its backpack also suffered a considerable impact. Coupled with the damage caused when it hit the boulder, the propeller was temporarily in a malfunction state. For a while, the "Warrior" couldn't even escape. .

You Bai couldn't grasp the proportion of shooting, let alone the concept of controlling the residual ammunition, so he simply poured out all the ammunition in one breath.It doesn't matter how much ammunition is left, anyway, I'm pretty good at it anyway, and it's hard for an unaimed Vulcan cannon to cause effective damage.

The ammunition was quickly exhausted, You Bai threw away the shield, and directly manipulated the "Riot Jim" to rush forward, with both fists out, hitting the opponent's cockpit in turn.

"Don't try to escape!!!"

Although the "Warrior" has quite thick armor, the pilot sitting inside the machine is still a mortal body.The airbag that popped up from the cockpit couldn't completely absorb the impact caused by the steel collision. After round after round of fatal hammering by You Bai, the pilot sitting in the enemy plane inevitably fell into a coma.

"Warriors" fell silent.

It floated like scrap iron, without any movement.You Bai still felt that it was not safe, so he kept on doing nothing, and directly smashed all the "warrior"'s limbs and backpack, and finally he felt relieved.

At this point, the winner of the battle is truly determined.

You Bai sat slumped in the cockpit, looking at the wreckage of the human stick in front of him, and then at the nearly scrapped arms of the "Riot Control Jim", he couldn't help but let out a helpless laugh.

"It's not just a matter of complaining about making such a ghost. I just got into trouble on the first day. I don't know if the captain and the maintenance personnel will spare me?"

Chapter 10: Storm

Half an hour later, You Bai, who had just been brought back from the battlefield, was brought into the meeting room of the "Aswin".

The air in the meeting room was almost frozen.

Captain Wes Murphy sat upright behind the desk, with a serious face and a terrifying aura all over his body.On his left and right sides, Eliard Hunter and Carl Matsubara stood like door gods, looking at You Bai with a strange taste in their eyes.

You Bai sat on an independent chair, accepting the sight torture of the three of them.And Audrey April stood beside You Bai with a guilty expression on her face.

Four pairs of eyes were staring at You Bai at the same time, which made his hair stand on end and made him restless.

This atmosphere lasted for five or six minutes, until You Bai's back unconsciously bent down, Captain Wes Murphy finally coughed lightly and opened his mouth.

"So, you got lost during your first actual combat training, bumped into an enemy mobile suit, shot it down, and captured the pilot back?"

Captain Wes Murphy's gaze was terrifying, and his brief words contained the unique coercion of a leader.

You Bai is not yet familiar with contact with soldiers, so under the pressure, he shrank his neck involuntarily.

"Team, Captain, I don't think I can be blamed for breaking the mobile suit. After all, there were no other weapons available at the time, so I had to punch him with my fist. To be honest, I didn't expect the arm of 'Riot Jim' to be so powerful." useless..."

boom--

"Who told you about MS!!"

Captain Murphy's slap was printed on the table, and the sound was so loud that it scared the trembling You Bai.

"Why don't you wait for us to rescue? You dumbass! Do you know how dangerous it is to act without authorization? That's a warrior, not Zaku! If the other party wasn't frightened by your Gundam head, your little life would be ruined." The confession is there!"

"sorry!!"

You Bai lowered his head and consciously admitted his mistake.Captain Murphy was right, his fighting style was too unrestrained, and his survival was all due to luck.If it wasn't the gundam's body, the opponent would definitely be able to react and give him a shot.

Seeing that his attitude of admitting his mistake was quite sincere, Captain Murphy finally stopped cursing and sighed in distress: "You and Audrey are alone in the dark room for a day, go."

"Why is Lieutenant April also in confinement?"

You Bai asked in surprise.

She glanced at Audrey April from the corner of her eye. She didn't show dissatisfaction with the result at all, she just lowered her head in silence, with a bit of remorse on her face.

Captain Murphy glanced at him helplessly: "Nonsense, she dared to let you, a novice, play actual combat training. The guardian is too incompetent."

guardian……

You Bai couldn't help clicking his tongue, he was very dissatisfied with this word.

……

After accepting the punishment from the captain, You Bai and his three teammates left the conference room.

The hallway is a low-gravity area, and you will fly out and hit the ceiling with a light jump.You Bai, who wasn't quite used to this kind of environment, tightly pinched the rolling handrail on the wall to prevent himself from flying too far.

He was walking forward cautiously when suddenly someone slapped him hard on the back.

"It's amazing! Sure enough, as the captain said, you have the same powerful talent as Amuro Ray! You shot down a sniper warrior when you first came into contact with mobile suits. Hey, few people would believe it!"

"Please don't make fun of it, Lieutenant Carl. At that time, it was just blood. If I were asked to do it again now, I would definitely not dare..."

"It's OK to call me Carl!"

Carl patted Youbai's back vigorously again, "To be honest, you are really lucky. You have just enlisted in the army for a day, and you have more kills than Eliard. The future is promising!"

"Hey, don't get involved with me." Seeing that he was involved in the topic for no reason, Eliard quickly wanted to get away, "Didn't you only shoot down one plane yourself?"

"What I'm telling you is the truth! You've still scored 0 kills, and you can't be called an elite of the Titans when you are compared to the rookies."

Eliard was a little helpless: "That's right..."

You Bai was a little curious: "Isn't Titans a concentrated place for elites? Why didn't you all shoot down?"

The two of them looked at each other, and Eliard spread his hands in distress: "You ask why... the so-called elites are mostly those with the best grades in training. It's not a wartime now, so how come so many have been on the battlefield?" Veteran?"

You Bai was a little ignorant, and didn't quite understand Titans' recruitment criteria.

I was thinking about it, and suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, what happened to the captives I brought back?"

Eliard didn't answer directly: "Ask Audrey, she is responsible for such things."

When her name was mentioned suddenly, Audrey April, who was far away from the sky, said "ah", and said distressedly: "Well, how should I put it. The situation is quite complicated now, and I have to wait for the reply from the superior to know how to deal with it."

"Complicated?" You Bai was puzzled.

April opened his mouth slightly, but the words didn't come out.Karl continued on her behalf: "After all, Titans generally don't keep prisoners."

You Bai became dumbfounded, he smelled something unusual in Carl's words.

"No prisoners? Why?"

"Let me tell you this. Few of the people who joined the Titans actual combat team had a good impression of Jean. Those guys are simply the embodiment of disaster, just like what you saw yesterday. As long as they don't support them, Even civilians, they won’t hold back their hands, is it cruel? Soldiers who have seen this scene, who would show mercy to the remnants of Jean? They all killed them directly on the battlefield.”

"Shouldn't I bring that prisoner back...?" You Bai asked blankly.

"I'm not blaming you. After all, you didn't have any weapons at the time. You can't kill people with your fists alone. No one will complain about you."

Karl patted You Bai on the shoulder as a comfort, but the implication is that next time, don't keep alive.

Having said that, the four of them were silent.

The atmosphere gradually became heavy, and it was not until everyone separated at the fork that the state eased slightly.

Carl and Eliard waved their hands and went to the cafeteria, while You Bai followed Audrey April to the confinement room.

It is said to be a confinement room, but the treatment is actually not bad.The three meals are still full, and the environment inside is not cramped, it is completely remodeled from an ordinary single room.The only difference is that lights and electrical equipment cannot be turned on here.

A day can't be said to be long, and it passed after sleeping. From this punishment, it can be seen that Captain Murphy has been quite tolerant towards them.

The two walked forward slowly until they reached the door of the small black house. You Bai, who was still hesitating, finally stopped and bent slightly towards April.

"I haven't found a chance to say... I'm sorry, Lieutenant April, to trouble you."

April was taken aback, and couldn't help but smile wryly.

"It's me who needs to apologize. It's all my whim that made you fall into such a dangerous situation. I'm sorry!"

As she spoke, she clasped her hands together, closed her eyes tightly, and repeated her apology again, "I'm really sorry!!"

"Eh? Whoa..."

You Bai was stunned for a moment, thinking: So Lieutenant April has such a personality?I thought it was a more serious and difficult type.

Immediately he sighed and said: "How can seniors apologize to juniors? Then this time, both of us are at fault. As an apology, when you come out of the confinement room, I will treat you to dinner. Correspondingly, you will also treat me to dinner." ,how?"

April tilted his head, his pupils gradually brightened, and a beautiful smile appeared on his face: "This idea is good, it's settled?"

She walked briskly into the confinement room next door. Before closing the door, she poked her head out again and said with a cheerful tone, "I forgot to tell you something."

"what?"

"Merry Christmas~!" She blinked slyly, then retreated into the room.

With a "bang", the door closed.

You Bai stared blankly at the locked confinement room, and it took him a while to realize that today is a special holiday.

"It's all because there have been too many things these two days, and I completely forgot about it. After all, do I count as spending Christmas with girls...?"

With a wonderful idea in mind, You Bai stepped into his own confinement room.

Chapter 11: Onboarding

The time of confinement passed quickly, and before You Bai got enough sleep, he was woken up by the ship's steward and took him to the cafeteria.

Perhaps because it was not at meal time, there was only one person in the cafeteria.April sat at the table in his spare time, wielding a knife, cut off a piece of synthetic meat and put it in his mouth, quietly savoring the taste of the food.

Seeing You Bai coming, she chewed and swallowed the food carefully, and said slowly: "Why do you look like you haven't woken up, your hair is messy, didn't you sleep well yesterday? Since you are a soldier, you should cheer up, You second lieutenant."

She pointed at You Bai with the fork in her hand, and there was some criticism in her words.But looking at the smile on her face, it was probably just a joke, not a real accusation.

You Bai yawned: "It's better to say that I slept too long... eh? What did you call me?"

He was a little slow to react when he just woke up, and it took half a second to realize that there was something wrong with the other party's address.

April took out a hamburger wrapped in wrapping paper and pushed it in front of You Bai, and said with a smile, "Isn't it nice? You~Young~Wei~!"

"what happened?"

"Hey, the naturalization procedures are over, and you are now a regular soldier of the Earth Federation. You should have been a second-class soldier, but you shot down a 'Warrior' yesterday, and you also resisted the Zeon remnants at Side 1 before, Therefore, I made an exception and was promoted directly to second lieutenant. From now on, we will be colleagues, congratulations!"

"It's actually a lieutenant directly...!"

You Bai was so dizzy by the sudden surprise that he didn't know how to react for a moment.

"Not only that, but your mobile suit driving license has also come down. You should be assigned a mobile suit in the team later. Which type do you prefer? Close combat or shooting type?"

"Can you choose?"

"That's not true, I'm just curious. We are a test team, so of course we have to drive the MS assigned by the superior. Although there is no movement yet, the captain will probably help you fight for it and let you continue to drive the 'Riot Jim'. .”

"Or the one from Gundam? It's really good, I like it very much."

"Really? 'Riot Jim' isn't top notch."

"Performance doesn't matter. The most important thing is appearance. Being handsome is a lifetime thing." You Bai's eyes sparkled.

"Ordinary soldiers will pursue mobile suits with better performance, right? This is an important matter related to life."

"I don't think there is any soldier who would not yearn for Gundam."

"That's true, the Gundam is the pride of the Federation. But Lieutenant You, don't forget that the Gundam is also the target of the hatred of the Zeons."

While saying these words, April pushed the Hamburg a little further, "Honestly, Second Lieutenant You, I don't want you to drive a Gundam. It's too dangerous, and it's easy to be set on fire."

"Even if you say that... I still like it." You Bai sighed, turned his eyes to the table, glanced at the Western food the other party was eating, and then at the hamburger with wrapping paper in front of him, "This thing is for me. ?”

"I owe you a meal, I can make do with this."

"It's too shabby."

You Bai reluctantly tore open the package and stuffed the burger into his mouth.

I have to say that the taste is very average, whether it is texture or seasoning, it is far from what I ate in the past.After taking two bites, You Bai really couldn't eat any more, but considering that it was a gift from someone else, it would be rude to throw it away, so he could only pinch his nose and stuff it.

"...Thank you for your hospitality. Lieutenant April, please don't be so perfunctory next time you treat me."

"Next time you will be the one to treat the guests. If you don't want to eat poorly, order something better!"

"How cunning."

"Cunning is the passport of a mature woman."

April put down the knife and fork, smiled and took out two tissues, distributed one to You Bai, and tapped the other on her own lips twice.Then he stood up and said, "I'm going to check on the situation of the prisoners next, together?"