"All these arrests prove that Celestial Being is nothing more than a terrorist organisation hell-bent on changing the world order, allowing these companies to flourish for the sake of profits!
But no more! Union Central Bank has identified all of the transactions and has forwarded all of the information to the authorities." A brown-haired girl with a regal disposition was giving a statement about Celestial Being's recent arrests.
A lot of their sponsors have been identified and arrested.
'Good. Let them suffer, I only need those gundams operational for the final battle between me and that Kamal kid.' Graham thought to himself as he was watching the latest news on TV.
'That girl sure has a similar aura to the boss.' The blonde pondered, certain that those two were similar.
Not long after the interview was done, the news returned to more Celestial Being stuff. Among them were the aftereffects of their intervention in Azadistan and the Union's assistance, including Anaheim, which invested an enormous amount of money by deploying new prototype power technology, which they will use to stabilise the economy, and in the not-so-distant future, they will be able to join the UN energy distribution scheme.
'As expected from the boss, he is the one changing the world, not those terrorists.'
Just thinking about the Gundam Meisters piss him off.
"Already catching up, Graham?" All of a sudden, Marcus strolled in. Behind him was his red-haired girl, who stood guard at the door.
"Commander, thank God you are here. This is killing me." The blonde complained that he needed to waste away in bed.
"Well, you will be there for another two days, according to the doctor." He checked the papers provided by a nurse.
"..." The Over Flag pilot grimaced as he sighed before looking at the ceiling.
"So… how many squad mates did we lose?"
"Out of 24 deployed Over Flags, we lost 7 pilots. You can read the report once you are out. I won't tell any more." Marcus sighed as he walked over and sat down after giving the papers back to the nurse.
Turns out that his ace will 100% recover.
"...That is a lot, at this point we wil run out of pilots that can handle the Over Flags," Graham replied as he looked away, recalling the gap in power and performance.
Over Flags are far harder to control than regular Flags; they select the best of Flag Pilots before giving them a chance to pilot the state-of-the-art machine.
"I won't say more, but something is coming up. You could say that I used a bit of my influence to give us a fighting chance." Marcus, all of a sudden, got mysterious.
"..."
"I was the one…"
He looked at the TV screen where a muted reporter was talking.
"The influence of them is far greater than you can expect. Gundams may be the face of them, but there is far more that is happening behind the scenes.
I was able to get my hands on something; you can say I wrestled it out."
"...now I can't wait."
Marcus smirked as he got a bit closer to him and then whispered.
"You might get a Gundam of your own."
"!!!"
~~~~~~Later in Over Flags Headquarters~~~~~~
"Any ideas why we have people from HRL and AEU?" Graham, who just returned to active duty, asked Billy.
"It's all part of the scheme by the Union to establish a proper alliance between all three blocs. I do think it was a move by Commander. Somehow, he has enough political capital to pull this.
Because I doubt Union would ever do this," the glasses-wearing Mobile Suit developer said with a bit of a frown. He can't believe Marcus could influence people this much in the government.
"Do what?"
"Share Celestial Being's secret technology," Billy said while looking at Graham.
"!"
"Inside that Hangar, there are 33 machines built with Celestial Being's technology." The Mobile Suit Engineer said to his friend. Dropping a bombshell of information that caused Graham's brain to halt.
"C-Commander said that it was he who exposed those conglomerates and wrestled these machines out of them."
Celestial Being clearly had people embedded everywhere.
'Damn those bastards! No doubt they were close to winning now that they beat us like that in the Taklamakan Desert.
But Commander went through and secured a fighting chance for us!'
"Yes, it appears so." Billy nodded as he watched people from AEU and HRL.
From the AEU came the Iron Lady with her entourage, while from the Human Reform League came the Wild Bear of Russia with the super soldier and his entourage.
A few moments later, Marcus strolled in, and there was a smile on his lips. Some people from the Ministry of Defence followed him. Clearly, the Secretary is following him and not the other way around.
"Good, you are here. Follow me, ladies and gentlemen." He motioned for them to follow him.
The gathered people from all three power blocs followed.
As they entered a hangar, the lights turned on, and rows and rows of machines appeared. Leading the front were three Gundams.
"Gundams!"
"Unbelievable!"
"Commander Anaheim, how did you get your hands on these?" Kati Mannequin asked. There was pure disbelief in her eyes. What she was looking at was the game changer!
"I wrestled these from people who apprehended Alejandro Corner and Laguna Harvey assets. The Anti-Gundam Force raided these two. Whoever led them was with Celestial Being; they hid these machines because, from documents I found, those two didn't follow Celestial Being's goals and were thinking of purely profiting and ruling the world.
Not everyone is stupidly idealistic in that terrorist organisation; some are there purely for money.
Thankfully for us, we got our chance when cracks appeared in their organisation." Marcus explained as he looked at these Gundams.
"I see. With this, we can finally get back at them." The Wild Bear of Russia said with a heavy tone.
"Indeed. AEU, HRL, and the Union's armies are to report directly to me. From now on, we are the Peacekeeping Force of the world, and leading the front will be our Gundams, not theirs."
"...So which one is mine?" Graham all of a sudden asked, he was a bit excited, at the same time, annoyed. There was a pile of strange emotions that he got from these machines.
"In due time, Graham. First, we discuss the chain of command." Marcus looked at the gathered people.
"We start with the top. UN assigned me as the Custodian of the UN armies. My second-in-command is Kati Mannequin. You will organise tactics and what you think is the best course of action in the battle." He explained, and the woman nodded as several strange emotions flashed across her face. The woman realised that Marcus Anaheim was literally the leader of the world's military. That was something her Commander didn't mention.
Whatever happened at the UN meeting, from the looks of it, AEU were strong-handed into this merger.
As she thought about that, Marcus continued with the new chain of command.
"In the field, we will have Sergei Smirnov, you are the Lieutenant Commander and command the battlefield and what is happening there. Then two special operatives are Graham Aker and Soma Peries."
The blonde, the super-soldier girl, and the Wild Bear of Russia nodded.
"More squads will join us as we begin mass production of GN-X. The mass production Mobile Suit units." He looked at the 30 models.
"While Gundam-specific development will fall to old Over Flags personnel and the brightest from HRL and AEU."
"Leading them will be me, Billy Katagiri and Ralph Eifman," Marcus explained to them.
"So we will be fighting Gundams with Gundams," Billy commented as he looked at them.
"I will explain in more detail why Celestial Being chose the name Gundam and what it means. It has more personality than that." The Inventor Emperor chuckled as he saw how Billy was looking at the lined-up Gundams.
"I am curious to know what more you uncovered, Commander, or what is your rank now?" Billy asked as the day was becoming more and more interesting.
"Head of UN Peacekeeping Forces, The Head of Chief of Staff, I hold the rank of General Commander now." Marcus, a bit puffed. His new ranks will include getting more stripes and ordering new UN uniforms. He asked some designers to make them 'cool' and regal. He is making an Empire after all.
"I see…"
"So continue with Commander, Bill." Marcus, in the end, shrugged as he got back to the matter at hand.
"We will speak about new tech soon, you will have a field day, for now, the pilots of the three Gundams."
"The Black Commander type, GNW-001 Gundam Throne Eins. It has Celestial Being's comms technology and is an Artillery type. It has the same particles as Gundams; however, it has a pseudo reactor, unlike Core Celestial Being's Gundams, which were built in Saturn under heavy radiation, so we can't copy that here.
So these machines do run on battery, unlike Celestial Being, which has perpetual Motion engines."
"P-Perpetual Motion!?"
"Yes, they don't need to recharge, and they are always running. However, they do have a limit on how many particles they generate. When the Gundam enters that red state, they discharge all of them at once, making it three times faster."
"I assume their performance drops after that?" Kati commented with a pondering look.
"Yes. Our first mission will be to clash with them. I don't expect a perfect victory or anything like that.
We need data; this is new to us, and unlike Celestial Being, we have the entire world behind us. All we need now is to keep on hammering them and develop this tech further."
"Yes, commander! But I hope we can capture at least one of them." Sergei said with a hopeful tone.
"Of course. If you can destroy or capture them, so be it. All I am saying is that you don't have to push yourself. This is a marathon, not a sprint, and it just turns out we have much bigger stamina than our fellow competitor." Marcus smiled before turning back to the Gundams.
"Next is GNW-002 Gundam Throne Zwei, the close-quarters Gundam."
Graham smirked as he kne who would pilot that.
"Graham, that one is yours."
"...The red orange one? Can we repaint it at some point?" He asked hopefully, these are not his colours…
"Don't worry, these are the stock models we got when we confiscated them from Alejandro Corner. These models were supposed to do operations similar to armed interventions.
These machines were designed for specific people. Sadly, they are probably dead. Not that we would use them. So for now, until we have a decent amount of data, you will have to bear these colours." Marcus explained to him. The Inventor was not happy with the colour scheme for Zwei either, but it will do.
"Fair point, but I will make it do, and at some point, I want Graham Gundam!" The blonde clenched his fist, declaring what he wanted to achieve.
"That's a great goal; one needs to motivate oneself like this." Sergei sagely nodded; he was like a proud papa bear in this situation.
"General, does that mean the black and red machine will be mine?" The white-haired girl asked with a strict, militaristic tone.
"Indeed, Lieutenant, GNW-003 Drei is a support and intel gathering type of Gundam, it is equipped to support and assist the other two machines.
However, this machine's radar suppression tech is meaningless, since you will be fighting other Gundams rather than regular forces.
We will be upgrading and altering your machine as soon as the initial intel is in. Until then, bear with it." Marcus explained to her.
"It's more than enough, as long as it can shoot those beams and has beam sabers it's good."
"She is right. The moment we have that tech, the battlefield is even out." Graham nodded. He needed those things!
Now that he has them, even a Gundam to boot, he can get revenge on Celestial Being!
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