> Mobile Suit Gundam Nova <
June 8th/ I.J.C. 196 / The Stellar, Entertainment Area./
Grabbing the joystick once more, I feel at peace, as if it was where I should belong. Without waiting, I quickly choose local, hoping to run into someone while fighting, even if they are not better than the real mode.
Just as I loaded in, I immediately started moving before getting the information in my head. I have a beam rifle with a launcher attached, a Vulcan gun, 2 beam sabers, a pair of vibration daggers, and a shield.
It is pretty well-rounded equipment, though it is mostly Melee combat, the backpack booster is also made in mind to support the weight of gravity which means it was light, so this was a model created to combat gravity.
As I look through my equipment and the details of the suit, my first enemy appears. From the movement of the suit, I can conclude that it is the enhanced AI.
Without warning, the AI shot its mega launcher toward me, a huge rocket was flying toward me so fast that I almost couldn't react in time, boosting to my left, I took cover behind the building, as I was about to return the fire, another appears and quickly stop me from shooting with their own Suppressive fire, leaving me no choice but to abandon my target and run away from their storm of bullets.
Rolling toward another building, I look around to assert my situation. I have 2 Enhance Ai on me, one was directly behind me and the other was moving, changing their position after shooting.
As I peeked my head out of the building, another round of suppressive fire rained down upon me, I could hear the lead being embedded into the building and slowly crumble it down.
"2 enemies, one is on the bridge, suppressing me with their gun, but their ammo would run out in…10 more seconds at their rate of fire. The other is rapidly closing in on me, with their mega launcher aiming at me, they would be in range soon…" Analyzing my situation, it was making me smile, as I found the method to break out of this.
"3…" Counting the second, I ready my gun. "2…" Turning it on launcher mode, I ready myself. "1…now." Just as I finish counting, the bullets stop raining down on me, I come out of my hiding and immediately shoot out from my launcher, and my grenade lands in front of the mobile suit in front of me, it uses its side shield to try and block the blast but unlike what they expect, it wasn't a bomb, but instead it was a smoke grenade.
As the smoke explodes I immediately fire 5 shots of my beam rifle, without caring about my ammo. The sound of the lead inside the beam rifle that is used as both a guide and a small electromagnetic field to trap the proton of the beam hitting the shield for the first time, then the second, and after that comes explosion, but I don't have time to dwindle as I quickly reload my rifle, the smoke clear up, revealing the mobile suit that was still standing, missing it left arm, and aiming the mega launcher at me.
My smile deepens as I rush toward it without a care in the world when I see its hand pushing the trigger, I immediately roll forward, as the rocket grazes at my mobile suit, but it does not explode, as I finish my rolling, I was right in front of my opponent, aiming my rifle right into its torso, I click the trigger, the beam tore right through the torso, destroying its cockpit in the process.
"That one down." dashing away from the falling mobile suit, I looked around for the other one and saw where it was instantly, behind the bridge, probably got down to change position. Immediately, I return the favor by firing my Vulcan along with occasional rifle fire to pressure it, making them move to dodge.
I chased after them, using a shortcut, by ramming straight into the house, destroying the blocking path, and I was already in front of the mobile suit. Immediately, my opponent opened fire, and their Vulcan worked along with their machine gun. I put my shield up, immediately stored my rifle, and took up my beam saber.
When the fire stops, I peek my head out to see it reloading. Smiling deeply, I casually walked forward, my opponent threw away their machine gun the moment they realized they couldn't reload it in time and took up their beam saber.
The smoke coming out from their Vulcan dissipates, and they rush toward me, slashing their beam saber in a wide arc downward. The movement was slow in my eye, and I dodged at the last second and it couldn't even graze at me, not making a flair out of the situation, I simply put my beam saber on its side and turned it on, the heated proton instantly melts the outer frame before reaching the cockpit and engine.
Dashing backward, I watch as the mobile suit explodes in front of me. The fireworks display in front of me filled both my heart and me with satisfaction beyond reason, but quickly, as if to subdue our feelings, my heart started beating warmly.
"Ah, I won't let it get over my head. Anyway, We should go for a few more-" Before I could finish my word, a beam laser hit me from behind.
The pod trembled, simulating the heavy burden placed on the suit with that last hit just now. Turning around, I saw a mobile suit using a beam sniper, the chamber was heated up, smoke came out of it, and then suddenly, a request for communication came.
Signifying them as a player. Hm…what do I do, I could answer them or I could just leave without a care. Eh, why not entertain them a little bit?
Changing face call into voice-only mode I cough a bit to make my voice sound raspy. "Yes?" I answer.
"You…you the girl from the library aren't you!?" Ah, this voice, it is the older guy from before. Well, no use faking my voice if he knew it was me.
"How do you know?" dropping my little facade, I ask him that, as I really want to know how he knew it was me.
"You leave your pod unlocked." Ah, right…how careless of me.
"Oh, so how can I help you?" I ask, waiting for his response. But instead of replying, he shoots his beam sniper toward me, and without a second thought, I dodge on reflex.
Then the communication got cut and started his relentless attack. "Mmhh…" Dodging all of his shots, I was about to leave but suddenly, hands grabbed my shoulder. They were holding me in place.
Looking back, I saw two boys, remembering their faces as the group of boys from the library, I sighed. "Is there something I can help your guy with?" I ask, not caring about the simulation in front of me.
"Sorry about this, Miss, but can you help my big brother cool off his head? He got scolded by Dad, hard you see." The one who resembles the oldest boy said. While the other just snickers.
"So you want to use me to vent out his frustrations. By bullying a little girl?" I said, waiting for their response.
"Please, we see how you handle those two AIs, the one that my brother can't handle." Said the boy resembling his brother. "Please. It doesn't matter if you lose on purpose or win. Just let him vent out his frustration for a few minutes."
The boy pleaded with me, ha…struggling out of their grasp would be easy since they didn't really push much force into it. But well, I think I can entertain them a bit.
Grabbing the joystick, I look at the damage done to my mobile suit. My left arm and leg joints were unstable and even my backpack was damaged. My Vulcan finished reloading already, I have 2 vibration knives and one damage beam saber…
Looking at my opponent, he has the bulky beam sniper with a charger attached to his backpack, a Vulcan gun, and a beam saber on his backpack. Hmm, range focus suit.
"Can you guys release the grab on my shoulder?" I said as I focused my attention in front of me, the moment I felt the release of my shoulder, I started moving. Since he was a range focus mobile suit and I am out of range weapon, I will just go straight.
The moment I see his beam sniper charging, I grab my beam saber, although damaged, it still has use. When the beam was about to come out, I threw my beam saber in front and dodged to the side, the beam flashed past me and hit the beam saber, causing it to explode creating a faint smoke.
I grab my vibration knife and throw it straight toward him, the vibration knife vibrates at the rate of 15 kHz per second, along with my own throw which uses the full power of the mobile suit, damaging my joint even further.
He tried to use his beam saber to cut through the knife but he was too slow, that bulky suit wasn't built to fight on land or in close combat. My knife cut the charger away from his Beam sniper, making it useless.
Before he could move, I used my Vulcan gun, firing lead straight into his main monitor, causing him to drop the beam sniper and use his arm to stop the bullets from damaging the main monitor.
'He is panicking, his state of mind isn't really stable, to begin with. Getting pressure like this would make him either charge straight at me with a beam saber, charge at me without a beam saber or collect his shit and maintain distance.'
And it seems he chose the first option, charging at me with a beam saber. 'Ha…his piloting skill was subpar at best, if he had some decent skill then this would be more fun.' Sighing in my mind, I pick up my last vibration knife.
As he gets closer to me with full intent to cut me in half, I watch as his mobile suit moves much more slowly than even a turtle to me, approach. Arching his beam saber hand upward, I use that moment to land a kick into his side, causing his mobile suit to stumble sideways, almost losing his grip, if it were a normal mobile suit, those light kicks wouldn't push them to the side like that, but due to how bulky his mobile suit is, he stumbles sideward straight onto the ground because of gravity and his heavy mobile suit.
Before he could get up, I slowly pushed my vibration knife toward where his cockpit would be, for him, it would be like a giant knife slowly making its way toward him. When I reach the deepest it can go, I simply punch it in before watching the mobile suit stop working.
Looking back toward the two boys, they have this weird expression where one was laughing while the other smiled in amazement. "Satisfy? Can I go now?" I ask them, causing them to come back to reality.
"A-ah, Yes you can go-" Before he could finish, the pod opened up with a loud bang.
"You!" Looking over at the voice, I see the older boy, face filling red from anger, he rushes straight toward me who was still in my seat in a second, and grabs me by the neck!
"Grh! Grrr…." Immediately after the air was cut off, I was struggling to breathe, the other boy immediately went to stop him but due to his body being much larger and more muscle, they couldn't even make him twitch. Tch…useless….
"You bastard! It was you, wasn't it!? 5 days ago you humiliated me!" He screamed at the top of his lungs, but I couldn't reply with air slowly being cut out of my throat.
My brain starts working again after the initial shock, and Haro immediately comes to mind, as I look for him, I see him ramming lightly into the guy's leg. Voicing something I can't hear since my mind starts to go white.
I have to do something…or I will really be in trouble…d-dang… Using my arm, I tried to peer off his hand that was grabbing my throat. He rambled something I couldn't hear since my ear was already ringing due to my oxygen level drop. I can't peel his hand off!
Finding the last resort, I use all my strength to grab one of his arms and yank it down with all my force which isn't much but with my body weight, I manage to get my head out enough to see his arm right in front of my mouth, without thinking, I bite with all my force toward his arm, feeling blood dip into my mouth.
His hand immediately loses its grip and I choke out blood as air enters my body again. Coughing out blood, I lock my eyes on Haro. "Get…help!" My voice was cracking but he got the message, quickly rolling away before the older boy could grab him.
With his bloodshot eyes, the older boy glared at me. The only thing I could do was…snicker.
"Heh…hehehe…ahahahaha!" Laughing like a maniac, the 3 boys looked at me as if I was crazy. "hehe…he…ha…You're…quite the pathetic guy, huh?" Slowly getting up, and cracking my neck, I look straight ahead. "Hitting a girl, one that was at least 5 years younger than you. How pathetic can you be, Mommy and Daddy didn't give you enough love?" My hoarse voice slowly comes back to normal, as I feel a surge of energy like never before…no, I felt it before, back then, when I first met Sylv's brother.
The boy was visibly pissed off and rushed straight toward me, he was slow, and I dodge my head out of the way by my reflex alone, using his momentum against himself, I grab his punching hand, feeling his momentum, my body moving on it own, land a straight knee right into his abdomen.
"Gah!?" Hearing him cough out, I elbow his back while restraining my strength, and knock him down.
He squirms on the ground like a worm, hand touching his back trying to ease his pain. I was panting, tired, and almost passing out. I could feel the pain in my throat, my adrenaline was running out, my legs were weak, and I fell down on the chair, hitting the joystick and adding the pain to myself.
Before my eyes would close, I could see the familiar blue hair enter the pod in a panic, behind her were various people that I did not have enough care to see their faces. But I could hear it before I lost consciousness. The voice filled with worries.
"Yoha!"