Mobile Suit Gundam: Code Nova.

> Mobile Suit Gundam Nova <

May 30th/ I.J.C. 196 / The Stellar, Entertainment Area./

"As you can see, we have all types of entertainment, Spa, games, karaoke, and even a dance floor. For smokers, there is an area dedicated past the dance hall, as for any liquor, it is right over there. Although I do not recommend drinking in the next hour due to us about to start the ship engine and may result in sickness." The worker, Ms.Cherry, explained all the details about the entertainment area.

"Thank you for guiding us, Ms.Cherry. We could tour this ourselves from here on." Mama said, thank you Ms.Cherry with a smile. 

"Thank you so much for guiding us," I said politely with a smile, making Ms.Cherry, who seemed hesitant about leaving us alone, falter and finally accept to leave us alone.

We sigh as we finally have time alone. I look toward a certain area. Even if the sudden move was, well…sudden, I still have enough time to do some little research about the ship I am going to stay on for at least a month.

The cruise ship Stellar travels from Earth's ring to various colonies around the solar system. Well, nothing has passed Mars since there are a lot of pirates out there to get them. Equip with various entertainment to help the guests stave off their boredom and luxury that only few could experience, bathing under the star, flying in space without worry. 

Well, that is not really interesting to me though, what is the most interesting and one of the few things I find interesting? A Virtual Reality Simulation Pod comes equipped with the latest model, up-to-date graphics, and well, almost as hard to control as a real one. Mobile suit Simulation Pod.

Not only were they able to simulate the moving sand or destroy earth to almost the same as real life, but there was also the gravity force with moving too fast, inertia, and weight. All of them combine to create the most real possible experience on the mobile suit, of course, they need to dunk it down to a manageable level since they wouldn't want to hurt a child with this but well…who says they won't be a hacker that could maybe…up those options?

"Mama, can I go to the simulation pod?" I ask her, feeling the sparkle of anticipation coming right out of my eyes. Mama looked at me for a bit and resigned with a tired sigh.

"Alright, alright…But no messing with the setting, Yoha. They have those settings for a reason. Well, if you really mess with it, don't do anything about the G-force, understand?" Mama set some rules which made me drop my excitement a bit.

"Yes, I understand…" urgh…she even knew I would mess with the setting anyway and stop me from doing the thing I wanted to experience the most. With my excitement dropping down a bit, me and Mama made way for the VR Simulation, which…full of People, well, full of kids, all boys dressing in suit-looking things that feel stuffy.

They all focus on one of the Simulation pods but I don't care and continue to search and thankfully, there is still one available. I looked around and saw no one was going to use it, I turned to Mama and saw her nod while taking my bag from me so I couldn't use my tablet and laptop on it…

"No, messing with the G-Force System, understood?" Mama says it once more and this time, I nod weakly, accepting my defeat. Without my tablet or laptop and merely with my phone, I couldn't mess with much…or can I? 

After entering the Pod, Mama seems to have forgotten about someone, Haro emerges from behind me and jumps around the room, since we are in the adjusting phase of the travel, the gravity generator is slowly raised up, so when he jumps, Haro floats a bit before touching down softly on the ground. Grining, I look around the pod, there is a seat, with full control of the system, Both Analog and interface. When I look closely, the room is actually just a giant monitor, probably to simulate the 360 sensors they have in the modern Mobile suits.

The seat was equipped with motion control meaning depending on how I decide to move the mobile suit, my seat will adjust to keep track along with it, aligning me to always be straight with the mobile suit.

Sitting down on the seat, I pull down one of the monitors and open it up. Once the monitor starts, the whole room lights up to life as suddenly the view of the darkroom is not gone, replaced by instead changing fields of space and ground, forest and water.

Inside the monitor, there are a lot of options, whether it be a bot, local, or even online, it seems they treat this thing as a game, though it is mainly a game, the military use one wouldn't be easily controlled like this after all.

Ignoring those, I set my eye on the setting, looking past all the settings, I finally found what I wanted, the control setting, it was locked to easy mode. "Haro, Console Mode, take out C type port," I said toward Haro who already resting on my lap, he did as I requested, pushing out the type C port from his side, I plugged them up toward the control console, waiting for a little bit, after that was just a little hack for me to gain access to the system, and there a lot I really want to mess with.

First change all the difficulty to real mode, control to real, AI to ace pilot, and even the field to have unstable ground and uncertain weather. Then moving toward the room setting, I decided to put off the setting for G-force for now. I need to experience it first, and I have no specialized suit for withstanding the G-force.

Mama would kill me if she found out that I mess with it too so yeah. When I finished messing up the system, I touched toward practice and then the field around me changed as the monitor instead of staying in front of me, went toward my side where I could easily access it and wouldn't obstruct my vision.

Suddenly, my seat changed a bit, as two round joysticks, with 4 buttons on the front, and one on the side appeared from the armrest. Each button represents how to move the mobile suit arm and leg. Reading the manual, I quickly absorb everything, and once satisfied with it, I start moving.

Using my right joystick, I click on the set command, the side button twice, the second button from the right once, and the first button from the left once. The right arm of my mobile suit opens the palm of its hand, then I start checking through the joint movement of the hand, twisting it, clenching it into a fist, and moving to check the flexibility.

Moving toward the next test, I press my left joystick, in another combination, the first button from the right once, then the second button on the left thrice. This makes the mobile suit raise up its leg into a kick.

With a push of the pedal from my left foot, the mobile suit kicks off the building with devastating force, destroying it in a flash.

"Hmm…the control is a bit clunky, it is not to my liking at all if I could polish them into another design…then." Leaving the thought behind, I check for my weapon, there is a 60mm Vulcan, beam saber, and beam rifle.

Taking out the beam saber with a command, I watch as the arm lowers down and picks up the saber from its side skirt, powering up the saber. I watch as the blue plasma coming out of the beam slowly transforms into red. 

"Using photon to create the center of the heat, then trap it using an electromagnetic field, crashing will be a problem since the field will cancel each other, Heated weapon won't stand a chance against beam weapon too, the shield was applied with a coating out the magnetic field so they will dissolve the beam field before they could do serious damage. Of course, there is a limitation."

Analyzing the beam weapon, I looked toward my other option but then, my heart was beating faster and the warm feeling slowly invaded me.

Ah…I can feel it, my heart, burning with excitement. "Right, you want to go now, right? There is no need for more training, just go, right? If that is what you want then, let go." Listening to my heart, I get out of the practice mode and decide to go into the local. 

I hadn't even walked with my mobile suit and tested out the G-force simulation but right now, I don't really care anymore. My heart is screaming for a fight, a fight between Mobile suits, something which I agree with.

Without much thinking, I pressed spawn, and then, everything hit, the roaring sound of a beam rifle, the thunderous boom of the explosion, the crackle of the fire, everything was heard, the field was that of a city, burning with flame, as I look around, a sudden warning appear and I look behind, only to see the word game over appear.

"That…was fast. But…I kind of understand it now." Without delay, I click respawn, and when my field changes, I start moving, my body works as one as I move past the building, eye scanning both the surroundings and my weaponry. 

A Sticky grenade, 150mm heavy machine gun, heated axe. Pretty ancient for today's age, the heated axe would melt when met with a beam weapon, 15mm would not be able to penetrate through most armor, and the only reliable is a sticky grenade but that is still situational.

When I was thinking of a plan, my sensor suddenly warned me of an approaching mobile suit, and it was already almost beside me. "Even though the detecting system was trash, what kind of ancient mobile suit did I land on?" Without stopping, I emerge from the building, to see another mobile suit already aiming its weapon toward me, a beam of light gathers in the chamber, and in a split second, I make my move.

The moment the beam came out, I was already rolling on the ground and picked up my sticky grenade and threw it toward the beam rifle, it stuck onto the chamber like I wanted, and within just a split second, I used my heavy machine gun and shoot toward the sticky grenade, exploding them before my opponent could do anything, grasping the opportunity, I throw away my gun and reach for the heated axe, the blade of the axe light up into red hot iron as I rush to the other mobile suit that was still panicking from losing their gun, and panicking reach for their beam saber, at that moment, my mobile suit tackle them to the floor, without leaving room for them to move, I use the axe and jam it right on the cockpit, destroying their control.

"Ha…ha…haa…" Without realizing it, beads of sweat flowed down my head, I looked toward my hand as it was shaking, I could feel the impact from the g-force through my sudden movement and it was…it was… exhilarating…

"Again…" I grab the two joysticks tightly, they tremble under my grasp as if it would break, "Again…" My vision slowly changed, as the force of the G-force fell on me, it was weak but acceptable, my body was giddy, and my breathing was going rougher and rougher.

As I searched frantically for a new foe, one appeared in front of me, its back was facing me and without thinking, I threw 2 sticky grenades, but its movement surprised me, it slid to the side using a propulsion system, then turned toward me with it beam rifler already charge up.

It was AI, Ace Pilot AI that I set. Ahh, whatever, I slide backward, enough to dodge the shot that was aimed toward my leg, then using one of the buildings as camouflage, I throw my last sticky grenade toward the mobile suit, it uses its Vulcan to destroy the grenade mid-air but that is what I want, using the smoke generated from the grenade explosion, I throw my heated axe toward the last known position of the mobile suit and rush out from the smoke that was clear by the wind from my throw, the axe hit the mobile suit shield, planting deep and explode the shield, stunning the mobile suit for a second.

Without wasting my time, I push my speed to the limit and tackle the mobile suit down along with me, using my arm to block the Vulcan, I use my free arm and grab its head, the mobile suit struggles under my grasp as it uses its arm to try and stop me from ripping it head off, but it was futile as before its Vulcan would destroy my arms, I successfully rip its head right off, without the Vulcan gun, and losing it main camera, I waste no time to punch hard toward the cockpit, again and again, and again until it was so dented to the point of almost being flat.

"Ha…ahaha…hehe…ehehehe." Ah….I can't stop laughing, why? Why is it that I can't stop? It was as if I just found my calling, everything I did was for me to reach this moment…if…if this was only a simulation…how would the real thing feel? The feel of metal ripping through one another, the feeling of g-force that weighing down to the point of feeling like being minced pork, the feeling of ripping off people who hope to win, the feeling of-

"Huuuuuuuuu haaaa… cough! Cough, ack…hah…ah…ha…" I cough out as air enters my body, wiping away the saliva that was dripping down from my mouth, I smell the scent of metal. Looking toward my hand, I found it was smeared with a little bit of blood. 

Quickly grabbing my phone I opened the camera to see that my nose…was bleeding. Quickly grabbing my tissue, I wiped away the blood. "What…happened just now…" Ah…I think…I need a break.

Walking out of the Pod along with Haro, I saw Mama sitting on the bench watching something on her phone, when she heard the pod being opened and looked up she got a surprise look on her face. "You come out quite fast, I thought you would be in there for at least an hour or something." She said as she got up from the bench.

"How long…was I in the pod?" I ask her, feeling more sleepy than I thought. 

"Around 15 minutes. Is the machine that boring?" She asked as she probed down to my height, looking at me who was rubbing my ear with tiredness.

"No…It was…fun…I just…want to sleep-" Before I could finish my sentence, tiredness overcame me and I dropped down, unconscious.