SD Gundam Fan Fiction ❯ SD Gundam Force Adventure ❯ The New Allie ( Chapter 2 )

Okay, listen up. Name's Sinbad. I wanna welcome you to Grand, a world that's mostly ocean, with some couple thousand islands, and few small continents. It's a place where if can happen on the sea, it will happen on the sea. It can get pretty rough, but I manage.

But lately, it's been getting too rough. A group of metal pirates have been causin' trouble, and it's getting to be that nowhere is safe!

But a bunch of strangers called the Gundam Force are willing to change all that…

 

The New Allie

 

Zakozakozakozako

 

That night at Slums, a party was in full swing. The people of Purpleton, after snubbing the Gundam Force in the morning, were hoping this shindig would be a good way of saying `thank you' and `we're sorry', after the way the Force saved the town from the Zakos, or `pirates', as they called them.

Shelly the Barkeep in particular was especially grateful to Zero for saving his wife, and offered them free food and drink on the house- Everyone else, of course, had to pay.

Sinbad was amazed. He had only docked in Purpleton for a day, but he had never seen this, or any other town, be in such good spirits. All because of the Gundam Force.

He decided he would have a talk with them first chance he got.

 

Zakozakozakozako

 

Meanwhile, a large, crimson vessel, the Chivvay, picked up a smaller, brown, arc-shaped ship, which belonged to the Zako crew the Gundam Force had saved Purpleton from.

“Whaddya mean you got nothin'!?”

The Zakos, after being forcibly dumped out of the Grabola, found themselves the target of a monstrous robot's ire.

This robot, being just as tall as Destroyer Dom, but with stubbier legs, longer arms, and claw-like hands glared at his much smaller subordinates.

“Um, zako, we could've gotten something, Lord Gargos Gogg,” the Cap-Zako stammered, knowing full well it would be much easier for Gargos Gogg to simply smash him than listen to his excuses, “But-but-but, some Gundams stopped us!”

Gargos didn't like the sound of that. “Whaddya mean, `Gundams'?”

Cap-Zako waved for one of the other Zakos in his crew to step forward. He then gave the unfinned one a bonk on the head, causing him to project an image of Captain, Zero, and Bakunetsumaru.

“These guys appeared in that town we were gonna sack, zako, and beat us, zako!”

Gargos leaned back some, in deep thought. “But there ain't supposed to be any Gundams here, Zakerello said so.” Gargos leapt forward some, causing the deck to shake slightly with his landing. “Looks like we'll have to take care of them now, before they become a real problem! Full Speed ahead!”

 

Zakozakozakozako

 

The next morning in Purpleton, the Gundam Force was busy trying to figure out their next move. As they walked down the main road, they kept getting many friendly greetings from the townsfolk. It was welcome change compared to the constant snubbing they got yesterday. Along the way, met up with Sinbad.

Shute waved at him. “Hey Sinbad!”

Sinbad nodded. “Yo.”

Rele whispered into Shute's ear. “Ask him about the Zakos.”

Shute nodded. He looked at Sinbad and said, “Could you tell us about those, um, pirates?”

Sinbad gave Shute a penetrating glare. He shrugged. “Sure, why not.”

 

Zakozakozakozako

 

(Sinbad's narration)

 

It all started about…twelve, maybe thirteen years ago. Things were pretty quiet, though there were a few bands of normal pirates swarmin' about, from what I hear. But aside from that, it was business as usual. Then, these weird…machine-men just popped outta nowhere. At first, nobody took `em seriously because of how small they were, from what I hear. I was about five, maybe four when the attacks started. It was crazy…those little on-eye's would blast a port, like this one, strip it down, and leave. Pretty soon it seemed like nowhere was safe… except Atlanter and Pacifica.

“Atlanter? Pacifica?” Bakunetsumaru queried.

One of the two big islands. Atlanter and Pacifica were the biggest islands in the world, big enough to have more than a few small villages, and their own navies.

Then…Atlanter was hit.

 

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Sinbad sighed, looking slightly pained, and yet, somewhat desensitized to the pain.

“And that's how it's been.” He finished. “With Atlanter ransacked, it seems like the world belongs to the Pirates now.”

“What about Pacifica?” Captain asked. “Haven't they been fighting against the Pirates?”

Sinbad snorted. “Sure they have, if the Pirates get to close. The Pacificans don't give a charb what happens to the rest of the world so long as they're safe.”

The Gundam Force looked at each other.

“Then our mission is clear,” Captain said, “We must go to Pacifica and convince them to help us with our mission.” The others nodded.

Sinbad waved his arms to get their attention. “Wait a minute, who are you guys? You just pop outta nowhere, beat up some pirates, and have no idea what's going on? Who are you?!”

The Force exchanged glances. Rele stepped forward. “Sinbad, can you keep a secret?”

The seaman nodded.

Rele took a deep breath, and began. “First you must understand that we are not from…around here. We are from a different world than this one.”

Sinbad didn't understand. “What are saying?”

Shute looked a little uneasy. “We're from different a dimension,” The boy said, “That's why it looked like we appeared out of nowhere.”

“We appeared on this island by means of a dimensional portal.” Captain explained.

Now it was Sinbad's turn to look uneasy. “If you guys are from…somewhere else…whaddya doin' here?”

And so the Gundam Force began to tell their tale….

 

Zakozakozakozako

 

After the Gundam Force finished. Sinbad didn't really know what to say. So, he decided to summarize what they said.

“Let me get this straight,” He began, “You're telling me that the Pirates are part of some big force called, the `Dark Axis', and you guys are from another world, here to destroy them?”

“That's the general idea.” Shute answered.

“Do you now know why we are here?” Bakunetsumaru asked, a passion building in his voice, “We cannot allow any piece of the Dark Axis' evil remain to hurt other lands! Not after seeing what they did to our homes!”

Sinbad relaxed his shoulders. They had tensed up. “Well, maybe goin' to Pacifica would help. You might be able t'convince them to do somethin' other than hide behind a line ofwarships.”

“But how will we get there?” Zero posed, thinking.

Sinbad shrugged. “Well, the townsfolk like you, maybe they'll give you a boat if you ask real nice-like. Anyway,” At this point, Sinbad began to walk off. “I gotta get back to my boat-“

“You have a boat?”

Sinbad stopped, cringing. He had a bad feeling… “Yeah, I have a boat…”

Sinbad turned back, and found himself looking at four sets of puppy-dog eyes. Captain would have been puppy-dog-eyeing as well, but Kao Lyn neglected to add that feature when installing the Gundam's new facial expressions.

Sinbad, meanwhile, didn't care about Captain lack of puppy-dog eyes. “No.” He said firmly. “I am not a ferry service. You want a ride, maybe you could hook up with some fishermen. I mean it! No!”

 

Zakozakozakozako

 

“Well, there she is,” Sinbad said, showing his new passengers the thing he grudgingly called a boat.

“Your vessel does not appear to be capable of operating at 100%.” Captain stated.

“Yeah, she's doesn't look like much, and she isn't, but she gets me to where I'm going.”

Sinbad and Captain weren't kidding, especially since Captain hadn't developed the capacity to kid around yet. Sinbad's seafaring vessel, named Love & Piece, was a rusty rig if there was one. The hull was patched together by various metal plates, the paint was peeling in numerous spots, and the glass in almost every porthole was broken. In short, it was, as hinted numerous times earlier, a piece of junk.

Rele, whose first experience with motorized transport was on the Gundamusai, looked apprehensive. “Are we really going to go to Pacifica…on that?” The Princess asked.

Sinbad, who didn't really take kindly to the tone of Rele's voice, said, “If ya don't like it, you can swim. And I'm not takin' you guys to Pacifica. I'm droppin' you off at the next island, and from there, you're on yer own.”

“Besides,” Shute said, trying to brighten the mood, “I bet it's not as bad inside.”

Shute was right, the inside of the Love & Piece wasn't as bad as the outside. It was worse. Sinbad, as with most bachelors, kept the cleaning of his `pad' to a bare minimum. And it was possible that the dust bunnies had evolved into sentient life. Bakunetsumaru swore that one pile of gunk winked at him.

And so, after much grumbling and mumbling, on Sinbad about the working condition of the Love & Piece, and Rele about the sanitary condition, the ragtag alliance finally shoved off. Little did they realize that this would be no pleasure cruise…

 

Zakozakozakozako

 

(Some notes:

(Charb, is a sort of like a curse word in this world. Translate it as you will.)