Gauna 488!

Chapter 14 — Gauna 488!

Jason Star's Daily Log | Day 75.

Jason and Mr. Alien were spending most of their time at the Toha Heavy Industry, teaching Sasaki, and her trustworthy workers about Mr. Alien's own technological knowledge.

The two of them also helped on creating the prototype version of the Type 19 Guardian which was gonna be created by Toha Heavy Industry.

The Guardian Knight Project.

An improved and superior type of Guardian that contained various kinds of advance technologies.

Mr. Alien even improved and optimized the Guardian's computer program system to increase the performance of the Guardian, making it less prone to malfunction and delays.

It also finally allowed the pilot to freely switch between the two options of Automated System or Manual Control. The purpose was to allow the pilots to get more familiar and proficient with using two types of piloting system.

However, the Project Guardian Knight will take some time to reach completion and then mass-production. The project has to get approval first from the commander and also win against Kunato Development at the production competition.

As a result of spending most of their spare time at the Toha Heavy Industry, Jason was now well known amongst the workers and employees. He even met a wise old man who was close with Sasaki, and is also an engineer of Toha Heavy Industry.

He was Tanba Shinsuke, and the old man helped them greatly with Project Guardian Knight.

The news that Jason joined the Toha Heavy Industry spread quickly like a wildfire.

The residents didn't exactly know how Jason managed to join, but it was surprising and inspiring at the same time.

They've thought Jason must have made a big contribution, further increasing his popularity amongst the Sidonians.

Jason's current fame and popularity weren't limited to SDF Academy now.

Almost every Sidonians know about the man called Jason Star now.

It was due to Jason's amazing achievement of slaying a Gauna by himself which managed to save the Akai Squad along the process.

As a result, many people dug out Jason's past achievements, and learned that he also performed amazingly at the SDF Academy.

The people were now full of positive feedback toward Jason, now treating him as one of Sidonia without discrimination.

Some of the Sidonians even started to think of Jason like Hiroki Saitou, the Hero of Hope during the 4th Gauna Defensive War.

The Immortal Council went turbid because of Jason, but Kobayashi quickly tried her best to calm them down.

Inwardly in her heart, Kobayashi held Jason far more important than these cowardly immortal bastards.

...

Tree House | 5:00 PM.

Jason returned home after spending some time at the Toha Heavy Industry. His brain was very weary as he forced himself to also learn from Mr. Alien. Jason wanted to get a more deeper understanding about the Guardian Knight he will pilot in the future and not remain completely clueless.

Jason plopped down the sofa and was about to rest, but a loud alarm woke him up from his drowsy state.

He stared over the black smart watch on his wrist and saw it was an emergency sortie.

A Gauna was approaching Sidonia.

Jason quickly went toward the Military Hangar, but then met a beautiful girl on his way there.

The beautiful girl was Izumo Midorikawa's younger sister, Yuhata Midorikawa.

After seeing Yuhata personally, Jason was impressed by her beauty. She was only second to Kobayashi.

"Uhmm... I'm Yuhata Midorikawa, and I'm very thankful for you always helping my stupid brother!" Yuhata bowed with a somewhat red expression.

"You don't need to thank me. Besides, your brother has helped me a lot in the past."

Yuhata shook her head and insisted determinedly, "I'm still grateful!"

Jason helplessly nodded his head, thinking it was useless to continue denying her feelings.

It would only make him appear cold and rude to which he would like to avoid.

"Very well, however, I'm in a hurry to sortie out, so I must leave now. Sorry about that."

"No, it's okay!" Yuhata said while apologizing for interrupting him.

"It's fine, see you sometimes then!"

Jason left the scene, and hurriedly went toward the Military Hangar.

Yuhata gazed at Jason's fading figure, her face hiding excitement and longing expression.

She was a fan of Jason ever since she got to know about him.

If her older brother got to know about this, he would definitely go crazy, as his adorable younger sister wasn't a fan of him, but Jason instead!

....

Pilot Locker Room | 5:20 PM.

At Jason's own locker room, he quickly changed into his personal pilot suit. A skintight pilot suit that was entirely black.

After quickly changing, he went toward the Squad Meeting Room.

Jason heard that he was gonna handle a newly created squad today.

Arriving inside the room, Jason saw the squad he was supposed to command.

And it was them again.

A squad filled with familiar faces.

Hoshijiro Shizuka, Kunato Norio, Honoka En, and Tanikaze Nagate.

Jason mused to himself and thought was this some kind of coincidence or the mysterious work of fate? Nonetheless, it was Jason's responsibility to lead these newbies and not let them make mistakes since they were still inexperienced.

This was gonna be their first Gauna Subjugation Mission after recently graduating from the SDF Academy.

Jason knew why Kobayashi assigned him as their Squad Leader.

Kobayashi understand his exceptional skills and great commanding ability. She did not wanted the newbies to make mistakes.

Jason introduced himself once again and told them that he was assigned to be their Squad Leader in this mission.

The three looked happy and excited, but Kunato looked dissatisfied.

He didn't liked Jason having to command him again, but he had no choice other than to follow him obediently now.

Kunato knew that if he intentionally commited anything foolish during this operation, his life and career would be over. His influential family won't even able to help him if that happened.

Jason was like a tight leash that stopped Kunato from doing whatever he wanted.

Jason led his squad toward the Hangar Site, but encountered the Akai Squad who was also gonna participate in this mission.

Unlike last time, the Akai Squad looked more confident and serious. They've vowed to never let their previous mistakes to happen again.

Akai, Momose, Izumo, and Aoki congratulated Jason for becoming a squad leader.

However, they still didn't know if it's just a temporary position.

Jason laughed and bumped fist will them, wishing each others good luck.

All of them soon went to the hangar site and boarded their Guardians.

Jason looked at Rokureme, and saw it was already fully repaired. He inwardly thanked Sasaki for the repair before getting inside the cockpit.

After activating Rokurome, Jason heard Mr. Alien.

⟨ Host, will you use Mechanical Parasitism? ⟩

Jason shook his head.

"No, it's still too early. I would also like to refrain from using it too much since it drains our lifespan energy. Also, If I keep relying on that ability, how would l grow further as a pilot and be capable of fighting against the Gauna Emperor?"

⟨ Understood. Although choosing Host was just a matter of coincidence, I am glad to be able to serve someone as competent as Host. ⟩

"Heh, your flattery won't work on me," Jason snorted, but he was inwardly satisfied hearing Mr. Alien's compliment.

Mr. Alien sensed Jason's satisfaction.

⟨ (≧▽≦)! ⟩

It felt happy too.

⟨ In that case, I will provide you with slight support, Host. I will help you using Enhance Battle Sense Mode. Do not worry, it will not restrict your growth, but rather stimulate it and develop your Pilot Sense much faster. ⟩

"Oh okay, good to know."

⟨ Enhance Battle Sense Mode. ⟩

Then suddenly, Jason's left crimson eye grew darker and radiated a strange light.

Jason too a deep breath, his entire aura focusing and sharpening into a formless blade.

"Rokurome, Jason, heading out!

Rokurome accelerated through a long and dark tunnel, flying toward the space.

...

Kobayashi stood high above inside the command bridge, calmly overlooking the ongoing mission. She then glanced below toward a tall white-haired man with blue eyes.

"How's the current situation, Seii?"

The man called Seii quickly reported without a delay.

"Our sensors haved confirmed the approachment of Gauna 488, and identified it as a colossal connected-type Gauna with an estimated number of 29 True Body."

"It is also approximately nine hundred and ninety meters in length."

"The current situation is definitely serious and dangerous, but we need eliminate the Gauna blocking Sidonia's path," Kobayashi said with a serious expression.

"Enemy Gauna is starting to approach Sidonia more quickly!"

"The Subjugation Team consisting of 39 Guardians and a total of 9 Kabizashi in possession has launched out!"

Seii nodded his head after hearing the various reports. He then asked them to immediately open a communication channel over to all pilots.

"Our main priority is to find the main True Body of the connected-type Gauna. However, we must still destroy the other secondary True Body."

"There's also an additional information brought by the surveillance unit. It has been confirmed that the last two hundred and fifty meters of the Gauna don't have any True Body."

"We cut the tail down and it will greatly reduce Gauna's placenta."

Seii finally finished his command and now quietly watched them.

""Roger!""

All of the 39 Guardians replied at the same time.

The Jason Squad and Akai Squad were amongst them. In fact, the two squads were situated very closely.

"Thirty-nine palm formation!"

The 39 Guardians immediately formed into a giant circle of blue light, holding each others palm.

Their travelling speed increased significantly as a result.

"One thousand kilometres to the Enemy Gauna!"

A masked woman assistant announced while staring at the screen that displayed the distance between the Enemy Gauna and the Subjugation Team.

The distance between them quickly became shorter and shorter.

And soon, the 39 Guardians finally reached the Enemy Gauna.

""Dissemble the palm formation!""

""Commence the attack on the Enemy Gauna!""

The 39 Guardians immediately separated from each others. They flew toward their designated positions with their own squads.

Jason's Squad which was composed of newbies were responsible for the Gauna's massive Tail Part.

The immensely huge larvae-like Gauna started to defend itself, releasing waves after waves of placenta arms. Its attack were fast and strong, seemingly having no end, causing them to have no choice, but to evade quickly and approach the Gauna very carefully.

Most of them didn't make mistakes since they were senior pilots with some experience.

However, Seii still warned them to not get too careless.

"Watch out for those incoming Placenta Arms! Just getting flicked by it is enough to lose your speed! You won't able to return home at that rate!"

"""""Roger!""""

The pilots replied resolutely, knowing themselves that they cannot afford to make mistakes that will cost their own life and others life.

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Gauna's Tail | Jason's Squad | 6:00 PM.

"It's difficult to arrive very close to the Gauna's tail! We won't make it at this rate!" Honoka En reported while sweating lightly.

Honoka's Guardian was trying its best to approach the Gauna's tail, but it was blocked by the placenta arms, making it difficult to advance as she needs to focus on dodging.

Jason looked over the surface of the Gauna's tail, and immediately found a place which was quite safe.

"Jason over to all units, don't panic too much and stay calm and rational. Go to the location that I will send to your Guardians. That place is being defended by fewer placenta arms."

Jason calm attitude was contagious, even managing to affect his squad, causing them to somehow calm down.

This was further amplified by a sense of security since Jason was the only person who possessed a Kabizashi amongst them.

"Got it!" Honoka En replied and quickly went toward the location.

The rest of Jason's Squad followed soon and managed to approach the surface of the Gauna's tail.

Nagate's Tsugomori attached itself into the Gauna's tail.

"Tanikaze, successfully attached!" Nagate reported to Jason.

The rest shortly followed afterwards.

"Hoshijiro, also successfully reach it."

"Honoka, also done with it."

"Kunato, done and successful."

Jason calmly observed their surroundings before opening a communication channel over to the command bridge.

"We have attached ourselves to the Gauna's Tail. We will now proceed to put the pile-driver blaster and blow the tail away"

"Good, begin now!" Kobayashi said from the other side.

"Roger," Jason replied briefly and then turned the channel offline and switched it toward his own entire squad.

Jason was able to hear to the other pilots saying they managed to eliminate some of the True Body.

He decided to quickly lessen the burden for them by cutting the Gauna's tail.

"Aim all pile-drivers toward the Gauna's tail and activate all of It on my signal!"

"""Roger!"""

After hearing their replies, Jason placed his finger on the trigger.

"Activate the Pile-Drivers!"

At those words, Jason pressed the trigger of the bomb. The others also pressed their triggers at the same time.

And Kunato didn't dared to try anything funny under Jason's eyes.

As soon as their triggers were pressed—

BOOM!

BANG!

BOOOOM!

A massive fiery explosions appeared around the massive tail of the Gauna, separating it from its main body.

"The split of the Gauna's tail is complete. We will now proceed to help the others with the extermination."

"Thank you, and good job, Jason Squad," Seii said happily as without the large Gauna's tail, the Gauna should become less of a threat.

However, after the Gauna's tail was blown apart, a Gauna next to the tail, immediately became furious to whoever did it.

The amount of placenta arms around Jason's Squad doubled in numbers and it still continued to increase.

Jason was immediately alarmed and cautious.

"Jason over to all units, quickly retreat from this place!" Jason ordered them calmly, but didn't retreat yet and watched over his squad.

Hoshijiro, Nagate, and Honoka quickly retreated away.

Kunato also tried to retreat, but the placenta arms were much more many around his area, causing him to eventually get captured by the placenta arms.

Kunato tried to escape, but he failed. At this moment, terror and fear of death filled his heart.

"...Ah...! Help me..." Kunato screamed, but heard no response.

He then felt lonely, sinking to a deep abyss of darkness, realising he was just an insignificant and worthless human before the face of death, making him believe that maybe he wasn't that superior from normal humans at all, but merely just an ordinary human like them.

Humanity itself was meaningless and worthless under the grand scheme of the ever expanding universe.

"Kunato!" Honoka exclaimed, and thought of helping him, but Hoshijiro stopped her.

"En, don't try to save him yourself. You will not able to do much. Just leave it to our squad leader, he possessed the Kabizashi and also stayed behind unlike you who've already retreated," Hoshijiro calmly explained.

Honoka nodded, looking toward Jason. It was not like she cared about Kunato, but she can't just bear the sight of her comrade dying.

Jason who haven't retreated was quite close to Kunato's position.

"As expected..." Jason muttered while flying toward Kunato quickly

He had already expected something like this situation to occur based on the amount of placenta arms around them. That's why he stayed and waited patiently.

As for his own danger and safety, he was different compared to these newbies.

The Gauna's placenta arms were wrapping around Kunato's Guardian, trying to completely crush it.

Kunato felt even more fear and started panicking, causing him to fire a Higgs Particle Cannon, but it did nothing other than just feeding the Gauna.

Jason arrived next to Kunato and provided help by cutting the placenta arms away.

However, soon after seeing Kunato's Guardian's terrible condition, he just forcefully removed the placenta arms that was still wrapping around the cockpit.

"Kunato, can you eject from the cockpit?" Jason calmly asked.

Kunato was surprised to see it was Jason, his worst enemy, that came to save him from meeting death.

Instead of actually feeling humiliation, Kunato felt awkwardness, but also happiness and hope for the first time.

Kunato unknowingly smiled slightly and checked his Guardian's system, fortunately finding out that he could still eject without problem.

"There's no problem, I can eject from the Guardian!"

Jason nodded his head and then flew in front of Kunato's Guardian.

"Immediately eject from your Guardian and abandon it, I'll buy you some time."

Kunato watched Rokurome's heroic back and didn't know why he felt safe and relieved. It was a warm feeling that comforted him despite just being worthless and insignificant bug.

Rokurome wielded its Kabizashi with one arm and fired a machine gun with the other, destroying the approaching placenta arms.

Kunato pushed a button, and ejected from the Guardian, now floating on the space inside a bubble ball like thing.

Jason then quickly retreated while holding Kunato who was inside the bubble ball.

"....thank you....." Kunato silently spoke to the micro-communicator built inside his pilot suit in order to talk with Jason.

"No problem. It's only natural to protect you whose in my squad."

Kunato went silent.

Jason was truly different from Kunato who only cared about himself and only saw others as mere bugs. He always felt like this, even toward his own younger sister who was always besides him and loyal to him.

Maybe that's why he couldn't hope to ever surpass Jason.

And maybe that's why he felt worthless and insignificant. He was just always alone, not even connecting with others, and not forming that link that made you not insignificant.

As Jason retreated, he saw Kunato's Guardian being devoured entirely by a Gauna.

However, what was more shocking is seeing that Gauna slowly morphing into crimson Guardian!

Jason was stunned. He didn't expected it to actually have the ability to shape-shift into a Guardian. It was a complex machinery, after all.

He then felt something dangerous coming from within it, causing him to release two guided missiles towards the Gauna Guardian's head which was accumulating energy.

The Gauna Guardian finished charging and then released an intense crimson beam that looked like the Higgs Particle Cannon.

The two guided missile exploded after being swallowed by the crimson beam, but it still continued toward Rokurome.

Kunato was horrified by the crimson beam, but Rokureme quickly threw him away while Rokurome tried to avoid the crimson beam, but it was too late.

Boom!

The crimson beam managed to land on Rokurome's right left, causing it to melt and explode..

Nagate, En, and Hoshijiro were alarmed as a result. They were also shocked that the Gauna was now a crimson Guardian and was also capable of doing the Higgs Particle Cannon.

The inside of Rokurome's cockpit shook violently and Jason felt dizzy.

Although Rokurome lost a leg, it was still able to move and use its two arms.

However, he still needed to deal with the crimson Gauna Guardian.

Rokurome held the Kabizashi tightly and crimson lightning covered it.

Jason consumed one hour worth of energy to temporarily enhance the Kabizashi with the crimson lightning—the ultimate counter against the Gauna Race and the ultimate support for the Mecha Race.

Rokurome then powerfully threw the Kabizashi.

—Thunderbolt Spear!

Swiiiish!

The Kabi Spear flew through the space and immediately arrived In front of the Gauna Guardian.

However, the Gauna Guardian seemed to sense the danger behind the Kabi Spear and tried to evade it, but as it was about to dodge, the Kabi Spear exploded from behind and was propelled forward even more faster, managing to pierce the Gauna Guardian's left arm and completely separating it from the body.

The Gauna Guardian realized it wasn't capable of defeating Rokurome just based on the power behind the Kabizashi.

It ignored its missing left arm and flew away quickly to flee from Rokurome. Its thruster released a huge burst of crimson particles as it escaped toward a nearby gas planet with an extremely fast speed.

Jason relaxed seeing the powerful Gauna Guardian retreating away.

Just by seeing that Gauna Guardian's speed and Higgs Particle Cannon power, Jason realized his current Type 18 Guardian wouldn't able to keep up with it.

He would only able to barely compete with the Gauna by using his piloting skills to its maximum.

However, the Type 18 wouldn't able to use all of Jason's potential, making him sigh.

As for the complete form of Mechanical Parasitism, Jason decided to use it as the final resort.

Since Rokurome was missing one leg and Kunato lost his own Guardian, Jason Informed the command room about their situation.

He also informed them about the Gauna Guardian.

As a result, they were shocked about the existance of the Gauna Guardian.

After completely learning about their situation, they allowed Jason Squad to return back to the base.

The mission was already progressing good with the splitting of the Gauna's tail and no longer needed their help.

With the combined efforts of many talented pilots like the Akai Squad and Samari Squad, the mission ended successfully without casualties and only some were injured or near death.

The 28 connected-type Gauna were successfully eliminated, but the last Gauna escaped toward a gas planet.

A gas planet that was lying ahead on the path of Sidonia.

And inside the gas planet, the Gauna Guardian was able to realize it wouldn't able to defeat Jason's crimson lightning with its current strength.

It then looked at the other several Gauna that were inhibiting within the gas planet.

A sinful gluttonous feeling arose.

The Gauna Guardian found a the best way to instantly become stronger.

It will come back.

Much more greater and stronger than ever before.

And then devour Jason.

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Bruh it was not suppose to reach over 3k word count ;-; now I'm having a hard time editing and fixing the structure. pls point out the mistakes like misspelling or missing words.

Also, I have finally completed the complete structure of the type 19 Guardian Knight, if you have any suggestions for hows its body build, or the engine reactor improvement or weapon stuff, do tell me so i can modify bits and part and not shy away.