GUNDAM ZZ
Mobile Suit
Gundam ZZ: Story
The Titans have been defeated, and in the aftermath of the great civil war Haman Khan makes her move. As UC 0088 begins, her army of renegade Zeons, who have returned to Earth inside the asteroid Axis, declare themselves the Neo Zeon. Aiming to win the space colonies over to their cause, Haman disperses the Neo Zeon fleet, sending each ship to woo the inhabitants of a different colony. One such ship is the cruiser Endra, under the command of young officer Mashma Serro, which has been dispatched to Side 1's Shangrila colony. By coincidence, this is where the AEUG flagship Argama, battered and exhausted, limps into harbor.
Shangrila
The first colony constructed at Side 1, Shangrila is now a patchwork of scrapyards and slums. One of its inhabitants is 14-year-old Judau Ashta, who spends his weekends salvaging scrap metal. Judau watches the Argama's arrival, then snares a drifting mobile suit ejection pod. Dragging the pod into the colony, he and his friends discover that its occupant is Titans pilot Yazan Gable, who has been drifting in space since the defeat of the Titans. Yazan regains consciousness and promptly forces Judau and his friends to help him against the Argama and its crew.
Yazan leads the kids to Shangrila's dock, where he plans to capture the Zeta Gundam and the Argama. Judau encounters the Zeta's former pilot, the now-comatose Camille Bidan, and shares a strange newtype bonding experience with him. He then swipes the Zeta himself, and begins a running battle with Yazan's worker mobile suit. Despite his inexperience, Judau is able to wreck Yazan's mobile suit, after which the AEUG recapture the Zeta.
The Neo Zeon cruiser Endra arrives and its captain, Mashma Serro, bribes the colony administration into letting the Endra dock at Shangrila. As the Endra docks, the Argama moves into the colony interior and buries itself in junk. For the next few days, as Mashma and his underlings search the colony interior for the hidden Argama, Judau keeps coming to the rescue, piloting the Zeta with increasing skill. Argama captain Bright Noa asks Judau, his friends and his sister Leina to join the crew, and after some hesitation on Judau's part they accept. The Argama leaves Shangrila to rendezvous with the supply ship La Vie En Rose, with the Endra in hot pursuit. The vegetative Camille stays behind, and his loyal girlfriend Fa soon turns back to join him.
La Vie En Rose
Fending off continual attacks from Mashma and replacement captain Cyara Sun, Argama reaches La Vie En Rose and takes delivery of Anaheim's latest mobile suit, the ZZ Gundam. Thanks to the ZZ's awesome firepower Judau is able to consistently repulse the enemy, but his sister Leina is soon lost in space and falls into the hands of the Neo Zeon. Young officer Gremmi Toto takes the captive Leina under his wing, inexplicably deciding to educate and culture her. Gremmi already has another ten-year-old girl in his charge - eccentric newtype Elpe Puru, the littlest Neo Zeon pilot.
Axis
After being refitted with a powerful new cannon by the La Vie En Rose crew, the Argama sets off to attack the asteroid Axis. Suspecting that his sister is held captive within the asteroid, Judau takes off to try and rescue Leina before the Argama's attack. Sneaking inside the Axis, he runs into Haman herself - not to mention Puru, who latches onto Judau as a surrogate brother. Though Judau fails to spring his sister, the Argama's attack is fortunately ineffectual.
Dakar
Meanwhile, Haman has gathered her forces for a new operation. Since none of her followers have fared any better at winning over colonies than did Mashma, she now sets her sights on the Federation itself. The massed Neo Zeon fleet is to occupy Dakar and force the hostage Federation government to hand over control of Side 3. Though the Argama attempts to block the Neo Zeon invasion, it turns out that the enemy's advance force has already captured the Federation capital.
Undaunted, the Argama descends to Earth and dispatches its "Gundam Team" on a trek through North Africa. The young mobile suit pilots, whose ranks now include Puru, make their way through the desert to Dakar. The Gundam Team, the Argama and the Kalaba join forces for a brief raid on the occupied capital, during which Judau finally springs Leina - who is promptly blown up in battle.
Dublin
Hotfooting it out of Africa, the Argama proceeds to the Federation's shadow headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Here Bright meets with the top officials of the Federation, who blithely inform him that they've made peace with Haman and are in the process of signing over Side 3 to the Neo Zeons. Hoping to expedite the process a bit, Haman executes a colony drop on Dublin as a show of force; the Federation brass flee, but can't be bothered to evacuate the civilian population. Springing into action, the AEUG and Kalaba manage to rescue most of Dublin's inhabitants before the colony impact.
The Neo Zeons deliver a nasty follow-up surprise, as the now-sinister Gremmi dispatches a doppelganger Puru against the Argama. It is revealed that he has a small army of Puru clones in cold storage, and the rogue Puru who's joined the Argama crew is completely expendable. The newly awakened Puru Two ruthlessly eliminates her twin sister.
Side 3
Taking the hint, the Federation wraps up the negotations, dissolving the Republic of Zeon and placing Side 3 in the hands of the Neo Zeons. Satisfied, Haman and her forces leave Earth and head for Side 3 to begin rearming. Returning to space, the Argama and its cadre of teen pilots are informed that the war is over. But when coincidence places Judau and his friends at the controls of the brand-new AEUG battleship Near Argama, they set off into Side 3 to take on Haman, with Bright's blessing.
Meanwhile, Haman has another challenge on her plate. The ambitious Gremmi, claiming that he is a genetically-engineered scion of Gihren Zabi and thus just as legitimate an heir to the Zabi line as the puppet Mineva, launches a rebellion against Haman and splits the Neo Zeon forces in two. Judging Haman to be the lesser of two evils, the Near Argama and its crew enter the fray and join the battle against Gremmi and his followers.
The Neo Zeon civil war is brief but ferocious. Though his fleet is no match for Haman's, Gremmi takes control of Axis and hurls its detachable section, Mowsa, at Haman's stronghold, the colony Core 3 - then follows up with the main body of Axis itself. Judau and his teammates take on Gremmi and the now-repentant Puru Two, killing the one and accidentally inflicting mortal wounds on the other. Gremmi's forces are routed, and Haman's fleet is reduced to a tiny handful.
Now that the Neo Zeons are a miniscule threat, the AEUG and Federal Forces finally decide to intervene, dispatching a fleet to round up Haman's remaining forces. Meanwhile, Judau and Haman square off for a last duel inside the drifting Mowsa; defeated, Haman kills herself rather than live in disgrace. With the battle over, the AEUG and Federal Forces arrive to take credit for the victory. They discover that Mineva has disappeared, leaving behind a lookalike decoy.
Conclusion
Disgusted by the cowardice and corruption of the adults, Judau and his former-teammate, now-girlfriend Roux Louka join the crew of an energy transport ship and set off on the long voyage to Jupiter. Just before the ship sets off Judau is reunited with his sister Leina, who isn't actually dead after all. And on Earth, Fa and a recovering Camille frolic on the beach.
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