On Christmas Day, Bernie chooses to fight. Al, having discovered that a Zeon surrender is imminent and the nuclear strike has been averted, screams for Bernie to stop. But the roar of the engines is too loud.
The war ends a few days later. At a school assembly, Al cries silently as his classmates cheer about how "cool" the next war will be. He is the only one who truly knows that war isn't a game—it's just a small, lonely tragedy in a very large pocket. Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Living next door to Al is , a kind, older sister figure who has just returned from Earth. Al doesn't know that Chris is actually the Federation test pilot for the RX-78NT-1 Alex —the very Gundam Bernie is ordered to destroy. On Christmas Day, Bernie chooses to fight
The year is Universal Century 0079. While the massive battles of the One Year War rage across the Earth and Moon, the Side 6 neutral colonies remain a fragile oasis of peace—or so ten-year-old believes. The war ends a few days later
Al is a boy obsessed with the "coolness" of war, collecting spent bullet casings and dreaming of giant robots. His world changes when a Zeon shuttle crash-lands inside his colony, Frunbau. It’s there he meets , a rookie Zeon pilot who is part of a desperate, secret mission: "Operation Rubicon."
Bernie’s objective is to destroy a top-secret Federation prototype Gundam hidden within the colony. To Al, Bernie is a hero; to Bernie, Al is a reminder of the home he left behind. They form an unlikely bond, with Al acting as a "scout" for Bernie’s team.