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.
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. Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
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. On Christmas Day, Bernie chooses to fight
In a snowy forest park, the Zaku and the Gundam tear into each other. Bernie is killed in the cockpit just as he disables the Gundam. Chris, wounded but alive, is pulled from her machine, never knowing that the "pilot" she just killed was the boyish Zeon soldier she had shared a friendly conversation with only days before. Bernie’s objective is to destroy a top-secret Federation
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."