138 Debriefing (Edited)

"What is this place?" Tony said with wide eyes as he saw nine huge Suns in the starry space.

How is he even breathing in the void? Or not just… dying from the vacuum of space or the burning heat from being this close to these suns!

This didn't make any sort of sense to him!

'Then again… I was transported here by that God Kid…'

In the end, the billionaire inventor decided… not to question this stuff. He is here to work… get some tech from the future. And get some favours with the Primordial Deity.

As he looked away from the celestial objects in the air… hell, he ignored the colourful galaxies spinning very far away. They looked like something a computer simulation could do as, they all had a singular unique colour to it. Almost like species based or… maybe factions? God knows whatever they are.

Funny how Tony Stark's guess is partially correct, as those were the very same Spirit worlds which Raynor ripped from Martial God Asura universe.

As Tony looked away from the sky, he looked at the 'elephant' in the room. A huge armoured being holding the glass flooring he was standing on.

And when he means huge, he means huge. It's like this thing could cover entire skies. He wonders if it's mechanical or magical? If it's a statue or a living thing? Regardless, it's simply huge. He doubts anyone on Earth could ever make it this big…

Eventually, his eyes settled on… a table… it looks like a meeting room of deities or some sort of super-beings… as the chairs looked like thrones and the table itself was made from some sort of glass-like material. It can reflect light…but not too much… it's unique… it should get annoying for people to look at it. But it's not… more magic tricks?

"I think… this is Ray's meeting room? I remember him mentioning that he made something like this…" Arno said to Stark as he recalled him saying something about this in school. How he brought people from Martial World to this place.

Still though, he couldn't see where the house dimension was, or maybe this was the very same one?

"Meeting Room? Damn… I wouldn't mind having a board meeting in this kind of place…" Tony said that with newfound appreciation.

"You would? Doesn't this kind of mess up with your logical side?" The blonde teen asked with some curiosity. He can guess that this should mess up with the scientific side of the billionaire.

The Avenger snorted in an amused fashion before answering.

"It does. However, I don't care at this point. Since your… friend? Decides what kind of physics this place follows. I would embarrass myself by suggesting to following 'proper' rules."

Arno nodded as he looked around himself for a bit. This was his first time in this place. So were the girls from RWBY who looked at this place with amazement. Except for the assistant of his friend… Arno can't tell with her. Had she seen this place before?

Regardless, their sightseeing was cut short as Raynor with a blonde woman in a secretary like suit appeared not far from their location.

"I suppose we should start our meeting." Raynor's words got everyone's attention. As he motioned for people to take their seats. Weirdly enough, there are enough seats for everyone.

"We're going to discuss our next move?"

"Indeed. I am going to give a short rundown on the place we are going. The world and nations of 23 centuries, Earth and the political landscape of this place."

When The Primordial Dragon mentioned what they're going to talk, Ruby instantly got the feeling that this is going to be dry… however, she did agree to follow what Raynor is going to say.

He even talked about this specifically when they were about to leave for the adventure. He knew that she would get bored with certain parts, so certain promises were done. Otherwise, she would have stayed out of this.

So she is going to listen to this… probably…hopefully… he will mention something about the huge killer robots…

"So you're going to explain about the Naturals and Coordinators?"

"... That already sounds racist already …" The playboy billionaire said with a sigh.

"You have no idea…" Both Arno and Raynor had the deadpan look as the blonde friend of the Primordial God said that to the inventor.

"Great… I can already imagine a big mess…"

"You will see. Now, let's start." As Raynor said that in the middle of the table, a miniature Earth appeared.

What instantly baffled Iron Man was that it was not a hologram, but a miniature version of earth. With moving clouds and it was spinning properly how Earth was supposed to. Funny enough, only he was that baffled, the rest didn't care.

"We start with the end of 21st century. The exhaustion of fossil fuels has led people to turn to different sources of energy. Mostly Electrical and Nuclear power."

"... That's kind of slow? Back on my Earth, Governments are talking about phasing out fossil fuel by 2050…" Tony mentioned on hand.

"Indeed… and if you could help, then they could do it faster. This way, you would save more lives as Tony Stark than Iron Man." As Raynor said that, this made the Billionaire have a thoughtful look for a bit before The Primordial Dragon returned to the short history lesson on this alternative world.

"As I was saying, after the exhaustion happened, people went for alternative sources. This was not easy as it caused a world war 3 or also known as Reconstruction War."

"What about the nukes? I thought it's the deterrent against events like World War." The inventor chipped in, while the rest simply listened in.

"There was only one time when the nukes were used. Which made people reconsider using them altogether." Raynor said with a shrug.

"The war wasn't just the only issue. As a variant of Influenza, spread through the whole world. With such things happening, the whole world order got reconstructed.

Less than a handful of small nations remain. Atlantic Federation is composed of the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom." As Raynor said that, the territories got highlighted on the miniature earth.

"Eurasian Federations consists of a majority of Asian nations. Like whole Europe, except for UK, Russia, the Arabian Peninsula and Asia Minor." As he said that, the area got marked on the Globe.

"Africa is split in two. The African Community in the North of Africa and portion in the middle. And the South part is the South African Union." The African Continent quickly got marked.

"The rest of Asian Continent is the Republic of East Asia within being China, Korean peninsula and Japan."

"Damn… talking about the change… never imagined this…" Tony was baffled, seeing Communists joining with Democratic countries like South Korea and Japan!

"I know what you mean. But this is nearly over 200 years in the future. I can imagine the fall of previous governments happened sometime over that time.

Regardless, in South America, we have the United States of South America. In Australia, we have the Oceania Union, which is composed of Australia and New Zealand.

With the last one being the Equatorial Union which is India, Pakistan, all of Indochina countries and the Tropical countries like Indonesia and the Philippines." As he ended up his explanation, all the countries got marked on the map.

"This is what the map looks like now. From over 200 counties we had before, there is only…"

"You forgot the Orb Union and Scandinavia…" Arno said with an eye roll.

"Right…the two insignificant countries…" The Primordial teen said with an eye roll as he highlighted those two countries as well.

"In size, but it's the Orb who created the Gundam…"

"With help of Atlantic Federation," Raynor added his two bits, before returning to the explanation.

"As I mentioned before, there are now only 10 nations left. This was at the end of the World War 3. From there on out, the world started to massively invest in space development. With multiple projects like space colonies, the Mass Drives which helps shoot things into space.

However, this was not the end. While Space technology progressed rapidly. Another one was happening in the background as well."

The billionaire rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. Here we go… the real issue. He had this feeling…

"Genetic alternations…"

"Thus Naturals and Coordinators? I assume the coordinators are like capsicle?" Iron Man already saw how this is going to happen. What kind of racism would happen if there were whole countries full of capsicles… 

"It's more than just physical prowess. While they're physically strong as Captain American himself, their mental faculties are far superior, thus the Giant Killer Robots" As Raynor said that, Tony started to see the whole picture.

"This started with one person, his name is George Glenn. Birth situation unknown. Some say it's a lab, others say that he was some rich family's son… regardless. He was good at everything, from going to the Olympics to designing things and winning a Nobel Prize.

He was the first person to go to Jupiter and return with the first evidence of a fossil of some sort of alien whale thing. This caused ripples through Religious communities. This was not all, as he posted on the internet blueprints on how to make more Coordinators before leaving on this expedition."

"... I see… and from there out it spiralled out of control… It would be much easier if it was a normal method. But it was an alteration done by people themselves. I assume many radicals appeared?"

"To the point that governments like Atlantic Federations become a puppet controlled by rich people turned terrorists…"

"Fuck…"

"Language…"

"Fuck indeed."

"... Language!!!"

"So, what happened next?" Tony said that while ignoring huffing Whitehead sitting opposite to him…

"The guy returns from deep space, the fossil gets stashed away in what is called Zodiac Research station. The thing becomes a symbol of sorts to the Coordinator people."

The Billionaire nods multiple times before continuing to listen.

"This is where things rapidly start to escalate, people who turned coordinators left for the space colonies because of their more robust bodies, they can live there. Where naturals continue to live on the Planet's surface."

"It didn't stop that people regardless of the rules and laws continued to alter their genes."

"Continuously making a wedge between Naturals and Coordinators." As Tony said, he already saw where this is going. He finally asked it…

"... And what was the breaking point?"

"Year 71 of Cosmic Era. 71 years after World War 3 one could say. A nuke has been launched at an Agricultural PLANT. A PLANT is a colony in a style of hourglass designed by George Glenn.

This caused the first war between what is known as Earth Alliance and PLANT's ZAFT.

ZAFT stands for Zodiac Alliance Freedom Treaty. As you can see, they took the Zodiac research station as their symbol.

The numbers were 5 to 1 towards Earth Alliance, but…"

Raynor finally showed the…mobile suits… the reaction was biggest from Ruby, who before this was half asleep…

She pulled her face close to one of the first generation machines, the GINN.

Around 20 metres tall. There was a comparison between a human and the Mobile Suit.

It was humanoid and had a singular eye. The Mobile suit had a rifle and a sword.

"Funny enough, their original design for a Mobile Suit was done…by guess who?"

"By George of the jungle isn't it?" Tony could see the effects… of single man… this was quite baffling yet understandable… one man change the landscape so much… if only this guy was born by natural means… a lot of stuff wouldn't have happened to this world.

But that didn't happen. Instead, this man was born by unknown means. Giving fuel for declining religious communities, which ignited superstition in regular people. Pulling their fears. And causing such a big wedge between genetically engineered people in space and natural people on the planet's surface.

"So…where do we come in?" Tony asked as he stroked his beard for a bit.