Iron and Blood

Iron and Blood (鉄と血と) is the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS.

Synopsis
Mikazuki belongs to the private security company CGS, at the Martian city of Chryse, which has been hired to escort a girl named Kudelia to Earth. But just as preparations for departure are underway, Gjallarhorn attacks CGS in an attempt on Kudelia's life.

Plot
In the year Post Disaster 315, Mikazuki Augus fires a gun in an alley way, the recoil makes him fall on his back. His friend, Orga Itsuka (who has blood running down his head and a wound on his left arm) watches. Mikazuki asks Orga what to do next. 8 years later at CGS, Mikazuki asks Orga the same question as Orga slacks off, sleeping beside the ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos. They are discovered by Nadi Yukinojo Kassapa who tells Mika and Orga that the President of the CGS, Maruba Arkay, is calling for them. Despite him telling them not to come into the engine room where the Gundam Barbatos is being kept, Orga and Mika repeatedly go there because it is warm all year outside.

In the suburbs of the Chryse Autonomous Region, located in the Arbrau Territory of Mars. Maruba briefs Orga and his comrade, Biscuit Griffon, of the Third Group of CGS on their mission; Kudelia, the daughter of Chryse's representative, and her escort are going to Earth and the Third Group is to guard them. Biscuit knows Kudelia is part of the independence moment and Maruba informs him that her trip to Earth this time is about the Mars Independence too. Maruba claims it is a noble thing. Orga asks why Maruba let them do such a big job. Maruba tells Orga that "The Young Miss" handpicked them herself. Haeda Gunnel tells them that whatever the case, their job is the same as always. He calls them brats and says they should just listen to what he and the heads of CGS say.

Outside, Takaki Uno, Danji Enrei, and Ride Mass are digging up and disposing land mines, claiming it to be bullying.

Characters

 * 1) Mikazuki Augus
 * 2) Orga Itsuka
 * 3) Nadi Yukinojo Kassapa