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. 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. Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
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." The war ends a few days later
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