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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14310777/chapters/33019323 Full Metal Panic! Bonds]]'' is a LightNovel/FullMetalPanic AlternateUniverse FanFic written by Chris Ganale, originally released on Website/FanFictionDotNet, but cleaned up and re-released on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn in commemoration of the new anime series, ''Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory''. It is set three years following the events of The Second Raid, and assumes that the novels never happened. In this continuity, Sousuke and Kaname started dating shortly after the Hong Kong incident, with Sousuke becoming a better pilot able to master the LAMBDA Driver and Kaname taking a civilian research role with MITHRIL. A new Specialist has been assigned to the ''Tuatha de Danaan'', and in the intervening time, there's been an unsettling lack of activity by Amalgam. Has MITHRIL truly won peace, or is the dark shadow of Amalgam merely biding its time and waiting for the perfect opportunity? As the simmering, formerly low-intensity conflict erupts onto the world's stage, the bonds of brotherhood, family, honor, and duty will be tested like never before...
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14310777/chapters/33019323 Full Metal Panic! Bonds]]'' is a LightNovel/FullMetalPanic ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' AlternateUniverse FanFic written by Chris Ganale, originally released on Website/FanFictionDotNet, but cleaned up and re-released on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn in commemoration of the new anime series, ''Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory''. It is set three years following the events of The Second Raid, and assumes that the novels never happened. In this continuity, Sousuke and Kaname started dating shortly after the Hong Kong incident, with Sousuke becoming a better pilot able to master the LAMBDA Driver and Kaname taking a civilian research role with MITHRIL. A new Specialist has been assigned to the ''Tuatha de Danaan'', and in the intervening time, there's been an unsettling lack of activity by Amalgam. Has MITHRIL truly won peace, or is the dark shadow of Amalgam merely biding its time and waiting for the perfect opportunity? As the simmering, formerly low-intensity conflict erupts onto the world's stage, the bonds of brotherhood, family, honor, and duty will be tested like never before...
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* MildlyMilitary: Given the same treatment as in LightNovel/FullMetalPanic. Garon ''does not'' like Commander Mardukas, is willing to say so, and doesn't even bat an eyelid at dating his commanding officer. Tessa seems to have a bit more trouble swallowing the fraternization problem, but in the end is just as quick to stop caring as she had been when she was trying to get with Sousuke in the source material.
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* MildlyMilitary: Given the same treatment as in LightNovel/FullMetalPanic.''Literature/FullMetalPanic''. Garon ''does not'' like Commander Mardukas, is willing to say so, and doesn't even bat an eyelid at dating his commanding officer. Tessa seems to have a bit more trouble swallowing the fraternization problem, but in the end is just as quick to stop caring as she had been when she was trying to get with Sousuke in the source material.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Oh, Mao. What would LightNovel/FullMetalPanic, or any derivative fic thereof, be without you?
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* KillEmAll: "Rules of engagement?" "Crew expendable."
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* RedStringOfFate: Invoked in the first chapter.
* SharedUniverse: With ''VideoGame/AceCombat'', ''Manga/LoveHina'', ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', and ''FanFic/ProjectArashi'', though the last is potentially just a RunningGag on the author's part to throw bits and pieces of all his works into his other works.
* SharedUniverse: With ''VideoGame/AceCombat'', ''Manga/LoveHina'', ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', and ''FanFic/ProjectArashi'', though the last is potentially just a RunningGag on the author's part to throw bits and pieces of all his works into his other works.
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* SharedUniverse: With ''VideoGame/AceCombat'', ''Manga/LoveHina'', ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', and ''FanFic/ProjectArashi'', though the last is potentially just a RunningGag on the author's part to throw bits and pieces of all his works into his other works.
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* NotSoDifferent: Leonard tries to favorably compare himself to Sousuke this way, in reference to people he has ordered killed as opposed to Sousuke killing in battle, but it doesn't really go to his plan. Kaname is unmoved by his pleas.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Leonard tries to favorably compare himself to Sousuke this way, in reference to people he has ordered killed as opposed to Sousuke killing in battle, but it doesn't really go to his plan. Kaname is unmoved by his pleas.
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* HopeSpot: Once, during the battle at Meridia Island, after the MITHRIL forces and the US Navy beat back an air attack by Amalgam, which is then {{Jossed}} by a cruise missile strike and the arrival of Amalgam's LAMBDA-equipped Arm Slaves. Later, Sousuke has killed the terrorists holding the Jindai alumni hostage, and Kaname herself has just stomped five Venoms in the Arbalest. Then Kyouko runs smack into a claymore mine...
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* HopeSpot: Once, during the battle at Meridia Island, after the MITHRIL forces and the US Navy beat back an air attack by Amalgam, which is then {{Jossed}} disproved by a cruise missile strike and the arrival of Amalgam's LAMBDA-equipped Arm Slaves. Later, Sousuke has killed the terrorists holding the Jindai alumni hostage, and Kaname herself has just stomped five Venoms in the Arbalest. Then Kyouko runs smack into a claymore mine...
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* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: The Island Republic of [=MolMol=] is this. To the outside world, they're a tiny little island nation with a quaint Middle Eastern/Indian culture and nothing to offer the world at large but tourism and strange three-eyed symbols. In reality, their technological level is right up there with series "superpowers" MITHRIL and Amalgam, and they deliberately sell the "country bumpkin" facade to stay left alone.
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* FlashStep: Leonard's Belial appears to have this affect. When attacked by Sousuke, the machine shimmered and disappeared, evading the shot entirely, and then reappeared seemingly in the same place.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4738790/1/Full-Metal-Panic-Bonds Full Metal Panic! Bonds]]'' is a LightNovel/FullMetalPanic AlternateUniverse FanFic written by Chris Ganale, originally released on Website/FanFictionDotNet, but cleaned up and re-released on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn in commemoration of the new anime series, ''Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory''. It is set three years following the events of The Second Raid, and assumes that the novels never happened. In this continuity, Sousuke and Kaname started dating shortly after the Hong Kong incident, with Sousuke becoming a better pilot able to master the LAMBDA Driver and Kaname taking a civilian research role with MITHRIL. A new Specialist has been assigned to the ''Tuatha de Danaan'', and in the intervening time, there's been an unsettling lack of activity by Amalgam. Has MITHRIL truly won peace, or is the dark shadow of Amalgam merely biding its time and waiting for the perfect opportunity? As the simmering, formerly low-intensity conflict erupts onto the world's stage, the bonds of brotherhood, family, honor, and duty will be tested like never before...
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* SleepCute: Tessa and Garon share such a moment in the cockpit of Clouseau's Arm Slave that they used to escape the sinking ''Tuatha de Danaan''. Leads into a brief BeautifulDreamer moment when Garon wakes first, complete with AffectionateGestureToTheHead.
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* HopeSpringsEternal: Nearly all of MITHRIL has been devastated in a blitzkrieg assault. The ''Tuatha de Danaan'' and the ARX-7A Arbalest, the two most powerful weapons MITHRIL possessed, have both been destroyed. Kaname has willingly surrendered to Leonard and Amalgam. But the crew of the ''Danaan'' have survived and regrouped with the rest of the West Pacific Fleet. Sousuke has survived his numerous injuries and partnered with Wraith. Tessa and Garon have formed an alliance with the Republic of [=MolMol=]. The curtain of shadows has been pulled back from Amalgam. And the United States has vowed to bring the evil organization to justice.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4738790/1/Full-Metal-Panic-Bonds Full Metal Panic! Bonds]]'' is a LightNovel/FullMetalPanic AlternateUniverse FanFic written by Chris Ganale, originally released on Website/FanFictionDotNet, but cleaned up and re-released on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn in commemoration of the new anime series, ''Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory''. It is set three years following the events of The Second Raid, and assumes that the novels never happened. In this continuity, Sousuke and Kaname started dating shortly after the Hong Kong incident, with Sousuke becoming a better pilot able to master the LAMBDA Driver and Kaname taking a civilian research role with MITHRIL. A new Specialist has been assigned to the ''Tuatha de Danaan'', and in the intervening time, there's been an unsettling lack of activity by Amalgam. Has MITHRIL truly won peace, or is the dark shadow of Amalgam merely biding its time and waiting for the perfect opportunity?
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4738790/1/Full-Metal-Panic-Bonds Full Metal Panic! Bonds]]'' is a LightNovel/FullMetalPanic AlternateUniverse FanFic written by Chris Ganale, originally released on Website/FanFictionDotNet, but cleaned up and re-released on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn in commemoration of the new anime series, ''Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory''. It is set three years following the events of The Second Raid, and assumes that the novels never happened. In this continuity, Sousuke and Kaname started dating shortly after the Hong Kong incident, with Sousuke becoming a better pilot able to master the LAMBDA Driver and Kaname taking a civilian research role with MITHRIL. A new Specialist has been assigned to the ''Tuatha de Danaan'', and in the intervening time, there's been an unsettling lack of activity by Amalgam. Has MITHRIL truly won peace, or is the dark shadow of Amalgam merely biding its time and waiting for the perfect opportunity?opportunity? As the simmering, formerly low-intensity conflict erupts onto the world's stage, the bonds of brotherhood, family, honor, and duty will be tested like never before...
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* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: Tessa, ridiculously so, to the point that she felt guilty for not having a Christmas present for her newest crewmember, who got there ''four hours'' before Christmas day. This trope is all but [[LampshadeHanging name-dropped]] by said crewmember.
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* AttemptedRape: The two Amalgam infiltrators that tried to kidnap Tessa. [[BerserkButton It went very poorly for them]] [[UnstoppableRage when Garon caught up]].
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4738790/1/Full-Metal-Panic-Bonds Full Metal Panic! Bonds]]'' is a LightNovel/FullMetalPanic AlternateUniverse FanFic written by Chris Ganale, originally released on Website/FanFictionDotNet, but cleaned up and re-released on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn in commemoration of the new anime series, ''Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory''. It is set three years following the events of The Second Raid, and assumes that the novels never happened. In this continuity, Sousuke and Kaname started dating shortly after the Hong Kong incident, with Sousuke becoming a better pilot able to master the LAMBDA Driver and Kaname taking a civilian research role with MITHRIL. A new Specialist has been assigned to the ''Tuatha de Danaan'', and in the intervening time, there's been an unsettling lack of activity by Amalgam. Has MITHRIL truly won peace, or is the dark shadow of Amalgam merely biding its time and waiting for the perfect opportunity?
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!!''Full Metal Panic! Bonds'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: Tessa, ridiculously so, to the point that she felt guilty for not having a Christmas present for her newest crewmember, who got there ''four hours'' before Christmas day. This trope is all but [[LampshadeHanging name-dropped]] by said crewmember.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The all-out offensive against MITHRIL, including a devastating air/Arm Slave/ground attack that left Meridia Island an irradiated hellhole and, according to Wraith, flattened the Sydney headquarters in a cruise missile strike, and destroyed all other branches of MITHRIL except the American branch.
** The assault by Amalgam on Washington DC using Soviet equipment.
* AttemptedRape: The two Amalgam infiltrators that tried to kidnap Tessa. [[BerserkButton It went very poorly for them]] [[UnstoppableRage when Garon caught up]].
* AuthorAppeal: 'Ratshit,' as prominently used by Kashim, is the author's own personal nickname for Leonard.
* BattleCouple: Both Sousuke and Kaname, and Garon and Tessa are shaping up to become this.
* BerserkButton: Garon's is Tessa. Upset her, hurt her, or threaten her in any way, and he will snatch the life right out of you.
** Sousuke puts his cold blooded torture of Kurama into high gear after watching the invasion of Washington on TV.
*** Though, to be fair, [[GollumMadeMeDoIt Kashim]] was in charge for that one...
* BilingualBonus: All instances of ''Mando'a'' being spoken throughout the series are the actual language as created by Creator/KarenTraviss.
* BodyCountCompetition: Between Kurz and Garon on Garon's first combat mission with MITHRIL, with a kiss from Tessa being the prize. Kurz was almost certainly not actually trying to win.
* CallBack: To ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', when it was mentioned that Garon took part in a joint SAS-USMC operation that involved Ultranationalists and a missile scare.
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Jokingly-lampshaded by Garon when Tessa explained that their resonance meant they could share thoughts.
* ChristmasEpisode: The first two and a half chapters.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Just one method that Sousuke is willing to use to find and rescue Kaname.
* ContinuityNod: The songfic ''Citizen Soldier'', also written by this author, is referenced several times by Kaname and Sousuke.
** Reference is also made to MITHRIL's hijacking of the Pacific Christmas in Dancing Very Merry Christmas, where Tessa got captured.
* CurbStompBattle: Belial vs. Arbalest, full stop. For a heroic one, Kaname piloting the Arbalest against ''nine'' Venoms.
** A Behemoth goes up against the ''USS Ronald Reagan'' carrier battlegroup and decimates it, as punishment for the Navy's assistance in the Meridia Island defense.
* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Referenced often with Tessa.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Teletha Testarossa. Also can be considered a GeniusDitz.
* DarkestHour: The aptly-named "End of All Hope" chapter sees MITHRIL having been almost completely wiped out by Amalgam, the Meridia Island base nuked, the ''Tuatha de Danaan'' sinking with Tessa planning to [[GoingDownWithTheShip go down with her]], the Arbalest destroyed by the vastly-superior Belial, Kaname kidnapped by [[BigBad Leonard]] [[SmugSnake Testarossa]], and Sousuke unconscious from multiple gunshot wounds, including several that could be lethal.
* DespairEventHorizon: Both Tessa and Sousuke had these. For Tessa, it was the nuclear cataclysm of Meridia Island, coupled with the crushing defeat at the hands of Amalgam, and the fact that her submarine had been crippled and was sinking. For Sousuke, it was all of the above, ''plus'' Kyouko being wounded in an enemy attack, getting trashed by Leonard's Belial, Arbalest being destroyed, and Kaname being kidnapped.
* {{Determinator}}: Getting wrecked in an Arm Slave battle and being shot multiple times, at least once in the chest, set Sousuke back about three days.
* DrivenToSuicide: Sousuke. He would've succeeded too, if his gun hadn't misfired.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: The attitudes toward Garon and Tessa in MITHRIL prior to Amalgam's attack. Averted in that both of them are aware of it, but aren't acting on it due to propriety, and then defied when Amalgam attacks and they come to mutual decisions that with the future being so uncertain, they better just make the most of it and hook up.
* ExpositionFairy: Garon spends most of the first several chapters teaching Tessa about the Mandalorian way of living.
* {{Expy}}: The MITHRIL soldier codename ''Wildfire'' looks and sounds like [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Captain Price]], but WordOfGod states that it's not him[[spoiler:, since Price was stuck in a gulag at the time.]]
* FirstNameBasis: When Tessa informed Garon that she'd rather be called by her nickname, he said that it felt funny to say and offered to call her the Mandalorian equivalent, ''Tel'ika''. When explained that it was also a term of endearment, she said that they weren't close enough for him to call her that. Chapters later, when she says that he can call her that, he's already gotten used to calling her Tessa, but tells her that it'll be his private name for her.
* FriendlyEnemy: There was a notable beat when Tessa announced to the US Navy that they had been fighting alongside the ''[[RedBaron Toy Box]]'' the entire time.
* FunWithAcronyms: The author ''really'' likes coming up with ridiculous acronyms, such as the "[[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Direct Operational Awareness Telemetry Enhanced Coordination Hardware]]" AI synchronization system, and turning the series-staple AppliedPhlebotinum LAMBDA Driver into an acronym that stands for "Linear Accelerated Motion-Bypass Defense/Assault". MITHRIL, as well, has been upgraded to become an acronym, though the author has long since lost his notes on what it's supposed to mean.
* GoldfishPoopGang: Venoms just aren't as scary as they used to be anymore, thanks to the Fairy Eyes sensor that shows LAMBDA Driver weakpoints and three years of MITHRIL training hard to counter Venoms.
** Averted in the Washington DC invasion, where the US Army's M9s are curbstomped by the Venoms.
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: The methods by which Sousuke was forced to live while a child soldier in Afghanistan have produced an alter ego, Kashim, that he is all too aware of, and has gone to great lengths to keep from ever seeing the light of day. In order to cope with the sheer horror of the evil acts he'll have to commit in order to save Kaname, he decides to let Kashim loose, with assurance that Kashim also wants to save Kaname because they're both the same person.
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Played as straight as possible in the third chapter, when Tessa very vocally denies that she has feelings for Garon. That stance lasts about two minutes.
* HopeSpot: Once, during the battle at Meridia Island, after the MITHRIL forces and the US Navy beat back an air attack by Amalgam, which is then {{Jossed}} by a cruise missile strike and the arrival of Amalgam's LAMBDA-equipped Arm Slaves. Later, Sousuke has killed the terrorists holding the Jindai alumni hostage, and Kaname herself has just stomped five Venoms in the Arbalest. Then Kyouko runs smack into a claymore mine...
* ICantBelieveImSayingThis: From Tessa, right before she sanctioned Garon and Kurz' BodyCountCompetition by offering the winner a kiss.
* ImplacableMan: Sousuke has the determination of one.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Kashim could teach Jack Bauer a few things.
* KillEmAll: "Rules of engagement?" "Crew expendable."
* LudicrousGibs: What happens when you use 20-gauge deer slug on people at ranges varying from "fifteen feet" to "barrel-in-your-nose".
* MadeOfIndestructium: Not completely indestructible, but the fake "Mandalorian armor" is built to withstand a ridiculous amount of punishment, with questionable design materials.
* MildlyMilitary: Given the same treatment as in LightNovel/FullMetalPanic. Garon ''does not'' like Commander Mardukas, is willing to say so, and doesn't even bat an eyelid at dating his commanding officer. Tessa seems to have a bit more trouble swallowing the fraternization problem, but in the end is just as quick to stop caring as she had been when she was trying to get with Sousuke in the source material.
* MonsterClown: Wraith describes Sousuke's Kashim persona as this, which is, in itself, a [[Film/TheDarkKnight Shout]] [[ComicBook/TheJoker Out]].
** Kashim himself makes a reference when asked if he has a [[ChaosIsEvil 'has a plan']].
* MundaneUtility: Arm Slaves, top of the line combat weapons costing several million dollars each...used to cut down a Christmas tree.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: In the desert battle in Garon's first mission, when the enemy Shadow pulls its {{BFS}} and jumps up to try to land on him, he just calmly shoots it while it's incapable of dodging.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Implied to be the "the good ''Mando'ad'' way" to teach manners.
* NotSoDifferent: Leonard tries to favorably compare himself to Sousuke this way, in reference to people he has ordered killed as opposed to Sousuke killing in battle, but it doesn't really go to his plan. Kaname is unmoved by his pleas.
* NowOrNeverKiss: Garon was about to get into his Arm Slave to go fight against an all-out attack by Amalgam, led by a massive air force (it's always been rather back-and-forth about the effectiveness of an AS vs. an aircraft), which would then undoubtedly be followed by an Arm Slave attack. The enemy was expected to (and did) field LAMBDA-equipped Venoms, and the M9 does not have a LAMBDA driver of its own. With that in mind, Garon figured that he may as well.
* NukeEm: Amalgam's backup plan for the West Pacific Fleet.
* OnceIsNotEnough: Garon exercises "rule number 17" on the Shadow he'd already blown in half, by putting another AS-sized shotgun round in the cockpit. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Always make sure they're dead, indeed...]]
* PairTheSpares: WordOfGod admits that half of Garon's original purpose was just to create a LoveInterest for Tessa.
* PrecisionFStrike: Oh, Mao. What would LightNovel/FullMetalPanic, or any derivative fic thereof, be without you?
* RedStringOfFate: Invoked in the first chapter.
* SharedUniverse: With ''VideoGame/AceCombat'', ''Manga/LoveHina'', ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', and ''FanFic/ProjectArashi'', though the last is potentially just a RunningGag on the author's part to throw bits and pieces of all his works into his other works.
* ShoutOut: The entire subplot of Sousuke taking apart Amalgam piece by piece from the bottom up is based on ''Film/ManOnFire'' and ''Film/{{Taken}}''
** One of the bridge crewmen is Ensign [[Series/BurnNotice Westen]].
** The above-mentioned "Crew expendable" lines.
** In the BodyCountCompetition between Garon and Kurz, everyone involved use the term "shoot-down" to refer to destroyed enemy Arm Slaves, ala ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam''.
** Kaname asks Leonard how many people he's gotten killed. He gives her [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing an exact figure]].
** All of the [[VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation US Navy callsigns]] in chapter 5, along with numerous lines of dialogue. Then there was a particular warning message about [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack enemy troops in the base]], and the section from the [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare point of view of the US Marines]].
** A MITHRIL operative defending the base uses the callsign [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Wildfire and is British]], but Word of God is that it isn't Price.
** The attack on Washington in Chapter 10 deliberately evokes Modern Warfare 2's DC missions.
* ShutUpHannibal: An epic one delivered to Leonard from Kaname in the dream sequence.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Both Sousuke and Garon have used their AS mounted weapons against infantry targets.
** Kaname too. ''A sustained burst of 12.7mm fire changed their minds. All over the wall.''
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: According to Garon, those wacky [=MolMolians=] thought that he and Tessa were farther along in their relationship than they really were.
* TitleIn: Every chapter and scene change is prefaced with a locator tag, of the format "Date (without year) and exact military time (always specifying what local time zone, sometimes using both local time and GMT), general location (such as city, state, country), and then a more specific location within the first."
* TookALevelInBadass: While Sousuke was busy clearing out the terrorists in the school gym, Kaname had to fight nine Venoms by herself in the Arbalest. ''She wrecked them all in thirty seconds flat''.
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!!''Full Metal Panic! Bonds'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: Tessa, ridiculously so, to the point that she felt guilty for not having a Christmas present for her newest crewmember, who got there ''four hours'' before Christmas day. This trope is all but [[LampshadeHanging name-dropped]] by said crewmember.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The all-out offensive against MITHRIL, including a devastating air/Arm Slave/ground attack that left Meridia Island an irradiated hellhole and, according to Wraith, flattened the Sydney headquarters in a cruise missile strike, and destroyed all other branches of MITHRIL except the American branch.
** The assault by Amalgam on Washington DC using Soviet equipment.
* AttemptedRape: The two Amalgam infiltrators that tried to kidnap Tessa. [[BerserkButton It went very poorly for them]] [[UnstoppableRage when Garon caught up]].
* AuthorAppeal: 'Ratshit,' as prominently used by Kashim, is the author's own personal nickname for Leonard.
* BattleCouple: Both Sousuke and Kaname, and Garon and Tessa are shaping up to become this.
* BerserkButton: Garon's is Tessa. Upset her, hurt her, or threaten her in any way, and he will snatch the life right out of you.
** Sousuke puts his cold blooded torture of Kurama into high gear after watching the invasion of Washington on TV.
*** Though, to be fair, [[GollumMadeMeDoIt Kashim]] was in charge for that one...
* BilingualBonus: All instances of ''Mando'a'' being spoken throughout the series are the actual language as created by Creator/KarenTraviss.
* BodyCountCompetition: Between Kurz and Garon on Garon's first combat mission with MITHRIL, with a kiss from Tessa being the prize. Kurz was almost certainly not actually trying to win.
* CallBack: To ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', when it was mentioned that Garon took part in a joint SAS-USMC operation that involved Ultranationalists and a missile scare.
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Jokingly-lampshaded by Garon when Tessa explained that their resonance meant they could share thoughts.
* ChristmasEpisode: The first two and a half chapters.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Just one method that Sousuke is willing to use to find and rescue Kaname.
* ContinuityNod: The songfic ''Citizen Soldier'', also written by this author, is referenced several times by Kaname and Sousuke.
** Reference is also made to MITHRIL's hijacking of the Pacific Christmas in Dancing Very Merry Christmas, where Tessa got captured.
* CurbStompBattle: Belial vs. Arbalest, full stop. For a heroic one, Kaname piloting the Arbalest against ''nine'' Venoms.
** A Behemoth goes up against the ''USS Ronald Reagan'' carrier battlegroup and decimates it, as punishment for the Navy's assistance in the Meridia Island defense.
* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Referenced often with Tessa.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Teletha Testarossa. Also can be considered a GeniusDitz.
* DarkestHour: The aptly-named "End of All Hope" chapter sees MITHRIL having been almost completely wiped out by Amalgam, the Meridia Island base nuked, the ''Tuatha de Danaan'' sinking with Tessa planning to [[GoingDownWithTheShip go down with her]], the Arbalest destroyed by the vastly-superior Belial, Kaname kidnapped by [[BigBad Leonard]] [[SmugSnake Testarossa]], and Sousuke unconscious from multiple gunshot wounds, including several that could be lethal.
* DespairEventHorizon: Both Tessa and Sousuke had these. For Tessa, it was the nuclear cataclysm of Meridia Island, coupled with the crushing defeat at the hands of Amalgam, and the fact that her submarine had been crippled and was sinking. For Sousuke, it was all of the above, ''plus'' Kyouko being wounded in an enemy attack, getting trashed by Leonard's Belial, Arbalest being destroyed, and Kaname being kidnapped.
* {{Determinator}}: Getting wrecked in an Arm Slave battle and being shot multiple times, at least once in the chest, set Sousuke back about three days.
* DrivenToSuicide: Sousuke. He would've succeeded too, if his gun hadn't misfired.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: The attitudes toward Garon and Tessa in MITHRIL prior to Amalgam's attack. Averted in that both of them are aware of it, but aren't acting on it due to propriety, and then defied when Amalgam attacks and they come to mutual decisions that with the future being so uncertain, they better just make the most of it and hook up.
* ExpositionFairy: Garon spends most of the first several chapters teaching Tessa about the Mandalorian way of living.
* {{Expy}}: The MITHRIL soldier codename ''Wildfire'' looks and sounds like [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Captain Price]], but WordOfGod states that it's not him[[spoiler:, since Price was stuck in a gulag at the time.]]
* FirstNameBasis: When Tessa informed Garon that she'd rather be called by her nickname, he said that it felt funny to say and offered to call her the Mandalorian equivalent, ''Tel'ika''. When explained that it was also a term of endearment, she said that they weren't close enough for him to call her that. Chapters later, when she says that he can call her that, he's already gotten used to calling her Tessa, but tells her that it'll be his private name for her.
* FriendlyEnemy: There was a notable beat when Tessa announced to the US Navy that they had been fighting alongside the ''[[RedBaron Toy Box]]'' the entire time.
* FunWithAcronyms: The author ''really'' likes coming up with ridiculous acronyms, such as the "[[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Direct Operational Awareness Telemetry Enhanced Coordination Hardware]]" AI synchronization system, and turning the series-staple AppliedPhlebotinum LAMBDA Driver into an acronym that stands for "Linear Accelerated Motion-Bypass Defense/Assault". MITHRIL, as well, has been upgraded to become an acronym, though the author has long since lost his notes on what it's supposed to mean.
* GoldfishPoopGang: Venoms just aren't as scary as they used to be anymore, thanks to the Fairy Eyes sensor that shows LAMBDA Driver weakpoints and three years of MITHRIL training hard to counter Venoms.
** Averted in the Washington DC invasion, where the US Army's M9s are curbstomped by the Venoms.
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: The methods by which Sousuke was forced to live while a child soldier in Afghanistan have produced an alter ego, Kashim, that he is all too aware of, and has gone to great lengths to keep from ever seeing the light of day. In order to cope with the sheer horror of the evil acts he'll have to commit in order to save Kaname, he decides to let Kashim loose, with assurance that Kashim also wants to save Kaname because they're both the same person.
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Played as straight as possible in the third chapter, when Tessa very vocally denies that she has feelings for Garon. That stance lasts about two minutes.
* HopeSpot: Once, during the battle at Meridia Island, after the MITHRIL forces and the US Navy beat back an air attack by Amalgam, which is then {{Jossed}} by a cruise missile strike and the arrival of Amalgam's LAMBDA-equipped Arm Slaves. Later, Sousuke has killed the terrorists holding the Jindai alumni hostage, and Kaname herself has just stomped five Venoms in the Arbalest. Then Kyouko runs smack into a claymore mine...
* ICantBelieveImSayingThis: From Tessa, right before she sanctioned Garon and Kurz' BodyCountCompetition by offering the winner a kiss.
* ImplacableMan: Sousuke has the determination of one.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Kashim could teach Jack Bauer a few things.
* KillEmAll: "Rules of engagement?" "Crew expendable."
* LudicrousGibs: What happens when you use 20-gauge deer slug on people at ranges varying from "fifteen feet" to "barrel-in-your-nose".
* MadeOfIndestructium: Not completely indestructible, but the fake "Mandalorian armor" is built to withstand a ridiculous amount of punishment, with questionable design materials.
* MildlyMilitary: Given the same treatment as in LightNovel/FullMetalPanic. Garon ''does not'' like Commander Mardukas, is willing to say so, and doesn't even bat an eyelid at dating his commanding officer. Tessa seems to have a bit more trouble swallowing the fraternization problem, but in the end is just as quick to stop caring as she had been when she was trying to get with Sousuke in the source material.
* MonsterClown: Wraith describes Sousuke's Kashim persona as this, which is, in itself, a [[Film/TheDarkKnight Shout]] [[ComicBook/TheJoker Out]].
** Kashim himself makes a reference when asked if he has a [[ChaosIsEvil 'has a plan']].
* MundaneUtility: Arm Slaves, top of the line combat weapons costing several million dollars each...used to cut down a Christmas tree.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: In the desert battle in Garon's first mission, when the enemy Shadow pulls its {{BFS}} and jumps up to try to land on him, he just calmly shoots it while it's incapable of dodging.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Implied to be the "the good ''Mando'ad'' way" to teach manners.
* NotSoDifferent: Leonard tries to favorably compare himself to Sousuke this way, in reference to people he has ordered killed as opposed to Sousuke killing in battle, but it doesn't really go to his plan. Kaname is unmoved by his pleas.
* NowOrNeverKiss: Garon was about to get into his Arm Slave to go fight against an all-out attack by Amalgam, led by a massive air force (it's always been rather back-and-forth about the effectiveness of an AS vs. an aircraft), which would then undoubtedly be followed by an Arm Slave attack. The enemy was expected to (and did) field LAMBDA-equipped Venoms, and the M9 does not have a LAMBDA driver of its own. With that in mind, Garon figured that he may as well.
* NukeEm: Amalgam's backup plan for the West Pacific Fleet.
* OnceIsNotEnough: Garon exercises "rule number 17" on the Shadow he'd already blown in half, by putting another AS-sized shotgun round in the cockpit. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Always make sure they're dead, indeed...]]
* PairTheSpares: WordOfGod admits that half of Garon's original purpose was just to create a LoveInterest for Tessa.
* PrecisionFStrike: Oh, Mao. What would LightNovel/FullMetalPanic, or any derivative fic thereof, be without you?
* RedStringOfFate: Invoked in the first chapter.
* SharedUniverse: With ''VideoGame/AceCombat'', ''Manga/LoveHina'', ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', and ''FanFic/ProjectArashi'', though the last is potentially just a RunningGag on the author's part to throw bits and pieces of all his works into his other works.
* ShoutOut: The entire subplot of Sousuke taking apart Amalgam piece by piece from the bottom up is based on ''Film/ManOnFire'' and ''Film/{{Taken}}''
** One of the bridge crewmen is Ensign [[Series/BurnNotice Westen]].
** The above-mentioned "Crew expendable" lines.
** In the BodyCountCompetition between Garon and Kurz, everyone involved use the term "shoot-down" to refer to destroyed enemy Arm Slaves, ala ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam''.
** Kaname asks Leonard how many people he's gotten killed. He gives her [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing an exact figure]].
** All of the [[VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation US Navy callsigns]] in chapter 5, along with numerous lines of dialogue. Then there was a particular warning message about [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack enemy troops in the base]], and the section from the [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare point of view of the US Marines]].
** A MITHRIL operative defending the base uses the callsign [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Wildfire and is British]], but Word of God is that it isn't Price.
** The attack on Washington in Chapter 10 deliberately evokes Modern Warfare 2's DC missions.
* ShutUpHannibal: An epic one delivered to Leonard from Kaname in the dream sequence.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Both Sousuke and Garon have used their AS mounted weapons against infantry targets.
** Kaname too. ''A sustained burst of 12.7mm fire changed their minds. All over the wall.''
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: According to Garon, those wacky [=MolMolians=] thought that he and Tessa were farther along in their relationship than they really were.
* TitleIn: Every chapter and scene change is prefaced with a locator tag, of the format "Date (without year) and exact military time (always specifying what local time zone, sometimes using both local time and GMT), general location (such as city, state, country), and then a more specific location within the first."
* TookALevelInBadass: While Sousuke was busy clearing out the terrorists in the school gym, Kaname had to fight nine Venoms by herself in the Arbalest. ''She wrecked them all in thirty seconds flat''.
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