Volume 13 Black Sun Chapter 24 The Flower of Thorns Wandering Among the Stars

[All staff, prepare for impact! ] 】

When such a broadcast resounded throughout the ship, Catoro was busy closing the cross on his chest, and Hiro next to him stretched out his hand and grabbed Dio, who was dangling because of the damaged jet port of the spacesuit, which made Dio curse with some embarrassment:

"This damn rags and this damn battle plan...

"Sit down first." Duroy had just helped Hiro to hold Dio in place, when a shock that could not be survived by consciousness alone came, and the loud sound of all the engines starting at full strength was deafening, and it began to exert pressure on the bodies of everyone who had become prisoners of inertia.

Watching a Federation soldier who was navigating the ship but didn't have time to find a temporary fixed position slammed against the wall, Katoru reached out, but couldn't reach it. The Federation soldier slammed into the softly cushioned wall, still letting out a low cry of pain as the personal terminal that had fallen from her hand bounced around in the narrow passage. This is the result of the forced activation of the thrusters in the bow, which was originally used gently when the ship turns, spraying at a speed beyond the safe range for five seconds, causing the giant ship of the Federation to accelerate to lift the bow with an overload of nearly 1G, which makes the ship become like the inner drum of a drum washing machine---- just now, as soon as everyone has allocated the configuration of the intrusion force and the remaining force, a sharp impact alarm sounds, which forces the giant ship to make an emergency turn.

"Damn !!" Dior, who felt the impact of acceleration again, couldn't help but curse.

The scolding of his companion made Catoro look at the Federation soldier who had hit the wall again, and he found that the Federation soldier was flying towards the metal airtight door due to the second acceleration of the flick, Cattoru unfastened the buckle, used the ship's flick to throw himself over, and then grabbed the Federation soldier's shoulders and pulled her back hard, and then held her in his arms and prepared to deal with the impact. The floor that should have been stepped on beneath his feet should have been the ceiling above his head swirling dizzily around Catoroux, and the screens on the walls showing the outside scene intermittently crossed Cattoru's vision: a Federation Krap-class battleship was dragging the light of fire from under the ship they were on at the moment.

[This is the Federation Aerospace Force-Shenyang, the ship is no longer controllable, the engine damage is controlled, and all the staff are evacuated, sorry... 】

The voice of the captain of a Federation Clapp-class battleship echoed in the corridor, and the words of the captain who had insisted on keeping the battleship but had to give up were full of sadness. In the next moment, the desolate sound was also drowned in the fire of the ship's explosion--- and the Clapp-class, which was still suppressing the engine at the last moment, quietly disintegrated in the silent universe under the reflection of a series of explosions...

"Thank you..." After the onslaught of acceleration stopped, the first thing the resistance group had freed from the silence of the scene was a thank you from the female Union soldier. After Du Luohua nodded to the female soldier, the Federation soldier also left, leaving only a few members of the Resistance in a dead silence in a passage inside the ship.

"Why do you do that?" Durois unfastened his strap and floated up to Catoru, who was curled up in microgravity, and asked.

"Save her, or she'll get hurt." Catoru's dull answer came.

"Do you think she's going to be happy, what do you think you'll do if you're hurt, and 。。。。。 next task?"

"What the fuck !!! task" Katoru abruptly interrupted Duroy's questioning, and he stretched out and pressed Duroy against the wall.

"The mission left behind." Hiro replied from his feet.

"You're saying that because [it's almost no lethality so you have to stay] ... Right... Scold... Dio shrugged his shoulders as he floated towards the isolation door of the passage, "Except for the dragon who stayed on Earth to carry out a secret mission, we are the current miserable situation, I don't blame Katoru... ”

"What do you think has allowed us to win battles in the past, apart from our determination, is the overwhelming superiority in the performance of the air, but now we can't do anything, whether it's my Gatling and missiles, or your scimitar, or Dio's beam sickle," Durois said and looked at Hiro, "The only thing that can do effective damage to them in a short period of time is the flying wing, and he can't fight alone... ”

"I know, I know... "With a slight shrug of his shoulders, Caturu's voice shook the air in the narrow passage with a slight cry, "but ... Sure enough, I still think... ”

"Speed up, we're going to leave the ship." After a long silence, Hiro just patted Catoru on the shoulder, and then left the narrow passage with a word.

"Do you feel it, Moment?" In the driver's room, more than 100 meters away from the Resistance, Tielia asked the flashing eyes of the previous moment.

He nodded instantly, then grabbed his helmet and floated towards the door:

"Fight for that feeling of powerlessness!"

Turning all the emotions around him into fuel, is this the posture of a real changemaker--- looking at the corner of Tieria's mouth floating a little as he left in an instant, he also grabbed his helmet and headed towards the MS deck. Seeing that her two subordinates had left, Kujou Lisa turned her head back to Shaci:

"Shaci. Cross Rhodes, you don't have to be in this fight, Harrow ... ”

"I know that Harrow has more control over the o-Raiser than I do, but Harrow doesn't have that," Shaci pointed to his head and heart as he gathered his combat uniform, "If necessary, maybe my thoughts of Louise can be used as fuel for a moment, and that will be enough." ”

"Don't say that," said the over-soldier girl Mary's voice from the side of Sha Ci, and the girl who had not yet put on her gloves said as she put her hand on the back of Sha Ci's hand, "You have to come back, you will come back, back to Louise." ”

"Yes, I'm going to have two wedding drinks, and you all have to come back!" Leaving these words, the celestial forecaster threw off a string of tears floating in zero gravity and turned his head away.

Swirling tears flew and hit the hardened window of the door of the preparation room and turned into countless particles, and Lockon, who was hit in the face by these particles, left the door he had been leaning on, raised his right hand, and shook his thumb at the door that led to the MS deck behind him:

"It's time to get ready, Zaft's volunteers should be in a hurry."

Due to the combination of the hook on the soles of the feet and the fixing bolts on the floor, the mobile suit was not affected by the impact, but the Zaft pilot, who was already sitting in it, waited until the impact had passed before continuing their conversation:

"It would be better to cancel the detonation delay setting and set it to depth induction detonation, and I'm going to send the setting program improvement over now, and I'll get it done quickly." Kira helped the Federation's weapons change drivers while passing orders to the Zaft warriors who had not left.

"Damn, these weapons look so stupid...

"Ha, who made you in charge of the fight, the launcher still looks good."

The teasing of Zaft's pilots reached Kira's ears, causing him to smile and shake his head, and continued to focus on integrating the drive of the Federation's weapons into Zaft's mobile suit--- [Ark] is equipped with the weapon [VW], which was urgently developed by ----the Federation after initially obtaining the armor information of these enemies, [VW], Vibration-Weaponry, a weapon that drives resonance to disintegrate enemy armor through a specific vibration frequency.

And now these weapons are being loaded onto the Zaft Army Mobile Suits with the best weapon compatibility except for the Federation Mobile Suits, Kira looked at the huge weapons--- but unfortunately there are only two kinds, whether it is a combat weapon called [Space Pile Driver] that is joked about by the fighters, or a launcher that looks like a bazooka, the attack method is too simple.

"But if the Federation even uses this weapon, and it is still installed on our mobile suits, the battle will already be..." Just as Kira was thinking about the way to attack, this exclamation overpowered the previous ridicule created for deliberate relaxation, and reached Kira's ears through the communication loop, "If they are defeated, I don't know what their attitude towards the colonies will be... ”

"You can't lose, and you can't lose in any way." Kira tunes up the channel to the entire Zaft team.

"Captain?"

"What do you think the Federation, the Plant, and the other cosmic colonies are built for?"

"Uh... Demand...? I don't know, Captain ... ”

"People on Earth have been chasing something different, something that can change the already overburdened Earth and the life it carries for the better," Kira said as she looked at the war-torn Earth on the screen, "Many people think that people who are heading for the universe are either poor people who have no choice or we are so-called forced, but in fact, many people immigrated to the universe voluntarily. ”

"Voluntary?"

"yes, I did my homework for history class," Kira's remark prompted a chuckle, "including George." Many pioneers, including Green, went to the universe after becoming enlightened, hoping to build a bridge to the future in the universe and give the earth a chance to breathe, but then the war... Whether it was the drop of a neutron jammer or the fall of a satellite, the efforts of these pioneers were largely in vain... ”

"From that point of view, I think we're really hopeless, and if you look at it that way, those guys might be doing a good job... Such a came from the communication loop, causing Kira to frown.

"Those people also have what they think is the right intention," Kira interrupted the mutter, "they all think their own methods can save humanity, even the blue cosmos... ”

"What did you say?!" An angry question came from Zaft's communication loop.

"The blue cosmos of the Quiplier wants to cut off all the protruding things like a garden, and it is also based on the consideration of the human race as a whole. . . ."

"It's more like egoism and self-idealism, Captain Yamato...

"Yes, but is this different from Zaft's ideals, the governance of Plant, but the point is," Kira stopped what she was doing, "what would the world be like if we vetoed the power that people could do and think like that? ”

[A world where there is no longer self-determination] --- all people are silenced by this concept.

"It is possible to affirm the goals of the Ancestors that we are about to face, but look at what they are doing before them ... How can people who don't love humanity decide our future--- a world where the concepts of love and joy don't exist in themselves, I'm going to veto, even if it's egotism, but like I said, a world without ego, I don't want !! ”

"The captain said this," a rude-sounding voice sounded, "we're like a bunch of drug-addicted guys, clinging to those... ”

"Yes, such an association, in fact, such an association is actually no different from what I want to be nice to my Angie," a young voice sounded, "I want to see her laugh, I want to hug her, I don't know why I feel ecstatic when I hold her, I don't know why I forget everything for a while after buying her something to make her happy... ”

"Now that I think about it, it's a waste of energy for me to want a better train, but I think I can change," a childish-sounding voice said, "I don't want a world that gives up hope for change, and doesn't even have the concept of [despair]." ”

"That's it," Kira nodded, her rapidly tapping hand stopped, "Drivers are integrated, all uploads are complete, Zaft Volunteers, all Load-Up!"

"The future belongs to these young people," said Admiral Rebil, who had heard the various words echoing in the communication loop of the Ark on his flagship, turning off the microphone after hearing Kira's last angry command, "How are we ready?" ”

"This is all of our emergency vibration weapons, and the distribution of the lineup is also the biggest consideration," Brad mobilized the light screen in front of him, "There is no way to use the Celestials' brain quantum wave users separately from Zeon and the new humans of the Federation... ”

"What are the chances... Rabiel pursed his lips

"OPPORTUNITY ... The other party is a mass production machine, which has a monster that penetrates Zaft's isolated light wave shield and our anti-beam shield and can resist most of our weapons, and there is no negative emotion on the battlefield, the size of the opportunity, it is more appropriate to say that it is a miracle, general... Brad bowed his head.

"But I don't think I thought that way either during the most difficult period of the One Year War, or when you were in the fall of Axis, we were just ready to fight to the death like fools."

"Yes, General."

"Ready to do it again?"

"Yes, General!" After saluting Admiral Rybil, Brad hung up the communication connection and sat back in the captain's seat, which was a little unfamiliar to him, looking at the CIC of the Ark.

Just as Brad took a deep breath and was about to deliver the order, a screen located high on his right hand suddenly turned red, accompanied by a short siren, and the hurried voice of a federal officer sounded in Brad's ears:

"Captain, we have received an alert from a cruiser and a long-range observation post on a front-line observation mission that there are multiple large suspected MA targets that are descending to Earth at altitude!!"

"What kind of nonsense do you say [suspected], have you compared the data sent back by Jado?" Brad was annoyed at the vague hostility.

"We could not fully confirm that the cruiser that sent the signal did not send back any more messages, and the observation post only sent back vague optical images, which were similar to those of Jedo. The data brought back by Asta is only partially consistent, which is 75%... The communicator who was reprimanded by the legendary captain of the Gundam Force sounded a bit helpless.

“。。。 Do you still want 100%," Brad felt helpless for a moment of helplessness for these officers who had not experienced a big war in a hurry, "and the data is on the main screen. ”

"Yes, sir."

An image of a huge mobile fortress and a large array of data immediately scurried onto the main screen, and Brad's eyes swept over the image of what looked like a monster dragging a snake's tail, and then across a large array of mech data, and finally stopped at a line of weapon data that should have been written by an observer:

[This MA seems to be able to carry a large number of thermonuclear weapons, a possible nuclear weapons launch platform]

"Cross-compare images at different points in time, guess the approximate route, and, even the worst speed estimates, all input in, I want to know how these things may lower the target!" Brad shouted.

"Yes, Captain," an officer of the CIC was silent for a while, and immediately displayed the data processed by the ship's computer on the screen, "The first 7 target data are the most conclusive, and the inferred targets are roughly [Austin], [New Taiyuan], [Orb Islands], [Islamabad], [Dhaka], [Hamburg], [Wellington]!" ”

Four places have space-hitting devices, three places are traffic hubs, and all of them are the centers of the Federation's military-industrial industry except for the Orb Islands---- Brad, who realized some of the enemy's terrible intentions, groaned softly and immediately began to seek a solution:

"Send points to the Federalist ground interception force and let them intercept the opponent when they break into the atmosphere!"

"Sir, that's ... Insecure... The communications officer's voice was filled with pain.

"Why... OMG ... After realizing that the previous meteorite rainstorm had consumed a large amount of interception firepower of the Federation, Brad slapped his hand heavily on his face, "What about the current distribution map of the troops, which unit has the closest interception point!" ”

A piece of data marked with friendly troops participating in the battle was overlaid on the star map, Brad stared at the arc marked with [Possible Interception Area], and found that several icons representing MS troops and battleships were very close to the interception point, after calling these troops out, Brad's originally gloomy eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately grabbed the microphone at hand:

"Give me the call ID--[Thunderlight] No. 2 or [Thundering] long plane, too many jumps? Free up the bandwidth for me to connect, and all the signals must be connected to the !! ”

After shouting these words, Brad continued to stare at a cursor that was moving towards the formation, and his left hand tightly grasped the intercom, and after a while, when the intercom in his hand shook slightly, Brad immediately copied it:

"Can you hear me?"

"Say." A short female voice came from a noisy circuit filled with static sounds.

"Lieutenant Karn, the condition of Bakinadazo... What's going on? Brad felt his voice tremble.

"Completed the task of guiding the nuclear bomb, and guided 45 sensing terminals at the same time, the burden of induction feedback on the brain is too great, and now it is forced to sleep by the body's emergency facilities," Harman's voice was as calm as water, "I know what you want to do, your dutiful co-captain has sent the data." ”

"Can he do it..." Brad took a deep breath and spewed it through his nostrils before asking his own question.

"He's barely able to stay awake now...

"I can do it," a weak male voice could be heard through the bad wiring in the communication loop, "and if they can't succeed, it's either a hopeless future, or another cycle of blood, and besides, there are still people in those cities... ”

"[New Taiyuan] has a population of 5.4 million, and the rest...

"Bled. Noah, you're enough!! Haman's voice suddenly became stern in the communication loop.

"It's okay, dear," Arlando's voice cut in, "Captain Noah, move as many troops as you can over there, I still have five nuclear warheads left, and now it seems that there is a place for use... ”

With that, Arlando raised his still trembling fingers slightly, turned off the communication loop with the Federation fleet, and then closed his eyes again, which were struggling to open because of the pain, and Harman's voice came from his ears:

"Half of the fuel is consumed, the effective weapons are almost exhausted, and your body is in this state again, you...

"Even if it's for the lives of 5.4 million people in that city."

"But..."

"It's good that you're freed from the Haman who thinks that people are fools who can be consumed and conquered by power, but my dearest, are you going to turn back to the Haman who relied entirely on others at the time of Axis...

There was a moment of silence in the communication loop between the two, and after a moment, Harman smiled:

"Dare you?"

"Please, you'll take me there, uh," Arlando tried to move his arm, "After all, I can't use the sensor system right now, and it's barely enough to control it with my hands... Hehe... ”

The mobile suit that had transformed into an MA form was dragged out of an arc of light and galloped towards the depths of the battle line again.

[I hope I can catch up]

"Dead House, will the Federation's troops be in time?" As if in response to Harman and Arlando's expectations, a young man sitting in a large cockpit asked this question almost at the same time, far away from the two of them.

"If it's the current sparse resistance of the Federation, they won't be able to hold up the reinforcements that should be coming, and I'm not called a dead house, I'm a [Airborne Tactical Analysis Unit]." A male-sounding voice with some inhuman sensations rang out in the cockpit, which was more than twice as large as the average MS.

"I know, the Onboard-Tactical-Analysis-Computer-Unit (OTACU) --- is a dead house." The young man with an Asian face pouted.

"That word is Ot*u, it's K, it's not C."

"It's all the same pronunciation," the young man ate the last bite of the high-energy food, and then adjusted the seat that had been flattened, "If it's too late, go and help." ”

"Commander Cado has given you freedom of movement, but may I ask why you are doing this, the Federation and Zeon are mortal enemies, and the collapse of the Federation's industrial center is only good for the Dillards fleet and the soon-to-return Zeon of Dillards."

"I can only say that that kind of world is not to my liking, and it will definitely not be to the appetite of Mr. Cardo," the young man put on his helmet and tightened tightly, "Well, you will know the details of [why] in the future, now we are a little short of time, hurry up and prepare." ”

"If you say so."

"It looks like the distance is well maintained," the young man raised his left hand first, and the index finger and thumb that were originally together made a dilating motion, and a ring marked the distance was immediately displayed on the home screen, "just at the limit of their sensing range, well done, dead house." ”

"Thanks for the compliment." The words were accompanied by a burst of applause from the loudspeakers in the cockpit.

"Prepare to disarm the internal thermal circulation system while discarding the disposable optical camouflage cloak, deactivate the internal thermal circulation for a second and then jet the engine salvo, lock on to the guy closest to us, and give control to me."

"Understood, control is ready to be handed over, the optical cloak is abandoned."

In the next moment, a giant green mobile fortress with several heights of an Imperial-standard mobile suit appeared in the universe as if the curtain on the stage had been suddenly lifted.

"What does MA belong to?" In the cockpit of the Empire's Valkyrie MS, the closest to the giant, an Imperial squad leader looked at the coat of arms on the MA and asked the onboard computer.

On the coat of arms, a bright red flower bloomed wantonly on a mass of entrenched thorns.

"We are striding forward, striding on what we think is possible, even if there are thorns ahead!" After reading such a sentence, the black-haired young man pushed the joystick hard and slammed the pedal.

Behind the green MA, a bright light burst out that made the Imperial MS activate anti-flash measures, and the steel giant of the thruster that was activated in an instant suddenly accelerated and sprinted towards the Imperial MA battle array.

"Determine that the target is a threat, intercept it."

The Imperial Mobile Suit squad, which was escorting the rear of the formation, immediately outflanked the green MA.

"I don't have time to mess around with you!" The young driver's pupils flickered, and several locking frames appeared on the panoramic screen with the rotation of the visual capture device. Then, as the armor plate cracked, countless missiles dragged out gas clouds rushed out of the MA's fuselage, and the MA's forward path was suddenly covered by explosions, and the green giant did not hesitate to chase after the missiles and rushed into the flames of the explosion.

"What obedient, you guys." As the driver filled with teasing, the green giant raised two mechanical arms, and the huge steel hands suddenly stretched out and deformed, turning into two huge large knives with beam blades. Then the two large knives slammed into the middle as if they were about to swatt flies.

A huge vibration was transmitted through the steel into the wheelhouse of the MA, and the young pilot who pierced through the explosion cloud looked at the two targets who were outflanked left and right and were swatted together like flies by their own counter-ship knives and nodded:

"You die in bliss."

The two mechanical arms suddenly retracted, and at the same time, the super-heavy particle cannon on MA's chest suddenly activated, and the Mega particle cannon, which was more powerful than the main cannon of ordinary Federation warships, engulfed the two Imperial MSs at close range.

"And you, go with your friends."

With this, the Valkyrie, who was caught by the mechanical claw protruding from the tail of the green MA, was also pierced little by little by the light blade that popped out of the claw of the mechanical claw.

"Icarus Shaozo, it always feels like you change when you touch the joystick." In the cockpit of the MA, which continued to gallop towards the target, the exclamation of the on-board computer sounded again.

"Yes," Officer Dillaz, who had annihilated the three Imperial MSs in an instant just now, pouted, "No matter how good the armor is, there is a limit, and no matter how powerful the weapon is, the lack of output and quality disadvantages brought about by the volume also exist, so it's not interesting." ”

"So you go find someone of the same size as you and fight it."

"I'm so stressed when you say that," Ben. Icarus looked at the Imperial Strategic Mobile Fortress cluster not far away and smiled, "Then try to hold out until the hero comes!" ”