On March 11 of the first year of the Noahic era, the seventieth day after the Great War, at 7 a.m. local time in the colony

Charlotte. Eduardo. Jaeger, like other fellow journalists who were drawn to the colony by an important piece of news, was woken up by a kind of alarm that the people on the colony satellite were terrified of but had been confused for a while. Like most of his Earth-born peers, he was awakened by the sound of a loud hammer hitting the roof, then an earthquake-like shaking, followed by the incomprehensible sound of an alarm.

It wasn't a fire alarm, it wasn't an air raid siren, it wasn't sharp or high, but it was low and gave Charlotte a very bad feeling. But his confusion was lifted by the man who popped up on the screen on the wall to announce that the colony was under attack from outside, and that was the time for all the staff to activate the emergency plan.

With the confusion and fear that came with it, and understanding the significance of the attack on the outer walls of the colony, Edward rushed to the makeshift shelter that could be used as a refuge boat, just like the other reporters, and it was two hours before they came out of it again. And when the reporters were relieved from the tension, confusion, and panic, the media people who were in the safety immediately began to discuss what was going on, and how to broadcast it and the reasons behind it.

Just as Charlotte was just beginning to think about the chaos of it all, a shout and a crowd that had gradually quieted down caught his attention---- a female Zeon officer stood on a military vehicle and announced the news that made their blood boil:

"Char. Commander-in-Chief Aznab will hold an urgent press conference in 30 minutes, and you will be invited to come with your car. ”

So, 29 minutes later, Charlotte sat in the same seat that they would have sat in three hours later with other reporters who were supposed to cover the construction of relations with the colonial union, trying to calm her mood and look at the podium against the backdrop of the huge Zeon military badge on the podium.

"Please pay attention," a female Zeon officer stepped up to the podium and turned on the PA system as the reporters watched, "this is an urgent press conference, please wait for Char." Commander-in-Chief Aznab will explain the whole situation before asking questions, and we will allow three questions, thank you. ”

After looking around and seeing that everyone nodded in understanding, the female officer turned to one side:

"Ladies and gentlemen, Commander New Zeon---- Char. Aznab. ”

The whole room suddenly fell silent, and in the silence, the sound of military boots hitting the ground and rubbing against clothes sounded, Char. Aznab walked to the front of the microphone under the gaze of everyone, he turned around and shook his head expressionlessly, then he put his hands on the podium and lowered his face, and after a while he raised his face, seemed to look at the photographer in confusion, and then opened his mouth:

"We ... Is it broadcasting? ”

Alas?! All the people in the room were stunned for a moment, and the photographer in charge of operating the broadcast equipment was stunned for a moment before he was glared at by Char's assistant a few times before he reacted and replied to Char:

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, we're on the air."

"Well," Char seemed to come back to his senses, he looked around at the reporters who were excited because they realized that something was going wrong, and pursed his lips as if he was a little difficult to speak, "I know that you are all here to cover today's scheduled joint consultation meeting of the colonies, and I am sorry to disturb your dreams, and I also apologize to inform you that today's consultation meeting will be postponed until at least tomorrow." ”

Speaking of which, there was a small commotion in the room--- wasn't it because of the morning commotion that someone had a family meeting at home and said that it would be postponed, and that the directors of the various space colonization satellites had already been summoned and had already been arranged, and that the meeting was temporarily canceled on the day of the meeting.

Was someone attacking? Accident? Or something else? Everyone's minds came alive.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet," Char frowned as if he was a little displeased, and said to the reporters in a way that did not conform to the leader of the party, "Although today's interview has been ruined, I think that what I am going to say next will make me very unpleasant, but from the perspective of the press, it will definitely bring you sales and promotions." ”

Hearing these words filled with resentment, the mood of the reporters really improved all of a sudden, although they didn't want to claim to be a scavenging vulture whose object was as miserable as possible, but the news that could make Char behave inappropriately must be very important.

Seeing that the audience was gradually covered by a commotion of tranquility, the corners of Char's mouth, which was originally filled with ridicule, slightly curved, and he propped his hands on the podium and spoke:

"About an hour ago, the New Zeon Army Arlando. Barkina Daizo, a mercenary at the ExecutiveOutlet (EO) Civil Military Service Company and a Space Combat Reconnaissance Unit SCRU... "Speaking of this, Xia Ya paused, and seemed to have considered the vocabulary," . . . After boarding a Mse-class battleship and carrying out a surprise attack on the colony satellite's spaceport, this is what you will feel in the morning, the explosion that a long-range missile launched from a battleship and a mobile suit hits the spaceport. We don't know why Barkina Daizo did this, but we have deployed the Aeneas, the most recent meritorious battleship that was providing security for the planned meeting, in pursuit. With the speed of Aeneas's pursuit, it should be known by today, but the planned joint meeting of the colonies will have to be postponed by a day. Now you can ask questions, because of the time constraints, I can only answer three questions. ”

The room exploded, whether it was because the news had stimulated the nerves of a journalist or because they were tempted by the promotion that could be brought about by covering such a major piece of news, almost all the reporters in the room raised their hands and jumped for joy like a fish that had been hungry for days when they saw food falling from the water.

"This gentleman." Char gestured to a reporter in the center of the front row.

"I'm Alain from Plant Democratic Pravda. Chandler, Arlando. The return of Barkina Dazo is important news in itself, and the new Zeon should not have been made public, when did he return to Side and where was he before? ”

"How many questions do you have," Char shook his head slightly, but soon smiled bitterly, "Bakinadazo was damaged in the previous battle and fell to Earth, uh, do we have any information about it?" ”

After getting Char's inquiry, the assistant officer behind him immediately commanded a few words in the communicator, and Char immediately launched a stereoscopic projection behind him, and saw two flashing red dots marked on them, Char stretched out his hand and pointed to a red dot:

"His landline was supposed to have crashed in this place, near a former rail elevator pillar, but the search and rescue team we sent did not find him near the drop site, but in this place, near the Xinbei Jing Special Zone, and the search operation took a while."

"Was he rescued and hidden by the Earth Federation first?" The second journalist named asked such a question.

"Judging by the information we received from the federal government and what Arlando revealed when he himself chatted with me, it was he who left the vicinity of the original crash site on his own and traveled on Earth."

[Traveling on your own...? 】

Just as Charlotte's head was bypassing such a question, suddenly he saw Char's hand pointing at him, and he reflexively stood up and introduced himself:

"I'm Charlotte from the United Mining News. E。 Jaeger... ”

As soon as Charlotte finished speaking, she heard a sneer around her, and the eyes of her peers seemed to turn resentful--- a guy who might just have come to interview the new mining agreement was so lucky. In such a brief embarrassment, Charlotte looked around for a moment, and took the opportunity to push the question of "why did he travel on his own on the territory of Zeon's enemy Federation" out of her head:

"Has Barkina made any statement as to the reason for his astonishing behavior this morning, and has he revealed any signs to you?"

Fortunately, this kid was not too stupid, and he was not dominated by the speaker---- all the reporters were relieved.

"He didn't make any statement," Char paused, lowered his head, and began to press the hand on the podium as well, so that after a few short seconds, Char finally looked up and looked at the camera again, "When he... When he returned to Side, he begged me not to make the news of his return public, and as everyone here should know, he lost a lot in the war, including his love, New Zeon's number two, and my comrade, Haman. Kahn.... He may be suffering from the War Trauma Syndrome PWTSD, and at this stage I can't make any accurate guesses about his reasoning, so please join me in waiting for news from the Aeneas, and that's it. ”

After saying that, Char greeted and left, leaving a room full of boiling reporters, who were talking to each other, but they all turned their eyes to the red dot symbolizing Aeneas on the stereoscopic projection.

And at this time, in the gnaku, the battleship represented by the red dot, people were busy with the same degree of chaos that should not have appeared on the warship.

"Captain!! Captain!!!!!!!! A pilot who had been with K59 in the Noah's War slammed into the K59 as he flew past him, "What the hell is going on with that Mse?! Who's on it!! Who are we going to fight against!! ”

"Go ahead。。。。。。。。 "Looking at his comrades who walked out of the steel and flames together, K59 felt a hot current in his throat melt the words that had been prepared," Arlando. Old Captain Bakina on that ship? ”

"He's been kidnapped?!"

"No... He hijacked the ship。。。。。。 ”

"What?!"

"Listen, I don't know, I just know that he has been deeply traumatized by the war, his head is not good now, now give me war preparations, we have to chase him back!!"

With that, K59 flew towards his Mobile Suit cockpit, leaving his stunned colleagues behind.

In the chaos, K59 and several other Mobile Suits were catapulted into space by a high-speed battleship, and Zeon's MS formation began to move closer to the Msei-class battleship that had been rapidly closer.

"I hope the successor you mentioned will arrive in time," Arlando glanced at Blood Moon on the bridge of the Musai-class as he listened to the MS approach warning in his ear, "I can't fight right now." ”

"He will come, he is not a man who will arrange for things to go wrong." Blood Moon waved her hand to signal Arrando's peace of mind.

"I'm looking forward to seeing him."

Under the influence of the Minovsky particle, the fact that the radio waves were hindered shocked K59's mind--- he had already entered a combat situation, but even if the effective radius of the sensor dropped sharply, his sensing range could penetrate the steel beyond the sensor to sense the enemy, but just when he sensed the enemy's position, the pink extended optical axis shocked him.

"In the direction of the southern sky, enemy aircraft !!" K59 shouted in the loop that was still in dense formation, the beam shelling was not coming in the direction of the Msei class in front of them, the battleship was not emitting MS at all, the mobile suit was coming from under their feet, and it was launching an ultra-long-range artillery attack from the sensor distance.

Sub-light Miga particle shelling came one after another at the MS formation of the Aeneas. During the battle of Orb, Ramthas, who survived the last-minute emergency ejection before the explosion, suppressed the power of his weapon and activated the super beam cannon with a short charge, so that the pin-like shelling bombarded the Aeneid's mobile suit formation every 3 seconds.

"Eight degrees in the south, Giraldo Gaganon and the support planes go to stop the other party's movements, and at worst, they must be dragged down, don't let our footsteps be delayed, and be sure to leave that Msai !!"

After giving the glowing order, after watching the three MSs rush towards the enemy under his feet, K59 continued to lead the team at a gallop, but soon a scream came from his ears:

"Sayers !!"

Opening the monitoring window, as soon as the location of the friendly forces was determined, K59 saw blue-white flames surrounding the two military planes, and the halo generated by the explosion of the aircraft dyed the picture white, and K59 saw a killing intent that he had not felt before accompanied by a shadow that seemed to be MA passing around the body.

"Captain?!"

Before his subordinates shouted like this, K59 had already made his own plane brake urgently, and endured the G-force that made the eyeballs fly out quickly, K59 turned around the mobile suit at the limit safe speed, and turned the body towards the angle between the friendly aircraft and the mothership.

Aeneas's main cannon and mobile suit weapons spewed fire, and multiple axes of light carried the void, and the shadows that were instantly illuminated continued to move, the shape of which was like a giant steel butterfly. Enemy planes that appeared to have single-handedly attacked an MS unit emitted a continuous flash of light around it, raining beams and rockets bombarded around it like hedgehogs. The rockets dragging the gas trails exploded near Aeneas' engine department, and the tail that was swept up in the explosion swelled into a larger fireball that irritated the eyes of the reinforcements.

"Mothership was !!"

Under the reflection of the fireball, the shadow of the enemy aircraft was spread out through an enlarged window, and the CG correction was projected on the retina of the K59 along with the information sent by the recognizer:

【RX-124-TR-6-Dandelion】

The butterfly-like mech jetted large thrusters, flying through the void at super-high speeds disproportionate to its size, and constantly reducing Zeon's MS to wreckage with firepower enough to destroy a fleet.

"Defending the Mother Fleet !!"

K59 reluctantly shouted out the answer reflected by his spinal cord, it was no longer time to chase down the Mtsai class in the face of that monster-like body, and he had to take care of his name and regroup.

"Understood."

The participating Giraldoga followed behind K59 in an A-line formation, guarding around the broken mothership like a candle in the wind.

But the white TR6 slowed down, blocking the path between Zeon's remnants and the Mxey. K59 saw through the enlarged window that the white mobile suit with the goddess of victory on his head raised the huge beam cannon on his arm and pointed at the distant Musai class, then at them, and then shook it gently like a human finger.

"That bastard!!!!!!!" K59's men let out a roar, and rapid-fire Miga particle bullets erupted from the beam machine gun, but dissipated limply as water crashed against I-Field like a stream of water crashing against a wall.

"Captain, optical communications!"

K59 suppressed his anger as his eyes flickered under the Statue of Victory, emitting brief optical signals that were received and then turned into a short syllable in the ears of the remaining Zeon soldiers:

【Roll】

“。。。 Remove... Fall back... "K59 almost gritted his teeth and gave the order to retreat.

"Captain?!" Voices of anger and surprise can be heard in the communication loop.

"I'm going to bring you back safely, and 。。。。。。"

Speaking of this, everyone was silent, because the second volume sensed by the K59, the enemy plane that had only shelled from a distance before was also captured optically, and the second aircraft of the same type marked in the information box made the Zeon pilot, who finally ushered in the comfortable day of the victor, suddenly lose the courage to fight again.

"No matter what they take, they can't turn over a few good MS and military technology... Such muttering came from the communication loop, which made K59 laugh miserably.

Even that person is the same, K59 thought as he returned to the home, looking back at the Mt. Class, who was no longer in the distance.

“It-is-done。。。” Arrando, who was sitting in the commander's seat of the Msai class, watched the pursuer's signal disappear and sighed heavily, "Since I... For the first time since I was involved in the war, I felt so ... Fatigue... Let me take a break ... ”

"Sleep, I'll let you know when you get to Earth." Blood Moon nodded.

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“It-is-done。” Char spat out a heavy sentence at the screen in front of him.

On the screen, the A in a row of letters [PATRIOT] representing him was reflected in his eyes, flashing with a complex light.

[Leave the next opening to me]

The third T flashed.