Chapter III

Both the impeached Moebius and Elijah's Ginn were marked with the same logo.

The pattern of a snake swimming like lightning.

That's the sign of the impeachment of their mercenary unit, the "snake tail".

The impeachment will be "1", and Elijah will mark the number "2" in the center of the logo.

These mercenaries, they need to promote themselves. For this reason, no matter what the task, the logo must also be marked on the body. If we can prove that "we are the ones who carried out the operation," it will be easier to get a job in the future.

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"Impeachment, that's ......"

As they left the mothership and approached Heliopolis, Impeachment and Elijay spotted a transport ship.

The hull is equipped with a number of cranes. In the center of the hull, a sign consisting of three wrenches combined into a triangle is marked.

"It's a waste merchant"

It's the logo of the Waste Dealers' Union.

In order to adapt to the war years, the waste merchants also formed unions to defend their positions. All waste, when collected by the waste merchant, will be transferred to the waste merchant.

This provision could easily become a dead letter. However, given that the productivity of the world itself is extremely reduced, it is impossible to create something new without recycling. For this reason, the position of the waste merchants has become much more than before the war.

"Even then, it's pretty fast."

Impeachment spits out his true feelings. If you consider that you have received a message from the client and started the operation before the attack of the Zaft Army, the waste merchant came here before them, and it was unusually fast.

"These hyenas have a very keen sense of smell."

Elijah responded sarcastically.

"If they find the target first, it will be difficult to do the job...... Elijah, you go and suppress the waste merchant's ship. If someone has already entered the colony moon, you can ask the waste merchant's ship to inform their companions inside that we are coming. ”

"Understood."

Although the waste merchant is powerful, he is no match for mercenaries. Impeachment is based on the consideration that if one's existence is deliberately informed, it will rob the opponent of the will to resist.

Elijah's Ginn, deviating from the voyage to Heliopolis, turned to the waste merchant's ship. Impeachment, just like that, let Moebius sail to Heliopolis.

Although they were not noticed, one of the mobilesuits escaped from Heliopolis.

It was a one-armed, golden-bodied mobilesuit.

If, at this time, impeachment notices that existence, the fate of him and his companions will flow in different directions.

Impeachment, the asteroid part adopted from the resource opened intruded into the interior of the heliopolis

Impeachment of mobilesuit which I heard from the client in advance that the industrial area of this place hides the work and aims at.

On the passage to the interior, countless wrecks floated. Due to the proximity of the axis of rotation of the colonial satellite, the gravitational force (centrifugal force, to be correct) is weak. There seems to be air left, but there is no guarantee that it will continue like this.

Impeachment, manipulating Moebius like his own siblings, and moving inside while avoiding the floating garbage

While the intrusive part of the asteroid itself avoided collapse, it also became miserable internally. All the survivors seem to have fled. Of course, the parties to the sabotage: the Zaft Army and the Earth Union Army have also left here.

"In that case, maybe Astray will be erased as well."

If it goes well, just confirm that.

Impeachment, according to the information obtained from the client, to the secret factory.

While keeping an eye on the floating wreckage, I was suddenly receiving a call from the telegraph.

It was sent from Elijah.

"Impeachment, this side is in control. Sure enough, it's a waste merchant. ”

"Has anyone entered a colony satellite?"

"It was as if three men had entered. Piloting a modified mech. It seems that there is no original armament"

The so-called mistral is mobilearmor that is widely used in the earth union, and it is more suitable for work machinery than weapons. The detachable spherical body is placed on a large pedestal and has four robotic arms for work.

"We've been told the guys inside about us mercenaries."

"That's right. Then, you continue to keep watch until their companions who have gone in return to the ship."

"Is it okay to do that?"

"The internal destruction is quite severe. I'm afraid the goal has been destroyed. The likelihood of this only becoming a confirmation job is quite high.

That's right. Elijay nodded, cutting off the communication.

Almost at the same time as cutting off communications

Suddenly, a Mobilesuit appeared from the front of the impeached Moebius in the direction of advance and opened fire with the rifle in his hand.

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A terrible burst of light spilled out of the channel, ionizing the air inside for a moment.

Fired by Mobilesuit's rifles, it is the beam.

A beam of light is a particle that carries energy and accelerates it to a speed close to that of light. Therefore, it is theoretically impossible to dodge after being launched.

However, when impeachment manipulates Moebius, he easily dodges and fires back while avoiding it.

The Grimm cannon installed in the lower part of Moebius spewed flames.

Although slower than the beam, countless bullets that were accelerated to a speed that was not avoided by the reflexes of humans struck the Mobilesuit.

Although a few shots hit, the mobilesuit, which fired the beam, disappeared into another channel.

Not only did they avoid the beam, but they also received a counterattack, and the opposing driver would have been surprised. On the channel, the wreckage of the colonial satellites was floating in various sizes and floats, and sensors and the like were almost useless in such a situation. The opponent will shoot the beam with absolute confidence. However, impeachment was avoided.

Impeachment can avoid the attack without relying on the sensor. It's certainly not intuition and superpowers. It was the result of years of insight honed on the battlefield.

In the channel, although it is close to gravity, there is still air left. When an object passes through the air, it must squeeze the air away as it advances. At that time, the movement of the air that is pushed away will be transmitted to other floats.

This is a phenomenon that ordinary people don't notice. Nor is impeachment a conscious observation of floats. However, he was trained to respond to even the slightest change in his situation.

If you don't notice the presence of an enemy, it's quite difficult to dodge that attack.

Impeachment, slowly driving Moebius forward.

The channel is divided into two parts, upper and lower. The mobilesuit appears to have emerged from the lower channel and fled to the upper channel.

"It's mobilesuit of the target......... Didn't it stay without being destroyed?"

The shadows of the other party can be seen from the opposite side of the flash of the beam. That's the same as a photo of the target shown from the client. However, the basic frame, painted blue, and the armor that covered the frame was white. In the client's photo, the color of the frame is gold. In short, the organisms encountered now may be something that has been repainted later, or the existence of multiple organisms painted in other colors. There is no doubt that even the client did not grasp the full picture of the development plan and how many Mobilesuits would be completed in the end.

The most impressive thing about the appearance of the target mobilesuit is that the face has two eyes like a human. It can be seen that the mobilesuit of the Zaft Army is made with a significantly different design idea than the monocular as the basic zaft army. At the same time, compared to the ZAFT Army's Mobilesuit, which is equipped with a large backpack, the target MobileSuit's backpack is small, so it is not much different from most people. I am afraid that one of the advantages of the bilesuit is that it is highly versatile. That trait can be even higher if you change your outfit.

Then, there are the beam weapons.

This is the most surprising feature. At the current technical level, it is not possible to miniaturize the beam weapon carried by the MobileSuit. But the Convergence of the Earth and the technological power of Orb have shattered this common sense.

Although it has the problem of consuming a lot of energy, beam weapons have overwhelming destructive power when hit.

The mobility of the Mobilesuit, coupled with the attack power that rivals the battleship. This can be said to be a completely new weapon.

Although I grasped the general performance of the body from the photos and documents, I actually tried to confront the mobilesuit, and complicated feelings came to mind.

It's not so much the feeling of "trembling" as the feeling of "having to fight it", but the so-called "joy" of "being able to fight". From the perspective of ordinary people, this may seem like an incomprehensible feeling, but for mercenaries it is a matter of course. Mercenaries who hate "fighting" do not exist.

"Do you have to fight that mobilesuit and destroy it........."

If you want to fight, you need a commensurate method of warfare. The opponent is the latest mobilesuit. It's just mobilearmor here. While arranging information about the target that I obtained from the client in the head, I drove Moebius to chase after the channel where the mobilesuit disappeared.