Gundam Super G Universe

Chapter 517: Aslan's "Separatist"

After Aslan returned with the not-so-gorgeous announcement of Infinite Justice, the coordinators and the special forces immediately fell silent.

But the PLANT local defense forces that came to support didn't care about this. They all began to cheer for Aslan's return.

Seeing that Aslan seemed to be about to make a comeback as a king, Shura couldn't bear it anymore. This siege turned into a rescue, and the result of the death of one of his brothers was that Aslan successfully returned. He couldn't accept this reality.

So Shura directly controlled the machine and stepped forward, holding the sword and shouting to the whole channel
"Lord Aslan, I think you need to explain now why you are here driving this machine?"

Shura's behavior immediately caused dissatisfaction among the PLANT's local defense forces.

A dozen instant Zaku Warriors immediately blocked the way of Infinite Justice, and the leading officer asked
"Who are you? What qualifications do you have to question Lord Aslan?"

To this question, Seurat answered directly:
"I am Shura Serpentan, a FAITH awarded by Speaker Durandal himself. I believe that Aslan Zala's current appearance is too strange, so I want to question him."

There was nothing wrong with Shura's answer. FAITH had great power and could even ignore orders and make independent decisions on the battlefield. There would definitely be no problem if he just asked Aslan a few questions.

So Aslan did not choose to confront Shura here, but responded

"Okay, don't draw your swords against each other.

As for why I am piloting this machine, it is because your battle has caused the base that imprisoned me to retreat.

When I was being transferred, I found an opportunity to knock down a terrorist who was transferring me, snatched his gun, and killed my way to the hangar.

As for the machine I was riding, it was parked in the hangar and it seemed that development had not been completed yet.

I killed the pilot and then used my machine's weapons to destroy the base. You saw what happened next.

Also, Shura Serpentan, are you sure you want to stand here and question why I was able to escape instead of stopping the terrorists from escaping?

They have run far away."

Aslan spoke up to remind him when he saw Strike Freedom and three Great Demon Cavalry units rushing to the vicinity of the Durandal Special Forces ship.

It was actually too late to chase them now. The Durandal Special Forces only had battleships but no MS. Let alone intercepting them, they had to pray that the Strike Freedom did not blow them up.

As for the nearby PLANT local defense forces, they are now on Aslan's side, so the four Strike Freedom aircraft can run out unhindered.

According to the plan, they will run to the garbage belt around the earth and then transfer to other bases of the terminal.

Aslan actually had ulterior motives in reminding Shura here. If Shura and others did not chase them now, the responsibility of letting the terrorists escape would be on them, because they could not expect Aslan, a wounded man, to chase them.

Moreover, in the eyes of others, Aslan killed a terrorist as soon as he appeared on the scene, and Shura Serpentan's current doubts were completely taking advantage of the situation and making malicious use of the issue.

But if he goes after him, Aslan can now return to PLANT openly.

To be honest, Shura really wanted to detain Aslan by force, but his sanity had not been completely burned out by his anger.

Even if he is FAITH, he does not have the power to detain the highest commander of a PLANT city without any evidence. Aslan has not been deprived of his identity, and the questioning just now is the limit of his power.

And as it stands now, the special forces MS that he can command can only float in the gravel belt, and those PLANT local defense forces will definitely not listen to his orders.

After all, FAITH has certain battlefield command authority, but the nature of PLANT's homeland defense forces is rather special. As homeland guard forces, they do not have to obey any orders except those from the ZAFT headquarters.

FAITH's command is of no use to them, otherwise Speaker PLANT could take over the homeland defense forces and control the Supreme Council at any time.

After Patrick, this kind of thing is a taboo in the PLANT Supreme Council and must be strictly guarded against.

Therefore, in order to detain Aslan now, Shura can only kill his way through the blocking troops.

But attacking the PLANT homeland defense forces here is no different from outright treason. You will be dead, and Durandal won't be able to save yourself.

So, Shura was forced into a corner by Aslan, and could only turn his body around and say to the other coordinators:

"Hmph, let's chase them!!"

After saying that, he headed straight in the direction where Strike Freedom escaped.

When the other coordinators saw that Shura had made the decision, even though they were equally unwilling, they had no choice but to follow suit, because without Aofei, Shura was the commander of the team.

Seeing that the coordinators had all left, Aslan smiled inwardly and said to the leading officer who supported him:
"There are still many friendly forces on the battlefield who need help. Send a team to search the meteorite that just exploded. Inside is the terrorist base. I don't know how much valuable content is left inside.

As for me, send a team to escort him back to PLANT. Shura Serpentan is right. My sudden appearance is suspicious. Don't let others talk about you."

The officer was so moved to see that Aslan was still thinking about them that he immediately replied:
"No problem, Master Aslan, I will personally escort you back to PLANT."

Then he quickly began to arrange rescue and search missions, and contacted his own mothership's infirmary to make preparations, and to treat Lord Aslan's injuries before "escorting" him.

The subsequent process was relatively simple. Aslan parked Infinite Justice directly in the mothership of the home defense force for inspection.

This Infinite Justice actually did not have the AC nuclear fusion reactor provided by Red installed, and it also used an anti-neutron jammer. In order to pretend that it was not yet fully developed, many weapons and equipment were removed from the machine.

Anyway, this is Aslan's trophy. It will definitely be returned to Aslan after inspection. When Aslan returns to the Armory City, the engine will be replaced and the weapons and equipment will be reinstalled.

As for Aslan himself, after a round of bandaging and treatment, he was sent back to PLANT with bandages all over his body and an IV drip.

After returning to PLANT, Aslan did not face a very harsh interrogation, but was only questioned by the intelligence department in the hospital.

Then the entire PLANT Supreme Council came to see Aslan.

Even though Durandal was unwilling to see Aslan return, he still had to do the superficial work.

After all, he transferred people back to Armory City, but they were kidnapped by terrorists on the first day. And now the commander of Armory City has been exposed as the coordinator. It is hard for uninformed congressmen not to think there is a conspiracy.

After everyone had looked at Aslan, the PLANT Supreme Council held another meeting. The agenda of the meeting was simple, which was to decide whether Aslan should stay or go.

In fact, when Aslan was arrested and returned with marks of beatings on his body, normally he would have to be carefully examined to see if he had betrayed the secrets of PLANT, rather than being reinstated immediately. But now the situation is special, after the coordinator was exposed, even Durandal's die-hard supporters in the PLANT Supreme Council felt a little insecure, because they found that Durandal showed some signs of turning towards Patrick.

Moreover, Isalia Juul began to spread the rumor that Yitzhak and Diego were hypnotized by the coordinator to commit treason, so now they are forced to become terrorists. Otherwise, they have no reason to betray Aslan.

No one in the PLANT Supreme Council agreed with this rhetoric, but many members were worried that they might have been hypnotized as well. After all, not all the coordinators exposed now might be involved.

The most crucial thing is that after this battle, the PLANT Supreme Council discovered that the so-called coordinator was not as strong as written in the report. One of them was actually killed in this battle, and he was not besieged by more than a dozen machines, but was killed by two successors of the G-series Gundam.

In this case, this person's combat power seems to be about the same as that of an ordinary ace, and is far less powerful than the super aces of the New Mislichi Kingdom.

As a result, almost all the non-Dirandal direct descendants of the parliament supported Aslan's direct reinstatement.

Now most of the congressmen felt that Durandal was interfering with the military, and that Takao Shriver, the military chairman, had done nothing to prevent Durandal from getting involved in ZAFT.

Although on the surface Takao Shriver was quite dissatisfied with Durandal's recent orders, except for the matter of the coordinator being transferred back, he basically just said a few words and then compromised on other matters.

Therefore, the members of the PLANT Supreme Council are going to launch a great balancing act.

After this incident, Aslan and Durandal must have become incompatible. In addition, his last name is Sarah, which makes him the best bargaining chip to balance Durandal.

Moreover, with the operation of Orson White, many congressmen knew that the kidnapping was a political persecution against Aslan, and there was no so-called leak of information at all.

Then it is only right that Aslan be reinstated.

However, at this point, Durandal knew that he would not be able to hold Aslan hostage, and he still did not want Aslan to return to Armory City.

Durandal took a step back at this point, saying that Aslan could accept the PLANT homeland defense force.

He proposed this for three reasons.
First, if Aslan is in charge of PLANT's local defense forces, Aslan will have to stay in PLANT, and the fact that the Armory City is manufacturing unknown weapon parts without the knowledge of the Supreme Council will not be exposed.

Secondly, this would appease the members of the PLANT Supreme Council. What they feared was that they would suddenly impose martial law on PLANT and put them all under house arrest. If Aslan were in charge of the local troops, this worry would be much smaller.

Thirdly, it would be more difficult for Aslan to cause trouble under his nose. Aoife and the others were all in the local area, so it would be convenient to find someone to challenge Aslan.

However, Durandal greatly underestimated the determination of other councilors to check and balance him.

We are all thousand-year-old foxes, what is there to talk about?

Everyone knows what Durandal is thinking. Now the best way to check and balance Durandal is to make Aslan bigger and more powerful in the local area, so that he can be more powerful than the Speaker?

Therefore, under the operation of Aslan's supporters, these congressmen actually only had two acceptable options in their minds: one was to let Aslan return to Armory City, and the other was to let Aslan return to Earth.

But no matter where he returns to, he must take over the command of the entire army.

Now Durandal is helpless. After all, he does not have the final say in the PLANT Supreme Council. If you force him to choose Aslan to go to the L4 colony satellite cluster to take over the guard force of a city, or to go to Earth to take over the Earth Army, which now has nearly half of ZAFT's strength, then he has no choice.

So after a few days of oral gymnastics, Aslan was notified that he was reinstated and returned directly to Armory City.

Aslan was not surprised by this result, and returned to Armory City with his "trophies" Infinite Justice and some officers who needed to be promoted for political exchange with his supporters.

After returning to Armory City, Aslan went straight into drama mode.

Because the kidnapping plan was still openly led by Isaac, Aslan immediately cut off Isaac's direct troops from the army in Armory City and gathered them together, and sent them directly to the border between the fourth and fifth universes.

To outsiders, it looked like Aslan was exiling Yitzhak's own troops.

In fact, these were all agreed upon in advance.

After Isaac's Flash Duel was equipped with the Knight Alfried, he and Diego's Shadow Storm sneaked into the PLANT mainland, met with their relatives and reported their safety.

Then the two of them went to the border between the fourth and fifth cosmic realms to receive the troops sent by Aslan.

After all, Isaac and Diego are not from the terminal, so from here on, they will act separately from the terminal.

Isaac and Diego's mission now is simple. Aslan and his local supporters will find all kinds of reasons to send trustworthy people to the border between the fourth and fifth universes.

They are here to manage this army, and Aslan has already anticipated that Durandal is likely to do something that is not so beneficial to PLANT in the future.

The Armory City army needs to defend against the East Asian Republic's space forces in the L4 colony satellite cluster and cannot move rashly.

Then this army will be the capital for us to resist Durandal when the time comes.

And even if Aslan made a wrong judgment, Isaac and Diego could not be fugitives for the rest of their lives. This army could serve as their fighting force to atone for their sins.

Of course, since Aslan "exiled" a group of troops, he naturally had to ask the mainland for reinforcements.

Now everyone will know that Aslan is looking for an excuse to increase his power, but this is what most MPs want to see.

And Aslan had official reasons for “exiling” these troops.

So Takao Shriver had no choice but to agree to replenish Aslan's troops in Arsenal City and to show goodwill to Aslan at the same time, because he, the military chairman, had become more and more like a puppet recently.

The Saraf people followed Aslan's lead, while the non-Saraf people listened more to Durandal's orders. Takao Shriver felt like he was just a mouthpiece.

Now even the three military commissioners under Takao Shriver don't take him seriously.

Two military commissioners clearly supported Aslan, and one clearly supported Durandal, leaving Takao Shriver speechless.

But Takao Shriver couldn't just side with Durandal without thinking, because if he did, he would have to step down tomorrow.

Therefore, Takao Shriver can only coax Aslan and not let him be in a difficult position.

(End of this chapter)