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"I thought it would be a while before you got here."

"Haha, I just happened to go to Heliopos to receive the goods, and I received your call on the way back." The young man named Luo Juel scratched his head, revealing a mouthful of white teeth and a smile in the style of Wangdao comics, and gave Ross a thumbs up.

"It's been ages since I last saw your mecha. I didn't expect it to look like this." Luo Juel spotted Jegan behind Ross and excitedly rushed to the base of the mecha. "Is this the so-called 'D-Type'? It's quite different from the 'A-Type' I saw before. You're truly a genius mechanic like me!"

Luo Juel turned around, looked at Ross, and pointed at Jegan with his left hand. "Did you make this machine, too?"

"Right... so you also saw Heliopos disintegrate? You must have picked up something valuable, right? With your incredible luck, you wouldn't have come away empty-handed in that situation." Ross pressed his temple, his blood pressure rising slightly at the strange coincidence. "I thought you were still operating in your original area. We fought ZAFT all the way despite being short on supplies before we finally reached your area to contact you."

"Hey, speaking of which, I just had a chat with your captain when I went to hand over the ammunition and supplies." Luo Qiuer gave a thumbs-up. "And I was pleasantly surprised to find that our routes are almost exactly the same!"

The next second, Ross reached out and grabbed Luo Qiuer's shoulders and began to shake him wildly.

"So, you've been following us around picking up trash all along the way?!" Ross's tone was a little broken. "Then what's the point of us fighting so hard?"

"Ahem... Let go! Let go first, Ross!" Luo Qiuer grabbed Ross's hand and tried his best to minimize the shaking. The sudden shaking almost made him breathless. "I'm already here, right? Besides, I need my battleship to be the intermediary for the girl named Lux!"

"If you're going to torture me, you might as well fix that lifeboat that serves as your 'packing box'!"

"Damn it, is this your escape route, Luo!" Ross still had an indignant expression on his face and let go of Luo Qiuer's shoulders.

But soon, the two of them started laughing again.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Luo." Ross patted Luo Qiu'er's shoulder and floated towards the lifeboat in the hangar.

"Ah, don't worry, I promise to do everything perfectly for you." Ross gave a thumbs up and turned his head to continue looking at Jegan, who had just finished fighting and had not yet been prepared.

Perhaps Ross and Luo Juel had a mutual sympathy, perhaps because they were both "genius mechanics"? Two years ago, Luo Juel had found Ross in the wreckage of the Julius 7, and since he loved making friends, he and Ross had become good friends. Ross also frequently sent Luo Juel orders for materials at the "shipyard" and the factory in Heliopos.

"A genius mechanic like me...?" Luo Juel smiled, glanced at Ross, who had drifted away, and raised his head to look at Jegan, who looked like he was wearing sunglasses. "How could I not see that? He's much better than me."

"With his own strength, he surpassed the long efforts of the Plant and the Earth Federation and created a machine that is unique from the skeleton to the internal structure."

"Although I lost to you in the manufacture of the machine, my love for machines will never be lost." Luo Qiuer looked at the personal computer on his waist. "Isn't that right, Xiao 8?"

"...I originally thought that you had finally come to your senses after expressing such insights into life, but I didn't expect that you are still a gorilla, Luo." The personal computer on Luo Qiu'er's waist made a mechanical synthesized sound.

……

After Lux's life capsule was picked up, it was placed in a corner and no one touched it.

After all, everyone in the Gnarku knew that Ross was able to use the wreckage that Heliopos picked up to make a temporary adapter. God knows what Ross can do with a life capsule.

"The life support system... is intact... the communication system is broken?"

Rhodes scratched his head, guessing that some electronic component of the communication device was broken, but it was too late to find the fault now. So Rhodes picked through the wreckage nearby, rubbed a crude communication device with his hands, and installed it.

"Test...test, intact and operational." Rhodes looked at the results and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Ross!" At this time, Ross heard Kira's voice coming from behind.

"Oh, Kira." Ross turned around and saw Kira floating over with Lacus. Kira was already wearing a pilot suit.

"You'll be the negotiator in a moment. Hand Lux over to the Space Scrap Dealer and have them deliver her." Ross patted the lifeboat next to him. "The previous communication device is broken, so I've replaced it for you. It only works on the public channel, but it should be sufficient."

"Well, thank you, Mr. Ross. I heard about what you did from Kira." Lacus bowed slightly to Ross and said.

"I... I heard it from Captain Malu. It shouldn't be a confidential matter, right?" Kira stammered, feeling a little at a loss.

"...Silly boy, how could you be so easily tricked?" Ross sighed, muttering something inaudibly to either of them, then spoke loudly to Kira. "Get ready to go, Kira. I'll be driving a mobile suit to meet you near the Archangel shortly."

Meanwhile, on the Sapphire

"Aslan, it's your turn to negotiate this time." Cruze said to Aslan who was already sitting in the Aegis Gundam on the communication channel.

"Remember to bring that little princess back."

"Yes." Aslan lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking. "I will definitely bring Lacus back."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Cruze closed the communication.

Looking at the Aegis Gundam that had already flown some distance out of the bridge window, Cruze stood up from his chair and began to float towards the hangar.

"Prepare my body."

……

"Aegis... I remember that machine was piloted by Kira's friend." Jegan floated near the Archangel, and Ross continued to zoom in on the scene of the handover.

"Yeah, they seemed like very important friends, but now they're forced to confront each other." Mu sighed over the comms. "How pathetic... damn war."

"Yeah, damn this war." Ross sighed, his hands on the joystick. "When will this ignited spiral of hatred finally stop?"

The feeling in my head, like a sharp blade against my forehead, and those vaguely familiar brain waves...

"That's the Jinn from Heliopos last time..." Ross controlled Jegan and picked up the beam rifle. "Kira, come back as soon as you're done with the handover. I don't think something's right."

"Something's wrong? Do you mean ZAFT will break the contract?" Mu was surprised for a moment, then sat up straight, ready to join the battle at any time.

"It's hard to say, I hope it's me..." Ross saw that the specially enlarged Sephiroth suddenly launched another attack and aimed its beam rifle at Kira's attack.

As if by muscle memory, Ross quickly fired two rounds of the American Iai beam rifle version.

In just a blink of an eye, a beam of light hit the leg of the machine that looked like King, and another beam of light hit the beam rifle in the machine's hand.

At the same time, the Strike Gundam began to fly rapidly towards the Archangel.

In order to give face to the girl named Lacus, Ross did not intend to destroy the opponent's cockpit, but instead planned to disable his weapons and mobility.

"Enough! Captain Cruze, are you going to fight in front of me, the mourning group?!" Just as Ross was about to rush into the battlefield at triple speed again and demonstrate his chopping stick skills to Kira, Lacus's serious and slightly angry voice came from the communicator.

"Please stop fighting immediately!"

"...So, the guy I fought with in Heliopos before was Cruze?" Ross narrowed his eyes as he looked at the "Gin Transformation" that had stopped moving.

"Yeah, don't you know?" Mu's hand was already on the button ready to fire. "Those two shots you just made were very accurate."

"I thought that Cruze was just a troop commander." Seeing that the Strike Gundam had arrived and passed the Jegan, Ross controlled the Jegan in a backward position to evacuate to the Archangel.

After all, the "Cruzet" Mu heard was a sinister guy. Who knows if he would attack the Archangel again now.

"Strike and Jie are about to come back! Preheat the engine!" Mu said to the helmsman of the Archangel, while he himself remained ready to open fire at any time.

Ross did not enter the hangar directly, but controlled Jegan, pulled Kira's attack, and landed on the central deck of the Archangel.

Under the sight of the scrap recycler and ZAFT, the Archangel quickly left here with the still smoking Montgomery.

----split line----

PS: I slept until noon today and finally felt better, but still a little dizzy.

Last night, as I was getting ready for bed, I encountered a common Guangdong Province experience: a cockroach crawled onto the curtains and then flew onto my desk.

Even though I killed him in the end, it still gave me a fright and raised my blood pressure.

Volume 19: Chapter : Parry! Shield Bash! Execution! (Ember gives a thumbs-up)

Even though he had just escaped ZAFT's pursuit, for some reason, Ross still felt a pricking sensation in his head.

"Tsk...isn't it safe yet?" Ross controlled Jegan and returned to the hangar.

"Christina, I'll leave the maintenance to you." In order to be able to attack at any time, Rhodes did not intend to leave the cockpit, so the maintenance could only be left to Christina.

"Understood, Ross. The scrap dealer has delivered a batch of rockets. We can use the bazooka now." Haro on the console flapped his wings, his eyes flashing.

"Great, the beam rifle's magazine is almost empty." Ross breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the "Charging" display in the cockpit.

Next, two bazooka magazines and Rhodes' favorite bazooka were added to the fuselage.

"Mr. Ross? Isn't it safe now?" Kira, who had just shut down the machine and floated out of the hatch, was surprised to see that Jegan did not shut down the machine, but continued to prepare his weapons.

"...Do you believe me, Kira?" Ross said to Kira after seeing the forged rocket on the shield show "connected".

"Ah? What happened?"

"There may be more fighting, be prepared."

After saying this, Ross turned off the communication, lifted the visor of his helmet, and took out a bag of drinking water from the storage box beside him with his right hand. He bit the straw and began to replenish water.

Although Kira outside didn't know why Ross said there would be a battle, he still got back into the Strike Gundam out of trust in Ross.

After waiting for about half an hour, just when Kira thought that this was just Ross's misjudgment.

The alarm sounded.

……

"ZAFT? At this time?!"

On the bridge, Malu frowned as he looked at the report coming from the radar.

"It's only been a short time since Lux was returned...was it an ambush?"

"First combat equipment for everyone!" Baki Lulu sat back in her seat skillfully.

"I'll prepare for the attack." Mu left his seat and quickly floated towards the hatch of the bridge.

"The radar scan shows... Duel, Storm, Thunder, and a Lorasia-class battleship!"

Facing the radar observer's report, Malu was thinking about how to survive the window period before the assault and Jegan's attack.

"Bridge, Jegan is cleared to attack, please open the hatch." At this time, Ross's voice came from the communication.

"Roz?! But didn't you just finish..."

"If we just push them back and don't attack the battleships, it's okay to save power." In the video communication, Rhodes lowered the visor of his helmet and gave a thumbs up.

"...Open the catapult deck. I'll leave the rest to you, Ross." Maru gripped the armrests of the seat.

"Well, don't worry. Also, let the Montgomery speed up. Their ship is too fragile."

In the ejection channel, Ross controlled Jegan to stand on the ejection device.

The catapult deck, which was originally pitch black, now had indicator lights on.

"Huh...Roz Links, Jegan, attacking."

After stepping on the pedal, Jie Gang crossed the catapult channel at an extremely fast speed and arrived in the universe.

"Over there..." Ross pushed the accelerator, and the machine rose up, rapidly moving towards the three Gundams below it.

"I have already tasted the strength of the Holy Shield. Now let me taste your strength."

……

"Long Legs has released a mobile suit." In the Thunderbolt Gundam, Nicol looked at the scan results and said, "It's a 'Cub'."

"Huh? Only him?" Yizak from Duel Gundam seemed dissatisfied with the scan results. "Where's Strike? Did he just cower?"

"Don't worry, Izak." Diego seemed relaxed in the Storm Gundam. "It seems Athrun couldn't defeat this 'Cub' either. How about using him as an appetizer?"

"Hmph, alright." Isaac opened the PS armor of the mobile suit, and the originally iron-gray body was dyed blue and white. "Then let's start with him!"

After saying that, the Duel Gundam raised the beam rifle in its hand and fired a burst of shots at Jegan.

But the strange thing was that the attack that Isaac thought would hit him was dodged by Jegan with a small strange displacement.

"Tsk, what a slippery guy." Isaac didn't care, he just thought he had failed.

Ross controlled the Jegan, dodged a sudden shot, raised the bazooka in his right hand, and fired a rocket at the three Gundams in front of him.

After flying for a while, the rocket exploded into a cone-shaped shrapnel, forcing the three Gundams to disperse.

However, Rhodes was a little dissatisfied with the effect of the rocket.

"The density of the forging sheet is too low."

"Luo doesn't have our modified design drawings for the forged-flake rocket. This is a standard forged-flake rocket. It's normal that its power and density are not as good as our modified version." Haro on the console flapped his wings twice.

"Since one shot doesn't work, let's shoot a few more."

Ross pressed the trigger on the joystick twice more, and the bazooka fired two more rockets, flying towards the Storm Gundam.

Compared to highly maneuverable models like the Duel and Thunderbolt that have additional propulsion backpacks, the Storm, which is purely specialized in artillery fire and has no additional backpacks, is the most obvious "soft persimmon".

"Hey, hey, hey! Shouldn't you attack Isaac first? Why attack me first?" Diego frantically operated the Storm Gundam, trying to escape from the coverage of the forging barrage.

"Maybe it's because he saw that your machine's speed is not very high." Nicol turned on the mirage system of the Thunderbolt Gundam, and the machine disappeared into the universe.

"Tsk, Diego, after I get rid of this 'cub' and 'long legs', I'll go back and teach you a lesson." Izak pushed the accelerator, and the speed of the Duel Gundam became faster. He raised the beam rifle in his hand and kept firing at Jegan.

Jiegang raised the shield on his left forearm and blocked a beam that he could not avoid.

"Good opportunity!" Izak saw Jegan raising his shield, and operated the Duel Gundam to approach Jegan, drew out his beam saber, and slashed at Jegan.

Apparently, Isaac is also a combat-oriented pilot like Aslan.