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"Bang..." Jesta was knocked away by Shambolo and fell to the ground. He was carried by inertia and slid more than ten meters on the ground, leaving clear grooves.

"Uh... Hello, let's check the machine's status." Ross endured the violent impact and controlled Zesta to stand up from the ground.

"There's nothing wrong with the skeleton, but we're running out of power, Ross." Big Harrow said this after briefly inspecting the machine. "Retreat, Ross. Orb's fleet is almost here. We've done enough."

"Hello... Do you think Orb's troops can handle this thing if we let it go?" Ross stared intently at the turning Shambolo before him, tightening his grip on the joystick again. "Or, in other words, how many people will die if we let it go?"

"Don't forget that you still have revenge to take, and you have other tasks to fulfill. It's best to retreat now." Big Harrow was still trying to persuade Ross to evacuate.

"Just think I'm crazy, but I can't bear to watch this happen." Ross ignored Big Harrow's words and instead checked the remaining armaments of the machine. "If you want to leave, then disconnect and find the next executor."

"Are you kidding? Why would I abandon you if you don't leave?" Big Harrow seemed very dissatisfied with Ross's words at this moment. He waved the wings on his head, as if expressing his dissatisfaction. "But, what you said just now was very cool. Be careful or I will record it in your black history."

"Heh... If you want to remember, then remember it." Rhodes suppressed the slight dizziness and prepared for battle again.

"Run the last leg with me, Zesta."

Zesta's originally dull red sunglasses suddenly turned even redder, as if a radiant light was about to burst through them. The words "NTD" suddenly appeared on the cockpit screen.

As if responding to Ross's call, Zesta's originally slow movements became smooth again. The propulsion nozzle behind him spewed out a stream of red light, propelling Zesta towards Shamburo.

What's strange is that the ground touched by these red lights did not show any signs of burning.

"Psychic propulsion... is it possible with just four psychic skeletons and Ross's resonance?" Far away in the "shipyard," Big Haro observed the scene transmitted through his remote link and couldn't help but wave the huge wings above his head. "Really... what a talent."

Rhodes didn't think so much at this time. He was lying in the cockpit, his mind full of thoughts of "destroying Shambro".

The black-clad pilot in the cockpit of the Shangbro couldn't help but be stunned when he felt the ruthless murderous intent.

As Zesta passed by Shamburo's left claw, the beam saber in his hand seemed to become a little thicker and slashed at the mechanical claw.

The originally huge mechanical claw was split into two by the beam saber near the leg, leaving a smooth cut that glowed red.

Zesta retracted his beam saber and reached out to grab the falling mechanical claw. The giant mechanical claw, which should have been impossible to lift, was swung by Zesta with one hand.

Without waiting for Shambolo's head to come over to stop him, Zesta swung the giant claw in his hand like a whip towards Shambolo's cockpit.

The cockpit armor, which had been hit once or twice by anti-ship missiles and had already reached critical point, was easily torn open by the giant claws, and the claw tip pierced deeply into it.

The black-clad pilot in the cockpit could even see Shamburo's giant silver claw, the blade less than ten centimeters from his head. Such a wild and dangerous attack frightened him.

Three of the five "Smart Brain" components in front of him had been destroyed by the giant claws, and a grayish-white nutrient solution mixture was constantly flowing out of the gaps.

"Bang..." Before the black-clad driver could react, Zesta had already stretched out his hand and tore open Shamburo's armor, staring at the black-clad driver in front of him with his scarlet sunglasses.

"Wait... wait a minute, I surrender..." As if frightened, the driver in black was about to raise his hands to surrender.

The next second, the particle cannon on Zesta's shoulder finished charging, and the red and white particle beam easily covered the entire cockpit, destroying everything inside.

Zesta looked at the completely destroyed cockpit of the Shamburo and smoothly returned to the ground.

……

"Huh... Huh..." After such a long battle, Ross finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fighting with such a tense state of mind, Ross felt a long-lost sense of fatigue.

"Bang... Bang... Bang..." The battery packs on Shangbruo's body began to explode continuously. Pieces of armor debris flew into the sky along with the flames of the explosion and then fell to the ground.

With the sound of metallic screams, Shamburo was unable to maintain his air cushion movement and fell heavily to the ground, exploding continuously.

But obviously, things don't end like this.

Crimson "flames" erupted from Zesta's back, propelling the machine to dodge a series of strafing attacks.

"What a wonderful battle, 'Cub', you are worthy of being an ace pilot." Cruze's voice, amplified by the loudspeaker, rang out on the battlefield.

A gray-white Dean flew out from a tricky angle, firing continuously at Zesta with a rifle in its hand.

"But your backpack can't fly, right? Otherwise, why didn't you enter flight mode just now?" Cruze, sitting in the cockpit, naturally wouldn't miss such a good opportunity to kill Ross. "How can you fight us when your weapons are exhausted?"

"We control the sky. You have nowhere to escape. Prepare to die!"

"...Don't even think about it." Ross licked his slightly dry lips, missing his high-mobility backpack a little.

Although he didn't have much weapons left, Ross was not incapable of fighting.

"The beam carbine only has two magazines left, the particle cannon has one more charge, and the multi-purpose launcher has four forged rockets. As for the shield and beam saber, I won't mention them." Big Haro waved the wings above his head. "This is what's left of Zesta's armament."

"Yeah... I know." The more critical the situation, the calmer Ross felt. "Jestha, I'm sorry, it looks like we're going to have to go into overtime."

Zesta raised his head slightly, looking through his scarlet sunglasses at Cruze circling in the sky and the gradually approaching White Dean troops.

Of course, there's a guy who doesn't fit in among the Deans: the Duel Gundam with flight pedals.

"Cub... I will definitely destroy you this time!" Although Isaac didn't like taking advantage of others, considering that they were on a battlefield, he didn't care.

The mechanical arms dropped the two empty electromagnetic bazookas, slightly reducing Zesta's weight.

"Huh... Let's go, Zesta!" Ross took a deep breath and turned serious.

The multi-purpose launcher on Zesta's left shoulder quickly fired four forged rockets into the sky. The dense forged rocket barrage easily tore apart the armor of many White Deans, causing them to explode in the air.

"You bastard!" Duel moved quickly by stepping on the flight pedals, and the electromagnetic cannon and five-barreled missile launcher on his shoulder kept firing at Zesta.

"Izak! You're too far forward, come back!" Cruze couldn't help but frown when he saw Izak seemed to be crazy, controlling the Duel Gundam forward.

"Good opportunity!" Ross saw the duel in a slightly aggressive position and used his shield to block several shells fired by White Dean. Zesta raised the beam carbine in his hand and fired in the direction of the duel.

But the target of the beam attack was not Duel, but the flight pedals under Duel's feet.

The G series basically relies on flight pedals to fly on Earth, so once the flight pedals are destroyed, their maneuverability will be greatly reduced.

"Ugh...damn it." Seeing the flight pedals under his feet begin to explode, Isaac could only control the Duel to leave the flight deck and land on land as much as possible.

Zesta had just replaced the last magazine of his beam carbine. The crimson light emanating from his backpack grew stronger, and even a lot of it leaked out from the gaps in the damaged armor, wrapping around the surface of the machine.

"What are those red things...?" Seeing the strange scene in front of him, Cruze, who claimed to be knowledgeable, couldn't help but frown.

Then, in front of everyone's eyes, Zesta broke away from the ground, dragging a long crimson tail flame, and rushed towards Cruze at an extremely fast speed.

Like a scarlet meteor.

"What?! So fast?!" Seeing Zesta coming in front of him in the next second, Cruze was a little surprised. He controlled the body, took out the shotgun, and shot at Zesta.

Zesta's mechanical arm slightly deflected the angle to block the shotgun shell fired by Cruze, and his left hand pulled out the beam saber again and slashed at Cruze who was close at hand.

Cruze immediately maneuvered the machine sideways, but his right arm, holding the rifle, was still cut off. Seeing Zesta approaching again, with the beam saber clearly aimed at severing him, Cruze subconsciously pulled the lever in the cockpit.

The familiar cockpit was ejected, and then the body was split into two by the beam saber and fell near the exploding Shambro.

"Phew...that was a close call." After being caught in the cockpit by a white Dean, Cruze was still in shock from the brief exchange. "How did that machine get so fast?"

"Don't even think about running!" Ross roared loudly, controlling Zesta to continue chasing Cruze.

But a sharp pain in his head caused him to stop, controlling Zesta. He saw several emerald green beams shooting from the ground into the sky.

"Don't even think about chasing me! Get down!" Isaac controlled the Duel and fired a few shots at Zesta, then stepped hard on the pedal.

The Duel's propulsion nozzles began to operate at high intensity, approaching Zesta in the sky.

"Ha...ha..." Ross felt so tired that he was about to fall asleep, but he still gritted his teeth and controlled Zesta to dodge the White Dean's shells and kept firing at the duel.

Duel raised his shield, blocking Zesta's beam and increasing the power of his thrusters. Ross, seeing this, controlled his beam saber and slashed fiercely at Duel's shield.

But the next moment, due to Ross's fatigue, the red "flame" weakened slightly, causing Zesta to be knocked out of the duel, and even the beam saber was knocked out of his hand.

"Good opportunity!" Izak was about to stab Zesta with his beam saber, but the palm of his right hand holding the beam saber was tightly grasped by Zesta's free left hand.

The palm of Zesta's hand was even deformed, causing the beam saber to shut down due to a malfunction in the interface.

"What? This kind of power?" Although Isaac was a little surprised, the next second he used his shield to knock away the beam carbine in Zesta's right hand and began to aim the electromagnetic cannon on his shoulder.

Zesta's head Vulcan cannon fired, continuously reducing the Duel Gundam's power, and the last particle cannon on the shoulder began to charge.

Zesta's left shoulder shield blocked the electromagnetic cannon's fire, but the close-range attack caused the mechanical arm to break.

The particle cannon also finished charging and headed towards the duel.

The red and white particle cannon beam easily destroyed Duel's shield. As Zesta slightly swung his weapon, the particle cannon beam swept across Duel's head monitor, as well as the corpse armor and weapons on his shoulders.

"Bang..." The two machines finally fell to the ground. The violent impact made Ross shake his head and try his best to stay awake.

To be honest, Ross didn't know why Zesta, who was about to run out of power, could still fight for so long after activating NTD, and was even able to fly temporarily, but he knew that after the NTD was activated this time, his mental state was getting worse and worse.

Ross stood up while manipulating the machine, disconnected the particle cannon, and drew out the last beam saber.

Izak, who was observing the outside world with the only remaining sub-monitor, also threw away the damaged shield and drew his beam saber.

Under the illumination of the fire from the Shambro explosion, the two machines began to sprint in silence. The beam sabers had only one target, which was the opponent's cockpit.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and they were about to enter the attack range.

A white Dean appeared out of nowhere and blocked Zesta's way, slowing down his pace.

Then, the beam saber smoothly stabbed into the cockpit of the white Dean.

However, in Duel, he used White Dean as a meat shield and went around to Zesta's left wing.

Zesta stretched out his left hand to block the dueling beam sabers, but his left arm was easily pierced by the beam saber.

Along with the roaring sounds of two machines, two more white Deans drew their swords and rushed towards Zesta.

The white Dean whose cockpit was pierced by Zesta, its battery pack began to heat up and was about to explode.

For some reason, when Ross saw the situation in front of him, he did not panic or curse, but was inexplicably calm.

In other words, ever since he touched the joystick, he knew he might die in a battle, and he was prepared for the possibility of his death.

It was obvious that the ZAFTs had seized a good opportunity, but now they were at the end of their strength and it was a situation where they were doomed to fail.

"Your death is not now."

Just as Ross was calmly accepting the fact that he was about to die, the cockpit UI suddenly disappeared, and red font replaced the UI and appeared on the full-circle screen.

“…Zesta?”

Looking at the font that appeared before him, Ross was stunned for a moment and asked with a hint of confusion.

But before Ross could finish his words, the cockpit was suddenly ejected and Zesta activated the self-destruct sequence.

The originally scarlet eyepiece gradually dimmed until it returned to its inactive state.

"Bang..." The cockpit fell heavily to the ground, rolled several times, and finally hit a small hill.

"What? Ejected?!" Izak looked at the ejected cockpit and was about to draw out his beam saber to continue the pursuit.

A huge explosion engulfed the duel and the three white Deans.

……

"Isaac, can you hear me? Isaac!" Cruze sat in the cockpit held by the white Dean, constantly asking for Isaac's response.

"...Captain Cruze, Orb's fleet is approaching." At this moment, the captain of the submarine transporting Cruze and the copy troops called in. "We're running out of time."

"...Tsk, there's nothing we can do, let's pack up." Although his tone was full of reluctance, Cruze actually thought in his heart that it was a good thing for Isaac to die.

"It's a good deal to use your life to eliminate an enemy ace. This is war, Isaac." Cruze thought so in his heart. Although there was no expression on his face, his eyes covered by the mask were slightly narrowed.

----split line----

PS: Today’s update.

Zesta's story ends here, and what comes next is a new machine, of course, not a mecha.

Happy National Day, everyone.

It's a pity that I'm not well yet, otherwise I would have updated twice. But this chapter is almost 6K words, so should it be counted as two updates? (Guilty)

Volume 52: Chapter : At the beginning, everyone has a Harrow, and all the equipment has to be picked up.

The setting sun shone on the wreckage of Shambro, casting a distorted and beautiful shadow on the ground. The weapon born from human industry now stood on the earth like a broken, crumbling statue.

Although the explosion of Shamburo had stopped, there was still a lot of thick smoke coming out of the body. From time to time, some of the skeletons would soften due to the continuous high temperature burning, and then break and fall off.

The ground bore traces of high-energy beams, and fragments and armor ripped from Shamburo could be seen here and there. A wrecked mobile suit lay quietly on the ground, its white and bluish-gray parts scattered around.

"Pfft..."

With the sound of a hatch opening, a spherical cockpit parked at the foot of a small hill opened its hatch. A small satchel was thrown out by someone in the cockpit and fell to the ground.

Then, Rhodes, wearing a driving suit, fell to the ground from the tilted hatch.

"Ugh... my waist." Ross covered his lower back with his left hand, stood up from the ground, and took off his helmet with his right hand.

"I told you, the cockpit must have an ejection device. Look, it comes in handy now." Big Hello jumped out of the cockpit, bounced twice on the ground, and then jumped onto Rhodes's left shoulder with just the right amount of force and landed steadily.

"But if this goes on, I might end up following Char's footsteps and becoming a breakout NT." Ross stretched his body a little, picked up the satchel on the ground, and pulled out a wrench.