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"...because we previously used the funds to modify the Gladius to install an ejection escape pod."

After a little reasoning, Halberton understood Aoife's thoughts and how he found Ross.

He maintained a calm tone and repeated his usual rhetoric.

"After all, with the full deployment of unmanned combat components, the Eighth Fleet has maintained its previous organization in order to respond to a possible 'AI rebellion' and retain a viable combat force for the Earth Army." Halbottom solemnly offered a seemingly reasonable explanation, leaving everyone present stunned. "And before learning to fight, the Eighth Fleet must first learn to escape to preserve more combat effectiveness."

"This battle is the best proof of that."

"Oh... I understand." Aofei narrowed her eyes. Although she always felt something was wrong, she couldn't put it into words.

The strange feeling I had just vaguely felt seemed to have disappeared.

"So, what about the Archangel? I remember from the intelligence that Malu Ramias on it is your favorite student."

"...I had never expected Malu's rebellion, especially since he also helped the 'White Devil' to break away." Halberdun sighed sadly, thinking of the time when Malu first came to Orb and contacted Halberdun through the communication to get gold coins. He couldn't help but feel sad.

The planted cabbages were pushed around by pigs with will-o'-the-wisp fire. No, it should be that the cabbages pushed around the pigs with will-o'-the-wisp fire. This absurd and annoying feeling, mixed with sadness, even made Halbertton's voice tremble.

"Everything just happened like that, and I can only accept this outcome." Halberton paused, as if trying to sort out his emotions. "I overestimated myself. When I saw the Archangel and thought of her, I couldn't bring myself to do it."

"So, in order to avoid delaying the war due to my personal reasons, I have decided to reduce the frequency of the Eighth Fleet's attacks."

It can only be said that Orphee is still too young. The mechanism of her special ability was roughly guessed by Halberton through the report. Now she is being fooled by Halberton, the old actor, with his wonderful inner drama.

In the end, because the emotions conveyed by the words and brain waves matched, Aoife actually accepted the statement.

……

At the same time, plant natively.

Two Nazca-class high-speed battleships are patrolling the edge of the space area of ​​the plant's homeland.

But obviously, the people on the two warships were not thinking about patrolling at all, but were constantly busy with something.

"We're ahead of schedule... but still within control." The captain of one of the Nazca-class ships tightened his grip on the armrest, watching the timer beside him. "We must deliver these two Nazca-class ships, along with the information contained within them, to Miss Lacus."

"This is all we Kleinists can do now."

Yes, these two Nazca-class ships are from the Klein faction lurking in ZAFT. Now that Lacus wants to evacuate the plant, this is the most support the Klein faction can provide.

"How's Jin's debugging going?" The captain took a deep breath and calmed himself. "Don't let it go later."

I heard that some new MS called "Prototype Zaku" have been offline for testing. Unfortunately, I left in a hurry and was unable to take away one or two. I can only use Jin to continue to support them.

"These Jin'en are at least specially customized and adjusted. Your Nazca-class ones, on the other hand, haven't been customized. Just make sure your artillery fire doesn't hit them."

A dashing female voice sounded from the communication. A woman with a black eyepatch on her right eye was seen sitting in Jin En's cockpit in a pilot's suit, smiling and speaking.

"We have practiced there! Hilda!" Looking at the woman in the communication, the captain shook his head and was about to explain something.

"Didi, didi, didi..."

"Captain, this is the action signal. Miss Lux is ready to set off." The communicator on the side spoke.

The captain of the Nazca-class ship sat up straight and put himself into combat posture.

"Attention all units, act according to the predetermined plan!"

After saying that, he looked at the communication that was still connected.

"Black Tri-Stars, prepare for battle!"

"learn."

……

In a dock on ZAFT, the people in the command room were in chaos.

"Has the Eternal not responded yet?"

"No, after Captain Bartfield finished speaking just now, the Eternal entered the engine preheating state!"

"What's going on? The order for the Eternal to sail hasn't been issued yet!"

At this time, on the Eternity, Andrew was leisurely watching everything in the dock with his still intact right eye.

"Captain, the gate program has been modified." A crew member sitting in front of the control panel spoke.

"There's nothing we can do... Then we'll have to be a little rough. Is that alright, Ms. Lacus?"

As he spoke, Andrew turned his head and glanced at Lux in the captain's seat.

"Then... let's sound the alarm to the dock, Captain Andrew." Lux, who had already changed her clothes, smiled and nodded to Andrew.

"Aim the main gun at the gate, ignite the engines, and keep them away from the Eternal and the gate!" Andrew gave these instructions skillfully.

"Aisha, it's up to you from now on."

Looking at Aisha at the helmsman's seat, Andrew's tone couldn't help but soften.

"I just lost my legs, but my driving skills are still very good, Andy..." Aisha stretched her arms and put her hand on the accelerator.

"Ms. Lux, the time has come."

"Eternal, set sail!"

As the gate was blown open, the Eternal's tail propulsion nozzle also spewed out thick flames, pushing the Eternal forward rapidly.

As a warship that ZAFT originally planned to be specially equipped for the two machines of Freedom and Justice, the Eternal's speed is faster than that of the Nazca class. It rushed out of the seemingly long passage in just ten seconds.

"Captain, Dagoth and Aslan have been recovered," the communicator's voice said. "But the local response was quick. The 'Copy Force' has already launched a Jinn to stop us."

"Wow... the nearby defense team reacted so quickly?" Andrew grinned, as if he was back in the North African desert, full of vigor and vitality.

"Hold on tight." Aisha pushed the throttle forward one more notch, her hands still constantly controlling the rudder.

The Eternal completed a rolling maneuver and avoided most of the attacks from the White Jinn. The anti-aircraft guns also continued to fire, destroying many White Jinn.

Two Nazca-class ships blocked the Eternal, as if trying to stop it.

But it was obvious that Aisha would not let them succeed.

The Eternal, originally flying straight towards the two Nazca-class ships, saw its side nozzles begin to operate, drifting past the two warships' thrusters. The missiles, already prepared, were quickly launched, destroying the thrusters of the two Nazca-class ships.

After bypassing the two Nazca-class ships that had lost most of their mobility, the Eternal quickly adjusted its direction and headed quickly towards the predetermined coordinates.

Only a group of stunned ZAFT soldiers remained at the scene.

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After getting rid of the pursuers at the dock, the Eternal continued to fly towards the designated rendezvous point.

"Fifteen minutes to the designated location... Is the support team ready?" Andrew glanced at his pocket watch with his remaining right eye, estimating the remaining sailing time. "What a shame... There are no mobile suits on board. If they're discovered by the Jakin Duvet garrison, we'll probably have no choice but to flee."

"No mobile suits?" Athrun, who had just been flung around the corridor by Aisha's series of maneuvers, heard this explosive news the moment he arrived at the bridge. "The Eternal doesn't have any mobile suits?!"

"The Eternal was built specifically as a support ship for Liberty and Justice. That's why it only has two hangars." Andrew calmly explained the Eternal's design direction, then looked up and continued to study the route map. "That's the Justice you didn't bring back, and the Liberty. They were the mobile suit units this battleship was originally intended for."

After hearing Andrew's explanation, Aslan fell silent.

Although Athrun is a red-clad ZAFT soldier, he can do nothing now that he is facing the space battlefield and has no MS to drive.

But this silence did not last long. Suddenly, a large number of Jin signals appeared on the radar and were surrounding the Eternity.

"The Jakin Duwei garrison reacted so quickly..." Andrew didn't panic at all when he saw the scene before him. "Young man, go to the gunner's seat over there and fasten your seatbelt. Don't get thrown out!"

Andrew's words seemed to remind Aslan of the memory of being tossed around in the corridor of the Eternal a few minutes ago and constantly hitting the wall. Aslan quickly floated to the seat Andrew mentioned and fastened his seat belt.

Looking at Aslan sitting in the gunner's seat and starting to look through the Eternal's armament, Andrew turned his head to look at Lux.

"So... Miss Lacus, what are the orders?"

"...Don't hit the cockpit." Lux said after thinking for a moment.

"Including the copy troops?" Andrew narrowed his eyes. Although he was not surprised by Lux's reaction, he still asked to be on the safe side.

Regarding the existence of the copy force, the Klein faction and the Sara faction have different views.

Sarapai believes that the copy troops, from the initiation of the manufacturing project to leaving the nutrition cabin and joining the battle, are designed around the two themes of "combat machines" and "replenishing troops", and should be no different from the Earth Army's intelligent combat system.

However, the Klein faction believes that even if the genes of the copy troops come from the same person, from the time they are born to the time they leave the nutrition capsule and stand on the ground of the colony satellite, they breathe the same air and eat the same food as other adjusters, and they also have all kinds of human feelings. It's just that their own thoughts are suppressed by the built-in chip. Therefore, they should be the same human beings as the adjusters.

This Kleinian view was also proposed by Lacus.

"Captain Andrew." Lux's tone lost its previous gentleness when discussing this topic, becoming serious instead. "The existence of the Copy Corps doesn't justify our disregard for life. To put it in an extreme way, their anatomy is identical to ours, so we could easily consider them Adjusters too. If we disregard their lives, what kind of 'monsters' will we ultimately become?"

"Besides...even if everyone has always held this view, does that necessarily mean it's correct?"

"...I understand." Andrew smiled and turned around. "What a tough job... Aisha, take us out."

"Understood...Everyone, remember to fasten your seat belts." Aisha reached out and pushed the accelerator. The Eternal's thrusters increased power and the speed increased.

As the Eternity and Yakin Duwei's garrison approached, missiles of various types were fired from the Jinn cluster and flew towards the Eternity.

Apparently, with the permission of Chancellor Sara, Yakin Duwei's garrison intended to directly destroy the Eternity.

"No hesitation at all...activate the anti-aircraft artillery array!" Andrew waved his hand and gave the order.

The Eternal's anti-aircraft guns weaved a dense firepower network. Under the continuous lock of the radar, they intercepted the dense missiles and even broke several of Jin's head monitors, making them lose their combat effectiveness.

But although the battle seemed to be one-sided in favor of the Eternity, the people on the Eternity did not relax.

They knew very well that as the number of reinforcements from Yakin Duwei gradually increased, once the anti-aircraft firepower was broken through, or the anti-aircraft array ran out of ammunition, the Eternity would definitely be destroyed by these attacks.

Aisha adjusted the rudder, her eyes constantly scanning the Yakin Duwei defense line, trying to find loopholes in it.

After seeing a larger asteroid not far away, Aisha came up with a plan.

"Andy, ten o'clock, depression angle 20, I need to open a gap!"

"Ten o'clock direction, depression angle 20, missile launch!" Andrew naturally trusted Aisha's decision very much.

After all, this was the tacit understanding they had developed during the North African war zone on Earth.

The missile silos that had been prepared on the Eternal were activated one after another, and missiles quickly destroyed the limbs of Jin En on the route, leaving them unable to resist.

Aisha pressed down the rudder, and the Eternal quickly changed direction and flew towards the gap that had just been blown out.

The Eternal passed through the stopped Jinn, and a huge asteroid appeared in front of them.

"Everyone, please take your seats!" Aisha stretched out her right hand and pressed a button on the side.

I saw a thick steel cable with flames spurting out of the tail. Driven by a "steel nail" that constantly adjusted its direction, it was precisely nailed to the asteroid.

As the Eternity continued to move forward, the steel cable was tightened in an instant, and the Eternity suddenly shook, like a large meteor hammer, turning along the asteroid.

The strong centrifugal force pressed everyone into their seats. Even Aslan couldn't help but frown at this pressure.

Aisha looked at the scenery in front of her, her right hand on a button.

Finally, after reaching the best position, Aisha pressed the button, the steel cable broke, and the Eternal was thrown out. It slightly adjusted its direction and continued to fly towards the target point.

"This should buy us quite a bit of time..." Aisha pushed the accelerator and glanced at the radar.

"I don't think it's that easy..." Andrew shook his head and pointed at the image on the radar. "Look, aren't they catching up again?"

Several Jins followed the Eternal's route, crossed the asteroid, appeared behind the Eternal, and raised the anti-ship missiles in their hands.

"Looks like this isn't the only bumpy ride we've experienced..." Aisha said, preparing to push the rudder back to adjust the ship's direction.

The next second, several green particle beams flew from a distance and accurately hit the arms and head monitors of the Jins.

"Freedom... is it Kira?" Looking at the blue and white machine that was getting closer and closer to the Eternal, Athrun couldn't help but feel a little surprised. "He didn't leave?!"

"Although it's a good thing to have MS joining, it won't help if one MS joins now..." Andrew narrowed his eyes as he looked at Freedom, who had flown near the Eternity and was standing on the Eternity, unleashing all his firepower and continuously firing at the chasing Jin.

"Kira..." Lacus couldn't help but murmur as he looked at the familiar MS in front of him.

"The rendezvous fleet has been sighted!"

As Andrew spoke, two Nazca-class battleships appeared in people's sight.

……

"...I've already seen the Eternal."

"Very good, launch missiles to cover them, attack, Hilda!"

As the two Nazca-class ships launched a large number of missiles, the hangar door of the Nazca-class opened, and a black-painted Jin appeared on the catapult track.