Mecha: Return of the Pioneers

Chapter 786 The situation changes! (1/3)

After successfully annihilating the enemy in pursuit, the three-ship alliance successfully left the rubble belt and returned safely to the space area where the Pillar of Heaven was located.

"This journey has been too smooth."

After completing the handover of the guard shift, Sergei returned to his companions and the first thing he said was this.

After the ambush in the gravel belt, there was no more encounter with the ZAFT fleet cruising in the Earth-Moon orbit.

Although everyone wants to see this kind of situation, no one is willing to watch it happen.

After all, even when the sea is calm, there are bound to be undercurrents.

Moreover, as the Three Ship Alliance brings the councilors back to the Pillar of Heaven, whether it is PLANT, ZAFT, or Embrio, they will definitely take corresponding actions.

"Indeed. We originally thought that we would be pursued by at least one ZAFT fleet. After leaving the rubble belt, we will have to annihilate the enemy fleet, which will probably take a lot of effort to do."

Lockon put Harrow beside him and leaned on the sofa and said.

"That's a trap that can only be used once in a short period of time. Besides, even if there is terrain similar to the gravel belt, the enemy will not approach rashly."

Salamantini added.

"Perhaps the fleet chasing us in the gravel belt is the ZAFT fleet controlled by Embrio. My Lord, do you remember what the man named Aofer Ram Tao said?"

He Ming nodded, confirming this.

"That's very likely. Although that battle wasn't a large-scale conflict, the destruction of a squadron would definitely attract the attention of Yakin Duwei. But even though a squadron was lost, Yakin Duwei, who was so close to them, was slow to react. I'm afraid..."

At this time, everyone's eyes turned to Lacus Klein who was sitting quietly on the side.

The latter nodded slowly.

"It must be the letter I wrote that had an effect."

"letter?"

He Ming frowned slightly, and soon remembered the scene when Lacus Klein offered to return Lenoa Sara's body to Patrick Sara.

“Klein, did you write down the whole story in the letter?”

Lacus Klein nodded first, then shook her head.

"I didn't tell you everything. I just wrote down how I was attacked, how my identity was replaced, and how I found Aunt Renoir's body on Junius 7. Then, I put the letter between Aunt Renoir's hands."

"Just based on a letter from an unknown source, the Speaker believed that what happened to you, Miss Klein, was real?"

Lockon shook his head, revealing a look of disbelief.

"If I hadn't witnessed Miss Klein's appearance and the whole process of joining us, I would have thought this was just a movie."

"Uncle Patrick, he will believe it."

Lacus Clyne was silent for a moment, and finally spoke firmly.

"On the envelope, I used some symbols that my father taught me when I was a child. These symbols, in special times, can gain Uncle Patrick's trust."

"Is that so?"

Sergei thought about it for a moment.

"But given the characteristics of the photocopier, I'm afraid the other party will also know."

"There is such a possibility. However, under the stimulation of non-specific environment, even if the copy has the same memory as the original, it will not be able to recall those symbols in a short period of time. And this time difference is Klein's opportunity to gain the trust of Chairman Patrick."

Salamantini, who had carefully studied the relevant information found on the deserted island, proposed this possibility.

"Based on the current situation, this possibility is indeed the most likely to happen, and it is already secretly affecting PLANT and ZAFT. Otherwise, the Yakin Duvi Line would not let us leave so calmly. In fact, we have reason to believe that Yakin Duvi, and even the Supreme Council, will not know that the squadron has been destroyed by us." He Ming's words made Sergei and Lockon exchange glances.

"Hearing what the commander said, it feels as if the other party took the initiative to deliver the fleet to us."

Just as everyone was speculating about the current situation, the communication from the bridge suddenly rang.

"Colonel He. We have docked at the Pillar of Heaven and are starting to resupply before landing on Earth. But there are some things that require you to come to the bridge."

On the other side of the communication screen, Feng Yun's expression was not very good.

Moreover, he also mentioned letting Lacus Clyne go to the bridge as well.

"Let me go too? Is it about PLANT?"

After being rescued, the congressmen have been very well behaved.

Especially after learning that the Three Ship Alliance was a rescue fleet led by East Asia, they behaved very well and never left the activity area designated by the Polaris for the congressmen.

Therefore, when Lacus Klein needed to make a trip, the first thing she thought of was the possibility of PLANT.

"Let's go!"

A few minutes later, when He Ming and Lacus Klein arrived at the bridge, they learned a piece of news from Feng Yun.

"Alaska fell?"

This news was not surprising to He Ming.

But when He Ming took over the battle report from Feng Yun, his expression gradually became solemn.

From the battle report, He Ming could see that in the battle in Alaska, both sides used their hidden super weapons.

The ZAFT side used a super weapon called "Odin's Spear".

The Earth United side secretly built the "Cyclops" underground in the Alaska base.

He Ming was not surprised by the Earth Alliance's use of the Cyclops at its headquarters in Alaska.

Both he and his companions showed resistance to going to the Alaska base, and the East Asian side seemed to have sensed something as well. Since the solar power generation system was publicly built, except for daily personnel exchanges, no organized troops had been stationed in the Alaska headquarters to accept the control of the Earth Federation Army Headquarters.

As a result, He Ming and the East Asian side successfully avoided the death of becoming souls under the Cyclops.

However, based on this, He Ming was surprised that ZAFT would actually use the Spear of Odin in the battle to attack the Alaska headquarters.

Could it be that because Panama was easily captured, ZAFT had more time to perfect the Spear of Odin and put it into the battle against the Alaska headquarters in one fell swoop?

Moreover, precisely because of the secret deployment of Odin's Spear, the Alaska headquarters, which was suddenly attacked by this super weapon, did not successfully transfer the main force of the Atlantic Union as it did in the original time and space, leaving behind the Eurasian Union and the Archangel as bait to attract ZAFT's attack.

Turning to the end, He Ming saw the long column of battle damage reports that could currently be clearly counted.

During the Battle of Alaska, the Earth Alliance stationed in the Alaska headquarters lost more than 80% of their surface and underwater ships within the first hour of the battle due to the secret use of the Spear of Odin, and completely lost the possibility of transferring troops by sea.

As for the ground forces, after losing the MS Assault Dagger Unit and the armored units that had just been successfully developed and put into small-scale mass production, they retreated voluntarily and, under the leadership of a small number of informed officers, quickly evacuated the Alaska headquarters via multiple roads.

However, the withdrawal of ground troops cannot avoid one fact.

That was the surface of the Earth Federation. After the underwater ships were destroyed in an instant, the senior officers of the Atlantic Federation who wanted to sell out their teammates and betray ZAFT's main force saw that there was no hope of escape, so they frantically activated the Cyclops in the shelter a hundred meters underground.

As a result, the Alaska headquarters, which was first destroyed by Odin's spear, was destroyed along with the main force of ZAFT that attacked it under the death light erupted by the Cyclops.

In the battle of the Earth Union's Alaska headquarters, the Earth Union, led by the Atlantic Union, lost 70% of its naval fleet and 60% of its ground forces, while ZAFT lost the ability to launch another large-scale attack of the same scale as the attack on the Alaska headquarters in a short period of time.

(End of this chapter)