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At this time, the Strike Gundam also walked ashore from the sea carrying a rocket launcher.

"...It's three against one now. I think taking you down here is a good option." Ross controlled Zesta, lowered his left hand from the beam carbine, and was ready to step on the pedal and charge forward at any time.

"But even if you're our ace, it'll take quite some time to destroy me." Aslan spoke calmly, seemingly unconcerned with Ross's words, but his hands were already tightly gripping the control handles of the Holy Shield. "My teammates and the fleet searching for the Archangel are almost here. As long as I keep dodging your attacks, I'm confident I can hold out until then."

In fact, Aslan did not have much confidence. After all, the Holy Shield was not fully charged at this time and it might run out of power at any time.

But obviously, what is most needed now is to scare Ross and others, at least to scare Mu and Kira.

"Rods, what he said is true. The ZAFT fleet is coming." At this time, Cagalli's voice came from the communication. "And... he was the one who saved me."

"Tsk... What if you tell your teammates our location after we leave?" Ross was obviously skeptical and still wanted to destroy the Holy Shield here.

"Kira knows me well. Since you let me go, I won't do such a thing." Seeing that Zesta seemed to want to open fire, Aslan said this while putting his finger on the trigger, ready to fire at any time.

"...Rods, retreat." Just as Ross was considering whether to open fire, Mu spoke up. "Neither Sky King nor Assault have the proper equipment. If the ZAFT fleet pursues us, it will be very disadvantageous to us."

"It's best to pretend nothing happened now."

After hearing Mu's words, Ross was silent for a moment, but he still put down Zesta's beam rifle, which made Athrun breathe a sigh of relief.

"Kira, pick up Cagalli." Ross kept his eyes on the Aegis, controlling Zesta to reach out and pick up the crashed Sky King, and handed the beam rifle to the mechanical arm for control.

"...Kira, if we meet on the battlefield next time..." Looking at the Strike Gundam that bent down and took Cagalli in his hands, Athrun had a complicated expression. "You and I only have one choice left, which is to shoot each other down."

……

On the sea, Zesta, Strike, and Sky King were flying at an extremely fast speed.

Soon, the three machines entered the communication range of the Archangel.

"Welcome back, Ross, have you found Cagalli?" The Archangel's communication was connected, and Mari's voice came from the communicator.

"We've found Cagalli. Archangel, turn immediately and prepare to sail at top speed!" Ross said into the communicator, his eyes constantly scanning the aircraft's radar scan. "Prepare for possible combat."

"We found the Holy Shield on the island where Cagalli crashed. According to him, a ZAFT fleet will appear there later."

Hearing Ross's words, Mariu's expression also became serious.

"After opening the catapult deck and stowing the mobile suits and Sky King, the Archangel will turn and head for Orb at full speed via Route 2."

"Everyone, second battle sequence, preparation squad, get ready."

A series of commands were issued, and the Archangel, which had been relatively quiet, became busy.

On the other side, ZAFT's fleet finally arrived at the uninhabited island where Aslan was.

"Athrun, thank goodness you're okay." Nigel, piloting the Thunderbolt Gundam, landed next to the Aegis Gundam. "I didn't expect the Earth Army and Captain Marco would be fighting here."

"I'm fine. The Aegis Gundam has very good performance. Even without flight pedals, it can fly in the air for a short time, which supported me to come to this uninhabited island." Aslan connected to Nicol's communication, but did not talk about what happened just now when he met Kira and others.

At this time, the Aegis Gundam had changed to a hidden position, as far away from Kira and the others' evacuation route as possible.

Although he was mentally prepared to kill Kira on the battlefield, Aslan still wanted to delay it as long as possible.

"Okay, now that you're back in the team, let's start the search for Long Legs." Nicol's words brought Aslan back to his senses.

"We've also brought the 'copy troops'. This time we have an absolute advantage in manpower and will definitely destroy Long Legs."

After Aslan returned to the plant and talked with Lacus, he also became worried about this copy army.

The Klein faction had always been pessimistic about the emergence of the copy army and had attempted to stop it. However, with Plant's pro-war sentiment now high, Sara faction Speaker Padraic Sara and Councilman Durandal were pushing the project, apparently even planning to develop some kind of "decisive weapon."

When Aslan heard Nicol talking about this topic, he was suddenly a little dazed when he was sandwiched between Lacus and his father.

"Don't worry, with the copy troops, we will be able to end the war quickly!" Nicol did not seem to hear the change in Aslan's tone.

"…End the war?"

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PS: I was lying in bed watching TikTok today and forgot to write anything. My, my.

There will probably only be one update today, and two updates tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. I will definitely update earlier in the future.

Volume 43: Chapter Let me experience the performance of the Federation's (crossed out) new MS!

After sailing at high speed for a long time, they still did not find any trace of the ZAFT fleet catching up.

But the people on the Archangel did not relax. Instead, they became more and more nervous as they got closer to the junction of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Ross sat on the Zesta, calmly watching the beam carbine and two electromagnetic bazookas being restocked.

"This journey is almost over, Jesta."

Rhodes gripped the control handle tightly, recalling the scenes he had experienced and what Halberton had said.

"Blue Cosmos is implementing the 'Smart Brain System' on a large scale within the Earth Army." Just this piece of news made Ross feel powerless. For a moment, the thought of "I give up and let this world rot" filled his mind.

Then, the pressure brought by my own promise made me constantly question myself and bring myself back on track.

"When faced with enormous difficulties, we become lost and have the urge to give up. This is a natural human instinct."

After being silent for a long time, Big Harrow spoke, his tone full of admiration and recognition for Ross.

"But in the face of such a desperate situation, to pick oneself up and stand up to continue fighting is what it means to be an enforcer of the courtyard."

"Really... then thank you very much for your recognition." Ross laughed dryly twice, but no one knew what he was thinking.

At this moment, a shrill alarm sounded in the hangar.

"ZAFT fleet spotted on both sides, all ships enter first combat sequence!"

"Strike, Zesta, please attack!"

Ross casually opened the communication channel and pulled down the eyepiece of his helmet. As the hangar was completed, Zesta was fixed to the ejection device.

Ross glanced at the electromagnetic rocket launcher, which had been taken over by the high-mobility backpack's mechanical arm, and the two shields fixed to Zesta's arms, and nodded.

"Roz Links, High Mobility Type Zesta, attacks!"

Step on the pedal, the circuit is connected, the ejection device receives the signal, and carries the aircraft quickly through the ejection channel.

With a shudder, Zesta was ejected from the tunnel. The next moment, captured by Earth's gravity, it plummeted toward the ocean. The high-mobility backpack's nozzle spewed scorching flames, propelling the machine upwards into the sky.

Just one second after entering the battlefield, a series of machine alarms blared wildly in Ross's ears, and dense inverted triangle signs covered the sea level.

A dozen Dean aircraft painted in gray and white flexibly turned in the air and rushed towards Rhodes.

"What?" Feeling a large number of strange brain wave signals, Rhodes was stunned for a moment, but soon he came to his senses.

He raised the beam carbine in his hand and pulled the trigger. The purple-red beam hit the cockpit of a white Dean straight, turning the Dean into fireworks on the spot.

Something is wrong. Something is very wrong...

Zesta raised his shield to block a few rounds of gunfire, and then rolled over to avoid the thrusts of several White Deans.

"That's right... This feeling, this exact same feeling, not even a single fluctuation in brain waves..."

Rhodes fired at these white Deans, constantly destroying certain parts of their bodies, arms, legs, wings... No matter how he verified, the brain waves of the drivers of these white Deans did not fluctuate at all.

"Zizizi... Ross, go back to the Archangel first, there are too many of them!" Kira's voice came from the communication channel.

Ross watched as a white Dean, having lost its limbs and wings, used its thrusters to fly near Zesta and self-destruct, manipulating Zesta to raise his arm shield to block the attack.

Fortunately, Zesta retreated and blocked a lot of debris with his shield, otherwise he might have been hit by the flying debris and malfunctioned.

"Kira, shoot at the cockpit of those white Deans."

"Wha...what? But there's a person in the cockpit!"

Kira was obviously confused by Ross's words. He stood on the central deck of the Archangel, driving the Strike, at a loss.

"There's no mistake. The people sitting in these white Deans are exactly the same, with no fluctuations in brain waves at all..." The two electromagnetic rocket launchers replaced the forged rocket magazines.

"...Those sitting inside are clones used as biological weapons!!"

The electromagnetic rocket launcher moved to Zesta's shoulders and fired wildly at the dozen or so white Deans in front of him.

One after another, forging rockets exploded in the air, and the high-speed metal forgings hit the white Dean. In an instant, several Deans were hit by the battery packs and detonated in mid-air.

There were also several white Deans that were unable to dodge, their cockpits were riddled with holes, and they lost control and fell into the sea.

"Archangel, full speed, get out of this area!"

After the two Deans whose limbs were cut off by Kira still used jet packs to self-destruct near the Archangel, Mariu also realized the urgency of the situation.

And Kira, after being hit twice by the self-destruction, has already pointed the beam rifle at the cockpits of these white Deans.

Although he was only standing on the central deck of the Archangel, Kira's kill count was no less than Ross's. In fact, due to his high accuracy, he was already showing signs of surpassing Ross in the number of kills.

Zesta drew an arc in mid-air, adjusted the angles of the shields on his arms, and launched anti-ship missiles at two ZAFT warships with white lines drawn on them, accurately hitting the warships' reactors. Even the white Dean that was about to attack was damaged in the explosion.

But soon, a familiar brain wave was rapidly approaching Rhodes, causing Rhodes to squint slightly.

Zesta adjusted his posture and activated the nozzle. He turned in mid-air and slapped the shield in his left hand towards the familiar brainwave.

"Qiang..."

With the sound of metal colliding, a Dean that was slightly different from the other white Deans, with a little gray paint, was slashing at Zesta's shield with a physical sword.

"...I've long suspected you weren't dead, but I didn't expect you'd even get a new suit." Cruze's voice, amplified by Dean's speakers, echoed across the ocean. "Well, let me experience the performance of your new mobile suit, cub."

Ross didn't reply. Instead, he controlled Zesta's left hand to forcefully knock away Cruze's Dean's sword, then skillfully kicked the Dean in the waist, disrupting his balance.

The thrusters on Zesta's feet began to work, and the flames that shot out burned the Dean armor, pushing Zesta sideways for a distance.

As Zesta left the area, several volleys of bullets from White Dean came from the air. The bullets hit the sea water directly above Zesta's head.

"Hmm... Even under the gravity of the earth, you can still deliver such a powerful kick? You really deserve to be like that." Cruze turned the joystick, adjusted the angle before Dean fell into the sea, and flew back into the sky.

"But we're not without new weapons. Show him your strength, 'Copy Troops'."

Several white Deans passed by Cruze's Dean and rushed towards Ross's Zesta in unison.

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PS: This is the first update today, there should be another one later.

I suddenly discovered that the bottled oolong tea sold in the freezer of 711 is quite delicious, but I forgot what the brand is.

Volume 44: Chapter Who can understand what you are saying?

Looking at the white Dean approaching, Rhodes pressed the joystick a few times, and the mechanical arm of the high-mobility backpack replaced the magazines of the two electromagnetic rocket launchers.

With such a large number of enemies, the remaining forged rockets had been used up, leaving only conventional high-explosive rockets and the anti-submarine cluster rockets left by Rhodes.

Suddenly, a beam of light flew from the side of Ross and destroyed the two white Deans in front of him.

"Rhodes, come back quickly, we've escaped the encirclement and are about to speed up!"

Maru's voice came from the communication channel. Ross gritted his teeth, pulled the joystick, and stepped on the pedal.

Zesta flew backwards towards the Archangel, and the Vulcan cannon pod on the right side of the head monitor kept firing, driving away the white Dean, trying to force them to move.

Although they were just clones, these copy troops obviously still maintained good combat qualities. In order to maintain the maximum combat effectiveness of their bodies, they skillfully dodged the strafing of the Zesta Vulcan cannon pods.

This also happened to be in line with Rhodes's plan.

The beam carbine in Zesta's hand began to charge, and then a purple-red beam pierced through the three overlapping Deans.

"Hmm... I didn't expect that this weapon, while similar in appearance to the previous one, is more than twice as powerful?"

Cruze dodged Zesta's gunfire and controlled Dean, whose armor had been slightly melted. He held Dean's standard rifle in the air and fired at Zesta continuously.

But then, the electromagnetic rocket launcher on Zesta's left shoulder suddenly fired a high-explosive rocket at Cruze, which scared Cruze and he quickly pulled up to distance himself from Zesta.

"Tsk, missed." Inside the Zesta cockpit, Big Harrow's eyes flickered twice, his tone filled with regret. "If that high-explosive rocket had hit, this guy who keeps pointing fingers in the voice chat would have shut up."

"Kruze is ZAFT's ace after all. He won't die so easily." Ross was gradually approaching the Archangel's anti-aircraft fire range. Two anti-aircraft machine guns fired at Zesta, which made Ross feel a little relieved and had time to answer Big Harrow's words.

"Besides, who can understand what he said?"

……

It was clearly the copy troops that chased the Archangel everywhere, leaving Aslan's team room to deal with the assault.

But both Aslan and Yitzhak had very serious expressions.

"This...isn't even a battle." Aslan opened his mouth, thinking about it. There was a lot he wanted to say, but in the end, he could only say this. "Has life become like this because of this army?"

After witnessing Lacus's ideal, seeing this scene again now does not make Aslan feel the joy of victory. Instead, a sense of fear arises from the bottom of his heart.

He was horrified to find that no matter how these copy troops were destroyed, or even if they used their only remaining thrusters to rush to the Archangel and self-destruct, it would not arouse his inner emotions.