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Halberton, who was on the other end of the line, obviously knew what Ross was thinking and was just quietly waiting for Ross's reply.

"...You old man, you really do understand me." Ross sighed, walked over to the newly assembled Narrative Gundam, and raised his head. "You know I can't refuse this information."

"Because at this moment, even though we have different positions, we share the same enemy." Halberton had obviously learned of Ross's decision. He seemed relieved, and his tone was slightly relaxed. "And if you call me old man again, be careful or I'll tell Malu about you."

"Are you an old naughty boy?!"

After the call was disconnected, Ross changed his relaxed tone and looked at the narrator with a serious expression.

"It's time to fight again... I'm ready. Are you ready, Narrator?"

A faint red light flashed across the spiritual skeleton, as if the body was responding.

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PS: Today’s update.

I've always wondered what Char would do in the courtyard, but given his situation, I feel like he might actually come up with something similar?

Volume 57: Chapter : EARth

In the familiar all-around cockpit, Rhodes put on his pilot's suit and was operating continuously.

At this moment, the cockpit screen was showing a fierce battle.

One battleship's propellers had been destroyed, and it was moving slowly by inertia, unable to even turn. The battleship's main guns and anti-aircraft guns had been damaged, leaving a large firepower vacuum.

After destroying another cannon on the battleship "La Kailum" in front of him, creating a larger firepower vacuum area for himself, Ross subconsciously operated his body to dodge several incoming beams.

Three green Jegan A-types, along with a white machine firing a floater, were seen attacking the machine piloted by Ross.

"νGundam..." Looking at the familiar "opponent" in front of him, Ross gripped the joystick tightly.

The wire-controlled floater fired a beam at the white machine at a strange angle. Not to be outdone, the white machine unleashed its own floater, forming a pyramid-shaped shield to block the bursts of fire from the wire-controlled floater.

While the ν Gundam was being disturbed by the wire-controlled floating gun, Ross controlled the Narrative Gundam and fired at the three Jegan-Type A-types nearby with the bazooka in his hand.

Three high-explosive rockets hit the three Jegan-A tanks accurately, casting three sparks on the cockpit screens.

The next second, Ross controlled the Narrative Gundam to move smoothly. The ν Gundam's floating gun appeared in the blind spot of the Narrative Gundam's sight and continued to fire at the Narrative Gundam.

After dodging the attack of the ν Gundam's floating gun, Ross dodged the covering fire from La Kailum and bypassed an asteroid.

The ν Gundam did not use its own body to pursue, but instead found a hidden corner on the asteroid and planned to attack the Narrative Gundam that was maneuvering.

As the signal of the Narrative Gundam appeared before his eyes, the ν Gundam fired several bursts of shots at the red shadow.

But soon, a glowing red Narrative Gundam appeared from the other direction, its beam rifle firing continuously at the ν Gundam. At this moment, the target of the ν Gundam's attack also revealed itself: a shield radiating red light from a psychic frame, and an electromagnetic bazooka.

The ν Gundam didn't stay where it was, but dodged the attack of the Narrative Gundam by moving sideways and rushed towards the Narrative Gundam. The bazooka on the ν Gundam's back also quickly fired a rocket, which flew out from under the ν Gundam along the direction of the muzzle and accurately blew up the electromagnetic bazooka next to the shield.

The ν Gundam's floaters began to fire at the Narrative Gundam's wire-controlled floaters. The battlefield was full of particle beams and floaters attacking and dodging each other.

The narrator kept the ν Gundam in sight, constantly harassing its movements with his beam rifle. The next second, the Bull Gundam seemed to be hit halfway and exploded.

The scene seemed to fall into a brief calm. The ν Gundam's floater was nowhere to be found, and the body seemed to have been completely destroyed by the explosion. But Ross did not let his guard down. He knew very well that "Amuro" would not be shot down so easily.

As expected, Ross subconsciously stepped on the pedal, and a beam of light that had been charged was fired towards the Narrative Gundam.

He hastily threw away the beam rifle in his hand to block the attack, and the wire-controlled floating gun quickly turned and locked onto the target that emitted the beam and attacked.

After a burst of explosions, the target attacked by the floating cannon appeared. As expected, it was the shield and beam rifle of the ν Gundam.

At this moment, the ν Gundam's floater accurately hit the cable of the wire-controlled floater, cutting off the control of the floater.

"Don't even think about it!" Ross ignored everything else and activated the NTD system. With the activation of the Psycho-Bone, Psycho-waves spread from the Narrative Gundam, using them to retake control of the disconnected wire-controlled floaters and begin attacking the V Gundam's floaters. Apparently, the NTD-activated Narrative Gundam interfered with the movement of the V Gundam's floaters, slowing them considerably, but still under the V Gundam's control.

Taking advantage of the interference of the ν Gundam's floater, the Narrative Gundam's floater quickly detonated three ν Gundam's floaters.

Under such a rapid fire attack, Ross had no time to care about anything else and could only dodge the attack of the floater as much as possible, and then use his own floater to destroy the opponent's floater.

As if catching Ross's distraction, the ν Gundam appeared out of nowhere, holding the beam sword on its backpack, and slashed down at the Narrative Gundam.

Luo Narrative Gundam pulled out the beam saber from its backpack and barely blocked the attack of the ν Gundam. As Ross was distracted, one of the Narrative Gundam's floaters was destroyed.

As if seizing the perfect opportunity, the ν Gundam's floaters and the Narrative Gundam's floaters completed several rounds of attack and defense. Finally, with Ross's all-out dual-line operation, a one-for-one result was achieved, and both sides' floaters were completely destroyed.

The ν Gundam in front of him seemed to have seized the opportunity when Ross was distracted, and the high-powered beam saber in its hand struck from the lower left to the upper right, opening the beam saber in Ross's hand.

"...Not good!" Ross subconsciously wanted to stretch out the left hand of the Narrative Gundam and pull out the spare beam saber.

Unexpectedly, taking advantage of the Narrative Gundam's right hand blocking its camera, the ν Gundam used the small beam blade extending from the other end of the high-power beam saber to pierce the Narrative Gundam's cockpit as accurately as a dagger.

……

Inside the cockpit, the scene froze as the ν Gundam stabbed the Narrative Gundam's cockpit with its small beam saber.

Ross was silent for a moment before he loosened his grip on the handlebars and slumped down in the cockpit seat.

Reaching out to open the visor of his helmet, Rhodes took a few deep breaths, took out a bag of water from the storage box beside him, and drank a few gulps.

"In the fifth simulation training, you've broken your own best record, Ross." Big Hallo, who had quietly watched the entire simulation training, expressed his sincere admiration and used the loudspeaker to emit a familiar sound of cheers and applause.

"But I still lost, even more miserably than last time." Ross closed the bottle of water he'd taken a few sips of and put it back in the storage compartment. "Just a random ν Gundam with six floaters put me in a difficult position. What if a different version of the ν Gundam randomly appeared next time?"

"...You seem a bit too impatient, Ross." Big Haro disagreed with Ross's current thoughts and attitude. "Regardless, Amuro's piloting skills are among the best even in a place like the Courtyard, where there are so many experts. It's impossible to defeat him with just your current combat experience."

"As you continue to fight and improve your experience and piloting skills, defeating Amuro won't be impossible." Dahello waved his wings overhead. "It's still too early. Just give it your all."

"...Maybe." Ross tried his best to calm down from his earlier impatience. "But you know, Big Hello, no matter what the reason, in future battles... I can't lose. I can't accept the consequences of losing."

"...I understand, Ross, of course I understand." Big Hello followed Ross's words, trying to calm Ross down. "Next, let's stop the simulation training. We're about to prepare to enter the Earth."

With that, the image of the ν Gundam stabbing the cockpit with a small beam sword disappeared, and was replaced by a camera connected to the outside of the cargo hold, showing the scene outside.

The azure planet was slowly rotating before Ross's eyes. He could clearly see the white clouds and the familiar continental plates above it.

At this time, a rocket was carrying Rhodes and the machine, moving towards the target point.

Regarding the transportation of this body, Daha Luo did not use a space shuttle, but instead used a previously manufactured spare rocket. After all, the area where the airborne was carried out was close to the battlefield, and after much consideration, disposable rockets were more economical.

However, what Ross was more concerned about at this moment was the ZAFT fleet not far away that was projecting troops downwards. Ross even saw several warships painted white that had just completed the rendezvous and were obviously now deploying the second wave.

"It looks like the battle has been going on for a while." Big Haro waved his wings upon seeing the ZAFT fleet. "Get some rest! We're about to enter the atmosphere, and it's going to be a tough battle."

"Yeah... I understand." Ross took a deep breath, lowered the helmet's visor again, and placed his hands on the joystick. "From now on, it's up to you, big ol'."

……

"An unknown aircraft was discovered. Is it... a rocket?" A ZAFT radar observer was stunned when he saw the somewhat unfamiliar aircraft approaching at an extremely fast speed.

"Rocket? Calculate its trajectory and target! All ships enter level one combat readiness!" The captain of the ZAFT warship frowned upon hearing this. "Send an alert to the enemy aircraft: a battle is underway here. Tell them to take a detour!"

In the rocket's cargo hold, after receiving the message from ZAFT, Big Harrow just glanced at it and ignored the warning, instead controlling the rocket to continue accelerating.

"Report, the rocket won't pass under us..." After hearing the radar observer's calculations, the ZAFT captain breathed a sigh of relief, but then his heart began to lift again. "It will be captured by the Earth's gravity. The target of its landing route is... the Alaskan base?"

After applying historical rocket landing data and completing calculations, the radar observer made his own assessment. "It could be a ballistic weapon from the Earth Army. Captain, what should we do?"

After pondering for a moment, the captain sighed. "...Operation Spitbreak cannot afford to fail. Regardless of whether it's an Earth Army weapon or not, we must eliminate any interference with our troop movements and shoot it down with our naval guns!"

"Even if it's a civilian aircraft, it'll only be his own bad luck if it gets close to here."

A Nazca-class battleship began to turn its guns, and after a brief aiming, it fired a shot at the rocket where Ross was.

Facing the incoming particle beam, Big Haro calmly separated the additional rockets and thrusters behind the rocket, allowing them to collide with the beam from the Nazca class and explode in the air.

"One hit... Wait, the rocket separated, but the cargo hold still maintains its original orbit!"

"Continue the attack!"

This Nazca-class battleship began to attack the cargo hold where Rhodes was.

At this moment, Ross could clearly feel the vibrations caused by the friction between the cargo hold's outer armor and the atmosphere, as well as... the feeling of being captured by the Earth's gravity.

Under Big Haro's operation, the cargo hold changed its direction, and the original thrusters turned downward to slow down, while the tip turned upward separated again, blocking the Nazca-class artillery fire again, and exploded into a pile of fragments, turning into a tiny meteor shower.

A fragment of the blast tore through the nearby cargo hold armor. From the cockpit, Ross could even see the scenery outside, dyed red by the fire caused by atmospheric friction.

"Report, if the attack continues, it will affect our troops!"

"Tsk..." Looking at what was happening before his eyes, the captain of the Nazca-class battleship pounded his chair. "Send a message to the ground troops, tell them to pay attention to this cargo hold!"

……

Feeling the pull of gravity, watching the damaged cargo hold melted by the intense heat, Ross took a deep breath, gripping the joystick with both hands, ready to deal with the impending collapse of the cargo hold.

But at this time, Big Haro started the thrusters of the cargo hold, and the speed of the cargo hold's descent began to slow down slightly. The flames caused by friction with the atmosphere were also extinguished by the strong wind.

Beyond the broken hole lay the boundless blue sky and the waves of clouds. Ross calmly observed the scene before him. Beyond the sea of clouds lay the azure ocean.

As well as densely packed ZAFT warships and barrages flying all over the sky.

"We've arrived. Get ready to attack, Ross."

Hearing the voice of "Hello", Ross pressed twice on the screen beside him, and the cockpit and the body were connected.

The previously dim eyes of the head monitor lit up with a yellow light, and the body quickly completed its self-inspection.

At this moment, a beam of light, coming from nowhere, grazed the cargo hold's outer armor, and the small beams of light bounced around inside the hold, some even hitting the aircraft. However, due to its weak power, it did not cause any damage.

Ross silently controlled the machine and walked towards the gap.

"Narrator Gundam High Mobility B-Type, ...Roz Links, attack."

……

"What is this? Is this what they call 'Earth Army's ballistic weapons'?"

Stepping on the flight pedals, Nicol drove the Thunderbolt Gundam and fired several beams at the falling rocket cargo bay.

Now that Aslan's Holy Shield has self-destructed, Diego and Storm are nowhere to be found, and Isaac has returned to his homeland with his Duel badly damaged. Now the only one able to join the battle on the scene is Nicol's Thunder.

During the first Orb pursuit after escaping from the Archangel, one of Xunlei's arms was cut off. Now he has a new arm that was urgently built based on data, and its performance is naturally not as good as the original arm. The offset light beam in front of him is the result.

At this time, as the machine with the highest performance on the battlefield, the pressure of becoming the top combat force facing the enemy also fell on Nicol's shoulders.

Before Nicol could continue his attack, he saw a scene that he would never forget.

A familiar mechanical hand stretched out from the gap in the cargo hold and pinched the outer armor of the cargo hold. The huge force even caused the outer armor of the cargo hold to deform.

Then, a figure jumped out of the cargo hold, spewing thick flames, and flew into the sky.

Nicol subconsciously shot at the shadow in the sky, but the shadow turned and dodged Nicol's beam.

"That's...that's..." Nicol was a little surprised as he looked at the familiar, yet ambiguous head-mounted monitor in front of him. "A new G?!!"

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PS: Today’s update.

The landing method on Earth was actually based on the operation of Armored Core 6 landing on the Rubicon, because I felt that this method was very suitable for the Cauchy entry. So I tried to score twice.

The title is taken from Hiroyuki Sawano's EARth. When I was writing the part about entering the Earth's orbit and landing, this song felt very emotional.

Volume 58: Chapter (Please refresh) It’s just an energy wave, watch me push it back with my Gundam!

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Like a bird escaping from a cage, the gray-white body spread the wings on the backpack and soared freely in the sky.

The uneven outer armor and the exposed arm skeleton give this machine a sense of broken beauty.

"Where is the Archangel?" Ross looked around. The spherical cockpit was covered with densely packed triangular markings.

But the next second, as if sensing something, Rhodes pulled the joystick.

Two beams of light flashed below, and the Narrative Gundam, with a single, smooth turn, dodged the onslaught. The one firing those two beams was Thunder, who was approaching on the flight platform.

The narrator Gundam raised the beam rifle in his hand and shot at the cockpit of the Thunderbolt.

Xun Lei quickly raised the shield in his hand and blocked the attack.

"Don't even think about running away!" Nicol was about to drop his shield to fight back when he discovered the face of the narrator Gundam in front of him.

"So fast?! Aaaaaah..." Suddenly, violent sparks appeared on the shield. Feeling the strong impact, Nicol couldn't help but scream in pain.