As the large fleet of the Planetary Alliance and the mechanical battleships of Kairon entered each other's optimal shooting range, it was not known which side fired first. In short, a melee started in this distance in the solar system.
The explosion occurred in a star field not too far away from the earth.
But...
While fighting, no matter it was the people on the Orville or the urgently summoned fleet of the Planetary Alliance, they were all horrified to find that compared to the streamlined and beautiful ships of the Planetary Alliance,
It seems that the mechanical battleships from Chiron are faster, more flexible, with stronger shields and more powerful firepower?
During the battle, it often takes several Planetary Alliance ships to chase and bombard a mechanical battleship to barely consume the opponent's shield and then destroy it; but conversely, those Kairon Star mechanical battleships only need one.
A few consecutive shots can easily overload the shields of Planet Alliance battleships, even the shields of super large cruisers?
What's even more frightening is that there don't seem to be any crew members on those mechanical battleships. The battleship itself seems to be a robot. They can transform while attacking, and then use the brutal method of direct impact to directly
Instantly crash any human destroyer or cruiser that dares to approach?
As a result, just a few minutes after the battle, the large and small fleets of the Planetary Alliance with hundreds of ships had been wiped out by the enemy, at least a dozen ships, and even Commander Halsey's flagship was destroyed.
The enemy was wounded and had to retreat, and the total victory they achieved was only a pitiful three or five ships. The battle loss ratio actually reached an astonishing ten to several?
As the melee continued, and as the Planetary Alliance fleet lost its flagship and began to fight on its own, this battle loss ratio continued to be expanded by the enemy.
More and more battleships that looked exactly like the Orville began to be penetrated or destroyed by mechanical battleships. A large number of battleship wreckage, lifeboats, various debris and the corpses of Planet Alliance crew members from all races began to fill the place.
A piece of outer defense line of the solar system.
then!
The Orville, which had barely survived thanks to its small size, flexibility and speed that was not inferior to that of a mechanical battleship, found in despair that if the fight continued like this, it would probably take less than half an hour for the Planetary Alliance to protect the earth.
The fleet will be completely annihilated here!
By the time……
The earth will be the first to bear the brunt, and the billions of humans above it will be the same as the unknown race on Chiron, which will be completely wiped out by the robot fleet and reduced to pale bones buried underground!
But it’s useless to know!
Because, whether it is the Orville or other Planet Alliance ships, they only know that there are only so many battleships that the Planet Alliance can gather at present. Although there are more battleships and fleets of other races, in a short time
It is basically impossible to rush back to Earth and provide support.
Therefore, apart from relying on the absolutely disadvantaged fleet in front of them to desperately resist and try to repel Chiron's mechanical warships, they really had no other option.
…
at this time!
In the Orville's bridge, the lights have been switched to red warning lights.
This ship, which was originally supposed to be a scientific research and exploration ship, is moving lightly through the chaotic and silent cosmic battlefield filled with various debris. From time to time, it is bombarded by one or two particle beams from enemies like mechanical battleships.
And there were shudders and roars erupting on the spacecraft's shield or hull shell.
to be honest!
If the Orville hadn't been small and fast, making it difficult to be targeted and inconspicuous, and their shield, which was almost the lowest level for a ship, it would have been just like those unlucky ones in this universe.
The cruiser, like the destroyer, was bombarded by the enemy into pieces that exploded with lightning.
"avoid!"
"Emergency Evacuation!"
"quick!"
"Quantum phase radar aimed at the sides of their energy shields!"
"Recharge the main gun!"
"Fire!
"
"Damn it!"
"Aim accurately and aim at a point to break through their shields, otherwise their shields will recover quickly!"
"continue!"
Captain Ed, who was sitting in the captain's seat on the bridge, was angrily barking orders.
The Orville was still fine now, so he could do nothing but continue to direct the battle and shout loudly to encourage his own side.
"This can't go on like this!"
"captain!"
"Our shields are going to be overloaded!"
"The battle losses of our alliance fleet have exceeded one-third!"
However, even if the Orville is fine now, it is not difficult to guess from the panic sounds made by the temporary helmsman on the bridge, John, the chief of the engineering department, and the gunners. If the battle situation does not change, I am afraid that the Orville
The number can't last much longer.
"one third?"
"So fast?"
Hearing that more than thirty warships had been destroyed by the enemy in such a short period of time, Ed's scalp couldn't help but tingle at such horrific losses, so much so that he didn't even know what to do when faced with that tragic situation.
Just go and say something.
"captain!"
"not good!"
"The defense line has been torn apart!"
"Yes, there are three mechanical battleships rushing towards the earth!"
At this time, before Ed could think of what to do, another radar soldier in the bridge stood up and reported with a trembling cry.
"Damn it!"
"quick!"
"If we catch up, we may not let them get close to the earth!
"
Hearing that an enemy ship broke through the defense line and flew towards the earth, Ed made a quick decision, gritted his teeth and immediately ordered the helmsman to drive the Orville, which was known for its speed, to leave the battle line and head towards the three ships flying straight towards the earth.
The mechanical battleship gave chase.
At this moment, he could no longer care about the desperate fact that even if they caught up, they might not be able to defeat each other.
"correct!"
Fortunately, in despair, Ed suddenly thought of something.
"Where's the Anne people?"
"Where is she?"
Then he looked around and realized that a certain troubled little girl was not on the bridge at this time. He ignored everything else and asked the helmsman to continue chasing her while loudly broadcasting the report to the whole ship.
The communication channel shouted urgently and loudly:
"Bridge call Annie!"
"Please answer!"
"??"
"Who saw her?"
"hurry up!"
"Have her come to the bridge immediately, we need her driving and shooting skills now!"
"be quick!
!”
Ed found that the temporary helmsman currently driving the Orville was average in skills, and the gunner's shooting accuracy was not accurate enough. Therefore, he felt that in this terrible situation, he could only expect Annie, who had super
The little guys with high driving skills and artillery skills are here to turn the tide.
After all, everyone on the ship knew that Anne could use a laser cutter to carve out statues of him, the captain, and his second officer, Petrus, on asteroids, and the accuracy of her cannon fire was ridiculous.
Well, when fighting the Quill warships, they could even make the main gun's bombardment point hit the weak point of the enemy ship's shield every time. Therefore, Ed felt that if it were Annie, maybe they could
Maybe there is a chance to shoot down the three mechanical warships in front of them that are flying rapidly towards the earth?
"..."
Unfortunately, after he finished yelling, he found with some anxiety and surprise that he did not get any reply right away. The kind of milky voice from a little guy who should have responded lively and ran over immediately.
The child's voice didn't sound?
for a long time……
'Report Captain!'
'This is the lift cabin parking platform.'
'I find……'
'The Lady Anne you are looking for, she just went out on a Gundam.'
When the desperate Ed was about to speak again and continue to call Annie on all channels on the ship and ask Annie to come to the bridge as soon as possible for strategic support, a hesitant bass sounded on a certain channel and replied like this
.
"What?!"
"Go out, attack??"
Hearing this, Ed was shocked and couldn't react for a while.
"Damn it!"
"Is she crazy?"
"What's the use of shields and particle cannons like shuttle boats?"
Ed didn't seem to hear clearly, so he subconsciously thought that Annie was flying a shuttle boat that was not used for combat purposes, so of course he cursed angrily.
It wouldn't matter if their Orville was the kind of cruiser equipped with a space combat fighter. Annie's attack with a fighter jet would indeed have a chance to destroy the Chiron mechanical warship. However, if it were replaced by that kind of carrier
The low-power weapons of a human shuttle craft would be difficult to break even with the Orville's shield turned off, let alone a mechanical warship that could be used directly as a ramming weapon.
'Report Captain!'
‘Your Excellency Anne is not driving a shuttle boat, but a…’
'A mecha that's at least twenty meters tall?'
‘She said that thing was called a Gundam, and that she had to raise the deck of the elevator cabin to the third level before reluctantly putting it down and flying sideways out of the cargo bay door while lying on her stomach.’
Hearing that Captain Ed seemed to have misunderstood something, the officer on the elevator platform stuttered and reported the truth.
"??"
"Gundam?"
"What kind of fun is that..."
However, before Ed in the bridge could finish his words, they were surprised to see: ahead, there was a giant red humanoid weapon, which was what he had heard Gordon, Bertus and John had played before.
This weapon in the game flew past the porthole of the bridge of their Orville in an instant, and quickly caught up with the three mechanical warships in front of them at an extremely fast speed.
Immediately afterwards, something happened that almost made Ed's eyes open:
The humanoid weapon, which was indeed about twenty meters tall, grabbed the long rifle that looked like a sniper cannon and fired two consecutive shots behind it, accurately penetrating the enemy.
The shield hit the energy core of the two mechanical battleships at the end, causing them to explode into two plasma sparks in the dark universe and then shattered everywhere?
Then, it’s not over yet!
Seeing that the last mechanical warship couldn't get rid of the pursuers, it turned around ferociously and kept bombarding the red humanoid weapon with its high-energy particle cannon, causing the Orville that was following the humanoid weapon to almost suffer a tragedy.
Ed was so frightened that he immediately ordered the helmsman to evacuate.
Fortunately, the red humanoid weapon was extremely flexible and successfully avoided the bombardment of the mechanical warship. At the same time, the long rifle in his hand was considered a 'rifle' for the time being, right?
Anyway, Ed saw that the particle weapon, whose caliber was probably no smaller than the caliber of the Orville's main gun, began to charge again.
And after discovering that all the attacks had failed, the mechanical battleship seemed to be in a hurry.
The next second, it simply changed and shrunk into the shape of a huge drill. Then, before the weapon of the red Gundam was fully charged, it accelerated and crashed into it, as if it wanted to.
Like those battleships of the Planet Alliance, directly crush the 'Gundam'?
"!
"
"careful!
"
Although he knew that the other party would not be able to hear him, Ed subconsciously stood up and shouted in surprise from the bridge of his ship.
fine!
Ed soon discovered that he had underestimated the combat performance of the red humanoid weapon, and at the same time overestimated the combat capability of the mechanical battleship.
Therefore, all he saw was that the mechanical battleship jumped into the air, and the moment the red humanoid weapon successfully avoided it, he took out a bright sword with his backhand and there seemed to be some kind of plasma light on the blade.
The 'Great Sword' with a sharp edge.
Then, under the surprised gazes of all of them, they slashed hard at the mechanical battleship passing by, creating several ferocious holes in the opponent's outer layer.
but!
That's not the end!
Because, all the crew members on the bridge of the Orville, including Ed, then saw that after damaging the mechanical battleship, the red humanoid weapon actually put away its sniper rifle.
Then he directly grasped the big sword and followed it at a high speed. Before the mechanical warship could escape or turn around to continue resisting, he chased the opponent and clung to the surface of the opponent's ship, running and slashing with all his might.
The mechanical battleship was quickly dismantled into pieces, and then he calmly put away the big sword before it exploded, replaced it with a sniper rifle, and then bounced away.
"this……"
"No, is this okay?"
"Oh My God!"
"How can we fight in space battles like this?"
Witnessing the red humanoid mecha, the so-called 'Gundam', killing three mechanical battleships in a very short period of time and turning back again to go to the main battlefield, everyone in the Orville, including
Captain Ed, including the captain, forgot to cheer.
“Incredible!”
"More than incredible!"
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it even if someone told me!"
"..."
"Hello!"
"You think, is that really possible?"
"!
"
"But in fact she just did it!"
"..."
They just looked at each other in stunned silence as the red figure turned back and passed over their bridge again and exclaimed in disbelief.
"Report!"
"captain!"
"It was discovered that a group of warships were jumping out of the quantum navigation posture!"
"Number fifty!"
"correct!"
"Quantity eighty!"
"It's a Quail battleship!
"
At this moment, with an exclamation from a certain communications officer, the Orville, which was about to turn around, and the Planetary Alliance warships that were chasing behind to protect the earth, soon saw a large group of Quail warships appearing in front of them.
In the star field ahead.
Immediately afterwards, before the Orville and the other Covenant ships could react, a message was sent, and at the same time, an image of First Officer Kelly standing behind a Quail captain was sent.
At the same time, the situation was explained.
It turns out that Gordon and Kelly's bold plan succeeded.
After they broke away from the Orville, they immediately flew into the airspace of the Quail people and successfully attracted the Quail warships, thereby destroying the mechanical warship that the Chirons were pursuing and following.
Then, after the two explained the robot threat on Chiron, the Quills considered it and sent a fleet and arrived here in time based on the coordinates provided by Gordon.
"Very good!"
"This time we will definitely win!"
"quick!"
"Turn around!"
"Let's go back and support the fleet!"
Seeing that Kelly and Gordon had actually brought the Quail fleet, Captain Ed was overjoyed. At the same time, he finally swept away his previous depression and directly and energetically ordered the helmsman to let the Orville and those
The Covenant ships that originally wanted to pursue the mechanical battleship all turned around and accelerated towards the main battlefield with a total of eighty Quill battleships and a large number of Quill fighter jets that were about to be defeated.
Rushed over.
At this time, a little girl driving that beautiful red-painted Flame Zeon, which was the kind of forced reconnaissance Zeon improved mecha, was already using her special sniper beam rifle and MA-M92
The ship-cutting sword is unparalleled in the chaotic battlefield.
When the Orville arrived, she had already destroyed at least ten mechanical battleships, including the three mechanical battleships that she had easily destroyed before, and successfully caused both the enemy and us on the battlefield to focus on her.
on the body.
At the same time, at least a dozen mechanical battleships were forced to abandon their opponents and attack her from all directions.
Immediately afterwards, just when Annie was busy avoiding pursuit and enemy attacks and had no time to counterattack, a large number of Quill fighters and warships finally arrived and used the intensive bombardment to directly destroy and drive away several machines that were chasing her.
The battleship successfully helped her get out of the siege, allowing her to raise her hand and blast the energy core of another mechanical battleship with one shot.
"Hey!"
"Annie!"
And just when Annie eliminated the pursuers and was about to find the next target, she received a call request, and then she clicked on it and found out that it was actually the weird uncle Gordon. He seemed to be flying a Quill fighter jet.
Flying towards her?
"It's Gundam!"
"It's really Gundam!"
Gordon, who was flying the Quill fighter, kept waving and praising Annie's red Jean in the cockpit.
"You actually have this thing?"
"You really do!"
"marvelous!"
“It looks so exciting!”
"Give me a test drive another day?!"
Then, he didn't care whether Annie could see it or not, he just shouted in the channel, and he didn't know how excited he was.
"don't want!"
(*?^?*)
Are you kidding me? The opponent's driving level is at par with ordinary adjuster pilots. How can he be qualified to touch the exclusive machine of her leader Anne?
"I won't let you play with my flaming Jean!"
(゜?＾*)
Anne first made a playful face at Uncle Gordon in the communication, then accelerated and rushed towards the depths of the chaotic battlefield ahead.
You know, Annie's red-painted flame Jean was remodeled by PLANT and ZAFT's military factory as PLANT's totem and logo after the final battle. It was all based on Annie's daily routine.
It has undergone the strongest and most optimized transformation based on its driving habits and endurance, and even used various latest technologies. Although it still wears a 'Jean' shell, there is no doubt that its performance
It has surpassed almost all Gundams of the same era!
Anyway, Anne herself would be reluctant to play with such a good toy and figure in a one-to-one ratio, let alone letting others touch it.
(…)
(●￣?￣●)
"People are ignoring you!"
(ˉ▽￣~)Cut~~
After saying that, Annie closed the communication.
Then, regardless of Gordon who wanted to fly up and cover the fight side by side with her, she directly drove her red Jean like a fire phoenix, dragging a long red dazzling tail flame, and rushed straight to that place.
The fiercest and most chaotic battle lines are deepest.
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Chapter completed!