Recaps

Allen took command of the Archangel and used its weapons and stealth tactics to disable all four ZAFT Gundams. He told Murrue and Nataru that the Earth Alliance’s outdated military thinking, rather than its technology, was its greatest weakness.

• Allen ordered the Archangel to break formation so it could maneuver freely and draw ZAFT fire while giving George Alsta’s rescue fleet a chance to retreat.
• Rau Le Creuset sent the four Red Uniform Elites after the lone Archangel, and Allen hid the ship inside smoke while shutting down its engines and communications.
• Allen launched missiles that split into smaller warheads, blinding the Gundams’ sensors and giving the Archangel an opening to attack at close range.
• The Archangel’s main guns severely damaged Aegis Gundam, Duel Gundam, Blitz Gundam, and Buster Gundam, leaving all four unable to fight effectively.
• Allen explained to Murrue and Nataru that the Earth Alliance’s outdated tactics and resistance to change were its fatal flaw.

Allen and the Archangel survived Rau Le Creuset’s assault, but the ZAFT forces destroyed the Eighth Fleet flagship Montgomery and captured its escape pods. The battle ended with a planned hostage exchange looming and Frey fearing that her father had died.

• Rau Le Creuset ordered the ZAFT forces to abandon their attack on the Archangel, bombard it continuously, and target the Montgomery so they could capture escape pods for a hostage exchange.
• The ZAFT warships struck the Archangel, killing soldiers and damaging its port side, while Allen resumed command and Teresa warned that the Ginns were attacking the Montgomery.
• The Ginns crippled the Montgomery and destroyed several escape pods, then captured the surviving pods; Frey watched in horror as the flagship carrying her father came apart.
• The battle ended with the ZAFT Army losing a warship, four G Project units, and about twelve Ginns, while the surviving Earth Alliance fleet retreated toward the Moon base.
• Allen, Murrue, and Nataru discussed exchanging the two delegates aboard the Archangel for the captured escape pods, while Frey remained devastated by the uncertainty over her father’s fate.

Rau Le Creuset arranged a hostage exchange with the Archangel, and Allen personally returned Sakura and Lacus Clyne. The exchange ended in violence when Frey shot at Lacus, revealing how the war’s spreading hatred had reached the people caught in it.

• Rau Le Creuset negotiated to exchange captured Earth Alliance soldiers for Sakura and Lacus Clyne, and Murrue agreed.
• Allen piloted a repair craft to return Sakura, while Rau Le Creuset questioned him about helping the Earth Alliance.
• After the first exchange went safely, Allen brought Lacus to return her in the second batch.
• Frey grabbed a pistol and fired at Lacus, but the bullet struck the seat beside her.
• Frey accused Lacus and ZAFT of killing her father, and Lacus realized how deeply the war’s hatred had spread.

Allen returned Lacus to Athrun after the hostages were exchanged, then went back to the Archangel as it hurried toward the Moon base. Meanwhile, Sakura urged Rau Le Creuset to exploit a forty-eight-hour window before Allen’s damaged unit could be repaired, planning a renewed attack on the Archangel and the Eighth Fleet.

• Frey was taken to solitary confinement after trying to shoot Lacus, while Allen explained that the Earth Alliance soldiers hated Lacus because she was a Coordinator and Patrick Zala’s daughter.
• Allen delivered Lacus to Athrun, rejected Athrun’s challenge about fighting for the Earth Alliance, and told him that Lacus was more prepared to discuss the conflict rationally.
• Lacus told Athrun that Allen had discussed the conflict between Naturals and Coordinators and how to end the war, while Rau Le Creuset’s belief that Allen would become ZAFT’s greatest enemy gave Athrun pause.
• Allen returned safely to the Archangel, and Murrue ordered it toward the Moon base while Rau waited for supplies before resuming the pursuit.
• Rau inspected Sakura’s new PS Armor-equipped unit, and Sakura judged that the Archangel would have about forty-eight hours before Allen’s unit could be repaired and proposed attacking during that window.

Allen joined the Eighth Fleet with the Archangel and warned Mwu La Flaga and Nataru Bagiru that Rau Le Creuset might attack the vulnerable fleet. After meeting Duan Harbalton, Allen explained Strike’s capabilities and warned that its difficult operating system prevented Naturals from using mass-produced Gundams effectively.

• Allen criticized the Eighth Fleet’s outdated ships and warned Mwu La Flaga and Nataru Bagiru that Rau Le Creuset could attack despite his smaller force.
• Mwu La Flaga agreed to warn Duan Harbalton and credited Allen and Teresa with helping the Archangel survive and rendezvous with the fleet.
• Duan Harbalton arrived, thanked Allen for his service, and paid him as promised.
• Allen described Strike’s adaptable weapons, strong armor, short endurance, and record against Ginns to Duan Harbalton.
• Allen explained that the Gundams’ Coordinator-oriented operating system was too complicated for Natural pilots, making mass production impractical until it was improved.

Allen explained that software and pilot limitations, rather than hardware, hindered mass deployment of Mobile Suits, then revealed his neural-linkage system and secured the Eighth Fleet’s support to upgrade it. Archangel received a major resupply, while Allen stayed behind to repair his machine before Rau Le Creuset’s expected attack.

• Allen told Duan Harbalton that Natural pilots struggled with existing Mobile Suit controls and recommended Kira Yamato as a software engineer, but Duan allowed Kira to return to Orb as a civilian.
• Allen exposed his Mechanical Neuron system and explained that it gave his machine exceptional speed but made it vulnerable to impact and vibration.
• Allen gave Duan his upgrade plans, materials list, and battle recordings, persuading the commander to provide rare materials and several FX-550 Skygraspers.
• The Eighth Fleet resupplied Archangel with Skygraspers, weapons, replacement parts, and food, and Mu abandoned the Mobius Zero for a new Skygrasper.
• Allen remained in the hangar to repair his damaged machine, racing to finish before Sakura and Rau Le Creuset brought on another battle.

Allen completed most of the Archangel’s machine upgrade while rejecting Frey’s attempt to manipulate him into fighting for revenge. As the Eighth Fleet prepared for a possible attack, Nicol secretly reconnoitered its deployment with the cloaked Blitz Gundam and returned safely to ZAFT.

• Allen repaired and upgraded the neural network by hand for twelve hours, while Kira and most of the Heliopolis students left for Orb and Frey and her boyfriend stayed aboard the Archangel.
• Frey brought Allen food in a revealing uniform, but he saw through her plan to use him for revenge and sent her fleeing in tears.
• Teresa teased Allen about Frey, then asked to take Frey under her care; Allen agreed and Teresa went to find her.
• Rau Le Creuset ordered Nicol to scout the Eighth Fleet, and Nicol used the Blitz Gundam’s Mirage System to approach unseen and map its deployment.
• Duan Harbalton discussed the political demands to claim the Archangel, Strike, and Allen, then ordered the fleet to stay alert for Rau’s anticipated attack.
• Nicol returned safely to the ZAFT flagship after gathering intelligence on the Eighth Fleet.

Rau Le Creuset launched a surprise attack on the Eighth Fleet while the Moon was farthest from it, and Blitz Gundam quickly crippled the fleet. As Archangel came under threat, Sakura entered the battle in her new unit and devastated the Eighth Fleet with a single strike.

• Rau Le Creuset planned to attack during the Moon’s apoapsis and ordered Nicol to lead with Blitz Gundam.
• Blitz Gundam destroyed five battleships in under ten seconds, and ZAFT forces inflicted devastating losses on the Eighth Fleet.
• Murrue ordered Teresa’s Strike and Mu’s Mobius Zero to sortie while Allen continued repairing his unit.
• Rau Le Creuset ordered Athrun, Yzak, and Sakura to shift their attacks to Archangel, and Duan Harbalton directed the fleet to defend it.
• Sakura entered the battle and destroyed more than a dozen warships and over a hundred MAs in one strike, costing the Eighth Fleet more than one-fifth of its forces.

Sakura’s nuclear-powered ZAFT machine devastated the Eighth Fleet, and Duan Harbalton ordered the Archangel to retreat while his fleet sacrificed itself to delay the enemy. As the Archangel fell toward Earth, Allen launched from its catapult and struck Sakura’s machine, leaving both to descend into the atmosphere.

• Murrue and Nataru realized Sakura’s new ZAFT machine wielded a devastating weapon and might be powered by a miniaturized nuclear reactor.
• Duan Harbalton ordered the Archangel to make an Atmospheric Break and used the Eighth Fleet’s remaining ships to buy it time, even as the fleet fought toward Earth’s gravity.
• Teresa drove off Mu’s pursuers and fought Athrun and Yzak, while Mu escaped to the Archangel before atmospheric friction destroyed his Mobius Zero.
• Sakura attacked Strike, sending Teresa and the Gundam crashing into an Eighth Fleet warship as the Archangel was left exposed.
• Allen launched from the Archangel and met Sakura’s beam with a powerful counterattack that sent her machine crashing into a ZAFT warship.

After the Eighth Fleet was destroyed and the Archangel crash-landed in North Africa, ZAFT prepared to hunt it down. The chapter ended with Andrew Waltfield’s forces lying in wait for a dawn attack while the Archangel’s crew remained unaware of the ambush.

• Rau Le Creuset learned that Yzak and Athrun had survived, confirmed the Eighth Fleet’s destruction, and ordered his team to pursue the Archangel.
• Sakura rejected Diego’s criticism, insisting that war meant being ready to kill or die, then left him and Nicol behind.
• Andrew Waltfield tracked the Archangel to the desert and decided to attack at dawn after studying its situation and the pilots who defended it.
• Waltfield’s ZAFT forces hid behind a hill as the Archangel failed to contact other bases because of the Neutron Jammer.
• Murrue kept Mu ready in the hangar, while Teresa and Allen pretended to be sick in the infirmary.

Allen and Teresa pretended to be ill aboard the Archangel while discussing Allen’s restraint toward human civilizations. When the ZAFT Army ambushed the ship in the desert, Teresa sortied in the Strike but was caught off guard by quicksand and missile fire.

• Allen told Teresa that he limited his interference in human societies because he feared losing his remaining humanity.
• Murrue and Mu visited the infirmary, and Allen warned that Rau Le Creuset would keep pursuing the Archangel to recover its technology data.
• ZAFT locked onto the Archangel and launched missiles, prompting Murrue to ask Allen and Teresa to sortie.
• Allen advised sending Teresa in the Strike as bait while he stayed behind to support, and Murrue ordered the Strike to launch.
• Teresa’s Strike sank into quicksand after emerging from behind a dune, and ZAFT fighter jets bombarded it with missiles.

Teresa struggled to control the Strike in the desert while Andrew Waltfield’s forces used Baku and long-range artillery to pressure the Archangel. Allen finally launched to confront the hidden attackers, setting the stage for the Desert Tiger to pay for his apparent advantage.

• Andrew Waltfield recognized that the Strike’s space-configured software left Teresa unable to handle gravity and desert combat, then sent Baku to force out the Archangel’s strength.
• Allen persuaded Murrue to launch anti-ship missiles indiscriminately around the Strike, scattering the Baku despite the danger to Teresa.
• Andrew and his adjutant discussed why Coordinators on Earth might not identify with P.L.A.N.T, and Andrew admitted he did not know whether ZAFT could win the war.
• Mu used the Skygrasper’s data link to improve the Strike’s parameters and destroyed two Baku, but he spotted another ambush approaching.
• Andrew’s hidden tanks and ground battleships bombarded the Archangel with shells, throwing the ship off balance and threatening its armor.
• Murrue ordered Allen to sortie, and he launched to attack the distant forces as Andrew’s long-range strategy gained the upper hand.

Allen and Mu crushed Andrew Waltfield’s ZAFT ambush, while local guerrillas captured the surviving soldiers. Artoria arrived to stop the guerrillas from killing their prisoners, then effortlessly threw a Coordinator who tried to take her hostage.

• Andrew Waltfield’s forces attacked the Archangel, but Allen launched his mobile suit, destroyed airborne fighters and Baku, and then wrecked the ZAFT land battleship.
• Mu harried the retreating ZAFT forces while local guerrillas ambushed their tanks and fighters, leaving many soldiers dead or captured.
• Andrew Waltfield escaped alone into the desert as the remaining ZAFT soldiers were captured and beaten by the guerrillas.
• The guerrillas began arguing over whether to execute their prisoners until Artoria arrived and reminded them of her rules.
• A Coordinator tried to seize Artoria as a hostage, but she threw him onto the sand, prompting the guerrillas to laugh at him.

After helping the Desert Dawn guerrillas defeat Andrew Waltfield’s ZAFT forces, Allen reunited with Artoria and met Cagalli, then the Archangel crew negotiated cooperation with the resistance. The combined group hid the Archangel near the guerrilla base, where the entire community camouflaged the warship against enemy reconnaissance.

• Cagalli celebrated the guerrillas’ victory over the ZAFT forces, and Artoria asked her to gather their people so they could discuss cooperation with the Earth Alliance.
• Allen left his MS and greeted Artoria, surprising Cagalli and the assembled guerrillas with his appearance and revealing his connection to the Archangel and the G Project.
• Allen told Cagalli that Kira Yamato had returned to Orb, relieving her concern for the boy who had helped her escape.
• Mwu La Flaga and Nataru Bucky Lululu met Artoria, who explained that the guerrillas had used the Archangel’s battle to ambush Andrew Waltfield’s forces.
• Artoria led the Archangel and the jeeps toward the resistance base, and Mwu proposed discussing cooperation and ZAFT’s presence in North Africa.
• More than ten thousand people at the guerrilla base helped cover the Archangel with khaki fabric, hiding it from enemy reconnaissance.

Artoria and Archangel agreed to join the North African Resistance Organization in a counteroffensive against Andrew Waltfield, with Allen providing money and promising to build heavy weapons. After the alliance celebrated, Andrew returned to the city and warned Aisha about the powerful pilot who had defeated his forces.

• Mu learned that Artoria had led the guerrillas in raids against ZAFT by using false information and setting fire to their MS cockpits before the pilots could reach them.
• Artoria announced that the Resistance Organization would cooperate with Archangel to attack Andrew Waltfield and the ZAFT Army.
• Allen gave Cagalli a large sum of money for the Resistance Organization, and Artoria said Allen would help build heavy weapons from purchased materials.
• Artoria told Allen she had joined the guerrillas after seeing them fight ZAFT and believed Cagalli could become a king; Allen encouraged her to guide Cagalli.
• Andrew returned to the city and told Aisha that a powerful Archangel pilot had destroyed his forces, while the guerrillas captured his retreating fighters and tanks.
• Andrew showed Aisha the battle footage and compared the pilot to the Red Queen of Le Creuset Team, making Aisha eager to meet him.

After ZAFT general Andrew Waltfield crushed the resistance in North Africa, Cagalli, Nataru Bagiru, and Allen visited a black-market merchant to arrange a major supply purchase. Allen proved he could pay, and the group left to await the goods, knowing the merchant might betray them only after the deal was done.

• Andrew Waltfield suppressed the wave of attacks with mass arrests, patrols, and lethal force, restoring order in the occupied city.
• Cagalli, Nataru Bagiru, and Allen met a black-market merchant and handed him a list of supplies they wanted to buy.
• Cagalli offered captured ZAFT soldiers as part of the payment, and Allen displayed a large sum of Atlantic Federation currency to prove they could cover the rest.
• The merchant agreed to gather the goods, while refusing to let his associate attack Allen's group because their wealth and connections made them dangerous targets.
• At a restaurant, Nataru Bagiru questioned the merchant's reliability, and Allen said the merchant would be useful even if he later sold them out.

Black market merchants plotted to profit from the Archangel’s arrival in North Africa as Allen’s group encountered Andrew Waltfield. When Blue Cosmos attackers ambushed them, Allen swiftly killed most of the assailants and left one survivor dead.

• A bald merchant and a young trader agreed to gather sensitive supplies and sell information about the Archangel to the Earth Alliance and Andrew Waltfield, respectively.
• Allen’s group met Andrew Waltfield, who argued with Cagalli over whether doner kebabs should be eaten with chili sauce or yogurt.
• Blue Cosmos attackers launched a coordinated ambush with grenades, rifles, and rocket-propelled grenades, killing several ZAFT soldiers.
• Allen kicked a grenade back at its thrower, then seized a gun and shot down most of the attackers, including a distant sniper.
• Allen stomped on the remaining survivor and shot him in the head.

Allen killed the Blue Cosmos attackers and met Andrew Waltfield, who invited him to talk privately. While the guerrillas withdrew and warned the Archangel, Allen learned that Andrew knew of his abilities and discussed coffee with him at a mansion, where a woman arrived and called him the monster pilot.

• Allen killed the Blue Cosmos attackers, and Andrew Waltfield thanked him for saving lives during the assault.
• Andrew identified himself as the ZAFT Army’s North African commander and said Blue Cosmos had helped plan the Bloody Valentine tragedy.
• Allen stopped the guerrillas and ZAFT soldiers from opening fire, then accepted Andrew’s invitation to talk somewhere quieter.
• Cagalli led the exposed guerrillas out of the city and radioed the Archangel, prompting Murrue to order Level Two combat readiness.
• At Andrew’s mansion, Allen identified the coffee blend while explaining that he preferred tea, juice, or soda.
• A woman entered with pastries and asked Andrew whether Allen was the monster pilot he had mentioned.

Allen explained to Andrew Waltfield why he believed the war was a human civil war and why he had joined the Earth Alliance rather than ZAFT. Andrew acknowledged ZAFT’s disadvantages but remained committed to defending P.L.A.N.T., and the two parted on friendly terms despite expecting to meet on the battlefield.

• Aisha Threyn praised Allen’s combat ability, and Allen said he had been forced into war after Cruze’s squad threatened him at the MS assembly workshop.
• Andrew asked Allen what he thought of the war, and Allen described it as a conflict driven by class tensions, capitalism, and fear between Coordinators and Naturals.
• Allen argued that P.L.A.N.T.’s small population and vulnerable Colony Satellites made victory unlikely, while Andrew explained that he had joined ZAFT to protect P.L.A.N.T. after the Bloody Valentine tragedy.
• Andrew admitted that occupation and resistance would strain ZAFT, and Allen said he believed Naturals represented humanity’s future and that Coordinators might eventually decline because of their low fertility rates.
• Andrew accepted that Allen had chosen his own path but vowed to fight him if they met on the battlefield, and Allen teased Andrew about their previous encounter before joking about his clothes and coffee.

Allen turned the Archangel’s camp into a makeshift arms factory and equipped the Desert Dawn guerrillas with weapons capable of threatening ZAFT forces. After testing an electromagnetic cannon and a powerful electromagnetic pulse bomb, he left the camp prepared to challenge the Desert Tiger’s army.

• After returning to the Archangel, Allen told Murrue that he and Andrew Waltfield had discussed the war, then asked Nataru Bagiru to show him the supplies he had ordered.
• Allen directed the Archangel crew and the Desert Dawn guerrillas to turn the camp into an arms assembly plant, where they built an electromagnetic cannon in under an hour.
• The guerrillas test-fired the cannon at Baku wreckage, and its projectile punched through the machine’s frontal armor.
• Allen made an electromagnetic pulse bomb and sent Cagalli to test it; the blast disrupted and damaged electronic equipment across the camp.
• Cagalli returned and confirmed the bomb’s effects, while Mu studied the new weapon with concern.

Allen's weapons transformed Desert Dawn's capabilities as Andrew Waltfield prepared to attack their hidden camp, while the Earth Alliance agreed to help the Archangel escape in exchange for G Project data. Mu La Flaga revealed that his real interest was Allen, whom he intended to use as a valuable pawn.

• In just over forty hours, Allen built an arsenal of advanced weapons for Desert Dawn, including a restored Baku and small nuclear yield bombs, raising the guerrillas' morale.
• After a black-market merchant sold intelligence to Andrew Waltfield, ZAFT narrowed the Archangel's likely location to a nomad settlement near the oasis and identified the guerrillas as its allies.
• Andrew Waltfield rejected indiscriminate bombardment to protect civilians, then ordered the force to gather its Bakus as the decisive battle approached.
• Two members of the Le Creuset Team arrived with their machines, and Andrew ordered them to remain aboard the battleship while ZAFT mobilized its North African forces.
• The Atlantic Federation representative secured an agreement from Earth Alliance nations to help the Archangel escape in return for access to G Project data.
• Mu La Flaga showed photographs of Allen's weapons and told the representative that he had paid for the alliance because he wanted to use Allen as a pawn.

The Archangel launched a frontal breakthrough against Andrew Waltfield’s ZAFT forces, while Allen explained his plan to exploit a gap in the encirclement. After the Archangel’s cannons opened fire, Allen intercepted every incoming cannonball with his Anti-ship Sword, prompting Andrew to order all forces to attack Allen’s machine.

• The Archangel activated combat readiness, and Andrew Waltfield mobilized ZAFT forces to confront it.
• Yzak complained about being assigned to rear support, but Athrun rebuked him and told him to obey Andrew’s orders.
• Allen explained to Murrue that a fast frontal assault would catch Andrew’s encirclement before it closed, and the Archangel launched its mobile units.
• Nataru Bagiru ordered the Archangel’s Plasma Cannons to fire, destroying two Baku and three aircraft as Andrew recognized their power.
• ZAFT battleships and artillery fired physical cannonballs at the Archangel, but Allen leaped into the air and split every projectile with his Anti-ship Sword.
• Andrew ordered ZAFT to abandon its attack on the Archangel and Strike and concentrate every unit on besieging Allen’s machine.

Allen and the Archangel’s allies battled Andrew Waltfield’s overwhelming ZAFT forces in the desert, while Desert Dawn’s new weapons turned the fight into a bloody melee. Cagalli was carried from the battlefield, and Allen challenged Waltfield, Aisha, Yzak, and Athrun as the chapter ended with the commander’s Baku narrowly evading his Anti-ship Sword.

• Mu evaded ZAFT’s opening barrage as Allen descended through enemy fire, destroying weapons with his Anti-ship Sword and shocking the ZAFT command crew.
• The Archangel revealed Desert Dawn’s convoy and armed guerrillas, who attacked ZAFT forces with energy weapons, electromagnetic cannons, and EMP bombs.
• Cagalli led the charge but froze after witnessing the carnage, so her bodyguard knocked her unconscious and withdrew with her while Artoria continued fighting.
• Allen cut through Ginns and charged toward ZAFT’s largest land battleship as the battle devolved into a chaotic melee involving additional factions.
• Andrew Waltfield and Aisha entered the fight in a commander Baku, while Yzak and Athrun pursued Allen in their Gundams.
• Allen kicked Waltfield’s Baku into the air, but Andrew and Aisha used their thrusters and decoys to evade his Anti-ship Sword and land on a sand dune.

Allen and the Archangel forces turned the battle against Andrew Waltfield’s ZAFT troops, destroying their command and support units while Artoria’s guerrillas counterattacked. The fighting left Waltfield’s machine damaged, Yzak severely burned, and unidentified allied forces posing a possible threat to the Archangel and its G Project machines.

• Allen used the Duel Gundam as a shield against Athrun’s beam, destroying it and leaving Yzak badly burned; medical personnel evacuated him.
• Athrun and Waltfield launched a coordinated attack, but Allen short-circuited the Aegis Gundam and hurled it into Waltfield’s Baku, damaging both machines.
• Fighter jets, artillery, and land battleships attacked Allen, who used Skygrasper’s data link to locate and destroy the hidden support forces.
• Artoria’s guerrillas broke through the ZAFT perimeter and began encircling enemy troops whose communications had been disrupted by electromagnetic pulse bombs.
• Nataru and Murrue celebrated the Archangel’s battlefield victory, while Mu and Allen warned that unidentified elite soldiers might be targeting the Archangel and its remaining G Project machines.

After the Archangel’s forces defeated the ZAFT Army in North Africa, Allen gave the wounded prisoners painkillers and discussed his new MS control system with Andrew Waltfield and Athrun. Allen secretly armed the prisoners and arranged for Andrew to help him eliminate armed factions approaching the Archangel, leaving Captain Murrue unaware that the newcomers planned to seize the ship and its technology.

• Allen’s forces destroyed ZAFT’s command links and land battleships, ending the battle and taking Andrew Waltfield and Athrun prisoner.
• Allen gave Andrew painkillers, then explained that his neural-control system could let Naturals pilot MS units, though it required good stamina and limited continuous combat time.
• Andrew warned that Rau Le Creuset might soon launch a full-scale attack, and Allen pointed out that armed factions could target Andrew if they learned he was a prisoner.
• Allen offered Andrew and his men freedom in exchange for helping him kill the armed factions, then secretly gave them guns and rifles.
• The Desert Dawn guerrillas and other armed forces headed for the Archangel, while Captain Murrue planned to thank them and discuss dividing territory and spoils.
• Several members of the approaching forces secretly intended to capture the Archangel’s executives and seize its materials, technology, and data.