If the Gamillas Fleet spread out like a pristine sheet of white A4 paper, then Xiao Ran, Kira, and Athrun's combined formation was like a pen that blackened wherever it passed, scribbling the once-perfect page into a complete mess. The fleet following behind them was a pair of enormous scissors, cutting the A4 sheet apart along the line they had drawn.
No Gamillas MS or carrier-based aircraft that stood in their way was a match for the three of them. Often, merely passing by would see them destroyed by beams fired from nowhere. Once the drones on both flanks began their assault, countless missiles followed, and fireballs erupted across both sides of the Gamillas Fleet.
Among the countless Gamillas enemy units, Xiao Ran immediately spotted a special machine hidden among them. As his cockpit screen automatically enlarged its image, a unit that looked almost identical to Tobia's Gundam Pirates, save for its color, clearly appeared before his eyes.
"The black Gundam Pirates... Gundam Pirates X2?" Xiao Ran frowned slightly and opened a comm channel. "Tobia, Kim Kido, did you see that black Gundam Pirates? Is it an enemy?"
"I saw it. It is indeed piloted by an old friend." Kim Kido replied in a deep voice as soon as Xiao Ran asked, "Since he is already together with Gamillas, he can only be an enemy. Leave that machine to Tobia and me."
"Understood." Xiao Ran nodded and closed the comm channel. He knew about the black Gundam Pirates. It was piloted by a one-eyed man with blond hair, but Xiao Ran was not particularly familiar with the Gundam Pirates storyline, so he was unsure whether that man was friend or foe. In any case, in several related games Xiao Ran had played, the man had been both an ally and