On the way to the airport, Xiao Ran received a message from Miss Huang. It contained the mission start time and a detailed plan. It seemed Miss Huang had long anticipated Tartaria's actions today; otherwise, she would not have sent the plan to all the Gundam pilots so quickly.
After the plane piloted by Hong Long landed, Xiao Ran brought Hiksa and Hana Yu aboard. When Hong Long saw Hana Yu, he gave her a somewhat surprised and puzzled look, but said nothing. Once they received clearance to fly again, the plane took off into the sky and vanished beyond the horizon.
When Xiao Ran arrived at Celestial Being's base, he merely had Nalu and Hong Long take Hiksa and Hana Yu around and introduce them to Celestial Being. Then, without stopping for a moment, he changed into his pilot suit, climbed into Gundam Kyrios's cockpit, and sent it soaring into the sky toward Tartaria.
Celestial Being's base was located deep within the mountains of the Japanese Special Economic Zone. Tartaria lay across an ocean, nearly half a world away. As Gundam Kyrios headed toward Tartaria, it encountered Exia Gundam, which had also departed from the Japanese Special Economic Zone—indeed, directly from beneath the sea near Tokyo.
The two machines sped toward Tartaria side by side.
Perhaps because Celestial Being's Execution Unit had Xiao Ran, this mission differed greatly from the original plan. Exia Gundam and the two Arios Gundams retained their original objectives: each would head to one of Tartaria's three important coastal cities and intervene against Tartaria's MS Unit there. Gundam Kyrios's task, however, was far more difficult. Xiao Ran was to head alone to Tartaria's capital and completely eliminate all military facilities within the capital region, including MS.
In terms of difficulty, Xiao Ran's assignment was far