After seeing Xiao Ran and the other two off, Andrew looked up at the sun still hanging in the sky. The glaring light made him narrow his eyes. "The Berserker and his guardian, huh? What will it be like when we meet on the battlefield? Heh... Watch out for people coming from Orb to PLANT—what did you mean by that, Guardian?"
While Andrew the Tiger pondered the meaning of Xiao Ran's final words, Xiao Ran sat in the car with his eyes closed, thinking. The reinforcements came early, and they're not even from ZAFT's Gibraltar base on Earth. Eight replacement pilots and eight MS, not counting the Duel and Buster Gundams that will soon arrive from Gibraltar. What the hell is going on? If we include the Gibraltar reinforcements and Andrew's current forces, there are at least fifteen units. With only the Strike Gundam and two Skygraspers, it's simply impossible for the Archangel to break out of here. This isn't space—there aren't that many escape routes.
Those inexplicable reinforcements are suspicious too. They came directly from PLANT itself. I was prepared for it, but I didn't expect the participants to begin entering the plot so quickly. With the Earth Force and ZAFT not yet engaged in a larger-scale war, it's not strange for ZAFT to send more troops against the Archangel and Strike Gundam, which have performed even better than in the original story so far.
*PLANT has far fewer troops than the Earth Force, to the point that there's no comparison. Truly capable people have excellent chances to rise through ZAFT's ranks, let alone participants with special abilities. It would also be easy for ZAFT to investigate their true identities. As long as they investigated through other channels without contacting them directly, every participant's identity would be flawless. In