"Shin!"
The screen showed Luna Maria.
"What happened?!"
"We're under attack!" Luna Maria said. "The base's network has been completely cut off. I'm on the Minerva right now!"
The Minerva was scheduled to depart tomorrow, so all of its assigned personnel had already been fully prepared.
"—Why are those three Gundams fighting the Justice Gundam?!"
"The enemy stole the Gundams! Chaos, Abyss, and Gaia are all gone! Justice... could it be—"
"Shin!" A blond man appeared on the communicator. "Where are you now?"
"Rey! I'm in the stands."
"The Minerva is currently trapped in the wreckage, but—Impulse can still sortie."
"Oh!"
"The Core Fighter has already been launched toward your location. The Minerva is trapped in the wreckage as well.
—However, while the warship could not leave and deploying an MS would be difficult, if they were merely individual 'parts,' then there would definitely be no problem.
At that moment, the screen switched to the Minerva. The captain's face had not been shown yet.
"...We have no choice. How are the repairs on the Positron Cannon going?"
"They're underway!!"
"Mm. Once it's repaired, we'll use the Positron Cannon... to break out!"
[The Core Fighter!]
[Definitely not that kind of thing.]
[I finally get it. SEED pays tribute to a masterpiece everywhere, UC. Now it's even starting to pay tribute to itself.]
[Damn, yeah. I just noticed—the attack here is practically a recreation of the attack from the first SEED, 233.]
[They're even recreating the Positron Cannon breaking through the fortress, huh? 233]
[Even though it's called a Positron Fortress-Breaking Cannon, it mostly shoots warships. And all the 'fortresses' it breaks are its own.]
[I'm dying, that's actually true when you put it that way.]
The Positron Cannon would not be ready anytime soon, but Villkiss had already charged toward the