The nuclear reactor inside the Comet Unit was the real killer.
The light plunged into the "wound" and struck Requiem from within.
"We won—"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Smiles spread across every face.
But the next moment, the stage cruelly cut to Aura and Durandal.
Both were unharmed.
Or rather, this scene... wasn't even on Requiem's lunar base.
"Epimetheus has been captured by Earth's gravity and is entering Earth–Moon orbit," Metis reported.
"We won."
Author's note:
More?
We Won... Right?
"Chairman!"
"The base!"
"What do we do?!"
The moment the nuclear explosion began, the ZAFT soldiers fell into panic.
How had anyone breached a base defended like a turtle shell?
"Gil!"
Even Rey was stunned.
He immediately broke off from the enemy he'd been fighting and headed for the base.
The Minerva was in the toughest position. Both the Minerva and the Archangel were locked in battle.
"An order to retreat?" Talia suddenly received a message.
Then she breathed a sigh of relief.
The message ordered the Minerva to withdraw to designated coordinates.
"The chairman's alive. Was this place... bait?"
As relief washed over her, another thought struck Talia.
This place was... bait?
We were the bait!
"Target sighted. Visual confirmation... Epimetheus."
Elsewhere, Murrue Ramius had spotted Epimetheus from the bridge of the Millennium.
"I'm impressed you managed to bring that thing here, Athrun."
Neo stood nearby in his helmet, watching Infinite Justice, which had just launched and was undergoing inspection.
"Are you... really Captain Le Creuset?"
Athrun couldn't let it go.
The man beside him—was he Rau Le Creuset or not?
"'Cruze' was nothing more than a pitiful clone. A fool driven by hatred and jealousy, desperate to drag the world into hell. And this world has no shortage of fools like that," Neo said.