"The Mega Particle Cannon is overheated. Energy supply insufficient."
"Gatling machine gun, ammunition depleted."
The strongest weapons on the Gundams piloted by the sisters could no longer be used, leaving them with only their Beam Rifles for shooting.
In just two minutes, the older sister had fired the Mega Particle Cannon three times, consuming most of her energy. She now had to return to the mothership to replenish it. The younger sister was the same; she had emptied the Gatling machine gun's ammunition in only two minutes. Fortunately, the Gatling used physical rounds and consumed no energy.
Although the sisters had expended their resources so "recklessly," they had inflicted unimaginable losses on the enemy.
In those two minutes, they had destroyed ten modified spacecraft, nearly two hundred MS units, and forty fighter jets.
Watching the situation on the battlefield, Zoshan Taro redirected part of his forces toward the Zhou Ya Sisters' position. This redeployment was not meant to send his subordinates to their deaths.
The reason was that the sisters had already punched through the defensive line. If he did not immediately dispatch other forces to defend it, the enemy would exploit the opening and storm their abandoned space transfer station.
"Damn it, the enemy's moving their forces over here."
"Big Sis, withdraw to the mothership and replenish your energy first."
Zhou Ya checked the current condition of her Gundam on the screen. The Mega Particle Cannon had finished cooling, but its energy was insufficient, making it unusable.
"Little Sis, I'll connect the Mega Particle Cannon's control cable to your Gundam."
The Mega Particle Cannon's control cable connected to Proto Gundam Unit 5. Looking at the display showing that the Mega Particle Cannon could fire, Zhou Ya fixed her eyes on the enemy before her.
Zhou Ya licked her lips. "Good night, babies." She pressed the firing button, sweeping the beam across the battlefield.
A wave of Beam Rays tore through more than twenty MS units and three modified spacecraft.
At that moment, the internal communications channel in the sisters' cockpits rang out. Avina's helmeted image appeared on the communications screen.
"You two return to the mothership for resupply. Leave this place to me."
"Roger." x2
The sisters immediately piloted their Gundams back toward the mothership.
Avina piloted Proto Gundam Unit 6 (RX78-6). Its wrists were equipped with missile launchers, four missiles per wrist for a total of eight; its shoulders mounted two 300mm Low Recoil Cannons. She held a shield in her left hand and a Beam Rifle in her right, while a rocket launcher rested behind her waist.
The wrist missile launchers had no missiles remaining. Avina looked at the two locked-on MS targets on the screen and pressed the firing button. The two shoulder cannons fired, and the moment they struck their targets, two fireballs erupted.
"Any comrades with damaged units, return to the mothership immediately for repairs," Avina instructed the GM Mobile Suit pilots operating in the same sector as her.
Several GM Mobile Suits with severed arms or legs immediately returned to the mothership.
"Come on, pirates. I'll kill as many of you as you send. As long as I have my Proto Gundam Unit 6, you will never defeat me." Avina spoke confidently. Since the battle began, she had already shot down forty Pirate Group MS units, three fighter jets, and one modified spacecraft.
As time slowly passed, Zoshan Taro stared at the radar in mounting anxiety. His side had already lost more than four hundred MS units, nearly all of its fighter jets, and over twenty modified spacecraft.
Only ten minutes had passed since the battle began, yet he had suffered such enormous losses. The enemy had just received their results: not a single warship had been shot down, and they had lost only three MS units.
"Notify the Vice-commander and tell them to return at once."
"Yes, Commander."
Pani was fighting in another sector while piloting a Proto Gundam. He fired with the Beam Rifle in his left hand and held a Beam Saber in his right, ready to engage any enemy that came close. The shoulder-mounted electromagnetic cannon was out of ammunition, and after firing all the rockets from the rocket launcher that had once hung at his waist, he had no idea where he had thrown it.
Pani piloted the Proto Gundam, but where was Li Xiucheng?
Li Xiucheng was currently piloting another newly developed Gundam.
Pani controlled the Proto Gundam as it charged beneath a modified spacecraft and fired several Beam Gun shots in rapid succession. Violent explosions erupted continuously along the spacecraft's underside.
Several pirate MS units surrounded the Proto Gundam.
Pani pushed the controls, and the Proto Gundam dashed swiftly toward a pirate MS directly ahead.
Seeing the Gundam rush toward him, the pirate MS pilot immediately tried to switch to a close-combat weapon.
But before he could change weapons, he was sliced cleanly in half at the waist.
After cutting down one MS, the Proto Gundam turned and fired several shots in succession, directly blowing up the pirate MS units that had surrounded him. It then dashed upward and destroyed the modified spacecraft's control console with another shot.
Pani looked at the radar display and found that a breach had opened in this sector. He immediately activated the internal communications line and contacted Captain Fix of the Albion Aircraft Carrier, the person in charge of this operation.
Captain Fix received Pani's report.
"Attention, captains of the entire fleet. Order all assault troops to infiltrate the enemy camp."
The entire fleet launched small airships, all of them heading for the breached section of the defensive line Pani had reported earlier, pushing into the Sea Wolf Pirate Group's abandoned space transfer station.
"Comrades, cover our brothers as they break into the enemy camp." Pani issued orders to the forces in his sector.
Pani looked at the display screen. In a nearby sector, another ally was piloting a newly developed Gundam from a different series.
"I never expected the kid piloting the GP01 Gundam Zephyranthes from the GP Series the boss developed to be this formidable."
The screen's long-range camera captured the newly developed Gundam White Orchid from the new series plunging alone into the enemy formation and slaughtering its way through them.
The GP01 Gundam White Orchid looked identical to the GP01Fb. Under Long Fei's improvements, its performance was ten percent higher than the original specifications, and it could operate both in space and in gravity environments. It held a Beam Gun in one hand and a Beam Saber in the other, with a laser cannon hanging at the rear of its waist. Using its exceptional mobility, it hopped left and right like a rabbit, not only preventing the pirate MS units from locking onto it, but also firing while moving at high speed to shoot down enemies.
The GP01 Gundam White Orchid alone had already shot down ten pirate modified spacecraft, one hundred MS units, and twenty fighter jets.
The battle had lasted more than half an hour. Sweat had formed on Zoshan Taro's forehead as he looked at the radar display. Only a little over thirty modified spacecraft remained on his side, fewer than five hundred MS units were left, and the fighter jets had been confirmed annihilated.
Zoshan Taro wiped the sweat from his forehead, then looked at his slightly pudgy body and realized that his entire body was covered in sweat. He knew that he was nervous.
The Pirate Group he had inherited from his father had grown considerably under his leadership. Never had it encountered anything like this.
"Commander, the enemy has broken into our camp. There are sixty small airships in total, all located in these three areas."
The announcer projected an image of the abandoned space transfer station before the commander.
The moment Zoshan Taro saw the three red dots, he immediately deployed the pirates inside the transfer station to intercept them.
"Connect the camera feeds from those three locations to me."
"What is going on? Where are they?"
Watching the feeds from the three cameras, Zoshan Taro's eyes widened in bewilderment. The cameras had captured only the small airships, without a single person in sight.
"Commander, the Vice-commander has returned with his troops." An announcer looked at the instruments and reported to the commander excitedly.
Yet Zoshan Taro showed no excitement, nor did he breathe a sigh of relief. He immediately contacted the Vice-commander and ordered him to recall the pirate troops assigned to the assault operation to the abandoned space transfer station.
Compared to the battle outside, Zoshan Taro now felt an even more indescribable sense of unease about what was happening inside the abandoned space transfer station.
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