Chapter Summaries

The Black Rabbit Unit tested the TR-5 Advanced Herio in battle against Lieutenant Colonel Lei’s exhausted Haya II Saint Machine. After overwhelming Lei with its weapons and I Field barrier, the Advanced Herio trapped his machine in a Giant Mechanical Claw.

• Dr. Cordelia reviewed the TR Series’ combat performance and considered the many machines that still needed live testing.
• The TR-5 Advanced Herio fought Lieutenant Colonel Lei’s Haya II Saint Machine, whose weapons were depleted after more than six hours of battle.
• The Advanced Herio deflected Lei’s beam attacks with its I Field barrier and damaged the Haya II’s shield and legs with its weapons.
• Lei tried to retreat toward his mothership while discarding the damaged legs and shield, but the Advanced Herio’s attacks repeatedly forced him off course.
• As Lei dodged another volley, the Haya II Saint Machine collided with a Giant Mechanical Claw, which seized it.

Herio II, the Full Equipment Gundam Kunlins, and the Advanced Gihal IIs underwent live combat tests, destroying Dion Army forces with their upgraded weapons and systems. After the machines returned for maintenance, Dr. Cordelia reflected on the TR Series nearing completion and her impossible feelings for Long Fei.

• Herio II crushed Lieutenant Colonel Lei's Haya II Saint Machine, then destroyed an Azure Saint Machine squad and helped the Qubeley tear apart a Night Huntress.
• A Full Equipment Gundam TR-6 Kunlin pierced the Brock frigate with its Giant Hyper Impulse Electromagnetic Cannon while the five test units used varied weapons to destroy Dion Army machines.
• An Advanced Gihal II used its Bio-Computer and thirty funnels to overwhelm two Verdants, toyed with their pilots, and then destroyed both machines.
• Herio II, the Full Equipment Gundam Kunlins, and the Advanced Gihal IIs returned to their motherships or Mobile Fortress Downs No. 4 for maintenance after completing their tests.
• Dr. Cordelia was satisfied with the TR Series' combat results and wondered what Long Fei would assign her team, while accepting that she could not be with him unless Taoxiang died.

Relina, wearing the Mother Rabbit mask, led five Silver Thunders into a live-combat test, where their networked weapons devastated the Dion Army from extreme range. The Dion Army made them its priority targets as the Skywing Mercenary Group moved to protect them, and Wing Gundam Zero and the Hazel Owsla Final Edition also entered the battle.

• Relina read Silver Thunder’s manual, assessed its weapons, and joined four other Black Rabbit Unit members in launching from Mobile Fortress Downs No. 4.
• The five Silver Thunders linked their computers with thirty Haros-controlled Gihal IIs and destroyed four hundred Dion Army units in a barrage.
• Relina’s Silver Thunder used its Big-W Cannon II and amplifiers to pierce a warship more than two thousand kilometers away, while other Silver Thunders and electromagnetic cannons destroyed additional warships.
• Dion Army commanders ordered their forces to destroy the Silver Thunders, and Skywing Mercenary Group units including Delta, MkⅢ, and Full Armor Psycho Gundam moved to protect them.
• Wing Gundam Zero appeared and wiped out more than a thousand units with its Destruction Beam, while the Hazel Owsla Final Edition also destroyed a distant target with its Ultra-Long Range Beam Cannon.

The Sky Wing Mercenaries overwhelmed the Dion Army in space and launched an assault on Factory Battleship No. 1, preparing to capture its teenage and child soldiers rather than harm them. Their forces advanced through the ship, where they found that roughly twenty percent of its occupants were minors, and escorted captured soldiers toward safety.

• Yelishao De prepared the Dion Army’s ground forces as the Sky Wing Mercenaries suppressed the fleet, jammed communications, and attacked Mars Sphere satellites.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries ground troops advanced toward the Factory Battleships with transports, support vehicles, and weapons designed to capture people.
• The Sky Wing Mercenaries breached Factory Battleship No. 1, where their MSs and ground troops fought the Dion Army and seized corridors and combat zones.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries soldiers stunned Dion Army troops, confiscated the weapons of teenage and child soldiers, and detained them.
• A Sky Wing Mercenaries squad captured a frightened group of child soldiers and their teenage leader, then carried them toward safety amid nearby explosions.
• The Sky Wing Mercenaries discovered that about twenty percent of the Factory Battleship’s occupants were child or teenage soldiers, and also captured adults who had led them.

War correspondents broadcast the Skywing Mercenary Group’s battle inside a Factory Battleship, where its forces captured Dion Army soldiers and tried to protect child and teenage soldiers. The livestream ended with viewers enraged after Dion Army soldiers opened fire on their own young troops.

• War correspondents entered the breached Factory Battleship and filmed Sky Wing Mercenaries capturing Dion Army prisoners, separating adults from children and teenagers, and giving the young captives food while promising to reunite them with their mothers.
• A Sky Wing Mercenary disabled Blood Red with an electromagnetic interference grenade, allowing the MkⅢ to defeat it, and then captured its small-framed pilot.
• Adult Dion Army soldiers sent child and teenage soldiers into battle with firearms, while Sky Wing Mercenaries used capture weapons and risky rescues to disarm and carry the young soldiers to safety.
• A Sky Wing Mercenary shot an adult Dion Army soldier who was leading young troops, and the terrified children surrendered.
• The livestream captured Dion Army soldiers firing on their own child and teenage soldiers, prompting viewers to condemn the Dion Army.

Sky Wing Mercenaries tried to rescue child and teenage soldiers as Dion Army troops fired on them and planted bombs on them. The chapter ended with five children dying when their bombs could not be defused in time, while the bomb disposal team leader blamed himself.

• Dion Army soldiers obeyed orders to shoot child and teenage soldiers, while Sky Wing Mercenaries shielded and treated the children; drones and snipers killed attackers who kept firing.
• At Point 1, a twelve-member Sky Wing Mercenary squad blasted into a building and killed Dion Army soldiers attacking children, then took wounded survivors for interrogation.
• At Point 2, Sky Wing Mercenaries suppressed Dion Army positions and began scanning rescued children for remote bombs before attempting defusal.
• At Point 3, Sky Wing Mercenaries found twenty children with timed bombs, and the three-person bomb disposal team defused fifteen before time ran out.
• The five remaining children chased the retreating rescuers before their bombs exploded, and the team leader collapsed in grief as comrades and livestream viewers reassured him.

After footage showed Dion soldiers using child soldiers as human bombs, Long Fei and Yelishao De agreed to a temporary ceasefire. The chapter ends with children being returned to Mars, Dion forces reinforcing their space defenses, and both armies preparing for what would follow the truce.

• Long Fei ordered the electromagnetic interference over Mars suspended so the Dion Army could see the battlefield footage of children being tied to timed bombs.
• After seeing the footage, Yelishao De requested a ceasefire from Long Fei and ordered Valery Lagrand and her faction punished for their actions.
• Colonel Petrott executed Valery and her faction, then took command of Factory Battleship No. 1.
• Yelishao De and Lieutenant General Shlaik negotiated an eight-hour ceasefire, during which Dion children under thirteen were disarmed and sent home aboard transport ships.
• Yelishao De banned the conscription of children under thirteen, while Dion forces reinforced their space troops and launched satellites.
• The Skywing Mercenary Group moved captured teenage soldiers to safety and sent reinforcements toward the Mars Sphere.

After the eight-hour ceasefire ended, the Sky Wing Mercenaries overwhelmed Factory Battleship No. 1 and took control of key areas. Colonel Petrott surrendered on Second Prince Yelishao De’s orders, leaving the battleship and its crew in the mercenaries’ hands.

• The ceasefire ended, and fighting resumed across space and inside Factory Battleship No. 1 as Mieweng Unit forces intensified their assault.
• An Exus pilot used its Dragon Fang System-guided pods, Linear Cannon, and missiles to destroy a Wingbird and an Azure Saint Machine.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries seized the reactor control room in Area A1 and the control room in Area B1, disabling factories and tightening their hold on the ship.
• Colonel Petrott considered detonating the main nuclear reactor but feared the wreckage would damage Mars and endanger its inhabitants.
• Second Prince Yelishao De ordered Colonel Petrott to surrender, arguing that survival would give the soldiers a chance to return to their families.
• Colonel Petrott accepted the order and broadcast the surrender command to the soldiers aboard Factory Battleship No. 1.

Yelishao De prepared to lead his loyal followers into the Dion Army’s final battle while sending Grisina to stay with their father. Long Fei and the Skywing Mercenary Group sortied to confront the Royal Knights as the Dion forces faced defeat.

• Yelishao De ordered his followers to surrender or retreat if they could not hold out, but his subordinates refused to abandon him and vowed to fight alongside him.
• Yelishao De ordered Grisina to remain behind and care for their father; after promising to return victorious, he left to prepare for battle.
• Long Fei and Pan Zhenhua led their forces out to attack the Dion Army’s main force, while Julius and Margarita prepared the Royal Knights and other forces for a final stand and covered the retreat.
• In the detention center, Chaplin said he would hate Long Fei if Julius died but would not blame him, while Russell argued that Newtypes needed a country to protect them even if the Dion Empire fell.
• A Dion citizen announced that Long Fei’s directly affiliated forces had clashed with the Royal Knights.

Long Fei’s direct forces and the Dion Empire’s Royal Knights fought an all-out battle, with the direct forces’ numerical advantage pressing the Knights across multiple fronts. The chapter left the two factions locked in fierce clashes between their signature units and rival pilots.

• Li Xiucheng’s Deep Strike and Song Guowei’s Gundam AGE-3 Luna Type struck enemy forces, while Veronica’s Great Guard overwhelmed Mass Production Type Nu Gundams before Salamander challenged her.
• The Zhou Ya Sisters, Rebecca, and Britney fought Special Saint Machines, while Dimashi’s Earth Sword clashed with Mellis’s Gundam Astaroth and struggled to understand its swordsmanship.
• Li Xiucheng’s Deep Strike battled Wenselas’s Evil Fiend Mobile Armor as Alice managed its weapons and eighteen Z Plus C1 Hummingbirds guarded it.
• The Mirror Royal Knights fought the Iron Blossom Group, while the Ferocious Hound Squad and Harute Angel Squad trapped Pamuzhuba and the Hunter Night Knight Order in numerical superiority.
• Lamiel taunted Balbaldos while fighting him, and the Shadow Mad Dog Squad and Bloodthirsty Wolf Strike Group outnumbered the Heavenly Might Royal Knights.
• The chapter described the direct forces as holding a four-to-one to six-to-one numerical advantage over the depleted Royal Knights, whose condition had worsened after continuous fighting.

Long Fei overwhelmed Margarita and seized control of the remote weapons attacking her Nightmare Mary, while Anton and Julius fought an intense duel between Barbatos Lupus and Saint Dragon. Margarita’s Psycho-Amplification Device ran out, leaving her under Long Fei’s psychic pressure as the duel continued.

• Long Fei suppressed Julius and Margarita with his psychic power while Pan Zhenhua, Museria, and the other Ace Pilots held back their opponents.
• Long Fei seized control of the other pilots’ remote weapons and used them alongside the Bull Gundam’s guns to attack Margarita’s Nightmare Mary.
• Margarita counterattacked and destroyed several of Long Fei’s controlled remote weapons, but the Bull Gundam eliminated her remaining remote weapons as her Psycho-Amplification Device expired.
• Anton and Julius exchanged close-range attacks, destroyed each other’s weapons, and dodged shots from their cannons.
• Julius judged Anton’s piloting skill and reactions superior to those of the other top Ace Pilots he had encountered.

Long Fei defeated Margarita and destroyed Nightmare Mary, prompting Julius to order the Royal Knights to retreat to Mars. Julius then unleashed his full psychic power against Anton and Long Fei, and the chapter ended with Saint Dragon damaged but still fighting Bull Gundam.

• Long Fei overwhelmed Margarita with his psychic power and, after disabling Nightmare Mary’s weapons and limbs, cut it in half, killing her.
• Julius ordered the six Royal Knights units to retreat to Mars while he stayed behind to cover their withdrawal, and the Destroyer Battleship’s Annihilation Cannon separated them from the Eight Direct Units before the Argama destroyed it.
• Julius exceeded his psychic limits and gained the upper hand over Anton, whose Barbatos Lupus lost its right arm to Saint Dragon.
• Long Fei intervened against Julius, but Julius anticipated Bull Gundam’s attacks and charged it while dodging its beam fire.
• Long Fei unleashed a fierce psychic aura, then attacked Saint Dragon with Bull Gundam; his rocket struck its cockpit, but Julius blocked Bull Gundam’s next slash and sensed danger behind him.

Julius died when Anton drove a serrated tachi through Saint Dragon’s cockpit, and the Dion Empire’s outer-space forces suffered a crushing defeat. As Long Fei prepared the Skywing Mercenary Group’s next moves, the Dion Army on Mars faced destroyed satellites, disrupted communications, and repeated attacks on key facilities.

• Barbatos Lupus and Bull Gundam’s funnel cannons overwhelmed Saint Dragon, and Anton killed Julius after his mobile suit became disabled.
• Chaplin mourned Julius, while the Skywing Mercenary Group finished routing the Dion Empire’s outer-space forces and began clearing the battlefield.
• Long Fei and General Shlaik discussed using captured Dion soldiers and planned to deploy satellites and equipment to monitor Mars.
• Long Fei reviewed the Dion Factory Battleship’s blueprints and considered the Empire’s progress in alien technology.
• The Dion Army retreated to the Mars Sphere, where Yelishao De learned that its satellites and communications had been disabled and several arms factories had been destroyed.

On May 27, Cosmic Year 126, the Mieweng Unit bombarded Dion Empire facilities on Mars for five hours before beginning its ground suppression operation. As troops landed under continuing missile cover, Mass-produced Gundams descended directly through the atmosphere, and the Mieweng Unit’s armored forces gained an advantage in the fighting around a Dion base.

• Long Fei and Shlaik discussed deploying Neutron Jammers and preparing Plans B and C in case the jammers could not seal the Dion Empire’s nuclear energy.
• The Mieweng Unit’s missiles damaged Dion power plants, underground energy pipelines, and defensive systems, while Dion forces intercepted some missiles and returned fire.
• After five hours of bombardment, Shlaik declared the first phase complete and began the second phase, deploying suppression troops, vehicles, aircraft, and MS units toward Mars.
• War correspondents broadcast Mass-produced Gundams descending through the atmosphere without protective pods, stunning military leaders and experts around the world.
• The Mieweng Unit’s suppression troops fought Dion defenders around a military base, and the Sparta Battle Suits resisted ordinary fire while their weapons penetrated Dion armor and cover.

Zhang Lili and her media team filmed the Skywing Mercenary Group’s assault on a Dion Army base as its forces deployed Wolf Fighters, Guntank Thunderbolt Models, and ground troops. The battle ended with Sky Wing Mercenaries capturing a Scorpion Tiger pilot, whom Zhang Lili’s camera revealed to be a child.

• Zhang Lili’s team filmed Hive Drones, Skywing forces, and Dion Army units battling around the target base, while a camouflaged Jegan killed a Blood Red pilot from behind.
• Forty giant tanks landed: Wolf Fighters transformed into half-MS forms to fight, while Guntank Thunderbolt Models supported them with cannons and missiles.
• Skywing forces blasted through the base’s perimeter and advanced inside as ground troops and MS fought Dion Army defenders.
• Linear Cannon Tanks damaged a Scorpion Tiger, and a Linear Cannon’s Electromagnetic Overload Round paralyzed it after a Mobius Zero attacked from the sky.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries pulled the Scorpion Tiger pilot from the cockpit and took him prisoner; Zhang Lili filmed them removing the helmet and revealing a boy of about fourteen.

The Sky Wing Mercenary Group suppressed Shinoshud Base with Miga Knights, armored troops, and Neutron Jammers, forcing its defenders to surrender. Salamander arrived with the Great Sword Shield fleet and prepared to take command, troubled by his return to the former Longsog Kingdom base.

• Zhang Lili reported as Sky Wing Mercenaries advanced through Shinoshud Base, while Miga Knights and agile Sparta-suited troops overwhelmed Dion Army defenders.
• Sky Wing Mercenaries breached defensive positions, seized control of local systems, and received the surrender of the base's troops.
• A Full Armor Mk III and a Delta destroyed defensive installations, while Neutron Jammers caused Shinoshud Base's power plants and defenses to fail.
• Salamander arrived at Shinoshud Base with the Great Sword Shield fleet and learned that the base commander had surrendered.
• The suppression force joined the Great Sword Shield Unit, and Salamander felt melancholy at returning to the former Longsog Kingdom base.

Salamander was promoted to brigadier general and planned the capture of Emasina Base, a key underground weapons-manufacturing facility in the former Longsog Kingdom. After assigning his forces to seize nearby outposts and supply sites first, he left the next major move approaching as Zhang Lili prepared to report on it.

• Princess Youyou watched Salamander command the Skywing Mercenaries and regretted abandoning him for Barbaros.
• Salamander learned that the Mother Rabbit Unit and Cross Vanguard would arrive under his command, and that he had been promoted to brigadier general.
• The Mieweng Unit seized Martian facilities and deployed Neutron Jammers, disrupting surface communications, radar, and many power plants.
• Salamander briefed Mother Rabbit, Marisa, and other officers on the campaign toward Emasina Base and explained the importance of its rare-metal mines and weapons production.
• Salamander ordered his forces to take Emasina’s outposts, power plants, and other key facilities before assaulting the underground base.
• Zhang Lili rested with her 123 Media team at Shinoshud Base and anticipated a major move by the Great Sword Shield Unit.

The Cross Vanguard attacked and captured a disguised solar power plant that served as an outpost and major source of electricity for Emasina Base. The company turned it into a temporary forward base, leaving Emasina Base facing worsening power shortages.

• F90S scouts discovered patrol units and underground hatches around the solar power plant, then coordinated a long-range assault with the other groups.
• F90Ss, F90Ls, drones, and artillery attacked the outpost as Dion forces emerged from underground to defend it.
• Eight F90Hs used their high-speed ground mobility to break through the defenses, while F90Ls provided sniper support and the attacking forces overran the outpost.
• The defending Dion Army surrendered, and the Cross Vanguard captured the power plant and sent the prisoners to a makeshift camp.
• Logistics mercenaries converted the plant’s transmission pipelines to power a temporary forward base, while the loss of electricity threatened Emasina Base’s operations.

The Black Rabbit Unit tested its Rosette Reinforced Ground Types and RX-107 TR-4 Dandelions while intercepting Rarium Silver shipments bound for Emasina Base. The escort forces were overwhelmed, and the chapter ended with the Dandelions tearing through enemy MS units.

• The Black Rabbit Unit sent a test company to intercept a train convoy carrying Rarium Silver toward Emasina Base.
• After the train stopped at damaged tracks, Dion Army MS units transferred the ore to trucks and escorted them toward a nearby highway.
• A Sniper GM III destroyed an Azure unit, and enemy forces attacked the convoy from several directions.
• Three Rosette Reinforced Ground Types coordinated their attacks to blind, knock down, and cut Crimson in half.
• A Dandelion in Mobile Armor form seized an Azure unit and shot through it, then pierced a nearby Koukai with its enhanced Beam Rifle.
• Other Dandelions crushed a Scorpion Tiger and used a high-output Mega Particle Cannon to destroy several MS units.

The Black Rabbit Unit defeated the MS escorting a Dion convoy, while Longsog guerrillas attacked the trucks and made contact with War Rabbit 1162. Their captain, Bal, proposed joining forces with the Skywing Mercenary Group to fight the Dion Empire and restore Longsog, and War Rabbit 1162 left the proposal for his superiors to consider.

• Black Rabbit's units destroyed the MS escorting the truck convoy, while guerrillas detonated explosives on the highway and attacked the convoy's personnel.
• After the battle, the guerrillas signaled the Black Rabbit Unit, and War Rabbit 1162 went to speak with them in the Longsog language.
• Bal introduced himself as captain of the 23rd Unit of the Anti-Dion Longsog Army and explained that Roaina led the resistance after Komanros's death.
• Bal told War Rabbit 1162 that the guerrillas could provide local guidance and informants to help the Skywing Mercenary Group fight the Dion Empire.
• War Rabbit 1162 said he needed his superiors' approval before responding to Bal's offer of cooperation.