"..."
Annie ignored the loudmouthed Li Boli, and paid even less attention to the four machines in the distance staring at her in shock and uncertainty. Instead, she sat in her cockpit, frowning at the flashing "INSUFFICIENT ENERGY" warning on her screen.
Under normal circumstances, her Genn's "handmade battery pack" could last for around thirty minutes. Even after flying here from the abandoned steel factory where she'd been hiding, she should still have had about ten minutes of power left—more than enough to deal with those machines from the Mechanical Tribe.
But unfortunately...
She'd just pulled off a string of extreme maneuvers, flooring the energy output "throttle" several times. Her movements had also been broad and forceful throughout. After that flurry of wild action, her ten minutes of remaining power had been cut in half, leaving her with less than a minute's worth of energy for normal operation.
"..."
At that very moment, the pilot of the Freedom seemed unaware of her machine's condition. While facing off against the three remaining machines from the Mechanical Tribe, he slowly edged toward her, seemingly hoping to use her strength against them and stand on the same side as her?
"..."
"..."
"..."
The three machines from the Mechanical Tribe had seen what the Freedom Gundam was trying to do. But wary of Annie's Genn, they made no move, allowing the Freedom Gundam to slowly shift into position beside it.
"Hey—"
Seeing this, Kira didn't waste time. He opened a communications link to the other pilot and tried calling out with a proposal:
"This is the Freedom Gundam. I'm human!"
"Pilot of the Genn, you're human too, right?"
"Thank you very much for helping me!"
"But I'm having a hard time handling these three machines from the Mechanical Tribe on my own. I