"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
"Attention! Attention!"
"Captain Mu La Flaga has returned safely. His machine is in good condition. The left-side No. 01 hangar bay door on the Archangel has opened. The Mobius Zero MA is beginning to enter..."
"Beep!!"
"Entry complete!!"
"Closing the hangar bay doors. The Archangel is turning to heading 822. Destination: the debris belt! Full speed ahead!!"
Inside the Archangel's hangar, not far from the Strike Gundam that had returned first with its left hand severed and was now undergoing urgent repairs by the maintenance crew, a dark-red Mobius Zero MA fortress slowly descended toward its parking spot.
"Over here!"
"Captain Mu, if your machine is all right, please park it here, in No. 03!"
A hangar guide was floating in midair ahead of it, right in front of the Mobius Zero's nose. He waved a glow stick again and again, guiding the MA that had just glided in from the outer deck and made an emergency landing toward the floor. At the same time, he directed it to the MA parking spot marked "03" on the hangar's metal deck.
After a long while, with the hangar guide coordinating the process, Captain Mu finally backed his machine out of the Mobius Zero's cockpit and parked it in the designated spot. The Archangel was still accelerating away at full speed, and several mechanical magnetic clamps secured the MA firmly in place.
"Hiss..."
After the pressurized air in the Mobius Zero's cockpit had vented, a weary-looking man in an Earth Alliance captain's uniform finally climbed out of the space fortress.
"Welcome back safe and sound, Captain Mu!"
The Archangel's hangar crew came over to check on him. Seeing that Captain Mu had floated out of the cockpit without a scratch and didn't seem to need a medical team, they