What? My freedom was stolen?! Σ(°д°||)

The ZAFT military's ace pilot, Annie, was aboard her new Nazca-class high-speed battleship, the Red Devil, as it raced along its prescribed course through space. It was fast, but compared to the hopelessly vast distances between Earth and Mars, and between Mars and Jupiter, it was still painfully slow.

They had left Earth some time ago, and had only covered about half the distance...

Aboard this "high-speed" battleship, little Annie and her Laconi squad, along with the machines and pilots of the pretty Shiho Hahnenfuss's team and Athrun's Sara squad, were on their way back to P.L.A.N.T. to report to ZAFT's headquarters.

Their mission was now more or less complete!

About half a month earlier, within Earth's atmosphere and in the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates of Orb, the Archangel—a battleship that had caused enormous trouble and losses for both ZAFT and the Earth Alliance—and a certain Strike Gundam had finally been sunk. Under attack from the Sara squad and Annie's Red Devil squad, they went down in Orb's waters, right under the Orb people's noses, and were reduced to tens of thousands of tons of scrap in a thunderous explosion!

And with that,

the Archangel had finally become a thing of the past, and certain schemes of the Earth Alliance had been all but completely crushed...

Still, although the Earth Alliance—or the Atlantic Federation—had ultimately failed to get their hands on the Archangel or the Strike Gundam, and had missed out on their most important combat data, there was every reason to believe they had already obtained all the plans and specifications for both during the time they had been around!

Annie and the Sara squad had destroyed the Archangel, and especially the Strike Gundam, but at most they had deprived the enemy of two sets of