The Vanguard Fighter pilot's death didn't attract much of Felix's attention.
While piloting the White Ginn, Felix rolled and maneuvered through the air to dodge the bullets fired from behind him, then raised his gun and fired while hanging upside down.
His lightning-fast reflexes and rate of fire left the Vanguard Fighter pilot who had attacked from behind unable to keep up. The pilot tried to maneuver out of the way, but the bullets had already reached him, slamming straight into the nose of his fighter.
The bullets' tremendous kinetic energy tore the nose apart with ease. Before the pilot could fully activate the ejection system, he was killed by the gunfire.
Boom!
An explosion rang out.
The Vanguard Fighter erupted into flames in midair, then broke apart into countless fragments that fell toward the ground.
After taking care of him, Felix used the Guul's rear vector thrusters and attitude-control thrusters together, turning the Guul on the spot and maneuvering to the left.
The machine-cannon rounds streaked past the White Ginn.
Seeing the White Ginn maneuver toward him after he finished firing, the Vanguard Fighter pilot gripped the control stick and immediately began maneuvering.
He pulled the nose up and veered left, preparing to turn around and flee.
As he maneuvered, the White Ginn opened fire with the Heavy Assault Machine Gun in its hands.
Bullets shot from the gun's barrel.
They raced after the Vanguard Fighter at a speed far beyond the fighter's own.
Before the Vanguard Fighter could complete its turn, the bullets struck its tail.
Thick smoke billowed out, and the fighter exploded the next instant.
After firing that shot, the White Ginn maneuvered to the right and lowered its gun. The moment it dodged the shells, it fired, sending bullets plunging down at high speed.
Boom!
The shot struck the ground and destroyed a Railgun Tank.
After firing, Felix continued piloting the White Ginn. The White Ginn's attitude-control thrusters, along with the Guul's attitude-control and vector thrusters, worked together, letting it turn at incredible speed while rapidly changing position.
As it turned around, it also dodged the bullets fired from behind.
"Damn it! How can these Coordinators withstand such intense instantaneous G-forces?!"
Watching the White Ginn's maneuver,
the Vanguard Fighter pilot's face twisted into a grimace. He let out a furious roar, unwilling to admit defeat, and began working the controls. He switched off the fighter's limiters, determined to push it to the extreme.
He had barely begun the maneuver when the terrifying instantaneous G-forces forced him into a brief blackout. Everything before his eyes turned pitch-black.
He couldn't see a thing and could only hear the rapid alarms.
"It's over!"
He hadn't managed to push past the limits, and he knew everything was over.
He stopped trying to push the fighter to its limits, and his vision gradually returned. But by the time he could see the screens again, it was already too late.
He had only halfway pulled the ejection lever when a bullet destroyed the Vanguard Fighter's nose.
The pilot exploded in midair along with his fighter.
As he blew the enemy apart, Felix maneuvered the White Ginn slightly backward to dodge, avoiding the shells fired from the left, then raised his gun and fired to the left.
The first bullet missed the prepared Vanguard Fighter pilot, who dodged it, but the second wasn't nearly so easy to avoid.
The bullet pierced the Vanguard Fighter and blew it apart.
After taking care of him, Felix piloted the White Ginn toward the other fighters.
At that moment,
at the Earth Alliance Forces' Temporary Command Post for the operation to retake Victoria Spaceport, in the rear,
"How are our attacks progressing in the five directions?"
Lieutenant General Hope, the commander-in-chief of the operation, asked his adjutant.
The adjutant gathered the latest reports and relayed them to Hope.
"Commander, things are much better than before, but our soldiers' physical abilities are far inferior to those of these Coordinators. That's made our attacks much less effective."
"You don't need to tell me that. Just tell me how the attacks in these five directions are going."
Hope frowned at that and replied in a slightly stern voice. Hearing him, the adjutant continued his report.
"East, southeast, south, and west have all suffered fairly heavy losses, but things are still better there than in the north. ZAFT has an ace in the north. That one man is worth more than ten ZAFT soldiers, and he's inflicted heavy casualties on us."
"Damn Coordinator technology!"
Hope slammed a fist down on the armrest. His expression twisted, and his voice came out low and hoarse.
After saying that, he calmed himself somewhat and gave an order.
"Send reinforcements to the north. I want to see if this so-called ace can still hold out when we send in more troops."
"Yes, Commander!"
His adjutant, Horton, replied.
The order to reinforce the north was quickly relayed to the troops stationed there.
Vanguard Fighters began moving out of the hangars. They flew toward the sky in three-fighter formations, and fifty had taken off in a very short time.
The ground forces also mobilized some of their tanks, sending dozens of them to the front.
On the northern front,
the White Ginn maneuvered to the left through the air, dodged, and turned around, firing the Heavy Assault Machine Gun in its hands.
Boom!
An explosion rang out, and a Vanguard Fighter was destroyed.
After firing, the White Ginn maneuvered rapidly through the air, dodging attacks coming from multiple directions before charging toward three Vanguard Fighters ahead.
Before the three fighters could turn around and retreat, it drew the Heavy Slash Blade at its waist and swung it, taking them out one after another.
After destroying the three fighters, it maneuvered backward through the air for nearly a hundred meters, dodging shells fired from the ground. Then the Heavy Assault Machine Gun opened fire.
Rat-tat-tat!
A burst of bullets spat from the muzzle.
The bullets flew along different trajectories, eventually striking the ground and destroying one tank after another.
After those attacks, Felix piloted the White Ginn backward another dozen meters, dodging attacks from both sides, then raised his gun and fired at them.
Two bullets shot out in succession.
After firing those two bullets, the ammunition counter showed that the machine gun was empty. Seeing this, Felix piloted the White Ginn as he replaced the magazine.
The Ginn tossed the spent magazine down toward the ground.
The magazine followed a precise arc and landed on top of a tank. It didn't destroy the tank outright, but it damaged the Railgun mounted on it.
Without its Railgun, the tank had lost its ability to attack. Faced with this situation, the tank commander decisively ordered the crew to retreat.
With the magazine replaced, the White Ginn dodged an attack, raised its gun, and fired ahead.
After taking aim and correcting the trajectory, Felix made his move. A bullet shot from the barrel, flew at incredible speed, and finally destroyed the fighter.
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