The Battle Resumes

Who could keep up with the frenzied combat pace of a Super Coordinator like Canard Pars? Who possessed such extraordinary piloting skill that they could control this most advanced mobile suit?

The answer seemed self-evident.

Athrun Zala's gaze locked tightly onto the Freedom Gundam with its Mobile Armament Wings deployed, as though he could see through the thick armor and make out the figure inside the cockpit.

Was it... her?

The childhood friend he had believed long dead in the great explosion at Alaska Headquarters.

The girl who had caused him pain, left him lost, and whom he still could not let go of.

The answer was the name Canard had just shouted himself hoarse.

Jiliang... Yamato.

The brief stalemate was shattered by the Earth Alliance's savage roar.

Inside the cockpit, Clotho Buer let out a beastlike howl. The Raider Gundam's wings, transformed into flight mode, instantly adjusted their angle, and its engines erupted with dazzling blue flames.

At the same time, Shani Andras hummed an eerie tune as energy began gathering in the Forbidden Gundam's massive Hresvelgr plasma induction cannon.

Below, Orga Sabnak, pilot of the Calamity Gundam, maneuvered the mobile artillery platform through one heavy leap and landed firmly atop an Orb Army warship.

The ship's deck groaned in agony beneath the Calamity Gundam's weight, but Orga did not care.

He swiftly aimed the Multiphase Energy Cannon in its chest and the cannons on its back at the melee in the sky, forming a lethal crossfire with his teammates from above and below.

"Die! You lackeys of ZAFT and Orb!" Orga roared over the public channel, his voice brimming with a thirst for war.

The three Earth Alliance killing machines bared their fangs once more like sharks scenting blood, their targets the two out-of-place units at the center