The New Mobile Suit's First Battle, Part 2

An elegant, merciless cross slash flashed across the sky and vanished.

The pilots of the two ZAFT mobile suits, a GINN and a CGUE, did not even have time to make out their opponent's movements.

The last thing their eyes caught was a blinding pink flash.

A moment later, their minds fell into darkness forever.

The searing heat pierced the mobile suits' heavy composite armor in an instant, like a hot knife through butter.

Where the cockpits were cut open, metal vaporized and melted in the thousands-degree heat. It and the pilots inside became a spray of blazing liquid.

Circuits and power lines inside the suits shorted out violently, setting off secondary explosions.

Boom! Boom!

Two muffled blasts followed. Huge orange-red fireballs bloomed behind the Unicorn. Black smoke and shattered metal spread outward like two brief, brilliant fireworks displays seeing off the White Death.

Xia Ya did not look back.

To him, they were merely two insects he had brushed aside on the way to his destination.

He spared no attention for the result. The instant he completed the slash, he retracted the Beam Saber and mounted it at his waist, then pushed the thrusters to their limit once more.

The pure-white Unicorn Gundam left the two burning heaps of wreckage to tumble into the sea. It became a white meteor again, racing southeast at full speed toward the coordinates marked Yunenglu Island.

He drove the mobile suit to its physical limit.

The nuclear reactor's surging power sent a nearly solid stream of pale-blue particles, a hundred meters long, blasting from the main thrusters on its back.

At that speed, friction with the atmosphere generated tremendous heat. A faint, mirage-like energy ripple shimmered across the surface of its pure-white Phase Shift Armor.

Above the blue clouds, the suit drew a