Just as Canard had said, the battle she and Canard faced was equally dire.
After Onogoro Island, they were facing these three G-Series units again, but this time, their opponents exerted far more pressure than before.
The enemy pilots' movements were more practiced and precise than during their last encounter.
The changes in the units' movements were secondary. The greater problem was that they had begun coordinating their tactics.
In the previous battle, the three units had seemed to fight independently, and their pilots had even appeared to compete with one another.
Now, that impression had vanished. They were beginning to exploit their individual units' strengths to form an effective attack combination.
The Raider Gundam's attack just now had not merely been aimed at the Freedom Gundam. It had also been intended to push her into the Calamity Gundam's line of fire-a simple two-unit maneuver.
The Raider Gundam, the Forbidden Gundam, and the Calamity Gundam. Each unit's individual combat capabilities already posed a threat, but they had been designed from the outset to fight together. Once they began truly coordinating, their combined combat power was far more than the sum of its parts.
"Tch!"
After successfully covering the Freedom Gundam, Canard immediately raised the Experimental Nuclear Zaku's Beam Rifle and aimed at the distant Calamity Gundam.
Yet just as he was about to pull the trigger, the Forbidden Gundam suddenly moved in front of the Calamity Gundam.
It folded the shields on its back forward and deployed them, forming an enormous shield. As the Mirage Colloid Generator activated, the space around the shield warped. When Canard's beam struck that distorted space, it was deflected in an entirely different direction and vanished into the distant void.
The Calamity Gundam slid out of the blind spot created by the Forbidden Gundam, its