"It's not over yet! Don't get so cocky, you lapdogs of the Earth Forces!"
Canard snorted. Seeing another small Peace Maker Squadron regrouping on the radar display, he was about to floor the thruster pedal and send his machine racing away with Meteor's terrifying thrust.
A chain of violent explosions erupted one after another in the distant void. The blinding high-energy flashes even caused the cockpit's visual filter system to dim briefly.
That wave of nuclear missiles attempting to breach the defense line was detonated in full within the safe airspace outside the perimeter.
Just then, a shrill, piercing alarm rang out inside the cockpit.
A high-threat fire-control radar lock warning flashed madly amid red lights. Canard's beast-like instincts instantly told him he had been targeted. Without the slightest hesitation, he yanked the main control stick while firing the lateral attitude-control thrusters in reverse, sending Meteor into an extremely brutal barrel roll away from its original position.
Almost the instant he left his position, a thick red-and-white concentrated high-energy beam that made one's heart tremble, along with two slightly thinner but equally lethal beams, swept through the space he had just occupied in a triangular formation.
"Ha ha ha ha! Die! All of you, become space junk!"
A frenzied, rage-filled roar erupted over the public communications channel.
Canard's main display rapidly zoomed in, revealing the GAT-X131 Calamity Gundam speeding toward him, its huge back-mounted cannon platform and twin shoulder Beam Cannons still spewing beams of destruction.
Inside the cockpit, Orga Sabnak's eyes were bloodshot, and the dark circles beneath them made him look like a demon. The abnormal neural exhilaration brought on by the enhancement drugs had him crazily handling this cumbersome heavy-firepower machine as though it were an assault unit.
"You're too damn loud, mad dog."
Canard's gaze turned