Farewell to Durandal

"Shin... Shin!"

"Stella..."

Hearing someone call his name, Shin Asuka opened his eyes and saw Lunamaria looking at him with concern.

"Shin!"

"Luna...?"

When he looked around, he realized that he had somehow been brought aboard a battered warship.

Destiny Gundam lay toppled across the wreckage of a Nazca-class battleship.

In the distance, countless drifting warship wrecks and MS debris formed a horrifying sight.

"Right, the Minerva—"

Shin Asuka suddenly recalled what he had seen before he lost consciousness.

The Minerva—

But he could no longer voice the question in his heart.

Because amid the shattered battlefield, he spotted the wreckage of the Minerva. Like discarded cargo, it drifted alongside other ZAFT and Earth Alliance warships.

Yet for some reason.

At this moment, with the fighting stopped, they seemed so harmonious—so harmonious that his vision blurred.

Humans gave meaning to battle, but what did humans fight for—

Then he remembered the boy who had been deceived just like him, who had always fought at his side. He hurriedly looked up and asked, "Ray... where's Ray?"

Lunamaria quietly shook her head and turned her gaze toward Messiah Base.

Shin Asuka followed her gaze.

There, two white warships and one red warship stood out painfully.

But for some reason, seeing that they had neither been destroyed nor fallen, Shin Asuka felt an inexplicable sense of relief.

[METEOR System activated—]

The METEOR Systems detached from the sides of the Main Angel and the Eternal, linking up with the three MS.

In wordless silence.

Noer and the other two raised their golden-eyed gazes and looked together at Messiah Base, now close at hand.

Without a word, the three of them could feel the roar rising from the depths of each other's hearts—end this absurdity!

Rumble—

Enhanced by the METEOR Systems, the three