Chapter 107: The Other Side of the Rainbow
Behind DX Gundam and on its legs, a number of golden wings spread out to each side, and the two huge cannon tubes that were originally on its back were set up on its shoulders. A slim, bright light stretched from above the moon to DX's chest, and the small golden wings glowed in the night sky as if they were filled with energy from a distant satellite.
"This is the trump card left by the Doctor, can I really use it?" Garrod's palms were slightly sweaty, "We have only two chances, there are many pilots stronger than me, right? Why is it me?"
"Only you can." Tiffa gazed into his eyes, her tone was calm and firm, "Garrod, I only trust you."
"Since Tiffa has said so, there's nothing else I can choose." Garrod giggled, took a deep breath and gently pulled the trigger, "The Doctor is also willing to trust me, I will do it."
Tiffa took his other free hand and closed her eyes. Knowing full well that the person next to her was not NT, she still tried to share the location she felt with him, "Garrod, over here."
Garrod was clearly not NT, yet he seemed to see a target in the underworld that was not even visible to the naked eye. He slightly corrected his aim based on something he didn't know whether it was intuition or delusion, and a confidence that came from nowhere rose up in his heart, "Tiffa, I see it."
The next second, a thick beam of light spanned the two ends of the canopy, tearing apart to illuminate the entire starry sky and finally hitting the ground with a heavy, deafening thud. The upper half of the Dawn's Royal Pillar disappeared completely in the beam, and a huge and beautiful dragon-like creature rushed out of the crumbling pillar on wings into the clouds, its crisp cries resounding in the night sky.
"It worked in one go…" Garrod gaped in disbelief for a moment, then hugged the girl beside him excitedly, "Tiffa, Tiffa, we did it! "
Tiffa blushed slightly with a smile on her face and called out in her consciousness to the NT on Iserlohn not far away, "Mr. Amuro, it worked."
"Tiffa and Garrod made it." Amuro, who was sitting in the cockpit on standby, said with a smile to the bridge, "The youngsters nowadays are really something, I can't lose to them either!"
"Amuro, it's really better for me to strike as well." Char felt quite uncomfortable standing on the bridge, "With Sinanju's excellent performance and my driving skill…"
"The dealings with Britannia can only be done by you, the battlefield is not the place for you to use your talents." Amuro paused for a moment, "Also, don't hold me back with your poor driving skill."
"Amuro!"
"It was Adrien who first said that, you can complain to him." Amuro ignored Char again and cut the communication to the other MS on standby next to him, "Miss Ange, is it really okay? This is Gundam, it's not something that can be operated just by looking at the manual in a temporary manner."
"No problem, Ade totally complimented me on how smart I am." Ange was doing a final self-check on the manual, "It's just a delivery, it's not like I need to do any complicated operation."
"Then I'll go ahead. Please say hello to him for me." Amuro found himself nervous for a rare brief moment, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, "Amuro Ray, F91·Remodeled, sortieing!"
Watching Amuro disappear from the ejection tunnel, Ange also put the manual away and shouted at the screen, "Alice, let's stop fighting for now and wait until Ade is rescued."
"If I had not become a music player, I simply do not need you." Alice appeared on the screen with an unhappy face, "This is only a temporary partnership with you until Ade comes back, Alice does not like you at all."
"It doesn't matter if you like me or not, there are so many people in the world, I can't make everyone like me." Ange ignored Alice, fastened her seatbelt, and maneuvered the MS up to the launch position, "It's all for Ade, Ange, Unicorn Gundam, moving out!"
The white unicorn left the battleship and made a free-fall motion towards the ground. Ange turned on the thrusters and accelerated horizontally with full force in the direction of the Dawn's Royal Pillar. The acceleration, which was much greater than the PM, made her feel a little uncomfortable at first, but after only ten seconds, her body became familiar with the feeling.
"It's pretty simple, not much more complicated than Villkiss." She controlled Unicorn Gundam to do a few difficult maneuvers in the air, "That one called Amuro is too exaggerated, I'm so smart, it's really enough to only read the manual."
"No, we won't have the manual of Unicorn at all, right?!" Alice suddenly shouted, "What the hell are you reading?"
"How is it possible? I found it in Ade's room. Look, how smoothly I'm operating this, no problem at all." Ange thought for a moment and fished out the manual from the compartment at hand and looked at the cover, "The Operating Instructions of RX-78-2 Gundam, oh, it's also Gundam, pretty much."
"…"
"You are just an AI, what are you dwelling on this for?" Ange said impatiently, "Finding Ade is the most important thing, right?"
Alice looked at Ange expressionlessly and spoke after a moment of silence, "From the analysis of the data, you and Miss Lacus and C.C. Miss are not the same, instead, you and I are somewhat similar."
"Because although they like Ade, they all think of themselves first." Ange replied without thinking, "Only I would be stupid enough to put him ahead of everything, maybe you too?"
"Miss Ange, this world is big for you, there is the entire universe." Alice suddenly said this for some reason, her voice was a little sad, "But for Alice, Ade is the whole world."
"I'm not as exaggerated as you are, I also have my own life and hobbies." Ange thought carefully for a moment, "He's at most eighty percent, well no, eighty-five? That's pretty much it anyway, I can't do the math."
"… Temporary truce." Alice's image disappeared from the screen, "Focus on driving Gundam, don't chat with me."
"Obviously you are the first to chat with me, okay? That's ridiculous." Ange complained with a few sentences and finding that Alice ignored her, she felt bored and shut her mouth. Not long later, a familiar scenery entered her version, "I did not expect to return here again, but unfortunately, there is nothing left for me."
Unicorn Gundam turned on the floating system and gradually lowered its speed near the ground, eventually maintaining a low altitude speeding state. Ange stared intently at the ground, looking for a target, "If Ade is shouting 'Ange, help me!' at this moment, and I appear in front of him all of a sudden, isn't it super cool?"
"We shouldn't have chosen you, except for daydreaming, you are useless after all." Alice's voice was very dissatisfied, "Even Mineva is more useful than you. If it's an NT, we would have long found Ade."
"Found Ade!"
"…"
Unicorn landed smoothly on the ground. Ange jumped to the ground and rushed to Ade and hugged him hard, and they kissed each other as if no one was watching. It didn't take long for Ade to release her of his own accord, and Ange then greeted the long-awaited maid.
"Your Highness Angelise!" Momoka's eyes were teary with excitement, "It's so good to see you again!"
Ange hugged her maid in surprise, "Aren't you in Arsenal? How come you're with Ade? That perverted faggot didn't do anything to you, did he? Ade didn't do anything to you, did he?"
"Ade-san, he—"
"There's no time for chatting now!" Ade, who had already entered the cockpit, waved to the two, "I'll send you back first, then I have to go to Amuro right away."
Ange and Momoka looked at each other with a smile, then entered the cockpit without hesitation.
"Ade." Alice appeared on the screen with an unhappy look on her face, "The fourth person."
"Don't count Momoka in!"
"Why shouldn't Momoka be counted?" Ange subconsciously retorted, even though she had no idea what they were talking about, "Ade, as much as I like you, Momoka is also a very important person to me, you need to pay attention to it!"
Ade sighed, "If I really die someday, it must be because of the FLAGs you made for me."
On the other hand, the territorial waters of Misurugi.
Suzaku Kururugi was driving his recently repaired Lancelot Gundam Mk-II, and a small fleet was following behind him. Recently, there had been a lot of sarcastic nicknames for him in the Britannia army, such as "Intentional Feeding Master" and "ACE Goalkeeper", which made him very uncomfortable. This time, he was determined to prove his strength and not to bring shame to Princess Euphemia.
Earlier, Kururugi was rescued by a blond man with a mask. This man called himself Full Frontal, an underground worker who aspired to the national liberation movement around the world. He expressed his appreciation for Kururugi's great sacrifice to save his country, and he was deeply touched and benefited from a long talk with Kururugi.
Then Mr. Frontal asked Kururugi to introduce him to Princess Euphemia, and Kururugi readily agreed. This action was guaranteed by Frontal with all his credibility. As for how he convinced Euphemia and Conelia, Kururugi had no idea.
As expected, the unknown black Gundam did not appear. But Kururugi did not let his guard down, and he kept himself in the best condition to strike at any moment. His vigilance was correct, and the next instant, a strangely shaped MS appeared in front of him.
"It doesn't seem to be a Gundam?" Kururugi made that judgment based on the MS's appearance, "Then there's nothing to fear."
While Kururugi said that, Lancelot unfolded its beam saber and rushed up. A dozen seconds later, the crippled Lancelot was salvaged by his teammates, and Kururugi returned towards the flagship at the tail end of the fleet.
"Again, this pointless crap stuff." Embryo grunted impatiently, "No time to waste on you monkeys, Yang is still waiting for me."
"Notice to the entire Britannia army." A voice suddenly sounded on the public channel, "That MS is equipped with Moonlight Butterfly, please have your side retreat immediately."
As soon as the words came out, a Gundam that looked like F91 stopped in front of TurnX. This Gundam did not carry a beam rifle, and the VSBR on its body had been removed, so there was not a single thing resembling a long-range weapon visible all over its body.
"Moonlight Butterfly?" Kururugi immediately reacted. He did not even have the idea to try to test the truth of that statement, and Lancelot sped at full speed towards the battlefield, "All troops retreat!"
"Thank you all for buying time for me." Amuro unfolded the beam saber and approached TurnX, and F91's MEPE (Metal Peel-off Effect) was activated instantly, pulling out a series of afterimages in the air, "Let's see how long I can last."
"Another so-called ACE," Embryo didn't even bother to activate TurnX's split function, "Everything is meaningless in front of the absolute performance gap and my hundreds of years of experience."
The two machines fought for several rounds. Relying on MEPE, Amuro barely kept up with TurnX's movements, "What a terrifying speed, surprisingly so much faster than Adrien's Gundam! But you need to understand that the performance of the MS is not the key to determining victory or defeat!"
"What kind of monster are you?!" Embryo was surprised to find that he couldn't take down this MS instantly, "I have no time to play with you, just go to hell!"
A pair of Butterfly-like gorgeous light wings unfolded from TurnX's back. The lights extended to the surrounding space at an incredible speed, and covered the entire sea in an instant. The Britannia fleet didn't have time to run out of the range and was wiped out, and only a few fast MSs such as Lancelot managed to escape.
The light dissipated and only TurnX and …F91 remained on the sea!
"How would I dare appear in front of you without some preparation?" Amuro smiled faintly and rushed up again, "F91 is not just good-looking!"
"How dare this inferior creature show off in front of me!" TurnX split into nine with a whoosh, "Let me see how long you can last!"
As the battle resumed, F91 relied on its afterimages and Amuro's NT instincts to weave its way through TurnX's nine-part firepower net, dodging sure-fire attacks with incredible speed and angles. In fact, with F91's attack power, it couldn't even break through TurnX's defense, but Embryo's pride would never allow him to turn around and go back before killing this little bug.
"Why couldn't I hit it? How is it possible that I can't hit it? This is TurnX! This is his TurnX!" Embryo shouted angrily, "You must crash here today!"
The time passed, and even with Amuro's strength and concentration, he could not hold out any longer. F91's movements were still fast, but the situation was getting more dangerous than ever. Finally, at a certain point, F91 stopped without warning.
"This MEPE system is really powerful, but unfortunately, it requires too much." Amuro breathed heavily, the intense physical exertion causing his stomach to cramp slightly and the muscles in his hands to stiffen up, "Is this the best I can do?"
"Can't move at last?" Embryo made an excited sound, one of the parts aimed at Amuro, "Your life is already like a candle in the wind! Die, little bug!"
"That's not for sure, is it?"
In the moment of firing, TurnX's left hand suddenly flew in front of F91 and was blown up. Embryo immediately let TurnX regroup.
"Amuro, thanks a lot." Unicorn Gundam with a dazzling red glow appeared in the middle of the battlefield, "Leave it to me, it's the finale I have to create with him."
Amuro felt the unbelievably powerful and frightening consciousness in his head, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say. The F91 left the battlefield, with Amuro saying "I believe in you" with his consciousness for the last time, but he received no response.
"Yang…" Embryo was at a loss for words, "You still betrayed me."
"It's not a betrayal." Ade corrected, "I have not been with you from the beginning, we have always been in a hostile relationship."
"Again, again, again, again!" Embryo cried out in pain, "Why must you be on the opposite side of me! Why must you force me to kill you!"
"I have learned that you also have a lot of bitterness, but Chang Wufei is right, what has happened is what has happened, and no one can wash their hands of it." Ade said, "It's okay, I'll end it all right away."
"Isn't it good that we create a new world together? I'll create for you as many women as you like! That politician, that Norma, that old witch, I can create them for you the exact same!" Embryo hissed through gritted teeth, "You're the only friend I've had for a thousand years!"
"You're wrong. He's your friend, I'm not." Ade sighed and shook his head, "You can ask him yourself later."
"Are you even going to deny that? Yang Wen-li! Don't bully me too much!" Embryo growled, "I will fuck your daughter in front of you until you regret saying that!"
Ade didn't answer him, but took a deep breath and felt the long hazy presence in his consciousness, "Hey, lend me your power."
He unconsciously stretched out his hand into the void, and in a trance, he saw a figure smiling and meeting his fingertips. The familiar scent brought tears to his eyes, but he couldn't stop giggling.
"See, I told you, we're two people."
His fingertips reunited with his, and the two souls resonated warily, guiding more souls toward this place.
"Ruri, Teletha, Treize, Heero, Akito, Sousuke … First time meeting, please take care. Everyone from Arsenal, hello again." He gazed into the void with tears in his smile, and countless palms overlapped with his, "Please lend me your power, everyone."
Unicorn Gundam's body suddenly emitted a blood-red light that was so eye-catching that it was blinding, and the exposed Psycho-frame on the fuselage was so brilliant and radiant that it seemed to ooze blood.
"Unicorn, lend me your power."
A thin layer of blood-red crystals condensed on the surface of the Psycho-frame, like the dried and crystallized blood tears of a unicorn. The entire surface of the sea reflected a blood color in the moon and red light, TurnX quietly floating on top of the sea of blood.
"It shouldn't be like this, what is this?!" Embryo tapped the operation panel impatiently, "Move, why isn't TurnX moving?!"
"Embryo, you'll see him soon." Ade closed his eyes as tears continued to pour out of them, "You can already stop trying, I'll help you get rid of it."
He could now easily sense the presence in the distant high sky without any amplifier.
"Tiffa, the target is here."
A few seconds later, the hideous beam of light once again tore through the night sky and cut through the sea, and TurnX gradually faded away in the light. Only Unicorn was left standing in the moonlight, bloody as ever.
"Hold your horses." He guided Embryo's consciousness, "Come and meet him, I promised you."
"… Yang?" Embryo's voice carried a hint of trembling, "Is that you?"
"It's good to see you again." Yang smiled and held out his hand to the two, "Ade, come along and have a chat? I have so much to tell you."
"Sure." Ade responded with a tear-stained smile, "Me too."
The blood light on Unicorn gradually dimmed down, and the thin crystals on the Psycho-frame also evaporated disappearing, and finally, Unicorn changed into a horn white appearance. Above the moonlit sea, the pale unicorn looked like a dream.
The breeze brushed the surface of the sea, and in an instant, the shimmering light shattered, a 300-meter-long fish-like beast breaking the waves and opening its 100-meter-long, tooth-lined, bloody mouth and swallowing the Unicorn Gundam, then falling headlong into the deep sea and disappearing.
