Chapter 75: The Grand Finale Glittering in the Wind
The wreckage of Junius 7 grew bigger and bigger in Ade's eyes, and all he could hear in the cockpit was the sound of his own breathing. Running in a bit of a hurry, he would have liked to hear Lacus's voice again, but couldn't bring himself to do so, and every second he wanted to turn around and go back immediately.
"I don't believe that Gundams can push the satellite back." His hand gripping the joystick still trembled slightly, "but how can I gamble with C.C.'s life…"
"In the end, it's just us again, Ade." Alice's voice seemed very calm, "Are you sure? Do we have a chance of success?"
"Sorry, Alice, it's different this time." He smiled bitterly, "The probability of pushing the satellite back is an infinitesimal amount, and the probability of us surviving is another infinitesimal amount. In other words, you're going to die with me."
"It's okay, Ade, no need to apologize." Alice said happily, "Eternal life means nothing to me, and I'm content to die with Ade."
"… Well, I'm content too."
Hyzenthlays quickly approached the satellite, and in a moment, Ade could feel Amuro and Char, and these two also sensed him one after another.
"This feeling, who is it?" Char hesitated for a moment, "Amuro is here, could it be Haman?"
"This feeling, Adrien?" Amuro was taken aback and quickly tapped into Hyzenthlays's comms, "What are you doing here? It's not your place to do this, go back!"
"What am I doing here?" Ade said to Amuro snappishly, "Who told me something about 'going to realize a possibility that will be achieved even if the worldview is broken'? Who told me to put the Psycho Frame in the cockpit? Now you have the nerve to ask me what I'm doing here!"
"You're saying something I don't understand again, don't change the subject!"
"Lingus, it's you!" Char's voice suddenly interjected, "What are you doing here? Go back to take care of Mineva for me!"
"Do I know you well? Who are you? Is it honorable to let me adopt a six-year-old girl without saying a word?" Ade sneered, "What the hell are you thinking? Throwing a satellite on the earth? Is such a stupid idea come up from your buttocks?"
"I had to do it for the future of humanity, everything was a pain that had to be experienced, it would have been a perfect plan! But there's no point in talking about it now, everyone's going to die soon anyway." Char was very upset, "Do you believe in the future of mankind as much as Amuro does, risking your life for this?"
"I believe in your sister!" Ade spat angrily. (PS: it's a Chinese dirty word, I don't know how to translate it and maintain its origin meaning at the same time)
"Artesia?" Char exclaimed.
"Sayla?" Amuro was equally horrified.
"Am I crazy to get involved in something like this with a group of men?" Ade ignored them and continued to complain, "I'm doing it for the girl! The girl! Do you understand? C.C. is my waifu she is so cute and lovely I will smash his dog head if anyone dares to object to it!"
After saying that, he cut off the communication decisively and leaned back in his chair helplessly to catch his breath. Hyzenthlays had already affixed onto the satellite and began to do meaningless things. No keystrokes, no buttons to press, no joysticks to push, just silly waiting.
"Ade, your heart rate is dropping." Alice asked, puzzled, "Why? I don't get it."
"Scolding the culprit helps ease the fear." Hyzenthlays was pushed steadily backward. He tightened his harness to make himself sit more steady, "And then what? There aren't many minutes left, are there? How can I resonate with the psycho-frame?"
The bottom area of Junius 7 was so large that Ade could only see a handful of MSs in his field of view. There were no Gundams nearby, only a few RGM-79s and Zakus.
Every ten seconds or so, an MS would explode due to its own overheating, and then be crushed into cosmic dust by the huge mass of the satellite. He didn't turn on the public channel because he didn't want to hear the screams of others on their deathbeds, but watching it all in the quiet cockpit was even creepier.
Ade strained his senses to reach out to the psycho-frame, to Hi-v Gundam, to Amuro and Char, to everything he could find around him, but to no avail. He didn't know how this thing was activated, or how it worked.
"Just turn green!"
There was no glow, no resonance, no miracle. The satellite in front of him was still moving forward, and the other MSs in his field of view already all exploded.
"Sure enough, it is impossible to push the satellite back with Gundam." He closed his eyes, "If I can transmigrate again, I hope to be reborn as a gal game male protagonist."
"Ade, are you going to give up here?" Alice asked tentatively, "It's not too late to run."
"… no, I was just talking."
"It's okay to accept your defeat."
"Not yet …"
"Don't you think it's all just a waste of effort?"
"No. …"
"We are just waiting to die, don't you think to push the satellite with Gundam is really stupid?"
"I don't think so …"
"This all makes no sense at all, right?"
"I've said I don't admit it!"
In an instant, all the voices poured in.
Amuro's Char's Uraki's Shinn's Aker's Mu's soldier A's soldier B's enemy A's enemy B's Bright's Akama crew's Lacus's Mayu's his own ship crew's … everyone s voices rushed into his head in a flash, all of them speaking at the same time, and he couldn't hear anyone's voice clearly.
"Ade, what's wrong with you?" Alice shouted worriedly.
He covered his head and breathed heavily. Alice's voice was muffled by the noise of people. The brain felt like it was going to be torn open, and it was countless times more painful than on the ship just now, and every second he wanted to pass out.
"Is this resonance?" He even couldn't hear his own voice, "I'm dying without Lacus's kisses."
Then a blood-red spot of light diffused from the corner of his eye, gradually filling his field of vision, and then continued to spread outward. In a flash, all the cameras were covered with red light, and he could see nothing but a blanket of blood red.
"The color is not right." His consciousness began to blur, he felt that his head was about to be burned off, "Whatever, just hold on a little longer …"
"What is this thing? The psycho-frame's resonance?" Char looked at the red light that suddenly appeared in the cockpit, "Instead of horror, it's a very warm feeling, but what's the use of this - uh ah!"
Something seemed to break the boundary of Char's consciousness, and his brain tingled violently, but the tingling disappeared in an instant. He felt the confluence of countless wills, and countless voices poured in, yet nothing could be heard clearly. This was followed by a violent feeling of exhaustion, as if he had done something extremely taxing on his brainpower and wanted to sleep immediately.
"This feeling… Adrien!" Amuro reached out his hand to try to touch the point of light, "Hi-v Gundam is also responding to him, is this the light of humanity? But this blood-red - uh ah!"
The instantaneous sharp pain, the sea of murmurs, the intense feeling of fatigue, the same thing that happened to Char before happened to Amuro now, and happened to everyone who was pushing the satellite.
With Ade as the center, a huge blood-red light curtain unfolded in all directions at an incredible speed, covering all the MSs under the satellite. the light curtain had no thickness, and the surface showed a positive hexagonal shape with layers overlapping, the light curtain and the MSs under it were vaguely linked together by blood-red dots of light that were almost unobservable from a distance.
To the eyes of everyone on the ships, Junius 7 crashed into a blood-red curtain of light with a regular texture that suddenly appeared in the universe, its trajectory distorted to the naked eye. There was no sound in the vacuum, but everyone seemed to hear a loud bang in their ears. A few moments later -
"Junius 7's course changed, it's detaching from Earth!" An uplifting voice rang out first from Akama's bridge, "Captain, they made it!"
"Is this the true power of NewType?" Bright looked at the location where the curtain of light disappeared and was too shocked to move even a finger.
Beneath the disappearing light curtain, many of the MSs' thrusters had been damaged, and they continued to speed towards the direction of the atmosphere under the effect of inertia. The blood-red points of light gradually turned into nothingness, at this time, as if these MSs were pushed from behind by some force, inexplicably changing their trajectory of movement and escaping from falling into the atmosphere.
"Ade, it worked, the satellite flew away!" Ade heard Alice's voice in the haze, "Hyzenthlays is badly broken, we are going to fall into the atmosphere, the chances of survival cannot be calculated."
"All controls of Hyzenthlays are handed over to you, Alice." He said with his last strength before passing out, "Let me sleep for a while …"
"Hm! I will protect Ade!" said Alice, but he could no longer hear it.
At this moment, while everyone else was either excited or puzzled by the miracle, Lacus was probably the only one who guessed what had happened. The moment Ade cut off the communication, she turned on the power of S.E.E.D in a hurry. She could feel his consciousness, warm, brave, terrified, angry, and then at some point, it suddenly and violently burned up, and then that curtain of light appeared.
The light curtain disappeared now, and his presence was so faint as if about to die out at any moment.
"We found F91! It's is badly broken and the pilot is unconscious!" The bridge resounded with Mayu's cheers, "My brother is alive!"
"We found Hi-v Gundam! MS is badly damaged and the pilot is unconscious!" There was another message, but it wasn't what she wanted to hear.
The CIC personnel kept broadcasting the survivors found, everyone incredibly alive, it must be a miracle, but the most important person to her still hadn't been found.
After a while, the frequency of the announcements gradually slowed down, one only every few moments, then slower and slower until it stopped altogether.
She was about to feel him no more.
"Haven't you found Hyzenthlays yet?" She finally couldn't resist speaking out, "Please try harder, please."
No one answered her, and Mayu lowered her head uncomfortably.
The young girl finally couldn't feel him at all.
"Haven't you found it yet?" She just repeated the words blankly, "Please try harder, please."
…
"The satellite flew away?!" The ups and downs made C.C. look a bit overwhelmed, this emotion was too foreign to her, "I, so I …"
"The person you asked about fell into the atmosphere. I can feel his location. Lost consciousness, so I can't talk to him." Lilith's voice appeared in C.C.'s mind.
"Where is he? No, where would he land?" C.C. asked excitedly, "I'm going to find him, right now!"
Lilith was quiet for a while, not knowing what she was doing. Just as C.C. was getting impatient, the voice finally reappeared in her head, "I can't feel him."
"… hey?" C.C. didn't respond, or rather her brain refused to understand the message, "Then look for it again."
"I can't find him within my consciousness."
"But you're Lilith." She looked blankly at the huge white human form, "Look again."
