Chapter 90: Don't Appear if There Is No Foreshadowing
The ground was in chaos as the defense guards finally began to appear, but as far as Ade's eye could see, there were only armored vehicles, small flying vehicles, and other carriers that simply made him wonder about the level of technology in this country. Ade didn't even bother to pay attention to them, controlling Hyzenthlays to fly back to the sky again, and asked Ange casually, "Know what's wrong?"
"Got it." Ange took her sleeve and wiped the tears from her eyes, "I was wrong."
"Well, fine attitude." He continued, "And what was wrong?"
"You're not finished, are you?" Ange instantly stopped tears and shouted, "I am so pathetic, are you still bullying me? Do you have humanity? I just found out that I was, was…"
"Was what?" He rarely saw Ange being so hesitant, so he looked at her curiously, "You are already Norma, what else can you be?"
Ange hesitated for a moment and finally chose to shake her head, "Nothing, I am what I am and nothing else."
He watched Ange finally stop crying and reached out to touch her head, only to have Ange snap his hand away. Ade thought about it, thinking that the method of comforting Mineva might not work well on her, but he didn't know nor couldn't use other methods.
Now that they had been exposed, he wanted to scout a little more before the final boss came back, especially to watch who was calling for help to him under that pillar. He quickly flew near the pillar and circled around, finding no entrance where his MS could go.
"This thing looks like something that will only be explained in the last few episodes." He blurted out to Ange, "If I just blow it up now, we may be able to skip a hundred thousand words of plot and enter the next episode directly."
Ange looked at him with a dumbfounded look. He didn't bother to explain, just set up his VSBR and prepared to fire. Suddenly, his NT radar sounded, and he subconsciously made an evasive maneuver to the side, only to see a red shadow flying past his eyes.
If Alice hadn't been banned and blocked by him, he would have received an alert when the other side appeared, but at this point, there was no need for Alice to report it. The one hovering opposite him was a red Gundam. The overall design and details of the MS were directly reminiscent of a dragon, with a pair of wings stuck on its back that looked like they had no purpose other than to be looked cool. A claw mounted on the right wrist, and a long chain attached to the shield on the left forearm.
"Nice reflexes." A young male's voice rang out on the public channel used by Arsenal, "I would not have wanted to make an enemy of you if you only wanted to look around, but it is my duty to protect the Dawn's Royal Pillar, and Lord Embryo's anger must be quelled. Come on, let me see your strength as a warrior."
"That's the red Gundam Emma was talking about, right?" He gulped and his voice shook a little, "E, E, Epyon?!"
"A very powerful MS? You're no match for it?" Ange noticed that he seemed a bit perverse, "Then let's hurry up and run, right? Didn't you say your MS can run faster than… something?"
"It's not a matter of being powerful or not, this world is too abnormal." He wanted to talk something with the opposite side, but his brain was a bit confused, not knowing where to start, so he could only focus on the battle first, "Ange, hold on tight."
The pilot on the other side didn't receive a reply, so it raised its thermal whip and charged straight up. Epyon was a pure close combat machine in Ade's memory, and extrapolating from the power of the available thermal weapons, Hyzenthlays could defend its attack and use its long-bladed rifle to fight back. But he did not dare to do so, flying away and trying not to be touched a little. He had no idea about the true power of this kind of unknown MS at all.
"Very good speed, but that's the end of it." The other side must be an ACE. Even if Ade ignored him, he still kept talking to himself, "I can not escape the fate of blood on my hands, Epyon, I'm really sorry to let you do such dirty things with me."
The other side unfolded the beam saber located in the right hand, deftly dodged the long-bladed rifle and burst forward, slashing down into the air from a long distance. Ade stepped back sharply without thinking and deployed his light shield upward to resist its attack at the same time. As expected, the two sides are still a dozen of meters away, but Epyon's beam saber cut hard on top of the light shield.
"What the hell is this thing?" Ange struggled to keep her balance as she exclaimed, "How come his sword is so much longer than yours?!"
Ade didn't have the effort to correct Ange's misrepresentation. The experience of pushing the satellite made his NT ability stronger and more sensitive at the same time, he is fighting at this moment while forcing his mental fluctuations to stabilize, "Maybe he's also a transmigrator, he made Epyon and play the COSPLAY. Don't think nonsense, there is no problem with the world view."
Taking advantage of a missed attack, he finally settled his mind, open the public channel, and asked, "Are you Zechs Merquise?"
"How do you know me by that name?" Epyon's movements stopped abruptly, the opposite voice was full of shock, "Who are you? The opposite Gundam's pilot, answer me, who are you?"
"He is really Zechs …" Ade also froze in place with a dumbfounded look, "No, I can't explain it. I can't find a credible reason for this broken worldview."
"'I can't find a credible reason for this broken worldview', this tone, is it you?" Zechs was shocked, "Doctor? Is that you, Doctor?"
"How can there be Zechs? No OZ, no Heero Yuy, no Wing Gundam, where did Zechs come from?" Ade did not even listen to what Zechs was saying, just kept talking to himself, "No clues, no foreshadowing, you can't force a new worldview in like this, I can't find an explanation for it. I can even accept the existence of angels, but how can there be Zechs? Why would there be Zechs?"
"Ade, what are you doing?" Ange had never seen him like this before and slapped him, "We are still in the middle of a battle, what are you doing?"
"A character won't appear if there is no foreshadowing, isn't it the basic rule of this world? Was I wrong in the beginning?" He ignored Ange, "You can just appear without the foreshadowing, is there ROBOTECH? Xel'Naga? Dual Vector Foil?"
"This way of speaking, this obsession with worldview, could it be the Doctor himself? How is it possible, the doctor has…" Zechs lifted the beam saber to charge again, "Whoever you are, hurry up and come to your senses first!"
Ade is still immersed in his own mental world, but even so, he subconsciously operated Gundam, and his fighting skill wasn't being affected in the slightest.
"Hey, the opposite pilot, Ade's a bit mentally unstable right now, I don't know when he's going to recover." Ange stared at him closely with worry and shouted to the opposite side, "Do you know him? Or do you want to tell him something? Please stop fighting so I can communicate with you."
"A girl?" Zechs stopped Epyon's movements, "And what did you just say his name was?"
"His full name is so long, I can't remember it." Ange recalled carefully and gave up, "Anyway, he is called Adrelingling or something."
"No, not his name!" Zechs hammered the panel with hatred, "He's not the doctor!"
"Ha, mistaken identity?" Ange froze, "Well, you guys can just keep fighting."
"Wait, let me confirm it again." Ade's mind finally returned to reality again, "The guy who calls himself Zechs, do you know Noin's measurements?"
"Of course I know!" Zechs reflexively shouted out, then froze, his face gradually showing ecstasy, "You! Listen to me, time is running out, Embryo will be back any moment. Remember, Treize knows the truth. I don't know what the significance of this clue is, but surely we can figure it out! No matter what, don't give up hope!"
"Ok, I know you are on our side now." Ade's brain was running at high speed, analyzing every word Zechs said, "But there are two most important questions, first, where did you and Epyon come from? Second, who is the doctor you just mentioned? I haven't figured out the worldview yet and can't communicate with you freely."
"Epyon and I naturally came from , the doctor is *."
"Hey, the keyword is muffled!" Ade shouted anxiously, "What's the situation on your end?"
At this moment, Zechs found himself losing all operating privileges to Epyon, while Embryo's voice rang out in the cockpit, "When you hear this recording, it means that you triggered the sensitive words, intending to reveal key information to the enemy. Stupid monkey, do you really think I will not be prepared for your betrayal? The MS will self-destruct three seconds later after the end of this recording, that's right, your favorite self-destruct, are you happy?"
At this point, Embryo's voice came to a screeching halt, a countdown appeared on the screen, and Zechs, realizing he had only one more sentence left to say, instinctively shouted, "Relena is alive!"
A second later, Epyon Gundam exploded in front of Ade and Ange's eyes.
"Hey?" Ange was confused, "What's going on? Why did he just blow up? Wasn't he just talking?"
Now according to the atmosphere here, Ade should feel sad for Zechs. He probably can brainstorm the plot of Zechs trying his best to reveal the last information of the final boos before he died. However, the problem is that he does not know Zechs at all. He didn't feel sad at all but felt somehow inexplicable.
"Silenced, self-destruct, his betrayal should have been detected by the final boss." He searched and didn't even find the remains of the body, "He spoke a bunch of things I do not understand, but once he tried to say the key information, he was silenced. Is this BOSS not stupid? Fine, smart BOSSes are generally not very strong."
"So what do we do? Should we continue to attack the pillar?"
"Why not, just try it first, maybe we can finish all this by destroying it." He set up the VSBR and fired a cannon, and found that only a shallow crater appeared on the surface, "How thick is this thing's armor? It's simply harder than Genesis, this BOSS is too wimpy, right?"
Ade hesitated for a short while, and decided to slip away first. With VSBR's firepower, there was no way to do substantial damage to this pillar, and if he didn't go, the boss might come back at any time. He turned around and started to leave.
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At the same time, in the Atlantic Ocean, the combined forces of Britannia and TITANS had entered the territorial waters of Misurugi. But the strange thing is that they did not encounter any defenders, as if they were in no man's land. Suzaku Kururugi, the Seventh Knight of the Knights of the Round Table, was at the front of the fleet in his redesigned Lancelot Gundam. He volunteered to join the scouting force as a high-ranking warrior.
In the incident of Prince Lovis' death, Director Asplund was the first to judge the threat of Inle, and secretly ran away before the battleship was blown up. After that, Kururugi drove the crippled Lancelot and returned to Earth after meeting with Asplund.
As one of the few survivors of the Prince's death, Kururugi was saved by Princess Euphemia, and then relied on Princess Euphemia's relationship, he was promoted all the way to be one of the Knights of the Round Table. This is the first large task he is responsible for, and Kururugi secretly vowed in his heart that he must successfully complete the emperor's account for the sake of Princess Euphemia.
"Enemy spotted!", something in front of him pulled him back to reality, he quickly informed the friendly forces, "The enemy is … a Gundam type MS, only one machine!"
Above the large sea, there was only one pitch-black Gundam floating silently, with no other enemy could be found. The shape of the Gundam was simple, no gun-like equipment could be seen on it, and the armor seemed thin, only an object of unknown purpose hanging on its back seemed to be a weapon.
"A pure close fighting MS?" Theoretically, he should retreat at this time and just wait for friendly forces to bomb that MS, but Kururugi decided to take this battle credit, "If I go back without doing anything, I will be treated as a coward again. I don't care about my reputation, but I must not let her be slandered for this."
Several friendly troops nearby were the first to attack, with several beam rifles firing at the black Gundam at the same time. The opponent did not dodge, and the particle beams seemed to hit on top of an invisible barrier when they were about to hit, and were blocked in the middle air.
"I-field? No, I've never heard of such an I-field, what is it?" Kururugi was still cautiously judging the performance of the black MS, but his teammates had rushed up, "You guys! Wait!"
However, it was too late, the black Gundam suddenly moved, so fast that the several MSs were killed before they could even react to what the other side had done.
"So fast! This speed, this movement." Kururugi couldn't help but feel excited, "This person … is not inferior to me!"
The black Gundam took a glance in Lancelot's direction, put away its beam saber leisurely, removed the equipment on its back, and unfolded it. Only then did Kururugi realize that it was actually a large bow.
