After expressing his gratitude, Williams had his communication cut off by Moonenidy. Staring at the terminated connection, Williams turned his attention to other matters.
Atlantic Federation Presidential Residence
Presidential Office
After ending the call with Williams, Moonenidy immediately initiated communication with the other two leaders. Soon, the three convened via holographic projection in a conference room at Earth Alliance headquarters.
"Moonenidy, is there a reason for this meeting?" Bragano asked coldly, his gaze fixed on Moonenidy.
Zhou Zhenguo glanced at Bragano before shifting his attention to Moonenidy. Under their scrutiny, Moonenidy played the combat footage sent by Williams.
As the video played, Moonenidy stated, "This ZAFT MS has far exceeded our expectations. Its threat level is critically severe for us—we must develop countermeasures."
Bragano responded dismissively, "Moonenidy, you're stating the obvious!" He took a deep breath before continuing, "We've attempted numerous operations against it, all ending in failure. Why bring this up again now?"
Zhou Zhenguo looked toward Moonenidy and inquired, "Do you have a new strategy?"
Moonenidy withdrew his gaze from Bragano, his expression softening slightly as he addressed Zhou Zhenguo with a tone of familiarity. "Learn from the advanced to counter them."
Zhou Zhenguo immediately understood, a slight smile forming on his lips. "Using Coordinators to deal with this machine?"
"Mm," Moonenidy affirmed with a nod.
Bragano interjected, "Currently, we only have a handful of mixed-blood Coordinators in our forces, most of whom aren't frontline combat personnel. Is using them truly feasible?"
Both Moonenidy and Zhou Zhenguo turned toward Bragano. Moonenidy responded, "We won't know until we try."
Zhou Zhenguo nodded in agreement. Though silent, Bragano eventually nodded his approval as well.
Seeing their consensus, Moonenidy proposed, "In that case, we'll assemble these mixed-blood Coordinators and deploy them to the Moon for frontline combat duties."
Zhou Zhenguo nodded slightly. "No objections here."
Following suit, Bragano added, "I have no objections either."
Combat Zone Between Earth Alliance Forces and ZAFT
The Genesis Gundam, piloted by Felix, executed evasive maneuvers. Its shield deflected beam attacks as the mobile suit accelerated diagonally left to avoid additional beams. Raising its beam rifle, it fired two shots—explosions flared ahead.
After these shots, Felix maintained relentless focus, continuing to pilot the Genesis Gundam through complex evasion patterns: left, right, forward-left, backward-left… Continuous movement allowed it to slip through layered beam assaults.
Using his innate abilities to perceive his surroundings, Felix's fingers danced across the control interface.
The Whale Plasma Cluster Beam Cannon appeared on the weapon selection dial.
Felix pulled the firing trigger.
Two Sandwich Beams shot out from the cannon muzzle.
The beams traversed the battlefield. Two Strike Dagger pilots spotted the incoming beams.
With tense and panicked expressions, they maneuvered their Strike Daggers.
Before the Strike Daggers could fully execute their commands, the beams pierced through their torsos.
At the moment of explosion, both pilots turned into fragments alongside their MS, scattering across the airspace.
"Bastard!"
A furious roar echoed through the Strike Daggers' communication channel.
Following the outburst, numerous Strike Daggers surrounding the Genesis Gundam initiated positional maneuvers.
Inside the Genesis Gundam's cockpit
Felix used his abilities to perceive the positional changes and corresponding trajectory patterns of the Strike Daggers, quickly determining viable attack and evasion paths.
His hands and feet moved rapidly to execute commands.
Powered by an immensely powerful Quantum Computer, the Genesis Gundam responded instantaneously to the inputs.
The backpack thrusters erupted with tremendous force, propelling the Genesis Gundam forward and left.
During the high-speed movement, the Genesis Gundam performed a leftward barrel roll to evade.
Dodging the incoming beams, Felix pulled the trigger once more.
The Beam Rifle and Whale Plasma Cluster Beam Cannon fired simultaneously.
Three beams shot out!
Explosions flared up ahead.
By the time the Strike Daggers exploded, the Genesis Gundam had already used its superior mobility to evade beams attacking from other directions.
"Quantity becomes quality—dealing with this many small fries isn't so easy!"
While maneuvering the Genesis Gundam to dodge, Felix muttered to himself, his focus razor-sharp.
As he spoke, he pulled the trigger again.
The Genesis Gundam's Beam Rifle fired.
The high-velocity beam pierced through a Strike Dagger that was altering its position.
"Another one of those preemptive strikes!"
Witnessing the Genesis Gundam's predictive attack, one Strike Dagger pilot gripped the control sticks tightly and gritted his teeth.
While speaking, he executed a feint maneuver with his Strike Dagger.
After performing the move, he alerted his comrades.
"Everyone, use feint movements! Don't move directly—avoid letting this guy read your patterns!"
Following his warning, other voices chimed in over the comms.
"No need to remind us!"
"We already knew that!"
"Stop stating the obvious!"
...
Ignoring his comrades' replies, the Strike Dagger pilot remained calm and continued operating his unit.
Meanwhile, inside the Genesis Gundam's cockpit
A faint, cold smile curled at the corner of Felix's lips.
"Feints?"
He scoffed under his breath, then calmly squeezed the trigger.
The Beam Rifle fired at a Strike Dagger performing a feint.
"What?!"
A cry of terror escaped the pilot's lips.
He froze momentarily in his operations, and by the time he reacted, it was too late.
The incoming beam pierced straight through the cockpit.
Under an expression of horror and despair, he was incinerated by the high-energy, searing beam attack!
The Strike Dagger erupted into a violent explosion at that moment.
"Damn it, can he even see through such convincing feints?"
Witnessing the death of his comrade, a shocked exclamation echoed through the Strike Dagger's communication channel.
The stunned voice received no response.
At this moment, everyone was contemplating their next move, thinking about how to preserve their own lives in the upcoming actions.
Inside the Genesis Gundam cockpit
Felix observed all targets on the screen, manipulating the Genesis Gundam's movements based on everything his abilities could perceive.
While executing the maneuvers, Felix called out to Aric.
"Aric, can you hear me?"
"Captain, I'm listening!"
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