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826. New Members of Cruse's Team

In CE70, on February 14th, the Earth Alliance used nuclear bombs to bombard Junius Seven, a satellite where PLANT was developing agriculture.

This undeclared war and the direct use of nuclear weapons completely enraged the Coordinators.

This disaster was known as the "Bloody Valentine," and the war between the Earth Federation and PLANT completely erupted.

In January CE71, the ZAFT forces, under the command of White-Suited hero Cruse, received information through special channels that Orb, which had been neutral, was secretly developing new MS in space for the Earth Federation to use against ZAFT.

Upon receiving the information, Cruse led his special operations team towards Heliopolis, a space satellite belonging to Orb, from the ZAFT military's high-speed warship heading from PLANT's mainland.

However, shortly after Cruse's fleet departed, they suddenly received a communication from the Chairman of the ZAFT military council.

The communication was simple: they were to wait in place for a new team member to board his Vesalius.

This communication puzzled Cruse.

It was rare for someone to be added to the team temporarily before an operation, especially since the request came from Patrick Zala, the Chairman of the National Defense Committee of ZAFT and the current Chairman of PLANT.

The temporary addition by the supreme commander made Cruse feel that the Chairman wanted to send someone to monitor him.

Although puzzled, it was ultimately the Chairman's order, so Cruse ordered the warship to wait in place for the new team member to arrive.

The sudden stop of the warship puzzled the members on board, especially the members of Cruse's team who were directly under his command.

Cruse had become a hero of the ZAFT military due to his outstanding performance in the war.

He received the Nebula Medal, the highest honor of the military, and wore the White Suit, making him an elite among elites.

The members of his team were almost all Red Suit elites.

The so-called Red Suit elites were elite soldiers second only to the White Suit.

Moreover, due to Cruse's status, his Red Suits were almost all second-generation members of high-ranking officials.

The PLANT council was composed of twelve councilors, each ruling one of the twelve cities belonging to PLANT.

Each councilor represented a city and a family, and the descendants of these councilors who could join the military had all joined and become Red Suit elites.

ZAFT's only hero leading a group of councilors' and even the Chairman's sons—that was the situation of Cruse's team.

This was a super, even privileged, team in the truest sense!

"Captain Cruse, why have we stopped?

Didn't we say we needed to get to our destination quickly?"

Yzak Joule, the only son of the Joule family, a steady faction councilor among the twelve councilors, became a Red Suit elite at the young age of 17.

He had a very irritable temper and did not seem steady at all.

After hearing the CIC announcement that the warship had stopped and was waiting in place in the passageway, he and the other members came to the bridge to ask Cruse.

"Yes, we do need to get to our destination quickly, but the Chairman just sent a message asking us to wait a moment for a new team member to arrive."

"New team member?"

Athrun Zala, the current Chairman's son, was curious upon hearing the order issued by his father.

"Could it be that a new Red Suit has been promoted?"

To be able to join this team, especially with the Chairman requesting their addition to Cruse's team, it had to be a Red Suit.

Green Suits were not qualified to have the Chairman speak for them, especially with the sons of other councilors present.

Which Red Suit had so much face?

"As far as I know, we have been in a stalemate with the Earth Alliance space fleet recently, and there haven't been any battles breaking out.

Besides, you only graduated not long ago, and the new class of students has only just enrolled, not even close to graduation."

As a White Suit, Cruse naturally had first-hand information, but his information showed that there was no such thing as a new Red Suit.

"In other words, the person coming is a Red Suit elite that we don't know, only the Chairman knows."

Not cultivated from the academy, but a Red Suit cultivated separately by the Chairman, that was very interesting.

Cruse looked at Athrun with an ambiguous smile on his face.

Although he was wearing a mask, everyone could feel the curiosity in his eyes.

"Athrun, you don't know either?"

Being stared at, Athrun felt very embarrassed.

He was the Chairman's son, and would likely become the new councilor or even Chairman in the future, but he really didn't know anything about his father's affairs.

"Sorry, Captain Cruse."

The son of the steady faction was irritable, but the son of the radical faction councilor had a weak personality.

It was quite magical.

Cruse looked at the downcast councilor's son, his smile deepening.

He never expected Athrun to know any information about the Chairman.

Asking him was just to tease him.

"It's okay, I was just curious."

After comforting Athrun, Cruse looked at the remaining members.

"Since no one knows, let's welcome this new team member together later."

He was also very curious about this mysterious new member.

The new members didn't make them wait too long.

In less than twenty minutes, they heard a message from communications control.

"Two heat sources are approaching.

Identification information has been sent.

Mobile suit identification in progress.

Identification confirms the models are our own MS GINN.

The other party has sent mobile suit identification numbers.

Identification numbers are GN001 and GN002."

"Two?"

Cruse was stunned for a moment after hearing the report.

He thought it would be one, never expecting two to come.

This was truly surprising.

"Two Red Suits?"

The members of Cruse's team were also very surprised.

The number of Red Suits was very small.

Each was an elite.

Secretly cultivating one was understandable, but there were two!

"Athrun, the Chairman is really amazing."

Cruse once again spoke to Athrun ambiguously, making Athrun feel very embarrassed.

"This...."

"It's okay, don't overthink it, I'm just marveling at the Chairman's ability to cultivate elites for our ZAFT, nothing more."

Seeing Athrun's embarrassed appearance, Cruse explained himself.

At the same time, CIC reported the message again.

"The other party's mobile suits are entering our front, decelerating, the landing application has been received, the entry passage is open."

The hangar door located directly in front of the Vesalius opened, deploying the hangar.

The Vesalius was a Nazca-class space-based high-speed warship of the ZAFT military.

The hangar was located directly below the center.

This was a warship completely for space use.

There was no catapult runway.

MS would start directly from the hangar and then fly out, without the need for a catapult.

Therefore, the hangar was also the launch bay.

By saving the catapult runway in this way, a large amount of unnecessary weight was reduced.

The lighter weight brought extremely high mobility.

Therefore, compared to the Earth Alliance warships, both the speed of action and mobility were much higher.

As for whether opening the hangar directly for launch operations would be dangerous, ZAFT's more excellent space radar and ultra-high navigation speed allowed them to detect the Earth Alliance earlier, thus preparing for battle earlier.

They could deploy all the MS before reaching the engagement range, so there was no need to worry about this.

This was ZAFT's technical confidence.

"GN001 and GN002 have arrived in front of our ship, carrying out landing operations, visible!"

The CIC's report made the members of Cruse's team, who were on the bridge, couldn't help but poke their heads out to look out the window, then one by one, their mouths grew wide in surprise.

"Ah, this...."

"Are these two mobile suits... serious?"

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"GN001 and GN002 have completed storage. The hangar entrance is closed."

The hangar entrance of the Vesalius slowly closed, and the hangar's logistics personnel began guiding the two mobile suits to empty parking spaces for securing. There's no gravity in the hangar, so they must be secured to prevent the mobile suits from flying around.

Moreover, the mobile suits need to be inspected, maintained, and their batteries recharged.

However, compared to doing these maintenance tasks, the maintenance crew was even more surprised by the appearance of these two mobile suits.

The members of Cruzer's team also descended from the bridge to the observation room above the hangar. Because the hangar needs to facilitate the entry and exit of mobile suits, it is in a vacuum state. Entering and exiting it requires wearing space suits. The maintenance personnel are all wearing work suits to carry out the mobile suit securing operations. In the observation room, there's no need to wear work suits, and they can directly observe the lower area through the windows while wearing regular clothes.

"Hey, hey, are these two mobile suits serious?"

"Looking at the backpack and equipment, it seems to be a high-mobility configuration, but this color scheme and decoration are a bit exaggerated."

"Is this really going to the battlefield? Is he trying to taunt the enemy so that the enemy will focus fire on him, thereby dying faster?"

"It shouldn't be that bad, right? Look at those verniers. It's obviously a mobility-specialized model. Perhaps he wants to use the conspicuous color to attract fire, and then use high mobility to dodge, thereby covering his teammates?"

"Do you believe that yourself?"

"And the red one is fine, but what's with the pink one! Don't tell me the pink one is also used to attract the enemy's attention."

The members of Cruzer's team in the observation room couldn't help but complain as they looked at the two mobile suits with their amazing color schemes below.

Even Cruzer was stunned.

As they complained, the color schemes of these two GINNs that had just entered the hangar were more amazing than the other.

The so-called GINN is a general-purpose MS developed by ZAFT. It is also the main MS used by the ZAFT military in space. It is a mass-produced model. Its powerful mobility and high-strength armor give the GINN an advantage in space combat, chasing after the Earth Alliance's heavy armored fighters and hammering them.

Ordinary GINNs have an overall dark gray paint job, or even darker colors, because this kind of paint job allows the mobile suit to have a certain camouflage effect in the dark space. Once it enters a silent state, radar cannot scan it, and the naked eye cannot detect it. It's no joke, this is space. It is quite difficult to find an object in space with the naked eye alone.

However, the two newly arrived GINNs in front of them, one is a very conspicuous red color scheme. This color is simply outrageous, so bright that it's not okay. For a mobile suit on the battlefield, this is simply a blatant way of telling the enemy, I'm here, come and hit me!

The armor of the entire GINN, except for the frame and joints, is all bright red. Even the shield on the left hand has a bright red base.

Moreover, this red GINN has many golden borders on its body, such as the horn-shaped antenna on the top of the GINN's head, the edge of the shield, and even the edges of the shoulders and chest armor. All are golden borders. These golden borders are drawn into various patterns on the bright red body. On the shoulders, there is a symbol of a sword wrapped in flames.

The entire mobile suit looks like it exudes a sense of gorgeousness.

In the words of Cruzer's team:

"Is this mobile suit really for combat? Are you sure it's not some kind of ceremonial mobile suit?"

"This kind of thing will be the first to be killed on the battlefield, definitely the first to die."

Yzak's personality made him unable to help but complain directly. He had really never seen a mobile suit with such a conspicuous color scheme. Even the GINNs used for ceremonies in PLANT only had some golden border coloring on a gray base, but that's a ceremonial mobile suit. What's with this bright red color scheme?

"Instead of complaining about this red one, why not look at the pink one next to it? This color is exactly the same as Lacus's hair color. And those patterns, are they hearts? I didn't see it wrong, did I?"

The pink GINN and the red GINN are the same.

"Did some young master or young lady from some family come to the army to play?"

Although they themselves are the sons of the highest authorities in PLANT, at this moment they couldn't help but want to complain. The red one looks like a noble who likes to show off, and the pink one looks like a young lady with an overflowing girlish heart. It's really hard to have other thoughts.

Under the gaze of the members of Cruzer's team, after the two GINNs with extremely individual color schemes were secured to their positions, the cockpit in front of them slowly opened.

A red and a pink pilot suit appeared in front of them.

"Not only is the mobile suit this color scheme, but even the pilot suit is this color scheme. And that pink one is really someone's young lady."

From the pilot suits, they could tell the gender. The red one is male, and the pink one is female.

"Hey, Athrun, could that pink one really be Lacus?"

Yzak looked at the pink figure heading towards the access port and couldn't help but ask Athrun, because in PLANT, the most representative pink figure is Lacus Clyne, the only daughter of the Clyne family, a member of the Twelve Council, a steady faction, the veritable princess of PLANT, and also Athrun's fiancée.

"This... I really don't know."

Athrun was stunned. Indeed, in PLANT, when you think of pink, everyone will immediately think of Lacus, because she has very beautiful long pink hair. Finding Lacus almost only requires finding pink hair. Pink can be said to be Lacus's representative color, and no one else will use this color scheme.

So, is this pink GINN in front of me Lacus?

With doubts and curiosity, everyone in Cruzer's team looked towards the access port.

After the pilots come out of the mobile suit, they enter an oxygenated environment from the access port, and then they can take off their pilot suits or space suits and breathe and speak freely.

Tss—

Along with the pneumatic sound, the passage from the observation room to the access port was opened, and two people, one red and one pink, appeared in front of Cruzer's team.

After the two walked into the observation room and stood still, they immediately began to take off their helmets.

Because of the previous guesses, everyone focused their attention on the pink one. They wanted to know if this person was Lacus Clyne.

However, unfortunately, after the helmet was taken off, they didn't see pink hair. What was revealed was a cute face with a sweet smile, plus brilliant golden hair. Although it wasn't Lacus, she was a super cute girl on the same level as PLANT's national princess Lacus!

The young men of Cruzer's team were stunned for a moment.

"It's not Lacus."

Yzak wasn't very interested in beauty. He was a little disappointed that he guessed wrong.

"And they're unfamiliar guys."

While muttering in a low voice, Yzak looked at the remaining red guy.

After the helmet was taken off, it was the same brilliant golden hair as the pink girl next to him, and a silver-white mask.

"Huh?"

Yzak was stunned.

"What's wrong, Yzak?"

Athrun asked Yzak curiously.

Yzak pointed to the man opposite.

"This guy is wearing the same mask as the captain."

Everyone focused their attention on the man, or rather, the mask on his face.

Especially Cruzer, the captain, was very surprised when he looked at the mask on the other person's face.

What the hell, why are you also wearing a mask? And even the same style as mine?

Cruzer's mind was full of question marks, but before he could ask, the man opposite spoke first.