"Trying my best here...!" Izumi responded, switching her Gundam back into mobile suit mode, and slashing a mobile doll in half with a beam saber. How many was that now? Five? There were still more.. they were coming in as reinforcements after wiping out less skilled or unlucky mobile suit teams. Suddenly, the majority began to focus on Izumi alone. Lucia found herself able to breathe again, but her friend was now blocking and dodging a ridiculous amount of enemy fire.

"What.. th.. My head!" Izumi whined, sounding deeply pained. She was jolting the Saviour around clumsily, breathing heavily over the comm channel and.. was she crying? "Stop it! I can't.. take it anymore..!"

The Blast Impulse launched all it's rockets into the mobile doll formation, then flipped it's beam cannons into position and tore through a small amount of them. "Izumi, what's wrong? Get back to the ship, I'll cover you!"

Izumi could be heard almost choking between sobs... What the hell was going on?

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"Commander!" A voice acknowledged Calthorn. Two Strike E units had come to assist him, both of them using Aile Strikers. "We'll give you a hand here, Sir. Let's start shooting these bastards up!" The pilot of one unit said, as both covered Calthorn's flanks to give him some more room to breathe. ...But what he felt next would be horrifically painful, even for an Extended who was trained to endure such trivialties as 'pain'. This was on an entirely different level. His mind and body would feel like ice, his vision would fade or begin to adjust wrongly to everything. It was like existence was rejecting him, just like it was with a certain ZAFT pilot at the same time.

They were the only ones in such pain, and the mobile dolls were beginning to primarily target them.

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"Sir, ...I'm getting some strange energy waves from the enemy flagship. They just deployed a mobile weapon, too. That's too fast to be a mobile suit... It can't be." The watch stander reported, the Minerva's Captain impatiently thumping his thigh. "Maddox, what have you driven us all into?"

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The incredibly fast mobile suit was approaching the Saviour first, which had lost it's shield and was getting plastered in gunfire, while it's pilot screamed in agony. Izumi could swear she heard somebody tell her to 'fall'...

"Zerenis, on the radar!" Lucia called out. "We might need that charged shot of yours!" She suggested. Obviously the incoming enemy unit was something special. "Izumi, hang on!" The Impulse began blasting at the mobile dolls which were busy firing on the Saviour from every angle.