"Thank you, Ms. Baker," Saturnalia replied to the communications officer, before saying, "Ensign Noelle, Virtue Gundam, taking off."

The catapult sent her a distance away. She waited for the rest of the team to arrive before getting into her firing position. "Donna, I'm counting on you to watch my back in case any enemies manage to get that close, the Virtue's lousy at close combat.

When the group made visual contact with the enemy carrier, the Virtue opened the chest cover over its GN Drive and attached the butt end of the GN Bazooka directly into the drive. "Lieutenant Black Star, I realize that when I first joined, I probably seemed obsessed with getting power for my suit from your ship. Allow me to demonstrate the necessity and the benefit." She took her time adjusting her firing angle. Although she felt this ambush was unnecessarily aggressive, she needed to establish her place among her current allies. She also had no qualms about eliminating members of this "Zeon", a supposed space colony insurgent group. Though space colonies had not yet developed to the point where they could have their own "nations" in her world, Saturnalia felt that even if they did, they had no place in Veda's plan. Still, maybe she didn't want to eliminate the enemy ship's control tower just yet, especially if they wanted to capture the enemy leadership for interrogations. She aimed the bazooka at the hanger, hoping that her shot would prevent the deployment of enemy reinforcements.

"Activating 'Burst Mode'," Saturnalia proclaimed. The Virtue dug int's heels into the ground to maintain stability. The bazooka opened up like a jaw while a golden, inner barrel extended forward. After a short period of charging, the bazooka fired an intense, pink column of energy that traveled towards the enemy ship's hangar. Saturnalia thought about how most suits and Gundams were designed for taking out other suits and Gundams, in essence for dueling. The Virtue wasn't a duelist, it was a weapon of mass destruction, and the only other Gundam with comparable firepower in the Sundown was the X Gundam piloted by Gabriel Cross, the man who had saved her on their first encounter. Saturnalia wondered about the sort of power trip the Captain must be having, sending both of them out in a preemptive strike like this. The thought made her admire him somewhat.