Having left his old squadron behind for the moment Captain Carter West felt himself introspecting on how bizarre this mission was. These units with him...both advanced, and antiques what kind of situation was this? The Republic of Zeon had folded...and yet they still couldn't pull out better machines for some of these pilots? It just seemed odd. Throughout his twenty or so years of experience in the battlefield he thought the days of Zeon were finally over but if they were pulling the captain of Round Bear from his duty of rounding up political dissidents, and traitor hunting what the hell was this situation about? How big was it really? He felt his Re-GZ Custom humming underneath him. Lieutenant Amuro Ray had piloted something like this back during the Char's Rebellion. It had served him well. It was a powerful machine, and it did its job well not too many units had the sheer amount of stopping power that this thing did, that couldn't call itself a gundam, or a mobile armor. 

He breathed in and out carefully considering all the factors at hand. The S-Gundam though...where the hell did they even get that thing from? And why did that girl get to pilot it? Was she one of those newtypes? Whatever he had a job to do, and he'd get it done. [color=f26522]"Captain Carter West. Launching Re-GZ Custom, making it happen."[/color] Carter said as he waited for his turn to clear launch. Once he was given it the suit in its waverider mode launched. He felt the usual kickback of the launch sequence, something to him at this point was barely worth noting, and he launched. [color=f26522]"Carter reporting. Launch cleared forming on the shuttle."[/color] Carter stated. He hoped Black Thorn didn't intend to bark orders at him throughout this mission. By far he was one of the highest ranking space soldiers on this unit. To his knowledge no one here was a Commodore. [color=f26522]"I don't know what brass is expecting but if it needs this big an escort than keep an eye out like she said. This better not be just an exercise that'd mean this is way to excessive."[/color] Carter said as he kept his machine at a reasonable speed neither going full in, or too slow simply keeping it at a casual pace. He kept his breath calm, and he made sure to be looking at his radar. He wasn't one of those fancy ass newtypes he had to keep his eyes on the ball.