Chapter 43: The Crying Sky (Part I)

With a long-range shelling from the Buster, this tragic pursuit battle on the Pacific officially began.

The reason it was called tragic was that Athrun and the others attacked with extreme determination from the beginning.

The Duel and Buster, two artillery units, relied on the protection of Phase Shift Armor to charge and fire while taking the Archangel's anti-aircraft fire head-on.

They were just bullying the Archangel for having its back to the pursuers, with the forward beam main gun unable to reach behind. The rest of the weapons were all live ammunition, which was difficult to cause effective damage to Phase Shift Armor, so they fought so aggressively.

And the Aegis dragged the Strike, which had the strongest power of the Archangel, into the consumption of mobile shooting.

Once the two Skygraspers tried to harass, Shihe would drive the Beam CGUE to provide suppressive fire, forcing Li Boyong and Mula Flaga to turn.

If Li Boyong and Mula Flaga acted separately at the same time, Shihe would focus on taking care of Unit 1 equipped with the Launcher Striker.

And the bare Unit 2 could hardly cause effective damage to the three Gundams.

In short, the common idea of avenging Nicol made Athrun and the others put down their previous slight prejudices.

In this battle, they cooperated with each other, covered each other tacitly, and exerted extremely powerful combat power.

The Archangel side felt huge pressure in a short time.

"Hey, hey, hey, this difficulty is too high."

Li Boyong had to complain after being forced back by Shihe again, venting the pressure in his heart.

Just now, if he hadn't given up decisively, he would have been blown up in the cockpit by now.

In this battle, Shihe didn't show any mercy.

Her shooting was precise, her judgment was decisive, and her cooperation with teammates was very tacit, completely unlike the way she was led by the nose in the previous two battles.

Li Boyong, who failed to harass, climbed and turned. After waiting for Shihe to drive away Mula Flaga's Unit 1, he dived to attack the Duel that kept shelling the Archangel.

He aimed at the Guul under the Duel's feet, fired two missiles, and fired his main gun continuously at the same time.

"Flying around is so annoying!"

Yzak was also tough, maneuvering the Duel to lift its shield directly, and the head vulcan cannon fired to shoot down the missiles, while the shield took the Skygrasper's main gun head-on.

After Li Boyong's Skygrasper dived and passed, the five-barreled missile launcher fired continuously, and the beam rifle and shoulder railgun in his hand fired alternately.

"I'm going, is the little white hair crazy?"

Facing such crazy firepower, Li Boyong was so scared that his whole person was not good.

Didn't I just look at one of your Guuls?

Is it appropriate for you to pour all your firepower on my little plane?

Are you still going to hit the Archangel...

While dodging frantically, he complained frantically.

Relying on acceleration and the emergency climb before hitting the sea, he threw all the missiles chasing behind him into the sea.

The water splash from the missile explosion had some impact on Yzak's vision. Li Boyong took advantage of the cover of the water splash to temporarily get rid of the Duel's pursuit.

But this dive attack also made Li Boyong lose altitude and speed, seeing that the Duel behind had a posture of not giving up and catching up.

Li Boyong hurriedly called for Kira's help: "Kira, Kira, help me intercept the guy behind my butt!"

Kira saw this, broke away from the mobile shooting battle with the Aegis, and turned to provide fire cover for Li Boyong.

"Understood!"

The Strike's beam rifle fired several precise shots, forcing the Duel to stop the pursuit of Li Boyong.

Li Boyong hadn't breathed a sigh of relief yet, when he saw the Aegis climbing to high altitude, then jumping off the Guul, and transforming into MA form.

Li Boyong took a sharp breath, hurriedly called the Archangel urgently: "Hurry up and dodge, the Arch..."

Before the words were finished, the thick red beam shot out from the Aegis, directly destroying the Valiant railgun on the left side of the Archangel, and caused some damage to the power mechanism on the left side.

The left power was damaged, the Archangel inevitably tilted to the left and gradually couldn't maintain its flight posture.

"Haha, got it!"

The Buster saw this and seized the opportunity to launch continuous shelling on the Archangel. Although it didn't give the Archangel a fatal wound, it also destroyed several vulcan turrets.

"Don't think you'll succeed!"

Mula Flaga harassed the Buster again. The huge power of the beam cannon forced the Buster to retreat for the time being.

Shihe drove the Beam CGUE to want to drive away Mula Flaga's Unit 1, but was entangled by Li Boyong who had just recovered his altitude.

After a maneuver confrontation, the Beam CGUE instead bit the tail of Unit 2.

"I must shoot you down this time, be prepared!"

The Beam CGUE's shooting was continuous, Li Boyong dodged desperately, relying on the Belligerent skill that had begun to take effect to barely support.

"Hey, hey, don't talk about Gundams, I might not even be able to handle a CGUE!"

On the other side, the Strike, after helping Li Boyong force away the Duel, was instead entangled by the Duel.

The Duel drew its beam saber and lunged with a slash; the Strike also drew its blade to meet it.

The two units fought together with sword against shield and shield against sword, gradually entering a state of stalemate.

The output of the two units was about the same, and a stalemate situation of being evenly matched appeared.

But Kira's combat technique was already much stronger than Yzak's. He used the feature that the Aile Strike's maneuverability was more outstanding, suddenly retreated, and drew his gun to blow up the Duel's right leg with one shot.

Losing the support of the right leg and affected by the explosion, the Duel detached from the Guul and fell toward the sea.

"Even if I die, I'll take you with me!"

Yzak ignored the Duel's fall, turned around in the air, and fired continuously at the Strike, destroying the beam rifle in the Strike's hand before falling into the sea.

Temporarily solving the Duel, the Strike drew its sword and entangled the Aegis, not letting Athrun continue to attack the Archangel.

"Can't let more tragedies like Nicol's happen!"

Athrun Zala, this battle had no hesitation and confusion.

He wanted to kill Kira here with his own hands!

The Aegis detached from the Guul and let the Guul crash into the Strike. Kira hurriedly maneuvered the Strike to dodge.

But Athrun fired in advance to destroy the Guul, and the Strike lost its flight posture control in the air due to the explosion.

The Aegis seized the opportunity to draw its sword and charge. The Strike barely parried the Aegis's slash with its shield.

But the Aegis increased the power of its thrusters and forcibly pressed the Strike down to the island in the sea.

I don't know when, a rainstorm started in the sky. The two units stood against each other with swords on the island. After a thunderclap, they rushed towards each other at the same time.

And the Archangel, which had lost power, was forced to land on another island. The maintenance crew inside the ship was fully extinguishing the fire and rushing to repair, striving to restore power.

But the fierce Buster Gundam stared at the Archangel that couldn't move at this time.

On the other side, Shihe calmly and orderly pulled the trigger, squeezing Li Boyong's physical strength and unit kinetic energy bit by bit, gradually forcing this enemy pilot with complex senses into a desperate situation.

This tragic battle was inevitably sliding towards the abyss of tragedy, and Li Boyong, besides desperately twisting the joystick to delay his death, seemed unable to do more. ===== CHAPTER 44 =====