CHAPTER 10 : Deicide

Aoi, Yurika, and Seira are still in utter shock after witnessing how Kaede meets her demise. Yurika tries to get up, and quickly runs toward Seira.

Yurika: "YOU MURDERER!"

Yurika tries to fire at Seira using her beam rifle, but she jumps up to avoid it. Yurika also tries to jump, but the damage on her back prevents her thruster to work properly. Seira looks at her energy meter and sees that it is almost empty.

Seira: "I seriously have to return… Damn it…"

Seira flies away, heading back to DreAca. Shortly after, Aoi's Bluegale Delta team arrives at the scene after Seira's Dream Windam team also retreats.

Rio: "Aoi! You okay?!"

Aoi: "Not really, my GN Drive is not in a good condition…"

Nagisa: "Wait, where is Kaede?"

Aoi: "Seira… she killed her…"

Nagisa: "What?! How?!"

Aoi: "I'll try and explain it later… We… have to get back. We have… failed…"

Nagisa: "Uh… okay…"

Rio and Nagisa helps Aoi and Yurika get up, and then flies, heading back to Galaxy Starlight. Ichigo and Ran who were already on their way the scene are ordered to go back, knowing that Aoi and the others are already heading back.

In DreAca…

After her failed attempt to escape, Mizuki finds Seira in a corridor, and she immediately slaps Seira with full force across the face. Seira is shaken by that slap, she even accidentally bites her lips, causing it to bleed a little.

Mizuki: "You… murderer…!"

Seira: "I… I never imagined that it would-"

Mizuki: "No matter what, you still murdered one of my best fellows from Tristar! I cannot forgive you for that!"

Seira: "I… I'm in no place to ask for forgiveness… If it couldn't be helped…"

Mizuki looks even more pissed at Seira. However, she just leaves Seira behind.

Mizuki: "I've had enough! This DreAca, especially Otoshiro, is driving me nuts! They even killed Kaede, my fellow unit member of Tristar! I can't stand them anymore! I must run, run as far away as possible once I finally get the chance."

Seira still looks depressed after what she has done at the battle. Tiara approaches her.

Tiara: "You did what you have to do. Because this is war. We're doing this to make sure none shall stand in our way of becoming the absolute best idol school."

Seira: (angrily) "But does that mean I have to kill people for that?! You said it yourself that you don't want to have any casualties in both sides! We weren't supposed to go into an all-out war!"

Tiara: "One or two casualties… does it really matter?"

Seira: "What? I thought you cared a lot about people's lives, and now you don't?!"

Tiara: "I said because this is war! We've went too far, and there's no turning back now! The only way to set things right is to win this war, or die trying. Like I said, you did what you have to do. You did it because you had no choice. And slowly, you'll realize your destiny."

Seira: "This Kaede… she was Mizuki's friend. She tried to protect the Starlight Queen."

Tiara: "So that's the one you end up killed. But, should I repeat what I just said?"

Seira: "No, I already know. Because this is war…"

Tiara: "Good. Now, you must be tired. So, better take a rest."

Tiara leaves.

Seira: "No turning back…? We went too far, turning the skirmishes from back then into an all-out war. If I really had no choice but to kill…? No, I better rest up for now. I can't burden myself with thoughts like that for too long…"

Seira slowly goes to the nearest restroom, washing her face and cleaning the blood from her slightly bleeding lips. After that, she goes to her room and lays flat on her bed with a gloomy look on her face.

In Starlight Academy's changing room.

Yurika, extremely frustrated and angered by Kaede's demise, expresses her anger by punching and head-butting her locker several times. Her forehead begins to bleed because of that.

Yurika: "DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! Why the hell Kaede had to die?! We're so close of taking Mizuki back, but that unholy Seira keeps getting in our way and even killed Kaede! DAMN YOU, SEIRA! DAMN YOU!"

Aoi feels offended by Yurika's anger. Angrily, she approaches Yurika.

Aoi: "Which means that's gotta be my fault for recklessly activating Trans-Am without fully realizing that my GN Drive is not completely fine-tuned for that system yet! Tell me it's true! Tell me!"

Yurika: "No! I'm not saying it is your fault! It is totally her fault!"

Aoi: "Don't lie to me! I know you must be hiding the fact that you're placing all the blames to me! And, after all, you're the one who forced yourself to go and save Mizuki without enough preparations! And I was forced to help you!"

Yurika: "Why should I?! And about that, yes, it was our mistake to begin with! Satisfied?!"

Ran: "Enough!"

Ran pushes Aoi and Yurika away from each other.

Ran: "You two doesn't have to blame each other for that! If you want to blame anyone, blame Otoshiro Seira! She's the one who murdered Kaede! Obviously, DreAca has gone too far to the point where they have no fear of taking away one of our precious friend's life. We have to pay them back, with a VENGEANCE."

Yurika: (sobs) "I agree, Ran. I swear I will suck every last drip of their blood- no, I will ABSOLUTELY dismember all those murderers! For Kaede, and for Mizuki!"

Yurika leaves the changing room.

Aoi: "Yurika…"

Ran: "Aoi, please. You don't have to blame yourself."

Aoi: "But it was my fault for using Trans-Am without knowing its consequences! I should've fought her normally, and then everything should be going okay! But, I used it, and I let myself get struck down after that! Thus, Kaede ended up having to sacrifice herself to save me."

Ran: "Kaede did what she had to do. She wanted to protect you from getting hurt. Though she had to pay it with her life. Like I said, it is not entirely your fault…"

Ran slowly starts crying.

Ran: "But… even without blaming yourself… still… Kaede…"

Ran sits down, covers her face, and cries. Aoi looks at Ran with such depressed and stressful face, knowing that they have lost a precious friend, and knowing that Kaede died to protect her from harm. Then, Aoi notices Ichigo looking at them from the door. Aoi looks at her.

Aoi: "Ichigo…"

Ichigo also looks depressed. Her eyes are also a bit teary, but she seems to hold herself from crying. Aoi approaches Ichigo, and then hugs her.

Aoi: (sobbing) "Ichigo… what should I do…?"

Ichigo: (caressing Aoi's head) "It's okay, Aoi. You don't have to pile up all those feelings yourself."

Slowly but surely, Ichigo also begins to cry.

In Orihime's office…

Johnny: "We lost Ichinose-honey… Seriously, how is it possible?!" (angrily)

Orihime: "It appears that Yumesaki Tiara has truly went way too far with them wanting to make us collapse. Not even Kanzaki Mizuki was able to stop them. *sigh* Ichinose Kaede… one of our precious assets in Starlight Academy as a Super Idol…"

Johnny: "If only Kiriya-honey's Trans-Am did not fail back then…"

Orihime: "Which means our current priority is to fix up the AoIris' GN Drive and make sure it can use Trans-Am without causing it to overload itself like it did before."

Johnny: "And after that, we got to pay those dumbasses back for killing one of our precious idols, not to mention one of the STAR-ANIS remnants of all people."

Orihime: "And also getting rid of Otoshiro Seira. Remember, she was the cause of Yumesaki's descent into madness and Ichinose's demise."

Johnny: "Hopefully Kiriya-honey and even Starmiya can put an end of her wrath. I really can't wait to strike the hell back with a vengeance."

Later that night, in DreAca…

Mizuki: "It is time…"

Mizuki finally begins her escape plan. She finds and covers the CCTV in her room with a duct tape and places a decoy on her bed. She then opens the air chute on the ceiling and climbs into it.

Mizuki: "I'm surprised DreAca's architects were stupid enough to include such a big air chute for me to fit in."

While crawling through the air chute, Mizuki passes by Tiara's office. She notices Tiara inside.

Mizuki: "I'm done, Yumesaki. Have fun with your nonsensical deity because I'm getting out of here."

Mizuki continues crawling until she reaches the chute door that leads right into the Mobile Suit hangar. She gets out of the chute, finding herself hidden behind boxes. She sees a lone security guard walking around.

Mizuki: "Perhaps I should pull off some Swallowtail to take care of that guard."

As the guard is moving away from her, Mizuki runs toward him then jumps over his shoulder. She then throws a sneezing powder bomb at him. The bomb explodes, causes the guard to sneeze non-stop. Mizuki uses that chance to run fast to her Gundam. As she gets nearer, the other guards nearby are alerted by the commotion caused by Mizuki and they starts running toward her Gundam.

Guard A: "It's Kanzaki Mizuki! She is trying to escape! Don't let her get away!"

Guard B: "Alert the combatants, she might be going into her Gundam!"

Mizuki: "Nuts. I gotta move fast."

Just as Mizuki reaches her Gundam, she gets intercepted by two combatants. They fight briefly in hand-to-hand combat, but Mizuki is able to pull off some Swallowtail and knock the two out. She quickly gets into her Gundam's cockpit and activates it.

Guard A: "No! We're too late!"

Gundam Dichotomy with Mizuki inside starts moving, and without delay, fires two missiles to break the hangar gate. Seira, who also got alerted by Mizuki's escape, arrives a little to late as Mizuki has begun flying out of the hangar.

Seira: "She's already outta here?!"

Tiara contacts Seira through her phone as she's running towards her Core SWinger.

Tiara: "Otoshiro, you're going to chase her down. Go pilot your Gundam, it has been refitted with our spare modules so you can sortie again."

Seira: "Roger. But what if she fights back?"

Tiara: "Either weaken and recapture her, or kill her off because we have no further use of her."

Seira: "Kill her? No, you gotta be kidding me. We've had enough killing people."

Tiara: "Have you forgotten? It's kill or be killed. I bet Kanzaki is probably going to try and kill you off as a revenge to you killing her precious friend."

Seira: (sigh) "Okay, I understand."

Seira gets into her Core SWinger as the three modules for SWing Gundam are quickly prepared for launch. Once they're all ready, Seira launches off and combines the SWing Gundam. She boosts forward really fast to catch up with Mizuki in only a short period of time.

Mizuki: "She's after me!"

Mizuki sets her warblade into beam rifle mode and then fires some shots at Seira. The shots gets dodged easily as Seira continues rushing forward with her beam guitar blade ready. She begins to clash against Mizuki.

Seira: "You better come back to us if you don't want to suffer the consequences!"

Mizuki: "That would never happen, you murderer. I can kill you off right here right now, but of course I won't be able to fight the remainder of your forces on my own after that."

Seira: "Does that mean you're going to surrender if we send more troops?"

Mizuki: "I said that's not gonna happen! I'm getting out of here!"

Mizuki knocks Seira back with her powered-up slash. Seira counters with some shots, giving Mizuki quite some difficulty on dodging them.

Mizuki: "This is such a waste of time. Y'know what? Since there's the full moon this night, I can pull off that trick. Okay, here goes nothing."

Mizuki briefly shoots back at Seira before she deliberately gets hit by one of Seira's shots. She falls down straight to the forest area below and crash-lands there.

Seira: "What? She goes down already? I don't know it would be that easy. I must search for her still, in case she survived that crash."

Seira begins descending to the forest. But, as she gets near the point where Mizuki landed, something suddenly blows up, causing a pretty strong explosion. Seira backs off to avoid the explosion.

Seira: "Ugh! What's that?"

Tiara: "Otoshiro, report your situation."

Seira: "Uh, I almost got caught in an explosion at the point where Kanzaki crash-landed. I just shot her down before. That means-"

Tiara: "So you managed to destroy her Gundam and finish her off?"

Seira: "I'm no longer detecting her presence. Perhaps she's done for. Odd, I may say."

Tiara: "I see. Return immediately, then."

Seira: "Roger…"

Seira returns back to DreAca. Near the explosion, Gundam Dichotomy suddenly shows up after being invisible for a while.

Mizuki: (phew) "Thankfully I have this awesome moonlight cloaking field installed on my Gundam, and my explosive decoy actually worked. Now, then, I need to find my way out of this forest."

After waiting a little while, Mizuki flies away from the forest and heads toward a nearby settlement that is quite close to the sea. She lands her Gundam right in front of a gardening store. A sandy blonde-haired girl, who's the owner of that gardening store, is surprised to see a Gundam landing in front of her. Mizuki opens her Gundam's cockpit and walks out of it. She notices that gardening shop's owner.

Mizuki: "Oh, I hope I'm not disturbing you."

?: "Uh, not really. Wait, aren't you… Kanzaki Mizuki?! Previously known as the Starlight Queen?!"

Mizuki: "Uh-huh, that's me."

?: "How'd you get here?"

Mizuki: "I escaped from Dream Academy. I bet you've heard of the skirmishes that took place between the two idol schools."

?: "Uh, sure, I did."

Mizuki: "I can't stand DreAca anymore, so I ran away from them, and eventually I end up here in this gardening store. Are you the owner of this store?"

?: "Yes, my name is Natsuki Mikuru."

Mizuki: "Nice to meet you, Mikuru."

Mikuru: "Uh, yeah. Nice to meet you, too."

Mizuki: "Now, then, can I have some food and drinks? I'm quite hungry."

Mikuru: "Well, go ahead. I myself was just going for dinner."

Mizuki: "Oh, nice. We can eat together, then."

Mikuru: "So, come in. I'm also curious to hear your story."

Happily, Mikuru allows Mizuki to come into her store, and also her home. Both of them are then having their dinner together, as Mizuki tells her story to Mikuru about how she finally ends up leaving DreAca. Mikuru offers Mizuki to stay in her place for a while, and Mizuki gladly accepts the offer.

Tomorrow morning, Galaxy Starlight has moved closer and closer towards Dreamstorm Carrier near the sea. Orihime has announced that they are going to show no mercy against DreAca and put an end of their nasty ambition. Orihime orders Soleil, PowaPowaPuririn, Yurika, and the Bluegale Delta team to standby for their sortie. A sortie to attack Dreamstorm Carrier head-on with a vengeance.

In the hangar, the three groups are all on standby, waiting for their launch order.

Aoi: "This time around, let us - Soleil - pay our exact revenge against DreAca for killing one of our precious friends."

Ran: "I swear, this thing will not go unpunished."

Ichigo: "I honestly could never believe Seira would do such a horrible thing."

Aoi: "One thing for sure is that there's no way we will forgive DreAca for what they did, at all. It's time we strike back with a vengeance."

Yurika: "Thankfully the mechanics were able to repair my Dark Rift very fast. It's only a matter of time till we can get our revenge against those denizens of dread."

Shion: "I bet Kaede's demise benefits Seira in her attempts of breaking us apart."

Aoi: "That is true. STAR-ANIS is pretty much history now without Kaede."

Sakura: "And there's no way we would let that happen again to any of us!"

Ichigo: "Yeah."

Naoto: "Preparations are set! All units, ready for launch! Everyone, you ready?"

All: "Ready!"

Naoto: "Okay then, LAUNCH!"

Soleil, PowaPowaPuririn, Yurika, and the Bluegale Deltas are launched. They head straight to Dreamstorm Carrier in hopes of bringing the huge ship down.

In DreAca, everyone are alerted to Starlight's incoming attack force. Tiara immediately orders Seira, Sora, the Dream Windam team, and many other units to launch and intercept the enemy forces.

At the launchpad, Seira is on standby, waiting for the launch order.

Seira: "They must be out for revenge because I killed their precious friend… But, there's no turning back now. It's kill or be killed…"

Tiara: "Everyone, move out!"

Seira: "Roger."

Seira begins igniting her Core SWinger's engine.

Seira: "Otoshiro Seira, Core SWinger, taking off!"

The Core SWinger and its modules are launched and then combines into SWing Gundam. After that, Sora and the others follow suit. They fly ahead until they see the Starlight's attacking force heading straight towards them.

Sora: "There they are!"

Ran: "They've come to intercept us!"

Aoi: "Everyone, fire your weapons!"

Then, the bullet hell battle begins between Starlight's forces and DreAca's forces. Seeing that the battle has begun, Galaxy Starlight moves at full speed to catch up with its forces, and then providing fire support to them.

Tiara: "Side beam cannons, fire!"

Orihime: "Multi-railguns, fire!"

Galaxy Starlight and Dreamstorm Carrier are firing at each other, as do their forces.

Ran: "Haaa!"

Ran draws her katana and quickly engages Sora, who also draws her scimitar.

Ran: "This time around, you're going down!"

Sora: "Not easily, though. You better not underestimate me like you always do."

Ran: "Perhaps you're the one underestimating me."

Both Ran and Sora are slashing and parrying each other. Beside them, three Dream Daggers are moving forward and shooting at the Bluegale Delta team.

Rio: "You're not going to hit us that easily!"

Rio boosts straight toward one of the Dream Dagger, switches from Waverider mode to MS mode, and slashes off her opponent's right arm and head. Not too long after, one of Seira's Dream Windam team - Asagi - comes in and engages Rio in a beam saber duel.

Asagi: "You will taste the power of Dream Windam team, newcomer! We got new equipments with us."

Rio and Asagi continues battling, as do the other Bluegale Deltas against the Dream Windams. In the other side, Ichigo, Aoi, and PowaPowaPuririn are taking down some of the Dream Daggers. Suddenly, Seira comes in from above Otome with her beam guitar blade in hand.

Aoi: "Otome, watch out!"

Aoi quickly rushes in and parries the attack with her Azulmagia and Leviathan. Aoi pushes Seira back, then Ichigo comes in and does a downward slash with her Soleil-hache, which gets dodged.

Seira: "You two!"

Aoi: "I'll bring you down right here right now! HAAA!"

Aoi goes at Seira again and strikes hard. Seira parries the attack, but Aoi keeps pushing her back pretty fast and she gets thrown back. Seira moves back forward and attacks with a diagonal slash. Aoi jumps and flips to dodge the slash, then fires the Azulmagia. Seira also fires back at Aoi, which results on some beam rifle duel. While Seira is busy firing, Yurika comes in and fires her beam rifle too. Seira quickly dodges the shots, but gets a little distracted, giving Aoi a chance to close in and elbows Seira right on the head.

Seira: "Ugh! That vampiric Gundam! Is it repaired already?"

Yurika fires her beam rifle again at Seira, giving her some difficulty at dodging because of its fast rate of fire.

Seira: "Damn…!"

Yurika: "I'll make sure you're going down before I can suck your blood dry! Not only I'm going to suck your blood, I'm also going to rip you apart!"

As Yurika continues firing, Seira finds an opening tries to shot Yurika using the beam rifle, but Yurika's I-field cloak completely deflects it. Ichigo comes in and clashes against Seira, but she gets pushed back pretty fast. Aoi then comes in and also clashes against her. Aoi puts up more of a fight, pushing Seira back quite a bit. Seira also fights back, until both are knocked back because of the intense force from them pushing against each other.

Seira: "Ugh!"

Aoi: "Are we on equal ground, then?"

Seira: "That's not gonna happen!"

Aoi: "Quit this nonsense!"

Meanwhile, PowaPowaPuririn manages to go past the Dream Daggers ahead and starts firing at the Dreamstorm Carrier. The ship's energy shield nullifies their beam rifle shots. Sakura tries to close in while dodging the hail of bullets that comes straight at her, then destroys some of the nearby turrets. After that, Sakura tries stabbing the ship's body, but her physical sword is also blocked by the energy shield.

Sakura: "What is this shield?"

Dreamstorm Carrier deploys its next turret near Sakura. That beam turret fires at her, but she quickly dodges it.

Shion: "You can't damage the outer frame of the ship?!"

Sakura: "Not only the shield negates beam attacks, but also by some kind of Phase-Shift Armor that prevents physical weapons from working! Our Mobile Suit's current weaponry are simply too weak to deal with that, even the Galaxy Starlight's current weapons aren't powerful enough yet if we were to concentrate fire on them."

Otome: "How is this possible?!"

Sakura: "Though the turrets are not protected by that, but they're replacing them so fast."

Sakura takes off from the ship and fights some of the remaining Dream Daggers that are coming at her.

The Bluegale Deltas and the Dream Windams are still fighting against each other.

Wakaba: "Guys, let's back off a bit and get them separated from the other forces!"

Rio/Nagisa: "Roger!"

Wakaba: "Let's see if my calculations are correct."

The Bluegale Deltas starts backing off.

Houko: "Hey! Where are you going?!"

The Dream Windams start chasing the Bluegale Deltas. Sora, who's still fighting against Ran, notices the Bluegale Deltas backing off.

Sora: "Trying to run away? I won't let you!"

Sora flies away from Ran, and Ran tries to chase her. But Sora quickly fires her side beam cannon at Nagisa's Bluegale Delta, hitting the back of the Mobile Suit and damaging its thrusters.

Nagisa: "KYAAA!"

Rio: "Oh no! Nagisa-chan!"

Nagisa's Bluegale Delta falls and then crash-lands on the ground, which end up damaging its body frame and rendering it unable to move.

Nagisa: "No! I can't move, the body frame is too damaged!"

Rio: "Hold on, Nagisa-chan!"

Rio goes to the ground to help Nagisa. Wakaba, however, is left at the Dream Windams' mercy, while Ran is once again stuck fighting against Sora. Otome notices that Wakaba is in danger and quickly boosts through the Dream Daggers in Waverider mode, followed by Sakura and Shion.

Otome: "We're coming now! Just hold on!"

As Wakaba is nearly in a pinch, PowaPowaPuririn comes at the right timing and scatters the Dream Windams away. At that time, the sky is getting very cloudy, indicating that a rain is coming down.

Meanwhile, Ichigo, Aoi, and Yurika continues to fight Seira. Aoi dodges Seira's beam rifle shots while charging right at her. Aoi strikes hard again, causing Seira to get knocked down really far to the ground despite of her blocking the attack. She managed to use the thruster to slow down her fall and lands safely.

Seira: "How strong!"

Aoi comes right at Seira while firing her Leviathan and clavicle-mounted beam vulcan together. Seira dodges, and then leaps to attack Aoi head-on. Aoi parries the attack, then let go of each other before eventually firing their beam rifles at each other again. Ichigo and Yurika also descends to help Aoi, but…

Aoi: "Ichigo, Yurika, stand back! This matter is personal, I have to put an end of her madness myself!"

Ichigo: "But, Aoi-!"

Yurika: "Are you going to be okay?!"

Aoi: "Please! That's my responsibility, after all!"

Yurika: "Okay then, I'll trust on your judgement."

Ichigo: "Aoi…"

Ichigo reluctantly backs off, followed by Yurika.

Up above, both Sakura and Shion starts taking some damage on their units because of the Dream Windams' new equipments. The fighting still continues.

Houko: "Eh? Seira is in trouble, I got to help her!"

Chiyuri: "What?"

Houko suddenly leaves her team members, rushing towards where Seira is now.

Asagi: "No! Houko, don't!"

Ran and Sora are also struggling to take down each other as both their Gundams' engines begin to get strained and having a hard time supplying enough energy for them.

Ran: "You just don't know when to quit…!"

Sora: "The same goes to you!"

Sora does several thrusts at Ran, which gets dodged by stepping backwards. Ran counters with a downward diagonal slash followed by two shots from both her shoulder-mounted beam cannons. Sora manages to dodge that chain of attack, then does another slash with her scimitar. Ran leaps and flips forward to dodge and get behind Sora, catching her off-guard. Ran then proceeds to slash Sora in the back, damaging her Gundam's thrusters.

Sora: "No!"

Ran: "At last you're going down!"

Ran kicks the Skyscrap Gundam on the back, causing it fall down and crash-lands on the ground, damaging her Gundam's body frame and quite hurting Sora in the process.

Aoi and Seira continues their battle.

Seira: "I'll take you down, Aoi!"

Aoi: "Haaa!"

They continue parrying each other's weapons.

Aoi: "You've killed Kaede…! You cannot be forgiven!"

Seira: "It can't be helped! The same goes for that traitor!"

Aoi: "What traitor?! You don't mean-!"

Seira: "Yes! Kanzaki Mizuki! She tried to escape, and we had to finish her off!"

Aoi: "Murderer! Now you've done tearing us apart!"

Aoi fires her Azulmagia once again at Seira, which gets dodged. All of a sudden…

Houko: "Seira!"

Seira looks behind her, only to find Houko charging towards Aoi.

Seira: "What? Houko! No! Don't face her head-on!"

Houko did not listen, and simply fires her beam rifle and also her four missiles from her Jet Striker's wings. Aoi leaps sideways to dodge the shots and then fires two concentrated shots from her Azulmagia. The beams go right through the Dream Windam's cockpit, killing Houko in the process and causing the unit to explode in mid-air. Seira is horrified to see how her subordinate ends up dying.

Seira: "HOUKO!"

Chiyuri and Asagi also notices that they have lost the signal of Houko's unit.

Seira: "C… Curse you…"

Seira closes her teary eyes. When she opens her eyes back, her eyes' pupil shrinks while the iris grows, indicating that Seira has entered SEED mode. Both Seira and Aoi starts charging toward each other.

Seira: "CURSE YOU, AOI!"

Both Gundams start attacking with their melee weapons. Aoi does a diagonal slash downwards, while Seira does it upwards. Seira's attack hits harder, causing Aoi's attack to bounce off. Seira then fires her beam rifle, hitting near the left shoulder of AoIris. The left shoulder plate explodes, causing damage to AoIris' left arm and hindering its movement.

Aoi: "Ugh!"

Aoi leaps backwards to avoid Seira's next relentless slash.

Aoi: "Let me avenge you two, Kaede, Mizuki…! Just let me… use this… ONE MORE TIME!"

Aoi activates the Trans-Am System again. AoIris starts to glow red with its performance tripled, and then rushes really fast towards Seira. With her super-fast fully-powered slash, Aoi rips off SWing Gundam's left arm. Seira quickly counters by slashing AoIris' chest, leaving a scar across it and also its central GN Condenser. Aoi retaliates again by slashing at SWing's cockpit, leaving a hole on the cockpit hatch and revealing Seira inside.

"AOI!"

"SEIRA!"

Aoi takes her Leviathan on its blade mode, goes straight at Seira, and then grabs SWing Gundam's head with the Leviathan while also pushing forward to crash Seira on a nearby hill. Aoi prepares to do her finishing slash, but her GN Drive starts malfunctioning again and the Trans-Am ends prematurely. Even her Gundam's left arm starts to malfunction due to the damage and the strain from grabbing SWing Gundam's head.

Aoi: "Dammit! I have no more choice…! Forgive me, Kamishiro-san!"

Aoi activates her Gundam's self-destruct mechanism and makes her Gundam bear-hug Seira with its remaining power. Aoi goes to the back of the cockpit, which houses an escape pod connected directly with the GN Drive, and then ejects the GN Drive to escape. Seira is shocked to see AoIris' GN Drive flies away.

Seira: "?!"

Seira finally realizes that AoIris is about to explode. But, it was too late as AoIris finally self-destructs with an explosion powerful enough to disintegrate everything in its radius…