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>Amuro: What is his status?
>Mirai: He intentionally spread Minovsky Particles to mask his escape, but it is impossible to determine the damage he sustained since then.
>Amuro: I am heading out then. I told them to note act so rashly in raiding that alloy processing plant-
>Mirai: Wait, we have a signal! It is the Dijeh!
>Amuro: Only his signal?
>Mirai:...Yes.
>Amuro: Thanks for keeping watch.

Departing from the disguised command tower, Amuro moves to a hidden hangar, where a damaged Dijeh holding a reinforced container with Luna Titanium kneels over. Setting the crate down, the Dijeh's cockpit pops open, with Zero Murasame weakly crawling out from sheer exhaust.

>Amuro: Did anyone else make it?!
>Zero: *Cough*...that...designer...

Readying a mechanical lift, Amuro makes his way to Zero Murasame's cockpit to offer a shoulder to to his trust wing man for the past four years.

>Amuro: Call the medical team! Now!
>Zero: A new model...piloted by...something truly evil. Told you...it was the right call for me to tag along...ngh...!

As Amuro aids the medical teams in moving Zero Murasame onto a stretcher, Richard Dockery steps out from the crate of Luna Titanium.

>Richard: Amuro, we can build it properly now.
>Amuro: Was it the Gundam Team?
>Richard: Something different. Whoever its pilot was, we only escaped because they were busy confirming their kills.
>Amuro:For even Zero to suffer like this is...are you absolutely sure this new model will be a match for what you just engaged?
>Richard: Project "V" will eclipse any Mobile Suit ever created. I would bet my very soul on it.
>Amuro: Normally I would never allow someone to stake something like that on a claim...but we need it right now.

Looking to the mechanical skeleton frame of a new model Mobile Suit, Amuro can only wonder how much further the new spaceborn government formed from the AEUG will go to achieve its new ideals...