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>Quess:...Amuro? N-no...! Dick, you must have prepared an escape pod, o-or something, right?!
>Chan: Quess, stop it! Richard, is there any way we can retrofit the Penelope to be able to deploy in its current-

Falling to his knees, Richard breaks down into a psychotic fit of laughter, the muscles in his throat ripping from the intensity of his despair induced cackle. Unable to stop himself from laughing, Richard begins to hack from a lack of oxygen, his eyes rolling back as every nerve in his body cries out in pain from a lack of oxygen. As Chan and Quess step away from him, Richard coughs out blood phlegm onto the ground, his eyes growing cold and focused as his smile falters.

>Quess: W-what is this...feeling? Its like my chest is...burning up now...?!
>Chan: R-Richard? What just-
>Scirocco: In a world of ignorance...a genius must rise to return order...!! I...I am...Paptimus Scirocco!!

With the mental blocks that had forced onto him from his engagement with Kamille years before shattered from the sheer foolishness around him, Scirocco's once bound spirit begins to spread ravenously, with him sensing Asherah's life force. Meanwhile, Mezun and the rest of his squadron force the California attack battalion into a retreat, leaving Asherah to engage the remainder of the defense units at Hawaii moving to attack her in the air.

>Mezun: Where is Amuro?! Why has he not responded yet?!

While Asherah engages Mezun and the dozens of Mobile Suits firing on her from the air, she feels her spirit growing ravenous yet again from all of the recently deceased around her. While she tries to contain this sensation while also fighting for her life, she feels her spirit being drawn to an unknown sensation...