That was three months ago. Now, in November of UC 0079, she found herself staring at a different kind of grave: the lunar surface around the Zeon stronghold of Granada.
Aris threw her Ball into a chaotic corkscrew. The G-forces mashed her internal organs against her spine. She fired her thrusters blind, kicking up lunar dust. The second Zaku, wielding a heat hawk, charged. Its pilot was a veteran—she could tell by the way it moved. Not like a machine, but like a predator. It sidestepped Taggart’s desperate cannon shot and brought the superheated axe down. mobile suit gundam uc 0079
Aris woke up in a Federation field hospital aboard the carrier Troy Horse . A nurse told her she had three cracked ribs, a concussion, and mild frostbite on her fingers. She also told her that Lieutenant Croft had survived—his Ball had crash-landed, but he’d been pulled out by a recovery team. That was three months ago
The explosion threw the Ball clear. Aris’s cockpit cracked, venting atmosphere. Her ears popped. Her vision swam. As she blacked out, she heard Milos’s voice, faint and terrified. The G-forces mashed her internal organs against her spine
They can bleed, she thought. We just have to be willing to become monsters to make them.