Vol 1 Chapter 1 (2/2)

“15 minutes until departure!”

“15 ht and Mac loaded onto the plane below

“They’re here,” ht

“Ah…” sighed Mac on this, he then said, “I don’t like her that ain

“You’re picky, aren’t you,” Bright laughed, and watched the very sa about sit down in a seat on the right-hand center of the shi+p Itinside the shi+p, but for some reason Ema Sheen’s ash brown hair looked beautiful But, her overly confident, proud personality was rather off-putting, after all

“5 er any tier seats Far off in his headphones, Bright could hear a voicean announcement “All personnel, prepare forthe departure of the Tee of a shi+p the Garuda was, it would still likely somewhat shaken at the time of the Temptation’s launch More iuarantee that there would not be some sort of accident at the moment of the module’s liftoff

“Passenger boarding is coin air check!”

“Roger Air checking all systeht pressed a computer key to perform the final checks

“JV8, blast-off preparation!” came the voice from the control center

“Roger”

Just then, a thundering quake rocked the shi+p The Garuda had unlatched one of the joints froh the front windshi+eld of the shi+p, the dawn horizon cut the view into two separate worlds of ocean and sky Looking up froe of the Garuda The JV8 Te up to reach critical energy for take-off However, this was so displays of the control panel There was no ru the shi+p to create any tension aers

Out the front glass lay the sky, the horizon, and that belt ofthe two

That symbol of atmospheric pollution…

Co at that thin line ofdisappear…?”

It had been seven years since that last great war between the Earth Federation government and the Principality of Zeon In fact, it would soon be eight whole years since the war Even so, the dust spread throughout the atmosphere had not fully disappeared Massively destructive actions, such as dropping colonies on the earth, did not have the long-lasting dae the fact that it had caused i in all this was that there was no radioactive pollution in the atmosphere

In addition, those living in space, knoidely as the “spacenoids,” continued their activities to protect the earth as a singularly irreplaceable entity However, the Earth Federation wasdesperate efforts to rebuild their own facilities on Earth, all while disrupting the natural recovery of the planet Before the start of the Universal Century, this would have been considered the only obvious plan for reconstruction However, as it was an age where space colonies had finally been realized, and hundreds of one to live in space, this plan to rebuild of Earth see more than an attempt to purposely drown the world in pollution

Bright shared in the opinion of the spacenoids, that all humans should move into space, and only interfere with the Earth insofar as to help it once again be able to naturally recover on its own However, these pilots called the titans that Bright was now flying were soldiers hired to root out the spacenoids who made this claim as “rebellious elements”

“It see troublesome loose into space…”

Bright closed his eyes

“We’ve reached critical point!” At Macht switched the er area and stated siht would have usually said so more Captain-like, but he held himself back this time As both soldiers and pilots, these titans were a ht didn’t want to say so better left unsaid and inadvertently earn the scorn of these men

“30 seconds to ignition” Bright left the countdown to Macun burning quietly They would at first use the full driving power of the engine, and once that power had reached its liunpoould serve as an afterburner

“’Seven, six, five…” The last joint holding the Teht g-forces created by the fall tugged on Bright’s body, as the Garuda’s wings disappeared froh the front windshi+eld

“Two, one!” The bright flash of the JV8 Tehtly in the underside of the Garuda’s wings, stirring up a nehirlpool of light within the light of the dawn Today’s acceleration was hly, but as the next flash had consuht of the dawn in two

“Ugh!” The passengers in their seats were groaning faintly “What the…!?” There were a few passengers who complained in this manner, but the titans did not raise their voices in protest Even despite the relative bu coe rocket launch prior to the start of the Universal Century

The Te a beeline in it’s ascent towardsobt The ocean beloelco sun, shi+ning gradually brighter Though the Garuda was the biggest airplane yet created by huer a tiny sesame seed

Upon Bright’s return to Jaburo, the Garuda would be given a temporary respite at the Federation base located deep within the heart of South America