Heavily impaired, the Archangel barely escapes the self-destructed Alaska base. It heads for Orb to repair the damage and arrives at Onogoro Island. Cagalli, confirming that Kira is indeed alive, jumps on him with tears in her eyes. She tells him about how she found Athrun.
However, crisis is upon Orb as well. The Earth Alliance, losing its headquarter in Alaska, is at its final phase in this war, and in the meantime refuses to allow any neutral nations namely Orb, and pressures to join forces against ZAFT.
Meanwhile, along the coast of the dawning Panama, the ZAFT’s MS troops fill the ground in preparation to destroy the Alliance’s last mass driver in Panama. The ZAFT soldiers are enraged to avenge their comrades’ death in Alaska. Losing ground, the Alliance deploy the Strike Dagger, a mass production mobile suit based on the Strike Gundam, and the situation changes in its favor. But then, ZAFT launches a new weapon called “Gungnir” which disables all electronic weapons. The Earth Alliance’s weapons are incapacitated in an instance. Blinded with rage, the ZAFT forces ignore the treaty and fire at the surrendered soldiers. The situation changes from a battle to a massacre…