Mecha: Return of the Pioneers

Chapter 913: New Armament Brought by Nina
After MACROSS Hyuga separated from the space jump, it was greeted by an imperial fleet that had been waiting for a long time in the designated space.

"This is the Third Squadron of the Ax Empire Central Fleet. Please send your ship an identification code!"

"This is the Mist Fleet MACROSS Hyuga. Identification code has been sent!"

On the bridge of the MACROSS Hyuga, a voluptuous woman in a white robe raised her hand to push up her glasses and looked at the home planet of Ax in the distance.

"I didn't expect everyone to come to this planet! While we were still investigating on the monster planet, the admiral took care of things here without saying a word! He is worthy of being the admiral!"

"That's natural, Hinata. Otherwise how come everyone is gathered around the adults."

Not far away, a woman with long golden hair tied into a high ponytail and also wearing a white robe spoke while typing on the keyboard without looking up.

"Haha. You seem to have confidence in the admiral, Nina."

"Yes. I believe in your ability."

Nina nodded, then entered the last set of data and let out a long sigh.

"Finally finished!"

“Oh? You really completed this project in such a short time?”

The verification of the identification code seemed to take some time. Hinata stepped on the ground, and her special floating platform immediately brought her to Nina.

"Oh? It's really done. But, can it be successful? I heard from King Kong that Chengying seems to have given birth to an electronic elf."

What Hinata saw was the exclusive weapon designed by Nina based on Chengying's design drawings and its current performance.

Speaking of which, Nina had been researching this exclusive weapon for a while, but she was never able to achieve the desired effect.

It’s either because the performance is too poor or because there is too little room for growth.

In half a year, Nina had abandoned no less than dozens of design plans.

Hinata saw several of the plans and thought they were effective, so he casually incorporated them into the design project of Dragon Shadow's subsequent machines.

So, in this situation, Nina, who was exhausted by the exclusive armed forces and still puzzled, learned by chance that the Sea Mist Fleet seemed to be preparing to investigate the monster planet.

Then, Nina went directly to King Kong and Lin Mingmei and expressed her wish to join the investigation team going to the monster planet, trying to find inspiration from that planet to design exclusive weapons for Chengying.

At first, King Kong and Lin Mingmei disagreed.

No one knows what the situation is like on the monster planet.

Even when forming an investigation team, King Kong basically considered using the mind core that had successfully evolved the MACROSS battleship as the core force of the investigation team.

Therefore, Nina, who is just an ordinary human, is not very suitable.

But unfortunately, after Nina's repeated requests, King Kong and Lin Mingmei finally agreed.

As for what Nina discovered on the monster planet, that is another story for later.

The greatest achievement of this trip was the successful discovery of the development ideas for Chengying's exclusive weapons and the completion of the initial research and development.

"Xiaoying? I heard about that too. She seems to be a very well behaved little girl! I think she will definitely like this exclusive weapon."

Soon, after the identification code was passed, the welcoming fleet of the Ax Empire approached MACROSS Hyuga and guided MACROSS Hyuga into the predetermined orbit of the landing planet.

Although, during this period, the Sea Mist Fleet frequently traveled back and forth between the Sailing Star and the home planet of Ax, the crew of the Imperial Fleet was also enlightened.

But every time I see a kilometer-long MACROSS-class space battleship flying past me, I always feel a great shock.

Especially when watching this kilometer-class space battleship slowly landing on the empire's mother planet, an indescribable feeling lingered in the hearts of everyone in the Axs Empire fleet for a long time.

Several hours later, from an air force base near the imperial capital, a plane soared into the sky.

In just a few minutes, they had rushed from the surface airport runway to outer space, and even encountered the Imperial fleet that had completed the task of welcoming the Hyuga and was preparing to switch to a patrol mission.

"That, that is?!"

The fleet commander was stunned, watching the white light fly between the fleets, then turn around, descend rapidly, and fly directly towards the imperial capital. "Yes! It's the fighter plane Chengying piloted by General He Ming! Fleets please don't panic!!"

The communicator's words left the squadron commander stunned for a moment.

He remembered that He Ming was in the imperial capital now, so how come he suddenly ran to outer space?
Obviously, no one could answer this question for him.

As for Chengying, he easily broke through the atmosphere and then returned to the atmosphere, steadily maintaining a supersonic cruise state at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

"Sir, please don't make such intense flying movements when you first equip the Split Feathers! We don't know if the Split Feathers can withstand the high temperatures when returning to the atmosphere."

Nina's worried voice came over the commuter.

"Sorry! It's just a spur of the moment thing. Besides, even if the Rift Wings' resistance to high temperatures is not good, Cheng Ying still has the GN Shield and the Texture System! There's no need to worry about the high temperature factor."

He Ming smiled and asked casually.

"Xiaoying, do you think I'm right?"

As the wings flapped, Xiaoying's figure appeared in the picture and nodded sensibly.

"Sir, you, you guys?!"

Seeing that the two, one big and one small, refused to listen to Gao's advice, Nina was speechless.

"Forget it! After all, the equipment you make is really too good."

Hinata beside him patted Nina's shoulder.

As a partner in conducting research on the monster planet, Hinata knew how much effort Nina had put into it.

Nina sighed and shook her head.

Then he continued.

"Sir, you will enter the target area in five minutes! At that time, please follow the instructions, deploy the Split Feathers, and attack the target aircraft as much as possible."

"learn!"

He Ming responded and then asked again.

"Oh, right. Where did the target drone come from? We didn't seem to bring the target drone with us, did we?"

"Don't worry about the target drones, Admiral! I can have as many target drones as you want on my MACROSS. After all, target drones are very useful on monster planets!"

Hinata patted his chest and spoke proudly amid the rolling waves.

"Really? It seems like there are a lot of stories on the Monster Planet too. Tell me about it later!"

"Yes, sir."

Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

The target area is right in front of us.

Xiaoying, who was sitting on He Ming's shoulder, suddenly straightened her face and entered into complete combat state.

I saw countless streams of light passing through her eyes, and traces of what seemed to be data flow were outlined.

"Xiaoying, release the Splitting Feather Feather!"

"Buzz!"

A slight vibration was felt, and bits of starlight appeared between Chengying's wings.

In the blink of an eye, the starlight scattered like startled birds, quickly sinking into the surrounding sea of ​​clouds and disappearing.

(End of this chapter)