PHASE 1-10 | PHASE 11-22 | PHASE 23-34
PHASE-23: THE SHADOWS OF WAR
The battle between the Minerva and the Orb fleet has been disrupted by the sudden appearance of the Archangel and Kira's Freedom Gundam. Cagalli enters the battlefield and orders the Orb forces to cease fighting, but Neo pressures Yuna into continuing the battle, and the Orb fleet renews its attack on the damaged Minerva.
Since the Orb forces have rejected Cagalli's appeal, Kira sends her back to the Archangel and begins disabling both sides' mobile suits. Athrun tries to reason with his old friend, but he is unable to establish contact with Kira as the battlefield descends into chaos.
PHASE-24: DIFFERING VIEWS
The battered Minerva retreats to a port on the Sea of Marmara to repair the damage it sustained in the Dardanelles battle. Troubled by the chaos his former comrades created during the fighting, Athrun decides to leave the Minerva and go in search of the Archangel so that he can talk to Kira and the others in person.
The Minerva receives orders to investigate an abandoned Earth Forces research facility in the area. Shinn and Rey are sent to check out the facility, but Rey suffers a mysterious reaction as they explore the deserted Lodonia laboratory.
PHASE-25: THE PLACE OF SIN
Athrun has arranged a meeting with Kira and Cagalli, but the old friends no longer see eye to eye. Even after hearing of the assassination attempt on Lacus, Athrun still believes in Chairman Durandal's good intentions, and he returns to the Minerva after urging his friends to keep Orb from participating in the war.
The Minerva travels to the Lodonia laboratory to retrieve Rey and continue the investigation. This abandoned facility proves to be a laboratory where the Earth Forces experimented on children to create Extended soldiers. At their own nearby base, the Extended pilots of Phantom Pain are shocked to hear that the Minerva has discovered the laboratory where they were raised.
PHASE-26: THE PROMISE
After running off alone to the Lodonia laboratory, the Extended soldier Stella Loussier has been captured by the Minerva's pilots. Shinn brings the injured Stella aboard the Minerva, but the ship's doctors are unable to treat her due to her abnormal physiology. They also discover that Stella's memories have also been modified, and she now has no recollection of meeting Shinn.
Meanwhile, Lacus has decided to leave the Archangel and return to space in order to investigate the current situation in the PLANTs. Posing as the Lacus impersonator Meer Campbell, she steals a shuttle and escapes into the heavens.
PHASE-27: UNFULFILLED FEELINGS
Even as Neo prepares for another attack on the Minerva, the ZAFT forces are on the trail of the Archangel and its crew. While Chairman Durandal supervises the pursuit of the fugitive Lacus, Captain Talia of the Minerva receives a report on Athrun's secret meeting with Kira and Cagalli.
Yuna and Neo gather their forces around the island of Crete, hoping to catch the Minerva as it enters the Mediterranean Sea. Once again, the Orb fleet engages the Minerva in a fierce naval battle, and once again the Archangel crew decide to intervene in the fighting in hopes of preventing any further bloodshed.
PHASE-28: SURVIVORS AND SACRIFICES
As the Minerva struggles against the combined Orb and Earth Forces fleets, the Freedom Gundam and the Archangel appear on the battlefield once more. Cagalli pleads with the Orb forces to cease fighting, but Yuna orders them to continue their assault on the Minerva.
Casualties mount on both sides as the battle continues to escalate. Kira and Athrun confront one another in a heated duel, and Shinn carves a swath of destruction through the Orb fleet. Finally, the captain of the Orb flagship makes a fateful decision in order to bring this brutal conflict to an end.
PHASE-29: FATES
Lacus returns to space and joins her allies aboard the warship Eternal, which is now hidden inside a cluster of asteroids. Chairman Durandal orders his forces to continue searching for Lacus, insisting that she is merely an impostor.
Alone in his office, Durandal ponders the chance meeting that brought Lacus and Kira together, and questions whether it was coincidence or fate. Thinking back on his own life and the choices he has made, he wonders whether he might have found happiness along another path. In his imagination, Durandal hears the mocking voice of Rau Le Creuset.
PHASE-30: A FLEETING DREAM
In the aftermath of the battle at Crete, the Archangel retrieves survivors from the Orb fleet, who ask to join Cagalli in her fight to restore Orb's ideals. Meanwhile, the Minerva is undergoing another round of repairs before continuing on to Gibraltar.
While Athrun frets over his confrontation with Kira, Shinn has other matters on his mind. The enemy pilot Stella Loussier, who Shinn once promised to protect, is still a prisoner aboard the Minerva. As Stella's condition continues to deteriorate, Shinn decides on a desperate plan of action to save her life.
PHASE-31: THE ENDLESS NIGHT
Shinn and Rey have returned Stella to her allies in order to save her life. As punishment for defying military regulations, the two pilots are placed in detention while the ZAFT leadership determines their fate. To Talia's shock, her superiors decide to overlook the matter entirely, and she realizes that Durandal is intervening from behind the scenes to protect Shinn and Rey.
Having failed in their mission to destroy the Minerva, Neo Roanoke and his Phantom Pain taskforce receive a new assignment. Stella is placed at the controls of the monstrous Destroy Gundam and begins wreaking a path of destruction across western Eurasia. Upon learning of this, both the Archangel and the Minerva rush to halt the Destroy's rampage.
PHASE-32: STELLA
The Destroy Gundam advances towards Berlin, crushing one city after another. The Archangel arrives to confront the Destroy, but even Kira's Freedom Gundam is no match for its overwhelming power. As the Minerva reaches the scene, Shinn joins the battle in his Impulse Gundam, but he hesitates in his attack when he learns that Stella is the pilot of this monstrous Gundam.
In the middle of battle, Neo's mobile suit is shot down, sending Stella into a frenzy. Shinn continues calling out to Stella, trying to calm her down, but the sight of the Freedom sends her into a renewed panic. At last Kira acts to end the fighting, with fatal consequences.
PHASE-33: THE WORLD REVEALED
After laying Stella's body to rest, Shinn returns to the Minerva with a new determination. When Athrun visits Shinn's room, he finds Shinn and Rey running combat simulations to prepare for a confrontation with the Freedom.
Meanwhile, Neo Roanoke awakens aboard the Archangel. To his confusion, the Archangel crew insist that Neo is in fact their lost comrade Mu La Flaga, but he has no memories of his life as Mu. The situation then takes a new turn as Chairman Durandal begins a worldwide broadcast...
PHASE-34: NIGHTMARE
Chairman Durandal has revealed the existence of Logos to the public, throwing the world into a state of confusion. Kira and Cagalli fear that their homeland is now in danger, and the Archangel begins making its way back to Orb.
However, the Archangel itself is now a target. In the wake of Durandal's announcement, the ship and its crew have been designated as dangerous elements, and the Minerva is ordered to join the ZAFT forces in an attack on the Archangel. After Murrue rejects Talia's offer of surrender, the two ships engage each other in battle, and Shinn and Kira begin a ferocious duel.
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