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PHASE-21: BEYOND THE CLOUDS OF SAND
The Archangel resumes its journey, putting it on a collision
course with Andy Waltfeld and his fleet of land warships. Yzak and Dearka arrive from the Gibraltar base to join forces with
Waltfeld, and as battle is joined, Waltfeld and his partner Aisha enter the fray themselves in a two-seater mobile suit.
As the fighting continues, Cagalli takes the controls of one of the Archangel's fighter craft to aid Mu, while Kira battles
Waltfeld himself. Waltfeld's forces are gradually wiped out, and he orders the remainder to retreat, but the "Desert Tiger"
intends to stay behind to finish his duel with Kira...
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PHASE-22: THE SEA DYED RED
Having defeated Andy Waltfeld, the Archangel crew bid farewell to the resistance fighters and set off across the Red Sea
to begin an ocean voyage to Alaska. Cagalli and her bodyguard Kisaka remain aboard the Archangel, and her growing friendship
with Kira begins to inspire Flay's jealousy.
The Archangel's journey is interrupted by a new threat, a ZAFT submarine force commanded by Marco Morassim which attacks
the ship with aerial and underwater mobile suits. Even as Kira wages an undersea battle against Morassim's mobile suits, Athrun
and Nicol are on their way back to Earth, as ZAFT gathers its forces for the upcoming Operation Spit Break.
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PHASE-23: FATEFUL ENCOUNTER
Athrun and Nicol arrive on Earth, and ZAFT's Gundam team is at last reunited. The four Gundams and their pilots are loaded
onto transport planes for transfer to the Carpentaria base in Australia.
Meanwhile, Marco Morassim's submarine force continues to pursue the Archangel across the Indian Ocean. During the battle
Cagalli's fighter becomes separated from the ship, and by sheer accident she ends up intercepting Athrun's straggling transport
plane. Both aircraft end up crash-landing and, by sheer chance, Athrun and Cagalli now find themselves stranded on the same
deserted island.
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PHASE-24: WAR FOR TWO
After their midair skirmish, Athrun and Cagalli find themselves stranded together on the same uninhabited island. Thanks
to his Coordinator abilities, Athrun is easily able to overpower Cagalli and take her prisoner. While they wait to be found
and rescued, the two young warriors have little to do but talk, and they begin getting to know each other better.
Eventually, search parties from ZAFT and the Archangel are able to locate the stranded pair, and Athrun and Cagalli return
to their respective sides. But while the two former enemies don't necessarily part as friends, they've nonetheless come to
a degree of mutual understanding.
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