Vasily is ready to throw away his own life to save his comrades from the threat of not one but two Gundams-but even the combined firepower of Ensign Kitz's entire platoon isn't enough to stop them, and the Federation's prototype beam weapon wreaks devastation on the forces invading Jaburo. The war goes from bad to worse for Zeon, and as the front lines move into outer space, the recollections of the Y-02 unit's former members bring us closer to the truth of Cucuruz Doan's desertion...