She just had to go and mention the odds again, didn't she? It was like Hikari had said... a planet that had years of experience in fending off threats, the ability to lock up the individual powers of the crew, and a huge army. And her Gundam wasn't even the most powerful Gundam in this hangar... but she couldn't back down. Besides, if the negotiations were going that great, why the hell were they still jamming communications?

She was about to say--yell--as much when Shoutarou activated that bird thing. Allenby almost jumped up to punch it out of the air, taking it for some kind of weapon, but it was too quick. And what happened instead... well if he'd dumped a bucket of ice water over her head, it wouldn't have felt that much different.

"You--how do you know that? What did you just do?!" Suddenly there was fear in with the rage. He'd just read her mind, he must have, even if his analysis was only half-right. "Stay out of my head, you bastard!"