As the battle between the Sleeves and Londo Bell breaks through the colony, Cardeas attempts to escape arrest, but is shot by his own son Alberto. Banagher travels around the underground corridors of the Vist mansion and discovers the mortally wounded Cardeast and the experimental mobile suit Unicorn Gundam. With his dying breath, Cardeas reveals to Banagher that he is his father and entrusts the Gundam only to him. Banagher launches in the Unicorn Gundam to confront the Kshatriya, piloted by the Sleeves' elite pilot Marida Cruz.