While the Argama holds position to cooperate with Karaba, the Gundam team receives orders to go on ahead to Dakar. As the team heads for a desert base, they find themselves under attack by the Rommel unit, who have been biding their time for eight years awaiting the restoration of the Zabi family. One by one, the Gundam team crushes the Rommel unit's old mobile suits...

Hoping to end their water shortage, Judau flies out in a core fighter and ends up being helped by a woman named Masai. In accordance with desert law, she tells Judau where an oasis village is located. However, Masai attacks the Gundam team with a red Gelgoog in order to force the villagers to acknowledge her and her now-dead lover Tag.

The Neo Zeon forces move in to put down the Cicero uprising. Ple Two moves out, having received orders from Glemy to assassinate Haman Karn. However, she lets the captive Lucina escape. A change has come over her personality. Judau rescues Elle and the others from Haman's mansion, then confronts Ple Two in the Qubeley Mk-II.