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SRW Scramber Commander 2

Prologue

15 years ago, thanks to the complete defeat against the MU that invaded the 
earth, humanity developed an unhealthy fear of the unknown.

When the MU created the Tokyo Jupiter effect and shut themselves off from the 
world, humanity began to divide amongst each other developing anti-alien 
weaponry by themselves sparking a new global arms race and the world was 
engulfed in panic.

10 years ago, the panic reach it's peak when the extraterrestrial ASS1 
crashed land on Earth and soon after, Over Technology from it was applied to 
mobile weapon making them stronger than before sparking global conflicts all 
over.

These global conflicts keep spawning other global conflicts in succession 
such as the One Year War and the strife between Naturals and Coordinator and 
in all this, many lives were lost.

5 years ago, another incident rendered the power balance of the world asunder 
when Mimetic Beasts appear all over the world seemingly unstoppable by 
current weaponry. The only thing capable of defeating these Mimetic Beasts 
were the newly developed Specials (Large Super Machine Weaponry or Super 
Robots) 

However, the power of these Specials causes worry in many countries' 
government and thus laws to restrict and govern the freedom of these Specials 
known as the Specials Law were passed.

Now it is the Year ChikyuuShinki 74

Many Specials and their lab have joined together as the Anti Alien Assembly 
or A3 in order to fight the invaders but a new war beckons....


Episode 1

We first meet our hero, Keiji Tachibana as he is being shot down and is 
bailing out of his plane. (Way to make a first impression, Keiji) Sarah tells 
Shinobu that they're the last one standing against this mysterious enemy.

Dancougar rushes this mysterious enemy in a mid- air collision and got it's 
flight booster destroyed but managed to down this mysterious enemy mech that 
jumped them and their squadron on patrol. Dancougar then is forced to 
jettison its flight booster and land. Meanwhile the downed enemy mech crashed 
land near where Keiji Tachibana had bailed out. Keiji nervously approached 
the downed mecha only to see the cockpit open and the pilot coming out. Keiji 
reach for his gun and tells the pilot to surrender.

Meanwhile Dancougar is approaching the mech and Shinobu note that maybe THIS 
time the enemy pilot will listen and shouted out for the enemy pilot to give 
themselves up. A quick radio message from the mech makes them realize that 
it's Keiji in the cockpit. It seems the pilot has died from some sort of 
heart attack. 

Suddenly they are contacted by their team operator Valentina Reanika. 
Valentina says that Titans mech are headed their way and are not answering 
hails. Shinobu concludes that they must have gotten wind of this mysterious 
mech and wanted it. If they leave this mech lying around here, it's a good 
bet they'll carry it off so Shinobu has the bright idea of telling Keiji to 
pilot it if only to be able to get it to run away from Titans mech.

Keiji is extremely reluctant until Shinobu berates him and he gathers up his 
courage to try it even though Valentina is against it. Shinobu says that 
Keiji doesn't have to fight, they'll handle the Titans. Valentina says that 
it'll be twenty minutes until a Valkyrie squad and a cargo plane arrives to 
reinforce them.

The battle begins and the Dancougar team makes short work of the Titan's 
Hizacks. However more reinforcements arrives where Keiji had taken the mech 
and promptly makes Keiji panics but Valentina calms him down telling him that 
he can do it and Keiji gathers his composure and begins to down Hizacks too.

Shinobu and Sarah congratulates Keiji for a job well done, guess his moniker 
of the Scar Face Kid isn't just for show but Keiji says that he isn't exactly 
proud of this moniker since this scar is just from an accident he had as a 
kid.

Keiji note that the bad feeling he got from piloting this thing is probably 
not just due to the corpse of the original pilot also in the cockpit. It 
feels as if his soul is being drained. Keiji then thanks Valentina for her 
help in advising him otherwise he'd panic and be done for. Valentina says 
that it was nothing.

Sarah wonders if Masato's dad's company, an arms company, knows anything 
about this mysterious mech though Masato is adamant that he has no interest 
in making contact with home to ask.

Valentina then says that the power output of this thing is on par or more 
with Dancougar's which probably qualifies it as a Special (Super Robot) which 
is why she was quite reluctant for Keiji to pilot it thanks to the "Special" 
laws. Keiji asks what those laws imply and Shinobu says that he'll tell Keiji 
later but he'll learn about it since he's become involved.

Meanwhile a mysterious person (who is Lord Gibriel from GSD) asks another 
mysterious person (Our main villain Yukimura) and another one (The mysterious 
Doctor Soga) why the mech is sent to attack A3. This is almost as if it's 
giving A3 a hint of their existence. Yukimura isn't too worried and tells him 
that Gibriel is the one who wanted a personal Special squad.

Yukimura says that it's only one robot equipped with their engine, the 
Celestial Reactor.  It's nothing compared to the real robot frame they'll use, 
ain't nothing like the real thing so he's doesn't have to pull strings and 
get the Titans involved in trying to retrieve that frame. A3 wouldn't be able 
to stop Nemesis once they're ready to go public. Doctor Soga tells Yukimura 
not to be too cocky and Lord Gibriel reminds them both that he's the one 
funding them which means he's the one in charge.

After Gibriel has broken contact, the old Doc asks if Yukimura plans the 
whole thing, the fact that the pilot of the frame they send out wasn't 
properly conditioned for it, that it went berserk and attacked A3. Yukimura 
says that at least they got a good testing of what the thing they're 
developing is capable of, even if A3 gets it.

Episode 2

At A3 Headquarter stationed on South Atalia Island where the Macross is, the 
Dancougar team is having a meal at the cafeteria where they meet Kabuto Kouji 
who is studying combat strategy and science at A3 Island. When asked why he's 
so happy today, Kouji says that Mazinger Z is being sent here though Dr. Mori 
Mori seems to have made a mistake sending it piece by piece. Kouji's already 
gotten the Pilder and the Mazinger Z is coming via a transport ship today 
with the Scrander being sent last.
Kouji is ecstatic because all study/ work and no Mazinger makes Kouji an 
extremely stressed boy.

 Professor Koujirou Hatsuki, mentor of the Dancougar team has finished his 
testing of the enemy mech that the Dancougar team and Keiji brought in, it 
has been code named the Habakiri as in the sword that the Japanese God, 
Amaterasu used to slay the nine head serpent Orochi. It's confirmed that 
Habakiri's power output qualifies it as a Special or a Super Robot.

Hatsuki shows the Dancougar team Keiji's test score in qualifying for a 
Special license in which he scores an A which means excellent. Hatsuki says 
that technically what the Dancougar team did was illegal since the "Special" 
laws forbid people from just jumping into a Special without a license and the 
fact that there were two or more Specials operating together without 
authorization. Shinobu says that it was the only answer he could come up with 
to stop the Habakiri from being taken.

Hatsuki then confirms for the Dancougar team that the original pilot for it 
seems to have died from a heart attack and that the Titans denied any 
involvement with the prior attack stating that AEUG stole their MS and 
accused A3 of secretly developing a new Special without authorization. 
Shinobu mutters "Yeah, they're the suspicious one, all right"  Hatsuki says 
that they have no proof to press the Titans on and then he almost says 
something but then shuts up and leaves which makes Sarah note that he's being 
a bit strange and ask if the others noticed it too. Masato and Shinobu don't 
think so and tells her to eat since there's no telling when they can eat 
peacefully in the cafeteria like this again.

Mazinger Z being transported is an opportunity that Duke Gorgon who found out 
about it doesn't want to waste and he sends Kikaijuu to attack the ship that 
is transporting Mazinger Z.  

When the transport ship is attacked, an SOS is sent to A3 Island and everyone 
is notified of the situation. Kouji figures that it is the Mikene and that 
Gorgon probably knows that he can't fight Great Mazinger head on so he 
targets the powered up Mazinger Z in order to use it against Great.

 The Dancougar team is told to scramble at once since the Skull Squadron is 
on the other side of the Earth and won't be able to make it which leaves it 
up to Dancougar alone to protect the Z.  Keiji asks to sortie in the Habakiri 
but Sarah says that Keiji is still too green and that he may be great in 
simulation battle but he's still too green with zero actual experience though 
Valentina backs Keiji up on it which annoys Sarah saying that operators who 
aren't on the frontline shouldn't talk and Valentina says that while she's an 
operator, her rank is the same as Sarah which earns her the right to say her 
piece.

Valentina points out that Habakiri will be needed since Dancougar alone will 
probably not be enough to take out all Kikaijuu. Kouji says that he'll deploy 
in the Pilder and if the two of them can keep the Kikaijuu occupied and 
distracted, he'll reach the ship and Pilder on and then the Kikaijuu will be 
no problem. Hatsuki allows Keiji to deploy though Valentina will have to back 
him up and if it gets too dangerous, to retreat and leave it to Dancougar. 
Hatsuki notes that he IS worried for Keiji but not for the reason that 
everyone is thinking about.

The team reaches the ship that is being attacked by Kikaijuu, it can't move 
and Habakiri and Dancougar moves in to distract the Kikaijuu with Kouji in 
the Pilder making a move. However Duke Gorgon saws through the ploy and saw 
the Pilder. He then orders the Kikaijuu to destroy it before it can dock with 
Mazinger Z.  Kouji zips through the attacks and reach the ship going inside 
and after a while, the ship burst with Mazinger Z jumping out.

With Mazinger Z by their side, Habakiri and Dancougar then make short work of 
the Kikaijuu and Kouji says that it's great to be back piloting Mazinger Z 
and relieve some of the stress he's got from being cooped up with research.

Keiji note that the second time on this machine isn't as bad as the first 
time since it's as if he's synchronize with this machine.

Back at A3 base, testing on the Habakiri has been halted since the other test 
pilot are in the worst possible condition after having just sat in the 
Habakiri for barely five minutes doing nothing. The only one who is fine with 
the Habakiri is Keiji which makes the mechanic wonders how Keiji has trained 
his body. It's as if Habakiri or Keiji has adapted to each other. So from 
this point on, it's best to think of Habakiri as Keiji's personal mech.

The other lab technician says that the original pilot of the Habakiri died 
from internal pain from what they learned from the autopsy. He'd really like 
to dismantle the Habakiri to REALLY study it but they have no idea how to put 
it back together since everything beside the frame used unknown technology. 
It's probably Over Technology or else whoever built this is a genius. What 
they've found in it SO FAR. (There may be OTHER surprises)  is a pilot 
synchro system though it isn't rare since Dancougar also used a pilot synchro 
system to channel human aggression into piloting the machine and Combattler V 
also utilize pilot mental synchronization in order for the team's mechs to 
combine into Combattler V. 

What's of concern is the Habakiri's power generator which seems to be based 
on the pilot's synchronization with the machine and his or her emotional 
state. Hatsuki says to conclude the testing for now.

Later, everyone learned that Habakiri has finally been approved of as an A3 
Special, Hatsuki note that news travel fast and he tells Valentina to send 
off lots of E-Mails and very quickly, Dr. Yotsuya and Anna's Mom (Sorry 
forgot name) from Dannar Base wants to meet with him on the matter of 
Habakiri.

Sarah note that something's up though Masato doesn't see anything unusual 
since they just discovered an unknown Special, of course Prof Hatsuki would 
want these two well renowned professor's opinion. Ryou says that that's why 
it's unusual; Prof. Hatsuki is also himself a world renowned professor in 
robotics so something that he can't solve himself and needs other's opinion 
is probably something big.

Sarah then asks Hatsuki if he's keeping something from them with Hatsuki 
remaining silent and Shinobu adds in that they're on the same team and it's 
not good keeping something from those who's entrusting their lives to him.

Hatsuki notes all this and says that he wanted to keep it a secret from all 
of them until he's confirmed thing but he believes that the Habakiri is tied 
to a project that he and the other scientists were involved in nine years ago.

Ryou noted that nine years ago puts it as one year after Macross had crash 
landed which makes it the year of the plan to mass produce Specials. Kouji 
chimed in that he also heard of this from Dr. Yumi, there was a massive 
scientific competition going on as to what project was capable of mass 
producing Specials. Sarah notes that with the Specials Laws regulating them 
these days, it's hard to believe that once upon a time the world wants to MP 
these things. Hatsuki says that they will continue this talk in Japan once he 
confirms whether his worries are true or not and Keiji wonders why Hatsuki 
said something like that.

Episode 3

At the hangar, Masato meets with Keiji and tells him not to be so formal 
around him since they're around the same age. Keiji is officially the 
Habakiri's pilot since he's the only one who can synch up with it which makes 
Keiji a bit annoyed that he's given this job only because he can synch with 
it and not because of skills. Masato says that it was the same when the 
pilots for Dancougar were chosen, they were chosen on how they best synch 
with the mech.

Shinobu note that the Dancougar's booster is repaired which finally makes it 
flyable again and suddenly see that the Combattler team have arrived.

Hatsuki had decided to take the Habakiri to Dannar Base along with the 
Dancougar and the Combattler team is called in to accompany/ guard the 
transportation. Hyouma, of course doesn't get along with Shinobu and A3 and 
neither is Shinobu with Hyouma.  Hyouma shouted that A3 is supposed to be an 
organization for fighting aliens but it's usually the Combattler team who's 
the first to arrive on the frontline to tackle the Campbell when they 
attacked with the Dancougar or the Skull Squadron always only playing back up. 
Shinobu then counters back "Hey Aoi, it's not like I LIKE playing second 
fiddle to you but our MAIN job is to defend A3 Island, we're busy defending 
the Macross from various organizations wanting to take the Macross for their 
own purpose."

Keiji asked if Shinobu and Hyouma are always like this and Kosuke says that 
it's been like this since the Combattler team joined up with A3 half a year 
ago. Juuzo says that early on, he tries to stop it but it's best to let them 
be.

Ryou asks Hatsuki if he had report their movement to the Feds for moving out 
like this and Hatsuki says that he has, the Special laws required that they 
must report the objective of their mission every time they move out 
especially with three Specials moving together. Shinobu grumble that 
everything they do is restricted by this stupid law. Chizuru note that this 
means the Titans will know their movement with Hyouma saying that they're 
probably itching to get the stuff A3 has. Ryou note that their movements are 
suspicious.

Kouji tells Keiji that he wants to accompany them back to Japan but he still 
has an energy research project to complete and no Scrander either. He thinks 
that the Habakiri is related to the mass production of Super Robots that his 
grandpa was involved in many years ago and that the story may be bigger than 
they realized.

During the flight to Dannar Base, Hyouma wonders why they're here since 
Dancougar alone could guard the transport plane just fine but Chizuru says 
that it's case by case since something unexpected could happen or has Hyouma 
forgotten the War of the Giants five years ago. Hyouma says that he hasn't 
forgotten, his orphanage was wrecked thanks to the Mimetic beasts. It was a 
war that Mobile Suits and Destroid Monster couldn't win but was won by Super 
Robots, but after the danger had passed, the Federation decides to pass the 
Special laws to regulate the Super Robots or Specials since without a threat 
they're just weapons of mass destruction. Hyouma says that he doesn't like 
those words being associated with their machine but Ryou says that in the 
wrong hand, it's extremely capable of mass destruction.

Valentina then interrupts everyone saying that they picked up on Magma Beast 
readings showing that they're heading to Nanbara Connection.  Shinobu then 
says that Hatsuki isn't going to have them turn a blind eye to it and head 
for Dannar Base right? Hatsuki tells the Combattler team to break off from 
them and head to Nanbara to protect it while they keep on their present 
course to Dannar Base. 

Keiji then says that Professor Yotsuya is also someone Hatsuki needs to 
consult about Habakiri, so maybe they should go to the Connection to pick him 
up first and Shinobu says that three heads (Super Robots) are better than one 
defending the place. Valentina then asks what do they do about the Special 
Laws and Sarah says that A3 is supposed to be about defeating aliens so the 
Feds wouldn't mind for this hasty sidetrip.

 Hatsuki then says that they will change course towards the Nanbara 
Connection since he need to consult with Professor Yotsuya and pick him up to 
go to Dannar Base as well.

Keiji then note that he didn't think Shinobu would stick up for Hyouma like 
this and Shinobu then asks "Why? Is it because I don't get along with him?" 
"Hey Hyouma, this time you can't say we're only playing back up." Hyouma's 
response is "Yeah, don't let the Magma Beast make you cry"

The team manages to head off the Magma Beasts in the sky before they get to 
Nanbara Connection. Valentina says that the conditions are bad and that she 
can't pick up the Magma Beast's location via radar so they'll have to search 
by sight. Shinobu is eager to go bust head but Hyouma tells him to not 
underestimate Magma Beast, they're strong enough to give a Super Robot 
trouble with Juuzo agreeing saying they played dirty.  Commander Dangel says 
that he planned to attack Nanbara Connection while the Combattler team was 
away but this is better, he'll kill them. The three mech split up to comb the 
area. Keiji finds one and can't believe that it's this powerful but Dancougar 
and Combattler V helps him out finishing the battle.

Hyouma noted that the Dancougar team did well against the Magma Beast and 
Shinobu says that this is the result if the higher up lets them out onto the 
front line. Masato and Juuzou says that Shinobu and Hyouma's piloting style 
could use work since the ride along like them when combined always get a 
rough ride when those two pilot only to be told to shut up by Shinobu and 
Hyouma. "Crap, NOW they get along" muttered Juuzo and Masato. 

At the Campbell flying base, Janella punishes Dangel for his failure and 
talks about Earth's connection with Protoculture that ruled this part of the 
galaxy 50 million years ago. Oleanna was sent to Earth to determine the link 
but it got it's butt kicked by Combattler V which is why they are here now.  
She believe that Earth is special what with the dome in Tokyo that even 
Campbellian science couldn't crack, the existence of Youma, that ship on A3 
island, etc so there must be a link to Protoculture here since it's too much 
to be coincidence. They must find the link since it will mean great power for 
them.

Later at Nanbara Connection, Yotsuya welcomes Hatsuki and the people of A3 
and Hyouma noted that they could have been at Dannar Base by now instead of 
here if not for the Campbell and Yotsuya ask if he have problems with this 
place. Hyouma says that he doesn't, this place is like home to him and 
Yotsuya tells Hyouma that if he thinks that this place is like a home to him, 
then he'd better get moving and serve up some refreshment. Hyouma is sent 
packing to bring in some coffee.

Keiji is silent and ask to take a walk alone after hearing about home and 
note that he should just forget about it, he'll get to meet Sawatori Gou, the 
big hero from the War of the Giant tomorrow.

Hatsuki talks with Yotsuya and Yotsuya note that Habakiri is DEFINITELY that 
thing from Dr. Soga. 

Episode 4

At Dannar Base, Keiji is excited and nervous about meeting Sawatori Gou and 
Hyouma says that he knows how that feels since he was pretty much a nervous 
wreck HIS first time. Juuzou says that while Gou might have been something 
five years ago, he's now just a middle aged uncle. Hyouma tells Juuzou to 
take that back since he was there five years ago to witness Gou's battle 
during the War of the Giant. Hyouma starts the story saying that his 
orphanage was destroyed by Mimetic Beast and he was staring one of them in 
the eye almost ready to die when Godannar arrived to beat it saving him from 
certain death. Since then he's always hold Gou as an Aniki, the one ideal 
he's striving to be. 

At the grave of Milla Ackerman, Sawatori Gou has come to pay his respect for 
his former partner and lover saying that it took him five long years to 
forgive himself and to finally fulfill a promise as he say to the Father of 
the Church.

At the Church, Shinobu noted that they forgot that Gou was getting married 
and Sarah note that the bride really looks pretty. Shinobu jibed Sarah "What, 
Sarah, from what you said, it's as if you were a girl" Sarah snapped back "I 
AM a girl!!" Keiji note that this man is Sawatori Gou, the hero of the War of 
the Giant five years ago.

During the ceremony where Aoi Anna and Sawatori Gou is about to exchange 
wedding vows, Gou's phone rang and he tells the other person that he's in the 
middle of something important but then changed his tune saying that he'll be 
right there and tells Anna sorry. Anna is of course peeved, he's supposed to 
be saying "I do take this woman...etc etc etc" since she's already said her 
part. Gou says that he's sorry and he'll be right back, just wait and he 
dashes out. Anna's mom, Dr. Kiriko Aoi tells Anna to understand since her 
husband to be is a robot pilot and her mother is his boss. After her mom 
leaves, Anna note that she understands but she's not the type of girl to sit 
by idly while her husband goes out to fight and begins to follow them.

Meanwhile Shinobu and the others also get called into action. It appears 
Mimetic Beasts have reemerged after a long period of dormancy. G- Gunner from 
Dannar Base has already deployed to engage them and the others are expected 
to follow. Valentina suddenly relay new information, it seems that  Mimetic 
Beast have also popped up near the Science Fortress and Great Mazinger have 
deployed to stop them but what's worse is that Mikene Sentoujuu have also 
used this opportunity to attack also. Kouji and Mazinger Z who were enrouted 
to Dannar Base have already changed course to aid Great Mazinger but they'll 
need more backup.

Shinobu note that one of them will have to go to the Science Fortress while 
the other two go help G Gunner along with Godannar.

At the Science Fortress, Kouji arrives to help Tetsuya, he recognized Tetsuya 
even though they've only briefly met after he defeated Dr. Hell and the 
Mikene's initial assault happened (i.e. the Mazinger Z vs Ankoku Daishogun 
movie) Tetsuya note that Kouji was called to A3 after that battle while 
Mazinger Z was repaired and strengthened. A3 forces (Dancougar) arrived and 
the trio moves out to defeat Mimetic Beasts. Tetsuya wonders where the 
reported Sentoujuus are and suddenly realized that they were in hiding 
waiting for the battle with the Mimetic beast to lure the trio elsewhere 
while they attack the Fortress. Tetsuya and the others hurried back to defeat 
the Sentoujuu.

Afterward, Dr. Kabuto thanks Tetsuya and Mazinger Z for their work and 
Tetsuya asked if Dr. Kabuto doesn't have anything else to say towards his son 
thus revealing Dr.Kabuto's identity to Kouji who was oblivious to it.

Meanwhile, G- Gunner piloted by Shizuru and Kooji Tetsuya is being 
overwhelmed by Mimetic beasts but Shizuru tells Kooji that the amounts of 
Mimetics aren't that huge and that they can hang on before reinforcement 
arrives.

Godannar along with Combattler V and Habakiri arrives to help them. Keiji 
note that this is Godannar, Sawatori Gou's robot that defeated the Mimetic 
and ended the war five years ago.

The battle begins and during the midst of the battle, Dr.Aoi note that 
someone is in the old Dannar Base trying to activate the sealed Neo Okusa. It 
is Anna of course, and Dr.Aoi decides to send her out after a bit of 
consideration. Gou, of course, is hysterical and tells her to run away even 
though Anna says she's here to help. He doesn't want to lose anyone special 
to him again. Anna says that she means it when they exchanged wedding vows to 
be there for each other whether in sickness or health (yadda yadda yadda) Of 
course, this makes the girls at Dannar Base and Shizuru quite shocked since 
Gou kept it a secret. Dr. Aoi says that while it's a bit unexpected, she 
wants to introduce them to her daughter, Aoi Anna or Mrs. Sawatori Anna to be 
precise.

Anna then points out to him that other people are going to die, people with 
their loved one too if they don't stop the Mimetic, that's what this robot is 
for. Gou then cursed "Blast it all" and decides to concentrate on defeating 
the Mimetic. Dr. Aoi then tells the two to combine to Godannar Twin Drive to 
defeat the last one and Gou isn't exactly thrilled about that either but does 
so. Turning into that form increases Godannar's power and ended the battle 
easily.

Afterward at Dannar Base, Ryou says that he didn't expect to see Tetsuya here 
and Tetsuya says that he came here to greet Gou and leave the reunion between 
father and son alone. Hyouma note that that's something that they'll never 
have and Tetsuya agrees saying that orphans like the three of them don't have 
parents. Ryou then says that Keiji is like them, he lost them and got that 
scar of his. Keiji is surprised that Ryou knows about his past and Ryou says 
that it only takes a little bit of searching to know. Hyouma says that that 
makes them blood brothers. Tetsuya note that Gou has finally regained his 
vigor, five years was too long for him to finally regain himself. Hyouma says 
that they should understand what Gou went through. Keiji is a little bit 
perplexed and Tetsuya says that Gou lost the one he loved most in the war 
five years ago.

Gou is at this moment however being teased mercilessly with his cute little 
nickname Gouchin by mechanics and operators alike, especially by the females. 
Tetsuya chuckle a bit at Gou's teasing and Gou tells Tetsuya "Hey Tetsuya, as 
someone who's been in this game longer than you, let me give you a little bit 
of advice.... DON'T get married" to which comes an immediate reply "I HEARD 
that" from Anna landing Gou in more hot water.

Dr. Aoi then greets Hatsuki "How's it going Kou chin" which raise a few 
eyebrow from the Dancougar team and Hatsuki says "Aoi-kun, would you stop 
with the nickname, I have subordinates with me" Dr. Aoi then tease that since 
Hatsuki sounds exactly like her hubby, she always got them mixed when they 
were in the room together back in the old days. (It's a wonder Kouji didn't 
get teased like this also) Hatsuki then asks if Dr. Aoi has seen the Habakiri 
yet and she says that it's the engine isn't it?

The chief engineer whose name I can't remember but we'll call him Pops 
(Oyatsu san) says that he didn't think that A3 would bring in something like 
this. Pops says that he was a young mechanic back then but he definitely 
remembered the main rival to their Plasma drive series. Hyouma and Shinobu 
ask if Pops, Hatsuki and the others can make it clear to them.

Hatsuki then says that he'll explain, 9 years ago, after Macross has landed, 
the Federation was in splinter with every country wanting to get their hands 
on alien technology and know-how that other country might have gotten or 
understood from Macross. This lead to A3's foundation but that's another 
story. During that time, Hatsuki and the others found evidence of Mimetic 
Beast's existence and try to alert the Feds to their danger but the Feds 
underestimate the Mimetic Beasts. Hatsuki says that they tried and tried 
again and also decide to find a way to counteract this threat, the creation 
of machines powerful enough to take them on, the Super Robots.

Hatsuki recall that at time, Dr. Kabuto Juuzou had already begun development 
of Mazinger Z's prototype and Dr. Saotome had already made breakthrough in 
the discovery of Getter Ray and Dr. Nanbara already had the plans for the 
Battle Machine drawn out.

However none of those projects were capable of mass production either because 
of problem with the energy source or it was too cost inefficient, production 
inefficient, maintenance inefficient, etc. They need a huge amount of cheap, 
easily produced and maintained Specials to fight a worldwide war with the 
Mimetic. Shinobu note that he's beginning to get the gist of it, this lead to 
a competition between scientists. Kosuke note that it's hard to see the Feds 
allowing this what with the Specials law today.

Hatsuki continues that the breakthrough came with Dr. Aoi's Plasma Drive 
series that fits all categories of MPing which makes Anna quite surprised but 
Gou then said "Why so surprised, you should know best what your mom can do" 
to which Dr. Aoi then retorted a bit peeved "Are you implying something, son- 
in law"

Hatsuki continues that one contender for MPing was Dr. Aoi's Plasma Drive 
Series to which Godannar and Neo Okusa belongs to. The other one was Dr. 
Soga's Nemesis Series with its Celestial Reactor to which Habakiri might 
belong to.

Pops then says that the problem with the Nemesis Series was that they don't 
know about its creation spec at all aside from the fact that it input pilot's 
brainwave & electric pulse to create enormous energy. If it isn't using Over 
Technology, the man who built this was a genius. The problem with the Nemesis 
Series was that of reliability, it was hard to produce and maintained so Dr. 
Aoi's Plasma Drive Series was chosen though most of it was destroyed in the 
war five years ago. Pops continue that as mechanic, they don't like putting 
an unknown thing like that Celestial Reactor in a machine for pilots to pilot 
so that was another strike against it.

 Dr. Aoi then says that it's not confirmed that Habakiri is a Nemesis series 
or not but Kagemaru then pops out of the cockpit saying that it definitely is. 
Dr. Aoi then introduces everyone to the Sub Commander of Dannar Base who was 
also a test pilot during the competition.

Kagemaru says that Habakiri definitely has the Celestial Reactor in it since 
just by sitting in it he can feel as if his soul was being drained away. 
Keiji says that he felt like that at first when he piloted Habakiri but 
afterward it feels as if he's become one with the machine. Dr. Aoi says that 
the last reason the Nemesis Series wasn't chosen was because of its effect on 
the pilot, the pilot who first piloted Habakiri against the Dancougar 
couldn't stand it and died. Shinobu apologize to Hatsuki saying that Hatsuki 
was right to be worried about using the Habakiri and wanting Keiji off it. 
Keiji is told to immediately report to Hatsuki and the other if any problem 
happens to him because of the Habakiri.

Later in the midst of the night, Dr. Aoi and Professor Yotsuya then tells 
Hatsuki to come clean with the REAL problem he's got with the Habakiri now 
that they've quiet the pilots with background information.  Hatsuki says that 
he definitely can't fool them and he isn't planning to. What's REALLY 
worrying him is that if Habakiri is a Nemesis, why did Dr. Soga built it NOW? 
Dr. Aoi noted that it's probably to fulfill his vision and to get revenge on 
them, the scientists who rejected his project and vision. Professor Yotsuya 
then added that another problem is how Dr. Soga could have built all this 
himself, where did he get the funding to do so.

Dr. Aoi note that this needs further investigation and Hatsuki note that the 
last problem is Keiji, the last pilot went berserk attacking A3 and this 
MIGHT happen to Keiji. IF it ever does, they'll be forced to kill him under 
the Specials law since a rampaging Specials can cause mass destruction.

On the beach near Dannar Base, Keiji is alone and Valentina walks up beside 
him asking why he's still up since a pilot has to keep themselves in the best 
condition. Valentina then sneeze and then note that Keiji laughed. She tells 
him not to tell anyone. Keiji notes that this is the first time that they've 
talked informally and Valentina agrees noting that in the midst of battle, 
she has to relay important informations.

Keiji then blurts out that he doesn't have a family, it's not rare with the 
condition of the world today with the MU, the Macross, the One Year war, etc. 
Lots of family are broken up and lots of children are orphaned, billions of 
them.  He's been trying to run away from that fact, he doesn't even remember 
his family's faces anymore to shut away the pain but he finally realized that 
after meeting everyone at A3. Aoi Hyouma, Tsurugi Tetsuya and even Sawatori 
Gou lost their family and loved one but rised above their pain. 

Valentina then say "Wow, even the Scarface Kid of Class 42 of the Military 
School (whatever it is) is worry about this thing" and Keiji then apologize 
saying that he didn't mean to dump it out on her, it just came out but 
Valentina says that it's ok since support staff like her should also help 
pilot with their problems. Keiji then wonders "Wait, how did you knew my 
class number?" and Valentina replies with a sly "I wonder how?" and walks 
away with Keiji noting that it must be like Ryou who did a bit of digging on 
him.


Episode 5

The remains of Junius 7 is being sent towards Earth by an unknown 3rd party 
and the results will be probably like a meteor strike. The Minerva is the 
only ZAFT ship aside from Yzak's troop that is close enough to stop this from 
happening. 

Meanwhile at Dannar Base, the team learns of this and prepares to sortie into 
space to deal with it, except for Godannar that can't operate in space of 
course. Gou ask why they only have Jet Boy and not Rocket Boy and Dr. Aoi 
says that even with Rocket Boy, the Dannar and Okusa won't work in space  and 
Anna says that she thought their robot could go anywhere like the others and 
so does Kooji and Dr. Aoi says "You two, read the manual, next time"

Habakiri also can not go since they don't know yet whether it can operate in 
space or not and this is Keiji's first time in space so they won't have time 
to babysit him. Shinobu tries to cheer Keiji up by saying that they'll be 
counting on Keiji and the Dannar team if anything big happen while they're in 
space.

To bolster their force, the A3 team calls on the Getter Team which can go 
into space under its own power. They'll help the shuttle launch and reach the 
destination properly. The rest of the team has to take a HLV and split into 
their component unit like the Battle Machine and the individual Dancougar 
mech. Mazinger Z had to take the Scrander off and Kouji note that Great which 
can fold it's own wing in is quite advantageous.

While the team is ready to go, they can't launch thanks to the wonderful 
world of red tape. An official order to deploy must be made either by the 
Plant or by the Feds. Neither side is officially tackling this problem yet. 
Dr Saotome tells the Getter team to be patient and to follow the laws but 
Ryouma says that there are exceptions to the Law and Dr. Saotome says that 
Specials can deploy to combat alien threat that they have been cleared to 
fight, for example, Dannar Base can deploy their mech to combat Mimetics any 
where in the world while the same goes for Combattler V against the Campbell 
or Great Mazinger against the Mikene, otherwise they must wait from orders 
from A3 to deploy. Hayato says that there are also cases where they can 
deploy to prevent and contain natural threats to humanity like this one.


Dr. Saotome says that even so, they must cooperate with the side tackling 
this problem and wait for their official order to deploy before they can 
intervene so they're on standby. This of course doesn't exactly thrill our 
heroes.

The call for launch finally comes from the Plant and Dr. Aoi note that ZAFT 
seems a little too prepared for this incident and that they seem to be 
risking a lot by making the first move against Junius 7 since the political 
ramification will be big.
With the official order to deploy, the HLV launch along with the three Get 
Machines.  "Change Dragon... SWITCH ON!!" Ryouma shouted as he forms Getter 
Dragon and the Dragon then grabs the HLV and flies off together into space.

Out near Junius 7, Talia greets the team and informs them of the situation. 
Yzak and Dearka have set up drilling machines (or something) to break up 
Junius 7 to be destroyed since they can't seem to change its course. The 
Specials are to destroy the small chunks that are headed towards Earth but 
suddenly Meilene report that there are enemy troops attacking the drilling 
machine. Talia orders her MS troops to deploy to stop them and the Getter 
team says that they'll tag along as well, just in case. Meanwhile the others 
will be waiting to destroy the chunks that will head towards Earth with their 
super attacks.

On Junius 7, Shin Asuka, Rey, Luna Maria Hawke and Athrun deploys in their 
Zaku and Gundam. Shin is pretty peeved that Athrun tagged along though Rey 
reminds him that they need all the help they can get. Getter Dragon then 
lands next to them and judging from the fact that the Impulse Gundam is 
barely as tall as the Getter Dragon's leg section, Shin is flabbergasted at 
the size of Getter Dragon. "How can they pilot something that SIZE" he 
muttered.

The 3rd party is revealed, they are Coordinators that shares the late Patrick 
Zala's view against Naturals which of course hits home for Athrun, they 
attack the drills and it's up to Shin and the others to fend them off. Amidst 
all this, Neo's forces, the Phantom Pain which has stolen three new Gundams 
from ZAFT decides to attack also but they are repelled by Shin and the Getter 
Team. (Thus concludes the ONLY good deed done by Shin Asuka, Luna Maria Hawke 
for your side until stage 36)

However as expected, the drills malfunctioned and while Talia, the Minerva's 
captain is starting to panic, the Getter team noted "It's a good thing we 
plan for this" and tells Talia to leave it to them "Change Lyger... SWITCH 
ON!!" Hayato shouted.

Getter Lyger then proceeds to drill down into Junius 7 and does the work of 
all the drilling machine within minutes giving Talia chills as she could only 
says "THIS?....THIS is the power of a SUPER robot?"

Near the Earth's atmosphere, Dancougar and the rest are on demolition duty. 
Masato and Sarah note that there's one extremely big chunk headed towards 
Earth but it's too far from the rest of the chunks. If they go to destroy it, 
then the other chunks will hit Earth. Talia says that the Minerva will target 
that chunk and will leave the rest to the Super Robots. The Minerva will have 
to do reentry to Earth since they will be too close to Earth after destroying 
the chunk and Talia wishes the Super Robot the best of luck.

The third party arrive to try and interfere but a mysterious Gundam (the Wing 
Zero Custom) arrives to fight them and tells the A3 team to concentrate on 
demolishing the Junius 7 pieces. 

After the work is done, the Wing Zero disappears and the team is ready to go 
home.
At Saotome Lab, Professor Saotome is watching the news and tells Michelle 
that Ryouma and the others did it however it seems that there's more bad news 
than good news. It seems that the news then segue into an anti Coordinator 
propaganda inciting people blaming the Junius 7 drop on ZAFT and all 
Coordinator showing the third party using ZAFT MS to facilitate this attack

Professor Saotome is disheartened at this saying that no matter how much 
enemy of mankind like the Dinosaur Empire and the Hyakki that they defeat, 
humanity always seems to be keen on destroying itself. He really felt that 
what Ryouma and the others risked their lives for seems to be in vain. 
Michelle cheers him up saying that Ryouma and the others protected them and 
to not let this discourage him from doing what's right. Professor Saotome 
then says that she's right and that he will continue his research into Getter 
ray for humanity.

At the Minerva, Cagalli is congratulating Athrun for a job well done and all 
turns out for the best but Shin then goes postal on her saying that it's a 
serious setback for Plant/ Coordinators since the Naturals will use it as an 
excuse to declare war again on their kind. (Jeez, Shin, why don't you have a 
foaming out along with blood vane in your eyes to complete your speech, it'd 
look MUCH more natural than the in game portrait you were given for this 
outburst)


Episode 6

Dr. Aoi is quite surprised that "Kouchin" is relaxing and listening to 
classical music and Hatsuki says that it's all he can do right now. The A3 
team has been enlisted into TERRA's Operation Overload which is all under 
TERRA's supervision. TERRA is not in the mood to share information at all 
about this operation other than to have the Super Robots on standby in case 
of emergency. A girl named Quon drops by and asks to listen to the classical 
music Hatsuki is listening to saying that it has the color of battle and 
Hatsuki and Dr.Aoi wonders who she is.

Meanwhile in what is Tokyo, Ayato and his friend, Mamoru and Asahina is 
walking down the street enjoying life. An unidentified plane crashes near 
them and Ayato says that he'll go get help. He saw someone who he remembered 
is Mishima Reika, his classmate and one thing led to another and before long, 
two black suits are asking Ayato to come with them. These agents are attacked 
by a woman who calls herself Haruka and they bleed blue blood. Haruka says 
that she will show Ayato the truth of the world that he believes he lives in.

Outside Tokyo Jupiter, Kouji note that it really IS a grand assembly of Super 
Robots and Tetsuya agree that to have all eight of them together which is 
pretty much all the Super Robots the world has, assembled for a mission is 
near impossible thanks to the Special Law.  The talk then turns to Tokyo 
Jupiter which is the start of all of humanity's woe. It was here before most 
of them were born and the MU that resides within it once decimated the 
Federation causing many countries to secede from the Federation afterward 
seeing as to how powerless it was against the MU. This leads all these 
countries to begin wanting firepower to protect themselve against the MU 
which lead to battles trying to claim the Macross and the One Year War. 
Shinobu says that the MU might have been the catalyst for this but it's the 
bloodthirsty and petty human that continued the strife against their own kind.

Hyouma wonders what is inside the dome and whether the people of Tokyo are 
still alive in there and Keiji says that the people in Tokyo have relatives 
elsewhere who lost contacts with them and these 15 years of uncertainty must 
be like Hell for both sides which are the reason why he won't forgive the MU. 
Hyouma agrees that it is bad and he understands where Keiji is coming from.

Inside Tokyo, Ayato and Haruka stumbles onto where the Raxephon egg is and 
Haruka is wondering why Ayato is talking like he saws someone named Reika. 
The Raxephon egg hatches and out pops Raxephon. In the midst of all this, 
Ayato merge with the Raxephon and saw his mom who got scratched and bleeds 
blue blood when the Raxephon is starting to break out of its confinement. 
Ayato's mom says that she has been waiting for so long for Ayato to awaken 
which confuse Ayato very much and she then see someone (Reika) on the 
Raxephon's shoulder and mutters "the Ishitori."
 
Reika tells Raxephon "Sing Raxephon, sing your forbidden song until one day 
all will become one." A Dolem attacks firing a beam towards where Reika is 
and she disappear but that more or less ticks off Ayato and he gets extremely 
angry.

Meanwhile, Benkei note that it's been two days that they were assembled, he's 
done nothing but eat and sleep being on alert. Hyouma says that they have to 
wait for the advance team of jet squadron that entered Tokyo Jupiter to come 
back out before anything else can happen but Tetsuya says that the advance 
team might not be coming back or even if they do, they might bring unexpected 
visitor back with them, the Dolems that decimated the Federation. Ryouma says 
that that is why they were assembled. Hyouma says that in the 15 years since 
humanity's defeat, we've built Super Robots; the Dolem won't find it as easy 
as last time. Juuzo says that he wish he could be as carefree and air headed 
like Hyouma. Daisaku suddenly tells everyone that he sees something escaping 
from the Dome.

Elphie emerges from the Tokyo Jupiter effect and note that she's the only one 
left and what is that thing coming out behind her. It is the Raxephon along 
with a fleet of Dolem behind it. Shinobu shouted "Crap, they really are 
coming out to play" The team quickly prep their mech ready to battle but 
Valentina suddenly belays an order telling them to protect the Raxephon. 
Shinobu note that they're protecting an unknown for an unknown cause against 
the enemies that made mincemeat out of humanity last time, this should be fun. 
Gou says that he and Anna will handle the Dolems near the ground but the 
flight capable members will be the main attack force.

The battle begins and the team makes contact with Ayato who remembers nothing 
after getting angry against the Dolem but decides to start fighting them as 
well along with the other Super Robots. Ryouma note that these are the 
rumoured Dolem and Hayato tells him to be careful of their power. Shinobu 
says that he can see how the Feds got decimated 15 years ago by them but 
Hyouma notes that they're powerful but not THAT powerful that their Super 
Robots can't handle. A blue Dolem comes out and Kouji note that this one is 
tougher than all the others but the team combine forces and manage to drive 
it off.

However suddenly a dimensional rift begins to open and sucks the eight Super 
Robots in leaving behind a shocked Valentina who screams for them to answer 
her.

Back at Tokyo Jupiter, Ayato's mom is being briefed by her two general, Miwa 
and the Glass guy who shares Yazan's VA on the situation and she notes that 
Ayato has finally gone out to see the world but that he, the Raxephon and 
Ishitori will one day return here of his own free will. He can't change 
what's in his blood. When glass guy objects, Ayato's mom tells him to be 
silent or she'll kill him.

Elsewhere, Babem is being briefed by Isshiki (who hates the letter D, and 
definitely does not want to be called D-Boy which is good since the real D-
Boy is way cooler than he is). He is told of the Operation's success and the 
loss of the eight Specials. Babem note that they manage to put the extra time 
thanks to the time dilution that results from Tokyo Jupiter to good use. 
About the eight loss Specials, Babem note that they will never return if they 
get suck into the dimension that Muge or Yami no Teioh rules over but just 
maybe if they went to "that" place, they might have a chance. Babem tells 
Isshiki to head to TERRA, his position and duty have been confirmed by Helena.

Meanwhile, Haruka is talking to Souichi Yakumo, the nice sub commander about 
the loss of the eight Specials. Hatsuki and Dr. Aoi have already departed to 
see if they can find a way to recover them and Haruka note that this totally 
changes the power balance of the world. One Special is powerful enough but 
all eight of them being gone at once changes thing drastically. The Feds will 
definitely make a move against A3 to consolidate the Macross. Ayato wakes up 
and Haruka introduces herself and the reality of the world to him. 

Elvy comes up to Haruka and ask her if she knew that this mission was all for 
recovering this boy and this thing. Haruka remains silent and Elvy is furious 
since her teammates died for this not to mention the eight Specials that are 
lost thanks to this plan. Haruka tries to change the conversation saying that 
they should have Chinese tonight which earns her a slap (or a punch) from 
Elvy.



Episode 7

At the Big Shell Base, Akira and Mari are walking on the beach and Mari 
pesters Akira about taking her on a date since the Youma Empire was destroyed. 
Akira counters that he only defeated their commander, Prince Jakin. The Youma 
Emperor Barao is still left. Jinguchi (nicknamed Mister) and the doc (kid </pre><pre id="faqspan-2">
with glass) talks about the Valkyries flying over head from the Promedius 
ocean carrier and that they're probably doing their routine inspection flight 
giving people some confidence since Japan has largely been targeted by alien 
invaders and more in the past 10 years. The Doc says that Bluecar can match 
their speed and maneuverability for Jinguchi's information and Jinguchi note 
that he's more interested in the pilot.

Meanwhile inside the base, Sally Po and Noin have arrived to meet with Dr. 
Hibiki and Mari's father. When asked if the rumor is true, Sally note that 
the news is spreading fast no matter how hard they tried to contain it and 
confirms the eight Specials' disappearance. Already the war between Naturals 
and Coordinators have flared up again and the anti war colonies are being 
suppressed by the Titans and the Feds are beginning to prepare to attack A3 
Island and Orb in order to force their compliance and take their technology 
which is why Sally and Noin are here to day, they need Raideen's help.

Akira meets with Jinguchi and the doc who says they have inspected Raideen 
and that there's no problem with it and that they're being called back to 
base.

Back at the base, Akira meets with Sally and the Preventer team and Akira 
learns of everyone's disappearance. Akira believes that everyone is still 
alive and that they will be back but even if Raideen is the only one left to 
defend the Earth, then he will fight and give it his all.

Sally apologize to Akira and the Goplander team for not helping Raideen much 
against the Youma Empire in the past and are now asking for his help but 
they're just not prepared against the occult forces that the Youma are using. 
Mister says that that's fine, they're Youma specialist anyway. Sally asks 
again for Akira and Raideen's help to protect A3 Island.

At the Youma Empire, Barao is revived along with the Kyouretsu Kyoudai 
(Sibling) and Barao assigns them the task of defeating Raideen. However 
there's no real cooperation since the two fights each other for the right and 
honor to defeat Raideen.

Youma mechs are spotted and reported to the Big Shell base and Raideen 
deploys along with the Goplander to stop it. This time they are accompany by 
A3's Skull Squadron from the Promedius ocean carrier. Roy Fokker note that 
it's the first real dog fight against monsters this powerful in two years and 
when asked by Hikaru if Folker had fought the Youma before, Fokker says that 
the Youma weren't active two years ago and he'll tell Hikaru sometime. Folker 
then recognize Jinguchi but says they'll talk later.

The Skull Squadron's mission is to support Raideen against the Youma mechs. 
The Valkyries CANNOT fight nor defeat a Youma mech one on one easily so they 
must draw the attention of the Youma mechs to prevent them from ganging up on 
Raideen giving Raideen time to deal with each one of them individually. 

The battle begins and after Raideen downs a Youma mech, Hikaru can't believe 
in Raideen's enormous power. However the Kyouretsu big brother arrives and 
gives Raideen a beating even with the Skull Squadron's interference but 
suddenly Mutron energy flows out from Raideen giving Raideen the power to 
retaliate and defeat the Kyouretsu big brother's Youma mech.

The battle is over and as the team is flying home, Akira note that that power 
is definitely Mutron which is limitless energy from space. Hikaru says that 
he realize now how severe the situation is having witnessed the playing field 
level the Super Robots are battling on firsthand, with the disappearance of 
eight of them, the world is in upheaval and Folker is glad Hikaru understood.  
Fokker talks to Jinguchi and says that Jinguchi's skill is still just as good, 
how long has he been working at the Big Shell and Jinguchi says that it's 
been half a year since he finally found a place to call home. Jinguchi then 
says that Folker is still good even when he's in the army and he's now got 
subordinates to lead. 



Folker then says "Oh yes I forgot, let me introduce you to Hikaru, Ichijou 
Hikaru." Everyone then learns that Roy and Jinguchi are taught by Hikaru's 
dad on how to fly. Kagisaki also wants to pilot a Super Robot from what he 
saw of Raideen's prowess today saying "They're big, they're strong, what's 
not to like" and he even mention that Keiji got himself a Super Robot to 
pilot. Fokker's answer to this is "Ok, I'll see to it that you get transfer 
to piloting a BIG plump transport ship" which shuts Kagisaki up. The Skull 
squadron says that they'll head back to Promedius now and that they'll all 
meet up again soon at A3 island to defend it.

Later at the Big Shell base, Dr. Hibiki reveals that his wife or Akira's mom 
is probably still alive. Her real identity is Lemuria from the Mu continent 
which while similar sounding to the MU, isn't one of them. Akira then notes 
that he is part Lemurian then. Dr. Hibiki believes that it's too coincidental 
that he met her 15 years ago when the MU first arrived and she gave birth to 
Akira. He thinks that the key to finding her is in Tibet from the Lemurian 
tablet they discovered which pointed to that country and Sally decides to 
accompany him telling Noin that she's already contacted two new agents to 
help defend A3 island, both of them Noin knows very well.

Episode 8

Keiji wakes up to find himself in another place entirely, he doesn't feel too 
well and wonders if something's wrong with him. Kouji is glad that Keiji's 
awake but they don't know where they are. Masato think they might be inside 
Tokyo Jupiter but he doubted it. Anna then says that maybe they're on Mars 
but Gou says that with the breathable atmosphere, that's impossible.

Keiji then note that something is moving, it's like gigantic bugs fighting 
each other. The bugs or Aura Battler Dunbine piloted by Shou Zama is fighting 
enemy Aura Battlers and Charm tells Shou to look at that but Shou shouted 
that he's busy right now, it's taking all his concentration to defend himself 
what with another person being in the Dunbine's cockpit even though it's 
meant for one person.

The other person is named Shiela and she asked if this is normal for Shou and 
Shou says that ever since he came to Byston Well, it's been like this all the 
time. Sheila then secretly notes that this battle will determine if Shou Zama 
is truly meant to be a Seisenshi.

After another clash sends Dunbine backward and before the AB troops can 
follow up, the towering foot of Combattler V steps in to stand by Dunbine. 
Shou is pretty much shocked and Charm says "I told you to look" The thing you 
just heard next is the AB troops' jaw hitting the floor and when Great 
Mazinger and Getter G arrives by Combattler V's side next, the AB troops are 
pretty much scared spitless and decides to run away. Ryouma and Tetsuya 
berates Hyouma for jumping in to a situation they don't understand but Hyouma 
says that from the looks of it, those guys were bad guys ganging up on the 
good guy so it's only right to step in.

Shou says that he recognized these Specials from TV and Masato is surprised 
that Shou is from Japan like them. Shou explains about Byston Well to them 
and says that he doesn't know how he got inside this red sphere since he was 
fighting Bishott's troop and got sucked in here and rescued Sheila who is 
pursued by Drake's forces.

Sheila says that this is a natural occurrence in Byston Well that traps them 
in here but she wants to ask a question first, does Shou truly wants to save 
Byston Well or is he like the others just fighting for the joy of fighting. 
Shou says that he wants to and Sheila then asks why hasn't he defeat Bishot, 
Drake and Shot. Shou says that he's only one man but Shiela says that a true 
Seisenshi would not let that deter him. When asked who Sheila is, Sheila says 
that she is Queen of the Country Na. It isn't like she tries to conceal it 
but they never asked before.

Charm wonders if these people are summoned by the Aura Road and when asked 
what it is, Shou says that it'll take a while to explain. Meanwhile, the 
enemies AB have regrouped and told Todd about the Super Robots. Todd knows 
about them but decides to attack anyway and note that this information will 
be worth a lot to Shott.

Back at where our heroes are, the girls (Sarah, Chizuru and Anna) are playing 
with Charm, pretty much asking if Charm wants a Barbie doll house and can 
they dress her up and all which peeved Charm up a lot and she says that she's 
not a doll. The guys note that those three are having their own fun and 
returns to talk about the Aura Road, but first they have to find a way out of 
here before finding a way back home to the upper world. Queen Sheila is asked 
about a way out and she wants to ask Gou and the others a question first. The 
upperworlder Shott Weapon came and created Aura Battler which threw Byston 
Well into turmoil and she wonders if their appearance and the power they 
bring will throw Byston Well into even more turmoil, do they truly only want 
to return home?

Gou says that if they can help with something, they'll help but they have 
responsibilities back home and those that need their help and they must 
return home as quickly as they can. Queen Sheila then says that she 
understands them but before she can tell them of the way out, Charm comes in 
shouting that the enemies AB are back.

Shou tells the others to stay here and he'll handle them but the team says 
that they'll fight too; it's not like them to stand by and watch their friend 
fight on their behalf. Queen Sheila then says that the way out of this sphere 
is to locate a point that can be stabilized by Aura power to open an exit but 
it'll only last for a while, enough for one of the Super robot to exit which 
is why they have to open several exit and Shou must focus on keeping the exit 
open. Shou note that means that this'll leave him defenseless and Kouji and 
the others says that they'll take care of the enemies AB.

 The exodus begins and Keiji note that the AB may be small but they pack 
quite a punch. Shou says that the Aura Battler's power come from the pilot's 
aura power which means that their power will vary from pilot to pilot and to 
not underestimate them. In the midst of battle, Keiji begins to have 
headaches and Shinobu asks Keiji what's wrong and Keiji says that it's 
nothing. Todd appears to give Shou a hard time but gets a taste of Super 
Robot power and has to limp away. Shou manage to open enough exits for 
everyone to escape and Todd decides to use the last exit Shou open to also 
escape himself.

Shou see Todd escaping and note that this isn't the time to fight him. 
Everyone note how beautiful Byston Well is but when they see that there is no 
sun, they realize that they truly are in a different place than the Earth 
they know. Keiji isn't feeling too good and more or less falls unconscious.

Later, at night, everyone has decided to camp out until Keiji gets better. 
Anna and Hyouma are asked by Gou to gather firewood and Juuzou jokes that 
people from the Aoi family seems to be quite complacent to Gou and he gets a 
rebuttal from Anna (whether they're really related or not, I'm not sure.)  
Juuzou is then asked to get dinner and he thinks he'll hunt down a few games 
to roast.

Gou note that Keiji's condition might be related to what Professor Hatsuki 
told them about the Habakiri and Kosuke note that they should get him to a 
doctor right away. Shou says that they do have a doctor at their hideaway 
even though she's not on the level of upper world but they can't move him 
right now.

Kouji says that he's worried about Keiji but he's even more worried about the 
upper world's condition. With him and Tetsuya gone, who knows what the Mikene 
will be up to when they find out. Hyouma chimed in that the same goes for the 
Campbell. Hayato note that another enemy who'll definitely take advantage is 
the Earth Federation. They've always wanted the Macross and see A3's Specials 
team as interference and with them gone; they'll definitely make a move. 

Keiji awakens but is still in bad shape. He apologizes for giving them so 
much trouble but Ryouma tells him to rest up and that the best thing he can 
do right now is to rest and recover as much as he can for tomorrow and that 
being in top condition is part of being a pilot. Queen Sheila notes that the 
thing that did this to Keiji is probably his machine, while it isn't brimming 
with evil aura; it gives off a bad vibe that Charm doesn't like. However 
whether this power is used for good or evil is up to the pilot.

Shou turns the talk as to how to get the eight home, without knowing what 
brought them here, the only way to send them back that they know of is with 
the Aura Road and that means using the E Ferario which isn't in Charm's class 
of power. The only three E Ferario are Nackle B who summoned Marbel but is 
missing, Jacoba Anon who is the head Ferario but will definitely turn a blind 
ear to their plight and Silky Mao who is being held captive by Drake who is 
using her to summon Upperworlder to recruit into his army.  Queen Sheila note 
that of all the three, Silky Mao is their only attainable E Ferario who might 
help and they must get these people home fast or the consequence will be dire 
for both Byston Well and the upper world. Shou tells Queen Sheila that after 
what happened today, he feels that he knows what to do which is defeat Drake 
for all of Byston Well. Queen Sheila then says that that determination is 
what makes him a true Seisenshi.

Episode 9

Back on the upper world at Nirankanai, TERRA's headquarter. Haruka is talking 
with her commander about Ayato and he says that sooner or later, Ayato's 
blood will turn blue and that his Murian personality will override him. They 
must not allow him to become a blue blood Geisha and that they must get him 
to tune the world while he is still red blooded. Haruka then turns the 
subject to A3 and asks why TERRA has ignored A3's plight since it was at 
their request that A3 lent them the eight Specials that disappeared but 
Isshiki comes in saying with his head up high that it's none of their concern, 
they disappeared on their own and that even without A3, none of the other 
organizations would dare touch TERRA since it is vital against MU.

At A3 Island, at the hangar Raideen has docked and Akira is still hopeful 
that the eight are still alive. They then see G-Gunner, a Super Robot from 
Dannar Base also being shipped in. At the command center, Valentina wants to 
resign to take responsibility for the loss of the eight Supers but Hatsuki 
and Lady Une tells her that it's not her fault since none of them could have 
predicted this happening and she's still needed for her skills. Hatsuki and 
Lady Une say that the eight will return, they're that type of people who 
always does the impossible. The Skull Squadron comes in and report that the 
Federation ships shows no sign of changing course, they'll be in position to 
attack soon.  Hatsuki tells the Skull Squadron to go get a meal at the 
cafeteria before they deploy to ward off the Feds but before that Lady Une 
wants to introduce them and Noin to the new Preventer member.

Noin and the others are shocked to see Zechs Marquise, the former Federation 
ace pilot who was legendary at the battle of Yakin Due but wasn't he supposed 
to have died afterward in a skirmish afterward. Zechs says that the way the 
world is headed he couldn't remain "dead" for long. Zechs greets Noin saying 
that it's been a while.

At the cafeteria, Kajisaki tells Hikaru that the superidol, Rin Minmei who 
Hikaru is enamoured with has agree to come to A3 Island to help A3's public 
relation after the way  the Feds are beginning to use propaganda to attack 
those against it which includes A3. Kajisaki also says that the people from 
Dannar Base are also here including the two really cute mechanics and the 
knockout known as Shizuru.

Kajisaki tries to hit on Shizuru who ignores him and Kooji asks Shizuru if he 
should straighten Kajisaki out but Shizuru says to ignore his type and says 
that there's this boy she wants to meet. Said boy is Chang Wufei, one of the 
legendary five Gundam pilots who fought both ZAFT and the Feds in the battle 
of Yakin Due to stop the war.

Shizuru asks Wufei his reason for fighting and Wufei asks that isn't she a 
soldier like him who could only find existence on the battlefield? Shizuru 
says that she's a warrior, there's a difference. Wufei says that in the past, 
he had lost to an opponent and had lost the will to fight and ride Nataku but 
in spite of that, weak people were being killed. This made him came to a 
realization; if he abandoned fighting abandon his responsibility, it would be 
as if he killed those weak people himself. He met a woman who showed him that 
the strong has to protect the weak which is why he is here, to fight for the 
weak.

Shizuru note that that's an ideal much like the one she knows and Wufei says 
that that person is probably Sawatori Gou, he would like to spar with him 
once. Shizuru is right if she believes Gou and the other will return, they 
are strong and they will be back.

After the meal, the last remaining force of A3 gathers, ready to repel the 
Federation. Valentina note that two objects are entering atmosphere and 
headed for their location. Shizuru think that it might be a missile attack 
and tells Kooji to shoot it down but Wufei tells her to wait, they're 
actually reinforcement. Gundam Deathscythe and Sandrock have arrived. Duo 
says "Sorry to keep you people waiting" to which Wufei retorted "We weren't 
waiting for you, you just barged in" "Geez, you haven't changed a bit" comes 
the reply from Duo.

Zech tells Valentina to put these two's capability on par with the Altron 
Gundam and to adjust her plans for them. The plan of defending A3 island will 
be that the ship carrier will needs to be targeted and it's biggest firepower 
(the gun on it's front) dismantled so that it can't fire on A3 island. Those 
needed for the task are those who can fly like the Skull Squadron, Raideen 
and Zech's Tallgeese III. The land forces will concentrate on repelling 
invasion force intent on taking over Macross and consist of G-Gunner and the 
MS who can't fly. Hikaru ask to be part of the land forces and though 
Valentina objects, Folker teases Hikaru about being worried about his 
favourite idol Minmei but allows it saying they need more numbers on land 
anyway

The invasion begins and the Feds troops in their Windam shouted to attack the 
Valkyries since they're no match for MS but are forced to stop when 
confronted with Raideen. They shouted as they go down that they thought A3 
were out of Specials. The Phantom Pein's Gundam arrives to help the Feds with 
Sting and Aul(Spelling) taking part in this battle while Neo and Stella heads 
for land. However after a brief skirmish, Neo tells them to retreat saying 
that their main mission is to defeat the Minerva and that this mission was 
tacked on hastily for them and ill-prepared to boot.

The Skull Squadron along with the others manages to disarm the ships and 
force them to retreat. Meanwhile the battle on land begins with the three 
Gundams taking out Titans MS and Windam. One Fed troop shouted "Gundam? A3 
has Gundam?" 
Quatre replies "It's not only the Feds and Plant that have Gundam." 

Misa contacts Hikaru telling him that he's supposed to be with the other 
Skull Squadron attacking the ships and to leave this to the land team but he 
says that he came here to help, he's already gotten Folker's permission to be 
here  and won't comply with that order. Barely has he cut Misa off, he spots 
Minmei being in the vicinity of the fight and rushes in to ward off the 
enemies MS. Hikaru introduce himself to Minmei and says that this place is 
dangerous and for her to get inside the Macross quickly. He also let slips 
that he's a fan and Minmei is left quite in awe of Hikaru.

Neo and Stella arrive and Duo note that the enemies have Gundam also, he'd 
better get serious. After a brief skirmish, Neo tells Stella to retreat since 
this isn't their main mission. The battle is over and Claudia comes to tell 
Valentina that she shouldn't be sad like this forever since when the eight 
gets home, they wouldn't want to see her in this state. Misa reprimands 
Hikaru for his disobedience and says that even though things worked out in 
the end, he'd better not pull this stunt again.

The rest of the Skull Squadron says that they heard Hikaru met Minmei and 
Folker and Kajisaki asks if he kissed her but Max says that someone like 
Hikaru probably won't which Hikaru says that he didn't do anything. Folker 
mutter "Geez and you call yourself a man?"

Hikaru tries to turn the conversation and says that he's glad that war 
veteran ace like Folker and Zechs are here which made the battle easier and 
Folker says that everyone gathered here except them are aces. Max asks if 
that also means the Wing Boys and Folker note that the Preventer have really 
gathered up some pretty good firepower.

 Duo note that he thought he'd get to live the rest of his life as a junk man 
but Quatre says that it can't be helped, with the state of the world as it is, 
their powers are needed once again. Zechs asks where the other two are and 
Duo says that Trowa is supposedly touring the world with his circus and can't 
be contacted. Heero's location is unknown. Wufei says that he's probably in 
hiding somewhere and he'll pop out sooner or later.


Episode 10


Back in Byston Wells, Drake's force is headed towards the country of Rau. He 
will attack this country and force it to submit to him before they can help 
the resistance and if those Specials should come out and play, he'll see 
their power in action.Drake asks Shott if these Specials are really as 
powerful as Shott describes them to be and Shott says that one Special (Super 
Robot) can change the course of a battlefield all by it's lonesome but if 
they can get these Specials under their controls then there's nothing in 
Byston Well that can stop them.

At the hideout, Keiji is doing much better thanks to Ele's healing. Everyone 
meets Ele and Marbel who is also from the upperworld. Shou note that Shott 
who creates the Aura Battler sees Byston Well as a Petri dish for him to use 
for his creation and that Drake wouldn't have the ambition to try and conquer 
Byston Well if Shott hadn't created Aura Battler to tempt him. Tetsuya note 
that Shott seems like Dr. Soga who their professors told them created 
Habakiri, a literal Mad Scientist in the vein of Dr.Hell.

Advance recon forces tell the team that Drake's Weil Wisp is headed to the 
country of Rau where they're headed to rendezvous. Ryouma note that Drake 
probably foresaw Shou's group getting backup from Rau and decide to strike 
first and with Todd escaping last time, he's probably know of them and their 
Super Robots' existences which is why he's pulled out his biggest gun to use. 
Shou note that this might be a blessing in disguise since if most of Drake's 
main forces are concentrated on Rau, his castle will be left almost unguarded 
which means that this is the perfect chance to rescue Silky Mao. Shou says 
that he'll go rescue Silky alone since he's the only one who knows where 
Silky is kept but Marbel says that they can't just let Shou go at it alone 
without backup and while she'd like to go with him, they have no spare Aura 
Battler left for her to use. Keiji then staggers out of bed and says that 
he'll go with Shou as backup 

Hyouma agrees with Keiji despite the girls' protest but he says that sometime 
a man's got to do what he's set out to do even if he's half-dead. Shinobu 
then decides to let Keiji do it but tells him that he'd better do a good job, 
half dead or not. Shou then says that in return for him going in to rescue 
Silky, he wants the Super Robots' help in holding Drake's attention and 
fending off his advance into Rau. Gou speaks for everyone saying that they 
promised Queen Shiela that they would take responsibility for the escalation 
of the strife in Byston Well that their and their machines' presence would 
trigger.

Shou and Keiji arrive near Drake's castle, the plan is for Keiji to play 
bodyguard while Shou reach the tower that contains Silky and go out of 
Dunbine to grab her. However they are both found by Allen and Fei and have to 
fight them otherwise they can't get to Silky.  Shou shouted that Allen is 
letting himself be used by Drake but Allen says that he is using Drake to 
survive in this world and Fei says that an out of work actor like him can be 
king here which is why he is supporting Drake. They don't last long against 
Dunbine and Habakiri.  Shou locate the tower and gets out of Dunbine and 
Keiji shouted to the remaining Aura Battlers that he won't let them touch 
Dunbine and goes into a near berserker rage even though he is almost passed 
out downing AB left and right scaring the heck out of Drake's remaining 
troops who shouted to run from him and target the Dunbine instead but Keiji 
shouted "I won't LET you!!" and downs them. Silky is rescued and note that 
Jacoba Anon must have known that all this is transpiring which puzzles Charm. 
Shou makes it out with Silky and tells Keiji it's time they high tail it out 
of here and Keiji had to snap out of his rage and comply.

Meanwhile, the remaining Super Robots are defending the line into the country 
against the Weil Wisp. Gou and the others note that the people have more or 
less retreated to safety but just as the Weil Wisp is spotted, Anna see that 
there are still SOME people who couldn't evacuate in time hiding in the fort 
on the ground. Anna tells everyone that she and Gou will defend these homes 
from Aura Battlers since they're stuck on the ground without Jetboys the 
others have to take out the Weil Wisp.

 The battle begins as the Black Knight and Jeril is defeated, the Black 
Knight note that Dunbine isn't here and it's no use being involved here 
without defeating Shou Zama and retreats. Jeril shouted that she'll remember 
them and make them regret crossing her one day and retreats. Drake's Weil 
Wisp takes  a serious beating from the Super Robots though to be fair, it 
didn't outright get sunk right away so that's an accomplishment. Marbel then 
tells everyone to get out of the Weil Wisp's way and the team comply though 
they wonder why and the reason why is that the Goraon has appeared firing 
it's Aura Cannon almost hitting the Weil Wisp. The Weil Wisp is forced to 
retreat and Shou return with Silky Mao. Ele is silent about using the Goraon, 
she still doesn't like having to use it but war is coming to Byston Well 
while Hyouma is surprised at the ship and Kosuke is even more surprised that 
it's "people powered" by Aura power

Silky says that she has known that this fate would await her ever since her 
powers were used to summon upperworlder breaking many taboos in the process. 
Shou wonder what Silky is talking about when he and the Super Robot pilots 
are transported to meet Jacoba Anon face to face.

Jacoba sentenced Silky Mao for her crime in helping instigate this unrest in 
Byston Well to become a lowly Mi Ferario for the next 500 years and Charm see 
Silky being enveloped and sent to be reborn (and she'll meet Shion in the 
next 500 years, I'd bet)
Jacoba tells the Super Robots pilot cryptically that the world is afraid, 
afraid of them and their power to destroy it. Once long long ago, the 
upperworlders once created a mechanical "voice" that once destroyed the world. 
She then decree that all roots of evil, the machines like Aura Battler will 
be expelled from Byston Well for Byston Well's sake.

Shou begs for Jacoba to hear them out first since it is too harsh a judgement 
and that they didn't exactly come in here wanting to spread warfare but they 
were all dragged here. Marbel continues that it doesn't mean that they're 
blameless since the battle did spread with them at the front but they're 
asking for a little time to set things right in Byston Well and that if all 
Aura Battler were to be expelled to the upper world now, it would cause great 
strife there. They promise to end the war here in Byston Well.

Jacoba asks if afterward they will destroy the Aura Battlers, Shou says that 
he promise  and Jacoba says that she does owe them for getting Silky out  so 
she will grant them a little time but they are setting about a difficult task 
of cleansing this world of war. Jacoba says that only the Aura Battler will 
be allowed to remain here for a little while longer but the Super Robots have 
to go before their presence brings about an even greater warfare and strife.

Kouji is sad to leave Shou alone like this but Shou says that it's all right, 
he'll leave the peace of the upperworld to them while he and Marbel takes 
care of things here. Gou promise that they'll do their best about the 
upperworld. Keiji thanks Shou for all he's done and the eight Super Robots 
are then sent home. Jacoba then state that she has done as they asked and 
it's time they start living up to their promise.

Later, Charm says that it was scary being face to face with Jacoba and see 
that Shou is silent. Marbel ask if he is having regret not returning to 
upperworld with Kouji and the others but Shou says that he isn't and what 
about Marbel. Marbel says that she doesn't regret it and ask Shou why he 
stayed and Shou says that the reason is obvious, he is a Seisenshi who is 
fighting for the peace of Byston Well now.

The eight Super Robots are home, sensor confirms that they are near A3 Island 
and they see a setting sun (classic Super Robot) and know that they're home. 
Ryou note that they could get back to A3 island under their own power instead 
of radioing for transport but Kouji says that it's best to wait, this 
ambience and atmosphere needs to be cherished even though compared to Byston 
Well, the air is full of war. Chizuru and Gou note Byston Well was a 
magnificient place even though Shinobu note that upperworlder like them has 
tainted it with war. Chizuru wonder just how long their own fight will 
continue and Keiji note that it's like a never ending battle and starts to 
get a bit depressed but Hyouma then cheers Keiji up saying " Well,all of us 
aren't going to accept that this war is lost, we're all fighting for a better 
tomorrow."

Episode 11

Out in space, Luu Ru and her dad Rou Ru are working in A3's Cosmo Base 
watching out for Titans and Mimetic Beast's movement when suddenly the base 
is attacked.

Back on A3 island, Kooji watch at the array of Super Robots in the hangar and 
note that it's an impressive display though he and Shizuru won't lose out to 
the others. Kooji is distracted by Hyouma's shouting "Hey Kouji" and he turns 
to take a look and Hyouma continues "Pops want you to take a look at the 
Pilder." "Ok, which way is my Mazinger Z?" comes the reply from Kabuto Kouji. 
"Oh right, the OTHER Kooji" Kooji noted.

"Tetsuya-san" Akira says which makes Kooji Tetsuya turns and has another look 
only to see Akira talking to Tsurugi Tetsuya asking him to go on patrol with 
him and the Goplander team.

"That wasn't for me either..."Kooji note as Shizuru's voice calls out to him 
"Hey Kooji" and Kooji is thinking "It's probably for the other Kooji, they 
probably don't mean me, the newbie in this gathering."  Shizuru then snaps 
him out of it and says that she has an important task for him and Kooji asks 
if it's really for him, Kooji Tetsuya. Shizuru says that it is of course, who 
else would she entrust this task to but him? This gets Kooji's hope up and 
Shizuru then flatly states "Here, go get Dr. Aoi's stuff, take the jeep, hop 
to it" and toss him the car key.

Anna and Gou ask her mom why she is here and she grumbles "What, I can't BE 
here?" Gou then asks "What about Dannar Base?" and Dr. Aoi then says that 
Kagemaru is on duty and just for show whips up her communicator and contact 
Dannar Base. Kagemaru ask if anything is wrong and she says that nothing's 
wrong, she just contact him to make a point that's all which leaves Kagemaru 
quite speechless. Jokings aside, Dr. Aoi then says that she heard about Anna 
and Gou's honeymoon to another world and Gou says that he had to type up a 
mountain's worth of report on that one and Anna chimes in that when they got 
back, Valentina was crying while Keiji just wanted to collapse while Shizuru 
and Kooji took them all out for drinks just to celebrate. Dr. Aoi says that 
she's quite concerned about the Habakiri having run some test on Keiji's 
vital sign compared to Kagemaru after he sat in the Habakiri recently.

Keiji is forced to remain in the sick ward by Valentina who says that Keiji 
is too daredevilish with his health always saying that he's fine, he'll go, 
he'll fight even though he can barely stand on his two feet. He has to take 
better care of himself as a pilot. Shinobu comes in and ribs Keiji on having 
an older lady as a surrogate mom but Valentina says that she is Keiji's age 
which surprises Keiji a bit. Shinobu then note "Oh right, you were scouted 
and brought in before you even graduated" The alarm then sounds and Keiji 
wonder if enemies are attacking.

The Getter team arrives at the office where Hatsuki and Lady Une brief them 
that they have lost contact with Cosmo Base and that an object launched from 
it has entered the atmosphere crash landing near here.  Jinguchi then radio 
in saying that they found the object, it's appears to be a small robot with a 
passenger being one small girl around 12. Akira then tells Jinguchi to get 
her to A3's sick ward at once while he recovers the robot. The girls' 
delirious words as she is being recovered are "Daddy ...mimetic beast"

The girl is identified as Luu Ru, daughter of Rou Ru from Cosmo Base. It 
seems Mimetic beasts attack latching on to shuttle from Earth as eggs and 
growing inside the base destroying it. Rou Ru then sent his daughter and the 
others away while he stay behind to ensure their safe launch. Ippei then 
tells everyone that Luu is going hysterical in the hangar. Luu is hysterical 
and wants to go back to help her father and she doesn't want the mechanic to 
touch the Cosmo Diver that got her here even though the mechanics says that 
it's badly damaged and needs to be repaired since they can't stand seeing a 
mech being badly damaged standing like this. Dr. Aoi tells Luu that she needs 
to calm down since they can't launch the HLV to go to Cosmo Base today 
because of weather condition which makes Luu breaks down and cry in Dr.Aoi's 
embrace.

At the cafeteria, Dr. Aoi says that Luu has calm down a bit and Gou note that 
Luu probably also know deep in her heart that her dad is... but Dr.Aoi says 
that she may know but she won't accept it since if she accepts it, it's all 
over for her. Dr. Aoi continues that everyone's like that, as long as they 
still remember the person, that person won't be totally dead since they'll 
live on in that person's heart. Gou then ask to be part of the force that 
investigates Cosmo Base and Dr. Aoi  says that Godannar won't operate in 
space and Gou asks to take the Cosmo Diver along with Luu and says that he'll 
take responsibility. Dr. Aoi then sigh and says that she'll owe the mechanics 
another one for the all-nighter they'll pull to repair the Cosmo Diver for 
tomorrow.

At the hangar, Pops tells the Wing boys that he's sorry that he has to let 
them repair their own mech like this but Quatre says that it's fine since 
they used to do it by themselves originally. Duo adds that it's more than 
enough that Pops let them have any parts that they want to use. Duo then ask 
if Wufei is done with his mech and Wufei says that he prep Nataku a long time 
ago and Quatre ask if Wufei knows something. Wufei says that Cosmo Base is 
A3's ear and eye out in space and without it, the Titans/ Federation can move 
their forces much more easily, he thinks that something might happens.

Out in space, Valentina prep the team saying that Cosmo Base's function has 
stopped and that it stands a huge chance of falling from orbit into Earth, 
though into the ocean. They have to reestablish the function which is backed 
up in Cosmo Diver and thus Cosmo Diver has to reach the core of the base. Gou 
says that he'll take small/ medium size machine like MS, Valkyries and the 
Mazinger to help him reach the core while the others stay outside to see if 
anything happens. However Valentina then report that Titans forces are coming 
in. Kajisaki wonder if they're here to take Cosmo Base or destroy it and 
Folker says that they have to repel them. Valentina then says that the 
outside force must take out the Titans while the inside team does their work.

The outside team starts taking out Titans and Yazan arrives saying that he 
and his troops will take care of the A3 forces and for the Hizack to head for 
the base. Yazan mouths off saying that his Hamphrabey's main point is speed 
which is enough to avoid  MS and Specials' attacks  but that didn't do him 
much good once your team one-shot him directly afterward. Yazan says that 
this isn't the place to take on A3's Specials anyway and he did what Scirocco 
asked him to do and he can only imagine A3's face once they find out the 
truth.

Inside, the team led by Gou in the Cosmo Diver heads toward the core fighting 
against Mimetic Beast but once the Cosmo Diver reach the core, they see the 
remains of a robot piloted by Rou Ru who protected this place to the death 
which makes Luu half hysteric with grief. Gou tells her to calm down or else 
what they came here to do will be for naught but afterward he see that the 
function of Cosmo Base cannot be reestablished. Dr.Aoi then says that they'll 
have to destroy Cosmo Base before it can fall to Earth and for the team to 
get out. Everyone rushes out amidst the feeling of helplessness at not being 
able to save the base.

Luu then note that the Mimetic that caused this is still alive and see one 
blast heading for the atmosphere containing the Mimetic and rush the Cosmo 
Diver towards it. Gou tells Luu that as long as she remembers him, her dad 
will be with her as the Cosmo Diver fires its weapon destroying the Mimetic.

Afterward Juuzou tells Hyouma to calm down but Hyouma says that he can't 
leave orphans who just lost their parent alone when they're hurting. Hatsuki 
then comes out and says that Luu is a member of A3 and that until she is 
emotionally recovered from this incident and ready to start a new life, it is 
best that she be taken care of by A3's members at this point. Hyouma then 
says that he'll consider Luu his little sister from now on and Chizuru state 
that she'll be everyone's little sister though Kosuke says that to him, Luu 
will be his big sister. Dr. Aoi tells Gou to let Luu live with him and Anna 
since he did says that he'll take responsibility. Gou says that if it's a kid 
like Luu, he won't mind if there's a bunch of them to which Anna then says 
that Gou sound like a dirty old man when he says that to which Gou 
immediately regrets the word coming out of his mouth.

At night, the Macross's radar is being retuned to use in monitoring space 
since they lost Cosmo Base but the Macross really isn't up to the task. Dr. 
Aoi says that there's even more bad news since the Titans took over their 
Megaroad project on the Moon to use the power generator for the Megaroad ship 
for SOMETHING.  Valentina note that today, they lost their eyes and ear in 
space along with the only footing they have out there, she's a bit scared as 
to what will happen next. Claudia tells her not to be like that since the 
pilots will get demoralized if they see her like this and she tries to comply. 
Dr. Aoi then note that the Federation has enough power to begin pressuring 
independent body like Orb to comply now and they're lucky that TERRA is still 
wiling to deal with them. Valentina however shudders at the word TERRA and 
what happened last time.

Speaking of TERRA, Ayato is moved to live with Gramp Rokudo and Megu out in 
his countryside house. Megu ask if Ayato miss Tokyo Jupiter and Ayato says 
that he can't go back now and Megu smiles a little when Ayato doesn't know 
how modern canned drinks are opened as he keeps asking why the pin doesn't 
peel off like back in Tokyo.  Gramp Rokudo then makes Ayato quite happy by 
giving him his own wooden nametag to put outside the house to show that he 
lives here and at night, Haruka and Elvy comes in with Elvy being drunk, 
faking barfing and hitting on Ayato like crazy. Good times (which 
unfortunately ain't going to last) 


Episode 12

Part of the A3 Team (Hatsuki, Fokker and the Dancougar Team) has gone to New 
Hong Kong to meet with Garaba representative led by Quattro Bagina.

Meanwhile a fleet of Titans led by Bran is hauling the Psycho Gundam with 
Four Murasame along with it to attack the said meeting. Four is sent to be 
used against the famous Amuro Rei but she wants complete autonomy in 
operation and Buran decides to humor her since the Murasame Lab definitely 
wants some results since the rival lab that consists of the Phantom Pein's 
group of Extended have been getting good results.

At the meeting, Quattro stated that with the loss of the Godannar's Orbit 
Base and with the MegaRoad project overtaken by the Titans, A3 is essentially 
crippled in space. Quattro then offers A3 the full support of AEUG/ Garaba to 
be their eyes in space in exchange for A3 dropping their neutral stance on 
what the Earth Fed is doing and become proactive in the Earth's political 
world in an alliance with AEUG. Hayato Kobayashi also says that another 
player, Axis, the former Zeon has returned from outer space and will 
definitely make a move creating even more anti coordinator/ anti spacenoid 
feeling in the Earth Federation and more war will break out. Quattro says 
that he knows that A3 don't approve of the Titan's method and goals but are 
bound by their own standing not to interfere but only use their power against 
threat to humanity. The only time they can use their might against other 
human is only when protecting their autonomy and territory and even then they 
stick to disarmament.

Shinobu disgracefully declines saying that they have no desire to become 
involved in politics like the Titans. Hatsuki agrees chiming in that A3 
fought hard to be granted independency to operate in return for their neutral 
stance on world politics.

Quattro then stated that he'll have to use his ace in the hole then and asks 
if Shinobu and Fokker remember the "AForce" case from two years ago. (which 
was the event of Macross Zero where an alien being of immense power codenamed 
A Forcewas found on the tropical island of Maya.)

Fokker says that it was a disaster case for them being almost wiped out and 
Shinobu says that it was during the time that they just became the Dancougar 
team and it was all they could do to survive and save the few survivors that 
they did. In the end, orders were given to terminate the thing with pulse 
bomb but the pulse bomb didn't harm it and it more or less retreated on it's 
own by folding into outerspace. Folker says that it was definitely a black 
eye for A3 but they don't see how this old disaster of theirs is related to 
the case that Quattro's trying to build.

Quattro then leads them to a tent and show them Kudo Shin's comatose body. 
Kudo Shin was involved in the "AForce" case and disappeared with the alien 
"AForce" that wiped out the Skull Squadron of A3 then. Quattro stated that 
they recovered Kudo Shin from an Axis Ship and with intelligence report 
pieced together the info that Kudo disappeared with "AForce." The odds of 
Axis possessing "AForce" is very high and they'll probably be willing to use 
it in their war. A3 will need their help if Axis starts to use "AForce" 
against Earth.

The discussion is then interrupted by a Titans attack on Garaba's Aoutmura. 
It is a fleet of Asshmar along with Four in the Psycho Gundam. They attacked 
Hong Kong indiscriminately without caring for any innocent bystanders. 
Shinobu sees this and says that he wishes that he brought Dancougar with him 
but Quattro says that even if Shinobu brought it, what is he going to do? 
THIS isn't an alien / subterranean threat to humanity that A3 is supposed to 
deal with, it's just humans killing each other, burning cities and 
slaughtering innocents and that doesn't fall under A3's scope to stop, is it?

Quattro then tells Camille and Amuro that they'll deploy to ward off the 
Titans and Shinobu outright says that he hates Quattro's guts but Ryou says 
that Quattro is right, they'll have to let AEUG handle this one.

Wufei says that he will also deploy since Lady Une foresaw this eventuality 
and DIDN'T register him formally in the A3 personnel database, any agreement 
that he had with her was just a verbal agreement. Duo chimed in that the same 
goes for them, they don't officially exist in A3. Quatre says that if worst 
comes to worst, A3 can deny any involvement with them. Hatsuki asks if the 
Wing trio plans to make themselves sacrificial lambs but got no answer as the 
Wing trio deploys to back up Quattro's trio.

In the midst of the battle against Four's Psycho Gundam, Four feels something 
against the three Newtype and wonder what this feeling is. She got beaten and 
retreat. In defending against the flying Asshmar and it's leader Bran Brudak, 
Trowa and the Gundam Heavyarm emerged from the sea with Trowa saying that 
retirement doesn't seem to come easy for the likes of them and Duo says that 
if he was in town, he should have called first. Thanks to Trowa's 
reinforcement, AEUG is able to fend off the Titans attack and kill Bran.

Afterward, Quattro asks Amuro why he didn't attend the previous meeting with 
A3 and Amuro says that Char would have used his name and reputation to 
further his cause. Quattro says that A3 may be steadfast in their ideal but 
they'll soon come around to realizing the problem with the way the Earth 
Federation is right now and that if they don't make a stand soon, there is no 
hope for Earth and humanity. It's made even clearer thanks to the Titan's 
indiscriminate attack on New Hong Kong Camille is of course incensed that 
Quattro is manipulating the A3 people like this. He shouted to Quattro that 
Quattro may be all talk about lending A3 a hand but what he's really doing is 
trying to get A3's enormous power (SUPER Robots) behind them and their cause. 
If AEUG really like fighting that much, just them and Garaba against the 
Titans is enough, they don't have to rope in people who want to steer clear 
of this conflict.

Being pissed off, Camille jump into a jeep and begins to drive off despite 
Amuro telling him to stop but Camille shouted that Quattro and Amuro doesn't 
have the right to stop him. Quattro tells Amuro that this is because Camille 
is young and Amuro says that he didn't think he'd heard those word from Char, 
to him, Quattro is and always will be Char Aznable. Meanwhile Four is on foot 
watching the scene and wonder if the person who gave her that feeling during 
battle is Amuro Rei but then note that it's probably Camille.

She meets Camille and they begin talking in which she learns that Camille 
doesn't like his name which sounds like a woman, and Camille learn that Four 
has lost her memory but he consoles her saying that new memory can be made 
like right now.

Meanwhile Fokker and the Skull Squadron learn that Kudo Shin has woken up 
from his coma and Fokker rushes in asking if Kudo knows who he is. Kudo says 
that he doesn't know who Fokker is...especially a Roy Fokker that is THIS much 
of a worry wart. This makes Fokker chuckle a bit and he fills Kudo in about 
what happened after he went AWOL.

At Axis, Haman learns of AEUG's movement to ally themselve with A3 and tells 
her subordinate that they will wait until AEUG/A3 and Char comes out into 
outer space to meet them.

Meanwhile 

At Orb, assassins (from ZAFT with love) have appeared to try and assassinate 
Lacus on a certain someone's order. 

Lacus, Murrue, Kira and Bartfield are talking over Cagalli's wedding which is 
politically motivated to keep Orb from being invaded again. Bartfield note 
that with the current political climate in Orb and them kowtowing to the Feds, 
it might be best if he, Kira and Lacus decides to leave to avoid any trouble. 
However before any further discussion can go on, their home is invaded and 
Bartfield and Kira rush to fend them  off but most of the assassins are taken 
care of by Heero whom Bartfield mistaken as another assassin. Bartfield was 
quite worried too since Heero's rep as an unstoppable assassin is pretty high. 
(Oh REALLY?) Heero says that he's here to help and that enemy MS are on their 
way. Kira tells Bartfield to get Lacus to safety and he decides to launch in 
the secretly repaired Freedom Gundam and Heero launches in the Wing Zero 
Custom as well. Wing Zero and Freedom defeated the enemy MS and soon after, 
having decide to finally take a stand again in where the world is heading, 
the Archangel launches and it's first mission is to rescue Cagalli from a 
forced wedding.

Episode 13

International news is abuzz about how AEUG is courting A3 and have entered 
into an alliance with them as Lunamaria tells Athrun who has returned to ZAFT. 
She tries to strike up a conversation with him with this topic and more such 
as where had he been, Orb and how Shin had to fight tooth and nail to get 
them out of there, Cagalli's wedding which more or less shock Athrun and 
Cagalli's abduction which also shocks him.

At A3 hangar, Kudo is presented with his old Valkyrie, modified with current 
Valkyrie technology and Fokker says that he is to be reinstated with a new 
call sign of Skull 2 to fly with them. Hikaru, Fujisaki and Max congratulates </pre><pre id="faqspan-3">
Kudo and calls him Sempai to which Kudo says that he isn't much of a Sempai 
considering his two lost years.

 The mechanics are also talking about the news that the Archangel has been 
sighted along with the Freedom abducting Cagalli from her wedding and that 
there is also another Winged Gundam alongside the Freedom which tells the 
Wing Boy where Heero is.


Meanwhile at the Minerva, Durandall is talking with Talia about the Minerva's 
escape route, the Minerva is damaged and can't really outrun the Orb force 
following it but Durandall tells Talia to set a course straight through A3 
territory and A3 will take action if Orb forces get too close. Talia is 
uneasy about this course of action since she'll also have to protect the ship 
from A3 but doesn't disagree with Durandall noting that A3 is going to fight 
Orb in this scenario.

At the Archangel, Cagalli berates Kira and the others, what the heck were 
they thinking kidnapping her from her wedding. Kira says that it's a wedding 
that Cagalli doesn't want anyway but Cagalli says that she has to marry that 
doofus Yuna for the future of Orb. Kira says that he doesn't believe it's the 
right choice, it may keep Orb from becoming a battlefield again but what 
happens when the Feds use Orb as it's underling to invade other country and 
se them ablaze. They may have made mistake last time by leaving things as is 
and going into retirement but they're working to try and fix the mistake they 
left the world in, this time.

The talk turns to Heero who is imprisoned in the slammer since the Archangel 
team can't determine his loyalty, they had no choice but to imprison him for 
the time being. Murrue feels quite bad about doing this to their saviour but 
Heero is too dangerous to be left walking around free since they know zilch 
about him except that Bartfield says that he and the other four Gundams from 
Naturals' colony decide to fight both the Feds and Plants destroying enough 
of their weapons that it allowed the Archangel to did what it did at Yakin 
Due two years ago. Kira says that Heero is pretty much on par with a 
Coordinator in terms of strength and ability but trained to be a fighting 
machine but he wants to believe that Heero is fighting for peace

Murrue and the others learn that there is a coded message coming from the 
Wing Zero for Heero and doesn't know how to respond to it but Heero who had 
casually escaped his imprisonment tells them to hands off since if not 
responded to properly, it'll trigger a self destruct in the Wing Zero.

The message is from the other Wing boys who got the info from AEUG and it 
tells of the situation at A3 Island that came about through Durandall's 
machination. The Minerva has sailed through A3 territory with Orb in pursuit 
and the Federation nearby waiting to ambush them. The signal is suddenly 
jammed by unknown means. If A3 cannot avert this, there will be an 
unnecessary blood bath near their water. Murrue asks for Heero to contact his 
friends in A3 to help avoid this scenario but it seems that no matter what A3 
is going to have to fight Orb.

At the Minerva, Arthur note that they're in A3 territory and Orb won't be so 
trigger happy now but Talia says that they are considered hostile by A3 also 
and can't contact A3 thanks to some jamming. Talia decides right then to 
attack Orb first and sink their head ship and deploys the Minerva's MS troops. 

At A3 Island, Lady Une ask which troop is responsible for the jamming since 
they can't contact any other side to stop fighting. Valentina says that it's 
coming from no side but from an island and most unnatural. Lady Une notes 
that it's possible that the Minerva don't know about the nearby Federation 
forces but it seems a little unlikely for Durandall not to have guessed at 
this outcome.

Shin is of course rabid against the Orb army and when Athrun says that  Shin 
actually like Orb where he was born but he's this angry because he doesn't 
like what Orb's become just like Cagalli to which Shin starts to badmouth her 
again. However before the Minerva can attack the Orb head ship with it's 
cannon, the Freedom arrived and attacked it putting a stop to that plan which 
makes Athrun quite perplexed that Kira is here.

A3 then deploys forces on three fronts to negate the situation.

 The first front is lead by Cagalli in the Strike Rouge along with Freedom 
and Wing Zero against the pursuing Orb forces. Cagalli calls out for the Orb 
troops pursuing the Minerva to stop and reminds them of Orb's neutrality 
ideal but Yuna who now holds the power in Orb says that his sweet Cagalli 
can't be against them and that has to be an imposter and orders the troop to 
attack saying that Orb is a part of the Federation now. In the midst of all 
this, Athrun and Shin joins in the fight against both side with Shin shouting 
that he'll sink everyone even though Athrun says otherwise. Kira and Cagalli 
comes into contact with Athrun and when asked by Athrun why Kira and Cagalli 
are here and why they're on opposing side just like old times with Athrun 
saying that he's only protecting the Minerva.  Cagalli also asks why Athrun 
is with ZAFT and Athrun can't really answer her but tells her to go home to 
Orb.  Shin meanwhile sees Freedom and starts to go rabid attacking it but 
gets badly beaten by Freedom and the Super Robots. 

Athrun and Shin along with the Orb troops are dealt a beating and retreated 
and Shin note that the Impulse can change Silhouette and be battle ready 
again.

Meanwhile a second team led by the Godannar duo investigates the source of 
jamming which is from an island. This turns out to be a new type of Mimetic 
Beast which can burrow in the ground and pops out in random places. Anna note 
that the Mimetic are more organized this time which Gou says is impossible 
since they don't have the mental capacity for it but he is later forced to 
admit he is wrong when other Miimetic starts to protect the new type. The 
Dannar team struggles hard against these Mimetic Beasts but manage to win 
restoring communication.


After defeating the Feds and restoring communication. The Minerva is then 
offered temporary amnesty to dock and repair at an A3 port but Talia says 
that if they do, they might be indefinitely detained by A3 and decides to 
vamoose.


The last team heads out to help the Archangel which is diverting the eyes of 
the Fed troops and coming in to dock in A3 Island. After fighting off the Fed 
troops and impressing Murrue with the power of the Super Robots, Valentina 
tells the Archangel to retreat and dock since the Minerva seems to be making 
a run for it. Talia tells Shin to redeploy in the Impulse along with Rei and 
Luna Maria while Athrun is on the bridge for battle tactics. Athrun asks why 
they are also considering A3 an enemy and Talia says that with the Archangel 
definitely aligning themselves as A3's allies and with the status of that 
ship amongst ZAFT, they can't consider A3 a friendly.

Neo and the Phantom Pein minus Stella deploy against the Minerva and Shin, 
Rei and Luna Maria also deploys against them. Stuck against both side who are 
attacking them is the A3 team led by the Getter Team and Getter Robo G. When 
Ryouma see the Abyss Gundam, Benkei shouted that it's his turn to shine and 
shouted "Change Poseidon, switch on."
 
Aul who pilots the Abyss ask if Getter Poseidon wants to fight the Abyss 
underwater and gets treated to a Daizetsusan Oroshi forcing him to retreat. 
Neo and Sting also suffers defeat and has to retreat. The Minerva manages to 
make it out of A3 territory and Shin and the others retreat.

In the aftermath of the battle, Getter Poseidon and the A3 Super Robots 
recover the Feds and Orb ship that they disarm and sent its passengers home 
in escape capsule. Kouji note that he doesn't really like having to fight 
other humans.

Meanwhile Dr. Aoi discovered something in the remains of the Mimetic Beast 
that they destroyed and tells her subordinate to run a DNA scan on what they 
find. Later she shows Gou the discovery which is Milla Ackerman, Gou's former 
partner and lover who died/ disappeared in the War of the Giant five years 
ago but is now alive and well. She was found inside the remains of the new 
Mimetic Beast's core and there doesn't seem to be cloning involved, she's the 
real deal but her mental state is like that of an infant.

Gou is confused and shocked about this but tells Dr. Aoi not to let Anna know 
but Anna walks in anyway asking why Gou and her mom are here when they've got 
plenty to do in the aftermath of today's battle. Dr. Aoi then introduce Anna 
to Milla as the original pilot of Neo Okusa but having suffered mentally from 
the war and is brought here to be treated and omits the fact that Gou and 
Milla were lovers.

Anna asks to have Milla with her since Milla is her senpai and she will help 
her get better to which Gou is silent.

One week later, the Aoutmura has arrived on A3 Island with the alliance of A3 
and AEUG in full force. Tetsuya talks with Zechs that the incident one week 
ago was probably orchestrated by Durandall and ZAFT to have A3 and Orb fight 
each other  though it's doubtful the Captain of the Minerva was in on it or 
not.

Tetsuya and Zechs welcome Camille and Quattro. Quattro chats to Zech that 
he's wanted to meet Zechs for a while and Zechs replies that they both decide 
to ditch the mask which makes Quattro silent. Amuro asks Keiji if he has 
anything on his face and Keiji says that he can't believe that he's face to 
face with the legendary ace of the One Year War Amuro Rei though Amuro 
downplays it and ask for Keiji to start showing him and the AEUG members 
around.

Dr. Aoi talks to Gou that after a week of Milla's discovery, she seems to 
have made incredible progress at mental recovery and can now form sentences 
and is like a small child. Gou still doesn't want Anna to know the truth 
about his and Milla's relationship and Dr. Aoi ask if Gou want to spare Anna 
the shock or himself from the consequence. The talk then turns to the Mimetic, 
apparently someone other than the team has been battling them and leaving 
their corpses behind which bears investigation. 

Episode 14

Minmei is meeting with Hikaru to thanks him for what happened during the 
invasion of A3 Island and they get better acquainted. Kajisaki and Max is 
spying in on this with Kajisaki being a bit jealous but then Anna and Milla 
walks in with Anna having spent the days shopping for Milla's stuff. Kajisaki 
then tries to hit on the both of them with Max muttering that Kajisaki seems 
to have acquired some sort of multi-lock on for hitting on girls.

At the cafeteria, Sarah and Chizuru is trying to coax Valentina on coming 
clean on her feelings for Keiji but she more or less mums up and rush out 
saying that she has a meeting. Meanwhile the mechanics are noting that it's 
hard to believe that at that other table are legends having a meal together 
consisting of the OYW White Devil Amuro Ray, the hero of the War of the Giant 
(their own) Sawatori Gou, The Lightning Count Zechs Marquise, A3's ace Roy 
Fokker and the one who is rumored to be Zeon's Red Comet Quattro Bagina. The 
other table holding the heroes of Yakin Due, the Archangel team isn't also to 
be laughed at either.

Bartfield note that the meals here are good but the coffee needs work. Lacus 
has also been more or less been asked for autographs and such in the time 
she's been here from her old idol days but she says that Lynn Minmei is more 
popular here. The talk turns to the world's condition and its player with 
Murrue noting that the only one that they shared ideals with is A3. With the 
Archangel's status as traitors to the Federation, their alliance with A3 is 
more a secret otherwise trouble will come from the Federation. (This is weird 
since A3 already has an alliance with AEUG that the Feds already are warring 
against.)

Elsewhere at the Babem foundation, Babem muse about his plan coming to a head 
and tells the head of TERRA to allow the sample "Ayato" to go out and play 
and he'll deal with any noise the Federation will make.

Ayato and Megu are going to school and meet with Quon who is out for a walk 
saying that she hears the song of those similar which confuse Ayato and Megu. 
Meanwhile a reporter Johji Futagami is meeting with Haruka saying that he has 
news to peddle for her which concerns Babem and the fact that he's seemingly 
the same person as the founder of the Babem foundation and immortal. When 
that doesn't interest her, he ask whether she's interested in the news of the 
Mulian sample that TERRA obtains and Haruka let it slip that Ayato is human 
but Johji then says that he wasn't talking about Ayato but the girl known as 
Quon, what's even more surprising is that his report about TERRA obtaining 
her is from 38 years ago before the battle with MU even begins. Haruka begins 
to wonder who Quon really is.

Meanwhile, the latest contest between the two Kyouretsu siblings Gekido and 
Gourai as to who gets to fight Raideen this time is finished with the victor 
being the younger sibling Gekido.  Gekido heads out confident but soon hears 
a weird song. Thinking that his bigger bro is trying to sabotage him, he 
calls up but Gourai says it's not him which leads Gekido to wonder what this 
weird song is.

 At TERRA, the alert for MU attack has gone out and Isshiki the white hair 
moron is of course smirky about it saying mockingly that they'll get to see 
Ayato and the Xephon's prowess in defending TERRA since MU wants the Xephon 
back and it'll be headed here.

However the Dolems are headed elsewhere which shocks Isshiki and everyone 
wonders as to what it's heading for, Yakumo tells Megu to cross reference the 
thing with A3's database and Megu says that it correspond to the Youma Empire 
which makes them wonder what interest Dolems have with Youma. Yakumo tells 
Haruka to go with Ayato and that they'll work with A3. Isshiki is dead set 
against this but Yakumo says that he is the acting commander at this time and 
that Isshiki's position does not have authority over his. Yakumo says that 
this is a chance to pay back the debt they owe A3.

Elvy ends up piloting the transport plane containing Haruka and she note that 
she's fallen low to be doing this and says that she still hasn't forgiven 
Haruka yet to which Haruka replies "Oh, you're one to talk after having 
drinks and yakiniku on my money" to which Elvy says that that's different. 
When Ayato says that he'll go on ahead, Haruka tells him to be careful and 
Elvy says almost mockingly that Haruka cared for Ayato, doesn't she?  
Haruka's reply is "WHO was it that tries to hit on that boy while drunk?" 
Elvy again replies "That's different."

While deploying, Kouji says that he never thought the day would come when 
he'd be glad they're deploying against aliens and Tetsuya agrees saying that 
fighting other humans really isn't to his taste. Valentina scolds them a bit 
for that comment and then says that MU and Dolems are in the vicinity 
together and TERRA has also asked for cooperation to battle together. She 
doesn't trust TERRA at all considering what happened last time.

The battle begins against the Youma beasts that Gekido sent against the team 
to soften them up and Akira wonder if the Kyoretsu siblings are here. Elvy 
note that it's wrong to sent children like Ayato to fight and Haruka says 
that A3 also has children fighting, yes it's wrong but that's the way things 
are. Valentina's plane also arrives and she pretty much gives Haruka and 
TERRA the cold shoulder treatment wanting nothing to do with them.

Tetsuya notes as he approaches the Raxephon that it's the white machine that 
came out of Tokyo Jupiter and that TERRA is using it. Gekido wonders what 
these Dolems are but concludes that if it isn't interfering in his quest to 
crush Raideen then he doesn't care and begins to attack Raideen but this time 
Raideen is backed by the other Super Robots and begins to make short work of 
him.

Meanwhile Ayato having has his real first battle wonders what the Raxephon 
really is and he hears Mishima Reika's voice saying that Raxephon is the key 
to showing the truth and that Ayato is Orin, the one who will tune the world. 
Nearby a red Dolem has arrived and it soon retreat as Gekido is defeated. 
Haruka note that that doesn't seem like coincidence and then congratulates 
Ayato for a good job but Ayato says that it's also because of A3.

After the battle, Elvy muse that Haruka sure was hated by Valentina and 
Haruka says that it can't be helped since because of Operation Overload that 
they helmed caused the disappearance of the A3's specials and there was no 
support or apologies from them after that happened. 

Yakumo contacted them telling them that they are to head for A3 Island since 
the people from the top which means the Babem Foundation has decided to join 
alliance with A3 and send them to join up. Elvy wonders why she has to go 
also and Haruka says that it's probably because Elvy was originally from A3 
to which Elvy says that it was a long time ago.

At the Big Shell, Jinguchi tells the Doc, Sarumaru that that's all they 
recover of the Youma beast to which he says that the pieces don't add up to 
the amount of Youma Beasts destroyed. Mari asks where her father is and the 
Doc says that he's meeting with some shady reporter on an interview.

The shady reporter is Johji Futagami who asks Dr. Higashiyama about the Youma 
Beast which turns to stone after being defeated, their remains are collected 
for testing but they become just stone afterward. Johji then muse that 
Mutropolis sure has a lot of funding from various sources such as energy 
companies and electronic companies. Dr. Higashiyama says that that's because 
lots of people are interested in Mutron energy and Johji then ask if he knows 
that the mother company of all these companies funding Mutropolis is one and 
the same which surprises Dr. Higashiyama

At Tokyo Jupiter, glass guy Kuki and Miwa are reporting to Ayato's mom, Maya, 
that the remains of the Youma Beast that their Dolem recovered are exactly 
identical to their Dolems to which Maya already knows spouting mysterious 
stuff that they are  a long distance relative. Glass guy says that the Youma 
aren't human, how is that possible? Maya then says that it's all due to the 
time dilation from that point in time, that incident. Maya then orders Miwa 
and glass guy that from now on, don't try to get into a conflict with the 
Youma.

Kuki wants to get Raxephon back into their hands as soon as possible but Maya 
says to wait, Ayato will awaken and return himself. Meanwhile Helena informs 
her uncle Babem of the Dolem recovering the Youma. Babem isn't worry since 
knowing the truth about the Youma doesn't mean that the MU can do anything 
with it.  Helena then asks if Babem is afraid of anything at all. Babem then 
mentions "If I'm afraid of anything, it'd have to be a repeat of the Zero 
Point Break but it'll never happen again"

Back at A3 Island; a lot of people are noting how vindictive Valentina is 
towards the TERRA people today and Juuzo asks Keiji to tell her to more or 
less, let it go. When asked why he's the person who has to tell her, Sarah 
says that Valentina is quite guarded and reserved amongst all of them but the 
only time she seems to lower her guard is when she's with Keiji.

At the hangar, Pops is more or less not thrilled at having to repair the 
robots again when they barely finished just a while ago and now they've got 
this white MU dolem to figure out. Thankfully his subordinate says that the 
Raxephon has a self repair function (just like Raideen). Keiji comes in 
looking for Valentina only to see Shinobu and Masato skulking around in 
hiding. When he asked what they're doing, they say to keep it down since the 
Devil Coach is back, they didn't think she'd be the one from TERRA. Masato 
says that it was before Keiji's time at the academy to which Elvy's voice 
then rang out "Who are you talking about, you two"

Yep, Elvy's the devil coach that gave Shinobu, Masato a really hard time but 
she isn't exactly home free when Roy Fokker also comes in and begins to rib 
her "Oh look what the cat drags in, I see you're still a (Chuui)" and Elvy 
has to begrudgingly acknowledge that Fokker now outranks her. Hikaru and the 
others note that Fokker is being pettier than usual today. You can tell that 
these two definitely don't get along but thankfully for Elvy, Claudia arrives 
and overhear Fokker leading her to more or less give him a hard time dragging 
him away. Elvy note that Fokker hasn't grown up at all and asks Ryou if the 
gym is where it originally was and whether he'd care for a sparring match. 
Shinobu and Masato pass by feigning illness and having a very important 
meeting to attend.

Haruka note that Elvy seems to fit in well like a glove and Ayato note that 
they're the one who'll need to work at it. Valentina then comes in and gives 
Haruka another hard time to which Keiji tries to interfere but Valentina 
tells him "Not now" which more or less gives Haruka the opening to begin 
teasing Valentina "Oh, is THAT the Keiji-kun I heard you screaming his name 
over the intercom during Operation Overload?" 

The two begins to go at it insulting each other to which Ayato note that the 
fuse is lit and Keiji agrees that they better stay out of the way. The Super 
Robot pilots comes in to greet Ayato and ask if he's the one from Tokyo 
Jupiter. Ayato apologizes for the trouble that the SR pilots had after 
Operation Overload all because of him and Ryouma says that it wasn't Ayato's 
fault and Benkei chimes in that they're alive and well. Keiji note looking at 
Valentina and says that Valentina sure doesn't think so.

Hayato and the others then want to know what Tokyo is like since they've 
never seen it in their life and Akira wants to know more about the Raxephon. 
Hyouma suggest they go talk it over at the cafeteria only to bump his back 
into a running Milla with no skirt on. Anna and Sarah comes in chasing after 
Milla and Sarah shouted "You guys BETTER be closing your eyes right now, or 
ELSE." Ayato note that it's quite a lively place.

Later at night, after having sorted out their misunderstanding, Valentina 
apologizes to Haruka who says that it's ok when she think that Valentina's 
spite is actually meant for that white haired bastard. Haruka then ask since 
when did she fall for Keiji and Valentina says that it was during the 
Military academy year, she was there for only one year and Keiji probably 
doesn't remember her since she never spoke to him but she's fine with only 
watching out for him and seeing him. Haruka then says that while she has no 
right to say this she wants to tell Valentina something "How you approach him 
is up to you but you should give importance to the time you can spend with 
him since you never know when you'll lose them, maybe forever. You should 
know that from your experience with Operation Overload"

Episode 15

Elvy is shown her Vermillion and note that it's comparable to a Super Robot 
and she says that she will use it to fight so that the children in A3 
wouldn't have to as often.

At the oil platform Combinat, Ken in the Blade Gainer defeated hordes of 
Mimetic Beast shouting that they're not the one he's after. News of this 
reach A3 and Fokker and the others are to be sent there which is near Mayan 
Island where the AForce incident happened two years ago. Dr. Aoi also decides 
to go.

At the Campbell flying base, Janella note that the Mayan Island must contain 
something special since there was mention of it in Oleanna's data and now A3 
is headed there before they can check it out. Janella decides to head there 
as well.

At the Mayan Island, Lu is alone mulling over why she was left out by the 
others, she wants to fight but the others won't let her. Mao appears and 
approaches her, they talk and Lu learns that Mao is the Miko here at Mayan 
Island. Mao is suddenly approached by Kudo Shin. A teary reunion happens and 
Kudo learns that Mao took over for Sara after what happened. Mao says that 
it's because she received a transfusion from the Birdman(AForce) that she can 
now hear the song of the wind and see Kadoun. Kudo note that that's what the 
Mayan called spirit and Mao says that she see that the Kadoun of fire are 
gathered at Combinat. Kudo note that to mean the A3's machines and note that 
they haven't changed at all, back then they didn't listen when Sara was the 
only one who tries to stop the fire Kadoun from gathering and the result was 
that the island was set ablazed by warfare.  Mao comfort Kudo by saying that 
she didn't listen as well.
 
Kudo apologize saying "I'm sorry I couldn't protect Sara back then" and Mao 
says that her sis left of her own volition to protect the island and it's 
people, she's not dead and Kudo is back so she'll be back too. Kudo then says 
"I promise, I'll bring her back."

Mao then wonders where Lu is and Kudo note that she must have wandered off, 
Mao is worried, not just for her safety but she has bad Kadoun swelling in 
her. Lu is in the forest pouting that the others won't accept her, she want 
to fight and get revenge for her dad. Lu then stumble on the Blade Gainer and 
a hurted Ken and nursed him.

The investigation on the Special (Blade Gainer) that defeated the Mimetics 
concludes with Dr. Aoi noting that it must be a Plasma Drive Series that 
might have went missing during the War of the Giant. The pilot is a Menange 
Zero which results in a destroy order because he endangers civilians with his 
actions and disobeying the Specials Law.

Meanwhile, Valkymedes report to Janella that he found something while running 
a bioscan on people from the Mayan island, one of them a female seems to have 
a different DNA than normal human. Janella note that this must be relate to 
Protoculture and orders Valkymedes to capture her. Dangel then offers to 
attack Combinat along with the Mimetics that are also poised to attack there 
to divert A3's eyes and make Valkymedes's escape easier.

Back at the forest, Lu tries to get acquainted with Ken to which Ken tries to 
shut her out and then he feels that the Mimetics are appearing and deploys to 
kill them with Lu following without him knowing. Meanwhile, Valkymedes easily 
grabs Mao and runs off with her, Kudo note that this is like two years ago 
but he won't let it end in failure. He then calls Valentina, tells her the 
situation and then deploys. Valentina sends the flyer to aid Kudo while the 
rest of the team fights the Mimetic/ Magma Beasts.

Kudo shouts that he won't lose Mao too as he gets closer to Valkymedes's 
Darkron. Kudo wonders how he'll rescue Mao and decides to go under the 
Darkron and bump it which makes Darkron release Mao to a drop in the sky. 
Kudo rush in and grabs her, taking her into the cockpit. Reinforcement in the 
form of Combattler V and the others (such as the Valkyries) arrives and 
Hyouma says that he'll take things from here. Valkymedes curses that 
Combattler decide to follow him instead of dealing with Dangel. Hyouma says 
that Valkymedes's underhanded tactics is going to stop here and promptly 
along with the others kicked his butt.

At the Combinat oil platform, Valentina tells the team that they can't let 
the oil platform be destroyed or it'll do untold environmental damage to the 
Mayan island. In the midst of the battle, Ken in the Blade Gainer arrives and 
shout that they're his prey and for the team to get out of the way, he will 
get revenge for Lola. Dangel decides to ignore him and focus on A3. 

Gou decides to confront Ken and inadvertently shouts out Milla's name instead 
of Anna's which surprises Anna and Gou apologize to Anna which left an 
opening for Ken to attack Godannar and sent it spiraling. Gou is extremely 
angry at this and that Ken has involved Lu also and Anna has to tell Gou to 
calm down or he won't be able to fight at all.

Dangel is defeated and the Mimetics are destroyed so Ken decides to leave 
with Lu following. Ken asks just how long is she going to follow him and Lu 
says that she won't leave his side. Ken note that it was a mistake to involve 
her and Lu says that it wasn't a mistake, she wants to get stronger. Ken then 
says that their destination might be hell and damnation to which Lu says that 
she's aware of that.

At A3 base, Dr.Aoi and the others note that CosmoDiver and Lu aren't 
answering their hail and Dr. Aoi note that it's best to believe that Lu 
followed Ken and isn't coming back. She then confirms the robot as Blade 
Gainer to which Shizuru then asks if it also has a partner like Godannar 
since it's also a Plasma Drive Series. Dr. Aoi notes that even without it, 
Ken is formidable enough. Prof. Hatsuki then talks to Dr. Aoi and note that 
the Mimetic are definitely targeting them and this Blade Gainer since Gou 
defeated their boss five years ago and Ken is hunting them down, the Mimetic 
probably now view these two as their archenemies.

Meanwhile at the Hangar, Anna is extremely sad and depress that Lu never even 
bothered to say goodbye to them and then note that she has to get hold of 
herself for Gou and the others and she spotted Gou talking with Amuro.

Amuro asks why Gou didn't want Lu to fight and Gou says that Lu's a kid but 
Amuro says that he was only 15 when he started fighting in the OYW and what 
about Kosuke from the Battle team who's even younger. Amuro then says that 
adult like them stopped the children from going the path that they want to 
take. Amuro then apologize, he didn't come here to berate Gou on his decision 
with Lu, what he's here for is to tell Gou to quickly get over it since him 
being down like this is going to have an effect on people. Amuro says that 
many people consider Gou their leader.

Gou is surprised and says that that title should be reserve for Fokker, 
Quattro and maybe even Amuro, not him. Amuro then says that Fokker may 
deserve it but he and Quattro are new to the team, beside that, they're MS 
pilot and Valkyries pilot but Gou is considered at least the Super Robot 
pilots' head leader. Amuro then says that he knows about Gou and Milla. In 
the 7 years that he was detained by the Feds, he had ample time to check out 
lots of things and he learns about Gou's relationship with Milla.

Gou then admits "Yes, Milla was my lover" which shocks Anna who overheard. 
Amuro then tells of his meeting with Lalah and that a person who knows 
everything about them and feels like the one for them isn't exactly someone 
you forget over time. Gou then admits that Milla was that person for him 
which shocks Anna even more.

Amuro then says that Anna and everyone that he saved in the war are still 
alive because of Gou and even Milla who's supposed to have died is still 
alive. Amuro continues that he always thought that if Lalah turns up alive, 
even if she forgot everything about him, he'd be happy for her. Gou then note  
"You're right, what am I troubling myself for, Milla's alive and I have Anna 
who means more than anything to me, Lu is also still alive, she just went her 
own path" Gou then tells Amuro "I'm sorry to have troubled you for making me 
realize this." Amuro says it's nothing but however, Anna had left before she 
heard Gou's realization and is in shock over the truth about Gou and Milla.

Episode 15 +

 Four is reminiscing over her time with Camille in New Hongkong, they both 
know that they are on opposing faction but Camille says that that's a 
distinction that the adults made up and it's just a matter of different 
uniforms. Four asks him if he likes her name and Camille says that he does 
but Four says that she hates it because it stands for Number Four. She 
doesn't have her past and memory and she wants them. Camille then states that 
memories can be made, what happens now will soon become the past and people 
lives by creating the past.

Four is then snapped out of it by Neo, she and the Phantom Pein trio are on 
an assignment together to take care of traitors to the Feds who are working 
with ZAFT. The cooperation will also yield data from the Psycho Gundam for 
something that's in the work for the Phantom Pein Trio (the Destroy Gundam). 
The plan is to attack both spot simultaneously so each side couldn't withdraw. 
In the midst of the battle, Four note that the Phantom Pein trio are unlike 
the AEUG that she fought against who has a presence around them, their own 
will unlike these people who are just puppets. She then wonders if she is 
also a puppet.

After the battle, Four thinks that she wants to meet Camille who treats her 
like a human being and loves her name once more. Neo then congratulate Four 
and his trio before sending Four back to her own squad and reporting to 
Gibril about the success.

Episode 16

The Aoutmura and the Archangel are getting resupplied in Japan and Mao feels 
bad as if something bad is going to happen, Kudo note that she should get 
some rest since Japan isn't as healthy as the Mayan Island that Mao is from.  
Elsewhere Chizuru brings an old friend of Sarah to greet her. (I don't know 
how to read her name and this is her 1st app in SRW so we'll call her Sarah's 
friend for now)

After the resupply, Haruka tease that Ayato sure was enamour of Sarah's 
friend because she has long haired and Shinobu can't remember her from the 
Military academy and Sarah says that her friend was recalled by the top brass 
in Tokyo after graduating and was on a different course than her, she's a 
computer expert and is now the system engineer for the computer system that 
runs all of Japan. Ayato is puzzled and Haruka fills him in that after the 
loss of Tokyo and the War of the Giant, Japan creates a super computer system 
that runs all of Japan in a big network. Camille says that he and many other 
people doen't like having computers dominate over their live and depending on 
them even though it makes life easier. Ayato relates it to Tokyo Jupiter, the 
MU dominate over the people in Tokyo without them knowing it and they were 
happy but once they get outside like he did, then they'd know what they're 
missing and what they're sacrificing. Haruka note that it's ironic that they 
did the same thing as the MU.

Gou then comes in asking if they've seen Anna, she's been missing ever since 
they got supplies at Japan. Suddenly a scream is heard and it came from Mao. 
In her dream, Mao heard a voice saying "You have not fulfilled your promise, 
the source of evils will be purged from Byston Well" Mao wakes up and Kudo 
tells her it's just a dream but Mao says that it was no dream.

Elsewhere, Drake and the Weil Wisps appear and Shott note that he's back on 
upper Earth and with an army of Aura Battlers at his command. Shott then 
fills Drake in and tells him that it might be wise not to antagonize all of 
the country of Earth.Drake then tells Shott to gather an alliance with a 
country by whatever means and gather his forces that are scattered all over 
Earth.

Back at the Archangel and Aoutmura, reports of humanoid bug machines are 
being reported as teleporting in from all over the world and Hayato and 
Ryouma note that it must be Aura Battlers. Tetsuya tries to explain to Murrue 
and Hayato Kobayashi and wonders if they're here to invade but Kouji then 
note that it must have been Jacoba who expelled them here. Tetsuya note that 
the voice Mao heard was probably Jacoba's.

Everyone is then filled in on what Byston Well is though Ayato note that it's 
like a place in adream to which Kouji says that Tokyo Jupiter sounds the same 
if you tell someone about it. Bartfield note that many of the AB is making 
moves on many cities and some are battling each others. Duo notes that they 
had enough problems with the Feds and ZAFT and now this. Camille wonder what 
they should do, should they try to attack the head ship like Weil Wisp but 
then Trowa says that it's too near a Fed base and they need more information 
on the situation.

Tetsuya then says that they should seek out Shou and Marbel since those two 
will cooperate with them but Hyouma wonders how they can find them amidst all 
these Aura Battlers. Tetsuya then says that they have a lock on the Dunbine's 
energy signature and can trace it. Keiji then says that he'll go to greet 
Shou since he owes him a lot from Byston Wells. Valentina then informs him of 
the location in the sky and that nearby a battle between AB is threatening a 
city. The Getter team then volunteers to take that mission. Gou then tells 
the other that Shizuru and Kooji found a letter by Anna which indicate that 
she left during resupply but he can't be bothered with her ditching her duty 
right now, they have lives to save

Keiji's team is in the sky and taking on Aura Battlers on their way to meet 
Dunbine and Keiji note that they seem to have gotten stronger than in Byston 
Well. The Dunbine arrives and Keiji opens the line of communication shouting 
"Shou-san, it's me Keiji" and is surprised to hear Marbel's voice. Marbel 
says that Shou transfer to another mech and she came here hoping that the AB 
forces here are friendlies but it doesn't seem that way. Keiji says that her 
luck isn't bad since she met them and they'll protect her.

The three red warriors of Bishott's troop (ala the Three Black Star from 
Gundam) appears and decides to take on the Dunbine and use the "Jet Stream 
Attack" Tripler but with your team around, they had to beat a hasty retreat. 
Myuzi in the Swartz also arrives and wants to take out the Dunbine before 
rejoining with Shott and Drake but again your team prevents that.

Meanwhile the Getter team and the others have arrived near the city where two 
AB are fighting, one of them the Black Knight says that he is lucky at 
meeting Shou Zama this quickly since coming to the upper world. Shou in the 
other AB, the Billvine is angry that the Black Knight thinks that this is 
good fortune. When the Getter team calls on both AB to stop, Shou identifies 
himself and asks for their assistance and note that the Black Knight isn't 
just the only one who's lucky. Valentina tells the Getter Team that they have 
to take the battle away from the city and Ryouma tells Shou that they seem to 
be targeting him so if Shou runs to the mountains, the enemies should follow 
and Shou agrees. 

During the battle, Ryouma and Hayato note that the Aura Battlers are stronger 
than in Byston Well. The Black Knight is forced to retreat but Jeryl and 
Allen arrives. Shinobu note "Crap, it's that war mad B!+#$@" as Jeryl shouted 
that she remembers them and still holds a grudge. Not that it matters much as 
she is beaten as is forced to retreat but Allen bites the dust here.

Shou and Marbel are reunited with A3 and Tetsuya asked what happened after 
they left. Shou says that in short, they failed to keep their promise with 
Jacoba since it's not only Drake who is war hungry but also Bishott from the 
country of Ku and he built the Gear Garing and allies himself with Drake 
spreading the war even more. 

Suddenly the Archangel tells the people on the Aoutmura to listen to the news. 
It seems that Drake has form an alliance with the Earth Federation and the 
Earth Federation in its smear campaign is lying that Anti-Drake forces like 
the Goraon and Gran Garran are the Aura Battler faction that is out to 
conquer the Earth. The smear campaign also extends to A3 who the Federation 
says has done nothing to stop the Goraon and Gran Garran. This more or less 
makes everyone extremely angry at the Feds.

Hayato Kobayashi then says that they have to locate both ship fast and 
Valentina use A3's information network to determine that the Gran Garran is 
in Europe while the Goraon is near the South Eastern Hemisphere. Shou and 
Marbel says that they will rendezvous with the Goraon first but Hyouma says 
that they'll go together since they're friends. 

Hayato Kobayashi and Murrue agrees that they'll need to join forces to defeat 
Drake and says that the Super Robots needs to transfer back to the Aoutmura 
and head back to A3 island since with Drake's force joining with the Feds, 
they now have the firepower to stage another attack on A3 island if they want 
to and only the Super Robots stand a chance against them. The MS team and 
Valkyries will go with Dunbine/ Billvine to rescue Goraon. Dr. Aoi suddenly 
calls Gou and tells him to come back immediately and Gou ask if they found 
Anna but Dr. Aoi says that Milla has recover all her memories which shocks 
Gou who says that they're about to return anyway.

Drake note as the Weil Wisp settle in the good ol US of A that the ruler 
(President) is a moron but easily duped, he'll make good use of this 
connection. A call is made to Shott by our mysterious enemy, Yukimura, who 
greets Shott. Yukimura says that he note that Shott joins the Federation with 
his creation, the Aura Battlers. They might have a chance to work together in 
the future since he learned a lot from Shott. 

After his call with Shott, Yukimura and Dr. Soga looks at the dragon mech, 
Gusad and Dr. Soga wonders why they need that woman's mech. Yukimura says 
that he's interested in it, it might be using Kyoryuu tech or be part Mimetic 
to which Dr. Soga says that those thing lost to Saotome and Aoi's creation. 
Yukimura consoles Dr. Soga saying that their Nemesis series wouldn't and this 
Dragon mech is what is going to bring their plan to a second stage and bring 
about A3's final curtain.

Episode 17

Masato remembers the argument he had with his dad who tells him to stop 
playing hero and come back and take over Shikibu Industries, their family 
company that sells arms. He is snapped out of it by Professor Hatsuki and Dr. 
Aoi and tells them about his spat with his dad saying that his dad's one to 
talk selling weapons.  Dr. Aoi says that she's involve so she really has no 
right to say this but Masato's dad doesn't seems too bad, he's just worried 
about his child.

Masato asks if Dr. Aoi knew his dad and Dr. Aoi says that she knows Shikibu 
Industry since it's Dannar Base's main sponsor and Prof. Hatsuki says that 
not just Dannar Base but the Photonic Lab, Saotome Lab and Nanbara Connection 
is also funded by Shikibu Industry to protect the world. Dr. Aoi says that 
there are arms dealer that are in it for the money,  trading on pain and 
suffering of others but she'd like to believe Masato's dad is different and 
him telling Masato to quit is because he's worried. She should know since 
she's also a mother of a pilot. Masato note this and says "I see....Dad...."  
Masato thanks Dr. Aoi and says that he'll try talking to his dad one more 
time the next time he sees him.

Prof. Hatsuki then asks about Anna and Dr. Aoi says that she's not worried, 
once Anna finds out what's important and necessary for her, she'll be back. 
She's more worried about Milla but they'll have to leave that to Gou.

At the infirmary, Milla says that it's like she's just woken from a long 
dream. She then congratulates Gou for finding a nice wife in Anna. She 
remembers everything and that includes her time with A3 and Anna. Gou is 
sorry that things had to happen like this for Milla. Mao comes in asking if 
she's interfereing and then she sense something bad, she felt it once when 
she was in Japan and it's growing , an evil hatred not of this world.

At Yukimura's hideout, Yukimura is telling Dr. Soga that that woman has 
extreme hatred for A3's Dancougar team almost to the point of existing only 
for vengeance or to be precise, whatever evil hatred that is possessing that 
woman. He's positive that the woman is only a pawn being controlled. He 
clarfies saying that he scanned the woman's brainwave, his specialty, and 
learned this but he doesn't care about the reason why since it benefits them, 
everything's on schedule

The woman in question is looking over the two Gusad and tells A3 and 
Dancougar to come out and play and once they confront Gusad, their days are 
over.

Reports of twoGusads appearing and heading for a city in Japan reaches A3 but 
it seems that they are being shut out of information on the situation by the 
computer system that runs Japan.  Dr. Aoi then says to get info from Dananr 
Base and Saotome Lab which are near there but the same thing goes for Dannar 
Base and Saotome lab too. What they know is that it resembles the Dinosaur 
Empire's mechasaurus. Ryouma says that that's impossible since they soundly 
defeated the Dinosaur Empire with Hayato adding in that Musashi gave his life 
for that. Dr. Saotome says that it's not a Mechasuarus since it has a 
different power source and if it was, then it'd be headed straight for 
Saotome lab for vengeance on the Getter team.

What's worse is that there is no request from the computer system running 
Japan's internal affair to let them deploy against this new threat. The 
computer system is only sending in tanks and plane from the self defense 
force against these things. Elvy note that the system might be perfect but 
the people running it makes mistake. Hyouma says that they have to go but 
Lady Une says that they can't, without a request from Japan, they can't barge 
in and this isn't one of the recognized threat that they are allowed to 
deploy anywhere against without needing a request either. Shinbou then shouts 
in frustration"So we have to wait here while that thing goes on a rampage?"

Valentina then says that the Gusads are headed to U2 area which makes Masato 
freaks out since that's where his dad is and he runs to the hangar. Shinobu 
and the rest of the Dancougar team follow him. Masato shouts for Shinobu to 
let him go, don't stop him to which Shinobu replies "Who's stopping you?" and 
Ryou adds "We're a team" with Sarah chiming in that Masato can't get to Japan 
on his Land Liger alone, it's not flight capable like Shinobu's Eagle Fighter. 
Masato thanks everyone and Shinobu says to save it "Let's go and to hell with 
the Specials law"

Meanwhile at the Goraon, Kira and the others learn of the situation in Japan 
and the oddity that the computer system in Japan has not requested A3's 
assistance. The Goraon is damaged and cannot move for a while so they'll have 
to defend it from Drake/ Bishott's AB forces. Murrue note that they should 
use flying units that are quick against theABs since they'll have to zip 
around and hold the defense line.

Over the sky, the Dancougar is making its way to Japan and Ryou note that 
they'll be in deep trouble after this is over and Sarah says that that's 
putting it lightly, worst case is they get Menange Zero. Masato apologize, 
it's all because of him and Shinobu says that whatever happens happen and 
Sarah says that the professors will probably do their best to lighten their 
sentence.

Shinobu then note "Well, looks like we have companies, our cohort have caught 
up to us" Sarah wonders if the others are here to stop them but Ryou says 
that it doesn't look like it.

Keiji then flies by Dancougar's left side in the Habakiri telling the 
Dancougar team "Senpai, you're not leaving me behind for this" The Combattler 
V then flies over the Dancougar with Hyouma telling Shinobu "THIS time, we'll 
play back up" Shinobu is moved and then says "Keiji... Hyouma... you guys" The 
Godannar and Neo Okusa 
flie by Dancougar's right with Milla saying that she'll help too which 
surprises Sarah that Milla's regain her memory and Gou says it's a long story 
but he tries to stop her but she wouldn't have any of it. Milla says that Gou 
was the one who was itching to deploy and this fight will help her with 
rehabilitation.

Akira's voice then comes in saying "It's for times like this that a Super 
Robot is for, not for war. Our power is for protecting the people." Ayato's 
voice also chimes in that while Haruka tries to stop him, he doesn't care 
about the consequence for this since he's made his decision to protect the 
people of this world. Elvy chimes in that that's right looks like she's got 
some stubborn kouhai, all of them to be precise.

Masato is moved by this, "Everyone..." and Shinobu says "I guess we're all 
idiots, all right, Let's DO IT !!"(Hot blooded moment ) as the Dancougar and 
all Super Robots flies off together to save Japan. (Insert Jam Project's ROCK 
here, sing along now... Supa Robot Supa Robot WOH Oh oh...)

Valentina note that they're all incurable and Sarah note that she didn't 
expect Valentina to be here with them, she figure Valentina would try to stop 
them. Valentina says that it's her personal decision. Gou says that she'll be 
reprimanded for this along with them, is she ok with that? Valentina says 
that when the eight disappeared toByston Well she made a decision that she's 
not going to be left behind again if she can help it and she then says "Let's 
go save those people"

At the battle near Goraon, Murrue says that they'll hold up the AB in this 
valley and Ele suddenly has a bad premonition about the red haired woman and 
her Aura power which are too strong. Todd and Jeryl, the red haired woman 
arrives and Jeryl is stronger than Marbel and the Dunbine almost overpowering 
her but Shou arrives which makes Jeryl says that she'll kill Shou. Todd also 
attacks Shou saying that because of Shou, he'd had to go to hell (of his own 
making, who told him to be stupid anyway?) and he'll return the favour.

Jeryl is downed but she suddenly goes Hyper and enlarges her AB which shocks 
Todd and everyone. Cagalli can't believe that a machine can enlarge itself 
just like that. Zechs says that he doesn't know how but he'll down it.  Kira 
note that this is far beyond what he expected and Heero note that being this 
big means it has an opening (i.e. it's a bigger target therefore it's easier 
to shoot)

Todd is downed and he wonder if he's going to hell again, Jeryl is also </pre><pre id="faqspan-4">
overpowered and down but she dies laughing saying that she'll win. The battle 
is over and Shou note that Jeryl couldn't control her Aura Power and let it 
over run her and this is the result of it going berserk. Charm asks Shou if 
he'll be like that too since she doesn't want him to be like that. Shou says 
that he's no exception but he'll make an effort to control his power.

Meanwhile in the mission to protect the city, the A3 Super Robot team notes 
that they have to divert the two Gusad's direction so it doesn't make it to 
the city. They attack but Valentina note that the Gusad is extremely armored 
and they're not making much of a dent. One Gusad diverted course and Masato 
note that it's head for his dad's estate and go to try and defend it while 
the others tries to take care of the other. However both efforts ends in 
failure, the Gusad reach the estate and Masato's dad note that it is a 
fitting end for him and that he hope one day Masato will understand him. 
Masato screams his father's name as the Gusad roasted the estate while the 
other one enter the city area. Mobile Doll appears but they attack the team 
also as Shinobu note that they're not authorized to be here and are treated 
as a threat as much as the Gusad.

Shinobu note the Gusad has stopped but then Valentina note that there's a 
huge energy build up from the Gusad and tells everyone to get out of there as 
the Gusad explodes and takes out the city along with the people in it.

The city is in ruins and the team notes that they failed; people are dead 
because of their miss. Ryou note that they left an opening for the other one 
when they tried to stop the one heading for the Shikibu estate. A 
helicopter's roar is heard as a news report broadcast the devastation stating 
that it is due to A3's pilots' recklessness and disobedience to orders that 
millions are dead.

Meanwhile the Archangel team has heard of this and is in disbelief over the 
report. Murrue note that they have to get back to A3 Island immediately and 
Ele tells Shou and Marbel to go with the Archangel while the Goraon will head 
west alone for a while before heading to Europe to meet the Gran Garran. Ele 
says that what is important is A3, she saw in her vision beside Jeryl's 
transformation that a great ball of hatred is looming over the world bringing 
great despair and the only one capable of stopping it is A3. 

Back at TERRA, Isshiki has heard the news and is extremely angry but Helena 
arrives and tells him that the Feds are behind this but it doesn't matter to 
Babem's plan. No one except the MU knows what the Raxephon is truly for so 
there is no need to try and recall the Raxephon back to TERRA.

Episode 18

Anna learns of the U2 incident and can't believe the lies the news is giving 
about the A3 pilots; she rushes back to Dannar Base to get info from Kagemaru 
and says that she has to go help them but Kagemaru says that even if she went, 
she could do nothing and Anna note that she was the one who ran out 
irresponsibly and she has no place there. Kagemaru then says that if Anna 
truly wants to help Gou and the others, she has to clear the training on this 
disk. It's for a sealed machine that even Milla and Shizuru couldn't master, 
the true partner for Godannar that Neo Okusa is only a proxy for since it was 
too strong. Her mom and Shizuru believe that Anna can do it which is why they 
left it for him to give to her.

 At A3 Island, Lady Une tells Dr. Aoi that what they did was the only way and 
Dr. Aoi hope that one day, they can see those people's face again and they 
have to pray that the team can get themselves out of this. Lady Une says that 
they'll be very busy from now on and Dr.Aoi says that she's in for the long 
haul.

At the Aoutmura and Archangel, everyone is gathered as the two ships left A3 
Island a while ago. Kouji learns that they've been Menanged Zero even though 
Hyouma say that they didn't destroy the city but Ryou says that their action 
lead to it's destruction. Kouji then asks why they have to run from A3 Island 
and Quattre says that A3 had just officially announced that the pilots of A3 
had turned rogue and had run away with the Aoutmura/ Archangel team. Akira 
can't believe it since the higher up ordered them to leave with the 
Archangel/ Aoutmura and Jinguchi note that they're probably saving their own 
skin cutting all ties with the SR team. In the end, A3's like all the other 
slimy organizations.

Ryouma question that asking if that were true, why did they also lump in the 
AEUG team, the Valkyries squadron and Archangel team since the only one who 
was responsible for the disaster was only them, the SR pilots. This is pretty 
much akin to cutting ties with ALL its firepower. Amuro then says that it's 
because the heads of A3 isn't looking to make them a scapegoat but rather the 
opposite. Amuro continues that without the SR, even the MS/ Valkyries 
gathered together couldn't stop the Feds current firepower of AB/ MS from 
taking over A3 Island. Gou note that's true, even if the SR pilots manage to 
get their sentence reduced or pardoned, A3 will have to make an official show 
of taking responsibility by destroying the Super Robots involved but if they 
let everyone loose then they're free to continue to protect the world on 
their own term. Fokker notes that to do that, A3 had to publicly disown them. 
A3 Island may fall to Feds hand but A3 has left them with the fate of the 
world even though they have a stain on their name that may not be easily 
cleanse.

Gou apologize for involving theAEUG/ TERRA team into this and Quattro says 
that they were the one who asked for an alliance and he still believe that 
their combined power will be needed to fight the Titans and Axis. Camille 
says that factions in AEUG are also divided on whether to support them or not 
so they shouldn't count on full support from AEUG. Hayato Kobayashi says that 
at least the Agama lead by Bright Noah has decides to join them. Haruka says 
that TERRA isn't against them being here right now, if they were recalled 
then Ayato and Elvy would be Menaged Zero and the Feds would love an excuse 
to get their hands on anti MU weapon like Raxhephon and the Vermillion so 
they also have to be careful of being targeted here also.

Shinobu says that they're all hunted anyway so they have to be careful. Mari 
then asks if Masato is ok and Sarah says that he's shut himself off in his 
room ever since and Camille volunteer to go talk to him because he's the only 
other one here who had the unpleasant experience of having their parents died 
in front of their eyes.

Wufei note that everyone is down and tells them that they are in the right 
and they will get stronger from this tragedy. Duo noted that Wufei is right 
and says to not throw away their hope. Shou says that he and Marbel will be 
with the team all the way and Marbel adds that they all want to save the 
world and by banding together, they can change things as the team taught her.

With the mood more uplifting, Duo note that funnily enough, all their ships 
starts with the letter A such as Aoutmura, Archangel and the soon to be 
coming Agama. There must be a cosmic joke somewhere. Ryou note that even 
expelled from A3, they are still A3. Kouji then asks what should they call 
themselves, "the team formerly known as A3" doesn't quite have that ring to 
it.

Juuzou says "who cares" but Trowa and Heero say that names are important. If 
they leave it blank then the Federation will call them terrorists, rebels, 
and other names with negative connotation for their proganda. (It's like the 
difference between Specials and Super Robots, one's more militaristic and the 
other more heroic) Elvy note that they should name themselves before the Feds 
sticks them with something bad. Shizuru then asks for idea and Hyouma has one 
though Juuzou says Hyouma's naming sense is very bad. Kooji has one but 
Shizuru then says "No" and Kooji says that he didn't say anything yet but 
Shizuru then say "Still No"

Keiji then says "How about A-Force" Hikaru then says that that sounds neat, 
it stands for an A Squad or dare I say,...THE A TEAM. Keiji says that there's 
also another meaning and Amuro gets it "Oh I see, it also sounds like 
A'Fourth, the 4th A that carries on the will of A3" Everyone note that that 
sounds quite good and agrees to it.

(Note, from now on the team will be called A4, mainly because A-Force sounds 
too much like AForce from Macross Zero. It's written differently in Japanese 
but sounds too alike)

Elsewhere at the Minerva, Durandall is meeting with its crew. Durandall 
apologize to Talia over the incident in A3 water last time and he talks with 
Shin and crew about the state of the world. Shin offer his opinion that not 
wanting to fight/ wanting peace is good but once the time comes to fight and 
they don't fight then they can't protect anything. Athrun says that that 
leads to an endless waltz of fighting to which he never found an alternative 
for in the last war which is why he returned to ZAFT to try to find one now. 
Durandall then ask why war exists even though people don't want war and Shin 
says that it may be because of those like the Blue Cosmos and the Feds. 
Durandall says that that is part of it, people can come to hate those who are 
different or want something they don't have and take it by force and when 
they do that, they create weapon for that cause and when both side does it, 
they keephaving to create better weapon to use against each others. That is 
natural but these weapons have no meaning, no worth at all if the world is at 
peace, if war don't exist, weapons can't be sold. Durandall then state that 
the one behind this war is LOGOS, the arms dealer. They're the mother ship 
behind Blue Cosmos and they funded the Titans and as long as they exist, 
innocent people will suffer. In order to combat them, they will have to do 
all they can.

Durandall then turn the talk to A4, they were allowed within the confine of 
A3 to protect the Earth from alien invaders and underground races but now 
that they are no longer confined and free to act on their own judgement, they 
have to be destroyed since their existence will bring suffering. Athrun tries 
to speak up for A4 but Durandall says that because of them, people had died 
and more might if they are left to run free imposing their own justice. 

Heinne joins the Minerva team and he is extremely friendly and gets along 
well with everyone. He stress teamwork and equality and that they will work 
together against A4. Heinne then notes that Athrun was once on the Archangel 
and he must find it hard to fight against it this time but as soliders 
they're not allowed to choose their battlefield.

Back at the Archangel, Murrue note that ZAFT is also gunning for them now 
that the team only answer to themselves, Bartfield says that they may 
actually be targeting Lacus and refer back to the assassin incident. Cagali 
wonder if they should hide underwater with the Archangel but Kira says that 
the Aoutmura can't do that and ZAFT has good underwater MS to attack. Report 
of finding a Mikene stronghold reaches the team. They're up to something and 
Tetsuya note that they can't let this go but Valentina note that it's a 
danger to attack a Mikene stronghold while being pursued by both Federation 
and ZAFT. Hyouma asks if Valentina wants to abandon the people that may be 
hurt when the Mikene DOES attack and Valentina says that she was just stating 
fact. She says that it's dangerous but they'll have to divide themselves into 
two teams, one team will attack the stronghold while the others tackle the 
pursuing Feds/ZAFT forces. Murrue volunteer the Archangel against the 
Feds/ZAFT.

At the Mikene stronghold, Great Mazinger and Mazinger Z arrive with a team. 
Valentina note that there is interference on the radar so it's hard to find 
the stronghold's entrance/ exit except by eyes. The team locates it and 
dismantles its weaponry destroying the Sentoujuu coming out from it. Kouji 
wonder if they should enter and take out the Sentoujuu inside. Valentina is 
against that since they don't know what's inside and there may be other 
entrance/exit that they can use to escape, it's best to cover all the 
entrance/exit first. The team then decides to leave one member to guard an 
entrance/exit they find and the rest moves on to attack other entrance/exit. 
Duke Gorgon watches this and note that they're dwindling their forces with 
each entrance/exit they find and send out Sentoujuu to attack the team but 
the team overcome them and cover all exit though Duke Gorgon says it's too 
late to stop them.

At the Archangel, they've manage to gain the Feds/ ZAFT attention but now 
they're surrounded, they can't escape throught the front/back since there are 
MS/ ships waiting to attack them. On the left/ right are cities to which the 
Feds in their current mindset will have no problem attacking trying to get to 
them. Bartfield note that before he dies, he really wanted to drink a special 
blend but then says he's joking, he's not dying until he finds the ultimate 
blend of coffee. The team led by Kira in the Freedom deploys defending the 
Archangel from pursuing Feds force and then the Minerva trio of Shin, Rey and 
Luna Maria. The Phantom Pein trio also appears and is told to ignore the 
Minerva and its team for now but focus on the Archangel.

Athrun appears and note that if he disables the Archangel's engine and 
weaponry, he can force them to surrender without killing them, he hope he's 
up to it but the Freedom then comes in to block his way.

Athrun begs Kira and the Archangel to surrender, that way he doesn't have to 
sink the ship and everyone can live.

Kira says that Lacus was attacked by assassins, presumably from ZAFT and that 
he doesn't trust ZAFT therefore regrettably he'll have to fight Athrun (just 
like old times).

Heinn also appears in his orange Gouf and when he confronts Kira and the 
others, he shouted the infamous line "This is no Zaku boy, no Zaku" (or 
something like that.) (Too bad this is mostly an aerial battle or I'd have 
Amuro deploy and kick his butt ) Most of the attackers are taken out and 
Stella's Gaia Gundam while damage is still strong enough to attack but 
instead of hitting the Freedom, she accidentially hits the Gouf and kills 
Heinn by mistake. Stella is still ready to go at it but the other two forces 
her to retreat using a keyword implanted in her psyche to make her comply.

One of the Feds ship on one front is attacked by a Mimetic beast which gives 
the Archangel the opening to break free of their surrounding and Murrue took 
the opening.

Later, Jibril is reprimanding Neo for continuous failure saying that his 
troop is not the only troop up Jibril's sleeve. Meanwhile back at Dannar Base, 
Anna manage to clear the program on the disk but then collapse to lack of 
sleep for three days.

Rendezvousing with each other, the Archangel team then learns from the 
Mazinger teams that when they eventually went inside the underground Mikene 
stronghold, it was barren and there was sign of a tunnel leading elsewhere. 
It seems the Mikene use the time during their assault to move most of their 
force elsewhere or even before the assault begin. The tunnel was collapsed by 
the Mikene's own hand so they don't know where it leads but what's clear is 
that the Mikene's grand attack is coming.


Episode 19

Emma Sheen arrives from outer space with supplys and new weapons for A4. She 
brought the Z Gundam for Camille Vidan and she will take over piloting the Mk 
II. Emma notes that Camille has grown up though Camille denies it and says 
that it's just that the world has changed for the worst.

Duo tells Wufei to come look at these new Gundams though Wufei says he only 
has eyes for Nataku which annoys Duo but at least Wufei is better than Heero 
who keeps disappearing to who knows where once they board the ship. Quattre 
and Trowa notice the Nu Gundam for Amuro and note that that must be the 
talked about Gundam for New type. It's different from that thing they faced 
in Hong Kong since this one seems to use Funnel/ Psycho frame technology.

Gou is then told that Milla has collapsed in the training room. From the 
looks of it, her body was quite weak from the five year blank she had so her 
body couldn't take the rigourous pace she was putting it in during training. 
Shizuru note that at least its better that it happened here than on the 
battlefield. Hayato Kobayashi note that it's better that they not use Milla 
for a while. Kooji says that he and Shizuru will cover for the Godannar in 
the Neo Okusa's place but Shizuru note that the G Gunner they use has 
primarily long ranged attack and is not built for defending the Dannar like 
the Okusa is so it won't work as well. Kooji note that if only Anna is here 
but Gou tells him to forget her since she abandons the fight and her 
responsibility.

 Hikaru and Kajizaki comes and apologize to Milla since they were the one who 
invited her to train with them and Keiji but Milla doesn't mind since she was 
interested in Keiji's training. It seems Keiji is the one who always asked 
for every battle data afterward to compose his training such as the one with 
the Mikene recently. Kajizaki says that Keiji is a practice nuts and a study 
freak from what they've seen and Milla asks if Kajizaki and Hikaru weren't 
with him in military school. 

Hikaru says that Kajizaki and Max were scouted out by Fokker and Fokker came 
to get him thanks to ties with his dad. In fact they only got promoted to the 
rank they have thanks to the Super Robots' disappearance incident at Tokyo 
Jupiter thus the need for capable pilots. They're still pretty green behind 
the ears.

Milla says that had Max been in the Military school, he might have topped 
Keiji as its ace during his year. Hikaru notes that Max might be able to 
since he's a genius; but from what he see Keiji has skills too.

Shizuru then says that Keiji actually has more perserverance than actual 
skills. Gou then says that everyone else here has the talents for piloting, 
even Hikaru and Kajizaki, they might not feel like it yet but Fokker scouted 
them so he knows they're good but Keiji is different, he has no innate skills 
and talent at this so to make up for this, he has to keep practicing and keep 
studying data everytime he can so that he can keep up with everyone on what 
comes naturally to them. Hikaru and Kajizaki note that they still have time 
to train before their shift starts and they should invite Keiji for a round.

Milla note that she can't just lie here either but Shizuru tells her to rest.

In the Mikene world, Ankoku Daishogun is awating Yami no Teiou (The Hell 
Emperor)'s word to begin their grand attack on the human world. Yami says 
that the unstability of the wormhole between their world and the human world 
is worsening and that the time to attack is now, if they do not conquer the 
world and move to it now then they will no longer have the opportunity. 
Ankoku then gives out the order for the attack and tells Gorgon to lead one 
assault and give it his all

On the run, A4 detects huge movement of Mikene troops in Japan and even 
though they are hunted, they decide that they must do everything to protect 
Japan from the Mikene.  Ryou note that this is just like what happened last 
time in the U2 incident, there's no cries for their help but they can't just 
ignore it. Keiji says that it doesn't matter they have to go help even though 
they have a stain on their name. Ryouma says "Even if no one accepts, we will 
go help those people"
Kouji continues "It's simple then, we will help people, no matter what 
happens or who saids what about us" "Let's go, to protect people's lives"

Valentina tells Keiji before deploying to keep a cool head since he's not his 
usual self, is what's happening striking a chord within him? Keiji says that 
it reminded him of the U2 mission. Valentina says that Keiji cancelled his 
checkup twice already and she knows that he's the perserverance kid from 
before but he has to take better care of himself.

Keiji admits that he does have some headache but he's ok, he can still 
protect people no matter what the result to him. Keiji then asks Valentina 
whether she believes what Kouji just said about it being simple that they 
protect people no matter what happens, if so then he will always go alongside 
her on this path. Valentina blushes and says that she does believe. Shinobu 
then asks her why her face is red and she says it's nothing.

The team divided itself into three squadrons. One is lead by Great Mazinger 
to protect a factory area. Tetsuya note that they arrived early so they 
should have some of their force guard the main factory while the rest are 
ready to respond to Sentoujuu from all directions. The battle begins and 
Tetsuya note that the Mikene are also using flight capable Kikaijuu in their 
raid which means the speedier mech will have to take them out. Amuro in the 
Nu Gundam note that it's been 7 years since he piloted a Gundam and the Nu 
Gundam looks like something that he can use to tackle almost any threat. 
Tetsuya note that this is most likely a feint attack since neither Gorgon nor 
Ankoku Daishogun is here to guide it and the main attack is elsewhere. 
Afterward, the people in the factory relay a message of thanks to them even 
though they have heard of the smear campaign by the Feds. Tetsuya noted that 
they're not universally hated which is good to know.

Mazinger Z's team goes to a city where evacuation has not yet finished. Kouji 
note that they'll have to steer the fight away from that area. This is easy 
once Kouji finds out Duke Gorgon is leading the attack.Kouji says that while 
it might be bad for Tetsuya not to get his licks in, he and Gorgon go a long 
way back to the Dr. Hell era and his butt is Kouji's to kick. This enrages 
Gorgon who diverted all Kikaijuu troops to attack Mazinger Z. This isn't a 
problem for our fortress of steel who downs all the Kikaijuu and head for 
Gorgon. However Feds force follows which dishearten Quattro, Emma, and Kira 
(in my game) who note that even at time like this, the Feds are behaving like 
Titans and that humanity will never advance unless they stop fighting each 
other. Kouji defeats Gorgon and tells Gorgon to give a regards to Dr. Hell in 
hell. The team retreats seeing that the city is safe and it's best to avoid a 
fight with the Feds here.

 Lastly the team that is led by Gou Sawatori arrives near Dannar Base to 
fight Mikene troops but Mimetic Beast arrives to complicate the situation. In 
order to stop them from reaching the city, Anna deploys in Go Okusa which 
infuriates Gou since Anna more or less abandoned the fight by going AWOL. 
Anna tries to apologize but Gou is still being stubborn and ends up ticking 
off Anna. They end up having a live lover's spat but ended up saying that 
whatever the heck the other partner may say, they know how the other partner 
really feel because they know everything about them and the two joins forces 
to become the blue flamed Godannar Twin Drive and defeats the Mimetic Beast 
and Mikene troops. In the midst of the battle, Camille note that the Z Gundam 
is definitely responding well and he can give it his all without worrying 
that the machine can't keep up. 

The city is safe and the Dannar Base ask how Anna is and Gou says that she's 
passed out from lack of sleep and welcomes Anna back home, this is where she 
belongs.

 Rendezvousing with the Archangel, Valentina note that they could have help 
with clean up/ repairs if the Feds weren't after them. There is an emergency 
call from the Aoutmura, it's being attacked by Titans force. The Aoutmura 
manage to fend off the Asshmar fleet attacking it but is forced to make an 
emergency landing since the engines are shot. After that the team is 
contacted by the Science Fortress but it doesn't sound good.

Meanwhile, back at their hideout, Yukimura note that the Mikene have made 
their move and they'd better do so as well to show some results to their 
short tempered sponsor. Dr. Soga asks if the pilots are well conditioned and 
Yukimura says that he uses tech from Murasame lab and the Extendeds' lab to 
condition the five pilots so it's no problem. It's time to activate the 
Ascalon. Dr. Soga then asks who the sixth pilot is and Yukimura says that 
he's the last one. Dr. Soga then muse that it's been twenty years since he 
found the Origin Unit and all he's been capable of doing is creating an 
inferior copy of it like the Celestial Reactor. He still doesn't understand 
what it's for.

Yukimura says that the CR might be an inferior copy but it allows the Ascalon 
to be complete. Dr.Soga then says that over the 20 years he's had lots of 
problems with it, it changed Yukimura, he wonder what it actually is. 
Yukimura tells Dr. Soga not to be silly, a machine can't change a person even 
if it's an ancient relic, people change from the choices they made and it's 
consequence. Dr. Soga made his choice and it changed him and Yukimura.

Episode 20

Ankoku Daishogun had taken over the Photonic Science Fortress and he commends 
Dr. Kabuto for lasting this long against him without Great Mazinger.

Ankoku sent a demand to the Archangel that Kabuto Kouji and Tsurugi Tetsuya 
surrender their Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger to them. Elvy note that it's 
like what Terra did with Raxephon and it's very alluring for the Mikene to 
turn the bane of their existence into their own fire power. Ryouma says that 
they cannot hand over the Mazingers or any other Super Robots to the Mikene 
since they would use it for mass destruction. Tetsuya says that he and Kouji 
will go to the Science Fortress

Meanwhile, the Zutori lead by Wutta with the Psycho Gundam in tow is heading 
for the downed Aoutmura. Wutta threatened Four that her memory will not be 
returned if she does not show results even though Four does not want to pilot 
the Psycho Gundam since it's been giving her such bad feelings. Four complies 
and say that she'll defeat A4, that should be enough to satisfy the Titans 
right?
 
Heero and Trowa says that it's suicidal for the two of them to go in but 
Tetsuyanote that they can't mobilize a huge force to attack or Ankoku will 
kill Dr. Kabuto and Kouji and Tetsuya says that the two of them will go and 
handle this while the rest of the team go help Aoutmura. Ayato and Anna note 
that Haruka and Milla is still on Aoutmura and Anna especially want to 
apologize to Milla for how things turned out. Gou says that he wants the two 
of them to come back alive. They will handle the Aoutmura scenario. Tetsuya 
and Kouji promise, they're not looking to sacrifice themselves, they will win 
and return.

At the Science Fortress, Dr. Kabuto tells Ankoku to stop this baseless 
ambition and says that he knows that the wormhole connecting the Mikene 
dimension to Earth is closing. That is the reason why the Mikene had to halt 
their attack 1200 years ago. There is no place on Earth for them even if they 
DID defeat the Mazingers but Ankoku tells him to shut up.

Kouji and Tetsuya arrive in the midst of a rainstorm and Tetsuya says that he 
will find a way to help the Professor or Kouji's dad but Kouji reiterate that 
it's THEIR dad since he knows how his father also raised Tetsuya as a son. 
Tetsuya says that the weather is bad but it's perfect for this since Ankoku 
can't se a thing so he'll have to rely on communication channel with the 
Sentoujuu guarding the area around the fortress. 

Kouji says that he scrambled up a jamming device but it'll only work for 
three minutes per time so they have to take out each guard Sentoujuu in 3 
minute. Tetsuya note that Kouji have the genius Kabuto bloodline in him all 
right and Kouji says that he didn't go study at A3 for nothing. Kouji note 
that for this case, they'll have to stick together and attack the Sentoujuu 
together to make it quicker.

The Mazinger duo runs around the Science Fortress area picking off Sentoujuu 
and Ankoku sense something is wrong and tries to contact his Sentoujuu but 
gets nothing and just when he realized that, Z and Great has finished picking 
off the Sentoujuu and Great rush in to slam kick Ankoku out of the Science 
Fortress top while Z secure Dr. Kabuto.

Tetsuya says that he'll handle Ankoku Daishogun himself and for Kouji to 
guard Dr.Kabuto but Dr.Kabuto tells Tetsuya not to underestimate Ankoku and 
Kouji says that they'll fight him together.  Ankoku has retreated to stand 
his ground near the beach and Mazinger Z reaches him first and Ankoku shout 
"So you're first, Kabuto Kouji?"

The two Mazinger pull out all their attacks and defeat Ankoku. When dying, 
Ankoku shouted that what he need is a requiem for a warrior and Tetsuya note 
that as an enemy, Ankoku Daishogun is truly worthy of the name even though 
they are on opposing side.

Meanwhile the team heading towards the Aoutmura lead by Camille, Amuro and 
Quattro reaches the area, from what Hayato Kobayashi told them, the repair on 
the engines are still not finished so they'll have to handle the incoming MS 
troops before it can attack the immobile Aoutmura.

The Psycho Gundam arrives and Camille recognized that it's Four and Amuro 
tells him to stop. Amuro tells Char that they have to stop Camille or an 
incident that they experienced might happen to him but Camille successfully 
persuade Four to join him telling Four that the Titans will always continue 
to hold Four's lost memory over her to coerce her into being their puppet. 
Besides, those lost memory might be painful memories. What's important is 
living in the here and now as a human being. Amuro ask if Char knew this 
would happen and Quattro says no but Camille is different from them, he 
succeed when they had tragedy.

Wutta decides to ram the Zutori into the Aoutmura seeing as how he's out of 
MS and he won't let the Aoutmura run away. Hayato Kobayashi tells the team to 
knock out the Zutori's two engines to stop it while he gets the Aoutmura to 
fly. The team is successful and Wutta dies when the Zutori kamikaze to the 
ground and burst into flames.

In Tokyo Jupiter, Kuki tells Ayato's mom Maya about the dimensional hole 
closing and Maya says that the Mikene are also time dilated people just like 
them. Kuki wants to send Dolem to finish off the Mikene or else they might 
interfere but Maya says to let it go, the Mikene were unsuccessful in 
escaping the "death of time" in their dimension. They no longer have the 
firepower nor the time to wage another attack on this dimension.

Meanwhile Isshiki is trying to ask for Babem's permission to attack the 
Mikene so they don't interfere also but Babem dismissed the Mikene stating 
that he knew this would happen and that it would be at least 3000 years 
before the Mikene can try again because Yami (Hell Emperor)'s dimension's 
time is even more dilated than the MU's. (i.e. time goes extremely slower 
there) Isshiki asks if the Mikene's dimension is akin to Tokyo Jupiter and 
Babem says that that world is a shadow created from the MU world, his 
birthplace. Even if Yami would immediately gather the remaining Mikene, the 
fastest that he could attack again when both dimension junction and a 
wormhole would appear would be at least a hundred or even a thousand year. 
They didn't make it in time.

Babem then tells Isshiki that a "D" like him shouldn't be coming here to talk 
stuff that is above him and to concentrate on the task that Babem assigned to 
a lowly "D" like him. Isshiki grits his teeth and says "Yes sir"

Afterward the Archangel rendezvous with the Mazinger Duo at the Science 
Fortress, Tetsuya is told that the Mikene can no longer attack (at least for 
a couple of thousand years) and they've lost their commander and a huge 
amount of force which will take lots of time (in their dimension) to regather 
(so better make that a couple million years) There are still other enemies 
though and the Mazingers have to face them. Dr. Kabuto hugs Tetsuya which 
surprised him and Hyouma note that Tetsuya finally had some family. Tetsuya 
says that he is not alone since he has friends in A4 to work alongside with. 
Dr. Kabuto tells the team that the scientists are going to meet the Japan 
government in an inquisition that the Japan Government is holding to try and 
clear the SR Pilots' name in the U2 incident. Since they were the one who 
created the Super Robots the pilots are piloting, they bear some 
responsibility.

Murrue note that they defeated one enemy group today but she wonders if the 
path they're on is truly correct, she hopes that Mwu will watch over them and 
their path. Bartfield comes in bringing coffee and says that Kira and Shou 
are using the Science Fortress's equipment to try and contact the Gran Garran. 
The two are successful though Cagalli note that they can't stay at the 
Science Fortress for long or the Feds might attack again.

Shou and Marbel exchange greeting with Sheila and gets told of the situation. 
Kira, meanwhile jokingly tells Cagalli that she lose against Sheila in being 
a queen of the people to which Cagalli says "IS that anyway to talk to your 
older sister, sure I lose, I even lose against Lacus in the breast 
department"

Speaking of Lacus, she is with Camille at the sick bay watching over Four. 
Camille asks if Coordinator technology can help bring Four's memory back but 
Lacus says that memory can't be taken/ given away as easily as that. Four is 
ok with that since she remembers what Camille once said about the memory of 
today becoming her past tomorrow.

 Nearby, Anna is stuck for word on how to approach and talk with Milla, she 
says that she is sorry that she didn't know about Milla's relationship with 
Gou and got her to live with them and she's sorry that she ran out like that. 
Milla says that Anna came back to protect what's important to her so it's all 
right and Milla says that she has something to say to Anna as well and 
congratulates Anna on her marriage to Gou.

Episode 21

Ayato is looking over the upgraded Habakiri now retitled Amanohabakiri and 
Keiji says that while there are additional weapons added in, the main upgrade 
is in adding an energy chamber to store excess energy from the Celestial 
Reactor so that it would lessen the stress on the pilot. They did the quick 
upgrade before leaving the Science Fortress.
 
Both Ayato and Keiji note that they're quite at ease with each other and can 
talk easily to each other noting that they bond ever since Valentina and 
Haruka went at it in their first meeting. Haruka and Valentina overheard and 
ask to hear what Ayato and Eiji say again. Ayato note that those two have 
also become quite a combi.

At the bridge of the Archangel, Cagalli, Shou, Marbel and the others are 
talking about how through Queen Sheila actual action in responding to the 
plight of the innocent, she is putting doubt in people's mind about what the 
Fed's smear campaign is saying about the Gran Garran being the hostile 
invaders. As a result, in Europe where the Gran Garran has been doing its 
activities, Anti Feds sentiment has rise. Once the Goraon rendezvous with the 
Gran Garran, they'll be strong enough so that the Feds wouldn't lay a hand on 
them militarily.

Shou continues that Queen Sheila passed this info to him from an anti Fed 
source that the Federation is planning to send a strike team to attack A3 
Island. Elvy wants to contact A3 Island and notify them of this immediately 
but Hayato Kobayashi says that if it's true then the Feds will be monitoring 
all types of communication channels for leaks.

To preempt this, the Skull Squadron is sent to A3 island vicinity to tell the 
A3 heads in person. Kajisaki is ecstatic about going home until Hikaru and 
Max reminds him that they're officially banned from A3 island so no quick 
meal, no getting to meet Minmei or anything. They go in and out fast to only 
deliver the message. Max says that there is one good news recently; there is 
a call from Tibet to Mutropolis.

It is from Dr. Hibiki who with Sally Poe has found an ancient boat filled 
with Mutron power like Raideen and an ancient tablet regarding Mu and Akira's 
mom. The boat vanished in front of his eyes so he theorizes that his wife, 
Lemuria, must have called for it and is using it to head for Japan.

Elsewhere, Blade Gainer and Cosmo Diver finds remains of a Mikene Sentoujuu, 
it seems to be leftover troops and was recently destroyed but A4 who they 
heard destroy the Mikene was not reported anywhere near this area and it 
looks like it was wiped out quite quickly with a strong attack. Suddenly they 
see an ancient flying boat but before curiosity makes them investigate, they 
get readings of Mimetic and decide to leave the boat alone.

Ayato and Akira learn about the Star of La Mu as Dr. Hibiki continues to 
relate his findings, it is an ancient artifact of great power that disappear 
with the battle against the Youma 12,000 years ago. The key to activating its 
power is his wife Lemuria, Raideen and the Mutron energy limiter being 
unsealed through a mean.

Kosuke note that Akira's mom probably revives after feeling Barao has also 
revived and is probably headed towards the Raideen face mountain that Raideen 
usually reside in to unleash Raideen's power. Chizuru then says that Raideen 
isn't there since it's here with them and Akira realizes that his mom doesn't 
know that and the Youma will definitely know of this and attack. They have to 
find her and get to her fast.

True to form, Barao has learned of this and has decided to make the two 
Kyouretsu sibling work together to either get or destroy the Star of La Mu by 
combining Gekidou and Gourai's mech. Gourai tells his younger sibling to 
target Raideen and keep it busy while he target the Mu ship.

At the Macross on A3 Island, Misa tells Gloval that loading of Destroid 
Monster troops is almost complete and after that, the Macross will be flight 
ready and they can escape with it if there is an attack on A3 island since 
it's what the Feds want. The Skull Squadron contacts them about the Feds 
strike force and Claudia note that something is moving in with incredible 
speed. Gloval tells the Skull Squadron to get clear, they will activate the 
island's defense and Macross but suddenly there is an attack on Macross's 
engine which Misa and Claudia can't believe because the type of attack used 
is a Pulse Bomb which is only used in A3's Valkyries/ Destroid.

Fokker gets extremely uneasy at the sudden cut of communication and the word 
"pulse bomb" and tells everyone "Follow me, we're going in."

The Skull Squadron arrives at the Macross and note that the one attacking the 
Macross is actually a Destroid monster. Kudo grumble saying that he didn't 
think he had to take on this thing again. Kajisaki doesn't understand why 
that thing is attacking the Macross; it's supposed to be programmed to defend 
it. Fokker says he doesn't know and doesn't care, they have to destroy it. 
The Skull Squadron rush the Destroid Monster and suddenly note that many 
containers that the Macross was supposed to load opens up and contains AI 
controlled MS (Serpents) and Kajisaki and Max note that this is how the Feds 
planned the attack this time, the old Trojan horse ploy. There isn't a huge 
number so the Skull Squadron is able to take care of them.

Misa note that the Skull Squadron is disobeying orders again as they engage 
the enemies and Gloval says to deploy the other Destroid to help them but it 
seems that the containers containing them cannot be unlocked. Claudia 
suddenly note that the enemy force that is heading here at an incredible 
speed has demolished all lines of defense and Dr. Aoi can't believe the 
reading, those things contained Celestial Reactor. She suddenly tells Hatsuki 
to collect every data they can on this thing and get ready to forward it to 
the Skull Squadron; they can't lose all of their hopes here. Yukimura 
annouinced that A3's nine years of glorious history ends here today at the 
hands of the Nemesis series' Ascalon. 

The Skull Squadron finish destroying the Destroid but Claudia suddenly tells 
them to run away. Lady Une chimes in saying that the enemies coming in are 
too strong for them and their Valkyries to handle.Hikaru says that they 
haven't even tried yet. Hatsuki transmit the data to the Skull Squadron as 
the Ascalons arrive. Gloval says that the Macross cannot move and will have 
to surrender to them but the Skull Squadron are their last hope, they have to 
go back to A4 and tell them of what happened here.

Hikaru ask if Fokker is planning to abandon Misa, Minmei, Gloval, Claudia and 
everyone else they know here but Fokker shouted "Shut up, Hikaru, we have to 
get this news back to A4, they wouldn't know about anything that happened 
here if we die here" "All units, DO NOT ENGAGE THE ENEMY!!" The Skull 
Squadron vamoose out of A3 island as one of the Ascalon pilot asks for 
permission to pursue and eliminate them but Yukimura says to let them go, the 
game with A4 can last a little longer.

Meanwhile Akira and the others have founded Lemuria's ship, unfortunately so 
do the Youma. Lemuria note as they attack her ship that the Psychic Barrier 
it has can stand up to some of the Youma's attack for a while. The Gattai 
Youma Beast piloted by Gekido engages Raideen as Gourai targets the ship in 
the Mecha Gante. The A4 team pulls their power together and defeats both of 
them with Gekido biting it and Gourai escaping vowing revenge on the team.

Back at Mutropolis's Big Shell, a teary reunion between mother and son occurs. 
Ayato note this and Haruka asks if he's thinking about HIS mother and Ayato 
says that his mom isn't like this, what he's missing is Megu and Gramps back 
at TERRA, they're his family. Haruka's heart race as she hears that Ayato 
also consider her family and let slip that even in primary school, Ayato's 
always been like that but Ayato didn't hear her.

Suddenly there is an earthquake as an ancient city rise from the bottom of 
the sea. Barao senses this and wonders why his pulse is racing the moment he 
saw this city. Why is he so agitated at the sight of it? 

At the occupied A3 island, Yukimura ask if Dr. Soga wants to hear his report 
on how the takeover went and Dr. Soga says that without Saotome's, Nanbara's, 
Aoi's and Kabuto's creations stationed here, it's probably a pushover. What 
he came here for is to tell Yukimura about this ancient city rising, what's 
of interest is that the location of this city is near where he found the 
Origin Unit 20 years ago.

Yukimura wonders what triggered it to rise, could it be the Macross ready for 
operation, or the Raideen and the Mu Ship they have heard of. Whatever it is, 
this is going to be interesting just like how life should be.


Episode 22

Babem noted as he see the ancient city "Alteira, I didn't think that THIS 
world would have the same thing left behind."

At the Big Shell, Dr. Hibiki has returned and Wufei greeted Sally 
sarcastically that she invited him to A3 and left him with all this work 
while she went on vacation to Tibet. Sally says that she was just as busy as 
Wufei and it's a pleasant surprise that he address her by her name since in 
their first meeting he said "Hey, woman."

The Hibiki family has a family reunion and Murrue is sorry to interrupt it 
but they have visual on the ancient city that has risen from the city. 
Lemuria recognize the city as the city of beginning, Alteira. It was 
supposedly an ancient legendary city for the Mu that sank to the bottom of 
the ocean a long long time ago. The team is shocked since the Mu continent is 
considered ancient to them and this thing is even more ancient. Mu legend 
said that in this city, the first human race was created and they lived 
happily there with advanced technology.  Shinobu can't believe that people 
were created and Ryou said that it sank, did a great disaster happened to it 
like the Lemurian. Lemuria isn't sure, that period is lost to history but it 
was considered a dark age since the survivors lost everything and was forced 
to regress back to the stone ages. The Lemurian, the people of the Mu 
continent, are direct descendant of those people that had manage to restore 
some of their technology and culture through million of years of hard work.

Dr. Hibiki notes that that is the origin of the Lemurian. Lemuria is worried, 
the Lemurian has developed power like Mutron which is pretty much infinite 
energy and the ancient city may hold something, a weapon or a secret that may 
be far beyond that. They can't let Barao get his hand on it. Akira says that 
he won't let it happened and ask Doc Sarumaru for the Youma's movement.

Mari is sad that Akira couldn't even have a moment's peace for a reunion with 
his family. Lemuria comes in and ask Mari if Mari thinks she is cold for 
being distant with Akira. She wants to be with Akira and make him happy but 
if so, Akira will lose his fighting spirit. Only Akira can pilot Raideen and 
with it he must confront Barao so he must steel himself in both body and mind 
but she wonders if she is wrong to make him do that. Mari says that that's 
not it, Akira probably understands. Lemuria smiles and ask for Mari to take 
care of Akira.

At the Youma Empire, Barao wonders why his blood is racing, why he is so 
agitated at the sight of the city and orders Gourai to destroy the city to 
bits, Raideen will come and it will have the Star of La Mu with it. Gourai 
says he will destroy Raideen and transforms himself to a Youma Beast. Barao 
himself also decides to deploy to take on A4 personally.

Akira learns that Barao is headed towards the ancient city. Lemuria says that 
even if the team combines their power with Raideen, they still won't be able 
to defeat him, the only way is to unleash the power of the Star of La Mu, now 
is the time for Raideen to use the full power of Mutron.

However Dr. Hibiki protest saying that he knows that in order to unleash the 
power of the Star of La Mu, Lemuria will have to use her psychic power and 
drain them along with her life. Lemuria says that she does not mind since it 
is the only way. Akira is adamant against it shouting that as long as he 
lives, he won't let his mom do that, he will defeat Barao himself.

Ryouma joins in saying that they don't want a victory that comes about by 
sacrificing others. Benkei says that the family just reunited, it'd be a 
shame to end it like this. Tetsuya says that they haven't lost yet, and Kouji 
chimes in that if they combine power with Akira, then they will definitely 
win. Ryouma conclude for Lemuria to wait for Akira and their return with 
victory.

Dr. Hibiki tells Lemuria to believe in Akira, he is not alone and that he is 
a part of A4 so she shouldn't rush to sacrifice herself for Akira's sake.

Raideen arrives at the ancient city and Barao note that he is here. Akira 
notesthat this is Barao's true form. Barao rallys all his Youma troops to 
attack Raideen and A4's Super and Real robot army and a massive battle occur. 
Akira notes that the Kyouretsu older sibling has become a Youma beast himself 
and defeats him. Gourai dies cursing Raideen and Barao shouted that the 
humans dare attack him, they will pay.

The team combines their power and defeated Barao who can't believe that he 
was defeated by mere humans and Akira notes that they did it.

(I don't know if there was supposed to be a cutscene of Raideen activating 
the Star of La Mu because I never saw/ activated it, regardless of it being 
needed, Lemuria sacrificed herself to activate the Star of La Mu.)

Alteira begins to sink again and Dr. Hibiki tells Akira who returned that mom 
sacrificed everything she has to give to make sure Raideen would defeat Barao.
Akira tells his mom that they won thanks to him and Lemuria tells Akira not 
to be sad, she has no regrets in doing this, she was able to meet him one 
last time and protect him. He must from now on use Raideen's power to protect 
the innocent.

The star of La Mu rise and became one with the Lemurian flying ship heading 
off towards the sun disappearing in it's ray. Dr. Hibiki note that the star 
of La Mu is gone, without Lemuria to use it, it's probably for the best, he 
tells Akira that mom is returning to the unseen Mu continent and Akira 
shouted his mother's name.

Keiji wonders if Akira will be all right and Jinguchi says that they should 
leave him be for a while since he barely had time for a reunion with his 
mother only to have her forever ripped away from him again. Cagalli wonders 
why Barao wants to destroy the city and Kira note that he seems extremely 
angry at it.

Sally says that she talked to Lemuria while they were deployed about Alteira. 
That city contained advance science and culture with lots of people with 
psychic power like Lemuria. However that power in another aspect can also be 
tied to the Youma's voodoo/ black magic.

The theory is that the survivors of that city took millions of year to 
rebuild their civilization, science and culture into the Lemurian but it is 
possible that other survivors whose culture is gone, in order to survive, 
decided to change/evolve their body into something stronger/different. Over 
the million of years, their body and power changed into something totally 
inhuman along with voodoo and black magic power. 

Ryouma note that that means the Youma are also descendant of the ancient city 
like the Lemurian. Sally says that's the theory which explains why Barao 
hated that city. If Barao is actually one of the original survivors who 
survived until now, the reason he hates it is because it sparks a memory in 
him that tells him that he was originally human. Jinguchi note that for Barao 
who consider himself above mere humans, being reminded that he was originally 
human must be infuriating. However with Barao dead they don't know if it's 
true.
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Anna asks Dr. Hibiki how Akira is and Gou tells her to be considerate since 
Dr. Hibiki lost his wife. Dr. Hibiki says that Akira is with Mari but it's 
not over, there are other enemies other than the Youma. Sally continues that 
they heard from Lemuria that 12,000 years ago when she was living in the Mu 
continent, there was a person who was eyeing the star of La Mu and Raideen 
that was under construction. Ayato note that there are always people who 
wanted to use a huge power for evil means in all ages.

Sally added "From what Lemuria told us, that person has blue blood." This 
shock Ayato and Haruka and Ayato mutter "MU, the blue blooded MUlian" Tetsuya 
wonders what MU was doing here 12,000 years ago. Dr. Hibiki says that he 
don't know but it seems Lemuria didn't hide from the Youma as previously 
suspected 15 years ago after giving birth to Akira since the Youma were not 
revived at that time and Gou note that that was the year MU invaded. Haruka 
mutters "Meltzeler, the undying" which Ayato wonder what Haruka is trying to 
say.

Of course this is more or less Babem, but the team doesn't know that yet. 
Babem tells Helena that 12,000 years ago when his failed experiment in MU 
landed him in this world without a Raxephon system or a Geisha/tuner, he 
decided not to give up and try to find a substitute which is why he eyed the 
Star of La Mu and Raideen. However Raideen needed huge amount of Mutron to 
fit his plan. He didn't know that one half of the Raxephon system would be 
sent to this world like him.

However this time is different, he has a true Geisha in this world and even 
the other half of the Raxephon system that was left in MU is also here. The 
event of the Zero Point Break will soon be nullified and Helena asks if the 
tuning of the world will soon begin and Babem says that it has slowly started.

Episode 23

Kira asks why Lacus is going into space, it's dangerous but Lacus says that 
with many factions wanting a piece of A4, it's equally dangerous here. 
Quattro and Camille note that even parts of Garaba and AEUG wants out with 
them but they have no regrets since they believe that A4 has the power to 
defeat the Titans and other factions wanting to destroy the world. Bartfield 
says that in order to put that power to good use, they need information which 
is why he and Lacus are going to space to get the Eternal and get 
informations.

Elsewhere, Shin meets and rescues Stella from drowning. He ends up saying 
that he will protect her when Stella shows sign of shocks and mental 
instability to which he attributes to her being scarred by war as an innocent 
and he decides that he must find a way to end this war soon. Shin and Athrun 
manage to return Stella to Sting and Aul who they don't know is actually the 
Phantom Pein trio that gave them so much trouble. Sting and Aul says that 
their next mission is here though Aul says that it's only for him and the 
Abyss. 

Elsewhere again, Jibril is commending Dr. Soga and Yukimura on the excellent 
performance of the Ascalon. If he knew it'd be THIS good, he wouldn't have 
had to rush the Destroy into production. Dr. Soga is still not satisfied 
since the Ascalon still haven't had a run in with those people's machine but 
the Ascalon is supposedly strong enough to be a Super Robot Killer. They will 
try to get A3 Island back and they will use force against them then.

Jibril says that he has a job that he can use some of the Ascalon for in 
Europe since A4 might appear there. Jibril note that with the Ascalon, the 
Macross in his hand and that thing on the Moon they got from the MegaRoad 
project, everything is finally going like he wishes. He'll be able to destroy 
those damned Coordinators at last. 
 
Neo tells Stella not to go off wandering again and Aul says that he's ready 
for his mission which involves the Abyss going off alone to take some 
scanning undersea.

The Aoutmura and Archangel have rendezvous with the Goraon and Marbel note 
that with the Goraon here and with the supplies they got from the Science 
Fortress and Mutropolis, they should be able to last awhile before worrying 
about supplies again.

Michelle Saotome is talking with Hayato and says that there's been no contact 
from her father ever since he went to that hearing/ inquisition the Japan 
Government's Internal Affair division held in it's headquarter yesterday.  
Hayato is suspicious since it doesn't seem like the Professor and Hyouma and 
Tetsuya also confirms that Yotsuya, Dr. Kabuto and Dr. Yumi still hasn't 
return either. Ryouma says that the Professors went to try and clear their 
name, maybe they got tied up but Hayato says that Professor Saotome would 
have found the time to call and reassure Michelle if the hearings lasted 
longer than expected.

At the bridge, Quattro note that the Feds are heading for Alteira though 
Cagalli wonder why since it began sinking again after they defeat Barao and 
the ruins are now deep underwater. Quattro says that the Feds have a Gundam 
that specialize in undersea battle, the Abyss and Murrue note that they must 
want the overtechnology in those ruins and Camille note that it's a high 
possibility with Kira and Amuro agreeing that they can't let the Feds get 
their hand on it since it is tech beyond current human understanding. Murrue 
is about to call the Aoutmura to discuss this when they catch a hail from the 
Skull Squadron.

Everyone is shocked to learn that A3 Island has fallen to the Feds's hands. 
Anna is quite shocked that the Feds have 6 Specials in their possession which 
violate the Specials Law but Gou says that they were probably developed in 
secret.  Keiji then ask if it's true that these are the same as Habakiri, a 
Celestial Reactor equipped Nemesis Series? Hikaru says that it's probably 
true and Kosuke note that this is probably the Nemesis Series' true form not 
a successor to the Habakiri since Habakiri only contain the Reactor on a 
normal robot frame. Ryou note that the Feds keep waiving the Specials Law in 
front of them while behind their back they secretly developed Specials and 
broke their own law the first chance they get.

Shinobu shouted "Blast it, We can't just let them get away with this!! They 
took our island, I say we take it right back from them" however the others 
are silent which prompt Shinobu to ask "What? We're just gonna let them?" and 
Sarah says that it's hopeless right now with Amuro saying that they all want 
to do something but now's not the time. Quattro says that from what the Skull 
Squadron says, A3 Island had completely fallen under Fed's control which 
means that aside from the 6 Specials stationed there, there's a huge amount 
of Feds force (MS, etc) stationed there too.  Shinobu should know how hard 
that island is to assault considering he spent several times defending it. 
Zechs also added that the staffs of A3 and Macross are their hostage so they 
can't do anything rash.

The Wing boys arrive with the analyzed data the Skull Squadron had. Heero 
says that quick information is the life blood of any battle. First thing is a 
visual recording (amongst other info) of the Ascalon where a mysterious man 
(Yukimura) is telling A3 that their nine years of history ends here which 
irks Shinobu to no end.  Kooji note that it definitely looks like a bad guy. 
Trowa note that the Ascalon refers to the sword St. George used to slay the 
dragon and Ryou note that it's also a play on the meaning of the word 
Habakiri in that they both mean Dragon slayer.

Next is a partial copy of A3's database since they won't be able to access it 
easily now that the Feds are in charge of the island and lastly is log data 
from the Destroid Monster that the Skull Squadron destroyed. It was running 
automatically on a program that tells it to attack the Macross. The 
professors learn of this while the S.S. battled it and decipher the program 
and access its log. Quattre note that the problem comes from the fact that 
the Destroid Monster was brand-new, just rolled out with no access from 
outside until the professors hack into its log.

Wufei says "It's quite clear then that we were set up" (The mystery is solved, 
I'll wager my grandpa's name on it) (10 points if you get the reference) 
Wufei continues that since the Destroid was brand-new and with no outside 
hacking prior to the professors then it meant that it was programmed from the 
start to attack the Macross and the Destroid is sold to A3 so the one 
responsible is the weapon manufacturer itself. Keiji asked why and Masato 
says "The death merchants" and continues that he heard from his dad once that 
there's a large group of death merchants, those that profits immensely from 
selling weapons all over the world with it's claw and influence deep within 
the Earth Federation. Wufei continues "And that's why your dad was targeted 
and assassinated by them." Shinobu then says that that means the U2 incident 
was orchestrated by them.

Zech then also begins to put the puzzle together and ask what the death 
merchants' worst fear is. It's that their weapons can't be sold since there's 
no war so it's not needed. Shizuru then see where this is heading, another 
worst fear is that it can't be sold since it's ineffective against the threat, 
this was proven 5 years ago beginning with the War of the Giants and the 
advent of Godannar and the Super Robots being the only one capable of 
defeating the Mimetics and other super threats like the Hyakki, Kyoryu, 
Mikene where MS and other weapons proved ineffective. Gou note that with the 
Super Robots around protecting the peace and doing the job effectively for 
free, they can't sell their stuff.


Kooji note that Masato's dad was targeted because he was providing fundings 
towards the labs that was churning out these SR to protect the world and 
Wufei continues that  the U2 incident was set up so that A3 would more or 
less be crippled since the entire SR team went to try and prevent an incident 
and caused an even greater incident, the SR pilot would be Menanged Zeroed 
(discredited and unwanted with their SR destroyed which means no more do-
gooders doing stuff for free), Bujin would be dead (thus a thorn in their 
side gone) and A3 will be so weak that they can take it and get the Macross 
for free. The Feds use the Special laws that they passed to their advantage.

Kouji asks why they waited until now to get rid of the SR team since they're 
humans, if the Feds and the Death Merchants really want them gone, they would 
have been assassinated (or at least many attempt would have been made) a long 
time ago and Amuro says that they probably felt that the Super Robots and 
their pilots can be used to take care of extraterrestrial threats that 
threaten them all and Kouji says that the same is still true, there's still 
the Campbell, Mimetic and more that these people can just continue to use 
them against. The other Kooji then says "Of course, we've become unnecessary 
now that they can produce their own Specials, the Nemesis Series."

Shinobu then realized that if U2 was a set up then the Japan Internal Affair 
Division was probably a part of it since the computer that ran Japan refused 
to let them go in and shut them out of relevant info before the incident. 
Hyouma then realize and says that the Professors are in danger. Sarah note 
that that means her friend might have actually been part of this setup and 
asks Masato what she should do should this be true and Masato doesn't have an 
answer though he says that he's not the type to hold a grudge so he may just 
laugh it off if that becomes the truth.

Anna wonders what they'll do with the Fed ship heading towards Alteira since 
everyone wants to go to Japan to rescue the professors and Benkei says that 
they'll be the one dealing with that cae. Hayato says that they're also worry 
about Professor Saotome but this is a job for Getter Robo, Getter Poseidon to 
be precise. Ryouma says that they're counting on the others to free Professor 
Saotome.

Meanwhile at the Japan internal affairs division, Sarah's friend note that A4 
has finally realized and are headed here and contacted Yukimura to send some 
Ascalon. Yukimura then ask which one of her is it this time, is it truly her 
which leads Sarah's friend to wonder if Yukimura knows her true identity. 
Yukimura then says that he can only spare one Ascalon since their sponsor 
(Jibril) asked for a couple to be sent to Europe and he's the boss. Sarah's 
friend then says that it's ok, she still has the Guzard.

Under sea, the Abyss Gundam is taking scans of Alteira's ruins when Getter 
Poseidon arrives. ZAFT under water MS also arrives and Aul say that he'll 
play with them both once he get the scanning done.  Hayato note that ZAFT 
probably wants this thing as well. The Poseidon attacks all of them and the 
Abyss begins to run to which the Getter team notes that they can't let him 
get away with the data and introduce the Abyss to the Daizetsuzan Oroshi 
which more or less destroys the Abyss and kills Aul. 
The ZAFT MS are also destroyed and Hayato note that that's it for now but 
other waves of MS will soon be coming, they can't just stay here forever and 
defend the place.

As if on cue, Alteira begins to sink even deeper into the ocean. Benkei says 
that it's about 6000 M down at last count and Ryouma note that that's too 
deep for any underwater MS to descend to though Benkei says that Getter can 
reach that depth easily, should they follow. Ryouma says to leave it be, the 
things in those city are probably not meant for human hands, he's more 
worried about the professor and they should head to the rendezvous.

Meanwhile, Dancougar leads a team into the base of the Japan Internal Affair 
division. Masato note that they have quite a huge base underground. Valentina 
says that there's communication interference so they're on their own until 
they get back out. The team goes in and fights many MD that the computer 
throws at them and descends down into the computer core. Sarah's friend then 
calls up the spirit of the dead in his/her dimension to gather and destroy 
them to which the spirit forms a fake Dancougar to attack the team. After 
defeating it and gaining access to the core room. Shinobu sees Sarah's friend 
standing on top of the gigantic mainframe, he shouted "All right, where'd you 
put the professors, even if you are Sarah's friend we won't go easy on you if 
you don't answer us right." Sarah's friend says that the professors are 
sleeping in the other room but Sarah note that that's not her friend's voice 
as an evil dark aura burst out of her. The voice then goes on to state "With 
this computer, I have regained my power, I will find a new body and rebirth 
my universe here, this time the true god will be revived" 

Shinobu shouted "Who are you?" and the voice states "I am Muge, Emperor Muge 
Solbados, it's been a while Dancougar team. I am the universe, I ruled over 
various worlds as God until being destroyed by you" Masato is confused "Muge? 
Destroyed by us?" and Shinobu shouted "What are you talking about, we've just 
met you."

Muge then says that it's fine that apes like them don't know since the "them" 
that defeated him was the Dancougar team who existed on another world. 
(Perhaps Alpha 3's Dancougar team?) Muge continues that he floated almost out 
of existence until he reach this dimension and it is here that he will be 
reborn as God again but first he'll kill them. The Guzard appears and Shinobu 
noted "So it really was your doing all along."
The battle begins and as the Guzard is being sent to the scrap heap, Ryou 
note that something is coming in at high speed; it is the Ascalon that Muge 
asked for. Muge transfer his consciousness from Sarah's friend and posess the 
Ascalon's pilot saying that he has no more need for this woman.
 
Ryou tells Shinobu that the enemy is quite strong but Shinobu smirk and says 
'Well, an alternate us kicked his butt and beat him silly so it's not like 
he's unbeatable by us".
Keiji note that this is the Ascalon, Habakiri's sibling as the two exchanges 
blow. Muge then note that the power is beginning to drop and shouted 
"Yukimura, you #*$, you sabotaged me!!" and Shinobu note that this is the 
opening they need and Yatte Yaruzed him to death with Dancougar's attack. 
Shinobu shouted as he finish "You got that taste of our power, you spectre, 
evil spirits like you deserves to remain in hell"

At A3 island, Dr. Soga learns of 05's destruction and 01(Habakiri)'s 
modification and note that it must be Saotome and the others who did it. 
Since they have no idea on how to modify the Celestial Reactor, they modify 
the frame to lessen the impact on the pilot.

Yukimura appears and says that it took A3 9 years but it seems they're close 
to break through in translating the alien text on the Macross and they'll 
soon learn what's needed to operate the Origin Unit. He asks about the data 
the Abyss managed to send to them. Dr. Soga then says that from the data that 
one thing is needed but it is lost to them. Yukimura says that he may be able 
to procure it and to leave it to him.  In exchange, he wants Dr. Soga to 
create the strongest Nemesis for it.

Back at A4, Sarah's friend apologizes to Sarah and to Masato as to the 
trouble she caused them. Sarah says that they'll drop her off with the 
Professor but they can't stay since they're hunted and Masato tells Sarah's 
friend not to mind since the one orchestrating this was Muge and they killed 
him.  Sarah's friend doesn't remember much of the time she was possessed by 
Muge or who Yukimura is.

The Getter team is glad that Professor Saotome is all right though Hyouma is 
a little bit embarrassed by Prof. Yotsuya asking if they have liquor here 
since he's gone many days without it. Hayato Kobayashi then offers Yotsuya 
his personal cabinet and supply. Dr. Kabuto note that in the end, the team 
had to save them again risking coming into Japan and Tetsuya says that they 
can't just let the Professor die. Dr.Yumi then says that with this new 
revelation, they can get the Menange Zero repelled. Professor Saotome then 
asks Keiji how the new Habakiri is and Keiji says that it's quite strong and 
frightening in that he doesn't know how much power he can draw out from its 
Celestial Reactor with this new form. Dr.Kabuto says to think nothing of it 
since they also consider it as payment for their sin. Prof. Yotsuya adds that 
if they hadn't shunned Dr. Soga and had tried to understand his research then 
maybe this situation might not have happened.

The talk then turns to what they learned from Muge as Zechs note "A parallel 
world where things happened differently" Camille finds this hard to believe 
though Haruka says that the Mikene and MU are invaders from other world so 
the concept of parallel world isn't impossible. Ryou note "A parallel world 
containing a parallel us where things happened differently." Keiji wonders if 
those other worlds also contain war and is there any world without war.

Meanwhile Neo learns of Aul's death and he note that him beginning to doubt 
why they fight is dangerous thoughts  and tells his scientist to take care of 
the memories of the other two. 

Neo note that while researching on Yukimura who contacts Jibril, he came 
across a database on those having had memory modification done on them which 
contains the Extended (naturally) but there's one name that's been nagging at 
him, Mwu La Fraga. 
That man's data is inaccessible and he can't find anything anywhere else on 
him, he wonders why?

Episode 24

Jibril is quite annoyed at Neo for losing one of the Extended and task him 
with the job of getting rid of A4 and the Minerva. He gives him the Destroy 
and tells him to do this job of silencing resistance in Europe.

Meanwhile A4 learns of Bishott and the Fed's rampage across Europe burning 
down town with people in them for supporting the Gran Garran. Camille is 
appalled, even the Titans hadn't sanked THAT low (yet.) Two towns had already 
been destroyed and Murrue note that the Feds are using force to shut up 
dissenter. Sally note that with A3 taken over, only Plant and this are the 
only public enemy the Feds have left.

Keiji asked quite angrily how many people were in those towns and Murrue 
reluctantly says that there were close to 15,000. Even though Plant went in 
with aid, half of those people are already dead before they even arrived. 
Shinobu tells Keiji to calm down but Keiji shouted "How can I? Don't you see 
how many lives were lost? How many people cried losing their loved one? How 
many futures were erased?"

At the Minerva, Talia also learn of this and is ordered to offer aid and 
deploy their MS against it in the next town the Feds are targeting.Talia is 
confused, Shin alone can't take the Feds on alone. What is Dulandal thinking?

Neo is deep in thought as he, Sting, and Stella along with the Gea Garring 
are headed for their next target. Sting doesn't like this type of mission 
much since it's boring with no resistance.Sting asks Neo if there isn't 
supposed to be another member with them but then note that it's a silly 
feeling (thanks to the memory modification), their team has always consist of 
him, Stella and Neo. Neo says that he doesn't like this type of mission much 
but they have to succeed or the bad man will come and hurt them which more or 
less makes Stella says that she'll do the job so the bad men wouldn't come 
and hurt them. Neo is uneasy , even with the Destroy that Stella is piloting 
and the Gea Garring, it's like something big is about to happen. 

Bishott tells Neo that he detects the Goraon and A4 heading their way and 
wants Neo's team to head off the Goraon and downs it. Neo says that he'll 
take care of the Goraon while Bishott's force takes care of the Gran Garran.

A4 is headed to Europe to help the Gran Garran that has retreated to an 
unpopulated area so that if combat occurs, it will not increase the casualty. 
Ele feels the evil aura gathering and says that they must stop Gea Garring 
even at the cost of Goraon and everyone in it but Shou and Marbel tells her 
not to think like that. If they join the firepower of the Goraon and Gran 
Garran together, they'll definitely be able to defeat the Gea Garring easy.


However the Goraon is attacked enroute by a beam attack from below from the 
Destroy Gundam and the team notes that it's an attack that they have to deal 
with.

The A4 team split up into two teams, one that is lead by Shou and Marbel that 
is headed for the Gran Garran against advance AB forces while the other lead 
by Kira will stop the Gea Garring and the Destroy Gundam.

The Gran Garran team meets up with Sheila and Sheila says that after weeks of 
fighting, the Gran Garran's aura power is at its lowest ebb and it has no 
more Aura Battler to defend itself with. Sheila is distress that she has 
cause harm to befall the people of the towns that were attacked with her 
presence but Shou says that it's Bishott's fault. Bishott's "three black 
stars" team attacks but are defeated. Todd also arrives and after getting 
downed, he turns Hyper but he gets defeated anyway. Before he dies, he tells 
Shou that he's had a good dream and Shou shouted "What type of good dream is 
THIS?" in anger.

Two Ascalon reinforcement, the 03 and 06, also arrives causing a reveberance 
with the Habakiri and they says "Let the game begins" Unit 03 is defeated and 
Yukimura recalls 06 before 06 can be defeated saying that they have decide to 
cut ties with the Federation having found their own third stage.

Meanwhile Kira's team encounters the Gea Garring and manages to cripple it 
with him wondering why Neo's team hasn't come to back him up. He is forced to 
retreat as Neo's team comes out to fight and Neo says that this is good, he 
doesn't like having to work under someone like Bishott. Officially they were 
dealing with the Goraon.

The team tackles Neo and the Impulse Gundam also arrives and joins in to make 
a three-way battle. Shin wonders why A4 is here but notes that the Destroy 
needs to be taken on. Along the way, Stella gets a psychedelic episode as 
Neo's word before the battle is causing her to freeze and panic. Shin wonder 
what's happening and open the communication channel and is let in on the fact 
that Stella is the Destroy's pilot. Stella in the meantime gets hysterical 
with Neo shot down and Neo note that this is divine retribution for what they 
did. Stella starts to go berserk and Shin tries to calm her down saying he'll 
protect her and tells A4 to stop attacking, they don't know anything. (Sure 
they will, you might have been nice and not attack them first in this 
skirmish then they might be in more of a mood to listen.) Kira note that they 
can't let this continue and lands the killing blow on the Destroy killing 
Stella and this makes Shin very very angry and says that he won't forgive 
them. He gets downed also along with Sting and retreats.

In the aftermath, the town is laid to waste and everyone pitch in with relief 
effort before ZAFT or the Feds can come. Each member splits up and Shou and 
Marbel are sent to guard the Gran Garran, however there are two tragedies.  
Valentina notice that the Impulse is headed straight for the city again and 
Kira volunteer to go investigate the situation. Kira calls out to Shin saying 
that there's no need to fight, the team only want to help the people of the 
city but the Impulse attacks with Shin lost in his rage and not listening 
shouting "You kill Stella, I told you to stop." Shin goes Seed and goes 
stabbity stabbity on the Freedom defeating Kira. Athrun sees this and screams 
Kira's name. Shin laughs hysterically and tells Stella that he did it, he 
beat Freedom (and he'll do it again in SRW Z.) The other tragedy happens when 
Shou and Marbel note that the Gea Garring that was supposed to have retreated 
is headed towards the Gran Garran.

Bishott decides to attack the Gran Garran noting that even wasted by the 
team; it's still stronger than the Gran Garran. Shou and Marbel note that 
they won't make it in time but Sheila decides to fight even though she is 
clearly outmatched. Ele's Goraon however, intervene and kamikaze the Goraon 
onto the Gea Garring. Bishott is killed and the Gea Garring destroyed but at 
the cost of Ele and the Goraon.

Ryouma is extremely sad at this event and note that Lemuria and Ele were too 
eager to die to protect the world and those that they hold dear. Hayato 
console him and says that Byston Well is the place where the soul returns to 
so Ele has only returned to Byston Well, a Byston Well that has no more 
fighting. Musashi is probably also there being himself (What, no being part 
of Getter Rays this time?)

Kira is alive from the Freedom going boom however and Cagalli tells him to 
rest since he's in bad shape. Kira says that he can't sleep until this person 
is awake. The person Kira refers to is Neo who is now unmasked. Murrue says 
that from his personal info on him, he is Neo Roanag but from what the 
Archangel database can confirm, he is bodily a 100% match for Mwu La Fraga. 
Neo wakes up and tells them not to go demoting him (since Mwu is a lower rank 
than Neo) Neo then looks at Murrue and ask if a beauty like her had fallen 
for him at first sight. (Wow, getting rid of the mask works wonder for the 
personality.) Neo asks who this Mwu La Fraga is to her and Murrue says that 
he was a war comrade who is now gone hiding the fact that they were lovers.

Back at where Jibril is, Jibril is angry that the Destroy is destroyed along 
with the Gea Garring and note that A4 must be dealt with and he'll use all 
the European Federation forces with all the Destroy to get rid of them. 
However he gets very scared when Dulandal hijacks the airwave telling the 
people of the world that he has an important truth to tell the world. Jibril 
barks order for his subordinates to find a way to end the transmission but 
they can't.


Episode 25

Dulandal begins his expose on Logos and the Earth Federation showing footage 
of the Destroy Gundam and Gea Garring's genocide on Europe clearly linking 
them to the Federation and exposing Logos as the one behind it along with 
footage of the Impulse Gundam confronting and fighting the Destroy Gundam 
alone. Seeing this, Athrun note that A4is doctored out and wonders what 
Dulandal is up to. Luna Maria however is oblivious to it and praised Dulandal 
as great for doing this. However in viewing Dulandal's transmission, the 
professors back in Japan note that they may have been too focused on the 
Federation and overlooked a serious threat from ZAFT.
At the Titan's Dogos Gear ship, Scirocco is noting that Dulandal is doing 
quite well hiding the lies within the truth though Yazan asks why Scirocco is 
so damn happy over this since it will hurt the Federation and the Titans 
badly.

Meanwhile A4 is assessing the situation; thanks to Dulandal there is now a 
growing split in the Federation of those against Logos which is getting 
louder against those that are Logos's puppets. This makes their battle 
against Logos (the death merchants they can finally name) easier but they 
still can't work with ZAFT since not only has ZAFT cut them out of the 
footage against the Destroy but they also ignores Ele's death and sacrifice 
in stopping the Gea Garring and use this incident for their own propaganda.

Everyone note that this might be the best chance to take back A3 island since 
the Feds ship surrounding A3 island that are loyal to Logos are leaving to 
protect Logos loyal Federation bases. Trowa note that Professor Hatsuki and 
Dr.Aoi along with many others are still hostages but Keiji says that right 
now the Professors and mechanics still has worth to work on Macross since 
they're the most that knows about Macross. Even if Federation scientists were 
handed their works, they probably can't understand it in so short a time but 
once work on the Macross is done, their worth is gone and they'll be disposed 
of.

Sheila wants to go with the team since with both Goraon and Gea Garring gone, 
the playing field has changed and Drake will make a move with the Weil Wisp. 
Shou agrees noting that Drake isn't a person that is satisfied working for 
the Federation and that once he decides to target the Gran Garran, the final 
confrontation will happen.

Jibril is very angry and has decided to use his full Ascalon fleet, the 
remaining Destroy and the Macross to wipe out those dirty Coordinators in 
their colonies once and for all but when he tries to contact the Macross, he 
cannot access the Comm.Line and when he tries to activate the Ascalon, his 
password is not recognized and he realized that he's been betrayed by 
Yukimura. Jibril then note that he can still win if he can reach that thing 
on the Moon.

Meanwhile Drake is also headed to A3 Island; he has decided to cut ties with 
the Federation and joins with Yukimura. Yukimura welcomes Drake and Shott 
fills him in on the Macross. Yukimura asks why Drake wants to join force with 
him and Drake says that he wanted to see the sea of stars before saying that 
he's joking. Drake says that he cuts ties from the Feds because there's no 
need for them any longer. He will decide things with Sheila and the Gran 
Garran to see if this is the path he will continue on, the path of the 
conqueror. Yukimura note "How boring, why is he so focused on a ruling a 
world that is going to be destroyed"

Yukimura then tells Pops and the other mechanics to hurry it up with the 
Macross's repair and when told that they are overworked, Yukimura threatens 
to kill the civilian hostages that are unimportant to fixing Macross.

At the Minerva, Athrun has Mylene hack into Dulandal's personal communication 
line wanting to determine the Chairman's true motive and intent. He apologize 
to Mylene for asking her to do this but Mylene says it's ok, she's not a 
hotshot like her big sister who can vow Athrun with her fighting skill so for 
Athrun to ask her, she's quite honoured. Athrun says that if they get caught, 
the official excuse for her is that he forced her at gunpoint to do this.

They come across a conversation between Dulandal and Scirocco discussing the 
plan. Athrun and Mylene know who Scirocco is and is shocked to hear Dulandal 
conversing with him like a partner. Scirocco says that if the plan succeeds, 
geniuses will not have to be mistreated by idiots running the world again. 
Dulandal says that Scirocco is a vital part of the plan and praises him for 
being nature's answer to Coordinator, a Newtype. Scirocco says that for the 
plan to succeed, more people will have to die, the number is in the millions 
and Dulandal says that it's a necessary sacrifice since they're working to 
save humanity. Scirocco suddenly realizes that they have a hacker listening 
in and Athrun realizes that he has to get away.  

Elsewhere on the Minerva, Luna Maria is admiring the new Destiny Gundam and 
Legend Gundam that Dulandal personally bestow on Shin and Rey. Shin is miffed, 
what the heck is Athrun so down about since right now they have to pull 
together to work for a better future like the chairman says. Rey suddenly 
comes in and tells Shin to deploy in the Destiny while he takes the Legend, a 
spy has been found and he's escaped, the spy is Athrun Zala. This shocks Shin 
quite a lot.

The A4 team meanwhile is headed for A3 Island. Valentina note that the Weil 
Wisp is headed straight for them out at sea so it's best to select a team to 
fight it while the rest go on ahead and secure A3 Island.  Cagalli asks who 
the heck took her Strike Rouge and Neo's voice comes in saying "It's me, let 
me borrow this" Valentina asks if he's trying to escape and Neo says that 
it's fine that they don't trust him, he was the Federation's underling but he 
really doesn't like the man at A3 island i.e. he wants to settle a few score. 
Still they'll be glad to have him since they'll win because he's the man who 
makes the impossible possible. Hearing this, Murrue is again reminded of Mwu.

Near the area that Gran Garran is preparing to take on the Weil Wisp, Athrun 
is in a Gouf being chased by Shin and Rey in their new MS. Shin ask why 
Athrun is doing this and Athrun tells Shin to stop and get out himself though 
Rey says that this is truly pitiful for Athrun. Athrun says that what Rey and 
Dulandal are doing might be right but it'll end up killing the world though 
Rey tells Shin not to listen. Shin tells Athrun to surrender and not betray 
them and Athrun says that at least allow Mylene to surrender since he forced 
her to do this but Rey says that she's as guilty and expendable and strings 
along a hesitant Shin saying that Shin once said he'd fight anyone for peace 
right? It's time to be true to his word.

Shou and the others picked up on the Gouf being chased and wonder why they're 
splitting. Kira says that he'll contact them and finds Athrun as the pilot. 
Athrun is relieved that Kira is all right and wants the Archangel to grant 
asylum to Mylene. Shou says that this place is about to be a battlefield and 
that Athrun has to get into the Gran Garran and hope for the best. Athrun 
agrees to do that and the team rushes to tackle the Destiny and Legend. 

Rey note that the two of them are outnumbered and tells Shin to retreat as 
the Weil Wisp also comes in along with AB troops. The Black Knight tries to 
kill Shou as usual and is downed. He says that he can't die here. Drake is 
informed that Shott opt to remain on the island and note that Shott has 
decide to abandon him which is fine, he'll take care of Sheila first.

The battle rages on and Sheila note that they should target the Weil Wisp and 
ignore the AB troops since they are too numerous. The team attacks and 
manages to down the Weil Wisp. As the Weil Wisp explodes and sank to the sea, 
Drake muse that he really DID want to see the stars before he dies.

Shou tells the other that he and Marbel can take care of things here and for 
the others to head for A3 Island.

Meanwhile on A3 Island, Shott tells Muzie that Drake is finished for giving 
in to the impulse of wanting to settle the score with Sheila. He is given two 
Ascalon by Yukimura to help out. Shott note that the similarity between the 
Ascalon and the Aura Battlers are huge and that he will one day create a 
hybrid between them that will become unbeatable.

The A4 team arrives and put a permanent stop to his ambition killing Muzie 
and him and also beating the two Ascalon to a pulp. Yukimura note that it's 
too bad since Shott would have made a good partner. Suddenly however, there 
is an energy reaction that is the same as the Macross's and Valentina note 
that it's the aliens, the giants who reportedly own the Macross are here. 
Gloval tells Yukimura that the time to fight each other is over and that 
humanity must unite against these aliens though Yukimura says that it's not 
his problem though he might have to change his schedule a bit.

The team manages to defeat the alien's machine and surrounds the Macross. 
Meanwhile at the Campbell flying base, Valkymedes is quite shocked at the 
alien's appearance saying that they are from the Giant race whom ancient 
Campbellian had fought before 12,000 years ago and as a result, the Emperor 
then ordered the Campbell space fleet to not engage them for fear of another 
war with them. 

Janella says that she is the current Empress and her word is law, what this 
means is that ProtoCulture is definitely on this planet and they won't let 
them have it.

At the wreckage of the Weil Wisp, Marbel tells Shou that it's over but Shou 
says that there are other evil auras, the Black Knight is still alive and if 
they don't deal with him then it will engulf the world. Sheila tells Shou 
that the Gran Garran is ok and they can make it to A3 Island.

At the surrounded Macross, Fokker note that other hostages on the island and 
all facilities has been free and taken back, the only one remaining is the 
Macross and the people on it. Shinobu says that they better get that Yukimura 
guy to come out and surrender though Sarah says that Shinobu isn't the one to 
do it or it'll turn into a police drama. Fokker then speaks up and Shinobu 
note that it's not at all different from what he'd do. Gloval then 
communicates to them telling them to get clear since the Macross will launch.

Kooji wants to prevent the launch by crippling the engine but Shizuru tells 
him that Yukimura still has hostages.A4 is forced to helplessly watch the 
Macross launch with Yukimura at the helm and Yukimura tells Misa and Claudia 
to open a communication line to Axis and Haman Khan.


Episode 26

Fokker tells Hikaru that they've got to hurry up and put these Booster Packs 
for the Valkyries onto the Aoutmura so that it can take off. (They'll attach 
it during the Aoutmura's flight to their intended destination) The Booster 
Packs are so that the Valkyries will be spaceworthy since they're going after 
the Macross; they've even got one for Kudo's Valkyrie. 

Zech has a reunion with Noin and he asks if Noin wants to come with him but 
Noin says that maybe before she would have jumped at the chance but right now 
she'd only be a hindrance in an MS fight. She will continue to work in A3 to 
help Zech; they'll be needing information on Earth if they're going into 
space. Zech says that even if they are far apart, they are together in spirit.

Athrun has a reunion with Cagalli and he talks about why he went back to ZAFT 
and all and she talks about how she almost got married to that doofus Yuna 
for Orb's sake.  Sally reassures Athrun that Mylene will be taken care of. 
Right now she'll be sent to assist the professors in Japan with research.

Neo remembers the name Mwu La Fraga as being the one on the memory alteration 
list and starts to put two and two together muttering "Oh crap" He tells 
Murrue about his personal information that he remembers but says that he's 
not so sure anymore whether they're really his memory or not and if it's not 
a bother, could he stay here with her? Murrue agrees to let Neo stays.

Meanwhile in space, Lacus and Bartfield note that the Macross has not yet 
made it out into space, it's within Earth's orbit and A4 must use this chance 
to follow soon, they need to get the information they found out toA4. However 
they're in ZAFT territory so any communication by the Eternal is sure to be 
picked up and ZAFT will send a platoon after them. Lacus makes a decision to 
send the info anyway since they can hopefully distract ZAFT from the Macross 
and A4 is the hope that they cannot lose.

Back at the Archangel/Aoutmura, they're flying to Orb since the HLV shuttles 
on A3 island are destroyed, they can't go out into space easily so they're 
going to use Orb's Mass Driver to launch the team into space, though the 
Archangel will not be going (i.e. too much time needed to prep for space) 
after taking back the Macross, the team will rendezvous with the Agama. 
Camille hopes that Lacus is ok and Kira note that she gave them intelligence 
info that they need to follow up on but he's still worried about her side.

Cagalli contacted Orb and is greeted by Yuna. Yuna asks if Cagalli's come 
back to him, they both need to get away into space; she has to come with him. 
Cagalli asks if Yuna recognize her officially as Cagalli, the daughter of the 
late Uzumi and Chairman of Orb and Yuna says he does. Cagalli then orders the 
Orb soliders nearby to arrest this doofus for the war crime of entering Orb 
into a needless war. The Orb soliders happily comply.

Meanwhile Ban Burning awokes inside the Macross, Yukimura tells him that he 
picked him up and Ban says that he wants to settle the score with Shou and A4. 
Yukimura says that A4 will be here soon and  there are some leftover Aura 
Battler troops that are willing to follow him though Ban's body isn't exactly 
that combat ready though there's a way even though there's a risk involve.

Yukimura says that if Ban allows himself to use the Ascalon's Celestial 
Reactor to bring out all his brain and body's full power, then he will be 
granted great power though if he's unlucky he'll be brain dead. Ban doesn't 
care and tells Yukimura to do it.

Back at Orb, Kisaga brings Cagalli to a storage hangar and shows her the 
Akatsuki along with the message her late father Uzumi had for her to use the 
Akatsuki to protects Orb and the people dear to her. Cagalli cries as his 
message dies out and she then compose herself asking Neo if he wants to fight 
by their side on the Archangel. Neo says yes though he doesn't get what 
Cagalli wants to say.

Cagalli continues that though it is a part of A4, Archangel is Orb's ship 
originally so if he is cooperating with the ship, it automatically means that 
he is a solider of Orb and she leaves the Akatsuki to him. Neo then ask "Are 
you sure? I mean, I'm originally a Federation solider, I attacked Orb" 
Cagalli counters "You might not remember or know but I know you or who you 
were once, I think I can trust you"

Cagalli tells Kira and Athrun that she has things to do here and people to 
take care of. Athrun says that it's ok; they're still together in spirit as 
long as their dream is the same. Neo also apologize to Murrue, he said that 
he wants to be with her but he has to go to space now. Murrue reiterate what 
Athrun just said to Neo

Suddenly the others come in reporting that the Eternal is being pursued by 
ZAFT forces and Kira asks Cagalli for the Strike Rouge, he'll go to help 
Lacus. Athrun says that he'll go with Kira too in the Gouf. If Plant is wrong 
then only Lacus stands a chance of setting it right like Cagalli does with 
Orb.

Shinobu says that they can't spare forces to go help the Eternal so it'll 
only be Kira and Athrun.

Valentina brief the team that the team going to the Macross will probably 
face Ascalon also so it's better to be prepared and Shou asks to be put into 
that team since he knows Ban Burning is there waiting to settle the score 
with him.

The team ascended to the atmosphere and Valentina note that ZAFT and Titans 
forces are also attacking the Macross wanting to claim it as their own. Aura 
Battler forces led by Ban Burning are also deploying from the Macross 
targeting them.

Shou tackles Ban and note that his power has increased exponentially even 
without going Hyper and Ban says that his hatred for Shou grant him great 
power.Shou says that is the wrong way to use Aura power. Ban says that he 
doesn't need Hyper anymore since his hatred will continue to grant him power.  
Charm tells Shou that she will lend him her power too and Shou tackles Ban 
finally killing him.

Shou thanks Charm, if he'd face Ban alone, he would have been engulfed by the 
swirl of hatred.

Meanwhile the mechanics, Minmei, and many other people have been locked into 
a room by Yukimura and they wonder what's going on. The mechanic manages to 
tap into the communication line and they hear Hikaru and the A4 team's voice. 
Minmei is ecstatic that Hikaru is coming to rescue her. Yukimura then tells 
the Ascalon 02 to go out and play and though he is alone, he tells Gloval and 
the others not to make a funny move or he'll detonate the bomb he placed 
where the mechanics and the others are being kept.

During the battle against the Ascalon, the alien forces also arrive. Hatsuki 
tells Yukimura that the Ascalon seems to be underperforming against all the 
threats and Yukimura tells the pilot to go for broke and self destruct taking 
with him as much as he can. Gloval asks why Yukimura is treating his solider 
like this and Yukimura says that it's HIS solider so Gloval doesn't have the 
right to complain.

The team defeats the Ascalon before the self destruct and Yukimura's Ascalon 
fly out of the Macross and makes his get away. Misa tells the team not to 
follow since Yukimura still has the detonator for the bomb with him. They're 
in the midst of defusing the bomb right now.

Meanwhile at the Eternal's location, Bartfield is surprised to see the 
Strike(Rouge) coming to aid them. Kira shouted "Let's go Athrun" and the 
dynamic duo engage the ZAFT forces. The two manage to defeat the pursuing 
ZAFT forces but Bartfield says that a second wave is coming and for them to 
come get their MS on the Eternal.

The second ZAFT forces arrive only to be greeted by the new Strike Freedom 
and Infinite Justice. They defeat the ZAFT forces and Kira note that with 
this he can fight again and that they should return to where their friends 
are.

At the Daidalos base, Scirocco and Dulandal are talking, Scirocco learn of 
the defeat at the Macross and Dulandal note that with the aliens here, he 
hope the plan will proceed in time. Dulandal console Scirocco saying that his 
side also met with defeat, it seems the singing princess has quite the strong 
luck. Scirocco says that he did tell Dulandal that a woman will be the 
world's ruler after the war and Dulandal retorted that that's not funny. 
Scirocco agrees saying that they better take care of her quick.
Scirocco then says that his guest is here so he'll break off transmission and 
he'll proceed with the plan. Scirocco then went and greets Lord Jibril.

At the Macross, Minmei has a reunion with Hikaru and note that her hair's a 
mess, Hikaru ask what's more important to her, her hair or her life to which 
she casually replies that her hair's more important.

Pops also see Godannar, Go Okusa and G-Gunner here and ask what the heck did 
Gou and Anna think bringing it and them on this mission since these units 
weren't meant to be used in space. Gou and Anna say almost jokingly that they 
thought the situation might deteriorate to the point that they have to 
infiltrate the Macross and they could use them here. 

Marbel tells Shou that it truly is finally over and Shou says that it is 
though there are still plenty of evil auras left and with no way to return to 
Byston Well, he will continue to fight alongside the team. Marbel ask if Shou 
wants to return to Byston Well, she thought he'd want to remain on upper 
Earth. Shou asks about Marbel and she says that she wants to go back too.

The Macross is ok and Claudia asks Gloval not to smoke though Gloval says 
that he only is just putting the pipe in his mouth for feelings. Gloval then 
asks about the alien mothership that is sending these battle droid to attack 
them and Misa says that they're beyond the moon and the radar can't catch 
them properly yet.

Gloval muse that Macross was converted to let people in and become a warship 
after they found it all for this day that it's owner might come to take it 
back and now this day is truly here.

Meanwhile Shinobu and Anna asks why Prof.Hatsuki and mommy dearest is having 
a long face and Dr. Aoi says that she's thinking about Yukimura. Neo says 
that he remembers that Yukimura is tied with Logos but he's not even sure if 
Juuichiro Yukimura is his true name since all his data were erased from the 
Federation databank when Neo tried to find out about Yukimura.

Duo note that like the Wing boys, Yukimura does not officially exist. Neo 
then says that the only thing he found on Yukimura was on a local network; it 
seemed that he might have been a Federation doctor researching on the brain. 
Wufei note that this is something that they can give to Sally and Noin who is 
hunting for Dr. Soga back on Earth to work with to determine Yukimura's 
identity.

The Agama has arrived and Bright welcomes Kira and Athrun on board. Athrun 
says that he heard a lot about the famous Captain Bright Noah but Bright says 
that he's not as famous as Kira and Athrun who were instrumental at the 
battle of Yakin Due. In fact he believes that Kira, Athrun and Amuro are more 
famous than him. Amuro says that without Bright, he'd be dead seven years ago 
in the One Year War and Bright muse that the Feds didn't respond kindly to </pre><pre id="faqspan-6">
them after the war, housearresting Amuro and transferring him to captain a 
transport ship and all but they're still alive. Amuro then joke that he's not 
planning on getting the "Bright Slap"(trademarked) anytime soon. (That is 
reserved for Shin)

Bright then asks where the Eternal is and Athrun says that the Eternal is 
going back to hiding itself and gathering information for the team and Bright 
note that it's a pity since he did want to fight together alongside them. 
Camille asks Bright about the situation in space and Bright says that the 
alien's appearance has temporarily halted the fighting between the Federation 
and ZAFT but they're going at it again and Quattor note that it's since they 
deem that the aliens aren't a big enough threat to them. Amuro is sadden that 
people can't get their head straight

Camille then looks on the monitor and saw something huge is coming. Elsewhere 
at Plant, Axis and at the Daidalos base, Dulandal, Haman and Scirocco also 
are informed of the same thing as the giant ship of the alien arrives. It is 
much bigger than the Macross and headed straight for it.

Gloval tells Misa and Claudia to have the Agama get in range at once since 
they will use the Fold function on the Macross to warp away; they cannot 
fight it right now. Hikaru says that if they run, the aliens will target 
Earth but the others say that their target is Macross from the previous 
experience. Hikaru wonder if they want to take back the ship but Hatsuki says 
that all they have on these alien is that they use the same type of energy 
generator as the Macross, their ship is different so it might be a different 
race.

The Macross and the Agama fold out and the inhabitant of the giant ship, 
Freedai and Exceldore comment on what they've found out from their probe, the 
enemy is not woman but micron size being. They need to collect a sample.


Episode 27

Dearka and Yzak are checking out movements that they detected at an abandoned 
colony. Yzak note that they recorded that it changed course a bit, it could 
be that Logos is up to something. Dearka note that most of the Logos members 
in the Feds base have been arrested but Yzak says that the most dangerous one, 
Lord Jibril, is free. Dearka, however, is more worried about the aliens but 
Yzak says that the top up don't think so.

They see a light and see the Macross/ Agama warp out. Gloval is told that 
they are near the L5 colonies/ debris. Claudia then tells Gloval that the 
Fold machine isn't here and Misa says that it alone must have warped out into 
deep space. Without it they can't fold again. Yzak note that A4 must have 
taken the Macross back after it was reported to have fallen into Federation 
hands. Dearka say that they better report back to their higher up but Yzak 
note that Axis forces are here.

Haman contacted the Macross and say that this location is different than the 
one they agreed on and she wants an expalanation. Bright notes that Yukimura 
must had made a deal with Axis regarding the Macross. Quattro asks to answer 
and Haman is shock to hear his voice and note that AEUG must have taken back 
the Macross. Quattro says that is correct so would she go away? Haman says 
that there's no need, she originally planned to negotiate with A4 but 
Yukimura changed the plan a little so now that they have the Macross back, 
she's back to her original plan.

Haman wants to form an alliance with them to beat the alien; she wants to 
unite all humanity against them. Quattro says that it sounds good at first 
glance but just WHO is going to lead the unified human, Haman plans to put 
the Zabi family there and thus indirectly herself there; isn't she? In the 
end it's all about reviving the Zabi family for her. Haman says she won't 
deny it, people born to lead must lead but she'll allow A4 to be part of the 
leadership.

Fokker asks if she plans to use Aforce against the alien while they use the 
Macross and Haman says that's correct, they will bring the world to the right 
path which is why she sends them Kudo Shin, her messenger boy, to tell A3/A4 
that they have Aforce to use against them. Kudo is peeved that he was used as 
a tool and says that Haman don't how dangerous Aforce or the Birdman is. 
Haman dismiss that belief saying that Aforce is nothing more than a tool like 
the Macross and tools must be used. Gloval tells her not to be crazy, they 
can't control that thing.

Haman says that they have the Psycommu System that Zeon originated which is 
far greater than anything the Federation has; they can use it to communicate 
with it and bend it to their will. Quattro tells her that Aforce is an 
ancient thing that is beyond human, what makes her think she can do it? Haman 
retort that the woman inside, Sara Nohm, is quite human and they have a 
control system for her. Kudo gets quite incensed at this and Haman tells them 
she will give them time to consider whether they will join Axis in fighting 
the alien and uniting humanity or continue the fight amongst humanity.

Shinobu note that it's one crisis after another and Ryou says that one good 
thing is that they can finally fully trust Quattro since he is not interested 
in reviving the Zabi.Quattro says that he's not related to the Zabi but 
what's more important is Haman's choice. Kira says that if they took her 
option, they will cease to be A4 in ideology. Hayato wonder if Axis can truly 
control Aforce and Ryouma think that the system might not be complete and 
Kouji think that if that's true then Haman is bluffing her hands though 
Kosuke note that they don't know Axis technology, maybe they're not and they 
CAN control it.

Hikaru asks Kudo for his opinion since he's the one with the most experience 
with it and Kudo says that Sara did join with Aforce/ Birdman but the one 
fighting isn't Sara's will. When he got near it 2 years ago, Sara awakened 
and the fighting stopped. Fokker note that that means the Birdman was 
fighting on its own volition so Axis has it all wrong. Kudo says that's right, 
even when Sara awoke or even if she were to be controlled, it has no effect 
on the Birdman's will and if Axis handles her badly trying to control her 
then the nightmare of two years ago might return.

Max ask what their decision is then and Fokker says that it's unanimous with 
Kudo saying that Sara is inside it  and Haman said that Sara was a tool, she 
looked down on Sara, he can't do that. Bright then ask for Gloval and Lady 
Une's decision and Lady Une says that A4 is independent from A3 now so they 
don't need permission but Bright then says that he wants to know what A3's 
official position will be and Gloval says to prep each unit to combat Axis 
forces.

At the hangar, Pops and the other mechanics have finally made the Dannar 
units workable in space using parts from the Macross. Gou is ecstatic noting 
that they won't have to feel like luggage anymore in space battle. Haman is 
told by her underlings that A3/A4 has decided to fight them.

Valentina tells the team as they deploy that Haman's ship is readying its 
cannon so once she gives the signal that it's about to fire, the team should 
find some asteroid to hide behind.

The battle begins and during the fight, Valentina note that there are two 
ZAFT units there. Athrun heads for them and is surprised that it's Yzak and 
Dearka that's the pilot. Yzak is equally surprised asking why Athrun is with 
A4. Yzak then tells Dearka that they have to retreat, they're not here to 
fight (which is a step up from his SEED incarnation that is always eager for 
a fight with youknowwho who's also in this battle.)

Haman says that she will show them the true power of the Psycommu System 
equipped unit but after some quick fight, she decides to retreat saying that 
they'll regret picking a fight with Axis. The team tries to follow Axis 
forces but they disappeared quickly and Quattro note that weaving/navigating 
through asteroids is like 2nd nature to them after having lived all those 
years in Axis after losing the One Year War.

Back at the ship, Athrun wonders if Aforce isn't located at Axis itself 
though Kira is doubtful of that noting that if they know how dangerous it is, 
they'll probably want to place it elsewhere far away from them in case 
there's trouble with it. Gloval notes that they will have to do recon work 
for a while.

Misa suddenly note that the abandoned colony has begun tilting at an angle 
and Valentina note that a large energy output is headed their way. Nearby, 
Yzak and Dearka notice the light and see a giant beam of energy change its 
angle heading for the Macross.

Five minutes ago at the moon base Daidalos; Jibril has ordered his secret 
weapon, Requiem to fire on the main ZAFT colony, Applius. He then asks if 
they can fire so that it hits the Macross along the way as well and Scirocco 
says it can. A Titans solider then asks Jibril if it won't be better if they 
get rid of the alien ship with the first shot first instead of the Macross. 
Scirocco tells Jibril that it's understandable since without the Macross, 
they have lower defense against the alien but Jibril says that they lived in 
fear of these aliens for 10 years and when the time came, only one stupid 
ship arrived, with the Requiem, they no longer need fear it or need the 
Macross; he'll destroy it with the Requiem's 2nd shot. Jibril then orders the 
Requiem to fire.

Back in the present, the giant beam of energy completely missed the Macross 
but hits and destroyed the Plant colony of Yamearius and Desenbel instead.

Episode 28

Jibril demands to know why they missed the Macross/ Applius colony and 
aTitans troop tells him that there seems to be an unknown factor in the 
targeting software resulting in the miscalculation. Jibril tells them to find 
the problem and fix it before they fire their second shot. Scirocco smirks at 
this.

Meanwhile the Minerva learns of the destructions ofYamearius and Desenbel 
along with the millions of Coordinators dead from it. Shin is extremely 
furious and says that they have to go stop it but Rey says that it's 
impossible since they're too far away. The battle with Logos troops have ate 
up too much time. The only one in position to do anything about it is A4 
which makes Shin absolutely furious at having to rely on an enemy and Rey 
wonders if Gilbert (Dulandal) predicted this but even if so he'll stand 
behind Gilbert to the end.

Everyone at A4 is angry at the destruction and death with Shinobu telling 
Keiji that he doesn't have to say anything since they all feel the same thing. 
Athrun feels like this is the time with Genesis and Emma wonders where they 
got the energy source for this thing. Valentina says that it's probably from 
A3's Megaroad Project on the moon that the Titans forcefully took over during 
the Cosmo base incident.

Tetsuya note that they can't let this go and while Haman is a problem this 
one can't wait. Both Kira and Athrun note that if this thing fired again, 
it's the end for them and all of Plant with Gloval noting that they're the 
only one in position to do something.

At the Moon Base Daidalos, Jibril is fuming that the energy charge is taking 
too long but the Titans troops say that they're not too proficient with 
utilizing the pulse engine like A3. Jibril asks where Scirocco is going and 
Scirocco says that he's deploying to stop A4 since they will certainly come 
here. Jibril tells him to do that and this time he'll destroy Applius. 
Scirocco smiles to himself thinking that no matter how many times Jibril 
tries it it won't hit Applius since there's a program he installed to make it 
always miss. Scirocco note that it's quite lucky Jibril tries to hit the 
Macross and the Applius together since if he only targets the Macross then 
it'll be destroyed and he still needs that ship to use as his own flagship 
one day. The important thing is that Logos has publicly fired a WMD on Plant 
and succeeds, the path is set. The only interference with the Destiny Plan is 
A4 and Lacus Kline. With them gone things will move accordingly to plan.

A4 arrives on the Moon base and the plan is to open the shutter so that a 
team can go inside the base and destroy the control panel. They'll need 
another team to tackle the Titans/ Fed forces that's on the on the Moon 
surface. Scirocco has allowed Yazan and his troops along with Sting in his 
own Destroy Gundam leading a fleet of Destroys to deploy on the Moon surface. 
The moon surface battle begins and Neo confronts Sting recognizing him.  Neo 
tells Sting to stop, both Aul and Stella are already dead and he doesn't have 
to waste his life like this. Sting demands to know how Neo knew him and Neo 
shouted that it's him, he's the leader of the Phantom Pein group.  Sting then 
ask what gibberish Neo's talking about, Phantom Pein is his codename and he 
works alone. Neo noted "I see... ANOTHER memory modification. I'm sorry Sting; 
the only way to release you from this is to kill you. This is my crime." 
Sting and Yazan are killed.

Meanwhile inside, the infiltration team runs into Scirocco as they head for 
the control panel. Scirocco shouted that in order to create history, there 
needs to be necessary deaths and history as a ship needs a helmsman, someone 
to steer it. Camille shouted that Scirocco is wrong and says that people's 
soul needs to be release from the Earth's gravity (and all such nonsense) In 
order to achieve a goal by allowing innocents to die is wrong. Scirocco says 
that he isn't going to be moved by this feeling for life. Camille then 
shouted that an Earth where people don't care about other's feelings has no 
worth though Scirocco retorted that an Earth where those idiots hinders a 
genius is worthless, only geniuses can move the Earth and feelings will only 
allow the Earth to go to ruins. Camille again retorts that Scirocco is wrong. 

Scirocco tells Char that Char had chosen the wrong path, Newtypes like him 
have a different destiny and Quattro says that the battle isn't over. 
Meanwhile another team has nearly reached the control center and Scirocco 
rush back to defend it. Camille and Quattro follows with Camille shouting 
"Are you running away, your ego blinds you to even the truth in front of you" 
which riles up Scirocco who shouted that a kid like Camille isn't worth 
debating to and don't think he'll win that easily. Scirocco tells Char that 
the awakening of humanity that Char wishes to see will be made a reality by 
his hands though Quattro reminds him that this way won't accomplish anything 
though Scirocco dismissed him saying that because humanity had such a lousy 
helmsman that it's lead to differences and war.  Scirocco continues "Only he 
and I who are geniuses can correct this world into the right path" Camille 
asks if Scirocco means Lord Jibril but Scirocco says that Jibril is the Lord 
of idiots, he doesn't care for that idiot's life but this base is necessary 
and he won't let them destroy it. Camille then shouts that someone like 
Scirocco must be finished off even if it cost him his life or more.

Jibril is extremely scared now that A4 has infiltrate the control center and 
screams when one of your team smashes the control room that he's in to bits 
killing him. Scirocco noted that while the control room is destroyed; The O 
still has a backup in it which he can use to repair the room after he 
finishes them off. However Scirocco is finished off by a Z (just not a Z 
Gundam in my game but Mazinger Z so no additional cut in with Camille) 
Scirocco says that he won't die, he will live on forever as humanity's 
greatest saviour.

Back at Applius, Dulandal thanks Jibril for his unwitting contribution and 
good riddance forever. He tells Scirocco to rest in peace and note that Talia 
and Krueze has both left him behind and now so had Scirocco. He continues 
telling Scirocco that he will keep his part of the bargain.

Back at the Moonbase, Bright have all the MS/ Super Robots recovered and is 
ready to vamoose out of here. He tells Amuro and Emma who wonders why they 
have to run so quick is because ZAFT forces are coming here and they don't 
seem to be changing their tune as to their stance on A4. They're not going to 
let the world know that A4 took care of this problem since they want to claim 
it as their own victory because they've used Logos for their own propaganda. 
Amuro note that ZAFT won't let them clear their name that easily.

As the Agama departs, they note that the Minerva is approaching and within 
firing distance. Rey urges Talia to fire the cannon and hit them from behind 
since they're the enemy and the order to sink them is still in effect though 
Talia isn't going to allow it noting that they've been both allies, enemies 
and now they seem to owe them one, it's quite a strange relationship. Rey 
asks if she's ignoring Gilbert's order and Talia says that this is different 
and for the Minerva to head towards the Daidalos base.

Back at the Agama, Zechs note that it looks like the Minerva is ignoring them 
and Ayato note that that's probably because they just saved Coordinatorkind 
from extinction though Elvy says that she wouldn't have been surprised if 
they did attack since they are enemies and this is what soliders do in war. 
No quarters asked and given. Ayato then says that he never wants to be a 
solider and Elvy says that she won't let him be one even if he wants to.

Camille notes that Spacenoid/ Earthnoid and Coordinators/ Naturals, they're 
all humans in the end, they're the same but people like Scirocco and Logos 
are the one that creates the difference and wants war.

Athrun then tells everyone "About the person Scirocco was talking about, it's 
probably Chairman Dulandal of ZAFT." Quattro asks to hear more and Athrun 
relate what happened with him and Meilyn listening in on their private 
comm.line. Zech notes that it is weird, if they are allies, why did Scirocco 
allows the firing on Plant? There are millions dead. Shou wonders if there's 
a double cross though Athrun doesn't think so. Kira then asks if Athrun is 
suggesting that the Plants being destroyed, millions were killed as part of 
Dulandal's plan. He finds that hard to believe and Athrun says that it's hard 
to believe for him too. Camille wonder if this has anything to do with what 
Scirocco is referring to about humanity's helmsman who will steer humanity's 
path.

Duo note as the Wing boys are heading towards a meeting with Gou and 
Valentina that their activities this time weren't known to the public and 
Trowa adds that ZAFT took credit for all of it. Quatre note that the problem 
is that Plant is now seen as a victim again and with their win over Logos, 
they've got tremendous support built up worldwide from the citizens of the 
world to those in high places. Duo wonder if this is their objective and 
Heero note that it's very possible since there is no better way to control 
gratitude and sentiment. Wufei doesn't care since their purpose is to protect 
the weak and not for gratitude. Quatre says that though it is true, this also 
means that support for them is dwindling and if this continues. Wufei says 
that he doesn't care since they still have Axis and the aliens to deal with. 
Duo adds in Yukimura as well.

Gou note that seeing all five of the Wing boys together is quite rare and Duo 
says that it sure is, he and Quatre are regulars amongst the crowd but the 
other three are hard to see mingle with anybody. Gou and Valentina then tell 
them that Sally has made progress on the investigation on Yukimura. Sarah 
says that her friend's memory has gradually return of the time she was 
possessed by Muge and she's managed to recover data and transmission logs 
from the Japan Internal Affair computers of her dealing with Yukimura. As 
suspected, he was the chief planner of their scandal in the U2 incident and 
head of Logos' Nemesis project and head of the plan to take down Macross. 
Keiji note that Yukimura is the one behind everyone's suffering and Shinobu 
note that he's probably planning something even now. 

Gloval cuts in with a transmission and ask everyone to say a silent prayer 
for those innocents who lost their lives in the destroyed Plant colony and 
those in Europe, the U2 Area and that they must continue to fight even harder 
to put an end to it.

Episode 29

At the hangar, Anna is running to meet a rendezvous with Hikaru for a recon 
flight on Axis's Aforce. She grumbles that her mother keeps telling her to do 
the job right and on the way has to refuse others as they asked for her help 
or advice on other stuffs. She arrives only to find Hikaru gone already.

In the recon flight, Hikaru tries to strike a conversation with "Anna" about 
her marriage and such only to find out that it's Minmei who snucked aboard  
pretending to be Anna.

Hikaru says that they'll have to turn back but Minmei says she can help 
Hikaru do this though it's apparent she can't. They chit chat for a while 
before Minmei gives Hikaru a Minmei Doll. It was supposed to be a freebie for 
those who attended her concert on A3 Island but it got cancelled thanks to 
Yukimura and the Feds taking over A3 Island.

This got interrupted by Misa who followed with Kaifun, Minmei's older brother 
and her manager along with Anna and Gou in a transport ship. Misa tells 
Minmei who tried to hide that she knows she's there and Anna grumbles to 
Minmei that this was supposed to be her job and Gou ask if she's that 
desperate to go with another man to which Anna giggles and asks Gou if he's 
jealous? Gou retorted, with an embarrassed face "Of course not, stupid" and 
Anna retort "Who's stupid? You stupid."

Kaifun then tells Hikaru that he won't get off lightly for this and if 
anything happens to Minmei then... Hikaru says he understand and tells Minmei 
that they better go home but suddenly Misa shouts to Hikaru and Hikaru see 
the alien mechs attacking. Hikaru tells everyone to hang on and gets ready to 
fight only to find out that this Valkyries has no weapon (Which is stupid, I 
mean a recon Valk SHOULD have weapon for self defense, in the original 
Macross, Hikaru WAS joyriding with Minmei on a date (on a personal Valk I 
believe)so that's understandable)

He is saved by Fokker who one shot the aliens and Hikaru asked if his senpai 
is drunk. Fokker says that if one is scared to get drunk, they won't be able 
to fight and he tells Hikaru to watch as he, the drunk driving and dangerous 
Fokker, one shot all the alien mech. However he's lost for word when the 
mothership arrives to take them all hostage.

Back at the Macross, Lady Une and the others note that they've lost contact 
with the twoValks and Misa's ship. From what Dr. Aoi found from the last 
transmission, the aliens have taken them. Claudia wants to send a rescue 
force after them though Gloval says they have no chance of winning head on 
but Valentina speaks up saying that they have A4 and they are fated to fight 
the aliens, this is their best shot since it's just one ship instead of a 
fleet. Her plan is to use the Agama while the Macross stays here and Lady Une 
and Dr. Aoi also agree. Seeing that he's outvoted, Gloval tells Valentina to 
go ahead with the plan.

Meanwhile on board the alien ship that we can now called the Zentradi, the 
Zentradi soliders are quite scared of the Minmei doll to the point that they 
put a force field around it. The interrogation by Freedai and Exedore isn't 
going smoothly either since they are shocked and marveled by why humans are 
born Micron and male and female isn't fighting each other. Misa note that 
their culture must be different from humans and says that they are born this 
way. Exedore ask if born is akin to being created and Fokker says that it's 
like that but male and female have to "help" each other create new life. 
Fokker also says that instead of fighting, its better that they kiss and make 
out with female and give a live example sweeping Misa off her feet. Again 
shock and marvel comes from Freedai and Exedore who then tells the seven to 
demonstrate a kiss. 

Anna says that this is where hubby and wife will shine to which Gou 
embarrassingly says that there are people watching, they can't just kiss in 
front of people. Anna says she doesn't mine to which Gou retort "Well, I do... 
kissing is...when we're together alone." Fokker laughs and says that he didn't 
think Gou'd be THIS shy so HE'LL do it with Anna to which Gou then retort "If 
you do, I  SWEAR I'll really be furious at you" (That's my woman) Fokker asks 
Misa to cooperate to which she says something akin to it being a cold day in 
hell. In the end to pacify Freedai and Exedore, Kafun has Minmei cooperate 
and kiss him. Minmei isn't exactly thrilled to lose her first kiss to her 
brother though. This sends Freedai and Exedore over the edge and they note 
that they must separate these two samples from the rest and return with them 
back to headquarter post haste. The others can wait and are placed elsewhere.

The five then contemplate as to why they are so excited by a kiss to which 
Misa then thinks that maybe in their race, male and female are at war. Gou 
note that he hasn't seen any female alien in here at all to which Anna then 
wonders if it's a decade long lover's spat to which Gou says that's not it. 
Fokker says that's not important, they have to find a way to rescue Minmei 
and her brother, they know where their stuff are kept at but how to get to it 
without alerting the Zentradi troops is another thing, they don't have any 
weapon to use. Hikaru then says that he still has the Minmei doll to which 
the Zentradi soliders are quite shocked at.

Freedai prepares his ship for Fold and Exedore informs him that a Micron ship 
is headed their way, probably to free the samples. Freedai order the ship 
destroyed since they do not need more sample. Meanwhile on board the Agama, 
Valentina outlines her plan. The outside team will take out incoming Zentradi 
forces and create an opening for the Agama to get close and deploy the rescue 
team. The outside team then must keep the Agama safe and guard the exit until 
the rescue team comes out with Fokker and the others.

The battle begin and soon end with Valentina then wondering why they aren't 
deploying more troops but Bright says that they can use this chance to get in 
and for the rescue team to go in. Meanwhile inside the ship, the five have 
used the Minmei doll to distract and scare off the Zentradi troops guarding 
their Valks though Misa note that they were scared of it's singing more than 
anything. Gou note that if that's so, maybe a karaoke system will work wonder 
on them. Misa asks why Gou and the others are joking at a time like this to 
which Anna points out that the situation is dire and everyone's tense so they 
want to make the mood lighter.

Misa and Hikaru get into another argument and Fokker tells them to cut it 
since the calvary's here, it seems A4 is here to get them out. On the other 
side, Max and Kajisaki note that they can detect Fokker and Hikaru's homing 
beacon, Max only hopes that it doesn't cut out midway. The escape begins with 
Fokker leading and guarding the transport ship/ recon Valk to safety while 
Max and Kajisaki lead another team to their destination.  Finding Fokker and 
the rest, Fokker note that there is a God and tells Max/ Kajisaki that 
they're all fine but Minmei and Kaifun are elsewhere and they have to search 
for them. 

Max says that's impossible and Hikaru scolds Max for giving up but Max  and 
Kajisaki says that they were able to locate Hikaru and Fokker due to homing 
beacons, those two have nothing like that on them so they'll have to search 
the entire ship and the outside team won't last that long. Fokker thinks long 
and hard and says that they'll retreat and get out for now. He then tells an 
opposing Hikaru that it's a temporary retreat to gather more info and 
fighting strength to come back and rescue them. They're not abandoning them. 
As the rescue team goes out of the Zentradi ship, Hikaru is not content on 
leaving Minmei behind and is last to leave. Misa tells him to hurry it up and 
the team then note that the Zentradi ship is beginning to Fold. Fokker tells 
Hikaru to get out of the ship's range but it's too late as the Zentradi ship 
fold and Hikaru's Valk is lost in the Fold.

Keiji wonder where it went, Valentina thinks that it's probably deep space 
light years away.  Fokker is remorseful saying that they said that they'd go 
back in to find those two but THIS happened. Valentina blames herself for not 
considering the fact that the ship would folded away but Claudia tells her 
that they didn't know that Minmei and Kaifun were separated and nobody could 
have guessed that Hikaru and Misa would be caught up in their Fold range. 
Keiji consoles her saying that it's the same with when they got sent to 
Byston Well, Hikaru and Misa will find a way back somehow.

Zech note that it might be a blessing in disguise that the aliens took off 
instead of being destroyed here and sending an SOS to their fleet though 
Heero note solemnly that next time the aliens appear, they might bring an 
entire fleet with them. Kouji doesn't care if it's an entire fleet; next time 
they comes the team will defeat them all and rescue those four. Lady Une says 
that even so, this is not the time since the aliens ARE gone but from the 
last data Hikaru's Valk send to them, it seems that there was a reading on 
Aforce and its location which means Axis is ready to use it. They have to 
take care of it right now.

Episode 30

Miria and the female aliens known as the Meltrandi arrives in the Earth's 
sphere, they note that the male, Zentradi, have already left but Miria 
wonders if there's an opponent to satisfy her. The other Meltrandi tells 
Miria that they have a reading on the Macross and the Birdman which piques 
her interest.

At the Macross, Mao recites the ancient island folkstory of the 
Birdman(Aforce) to A4. Mao recites "The Birdman who created humanity of the 
Mayan island is told by the god of heaven Proculture to sing the song of 
destruction, The Birdman then cuts off his own neck to stop the singing but 
as man is man, the day when the connection between man and nature is 
completely cut off, the head and the body will come together again and the 
song of destruction will be heard again"

Chisuru note that it's an ancient folktale that imparts a lesson to people to 
be mindful of nature but Hatsuki says that since the Birdman(Aforce) is real 
then there might be some truth behind the legend regarding it and it might be 
a hint that might help them.

Akira says that it's the same as with the legend of Mu and the continent of 
Atlantis where his mother hailed from. Kudo wonder who this god Proculture is 
and Mao says that it's a God with a name who only appeared in the end of the 
story. There isn't any actual myth or legend about Proculture in the Mayan 
Island civilization; it's all about the Birdman.
.It was the Birdman who destroyed countless stars that created the first man 
RoIkaru and created the island out of a turtle shell for him to live on. It 
was the Birdman who created RoIwaka, the first woman as RoIkaru's companion. 
This Proculture God just appeared out of nowhere in the end. 

Mao then says that even the song of destruction's content is different than 
what was said in the story earlier. Emma wants to know more since it might 
help them against Axis and Mao says that it's a long story but the song of 
destruction was mentioned during when the Birdman created RoIwaka for RoIkaru. 

RoIkaru was lamenting the fact that he was alone and the Birdman comes down 
and cuts off his own neck. His spurting blood forms into a shape of female, 
RoIwaka. RoIwaka married RoIkaru and having birthed him many children turn to 
the sea and returned to the star. RoIkaru then begs the Birdman to return his 
wife to him and the Birdman answered for RoIwaka "Oh my husband, when I 
return, it shall be the day heaven is torn asunder, the song of destruction, 
the day when the world ends." 

Ryouma note that it's quite different from the Birdman cutting his neck to 
birth RoIwaka and changing it to cutting it to stop the song of destruction 
as ordered by Proculture. Ayato wonders if the last part was added on later. 
Haruka then says that might be it since the first part speaks of when the day 
she returns comes but at the end of the story, it's like the song of 
destruction had already started to be sung. Elvy note that the ending is 
added on at a much later era. Wufei then asks Mao if she knew when this last 
part was written though Juuzo says that it's probably orally told, so the 
best they would know is long long ago. Mao says that actually, the story is 
told by an ancient, almost forgotten language so they can actually determine 
the age of the story.

She once asked Mutok, who Kudo recognize as the old man on the island, and 
got tolded that though it sounded impossible but the alphabet and the 
parchment it was enscripted on is dated 12,000 years ago. Wufei then smirks 
and says "I see (the mystery is solved)" Wufei then ask if that timeframe 
doesn't ring a bell to everyone who heard what Akira's mom once told them.
Akira then says "Wait, you mean, the people of the city of beginning where 
humanity was supposed to have been first created?" Anna asks if the Birdman 
was responsible for sinking that city. Tetsuya then adds in that that's not 
all, does Shou remembered what Jacoba Anon told them when she sent them home. 
Shou says that he remembers vaguely that Jacoba said that long ago something 
destroyed the upper world sending shockwaves to Byston Well. Marbel adds that 
Jacoba said it was a voice, a voice of destruction. Zechs note that voice and 
song could be the same thing.

Hyouma then asks if that means that this song of destruction was sang once 
before. Gou then note that if it's true, then something broke the Birdman's 
neck stopping it but the result was enough to raze the world and send 
shockwave to Byston Well. Amuro wonder if it's the same thing that wiped out 
the A3 fleet two years ago. Fokker says that while it was no picnic in the 
park back then, it's more akin to the type of destruction that can result 
from the Macross Cannon or the Genesis to which Camille says that's already 
too destructive. Ryou then says that can't be it since Jacoba Anon never made 
a mention of what happened two years ago. If THAT was the voice/song of 
destruction then Byston Well would have felt it then too. Shinobu note that 
that doesn't seem to be the case and Athrun then shudders that this Voice of 
Destruction is actually STRONGER than what Fokker/ Kudo/ the Dancougar team 
experienced two years ago. Kira note that the Birdman has an even greater 
power than they thought and Valentina says that whatever the case they can't 
let Axis has it.

Gloval then says that A3's order to destroy the Birdman is still in effect 
and they must succeed this time.Mao tells Kudo to take care of her sister 
Sara and Kudo promise Mao that he'll save Sara, she'll be back with him when 
he returns.

Meanwhile Axis has brought Aforce/ Birdman out and tells the soliders to 
activate it, they're at an advantage since the Macross Cannon can't fire.The 
Soliders are nervous and tells Haman that it's dangerous to activate it 
without even testing it, what happened if they lose control? Haman says that 
in that case, they will let it rampage and get clear so that it takes out all 
their enemies and then find a way to stop it later.

Before launching, Camille tells the other that he and Quattro will take on 
Haman while the rest takes care of Aforce. Camille says to Quattro "That is 
your responsibility, isn't it Char Aznable" Quattro note that perhaps that's 
true. Fokker note as they approach that it's the real thing all right and 
Haman asks if Char has reconsidered and decide to join. Quattro tells Haman 
that she's right that humanity needs to unite but Axis and the ghosts of the 
Zabi aren't the one to do it. Haman then asks if A4 alone can do it. Even now 
Anti Logos forces are approaching Axis for a negotiation to join forces, does 
A4 think they can take on all the threats alone or do they want to leave the 
future of humanity to that DNA splicer (with a familiar voice) Kouji says 
that they don't actually want a fight with Axis or anyone, why don't Haman 
change HER tune and be more interested in humanity as a whole instead of the 
Zabi Family (If Judo were here, I'm sure he'd be the one saying this) Haman 
dismiss this as nonsense and Tetsuya continues that even without the Zabi, 
people can reach out to each other and stops war. (again, someone channeling 
Judo) Haman says that that's a childish way of thinking and asks who else 
beside the Zabi family can rule the unified Earth?  Camille says that there's 
no need for a ruler, people can cooperate and decide the path they want to 
walk.

Haman mocks this saying that majority rule and democracy, leaving it to the 
morons and uneducated is what lead to war and Logos. Quattro says that he 
does believe humanity do need a new governing system and Haman then tells 
Char to come with her , rebuild the Zabi and create that new governing system 
but Quattro then says that he only wants to see that the world does not go on 
the wrong path. Haman then ask what next for Char after defeating the Zabi, 
uniting the world and defeating the aliens
Quattro says that even without him, people will become Newtype and he'll wait 
for that. (Say that again during your midlife crisis when you drop that HUGE 
rock) Haman retort that people won't change that quickly and if he's not with 
her he's against her and she will resurrect the Zabi and unite the world and 
Quattro says that she's only repeating the mistake of the past. Haman then 
tells her soliders to activate Aforce and Kudo shouts for her to stop as the 
battle begins.

The team rush in trying to tackle Haman. Valentina tells them that Axis's 
Gaza C troops are weak against close ranged opponents and to get in close 
quick. They must stop the Birdman before it awakens. Kudo tells them not to 
hit the head where Sara is at. However, during their rush, Valentina notice 
that a Nemesis type is closing in and Keiji note that it's the last Ascalon 
piloted by Yukimura and of all the time for his headache to be getting worse. 
Meanwhile Sara in the Birdman starts to awaken and sense the Kadoun of strife 
and conflicts nearby. Haman wonders why Yukimura is here and gets ready to 
tackle Quattro and Camille telling them she'll show the full power of the 
Quebley.

Keiji tackles Yukimura who noted "Oh so the prototype is here, you're a test 
subject like me but it seems that at the core you're different from me." "The 
Celestial Reactor, once bonded completely with the pilot will draw out 
unknown amount of power for a person's destructive action so let me see you 
in that berserker state" 

 Keiji notes that he needs more power from the Habakiri and let himself loose 
mentally in a near berserker state which makes Yukimura marvels at the amount 
of fighting spirit and the power of the reactor that Keiji is putting out but 
he tells Keiji that Keiji's mind and self will be destroyed first before 
putting it to use and Keiji will be like him, inhuman. Keiji shouted that 
he'll never be like Yukimura and attacks giving the Ascalon a beating to 
which Yukimura says that he was a little careless. Keiji shout if Yukimura is 
running away and Yukimura says that he's just taking a little detour but is 
Keiji ok after what he just did and Keiji shouted, his face changing already 
to be more vicious shouted "This pain means nothing."

Millia and the female aliens, the Meltrandi, arrives and Sara inside Aforce 
sense Kadoun that's ravaged many planets.  Meanwhile Haman tackles with 
Camille and Quattro. Camille shouts that Haman is the root of all evil and 
must be destroyed. Haman tells Camille that she recognize him as one of the 
strongest opponents and Quattro tells Haman to abandon her quest to revive 
the Zabi since her other goals of uniting the Earth people isn't wrong. Haman 
starts to get the upperhand and tells Char that if only he'd come with her 
but Quattro tells her "Why wouldn't you see that the world doesn't need the 
ghost of the Zabi"

Kudo is trying to reach Sara by shouting her name out but he notes that he 
can't open the cockpit and let her get a view of him since they're in space. 
Nearby, Max and Millia tangles with Max getting the upperhand forcing Millia 
to retreat with Max in hot pursuit. Valentina tells Max to come back but 
there is no answer from Max as he speeds past the radar with Valentina in 
disbelief that Max disobeyed orders. Kudo hears a voice in his head; it is 
Mao, who tells him to stop her sister since the Birdman is awakening. Fokker 
and Shinobu heard that and note that this is like what happened 2 years ago.

Inside the Birdman, Sara hears a voice asking if she is the one who wakes it 
from its slumber. Sara says that the one who awakes the Birdman is the one 
fighting outside. The Birdman then asks if it is the people who created the 
ships to the stars? Have they stopped fighting? Sara says that yes it is 
those people but they have not stopped fighting. The Birdman says that Kadoun 
of conflict will bring the seeds of destruction to the galaxy and it asks her 
once more what these people are and Sara answers that they are Kadoun.  The 
Birdman then awakes and spread its wing with the intent of destroying 
everything in its path.

Camille shouts for Haman to return to the whole of darkness and Haman is 
defeated. She notes that the Quebley is at its limit and retreats. Fokker 
says to himself "I didn't think I'd have to face this monster again" and 
Shinobu note that this is like two years ago, the sequel is here. Kudo tries 
to reach Sara again and again but wonders if it's too late. Is the only way 
to stop this thing is by destroying it? 

The team combines forces and manage to rip the Birdman into itty pieces. Kudo 
lament not being able to save Sara but Mao tells him that her sister is ok, 
the head piece is still intact and Kudo rush over to retrieve it. Meanwhile, 
Miria has rush back to her ship with Max in hot pursuit. The battle at close 
quarter left both of their mech's devastated and as Miria comes out of her 
battle unit, Max utter the word "Beautiful" which surprises Miria.

Back at the Macross, Fokker note that the operation to destroy the Birdman is 
complete but they've lost Max. Kajisaki lament that with Max and Hikaru gone, 
the Skull Squadron is only him, Fokker and Kudo which means they're at half 
strength.

Valentina's voice then comes over the intercom begging people to please get 
to the hangar and do something for Keiji. Keiji is going into a berserker 
mental breakdown and slumps over. Shinobu says that he was ok before but 
after tackling Yukimura...this starts happening. Hatsuki says that it looks 
like Keiji drawed out too much power from the Habakiri's Celestial Reactor 
and it affected him. Dr. Aoi note that they better do CATscan and everything 
on him at once when they get him to the sick ward. She only hopes there's no 
permanent brain damage and that his psyche is ok.

At the sick ward, Sara awakens and is greeted by Kudo. Kudo asks her how does 
it feel to awaken from a two year slumber and says that Sara was in 
hibernation within the Birdman. Amuro note that they should leave the two of 
them alone for a while and the questioning later. Duo then asks what they 
should do with the Birdman's remains. Amuro says that they should retrieve 
all of them and Heero agrees since they already have the head which is the 
most dangerous part and they should do it now before someone else gets their 
hands on it.

Trowa and the other Wing boys volunteer for the mission though Wufei isn't 
thrilled to use Nataku for this but gets coerced into doing so. Zech note 
that their remaining problem is Keiji, it's pretty apparent that he's more of 
an asset than he gives himself credit for. In order to take on the last 
Ascalon with Yukimura as the pilot whichs make them more dangerous than the 
other Ascalons, they'll need the Habakiri and Keiji who's the only one who 
can go man o man o with Yukimura. Zech's conversation with Amuro is disrupted 
when Mao comes out from the sick ward sayng that she should leave the two of 
them (Kudo and Sara) together for a while.

Meanwhile, the Axis troops greet Haman thinking that they've lost her. Haman 
note that she miscalculated A4's power and wonders if they can really unite 
the people and save the world.

Episode 31

Kudo tells Sara that her body was in hibernation for two years so it's quite 
weak so she'll have to do some rehab in the Agama which is weightless unlike 
the Macross that has artificial gravity. Sara thanks Kudo for helping her but 
Kudo says that it's him who should be thankful since he now has friends who 
trust him unlike his past self two years ago thanks to meeting her.

Athrun comes in to get medicine for Keiji who has finally calmed down. The 
problem is definitely with the Habakiri's reactor to which the Professors 
can't dissect it so they can't create a countermeasure for it. Athrun hopes 
that it's only a temporary condition for Keiji and tells Sara that everyone 
wanted to ask her questions about the Birdman if she's ready to talk. Sara 
says that she only knows the folk legends and asks what happened to the 
Birdman. Kudo says that they blasted it to pieces, he's regretful that they 
have to do this to what the Mayan people believes as their protector god.

Meanwhile, Combattler V and the Wing boys are carrying the pieces of Aforce/ 
Birdman that they gathered in a transport ramp. Hyouma is worried about 
Keiji's condition but Duo says that there's nothing they can do and Wufei 
says that if Keiji is truly strong, he'll bring himself out of this so it's 
not something they should worry about. Hyouma asks what they'll do with the 
remains and Quatre says that it'll be sent to A3 headquarter to be studied 
and then seal. While it does have potential as an Anti alien weapon like 
Haman tried to use it, it's too dangerous. Juuzou and Kosuke hope that it 
doesn't just pull itself together and regenerate from being close to each 
other and Heero says that to prevent it, they put each part into separate 
container that is extremely tough to break out of. Hyouma jokes that if it's 
so tough then they shouldn't have to bother sending it down by a shuttle but 
just drop it into the atmosphere. A blast from the Earth hits the ramp 
spilling the containers into the Earth's atmosphere. Hyouma says that he was 
just joking before seeing a Magma Beast. Hyouma and Heero hit it with a Big 
Blast and Twin Buster Rifle destroying it.

Most of the containers are already in reentry and they can't follow without 
burning up in reentry. At the Agama, the Combattler team and the Wing boy 
sans Heero regroup. Quatre says that they were too careless and Kosuke says 
that he forgot that the Campbell Magma Beast can definitely work in space 
since they're from space. Trowa says that regretting does nothing since they 
need to decide on what to do now. They've only recovered three containers. 
The rest have landed on Earth and not hit civilian area as reported by Heero 
who has already gone down to Earth by himself since the Wing Zero can do 
reentry by itself with no problem. However the Campbells are already making a 
move to recover the container.

Camille says that they don't have enough Baryute to send a large enough force 
to Earth to repel the Campbell so Bright says that the Agama itself will have 
to go but he's worried about the Macross. Gloval tells them that the Eternal 
will come here soon and the Archangel has already left Earth to rendezvous 
here. They will take over for the Agama in this case. Neo note that he keeps 
missing Murrue and Bright then orders everyone to begin preparation.

Meanwhile Janella tells her subordinate to hurry; they saw the Aforce's power 
in space so that must be what Protoculture left. Valkymedes says that A4 is 
already coming to recover the pieces and Dangel asks for a final chance 
against Combattler V.

Valentina is late for her duty and Sarah asks why her face and eyes are red 
like that. Chizuru says that Valentina must have been helping out at the sick 
ward without resting isn't she? Hyouma tells her to rest and they'll take 
care of this by themselves but Valentina says that her helping out at the 
sick ward is personal and this is her job. Shinobu says that they'll be 
expecting her help as usual then. The Combattler V and the rest rendezvous 
with Heero who says that they're late and Juuzou says that they've hurry as 
much as they can, not every mech can do reentry like the Wing Zero.

The team note that they have to recover all the containers and split up but 
Valentina suddenly note that the Ascalon piloted by Yukimura is here. Heero 
heads over to combat it. Yukimura noted that Heero is the famous solider for 
the colony. Heero says that's correct, he's a solider and he's been trained 
to erase people who create war like Yukimura from existence.  Heero tackles 
Yukimura but is sent flying and he wonders what's wrong with the Zero System. 
Yukimura shouted that no matter how much Heero trains or how much fighting 
experience he has, he's still human. Yukimura continues that he won't be 
destroyed by humans, he'll be the one destroying humans.

Keiji suddenly comes out in the AmanoHabakiri to rescue Heero just as 
Yukimura was stating that it's boring without Zero One here. Yukimura smirks 
"Speak of the devil" Valentina and Hyouma are quite worried that Keiji would 
deploy in his condition but Keiji says that he's the only one who can handle 
Yukimura one on one. Yukimura asks to know Zero One's pilot's name and Keiji 
shouted that his name is Keiji Tachibana. The two tackles and Keiji note that </pre><pre id="faqspan-7">
something is calling out to him and wonders if its Yukimura's doing. Yukimura 
is surprised that Keiji hears it as well since Zero One doesn't have a 
synchro limiter and wonders how Keiji is doing this. Yukimura tells Keiji 
that he's not the one calling out to him but it's the ancient city's doing. 
However it's tormenting for Keiji isn't it since Keiji's synchro isn't 
complete.  Keiji shouted that he can stand this pain if it means he can get 
rid of Yukimura. Keiji beats back Yukimura who note that that's not bad but 
he has stuff to do and retreats.

Dangel then comes out and challenges Combattler V. After Hyouma downs it once, 
Dangel's mech change to the Great Magma II and Dangel says that this is their 
last dance. On board Janella's ship, Valkymedes note that Dangel is really 
giving it his all this time to which Janella reveals that she's put a bomb in 
Dangel's helmet and he believes that if he doesn't defeat A4 and Combattler V 
then it can't be turned off. The truth is, it's not going to turn off because 
Dangel has outlived his usefulness. Dangel is defeated and though his spirit 
is willing, his mech explodes. Valkymedes is in grief over his dead younger 
brother though Janella doesn't care. Valkymedes wants Janella to at least 
give Dangel some honorable last words though Janella says that he was useless, 
she's only interested in Valkymedes dissecting the pieces of Aforce that they 
were able to recover and getting its secret.

Later, Fokker and Kajisaki note that there's no more containers as the Agama 
sweep the area, the missing containers that they didn't recovered must have 
been recovered by the Campbell or by Yukimura. Meanwhile Zechs has a talk 
with Heero who tells him about his fight with Yukimura today and the Zero 
System didn't show him a future. Usually the system will predict the future 
and show a pilot the way to fight the enemy but it didn't work today which 
means that the Ascalon as piloted by Yukimura is beyond their ability to beat 
alone but the X Factor is Keiji, they can only win with him.

Meanwhile back with Janella, Janella is dismayed by the results and the fact 
that they lost so many troops to recover this thing. Valkymedes says that 
this thing is actually a DNA manipulator that can change the DNA of living 
organism. They have this type of tech already since they use it regularly to 
create Magma Beast. Janella note that this can't be Protoculture.

At the Agama, Sara is feeling quite heavy and Kudo apologize that she has to 
come to Earth with them like this with no time to recuperate. Bright wants to 
know about the Birdman and says that he already got the legend from Mao. Sara 
says that she was one with the Birdman and thus has access to its memory. 
Sara says that the Birdman created humanity through two interwining things in 
the blood which Athrun note that it must mean DNA which is something 
Coordinators like him and Kira know a lot about. Quattro then wonder why it 
attacks humanity if it's their creator and Sara says that it asked her when 
it awakens if the people outside have create ships to the star and have they 
stop fighting. It plans to wipe out people before they can spread their evil 
Kadoun to the star. Shinobu note that the Birdman creates humanity and decide 
to do a reset once it believes humanity is too dangerous. Ryou note that it 
must have come to the same conclusion two years ago. Fokker then notes that 
this reminds him of Protoculture and the theory of aliens being responsible 
for humanity's development.

Light years away, Botulsa explains to Freedai about culture and songs. 
Botulsa concludes that in order to win, they must harness the power of song 
and wonders if the two specimens can unleash the power of the ancient part of 
culture that they captured a long time ago.

Back at the Agama, Sarah notes that she understands how the Birdman feels 
about humanity what with what happened to Europe, Plant and U2. Kira note 
that they have to change humanity's behaviour. Amuro wonders whether the 
reason the Birdman destroyed Alteira 12,000 years ago is because it also 
considered the ancient race dangerous. Sara says that the ancient people were 
peaceful but one day the people gave the Birdman a voice to sing. The team 
then notes that this corresponded with what they theorized before and Sara 
continues that the Birdman resented this voice since the voice leads to the 
song of destruction. This is why the Birdman cuts off its neck and threw away 
the voice into the sea. The voice was lost but it did not ease the Birdman 
who saw that the voice has created strife in humanity. Neo wonders what this 
voice is and Sara says that she doesn't know but the Birdman is fearful that 
it will be given this voice again one day.

Ryouma and the others note that they should recap their theory. It began with 
the Birdman coming to Earth or more specifically was sent to Earth or was 
brought to Earth by aliens as a tool used to create the first humanity. Then 
the first humanity in Alteira created a voice to attach to the Birdman. This 
resulted in Alteira's destruction and the razing of the world but a handful 
of people survived  (to become the Lemurian people of Atlantis and the Youma) 
thanks to the Birdman cutting off it's neck which means the Proculture god in 
the Mayan legend was not a god but the first humanity itself. It can be 
concluded that the voice is a weapon but why do the first humanity NEED a 
weapon if they are peaceful, the Birdman itself is also quite strong on its 
own already.

Trowa says that a weapon is used to fight and defeat an enemy or as deterrent 
against an enemy but who does the first humanity consider an enemy? Fokker 
then says that it's the giants, the Zentradi. They existed long ago so if the 
first humanity learned of their existence and their nature then it's possible 
that they create this weapon to defend themselves against the Zentradi.

Kudo then notes that the Campbell is after this weapon and other remains of 
Protoculture which is why they once kidnapped Mao who was given a transfusion 
by the Birdman. Emma notes that the Campbellian wouldn't give up and Ryou 
says that that also goes for Yukimura but only Keiji seems to be able to go 
head to head with him alone.

Speaking of Keiji, he's been sent back to the sick bay to rest and Chizuru, 
Anna and Sarah also sent Valentina who's also collapsed after the mission for 
going without rest into the same room. In the sick bay, Valentina blushes and 
thinks to herself "I'll get you for this, Anna, Sarah, Chizuru, all of you." 
Keiji apologizes for deploying without permission and asks if she's angry at 
him. Valentina says that she's not, she's just curious as to why Keiji would 
fight so hard, why is he so determined to rescue other even at the cost of 
his own body? Why did he choose this path of entering A3 and fight?

Keiji then says "Have you ever wonder if you would have been another person 
entirely?" "I've been thinking a lot about that." "If war hadn't happened, 
what would I be like now, what type of path would I have chosen?" Valentina 
says that he'd still be the same Keiji she knows, always trying hard, always 
training hard." Keiji says that that might be but people living in peace 
wouldn't be thinking like this, something deep in him wants a different life. 
Valentina asks if he's not happy with his life, is he regretful of the path 
in life that he chosed? Keiji says that he think he's happy but being 
regretful of a path chosen in life is when one has another choice that they 
didn't take but war is different, city burns and people dies no matter of 
your choice if you are an innocent. Whatever he might have done that day 
couldn't avoid the death of his family.

Valentina note that it leaves Keiji with a feeling of helplessness. Keiji 
continues that if war didn't happen, he wouldn't have become someone like he 
is today and he doesn't want ANYONE to have that type of life, to be robbed 
of the chance to choose which is why he chose this path of fighting.

Valentina then says that that's why Keiji was THE ace of the 42th Squad of 
the Military School, the Scar Faced Kid. He wasn't after ranks, scores or 
anything else but the biggest target of them all. Keiji note that his 
nickname seems comforting now even though he hated it before because it 
reminded him of his family that he lost and his helplessness. Valentina then 
says that she is sorry, it's her fault since she GAVE him that nickname. This 
surprised Keiji and Valentina continues that during military school, she was 
infatuated with him. Keiji's reaction is "Y..You...with me?" Valentina says 
that she's around his age and for a school girl back then, to be enamoured 
with the ace of the class is pretty normal.  Valentina says "I wanted to work 
for A3, that was my ideal future, I was after a name for myself and I wanted 
to land a comfy respectable post which is why A3 was ideal" "I didn't have a 
reason to fight which was why I was so enamoured with you, you were already 
on the path that I couldn't see yet." Valentina concludes "I'm glad I'm 
finally able to talk to you, to see you truly, finally I've caught up with 
you..." "Hello Keiji, my name is Valentina Reanika." This surprises Keiji and 
Valentina says "This is not as your superior,  this is me speaking to a 
classmate who I've never gotten the chance to introduce myself to at Military 
School" Keiji then smiles and says "Uh.. Hello Valentina, I'm Keiji Tachibana, 
it's nice to meet you" (This is a step up in their relationship, since Keiji 
has always called Valentina by her ranks before this.)

Outside, Dr. Aoi and Professor Hatsuki discuss about Keiji's scan, his vital 
sign have returned to normal, in fact they're even better than normal. What's 
interesting is that the Habakiri's Celestial Reactor is outputting even more 
power than before. It's as if Keiji has adapted to it or vice versa. Hatsuki 
says that he HAD considered removing Keiji away from the Habakiri but as 
Dr.Aoi pointed out, they don't know whether that will be beneficial to him or 
if it will kill him. Keiji and Valentina are both important personnel and 
friends and to help Keiji, they must find Dr.Soga since only he might know 
the answer.

Episode 32A

At the Agama, Gou and Anna are moving inventory since the Agama will soon 
enter a maintenance dock. Anna sees Lu's dress and is reminded of her leaving 
without saying goodbye, she wonder if Lu is well since she left without any 
of her belongings.Anna then apologize to Gou for also making him think of Lu. 
Meanwhile Ken and Lu are again on the hunt for Mimetic Beast. Ken asks if Lu 
is ok with this life since it's been a month already. Lu says that it's hard 
but she's not going to run from it, to be stronger she'll do anything. The 
duo chance upon a Mimetic Beast and attack with Lu seeing that the 
MimeticBeast is protecting it's nest full of eggs. Ken decides to destroy it 
and tells Lu that they should investigate the area for more eggs.

Ken and Lu find a large amount of nest and eggs nearby and decide to destroy 
them all. Ken note that the eggs are also hatching and becoming full grown 
Mimetic but before they do anything, he'll send them to hell. Lu is scared at 
the large number of Mimetic but then gets a grip on herself thinking that 
with Ken around, she'll be ok. Ken note that they can't leave any Mimetic 
alive since if even one of them got away, they'll birth more Mimetics and 
scours the area for all of them taking them out.

At night, Lu wonders about the eggs and Ken note that this is like five years 
ago, during the war of the Giants, the Mimetic are beginning to come out more 
in huge numbers. Ken then tells Lu that tomorrow they'll go get some supplies 
and some clothing for her since she's been wearing that leotard suit for a 
month without changing but he then notice that Lu is fast asleep already.

Episode 32

Ayato and Elvy along with Haruka have been recalled to TERRA and have to 
leave immediately. Haruka says that they'll be back since the order to 
cooperate with A3 is still in effect. Akira is sad to see them go, losing 
people under any circumstance is not good, they never think of losing Max and 
Hikaru during the mission they lost them. Jinguchi says that actually they're 
doing well and Fokker agree saying that casualty and loss would be much 
greater in other troops. The fact that they've lost only two soliders is a 
testament to their skill and lucks. Fokker tells Akira not to worry, they 
have Kudo and Sara's case as precedent so he's so both Hikaru and Max will be 
back.

Speaking of Hikaru, he and Misa are in an unknown structure but one that's 
functioning with life support. It doesn't seem to be the alien's ship but 
Misa despair saying that they temporarily saw the amount of fleet the alien 
had when they folded away, not even the entire Earth's combined might would 
be able to withstand them. Hikaru tries to cheer her up and Misa note that 
he's tough, he has to be since he lost his parents but Hikaru says that he's 
had it easy compared to the others in A4 since he lost his dad but his dad 
was around long enough to be with him and teach him how to fly compared to 
the others who lost their parents when they were kids

Misa hoped everyone's ok and apologizes to Hikaru saying that that must have 
made him think of Minmei who's not ok since she's aboard the alien ship. 
Hikaru says that he know he might not see Minmei again, if he'd only turn 
around immediately after learning she was on board then it might have been 
different. Hikaru suddenly see some form of data disk around him and Misa 
note that there might be more and there might be a player somewhere that they 
can view info on it which might help them.

At A3 Island, A4 has arrived and Shou and Marbel reports to Shiela who had 
the Gran Garran protect A3 Island ever since the team went into space. Hayato 
Kobayashi also has a reunion with Bright. Shiela asks if Shou and Marbel know 
of the decision that A4 has to make now.

The decision is whether to disband A4 or not? As Prof. Yotsuya puts it, 
Sarah's friend has fully recovered her memory and has turned state evidence 
that the U2 incident was a setup against the team. She has recovered many 
files that is used to establish the team's innocence and along with Meilyn's 
help cracking the Logos protect on the file, the team is now fully clear of 
all charges and can now go anywhere freely like before all this happened.

Athrun asks how Meilyn is doing and Prof. Yotsuya says that she's working at 
the Saotome Institute right now. Sarah asks what will happen to her friend 
and Prof. Yotsuya says that she intends to pay for her part in the crime but 
they'll get her the best lawyers and show that she was manipulated and her 
true self truly wants peace. With luck, she'll get off light or get pardoned. 
Prof. Hatsuki then says that with the team fully clear, there's no need for 
them to be A4 anymore, they can return to being part of A3 again. (i.e. they 
don't have to live with the stigma of their dirty name anymore, they'll be 
the respected member of A3 again)

However Shinobu, Keiji and the others are against this move, they say that 
just changing their name back toA3 and saying that A4 doesn't exist anymore 
wouldn't solve the problem since people did die because of their miss even 
though it was engineered by Logos and Yukimura and there are people who 
resent and hate them with legitimate reason because of that miss. Keiji says 
that being A4 is part of the cross they have to bear, their penance. Lady Une 
then says that she understands but the command head of A4 will be A3 then.

At the hangar, Kira asks what's wrong with Mwu and Neo ask if Kira will ever 
call him Neo to which Kira says that Mwu is Mwu. Neo note that everyone sure 
is strong willed, he was working for the people who commited greater sins 
(Logos) and his cross, his penance are quite deep. Athrun says that that goes 
for him too, he returned to ZAFT and helped spread the fighting more; what's 
more is he got Meilyn's life to be ruined. Kira says that everyone has a 
cross to bear, a penance to pay but most people choose to ignore or forget it 
instead of accepting it and using it to forge the future. Neo note that 
acceptance of their mistake and sin might be the key to creating a peaceful 
world.

Back at Nirankanai, Haruka is meeting with Johji. Johji has some interesting 
news for Haruka, it seems her uncle, Gramp Rokudo once fathered a daughter 
who got married 17 years ago. This is news to Haruka since her uncle is 
single and Johji adds that the daughter change her maiden name to Kamina 
after marrying. Thirty eight years ago, two females were ensured in this 
island's forest, one didn't grow up but continued sleeping, the other did. 
Johji concludes that Professor Rokudo would know more and tells Haruka to 
check in on it.

Haruka confronts Rokudo and Rokudo says that he planned to raise the girl as 
his daughter but she returned back to where she needs to go once the time 
came and he then tells Haruka that he better let Ayato know the truth soon 
but Haruka is scared of what will happen when he finds out.

Ayato, in the meantime, is angry that Commander Kunugi isn't allowing him and 
Elvy to return to A4 since he considers the MU to be a greater threat and 
there's no guarantee that they won't come while Raxephon is away. Isshiki 
adds to this mocking A4 and their enemies in the progress saying that 
humanity's true enemy is the blue blooded MUlians.

Megumi curses Isshiki, that damned white snake and note that Ayato isn't down, 
it seems that he's gotten stronger during his time in A4 and Ayato says that 
Keiji, Akira and the rest are strong at heart which made him stronger but 
Megumi and Haruka are the main reason he's gotten stronger. This makes Megumi 
blush and Ayato says that he's going to go see Elvy and see if they can at 
least contact A4 to let them know of their situation here.

Bad move since Ayato caught Elvy arguing with Sub Commander Yagumo which 
escalated and Yagumo accidentially let slip that Ayato is a MUlian since his 
blood is blue (though he was trying to prove a point in favour of Ayato that 
MUlian is people like red blooded people.) Ayato didn't take this too well 
and he confronts Kunugi who does his best "you don't need to know" military 
shut up etc which adds more fuel to the fire.

Haruka finds Ayato alone on the beach. Haruka tries to talk to him saying 
that it doesn't matter, Ayato's Ayato and why can't things work like they did 
before?  Things were going good before. Ayato says that what she meant was 
they had him fooled good before. Ayato tells Haruka "You told me that you'd 
show me the truth but you hid the truth from me, if it's like this, I'd 
rather be in Tokyo. You're a liar" Ayato runs away leaving Haruka nothing 
that words hurts quite badly.

In his confusion and anger, he meets Quon, starts to get angry as to why 
she's smiling and mistakenly think that she's laughing at him like the others 
who knew from the start that he's a MUlian and they had him fooled good. Quon 
says that she's a MUlian as well. Ayato says that he wants to go home to 
Tokyo and Quon tells him to go though she says that the answers he's seeking 
might not BE there. Ayato makes his decision and decides to return to Tokyo 
and calls for the Raxephon. As he leaves, Ayato wonder what he's doing, he 
might not find what he's looking for in Tokyo but that's ok, he's not human. 
Itsuki sees this and lament on fate and how if it could have been him, then 
Ayato his bigger brother wouldn't have to face this fae.

This doesn't make Isshiki happy and he forces Kunugi to order Elvy to 
retrieve the Raxephon and get rid of that MUlian Ayato. He also wants A3/A4 
brought in to get rid of this monster.

The team learns of Ayato's "defection" and Camille note that it doesn't seem 
true since Ayato's flight path isn't the fastest route to Tokyo since he 
should know that he'd be followed. It's almost as if he's full of second 
thoughts. The team doesn't care what other people says, Ayato's their friend 
and they'll go check out for themselves. 

Valentina suddenly says that she's got news regarding the ancient city 
Alteira, it has risen to the ocean surface again and the Campbell is headed 
towards it. The Combattler team note that they must be after ancient tech and 
that they can't let this go. Keiji tells Valentina to focus on directing the 
team against the Campbell, he and the rest will do something about the Ayato 
situation.

Near Tokyo Jupiter, Elvy with Haruka in her cockpit has trailed the Raxephon. 
Keiji and some of the team arrive to intercept the Raxephon. Keiji tells 
Ayato to halt and asks why he's doing this? Keiji then adds that to heck with 
the reason, just come back to A4 since everyone's worried for him. Ayato says 
that it's ok, he's MUlian, he's not going back which is why he has to go 
since he has to find out the answers for himself.

Elvy then sees that a bunch of Dolem has arrived and they seem to be covering 
for the Raxephon. Elvy shouted to Ayato that this is his final warning, he 
either turns back to base or she'll shoot him down. Haruka tells Ayato that 
he can't go, not yet. Ayato shouted that he only wants to know the truth, is 
that wrong? Elvy says that she has a mission to accomplish; if he won't 
cooperate then she'll have to shoot.

The team takes on the Dolem and Elvy muse that the Vermillion was supposed to 
free Ayato from fighting but he's actually a MUlian, their enemy but Haruka 
says that Elvy may feel betray but they're the one who betrayed Ayato in the 
first place, TERRA and each one of them. They betrayed him from the beginning 
by using him.

The Vermillion tangles with the Raxephon and is attacked back, Ayato says 
that he doesn't want to do this, just let him go. The Raxephon then heads 
into Tokyo Jupiter.

Meanwhile, Misa can see light and Hikaru note that that means there's an exit 
so they can get out.  Exiting, the two sees that they are in the ancient city 
Alteira. Hikaru laughs saying that they were actually on Earth this entire 
time. Misa wonders if they can call headquarter from here but Hikaru note 
that they can't but they should have enough fuel to try and head for land. 
Suddenly the two see the Campbell fortress flying in.

Janella wants the Protoculture in this city no matter the cost and Valkymedes 
suddenly says that A4 is here lead by Combattler V. Hyouma tells Janella and 
Valkymedes that this is their end and Janella says that she should have 
killed Hyouma a long time ago.

Misa note that this city wouldn't last long since it's already got attacked 
by Youma and sank to the bottom of the sea once, the power protecting this 
place won't last long.Hikaru says that they have to get back to the VT1 and 
starts carrying Misa on his back since she can't walk properly.

Janella has Valkymedes deploy along with all Magma Beast and Valkymedes tells 
Dangel's spirit to look on how his bigger brother fight. Of course that's to 
no avail and the DarkRon Valkymedes pilot explodes but he escape and make it 
to the city center. Hikaru's Valkyrie deploys and Fokker is surprised and 
elated to see them. Janella, however, believes that A4 already sent in a 
recon team to scour for Protoculture and it must be on that plane and she 
orders that plane captured. Hikaru has to fly away avoiding the battle as 
Combatter and the others start bringing down the Branbell Fortress. Janella 
note that the Branbell can't take much more and decides to retreat noting 
that she has to be alive to use the power of Protoculture but suddenly finds 
that the Branbell can't escape into space. Valkymedes's voice comes in saying 
that Janella had decreed that they get Protoculture whatever the cost; that 
includes her life too, he's made it to the city center so she has to fight 
like never before like she made his brother Dangel fight and get rid of A4. 
She can then come here and take the secret of Protoculture from him. Janella 
hisses showing her true face screaming that Valkymedes rigged this

The Branbell is destroyed and ironically falls onto the city center crushing 
a terrified Valkymedes in the process. Afterward, Hyouma calls out to his 
team saying that he's glad he met them and have them as friends.

Back at Tokyo Jupiter, the Dolems are gone and Elvy along with Haruka decides 
to follow Raxephon into Tokyo Jupiter since the Vermillion has a function 
that allows it to enter as well. The order to retrieve the Raxephon is still 
in effect and they enter the dome. Meanwhile, Hyouma welcomes Hikaru back and 
Hikaru asks if Misa have the disks they recovered. Misa says that she does 
and they are in the ancient language that they've translated on the Macross. 
Hyouma and Hikaru then note that Alteira is sinking again for the final time. 
Misa then says her goodbye to it.

Maya Kamina, Ayato's mom also says her goodbye to THIS world's Alteira and 
welcomes Ayato home. Babem note that Ayato has gone back to Tokyo Jupiter but 
they still have Quon who will be sent here tomorrow. When asked by Helena, 
Babem admits that he don't care for this world's Alteira since on their world, 
the world of MU, a more complete form of Alteira exist where MUlian culture 
is base from. It isn't like this world's Alteira that becamed a ruin where 
you can't even learn anything from it like he did from his world's Alteira.

Elvy and Haruka are in Tokyo Jupiter and have decided to hide the Vermillion 
and search for Ayato on foot. Elvy asks why Haruka is so enamoured with Ayato 
and Haruka says that he's a very important person.

Ayato, meanwhile, is getting reacquainted with Mamoru and Asahina. Mamoru 
point out that it's been a month since Ayato went to see relatives though 
Ayato note it's been half a year for him. Ayato tries to turn the 
conversation to Mishima Reika though the two wonder who he's talking about 
and Asahina then note that she's heard the name Mishima before and it's as if 
she's forgotten something extremely important. Mamoru tells her to stop 
thinking about it almost forcefully.

Back at his home, Ayato tries to get answer about the Mulian, himself and 
more from his mom. He doesn't get much success since mommy's answer doesn't 
seem to be what he wants to hear. Ayato then sees Reika telling him that he 
is Orin, the geisha, the instrumentalist and Maya note that that was Ishtori. 
Ayato then finally ask if his mom is truly his mom and Maya says that she 
wished that she had truly birthed him.

Ayato then runs away again, he meets a frantic Asahina who show him a wound 
saying that her blood is still red and begs to go away with Ayato since 
Mamoru and everyone has started acting weird since their blood turned blue 
and they don't seem to care. Ayato reluctantly agrees to take her with him 
and calls on the Raxephon again.

Meanwhile, Haruka is at her old middle school. This is where she has lots of 
memory with the boy she loved then, Kamina Ayato. Elvy asks if she loves him 
even now and Haruka says that she's 12 years older than him now. They both 
see the Raxephon leaving which breaks Haruka to pieces again though Elvy 
tells her to get her act together and they'll follow him in the Vermillion 
again.

Kuki is not happy that the Raxephon has left again and the fact that there 
was an intruder in that TERRA toy and he wants to send a force to get the 
Raxephon back. He is told to shut up again by Mana or get killed.

Episode 33

Misa is decoding the data disks they brought back from Alteira at Dannar Base. 
From it, they now know that the beings that create humanity create the 
Zentradi and Meltrandi, who were created for war and war with each other. 
They realized their mistake and wanted to create a world where male and 
female can live in peace and thus came to Earth and used the Birdman to 
create their ancestors. These beings left Earth temporarily when the 
Zentradi/ Meltrandi war near the solar system but never returned.  The city 
itself waited for their return but got the team instead.

Dr. Aoi tells Misa and Hikaru to rest up since they've been through a lot but 
Misa says that she wants to decode more data since there might be something 
to tell them about this "voice" that the team found out.

Elvy has rendezvous with A4 in Japan; they lost the Raxephon when it came out 
of Tokyo Jupiter and disappear from radar. Elvy reasons that she can be here 
with the team since both orders "Cooperate with A3" and "Recover the 
Raxephon" doesn't conflict and is not yet rescind so she's accomplishing the 
mission her way. Valentina says that A4 is here to search for Dr. Soga.

Noin and Sally are in Soga's old town but can't find him nor any place he 
might have used to store Ascalons. Sally note that they should ask the 
opinion of the person trailing them which is Johji who says that he's an 
investigative reporter.

Johji gives them a hint that there's an area that was years ago supposed to 
be turned into a powerplant but the plan was abandoned and the place was 
forgotten. Johji then note that he'd better get on his own trail of finding 
his target.

In the same city, Ayato and Asahina has taken refuge in a hotel, Asahina is 
scared having seen a momentary vision of herself ominiously smiling covered 
in blue blood but brush it off as nothing.

Meanwhile, Noin and Sally comes across the place Johji describes and after 
searching note that it's own by a dummy company called S&Y company  which 
probably stands for Soga and Yukimura. The dummy company traces back to Japan 
Internal Affair Division. They know all this because Meilyn hack in and found 
the data for them. Sally says that if Meilyn doesn't mind, she'd like for 
Meilyn to join the Preventer since her skill is top notch.

The two enter and see an Ascalon and wonders if Yukimura is there. A voice 
rang out from the cockpit saying Yukimura isn't here; he left this and is 
gone. It is Dr. Soga who tells them to put away the gun since he won't resist. 
Dr. Soga muse that the Nemesis series was create to destroy A3 but that's the 
sponsor's plan. Originally he planned the Nemesis series like it's namesake 
of the goddess of vengeance for vengeance against the other professors. Dr. 
Soga then asks if they're all fine and Sally says that the professors are 
fine. Noin says that Dr. Soga is under arrest and tells Sally that if 
Yukimura isn't here, they can have the recover team recover the Ascalon. 
Sally, however wants to hear more from Dr. Soga.

In her dream, Asahina again see her MUlian self Veibrad covered in blue blood 
saying that Asahina will soon see the truth out here. She wakes up to see 
Ayato who tells her that he's going to look for a part time job. It won't be 
permanent but he wants time to think over what to do.

Back to Noin and Sally, Dr. Soga tells them that he found an Opart from the 
sea during the time that he was trying to build a robot, thi Opart can react 
to people's emotion and output large energy. He still can't figure out what 
makes it run but he uses the data from what scan he could run on it to create 
the Celestial Reactor. He thought that with it, humanity can defeat any enemy 
like the Mimetic and aliens. Noin note that originally the Nemesis series was 
for mankind's benefit.

Dr.Soga says that however he was consumed by his hatred and lust for revenge 
at his machine being rejected and ignore from the beginning. Dr. Soga ask if 
they know if the Celestial Reactor would have an adverse effect on the human 
brain, of course it would have an effect because as he just found out, it 
wasn't meant to be used by human since the Origin Unit, the Opart he found 
which was the basis for the Celestial Reactor was made to be interfaced with 
the Birdman. He ascertained this from Yukimura who stole the interface from 
A4 a few days ago.


Noin and Sally then realize that the Origin Unit is the "voice" that they've 
heard in the Birdman legend and Noin asks where the Origin Unit is. Dr. Soga 
is surprised that they know what it is and to tell him. Dr. Soga then says 
that Yukimura took both the Birdman's head that he recovered, the Origin Unit 
and the ultimate in the Nemesis Series with him. The Birdman's head along 
with the Origin Unit is attached to this ultimate Nemesis; now please tell 
him the answer he's been searching for twenty years.

Noin says that Dr. Soga has just unleashed a horror on mankind in the worst 
possible way. Suddenly there is an Earthquake and Noin and Sally have to get 
out. Sally says to leave the vacant Ascalon there for now, they can recover 
it later. Sally contacts Valentina and learns that Mimetic Beasts are 
attacking in huge numbers and A4 is deploying to contain them all.  Sally 
note that she can see them and there seems to be a new type of Mimetic around.

Ayato comes back to the hotel and is glad that Asahina is ok but Asahina 
doesn't know what's going on since the people evacuated but she can't go 
without Ayato and Ayato see A4 and says that A4 will protect them.

The team tackles the Mimetic and suddenly the Ascalon comes out ready to 
tackle the team. However Valentina note that its energy signature is that of 
Mimetic. Sally contacts her and says that there's no one in the Ascalon, it 
seems that the new type of Mimetic can merge with a machine and take control. 
They have to destroy it or things are going to get worse. Johji meanwhile is 
searching for Ayato and cant' find him in the shelters. Noin note that the 
Mimetic must have searched for the strongest machine to bond with and found 
the Ascalon empty and waiting underground. Dr.Soga says that the Celesital 
Reactor uses human psyche to output great power but Mimetics won't be able to 
do that so this Ascalon is fighting at reduced capability even more than 
normal. Sally says that even so, Dr. Soga made his Ascalon quite strong but 
Dr. Soga says that he believes A4 can easily defeat this Ascalon. He muse 
that it's quite fitting that his final Ascalon ended up becoming a monster 
and he then see Amanohabakiri. Keiji note that it doesn't feel like when 
Yukimura pilot this thing, he feels nothing in it so it's nothing to him. The 
Habakiri then defeats the final Ascalon and Dr. Soga note that it's ironic 
that the 01 that he discarded is the one that ends up defeating the monster 
Ascalon that he raised.

Suddenly, a new Dolem comes out, one with the name of Veibrad. The A4 team 
tries to attack it but it bounces their attack off. The team cannot hurt it 
and is quickly on the losing hand. Ayato see this and then the Raxephon comes 
and stand in front of him. Ayato note "I see" and he tells Asahina that he 
thought that in Tokyo he had nothing left to lose but actually there's 
something for him to protect, which is her. Asahina says that she has 
something to tell Ayato, she wants to learn more about him, she wants to talk 
with him about lots of things. Ayato says that he'll be back to listen and 
Asahina says that she'll wait, no matter how long it take.

The Raxephon appears and Keiji note that it's Ayato. The Raxephon manage to 
hurt Veibrad's Dolem. What happens next is heartbreaking as Ayato shouts that 
he'll protect Asahina and everyone and starts attacking the Dolem. Johji 
meanwhile note that the lights are blinking in town as if to form words. 
Asahina screams since in actuality, she is tied to the Dolem. The words start 
to say that she loves Ayato and her final words as Ayato kills the Dolem is 
"Ayato...goodbye." Ayato sees this and suddenly realize what just happened and 
is horrified that he just killed Asahina.

Later on, Dr. Soga gives Dr. Aoi all the data he has on his research, they're 
free to use it if they can understand it. Dr. Soga reveals that he will soon 
die because he has been working with the Celestial Reactor for twenty years 
and his condition is terminal. Noin asks why he was in the Ascalon's cockpit 
when they found him and he says that he wants to see what Yukimura was 
thinking, the Celestial Reactor leaves an imprint of the memory of the 
synchronizer that synchronize with it. However he saw nothing and was not 
accepted by the Ascalon. Sally asks who Yukimura is and Dr. Soga says that 
Yukimura was his first synchronizer, his first lab rat.

Two years after he found the Origin Unit, he tested the Origin Unit on 
Yukimura when he was young and it changed him into the malicious man he is 
today. Dr. Aoi then adds that Yukimura didn't try to resist or run away 
afterward but joined Dr. Soga in his research since she now remembers that 
Yukimura is Dr. Soga's wife's maiden name and the man known as Yukimura is 
his son whose true name is Juuichiro Soga.

Dr. Soga admits that it was by his hand that he changed his son's life and 
warped his mind. Dr. Aoi note that they can't do anything more about that but 
there's people who wants to meet Dr. Soga. Prof. Hatsuki comes in and the 
other Prof. calls in from their institute.  They want to talk to Dr. Soga and 
say that if they had done this earlier, tried to understand him then maybe 
all this wouldn't have happened. They'd like to at least try to know him now.

Elsewhere Elvy, Kouji and the others are trying to find Ayato since he is 
nowhere near the Raxephon, Kouji note that they can't hand Ayato back to 
TERRA right now since there's going to be problem. Kouji apologize to Elvy 
but Elvy says it's ok. Haruka suddenly gets a call from Itsuki.

Meanwhile, Johji is with Ayato who is in shock at the Hotel room. Helena 
comes in and thanks Johji for his work and plans to take Ayato to the Babem 
foundation. However before he can be taken away, Shou comes racing in his 
motorcycle and tells Ayato to hop on. Ayato wants to say something as Shou 
speed to the Aoutmura but Shou tells him he doesn't have to say a thing, they 
believe in him, there's no other reason.

At the Aoutmura, Hayato Kobayashi tells his crew to load the Raxephon in and 
once Shou and Ayato gets here; they'll leave immediately. Haruka asks Itsuki 
why he's helping them since he's part of the Babem Foundation and Itsuki says 
that he wants Haruka to be happy since he knows when they were dating that he 
was just a fill in for who she loved which is Ayato.

The aftermath as Gramp Rokudo learns is that Isshiki has taken over TERRA and 
Comm. Kunugi has been forcefully retired.

 Episode 34

It's been two weeks since the last mission and Isshiki is furiously trying to 
get A3 to hand back that Mulian Ayato and the Raxephon since they are TERRA's 
property but Lady Une says that the order that allows the Raxephon and its 
pilot to work with A3/A4 is still in effect. Isshiki shouted that the orders 
to rescind the cooperation will come soon enough; just hand back the Raxephon 
now. Hatsuki says that in order for A3 to comply, they need a written order 
from the Babem foundation's head which is TERRA's mother company, even as the 
current head of TERRA, Isshiki has no authority to demand back the Raxephon. 
Isshiki snubs Hatsuki saying that he wants to talk to the highest head of A3 
and Lady Une says that he's right in front of Isshiki. Hatsuki had just been 
promoted to the current leader of A3 (so I'm thinking Gloval either resign or 
his term is over)

Hatsuki then thanks Isshiki for TERRA's cooperation and they'll be putting 
the Raxephon to good use. Isshiki says that he'll remember this and they'll 
regret it and signs off. Dr. Aoi commends Hatsuki on how well he handles that 
bastard and Haruka thanks him as well. Hatsuki says that he didn't do it for 
her but he's heard enough rumours about Isshiki that the current TERRA might 
be a danger to all. Hatsuki tells Haruka to take care of Ayato since his 
emotional wounds will take time to heal. Hatsuki then tells Dr.Aoi that he 
really didn't want this post but Dr. Aoi says that unlike the other 
Professors he doesn't have any project or responsibility on his hand right 
now. Hatsuki counters that he has that mothership project for the Dancougar 
(the Gandall) in the work but Dr.Aoi counters that that's barely only on the 
drawing board stage. Hatsuki then asks what they're going to do once that 
bastard really DOES come back with written order from Babem and Lady Une says 
that they'll revert to Plan B if it gets to that stage. Dr.Aoi then takes a 
call from Kagemaru, apparently they've found something urgent on Dr.Soga's 
note regarding the Mimetic Beasts.

Megumi is secretly talking to Ayato from TERRA, she's asked Kim to secretly 
patch her through without the white snake knowing. Megumi says that she 
doesn't mind if Ayato is a MUlian and Ayato says that he doesn't mind either 
but it will take time for him to accept it. After Megumi cuts off 
communication, Ayato then tells Haruka who was hiding to come out and he then 
apologizes for the words he said last time. He then tells Haruka that he'll 
let Haruka be the first person to see his painting once it's finished.

Back to Dr.Aoi, she notes that the data shows a virus that mimics cells. 
Yukimura was probably the one who gave this info to Dr. Soga since it's 
Yukimura's research area. He named it the Insania Virus and it will cause 
changes in the brain when certain condition are met and result in the 
carrier's rationality going out the window. Hatuski confirms this since he 
developed the Aggressive Beast system for Dancougar which also makes human 
aggression his specialty and this virus will make people uncontrollable or 
even worse. Valentina then comes in with case report from Federation base 
worldwide and there had been many dozen cases where soliders have suddenly 
gone berserk without any reason and the cause was attributed to stress 
accumultated from battle. Dr.Aoi says that they need to make this public and 
get every lab working on it. Hatsuki then tells Valentina to get everyone in 
A4 tested using these data as the basis.

Afterward, at the cafeteria, the Dancougar team is talking about Hatsuki's 
promotion and wondering why Mimetic are coming out in large amount and 
Camille says that it's like a prelude to a huge global assault since a lot of 
their eggs have been found. Nearby, Pops and the other mechanic say that the 
Macross is almost fully repaired from what he last heard since only the 
cannon remained damaged. Athrun asks about ZAFT's movement and is told that 
ZAFT is building up forces. Even with A3/A4 cleared, they're dead set against 
the team and Kira says that Lacus is investigating them. Pops note that if 
only they could make Dulandal's dealing with Scirocco public then they might 
be able to show the world that ZAFT is up to something and Athrun wishes that 
he'd been bright enough to snag the log data of that meeting. Heero however 
tells him that it won't do any good since they're expert at information 
manipulation. Even if the team manages to make their finding public, ZAFT 
will discredit it and manipulate the citizen into not believing the team's 
claim. As long as they play victim to LOGOS's attack, the world will continue 
to look favorably on them.

Shizuru says that she's more concerned about the Mimetic, there could be a 
huge outburst like 5 years ago and Wufei says that Gou defeated them then but 
Gou says that he didn't do it alone and he paid a terrible price for it which 
makes Milla pause. Quattre tells him that he's not alone this time too and 
they won't be sacrifice. Anna reassures Gou that they won't let the event of 
five years ago repeat itself. Suddenly Hatsuki's voice calls everyone into an 
immediate meeting.

The male Super Robot pilots are stunned to hear that Dr.Aoi and Hatsuki wants 
them to stop piloting their machine immediately. Dr.Aoi then continues saying 
that they've discovered a new virus; the Insania Virus and it existed inside 
Mimetic Beast ever since they start appearing. This virus is airborne and had 
been mostly undetected for so long that almost every people are carrier. Now 
normally this virus is dormant unless certain conditions are fulfilled. The 
condition is that when the carrier, mostly male, is violent and angry, the 
virus will start to rob them of rationality and regresss them to acting out 
their base desire, they become berserk and uncontrollable. A full bloom 
condition of this is called the Rabid Syndrome and male are the most prone to 
having this condition. Now how dangerous would it be if the male was the 
pilot of a powerful robot. Dr. Aoi says that the test result shows that 
everyone on this island is infected and they stand a high risk of developing 
the syndrome.

Dr.Aoi continues that Gou who is a man and has the most contact with the 
Mimetic stands the highest risk of all and Gou asks if they're all fired. Dr. 
Aoi says that they're indefinitely suspended until they can find a cure. Shou 
says that they may have the virus but they've been fine until now so isn't it 
ok for them? Dr. Aoi says that it doesn't ensure that they won't develop the 
syndrome later. A4 is the most powerful fighting force the world has and who 
will stop A4 if its pilot goes out of control. Gou grits his teeth sadly and 
says he understands.

Meanwhile Ken and Lu are still hunting Mimetic and Ken feels a sharp pang in 
his chest though he tells Lu that it's nothing.

Back at A3 Island, Ayato and the others are searching for Gou who had 
wandered off after the meeting very dejected. Ayato says that he understands 
how Gou feels since he's lost his reason to exist. Chizuru and Kosuke note 
that Ayato is also infected which makes MUlian as human as they are. They see 
Anna being quite angry and shouting insults to Gou to the sea. Afterward she 
says that she feels better about it and she hasn't seen him since. She notes 
that she will fight on Gou and the other's behalf from now on.

Milla is also looking for Gou, she is at the Hangar and Dr.Aoi says that Gou 
isn't here. Five years ago when he lost Milla, he was like this or even worse. 
He'd lost his reason for living and just existed to eat and sleep over and 
over like the living dead. He really loved Milla but he fought his way back. 
Milla note that Gou has five years that she doesn't know about and she lost 
to that five years?

At night with Ken and Lu, Lu asks Ken what he'll do after he defeated all the 
Mimetics and Ken says that the him that exist for revenge will probably die, 
he hadn't think that far ahead and he doesn't know any other way of life. Lu 
says that he won't die, he should live in the way he wants to live.She 
herself lived the way she wants to and she doesn't know if it's right or 
wrong but she has no regret taking this path. Suddenly they detect huge 
amount of Mimetics.

At A3 Island, Shizuru note that Mimetic just have to attack now and Akira 
asks where Mari is going. Mari says that with Akira and Jinguchi undeployable, 
it's up to her to continue the fight but Jinguchi tells her that her skill 
aren't good enough to pilot the Bluecar alone yet. Sarah then says that 
Jinguchi is right, her and Chizuru's component machine (Landcougar and Battle 
Marine) aren't powerful on it's own to go fight too and they'd only be 
hindering Shizuru and the other girls.

Shou asks Marbel if she'd like to use the Billvine for this mission and 
Marbel says that she'll stick with the Dunbine since she knows it best. Ayato 
wishes Elvy luck and Elvy says that Ayato has finally smile again and to 
leave things to her. Camille tells Four to be careful and so does Amuro to 
Emma. Emma says that she's a former Titans and she'll be fine supporting the 
others with the Gundam MkII.

Valentina says that the Mimetics are in Australia, area D-302. Dr.Aoi note 
that they're there for Chrononium, they need Chrononium to reproduce but most 
Chrononium mines are already stripped bare and only area D-302 has the 
largest amount of Chrononium right now so they're targeting it. Ryouma and 
Keiji then ask to be deploys too, If Shizuru and the girls failed, then 
they're looking at a huge influx of Mimetic rampage across the world.

Shizuru then says to Keiji "Who the hell do you think I am" (Well definitely 
not of the Lagann brigade, that's for sure) Shizuru then asks what happen if 
the male pilot goes berserk. Tetsuya then says that they'll stop each other 
then, Those that doesn't go berserk will stop the one who does. Fair enough?

Dr.Aoi asks if they're serious and Hatsuki says that he'll allow it then but 
the ladies are the frontliner this time, the male are only back-up and they 
don't deploy until he gives the word.

In Austalia, the ladies team has arrived. Shizuru tells Anna not to let down 
her guard and Anna note that Gou may not be able to fight anymore but she'll 
fight on his behalf, the girls will carry on the duty of protecting the Earth 
from the boys. Milla note that she will protect Gou and Emma notes that it 
may be that from now on, it's only the women who will fight the war. Elvy 
note that that's a reverse of the time when only men were allowed to fight. 
Marbel says that she's ready and Shizuru shouted "Let's go ladies."
The ladies team manages to defeat the Mimetic but as more starts to appear, 
Blade Gainer and CosmoDiver also appears. Ken tells the ladies to get out of 
the way, they're his prey. Shizuru shouted that he's Menange Zero which makes 
him just as dangerous as the Mimetics and must be stopped.

Ken doesn't care and heads for the Mimetic which makes Anna shout for him not 
to ignore her, however Lu attacks the ladies saying that she won't let them 
interfere with Ken. Anna asks why Lu is doing this, if this man continues on 
this path he'll... and Lu says that she knows but if he wants to then she'll 
watch him on this path because it's what he wanted even if it means he dies. 
Milla tries to get Ken to cooperate with them but Ken shrugged her off. With 
Lu interfering enough, some of the ladies decide to just wreck the Cosmo 
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he taught her to.  As Shizuru and some of the ladies take on Ken, Dr. Aoi 
then tells the ladies to stop fighting him since he's exhibiting sign of 
Rabid syndrome and they can't provoke him any further.

Suddenly a large Mimetic comes out and Ken says that even though it changed 
form, he can remember it, he's been waiting for this day and he then cleaves 
out from the Mimetic's belly, a female robot. Ken says that he's finally 
found Celeblader, he wanted to meet Rosa for so long. Lu tells the ladies 
that that's Ken's partner robot, his loved one died fighting the Mimetic. Ken 
tells Lu to hop on since they can't just leave it lying there and Lu note 
that this is Ken's lover's robot.

A large number of Mimetic rushes out giving the tired ladies a hard time, Gou 
see this and decides to deploy even without the order. Milla sees this and 
tells Anna to stop Gou from joining in but Gou shouted to Anna that if she's 
his wife then don't stop him, he can't run away. Jinguchi see this and note 
that there's no turning back now and Hatsuki orders the men to deploy but if 
they feel a little odd, they must retreat at once. Dr. Aoi grumbles about 
those male idiots and tells Valentina to watch their vital signs for 
indication of Rabid Syndrome.

Godannar joins the fight as Ken defeats the Mimetic and suddenly screams and 
shouted "Who's next?" He then initiated the Blade Gainer Twin Drive which 
makes it even more powerful. Gou decides to go twin drive himself and Dr.Aoi 
see that Gou's vital sign is jumping up, he's at the highest risk of having 
Rabid Syndrome develops and grumble that that idiot got himself too fired up. 
She tells Gou to retreat but Gou asks who's going to stop the berserk Blade 
Gainer? Dr. Aoi asks what's going to happen if Godannar goes berserk too and 
Gou says that he'll finish things off before that happens. Valentina tells 
Anna to stop Gou but Anna says that when Gou's like this, there's no way to 
stop his determination so they'd better go along and get it over quick like 
he said and go home. Gou says that that includes going home with Lu in tow 
and Anna says that she knew Gou would say that.

Godannar and the ladies team tackle Blade Gainer. Elvy says that Ken's skill 
aren't bad, it's worthy of the Menange Zero but this doesn't compare to MU's 
Dolems. Blade Gainer is given a beating and Lu begs Ken to stop, it's enough 
but Ken tells her to let him fight to the end and the Blade Gainer goes down. 
Ken apologize to Lu but Lu says its ok, she chose this path.


Later on at the hangar, Pops note that that was a lot of work restoring the 
Godannar but mechas can be repaired unlike the pilot. Milla asks Anna why she 
didn't stop Gou in either occasion, what if something happened to him and 
Anna says that she know it was dangerous and Milla asks why she put her loved 
one in danger. Anna says that she's decided that whatever happened, she 
wouldn't deter Gou from his path but will walk alongside it with him. Milla 
then pause and says that she lose, Anna was willing to go alongside the one 
she loved instead of preventing him from taking that path which means she's 
more commited. Anna note though that Gou can't fight anymore but Mari then 
comes in saying that they've found a way to stop the Rabid Syndrome.

At A3's command room, Hayato Kobayashi note that that was a dangerous gamble 
Hatsuki took but Hatsuki says that compared to working with the Dancougar 
team in the past, this was a breeze. Shinobu then shouted "What's that 
supposed to mean?" and Masato says that he gets the joke. Anna then comes in 
asking if they've really found a way to stop Rabid Syndrome. Dr. Aoi explains 
that they now have a medicine that will prevent the Rabid Syndrome from 
exhibiting in the male and all male personnel are now taking the shots. 
However this isn't a cure for the Insania Virus and the shots needs to be 
taken periodically but the result is that the male can now return to piloting 
without having to worry about developing the syndrome during the battle.

Kouji breathe a sigh of relieve saying that he doesn't want to go into battle 
with that worry over his shoulder like today ever again and periodic shots 
will do for now as long as they can continue to fight.

Milla is curious if this medicine can be instantly produced and Dr. Aoi says 
that it's impossible for just them and it wasn't created by them but sent to 
them by another scientist. It used Milla's cell which can resist the Insania 
Virus. When they recovered Milla, her cells were sent around the world for 
studies. Marbel asks why Milla's cell can do that and Dr. Aoi theorize that 
Milla spent five years bonded to a Mimetic and Mimetic have natural 
antibodies that can totally suppress the Insania Virus from displaying Rabid 
Syndrome so Milla's cells probably evolved to do that as well.

Hatsuki repeat that this is only a temporary cure, they must find a true cure 
for the Insania Virus though it might not be possible since new airbone virus 
are found everyday so if there's a total cure then it's beyond their current 
technology. Athrun then note that Plant holds the key with DNA manipulation 
technology used to create Coordinators. Dr. Aoi can only hope that they'll 
cooperate.

At Plant, Dulandal note that the Insania Virus is an irregular in his plan 
but he can use it. The time is right to implement the plan before the giants 
return.

At the A3 sickward, Gou see that Ken has awakens and introduce himself to Ken. 
Ken asks why they saved him and Gou says that Lu did most of the work and 
she's resting near him since she doesn't want to be elsewhere. Gou ask if Ken 
will fight alongside them and Ken says that he's Menange Zero and he fought 
only for revenge, he isn't worthy to join them. Gou says that A4 was Menanged 
Zero as well before they got it repealed. Dr. Aoi adds that the Special Laws 
that allows Menange Zero is currently being put into a lot of doubt since it 
was brought on by LOGOS's hands and they along with the Federation used it 
for their own cause and ignored it when they created their own Specials. It's 
possible that a major revision will occur or it will be repealed.

Gou adds that Ken may have destroyed property but he never killed anyone or 
allowed anyone to be killed in his battle which is what the Professors can 
use to get Menange Zero repealed for him. They want his help against Mimetic 
from now on. Ken asks why Gou is doing this and Gou says that it's because Lu 
wants him, he was there for her when they weren't and he raised her. She lost 
her father and found Ken for support and they don't want to take that from 
her.

Ken is left to think about it and he asks Rosa if she'll forgive him if he 
wants to try walking a different path from now on. Outside the sick ward, 
Hatsuki asks Dr. Aoi if she should tell Anna that the scientist who sent the 
medicine was her father. Dr. Aoi says that it definitely is her husband but 
he's not here in person so there's no need to get her thinking yet. She 
wonders where he is. Hatsuki thinks that Tacchan as Dr.Aoi calls her hubby 
must have realized that the Mimetic holds a hidden threat in them and went 
into seclusion to find a way to stop the Rabid Syndrome.

Suddenly Valentina comes in and asks the two professors to tell her about 
Keiji's condition because she now freely admits that she likes him and wants 
to know what's happening to him. Dr. Aoi says that she'd better steel her 
resolve since the truth they found isn't pretty.

Hatsuki starts that from Dr. Soga's notes, they can now conclude that they 
cannot separate Keiji from Habakiri's Celestial Reactor or he will die, his 
brain has already formed a link with it. Dr. Aoi continues that Keiji's 
worsening health and mental condition can be solved if they raised the 
synchronization between his brain and the Reactor like in Yukimura's case of 
perfect synchronization but Keiji will cease to be Keiji. His personality 
will be changed as with Dr. Soga changing Yukimura's personality when he 
synchro Yukimura with the Origin Unit which the Celestial Reactor is based on.

The problem is the Origin Unit or the "voice" was a weapon for the Birdman 
which turn it into a weapon against alien which means it can override the 
Birdman's original programming which means it overwrite Yukimura's 
personality a long time ago and imprint in him the personality of wanting to 
destroy anything he consider his enemy. He found a strong enemy to destroy in 
A3 and work to get power to destroy them. Now the Celestial Reactor is based 
on the Origin Unit so Keiji will become like Yukimura if they raise the 
synchro, he will exist only to destroy.

Valentina asks if there's no way to save Keiji and Dr. Aoi says that Yukimura 
may have earlier tried to escape his fate by researching the Insania virus or 
maybe he didn't, whatever the case, he came to accept his role as the 
Destroyer. They can't let that happen to Keiji and the only thing they CAN do 
is to remind him of his own humanity and his link to it and only Valentina 
can do that for him.

Episode 35

At the Minerva, Rey tells Shin to believe in Dulandal who will bring peace to 
the world. There's going to be major changes in the world, they will be 
changing it. Shin is uneasy and asks why Rey is talking like someone on his 
deathbed leaving behind his last wishes and Rey confide in Shin that he is a 
clone who doesn't have much time left in the world. He outlines his past of 
how he was created as funding to create Kira Yamato the Super Coordinator and 
the fact that one of his other self fell to despair, fought and died. Rey 
says that he wants this type of thing to end so that people like him wouldn't 
have to be created again and he wants Shin to protect this new future.

At Macross, Bartfield, Lacus, and Murrue note that Dulandal will use the 
Insania Virus topic to make his move soon. He is reported to be at the 
Messiah, a compact version of Genesis. There have been reports that lots of 
ships from Mendel have delivered many unknown containers there. Murrue note 
that Mendel was the place Kira was born and where Dulandal once worked as a 
geneticist.

Dulandal begins his broadcast to the world and talks about the Insania Virus 
and that it might bring peace in that people would be afraid to start wars 
though ultimately, a cure must be found because the virus might mutate. 
Dulandal pledge Plant's full scientific resource into finding a cure. 
Dulandal begins to talk about the reason for war and outlines past wars. 
Quattro who's viewing this comments that Dulandal's skirting the topic a 
lot(i.e. not getting to the point at once but taking his sweet time) and 
Amuro says "Just like you" (VA joke) to which Quattro replies "Oh really" 
with a sarcastic smirk and says "That's not a commendable trait."

Dulandal then puts forward his answer to stop war permanently in the form of 
the Destiny Plan where everyone's future is determined by genetics and 
personality as to what you will do and be content with from birth to death. 
Shin is shocked at Dulandal's solution but Rey urge him on and says that 
there will be resistance to this like any new idea. Shin is uneasy but 
submits to Rey's view.

Cagalli contacts A3 and note that only A3, Orb and Scandinavia have come out 
publicly opposing the Destiny Plan while other nations are still considering 
it or keeping mum. Dulandal has planned this quite well using good will and 
obligation to Plant and the image of the victim from LOGOS to gather sympathy 
and pressure people to go along with the idea alongside the fact that ZAFT is 
pretty much the one with all the big guns aimed at the rest of the world 
right now should anyone not comply. Cagalli says that they can't let things 
go Dulandal's way since a world where  everyone's fate is determined since 
birth is not a world that people should live in or be forced onto them. 
Cagalli says that she will back A3 all the way.

 Jinguchi note that the Destiny Plan sounds nice on paper but Athrun note 
that it's a world where your future is decided and forced on you by others 
and he thinks that Dulandal might not settle for just presenting the plan but 
will begin to force compliance with his big guns. Valentina then tells 
everyone that Cagalli has begun broadcasting Orb's official stance against 
the Destiny Plan.

Dulandal learns of Orb's stance which is anticipated and he also learns that 
after Cagalli's speech, a fleet of Federation ship at Alsabel which was 
originally looking for an alliance with ZAFT had begun to distance themselves 
from them. Dulandal orders the Requiem fired on them to eradicate them. They 
will be publicly blamed as Logos remnant wanting to start trouble. Dulandal 
says that this is the last chance for humanity so if you oppose this, you are 
humanity's enemy.

The Minerva sees the Requiem fired and Rey tells Shin the cover story about 
why they eradicated those fleet. Shin is quite doubtful over this since he 
previously got told that those soliders were trying to forge an alliance with 
ZAFT but Rey tells him that things won't go smoothly at first, A4 will now 
come and they must defend this new world that they'll create.

A4 has rendezvous at the Macross, Archangel, and Eternal and Misa returns to 
the Macross Bridge.  They note the Fed fleet's destruction at Alsabel. Hayato 
note that they're at it again with info manipulation and if Plant says you're 
bad then you're bad. Ryouma note that the next target might be Macross. Lacus 
says that's unlikely, as long as Macross don't move, they won't target the 
Macross because the Macross is a symbol of hope for humanity against the 
aliens. Bartfield says that Dulandal will target Orb instead since it's made 
its anti stance known and Ryou says that with Orb gone, they can manipulate 
information and the world will dance to their tune.

Shinobu then shouts that they'll take out the Requiem again before ZAFT can 
use it. Camille regrets that they didn't trash it completely the first time 
and allowed ZAFT to take over it though Amuro says that the circumstances 
didn't allow it. Hikaru note that they should use the Macross's pulse bomb 
missile to attack from the Macross if it's taking time to recharge but Lacus 
says that Dulandal has moved the Messiah, a portable Genesis and positioned 
it to fire on the Macross if it tries that, with it's gamma radiation, it'll 
kill all the Macross personnel but leave the Macross intact for further use, 
beside there is a swarm of asteroid that will interfere with the pulse bomb 
hitting the Requiem.

Shou note that a blitzkrieg attack is their only option using fast machines 
and fast ships which means the Archangel and Eternal.

At the Messiah, Dulandal is informed that the Archangel and Eternal has left 
the Macross heading for the Requiem. They seem to be using the asteroids to 
mask their movement but there is no movement from the Macross. Lacus makes a 
public announcement to try to get ZAFT to reconsider their position but 
Dulandal reminds his troops that by Lacus's action she is a terrorist and a 
spy. Dulandal then contacts the Minerva to sink the Archangel.

Gloval lament that the Macross can do nothing but sit this one out again and 
Claudia wish that they could help. Misa then asks about the specifics of the 
problem with the Macross cannon, she might have a way for them to revive it 
and join in.

The Minerva is also using asteroids to mask their presence and waiting to 
ambush the Archangel. Rey eggs Shin and Lunamaria on saying that A3 and Orb 
wants to rule the world. He continues to leads Shin on filling his head with 
propaganda and his interpretration on what they're doing until Shin is pretty 
much angry and fired up to fight.

Talia says as the Archangel is in range that today they will sink that ship 
on her honour as Captain and fires the Minerva's cannon. Murrue notice too 
late and just as the bridge is about to be sunk, Neo blocks the cannon's beam 
with the Akatsuki's beam reflect capability and regain his memories as Mwu la 
Fraga.

Shin can't believe that someone actually did that and survives though Rey 
says that they're still disoriented and they can still push the attack 
momentum but suddenly the Minerva and Shin's group are under attack from a 
duo of Meltrandi fighter pod.

Fokker note that of all the time for the aliens to come back but Valentina is 
shocked that there's actually only two of them and they're displaying A4 code. 
It is Max who has become giant sized along with Millia. Max says that they'll 
explain later and introduce Millia to them so that she wouldn't attack them.

Valentina then quickly split the team into two groups. The Archangel will 
take over the sky of the Daidalos base housing the Requiem. The entrance they 
used last time is now too heavily guarded and blocked that it would be too 
counterproductive to try it again which is why if they can block the firing 
exit, ZAFT will not open it to fire because there will be a lag time for a 
few seconds before firing that the control room and firing mechanism are 
exposed which is ample time for aces like Amuro and others to go in that way 
and wreck the mechanism and control room easily.

However for this to work, the Archangel will be more or less a sitting duck 
which mean it's up to the Eternal to act as decoy and lure the Messiah away 
from firing on it Lacus note that this is a fight to preserve the way people 
wants to live, to preserve freedom.

The Eternal charges towards Messiah and takes care of the MS troops guarding 
it, Dulandal orders the Messiah to fire on the Eternal but Lacus and 
Bartfield using the data they have on Genesis manage to predict the firing 
time and range and swerves the Eternal away along with telling Kira and the 
team he's leading to duck.

Rey arrives in the Legend Gundam and Kira wonder what this weird feeling he 
has when fighting Rey is. However Rey isn't exactly much of a problem when we 
added the White Demon Amuro Rei and his Nu Gundam into the mix (kudos point 
for also adding Quattro/Char to make Rey angst) and Rey falls.

At the Daidalos moon base, the team led by Athrun maange to make short work 
of ZAFT MS. Dearkka asks Yzak what they should do, and Yzak decides to attack 
and meet Athrun again. Athun manage to cripple Dearkka and Yzak's mech and 
Dearkka tells Yzak that that's enough stubbornness out of him and to do what 
needs to be done.

Dearkka tells Athrun that they came to wreck the control center right, 
there's a path A4 used last time which was fortified making it impossible to 
use this time but they can considering they're still ZAFT soldiers. Yzak 
tells Athrun not to die at least not until he gets his hands on him.

The Minerva charges the Archangel and Luna Maria sees Athrun. Shin is furious 
at Athrun and charges him. Arthur sees the Dancougar team and Shinobu says 
that he didn't want to fight the Minerva but Talia says that this reluctance 
will get him killed on the battlefield though she is hard pressed for words 
when Athrun and the Justice comes into view and Athrun is hard pressed for 
words as well when he has to attack the Minerva.

Luna is defeated and Shin gets even more furious and more careless in his 
attack and soon he is kissing asteroid pavement. The Minerva is sanked and 
Talia orders everyone to evacuate the ship.

Dulandal can't believe that Talia and Rey lost easily and orders the Messiah 
to fire on the Archangel while the Requiem will hit the Eternal. However an 
enormous beam then hits the reflector colony that the Requiem used to reangle 
its beam and another one hits the Messiah disabling it. The beams are from 
the Macross Cannon in its transformation mode. Gloval note that they use 
Transformation to link energy module to the Macross cannon and this was made 
possible since A4 had distracted Messiah from noticing what they were doing.

Everyone note that the Macross saved them and is relieved though they know 
that the Macross is a WMD just like Requiem and Messiah and if in the wrong 
hand can prove just as dangerous.

Kira decides to head for the Messiah to settle things and Shin dreams of 
Stella and wakes up to Luna Maria cradling him with the Destiny and Impulse 
half destroyed in the background. He starts crying as Luna tells him that Orb 
wasn't destroyed, it's still safe. At the Minerva, Talia tells Arthur to take 
care of things and apologize saying that she has to go.

Kira comes to Dulandal with gun in hand intenting on killing him and Dulandal 
calmly tells him to stop since the world will only return to it's troubled 
self if the Destiny Plan is not implemented. Dulandal says that people will 
soon forget and be at it again sooner or later.Anyone can say they'll change 
things but nothing changes. Kira says that the world cannot be pushed to 
change like this which is why he has to stop Dulandal.

Dulandal says that people are created this way ingrained into their DNA by 
protoculture and the Birdamn and it's time to correct that.He dares Kira to 
shoot him if they want to remain incomplete. Kira says that he doesn't want 
to but he must and ready the trigger.


Heero then intervene telling Kira that killing Dulandal won't end this. Heero 
says that he and the other Wing boys are curious and here to investigate. 
Talia bursts in to see Kira, Heero and Dulandal only for Wufei to tell her 
not to move (probably with that sword of his.) Heero says that the Destiny 
Plan is actually a long term plan to turn/coerce every human into 
Coordinators over the spanning generations (which makes sense since if your 
fate is determined by DNA, parents will want to manipulate their children's 
DNA to give them better future.) However the plan must make contingency for 
factors such as aliens. Duo and the other Wing boys then called in saying 
they found over two thousand cloning pods along with a complex system to 
breed, feed, accelerates the clones'growth, education and memory to quickly 
create clone soliders though only one pod has an inhabitant so far.

Wufei note that this is what Dulandal shipped from Mendel, after getting rid 
of A4 he plans to use the Macross along with the clone army to fight the 
aliens. Kira asks why Dulandal is repeating the suffering and tragedie of 
Klueze like this and Dulandal says that Klueze had a sad destiny and was 
killed by it and he hated the tragedy Kira mentioned because it was creation 
of a life without purpose but these clones are different since the original 
of this clone choose this path for his clones to be grown to adulthood 
alongside his memories. They will accept being clones from the start and 
fight to protect humanity from the aliens in shadows at the edge of the solar 
system to create peace for the Destiny Plan.

Kira says that Duldandal's world will rob people of freedom and the promise 
of hope and tomorrow forever but Dulandal mocks it saying that freedom is the 
freedom to hurt other and take what you want  and he says that the people 
will compare the world he offer to Kira's current world and choose his. If 
Kira kills him, the Earth will go into turmoil. Kira says that he's prepared 
to fight any consequences. However someone else shoot Dulandal. Dulandal asks 
if it was Talia but it was actually Rey who overheard everything.

Rey cries and apologize but he couldn't let Dulandal go through with birthing 
those clones and to take away their tomorrows. Dulandal then says "I see... no 
I'M the one who should apologize, I betrayed you" Talia tells Kira and the 
others to go since the Messiah will soon explode and she will take care of 
Dulandal's last moments. Wufei asks if Talia wants to die but then says that 
it's her choice, that's HER freedom. Dulandal tells Kira to take the clone 
and give him a peaceful life since he hasn't been growth accelerated nor 
imprint with his original's memory at all, he's a baby.

In his last moment, Dulandal apologize for bringing Talia into this and Talia 
says that it's ok, this is his and her's destiny and she tells Rey to come by 
her side and Rey cries out for his mother in spirit. The Messiah explodes and 
the Freedom escapes.

Back at TERRA, Isshiki is glad that Dulandal is dead, who'd want to live in a 
world where your fate is determined by DNA; he himself certainly wouldn't 
accept it. If A4 hadn't done it, he would have Dulandal killed eventually 
though Itsuki note sarcastically "SURE you can"

Rendezvousing at the Macross, Keiji asks Millia if the Macross is definitely 
a Meltran ship and Millia says that the appearance may have been changed but 
it certainly is a middle class ship the Meltran used. Fokker says that he 
didn't expect Max to come back as a giant and Max says that his Valkyrie was 
destroyed and there were lots of problems afterward. Keiji note that 
Protoculture was a quite capable race to have size changing equipment as 
normal tech to use as they please and Ayato agreed since they were the all 
knowing all powerful races who created humanity though Haruka says that they 
got themselves extinct in the end.

Hikaru commends Max saying that he's someone that can't die even if he's 
killed and Max says that that goes for Hikaru also. Valetina tells Max that 
since they're giant he and Millia will have to reside in the Hangar 
unfortunately though Millia isn't bothered by it.

Char, Amuro and Camille are talking amongst each other whether they felt the 
same thing when the clone was wheeled past them and Heero comes in saying 
that their instinct must have reacted to the clone since it was a clone of 
Paputimus Scirocco. Duo hopes that Camille doesn't hold any grudge towards it 
and Camille says that Scirocco was someone who was wrong and must be defeated 
but there's no guarantee that his clone will walk the same path. (hopefully) 
Lacus says that DNA and cell does not determine personality as long as 
there's no emphasis on it like in the Destiny Plan. Kira agrees and asks that 
the clone be sent to Maltio to be given a peaceful life.

Lacus plans to return to ZAFT and steer it on the right path this time making 
sure that the ceasefire becomes true peace and Yzak comes to escort her. Yzak 
tells Athrun that he's lucky that he's here in official capacity or he'd deck 
Athrun one. Dearkka tells Yzak to knock off the act since they can all see 
that he really wanted to come greet his old friend. Yzak tells Dearkka to 
shaddup. Amuro tells Lacus that A3 and Orb will try to explain what happened 
to the world. Milla is also going to Plant to create vaccine for the Insania 
Virus though she'll be back in ten days. She tells Anna that she finally 
knows why she was given a second chance at life.

Weeks later at Orb, Luna and Shin are at the Orb memorial for those fallen 
during the Invasion of Orb which included Shin's family. Shin say that he 
never came to this memorial, he hated it but it finally got to him that it 
shouldn't be like this. Luna comments that this country has recovered from 
the various wars since then and there is peace talk all around thanks to 
Lacus and A3 which is why they were easily able to enter Orb.

Shin note that it sounds great but it's not everlasting peace, no matter how 
much people try to extend the flower of peace and friendship, there will be 
those who will brush it away. Meilyn then arrives and see Luna. She tells 
Luna that she's been working with A4 and Luna says that she's glad her 
younger sister is allright. Athrun note that Shin actually came and tells 
Shin not to address him by his title anymore since he's neither Shin's 
commander nor his enemy any longer. Kira appear and note that this is the 
first time they've met face to face and Athrun tells Shin that this is Kira 
Yamato, Freedom's pilot. Kira extends his hand in peace though Shin is 
reluctant to take it and Kira says that no matter how many time Shin brush it 
away, he will continue to offer the flower of peace and friendship. Athrun 
agrees saying that that's their battle and asks for Shin and Luna's help to 
work together from now on. Shin is silent, he considers and then agrees.

Episode 36

Quon dreams of Maya at Babem's lair, Babem says that Maya has grown up and is 
not worth being Geisha anymore. Quon has now turned seventeen and she is 
worthy.

It had been one month since the battle with ZAFT and Dulandal. The Federation, 
ZAFT and A3 has now joined force to create a Global Union that is 
distributing aid to places ravaged by war and rebuilding not to mention 
fighting off Mimetic Beasts that are still appearing all over the world. The 
Global Union is working with A4, the independent taskforce of A3 regarding 
the Mimetic. Amidst all this, Queen Shiela has called for remnant of Drake 
and Bishott's troops that have survived and are in hiding to come out and 
rejoin them to find a way home to Byston Well.

Gramp Rokudo hears all this and not that humanity has finally joins together 
and made up and understands each other. Ayato's dad is remorseful for having 
to hand them (Babem?) the sleeping princess and the black egg but Gramp 
Rokudo tells him not to be too hard on himself. Ayato's dad note that time is 
growing short and Gramp Rokudo agrees that that goes double for Ayato's time 
as a human. He's glad that Ayato found family and those who walked beside him 
like A4.

An Asshmar fleet bid the Aoutmura farewell as they return to base after 
fighting Mimetic beasts together, Hayato Kobayashi note that yesterday's 
enemies are now today's friend, Shinobu note that it's strange working 
alongside them since barely a month ago they were at each other's throat and 
Ayato note that they helped a lot today.

Shinobu note that there's no more distinction between Federation and ZAFT 
anymore, it's all just one big team working together for world peace. Keiji 
says that it's not a perfect peace yet since there's still AXIS and some 
former Federation /ZAFT troops that are still against this along with the MU 
problem. Amuro says that a day will probably come when they can live together 
alongside the MU and the aliens. Elvy note that this was Shin and Luna's 
first fight against the Mimetics and they weren't bad and Athrun asks how 
they feel having to tackle the Mimetics. Luna says that she can't believe 
that A4 had to take these gigantic things on regularly and Shin says that 
they'll get used to it and criticize Luna for her performance saying "Luna, 
you went in too close, for gigantic enemies like that it's best to leave 
close combat to the Super Robots. You should have changed into Blast 
Silouhette for support attack" Luna replied "Oh you're one to talk, mister 
charge in without a second thought."

Hayato Kobayashi notes that the two are fitting in quite well and says that 
they will now rendezvous with TERRA for Operation Downfall designed to crack 
the Tokyo Jupiter dome.

At the TERRA ship, Isshiki is presiding over the operation with a smirk but 
when a message comes for him, he suddenly change demeanour and ordered the 
operation to start immediately without waiting for A4 backup. The Aoutmura 
learns of the haste in schedule and wonders what happened. Hatsuki then 
contacted them saying that they thought they ordered TERRA to stop the 
operation since scientists have determined that  Operation Downfall would 
have dangerous consequence and have asked the Global United Government to 
declare a cease and desist order which they did and forwarded. Isshiki 
succeeds in breaking the Jupiter Wall that surrounded Tokyo only for MU 
cities and their armies to appear all over the world and it's cities. Yakumo 
then gets a call from the higher up and promptly arrests Isshiki for 
disobeying orders and creating a global crisis. When Isshiki resist, Yakumo 
smiles and says that Isshiki succeed in bringing about his OWN downfall.

At the TERRA ship, Hatsuki rendezvous with A4 and says that Kunugi had been 
reinstated as TERRA's commander and the official order from the Global United 
Government is to wait and not throw the first punch since that's what 
humanity did 15 years ago against the MU and they retalitated wiping out the 
Federation army back then. This action acts as catalysis to all the events 
for the last 15 years. There is a transmission from the MU by Kuki in a giant 
Dolem that is bigger that Macross. Kuki declare himself the ambassador of MU 
and he tells humanity to lay down their arms and surrender to MU rule.

Meanwhile at Dannar Base, Dr. Aoi is told that Mimetics are gathering in huge 
numbers to form a gigantic Mimetic like five years ago. Dr. Aoi theorize that 
this might be a reaction from the Mimetic to the sudden increase of humanity 
since they also consider the people of MU enemies as well and this is the 
only way to be strong enough to attack humanity and they have to contact A4.

Kunugi orders Yagumo to evacuate as he will stay behind. Yagumo doesn't want 
to but Kunugi is firm in his order. Ayato's dad arrives and asks if Kunugi is 
really going to go through with this and Kunugi says that it's the only way 
to make peace with himself for what happened. 

Back at A4, Haruka says that Kuuki was originally the one who lead the charge 
against MU and ordered the first attack only to disappear soon after. He is a 
devious and crafty man. Kudo note that he probably switched side when he sees 
that humanity is going to lose or maybe he was a MUlian spy from the start. 
Hikaru note that someone like Kuuki is the worst and can't be forgiven. Gou 
also learn from Dannar Base that Mimetic are gathering to become the one like 
five years ago and Shizuru says that it's like a rerun of five years ago. 
Fokker note that both disastrous war of yesteryear are back to haunt them 
full force.

Hatsuki says that TERRA is evacuating all personnel and the citizens at 
Nirankanai, the Aoutmura must go help evacuate and A4 has to hold off all the 
Dolems and Mimetics from advancing there until the evacuation is done.

Later, on board the evacuating Aoutmura, Megumi bumps into the Father of the 
Church who married Anna and Gou and apologize saying that it's quite cramped 
in here with everyone aboard and Gramp Rokudo tells her to lump it. Megumi 
asks if Gramp Rokudo knew that Haruka loved Ayato from long ago. She recently 
found a photo of Haruka with Ayato from 12 years ago. Her sis is so unfair to 
have THAT much a headstart with Ayato.

Aboard the TERRA ship, Elvy asks Yagumo where Kunugi is and Yagumo says that 
he is acting commander and Johji appears and reveals his status as a 
Federation officer/ spy stating that Kunugi stayed behind to take care of old 
business since Kuki was the one who ordered Kunugi to fire on the MUlian and 
as a result, Kunugi's daughter was hit by a Federation missile as collateral 
damage. Hearing this, Ayato decides to return to Nirankanai since the enemies 
will also go there.

Yagumo then decides to order the team to split into three, one is Ayato's 
team heading for Nirankanai, the other will be led by Gou and Anna to deal 
with the Mimetic gathering while Elvy heads a front to slow down and wither 
away the MU forces here.

Meanwhile Quon returns to Maya and sees Mamoru. She says that he has the 
sound of discord in his voice wanting strife and war. At the hangar, Ayato 
promises Haruka that he'll return because he wants Haruka to be the first to 
see the painting he finished. Haruka reveals that she loved him from 12 years 
before when they met when she was 14 though he may not remembered. She has to 
say it since he's her first love. Ayato says that while he might not have 
remembered the past with her, but he knows he loves her now and he will 
return.

On Elvy's front, Yagumo tells her not to kamikaze herself if worst come to 
worst and Elvy says that she's not that stupid. The battle begins and at the 
MU city, Miwa asked if they're doing the right thing to bring about the 
correct world as Maya connects her with her Dolem which brings rhapsody to 
her. After downing a few Dolem, Yagumo says that the big Dolem piloted by 
Kuki is coming their way and Elvy tells Yagumo to retreat since being under 
that thing is suicide since it's main weapon is firing a beam down to it's 
target. 

Elvy's team is unable to make a dent in the big D1 and has to get clear 
before the big D1 goes above them. Miwa then appears in her Dolem saying that 
she can see Shangri La which angers Elvy who attacks and defeats Miwa.

Meanwhile the Dannar team arrives and is contacted by Dr.Aoi who says that 
the gigantic Mimetic "King" isn't moving, it's burrowing it's various tendril 
into the ground to search for Chrononium to replicate itself in this 
form.Suddenly there is jamming and Anna note that the jamming Mimetics must 
be here too, they're trying to cut off the Dannar team from support. Gou 
decides to push for an attack and Kooji note that it's quite large and other 
Mimetics are beginning to appear near the King. Suddenly a voice rings out 
telling them to get away from the Mimetic King since it's going to fire off a 
humongous energy blast. Gou is surprised to hear that voice since it sounds 
like Professor Hatsuki and this area is supposed to be jammed.

Anna says that it came from the Aoutmura above and it comes from the Father 
of the Church. The Father tells Hayato Kobayashi that they should raise their 
altitude since the Aoutmura might get hit as well. Gou asks who this man is 
since he's not Hatsuki and the Father shed his disguise to reveal a man (who 
we will call Tatsuya.) Tatsuya tells Gou and Anna to be patient, the time for 
victory will come and to take out the other Mimetics first. Gou doesn't 
understand him as he attacks the Mimetic King but note that they're not 
making enough damage, if only they could connect with Dr.Aoi and Dannar Base 
then they might be able to get info on it's weakness.

Gou then see that the other Mimetics then start merging with the Mimetic King 
and Tatsuya says that five years ago, in order to stave off death, it manage 
to merge with other lesser being and gain power. It did this for five years 
to become the strongest Mimetic. He predicted this and the Insania Virus 
residing in Mimetic and went into seclusion to study them. Tatsuya tells Gou 
and Anna to fight on for the one they loved and cherished.

After defeating the lesser Mimetic, the King sends out it's tendril and 
Tatsuya note that it's decided to take out Godannar first before finding 
Chrononium which means it's getting desperate, Tatsuya then says that he one 
created a robot to defend humanity, a giant of steel with the soul of man to 
become it's protector, that is Godannar. Now Gou and Anna must show him the 
extent of that power. Gou and Anna then use Fire Soul Breaker to defeat the 
Mimetic King.

At the Nirankanai, Kunugi asked why Ayato and some of the others have 
returned and orders them to leave. Ayato says that he's here doing his own 
things and Kunugi cede authority to Yagumo already so he can't order anyone 
around.  Kunugi has to chuckle a bit at that and tells Ayato that if they 
both survived this, he'd like to have dinner with Ayato. Kunugi then note 
that the advance MU force is here.

Ayato and the team begin fighting them and Mamoru arrive shocking Ayato. 
Mamoru then ported over to where Kunugi is and tells them that the humans 
have opened Pandora's box but Kunugi retort that the last thing that flew out 
was hope. Mamoru says that in this regard, Kunugi is better than Kuki. Ayato 
asks what Mamoru is doing attacking him like this and Mamoru says that he's 
always hated Ayato but had to put up with the act. Ayato is shocked to hear 
this and says that Mamoru was one of the person he wanted to protect but 
Mamoru retorted "Like you did Hiroko(Asahina)?" "She loved you, not me and 
you killed her."
The others tackled Mamoru and Mamoru asks Akira if Raideen is supposed to be 
the image of god in this world. Akira wonders what this weird feeling is, 
it's like fighting the Youma. Mamoru says that things might go differently if 
Raideen has the Star of La Mu but if not then he's only a nuisance. Mamoru 
then tells the red blooded humans that the Earth belongs to the Blue Blood as 
he attacks Camille.

However his rant is short lived as the team pulls together and kicked his HP 
300,000 butt and he screams "This can't be... I won't accept it.. Hiroko I..." 
and he die.

Kuki then arrives and Kunugi tells everyone to retreat or else he will fire 
on them. He has to take care of this himself. Ayato asks what about Kunugi's 
promise to live and have dinner with him and Kunugi apologize but tells Ayato 
to go.

Ayato reluctantly leaves as Kunugi attacks Kuki's Dolem to no avail which 
makes the smug Kuki retaliate and laughs hysterically mocking Kunugi's 
attempt to avenge his dead daughter. A dying Kunugi says that it's not over 
yet and activates a machine that creates a Tokyo Jupiter effect engulfing 
Kuki's Dolem and Nirankanai. Kuki screams in horror that it can't be, it 
wasn't supposed to be like this as he is now trapped ALONE for the rest of 
his life inside the dome.

As Ayato flies away from Nirankanai, he sees the Jupiter Effect and suddenly 
hears Reika's voice telling him that the time has come and the Raxephon is 
transported away to an unknown place.

Everyone learns of Ayato's disappearance and Valentina is positive that he 
didn't get swallowed up by the Jupiter Effect at Nirankanai nor was he 
abducted by the MU. Johji note that the Raxephon disappeared but A4 stands 
victorious over the MU's dolem for now. He tells Yagumo that TERRA is to join 
up with the Alaska Base for now and comfort Yagumo that Kunugi is still alive 
in his heart.

Dr.Aoi and Hatsuki arrives and they consult with Johji that Babem might be a 
MUlian and this result might have been planned. Anna arrives and introduces 
her mom to the mysterious man who helped them out against the Mimetic. 
Hatsuki note that it's Tacchan and Dr.Aoi tells Anna that it's Anna's father 
Dr. Aoi Tatsuya. Dr. Aoi says that it's to be expected that Anna doesn't 
remember him since he left since Anna was a baby and Tatsuya asks if Anna 
will forgive him for not being there for her. Anna says that the Okusa and 
Dannar are a part of her dad that protected her and Gou so he is technically 
always with her.

Johji then tells Hatsuki and Dr. Aoi that they should rendezvous with the 
other professors, as for him he's got one last dirty job to do. Meanwhile 
Haruka tells Elvy who is trying to comfort her that she is fine, after all 
Ayato did promise her that he'll return to her.

Episode 37

Keiji is musing to himself and Valentina asks what's on his mind with Keiji 
saying that he's being quite selfish since what with Ayato's disappearance 
and the MU and all that, all he can think of is this voice that's calling out 
to him. This voice seems to be from far away and coming through the 
Habakiri.Valentina is nervous and tries to tell Keiji the truth about his 
condition when it began raining energy blast on the MUlian cities in the sky. 
The Meltran have returned and have begun all out attack on Earth.

The Macross fired on the attacking Meltran ships destroying it but there are 
more that are coming. Gloval is told that the Meltran ships weren't detected 
because they folded in. However before the Meltran can do anything, Minmay's 
song is heard which made them feel weird and they retreated. On Earth, Ryouma 
and the others see a gigantic ship accompanied by an armada of Zentradi ships 
arriving. Botulsa note that with Minmei's song, they can finally defeat the 
Meltran.

Later on, all A4 ships have rendezvous with the Macross in space and Cagalli 
also arrives with the Orb army and Athrun note that Lacus has brought ZAFT's 
remaining 30 ships which are more than what AEUG was able to contribute with 
two ships as Camille noted. Mwu note that even adding in the Federation 
remnant's ships, they only have less than a hundred ships compared to the 
millions of ship the Zentradi have from what they can see. Duo noted that 
there are probably more ships inside the Zentradi's biggest ship so it's 
quite weird that when they have all the advantages, they're the one asking 
for a ceasefire.

Amuro notes that it may have something to do with the secret of songs and 
Fokker note that they seem to want to use Minmei's song as a weapon against 
the Meltrandi. Gou and Anna remembers that the Zentradi themselves were quite 
shocked at songs back when they were the Zentradi's captives.

Minmei is reunited with Hikaru and she says that she's wanted to meet him for 
the longest time. Misa sees her hug Hikaru and wonder what this strange 
feeling in her is and Minmei sense that something is off about Hikaru, 
something happened.

Freedai is told of the situation on Earth when he talks with Lady Une and 
seems quite receptive to their thinking of peace and love with Lady Une also 
sharing to him the fact that she loved a man who died in a war (Treize) even 
now. Freedai then says that as per negotiation, they will continue the 
ceasefire while the humans develop the song and sign out. Exedore asks if 
Freedai's action is wise considering they were to maintain non-engagement 
before the song is complete. Freedai then joke to Exedore about wanting to 
become human and the concept of joking shocks Exedore.

Misa is trying to figure out the meaning behind the plate she took from the 
ancient city since she believes it contains the key to the situation. Haruka 
note that the peace with the Zentradi if it can be called that is extremely 
fragile, more like they have a gun to your head and asking you to cooperate 
and they WILL annihilate humanity if humanity does not deliver the song. 
Haruka backs Misa's reasoning that the plate holds the key since both 
Zentradi and humanity's ancestor were created by the same Protoculture.

Misa looks at Valentina who is worned out and tells her to take a rest saying 
that she heard about Keiji's condition but Valentina declines saying that 
it's as bad for Haruka with Ayato missing but Haruka is still working hard so 
she can't be the one to hold everybody back.

Haruka says that it's just a brave face she puts on since she has to believe 
in Ayato's word and his promise to return. Valentina says that love hurts and 
in reality it's just synapse and impulse in the brain. Haruka says that that 
might be true but humans are complex since even in the face of annihilation, 
they can't stop but think about the one they love. Valentina wonder if it 
might be better if this feeling disappear since she's constantly thinking 
about Keiji but Haruka counters that she'll be like the Zentradi/ Meltrandi 
then. Haruka then says that she remembers and she'll never want to forget the 
time she first met Ayato 12 years ago. The time they spent together in middle 
school, the feeling of her heart when they first made eye contact. Misa then 
has a breakthrough and break the deciphering on the plate noting that it's 
not some military record or data but a song.

Meanwhile in Ayato's consciousness, he comes face to face with Mishima Reika 
who reveals herself to be the Ishtori, the soul of the Raxephon that contacts 
the Geisha who turns 17. The Ishtori takes on the form of the Geisha's most 
important one and she tells him of his purpose to tune the world.  Ayato 
thanks her for being by his side all this time but he has someone to protect 
also but just didn't realize it.

Back at the Macross, Minmei comes to Hikaru and confess her love for him only 
to be walked in by Misa who brought the plate. Misa sadly tells Minmei that 
the plate is a song that she can use to sing and sadly turns to leave and 
Hikaru says that it's a misunderstanding which makes Minmei infuriated and 
she runs away angry. Misa tells Hikaru to go after Minmei but Hikaru confess 
that he had fallen in love with Misa from the time they spent together in the 
ancient city; however suddenly the alarm sounds.

The Meltrandi has brought a mothership class piloted by Botulsa's counterpart 
Rhapramis along with a Meltran armada. Botulsa is livid after hearing that 
Minmei had gone missing and shouted that if the song isn't here to pacify the 
Meltran then they will destroy everything in their path including humanity 
and the Earth. Seeing this, Gloval note that it was an extremely short peace 
and orders all ships to launch and retreat from the Zentradi's firing range.

Botulsa open fire and annihilate Rhaprhamis along with friendly troops in the 
way. The war begins anew.

Back on Earth, Ayato regained consciousness to find Itsuki and Helena near 
him. Helena confronts him saying that it is time for him to be one with the 
Raxephon but Ayato can only see the flashes of lights in the sky. Helena 
calmly says that the aliens are butchering humanity but it is fine. Ayato 
wonder where A4 are, are they up there fighting? Helena tells him to forget 
them since Ayato has a very important mission that is to become one with the 
incomplete Raxephon here and becomes the Geisha. It is why he was created. 
Ayato is barely paying attention and note that A4 is fighting up there and 
then asks if he will cease to become human if he merges with the Raxephon. 
Helena says that he will live on forever and Ayato says that if it can't be 
avoided... and Helena concludes that it is fate.

Ayato then says "I choose my own path in life, not fate, not what you say. 
Even if I cease to be human, I still have something to protect. I want to 
protect HER, that's what makes me ME and what will continue to make me ME." 
"I'm going!!" he shouted and Ayato and the Raxephon becomes a streak of light 
heading towards the sky.

Helena note that nothing is going to stop Ayato now, not even himself and 
tells Itsuki that they should go watch the event but not from here. Itsuki 
declines saying that he's staying her since everything's about to be over; he 
has a right to do as he please and asks if Helena is still there inside but 
Helena says that Helena isn't here anymore.
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Ayato's dad sees the streak of light heading up and Johji tells him that 
that's his son. Ayato's dad says that he still has one last job to do but 
Johji says that he'll take that job himself since it's quite dirty.

The battle in space goes disastrously, the Eternal is hanging on but the ZAFT 
ships are running away in panic and getting destroyed. The AEUG's ships are 
annihilated. The Agama is under heavy attack and is about to be sunk when 
AXIS force enters the fray under Haman Khan's leadership to help the Earth 
out. Haman says that this battle involves her as well and she and her troops 
will play backup and scavenging for survivors while A4 concentrate on 
fighting. Bright thanks Haman for her help.

At the Macross, Heero and Duo barely manage to regroup alive and Gloval note 
that while it might be a suicide mission, they have to attack Botulsa's ship 
and gather the remaining battle capable A4 units. Meanwhile inside the 
Macross, Hikaru has found Minmei and Minmei thought that Hikaru chose her 
only to be disappointed when Hikaru ask Minmei to sing the song Misa gave her. 
Minmei says that one song isn't going to do anything when they're all going 
to die and she wants Hikaru at her side when they died. She says selfishly 
that everyone else can just go die earning a slap from Hikaru.

Hikaru tells her that he saw so many people dying in Europe, U2 and more. 
People who still had things they wanted to do but Minmei can still do 
something, she can still sing and give people hope. Minmei is silent and 
apologize saying that Hikaru is right, she chose her path of being a singer 
and if she doesn't sing then she wouldn't be able to face the people who died 
so she's going to give it her all.

Valentina asks Keiji if he is deploying and Keiji ask if she isn't planning 
to stop him. Valentina then says no, she loves him even if it scares her and 
she wants to tell him that wherever his path takes him, she will always be at 
his side, she's made up her mind. Fokker asks Hikaru how the S Class Valkyrie 
is since it's made from his spare parts. This might be Earth's final moments 
so if they lose they die and he can say that they threw everything they had 
at the enemy. Kudo says that if they have any chance to win then they'll have 
to go for broke. Suddenly Minmei's song fills all communication channels.

Freedai note that it's like he heard this before and Exedore confirm that 
it's from their creator and their ancestors which confirms that they had 
culture too a long time ago. Freedai then decide that they must preserve this 
culture at all cost and decides to rebel against Botulsa establishing 
communication with the Macross. Claudia notes that 17 % of the Zentradi fleet 
shares that feeling and has now revolt, it's a miracle. This is their only 
chance to attack Botulsa head on.  The battle begins and as that "Gong" song 
goes "I got the Powah of Love....It's time to take back tomorrow"

As the infiltration team led by Hikaru charges in, Keiji and the others 
defend the Macross. Claudia wonders suddenly what this humongous energy 
reading coming from the Earth is and Valentina note that the energy signature 
matches the Raxephon. The Raxephon appears but it now is merged with Ayato 
becoming Ayatoxephon. Ayatoxephon begins to aid the Macross but on Keiji's 
side, the Habakiri begins having reaction to it. Keiji tells the Habakiri to 
stop since that's Ayato but suddenly Yukimura's voice rings inside him 
telling him to destroy Ayato because the Habakiri Keiji pilots is also a 
Nemesis. 

That thing (Ayato) is the creator and the Celestial Reactor is created to 
destroy thing thus making the Nemesis the destroyer, the antithesis of Ayato 
thus they can not coexist and Ayato must be destroyed. Keiji is overtaken by 
the power of the Celestial Reactor and put into a berserker rage with intent 
to kill and destroy only one thing, Ayatoxephon. The Habakiri charges 
Ayatoxephon and Valentina shouts for Keiji not to be over taken by it. She 
shouted "Is your determination to fight alongside other, to help people THAT 
weak? Please come back, Scar Face Kid!!" This snaps Keiji out of it and he 
relents shouting that he will not be changed, he will fight and he will 
remain as he is.

The battle continues and Freedai contacts the Macross saying that one of 
their class ships that are still under Botulsa's command is headed for the 
Macross ready to fire. They can't go aid the Macross and the Macross isn't 
maneuverable enough to dodge so they're going to have to take that ship's 
main cannon out. Gloval orders the defending A4 team to take out the ship's 
cannon which they do but the Zentradi assault continues.

Meanwhile Hikaru and his team are deep in Botulsa's ship fighting off every 
defending Zentradi mech and continues to advance to Botulsa's core. Botulsa 
wonder why they are not dead, is this the Micron's power? Hikaru and team 
burst in and fires at Botulsa killing him and destroying his ship before 
escaping.  Hikaru reports back to Misa "This is Skull 11, Mission 
accomplished."

Later on Freedai and Exedore note that things will get hectic from now on, 
Botulsa wasn't the only Zentradi commander with that class of ship, and that 
goes for the Meltran as well.  Even in this star system alone, there are 
around a thousand of them. Freedai note that that may be but they have to 
believe in the power of culture since one song did this, maybe the other 
Zentradi fleet will come around. At the Macross, Claudia wonder what that 
song was and Misa says that it's just a love song sung in the past of the 
ancient city long long ago.

Final Episode

Isshiki freed himself from his imprisonment and goes berserk killing those 
who imprisoned him shooting at Babem. He is ecstatic and says that Babem 
isn't as immortal as rumours have it but he is shot by "Helena" who houses 
Babem's consciousness. Mocking Isshiki as a dumbass that his D stands for, he 
shoots Isshiki dead. Johji arrives and confirms that it is indeed Babem in 
Helena's body and asks what he has planned and Babem says that he only wants 
to see the result of what's soon going to happen. He created the Raxephon 
system back when he was with the MU. Johji then asks how the world will 
change and Babem says that it's up to the two Raxephon, he just created the 
system. Johji asks if this makes Babem god and Babem says that that's right, 
the world run on his system and as the creator, he gets to see how it all 
turns out.

Johji looks up to the sky and note that the war with the Zentradi is over 
though Babem says that everything is about to become meaningless, if only 
they'd wait, they'd witness something grand.

Meanwhile the professors are at Babem's institute on an island and are 
relieved that A4 won the war against the Zentradi. Dr.Kabuto is proud of them 
noting that the team began their battle under their respective professor and 
teamed up to save the world. Dr. Yotsuya note that they should get to work 
with Dr. Hibiki noting that it's quite shameful that he never knew who was 
his sponsor this whole time; though Dr. Aoi says not to worry since Babem 
covered his tracks well. Dr. Tatsuya says that it seems no one is on the 
island though Babem was reported to have a private army here and there is no 
sign that any documents were taken away. He wonders if Babem just ran away 
with his army now that the Global United Nation is investigating him. Dr. 
Yumi says that the GUN froze his assets so he can't start over again though 
Prof. Hatsuki says that it might be that he doesn't NEED his institute 
anymore. Prof. Saotome note that he's got a bad feeling about this and they 
should get to work.

At the same time, Ayato has descended from outerspace to rest on top of the 
Sea of Japan while Quon in the MUlian city also merge and awaken as 
Quonxephon to begin the awaited battle. Valentina having learnt of Ayato's 
descent asks if Camille and Heero can follow him but both the Z and Zero are 
damaged and cannot do reentry. Valentina note that she'll have to put a 
marker on Ayato's position while they get ready to do reentry. Hyouma is 
antsy asking Claudia for anything they could use to do reentry and Claudia 
signs off saying that there's a lot to be done cleaning up the aftermath of 
the Zentradi war. Zechs tells Hyouma to calm down and get his mech prepped 
since it's all they can do now. Kouji wondered what happened to Ayato and 
Tetsuya note that the professors might know the answers.

Back at the Professors, they learn of Ayato's change and that A4 is prepping 
to go after him. Hatsuki note that Babem is definitely behind this as with 
everything that TERRA did against the MU and if Babem is a MU himself and 
created Raxephon then the answers might be in these files. Dr. Yumi then says 
he founds something.

One data shows that around 12,000 years ago, their was the time-space 
destruction 
(due to the Origin Unit on the Birdman) and the event was termed by Babem as 
"Zero Point Break" The events of Zero Point Break created a multiverse, 
splintering from one world into various parallel worlds uncontrollably which 
each one differing a little slightly from the main world. Even now, the 
universe is still splintering. 

The professors note that the worlds that splintered from ancient time will 
have a totally different culture and history from their own like the MU and 
the Mikene's Yami no Teioh's world. Dr. Kabuto then note that the Mikene are 
the same as Earthling, they're just from a parallel world with different 
culture that evolved differently from their Earth. Dr. Kabuto then asks 
Dr.Hibiki if the Youma are theorized to be the same offspring as the Lemurian 
from the ancient city of beginnings since he's found a graph that states that 
this ancient city still exists in the MU's world which means the MU derived 
their culture from that city while in their world, it got destroyed and the 
survivors became over time the Lemurian, the Mayan people of the Mayan island 
and the Youma who changed their forms.So it's possible that Yami no Teioh and 
the Mikene are like the Youma. Muge is also possibly created the same way 
having evolved differently from a parallel Earth. However the question is why 
these parallel Earths' inhabitants are attacking their dimension?

Dr.Tatsuya note that this graph might holds the answer, it's a graph showing 
the flow of time in these parallel world. On top of the chart is a line 
showing their world with other line starting from the same point but curving 
down showing the slow down rate of time with the MU's being the 1st runner up 
to their world. Dr. Aoi note that the other dimension's time are slowing down, 
it might be similar to the Tokyo Jupiter Effect. Dr. Tatsuya surmise that for 
the people living in that dimension, they might not notice it but these other 
dimension are like a wind-up clock/toy car that starts off normally but soon 
slows down until it stops permanently unable to rewind. Once the death of 
time occurs, the people of that dimension are frozen in time without knowing 
it becoming temporal statues and that dimension is permanently in temporal 
limbo

Dr. Yumi then says that this explains that one of the reasons they invaded is 
to escape their world before time fully stops into a world where time flows 
normally. Dr. Kabuto then also notes that this explains why the Mikene cease 
their attack for 3000 years before modern time.  

(So it means that when there is a wormhole connecting the two dimension, the 
Mikene world's time might flow normally as time from this dimension enter 
their dimension  so they can wage war against this world but once the 
wormhole is gone, time slows down once again and with the difference in time, 
for inhabitant of  the normal world, it would be thousands of years upward.)

(I'm also not sure if the MU world was a pre-existing parallel world before 
ZPB or one that came into creation afterward with retroactive continuity so 
that the Raxephon system got built but whatever the case, it's time starts to 
slow down after the event too.)


Meanwhile at the A4 hangar in Macross, Pops is worried about Keiji since 
after the last battle; he must stay connected to the Habakiri's Celestial 
Reactor at all time to continue living. Shou tells Keiji that he can stay at 
the Macross this time and they'll find a way to make him leave his machine so 
he shouldn't do anything rash right now. Hyouma says that they beated the 
Insania Virus so this'll be the same though Kira is skeptical since they 
don't have a spare Celestial Reactor to study and take apart to determine how 
to help Keiji. Even Dr. Soga didn't understand it and the original, the 
Origin Unit completely. Shinobu says that if he knew that THIS was going to 
happen, he'd have blasted the Habakiri to bits instead of letting Keiji pilot 
it since it's became Keiji's angel of death.

Keiji tells Shinobu that that's not it since he was able to use this machine 
to help save lives so he's got no regret about what happened and what might 
lie in store for him. Keiji begs to go down and save Ayato with them and 
Charm note that Keiji's aura is getting stronger from his determination so he 
should be fine.

Megumi contacted a depressed Haruka and when she learns that Haruka is down 
about losing Ayato, she tells Haruka to not give up and just go take back 
what she lost. That's the Haruka she knows.

The Professors meanwhile learn of the Raxephon plan to tune the world and the 
dimensions that are splintering uncontrollably dueto Zero Point Break. It was 
Babem and the MU's plan. The MU plans to make it that their world is the only 
one after the tuning running at normal time. However 12,000 years ago during 
the first tuning, something went wrong and the plan's creator, Babem, was 
sent to this world. He met Lemuria of the Lemurian that were in the midst of 
battle with the Youma and eyed Raideen to use as replacement for the Raxephon 
for a time. Babem used unknown means to extend his life up until now and 
restarted his plan until they come to fruition.

Professor Saotome note that Babem might be like them, any scientist's dream 
would want their creation to save or change the world. Dr. Kabuto says that 
to that end, they would want to be alive to see the result like he did 
turning himself into a cyborg. However Dr. Yotsuya says that Babem and Dr. 
Soga are different since they don't care who had to suffer in order to 
achieve their results. Dr. Yumi says that they have to get this information 
to A4 since if Ayato's change is part of the plan then it might be too late 
to stop it. Dr. Tatsuya note that this might be why the MU decided to stop 
attacking humanity since there's no reason anymore.

Meanwhile the Gran Garran had picked up the A4 team and is speeding to where 
Ayato is.  Luna Maria says that she didn't think that they had to do 
something as EXTREME as entering the atmosphere with their own mech (and 
barute system to stop them from burning up) and get picked up by the Gran 
Garran midway. Amuro doesn't think it's such a big deal and says that he did 
something like this when he was young (with the RX-78-2 Gundam) and Shin says 
that he did the same when he was stationed on the Minerva. Luna Maria says 
that Amuro and Shin are exceptions to the rule. (Better add Kira, Heero & the 
Wing Boys and maybe Camille to the list too)

Shiela tells Haruka and Valentina that she has a plane for them to use in 
case something happens and the Gran Garran can't keep up with the A4 mech in 
battle. Shou can't believe that Sheila repaired the Gran Garran and Shiela 
tells him not to be mistaken, it is their duty to destroy the source of 
strife that came out of Byston Well and the Gran Garran is no exception but 
now is not the time. She feels an evil aura that they must confront. Keiji 
note that it's Yukimura, he's on the move to end things which is why they 
have to stop him. Yukimura will definitely be where Ayato is.

At Ayatoxephon's place, he awakes when he sense Quonxephon's presence and 
they begins their battle. Seeing this, Babem is ecstatic at his plan coming 
to fruition and Johji asks "Happy now?" and shoots him dead.

The professors feels the disturbance coming from the two Xephon's battle and 
note that it might be too late but they can't lose hope and contacts A4. A4 
learns of everything and Dr.Saotome says that Haruka and the uppers of TERRA 
knew about this from the beginning and that there would be no stopping it. 
Haruka is silent and then admits that they knew that Ayato would become one 
with the Xephon and this would happen. "We had to make a gamble that Ayato 
would choose OUR world instead of the MU's" Kouji is angry that Haruka kept 
this from everyone saying that if they knew from the beginning they might 
have found a way to save Ayato. Elvy tells Kouji to lay off since to Haruka, 
considering her love for Ayato, this must be heartbreaking, to have to 
sacrifice Ayato's humanity in order for humanity to live as themselves.

Hatsuki note that had Ayato remained in Tokyo Jupiter, he definitely would 
have picked the MU's world but it's different now that he was brought 
outside; he met the team and fought to protect the world. Ryou asks if this 
means that Ayato would choose their world and Hatsuki says that it's no 
guarantee but 50/50 chance. However the team should believe in him and Ryouma 
says that they believe in Ayato, Benkei continues that Ayato's their friend 
and Camille says that it's not about believing in him, they trust him.  Heero 
says that Ayato went back to the MU to determine his own path and he returned 
that is answer enough with Wufei noting that Ayato is strong; he will choose 
the right thing. Hayato note that everybody is SO green being this trusting 
but he guesses he's the same since he trust Ayato as well.

Dr. Tatsuya then says that their enemy isn't Ayato but Yukimura since if they 
don't take care of Yukimura then the chance of human survival becomes zero.

The Gran Garran spots Ayato who is winning the fight against Quon and 
absorbed her. However Yukimura suddenly appears with the final Nemesis, the 
Azoeb. Millia asks Max if that is an enemy too and Max says that it's an 
extremely powerful enemy. Yukimura greets the team, he doesn't care about 
beating the team anymore having gained great power and they are beneath him. 
What he wants is an enemy to kill with this demonic power that can slay a god. 
"And lookie here...there's a god for me to kill!!" he shouts ecstatically and 
begins to power up the "Voice" (Origin Unit) for a massive blast aimed at A4 
and Ayato "DIE!!" he shouted. Valentina screams for everyone to spread out 
but Athrun says that the Gran Garran will be hit if they evade. However Ayato 
steps in front of them and fires his own "Voice" blocking the massive energy 
discharge and results in a "beam" struggle. Chisuru and Kosuke note that 
Ayato is protecting them and Juuzo says that no matter how changed in 
appearance he is, Ayato is still Ayato.

Yukimura shouted "He's stopping it? But the power of the Origin Unit is 
infinite" and starts to overpower Ayato's voice. Mwu says that if they wait 
around, they'll be annihilated by the blast, they have to duck out and take 
out Yukimura but Zechs tells him to stop, if they go out past Ayato's 
protection, the combined blast's shockwave will blow them to bits. Mwu says 
that it's the same as waiting for death here.

Sheila says that the power of Aura is flowing and it is for this moment that 
they were allowed to continue living and the Gran Garran shines with Aura 
Power flowing into Ayato. This strengthens Ayato up but Yukimura still pushes 
back. "I told you, the Origin Unit's power is infinite!!"

The two power's collision starts to get worse and Jinguchi asks what Akira is 
doing as Raideen is beginning to unleash a power of its own. Akira note and 
says "Infinite Power?  I am my mother's heir, if I have the psychic power to 
operate Raideen then.... Mom give me the strength, give me the power that is 
the legacy of Lemuria, the power of Mutron to save the world"  and Raideen 
gaze up as the Star of La Mu appears as it's greatest protector calls for it.

Duo says that Akira has called for the Star of La Mu but Quatre notes that 
without Lemuria's psychic power it wouldn't operate. Jinguchi says that if 
Akira wants it to operate, then Akira must sacrifice his life and Mari 
screams. Suddenly a song is heard over the communicator, Kudo note that it is 
the Mayan's song of life sung by Sara. Minmei and Lacus's voice is also heard 
as they join in and the song that is a legacy of Protoculture activates the 
Star of La Mu and it begins to shine on Raideen.

Raideen is now overflowing with the infinite power of Mutron from the Star of 
La Mu and Akira note that this is the power of Mutron. Raideen then comes up 
behind Raxephon and begins to sing its own song as well.

The power of the Double God Voice now pushes the power of the Origin Unit's 
"Voice" back and there is darkness.

The team opens their eye to find themselves in a strange place with Ayato 
collapsing on the floor short of breath. Yukimura's Azoeb is still standing. 
Kooji wonder if this is hell or worse, what's left of the world after their 
beam struggle. Gou says that they're not dead since they shouldbe sent to 
Byston Wells then.

Cagalli asks Yukimura what he did and Yukimura calmly stated that the team 
was able to protect themselves by mustering and combining enough powers to 
overcome his Azoeb's Origin Unit's blast momentarily. What they weren't able 
to protect was the world. "What?" Cagali replied dumbfounded.

Yukimura says that he understands everything now; they've ripped apart the 
world by their combined blast since it couldn't withstand the combined 
infinite powers of all participants and is now reduced to primordial soup. 
The combined power was enough to rip a hole in the dimension placing them to 
a space/time void where parallel worlds are born. This was the original plan 
for the Origin Unit. Their ancestors were planning to come here and enter 
another dimension to escape the Zentradi/ Meltrandi but then they realize 
that with this type of power, it'd be easier to just get rid of them. The way 
human think doesn't change at all.

A clearly pissed Trowa asks what the heck Yukimura is trying to get at and 
Yukimura says that once the Origin Unit was used 12,000 years ago, the team 
should know what happened next. Valentina then realized it "Zero Point 
Break!!" Yukimura says that after 12,000 years, a second Zero Point Break has 
occurred and this time it is even stronger wiping out the entire Earth and 
every other dimension turning it into primordial soup except all of them.

Mwu ask if Yukimura is saying everyone else is dead, everyone on the Macross, 
Gran Garran and all?  Athrun wonders why; they were clearly winning back then. 
Yukimura says that even with equal power, they can't win against Nemesis 
since true power is the power of destruction, everything is headed for 
oblivion and he is its agent.

Kouji shouted that he's heard enough, come over here to get his butt kicked. 
Yukimura says that he doesn't care about them and grabs the weaken Ayato in a 
headlock with the Origin Unit close to his head ready to fire. Yukimura then 
says "HE'S the one protecting you from total annihilation, he's the one 
keeping you from turning into primodial soup like the others, with him gone, 
you're dead anyway!!"

At that instant, Haruka and Valentina kamikaze their ship onto the Azoeb's 
Origin Unit. This cracks it thus giving a chance for Ayato to break free. 
Valentina then tells Haruka "I'm sorry Haruka" and Haruka tells her not to be 
"Any regrets?" she asked and Valentina answered "Of course not" The Azoeb 
then grabs their ship and fling it away firing at it as Keiji and the others 
are too stunned to move.

"Valentina!! VALENTINA!! Uaggh" Keiji shouted as the blast hits the ship 
killing the two. "Haruka!!" Elvy shouted

Yukimura says that he's taken out the trash even though the Origin Unit is 
damaged by them. Shinobu is bursting with rage and shouted "YOU!! I won't 
forgive you; you like destroying so much, we'll rip you apart and grind you 
to dust!!  Yukimura smirks and asks if they don't understand their fate to be 
destroyed, but that's fine, he'll play with them while he waits for the 
Origin Unit to self repair because the Azoeb alone is a demon. The team 
charges for their final bttle.

Yukimura says as he battles A4 that he knows now that the song of Destruction 
isn't referring to the Origin Unit but it's actually the fear and hatred that 
wishes ill and destruction on others that is the true song of destruction. 
And he and the Azoeb are the embodiment of it. Once he gets rid of A4, 
everything will come to an end forever.

After they attack him some, Ascalon appears and Yukimura says that they are 
salvages from other dimensions and he will use them to make A4 dance.

Zechs shouted that he will not idly sit by and be destroyed and Amuro shouted 
that whether they accept to be destroyed or not is up to them and reasserts 
"The Nu Gundam isn't just for show!!!!"  Quattro says that he doesn't feel 
fear and for Lalah to guide his hand.

Gou shouted "This is Sawatori Gou's FINAL battle!! Uohhh!!" Anna says that 
she isn't a woman who will wait for things and here she comes. Lou tells 
Celeblader to give her strength, she can't forgive Yukimura.  Ken says that 
even if Yukimura is the devil, he will cleave him. Shizuru shouted "Who do 
you think I am!!" as she attacks him with Milla saying that she died once 
already and Yukimura can try and kill her if he can  and Kooji tells Yukimura 
that being a hero comes with one condition, to never die even after all is 
said and done!!

Kouji shouted that even if God forgives Yukimura (which Ayato doesn't) he 
definitely won't and for Yukimura to take all of Mazinger's power (which 
makes Kouji also a God and Demon) Ryouma shouted that no matter how strong 
the enemy is, as long as the three of their hearts are one, they will defeat 
him (Of course, they've got Hyakuman Powah..!! over 100,000,000 as their song 
implies.)

Trowa says that no matter who Yukimura is, he will fight since that is what 
they were originally trained to do and Quatre says that Sandrock told him 
that there is no greater thing in this universe than life and there is still 
life here with the team. Wufei says that this is the first time he's seen an 
enemy this big and disgusting. He admits that Yukimura is strong but he's not 
backing down, he will be stronger. Heero says that his mission remains the 
same no matter what. "I will kill you" he states.

Cagalli says that no matter how powerful Yukimura is, he'll never understand 
that living is a fight. Mwu shouted that it's too bad for Yukimura since Mwu 
is the one who makes the impossible possible. Duo shouted that Yukimura might 
be the devil but HE'S the reaper and Elvy shouted "THIS is for Haruka!!!" as 
she attacks. 

Four says that she understands now that the important thing is the future not 
the past and she will not forgive Yukimura for destroying the future. Kira 
agrees with this saying that the people had overcamed the hardship and pain 
and began working together but Yukimura took that away.


Tetsuya shouted that even if he has to be vaporized, he'll take Yukimura 
down; it's Yukimura who has to make his peace. Camille reaffirms this saying 
that even if it takes him his life or his sanity, he wouldn't forgive 
Yukimura. The same goes for Keiji saying that he doesn't care of the 
consequence to him, he wouldn't forgive Yukimura.

Shou tells Yukimura to not get cocky as he is only a vassal for all the 
hatred and discontent that evil spirits eminates and he will cleave those 
evil spirits. Kudo shouts that he doesn't have anything in mind other than to 
take back the precious land of Earth.

Fokker shouted "Skull Leader to all units, attack formation!! Objective?  
Empty all our clips against that mother #* @#@#!!" Max tells Yukimura that he 
really shouldn't have gotten him angry, he wouldn't like it when Max's angry 
and Kajisaki says that in this situation, if he doesn't charge in he's not a 
man. Millia says that there might not be an Earth to return to but she's 
happy to be with Max and die fighting.

The Combattler team tells Hyouma that they're ready to go and Hyouma asks for 
their lives in his hand as he attacks. Masato tells his father to watch as 
Sarah tells him not to daze off but Masato says that he's serious this time. 
Ryou tells Shinobu not to miss and Shinobu shout that he won't "YATTE 
YARUZE!!" Shinobu shouted. Akira asks his mother to give him strength and 
shouted "Let's go Raideen!!"

Hikaru note that he's flown since he was a kid and if he uses his Valkyrie's 
mobility to the max, even Yukimura's Azoeb won't be able to lay a hand on him 
as he attacks. Emma notes to herself that she doesn't think the MkII's attack 
will finish him off but if her attack can whittle down his armour or creates 
an opening for others then she will continue to do so. Jinguchi tells Akira 
to watch, Jinguchi Chikara the man's last job.

Luna Maria screams "Damn you, I won't forgive you for destroying Earth, for 
killing Meilyn!!" and Shin says "I know I shouldn't let emotion overcome me 
during battle but..... Damn You!! Damn You to HELL!!" as he charges in

Yukimura's Azoeb is given a severe thrashing and Yukimura wonder why the 
Origin Unit isn't repaired yet, is it because that trash plane damaged it too 
much? If only this Azoeb can move like he think (typical villain reasoning)

The Azoeb is on the verge of explosion and the team wonder if they've 
defeated him but Yukimura suddenly laugh as the Origin Unit finishes it's 
repair that it's too little too late as he prepares to unleash another blast 
to finish off A4. Everyone is frozen but Keiji acted shouting that the 
Habakiri was created to end things and he will ERASE Yukimura from existence 
as he charges in. Yukimura shouted that Keiji's the one who's going to be 
erased as the Habakiri stabbed the Origin Unit and Yukimura's cockpit 
resulting in the blast from the Origin Unit turning on the Azoeb and Habakiri 
and an explosion that killed both of them.

Ryou wonder if it's truly over and Heero note that no one but Keiji reacted 
back then, without him they'd be dead. Duo then wonders how long they're 
going to last in this environment. Shizuru says that it can't be helped, they 
lost the moment that the Azoeb destroyed the world; they just were capable of 
killing him to even the score. Shou note that even if they die here, they 
can't go to Byston Well since it too was destroyed. Kouji note that he hated 
this outcome but he's still thankful that he was able to meet and fight 
alongside everyone. Quatre note that their machine and their body are 
beginning to come apart from the reality ripple.It looks like this is it.

Ayato's voice then boom in their head to not worry, he has borrowed the power 
of the Star of La Mu and the Aura Power given to him and is now ensuring 
their existence and the existence of this space/time. Ayato continues saying 
that they've defeated the evil and must now move forward. In this primordial 
soup, there is still hope; Keiji, Valentina and Haruka and everyone else are 
also here in some form, inside this dimension is "possibility."

Ayato continues that "possibility" is the world's building block and it is 
around them and so are people from other world that exist but doesn't in 
their world. Ayato tells them "Look" and images from other worlds flash 
before the team.

Gou, Anna and Milla see that on one world, Milla doesn't die five years ago 
and continues to be with Gou. Amuro asks Char if he saw it and Quattro note 
"Yes... I...I'm dropping Axis onto Earth?" Ryouma see one vision and utters 
"M...Musahi is alive?" (Must be the SRW Advance/Advance Portable world, it's 
the only one he's still alive in)

Tetsuya see another world "The Seven Mikene General?" "Kouji did you see 
that?" but Kouji says that he saw another thing, Dr. Hell was back as 
commander of the Sentoujuu in a giant body (Jigoku Daisensui) Cagalli and 
Shin are dumbfounded as they see a world where Orb is not invaded or has 
successfully repelled the invasion and their parents are alive.

Akira asks what that was and Ayato says that they are possibility, what might 
happen in another world and this is the place where you can see all the 
possibilities, all the worlds in the omniverse, world that is like theirs 
with fear, anger, hope and more. (In fact I'm pretty sure Ayato can see 
another him with the MX team fighting that evil ^&* and her AI1 in another 
part of this dimension if he squint hard enough.)

Quatre note that there's a parallel them in these parallel worlds and Athrun 
says that each one of them is unique. (There are different outcomes in events, 
different friends that fight alongside them; they may even meet each other at 
different time in their live)


Kouji note that it's like communing with God with Ayato talking in their head 
like this and Ryouma joke that it's pretty good having "God" on their side. 
Hayato asks if Ayato is going to fix all this and Ayato says that he can't 
turn back especially with the world like this. It's his job. The others say 
that they trust him to do what's right and rebuild the world which moves 
Ayato. Ayato then begins to retune and recreate the world and there is light.

At A3 Island, Kira meets Athrun and both note that it's been four months 
since the climatic battle. Kira asks how things are going with Cagalli since 
she's quite busy as the head of Orb. Athrun says "Hey, you may outrank me but 
could you stop butting in on my personal life?"

The two meets Max and Millia.Millia is ready to give birth to Max's child and 
find this new experience refreshing. (By the time her seventh child is a 
teenager and with Mr. "Listen to my Song" she wouldn't find it so refreshing) 
Kira says that Max and Millia are always together, it probably makes Athrun 
jealous to which Athrun retorted "Will you stop it?"

Mwu, Murrue are talking with Amuro who reconfirms that according to the 
professors, Ayato had stay behind to take care of the wounds to reality that 
resulted from the second Zero Point Break. The MU had return to their 
dimension but with the wounds to reality, they can't move across dimension 
anymore and thus can't come here. Even though the MU was a problem, he wishes 
them hope in their world. Murrue and Mwu note that Kira and Athrun are here 
and leave to greet them with Quattro also deciding to leave for Axis.

With Haman Khan missing since the Zentradi battle, someone must rise up to 
take charge of them and steer them to the correct path and hopefully this 
will lead to peace. Quattro then note Amuro's reaction and says "You're 
worried about what you saw back then right?" "I know what you're going to say 
but I'd like you to believe in me. Maybe before I would have done that but 
after seeing the progress the young people are making, it gives me hope for 
this world as long as we don't make a mistake."

Amuro then says "All right, I'll trust you" and Quattro asks what Amuro plans 
to do next. Amuro tells him that he plans to join the new independent 
taskforce under Bright's leadership called Londo Bell. Camille is also slated 
to join. The two note that the private jet from Shikibu Industry containing 
Kouji and the company's new president has landed.

 Kouji greets Tetsuya who has now become an instructor along with Ryou to 
train new Super Robot pilots. Kouji asks if Tetsuya has kept himself busy and 
Tetsuya retort that Kouji's the one who's busy as a budding scientist. Kouji 
says that one day he plans to build a Super Robot that far surpassed Mazinger 
Z and Great Mazinger, his grandfather and father's creation. (We all know 
what this Super Robot is called right? In this reality, Dr.Kabuto Kouji will 
one day build the Mazinkaiser)
 
He'll need a good and responsible pilot when that day come andTetsuya says to 
give him a call then though Kouji'll need the support of Shikibu Industry to 
do it, right Mr President? Masato says that he's already sponsoring Getter 
and Photonic Energy research to use as power plant but leave it to him when 
Kouji wants that bag of moolah.

Akira is at the Raideen face mountain thinking over the events of the year 
carefully. He was with Raideen for so long and now Raideen is asleep once 
more. Dr. Sarumaru says that their work is still needed, since Mutron and 
Getter energy are being considers as new-age energy for the world. Akira and 
Mari says that they have to get ready to go to A3 Island but first they need 
to rendezvous with the Combattler team who's doing relieve work.

The Combattler team has finish the relieve work thanks to help from Gou and 
Anna and Yotsuya tells them that he has great news. While they were out, a 
representative from Campbell made contact with the Earth. It seems that after 
Janella came to invade here, there was a revolution and now the new peaceful 
government is looking to create a peace treaty with Earth. The MegaRoad 1 in 
which Hikaru and Misa is planning to leave with will visit Campbell as their 
first stop.

At the Dannar Base, Milla plans to leave to help in the research against 
disease since her body might hold a cure for many diseases. She is content 
that on at least one world, she lived and continued to be with Gou.

The Getter team along with Freedai's ship is out at Plant working to restore 
the Plant that was destroyed by the Requiem. Hayato asks Freedai about the 
odds of Freedai's friend coming to the Earthsphere again and Freedai says 
that other fleet exist just as powerful as theirs, they might meet them and 
another battle might ensue but maybe those fleet will be willing to listen 
like they were.

Shin is meanwhile in a destroyed colony fighting off terrorists (Naturals/ 
Coordinators) who are against this new peace. Shin asks "Who the heck are you 
supposed to be" after Wufei keeps riding on him to do better and Wufei calmly 
answer "Your Superior, Boy!!" Luna also rendezvous with them and Wufei says 
that until Londo Bell is operational, they as Preventers are responsible for 
keeping the peace. As the two's commanding officer, he expects them to pick 
up the slack that is left with Zechs and Noin resigning to join the Mega Road 
project. With them being top-class Coordinators, this should mean that this 
is a breeze. Meilyn contacts the trio to tell them the location of the 
terrorist


Speaking of the MegaRoad 1, Duo tells Hikaru at the Moon base that houses it 
that Trowa had returned to the circus and is now performing at Plant with 
Heero disappearing as usual. As for him, he's planning to go back to his junk 
shop. Hikaru tells him to wait until Quatre arrives but Duo says that he can 
meet Quatre any time and leaves. Quatre arrives with Kajisaki who is trying 
to get Quatre to introduce him to his 29 sisters. Hikaru and Kajisaki are 
also surprised to see Fokker since he was supposed to have retired and gone 
on vacation to a tropical island but Fokker says that he'll be the new 
adviser for the Megaroad once it launch, the only one on a tropical island is 
Kudo who's now living on the Mayan island with Sara and Mao.

Kudo and Sara are stargazing as Mao comes up to tell them that it's starting 
on TV. She ask what they are doing and Kudo says that Marbel and Shou told 
them about how good stargazing is since there's no star to look at in Byston 
Wells (So I guess Shou and Marbel along with Shiela had returned to Byston 
Wells) Kudo asks Sara if she's ok with television being on the island and 
Sara says that she is no longer the Miko here but Mao is so if Mao is ok with 
it, she is too.

Minmei at A3 Island is getting ready to sing a duet with Lacus via broadcast 
with Lacus at the Plant. This is to symbolize the unity between Earthnoid/ 
Spacenoid and Natural and Coordinators. Minmei says to herself for Hikaru to 
watch, she will continue to singsince she chose this path.

Looking on, Elvy is quite sad and Shinobu ask his former teacher why the long 
face. Is she still thinking about Haruka and Ayato? Elvy says that they 
didn't return to this world.  Shinobu says that Keiji and Valentina didn't 
return also but he's not letting himself be all depressed about it since he 
believed they're alive somewhere. Sarah tells Elvy that those parallel worlds 
they saw, maybe Haruka and Ayato are in another world where things happened 
so that they never had to split up. Elvy considers this and smile gazing into 
the stars.

Sarah is proven correct as in the dimensional stream, Keiji and Valentina are 
shown a world where Haruka and Ayato met as 14 year olds for the first time 
with Haruka having the name of Mishima Haruka that is similar to the "Mishima 
Reika" that the Ishtori took the form of.

Keiji then asks who the "Ayato"who show them this world is and "Ayato" says 
that world is the world Kamina Ayato and Shitow Haruka chose to go be reborn 
in and he is the guardian of time that was once part of Kamina Ayato, he and 
his other self, the Ishtori will soon depart. Keiji and Valentina are the 
last one in this dimension since it took a while to reintegrate them and 
Keiji can choose the world, any world that is remotedly possible for him to 
go to.

Valentina tells Keiji that he finally has the choice to go to a world where 
war didn't exist since he once wondered what his life would have been like 
there, isn't that right? Keiji consider and says that Ayato and Haruka chose 
to redo their live that was taken away from them but if he went to a world 
without war then he wouldn't be the Keiji that existed now. He wouldn't have 
met Valentina. Keiji says "I know now, the world where someone care for me, 
who thinks of me, a world with someone I want to protect, it's the world I 
want to return to, a world where I am not only Keiji Tachibana but the Scar 
Faced Kid." Valentina is moved by Keiji's word as "Ayato" tells them that the 
decision is made then and Keiji tells Valentina "Let's go Valentina, on our 
path, to our tomorrow" and they move into the light to return home.

SRW Scramble Commander 2

The End.
Thank you for reading 
See you next Super Robot War