Kyo: Shuddup... Shut up!

Mother: I have to get going. Wake up already, Kyo!

Kyo: Okay...

Announcer: The newly discovered level-4 environmental contamination zone is enlarging far more than expected.

Shizuno: 248, 249, 250.

Announcer: With international cooperation, it is hoped that countermeasures can be enacted as soon as possible. This has prompted an emergency assembly of the United Nations to organize a special team to preserve the environment.

Announcer: ...and the contaminated area is steadily spreading. Because of this, the UN has called an emergency assembly

Kyo: Swim club rebirth day. YEAH!

Kaminagi: Oh, man, I'm late! I'm late!

Mother: I have to get going. Wake up already, Koji!

Koji: Huh, Morning, Ryoko.

Kaminagi: Koji, hurry up and get dressed already. You do this every single day!

Koji: I've still got plenty of time. You're the one who's gonna be in trouble!

Kaminagi: Ah, why I was up late in post-production! Hey! Don't watch TV!

Announcer: All right, turning to other news, I.A.L. Corp ...

Shizuno: A fine meal.

Kaminagi: Oh... This whole thing is Kyo's fault!

Kyo: Shizuno Misaki led me to that place. We rode in that shining robot... And then... That passionate kiss from her...

Kaminagi: Whoops! Edit master! Edit master! Kyo'll probably throw me in the pool if I forgot this.

Kyo: It's a game. But I don't have a game console... What's? Cerebrum...

Kyo: Um... This is Kyo Sogoru from the swim club. Your youth is the start of your life! So let the flames of your passion ignite in the water and swim for the ends of the cosmos? Come with me! And together, let's swim!

Kyo: So, everyone who wants to sign up, just write your name and class on the form and ...

Boy: What's with that ending?

Boy: Lame!

Boy: Still, if I can shoot something like that, I wouldn't mind joining the video club.

Kyo: Um, it's the swim club, not the video club. Hello-o-o! Hey! Wha... Hey, wait! Wait a sec! Hey! Ah!

Minato: If you agree to do promo videos like that for all the other clubs, we could think about budgeting a video club for next term.

Kaminagi: Oh, thank you so much!

Kyo: Hey! Kaminagi, you cut a secret deal with them, didn't you?!

Kaminagi: Of course, I did. Why else you think I'd do this for free?

Minato: You need four people by the end of the term. If you can't get that many, it's over.

Kurashige: And hearing that, I wish you the best of luck, Sogoru!

Kyo: Kurage! Dammit, act like an advisor and object to this!

Shima: But everything Miss Minato said is correct.

Kyo: O.K. hold it. You want me to tell them everything I know, Mr. President!

Shima: What you know?

Kyo: I didn't want to do it this way, but ... the club is more important to me than anything else.

Shima: Oh, that? That doesn't matter. By all means, spread the word. However, I do expect you to keep your word to Yehl, Kyo Sogoru.

Kyo: Dammit! Okay, you asked for it! Everyone, look at this!

Tomigai: It's Pain of Zega, right?

Kaminagi: It's just a video game.

Kyo: Huh? You know about it?

Narration: Will you fight?
Even when the world suddenly crumbles before your eyes? The mysterious life forms known as the Gardsorm suddenly attacked. Due to their environmental modification testing, the world has been changed. The remaining humans have formed a resistance group: Cerebrum. This is the true story of what happened 40 years later. Welcome, to the future of the world.

Kyo: The future of the world...

Kaminagi: It's a pretty famous game. Everyone's playing it.

Kyo: Hm? How do I work it?

Tomigai: If you register your I.D. and password on the network, you can battle with people on-line. Here, you can log in on the Maihama server.

Kyo: Maihama server, huh? Okay! Sogoru Kyo... And password? Blah-blah-blah-BLAH!

Tomigai: What? Sogoru, you've already have an account on here.

Kyo: Huh? Cheers. No way. It's not like I've ever played. Ah!

Kaminagi: Good shot!

Ricerca: The deftera zone has enlarged greatly. Its diameter is currently 1800 meters.

Shima: What do you think, Lu-Shen?

Lu-Shen: It looks like we'll need Zegapain's cooperation in there all the more.

Mey-Yen: We're absolutely against it!

May-Yu: Last time, he ended up fighting completely recklessly. He's just going to make things harder for us and Lu-Shen!

Shizuno: This isn't the first time the enemies constructed a deftera zone in that area. We have the experience fighting in there before.

Minato: And fighting in the same place will jog Kyo's memory. And you will be able to cooperate as well as before? Is that what you mean?

Shizuno: I've got a feeling you have already taken that into account, haven't you, commander?

Shima: If I was counting on such an uncertain element, I wouldn't order you on the mission, Yehl. All right? However... We can't just ignore that thing any longer.

Kawaguchi: What's this? Not practicing today, either, huh? The club's doomed for sure.

Ushio: He's probably too ashamed to show up. After all the fuss he made about that P.R. Video, he didn't get one person to sign up.

Kawaguchi: It's always the same story with him. He charges in alone and just wastes the entire effort. What's with you?!

Hayase: Oh, nothing.

Ushio: Kawaguchi!

Kawaguchi: You can do it, Kyo! We were the only ones on the team who understood what the teamwork all about.

Ushio: Huh, let's go!

Kawaguchi: Right...

Kyo: Yeah! Gotcha! Huh, you like that? Okay, who's next? Wh, what's that?

Koji: Kyo! Don't get distracted!

AI: Game over.

Koji: Aw, and you'd finally found the deftera zone, too.

Kyo: Deftera zone?

Koji: The environmental testing zones the Gardsorm create. They explain that in the intro!

Kyo: I wasn't paying attention.

Koji: If they cover the Earth with them, mankind loses. Not bad though. Not many, few will find the deutera zone on the forth end part. You are natural.

Kyo: Now that I think about it, they never told me why I was fighting for them. Why haven't I thought to question it until now? Why am I suddenly so good at all this?

Mizuki: What do you think my parents would say if we did it? They'd be all "We're not letting our daughter go hunting around the bad parts of Shibuya!" And then they'd ask what year I think it is and if I was part of a gang or something!

Kaminagi: You have good parents. I've very even scene mine. Oh well, we'll catch a concert some other time, then.

Mizuki: I'm really sorry, but I promise I'll come next time!

Kaminagi: Oh, look. There's Miss Misaki. Miss Misaki! Hi there. I want to say thank you for doing the swim club video for us!

Shizuno: I should be thanking you for making me look so good in it.

Mizuki: O.K. So you got to tell us the truth. Is it true that you kissed Kyo Sogoru?!

Kaminagi: Mizuki, that's rude! Just asking about that is!

Mizuki: There's no way it happened, right? You and him just don't go together!

Shizuno: It felt good. I enjoyed being filmed before. The way that you captured me.

Kaminagi: Oh. Sure...

Shizuno: You like making movies, don't you?

Kaminagi: Yeah!

Mizuki: This girl has a dream that being a movie director for about as long as I can remember.

Kaminagi: Oh, Mizuki, please. You really don't have to tell her all that!

Shizuno: Your dream...

Kaminagi: So, you'll be going on to university, right? You're a senior this year, aren't you?

Shizuno: You mean, what's in my future?

Mizuki: Well, we'd better get going.

Kaminagi: See you.

Shizuno: Goodbye. All the world isn't unless "here" and "now."

Kyo: Ha,ha,ha. That's it, yeah!

AI: Mission clear. Return to ship at once.

Koji: Look, there's something there!

Kyo: Huh? What do you mean?

Koji: It's user's specific item.

Kyo: What's that?

Koji: Someone left a message that only shows up under your I.D., Kyo.

Kyo: From who?

Koji: I don't know. You're fighting on-line.

Kaminagi: I'm home. Oh, Kyo. What are you doing here?

Koji: He doesn't have a game console, so he asked if he could use ours. He's really good, too!

Kaminagi: What's up?

Kyo: Huh? O- Oh... It's nothing. I'm already involved with her. Involved right up to my neck...

Kaminagi: Huh?

Kyo: Koji, I'd like to play again, soon.

Koji: No problem.

Kyo: See you, Kaminagi.

Kaminagi: Huh? Wait! Hold it!

Kyo: Cerebrants and defteras... The Gardsorm and all that other stuff. And that message to not get involved with Shizuno Misaki. So much is happening so fast, my head feels like it's going to explode! Mm, huh?

Shizuno: Well, you've managed to clear the first level of the game, so despite my misgivings, I want you to come.

Kyo: You know everything, don't you? Do you know about that secret message I got before, too?

Shizuno: What do you mean?

Kyo: I'm not sure. So, we're going to that other place again, right?

Shizuno: Right.

Kyo: Why me, though?

Shizuno: Simple. Because you're a Cerebrant, Kyo. Just like the rest of us.

Kyo: A Cerebrant, huh? Whatever. Come on in, water is nice.

Shizuno: There's no time to waste. So, I indulge you.

Fosetta: Gunner and Wizard I.D.s, locked in. Stand by for meta-body transmission.

Ricerca: Compensating for materialization probability flux. Unstable.

Shizuno: Teleporting near the edge of a deftera zone carries a higher risk of transmission failure.

Kyo: A deftera zone... Like in the game?

Shizuno: That's where we're headed. Only something with holonic armor can survive inside there.

Fosetta: Got it! Transmission scatter rate, green! Releasing hangar locks.

Shizuno: Restoration coordinates, set and locked.

Kyo: Entangle!

Shizuno: That's the deftera zone.

Kyo: Yeah, I can tell.

May-Yu: You'd better not to slow us down, Kyo Sogoru.

Lu-Shen: If you do, we'll abandon you.

Kyo: You'll what? Who in the hell are you guys?

Lu-Shen: Let's go!

Kyo: Hey! Why, you!

Shizuno: Just forget about those guys! And try to get inside without wasting our QL.

Kyo: Roger that. This isn't deja vu from the game. I can feel how familiar this is!

Shizuno: It's all right!

AI: Be alert to fluctuations of physical laws within the deftera zone. The penetrated core's range of effect is presently at a radius of 2.5 kilometers.

Kyo: What was that?!

AI: Warning. Enemy attack has landed a direct hit. Multiple enemies closing from 5 o'clock.

Shizuno: We took a hit on our right leg with minor damage. 20 seconds to reconstruction. Don't return fire, just run!

Kyo: You son of a bitch! ??? Dammit!

AI: Units are Aanval BHL-21Cs. Increasing output levels!

Shizuno: Bypassing drive line 209, re-routing to 273. Drive system check... Green! Go ahead!

Kyo: Gotcha. It's what I thought. You want some of this?

May-Yu: Lu-Shen, up there!

AI: Q.L. Consumption level is critical.

Lu-Shen: The Altair?!

May-Yu: Hey, Kyo! You are trying to kill us too?

Kyo: How about thanking me?

Lu-Shen: I've got a fix on the core's coordinates. Zegapain Altair, follow me!

Kyo: What's with you?!

Minato: Irritating, isn't it? Not knowing what's happening in there...

Shima: Quite.

Minato: And yet, here we sit, watching for any signs. Watching Kyo Sogoru's sortie.

Shima: Our mission is simple, Miss Minato. We have to locate the deftera zones and attack them. And if possible ...

Minato: To salvage any survivors.

Shima: The responsibilities we have leave us little time to worry about possible loss of our comrades, Minato.

Shizuno: He's acting as a shield for us.

Kyo: But why?

Lu-Shen: I can't keep this up for long! The instant I fall back, shoot the core, Kyo!

Kyo: Leave it to me!

Kawaguchi: You can do it, Kyo!

Kyo: Whew, we did it!

Shizuno: Good job, Kyo. What are you doing?

Kyo: Well.

Shizuno: W-Wait a second!

Kyo: Hey, come on down, Shizuno!

Shizuno: Kyo, stop this! Come back at once! Kyo?

Kyo: This feels so familiar... Can it be?

Shizuno: Don't go over there!

Kyo: Uh-oh! What?!

Shizuno: Don't!

Kyo: Shizuno...

Shizuno: Come back to the Altair.

Kyo: All right. But before I do...

Shizuno: Kyo!

Kyo: It's impossible... Shizuno. What's going on?


Lu-Shen: On the way to recover the Shanghai server, May-Yu spots an enlarging deutera zone. If something isn't done, both the server and Zegatank will be swallowed up by the deutera zone and destroyed. Hurry, Kyo Sogoru! This battle which you think is a game is for us a battle to save what can never be replaced!
Next time, on Zegapain: "Shanghai Server."
My thoughts, never to be erased.