Kurashige: You may begin!

Kyo: This is such a pain in the ass. Why do I have to take exams if we're all sitting around in some computer. The whole thing is just a big waste of time!

Kurashige: Pipe down back there Sogoru! Some people are trying to take a test.

Kyo: Mm... Sorry. I have a question!

Kurashige: What is it, Sogoru?

Kyo: Yeah, problem number three. We never covered this stuff in class.

Kurashige: Problem number three? Oh yeah, I guess I never did cover this in class, huh? But you should still remember it from middle school. I threw you guys a freebie. Don't tell me you can't figure out how to solve it!

Kyo: What? Oh, yeah! It's one of those! Ha ha ha. Huh... How come I can't remember this crap?! O.K. Think. I got nothing.

Kaminagi: Okay. The word is... "Civilization" and pretty sure it's...

Kyo: Hey! Working on flash cards, huh?

Kaminagi: Don't talk to me! You, big butthead! Ah, all the words I just learned are going to fall right out of my head!

Kyo: Oh, yeah. It's kinda late to be working on the flash cards, I mean, you know what you don't.

Kaminagi: Well, are you Mr. cocky today?

Kyo: Yup! I'm kicking the exam's ass and taking names. I felt folks that were heard in the path.

Kaminagi: Eeewww. Ah! See you later, Kyo!

Kyo: Later.

Tarbo: This could become a major offensive.

Irie: That's true, but if we can destroy this now, we'll have easier battles down the road as a result

Kuroshio: Yes. And we can hope to replenish our current firepower. The victory here might turn the tide of the war in our favor, right?

Ricerca: Maybe, or is this an example of counting one's chickens before they've hatched?

Kuroshio: Huh?

Fosetta: I wouldn't worry about it. I think that in this case the chickens are gonna be just fine.

Lemures: With the combined arsenals of three Zega figters attacking simultaneously, I believe our success is a foregone conclusion.

Shima: And if we fail with this much firepower, we're doomed in the long run anyway. What's Kyo's current condition?

Irie: His specs are equal to those of all his previous incarnations.

Shizuno: They are equal?

Kuroshio: That's right. Physically speaking, this guy's a topnotch Gunner.

Shima: We'll attack the day after tomorrow. And Tarbo, familiarize yourself with the minutia.

Tarbo: Aye, sir.

Shizuno: They are equal, but... it... It doesn't make him the same person.

Kyo: I woulda gotten a hundred percent if it hadn't been for that stupid middle school question. I just don't understand why the hell I couldn't remember it?

Hayase: You still haven't given up, huh? I hope you realize you're gonna end up with the swim club full of nothing but horny guys.

Kyo: Wait, you came here to join?

Hayase: Why? You got a problem with it?

Ushio: So, if I join the swim club, I'll get to have this video, all right?

Kyo: Ah, Ushio!

Ushio: I'm just living up to your horn dog expectations of me. You have more videos of Shizuno, don't you? Dude, hook me up.

Kyo: Our club's gonna suck if you are here just to go about chicks?!

Ushio: Whatever my friend, I've known you way too long to fall for that. You got way more footages, right? Stuff that was too hot for the video? C'mon!

Kyo: Like I'd have that. Even if I do, what makes you think you get to see it?!

Ushio: You jerk! Holding out on your best friends, ain't you?

Hayase: Huh, naughty naughty! We'll have to confiscate that video from you!

Ushio: This is your last chance. Hand over the sexy videos or you're going into the pool.

Shizuno: I have to practice my swimming. And if I don't join the club, that video was a false advertising.

Ushio: Oh! ALL RIGHT! Ha, ha,ha!

Kyo: And put me down. Guys, come on.

Ushio: Why, you got [someone to be].
Kaminagi: Kyo, you're squeezing too hard! Let go!

Kyo: Please. Just stay here. Don't leave me.

Kaminagi: No!

Kyo: I mean it! Kaminagi, I really love you!

Kaminagi: Doesn't work. See? The real Kyo can never lie to me. You idiot... It was nice. Even if it was a lie...

Lemures: Most of our battles have been defensive skirmishes against enemy patrols or ambushes. Fighting on their terms. However, Thanks to the recent additions of our three excellent new clue members,

Kyo: Excellent?

Lemures: Yes, as your battle skills have improved, you've greatly enhanced combat ability of the Oceanus. Even us A.I.s are very happy with your progress.

Kyo: Yeah, you really mean it? Nah, I'm not as good as all that? I mean, I've still got a lot to learn, you know?

Shima: Don't sell yourself short. Take pride in being a full-fledged Cerebrant. Isn't that right, Miss Minato?

Minato: Huh? Oh! I mean, right! You're the very model of a fine Cerebrant, through and through!

Kyo: Not too shabby. So does this mean I get promoted from part-timer to full-time crew or what?

Lu-Shen: I'm looking forward to working with you.

Kyo: Me too!

Shima: All right then. Time to speak of the task at hand. This is the a medium-scale deutera zone in the Pacific. Code name: Oscar. As it is the enemy's main base on the Far East battle front. The lion's share of the combat units currently attacking Japan and its environs, are believed to be launching from here. Our mission this time is to attack Oscar... and destroy it! With Oscar taken out of your equation, we can scale back our defenses of the Maihama server. However, assaulting the enemy stronghold is exceedingly dangerous. Therefore, I want to know if you consent to this mission. It's far too dangerous to be an order.

Kyo: You want my consent? You blew that smoke up my ass for that? I wasn't gonna turn down the mission!

Irie: Wow he saw right through it.

Kuroshio: I'm surprised he is as clever as that.

Kyo: Oh, Enough already. I'll accept the damn mission. But! Only under one condition!

Shima: And what would that be!

Kyo: A stand back the execution for the swim club! I'll get enough members to qualify for club status! Just give me another month! Please four measly weeks. I'm begging ya!

Shima: Very well.

Kyo: Huh?

Shizuno: Ah?

Shima: You have an extension till the start of the next semester.

Kyo: That's what I'm talking about. I'm gonna hold you to that promise!

Shima: As will I, let you do your best on this mission

Kyo: Just leave it to me! There's gonna be more people than water in that pool after I brought my magic. Ha, ha.

Shima: Give me strength...

Minato: Pardon me, commander? Are you sure you want to promise that?

Shima: It's an easy thing to grant. Besides, I'm only giving what he himself asked for.

Minato: Well that is true, but...

Kyo: Ha, ha, all right! Guess all I have to show 'em I can do this! Ha, ha, ha. I knew the friends would come with right? Finally gonna get me my swim club.

Shima: It's not as the way I lied to him, if he would get an extension to find more members.

Shizuno: That was cruel of you.

Shima: We're fighting a war, Yehl!

Chris: Aye, excuse me, commander Shima...

Shima: Yes?

Chris: Arque and I have a, a favor to ask you, too.

Dita: Extra dimensional adjustments, complete. Cosmological constant control values converging. Now stabilized.

Shima: Impressive work, Dita.

Minato: We managed the modification without much trouble this time .

Dita: Using Shizuno's data from before as a guide, I was able to optimize the process with minimal side effects.

Shima: Carry on and assist with stabilizing Arque's data.

Dita: Roger.

Hayase: Later.

Ushio: See you tomorrow.

Kyo: Cool. What are they doing here?

Girl: Daddy!

Chris: We just wanted a bit a short leave, that's all. I'm glad we got some rain. Haven't seen any of them in ages.

Arque: It should make for a nice memory.

Kyo: What do you mean by make one?

Chris: Just that. We're making new memories to replace the old ones we've lost.

Arque: Unfortunately, I've lost quite a few of them over time.

Kyo: Jeez, you're a chipper? You shouldn't talk like you are about to die or something. It's depressing.

Arque: Ha, ha, ha, ha... But, you must understand. It's true. I am about to die. And that's why I'm here treasuring this time I have now.

Kyo: What kind of crap you are feeding me here? We're all just phantoms! Come on! So how in the hell can you be dying?!

Chris: How stupid of me. You still haven't recovered completely, have you? Sorry. Just forget about it. It's no big deal, okay?

Kyo: No, wait just a second! What are you talking about?!

Arque: Chris... Tell him.

Chris: Arque?

Kyo: Tell me what?

Chris: All right, then. We're data. At the end of the day we're nothing more than human information being stored on quantum servers.

Kyo: Thanks. But I already knew that.

Chris: Listen. There's plenty you still don't know. It's true that we're just data in a machine. But it takes an enormous amount of it to make even one of us. And with that much data, the question of error creeping in isn't if but when.

Daddy: Upsy-daisy! Don! Higher! Ha, ha, ha.

Kyo: What do you mean?

Chris: That it's impossible to achieve a 100% perfect quantum teleport. Every time we entangle, a tiny amount of our data is left behind, lost. Quantum teleportation doesn't leave the original data behind after transmission. That's a quantum server's M.O. No copies, no backups, just a real deal. The system literally moves the info from one place to another. As a result, there's no way to restore whatever data gets lost in transit. Granted that the human body does follow a basic pattern, And we do have the ability to reconstruct it to a certain point using differential analysis. But if you lose what makes someone an individual, what make someone unique there's just no bringing it back.

M.O. = Modus operandi

Kyo: What makes you an individual?

Chris: Our memories. As you lose more of the memories you made over a lifetime, your personality starts to change bit by bit. In other words, you stop being you. A while back, Arque suffered a major transmission failure, took a lot of damage to her body and memory data. Even now, each time she quantum teleports, she has to pay the piper a little bit more.

Kyo: No, that's horrible.

Chris: Could be worse. At least my smokin' hot wife still remembers who I am.

Arque: Ah, ha, ha. Of course I do.

Chris: You understand, Kyo? It's true that we're all just data now. But that doesn't mean we are immortal. Not by a long shot.

Kyo: Don't be stupid. In a game, you just hit the reset button and get another shot. Is it possible that happened to me before, too? No way. When did it really happen? Was that sense of déjà vu so strong because I was experiencing that moment for the second time? What if, what if it wasn't the deja vu? If that's true, then I'm...

Kaminagi: Hey, whatcha doing? One more member to go, huh? Well, good for you. I guess my P.R. Video did the trick, huh? You owe me one.

Kyo: Hear, even though nobody paid any attention to it?

Kaminagi: Who cares? You can still say it did. That's just the way things work out. So what if it starts as a lie? Things change, so, maybe one day that lie will become the truth.

Kyo: Huh? A lie can become the truth!

Kaminagi: What you said, you weren't serious, right? I mean, your mind was on a million other things that day. But then... When you said you didn't want to let go I kind felt...

Kyo: Yeah! You're so right. I totally had something else on my mind.

Kaminagi: Ah huh?

Kyo: Yeah! Sorry about that! I just got all caught up in the moment. Know what I mean? That 'I love you' stuff was out of left field, I swear. So! That was my bad! Forgive me!

Kaminagi: You're such a jerk, Kyo!

Kyo: Just data... But it hurts. What the hell am I doing? Am I damaged. As I was wrong with me? Or am I... Oh?

Tarbo: One minute until Oscar destruction operation number three commences.

Dita: Zegapain, prepare for transmission.

Ricerca: Bednorz parameters, stabilized! Bednorz curve, holding! Reconstruction coordinates, set and locked!

Shizuno: We'll transmit out as far as we can.

Tarbo: Altair, transmit!

Kyo: Entangle!

Shizuno: Transmission, complete. C.H.I.P. loss within acceptable parameters. Confirming transmission of the Garuda, Hraesvelg, and Caladrius. We've hit our coordinates as planned.

Kyo: Is the pain I feel inside also as planned? The damage I took from teleporting... There was some, wasn't there?

Shizuno: Within acceptable limits. It's certainly nothing to be upset about.

Kyo: It's a hell out of a lot to be upset about.

Shizuno: Oh, all right, who told you?

Kyo: I just kinda always knew.

Shizuno: So then? Are you telling me you know something?

Kyo: Is there something I should?

Shizuno: If you feel that you must. Yes, you were reborn one time before now.

Kyo: Then thank you. Target, in sight! Moving in now.

Ricerca: The Zega team is now approaching Oscar. The Altair is leading, as planned. Proceeding to scan the target's power specs.

Kyo: So much for surprise. I need some backup!

Lu-Shen: We'll do.

Kyo: Shit! We didn't even make a dent in that stuff.

Shizuno: Its barrier potential is very high. Ezaki perforator now set to maximum!

AI: Barrier threshold [xxxxx]. Correction required.

Shizuno: Beginning penetration!

Kyo: All right! Let's do this! Get outta my way!

Shizuno: Kyo, multiple large vessels at 10 o'clock!

Kyo: Viagems, damn it!

AI: Viagem cluster confirmed. Heat radiation levels negligible.

Shizuno: Oh, none of them are online yet. All dressed up and nowhere to go.

Kyo: Right on! Like a bunch of sitting ducks.

Shizuno: Shall we?

Kyo: You know it! BONUS STAGE!

Irie: Ten minutes into the operation and counting.

Shima: There's no turning back.

May-Yu: No way! One fighter did all this?!

Chris: Well, looks like our little blitzkrieg went completely according to plan.

Kyo: Okay, so where's the main force?!

AI: Enemy formation at 5 o'clock. Aanval-led platoon...

Shizuno: Enemy squadron confirmed at 5 o'clock!

Kyo: You know, you cound've just said 'behind us'.

May-Yu: The Altair is moving in towards the core!

Lu-Shen: Moving to support!

May-Yu: Roger!

Chris: We're heading in, as well!

Arque: Okay!

Shizuno: What's got you so excited today, Kyo? Did your girlfriend dump you?

Kyo: I'm just making sure of something.

Kurashige: Then in this moment, the real me is doing this!

Kyo: Shizuno! What did I used to be like before it happened?!

Shizuno: Does that even matter now?

Kyo: Because I need to know. What would the old me do when things got tough?

Shizuno: You bury everything that bother you deep inside. And try to win the war single handedly. And you ended up... destroying yourself.

Kyo: Ah-ha. WELL THEN TO HELL WITH THAT GUY!

Fosetta: There's no response from Oscar! And our Zega team casualties remain at Zero!

Shima: Zegatank! Resupply Q.L. to all units! Bring us into the transmission range and recover them at once!

Kyo: Oh yeah... Definitely hurts. Who cares? I'm a new man now!

Kaminagi: And so, the end of the world drew close. All our tomorrows became a dream. Making memories was meaningless. Even so, I'll remember the real world. Until the moment the world ends... But what is real? What's real and what's just a lie? I want to know! I need to! Next time, on Zegapain : "Again, Summer Comes." My thoughts, never to be erased.