Kyo: So... this is a holonic loader, huh?
Our new weapon?
I've been assigned as your partner.
The name's Kyo Sogoru.
So, uh... what's your name?
What should I call you?


Kyo: Maihama... No...

Ryoko: Oh, Kyo...

Kyo: I failed them. I let them die! All of them...!
But this is... Maihama?

TV: The Environmental Ministry announced at the press conference earlier today that new data identified the source of the contamination as a waste treatment plant operated by the I.A.L. Corporation.
The data which was only accessible to the most senior members of the corporation prior to its leak will require several days to analyze.

Kyo: What the... hell's going on?
This really is Maihama.
But that means...

Lu-Shen: It means Maihama wasn't in the server the Anti-Zega destroyed.

Kyo: Huh?
It's Shizuno, and Lu-Shen and the twins?
Will somebody please tell me what the hell's going on?
You know Shizuno, don't you?

Shima: I suppose I owe you an explanation.

Minato: Maybe we should hear this also.

Shima: The destroyed server did hold the data for this city once.
That much is true.
However, we recognized its vulnerability and moved the Maihama data to a much safer location sometime ago.

Kyo: What is this?
It never occurred to you that the rest of us should know about that, too?

Minato: He's right, Commander!
You at least could have told me!

Shima: And if I had told you, wouldn't you have immediately asked me where the real Maihama server was hidden?
That was information I couldn't share.

Shizuno: Telling you its true location might have led to a mutiny.

Shima: We had only one chance to carry out this mission.
Thus failure was not an option.

Kyo: Hold on!
What do you mean it might have led to a mutiny?
Where'd you hide the real server that would make everyone freak the hell out?

So where are you taking us?
This train doesn't go anywhere.

Shima: You'll find it go somewhere today.

Kyo: Huh!

May-Yu: Ah!

Kyo: We're on...! It can't be!

Shizuno: It is.

We're on the surface of the Moon.

Shima: Of course, it's really nothing more than a simulation using virtual data.
But the Maihama server is being kept on the Moon.

Mei-Yu: But Commander Shima, the Moon is still under total Gardsorm control.

Kyo: It's what?

Mei-Yen: Look!

Kyo: What is that?

Lu-Shen: Behold the home of the Gardsorm.
That's the lunar base known as G-Phaetus.

Kyo: And you hid Maihama right here?
This is insanity!
What were you thinking?!

Lu-Shen: Clever. Ultimately the Moon's surface may be the safest place of all.

Kyo: Hmm?

Shizuno: Humanity once attempted an all-out assault on the Moon.
But the operation failed.
Once the Gardsorm had annihilated all human forces on the Moon,
they transferred most of their facilities to the Earth.

Lu-Shen: All that's left on the Moon now is the Gardsolm's old decision making body.
Although the defense systems are still active, so you can't wander too close.

May-Yen: But if by some chance the enemy should stumble upon the Maihama server...

May-Yu: All of those people will die.

Minato: Shizuno!

You were in on the Commander's scheme from the very beginning, weren't you?

Shizuno: Yes.
I helped the Commander transfer the data from the old the Maihama server onto the Moon.
So did....

Minato: So did the Kyo I never met, right?
Kyo from before the reboot.

Shizuno: Correct.

Lu-Shen: Will you indulge us with one more answer then?
What data could we have pulled from the Coatlicue that merited this whole charade?

Shima: I'll tell you when the time is right.

Kyo: It's totally ridiculous, don't you think?
I mean, we were risking our asses out there to protect a big decoy.
Man, that Shima's kind of a dick, isn't he?

Ryoko: Yes.
But at the moment I can't get upset about it on an emotional level.

Kyo: Well, at least everybody's okay.
That's the most important thing.
After all, keeping them safe is the whole reason we do this, right?
It's freaky, huh? Knowing that in the real world, we're surrounded by the enemy?

Ryoko: I'm not sure I really understand why we're fighting anymore.

Kyo: Forget it.
I'll worry about that for the both of us.

Ryoko: Thank you very much, Kyo.

Ryoko: I'm so glad that Maihama is safe and sound.

Still I think the President -- sorry, the Commander I mean -- should've told us what we were trying to defend was just a decoy.
Wouldn't you agree?

Kyo: Yeah! You're right. He should've.

Ryoko: I'm sorry.
I wish I could've been more into it when we were talking at school earlier this afternoon.

Kyo: Forget it!
We can talk normally now, so you know, no harm, no foul.

AI: Five minutes until operational limit is reached.

Ryoko: Five minutes left.
I guess we can't talk now after all.

Kyo: Hey, tomorrow's another day.


Isora: Your behavior was far too reckless, Shima.
You risked yourself and all of Maihama.

Shima: Necessary risks if the final operation is to succeed.
The data is being analyzed here aboard the Oceanus.
We'll have results in a few days.

Isora: So be it.
In the meantime, we'll destruct the enemy to keep them from finding you.
I'm sure they're looking.
And Yehl, come visit the Dvaraka when the fighting is over.
Meivell and the others really miss you.

Shizuno: It'll be my pleasure, Commander Isora.

Isora: Until later, then.

May-Yu: Um, Lu-Shen, why are you trying to get access from here?
And why lie about doing maintenance on the machines?

Lu-Shen: Because this is the only way to get access without the A.I.s or the Commander finding out about it.

A.I.: Access authorization, received.

May-Yen: I'm intercepting any pings from the bridge.
We can get to the gateway through a backdoor built into the system.

Lu-Shen: Okay.

May-Yen: Well that's strange.

May-Yu: Hm? What is?

May-Yen: Shizuno and the Commander. Neither one has a profile from before they entered this server.
In other words, there's no data on them prior to becoming meta-bodies.

May-Yu: Huh?

Lu-Shen: Sin knew Shizuno was aboard our ship and she called her Yehl, too.
Shizuno denies it, but the possibility of a connection between them is undeniable.

May-Yen: "Yehl" sounds like...

May-Yu: I.A.L....

Lu-Shen: Sorry. The truth is never that simple.

Ryoko: I'm not sure I really understand why we're fighting anymore.

Kyo: I can see why.
The same old classes, the same old fights, the same old conversations.
Are we fighting and risking our lives so we can kill time with the same old, the same old?

Tomigai: Hey, Sogoru, are you even listening?

Kyo: Huh? Oh, yeah. Well, go on.
Isn't there some way we can break out of this cycle we're in?

Ryoko: Shizuno.
You and Kyo used to have a relationship, didn't you?
It just seems that way.

Shizuno: Yes, we did.
But not... with the version of Kyo that's here now.
When I first met him, it happened just as I was starting to figure out who I was.

Ryoko: What was Kyo like?
I mean, did he act very much like the version I know?

Shizuno: They don't have much in common.
He was very thoughtful, played it pretty safe.
He kept all his pain hidden away, and he ended up destroying himself.
Still... I love him, even now, everything about him.

Kyo: Hey, do you remember, Kaminagi?
We came here on a date like this, once before.

Ryoko: Yes, I remember it.

Kyo: Feels kinda weird, doesn't it?
Doing stuff over and over, already knowing how it's gonna end up.
Man, was I laying it on thick last time or what?
I still feel pretty foolish about that, you know.

Ryoko: I'll probably feel the same way once I'm back in the Altair again.
I asked Shizuno if she's still in love with you.
I can't feel anything the way I am now.
So her answer wouldn't hurt me, no matter what. That's why I asked.

Kyo: I get it.
So what'd she say?

Ryoko: She said "yes".

Kyo: Y-you serious?
Whoa, how about that!
Guess I'm just a babe magnet, what can I say?

Ryoko: I should be crying hearing you say something like that.
But I can't.

Kyo: I'm sorry.
In the end, all of us just swimming in circles, too?
Ah! Emergency transfer!
What's going on?

Lemures: The Oceanus is heading north to avoid an enemy deutera zone in our path.
However, the shortest route around it takes us smack-dab into a much larger deutera zone.
Lucky us.

Shima: Scramble all Zegapain units!
Go to destroy that deutera zone!
Wipe it out!

Lu-Shen: May-Yu, let's go!

May-Yu: Mm!

Chris: Shizuno!

Shizuno: Right!

Dita: Hold on!
There's no sign of Ryoko Kaminagi in the Altair.

Minato: What are you talking about?

Kyo: Whoa, where the hell is she?

Ricerca: Now tracing her data.
Found her!
Looks as though she suffers some wet damage!
Ryoko is sleeping inside the server in order to recuperate.

Minato: What did you do to her?

Kyo: Uh, um... n-nothing! I-I swear it!

Minato: Commander, what will we do?

May-Yen: The Hreascelg is ready to go!

Shizuno: Need a wizard?
Been a while since we flew together.

Kyo: Yeah!

Dita: Countdown, started.
Transmission scatter rate, confirmed.

Ricerca: Chamber seals, released.
Q.L. driver, conjunction.

Fosetta: Gunner and wizard I.D.s locked in.
Stand by for Meta-Body transmission!

Dita: Bednorz parameter, stable.
Bednorz curve, holding.

Ricerca: Transmission airspace scan, complete.
E.X. Condition, green. All clear.

Shizuno: Switch off your feelings.

Kyo: Right.

Shizuno: You have to forget about her for now. There's work to do.

Kyo: I know, okay?

Fosetta: Transmission chamber, operating normally.

Dita: Releasing hanger locks.

Kyo: Entangle!

A.I.: Transmission, complete.
Enemy units approaching from fore.

Shizuno: Get ready.

Kyo: Kaminagi, prep the launcher!
Ah...

Chris: Hey, Kyo!
Don't you go sweat the small stuff.
Conserve your Q.L. and go for the core and then take it out!

Kyo: Will do!
Hey, sorry about that.

Shizuno: Light wings, full deployed, setting path to deutera zone

Chris: Now, May-Yen!

May-Yen: Launching speed mines!

Dita: The Altair is in!
It's breaking through the shield.

AI: No response from enemy units in this area.

Shizuno: Something's wrong.
A deutera zone this enormous should be putting up way more of a fight.

Kyo: No complaints here.
C'mon, let's blow this things up and head home already!
How do we find the main core?

Shizuno: It's at twelve o'clock.
Straight ahead.
Range, 2,000.

Kyo: There it is!
Let's do this in one shot!
Holo-Bolt Pressure!

Shizno: Wait!
There's something strange about the core.

Kyo: What is it?

Shizuno: What the...?

AI: The deutera zone has been wiped out.

Chris: The hell?

May-Yen: The deutera zone's gone.

May-Yu: It blew off!

Lu-Shen: But Kyo!

Shima: What happened?

Fosetta: The core's self-destruct system was activated.

Minato: But why?
Could the Gardsorm have possibly been retreating from us?

Rechelca: I don't know!
I'm bringing the Garuda and Hreasvelg Zegas back.
Both fighters are currently in need of Q.L. replenishment.

Minato: What about the Artail?
Can we force a transmission?

Dita: Negative.
Residual particle interference from the blast's preventing a location fix.

Kyo: Aw, man...
We don't have enough Q.L. left to get back on our own.

Shizuno: Once the haze clears, they'll come for us.

Kyo: I guess there's nothing to do but wait.

Shizuno: We waited alone for help like this the last time, too.

Kyo: Yeah?

Shizuno: Hazonmeyers!

Kyo: A lot of them.

Shizuno: Holonic field, forming.
Holonic shield.

In first battle we fought together, our Zega took damage.
We had to withdraw from the battle zone.

Kyo: Fat lot of good the training program did us, huh?

Shizuno: Forgive me.
I should've been a better wizard.

Kyo: Who said that was your fault?
Just means we've got ourselves some practicing to do.

Shizuno: We don't have much Q.L. left.
We only have about 10 minutes of running time remaining.

Kyo: So if help doesn't arrive by then, we die, right?

Shizuno: Do you regret it, our ever having met?

Kyo: Shoulda, woulda, coulda... regret is pretty useless.
Your name...

Shizuno: Ah...

Kyo: People call you Yehl, but the way they say it, it sounds like they might as well just be saying, "Hey, you there."

Shizuno: I don't have... a real name.

Kyo: Well, let's give you one.
Shizuno. Shizuno Misaki.
It feels like that's a very important name to me.
But I can't remember why.

Shizuno: Shizuno Misaki...

The rain... it's something which will never touch me.

Kyo: We should cherish the things we can touch.
Right, Shizuno?

No way!
You're saying I just hauled off and planted one on you?!
Oh man...
I totally wouldn't do something like that.
Jeez, why was the old me such a horny dog?

Shizuno: When you gave me my name, for the first time ever I felt like me.

Kyo: What's it doing?

Shizuno: Its sensors still work!

Do you regret it? Our ever having met?

Kyo: Regret is still pretty useless!

Chris: Sorry, you guys.
Better late than never.

May-Yen: I hope we're not interrupting.

Lemures: Gardsorm activity has been unusual over the last few days.
They're not trying to enlarge their sphere of influence, and even seem to be retreating in some areas.

Shima: Perhaps they know what we're up to.
Both sides are playing the end game.
And the enemy data analysis?

Fosetta: It is currently 87% complete.
Including error checks, it will take another 10 hours to finish.

Shima: Aagh!
Time waits for no man.
The piper must be paid.



Shima: There is not a single human left on that blue planet.
The moment I first thought how unnatural that was, everything began.
And now I must make my final decision.
I recognize the doubts the others have, but I must continue along the path of my belief.
I must continue forward!
Beause time is not infinite.

Next time, on Zegapain: "Warriors..." My pain, never to be forgotten.