The solution chosen by the Militia soldiers...
...was to fly the Willgem over to the vicinity of Dianna's Palace.
However, this situation has resulted in even greater chaos.
And yet I cannot allow a man like Agrippa Maintainer to have control over the moon.
And this is why I've decided to confront the enemies standing before me.
Turn X Activated
Would you care for any?
No, I'll pass.
Right there is fine.
Here.
You should realize that as long as there are two ladies here, I've no desire to attempt fighting you.
- Head over by the Sofa. - Understood.
Now, take a seat.
It's the fragrance of Mondo Blume.
Is that a product from this territory?
Then, I'll enjoy giving this brand a try?
Yes.
Jeez, this is such a waste of time!
Those Earthlings will just find a way to outsmart us at this rate.
Here's your dessert.
That took long enough...
Hey, I put in the effort to get San Michelle's special for you, you know?
I'm aware of that!
Ensign, move it straight and plug it in there nice and slowly now!
Go ahead...
Great!
Even up here on the moon, I still think the Militia's corn beef tastes great.
You bet it does!
Do you really have things likes cows and sheep here?
That's right.
Thanks!
I'm glad to be here.
You're a liar.
I'm serious!
You say that...
...but if you were sitting here with my sister or Queen Dianna, I bet you'd be twice as happy, right?
Alrighty! You'd better hand over the White Mustache...
...or do you no longer care about those 3 comrades of yours anymore?
Colonel Michael... What should we do?
Will we be handing over the White Doll?
You're going to stay right there.
Try not to let them control the game's pacing.
Just play along, Loran.
Colonel Michael!
Moonrace Mechanical Doll Troops...
If we, the Militia, have to surrender our great guardian, White Doll...
We'd rather allow ourselves to be destroyed here along with the Moon Palace.
What? Are you going to give me the chance to satisfy my DNA instead?
Genganam is the capital of moon. We wouldn't mind laying down our lives in a place like this!
Please stop this! Why can't you just turn over the White Doll instead of allowing something like that to happen!?
We plan to attack the street-bridge ahead of you.
Please tell me you're joking!
I ordered you to stay in place!
He's clueless. Didn't they ever teach that kid how to follow a bluff?
Is this plan something you came up with after our meal?
Fran, can you broadcast it over that comm?
I won't be able to reach anyone outside of this ship.
Are Yanni and his men prepared for the next battle?
Yes!
This bluff's success depends entirely on our Mechanical Dolls' abilities.
Jacop, Bruno!
Yes?
Some big bluff isn't going to fool Ghingnham's Team.
That may be true, and yet...
The Colonel's determined to make things work somehow.
I couldn't possibly give them such orders from here, you know?
The Militia is often credited with blind valor.
But, It's a shame that you will all need to be executed.
My life is extremely important.
Therefor, you must ask Agrippa and Ghingnham to order their forces to back off.
It's a worthwhile loss to insure our use of the Earth, is it not?
If you fire that shot, you would also bring about the doom of this palace and the entire city.
It will result in the rekindling of the instinct to battle, even within the Moonrace.
When that happens, the Moon's civilization will be destroyed.
And it would be due to my sins...
The earth girl knows more than she should...
Do you honestly think that those people are capable of destroying the city of Genganam?
All the same, I'd like you to have the Mahiroo Team withdraw.
Then what should we do about Turn A?
We can't simply let it do as it wishes.
They may or may not be bluffing...
But the Mahiroo Team's actions may provoke the Terrans into going all out!
No worries. Genganam is a city my which ancestors helped to create.
If I allowed even a single pillar to fall, then I'd never be able to face the ancestors who...
That's why the Mahiroo Troops...
What in the...?
Sutero?
Fight your hardest and die honorably, like all my opponents should!
Please stop this!
Wasn't the Ghingnham Team meant to be a private army that prepares to defend us by practicing maneuvers in orbit?
Don't compare me with that fool Gym, who's only done useless training for two to three thousand years!
As you can see, Sutero does have some uses.
He's attempting to capture the enemy without using his Beam Weapons.
What reason could require you to have me recall him?
Lord Agrippa, don't you want to obtain the Turn A?
You know better than anyone that it won't be that simple!
What if in the process of trying to capture it, the Mahiroo team awakens the "Butterfly"?
The Butterfly?
But, the data from the Turn X still hasn't been fully analyzed yet.
Make sure those Mahiroo pilots understand how potentially dangerous this situation could be!
I don't need you to remind me.
Get me the Mountain Cycle, I need to speak with Merrybell.
Are you going to use the Turn X?
It's the best item that we have to deal with him.
Use one poison against another, you say?
Then I wish you the best.
I see.
I'll be down there shortly, but this situation is urgent.
Will you be able to do it?
Well, the Bandit and the Turn X do both seem to work well.
I'll let you handle things.
You can't use beams weapons!
We're still right in front of the White Palace!
Let go of me!
The White Mustache is right there!
How can I pull back when the enemy is standing directly before me!?
So we're 100 meters below the moon's surface?
That's correct. This should lead us directly to the White Palace.
How can there be a forest below the ground!?
That Damned Ghingnham...
I can't believe he'd allow the Mahiroo team to battle in front of the White Palace...
We're already at Dianna's palace?
Correct. However, you mustn't forget that it's currently the territory of our enemy Agrippa.
The enemy's stronghold?
Loran, are you serious?
I intend to hand over White Doll.
You idiot!
I can't allow my home city to end up like Nocis did!
Fine then...
If you're no longer capable of it... I will take on the White Doll.
Milady, you could get yourself hurt! As of now, I'm the better pilot for it...
Milady...
Why don't you understand that we can't possibly let our enemy have the White Doll!?
- Pilot of Turn A! - What?
Your Highness, Agrippa Maintainer!?
Correct, pilot of Turn A.
The Terrans, or rather the crew Guin Sard Rhineford's spacecraft...
Shall we see how your "Turn A" will fare in a match against our "Turn X"?
Turn X?
But this battle will be on the surface!
What?
They want us to fight with "Turn X"?
Must be some new model Mechanical Doll...
How can there be a "Turn X", when an X is the same no matter which way you flip it!?
What does this "Turn" mean!?
I don't understand all of this "Turn A" or "Turn X" talk...
What was that!?
Don't you even have any idea what the Turn A you're piloting is!?
That displays a great level of ignorance, Sir Terran...
The moon's canals and underground cities... They're gifts granted to us by mankind's progress!
These things cannot be endangered any further by pointless Mobile Suit battles!
What makes you think you need to tell me that?
- Sister!? - Queen Dianna!?
If you will not agree to battle the Turn X on the lunar surface...
I cannot guarantee you the lives of these three people.
I still don't even know what this Turn X is.
If you agree to battle with the Turn X, then your three comrades will be freed.
Of course, If this palace still exists at that point, I will willingly hand it back to Lady Dianna.
The pilot of the White Doll will be... myself.
- You may lower your weapon, Midgard. - Sir!
I overheard you mention something about the "Turn X"...
Is that supposed to be the strongest Mechanical Doll in the Ghingnham forces?
You might say something like that...
You don't seem terribly fond of this line of questioning, yet I have one thing I must ask.
Go ahead, Ma'am.
Tell me why you sent assassins after Queen Dianna.
She represents a threat to the moon's peace.
Along with anyone who thinks on the same lines.
My master told me that you had prolonged the war on earth, and that you had intentionally caused Dianna a number of problems.
What are you talking about?
After they began the Operation to Return to Earth...
The combat instincts of the formerly peaceful Moonrace members began to awaken once again.
In short, they reverted back to the people of the ancient times.
Their combat instincts were awakened?
Since the plan began...
War has followed anywhere that Her Majesty Dianna has gone.
Now, she's brought the same destructive war back to the moon.
She always tried to avoid resorting to combat!
And by doing so, that only ended up having the opposite effect!
It appears that the Queen's reawakening has only brought her bad luck!
Misfortune?
If it had not been for this regrettable misfortune...
Then that woman wouldn't have led the Terrans here, and such conflicts would never have been instigated!
Is he even capable of listening to his Commander's orders?
Stop him with the Mega Particle Cannons!
Keep it between 5 percent to 10 percent of its full power.
Right. Tweaking particle output...
Let's hope it doesn't reach the city.
Firing two cannons.
Oh my... they seriously fired a shot?
That city's even larger and more crowded than Nocis? Will we end up ruining it?
If he's going to drag this conflict to the space port, that'll give us an edge as well!
I am only following the order that Agrippa gave to me! Open up the hatch!
Why you! Agrippa said...
What?
It should still be daytime...
Is he afraid of the blackout?
How in the...!?
We've rerouted all of the power from Genganam.
The Turn X still hasn't started to move yet.
More, then. Give him another jolt of the city's entire output.
Give him every drop of power the Moonrace can generate!
If I were to do that, it might cause damage to the hospitals and the life support capsules!
It's too much of a risk! I can't do it!
Just who do you think you're speaking too? Do it!
The activation of the Turn X has been approved by Agrippa Maintainer as well!
Sir!
So it's taking this much effort to awaken it?
I wonder how much power you're concealing in there, Turn X?
Are power failures infrequent?
Genganam has never had one.
However, we're almost there anyhow.
We can make it the rest of the way on our own power, if need be.
Right.
The lights have returned... I wonder what happened?
I've never seen such a thing. It's not good...
Gym Ghingnham, The Turn X is moving!
Will we be able to use it?
It really is quite a marvelous mechanical doll...
Gym, I bet you'll be able to handle this thing!
I've been researching it ever since we uncovered it! Just leave it to me.
What's happening now!?
First we have a blackout... and now a groundquake?
Is that relic on the wall moving!?
What is it, Sir Guin!?
Get down, you two! Everyone else as well...
Kaysan, look out!
What is the Gold Type doing here?
It's Lieutenant Harry Ord!?
Kihel, you finally made it here.
Harry Ord was with Queen Dianna Soriel?
Damn you Harry...
It took you long enough to bring back the Queen...
Stop that, Midgard! I am Dianna!
Are you blind, Midgard!?
I'm the true Dianna!
W..What!?
Two Diannas?
Sir Agrippa, the Queen has finally returned here!
You will now transfer sovereign authority to the rightful Queen!
I'll return the real Queen's sovereign authority, but which of these two is she?
In spite of all that you've done, you clearly act ignorant of your actions and continue to place blame on Queen Dianna.
I understand your true intent.
You intend to expel any Moonrace that have shown your "combat instincts" from the moon, don't you?
And what's the matter with that?
If you have the will to fight, go to Earth.
The Moonrace has no need for such feelings towards fighting.
Then why did you give authority to a man as militaristic as Gym?
I didn't grant him such power.
In order to understand your Turn A, I allowed him to conduct his research on the Turn X.
And just what IS this Turn X!?
It's something like the Turn A.
What is known is that it was the Turn A that destroyed earth's ancient civilization.
Turn A destroyed the earth's civilization?
The ancient technological space era...
...was destroyed by the White Doll!?
Up til now, the Turn A has been piloted by a young man named Loran.
He has displayed absolutely no trace of these fighting instincts of yours!
No one had any idea what the Turn A was when it was first uncovered!
However, once Turn X was excavated from the Lunar Mountain Cycle, we knew the truth.
The delays in Dianna's terrestrial immigration began to show a pattern...
Which told us that Turn A had been uncovered!
If Turn A is left alone...
It's possible that both the Earth and the Moon's civilizations will again be destroyed!
You can't escape!
Harry, don't bother chasing him.
I'm more concerned for the Winter Palace.
The Winter Palace?
The blackout just now and all this talk of excavations from the Lunar Mountain Cycle aren't the real issue.
I've more reason to be concerned about the Winter Palace.
You said the "Winter Palace"?
Yes.
It's the life support for the majority of the Moonrace.
Before recent events, managing that palace's daily operations was Agrippa's true job.
Right...
Harry, let's get moving!
A "High Heel"?
Leave this one to me!
Let's go, then!
Miss Kihel, Lady Lily!
Are you alright? That was quite a bit of sudden running!
- We've still a ways to go, right? - I'm alright.
Won't there be any cars coming through here?
That could work.
You should try to call our chamberlain Keiston, or Lady Misumasu.
You'll find a phone over there.
That's right!
Keiston and Misumasu, you say?
Things have grown more tense, and you've been given more to worry about...
While I was asleep for much of it, this body of mine has still been alive for hundreds of years.
Therefore, I can't be quite as energetic as you, Miss Kihel.
I...
...wanted to return to earth and live out the rest of my life, up til my death.
Aging gradually, and eventually dying like any normal person would.
I wanted to allow at least a few members of the Moonrace to share that experience with me.
Was it simply my selfish ego talking?
Not at all. It's not your ego.
I wished for peace... but that other curse I know so well, war, only came in its place.
Perhaps the time for my life to end has now come.
What are you saying!?
What of the many people like Lieutenant Harry who are trying to protect your life? Don't you feel sorry for them?
Miss Kihel, the person that the Lieutenant loves is you... but thank you.
I'm terribly sorry...
What?
Is this Turn X really calling out to me, just like they said it would?
Could the White Doll truly be an evil Mechanical Doll?
That's what we're going to verify, by inspecting the truths of the Dark History that are archived in the Winter Palace.
Are there any books there that list the events in the Dark History?
The ancient history is all preserved there in the data.
What!?
Is that... Turn X!?
It's in good condition!
Well Turn A... I, Gym Ghingnham, will be the one that readies you for your grave!
As the brothers, Turn A and Turn X, begin to resonate...
...The data from the Dark history is opened once more.
Queen Dianna was searching for the records from the past ages of space exploration.
There, it is said that humanity's old civilizations on the earth...
...were buried by something called the Moonlight Butterfly.
Next time... on TURN A GUNDAM... The Shocking Dark History
"The wind recalls forgotten memories."
The Shocking Dark History