Everyday was like a party.
We hadn't forgotten anything.
We weren't trying to forget anything either.
We just wanted some more time.
Like children that play ceaselessly as dusk draws near.
Yet, all the while, the darkness encroaches further.
Okay, it's all ready to go.
Are you sure about this?
The bike will keep you completely insulated
from the high voltage running through the corridors.
It also has an independent gyro.
Even if the gravity control is dead, you'll be fine!
We must regain control over the Y Unit in twenty minutes,
or the entire operation will be a complete failure.
All right, let's go, everyone!
Ro'kon shoujyou, ro'kon shoujyou...
A priori usage, total integration, assumed command,
Ro'kon shoujyou...
Thou holy, shall holy, thine holy, holy thee,
holy, ho-ho, hoo-li holee, hoddle-ho!
Brother... How? I thought you were dead.
Oh, mahjong...
Whose past is that?
Two Gekigan type units approaching.
Requesting all Aestivalis launch to intercept.
Commander Tsukiomi, we were supposed to rendezvous
with the lunar surface forces by now.
We have been led to an encounter with that battleship
by the benevolent Gekigangar!
Let the unmanned forces handle the lunar surface.
We will sink this ship here and now.
Understood.
Here they come!
Damn!
The Gekigan type units are compromising our distortion field.
It seems that our field can only delay the enemy's encroachment,
ever since the Gekigan types have started appearing.
Stop calling them "Gekigan types"!
Gotcha!
Got rhythm? Got cha-cha?
Enemy vessel has accelerated.
To fire their boson cannon?
Do we want to retreat?
We know that they can't touch us from long range.
If we change heading now, we won't reach the designated point in time.
The phase transition cannon...
Keep the Nadesico advancing toward the target as planned.
I'll smash this ship!
I'll begin the briefing for this operation.
Currently, the Second Fleet is on the final offensive
on the dark side of the Moon, employing massive numbers of
lunar surface frames and recently-completed vessels.
We will lure the formidable Jovian boson-cannon equipped vessels
and their manned robot forces to this point.
Our fields are useless against the boson cannon.
Why are we making a bad situation worse?
We will use the phase transition cannon.
Phase transition cannon?
Right! We use the Y Unit's onboard systems.
The three phase transition engines...
Hey!
We forcibly phase transition a point in space using the Y Unit.
No field protection scheme will be effective against this.
With the phase transition cannon,
we can eliminate all manned vessels near the Moon.
The Moon will be all ours again.
Put bluntly, this operation's success hinges on the Nadesico.
The problem is arriving at the firing coordinates on time.
We must reach that point in eighty minutes.
Tenkawa...
Artificial boson jumping?
It's possible to create a jump field using the CCs.
The rest hinges on...
Whether or not a regular person can withstand the jumping, right?
I would like to participate in this experiment as well.
You too?
Would you mind?
The jump field is stable.
You can jump now.
Chronological linearity can be compromised in jumping
because the field becomes unstable. So...
Akito, if you have second thoughts, tell us now!
Are you feeling all right?
Akito, don't push it!
Enemy vessels rapidly approaching. Phase transition activity detected.
Boson cannon, readying to fire.
I'm doing it!
Visualize!
Your target is the enemy battleship!
There! Fire!
Damn those evil Earthlings! Our precious leap cannon is lost!
Ready the Daimajin! I will attack them directly!
Wait, Gen-lchiro. Pull back for now!
Tsukumo? But I can't...
I said, pull back!
Doesn't it seem that Akito has changed all of a sudden?
His newfound ability to boson jump successfully
probably has the most to do with it.
Every child wants to be a hero while they're small,
but that desire turns into a burden as you grow older.
Akito Tenkawa's disdain for the IFS connector,
and his insistence that he is actually a cook
even while he regularly pilots the Aestivalis, are examples of this.
Stop peeking into my past without my permission!
What can I do about it?
It looks like this is just the place for that.
Here we go.
But you're very different now, Tenkawa.
Being the first to be able to make it through organic boson jumping
made you a real hero for both Earth and Mars.
A hero?
Well, you have gotten a lot more resilient recently.
I could never make it as a hero.
That's what I thought.
Well, it isn't only me.
In a real war, no single person can be a real hero.
If you try, you'll end up like Gai.
But I guess I have do this right, since I'm the one that can do it.
Then how things are now is all right.
Fighting against the enemy with your life at stake
is the Gekigangar life that Akito wanted, right?
Except the enemy are humans.
Here, too?
No way! We can't get through with this here.
Damn!
Something's wrong with the connection to the Y Unit.
To be specific, Y Unit's weapons control computer, Sarutahiko,
is not responding to my commands.
All software level diagnostics have been blocked.
Is this a hardware issue? What about the mechanics?
Screw this, damn it!
All passageways leading to the Y Unit from the Nadesico
have high voltage flowing through them,
or their gravitational controls are all dead.
It's as if the Y Unit doesn't want to let anyone in!
Will it be possible to fire
the phase transition cannon in thirty minutes?
It's impossible with the Y Unit not responding to our commands.
Could the lesson be,
"Don't be greedy and try to bag them all at once"?
Then somebody has to actually go to the Y Unit,
and get it operational again.
But our pilots are not doing too well.
Is something wrong?
They claim to be seeing ghosts.
Mr. Yamada?
What's up, Ruri-Ruri?
Mr. Yamada?
There are others there too. Who are they?
Never thought I'd be riding around the Nadesico on a bicycle!
Oh yeah, let's go!
My, aren't you pumped up, Tenkawa.
Hey, why don't we race each other,
to see who can get to Sarutahiko first?
Hey, I like that. Why not?
And, and, how about this?
The one who makes it there first gets something from the losers.
Hey, no problem!
You must be after my body.
If I win, I get to have the Captain.
Hey, wait just a second.
She's not mine to give out anyway!
Hey!
Akatsuki sure has strange tastes.
He sure does.
Just listen to them! How inappropriate!
There you go, getting all jealous.
Why should I be?! He's just doing that to rattle Akito's cage!
Oh, whatever.
But is it me or have their personalities all changed?
Well, Akito does seem to be a lot more energetic than usual.
Are sure about this? Let's forget it, okay?
Well... ah...
I... I...
Come on, get on your bicycles! We're going in!
I... I... I just want something to shoot!
Our goal is to achieve peace in the universe.
Exactly. That is why we fight.
Then it is imperative we consider a negotiated peace!
Of course, first we must have Earth agree
to make a full apology for their past injustices.
Eventually,
the ancient phase transition core fabrication plant will break down.
Our excavations on Mars are not producing the desired results.
Is it really possible?
I have a plan.
Now! Let's...
Gekiga In!
Tsukumo! Why did you pull me out of that fight?!
Oh, about that...
Big brother!
Yukina?!
What are you doing here?
I heard all about it, big brother!
Ms. Nanako!
Are you all right?
It was my mackerel sushi that put them out of action.
I've got to pull through.
Whoa!
Brother!
Yukina, that's "my dear older brother, Tsukumo."
You'll appreciate Gekigangar as you get older...
I hate cartoons!
But what's this about peace negotiations with the Earthlings?
Is this true, Tsukumo?
Well, actually, I'm...
What's the meaning of this?!
Are you going to forgive those brutes?
We need to find a new path toward peace!
That's all bull!
My older brother has been deceived by an Earth woman!
You disgust me, big brother!
It looks like our memories have all become interconnected.
This isn't a dream?
If it was a dream, we wouldn't see each other's past memories.
Well, so you were a bed wetter until you were ten?
But I'm not one anymore!
Fool.
So if our personalities are here, what's going on with our bodies?
They're being driven by our other personalities,
the personalities usually repressed within ourselves.
That's it. The hatch to the Y Unit!
Just you wait! You stubborn computer!
Aestivalis has appeared right in front of the enemy flagship.
Mr. Tenkawa has successfully boson jumped.
Wow.
All right, Erina. Now it's my turn!
Are you sure?
Why not? I can handle this just fine!
Let's go!
What is it?
I aborted the jump from here.
You cannot make it!
Why?
Take a look at yourself!
Damn it! I can't jump?
Dear brother...
An older brother much older than you,
so he was being groomed as the successor.
So what?
How did he die?
An accident on the Mars route.
Do you still wish that your brother was alive?
I said none of this matters anymore!
Why? Why are you here?
Brother... How? I thought you were dead.
Gai...
What? Why are those three just standing there?!
Hello, Mr. Akito? Ms. Izumi? Mr. Akatsuki?
What's the matter? Anyone? Hello? Hello?
What about the Aoi and Subaru party?
Oh, I'm going to blast away!
Somebody help me!
So, what exactly is happening here?
The personalities of all our pilots have changed.
They're acting very peculiar.
Ms. Inez isn't showing up to give us her explanation either.
Gai, you died.
Gai, are you trying to stop us?
Is there something you want to tell me, Gai?
The dead have nothing to say.
There are no such things as ghosts in this world.
You yourselves have created them.
When our memories and personalities were interconnected,
what was suppressed has come back to life.
You are being held back by none other then yourself.
When will you stop pulling me back?
Just get away from me!
I'm not afraid anymore.
Hey, Izumi, who is this man?
Didn't you have two fiancés?
But didn't both of them die?
One lost to disease, the other to an accident.
I'm a woman that invites misfortune.
Guess I'm not really popular like that.
I know. You've come to take me with you.
It's all right. I'm so tired.
I can't love anyone again, anyway.
You... You're not here to take me?
Please? Please!
For Izumi and Akatsuki, it wasn't the deaths themselves,
but rather their strong attachment to their lost loved ones.
That's why they can't move on.
So what about you, Akito?
You never wanted to come to terms with the death of Jiro Yamada,
because that would mean accepting one's own fear of death.
I am not afraid! Not of dying!
Oh, really? And?
I get scared. That's why I fight.
Because if I don't fight, we're all going to die.
Me, my friends, and all the people of Earth.
There you go, all high and mighty on your horse.
Haven't we moved up in the ranks, Akito Tenkawa!
I...
The first day I rode a bicycle.
The first day I rode through the meadows.
I get it! There are no reasons!
I understand. I understand now, Gai!
We have the large enemy fleet behind the Moon in our sights.
Is the Y Unit back online yet?
Bastard!
Ready the phase transition cannon.
Expanding Y Unit.
Y-Unit phase transition engines,
raise power output to maximum load.
Maximum power.
Locked on to enemy fleet coordinates.
Fire!
All hands abandon ship! All hands...
It destroys space itself.
Unbelievable firepower...
We can't use a weapon this powerful.
It's certainly the last word.
The nanomachines create an auxiliary brain
near the brain itself.
Memories, converted into electronic data,
are stored there as well.
The hermit crab specializes in hacking electronic data,
so that must have appeared as a form of computer memory.
So, how did our minds all get stuck talking to each other?
That's the result of our communicators.
Our data centers are all linked to each other through our communicators.
The hermit crab perceived them to be part of a network.
By attempting to compromise the entire network,
the hermit crab brought about the linking of all our consciousness.
But what kind of data was the enemy after from the Nadesico?
I have no explanation for that.
Ms. Inez and I haven't gone through nanomachine treatment.
So it seems strange that...
I have no explanation for that either.
Well, isn't that rare?
What? You've already sent a peace emissary?
Yes, following your recommendations,
I have sent an emissary to this Nadesico you mentioned.
I made no such recommendation!
Who did you send to the Nadesico?
Just what the plot calls for, of course, Tsukumo.
How dare she deceive my big brother?!
Earth woman, just you wait!
You won't cooperate in the experiments any more? Why?
You're the only one that can jump!
Who will protect the Nadesico?
It's just like how it is in your favorite, Gekigangar.
You fight the enemy to protect the blue Earth.
But is that really right?
Fighting to protect something is ordinary, but...
You're still killing people.
You need a reason to fight.
Is that what a hero is about?
That's weird. What's Ai doing here?
Oh! Here we go. Akito's and my memory!
See!
Don't fool around with me, my dear.
Just listen to you go, Haruka!
I'm not fooling around, my sweet.
Quit clowning around, Tsukumo!
Look at you go at it, with a cool face like that.
Do what? What?!
Oh, I'm nothing compared to you, my dear.
Well, is that so?
Living apart, the love between us, it burns ever more brightly...