Everything started on Mars.
And everything's about to end, I think.
It looks like we'll be fumbling around,
making a racket until the very end.
In some ways that's fitting for us, I guess.
Hey, what the hell is going on here?
Are they withdrawing?
That's right. There's no point in continued fighting for now.
With Akito and Ms. Inez down below,
you won't be able to use the phase transition cannon, right?
Guess we'll have to wait and see how this works out.
Akito...
How deep is this thing?
According to our research, it's about ten kilometers deep,
with distortion fields every eight hundred meters.
Who was the Doctor talking about greeting?
I don't know.
Ai?
I see!
Cherry Icee.
I understand. That's why the Doctor was acting a little strange.
Cherry Icee.
But how can you say that it is Ai so easily?
Cherry Icee.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute!
What are you all getting excited about?
Who is this Ai you are all talking about?!
Let me explain.
Since the Explaining Lady has shut off her transmission,
I will substitute.
Ai is a girl that Akito got to know
before he boson jumped from Mars to Earth.
This girl is one of the sources of his psychological trauma.
But Ai was not dead.
Mister isn't here yet.
Hold on, he will be soon.
Okay.
Probably, the many distortion fields inside the ruin
are blocking his path, making it really difficult for him.
What's wrong?
You smell really nice, auntie.
I'm not sure I like being called auntie.
Like mommy. You smell just like my mommy!
Mommy's so mean, you know?
She went to sleep with everyone else when it went boom.
Then Mister started shining really bright
and looked like he went away and then...
Wait! Mister! Mister! Mister!
A free-falling object is approaching from above!
What is it?
It appears to be...
A Chulip!
Damage to starboard!
Field strength down twenty percent.
We were hit with a gravity blast!
Enemy?
Analysis of enemy strength complete.
Two new phase transition core powered battleships.
One is the Nadesico!
Nadesico?!
Did you hear that, Captain?! Now we can return the favor from...
I'm fully aware!
Okay, let's see what that dashing man of action does this time!
Kannazuki is moving ahead, Sir.
Dispatch to Kannazuki.
Aye.
Prepare humanoid and arthropodal fighters for immediate launch.
Auntie!
It's all right.
Nadesico?
Ms. Inez!
It's terrible! A Chulip arrived and the Jovians suddenly attacked!
I see.
The ruins were reinvigorated due to a boson jump nearby.
Ai?
Ms. Inez? Ms. Inez?
Ms. Inez!
Mobile enemy weapons approaching.
We'll worry about the enemy at hand first.
Ryoko!
Gotcha, just let me at them.
Prepare gravity blast cannon!
Aye!
Enemy Gekigan type units approaching via boson jump.
Auntie, I'm scared, I'm scared!
Hurry, Akito!
This is the last one. Give it full power!
Roger! I'm coming, Ai!
Ai!
Mister! Mister! Hurry, Mister!
I don't wanna, auntie!
I still haven't met Mister! I still haven't...
You will.
Maybe not now, but you will some day!
You're a strong girl, aren't you?
That's why you need to believe.
That's why you can't forget.
His face, his voice, no matter what happens.
Please don't forget, never forget this.
Okay.
I feel like I'm talking to my mommy.
Oh, right. They asked me to give this to you.
When I got here I was supposed to...
An entrusted item...
Ai!
Ms. Inez, where is Ai?
You just missed her.
I told you to hurry, but maybe it was meant to be like this.
Ms. Inez...
The "l" in Inez is pronounced "Ai" in the alphabet.
That child was drawn into Akito's boson jump back in the colony.
She ended up in ancient Mars.
She was sent back by the people who built these ruins.
But thanks to all the mess just now, she jumped again,
and ended up in the middle of a desert twenty years ago.
Back when all our memories were joined together,
you saw this, my memories, my past.
Ms. Inez...
You saw it too, Akatsuki?
Yeah.
All the other pilots,
along with the Captain and Ruri, saw it as well, right?
Yes.
You recovered your memory back then, didn't you?
I did.
The little girl lost all her memory
from the shock of being left in the desert.
She was picked up by some Nergal workers in the area, and...
That's enough!
I knew all this.
I knew it in my mind, but couldn't bring myself together to say it!
I'm sorry, Ai. I'm sorry for not being able to help you.
It's great to finally be able to meet you, Mister.
I get it, I get it, I get it!
So it's the time paradox thing, all Sci-Fi and stuff, right?
So just leave that aside and give us some cover!
We're being hammered by everybody here!
That's true. Kakitsubata is suffering a brutal beating.
The hunter of two hares loses both like a seat between two chairs!
Instead of the formidable Nadesico,
we'll first dispose of the other ship!
Saburota!
I'm on it.
Gekigan Punch!
Get out, Erina!
But...
Just run for it!
Gekigan Beam!
The Kakitsubata...
Sunk?
Erina Won...
While still struggling to realize her dreams, she perishes on Mars.
I haven't perished yet!
Rest in...
Hey! Stop that crying, damn it!
Oh, why does it have to be like this?!
It's my fault.
Please, Mr. Akito, don't blame yourself.
The Ai that I met two years ago was a little girl.
But she was sent back to the past because of me,
and forced to go through so much suffering.
And ended up being such a quibbling old auntie.
But you can't change anything back.
That's right!
Come on now, Mr. Akito. Have a rice ball now!
You're just feeling down because you're hungry!
Stuff it in! Stuff it in!
What are you doing to me?!
Eat it! Eat it!
I can't keep weeping when everyone's working hard.
Please watch over me closely, big brother.
I'll carry out your wishes!
What's the status of the enemy ship?
They have remained silent since descending into the ruin depths.
No movement.
Dispatch to the enemy ship!
Aye, Sir.
Abandon the ruins at once and surrender immediately!
You will be given thirty minutes to comply.
If you do, you have my word that l,
Major Gen-lchiro Tsukiomi of the Superior Male Forces,
will guarantee your safety.
That's all.
Well, it certainly looks like we are completely cornered.
What do we do, Captain?
We will not surrender!
We have no intention of letting them have the ruin in any case,
so let's punch through with a big bang!
Are you all right, Ken?
But we're getting nowhere against this many.
It appears that the moon will be where you will perish.
Die, Gekigangar!
Gekigan Sword!
This is nothing compared to true Hell.
Get yourselves together, Ken, Akira!
Joe!
Joe Umitsubame, you're alive!
Joe!
Let's do it, partners.
Isn't it so convenient, dying and then resurrecting.
Use this, Gekigangar V!
Gekigan Sword!
Hyper Passion Slash!
Was what you believed in this hollow?
Stare.
Oh, hello, Yukina.
Why are you weeping like that?
I don't think that's how an adult is supposed to behave.
It's okay if I am a child.
Of course it isn't!
I... I...
I'm going to be Ms. Minato's groom!
What?!
Self-destruct?
We'll overload the four phase transition engines of the Nadesico
and blow up the ruins!
Yeah, this will work!
Hey, wait just a minute here!
Are you going make everyone here sacrifice themselves for this?
Of course not.
The only person that'll stay behind will be me, the Captain.
Wait a second...
Hold on, Yurika. You want to die doing this?!
Don't worry, I won't die.
Idiot!
Do you have any idea what you are saying?!
You'll die, you fool!
No, I won't die! I will not die!
Yes, you will!
No, I won't!
Yes, you will!
No, I won't, I won't, I won't!
Yes, you will die, and that's that, fool!
What?!
You made her cry!
What the hell are you people saying?!
The war would end if the ruins were gone.
But...
Would we really be able to destroy it even if we self-destructed?
Look, this is when you should count on Nergal.
We won't let anything bad happen.
That's right, Captain.
Look who's talking. You just lost the Kakitsubata.
Oh, don't pay any heed to what a child murmurs out loud.
Regardless, no self-destruction!
Why not?!
Because I say so!
We would be able to save the universe!
We could do this even through we let all those people on Mars die!
But you would die.
Well, that might not be the case.
According to Ms. Inez's explanation,
these ruins are like a huge time machine.
So if we blow up the ruins,
then all the boson jumping that took place
in past, present, and future will all be voided,
as if none of it took place.
So how far back would we back track after that?
That's not me.
Then...
You're...
Being myself, being myself,
I want to find a future all my own...
Don't you dare think about doing such a thing as self-destruction.
V!
Admiral?!
We never suspected you were still alive.
Are you disappointed that I'm still alive?
I met him inside the ruins.
He was saved by the Grasshopper units and interned until now.
V!
But why, Admiral?!
Admiral, why shouldn't we self-destruct?
Because it's self-destructive. It's stupid.
No way!
I wanted to save everybody with the ship like you did, Admiral...
Ruri...
I'm against it.
But...
If we destroy the ruins, then history will be rewritten.
There would be no war, a clean slate.
But we will lose something that's very dear to us as well.
Two minutes until the retrieval of the ruin unit.
Does it still work even if we detach it and take it in?
Supposedly time and space means nothing to the ruins.
I don't quite get it.
Maybe it's that even while apart, our hearts are still one.
Ms. Minato!
I'm so sorry. Did I make you worry?
But is it all right?
It's Yukina.
She said she would become my groom.
I've go to pull myself together,
for the sake of that little screwball we have with us.
Yes, you're right.
Ruri, I'd like you to come here now.
Yes.
What's most important to me...
My life on board the Nadesico for more than a year.
All I have are these memories.
Not memories that were given to me, but memories that I won.
That's all I have. I won't let that go.
Captain, what's the most important thing for you?
You granted them thirty minutes? You're too soft, Tsukiomi!
While the enemy force might be feeble,
they have taken shelter inside the city.
That's why you must rush ahead!
I'm just not used to this outfit.
You look splendid in it, Captain.
Shut up!
Five enemy Gekigan-type units approaching!
Well, we'll take care of those somehow.
You just take care of things on your end!
Yes.
Now, let's get started.
Are you sure we'll be able to make the Nadesico jump?
Theoretically.
The ruins are entirely composed
of the same material as the Chulip Crystals.
Are you ready, Ruri?
Yes.
Start the sequence, Ms. Erina!
Choosing memories over world peace.
In the end, everyone acts according to their own agenda.
I guess you can call it enlightened egocentrism.
Unable to create stable boson field.
You two, kiss each other.
Since we don't have a Chulip standing by with an open field,
we'll need to create a really large field
in order for a ship of this size to jump.
In order to do that, we'll need to have electric,
or membrane to membrane, contact among ourselves.
So, kiss?
Exactly.
The Nadesico will be in a pinch unless you hurry.
No!
Yurika...
I said no and I meant no! Definitely not!
Really, this is no time to start pouting.
That's right. It can't be helped.
It can't be helped?!
Why don't you just go ahead and kiss Ms. Inez instead, then!
Gekigan Beam!
Whoops!
You're as slow as ever, you oaf!
Whoa!
So we've found out that
only people born on Mars are capable of boson jumping?
Tenkawa, the Doctor, and the Captain.
It's probably because the nanomachines were influenced
by the ruins to re-write the DNA information of all Martians.
It changed their bodies so that they can withstand the jumps.
That's probably the case.
What a deal.
One of those Martians has run off while the other is chasing her.
What's that about?
I must admit, this ship is one interesting place.
Big brother...
I'm going to Earth with Ms. Minato, so please...
So please watch over me closely!
Hey! Get out now!
Just get out of there! I said get out, damn it!
Mr. Seiya!
You came just in time!
I have no idea why, but the Captain's in your Aestivalis.
Hey, Yurika!
Get down from there. You can't pilot that.
Without an IFS...
What's the Captain doing with an IFS?
Stupid.
Jump, Akito!
Visualize the inside of the Aestivalis!
Yurika...
No!
Hey, watch it!
No!
Stop it, Yurika.
Go away!
Go away where?
You jerk, Akito!
What is that?
Sounds like a couple fighting it out over the comm channel.
Move over.
No!
Come on!
I don't want to.
What are you thinking?!
Stop being so proud!
But you have Ms. Inez... Ai...
What the hell are you saying?!
You're feeling guilty over what happened to Ms. Inez, right?
That's why I tried to turn back time.
Idiot!
By the way, I've been relaying the feed from the Tenkawa Aestivalis
for the Jovians to listen.
A quarrel between lovers to decide the fate of the universe.
Yes.
That's mean. You didn't have to hit me like that.
Yurika, I watched the last episode of Gekigangar 3.
Oh, it was a terrible episode.
Just god-awful.
But as god-awful as it was,
I felt shivers going down my spine.
Watching Gekigangar 3 and Gekigangar V
fight alongside each other...
So, you do like the show after all?
I want to believe in how I was so attached to Gekigangar.
Believe in the part of myself that has faith in hot-blooded passion.
That's why...
That's why Akito's in love with me!
Just as I was about to get to the grand scale of things!
That's right. You got a problem with that?
No.
What about you?
Me? I...
I love you very much, Akito!
That's the first time I heard that.
No way!
It's true.
No way!
Really!
No way!
Really!
No way!
Yes...
I love you, Akito.
So, all that said and done,
I wonder if kissing was really essential for them to boson jump.
Ms. Inez wouldn't explain any further,
other then to say that I would know once I grew older.
In the end, the big mysteries remained as they did before.
The plate that Ms. Inez was given...
The ancient civilization that resided on Mars long ago...
Still, we had the calculation unit from the ruins
sent far, far away on board the Nadesico.
The war between Jupiter and Earth will probably go on,
but now they can only glare at each other for the time being.
But we have to wait for another opportunity
to go into what happens later.