Episode 4 The Aliens' Trap! Do You Read Us, Invincible?!
This story is a Work of fiction. Names of characters and establishments, etc. Are in no Way related to actual people or establishments, etc.
You just stop right there.
Ah! It's you!
Are you two all right?
James!
What are you doing here?
The same thing you are.
I came here to try and figure out the riddle of all the G-Reaction engines shutting down.
And this is what I find.
You're just a step behind.
That guy killed Professor Odenworld.
Did he?
But the sample's okay.
Good, let's have it examined right away.
He vanished...
I'm heading back to the Labyrinth Alliance. You two come with me.
This is footage from the Angel Hair experiment that was found in the British film archives.
The tape recorder on the right is running on G-Reaction batteries.
I will now expose the Angel Hair on the left
to a burst of gamma rays such as those sunspots emit.
So, this is the reason behind the shutdown of all the G-Reaction engines?
It is believed that the Baguan aliens have encircled
the edge of the Earth's atmosphere with the same type of matter.
But then why is the Invincible's G-Reaction engine down if it's outside of the atmosphere?
The Angel Hair must have affixed itself to the Invincible as it entered outer space.
If that's so, the Invincible’s engines could be restarted
if the matter were cleaned off the outside of the ship.
But how are we going to tell the crew of the Invincible about that?
My Space-Bot!
Space-Bot?
You mean that little space ship you made a while back.
Yeah, they're just one-person ships so I didn't think they'd work for a rescue,
but they are capable of flying up to the side of the Invincible!
Haven't you learned anything?!
If we try to launch a rocket now, it will only end up the same way as the Frontier 2!
At any rate, none of this will matter
unless we actually figure out a way to remove the Angel Hair from the ship first!
The whole rescue operation depends on that.
No change.
Next!
It's very resistant to heat and chemical reactions.
It can't even be cut with a laser.
We've only got eight more hours.
Okay, everybody...
They say you can't fight on an empty stomach.
So, how about something to eat right now?
Lotta, I don't think anyone really feels like...
Hey!
Oh dear, what should I do?
Are you all right?
Yeah...
Sorry, Washington.
Hey, look!
The Angel Hair!
What did you do?! What made it disappear?!
It's salt.
Doctor!
Yeah, Emely, just to be safe, take Lotta to the medical room.
Certainly.
Commander, please get me as much salt as possible right away.
We need to get to work developing a device for removing the Angel Hair right away.
Understood.
Metropolitan X's supply of electricity has dropped to eight percent.
Redirect all remaining electricity to Kennedy Space Center.
Understood.
Fuelling of the Saturn rocket with liquid fuel will be complete in 15 minutes.
We have completed loading of the new sodium rounds aboard the rocket.
All that we have to do now is wait for the launch.
And the U.N. Forces?
Due to the shutdown of all G-Reaction engines their Air Force is not going to be of any help.
But we don't need to worry, all functional land units have been mobilized.
What do you think you're doing?!
You plan on launching a rocket given these circumstances?!
Captain!
There are patients at the hospital waiting to be operated on.
Get the hospital's power back on line!
Please wait, Captain.
If we can just get rid of the Angel Hair, the G-Reaction engines will be back on-line.
We just have to deal with it until then.
Billy! Penny! Don't tell me you two are...
We are, Captain.
We're just going to take a little trip to space.
That's preposterous! Why would you?
My dad's waiting for us.
My dad's aboard the Invincible, and it's up there adrift in orbit.
I volunteered to do this to save my dad and the world as well.
And I feel the same way he does.
But...
There's nothing to worry about, Captain.
James!
I'll be doing the navigating for them.
This ace pilot will make sure they get there and back without a scratch.
James! You... Why don't you ever consult me about these things?!
Ow, ow, ow...
Captain, are you all right?
This is nothing!
Doctor, we have two hours until launch.
Good, everyone to their positions!
So begins our battle to rid ourselves of the Angel Hair!
Loading of liquid fuel complete.
20 minutes until launch. Beginning countdown.
We're receiving a transmission from land unit command!
They're under aerial attack from cloaked enemy ships!
I knew it, so they have come.
They're Helmet Worms!
Commander, permission to use the special paint rounds?
Permission granted. Have the first defense line withdraw 20 miles
and fire special paint rounds.
Firing special paint rounds.
It worked!
Special paint rounds vaporization rate at 80%. Ignition in 5 seconds.
What are...
The enemy has some sort of enormous land-based weapons!
What?!
The tank battalion has been destroyed!
The second defense line has been broken.
The Worm Tanks are 80 miles from the Saturn rocket!
Two minutes to launch.
It was a mistake to have come up with a strategy like this.
It would have been enough just for us to put our lives on the line.
This is no time to be whining!
Everyone's fighting desperately to protect the Earth!
You two have to put all you've got into your own roles too!
Okay! Okay!
It's just a matter of time before they break our defenses.
I'm telling you to have the defense lines retreat!
Dammit!
Stop the rocket launch!
Who are you?!
Captain!
I told you to stop the launch!
I can't do that!
It's been loaded with liquid fuel already, and besides, even if the launch could be stopped,
there'd be no way to get the rocket out of there!
Dear God!
Launch in 30 seconds.
Launch in 10...
9...
8...
7...
We have ignition.
4...
3...
2...
1...
Zero!
Billy...
Penny...
James...
Damn it all...
Damn it!
The Saturn rocket has been destroyed.
Strategic operation complete. Have all remaining units withdraw.
Understood.
You bastards!
How dare you take away our planet's last hope?!
You killed those kids! They still had their whole lives ahead of them!
We won't forgive you! We won't ever forgive you!
Brutus to the Labyrinth Alliance. Brutus to the Labyrinth Alliance.
That voice...
James?!
Arrival at Branch Point in 3 minutes.
Awaiting your next instructions. Over.
Good, let's move into phase two of the strategy.
Initiating phase two of strategy.
Brutus is presently at an altitude of 60,000 feet.
If James is alive... Then Billy and Penny?
What's going on here?
You say you want to be a pilot?
But at present we don't have any rockets or anything capable of flight.
I've got my Space-Bot!
Not that again!
They are only single-passenger craft,
but if we were to detach them from a regular aircraft at altitude,
they could fly beyond the atmosphere.
That is, they could fly beyond the Angel Hair net.
I see! And from there they could be used to release the sodium chloride
and eliminate the Angel Hair.
But if we want to load them with enough sodium chloride to cover the whole Earth...
If we were to use special exploding shells,
would the 120 pounds of salt they can carry be sufficient?
That will be enough! We can fly!
About how long will production of the exploding shells take?
Give us two... No, one hour to have them ready.
But in that case we'll need one more person besides the pilot.
I'll need someone to handle the exploding shells.
All right, I'll go.
Even if the Space-Bot is meant for one person, the two of us should be able to fit.
It's decided then.
No, I cannot allow it.
Why not?!
I can't have two young boys like you, who have your whole lives ahead of you,
go on a mission risking your lives.
But there's no other way.
James!
If we don't put our lives on the line for the sake of this fight,
we'll only end up living under the control of the Baguan aliens.
If that were to happen, it would be the end of our hopes and our dreams.
Okay, then.
But I can't let the two of you just fly off on your own.
At the Kennedy Space Center, there is still an unlaunched Saturn rocket.
Let's use it.
As a diversionary tactic?
Exactly.
Let's gather all mobile U.N. Military units and draw the enemy's attention.
But...
No need to worry.
We're going to get the two of you into space even if it means sacrificing our lives.
Labyrinth Alliance to Brutus. Come in.
We're almost at the release point.
Roger.
That's right, keep coming...
Ready for booster ignition!
James!
Don't worry about anyone but yourselves!
What you have to do is complete the mission that's been given to you!
Don't let the deaths of those who gave their lives to keep our hopes alive be in vain!
Releasing now!
James! James!
Is... Is that...
Dad... Dad!
Billy, we're almost at the salt shell launch point.
Adjusting orbital heading minus .05.
I know, I know, but...
My glasses got fogged up! I can't see!
Wh... What the...
It's the Invincible!
What?!
Our first blast has scored a hit!
Now you aliens, how about a taste of what this ship can really do?!
Fire second energy blast!
Firing second energy blast.
Amazing... So, that's what the Invincible is capable of!
Dad!
Billy!
I knew you'd come! Your dad's a happy man!
Ow... Easy!
Billy!
Easy boy, get off me!
Good job!
How can I really be happy at a time like this?
Too many people have given their lives for this.
The crew of the rocket... The troops from the U.N. Forces...
And James too.
You don't need to worry about James.
Look!
You gotta have nine lives.
Washington?
Hey, wait!
Where's he going?
What's wrong with him?
I don't know.
A Baguan alien?
That's our enemy?
Its body can be divided into three parts: The head, thorax and abdomen.
Its skin is covered by a thick shell, which seems to support its entire body.
"Insects" indeed!
It's cerebrum weighs in at 2,800 grams.
That's roughly twice as much as a human's.
Huh?
It's clear that their civilization is a few steps ahead of ours.
Dr. Anderson, please continue with the analysis.
Understood.
Your body's ability to recover is amazing.
In the span of 24 hours, your body's recovered all of its functions.
That's impossible given our scientific know-how...
What's wrong?
My head hurts.
Your head hurts?
Something's coming.
What's going on?!
It's an emergency signal! It's from the autopsy room!
What?!
You're all right, aren't you?
Yes.
That thing just doesn't want to die.
He really was a workaholic.
Once he'd start research on something, you couldn't get a second with him.
Our wedding ceremony was even postponed because of it.
Really, that man...
Who was that strange man that attacked Professor Odenworld?
Probably some human who has had his soul taken by the Baguan aliens.
It wasn't like with my mom. That guy...
Hey, look at this!
That's...
There's no doubt about it. It's that girl!
But why?
Is there someone in one of those pictures you know?
This one!
Oh, that.
He had said something about capturing a spiritual manifestation in that photo.
Sp... Spiritual manifestation?
It was a picture someone just happened to take in the middle of one of their experiments.
And this person with the beard?
That's Professor Steamson.
Professor Steamson! Professor Steamson!
He's kind of a creepy guy.
He'd do things like hand out pictures like this,
and rant about the end of the world coming.
Where is Professor Steamson now?
He passed away. It's been nearly thirty years now.
Understood.
They say one of Steamson's family still lives where the professor kept his laboratory.
That photograph was taken over thirty years ago,
yet that girl looked totally the same as when we saw her.
Do you think she might really be a ghost or something?
Oh, come on now...
We'll figure something out once we get there.
All the pieces of this puzzle are tied to Professor Steamson.
I don't speak ill of things...
I'm just saying I'd stay away from that place if I were you.
Why is that? We just want to...
It comes out sometimes.
Steamson's ghost...
I've seen it...
that pale face of Steamson's floating by the window.
That's his laboratory over there.
If you two don't want to be cursed,
then get away from this place as quickly as you can!
What should we do?
Talking about ghosts in an age when science is almighty, it's ridiculous!
You?!
May I help you?
Who the heck are you?! What are you doing in a place like this?!
Huh?
We're here because we heard that this was Professor Steamson's residence.
Hey!
Hello?!
Please leave!
I have nothing to talk to you about!
Hang on!
Even if you don't, we have a ton of questions for you!
Penny...
Let's go home.
But...
There's nothing we can do.
I'll have the Labyrinth Alliance put her under surveillance.
Trying to force her isn't going to do us any good. Let's come back another time.
Antarctica: Mobile Observation Base
Checkmate!
Just a second, now!
That's the third time.
It's only the second.
Nope, it's the third.
Damn... One more game!
No matter how many times we play, the result will be the same.
What the...
What in the?!
You all right?
Yeah...
I thought we were dead.
Damn, it looks like our transmitter's down.
What... What's that?!
Margaret Steamson...
Professor Steamson's granddaughter.
She obviously knows something.
But how are we going to get her to talk?
Snow?
...and that concludes the daily town news.
Next up we have today's weather.
You gotta be kidding me. Snow falling in Metropolitan in the middle of summer?
Lotta, I would have liked to have heard the weather report.
Sorry, the Bucky Show's about to start.
The Bucky Show?
It's a radio drama about this "Bucky"
who's come from outer space to wipe out all the bad guys.
Who the heck would sponsor something like this?
I would.
Dad?!
Lotta, I got a present for you!
Wow! Thank you so much, Mister Kimura!
What is that?
They're "Bucky" dolls.
I've been wanting one of these!
They've been sold out everywhere I've gone. It's impossible to find them anywhere!
This program has been brought to you by the Kimura Group. They've been sold out everywhere I've gone. It's impossible to find them anywhere!
This program has been brought to you by the Kimura Group.
Yesterday, various locations in Europe reported softball-sized hail
which resulted in extensive damage.
North America has had seven hurricanes make landfall
and 1,200 islands in Micronesia have just been inundated due to irregular tidal levels.
There are just more and more abnormal weather patterns occurring.
Metropolitan X will be all right, won't it?
This city was designed to withstand any kind of natural disaster.
However, if someone were to deliberately try to harm it...
That's a different story.
Huh? What do you mean by that?
This is a picture taken by a weather satellite.
There's a low pressure system that has been hanging over Antarctica.
The air pressure at the center of it is 780 millibars.
That's preposterous! A system with pressure that low...
Is this the work of the Baguan aliens?!
Any word from the Antarctic Observation Base?
We've tried to contact them several times, but they are not responding.
Have the Invincible loaded with D-Equipment and prepared for takeoff right away.
Understood. Invincible on standby for launch.
Loading of Sky Knight and Super Mole complete.
Good, launch the Invincible!
Thomas Steamson, born in 1907.
Graduated from the National Institute of Technology with top honors.
He went on to earn his Ph.D. And played an important role
in the U.S. Forces as a technical advisor during World War II.
He also participated in the Philadelphia Experiment in '43.
The Philadelphia Experiment?
The experiment that had to do with trying to nullify radar?
After the war, he introduced his X-Light Wave theory.
I've heard about it.
It was a crazy dissertation in which he ignored the Theory of Relativity.
That's the reason behind him being cast out of academic circles.
In the last years of his life, he devoted himself to the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life.
He hypothesized that creatures living on planets with less dense atmospheres,
and hence exposed to strong ultraviolet rays, would be insect-like and have very hard skin.
The name he gave to these advanced bug-like life forms was Infabel.
When the comet plunges into the ocean, the reign of the Infabel will begin.
There's no doubt!
She knew about the coming invasion by the Baguan aliens!
Let's go! Back to that girl's place again!
It seems like the engine's frozen up.
This is Kimura Heavy Industries' latest model!
It may very well be, but the engine's still frozen.
I guess our only choice is to walk.
You gotta be kidding me.
We must be hundreds of miles from Professor Steamson's laboratory.
Captain Clayton!
Get in.
Abnormal weather patterns?
Yeah, three days ago the temperatures of the world's oceans started dropping
and now they're five degrees below their average.
The press and news networks are in an uproar calling it the beginning of a new ice age.
By the looks on your faces, I'm guessing you didn't know anything about this.
Sorry...
You don't have anything to apologize for.
The bigger concern for me is this.
"Plan for the Restructuring of the World"?
It's a project on a global scale that calls for blocking ocean currents and altering them
by means of constructing an enormous levee in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands.
The theory is that by doing so the deserts of East Asia could be turned into forested area.
The plan itself never got anywhere, but a certain individual was deeply involved with it.
Professor Steamson!
So, he was conducting research on the manipulation of weather patterns?
Could that mean this snow is also...
Please leave!
It doesn't matter how many times you come,
I have nothing to talk to you about!
That was you in the submarine that said, "Invaders are coming from outer space."
There's no doubt about it.
What are you talking about?
That's not all. You keep giving us warnings in the form of prophecies.
Why?!
I've never even met any of you before. And I don't intend to meet you again either!
Goodbye!
Why, you!
Easy, easy...
You really don't know how to handle women.
Huh?
Listen, women are like a kitchen knife.
If you push on it too hard, it won't cut at all.
The trick is to pull the knife without putting any force into it. Then, it will cut like a charm.
That's our captain... "The wisdom of years of experience."
Watch what you say, pal!
So, what are we going to do then?
Isn't it obvious? We're going to wait here until she opens the door.
Huh?!
And if she doesn't open it?
Oh, she'll open it!
That's the same way my first wife would act when she was in the mood.
Your first wife?
You've been divorced?
Me, I've been married three times.
Just stay here, be quiet and do what I tell you.
Forgive me. My sin is that I have touched the kingdom of God.
Don't worry.
I won't let anyone have your research, Grandfather.
This is six-zero-two. All is normal.
Roger.
Hey!
What's going on?
You?!
He's alive?!
Where is the Element X?
Huh?
Element X!
I... I don't know!
Get away from her!
Look out!
You bastard!
Margaret!
He disappeared!
Are you all right? Hey!
We need to call an ambulance! Captain, get the car!
Yeah, right!
Hey! Hang in there!
C'mon!
I can't get anyone.
No go. The engine's broke down, and it doesn't look like it's repairable.
I'm going to get a doctor.
It's dangerous! Going out in snow like this...
We can't just leave her like this!
Hey!
I'm going too. You two stay here and keep an eye on her.
Penny, be careful.
This is the Invincible. Antarctic Observatory Base, do you read? Over.
Nothing. They're not responding.
We're going to descend. Everyone to landing positions!
There's something ahead of us reading high on the infrared radar!
Shields up!
Take evasive action! Head for the shadow of the volcano Mt. Erebus!
Launch Sky Knight!
Launching Sky Knight!
Captain, there it is!
As we guessed, it's the Baguan aliens front-line base!
So, it is the cause of all these strange weather patterns.
We've got Helmet Worms on the way! My guess is about a hundred!
Prepare for attack! Target is the enemy saucer!
At long last, the Invincible finds the Baguan aliens' base.
And what will become of Penny and Captain Clayton,
who have dashed out into a snowstorm looking for help?
The next episode will wrap our viewers in a crucible of excitement too!
Project Blue: Earth SOS! Don't miss it!
Na mo naki hoshikuzu no shirabe
Tabibitotachi no michishirube
Imi no nai sonzai nante nai
Dakishimeta ude no nukumori
Hitomi no kienai tomoshibi
Daiji na mono wa itsumo chikaku ni aru
Nando demo yobou kimi no na wo
Sekai ni hitotsu no akashi dakara
Kobaruto no tsubasa hirogete
Sotto kanashimi mo yorokobi mo tsutsumikomu
Atarashi asa ni kaze no ubugoe
Hi there! I'm Billy!
And I'm Lotta!
I'm standing in for Penny because it seems like he's gotten himself lost in that snowstorm!
Next Episode Preview I'm standing in for Penny because it seems like he's gotten himself lost in that snowstorm!
Yeah, it's still cold though, isn't it?
It is cold.
Episode 5: Extreme Offense, Extreme Defense It is cold.
Episode 5: Extreme Offense, Extreme Defense It's almost like there's a huge blizzard on the way.
Episode 5: Extreme Offense, Extreme Defense Yeah, really?
Solving the Mystery of Element X! Yeah, really?
Solving the Mystery of Element X! I got a huge blister the other day too! They sure can hurt, can't they?
Solving the Mystery of Element X! Not a "blister," a "blizzard"!
Yuk, my mom always used to pickle them. Tastes like you're eating...
Those are "gizzards"!
And we used to catch them by the tails and put them in...
Those are "lizards"!
This really isn't working so well, is it?
See ya!
And in the next episode Bucky kicks some butt!
Huh?