Shanalua was a spy!
Kio...
You mustn't die.
No matter what happens...
You have to grit your teeth... and survive.
Ms. Shanalua...
30 minutes until detonation?
Isn't that too long?
Worst-case, the enemy could—
We must allow our forces to escape safely.
But...!
We'll distract the enemy so they don't notice what we've set up.
Yes, sir.
I'll follow Lord Ezelcant's plans until the end.
The Mars settlement plan.
The people left behind in the Mars Sphere in the wake of its failure
formed the independent nation of Vagan,
and launched a war against the Earth Federation government.
70 years have already passed
since the conflict began.
todokasete kono mune ni
Let your voice reach my heart
kasuka ni nokoru kimi no koe wo
though it lingers but faintly in the air
yume ja nai genjitsu de
In a world that I know is not a dream
samayoitsuzuketeita
I kept wandering
tachidomaru no mo mae ni susumu koto mo
Halting in your tracks and walking ahead proudly
atozusari na ki ga shiteta
both seemed too fearsome a choice
tojikomerareta shikakui sora no shita
Here on the board, where we are bound to
iki wo hisometeta
I tried to breathe softly to blend in
tsumetai hoho wo tsutawaru kako no yowasa nugutte
I swept away the weakness of the past trailing down my cheeks
hikari sasu basho he kono te wo nobasu yo
and held out my hands to the light
todokasete kono mune ni
Let your voice reach my heart
kasuka ni nokoru kimi no koe wo
though it lingers but faintly in the air
yume ja nai genjitsu de
In a world that I know is not a dream
sagashitsuzuketeru
I kept searching
todokaseru sono mune ni
I will let my feelings and my voice
tashika na omoi boku no koe wo
reach your heart
owaranai genjitsu de
Through days without end
sakebitsuzuketeiku
I will be proud, be strong
ashita wo shinjite
and have faith in the future
Episode 33 Howl to the Earth
Zeheart's following the plan, right?
Zeheart's team has planted the bomb-carriers.
I see.
Then our victory is at hand.
Don't panic over such a small impact!
You call yourself a captain?
I-I'm sorry!
Problems in the engine control system!
Thrust is falling!
Otro, what's going on?
Well, I'm checking it too, but...
If this keeps up, we won't be able to maintain altitude!
Why don't we just dock at the base for now?
Idiot!
Is this any time to be entering the base?!
But we...
Centralize systems! Boot up subsystems and prioritize attitude control!
Engine officer, use that time to find the problem, and fix it at once!
Hurry!
Roger!
Former Commander Asuno, the mobile suit deck is requesting help.
Everybody's busy now! Tell them no!
I'm seeing damage in portside section 2!
Send emergency crew 2!
Yes, sir.
Damn, there's so many!
All emergency crews, report damage!
Receiving operation orders from HQ.
Commencing decryption.
Keep your eyes open!
I'm just slowing everyone down.
Do you really think so?
Take a good look at them.
Subsystems officer, your top priority is checking attitude control!
At least restore the power supply to the weapons!
No can do!
They said to prioritize power to the navigation systems!
But if we can't fight back, there's no point!
Send a medical crew to block 4!
You've been trying hard to become a captain.
You barely slept these past few days
while you went over the details of the ship.
Former Commander Asuno...
Sergeant Otro.
Please reroute reserve power from the life support systems to navigation control.
We're in Earth's atmosphere, so we'll be fine if it's for a short time.
And Sergeant Major Ayla,
some of the weapons can be fired directly without going through the integrated control system.
That way, you can use them with a minimal impact on power distribution.
Is something wrong?
Go on, get to work!
Cutting power to life support systems.
Permission for direct access to main cannon granted.
Commander Einus.
Nobody starts out acting like a captain.
You just have to fulfill the responsibilities given to you.
Yes, sir!
Captain.
Commander-in-Chief Algreus for you.
Algreus.
Commander, it's been a while.
I'm embarrassed that this happened under my command.
I'm not your commander.
So what's the situation?
We've repulsed most of the enemies who entered the base.
We'll now begin pursuing the retreating enemy.
Retreating? The enemy withdrew that easily?
Ms. Shanalua...
A red mobile suit!
Why? Why did you make Ms. Shanalua do those things?!
The pilot's a child?
This happened because you made Ms. Shanalua a spy!
Spies have existed since humanity learned to fight.
You have no right to complain about it!
War isn't a game, kid.
I won't forgive you for taking advantage of people's weakness!
Such power!
But you're not the only one!
They got scared?
No, something's not right here.
What do you mean?
They're not taking any assertive action.
It looks like they're just drawing our attention to buy time.
It can't be...!
Algreus! Check the abandoned enemy mobile suits!
Do you think they've planted something?
It's true... the enemy withdrew without putting up a fight.
But there are so many abandoned suits in the base...
By the time something happens, it'll be too late!
Check them right now!
Yes, sir.
They're fighting outside?
I'm scared, Wendy!
It's okay.
Don't cry.
You're a big boy, right?
Big boy! Big boy!
W-We've found it!
There's a unit that looks like a plasma particle bomb in one of the wrecked enemies.
I thought so.
They pretended it had been hit, and left a mobile suit in the base with a bomb inside.
In that case, there won't be just one.
Search for the plasma particle bombs' unique electromagnetic signature!
Maximum sensor sensitivity!
Sir!
But why didn't the enemy detonate it right away?
It's just like before...
When they attacked Nora, they didn't hit the energy plants directly.
They attacked the colony so it would collapse slowly.
As if they were giving us a chance to survive.
Could they be testing us?
Whether or not we can find the answer...
We have the spectrum analysis results.
Identical patterns found at six points!
That many?
Penetrating monitors found atomic clocks inside the bombs!
By our estimates, they'll detonate in 10 minutes!
There's no vibration sensor, but it'll explode if it's removed forcibly.
How many can you disarm in that time?
No more than three.
Okay!
We'll carry out the rest along with the mobile suits!
Contact the mobile suit teams!
Yes, sir!
This doesn't look good...
It's more powerful than this Wrozzo...
Damn!
Kio! Plasma particle bombs have been planted inside the Rostroulan base.
All Abis team members are to remove the mobile suits containing the bombs.
Understood?
Please wait!
Just a little more.
A little more, and I can defeat him!
Commander, let me do it!
The response is slow!
Calm down, Kio!
A pilot's job isn't just to finish off the enemy!
Didn't Shanalua teach you that?
I'm not teaching you how to defeat your opponent...
I'm teaching you to protect yourself so you'll survive.
If the plasma particle bombs explode, they'll destroy the base!
Everyone will die!
Got it, Kio?
I get it.
So you realized, eh?
But can you find them?
We've removed five of them!
One left.
Remaining time?
Three minutes.
Will we make it...?
It's not over yet.
We can't find the last one.
Is this really the right place?
Those are the coordinates of the point we detected.
But...
I don't see any wrecked mobile suits.
Anything unusual, besides mobile suits?
Nothing at all.
What's going on?!
Can you hear me, Kio?
I hear you, Grandpa!
There's one more left.
Two minutes until the time limit.
If we can't find the bomb, the base will be destroyed.
By just one bomb?
Releasing electromagnetically infused plasma will generate immense heat,
and the resulting shock wave could detonate the energy plants.
That would be the end of the base.
No...
Kio, can you find it?
Yeah. I'll try, Grandpa!
I'm counting on you.
Even if Kio is an X-Rounder, can he really do that?
Kio has enormous potential lying dormant.
It's on a level I've never felt before.
We'll follow him!{note: I know he wasn't, otherwise how else
This is just a dead end!
It was camouflaged in a bulkhead...?
I'll carry it outside.
Hurry! Only 60 seconds left!
Yes, sir.
Wow!
He did it!
Not yet!
We'll shield you!
Go on ahead!
It's up to you, Kio!
I won't make it!
Kio, you can do it...
You're a good kid.
Go!
I can do it!
Systems functional!
Minimal damage to the base!
He did it!
They removed all of them?
So you failed, Zeheart.
You're just a kid, spoiled by Lord Ezelcant.
The operation is canceled!
Withdraw!
The enemy is retreating!
Well done, Kio.
Thanks.
We're planning an attack on the enemy's orbital fortress from the Luna base.
The Luna base is also preparing to investigate whether we can improve the AGE System.
The AGE System?
They waited this long?
I suggested that over and over, and they kept refusing.
It's embarrassing that military's technology is inferior to the Asuno family's.
Their pride kept the military and the government from making the best decision.
I wonder what changed their minds.
What happened to Big Ring seems to have terrified the top brass.
I figured that was it.
In addition to the the AGE-3,
we're loading the Diva with the AGE-1 Flat Type, which can be used without the AGE System.
The AGE-1, eh?
A nostalgic machine.
Yes. It was your machine, wasn't it?
Indeed.
But there's something that worries me.
The report states that the Gundams will be under the control of
Captain Girard Spriggan, a Federation ace pilot.
Who gave such a stupid order?
I'll discuss this when we reach the moon.
Perhaps the Federation Forces have finally realized the value of the Gundam and the AGE System.
It's finally time to return to space, isn't it?
I don't want to.
But you don't want to live peacefully on Earth either, right?
Kio.
Grandpa...
Grandpa!
What happened with Shanalua wasn't your fault.
And even if she survived, she would've been executed for her crimes.
But... Ms. Shanalua was our comrade, wasn't she?
Kio, this is what war is.
Grandpa...
It's so sad... But we have to fight anyway?
Listen.
To protect everyone from sadness, we have to fight.
That is the mission of a Gundam pilot.
Grandpa...
Come on, we're getting ready to launch.
Lord Ezelcant, I'd like to ask you something.
What is it?
It seems as if you're giving the Earthers a reprieve.
Testing them.
Why would you do such a thing?
Zeheart. I am always thinking of Vagan.
Need I say more?
No, sir.
Who's there?
Fram Nara.
I've been sent from Second Moon to participate in Project Eden.
I've heard nothing of this.
Master Zanald said I was to support you.
That meddling...
Sorry, I don't need any help.
Zeheart Galette...
How much of a man is he?
Switch from external to internal power is completed.
Commencing automatic countdown sequence.
300 seconds until Diva lift off.
Commander, we'll begin a decoy operation to secure the Diva's target orbit.
While we draw away the nearby enemy, please transfer the Diva to lunar orbit.
Understood.
But I never thought Vagan would seize control of Earth orbit.
It's worse than that.
40% of Earth's surface is now under Vagan control.
I had no idea the enemy was so strong.
The real battle is just beginning.
matou shiroi kibou ni inochi wo azuke
I devote my life to the brilliant hopes I have,
unmei ga majiwatta furueru kono sora de
here, where our lifelines met in a cosmos full of doubts
unmei ga majiwatta furueru kono sora de
aishiteta to saigo ni kotoba wo nokoshi
"I loved you", you said, before you passed away,
hohoenda maboroshi ga uketsuideku seigi
and those fleeting smiles you showed me are my justice now
tsuyoku yasashii hitomi ni utsutta akai hi wa
The red fires that showed within your unbelievably gentle eyes
tsuyoku yasashii hitomi ni utsutta akai hi wa
itsuka namida de chirasu yo
will one day spread to others through my tears
mou nigetari shinai bokura wa chikatta
We vowed we would never run away again
mou nigetari shinai bokura wa chikatta
We vowed we would never run away again
kanashiki toki wo ikiteku kakan na yuushi
I live through these painful times as a brave, steadfast warrior
kanashiki toki wo ikiteku kakan na yuushi
eranda michi wo shinjitara tsukisusumeba ii
I should push ahead if I believe in the path we chose
ubau dake ja sukuenai inochi ni kizuitara
Once I realize that I won't have forever
kako no namida ga ima wo michibikidasu
the tears of the past will guide me through a future
subete wa mamorubeki asu he to
where all is at stake
Next Time
Pirates attack the ship as it sets out into space.
There, a surprising meeting awaits.
Next time, on Mobile Suit Gundam AGE...
"Space Pirates Bisidian."
Space Pirates Bisidian
Three destines will form history...
Gundapedia AGE-3 Fortress
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Depending on which exchange parts the Core Fighter is utilizing while docking,
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By docking with the new unit G-Hopper,
the Gundam can change into the high-speed AGE-3 Fortress mode.