We got it. Let's get out ofhere.
Yeah.
So, how's business?
MisterVector!
Please help me!
You didn't have to kill him!
Do things halfway, and you won't last very long, Yugo.
Come, I want to have a talkwith you.
Yugo? Who knows where thatyoung fool's gone offto.
I know that's right.
The way he babbles about going to Zalem and misers his credit chips...
He's funny in the head, all right.
He really thinks Zalem will let him in.
Now, what was it I told you threeyears ago?
"Give me 1 0 million chips, and I'll make sureyou get to Zalem?"
Yes, Sir.
Normally, it would take a lifetime to acquire that kind ofcapital.
Butyou, you want to do it in threeyears. I'm impressed.
Oh, it's not that diffiicult.
You know, I'm always looking for kids who're willing to take a chance,
but I thinkyou've got more potential than most.
Ah, go on.
Here, try this.
It's the real thing, straight offthe tube forZalem, not that processed shit.
I see...
Smooth, isn't it? Can'tyoujust taste that essence ofZalem?
Yugo, I don't have to tell you this,
but most ofthe goods collected, refiined and packaged here in Scrap Iron City
get exported to Zalem through the Factory tubes.
The crap we get to keep for ourselves isjust that.
Now, seeing as I'm in a position to oversee those exports,
why shouldn't I share in the benefiits?
Say, Yugo, why don'tyou join my operation?
But Zalem is where I'd...
Zalem! And onceyou got there, what then?
Doyou reallywant to be homeless and friendless in a place like Zalem?
By delivering my shipments to Zalem you could achieve real wealth and power.
You could live in the lap ofluxury, just like the citizens ofZalem.
Think it over, Yugo.
Yugo?
Yugo!
Did they makeyou drink?
You, in the car!
Shut up! Don't be a fool!
Ifyou've hurt Yugo, you'll answer to me!
I'll be seeing you. Yugo, you know the answer I want to hear.
Please hang in there, Yugo!
Oh, my head...
Here's some water.
Oh...?
See what happens when you get drunk?
I'm not a kid, and it was only one drink.
You're not acting likeyourself. What happened?
Just what areyou doing here, anyway?
Oh, I guess I just wanted to seeyou, Yugo.
Gally, doyou have a secret dream?
Zalem's notjust a... a fantasy of wealth and power to me.
I want to see what it's like up there, so high and far away.
I understand.
There'll be sights I've never seen. Wonders I can't even imagine.
That's what really I want.
Yugo, how much does it cost to go to Zalem? In credits?
Hey, Sir, greaseyour gears with high grade oil and teflon?
Best lubejobs in town!
I'll take a squeeze ofthat, kid.
Thankyou, Sir!
Hey, kid!
So that's your game, is it?
Caught with your hands on my spine, no less!
Now, let's take a look atyour face.
Take the mask off.
You asshole!
Let Yugo go!
Yugo?
Run, you moron!
NO!
Quick thinking little bastard,
but I'll bet there's already a price on your head, Yugo.
Oh, Yugo, it's you.
What? Trouble?
A hunterwarrior... disguised as a customer...
He killed Tanji, and he knows my name.
Calm down. It's over, and nothing you can do now will make any difference.
I wantyou to bring all ofthe money you've saved to my offiice.
You mean... you'll send me to Zalem?
Zalem?
We'll talk about that later.
Just getyour ass over here.
Yes, Sir.
What's happened to the once great Zahriki? What a losing streak!
Tanji...
Shit!
It's all over folks! Zahriki's no match for ...
Damn! I guess it's time to rebuild Zahriki again.
Dr. Chiren, that's your department.
Why should I even bother?
I've used everything, all my tricks and techniques...
And still, I can't win.
What was that?
So when am I going to Zalem?
Hey, look at this! All these enormous bounties...
Gally, huh?
This could be a hot ticket! I can see it now: a young, female champion!
Heywait, this is the girl from Yugo's place!
Gally?
You mean you know her?
Oh, I get it.
You want Gally to fiight in the coliseum?
Absolutely! It'll be a smash!
You don't really think Gally will fiight foryou?
Ofcourse she will.
She'll do anything to protect a friend with a bounty on his head.
Doctor, I wantyou to fiind Gally.
Why should I?
Do this for me, and I'll send you to Zalem.
What's with the sudden mercenary zeal?
Gally, when you became a hunter-warrior, you said it wasn't for the money.
I'm saving, so I can go to Zalem with Yugo.
Gally, who said thatyou could go to Zalem?
Haveyou told him howyou feel?
No.
And how does Yugo feel aboutyou?
Well...
Amazing!
Such depth offeeling...
And now for the latest Bounty Bulletin.
Number 7: Yugo, wanted for Spine Theft and Murder. Bounty: 80,000 chips.
Yugo? He's wanted?
Gally!
Report him to the Factory as soon as he's sighted.
Four... six... eight... that makes 9,500,000 chips.
Just a few more...
Yugo.
Gally?
You did this?
Where will you go?
I'm not going anywhere,
except back to town, to Vector's place.
I'm not going to give up on Zalem.
That's crazy. The hunters are looking foryou.
Don'tyou understand?
Going to Zalem is more thanjust an escape from this scrap metal prison.
It's a war!
A war between me and this garbage heap!
No matter how insignifiicant I may be, I still have my dreams, my pride.
I won't let this corroded metal monster grind me into the dirt!
I'll be leaving as soon as it gets dark.
Go home, beforeyou get involved any further.
Bye.
Yugo, listen...
I loveyou, Yugo.
I have to know howyou feel about me, Yugo.
Why areyou bringing up something stupid like this now?
Go home!
Answer me!
So now we're partners in crime, are we?
My mouth is tingling like I kissed a battery.
It's the lightening.
On days like this, my body takes on a charge.
I've wondered... about the scar on you wrist.
This scar? It's a keepsake ofmy brother.
A keepsake?
I used to have a brother, much older than myself.
He had a wife, and they raised me together.
They cared for me as ifthey were my own parents.
He was an engineer for the Factory, and he enjoyed his work.
And my sister-in-law was loving and generous.
But it wasn't enough for my brother. He'd look up at Zalem, yearning.
"I want to go to Zalem someday," he must have said that a million times.
It was his dream.
Finally, he acted.
He could get to Zalem, he decided, by balloon.
The Factory had prohibited the creation ofany kind offlying machine
and put a heavy bounty on the head ofanyone who built one.
My brother knew what the consequences could be, but he followed his heart.
When I was ten years old, the airship was completed.
But on that very night, the hunter-warrior came.
My sister-in-law had betrayed my brother, reporting him to the Factory.
And the hunter?
What happened toyour sister-in-law?
I don't know. I suppose she must be living somewhere, with someone.
I think I know howyour sister-in-law must have felt.
I'd bejealous too,
if MY loverwas obsessed with something I couldn't understand.
You're scaring me.
At fiirst I think I'd go along with it.
But after so long, I might come to believe that he'd leave even me.
And ifI couldn't have him myself,
killing him might be easy.
You'd have to kill me to keep me away from Zalem.
That's true, isn't it?
So what am I to do now?
Should I kill you?
How much more doyou need to get to Zalem?
About 500,000 chips.
Okay, I'll takeyou to Vector's.
What?
I'm not taking my eyes off someone so important to me.
I've hidden some chips myself.
It should be about 600,000.
Go to Zalem with it.
Then, ifeverything goes right, I'll save up enough to followyou.
But...
Don't worry. Go. Gatheryour chips.
Right.
Thereyou are!
Damn you!
Too little, too late, Gally.
You've beaten me to every kill since Grewcica.
But this time the head and the bounty belong to me!Just like his brother's!
No! Yugo's mine!
Oh, so that's the way it is?
There's no room for things like love or mercy in the Hunter's Code.
Ifyou want him so badly, come and take him.
I'd rather haveyour head, anyway.
Prepareyourself!.
All right...
This will stopyour flitting about!
Sayyour prayers!
Doyou really think this desperate effort can delay me forever?
No, he's getting cold!
colder... colder...
So very cold...
MyYugo is dying!
Ifonly I could giveyou my life...
Huh?
Gally?!
Ido, save Yugo for me.
How's Yugo?
Don't worry, Gally. The operation was a success.
Thankyou!
Well, the reason he lived was because ofyou.
Ifyou hadn't bypassed your own life support system,
feeding your blood into his arteries,
his brain would have died of oxygen starvation.
But I wasn't the one who did the bypass. Chiren did it.
Chiren?
So she's the one.
What? Yugo's dead?
Yes. Killed by a hunter and then struck by lightening!
Well, I guess you've lost your meal ticket!
What happened to Gally?
I have no clue as to her current whereabouts.
This is a big city; it may take me quite a while to fiind her.
Well, then...
Hey, wait a minute?
I think it's time to send you to Zalem.
Yugo was tricked.
The story about paying passage to Zalem isjust a scam.
It's not possible for someone from here to go to Zalem.
I know. The brand on my forehead means that I was once a citizen ofZalem.
It's not true!
Gally! Get out there and fiind Yugo.
What? Who the fuck areyou?
Soyou're the one who lied to Yugo.
You mean that Zalem thing? Hey, it's not my fault ifsomeone's an easy mark.
And you need the money so badly? Well?
Yugo destroyed his life because ofyou.
Yugo ruined his life stealing money for a lie!
What haveyou done with Chiren?
Over there....
What the...?
Organ replacements?
This was Chiren?!
The order comes down from Zalem every month.
I don't know what they do with them.
He couldn't have...
Wait for me Zalem! I'll be with you soon!
Hey! Haveyou seen a boy come through here?
Hejust climbed out on the tube.
This is a restricted area. Please keep out!
What's that ring for.
It's a defense ring against rodents and othervermin.
Zalem drops them periodically, to keep rats from climbing the tubes.
It's Zalem! At last, I'm almost there!
Yugo!
Gally?
Yugo, let's go back home, please.
No! Not a fiilthy stinking sewer!
Zalem is my destiny!
Until now my life was a cosmicjoke,
my entire existence, pointless and unnecessary.
Coward! There's more to life than Scrap Iron City and Zalem.
You were my secret dream, Yugo!
Togetherwe could fiind a way! A new life!
We could.
Look out, Yugo!
Yugo!
I'm glad to have known you.
Goodbye.
Yugo!