Hey, Priss! What's wrong with you?!
Hey!
Priss!
Did you see that too?!
Anyway, we have to go see Sylia!
Sylia, what's the matter?!
I heard she collapsed suddenly and hasn't moved since.
Her body temperature and pulse are rapidly dropping.
I've already called a doctor, but...
What the hell is this?
Sotai...
The Sotai Phenomenon is beginning to rise rapidly.
The shield's strength is 500 times greater than that of Wiz Lab,
but we must do something or...
Get the elevator up here. but we must do something or...
Get the elevator up here.
Galatea is just lonely, I know.
Elevator ascension completed. Condition, nominal.
What's wrong, Galatea?
You've been calling your friends, right? But it's too early.
Too early?
Yes, it's too early.
You're a good girl. You're becoming more and more clever.
I want to show you to Stingray,
who, in his stupidity, tried to kill your intelligence.
I want to play!
I guess I need to see her power anyway.
I see. You want to play?
Then we need to find a place for you.
Sylia!
I guess she's calming down. Sylia!
I guess she's calming down.
Who's calming down?
The Sotai, my other self, has been confined somewhere.
She's been bombarding us with her desire to go outside.
What do you mean? What's the relationship between them?
A quasi-living organism,
a nano-mechanism implanted in her brain when she was little.
She's called Sotai?
In addition to her, I'm one of the failures.
I hate your way of putting that.
Sylia!
Sylia, don't move yet!
Mr. Meisio, Sylia's back!
Thank you, Meisio.
How do you feel now, Miss Sylia?
Horrible of course, since she's been yelling in my brain.
I'm so relieved, Sylia!
Sorry to make you worry, Nene.
And the rest of you too.
But I wonder why...
We were also struck by the dream you were dreaming.
We all saw the same image from your dream. What did that mean?
I see...
Does that mean we all understand each other?
In other words, it wasn't a coincidence for us
to have met and become Knight Sabers, was it?
If someone calls it a coincidence, it might have been,
but it was also inevitable.
Before you arrived, I formed another band of Knight Sabers.
At that time, I was young, and I led the others into the fight.
I scouted other members the same as I did with you.
A girl who was good at martial arts.
An American who used to be in Special Ops for the Pentagon.
No matter what their fighting abilities were,
they were too ordinary to fully use the hard suits,
even though I chose the girls who had similar shapes to mine.
A hard suit can only maintain its shape
and special functions by forming to a female body.
Because originally, it was a boomer.
I get it. A boomer can only be a boomer by imitating a human.
But that means we were...
I'm sorry not to have told you about it.
But the cores I mounted in your suits were copied from clean ones,
so the hard suits could never have a mind of their own or move alone.
But why does it have to be female?
Because I am female.
The hard suit is customized to my body.
Therefore, at first,
I thought it was proper to choose girls with bodies similar to mine.
But in that case, Nene or I are not...
Well, of course it's better if they can move well,
but there's something more important than that.
What?
I have to have the feeling that I will really like them.
No way, Sylia!
Well, of course I like you,
but it's not something like falling in love or...
What a weird girl!
But she's right.
Hard suits don't just follow the action synapses of their wearer.
They move with information from deep inside of the brain
or the emotional part of the person.
That's why the person has to get along with me.
''Get along'' might not be the proper words to describe it.
In other words, person's wavelength matches mine.
I see. I was so surprised.
You're selfish. You think you can get along with us in your own way
and pretend to let us earn some allowances,
but actually, you manipulated us to cheer you up, didn't you?
Yet you made us put on a boomer?!
I already apologized to you for it.
I know you have the most extreme feelings about boomers...
That's not something for you to discuss!
I've had more than enough! No more!
Priss!
Mackey, can you call Nigel?
I have to ask him to create new hard suits.
Sure.
It's a boomer, isn't it?
If you don't like that, you can quit.
Even if I'm all by myself,
I will deal with Sotai, and smash her core!
I've heard about you. What a guy you are!
What are you talking about?
The rumor has already spread all over the Totem Pole.
You and the lady singer at Hot Legs had a midnight rendezvous.
It's not like that!
Oh, it's not like that? Of course not, right?
No ordinary girl would go out with someone like you, would she?
You're serious, aren't you?
I guess I shouldn't reveal another rumor
to a guy with the mental state of a mere mortal, should I?
I don't have time to listen to stupid rumors one by one.
I've heard that all the director types in the frontline division
were called up to the top management office this morning.
The AD Police will be merged into the Normal Police soon,
according to a disgusting story that leaked out somewhere.
What does it mean?
This place can't survive without the support of a private business.
Do you mean Genom?
Genom doesn't think boomers are a main part of its business now.
Even so, how can they dump us so easily?!
After all, we're just a waste disposal team for Genom.
Genom!
Mason, you're hiding something from me, aren't you?
What are you talking about?
It could cost you your life if you underestimate this old man.
You brought a dangerous thing into this tower, didn't you?
It's just an experiment of the system which transfers
the beam being sent from the umbrella,
currently under construction in orbit, into kinetic energy.
I'm just concerned about an overflow of energy.
Please don't worry about it.
I see...
Mason.
Yes, Chairman Rozenkroitz?
Do not betray me.
Yes, Sir.
Who is it?
Geez. Don't send me e-mail at the office.
Are you doing well at work, Nene?
That's Ms. Nene!
Can you come to Sylia's shop after work today?
Sylia is... It's too late for Sylia to wear the hard suit.
After someone has matured as a female,
she can't keep the core of the hard suit pure,
because of the functioning of her brain.
If you put it that way, then I haven't matured.
In order to make a new hard suit, we need to measure your body.
Well, I understand I'm asking you to do something horrible,
but I don't want to let Sylia go by herself.
Younger brother?
What? You're still here?
I'm sorry to be here, but I don't have a choice.
No, that's not true. You didn't know, did you?
This afternoon, everybody has to leave the office.
What do you mean?
It's a strike. The AD Police will be merged into the Normal Police.
You aren't a member of the union, are you?
No. I don't like things like that very much.
Then you can do whatever, including go home for half a day.
Why don't you go out with your boyfriend? If you have one.
How rude you are!
What shall I do? A new hard suit?
You're a member of the union, aren't you?
There's a penalty if you stay here, isn't there?
I don't care. Just for once, tell me the truth, Nick.
Is the AD Police going to be dissolved?
I've heard there's a rumor like that.
Is it just a rumor?
A rumor contains some truth once in a while.
I see.
I didn't say anything.
Sure, I understood your words in my own way.
Leon McNichol.
You've been a good frontline officer.
You can go back to the normal police triumphantly.
I applied here because I hated it there.
I don't intend to go back there at all.
An excellent policeman can only live as a policeman.
Where is the evidence to prove that?
I guess you're sure.
I feel the same as you.
What are you going to do, Nene?
Well, do you have any suggestions?
I don't know.
You're a man, aren't you?
You should decide what to do by yourself, shouldn't you?
I guess so. I have to decide by myself.
I wonder if Linna ever goes there or not?
I guess Priss doesn't go.
What the hell is happening?! Nothing is coming in!
What the hell's going on?!
What?
No way!
Am I the only one left in this building?!
I just can't be!
Hey!
Director!
You're an operator in the information center, aren't you?
What's happening now?
Well, even though there's no sign of anything,
our protection system has initiated itself.
Ridiculous! Is the system here that stupid?!
No way! If an error occurs, this system can correct it by itself!
It's a waste of time to argue about it here.
If the alarm is telling us the truth, we shouldn't be here.
What happened?
Excuse me!
Hey, you! Excuse me!
Hey, you! I'm going back to the Center and investigate!
What just appeared?
Underground...
What the hell are you?!
Boomers?
No way!
What the hell is going on?!
Why are there so many boomers underground?
It's the warehouse. Mad boomers recovered by frontline officers.
Why did they revive?
I don't know.
Anyway, we have to stop them here.
Dragon Lines K-24, R-34 and Y-1 33 have been closed.
The area affected by the phenomenon is spreading along the Dragon Line.
It's not contamination.
Galatea's phenomenon is allowing boomers to show their true self.
Good. The experiment is over.
The contaminated area has penetrated the wall.
I guess you never would have thought that the Dragon Line
would be used for a purpose like this, right, Chairman?
How is the Totem Pole?
The boomers stored in the warehouse are reviving.
I don't think the striking workers need a home to return to.
We need not do anything. The boomers will do what they want.
What's wrong, Sylia?
She's shouting in my mind again.
This isn't good.
The phenomenon seems to be recurring.
Boomers are not just a tool to serve humans.
You...
Yes, Galatea. Someone named you Galatea, didn't he?
Hold yourself together, Mackey! You are not a boomer!
I ... I'm not a human either.
You are yourself!
I ...
Nene's in danger!
We're finished!
Back off!
Run!
They're endless!
Nene Romanova, place emergency calls to all frontline officers
and request the Normal Police to help!
I've already tried that, but I can't contact them.
All the outside circuits have been cut.
I know. When someone attacks headquarters,
the highest level fire wall engages automatically.
Damn! They're coming this way too!
That fire wall will be broken soon!
This way! Hurry!
Director, hurry and get up here!
You can't stay there any longer!
I guess you're right. Is there anybody left in this building?
I ran an ID search, but there's nobody except us.
There are many calls, but AD Police Headquarters is closed
and its communications with the outside world cut.
The AD Police Union is on strike today
and nobody should be inside the building.
This looks good.
What the hell is that?
What was that?
This is Linna Yamazaki.
Nene's in danger! Help Nene!
What?!
Nene is locked up in the Totem Pole.
There are countless boomers in there!
I got you!
But we don't have any hard suits!
Zombie boomers suddenly attack the AD Police building
which is short on personnel because of the strike.
As their numbers rapidly increase,
we are gradually cornered!
Neither Priss, Leon or the others are aware of this situation.
What the hell is this?! I'm surrounded by them!
Next Bubblegum Crisis!