Katsumi...?
Katsumi...!
Seems to me you've got Katsumi on the brain.
Jabberwock... Ryo Takatsuki.
Hurry, Hayato... Takatsuki's up ahead!
Watch it, idiot! Why'd you...? What th'!
I guess I really do look like her.
Should that be a good thing?
That's right...of course. She couldn't possibly...
That vibration earlier. Don't tell me!
Exactly. I'm the fourth "Arms"...
Kei Kuruma. I have powers just the same as you.
Think of me as a member of the "anti-Egregori"...
the "Blue Men"!
"B-Blue Men," you say?!
You seem surprised.
Too bad...
that I'm not Katsumi, I mean.
It's us who should apologize. You look so alike, is all.
I'm glad, though, 'cause now there's four of us, and...
Don't be stupid! Have you forgotten, Takeshi?!
What these so called "Blue Men" have put us through...
You saw it yourself!
At Abumisawa Village! At that laboratory!!
That's right, you were all born there.
To be implanted with ''Arms''...
Even if you do look like Katsumi...
Even if you were born alongside us...
The "Blue Men" can blow me!
So you think I'm talking to you now 'cause I wanna be friends?!
Then why are you...?
I came to give you a message from the Blue Men.
Where are we?
Someplace we won't be bothered. While we fight, I mean.
Fight??
As for the message... Here, I'll cut to the chase:
All three of you are to be remanded to Blue Men custody.
Further, you're to be retrained as members of the anti-Egregori team.
Aren't you glad?
What...?
Us? In the Blue Men??
And, in order to establish myself as leader, you're all to fight me.
We clear?
Cut the crap! You wanna play war, play it yourself.
I'm outta here.
But how...?
Arms transformed...by itself!
You really are clueless. When one "Arms" member activates...
all "Arms" members activate.
What've you been doing till now?
You can't go home looking like that.
Though it is cool.
Wh-Why, you...!
So, if you wanna be released, you'll fight and win against me.
I hear you...loud and clear.
I don't hit girls...but in your case, I'm gonna make an exception.
Too easy! You holding back 'cause I'm a girl?
But don't worry, I can handle you... All of you.
But we can't...!
Can't you?
So fast...
Careful not to get a boo boo.
Puh leeze! The great Hayato Shingu.
Master of Shingu style martial arts, aren't you? Or am I wrong.
Y-You!
There you go!
Such an all out attack... and she hasn't flinched.
It's as though she already knows...
That's it. Her Arms...
in her EYES!
Hayato...
Congratulations. That's Jabberwock, all right.
Ryo Takatsuki...
You're not at all like Knight, or White Rabbit, are you.
But as my Arms are in my eyes, and 'cause I am "Queen of Hearts"...
you haven't a chance.
"Queen...of Hearts"?
That's right.
My eyes can magnify body movements, muscle contractions...
and peripheral movements instantly.
Predicting your moves is nothing.
And, as Queen of Hearts, I can control even you, Jabberwock.
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The Queen of Hearts can take all your Arms and synergize into one...
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Jabberwock...
What was that?? I saw none of it!
Jabberwock, no...!
He can't even control his own Arms?
I-I can't...!
I said, STOP!
Takatsuki...
Takatsuki...!
That's enough.
How much more must we suffer? How many more must die?
Let there be an end.
Wasn't Katsumi's death enough?!
We'll live on our own power.
Don't involve us with the Blue Men.
All right. Only...too bad, huh? Since we do have information.
About Katsumi.
Look, I hope you're not lying. Or we'll rip the Blue Men a new one.
Feel free.
So if this info's correct... that means Katsumi's alive, right?
That's something I leave to you.
Wow, look at that. Some building.
Just your run of the mill foreign owned pharmaceutical.
Although it does provide perfect camouflage.
Pharmaceutical, yeah right.
The Egregori and your Blue Men can both go suck my ass dry.
Good grief. I keep forgetting what idiots you are.
Here's the Egregori for you: They've entered into secret...
collaborative agreements with foreign governments...
collecting bio warfare research...
not to mention human testing.
And they maintain their profit base...
by assisting assassination forces in Third World countries.
If the Egregori should ever fall...
those nations aligned with them will fall, too.
That's why the police and military never intervene.
But there were those who opposed what the Egregori was doing...
leading to the smuggling out of then prototype Arms...
forming this very organization.
Welcome to the Blue Men.
Comrades in "Arms," welcome!
We've waited so long. C'mon in!
Don't just stand there. Today should be a happy occasion.
Jabberwock... Ryo Takatsuki.
Excuse us.
At last the "Arms" children come together...how we've been waiting.
We're all a little excited.
I'm Chief Operating Officer, Li Chunyan.
I'm so happy to meet you.
And I'm Ralph Coleman. But you can call me Ralph.
I, uh...
This'll go down in Blue Men history.
Pop the champagne!
Let's take the day off and party!
Hold on!
I'm here for the info on Katsumi, that's all.
If you know, please tell me.
Kei, this was supposed to be top secret.
They wouldn'tve come, otherwise.
Not what we expected, huh? The party and all?
I still don't trust 'em.
This coded message was intercepted a week ago...
It was intended for Egregori VIPs.
"Hospital No. 45678901 ..." Huh??
I'll use a keycode and decrypt.
It...can't be! I saw, with my own eyes...!
That day, in Abumisawa Village, former Egregori member...
Al Bowen, was there with you, along with police detective...
Koichi Kabuto, as well as a girl, named Katsumi Akagi.
Mary Katz, our former comrade, told us this.
She was a member of the Blue Men?
Whether this is Katsumi Akagi, we have as yet been unable to confirm.
Of course it's Katsumi.
Why, then, was she treated by the Egregori as a VIP...
and removed from the scene?
Well, Takatsuki? You were the last one to see her, right?
You saw it yourself, right? That she died?
Katsumi...
'Cause if not, it's a trap. An Egregori plan to lure us out.
Nothing else makes sense.
I gotta go.
Hey, wait! Takatsuki, where you going?!
Wait!
That info's over a week old!
Who knows where she is now.
And it could be a trap.
Doesn't matter. I'm going.
I'll find Katsumi.
What...?
Kuruma! Now what're you up to?!
But no one ever said
Terribly rude of us to detain you like this...
but I'm afraid we can't let you go.
What?!
You bastard, who are you?!
"Blue," they call me... The Blue Men are in my charge.
Jabberwock. Ryo Takatsuki.
Knight. Hayato Shingu.
White Rabbit. Takeshi Tomoe.
And, our very own, Queen of Hearts. Kei Kuruma.
At last, all four Arms are together! I'm truly pleased.
Cut it out. And enough with the stupid names.
But they're the code names you four Arms were given!
Read the ''Alice'' books by Lewis Carroll, if you're curious.
You can shove your stories! Let us out or we'll bust the place up!
These shutters are equipped to withstand bazooka or other gunfire...
not to mention any Arms attack.
Further, we're well aware of your "weak point'' as Arms...
which is why the high voltage!
We ARE the ones who implanted your Arms, you know...
We've accumulated data beyond counting.
I'd keep my distance, if I were you.
One of your guys is in here. You gonna kill her, too?
Hey!
No way...
Let me make it clear. I'm quite serious.
It's best you resign yourselves.
As I believe you're already aware...
in your hometown of Aisora, the Egregori has established operatives.
Surely you'll agree your being taken captive by them is unacceptable.
For many years now, we've done battle with the Egregori...
while attempting to unravel the secrets of Arms.
What's sustained us has been anger!
Too many Blue Men members have been victim to Egregori misdeeds.
Between us...and between you... lies a sea of our dead.
Yet Arms is the future of mankind, the key to its evolution.
That need overwhelms your existence as individuals.
I beseech you.
Put aside your sefish desires, and make the rational, moral choice!
I'm always thinking...
"Why can't it be the way it was?"
"If only I could go back to that day."
But, as I'm coming to realize...
we've all been railroaded since the day we were born.
Blue Men, Egregori, doesn't matter.
We're your victims, either way!
The way you play with people's lives...you're all scum of the earth!
I couldn't even save Katsumi. So, tell me...
How can I be mankind's future?!
TELL ME!
There's no fate...but what you make.
I make my own...destiny.
Takatsuki!
Hey, you all right?
Oh, no!
Let's take him to Infirmary...
Stay back!
That was a nasty trick you played. You're gonna pay for Takatsuki
I'm...not dead, at least not yet.
Besides, he's not the enemy.
True enough. The doing is all mine.
And to think, it was all because I wanted to welcome you...
as the warriors who would oppose the Egregori.
The blame is mine, not theirs.
No, we're with Blue. We can't bear to let you go!
We've waited for you, for so long.
Sometimes, the thought of seeing you four together...
was all that kept us going.
Right now, this moment, it's what we've been dreaming of.
That's right! I'll say.
I'm sorry, but no.
At first all we wanted was revenge against the Egregori, that's true.
But not anymore.
Now, there's hope, however small, of saving Katsumi.
Even if it's a trap...
even if the odds are million to one...
I'm going to look for her. And I won't give up.
That's my decision... the destiny I've chosen for myself.
But it's so selfish, how can you...?
He can't do it, not alone.
He won't be alone. He'll be with us.
And we got no use for you.
"Selfish," are we? So be it!
Defeat Keith...that's what I choose.
And what I choose is to support these two. Where they go, I follow.
H-Hey!
Thanks for the tips you gave us.
Maybe we'll meet again someday.
Don't sweat it, Kei.
You saw the look in their eyes; ain't none of us can keep 'em here.
Let them go.
Ralph...
Unless...you wanna go with 'em?
D-Don't make me laugh!
Me, with THOSE idiots??
Ms. Chunyan, were you able to harvest the data on Ryo Takatsuki...
a.k.a. Jabberwock...
regarding his current physical status?
Indeed I was. I'll send it right over.
But...are you sure? Allowing them to leave like this?
Worry not. They shall return to me, in due time.
Very due time.
I'll be looking forward to it.
They took the bait, as planned.
The data we transmitted was intercepted by the Blue Men.
But... May I ask...?
Imagine a desperate animal, in a corner with its fangs bared...
How best to lure it from that corner?
I dunno...fear?
No...hope.
Hope is the greatest factor in survival.
To be implanted with Arms, was to have become well nigh invincible.
The nanomachines in Arms bodies...
serve as constant, on site repair for damaged flesh.
However, something even more amazing now exists.
An Arms which can kill other Arms...
The ultimate, combat Arms.
Ryo Takatsuki...
You leave here driven by a hope named Katsumi...
and yet shall descend into despair.
The Arms killing Arms... The Jabberwock will be mine!
Who are you?
"Disappear"...? That what you said?
And who you sayin' that to?
To whom?
Are there others here beside you?
Pity, the rust seems to have penetrated your cyborg brains.
You ain't even got a weapon! You must really wanna die.
And we're happy to oblige!
I've no need of weapons.
I'll scrap the lot of you without lifting a finger.
It's raining quite hard. Let's go home, Yugo.
Is this wise, Cliff? Ought we be doing this...?
Keith Red seeks the Jabberwock, yet we Ex Armis will have him first.
And won't that be fun?