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86 [Eighty-Six] Ep. 9- Goodbye · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess for some reason
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Speaker 1: that sounded weird, and now I'm uncomfortable anyway, I'm back.
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Speaker 1: It's raining outside and it's kind of human in my
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Speaker 1: house and uncomfortable, so I'm double uncomfortable. I guess, yay,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, that's great and stuff. At least it's cooler
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Speaker 1: than it has been. Not that it matters to you,
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Speaker 1: because you're listening to this in the future, so who
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Speaker 1: knows what the temperature is now. We could all be
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Speaker 1: dead anyway. Obviously we're gonna talk about eighty six, episode nine,
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Speaker 1: but before we do, I just wanted to talk about
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Speaker 1: something from the last episode that I just didn't get
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Speaker 1: to mention, mostly because I was really stressed out about
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Speaker 1: doing that inspection. After I finished the recording and it
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Speaker 1: all went fine, everything's fine, it's fine, I promise, So
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Speaker 1: I realized I didn't really say much about Carl Stahl's
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Speaker 1: speech and how we thought hope and despair were basically
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Speaker 1: two sides of the same thing. You want something and
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Speaker 1: you can't have it. It just depends on you, know,
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Speaker 1: like your outlook, I guess, and how like fucking cynical
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Speaker 1: that is. I mean, because he's not wrong, but he's
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Speaker 1: also really wrong in the sense that he's not wrong.
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Speaker 1: Both hope and despair don't really have an action. The
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Speaker 1: action is the way that you feel, but you're not
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Speaker 1: moving towards something. You're stuck in this spot where either
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Speaker 1: you are thinking of this reality that's going to be
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Speaker 1: really good or feeling bad because you can't have the
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Speaker 1: reality that you want. I think, I hope that makes
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Speaker 1: sense because I'm just kind of talking right now, So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just cynical. And to kind of distill
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Speaker 1: all of Lena's actions as hope as just kind of
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Speaker 1: hoping that things will be fixed is kind of unfair
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Speaker 1: because Lena is trying. She is acting in a certain
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Speaker 1: way to you know, fix things. She's not just hoping
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Speaker 1: that they'll be fixed. And as I said before, it's
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Speaker 1: good to have ideals, like you should have something that
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Speaker 1: you're looking towards that you want to be like. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't really have much else to
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Speaker 1: say about that specific part of his speech, but I
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Speaker 1: also wanted to say that I was it was listening
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Speaker 1: to the radio. Yeah, I listened to the radio. I
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Speaker 1: listen to fucking NPR sometimes because I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: And someone was on like a governmentee person, not like
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Speaker 1: a post and they were talking about how something that
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Speaker 1: they were doing was like the will of the people,
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Speaker 1: and it immediately made me think back to this speech
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Speaker 1: because Carl Stall said that too. He said that it
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Speaker 1: was their jobs as the army to follow the people's wishes,
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Speaker 1: which I mean, it's true in a functioning good government,
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Speaker 1: like a republic like this or a democracy, you do
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Speaker 1: want want your values to align with what the people want.
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Speaker 1: But you can't use that as an excuse to do
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Speaker 1: bad things and say that the people are just bad,
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Speaker 1: Like that's not how this works, because government should strive
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Speaker 1: to do good things. And so you have these people
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Speaker 1: like Carl Style that like, know that this is terrible,
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Speaker 1: but it's okay because it's what people want. Like, no,
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Speaker 1: it's not okay to throw that back on them, because
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Speaker 1: I don't think the people in San Magnolia wanted to
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Speaker 1: genocide the eighty six, Like, I don't think that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: I think that the government made a choice that they
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Speaker 1: needed to use some sort of scapegoat and some kind
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Speaker 1: of people to fight this war, and that's what they did,
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Speaker 1: and the people's beliefs have warped since then because they've
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Speaker 1: been told so many lies about these other races, So
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Speaker 1: to call it the will of the people or the
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Speaker 1: people's wishes is unfair. And I don't really want to
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Speaker 1: get into to what they were discussing on NPR about
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Speaker 1: the will of the people, but it just made me uncomfortable,
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Speaker 1: like I don't want negative things attributed to the people.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of fucked up, and it makes me concerned
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Speaker 1: about the kind of government that is trying to lead
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Speaker 1: people and stuff. I don't know. I don't know. I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to say, as as Ashling's from Banana Fash
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Speaker 1: said in the manga, if you ask me, the government
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Speaker 1: can go fuck itself. Yes, all of the governments, Sand
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Speaker 1: Magnolia and anyone who thinks that the will of the
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Speaker 1: people is to hurt other people. So that's that. I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry that I told you that I think, but I'm
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Speaker 1: not really sure if I am or not, and that
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Speaker 1: makes me uncomfortable. So now I'm three times uncomfortable. So
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Speaker 1: we really should just start the episode anyway. Eighty six,
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Speaker 1: Episode nine is called Goodbye. Huh. That's that doesn't make
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Speaker 1: me feel scared at all. Well, and if you remember
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Speaker 1: from the end of last episode, we were hanging out
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Speaker 1: with Ray when he was thinking about how he had
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Speaker 1: to go get Shin and kill him so that they
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Speaker 1: could beat together as Legion things without their like fragile
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Speaker 1: human bodies, and that's all really bad. And he had
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Speaker 1: like a weird face made of different screens and they
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Speaker 1: were all, you know, not acting together as one units,
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Speaker 1: and it was very disturbing to me. So we kind
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Speaker 1: of pick up near there. Actually, that's not fair. We
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Speaker 1: pick up right basically over there, because you know, Ray
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Speaker 1: had seen Shin and the other Spearhead Squadron members coming close.
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Speaker 1: He had zoomed in on them. So we start basically there.
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Speaker 1: We have a shot of like the ground with some
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Speaker 1: grass and areas of bare earth, you know, just a
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Speaker 1: place so the grass isn't growing super good, and there's
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Speaker 1: like maybe some rocks, and I think it looks like
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Speaker 1: it's dusk, and there's like that sparkly dust falling down
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Speaker 1: from like the flying Legion things that happen sometimes. And
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Speaker 1: in the background we're hearing Legion voices say I'm scared,
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Speaker 1: it hurts so much, No help me. That kind of
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Speaker 1: stuff over and over again, as is the fashion. And
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Speaker 1: it is September twenty eighth, twenty one forty eight, so
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Speaker 1: it's the same day. Like I just said earlier, we
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Speaker 1: see a legion like foot thud onto the ground and
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Speaker 1: we get this like really wide shot of spearhead. They're
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Speaker 1: like on a hill and the legion is approaching in
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Speaker 1: the distance and it's all very sparkly over there. Karina
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Speaker 1: ride in on Ju and THEO look pretty worried, you know,
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Speaker 1: because there looks like there's a lot of legion, like
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of them, and Ryding says, I guess
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Speaker 1: we're dealing with every single legion in the area. We
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Speaker 1: get a screen, I guess in one of their like cockpits,
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Speaker 1: that shows all of the legion positions, you know, coming
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Speaker 1: towards them and like red like red little icons, and
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Speaker 1: I was trying to count how many they were and
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Speaker 1: I got annoyed, but there's definitely over a hundred because
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Speaker 1: I counted to one hundred before he gave up because
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Speaker 1: apparently I'm not good at counting or something. Anyway, we
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Speaker 1: cut to like a shot of Shin where we just
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Speaker 1: kind of see the bottom of his face. We do
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Speaker 1: this a lot with Shin. Nothing on his face except
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Speaker 1: for his mouth is visible, and there's this long pause
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Speaker 1: and he gasps. We get this quick burst of a
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Speaker 1: shot of Ray's eyes. His skin is blue and his
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Speaker 1: hair is bright red and his glasses are cracked. We
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Speaker 1: see Shin's screen with like another little screen on top
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Speaker 1: of it that says it's zoomed in twelve times, and
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Speaker 1: he's looking at Ray's like big legion body and he
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Speaker 1: smiles this like bizarrely wide smile. As Ray begins to
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Speaker 1: scream his name, the other members of Spearhead Squadron gasp, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it sounds fucking terrifying. He's just screaming Shin's name over
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Speaker 1: and over again, so upsettingly so that I am not
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Speaker 1: going to try because they would just cheapen it. We
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Speaker 1: hear right In say Shin that voice. Shin's juggernaut starts
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Speaker 1: to walk off, and he says keep going right in
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Speaker 1: like half chokes, and Shin says, if you hide in
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Speaker 1: the forest, they won't be able to find you easily.
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Speaker 1: Rays screams are still like fucking echoing over this entire scene,
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Speaker 1: and Shin continues wait for them to pass and then
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Speaker 1: move on, So you're just gonna die, Shin? Or what
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Speaker 1: are we doing? And right, AND's like wait, Shin says,
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Speaker 1: right In, you're in charge. Right, It's like, what about you?
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Speaker 1: He's going to kill himself. It sounds like Shin says,
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Speaker 1: I'll catch up after I defeat them. Sure, we can't
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Speaker 1: move on until they're gone, and I guess he doesn't
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Speaker 1: want to let me get away. He's still kind of smiling.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, right In looks pretty hard at all
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Speaker 1: of these suggestions and says, if you just ask me
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Speaker 1: to fight with you, hell, no, I'm not following that order.
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Speaker 1: I'll hold off the rest of them, So do this quickly.
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Speaker 1: At this point, tons of missiles are just being pumped
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Speaker 1: into the air towards Spearhead, and Shin sighs and says,
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Speaker 1: you're a fool, right, and it's like, so are you.
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Speaker 1: He smiles, don't die. So everyone's like dodging explosions now,
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Speaker 1: and Shin is like rushing forward towards Ray. I guess
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Speaker 1: who's kind of far off in the distance, remember, And
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Speaker 1: we're just looking at his mouth again and he's still smiling,
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Speaker 1: which is kind of upsetting. And then we finally pull
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Speaker 1: up and we see his full face and his eyes
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Speaker 1: are just like super fucking wide and his face is
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Speaker 1: like twisted into this maniacal smile and he says, I
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Speaker 1: found you, brother, and then we go to the opening theme. Yay,
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Speaker 1: And it's important that I mentioned that in the opening
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Speaker 1: in the field of red spider lilies, there are now
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Speaker 1: eighteen people and Haduto is the closest to us, kind
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Speaker 1: of at the center, and it made me a little
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Speaker 1: bit sad because again he just got killed off screen
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Speaker 1: and we didn't even see what happened. Then he deserved
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Speaker 1: more back from the opening, we cut to a screen
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Speaker 1: that is zoomed in six times and we see Shin
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Speaker 1: coming over the ridge, so obviously this is from Ray's perspective,
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Speaker 1: and we cut two ways like super fucked up multi
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Speaker 1: screen face and he chuckles. Then we go back to
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Speaker 1: the others who are still fighting like the random Legion things,
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Speaker 1: and Audie's like, something's weird. They're trying to pull us
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Speaker 1: away from Shin. She dodges to avoid a missile, and
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Speaker 1: then we see one of their screens with the Legion
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Speaker 1: positions on it again and it's like they have gotten
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Speaker 1: in between the rest of the Spirit squadron and Shin
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Speaker 1: like they formed a wall between them, and Theo's like,
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Speaker 1: this isn't how the Legion fight. Ryden says, it's that
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Speaker 1: shepherd's orders. He scoffs he wants some private family time.
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Speaker 1: At this point, we're back with Shin, who is closing
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Speaker 1: in on rates position and you know, avoiding getting hit
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Speaker 1: by some of the Legion and taking some of them out.
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Speaker 1: As he gets closer, we see that Chin is trying
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Speaker 1: to like fire like with his trigger. He's like hitting it,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think it's working, because he looks like
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Speaker 1: kind of upsets or like maybe it's only working intermittently,
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Speaker 1: and he's dodging and like shooting back at one of
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Speaker 1: them and he hits it, so I guess it's working sometimes.
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Speaker 1: And then he jumps into the air and he aims
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Speaker 1: like his big front gun at one of the legion
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Speaker 1: that he's fighting, and he fires from above and then
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Speaker 1: he gasps because it doesn't do any damage at all,
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Speaker 1: but he keeps firing, and he's like anything I shoot
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Speaker 1: doesn't get through. That legion is like basically on top
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Speaker 1: of him now and it's saying help me over and
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Speaker 1: over again, which is just really upsetting, and it raises
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Speaker 1: its like leg thing like in the air like it's
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Speaker 1: going to crush Shin in slow motion, and Shin like
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Speaker 1: looks back trying to figure out how he's gonna get
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Speaker 1: out of the way because he's having trouble, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, the legion is just exploded and we
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Speaker 1: see in the distance raised there with his big gun
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Speaker 1: thing smoking, and Sin says, he wants to kill me
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Speaker 1: with his own hands? Is that it? And he starts
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Speaker 1: to laugh. I feel the same, brother, Cheese Shin. We
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Speaker 1: go back to the chaos that's taking place with the
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Speaker 1: rest of Spearhead, and we see one of their screens
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Speaker 1: and it has a red warning thing on it that
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Speaker 1: says no ammunition main gun fifty seven millimeters APFSDS whatever
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Speaker 1: that means, and THEO scops and he's like reloading, back
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Speaker 1: me up. He shifts his juggernaut like back towards Fido,
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Speaker 1: who's hanging out, I guess with the ammunition and stuff.
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Speaker 1: And Karna's like, again, how much Gammo are we using? Right,
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Speaker 1: and says I'm not keeping count. Anju's like, don't worry.
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Speaker 1: If we can just lower their numbers a little more
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Speaker 1: and before she can finish her thoughts, like another at
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Speaker 1: least one hundred Legion pop up on her like radar screen. Yay,
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Speaker 1: So they're not going to make this. This is too
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Speaker 1: many Legion things for them to shoot, especially if they're
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Speaker 1: reloading this much right on you gasps and starts to sweat. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: she's figured it out too, but she looks like super determined,
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Speaker 1: and she says it seems like they're not interested in retreat.
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Speaker 1: We get a really cool wide shot of Riding's juggernaut
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Speaker 1: like looking out from like a really fucked up road
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Speaker 1: or maybe bridge into like the distant mountains that are
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Speaker 1: just full of approaching like Legion that are shooting directly
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Speaker 1: at him, and he says, fine with me, let's do this.
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Speaker 1: But then there's this really large thunderous boom and the
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Speaker 1: clouds in the sky obviously are just filled with like
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Speaker 1: what looks like fire, which is just great. Ride in
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Speaker 1: gasps and looks pretty pissed off, and then we hear
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Speaker 1: Lena say, Lieutenant shoota, I'm barring your left eye. What
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Speaker 1: Rydin is also confused, and he blinks and he can
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Speaker 1: see the control room like one of Lena's screens in
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Speaker 1: the control room with her reflection in it, and he gasps,
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Speaker 1: I guess she's borrowing his eye. We now see just
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Speaker 1: tons of missiles just falling from the clouds and like
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Speaker 1: all of those little like flying things that block the
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Speaker 1: transmission the Legion. Flying things are also like burning in
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Speaker 1: the sky and falling down. So this is kind of
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Speaker 1: not great, or maybe it's really good. I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: And Lena says, here they are prepare for impact. The
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Speaker 1: missile things like open up, like their outsides come off,
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Speaker 1: and there were like these little like disc shaped like
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Speaker 1: puck things inside that pop out, and then they shoot
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Speaker 1: down like they have thrusters and they just start taking
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Speaker 1: out the Legion and everyone's super shocked. Me too. I
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Speaker 1: think Lena did something good. So Legions have exploded. The
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Speaker 1: battlefield is a little bit quieter, and Rydin is just
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Speaker 1: looking at what has happened on his screen in shock,
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Speaker 1: and he says, is that you major, Malise. Lena's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's me. Ryd In furrows his brow and he makes
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Speaker 1: a fist, like a really tight shaking fist, and Lena says,
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Speaker 1: all personnel, I'm sorry, I'm late right, And it's like,
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Speaker 1: are you a complete moron trying to share visual perception.
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Speaker 1: Lena's like, I simply confirmed impact. Oh, I'm sure that
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Speaker 1: sharing visual information is distracting. So I'll close my left
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Speaker 1: eye right And it's like, don't you know the handlers
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Speaker 1: don't do this because it causes blindness? And are those
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Speaker 1: of the mortars? You didn't get permission? Lena's like, so
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Speaker 1: what we hear another explosion like in the clouds, So
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Speaker 1: there's like more cloud fire and stuff, and Ryden looks
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Speaker 1: really shocked, and Lena continues, it's not like the blindness
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Speaker 1: sets in immediately, and breaking orders and using guns without
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Speaker 1: permission isn't gonna kill me. I hope not. The Republic
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Speaker 1: doesn't play by any sane rules, so there's no reason
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Speaker 1: for me to either. There's a bunch more mortar explosions now.
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Speaker 1: Lena continues, I should have done this a long time ago.
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Speaker 1: I hope that doing it now is okay, honestly. Right
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Speaker 1: In looks just totally defeated and kind of smiles in
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Speaker 1: this like this poor girl doesn't understand what she's getting
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Speaker 1: into way and says, you're a real idiot. Lena's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not doing it for you. Yeah, it's for Shin.
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Speaker 1: Right In exhaled, and he almost looks like he's gonna laugh.
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Speaker 1: He's trying to keep it together, and Lana continues, if
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Speaker 1: this many legions break the front lines, the Republic will
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Speaker 1: be in danger. Right In at this kind of starts
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Speaker 1: to chuckle, and Lena continues, I'm fighting because I don't
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Speaker 1: want to die. At that, right In just full on
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Speaker 1: laughs and the others kind of start to chuckle and smile,
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Speaker 1: and Lena says, I'll handle the reinforcements, handle the enemies.
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Speaker 1: You're fighting on your own. Right In's like, fine, leave
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Speaker 1: it to us. This isn't anything new, and he starts firing.
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Speaker 1: Lena's like, where's Captain Nosen? Right in size We cut
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Speaker 1: to Shin looking just terribly insane, and we hear right
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Speaker 1: and say, fighting his brother, that's what he's been after
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Speaker 1: Shin is shooting at Ray and riding continues. He can't
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Speaker 1: hear our voices. Now Shin has Ray in his crosshairs
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Speaker 1: of his gun thing, and he chuckles and smiles, and
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Speaker 1: he's like running and jumping all around and stuff, and
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Speaker 1: he springs into the air and he takes out his
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Speaker 1: high frequency blade and he like brings it right down
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Speaker 1: at the front of Ray's legion thing and it like
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Speaker 1: slices it right in the grill or whatever that is.
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Speaker 1: Shin Aimes says, like gun thing at the damaged part
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Speaker 1: and he shoots like a little missile thing at it.
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Speaker 1: But before anything happens, like Ray grabs it with a
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Speaker 1: liquid metal tentacle. I think, like it looks like mercury.
17:51
Speaker 1: You know, have you ever seen or played with mercury,
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Speaker 1: which you're not supposed to do because it's toxic, so
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Speaker 1: don't do that. But that's what it looks like, like
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Speaker 1: a liquid metal murky tentacle, and it like hits the
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Speaker 1: tentacle and explodes before it can do any damage to Ray.
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Speaker 1: Shin gasps because what the fuck? And oh my god,
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Speaker 1: now Ray has lots of tentacles. I think, wait, maybe
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Speaker 1: they're arms. I don't know, because they have hands on them,
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Speaker 1: which is really fucked up. And they start like rushing
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Speaker 1: at Shin and he tries to back away to evade,
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Speaker 1: but they like rab him and then they like toss
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Speaker 1: him and he comes down like super hard and his
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Speaker 1: juggernaut like rolls and I think he lands upside down.
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Speaker 1: His powery cuts out like the little green light turns off,
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Speaker 1: and we cut to a puddle with a no longer
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Speaker 1: functioning little flying legion thing in it's and then we
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Speaker 1: see a wide shot of the road where Riding and
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Speaker 1: the other Spearhead folks are like before, and Lena says,
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Speaker 1: enemy withdrawing, and Riding's like yeah. THEO says, we did it,
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Speaker 1: and on Ju just kind of sighs, and cry also
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Speaker 1: sighs and closes her eyes in relief, and then she
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Speaker 1: hears some static on the power raid and her eyes
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Speaker 1: jolts open. Lena says, Captain Nosen. Karina looks over at
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Speaker 1: her screen and says, Shin. Lena's like Captain Nosan, come in.
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Speaker 1: Karina can see his juggernaut in her screen, and it's
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Speaker 1: all messed up obviously in upside down, I think, And
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Speaker 1: She's like Shin right and says, Shin, wake up, you idiot.
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Speaker 1: Ray is closing in on Shin's fucked up juggernaut. Lena says,
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Speaker 1: what is that? Right? In's like shit, We've got to
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Speaker 1: stop it. THEO says, but how, And Lena's like Lieutenant Kucamila.
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Speaker 1: Determine the enemy's position as accurately as possible and send
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Speaker 1: it to me. Crana is like, what, Lena says, I'll
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Speaker 1: let you do the final guidance, just hit it with
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Speaker 1: the targeting waves. Krana says, do you mean? She looks
19:53
Speaker 1: kind of furious, sort of but I'm not sure, and
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Speaker 1: THEO says, are you gonna hit it with artillery? And
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Speaker 1: she's like, it's so cloak, She'll hit Shin. Karina looks
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Speaker 1: down and Lena says, I have a plan. I don't
20:05
Speaker 1: want him to die either. Karina gasps and grabs her
20:09
Speaker 1: like little triggery thing, and then we cut to black.
20:12
Speaker 1: We fade into a couple of Ray tentacles just wiggling,
20:17
Speaker 1: which is always good, and Ray says, I held back
20:20
Speaker 1: a lot and it was still so fragile. We see
20:24
Speaker 1: Shin's high frequency blade laying on the ground. Ray continues,
20:28
Speaker 1: I may have hurt you, but I'll apologize for that
20:31
Speaker 1: and everything else. Later we see his horrible computer screen face. Finally,
20:38
Speaker 1: finally you're coming back to me. What the fuck, dude.
20:42
Speaker 1: We can see further down these wiggly tentacles now and
20:45
Speaker 1: they have hands, which is just great, and of course
20:48
Speaker 1: they're reaching out, and we flash into first person perspective
20:52
Speaker 1: of Ray holding Shin as a child, you know, like
20:54
Speaker 1: holding them up. And this is when I realized that
20:57
Speaker 1: in that image, Shin is holding a book in his hand,
21:01
Speaker 1: and it is the Skull Night Book. Yay. Ray says,
21:05
Speaker 1: I'll read you that book again. We kind of fade
21:08
Speaker 1: into Ray's like screen view of Shin's juggernaut, and he continues,
21:13
Speaker 1: but first, I'll get rid of your human body. As
21:16
Speaker 1: he reaches out with his metal hands towards Shinn's juggernaut.
21:20
Speaker 1: We flashed him strangling Shin for a second, and then
21:23
Speaker 1: something shoots one of his hands away. It's the rest
21:26
Speaker 1: of Spearhead. They're coming, yay. The remaining Legion folks who
21:30
Speaker 1: were hanging out with Ray are now shooting at them,
21:33
Speaker 1: but there aren't that many of them, so they're taking
21:35
Speaker 1: them out pretty easily. They encircle Ray and they shoot
21:38
Speaker 1: their grappling hooks that raise legs, so they've kind of
21:41
Speaker 1: ensnared him and he can't move and he's like little insects.
21:44
Speaker 1: He locks onto one of them. You're wasting your time.
21:48
Speaker 1: Before you can do anything, a missile shoots down through
21:50
Speaker 1: the clouds at Ray. He looks up and gasps. His
21:53
Speaker 1: screen says explosive projectile locked raise like, you pieces of
21:58
Speaker 1: a shit, you're gonna let Shin die. You are just
22:01
Speaker 1: gonna kill him. I don't know what you're talking about.
22:03
Speaker 1: He whips around with enough force to send one of
22:05
Speaker 1: the juggernauts like flying, because remember it's attached to him.
22:09
Speaker 1: He positions himself in front of Shin's juggernaut and he
22:12
Speaker 1: like raises himself up like in a standing position with
22:15
Speaker 1: his arms out stretched, like he's trying the shield Shin
22:19
Speaker 1: from the missile that's coming down. And now we see
22:22
Speaker 1: him as a person standing also with his arms outstretched,
22:26
Speaker 1: and he says, Shin, I'll protect you. We cut to
22:30
Speaker 1: him breaking a chocolate bar in half. Lena is standing
22:34
Speaker 1: several feet behind him, and she's tiny, so it's kind
22:39
Speaker 1: of like the past, but also it's now because he's
22:42
Speaker 1: standing next to his you know, legion thing, still trying
22:45
Speaker 1: to protect Shin, I guess, and also facing away from Lena.
22:49
Speaker 1: Lena says, you want to protect him, but where he's like,
22:53
Speaker 1: that's right, I have to protect him. Tears start to
22:57
Speaker 1: stream down his face and he says he's my brother.
22:59
Speaker 1: I Lena, who is now just suddenly only a few
23:03
Speaker 1: steps behind him says you want to protect him, but
23:07
Speaker 1: you're gonna kill him again. Ray turns back towards her.
23:10
Speaker 1: We quickly cut to his metal hand as it crushes
23:13
Speaker 1: something and blood spurts out everywhere. We quickly cut back
23:16
Speaker 1: to him as a person, staring terrified at his hands
23:19
Speaker 1: and whatever he squished within them, which I think is
23:22
Speaker 1: the chocolate bar, but I'm not sure. He then looks
23:26
Speaker 1: behind Lena and he sees that Shin, as a child,
23:30
Speaker 1: is laying on the ground on his back. He takes
23:33
Speaker 1: some shaky breaths and he falls to his knees and
23:36
Speaker 1: he says I I Lena, who is now standing over him,
23:42
Speaker 1: raises her hand and brings it down and slaps him,
23:46
Speaker 1: and we cut back to the missile hitting Ray in
23:49
Speaker 1: legion form, and then there's two more that also fall
23:52
Speaker 1: and they just get stuck in him, but they don't
23:54
Speaker 1: explode and raise like those rounds are DUTs. We see
23:59
Speaker 1: him like in person's screen form, and he's partially pixelated,
24:04
Speaker 1: and then he just kind of cuts out to black.
24:07
Speaker 1: When we fade back in, it's to Shin, and we
24:10
Speaker 1: can only see part of his face, but he's upside
24:12
Speaker 1: down and his face is bloody, and he is very
24:16
Speaker 1: clearly passed out. His power raid is blinking green, and
24:21
Speaker 1: blood is dripping down from I guess his body. We
24:25
Speaker 1: can't see where, and we hear Lena say all rounds
24:29
Speaker 1: landes it on target. Theo's like, but even that won't
24:32
Speaker 1: slow him down. We have to do something now. More
24:35
Speaker 1: blood drips down. Lena gasps. Captain Knowsen signals back online, right,
24:40
Speaker 1: and it's like, Shin, wake up, you idiot, And then
24:42
Speaker 1: everyone is simultaneously like shouting at him, saying like wake
24:46
Speaker 1: up and all that shit. And then we hear Ray say, Shin,
24:50
Speaker 1: Shin's eyes shoot open. He sees Ray's old juggernaut with
24:53
Speaker 1: its open cockpit, rushing towards him. Ray's hands are out stretched,
24:58
Speaker 1: his head is not there, and as it reaches him,
25:01
Speaker 1: raised dead and green tinged hands thrust themselves around Shin's neck. Again.
25:06
Speaker 1: We can't see most of what's happening here, you know,
25:09
Speaker 1: except we can see Shin's mouth, neck and chest and
25:12
Speaker 1: raise fucking green dead hands around him. Shin gasps and
25:18
Speaker 1: he like tries to cry out but he can't. And
25:20
Speaker 1: Ray says the fact that mom and dad died. He
25:23
Speaker 1: squeezes tighter, the fact that I'm about to die. We
25:26
Speaker 1: cut to that same red twisted image of Ray's face
25:30
Speaker 1: from back when he was choking Shin as a child,
25:33
Speaker 1: and he squeezes harder, still around his neck. Shin is,
25:36
Speaker 1: of course, trying to pull Ray's arms off of him,
25:40
Speaker 1: and Ray says, HiT's all your fault, Shin. We flash
25:44
Speaker 1: to Shin back at the base, saying, my brother hasn't
25:47
Speaker 1: forgiven me, and then to him touching his scar in
25:51
Speaker 1: the mirror in the bathroom, and he continues so, and
25:56
Speaker 1: Lena cuts in, so that's why you're trying to put
25:59
Speaker 1: him to rest, right. We get a shot of fireworks
26:02
Speaker 1: and then of Ray and Shin together and Ray's eyes
26:04
Speaker 1: are still blacked out, and Lena's like Shin. There's a
26:08
Speaker 1: pulse of light from his parade, kind of a blue
26:10
Speaker 1: Canada light flare, like his parade is finally coming back online,
26:13
Speaker 1: and his eyes widen and Answer starts playing in the background.
26:17
Speaker 1: Fully awake and aware, he grabs Ray's hands from around
26:21
Speaker 1: his neck and his bandan and he pulls them off.
26:25
Speaker 1: His juggernaut springs back to life. He sprints it Ray
26:28
Speaker 1: and aims his gun at him. Ray grabs it with
26:30
Speaker 1: his metal hands and he's like, I wanted you to.
26:34
Speaker 1: And at this point, he's holding Shin's juggernaut with his
26:37
Speaker 1: many arms again, and Shin fires again, but you know,
26:40
Speaker 1: Ray like swats it away. Shin kind of like growls,
26:44
Speaker 1: is what I could call it, and the many hands
26:46
Speaker 1: start to like close in on his juggernaut and then
26:49
Speaker 1: they like start bleeding through the seams of it, because
26:52
Speaker 1: remember they're all liquidy and appear to be reaching for
26:56
Speaker 1: Shin's throat, which is not nice. Shin, however, or suddenly
27:00
Speaker 1: looks just incredibly peaceful, and he says, sayon our brother.
27:06
Speaker 1: He hits the trigger and like a blast like fire
27:11
Speaker 1: comes out of him, like a maybe a thruster, not sure.
27:15
Speaker 1: Then we go to white. We fade into Ray holding
27:19
Speaker 1: Shin up as a kid again and he says, I
27:23
Speaker 1: get it now, You didn't need me to hold your hand.
27:27
Speaker 1: Shin kind of fades into his adult form and we
27:31
Speaker 1: see him in his cockpit and one of Ray's metal
27:35
Speaker 1: hands is still reaching out towards him, but instead of
27:39
Speaker 1: trying to strangle him, it looks like it wants to
27:41
Speaker 1: caress him now, and Ray says, I'm sorry. Shin looks shocked.
27:47
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he's hearing this or not. I
27:49
Speaker 1: don't think so, and it looks like he's saying something,
27:52
Speaker 1: but we don't get audio for a second, and then
27:54
Speaker 1: Shin says brother, and there's an explosion blast separates them physically,
28:02
Speaker 1: but also it looks like from Ray's point of view,
28:05
Speaker 1: it's separating like kid Shin away from him, like pulling
28:09
Speaker 1: him out into like this white screen. Shin manages to
28:12
Speaker 1: jump his juggernaut like out of the way of the explosion,
28:15
Speaker 1: and he lands and just kind of collapses, and we
28:19
Speaker 1: see him in the cockpit, just slumped over, breathing like
28:22
Speaker 1: really hard, shaky breaths, and the ending theme starts to play,
28:27
Speaker 1: and we cut to a picture of like Ray in
28:29
Speaker 1: profile view with the black scribbles over his eyes and
28:33
Speaker 1: they slowly fade away to reveal his whole face, and
28:36
Speaker 1: we hear Ray say Shin. The metal tentacles are starting
28:40
Speaker 1: to just break apart and crumble to the ground, and
28:44
Speaker 1: then we see an image of Shin sitting on Ray's
28:47
Speaker 1: shoulders and he's clearly like pulled off his glasses and
28:50
Speaker 1: he's like pulling on Ray's mouth and the scribbles fade
28:54
Speaker 1: from Ray's eyes, and Ray kind of chuckles and he's like, Shin.
28:59
Speaker 1: We cut pack to Shin, who is still hunched over
29:02
Speaker 1: in the cockpit. He's grabbing his chest and hyperventilating, and
29:07
Speaker 1: then we see Ray looking at him while he like
29:09
Speaker 1: draws in crayon and it looks like he's drawing like
29:14
Speaker 1: Ray as a Knight, and Ray says Shin. Tears start
29:19
Speaker 1: to form in Shin's eyes, and then we cut to
29:23
Speaker 1: that shot of Ray holding Shin up, but from Shin's perspective,
29:29
Speaker 1: and Ray says Shin. We cut back to Shin in
29:33
Speaker 1: the cockpit, and we don't have audio for this part,
29:36
Speaker 1: but his mouth kind of starts to shake and he
29:40
Speaker 1: just can't hold it back anymore and he just starts
29:41
Speaker 1: sobbing as Ray burns in front of him. At this point,
29:45
Speaker 1: the other members of the squadron have gotten out their
29:47
Speaker 1: juggernauts and they're just kind of watching Ray burn, and
29:51
Speaker 1: then we cut to Shin's bloody bandana on the floor
29:55
Speaker 1: of his juggernaut. Next we see a wide shot and
29:58
Speaker 1: it's sunset and it's like super super orange, and they're
30:02
Speaker 1: all outside with their juggernauts and the robots and it's
30:06
Speaker 1: kind of facing away from the camera, and we cut
30:09
Speaker 1: two close ups of theo Corena on jew and riding
30:12
Speaker 1: all individually and like smiling. Shin is facing away and
30:17
Speaker 1: walking and then he turns back and he kind of
30:19
Speaker 1: smiles at them, like a really peaceful, calm smile that
30:24
Speaker 1: isn't very normal for Shin, and then he turns back
30:26
Speaker 1: around and we get the title card Episode nine Goodbye.
30:31
Speaker 1: Back from the title card, we see Lena's hand holding
30:34
Speaker 1: the tiny drawing of Shin's face and it's September twenty eighth,
30:39
Speaker 1: twenty one forty eight, so same day, slightly earlier, I think,
30:44
Speaker 1: And in the background we can hear Shin just sobbing,
30:48
Speaker 1: so heart wrenchingly, and Ryden says, major, cut the connection.
30:56
Speaker 1: He wouldn't want anyone hearing this. Bana's like, you're right,
31:00
Speaker 1: and she cuts it. She turns her chair around and
31:02
Speaker 1: she says it's over. We see that Annette is sitting
31:06
Speaker 1: on the floor in the control room, which is a
31:08
Speaker 1: little bit weird because what and she is like hugging
31:12
Speaker 1: her knees and there are these two laptops in front
31:15
Speaker 1: of her, and her glasses are lit by them, and
31:18
Speaker 1: she's just kind of staring down and she does like
31:20
Speaker 1: not look okay at all. Lena looks at her for
31:23
Speaker 1: a second and then she turns back towards the monitors,
31:26
Speaker 1: and we cut to her in the same position, but
31:28
Speaker 1: standing in the rain with her cap over her eyes,
31:31
Speaker 1: and she's in front of a Nette's house at night.
31:34
Speaker 1: Annette is standing in the doorway with her arms crossed
31:37
Speaker 1: and she says, I told you I never wanted to
31:39
Speaker 1: see you again, Lena. Lena's like, yeah, I heard you,
31:43
Speaker 1: but I didn't agree to that. Annette makes some sort
31:46
Speaker 1: of like super annoyed sound, and Lena says, I need
31:49
Speaker 1: to get into the mortar control system and I need
31:51
Speaker 1: the ability to stink vision. She holds out her powerade
31:54
Speaker 1: you'll do that to help spearhead right, and that's like,
31:57
Speaker 1: of course not, It's not my problem, Lena says, you
32:01
Speaker 1: will no matter what it takes. Annett looks away, and
32:06
Speaker 1: Lena looks over at this super ornate house next to
32:08
Speaker 1: Annette's and says, the boy you abandoned, his name was
32:12
Speaker 1: Shin right. Annette's eyes widened and she gasps. She just
32:17
Speaker 1: totally changes demeanor and she's like, how do you know
32:20
Speaker 1: his name? Lena says, there weren't a lot of eighty
32:24
Speaker 1: six in the first district, especially not our age, and
32:26
Speaker 1: then with brothers who were much older. A net gasps.
32:29
Speaker 1: Lena continues, I know your friend well, I talk to
32:33
Speaker 1: him all the time. She holds out our parade again,
32:35
Speaker 1: and that's like, you don't mean, Lena smirks, that's right.
32:41
Speaker 1: He's in my units combat commander of the Spearhead Squadron
32:46
Speaker 1: personnel name undertaker. She holds up like the little drawing
32:52
Speaker 1: of his face, like that means anything. That's shin. Annett
32:58
Speaker 1: grabs Lena by the collar and says, does he tell you?
33:01
Speaker 1: She pulls her in close. Is he alive? Is he?
33:04
Speaker 1: Does he still hate me? Dude? He doesn't even care
33:08
Speaker 1: about you. Lena brushes Annette's hand off of her and says,
33:12
Speaker 1: what do you care? It's not your problem. She backs
33:16
Speaker 1: away a few steps, but Annette follows her, and Annette says,
33:20
Speaker 1: it's not my problem. She gasps, and then her hands
33:24
Speaker 1: just false slacked. Her sides it's not. Lena says. If
33:29
Speaker 1: that's the case, then you don't need to help me.
33:32
Speaker 1: What's your answer? Annette makes a fist but she doesn't
33:35
Speaker 1: say anything, and she just looks totally lost, and she's
33:39
Speaker 1: kind of staring off blankly, and Lena says, you abandoned
33:44
Speaker 1: him twice. Anette's eyes widened. Lena continues, are you gonna
33:49
Speaker 1: abandon him a third time? Annette gasps and she finally
33:53
Speaker 1: looks at Lena again with just fear in her eyes,
33:55
Speaker 1: and she says, you're the devil. She's the devil. Lena's like,
34:01
Speaker 1: that's right off, as her penrose I am, and so
34:04
Speaker 1: are you, fuck dude. We go to now and Annette
34:09
Speaker 1: is closing the laptops and she stands up and Lena says,
34:13
Speaker 1: Shin's safe. Annette turns around and the door opens, and
34:17
Speaker 1: Lena continues, thanks to you. Annette stops, it's not me
34:22
Speaker 1: who saved them, and then she walks out. When she's gone,
34:26
Speaker 1: Lena turns back around to the screens and she sighs
34:30
Speaker 1: and closes her eyes because it's been a rough day.
34:33
Speaker 1: The screen itself slowly fades to black, and then it
34:37
Speaker 1: pops back in as her notifications down starts to go
34:39
Speaker 1: off and we see the spearhead drawings on her desk.
34:43
Speaker 1: She gasps and turns on her power raid right and
34:45
Speaker 1: says he can talk now. Lena kind of sighs, and
34:49
Speaker 1: Shin says major. Lena gasps. Shin continues, I thought I
34:54
Speaker 1: heard a voice. You were there, Huh. Lena's like huh.
34:59
Speaker 1: They laugh. Lena says, of course I was there. I'm
35:02
Speaker 1: Spearhead's handler. She smiles right AND's like right right, and
35:08
Speaker 1: THEO says, sure you are. Lena continues, the battle's over.
35:12
Speaker 1: Good work, Undertaker and all of you. Sheen says, thank you,
35:16
Speaker 1: Handler one. Lena is looking at the drawings of their
35:19
Speaker 1: little faces as she talks to them, and THEO says,
35:22
Speaker 1: what the hell happened to you? Though? Right? And it's
35:25
Speaker 1: like you suddenly turned into a bad girl, and Lena says,
35:28
Speaker 1: a bad girl. I didn't. I just Carna says, I
35:31
Speaker 1: thought you were trying to blow us up along with
35:33
Speaker 1: the legion. Lena gasps, and she's like, of course not.
35:36
Speaker 1: THEO says, she's just joking. Obviously, you're so serious. Lena
35:40
Speaker 1: makes kind of a flustered noise some kind and Angie says,
35:44
Speaker 1: but don't you think that's a point in her favor? Right?
35:47
Speaker 1: And it's like that's right, We're grateful you know you
35:49
Speaker 1: saved our lives. Lena is slowly pushing the little paper
35:53
Speaker 1: drawings closer together on the desk and she says, you're
35:56
Speaker 1: all teasing me. She's about to move Shins over to
36:00
Speaker 1: and Shin says, thank you. Lena gasps. Shin continues, I
36:05
Speaker 1: was finally able to let my brother rest. We cut
36:07
Speaker 1: back to Lena's perspective of her saying that's why you're
36:10
Speaker 1: gonna put him to rest, right, And as she does,
36:14
Speaker 1: she looks up at the screen with all of the
36:16
Speaker 1: data on it, and shin'stas start to spike, like immediately,
36:20
Speaker 1: and she blushes slightly and says, no, it was just
36:23
Speaker 1: a coincidence. It worked out. Sin's like, I see right,
36:28
Speaker 1: and says, I can't believe you fired rounds with the
36:30
Speaker 1: activated fuses to delay them. Theo's like it's pretty clever.
36:34
Speaker 1: Lena says, well, half the rounds were duds, so I
36:37
Speaker 1: got the idea. They all laugh right and says I see.
36:41
Speaker 1: Lena continues, I'll do even better next time. Ang says
36:45
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear it. Crana's like, I'm gonna set
36:48
Speaker 1: my expectations lull. Lena kind of chuckles and She's still
36:52
Speaker 1: blushing a little bit, and she closes her eyes and
36:55
Speaker 1: right and says now. Then Sin's like yeah. Lena opens
36:59
Speaker 1: her eyes kind of can fused and she looks at
37:01
Speaker 1: their positions on the screen, and riding continues. Fidoh you
37:04
Speaker 1: got the containers piled up again. Lena gasps, yeah, I
37:09
Speaker 1: it's not the end. Lena right and says we'll decide
37:12
Speaker 1: on a place to sleep first and then we'll worry
37:13
Speaker 1: about repairs. It's not good that we use so much
37:16
Speaker 1: AMMO on the first day. Theo's like, I don't think
37:18
Speaker 1: it's a problem. We certainly took out enough of them,
37:21
Speaker 1: right and says we sure did. Let's get to work.
37:23
Speaker 1: Then Lena gasps again, right and says, talk to you later. Major.
37:28
Speaker 1: Hope you can do this with the next ones too. Fuck.
37:31
Speaker 1: Lena tries to say something but just nothing comes out.
37:33
Speaker 1: She just was not prepared for this for some reason,
37:36
Speaker 1: and her mouth is just hanging open, and Karina says, hey,
37:39
Speaker 1: is it safe to go forward? A lot of those
37:41
Speaker 1: dud rounds landed. Lena closes her mouth aunt. She says, so,
37:47
Speaker 1: I guess it's basically a mine field. Now it might
37:49
Speaker 1: not be a good idea to just go forward, Shin,
37:52
Speaker 1: can you find another route? Lena tries to speak again
37:55
Speaker 1: but still can't, and Shin says, this is Leadi territory,
38:00
Speaker 1: but there aren't any legion around here. Lena is kind
38:04
Speaker 1: of just intermittently gasping. Shin continues, we can take any
38:09
Speaker 1: room we want, but dud Brown's theo's like, we'll tell
38:13
Speaker 1: you when we start moving. Shin, you seriously didn't see anything,
38:16
Speaker 1: did you. Lena stares at the screen with the specs
38:20
Speaker 1: on it, and and all of their speeds that were
38:23
Speaker 1: at zero start to climb, and she finally figures out
38:26
Speaker 1: how to talk. Wait, she reaches towards the screen. Wait,
38:31
Speaker 1: don't leave me. Uh huh. We see her reflection in
38:35
Speaker 1: the screen with like the positions on it as they
38:37
Speaker 1: start to move away and ride and says, yeah, I
38:40
Speaker 1: like that. Lena gasps, We're not being chased. We're going
38:44
Speaker 1: out on our own as far as we can go.
38:46
Speaker 1: Lena looks horrified because yeah, and their positions are getting
38:51
Speaker 1: pretty close to this like reddish pixelated area that says
38:55
Speaker 1: unknown on the map, and she stares at it for
38:58
Speaker 1: a second and then she just shoot, She's up out
39:00
Speaker 1: of her chair and runs out of the room. As
39:02
Speaker 1: she runs down the hall, Karina says, what do you
39:05
Speaker 1: want for dinner? Lena is running down the stairs now,
39:08
Speaker 1: Karina continues, it's our first day, so we should have
39:10
Speaker 1: something special, right. We cuts to the screen with their
39:14
Speaker 1: icons and they're moving kind of northeast dish towards the
39:18
Speaker 1: unknown area. THEO says yeah, but Lena is continuing to
39:23
Speaker 1: run down the stairs and she makes it to another
39:26
Speaker 1: hallway and says, I don't know if I've got it
39:29
Speaker 1: in me to go hunting, right, and it's like, yeah,
39:32
Speaker 1: I'd just rather go to sleep. Lena runs past a
39:36
Speaker 1: net who was sitting on a bench just looking really devastated,
39:38
Speaker 1: and she just kind of looks up as Lena passes,
39:41
Speaker 1: and riding continues. I'm tired. Lena goes through security and
39:46
Speaker 1: she gets outside and she's like sprinting, jumping down the
39:49
Speaker 1: steps of the building, and she says wait as she
39:53
Speaker 1: jumps down the last step, she lands like super hard
39:57
Speaker 1: and like drops her hat and she just leaves it
39:59
Speaker 1: and runs down the street. Theo's like, okay, our goal
40:04
Speaker 1: for tomorrow is that building. We've got time. Want to
40:07
Speaker 1: place a bet Lena like rounds a corner and almost
40:10
Speaker 1: hits someone, and Andrew says, yeah, how about for who
40:13
Speaker 1: does the cooking tomorrow. Lena is still running and she's like,
40:18
Speaker 1: I don't mind betting, but I don't want to hear
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Speaker 1: any complaints if Carna or I end up doing it.
40:23
Speaker 1: Corrana is like, hey, at this point, the crosswalk light
40:27
Speaker 1: is blinking green, which I think is like a yellow
40:30
Speaker 1: light at this point, and Ryden says, okay, you guys
40:34
Speaker 1: suck at cooking. That's off the table. Lena pushes her
40:37
Speaker 1: way through the crowd of people who have stopped because
40:40
Speaker 1: the light is gonna turn red, and she cuts into
40:43
Speaker 1: the crosswalk and just sprints. And as she's running, the
40:46
Speaker 1: light turns red and a car like has to break
40:49
Speaker 1: super hard not to hit her. The sun is low
40:52
Speaker 1: in the sky now and we are seeing the city
40:55
Speaker 1: from like really high up, and THEO says, huh, do
40:59
Speaker 1: you see something like a building? Crane is like, you're right,
41:02
Speaker 1: I'm right, and says is that a cathedral? Sin's like
41:06
Speaker 1: a train station? Probably these are all very different things, guys,
41:10
Speaker 1: and Are says, wouldn't it be wonderful if it was
41:13
Speaker 1: a castle or a mansion, especially if we could spend
41:16
Speaker 1: the night there. The street lights are coming on and
41:19
Speaker 1: everything's orange. An Theo says, I've only ever seen castles
41:22
Speaker 1: from Afar on the other side of the other combat districts.
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Speaker 1: I've never been in one before. And A's like, let's
41:28
Speaker 1: hunt for treasure, right and says, sure, we're not in
41:31
Speaker 1: a hurry or anything. We are back with Lena now,
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Speaker 1: who is still running, and cars are passing her by
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Speaker 1: on the street, and I'm wondering at this point if
41:40
Speaker 1: maybe she should have just taken a cab or something.
41:42
Speaker 1: Oh and if you're like, why is Lena running, it's
41:45
Speaker 1: because she's trying to stay in range, I guess with
41:48
Speaker 1: the poweraids as long as possible. So she's heading towards
41:51
Speaker 1: the eighty sixth district, like as close as she can get,
41:54
Speaker 1: I believe, at least I think that's what's happening, just
41:56
Speaker 1: so she can hear them for just a little bit longer.
42:00
Speaker 1: And Carna says, it's beautiful right In's like pure red
42:05
Speaker 1: all over. What kind of flower is this? Brighton? It's
42:09
Speaker 1: a death flag. The flower is a death flag. Lena stumbles,
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Speaker 1: but she keeps going and Carna says, is it okay
42:16
Speaker 1: to step on these? It feels wrong. Lena's getting pretty
42:20
Speaker 1: tired and she's struggling a bit to keep herself going,
42:23
Speaker 1: and THEO says, just walking on them makes their petals
42:26
Speaker 1: fall off an juice, like they were close to falling
42:30
Speaker 1: off on their own. All these falling petals are really pretty,
42:33
Speaker 1: but also kind of sad. And Ryden says, seeing the
42:37
Speaker 1: same color of flowers all around you and under you
42:39
Speaker 1: as you fight is kind of scary. Actually. Lena is
42:43
Speaker 1: limping a little bit now, and THEO says, it's like
42:46
Speaker 1: the minute we became free, we got to see something
42:48
Speaker 1: really wonderful. Huh. We cut back to the screen with
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Speaker 1: their positions on it, and THEO and Carna are already
42:54
Speaker 1: in the unknown section and everyone else is right behind them,
42:57
Speaker 1: and Lena is running across a bridge now and she
43:01
Speaker 1: just kind of lands weird and breaks her heel and
43:05
Speaker 1: is forced to stop, and she is like bent over,
43:08
Speaker 1: hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath and
43:11
Speaker 1: right and says, we're right up against the limits of
43:13
Speaker 1: the republic controlled area, just at the barrier of District
43:17
Speaker 1: eighty six. Sin's like, yeah, we finally made it. We
43:21
Speaker 1: finally arrived outside of District eighty six, the battlefield where
43:24
Speaker 1: we lived. Lena is still bent over, but she's finally
43:28
Speaker 1: caught her breath and she starts to shake. A tear
43:32
Speaker 1: falls from her eyes and splashes onto the brick walkway,
43:35
Speaker 1: and then she's just sobbing, and En says, Major, we're
43:40
Speaker 1: going on ahead. Major. Lena opens her eyes and shock
43:44
Speaker 1: and a bird flies past her over head, and we
43:48
Speaker 1: cut to their icons again that are all now in
43:50
Speaker 1: the red part, the unknown part, and then they just disappear.
43:55
Speaker 1: Her power raid starts to blink and then it just
43:57
Speaker 1: cuts out. She's alone. She drops to her knees and
44:02
Speaker 1: starts to cry again, and then she just takes a
44:07
Speaker 1: super deep breath and just whales. We go to a
44:13
Speaker 1: field of red spider lilies with their petals drifting off
44:16
Speaker 1: into the breeze, and then to the sky, which is
44:20
Speaker 1: still mostly orange with sunset, but you know, starting to
44:23
Speaker 1: get a little bit blue, dark blue at the bottom,
44:26
Speaker 1: and the credits start to roll. We see five birds
44:30
Speaker 1: flying off into the distance, and the sky fades into
44:34
Speaker 1: a deep blue with stars, and the birds continue to
44:38
Speaker 1: fly over the city scape, and then we cut to
44:41
Speaker 1: a shot of the roster screen with the remaining Juggernauts
44:45
Speaker 1: and their metrics go from metrics to just no signal,
44:52
Speaker 1: and then we go to the next episode card thank you,
44:57
Speaker 1: and that's it. Yay. So closing thoughts, Yeah, that was
45:02
Speaker 1: an episode. Yeah, So I'm trying to figure out how
45:06
Speaker 1: to phrase this because I had a really good idea
45:09
Speaker 1: about what I wanted to say last night and I
45:10
Speaker 1: almost cried about it, and now I'm not sure what
45:13
Speaker 1: it was. Really should write stuff like that down. So
45:17
Speaker 1: I think Lena just thought that she was going to
45:21
Speaker 1: save them and then it was going to be okay.
45:24
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think she was thinking about the
45:27
Speaker 1: next step, that is they're not allowed to come home,
45:31
Speaker 1: not that they'd want to come home, not that the
45:34
Speaker 1: Republic wants them, but they have no choice. They have
45:39
Speaker 1: no home to go back to, whether they want it
45:41
Speaker 1: or not. I think she just thought it was going
45:45
Speaker 1: to be okay, and that's not what happens. Like, it's
45:49
Speaker 1: not okay. So she had to face and I don't
45:54
Speaker 1: even think she was thinking about it until that last
45:56
Speaker 1: second that she was not going to be able to
45:59
Speaker 1: talk to them anymore, that this incident was going to
46:01
Speaker 1: be the last time that she ever spoke to any
46:04
Speaker 1: of them, because not only are they out of you know,
46:09
Speaker 1: communication range, but they're just going towards nothing. They're just
46:16
Speaker 1: going to fight until they die, you know, or they're
46:21
Speaker 1: going to starve, or eventually their juggernauts are going to
46:24
Speaker 1: break down, and she's never going to talk to them
46:27
Speaker 1: again because they're going to die. And everything she did
46:31
Speaker 1: that was so good. Couldn't stop that because she's just
46:36
Speaker 1: one person up against a really terrible and corrupt country.
46:43
Speaker 1: But at the same time, what she did for them
46:46
Speaker 1: was super important, and without her, Shin probably wouldn't have
46:51
Speaker 1: been able to kill Ray or raise Legion with Ray's brain,
46:58
Speaker 1: and that's really all he wanted, and he wouldn't have
47:02
Speaker 1: gotten any sort of closure. I guess that's important. I mean,
47:05
Speaker 1: the closure is weird. It's weird, but at least he
47:10
Speaker 1: was able to let his brother, whatever part of him
47:14
Speaker 1: stop existing, because it's really fucked up. And I hope
47:19
Speaker 1: that Shin understands now that none of this was his fault.
47:23
Speaker 1: I mean, and I get that, like with the pictures
47:26
Speaker 1: of Ray and Shinn being able to see Ray's eyes again,
47:30
Speaker 1: it like kind of healed a part of the memory,
47:33
Speaker 1: made him remember the times that weren't just being strangled
47:37
Speaker 1: by his brother, allowed him to think of them, which
47:40
Speaker 1: is a good thing. But I hope that Shin realizes
47:43
Speaker 1: that none of what happened was his fault, that he
47:47
Speaker 1: was just fighting against a really bad, horrible memory and
47:52
Speaker 1: not what his brother actually thought of him. I mean,
47:55
Speaker 1: we saw him rip raise hands from around his neck
47:58
Speaker 1: and his bandana, which I would hope would symbolize, you know,
48:03
Speaker 1: coming to terms with his past. So yeah, I'm not
48:09
Speaker 1: sure what else I wanted to say there, Just Lena
48:13
Speaker 1: really really helped them, but it just wasn't enough, because
48:18
Speaker 1: sometimes you just can't save someone. But at least she
48:23
Speaker 1: forced Annette to help. At least Annette cared somewhere deep
48:29
Speaker 1: down enough about Shin to want to save him or
48:34
Speaker 1: at least prevent his death in the situation. But I
48:38
Speaker 1: don't know if that's that she cares or that she
48:42
Speaker 1: just feels this immense burden of guilt and she just
48:44
Speaker 1: wanted to be less and slightly like when she was like,
48:48
Speaker 1: you know, did he say anything like I don't think
48:51
Speaker 1: Shin ever thinks about a net at all. You know,
48:55
Speaker 1: that's so far in the past. I don't even know
48:58
Speaker 1: if he remembers that, you know, but it informed her
49:03
Speaker 1: entire life, which is kind of sad and kind of
49:06
Speaker 1: cool because she fucking heartless at least some aspects of
49:14
Speaker 1: her are. And for that to just not even be
49:18
Speaker 1: a part of Shin's memories, for that's part of his life,
49:21
Speaker 1: to not even haunt him, it's pretty fucking cool for
49:25
Speaker 1: the impact to just not be there for him. Yeah,
49:32
Speaker 1: So what does any of this mean? I guess is
49:35
Speaker 1: what we need to discuss, Like, where do we go
49:38
Speaker 1: from here? Is Lena going to get in trouble? Like
49:41
Speaker 1: because she fucking used the mortars without getting permission, she
49:46
Speaker 1: helped them when they weren't supposed to have back up,
49:49
Speaker 1: and she is actively fighting basically against her own country. Yeah,
49:54
Speaker 1: so what's gonna be the consequence? And also what about
49:58
Speaker 1: the remaining members of Spearhead Square un Are we going
50:01
Speaker 1: to see them again? Are they going to die? Do
50:05
Speaker 1: we get to watch that? Yay? I guess seems kind
50:09
Speaker 1: of like it sucks, but I guess that's the reality
50:13
Speaker 1: of this kind of a situation. Yay. But I guess
50:18
Speaker 1: we'll see going forward. At least I cried a little
50:21
Speaker 1: bit when I explained all of that to you, so
50:23
Speaker 1: I feel better, and I think I've decided that I'm
50:27
Speaker 1: just gonna just go straight through this and not take
50:31
Speaker 1: a break for the summer that Hikadu died, mostly because
50:35
Speaker 1: I've read a little bit further in the manga and
50:38
Speaker 1: I'm just not sure I like it. So I might
50:42
Speaker 1: really change my mind once I am watching the anime,
50:45
Speaker 1: because that's happened a couple of times, but I don't
50:48
Speaker 1: feel sold on it enough to say, like, let's do
50:51
Speaker 1: it because that'll be fun, because I don't actually know
50:53
Speaker 1: if it will be. So we're is gonna continue right
50:55
Speaker 1: on with eighty six. We only have two more episodes
50:59
Speaker 1: left in the first and then we'll just go straight
51:01
Speaker 1: into the second core, which is just so so crushingly
51:06
Speaker 1: horribly sad that I don't even know if you're ready
51:09
Speaker 1: for it. I mean, you totally are, because we've done
51:11
Speaker 1: sadder things, but it's definitely sadder than the first half
51:13
Speaker 1: in my opinion. So I'm excited about crying about it
51:18
Speaker 1: with you guys. But yeah, Spearhead is off on their own,
51:26
Speaker 1: heading towards their death. Lena is completely alone physically and
51:32
Speaker 1: in her ideals, and there's a long road ahead for
51:36
Speaker 1: any of them to be okay. So yeah, that's probably
51:42
Speaker 1: gonna be it. I hope, and I hope you have
51:45
Speaker 1: a really good whatever I really do, and yeah later weeps.