SUPER ROBOT WARS ALPHA 2 ZENGAR ROUTE STAGE 38 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IN TRANSIT Bright: What's going on with Fifth Luna!? Torres: They've already fired up the nuclear pulse engines! It's begun to accelerate towards the Earth! I, if this keeps up-!! Bright: If we can't stop it, we'll have to destroy it! Get every ship to hurry! Amuro: So Char's moved out to buy the asteroid drop some time...! Bright: Amuro, I'm counting on you. If we're going to destroy Fifth Luna, we have to deal with the enemy forces first! Amuro: ...I'll give it a shot. I can't let everything go his way, after all... Burning: Hurry the launch preparations! The situation is urgent!! Camille: ..... Fa: What's the matter, Camille? Camille: ...he's coming... Four: ...by coming, you don't mean...!? Camille: Lt. Quattro is drawing closer... He'll come out in this fight...! Fa: Camille...! Four: Calm down, Camille. I know about your sensitivity to Lt. Quattro. But... Camille: I know. If you lose your cool, you don't come back from battle alive, or something like that, right...!? But, whatever happens to us, we have to stop that man. He seriously wants to destroy the Earth...! Four: Camille... Heero: ..... Noin: Where are you going, Heero!? Heero: I'm going on ahead. Duo: You're not going out there alone are you!? Heero: Yeah. Zero should be able to let me reach the war zone the fastest. Quatre: That's dangerous! If you do that, the enemy will concentrate its fire on you! Heero: ...That man said Char's true motive couldn't be fathomed... And those words were the truth. Which means he's out there fighting alone. Duo: Say what!? Heero: So I'm going out to greet him...! EPISODE 38: STARDUST, ONCE AGAIN Gato: It seems there are more insects among the lions than just Cima...! Gyunei: Zechs Merquise! Why did you leak information about the Fifth Luna drop to the Federation!? Zechs: ...Sooner or later, it would be plain as day to them. Gyunei: What!? Zechs: With that the case, telling them sooner is better, so that they can reduce the damage at the drop point by at least a little. Besides which... I have no further intention of being used as a tool to further Char's desires. Gyunei: So you got cold feet, broke, and ran. But by doing so here, you've forfeited your own life! Zechs: Heh... I threw my life away long ago. Along with the name Wind. Gato: You have an admirable bearing about you... In that case, I shall honor it by slaying you as a true soldier! Zechs: (I'm more than aware of the impossibility of what I do...! How long can I really last...!?) (Wing Zero shows up) Zechs: Heero...!? Heero: Just the kind of thing you would do, Zechs. Zechs: There are things one can only see by standing in your opponent's shoes... I wanted to affirm that for myself. Heero: But, Relena doesn't wish for your death... Zechs: ..... Heero: Besides which, it's your duty to see Relena's fight with your own eyes. Zechs: Very well. I'll borrow your strength, Heero. Heero: Understood. Gato: All units, commence attack! Drive back any enemy unit that gets close to Fifth Luna! [Commence battle] [Turn 3 Player Phase] [Launch] Gato: The Alpha Numbers, hm. It's too late now, though... No one can stop Fifth Luna now. Kou: Gato!! Gato: In order to fulfill Operation Stardust... In order to eliminate all of the dead of the Federation, I have returned! Kou: I won't allow you to... You expect me to allow that!? If Fifth Luna can't be stopped, then we'll just have to destroy it ourselves! Gato: Go ahead and give it your best shot! Until I can see Operation Stardust through to the end, I will do all I can to stop you! Torres: Captain Bright! We've confirmed Fifth Luna's landing point! Bright: Where is it!? Torres: It's Rasa! Bright: Rasa...!? The Federation Headquarters!? Amuro: Bright, urge them to take immediate refuge! Zechs: There's no need for that. They've already begun evacuations. Wufei: ! That's...!? Quatre: Could you have told them...!? Noin: Zechs...! I thought so, you were... Zechs: Hurry! If we can't destroy Fifth Luna, the Earth will sustain serious damage! Bright: All units! Break through the enemy defensive lines and get to Fifth Luna! [Resume battle] [Turn 3 Enemy Phase] (Newtype flash) Amuro: ...He's coming...! (Enemy units appear) Amuro: Why would you drop something like that on the Earth!? It will render the Earth uninhabitable! It'll be nuclear winter! Char: Those who live on the Earth don't consider anyone but themselves. So, I've decided to obliterate them. Amuro: You have the temerity to think you can punish people...!? Char: I... Char Aznable call this a political purge! Amuro! Amuro: That's only your own ego talking! Char: The time when the Earth can't last any longer is approaching! You see the same thing I do in the midst of the fighting... Why can't you realize that!? Amuro: ....! Char: As long as people's souls are drawn down by gravity... as long as the Earth remains, no matter how many millennia pass, that will never change! Camille: And so you think you can alter the course of history!? Char: That's exactly it, Camille. There is meaning to people juding people, and shaping history with their own hands. Camille: It's wrong for so many people to die for such a reason!! Char: But, if things continue this way, people's hatred will consume the very Earth itself. That's why I'm cutting through to the source of the problem. Kouji: Don't feed me that crap!! I've been listening to this from the start and all you've done is give a bunch of complicated justifications!! If you're really set on destroying the Earth, we'll just smack you down!! Banjou: Right...! If you claim the right to pass judgement on humanity... It'll be our job to pass judgement on that crime! Char: ...Just as I would have it. If you all believe that, I can rest at ease. Kincaid: I've had enough of your lies! Don't think you can stop us!! Zabine: Kincaid, I will be the one to face you... Kincaid: What!? Zabine: Kukuku... I made it a promise... You're going to be my trophy! Kincaid: He pulled back!? What's he planning!? Zabine: Now, come at will... Kincaid. Kincaid: Kh-! Amuro: Wait, Kincaid! Kincaid: If I keep him pinned over there, it'll make the breakthrough easier! Take care of the other enemies! Tobia: Kincaid-san! Zabine: We'll settle this now, Kincaid! Kincaid: Zabine!! [Resume combat] [Kincaid vs Zabine] Kincaid: Now you've made it abundantly clear! Zabine, you really are no different from the Iron Mask! Zabine: All of this is for Vera-sama's sake. For someone as noble as her, I will accept any role, no matter how dirty it may be... That's my duty, and my only wish! [Kincaid vs Dorel] Kincaid: Dorel Rona! If you keep this up, you'll follow the same path that your father, the Iron Mask did! Dorel: That's...! Kincaid: Open your eyes, Dorel! The Iron Mask was a man who succumbed to his own weakness and hid his shame behind a mask! If you have an ideal to pursue, say it in your own words! Dorel: Kh...! Even still, I'm the leader of the Rona family! [If Zabine is reduced to low HP] (This is optional here - if it doesn't happen here, it will happen in the next stage) Zabine: Kincaid! You! If you weren't here! Vera-sama! If her heart wasn't attracted to by someone like you, things wouldn't have ended up this way! Kincaid: ....! Zabine: If she wasn't attracted to a commoner like you, she would have never thrown away her nobility! You... you crushed my dream... you crushed the high society!! Pay for your crimes, Kincaid! (Fight scene) Zabine: Hahaha! Hahahaha!! Farewell! Kincaid!! Vera: Kyaaaa! Kincaid!! Respond, Kincaid! I'm begging you, answer me, Kincaid!! Don't die, Kincaid!! (X-1 falls to Earth) Zabine: Ahahahaha! With Kincaid defeated, I have no more business here! Vera-sama... I will visit you soon! (X-2 leaves) [Tobia vs Karas] Karas: Kukuku... It's been a while hasn't it, Tobia-kun. Tobia: That voice... Instructor Karas!? Karas: Exactly right. It seems you've grown at a speed beyond what I could have wished for. Of course, that could also be due to all the trials you've been put through. Tobia: Why you...! I'm not your TOY! [Vera vs Dorel] Vera: You still don't understand, Dorel, what Char and the Jupiter Empire are trying to do!? Dorel: It was my father's wish to purge the overpopulated mankind! Vera: Where is there justice in destroying any single one group of people!? Dorel: That's... Vera: Open your eyes, Dorel! You're being pulled in by the ghost of the Iron Mask! [Kou vs Gato] Gato: Ensign Uraki! It's already nigh impossible to stop Fifth Luna! And yet you still continue to fight!? Kou: If we don't defeat you here, the fighting will just spread...! When we defeat you all, the fighting can stop... That's what I believe! Gato: Heh... You've grown into a man. But, I'll show you that my fighting skill cannot be surpassed! [Amuro vs Quess] Quess: If you get in the Commander's way, I won't forgive even you, Amuro! Amuro: Get out of there, Quess! I can't let Char escape here! [Camille vs Yazan] Yazan: Ha ha ha! It's great, Camille! Being able to fight with you this way! Camille: Yazan! Do you even know what's at stake in this battle!? Yazan: What about it!? The only meaning in battle for me is beating the enemy in front of me! (Fight sequence) Camille: Out of the way, Yazan! I have business with Lt. Quattro!! Yazan: Get it through your skull already! Char's about to become the worst mass murderer in all of history! Camille: Answer me please, Lt. Quattro! Is that really what you wish!? Char: That's why I'm here. Camille: Lt. Quattro! Char: Right now I'm Char Aznable. Nothing more, nothing less. Camille: That's...! Yazan: That's how it is! Come a little closer and I'll give you a first-hand glimpse of Fifth Luna's fall from the other side! Camille: Shut up, Yazan...! You...! What did you see in the Titans!? Yazan: War and people dying, of course! Camille: People ARE dead! So many people have died! You intend to continue that even now!? Yazan: That's why you joined with your buddies too! Camille: For fun...!? I'M NOT DOING THIS FOR FUN!! Yazan: ! Th, that's...!? Camille: Life is... Life is strength. Life is what sustains this world... It doesn't matter whether it's the Earth or space...! To take that... and toss it all aside for one person's own ego... That's... That's... A horrible thing to do! Lt. Quattro!! Char: ..... Yazan: I don't need your lecturing! The battlefield is the place where I feel the most alive! Camille: What's so enjoyable about fighting!? Guys like you are wastes! People that shouldn't be allowed to live!! (Zeta Gundam gets Soul) Fa: Camille... Four: Zeta and Camille are crying...!? People's wills are gathering around them...! Camille: Lt. Quattro! Whatever excuses you make, you'll never earn my forgiveness!! Char: ..... [Judau vs Char] Judau: Lt. Quattro! Is this your answer after having fought along with us!? Quattro: Judau... So you can't understand my reasoning... Judau: Of course not! If you do that, how much damage do you think the Earth will sustain!? Even Haman would never do something like that! Char: ...I'm not like Haman, I don't want to conquer the people of the Earth. I'm doing this to save the future! Judau: And I'm telling you someone who's totally fine with destroying human life is no friend of mine! From now on, you're my enemy! (Fight scene) Judau: Lt. Quattro! Even without destroying the Earth, you should be able to change the world! Char: As long as people's souls are bound by gravity, they'll keep repeating the same mistakes...! You should understand that! Judau: Then how about I show you a little thing called human potential!? Char: Hm? That light...!! Judau: Lt. Quattro! In the end, you're the same as Haman or Gremy!! You would wipe out everyone's potential just based on your own ideals!! A single person's power isn't that great! You think you can change the world that way!? (ZZ gets Soul) Judau: You're hurrying things too much! Because you want to get the quickest results, you pick the most extreme method!! In the end, that won't bring any reform to anyone, just suffering!! Char: But, that suffering is consuming the Earth! We don't have that kind of time anymore! Judau: We have time! You should know that yourself!! So in this era called the here and now, I can't let you make that mistake!! [Amuro vs Char] Amuro: Why would a man who's fought alongside us want to destroy the Earth!? Char: The only people who remain on the Earth now are those whose souls are tied down by gravity! I won't let the Earth be consumed entirely by humans' egos! Amuro: People's wisdom can surpass even that! Char: Then grant those fools your wisdom right now! Amuro: Because of what you're doing, I have to try! [Kouji vs Char] Kouji: Lt. Quattro! This is all part of some plan to defeat the aliens or the underground forces, isn't it! The Lt. Quattro I know would never pull off a mass murder! Char: ...How I envy that sincerity... Kouji: ...Lt.! If you're really serious about this, I'll defeat you! Even if it does mean I have to face you! Char: I know well enough how strong all of you are. But I have no intention of straying from the path I've chosen for myself...! [Banjou vs Char] Banjou: Lt. Quattro... I knew someday you'd leave us... Char: ..... Banjou: But, if you seriously think you can save mankind with such a lowdown method, then I misjudged you. I thought you, of all people, could come up with a better way, and start a future where people's happiness isn't ruined! Char: ...it would be nice if that were so. Unfortunately, I'm not a god. Banjou: Then I ask you this! Your words, bearing the burden of the fate of all mankind... If you're not a god, then what does that make you!? Char: ...I intend to be human as well. Banjou: Then there's no reason we shouldn't be able to stop you! Let's go, Char Aznable! [Kazuya vs Char] Kazuya: Whatever reasons you give won't justify what you're doing! Char: Kazuya Ryuuzki... I heard about your affair with the Bharmian woman. Kazuya: So what!? Char: If everyone could do as you and come to understand each other, mankind would be free from fighting. I'm driving people away from the Earth in order to accomplish that. Kazuya: That's just your own petty justification. Can you say that in front of all the people you're trying to obliterate!? [Retzel vs Char] Retzel: (Quattro Bajeena... No, Char Aznable...!) (Using this kind of method makes him... a dangerous man...!) [Tetsuya vs Char] Tetsuya: Lt. Quattro! If you're serious about this, I won't hold back! Char: I'd expect no less, Tetsuya Tsurugi. But, even you shouldn't consider me defeatable the way I am now...! Tetsuya: We've got a lot of burdens to shoulder as well. ...let's go, Red Comet! [Hyouma vs Char] Hyouma: I misjudged you, Lt. Quattro, if you've ended up as a boss villain! Char: Say what you like. Words such as those have no effect on my will. Hyouma: I don't expect to win against you with reasoning. But, Combattler V can put a stop to your ambition! Get ready, Lt. Quattro! If you face me as a villain then I won't hold back! [Zechs vs Char] Char: Zechs... I suppose you can't work beneath me after all... Zechs: I can't always move according to others' wishes. Do you intend to always look down upon people aside from yourself? Char: That's not my intent. Zechs: Char Aznable! Even though you show honesty, you still wear a mask over your heart! Char: I'm a human being. I need something to return to as well...! Zechs: So that's your fixation with Amuro Ray! But I'll take it upon myself to take you down! [Shingo vs Char] Shingo: Intellectuals always brandish their own high-minded ideals before the general public, but... Remy: I can't let a guy like you who involves so many innocent people get away with that. Char: Whether this course of action is the right one or not is something future generations can judge for themselves. Killy: Sorry, but we can't exactly hang out for that long. Shingo: So, we'll have to fight you going on our own judgement! [Heero vs Char] Char: Heero... What does Zero say about my future? Heero: There's no need for Zero to come up with an answer. You'll just get defeated. Char: ...very well. But I don't intend to let it end here! [Jeeg vs Char] Jeeg: You bastard...! What pleasure do you get from wiping out the Earth with an asteroid!? Char: It's not like it's what I want to do. I'm carrying this out for the sake of all mankind! Jeeg: Shut up! You think I'll let you touch my Mom and Mayumi down there on Earth for your own selfish reasons!? [Gai vs Char] Gai: Char Aznable! If you're an Earthling as well, why would you do such a thing to your own planet!? Char: The Earth is indeed the mother of life. But, her children are gradually shortening her lifespan... So I'm purging them! Gai: That's just your own reasoning! On the Earth, there are many people going about their lives... Nobody has the right to take that away! Char: Then go ahead and stop me by force. If you call yourself a Hero! [Sanshiro vs Char] Sanshiro: I'd heard from everybody that you were a guy who'd always considered humanity's future in an intellectual way, but... Char: ...Unfortunately, that's an illusion they clung to. Sanshiro: I know that...! But have you ever considered the feelings of all the people you've betrayed!? Char: ...Quattro Bajeena is dead. The person standing here is the commander of Neo Zeon. Sanshiro: Is that so! In that case, instead of the others, I'll defeat you myself! [Kincaid vs Char] Kincaid: I misjudged you, Lt. Quattro. So your returning to the name of Char was to do this! Char: What will you do, then? Seabook Aneaux? Kincaid: That's obvious. I can't condone the actions of a man who would willingly join hands with Crux Dou'gach! Char: I'm the one who's disappointed. I had expected you to be able to see things from an adult perspective, but... In the end, you can't seem to grasp the big picture either! Kincaid: I should be the one saying that! I'm not going to allow people to die right before my eyes! [Kou vs Char] Kou: Lt. Quattro! Pull your forces out immediately, please! If you do it now, we can still destroy Fifth Luna! Char: Ensign Uraki... I suppose you are a Federation soldier... So you can't go against your duty... Kou: ...it's not because of duty! I won't allow people's lives to be destroyed in the name of ideals! Didn't you feel the same way once when you fought alongside us!? [Tobia vs Char] Tobia: What's there to gain from doing something like this!? Is the Red Comet that the people of the colonies admired nothing more than a murderer!? Char: Boy... I can sense your good nature... Tobia: Don't patronize me! Or do you not intend to seriously face children in combat!? Char: ...then I shall give you an answer. I don't drop Fifth Luna on the Earth for the sake of the people in the colonies... I believe it has to be done for the sake of mankind's very future. Tobia: Th... that's... A man like you joining hands with the Jupiter Empire... This will just be the end of the Earth...! Char: Boy! If you can't condone my actions, try to stop me with your own power! [Kenichi vs Char] Kenichi: Lt. Quattro, please remember! You're doing the same thing now as the people we opposed! Char: They had their own reasons. But, their vessels were too small. Kenichi: So you're saying that you are that vessel...!? Char: Future generations will decide that. I'm merely doing everything I can for the sake of mankind's future! Kenichi: You think I can forgive that kind of selfish attitude!? You're our enemy now... An enemy we absolutely cannot see eye to eye with! [Ryouma vs Char] Ryouma: Think clearly, Lt. Quattro! This isn't the time for humanity to be fighting one another! Char: But, with your methods, attaining true eternal peace for mankind isn't possible. Hayato: So you think dropping an asteroid will bring peace? Benkei: Are you saying it doesn't matter how many people must be sacrificed for the sake of peace!? Char: Humanity itself is incapable of attaining truly eternal peace. You should understand that. Ryouma: Lt. Quattro...! We didn't come all this way fighting together just to reach that sort of conclusion! If you don't intend to back down, we'll have to stop you by force! [Hime vs Char] Hime: Weren't you a friend of everyone in the Alpha Numbers once!? Why would you go and turn on everybody!? Char: ...I merely walked a different path than theirs. Hime: And you chose that because you thought it was the right path!? Char: Of course. Hime: Then I won't forgive you! I can't forgive you for taking away people's lives! [Yuu vs Char] Yuu: What are you thinking!? If the Earth sustains more damage than it already has, there'll be no going back! Char: I suppose even talking to you, it would be impossible for you, the pilot of a Brain who loves organic things, to understand. Yuu: What you're doing is the same thing as the Reclaimers! Of course by your own ego, there's no problem with damaging the Earth or other people! Char: ...I do this with the future of all mankind in mind. Yuu: Again, that's your ego talking! [Burning vs Char] Burning: Too bad, Lt. Quattro. Everyone believed in you from their hearts... Char: ...Lt. Burning, right now I am not a lone pilot, but rather the commander of Neo Zeon. Burning: ...I wonder about that? Making a stand on the battlefield with a mobile suit is something you're fixated on, it looks like! Char: ..... Burning: Let's go, Red Comet! I'll return what I owe you from the One-Year War! [Char reduced to under 50000 HP] Char: Not bad, Alpha Numbers... That's what makes you suitable as my enemies. Amuro: Wait, Char! We haven't settled this yet! Char: ...Amuro, unlike you, I can't act as a pilot alone. Amuro: What'd you say!? Char: All units! Fifth Luna's release is finished! Return immediately! Amuro: Char!! (Enemy retreats) Amuro: Kh...! We couldn't stop Fifth Luna from dropping after all! Torres: Fifth Luna is descending through the atmosphere!! Bright: So it's too late to do anything...!? Gai: Captain Bright! It's still too early to give up! Hime: Yeah! We can still destroy Fifth Luna before it hits the Earth! Banjou: We have many machines that can withstand atmospheric reentry... To destroy Fifth Luna, we'll have to give it all we've got, up to the very end! Bright: Alright... All units, all ships! The Alpha Numbers will reenter orbit in pursuit of Fifth Luna! (Shaking) Irui: Ah... Ah...! Kumazo: Irui... Do you hurt somewhere!? Irui: The Earth will be... at this rate, the Earth will be...! OVA: It's okay, Irui-chan. The asteroid hasn't hit the Earth yet! Yukio: Relax! The Alpha Numbers will definitely manage something! Kenta: But, the Earth... The Earth is trembling in fear...! OVA: Kenta-kun... Mamoru: Kenta... Kenta: I know it...! The people of the Earth... or rather, not the people... the flowers and trees, the mountains and seas are crying in terror! Toppo: How would you get that, Kenta!? Kenta: I don't know... But I hear them... Lots and lots of voices... Mamoru: It'll be alright! Hasn't everyone pulled always pulled through, no matter what kind of danger they've been in !? Irui: ..... Mamoru: So let's believe in everybody! That's the least we can do, right? Akari: Okay...! Kumazo: I believe in them...! Kenta: ...I believe in everyone too...! Irui: (Zengar... Everyone... Protect the Earth...) (I believe in everyone as well...) 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