Shem-ha!
Your plans have been thwarted!
It is futile for you to resist further!
How vexing.
But, Enki...
I suppose you are right.
Then stand down!
That is why...
I must fight!
That's better.
You have always been a thorn in my side.
Disposing of you myself will be adequate consolation!
I don't have long.
You sacrificed your arm to take back your life?
Then I... will sacrifice my life to take back the future.
Farewell, Enki.
Now if I can just activate the network jammer...
I'm sorry, Finè.
What was that?
No way! Are we...
Tsubasa!
Live your life now
You can live freely
Live your life now
You can live freely
What do you choose to live for?
What do you choose to believe in?
Everyone is free to decide
We seek out that freedom,
and yet we are frozen in our lives,
unable to comprehend the status quo
We wander
Take my hand
Close and far
Hold it gently
Shining
Looking for the fragments of love
Willfully
Time passes by
I chase you
Before we regret it,
Try
let us find
Try
a better future
Live your life now
You can live freely
Does a song resound within your heart?
Our lives last as long as our hearts keep beating,
so make someone else's beat in turn
Stick to the path you have
If you can understand the cry of life,
then play a music none can equal
Live your life now
You can live freely
In the Beginning Was the Word
The moon?!
Yes.
We're detecting Gear readings from the moon's surface, most likely originating from the lunar ruins.
So the alchemists' teleportation spell brought them there? That raises several questions.
Um, if they're really up there, then the most important question...
...is how we're going to bring them back.
Well, there's air, at least.
Exceptionally pure air, in fact.
And gravity identical to Earth.
We can assume this environment is being artificially maintained.
It's not like you to be so reckless.
Maria,
what was I to do?
I don't know.
Hmm. Have courage, maybe.
Courage?
When at first you didn't take the hand she offered,
I'm sure it made her sad.
But she summoned up the courage to take yours instead.
Tachibana...
I think it's your turn to respond to her courage in kind.
You're right.
Like a coward, I pushed her hand away, and—
Ow!
My goodness, you can certainly be ridiculous sometimes.
Let's start by finding the others.
What?!
Maria, what is that light?
The Airgetlám is guiding us?
Let's go.
The return gem is far too heavily damaged.
There's no way we can use it now.
The extra load from the Gear users must have exceeded its capacity.
Or...
Who's there?
Elsa?
You're safe!
Yes, but the recoil blew out my neuron connectors, I say.
I don't think I can use the tail attachment anymore.
Yeah.
But I'm glad you're okay.
Let's find Millaarc.
Right.
An alarm?!
It's the ruins, trying to eliminate us as intruders.
We saw those things at the South Pole!
Yeah, they're definitely from prehistoric civilization.
Looks like this is as far as we can run.
Let's break through, Chris!
I vowed to protect others,
But what if the time comes that my two fists aren't enough?
I can't stop now, not even if I'm afraid
We've detected Gungnir's activation from the lunar ruins!
Ichaival's too!
As time marches on mercilessly to the future
We've also detected Kirika and Shirabe's Gears.
But they're not responding to our hails.
Everyone...
Am I really myself when I make my decisions
They're probably engaged in combat in the lunar ruins.
And what concerns me...
...is that we haven't yet detected Tsubasa or Maria, right?
Please tell me! Please tell me
But for now
Keep hailing them, and contact the world's governments for help!
Just take the first step
Let today become the spark that lights tomorow
We need a means to reach the moon as quickly as possible!
Live your life without regrets
It's a good thing we were the ones who ended up on the moon.
Your fight's far from over
The fire that's still burning in you
The special forces team wouldn't have stood a chance.
will consume your fear and fuel the possibilities of your heart
Shem-ha downloaded the blueprints for the ruins into my memory.
Believe in its light!
But she didn't tell us about the defense mechanisms!
Releasing humanity from its curse is going to be tougher than I thought.
They intend to break the curse of balal.
What would it mean for people to really understand each other?
Which of us is truly in the right here?
Chris!
That thing at the South Pole was tough enough, and now they've mass-produced them?
Can you hear this song, burning in your heart and soul
No hesitation can ever weigh down my fists
Hold on, for our joined hands hold the answer
What can we learn from the shining pulse of life?
How far will our voices ring out?
We made it through, Chris!
I dunno how, but you manage to make brute force look cool.
I tremble with ecstasy.
The roots of Yggdrasil have already spread to all the core locations of Earth.
Once the monsters fulfill their duty, there will be nothing left to stop me.
And yet somehow, you still struggle.
Are your feelings so strong as to bring about this miracle?
Yes! Because I still need to talk to Hibiki!
Nonsense.
After all, it was you who took me in.
Who was it who wanted to connect with others— to let them know how they felt?
No! That was different! This isn't what I want!
Offer me your body and soul.
My vessel, the girl who was first to be released from the curse:
I am Shem-ha,
this planet's rightful future.
Your name means the same, does it not?
Hibiki!
Something's happening with Yggdrasil!
Contact HQ!
In fact, we should return to base!
Right!
Maria, look!
Yes. It seems to be leading us here.
What do we do?
Let's accept the invitation.
We're already on the moon. If we don't take a leap of faith, we might never get away.
This strange room... It seems to be the ruins' core.
It stopped!
Maria!
Wait. That's the same man I saw in my dream.
Your dream?
What's he trying to tell us?
I've attempted to tune my language to match the patterns observed within this facility.
Can you understand me now?
Who are you?
I am an operating system based on the mind of the original Enki.
Enki? Shem-ha also mentioned that name.
This is Observation Base Marduk,
the core of the network jammer known as balal.
My echolocation is picking up two moving bodies.
I hope it's Vanessa and Elsa.
We're currently east of the Kii Peninsula, moving at thirty kilometers per hour.
Unknown message incoming.
Identifying source.
Is this... the moon?
Put it onscreen!
This is Tsubasa! Maria is with me!
You're safe!
But how are you contacting us?
We found the control room and established a communications link between HQ and the ruins,
as well as disabling the restrictions on communications and part of the defense system.
We also contacted the others,
and they are now on their way here.
Yggdrasil has activated, and we're en route to deal with it.
It's already active?
Yggdrasil...
It seems that world tree is nastier than it appears.
You can't be serious!
You're saying the reason that Shem-ha looked down on us as tools—
Indeed.
Humanity's brains were developed, in preference to their physical capabilities,
in order to enable them to function as a cluster of biological computer terminals
for the planetary terraforming device known as the Yggdrasil System.
A look back through Earth's history should make this clear.
On this planet, we created life,
promoted evolution,
and modified that life in accordance with our goals.
Humanity is just another product of that process.
But one of our own, Shem-ha, who performed biological remodeling,
revolted in pursuit of power and authority and challenged us to battle.
By transforming herself into language,
Shem-ha was able to lurk within every system, rendering her impossible to destroy.
With no other choice, we decided to seal Shem-ha and abandon the Earth.
You sealed Shem-ha...
Is that what that bracelet was for?!
No. Shem-ha now exists as fragments of data,
which remain within all of humanity's genetic information.
No way...
Then all of humanity is a cradle for Shem-ha?
No matter how many times she is defeated,
she will regenerate from whatever data fragments remain,
making her, in essence, immortal.
Thus, we created the network jammer known as balal
to separate humanity, which was united by its one language,
and thus succeeded in sealing her.
So you're saying the curse of balal...
...while being the root of all conflict, has also been protecting humanity?
Now that she's revived, Shem-ha will attempt to remove the curse of balal
and, by using humanity as biological terminals to operate Yggdrasil,
will turn the planet and all its life into monsters that she can wield as weapons.
So her goal is the destruction of the lunar ruins.
But if we can prevent that...
Well, well. Not bad, S.O.N.G.!
You've got it all figured out.
Noble Red?!
I just want to protect the places within my reach
That is all I can do
Tsubasa and Maria appear to have engaged in combat within the ruins!
It's precisely because of my weakness
That I was happy just to grasp the happiness in front of me
We're trying to find a way to get you back from the moon!
We'll get you home, so just hang in there! Survive!
But the winds of time don't just heal my wounds
If they're just starting now, how long do you think it'll take them to get here?
The world beckons me with endless possibilities and spurs me on
A week? A month?
Unlike us monsters, humans...
can't last three days without water!
As long as I have a sky to which I can scream my frustrations
You won't get me with that again! Not in a hundred thousand lifetimes!
Then I can withstand any enemy holding me down
Fine!
Now that I'm a real monster, I don't need tricks!
Even if they break my arms, I can still punch
Go hard, go hard
I don't care about losing to my foes
Maria!
As long as I don't lose to myself, my fire will burn
Open Bat!
Impossible!
And there's more than that to the Grand Guignol!
We can fight in unison, just like you!
It's time for a tag team match, right here on the moon!
It sounds like something we can't even imagine is happening up there.
Gotcha!
Simultaneous attacks...
But we can do that too!
Remember the first time we sang together!
The song that connected us!
Noble Red destroyed my pride.
But pride is something you can always get back.
It rises up from within the flames of passion!
Show me the blade you draw on the battlefield!
3
2
1
Ready?
Go!
Fly
This limitless, strong emotion
This unbreaking, strong emotion
It's never gonna lose
We've passed Omaezaki.
It's an immortal melody
We're about to reach the operation point!
Shine bright
Tsubasa, Maria, we're going to hit Yggdrasil with everything we've got.
True heart
So...
We'll come back! We promise!
Until then, keep the Earth safe!
It slipped away from my hands
But I still feel the pulse of life
The light of the chipped Moon
Has questions to all of us left behind
This is my full power, with added strength from the screw attack!
Time to spin!
Take this! My love for Vanessa and Elsa, my anger, my sorrow,
and all of my other feelings!
It'll blow you away!
Ignition
Burn bright, burn alone, there is no destiny
Fly high, breaking out of your past
Go, and spread the fire of the heart
Sing high! Let them hear! Sing loud! Let them hear!
About our love
Hold your tears in your hands
Hold all you shoulder
Open Bat!
Turn your immortal dreams into your wings
No way...
Let us fly to the morning we wished for
Sing your phoenix song
Summum Bonum Rosenkreuz
Maria! Tsubasa!
Was that incredible impact your song?
We'll catch up later.
First, I need to report in.
HQ, can you hear me?
Damage to the port side from an external attack!
We're taking on water!
Yggdrasil is everywhere!
It's not just the one in Kamakura!
Yggdrasil is all over the world!
My heart leaps with excitement!
Now, with Yggdrasil, I will remake all things.
Chris, look!
Our home...
What's going on?
It seems it's begun.
I feel you in my song
Forever
I know it's coming for me,
(The moment of the end)
even if I can't see it when I turn around
(Can't resist anymore)
I can't escape, am permitted no shred of dreams
The end is coming
Illusions fill me,
(Endless regret goes on)
lead me towards grief,
(I'm falling deep inside)
and if I reach out, I grasp the empty air,
and my screams mean nothing
Hey
If I could go back
to those halcyon days
I would not let go of your hand
My broken words fill the air,
but you are not there,
no matter how much I run and scream,
and the morrow holds only death
I wander the Earth with no answers,
but the blessing I once had,
despite the ravages of time,
breathes inside this song,
and lives on
forevermore