Pre-OP: Heavy fighting is already
going on around Messiah, which has a large shield around it. The
Eternal and AA are there, and many MS are being launched. The
Minerva is near the AA, attacking. We never see this shield put up
or what - it's like 5 mins have been dropped since the end of the
last ep.
Anyway, Athrun (non-SEED mode) is worried about the Requiem being
fired at Orb, with the backup relay stations - he says this while
dodging Rey's DRAGOONs. Kira tells Athrun (since Justice should be
able to get past the shield) and the AA to go to Requiem itself and
take it out - he'll handle the fortress (Messiah). Kira says this
while launching his DRAGOONs and roughing up Destiny a bit - Kira
is non-SEED mode too. The Eternal stays - and Lacus says that Orb
is more important than the Eternal. Mwu's Akatsuki uses the DRAGOON
shield to protect Eternal while this is going on. Yzak decides to
help protect the Eternal since it's a ZAFT ship. The 3 DOM Troopers
do another Jet Stream Attack.
As Justice and the AA leave, Rey goes after them, and Kira launches
SF's DRAGOONs on him, and Rey dodges after having a NewType
reaction (sound effect and visual effect). Shinn comes charging in
to help Rey, and Kira goes SEED mode, and fires SF's chest cannon
to neutralise Destiny's cannon. Rey tells Shinn to go after Athrun
and the AA - he'll take care of Freedom. As Kira watches Shinn
leave, he has a NT reaction (same as Rey) and dodges Rey's
DRAGOONs. As Kira continues to fight Rey, he looks rather shocked
as he has a lot of brief flashbacks about Rau - doesn't get what's
going on. (seems to me that Kira going SEED mode helps his NT
strength - notice in earlier eps he senses Mwu *only* when in SEED
mode). SF and Legend clash beam sabers and Rey says it's time to
end it all.
OP: No changes.
Phase-50 "The Final Power" begins.
Kira and Rey are having an intense DRAGOON battle, and Kira gets
one of Legend's DRAGOONs, but wonders how this can be (that he's
fighting "Rau" again).
Justice and Akatsuki are fighting together, taking out ZAFT grunts
- particularly Mwu who is now using all the DRAGOONs to attack (he
was only using 3 before regaining his memory) and comments that the
situation is difficult, but all ZAFT have are superior
numbers.
AA takes out a Nazca ship. Murrue tells the Orb ships to recover
their formation and says they're going to take out the shield on
Requiem. Meanwhile, Minerva fires a load of missiles at the AA, and
the AA retaliates. Meanwhile, Lunamaria takes out a Murasame and
some grunt, and Justice is right behind them. Lunmaria looks
nervous about facing Athrun and has a bunch of flashbacks about
Athrun. She also remembers what Meyrin said in the previous ep -
she then decides to attack a reluctant Athrun, and is angry about
what he did to Meyrin. Athrun easily takes out one of Impulse's
arms and legs and then Shinn comes in, shouting at the "traitorous"
Athrun.
Lunamaria is happy to see Shinn, who angrily attacks Athrun. They
both clash a bit and Shinn goes SEED mode. Shinn fires Destiny's
thrusters on full power and pushes Athrun down towards the Moon's
surface.
Back to Kira and Rey clashing. Kira says "who are you?" to Rey,
while having a brief flashback of fighting Rau. Rey comments "I
figured you could tell - I am Rau le Cluset" and Kira is
(unsurprisingly) shocked, but still dodges all of Rey's DRAGOON
spam. Rey is getting rather intense, and continues to press Kira,
who is still shocked. Rey says that Kira is the "wonderful" result
of people's dreams and future - which is why Kira must die, along
with "us" (Rey and Rau?), so that the world can change. Meanwhile,
on the Eternal, Lacus suddenly looks up shocked, in SEED mode (!!)
and says "Kira!".
Rey has a flashback to 2 years ago, when Gilbert says that Rau is
no longer around (ie, is dead), but says "You are also Rau" and
hands Rey that bottle of blue/white pills, and Gilbert says "That
is your destiny".
Meanwhile, Lunamaria is looking on worried as Athrun and Shinn are
having a high speed battle. Athrun (non SEED mode) breaks Destiny's
sword - and clearly has the edge against SEED mode Shinn.
Kira and Rey are briefly shown in battle and Kira is still shocked
and confused, wondering why Rau is back. There is some talk from
Gilbert and Rau (I think) about how they are cursed and the past
can't come back - it's like all this is mixed in with what Kira and
Rey are thinking. A brief cut shows Athrun handling Destiny's beam
boomerangs easily. Kira says "That's wrong!" and takes out some
more of Legend's DRAGOONs. Kira continues "Each life is
separate/individual. So, that's why you are not him!" - Kira says
this with a lot of intensity. Rey is shown looking rather shocked.
Kira goes full beam spam and heavily damages Legend, and in the
cockpit Rey takes damage.
Ad break.
Meanwhile, the Minerva has gotten behind the AA, and Murrue asks
where Athrun is - he's stuck fighting Shinn. Mwu says he'll go and
asks the remaining Murasame squad to come with him.
Meanwhile an angry Shinn fires Destiny's cannon at Justice, who
safely blocks. Athrun yells at Shinn to stop fighting while being
trapped in the past, which surprises both Shinn and Lunamaria.
Athrun continues - even if you do that, nothing will come back (and
has flashbacks of his mother and Nicole). Shinn shouts back angrily
but Lunamaria looks a bit subdued. Athrun says "Are you going to go
so far as to kill the future!?" (ie with the Destiny Plan), and
Shinn goes wide-eyed. Athrun continues "Is THAT the power you
wanted!?". Requiem (with beam shield around the cannon) is briefly
shown being aligned with another relay point.
Shinn is getting really stressed, and has brief flashbacks of
things he, Rey and Athrun said. He then charges forward very
angrily preparing to use Destiny's palm cannon. Lunamaria suddenly
puts herself in-between, telling both of them to stop fighting.
Shinn continues to attack screaming incoherantly, and looks set to
crush Impulse. Athrun then goes SEED mode.
Justice blocks the attack and Athrun screams at Shinn "You damn
fool!!". Athrun goes full melee attack on Destiny and damages it
very heavily. Destiny goes crashing down onto the Moon's surface.
Lunamaria goes down to where Shinn is, and Athrun decides to
leave.
Mwu is having trouble fighting against so many MS enemies. He yells
at them why are they fighting to protect such a thing.
Minerva damages the AA a bit and the fight between them is getting
intense. The AA does a "barrel roll" effectively (easy in space)
and uses the Valiants to strike Minerva, damaging it heavily.
Athrun turns up and uses Justice's launcher pack to take out
all/most of Minerva's engines (cool move!). The Minerva goes
crashing onto the Moon's surface.
The scene switches to Gilbert in Messiah. Station-2 (for Requiem)
is almost in position. Gilbert orders the Neo GENESIS to target the
Orb ships, and asks what's happened to Legend and Destiny. In
Legend's cockpit, Rey is shown with blood on his face and a large
hole in his helmet. Gilbert is told they've lost the signal to both
MS. Freedom is approaching Messiah. Gilbert is surprised Rey was
gotten too. In Legend's cockpit, Rey wakes up.
Gilbert comments that they really are a troublesome existance -
Lacus Clyne and Kira Yamato, but that they'll have to leave
finishing them off for later. Meanwhile, Kira takes a METEOR from
Eternal (where they'd been since undocking in the previous ep). Rey
slowly moves Legend towards Messiah.
Gilbert orders Neo GENESIS to fire at the Orb fleet, and a evacuate
order is given to the ZAFT ships... but not really in time. Yzak
tells the Eternal to get out of the way (since he still gets ZAFT
communications) - Lacus is still in SEED mode btw. The AA, Justice
and Akatsuki are okay from the blast, but some Nazca-class and
others are hit - from the Orb fleet I think. However, some proper
ZAFT ships are hit too and Talia is really shocked at this, as is
Yzak and Deaka. Rey smiles.
A countdown to Requiem firing is given. Cagalli is shown in Orb,
looking composed but tense.
The top of the Requiem cannon moves down to prepare to fire.
Justice and Akatsuki charge forwards and both MS are able to pass
through the barrier around it, with a bit of difficulty (I guess
Justice's beam shield and Akatsuki's beam reflector stuff help
neutralise Requiem's shield). Athrun uses Justice's lifter pack and
Akatsuki uses the DRAGOONs to blow up the cannon, and then they
escape from the explosion.
Meanwhile, Shinn is floating naked in space with his eyes closed.
Stellar's voice is heard, and her ghost appears (like Fllay from
SEED phase-50). Shinn says she shouldn't come to a place like this,
and Stellar says she just wanted to see Shinn for a bit - for now.
Shinn is surprised at the "for now", and Stellar says "see you
again tomorrow", and Shinn says "tomorrow?" I can't quite figure
out what Stellar says, but it's something like "I already have
today, so I'm happy, so see you again tomorrow". Stellar leaves
saying "see you tomorrow".
Impulse is shown next to Destiny on the Moon's surface as in the
distance Requiem's cannon is blown up. Gilbert is shocked at this.
The AA, Justice and Akatsuki are all okay. Lunamaria has taken
Shinn out from Legend and he's sort of lying in her lap, asleep.
Lunamaria is shocked at Requiem being blown up. Shinn wakes up
saying "Stellar...?". Shinn opens his eyes to see Lunamaria and she
hugs him happily. Shinn then notices the blown up Requiem blast.
Lunamaria says that Orb wasn't hit, and Shinn wakes up a bit more
at this.
Meanwhile, Kira uses METEOR's super beam saber to cut into Messiah
a bit (how did he get past the shield?). SF and Eternal both start
pounding on Messiah big time, now that the shield is gone. SF goes
inside and goes full beam spam (with METEOR) from in there. The
room in which Gilbert is in it hit. Shinn sees this and starts
crying and hugs Lunamaria. He cries heavily and Lunamaria hugs
him.
On the Minerva, Talia looks on. Talia orders the ship to be
abandoned. On the AA, Murrue salutes the Minerva/Talia. Talia
orders Athur to take care of everyone else - she has to go
somewhere.
In Messiah, Kira walks into the room where Gilbert was. It's
heavily damaged. As Kira walks towards the center, Gilbert swings
he chair around and stands up. He says he never expected Kira to
come here / to come this far. Kira points a gun at Gilbert, who
says "I see, but are you sure about that?" and points a gun at
Kira. Rey is running through Messiah. A shuttle carrying Talia
heads into Messiah.
Gilbert tells Kira not to try, since the world will simply go to
what it was like before (ie full of wars). Kira says "That may be
so, but people can choose a different path". Gilbert says that
won't happen, since people forget the mistakes of the past and
repeat them. Gilbert says how could Kira possibly believe such a
thing would actually happen - and says he (Kira) and Lacus couldn't
say such a thing WILL happen, because they don't understand
anything.
Rey appears behind a wall, behind Kira and Gilbert notices. Kira
says he knows that too, but that's why they want a tomorrow - that
a world without change would be horrible. This seems to affect Rey.
Gilbert says Kira sure is concieted - just what he'd expect from
the Ultimate Coordinator. Kira says that it's Gilbert who is
concieted - he (Kira) is simply a single human, and everyone is the
same, but that is why he (Kira) has to shoot Gilbert. As he's
saying this, Talia walks into the room, carrying a gun, and notices
Kira pointing a gun at Gilbert.
Gilbert then asks Kira which would people prefer - the world
Gilbert wants or the current world. Kira says "I am prepared for
that" and is about to shoot and Rey looks set to shoot too. Kira
says "I will fight!" and a shot is heard.
Kira is shown looking shocked and surprised, as is Talia. Gilbert
falls over with a large wound in his chest. It was Rey who shot
Gilbert! He looks rather stressed and shocked that he did it. Rey
starts crying. Talia walks over to where Gilbert is... while
Messiah continues to fall apart.
In her lap, Gilbert looks up and says "Hi... Talia - were you the
one who shot?" Talia says no - it was Rey. Rey is still crying and
says "Sorry, but tomorrow is..." Kira seems uncertain about what to
do and Talia points a gun at him and tells him to go - she'll take
care of Gilbert's soul. Talia tells Kira to tell Murrue that - and
that she has a child, a boy, and she hopes they meet someday. Kira
says he understands and leaves. Gilbert looks up at Talia and
apologies, but says that he's happy. Talia calls him hopeless (in a
fond way), and says it couldn't be helped - since it's their
destiny. Gilbert says to stop that (^-^).
Talia then calls Rey over. Meanwhile, Kira runs back and gets into
SF. As everyone else (outside Messiah) looks on at the fortress
falling apart, Talia hugs Rey and says "You did well... so it's
okay." and Rey says "mother...".
Messiah starts collapsing in a major way and falls onto the moon's
surface. Kira looks on from SF. Lunamaria and Shinn look on from
near their MS. The end-song starts playing. Various scenes of
beaten up MS and ship are shown. As the ED plays various clips from
the series are shown in B&W. At the end, SF is seen launching
and posing, and that's it.
The last frame shown is Impulse and Destiny beaten up with the text
"Thank you".
So... instead of a "kill 'em all" ending, only Gilbert, Talia and
Rey die. Everyone else (including the DOM pilots) are okay. The MS
vs MS battles were nice and intense. Not quite sure what the title
of this ep is refering to - maybe hope about tomorrow?