Part 171: Post-Intermission
: We're getting friendly unit readings, dead ahead. It's the advance pursuit we sent.
: All right, recover them immediately.
: Roger that.
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: I'm sorry, Miss Kihel...
: No... It's not your fault.
: Even so... What on Earth is that Turn X unit that Heero's group made contact with...?
: Lieutenant Harry, do you know anything?
: I have heard it's a mobile suit excavated from a lunar Mountain Cycle...
: ! You mean the moon has Mountain Cycles, too?
: Yes. During the Diana Counter's Operation Homecoming... Ghingnham's army was independently excavating mobile suits.
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: Lunar Mountain Cycles would have a lot more than Earth ones, right?
: Why do you say that?
: The moon back in our time had facilities likeAnaheim Electronics... It's possible that the whole place has been fossilized.
: I follow you...
: And the Moon Cradle and microwave transmitter still exist. It's entirely possible.
: (......... Then, by going to the moon, we could gain even greater power...)
: But still, man, that Turn X... It looked like a mobile suit, but there was something... not quite right, I guess.
: It looked like it was acting in a way that would let it gauge our machines' capabilities.
: Do you think it's a Newtype mobile suit?
: I don't think so, but from the recent battle data I've gotten, the Turn X... It could have a brainwave feedback system like the YF-21. I would guess that it has something similar to a Psycommu system.
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: Either way, that guy was dangerous.
: That goes double for the guy piloting it, Gym Ghingnham.
: Yeah. Something about them is weird... Even given where we are.
: You can say that again. And what's the deal with E-minor? I bet they don't mean a guitar chord.
: The man called Ghingnham claimed the Turn X, GX, and Turn-A shared some sort of connection.
: The Turn-A... You mean the White Doll?
And the GX...?
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: Kihel, anything you might know from your time spent as Lady Diana's double?
: No...
Sir Jamil...?
: Yes. He did once pilot the GX, did he not? That, and... he still seems to be hiding secrets from us.
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: ...You have a point. It seems the time has come to ask him to spill the beans.
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: And helping all of you means helping many more people...
: You look like you've been through a lot since then...
: Yes...
: But we're glad to see you looking well. It was looking pretty bad back at Fort Severn.
: ...I imposed heavily upon all of you back then.
: It's nothing to worry about. As long as you're okay, that's all that matters.
: But... I'm...
: C'mon, now, turn that frown upside-down. No acting gloomy.
: Yeah...
: No kidding.
: Hey, you guys have no room to talk...
: Are you kidding? Back in the Balmar War, all three of you guys were enemies!
: Hey, I guess we were, now that you mention it.
: By the way, Caris... Is your health going to be okay?
: Yes, thanks to medical treatment... I was able to pull through without losing my power.
: (.........)
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: Newtype power... I never see it do anything but bring misery to people.
: Even Tifa, if she didn't have that power, she might've been able to live a peaceful life...
: (.........)
: Someone said Newtypes were the next step for humanity... I don't believe that. All they've been so far is tools of warfare. If they didn't exist at all, we'd be......
: (.........)
: Ah, no, that's not it... I'm not talking about you, Caris...
: ...I understand what it is that you're saying. Maybe it's true that Newtype power only brings misery to people...
: (.........)
: But, Garrod... I learned something when I met you.
: Learned something...?
: Caris......