Part 101: Mission 55 - The Promised Land - Part 2
AI1 (Elde Mitte)
Pilot Skills:
- Double Movement
- Prevail L7
- Counter L7
- Support Attack L2
- TE Sphere
- Debuff Immunity
- 10% HP Regen
Now those are some proper Final Boss stats. AI1 is bulky as hell sporting 400k HP, that barrier, the most armor of any boss in the game and an LL size that we can’t bypass since the game hasn’t that skill. She’ll even dodge well once Prevail gets going.
On the offensive side of things, we’re staring down at S ranks EVERYWHERE (terrain and weapons) for even bigger firepower than the Gulfer Emperor, a crapton of range and, of course, absurd accuracy. Confuse is pretty much a must here because your Reals 100% need to dodge or they’ll be oneshotted.
Taking Elde out in one round on a fresh game can be difficult with how hardy AI1 is but since her regen is only 10%, that’s not too bad. Get her down to about 30-40% and then finish her off. To be extra safe, have your Reals hug Light and/or be covered by bulky support defenses.
I seriously hope you have a healthy stock of SP left or you might find yourself in deep trouble – trying to grind AI1 down without tons of Valor and Souls will be very difficult.
While waiting a turn for everyone to get back, Elde decides to gun straight for Bright.
Figuring it wouldn’t be too bad, I took off Ruri’s support defense.
: If we don’t stop AI1 right now, that’ll be the end of our world! I expect nothing but your best, ladies and gentlemen!
: AHAHAHAHA! You’re a funny one! Whether you stand hopeful or despairing, it makes absolutely no difference before my AI1!: No one here is intimidated by your hot air! Ready all guns! FIRE!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWowTx6Wlo
OW and the Argama is well upgraded!
And before we start, here’s AI1’s second strongest attack – I didn’t have anyone far enough away to get her to use the weakest one:
: Ohoho, the electronic fairy! AI1’s telling me that he wants you!
: C-Captain…!
: …: Come on, now, and join with us! I’m sure you’ll find AI1’s interior to be quite nice!: On the contrary, I’m quite sure I’d hate to be inside such a nasty thing.
: Y-You brat!!
: Ya gotta learn to back off nice and easy after getting shot down, mama bear.
: Yeah! Saburouta and I will keep both Earth and the Captain safe!: Attaboy, Harry! Now that was slick!: Thank you, Harry. Now please open fire.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3GOmkN5MQs
And now we can go!
: What point is there to what you’re trying to do, Elde Mitte?! Answer me!: “Point”?! That’s whatever AI1 decides – what he alone decides!
: Hold up, there! Are you seriously just gonna be a pawn to a piece of machine!?
: Don’t you think there’s something really wrong with taking orders from something you built?!: My happiness is AI1’s happiness! His wishes are my wishes! We are now one and the same!
: Hrm… this is useless…! It’s looking like her mind has already been fully merged with AI1!
: Or maybe the thing messed with her head when it revived her!
: But none of that matters anymore!
: Indeed! We have but a single task to do!
: Domon!
: I know! This hand of mine is burning red! Its loud roar tells me to defeat evil!: Come, AI1! I won’t allow humanity’s beloved planet to be devoured by some machine and its insane servant!
: Dorchenov was crazy as hell but you’ve really one-upped him there!: Your words mean nothing to me! All I care is witnessing what world my AI1’ll create!!
: See, that’s the kind of thing you should keep in your dreams.
: Seriously. Trying to drag everyone else into that bunk is going waaaaay too far.: I see that you just cannot grasp the majesty of AI1!: In that case, you’ve got a bunch of stuff you don’t get either.: Yup. Like why we didn’t leave the Dragonars way back when.: And what does that matter?!
: D’ya got any idea what the point of the Dragonars is?: “Point”?!
: Yeah – we’re a cavalry! The cavalry that defends the castle called Earth!!
: AHAHAHAHA! The dregs of the Giganos dare challenge AI1?! What a joke!
: Though the Giganos lies in ruins, its spirit is always with me!
: And with me, Captain!
: And me!
: And we’re all walking, together, towards a brighter future for the Giganos!: You people ramble about belief, spirit and heart so much! It’s because they are controlled by vile emotions that humans can’t aspire for more!!: It is you who is vile, Elde Mitte! Your self-serving desires have pushed AI1 to this rampage!: The blade I bear in my hand, I wield in Earth’s stead! Begone from this world, AI1!!
: You fiend…! It is far too dangerous to leave such power with someone who cannot comprehend the human heart!: “Heart”?! My AI1 was able to evolve to this point precisely because it lacks such a thing!!
: Quiet! Can’t you see that that’s the reason why it’s now gone berserk?!: Berserk?! Oh, but that’s there you’re wrong! AI1 is perfect! It’s got no errors, or bugs, or flaws or deficiencies anywhere!!
: This ain’t working! She’s not even listening right!
: Hmph… Then there is only one thing to do at this point!
: Indeed! And I also stand ready!: AI1 and Elde Mitte! This world has no place for the likes of you! : Whatever do you mean? What goes in this world is what AI1 decides!!
: Then, come! By the name of what is righteous and true, and so the light of hope can once again shine upon that blue planet…!: My Tenkuu Chuushin Ken will rend your darkness asunder!!
: Torres, report!
: The target’s self-regeneration is huge! It’s gonna take a good while to bring it down!
: This isn’t good…! If we take too long, this dimensional fault will collapse.
: But there’s absolutely nothing we can do to stabilize this place…!: You should just accept your fate! There’s only one way this is ending!
: ?!
: I-I hear…!
: What is it, Akira?!: I’m hearing a song…!
: I-It’s…!
: Ayato…?!
: The RahXephon?!
: …
: Ayato…!
: (Haruka…): !!
: (Haruka… everyone…): (I’m harmonizing the sound reverberating through this space… So go and destroy what’s muddying your own tunes…): (Let the world you’ll live in resound with your music…)
: I-I heard that too…
: Yeah. It was definitely Ayato’s voice…
: So he’s…!: Stabilizing this space…?: This can’t be…! That thing was supposed to have disappeared!!
: Your songs will not reach them.: !!: It is impossible for you to disrupt their music.: Die! Disappear! Mine and AI1’s world has no need for mechanical gods!: Yes – it has no need for gods or Man! Only AI1!: …
: Ayato… you’re going to help us…?!
: (I am, Puru.): (But, my friends, you must hurry… so that you can go on living as yourselves…): Alright, Ayato… We’ve heard you loud and clear…!And we now get a legit god as a controllable reinforcement!
Losing Ayato’s a game over but that’s all but impossible since he STILL has 100k HP.
: Come here, why don’t you? Your Dimensional Coupling System will be a perfect fit for AI1!
: Wrong…! There’s only one thing I’ll be using the Zeorymer’s power for: to end yours and AI1’s rampage!: This isn’t a rampage – it’s evolution, one you’ll help fuel! I’ll be adding the Dimensional Coupling System as another part of AI1!: Miku’s no “part”… she’s my anchor and a woman I couldn’t live without!
: Oh, Masato…!: “Woman”?! You say she’s a person?! She’s just a puppet! AHAHAHAHA!!: So am I… I’m another puppet created because of the Zeorymer! But we’ll still go on living as people of this world, together with all our friends…!: That’s why I’ll use the Zeorymer’s power: to send you straight to the Underworld and make that a reality!!
: To me, Data Weapons! AI1 is the only one suited to be your owner!
: The hell are you up to?!: I’m sure a new power’ll be created if AI1 and the sacred electronic beasts are united! And, with it, his evolution will carry on to greater heights!
: How can you still care so much for that that machine?! It might destroy all life!: “Machine”? “Life”?! Those classifications are meaningless to my AI1! He is the one and only all-encompassing being in the universe!!
: Baah, I don’t understand anything she’s saying!
: But there’s one thing that’s perfectly clear, right, Ginga?: Yeah! That things’ll be real bad if we don’t pull the plug on this gumball right now!: You ready, then?!: Yup! : Then come on, AI1! We will take you down for Earth and everyone we love!!
: I owe you my most sincere thanks! It was only with the Star of La Mu that AI1 could carry out its ultimate evolution!
: Get real! The Star of La Mu isn’t meant to be used for stuff like that! : The Mu and my mom entrusted their wishes to the Raideen and it’s that what’ll destroy you!!
: Urk…! This thing’s as tough as advertised!
: The Lasmunanium’s self-regeneration is showing no signs of lessening…!
: Unless we can destroy it completely, AI1 will never stop reviving!
: Aye, aye! Then we have to set our sights on the thing’s core! Make sure everything’s running in the blue, alright?: Roger that!: (…Hugo…)
: ?!: What is it, Hugo?!: …: (…Hugo…)
: Captain?! Is that you?!: If you’re alive, then talk to us! We’ll save you!!: (… Defeat it… so that you can all survive…): (…Don’t hesitate… Defeat your…enemy… Destroy AI1…): Captain, wait! Captain!!
: What’s going on with you, Hugo?!: I… I heard the Captain’s voice…! : Huh?!
: (Captain, I… I understand…!): Hugo…?: (That was… your last command to me, wasn’t it…?): Evangelion! Your soul’ll know eternal tranquility once it’s united with AI1!: Wh-What are you…?!: You, too, boy! You’ll finally be able to rest after you, the EVA and AI1 are merged together! : No… I… I…!
: Wake up, Shinji! Don’t let her crap get to you!!: Ohohoho! What a sad little girl you are! Just give me a second to break that tough crust around you and then we’ll all be together – united!: Geh zur Hölle! Why should I have to put up with being united with you and Shinji?!: I… I’m going go on living as myself…! And I know it’ll be difficult, and sometimes painful… but I won’t run from it! I learned that through all these battles!
: So I don’t want or need anything like Instrumentality!!
: That’s enough of your idiocy! Turn AI1 off and put Earth back the way it was!: “Idiocy”?! AHAHAHAHA! I can see that AI1’s greatness really is beyond philistines like you!
: I fail to see greatness anywhere on a piece of tech that’s so far gone it’s trying to destroy the world!
: Yep! And no machine’s going to destroy the world and the people we fought so hard to keep safe!: The “love” and “wish to protect” spiel you people go on and on about are nothing more than delusions! But my AI1 will bring absolute TRUTH to this world! Emotions are samples to him, pure and simple!!: Shut your mouth! It’s your fault that AI evolved to become so twisted!: And if you can’t comprehend the human heart – or what it means to love – then you’ll find my fists ready to break you both, Elde Mitte and AI1!
: You really built AI1 as something to surpass humans?: I did! And my sweet baby grew stronger and more beautiful than my wildest dreams!: Then it falls on me to show that your research was wrong from the get-go! By tearing through this overgrown pumpkin with my very human hands!!
: AHAHAHA! Give it up already! AI1 rules this world – the odds of your victory are nonexistent! This is why I say humans are fools!
: Quiet, you! What kind of man would I be if I got beaten by some big, evil dumpling?! : You’re gonna learn just how strong these humans you rail at actually are!
: How can you do something like this?! Do you not care if Earth is destroyed?!: AHAHAHAHA! That hunk of stone is worthless face my AI1!: He’ll continue to evolve endlessly and as he inches closer and closer to infinity, the universe itself’ll be assimilated!!
: Oh, no, it won’t! You might be fine with that but we are absolutely not!: AI1! It’s impossible for something that can only sate his greed at the expense of others’ happiness to be called a higher being! : You are a monster and now I’ll end you! I do this to protect that beautiful planet and all its kind peoples!
: I’ll be taking your Getter Rays into AI1 as well!
: Shut up! Science is supposed to be for the betterment of mankind, you know!
: And you’re doing the exact opposite by trying to absorb everything into the machine you built!: Aw, I suppose you just can’t understand the joy I’m feeling right now! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
: Damn right, we can’t! How could we wrap our heads around someone try to feed Earth to her pet machine?!
: Get over here, AI1! If it was science that gave birth to you, then our Getter Robo – the embodiment of it – will bring you down! We’re not leaving a single shred of your evil hanging around!!
And before we end things off, here are the other convos we couldn’t get:
: Come to me, Newtype! You’ll soon learn that my AI1 is the only being that’s superior to man! 
: Shut up! Newtypes aren’t superior beings at all – we’re all still men and women!: And, on that subject, someone who’s drowning in their greed like you isn’t one either! You are a broken, crazed-out piece of machinery and the scrap-heap is where we’re taking you!--
: You waste your time, Red Comet! AI1’s got data on you going back all the way to the One Year War! You’re not winning this!
: I’ve faith in the power of people, not data; the human potential that I believed in to the point of burning bridges...
: And I am not willing to let an out-of-control machine and its terminal deny that potential!--
: Why the hell are you trying to pull something like this?! You really want the world to end?!: I already told you: what I want is for AI1 to reach perfection! Whatever happens to the world is not my problem!
: Wh-What kind of reasoning is that…! This goes way past being just selfish and straight into egomania territory!
: I-I’m not having it…! The world can’t be destroyed for something so crazy!: If that’s your whole point, then, yeah, we really can’t let your toy hang around!
: Let’s do this! This world’s jampacked with the hopes and dreams of so many people and we’re making sure it stays in one piece!!--
: Give it up, Amuro Ray! A mere man – even a mighty soldier like you – can’t stop my AI1!
: Underestimate the potential of humans at your peril…! And if you’re set on uprooting the future of all of humanity just to get what you want…
: Then I, as just another human, will fight to shut down your plans!--
: You were born on Earth, so how can you not see the beauty of that planet?!: Beauty?! I can find plenty more of that across the entire universe!!: You’re no different from the Gulfer… A machine that’s lost sight of its purpose and went berserk…!: “No different”?! Spare me your nonsense! AI1 is a one-of-a-kind, everlasting being! : There’s nothing like him throughout this entire universe – a crown jewel in a galactic scale and my own creation!
: That hideous mass of concentrated greed is no jewel at all!
: She’s right! The real jewels of this universe are the love, courage and hope that humans have!
: And you and AI1 would try to despoil those… So now I strike you down!--
: And here’s the black-clad prince! You, too, will kneel before AI1!
: No… I am here for only one thing: to destroy you…!
: She lives in this world… and I won’t let anyone have their way with it…!--
: AHAHAHAHA! I guess you still don’t understand that it’s useless to try and challenge AI1!
: Bite me! No one here’s enough of a wimp to give up just ‘cause you say so!
: Yup, yup! I’d never make it as a manga artist if I called it quits every time a deadline rolled over!: This is serious, dumbass, so you better get serious back!!: Then it falls on me to educate you on how your precious “human will” holds as much weight as a piece of paper before AI1!
: Enough…! It’s that piece of paper that’s going to run you into the ground…!
No puns!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kSb2OJDyR0
Captions are available.
: Ahahaha! Oh, but this is hardly over yet!!: We still have the Lasmunanium and, with it, AI1 and I can regenerate as many times as needed! Again and again! Forever!!: Go on, AI1! Revive and then unify everything into you!!*Beeeeep.*
: A-A negative response?! Why?! Why are you rejecting my instructions, AI1?!
: …He’s learned…: A-Albero! How are you here?!: AI1’s ended up learning something from all this… : Wh-What was it?!: …The strength of humans… and the fate of the defeated.: That’s… absurd! AI1 – my child – would never!!: This cannot be happening! It’s inconceivable! IMPOSSIBLE!!: Elde…!: C-Captain…!: I’ve no regrets, Hugo…: …!: My past… my responsibility over killing Foglia and my men…: I will now pay the price for it all… and be at peace…: Captain!!: Survive, Hugo…: !!: And come back alive above all else… That’s… the one ironclad rule of the Cry Wolves…
: …!! Captain…!: CAPTAAAAAAIN!!
: … : Elde… you…
: (Aqua…): …Harry?
: Y-Yes… I’ve confirmation that the target’s completely gone. There’s nothing left…: Then…: It’s over…?: Hm…: But what about this world around us… what’s going to happen to it?
: …Haruka…
: Ayato… What… What will you do now? Where will you go?: I’ll be staying right here… And I’ll exist everywhere, past, present and future…: I’ll live in between time and become its new Observer…: !: And… what’ll happen then…?: Once I’m watching over time… the discordant melodies ringing throughout the world will stop… So your world will be fine.: You… you won’t be coming back, will you…?: I can’t… If I leave here, all worlds will be flooded with noise…
: Th-Then, I… I’ll stay with you…!: I’m sorry… but I want you to go on living… That’s why I made the choices I did…: A-Ayato…!!: Goodbye, Haruka… and my friends…: Goodbye… our chosen Promised Land… : And goodbye, humanity. My… our worthy successors…
I can’t find the name of the BGM that plays here, so have this instead.
: H-Hey, Light.
: Wh-What?: Take a look down there… That’s Earth, right?: Y-Yeah… that sure looks like Earth.
: We… we’re back?
: I don’t know… Would our Earth be alright after all that happened…?: Do you think… Ayato helped with that…?: …
: We’re really back home…?
: Linda, confirm our location.
: Y-Yes, sir… Currently in geosynchronous orbit, point M0605.: Can we establish communications with anyone, Harry?: Sorry… that shockwave just now disabled many of our systems. I’ll take a while to—*Beep!*
: Captain, there’s something headed this way!
: Can we ID it?: Hold on… I-It’s!!
: The Nadesico B?!
: Wh-What’s it doing here...?!
: Heeeey, everyone! You guys alright?
: !
: Yu-Yurika! That really you?!
: I am! Yurika Misumaru, newly assigned captain of the Nadesico B!
: Cpt. Misumaru…!: It’s been a very long time, Cpt. Bright. I’ve come here to escort everyone.
: Escort…?: Yep!
: Yurika…: Ruri… everyone… thank you so much for all you did. Everything’s alright now.
: Which means…!
: We’re really…!
: Back home…!