Part 96: Mission 54 - Beyond a Distant Eternity - Part 1
: The Devil Gundam’s gone… now all that remains is getting the Star of La Mu…: Hmhmhm… My sweet AI1… Soon, there won’t be anything capable of stopping you.
: …: Not even the mechanical gods will be capable of opposing you… Both Instrumentality and Tuning are needless. To you, those gods are nothing more than the ultimate study cases.: Now is the time where you’ll unleash the power representative of your name.: …: You are not just an artificial intelligence anymore… You are no part for the Tsentr Project’s Model X, or a process in SEELE’s Pluridimensional Instrumentality Project. : You are the true Model X, the beginning and end of everything… as well as my beautiful child.: …: I want you to show me what you’ll become… what being you’ll grow into. And, for that, I’ll free you from your shackles… Albero Est.: …!
: A negative response…? What’s wrong, AI1…?: …: Albero…? But why—*Door opens!*
: …: Albero…: Seems the show’s starting out there. Let’s get going, Elde.: Go where?: We still have one last thing to do, of course.: One last—? Didn’t your revenge come to an end with the Devil Gundam’s destruction?: Yes… My revenge did.: Then why ask this so close to the end? I always thought you didn’t like working with the child.: I don’t. But, on the flip side, I also think that it’s essential to reaching my goal.
: Your… goal?: …: You know… I should have done this the moment you started talking about helping Hugo Medio in order to defeat the Devil Gundam.*
*: Oh… and what are you going to do with that? Get rid of me, like you did with Zapato?: You were always meant as no more than the Medius’ biological control module. But now that AI1’s on the verge of his final Incrementum, unreliable organic parts are obsolete.: …: But I have one last thing to ask you about… what did you do to my child?
: Heh…hahahahah…: What are you laughing about…?!: You created that thing and you can’t wrap your head around something so simple?
: …Answer my question. What did you do to AI1?: Absolutely nothing.: …!: I’m just a regular pilot. You really think a guy like me could change an AI’s programming?: I do not, which is why I asked.: Well, I didn’t tinker with your AI1… I wouldn’t even know where to start.: Then why did AI1 respond negatively to my words?: Because as we fought Hugo and Aqua, it learned something: how a mobile weapon is.: “How a mobile weapon is…?” What’s that supposed to mean?
: That it’s a person – the pilot – who brings out the full power of a mobile weapon; that a pilot’s skill, strength and emotions are necessary in order to push a weapon beyond the limits of its specs.: That’s what it learned from our battles against the Magnate Ten… and from me.: Rubbish. What brings out a weapon’s full capacity is an unswerving, perfect control system.: Then why did Zapato install the DFC System in Hugo’s unit? Why was Aqua Centrum chosen as its operator?: …: Zapato also understood what I’m talking about. That’s why he rebuilt Hugo’s body and made him into the Garmraid’s pilot and why he gave Aqua the job of managing the unit and the DFC.: Prof. Zapato… also thought that human will and strength would improve a machine’s performance…?: Which is why he rejected putting AI1 in the Model X, instead wanting to build it around the strong points of both the Medius and the Garmraid, see?: (My AI1… is inferior to Aqua Centrum…? He’s inferior to such a woman…?!): …: I… refuse to accept that – not Aqua, not my AI1 being rejected for the Model X!*Bang!*
: Pfeh, where are you aiming at?: !: Just as I couldn’t change AI1’s programming…
: You also cannot kill me!*Punch!*
: Urgh…!!: Zapato aside, you didn’t actually expect to take out someone with military training, right?: Hrm…: But all three of us – you, me, AI1 – are essential parts of the Medius… so I won’t kill you. But you will do as I say.: And… and what exactly are you planning to do?: To carry out my last duty… and leave this bloodstained past of mine behind.: …: Elde Mitte… I need your skills one more time.MX Version:
: …Fine.MXP Version:
: Is that an order?: It is… And how about you start by detailing the synthesizing process of Hugo’s medicine and where its ingredients are stored?: How should I know—: Don’t try to play me. I’m sure you would’ve taken that intel when you killed Zapato – just as a small card to play if need be.: …
Location: Near Earth
*Alarm!*
: Outer-space cruise booster, detached! We are ready for atmospheric reentry!
: Confirm our entry course one more time. We’ll be descending straight into Japan!
: Roger!
: Captain, it’s looking like the Nadesico C’s successfully Boson Jumped to the airspace above NERV HQ!
: Good… and what’s the status with Mutropolis and the Lydia Litvyak?: Currently engaging D1s! And it appears the RahXephon and Vermilion are still hanging in there!
: Are we really gonna make it in time…?
: We will – that’s why we used the booster to get as close as this.: But, regardless, we must hurry! Take us into the atmosphere immediately!
: Urrk…!
: We’re surrounded…!
: A-Ayato… Elvy…!
: Time for you to meet your destiny, Ayato!!: Mamoru…!
: That’s right, Ollin… Embrace your destiny, attain Yolteotl… become “Ixtli In Yolotl”. If you do, the Xephon will receive the title of Rah… and awaken as the true RahXephon.
: I’ll decide what happens with my life... not because it’s “my destiny” or because you tell me to! I do this because I’ve someone I want to protect, even if it means giving up my humanity…! : It’s because I want to protect her… and that is how I’ll remain me…!
: And he will remain himself... for that reason… 
: …!: I’m going…!
: A-Ayato?!
: Ayato…? That’s Ayato…?!
: …!!: None can stop him now… not even himself.
: …: Let’s go. Our business here is done. The old man needs to be shown the end, too.: …
: Th-These energy readings… the Star of La Mu?!
: No, it’s not! This is…!
: Hahahahaha! You’ve finally thrown away the human form, Ayato! And, with it, my mission to monitor you is done!: And now…! Now I can—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQsnZ1hWdv0
You oughta watch this. FYI: “Ixtli In Yolotl” means “Face and Heart” in nahuatl.
: The time is now… melody will overflow and resound throughout the world.: The true song awakens… It is thine own timber and, thus, cannot be replicated…: Here and now, the doorway to the Tuning opens!: Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
: Hrk?! Aaargh!
: What’s wrong, Akira?!
: Wh-What’s this I’m feeling…?!
: I… I hear… a song?
: H-Hey, what’s up with you guys?!: I-It’s… Ayato…!
: “Ayato”?! What’d you mean?!: The RahXephon’s awakening… it’s begun!: Awakening?!
: The hell’s going on, Akira?!: H-He… they are coming…!
*Alarm!*
: Captain! There’s an incredibly powerful energy eruption by Mutropolis! 
: !
: I-Incredibly powerful…?!
: Mutron Energy, the Dendoh’s Infinite Layer, the Zeorymer’s infinite energy, S² Engines, the Meteor Cube… and even the Terminus Energy! This reading is similar to all of them!
: Wh-What?!: How…?! They might share a few similarities but they’re supposed to be different energies at a fundamental level…
: You mean all those energies are being combined?!
: Or a wholly different energy is being created from them…!
: …It’s Ayato.: Lt. Amuro?!: I believe Ayato’s doing that... that’s what I’m feeling…!: Is he trying to affect this whole world…?!
: Harry, what’s happening in Mutropolis?: They’re not answering our transmissions but it is still there!: And the Nahel Argama?: They’ve already finished their descent into Japan’s airspace!: Then contact Cpt. Bright and ask him to rendezvous with us.: Y-Yes, ma’am!: All hands, red alert. We’ll be departing as soon as the survivors from NERV HQ are aboard the ship.
: Ruriruri…!: I’ve no idea what’s going to happen now. But there’s one thing we still must do…: Put a stop to this mess, right?: Yes.
: Our wishes are finally becoming reality…
: The Ollin has fused with Ixtli and attained Yolteotl, at long last.
: Now that the #01’s fallen squarely into their control, we’ve no choice but to use the two Ixtli In Yolotl as the vessels.: And before Ikari unites Adam and Lilith...: ...Instrumentality will be brought upon all worlds by our hands.: Evangelize mankind and restore us to our true form…: Through indiscriminate death and prayer, humanity shall return to its proper state…: And all our souls will be at peace. Let the ceremony begin.: The two RahXephons are mechanical gods made real by time, drifters of myriad worlds… Turners that stabilize and harmonize the worlds… and our songs will unite those worlds as one…: Do not be afraid, my other half…! All that I am is with thee, and all of thee is with me…! Live well, Ollin…!!
*Alarm!*
: What is it?!
: Th-The EVA Series are reactivating!
: Damn it, they really did revive again?!
: The Nadesico’s moving to engage them!: Wait, stop their attack! Tell them to deploy their Distortion Field at full power!: Huh?!: The EVA Series are unleashing their S² Engines!: Dimensional values are inverting! They’re going into the negatives! Impossible to measure or quantify!: It’s an Anti-A.T. Field…!: Everything’s similar to what happened fifteen years ago…! Then… is this the start of the Third Impact…?!: The EVA Series S² Engines have gone critical! 
: Aaaaaah!!: D-Direct hit! The surface layer’s melting!!: The second wave is digging out the perimeter of the HQ! The outer hull is exposed!: These are still physical shockwaves! Set the absorbers to maximum and they'll hold!: Incoming transmission from the Nadesico! They’re telling us evac into the ship!: We can do nothing but observe what’ll happen now…: But what about Maj. Katsuragi and Cmdr. Ikari?!*Door opens!*
: Fear not. She is already aboard the Nadesico.
: Y-You’re…?!: Time is of the essence. You must all head to the Nadesico at once.: But where are the commander and the professor…?!: …
: …It appears it’s begun. Now, Rei… take me to Yui.
: I am not your doll.: ?! Why?!: I am not you.: Rei…! Please, wait…!: No. Ikari is calling me.
: …I’m home.: “Welcome home.”*Heartbeat.*
*Alarm!*
: Unknown high energy signal from Terminal Dogma! It’s headed towards us – fast!: Directly below us?!: A.T. Field detected! Pattern blue!: An Angel?!: No, it’s not! It’s a human!: “Human”?! But that can’t…!: We need to leave here now! Everyone aboard the Nadesico!: Y-Yes, sir!*Ruuumble!*
: ?! L-Look!!: Aah?! N-No! NOOOOOOOO!!
Mission 54 – Beyond a Distant Eternity
Another pun title: 遥か is Haruka, 久遠 is Kuon/Quon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in7_YmogJ44
Watch this too. 
: Ayanami…?! Rei…!
: …
: UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
: Th-That’s the First…?!: …Lilith’s egg – the Black Moon… source of all human life…: A homecoming at so late a juncture wouldn’t be desirable. Still, now that this has come to pass, the return to the Tree of Life – life’s bulbil – is already…: The #00’s pilot… Lilith’s Anti-A.T. Field is expanding further!: It’ll fully materialize if this keeps going!: The #01’s pilot’s metal graph is going down!: Destrudo is taking metaphysical form!: Any more and the pilot’s psyche will fall apart…!: UWAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Shinji! You gotta pull yourself together!: …Shinji…: !!?
: Shinji… (from Lilith): Ka-Kaworu?!: There’s nothing to be afraid of…
: Kaworu… you were in there…?!: You’ve all been chosen… shut the doors of the Chamber of Guf… the doors of the world’s beginning and end…: Before the entire world becomes filled with sadness… before loneliness buries the hearts of man… before emptiness engulfs humanity…
: What the… What the hell is that?!
: It’s a being that’ll bring about the end and beginning of the world… a mere shadow of that which man once salvaged.
: It’s an Angel, then…?!: No… that’s a human. It’s another possible form for humanity… and its origin.: Hm. Properly speaking, it is the source of all life ever promised an existence on Earth.
: What do you mean…?!: The objects that’d become the origin of both us and them – the Angels – came here from a different world… And those two seeds, as told by the Dead Sea Scrolls, sprung forth from the White Moon and the Black Moon.
: Then… you’re the same as us…?!: Yes… we are not, originally, native of Earth either. It’s even possible that you and your peers were also given life by the peoples of those two moons.
: Then who would those people be…?!: Are they the ones who built the Martian ruins?: Considering the Boson Jump technology, it could be. There’s a significant possibility that said technology was used, in ancient times, as a way to link one star system to another.: That said, we’ve no way of knowing the truth now. One thing is certain, however… this world will, soon, meet its end and rebirth.
: H-How do you figure that…?!: From the time of this world’s genesis, and all the possibilities that lay within, there have been countless points of divergence… and the number is still growing. : To put it simply, there is a colossal number of concurrent worlds and, even now, more are coming to be.
: Ergh… I didn’t get anything of what you said…
: Consider this: had you and Hokuto not met with the Dendoh, I would not be here either…: Or had the Gulfer not rebelled against us, Vega wouldn’t have come to Earth… and Hokuto wouldn’t have been born.: The hell are you on about, Altair?! We’re all here right now, aren’t we?!: But you might not had been. A near infinite number of worlds have stemmed from potential divergences: worlds unlike ours, where you and Hokuto never met, where the Dendoh and Ogre, or even the Magnate Ten, do not exist and more.
: You’re talking about parallel worlds, then?: Yes.: I-I can’t even think of how many there’d be…!: You’re right… because they are endless.: Huh…?!
: I see how it is… the number of parallel worlds has gotten so crazy high that the universe itself can’t handle it anymore, yeah?: I think so, yeah.
: Wh-What’d you mean by that?!: It’s like… you know how if you keep pumping air into a balloon, it’ll eventually pop? 
: And our universe is that balloon?!: Yeah, with every parallel world being a bit of air pushing everything around… when that gets too much, the whole thing’s gonna break down.
: I kinda get it…: An overly simplistic way of putting it… but the general concept is fine. 
: Oi, hold on there…! Does that mean that even after all the work we did, our world’s still getting blown the hell up?!
: And if that happens, everyone’ll die, right?!: …Yes and no.
: What’s that supposed to mean?!: The people of the two moons figured out a way to ride out the collapse of the pluralized worlds and relay Seeds of Life into the next world. : The way was to forcibly release the walls around the people’s hearts – the A.T. Field – and unite every consciousness as one, returning life to its primordial state… Then, they would wait the time to be reborn.
: You mean hit the reset button on all life…?: That’s the gist of it, yes.: What, so the “solution” is to hit reset before Game Over hits? Come on now!: Using your analogy, it’s more like the life stored inside the egg would be a Save Data that’d be transferred elsewhere… with multiple backups included.: Indeed… It's said that we humans, the descendants of the people of the Black Moon, were meant to be set aside as "spares" of the people of the White Moon. However, due to some incident, the White Moon lost its functionality… Thus, we were born on Earth.: Our ancestors attempted to take the power of the White Moon as their own, but made a mistake in how they opened its seal… That kicked off the trials between the descendants of the people of the Black Moon and the people of the White Moon, with the very future as the prize.
: That’d be the battle with the Angels… Are you implying similar events happened before…?!: Hm. The truth behind it all and information on the process were left in a database dubbed the “Hidden Dead Sea Scrolls” and relayed to us. And that served as the basis for the Human Instrumentality Project.
: Then you knew how the Angels would show up and when they’d do it…?!: We had a rough estimate… that which we called “script” or “schedule”. Mind you, even among NERV, only a handful of people were aware of it.
: Hey, hold the phone… does that mean y’all knew my #03 was gonna get jacked by that Angel?!: …We did.
: …!!
: Y-You… And you still had him pilot that EVA?!: There’s nothing I can say as an excuse. Still, you all saw the end result of that.: What are you getting at?!: Because of the MU and Bähbem’s interference, both side’s projects began displaying major deviations from the original schedule. That is why many of the Angels that were meant to appear, didn’t… and why the Fourth Children met with a different fate than what was foreseen. : …
: You said the MU and Bähbem caused interference and had a project of their own… does that mean there are Hidden Dead Sea Scrolls on their side as well?: Correct… Many of those can potentially exist, just like the various parallel worlds. : And, amazingly, both our world and the MU’s analyzed the Hidden Scrolls and moved to execute their versions of the project at the same time, thus transposing the boundaries between the parallel worlds and coming into contact with one another.: …Quite the unfortunate encounter, hm?: And then some.: B-But… how were the boundaries between the worlds transposed in the first place? That shouldn’t be possible…: That is where a certain system – the two RahXephons - comes in… They are one of the cornerstones of the Pluridimensional Instrumentality Project inscribed in the Hidden Dead Sea Scrolls… as well as the instruments to Tune the world.
Location: Mutropolis
: Elvy’s Vermilion has been successfully recovered!: What about the RahXephon?!
: There’s… no sign of it…!
: A-Ayato… he’s gone…!: Sis…: Ayato… Ayato…!: (Haruka…): ?!: (Haruka…): Ayato?!*She runs off.*
: Sis?! Where’re you going?!
: Ayato… Ayato, are you here?!
: …Haruka…
: Ayato…! When I saw you disappear with the RahXephon, I…!: I am here… I am here, together with the RahXephon.: Huh…?: The Rahxephon is within me. I… I am the RahXephon.: What… what are you…?: I’m… not a human anymore.: …: I am me – I remain myself… but I’m not human… not anymore…: Ayato…?!: And I can’t go back to being human. That’s why I wanted to see you one last time…: What do you mean?! You’re still you – you’re a human!: No… I understand now… what the RahXephon is – what I am…: …
: …Ixtli In Yolotl.: Uncle…!: The Ollin will lose his human heart, attaining the heart of God – Yolteotl – in its place, and accept Ixtli, his true face.: What is that…?: A legend of the Nahuatl people of western Mexico. Ixtli In Yolotl is a perfect human being… the foundation that supports the world. And, Ayato… you have another half, don’t you? Someone who supplements you and vice-versa…?: …: …I can hear her song…: Her…?!: Quon… My blood is linked to her.: That girl… is your other half…?: Her world or my world… which will…?: No, stop! Don’t leave me!!: I’m glad I could live as a human… I experienced so much.: A-Ayato…: And, above all, it let me get to know you a second time.: A-Aah…: Ayato!!: Goodbye, Megumi, Mr. Rikudou…: …: Goodbye…: No…!: Haruka… my love…: Noo! Don’t go!!: She… is calling me…: I… I won’t accept this… I can’t… Y-You’re the only one I love….!