02x22 - Plot for Extinction

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Yes.

Violet flash.

How did he avoid that?

It certainly wasn't easy. I doubt I could have managed

it without reading your pheromones. You're so gross.

Bombardier beetle.

What's your problem? It's my children on superheated gas.

There's no escaping it. What are you white..

Clad g*ons sneaking around in the nether for anyway?

We won't be here much longer. Our preparations are all but complete.

What? The destruction of this world is at hand.

The pillars will be assembled and the evangelist plan enacted.

We know that plan, and we're going to stop it.

Have your investigations taught you nothing? The Tokyo

Empire itself was built in accordance with the evangelists design.

The Holy Sol temple, Amaterasu, all were

built with this moment in mind,

and it's become quite clear that humanity

itself yearns for annihilation. There's no stopping her plan.

You're saying humanity wants to die out?

We'll tell that to the people I've saved.

They seemed pretty fricking glad to be alive to me.

You don't get to decide what they want.

Through destruction, mankind has a chance to reach a higher plane.

Would you rob us of that chance?

Oh, well, you'll be made to understand soon.

Just as your dear brother was.

What did you do to him? He's been neutralized.

He now sits as still as a doll.

La la la la la la la la la.

I always wanted to have a doll of my own.

This one sure is pretty, don't you think?

You don't get to look away from this.

You're going to stand right here with

your mouth shut and watch us.

Yeah. You're going to see just how much fun we can have.

Tell me, where are you keeping show?

That pillar is waiting in his proper

place for the coming of the new great cataclysm.

Your brother is a well behaved, obedient boy.

Unlike you, I imagine how Mia has claimed him as her toy.

So what if you can read my mind?

I can still move faster than you can react.

I don't see anyone. Did he leave? No, I'm right here.

Such tremendous acceleration.

I take it you don't plan to come quietly?

I sensed your bloodthirst back at Vulcan's workshop.

There's no way I would ever trust

someone with a heart as sinister as yours. What was that?

You sensed my bloodthirst. Then you and

I were connected through an Adolla link.

Are you sure? Did you hear my voice?

Yeah. What's it matter if I did?

Incredible. This is marvelous news. Thank you.

Thank you. You're saying that a mere

human like me was able to connect to you through a doula?

But only those with a connection to a doula

can undergo and a doula link.

My insect experiments have borne fruit through my labors.

I've come closer to a doula.

Hold on. So for me to connect to someone like that,

they have to be tied to a doula. It stands..

To reason. Yes. A doula links can

or by those who have somehow come into contact with a doula.

But I've heard people's voices through a doula links twice before.

First with Dr. Giovanni.. Falcon must be k*lled and..

And one other time by Dr..

With Lieutenant Conrau.

Since I was able to form an adolla link with him.

Does that mean he's been close to a dollar too?

Something troubling you? Shut up! The evangelist

resides not in this world, but in a dolo.

And since she is not of this world,

I dare say you lack the means to fight her.

Your power lets you peer into the higher plane.

But that's as far as it will get you.

Are you saying it's impossible for us to go to a doula?

Tell me, fire soldier. How do you

intend to put out the flames when

you can't reach the scene? The Earth will burn.

There's no stopping it. We humans are

but fuel to feed the fire that will consume this world.

Humanity worships the sun. Above all, we'd

never refuse the chance to burn brightly in its likeness.

But it was the evangelist who created our religion. Right?

Ritsu will be ready any moment now.

Allow us to give you a demonstration.

Proof that humans are the implements of destruction.

We will utilize the Labyrinthian nether to utterly demolish the Tokyo Empire.

A large scale demolition. Are you sure?

Yeah. Pretty sure. The white clad want

to form a shaped charge using all these Infernals.

A shaped charge? Yeah. From what Vulcan's

sensors were able to pick up,

it looks like the Infernals are positioned

in a conical formation. Like so.

Is there some significance to this formation?

It's commonly used for controlled demolition. Demo

teams employ what's known as the Monroe Newman effect,

using cone shaped expl*sives to get more bang for their booms.

Basically, you shape your expl*sive like a reverse

cone and line it with a thin layer of metal.

Then when you detonate near the point of the cone,

you create a weak spot for all the explosions forced to escape.

This funnels the entire blast into a

metal tip jet of destructive energy,

punching a hole through anything in its path.

They're using countless Infernals to do this on a massive scale,

maximizing the output of what's already a large amount of firepower.

And unfortunately, we are right beneath the center

of the Tokyo Empire. The damage will be tremendous.

All right. What level of catastrophe are we talking about here?

The whole empire could be wiped out.

Oh, so what can we do to prevent it?

I heard everything as I came in.

I apologize for our tardiness. A certain

someone was dragging his feet. Detective Oz.

I've more or less memorized the layout of the whole nether.

Is there anything that I can do to help?

All the power of a shaped charge is pushed into the main jet.

We need to disrupt that jets formation or change its path.

But to do that, we'll need a second

gen who can control a whole lot of flame at once.

Lieutenant Hino's pyrokinesis is best suited for pinpoint precision.

I don't think this is a job for him.

Of course you'd be useless. Wait. This is serious.

We don't have time to stand around chatting, guys.

They're gonna blow soon. Come on.

Are there no other second generation Pyrokinetic down here?

None who can handle flame on this larger scale, at least.

There's no denying that this is quite the challenge.

But there is someone who can.

First class fire soldier. Machias. Oh, make that secretarios

who I recall you taking away from us, detective.

I see no point in bringing..

Up people who aren't even around. We'll

just have to make do with the second

gens we have here, Lieutenant Hinowa.

You ready for this? No. Busy being useless.

I guess the eighth is just a g*ng of brutes, after all.

So much for all that self-righteous blather about putting lives first.

We do put lives first. We will find a way to stop this.

Because letting the people of Tokyo die is not an option.

Vulcan. It's done. Sir.

We don't care about protocol.

Not when there are lives on the line. Right.

Monkey. Monkey. Monkey. Uh, sorry I'm late, guys.

I'm fully caught up on the situation. Thanks to this communicator.

There are no secrets between members of the eighth.

Are you sure about this? Yes, sir.

I'm doing here, monkey. It's too dangerous.

I don't need protecting right now, but the civilians above do.

You can help people without putting your own life at risk.

Don't be dense. I'm not taking any

more of a risk than you are. But I'm not a girl.

I don't think the flames care what gender I am.

You might have forced mom off the front lines, but I'm different.

Shut up and watch. I have the power to save lives.

I'll wait for your signal. Vulcan.

No problem. It won't be long now.

I'll tell you when to brace for it. Wait.

You still have time? Please get out of here. Hey!

Hold up! With Mikey's help, we can

stop the shape chart from blasting Tokyo.

But that leaves us a bunch of fire that has nowhere to go.

Those flames are going to completely tear through the nether.

Meaning? Well, for those of us who aren't fireproof,

it means we're about to be roasted where we stand.

We're screwed.

What the hell..

Are you saying? Leeds. Are we all dead no matter what?

So if Marky does her thing, these tunnels

in the city above us should all come out of it unscathed.

But that isn't to say she's gonna make all that fire go away.

And since the flames won't be funnelled out to the surface,

they're gonna fill these small, cramped tunnels

instead and burn everyone inside of them to a blackened crisp.

Except. Except Tamaki. She's super heat tolerant.

Are you serious? So far.. Us. So what do we do?

We stay till the job's done. We're

prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives.

That's why we wear the blue stripes.

Time yet? Vulcan. It'll be real soon.

Well, captain, you okay with this? Yeah,

but trust me when I say that we'll find a way to survive.

Yeah, heroics are great, but I don't want to die. So

ideally, we'd just look for a spot

in the nether to dump all that heat.

Too bad it's a ruinous maze that defies rhyme and reason.

During my investigation, I memorized every map

of the nether I could find.

If we can breach the caved in parts,

there might be room to keep the flames away from us.

Well, if you know your way around as well as you say,

we can use geothermic dissipation. Create a heat sink.

Get ready guys. Okay, there's..

No time to explain how this works, so just do as I say.

You're helping me. You just focus on controlling that blast.

It's critical that the two of you work in sync.

You use your knowledge of the Nethers

layout to help Maggie direct the flames

away from us while she keeps them under control. Understood.

Got a huge reading. Heat sources within three kilometers are spiking.

Here he goes. First you need to change the main expl*si*n's trajectory.

The key is that you push that initial

blast away from the center of the cone.

And what should we do after that?

Where do you want us to redirect the flame? Oh.

Them is deep into the ground as you can get them right.

I'll take hold of the flames and I won't let them go.

The fire around me.

He's now at my command.

Naturally, this is only the beginning. Tokyo's

true destruction will be wrought in due time. Oh.

Huh?

All right. You hold the flames and I'll guide them down.

Got it. These passages may be inaccessible..

To people, but not to fire.

Keep it up, you two. Push that stuff down.

If we encounter a point where the walls

have collapsed and bare earth is exposed.

Then we can cool the flames via geothermic dissipation.

You care to explain that..

Down at this step? Temperatures above or below

that of the surrounding soil are gradually absorbed. I can't..

Hear that. Just push the flames down. Right.

Yeah. Corral all of it into the dirt.

With your power as siblings and the laws of geothermal energy combined.

All we need is time. And the Earth

will cool those flames for us.

Looks like you pulled it off, Noah.

Without Maggie, we'd be ash in a Tokyo sized crater right now.

She's the very model of a fire

soldier and a truly essential member of company eight.

You were right to recruit her, lieutenant.

We actually did it. Listen to me.

This is what I do. This is what the eighth does.

They failed. Sucks to suck. I've got

no idea what your friends were trying to do,

but it sounds like they came up against

some good old fire soldier teamwork and got folded.

Get down here, Arthur. Let's give him a taste of our teamwork.

non-Self. When did he. So much for that plan.

Nirvana. Deliverance. My mind is beyond reading.

My sword has reached the realm of the Bodhisattva.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure your brain is just empty.

Also, this is so not a night thing.

non-Self. Without drawing the breath of life,

a life taking blow is struck even to a master of breath.

Reading this blow is impossible to predict.

And that makes it all the more fatal. Now die, villain!

You didn't hesitate for a second.

So even the eighth employs a cold blooded professional.

I suppose I was underestimating you, subconsciously at least.

It's a whole swarm of bugs, damn it!

Where'd he go? Got him. His head,

you dumbass! That's just a.. Shell.

To think that I took part in an

like my research has been most fruitful. We'll meet again.

Have all your men been accounted for yet?

We lost more than I ever could have imagined.

But now I know just how dangerous these white clad radicals are.

And without crewman assistance, I doubt there'd

be anyone left to mourn them.

Get it? I'm needed. Do you understand now

why my work at the eighth means so much to me.

Yeah I see. But that guy is still garbage.

He just wants to use you as a human meat shield.

Yeah. Listen, sir.

I'd like. To transfer back to the eighth.

Maybe you should. Your powers make you

a good fit for the force.

No, sir. My powers aren't why I fit in here.

It's my ambition and resolve. I see.

Then I'll file the paperwork to have you transferred back immediately.

Sir. Was this some kind of test or what?

The white clad get more radical by the day.

I wasn't convinced that a sheltered girl

like you could deal with them. Good work today.

Thank you very much, sir. f*ck off! You stay away from her.

I'm not picking up any more heat sources.

We're out of the woods now.

Search for the remains of those who fell in the line of duty.

Find as many of them as you can.

I'll see that our wounded comrades are brought back to base.

To the surface.

Sure is a relief to see the sun again, huh?

I can't stop thinking about what Giovanni said.

You can only form an adolla link

with someone who has an eidola burst,

or who's been connected to Eidola. If that's true.

He's more or less okay. He lost his right hand and left leg,

and the rest of him is either cut or b*rned.

But his condition is stable. The kid's

got a potatoes will to live.

I'm proud of you for hanging in there till help could come.

Grumman Kotatsu. It's thanks to your courage

that juggernaut is alive. Thank you.

Honestly, it's me who should be grateful.

If it weren't for Platoon Leader Hodgkiss

and Crewman Noto, I wouldn't be here either.

Company two was dealt a stunning blow

today, but the eighth saved us.

The army needs to stand beside the fire force.

Tokyo has to unite. I am heartened

to see that we made it through

this without losing you, young crewman.

What is it thinking about? Mm. I understand

that she returned to the fire force today.

Are you still worried about her?

I want my daughter to have the freedom to follow her dreams.

So even though I worry, I also have faith in her.

After all, she has super powers like her mother.

I'm not nearly that strong. Were you unhappy as well, Madoka?

Giving up the m*llitary for this domestic lifestyle?

Keeping a safe home for my family is enough for me.

But our marquee, she has a different kind of spirit.

We'll always see her as our adorable, delicate little girl.

But she has great strength and a powerful will.

And that is something she got from you.

All we can do now is watch her grow and cheer her on.

Who are you calling a gorilla? Cyclops.

So you finally made platoon leader, huh?

We're real happy for you, Mikey.

There's new platoon to lead, guys. What's your point?

My point is that nothing has changed at all.

Seriously, company? This seems funny to you? Yeah, a little bit.

Feels like the eighth is just playing

like it's in the fire force.

Yeah, they're pretty much a bunch of idiots.

Well, then why did you recruit them? Because.

Those guys are the real deal.

Next time on Fire Force. Season two.

Episode fire. Return to the Great Flame of Fire. Lattam.