02x03 - Limit the Tube Way

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When the sunlight comes through the clouds…

Kumo no kire makara nozoku taiyou ga

and shines off the wet asphalt…

Nureta ASUFARUTO mabushiku somereba

it reminds me of a fading dream.

Wasure kaketeta yume ga mou ichido mezameru yo

It brings courage deep into my eyes.

Hitomi no oku ni hateshinai yuuki wo hakobu yo

I just want to have a dream beyond time…

JUST toki wo koete yume ni aitai

having blue sky in my heart.

Mune ni hirogaru aozora wo daite

I just want to keep a dream beyond time.

JUST toki wo koete yume wo dakishime

I want to shine more than ever now.

Ima yori motto kagayaite mitai

New Dominion Tank Police

There’s quite a commotion. What’s going on here?

Uh, they’re here to conduct an investigation of warehouses on the docks.

It’s scheduled for today?

Oh, there’s the chief.

He’s up in front directing the operation. This looks serious.

It’s one of the mayor’s pet projects to clean up New Port.

I don’t see Bonaparte. Where’s Leona and Al?

They’ve been off test driving Bonaparte ever since I changed its engines this morning.

Claiming that they’re off chasing t*rrorists?

I think so.

We object to the barbaric methods utilised by the tank police!

Me too!

Object to what?!

You have a literal mountain of weapons piled into that…!

Look at that big truck…

Our truck!

There goes all the evidence!

Let’s follow it, Al !

What about these guys?

Leave ‘em to the local cops.

You’re so g*dd*mn irresponsible!

Tax thieves!

Seal off the tunnel!

What the…? What happened?

I guess they’ve been drafted into joining the inspection.

But that lot were rookies just out of police school!

Leona, isn’t that a Dainippon Giken trailer?

And we’re still out of our jurisdiction.

We still have to report it to the captain, anyway.

You, in the super trailer, I’m ordering you to stop!

Stop! Stop!

Nobody ever listens to us…

— Stop that thing!
— Hey, Leona, don’t!

What the hell…?

This is the captain.

Al?!

How far have you wandered off on that test drive?

A wild tractor trailer?

Yes, sir. It’s heading south.

If it keeps in that direction, it’ll be running headlong into New Port.

It has already destroyed sixteen cars…

Uh, make that seventeen. Do you have any information on it?

No, I don’t. There’s nobody here. I don’t have a clue as to what’s going on.

Please start blocking off all the roads immediately! And…

Captain, that trailer’s huge!

It’s managed to demolish every car that it’s run into easily, including Bonaparte…

Anyway…

Captain? Captain!

Now the transmitter’s junk.

Leona! Leona! Damn!

Chief…

Brenten, the tank police will not interfere in this matter.

Not interfere…?

All going to plan? Excellent.

I’m off to a meeting.

I'll contact you later and I look forward to hearing all the details.

This time, everything’s perfect.

I hope so.

Demelium 223?

— You’re kidding?!
— It’s true.

The trailer is fully loaded with canisters of Demelium 223, a special A-grade expl*sive.

The Mayor has already issued an evacuation order…

for the area within a five-mile radius of the tunnel.

So that explains why everyone including the rookies were called out!

We are going to need every available hand to help with the evacuation.

But we can’t dismiss the worst-case scenario.

Right. Out of all the trucks that had to be car-jacked, it had to be the one that can nuke New Port.

We can’t afford to be careless.

Nam?! Hold it right there!

Those t*rrorists sure are smart.

They managed to tap into the trailer’s nav system via satellite…

and beamed in some program!

What are you people so g*dd*mn impressed by?!

Chief, what’s the status on the truck’s driver?

He was thrown out of the truck by his ejection seat the moment the trailer was car-jacked.

You mean no one’s driving that truck?

Under orders from the Mayor, Dainippon Giken has been trying...

to disable the nav program that the t*rrorists input.

By the way, what’s going on with Leona and Al?

They’re giving chase.

What did you say?!

But they’re out of commission now after being smashed up.

All right, it still sounds good for us.
I want all tanks on stand-by. Got it?

But Chief…

I don’t have the ba*ls to play with fireworks on a mine field.

In fact, I’ve even called off that inspection.

This can’t be treated lightly. I’m…

Actually, Chief, I need to have word with you.

What do you want?!

— This way, please.
— Where?! What in the world?!

Please, please, over here…

— What is it?!
— This way, this way…

Hey, guys, let’s move out!

Hey! Open the door, Brenten!

What the hell are you thinking?!

Insubordination means a cut in pay…
No, consider it a direct dismissal!

— I give up!
— Here.

There’s no excuse for failure. You can complain all you want once you stop that truck.

Uh, yes, Mayor. I’m sorry.

The trailer is now crossing into sector 238.

Average speed, 50 miles per hour. It’ll run into the tunnel in about fifteen minutes.

It looks like a b*ttlefield.

They’re setting up the final roadblock here.

Once it gets on the tunnel, it has a free ride straight into the city.

What’s wrong, Captain?

Uh, nothing.

I’m just trying to figure out why the t*rrorists haven’t made any demands after creating such a sensation.

Oh, Chief, what are you doing there?!

It’s done.

Leona, the transmitter is…

The truck will reach the tunnel on-ramp and the roadblock at 15:30 o’clock.

I repeat. It’s heading for the roadblock on the on-ramp…

Hurry up!

Hurry up? You don’t mean…!

Yes!

I want to express my personal thanks to that monster for smashing up Bonaparte!

Oh, sh*t!

Brenten, give me the current situation!

Chief, the truck has crossed through 320 and will be arriving here in five minutes.

Five minutes…?

sh*t! How many levels does this damn program have?!

The trailer isn’t even slowing down, instead it’s just speeding up!

Mayor, it’s for you.

This is Weatherbee. I want the entire city evacuated.

We don’t have enough time! Hurry up!

Chief, the Mayor’s ordered the entire city evacuated!

I see. I understand.

Captain!

It’ll be here any second.

Leona, Why must slow down!

Let’s go faster!

But you know…!

— What’s wrong?
— I bit my tongue…

Here it comes!

It’s huge!

You got it?

Let’s go over it again. A team, fire at the right tires; B team, the left ones.

Don’t make the mistake of hitting any other spot!

Fire!

What the…?!

Everyone, take cover!

Brenten, don’t do anything!

Just watching this is making me go crazy!

What’s going on?!

I’m notifying every precinct in the city.

Set up a roadblock at sector 523 and do whatever you can to keep that truck from entering the city.

Chief, we have an emergency call from the Mayor.

Yes?

Chief, it’s my responsibility to protect the lives and property of 4,800,000 citizens.

Whatever happens, I want the damage minimised.

I, I am…

Mayor, you’re not yourself.

Let me give it to you straight.

If we can’t stop that truck…

I want it blown up at the tunnel off-ramp.

What did you say?

What the…?!

You idiots!

Somebody stop them!

Was that the Captain?

I didn’t see anything.

You idiots! What are you doing?!
Come back here now!

But…

Listen very carefully, Leona!

In the belly of that trailer is a load of Demelium 223.

Demelium 223?

What’s that?

Mayor, we’ve managed to crack through level five of that program.

It’s now possible to stop that thing manually!

Chief!

…that’s what it is! It’s unmanned too! Get back here immediately if you get my drift.

Leona, it’s me. I’ve been informed that you can stop that thing manually.

Chief, what do you mean?

It means nothing unless you can get into that trailer.

Leona, there’s a hatch above the seat that’s been opened!

They ejected the driver through it…

…so that’s your way in!

Roger! I understand perfectly!

Almost…

Al!

Damn! Leona, get in quickly!

That’s it.

You’ve caused me enough trouble.

What?!

What happened?

A protection program has kicked in!

Protection program?

Yeah, that’s right. It looks like someone coded it in for an emergency.

It started looping in when it detected an intervention.

What?! We can’t contact Leona?!

No! She must have managed to get in!

— Mayor, what in the world is going on?
— What is Leona doing in there?

What? Protection program?

They built it into the intercept program.

What are you saying? You still want us to blast the truck?

I have one of my men inside that thing!

I realise that…

…but we’ve come to the conclusion that it’s simply impossible to stop.

I can’t sacrifice all those lives.

Chief…

Please.

We have one final hope. It’s dangerous, but it’s still a possibility.

Excuse me, but I need the trailer’s circuit schematics uploaded to my machine.

I suppose it switched on when the brakes were used.

So it has to be somewhere around the control system…

Specs, what do you mean?

When the program was downloaded into the truck’s nav system,

it had to be stored somewhere.

Oh, I found it. Here it is.

He’s right. If we cut off that sub-CPU from the main one, the system will re-boot…

and we’ll be able to stop the trailer manually.

Next, I want the specs on the trailer’s armor, if you please.

Let me see…

Here it is.

We just have one shot at it.

If we stray off-target just a bit…

A bit…?

New Port is ashes.

Remember, all that armor was put on to keep out t*rrorists.

That’s why I said it was going to be a gamble.

But the possibility is still there.

There won’t be an opportunity to use a second b*llet anyway.

Let’s go, everyone, it’s time to go the shelters now!

Chief, if I die, I want you to know I’m going to haunt the hell out of you as a ghost!

Yes, I got it. Do so for yourself.

Captain Brenten, you’ll need this.

This only works one way, but you can use it to make contact with the trailer.

I got it. Thanks.

Uh, Leona?! Leona! Do you hear me?!

This insures that my dream draws one step closer to reality.

That voice. I’ve heard it somewhere before.

Yes, sir. The neo-virtual drug…

Do you read me, Leona?!

Captain!

I don’t have enough time to explain it in detail so listen to me carefully.

I’m now at the tunnel off-ramp. I’m going to sh**t the trailer.

It won’t blow up after that, instead the real nav system is going to reboot into manual.

What you need to do is hit the brakes as if your life depended on it.

Roger!

Just a lil more.

Stop!

He did it! We did it!

It’s time to meet up with the Captain!

Captain!

My Bonaparte…!

You did it Leona!

Where’s the captain?

I see. It was stopped by the Tank Police.

What’s going on? You’re collecting data from the protection routine?

Yes, I understand. I’ll leave it to you to settle things afterwards.

Thanks to this, we eluded the police investigation, so it wasn’t a complete loss.

And we had a fantastic demonstration of our capabilities,

in light of what we did with that trailer.

The system will be useful enough.

Yes. What happened was only the beginning.

The Tank Police, eh?

While I slowly walked down spiral stairs…

RASEN kaidan yukkuri mai oriru jikan no naka de

…I felt excited when I looked behind me.

Furimuku shunkan ni kanjita mune no zawameki

I think I’ve met you before.

Anata to wa ichido atte iru

Is this déjà vu? It’s just like a strange dream.

Sore to mo DEJAVU fushigina yume mitai ni

Just fallin’ in love

Sure, before I was born…

Umareru mae ni mo kitto

I’ll take off with you

…I was watching you from a distant star.

Harukana hoshi kara mitsumete ita

Bonaparte has been kidnapped!

Rumour has it that Bonaparte has disappeared.

You idiot, what are you doing?

Who in the world…? And what for?

Next time:
The Chase?! Bonaparte in the Mist.

The Chase!? Bonaparte in the Mist