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PHASE-14: WITHIN ENDLESS TIME
(Broadcast: July 17, 2004)
In the aftermath of the battle with the
Alliance's
8th Fleet,
Rau Le Creuset
reflects upon the events that led up to this point. We see how, after the
"Bloody Valentine"
tragedy, the
PLANT Supreme Council
was split between moderate and radical factions. Now the appearance of the
Gundams
has given new support to the radicals, and the war is likely to escalate as a result.
Le Creuset then recalls the tale of the first Coordinator,
George Glenn.
This genetically-engineered genius sought to usher in a new era of space exploration, but by revealing the secrets of his creation, Glenn instead split the human race into two branches - genetically-engineered
Coordinators
and unmodified
Naturals,
each regarding the other with fear and distrust.
PHASE-15: THE RESPECTIVE SOLITUDES
(Broadcast: July 24, 2004)
The
Archangel
has safely reached Earth thanks to the
8th Fleet's
sacrifice. However, the ship went far off course during its chaotic entry into the atmosphere, and instead of
Alaska
it's landed in the deserts of
ZAFT-controlled
North Africa.
Meanwhile,
Yzak
and his fellow
Gundams
pilot
Dearka Elsman
have descended to ZAFT's
Gibraltar
base.
Kira,
laid up in sickbay after the ordeal of re-entry, is being tended by - of all people - the
Coordinator-hating
Flay.
Though Flay is engaged to Kira's good friend
Sai Argyle,
she maintains that the arrangements made by their parents are now null and void. Kira, agonized by his failure to protect the refugees, collapses into Flay's waiting arms.
PHASE-16: BURNING CLOUDS OF SAND
(Broadcast: July 31, 2004)
During the night, the
Archangel
encounters a new threat - the forces of
Andy Waltfeld,
ZAFT
legendary
"Desert Tiger."
Kira
rushes into battle to protect his comrades... to the delight of
Flay,
whose intention is to use Kira as a tool to avenge her father.
Kira struggles to adapt to the desert conditions, even after he once again enters his berserker state, but the watching Andy is impressed by the skill of the
Strike Gundam's
pilot. With his Gundam's energy dangerously low, Kira receives some timely help from
a band of resistance fighters,
who lure the ZAFT
mobile suits
into an explosive trap. And among these resistance fighters is a
mysterious young woman
whom Kira helped escape from
Heliopolis.
PHASE-17: CAGALLI RETURNS
(Broadcast: August 7, 2004)
As dawn breaks, the
Archangel
crew confer with the
resistance fighters,
who rescued them from
Andy Waltfeld's
attack. In order to resume its journey to
Alaska,
the Archangel must make its way past Waltfeld's forces, and so the crew decide to join forces with the resistance fighters against their common foe. Meanwhile,
Kira
renews his acquaintance with the young woman he met at
Heliopolis,
who gives her name as
Cagalli Yula.
While the Archangel crew prepare for the coming battle,
Sai
presses
Flay
to explain her recent behavior. Flay goes running to Kira, who physically overpowers Sai with his
Coordinator
abilities. The argument is interrupted as Andy Waltfeld's forces launch a retaliatory attack on the resistance fighters'
home village.
PHASE-18: PAYBACK
(Broadcast: August 14, 2004)
Andy Waltfeld's
forces launch a full-scale assault on the
resistance fighters'
home village of
Tassil.
After warning the village's inhabitants to evacuate, the
ZAFT
mobile suits
proceed to burn Tassil to the ground. The resistance fighters arrive to find their home in flames, and their families huddled on its outskirts.
Though Waltfeld has spared the lives of Tassil's inhabitants, the resistance fighters vow to avenge this attack, and recklessly set off in pursuit of the departing ZAFT forces.
Kira
goes to the rebels' aid, and finds himself engaged in mobile suit combat with the dreaded Waltfeld himself.
PHASE-19: FANGS OF THE ENEMY
(Broadcast: August 21, 2004)
The
Archangel
crew and their
resistance allies
make a foray into
Andy Waltfeld's
stronghold, the
ZAFT-controlled
city of
Banadiya,
in order to obtain weapons and supplies.
Kira
and
Cagalli
take the opportunity to do some shopping, only to run into Waltfeld himself.
After escaping an attack by the
anti-Coordinator
group known as
Blue Cosmos,
Kira and Cagalli find themselves Waltfeld's unwilling guests. Though the dreaded
"Desert Tiger"
has figured out that Kira is the
Strike Gundam's
pilot, he lets them go to fight another day. Meanwhile, the distraught
Sai
tries to demonstrate that he too can pilot the Gundam, but proves unable even to move it from the Archangel's hangar.
PHASE-20: ON A CALM DAY
(Broadcast: August 28, 2004)
Back in the
PLANTs,
Kira's
old friend
Athrun
pays a visit to his fiancé
Lacus Clyne
The two discuss their mutual acquaintance Kira, and Athrun is both touched and disturbed to learn that his friend still cherishes the
Birdy
robot that Athrun gave him as a keepsake.
While Athrun and Lacus talk, their parents attend a meeting of the
PLANT Supreme Council,
in which they debate
ZAFT's
upcoming terrestrial offensive, codenamed
Operation Spit Break.
And back on Earth, the
Archangel
crew and the
resistance fighters
prepare for an all-out confrontation with
Andy Waltfeld's
forces.
PHASE-21: BEYOND THE CLOUDS OF SAND
(Broadcast: September 4, 2004)
The
Archangel
resumes its journey, putting it on a collision course with
Andy Waltfeld
and his fleet of land warships.
Yzak
and
Dearka
arrive from the
Gibraltar
base to join forces with Waltfeld, and as battle is joined, Waltfeld and his partner
Aisha
enter the fray themselves in a
two-seater mobile suit.
As the fighting continues,
Cagalli
takes the controls of one of the Archangel's
fighter craft
to aid
Mu,
while
Kira
battles Waltfeld himself. Waltfeld's forces are gradually wiped out, and he orders the remainder to retreat, but the
"Desert Tiger"
intends to stay behind to finish his duel with Kira...
PHASE-22: THE SEA DYED RED
(Broadcast: September 11, 2004)
Having defeated
Andy Waltfeld,
the
Archangel
crew bid farewell to the
resistance fighters
and set off across the Red Sea to begin an ocean voyage to
Alaska.
Cagalli
and her bodyguard
Kisaka
remain aboard the Archangel, and her growing friendship with
Kira
begins to inspire
Flay's
jealousy.
The Archangel's journey is interrupted by a new threat, a
ZAFT
submarine force commanded by
Marco Morassim
which attacks the ship with aerial and underwater
mobile suits.
Even as Kira wages an undersea battle against Morassim's
mobile suits,
Athrun
and
Nicol
are on their way back to Earth, as ZAFT gathers its forces for the upcoming
Operation Spit Break.
PHASE-23: FATEFUL ENCOUNTER
(Broadcast: September 18, 2004)
Athrun
and
Nicol
arrive on Earth, and
ZAFT's
Gundam team is at last reunited. The four
Gundams
and their pilots are loaded onto transport planes for transfer to the
Carpentaria
base in Australia.
Meanwhile,
Marco Morassim's
submarine force continues to pursue the
Archangel
across the Indian Ocean. During the battle
Cagalli's
fighter
becomes separated from the ship, and by sheer accident she ends up intercepting Athrun's straggling transport plane. Both aircraft end up crash-landing and, by sheer chance, Athrun and Cagalli now find themselves stranded on the same deserted island.
PHASE-24: WAR FOR TWO
(Broadcast: October 2, 2004)
After their midair skirmish,
Athrun
and
Cagalli
find themselves stranded together on the same uninhabited island. Thanks to his
Coordinator
abilities, Athrun is easily able to overpower Cagalli and take her prisoner. While they wait to be found and rescued, the two young warriors have little to do but talk, and they begin getting to know each other better.
Eventually, search parties from
ZAFT
and the
Archangel
are able to locate the stranded pair, and Athrun and Cagalli return to their respective sides. But while the two former enemies don't necessarily part as friends, they've nonetheless come to a degree of mutual understanding.
PHASE-25: THE LAND OF PEACE
(Broadcast: October 9, 2004)
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the
Archangel
is attacked by all four of
ZAFT's
Gundams,
and the ship sustains severe damage from their ongoing assault. During the battle, the ship enters the territorial waters of the neutral
Orb Union,
and an Orb naval fleet sets out to intercept the intruders.
With the Archangel in a state of dire emergency,
Cagalli
at last reveals her true identity as the daughter of one of Orb's leaders. Thanks to her help, the ship is able to establish contact with the Orb forces, who drive off the enemy Gundams and escort the battered Archangel to a safe harbor.
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