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PHASE-26: MOMENT
(Broadcast: October 16, 2004)
This episode is purely a recap of the story thus far.
PHASE-27: ENDLESS RONDO
(Broadcast: October 23, 2004)
The damaged
Archangel
has at last found safe haven at one of the islands which make up the
Orb Union.
While the ship undergoes repair at
Onogoro Island,
Kira
is called upon to assist the engineers of
Morgenroete, Inc.
- the civilian company which manufactured the
Alliance's
Gundams
at
Heliopolis,
and is now developing new
mobile suits
for Orb.
One of Morgenroete's engineers
analyzes the
Strike Gundam's
combat data, reviewing Kira's previous adventures. Meanwhile,
Athrun,
Yzak,
Dearka,
and
Nicol
have come ashore at Onogoro Island to search for the Archangel.
PHASE-28: KIRA
(Broadcast: October 30, 2004)
Kira's
friends are joyfully reunited with their parents, who all made it safely back to the
Orb
homeland following the destruction of
Heliopolis.
Flay,
who has no parents to welcome her, wanders the
Archangel
and finds that Kira has also chosen to remain aboard the ship rather than meeting with his family. Taking Kira's friendliness for pity, she erupts with fury.
Nearby,
Athrun
and his companions are searching for evidence of the Archangel's presence. Kira's robot pet
Birdy
flies out of the
Morgenroete
facility to greet its creator Athrun, followed by Kira himself. Athrun returns the robot, and then the estranged friends once again part ways.
PHASE-29: THE TURNING POINT
(Broadcast: November 6, 2004)
With its repairs and resupply complete, the
Archangel
departs
Onogoro Island
and resumes its voyage to
Alaska.
Cagalli's father
refuses to allow her to go with the ship, and she is forced to stay behind in the
Orb
homeland.
Now that the Archangel is once again at sea, the
ZAFT
Gundam
pilots resume their pursuit.
Kira
and
Mu
struggle to protect the ship, with Kira's friend
Tolle Koenig
taking
Cagalli's
place as a fighter pilot. During this fierce battle,
Nicol
intervenes to protect his friend
Athrun
from Kira's attack, with tragic results.
PHASE-30: FLASHING BLADES
(Broadcast: November 13, 2004)
ZAFT's
three remaining
Gundam
pilots retreat, and the
Archangel's
mechanics praise
Kira
for destroying
Nicol's
Blitz Gundam,
but the young pilot is distressed by his own actions.
Athrun,
meanwhile, resolves to take his old friend's life rather than watch any more of his comrades fall in battle.
The ZAFT Gundams launch another attack on the Archangel. Kira and Athrun resume their dueling with even greater ferocity, and Kira's friend
Tolle
is slain when he attempts to intervene. Athrun grapples the
Strike Gundam
and then bails out - leaving his damaged
Aegis Gundam
to self-destruct, seemingly taking Kira with it. And meanwhile,
Dearka
and his
Buster Gundam
are captured by the Archangel.
PHASE-31: GRIEVING SKIES
(Broadcast: November 20, 2004)
Having lost contact with both the
Strike Gundam
and
Tolle's fighter,
the badly damaged
Archangel
has no choice but to hurry onward to
Alaska.
Since they are unable to search for their missing pilots,
Murrue
contacts the
Orb Union
and asks it to dispatch a search party. The crew continue their voyage with heavy hearts, especially
Tolle's
girlfriend
Miriallia Haw.
Cagalli
and the other Orb rescuers find the scattered remains of the Strike and
Aegis,
and retrieve the unconscious
Athrun,
but can find no trace of
Kira.
When Athrun awakes, Cagalli confronts him over his actions, and she is horrified to learn that Athrun has done his best to slay his own childhood friend.
PHASE-32: IN THE PROMISED LAND
(Broadcast: November 27, 2004)
The battered
Archangel
at last reaches the
Alaska base,
the
Alliance's
main headquarters. The Archangel crew, ordered to stand by aboard their ship, become increasingly anxious as they're left to wait for further instructions. The grieving
Miriallia
tries to attack the captive
Dearka,
but ultimately saves him from
Flay's
own assassination attempt.
The injured
Kira
awakens and finds himself in the
PLANTs,
under the care of
Lacus Clyne.
Meanwhile,
Yzak
and
Athrun
have returned to
ZAFT's
Carpentaria base.
Rau Le Creuset
congratulates Athrun for his accomplishment in destroying the
Strike Gundam,
then moves his forces into position for ZAFT's long-awaited grand offensive...
PHASE-33: GATHERING DARKNESS
(Broadcast: December 4, 2004)
After the attacks on
Dearka,
Natarle
is harshly critical of Murrue's leadership, and
Murrue
admits her shortcomings as a captain.
Miriallia
pays a visit to Dearka's cell, where he confirms that he wasn't the one who shot down
Tolle's
fighter.
Meanwhile, the
Archangel's
senior officers are summoned to a hearing conducted by
Captain Sutherland
of the
Alliance's
general staff. Sutherland subjects Murrue to a relentless cross-examination, arguing that her decision to place the
Strike Gundam
in the hands of a
Coordinator
led to the destruction of
Heliopolis
and the
8th Fleet.
PHASE-34: SEEN AND UNSEEN
(Broadcast: December 11, 2004)
As the
Alliance
gathers its forces at
Panama
in anticipation of a major
ZAFT
attack, the
Archangel
is reassigned to the
Alaska base's
defensive garrison.
Natarle,
Mu,
and
Flay
receive transfer orders and bid farewell to their comrades aboard the Archangel.
The long-awaited
Operation Spit Break
begins, and the true target of the offensive is revealed: rather than attacking Panama, ZAFT is striking directly at the Alliance headquarters in Alaska.
Le Creuset
enters the base ahead of the main force, confronting Mu and taking Flay prisoner. Back in the
PLANTs,
Lacus
entrusts
Kira
with
a powerful new weapon.
PHASE-35: THE DESCENDING SWORD
(Broadcast: December 18, 2004)
As the
Alaska
defense forces fight desperately to hold back the
ZAFT
assault,
Mu
returns to the
Archangel
to tell the crew that they're being used as bait for a deadly trap: the
Alaska base
has been abandoned, and its lowest levels house a
Cyclops System,
a massive microwave array that will destroy everything within ten kilometers of the base.
Suddenly, a new combatant enters the battlefield.
Kira
descends to Earth in the mighty
Freedom Gundam
he received from
Lacus,
and quickly clears a path for the Archangel. While the ship races to escape the Cyclops System's area of effect, the
Alliance
leaders activate their trap. The Alaska base vanishes in an inferno of destruction, consuming Alliance and ZAFT forces alike.
PHASE-36: IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE
(Broadcast: January 7, 2005)
News of the
Alaska
catastrophe has thrown the
Coordinator
homeland into turmoil.
Athrun's
father
Patrick Zala,
the radical new chairman of the
PLANT Supreme Council,
launches a purge of his political opponents and orders the arrest of
Lacus
and
her father
for their treason against the state.
Athrun is summoned by his father and given a new mission. He is to return to Earth and track down the stolen
Freedom Gundam,
which contains
ZAFT's
most vital military secret - a
Neutron Jammer Canceler
that enables the use of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Before his departure, Athrun encounters his former fiancé Lacus, who reveals to him that
Kira
is still alive and challenges him to question his father's orders.
PHASE-37: DIVINE THUNDER
(Broadcast: January 14, 2005)
Once again, the battered
Archangel
finds refuge in the
Orb Union.
Kira
and
Cagalli
are reunited, and Cagalli's father
Uzumi Nara Athha
updates the Archangel crew on the current political situation. The events in
Alaska
have spurred both sides to escalate their war efforts, and the
Alliance
is pressuring Earth's remaining neutral nations to join its crusade against the
Coordinators.
Meanwhile,
ZAFT
launches an assault on
Panama,
the site of the Alliance's last remaining
mass driver.
The Alliance deploys its own
mass-produced mobile suits
to defend Panama, but the ZAFT forces disable the defending forces with an
electromagnetic pulse weapon
and proceed to massacre the Alliance survivors.
PHASE-38: DECISIVE FIRE
(Broadcast: January 21, 2005)
With the fall of
Panama,
the
Alliance
has lost its last
mass driver,
and thus its access to space. At a meeting of the Alliance leadership, the industrialist
Muruta Azrael
- leader of the
anti-Coordinator
group known as
Blue Cosmos
- proposes that they obtain a replacement mass driver by forcing the
Orb Union
to join the Alliance.
Uzumi
rejects the Alliance's ultimatum, and Azrael launches his attack. The
Archangel
fights in Orb's defense, with
Mu
now piloting the rebuilt
Strike Gundam.
Even
Dearka,
released by
Miriallia
on the eve of the battle, comes to the Archangel's aid with his
Buster Gundam.
But the defenders are hard pressed by Azrael's secret weapon - a trio of powerful new Gundams and their
artificially enhanced pilots.
PHASE-39: ATHRUN
(Broadcast: January 28, 2005)
The battle for
Orb
has been interrupted by the arrival of a new player.
Athrun,
at the controls of
ZAFT's
new
Justice Gundam,
joins the defenders and helps them repulse the
Alliance
assault. With their pilots in dire need of
medication,
the enemy Gundams are forced to withdraw, and Orb is given a brief respite.
While the defenders prepare for the next wave of attacks, Athrun takes the opportunity to exchange a few words with
Kira
and
Cagalli.
However, the young soldier is still torn between his loyalty to his nation and his love for his friends.
PHASE-40: INTO THE DAWN SKIES
(Broadcast: February 4, 2005)
As the
Alliance
launches another assault,
Athrun
and
Dearka
again join the battle in
Orb's
defense, until the enemy
Gundams
exhaust their energy supplies and withdraw. But
Uzumi
knows that their cause is lost, and during this pause in the battle he gathers his forces for a last stand at
Orb's mass driver.
The final attack begins, and Uzumi carries out his desperate plan. Putting
Cagalli
aboard the Orb warship
Kusanagi,
he sends her into space along with the
Archangel
- then blows up the mass driver and the
Morgenroete
factories, sacrificing himself in the process. While the Alliance takes control of her homeland, Cagalli soars up into space, carrying with her a mysterious parting gift from her father.
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