This episode starts off really quickly, and the urgent background music gives it a very fast pace. As Destiny and Legend launch to engage the enemy, Kira and Athrun abandon their METEORs and head into the final showdown. It has its own super weapon – a Neo-GENESIS cannon – and the first nuclear cartridge scatters the ORB fleet. Their weapons are ineffective against the Requiem’s defenses, and soon a large asteroid base (Gilbert’s) appears over the horizon. Meanwhile, arriving at the moon base where the Requiem is housed, an ORB fleet opens fire. Reaching Station One, Athrun and Kira, who run into Yzak and Dearka but don’t fight them, use their METEOR platforms to cut the relay cylinder apart.

In doing so, Mwu/Neo suddenly regains his memories, and calls Murrue by her given name. However, the man who makes the impossible possible strikes again by blocking the shot and then destroys the Minerva’s cannon. Talia orders the Tannhauser to be fired, and a wide-eyed Murrue can only watch as the blast approaches them. She survives though, and moves back to the Minerva, which is deadlocked with the ArchAngel. They make short work of their opponents, including a shocked Lunamaria who had just heard Meyrin trying to convince her to stop fighting. Back in the fight, the Akatsuki and the DOMs have been sent out. Rey’s last line said that Shinn’s needs to protect the future, evoking an image of Lunamaria in Shinn’s mind, and so Shinn finally tells Gilbert that he feels the same way as Rey.

Shinn seems reluctant to sign on with them, but he remembers Rey telling him about his past, that he’s a clone. As Athrun and Kira disable wave after wave of ZAFT forces, Gilbert and Rey fill Shinn’s head with more propaganda talk. The battle starts, but Shinn and Rey do not participate since they have been moved to Gilbert’s base. After Lacus announces herself, the defending ZAFT forces don’t oppose them until a commander tells them that they are really fighting LOGOS. The ArchAngel and the Eternal join up and head towards the Station One of the Requiem.

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