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− | {{Spbox|Volume | + | {{Spbox|Volume Summary|[[Shizuki Ryouko]], a regular girl dissatisfied with her utopian life, [[contract]]s and becomes a [[magical girl]], [[wish|wishing]] to leave [[Earth]], explore, and "find my place in this universe". Her life rapidly turns anything but ordinary, as day by day wild events pile up and new secrets from her past reveal themselves. She ends up under the tutelage of both [[Tomoe Mami]] and [[Sakura Kyouko]], learns that the [[demon]] attack that led to her [[contract]] was deliberately caused by someone, discovers that she's the descendant of two powerful competing [[matriarchy|matriarchies]], receives a mysterious vision from a magical girl [[Goddess]], finds out her parents have been working on a secret project cloning bodies for [[magical girl]]s to use, receives a special V2 [[TacComp]], and learns about her [[Kuroi Nana|aunt]], protoge of [[Akemi Homura]], whose wish turned [[Ryouko]]'s own [[Kuroi Nakase|mother]] from a [[magical girl]] back to a regular human.<br> |
<br>All along, [[Ryouko]] struggles to adjust, learning as much about magical and military worlds she's entering as she can. Saying goodbye to friends and family, and starting to make new friends among her fellow [[magical girls]], she finally departs [[Earth]], led by her [[wish]] out into a strange new universe. | <br>All along, [[Ryouko]] struggles to adjust, learning as much about magical and military worlds she's entering as she can. Saying goodbye to friends and family, and starting to make new friends among her fellow [[magical girls]], she finally departs [[Earth]], led by her [[wish]] out into a strange new universe. | ||
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In short: [[Ryouko]] becomes a [[magical girl]], and begins to discover her unusual place in the universe.}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] becomes a [[magical girl]], and begins to discover her unusual place in the universe.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|1|A Wish}}|[[Ryouko]] goes to school, dissatisfied with her life. She feels out of place in a world where her family at home and friends at school seem to enjoy the near-utopian [[Earth]], even as a [[Contact War|war]] against an [[Ceph|alien]] menace rages. At school, [[Mandatory Session]] is interrupted by the appearance of [[Tomoe Mami]] nearby, who has taken a detour to check the school for potential recruits with [[Kyubey]], who claims he has found one. The sighting leaves [[Ryouko]] dwelling on the remote possibility of becoming a [[magical girl]], distracting her enough that she unthinkingly agrees to go on a date with another boy from class. [[Simona]], one of her friends, sees that she's unhappy and follows her out to a riverbank with a view of the [[starport]].<br> |
− | <br>[[Mami]], on the other hand, surreptitiously visits [[Kyouko]] in her church to discuss [[the Cult]]'s discovery of irregularities in the [[grief cube]] supply chain. She agrees to look into it and departs, only to encounter a [[demon]] spawn on her way back. At the riverbank, [[Simona]] is about to confess her feelings for [[Ryouko]], when they are suddenly attacked by | + | <br>[[Mami]], on the other hand, surreptitiously visits [[Kyouko]] in her church to discuss [[the Cult]]'s discovery of irregularities in the [[grief cube]] supply chain. She agrees to look into it and departs, only to encounter a [[demon]] spawn on her way back. At the riverbank, [[Simona]] is about to confess her feelings for [[Ryouko]], when they are suddenly attacked by demons. [[Ryouko]] manages to keep the both of them alive for a short while before getting trapped. At the moment she attempts to sacrifice herself to save [[Simona]], [[Mami]] saves them both, and along with [[Kyubey]] explains that [[Ryouko]] has the [[potential]] to make a [[wish]] and become a [[magical girl]]. {{Quote|"I wish I could leave Earth," Ryouko said, looking down, "and explore this world. I want to go where no one else has gone before and find my place in this universe."}} |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] becomes a [[magical girl]]. | In short: [[Ryouko]] becomes a [[magical girl]]. | ||
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− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|2|Fantasma}}|[[Mami]], with some reluctance, separates [[Simona]] from [[Ryouko]] and lets [[Kyouko]] take over the immediate training. [[Kyouko]] runs her through the ropes quickly, learns that [[Ryouko]] has an unprecedented 200km teleportation range, and assigns herself as a mentor along with [[Mami]], who has in the meantime realized that [[Simona]] had a crush on [[Ryouko]]. [[Mami]] advises [[Simona]] not to tell [[Ryouko]] how she feels. [[Ryouko]] fights her first [[demon]]s with [[Kyouko]], and afterwards [[Patricia von Rohr]] shows them a pile of [[grief cube]]s she found, indicating the [[demon]] spawn was deliberate. The [[Incubator]]s swear off responsibility, and all [[Ryouko]] can remember is seeing a woman in the distance just beforehand. [[Kyouko]] promises to investigate. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] discovers that someone deliberately spawned the [[demon]]s which led to her [[contract]]. | In short: [[Ryouko]] discovers that someone deliberately spawned the [[demon]]s which led to her [[contract]]. | ||
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− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|3|Mami Watches a Movie, Part One}}|Disguised, [[Mami]] attends the movie ''[[Akemi]]''. It depicts [[Homura|Homura's]] upbringing in an orphanage and [[wish]], then [[Sayaka|Sayaka's]] death, which triggers a vision of the [[Goddess]] for Homura, changing her personality markedly. It then moves on to [[Yuma|Yuma's]] joining, and the new [[Mitakihara Four]] founding the [[MSY]]. The movie then montages through the [[MSY|MSY's]] history to jump ahead to the [[Cephalopod]] first attack on [[Aurora]], after which [[Homura]] rallies the [[MSY]] to send a massive force of [[magical girl]]s to [[New Athens]] to stop the next attack. |
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− | In short: ''[[Akemi | + | In short: ''[[Akemi]]'' depicts [[Homura|Homura's]] life up until [[New Athens]].}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|4|Mami Watches a Movie, Part Two}}|''[[Akemi]]'' depicts [[Mami]] and [[Homura]] directing a surprise assault on the [[Cephalopod]]s at [[New Athens]]. Initially the battle goes well, and the [[Human]] forces on the ground rally, but the aliens deploy stronger measures in turn. [[Homura]] goes out to personally lead the counterattack, but the combination of stealth armor and orbital strikes is too much, and she falls in battle... only to find that her [[soul gem]] refuses to fill up with [[grief]], preventing her from being taken away by the [[Law of Cycles]], to her despair. [[Homura]] then suddenly heals from her wounds, and her white wings are replaced by huge, horrible black wings. Almost entirely on her own power, she leads the counterattack to victory, at the end personally redirecting an orbital superweapon back at the [[Cephalopod]] [[fleet]].<br> |
− | <br>In the final scene of the movie, [[Kyouko]] argues | + | <br>In the final scene of the movie, [[Kyouko]] argues that the battle proves [[Homura|Homura's]] faith has merit to an unconvinced [[Mami]], only for both of them to be interrupted by [[Homura|Homura's]] arrival. [[Homura]] announces her resignation from the [[MSY]], leaving one of her [[The Ribbon|ribbons]] with them, and declares that she is leaving to look for her [[goddess]] and will protect the world another way. The movie over, [[Mami]] goes to leave [[Earth]], beginning her endless work anew with her Version Two [[TacComp]] [[Machina]]. |
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− | In short: ''[[Akemi | + | In short: ''[[Akemi]]'' depicts [[Homura|Homura's]] transformation, victory, and disappearance at [[New Athens]].}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|5|Family}}|[[Kyouko]] and [[Ryouko]] tell [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] parents and grandfather that she has contracted, to their horror. [[Kyouko]] defends [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] choice, and explains some of the [[magical girl]] system to them, though they prove to know more than most. Before [[Ryouko]] goes to bed, [[Kuroi Nakase|her mother]] comes to talk with her, expressing her disappointment that [[Ryouko]] lied when she promised not to [[contract]], but also just talking with her. After watching [[Ryouko]] [[transform]] and discussing her weapon, the arbalest, she leaves [[Ryouko]] with the request to tell her [[Ryouko's grandmother|grandmother]] (who had disappeared to join the military when [[Ryouko]] was a child) that her family was "sorry", should [[Ryouko]] meet her.<br> |
− | <br>After [[Ryouko]] falls asleep, [[Kyouko]] sticks around to gather information on her family situation as per procedure. [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] grandfather [[Kuroi Abe]] willingly helps her out, | + | <br>After [[Ryouko]] falls asleep, [[Kyouko]] still sticks around to gather information on her family situation as per procedure. [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] grandfather [[Kuroi Abe]] willingly helps her out, telling her that [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] parents are near divorce, though [[Ryouko]] doesn't realize it, and that they know so much about magic because they're researchers. He also mentions that [[Ryouko]] has an [[Kuroi Nana|aunt]] she doesn't know about. That night, [[Ryouko]] dreams of an old encounter with a [[magical girl]], and finds that she still has the bracelet the girl gave her. She also recalled an old memory of her [[Ryouko's grandmother|grandmother]] talking about [[Kuroi Nana|her aunt]], though she doesn't understand it. After talking to [[Simona]] and her family a bit, [[Ryouko]] spends the morning reading through a swath of informational messages about her new life. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] tells her family she has [[contract|contracted]].}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] tells her family she has [[contract|contracted]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|6|Military}}|[[Mami]] remembers the [[Mitakihara Four]]'s celebration of [[October Three]] with [[Homura]], shortly before the [[Contact War]]. The four of them poke fun at each other—including about [[Homura]]'s secret pupil and [[Kyouko]]'s "transgressions"—and eventually [[Mami]] suggests that they take a long vacation from the [[MSY]] together, only for the others to reluctantly shoot the idea down. In the present, [[Mami]] arrives at the [[starport]] with her bodyguards and meets with [[Marianne Francois]], her intelligence officer, who she instructs to secretly investigate the [[grief cube]] supply chain as [[Kyouko]] asked. Later arriving at [[Carthago Shipyard]] via scramjet, then space elevator, then [[Navigator]], she attends a meeting of the [[General Staff]].<br> |
− | + | <br>During the meeting, the Chair of the [[General Staff]] [[Roland Erwynmark]] reveals that the [[Cephalopods]] have been discovered constructing a [[wormhole stabilizer]] in the [[Kepler-37 System]], at the tip of the ongoing [[Euphratic Incursion]]. This would allow the aliens to directly transport reinforcements into the system, within [[Blink]] distance of the [[Core World]] [[Optatum]], and so an immediate [[MagOps]] operation is planned to destroy it. [[Erwynmark]] then announces that he's appointing [[Mami]] as a special [[Euphratic Sector]] commander, over some opposition from her opponents on the Staff. | |
− | <br>During the meeting, the Chair of the [[General Staff]] [[Roland Erwynmark]] reveals that the [[ | ||
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In short: [[Mami]] is promoted, and tasked with destroying the discovered [[wormhole stabilizer]].}} | In short: [[Mami]] is promoted, and tasked with destroying the discovered [[wormhole stabilizer]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|7|Southern Group}}|[[Kyouko]] wakes up (with [[Kishida Maki]] at her side) and while making the rounds at her [[Kyouko's Church|church]] discovers that [[Maki]] has painted the [[Goddess]] with pink hair, a previously unknown trait. However, [[Kyouko]] has to immediately leave to see [[Yuma]] about the saturated [[grief cube]]s incident. On the way, [[Kyouko]] remembers when she first met [[Yuma]], in a confrontation with the [[Southern Group]] shortly after [[Homura]] had first joined the team, before her personality change. [[Kyouko]] had immediately taken sympathy on her, and telepathically invited her to switch sides, though the very young [[Yuma]] had angrily refused after [[Kyouko]] insulted [[Oriko]], who had saved [[Yuma|Yuma's]] life.<br> |
− | <br>[[Kyouko|Kyouko's]] reverie is briefly interrupted by [[Maki]], who tells her the idea of the pink hair came from [[Shirou Asaka]]. [[Kyouko]] then further recalls the next two times she saw [[Yuma]]: first, months later after [[Sayaka|Sayaka's]] death, in a chance encounter at a store where she had revealed she was doing "research" with [[Oriko]], and second, two years after that, when [[Kyouko]], [[Mami]], and [[Homura]] had saved her after the deaths of [[Oriko]] and the rest of | + | <br>[[Kyouko|Kyouko's]] reverie is briefly interrupted by [[Maki]], who tells her the idea of the pink hair came from [[Shirou Asaka]]. [[Kyouko]] then further recalls the next two times she saw [[Yuma]]: first, months later after [[Sayaka|Sayaka's]] death, in a chance encounter at a store where she had revealed she was doing "research" with [[Oriko]], and second, two years after that, when [[Kyouko]], [[Mami]], and [[Homura]] had saved her after the deaths of [[Oriko]] and the rest of her team. After that, they had [[Befriending|Befriended]] her, and once [[Yuma]] recovered she joined them as one of the [[Mitakihara Four]]. Eventually Yuma had told them what had really happened the night [[Oriko]], and they resolved to keep it secret.<br> |
− | <br>As [[Kyouko]] arrives at [[MSY]] [[Governmental Affairs]] to see [[Yuma]], she | + | <br>As [[Kyouko]] arrives at [[MSY]] [[Governmental Affairs]] to see [[Yuma]], she recalls finally [[Homura]] telling [[Yuma]] that the [[Goddess]] provided an afterlife for [[magical girl]]s, the only time [[Kyouko]] ever heard her say it out loud. |
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In short: [[Kyouko]] remembers how [[Yuma]] ended up joining the [[Mitakihara Four]].}} | In short: [[Kyouko]] remembers how [[Yuma]] ended up joining the [[Mitakihara Four]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|8|Church and State}}|[[Yuma]] runs out to greet [[Kyouko]] like an older sister, herself having taken on a nine-year-old form, and [[Kyouko]] is greeted by her Goverance partner [[MG]] as well. [[Kyouko]] and [[Yuma]] then meet privately to discuss the irregularities in the [[grief cube]] supply chain, and the further reports of [[magical girl]]s going missing, and [[Yuma]] agrees to investigate. When [[Kyouko]] brings up the [[grief cube]] incident with [[Ryouko]], [[Yuma]] immediately deduces that the [[grief cube]]s were super-saturated with grief—a possible state kept very secret, though they don't have a sample to prove it. Before leaving, [[Kyouko]] recommends that [[Yuma]] visit [[The Ribbon]], but she demures just as [[Mami]] always does too, instead giving her an [[Incubator]] plushie.<br> |
− | <br>[[Kyouko]] checks with [[Kyubey]] briefly about the | + | <br>[[Kyouko]] checks with [[Kyubey]] briefly about the cubes, but he does not provide any new information, and so [[Kyouko]] ends up back at [[Kyouko's church|her church]], where she meets with [[Patricia von Rohr]] and [[Shirou Asaka]]. [[Patrica]] reveals that she kept some of the [[grief cube]]s from the incident after sensing something strange about them, and [[Kyouko]] tells her to inform [[Yuma]] through the plushie, which turned out to be enchanted as a [[telepathy]]-enhancer. [[Kyouko]] also gets [[Asaka]] to agree to share the details of the [[Goddess]]'s hair with the [[Theological Council]], before going to give a sermon on the terrible fate the [[Goddess]] saves [[magical girl]]s from, and to announce they'll be updating the statue of the [[Goddess]]. |
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− | In short: [[Kyouko]] and [[Yuma]] discover that the [[grief cube]]s | + | In short: [[Kyouko]] and [[Yuma]] discover that the [[grief cube]]s from the incident were super-saturated.}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|9|Echoes}}|[[Ryouko]] arrives at [[Kyouko's church]], which holds [[MSY]] living quarters and local military facilities underground, in order to get her military upgrades. [[Patricia]] and [[Asaka]] guide her through the process. [[Patricia]] notes that [[Ryouko]] has an extremely unusual genetic profile, requiring some adjustments to the process, and then begins the procedure. [[Ryouko]] watches in a semi-VR experience as the procedure installs a [[TacComp]], removing implants that are useless for [[magical girl]]s, and installs a [[Permanent Awareness Module]], among other things. Testing out her new capabilities, [[Ryouko]] sends [[Asaka]] a memory snapshot of the [[magical girl]] who gave her the bracelet she rediscovered after her [[contract]]. [[Asaka]] reacts oddly, but continues on to show [[Ryouko]] the armory and get her equipped with the required basics.<br> |
− | <br>Then she cuts the tour short, instead bringing [[Ryouko]] to the [[Ribbon Chamber]]. At the [[Ribbon]], [[Ryouko]] finds herself in a confusing vision, seeing among other things [[Yuma]] at the death of [[Oriko]], [[Simona]] looking directly at her on her first day of class, [[Asaka]] receiving instruction from the [[Goddess]] to wait for the girl who sent her the memory [[Ryouko]] did, the [[Goddess]] herself briefly showing her face and telling [[Ryouko]] to keep it a secret, and the death of [[Kyouko]] on some sort of mission involving submarines. Both of them watching, [[Patricia]] comments to [[Clarisse | + | <br>Then she cuts the tour short, instead bringing [[Ryouko]] to the [[Ribbon Chamber]]. At the [[Ribbon]], [[Ryouko]] finds herself in a confusing vision, seeing among other things [[Yuma]] at the death of [[Oriko]], [[Simona]] looking directly at her on her first day of class, [[Asaka]] receiving instruction from the [[Goddess]] to wait for the girl who sent her the memory [[Ryouko]] did, the [[Goddess]] herself briefly showing her face and telling [[Ryouko]] to keep it a secret, and the death of [[Kyouko]] on some sort of mission involving submarines. Both of them watching, [[Patricia]] comments to [[Clarisse]] that for a few reasons, including [[Clarisse]]'s presence, she's not that surprised by the vision. |
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− | In short: [[Ryouko]] | + | In short: [[Ryouko]] gets a vision from the [[Goddess]].}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|10|Brigadier}}|[[Ryouko]], brought before the [[Theological Council]] to relate her vision, talks over her vision of [[Kyouko]]'s death, determining with them it was on a colony world and that what actually killed [[Kyouko]] was likely a laser, not a misfire from the submarines. She keeps the rest of the vision from them, though [[Asaka]] deduces easily that she saw the [[Goddess]]. [[Asaka]] goes on to explain the circumstances of her own vision, where she met again with her dead friend [[Alice]], whose death under her command had torn her apart. Now that she has recovered and her vision is resolved, [[Asaka]] tells [[Ryouko]] she plans to return to the front with [[Mami]], who has just been promoted.<br> |
− | <br>Later, [[Kyouko]] talks with [[Mami]] about [[Ryouko]], noting that her family tree is dense with | + | <br>Later, [[Kyouko]] talks with [[Mami]] about [[Ryouko]], noting that her family tree is dense with contractees and connected to the Shizuki and Kuroi [[matriarchy|matriarchies]], that [[Patricia]] found a number of novel mutations in her genetics, and that her friend [[Simona]] has some strange anomalies in her recorded past. Unsure what to make of this, and with no further progress on the [[grief cube]] incident, [[Mami]] agrees at [[Kyouko]]'s request to take on [[Asaka]] as a general, with [[Patricia]] and [[Maki]] as two of [[Asaka]]'s attachment. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] grapples with her vision, and [[Asaka]] explains how her story connects.}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] grapples with her vision, and [[Asaka]] explains how her story connects.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|11|Remains of a Life}}|[[Ryouko]] sets up her [[TacComp]] and chooses [[Atsuko Arisu]] as her designated psychiatrist, then goes out to eat dinner with her family and eventually ends up (through a test of her newfound right to drink alcohol without intoxication filters) bringing them to a firing range at [[Kyouko's church]]. There they visit other facilities, including a sparring area where they meeet [[Risa Flores]], but [[Ryouko]]'s parents are surprisingly well-informed on the subjects. Afterwards, [[Ryouko]] and her [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]] visit her spot near the [[starport]], and talk about their impending military lives, and the disappearance of [[Ryouko's grandmother]], both remembering her saying that she had lost something.<br> |
− | <br>[[Ryouko]] receives her [[SW-155 | + | <br>[[Ryouko]] receives her [[SW-155]] pistol, and her [[Kuroi Nakase|mother]] tells her she's planned a going away party. [[Ryouko]] then meets her friends at a showing of ''[[Akemi]]'' and finally reveals her [[contract]] to them, also inviting them to the party. Watching the movie, [[Ryouko]] reflects on [[Homura]]'s beliefs, and the fact that her vision contradicts the movie's portrayal of [[Yuma]]. Afterwards, [[Ryouko]] asks [[Simona]] what she was going to say to her before the [[demon]] attack, but [[Simona]] tells her to forget about it. [[Ryouko]] also asks about when she looked directly at her on her first day of class (as she saw in her vision), but [[Simona]] claims it was nothing.<br> |
<br>Elsewhere, [[Yuma]] convinces [[Kyouko]] to have a spy bug planted on [[Ryouko]] for her protection, and warns her to be careful herself given [[Ryouko]]'s vision. | <br>Elsewhere, [[Yuma]] convinces [[Kyouko]] to have a spy bug planted on [[Ryouko]] for her protection, and warns her to be careful herself given [[Ryouko]]'s vision. | ||
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− | In short: [[Ryouko]] spends time with her family and friends as she prepares to leave for | + | In short: [[Ryouko]] spends time with her family and friends as she prepares to leave for war.}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|12|Demon Hunter}}|[[Ryouko]] receives a [[CubeBot]] and three [[grief cube]]s, then studies combat doctrines with her [[TacComp]] until [[Kyouko]] invites her to join a [[demon]] hunt. [[Patricia von Rohr|Patricia]] and [[Risa Flores|Risa]] meet her at [[Kyouko's church]], where [[Kyouko]] appears briefly but leaves, clearly bothered by the impending departure of [[Kishida Maki]]. On the hunt itself, [[Ryouko]] uses her teleportation to rescue civilians, move other [[magical girl]]s in for attacks, and so forth, finding herself enjoying the combat. The hunt is interrupted by the injury of one girl, who loses an arm and part of her face, but [[Ryouko]] simply teleports them to the armory hospital, where she is told they will be fine shortly, and the rest of the hunt continues without incident. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] goes on a [[demon]] hunt.}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] goes on a [[demon]] hunt.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|13|Differences of Knowledge}}|The next day, [[Ryouko]] goes to an [[MSY]] social gathering for new recruits, finding [[Risa Flores]] there as a chaperone, and meets a new girl named [[Nakihara Asami]], who shares her desire to explore new worlds, albeit as a xenobiologist. They get along well, and continue on to the next scheduled event together. The following day, [[Ryouko]] meets [[Atsuko Arisu]] for her psychiatrist appointment, who manages to get her freely talking about many things, including her wish, and who also recommends that she talk with her parents about her family ancestry.<br> |
− | <br>That night, [[ | + | <br>That night, [[Ryouko]]'s father interrupts her reading on military subjects to take her to [[Prometheus]], where she meets [[Joanne Valentin]]—who appears to be the woman she saw shortly before the demon attack that led to her contract—and receives an upgrade to Version Two for her [[TacComp]]. Afterwards, her father secretly takes her into [[Prometheus]]'s cloning facility where he and her mother work, which he explains is used to provide new bodies to [[magical girl]]s who are reduced to [[soul gem]]s. [[Ryouko]] is shocked, especially upon seeing the beginning stages of her own clone, and bothered at the secrets kept from her. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] learns about the [[MSY]]'s [[cloning program]].}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] learns about the [[MSY]]'s [[cloning program]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|14|Bloodlines}}|[[Yuma]], [[Kyouko]], and [[Mami]] decide [[Ryouko]]'s discovery of the [[cloning program]] isn't a problem, and discuss the incident that led to [[Ryouko]]'s contract. [[Mami]] remembers seeing [[Joanne Valentin]] at the movie theatre shortly afterwards, and [[Yuma]] confirms that she was the woman near the [[demon]] spawn, and moreover that she mysteriously changed her whole life shortly after the [[Contact War]] began. Investigations into [[Simona]] and the grief cube supply chain problems [[Kyouko]] reported have unearthed more discrepancies, but nothing major, and [[Risa Flores]] hasn't reported anything from her watch over [[Ryouko]], and so they disperse.<br> |
− | <br>Back at home, [[Ryouko]] reads the file on her family with her improving [[TacComp]], and discovers that her [[Ryouko's grandmother|grandmother]] is stationed at the [[Apollo]] shipyard. Moreover, when viewing her family tree she finds much of it explicitly redacted, with the revealed portions being enough to show that she | + | <br>Back at home, [[Ryouko]] reads the file on her family with her improving [[TacComp]], and discovers that her [[Ryouko's grandmother|grandmother]] is stationed at the [[Apollo]] shipyard. Moreover, when viewing her family tree she finds much of it explicitly redacted, with the revealed portions being enough to show that she was a descendant of both the Shizuki and Kuroi [[Matriarchy|Matriarchies]]. Later, [[Kuroi Nakase|Ryouko's mother]] comes to talk to her, and [[Ryouko]] confronts her about the secrets she's kept. [[Kuroi Nakase|Nakase]] says she's kept the secrets to prevent [[Ryouko]] from contracting, and will explain more tomorrow at the going away party.<br> |
− | <br> | + | <br>The next day, Ryouko receives a number of gifts, including a necklace with the Shizuki crest from [[Shizuki Koto]], her paternal grandfather, and a ruby ring with a helix inside, one of a pair from [[Simona]]. [[Kyouko]] arrives, and informs [[Ryouko]] that both her grandparents will be placed in slightly safer positions as part of standard procedure, her [[Ryouko's grandmother|grandmother]] in particular being moved to the shipyards. Next to arrive is [[Matriarchy|Matriarch]] [[Kuroi Kana]], who begins an attempt to recruit [[Ryouko]] into the [[Black Heart]] (and reveals that [[Ryouko]]'s bracelet is in fact a Kuroi insignia), but she is immediately followed by [[Matriarchy|Matriarch]] [[Shizuki Sayaka]] and her own recruiting pitch. [[Kyouko]]'s poor intervention is followed by [[Atsuko Arisu]]'s successful one—her presence at the party revealing that she must be related somehow to [[Ryouko]].<br> |
<br>This is all further interrupted by the sudden appearance of [[Kuroi Nana]], the [[magical girl]] who gave [[Ryouko]] her Kuroi bracelet and until now her entirely secret aunt, a fact which displeases [[Ryouko]] greatly. [[Kuroi Nana]] brings her aside, promising to help explain the situation, and revealing that she's part of the secret [[Internal Security]], and has been searching for [[Akemi Homura]] on behalf of the [[MSY]]. With that said, they begin a memory transfer. | <br>This is all further interrupted by the sudden appearance of [[Kuroi Nana]], the [[magical girl]] who gave [[Ryouko]] her Kuroi bracelet and until now her entirely secret aunt, a fact which displeases [[Ryouko]] greatly. [[Kuroi Nana]] brings her aside, promising to help explain the situation, and revealing that she's part of the secret [[Internal Security]], and has been searching for [[Akemi Homura]] on behalf of the [[MSY]]. With that said, they begin a memory transfer. | ||
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In short: [[Ryouko]] meets [[Kuroi Nana]], her previously-secret aunt. }} | In short: [[Ryouko]] meets [[Kuroi Nana]], her previously-secret aunt. }} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|15|Samsara}}|[[Ryouko]] experiences her [[Kuroi Nana|aunt's]] memories. [[Kuroi Nana|Nana]] investigates the strange behavior of her younger sister, finding with the help of a computer specialist that her sister's new friends weren't who they seemed, and secretly following them on a [[demon]] hunt. [[Kuroi Nakase|Nakase]], in reality a [[magical girl]], rushes to save [[Kuroi Nana|Nana]] when [[demon]]s attack, getting gravely injured in the process. [[Kuroi Nana|Nana]] contracts to turn her sister mundane again, to her sister's relief. However, all this seriously strains their family, as their [[Ryouko's grandmother|mother]] isn't allowed to know about the [[MSY]]. When [[Homura]] offers to mentor [[Kuroi Nana|Nana]], she accepts, and all but leaves the family. After [[New Athens]] revealed the [[MSY]], [[Ryouko's grandmother]] blamed it for both her mother's death and her family's troubles, and insisted that [[Ryouko]] be kept from contracting.<br> |
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<br>After [[Ryouko]] surfaces from the memories, [[Kuroi Nana|Nana]] closes off by telling [[Ryouko]] that she had just reconciled with [[Ryouko's grandmother]], and they rejoin the party. | <br>After [[Ryouko]] surfaces from the memories, [[Kuroi Nana|Nana]] closes off by telling [[Ryouko]] that she had just reconciled with [[Ryouko's grandmother]], and they rejoin the party. | ||
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In short: [[Ryouko]] learns more of her family history from [[Kuroi Nana|her aunt]].}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] learns more of her family history from [[Kuroi Nana|her aunt]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|16|Light of the Sky}}|[[Ryouko]] says goodbye to friends and family at the starport, journeying with [[Asami]] by scramjet and then space elevator. While riding the elevator, [[Ryouko]]'s [[TacComp]] names herself [[Clarisse]] after [[Clarisse van Rossum]], and [[Ryouko]] muses that her [[wish]] may have somehow changed the past, causing all the sudden revelations of the past week. At the top, the new [[magical girl]]s take a [[Navigator]] shuttle to the [[HSS Spectre]], an old [[frigate]], who leads them around herself. When they reach the [[FTL]] core, [[Ryouko]]'s gem suddenly begins to shine. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] finally leaves [[Earth]] with [[Asami]].}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] finally leaves [[Earth]] with [[Asami]].}} | ||
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=== Interlude I: Underworld Dreams === | === Interlude I: Underworld Dreams === | ||
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: ''[[Kugimiya Ito]] dreams of his old girlfriend [[Nakanishi Aiko]], as he digs into a transformed Japanese underworld. | : ''[[Kugimiya Ito]] dreams of his old girlfriend [[Nakanishi Aiko]], as he digs into a transformed Japanese underworld. | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{ch|17|Interlude I: Underworld Dreams}}|[[Kugimiya Ito]], a police detective in [[Mitakihara]], investigates the disappearance of a local teenage girl with his junior partner. Meeting the girl's parents makes him suspect abuse is the culprit, and reminds him of his old teenage sweetheart [[Nakanishi Aiko]], who disappeared in similar circumstances. Back at headquarters, while analyzing the case's evidence electronically, he happens upon an image of the girl meeting what looks to him like [[Nakanishi Aiko|Aiko]]. When he confronts the missing girl's friends about the [[Nakanishi Aiko|Aiko]]-lookalike, they unconvincingly deny knowing anything until a Yakuza-affiliated lawyer suddenly shows up. Investigating this lead leads him to a [[D&E]] logistics building, where he's confronted by Yakuza and nearly killed for knowing too much, until [[Nakanishi Aiko|Aiko]] suddenly intervenes, still the same age as when she disappeared.<br> |
− | <br>Reeling, and told to drop the case by [[Nakanishi Aiko|Aiko]], [[Kugimiya Ito|Ito]] returns to headquarters, only to be met by | + | <br>Reeling, and told to drop the case by [[Nakanishi Aiko|Aiko]], [[Kugimiya Ito|Ito]] returns to headquarters, only to be met by an Interpol agent who has been tracking similar mysterious cases. [[Kugimiya Ito|Ito]] is asked to make contact with [[Nakanishi Aiko|Aiko]] again and investigate further. He successfully makes contact, and is brought to [[D&E]] headquarters with his partner, to be greeted by [[Nakanishi Aiko|Aiko]], who treats him just like she did when they were dating, to his embarrassed pleasure. They meet the CEO of [[D&E]], who turns out to be [[Sakura Kyouko]] under an assumed name, and who explains the situation, including the fact that they already knew about the Interpol investigation. [[Kugimiya Ito|Ito]] agrees to drop the investigation if he can confirm for himself that the missing girl is alright, and afterward retires to be with [[Nakanishi Aiko|Aiko]] again. |
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− | In short: [[Kugimiya Ito|A police detective]] happens across his [[Nakanishi Aiko|long-missing girlfriend]] and discovers she | + | In short: [[Kugimiya Ito|A police detective]] happens across his [[Nakanishi Aiko|long-missing girlfriend]] and discovers she was part of an [[MSY]] Yakuza takeover.}} |
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− | + | {{Spbox|Volume Summary|[[Ryouko]] completes her military simulation training, growing close to [[Asami]], and gets her first taste of real combat shortly afterwards as her convoy is unexpectedly and suspiciously attacked by [[Ceph]] fighters. After [[Ryouko]]'s successful defense there, [[Asami]] suddenly confesses her feelings to [[Ryouko]], who doesn't know how to respond, and then both are recalled to the tip of the [[Euphratic Incursion]], where the first attempt to destroy the [[wormhole stabilizer]] has failed.<br> | |
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<br>[[Ryouko]] is assigned to a [[MagOps]] team, and begins training while still wrestling with family and relationship confusion, including the sudden revelation of her [[TacComp]] [[Clarisse]]'s sentience. The eventual battle begins poorly, as the wormhole unexpectedly activates right at the start. [[Ryouko]]'s team presses on, only to find the mission much more difficult than expected, and they slowly attrit team members. They finally destroy the [[wormhole stabilizer]], but as the [[Goddess]] reveals in a vision, the [[Ceph]] had already amassed a stealthed fleet large enough to take the system. Having realized that her power uses wormholes, [[Ryouko]] reopens the [[Ceph]]'s wormhole and sends the fleet back through, saving the day.<br> | <br>[[Ryouko]] is assigned to a [[MagOps]] team, and begins training while still wrestling with family and relationship confusion, including the sudden revelation of her [[TacComp]] [[Clarisse]]'s sentience. The eventual battle begins poorly, as the wormhole unexpectedly activates right at the start. [[Ryouko]]'s team presses on, only to find the mission much more difficult than expected, and they slowly attrit team members. They finally destroy the [[wormhole stabilizer]], but as the [[Goddess]] reveals in a vision, the [[Ceph]] had already amassed a stealthed fleet large enough to take the system. Having realized that her power uses wormholes, [[Ryouko]] reopens the [[Ceph]]'s wormhole and sends the fleet back through, saving the day.<br> | ||
− | <br>However, the battle was not without its | + | <br>However, the battle was not without its casualties - [[Asami]] lost her body after nearly grief-spiraling upon hearing of [[Ryouko]]'s apparent death, [[Ryouko's grandmother]] dies in a [[Ceph]] raid, and [[Erwynmark]] dies as well, among others. Coming to grips with her sudden fame and new life amidst memorial services and the news of her parents' divorce, [[Ryouko]] decides to become [[Asami]]'s girlfriend. But there are more surprises in store: as the [[Goddess]] - who [[Ryouko]] discovers she is distantly related to - reveals in another vision, [[Ryouko]] will find herself caught up in even greater events soon enough. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] delivers the [[Battle of Orpheus]], and connects with [[Asami]], as her old life falls away.}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] delivers the [[Battle of Orpheus]], and connects with [[Asami]], as her old life falls away.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|18|To the Ground}}|The [[General Staff]] watches as a [[MagOps]] mission to take out the [[wormhole stabilizer]] fails, all members killed, after they are detected teleporting through [[Orpheus]]'s atmosphere. Afterwards, [[Mami]] dreams of her past failures, disturbing her [[TacComp]] [[Machina]].<br> |
<br>On the planet [[Giungla]], [[Ryouko]] is embedded in a military unit along with other [[magical girl]]s, fighting against a [[Ceph]] invasion. She goes off mostly on her own to successfully rescue a soldier from her unit, and then joins up with a team of [[magical girl]]s to teleport into an alien attack column, again with significant success. | <br>On the planet [[Giungla]], [[Ryouko]] is embedded in a military unit along with other [[magical girl]]s, fighting against a [[Ceph]] invasion. She goes off mostly on her own to successfully rescue a soldier from her unit, and then joins up with a team of [[magical girl]]s to teleport into an alien attack column, again with significant success. | ||
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In short: The initial attempt to destroy the [[wormhole stabilizer]] fails, as [[Ryouko]] gains combat experience elsewhere.}} | In short: The initial attempt to destroy the [[wormhole stabilizer]] fails, as [[Ryouko]] gains combat experience elsewhere.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|19|To the Sky}}|Finding that she enjoys the combat, [[Ryouko]] works hard to sustain the [[human]] forces, but the arrival of a major [[Ceph]] fleet in system forces a general evacuation. They begin taking heavy losses, and [[Ryouko]] quickly becomes acting-Commander. [[Asami]] dies, [[Ryouko]] enters [[emotional suppression]], and just barely escapes... only to suddenly wake up from the accelerated VR simulation.<br> |
− | <br>Calmed by [[Clarisse]] and relieved to see [[Asami]] alive, [[Ryouko]] heads back to their shared room in the training center on [[New Athens]]. [[Clarisse]] recommends that they read some "messages" together, which turn out to be relationship proposals for [[Ryouko]]. [[Asami]] comments that she had been warned this might happen, due to [[Ryouko]]'s mentors and heritage. The next day, [[Asami]] tells [[Ryouko]] that her | + | <br>Calmed by [[Clarisse]] and relieved to see [[Asami]] alive, [[Ryouko]] heads back to their shared room in the training center on [[New Athens]]. [[Clarisse]] recommends that they read some "messages" together, which turn out to be relationship proposals for [[Ryouko]]. [[Asami]] comments that she had been warned this might happen, due to [[Ryouko]]'s mentors and heritage. The next day, [[Asami]] tells [[Ryouko]] that her wish was for her parents to stay together and understand each other, and [[Ryouko]] relays her own wish, as they look forward together towards the end of training. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] and [[Asami]] finish simulation training.}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] and [[Asami]] finish simulation training.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|20|Relativity}}|[[Kishida Maki]] remembers how she contracted and later met [[Kyouko]], dating, but breaking up after a fight over [[Maki]]'s decision to head to the front, and [[Kyouko]]'s refusal to explain her history with [[Miki Sayaka]], a near lookalike. Stationed on [[Apollo]] with [[Patricia]] and [[Asaka]], [[Maki]] then heads out, completing another mission aboveground to secure a building back from the [[Ceph.]]<br> |
− | <br>Headed to [[Acheron]] with [[Asami]] and | + | <br>Headed to [[Acheron]] with [[Asami]] and new friend from training [[Meiqing]], [[Ryouko]] suddenly notices a bright flash from her [[soul gem]]. Soon, the source is discovered by the ship, [[Laplace]], to be [[Ceph]] fighters. The early warning allows them to dodge the initial missile attack, but eschewing standard doctrine, the [[Ceph]] turn around for another assault, forcing the transport's [[magical girl]]'s to fight them in space combat, with [[Ryouko]] taking charge. The fight goes well, but the final ship detonates its core in a desperate but futile attempt to kill them.<br> |
<br>While recovering from the ensuing protective fugue, [[Clarisse]] reveals to [[Ryouko]] that she has uncovered the memory of her vision, and is in fact sentient. Afterwards, they arrive at [[Acheron]], minor heroes, and [[Ryouko]] and [[Asami]] attend a celebration of [[October Three]] together. | <br>While recovering from the ensuing protective fugue, [[Clarisse]] reveals to [[Ryouko]] that she has uncovered the memory of her vision, and is in fact sentient. Afterwards, they arrive at [[Acheron]], minor heroes, and [[Ryouko]] and [[Asami]] attend a celebration of [[October Three]] together. | ||
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In short: [[Ryouko]]'s convoy is attacked unsuccessfully by [[Ceph]] fighters.}} | In short: [[Ryouko]]'s convoy is attacked unsuccessfully by [[Ceph]] fighters.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|21|Discontinuity}}|[[Mami]], [[Kyouko]], and [[Yuma]] meet virtually to celebrate [[October Three]], and discuss the mysteriousness of [[Simona]], the unlikely and seemingly irresponsible attack on [[Ryouko]]'s convoy, and think of the missing [[Homura]] they used to celebrate with.<br> |
− | <br>[[Ryouko]] talks with [[Kuroi Nakase|her mother]] about training and suitors, but fails to mention the attack on her convoy. [[Ryouko]] then goes with [[Asami]] to see a basketball game, and then to a volcanic spa, noting that [[Asami]] is acting strangely, and finding that she isn't enjoying the time on | + | <br>[[Ryouko]] talks with [[Kuroi Nakase|her mother]] about training and suitors, but fails to mention the attack on her convoy. [[Ryouko]] then goes with [[Asami]] to see a basketball game, and then to a volcanic spa, noting that [[Asami]] is acting strangely, and finding that she isn't enjoying the time on a colony world herself as much as she expected. At the spa, [[Asami]] suddenly confesses her romantic feelings to a stunned [[Ryouko]], who promises to think about it - they have little time to reflect, as they are at that moment recalled to active duty in the [[Kepler-37]] system, the tip of the [[Euphratic Incursion]]. |
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In short: [[Asami]] confesses her feelings to [[Ryouko]].}} | In short: [[Asami]] confesses her feelings to [[Ryouko]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|22|Shifting Winds}}|Now on [[Mami]]'s flagship, the [[HHS Zhukov]], and unable to stop thinking about [[Asami]], [[Ryouko]] is awarded a medal for her performance during the [[Ceph]] attack on her convoy by the Field Marshall. [[Mami]] then brings her to the bridge, where they enter simulation as [[Mami]] explains the strategic situation. This is interrupted by a perfunctory [[Ceph]] attack, which [[Ryouko]] watches from simulation.<br> |
<br>Afterwards, they reenter the simulation to meet [[Erwynmark]], and [[Ryouko]] is told about the planned second wormhole mission, which requires her teleportation capabilities. [[Ryouko]] is to be sent down to [[Apollo]] to meet with the rest of the team (and her [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]]) to prepare.<br> | <br>Afterwards, they reenter the simulation to meet [[Erwynmark]], and [[Ryouko]] is told about the planned second wormhole mission, which requires her teleportation capabilities. [[Ryouko]] is to be sent down to [[Apollo]] to meet with the rest of the team (and her [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]]) to prepare.<br> | ||
− | <br>Resting after the earlier battle, [[Mami]] dreams of the destruction of her apartment by [[Oriko]], which reunited her with [[Kyouko]], and of other old memories, followed by a strange dream in which she and | + | <br>Resting after the earlier battle, [[Mami]] dreams of the destruction of her apartment by [[Oriko]], which reunited her with [[Kyouko]], and of other old memories, followed by a strange dream in which she and some unknown girl important to her were in a plane crash. |
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In short: [[Ryouko]] is assigned to the second [[wormhole stabilizer]] mission on [[Orpheus]].}} | In short: [[Ryouko]] is assigned to the second [[wormhole stabilizer]] mission on [[Orpheus]].}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|23|Lost Love}}|Along with others, [[Mami]] plans Humanity's counteroffensive to support the [[Orpheus]] mission and end the [[Euphratic Incursion]]. Meeting with [[Erwynmark]], who will also lead the battle, they conclude that their success rests on the [[MagOps]] mission.<br> |
− | <br>[[Ryouko]] thinks of her | + | <br>[[Ryouko]] thinks of her friends - including [[Chiaki]] on [[Earth]], who always teased [[Ryouko]] about relationships - and ends up calling [[Meiqing]], who insists that she call [[Asami]], who is broken up over [[Ryouko]]'s non-answer to her confession. However, there isn't time, as the [[HSS Raven]] brings her down to [[Apollo]], where [[Ryouko]] meets up with [[Kuroi Abe|her grandfather]], who was seriously injured in the fighting but recovering easily. They share some time together, as [[Ryouko]] informs him that she's going on a dangerous mission. Her [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]] tells [[Ryouko]] that her family already knew about the attack on her convoy, and that he finally managed to find and talk with [[Ryouko's grandmother|his wife]] again, who wants to talk with [[Ryouko]] as well once there's a chance. |
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− | In short: [[Ryouko]] delays talking to [[Asami]], and meets [[Kuroi Abe|her grandfather]] on [[Apollo]] | + | In short: [[Ryouko]] delays talking to [[Asami]], and meets [[Kuroi Abe|her grandfather]] on [[Apollo.]]}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|24|Historian}}|[[Ryouko]]'s new [[MagOps]] team practices working together on [[Apollo]] fighting the [[Ceph]]. Their team practice and bonding is later interrupted by the announcement of yet another new team member: [[Clarisse van Rossum]], [[Ryouko]]'s childhood hero and, as it turns out, personal friend of team commander [[Nadya Antipova]]. They immediately return to mission simulations, first knowing they were simulations, and later not, failing often - with [[Ryouko]] regretting not contacting [[Asami]] earlier in her apparent final moments.<br> |
− | <br>Recovering from this, the team socializes, and [[Clarisse van Rossum]] tells [[Ryouko]] that she should talk to [[Asami]] even if she doesn't know what to say. Finally, [[Ryouko]] does so, telling her about the dangerous mission she's on, and asking her to survive the upcoming battle too so they can resolve things afterward. They end the call somewhat comforted, but [[Asami]] | + | <br>Recovering from this, the team socializes, and [[Clarisse van Rossum]] tells [[Ryouko]] that she should talk to [[Asami]] even if she doesn't know what to say. Finally, [[Ryouko]] does so, telling her about the dangerous mission she's on, and asking her to survive the upcoming battle too so they can resolve things afterward. They end the call somewhat comforted, but [[Asami]] finds herself still worried and unsure.<br> |
<br>That night, resting, [[Ryouko]] has a mysterious seeming dream-vision, including a moment in the [[Cult]]'s rose garden on [[Earth]] where [[Kuroi Nakase|her mother]] speaks strange things and almost appears to be someone else unknown. | <br>That night, resting, [[Ryouko]] has a mysterious seeming dream-vision, including a moment in the [[Cult]]'s rose garden on [[Earth]] where [[Kuroi Nakase|her mother]] speaks strange things and almost appears to be someone else unknown. | ||
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− | In short: [[Clarisse van Rossum]] joins the wormhole team, and convinces [[Ryouko]] to contact [[Asami]] | + | In short: [[Clarisse van Rossum]] joins the wormhole team, and convinces [[Ryouko]] to contact [[Asami.]]}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|25|Piercing the Sky}}|Waiting on the [[HSS Raven]], [[Clarisse]] and [[Ryouko]] find themselves ruminating on the possibility of their death, and the [[Goddess]]'s promised afterlife for [[magical girl]]s. [[Juliet Francois]] and [[Clarisse van Rossum]] both ask about [[Ryouko]]'s visions, but she defers, stating she doesn't think they were relevant to the current mission.<br> |
<br>[[Mami]] begins the [[Human]] offensive, for her part attempting to draw [[Ceph]] forces away from [[Orpheus]]. While it initially appears a success, the [[wormhole stabilizer]] which was thought to be still under construction suddenly activates, and hordes of reinforcements begin pouring through. | <br>[[Mami]] begins the [[Human]] offensive, for her part attempting to draw [[Ceph]] forces away from [[Orpheus]]. While it initially appears a success, the [[wormhole stabilizer]] which was thought to be still under construction suddenly activates, and hordes of reinforcements begin pouring through. | ||
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− | In short: The [[Orpheus]] mission begins poorly, the [[wormhole stabilizer]] | + | In short: The [[Orpheus]] mission begins poorly, as the [[wormhole stabilizer]] activates before it even begins.}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|26|Blood and Ichor}}|[[Clarisse van Rossum]] decides the [[MagOps]] team must act immediately. Donning [[magitech]] armor, [[Ryouko]] teleports the team straight from low orbit to what looks to be the key stabilizer core for the [[wormhole stabilizer]]. After efficiently clearing out enemy personnel, [[Nadya]] announces that there are what appears to be twelve separate stabilizer cores, rather than the single expected one, of which perhaps up to four are real. They detonate a [[PAYNE|nuke]] on the closest core, teleporting away towards the next one.<br> |
<br>This time they encounter even more waiting [[Ceph]], and clear them out with more difficulty. Suddenly, right when two fighters attack, a [[Ceph]] sniper takes shots at [[Eva Guderian]] and [[Ryouko]], killing [[Eva Guderian|Eva]] instantly and shattering [[Ryouko]]'s arm. In a rage, [[Ryouko]] teleports on top of the sniper and slaughters it. | <br>This time they encounter even more waiting [[Ceph]], and clear them out with more difficulty. Suddenly, right when two fighters attack, a [[Ceph]] sniper takes shots at [[Eva Guderian]] and [[Ryouko]], killing [[Eva Guderian|Eva]] instantly and shattering [[Ryouko]]'s arm. In a rage, [[Ryouko]] teleports on top of the sniper and slaughters it. | ||
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In short: The [[wormhole stabilizer]] survives an intended killing blow, and [[Ryouko]] loses control after [[Eva Guderian]] is killed.}} | In short: The [[wormhole stabilizer]] survives an intended killing blow, and [[Ryouko]] loses control after [[Eva Guderian]] is killed.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|27|Those Brilliant Shining Stars}}|Shocked at herself and slowly recovering, [[Ryouko]] realizes that her [[soul gem]] is not only pulling her towards the wormhole, but also reacting to the true stabilizer cores - and the one they lost [[Eva Guderian]] attacking is a fake.<br> |
− | <br> | + | <br>The fleet battle in system is going poorly, and [[Erwynmark]] defers to [[Mami]], who decides they must continue to hold out in hopes of destroying the wormhole.<br> |
<br>The [[Orpheus]] team quickly finds and destroys a second stabilizer core with their last [[PAYNE|nuke]], leaving still two more. The [[Ceph]] begin firing artillery at the third core when they arrive, forcing [[Clarisse van Rossum]] to seize their barrier generator [[Zheng Ying-Zhi]]'s [[soul gem]] to save her life. [[Clarisse van Rossum]] then executes a powerful attack that vaporizes the core, but knocks her unconscious.<br> | <br>The [[Orpheus]] team quickly finds and destroys a second stabilizer core with their last [[PAYNE|nuke]], leaving still two more. The [[Ceph]] begin firing artillery at the third core when they arrive, forcing [[Clarisse van Rossum]] to seize their barrier generator [[Zheng Ying-Zhi]]'s [[soul gem]] to save her life. [[Clarisse van Rossum]] then executes a powerful attack that vaporizes the core, but knocks her unconscious.<br> | ||
− | <br>Unexpectedly targeted, [[Erwynmark]]'s ship the [[HSS Arminius]] recommends evacuation. [[Erwynmark]] escapes the ship with his bodyguards, but [[Ceph]] interceptors somehow find his stealthed ship and chase it down, killing him. | + | <br>Unexpectedly targeted, [[Erwynmark]]'s ship the [[HSS Arminius]] recommends evacuation. [[Erwynmark]]'s escapes the ship with his bodyguards, but [[Ceph]] interceptors somehow find his stealthed ship and chase it down, killing him. |
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In short: The [[Orpheus]] team destroys two more [[wormhole stabilizer]] cores, but [[Erwynmark]] is killed.}} | In short: The [[Orpheus]] team destroys two more [[wormhole stabilizer]] cores, but [[Erwynmark]] is killed.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|28|Invictus}}|The [[Orpheus]] team learns that the [[HSS Raven]], along with her remaining crew, has been discovered and destroyed, all but eliminating any hope of escape. [[Misa Virani]] gives her [[soul gem]] to [[Clarisse van Rossum]] and takes advantage of the moon's electrical properties to generate an awe-inspiring electrical discharge, destroying the last [[wormhole stabilizer]] core. The wormhole above collapses violently, and the remainder of the team is suddenly caught in temporal/spatial distortions that threaten to rip them apart. |
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In short: [[Misa Virani]] destroys the final [[wormhole stabilizer]] and the wormhole collapses, trapping the rest of the team.}} | In short: [[Misa Virani]] destroys the final [[wormhole stabilizer]] and the wormhole collapses, trapping the rest of the team.}} | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|29|Deus ex gemma}}|[[Ryouko]] suddenly recalls a lecture given by [[Joanne Valentin]], and realizes that her teleportation uses wormholes, and that she can use the broken spacetime around them to teleport the team off [[Orpheus|the moon]]. At the same time, [[Ryouko]] realizes she's with the [[Goddess]], in a vision - this time, with [[Clarisse]] her [[TacComp]] too. The [[Goddess]] shows them [[Patricia von Rohr]] and [[Kishida Maki]] on [[Apollo]], hard-pressed by the [[Ceph]]. [[Shirou Asaka]] manages to get forces in to save them, but [[Maki]] loses her body. They are also shown an unknown woman commander in the [[Apollo]] shipyards, who is killed by a [[Ceph]] commando raid.<br> |
− | <br>Following that, [[Asami]] and her ''[[Magi Cæli]]'' team are shown defending the space around [[Apollo]] with some success, despite incredible new [[Ceph]] stealth capabilities. Attempting to extract, the team is suddenly caught and scattered, | + | <br>Following that, [[Asami]] and her ''[[Magi Cæli]]'' team are shown defending the space around [[Apollo]] with some success, despite incredible new [[Ceph]] stealth capabilities. Attempting to extract, the team is suddenly caught and scattered, [[Asami]] seriously injured and placed into a [[MedEvac]]. A sudden announcement from [[Tomoe Mami]] that the wormhole was destroyed at the apparent cost of the team involved, including [[Ryouko]], sends [[Asami]] into a despair spiral, and her body is ejected into space to preserve her [[soul gem]]. Finally, [[Ryouko]] is shown [[Mami]], who is pressing the apparent advantage at the destruction of the wormhole, even as she mourns the dead.<br> |
− | <br>The [[Goddess]] then talks with [[Ryouko]], revealing the [[Ceph]] | + | <br>The [[Goddess]] then talks with [[Ryouko]], revealing the [[Ceph]] trap - a huge cloaked fleet which had already come through the wormhole, enough to retake the system easily. The [[Goddess]] tells her to reopen the wormhole and send the fleet back, ending the vision. To her team's amazement, she does just that, and then just barely teleports them to [[Zhukov]]'s bridge before blacking out. |
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− | In short: The [[Goddess]] | + | In short: The [[Goddess]] has [[Ryouko]] send back a cloaked [[Ceph]] fleet through a wormhole, saving the battle.}} |
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|30|Call to Power}}|[[Mami]] and [[Atsuko Arisu]] perform a dream interrogation of [[Ryouko]] - and also [[Clarisse]] her [[TacComp]], which complicates their attempt to loosen her up, as does the secret blocking of telepathic investigation by [[Clarisse van Rossum]]. [[Ryouko]] only explains that her power uses wormholes, and about her memory of the [[Joanne Valentin]] lecture that triggered the realization, avoiding religious questions. [[Ryouko]] meets afterwards with some of the [[Orpheus]] team, and is warned of the coming scrutiny she'll endure as a hero by [[Clarisse van Rossum]] and the revived [[Zheng Ying-Zhi]].<br> |
− | <br>[[Ryouko]] learns from her devastated [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]] that [[Ryouko's grandmother|her grandmother]] was killed, and realizes she saw it in her vision. She attends the first of three memorial services in her near future, for the dead of the [[Orpheus]] team | + | <br>[[Ryouko]] learns from her devastated [[Kuroi Abe|grandfather]] that [[Ryouko's grandmother|her grandmother]] was killed, and realizes she saw it in her vision. She attends the first of three memorial services in her near future, for the dead of the [[Orpheus]] team.<br> |
− | <br>In a surprise to [[Mami]], the [[General Staff]] and [[Military Affairs]] | + | <br>In a surprise to [[Mami]], the [[General Staff]] and [[Military Affairs]], in accordance with [[Erwynmark]]'s wishes, select her as the new Chair. |
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− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|31|Aspects of Love}}|On the planet [[Bismarck]] for [[Erwynmark]]'s memorial, [[Ryouko]] meets with [[Patricia von Rohr]] and [[Kyouko]], along with a couple of local kids, finding herself surprisingly distant from the latter due to her experiences. [[Ryouko]] admits to [[Kyouko]] that the [[Goddess]] came to her in a vision on [[Orpheus]] to tell her about the cloaked fleet, and is afterwards unknowingly accosted by a seductive Shizuki until [[Patricia]] saves her. [[Patricia]] informs her that [[Kishida Maki]] is still taking [[Kyouko]]'s continued absence hard, and that she is struggling herself, before collecting a more in-depth genetic sample from [[Ryouko]]. Later that day, [[Mami]], attending virtually, gives [[Erwynmark]]'s eulogy. |
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− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|32|Decisions, Implications}}|[[Ryouko]] meets with her family at the starport, only to find her parents have divorced. Still shaken, she heads immediately to [[Asami]]'s revival, comforting her, and finding herself unexpectedly comforted herself to have [[Asami]] back.<br> |
− | <br>After briefly meeting [[Asami]]'s family, [[Ryouko]] and [[Asami]] head out to meet [[Ryouko]]'s friends. While waiting, [[Asami]] tells [[Ryouko]] how unhappy she is in combat, and, consoling her, [[Ryouko]] | + | <br>After briefly meeting [[Asami]]'s family, [[Ryouko]] and [[Asami]] head out to meet [[Ryouko]]'s friends. While waiting, [[Asami]] tells [[Ryouko]] how unhappy she is in combat, and, consoling her, [[Ryouko]] comes to a decision and agrees to become her girlfriend… right as [[Simona]], [[Ruiko]], and [[Chiaki]] arrive. [[Simona]] retreats to the bathroom, and [[Chiaki]] covers for her, instead planning the rest of the day. They go on to a restaurant and have a sleepover, the only disturbance being the strange arrival of [[Kyubey]], who claims only to be visiting.<br> |
− | <br>At [[Ryouko's grandmother]]'s funeral, [[Ryouko]] discovers that her psychiatrist [[Atsuko Arisu]] is in fact the grandmother of [[Ryouko's grandmother]]. After the ceremony, which [[Ryouko]] finds she can't connect to, she is suddenly given a memory recording from a friend of [[Ryouko's grandmother|her grandmother's]]. The memory reveals that [[Ryouko's grandmother|her grandmother's]] grandfather was | + | <br>At [[Ryouko's grandmother]]'s funeral, [[Ryouko]] discovers from [[Kuroi Nana|her aunt]] that her psychiatrist [[Atsuko Arisu]] is in fact the grandmother of [[Ryouko's grandmother]]. After the ceremony, which [[Ryouko]] finds she can't connect to, she is suddenly given a memory recording from a friend of [[Ryouko's grandmother|her grandmother's]]. The memory reveals that [[Ryouko's grandmother|her grandmother's]] grandfather was Kaname Tatsuya, once the younger brother of [[Kaname Madoka]], the [[Goddess]]. [[Tatsuya]] makes [[Homura]] promise to keep [[Ryouko's grandmother]] out of the [[MSY]], as he warns darkly of the future that would become the [[Unification Wars]], recalling in particular his daughter-in-law's wish for vengeance.<br> |
<br>[[Ryouko]] rushes with [[Asami]] to the [[Ribbon]], with both [[Kyubey]] and [[Kyouko]] showing up to watch. A vision ensues, and the [[Goddess]] explains that she is indeed related to [[Ryouko]], as hinted previously, and that she tries to limit her interventions in the world, so that people can live their own lives. She explains that [[Ryouko]] has the special burden of having less freedom to live her own life, and that she will be called upon again.<br> | <br>[[Ryouko]] rushes with [[Asami]] to the [[Ribbon]], with both [[Kyubey]] and [[Kyouko]] showing up to watch. A vision ensues, and the [[Goddess]] explains that she is indeed related to [[Ryouko]], as hinted previously, and that she tries to limit her interventions in the world, so that people can live their own lives. She explains that [[Ryouko]] has the special burden of having less freedom to live her own life, and that she will be called upon again.<br> | ||
<br>Teleporting out immediately from the [[Ribbon Chamber]] to avoid questions, [[Ryouko]] learns that [[Asami]] also received a vision, assuaging her worries and including helpful relationship advice. Before [[Ryouko]] can digest that, [[Joanne Valentin]] and [[Shizuki Sayaka]] show up at her door with a proposal. | <br>Teleporting out immediately from the [[Ribbon Chamber]] to avoid questions, [[Ryouko]] learns that [[Asami]] also received a vision, assuaging her worries and including helpful relationship advice. Before [[Ryouko]] can digest that, [[Joanne Valentin]] and [[Shizuki Sayaka]] show up at her door with a proposal. | ||
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: ''Likewise, this interlude centers on the peculiar role of memory in an episode of [[Asaka]]'s past. The first snippet even includes relevant sections from Proust's novel.'' | : ''Likewise, this interlude centers on the peculiar role of memory in an episode of [[Asaka]]'s past. The first snippet even includes relevant sections from Proust's novel.'' | ||
− | {{Spbox|{{ | + | {{Spbox|{{chn|33|Madeleines}}|[[Shirou Asaka]] wakes from a strange recurring dream in which she has lost someone important to her, as a [[magical girl]] in some sort of [[Contact War|crazy alien war]]. [[Alice Lynwood]], her wife, has finally succeeded in convincing [[Asaka]] to get it checked out, but less successful in convincing her to finally have a baby.<br> |
− | <br>In a professional [[VR]] game playing as [[magical girl]]s in WWII with her second-in-command [[Madhuri]], [[Asaka]] finds she needs to sacrifice her to win | + | <br>In a professional [[VR]] game playing as [[magical girl]]s in WWII with her second-in-command [[Madhuri]], [[Asaka]] finds she needs to sacrifice her to win the game and suddenly starts thinking she's somehow actually [[Alice]]. The game is then suddenly cut short by an apparent critical server simulation error, but [[Asaka]]'s growing unease is again washed away by the joy of her life with [[Alice]].<br> |
− | <br>[[Tanaka Yui]], [[Asaka]]'s therapist, suggests doing a dream study, and [[Patricia von Rohr]] comes to visit, both | + | <br>[[Tanaka Yui]], [[Asaka]]'s therapist, suggests doing a dream study, and [[Patricia von Rohr]] comes to visit, both times bringing up little oddities or inconsistencies in [[Asaka]]'s views. The dream study returns an apparent suppressed memory, but one involving [[magical girl]]s and an [[Contact War|alien war]] that [[Asaka]] can't remember experiencing. Suddenly all of reality seems to be changing - [[Madhuri]], her location, [[magical girl]]s. Finally running a full internal diagnostic, [[Asaka]] remembers what truly happened: she was forced to send her girlfriend [[Alice]] to her death to win a battle in the [[Contact War]]. Unable to process it, [[Asaka]] had [[Reformat|Reformatted]] herself and put herself inside a [[VR]] simulation where she could live with [[Alice]]. [[Tanaka Yui]] had been helping her face the truth after breaking into the simulation, along with [[Patricia von Rohr]] and [[Madhuri]], and even [[Asaka]]'s own internal representation of [[Alice]]. [[Patricia]] tells [[Asaka]] afterwards that [[Alice]] had planned on proposing. |
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: ''Übermensch is Nietzsche's idea that humanity should turn away from the other worlds and values promoted by "dead" religions and gods, setting instead the goal of advancing new, superior generations of humans on earth.'' | : ''Übermensch is Nietzsche's idea that humanity should turn away from the other worlds and values promoted by "dead" religions and gods, setting instead the goal of advancing new, superior generations of humans on earth.'' | ||
: ''This may refer to [[FA]] ideologies, or even aspects of [[Governance]] thought. It notably stands in contrast to Ryouko's life and wish.'' | : ''This may refer to [[FA]] ideologies, or even aspects of [[Governance]] thought. It notably stands in contrast to Ryouko's life and wish.'' | ||
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: ''This may imply topics ranging from the role of the [[Incubator]]s to the [[magical girl system]] itself.'' | : ''This may imply topics ranging from the role of the [[Incubator]]s to the [[magical girl system]] itself.'' | ||
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: ''Part of a quote by the god Vishnu in the Bhagavad Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Made famous by J. R. Oppenheimer, who later said he thought of the line after witnessing the first test of an atomic bomb.'' | : ''Part of a quote by the god Vishnu in the Bhagavad Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Made famous by J. R. Oppenheimer, who later said he thought of the line after witnessing the first test of an atomic bomb.'' | ||
: ''Perhaps covers the Unification Wars, which saw heavy use of atomic weapons. May include [[Clarisse van Rossum]]'s role, a character who notably was also present for the first atomic detonation.'' | : ''Perhaps covers the Unification Wars, which saw heavy use of atomic weapons. May include [[Clarisse van Rossum]]'s role, a character who notably was also present for the first atomic detonation.'' | ||
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: ''A singularity is a point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole. It is also a term used for the hypothetically unknowable changes to the human condition caused by superintelligence.'' | : ''A singularity is a point at which a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time when matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole. It is also a term used for the hypothetically unknowable changes to the human condition caused by superintelligence.'' | ||
: ''In former sense, it may reference [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] or [[Asami|Asami's]] powers. In the latter, perhaps it refers to [[Governance|Governance's]] Emergency Mode Level Four.'' | : ''In former sense, it may reference [[Ryouko|Ryouko's]] or [[Asami|Asami's]] powers. In the latter, perhaps it refers to [[Governance|Governance's]] Emergency Mode Level Four.'' | ||
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