"Finally, the revised, corrected, resynched version of these subtitles by Fingersmaster." "Enjoy!" "One less mirror bird to watch over Jasper." "Murdered like the others were." "Who did it?" "And why?" "To keep us from seeing what threatens us." "Without the eyes of your mirror birds, we can't see what's happening at the borders of our land." "Our screens lack power." "I have been warning you about this." "But who cares about it at Jasper?" "..." "It's the great pride of our civilization that we prefer birds to machines!" "And natural order to technical solutions..." "Sure." "But we may have to pay too dearly for our way of life... and sooner than we think..." "Given the urgency of the situation, the Council has chosen our best servant to investigate." "Which one?" "Sylvain." "Syl?" "!" "But he is not experienced enough!" "I've taught him, and I am quite certain about it." "He is very capable and absolutely reliable." "Surely there are more experienced... and more capable servants than he is." "The Council's vote was unanimous." "Besides, he's already here." "Servant Sylvain," "Syl, as your friends call you..." "The Council of Women has chosen you for a most important, difficult and dangerous mission." "My life belongs..." "We don't want you to die, but to return and inform us." "An unknown enemy threatens Gandahar." "You must discover where this enemy is, who this enemy is, find out what it is up to, determine its power, its weaponry and its methods, probe into its secrets, find its weaknesses... hoping it has any." "It's not without doubts that I am sending you." "It's too dangerous." "But we had to send our best servant." "Exactly where are you sending me?" "Your target is vast." "The Eccentric Ocean." "That's where most of the mirror birds have been killed." "However, one bird saw something." "Possibly, one of the invaders." "Here is the image it was able to transmit." "Can we replay it backwards?" "And more slowly?" "I've also hoped to identify the shooter... but with this metallic reflection..." "We have been foolish to expect that our sweet way of life at Gandahar, should last forever." "And the peace has been lasting so long that we have forgotten how to fight." "No doubt about it." "He was/will be from Gandahar." "Impossible!" "I have never seen any who..." "Gandahar, I'm telling you!" "Gandahar, but before..." "Unbelievable!" "He was/will be alive... but very weak." "He was/will be very careless to fly so far from the capital." "Careless?" "No." "Audacious!" "Maybe he was sent to..." "So Jasper would be aware of the lethal danger?" "Who were you?" "I am...!" "I am a son of Gandahar!" "An "servant"... and a prisoner in the hands of the enemy." "The enemy?" "Where did you come from?" "From Jasper!" "They were/will be always so smug in Jasper!" "They certainly were when they did this to us..." "Keep quiet!" "Do you really believe we are your enemy?" "I do!" "Ready to attack you?" "Yes." "Capable of defeating you?" "No!" "Can't you guess who we are?" "With these bodies, these heads,... these misshapen limbs, randomly assembled." "The Transformed?" "Those whom Jasper calls the Transformed!" "Not the Transformed, the wrongly formed." "The result of monstrous errors." " From the games of chance." " The wretched mutants!" "Gandaharians, yes." "Descendants of Gandaharians, just like you." "The victims of your scientific research in the field of genetic mutations." "How could we imagine?" "Gandaharians who became an embarrassment, and who were banished underground as countless proofs of your failures." "As a "servant" trainee, I studied your History, but I would never imagine..." "Of course!" "No one would imagine!" "Forgive me for having mistaken you for the enemies you're seeking?" "I forgive you... and I understand." "The real enemy has never been seen." "Ever." "But we've been listening to him through these tunnels." "The Ears of the Earth." "Shayol!" "I was/will be at your command!" "You shall lead Sylvain the "servant" to the far side of the jungle, until you reach... the noise." "I was/will be at your command!" "Why do you say "was/will be" instead of simply "I am"?" "The Transformed are terrified of the present." "You can see why." "Perhaps it's an atavism." "We keep degrading." "At the time of the first genetic errors, we had the gift of foresight." "Unfortunately, we've lost it." "There is nothing left other than a double prophecy, twice as obscure." ""In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed and all of its people killed."" ""A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved, and what can't be avoided will be."" "In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed?" "A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved?" "Future in past?" "Past in future?" "But what does it mean?" "We don't understand it any better than you, but these words have become our nature, and past-future our way of speaking..." "and believing." "Shayol!" "These men, women and children are dead?" "Petrified on the spot!" "Annihilated!" "No!" "Don't petrify me!" "Don't petrify me!" "Don't steal my body!" "It's not something I would do!" "I fought them..." "I fought them, Ambisextra." "But they are made of metal... of metal." "Airelle..." "Your name is as beautiful as you are!" "And what is your name?" "Sylvain, my friends call me Syl." "I am an "servant"." "Ambisextra's servant." "How do you know?" "I've never seen you in Jasper!" "I live in a village far away from the capital." "A fishermen's village." "I'll take you there one day, if we get out of this prison." "I was peacefully flute fishing." "Flute fishing?" "Yes, I'll teach you." "If we get a chance..." "When they shot me, I didn't feel any pain." "My body became hard and insensitive." "I lost consiousness, and woke up in here, shortly before you." "What's happening outside?" "What's going to happen to us?" "How quiet all of a sudden..." "Syl!" "Syl, help, it's turning!" "Our prison is turning!" "Don't try to resist, slide!" "I have a gun." "With one last seed." "Syl, what did you do?" "It's going to work!" "It has to work!" "What a monster!" "A Sorn?" "It's impossible..." "This species has been extinct from our planet... in theory." "Don't be afraid." "Sorns are not carnivorous." "Yet, it's going to swallow us." "You are very beautiful, Airelle!" "So are you, hero!" "How do Sorns reproduce?" "They lay eggs." "Why?" "Our Sorn is a female." "A female?" "Really?" "How would you know the sex of a Sorn?" "Intuition!" "Not only a female, but also a mother." "She took our prison for an egg, and us for the hatchlings." " That would explain..." " That does explain!" "That's why she was fighting with the metal men to retrieve what she believed was her clutch." "The seed provokes the hatching." "Miss Sorn takes us for her offspring." "That's why she groomed us and built the nest." "What is she going to feed us with?" "Poor Syl, the brave "servant" turned into a chick!" "It took mysterious metal men to attack my village, that you were sent from Jasper to investigate, that you were captured too, and put in the same cell, that we were freed by a lady Sorn... for me to fall in love with you!" "I've just been stupid and way too self-confident." "Expecting this to be just another reconaissance mission." "But I have seen so much in such little time." "I am afraid, Airelle." "Yes... afraid." "If I fail, Gandahar will die." "The metal men are terribly strong, but they are obviously stupid." "They cannot win!" "And I don't want to lose you!" "It's not easy to lose me, you'll see." "No, I won't see that." "You'll be nice and wait for me, alright?" "Syl, let's not argue, I'll go where you go." "You'll be in my way, I'll go alone!" "No way." "Servant, who is not divine needs the help of another one." "Empty!" "Inexplicably empty!" "No flesh, no skeleton." "Nothing living, nothing mechanical!" "No gears, no circuits, no nothing." "And yet they are capable of moving, fighting, and using weapons..." "And using their heads too?" "Let's have a look!" "Syl!" "It's quite an army!" "I never thought they were so powerful, so well equipped." "So well organized for the purpose of destroying us." "Gandahar doesn't stand much of a chance." "We've got a real advantage:" "They are empty." "Without brains, without hearts." "That's what must have happened to me." "One of these cold monsters carried me in its arms..." "I'm glad that the Sorn shattered them to pieces!" "I have a bad feeling about that door." "It doesn't close anything, nor open on anything, and yet, as they go through it, the eggs disappear." "There's an explanation." "There has to be one." "We must find it." "Oh, that would be too horrible!" "The petrified humans went in, and came out as metal men." "This door transforms Gandaharians into Gandaharian killer robots." "Metal men!" "Metal men!" "Our mission is a tremendous success." "Our losses do not matter." "Those metal men who were destroyed needn't be mourned." "Death only scares fragile beings, individualistic beings." ""I" does not exist!" ""I" does not exist!" "I am you, you are us, us are Him." "I am you, you are us, us are Him!" "We are Him." "The Great Procreator, master of our energies, and soon the master of this world." "We will soon put an end to the scandalous civilization of Gandahar." "Gandahar, civilization of pleasure." "Gandahar, kingdom of waste and indulgence." "the Great Procreator takes back what you don't deserve." "Before the final annihilation, our delegates will travel over the Eccentric Ocean... to prove our complete submission to Him." "Contact with the Master will renew our power and our strength!" "Hear me!" "Hear me!" "Tonight you must stay disconnected until we embark." "So is the will of the Great Procreator!" "So is the will of the Great Procreator!" "The Great Procreator?" "Total annihilation?" "He must be insane!" "Alas, he sounds quite serious, you know." "Total annihilation..." "it must be the eggs." "The Great Procreator..." "it sounds like a High Priest." "As for the Eccentric Ocean, it is vast!" "We must travel with them!" "Unbelievable!" "It has been unbelievable since the very beginning." "Even so." "To take your own head off?" "They've been told to disconnect, they merely obey." "Would you be able to swim to the ship?" "I'll even be there first!" "You have the sweet smell of the sea." " And you swim like a mermaid." " A mermaid?" "Yes, a mermaid." "It's a creature from the terrestrial mythology." "An irresistible creature." "We who only live by your will, and for your will, we have begun to obey your command." "Gandahar will become what you want it to be." "We have already increased the number of our raids." "Many Gandaharians have been struck with no-life." "We deliver them to you as you have ordered us." "Soon this civilization of pleasure will disappear forever." "And now, metal men, prepare to be part of the substance of the Great Procreator himself." "So is the will of the great Procreator!" "The Great Procreator stays silent." "Gods rarely respond." "Probably because they don't exist." "That thing..." "Will surely take us too..." "Swallow us!" "Sylvain!" "This body which contains us, does not know ours" "What lives in us is lived in" "And these bodies, one inside the other" "Form the body of Eternity." "What is it?" "A terrestrial poem that I liked a lot." "Hello Sylvain!" "Who or what is speaking?" "You know very well." "Is it you, the leader, the god of the metal carcasses which worship you?" "Neither leader, nor god." "But it is true that they worship me as a god," " whereas I am only..." " A murderer!" "If I were what you say I am, would you still be alive?" "Think." "I know who you are, where you come from, what you're after, and yet, I allowed you to approach me, and even to insult me." "Don't you find it a bit odd?" "Are you or are you not the master of the metal men?" "That's what they think." "In killing, are they obeying your orders?" "They think they have received them, and sometimes I even believe I've given them." "Where do you stand in this war of extermination?" "It would be physically unpleasant for me, should the metal men fail." "And yet I don't want to see Gandahar die." "It must be on account of my sentimental disposition." "That's admirable." "Yes, son of Jasper!" "We're cousins, in a sense." "I am the Metamorph." ""Who are you?"" ""Airelle."" ""Your name is as beautiful as you are."" ""And you?" "What's your name?"" ""What's your name?"" ""You have the sweet smell of the sea."" ""And you swim like a mermaid."" ""A mermaid?"" ""An irresistible creature."" ""No..." "Syl!"" ""Do not harm Airelle!"" "I've just stirred her dreams a little." "It seems that she cares for you." "Of course, that's something that a brain would have a hard time understanding." "You are just a brain, Metamorph, aren't you?" "Sorry to exist..." "If you are truly from Gandahar, help us against those who want it destroyed!" "On our own, we don't stand a chance against the metal men." "But if they draw their power from you, it would be easy for you..." "Easy?" "Easy!" "..." "You're getting carried away." "But I must first understand this connection between me and them!" "The connection that would make their failure physically unpleasant." "I just said that I'll think it over!" "He didn't promise anything." "He merely said that he had to think it over." "But it's a lot already that he didn't kill us." "And that he let us return to Jasper, and even helped us to do so." "The flying extension is getting less and less extension." "And less and less flying." "Look!" "Everywhere, terrorised Gandaharians flee from their homes." "They hope to find refuge at Jasper." "Syl!" "The mirror bird!" "It will signal our arrival." "This time, it's done for..." "Farewell, amorphous Metamorph!" "And so?" "This won't surprise you much but the flying extension and let's say... the brain of the metal men, are of the same nature." "The only difference is the age of the cells." "It's a huge difference, incomprehensible." "And Metamorph pretended he didn't know anything." ""I must find the connection", he said." "Well, let me give it to you, Metamorph:" "These killers... these metallic thugs are born of you." "Unbelievable!" "Nothing would stop them." "Even dead, they would still move forward." ""Urgent message..." "Urgent message..." "Ambisextra and the Council of Women... to the Central Laboratory... "" ""Urgent message..." "Urgent message..." "Ambisextra and the Council of Women..." "Well, Blaminhor, any good news?" "Perhaps the beginning of an explanation..." "Have a look!" ""Jasper." "Department of Research."" ""Experiment:" "Biotype."" ""Code name:" "Metamorph."" ""The experimental brain is characterized by an extremely rapid growth."" ""Its volume has almost doubled within a few days."" ""Yet, its faculties are still significantly inferior to the ordinary brain."" ""Due to its rapid growth, the Metamorph experiment had to be transferred from the laboratory to a special platform on the Eccentric Ocean."" ""The brain's appearance experienced profound modifications."" ""Most surprisingly, it creates its own senses:" "vision, touch,"" ""and others of the kind unknown to us."" "Monstrous!" ""For security reasons, we must put an end to the Metamorph experiment."" ""But would it be possible to destroy it?"" "In the end... it was Metamorph who destroyed his creators." "Jasper disengaged from this kind of experiments, and the monster was abandoned in the Eccentric Ocean..." "Abandoned!" "And his cells continued to proliferate, and formed the brains of the metal men." "Thus, Gandahar produced its own nemesis without even being aware of it." "They disconnect at night." "It is merely a short truce." "The only way is for Sylvain to kill Metamorph!" "Wait a minute." "Metamorph did let us return to Jasper." "It's proof enough that he ignores his connection to the metal men and that he doesn't wish our demise." "I'll talk to him." "I'll convince him." "And if he doesn't listen?" "Then only will I kill him." "How?" "I've conceived the perfect weapon." "At least, I think so." "One injection should suffice." "I've been waiting for you." "Monster." "Liar!" "You knew that the metal men..." "I know." "I know what you know:" "the metal men are my tools." "But I know something that you don't." "They come from the future!" "But I've seen them in action!" "They petrify any living thing, imprison it in those eggs, and suffer horrible mutations." "Do you want to understand something?" "Do you want to save Jasper?" "Do you want to kill me?" "Leave that ridiculous syringe alone and listen." "I repeat:" "This invasion is coming from the future." "Absurd!" "Impossible!" "What do you know of time, of its continuity, its traps, its false perspectives, its apparent paradoxes, its relation to space?" "So according to you, Jasper is the victim of an invasion that has not yet occured." "It's nonsense!" "It's just another logic." "The invasion has occured even though it is coming from the future." " And how?" " Through the Portal." "The Portal?" "The Time Portal!" "You saw it, yet you didn't understand." "Can you go both ways through this Time Portal?" "As with any door..." "So the eggs' prisoners are carried into the future." "What for, Metamorph?" "I don't know it yet." "Give me a proof of your sincerity!" "A proof?" "You have it: you're alive." "I could have destroyed you the moment you came, but I've been looking for this encounter as much as you did." "Is this a new trap?" "There is no trap, Syl, but our future." "And I cannot be caught in it." "I can't bear the idea of becoming an insane tyrant sending an army of killers." "I want you, Syl, to kill me in a thousand years!" "Why not now?" "Because I do not want it, and you're not capable of it." "I am not vulnerable." "Not yet." "We'll meet in a thousand years." "It's imposible." "I'll be dead!" "Over these thousand years, you'll be neither dead nor alive, but hibernating at the bottom of the ocean." "On the appointed day, on the appointed hour, you'll awake, just as you are now." "young, strong, determined." "You will then try to kill the old Metamorph and therefore his army of metal men." "If you succeed, Jasper will be saved!" "And I will remain a prisoner of the future, exiled from my time, away from those I love." "It goes with the job, "servant"." "But you still have a chance to return to the present." "The Time Portal." "The Time Portal." "Still no news from Sylvain?" "We've completely lost contact." "The Council considers Sylvain's mission to have failed." "On what grounds?" "We can't afford waiting longer, there is no hope." "Wait!" "Wait a bit longer." "How do you know that Syl has failed?" "If he did succeed, the metal men would have stopped killing." "It can't be that simple." "Syl..." "Hurry up." "Hurry up, my darling..." "Were/will the Transformed be resigned to being destroyed by the metal men?" "We were/will be capable of fighting and winning until..." "Winning?" "Winning what?" "For us, the war was/will be going on inside of our bodies, forever, without victory." "Then it was/will be death without struggle?" "No Shayol, no." "This is the struggle!" "We have succeeded, but not for long." "Too bad..." "Our power has our limits." "We could use this power to help Jasper." "Jasper never helped us." "No Transformed was/will ever be allowed in Jasper." "This is how it's always been." "In the face of deadly menace, everything changes quickly." "Gandahar will remember that the Transformed are its own children too." "Oh, mirror birds, our lookout birds, our birds of vision, our guarding birds, deliver us from the impending destruction." "Take Jasper away from its ground." "Farewell, Gandahar!" "It was so sweet living here." "In a thousand years," "Gandahar was destroyed, and all its people exterminated." "A thousand years ago," "Gandahar will be saved, and what can't be avoided will be." "In a thousand years." "Gandahar was destroyed, and all its people exterminated." "A thousand years ago" "Gandahar will be saved, and what can't be avoided will be." "Here I am, Metamorph." "The thousand years have passed." "I awoke on the appointed day, on the appointed hour, as you wished." "And I will now accomplish what you wished." "Who sends you?" "Were/will you be from Gandahar?" "I were/will be." "And you were/will be my friends." "Syl the Servant, I know you!" "I know you too!" "We met during my first mission, just about a thousand years ago!" "A thousand years ago!" "A thousand years or one day... it doesn't mean anything once you've passed through the Time Portal." "The petrifying beam, the egg cells, the jump into the future." "Humans converted altogether into something else." "Then they sorted us when we arrived... the normal to one side, the monstrous to the other." "For once, we monsters were the lucky ones." "We were/will be found unusable, unrecoverable." "They relegated us to the underworld, just like at Jasper." "And the others?" "The Gandaharians with beautiful faces and perfect bodies?" "Yes, my own kind." "I saw quite a few who were sorry they weren't monsters." "Were they systematically exterminated?" "Worse than that, you'd better not know about it." "But I have to know!" "I have to understand, so that I can stop these horrors." "Servant, no one doubts your courage or your valour." "But how would you destroy such power?" "Where are we?" "In the city of the metal men!" "Don't you recognize it?" "Nothing existed around Metamorph except the Eccentric Ocean." "Now it is all covered with metal, except for the Time Portal." "I knew it!" "More and more prisoners." "The machine sucks all life from them." "I must see what happens to them." "How can you imagine such horror?" "And such absurdity!" "Such a complexe system of extermination." "On the contrary, it's frighteningly logical." "A thousand years have passed." "Metamorph has become very old, and his cells no longer reproduce." "To keep on living, he needs brand new cells." "Then, all the petrification, the egg-shaped prisons, the Time Portal are necessary... to deliver the precious substance and keep it intact." "Intact, until it is needed." "The invasion of the metal men, the destruction of the planet, it all comes from Metamorph." "And what if the one you call Metamorph has changed into metal, like everything else around us?" "What if this metal were something else?" "Our flimsy powers can show it to you!" "Dead cells... aggregated... fossilised." "Degenerate cells of Metamorph..." "which through an aberrant process..." "We know of others which through an aberrant process mutate to metal with ageing." "Metamorph is afraid of that ultimate phase." "He wants me to kill him, before..." "He wanted!" "How do you know he would still honour your pact from a thousand years ago?" "I'll take the risk..." "Besides I have no choice." "You had/will have allies..." "While you confront him, we'll take action." "Priority target: the highest reservoirs, which feed Metamorph." "Once disconnected, Metamorph will soon loose strength." "We must also free the prisoners." "First things first:" "we must neutralise the metal men." "Leave me now." "I have a personal appointment." " I'll go with you." " No." "Like I said, it's personal." "It's the beginning of the end, Metamorph." "Don't bury me too soon, servant..." "Those cells will keep falling off, like scales, spreading around me, covering everything." "And they will be replaced by fresh ones... for ever!" "Then for ever, you'll have to kill, to draw your substance from the substance of your victims!" "It's a very effective system!" "Remember." "You asked me to kill you in a thousand years." "I've never uttered such nonsense!" "It looks like your memory weakens with age!" "I haven't aged..." "I'll never age!" " And you've come to kill me?" " Yes, I've come to kill you!" "As I was asked by the Metamorph, when he was still in his right mind." "The scientists of Jasper must have put all their science into one small syringe..." "The ultimate weapon!" "Why don't we test it?" "On yourself, for example." "They blew up the reservoir!" "I am losing the left hemisphere." "Alert all posts!" "Cortex has collapsed!" "Dual security system badly damaged!" "Calling sensory relays!" "Calling..." "Such peace all of a sudden silence, finally true silence." "Why is the sun black this morning?" "...a stained snow is falling, swirling it covers everything I feel no pain and no fatigue..." "How can I sleep forever how without this dream of explosion?" "The howling water..." "Metal men, obey my orders!" "Destroy the Time Portal!" "Who opened the memory compartments?" "Everything is scattered in a mess..." "Why did you create me?" "...Sylvain, Sylvain too late for the present, servant no... no... not alone the freezing ocean I am also a child of Gandahar wait for me, wait for me..." "What was the point of killing Metamorph?" "Gandahar is in ruins." "Jasper is decapitated... and its people are probably petrified or lost somewhere in the future." "We can find them." "When?" "In a thousand years?" "Mirror bird!" "Jasper has been saved?" "!" "Created by Fingersmaster Enjoy!"