"Every night, the same dream." "The same strange planet." "But why?" "What are they trying to tell me?" "It has been 34 years since they arrived on this planet." "And not a day passes, that the survivors, forced to live in a barrier cities, does not live in fear." "I have vowed to the end that fear." "I believe my dreams hold the key." "The question is, will I be in time to save the Earth?" "Where are you?" "This is a restricted area." "Do not move!" "What is she doing here, captain?" "I don't know, but we are getting her out." "You're coming with us." "Behind you!" "Hold it right there!" "Damn it!" "Let's move, people." "Two, coming through the wall." "Alright, hold your fire." "Ryan, Neil, let's go." "Just what the hell do you think you are doing?" " There is a life form in here." " There hasn't been life here in years." "Well, there is now." " Life form or not, I'm taking you in." " Fine, arrest me, but I'm not leaving without that life form." "Gonna be one of those days." "Captain, transport is not going to wait for us much longer." "I understand that." "It's in bad shape." "Oh please." "Tell me when I risk my neck for this plant." "I wouldn't even call it a plant." "It's a weed." "I wouldn't even call it a weed." "I need a minute to extract it." "Miss, that's the minute we do not have." "I'm afraid his right about that, ma'am." "Phantoms!" "We have incoming." "Captain, we need to get out of here." "Understood, sergeant." "Could you hurry please, miss?" " Done!" " Captain?" "Yes, Neil." "Just all you know, I agree with the "Let's get out from here"-thing!" "Duly noted." "Can I have this please?" "Thank you." "We're surrounded." "No shit?" "!" "Alright, everybody." "Just relax." "Captain, we got to get to higher ground." "Everyone, up top!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Transport requesting immediately evac." "Affirmative!" "Up here!" "Captain!" " We are right behind you." " Captain, come on!" "I got you." " Are you okay?" " Yeah." "Alright, everybody." "Here they come." "Are you okay?" "You're gonna be alright." "Can you give me one good reason why I shouldn't arrest you?" "I am Dr. Aki Ross." "I have clearance to be here." "Not unlimited clearance." "And not without authorization." "Captain, I don't have time for this." "Do you realize you have just risked the lives at my squad and me?" "Look." "I don't want to talk about it." "The fact of the matter is, it was worth the lives of you and your men." " You and your men?" " She thinks you are a man." " I think she's an idiot." " I know you are not a man." " I think you're an idiot too." " Very funny." "But I do want to talk about it." "Did it ever occur to you that maybe we would've volunteered to risk our lives have we been given a choice?" "Nobody asked you to save me." "I don't believe this." "You have not changed a bit." "Gray?" "Yeah, nice to see you too." " Welcome back, captain." " We're clean!" " Let's make sure of that, shall we?" " I hate getting scanned." "Sir, this scan's probably worse for us than the phantoms." "No 'probably' about it, captain." "This machine are suspected of causing sterility." "And I want to have a little Neil Jr." "to call me daddy someday." " That's a spooky thought." " Why are you always busting my chop?" "People, let's just do this thing, alright?" "!" " Yes, sir." " Yes, sir." "Okay, next." "Looks like you've gained some weight." "It's called upper body strength, Neil." "Get a girlfriend." "I'm working on it." "You know my security rating allows me to bypass this." "Not today, it doesn't." "Something's not right." "About this mission or that woman?" " Both." " Next." "Listen, captain." "I think" "I don't care what you think, doctor." "You're getting scanned just like everybody else." " Oh shit!" " Captain!" " They got him." " There must be a mistake." "You came in contact with a phantom, sir." "Please remain calm." "Administering treatment shield." " What level is he?" " Blue." "He will be code red in 3 1/2 minutes." "We have to treat him now." "I'm sorry." "That's impossible." "We'll transfer him to the treatment centre." "There's no time for that." "Get him to the table." "Hang in there, captain." "Locating pathogens." "Jesus!" "Look at that thing." " How much more time?" " Not enough." "When he reaches code red, the treatment shield won't be able to hold the aliens particles." "Engaging bio-etheric laser." " What's going on?" " Where did it go?" " What the hell is going on?" " We lost contact." "Infestation is moving deeper." " Tracking." " There is no time." " Tracking." " There is no time!" "You're gonna lose him." "His treatment shield is failing!" "Found it." "Come on!" "It's alright." "Don't worry." "You'll be back to normal in no time." "Doctor, we need to scan you for infestation." "That won't be necessary." "I'll take responsibility." "Hey, Doc." "Thanks for saving him." " Are you alright?" " Yeah, but the military has impounded my ship." "What's with her?" "What's with her with the captain?" "What's with her and that stupid plant?" "What?" "Forward me the phantom data and everything regarding the five spirits collected so far." "Yes, Doctor." "Spirits?" "I thought we are not suppose to use the S word." "Don't get smart with me." "Let's see if the plant does the trick." "It's a match." "We've found it." "Yes, the 6th spirit." "Your little scene today broke nearly every protocol." "How long do you think this would have survive outside the barrier?" "Aki, you know there are elements in the Council military just waiting for an excuse to shut us down." "Look. 20 years ago, who discovered this energy in the phantoms?" "You." "And who proved the same energy source existed in humans and every life form?" "You." "You made it possible to harness that energy for ovo-pacs, scanners, even the barrier." "The Council knows that." "They trust you, Doctor." "We are so close to proving" "We still need this part and this one here." "Exactly." "Two more pieces and we solve the puzzle." "We need to be free to find these pieces." "I want to show you something, Aki." " What is this?" " Read." "All life is born of Gaya and each life has a spirit." "Each new spirit is housed in physical body." "Doctor" "Go on." "Through their experiences on Earth, each spirits mature and grows." "When the physical body dies, the mature spirit, enriched by it's life on Earth returns to Gaya." "Bring in with it the experiences, enabling Gaya to live and grow." "It's my old diary." "I wrote that 43 years ago when I was the age you are now." "Dr. Sid!" "Remember what happened to Gallileo?" "They threw him into jail because he said that Earth was not the center of the universe." "That could happen to us." "Our ideas are unpopular, Aki." "If you have any notes or records, it could be used against you." "Destroy them." "Keep them up here." "Right." "And stay away from your friend, the captain." "He saves your life, you save his life." "This leads to that." "I was young once too, you know." "Doctor, there is a war going on." "No one is young anymore." "Ladies and gentlemen of the Council, could you please explain why Zeus was completed a month ago." "If we attack the meteor with this, we will eliminate the phantoms at their source." "General Hein, calm down." "At our last meeting we voted 6 to 2 to postpone using the Zeus cannon to attack the Leonid meteor." "We have reconvened today to vote on that very issue again." "Now I would like to ask the director of the bio-etheric centre to speak." "Dr Sid, please." "Thank you." "As you all know, the phantom's nest is in Leonid meteor that landed here 34 years ago." "What you see now, are the records of every assault on the meteor to date." "Physical attacks have hade utterly no effect." "This scene took place 3 months ago during a full scale bombardment." "Please note that the phantom outside the meteor are indeed destroyed." "However, inside, many that where dormant come to life." "And as you see, over all phantom density remains the same." "The newly risen aliens respond to the attack by burying, even deeper into the Earth." "Now this is very interesting to me, Dr. Sid." "Because we see the same thing during surgery when using bio-etheric laser on phantom particles." " Do we not?" " Yes, indeed we do." "You see the injured particles escape, burying or digging themselves deeper into a patients body, and when we increase the laser power to destroy these deeper particles, we have had incidents resulting in further injury to a patient." "And in some cases, death." "And what exactly does that mean, Doctor?" "It means there is a very good chance the beam from the Zeus cannon will burn the phantoms in the meteor." "Exactly." "Thank you." "However, it also means that the beam energy may be too strong, injuring the Earth." "Injure the Earth?" "You mean the Gaya?" " I mean" " You mean the spirit of the Earth?" "Yes." "The spirit of the Earth." " What are you doing?" " I know what I'm doing, and whatever you do, keep you mouth shut." "This is ridiculous." "Doctor, with all due respect, did you come here just to talk about some Gaya theory?" "To tell us that the planet is alive?" "That it has a spirit?" "That's a fairy tale, Doctor." "And I'm sorry, but we don't have time for that." "It's not a fairy tale, it is true." "Ahh, oh, so if I point a gun at the earth and fire," "I'm not just making a hole in the ground, I am killing the planet." "Dr. Sid, the Gaya theory has not been proven." "Even if Gaya does exist, won't we still have to remove the phantoms." "I think if there is any chance of success, we should take it?" " Don't you agree?" " Well, of course I do." "But there is an alternative to the space cannon." "Another method?" "Yes, a means of disabling the phantoms." "Please." "As we know that the aliens display distinct energy pattern." "Now it is a fact that two opposing bio-etheric waves placed one over the other will cancel each other out." "It's the theoretically possible to construct a wave pattern in direct opposition to the phantom energy." "We are currently assembling..." " Doctor--- - ...such a wave and are near in completion" "Members of the Council, gathering plants and animals from around the world to fight the phantoms is utter nonsense." "The Zeus cannon is a proven effective weapon." "It will kill phantoms." "Can we afford to wait for some crazy invention, some army of touchy feely plants and animals." "An invention that offers no solid evidence that will destroy the aliens." "There is evidence." "Our partially completed energy wave has a successfully stopped phantom particles from spreading through a terminally infected patient." "Doctor, do you claim to have evidence that a terminally patient has been cured." "Not cured." "The wave is not complete, but we've succeeded in containing the particles safely inside the patient." "Where is the proof?" "Here." "You may have bought us some time, Aki." "But I wonder at what cost?" "Doctor, I can't keep hiding in the background while you protect me." "I want what life I have left to mean something." "You listen to me." "When we find the 7th and 8th spirits" "If we find them, what we need now is some luck." "Luck has nothing to do with it." "Fate and hard work, girl." "Cause I'll be damned if your gonna die before me." "The Council decided to postpone firing the Zeus cannon." "I guess I put on a good show." "Mind if I tag along?" "You'll probably get bored." "So what are you doing?" "Oh, I see." "You're giving me the silent treatment?" "I'm scanning the city for the 7th spirit." "Hurry up, Neil." "Relax Sarge, I almost got it." "What do you think you are doing?" "We just gonna strand them for a while." "Hey, don't look at me." "It was his idea." "This was your idea?" "We're just helping the captain out a little." "Yeah come on, Jane." "Where's your sense of romance?" "You've seen how the captain looks at her." "It's amore, baby." " What's going on?" " It's probably just a glitch." " Listen, Aki" " I'm still mad at you." "You are mad at me?" "Leaving your helmet on, not telling me who you were?" "That doesn't seem a little childish?" "I was just a little upset when you just packed up and left for the Zeus station without saying a word." "Now you know what was going on, alright?" "Yeah, now I know." "My operation had to be done in zero grav, okay?" "Fine!" "And how about the fact that I was sent there on a job and you wouldn't even see me?" "I was probably helping Dr. Sid collect spirit waves." " Well, now I know." " So I'm sorry." "Well, me too." "So we are both sorry." "So will you tell me about them?" "About what?" "About the spirits you collected." "I was infected by a phantom during an experiment." "Normally no one could have survived." "How did you?" "Dr. Sid created a membrane around the infection, keeping me alive." "So the first spirit wave was me." " The second was a fish." " A fish?" "The third was a deer I found in a wildlife-preserve outside Moscow." "The fourth was a bird." "Ever try to track a sparrow outer space?" "It's no fun." "What am I saying?" "You probably would love that." "You are right." "I probably would." "And then there was that plant I collected from Time Square." "I thought that was number six." " What?" " You skipped one." "The fifth was a little girl, dying in a hospital emergency room." "I retrieved the sample in time, but she" "I told her everything had a spirit." "Dogs, cats, trees, little girls, even the earth." "I told her that she wasn't dying, just returning to the Earth spirit." "To Gaya." "She... told me that she was ready to die." "She said I didn't have to make up stories to make her feel better." "Only 7 years old and ready to die." "I'm sorry." "I have work to do." "I have to find the seventh and eighth spirits." "Don't, please" "You don't believe any of this, do you?" "I just... don't know, Aki." "Is this why you shut me out?" "You should have told me." "I don't know how much time I have left." "Who does?" "I better get back to scanning." "Captain Edwards, you extracted a Dr. Ross from old New York several days ago." "Did you not?" " Yes, sir." " What were you impressions of Dr. Ross?" "She seemed very capable and determined, sir." "You and the Deep Eyes are being temporary reassigned." "You will guard Dr. Ross when she re-enters the waste land." "Understood, sir." "You don't understand yet, Captain." "Report any aberrant behavior in Dr. Ross to the Major immediately." "Aberrant behavior, sir?" "The woman carries an alien infestation, captain." "We don't know what it may be doing to her." "The aliens presence could be effecting her judgment." "And maybe manipulating the Doctor for their very own purposes." "Is the General suggesting that Dr. Ross is a spy?" "The General is wondering why he's explaining himself to a captain." "She's had prolonged exposure to phantom tissue." "If this begins to manifest itself in anyway," "Dr. Ross is to be placed under arrest, and transported here for observation." "It is in fact for her own good, captain." "Of course, sir." "Major, send some of our men to keep an eye on the good captain." "I'm convinced that these dreams are some form of communication." "Their message still eludes to me." "But they are coming faster now, and that can only mean one thing." "The phantoms inside me are beginning to win." " Our target is 50 klicks west of Tucson." " Roger." " Phantom concentration?" " Not good." "We've got big metas everywhere." "So it's gonna be a real picnic." "Stick close to me." "No heroics today, okay?" "Everything by the book." "By the book." "Right." "If we drop energy buoys here, here and here..." "We should be able to land, acquire the target, and get out before the phantoms even know we were there." "And the buoys will attract the phantoms?" "Yeah." " For a while." "So you are from the 307th, right?" "Under General Hein?" "Ever done any wasteland recon before?" "It can get pretty ugly." "Captain, rendezvous for evac at vector 6, coordinate 279." "Roger that." "Stay alert for hostiles" "Looks like they've taken the bait." "The seventh spirit should be just beyond that line of wreckage." "I don't see how any living thing could survive out here." "We'll find out soon enough." "This was the Phantom Cleansing Mission" "It was supposed to end the war." "My father is in here somewhere." "Alright." "Let's move out, people." "I'll be damned." "A survivor." "What's it doing out here?" "Hoping for life to return." " Is that our spirit, Doc?" " No." " We're closing in on the life form." " Distance?" "Hard to say." "We are very close." "I don't see anything." "You're not gonna tell me it's him." "That's impossible" "It's not the soldier." "It's his ovo-pac." "How do you explain that?" "Pacs power our weapons, the barrier cities..." "I mean it's just bio-etheric energy." "And to create that energy, we use living tissue." "Single cell organisms." "You're telling me his backpack is the seventh spirit." " Yes." " We have incoming." "Captain, do you read me?" "Captain?" "Say again." "Do you read me, captain?" "We have incoming." "Ryan, get the soldier's pac." "I need a hand!" "Serge!" "Those buoys?" "Yeah." " They're not working." " Thank you." " Are you alright?" " Of course I am." "Let's get the hell out of here." "Something's not right." "It shouldn't be happening." "Something's attracting them." "Aki" "There are right on us, sir." "Closing in fast." "Jane, take the lead." "Fire in the hole!" " Get us out of here, Neil." " Sir, I would love to." " But" " Just do it!" " Sir?" " Locate that Sid." "That doesn't look good, captain." "We have to get her to a hospital." "You have your order, sir." "What the hell is going on here?" "Dr. Ross is to be taken into custody now, sir!" "Lower your weapons." "That's an order." "Sir, we have no choice but to relieve you of your command." "I won't let you do this, soldier." " You'll gonna have to shoot me." " Stand down, captain!" "Aki!" "Hang on, everyone!" "That's enough!" "Hands where I can see them, everyone!" "Everybody!" "Hard to starboard!" "Neil, get us back to New York." "Fast." "The Deep Eyes are returning from the wasteland, sir." "Apparently there was an incident." "It would seem the phantoms were attracted to Dr Ross." "The crew barely escaped with their lives." "And sir..." "Captain Edwards is still in command." "Issue an order." "I want Edwards and Dr. Ross placed under arrest." "All research materials pertaining to Dr. Sid's wave theory are to be confiscated immediately." "That might not go over too well with the Council, sir." "What a tragedy that would be." "This is perfect, Major." "The good captain has opened the door for us." "By tomorrow morning, the Council will be at our feet thanking us for exposing the traitors in our midst and imploring us to save them from the phantoms." "How is she, Doctor?" " She is dying." " There must be something you can do." "Aki is fighting with only six of the eight spirits." "We have to implant the seventh directly into her chest plate." "It took a bullet, I think it might be damaged." "We have to repair this panel quickly." "Her vital signs are dropping." "Aki is slipping away from us." "She needs a sympathetic spirit to help hold her in this world." "And I can think of no spirit better suited for that task than yours, captain." "I don't understand." "You don't have to understand." "You just be with her now." "You keep her here with us." "Aki?" "Where are we?" "On an alien planet." "How is that possible?" "I'm not entirely sure." "You seem pretty calm." "I have been having this dream every night for months." "Dream?" "Well, whatever it is." "You're really here, aren't you?" "What's happening to me?" "Dr. Sid is implanting the seventh spirit directly into your body." "Then you are my spiritual support." "Gray, how sweet of you." "Look, I don't think you realize how serious this situation is." "Something you should see here, sir." "And I am watching... what, major?" "It seems Dr. Ross has been recording her dreams." "And why would I be interested in..." "her dreams?" "This is it." "This is our evidence." "She's under the influence of the phantoms." "Dr. Ross's dreams should be all the Council needs authorize the firing of the Zeus cannon." "The Council is content to hide cowering inside this barrier while the world dies a little more everyday." "I believe they need a push in the right direction, major." "Get together a group of your most trusted men." "What are they doing?" "Why are they staring at us?" "Not at us." "Welcome back, captain." "Is it over?" "How is she, Doctor?" "She is going to be fine." "But this is only temporary." "We'll need to find the eight and final spirit to cure her." "Aki, can you hear me?" "I finished it." "I know what it means." "I know what the phantoms really are." "Nobody move!" "You are all under arrest!" "We have them, sir." "Sir?" "My wife and daughter were killed by phantoms when the San Francisco Barrier city was attacked." "Did I ever tell you that?" "I try to imagine what that that must have been like seeing everyone around you fall over dead for no apparent reason." "And then at the end, feeling something next to you invisible... touching you." "Reaching inside your body and" "You've lost family, haven't you?" "Yes, sir." "That's why I trust you." "All of you." "You know what must be done." "'SECURITY OVERRIDE.'" "'PERIMETER BREACH.'" "Major, arrest these men." "Take it easy." "Stand up." "Go." "You are relieved of your post." "Don't ask any questions." "Reduce power to sector 31." "Sir, you do realize that the phantoms" "What I realize, major, is that we must force the Council to take action against the enemy." "25% of energy pipe alpha redirected." "Lowering power output to sector 31." "Barrier breach in sector 31, General." "They're coming through now." "Oh, I think we can easily handle a few phantoms in a contain space." "Relax, major." "When this night is over, you are going to be a hero." "Aki, I don't think" "You were in my dream, Gray." "You saw it." "That's just it." "I'm not sure what I saw." "How can you be?" "Captain, please." "Let her continue." "Alright, why do you think we've never been able to determine a relationship between the human size phantoms. and the giant one's roaming the wastelands?" "Excuse me, doc, but what friggin' relationship?" "I mean you got your human-sized phantoms and your creepy caterpillary phantoms." "And your flying phantoms." "And let's not forget my personal favorite the big fat giant phantoms." " Down, boy." " He's right." "If you'd spent as much time in this field as we have." "You know there is no relationship." "Is like a zoo out there." "Precisely, I think the giant ones are like our whales or elephants." "But why would an invading army bring a bunch whales and elephants along for the ride?" "Unless their ship was some kind of a crazy Noah's Ark?" "We always assume that the meteor was intended as a form of transportation." "Perhaps it wasn't." "The meteor is a chunk of their planet that got thrown into space when they destroyed their world." "But how could they survive the trip across outer space on a hunk of rock?" "They didn't." "Oh, this is all beginning to make a creepy kind of sense." "What do you think about all this, captain?" "I think that explains why we never had a chance." "All our strategies are based on one assumption:" "That we were fighting alien invaders." "Think of the dream, Gray." "How they died." "Since then, all they've know is suffering." "They're not an invading army." "They're ghosts." "How many phantoms?" "More than enough to convince the Council, sir." "Excellent." "Sound an alert." "Send a squad out to eliminate them." "Yes, sir." "Alert status." "Full deployment." "Sir, I have numerous phantoms contacts." "Well, of course you do." "Outside of sector 31, sir." "And moving at incredible speed." "Major, what the hell is going on here?" "They are in the pipes." "They're moving with the bio-etheric energy flow." "That's impossible." "No living thing could survive in those pipes." "Well, we got a big one heading this way." "Meta class, sir." "Oh my God." "Hold your fire!" "What have I done?" "Come on, Neil." "We need to find a way out." "Now your our man." "Think!" "Captain, these walls are titanium alloy, and the bars are pulse-sonic lasers." "I mean is not like I can just wave a magic wand and" "Whoo" " Neil, I'm impressed." " That makes two of us." "'PROCEED TO THE NEAREST EVACUATION FACILITY.'" "'PROCEED TO THE NEAREST EVACUATION FACILITY.'" "I think we should proceed to the nearest evacuation facility." "'PROCEED TO THE NEAREST EVACUATION FACILITY.'" "Here they come." "But the others..." "Dr. Sid!" "Deep Eyes will take care of him." "Come on!" "What's happening?" "Why can we see them now?" "They must be carrying a residual charge from passing through the barrier." "Behind you!" "All aboard, captain." "We need to find my ship." "If it was towed inside the city, it could be in the military hangar." "That's a big 'if'." "Look out!" " Get us onto the platform." " You got it." "Okay, now what?" " We're going through the station." " What?" " Captain, with all due respect" " Excuse me, captain" " The station." "We're going through it." " It's the only way." "So I gather this will be somewhat of a rough ride?" "Doc, you got a talent for understatement." "Hang on, everybody." "Doc?" "Interesting." "Anybody hurt?" "Captain!" "Oh God!" "Talk to me, sarge." "Ouch!" " Give me a hand, Jane." " Right!" " No, wait!" "We're risking further injury." "We need the proper tools to cut him out." "They are in my ship." "No!" "No, Doc." "No drugs." " Captain?" " You heard the man." "We'll find the ship and be back for you." " I'll stay with him." " Me too." "Nobody's staying." "Just give me a gun." "You got it." "Give him a weapon." "Do it!" "We'll be back for you, sergeant." "You hear me?" "I hear you, captain." "Now get out of here." "Let's move out." "A quad-axle ATV." "This is good." "It can be used to retrieve Ryan and transport him safely here." "However we'll need to replace these spent fuel cells." "There could be some live ovo-packs in the hangar." "Alright, Jane." "Check the hangar." "Neil, get us ready for take off." "Aki and Dr. Sid prep the Quatro." "I'll go to the tower and rotate the airtray." "The city maybe lost, but we are not." "Let's do this thing and get the hell out of here." "Gray... be careful." "You too." "Oh yeah." "Neil, do you read me?" "Loud and clear, captain." "This baby'll fly itself." "Flight path is set." "Beginning rotation." "Whoa, stop the airtray." "We have a problem." "I'm reading an impound tractor still attached to the prow of the ship." "Can you disengage it from the cockpit?" "No, sir." "Permission to go outside and detach the coupling." "Do it!" "There's the problem." "The controls are locked, naturally." "Jane, let me ask you something." "You think we're going to get out here alive?" "I mean, I'm wondering if anybody else has gotten out." "You think anyone's made it this far?" "You think this eight spirit stuff is really going to work against the phantoms?" "I mean what if it is all a bunch of mumbo-jumbo?" "Jane, do you mind if we stop talking?" "I'm trying to concentrate here." "What's happening down there." "Nothing we can't handle." " Neil, what's your status?" " Almost there." "I want you two back inside!" "We're fine, sir." "Jane is negotiating with the extreme prejudice." "Talk to me, Jane." "No problem here, Captain." "Yes!" "Captain, we are good to go." "Yeah!" "No!" "Jane, get out of there." "Get out of there now!" "Go!" "Jane!" "Get the hell out of there!" "Jane!" "The shield is powered and ready." "Where are you going?" "To the cockpit." "The ship is set on autopilot" "We are in countdown to liftoff." "Wait." "It's too dangerous." "Aki!" "Over here, you son of a bitch." "Ryan!" "Gray, do you read me?" "What's happening?" "You and Sid are getting out of here now." "No!" "We can't just leave everyone." "Everyone's dead." "I'm not leaving without you." "I'm sorry." "But you don't have a choice." "Goodbye, Aki." "Gray, come on!" "I just..." "I wish I could believe they were in a better place." "I enlarged the scanning parameter to include an area that we had previously overlooked." "The impact crater." "That's a strange place to find the eight spirit." "Yes, really, quite astonishing!" "But nothing can survive in there except phantoms." "Precisely." "Which suggests that the eight spirit is a phantom spirit." "I can't explain it at the moment." " But once we get down there" " Wait!" " You'll understand" " Wait, Doctor." "That's a one-way trip." "Yes." "Yes, I expected that's how you would evaluate our chances." " What am I wrong?" " No, no, no, I agree." "We'll probably won't live long enough to extract the eight spirit from the crater." "Then why should we even try it?" "Because we don't need to extract the eight spirit." "If we can't bring the final spirit here we can go there and complete the wave inside the crater." "Yes." "Exactly." "And how do we do that... exactly?" "I can construct a device that would attach to Aki's chest plate to gather the eight spirit and then" "And then what?" "And then we wait." "And see what happens." "That's it?" "That's your plan?" "We wait and see what happens?" "Yes." "Oh, good." "Well, I got my own plan." "We keep scanning the surface from orbit, and maybe we'll find a compatible spirit somewhere else." "Aki?" "I say we go in." "General Hein, you're cleared for docking thru zero-one-alpha." "What caused the barrier to fail, General Hein?" "Ah, I'm afraid it was only a matter of time before the phantoms developed an immunity to our barriers." "But I'm relieved to see that you and the rest of the Council were able to evacuate to Houston without incident." "It was a terrible loss suffered this evening." "The Council had reconsidered your proposal to fire the Zeus cannon." "I see." "We are transmitting the access codes to you now." "And General, best of luck to us all." "Prepare to fire the cannon." "The target, sir?" "The phantom crater." "Preparing to drop in three, two, one." "Powering the shield." "Okay, we're over the meteor." "Do you have it in sight, Doctor." "There are so many of them." "Wait." "Yes." "I'm tracking the eight spirit moving along the crater surface." "Alright." "Now let's take a closer look." "Ready to fire in 3 minutes." "Ovo-pacs at maximum." "Transferring plasma flow to auto." "Counter-thrusters are engaged." "Lox flow de-coupled." "Status is green." "We have something in the radar over the impact site, sir." "It's her." "Sir?" "Just a traitor under the influence of the enemy." "Continue the countdown." "We'll take them all out at the same time." "We're closing on the phantom." "Contact in 30 seconds." "Target locked." "Ready to fire on your command." "It's a match." "It's a perfect match." "Target scanner is ready, sir." "Fire!" "What was that?" "It's the Zeus." "They're firing on the crater." "Aki, Captain, are you alright?" "A little shaken." "Stand by." "Sid, the eight spirit is not on our scanner." "Do you have it?" "The eight spirit has been destroyed." "What are we going to do now?" "Nothing." "This mission is over." " We have to get out of here." " Incoming!" "What is that?" "If you're gonna get us out of here, you better do it now." "Hold on!" "I can't hold on to you." "Unable to maintain altitude." "Emergency landing procedures." "Come in." "Come in, please" "Aki, Gray, can you hear me?" "Sid, I need to talk to the station." "Can you patch us through?" "What is that thing?" "I don't know, sir." "Incoming message, sir." "General Hein, you must cease fire immediately." "What are you looking at, in the crater is the living spirit of an alien's home world." "The planet was destroyed and part of the it landed here." "This is not an invasion." "It never was." "Oh, I see." "And what we have been fighting all this time, Doctor?" "Ghosts?" "Yes, spirits that are confused, lost and angry." "Oh right?" "And these spirits are coming out of this Gaya-thing?" "General Hein, you have to listen." "Alien Gaya, Earth Gaya." "Doctor, even if I believed in such nonsense the fact remains the Earth is under attack from aggressor who must be destroyed at all cost." "The cost may be the entire planet, sir." "Firing on the alien Gaya will only make it stronger." "Well, since you're under the alien's influence, Doctor," "I will take your protest to mean, we are in fact pursuing the correct course of action." "So, I suggest you take your last few moments and prepare to meet your Gaya." "Continue to fire until the invaders have been destroyed." "General, the system is overheating, sir." "We are going to hit again and again and keep on hitting it, until it's dead." "But sir, we not even sure if it's having any effect on the creature." "No effect?" "We got them on the run, soldier." "This is our moment of victory." "I order you to fire." "The system won't allow us to fire again." "We'll see about that." "Our shield is out, we're sitting ducks in here." "Come on." "This is not a good place to be." "What the hell is that?" " That's not what I think it is, is it?" " Yes!" "It's Gaya." "This is definitely not a good place to be." "Hey, are you alright?" "I'm fine." "I have to talk to Dr. Sid." "Sid, do you read me?" "Go ahead." "I'm still here." "We are looking at Gaya." "Do you hear me, Sid?" "Gaya!" "I think this explains why the eight spirit appeared here." "Yes." "Yes, that's it." "A phantom must have changed into the eight spirit when it touched a new life born from our own Gaya." "If so, it would have been given a different energy signature that set apart from the other phantoms." "You two could not have hoped for a better location to find a new compatible spirit." "Whatever you do, don't move." "Stay right where you are." "Staying right where we are may not be as easy as it sounds." "Don't shoot any of them." "You could very well destroy our last hope." "And what do you suggest I do, Doctor?" "Ask them to play nice?" "Combat strategy is your area of expertise Captain, not mine." "I have a reading here in the fissure." "Do you see it?" "Yes, a compatible spirit." "It must be very near you." "Well?" "Which one is it?" "Which one?" "I'm having difficulties narrowing it down." "Just a moment, please." "Doctor, it's getting crowded in here." "Aki, we don't have much time." "Aki..." "Aki!" "With the hope of new life has Gaya changed the phantom within?" "I have it." "Gray, get in here." "I need you." "Do you hear me, Sid?" "The wave pattern is completed." "Yes, I read you." "This is wonderful." "I..." "I don't see how you could have found the final spirit." "It found me, Doctor." "Oh, my word." "I see now." "I understand." "Well, I don't understand." "What the hell is going on?" "Give me your ovo-pac." "I need to project the completed wave." " But we'll be defenseless." " Just do it!" "I hope you know what you are doing, Aki." "We can use the shield to project the wave." "Dr. Sid's theory was right." "I have it, the eight spirit." "I'm cured, Gray." "Are you sure you have the final spirit?" "Yes, yes." "I'm sure." "But how?" "How can you know that?" "Don't worry, a phantom told me." "Oh, great." "That's it." "Shield on." "It's not working." "We have to do something before it's too late." "If this doesn't work, then it's already too late." "Gray... trust me." "I'll blast you all to hell." "Oh, no!" "No!" "Get down!" "'WARNING." "SYSTEM OVERLOAD.'" "I know." "'WARNING." "SYSTEM OVERLOAD.'" "I know!" "'WARNING." "SYSTEM OVERLOAD.' I know!" "But it must be done." "Fire!" "Fire!" "Damn it!" "Fire!" "Gray?" "Gray!" "Don't leave me, Gray." "Told Sid this was a one-way trip." "Looks like I was right." "No, Gray." "Hang on, please." "I still have the wave." "We can get through this." " We're not gonna to make it." " We are going to make it." "We both know that isn't true." "Gray..." "Help me." "Gray..." "Listen to me." "You saved my life once." "Now I want you to save yourself." "Gray, no." "Please." "Let me do this, Aki." "Trust me." "Don't leave me, Gray." "You've been trying to tell me that death isn't the end." "Don't back out on me." "Now that I finally believe." "I love you." "Oh, it's warm."