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Come on. Hopefully, the specialists can help you get your memory back. It is very simple, and it does not hurt.
Memory restoration, music, and combat unite in Macross Robotech The Movie ACT 3, blending past and future in a thrilling sci-fi saga.
Key Takeaways
- Memory and identity are central themes, explored through Ishtar's recovery and transformation.
- Music acts as a healing and unifying force, bridging characters and their pasts.
- Advanced technology and combat play crucial roles in defending humanity from external threats.
- Personal relationships provide emotional depth and motivation for the characters' actions.
- The blend of past and future elements creates a rich narrative of hope, struggle, and connection.
What the video covers
- The protagonist Ishtar undergoes a memory recovery procedure revealing her past as an emulator for the Marduk Empire.
- Ishtar's voice, once used as a weapon in battle, is now a source of hope and musical talent.
- Trish, another key character, is offered a recording contract and prepares for a duet with Kenji.
- The story includes intense combat scenes involving Valkyries defending against enemy pods stealing protoculture cells.
- Kenji pilots the advanced YF-21 Valkyrie remotely to destroy enemy pods, showcasing futuristic technology.
- The narrative explores themes of identity, memory, and destiny as characters connect across time and space.
- There is a focus on personal relationships, including marriage and emotional support among characters.
- The SDF-1 ship and its crew prepare for further conflict while managing the recovery of protoculture cells.
- Musical performances serve as emotional highlights, symbolizing unity and hope amid chaos.
- The story blends sci-fi action with heartfelt moments, emphasizing the importance of trust and resilience.
Chapters
- 00:00Memory Recovery and Ishtar's Past
- 01:34Ishtar's Memory Returns
- 02:42Aftermath and Emotional Support
- 03:39Trish's Recording Contract Offer
- 07:05Music and Personal Connections
- 10:05Enemy Attack and Protoculture Theft
- 13:02Kenji Pilots the YF-21 Valkyrie
- 14:53Victory and Reflection
- 16:54Duet Performance and New Beginnings
- 18:14Ongoing Conflict and Future Challenges
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You rest, and we listen to how your mind moves. Nothing goes in. We only look.
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You may stop at any moment. You only have to say so. Just relax. Stay calm. I'm right here.
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Do not leave me. Stay beside me, please. I'm not going anywhere. I'll be right here the whole time. I promise.
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Stay inside. Do not open it. The pod will take you where they cannot follow.
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I will hold them here. You are not theirs to take. You are ours. Hey, I'm here. Hang in there. Just hang in there.
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She is not in pain. Her memory is returning. Slowly. Let her have it. F.
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F. Who's FF? I remember now. My name is Ishtar. I was an emulator for the Marduk Empire.
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It worked. Her memory has been restored. All of it, as far as I can tell.
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She has been through a great deal today. Let her rest. Please. Whatever she said in here,
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nobody can know about it. Nobody. Everything that happens in this room stays in this room. We never share what our patients bring us. You have nothing to worry about here. Take her home. Let her sleep. She will need time with all
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of it. Come on. Let's get you back to Miss Maze. You need to rest. We'll figure out what's next together. Not tonight, but we will.
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You're back. I stayed in all afternoon. I wanted to hear how it went. So, how did it go? Did they help her?
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It didn't work. Nothing came back. We'll try somewhere else. Someone better. I'm going to get her to bed, Miss MinMay.
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She's exhausted. We'll talk more after she's rested. Oh, sweetheart. I'm so sorry. Go on, get some sleep.
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I've been calling you the wrong name for two days. You gave me a name when I had none. I did not mind it, but I would like to hear my own now from you. My voice was a weapon. They gave it to the soldiers
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before a battle. It made them want to die. That's what they used you for. It isn't what you are.
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Then what am I now? I don't know what you are, but I know you're something special. Something brought you here. Across all of it, to a forest, to a pod, to me. That wasn't an accident. I don't need to know what it
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means yet. You're here. That's good enough for me. Wait for me. I put you in that pod to keep you from them.
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I never thought it would carry you so far. One more flight, old friend. Ishita, I'm coming.
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Your family emergency cost me two hours of paperwork. What happened? The procedure worked. She remembers everything.
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Everything. Her name is Ishtar. Her voice was a weapon. And today, an agent offered her a recording contract.
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Of course, one did. Good evening. I'm looking for a singer named Trish. I heard her at the music store today.
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Trish, you heard her sing? Like nothing I've ever heard. I came to offer her a recording contract.
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Kenji never said, "Please come in." Trish, you have a visitor. Trish, you have a visitor.
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I won't take your evening. One demo recording at my studio, one song exactly as you sang it today.
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Tomorrow morning. That's all I ask. She's in there talking to her right now. Kenji, breathe.
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Think. What's the story that survives us walking in? I'm sorry. This is a family decision.
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We'll need to discuss it, and we'll let you know. Of course. The moment you decide, let me know right away.
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Trish sings. Kenji. She sings. And you never told me. She's a fan of your songs, actually. She sings them all the time when she's alone. I think she was too shy to tell you.
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Oh, sing one for me. Sing Across the Sea of Stars. Acides will carry through.
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Trish, I want to work with you. A duet, you and me, one song together. I would be honored.
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It's me. I know it's late. I need a favor. Book the studio. A private session. Two voices, one song. As soon as you can. And keep it quiet. No press.
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Five minutes. Then I set up the floor bed. Floor bed. Good night, Kenji. Okay. Okay. Don't wake her.
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The floor bed. I had one job. Is Trish still sleeping? Still asleep. Yesterday wore her out.
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Can you look after Trish today? We report to the SDF-1 this morning. There's an important briefing.
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Of course. Maybe I'll take her out somewhere if that's okay. More than okay. It'd be good for her to get out more often.
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Kenji, good morning. Kenji and I left early this morning. They'll be back to Knack tonight. So, it's just us today. Come out with me. A little girl-to-girl time.
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I'd be very happy to. How many protoculture cells to wake the ship completely? Ten at minimum. Ten protoculture cells.
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Enough to launch a full-scale attack. Our fuel cells are failing. This ship is starving.
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The humans stockpile protoculture in Macross City. Storage yards at the edge of their light.
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Go down and take what we need. Every cell you can carry. No bodies. A theft. Not a war. Not yet.
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You have your orders. Move. Multiple contacts. Descent tracks the storage district. SDF-1 operations to base command. Enemy pods on the ground at the city's edge. Scramble the alert flight. Intercept and contain.
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Base command copies. Scrambling now. What's coming? All six Valkyries destroyed. One enemy defeated all of them.
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Get rescue crews to those pilots and find me whatever did this. Commander Chloré, the protoculture is secured. Three cells aboard. Lifting off now. We will reach the ship before their reinforcements arrive.
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Understood. Go home. The sky is clear. I have seen to it. All pods report.
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Second sight secure. Seven cells of protoculture aboard. No contact with the enemy. That makes ten the number he asked for.
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All pods return to the ship at once. Attention all personnel. Additional pilots are needed for immediate intercept. Enemy pods are escaping with the stolen protoculture. All qualified pilots, report to flight operations now.
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Kenji, they're calling for pilots. I know. I have the YF-21's brain direct interface. Do you have it with you?
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It's in my room, stored and ready in case I ever have to fly the YF-21 remotely.
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Then go get it, take control, and intercept those pods. The YF-21 is the only Valkyrie fast enough with enough firepower to destroy them all.
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YF-21, wake up. Heat. Heat. Operations confirmed. All ten enemy pods destroyed. It was a single Valkyrie. An advanced design. Nothing in our registration.
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Check something for me. Officers Kenji and AI. Are they in the base right now?
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Confirmed operations. Both are here. Standing by in the ready room. Then it can't be them, can it?
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It's done. All ten pods destroyed. The city sky is clear. And if anyone suspects us of flying those two Valkyries, we were both here at the base the entire time, standing by the whole time.
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All ten pods are destroyed. The same futuristic Valkyrie did it. It carries a force field. Their fire could not penetrate it.
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A shield we cannot pierce. How interesting. No, not here. Trish, it's over. Whatever it was, it's over.
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Yes, I'm fine. Come on. The studio's waiting. Here we are. A private room, just us today. No producers, no cameras, no one listening. It's beautiful. MinMay, what do I do? You sing. That's all. I'll take care of everything else. Today your
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voice belongs only to you. Trish, your voice is so beautiful. I could listen to you forever. Are you ready to sing our duet, Where the Night Ends? I'm ready. I've been listening to it since yesterday. I know every note.
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Lay your heads. I have a light for you. All the miles I never told you of led me here to you.
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Stay where the night ends. Stay till the morning finds us. And if the stars forget our names, I'll still— Trish, that was perfect. Every note we sang it like one voice. My next concert.
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Sing it with me on stage as my special guest. Your concert in front of everyone. Everyone. It's time the world hears you.
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Three seconds there and gone. Where do you sleep? At ease. I came to thank you both for standing by through all of it. It steadies a base knowing its pilots are ready.
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Just doing our duty, Lieutenant. One thing, you both came up through the prototype program. What do you think it was up there today? Something new, ma'am. Lieutenant, the six pilots who were shot down this morning. Who did that to them? Are they—
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they been rescued? All six ejected. Rescue crews had every one of them within the hour. Bruises, one broken arm. They'll fly again. As for who did it, a single machine. We don't know who's yet. We should have been up there
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with them. Next time you will be. What a day. I can't wait to get home and just not move for the rest of the night.
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Is that the only reason? Or is it that you can't wait to get back and see Trish again?
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What? No, it's it's been a long day. Ivo, Miss Midmight was telling me the other day she saw the two of you sleeping in the same bed.
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I I was on the floor and then I must have sleepwalked back to the bed in the middle of the night. It happens.
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You sleepwalked into the bed? Uh-huh. Let's go home. Sleep mover. The futuristic Valkyrie, the one that intercepted and destroyed all 10 pods.
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What do we have? More than we should. It used a force field, a projected shield.
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It took multiple attacks and nothing got through. And here's what I can't explain. The field signature is very similar to our own pinpoint barrier system, the SDF-1s. Our technology. Keep investigating everything. And find me where they dock. Both of them. I want
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the location. That's the hard part, Lieutenant. It uses a cloaking device. Whatever it is, it renders our track useless. I get 3 seconds of contact at dusk and then nothing. Then find me the 3 seconds every night until they add up
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to a door. One more thing, we have a name. The pods intercepted transmissions called their commander, Chloré. She's the one who shot down the six Valkyries.
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Then your pilots have no chance against her. I've been through the combat records. She's very skilled. Almost my level. Max and I were on the line when the pods came. Engines hot, ready to launch, and we were ordered to stand
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down because that futuristic Valkyrie had already destroyed all 10 pods by itself. One machine, no pilot we can find, and a shield built like ours. Next time, no one stands down. When Chlor comes back, you and Max fly.
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Welcome home. Dinner's almost ready. Sit. Sit. We'll shower and change first. 10 minutes. We smell like the base.
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Kenji, I haven't showered yet either. Can we take one together? It would save time.
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Trish, I I'll be quick. Really quick. You go after me separately. I'm going. Did I say something wrong?
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We'll talk about it at dinner. You should have heard her today. The duet, Where the Night Ends, we sang it like one voice. So, I've decided my next concert, Trish, is going to be my special guest. We'll sing it together on
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stage. On stage? Trish, that's amazing. You'd be wonderful. Kenji, the raids this morning, the Zentradi, you were both at the base.
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What happened out there? Nothing to worry about. The RDF handled everything. No one was hurt. Not a single injury.
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Standing by the whole time. Boring, honestly. No one was hurt. I want to visit the SDF-1. I keep seeing it over the city. I want to see it up close.
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I can take you there, but I'd need to ask permission first and get you a civilian pass. Give me a day or two.
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That's a good idea. Who knows, Trish? It might even help you get your memory back.
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Trish, why the SDF-1? At dinner, your eyes changed when you said it. When I saw the fortress this morning, I couldn't look away. Kenji, I believe it's the ship of the Aloo.
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The Aloo? A legend? A ship from a prophecy told among a people called the Marduk. The Mardac are a waring people. War is all their culture remembers. But their oldest lore promises the Ellis a messiah, the end of every conflict,
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eternal peace for their civilization. When the Ellis wakes, the war ends. Trish, how do you know Mardak lore?
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Because their songs were my mother's songs. Kenji, come to bed. You go ahead. I'll follow. Just finishing this report.
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finish quickly and come to bed. Maybe I should just sleep here on the sofa for now.
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There you are. You must have been so tired. Thanks, Mom. Good night. He must miss his mother so much. All this time, so far from home.
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Kenji, you slept here? I uh the report I was finishing the report. Did you sleepwalk here?
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Something like that. Well, someone looks terrible. Sofa comfortable. Sleepwalker. Wonderful. Actually, best report I ever slept on.
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Eat up, Kenji. I made extra for you today. Thank you. 40 years. You're only 40 years away. 40 years.
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Tell me there's a way back. There is one. A traversible wormhole. A theoretical shortcut linking two different points in spaceime. Two mouths join through the fold. Hold one here and the other becomes a door to the past.
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How? One mouth must be accelerated to near light speed. The time differential does the rest. 40 years of it. No ship we have survives that acceleration except one. The Giggamesh can handle it.
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Then prepare it. The moment the mouth is stable, I fly. understand what the acceleration does.
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Time will thin around you. Minutes for you, years out here. And there is no flying back the same way. The mouth will hold for one crossing. One.
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One is all I need. Godspeed. Lieutenant requesting a civilian day pass for the SDF-1. A visitor. I'd escort her personally, sir.
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Sure. Who's the visitor? Trish, it says. Who is she? She's my wife, sir. Your wife, Kenji, you're married. At your age?
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It's recent, sir. She saw the SDF1 over the city. She's been fascinated ever since. She just wants to see it up close.
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Married? Well, approved. Misa should have her in the system by the end of today. Bring her in tomorrow. And Kenji, congratulations.
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Thank you, sir. Max, Millia, you will never guess what landed on my desk this morning.
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A transfer to somewhere quiet. Better. Kenji, the new pilot, filed a visitor pass for the SDF-1 for his wife.
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Wife? That boy's married? Married? Recent? He says, "I approved the pass. Bring her to the SDF-1 tomorrow." And when I congratulated him, he looked like I'd shot him down. H doesn't wear a ring. doesn't talk like a married man either. A wife who appears
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the day he needs a visitor pass. He and Auggie fly like a bonded pair, but not that kind. No. Whoever this wife is, she came from nowhere. And I don't like nowhere.
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Tomorrow then I want to meet this wife. Trish. Kenji just called from the base.
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Your visitor pass is approved. Approved? Then tomorrow I go with him to the great ship. Tomorrow you'll see it up close.
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The great ship. I have dreamed of standing before it. And that settles it. You're coming with me to the clothing store today. You need a dress for tomorrow. A dress for visiting the ship.
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A dress for you. Something perfect. My treat. Then let's go now. Minmi. I'm so excited for tomorrow. Truly. Here we are. The best boutique in the city. They dressed me for my very first concert.
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It's beautiful. Like a palace made of silk. Now deep rose. No. No. This one.
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Midnight blue with your hair. Trish, you were born for this color, like the night sky. May I truly wear this? Oh. Oh, Trish, come onto the doss. Let me see you. It feels like wearing water. Is it Is it right? Right, Trish. Tomorrow when
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he sees you, that pilot is going to forget his own name. Then tomorrow, I will wear the night sky to the great ship.
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Wait, that's that's Minme. It is her. And who's that with her? The girl in blue. She looks like a supermodel.
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So beautiful. Is she a star, too? Don't look now. But they were all staring at you. At me? No. Surely at you. You are the famous one.
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Trish. Crowds have looked at me my whole life. Believe me, today that look was yours. Then the night sky suits me after all.
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The pass came through. Trish is cleared for tomorrow. I'm escorting her. That's great. So why do you look like you're being court marshal? Because the lieutenant asked who she was and I panicked. I said she's my wife.
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Your wife? Kenji. You couldn't say friend cousin neighbor. Get a pair of wedding rings tonight and act like she's your wife.
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Act like I I've never been married. I have no experience. What does a husband even do?
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Simple. You hold her hand. You agree with everything she says. And if she looks in longer than 3 seconds, you offer to buy it.
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That's marriage. That's surviving marriage. Ask Max. Someone is talking about you. That's superstition again. Nobody talks about me. I'm the quiet one. You're the famous one.
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And yet Lieutenant, do you know what I have heard today? Six times. The weather.
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Kenji's wife. The messole. The hanger. Twice in the elevator. Your gossip has outrun my paperwork. Hikaro.
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It's my best story in years. A secret wife. Our quietest pilot. Funny. When he filed with me, she was a friend of the household. No family name.
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Lost her memory. Maybe he's shy. Newlyweds are shy. Shy. He married a woman with no name, no past, and no paperwork, and told his squadron leader before his operations officer. I am walking her pass through personally, and tomorrow I intend to
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meet the bride. Should I bring a gift? Good evening. I need wedding rings. A pair?
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Of course, sir. Congratulations. When was the happy wedding? Recently. Very recently. Ah, newlyweds. Then we must do this properly.
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And the lady's ring size? Size? The circumference of her finger, sir? Her fingers are like mine, but smaller, gentler. She has very hopeful hands.
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Please tell me you didn't buy something shaped like a jet. They're blue, like the night sky. It felt right.
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He did well, madam. He chose like a man already married. We're home. Welcome home, Kenji. How was your day at work?
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It fine. Work work happened. It's still happening. I took Trish shopping today. A new dress for tomorrow. Well, Kenji, how do you like it?
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You look very beautiful, Trish. Elegant. Truly. Then it was worth the whole afternoon. Oh, and your house guest is famous. The base talked about nothing else all day.
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spread like wildfire. Famous from one shopping trip from Lieutenant Hikaru. He's been telling everyone he meets about tomorrow's visit from Kenji's wife.
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Trish, I have a surprise gift for you. They're very beautiful. What are these rings for?
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These rings represent our marriage together and the love a married couple carries for each other.
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Our marriage? It was not like that before, but after spending more time with you, I began to develop feelings.
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Trish, so that means you love me, Kenji. I love you. I hope you feel the same way for me.
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I have feelings for you, too, Kenji. I love you, too. It was not a dream. The ring is still here.
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No, it was not a dream. Good morning, Trish. Good morning, my Kenji. Trish, your hand is that Kenji gave it to me last night. He said it represents our marriage and the love a married couple carries for each other.
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He gave you your ring again? Oh, Trish, he's helping you remember. This is the most romantic thing I have ever wrong pipe. It's very romantic. Yes.
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Good morning, everyone. Kenji, you wonderful man. The ring. She's falling in love with you all over again, just like before.
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Just like before. Yes. Better than before, I think. Because this ring represents since our love for each other. There. Perfect. The SDF1 won't know what walked into it. The dress from you, the ring from Kenji. I am wearing all my gifts at once. Go. Go
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before I ruin my face. And Trish, remember everything today. I intend to. Every moment. Remember the briefing.
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Hold her hand. Agree with everything. Buy whatever she I I don't need the rules anymore.
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No, you really don't. Fly straight. You two. Good morning. You must be Trish. Congratulations are in order, I hear.
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Recently. Very recently. Very recently, ma'am. And very true. So, the wife from nowhere. Not nowhere.
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From very far away. It is almost the same thing. I know. H far away. I flew from far away once myself. Then you know how beautiful this place looks when you finally stand inside it.
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Congratulations from from the squadron. It's a teapot. Misa said bring something practical. I said nothing of the kind. Our first wedding gift. Kenji, we will drink from it tonight. Your pass is active. Trish.
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Welcome aboard the SDF1.
Topics:MacrossRobotechIshtarTrishKenjiValkyrieProtocultureMemory recoverySci-fi animeMusic and combat
