The target audience for these summmaries are those people who haven't seen it all, but are so hooked they have-to-have-it-all-NOW. You know who you are. Don't mind my dry sarcasm, and I'll try to keep my personal comments separate.
Please note that more often than not, all 'quotes' are paraphrases- not exact quotes.
*Wind Rising in the Homeland 1*
The beach, for real this time.
Everyone's young, attractive, and squealing with happiness.
Except for Kaname, who's grumpy and sitting alone.
Kurtz, decked in a bright hawaiian shirt, asks her if she's alone, she grumbles an apology for inconviencing him. Suddenly a watermelon takes him down, and Melissa hugs Kaname from behind and apologizes for Sousuke having to work.
Kaname mutters about not caring about that, and Kyouko cheerfully smashes Kurtz's head (encased in watermelon) with a baseball bat.
*previously*
Sousuke had been summoned to Tessa's office. There he is met by a man from Mithril's intelligence department. The man shows Sousuke video footage from a weapon's market in Helmejistan. A still frame is zoomed in on- and we clearly see Gaulun, alive and well, sporting a new facial scar that only enhances his natural beauty.
It seems the man's alive after all.
The man says they are sending a a squad to assassinate Gaulun, and Sousuke is receiving orders to go along. He has experience with Gaulun, they will need to use the ARX, and because Helmejistan is the closest thing to a 'homeland' Sousuke has. He knows the terrain very very well. Sousuke is not permitted to refuse the mission.
Kalinin, still in bed recovering from his injuries, is not pleased to hear the news. Tessa apologizes to Sousuke. she didn't approve of it, but he tells her that he would go anyway. Kalinin warns him to keep his cool.
After Sousuke leaves, Kalinin tries to comfort Tessa, but it doesn't help her, for she fears something terrible will happen.
Later- five Mithril members are approaching a plane, and one of them brags about making money in Brooklyn gambling on rigged fights. The lone woman in the group reprimands the bragger, Jackson, and tells him to keep his mind on the mission. Jackson nastily shrugs it off, declaring the mission easy. Another man doesn't really like it, wondering why they *all* are going, just to get one man.
The woman says she's heard he has an experimental weapon, and is dangerous.
Bill, the squad leader, agrees with her, and they board the plane. They see Sousuke, who's already there.
(a quick shot of Kaname, still on the beach, looking fustrated and annoyed)
They regard Sousuke a moment...and the plane takes off.
The group sits several places away from him, the men mostly looking annoyed, and the woman looking regretful. Jackson asks in a rude manner why Sousuke is going along. The woman uses that as an opportunity to get Sousuke to introduce himself, but one of the guys is surprised by his rank. This starts some bullying, as Sousuke is clearly really young, and Bill has to reprimand Jackson. The woman, Grace Wiseman, called Gray, apologizes and introduces herself. Sousuke starts to return her friendliness, but the intro is cut short by another member, Andy, who tells Sousuke to remember they don't need him or his advice. Gray's progress with Sousuke is quickly erased, as he only looks away.
The plane appears over a desolate and ruggest landscape and from it jumps the 6 Arm-Slaves.
Later...trudging in the machines through the awful landscape, Jackson bitches about the plane not taking them all of the way... the sandstorms disturb the ECS systems. Andy complains too, but somehow it gets turned into a joke. Everyone laughs at a joke, all but Sousuke.
He's busy remembering...a ragtag group of men, and lagging behind, a ragtag young boy. He collapses weary, in the sand, and another young boy who extends a helping hand.
A halt is ordered, they've spotted the transport they believe their target is with.
A group of Savages guard two long covered transport trucks. They spot an AS that isn't a Savage- it's an unfamiliar design, and red. And at the rear of the second flatbed sits Gaulun, in an AS suit. Sousuke spots him through the binoculars, and Gaulun looks around, as if he knows he's been seen.
(A quick shot of Kaname, feet dangling off the end of a pier- her icecream bar breaks off suddenly/..)
Bill is laying out the plan, for ahead of the target group a little ways is a location ideal for an ambush. The team thinks it's an easy plan, and Jackson wants to steal the transport's weapons for Mithril. Sousuke dissents with the whole thing, and tells the group they have to ensure they strike at Gaulun only when he is definitely not in his AS. Jackson scoffs at him, but he sticks to his position. Gray steps in, and tries to argue for him, but then they ridicule her. They question the validity of the report from the Danaan, about Sousuke's prior fight with Gaulun. It's a tense situation, as the outspoken men in the group are arrogant bastards.
One of them even says the people from the Danaan are annoying, as they are the ones who get to play with all of the new technology.
Gray acutally knees Jackson pretty good for makikng a particulary inappropriate comment...
Bill makes the decision to carry out his plan, regardless of Sousuke's warning. Sousuke's silent.
Full moon in the desert sky- the team is in place and waiting for the transport group.
More inter-member verbal sniping, and Gray asks Bill if perhaps they should give Sousuke's warning more heed. She tells him she's heard wierd things about the weapon Gaulun supposedly has, and she's worried that perhaps they can't handle it. She says she's heard about that battle Sousuke had been in with Gaulun- and how destructive it was.
But before she can continue, the transport team approaches. Bill finalizes the orders, and everyone but Sousuke reports as ready to strike.
The enemy approached, and Sousuke sees Gaulun is missing. Noone can see him, but the arrogant ones don't give it much heed. Sousuke worries that Gaulun might already be in his AS, and warns they shouldn't attack unless they know exactly where Gaulun is.
They dismiss him, but still he protests- and Bill's caught between time and Sousuke's increasingly urgent warnings. The transport is approaching, and the time to attack is imminent, but Sousuke's warning they will probably all die if they go through like this...
Bill's had enough, he lifts the AS's gun...
(A quick shot of Kaname standing on the beach- she lifts an arm and says 'Bang')
...and Bang goes Bill's gun, initiating the ambush. The trucks slide to a stop, and the Savages take up defensive positions. The M9s slide down the cliff face. Bill calls the positions, but as they approach and attack, noone has yet seen Gaulun. Suddenly the strange red AS makes a huge leap in, and attacks Majesto with an AS knife. So quickly, the team that had believed they were on the path to success, realizes not everything is going well.
The second truck goes straight into the air, vertically, and behind the clearing dust waits Gaulun's silver AS. 'Yo'...Gaulun is so terribly casual!
The red AS takes down Majesto's AS totally, Sousuke's in a knife battle with a Savage, the others try to shoot at the silver AS, but none of their blasts hit. The silver AS steps through a violent blast, entirely unscathed. It's Bill that names the Lamda Driver.
He draws the AS knife, and charges, but is easily repelled. The team decides to reorganize for a group attack- 4 on 1 should be easy. It's Gray who sees it, that the first truck is carrying a nuclear warhead. The red AS, having finished with Majesto's AS, approaches for some more action...
Gaulun insults Bill, who slides in and tries to get a point-blank shot in. Gray and Jackson watch in horror as the fireworks start...
(Kaname appears walking on the beach, and fades from view)
Gaulun stands over Bill's destroyed AS. Andy and Jackson charge Gaulun, and one of then gets off a missile- but Gaulun's LD field stops it. As it hovers in the air moments before turning back on the one who shot it, the ARX jumps in. Gaulun seems surprised to see him, and says 'Kashim!'. The pilot of the mysterious red AS turns...
Sousuke has to initalize the LD, and as soon as he does the 2 LD fields give off those pretty circular waves, crushing the missile between them. The blast is awful....and really lights up the night sky. Everything goes flying from the shockwaves....
Gaulun's pissed- He's stuck in his AS, laying on its side. The red AS is sitting on it, and it's pilot is thinking about Kashim...
The Mithril team is running away. They've taken the truck with the warhead. Bill is dead. Majesto is severely injured, laying in the truck. They are panicking, Jackson even cries.
(A shot of Kaname, walking alone along a road...an ambulance, lights and siren going, comes up behind her.)
End
really, I wish I could but I don't have the time at the moment