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 2*
A blast, and shooting at the Mithril team that's trying to make it's way through the rough terrain.
The enemies are in persuit, after the warhead...
The ARX's sensors pick up something approaching...
It's helicopters...the team takes them down. There are Savages too, a small army of them, and the team can't use their ECS systems for all of the sand. They're stuck, on the edge of a cliff.
Sousuke suggests they go down the cliff, for he knows where they are. They can hide in the hill below...
His knowledge is challenged, and he has to explain he fought here, in this land, many years before.
They attempt to hold off their attackers, but end up going over the side in the raised dust anyway.
The enemies discuss now the missing nuke thieves, and come to the conclusion that even the latest model AS couldn't survive a fall over this cliff.
The pilot of the red AS, we finally see his scarred face, he comes to the conclusion that 'Kashim' really is the Kashim he's thinking of.
The Mithril team is laying low for the moment. Majesto is suffers in pain, and they've just run out of sedatives.
They need to remove the bullet in his side, and Bill had the only medical kit. Jackson demands Majesto to stay alive- he still owes him money.
Outside of the truck, Sousuke comments that they have too much baggage- Jackson assumes he means Majesto and is rough with him, but Sousuke clarifies he means the warhead.
They can't get through to mithril...
Jackson wants to head for the nearest town, but Sousuke thinks different...
He tells them that the nearest town is a 3 days walk from here, and they'll probably run into the enemy. Now Sousuke wants to attack, and the others want to run away.
Sousuke thinks they have a better chance fighting than running, and Jackson, yet again, gets in his face. Majesto agrees with Sousuke though- he recognizes they should have listened to him from the beginning. He asks the others to listen to Sousuke.
Gray thinks they should get Majesto to a doctor, as priority. Sousuke's more willing to listen to her.
They walk on...
As they walk, Gray asks Sousuke more about his experience here. He explains it to him, as the others listen. He began fighting as a gurellia here when he was 8 years old. He shares that he wasn't the only child fighter- there had been a boy only 3 years older, named Zaido. This launches a memory sequence- 2 young boys in the back of a truck- shooting- running- attacking ASs- triggering explosives- sitting around a campfire- young Sousuke napping with his rifle as Ziado watches over him-
and yes, Zaido has the same scar that the red AS pilot bears.
He explains he had a good relationship with everyone in the group even though he was just a kid, but those people aren't alive anymore. He thinks of a group of short, tattered, white flags stuck in the ground...
Choppers fly overhead, the team is hunched in the shadow of a steep-walled valley...
Gaulun is talking with Zaido. He wants that warhead back. Zaido says it will be okay, as Kashim hasn't recognized him yet. Gaulun is concerned about a past friendship messing with Zaido's actions, but he assures Gaulun he's not interested in risking his life for something like ideals or passions.
Gaulun is pleased
Poor Tessa looks absloutely miserable. She sits with sleeping Kalinin, and imagines Sousuke returing....
Andy's annoyed- they can't travel fast enough. Majesto's really pain, but they can't do anything for him yet. They are about another 10 hours from town...
Sousuke tells them they could go to an old camp he knows. There may be medical supplies there...but it will be out of their way.
Zaido has tells Gaulun the Mithril team has changed direction. He had assumed they would head for the town, but it looks like they may be heading somewhere else. TO this particular camp location it looks like...
The team is slogging it through, and finally they arrive. It's a little run down hole-in-a- cliff- long abandonded. Sousuke is looking for those supplies, and Jackson examines old bullet holes in the camp's walls. He asks if Sousuke had really stayed there, and he replies yes...
Fighting in a camp is bad, Jackson says, and Sousouke replies, yes.
Then he finds a med kit, and they prepare for the surgery. Sousuke takes lookout.
In the ground near the camp are stuck a multitude of short tattered white flags.
Gray comes out, it's over, but they can't move Majesto just yet.
She thinks maybe they could hide here for a little while, but Sousuke tells her the enemy would definitely find them. Gaulun knows about this place.
He tells of an incident in the past- Gaulun was one of those who attacked this place. Sousuke had been away just by chance, and was the only survivor. Sousuke belives his old friend, Zaido, died in that attack.
Gray explains she grew up in eastern Europe, an area long torn apart by war.
She had been with a resistance group, and had ended up surrounded by enemy AS. The promised reinforcements never arrived. It was difficult, but now she's with Mithril.
She says the others probably are similiar, not that they'd ever tell of their pasts.
She asks him to consider joining their group. They need someone who can really fight, and he gets a passing grade in her book...
He's speechless, and she tells him to think about it, and to answer her when they get back.
She had turned to leave, but stops...and asks him if it was strange to return to his homeland. He not sure what she means. It's Japan, and she asks if he has anyone in Japan waiting for him. He denies it, but says it feels like there is, but really there isn't...
She tells himn it's already night in Japan, and he looks up at the sky.
A beautiful clear night over an ocean resort- and Kaname gazes at the sky. Melissa brings her a drink, and they sit and talk. Melissa asks her is she feels more secure with Sousuke watching over her...but Kaname says it really isn't like that.
Melissa tells her that when Mithril knows what is going on, they'll let her know- and she'll tell Kaname. Kaname's worried about him, and although she doesn't mention it, Melissa sees.
Melissa tells her he'll be alright, and that she should buy him a present and meet him when he returns. He'll likely be tired when he gets back...
Kaname nods, and looks at out at the full moon...
That same full moon over the camp- Sousuke, Gray and Andy confer over a map.
He tells them that Gaulun will probably behave the same way as before...
...As Zaido tells Gaulun Kashim will probably think they will attack the same way as before...
Sousuke says they have to set up ambushes, for they won't survive a direct assault.
Zaido says the enemy will have to resort to sniping and ambushes...
Sousuke knows they need to set up somewhere easy to shoot from...
Zaido points at his map, showing Gaulun where he thinks Kashim will set up.
Gaulun grins...
Sousuke, in the ARX, is in position on a high cliff. He's ready, armed with a sniping rifle, but knows he probably isn't as good as Kurtz would be...
Andy tells Sousuke that although he doesn't have a likable personality, he fights well.
He wants to knock Sousuke out when they get back to base, just because, so Sousuke can't die before then. Sousuke won't make that promise, but says he'll try....the others laugh, but without rancor this time.
Sousuke sees the enemy approach- a small army of Savages and one silver AS.
Suddenly a warning from AL- and aa shot is fired at him from above and behind. Choppers move in, and Sousuke evades....Zaido sits on a cliff above, silent and still.
End
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