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Black Testament arrives and tries to take KOS MOS. KOS MOS suddenly awakens and Black Testament retreats, everyone heads to Labyrinthos to steal the Vessels of Anima, their only hope for escaping from the time slip they are in.

Summary:

• Shion returns to the Elsa with the Base Theory data on KOS MOS. The professor says he doesn’t know if he can reboot her with this, but he’ll try. In the background, Black Testament teleports in.
• Allen goes to get Shion, as the professor wants his opinion. While getting Shion, there is a huge explosion, and we see black testament in KOS MOS maintenance lab where the explosion was. Voyager, Black, is carrying KOS MOS maintenance tube thing. Everyone come sin trying to fight him but they aren’t able to scratch him. Ziggy comes in addressing him as Voyager asking him why he is here. He just attacks them. Shion comes in trying to charge voyager but her attack does no good. Voyager holds her up telepathically by her throat (omg, its Darth Vader!) Shion is gasping for air, saying KOS MOS. There is then a huge explosion of blue energy from KOS MOS’s tube. Shion says it’s the Hilbert effect and an arm smashed out, grabbing Voyager’s. KOS MOS breaks out and attacks Voyager, throwing him against the wall but he just hovers there. KOS MOS isn’t able to scratch him as he seems to have an invincible force field.
• You all fight against him and after “defeating’ him Ziggy asks why he is doing this, if this will really satisfy his never ending thirst for power. He calls him Erich as eh tries to attack him. He then asks if he thinks he’s really won and we see KOS MOS having snuck up behind him. She activates the Hilbert Effect and punches her arm through Voyager’s chest. She throws him against the wall. We then hear Red’s voice, asking how much longer he intended to play with them, its time for him to leave. Voyager just laughs, saying to Ziggy they will have to settle this another time, calling him Jan Sauer.
• Shion hugs KSO MOS, saying how glad she is that she is awake. She then seems to fall asleep in her arms. She finds herself on a beach somewhere, and sees Joachim standing on the beach as well. She talks to him and he says some things about how waves are like the relationship between people. He then says something about being true to her feelings, not doing anything she doesn’t want to do. Do that and she will answer your call. She then turns around and sees some woman standing in a dress with long brown hair. She looks at her face and says KOS MOS.
• Shion wakes up and talks to Jin. She tells him about what she saw when she saw Joachim in town. She says they were researching Vessels of Anima. That they are needed to activate the Zohar, if they can get those they may be able to stop the Miltian conflict, save everyone including their mother, and get the power needed to return to their time. Shin runs off saying how this is a past she doesn’t want and she is going to change it. After she leaves, Jin just says that you need your past to be who you are now.
• Everyone heads to Labyrinthos to get the Vessels of Anima. Along the way, you see Joachim and MOMO runs ahead wanting to see “daddy”. She talks with him, Joachim supposedly not realizing who she is. He talks of how he is trying to make a realian like her because his daughter died. After he leaves, you continue along until you see Kevin and Souu walk out from some room. After investigating the room Shion finds the name of all the test subjects, including her own name. She then sees a bunchy of combat realians in some tubes, the same kind that killed her mom. She can’t believe it, that this means Kevin killed her mom.
• After continuing further you see Margulis, Souu, and Kevin talking in front of Proto Omega. They talk about how they need the Zohar and the Vessel of Anima, how they will allow them to return to Lost Jerusalem and things like that.
• You finally reach the room where the Vessels of Anima are. After opening the cages you see a bunch of the E.S. crafts. Simeon, Dinah, Zebulan, Reuben, Levi, Issachar, Gad, Joseph, Dan, Naphtali, Judah. She says Asher’s cage is empty. Shion questions this, saying how the E.S.s where developed at Vector. Jin says he guesses Heinlein and Wilhelm were working together.
• After boarding the E.S., and the professor giving Asher some back up power thing, you head off. Eventually you overhear the enemy communications and Shion hears how her mother is being moves somewhere. She heads off by herself to save her, leaving the rest to fight another mecha that appears to stop you.
• Shion makes her way to where her mom is being kept when she hears her name called. She sees Red Testament appear before her. Red calls her by her name and she gets angry, but Red reveals to her his identity, Kevin. Just then the guards arrive and capture Shion as she screams for Kevin to help her, but he fades away.

Impressions:

One thing that this whole time slip thing has me wondering about is what would happen if they actually did prevent the Miltian conflict, like Shion seems to want to. I mean, if I remember chaos met Jr. during the Miltian conflict so that connection wouldn’t be there, and also Albedo was infected and went all crazy during the Miltian conflict as well. If that never happened then would Albedo really be as evil as he was? I mean, before then he was still a little crazy after finding out that he couldn’t die and others he knew could, but without getting infected I think he would be drastically different.

Ok, we defiantly saw in this episode some more mystery and hinting at the possibility of at least KOS MOS becoming human. When Shion was talking with Joachim they turned around and saw clearing a human woman with long brown hair and the face of KOS MOS. Shion even murmured KOS MOS’s name when she saw her.

Another mystery would be why Shion’s name was on the list of test subjects. I mean her moms name being on there wasn’t really a mystery because we knew she was being tested on and we saw that, however Shion’s name was there too. Does this mean she already was experimented on and didn’t know it or that there was a plan to experiment on her?

Another thing I found a bit odd, is that no one questioned Ziggy’s connection with Voyager. I mean, even I the last game he called this supposedly unknown person by a name, and then in this episode he called him by not only Voyager but yelled out Erich. He also talked to him, and from the talk it seemed pretty obvious that they had some sort of past together, yet no one questions it and I’m pretty sure Ziggy hasn’t’ just told them off camera.

Another mystery I found was why Asher didn’t have a Vessel of Anima. All the other ones had them except for Asher. Now, I don’t’ really know how big of a deal that is but it does seem a little bit odd.