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Hey! Vita’s finally stopped bleeding!

Impressions:

The video quality was especially terrible this week, with it occasionally and randomly desyncing with the audio multiple times. Bleh.

I don’t know… this seemed really really anticlimatic to me. Nanoha shoots through half a dozen layers of spaceship to tag Quattro while also holding off an overpowered Vivio. I mean, I guess this keeps the power creep in check, but of all of the good guys, only Vita ever actually seemed like she was ever really in any danger for this entire last battle sequence. And the next episode preview shows a little ceremony with everybody there and in fine health so… pretty clear that they’re all going to make it out of the self-destructing Cradle without too many injuries, although Cinque is still hanging around in a regeneration tube or something, but totally unaccounted for. There was really no big baddie though. Just Quattro in a control room, and Vivio who obliged Nanoha by not really struggling once it became time to beat the loli back into her. What’s up with that? Where’s my super villain here?

I’m in the process of ripping and uploading the Nanoha vs Vivio/Quattro stuff, so check back in an hour or so, assuming VDub doesn’t become angry at the bad encoding.

Caps updated. Summary and them may be somewhat off because of the update.

Vita is finally at the engine room, and thinks about Nanoha and Hayate depending on her. She heads to the main core where there’s some shielded energy thing. She uses Eisen’s Limit Break it transforms into a huge drill thing. She swings it at the energy thing, but it doesn’t break at all. Instead, the security device initializes and all fires at Vita. She leaps out of the fire and rushes the core.

Hayate is getting a rundown from the flagship and decides to head in close. She gets radioed in from Alto, saying that she’s got someone en route… Rein.

Nanoha and Vivio are still fighting. Nanoha wakes up from being slammed in the wall. Vivio shoots a pair of energy blasts at Nanoha, who dodges and then Chain Binds Vivio from behind. Vivio breaks the binds and shoots more rainbow shots which explode and scatter, knocking Nanoha to the ground. Vivio charges a more powerful shot, but Nanoha blocks it with a round shield.

Raging Heart announces that WAS 2 is complete and is beginning area 3, but it’ll take some time. Vivio attacks, but Nanoha dodges and charges to Blaster 2 and knocks her back.

Raging Heart then creates two extra spearheads and Nanoha uses them to bind Vivio and then create a “Blaster Cage” (?). Vivio busts the binds and slams the cage, but can’t quite break it, though it is straining Nanoha.

Quattro is watching with glee at the demon she created in Vivio and how Nanoha is fighting to protect her and not trying to harm her.

Vivio breaks out of the cage and punches at Nanoha.

Elsewhere, Lulu’s bugs aren’t doing too well. Some are bleeding, others are simply sparking. Caro and Erio are a bit concerned about what’s going on. Jirayo (one of the beetles), appears behind them and shoots a lightning ball, but Garyuu intercepts it and protects Lutecia. He then goes to attack Jirayo while Erio drops down to attack the other one.

At TSAB HQ, Signum tells Zest that Alpine and Lutecia are secured and most of the combat cyborgs, as well as Scaglietti have been arrested. Zest says there’s only one thing left and grabs his halberd. Agito protests, but Signum also draws Levantine. He talks to her briefly about his reason for fighting before the two attack.

Signum dodges, letting her ribbon be cut, and then slices Zest’s weapon in half. He keeps attacking. She charges Levantine, and then slices through him and he falls.

At the Cradle, Quattro senses that there’s something wrong as it starts to rumble. Vita gets up and launches another attack at the core, but is blasted away and Eisen is sent flying.

It remains unharmed. She keeps thinking about how useless she’s being and how many people are relying on her. She yells to Eisen again, and he charges more cartridges and she tries one more time… but when she falls back, Eisen shatters and she falls. She apologizes to them all as she falls.

In a cloud of black feathers, Unison Hayate appears and catches her. Hayate thanks Vita for doing her best, and looks over at the core to see cracks expanding out from Vita’s last attack, and then it explodes.

Quattro knows bad shit is happening at this point.

Nanoha and Vivio keep facing down. –eyecatch–

At the lab, barriers are going up all over the place and alarms are sounding. All the TSAB people have no clue what’s going on and Scaglietti tells Fate that the Cradle and all his assorted works are going to go nuclear to create an opening to allow at least one of his copies to escape.

A glowing pink ball flies through the Cradle and appears behind Quattro.

Raging Heart announces that the Wide Area Search (WAS) is over and the coordinates and distance are found. Nanoha releases a ton of the little RH Options and strongly binds Vivio. Quattro can’t believe that a human could search and fight at the same time. She looks back at the monitor to see Nanoha massively charge herself and point towards the floor. Quattro finally realizes what’s going on.

Raging Heart cancels the firing lock, loads about 5 cartridges and Nanoha blasts through the floor and parts beyond with a Blaster level 3 Divine Buster, torching Quattro’s entire work station. As Quattro falls unconscious, she reaches out to the doctor’s dream.

With Quattro down, all the gadget drones and her control on Lulu’s summons fades and they stop moving.

Vivio breaks free from the binds and recognizes Nanoha briefly, telling her to run away and then punches her. The whole Cradle turns grey as an announcement comes on that it’s basically going nuclear.

Hayate meets a ton of drones and torches them.

Vivio and Nanoha continue their fight. Nanoha says that she’s here to save her, but Vivio says that she can’t. Vivio starts punching through Nanoha’s shield and slams her to the ground. Vivio tells Nanoha that she finally realizes that she has no mothers, she’s just a copy. It’s okay if she’s not protected.

Nanoha yells that Vivio’s wrong, but Vivio tells her that everything is a fake and there’s no place in the world for her. Nanoha argues with her, saying that her feelings aren’t fake and she doesn’t hate her at all. Vivio is her important Vivio afterall. She may not be her real mother, but her feelings are real, etc etc. Both are in tears at this point and Vivio says that she loves Nanoha and asks her to save her.

Nanoha says to deal with the pain of this, and the two clash once again. Nanoha binds her and then charges all her little RH Options, saying that the magic damage will strip away what’s been done to her. The bonds start to break, and Nanoha orders RH to full throttle and shoots a Starlight Breaker basically point blank at Vivio. As she takes the damage, a relic emerges from her chest and then breaks.

Nanoha pulls herself to her feet after the massive explosion and looks for Vivio. She’s face down in the crater and can barely move. Nanoha remembers when Vivio fell as she ran to her. Vivio pulls herself to her feet and tells her that she’s gotten stronger, as she promised. Nanoha runs over and hugs her.

TSAB has figured out that the Cradle is going nuclear/on automatic.

Hayate meets up with Nanoha, but the Cradle’s automatic systems kick in the AMF on full and they’re both totally nullified immediately.

Zest is dying in Signum’s arm. He has some final words for Agito and pets her, apologizing for putting her through this. He thinks about his wish to protect the world as he slumps forward and dies.

Teana meets up with Subaru, who is carrying Ginga. The chopper lands and Shamal takes over Ginga. Vice also walks out. They tell the two cadets that Nanoha, Rein and Hayate are still in the Cradle and need backup to be saved. Teana and Subaru prepare to run off, but before they can, Ginga calls over Subaru and hands her Blitz Calibur.

Nanoha vs Vivio
(this seemed a lot shorter than 10 minutes when I was watching it… oh well)