Portals open all over space… the cavalry is finally here. Chrono and all the others are watching in bated breath.
Rein is panicking. Hayate carries Quattro and Nanoha Vivio as the announcement comes about the Cradle being locked down. A door slams shut in their faces.
Scach hands off Sein to some soldiers before heading back in. Acous stops her, saying it’s impossible. Fate then radios in, saying that she’s trying to save the people in the capsules and to give her more time.
In Regius’ office, everybody is laid out. Duo is sightlessly staring at nothing, but it’s not clear whether she’s a live or dead. Signum finishes fixing her hair and says that she’s heading out. Agito stops her and says how much she hates Signum for killing Zest, but that she’s doing what he would do, so Agito will help. Signum holds out her hand and Agito slams her’s down on it, covering both in flames… Agito unisons.

Vice’s copter flies up to the Cradle. Vice tells Subaru and Tea to use Wing Road and her motorcycle to bust in. He’ll provide cover fire for them with Storm Raider and blows some drones out of the sky. He gives them a little peptalk before taking aim at a drone in one of the openings and using a Variable Barrier to destroy it. Subaru charges her Wing Road and they drive into the Cradle.
TSAB has detected an unknown magical signal. They finally resolve it to Lightning 2… Signum, in a fire suit basically. They’re a little surprised by her new look, but she says it’s fine. Agito and her both say “let’s do it” as drones approach. Agito charges her flame across Levantine as Signum switches it to snake mode and they destroy an entire battalion of drones in a couple slashes. Signum thanks Agito for this, but Agito can’t respond through her tears.
Near the lab, Voltair is destroying random drones while Erio flies around on Fried. Caro casts a full Speed Boost on Erio.

Vita is still in the Cradle, destroying things along with a couple random soldiers. Subaru and Tea come riding up, yelling to leave things to them as they drive past. Subaru says to not worry, she can just switch to combat cyborg mode if there’s danger.
The lab is collapsing as Fate finishes her final things. Erio calls in saying that he’s on his way. Boulders suddenly collapse above her, but Erio and his Sonic Move pulls her out of the way at the last second.
Subaru has detached from Teana’s motorcycle and is riding point for her, destroying all the drones as they go. Ginga watches the Cradle from a stretcher as Subaru puts on Blitz Calibur and then uses a one-two punch to blast through into Nanoha/Hayate’s room.

Team Lightning has escaped from the lab with all personnel in tow. The rest of the Stars are also on their way out and soon escape. Chrono orders the fleet to take up full attack positions and be ready. As everybody watches, the fleet opens fire on the Cradle, destroying it instantly. Shari’s a bit too enthusiatic with her celebration and Shamal shushes her… all the Stars are already fast asleep, tired from their day.
Nanoha then gives a voice over saying basically that everything is finally over with the Jail Scaglietti incident.

Later, the most dangerous of the culprits (looks like Jail, Tre, Quattro and Duo) are all confined to maximum security prisons. The rest of the combat cyborgs, including Lutecia and Agito, are living in kind of an insane asylum, but they’re all together and don’t really seem to be too terribly unhappy. Wendi asks Lu what happened with her mother… and we see her recovering in a hospital.
Life continues with the rest of the TSAB normals. Vivio is happily living with her mothers, Acous is still hitting on Hayate as usual. Hayate is kind of sad that things came to this with Regius. He had the same desire to protect them all as well. Everybody else cheers her up.
All the cadets are also continuing their lives as usual.

Signum and Genya go to visit the graves of their friend, Zest. When they get there, they find a bouquet already on his grave, left by EVIL SECRETARY, who salutes them before leaving.
Days later, all of Riot 6 is assembled while Hayate compliments them on how everything went with the Combat Cyborg incident and to continue doing their best.
After the little ceremony, the cadets feel a little sad that they haven’t been seeing as much of their teachers lately. Nanoha and to the forwards to come see something.

They go out to a cherry blossom field. Vita calls them to attention. She and Nanoha tell them how well they did and how well they worked together and exceeded all their expectations. They’ve become worthy of the Striker title. Everybody is fighting back tears… but there’s one more thing to do. All the old guard transforms their weapons for one last mock battle.
Fate apparently wasn’t in on the plans though and doesn’t want to do this. The rest say that it’s okay, and Vivio even gives Fate some cheering and tells her that it’s okay. Erio and Caro tell Fate to try her best and she finally relents.
Everybody gets into their costume and poses for pan overs while the ED starts playing in the background. Hayate and Ginga announce “ready… go!”

“And, afterwards” (yes, it prints that in English) we see all the epilogue stuff (no voiceovers except for Subaru/Nanoha’s part):
–Agito is part of TSAB now and harassing Rein to her utmost.
–Long hair Tea is also part of the administration somewhere with Fate.
–Lutecia has been released and is free and enjoying life with her bugs… and her mother while Garyuu watches over her.
–Vice is macking on the ladies and for some reason has a photo of him posing with his sister, the other pilot… and Signum?
–Griffith is… doing whatever Griffith does.
–Erio and Caro are enjoying life in some floating island world. One of Lutecia’s bugs delivers a flower to her.
–Vivio is going to school… where Yuuno, loli-Arf and Nanoha spy on her and take pictures.
–Ginga is trying to rehabilitate the ‘good’ Numbers. Nove is disinterested… until Genya smiles at her and in her fear of old-man cooties, she snaps back to Ginga’s lesson.
–On a boat somewhere, a pair of children are in danger as it sinks. The flood comes at them, but a magical circle appears… and here’s Subaru to protect and save them.
–Finally, we come to Nanoha, in charge of her own division nowadays, giving them a little peptalk and telling them to do their best.

(That is the end of the StrikerS series. To watch the episodes, go to http://www.nanohawatch.piczo.com/ )

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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.

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Before the episode, Fate talks about her mother and being cloned from her ’sister’ Alicia. She understands her feelings of wanting to protect all those dear to her, and that’s why she’ll -run OP-
Some time in the past, Regius and Zest are discussing some kind of disaster from uncontrolled magic being used dangerously in the area. Regius yells at Zest for it, but relents and apologizes. The two take a walk, continuing to talk about what can be done to make sure that such things don’t happen again.

Later, in a meeting with some of the top heads of TSAB, Regius is presenting a new system for regulating and controlling mages. Everybody is excited for the new system. The brains even think that it’s a good idea. Zest is a bit more concerned though and thinks that they’re illegally researching things in the plant.
Two girls, a Nakajima and an Alpine (Arpino?) were listening in. Zest calls over to them and tells them to check things out. Once there, they figure out that the place really was a combat cyborg research plant. Zest and another subordinate radio in. Zest was ambushed and is critically wounded. The stealth Gadget Drones (same as the ones that attacked Nanoha and Vita uncloak all around them.
Elsewhere in the facility, Quattro, Trei and Cinque are standing in a field of carnage with a bloody Zest laying against a wall. Cinque’s eye wound is fresh.
In his office, Regius is receiving a report from Scaglietti about the status of the combat cyborgs.

They overcame an S rank opponent who tried to break in. Regius recognizes Zest with a start as Due gives the details about the opponents that they defeated while the brains listen in and comment. Zest was critically wounded and would be reprogrammed (to Regius’ shock), and Alpine was placed in the XI tank (ie, she’s Lutecia’s mother). I’m sorry, between the poor audio and the echoy effects, I really have no clue what they were saying, something about Zest being an acceptable loss probably.
Back in the present, Zest is demanding to know why he did such things. They just wanted to protect the world and live for their dream of justice. Regius looks up, ready to answer, but suddenly blood sprays out onto the photo in front of him. Zest is caught in a bind as the secretary turns in shock. The other woman in the room has her claws through Regius and blasts the secretary backwards. The woman reverts to Due and says that the doctor has no more use for Regius. Regius tries to say something to Zest, but collapses as he reaches out. Due then turns to Zest, saying it’s over for him too. She scowls, but he concentrates and breaks the bond.
Signum, Agito and Rein are all rushing through the hallways when there’s a massive burst. They enter Regius’ office to find the door destroyed, Regius facedown in his blood and Due unconscious, also bleeding severely. Zest is standing over them. Signum asks what happened, and he says that he killed them.
In the lab, Fate is still captured. Scaglietti says that she’s now his thing and turns away. He calls up a monitor and starts talking about Precia Testarossa and how she tried to recreate Fate in Alica’s image. He finds it hilarious, but that is what led to his own work. Project Fate, culminating in Fate Testarossa. Fate glares at him from her cage.

This is being transmitted to the Lightning Squads. Caro tries to get through to Lutecia, and Erio tries to get Garyuu to remember that he’s supposed to protect ‘Lu,’ not do things that put her in danger. Lutecia’s eyes are still blood red, and she just goes on about how they know nothing while Fried sorties with some bugs overhead. Her precious thing can only be returned by doing this. She creates a huge summoning circle and a giant white thing… (looks like Garyuu), drops out. She says that she doesn’t want to be sad anymore, and screams.
Caro calls on her own summoning powers and chants a spell. Garyuu tries to attack, but Erio beats him back. He tells Garyuu to watch and listen. Both he and Caro know the same pain and lonliness from their flashback ridden pasts and they made it through them because they had friends and things to protect. Caro finishes her dragon summoning spell and calls forth Voltaire.
The White thing attacks (trying to decypher Lutecia crying with a minor overtone is beyond me), and Garyuu holds it back. Caro keeps trying to get through to Lutecia, saying that she absolutely promises that they’ll do everything they can to help her. Lutecia screams that Caro’s lying and releases a huge wave of energy, opening a gem on Whitey’s chest. Garyuu also releases his tentacles again, and a bunch of spikes burst forth from his arms, covered in his blood. He’s also bleeding from what I assume are his eyes.
Erio and Caro are shocked as Lutecia tells them to kill them. Whitey starts pulling in energy into the gem thing. Erio yells at Garyuu again, and a closeup on Garyuu’s eight eyes shows them definitely leaking blood. He takes a fighting stance once more. Lutecia attacks Caro with her minidrones, but Caro just defends. Once the smoke clears, Caro’s hat has been knocked off, and she tells Lutecia how much pain she’s causing to her summons. Luetcia’s eyes have cooled off a bit, but she screams again, though this time looks like she’s about to cry. Her two beetles fly up behind her, and Fried behind Caro.

Lutecia screams again, and the two beetles charge up electricity between their horns. Caro charges Fried’s flame and he uses it to intercept the shots. Lutecia is holding the shot, but Asclepius starts to crack.
Erio charges a cartridge and launches himself at Garyuu. The two clash, destroying the ground. Garyuu grabs Strada, pulling them both into the roll, but Erio is already charging a lightning punch and slams Garyuu with it.
Topside, Whitey releases a huge blast matched by Voltaire.
Erio’s punch has knocked out Garyuu (and most of his sleeve), and he turns back to go to Caro.
Lutecia was apparently knocked out at some point, as she’s breathing heavily and laying on Caro’s lap. She starts breathing very heavily and whimpering and her beetles charge for another attack. Caro tries to tell her that they don’t need to fight again.
All this is being shown to Fate in the lab.

She’s finally had enough and summons her Riot Saber (okay, Zamber), a cutlass looking thing, or maybe just the head of a glaive. Anyway, she effortlessly destroys the cage. Jail says that he expected as much from her, but she’s still weak from the AMF. He keeps going about how he took Project F and refined it, making copies that would become the combat cyborgs. He really rants for a long while, covering every single gibberish concept in the series from surpassing Al Hazard to clones with his memories of Project F to him living on if any one of the Numbers survives. If you can dream it, Jail probably said it.
He flexes his hands again and more threads fly up from the ground, this time wrapping around Fate’s neck. He says that he likes seeing her anguished faces.
Apparently Lutecia’s bugs never shot or something as the Lightning Cadets have Lutecia on Fried and are flying… somewhere as he trasmits all this to them. Fate yells at him to shut up and shoots at him with her lightning shots. He effortlessly blocks them and continues on about how she was made to be better than a human, a fighting machine. He’s the same as her mother, trying to make humans even better. He’s looking rather insane by this point.

The transmission is apparently two way, as Caro and Erio get to yell through it and give Fate a peptalk about protecting the things that are important and make people happy. Saving people, protecting them, all of it is real. She saved both of them after all and owe their happiness to her. Fate should never give up.
As they yell this, the insert song kicks in and Fate orders Bardiche to go into Overdrive mode… Sonic Drive. Fate blasts forth as she transforms and loses her jacket. She thanks Caro and Erio and loads a cartridge. Bardiche switches to Riot Saber again (??), and Fate splits it into two swords connected by a chain. She poses and then gets ready to attack.

Uno is watching over and suddenly realizes that something’s wrong. Green binds form around her and Acous is there with his hounds to bring an end to the fun. Scach is also facing off against Sein. Sein wants to retreat, but Scach won’t let her. Scach attacks, which Sein easily dodges and then phases through a wall… but Scach then loads a cartridge and simply teleports through the wall past Sein and is there as she unphases. Scach spins and attacks.
Trei and Sette’s get ready to attack, Fate spins, and effortlessly destroys Sette’s weapons. She then flies towards Jail. He summons all sorts of threads, but she cuts them down without even pausing. Trei meets her with her laser wristband dagger things and activates her own drive to keep up with Fate’s speed. The two clash a few times, and then seperate. Fate rejoins Bardiche into one giant sword and slashes at Trei. She blocks, but then the impact destroys her blades and she’s thrown to the ground.
Fate moves on to Jail, who catches the giant blade with both hands (man, one’s unarmored, that’s gotta hurt). He says that this is wonderful, looking even more crazy, but he won’t be defeated by this, even as his hands are bleeding. Or his glove is cracking. Lines appear on the glove at any rate.

Fate backs off and charges again. He just stands there with open arms and she takes a huge baseball swing at him with the flat of the blade, knocking him through a wall. Bardiche cools off as she goes to formerly arrest him.
Shirley reports to TSAB that they’ve secured Scaglietti and Acous has main control of their HQ. Teana is still injured and facing off against Nove, who won’t give up saying that the cyborgs have only one purpose, to fight. Deed is on the ground, and gropes around to find her lightsaber. Nove notices and then attacks Nove as Deed also stands up to attack. Teana falls back in surprise, as an unknown weapon uses Snipe Shot. The shot passes just by Teana’s cheek and slams into Deed, knocking her out again. Teana charges at a shocked Nove while Vice holsters his rifle on Storm Raider. With her dagger at Nove’s throat, Teana says that the battle is over, and that the cyborgs can go beyond their fighting abilities as we see Subaru holding Ginga as she awakes with her normal eyes back. Teana and Subaru report in that their targest are captured.
Quattro was watching all this and somewhat annoyed. She turns, gives a little hair flip and takes off her glasses, and says that it’s now all up to her, “right doctor?” with her hand on her stomach.
Vivio is breathing heavily, and Nanoha is knocked out in a crater, embedded in a wall.
95 minutes until the Cradle reaches the orbit...

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The attack on the Cradle continues. Nanoha still rushes through the corridors, nearing her target. Dieci waits to confront her, thinking that it’s like a mother coming to save her child. She starts counting down to fire. Nanoha turns the corner at “1″, and the two both fire their shots, Nanoha releases a limit and her Excellion Buster crushes Dieci’s shot and blasts her away. Before Dieci can recover, Nanoha binds her. Dieci wonders if this kind of power is even human. Nanoha also seals Dieci’s cannon before rushing off.
Nanoha keeps going, but she was injured in the last fight and is bleeding from her hand. In the throne room, Quattro is watching her progress with amusement. She taunts Vivio a little bit as Nanoha blasts open the door. Quattro welcomes her to the throne room and congratulates her on getting here. She calls up all viewscreens of all the others in their various troubles. She then turns to stroke Vivio’s cheek and Nanoha tries to blast her. It was just an illusion though, and Quattro turns up the electricity on Vivio. She starts screaming and Nanoha rushes forward, but is pushed backwards by a rainbow force.
Quattro says that it’s the same ability Vivio used to protect herself from the drones way WAY back when she was in the sewer, and what they expected would protect her when they fired on Storm Raider way back when as well. It’s her Holy Emperor’s Armor or some such. It was really hard to understand Quattro with the static and Vivio whimpering.
Vivio and Nanoha start yelling to eachother as the rainbow light glows brighter and brighter. Finally, it fades and Vivio is released. She’s floating above the throne as Quattro talks to her about the mother who wouldn’t save her. Nanoha’s words are silent to her. Vivio cries out and is covered in a black battle suit. The rainbow colors then shatter, and bitchy adult Vivio floats in front of Nanoha. She asks what Nanoha did with her real mama. Nanoha tries to tell her that it’s her, but Vivio won’t accept it and demands Nanoha return her mother to her as she releases a massive amount of energy. Nanoha charges Raging Heart and gets ready to blast her.
Commander Nakajima is with the ground forces… who are not doing particularly well. They’re no match for the drones or the cyborgs.
Otto keeps working on her recon, surrounded by drones. Inside, the Numbers are fighting tons of Teana clones. They’re having troubles finding her though until they manage to pinpoint her location from outside. Cross Mirage warns Teana that they’re closing in, so Teana figures out her last plan.
The Numbers all bust in. Teana uses her daggers to block Deed, but Nove leaps in to attack. Wendi fires at an escaping Tea, but it was just an illusion. They look through the dust to find her and Nove notices that Tea took out her rollerblade, and is standing ready to fight her instead of running. They know that this is the real Tea and surround her, getting ready to attack.
In the past, Subaru is out in the yard, crying. Ginga and Quint run out to her and bandage up her knees. Quint gives her a friendly headbutt while saying how much she and her sister care for her. A little later, the two are being checked up in the lab while Quint watches on. Their genetic structure is curiously similar to Quint’s for some reason. Still later yet, Ginga is shadow boxing while Subaru watches. Subaru thinks that their power scary, so she hates it. Ginga tells her to use it for their parents though.
Fading into the present, Ginga has Subaru by the neck. Subaru struggles and Ginga moves behind her. Ginga then simply tosses her and follows up with a one-two massive uppercut combo, sending Subaru flying. As she’s in the air, she thinks that’s it’s impossible after all.
We move into another flashback of Subaru having lunch with them all. Subaru says that she wants to be more like Nanoha. Nanoha says that she really will become stronger and better.
Back in the present… again… Ginga makes a Wing Road and is about to slam Subaru to the ground when Subaru makes her own Wing Road and kicks Ginga’s punch away, and then forces her backwards. Subaru’s eyes were totally dead, but they fade back into life. Mach Calibur gives Subaru a quick peptalk, saying that at some point Subaru taught it the reason for being here.
MOVING ONTO A THIRD FLASHBACK, Subaru is back at lunch with the others, thanking Mach Calibur for saving her and for all their work together.
Once more into the present, Subaru has come to accept her power and is ready to fight for real. Mach Calibur responds with “Allright, buddy,” which doesn’t have the same ring as “Yeah, boss” but is close enough. Mach Calibur loads a few cartridges and Subaru goes into Full Drive, using her Excellion and sprouting wings from her feet.
Otto is watching her drones being destroyed. She then notices Storm Raider. Suddenly, all the drones around her are destroyed and she’s bound. Shamal and Zafira are there to take her down. Otto breaks the chains, but Zafira roars and traps her again.
With Otto down, the barrier around Tea’s building drops as well. They immediately know something’s wrong with Otto and all three get ready to attack. Teana takes the opportunity and fires at all three, destroying Wendi’s weapon, blocking Deed, who was attacking from behind, and then using her Crossfire Shots to knock out Wendi and Deed. Only Nove’s left, who she points her gun at and tells to surrender.
Subaru is finally ready to fight Ginga for real. They charge together again and again, but they’re evenly matched so far. Both load more cartridges and they collide one more time. Subaru doesn’t block Ginga’s drill and lets her barrier take it. Subaru charges a blast as she leans into the drill. Both barriers break and Ginga’s drill barely grazes Subaru’s head. Subaru brings her free hand into play and Divine Busters Ginga at point blank range. Poor Ginga.
Signum is still fighting drones outside TSAB. Inside the building, Regius is with his mini-harem of secretaries when Zest breaks in. The bitchy woman is shocked. Signum is trying to get there, but Agito has a barrier up around the area. Signum attacks, and breaks the barrier, but leaves Agito unharmed. She unfuses from Rein.
At Regius’ office, Zest wants to hear it straight from Regius who is responsible for all their deaths as he throws an old picture on the desks. He asks what ever happened to their justice.

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Quattro and Dieci are working on the recon for the others. Dieci is a bit concerned for the strapped down Vivio right near them. It seems odd to her to use someone so small and young. Quattro, bitch that she is, can’t stop slobbering all over the doctor and says that everything is for his dream and of course it’s fine. Dieci is less than convinced by that stunningly amazing argument and still wonders if what they’re doing to Vivio is right. She then apologizes for bringing it up, picks up her cannon and heads. As she leaves, Quattro smirks and thinks to herself that Dieci, Cinque, and Sein are entirely too softhearted and naive before bringing up viewscreens with all of Riot6 on them. Of note is Vita, now surrounded by a giant swarm of the demon drones with hordes more on the way. Quattro smiles to herself and says how fun it is.
The news is reporting on the swarms and swarms of drones and the battle with the Cradle as well as the Numbers. Watching it, and therefore not out to save Teana’s bacon, is a finally conscious Vice. Zafira is also up and chatting with him. A girl with an eyepatch walks in. Vice immediately recognizes her as Ragna. She asks if Vice is okay, and calls him brother. He’s pretty nonresponsive to her though.
She brings up the time Vice shot a girl… her… and says that she’s okay. She even takes off her eyepatch to show that while her eye is totally blind, she doesn’t look that strange and tells him to do his best. A nurse comes in though, and says that this is an intensive care ward and shoos her out. Once gone, Vice mopes a bit more over how he could do nothing, and seeing Ginga reminded him of shooting Ragna.
This awakens fangy Zafira’s fighting spirit, and he gets up, despite the obvious pain, and walks out. I missed the gist, but something about the fight still going on and not wanting to hide like Vice. Vice tries to talk to him as he leaves (funnily… calling him ‘danna,’ which is usually an informal for ‘husband’), but Zafy isn’t interesting in his intimations for furry cuddling. Vice looks over to see Storm Raider’s card on the desk next to him.
On the battlefield, Caro and Erio are trying to get Lutecia to open up to them through the power of shooting her. Lutecia just says that the Doctor is helping her find the Relic that she is looking for. She even says that she’s looking for Relic XI. She pokes at Caro some more, saying that she needs it for her mother and to be happy and Caro doesn’t understand it. She then says Caro should die, and Garyuu appears behind her.
Erio manages to block the hit, and Caro continues her pithy speech about how she is surrounded by friends, like all her bugs and whatnot. She then introduces herself, Erio introduces himself, and then he introduces Fried. Caro says that they’ll help her search for the Relic, but she has to help them stop the cyborgs from doing whatever the hell it is they’re doing first. Caro then asks Lutecia her name. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t when the bad guy gives their name in Nanoha the immediate turning point to when they start losing?
Quattro is watching the whole conversation and says to herself that that wouldn’t do. Garyu either. A viewscreen opens there and Quattro says that she’ll take over Lu’s battle for her. Lutecia is a bit surprised by this. Quattro then presses a button and Lutecia suddenly freezes up. Summoning circles appear all over the place and bugs start pouring out.
Luetcia is clearing in pain. Quattro says that she’s now controlling her heart. She says that they’re the ones keeping Lu from her mother. Lutecia rocks back and forth a bit uncertainly and then opens her eyes, now red and severely pissed off. She tells Garyuu and the others to kill them. Then screams it again. What’s Garyuu to do then but sprout some tentacles… clearly Erio’s only weakness.
In the lab, Fate is still fighting with Sette and Trei. She tries to attack Sette, but she blocks and uses her boomerangs to force Fate to back off. Trei leaps in, but Fate blocks with a Thunder Palm. The boomerangs come flying back again as Sette charges up her other hand and the explosion knocks Fate to her knees. She thinks to herself how fighting in the AMF (there was an AMF there?) is getting tough and she needs to finish this off quickly.
A viewscreen opens and Scaglietti addresses her. Apparently the viewscreen also opens for Erio and Caro to see. He tells them how amusing this all is to him. He tells Fate how he looked up to Precia Testarossa and how she tried to improve humans that much and how special Fate is.
This pisses Fate off and she charges up Bardiche. She leaps upward, but Jail snaps and suddenly red threads appear out of the ground and tie down Fate. He comes walking out, wearing a clawed glove. The threads contract and destroy Bardiche’s energy form. He then shoots a red blast at her, knocking her down. More red threads come out from the ground and enclose her, while Erio can only watch on.
Signum and Zest are still fighting. Signum uses Laevantine’s chain form to attack. Zest simply knocks it down with his own blast and attacks as well. Signum blocks, but his halberd manages to slice through Laevantine’s sheath and slam her downward. Signum cushions the fall at the last moment, but Zest is already continuing towards TSAB HQ. He’s breathing pretty hard though and Agito is pretty concerned for him, but she says that she’ll be sure to protect him. He thinks about Signum and says that he has great respect for her as a warrior and a Belkan Knight. They shouldn’t be enemies at all. Agito is pretty worried that he’s going to hold back and get himself killed and says that she is an enemy and that he has to do his best.
Are we finally to Ginga and Subaru? Ginga wipes blood from her face as Subaru struggles to stand up. Ginga raises her arm and summon magic. Subaru does the same, but her vision is starting to fade. She tells Mach Calibur that she needs to save Ginga, and they load a cartridge. Ginga does the same and both create Wing Roads. They start to fight, but Ginga has the clear upperhand and uses her Revolver to drill through Subaru’s shield effortlessly and then kicks her to the ground.
Nanoha dodges through drone laser fire as she flies, exploding them along the way. She thinks back to loli Arf playing with Fate and Vivio while Scach tells her all about Vivio. Nanoha says that Vivio deserves happiness, a mother, and above all else, the same things as a normal human would have. Parasite Vivio comes up to Nanoha, but instead of latching onto her crotch as normal, pats Nanoha’s head and says that she’s a good girl. Nanoha says that Vivio is a kind girl and Nanoha will always smile for her.
Back in the real world, Nanoha continues her terribly animated dodges and kills more drones.
Dieci and Quattro are keeping tabs on the situation. Dieci is concerned that Nanoha’s closing in, but Quattro says everything is well in hand as we see all of the Riot 6 in various states of battle and distress.

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Chrono’s fleet is still in deep space, or wherever the hell they are. Even Lindy is around and preparing for the attack. In the Infinite Library, Yuuno is doing research on the Cradle with loli-Arf assisting him. The Cradle is a leftover from Al-Hazard, like the Lost Logia.
Yuuno gives them a run down on basically how the Cradle can’t be allowed to reach a certain point or shit will go very very bad. Chrono asks for more information on the Holy Emperor. Loli Arf butts in and says to trust in Fate, though Arf seems to have been put on ritalin or something.
Hayate and her personal squadron are exploding Gadget drones outside of The Cradle, but more just keep deploying. Nanoha and Vita are flying along the outside when they get a radio from some grunts saying that they’ve found a way in. Nanoha and Vita head there, but as they head in, an internal AMF knocks out their flight pretty quickly.
Schach is still at the Scaglietti’s base with Fate, destroying all manner of gadget drones fairly effortlessly. You’d think Fate would hold back on the giant sword while IN A CAVE, but apparently that’s not a concern. Acous’ ghost dogs are there helping them too.
The cadets and Stormrider are under heavy fire from flying Gadget Drones. They manage to lose them and reach the deployment point. They go over the battle plan one more time before they hop from the copter. The Numbers say them though and scramble to intercept. Ginga’s expression doesn’t change at all when looking at Subaru.
In the air above, Caro sees Lutecia about to attack Stormraider, so she, Fried and Erio move to intercept them. Subaru moves to follow with a Wing Road, but the numbers suddenly attack. Nove and Wendi attack Subaru while Tea is forced to fight Deed attacks Teana and smashes her through a wall. Garyu also moves to attack Fried and Caro casts a spell to deflect him.
Subaru is calling for Tea, who reports that she’s fine, but suddenly a barrier appears around her. Wendi, Nove and some Gadget drones have her trapped. Subaru moves to help her, but Ginga appears in front of her wearing a XIII necklace.
Nove and Wendi taunt the hiding Teana as they close in on her. Teana thinks that she’s going to have to take care of this one on her own and contacts the rest of the team members saying as much. Keep to the mission and whathaveyou.
In Scaglietti’s lair, Fate and Schach are looking over a ton of vials with even higher Numbers. Schach says that they have to hurry. Suddenly a Gadget Drone above them starts causing a cave in. They try to jump away, but Sein grabs Scach’s ankles from below and holds her in place. Fate tries to move to help, but is stopped when Sette throws her weapons at her. As the Drone drops on her, Scach punches the floor and breaks it.
Scach reports to Fate that she’s okay and she’s cornered one of hte combat cyborgs. Fate prepares to fight Trey and Sette.
Back in the Cradle, Vita is fighting some Gadget Drones. She’s have a tougher time than outside because of how their magic is dampened, but Vita tells Nanoha that she’s fine. The research team reports in and says that the engine and the throne where Vivio is are on opposite side of the ship. Vita says that they can’t help it. The two will split up and go to the two points seperately. Nanoha is very concerned about Vita, but Vita says that they’ll be fine and Nanoha needs to save Vivio. Vita walks off before Nanoha can say anything else, but Nanoha tells her to be careful as she flies off in the opposite direction.
Outside, they report in to Hayate, who is breathing very heavily.
Inside, Nove and Wendi are having a rough time dealing with Teana’s illusions, but Nove is able to see through them now and attacks the real Teana, kicking her away. As she crashes, she shoots another flurry at them which Wendi is forced to block, giving Tea a chance to grapple upwards to freedom… until Deed flies in from above on her and slashes her leg. Teana’s now wounded and it’s three on one, plus some drones. As she keeps bleeding, she thinks that it’s impossible, but visions of Subaru saying to keep trying and go for it flash through her head. She feels new resolve and prepares to fight.
Caro is fighting with Lutecia while Erio keeps fighting with Garyuu. They try to tak sense into their opponents, but they’re not listening. Erio uses Strada to boost up to Fried and blocks Lutecia’s attack.
Meanwhile, Zest and Agito are heading to TSAB HQ when they are intercepted by Signum and Reinforce. Signum says that they know why he’s hear, but Zest says that he won’t be kept from Regius. Both draw their weapons, and then Agito fuses with Zest followed by Rein fusing with Signum to turn her into Arche Klaine. I wonder if she fucks like a tiger too. The two rush at eachother.
Ginga is analyzing Subaru, and then prepares to attack. Subaru thinks that if she can cause enough magical damage, whatever they’re using to control her will weaken.
Back in the Cradle, Vita is killing more drones. She’s down to her last four cartridges though. Suddenly, she’s stabbed from behind through her chest. She turns around to see a new type of drone and the image of Nanoha’s grievous wound flashes through her mind showing that this was the same machine that attacked her in the past. She flips out, attacks and destroys it sending herself flying. More of these drones come pouring out to attack her, but she’s already pouring blood from her chest.

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Jail Scaglietti, man of the world and breeder of android harem, now with his battleship finishes taking off to the church and TSAB’s horror. As Schach reports in, Carim looks at a sealed package on her desk.
On the Asura, Hayate and Carim are having a meeting with Chrono to decide what to do about the Cradle. Chrono has an entire fleet standing by, ready to take action.
The Numbers are deployed all over the place as Euno gives them their orders. Everybody is chatting on about things when Scaglietti interrupts them to give us the legend of the Holy Emperor and how the power is different from Belka and the TSAB’s magic etc etc. The DNA from him was what was used to create Vivio. Nove says that the Holy Emperor is one of them. Sein has a question about what and why they’re doing this though. Jail responds that they’re descended from the studies and research headed by Regius in the past and that he’s responsible for the development of the androids and research into the relics for the purposes of justice.
Sein has more questions, but Jail tells them to hold off for later when the world is their’s. Sein and Wendi don’t really fully understand the doctor, but they’re willing to throw themselves in anyway. Something Jail told them about the Sei-Oh suddenly sticks out suspicisiously to Sein though.
Back to the mysterious TSAB chamber and mysterious voices talking about the fake mages and what to do about them. We finally get to see who was talking… three brains in jars.
Yes.
Brains in fucking jars.
They discuss their silly crapola for a little bit before bringing up Zest. Then an assistant comes in. She apologizes for disturbing them as they tell her what they know about Regius, Zest and Lutecia while she inputs something on a keypad. She then looks up and says that they’ve given her all the information she needs.
One of the older admirals is giving her own talk about the Holy Emperor to Chrono. The information gets passed on to Riot 6 as well through Hayate. The Cradle continues to menacingly hover over a city, surrounded by legions of Gadget Drones.
Nanoha says that they’re going to be splitting into three groups to deal with it and then their meeting is adjourned. Erio and Caro are worried about things, but Fate reassures them and tells them that Signum will be with them.
Rein, Signum and Caro are talking as they walk about Zest’s past and his history with Regius.
The eyecatch takes the Numbers down another notch…
As they approach the deployment point, they go over the final plans. Vita and Nanoha will be nearby the cadets if things get really rough, but Nanoha tells them to stick together and they’ll be fine. She then continues on with the pep talk and tells that they have something to protect and that she knows that they’re strong, so won’t lose and to not forget that.
She dismisses them, and they run off, except for Subaru. Vita dismisses herself and Nanoha tells her that they’ll make sure Ginga will be fine. Subaru is more worried about Nanoha and Vivio. Nanoha gives her a personal peptalk, saying that she knows Vivio will be okay and that she’s an S and won’t lose.
On Storm Raider, Teana is looking at Cross Mirage in thought when Subaru comes on, wiping away tears. Teana gives Subaru her own peptalk as well, though it has about 5% as much making out as I’d prefer.
Storm Raider takes off with Signum and Rein flying point. Vita, Fate, Nanoha and Hayate all skydive from the Asura to the target. As they do this, Carim unlocks all their limiters. They transform and Nanoha immediately goes into Exceed mode to lead the charge.
Fate’s still a bit worried though and says that she shouldn’t use her last limit break mode (assumably Blaster again like she was talking about last episode). Nanoha says the same to her, but Fate says that she’ll be fine. The two continue their lover’s quarrel about being worried for eachother while Vita and Hayate look on, feeling left out. This could have also used some making out, or at least a little heavy petting. Nanoha and Fate give eachother respec’ knuckles and then Fate peels off.
Nanoha keeps thinking and says to herself that the kiddos should be fine and are nearly A rank, and that there’s something special for them all to protect as they close in on the Cradle.
Inside the lab, Euno is reporting that everybody’s getting into position, either defending the Cradle or heading to “the mission point.” Jail is generally pleased and laughs to himself.
Back at the shadowy TSAB chamber, the glass vials are shattered by the secretary, now with giant claws. One brain is left, yelling about the betrayal as she gives the last brain a speech about destiny and the usual boring “your time is up.” She transforms into a Numbers suit and slashes at the final brain.
Vita, Hayate and Nanoha have made contact with the Gadget Drones and are carving their way through them. Chrono looks on from his fleet.

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The episode begins with poor Vice still in critical condition. Alto is standing over him telling him that everybody is okay, even Storm Raider, and she’ll take over his duties for him for now. Poor Vice… he just needs some TLC from Tea. She then gets in Storm Raider and takes off.

Over on the Asura, Fate is checking in with how things are going and how Alto is handling her new job as a pilot. Everybody is also gathering for a meeting on the new setup of Riot 6. Hayate and Griffith give them a quick rundown, confirming that Jail is the main target and that they think that he’s using the Lost Logia Relics to create or augment the cyborgs. She puts Fate and Nanoha in charge of general setup and operations before heading off for another administrative meeting.

Over at TSAB HQ, Subaru is getting her final checkup and bill of good health. She throws a practice punch and seems to be in perfect form. Mach Calibur is also being repaired. Subaru apologizes to it for going out of control and causing damage to it, but Mach Calibur responds that the problem was with it and its power shortage. Shari comes in though, and Mach Calibur says that it’s for a reconfiguration meeting. Shari and a tech tell her that they’ll be upgrading Mach Calibur and making sure that it’ll be able to keep up with her power in the future. Subaru thanks them, and Mach Calibur tells her to keep her ‘well checked’ so that ’she can go as far as she wants this time.’ Silly Engrish.

Rein Zwei is also back in full health and checks in with Nanoha. She reports that all the devices are functioning well, though Rein is a bit worried about Nanoha and Raging Heart. Nanoha says that she has another mode in reserve… Buster (Blaster?) Mode beyond Exceed if things get really rough, so she’ll make sure to take care of them if there’s any trouble.

Erio and Signum are sparring in the gym. Erio holds his own, and Signum compliments him before heading out. As she leaves, Fate thanks her for taking care of Erio. The two start talking about all of the cadets and how they’re becoming a family themselves as they get stronger and stronger.

Shamal is running some checks on Vita. She seems to be pretty much completely recovered, though Vita’s being her usual cranky self. Shamal does say how the knights are all linked though. Vita keeps going on about what’s important and making sure to protect Hayate. She brings up the original Reinforce and says how much they’ve gained and that they have to protect it. Shamal agrees with her and hugs her, saying that she doesn’t want to lose any of them. Vita says that she’ll make sure to protect all their happinesses.

Subaru finally meets up with the other cadets along with a fully repaired Mach Calibur. Suddenly, the alarm goes off. A huge number of explosions are going on outside a base somewhere. Wendi, Deed, and Otto are attacking somewhere. Wendi is having a ball, but Deed and Otto refuse to respond to her. Tre checks in, apparently the attack went off without a hitch and they got all the data that they needed.

Euno reports all this to the doctor as she brings a wrapped up child somewhere. Scaglietti keeps going on about the Holy Emperor while Euno talks about her as the path to their dreams. The wrappings fall off the child, showing it to be an unconscious Vivio (SURPRISE). Scaglietti takes the opportunity to make another crazed speech.

Suddenly, their alarms go off as well. A few explosions at the entrance and then we see that Acous and Scach have dug a hole into their base. Scach is impressed with his magic, and Acous shows that he can summon green ghost dog things as well (Infinite… something… probably Hounds or Hunt). Swarms of Gadget Drones suddenly close in on their position though. Schach switches to barrier jacket mode and the two stand back to back to fight as the drones close in.

Back on the Asura, Hayate is keeping tabs on things. Acous radios in, saying that they found Scaglietti’s base, but are under heavy attack by the drones. The Asura picks up Lutecia and her knights closing in on Acous’ position. Shari immediately recognizes Zest. They also pick up the combat cyborgs en route there… with Ginga at the lead. Everybody is totally shocked… except the audience of course.

Scach and Acous have finished off the drones, but Lutecia’s summons are all over the place and begin an earthquake. Scaglietti begins another crazed broadcast to the world about how his ascension is at hand using “The Cradle.” A chunk of the earth raises as a ship takes to the air from underground. Vivio is sitting on a throne and being used as a power source for the ship. This is broadcast to the world and puts Nanoha into a state of shock. Scaglietti announces that this is the beginning of his dream and starts wildly cackling.

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TSAB is picking through the wreckage and trying to figure out eachly how to deal with the criminal responsible. Regius is pissed off as all hell and demands answers. His secretary briefly meets with Hayate on her inspection.

Riot 6 members are at the former HQ. Teana is looking through the damage when Signum comes up for a status report. Teana lets her know that Vivio was taken, but the damage to people was otherwise pretty minimal. Signum thanks and dismisses her. Teana then contacts Nanoha and gives her a brief status report as well as learning what all the other Riot 6 people are doing before heading over to Subaru. Nanoha then sees Vivio’s destroyed rabbit and recoils.

At the hospital, Shirley is in tears over losing Vivio. Zafira is also seriously injured, but Shama is mostly okay. Rein is also undergoing diagnostics and repairs, but should be fine. Vice was also very seriously injured in the attack and is in intensive care.

Tea heads into the ward for Subaru and Erio. Both are injured but relatively okay. Subaru’s arm is making noises as she tries to move it around, and she says that it’s still being repaired. Caro and Erio head out to get some air, letting Teana have a heart to heart with Subaru.

Subaru apologizes, but Teana tells her that there’s nothing to apologize for. She says that Ginga will be fine and that Nanoha and the rest will help rescue her as soon as they can. Teana continues with a long speech about Subaru shouldn’t give hope and they’ll definitely work together to save her.

Regius’ secretary is still grilling Hayate about everything that happened.

There’s a huge conference on the nature of the androids being led by Subaru’s father, Genya. He tells them about how humans were being fused with machines to create the androids. Scaglietti was using humans as a base and then infusing various machines into them. His wife, Quint, led an attack on Jail and ended up saving Subaru and Ginga and then they adopted them because they couldn’t have children otherwise. The resemblence is (supposedly) just a coincidence. She eventually died, but Genya raised them since he thought it’s what she would want from him. There was a little more, but my Japanese technobabble is awful. Apologies.

Hayate is still meeting with the secretary. Hayate doesn’t have particularly complimentary things to say about Regius, saying that he used to be a radical and that his past research and proposals have aligned very strongly with Scaglietti’s… especially in terms of using androids and other machines to strengthen fighters.

The secretary throws it back in Hayate’s face, saying that her past with the Book of Darkness is no better. Hayate says that the Book of Darkness is no more and that while that is long over, this is still happening.

Regius is raging in his office once again, throwing shit around and in general being randomly pissed off. One of his assistants shows him a report of Zest. Regius recognizes it and nearly has a heart attack.

Zest meanwhile, is coughing up blood. Agito is extremely concerned (and calling him ‘husband’). She gives him a pep talk, and he says that he’s feeling a bit better and sends her off to get some tea for him. Uno then contacts him and they talk for a bit about the last mission and the relic they seized before letting him know that Lutecia is fine and with them.

In the number HQ, Ginga is in he testtube while Quattro is running tests. She’s amazed at how powerful the Type-Zeros are and how the other Type-Zero dealt with Nove and crew. Nove is pissed off and wants her revenge. Quattro gets called over to the Scaglietti.

Lutecia is looking at capsule XI. Wendy comes up and asks her how her mother is doing. Lutecia says that the doctor said that the doctor can wake up her mother if they can find the right relic.

Hayate’s next meeting is with Acous. They’re in relatively good spirits as the Asura is nearly finished and it’ll be the new mobile HQ for Riot 6 for at least a little while.

Nanoha and Fate are looking over the city. Nanoha remembers the promise she made to Vivio about coming home safely and starts crying about how she couldn’t protect her. Fate hugs her and says that they’ll save her and Vivio will be just fine.

Back in Scaglietti’s lab, Vivio is strapped down and scared witless. Scaglietti and Uno walk in with a relic box. Vivio sees it and starts screaming for her mother. They open the box (can’t see the number), and Scaglietti says that he’s going to infuse the Relic into her to awaken the Holy Emperor.

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During the intro, we learn that there are twelve total numbers (11 deployed), and the two objectives are to take out the two facilities they’re attacking and capture the Emperor, with the secondary mission of capturing the Type-0.

Once the episode proper starts, we see Vita and Zest fighting. Vita notices that Zest and Agito’s unison isn’t as powerful as their’s, but they’re very powerful and experienced, so Vita doesn’t have much of an advantage. Zest needs to finish it off quickly though, so tells Agito to use their Full Drive. Agito refuses at first, saying that it’ll cut his life, but then relents and powers up.

Over with the cadets, Nove (on a wing road no less) and Wendy (Uendi?) are having problems fighting Erio and Teana because of Tea’s illusions. Caro is basically feeding magic to Teana nonstop to keep it going. Subaru and Erio manage to get the drop on them thanks to the distraction and Erio uses a Thunder Rage to blast all the drones and Wendy while Subaru knocks down Erio. They then scatter with the illusions also acting as decoys. Cinque calls in to say that she’s met up with another Type-0 and needs help… the Type-0 is Ginga.

Schach meets up with the Aces and explains that they’ve forced the main doors open. The cadets meet up with the Aces and hand off Raging Heart and Bardiche, but Subaru suddenly realizes that she’s lost contact with Ginga. They decide to split up. The Lightnings are to head back to Riot-6 HQ, which is now formally under attack, while the Stars are to find Ginga and secure the area.

Riot-6 is torched. Zafira and Shamal are the only people left while another Number (Otto) stands over them. She uses her Ray Storm to attack, while Shamal blocks. Zafira tries to attack, but another number (Diddo) slams him back down. Otto prepares to attack and Hayate suddenly senses that something happened to them.

The non-combatants of Riot-6 are huddled in an area, protected by sniper Vice, who is shooting down drones from long range as they approach.

Team Lightning is flying to Riot-6 when they’re suddenly attacked by Trei and Sette. Fate blocks the attack and orders her cadets to head to HQ. Erio realizes that they’re stuck on Fried, so can’t fight in the air, and takes off. Fate transforms Bardiche to the Zanber form and gets ready to fight.

Returning to Vita and Zest, he suddenly senses new combatants coming. Rein confirms that Signum is on the way. Zest is ready to retreat, but Agito wants to attack Rein. Vita sees Agito’s attack forming and flies to stop her, but Zest gets in the way and destroys Eisen. As Vita crashes into the ground, Agito is flipping out, and Rein is completely knocked out. Signum arrives to guard them, but the other two are already gone.

The Stars are en route to Ginga’s last position. Subaru gets there first and finds three numbers standing over a bloody and decimated Ginga, about to load her into the container. With a beep, Subaru’s eyes turn yellow, and then glow while she releases a huge burst of energy.

On the flip side, Subaru demands they give Ginga back while chargings about 5 cartridges. She rushes forward, breaking her roller blades in the process. Nove starts shooting at her, but Subaru just shrugs it off and slams Nove back. Wendy gets on her surfboard/crossbow thing, and Cinque confronts Subaru. She uses her exploding knives to keep Subaru from moving while the others take off.

Subaru starts beating relentlessly on Cinque’s shield until she destroys it and tries to follow. Cinque had more knives hidden in the air that almost get Subaru, but she puts up a shield just in time. Unfortunately, she didn’t block all of them and her arm is torn open, showing machinery underneath. Subaru keeps coming, but Sei leaps up and uses her phasing to take Cinque out safely. Mach Calibur finally stops working from all the damage and Subaru collapses as her eyes revert and Nanoha and Teana arrive.

Back at Riot-6, Vice is exhausted. As Lutecia appears, he has a flashback to a mission with a hostage. he took a shot… and suddenly sees an image of the girl again over Lutecia (assumably he missed and hit the hostage). She wastes no time and blasts him and the rest of the non-coms.

Erio and Caro are just now getting to Riot-6. They see Lutecia and crew about to take Vivio away when suddenly Erio remembers his past. He was an artificial human created in the image of the son of a dead rich family. Eventually, he was taken away from his parents.

He loses it and changes Strada to it’s second form and rushes to attack in the air. Garyuu is there to fight him, but using Strada’s booster, he’s able to stay in the air. He attacks again, but Dido appears and sucker punches him while Caro and Fried are bound by Otto and plummet from the air.

Fate is at least holding her own in her battle though, and tries to interrogate them. They respond respectfully, and say that she’s like them and ask her to join their side. Fate says that she’s nothing like them, and tells them that Scaglietti’s actions are unforgiveable. They take off, saying that Fate can’t win.

Back at Riot-6, Uno is giving a final warning to the Riot-6 members that the drones are going to raze the building and kill all within. Caro loses it and summons Voltaire, who proceeds to torch every damn drone in the area.

Scaglietti appears on a broadcast to the gathered TSAB members and says that the attack today was the result of his group developing technology as it was meant to be developed even though others call it illegal. He says that he kept deaths to a minimum, and is prepared to take in those who wish to be. Carim says that the prophecy has now come to light, but Hayate says that Riot-6 ain’t out of it yet.

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The opening starts with Subaru writing a letter to her father saying how everybody is in high spirits and back to training after the incidents in town. THIS ISN’T FORESHADOWING FOR THE REST OF THE EPISODE AT ALL, IS IT? Unfortunately, we still have Secret Ambition as the OP… I want my Massive Wonders already, or in Teana’s case… Modulating Wonders.

Hayte is telling all the combat troops of Riot 6 that they’ll be working on security at a public conference tomorrow. Security will be managed by a number of other divisions as well. Hayate, Fate and Signum will be meeting up tomorrow, but the rest are heading over today.

Nanoha is getting ready to head off, but Parasite Vivio doesn’t want her to go. Nanoha promises her that she’ll come back after it’s done and promises her some caramel milk for being a good girl and putting up with it.

On the copter, the cadets ask Nanoha about Vivio and how they’re getting on. Nanoha says that Vivio is still looking for anybody who will be a family for her, but the cadets disagree and think that Nanoha has already pretty much adopted her.

Over in the Nanoha/Fate lovenest, Fate gets a phone call from Lindy, who is still looking great. Lindy says hi to Vivio and tells Fate that she’ll be at the conference as well. She can’t wait to see Fate again, but since Fate will be on duty, it’ll have to wait.

Vivio sees Fate’s pictures of her families…. the Hallouens and the Testarossas, and asks Fate about them. Fate tells her that they’re both her family. We also get to see a picture of Chrono, Amy and his twins. They’re basically tiny versions of Amy. Boy wasted no time in fathering children, did he?

At TSAB central, the cadets are hanging about with drinks, except for Teana, who is bother Vice. She apologizes to him because she had a look in his army history. In the past, Vice was an Ace mage and was a top sniper. He says that his magical skills are barely half of Teana’s though. He goes on, saying that the past is past and that she shouldn’t waste her time on such. She apologizes again and runs off. Once she’s gone, he says aloud that the past is gone, and Storm Raider agrees.

The next morning, Nanoha is going inside the conference, so she hands Subaru Raising Heart and asks them to make sure Fate gives up her device as well. Ouch… defenseless? That’s not a good sign.

There’s a newscast going on about how the conference is going, and the most hotly contested item seems to be the development of the Einherjar, the Army’s new weapon.

Vita is patrolling the grounds with the Lightning cadets and wondering if shit is going to go down today. They think that it’ll probably be an attack from the outside, and that Scaglietti is not going to attack since there’s nothing to gain here. Nanoha disagrees though and thinks that it could have to do with showing off the Einherjar. They decide to just keep waiting for their superiors orders as well as how to react.

The conference is nearing the end, and nothing has happened so far. Zest and Agito are watching from the air, and are annoyed that Lulu isn’t with them because she has something else to do. Zest tells Agito to go with Lulu if she’s so worried, but Agito can’t leave Zest on his own. Zest’s final plan is to make his way to Regius.

The Numbers are also preparing to deploy and are set up. Scaglietti gives the usual mad scientist speech of being the one to change the world and the course of history and tells them to start.

Lulu chants a spell while Quattro screws up the internal security systems of TSAB using a control of the electrons in the air. In one area, Sei phases through and knocks out the guards, followed by Cinque exploding a reactor. Lulu finishes her summoning spell and Gadget Drones begin appearing all over the grounds. At the same time, Deici shoots her way into the building.

Regius is receiving a report of the situation and orders all intruders neutralized. Quattro is eavesdropping on them somehow though, and uses the drones to force them to drop the defenses and seal everybody inside. Hayate realizes the problem here and that they’re sitting ducks at the moment.

Trei and Sette, apparently the close combat specialists of the Numbers, are getting ready for Sette’s first fight before they rush into the battle.

The cadets and crew are running towards the battle. Vita gives Teana Signum and Hayate’s devices to get to them before combining with Rein and flying straight to the battle.

Nanoha and Fate are locked inside the building and can’t get out. They decide to not wait around and bust open an elevator and slide down the cable using magic to cover their hands to rendezvous with the cadets and get their devices back.

Agito and Zest are heading straight for the tower when they’re attacked by red energy. Unison Vita leaps out of the clouds and attacks them. Zest and Agito respond by combining as well. Vita and Zest introduce themselves and get ready to fight.

The cadets are still heading to battle and suddenly Nove leaps out and slams Subaru against the wall wearing a pair of Mach Calibur-looking boots. The rest of the cadets are trapped by a series of energy balls from another Number. Nove calls Subaru (or maybe her device?) “Type-Zero” and knows that it wouldn’t have been beaten that easily.

Uno tells Lulu that she can move on to attacking Riot 6 and recovering the Devices held there along with “The Emperor.” Riot 6 goes on full alert… credits.

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We start by learning that Riot 6 has a couple new members, Ginga and Marie. Ginga will be joining the forwards temporarily, and Marie, who personally handled the Aces’ devices in the past is joining the tech department. Everybody splits up for their training, the Lightning go with Fate, Vita takes Teana and Nanoha sets Ginga and Subaru against eachother in a mock battle.

The two fight, but Subaru is immediately on the defensive. Ginga charges and attack, and Subaru tries to defend, but she breaks her shield and then Subaru takes a straight shot right to the gut… or so it seems. Subaru blocked the punch with her other hand and counters with a close range Revolver Cannon blasting Ginga backwards. Subaru tries to kick her, but Ginga evades and takes a Wing Road into the sky. The two clash a few more times in the air and are more evenly matched. Ultimately though, Ginga’s experience wins over Subaru’s explosiveness and she stops short of pounding in Subaru’s face. Ginga compliments her on how she fought though.

Afterwards, everybody has compliments on how Subaru is getting faster in her attacks and is nearly approaching Erio in sheer speed. Fate and Nanoha also are very impressed with Ginga’s performance and compliment her appropriately. They then say that the next training will be Ginga and the Cadets against all of the commanders and subcommanders. Ginga’s a bit shocked, but the cadets tell her that they’ve done it before and not to worry.

Elsewhere, in the girl’s bathroom, Vivio is getting cleaned up and for reasons we won’t go into, Zafira is in there with her.

Leaving that creepiness aside, we return to the aftermath of the cadets getting beaten down by the rest, though everybody’s pretty happy with how the sparring went. Ginga is especially impressed that they do this nearly every day. Eventually, Vivio wanders over looking for Nanoha and Fate while being escorted by lady killer and bathroom stalker Zafira.

Vivio runs up to Nanoha and Fate and falls on her face. Fate goes to help her, but Nanoha, ever the heartless bitch, stops her and tells Vivio to get up on her own and keep running to her. Man… what a bitch. Vivio nearly starts to cry, but Fate’s ovaries take over and she trots over to help her up. Nanoha tells Fate that she’s spoiling Vivio, but Fate doesn’t really care.

As a side note, the music for the eyecatch was some kind of terrible synth riff. Who the fuck gave the StrikerS staff a synth?

Everybody’s heading off to get lunch, with Erio carring the world’s largest salad. Vivio isn’t being a good girl and won’t finish her greens. Caro is busy still hitting on Erio as well. Eventually, everybody disperses to do their own boring daily tasks.

Over at the TSAB HQ, Regius is preparing for a meeting with the top three admirals as we’re treated to tinkling chime music. Good ol’ blowhard is getting another rundown about Riot 6 from his evil secretary. He basically says that he wants concrete evidence of misbehavior before he comes forward with a complaint. She tells him that other people from the TSAB are also snooping around internally before checking in with a subordinate about a delayed ‘Einherjar’ (Norse term for warriors recruited by the Valkyrie) project.

There’s also a brief echoy meeting between three numbered screens that is rather generically plotty and evil. Subaru and Ginga are also due for their checkup, so they strip and get on the table.

Over in the cave of numbers, they’re getting their upgrades. Apparently Euno’s arm is cybernetic, so probably most of them are. We also see about four more numbers in tubes and they mention another few more. They also talk about the Gadget Drones, but say that they aren’t worth naming and are garbage… as are themselves, though Sein says that she likes having a name.

Scaglietti is tuning up some new numbers. Nove doesn’t really give a shit what’s going on though, she just wants to know what kind of person the ‘King’ is who will be leading them. Scaglietti turns back to his army of bots and laughes like the true insane villain that he is.

Over at the TSAB Convenience Store, Subaru is feeding Ginga chocolate by hand. Ginga really has Subaru trained well. The two talk about Ginga joining the squad and how they’re looking forward to fighting together and becoming more powerful. Ginga turns serious for a moment though and asks if they’re really serious about going up against the enemy. Eventually, Marie picks her up and Subaru also feeds Marie chocolate. Maybe it’s Subaru who is training them.

The three Aces are having a meeting where they talk about how the prophecy has been decoded a bit more and it’s clear that a meeting in a week is going to be attacked. Riot 6 will be there, but they’re not entirely certain that they’ll be completely prepared for it.

Anyway, I love the new ending of this. I heard there will be a new opening called "Massive Wonders" soon. The ending is "Beautiful Amulet".

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Nanoha wakes up in her huge bed across from Fate with parasite Vivio still attached to her. She detaches Vivio and goes to get dressed, but Vivio starts moaning and searching for her, so Nanoha carries her over to Fate, who acts on her instinctual urge to smother lolis with her chest and does just that.
The cadets are finished with their training for the day and head off to shower and take it easy while Nanoha meets up with parasite Vivio and Ovary-Powered Fate. Vivio finally manages her first words… a request for food.
The cadets and Hayate are doing various paperwork when Hayate calls Teana over and I believe gives her an official commendation from Chrono on how she handled the last mission and wants her to tag along for their meeting in a little while. Fate has taken the Lightning cadets and is telling them that Zafira and Eina (?) are babysitting the parasite while they’re at work.
MEANWHILE, AT THE GALATIC CORE, Barrier Jacket Chrono is commanding his ship. Acous uses his magical powers to summon a cake. Good use of magic, slick. Chrono and Verossa discuss Regius over their shared froofy man-cake. They know that he’s unhappy with Riot 6 and is trying to undermine their efforts. They’re interrupted by Hayate and Teana arriving via Star Trek teleporter.
Back with Fate and the Lightning kiddies… they’re getting a lesson in the Lost Logia and the destruction that they can cause to the world. We get a history lesson on Midchild, magic and the TSAB which is slightly less interesting than it might sound.
Fate looks at Bardiche and thinks back to her meeting last episode with Chrono and Carim. They’re discussing what exactly the prophecy means and its relation to the Lost Logia. This is even less interesting than the history of the TSAB, though the BGM was kind of nice. Carim also says that she’s at Riot 6’s command if they need her.
Subaru has finally finished her deskwork and notices that Nanoha is spacing out. The clock tower chimes, and Nanoha heads off to pick up the parasite from her babysitters while Subaru, bereft of Teana’s loving, ends up tagging along. The next thing we see is Vivio attached to Nanoha’s crotch once again. Subaru suggests that Vivio call Nanoha “mama,” which sets her crying and reattached to Nanoha once more.
Over in Chrono’s lovenest, Hayate is still eating Acous’ cake while Acous shares the data that he has about recent events with Teana in the form of a data chip. He also asks Teana about what she thinks of Hayate and says that he worries about her. Chrono and Hayate keep chattering about generic Riot 6 stuff while Acous does his best to try to snatch Teana away from Vice and Subaru. I like her and all, but why is she so hotly contested while Ginga is still unattached?
The cake apparently finally finished, and the Riot 6 pair gone, Acous and Chrono talk about Riot 6 and how they’re going to protect them. Acous says to leave it to him. I’m already getting traitor vibes from that punk. Hayate and Teana also make small talk as they leave.
In a dark room, General Nakajima is looking at a report on the Numbers attack being given by some scientist (Maria?) and Ginga. Nepotism much? He looks at a picture of their mother as they leave. We also get a quick view of Darth Vader General Regius looking generally cranky.
Back on the Fate/Nanoha honeymoon bed, Nanoha gets Vivio to call Fate ‘mama’ too. This is turning into a regular Happy Lesson. The cadets, meanwhile, are eating the strange food in the cafeteria again. Freaky spaghetti and salads. They talk about Vivio calling Nanoha mother and think about family, mothers and daughters specifically. Isn’t it nice when they work the title of the episode in?
As we fade to black we see Lutecia, Zest and Agito looking on forebodingly at the city. Next week… more Ginga. Thankfully.

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Agito wakes up in a white room, not knowing where she is. Her wings are tattered, she is chained down and naked, and then a man comes up to her with a syringe and injects her with something that causes her to yell and convulse while flames appear around her and others stand by with note pads. Then the room explodes. Zest and Lutecia are there, and Zest picks her up off her examination table. The two prepare to leave, but Lutecia stops him, and picks up the tiny Agito to bring with them.
Agito wakes with a start from her dream and thinks back to the encounter with Vita and Rein. She doesn’t know many things, but she does know that she’s sticking with Lutecia, and starts yelling in general at the sky about people who get in her way.
Signum is driving Nanoha in her own pimp-mobile as the two chat about Vivio’s status. Signum then receives a call from Schach that the girl has suddenly disappeared. Schach and Signum search the indoors while Nanoha checks the outside. Nanoha’s the first one to find her, but Schach sees her shortly after and immediately changes into battle mode (her device sounds like “Interceptor” and is a pair of tonfa).
Poor Vivio immediately loses her smirk and goes into terrified mode. Nanoha thanks Schach for the help, and comforts poor Vivio. She asks the kid what she’s doing, and Vivio says that her mama is gone. Nanoha offers to search for her with the kiddo.
Elsewhere, Hayate and Fate are chatting about how the status of the division. They put in a call to Nanoha, only to find Vivio clinging to Nanoha, bawling her eyes out and surrounded by the cadets. Fate and Hayate run over to save Nanoha from the skirt clinger, but not before Hayate gets in a jab at Nanoha finally meeting an opponent that she can’t defeat.
Fate picks up Vivio’s bunny and starts playing with her while mentally chastising the cadets for scaring her shitless. Clearly Fate is the only one of the whole lot with any sort of maternal instincts. Vivio is eventually pacified enough to let the Aces leave, and she gets left in the care of the cadets while the three take Storm Raider over to Carim’s Pad.
Subaru and Teana are filling out reports and whatnot on the latest mission, and of course, Subaru is probably illiterate and Teana finishes first. Subaru is thinking some overly heavy thoughts about the Numbers, so Teana flicks her forehead and knocks her out of her chair and tells her to get back to work.
Carim officially welcomes the Aces to her love nest where Chrono is also hanging out. Hearing Fate call Chrono “onii-chan” is kind of strange and disquieting, but thankfully, he’s as embarrassed by hearing it as I am.
Vivio is finally put to bed by Erio and Caro, letting them have some private time. Erio starts thinking about how she’s probably an artificial mage and her possible relations to Project F.
Chrono and Carim are filling in the Aces on the current shake-ups in the TSAB administration and how it relates to Riot 6. Carim brings out a deck of cards and uses what sounds like “Prophet Sift,” to divine the future. Two of the cards are sent to Nanoha and Fate, who read them and nod. Carim tells them that she has forseen that the Logia will be gathered and that they will be activated and that the TSAB/Riot 6 is going to have… well… let’s just say shit will be ruined. The important part of her prophecy though is “A King will perish, a Tower will fall, and a Ship will sink.” I’ll leave the wild guessing about the meaning to somebody else.
We go back to General Windbag and his evil secretary, who are still discussing Riot 6. They have the complete chart set up of the rankings and relations of it. He notes that Hayate is at the center and thinks more about how Hayate shouldn’t be in charge of it.
Fate and Nanoha excuse themselves from Hayate and prepare to head home. Hayate stops them and says that they’re very important friends and she doesn’t want anything to happen to them, etc etc. Basically a talk between the three about being friends and how everything will be fine. Very droll really.
Erio and Caro are reading to Vivio again when Fate and Nanoha walk in. Vivio immediately jumps up and clings to Nanoha. Hayate heads back to her room and takes out her Book of the Night Sky amulet. She then opens a desk drawer and takes out an old picture album and thinks about Admiral Graham and the death of the first Reinforce and how she is not going to waste the life that those two gave to her.

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This episode starts off with a bang as Agito lays down some carpet fire and the Garyu presses the attack. Teana tries to figure out a plan to deal with them, but luckily, Vita and Rein are just about there and bust into the scene. Rein casts a freezing spell around Agito and Lutecia while Vita knocks away Garyu. Unfortunately, it looks like all three of them escaped. The area is starting to collapse so Subaru creates a wing road to the surface.
Hayate is still up above beating down Gadget Drones, but she’s starting to get tired too. The cranky general from an episode or two isn’t particularly pleased with how things are going with the situation, especially how Hayate’s the one in charge of the situation. He seems mostly uninformed though, while his assistant Shirou is the one full of all the angry looks.
Back with Lutecia, Agito is yelling at ‘Lu-lu’ for dealing with Sacglietti and getting them into this issue while there’s a giant beetle sitting below doing… something. I’m not really sure what. Chains appear out of nowhere and seal the beatle and the Cadet crew leaps to the attack again. Erio’s speed lets him get the drop on Lutecia while Agito finds herself surrounded by daggers. Both are bound and taken in.
Up on a rooftob, we see Quatro and another of the numbers (Siete? We’ll go with that) scouting out the ship where Shamal is holding Vivio (the KOed sewer-loli). I missed the number/name though, sorry. She unveals her weapon, a giant gun cannon and they receive their orders to attack.
Lutecia gets a message from Quatro chewing her out for getting into trouble and asking if she needs help. The team then senses a massive magical buildup for the S-level as Siete charges her weapon. Quatro begins speaking through Lutecia and warns them. Siete fires her gun and tags a direct hit on the copter.
HQ has lost contact with it completely and another artificial human shows up and snatches the Relic-device from Erio by phasing through the ground. The number then saves Lutecia by phasing in the same way. The numbers are celebrating their victory, but the copter reappears out of the debris, protected by Nanoha.
Quatro and are attacked by Fate and chased. Hayate helps to corner them and then rains death on their faces in the form of a giant evil energy ball. They run, but end up trapped between Nanoha and Fate. Another numbers is on the scene though and powering up. Nanoha and Fate shoot at the two, but they sense that it missed.
The new number saved their asses and it looks like she has a technique close to Nanoha’s own flight one. HQ has lost the signals of every one of them. Vita’s a bit cranky and yells at Subaru when she tells Vita that there’s something about the Relic.
The numbers and Lutecia open up the container they stole from Erio… and there’s nothing inside, but it’s marked as VI. They open up the old scans and realize that the cadets hid the Relic in Caro’s hat instead of the case. Furthermore, Teana gave it the illusion of a flower. Up on a building Signum and some unnamed swordswoman dressed like her are watching on.
The numbers are puzzling over the Relic’s case while Lutecia and Agito wander off. At HQ, Vivio has yet to wake up and the staff is still debating on how to deal with her when she wakes up. Nanoha buys a small stuffed bunny for her and places it on the bed next to her and then settles in to wait.
Next episode has more Zest and Agito chained to a wall. Scary.

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