# 2 - Nice Coupling
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**[00:15] ---**
You're going to the future now.
**[00:18] ---**
To the future?
**[00:20] ---**
What about you?
**[00:21] ---**
Dio is waiting, Aoba.
**[00:25] ---**
Hina... Hina!
**[00:34] ---**
*Beat your wings*
**[00:36] ---**
* See the light of hope*
* in the sky you have yet to see*
**[00:41] ---**
* And don't ever give in*
* to the weight of sorrow*
**[00:44] ---**
*Echo unto eternity, UNISONIA*
**[00:54] ---**
*That world you see before your eyes*
**[00:59] ---**
*What colors is it made up of?*
**[01:04] ---**
*Measure feeling match*
**[01:07] ---**
*The pain of loss isn't something*
**[01:10] ---**
*You want to get used to, and yet*
**[01:12] ---**
* Even on a night like this,*
* the stars are beautiful*
**[01:18] ---**
* Like a tarnished coin spilling*
* from the palm of your hand*
**[01:24] ---**
*Can't go back*
**[01:26] ---**
*Want to go home*
**[01:27] ---**
*The two, back-to-back*
**[01:30] ---**
*Break through*
**[01:32] ---**
* Turning unfading emotions*
* into a lasting bond*
**[01:37] ---**
*Like painting over a colorless world*
**[01:40] ---**
*Let this sympathy reach*
**[01:43] ---**
*Growing the wing*
**[01:45] ---**
* Let's build the*
* future that we envision*
**[01:49] ---**
*We can change even fate*
**[01:52] ---**
*Transcending time, UNISONIA*
**[02:01] ---**
"Nice Coupling"
**[02:07] ---**
"Advanced Tactical System"
"Research and Development Laboratory"
**[02:09] ---**
Enemy Zogilia force
composed of six Valiancers.
**[02:11] ---**
Garrison Team and assault
aeroship Zuihou are returning fire,
**[02:13] ---**
but taking heavy casualties!
**[02:19] ---**
Leave the materials ranked
C or lower untillater!
**[02:20] ---**
Top priority goes to fuel, ammo, and food!
**[02:21] ---**
What a pretty pickle to get into.
**[02:23] ---**
We just had to come under
attack while loading up cargo.
**[02:25] ---**
How much longer until we can take off?
**[02:27] ---**
Resupply, 3 Gauge remaining!
**[02:29] ---**
Cygnus Valiancer Team,
please prepare to sortie.
**[02:32] ---**
Lieutenant Conrad here, requesting
permission to mobilize Dio's Bradyon.
**[02:36] ---**
Captain?
**[02:40] ---**
We can't even request to
mobilize the Luxon, though.
**[02:43] ---**
Dio, you okay?
**[02:45] ---**
Yes.
**[02:46] ---**
This is payback for Marcus.
**[02:48] ---**
With three Valiancers,
we might have a chance.
**[02:50] ---**
The enemy is probably
after Dio's Valiancer, right?
**[02:52] ---**
Will the brass go for it?
**[02:54] ---**
Lieutenant, permission to mobilize
the Bradyon has been granted.
**[02:57] ---**
The Captain asks that you do your utmost
to keep it from falling into enemy hands.
**[03:00] ---**
More unreasonable demands
for you to live up to, Dio Weinberg.
**[03:03] ---**
Stow the chitchat, Jarl.
**[03:05] ---**
You'll be sitting ducks
if you go up straight.
**[03:07] ---**
If you don't want to die, follow me.
**[03:09] ---**
Here we go!
**[03:10] ---**
Roger.
**[03:11] ---**
Roger!
**[03:17] ---**
Is this their idea of putting up a fight?
**[03:20] ---**
I'm laughing it up here, Bizon.
**[03:22] ---**
Tarjim, our objective is
not to defeat the enemy.
**[03:26] ---**
Keep your eyes peeled for any and
all suspicious facilities or equipment!
**[03:28] ---**
Bizon, reinforcements.
**[03:32] ---**
You three above me, come with me!
**[03:34] ---**
Roger!
**[03:41] ---**
Once we're out of the smoke,
we take a pass at the enemy.
**[03:43] ---**
We'll break away before
they can return fire.
**[03:45] ---**
Roger.
**[03:47] ---**
Enemy craft!
**[03:48] ---**
What?!
**[03:49] ---**
You called it, Bizon.
**[03:52] ---**
No existing data. It's
probably a new model.
**[03:54] ---**
So that's the jackpot.
**[03:56] ---**
Benesh and Passo, you take the Beryls.
**[03:57] ---**
Lasha and Mikhailov, take the new model.
**[03:59] ---**
Tarjim and I will take the aeroship.
**[04:02] ---**
Don't let your guards down!
**[04:04] ---**
Roger!
**[04:16] ---**
How does it look, Lasha?
**[04:17] ---**
It's tougher than a Beryl,
but I think we can handle it.
**[04:21] ---**
If you can capture it, do it.
**[04:22] ---**
Roger!
**[04:27] ---**
I can't shake them.
**[04:37] ---**
Who's that?!
**[04:44] ---**
Nice Coupling.
**[04:46] ---**
The Luxon is showing a
Nice Coupling reading for Dio's Bradyon!
**[04:50] ---**
What?
**[04:51] ---**
What did you say?!
**[04:54] ---**
That's impossible!
**[04:55] ---**
M-Maybe the pilot Marcus is on board?
**[04:58] ---**
But Marcus's vitals ceased
to register 20 minutes ago.
**[05:03] ---**
And anyway, the hatch was supposed
to have been buried under rubble.
**[05:06] ---**
Can we see inside?
**[05:07] ---**
The internal camera is broken,
so we have no visuals.
**[05:10] ---**
This is Lieutenant
Commander Lene Kleinbeck.
**[05:12] ---**
State your name and affiliation.
**[05:14] ---**
Who's that?
**[05:15] ---**
Hina?
**[05:16] ---**
Where's her voice coming from?
**[05:18] ---**
Hina?
**[05:19] ---**
Is that you, Hina? Where the heck am I?
**[05:22] ---**
Your name and affiliation!
**[05:24] ---**
That's not Hina?
**[05:26] ---**
Uh, well, Aoba Watase,
a first year at Seio High School.
**[05:30] ---**
Aoba Watase?
**[05:32] ---**
Someone from the lab?
**[05:34] ---**
At any rate, it's dangerous there.
**[05:36] ---**
Move it in front of the cargo elevator.
**[05:38] ---**
You tell me to move it, but...
**[05:40] ---**
Don't tell me you don't
even have a Category A?!
**[05:42] ---**
Piloting without a license is
against military regulations!
**[05:45] ---**
Get off the craft at once!
**[05:46] ---**
Get off? But how do I do that?
**[05:49] ---**
You will face disciplinary
action once combat is over!
**[05:51] ---**
Sit tight until then!
**[05:58] ---**
NECTTAR Gun 3 has been hit!
**[05:59] ---**
Only three guns capable
of deploying Curtains remain!
**[06:01] ---**
What about the Valiancers?
**[06:02] ---**
Two on the Bradyon.
One each on Beryls A and C.
**[06:05] ---**
Still engaging the enemy.
**[06:08] ---**
Mayu, what was it that you said earlier?
**[06:11] ---**
Um, that the Luxon showed a
Nice Coupling reading for the Bradyon...
**[06:15] ---**
Right.
**[06:17] ---**
Let's have the two conduct the Coupling.
**[06:19] ---**
What?!
**[06:20] ---**
Captain?!
**[06:21] ---**
The battle isn't going well for us.
**[06:23] ---**
At this rate, the Luxon will be
captured by the enemy without a fight.
**[06:27] ---**
If he can share Dio's abilities,
**[06:29] ---**
even a beginner could at least
move to the elevator, right?
**[06:32] ---**
You intend to have Dio conduct a Coupling
with someone we know nothing about?!
**[06:36] ---**
The reading is green, right?
**[06:38] ---**
Yes...
**[06:39] ---**
But sir...
**[06:41] ---**
There are issues with maintaining
classified information as well!
**[06:43] ---**
I'm fine with taking
responsibility on that score.
**[06:45] ---**
If we leave things as they stand,
**[06:47] ---**
not only will they be in
jeopardy, but so will we.
**[06:50] ---**
Besides, it's not in my nature
to take a beating lying down.
**[06:53] ---**
You know that, don't you, Lt. Commander?
**[07:01] ---**
Luxon, Bradyon, initiate
the Coupling process!
**[07:04] ---**
Roger!
**[07:10] ---**
But XO!
**[07:11] ---**
CO's orders.
**[07:13] ---**
Roger.
**[07:15] ---**
Do you hear me?!
**[07:17] ---**
I'm going to conduct a
Coupling with you now.
**[07:19] ---**
What? A Coupling?
**[07:21] ---**
You just have to do what I tell you!
**[07:28] ---**
What the heck?
**[07:37] ---**
Is this for real?
**[07:47] ---**
I'd say we just have a little more to go.
**[07:51] ---**
Hey, there's another one!
**[07:53] ---**
I'll go!
**[07:54] ---**
Wait.
**[07:55] ---**
Mikhailov, you go.
**[07:57] ---**
Tarjim, you come back.
**[07:59] ---**
Roger.
**[08:02] ---**
That's no fun, Bizon.
**[08:04] ---**
Are they onto us?!
**[08:05] ---**
Damn it! I won't let you go over there!
**[08:08] ---**
Do you hear me?!
**[08:09] ---**
Call out, "Connective, Dio!"
**[08:11] ---**
Bradyon in range to
receive the Seventh Code!
**[08:14] ---**
Roger!
**[08:18] ---**
I should go back him up.
**[08:21] ---**
C-Connective...
**[08:23] ---**
"Connective!" That's "Connective, Dio!"
**[08:26] ---**
Dio?
**[08:28] ---**
Dio is waiting.
**[08:29] ---**
That's right! "Connective, Dio!"
**[08:31] ---**
You're Dio?!
**[08:32] ---**
What?!
**[08:38] ---**
Dio, I'm Aoba Watase!
**[08:41] ---**
Hina said you'd be waiting!
**[08:51] ---**
Dio, what's going on?
You're going to move out of range!
**[08:54] ---**
Hurry up and conduct the Proposing!
**[08:56] ---**
Aoba Watase, just do what I tell you!
**[09:00] ---**
All right.
**[09:03] ---**
He's headed towards the same place?
**[09:05] ---**
Mikhailov, just fire from where you are!
**[09:07] ---**
Roger!
**[09:14] ---**
You hear me?
**[09:15] ---**
It's "Connective, Dio!"
**[09:18] ---**
Connective, Dio!
**[09:21] ---**
Acception!
**[09:22] ---**
Linkage commencing!
**[09:24] ---**
First Proposing!
**[10:02] ---**
Did I get him?!
**[10:07] ---**
What?!
**[10:15] ---**
What the hell is that?!
**[10:16] ---**
They transformed?!
**[10:24] ---**
Coupling...
**[10:25] ---**
It's a success!
**[10:27] ---**
The Match is optimal!
**[10:40] ---**
He's coming!
**[10:48] ---**
What?!
**[10:49] ---**
He's fast!
**[10:58] ---**
So, the Coupling was a success.
**[11:00] ---**
For real?!
**[11:01] ---**
Incredible...
**[11:03] ---**
For him to be this compatible with me...
**[11:08] ---**
Did I just... take control of a robot?
**[11:11] ---**
That's right.
**[11:12] ---**
With the Coupling established,
you now share Dio's piloting knowledge.
**[11:16] ---**
Share?
**[11:17] ---**
You already know how
to control Valiancers now.
**[11:21] ---**
Enemy incoming!
**[11:22] ---**
Enemy?!
**[11:33] ---**
This is...
**[11:41] ---**
What the heck is this?
**[11:46] ---**
He's almost on me already!
**[11:56] ---**
It moved!
**[12:06] ---**
Damn it!
**[12:07] ---**
Why you!
**[12:10] ---**
How powerful is this thing?!
**[12:11] ---**
The Bradyon is at double
its usual power output!
**[12:14] ---**
The Coupling is living
up to our expectations?
**[12:16] ---**
More importantly, never mind walking,
**[12:18] ---**
that guy over there has
gone straight into combat.
**[12:21] ---**
Is that the Coupling, too?
**[12:23] ---**
No, he's not normal.
**[12:25] ---**
He rated high, but for
him to be at this level!
**[12:29] ---**
You're nothing but a
Confederation Valiancer!
**[12:42] ---**
Damn it!
**[12:50] ---**
I'm flying?!
**[12:52] ---**
You're not getting away!
**[12:55] ---**
He's coming!
**[12:59] ---**
There it is again!
**[13:04] ---**
All right!
**[13:19] ---**
Mikhailov!
**[13:20] ---**
He got him?!
**[13:21] ---**
How dare you?!
**[13:24] ---**
You're not going anywhere!
**[13:25] ---**
Damn it!
**[13:26] ---**
Arm 2 severed! Only close
quarter combat blade left on hand!
**[13:29] ---**
Damn.
**[13:30] ---**
All mission craft, retreat!
**[13:33] ---**
We've ferreted out the new model.
**[13:34] ---**
Taking further losses would be pointless.
**[13:37] ---**
Roger.
**[13:38] ---**
Hey, man, are you serious, Bizon?
**[13:47] ---**
I just finished this guy off.
**[13:49] ---**
Move it, Tarjim! Or we're
leaving you behind!
**[13:52] ---**
Roger!
**[13:57] ---**
Enemy force retreating!
**[13:59] ---**
Valiancer Team, return to base.
**[14:07] ---**
If the enemy came from the south,
**[14:09] ---**
there's the possibility of a second wave.
**[14:11] ---**
It looks like we're in for a hectic time.
**[14:13] ---**
Captain, what shall we do with
the person on board the Luxon?
**[14:17] ---**
I don't think we have much of a choice.
**[14:20] ---**
This secret base is finished, anyway.
**[14:22] ---**
Mayu, come with me!
**[14:23] ---**
Yes, ma'am!
**[14:34] ---**
Is it over?
**[14:42] ---**
Decoupling.
**[14:51] ---**
What's happening?
**[15:11] ---**
Rush order issued for all personnel.
**[15:11] ---**
Quickly secure everything
that's been brought in!
**[15:13] ---**
Soft reboot good on all craft!
**[15:21] ---**
He still hasn't come out?
**[15:23] ---**
Maybe he doesn't even
know the basic controls?
**[15:25] ---**
Hey, what's the matter?!
**[15:29] ---**
Dio?
**[15:31] ---**
What do I have to do to get it to open?
**[15:34] ---**
Maybe it's down here...
**[15:41] ---**
It opened!
**[15:43] ---**
Thank goodness...
**[15:47] ---**
Who are you?
**[15:49] ---**
So, using an out-of-the-way
laboratory location came back to bite us.
**[15:54] ---**
And to have one of the Couplers die...
**[15:57] ---**
I believe we ought to evacuate immediately.
**[16:00] ---**
Agreed.
**[16:01] ---**
We can't make your
existence publicly known,
**[16:04] ---**
so openly sending reinforcements
is out of the question.
**[16:06] ---**
Head for the main base immediately.
**[16:09] ---**
Furthermore, make sure you
leave no trace of our experiments.
**[16:12] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[16:13] ---**
By the way, with regards to
the new qualifier in my report...
**[16:16] ---**
I told you, leave no trace.
**[16:19] ---**
Understood, sir.
**[16:24] ---**
The year... 2088?
**[16:27] ---**
That's right.
**[16:29] ---**
This war... What's going on?
**[16:31] ---**
What do you mean?
**[16:32] ---**
Uh, well...
**[16:35] ---**
Where do I even begin?
**[16:40] ---**
Currently, the nation of Japan is allied
with the Liberty Treaty Confederation
**[16:44] ---**
and this ship is also a Confederation ship.
**[16:46] ---**
The Confederation has been at
war with the Republic of Great Zogilia
**[16:49] ---**
since the year before last, and as you
saw, the fighting has been intense.
**[16:53] ---**
Well? Do you understand now?
**[16:55] ---**
Is this really... the future?
**[16:58] ---**
Huh?
**[16:59] ---**
XO, this guy keeps insisting
that he's from the past.
**[17:03] ---**
It's the truth, Dio!
**[17:06] ---**
Don't address me by name so familiarly.
**[17:08] ---**
But you're Dio, right?!
**[17:09] ---**
I have no reason to let you call me that.
**[17:11] ---**
But Hina said...
**[17:13] ---**
Put the gun away already!
**[17:15] ---**
Not until you reveal your true identity.
**[17:18] ---**
None of this crap about
coming from 70 years ago!
**[17:20] ---**
Like I said, I'm not lying!
**[17:22] ---**
Both of you, that's enough.
**[17:23] ---**
Dio, put your gun away.
**[17:27] ---**
XO, message from the Captain.
**[17:29] ---**
You're asked to come to the Captain's office
along with Officer Hill and Ensign Weinberg.
**[17:33] ---**
Understood. Thank you.
**[17:35] ---**
Ensign Weinberg.
**[17:37] ---**
Yes, ma'am.
**[17:38] ---**
Hold on a second!
**[17:40] ---**
Hey, Dio!
**[17:42] ---**
Her name is Hina Yumihara!
**[17:43] ---**
She's a girl with long hair and
she was wearing this hair clip!
**[17:50] ---**
She said that you...
**[17:52] ---**
I know nothing of this.
**[18:04] ---**
Mikhailov's ultimate sacrifice has
brought us one step closer to victory.
**[18:09] ---**
We received word that the
Liberty Treaty Confederation
**[18:11] ---**
had a new Valiancer that had acquired
tactical capabilities not so long ago.
**[18:14] ---**
With all the numerous
dummies that they'd deployed,
**[18:17] ---**
it seems you did a magnificent
job hitting the jackpot.
**[18:20] ---**
The Adminburo back home
is urgently demanding a sample specimen.
**[18:25] ---**
You will capture one
immediately, I presume,
**[18:28] ---**
Commander Gallant?
**[18:30] ---**
Of course, Madam Special Officer.
**[18:33] ---**
I look forward to seeing results.
**[18:35] ---**
Slava Zogilia.
**[18:39] ---**
So, what about his claim?
**[18:41] ---**
Everything he had on him were
things that existed about 70 years ago.
**[18:45] ---**
Having said that,
many of the items can be faked,
**[18:48] ---**
so it's a real stretch
to take him at his word.
**[18:50] ---**
We're talking about time
travel here, after all.
**[18:53] ---**
Well, that sounds like a normal response.
**[18:55] ---**
How shall we deal with him?
**[18:57] ---**
He's the hero who saved us, but...
**[19:00] ---**
We can't have him leaking
our secrets, either.
**[19:03] ---**
I'd say we have to have him
come with us to the main base.
**[19:05] ---**
I believe that is a sound decision.
**[19:07] ---**
Where is he now?
**[19:08] ---**
Lieutenant Conrad invited
him to his own cabin
**[19:10] ---**
until we passed the verdict on his fate.
**[19:12] ---**
There goes Lee again, taking liberties...
**[19:14] ---**
No, it's inside the ship
**[19:17] ---**
and we also have a tracer on him,
so there's no need to restrain him.
**[19:20] ---**
Throwing him straight into a cell
would only serve to foster bitterness.
**[19:24] ---**
Captain, do you intend to
make use of him again?
**[19:27] ---**
Don't like that idea?
**[19:29] ---**
He's still technically the Buddy
you conducted a Coupling with, right?
**[19:31] ---**
That was an act of necessity.
**[19:33] ---**
With a bastard like him? Never again.
**[19:36] ---**
Well, let's pray that such
an occasion never arises again.
**[19:39] ---**
As soon as we're ready,
**[19:41] ---**
the Cygnus will take off
for the North America Base.
**[19:43] ---**
Roger.
**[19:45] ---**
It seems you've been allowed to keep these.
**[19:47] ---**
Thank you.
**[19:51] ---**
Um, are you all right?
**[19:56] ---**
You don't look too all right.
**[19:59] ---**
Here.
**[20:00] ---**
What?
**[20:00] ---**
Eat a little something and unwind.
**[20:02] ---**
Thanks.
**[20:04] ---**
Fifteen minutes to takeoff.
**[20:06] ---**
I have to go back.
**[20:11] ---**
Hey.
**[20:13] ---**
The door will open if you press here.
**[20:16] ---**
But it's a big place,
so be careful not to get lost.
**[20:19] ---**
Okay.
**[20:19] ---**
See you later.
**[20:23] ---**
What's going on?
**[20:27] ---**
Have I really traveled to the future?
**[20:31] ---**
Hina, is it really like you said?
**[20:35] ---**
You're going to the future now.
**[20:37] ---**
Dio is waiting.
**[20:41] ---**
He totally wasn't waiting...
**[20:49] ---**
Ogi, how's it look?
**[20:51] ---**
Main engine almost at critical threshold.
**[20:53] ---**
Sensor range, all clear of hostiles.
**[20:59] ---**
There are a lot of unknowns
about the new model's capabilities.
**[21:01] ---**
Don't let your guards down.
**[21:02] ---**
Roger!
**[21:07] ---**
Engine, ready!
**[21:08] ---**
Navigation, good to go!
**[21:10] ---**
Information, fusion complete!
**[21:12] ---**
FCS, all green!
**[21:15] ---**
Captain.
**[21:16] ---**
Mm.
**[21:18] ---**
Cygnus, lift off.
**[21:28] ---**
What's going on?
**[21:29] ---**
We're moving?
**[22:14] ---**
I pray that this mission is successful.
**[22:16] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:18] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:20] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:22] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:24] ---**
Death to the foes of Zogilia.
**[22:27] ---**
*With my heart, I call out*
**[22:31] ---**
*To the far side, mutually drawn*
**[22:35] ---**
*Forgetting even the reason I ache*
**[22:40] ---**
*Just for now, please*
**[22:44] ---**
*I know you*
**[22:49] ---**
*I'm looking for you*
**[22:53] ---**
* Softly pressing my lips to the bright*
* afterimage I can't keep from leaving*
**[23:02] ---**
* If hesitation is what gives way*
* to the slightest of hopes*
**[23:11] ---**
* To as many gentle mornings*
* as the times I have wandered*
**[23:20] ---**
* In the future that*
* leads back to that sky,*
**[23:24] ---**
* I want to save you,*
* I want to protect you*
**[23:29] ---**
*In the future that arrives at that dream*
**[23:33] ---**
*Wait for me*
**[23:36] ---**
*The love we'll surely find*
**[23:41] ---**
*I want you to reach out for it*
**[23:48] ---**
Next time on Buddy Complex.
**[23:48] ---**
"Next Time 'Meeting Again'"
**[23:51] ---**
"Meeting Again."