# E12 - High Noon at July
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**[00:01] (Flashback) Young Vash**
A space colony...? Emigrants...?
**[00:04] (Flashback) Rem**
That's right, Vash.
**[00:06] (Flashback) Rem**
We left Earth two hundred years ago
in search of a new home.
**[00:10] (Flashback) Young Nai**
Like a Western...
Life on the frontier!
**[00:13] (Flashback) Young Vash**
Huh?
**[00:14] (Flashback) Young Nai**
Where cowboys stand up for their friends
and beat the bad guys!
**[00:18] (Flashback) Young Nai**
Bang, bang!
**[00:19] (Flashback) Young Vash**
I don't like that stuff.
**[00:23] (Flashback) Rem**
Look, you two.
**[00:26] (Flashback) Rem**
Project Seeds means hope,
a future for humanity and plants.
**[00:31] (Flashback) Young Vash**
How come we're the only ones
who can live outside the casings?
**[00:36] (Flashback) Rem**
Here's what I think.
**[00:38] (Flashback) Rem**
Maybe you two are gifts sent by God
**[00:43] (Flashback) Rem**
to act as a bridge between humans and plants.
**[00:47] (Flashback) Young Nai**
Like angels.
**[00:48] (Flashback) Young Vash**
I wonder if we can get along with humans.
**[00:52] (Flashback) Rem**
Don't worry. No matter
what happens, I will protect you.
**[00:58] (Flashback) Rem**
Always.
**[01:02] Knives**
We the Independents will bring
a new order to this world.
**[01:08] Knives**
It's the birth of a new world!
**[01:10] Radio Host**
* This is a Satellite News Flash*
* from November Public Broadcasting!*
**[01:15] Radio Host**
* The unknown object that suddenly*
* appeared in central JuLai*
**[01:18] Radio Host**
*is continuing to grow at an astounding pace!*
**[01:23] Wolfwood**
It's the end of the world.
**[01:26] Conrad**
Knives has gone to the other side of the gate.
**[01:29] Meryl**
The other side of the gate?
**[01:31] Conrad**
A realm in the higher dimension
that we cannot possibly fathom.
**[01:35] Conrad**
There, he will connect
directly with the plant core.
**[01:43] Conrad**
He will artificially impregnate all of the
plants and create new Independents,
**[01:49] Conrad**
similar to how he and Vash were born.
**[01:53] Conrad**
Then he will wipe out humanity
and create a new world.
**[01:59] Meryl**
Are you saying he's going
to kill us if this goes on?
**[02:03] Meryl**
Wake up, Vash!
**[02:06] Conrad**
I already told you that he's no longer
the Vash the Stampede you knew.
**[02:12] Conrad**
Accept it.
**[02:14] Conrad**
The gate is already open,
with Vash as the hub.
**[02:17] Conrad**
The only way to close it now
would be to destroy the gate itself.
**[02:22] Conrad**
In other words, to kill Vash.
**[02:24] Meryl**
That can't be...
**[02:27] Knives**
I made it.
**[02:32] Knives**
I can feel it!
**[02:34] Knives**
This is the power that was
inside you all this time.
**[02:38] Knives**
Now, let us begin!
**[02:42] Soldier Radio**
* This is JuLai requesting*
* backup from the Alliance of Cities!*
**[02:45] Soldier 12-A**
What's going on?!
**[02:47] Soldier 12-B**
There's no end to it!
**[03:03] Zazie**
You're not going to run?
**[03:05] Zazie**
At this rate, the twins
will take the whole planet.
**[03:08] Wolfwood**
It's not every day I get to see you flustered.
**[03:12] Wolfwood**
Things not going to plan?
**[03:15] Zazie**
It's really too bad. If you
had a network of your own,
**[03:18] Zazie**
you could've made death obsolete.
**[03:21] Wolfwood**
Humans aren't like Worms.
**[03:23] Zazie**
And I reckon this'll be the end of you.
**[03:29] Wolfwood**
For cryin' out loud.
**[03:36] Meryl**
The only one who can
stop Millions Knives is...
**[03:40] Conrad**
He has been reborn.
**[03:42] Conrad**
As a plant.
**[03:52] Conrad**
Human words mean nothing to him anymore.
**[03:57] Conrad**
But what is he trying to start?
**[04:06] Conrad**
You must run! It'll swallow you up!
**[04:11] Meryl**
Don't you give up now!
**[04:13] Meryl**
You're the only one who
can stop Millions Knives!
**[04:17] Meryl**
Come on... Vash!
**[04:24] Meryl**
I know you can hear me, Vash!
**[04:25] Conrad**
She doesn't know when to quit.
**[04:31] Knives**
Pathetic.
**[04:33] Knives**
A parasite feeding off our brethren.
**[04:35] Knives**
This power belongs to us.
**[04:38] Knives**
I won't let any human have it!
**[04:41] Meryl**
Vash!
**[04:42] Meryl**
Vash!
**[04:52] Young Nai**
What's that song?
**[04:54] Young Vash**
It just comes to me.
**[04:56] Young Vash**
It calms me down when I'm nervous.
**[04:59] Young Vash**
I feel like I know it from long ago.
**[05:02] Young Nai**
Hm...
**[05:03] Young Vash**
Say, Nai, do you think we
can get along with humans?
**[05:08] Young Nai**
Don't worry. No matter
what happens, I will protect you.
**[05:18] Rem**
*Vash.*
**[05:20] Rem**
*Vash...*
**[05:27] Young Nai**
I will protect you.
**[05:30] Young Vash**
No...
**[05:32] Young Vash**
No! You're not the one who said that!
**[05:39] Young Vash**
The person who said that to me is...
**[05:44] Young Nai**
Vash.
**[05:51] Young Nai/Knives**
You'll be so much happier if you stay here.
**[05:54] Young Nai/Knives**
Don't go. Don't go!
**[05:57] Young Nai/Knives**
Vash! Stop!
**[06:02] Rem**
*Vash... Vash...*
**[06:15] Rem**
*Vash...*
**[06:17] Rem**
*Vash.*
**[06:20] Rem**
*Vash.*
**[06:23] Teenage Vash**
Wait!
**[06:25] Teenage Vash**
Please wait!
**[06:29] Vash**
Rem!
**[06:31] Rem**
*I'm sorry I left you all alone.*
**[06:34] Rem**
* But I'm glad to know*
* I've lived on inside you all this time.*
**[06:39] Rem**
* Thank you for protecting*
* my dreams and my hopes...*
**[06:44] Rem/Meryl**
*Vash.*
**[06:45] Meryl**
Vash? Vash...
**[06:48] Meryl**
Vash!
**[06:52] Conrad**
What?
**[06:54] Conrad**
The power...
**[06:55] Conrad**
It's flowing in reverse!
**[07:07] Knives**
I was rejected!
**[07:09] Knives**
What's going on, Doctor?!
**[07:14] Conrad**
The gate is closing...
**[07:16] Conrad**
The energy from the
higher plane is converging.
**[07:28] Meryl**
Vash...
**[07:30] Knives**
So you think you've outplayed me?
**[07:34] Knives**
Pathetic human!
**[07:44] Vash**
Thank you, Meryl.
**[07:53] Vash**
I heard your voice, too.
**[08:08] Conrad**
He's controlling that huge mass by himself?
**[08:16] Meryl**
Vash...
**[08:21] Knives**
Vash...
**[08:23] Vash**
Nai.
**[08:25] Vash**
Your plan has failed.
**[08:28] Vash**
Now let's end this.
**[08:29] Knives**
It's not over.
**[08:30] Knives**
I won't let it be!
**[08:33] Knives**
Give that to me!
**[08:36] Knives**
Vash!
**[08:49] Knives**
Take me there again!
**[08:53] Knives**
Back to the higher dimension!
**[09:04] Conrad**
It didn't converge?
**[09:07] Conrad**
He refined it on a molecular level?
**[09:09] Conrad**
He broke it into countless particles,
smaller than air, and crystallized it...
**[09:14] Conrad**
But that won't last long!
**[09:17] Vash**
I need to get this someplace
far away right now!
**[09:21] Knives**
Do you know what that is, Vash?!
**[09:39] Meryl**
Vash!
**[09:40] Conrad**
Wait!
**[10:01] Meryl**
U-Undertaker!
**[10:04] Wolfwood**
I'm just here to pay up for the cigarettes.
**[10:09] Wolfwood**
Whoa!
**[10:11] Wolfwood**
What kind of idiot challenges
Millions Knives like that?
**[10:15] Wolfwood**
He's way out of our league.
**[10:17] Wolfwood**
Time to skedaddle!
**[10:19] Knives**
Do you see now?
**[10:20] Knives**
Our powers are on a whole different level.
**[10:24] Knives**
You think those puny humans
could ever accept that?!
**[10:28] Knives**
They'll never allow those
who threaten them to survive!
**[10:33] Knives**
You can bet they'll hunt us down in a frenzy!
**[10:43] Meryl**
Ugh...
**[10:45] Knives**
Give it to me!
**[11:49] Soldier 12-C**
There he is! It's the Humanoid Typhoon!
**[11:53] Vash**
Soldiers?!
**[11:54] Vash**
It's not safe here! You have to get away!
**[11:59] Vash**
Please, listen to me!
**[12:10] Vash**
It's not safe. You need to run.
**[12:16] Vash**
You're in danger!
**[12:17] Soldier 12-D**
Don't let him get away! Open fire!
**[12:23] Soldier 12-E**
If you hadn't shown up,
nobody would have died!
**[12:26] Soldier 12-F**
How many cities will you destroy
before you're done?!
**[12:29] Soldier 12-G**
Humanoid Typhoon!
**[12:34] Vash**
Run. Please run.
**[12:36] Vash**
You have to flee!
**[12:45] Knives**
It's like I already told you.
**[12:47] Knives**
Our powers are too great.
Humans will never understand.
**[12:53] Knives**
They're neither friends nor family.
**[12:57] Knives**
They are our enemies.
**[12:58] Vash**
You're wrong. I... We can...
**[13:02] Vash**
We can get along!
**[13:03] Knives**
Your own actions contradict you!
**[13:17] Vash**
I know I'm contradicting myself.
**[13:20] Vash**
But even so, I won't give up
until they believe in me.
**[13:25] Vash**
I'll do whatever it takes!
**[13:28] Vash**
I'll do everything I can!
**[13:56] Meryl**
I knew it.
**[13:58] Meryl**
Vash is trying to release
the energy into outer space.
**[14:01] Wolfwood**
What? But if he does that...
**[14:04] Wolfwood**
it'll blast him to pieces!
**[14:13] Knives**
Releasing it into space?
**[14:15] Knives**
I won't let you!
**[14:23] Knives**
Doctor! Cut off the lab!
**[14:26] Knives**
Let them free!
**[14:28] Vash**
Let go, Nai! I can't hold it anymore!
**[14:31] Vash**
At this rate, it'll be the whole planet,
including the plants!
**[14:34] Conrad**
What are you going to do, Knives?
The gate is closed.
**[14:37] Conrad**
I can't send you back to the plane!
**[14:40] Knives**
I'll push this energy back into Vash!
**[14:44] Knives**
I'll pry open the entrance
to the higher dimension again!
**[14:49] Knives**
Vash!
**[14:51] Knives**
I'm telling you to hand it over!
**[14:59] Knives**
We're out of time!
**[15:01] Knives**
Listen to me, Vash! This is a war!
**[15:05] Knives**
Let's gather our allies,
break free from the humans,
**[15:08] Knives**
and create a paradise for us Independents!
**[15:12] Knives**
It's the only way!
**[15:17] Vash**
Since when have we been so different?
**[15:23] Knives**
What are you talking about?
**[15:25] Knives**
You saw for yourself how they're running
our brethren red and killing them off!
**[15:30] Knives**
The humans will never
understand our Independence.
**[15:34] Knives**
They only see us as slaves!
**[15:37] Vash**
That's not true!
**[15:38] Knives**
Wake up, Vash!
**[15:40] Knives**
What's changed since
that day a hundred years ago?
**[15:43] Vash**
You're wrong.
**[15:44] Knives**
How long will you remain the hunted?!
**[15:47] Vash**
Even if they hunt me, I'll just run away!
**[15:50] Vash**
I'll run, run, run, and keep running
as far as I have to!
**[15:57] Vash**
And when things calm down,
I'll quietly settle by their side again.
**[16:01] Vash**
I'm Vash the Stampede.
**[16:09] Knives**
After more than a century...
**[16:15] Knives**
that's the best answer
you could come up with?!
**[16:24] Vash**
Let go! I can't contain it any longer!
**[16:49] Vash**
Stop!
**[16:51] Vash**
You'll die!
**[17:07] Knives**
What are you talking about, Vash?
**[17:09] Knives**
Nai is dead.
**[17:13] Knives**
You killed him.
**[17:26] Knives**
Give it to me!
**[17:32] Knives**
Take me back...
**[17:34] Vash**
Please stop, Nai!
**[17:36] Knives**
I'll do it.
**[17:41] Knives**
I will create it!
**[17:43] Vash**
Nai!
**[17:44] Knives**
No fear. No pain. No humiliation.
**[17:49] Knives**
I'll win a place for us...
**[17:57] Knives**
A paradise... for us...
**[18:06] Vash**
Nai!
**[18:09] Vash**
Nai!
**[18:37] Radio Host**
* It's been two years since*
* that fateful July 21st.*
**[18:41] Radio Host**
* A crowd has gathered at what*
* used to be the third city of JuLai*
**[18:46] Radio Host**
*to pay their respects.*
**[18:48] Radio Host**
*Even after two years,*
**[18:51] Radio Host**
* the pain of losing their loved ones*
* has yet to heal.*
**[18:55] Radio Host**
* The suspect said to have*
* murdered 90 percent of the city,*
**[18:59] Radio Host**
*also known as the Humanoid Typhoon,*
**[19:02] Radio Host**
*still remains at large.*
**[19:05] Radio Host**
* That demon turned the whole city*
* into a gaping crater overnight.*
**[19:10] Radio Host**
* There is no forgetting the sorrow*
* of loved ones taken from you.*
**[19:16] Radio Host**
* The Alliance of Cities has raised*
* the bounty on Vash the Stampede*
**[19:21] Radio Host**
*to $$60 billion, the highest in history...*
**[19:26] Zazie**
I truly don't comprehend.
**[19:30] Zazie**
Turning Vash the Stampede into a villain?
**[19:33] Meryl**
You're from the Worms...
**[19:35] Zazie**
Thanks to the twins,
a bridge was cast across the void.
**[19:40] Zazie**
I'm here to give a warning.
**[19:43] Zazie**
Very soon, they'll arrive,
crossing over the wall of light.
**[19:46] Zazie**
From Earth.
**[19:51] Zazie**
We'll always be watching you.
**[19:55] Meryl**
Wait, what...
**[20:00] Boss**
*Where are you, Stryfe?!*
**[20:02] Meryl**
Umm... JuLai.
**[20:05] Boss**
* Keep acting up like this, and they'll*
* send you off to the Insurance Society!*
**[20:08] Meryl**
The Insurance Society?
**[20:10] Boss**
* Stop by headquarters.*
* They're assigning you a newbie.*
**[20:14] Meryl**
To me?
**[20:15] Boss**
* Some weirdo who wants to be*
* under you, of all people.*
**[20:18] Meryl**
A newbie...
**[20:19] Boss**
*I think her name's... Tom? Thompson?*
**[20:23] Boss**
*Milly Thompson or something like that.*
**[20:26] Meryl**
I see.
**[20:28] Boss**
*Hey, are you listening? Hey!*
**[20:32] Boss**
*Hey, Stryfe?*
**[20:36] Meryl**
Heya, newbie!
**[20:53] Lina**
Remember anything yet?
**[20:56] Lina**
It's okay if you don't.
**[21:00] Lina**
Seems like you've been through a lot.
**[21:04] Lina**
It's all right. You're safe here.
**[21:08] Lina**
Okay...
**[21:10] Lina**
Eriks?
**[21:34] [SONG] Lyrics**
Will I also become
**[21:39] [SONG] Lyrics**
A nighthawk in flight someday?
**[21:42] [SONG] Lyrics**
Shine, starlight, here at the dawn
**[21:48] [SONG] Lyrics**
Oh, light
**[22:01] [SONG] Lyrics**
A melody blooms by your window
**[22:07] [SONG] Lyrics**
Tomorrow is so far away
**[22:13] [SONG] Lyrics**
But there is a song calling out
**[22:16] [SONG] Lyrics**
To the stars at daybreak
**[22:19] [SONG] Lyrics**
Shine, starlight, here at the dawn
**[22:25] [SONG] Lyrics**
Oh, light
**[22:27] [SONG] Lyrics**
Let's quietly row our boat at dawn
**[22:33] [SONG] Lyrics**
Toward our destination
**[22:38] [SONG] Lyrics**
When we wake up, let's call forth a new wind
**[22:43] [SONG] Lyrics**
To keep up moving forward
**[22:48] [SONG] Lyrics**
I hear a clear voice
**[22:54] [SONG] Lyrics**
I hear a clear voice
**[23:09] Male Voice**
Project Pieces of Earth
now entering phase two.
**[23:13] Male Voice**
Drain gate deployment complete.
**[23:14] Male Voice**
Releasing experimental warp drive craft.
**[23:17] Chronica**
Wait.
**[23:18] Male Voice**
Suspending countdown. Locking command.
**[23:20] Male Voice**
Cutting power to spheres one through four.
**[23:23] Chronica**
Place interface changes on the Z axis.
Amplify 2.7 million times.
**[23:26] Chronica**
I see a fluctuation in the gate.
**[23:28] Male Voice**
A... fluctuation?
**[23:30] Chronica**
We're receiving something via subspace.
**[23:32] Chronica**
Give me readings from the entire solar system.
**[23:35] Male Voice**
Understood. Right away,
**[23:37] Male Voice**
Special Ops Lieutenant Colonel
Independent Chronica.
**[23:39] Chronica**
The noise is from...
**[23:42] Chronica**
It can't be! Project SEEDS?!