12 High Noon at July – Versaphile.com

Airdate: March 25, 2023
Source: Crunchyroll
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Summary

Knives takes away Vash’s precious memories, disabling Vash completely. He begins the final phase of the process that will change the planet forever. Meryl, however, isn’t willing to sit idly while this happens. (TVDB)

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