Episode 1: A Beautiful Angent


Synopsis created by Ito Nobutoshi
4 September 1998

Everything in [] is my comment. This is an unedited version and plenty of typographic and grammatical errors are expected. Corrections and questions are welcomed.

The story starts in a sight-seeing boat of Saitama Coastal Cruise [this is enough to amuse Japanese audience because Saitama is an inland prefecture without any coast]. Tokyo has been underwater after a world-scale natural disaster. The tourists are asked to watch beneath the water, where a number of "salvagers" are at work. Their job is to recover material and data lost in the sea.

*OP*

Aika [voiced by Sakuma Rei, Kazumi in Gunbuster] and Rion are misleadingly busy with their work under the sea. They just manages to recover a case from the seabed when their rival, Gust, tries to steal it. In the middle of their battle, a huge explosion happens near them. A man is also watching the explosion on a ship and looks rather satisfied with what he has seen.

Back on the ground, Aika's client is not happy about the case because it was damaged in the explosion. Despite Rion's plea, he did not pay very well for their job. The director of K2 Corporation does not complain at all. He is Rion's father and, to her annoyance, very old fashioned. She thinks it is his fault that the company is in financial difficulties now and wonders if she will be better off to set up another office with Aika. The director receives a phone call but does not look happy. Aika snatches the receiver from him and accepts the commission without his approval. She of course fully knows this commission is not an ordinary one.

She and Rion come to an underground car park to meet their new client, where Gust has also been invited. The client tells them that their mission is to get information or data about Rag, a new energy source secretly developed by some agency. Suddenly a bunch of young girl soldiers attack them. But they are no match to Gust and Aika. Soon all the girls are lying falt on the floor. Then an over-sexy woman who has been disguising herself as the client's secretary takes the charge with a gun. She warns them not to meddle with Rag and disappears (she had been told not to cause too much trouble in Japan).

Back home, Aika takes a shower [I wonder why ^_^;;] and in her closet is a strange gold corset.

On the next day, the director tries to stop Aika from taking the mission. He wonders if she takes it because of "that incident in the past" but Aika says she just want to save the company she loves. On her flight to the problematic point, she finds that Rion was hiding in the airplane. Although she tries to return to the airport, Rion stops her by threatening she would get off the airplane there.

In the submarine, Nena is busy to punish her girls who were beaten by Aika and Gust. There comes another girl to report that a fighter of a salvager is approaching. Frustrated by her incompetent gunners, she decides to do the job herself with a specially tuned fighter. In its controlr oom Harken is talking to someone (likely to be a high class officer of a certain country). The man urges Harken to do the job with Rag more quickly but Harken is more concerned with recent leaks of information. The man looks embarrassed and prmises to investigate it.

Nena, in her special plane, easily shoots Gust down. She thinks Aika, on a shabby old fighter, will be an easier prey. But Aika's skill proves it otherwise. Nena with her pride broken gets extremely annoyed and chases Aika like a mad woman.

The submarine picks up a high response of Rag and Harken tries to call Nena back, who refuses it as she is too keen to shoot Aika down. Her fighter suddenly fails; under the influence of Rag, ordinary electronics do not work. Aika's fighter is no exception. It is about to crash to the sea when her gold corset shows some change. Although Aika murmurs "I didn't call you", the corset transforms itself and strip Aika to transform something else. The corset reignites the engine and Aika manages to make an emergency landing but then Harken on the submarine appears in front of Aika.


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