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- During the battle, Roy notices the insignia on one of the Anti-UN's variable fighters belongs to Ivanov, his former instructor. A Phoenix crash-lands on Mayan, with Shin piloting it to protect Sara's sister, Mao, driving off Ivanov's wingman Nora. Roy sees this and takes Shin back to the Asuka, where Shin learns his co-pilot and best friend Edgar is still alive and the two are assigned to Roy's Skull Squadron. After training with Skull Squadron, Shin and Edgar are sent to Mayan Island to escort Aries so she can continue her research on the Bird Human and find the organism's other fragments. While there, Shin fixes a generator that restores power to the village. The next morning, Shin travels to a spring where he finds Rose singing to a fragment of the Bird Human. Sara's song causes strange reactions around the island, such as dead flowers blooming, floating rocks, and increased cell activity in the blood samples Aries took of the villagers. (en)
- Shin and Sara are taken to a temple where Nora interrogates Shin over the location of the fragment, revealing that the UN killed her parents, raped her sister, and left a large scar on her chest. Aries is also captured and it is revealed that her mentor Dr. Hasford is still alive and is working for the Anti-UN. Seeing Hasford again traumatizes Sara and she brings a stone pillar to life. Shin frees himself and saves Sara, with the two flying away on the stone pillar, though Nora manages to shot it down and the two are stranded in the mountains. While looking for stranded UN forces, Roy is attacked by Ivanov and their fight ends up over Mayan Island. Roy is shot down, but he survives and manages to rescue Aries, with the two escaping into the forest. On the Asuka, Mao undergoes surgery but won't wake up, so Nutouk and the villagers perform a ceremony to wake her. The ceremony is successful and Mao awakens, but she immediately senses an incoming danger to Mayan. As the sun rises, Anti-UN forces launch a bomb strike on Mayan Island in order to find the missing fragment. (en)
- The Anti-UN forces capture the Bird Human's head with Sara and Aries inside, while Roy and Shin are rescued and returned to the Asuka. Nora tells Sara of the UN's Operation: Iconoclasm, in which if the UN cannot retrieve the Bird Human, their forces will destroy it no matter the cost of life or land, which Aries confirms. The Bird Human's head and body begin reaching out to each other, causing both the UN and Anti-UN fleets to float out of the water. Roy and Shin launch in order to stop the reforming of the Bird Human, but are intercepted by Ivanov and Nora. Shin manages to briefly take down Nora's fighter and reach the ship Sara and the head are being held on, but he is seemingly killed in front of Sara. Overcome with grief, Sara awakens the Bird Human and its head and body are reunited and the Song of Destruction begins, immediately destroying a large portion of the fleets, indirectly killing Hasford, and injuring Aries. The UN high command sends an order to launch Operation: Iconoclasm. Shin recovers and goes after the Bird Human to save Sara while Nora and Ivanov are killed by the creature and Roy reunites with Aries before she dies from her wounds. Shin manages to reach Sara with the help of Mao and stop the Song of Destruction, but Sara teleports the Bird Human away into space when Operation: Iconoclasm starts to save Mayan Island from the resulting nuclear fallout. Shin's Phoenix is critically damaged in the blast, but he hears Sara's song and is teleported away by her spirit. (en)
- Aries and Edgar find the spring, but when Shin explains what he saw Aries thinks he is making fun of her and leaves. Aries's research team on the Asuka informs her that Mao's blood sample is nearly identical in genetic makeup to the Bird-Man specimen on the ship. Mao takes Shin to show him her treasure: a large bio-mechanical head at the bottom of the sea. The Anti-UN forces launch a large-scale attack to retrieve the Bird-Man specimen from the Asuka and the fragment from the sea. Roy manages to defend the Asuaka, but Mayan Island gets caught in the crossfire and the village is destroyed. During the chaos, Mao, the village chief Nutouk, and several villagers are evacuated to the Asuka, while Rose runs into the jungle. Shin chases after her and the two are captured by Nora. (en)
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