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[SENKU chuckles]

[SENKU] Just hang in there

until our paths cross again, ya big oaf.

We already had to wait 3,700 years to see each other.

A few more months or even years is no big deal.

Time is relative, ya know.

But no matter how long it takes,

we will build our kingdom of science.

[gasps]

[HOMURA] Explosions?

Move! Now!

[CHROME] We're gonna get the kingdom of science's

custom-built cell phone to Taiju and Yuzuriha

even if it kills us!

[MAGMA] Why do we have to sneak around like this anyway?

[GEN] Because if she spots us, she'll likely follow us.

[CHROME] And then our whole top-secret cell phone plan

would be blown to pieces.

Well, if we're so worried about that scout, Homura, or whatever,

all we gotta do is catch or kill her and our problem's solved.

We don't even know where she's hiding, Magma!

That is true.

However, right now, with all the noise they just made,

she'll have to leave her spot to see what's happening.

After all, they're worried about our gunpowder supply.

Her job is to keep an eye on us,

so she can't ignore the assive-may explosions going off.

If Homura's gonna show herself, it'll be along the line

between that hill and where the sonic bombs went off.

[gasps]

I saw something just now! A shadow moving really fast!

[SUIKA gasps]

[SUIKA] She's already in pursuit.

Well, that's Kohaku. She's so impressive.

She sees a problem and off she goes.

[KOHAKU] Senku gave us this one-in-a-million chance

with his sonic bombs.

I have to catch her, no matter what!

[HOMURA] Those craters, from the blasts?

[gasps]

[HOMURA] Chills.

[HOMURA] My neck.

[gasps]

[KOHAKU] How can she move like that? It's crazy!

[HOMURA] Gymnastics. You, born in this age, wouldn't know.

[KOHAKU] I'm not trying to kill you, okay?

[HOMURA] Yes, back of your sword.

How long will you chase me?

[KOHAKU] Until I catch you!

You can't, so give up.

Stop running and come with me!

And why should I?

[HOMURA] She's trying to exhaust me by making me talk, but...

Kohaku... I can't shake her.

[KOHAKU] Homura... I can't get any closer.

[BOTH] She's fast.

[KOHAKU] I'm gonna to have to herd her toward the village.

[gasps] They're coming this way!

Children and elders, take shelter!

The rest of us will surround her!

[BOTH gasp]

[HOMURA] Senku?

[chuckles]

[SENKU] Heh. Curious, aren't ya?

Turn your peepers over this way and take a real good look!

Check out my shocking science gadget--level two.

It's a Flash Grenade.

[gasps]

So bright!

What is that?!

Long time no see, folks! Mecha-Senku back again!

And now, I'm gonna teach you all

how to make your own flash grenades!

First, boil sea water. That'll make this stuff called bittern.

Then, you gather it up and zap it with electricity.

And blam! Magnesium acquired!

Shove it in a light bulb and you're done.

This is what they use in Print Gocco.

Huh? You've really never heard of Print Gocco?

Well, your mom and dad might know, so go ask them!

[GINRO] Senku's as weak a flea, but look!

[SUIKA] That was awesome!

Watch where you're touching me, okay?

Heh. Sorry, but that old trick's not gonna work on me.

Once we've rebuilt civilization, though,

I can pretend to be a sweet, innocent little boy

all you want.

[HOMURA] Hmph.

[HOMURA] Force him off and run? I doubt I'm stronger.

[SENKU] Huh? Ah!

[SUIKA, KASEKI, KOKUYO] That was a total fail!

He is weak as a flea!

Whoa. It's not about power!

[KINRO] You're right. It's all about how she moves.

No, she's getting away!

I still can't see anything.

I suppose your top-notch vision's not helping us now.

[HOMURA] Kinro. Ginro.

Kohaku. Suika. Kaseki. Jasper. Kokuyo. Turquoise. Mantle. Argo.

How the heck do you know what all of our names are?

If her job has been to keep watch on us this whole time,

it appears that she's taken that task very seriously.

[HOMURA] But no Chrome, Magma, or Gen.

Most of the villagers are here, yet those three are missing.

Something's wrong.

[HOMURA] Where are they?

[GINRO whimpers]

[HOMURA] Chrome has brains and Magma has brawn.

Are they mining for ore?

No. They wouldn't need Gen.

What purpose would he serve? To guide them? But to where?

[HOMURA] They're taking something to our base.

This was all to distract me.

Must be a critical weapon of science. But what?

She must have figured it out.

She knows Chrome and them are on the move.

[GINRO] This is bad!

I guess we can't count on following her scent, huh?

Chrome's team got a head start.

Right now, they're racing toward the Tsukasa empire's base.

Homura's in hot pursuit.

And when she finds them, she finds the cell phone. Not good.

If she destroys or she reports it, we're so done for.

[KASEKI] Uh!

And that also means all of our hard work

will have been for nothing!

So we're just gonna have to catch her.

Homura's chasing after Chrome and the others

and we're gonna have to chase after her?

Ah! That sounds tough!

It's time to bust out our ultimate weapon.

AKA our surprise science gadget--level three.

[ALL gasp]

Do you see all those spots glowing?

[SUIKA] Yeah, they're like marks of light.

Well, there's no time to lose, guys.

I hope you're ready for this

because we're about to begin a fun little race within a race.

[KOHAKU] So all of these glowing spots

are showing us Homura's path?

[SUIKA] Wait, but how come we can see them like this?

[SENKU] Heh. You guys need to pay better attention.

You've seen this twinkle before.

[SUIKA] Oh! The blue gemstone!

Yep. In powder form.

I get it. You put it on her arms and legs, huh?

That so?

But even still, I thought that stuff

only lights up for a little while right before dawn.

Naturally, yes, but we can make

ultraviolet light artificially using science.

It's called a "black light."

Nickel, barium.

We needed all those treasures we found in the cave to make it.

It's basically just a purple light bulb we made

by mixing them with glass.

This is great! Now we can follow her with these.

Hey, Senku, you should know this.

[SENKU] Huh?

The way she moves is unusual.

Gymnastics. It's a skill that doesn't exist in this age.

[KOHAKU] I don't think we can capture her unharmed,

but if we need to,

I could stop using the back of my sword and behead her.

We could do it all without spilling a single drop of blood.

Is that an option? To kill her?

[SENKU] Kohaku, have you ever killed a person before?

Be honest.

No, of course I haven't, Senku!

[KOHAKU] That's why... I know I'll hesitate when it's time.

That is definitely a weakness of mine,

so I have to acknowledge it right now.

For me to have the conviction to go through with it,

I think I'm gonna need some reassurance from you.

Relax, okay?

Because if everything goes according to my plan,

you won't even have to use that awful thing.

[KOHAKU gasps]

[SENKU] Heh. Why do you think we worked so hard

on that ridiculously huge box?

I promise, it wasn't just for fun.

We've got the ultimate weapon of modern times:

Information warfare.

[BOTH] Huh?

[MAGMA yells]

[CHROME, GEN] No, no, no, no no!

[CHROME] Bad!

[GEN] If those tubes are broken, we're in trouble.

It looks all right, but I think we should check it

every now and then just to make sure.

[ringing]

Is someone there?

Stop! I don't think we should answer right now!

But why not?

It stopped ringing.

I can only think of one reason

that they'd want to contact us at this stage of the plan,

and with only one ring...

...Homura must have spotted us, and we're being followed.

She's from my time, so if she saw us talking,

she'd realize we're carrying a cell phone.

The best thing to do is just keep going

and act like we don't have a clue about her.

[SENKU] This race is like two games of tag in one.

There's Chrome's team carrying the cell phone,

Homura who's chasing them, and we're all chasing Homura.

Check it, though.

You wanna know what happens

if we use radio waves to coordinate our movements?

We could turn our little game of tag into a pincer attack!

[SENKU chuckles]

[SENKU] And that's information warfare.

I'm coming, Hyoga.

[phone ringing]

Bad news. The light spots end at this river.

Dang, she must've washed off the tracking powder.

I'll bet she noticed it this morning.

By the way, Senku,

how come this thing won't stop ringing like this?

[SENKU] Oh, that? Nothin' to worry about at the moment.

It's Gen sending us a message.

He's using something called Morse Code.

We can't use voice, so that forces us to text each other.

It makes sense if you think about it that way.

Yeah? Not to me, Senku.

We're not from your scientific era, ya know.

[SENKU] Gen's reported locations and Homura's route

have synced up for the past several kilometers.

So you're telling us that Homura has caught up to them

and now she's right on their tail?

Heh. That information's worth its weight in gold.

'Cause with Homura directly in front of us,

and with us communicating our positions via the cell phones,

we can see where every piece is on the board...

...and pull off the pincer move.

It's not orking-way. There's no signal anymore.

Hey, Chrome, think you can put it up a tree?

Sure thing.

[HOMURA] "Signal"?

[gasps]

[HOMURA] No way! Not in the stone world!

A communicator?

[HOMURA] I'm a scout. That means I have to make sure.

I'll destroy it right now. Might be my only chance.

[gasps]

[HOMURA] A fake? But how?

[HOMURA] Gen, his sleight of hand.

[gasps]

[BOTH yell]

[HOMURA] No. Can't land safely.

This is it. I'm dead.

Goodbye, Hyoga.

Now go!

Ah! You may be crazy fast and nimble,

but if we know right where you're gonna be,

and exactly when you're gonna be there,

then we can still capture you unharmed.

Hell yeah!

Get excited, you guys. This is information warfare.

Brought to you by the kingdom of science.

We made it.

Finally! We're here!

The home base of the final boss Tsukasa!

Don't yell like that, Chrome!

Tsukasa has a guy with insanely good hearing in his army.

Sorry about that!

It'd suck to get caught after coming all this way.

[gasps]

That statue looks bad, guys.

As a matter of fact, all of them look pretty scary to me.

Something's written in blood on its face.

I think they're priority numbers that order when to revive them.

And I'm positive they weren't there last time I saw these.

The lowest number is 33.

Which means... since I've been gone,

ol' Tsukasa has revived 32 people at the very least.

Awfully, quick, huh? Seems he's in a hurry.

Even if we can convince some of his people

to come over to our side,

we may not be able to keep up with how fast he's making 'em.

Yeah, that is a real oblem-pray.

Huh?

Why don't we just smash all of these stupid things

and be done with it now?

No, that's way too much work.

All we gotta do is break off their arms or legs

as we find them and they won't be able to fight.

[BOTH grunt]

Wow. You're pretty damn brutal, Magma.

You're kind of an ally now, so I forgot about that.

I don't recall him being that big

on showing ercy-may in the past.

Although, logically, he does make a valid point.

It's probably best to destroy them while we have the chance.

[laughing]

[MAGMA yells]

Sorry. Let's slow down though.

These statues have done nothing wrong, you know?

Maybe if we knew they were major villains or something.

I talk like a strong pragmatist,

but when I have to make a decision

on whether someone's going to live or die,

I'm actually quite weak.

It's true.

[GEN] Tsukasa is an earsome-fay foe

because he doesn't have those reservations.

That's why we have to stop him.

I don't think that you're weak, Gen.

Huh?

[CHROME] We're takin' the high road here.

Trying not to spill any blood.

All we gotta do is convert people

faster than Tsukasa can grow his army.

Let's keep going. 'Cause we've got a mission.

We've gotta set up this cell phone hotline

as soon as we possibly can.

[GEN chuckles]

[CHROME] Dude, Magma,

you were about to destroy those statues

without a second thought.

[MAGMA] So? Why do you care?

It's not like you know them.

[GEN] Yeah, I'll say this

we're quite uky-lay you're on our side, big guy.

Where are we?

At a gravesite.

Is it for Tsukasa's guys?

No, sir.

So whose, then?

This grave is for Senku.

You mean Senku's dead?!

Come on, man, he's obviously still alive.

This is just to keep up the illusion and throw off Tsukasa.

[SENKU chuckles]

[SENKU] We have them thinking I'm dead,

so you'd better visit my grave regularly.

[KOHAKU] Ha! Our communication spot

is really at your grave, huh?

[SENKU chuckles]

It's the perfect sacred ground.

Considering Tsukasa's men have no interest in me or my grave.

And if your friends go there often,

it'll look like they're paying respects.

[SENKU] It is a place to go converse with the dead.

This is the birth of the ghost communicator.

[GEN] What a illiant-bray plan.

Nothing odd about going to a gravesite to talk to the dead.

But I will say... it's looking a little obvious, ya know?

You're gonna draw too much attention with all that stuff!

Dumb stone's in the way. Man, that's bad.

[GEN, CHROME scream]

[CHROME] You don't give a damn about anything, do you, Magma?

[GEN] Just hurry up and bury it!

Okay. It looks like we pulled it off, you guys.

You little wimps freak out way too much.

It's still too early to say.

Didn't I tell you? There's a guy with azy-cray hearing.

[GEN wheezes]

[GEN screams]

[CHROME] This is bad!

[UKYO] I know I definitely heard something right around here.

[SUIKA] Tsukasa's guys.

If one of them finds the cell phone first, it's all over.

[SENKU chuckles]

That's why the mentalist is there.

He'll know the best way to cover it up.

And I'm not worried at all about my friends.

They're a tag team of diligence and guts.

No matter how well it's hidden, those two will find it.

[ringing]

Ah! It's ringing!

Hang on! What if it's one of Tsukasa's people?

[SENKU] Yo.

Senku!

[chuckles]

I missed you guys so much, I could almost start crying.

Even your ridiculously loud voice, ya big oaf.