TRIGUN STAMPEDE

My tears scattered like bits of paper

Scared of the unknowable tomorrow

I lived the same day over and over, back and forth

But a new morning never came

All the reasons to calm down

Are just some moments until the crash

I'm no longer the one that everyone knows

Took off the fragile armor

I don't want to lose any more love

I don't want to lose any more love

There's still no line between today and tomorrow

My waking nightmare doesn't end

And yet I won't lose hope

And yet there's no night that doesn't end

Not here, not here

Undertaker!

Where's Vash?

That's none of my business anymore.

Huh?

Stop playing around.

What?

Where is Vash?

I'm tellin' you, I don't know.

Maybe Knives is turning him into a mummy or something.

What was that for?

I'm so disappointed in you.

Huh?

Who does she think she is?

Don't panic, Vash.

Now, let's begin.

Initial connection complete.

Vitals are stable. Looks like the connection was a success.

At last, a hundred years of my research bears fruit...

Stop this.

I mean it.

You won't shoot me.

It's bulletproof glass. Besides...

Forcefully severing the connection now would be fatal.

What are you trying to do?

The plants are just husks.

Their true being is located elsewhere.

Not here, but an alternate dimension. A higher plane.

That's where the energy we consume from plants originates.

Plants are merely windows that connect the two dimensions.

So what do you want?!

Why do you think the twins are the only ones with their own will?

I hypothesize that the key difference between the plants and Independents

is the existence of a soul.

In order to give the plants souls, we must connect to the core.

What core?

The manifestation of the beginning and the end.

The source of all matter and energy.

Access the core. Give plants souls.

That is my objective.

Are you saying... you intend to make every plant on this planet an Independent?

This place...

Curious this is the first memory I come to.

What do you mean?

Do you remember what I vowed that day?

I've done it. I found the way to free them.

To make it happen, I need your help.

Come. Let us save our brethren together.

You know why humans abuse plants?

Because they crashed on this barren planet.

It's our fault!

I see.

Then be crucified on behalf of the Sinners, as you wish!

If all the plants become Independent, humanity won't survive!

We're already in the process of a slow suicide.

Plant Independence is the only way to reverse that.

Vash's "window" is special.

He's the only one able to take from and send to the higher dimension.

He'd never agree to something like this!

That is why he shall be remade.

"Remade"?

Second connection successful.

We can now interfere with every plant using Vash as a window.

This is the point of no return.

Vash! Snap out of it!

Vash!

Initializing assimilation, absorption, awakening, and memory manipulation.

Memory manipulation?

Knives.

It's going well. I'm heading deeper now.

Soon, you won't recognize anything.

Not me, not the world...

Nothing.

I owe you one.

Gotta make a choice, huh?

Leave this town!

You said you'd save us.

Tonis...

You said you'd save us.

Rollo!

You want us to live on, even if it's as monsters?

How could you be so irresponsible? You can't even take care of us.

Kill him. Put him out of his misery.

Kill...

Kill...!

No, Rollo.

That's enough!

You're no hero who'll save everyone.

You're just a coward who can't stand to watch anyone die.

Where am I?

My hand...

This isn't real! It's a dream you're showing me...

It's fake!

I have to get out of here.

I have to find the exit.

Synchronization at 40 percent and climbing.

I won't let you get away, Vash.

This is...

That's right. It's the Big Fall.

What will they think once they learn it was your fault?

Don't you worry.

They're just feeble creatures that don't even live for a century.

Now forget.

Let go and relax.

Who were they again...?

Synchronization at 70 percent.

Seventy, eighty... What speed!

What's going on?

These are... They're like the flora!

What is this, Knives?

Don't panic.

Release your powers, Vash! Let's remake the world!

Synchronization at 90 percent...

Progress has stalled?

That woman...

There you are!