LogFAQs > #917162585

Dark Q leaps at Carlos, and crashes head-first into the wall, shorting out the illusion. Junpei is shocked, and Carlos says explanations can wait. He directs them to the Transporter Room. Carlos explains the bit about the overlapping wards. Junpei asks their destination. A holographic Zero taunts them. "It appears as if you've finally arrived." He says he no longer exists in this world. In the current history, he was executed by Carlos. As such, he will no longer be able to answer their questions. They are speaking to a recording. If they want answers, they should seek him where he is alive. However, in that history, the positions are reversed, and C-Team is dead. If they come, however, he'll share vital information. Hmm...this timeline is along the "Q-Team Executed at 13:30" timeline. Junpei wonders where that is. Carlos knows it's the one where they were executed. Junpei says they can't shift to a timeline where their bodies are already dead, and Carlos points to the transporter. Dark Q is approaching though...and there are only two input pods! They can't all three go. Carlos says he'll handle this. He tells them to go. He says he'll catch up with them. He promises, saying he's never broken one before. They're transported, and Carlos is being beaten up by Dark Q. He remembers Maria. She says she'll be waiting for him. He resolves not to die here. The transporter's broken now, but so is the Q-Bot. Carlos wonders how he gets to that history. Can't transport, can't SHIFT...it's crackling. Carlos says it doesn't look good, but then he says it might not be bad. This is his chance. Huh, that looked like the exact same explosion that occurred when Diana pushed the button in the Healing Room. New fragments for both C-Team and Q-Team. I stick with C-Team's. "Apocalypse". Akane thinks Carlos isn't coming. Junpei said he promised he'd come. He says he'll check the lounge. He enters Ward D's Lounge. Oh, right, because that's the one that actually connects to the Transporter Room. There's rubble blocking a door...oh. Right. This is after Phi gets injected with Radical-6. But that means the ones alive right now are D-Team! D-Team is being listed as "unauthorized escape"; there are still only five casualties listed on the board. Q is listed as still alive. Why is that, again? ...To be honest, it's all kind of confusing. D-Team sets the bomb with all six still alive, I think, but Mira stabbed Eric and Q in the timeline where she stole the Radical-6, didn't she? ...Oh, right, based on the timeline we now have, that would've happened before D-Team woke up. So Zero just outright lied to D-Team, probably, and Eric was already dead. But again, why is Mira dead and Q not? Other than, you know, Q's consciousness technically being in the Quantum Computer rather than his own body? Zero confirms this is the timeline where he's alive and they're dead. Now, the important information. To Akane: The history you find yourself in...is that one. The first Radical-6 patients have left. They should reach the hospital shortly. Akane says that's a lie; it has to be. He says it's not. Free the Soul's plan is progressing perfectly. Junpei figures it out. Zero is the founder of Free the Soul! Many call him Brother. Junpei says his shitty dream has doomed six billion people. Zero says that if they do nothing, an even worse future will come to pass. A religious fanatic will trigger a nuclear war with a terrorist attack. All of mankind, eight billion, will perish. The fanatic's identity is unknown. So Brother opted to kill six billion, giving him a 75% chance of killing the fanatic. To tell the truth, history has proven him right. Junpei says that to kill one person, he's willing to kill six billion people, and Zero says that it's to save two billion. He feels it's the ethical choice. Junpei and Akane are rightfully, righteously angry, but Zero says that's just the way of life. Sinner or innocent, people will die or be killed in an unjust manner. The theme of every story he's told.
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Also known as Cyberchao X.