Shinn, just stop it already, it's pointless now!
Damn it! Why am I... I can't lose to you! Not to you!
You must stop fighting to change your past, you've got to move on!
[Shinn and Lunamaria are stunned by Athrun's words.]
No matter what you do, you cannot bring them back!
[Flashbacks of fallen comrades and families as Athrun emphasizes his point.]
And now you're gonna destroy the future too? Is that it?!
I understand. I understand that! But, that's exactly why the world has to change!! Also, that's why Orb must be destroyed!
[Lunamaria is shocked and horrified by Shinn's destructive motives and remarks..] Shinn...!
Stop talking back to me in that nonsense! Destroying everything like this... and even killing the future...! Is this really the world you desired?! Or the power you desired?!
[Shinn reflects at his painful past]
It's not the same... it's not!
[Shinn charges head on at Athrun, but Lunamaria jumps in between the two, trying to stop them fighting each other.]
Shinn, stop it already! Athrun, you too!
[Shinn wildly screams at seeing the ghosts of his past.]
Stella! Mayu! MAKE IT STOP!!!
[Shinn continues to attack, to Lunamaria's shock. Athrun goes into Seed Mode, and shields Lunamaria from Shinn's attack.]
[Athrun then cripples Shinn's Destiny Gundam, and Shinn screams in pain as he crashes upon the moon surface.]
[Lunamaria rushes to look after Shinn, as Athrun looks on with regret]
Thou may freely eat off every tree in the garden, but never touch the tree that grants the knowledge of good and evil. For the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely die. But the serpent, who was the most cunning of all the creatures brought forth at that time, had this to say, "Ye shall not die, for God doth know that the day ye eat thereof, thine eye shall be opened. Ye will know of good and evil, and ye shall be as God is." And that God knows that fact. And so it is said that the first humans ate of the fruit.
It was as if I was in the middle of a nightmare. Why do we keep fighting like that? Why do we have to fight? About things I thought I knew, with a friend I thought I knew, but now, bit by bit, piece by piece, things are once again falling apart. There's what we can do, and what we should do. It felt like even those words were beginning to fade away into nothingness.
Everyone was hurting. Everything that's happened. Is it the price we have to pay for what we've done? All of us hope for the same thing. We wanted a world with no war, a world in which this tragedy would never occur again. But with the path we're on right now, it seems that if we choose that dream, it will only come at the cost of everything we have. Given the situation, will people be able to keep their hopes alive? Was this really the only path open to us? We know how to say no, but it was as if the words we're looking for, keep fading into the distance, lost in the hazy skies of war.
Eventually everyone learns. Like the first person did, about good and evil. Now the fear was, that they'd reach out for the fruit from the tree of life, and live forever. As a result, people were punished, and exiled from paradise and eternal happiness. Could this be the reason why humanity is forever stretching their arms out? Searching for the garden they lost in the distant past, forbidden from ever returning to it? But time only flows one way, that's why I believe that what we're really searching for still lies ahead. Somewhere in our future, though there may not be a tree of life, I'd like to think that some day we will fashion a garden with our own hands. One where we can live in peace and in happiness.
[Ingrid holds a knife at Lacus’s head as Kira arrives.]
IIngrid
Don’t come closer! If you move an inch, I'll put out her eyes! Or I could slit her throat! If she’s no longer able to sing, can you still say that you love her?
Yeah. Even if those eyes can’t see… Even if she loses her voice… Lacus is Lacus!
[Kira smiles at Lacus; his eyes glistening.]
And I love everything about her!
[At Kira's words, Ingrid remembers something Lacus said to Orphee earlier.]
You don’t love people because they’re needed. You need them because you love them.
[Lacus breaks away from Ingrid and runs into Kira’s arms while Ingrid is disarmed. Kira and Lacus embrace.]
[Kira looks at Lacus, worried.]
(crying and smiling happily at Kira) I love you too…
Orphee, Ingrid. Let’s stop all of this.
OOrphee
(referring to Kira) You chose that man only because he is inferior to you! Is it that comforting to be surrounded and worshipped by your inferiors?! What an egocentric, cold-hearted women! You don’t care even if these fools keep fighting themselves to extinction?
There is no superior or inferior when it comes to lives. Everyone is precious to someone.
OOrphee
Then why am I not loved?
No. Someone is sure to be looking your way. It doesn’t have to be now. It could be someone in the future. (referring to Ingrid) Or someone so close to you that you didn’t notice.
OOrphee
I don’t care about the future! I want you... right now! We were born of the foolishness of humans. They keep speaking of peace and equality but demand that others change for them! They never want to change themselves!
OOrphee
Then why does conflict never go away in any day and age?!
[Flashbacks of Flay, Stella, Durandal and others from when they passed away appear.]
OOrphee
They never forget hatred, and even on the brink of extinction, they’re obsessed with immediate self-interest or prejudice and drag each other down! They are all fools!
[Ingrid joins Orphee in his cockpit.]
OOrphee
(referring to the Accords) They need someone to guide them! To end this history of division and bloodshed! That is the meaning behind why we were born!
Humans are not born out of need! They are born from love!
I’ll choose my future with my own hands!
[Before they die together in his mobile suit, Ingrid comforts Orphee.]
OOrphee
Impossible… I-I have a duty...
IIngrid
That’s enough, Orphee…
