August 29, 2004
Summary Part 1
Like I said, I actually did get some scans of Zero done today. It took me all day, but they're up, and here's the summary! Of course, spoilers are here, so if you want to read the scans first, pass over this entry.
ZERO 2 summary of pg. 6-26
The boys are back in action, having run away from the Zoo and into the slums just outside. The slums are crime and disease ridden, with little protection from the radiation. There are no laws to regulate the people there, and it's basically kill or be killed. No sane person would choose to live there. Which is probably why they chose that place to hide, thinking the military wouldn't look for them there.
However, General Batsu is on to them. He's miffed it's been two months and the army can't find his grandson "Batsu Eishi" anywhere. He tells them to search the slums and then goes about his sociopathic way, threatening to shoot Julia's pet crow and then her...However, he takes a minute to ponder why Batsu would flee from him, and makes a comment about the death of a woman possibly being the issue. He's such a great grandpa! *sarcasim*
Later, we see Batsu harrassing Geo (again) about fixing his walkman, which he states was given to him by a US solider outside the barracks. Geo scolds Batsu, reminding him that he's the one the military is after, but Batsu just laughs it off. He says he knows what's going on and not to sweat it. Geo insults him, and the scuffle (again). Zatto breaks it up by coming on the radio and playing a bit of triva (the "Guess what I got" game). Apparently he scored some rare meat from an old man they know and the boys are stoked.
Time passes and Zatto is cooking while Batsu drools over him while Geo plays with a stun gun he's been working on. Batsu thinks it's cool and Geo explains it's for self defense, then leaves to get Agi for dinner.
Geo heads to the old boiler room of a building, trying hard not to see all the suffering people around him. We learn that it's easy to get opium from due to all the cancer patients in the slums, and that Agi is working to create a cure to wake up Koka, who is still in a coma from the secondary effects of the ZERO. Geo finds Agi in his room, naming off various drugs in a delusional manner. Agi thinks Geo is Zatto at first, and Geo slaps his forehead in exhasperation. Agi's finally gone off the deep end from over work. Geo tells him to go take a bath to wash off any radiation he has on him, but Agi just rambles on about the ph of pure water and distilled water. Geo solves the problem by giving him a bucket of distilled right in the face.
Back in the apartment (if you can call it that), Batsu asks Zatto where he learned to cook. Zatto explains that cooking is no big deal, but Batsu is still perplexed. He doesn't understand how someone could learn to do something like that when all their lives the Zoo has taken care of them. This ticks Zatto off, and he tells Batsu that not everyone in the Zoo was "privledged" like he was. Zatto tells him that those in the lower blocks had to fend for themselves constantly, cooking if they missed mess call and even doing their own laundry (soap wasn't always availible). The block they lived in didn't even have a full UV cover.
Batsu gets mad and says it wasn't his choice to be put in the "A" Block. He was stuck there just like they were and had no say over the matter. He goes off on a rant, that only Batsu is capable of and Zatto just stares at him in awe. Batsu snaps at him and asks him what the hell he's looking at, to which Zatto replies with something like how un-Akifumi like Batsu is, despite being identical to him. Of course, this just sets Batsu off even more and he starts ranting about how he and his father are two different people, even if they look like twins. He continues to rave about how stupid the dreams of the "Zero Era" are and asks Zatto to explain how Geo could be both Rikako and Tomoya at the same time. He then says it's all stupid and they should just start living in the "real" Zero era.
About this time, Geo shows up and tries to force Batsu to take a pill (of Zero) so he can see for himself how real the dreams are. Batsu flips out, yelling about how all the Zero was confiscated and that Geo isn't fair and he's mean to boot. They continue to argue as Zatto looks at a helicoptor flying over head....
(A rare genuine smile from Batsu)
Scans are availible, but you'll have to ask me where they're located if you'd like to read them. Just leave a message here.
Posted by Zoso at August 29, 2004 07:18 PM