Kabu-Dence’s limiter is suddenly removed, enabling a far more powerful attack even with the oxyone stores depleted. Natsume herself was drawn within Kabu-Dence’s machinery, and her presence seems to snap Kabu out of giving up. With under forty seconds on the clock, Kabu seems resigned to oblivion… until stored memories of Natsume’s best and most formative moments flash before his visual interface. The beam wasn’t strong enough to break through omega’s adamantoise-esque shell. It fires, and there’s a big boom but… it doesn’t work. With less than ninety seconds until total spacial displacement, Minato orders the now charged and upgraded Kabu-Dence cannon to fire upon Gadoll omega, the beam of which Donatello deflects by sacrificing his Gear avatar.
To Kabu’s distress, one of the people helping is Natsume, initially trying to push a huge part all by herself before being joined by Kurenai and her Tanker comrades. With glowing tendrils it reaches out at all the hunks of debris throughout its surroundings, which were brought back to life thanks to the Gears and Tankers topping them off with oxyone. With that declaration, and Natsume simultaneously smashing her arm to pieces “waking” Boss up, Kabu-Dence finally stirs to life. In this case, it’s The System itself, telling him that even bugs are a part of the system, meaning anything he does will be within the System’s calculations.īut if that were the case, why try to stop him? Kabu doesn’t buy that cog-in-the-machine crap anymore he’s living his life by the precepts gained through Natsume: push yourself to the limits in order to help create a better, freer world.
That’s because Kaburagi first has to deal with something very similar to Neo in The Matrix Reloaded when he meets The Architect. Minato and Jill are concerned that despite a successful connection, Deca-Dence isn’t doing anything.
But change is at the heart of this episode, and ultimately the salvation of free cyborgs and humans both.Įveryone rallies behind Kabu and Minato, with the Gears logging in en masse to participate in the game’s climactic “Final Mission” while Donatello fills in Kurenai and the Tankers. When Jill tells Natsume that Kaburagi has connected with Deca-Dence to become Kabu-Dence, Natsume is momentarily bewildered by her Boss’ constant changing forms.