The Ring of the Nibelung 2

Nibelungen #2


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Ring 2: The Rhine Maidens


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Rettet das Gold ! Hilfe ! Hilfe ! Weh ! Weh !
Save the Gold! Help! Help! Tragedy! Tragedy!
(The Rhine Maidens, scene 1)


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Musical radiations?
Yes, extremely powerful ones.

Aren't they responsible for the death of the asteroid?
But, musical waves can't kill humans.

Currently, the two of them are near the radiations' transmission point.
Their bodies don't seem to be affected by the music.

I can't stand that planet anymore, let's get away from here.
Raise the gravity anchors. Be ready for depart!!

You forget that they leave a bomb here, in our ship.
The device has only the look of a weapon, but doesn't contain any trace of explosive!!

They made a fool of us!!


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I must apologize... to Harlock... But... I can't back up now.


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Miimay... Why did you leave the ship?
You were the navigator and our friend was deeply affected by your leaving...
Miimay!! Where are you now? From where are you sending these musical waves?


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You have to answer us...
I'm on planet Rhine...

Planet Rhine?

Its gold... Rhine's gold is about to get stolen.

Rhine's gold?
You mean that gold at the center of the universe?

If a ring get ever forged with that gold...


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Three maidens are currently watching over it...
But their power is nothing... compared to the thief's one...


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If a ring was ever to get forged...
the entire universe would sink into darkness... just as in the past...

It's the ring of the Nibelungen!! Rhine's gold!!
But it's only a legend... A fictionnal work, an opera created from scratch.

Hearing someone as wise as Tochiro saying something like that makes me really sad...

Maybe it is the true fate of the universe: to live through again and again the same destiny.


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Ah...
Miimay, what's going on?

Help... Tochiro... Harlock...

Something must have occured.

Huh?


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Hurry, the pressure is decreasing.
The artificial enveloppe is going to be blown.

It was a truly big trade city! We can find everything we need here.


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Where is planet Rhine?
We just have to follow the location from where are emitted the musical radiations, no matter the distance.

I need that!

panel: Transport ship of historical vehicles
...

We have to protect mankind's treasures.
That's every man's duty.


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From where are coming the musical radiations?
Leave it to the automatic piloting, it's not far from here.

Here it is...
Planet Rhine... So blue!

It shines like a deep blue precious stone!!!


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Help... Help... Rhine's gold has been stolen...


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So, here the Rhine asteroid...

What a dreamlike scenery.
It feels like a fairy tale...

It's covered by verdure and scattered with rivers, everything is absolutely normal...

What a wonderful planet!


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The organ is melting...
Someone really well armed must have comed here!!

Where is Miimay...?
The three women definitely have failed...

The water is muddy there, it's all brown...


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It seems like someone is swimming...

They are not amphibia-men.
They are human!! This planet's environment is ideal.


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[nothing]


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Ah!

It's me, Tochiro. Stop that!
You have to help us! It's me!

Ah... Tochiro. You came, finally.
What happened to you? Why did you left the ship without saying goodbye?
Please forgive me for having caused so much troubles... But I had to come here... Now, I'd like to get back on Harlock's ship...

Why did you have to disappear like that?


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Sometimes, you don't want to share your troubles with your friends.
And that's why you shouldn't ask a woman for more details, Tochiro.

Miimay!! Come back quick!!
Everyone is waiting for you!!

I couldn't leave everything to these three maidens alone...
But, even I was powerless.

...

Rhine's gold has been stolen.


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Once... A golden ring had been forged... and the entire universe got shattered...
Then, we transform it back to its original form... Gold became mineral again... And it got hidden in the unfathomed depths of this planet... But, now, it has been stolen...

And the culprit intend to forge a ring, again...

If he managed to do that... He will become the king of heaven and earth...
????

From what I have seen, he is incredibly strong...
But how a single piece of metal...
could rule the entire universe?

Rhine's gold...
More precisely a ring which has been forged with that gold possesses that power...

It already happened by the past... I've seen it with my own two eyes...


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Miimay!!
I'll wait here...

for Harlock's arrival.
Do you really think he will come? Don't be stupid and come on board!

Harlock...
I would never have believed that he would come here... No woman can control him!


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Turn the turrel 45 degrees to the left, set the height to 13 points. Target: the ennemy's ship.
Get ready to fire.
All three cannons are loaded!!
Fire!!


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[nothing]


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But!! What the hell is he doing?!


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I should have changed the identification code.
My 190SL!! A collection car...!!


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Harlock...

Shoot!!!

Ah! It's you, Tochiro?
Of course, I am! Who do you think I was? Our ship contained a car very dear to me, and you blowed it up!

I'm sorry. We follow the trace of a battle that lead us here.

Rhine's gold has been stolen...


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Rhine's gold?
Yes, the gold which, since ancient times has been sunk deep in the water of this planet... And that has been protected since then...


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Miimay, get back in our ship.
This planet is gonna be destroyed by an explosion.
We'll retrieve and bring back what has been stolen.

It won't be easy.
Our thief seems ready for anything to reach his goals.

What will happen to these maidens?
They are ready to die in the same time as planet Rhine...

Their mission was to protect Rhine's gold...
This is a truly sad end... But this is their fate...


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This planet is really going to explode?
It seems so normal, though...

Everything is that thief's fault!!


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[nothing]


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The planet has vanished!!!


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...
The remote explosion system has worked just as expected.

We lost its trace...
What happened to Miimay?

What is our next goal, Master?
Please forgive me... Little sister...

Can it be in some other place?
The secret treatment I have to apply to that gold could only be hidden on Earth.


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I understand well that you want to go there...
But, this is deux millions lightyears far...

We can't reach that place with our current propulsion engine.
But what should we do then? I don't get it.

There's no need for you to understand, just follow my orders.
And sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

Onward to the Earth!!


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Look at this temporal radar, Tochiro. Here's the ship which raided on planet Rhine.
It's a strongly armed ship.

We'll stop this thief. So, stop crying, Miimay.