Appearing in 1st story
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Villains:
- Null (Apparent Death)
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Synopsis for 1st story
The issue begins with Zack weakly informing Null that he is not actually dead. Null is aware of this but is good at his job and knows that the end is coming soon.
Meanwhile, Ed sees that Zack is in trouble and calls Kanda to ask him for help. Kanda says they will head toward Kansas but their armor isn't as fast as Zack's or one of their ships. Ed realizes that Princess Lin has a ship and calls her and tells her what is going on.
Back in Kansas, Null starts beating on Zack again. Lin arrives just before Null delivers the killing blow and starts shooting at him from her ship. She tells him to get away from her boyfriend.
Null asks her what chance she thinks she has. He destroyed an entire town and tore apart the strongest Geldarian armor without a problem. But Lin isn't impressed, she steps out of her ship and starts shooting at him with a large Geldarian gun. Null just tells her that her efforts are futile, and nothing on this Earth can stop him.
This gives Zack an idea and he has the tech jacket run a system diagnostic. All of his systems have almost no power left. He asks if he can reroute everything left from all systems to power the propulsions. The suit tells him that it is possible but not advisable. It will make the suit unstable and the damage will be catastrophic. Zack tells the suit to do it anyway.
Zack, gravely wounded, stands up and sends a quick communication to his dad to tell him to leave the monitoring station. He grabs a hold of Null and flies him towards the station. The tech jacket gives him warnings that the core is unstable and it tries to shut down but Zack overrides it. The tech jacket accepts the override but tells him system collapse is inevitable.
They crash into the monitoring station, causing it to meltdown. Zack has just enough time to activate the teleporter and knock Null into it. Null tells him that no matter where he sends him that he will track Zack down again. Zack teleports him away just as the station and most of the tech jacket explode.
Later, Zack wakes up in a hospital bed. He's surrounded by his parents, Lin, and Kanda. They are all relieved to see him wake up and Zack says that he is really tired of hospitals. Lin gives him a hug and Zack apologizes to Kanda for destroying the monitoring station and the tech jacket.
Kanda tells him that it was necessary. He says that Geldarians are now thought of as a warrior race, but they originally developed the suits out of necessity to protect their bodies that were too weak for their harsh world. So now they will do what they always used to do, they'll rebuild. And the next scene is Zack flying around near a rebuilt monitoring station in space wearing his rebuilt tech jacket.
Later, Lin tells Zack that her father has ordered her back to Geldaria to resume her duties as princess.They both decide that they still want to be together whenever they are able to see each other. They makean agreement that they can each get physical with others to satisfy themselves since they can't do that with each other. But, otherwise, they still want to be together. They kiss goodbye.
The last scene is of Null reaching the end of his teleportation. He looks around and has just enough time to see that Zack has sent him to the surface of the sun before the heat consumes him.