Chrome and Agate heads towards Cluster Edge is shot down by the military. Managing to take refuge in a nearby church. Agate learns of the cost of war, as most in the congregation are the young, old and the woman folk from Chrome. Tracked down by the military, who attacks, regardless of the civilians, killing as well as destroying the church in the process. Disgusted by the carnage, Agate attacks them, driving them away to a nearby forest...as the last attacker falls, falls down in an anguish cry, Chrome sees a vision of a silent Chalce beside him...