The Gilgamesh forces fight their way past the Balarant's Monad defense network as the ISS' AT squadrons penetrate into the planet's central core in an attempt to take over its control systems. However, as they implant the control devices at the core's energy extractor, Berkhoff's squad suddenly crashes through a black void, hear mysterious screams, and appear in the middle of another AT battle somewhere in Monad before they plunge into another junk pit. Subsequent arguments between all members result in Zaki finally revealing Chirico's origins as a Red Shoulder and they deduce that the previous incidents were all Wockam's doing to discover more abnormal survivors...