Leaving aside the Oscars, and the sneaking suspicion that the three missing statuettes are in the hands of wacky mastermind Andy Kaufman, there's some truth to this little joke, as it points out the essential fallacy of our time, that is, that all the positive reinforcement and ideas just sort of wander aimlessly through a child's brain and out the other side, but you let one bad idea get in there, and pfft, it's all over. Now, the only way you can make this idea valid is to point out that 'good idea' and 'bad idea' are purely subjective, and entirely based on what the parents think, and wether the child in question has reached that age where they instinctively choose what their parents loathe as opposed to what they like. This works all ways, of course. You could get parents who are kind, mellow, hedonistic and liberal, and their spawn would probably turn out to be Pat Buchanan.
But we don't see people going around saying we should protect our children from the vile scourge of Republicanism, now do we. Putting aside wether or not we should, and how amusing it would be to see a bunch of people marching on Washington bearing signs saying "Stop Young Republicanism Now" and "Protect Our Children From Conservatism"... Well, actually, I can't put that aside. It'd be a hoot to see, wouldn't it? Must make a note to do it some time.
Zechs, as "peace ambassador" Millard (snicker) Peacecraft, arrives at one of the OZ colonies to be greeted by assorted staff, plus Une and her chief minion. Une's in perky, happy mode, and is easily befuddled by Zechs earnest desire to help out the colonies, and grants him free reign to do as he likes. Her minion, however, is not so easily foxed.
Elsewhere, on the sole remaining Alliance outpost in space, the son of OZ's dead patsy, General Septum, is in command, and they're all trying to figure out what to do. They'd considered surrender, but now that they see what OZ is up to, they're sort of torn on the matter. The commander's grandfather, which would make him Septum's father, shows up about that point to remark that Zechs is heading over, and they should wait and see what he has to say.
Treys, meanwhile, gets props from the head of the Romafella Foundation for taking control of space - and with the re-arming of the colonies, the nations of Earth will rush to OZ's banner for protection. The Duke who heads the Foundation, however, then remarks that OZ's head engineer (the guy Treys almost had killed) is heading to the moon to oversee Mobile Doll production, at Lady Une's request.
Treys gets rather surly at this, however, and gives a call to Une, who's still in perky mode. Her plan is clearly revealed to be setting things up for Treys to become absolute ruler of the world. But Treys wants none of this... yet. He's more concerned about the Romafella foundation's plan to use the automated Mobile Dolls to eliminate the need for humans to take part in war... a direct opposite of Treys' rather sportsmanlike ideal of the strong and the weak and all that. Une gets very confused, and Treys wonders what happened to her stronger personality.
Une's chief minion, meanwhile, gets a call from the Duke telling him to completely destroy the remaining Alliance outpost, to keep them from causing any trouble. Une gets other orders. The minion goes to talk to Une, who explains that the Foundation's plan is to send Mobile Dolls down to Earth to exterminate any faction who won't align themselves with OZ. She, of course, explains that she'll do no such thing - it doesn't fit in with Treys ideal. The minion then takes advantage of her perky mode to talk her into joining the assault on the Alliance colony... it's what Treys would want, right? Right. Une buys it. Oops. Boy, she's gonna be pissed when she's in her right mind again.
Zechs, meanwhile, meets with the Alliance officers, explaining that he's here to try and be an advisor to help end all this, but, sure enough, before anything much can happen, OZ shows up. Zechs heads out to join in, despite them pointing out that he's supposed to, y'know, be a peace ambassador, but he says he's gotten used to wearing two masks, so it's no trouble at all. Out everyone goes to fight the Mobile Dolls. The Alliance troops have gotten a bit better at fighting them by this point, but are still pretty much cannon fodder.
Zechs, of course, kicks robot ass.
Meanwhile, on Barge, the minion prepares to fire the beam cannon at the colony. Trowa, who's there, remarks that they should send out the Veii and Mercurius to support Une, but the minion will do no such thing, and has Trowa taken away. Mmm, the soft stench of betrayal.
Zechs pauses in his kicking of butt, when he notices Une's Taurus suit heading for the battle. She can't really fight in this personality, so she gets smacked around a bit by the surviving Alliance Leo suits. But she soldiers on, rmarking that if Treys won't take the reins of the world, there's nothing left to do but fight.
Zechs suddenly gets a call from Treys, who explains everything. He's realizing how little power he has in the Foundation, by the fact that they're going ahead with the Mobile Doll plan. He, too, is seriously doubting the New Order, and he and Zechs sort of patch things up a bit, in a sidelong, manly sort of way. Then, of course, Treys points out that Une's really not well, what with the split personalities and all, and would Zechs kindly get her off the battlefield before she gets herself killed?
Une, her suit heavily damaged, is finally snapped back to her surly personality, but it's a bit late by this point. Zechs scoops her up in the nick of time, though.
On the colony, Septum's father remarks that they're certainly going to be destroyed, but it's necessary, as the people of the colonies need to see just what this war is really about, by witnessing the destruction of a space colony.
The minion orders the beam cannon to fire, but at the last minute, Barge's thrusters fire, screwing up their aim and sending the energy beam off into space. Trowa, in the depths of Barge, looks smug. What, did I press that button? Oh, sorry.
Zechs wonders if the miss was on purpose, then Une snarls at him to take her back to Barge.
They get back safely, and are greeted by the minion, who does the usual "Oh, er, you're alive... gosh, I'm, um, glad..." and is surled at by Une, and then dragged off by the other minions. Zechs, meanwhile, wonders what the heck is going on here. Don't we all.
Elsewhere, the Foundation's technical guru is in a shuttle to the moon, when suddenly Wu Fei's Gundam shows up. He makes a stab at getting to the shuttle and destroying it, before finally running out of fuel. He just drifts there for a bit, as the defense troops scramble and start pounding on him. The technical guru, however, stops them, realizing that the Gundam has run out of fuel and ammo... let's take it back with us, he remarks cheerfully, finding a new toy to play with. Wu Fei, meanwhile, muses that he and his Gundam will have to become stronger... but maybe this guy can be suckered into helping with that. The episode ends on Wu Fei's maniacal laughter.
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