


The movie's working title was simply "Gaia". The Phantoms transform into bright, floating orbs which return to space to transcend to the afterlife as they should have done when their world was destroyed, and the end scene is of Aki holding Gray's body and looking into the newly liberated world. With the vehicle destroyed, Gray sacrifices his own life to distribute Aki's wave, using his body to transmit it directly to the Phantom world spirit. This attack, however, overloads the Zeus cannon, destroying it and killing General Hein. As the projection begins, another Zeus beam penetrates the atmosphere, completely obliterating the bio-etheric shield vehicle, and triggering a massive reaction from the Phantom world's spirit, which resides in the crater. When Aki wakes up, she calls Gray in to use his energy pack battery to project the completed wave pattern of the eight spirits. Meanwhile, Aki has her final vision in which a Phantom tells her that the spirit within her is in fact the 8th spirit. Gray leaves the vehicle to protect Aki from the Phantoms. The beam leaves the vehicle shield-less and exposed to the Phantoms, which now cover the crater in response to the attack. The pair have just located the Phantom when suddenly a beam from the Zeus station crashes into the crater, killing the Phantoms on the surface, including the eighth spirit. The plan involves Aki and Gray being lowered into the crater inside a bio-etheric shield vehicle, and finding and removing the eighth spirit, which is a Phantom. Sid devise a plan to destroy the Phantoms at their heart, the Phantom crater. Subsequently, Hein is floating in space, about to commit suicide, when a transmission comes in, saying that following the disaster, he is now authorized to use the Zeus cannon.Īki and Dr. Aki and only a handful of her crew survive the resulting attack. His plan backfires, as the Phantoms are able to use plasma conduits to travel through the rest of the city. Hein's plan is to sacrifice a small part of the population in order to convince the government that the Phantoms can breach the shields, allowing him to take necessary steps. He arrests the operators of New York's barrier and lowers the shields in a section of the city. General Hein, meanwhile, is desperate to gain clearance to fire the Zeus Cannon. One is killed by a Phantom, and the team narrowly escapes. The squad is picked up, but the General's soldiers try to apprehend Dr. After retrieving it, they discover that they are surrounded by Phantoms, who, apparently, have been attracted to the one located inside Dr. After a while, they find it - it is contained in the living tissues inside the backpack of a dead soldier the organic matter within the pack had kept the spirit intact. After dropping energy buoys to distract the Phantoms, they descend and attempt to locate and retrieve the spirit. Ross, accompanied by the rest of the squad, then leaves the barrier city for the Tucson Wasteland, where she hopes to find the seventh spirit. If she acts in any way abnormal, she is to be arrested.ĭr. Paranoid that Aki might be a spy for the Phantoms, the General orders Gray and Deep Eyes to guard Doctor Ross and report any suspicious behavior. Aki then shows him proof by revealing that she has been infected by the Phantoms, yet still remains alive. General Hein, leader of the armed forces, mocks this concept and asks for proof. Sid argues against the use of the cannon, saying that the cannon would destroy " Gaia, the spirit of the planet". Later, after waking up from another Phantom dream, Aki is drawn into a debate on whether to use the Zeus Cannon, a weapon that was designed to destroy the Phantoms. Sid shows Aki a diary he wrote when he was her age, and after she has read it, he burns it, stating that their ideas are unpopular among men. Sid she thus confirms that the plant she found is indeed the 6th spirit. Back at New York, Aki talks to her mentor, Dr. Despite the captain indicating to her that she is under arrest, Aki runs and eventually finds the 6th spirit, which is a plant. She continues looking until she runs into some Phantoms, and it appears that she is about to be killed until a squad known as Deep Eyes, led by an old acquaintance of hers, Captain Gray Edwards, arrives to save her life. After she records her dream, she lands in Old New York City, on a mission to find the 6th spirit. The story starts with Aki Ross on-board her ship, the Black Boa waking up from a dream about the Phantoms. The Earth is infested with alien spirits, and mankind faces total extinction.
