History Recap / MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercuryEpisode23

!!Summary
Suletta and Ericht begin their battle, Calibarn evading Aerial's GUND-Bits as Suletta pleads with her sister to stop, Ericht refusing while also asking her to give up. Outside the data storm, Lauda continues to attempt to attack Miorine's shuttle with the Schwarzette, while Guel runs interference against him. Felsi leaves the bridge of Earth House's ship after a narrow miss from Lauda's assault, while Chuchu launches the Demi Barding carrying the non-Permet shuttle. Struggling at first once the Permet Link is disabled, Chuchu adapts and proceeds to carry the others closer to Quiet Zero.

Raising the Schwarzette's Permet Score, Lauda reveals its sword to be comprised of its own GUND-Bits, continuing to attack Guel, accusing him of finding him undependable, thus why he hid the truth about their father from him. Guel insists he believed it his sin and burden alone to bear, while Lauda dismisses his thinking as arrogant, believing it to be how Miorine took advantage of him. On the other side of Quiet Zero, Guston's shuttle makes contact with the Space Assembly League fleet, carrying Delling who resumes his role as Benerit president, requesting a special session be held to reconsider the previous decision to intervene in the Group's affairs.

Continuing their battle, Suletta struggles against the assault of Aerial's GUND-Bits while continuing to plead with her sister, who refuses to stop assisting in their mother's plot. Unable to reach an understanding, and not wanting to harm her sister, Ericht instead has her Gundnodes surround the Demi Barding, preparing to kill Miorine and everyone else on-board to stop their plan and make a point to Suletta. Before she can, a presence within Quiet Zero's data storm interferes with her, shutting down the Gundnodes and allowing the Demi Barding to proceed safely. Ericht questions the source of the interference, while Prospera leaves Quiet Zero's command room to intercept the intruders.

Lauda, suffering under the effects of the Schwarzette's data storm, uses his bits to dismantle Guel's Dilanza, proclaiming he will take revenge upon Miorine in Guel's place, calling her a witch who has enthralled his brother. Charging with his sword, Guel pulls a feint with his own, taking the blow close to his cockpit; Lauda flashes back to the day their father introduced them, where Guel hugged him and told him how happy he was to have a little brother. Coming to his senses, Lauda pleads with Guel to escape from his wrecked Dilanza; refusing to run from his sins, Guel only disables one of the Schwarzette's Shell Units before pushing it away. Before the Dilanza can explode however, Felsi appears in her own, using a special gel to stabilize Guel's wrecked mobile suit, saving his life while calling the brothers out on the stupidity of their conflict.

Boarding Quiet Zero, the infiltration group make their way down to its system core before their path is blocked by Haro-controlled security drones. Kenanji uses a flashbang to temporarily disable the drones, allowing Belmeria, Miorine and Elan #5 to proceed deeper inside. As they attempt to shut Quiet Zero down, Prospera arrives with more drones, revealing she changed the password Belmeria had previously expected to be in-use. While Suletta and Ericht continue battling outside, Miorine argues with Prospera about her treatment of her daughters as she attempts to hack into Quiet Zero's systems. While Belmeria and Elan #5 hold Prospera off, Miorine discovers an administrative subroutine bearing her mother's name, using the information Suletta had shared with her before the operation to successfully disrupt the data storm. With the data storm weakened, Rouji is able to create a Permet Link, allowing engineers at Benerit HQ to shut Quiet Zero down completely.

* HistoryRepeats: Once again Guel is forced in a battle to the death in space with one of his loved ones when Lauda attacks him in order to kill Miorine, however this time with Guel inheriting his father's position of being overwhelmed and put into live threating harm when Lauda impales the Dilanza's cockpit. Thankfully a combination of Lauda not directly hitting Guel and Felsi arriving with suppression rounds to stop the potential explosion means Lauda doesn't have to live with the guilt of killing his brother.

** Just like Rau Le Creuset, Lady Prospera has her mask shot off.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Miorine gives Prospera a scathing one regarding her treatment of Suletta.

* LaserGuidedKarma: After everything Propsera had gotten away with over the course of the series, Miorine, one of the prime targets of her revenge managed to overcome her, give her a ReasonYouSuckSpeech, and throw her words back in the face while also nearly getting her head blown off by Elan.

* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: Eri in the Aerial, an upgraded version of an upgraded version of the most advanced Gundam ever built by the Vanadis Institute, versus Suletta in the Calibarn, a decades-old prototype mothballed by the Vanadis Institute for a crippling design flaw. They come out near-evenly matched, with Aerial's myriad weapons countered by Calibarn's incredible agility. Notably however, this is less because the Calibarn is a SuperPrototype, and moreso because Suletta is just that good of a pilot to be able to do so much despite the amount of strain Calibarn puts on its pilot.

** Elan Prime does not appear to be entirely onboard with the plans Peil and the Space Assembly League have concocted if his silence and facial expressions are any indication.

* ParentalFavortism: Miorine calls out Prospera for her blatant favoritism for Eri over Suletta.

* BoomHeadshot: Elan #5 saves Belmeria and Miorine by landing a headshot against Prospera ''in zero-g.'' Subverted in that her helmet blocks the shot.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Assembly League fleet captain is horrified by their plan to use a WaveMotionGun on Quiet Zero, since it would also wreck havoc across Lagrange 4 and everyone living there. The League chairman brushes her concerns off by saying Peil Technologies will cover the rebuilding expenses.

* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: Eri in the Aerial, an upgraded version of an upgraded version of the most advanced Gundam ever built by the Vanadis Institute, versus Suletta in the Calibarn, a decades-old prototype mothballed by the Vanadis Institute for a crippling design flaw. They come out near-evenly matched, with Aerial's myriad weapons countered by Calibarn's incredible agility. Notably however, this is less because the Calibarn is a SuperPrototype, and moreso because Suletta is just that good of a pilot to be able to do so much despite the amount of Strain Calibarn puts on it's pilot.

* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: Eri in the Aerial, an upgraded version of an upgraded version of the most advanced Gundam ever built by the Vanadis Institute, versus Suletta in the Calibarn, a decades-old prototype mothballed by the Vanadis Institute for a crippling design flaw. They come out near-evenly matched, with Aerial's myriad weapons countered by Calibarn's incredible agility. Notably however, this is less because the Calibarn is a SuperPrototype , and moreso because Suletta is just that good of a pilot to be able to do so much despite the amount of Strain Calibarn puts on it's pilot.

* {{Callback}}:

* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: Eri in the Aerial, an upgraded version of an upgraded version of the most advanced Gundam ever built by the Vanadis Institute, versus Suletta in the Calibarn, a decades-old prototype mothballed by the Vanadis Institute for a crippling design flaw. They come out near-evenly matched, with Aerial's myriad weapons countered by Calibarn's incredible agility.

Suletta and Ericht begin their battle, Calibarn evading Aerial's GUND-Bits as Suletta pleads with her sister to stop, Ericht refusing while also asking her to give up. Outside the data storm, Lauda continues to attempt to attack Miorine's ship with the Schwarzette, while Guel stops him. Felsi leaves the ship's bridge after a narrow miss from Lauda's assault, while Chuchu launches the Demi Barding carrying the non-Permet shuttle. Struggling at first once the Permet Link is disabled, Chuchu adapts and proceeds to carry the others closer to Quiet Zero.

The Space Assembly League ignore Delling's request to reconsider their course, instead plotting to make use of an interplanetary-scale super weapon constructed at Lagrange 1 under the guise of an energy transfer system. Despite the fleet captain's objections that using the weapon would devastate the entire region of Lagrange 4, the Assembly League chairman reveals their intent to allow Peil to lead reconstruction efforts, which would solidify their status as the leaders of the Benerit Group in the aftermath.

Boarding Quiet Zero, the infiltration group make their way down to its system core before their path is blocked by Haro-controlled security drones. Kenanji uses a flashbang to temporarily disable the drones, allowing Belmeria, Miorine and Elan #5 to proceed deeper inside. Attempting to shut Quiet Zero down, Prospera arrives with more drones, revealing she changed the password Belmeria had previously expected to be in-use. While Suletta and Ericht continue battling outside, Miorine argues with Prospera about her treatment of her daughters as she attempts to hack into Quiet Zero's systems. As Belmeria and Elan #5 hold Prospera off, Miorine discovers an administrative subroutine bearing her mother's name, using the information Suletta had shared with her before the operation to successfully disrupt the data storm. With the data storm weakened, Rouji is able to create a Permet Link, allowing engineers at Benerit HQ to shut Quiet Zero down completely.

With Quiet Zero disabled, the Space Assembly League make their move, firing their super weapon at the station. Sensing the danger, Ericht swiftly deploys as many remaining Gundnodes as she can to block the shot, succeeding in dissipating the blast. In the aftermath, Suletta discovers the Aerial seemingly destroyed, Prospera crying her daughter's name in desperation.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Space League fleet captain is horrified by their plan to use a WaveMotionGun on Quiet Zero, since it would also destroy Lagrange 4 and everyone in it. The League brushes her concerns off by saying the Peil Group will cover the rebuilding expenses.

* HistoryRepeats: Once again Guel is forced in a battle to the death in space with one of his loved ones when Lauda attacks him in order to kill Miorine, however this time with Guel inheriting his father's position of being overwhelmed and put into live threating harm when Lauda impales the Darilbalde's cockpit. Thankfully a combination of Lauda not directly hitting Guel and Felsi arriving with suppression rounds to stop the potential explosion means Lauda doesn't have to live with the guilt of killing his brother.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Guel deactivates his Darilbalde's beam sword Lauda realises what he is about to do a second before his Schwarzette impales the cockpit of Guel's Mobile Suit. Afterwards all he can do is apologize for what he has done to his brother. Thankfully Felsi's arrival ensures that Lauda doesn't have to life with the guilt of killing Guel.

** Another age-old ''Gundam'' tradition continues as the Aerial delivers a flying kick at the Calibarn.

* SpannerInTheWorks: It's implied that Notrette is a part of Quiet Zero and disabled the Gundnodes attacking the Demi Barding so that Miorine's group can complete their mission. Additionally, it's the posthumous message she left for Miorine that allowed her to hack into Quiet Zero and stop it for good.

* UncertainDoom: Eri is seemingly killed after blocking the SAL’s laser cannon. However, a shot shows the Aerial’s GUND control head unit and cockpit torso still intact albeit damaged from the blast, leaving her fate still up in the air.

--> '''Felsi:''' Just how stupid are you two!? Dying in a sibling spat!? If that's a joke, it's not funny!

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Space League fleet captain is horrified by their plan to use a WaveMotionGun on Quiet Zero, since it would also destroy Larange 4 and everyone in it. The League brushes her concerns off by saying the Peil Group will cover the rebuilding expenses.

** While Eri is more of an AnitVillain she still counts as one as she clearly tells Suletta that she doesn't want to hurt her and to just leave, only fighting her when Suletta refuses to abandon her. And when the Space Assembly League fires their WaveMotionGun she uses herself and the Gundnodes to protect her mother and sister, giving Suletta one last tender smile before seemingly dying.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Space League fleet captain is horrified by their plan to use a WaveMotionGun on Quiet Zero, since it would also destroy Larange 4 and everyone in it. The League brushes her concerns off by saying the Piel Group will cover the rebuilding expenses.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Guel deactivates his Darilbalde's beam sword Lauda realises what he is about to do a second before his Schwarzette impales the cockpit of Guel's Mobile Suit. Afterwards all he can do is apologize for what he has done to his brother. Thankfully Felsi's arrival ensures that Lauda doesn't have to life with the guilt of kiiling Guel.

* {{Callback}}: After Quiet Zero is shut down, Miorine tells Prospera that she should follow her own advice, and move forward, sincerely noting that the two of them, along with Suletta and Ericht, will be a family once she and Suletta marry, recalling a more mocking sentiment from Prospera back in Episode 7. She also extends her hand out to Prospera, referencing similar scenes in Episodes 12 and 22.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Space League fleet captain is horrified by their plan to use a WaveMotionGun on Quiet Zero, since it would also destroy Larange 4 and everyone in it. The League brushes his concerns off by saying the Piel Group will cover the rebuilding expenses.

** Another age-old ''Gundam'' continues as the Aerial delivers a flying kick at the Calibarn.

** Another age-old ''Gundam'' continues as the Aerial delivers a flying kick at thr Calibarn.