Hisao's face is shown. He is tied to a chair, a beam of bright light pointed at his face.
Hisao: "So you want to know how it all happened? Get to the source, huh?"
Next several scenes are shown in short glimpses with a refrain flashing between them: Miki comes to the track in the morning and unpacks a stereo under the shadow of the trees, she's wearing her trademark tight shorts and a black sporty top. She starts stretching.
Kenji and Hisao talk at the dorms.
Kenji: "I'm telling you man, they listen in on everything!"
Miki flash.
A solid looking meeting room. About ten businessmen sit at a round table.
Businessman: "Competition identified. Underdogs call him Dyson."
Miki flash.
News block about Antoine Thisdale, the first man to replace fully functional body parts with augmentations.
Miki flash. She reaches for her stereo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUQx0WjoCE starts playing, and with its first sounds
a naval transport hits Japanese soil in pre-dawn twilight, a starting engine is heard right before an APC rolls out. More transports can be seen underway.
Miki flash. She starts dancing to the beat.
Hanako, a bit drunk, is performing on stage in front of a several hundred audience.
Miki flash.
A masculine red-headed man in a white lab jacket: "No turning back once you hit the road."
Miki flash.
Daigo: "There are two ways: adapt or deny."
The tune starts escalating, Miki's moves intensify.
Various scenes, including Akira and Lilly sparring with wooden katanas, Iwanako running towards the Academy's main building, street fights in the town and fires in the city, are shown (with the continuing refrain).
The mentioned meeting room, an MIB leans over the businessman, a menacing frown across his face.
MIB: "US unofficially recommends to delay the Pandora's Box opening."
Businessman (with a desperate smile): "You mean hurry and try to close it?"
The bass drops.
A man drops dead in an industrial district after being shot numerous times with an automatic laser rifle.
IT'S THE RISE OF THE VULTURE
Yuuko crouches under Shanghai's counter and covers her ears as a bullet rain destroys cups and teapots above.
I'M FEELING THE PANIC
Hisao drives Akira's car as they're being tailed. Hanako keeps her head down in the front seat while Akira and Misha shoot back from the back seat. Lilly tries to figure out what's happening, packed between the two.
ALL THOSE WHO ARE NERVOUS
WITH THE LOSS OF DYNAMIC
Yamaku students, thrown behind bars, hold their augmented body parts as to calm the pain.
IF YOUR PRIDE'S BEEN POISONED
IF YOUR HEART IS SOUR
One of the dorm buildings gets blown up as men dressed like the military rush towards it.
HEAR THE SOUND OF THE WAR DRUMS
WE'RE TAKING THE POWER
Miki stops her wild dance, pauses the stereo and turns to the camera, smiling.
Miki: "Something like that."
Hisao (at the interrogation): "Something like that."
Miki lies in the street at night, rain pouring all over her. She's severely exhausted or wounded, because words barely come out of her mouth, no matter how hard she tries.
Miki: "It's... an easy nut to crack."
Hisao (at the interrogation): "It's an easy nut to crack".
Screen fades to black and the song continues as white words pop up.
GUNS
LIMBS
DRUGS
ALL MEANS
COME TO ONE END
Voices behind the scenes.
V1: "I'd estimate their current value as thirty billion each."
V2: "Worth it?"
V1: "Heh. Watch the market go mental."
The businessman, now shown thrice, is cowering in the street under the midnight rain. His face is in bad shape after a beating.
Businessman: "Who the hell are you?"
A gunshot blows his brains out.
Camera pans to the executor, a shady figure with a smoking revolver.
Hisao's voice: "Sometimes I wonder."