Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 2 - Ghost Whisper Page #3

But the threat to kill if we

didn't release Pandora was fake.

He intends to use the vast

system power he's gained

to break Pandora wide open.

I see...

In that case, there are steps we can take.

You keep working to recover the module.

Nice timing!

The deal with the government

should be a bluff.

Colonel Soga went too far.

This started as a plan for the

Vice-Minister to sell Pandora!

We can't survive turning

the whole world against us!

If you've got cold feet, run.

Nobody'll stop you.

Negotiate a deal or whatever.

L sure Will!

If you're in this for

money, run without a fight.

Hey! Home Affairs just gave us money!

Give it to someone who cares!

We're withdrawing. I'll buy some time.

The colonel didn't even wait

to clear the 78th's name.

Why do you figure that is?

Kasuga!

The colonel got scapegoated...!

Let's go!

I'll meet up with you

once I've stalled them.

Do it fast.

Paz, do you read me?

More or less.

Do you know an intelligence

man named lshikawa?

Sure do.

If you find him, use a cable

to get him to the cyber lobby.

Roger!!

I'm hanging up before they detect our line.

Sh*t. The colonel's got domination,

but they're still roaming free!

Don't underestimate me. I can locate

even a super-wizard-class hacker

if they make a call during domination!

The Major's got business with you.

Let me connect you, and nobody gets hurt.

Try it, kiddo. I'll play with you.

Be a good boy, and you won't get hurt.

You mean you won't.

She was playing me with that call?

Damn gorilla woman!

Who are you calling a gorilla?

Major Kusanagi!

Planning to stick me with a virus?

The opposite. I think

you're already infected.

What?

It's a makeshift vaccine, so you'll

have to put up with any bugs.

I've lost contact with lshikawa.

I'll go.

I'll take the module and go on ahead.

We rendezvous at the trap!

Roger!

Drive.

Sh*t. You, Saito?!

We're all pros here. No holding a grudge.

If you're a pro, join the

side that pays best.

Home Affairs paid us.

I'll give you a triple share.

Take it from my account!

For real?!

Lshikawa!

C'mon, let's get back

to guarding the module.

Don't move.

Hey! lshikawa?!

Major! They all left.

Only one car stayed behind.

- It didn't work!

- Damn, they pulled out already?

They've got good judgment.

Paz, you go in VV's car.

I'll go with the Logicoma!

Saito!

You transferred them money'?!

Why would you swallow

the enemy's bluff so easily?

This is the result of our

negotiation with Soga.

We planned to put the money

toward the Economic Amnesty Act,

but it came from vet pensions that

got slashed in the Army budget cuts.

Do you honestly think

that's what they're after'?!

Just whose cause are we

supposed to be working for here?

The funds will be traced, and the Department

of Defense is taking responsibility.

Our people stay out of this, got it?

Did you check up on the

enemy's parallel circuitry?

The on board Als of 20 million

vehicles in this city are in enemy control.

Including my car.

The system is so overpowered we can

hardly manage to move one chopper.

But there is a way to turn

the tables, if only temporarily.

Tell me.

Charge!

Here already?!

Logicoma, the tires!

Cut between them. You take right!

A car?! How can they move

during our domination?

Here we go, Paz.

He's taken over my car!

"Special specifications", my ass!

He quit everything to focus some

crazy pressure on me! It's too much!

Lshikawa!

Damn gorilla woman's calling.

Lshikawa?

Sh*t. Never figured the

colonel'd try to brain-fry me!

I can't believe it... did he really'?!

We're about to find out what the truth is.

I have control!

Lshikawa's cooperating with 'em?

Saito!

Sorry, lady, but they sweetened the pot.

Good work, Saito!

We're almost to the trap.

Once we get there...

We win!

You damn gambling-freak mercenary!

Huh? I can't see them anymore.

This makes no sense.

Where are they?!

Five minutes to infiltration of Pandora.

There's no record that I've been hacked,

so why did they vanish?!

They didn't overwrite your vision.

Can you move?!

I lost my right arm, but don't worry...

we're still in the game.

So what was their trick?

They used our own skills to

fake us out. Slick of them.

It's an old type of optical

camouflage holograph.

I'd have missed it if we

weren't going so slowly.

I'll send you the location.

Securing the module is top priority.

We're out of time.

They figured it out?

They're damn persistent!

Fire!

Aye!

We can't go fast, so it'll take us a bit.

No problem. Logicoma, you stay there.

Wait until we get to you!

Skilled as always.

But you're not the only one good

at infiltrating vision, 501 Major...

No, just "Major" now.

Paz!

VV, get the module, fast!

Ten seconds to infiltration of Pandora.

9, 8, 7, 6...

We set up 317 roadblocks, from Wards 1

through 38. Do we keep going?

Mobilize all forces and

put up as many as you can.

We'll tie up all vehicles' on board computers

with accident-avoidance processes.

The fate of our nation is at stake.

I feel bad for the MLIT,

but I'm going to cause the

worst gridlock in thirty years.

Aramaki from Public Security?

This is his doing?

Paz!

You're too late. Soga's opening

up Pandora as we speak.

Nope. His power is down.

Public Security's stopped more than

30% of the vehicles that were in motion.

Both you and Colonel Soga

had been deliberately infected.

There is no "truth" about

that refugee transport op.

You killed those people

and ordered an air-strike.

You did it because all the "refugees"

you were trying to safeguard

were armed guerillas.

It's the MOD's responsibility now.

Either do something about him,

or destroy Pandora right now!

Obviously out of the question!

Because you want me to open Pandora?

What?

Don't!

You bastard!

Wait! Don't shoot!

It was the Administrative Vice-Minister

who gave me the module.

That agent's objective is the same.

Make sure you don't use

the de-parallelizing code.

What?

I can't stop the infiltration.

This is the only way!

Stop!

I gave you a copy of the vaccine.

It's imperfect, but you'll be able

to tell which memories are false.

It's unlikely we'll be able to

eradicate them, but I'll give you a hand.

Not interested.

It's the only memory that lets me feel

like I'm not just a dog trained to kill!

You're just a whiny b*tch, then.

What happened, Major?!

It's over. Send a rescue squad.

What do you mean, "over"?!

Pandora's been infiltrated!

The data's being leaked to

a different Net than Soga's!

Step away from the module!

Don't resist. I feel an affinity with you.

You, who haven't had a flesh-and-blood

body for as long as you can remember.

You b*tch...

That attack barrier is meaningless.

My brain has to be synchronized, like his.

A neurochip? You're...

I must find out where it came from...

this thing which infected me

and gave me true self-awareness.

Even if I have to access the whole world's

organizations and their secrets...

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