Alright, time for that ending, people.
We cut over to the transmitter control room, where Misa Hayase reports all enemies are finally dead, and Ring notes we have less than 30 minutes before the gravity wave hits, and all the eggheads are making sure the mecha have hooked themselves up to the transmitter relays.
We cut back to the battle map, where everyone is in position, and even the Braiger is donating it's power to the Aegis Project.
And so we begin:
We cut to where everyone is still seeing the Earth minus it being raped by shockwave, and a loud cheer goes up as Aegis succeeded beyond everyone's wildest dreams.
We then pan over the future people, who just saw the very event that caused their time to happen be averted this time, and that are all in shock that they were living witnesses to making sure there will NOT be a repeat of the Black History.
They also wonder if they can make it back to their own time, but good news on that front.
Seems the Aurgelmir is barely holding on, and Sophia minus Magus says she's got just enough gas to open one last time warp, but after that, the stress will crap it and by extension her out for good.
Sanger obviously doesn't want to see that happen, but I'll let Sophia speak here:
Jamil is all "uh, this may not work", but Diana is willing to have some faith, and besides, they have their own time to make sure this salvation does not go to waste.
With that, we get various farewells and regrets they can't stick around in this time period just for the sights, then Sophia opens the gate.
We cut later to the control room, where the various heroes are saying hi to their parents (many of them the eggheads who set this all up), and I'm not gonna cover anything in too much graphic majesty, but all the various good guys announce their plans to go back to life before alien invasions and time warps to bad futures.
We also have Macross' original ending finally play out (where the SDF-2 is going to launch), and the Macross guys are going to tag along.
We also get the Gundam Wing cast planning to send their Gundams into the sun again like in Endless Waltz, but that's not gonna stick since Alpha 2 happens.
We cut later to Earth, where Bright is reporting to General Oka and Igor and decommissioning the 13th Autnomous Corps Londo Bell, but he's gets told the EF will be recommissioning Londo Bell as an auxiliary vanguard for the indefinite future for the Earth Sphere's defense.
Amuro also takes a bullet for Bright, who is too duty bound to ask, and asks to take charge of that while Bright takes furlough and visits his family for awhile.
Oka and Igor are all "Bright, go visit your family, you deserve a vacation for your hard work".
We also cut over the SRX team, where all but the R-3 is getting mothballed, and the SRX Team is getting a partial pardon. Essentially, they'll be able to resume working for the EFA, but under observation, though Ryusei will be under house arrest and Viletta and Mai Kobayashi/Levi Tolar are still under arrest pending a full investigation of their activities during the Balmar War, and while Aya and Rai aren't happy they are getting off easy while their friends aren't, they get reassured the guys who worked on the former SRX staff are pulling all sorts of strings to get shit settled in their favor.
Note: By Alpha 2, Viletta is finally cleared of all charges, and by Alpha 3, everyone is off the hook.
We also get Usso and the Victory team gracefully exiting the plot and retiring (since Crossbone Gundam shows up in the next game, this sidesteps any goofy canon weirdness), and we also get the Mazinger cast finally getting their weird family issues settled for good, especially now that Tetsuya's head is no longer crammed up his own ass.
The La Gias guys also get written out of the plot so we don't have them show up in future games (until the Original Generations series).
We then cut to the J9 getting paid out the ass by Banjou for their hard work, and he even threw in bonus pay as an extra thank you.
We also get a small sequel hook in that since the Black History never happens now, the Earth Cradle is left alone (so Sanger can be a playable protagonist come Alpha 2).
We then cut to the future world, which hasn't PHYSICALLY changed, as it exists in an alternate timeline created by your actions, but at least everyone who tried to fuck it all up is dead.
We cut to where Harry and Kihel are being teeth rottingly romantic, and it seems the Argamma left behind was re-christened the "Laura Ran" (get the reference?) and made civilian transport.
We cut to where Jamil and Tex are glad they've purged the demons of their past, and Sarah shoots Roybea down, she's made up her mind she's gots the hots for a guy in blue coat and shades, and he's cool with that. Witz and Tonya suck horribly at hiding they finally spat it out, and Ennil and Roybea decide to hook up.
We also have Garrod, Carrus, Pala, and Tiffa saying their goodbyes, then we cut to Lily and Gavan seeing off the Laura Ran before it heads for the Moon (via space booster).
The Iron Gear shows up to also give them a sendoff.
We then cut to a town where Hola and Geraba are basically giving the exact dialogue some nameless goons from Gundam X did about fighting Newtypes, and Garrod and Tiffa walk by and are all "lol, yeah."
Literally, it's a perfect pastiche of that ending scene from Gundam X.
We cut to where Diana is chillin with Loran on Earth (if you haven't guessed, Kihel is taking Diana's old job on a more permanent basis), and they rewrote a bit of cringe from Turn A.
Basically, Loran had a massive unrequited boner for Diana that he ended the show with, Sochie flipped the fuck out, and it ended on a slightly shitty note.
Alpha Gaiden has Sochie be a lot more graceful about things and makes Loran somewhat less a cringelord, though they concede his pining for her is still likely not going anywhere.
We cut to where the Iron Gear has dropped Sanger off near the Earth Cradle, and after gracefully declining an invitation to hook up with the Iron Gear crew on a more permanent basis, we get a pretty sad scene where our resident badass, once he's all alone at the Earth Cradle, he just finally breaks down and weeps, his only solace is knowing Sophia is finally free of the curse of Magus.
Roll credits.
