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Flower of Life (命の華 Inochi no Hana?) is the 48th episode of Mobile Suit Gundam 00.

Plot[]

Regene is elated that Ribbons is dead, but just moments later, Ribbons reappears in a new body. Ribbons reveals that his consciousness is connected directly to Veda, so his body is only a container. When Ribbons again states his superiority, Regene tries to shoot him. However, Ali al-Saachez is faster and kills Regene with a shot to the chest. Ali then states that he’s itching to get involved in the battle. On the battlefield, the A-Laws forces are still putting up a fight, and Kati is concentrating her forces to finish them off. Patrick gets into trouble against some Aheads, but fortunately the 00 Raiser saves him. Setsuna and Saji then destroy more ships and Aheads, but Setsuna notices that the Innovators aren't around. Recognizing the strategy being used by the Katharon and the ESF coup forces, Sumeragi directs Ian to concentrate their attack on the center of the enemy fleet. Kati, however, tells the Gundams to guard their mother ship, and that leads to Sumeragi and Kati speaking to each other again. Kati makes it clear though that she’s only using Celestial Being against A-LAWS and that once this fight is over, she’ll be going after Celestial Being for their crimes.

All this is interrupted by an urgent message from Setsuna telling everyone to engage in evasive maneuvers because an attack is coming. A massive particle beam then suddenly appears from the dark side of the moon and indiscriminately destroys everything in its path. The Ptolemaios 2 and the Gundams evaded the beam, but the A-LAWS forces, Katharon and coup forces all suffered losses. The A-LAWS forces also begins to withdraw. Ribbons then calls for preparation to be made for a second shot and cancels the optical camouflage of the Innovator’s massive mothership, the Celestial Being. Ribbons noted that Aeolia Schenberg foresaw everything, including the encounter with a still unknown race - the "dialogues that are to come", and he then compares his ship to an ark to save mankind from extinction. On the battlefield, Sumeragi informs her new allies that Celestial Being will be attacking the enemy mothership to recover Veda, and she offers her thanks and condolences for those killed. Rallying her own crew and the Gundam Meisters to free the world from the control of the Innovators for the sake of the future, Sumeragi starts what she calls their last mission.

Numerous gun turrets on the surface of the Innovators' mothership fired at the approaching Gundams and the Ptolemaios 2. The Gundams flew ahead to destroy the turrets, Feldt then detected that the mothership will be firing another massive particle beam and Lasse immediately move the Ptolemaios 2 out of the beam's path. Despite the gun turrets being ineffective at stopping the Gundams and the Ptolemaios 2, Ribbons isn’t too worried and sends out numerous GNZ-004 Gagas, which are suicide weapons equipped with Trans-Am system. Although the Gundams are able to destroy a number of Gagas, there are just too many of them, and some of them managed to break through and rammed into the Ptolemaios 2. The Celestial Being transport ship then used itself as a shield for the Ptolemaios 2, but it did not last long against the Gaga's suicide attacks. Fortunately, the Katharon and coup forces arrived to help repel the Gagas. However, this also lead to the Gagas targeting the newly arrived ships, and Patrick's GNX-III was destroyed while holding them off, though he manages to tell Kati that he loves her before his mobile suit explodes.

Feldt then finds warship docking bays on the enemy mothership, so Sumeragi orders the use of Trans-Am to close the distance. They manage to crash into one of the docking bays, and Allelujah and Marie stayed with the ship to protect it from the Gagas. Lasse also boards the 0 Gundam to help out. Meanwhile, the other Gundam Meisters spread out to invade the enemy ship separately. In the Celestial Being, Ribbons remains calm and deployed the automatons to invade the Ptolemaios 2. Outside, the 00 Raiser was intercepted by Louise's Regnant and Andrei's Ahead, while Lockon's Cherudim Gundam GNHW/M, which had broken into the mothership, was confronted by Ali al-Saachez's Arche Gundam. In the Ptolemaios 2, Sumeragi takes out a rifle to prepare for the fight against the automations while Feldt manages to find Veda’s location. Tieria praises Feldt for the good work, but his Seravee Gundam GNHW/B was then defeated by a Trans-Am combination attack from Hiling's Garazzo and Revive's Gadessa. Losing both arms, the Seravee Gundam GNHW/B crash landed on the surface of the mothership. In the docking bay, Allelujah's Arios Gundam GNHW/M managed to intercept a Gaga trying to crash into Soma's GN Archer, which is low on particles. However, he fails to react in time when another Gaga slips by and hits the GN Archer. Back in the Ptolemaios 2, the automatons break through the bulkhead protecting the bridge, so Sumeragi heads out to stop them and runs into a group of automatons lead by Billy, who points a gun at her.

Andrei tries to help Louise, but his attack is easily countered by the 00 Raiser. Louise labels the Gundams as the evil that corrupts the world, adding that they need to be destroyed, but Saji questions if that would really bring happiness. Saji asserts that a future won through fighting isn’t a real future, but they can build a future by understanding each other. Meanwhile, Hiling notices that Seravee Gundam GNHW/B's cockpit is empty and wonders where Tieria is. Tieria arrives at Veda's room in the ship and Ribbons is already there wondering if mankind is going to be destroyed or reborn. Tieria feels that it’s not up to Ribbons to decide, and points his gun at Ribbons.

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