[ground trembles]
[roar]
[SENKU] Human desire is the driving force
that pushes science forward.
Even the smallest step along the way
leads you further down the path and into the future.
[BYAKUYA] If you truly apply yourself,
you can accomplish anything with the power of science.
You could even rebuild civilization from scratch
and rescue all of humanity.
Senku, I know you can do it.
One day, humans will eat ramen in space again
and you'll be up there too.
You can count on it.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[SENKU] I'm in space alone.
[theme music]
♪ ♪
Why are the others still petrified?
We'll need our pilot, Stanley, to dock this thing.
The revival watch.
Is it damaged?
[DR. XENO] Good morning, Senku.
I trust you're awake now.
So it wasn't a malfunction, then.
You wanted me to wake up first.
[chuckles]
You're presently in zero gravity,
meaning liquids flow differently.
There was a chance this could affect the revival fluid.
So as a precaution, I deemed it wise to awaken
you ahead of the others.
Awakey woke!
But if that's the reason, then why--
Hmm.
[gasps]
Right.
We'll go ahead and leave it at that, shall we?
[chuckles]
The esteemed Dr. Xeno.
Back in the day, he worked with Byakuya.
Now he's quietly gifted Senku a moment of reflection in space,
free to let the emotions flow away from prying eyes.
[zing]
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
Not even gonna pretend you're surprised to see me awake?
Admit it.
You were in on Xeno's little scheme, too.
I wasn't expecting you old fogies to get all sentimental
on me, you weirdos.
[chuckles]
Sentimental?
You think too highly of yourself.
I'm a soldier following orders.
Was really nothing more to it.
[SENKU laughs]
Yeah, sure.
We'll just leave it at that.
Back in the late 20th century,
there was a spaceship design that was
completely lacking in windows.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the pilots protested this.
Perceiving space with the naked eye
was considered an integral part of an astronaut's
emotional well-being.
Are we good on oxygen?
[DR. XENO] Since docking in space
presents unknowable risks,
we supplied you with an overabundance.
It's enough to account for the revival of another astronaut,
for instance.
Huh?
Oh, awesome!
This is that space place we've been talking about forever?
There's no up or down anymore.
And my whole body feels light as a feather.
Try to simmer down space lioness.
[click, whoosh]
[chuckles]
We have Francois to thank for these.
Space ramen stuffed in handy vinyl packets.
[slurps]
It tastes even better up here somehow!
21st century astronauts ate this, too,
aboard the International Space Station.
[sighs]
This is what he ate, your father, Byakuya,
thousands of years ago.
The same meal up here in the same space.
That Space Station thing he and his team lived in,
do you think it's possible it's still out there somewhere?
[SENKU] Not a chance.
There was no one around to control or maintain it.
So it would have fallen to Earth
as a bunch of shooting stars thousands of years ago.
I see.
[chuckles]
What goes up must come down.
More importantly, the Space Station was launched in pieces.
Then the astronauts docked those pieces
together up in space.
And now it's our turn to do the same thing.
We're docking our rocket in space
far away from our tiny-ass planet,
with only our Stone World astronautics
to help light the way.
[beeping]
[puffs, hisses]
[click]
Ha!
You actually managed to pull it off, Stanley!
You brought the ends of the two ships together up in space!
I can't imagine how hard it was since there
isn't an up or down.
Don't get too far ahead of yourself.
That's just two modules.
You can celebrate when we've connected all five.
Hey, we have an update for you.
It's a 10,000,000,000% success.
[ALL] Woo-hoo!
[cheering]
- Huh? - Come on!
Even you guys must be getting pretty excited
about all of this.
Wait, is it just me, or is the Earth Team a bit too quiet?
You really did it.
I always knew you'd find your way to the moon, Senku!
The big oaf should be bawling and screaming
his head off around now.
It doesn't make any sense that all of them
have gone completely silent.
If those bad screams aren't enough,
I don't know what you were expecting.
You must be joking, right?
Huh?
[gasps]
[SENKU] The radio, it's gone silent.
[pop]
OK.
Looks like the third module is heading your way.
[STANLEY] Ah, so your eyes are as sharp as they say.
Well done.
You can always count on me when it comes to scouting.
I can even see stuff on the screen.
[screams]
I'm sorry. I promise I didn't realize
I was grabbing it that hard.
[SENKU] No need to panic, OK?
This isn't your fault.
There's something wrong with the electrical system
we're using to power the ship.
[hiss]
[KOHAKU] Half of the image is messed up.
How are we gonna dock with module 3 like this?
Stanley, I know that you're talented,
but can you still do it?
Yeah, I can still do it.
[click]
[laughs]
[gasps, scoffs]
Are you shitting me?
That's the culprit?
[KOHAKU] Oh, you mean that weird-looking stick thingy?
Petrification fragment?
I'd say it's a single strand of petrified human hair.
It must have been wedged in the circuit since before launch.
But that doesn't make sense.
How was one piece of hair petrified?
[gasps]
5 meters and 1 second.
[KOHAKU] It must have been when we
used the Medusa's power on the rocket before blasting off!
[SENKU] Chalk it up to trial and error.
That's how science moves forward, by making mistakes.
Seems we should have been petrified before ever
setting foot in the rocket.
It's always easier to spot a failure
after it's already happened.
[crackle, boom]
[gasps]
The image is gone.
We can't see a thing on the docking monitor.
[rocket roars]
Module 4 is on the way.
Is there any chance you can fix it?
We've got ourselves a blown capacitor.
There's no way to know how bad the damage is.
We need to replace the power distribution circuit.
Thing is, we don't have a backup
and we can't get one in space.
[upbeat music]
We can't do it without that camera.
We won't be able to connect the ships if we're blind.
So there's got to be something we can do to fix it in time.
[puffs]
Huh?
You saw it too, right?
The empty fourth ship?
I'm pretty sure I saw it move,
even though there's not supposed to be anyone
inside it.
I saw, and it's not empty.
Someone hitched a ride into space.
The fourth module contains our lunar lander,
and there is theoretically enough room for someone
to cram in.
But who would do something that reckless?
[chuckles]
I can think of only one person
in the entire Stone World
who would 10,000,000,000% do something that ridiculous.
[snaps fingers]
[guffaws]
I finally conquered space!
The whole universe belongs to me!
[laughter]
[RYUSUI guffaws]
I finally conquered space!
The whole universe belongs to me!
Of course, those are his first words in space.
That's my brother.
We're not through it yet.
They don't know that he's gonna try to dock it.
We can hear everything as it's happening,
but hasn't Senku's team been disconnected?
Don't forget, we deployed the most elegant trio of astronauts
on Earth.
He's brash enough, but docking from module 4
is gonna be pure hell.
Sure is, especially since it doesn't have a reaction wheel.
And that's?
[SENKU] It's the machine inside a spaceship
that rotates it using a bunch of stupidly fast-spinning disks
like a spinning top.
If you rev the engines, that could potentially
get you enough momentum to pilot it,
but you'd run out of fuel real fast.
[exciting music]
No way!
I can't believe he's doing it.
Ryusui figured out a way to adjust the ship's angle.
Good thinking, Xeno.
You must have whipped up some kind of machine
that lets him steer the ship.
I did no such thing.
It's impossible.
Ryusui is controlling the ship's attitude
without a reaction wheel.
The question is, how is he achieving this?
[cackles]
If you don't have what you want,
just got to make it yourself!
Am I wrong?
I became my own spinning top.
The King of Greed is a human reaction wheel!
[laughs]
The greediest man in the world
is officially off his rocker.
It happened.
He's gone azy-cray.
[thud, click]
♪ ♪
[creak]
♪ ♪
[chuckle, finger snap]
[laughter]
♪ ♪
[high-five]
♪ ♪
Guess it worked out in the end?
After all the drama, Ryusui got to cash in his ticket to space.
In other words, the guy's impossibly lucky.
Yeah, but, you know, I'm utterly convinced
this wasn't simply a matter of luck.
Not in the least.
True, he anticipated this turn of events.
Even after it had been determined that he would not
be boarding the rocket, Ryusui never relented
with his arduous training.
Living proof desire is noble.
That board, it looks like ours but not broken.
That's exactly what it is.
[click]
[laughs]
This replacement panel is perfect.
It's hella easy to just swap out the whole thing.
Good work, you guys.
Our backup flight control team came through.
You received a rather elegant gift.
We heard the entire predicament from start to finish.
Huh?
Now that he's up there.
Is Ryusui really going to get his wish?
And hitchhike his tushie all the way up to the moon?
So hype!
I'm no more than a piece of cargo
when I'm petrified so I'm not a drain on life support systems.
Yeah, just bulky cargo taking up all our space.
Time to run all the numbers again cause this changes a lot.
[thud, whirr]
[SENKU] We successfully finished docking.
[gasps]
All right.
Let's pay Why-man a long-overdue visit.
[squeaks]
[dramatic music]
We're finally going to the moon.
[roar]
♪ ♪
[DR. XENO] For the duration of the mission,
flight control transmissions will be transferred from here
on Treasure Island to the base of operations
for the Kingdom of Science.
We'll send and receive waves from the orbiting ship
and measure their round trip timing to calculate
the ship's distance.
That's not all.
We can also calculate the speed with the Doppler effect
of the radio signals.
What's a dumpling effect?
You know how when an ambulance is coming at you,
it's always wee-woo, wee-woo?
Then when it zooms away,
it drops the bass and goes waa-woo, waa-woo?
That's the Doppler effect.
[DR. XENO] Practically speaking,
it will allow us to continuously track
and correct their position and trajectory
to keep them on target.
More waves?
What would we do without them?
We use those helpful little suckers in everything,
including our phones and microwave ovens.
It's crucial to track the ship.
It's going 38,000 kilometers per hour.
Over 30k?
Don't planes only go 1,000 kilometers per hour?
Right.
There's no contest.
A spaceship is mankind's fastest vehicle.
[adventurous music]
♪ ♪
[snores]
♪ ♪
[zing]
♪ ♪
[chuckles]
♪ ♪
[gasp]
That's it.
The moon.
I can't believe how close we are.
Are we really using a sextant on a spaceship?
The tool for calculating your position at sea?
Hell, yeah, we are.
I had a feeling these bad boys would
be useful on the spaceship so they can look at the stars
to figure out where they are.
It was Chrome's idea, and I helped.
We made them together.
The first invention crafted by the newbie science team.
That's a rather elegant, low-tech solution,
exactly as it was on the first Apollo mission.
It's already a thing?
That's still impressive.
And it's amazing that you can fly to the moon
using such primitive tools.
They will need such things on the far side
of the moon, where they'll have no communication with Earth.
From there on, they'll have to navigate the vastness of space
using only their own senses and calculations.
[KOHAKU] That's it?
The other side of the moon?
Looks like it's taken a beating.
Yeah.
Back home on Earth, we're always looking
at the same side of it.
The other half's ridiculously nasty.
Mr. Moon's a trooper.
It protects Earth by drawing in meteorites that would
have otherwise nailed us.
Ha, the moon's always been protecting us
without us humans even knowing it was happening.
Ha, as for the three astronauts who
get to set foot on our lunar guardian,
it's always possible something will go terribly wrong.
Which is why we decided to only send three to the surface.
[SENKU] Yep, I'm the scientist, so I'll stay in the command--
[RYUSUI] No.
I'm the one staying in the command module.
You came here to represent the Kingdom of Science
in our New Stone World.
Senku, you know I'm not wrong on this.
[gasps]
Ha!
I'm shocked.
I would have thought you'd want all the glory
of setting foot on the moon.
Ha ha!
I'm a sailor after all.
There are three in the landing party,
but only one pilot staying behind.
Of course, I want everything.
But if I have to choose,
I'll opt for the more exclusive prize.
Am I wrong?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[SENKU] Sure.
If that's your story, we'll just leave it at that.
♪ ♪
The eyes and ears of the world are on you.
Have you thought of something clever to say
for your first step on the moon?
Oh, lightning bulb!
I just had a flash of inspiration.
I know what you should say.
This may be one small step for a man,
but it's also one giant leap for all mankind!
Holy shit, Taiju.
That's really badass.
Nice one.
I agree,
but Neil Armstrong came up with it
back when he became the first man to walk on the moon.
Dang!
Sorry about that.
Guess that's why it was already in my head.
It felt like an idea!
Don't try to be fancy.
Just get straight to the point.
The moon's bad!
Or cuties of the world, I'm on the market.
How about achievement unlocked!
First moon landing!
Once again, we find ourselves in a battle of one-liners.
Go ahead.
Don't keep us in suspense.
Did you think of something to say?
Nah.
Didn't give it one billionth of a second of thought.
[GEN] Could have called that one.
[puffs]
[SENKU] That said, landing on the moon
means something different than it did in the 21st century.
[whoosh]
If we can't defeat Why-man,
humanity will eventually be wiped out.
But if we do prevail,
we'll learn the secrets of petrification.
The fate of all humanity is on the line
as we step into our science future.
We're taking a giant leap forward.
[thud, hiss]
This is exhilarating.
Get excited!
[theme music]
♪ ♪
[ELECTRONIC VOICE] Are you ready?
[discordant music]
♪ ♪