The five go deeper within the weapons repairs room as the strange welder asks Rita, "Rita, what is this? Rita, what are you doing here, you gotta give me some warning! Who are they?"
"He and the half-elf's me. Before Verdun. They're gonna help us.", the Angel of Verdun tells the welder.
The welder hesitates and guessed, "What? He's-"
"Yes."
"...when did they die? Where?"
"On the beach. Tomorrow."
Emilia told him, "Only me and him. My lover Ferris here isn't affected though."
"...how many fingers am I holding up behind my back?", the welder asked Cage, Emilia and Ferris.
The three ask, "How should we know that?", the welder reveals to hold up two fingers while Rita picks up a strange device.
"Okay, so...this is the first time we had this conversation.", the strange man said.
Rita was holding the device and thought, "We should try this on him.", the device releasing needles on one end, startling Cage, Emilia and Ferris.
"What the hell is that?", Cage asked her about the device.
Emilia cautiously says, "You know needles freak me out!"
Stay calm. Again, you're not calm.
"I never said I wasn't calm!", the princess said to herself.
The welder told Rita about the device, "It doesn't work.", who then told Cage and Emilia, "Have they had any visions yet?"
"Visions of what?", Cage said.
The white-haired girl responded, "The only vision I had was a fractal."
The man said to Rita, "There's still time."
"Time? Look, we're sorry. Who is this, who are you?", both Cage and Emilia apologize.
Emilia asked, "What are you? Some kind of first-class scientist? Are you like Rita too?"
"I'm Dr. Carter. Particle physics, advanced microbiology.", the welder reveals his identity.
Rita explains, "He's also the only person who believes what's happening to you two. No one understands Mimic biology better than him. He's a top analyst at Whitehall."
"Well, I mean I was, until I met Rita and now I'm just...a mechanic with psychiatric delusions.", includes Carter.
The army woman told the doctor, "Carter, show them.", as he nodded.
He commences to remove the stuff on the table, activating holograms of the Mimics.
Carter taught the three, "Well, first of all, you're not fighting an army. You have to think of this as a single organism. Now, these common drones, they act like it's claws."
"And Alphas, like the one that you killed, are much more rare.", Rita explained to them.
The doctor agrees, "Yeah, they're like 18- 6.18 million by my guess."
"Millions?", Emilia questions, with Felix astonished by the facts.
The sergeant continued, "They act as the enemy's..."
"They're like it's central nervous system. But this...", Carter said to them, before revealing a hologram of a brain-like Mimic system, "...is the brain. It controls them all. This is the Omega. And the Omega's ability to control time."
Rita detailed, "Whenever an Alpha is killed...", snapping her fingers, "...an automatic response is triggered. The Omega starts the day over again. You see this time, it can remember what's going to happen, just like you two do."
"It knows exactly what we're going to do before we do it."
"And the enemy that knows the future can't lose.", finished Rita.
Felix hesitates, "Hold on...you're telling me that he and my girlfriend are time-travelers?"
"That's what I've been trying to tell you, love.", Emilia proved, as both she and Cage ask, "But if that's true, how do you win in Verdun?"
The army woman replied, "We were allowed to win. This thing...wants us to believe we can win. It wants us to throw everything we have into the invasion. Operation Downfall isn't our endgame. It's the enemy's."
"The thing you guys gotta understand is...perfectly evolved world-conquering organism.", Carter told Emilia and William, "For all we know there may be thousands of millions of those asteroids floating around in the cosmos like a virus. And it's waiting to crash-land into a world with just right conditions. All they need, is for the dominant lifeform to attack and...", before snapping his fingers again.
Rita continues for him, "And there will be nothing to stop the Mimics conquering the rest of the world. Unless, you two change the outcome."
"Us?", both William and Emilia said.
Carter told Cage, "When you killed that Alpha, you inadvertently entered the enemy's nervous system."
"And you seized control of the Omega's ability to reset the day.", Rita supported.
Cage and Emilia ask more, "How is that even possible?", the latter reasoning, "Mine was different because...do you, by any chance, know of a strange blob that kills Mimics and enters into some kind of host? If not, then is it rare like 99% of all Mimics out there?"
Carter answers her question, "As a matter of fact, no. Its rarity, correct. Perhaps this organism's...only vulnerability...is humanity."
"Regardless of that, you two can control the power now.", Rita told the two, Ferris looking at them desperately, "Just as I did in Verdun."
Listen to them. It's a lesson that you and I would look forward to.
Emilia nods, "Shut the hell up.", to the voice in her head.
We'll talk after.
Cage and Emilia continues to ask, "So we're resetting the day?", both Rita and Carter nodding, "Okay...how do we control it?"
There's no need to control for us two. I'll take care of that.
The half-elf said to herself again, "I thought you said you'll talk after."
"You have to die.", Rita momentarily said to the two heroes.
Carter adds, "Every day."
"Till the Omega's destroyed.", said the Angel of Verdun.
Cage and Emilia hesitates for a few moments, thinking of all the possible outcomes that would happen for this mission.
The two, with Felix, back up slowly before they both said, "First of all...this is a terrific presentation. Terrific. We know the generals. We should take this to them. You just tell him everything you told us."
"I went to see the general, guys. Many number of times. Psych ward. Dissection. Remember?", said Rita.
Felix felt bad for her, his neko ears drooping, "That's terrible. Even though my girlfriend said I wasn't affected, I trust her dilemma more than anyone else in the world."
"What are you expecting...from us?", William and Emilia ask the sergeant again.
Carter asked, "Have you seen anything strange?"
"Is he shitting me?", the two both said, Emilia explaining, "I haven't seen anything weird since that fractal and some other people I don't know about."
Rita corrects the doctor, "Visions."
"Visions! Have you two seen any visions like that?", Carter queries, about the Omega, "The Omega senses when it's losing control of its power. Even now it's mentally searching to find you two."
The woman warns, "When it's close to finding you two, you'll start having visions. You'll start to see that.", about the Omega again.
"You'll even see where it is.", the doctor told them.
Emilia, Ferris and Cage wondered to Rita, "...but you had these visions?"
"Yes.", Rita said.
"But eventually you saw it. Actually saw it, right?"
"Never in the flesh."
"So this is all just some...theory? You don't know if this thing even exists."
"The visions showed me it was at Verdun. I could see it. I...I just...lost the power before I could get to it.", Rita came over to the three.
Dr. Carter says after, "And by the time we took Verdun...the Omega was gone."
"...okay. So all we have to do is wait to have these visions...and then they tell you where this...Omega thing is.", Cage, Emilia and Ferris suppose.
Rita disagreed, "No, guys. You're gonna get me there. And I'm gonna kill it."
"Get you there...? I'm not even trained for combat.", chuckled Cage.
Emilia says too, "And I use Ice Magic while my lover uses Water Magic. But mine is not exactly spot-on since Pack isn't here with me. He's back home."
We need to talk. Now.
"Whatever you say.", irritated Emilia, before she left the room with Cage, Rita, Ferris and Carter watching.
Ferris said, "At least I know you're both gonna be okay.", as she looks on...