You were helping the enemy, collaborating with some shady characters and hacking Friend Partners to help darkers destroy ARKS. An agent of Falz itself, basically. And now, you infiltrated the mothership. Or so everyone thought. Including Legias, who, as the last resort, issued an order that ARKS members quite literally can't refuse: to kill you.
Code Abyss: Absolute Order. Regias basically can do whatever the fuck he wants with the Arks operatives, including (if he chose to, but he's not that perverted to do so) have a ship wide orgy. But apparently he only uses it in extreme emergencies, which this qualifies as because even he acknowledges you as a legit threat (not surprising, have you SEEN our kill history? Anyone would be afraid of a dude who took on Elder and lived to tell about it).
After wiping out waves of your former comrades, you meet the three class teachers and Furie, and proceed to kick their brainwashed asses with no problem. They must have bought scape dolls, though, because they just won't give up. You are about to slap them again, but then Matoi cries, and that obviously fixes everything. Everyone, even Lisa, suddenly get enough brain power to realise that darkers inside of the mothership isn't all that normal, and decide to hold them off, even though you'd probably solo them faster than than four people with 3☆ weapons and no units or subclasses. As you walk into the next area, Luther tries his best to look like a serious villain, but fails.
Actually, the three instructors and Fourier are all wielding 9* Lambda grade weapons, Raizenolk in the case of Ohza, Tigredor for Lisa, Garland for Marlur, and Ridultiv for Fourier. And it bears mentioning that all story-related NPCs got a huge ass boost in HP (they're even with Support Partners, even if they have shit for defense) - I once saw Maria heal for 1.4k on a single mate, wasn't sure if Monomate or otherwise, but that's more HP than most people ever get.
So it doesn't shock me that they'd have their units hidden, much like most of us do.
In the next area, you meet two of the legendary six, and, in a surprising twist, it turns out that Huey, of all people, doesn't fall for the bullshit that you are a bad guy (or girl, most likely). Neither does Maria.
Thing is, Maria and Huey are both Six Pillars (Quna is too, to an extent, but I'll explain that later), so they are immune to Code Abyss. My guess is that Regias planned it this way so as to make sure he could be stopped if he issued an Abyss for something that he'd regret later. That, and Maria had an idea this would happen anyways (only reason Huey works is because he's normally dense enough for Regias to never take him seriously).
You proceed further, and meet the rest of the six, Legias, Claris Claes and Kasura (who shares the voice actor with Persona, by the way). Those three aren't convinced as easily, even after Echo joins and Kasura calls her a failure, but you manage to beat some sense into them, and they agree that the idea was kinda stupid. Then Zeno comes out of nowhere after you saved his sorry ass from Falz earlier, and tells Echo to go back to being an annoying background character, she cries and calls him a retard, but agrees. Also, it turns out that Zeno is accepted as the newest member of the Six, since he's the only person to figure out where to change subclasses.
Bears mentioning that Casra was actually intending to kill Echo before Zeno showed up to save her ass.
Fun fact: Casra's VA also does the voice of Shinji in the Fate series. Explains why he's such a dick.
I forget what happened next, but I think Luther appeared, and, surprise, he was behind the whole thing. He then clones Claricecreis into a mass-produced version, because, of all the legendary warriors in the room, you gotta pick a psychotic underage girl who can't even fight.
Quna comes out and basically uses her status as Pillar of Zero to negate the Abyss Code that Regias put out - she's the only one who can, btw, as Abyss cannot be negated until the order is completed or the Arks get wiped out. Which means we'dve had to kill Regias with full power Yonohate if we wanted to end this without Quna, and if you see what he does to Luther later on..... yeah, I'm not dumb enough to take that thing on.
Moving further into the mothership, you meet Shion again. She explains, that, once upon a time, there was a planet that gained consciousness. She was lonely, drifting in space. She wanted contact. And, her wish did come true. One day, some shiny thing fell on the planet. I think it was a photon, because it also was conscious, and the two (photon and planet) gave birth to Photoners. Photoners granted the planet's wish to see the universe, built a spaceship around it and took it on a trip. That spaceship was ARKS Mothership. That planet was Shion.
Contemplating what the fuck did you just hear, you proceed further into the mothership, and meet Theodore, who, drawn to despair after Ulc died, turned to Luther, who made him into his Dewman slave. You try to reason with him, but even his emo ass isn't dumb enough to believe that you screwed with the time and saved her. So, you instead settle things the usual way, but he's too strong, or something. As he manifests all his edge into an attack that can cut clean through your entire party, Ulc appears, because the mothership must be a goddamn thoroughfare today. He thinks it's another one of your tricks, a lifesize blowup doll, and attacks her. She stoically takes all of his attacks, because hybrid classes are a dumb idea and he deals next to no magic damage, and eventually bores him to death. They then leave, along with Sara, who joined you some time before.
The way you explained it comes off as a general "I hate anime plots" approach, so I'll leave this one as is.
I'm not sure about what happened next. Fighting Theodore drove me to despair and I just wanted this to end already. Angel did not help things in any way at all.
After maiming the hell outta Theo, Shion sends another telepathic message where she eventually reveals the big zinger: Matoi has possession of the real Clarissa, which makes her the REAL Claris Claes (Red from before was a mere phony). As such, she's the only one that can unlock the yellow photons used by Luther to keep you guys out from his little H session with Shion.
Moving even further, you finally arrive where Shion wanted you to. A room at the heart of the mothership, with naked Shion sleeping inside a crystal. You meet Luther as well. As it turns out, Luther wants to become one with Shion, and you can't blame him. Especially after he explains: turns out that Luther is the other half of the main cast from that story from earlier, that same selfish droplet that met Shion back when she was round in more than just the right places and much wetter (less hot, though). As it turns out, Luther's research, combined with Shion's... something, I stopped paying attention, would make him a literal god.
She's somewhat of an Akashic record, which means she knows past, present, and future Indoor plumbing - it's gonna be big. Also, she basically has the keys to the entire ARKS fleet, including the self-destruct sequence, which he conveniently steals when he merges with her.
He then does exactly what he wanted. He gets Shion. He achieves godhood. He has everything. He can wipe you out on the spot, but instead ponders why are you fighting, and what exactly are you going to do. Regardless of what you say, you then proceed to beat him with surprisingly few problems. Luther finds the fight boring, and decides to just finish you off... But it looks like Shion has something to say about it. Specifically, a "Farewell" to everyone. Luther tries to stop her, as without Shion, ARKS is kinda fucked, but it looks like she thought about that as well. The strange kid that you met on Amduscia earlier and who then hijacked your Friend Partner loli is another being like Shion. She transfers all of the data to him, and, coincidentally, he also has a Mothership with him, so all is well! As such, Shion is free to kill herself.
That's Xiao, Shion's "little brother" as he terms himself. Apparently he and Sara have this bickering sibling relationship going on (doesn't help he can talk to her telepathically, which irritates her to no end). Also, Xiao becomes the owner of Oracle after we kill Shion, which was her personal request. Luther flipped simply because he thought it'd end the universe as they knew it, but Shion had Xiao ready in case of shit like this.
Obviously, everyone is heartbroken after seeing her in person, but Luther especially. He can not be a god anymore. His plan failed. He has been revealed. Shion is gone. All he has is his impressive research on darkers. In his fury, and with nothing left to lose anymore, he goes nuts and releases its full power, declaring himself Dark Falz "Loser". The darkers that he summons in battle blow him up, though, so you just evacuate the mothership and let him pretend to be a magic parrot.
It's imperative that you know that said bug was fixed, IIRC. So he can't blow himself up with those things anymore (or at least they're not 1HKOs to him like before).
With that said, the fact that you took away his godliness pisses him off to no end, and he tries to kill you with his earlier mega sphere. Which of course, he gets combo-broken by Quna and Zeno, who crash the party (giving you three Genesis wielders in one party - quite the prize, IMO).
Also, Shion's spirit gets absorbed into Luther when he goes full Falz, but he cannot get that master key back because the little Xiao has it.
The episode's finale is seen in the event board that you get after beating Dark Falz Loser in an EQ, and it's more eventful than Elder's one.
Won't spoil this unless asked.
Newest Story Quest *spoilers*
Originally Posted by Yden
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