The M7 forces mobilize to stop Berkhoff's team, but they find ways to get out of a tough scrape and capture one masked man who may have dark secrets about Godan's origins. When the team is trapped in the base's PRL tank farm, the security forces plant bombs all over the area. The potential damage from such a huge amount of PRL prompts the team to commandeer two Scopedogs stashed as security units and douse them with fire-retardants to at least withstand the high temperatures of the exploding fuel. Pailsen is hooked up again to the MRC and explains the potential of Chirico's "abnormal survivor" ability to change the environment around him. It is proven true as the PRL tank farm explodes and the team survives the conflagration, which creates a huge mushroom cloud reaching into the upper atmosphere. Seeing that Galeade no longer has any value in the war effort, Wockam's aide, Cotta Ruske, orders Yugunt to have all Gilgamesh military forces evacuate the planet immediately. Kochak later kills Fuller and Yugunt.