Ulla Chiaki, the leader of the Hound, appears on national television and accuses the Vipers of killing his fellow members. Jimmy, an AGS technician, assisted Kariya in escaping from AGS custody with the assistance of a hacker named Ageha. The Viper members gathered together in an abandoned warehouse off the grid in order to avoid being caught by AGS security forces and law enforcement. In order to find out who was responsible for framing them as terrorists, Saiki leads the Vipers in storming AGS headquarters to reacquire their Maneuver-Blades. Norma is seemingly killed to hold off VTOL jets by ramming her Maneuver-Blade against them after being wounded by Utsugi, one of the kidnappers who had been the mastermind of kidnapping her daughter.
