Episode 11

## When You Wish Upon a Star, a Star Shall Have the Guitar and Perfume

***When You Wish Upon a Star, a Star Shall Have the Guitar and Perfume*** (星に願いを. スターにはギターと香水を, *Hoshi ni Negai o. Sutā ni wa Gitā to Kōsui o*?) is the eleventh episode of *The Marginal Service* anime series.

## Summary

Zeno takes some weapons and classified data, along with Isabella. Brian wish to investigate it, but Theodore explains that Zeno is human and isn't under their jurisdiction to investigate, and it will take a while for Isabella's "change of address" to become a problem and they to be allowed to investigate it. Since Zeno is still stuck in the past and doesn't care about his life, Brian fears that he may get himself killed. The team then decides to start investigating it. Meanwhile, Zeno is heading to unknown location and questions Isabella, being sure that she knows more and had withheld information. Isabella doesn't want to talk, but Zeno is ready to offer her a deal that isn't bad for a Borderlander.

Lyra manages to find a footage from a security camera with Zeno and Isabella heading towards Jukai. Theodore tells them that the higher-ups haven't changed their mind and they all have been assigned into protecting the civilians during the ongoing protests against the new bill.

Brian visits his former partner's grave and tells him that he is bad luck to his partners as he is about to lose another one. Peck then shows up and offers Brian some help, showing him that he has a flash drive he took from Lyra that has a back up on "that guy". They use the backup on which they find a backup of Eddie Snow, however he isn't interested in internet or data anymore, as he is sulking for being dumped by Lyra. Brian then tricks Eddie into believing that Lyra still loves him, which is why he kept a backup of him. Eddie then search the internet and data, but tells Brian that there is no information about Zeno from the last three days. Brian then asks him if he can tell him where Rubber is imprisoned.

Cyrus shows a document to Lyra, stating that the UN had labelled the Borderlanders drug as much more dangerous than what Zeno reported. Lyra then guesses that they are trying to make the Borderlanders look much more heinous villains instead of just regular bad guys. Meanwhile, Eddie had found where Rubber is and Brian and Peck head towards his location.

The UN agents head to the Marginal Service office and explain to the rest that there was an unauthorized access to their data regarding Rubber's imprisoned and it was done by Eddie Snow. Lyra is surprised, but sees that her flash drive is missing and guesses it was Peck. Given the situation, the UN agents realize it was Brian's doing and orders the rest of the team to either arrest or kill Brian, or there will be consequences for them too. The team doesn't want to hunt their own, but the agent states that they are showing leniency by letting them take care of Brian as they own Brian at least that much. The agent then reveals his identity to be Ryo Agata, the UN undersecretary.

Brian infiltrates the building where Rubber is imprisoned and frees him. Rubber guesses that he wants information about his buddy, but states they will soon be surrounded. Moments later, the Marginal Service team shows up. The team tries to explain that Rubber is a terrorist and they can't trust him, but Brian states he has no other options to find Zeno. Seeing that they won't be able to convince Brian to stop, the team opens fire. While hiding behind a tree from the bullets, Rubber mentions that there should be a car that delivers vegetables in the back. Peck then manages to bring the car, which ends up being bullet proof. Seeing that, Robin takes the rocketlauncher, but misses the car and hits the building, allowing Brian and Rubber to escape. Ryo tells them that the UN will be taking over since they failed their mission and should stay put until UN decides on what to do with them. Bolts and Robin wonder if it was the right decision to purposely let Brian and Rubber escape, but come to conclusion that its fine since they didn't want to work for scum like the UN. Earlier Lyra and Cyrus shared with the team that the UN had exaggerated Rubber's terrorist actions and made the Borderlanders look more bad than they were. Cyrus and Lyra believe that the Borderlanders existence is inconvenient for the UN and they have decided to control and eliminate them.

While driving away, Brian asks Rubber about the incident related to Brian ten years ago. Rubber explains its related to the Gray Shock, the UFO that crashed ten years ago. Back then, the UN drove off the evil aliens with the help of Borderlanders. At that time, the UN secretly collected the UFO the aliens came in. They tried to reverse engineer it to obtain more advanced technology and use it for military purpose and looked for people who can activate the UFO. The UN hypothesized that the UFO required something akin to psychic powers, and found out that five years old kids who witnessed the crash exhibited such powers. The kids were then kidnapped and called Alien Gifted. The mark on the kidnapping sites is a mark of the UFO and it wasn't left by the kidnappers, but it was drawn by the children themselves. The Borderlanders learned about this only this past year and couldn't stay still knowing the life of children was being taken away. Rubber had been investigating it with Isabella, but doesn't know where the research facility is exactly. However, Zeno may have managed to figure it all out and he and Isabella may be already at Mt. Minakami. Rubber and Brian also reach the mountain and enter it through some tunnels. Eventually they reach some low gravity area. Rubber states he has never been this far before, but it means they are closer to the center. Soon they manage to reach the center, where they see the UFO. Brian sees a kid and decides to head towards it, but then sees Zeno on his right.

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## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Zeno Stokes
* Theodore Tompson
* Bolts Dexter
* Brian Nightraider
* Robin Timbert
* Lyra Candeyheart
* Cyrus N. Kuga
* Isabella Thorn
* Peck Desmont
* Eddie Snow
* Ryo Agata