Dr. STONE (Dr.STONE)

Human desire is the driving force

that pushes science forward.

Even the smallest step along the way

leads you further down the path and into the future.

If you truly apply yourself,

you can accomplish anything with the power of science.

You could even rebuild civilization from scratch

and rescue all of humanity.

Senku, I know you can do it.

One day, humans will eat ramen in space again

and you'll be up there too.

You can count on it.

I'm in space alone.

Why are the others still petrified?

We'll need our pilot, Stanley, to dock this thing.

The revival watch.

Is it damaged?

Good morning, Senku.

I trust you're awake now.

So it wasn't a malfunction, then.

You wanted me to wake up first.

You're presently in zero gravity,

meaning liquids flow differently.

There was a chance this could affect the revival fluid.

So as a precaution

I deemed it wise to awaken you ahead of the others.

Awakey woke!

But if that's the reason, then why--

Right.

We'll go ahead and leave it at that, shall we?

The esteemed Dr. Xeno.

Back in the day, he worked with Byakuya.

Now he's quietly gifted Senku a moment of reflection in space,

free to let the emotions flow away from prying eyes.

Not even gonna pretend you're surprised to see me awake?

Admit it. You were in on Xeno's little scheme, too.

I wasn't expecting you old fogies to get all sentimental on me, you weirdos.

Sentimental?

You think too highly of yourself.

I'm a soldier following orders.

Was really nothing more to it.

Yeah, sure.

We'll just leave it at that.

Back in the late 20th century,

there was a spaceship design that was completely lacking in windows.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the pilots protested this.

Perceiving space with the naked eye

was considered an integral part of an astronaut's emotional well-being.

Are we good on oxygen?

Since docking in space presents unknowable risks,

we supplied you with an overabundance.

It's enough to account for the revival of another astronaut,

for instance.

Oh, awesome!

This is that space place we've been talking about forever?

There's no up or down anymore.

And my whole body feels light as a feather.

Try to simmer down space lioness.

We have Francois to thank for these.

Space ramen stuffed in handy vinyl packets.

It tastes even better up here somehow!

21st century astronauts ate this, too, aboard the International Space Station.

This is what he ate, your father, Byakuya,

thousands of years ago.

The same meal up here in the same space.

That Space Station thing he and his team lived in,

do you think it's possible it's still out there somewhere?

Not a chance.

There was no one around to control or maintain it.

So it would have fallen to Earth as a bunch of shooting stars thousands of years ago.

I see.

What goes up must come down.

More importantly, the Space Station was launched in pieces.

Then the astronauts docked those pieces together up in space.

And now it's our turn to do the same thing.

We're docking our rocket in space

far away from our tiny-ass planet,

with only our Stone World astronautics to help light the way.

You actually managed to pull it off, Stanley!

You brought the ends of the two ships together up in space!

I can't imagine how hard it was since there isn't an up or down.

Don't get too far ahead of yourself.

That's just two modules.

You can celebrate when we've connected all five.

Hey, we have an update for you.

It's a 10,000,000,000% success.

Come on! Even you guys must be getting pretty excited about all of this.

Wait, is it just me, or is the Earth Team a bit too quiet?

You really did it.

I always knew you'd find your way to the moon, Senku!

The big oaf should be bawling and screaming his head off around now.

It doesn't make any sense that all of them have gone completely silent.

If those bad screams aren't enough, I don't know what you were expecting.

You must be joking, right?

The radio, it's gone silent.

OK.

Looks like the third module is heading your way.

Ah, so your eyes are as sharp as they say.

Well done.

You can always count on me when it comes to scouting.

I can even see stuff on the screen.

I'm sorry. I promise I didn't realize I was grabbing it that hard.

No need to panic, OK?

This isn't your fault.

There's something wrong with the electrical system we're using to power the ship.

Half of the image is messed up.

How are we gonna dock with module 3 like this?

Stanley, I know that you're talented, but can you still do it?

Yeah, I can still do it.

Are you shitting me?

That's the culprit?

Oh, you mean that weird-looking stick thingy?

Petrification fragment?

I'd say it's a single strand of petrified human hair.

It must have been wedged in the circuit since before launch.

But that doesn't make sense.

How was one piece of hair petrified?

5 meters and 1 second.

It must have been when we used the Medusa's power

on the rocket before blasting off!

Chalk it up to trial and error.

That's how science moves forward, by making mistakes.

Seems we should have been petrified before ever setting foot in the rocket.

It's always easier to spot a failure after it's already happened.

The image is gone.

We can't see a thing on the docking monitor.

Module 4 is on the way.

Is there any chance you can fix it?

We've got ourselves a blown capacitor.

There's no way to know how bad the damage is.

We need to replace the power distribution circuit.

Thing is, we don't have a backup

and we can't get one in space.

We can't do it without that camera.

We won't be able to connect the ships if we're blind.

So there's got to be something we can do to fix it in time.

You saw it too, right?

The empty fourth ship?

I'm pretty sure I saw it move, even though there's not supposed to be anyone inside it.

I saw, and it's not empty.

Someone hitched a ride into space.

The fourth module contains our lunar lander,

and there is theoretically enough room for someone to cram in.

But who would do something that reckless?

I can think of only one person in the entire Stone World

who would 10,000,000,000% do something that ridiculous.

I finally conquered space!

The whole universe belongs to me!

I finally conquered space!

The whole universe belongs to me!

Of course, those are his first words in space.

That's my brother.

We're not through it yet.

They don't know that he's gonna try to dock it.

We can hear everything as it's happening,

but hasn't Senku's team been disconnected?

Don't forget, we deployed the most elegant trio of astronauts on Earth.

He's brash enough, but docking from module 4 is gonna be pure hell.

Sure is, especially since it doesn't have a reaction wheel.