Mei, BB, Lina, and Pelops II access the Shiva containment facility from below. BB informs Mei that when Ashihara's supercomputer was first tested twenty years earlier, it resulted in a massive explosion; he theorizes that the explosion happened because the supercomputer created a brief portal to the time of the Catastrophe. Ashihara disappeared after the explosion, and it is believed that he died in the blast. BB also warns Mei that it will only be a matter of time before Salunga breaks free of the crystal spikes and returns to the Shiva facility again...