Title: フルメタル・パニック！ (Full Metal Panic!) Vol. 2
Artist/Author:　館尾冽 (Retsu Tateo)
Original Creator:　賀東招二 (Shouji Gatou)
Book Size/Pages: A-5, 195pp., w/furigana
Original Serialization: Monthly Comic Dragon 9/00-4/01
First Printing: 4/1/01
Rating: 3/4

Mechas come into play starting this chapter. Mechas never seemed to interest me much, but from what I've read so far, it seems like they're secondary to the main story, so hopefully it should be okay. A little bit of Kaname's background and why Sosuke is protection her is revealed in a few chapters here as well.

The first few pages are colored and a mini-comic with the author.

8. 憂鬱な修学旅行 (Depressing School Trip): Kaname's class is going on a school trip to Okinawa and of course, Sosuke is also on the plane. However, their plane gets hijacked and they land in North Korea somewhere. Hiding in the bathroom, Sosuke gathers his thoughts and recognizes the leader as Galon and is surprised that he didn't see him before. They terrorists take Kaname for some testing to see if "Black Technology" is implanted in her brain.

9. 深淵からのよび声 (Call From the Deep): Sosuke sneaks around and discovers there's a bomb on the plane. Meanwhile, Kaname is undergoing some tests where she hears a voice calling out to her. She's about to break free from the brain reading contraption, but is told to get back in. Sosuke finds her and tries to take her to safety. They end up running to hanger with an AS (Arm Slave) mecha.

10. オペレーション＝スタート (Operation Start): Mythril, Sosuke's organization has sent some recon, but the leadership is surprised that Galon is still alive. He should have been dead. Some battles back at the base with Sosuke's mecha. Suddenly, Galon appears in his mecha.

11. 暗く長い夜 (Long and Dark Night): The passengers in the plane get rescued, the bomb detonated in a safe area, and Galon's first mecha gets destroyed. Kaname and Sosuke run to the woods and she starts having some feelings for him. They encounter an injured Kurutsu.

12. 天空の眼 (Eye in the Sky): Sosuke tells Kaname to go on ahead while they serve as decoys, but Kaname doesn't allow it. After some gunfights, a new AS falls from the sky near where the 3 escapees are.

13. その「想い」が届く時 (When Those "Feelings" are Conveyed): The AS is unmanned, so Sosuke takes the cockpit. Galon then arrives in his second mecha and fights Sosuke. Sosuke is on the losing end when Kaname tells him to how to properly pilot the machine.

14. 大脱出！！ (Grand Escape!!): Galon gets defeated (and killed, hopefully). Sosuke reports to his superiors and Kaname ends up in the hospitals with no memories of the events. Despite being told that Sosuke has moved on to his next mission, he appears in the hospital room.

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