Metallic Rouge swaps the Blade Runner aesthetic for the sparser, dustier Mad Max as Naomi and Rouge book a commercial transport across the Martian wastes to Welltown. Among the other passengers is a wealthy couple with a Nean servant, a journalist named Jill with an optical camera, and a granny with two bickering young siblings.
Naomi kills two cyberbirds with one stone, providing exposition for us while entertaining the kids with knowledge about the hulking spaceships half-buried in the sands they pass by, which were part of a war between humanity and evil “Usurper” aliens, which are different from friendly “Visitor” aliens.
Apparently neither Naomi nor Rouge believed anyone would be hunting them after their hijinks last week, otherwise they would have traveled alone. Instead, when three mercenary tanks attack and board the truck, Rouge climbs out of her hiding spot to dispatch them before they hurt any innocent people.
No matter the situation, Naomi and Rouge have an MCU-like playful bonhomie about their banter. Rouge negotiates Naomi’s unrealistic estimate for taking care of the baddies down to 90 seconds, but does it in 120. Meanwhile, the kids’ granny shows off her skills as a retired driver.
They manage to lose the mercs in a forest, making for a sudden change of environment, atmosphere, and palette. While Naomi heads to a military site with the driver to find parts to repair the truck, Rouge stays behind with the others.
Seeing that the little sister Emily is told by her brother she’s too little to take good pics, Rouge helps her find something neat to photograph. Unfortunately in the process Emily accidentally activates a “Cylinderhead” giant killer robot from the war. Whoops!
When the mercs show up and fire at the robot, their shot bounces off its shields, and it returns fire with a hellbeam that cleaves their tanks in two. The bot apparently has a taste for blood, so it doesn’t stop its rampage once all of the mercs are destroyed. Instead, it targets the truck.
Knowing she’s the only one who can save the passengers, Rouge transforms into her battle mode (a very cool sequence) and engages the bot, which soon becomes more than one bot. No matter, she picks one up and throws it at the other, blowing them both up. And while the truck looks awfully close to the gigantic blast, it doesn’t seem to suffer any damage.
All’s well that ends well, with Rouge independently choosing to save the day (no orders from Naomi), and even giving some of her precious chocolate to Emily as a reward for snapping some cool photos. It’s on to Wellstown, unless next week’s episode picks up somewhere else entirely, and Rouge (at least in her red battle mode) is still being pursued by an investigator named Ash. Whatever trouble she and Naomi end up in, I’m sure they’ll try to keep things light and breezy.
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