On the ground, working-class folk in 19th-Century European clothes are shopping and talking. She seems to be asleep and falling toward a lighted town it's still dark. Her crystal lights up and she falls more slowly, turning so she's lying face-up. Sheeta falls from the clouds and hurtles toward the ground, head-first and unconscious.

The opening credits show steampunk industrial scenes of mining, building flying machines, and islands floating in the sky. Dola notices that she's wearing the necklace, and says 'I want that crystal!' Sheeta inches over to the next window, but one of the pirates gets into the room and rushes the window she falls. They nearly miss the girl, but one thinks to look out the window and spots her. The pirates burst into the room and recognize the unconscious man, Muska (voice: Mark Hamill). There's knocking and shouting outside the door, so she opens the window, climbs out, and clings to the side of the plane. While he's occupied, Sheeta knocks him out with a wine bottle, reaches inside his jacket and from an inner pocket pulls a necklace, which she puts on. He opens a suitcase that holds a transmitter and starts sending a message in Morse code. Dola shouts 'I want that girl!' The leader of the dark suits enters the girl's cabin, and calling her Sheeta (voice: Anna Paquin), tells her to stay out of the way. Once inside, the pirates run through a crowd in a spacious glass-walled cabin-there's a party going on-and trade gunshots with some of the dark-suited men. They attack using small four-winged chariot-like fliers called flapters, dropping from the flapters to the top of the larger ship. The men seem to recognize the pirates, who have apparently been lying in wait. The men in the cabin with the girl wear dark suits and dark glasses (which is odd, as its dark outside).

『天空の城ラピュタ』 A Special Stone The Tiger Moth, a flying pirate ship commanded by a pink-haired woman called Dola (voice: Cloris Leachman in the Disney English dub) and manned by her seven or eight grown sons, spots a larger flying ship, from which a girl looks out a window.

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