Quote:Vash and Knives met in July City about 10 years ago. They had a show down and Knives shot Vash's left arm off. He then retreived his black six-gun and activated Vash's remaining arm, which merged with the silver six-gun into the Angel Arm. The discharge destroyed July City (although it didn't kill anyone), disintergrated Knives from the waist down and left Vash with amnesia.
Yeah, it wasn't ever really explored, but Legato did indeed say that his arm used to belong to Vash. Just when the hell did that happen, though?
Somehow, Knives made it back to his base with the black six-gun and Vash's arm. It is not made clear how long he has employed the Gung Ho Guns - Money the Gale has been training for 20 years to kill Vash but since July City was confined in a cellar to do so, so Knives has presumably had agents for awhile but probably didn't ahve many until he had to regenerate in a Plant, putting him out of action for years. It seems likely that Legato was one of the first recruited but Vash's arm might well have been grafted on at any point durng the intervening decade.
Vash on the other hand, wandered into the desert, was rescued by people from the flying city, and was given a cybernetic arm.
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