"Simon, open the hatch!" A blue haired man yelled, pressed against the screen of a miniature gunmen. The man was thin, but he was muscular. On his shoulders, stretching down some of his arm, were tattoos of sorts, but they weren't shaped like anything. The gunmen he was pressed against wasn't just an ordinary gunmen, this was Lagann, the other half of Gurren Lagann, which belonged to Simon, the boy inside the hatch.

"Bro!" The little boy inside Lagann exclaimed, opening the hatch. "Bro", Is what this little boy called the blue haired man, although his real name was Kamina. Kamina himself was the one who told Simon to call him that, because despite not being brothers by blood, they were, "Brothers of the soul!" As Kamina called them.

"LET'S SEE YOU GRIT THOSE TEETH!" Kamina yelled, slugging Simon across the face, knocking one of his teeth out and launching him against the seat within Lagann.

"Why Bro...?" Simon asked, upside down in the seat. "Have you snapped out of it yet?" Kamina answered his question with a question of his own. "I give you my word," Kamina continued, "That if you ever start to doubt yourself, I'll come and belt you one...So don't worry, I'm right by your side!" Kamina extended his thumb at himself, offering a smile. "Just believe in yourself. Believe in the Simon that I have faith in." This time extending his finger to point at Simon.

Simon was speechless while he looked at Kamina, his eyes gleaming before smiling, showing his missing tooth. "Right! You got it!" As if hearing those words, the power monitor on Lagann spun up to full, showing Simon's drive to fight was back.

"Yes, you're doing well, very well Simon! Your synchronizing to Dai-Gunzan steadily, just a little more!" Leeron spoke over the transmitter.

"Hmph!" Kamina turned around and walked back to his own gunmen, Gurren, with his hands in his pockets and once inside, let out a sigh of relief. "...See! You could do it!" Kamina muttered, moving Gurren's controls. "You just-"

A blue light. That was all that anyone could see. A bright blue light coming out from under Gurren, ripping through it as Kamina grunted in pain, his blood flying around. Gurren was launched into the air, where it was hit by an explosion.

"Bro! No!" Simon yelled out, wanting to go help him, but he knew. If Simon took Lagann and went to go help Kamina, the fight was over. They would lose everything. Everything they would have been fighting for would be crushed; all the lives they were trying to save would be doomed. So Simon held himself back, watching in horror.

"KAMINA!" Yoko yelled out over the transmitter, gun in hand. Yoko was a fourteen year old girl with long red hair and, to be blunt, giant ass boobs. She was wielding a gun. She wore a bikini with shorts and long purple socks, along with white boots.

A shadow leaped out of the hole made by the previous attack to Gurren as a deep laughter was heard. "HAHAHAHA! YOU SAD PATHETIC LITTLE WORM! You'll soon find that I won't hand over my Dai-Gunzan so easily!

"Thymilph! Damn I didn't see-" Kamina was interrupted by an attack to his back, Gurren's own giant black shades that he used to pin down Viral's gunmen, Enki with. "You forgot that, have it back." Viral said, smirking.

"You...Son of a..." Kamina panted, his forehead bleeding heavily.

"Elkaid Blade!" Thymilph, one of the big four generals of the Spiral King and owner of the mobile gunmen fortress, Dai Ganzen, slashed Gurren's leg with his trident, lopping it off. "You're a very tenacious man...But now...!" Viral, commander of the eastern troops for human extermination grabbed Gurren and held it in place in the air. "THIS IS THE END FOR YOU!" Thymilph yelled, slamming his trident into Gurren's mid-section. The trident not only ripped through Gurren, but Kamina as well, as he let out a scream of pure agony and pain.

"!" Kamina roared out, his flesh being ripped apart by the trident, before crashing into the ground, motionless.

The battlefield went silent. The other members of team Gurren were speechless. They had always looked up to Kamina as their leader, as the man who would never lose, the man would always lead them into battle, no matter how many times he was knocked down! That was exactly the kind of man Kamina was...But now...He lay limp and cold inside Gurren, his own blood surrounding him.

All signs of power on Gurren's part faded, showing up on Leeron's computer. "N-Nggh..." Simon was trying his hardest to hold his tears back, trying not to lose it...But he couldn't. "BBBBRRROOOO!" He screamed, the power signals on Lagann going crazy. Dai-Gunzan glowed green as beast-men leaped out of it, running for cover. It exploded in a green energy that sent both friend and foe flying back, as the volcano in the background came to life, exploding.

Dai-Gunzan began firing like crazy. Not at anything, just firing in every direction, making the lava under the ground shoot up as if showing everyone Simon's anger.

"I-I don't get it...What just happened here?" Thymilph asked Viral. "General Thymilph, look out!" Viral yelled, being struck away by Dai-Gunzan's massive arm.

Everyone on the battle field was yelling similar things. "What the hell's happening!" "Simon's gone berserk!" "How do we stop that thing!" "If it keeps going it'll fall into the volcano!"

He slowly opened his eyes. "Damnit...Can't a guy get a little sleep around here..." Kamina pushed himself to his feet, blood pouring from his wounds.

"Simon! You've gotta stop! Come in, Simon!" Dayakka, the leader of Yoko's village, Littner Village, yelled out from within his gunmen.

"It's no use...I can't do anything...There's just...There's just nothing I can do now..."

"SIMON! LET'S SEE YOU GRIT THOSE TEETH!" Simon jolted up, tears going flying, upon hearing the voice of his brother. Gurren's arm came flying, and when I say Gurren's arm I mean JUST the arm, the rest of Gurren was missing. The arm struck Lagann dead in the face, and then bounced off it. Simon went flying around the inside of his gunmen.

Then finally Gurren was seen on the ground, standing. Missing some limbs, beat up and battered, but it was standing. "Bro!" Simon yelled, a bit of happiness in his voice. "You're alive!"

"Listen...Just who the hell do you think you are Simon..." Kamina asked, raising Gurren's only arm to point at the sky. "Your drill is the drill that's gonna bust right through heaven and earth and even tomorrow! What are you sitting around here dawdling for! We've won kid! That behemoth belongs to you now! You don't have to worry about anything!" Kamina finished, referring to Dai-Gunzan.

"Right Bro!" Simon nodded and clutched Lagann's controls, his energy stabilizing. Dai-Gunzan turned around to his allies and moved as if dancing. "Listen up everybody! Everything's okay now! Dai-Gunzan is ours! Come on aboard!"

Everybody cheered, but that was short-lived. An energy blast came out of nowhere and sent everyone flying back. "You filthy damn dirty humans! I received that as a gift from the Spiral King himself! I'd rather destroy it than see it fall under your hands!" Thymilph shouted.

"That old furball just doesn't know when to give up...Simon, come on. Let's send these clowns packing. Let's combine. We'll use Gurren Lagann to finish up this last mission!"

"Got it Bro! I'm with you!" Lagann detached from Dai-Gunzan and ran towards Gurren, picking up its shades that were on the ground and throwing them, hitting two enemy gunmen that were trying to attack Gurren from behind. "Now let's do it!" Kamina shouted.

Lagann jumped into the air and retracted its arms and legs, and becoming just a head on a drill which pierced through the top of Gurren, as both the gunmen began to glow brightly. Gurren's missing limbs reformed and all injuries to it repaired.

"We brawlers are sustained by will-power!"

"If theirs a wall in our way, we smash it down! If their isn't a path then we'll carve one ourselves!"

"The magma of our souls burns with a mighty flame!" They both yelled in unison, grabbing the sunglasses and putting them on the gunmen. "Super ultra combining, Gurren Lagann!" They shouted, the new gunmen fixing its shades.

"JUST WHO!" Simon yelled.

"IN THE HELL!" Kamina yelled.

"DO YOU THINK WE ARE!" They both roared together.

"KILL THEM NOW!" Thymilph screamed, gunmen leaping at Gurren Lagann from all directions.

"EAT THIS CANNON-FODDER!" Kamina shouted, drills erupting from all over Gurren Lagann and piercing all the gunmen, then retracting and letting all of them explode.

"DAMN YOU!" CONDEMN BLADE!" Thymilph's trident began to glow blue and a blast of energy shot out of it, raging towards Kamina and Simon. "You'll have to do better then that!" Kamina grinned and Gurren Lagann extending a single arm, catching the blast in its hand and destroying it. Thymilph was too stunned for words.

"Listen Simon...Never forget...Just believe in yourself...Not in the Simon that I believe in...Not in the Kamina that you believe in...Have faith in the Simon...That believes in you!"

"Bro? What are you-"

The shades jumped off of Gurren Lagann as if they were alive and were caught in the hand of the unified gunmen. "FINISHING MOOOOVE!" Kamina yelled as the he threw the shades, it splitting into two pairs that slammed into Thymilph's gunmen, carrying it into the air and binding its arms and legs.

"GIGA!" Drills sprouted from Gurren Lagann again. "DRILL!" All the drills retracted and a bigger drill formed on the gunmen's left arm. The drill magnified in size until it was as big as a building. "BREEAAAK!" Gurren Lagann grabbed its left arm with its right and charged at Thymilph, the drill rotating rapidly. A giant green light burst out from Gurren Lagann's feet and lifted them into the air at an amazing speed, smashing into Thymilph.

"GRAAAAAH!" Thymilph screamed in pain, as Gurren Lagann landed, leaving a massive hole through the enemy gunmen. The drill shrunk to normal size and retracted, right before Thymilph's gunmen exploded in a fiery blaze. The shades came flying from the explosion and re-attached them selves to Gurren Lagann.

Kamina closed his eyes. "Later...Buddy."

"Huh? What did you say Bro?"

"Bro?"

The rain fell. The fiery battlefield was now wet. Just like everyone's eyes. They were about to lose something...Something that they could never replace. Kamina lay on the ground, the water around him red with his blood. His eyes were closed, he drew no breath and his body was cold. Yet on his face, he wore a peaceful look. He was completely satisfied with how he was going to die.

"You can't die Bro...You can't! Who's going to lead Team Dai-Gurren! We finally won...We beat that giant thing...YOU CAN'T DIE NOW!" Simon was on his knees crying and shouting.

"You jerk...You giant jerk..." Yoko was in tears as well. The man she loved was almost dead. "You promised me...You said you'd repay that kiss ten times over!" She screamed at him. "YOU PROMISED!"

"Damnit...DAMNIT ALL TO HELL!" Simon pounded his fist to the ground. "Why...Why am I so weak...You've helped me countless times...AND I CAN'T EVEN HELP YOU ONCE!"

"The core drill!" Leeron shouted, running towards the three. "Use the Core Drill!"

"The Core Drill...?" Simon asked, dumbfounded as he gripped the mini-drill around his neck. "What's that gonna do!"

"The Core Drill responds to YOUR wish Simon. It controls Spiral Energy to help you do what you wish."

"What does that have to do with anything-" Yoko stopped talking, realizing what Leeron was aiming for. "You think...The Core Drill can help Kamina...?"

"I don't know. No-one truly understands the limits of Spiral Energy. Heck, the whole plan might backfire and we all might die...So that's why this is YOUR choice Simon! If we die we lose. The Spiral King might destroy the world itself. Knowing that, will you risk trying to save Kamina!"

Simon looked at the ground, at a loss for words. "He...He wanted to see his dad...But he couldn't! Those damn beast-men bastards killed him! He wanted to save everybody...He wanted to bring all of them to the surface...He wanted to beat the beast-men! His first wish couldn't come true, but I'll be damned if I don't try to help him reach his second!" Simon ripped the Core Drill off his neck.

"So that's your choice...?" Leeron asked.

Simon nodded. "I'm going to save my Bro!" In his eyes were nothing but courage and determination.

"I love a man who's brave~!" Leeron squeeled.

As disturbing as that was, Simon paid no attention as he looked at Kamina's body. "I'm gonna save you Bro...So make sure your fighting too! LET'S GO!" Simon drove the Core Drill into Kamina's wound, almost a perfect fit. "OWOOOOOOO!" Simon roared, glowing in a green energy.

Slowly Kamina began to glow as well, a bit of colour returning to his skin.

"I-Impossible..." Yoko stuttered, amazed at what was happening.

"KICK ALL LOGIC OUT AND DO THE IMPOSSIBLE! THAT IS THE WAY ME AND BRO, NO, THE WAY TEAM DAI-GURREN ROLLS!" Simon twisted the Core Drill with all his might, him and Kamina exploding in a bright green energy.

"It's working!" Leeron shouted. "Keep it up Simon! Just a little more!"

"OOOOOORRRRRRAAAAAAAA!" Simon screamed, his own flesh beginning to tear apart.

"No! It's too much for Simon to handle!" Yoko shouted.

"You can stop now Simon! It's over! You did it!" Leeron yelled at Simon.

Simon couldn't hear them. He couldn't control the power anymore. The green energy was now shooting everywhere, destroying the near-by area.

"Simon! Stop!" Yoko shouted at him. He still couldn't stop.

"GGGRAAAAAAAHHH!" Simon yelled in pain, some of the green energy raging out to hit Yoko.

"AAAAAHHH!" Yoko screamed, shielding her head and closing her eyes in fear.

"Simon! Let's see you grit those teeth!"

A fist. That's all it took from that man. A fist hit Simon in the face, sending him crashing into the ground, the energy fading and the attack on Yoko stopped, as she opened her eyes and looked in amazement.

Kamina stood. His wounds still severe, his whole body wobbling, but there he stood, with a grin across his face. "You think...Something like that can keep me out...? Just who the hell...DO YOU THINK I AM!"

Simon jumped to his feet. "B-B-BRO!" He pulled it off. He saved his brother. But something was wrong. Although the energy around Simon was gone, the energy around the Core Drill was not.

"Watch out! It's not over yet!" Leeron warned Simon, but it was too late. The drill glowed even brighter and the Spiral Energy Simon contained within it exploded forward at once, a blast of energy engulfed them.

But that was the funny thing. Just them. Not the area. As if vanished into thin air, the 4 of them and Gurren Lagann were gone.

... na...mina...Kamina...WAKE UP YOU ASSHOLE!

"OWWW!" Kamina yelled as he jolted out of bed, being kicked by Yoko. "Damnit Yoko let me sleep! It wasn't easy taking down Dai-Gunza-...Ora? Where are we?" Kamina asked looking around the room. They were in a medical room of sorts. A clean room with a white bed, where Kamina was laying, and his wounds bandaged up. "I'm patched up too..."

"I don't know where we are...I just woke up myself. Leeron was gone when I got up, and he's still sleeping." Yoko stated, pointing at the snoring Simon beside Kamina.

"The last thing I remember...Simon's drill went crazy...Then there was this big flash and here we are..."

"We're not on the surface anymore...Not the surface we know of." Leeron said, coming through the door, a bit of dirt on his face. "It appears we've dimension-hopped."

"Dimension-hopped!" Yoko asked. "Is that even possible!"

"Well...Me and Mr. Gido have-"

"Gido...?" Simon asked, slowly rising out of bed, rubbing his eye. "Who's Gido?"

"I am." Another man walked into the room. The man was wearing a white lab coat and looked pretty normal...Except for his massive white moustache.

"...WHO THE HELL ARE YOU KICK!" Kamina leaped out of bed, pulling his leg back when one of his wounds opened, causing him to land on the bed again. "Ouch..."

"I patched up your wounds...I didn't get rid of them." Gido smiled a bit. "You're energetic for someone who fell out of the sky with one foot already in the grave."

"Fell from the sky...?" Simon asked, confused as to what happened.

"I was going on my daily walk when I saw a bright light in the sky...Next thing I knew you 4 and a giant ass robot dropped down. So I decided to bring you all here." Gido scratched his head. "Please tell me your good guys?"

"Good guys...?" Kamina paused for a second and then grabbed a pair of red shades out of nowhere and put them on with a massive smile. "The tales of the Gurren Brigade reach long and far! And when they talk about the badass leader, the tenacious demon with a broad back! Their talking about me! The great Kamina-Sama!" Kamina boasted.

Everyone was silent. Yoko face-palmed and Leeron looked away. Simon smiled nervously and Gido...Was trying to process everything he just heard. "So...You are good guys?"

"Good guys led by the biggest idiot on the face of the planet..." Yoko muttered.

"I-I'm Simon." Simon bowed to Gido. "Thank you for helping us."

"I'm Yoko and that's Kamina. And I assume you've already met Leeron?"

Gido nodded. "As you heard I am Gido."

"So Mr. Moustache!" Kamina had already given him a nickname. "As a thank you for fixing me up, you can join team Dai-Gurren!"

"Uh...Thanks but no thanks." Gido quickly shot Kamina down. "But...If you do want to thank me, how about a little favour?"

"Favour?" Simon looked up and asked.

"You bet! Men always pay back their debts! Me and Simon will deal with whatever you want!"

"Eh! Me too!" Simon groaned.

"My friend left awhile ago to deal with a...Problem...And he's been gone for awhile. I need you to go find him for me. He'll be somewhere in the sewers.

"What does he look like?" Kamina asked, putting on his red cape while Simon put on his blue jacket.

"Sky blue hair...Tall and buff...And he's wearing shades as well."

"Abnormal hair colour...Big body...Shades...Sounds like a badass! We'll be back in time for lunch!" Kamina and Simon walked through the door, followed by Yoko who now had her gun strapped to her back. "I'll go with them to make sure they don't kill the poor guy!"

"Gurren and Lagann are outside!" Leeron shouted at them. Moments later the building shook, signalling that both the gunmen had token off. And like that, they were gone.

"Should I have entrusted them with that...?" Gido asked doubtful due to Yoko's comment.

"They'll be fine! As un-reliable as they look, they can beat anything!" Leeron smiled.

"Sounds like they'd get along well with Adam..."

"Uh...Ugh..." A short green haired boy walked through the sewers, tears falling from his face. "It's no use...I can struggle all I want but without a Fragment I..." The boy tripped and fell onto his knees, sobbing. "Nee-Chan had a Fragment...Please god...Don't let her be dead!"

Part of the ceiling caved in as a giant white robot fell onto the water. It was what people in that world referred to as a, "Testament". A 4-legged robot that went out to kill humans. It was white in colour and stared at the frightened boy with its lifeless eyes.

There was a clang and the boy saw a small cross connected to a chain in front of him. Then something big landed in front of him but nowhere near as big as the Testament. It stood up. The boy looked up to see a giant man wearing black, who had sky blue, almost white hair, standing in front of him, bible in hand.

"A bible...And a cross? Are you...A priest?" The boy asked, still on his knees.

"Priest...Oh yeah. I guess I am." The man turned to the kid and stared at him, showing himself wearing black sunglasses and a turquoise gem of sorts was on his forehead. "It seems you're being followed by quite the annoying bastard..."

"Entry in this area is forbidden. In accordance with violation of public health code article 104, the Needless and orphan will be exterminated." The robot spoke and then jumped into the air, coming down at the priest and the kid.

"Watch out Priest-Sama!" The boy yelled when he noticed that the big man didn't even turn around to face the thing, let alone run away.

"Oi...It's not Priest-Sama...!" The priest whipped around and connected his leg with the robot, and with a single kick, sent it flying into a wall. "THE NAME'S ADAM BLADE!" He shouted with a massive grin on his face.