Alex Young presents:
Silent invasion! Assassin drones mobilize! De Arimasu!
August 19, 2002
It was a late summer evening in Tokyo, Japan, and something was barreling down from the heavens, But exactly what it was no one had known for sure. It fired off electromagnetic pulse waves, thus knocking out power and communications within the immediate area. The meteorite slammed head-on into the snow-capped top of Mt. Fuji, creating a cataclysmic avalanche as a result of the violent impact. Oddly enough, the object rode the resulting landslide all the way down the base of Mt. Fuji. But then, as suddenly as the catastrophe began, it ground to a screeching halt, as did the power outage shortly afterwards. A large, Amblypygid-like creature emerged from the aftermath, only to bolt off in a direction that's perpendicular to that of the avalanche. Luckily, nobody was seriously injured, but the locals could only help but gather round the disaster zone in shock and awe. As Akina Hinata tended to her vegetable garden, she was completely oblivious to the fact that the techno-organic arachnid was snooping around. After having reviewed its objective, the robotic spider creature proceeded deeper into the countryside. As soon as it clawed its way out of a large brush thicket, the robot found itself a stone's throw away from both the Nishizawa satellite antenna and Koyuki Azumaya's house. The giant Amblypygid used the traditional domicile for cover as it approaches the 50 story antenna with the intent to chop it down like a lumberjack would with any sizable tree. It probed the antenna base for weaknesses and with jaws like a camel spider cross bred with any venomous snake, the robot bit into one support strut before heating it up with a plasma torch built into its mouth. As the antenna creaked under its own weight, the robot proceeded to cut into another strut, this time having removed more material on one side. The creature immediately fled the scene as soon as the antenna buckled and tipped over, emitting a deafening thud as it hit the ground. Koyuki and Lance Corporal Dororo have evacuated their wooden home just in time to bear witness to its destruction. The media were poring over the wreckage as news helicopters illuminated the night sky with their searchlights. As local security forces scrambled around searching for the culprit, Our stealthy robotic ninja performed a little breaking and entering solely to hack into the mainframe before it cut the power. This unfortunate chain of events served a field day for many a conspiracy theorist, media skeptic, and paranormal buff. This included a certain Fuyuki Hinata, who during the early morning hours, created and dedicated an entire blog to the robot Amblypygid's late-night skulduggery. It turns out that our alien arachnid is revealed to be Gial, and it didn't just come from the meteorite that crashed at the top of Mt. Fuji at all; it was the meteorite. Gial is but the first of several assassin drones sent in from space to gather information about what is known as a hive mind. It's coming from one very wealthy girl who has a love affair with him. Gial simply clicked his mandibles as he perched himself high up a native conifer tree at a safe distance away from the chaos of the now-disheveled Nishizawa compound, scanning the ridge line ahead.
Meanwhile, within the recesses of the Hinata house's basement
By daybreak, the A.R.M.P.I.T. platoon's base is humming along as it did since it was first established, the Sergeant Keroro; it's leader, is sitting around and awaiting whatever new gundam models go on sale. All of a sudden, a familiar "Kuuuuuukukuku" rang thoughout the command center. The green frog alien's blood ran colder than it already was at that sound, his palms began to sweat, his feet were jittering, his black eyes darted around in anticipation, he grimaced in thinking of whatever torture was in store for he and the rest of his platoon. Then, Sergeant Major Kululu through what is essentially space Skype said "Oh hello there sergeant, I was just letting you know that there has been a message from some guy out in the backwoods, it sounded most urgent from what I can surmise, kukuku." "Erm, don't you mean 'Lance Corporal Dororo'?" Keroro asked. "Ah, yes, I almost forgot about that one kuku, he said that there was this giant-sized bug robot thing or whatever the hell it was that chopped down a Pekoponian communications tower near where Tamama lives." "Hiya Mr. Sergeant, Sir!" Private Second-class Tamama Chirped through the space Skype intercom. "Right now, me and Momoka are running on emergency comm cables set up just for moments like this" "Tch, most unfortunate circumstances, Tamama, kukuu." "What the hell is this? Some kinda bug-hunt?" Corporal Giroro growled from his tent as he chomped on a piece of roasted sweet potato. Dororo, fashionably late as usual, slipped into the command center from the ceiling. "Well, at least you didn't forget about me this time." Dororo mused aloud in a calm and collected tone of voice as he dropped in near the sarge. "Well, I hope you guys got the message via hawk mail." "Oh, we were just talking about your message's contents warning of a deadly beast that belongs in some super sentai series." Keroro replied. "Ahh, so you got the message {now that's another step in the right direction.}" Dororo confirmed.
August 20, 2002. Back out into the timberlands
Morning had banished the night as Gial trundled along the forest floor, following a series of tubular substructures snaking along the undergrowth. He has always been one to take the road less traveled, as per his reputation. Finally, he has found a modem to tap into by following the snake-like tubes. Gial literally gets down and dirty, shifting the hard packed soil to unearth the treasure that awaits below. After a tiresome minute of excavation, Gial inserts his vampire connector just as he did before with the Nishizawa mainframe. What he got in return was both surprising and unsurprising: he was surprised that the signals are going back and forth to a suburban neighborhood from the Nishizawa compound, and he wasn't surprised by the fact that they're cleverer than he made them out to be. Clearly he must be dealing with an advanced intelligence here. "Gial! Did you find anything?" a voice from the built-in intercom resonated, Gial simply clicked, purred, and nodded in affirmation as he removed his vampire connector. Gial took great care not to leave behind any evidence that he was here, as the still-bewildered Nishizawa security forces were still on the hunt for him. "Gial, get to the other side of he communications pipeline, immediately!" Gial needed no second heed as he resumed his initial journey, but as soon as he was near the crash site of the hive mind, he found it to be missing. Gial is totally baffled, how could this happen? What in the deep blue hell had become of it now? Such questions could only be answered further down the trail of snake structures as he galloped off to his objective as only an Amblypygid would.
In Keroro's room
Something most unusual is brewing, At least by Keroro's standards. It's an invasion plan that he himself had christened: Love under the cover of darkness. "Kero, kero, kerorincho! These Pekoponians have NO idea as to what they have in store, FOR I HAVE COME UP WITH MY MOST BR-R-RILLIANT INVASION PLAN YET!" A confident-looking sergeant Keroro bellowed out before an audience consisting of karara and chiroro, both giddily smiling. "Here's the kicker though, it involves a little something known as a fatal attraction and it may need a boatload of time, money, and experimentation, you know." Keroro grimaced. "First of all, we're gonna need some test subjects. For that end, and I know just who to get the necessary amount of love from." The sergeant mused as he referred to Fuyuki and Momoka of course. "That's where you two come in." he grinned. The Dobaba sisters jumped for joy, shrieking in ecstasy. "Anything for you, keroro the great!" they squealed. "Your task is relatively simple, all you two need to do is make sure that Momoka's lovey-dovey fantasies are realized without her EVER knowing about my ingenious plan to CONQUER ALL OF PEKOPON!" He screamed, then took a deep breath. He then emitted a "kero, kero, kero, kerorincho." It is clear that he thought this up over some Gundam models. As the three frog aliens proceeded with their obligatory resonance calls in keroro's room, Dororo was watching over them from the shadows. He sighed, as though from relief. "Thank goodness for the love in his invasion plan, it's yet another step in the right direction." The invisible Dororo congratulated the little green sergeant (yet again). The door to Keroro's room burst open, knocking the wind out of Dororo as Karara dashed for the ladder with her little sister Chiroro following closely behind. "Oh my god we're gonna be late!" Fuyuki cried, his older sister Natsumi wasn't too far behind. "You really should have warned me earlier!" She shouted. "No time for that now, we need to be there for the summer's end festival!" "No shit, Sherlock! Why do you think we're running like bats out of hell anyways!?" The yukata-clad Hinata siblings made like Olympic sprinters towards the summer's end festival. Karara and Chiroro trailed behind out the doorway. They both tripped and fell on each other, stared at each other for a few seconds, laughed it off, and went on their way. Gial of course was watching from rooftops and had eavesdropped on Keroro's devious plot through the Hinata house's radio antenna using its individual electrical fields as ears. A slightly uninterested Gial slid down from the roof when he noticed that a shockwave suddenly smashed into his metallic dorsal carapace. A raspy, insectile screech pierced the neighborhood air as he landed on his back in his aggressor's grasp. He squirmed, bucked, and kicked himself upright, shaking the fat one off as a result. Gial then procured a tungsten carbide buzz-saw on each spiked club and lashed out against the tall, slender man brandishing a pigtail. The creature lifted one arm and slashed into a creative scene transition featuring Kululu waiting at the basement entrance, with his trademark rictus grin. Kululu sauntered silently into the living room, where Aki Hinata was speaking with Gial's two aggressors. "Why thank you, See you later!" With that, the warriors went on with their roof-hopping as she wistfully spaced out. {Wow, what a man among men.} Kululu approached the middle-class mother of two with a "kuku" as he scanned the backyard, he exclaimed "Oh dear! Looks like they overdid it a little, kuku." Her expression changed from grateful to seriously puzzled. "Now about that spider monster, Kululu." "Oh, don't worry about that. I'm already one step ahead of you. Clicky!" with that, Gial forced himself into consciousness just as a trap door opened beneath him, sending him into a free-fall.