I do not own Gurren Lagann, Gainax does. My OCs belong to me respectively. Jack, Salaco, and Mortaco belong to Toenn Gun.

AN: Note that somethings will be changed up due to a rewrite occurring in the earlier chapters. Just to let ya all know.

Teppelin Mainland. Day 1 of the Battle of Teppelin.

"Attention all passengers. We are now on route to Watscrik City Airport. We have an inflight movie for your enjoyment. Have a safe flight,"said the automated voice onboard an aerial craft flying away from the capital city.

The passengers in this case, were all beastmen and beastwoman, all of them created for non-combat and worker-bee purposes, such as maintain the water works, the air ventilation, construction, all sorts of civilian purposes.

"Are those humans really gonna strike the Capital?"

"Look down below at all of those encampments. The military is gonna stop them and stop them good!"

"I don't know…Remember they stopped that falling meteor on their own?"

"That meteor was huge! If that had hit we would have been in trouble!"

"I'm hungry…"

"Don't forget about those bastard traitors too!"

"Adiane was so hot…"

Codine Waterthorn glared daggers to the elephant beastmen who said that last comment several rows ahead of her.

But she didn't want to make a scene. Let them say as they wish…

But still…her sister…how could she...how could she abandon her… She knew of close she was to Thymilph Synova, but still, she went rogue for his sake over hers?

It was twisted, and Codine has kept to being incognito, forgoing her usualy short red fur-trimmed dress for jeans and a black jacket with a hood. She even donned sunglasses, making the cabin look darker than it already is.

Mugen had came to her, comforted her, in more ways than just emotional and after a couple of sake bottles…

True he didn't understand, he wasn't created with a family, but he still listened to her complaints and pleads and cries and took it all.

That's made Codine fall in love with the dog beastman, that he can listen to anyone's troubles and give them help in any way possible.

True her sister voiced disapproval for their relationship…but her word means nothing now.

Just like how she means nothing to her…

And to make matters worse, Mugen may become the scapegoat for the entire Kingdom to blame for it's failures due to the ISO being constantly defeated and their funds being torched by the damned Dai-Gurren Brigade.

He wanted her to leave to get to safety, but she wanted to stay, but no one would allow her to work in the factory or military districts. She just couldn't handle the jobs there.

Not unlike her sister…or like her fiancé…And she was going to lose them both, one to kingdom she was raised to adore, the other to some bumbling treasonous ape.

It was twisted…so fucking twisted…

She felt a vibration inside her jacket pocket and reached down and flipped her cell phone. Could it be one of her female friends on different aircrafts towards Falgnel and Anno Archipelago?

"It can't be…" She whispered. The snoring pig beastmen sitting next to her didn't budge, and the goat beastman near the window was too absorbed in a magazine.

She saw the sender of the text…opened it…

"Hey baby, sorry to scare ya. Be safe in Watscrik, staying behind to help defend Teppelin.

I will live for you. Don't doubt that."

Codine laughed with joy, gaining the attention of several passengers, but she didn't care as she began to weep tears of joy, her hand clamped over her mouth. The passengers next to her turned towards her, the swine beastmen waking up.

"What's got you happy? Win the cyber lottery just now?" Asked the goat beastman, a little irritated but curious to see why the Snake-Scorpion seems jovial in this rather sullen atmosphere.

Codine whipped the tears away from her face, taking away her glasses.

"No…better…"

Teppelin outskirts. Impregnable Fortress Ganmen Dai-Gando

Guame sat within his command center within the Impregnable Fortress Ganmen Dai-Gando. The Dai-Gando sat square in the flat low lying steppes of the Heartland. In front of him was a map displaying the entirety of the mainland, a rather large island with Teppelin at the center. He was in the eastern part of the heartland, and he could see the icon signifying the Aerial Carrier Fortress Ganman Dai-Ganten above the Ranbeme Mountain range, a perfect natural barrier that protected the heartland in the shape of a horse-shoe. To the south at the opening of the horse-shoe, was the Xelhi Delta and Deputy General Ursali's reserve division along with Guame's Third and Seventh Divisions digging in should the Dai-Gurren Brigade approach from the south. And right on top of the Teppelin icon was Deputy General Viral's division along with the Teppelin Defense Force headed by Mugen Kanus.

To be fair, Guame didn't like the idea of letting the humans anywhere near the capital, but Mugen had predicted that one way or another, they will reach the capital, so the objective of their divisions was essential, play chicken back to the capital and whittle away the enemy's strength.

It was against what Guame believed was the standards upholding to warfare, to fight and demolish your enemy on the field of battle. However, Mugen, at the advice of Cytomander, added in that the potential eastern landing zone, the projected site of where the rebels would make landfall on the mainland, a death field and that the Generals had leeway in how to handle the rebels, as long as they whittle them down to the capital for the finishing blow.

If it wasn't for Mugen's massive screw-up in ISO and not retrieving the Fifth Survivor, Guame would have happily even treated the dog beastmen to some of his Beauty Village women and shared a drink, but all he could do was grudgingly admit that it is a sound plan.

For now that is…

"General, our drones have spotted the Dai-Ganzan! It seems to be leaving from a storm area far east," said one of anteater beastmen managing Dai-Gando's bridge. Guame shifted his sitting position away from the holographic map and onto a visual display. There he could see the Dai-Ganzan approaching along the waves. He growled, if he was nearby he would have an IFF scan to see if Adiane's flagship was present.

"Use thermal vision, see if the Dai-Gankai is under the waves." The Dai-Ganzan, using a giant paddle of somekind, was approaching the coast, but slowly. If he had to guess, the monsoon must have slowed them down already. The armadillo allowed himself a small smile. How fitting that the elements aid them. They are the superior and blessed race after all.

"Scanning…" there was a pause. And Guame pressed on a button.

"This all forces in Sector E5, commence fall back into the Ranbeme mountains. Dig in and…" His smile grew. "Take in the fireworks…"

Dai-Gurren, nearing Teppelin coast.

"Okay you all! This is it!" Cheered on Kittan within his King Kittan. Behind him he could hear the rustle and bustle of his fellow pilots within their Ganmen.

Dai-Gurren's decision to leave early was a rushed decision, but it also had some conseqences. It slowed them down with the rough and choppy weather. In addition, Adiane's unique tactic left them blindsided too.

"Once we hit those cliffs! It's up to us to give Simon and Kirei time to dig through the cliffs! I bet you they have all sorts of guns up there so it's our duty to make a suitable landing area!" Yelled out Kittan.

"Yeah!" Said the pilots in unision. Ahead of them on Dai-Gurren's prow, the Gurren Lagann and Illustrious Kazenami stood side by side.

"You ready Kirei? Kiyoh" Asked Simon from within Lagann's cockpit. The black shingann turned it's head and nodded.

"Ready when you are," said both Kiyoh and Kirei, audibly and mentally.

"Yoko?" Simon indicated towards his co-pilot. He saw Yoko's face appear on the screen to his left, Boota nestled quite nicely in between her cleavage.

"Born ready." Simon nodded as he took a deep breath and closed his eyes, relaxing his body, and the memory of Kamina came to his mind's eye. He reached up and pulled down the goggles over his eyes, and reopened his eyes with a vigor.

"Dai-Gurren throw!"

"On it!" Replied Jack from the bridge, as the Dai-Gurren's arms reached down towards the Ganmen on the deck, starting with the Sozoshin and King Kittan. And with a whirl of the arms, the two Ganmen spun in mid-air and met contact with the ground, landing feet first and coming to skid.

The King Kittan brought it's spear and lance from the Kiyalunga to bear.

"Alright you bastards who wants-" He stopped and he took in the environment around him.

Nothing. Nothing but an elevated grass land some mountains to the west, Teppelin rising high above it in the distance. There was no soul for miles…

"Huh?" Was all Kittan could say.

"Where is everybody?" Wondered Zorthy. He felt two more impacts next to him and the Kidd Knuckle came out guns blazing.

"Alright! Eat this! Eat that! Take this all of ya-huh?"

"Umm…is this supposed to happen? I thought beach assaults were supposed to be more…loud, and populous with the enemies who hate us would be nice too," pointed out Ailak in the Ainzaur. Kittan placed in some commands and got Jack on screen.

"Hey Jack! We got a problem!"

"What?" Asked the dog beastman.

"There's nothing here!" And there was the large sound of the earth being torn apart. Simon and Kirei have begun drilling into the cliff.

"Nothing?"

"Nothing! No Imperial grunts, no Defense Force guys! Nobody! Just grasslands!"

"Well that's unexpected…" Muttered Jack. Kittan got in contact with Simon.

"Hey Simon we have no-shows! No beastman for miles around up here!" Simon looked a bit surprised.

"Really?"

"Yeah. What do you want us to do? It seems safe for now."

"Well…Go scout up ahead. For all we know they maybe late for greeting us. Have one go on ahead for recon and the rest of you stay here for defense. I know it will be boring but this bedrock is tough and thick. Me and Kirei need to conserve our Fighting Spirit incase any of the enemy forces show up."

"Roger that". The King Kittan turned toward the other 3 Ganmen pilots.

"Orders?" Asked Ailak.

"We just sit tight and protect them drilling. One of us has to scout ahead for any beastmen though. They maybe late to the party."

Ailak appeared on the blonde Bachika's screen. "My Ainzaur has the best mobility of us all right now." Two more impacts and the Moshugun and Twin Bokkun joined the slowly increasing group. "I'll leave the defense to you all."

"You don't want me to come with ya Ailak?" Asked Kidd, his blue haired brother gave him a grin.

"Don't worry." The Ainzaur took off with a run towards the mountains. "I'll be just fine that I'll be back in time for din-"

There was a mighty explosion where the Ainzaur once stood, deafening all of the pilots. Kittan shook his head, despite his ears ringing.

"Ailak~!" Yelled Kidd, the Kidd Knuckle running to where the Ainzaur once was.

"What the hell was that! Artillery?" Yelled Zorthy.

"But there was no cannon fire!" Retorted Kittan.

"That as loud!" "Super loud!" Said Jorgun and Balinbow.

"No artillery ordinance can reach this far, the mountains are good hours run away from here," responded Makken calmly. "We would have to be dealing with a Divine General flagship in terms of firepower."

"So then what that means-" Kittan was interrupted by a loud crash. He turned his head and he saw something ontop of the Kidd Knuckle.

It was the Ainzaur, blackened and trashed, it's legs blown and twisted off. Kidd immediately hopped out of his ganmen and ran to his brother's ganmen.

"Ailak! Ailak! You okay! Say something! Ailak!" He tried to pry the cockpit door open but to no avail. Kittan had his ganmen run over to the stricken brother.

"Stand aside bozo I'll get him out." Kidd complied albeit reluctantly. The King Kittan's hand went towards the repitalian mouth of the green ganmen and opened the cockpit. Kidd made not time hopping side.

"Ailak! Speak to me! Bro! Come on! Wake up!" As this happened , Makken went over towards the Ainzaur and ripped off one it's ruined legs.

"Makken!" Kittan was about to reprimand him until the calm bald man appeared on his screen.

"Let me check something out first. Besides he won't be needing this anytime soon." The Moshogun scanned the surrounding grassy area, took the ruined leg and chucked it hard.

The moment it landed hard several hundred yards away it vanished in a violent explosion.

"Mines," was all the Moshogun pilot could say. Kittan understood and immediately dialed in for Jack and Simon.

"Ailak! Speak to me!" Cried out Kidd's voice, Kittan bite his lip as he got the digger and the black lab beastman on screen.

"Hey guys we got a problem."

"What's going on!" Yelled out Simon. The loud drilling must have deafened him a little.

"Turns out the Beastmen were here, and they left us some gifts…" Kittan turned his head towards the Ainzaur, seeing Kidd carry out a bleeding and unmoving Ailak.

"I need a medic! Now! Anyone!" Yelled Kidd. The Twins immediately picked up the duo.

"We'll take you back to ship!" "Ya we will save you Ailak!" "Save Ailak!"

"Hang in there Ailak! Just don't close your eyes! Ailak! Ailak!" Kittan closed his eyes as the Twin Bokkun sprinted towards the cliff and towards the Dai-Gurren in the water.

"And Ailak is hurt…bad."

"We'll get medics to look after him immediately, so there's a mine field in front of us?" Asked Jack. Simon was silent, his head turned to see the Twin Bokkun carrying a bloody mass to incoming doctors and he gasped. The blonde Bachika nodded.

"We're gonna be here a while…"

Xelhi Delta, Teppelin coast

Deputy Commander Adiane Waterthorn sat in her throne aboard her command center, her head leaned against her fist in boredom. The Dai-Gankai has emerged from the depth of the ocean and has begun stream lining towards the mouth of the Siduta River.

To her left was Quantei Niju, pilot of the Serene Suinami and former Royal Knight of the Teppelin Empire, arms crossed and looking out the viewport of the massive centipede-like fortress ganmen with disinterest.

To her right was Thymilph Synova, former General of the Easteren Extermination Battalion and fellow Deputy Commander. He was leaning on his hammer.

"I gotta admit, Xelhi looks real nice, especially in the summer," said Thymilph, looking out of the viewport, a smile grin on his visage. "My cousin Kandi stopped by here once if I recall. She enjoyed it quite a bit."

The Xelhi Delta was indeed quite a sight. In contrast to Thymilph's desert wasteland environment to the east, the Xelhi Delta was fertile and filled with trees and unique wild life. There many streams that fed into the Teppelin mainland and it is it's largest natural water source.

"We are not here on vacation Deputy Commander," snipped Quantei, still hands behind his back.

"Yes I suppose you're right. No need to be so stern like that Quantei," joked the gorilla. "Are you still fuming over losing that rock-paper-scissors with Kittan?" The androgynous shingann pilot fumed.

"N-No! I mean, myself, Simon and Gokami pilot the only aerial machines in the Dai-Gurren Brigade! We needed our forces to be even so I-I willing went along! That's all!" Said outloud the dark skinned Nucleotype. Thymilph rolled his eyes.

"Sure, and all that yelling of whose staying with Nia was nothing at all too." Before the pilot of the Serene could retort, Thymilph placed a large hand on his shoulder. "But, either way I am glad you came along. We needed someone to work with in order to take out any of Cytomander's forces. Knowing him, he'll definitely take part in harassing us. It's only a matter of when."

"Do you think he'll defend the delta sir? We are in territory where it suits us best." Pointed out an otter beastman sitting at the controls.

"For Cytomander, the sky is his territory, and the sky is everywhere. He will come," grumbled the gorilla as he once again lumbered towards Adiane's side.

"How goes the recon teams?" Asked Adiane, speaking for the first time.

"No marinal contacts yet Commander. And nothing on sonar or visual as of yet," responded a roundtound walrus beastwoman. Adiane nodded.

"I see then," her red eye narrowed into the viewport and into the delta. The Dai-Gankai has entered the delta and saw the swells of the water level when the massive warship entered the Siduta.

It was quiet.

Too quiet for the Snake-Scorpion's tastes.

"I want all hands to be ready for battle stations. Have the pilots prepare for combat." She ordered. This caused some of the command center's occupants to turn their heads at their leader.

"But Commander Adiane there is no sigh of enemy forces, not even on radar."

"Switch the thermal." This cause some muttering amongst the bridge.

"It is still daylight Adiane. Thermal would be jocked up everywhere," mentioned Thymilph.

"Do it." Sniped the bluenette beastwoman. "Quantei, get to the Serene and prepare for launch on my orders."

"Yes ma'am." Replied Quantei as he turned away and walked out of the bridge.

"Swithing to thermal…" Said a squid beastman, his speaking muffled by his legs and beak, sitting a the radar station. The normal green radar switched to black and white, black being cold and white being hot.

There was a lot of white.

But he saw moving black.

"Contacths confirmed!" He yelled, but it was muffled. All of the rooms occupants turned towards him and Thymilph lifted up some of his legs, revealing his beak.

"Come again Lieutenant Ward?" The squid audibly sighed.

"Contacts confirmed! Starboard side!" He yelled. Adiane snapped at attention.

"How many?" She asked. The squid moved one eye over the screen, he squinted as he counted.

"Sixteen ma'am! Scanning on the IFF…" Thymilph still had his hands holding up his tentacles and shifting them around to help the poor Squid speak.

Some of the other bridge beastman couldn't help but stare.

"Awkward…" Whispered the otter beastman to the Walrus beastwoman, who couldn't help but cover her tusk-filled face in sniggers. Only when they felt the barrowing glare of Adiane and her raised tail did they snap back to their stations.

"Confirmed on IFF! Ganzar-" He was cut off from firing and the ship shaking.

The Battle of Teppelin has begun.

Thymilph dropped Ward's legs and smooshed his face against the glass to get a better look. True enough, behind the trees were several armed Grunt-class Ganmen, mostly devil heads, and the majority of them were both Ganzar Heavy Types and Ganzar Artillery Types. However, what made them unique was their plating, which was all black and oblongly shaped.

Adiane bit her lip. The design of those hulls on those ganmen were made specifically for Stealth jets to avoid radar. Thankfully, Thermal managed to pin point them out, as well as Ward's eye sight.

The Grunts, outfitted with rifles, gatling guns, and gauss cannons, fired. The Ganzars as well, the A-Type's nose-like artillery cannons and the H-Type's gatling guns blazing purple.

"We're under attack! All hands battle stations! Launch all Ganmen squads!" Barked Adiane as she stood up. "Thymilph, you and Mortaco will defend the Dai-Gankai!"

"You got it," replied the gorilla beastman as he ran out of the command center. She typed in some keys on her throne. A moment later Quantei's face appeared.

"Quantei."

"Yes Deputy Commander? I'm heading out now." True to his word, the Serene Suinami flying out of the Dai-Gankai's hanger, the few well armed Grunts trotted along the the deck of the Dai-Gankai along with the Byakou. Adiane also noticed Mortaco's ganmen, the Ungoroth, was much more well armed, this time with several missile pods on the legs, and on the left arm was a gatling gun, and the right a gauss cannon.

"God I gotta thank Leeron for those upgrades! I look like a king with these puppies! But I'm a girl so that would make me a queen but that's all moot now ain't it!" The Ungoroth ran up to the side of the Dai-Gankai and aimed towards the black plated ganmen squad. "Eat lead jack-offs!"

And the missile pods cut loose, as she fired the gatling gun towards the patch of foliage where the black plated ganmen were firing at, blue bursts appearing from the gatling gun.

They were shredded instantly. Their black stealth armor offering nothing in protection. And great balls of fire were her reward.

"Eat that you-" A purple explosion hit her in the back. "Gah!"

And a rain of the purple gunfire hailed from the foliage on the port side. And another at two-o-clock, another at ten-o-clock, another starboard squad. Behind the ship, in front of the ship.

"Good god they're everywhere! Where did they come from!" Yelled out the otter beastman.

"How come thermal or radar didn't pick them out!" Barked Adiane.

"They wereth underthgroudth!" Muffled Ward. Adiane rolled her eyes and Ward tried to lift up his tentacles with his own, but due to them being slippery, just fell through. He tried again and again but like a bar of soap or like an eel they continued to slip and fall down. The Snake-Scorpion gave an audible sigh of frustration as she stood up, walked over, and lifted up his tentacles.

"They were underground!" He replied. Adiane nodded and sat back in her chair.

"Reilee, prep missile pods four through ten to land at each of the landing spots. And-"

"Commander!" Ward said again. This time he jumped out of his chair and landed where his beak would be pointing upward where he would be audible.

"Radar confirms aerial targets! Two squadrons of Falgan-class fighters and four Auwl-class bomber squadrons! Approaching from the north, two thousand meters above sea level and ETA seven-hundred seconds!" Adiane turned towards her communicator.

"Quantei! We got air Ganmen on the way! If those bombers are outfitted with anti-warship ordinance we're stuck, even if we use the Hydroconverters! Intercept them!"

"Understood!" And the a green blaze flew out of the Dai-Gankai's port side hangar bay, the Serene Suinami flying into combat.

"Thymilph! The ground forces are your priorty! Wipe them all out!"

"With pleasure!" The Byakou aimed his lance at one of firing squads from the shore, port side. "Condemn Blaze!" The lance fired a white-blue stream of destruction, tearing the Ganzar squads over several hundred meters away into smithereens at one point. Inside the Byakou, Thymilph growled.

"If only I had Dai-Ganzan I would have it's arms to throw me at them!" He side stepped another artillery shell and fired another burst from the lance, goring a Bull Grunt and it's explosion resulting in taking down a Ganzar A-Type at the ten-o-clock location.

"Missile tubes four through ten loaded! Targets locked!" Yelled the otter beastman, named Reilee. Adiane scowled further.

She will not die here. Not as long as Thymilph or Codine live in this world, she will not die.

"Fire!"

The missile bays behind the Dai-Gankai's gray command center opened up, and long missiles streaked out and lanced into the sky…

And then the bottom fuelselage broke apart, and the top edge of the missile broke up, revealing another thruster…

And they streaked towards the earth, hitting the Ganzar squadrons like thunder and turning them into flaming slag.

"Kills confirmed! We have detected more Imperial Ganmen up the channel. Ma'am they are…" Paused Ward, speaking clearly now.

"What is it Ward?"

"They seem to be falling back Commander and-"

"I don't care right now! Damage report!" Snapped Adiane.

"Starboard Hanger has taken some damage and there are fires. The left claw has taken some damage and some armor on the starboard side have taken some damage but they are holding." Adiane nodded at the walrus beastwoman's analysis.

"Casualities?"

"We lost two ganmen, confirmed KIAs. Ungoroth has taken minor damage to the back." That said, Mortaco appeared on screen.

"Just a scratch. There's nothing me and ole Ungo can't do!" Said Mortaco with a peppy smile as she took a swig from a canteen. The Snake-Scorpion knew that wasn't water…

"Duly noted. What of the aerial forces Ward?" the Squid tried to reposition himself yet again to speak clearly, this time lying on his side.

"Squadrons should arrive here in under five hundred seconds. Quantei is due to engage in less than twenty…" Adiane narrowed her eyes in thought. She didn't doubt the Royal Knight's ability, but there could be some ganmen that evade him…

"Prepare anti-air ordinace. Prepare AA Missile Batteries ten through forty. Have them fire on my mark." She turned her attention towards Thymilph, who was also on the screen next to Mortaco.

"Thymilph, I want you and the rest of the ganmen to return inside the hangars. Should we encounter any more enemy forces I will activate the Hydroconverters and send out the Shura Marines." The Gorilla beastman grinned.

"The Shura Marines. I've always wanted to see them in action. I heard they were your best fighters and can take out ganmen by themselves. That true?" Adiane finally gave him the first smirk of the day.

"You have no idea…"

Skies over Xelhi Delta

The Serene Suinami was like a green dart as it sped north, Quantei gripping his controls and his face set in stone. A small screen popped up in front of him and he saw numerous Falgans and Auwls, the latter carrying heavy ordinance bombs.

He recognized the design, depth charges.

'So even if Adiane gets the Hydro-converters prepped, Dai-Gankai will still get destroyed,' thought the former knight. He pushed his control grips forward, and the Serene blasted towards impending aerial Ganmen.

His answer was a flurry of missiles from the Falgans, who sped towards him. Reaching from behind his back, the Serene acquired a small rod that had a spike on one end and a box with a spike on each face on the other. Then the rod extended, the Serene bringing it's pike-club/lance hybrid to bear.

"Bring it!" He yelled as he darted into the Falgans, darting in and out around the Serene. One Falgan transformed behind the Serene, revealing a long-armed green Ganmen with fiendish red-yellow eyes. It brought it's fists together to strike the shingann. Quantei turned his head behind, his red eyes blazing.

"I don't think so..." He muttered darkly. Swinging his lance, the spiked-box slammed into the Falgan, causing machinery and even an eye to burst out and stagger. Quantei held out his left hand and a sleek drill tendril from his palm appeared and pierced the Falgan right between the eyes. The aerial ganmen's detonation was his reward.

Quantei turned his head and saw two more Falgans in aerial mode streaking in, purple machine gun fire blazing. The Serene gave a burst of green and using it's lance, used to to slash one and swinging down to crush the other, the sliced one exploded and the mutilated one fell towards earth.

The dark-skinned androgyn saw the ganmen soar past him, the three Falgans serving their purpose. He growled.

"I won't let you!" His Spiral Meter spun light green and he sped towards the squadron. Four more Falgans darted towards him in formation, guns and missiles blazing. Quantei didn't bother dodging. His armor got chipped and damaged but with a flash of green the armor was renewed, the slight prinpicks of pain dotting his skin and vanishing as fast as they came. The same could not have been said for his lance, as it broke in half from a missile strike, smoke clouding the shingann's visuals.

That was all the Falgans needed, as they transformed to Ganmen mode and circled the shingann, still paralyzed from the missile strike and fired their cables. Quantei felt annoyed, his Resonance ratio having him feel like he was the one being binded.

Although he had to admit…there was something good about all this bondage…

"Let go!" Yelled Quantei, but the Falgans followed in tandem to his jerky movements to not put strain on the cables. Quantei's eyes darted towards the fleet. They were gaining distance.

And his Spiral Meter gauge spun white. With a yell, the Serene broke free of the cable, courtesy of small drills around it's arms. The shingann brought both arms up and drill tendrils popped out, goring a Falgan each on the right and left of the Serene.

And with a slash, the whip-drills hacked into the other two Falgans up front and behind Quantei.

He turned his head towards the fleet and he blazed a trail of green to intercept. Another quartet of Falgans appeared, their machine cannons and missiles blazing.

Quantei narrowed his eyes and barred his teeth, and his Hyper-Brain Waves kicked in.

He darted left, right, above, below, jerked left, up, right, batted a missile with the Serene's hand earning Quantei a bruise on his right hand, right again, kicked one away and Quantei felt his big toe throb as if hitting a wall, left, down, up. Dodging each missile and explosion with each movement. He brought his fist back and he tore through a the center-right Falgan, and darted towards the fleet.

He staggered and jerked in his cockpit, and more cables wrapped around the shingann. Quantei growled. The cables may have felt good, but he had more important issues.

Like living to upstage that plebian mongrel Kittan and being by his beloved Princess Nia's side.

"You want to die a painful death!" His Spiral Meter glowed white. "Mongrels!"

And a drill tendril for each Falgan behind the Serene's back. And three more explosions.

Quantei turned his head towards the fleet began to fly towards them. A small window popped up on his screen. It was Thymilph.

"I'm busy at the moment!" He dodged another missile from a stray Falgan who darted in.

"I bet you are," responded the gorilla on the Dai-Gankai. Quantei grabbed the sweeping Falgan and with a jerk of his controls, teared the ganmen in two. "But keep up the pressure. Our AA ordinance is almost primed." The Nucleotype's eyes rose.

"But I'm here too!"

"Not unless you freefall back down to the ground at breakneck speed. Besides, once we take care of the aerial forces," Another window popped up on Quantei's cockpit, revealing Ganzar As and Ganzar Hs on hover barges and retreating further inland, but unlike the forces at the mouth of the delta, they were properly armored and armed with long range weaponry. He even saw missile pods blazing from the Grunts, along with bazooka and the occasional sniper rifle.

"We need you to keep them occupied for the Dai-Gankai to prep the Hydroconverters. But for now, corral the aerial forces and thin them out. Then on my signal, ditch them faster than the hot potato and give the ground forces something to cry about." Quantei conjured another drill tendril and gored a Falgan, then swung, using the struggling ganmen into one of it's fellows. He noticed several Auwl bombers turn their heads, their red eyes widening in surprise and fear.

And in that instance the Falgan and Auwl ganmen got the message and began to blaze their levispheres southward as if they needed to yesterday. Quantei couldn't keep a smirk from forming, a small tint of blood lust forming within him.

He must admit, although Nia does frown on this behavior, those beastmen would be meeting a fiery end eventually, whether by missile or destroyed machinery. Or bloody by his hand.

He hated to admit it, but the feeling to dominate others on the battlefield in this manner, and to do so for a rightoues cause his Princess is fighting for.

It was fun.

"Running away so soon?" the Serene's hands became riveted with drills.

"Mongrels!" And he soared after them.

Xelhi Delta

"Hydroconverters at seventy-five percent!"

"Turrets Twelve, Thirteen, and Nineteen are damaged!"

"Enemy forces are contiueing retreat north!"

Adiane kept her one good eye out to the viewport, knowing that those Ganzar A's and Ganzar H's thought ahead in using high-speed hover barges, unloading everything they have at the Dai-Gankai. Her other eye darted towards a meter…

77…78…79…

"Eighty Percent! We're almost-" A shot rattled the gray command center on the Dai-Gankai. A quartet of hover barges on the port side roared a several thousand meters away. The yellow and brown Ganzar A's Nose cannons blasting hard ad infintum.

"Steady!" Barked Adiane. The Dai-Gankai still treaded north on the Siduta, and up above them and far away, several explosions could be seen. Quantei was doing his handiwork.

"How much longer until they are in our kill zone Josef?" Asked the Snake-Scorpion. The otter beastman, Josef turned.

"Ten seconds!" Replied Josef.

"Nine! Eight! Seven! Six!"

"Prep Anti-Air missile tubes ten through forty! Open missile bays!" On her cue, the missile bays on the gray-abdomen that is the command center of the Dai-Gankai opened up, under half of them opened up. The Dai-Gankai's anti-personell turrets on both port and starboard sides were having a hard day at work trying to intercept any artillery shells or missiles, some of them being destroyed.

"Confirmed hit on starboard! Fires in Turret Bay Four!"

"Five! Four! Three!"

"Eighty-five percent!"

"Two! One!"

Adiane barked, her throat becoming sore.

"Fire!" And Josef slammed the a button on his console. And the missiles behind the Dai-Gankai streaked north, a massive stream of smoke trailblazing behind the warheads.

"Ninety-two percent! Ninety-three! Ninety-four!"

"Fires in Turret Bay Nine! Confirmed casualities!" Yelled the walrus Beastwoman Reilee.

"Ninety-five! Ninety-six! Ninety-seven!"

A window appeared on the main screen, revealing a scarred and eyepatch-wearing Great white shark beastmen, a cigar planted on his lips.

"Commander! Send us out now!"

"You'll go on my order Sergeant Jula!"

"Ninety-eight! Ninety-nine!" A button appeared on Adiane's throne.

"One-hundred percent! Hydroconverters primed and ready!" Yelled Reilee. Adiane slammed down on the button and the ship began to blare it's alarms. She gave Jula a smirk.

"Have fun Sergeant," the Great White Shark gave her a smirk and bloodthirsty as hers and saluted. The screen blinked out.

And then, up north ahead of them, a green streak fell to earth. A only several moments later, the sky lit up yellow and orange, as the entire aerial contingement met with Kingdom Come, their welcoming consisting of fire and metal and death. The skyline was brightened yellow with circular explosions, and at the same time, along the Dai-Gankai's side, several spheres appeared, blue and white in colored.

They glowed bright yellow, and then as if it was a miracle from the divine, water began to be conjured out of it, at first in streams, then in torrents, then as if a flood broke lose.

The Dai-Gankai began approaching the land on the port side, the water flowing incredibly as if the Siduta River was moving with it. The water began to rise, one meter, three meters, ten meters, thirty meters, fifty meters, and finally a hundred meters.

Only the Dai-Gankai's Command center could be spotted above the water.

The Hydroconverter. A device with the ability to transmute air molecules into hydrogen molecules. In other words, they fuse elements together.

And two hydrogen atoms with one oxygen atom make water.

It defied physics, and technically, while it is not fusion that occurs in suns. It is fusion nonetheless.

And a marvelous fusion indeed, as Adiane began to smirk as the Dai-Gankai's demon-like face began to open, it's sharp teeth revealing another hangar bay.

But small dark figures raced out of the mouth, and they are much more dangerous than the smiling Submarine Fortress Ganmen's teeth.

Xelhi Delta

Quantei regained control of the Serene Suinami and began to take in his surroundings, breathing hard as he calmed himself down.

He saw the missiles fire from the Dai-Gankai, and he took that opportunity to get the hell out of dodge, just flying straight down. And everywhere around him was falling debris and slag.

To his right he could see the Dai-Gankai walking out of the water, as if taking the river with it and heading towards the fleeing caravan of hover barges, still blazing purple at the water and the hover barges speeding even faster away from the incoming flood. He looked to the left and still saw more purple fire at the Dai-Gankai on the other side of the Siduta.

Another window popped up on his screen. It was Adiane.

"Quantei, the ground forces on the eastern side are annoying. Take care of it," said the Snake-Scorpion. Her voice becoming a bit hoarse. Quantei nodded.

"Understood." She blinked out and he sped towards the eastern shore of the Siduta.

And the Ganzar As and Ganzar Hs noticed him, and he saw a flurry of machine and artillery fire erupt all around him.

"Bring it!" he yelled as he crashed into the earth at breakneck speed, breaking the sound barrier and digging into the earth with his drill. His resulting dive made the earth erupt, sending Ganzar As and Ganzar Hs, along with many Grunts up in the air.

As he dug through, the dark-skinned androgyn turned the shingann to drill through the earth and erupt again underneath the feet of another squad of Ganzars.

As he flew out of the earth, he landed with a crash, and sized up his enemies.

There was still over several dozen Ganzars, and plenty of Grunts of all types. Frog, Devil, Bull, he didn't care.

And they were froze, over a hundred versus one.

Until one yellow Grunt, a Frowning face Grunt charged, club swinging.

"TITNUGGETS!" Yelled the Grunt, driven by fear and fervor just happened to say a word like that.

Quantei dodged the Grunt with a side-step, grabbed it's club, and with a flash of green later…

The yellow Grunt gets demolished by a massive three-story club, riddled with spikes, nails, and spheres.

The Ganzars fired and the Grunts charged. Quantei sighed and grabbed the bridge of his nose and closed his eyes.

"You know what I hate right now? Like right this moment?" He said to no one in particular. A measly mouse beastman crawled out of the wreckage of the yellow Grunt.

"What?"

Quantei reopened his eyes, his Hyper Brain-Waves kicking in and his Resonance Ratio having him pick up the darts of pain from the Ganzar fire. His eyes glowed green with Spiral Power and fury.

"EVERYTHING!" And he charged yelling.

Xelhi Delta. Siduta East Bank.

There was was phenomenon occuring. A great collective of water being created and released by the Submarine Fortress Ganman Dai-Gankai.

And the Teppelin Western Reserves along with a splinter of Northern Army are now under water. Their Ganmen and hoverbarges sinking under the waves and current.

"God damn! What's happening!" Yelled out a baboon Beastman inside a Ganzar A. A window popped on his screen on his right, revealing a seal beastman.

"It's the Dai-Gankai! Get to the surface or swim as far away as you can from that fortress! If I heard right then-" There was several thumps on the baboon's Ganzar A, and he looked around puzzled, but his eyes widened as he saw several linear figures swim away.

And the seal beastman saw the Ganzar A explode. Panic broke out like a shattered dam.

"What the hell!"

"I thought the Dai-Gankai didn't have artillery!"

Over the feared chatter, several more explosion happened, and the seal beastman gaped.

"Oh no..." He saw a dark shape speeding towards his Frog-faced Grunt. Knowing that he can swim, he opened the cockpit and dove out through the oncoming torrents of water.

His world erupted in pain as he felt his arm being ripped off after being bumped hard, he screamed as blood poured out and air bubbles escaped the seal's mouth. He turned his bloodshot eyes...

And saw his arm in the mouth of a Mako Shark beastwoman. She looked human, with natural curves underneath some skin tight undergarments, save for the webbed feet and hands, and a navy blue skin. Not to mention sharp like teeth, which his arm was now in.

She took out his arm and grinned.

"Bad move." She oiled.

The last thing the seal knew was more erupting pain, and more sharp teeth from other Shark-like beastmen, tearing him into a bloody mess.

And it was anarchy under the water. Dolphin beastmen and beastwoman darted carrying C4s and other explosive devices, planting them onto the flailing ganmen. The Shark beastmen and beastwomen breaking into cockpits and ripping their opposition limb from limb. More dolphins, along with Baracuda and Pike Beastmen and Beastwomen, carried torpedos that gored and erupted on the heavier Ganman and enemies alike.

A Devil-head Grunt tried to swat his foes, but the dolphins proved to nimble and latched on sticky grenades as they passed by. The Grunt vanished in a fireball soon after.

A wrecked Ganzar H's cockpit opened, and a badger beastman tried to swim upwards. But one speeding Mako shark ripped off his legs with a pass, then a Tiger shark his left arm, and finally a scarred Great White rushed in and dealed the Coup De Grace with him biting the head off and spitting out. They swam together in formation.

"Crikey! You ate his legs! Good show!" Compliemented the Tiger Shark, wearing what seemed to be a fishing hat and some glasses. He spoke in an odd accent.

"Yea but I think I ate something else..." Gagged the Mako, he also spoke with a more nasally accent. And he coughed and threw up...something...

"You bit off...you bit off his...his!" The Tiger shark couldn't contain his laughter as the Mako looked on in horror. The Great White burst out laughing as well, his laughter deep and boisterous.

"Ewww! Yuck! I aimed for the legs! I didn't mean to...to...HIS DICK!" Yelled the Mako. He was patted near his dorsal fin by the Great White, Sergeant Jula.

"Oh don't fret about it. I ate several penises in my career. Mostly human but still, they taste like chicken." The Tiger and Jula continued to laugh as the Mako ignored them, muttering curses on how he will "aim for the lower legs" next time.

Another hoverbarge broke to the surface, but down below, several Barracuda and dolphin beastmen, carrying torpedos near their dorsal fins, fired and struck the underbelly of the craft. It vanishes in a black and red fireball.

The only esteemed and established Marine Corps of the Teppelin Empire, known for their cold efficiency, fast and swift tactics, and bloodthirst unknown to beast or human-kind alike. Named after the first Western Naval Admiral Don Bruce, a Shark-Dolphin hybrid beastman who called himself the "Asura of the Abysmal Deeps", but as he grew old he would have trouble with "sh" sounds and preferred nicknames.

And he named his fabled fighting unit: The Shura Marines.

Xelhi Delta West Bank.

Quantei breathed in and out, calming himself. He did admit, he went overboard, more than he should have back there. But he was frustrated.

Whenever he saw a Grunt of any kind leaping towards him, he pictured Kittan being fed cake by Nia.

Whenever he dodged through cannon fire from Ganzar As and Ganzar Hs alike, he pictured Nia sleeping kindly on that plebian's lap.

Whenever he had the Serene's hands reaching out towards a Grunt, he saw them...wiggling their noses with each other and giggling.

Their noses...

In other words, he should have been by her side. Not he. But Simon and the Deputy Commanders opted their feud on who gets to be by the princess' side through Rock-Paper-Scissors.

If only that accursed game wetn for best of three...And he'll never select rock again.

As he reopened his eyes, he saw ruined and torn apart Grunts and Ganzars everywhere. He leaned his head back and took a deep breath.

"I have to control myself next time," he muttered, ashamed of his earlier conduct. Perhaps even Gokami would have been disgusted by his conduct earlier.

But, it was for a cause his princess was fighting for, to acquire freedom for humans and to have equality amongst man and beast. And the Imperial forces had no qualm in living alongside humans.

He blinked and heard a beeping and saw Thymilph on his screen.

"Wow Quantei, talk about a slaughter. You mad at something?" Asked the gorilla. Quantei scratched his cheek a little.

"Maybe..." The Gorilla gave him a toothy grin.

"Well tomorrow while we repair we can head to the gym and let loose some of that frustration my good friend. We have wiped most of the forces here at the Xehli Delta entrance and there's no sign of the enemy along the Siduta. Our scouts have reported seeing a huge pit north-east. We can head there for repairs and recooperation."

"What of Cytomander's forces? Will he make an appearance?" Thymilph shook his head.

"Maybe. Maybe not. But for now we can't head into the heartland yet. We need to wait on the Dai-Gurren to reach there. So for now we earned ourselves a break." The dark skinned Nucleotype nodded.

"And you missed it! Man those Shura Marines were bloody!" Gaped the gorilla in amazement. Quantei rolled his eyes.

"I bet they were." He closed communications and channeled some Spiral Power. With a thrust, the Serene Suinami left the wreckage and headed north to regroup with the Dai-Gankai.

By noon, the Dai-Gankai has taken the southern portion of the Xelhi Delta, eliminating several of Cytomander's aerial squads, some Northern Army reserves and a majority of the Western Navy reserves.

Teppelin Heartland. Dai-Gando.

Guame growled as he overlooked the damages done in the south on the visual screen inside his command center. Adiane as countered Ursali's and Cytomander's forces well, in addition to losing some of his partial reserves. His bridge officers overlooked everything happening across the heartland and beyond.

"Give me a report on Deputy General Ursali," he rumbled, taking a drag from his pipe.

"Ursali is moving in from the south General. He appears to be leaving Saint Rimo sir." Guame nodded at the ant-eater's reply.

It was no common knowledge what made Ursali stood out was investing some of his funds into creating his own Dai-Gan fortress. However, this Dai-Gan was smaller than most fortress ganmen. He heard rumors of it being invincible yet silent and swift.

He scoffed at the motions of "invincible". The Dai-Gando is the only fortress capable of such a title, and it lived up to it as well.

"I take it he is moving out in the Dai-Gankuro I assume?"

"It's possible sir." Guame nodded again, and heard another beeping. He pressed a button and Cytomander, arm's crossed, came on screen.

"I lost a good amount of men today Guame." Snided the peacock beastman.

'Come to complain like the pup you are are you?' thought the armadillo beastman.

"Such is the fate of war Cytomander. Remember what Mugen said, our duty is to slow their advance to a grind. Make them lose men. The rogue shingann duo and the Gurren Lagann will make it here to the Capital."

"Tch. I still say we eliminate them all in one fell swoop," growled Cytomander. "Besides, their aerial power is limited. I can overwhelm those fools easily."

"We have our king's orders. We await for the Gurren Lagann and the shingann to reach the Capital. Then we unleash all of our might and more. Understand where I am coming from Cytomander?" The Peacock beastman grabbed his chin and tapped at it in thought. Until he opened his mouth in realization.

"Now I see. It's all mental. If we defend the capital while our enemies at at our doorstep, and while His Majesty the Spiral King fights himself..."

"Then we will more driven to defend it, going down to the last man and the last bullet. We have that mentality set, there' no way their special mecha can succeed." Cytomander grinned in respect.

"As expected from Guame the Steady. Now I better brief my men and figure out which aerial squadrons to send to tomorrow. How goes the Dai-Ganzan?" Guame moved his eyes towards a map posted on his right.

The Dai-Ganzan hasn't budged an inch since it made landfall. He grinned a fanged grin. The death field clearly has them shaken up.

"It's going well. They haven't budged an inch. Now before night falls, send in aerial forces. Be quick and fast Cytomander. Have your men empty their munitions on the Dai-Ganzan, and retreat back to Dai-Ganten." The Peacock beastman chuckled with confidence.

"Who do you think you're talking to?" He moved some hair out of his right eye. "I am Cytomader the Swift after all. Until tomorrow my friend." Guame nodded and Cytomander flickered out.

And there you have it! Part 1 of Day 1 of the Battle of Teppelin. I'll conclude the Dai-Gurren part next chapter and move onto Day 2. More emphasis on the side characters!

If you guess who I got Quantei's PO'ed moment and how I got the name Shura Marines from(from a famous man who was unbeatable once...) cookie for you.

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