It had been a few days since the entire invaders ordeal Ikki was involved with and...boy, was all of that seriously affecting the poor guy. The event was on the news as it mentioned the entire fight but luckily, they didn't say nothing about him, nor were the people from the other day looking for him aswell...honestly, this was just a massive headache.
Heck, he couldn't even concentrate on watching the hyper bike race he went to yesterday, of course he was only there to give out some good ol' support his friend's team, team Shiba, which they did win the race so that's good at least...but not even that event took his mind off from the other day.
The boy stared at the ceiling in his room as he had already been awake for a few minutes, stuck in his own thoughts for a while...a soft sigh soon escaped his mouth as he got up, once again getting ready for a brand new school day.
he did his usual morning routine before getting on his bike and heading to school, normally he would go over to Kenji's place to go to school with him, but today, Ikki decided not to, mainly because he though the guy needed a bit of rest do to the race and such.
Soon enough, the boy was on school, heading into his classroom before sitting down on his seat. The boy stood silent as he once again thinks about that day...that mysterious new getter, the giant mechanical monster and the invaders...it was still all free on his mind, those scenes casually running around in there
"Excuse me."
His thoughts were briefly interrupted as the boy turned over to where the voice came from, he looked to see a girl standing next to his desk. She had long black hair alongside a headband ontop of it, the girl was Tsubaki Tamashiro, a fellow classmate of Ikki and one of Kenji's friends, even if the relationship is kind of rough do to how the guy usually is like.
"Yeah?" Ikki simply gave that was a reply as he had his attention on the girl, as she quickly replied to him with a question.
"You usually come to school with Kenji, right? May i ask why he isnt with you today?"
"Frankly speaking, i thought he might have been tired from yesterday's race and such and that he needed a bit of rest...and now thinking about it a bit more about it, he might actually arrive pretty late knowing him."
"Ah, i see." Tsubaki simply nodded at his response to her question, she can already think on what Kenji is doing now, still sleeping on his bed and most definitely getting in class mid lesson. The girl then once again looked at Ikki as she decided to ask another question. "Hey...i know this isn't my business since we don't know each other so well but...you seemed a bit down as of lately, is everything alright?"
Ikki stood quiet for a bit as he thought of an answer to give out...he soon gave out a small smile towards the girl so that the suspicions would stop. "Yep, everything is good alright...i've just been tired lately, yeah."
Tsubaki stared at him for a bit...something didn't feel right but like she previously state, they weren't close so pressing more buttons would be dangerous. The girl simply gave out a nod before leaving the boy alone, Ikki watched them leave as he sighed, placing his head down on the table soon enough.
A silver haired boy watched the scene from a few tables away, he didn't seem interested at the conversation all that much but he did capture a good chunk of information...he knew the boy was hiding something.
The scene soon cuts into a new location, a giant base that was build on a stone island of sorts, the base was fairly big as it was faced forward towards Kyushu, or at least...what was supposed to be Kyushu, as it was now covered in a giant cloud of mist, covering the entire island up as it was now being called "The Zone".
Inside the surprisingly large control room of the base, several personals were on their stations, working their hardest to understand a current situation that has happen around Kyushu, a situation that could be turned into potential danger.
"Where is the data from tanega island?"
"We've confirmed it!"
"Data from Tsu island, Kai island and Shimonoseki island are all the same."
"So, we can confirm the zone is becoming active again."
"Connect me to the prime minister!" An old rough voice is heard as a hunched old man came into the scene, he seemed to have a monocle on his right eye alongside wearing a white labotary coat,he was also handling a cane to keep himself up as he walked forward. "And send a message to all observation center workers! Have them reconfirm the automated observation units, and evacuate the zone!"
One of the workers turned away from their computer and towards the old man, asking a question about the command. "How far back should they go?"
"Idiot! As if i would know!" The old man yelled out a reply back towards them as his attention switched towards something else, another personal calling his attention, but this time, for something much important.
"Prime Minister Yumi is calling!"
The man gained a surprised look but never the less, he replied with confidence. "Patch him in!"
The large monitor on the room suddenly switched into the live footage of a white haired mustache formally dressed man came through, the man was Gennosuke Yumi, perviously he was the director of the Photon lab but now, he was the prime minister of japan. "Senjiro...i supposed this is about the Dimensional Suctioning body, right?"
"Indeed...the DS absolute zone is becoming active, and we predict further corrosion at this rate." The old man, Senjiro Shiba, replied as he started walking from one side to another. "We request a warning to be send to the areas around the Kyushu region."
"Hmm...even though it hasn't had any real activity for almost a century, i will believe your information...your request is accepted." The prime minister replied with a nod but he quickly returned to his statement, adding a fee unfortunate decisions. "However, i must have an emergency meeting with the disaster committee before any real action takes place..."
"Permission to use the Build base's armaments?" Shiba asked in a much more serious tone, as he stared deeply into the screen on which the prime minister once again nodded at approval.
"Permission approved and if i must add...i will have a acquaintance ready for action if the situation in there goes extreme." Yumi said as he soon turned off the call, this caused the old man to groan in anger, hoping back up wasnt needed at all
School day went normal for Ikki as everything just stayed the usual. Kenji sneakily arrived midway through class so at least he wasn't punished...by the teachers at least, because soon after on lunch time, he went to mess with Tsubaki like always and...he got hit with her shoe. Well, Ikki was now sitting as the same table as Kenji, who was just complaining about the previous shoe tossing. "That hurt! Who throws a shoe, anyway?"
"To be fair...you were kind of asking for it." Ikki cheekly replied back as this only made his receive an angry glance from Kenji, but the boy quickly turned back to normal as he clapped his hands together and smiled, staring at the food on their table. "Who cares? It's time for food!"
"I'd hate to think that's the kind of combination that prehistoric man would come up with." A new masculine voice entered the conversation as the two boys turned around to see who it was, a silver haired boy was standing infront of their table, this was none other than Kyo Misumi, Kenji's partner in team Shiba but also his rival, alongside being decently popular, having several girls staring at him from the background. The guy had a cocky smirk on his face as Ikki just stared in confusion, meanwhile, Kenji was somewhat frustrated by this new arrival.
"Leave me alone, will ya???" Kenji simply replied while having his hand towards the guy, signaling them to go away from there. "It aint your bussiness to know what i use my part time money on!"
Kyo didnt really care about the reply as he grabbed a chair from a nearby table, bringing forward to the boy's table and sitting down on it. Ikki kept on looking at the silver haired guy before deciding to speak out on his own, at least to try and understand why he was there. "Sooo...is there any particular reason you are here?"
Kyo simply glanced at the boy as he decided to answer the question anyways, it wasn't anything he had to keep hiding after all. "The owner asked us who will represent the team on the next race, hence why im here."
This caught Kenji's attention, who immediately stopped eating his food to have a better idea on what the guy was talking about, a smirk popping on his face the boy replied to Kyo with confidence. "Then we better duke it out!"
"If you two want, i could help out that decision if it isnt that big of an issue." Ikki chimed in onto the situation as this got the attention of the two racers. While Kyo was interested at the idea of a judge, Kenji just went and chuckled.
"Come on Ikki, we all know you will support me no matter what, so it wouldn't be fair for poor Kyo." The boy responded in a cocky manner which made Ikki give him a deadpan look, but soon enough, Kyo decided to speak out.
"Actually...having somesort of judge is a nice idea, if i do think so myself." Kyo responded as the two other boys just stare at him in surprise at his approval, especially Ikki since...he was for sure the guy would hate the idea.
Kyo got up from his seat as he stared at the two, placing his hands on his jeans pockets while giving the duo a smirk. "I'll be at the test course after school." That was all he said before heading away from the table, leaving both Ikki and Kenji alone as they just look at each other for a bit.
School soon ended as the trio would now be at a racing course, it was pretty much empty with the exception of the two racers and Ikki, who was sitting down on one of the benches while staring at Kyo and Kenji, who were now on their hyper motor bikes, ready to race and see how would represent their team.
A timer slowly went down on the sides as the racers got ready, it soon hit zero as one of the signal lights glew blue. The two racers started rushing off the starting line as Ikki watches them go...the two racers seemed to be evenly matched for the most part, but it did seem Kenji was on the lead...only for Kyo to surpass him soon after.
Ikki watches the two with a smile as he suddenly felt something...that something was wrong. The racers soon returned to the starting point as Kyo quickly got off his bike, removing his helmet while turning to the side. Kenji at first just lifted his visor, confusing at his rival's sudden reaction. "Oi kyo! What's the matter???"
Suddenly, the ground started to tremble as the trio were just shocked by this event. Ikki quickly rushed out of the benches and into the course, staring towards a mountain, Hanaka mountain, as a part of it seemingly collapsed, causing a cloud of dust to erupt in the process.
"Is...is Hanaka mountain crumbling?..." Those were the only words Ikki would say at the moment as he simply stared at the mountain in shock alongside the other two. The situation got even worse as once the dust cloud faded...a giant brown colored creature was standing from the crumbled area of the mountain...the creature had long arms alongside a giant single black eye with a yellow pupil.
"What the hell is that thing?" Kenji asked as he kept staring at the creature as it started to make it's way towards the city. Kyo gained a confident look to him as he responded to the question.
"A Haniwa Phantom God!"
The Phantom God stopped on it's track before firing a red laser to the city, while the gang didnt see the destruction, they could hear the explosions and smoke cloud coming from town. Kenji watches this as he suddenly realized something.
"It is heading to Tsubaki's temple!" He announced before placing on his helmet back, but before he could head out, Ikki jumped on the bike aswell as he just held onto Kenji, who was...confused at this. "Hey hey hey! What are you doing!?!?"
"Im going with you, duh!"
"Oh no you won't you! You will go somewhere safe! Ain't letting your ass get in danger!"
"And what is preventing you from getting in danger yourself!" Ikki yelled out before sighing...he stared at Kenji with a confident look on his face before his tone got more serious. "Please, let me go with you."
Kenji stood quiet as he then scoffed, he knew there was no convincing them to stay and get to safety. "Fine...but don't go complaining if shit gets intense!"
The racer turned on his bike as the two rushed off, passing by Kyo who was pressing some sort of one pierce headset to his ear. His attention quickly switched to the two running off as he was shocked by the sudden action. "Wait!" But it was to no avail as the boys were already far away.
The duo were on their way to the temple as Ikki turned to the side to see the action, he saw a few fighter jets show up but they were quickly taken down by the creature's laser beam. The boy stood quiet as he knew that he had to call upon his mech but with the current situation...he needed to wait a bit longer for it to work.
"What is that thing that is destroying our city!?" Kenji asked out as he soon turned to look at the destruction.
"Never saw that thing before! Not in the history books or anything similiar!"
"That really answers my question, thank you!" The racer replied with a sarcastic tone as he soon pressed a switch on one of the Bike's handles, the vehicle suddenly shifted upwards slightly as they had arrived at a pair of stairs alongside an entrance.
Kenji drifted to the side before heading up the stairs with his bike, causing the vehicle to shake slightly on their way up but soon enough, they had arrived on the top before Kenji drifted the bike to a stop.
The temple seemed quite big with a few structures. Kenji was the first to leave the bike as he quickly took out his helmet and rushed out, instantly yelling out for his friend. "Tsubaki!!!"
Ikki slowly got out of the bike before following after his friend, the two started their search but they were quickly stopped by a voice calling out. "Are you Kenji?"
The duo turned around to look at whoever spoke out as they met eyes with a older woman wearing a Kimono as she stared at the two. Kenji quickly went and started speaking with the woman to find out where his friend was. "Where's Tsubaki?"
"She's not here." The woman replied as this did get the two boys relieved a bit, especially Kenji. Ikki then quickly regained his senses of the situation as he quickly tried to explain the situation.
"We have to get out of here, Ma'am. Because that thing is coming and, and!" The boy explained as he was pointing to the sides, trying to explain that the monster was coming this way. The woman turned around as she started to walk away but not before calling out the two of them.
"You two, follow me."
The duo looked at each other for a moment before following the woman...they soon entered a cave like structure on the side of the temple as they arrived at a new area, the lady then turned on a switch as the room was lit up in the process. The boys looked as they saw something in the middle of the room...it was a hyper bike, but it was unlike anything they had seen before as it seemed more...armored up in a way.
Kenji quickly went to check the bike as he was stunned by how it looked, a small "wow" escaping his mouth in the process. "What is this machine?"
"You two get out in that." The woman said as she then tossed something towards Kenji. The boy picked it up as it was a pair of gloves alongside a key, though the key had a weird shape to it alongside what seems to be a mini robot head attached to the top. The boy turned on the machine as he was soon again amazed by it.
"Wow...that is amazing! Hey lady, did you make it?" Ikki turned around to ask the woman as he was also amazed by the bike, but his face changed to a confused one as she was now gone.
"Hey Ikki, where's the old lady!?"
"I-i don't know! She was just here a minute ago and-" Before the boy could finish, they suddenly felt the room shaking as the realization hits them...the phantom god had finally arrived at their location.
Ikki quickly rushed to the bike and hopped in behind Kenji as the duo started to head out of the crumbling room through an exit. The two were amazed by the speed of the bike and soon enough, they were back to the outside world, the monster now standing behind them as it sticked it's arms out to try and grab the bike, only to fail in the process.
The two of them kept speeding away from the now destroyed temple as the phantom god followed right behind them, this causing the duo to be slightly frighten up by this as they had no idea what was it behind them.
"Why the hell is this chasing us!?!?" Kenji quickly yelled out in fear as Ikki was just looking at the beast, also in intense fear.
"You think i know!? I just want to live at this point!" Ikki replied as he held onto Kenji tighter as the duo soon ran through some bushes and into the main road, the monster still not losing chase as it kept on following the two.
The beast's supposed mouth started to open up and it then started spitting fireballs towards the boys, luckily it was missing most of it's hits do to the speed of the bike. Kenji then turned up the speed as he noticed a tunnel up ahead as they soon went inside of it as the duo started to celebrate a bit.
"Hah! Let see you getting inside of here now, big guy!" Kenji yelled out as he sticked his tooth out towards the phantom god, Ikki soon chuckled as he joined in on the insults soon after.
"Yeah! All you can do now is sit down and...watch..." Before the boy properly finished his sentence, the phantom god's body started to slowly come apart, several cylindrical objects coming out as they soon started to float inside of the tunnel in a line.
This quickly caught the boys attention as Kenji once again started to rush away for it, the two boys were now even more shocked at this new ability the beast showed as the cylinders started stabbing onto the ground and walls of the tunnel, trying to pierce the duo to their death.
The bike soon made it's way out of the tunnel but the cylinders started to float past the vehicle and into the front of it, as they slowly started to combine once again as the phantom god has now been rebuilt infront of them, ready to attack. Kenji quickly stopped the bike as the two started at the beast, unsure how they would end.
However, something soon caught Ikki's attention as he poked Kenji's shoulder while pointing at the sky. From the distance, three futuristic looking jets were coming their way, each one having a primarly white coloring alongside different line colors...they also had a golden ring on their back. The two boys started at each other as they started to have a short conversation.
"What are those things?"
"I have no idea, maybe they are a new type of jet?"
"Most likely. Hey, let's see if they will help us out."
"Why wouldn't they help us? It is clear they are on our side and not on the monster's."
"You never know, lemme try."
"Hey!!! Over here!!" Kenji yelled out towards the jet while also waving his hand at them. The jets soon started firing at not only the monster but also near the duo aswell for some reason...
The jets flew closer to the phantom god as they soon started firing missiles at the creature as this gave the opportunity for the boys to try and get away. Kenji quickly turned the bike around as he starts heading the other way, turning around in a small entrance as the bike jumped onto the sand, the boys were now making their way across an abandoned factory.
The bike made it's way inside the factory as soon enough, a barrage of bullet started to rain at the two, causing the boys to actually be surprised.
"Huh!?!? They are also the enemy!?" Kenji yells out in surprised as Ikki just turned over at him.
"This because you decided to get their attention!"
"You said they wouldn't be helping the monster!"
The two argued as the factory is soon destroyed by another fireball from the phantom god. But luckily, the duo managed to get out fine as the bike bursts through the smoke.
Kenji kept on driving the bike as he returned onto the road and soon turns on a new path that lead upwards. After once again dodging another fireball, the duo arrived at a rocky area that was mostly filled with large stones and what not.
Ikki stood quiet for a moment as he decided this would be a good time for him to shine. "Hey, Kenji, im gonna do something and i need you to keep on going."
"Huh? The hell you mean?" But before Kenji could get a answer, Ikki had jumped off the bike and onto the ground, rolling a bit before fully standing up. A shocked Kenji watches as his friend stared at the monster head on, he was ready to turn back to get the boy back on the bike but soon enough, the situation changed a bit
"WAKE UP! RASEN!"
Ikki yells out as the ground beneath him bursted up, with Rasen ascending into the surface while Ikki gets inside of the robot, this time without the need of the ladder. Kenji just watches in even more shock as he was just...confused of what was even happening.
"HOLD ON, WHAT? YOU HAVE A MECH? AM I MISSING SOMETHING!?!?" The racer yelled out before a shadow flew above him, catching his attention as he looked up to see what it was. A weirdly shaped jet flew around the sky before it suddenly started firing something towards Kenji...it was arms and legs, or at least, parts that formed arms and legs.
The boy just watches the parts get closer to him as he turned his speed up. Meanwhile, Rasen was trying to fight against the phantom god which was much harder to deal with than the invaders, the beast smacked the robot to the side as the mecha is sent flying, destroying some of the larger stones on the way.
Kenji kept running away from the things that were following him as a familiar voice suddenly called out for him. "Kenji!"
The boy looked around before looking over at the screen of the bike, on the side, he could see someone familiar on the screen, it was Tsubaki, though she did have a different appearence from her usual self, now having a purple visor plus some more radical like clothing. "Don't run, kenji! those arent your enemy! They'll be your strength!"
"Tsubaki!? Is that you?"
"When the parts are within an electromagnetic field, the build up sign will appear!"
"W-what?"
"Put your fists together!"
"My fists?..."
"Hurry!"
"All right!" Kenji looked at his fists before putting them together. The symbols on the gloves start to shoot out electricity as the boy just gets surprised. "What is this?!"
Back to the fight. Ikki groaned in pain as slowly made Rasen get up from the ground, staring at the phantom god who had it's attention somewhere else. This gave the boy enough time to make his robot dash towards the monster and land out a punch at send the beast sliding away and turning towards it.
"Hey ugly! Im your opponent so keep up!" Ikki yells out before he noticed something happening nearby and man...that definitely surprised him.
The bike Kenji was piloting slowly started to transform into a head of sorts with Kenji still inside, though luckily he would be fine, the parts then started to attach to each other as they started to form a body. The body had a mostly yellow and green color scheme with a bit of blue, mostly on the arms.
The head soon attached itself onto the body before the machine stroke a pose as even lightning struck a bit on the background. The robot then turned towards a nearby lake as it stared at it's reflection for a bit.
Ikki was amazed by the new robot but to be fair...the size was a bit small, smaller than a mobile suit infact, but hey, if that thing could fight, it would be all good.
Inside of the new robot's head was a cockpit, being piloted by Kenji as he just looked around, confused as all hell. "What's with this bike?!"
"That's steel jeeg."
An older voice spoke out as on a screen inside of the cockpit, appearing Senjiro, on which Kenji started asking who the man was. "Just who are you Gramps?!"
"Kusanagi Kenji...become the protector of this earth!"
"...What?"
Before anything else got be asked, Jeeg is attacked on the back with an incoming fireball. The machine fell onto the ground as the phantom god slowly approuches it, grabbing the robot by the head and slowly lifting it up.
"D-dangit!" Kenji yelled out from inside of the cockpit as soon enough, he would be freed thanks to Rasen punching the monster on the sides, causing it to let go of Jeeg.
Jeeg would then grab the monster by it's hand and proceeded to toss it onto the side, even with their size difference, the smaller robot seemed to be quite powerful. Rasen stared at Jeeg as the small robot stared back at it, the two units stared at each other before they pointed at each other in surprise.
"EH!?!??!"
"Kenji!? Kenji, you are piloting that thing!?
"Me?! I should be asking you that question, you were the one you appeared on that first!"
"Don't blame me!"
"Hm...i knew something was up with you." A new voice came inside Rasen's cockpit as Ikki knew that voice...it was Kyo. "You might need to explain a few things later for us but right now...do your best on assisting Kenji, alright?"
"Kyo??? Where are you even speaking from?"
"Im piloting the Big Shooter alongside Tsubaki, we will try giving you two air support."
Ikki nodded with a smirk as Rasen and Jeeg started at the phantom god, who had regained it's footing and was ready to attack the two robots.
Rasen jumped up into the air and went behind the monster, sending out a barrage of fists on it's back. Jeeg then dashed to the front and started delivering kicks and punches at the monster aswell but...the attacks didnt seem to be working, whenever they land a deep hit on the beast, it simply regenerated.
"You are kidding me...our attacks are doing nothing." Ikki stated as he kept on attacking from the back.
"Well, then we must try harder!" Kenji stated before jumping back a bit, only for him to be grabbed by the phantom god, who had stretched it's arms to slam the robot into a wall.
Kenji yells out as Jeeg was being crushed onto the wall. The phantom god's arms is soon attacked by the three jets from before as it let go of Jeeg, Rasen also jumped into and kicked the monster on the back before being knocked away once more.
The phantom god soon launches fireballs towards Jeeg as the mech quickly dodged the attack before heading forward and jumping into the sky, stepping on the creature's eye and jumping off from it before landing next to Rasen.
"Shit...how can we even deal with this thing!?!?" Kenji said as Ikki was just on his cockpit, thinking of a strategy to defeat the monster before he started getting a notification noise.
The boy looked around as he looked at the area on his cockpit...a small dot was approuching a large area as on this area had two other dots, most likely Rasen and Jeeg. "Is...someone coming for us?"
Before the phantom god could attack the robots again, a spinning projectile hits the beast, going right through it's body and hitting the ground and stopping, the projectile...was a fist with blades on each corner of it.
Everyone in the area was surprised as the fist flew back to it's owner as it reaches itself back. The owner of the attack looked like mazinger Z though a bit more...upgraded, with the chest plate being in the shape of a V alongside most of it's body being more spiked up, the head was also much more different from mazinger...the newly arrived machine was none other than the Great Mazinger.
"Isn't...isn't that Great Mazinger?" Kenji asked with a bit of excitement and fear on his voice, Rasen slowly nodding as it mimics Ikki's movement.
"Tetsuya Tsurugi reporting for duty! i came here as soon as the news of the attack were handed out to us." A manly voice was heard as it came from the pilot of Great, that being Tetsuya. "So im here to assist against this monster!"
Rasen and Jeeg stared at each other before nodding, staring at the phantom god as Great lands besides them, also ready to fight.
"Okay, i have a plan...sort of." Ikki said as it got the attention of his fellow pilots. "Me and Mr. Tsurugi will try to deal as much damage to the enemy, then, since i believe Kenji has the machine mostly capable of killing it, he can try and figure out how his machine works for him to kill it!"
"Ehh...fine, i guess, as long as im the one killing it!" Kenji replied with excitement as he held onto his controls tightly.
"Don't worry, im sure you will be able to do." Tetsuya said with a small chuckle as he got ready for the plan.
Ikki started took a deep breath as he started at the phantom god, soon enough, both Rasen and Great were dashing forward to fight it as.
"Drill pressure punch!" Great closed it's hands into fists as the blades appeared on it's arms, they started spinning before shooting out towards the phantom god, once again piercing through it. Rasen's golden bracelets started spinning as the fighting robot started punching the monster before delivering a kick at them.
The phantom god quickly fought back by firing fireballs at the two super robots, who both took it without any struggles. Great regained it's arms before grabbing it's chestplate, removing it from it's chest and tossing it towards the enemy like a boomerang of sorts, as the attack started sawing the monster before Rasen fired it's arm bracelets at it
Meanwhile, Kenji was just trying to understand how jeeg worked in the first place, looking around on his Cockpit as he soon groaned a bit.
"Come on, come on...how the hell does this even work?"
"Use the spin storm."
Kenji heard the voice as it was Kyo once again. The pilot was just...confused at the attack as he simply blinked a bit. "The spin...what?"
"It's a powerful magnetic field cannon, just grab the attack trigger to use it."
"Which one!??! This one!?" Kenji looked over at one of the trigger as he started moving it forward. On the outside, Jeeg started sticking it's hands out and grabbing them together.
"No! That's the knuckle bomber!"
"Whatever! Anything works at this point! KNUCKLEEEE BOMBER!!!!"
Jeeg soon fired it's hands towards the phantom god as they were still clamped together. The attack pierced the enemy through it's body, but unlike the other attacks, this one...seemingly worked, with red veins appeared around on the creature's body before it blew up, several stone cylinders falling on the ground as the three units stared at the situation.
We cut to a new location, this time...it was a medical room as Ikki slowly opened his eyes, looking around as he had no idea where he was, he looked over himself as he realized he was with a few bandages and also shirtless...though luckily, he had some shorts. He then started hearing a few footsteps heading his way.
"Hey there kid, all good?" The voice sounded familiar as when Ikki turned around, he was once again surprised who was talking to him...the hero of the Mycenae war, Tetsuya Tsurugi, as the man just had a smirk on his face. "You two seemed to have a tough battle for the looks of it."
"Y-yeah..." Ikki replied before he started hearing a few voices, a couple of them being familiar as he looked at the side, noticing a wall but on the side of it, there was a door that lead to the room besides his.
"Your friend is in the other room, if you want you, you can go there, since for the looks of it, your injuries arent as bad as theirs." Tetsuya said as he crossed his arms in the process while Ikki nodded, getting out of bed and slowly making his way onto the door and heading onto the other room.
What he found there wasn't that surprising, as it was basically Kenji sitting down on his bed with Tsubaki and Kyo on his side, as the trio turned towards Ikki as he simply gave out an awkward smile. "H-hey guys..."
"Ah! Ikki! Glad to see you are also fine!" Tsubaki said with a smile while the Kyo just scoffed a bit, Kenji on the other hand was just looking at the guy as he made a small groaning noise.
"Alright mister! I suppose you can give us some answers, first of all, what the hell was that robot you pulled out of your ass!!!" The boy yelled towards Ikki as he quickly backed away in fear, only to bump into Tetsuya who was entering the room aswell.
"I would also like to know what was that machine, if you don't mind."
Ikki looked around before a sigh escaped his mouth...the boy then started to explain everything he knew about Rasen and including the event of the invaders and such. The people in the room were surprised by this story, as it did seem to line up slightly.
"I knew you were hiding something...so i supposed it was this?" Kyo asked towards Ikki, on which the boy nodded at them.
"Yeah, i only so that Rasen comes out of the ground whenever i saw those words, and after the fight is over, it goes away."
"That does line up with what happened...giving that the unit went away as soon as the Haniwa Phantom God was defeated." Tetsuya said as this caused Ikki to raise an eyebrow...Haniwa Phantom God? So that is what the monster was called.
"Is that what it is called?..."
"Yeah yeah, it's a long story if im being honest, im still trying to understand it myself...all i know is that i was chosen to pilot Jeeg and fight against the Jama Kingdom or whatever." Kenji said with his arms crossed as earlier, he was explained about almost everything that had happen before Ikki's arrival, and soon enough, someone else entered the room.
"You're awake, children." An older voice appeared inside of the room as it came from Professor Shiba. Kenji looked at the old man for a few seconds before getting surprised, finally remembering who he was.
"You're the old fart that was yelling at me through the monitor!
"That's professor Shiba!" Tsubaki said with a bit of excitement on her voice, as the old man seemed to be mainly focused on Kenji at the moment.
"Kusanagi Kenji...i will have you be the key to our defense- no...our offense. You must have Resolve." Shiba said as he stared at Kenji with a piercing look.
"What?" Kenji simply replied as he was started to get annoyed by this old man. "Rattling on about whatever you want...i was just dragged here!"
The boy would then be pointed at by the old man's cane as professor Shiba kept on talking. "Silence, brat! You have no right to choose!"
"What was that!?" The boy moved the cane aside as he yelled at the man before the professor started speaking once more.
"The only reason you are alive is thanks to Jeeg's armor and the help of other machines, speaking of which...YOU!" Professor Shiba pointed his cane towards Ikki as the old man raised an eyebrow. "What is your name?"
"I-ikki, sir. Im from the same school as the others." Ikki quickly said as he felt a bit nervous of this old man's presence. The professor stared at him top from bottom as he then placed the cane back on the ground.
"I see...for someone of your build, im surprise you could handle such a machine..." The old man said as he then made his way towards Tetsuya, a small groaned escaping his mouth as he started speaking again, this time seeming a bit more annoyed than usual. "Mr. Tsurugi...may i ask why you are here?"
"Well, the prime minister had contacted me seeing if i could come here if the situation got drastic, naturally, after a bit of talk with my superiors and some tough convincing, i managed to get approved, right in time aswell." Tetsuya simply replied as he looked at the professor, who was now looking way more annoyed than before.
"That damn Yumi! Did he not think we could handle this on our own!?" Professor Shiba said in anger as he started to walk out of the room, before stopping as he seemingly calmed down a bit. "Tsubaki! Give the boys some clothing later! We don't want them to go around all shirtless!"
"I must ask...does he not like the prime minister or...?" Tetsuya said as he seemed slightly confused about the sudden way the old man acted, Tsubaki soon responded with a small nervous smile on her face.
"It is just the fact he doesn't really enjoy backup from others, im so sorry about how the professor acted though!" The girl quickly tried to apologize over his actions as the hero simply shaked his head with a smirk.
"No need to apologize, i understand how it is." The man replied as Kyo looked at him, approuching Tetsuya before asking him a question.
"Mr. Tsurugi, may i ask for how long are you planning to stay in here?"
"Only for a couple of days, im to receive new orders at some point and from what i was told, the local im supposed to head towards is fairly close from here so staying seems like an easier option." Tetsuya replied to the question which made Kyo nod, Kenji on the other hand, got a bit excited of this news.
"No way! You are staying here?! Hey! Maybe we can have a mock battle even, now that i also have a robot of my own!" The boy replied with a chuckle as soon enough, he made a small "ow" noise do to the fact he was moving his body alot and ya know, he wasnt fully healed yet.
Ikki simply watches the interactions as he smiled a bit...for some reason, he felt like home with those guys, and he also felt like he would be facing alot more challenges with this gang.
Scenario 2: Cleared
Okay, time to explain a few things so some of the Jeeg fans don't go knocking on my door.
If you watched Kotetsushin Jeeg, you know what would happen at this point, if not, lemme tell yall:
In the series, new jeeg activates it's bronze bell which caused the zone to increase in size thus trapping the characters inside of it.
And while i will return to that event(Soon even, just wait a few chapters) and such, the reason i didnt full do it now was because i felt like it was too early for the story in my opinion, plus, i wanted to try a few things out.
As for how i'll handle the zone situation...you'll have to wait and see because im still thinking about it myself lol.
