Rising Sun

by SilverStarr

(DISCONTINUED) After the defeat of Black Ghost, the cyborgs meet up with old friends who died in the final battle. How are they alive? And who resurrected them? 009x003, 004xBina.

7. Special

Disclaimer: I don't own Cyborg Soldier 009. It is owned by Shotaro Ishinomori (or whatever his real name is), TV Tokyo, and some very rich people.

Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS! MAJOR SPOILERS!! MAJOR SPOILERS!!! MAJOR SPOILERS!!!! MAJOR SPOILERS!!!!!

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RISING SUN: Special

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Now, after receiving a couple of complaints because of the confusion caused by Bina's appearance, and I am very sure that I will receive even more complaints, I have decided to write out the story plot that will explain the 00 Cyborg Team's meeting Bina. However, as you may have already seen the warning above (I don't know how you can miss it), there are major spoilers in this story. So if you want to know about Bina but not have too much of the story ruined, read the following italics to just know the basics of how Bina comes in contact with the cyborgs. But if you don't care about spoilers, skip the italics for a detailed summary.

These are only summaries for the last few episodes that involves Bina. The other episodes of "When You Wish Upon a Shooting Star" (which are the series of episodes that Toonami did not show, while the ones that Toonami did show was part of "Battle Alive") are just basically mini detective adventures. Each episode shows a little adventure all or some of the cyborgs encounter (and as I recall, have nothing to do with Black Ghost)—but they are good episodes, nonetheless.

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MINOR SPOILERS!

Near the end of the series, around the last 6 episodes, the 00 Cyborg Team meets Bina through her older sister, Helen, who had lost her memories and ended up living with the cyborgs for a night. Bina, her sisters, and her people, called Purewoks (who all live underground), were taken over by the Black Ghost organization, so Bina and Helen were used to find out the cyborgs' location. But Bina realized that the Black Ghost organization didn't care about the Purewoks, so she wanted the cyborgs to help her defeat Black Ghost. However, Bina and her sisters were killed by one of Black Ghost's henchmen, Ben Pagod, for betraying him to the cyborgs.

In the beginning, 004 was very untrusting of Helen and Bina (especially Bina), only agreeing to help the sisters because of 009's insistence. But as they continued deeper into the heart of Black Ghost, 004 began to trust, understand, and care for Bina. He even told Bina his real name, and when Bina was dying, he held her in his arms and cried silently. He was able to avenge her death by killing Ben Pagod.

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MAJOR SPOILERS!!!

* Keep in mind, these are not completely detailed summaries. There are some things left out. I've only written what I thought would be important to the plot of my story (or if the moments were cute). Besides, if I wrote everything, it would be too long. Also, most of the names that are here are according to the horrible subtitles on my DVDs.

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Episode 44

In the previous episode, 008 was hurt during a battle, most of his body damaged (much like 004's situation). Also, 009, 002, and 003 ran into a girl, Helen, who seems to have lost her memories. After 003's confirmation that she is human, 009 decides to bring her back to the house, although 004 was not very happy about it. 004 thinks that Helen works for Black Ghost and is faking her memory loss so that she can hurt the cyborgs, so he continues to question her even though the others tell him not to. Joe says that they shouldn't not trust others just because of Black Ghost, so that they should trust Helen. Then, 004 finally agrees to let Helen stay after everyone else agrees with 009. However, 004 wants someone to always keep an eye on their guest. This entire time, 009 is very supportive and kind toward Helen, who just keeps apologizing and thanking him. 003 becomes a bit annoyed later on when Helen keeps commenting on how kind 009 is [personally, I think she's just jealous].

At this time, 006 and 007 are investigating the backyard of Ben Pagod, who owns a company called Sanyo that the cyborgs believe (and are correct in assuming) is creating biological weapons—basically, the company produces/creates creatures with super powers. But then Ben Pagod finds them and the two parties argue about whether the creatures are real or cyborgs (they are real), until Pagod scares them away with his shotgun. They are hiding behind a bush when a girl looking almost exactly like Helen (except different eye color) telling Pagod that she had "their" exact location, in which Pagod's answers something like the cyborgs will soon be destroyed. The two cyborgs leave the compound muttering about strange creatures and suspicious women.

Back at the house, Dr. Gilmore had worked over night to help 008. But in the morning, as everyone gathers around the door of his lab, they hear 008 scream. When they enter, they find that 008's body has been almost completely changed into silver scales (aside from his head, hands, and feet). Dr. Gilmore explains that it is because 008's body had to be completely remade and that his new skin would be better for him to fight with underwater. However, everyone else just gets mad at him and tells him that he only sees them as his projects/experiments/whatnots, and not like humans—this just makes Dr. Gilmore sad, saying it was the only way to save 008 and that he only wanted to help 008 get stronger, help all of them get stronger to defeat Black Ghost. 004 then goes out to talk to 008, saying that he would rather be the way he is now (because his body is basically not all that human either) rather than dead. Later in the episode, 008 forgives and understands the doctor's intentions.

Helen then wakes up and walks downstairs, where 004 sees her and says that she is breaking the rules he had set up. Then 006 and 007 finally come back, walks into the house, and notices Helen. 007 remembers her from last night (or rather, her twin) and grabs her wrist, hurting her. The others come in when they hear Helen's cry, and 003 comes and basically scolds 007, telling him that she had been watching over Helen all night.

Then 003 (and 009, although I don't know how) realizes that bad guys are coming—who turn out to be Pagod (who seems to also be a cyborg because he has acceleration and a body suit that makes him invisible and absorbs energy) and his group of androids [or, I think they're androids—they're these things that look like humans in black wetsuits; and I know one of the episodes talked about these people, I just didn't watch it]. So 003 stays in the house with Dr. Gilmore, Helen, and 001, while the others go out and fight. 006 and 007 are underwater in a little ship thing called Boapass, almost getting killed by a group of mechanical sharks, until 008 comes along in his new silver-scaled body and defeats them. The others are battling on land, 009 fighting Pagod even though Pagod was winning, until Boapass comes and sort of saves him, causing Pagod to leave, saying that they will meet again.

At this time, the beach house somehow caught on fire and everything was falling apart. 003 was running to get to the underground safety place/thing, but she lost Helen on the way. 003, 001, and Dr. Gilmore make it safely to the underground safety place/thing, while Helen meets her twin sister (who was with Pagod last night). As the group re-gathers after the battle, they then see Helen and her twin sister up on a cliff.

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Episode 45

The episode begins in the underground empire of Acheron (under or near a volcano), where Satan Men (big green lizards with talons for hands and feet and big black bat-like wings) have enslaved a race of humans—whom I will call Purewok because my DVD has terrible and weird subtitling. So you see that the Satan Men have hypnotic powers, which is how they can manipulate the Purewok who disobey them. One day, the Satan Men are attacked by androids, and since the Satan Men can't fight the androids because their hypnosis doesn't work, the Satan Men retreat. Then Pagod shows up, saying that it is Black Ghost who has just liberated the Purewok, and Black Ghost only asks for their help in building some weird giant thing (that has a hawk's head with horns and eagle wings).

Then the scene shifts to on the Dolphin, where you see that it was Helen's younger sister explaining to the cyborgs about her home (she and Helen are Purewok). So they find out from Helen's sister, who is Bina, that Helen was hypnotized to lose her memory so that Black Ghost could use her to monitor the cyborgs. Bina then explains that Purewok sisters/brothers have telepathic connections, so she was able to sense Helen's location [it's weird, because when Helen apologizes for all this, she always directs the apologies to 009]. Then when 004 questions whether she is here to apologize, Bina replied that she is here to ask for their help in defeating Black Ghost, telling them that she can show them to Black Ghost's headquarters, which is in Acheron (because three of their sisters are also there). When asked why, Bina replied that Black Ghost turned out to be like the Satan Men, only using the Purewok (she found this out when right before Pagod battled the cyborgs, Pagod told Bina that he was willing to sacrifice Helen). Then Bina and 004 start to argue on whether or not the other three will just use Bina the way she had used Helen before, but Bina says that the sisters all think alike, although 004 doesn't believe. However, 009 wants to take the risk if it is a chance at finally defeating Black Ghost (despite a few small protests from other members of the team).

So they agree to go to the empire, hoping to ambush Black Ghost with the aid of Bina's sisters. However, when they near the location, the team is ambushed by android sharks. Confused, Bina telepathically contacts her sisters Dana, Aphro, and Daphne. Dana and Aphro are also confused because they had told Black Ghost that the group was arriving tomorrow. But Daphne is sitting on the steps, muttering about disobeying Black Ghost.

On the Dolphin, some of those black wetsuit androids entered from a hole the sharks blew up on the side of the ship. The cyborg team goes out to fight them, but the androids have destroyed the Dolphins' engines. So the group is forced to escape the destroyed Dolphin through Groundhog (this little ship with a drill head). After everyone gathers in Groundhog, they find that the launch pad is jammed and can only be opened manually from outside the ship. Bina just ups and runs out of the ship to open the launch pad, but 004 ups and follows her. The two successfully launch the Groundhog, except they are now stranded on a sinking Dolphin. When Bina tells 004 to go save himself, he instead takes Bina in his arms and tells her to hold her breath, jumps into the water and basically lets himself flow out of the ship and into the sea [don't know where all the bad guys went]. Then 008 is finally sent out of Groundhog to rescue them. After the two are rescued, Bina then begins explaining to the team (although more directed at 004) that she had risked her life to try to defeat Black Ghost because before, the Purewok were only food for the Satan Men (who had changed their body physique so that many brothers/sisters would be born at once), but when she found out Black Ghost was almost the same, she wanted real freedom. 004, who finally believes it is not Bina's fault, gets all mad and frustrated.

Then you see a short scene of Pagod talking to a dark figure, telling the person to make sure to get "their" location correct. Then it goes back to the cyborgs, who are bidding farewell to the sinking Dolphin. The group then sets off toward Acheron in Groundhog on the seafloor.

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Episode 46

So while the cyborgs are planning to go through an air-filled cave, Pagod is talking with Daphne, who reveals the cyborgs whereabouts; so Pagod and Daphne leave to go after the cyborgs in his drill-shaped ship. And very cool, because as Groundhog is moving across a bridge above lava, the narrow bridge collapses into small pieces, 006 skillfully makes Groundhog jump from piece to piece and then grab onto the cliff with its mechanical arms [it was amazingly cool…go 006!]. However, they are then attacked by that big drill ship thing piloted by Pagod, who pushes the Groundhog into another pool of lava. Therefore, the group is forced to evacuate (this part is cute because 004 and Bina are the last ones out, so 004 picks up Bina and jumps up to the cliff). As the group tries to run from the now-flying drill ship, the cliff they are on collapses and causes them to go into this underground desert thing; luckily, Pagod has decided to quit trying to kill them for now.

001 (who still hasn't woken up yet), 002, 003, and 005 are together, and then they see 009 still under a rock. As 005 removes the rock, they see that he was shielding Helen. As 009 helps Helen up in an almost affectionate way, 003 is shocked and looks away, which 002 notices [haha…jealousy]. So the group decides to travel on foot toward Deity Palace (the heart of Acheron). That is when 002 figures out that the sand is actually pure gold, and when he offers a handful to 003, she knocks his hand away telling him to stop thinking such useless thoughts at such a crucial time. 002 simply replies that she shouldn't take her jealous anger out on him, in which 003 gets mad and asks why she would be thinking of something so trivial at such a time. But when 009 notices them arguing, the two brush it off, and 002 runs up to 009, slaps him on the back (very hard) and catches up with 005, leaving a confused 009 behind.

The others are together, and Bina starts to lead them toward Helen and the other cyborgs. But then 004 stops her and grabs her hand, asking to look at a minor scratch. Bina pulls back, saying it's nothing big and leads them away, to an underground ocean, which leads to Acheron. 009 and his group enter a cave and are hypnotized by the Satan Men. Bina then informs her group of the new situation, only to be attacked by Black Ghost's machines. 004 and Bina manage to escape, although 006, 007, 008, and Dr. Gilmore are captured and taken as prisoners back to Acheron. 004 is holding onto Bina in a protective hug [aw…kawaii], but grabs Bina's hand with his own mechanical hand to run away from the androids. During their running away, you hear Bina think that "004 has warm hands." Meanwhile, the Satan Men have decided to send the hypnotized cyborgs and Helen to Deity Palace to cause trouble for Black Ghost.

Back at Deity Palace, Daphne leaves Pagod's "office," only to be confronted by her sisters and slapped by one of them. So Daphne then reveals that she was afraid that if Black Ghost was destroyed, they'd go back to being Satan Men's food, so she would rather be enslaved by Black Ghost then Satan Men. Bina hears all this and tells 004 that she's sorry because one of her sisters did betray them. Bina begins hitting the wall with hands, crying and saying that Daphne did not understand the freedom that they wanted, but 004 stops her, and Bina just rips away from him saying that he doesn't understand, because the Purewok have never been treated as human beings. Daphne finally understands Bina's actions, and the three sisters are working together again. Bina is crying, 004 is about to touch her shoulder, but decides not to, taking his mechanical hand back and questions "human being?" Bina says that he is a human, but he retorts that how can he be human with a body like his? But he says that he knows he is a cyborg, and offers her his hand, which she takes [this scene is actually made very dramatic]. So as they are working through this jungle-like area, Bina suddenly says that he is definitely human, because when he saved her, she felt his warm hands. However, he says that he does not have a body temperature, but Bina just says that to her, his hands were warm. They are then interrupted when they see 009 and his group, but when 004 goes to greet them, 009 shoots at him, and 004 realizes that they have been hypnotized and tries to talk to 009. But 009 just shoots him.

Back with the captured cyborgs, they are led to meet Pagod, who takes them to see that big weird machine that the Purewoks were building, only to find someone they thought to be dead still alive and still leading Black Ghost…SCARL!

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Episode 47

009 and 004 are sort of fighting, but then 009 decides that he can finish 004 later, so he continues on his way to Deity Palace. 004 then realizes that 009 would be so much more powerful if only his kindness wasn't holding him back.

Pagod has locked up the captured group and plans to publicly kill them the next day. 007 tries to change his form to get rid of his balloon-like manacles, only to find that he can't. Then the scene moves to Pagod and Scarl, where Scarl mentions something about setting ultrasonic weapons all around the world, in every country. Then we see Daphne putting on a full-body black suit (think Cat Woman and purple Spiderman eyes).

Back to 009 and gang, they have reached the seashore, where there is a boat and some Purewok men. 009 stops the others, saying that he can handle it. He goes and kills everyone, allowing them to set off toward to palace on the boat, with 004 and Bina watching the entire time. As they take off on the boat, they are attacked by Black Ghost planes, but right before the planes blow up the ship, 001 was able to undo the hypnosis. However, 004 and Bina are surrounded by more Black Ghost androids. 004 offers to draw their attention away so that Bina can run, but she hugs onto his arm and says that she wants to stay with him—so they are captured. As they run away, Dr. Gilmore says that we will only slow the cyborgs down, so he stays and let's them go do their thing.

Back to the already captured group of cyborgs, Daphne (wearing black from head to toes) frees the four from their balloon manacles and leads them to an exit. But as Daphne returns to her two sisters, she finds that Pagod has captured them, so she is imprisoned as well.

Helen somehow has gotten her memories back when 001 lifted the hypnosis, but 001 was hurt and is asleep again because of his lack of energy. Helen finds out that Bina and 004 are to be killed, while Pagod informs the other three escaped cyborgs of the same. So both groups head to the dome that 004 and Bina are being held.

So these machines that are shaped like strange animals come to attack 004 (who is strapped onto a blue cross-like thing) and Bina. Then Bina tells 004 that she wants to know his real name because she just wants to stay with him, and 004 tells him. Just as one of the three creatures is about to attack, 004 has somehow gotten one of his legs loose and lets out a mini-missile from his knee, destroying the creatures—except Pagod just sends more out. Lucky for him and Bina, 006, 007, and 008 show up to help him destroy the creatures, the others on their way. 009 accelerates and arrives there before the others, just in time to save 004 and 007 from being hit. However, the creatures just keep coming out endlessly.

The Satan Men see the smoke from the palace and decide to go attack Black Ghost. So the Satan Men began aerial battle with Black Ghost planes (this time, their hypnosis actually works). But while the cyborgs watched this battle, Pagod had disappeared. Pagod was with Scarl, who was examining the big weird machine, which he calls Demogorgon, the "symbol of Black Ghost." Demogorgon is activated by Scarl, who is inside the giant robot. It flies/floats up and lets out a burst of light, destroying all the Satan Men around it. Demogorgon then lands back down.

The cyborgs, as well as Bina and Helen, are reunited, only to be interrupted by Pagod, who comes out of Demogorgon's beak with the other three sisters and Dr. Gilmore. He asks to trade the other two sisters for Dr. Gilmore. Although the cyborgs are unwilling, the two sisters willing give themselves up (004 tells Bina not to do it) and Dr. Gilmore returned safely to the cyborgs. However, Pagod was upset with the five sisters' betrayal and so he shoots them all. So the last part is 004 watching in shock as the sisters are shot, Bina falling backward muttering 004's name, then 004 screaming Bina's name.

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Episode 48

The episode basically summarizes the entire Acheron chapter, from episode 45-47 [if I had known earlier, I would have skipped those three episodes and just watched this one]. There was a cute scene between 009 and 003 shown in here, although I'm sure it was in one of the earlier episodes, but I must have missed it.

Anyways, the Dolphin is floating on the water, and 009 is outside, arms crossed and leaning against the railing, looking at the stars. As he sees a shooting star, 003 comes up behind him and asks what he wished for. 009 says he didn't wish for anything, although he should have wished for world peace. 003 comes up beside him and also leans against the rail, saying that she would wish that they came back from this battle safely. 009 agrees and they continue to watch the pretty sk. [so kawaii!].

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Episode 49

As they all fall down, 004 screams Bina and 003 yells Helen. 009 and Pagod begin their accelerating and fighting. Meanwhile, 004 had run to Bina, cradling her as she murmured something very touching [unfortunately, I don't know what it was because I am more than positive the subtitles were incorrect], then she dies. The others are scattered and gathered around the other four sisters. As 009 and Pagod fights, 004 gets mad and wants to kill Pagod himself, but can't see the other two fighters because of their acceleration. So he closes his eyes and listens to their movements; hearing two different running sounds, he recognizes 009's so he aims for the other one—and he kills Pagod. 004 then tells 009 that he was used to hearing his running, commenting that they had known each other for a long time.

Demogorgon suddenly gets up again and Scarl (from inside) announces that every country in the world is preparing for war because of Black Ghost. However, all the weapons that the countries had purchased are controlled by Demogorgon, but he can only activate it when he goes into the atmosphere (or something of that sort). As Demogorgon prepares his light attack to destroy the 00 cyborgs, but 001 suddenly wakes up and protects them with a shield. However, Demogorgon just flies away, as there is a bomb buried under the empire, which is about to explode (which 003 detected).

As everyone is worried, 003 comes up and grabs one of 009's hands, her other hand placed on his chest. Joe looks at her and says, "Françoise." 001 then tells 009 that he is going to bet/risk/whatever everything on 009, in which 009 nods and squeezes 003's hand. She looks up in surprise at him, only to see him smile and suddenly get knocked out by 001 and 009 disappears (baby teleported him). 001 then proceeds to knock everyone else out so that he can teleport them away (except he teleports them into water).

Anyways, 009 is teleported into Demogorgon, where he meets Scarl. Scarl then explains that he is only a brain (the brain is in his chest) and that he is a cyborg, although 009 [and I] believe that he is only an android. While 009 fights Scarl, Scarl shows 009 that Black Ghost is actually three brains (which are connected to Demogorgon). However, the three brains get mad at Scarl for destroying the inside of Demogorgon while fighting 009, so they destroy Scarl. Now, 009 is trying to destroy the three brains, only to be blocked by a force field. So then 009 decides to just destroy the Demogorgon's interior. At this, the three brains begin to tell him that no matter what he does, Black Ghost will always live on, because Black Ghost is actually the part of humans that wishes for death and destruction, also that if 009 destroys Demogorgon, then he will not be able to live because he is in space. However, 009 says that he is just like Black Ghost and will continue to live on, because he represents the people's hearts and desire for peace (something like that). So Demogorgon explodes and 009 is left in space with the scattered pieces.

However, while on earth, 001 had run out of energy to bring 009 back, so 002, seeing as only he could fly, goes up to get 009. But by the time 002 gets there, he tells 009 that he's out of fuel or something so they can't exactly get back to earth. But 009 knows that 002 could get himself back to earth, although not the both of them. When he tells 002 to just save himself, 002 declines and says that they are a team—so they will die together. The last thing 002 says is something similar to "Where would you like to land, 009?" On earth, 003 somehow knows that they died or something because she then screams out "Joe!"

Anywho, on earth, a sister and her younger brother see a shooting star. The little boy wishes for some kind of gun, but the sister just wishes for world peace.

The End.

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Then there are these two random episodes in the end [my messed up DVD only has one of them] which is very confusing because I've never seen the second part of it. Anyways, I think it was just a little cookie for unsatisfied viewers. But in the original manga, I heard the creator made an alternate ending (after much complaints from fans) and had 001 save 002 and 009. So my story is based on this alternate ending. ^^

Right, so I stayed up until 3 in the morning writing out the summaries while watching the episodes. Hehe…I had too much caffeine so I couldn't sleep. Well, I hope this clears up the story plot for most of you. Happy reading!