Chapter 12: Group Additions

When she arrived, the curtains in the main room were shut. Ran was sitting on the sofa, reading. She didn't appear to be surprised that Guyver Blue had appeared.

"Hello." She said.

"Hi," Sonnet replied, shutting down her armour.

"Before you say anything," Ran said, "I know why you're here."

"Why am I here?"

"You have got the units from Chronos and are going to give them to me and my brother."

"How did you know?"

"I had a vision," Mutaru said, walking into the room, "I saw you firing your pressure cannon in what appeared to be a lab."

"Right on both counts. I stole the units from Chronos and then destroyed the main research lab for the Phoenix Building."

"They are to become Guyvers then?" Kyriu said.

"Yes, although I don't think this is the best place for the merging to take place. Mutaru, Ran each of you take one of these units, but don't do anything with them yet. I'll take you to somewhere where this can be done without harming anyone."

She looked at Kyriu.

"You can come if you want. I can protect you if something goes wrong."

"No that's OK, I'll stay here."

"Fine, see you later."

"Bye Uncle." Ran and Mutaru said.

Sonnet put a hand on each of her friends shoulders and teleported them to a processing lab in the ruins of Relics Point.

"What do we do now, Sonnet?" Ran asked.

"You need to touch the control medal in the centre of the unit and then let it merge with you. The other Guyvers told me that it was very painful and that you may lose consciousness during the merging."

"They 'told you' it was painful?" Ran asked, "Wasn't the merging painful to you too?"

"No Ran, I don't feel much pain. It's another side-effect of being a cyborg."

"OK, Here I go," Mutaru said, "Ready sis?"

"As I'll ever be."

Ran put her hand on her units control medal and then held the unit in front of her face as it began to glow. As it jumped from its casing, Mutaru also held his unit in front of his face. Within seconds, both units were merging with their hosts. Sonnet became Guyver Blue and observed the merging.

[Blue, can you hear me?] Guyver 1s voice said in her head.

[Perfectly. What's wrong, Guyver 1?]

[You know how we said we would be giving the units we stole to two friends of ours?]

[Yes.]

[It's strange, only one of them seems to work. Are you at our training location?]

[Yes. My two friends are in the process of merging with their units.]

[Guyver 3 and myself are on our way. Along with our newest Guyver, I'll introduce you.]

[OK. I'll introduce the three of you to my friends as well then.]

[See you in a few minutes.]

With that the telepathic conversation was ended. Blue then observed the final stages of the merging and then tried to telepathically awaken them. Mutaru regained consciousness first and took a look at what his armour looked like. Mutaru was a jet black Guyver, with a similar appearance to Guyver 3, but with only two sonic swords on each forearm. Before Blue could attempt to awaken Ran, Gigantic Dark arrived with Guyver 1 and a Guyver that looked similar to Guyver 1, but coloured like faded silver. The Gigantic armour was de-activated and Guyver 3 then vented steam through his mouth vents.

"Hello Blue." Guyver 1 greeted.

"Nice to see you," She replied, "Are you Mizuki?" she then asked the silver Guyver.

"Yes I am." Was the synthesised reply, with a female voice.

"So much for an introduction." Guyver 1 said sarcastically.

"I'll talk to you both in a minute," Blue said, "I want to wake up my friend."

Sonnet then woke Ran up using her units' telepathic abilities. Ran's unit was coloured blood red. Blue then sent a telepathic instruction to Ran and Mutaru, telling them how to disengage their units. Agito, Sho and Mizuki did likewise.

"OK, I guess we can introduce each other," Sonnet said, "Mizuki, these are my friends Ran and Mutaru." She pointed to each of them as she said their names.

"Ran, Mutaru, this is Mizuki Segawa, a close friend of Sho. Sho and Agito," She added, again pointing to each of them, "are Guyvers 1 and 3, respectively."

After the introductions had been dealt with, all six reactivated their armours.

"I think we should sort out names for the new Guyvers." Sho said.

"I agree," Blue replied, "I'll show Ran and Mutaru how to use their units. I presume one of you will show Mizuki?"

"Yes, we'll both will." Agito replied.

"OK," Blue turned to her two friends, "What do you want to be called when you are using your armours? We can't call you by name because it would give Chronos a clue to your identity and we want to leave them in the dark as long as we can."

"I can understand that," Ran said, "I think I'll be 'Guyver Red'."

"Sounds good to me." Agito pointed out observing the colour of her armour.

"Mutaru?"

"I don't really want to be know as 'Guyver Black'," he said, "It sounds a little silly."

"Are you the one that Blue said had psychic abilities?" Guyver 1 asked.

"Yeah, that's me."

"OK, how about 'Psychic Guyver'?" Guyver 1 suggested.

The jet-black Guyver thought about it for a minute.

"I like that. I'm Psychic Guyver then."

"That's sorted then," Guyver 3 said, "What about you Mizuki?"

"I don't know," she replied, "Like Mutaru, I don't want to be a colour. But I don't have any abilities that I could use for this."

"OK." Blue spoke up, "Why don't we just call you Guyver 5? Chronos is aware of the three of us, and there was Guyver 2 that Chronos originally discovered, and Sho destroyed. That makes four overall. If we call you Guyver 5, then Chronos will think that there are only four active units and not six, for the time being at least."

"OK," the silver Guyver replied, "Actually, that makes a lot of sense. Plus 'Guyver 5' sounds pretty cool."

"That's sorted then." Guyver 3 stated.

"By the way Blue," Guyver 1 said, "Take a look at this."

Guyver 1 passed her another dormant unit. This one looked similar to any other dormant unit, but there was one big difference: it had a diamond shaped control medal.

"Is this the one that you tried to give Shizu that didn't work?"

"Yeah, we don't know why."

Guyver Blue took a close look at the unit, trying to see if it was damaged or something that would prevent it from merging with a host. As she looked closely at the diamond shaped control medal, to the surprise of the other five people in the room, it began to glow, and her own medal also began to glow. Before Blue could react, the unusual unit jumped from its casing and began to merge with her!

"Sonnet!" Ran screamed.

[No, don't do anything.] Guyver 3s voice said, in the minds of all the Guyvers, [I think I know what's going on.]

"What's that?" Psychic Guyver asked verbally, since he didn't know how to use the telepathic organisms yet.

"I think that unusual unit wouldn't merge with my friend Shizu because it can't work by itself."

"You think it's an upgrade for Sonnet's unit?" Guyver Red asked him.

"Yeah, I do. We'll know soon."

"How?" Psychic Guyver asked.

"When I was becoming Guyver Gigantic," Guyver 1 explained, "The Relic that I was in grew a cocoon around me and made the upgrade unit for my armour whilst I was in the cocoon."

"So if a cocoon grows around Blue, then her armour will be being upgraded?" Guyver Red asked.

"Right." Guyver 1 replied.

The cocoon appeared around Blue and Guyver 3 confirmed that Sho was like that before he became Guyver Gigantic.

"How long did it take?" Guyver Red asked.

"Six months."

"What! You mean Blue won't be available for six months!" Guyver Red screamed at Guyvers 1 & 3.

"Not necessarily," Guyver 3 said, "The unit that she has appeared to be more advanced than Sho's or mine. It's possible that the upgrade won't take very long with her."

"I hope so." Psychic Guyver commented.

"I'm curious as to what she will look like in her upgraded state," Guyver 5 spoke up, "The two of you look quite different when you use the Gigantic Armour."

As she said this, to the amazement of everyone in the room, the cocoon began to open up. Within a few minutes, it had completely disappeared. In its place, stood a 10-foot tall, dark blue, Guyver. Guyver Blue now had three sonic swords on each forearm; the sonic disruptor was also visible near her 'mouth'.

"She doesn't look too different to me." Psychic commented.

"I'm going to try to wake her up," Guyver 1 said, "This could take some time." He added as his control medal began to glow.

"We'll wait." Guyver Red said, indicating her brother as well as herself.

"I don't want to go anywhere until I see that she is OK," Guyver 5 stated, "Although I haven't known her very long. I think she and I could become good friends."

"Just like we all will, in time, Guyver 5." Red stated.

"I hope so." Guyver 5 replied.

"Hey, he's done it." Guyver 3 said, noticing Blue's control medal had started to glow in sync with Guyver 1s.

The 10-foot tall Guyver fully woke up and took a look at herself.

"What happened to me?" she asked.

"The unusual unit appears to have been designed as an upgrade to your armour," Guyver 3 said, "It responded to your control medal, but it wouldn't respond to any of ours."

"You tried it?"

Guyver 3 nodded.

"Hold on, I'm going to attempt to de-activate it."

Blue's control medal (now diamond shaped) began to flash. The new armour then disappeared, leaving the more familiar form of Guyver Blue that Agito and Sho knew.

"It appears that your control medal changes with the use of that upgrade." Guyver 1 pointed out.

"That could be useful," Blue stated, "It might make Chronos think that there are 7 active Guyvers, instead of 6. That is once they are aware of your existence." She added, referring to the new Guyvers.

"It looks like we have to come up with a new name for you as well Blue," Guyver 3 said, "For when you are using your upgrade."

"Good point," Blue agreed, "I can't use something obvious, like 'Hyper Blue' or 'Gigantic Blue'. That would tip off Chronos. Any ideas?"

"I have one," Guyver 5 said, "How about you test your upgrade, to see if it gives you any other unique abilities that could be used as a code-name."

"Alright."

Guyver Blue summoned her upgrade and accessed her control medal. She realised that the upgrade had given her a few new abilities and weapons. There was one ability, however, that she liked the sound of and tried to use it. It worked, to the eyes of the other Guyvers; she disappeared.

"Where is she?" Guyver 1 asked, "I can't sense her anywhere."

"Neither can I," Guyver 3 said, "It's like she's immune to our sensor orbs."

"WHERE DID YOU GO TO?" Red shouted.

"No need to shout," Blue's voice came from behind her, "I'm right behind you."

She then reappeared standing behind Red.

"Don't do that please." Red said.

"I won't do it again," Blue promised removing the upgrade as she spoke, "But it has helped me decide a code-name."

"What's that?" Agito asked.

['Stealth Guyver'] Psychic Guyver said into all of their minds.

"He took it out of my mouth." Blue stated.

"I think that's good," Guyver 5 said, "You couldn't be detected at all, you might as well have been a shadow."

"Thanks, 5." Blue said.

"OK, it's getting late," Guyver 3 said, "Should we all meet back here tomorrow morning and begin training our new allies?"

"Yeah, I think we should," Red stated, "Uncle may be getting concerned about us."

"I'll teleport you both home then," Blue said, "See the three of you tomorrow."

"Yeah, we'll contact you when we're ready."

"OK, bye."

Sonnet deactivated her armour and told Ran and Mutaru to do the same. Once they had, she put a hand on each of their shoulders and teleported them to their apartment.