Chapter 3 - Recovery and Discovery
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"Aw, man... look at all this!" Trunks said, looking around at the destruction. "Why did these robots wanted with Capsule Corp.?"
"I could have asked you the same thing when they attacked the Photon Lab..." Koji said. "Strange thing is... the one I faced earlier was much weaker than these."
"They've gotten wise to you guys." a voice said. "It looks like they're adapting." Trunks and Koji turned to see a guy in an outfit similar to Koji's, though his helmet looks almost like the head and Pilader of Great Mazinger. Koji smirked as he saw the person.
"Tetsuya Tsurugi. It's a good thing you got Great Mazinger here." Koji said.
"If it wasn't for that Metal Sonic with the body armor, we wouldn't have known." Tetsuya said. "But, I thought those things went after that Sonic person..."
"That's what I thought, but it looks like they're working independantly." Trunks said. "They said they were out for revenge for what Anthony did to the three main Robotniks."
"Anthony? Gamemaster Anthony Bault?" Tetsuya said. "Figures. Everyone here on Ani-Earth wants a piece of him nowadays."
"I'm pretty sure Doctor Hell and Baron Ashura woulda went after him... that is, if Mazinkaiser didn't stop them both for good." Koji said.
"Yo, Trunks!" Ashura shouted out, flying to the half-Saiyan. He was still a bit awed at what he did earlier "Man, what you did... woah... how did you get so powerful?!"
"Oh, that... uh, well..." Trunks stammered.
"Oh, you musta joined with Seiyuka's Guardian Gem, eh?" Ashura said.
"Yeah, yeah, that's it!" Trunks said, releved that he didn't have to reveal the truth.
"Anyway, we're being called to the White Base. Seiyuka and Vegeta's already there, if you want to go." Ashura said.
"Hmm... I guess it wouldn't hurt. What about the two Saiyas and my younger self?" Trunks asked.
"They're staying behind." Ashura said. Trunks nodded at that.
"In that case, I'll join you guys. You'll probably need the help." Trunks said.
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In White Base, Sonic watched as the units began heading into the White Base hangar. Seeing as the Getter G was too big to fit in in its robot mode, it had seperated into its main componants, mainly three sleek airplanes, colored red, blue and yellow respectively. Coming from the red plane was a brown haired young man in a blue flight suit and a yellow scarf. He had a white helmet with a visor that covered his eyes. From the blue plane was a slightly older young man with black hair. He wore a black flight suit with a red scarf. His helmet was designed to fit his somewhat stranged-shaped head and its visor covered the entire face. The person coming out of the yellow plane was short young man wearing a baseball uniform with the catcher's gear. The catcher's gear had a visor attached to it.
"I don't freakin' believe it..." Sonic said, grinning. "RYOUMA! HAYATO!"
"Hmm?" the brown-haired man said, looking up to see Sonic drop down. "Well, I'll be... Sonic!"
"Ryouma, my man!" Sonic said, racing up to the person. "Long time, no see!"
"Hasn't been that long..." Ryouma said, grinning a bit.
"I see you've rebuilt the Getter Robo." Sonic said. "Snazzy little thing."
"Well, actually, its a new model, but it works the same way." The one known as Hayato said.
"Sweet..." Sonic said. At that point, he noticed the other person. "Hey, who's the new guy?"
"Name's Benkei. Nice to meet ya." the person said, holding out his hand. Sonic took it and shook his hand.
"You must be Musashi's replacement... he was one helluva fighter." Sonic said.
"Sonic, you know these three?" Anthony said, coming up to the four.
"Well, those two, but yeah." Sonic said, pointing to Ryouma and Hayato. "Met 'em during the Imperiex War."
"Imperiex War?" Anthony said, tilting his head in confusion.
"Washu never told you?" Sonic said. "Well,..."
"Gamemaster!" Washu called out, interrupting Sonic.
"Maaan...," Sonic groaned.
"Washu, what is it?" Anthony said. "And, please, call me Anthony, not Gamemaster!"
"Whatever." Washu said. "Anyway, there's something I need to show you. It's very important."
"Alright." Anthony said. "Sonic, you can tell me what happened after I'm through."
"Alright..." Sonic said. With that, Anthony walked out with Washu.
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In another room on White Base, Washu brought up her holotop and began typing on it. As she did, the door into the room disappeared.
"What the...?!" Anthony said, shocked.
"Sorry, Anthony. This is something NO ONE ELSE must know. Not yet, at least." Washu said. She swung her holotop over to face Anthony, the picture of Trunks slicing the Metal Sonic in half in front of everything.
"It's... it's Trunks. But, where did he get the armor?" Anthony asked, confused.
"Take a closer look at his chest." Washu said. Anthony leaned in on the holotop and saw what was on the armor.
"A...A Decendancy Medallion?! No way!" Anthony said. "But...but, how?!"
"I don't know." Washu said.
"Does this mean Trunks is Ani-Earth's Companion?" Anthony asked.
"Probably, but that also mean that I've narrowed down the possibilites greatly for who else is Ani-Earth's companion." Washu said. "It's either Vegeta or Bulma now."
"It's probably Vegeta..." Anthony said.
"We don't know about that." Washu said. "It could be Bulma. I mean, if people like Protoman and Peach could be Companions, it wouldn't be too far off for Bulma to be one."
"True. Too true." Anthony said.
"Remember, we do not tell this to anyone else." Washu said "Not until the time is right."
"Gotcha..." Anthony said. He turned to leave, only to see that the door wasn't back. "Uh, Washu...?" He turned back to see Washu walking up to him in her adult form, a small, dangerous smile on her face. "W-W-W-Washu?! What's going on?"
"Oh, I just wanted to spend some time with you..." She said, approaching the Gamemaster, drawing a circle on his chest with her finger. "I've been SO very lonely..."
"Washu, would you back off?! If people saw us like this..." Anthony said, thoughorly freaked out. Washu looked at Anthony and frowned.
"Jeeze, you men..." Washu said. "Just can't take a joke!" With that, the door reappeared and she shoved Anthony out uncerimoniously into the hall and at Sonic's feet.
"Anth, what happened?!" Sonic said. At that point, Washu walked out, back to her young self, an angry scowl on her face. "Do I...want to know?"
"I prefer you didn't ask..." Anthony said, standing up and dusting himself off. "Well, since that business is over, why don't you tell me about that Imperiex War and how you knew those three..."
"Two, actually." Sonic said. "Anywho, about the Imperiex War..." He let out a sigh. "Well, it happened about a week, maybe two, before the Master attacked. This massive...thing... called Imperiex arrived, trying to blow up Ani-Earth in his attempt to start the Big Bang again."
"Yeesh..." Anthony muttered.
"Yeah. Anywho, this guy was so fierce, we actually had Darkseid and his world, Apokolips, on our side!" Sonic said. "That, and aliens from across the universe. Way too many to count. Anyway, Imperiex attacked, sending his "Imperiex-Probes", as Washu called them, to try to "hollow" our world. Of course, we weren't going to let him do that. Well, seeing as most of the planet was already being protected by many of the heroes, me and Shadow decided to help out with protecting South Island..."
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Station Square, South Island.
Like so many other places caught in the heat of the Imperiex battles, the city was seeing its fair share of fights. With Sonic gone for the longest time, the only protection they had was G.U.N. Though they were still recovering from Sonic's thrashing during the Shadow crisis, G.U.N was able to fight back, but barely. Even with the help of Rouge the Bat and the parolled Nack the Weasel, they were still no match.
"C'mon, there's SOMETHING we've gotta do!" Rouge shouted, watching one of the G.U.N robots fall due to the power of the Imperiex-Probe. She turned and gave the armored menace a mighty kick, causing it to stumble, but it also hurt her leg. "Ow...!"
"Fleshling, as we've said before, Imperiex will not be denied!" the Probe said, aiming an arm cannon at the bat and firing. Out of nowhere, a silver streak zipped by, saving Rouge before she got blasted. "?!"
"W...who?" Rouge muttered, still a bit in shock. She looked up to see Super Shadow's face. Her eyes went wide. "Shadow! You're...you're ALIVE!"
"And kicking. Don't know how much longer, though." Shadow said, looking at the Imperiex-Probe.
"You evaded death once, you won't evade it again!" the Probe said, pointing. Before it could fire, it found itself launched in the air. As he got higher up, it found itself punctured and it exploded. The force of it caused everyone to stumble back and fall to the ground. As everyone recovered, Super Sonic joined Shadow and Rouge.
"Whoo-wee! That sucker had one helluva punch in its explosion!" Sonic said.
"It looks like we got here just in time!" Shadow said.
"Rouge, what's going... EEP!" Nack said, approaching the bat, only to see her with the hedgehogs.
"Nack?! What's he doing here?!" Sonic said. "I thought he would be rotting after what he did!"
"He was, until we needed his help in battling these monstrosities." Rouge said.
"Hmph. Whatever." Sonic said, turning his attention back to the Probes. "Hey... did these guys get bigger alluva sudden?" Indeed, the Imperiex- Probes had gotten taller.
"Oh, no... this is something we didn't expect." Rouge said.
"What do we do now?!" Shadow said.
"Leave this to me!" Sonic said. All of a sudden, a blue aura surrounded Sonic, glowing really bright as it did. When it faded, Super Sonic had changed. His gold quills and fur had gotten darker and his lower head quills had bent down.
"The second level Super Sonic mode... but, how?!" Shadow asked, shocked.
"Remember that purple-haired hedgehog girl that came back with us from the Absolution? Thank her!" Sonic said, racing off towards a Imperiex-Probe. With his new speed and strength, Super Sonic began taking down a few Probes with relative ease. But, the ease ended when a Probe snatched him. "HEY! LEGGO!"
"You think you can beat us? HA! I'll show you what happens when you defy Imperiex's plans!" the probe said, his eyes glowing. Before he could blast Sonic, he found himself split in half. In a blink of an eye, Super Sonic was pulled out of the Probe's grip before it could explode.
"Huh? What?!" Sonic asked apparently to himself. "What happened?!"
"We happened." a voice said. Sonic looked at what had him now. There was a giant red and white robot staring at him. His red face a yellow eyes, green plates across its face, making it look like it had a mouth and two horns. Attached to its red chestplate was a long, flowing red cape. In its other hand was a tomahawk, apparently what sliced the probe.
"Who... what the heck are you?!" Sonic asked.
"This is the Getter Robo. This is what sending Imperiex packing!" a second voice said.
"Let's show them the power of the Getter Team!" a third said.
"You got it! OPEN GATE!" the first voice called out. Letting go of Sonic, the Getter Robo seperated into three planes, a sleek red plane, a rather dull gray plane and a bulky yellow plane.
"CHANGE GETTER TWO! SWITCH ON!" the second voice cried out. At that, the yellow plane flew into the gray plane, causing a claw arm and a drill arm to come out, and the red plane flew into the yellow plane, turning into a pair of legs. The gray plane finished everything up as its nose became the head. The completed Getter 2 flew towards a group of Imperiex-Probes and, in a blink of an eye, took down each and everyone of them, slamming into them with its drill arm.
"Woah..." Sonic said. The impressive attack didn't last as an Imperiex- Probe took down Getter Two. "Hey! You can't do that to him!" The Probe turned around and fired at Sonic, who easily dodged it, then countered with Sonic Rumble. "Ha! Take that, you armored freak!"
"Thanks, Sonic! OPEN GATE!" the second voice called out, causing the robot to revert back to the planes.
"CHANGE GETTER THREE! SWITCH ON!" the third voice cried out. The gray plane landed on the ground, tank treads forming on the sides. The red plane entered in a slot in the middle of the plane and the yellow plane entered the red plane, forming the head and arms. Getter Three looked up and saw another group of Probes and shots his arms up towards one of them. Spinning its arms as fast as it can, it launches the Probe into the air, taking a few more with it. A few miles away, the Probes landed into the ocean, too damaged to keep going.
"Daaaamn..." Sonic said, seeing that.
"Hey, they're retreating!" Nack said, noticing the Probes leaving.
"HA! Whoda thunk it?" Shadow said.
"Shadow, I'm glad you're back..." Rouge said.
"So am I..." Shadow said, setting Rouge down and powering down. "Wouldn't of met everyone I did if I didn't decide to live. Especially Mina..."
"Mina?" Rouge said.
"Yeah. My girlfriend..." Shadow said.
"O...Oh." Rouge said, a bit heartbroken.
"Hey, guys! Everything okay?" Sonic said, returning to the ground. He looked over to Rouge. "Hey, you okay? You look upset..."
"I'm fine, Sonic. Don't worry about me." Rouge said. At that, the three looked over and saw the Getter Robo, back in its normal "Getter One" mode, land by them. With that, the three saw the pilots exit the robot. The first person who talked to Sonic approached them.
"Are you three okay now?" he asked.
"Yeah, we're fine." Sonic said. "Thanks, uh..."
"Ryouma. Ryouma Nagare." he said, shaking Sonic's hand. Ryouma pointed to the next person. "He's Hayato Jin and..." The next guy interrupted Ryouma. He was a smaller guy, wearing a hard hat, samurai gear and skirt, boots and a cape.
"I'm Musashi Tomoe! Pleased to meet ya!" he said, smirking.
"The same. Thanks for saving our bacon back there!" Shadow said.
"It's just the beginning. We aren't through yet..." Hayato said, looking up into the sky.
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"Wow..." Anthony said, a bit shocked. "So, uh... where's Musashi?"
"He died. When the Probes tried to use one of their "Hollower" devices to destroy Ani-Earth, Musashi hijacked Getter Robo and attacked it. When the Getter Robo was badly damaged, he detonated its Getter Core, basically killing him, the Probes around him and taking out the Hollower."
"Oh... brave man..." Anthony said.
"Yeah. Brave man, indeed." Sonic said. "Hey, don't worry about it. We're still in our prime! We can take out the Metallix just the same!"
"Yeah! C'mon, we gotta get ready for when the Metallix strike again." Anthony said.
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As the White Base flew on, the Masaki Residence found itself under attack. Caught completely offguard, the people inside found itself attacked by, of all people... Ashura?
"Ashura?! What the hell are you DOING?!" Tenchi said, as he tried to keep himself up after being knocked away.
"Doing? Simple... doing what I should have done. Destroying each and every once of you!" 'Ashura' said.
"Wh-wha?!" Tenchi said, shocked.
"You heard me... now DIE!" 'Ashura' said. He revealed his true identity as his armor, that of the Gundam Physallis formed over him.
"AFTERASHURA!" he said, pulling out the hilt of his sword and activating its blade.
"Heh, for someone who can't choose which girl to be with, you SURE are smart!" AfterAshura said, easily knocking him away. One by one, those who took him on was easily taken down. To someone like Shadow or Ryoko, it was shocking.
"Urgh... h...how?! How could he have done that?!" Shadow said, standing up.
"I don't know, but I refuse to let him do that a second..." Ryoko began, before being cut off by the shrieks of little girls. "SASAMI! YUGI! MEGAN!" With two raced in, the others following, to find AfterAshura standing there, Sasami and Yugi on the ground and Meg in his arms, the little hedgehog struggling to break free.
"Let her go!" Ayeka shouted. "She's done nothing wrong!"
"She hasn't? Oh, really?" AfterAshura said. "You must be sorely mistaken. I could kill her right here, right now. But, I want to end her life in front of my good self... Ta!" With that, his armor's boosters shoot on, sending him through the roof of the house.
"NO!" Shadow shouted out.
"Oh, no... Megan..." Mina said. The group raced out to see a massive robot standing out in the forest. That robot looked exactly like AfterAshura's armor.
"What in the world?!" Ayeka said, shocked.
"Since when did he learn to enlarge himself?" Shadow asked.
"FOOLS! This...this is THE Gundam Physallis! The atomic weaponed Gundam!" AfterAshura said. "I decimated one city, I'll do it again if I want to!"
[Not today, you freak!] a metallic voice called out. A few seconds later, the Gundam found itself attacked by a samurai-looking mecha.
"Wha?! Who?!" AfterAshura said, looking at the robot. "Who did that?!"
[I did! Metal Amy and the rebuilt Thunder Megazord!] Metal Amy said, the robot striking a pose.
"Oh, really?" AfterAshura said. Knowing that he was basically outmatched, since he was hoping his bluff would force them to fall back, he did the only thing he could: make a hasty retreat. Its boosters flairing up, the Physallis took off into the air.
[Wha...HEY! Get back here!] Metal Amy shouted. At that, the Megazord's armor reverted into its four seperate pieces: a firebird, a griffin, a unicorn and a lion. Taking a certain posision, a platform appeared and the remaining mech, a red humanoid robot, lept on and it took off into the sky after the Gundam.
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At the Metallix base, Metal Overlord walks down the main hallway, tubes filled with various Metal Sonic units. He brushes away other Metallix units trying to talk to him, his own mind filled with rage.
"I never knew... I never knew those units existed!" Metal Overlord said to himself. "Great Mazinger... Getter Robo G... BAH! If I knew they existed, I could have easily won the day! Capsule Corporation was essential to my plans! No matter, we got one of the others..."
"I take it that capturing Capsule Corperation was a failure?" Metal Overlord's servant said, approaching him.
"Yes... unfortuantly." Metal Overlord said. "Is the Devil mecha ready?"
"Yes. Devil Gundam is safe and sound. We were lucky that we were able to pull it of the line of fire in time. All we need is a pilot..." the servant said.
"Very well." Metal Overlord said. "Did you find any other machines we could use in our war?"
"Yes, in fact, I have!" the servant said. He pushed a button revealing a bird-like mecha.
"Wh... what IS this... thing?" Metal Overlord asked, confused by its look.
"It's name is, apparently, Soul Bird. Despite it's size, it's able to repair robots AND increase their strength." the servant said.
"Interesting... wait a second... what type of mech is it?" Metal Overlord said, looking over at his servant.
"I'm afraid it's a Zord, sir." the servant said.
"A Zord?!" Metal Overlord said, grabbing his servant by its neck. "What's with all the Zords?! You told me the Power Rangers disbanded after the Imperiex War! So, why are there MORE?!"
"I...I don't know! I wish I knew! But, there's a problem with the Soul Bird!" the servant said, panicing.
"What... problem?" Metal Overlord said.
"The Soul Bird's located on Animarium, an Angel Island-like island. But, we have been unable to find it! Who knows WHERE it is!" the servant said.
"Feh... who cares?" Metal Overlord said, tossing his servant aside. "Right now, go find a suitable pilot for the Devil Gundam. We'll worry about the Soul Bird later..."
"Y...yes, sir." the servant said, standing up and bowing, before leaving.
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"Aw, man... look at all this!" Trunks said, looking around at the destruction. "Why did these robots wanted with Capsule Corp.?"
"I could have asked you the same thing when they attacked the Photon Lab..." Koji said. "Strange thing is... the one I faced earlier was much weaker than these."
"They've gotten wise to you guys." a voice said. "It looks like they're adapting." Trunks and Koji turned to see a guy in an outfit similar to Koji's, though his helmet looks almost like the head and Pilader of Great Mazinger. Koji smirked as he saw the person.
"Tetsuya Tsurugi. It's a good thing you got Great Mazinger here." Koji said.
"If it wasn't for that Metal Sonic with the body armor, we wouldn't have known." Tetsuya said. "But, I thought those things went after that Sonic person..."
"That's what I thought, but it looks like they're working independantly." Trunks said. "They said they were out for revenge for what Anthony did to the three main Robotniks."
"Anthony? Gamemaster Anthony Bault?" Tetsuya said. "Figures. Everyone here on Ani-Earth wants a piece of him nowadays."
"I'm pretty sure Doctor Hell and Baron Ashura woulda went after him... that is, if Mazinkaiser didn't stop them both for good." Koji said.
"Yo, Trunks!" Ashura shouted out, flying to the half-Saiyan. He was still a bit awed at what he did earlier "Man, what you did... woah... how did you get so powerful?!"
"Oh, that... uh, well..." Trunks stammered.
"Oh, you musta joined with Seiyuka's Guardian Gem, eh?" Ashura said.
"Yeah, yeah, that's it!" Trunks said, releved that he didn't have to reveal the truth.
"Anyway, we're being called to the White Base. Seiyuka and Vegeta's already there, if you want to go." Ashura said.
"Hmm... I guess it wouldn't hurt. What about the two Saiyas and my younger self?" Trunks asked.
"They're staying behind." Ashura said. Trunks nodded at that.
"In that case, I'll join you guys. You'll probably need the help." Trunks said.
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In White Base, Sonic watched as the units began heading into the White Base hangar. Seeing as the Getter G was too big to fit in in its robot mode, it had seperated into its main componants, mainly three sleek airplanes, colored red, blue and yellow respectively. Coming from the red plane was a brown haired young man in a blue flight suit and a yellow scarf. He had a white helmet with a visor that covered his eyes. From the blue plane was a slightly older young man with black hair. He wore a black flight suit with a red scarf. His helmet was designed to fit his somewhat stranged-shaped head and its visor covered the entire face. The person coming out of the yellow plane was short young man wearing a baseball uniform with the catcher's gear. The catcher's gear had a visor attached to it.
"I don't freakin' believe it..." Sonic said, grinning. "RYOUMA! HAYATO!"
"Hmm?" the brown-haired man said, looking up to see Sonic drop down. "Well, I'll be... Sonic!"
"Ryouma, my man!" Sonic said, racing up to the person. "Long time, no see!"
"Hasn't been that long..." Ryouma said, grinning a bit.
"I see you've rebuilt the Getter Robo." Sonic said. "Snazzy little thing."
"Well, actually, its a new model, but it works the same way." The one known as Hayato said.
"Sweet..." Sonic said. At that point, he noticed the other person. "Hey, who's the new guy?"
"Name's Benkei. Nice to meet ya." the person said, holding out his hand. Sonic took it and shook his hand.
"You must be Musashi's replacement... he was one helluva fighter." Sonic said.
"Sonic, you know these three?" Anthony said, coming up to the four.
"Well, those two, but yeah." Sonic said, pointing to Ryouma and Hayato. "Met 'em during the Imperiex War."
"Imperiex War?" Anthony said, tilting his head in confusion.
"Washu never told you?" Sonic said. "Well,..."
"Gamemaster!" Washu called out, interrupting Sonic.
"Maaan...," Sonic groaned.
"Washu, what is it?" Anthony said. "And, please, call me Anthony, not Gamemaster!"
"Whatever." Washu said. "Anyway, there's something I need to show you. It's very important."
"Alright." Anthony said. "Sonic, you can tell me what happened after I'm through."
"Alright..." Sonic said. With that, Anthony walked out with Washu.
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In another room on White Base, Washu brought up her holotop and began typing on it. As she did, the door into the room disappeared.
"What the...?!" Anthony said, shocked.
"Sorry, Anthony. This is something NO ONE ELSE must know. Not yet, at least." Washu said. She swung her holotop over to face Anthony, the picture of Trunks slicing the Metal Sonic in half in front of everything.
"It's... it's Trunks. But, where did he get the armor?" Anthony asked, confused.
"Take a closer look at his chest." Washu said. Anthony leaned in on the holotop and saw what was on the armor.
"A...A Decendancy Medallion?! No way!" Anthony said. "But...but, how?!"
"I don't know." Washu said.
"Does this mean Trunks is Ani-Earth's Companion?" Anthony asked.
"Probably, but that also mean that I've narrowed down the possibilites greatly for who else is Ani-Earth's companion." Washu said. "It's either Vegeta or Bulma now."
"It's probably Vegeta..." Anthony said.
"We don't know about that." Washu said. "It could be Bulma. I mean, if people like Protoman and Peach could be Companions, it wouldn't be too far off for Bulma to be one."
"True. Too true." Anthony said.
"Remember, we do not tell this to anyone else." Washu said "Not until the time is right."
"Gotcha..." Anthony said. He turned to leave, only to see that the door wasn't back. "Uh, Washu...?" He turned back to see Washu walking up to him in her adult form, a small, dangerous smile on her face. "W-W-W-Washu?! What's going on?"
"Oh, I just wanted to spend some time with you..." She said, approaching the Gamemaster, drawing a circle on his chest with her finger. "I've been SO very lonely..."
"Washu, would you back off?! If people saw us like this..." Anthony said, thoughorly freaked out. Washu looked at Anthony and frowned.
"Jeeze, you men..." Washu said. "Just can't take a joke!" With that, the door reappeared and she shoved Anthony out uncerimoniously into the hall and at Sonic's feet.
"Anth, what happened?!" Sonic said. At that point, Washu walked out, back to her young self, an angry scowl on her face. "Do I...want to know?"
"I prefer you didn't ask..." Anthony said, standing up and dusting himself off. "Well, since that business is over, why don't you tell me about that Imperiex War and how you knew those three..."
"Two, actually." Sonic said. "Anywho, about the Imperiex War..." He let out a sigh. "Well, it happened about a week, maybe two, before the Master attacked. This massive...thing... called Imperiex arrived, trying to blow up Ani-Earth in his attempt to start the Big Bang again."
"Yeesh..." Anthony muttered.
"Yeah. Anywho, this guy was so fierce, we actually had Darkseid and his world, Apokolips, on our side!" Sonic said. "That, and aliens from across the universe. Way too many to count. Anyway, Imperiex attacked, sending his "Imperiex-Probes", as Washu called them, to try to "hollow" our world. Of course, we weren't going to let him do that. Well, seeing as most of the planet was already being protected by many of the heroes, me and Shadow decided to help out with protecting South Island..."
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Station Square, South Island.
Like so many other places caught in the heat of the Imperiex battles, the city was seeing its fair share of fights. With Sonic gone for the longest time, the only protection they had was G.U.N. Though they were still recovering from Sonic's thrashing during the Shadow crisis, G.U.N was able to fight back, but barely. Even with the help of Rouge the Bat and the parolled Nack the Weasel, they were still no match.
"C'mon, there's SOMETHING we've gotta do!" Rouge shouted, watching one of the G.U.N robots fall due to the power of the Imperiex-Probe. She turned and gave the armored menace a mighty kick, causing it to stumble, but it also hurt her leg. "Ow...!"
"Fleshling, as we've said before, Imperiex will not be denied!" the Probe said, aiming an arm cannon at the bat and firing. Out of nowhere, a silver streak zipped by, saving Rouge before she got blasted. "?!"
"W...who?" Rouge muttered, still a bit in shock. She looked up to see Super Shadow's face. Her eyes went wide. "Shadow! You're...you're ALIVE!"
"And kicking. Don't know how much longer, though." Shadow said, looking at the Imperiex-Probe.
"You evaded death once, you won't evade it again!" the Probe said, pointing. Before it could fire, it found itself launched in the air. As he got higher up, it found itself punctured and it exploded. The force of it caused everyone to stumble back and fall to the ground. As everyone recovered, Super Sonic joined Shadow and Rouge.
"Whoo-wee! That sucker had one helluva punch in its explosion!" Sonic said.
"It looks like we got here just in time!" Shadow said.
"Rouge, what's going... EEP!" Nack said, approaching the bat, only to see her with the hedgehogs.
"Nack?! What's he doing here?!" Sonic said. "I thought he would be rotting after what he did!"
"He was, until we needed his help in battling these monstrosities." Rouge said.
"Hmph. Whatever." Sonic said, turning his attention back to the Probes. "Hey... did these guys get bigger alluva sudden?" Indeed, the Imperiex- Probes had gotten taller.
"Oh, no... this is something we didn't expect." Rouge said.
"What do we do now?!" Shadow said.
"Leave this to me!" Sonic said. All of a sudden, a blue aura surrounded Sonic, glowing really bright as it did. When it faded, Super Sonic had changed. His gold quills and fur had gotten darker and his lower head quills had bent down.
"The second level Super Sonic mode... but, how?!" Shadow asked, shocked.
"Remember that purple-haired hedgehog girl that came back with us from the Absolution? Thank her!" Sonic said, racing off towards a Imperiex-Probe. With his new speed and strength, Super Sonic began taking down a few Probes with relative ease. But, the ease ended when a Probe snatched him. "HEY! LEGGO!"
"You think you can beat us? HA! I'll show you what happens when you defy Imperiex's plans!" the probe said, his eyes glowing. Before he could blast Sonic, he found himself split in half. In a blink of an eye, Super Sonic was pulled out of the Probe's grip before it could explode.
"Huh? What?!" Sonic asked apparently to himself. "What happened?!"
"We happened." a voice said. Sonic looked at what had him now. There was a giant red and white robot staring at him. His red face a yellow eyes, green plates across its face, making it look like it had a mouth and two horns. Attached to its red chestplate was a long, flowing red cape. In its other hand was a tomahawk, apparently what sliced the probe.
"Who... what the heck are you?!" Sonic asked.
"This is the Getter Robo. This is what sending Imperiex packing!" a second voice said.
"Let's show them the power of the Getter Team!" a third said.
"You got it! OPEN GATE!" the first voice called out. Letting go of Sonic, the Getter Robo seperated into three planes, a sleek red plane, a rather dull gray plane and a bulky yellow plane.
"CHANGE GETTER TWO! SWITCH ON!" the second voice cried out. At that, the yellow plane flew into the gray plane, causing a claw arm and a drill arm to come out, and the red plane flew into the yellow plane, turning into a pair of legs. The gray plane finished everything up as its nose became the head. The completed Getter 2 flew towards a group of Imperiex-Probes and, in a blink of an eye, took down each and everyone of them, slamming into them with its drill arm.
"Woah..." Sonic said. The impressive attack didn't last as an Imperiex- Probe took down Getter Two. "Hey! You can't do that to him!" The Probe turned around and fired at Sonic, who easily dodged it, then countered with Sonic Rumble. "Ha! Take that, you armored freak!"
"Thanks, Sonic! OPEN GATE!" the second voice called out, causing the robot to revert back to the planes.
"CHANGE GETTER THREE! SWITCH ON!" the third voice cried out. The gray plane landed on the ground, tank treads forming on the sides. The red plane entered in a slot in the middle of the plane and the yellow plane entered the red plane, forming the head and arms. Getter Three looked up and saw another group of Probes and shots his arms up towards one of them. Spinning its arms as fast as it can, it launches the Probe into the air, taking a few more with it. A few miles away, the Probes landed into the ocean, too damaged to keep going.
"Daaaamn..." Sonic said, seeing that.
"Hey, they're retreating!" Nack said, noticing the Probes leaving.
"HA! Whoda thunk it?" Shadow said.
"Shadow, I'm glad you're back..." Rouge said.
"So am I..." Shadow said, setting Rouge down and powering down. "Wouldn't of met everyone I did if I didn't decide to live. Especially Mina..."
"Mina?" Rouge said.
"Yeah. My girlfriend..." Shadow said.
"O...Oh." Rouge said, a bit heartbroken.
"Hey, guys! Everything okay?" Sonic said, returning to the ground. He looked over to Rouge. "Hey, you okay? You look upset..."
"I'm fine, Sonic. Don't worry about me." Rouge said. At that, the three looked over and saw the Getter Robo, back in its normal "Getter One" mode, land by them. With that, the three saw the pilots exit the robot. The first person who talked to Sonic approached them.
"Are you three okay now?" he asked.
"Yeah, we're fine." Sonic said. "Thanks, uh..."
"Ryouma. Ryouma Nagare." he said, shaking Sonic's hand. Ryouma pointed to the next person. "He's Hayato Jin and..." The next guy interrupted Ryouma. He was a smaller guy, wearing a hard hat, samurai gear and skirt, boots and a cape.
"I'm Musashi Tomoe! Pleased to meet ya!" he said, smirking.
"The same. Thanks for saving our bacon back there!" Shadow said.
"It's just the beginning. We aren't through yet..." Hayato said, looking up into the sky.
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"Wow..." Anthony said, a bit shocked. "So, uh... where's Musashi?"
"He died. When the Probes tried to use one of their "Hollower" devices to destroy Ani-Earth, Musashi hijacked Getter Robo and attacked it. When the Getter Robo was badly damaged, he detonated its Getter Core, basically killing him, the Probes around him and taking out the Hollower."
"Oh... brave man..." Anthony said.
"Yeah. Brave man, indeed." Sonic said. "Hey, don't worry about it. We're still in our prime! We can take out the Metallix just the same!"
"Yeah! C'mon, we gotta get ready for when the Metallix strike again." Anthony said.
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As the White Base flew on, the Masaki Residence found itself under attack. Caught completely offguard, the people inside found itself attacked by, of all people... Ashura?
"Ashura?! What the hell are you DOING?!" Tenchi said, as he tried to keep himself up after being knocked away.
"Doing? Simple... doing what I should have done. Destroying each and every once of you!" 'Ashura' said.
"Wh-wha?!" Tenchi said, shocked.
"You heard me... now DIE!" 'Ashura' said. He revealed his true identity as his armor, that of the Gundam Physallis formed over him.
"AFTERASHURA!" he said, pulling out the hilt of his sword and activating its blade.
"Heh, for someone who can't choose which girl to be with, you SURE are smart!" AfterAshura said, easily knocking him away. One by one, those who took him on was easily taken down. To someone like Shadow or Ryoko, it was shocking.
"Urgh... h...how?! How could he have done that?!" Shadow said, standing up.
"I don't know, but I refuse to let him do that a second..." Ryoko began, before being cut off by the shrieks of little girls. "SASAMI! YUGI! MEGAN!" With two raced in, the others following, to find AfterAshura standing there, Sasami and Yugi on the ground and Meg in his arms, the little hedgehog struggling to break free.
"Let her go!" Ayeka shouted. "She's done nothing wrong!"
"She hasn't? Oh, really?" AfterAshura said. "You must be sorely mistaken. I could kill her right here, right now. But, I want to end her life in front of my good self... Ta!" With that, his armor's boosters shoot on, sending him through the roof of the house.
"NO!" Shadow shouted out.
"Oh, no... Megan..." Mina said. The group raced out to see a massive robot standing out in the forest. That robot looked exactly like AfterAshura's armor.
"What in the world?!" Ayeka said, shocked.
"Since when did he learn to enlarge himself?" Shadow asked.
"FOOLS! This...this is THE Gundam Physallis! The atomic weaponed Gundam!" AfterAshura said. "I decimated one city, I'll do it again if I want to!"
[Not today, you freak!] a metallic voice called out. A few seconds later, the Gundam found itself attacked by a samurai-looking mecha.
"Wha?! Who?!" AfterAshura said, looking at the robot. "Who did that?!"
[I did! Metal Amy and the rebuilt Thunder Megazord!] Metal Amy said, the robot striking a pose.
"Oh, really?" AfterAshura said. Knowing that he was basically outmatched, since he was hoping his bluff would force them to fall back, he did the only thing he could: make a hasty retreat. Its boosters flairing up, the Physallis took off into the air.
[Wha...HEY! Get back here!] Metal Amy shouted. At that, the Megazord's armor reverted into its four seperate pieces: a firebird, a griffin, a unicorn and a lion. Taking a certain posision, a platform appeared and the remaining mech, a red humanoid robot, lept on and it took off into the sky after the Gundam.
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At the Metallix base, Metal Overlord walks down the main hallway, tubes filled with various Metal Sonic units. He brushes away other Metallix units trying to talk to him, his own mind filled with rage.
"I never knew... I never knew those units existed!" Metal Overlord said to himself. "Great Mazinger... Getter Robo G... BAH! If I knew they existed, I could have easily won the day! Capsule Corporation was essential to my plans! No matter, we got one of the others..."
"I take it that capturing Capsule Corperation was a failure?" Metal Overlord's servant said, approaching him.
"Yes... unfortuantly." Metal Overlord said. "Is the Devil mecha ready?"
"Yes. Devil Gundam is safe and sound. We were lucky that we were able to pull it of the line of fire in time. All we need is a pilot..." the servant said.
"Very well." Metal Overlord said. "Did you find any other machines we could use in our war?"
"Yes, in fact, I have!" the servant said. He pushed a button revealing a bird-like mecha.
"Wh... what IS this... thing?" Metal Overlord asked, confused by its look.
"It's name is, apparently, Soul Bird. Despite it's size, it's able to repair robots AND increase their strength." the servant said.
"Interesting... wait a second... what type of mech is it?" Metal Overlord said, looking over at his servant.
"I'm afraid it's a Zord, sir." the servant said.
"A Zord?!" Metal Overlord said, grabbing his servant by its neck. "What's with all the Zords?! You told me the Power Rangers disbanded after the Imperiex War! So, why are there MORE?!"
"I...I don't know! I wish I knew! But, there's a problem with the Soul Bird!" the servant said, panicing.
"What... problem?" Metal Overlord said.
"The Soul Bird's located on Animarium, an Angel Island-like island. But, we have been unable to find it! Who knows WHERE it is!" the servant said.
"Feh... who cares?" Metal Overlord said, tossing his servant aside. "Right now, go find a suitable pilot for the Devil Gundam. We'll worry about the Soul Bird later..."
"Y...yes, sir." the servant said, standing up and bowing, before leaving.