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Stage 28: [Rising]
He found himself on the coast of the beach. Ryoma Nagare stood up and looked at the sky. There was no telling exactly how much time had passed but it had felt like hours since he'd become LCL in the cockpit of Shin Getter. It was night now and the darkness that greeted him was a far cry from the bright sun he had fought under with everyone earlier. Now he gazed up at the new scenery that hung in the sky. The bloody moon and the still figures that rose from the ground.
Several giants stood in the ocean, headless, arms spread out to the sides as if heralding Lilith's fall. They were still, as if petrified.
The gigantic head of the being was hovering in the ocean, facing away from him. Everything was still other than the ocean's constant waves. Ryoma could see further that Lilith's body falling had sent a massive tidal wave of LCL out, flattening the majority of Tokyo – 3.
Ryoma glanced at the beach around him. For a moment he swore he saw someone but they were gone when he focused.
There was no sign of Shin Dragon, and he didn't see anyone from the Getter Team around either. And he'd been taken out of the fight before things ended. Ryoma's best guess was Lilith had been stopped – but the damage to the Earth was horrible. He was certain this event would be referred to in history as the Third Impact. The sea was all LCL fluid and that meant that The Human Instrumentality Project had really happened. If that was the case – his presence was probably an anomaly.
"Getter. You brought me back here this fast for a reason. Now – what could that be for?" Ryoma thought, looking around as he wrung the stray LCL out of his scarf.
He saw two people far in the distance. Shinji in his normal white shirt and black pants, and Asuka in her crimson plug suit. He began moving towards the two, the pair staggering around the beach. They were leaning on each other as they took small steps. Despite the strange way they walked, Ryoma could see their footsteps had gone far down the beach.
Ryoma stopped as he heard something overhead. A burning meteor falling from the sky. It grew larger in size before Ryoma began to make out some details of it. The object – or rather – pair of objects slammed into the LCL sea. He could see vestiges of crimson jutting out of the far sides of the object. He squinted and was surprised. Mazinkaiser had returned, slamming into the LCL sea with EVA Unit 01 in its' grip.
The sea was still. And there was no way for him to check if Kouji was alright. But why would Mazinkaiser and the EVA be fighting in the first place? Especially if Shinji wasn't piloting Unit 01? Ryoma had no answers to his questions.
A few moments passed and nothing came out of the fluid. A stalemate then? Regardless, if Mazinkaiser had stopped Unit 01, that meant at least part of SEELE's plan had been halted. The crash had gotten the attention of Shinji and Asuka as well, and Ryoma could see they had fallen over, trying to get back up now that the sea was still again.
Then Ryoma felt unsettled. The feeling that someone was watching him. Someone with deadly intent. He moved, leaping back as far as he could. It was a good thing too as a gigantic mace bored upwards, tearing the ground he stood on just a moment ago to shreds.
"Ryoma Nagare - !" He heard a voice fill the silent air.
Suddenly the ground behind him erupted completely as sand, debris, and oil flew up in the air, revealing the dark blue Mechasaurus lurking beneath it. Ryoma heard laughter and his blood felt like ice. It was deep and came from a being Ryoma had hoped died in the initial attack on NERV HQ.
"Your Getter and your Mazinger army are beaten! Now – you will all perish beneath my claw!"
"Emperor Gore - !?" Ryoma said, sprinting away as fast as his legs could carry him.
He was not afraid but the thing now behind him was responsible for the death of his best friend.
The creature tensed and its' sheer presence hit Ryoma harder than any Invader could. His peripheral vision showed Shinji and Asuka had gotten up and were running from the monster's appearance. Given the strange way they were moving, they would be targets in no time if Gore noticed them. And any other humans that emerged from the orange fluid would be a target for Gore's wrath.
The Invaders may have been stopped, SEELE and NERV were at the moment problems to be solved later, but there was still a threat he had to put down. If humanity was to survive – there was something he had to do first, and soon.
With Shin Getter elsewhere, victory against Gore was likely slim. Ryoma only had one direct response to the Dinosaur Emperor's arrival. Given the foe's speed, it just might work out. The blue form stood, swaying unsteadily on bulky and cracked cybernetic legs.
"Ryoma Nagare! I see that you remain! Then – is this my personal Heaven or Hell?"
Emperor Gore looked down on him, the dark blue Mechasaurus body looming over the area. The armor plating had been fried and cracked from the last Getter Beam that Shin Dragon had unleashed. The damage to the Mechasaurus was nasty looking but Ryoma could see the Getter Rays from Shin Dragon's beam had only had fried the outer skin and armor, leaving the skeletal frame of the monster intact.
"Well it's Heaven to me if I can send you off to Hell myself! Emperor Gore, today's your last day! This one's for Musashi!" Ryoma yelled as the Mechasaurus kept taking lumbering steps toward him.
"Yes. Run from me. You'll join your friend Musashi Tomoe soon enough." Gore taunted as his thundering footsteps got closer and closer.
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Run! Run!
Faster! Hurry!
Step here, don't look back!
Wait! Something in the sky again - !?
"BLACK! GETTER!" A voice screamed, alerting both of them to Ryoma's presence.
The pair snapped out of the ocean of shared thoughts and feelings as their two pairs of ears heard another great crash. The form of Black Getter had landed in front of them – the Super Robot's arrival sending a cloud of sand billowing over them. They both guarded their eyes, sight going black for a moment as the dust settled. Asuka was first to open her eyes and they saw Black Getter up close. The machine's red and yellow eyes glanced down at them, the black cape with a red interior tattered, but flapping lightly in the breeze.
They could see Ryoma running in the distance towards them as something else marched behind him. It was Emperor Gore. The Dinosaur Emperor roared in the distance about his revenge, and stopped for a moment to look in their direction, noticing Black Getter had arrived.
Shinji could see through Asuka's personal experience that Emperor Gore was not to be taken lightly. Strong enough to throw Unit 02 around like a rag doll when she was still struggling to reach Mama. And brutal enough to crush Neo Getter, Diana A, and Boss Borot with killing intent.
Gore's body came more into view under the bloodstained moon, the Saurian's step a bit askew as the legs had been damaged.
"Black Getter! Retrieve them!" Ryoma yelled as the machine extended a hand towards them.
They stood there for a moment, stunned at the spectacle in front of them. Ryoma yelled again.
"ASUKA - !"
Her name? But why would Ryoma say that? Shinji could only wonder, even as Ryoma got a little closer, running as fast as he could to avoid Gore's heavy footsteps behind him.
" - SHINJI! GET IN THE FUCKING ROBOT!"
They needed no second reminder as Ryoma was already close behind them. Shinji and Asuka sprinted to the machine, leaping as one into the robot's palm as Ryoma caught up to them. He pulled himself into the hand and the Getter stood, shoving the three of them into the 'mouth' opening on the face, the metal guard snapping into place as Ryoma took the helm.
The pair behind him fared for the worse, as it was a one person machine and on top of that, they'd both bumped into several monitors and levers. The sensations were similar enough for Shinji and Asuka to feel the initial experience as one. Despite that, the different things they collided with made them each feel like they'd been hit twice over.
"Alright kids, sit tight! You both get front row seats to see me kick this dinosaur bastard's ass!" Ryoma yelled, gripping the controls with fervor.
Their shared thoughts were immediate – the cockpit was cramped, it smelled like oil and rust, and they both felt cut off from most of the shared feelings. Ryoma was between them, after all, and Shinji extended his left hand while Asuka her right to re-establish a stronger physical connection. The contact made their thoughts align and they could focus more clearly.
"Just hurry up!" Shinji yelled, surprised that he'd uttered Asuka's thoughts.
"We're behind you, Ryoma Sensei!" Asuka blurted out, startled as those had been Shinji's words.
"Heh. With you two cheering me on, I'll manage! Now - GETTER TOMAHAWK!"
Black Getter drew its trademark studded axe in its right arm and charged, chopping and slashing at Gore's form.
The Mechasaurus of Emperor Gore was prepared as its hands warped again into maces, blocking the axe as it swung at the Getter with another mace hand.
"You face me with a real Getter this time! I see you at least have not lost your edge!" Gore roared, punching Black Getter's chest and sending it staggering back.
"Hmph! And I see you reinforced your Mechasaurus! Enough to survive even Shin Dragon's Getter Ray output!" Ryoma shot back. "Still – you're hurt pretty bad! So try this! GETTER BEEEEEAAAM!"
The port on the Black Getter's stomach opened up, firing out a pink blast that Gore felt, snarling as he had to block the wide stream with both mace arms – the now vulnerable body of his machine meant he was forced to defend.
"I would ask you of the massive Getter – or of the gigantic human corpse that litters the Earth now. But such questions do not matter – once I exterminate you I can return to the magma below and revive the rest of the Dinosaur Empire's kind from our slumber! Your earlier machines may have harmed my troops, but this new state of the world makes it rife for terraforming! Your human folly will soon be a bad memory!" Gore exclaimed, a mouth-like buckle on his machine's stomach opening up to reveal a beam port.
"Now – I'll match your Getter Beam with this!"
The port fired a pitch black arc of lighting laced with purple. It struck Black Getter and Ryoma raised the cape as a barrier to ward off the attack. Still – the force of the blast knocked the Getter backwards and Asuka and Shinji both were sent rattling backwards from the strike.
"Damn dinosaur, are you done talking yet?! I'll kill you and mount your machine's head in a museum once this is over! Getter Wing!" Ryoma commanded.
Black Getter jumped into the air, cape billowing out as it flew up, avoiding another blast of Gore's own beam. Once they were soaring in the air, Ryoma went on the attack once again.
"GETTER BEAM !" Ryoma yelled as the Black Getter's cape swirled around its' body and caused the beam to fire en masse, the rapid beams unpredictable as they struck around Gore's machine body, striking multiple places at once, sending sand flying as some of the blasts hit the beach.
Then Black Getter fell from the sky, Getter Tomahawk raised as it aimed the strike at Gore's head.
"Now – die!" Ryoma cried out.
The three in the machine heard a crash as Black Getter landed with force and something hit.
Black Getter's body leaked oil from several puncture wounds as one of the mace – fists connected, pushing deep into the chest of the Getter.
Still, the Tomahawk continued its' trajectory, embedding itself into Gore's left shoulder, close to the Mechasaurus' neck.
They heard a shriek of pain from Gore even as several of Black Getter's systems started shutting down. Blood-like oil leaked from the Mechasaurus' neck and its' face was twitching in pain, the axe had embedded deep into its target. Mechanical cables connecting the head and shoulders were severed and stray sparks of electricity ignited from the attack. The left arm was now slowly twitching as well.
Gore himself appeared on the monitor, bleeding and burned from the fighting, panting as his glare at Ryoma never wavered.
"Heh! You – missed!" Gore seethed, the right arm of his machine reverting to a claw hand to grab onto Black Getter's side and pull back the mace arm for another punch with it.
"OK then! We go right to desperation!Once more - GETTER BEEEEEAAAM!" Ryoma roared.
The Getter's reactor charged as the intense beam made a humming sound as it formed, the damage to the Getter's core causing it to fire in spurts at point blank range, Gore snarling as he took the full force of the attacks.
"I withstood the fallout from that monster's ultimate Getter Beam - ! Something like this won't affect me!"
"Shin Dragon's Getter Beam wasn't targeting you directly! It wasn't this close to you! And - Black Getter is a modified version of the first Getter 1! So it's the same kind of machine Musashi Tomoe bet his life on when he killed the majority of your forces years ago!" Ryoma said, grinning as Gore's eye widened in surprise.
"What?! Then you've been fighting me with the ghost that devastated my Empire's forces for years?! That which sent us back into the Magma in disgrace?!"
"That's right! So it's fitting that this Black Getter be the machine to finish this! You said I'd join Musashi but I'll kill you here and now so he can do the same to you in Hell! Now Gore - experience the terror of Getter Rays once again as you die for real this time!" Ryoma yelled back.
Another blow to Black Getter's form and the mace arm completely shoved through its' body.
"No! I refuse to yield! You'll find I'll not die so easily! You'll have to do more than that, Ryoma Nagare!"
"Finish it off!" Asuka yelled.
Ryoma wasted no more words as he let go of the Tomahawk and grabbed onto Gore's arm, pushing it even further into his own machine's chest. Gore seemed surprised, but Ryoma grinned as the thrusters in Black Getter's feet ignited, lifting both combatants off the ground and carrying both of them towards the ocean.
Gore fell with the Getter, the super robot and Mechasaurus falling into the sea of LCL. The weight of the Getter was restrictive and the Emperor struggled as mace-hands had to revert back into hands to grapple with the other machine.
Gore roared as he managed to get free of Black Getter's grip, the tail of his machine tossing the Getter away in the water as a large pair of grey membranous wings emerged. The Mechasaurus surfaced, the large wings flapping as it rose briefly in the sky. The strength of the wings was enough to carry his Mechasaurus back onto the beach.
Form battered and withered, the left arm completely lifeless, the Mechasaurus landed with a shudder, narrow eyes gazing at where the Getter fell.
Black Getter's form sank deeper into the water and Gore snarled in victory.
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"I am Great, yes I am!
I am Great Mazinger!"
Tetsuya felt himself shudder as he regained consciousness. His eyes were wide and his breath sudden. The Brain Condor was cramped, but it was home.
"Great Mazinger!" Tetsuya exclaimed as he had re-appeared inside of his machine, helmet, pilot suit and all.
The machine still had power and with the Scramble Dash, and ignition from Great's rocket boosters, he broke through the still water and rose to find the world in a different state. Scans showed that there were few life-signs and he had Great head to the nearest one.
Then he detected something else. Coming fast from the atmosphere, the form of Shin Getter fell, red pain worn and body scalded by the heat. The eyes were blank . It was too far away from Tetsuya for Great to catch. It would hit the water in a few minutes and Tetsuya was ready to intercept it.
Great Mazinger had enough power to get him there quickly, but his attention was taken by another battle unfolding. Tetsuya had arrived in time to see Black Getter fall into the sea, Emperor Gore bursting from the waves to land on the beach with a proud grimace on his Mechasaurus' jaws.
Despite the Getter's defeat, Tetsuya's monitor showed the three life signs aboard Black Getter had survived. Then he had to be careful. Ryoma and his Getter Team would be vulnerable if they remained in the LCL.
Tetsuya was ready, pointing to Gore and prepared to fire Thunder Break when Shin Getter's form hit the water and then the instruments on the Brain Condor started acting strange. On top of that, the surface of the water was glowing – the orange coloring pierced by an emerald light. And Great's systems picked up something very familiar that made even a seasoned pilot like Tetsuya take pause.
"What is this?" Tetsuya wondered as he glanced at the various monitors in the Brain Condor.
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Ryoma Nagare was beaten as was his Getter – meaning that his Dinosaur Empire was ready to fully emerge and claim the Earth as their own prize.
Gore's thoughts were dashed as another form hit the water – A different Getter this time. The robot's arms, legs, and wings were slack, red and white frame charred and scorched from the re-entry into the atmosphere and it hit the ocean back first. Then the fight against the Getters was truly over. His agents had reported that Shin Getter Robot would be the most difficult Getter to deal with. And now – it was no more. The Dinosaur Empire's short campaign against the humans had ended with acceptable losses.
He eyed the form of Great Mazinger and wondered just how long he could keep fighting. Photon power would not be harmful and his own body's accelerated healing would give him an edge. Plus, Great Mazinger itself looked worn out, arm shaking as it was having difficulty readying its' trademark Thunder Break attack. Gore's life support had been restored and Gore snarled as his rage allowed him to stand, flapping his wings as he prepared to take to the skies in an all out attack.
His General and Science officer. And his brave troops. He had staked them all on a decisive victory. And now – he was prepared to stake even his own life to further that end. Great Mazinger was just another obstacle that lie in the way to the Dinosaur Empire's revival.
Gore's remaining thoughts were dashed as the ocean of orange immediately began to glow with an unnatural, green light. The submerged Black Getter's shadow could be seen amidst the bright neon.
Then a massive green pillar of energy blasted from the orange sea, shining brightly with the cursed Getter Rays as he heard a roar of an unfamiliar man.
"CHANGE! SHIN - ! GETTER - ! DRAGON!"
The silhouette of the named machine rose amid the green pillar, arms rising from the water in a powerful flex as it's upper body emerged.
"No."
It was the only thought Gore could muster as the earlier giant rose from the pool of LCL, water seeping off of the machine's body. It had changed now, where it was once bestial looking, now it had an appearance closer to the classic Getter Dragon. A proud red crown, a body of matching crimson and dark blue.
The thing was not only a Super Robot, but even a titan among others of its kind. It rose with palms spread, the image of a machine almost irrelevant as it gazed down at Gore as though he was nothing more than an insect. In the palm of its' hand, the Shin Getter Robo that had crashed into the ocean stood, looking battle ready despite the damage from re-entry it had incurred.
"Well Gore, are you up for a third fight?" Ryoma's voice asked from inside the Getter standing in the dragon's palm.
"Cursed Getter Robo - ! That is your detestable form-! What your evolution leads to-! Then know this! I will perish this day, but my Empire will live on! It is not the last day you hear of us!"
Gore yelled before the Getter Ray density was too much for his machine to bear. His Mechasaurus fell to the ground, face striking the beach before the already failing systems began to ignite.
"Glory to the Dinosaur Empire - !"
Gore's scream was cut short as his reactor caught fire and the mechanical body exploded.
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A short chapter but I didn't see an organic place to cut it other than after Gore was beaten. I hope that minor tweaks like him piloting a Mechasaurus rather than him being the gigantic Mechasaurus body isn't too glaring a change from the source material in Shin vs. Neo.