"MUSASHI!" Ryoma cried, tears streaking down his face.
"Ryoma, focus. We need to get out of here." Hayato said, staring at the hanger of a spaceship through Ryoma's camera view.
"Right… right…" Ryoma said, gathering himself.
Outside of the destroyed Getter laying on its side, a legion of soldiers poured through a large sliding door on a catwalk. They hurried down the stairs of the catwalk and began to surround the Getter, aiming their rifles. As the last of the soldiers hurried down the stairs, a scientist stepped forward from outside the hangar, his arms crossed behind his back and a smile on his face.
He was obviously a scientist as he wore a long white coat, although it looked more like a high schooler's coat than a lab coat. His mouth was half the size of a person's although it was still much larger than the soldier's mouth. His teeth, visible through his smile, were black canines. He had a long white beard and bushy white sideburns large, almost circle shaped, ears, and a large yellow horn protruding from his skull, while the rest of his head was bald. Over his left eye, he wore a glass monocle on a gold chain that went underneath his coat.
"Come out now, and peacefully, and you won't be harmed." The demon said, his voice broadcasting into the Getter's radio.
"What do you think, Hayato? Should we, do it?" Ryoma asked.
"I see no other option. They have us surrounded," Hayato replied back.
A door slid up on the Getter's chest, and Ryoma stepped through it into a freezing cold room, raising his hands up in the air. He still wore his helmet. A door slid open on the belly of the Getter, and Hayato stepped out doing the same pose. The Getter's hand moved, causing the soldiers to recoil in a panic, and it moved its hand under Ryoma. He stepped onto the hand, and it lowered for Hayato. Both boys now stood on the hand, as it lowered to the ground and allowed them to climb down.
Two soldiers came towards the boys and pushed them up the stairs, directing them to the scientist demon. Once on the catwalk they could see the scientist was standing at a terminal, tapping a touch screen. "So, you are the legendary pilots of the Getter Robo. We've heard a lot about you, like how you used only one of you to slaughter the Dinosaur Empire. Shame your third member could not be here with us now." The scientist said.
Ryoma growled in anger but Hayato was quick to start talking before he could lash out, and kill them both. "Yes, it is a shame about our friend. My name is Jin Hayato, and this is Nagare Ryoma."
"Pleasure to meet you, Getter team. My name is professor Gura. I am the creator of the wonderful soldiers you see stationed before you, and the machines you battled down on Earth." The demon introduced.
"You know, I thought you were only a hundred strong. I see many more than a hundred soldiers here." Hayato said.
"The hundred demons do not refer to these simple oni!" Gura exclaimed, astonished that Hayato could be that foolish. "It refers to oni like myself, and lord Burai!"
"Say, what's that your typing on?" Ryoma asked.
"This? Why this controls the hanger. I have been using it to make sure you don't freeze to death, or your Getter Robo pulls the hangar door open." Gura explained.
"Interesting. Hayato, hold onto something." Ryoma said.
"Ryoma, no!" Hayato yelled, but it was too late.
Ryoma kicked the soldier behind him in the crotch, and dashed forward. Hayato quickly spun around and punched the soldier that was behind him in the face so he didn't shoot Ryoma in the back. Gura screamed in fear as Ryom picked him up over his head, and through the scientist off of the catwalk. The soldiers were now running up the stairs, tripping over each other, but it was far too late for them to catch Ryoma.
Ryoma looked down at the terminal, as Hayato wrapped his arms and legs around the safety railing. Ryoma exited out of the "cooling" screen and looked over buttons saying "gravity," "metal oni," "alarms," and then "airlock,". Ryoma smashed the airlock button, and it popped up with two buttons saying, "open airlock," and "close airlock". The close button was greyed out. Ryoma groaned and smashed open, prompting "are you sure? Yes or No". Ryoma yelled in anger, as a soldier reached the top of the stairs, and hit "Yes."
The hanger doors behind the Getter opened incredibly fast, and the soldiers, along with the Getter, flew out into the void of space. Ryoma had flown forward as well, but he had not gone far when he grabbed ahold of the safety railing. Hayato groaned in pain as his arms and legs were forced against the railing, and Ryoma bit down so hard his gums began to bleed from the force.
"Ryoma… close the doors!" Hayato cried.
Ryoma tried to pull himself forward, barely able to get his hands forward. And then the air was gone. Ryoma floated forward, blood leaking from his eyes. He spun around and grabbed ahold of the terminal, and pulled himself straight. He looked down at the terminal, and pulled his hand down onto the close airlock button. Without another prompt, it closed. Ryoma fell onto his butt, and Hayato pulled himself back over the railing and laid down on the cold metal, eagerly breathing in the fresh air that was now being pumped in once again.
"Ry…oma…" Hayato gasped.
"Yeah?" Ryoma asked, wiping his bloody eyes on his uniform.
"Fuck… you…" Hayato replied.
Behind the two Getter pilots, the door to the rest of the ship opened. Four more soldiers stepped out, aiming assault rifles down at them. Behind them, out stepped a Japanese Hitler. Aside from being Japanese, and having two horns colored like a burned potato chip growing out of his head, he strongly resembled the facist dictator. He even dressed in a shockingly similar uniform, apart from an arm band. Instead he wore a pin over his heart that had a red stripe, yellow stripe, and then another red stripe going down.
"My what a bunch of fools you are!" he squealed. "You could have easily killed yourselves with that move! No wonder emperor Burai wants to meet you!"
"Who the hell are you?" Ryoma asked, as a soldier yanked him to his feet.
"I am General Hidler!" the demon chimed, walking away while the soldiers pushed Ryoma and Hayato forward.
"Of fucking course, you are." Ryoma sighed. This was going to be a long day.
General Hidler led the Getter team through a series of hallways, passing various soldiers and scientists. Most of the halls they passed through were boring dark grey metal with nothing adding interest to them. Then they entered a new room. Lining the walls were demons submerged in a light green liquid in giant glass vials. As they past hundreds of the demons, Ryoma gasped in realization of what he was looking at.
"These are…humans." Ryoma said.
"Yes! I'm surprised you didn't realize that until now!" Hidler replied. "I mean, the soldier you captured even flat out told you!"
Ryoma looked up at a tank, seeing a human man with no mutations yet caused. He then vomited, disgusted at what was happening here. The soldiers and Hidler stopped and waited. Once Ryoma had stopped and wiped the vomit from his mouth, still hunched over, he turned to Hidler. "What the hell is in those tanks?"
"Decayed Getter Rays, dead long ago but still full of energy. I don't know if you humans realize this yet, but Getter Rays speed up evolution. Quite quickly, in fact. These Rays have been contaminated however, and do not give us our full potential. We mutate in a specific way, and stop only a short way through evolution do to the Rays being dead. That is why we desire the Getter Core. With that much living energy, we could perfect ourselves. We could evolve into the ultimate life form. We could be gods!" Hitler laughed at the last line, the most unintimidating laugh ever unleashed by an evil villain in the history of the world.
Thirteen minutes more of walking, before they reached their destination. A throne room aboard the space craft. Sitting before them on a golden throne, was the demon emperor Burai. Burai is twelve feet tall, and insanely muscular. He was a hulk among hulks. He wore the same uniform as Hidler, without the flag. He was covered in bushy white hair, aside from his mouth up to his forehead, which was a bright red. The background of his eyes were yellow, and his irises were black. Despite this appearance his features were almost human.
"Welcome, Getter Team. I am lord Burai, of the Hyrakki Empire. I have been waiting for fighters like yourselves to appear.
At this line Hayato's eyes widened and he turned to Ryoma to tell him not to antagonize the demon emperor, but he was too late. "Fighters? Then you've finally got to meet some." Ryoma said, eager for a fight with whatever this monster would throw at him.
Burai smiled and said "Good… oni, throw down your weapons. Battle these humans, to the death."
Hayato filled with fear and anxiety, but Ryoma had the opposite reaction. "Oh, this is gonna be fuckin fun." Ryoma cursed, a huge smile on his face as he brought himself into a battle stance.