"I don't get it… why on earth did the Getter Beam go off?" Shikishima asked.
"Could it have been targeted remotely?" Coen asked.
"Or perhaps it was hijacked by our enemy?" Stinger asked.
"No, it was Ryoma." Saotome said, having just entered the room, earpiece in hand and a bloody ear. "He fired the Getter Beam to kill the enemy's leader. But now… I have no idea what's happening to the boy. No idea if he'll make it out or not."
Aboard the Hyrakki Empire spacecraft…
"What the hell was that!?" Hayato yelled as the ship shook, only for the hull breach detected announcement to play.
"You! Do something!" Hidler ordered one of the soldiers to exit the room.
The room they were in was exactly like a hospital room aside from a rack of guns, two of which were now in the hands of the demon soldiers. Hayato even sat in a hospital bed. His uniform had been pulled down him to his crotch against his will and he was wrapped in bandaged all over his torso. They had also given him a strange blue medicine, that made his wounds heal quicker. They still wanted him around, presumably as a backup if Ryoma died. He hoped his friend was okay, how on Earth could someone take on a dozen super soldiers at once?
Almost in answer of this, a loud yell came from outside the hospital room, followed by gunfire. Hidler turned and yelled for the other soldier to check it out. The soldier approached the door, it slid open, and nothing happened. He stepped out, and a volley of laser fire ripped through his body. The soldier's corpse fell to the ground, and Ryoma bent down and collected the soldier's rifle.
Ryoma stood up, a rifle in each hand, and grinned at the sight of Hidler and Hayato. Blood stained his uniform, covered his face, and demon blood coated his body by the gallon. Hidler yelped and dashed to collect a rifle. Ryoma pulled the right trigger, and a second later pulled the left trigger. The first shot hit Hidler in the right shoulder, spinning him around, where the second shot hit him in the left shoulder. The General fell to the ground, both arms useless.
"Come on, Hayato. We're getting out of here," Ryoma said.
Hayato hurried up, wincing as his ribs still hurt, and quickly walked out of the room while pulling his suit back up over his shoulders. "Wait, what of lord Burai?" Hidler asked.
Ryoma's grin widened as he stepped towards the demon General. "I fired my Getter Beam at him." Ryoma said, then pulled both triggers on the general and held them. Hidler died with a smile on his face, happier than ever that his lord was finally able to evolve. Ryoma held the triggers until all that was left of Hidler was unrecognizable as a life form, instead just a bag of flesh filled with holes.
Ryoma (guns supported by his shoulders) and Hayato ran through the corridors of the spacecraft, desperately searching for some means of escape. The ship rumbled again. "What the hell was it that time!?" Ryoma yelled.
"The ship's probably falling apart, you blew a hole in it!" Hayato shot back.
"Well then how the hell do we get out of here!?" Ryoma growled.
"There's got to be another hanger with a ship or something, somewhere around here!" Hayato said.
Five minutes later, they found their answer as they approached a door exactly like the one they had entered from. They opened it, and before them stood two soldiers. Ryoma quickly opened fire, and they fell back over the railing of the catwalk after several lasers tore through them. The duo stepped inside and looked over the railing. There was a single ship, almost like a black egg with Gatling guns attached and a glass tip.
Ryoma through the guns to the ground and both him and Hayato raced down the stairs. Hayato beat Ryoma down, as he began to slow down. Hayato looked for a way to open the ship, and saw a hand scanner. The ship rumbled again. Hayato ran over to the corpses and dragged one of them back to the ship, just as Ryoma reached the bottom. Hayato pressed the hand to the hand scanner and almost instantly the glass lowered into the sides of the ship. Inside the cockpit was a pilot's seat, and a passenger seat behind it.
Hayato helped Ryoma in then sat in the pilot's seat. The buttons inside were all very simply labeled. He clicked the button to close the cockpit, and the glass rose back up. He clicked the button to begin to fly, and the ship rose ten feet into the air. Hayato turned back to Ryoma and said, "Hey, Ryoma. Do me a favor?"
Ryoma, who had been staring down at his hand which clutched his bleeding wound, looked up at Hayato and gasped out: "Yeah?"
"Don't die on me." Hayato replied, then clicked a button which tightened seatbelts around the two cutting off any reply from Ryoma.
Hayato pulled the trigger on the single joystick and the Gatling guns fired large lasers through the hanger, ripping it to shreds and depressurizing the room. The ship flew out facing the moon, and Hayato flew it over the spacecraft to look for Earth. It was just on the other side, easy enough to find. Behind them, a part of the spacecraft exploded.
As Hayato flew back towards Earth, he expected more ships to chase after them. None did. The ship was fast, reaching Earth from wherever they had been minutes later, the ship completely blowing up far behind them. The ship caught fire as they broke through the atmosphere, and Hayato aimed towards the ocean, but corrected his course as he saw land. He saw more than land, he saw an entire country. He was falling towards the United States, intent on landing as close to Florida as possible.
The ship broke through the water, flying forward towards the state as Hayato attempted to pull back on the speed. After almost a minute of trying to figure it out, he pressed the ignition button. The ship slowed as it broke the water once again, and it finally stopped fifteen feet away from the shore of a Florida beach.
Hayato opened the cockpit and pulled himself out, wincing as the side of the ship still burned, although no more than a boiling pot. Hayato looked to the beach, and saw a black family of a mother, father, and two twin girls, staring at the visitor from space. Hayato stumbled forward, thinking quickly, and said in perfect English: "Help me, me and my friend are part of NASA and our ship crashed during our mission. My friend is bleeding badly and he needs a doctor!"
This snapped the parents out of their trance, the mother telling the girls to stay there as her and the father raced forward to help. Hayato warned them that the hull was too hot for them to touch, and together they pulled Hayato out of the ship. Hayato and the father placed Ryoma under their shoulders and slowly moved towards the shore while the mother ran back onto the beach and rummaged in a basket for her cellphone.
They laid Ryoma onto a towel and the father began to perform CPR on Ryoma, after ripping his flight suit open and pressing the torn fabric over his wound. The mother had called the police immediately, and she reassured Hayato they would be there soon. Ten minutes later an ambulance had arrived, and two paramedics quickly loaded Ryoma into it. Also present was a police car, the officer waiting next to the ambulance.
Hayato stayed a few moments longer to say: "Thank you, you may have saved my friends life… if it wasn't for you, I don't think he could have made it."
"We did what we could." The mother said.
"I'm a doctor, what use would I be if I didn't help someone in need?" the father added.
"My name is Hayato Jin, my friend is Ryoma Nagare. Thank you, so much." Hayato said.
"I'm Marcus." The dad said.
"And I'm Christie." The mom said.
"Thank you, so much." Hayato repeated, and headed towards the ambulance. The cop stopped him from entering, however.
"Sorry sir, but according to dispatch your story don't check out. I gotta take you down to the station for now. You're not under arrest, we just have to make sure you're not a crook or anything." The cop said.
Hayato nodded and was escorted to the backseat of the police car. The ambulance drove off past them, and the police car followed it. After it had safely reached its destination, the car headed towards the police station. Hayato was quick to ask for a phone call, and was granted his request. Unfortunately, this led to him being arrested a half hour later once the police had contacted NASA.
Seventeen hours later, Hayato was awoken by a police officer knocking her baton against the bars of his cell. "Hayato Jin, your free to go." She said as she holstered her baton and pulled out keys, quickly unlocking the cell door.
Hayato stepped out, looking up at Saotome, Michiru, and two security guards in black suits and sunglasses. "What took you so long?" Hayato asked.
"Do you have any idea how long a plane takes to get here from Japan?" Saotome asked.
Michiru was unable to contain her excitement after her father said this, and ran forward and wrapped Hayato in a bear hug. "Oh god, Hayato! I'm so glad you're okay!" she cried, pressing her head against his chest.
Hayato placed his right arm on Michiru's back as reassurance, causing the old man to wince in anger, then looked up at Saotome. "What about Ryoma?" he asked.
"Ryoma is still in the hospital, as far as we know. We stopped for you first. You three are national heroes now, you know." Saotome informed.
"Yeah, I figured… wait, three!?" Hayato exclaimed.
Saotome nodded and said: "Yes, Musashi survived. He's comatose and broke half the bones in his body, but he's alive."
"Well then, let's go find Ryoma." Hayato said, pulling away from Michiru and walked forward. As Saotome turned around, and had begun to walk away, Hayato quickly turned around and before he could continue, Michiru kissed him first.
Twenty minutes later…
The group stood over an unconscious Ryoma, connected to an IV filled with blood, groaning in his sleep. Hayato stepped forward and said: "Wake up, dumbass," then slapped Ryoma across the face.
Ryoma snapped awake and upon seeing Hayato yelled out "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?" Curling his hand into a fist.
Michiru quickly ran up and embraced Ryoma in a hug, causing him to wince in pain. "Oh my god Ryoma, what happened!?" she asked, looking down at the dried blood on the bandages wrapped across his belly and lower chest.
"Those demon basterds kept fighting me, I had to kill twelve of them at once. One of them stabbed me, bad… and kept hitting me over and over again. Then the leader tried to fight me, and I stood no chance against him. So, I gave him my helmet and ordered my Getter to fire at it. Then I found Hayato, and killed the second in command, and we escaped in a ship… then I don't know. I woke up here." Ryoma informed.
Doctor Saotome stepped forward and said: "Musashi is alive, but comatose. You are extremely injured and Hayato is also injured, and both of you have undoubtedly suffered mental scarring. I am placing the Getter team on hold until you are injured, and Musashi's replacement is trained." Saotome said.
"But, dad… What about me? I could be the third pilot!" Michiru said, anger filling her voice.
"Considering what happened here, I am placing Getter G and its team on hold until I decide it's the proper time for you to pilot it, and have a proper team with you." Saotome said.
Michiru bit back anger and nodded. She collapsed into a chair next to Ryoma, while Hayato took a seat on his opposite side. "So, we sit back for now. And what do you do?" Ryoma asked.
"The United Nations has opened a Getter factory just outside Tokyo. I will oversee the increased production of Getter Robos. A dozen more pilots have already been selected from across the world. Times are changing, and the Getter project is gaining power. You aren't the main attraction anymore, Ryoma." Saotome said.