Hayato rode upon his black horse, the poor animal nearly dead from age and exhaustion. Walking next to him and carrying a large burlap bag, was Benkei. The two traveled across a dirt path on top of a mountain, heading towards a rope bridge. In the distance, a part of the mountain bore an unsettling resemblance to Getter Robo 1.
"Is that it?" Benkei asked, pointing to the shape of the Getter's head, and what was almost like an outstretched arm.
"I do believe it is. Looks like it's been here for some time. Hundreds of years, maybe." Hayato replied.
The two made their way across the rope bridge, far behind them an oni sat in a tree watching them, scouting their journey. As the two reached the Getter, Benkei threw the sack to the ground and began to pull out dynamite, handing half of it to Hayato and tying the other half to his belt. Hayato and Benkei scaled the mountain trapping the Getter, placing dynamite in its crevices.
A half hour later the two had finished, and Hayato poured a trail of gunpowder through a small trench to a safe distance, then bashed two rocks together until sparks lit the trail. Seconds later the first stick of dynamite went off, followed by dozens more. The oni, now realizing the Red Devil had been freed, threw its head back and screamed into the air.
Hayato yelled for Benkei to hurry as he scaled the Getter into the cockpit, a giant oni dressed in black armor with blue skin and long white hair, holding a long chain sickle and ball, rose into the air behind them. The Getter kicked to life as its pilots climbed inside. The Getter flew into the air without Hayato's command, dodging out of the way of the oni's blade.
The oni threw another attack, Hayato yelling "CHANGE NOW!", prompting the Getter to break away into its three jets, the sickle cutting through the air where Getter-2 had been seconds before. "Change, Getter Two!" Hayato declared, taking the lead. Getter-2 stared down at the oni, pulled its drill back, and struck forward as the oni slashed its blade.
Ryoma sliced the throat of an oni with his axe then spun around and completely cut in half a small oni as it pounced for his back. He lunged forward, landing on another oni's shoulders taking it completely by surprise, and brought both axes down into its skull. Ryoma kicked off it and slashed at the next oni's head, getting lucky and slicing two heads in half. Ryoma turned as another oni drew close and sliced the top of its head off, exposing its brain.
Raiko watched in awe as Ryoma kept slashing threw oni, cutting their heads and arms off before they could even raise them to attack. "That man is amazing." Kintoki remarked.
Raiko nodded without pulling her eyes away. Ryoma had now abandoned the skill he had been using to stay away from the oni and kill off those who got too close, instead swing his axes down in front of him, tearing through the flesh and bone of the oncoming oni horde. This proved his failure however, and several oni quickly pounced on him from all directions. Ryoma stumbled backwards, unable to stand with the weight of the oni, and fell from the bridge into the water below.
"No, you idiot!" Raiko yelled, leaping from her tank and charging down to the beach to assist Ryoma despite the protest of Kintoki.
Ryoma leapt back onto the shore as the oni leapt into the water after him, panting as his adrenaline wore off. Not giving up he began to pull two swords from his back and throw them like javelins, the blade tearing through the torsos of the oni and trapping them in place, but more were coming, and he would eventually run out of weapons.
"Ryoma, use this!" Raiko yelled as she caught up to Ryoma, still not down to the beach. Raiko drew her sword from her side, and threw it into the stand next to Ryoma.
Ryoma pulled the blade out and slashed at an oni as it drew close, the blade slicing through everything for nearly half a mile out, sending blood spraying into the air. "Now this is gonna be FUN!" Ryoma declared, charging back into the water as more oni dropped down to face him.
"It's exactly like the doji kiri minimato…" Raiko said under her breath.
Minutes later Ryoma walked back towards Raiko, now standing ahead of several samurai including Kintoki, and presented her with her sword. "Think you dropped something," He said.
"Ryoma… I would like for you to join us in defeating Seimei. You have proved you are a great warrior here today, and we would value your assistance on judgment day. Come and serve with me, not as my underling, but as my equal." Raiko requested.
"No thanks." Ryoma said, walking back towards the bridge. "I have enough comrades. Come to think of it… I have no idea where they are."
"Are you looking for them?" Raiko asked, eager to see more men like Ryoma.
"No, not really," Ryoma replied.
"Well if you want to meet up with them again… I would think that fighting the oni and destroying them alongside me would draw their attention," Raiko said, raising her eyebrow at Ryoma.
"Eh, you got me there." Ryoma replied. "But no, I think I'm gonna go there on my own."
"Are you serious!? What are you trying to gain!?" Raiko yelled, infuriated by Ryoma's disinterest in her cause.
"I'm going to find Seimei, and I'm going to cut his fucking head off. Now you can go ahead and fight too, but you better hurry. Chances are I'm going to have cut a path through those little guys until I find that basterd, and put him in his place." Ryoma informed.
Raiko recomposed herself then begrudgingly said "Fine. Just stay alive until we get there then."
"Sounds easy enough." Ryoma said, walking back along the bridge.
Overhead, an army of flying oni soared down towards Ryoma. He laughed a maniacal laugh, and threw back his cloak to reveal the weapons still strapped to him and began to hurl kunai into their skulls as he ran. Seimei watched as explosions erupted from the bridge caused by Ryoma and a keg's worth of bombs and dynamite.
"Interesting. He may actually provide a challenge!" Seimei moaned, excited by Ryoma's actions. Seimei walked out of his tower onto a balcony to overlook the carnage, practically ecstatic from the demons being torn apart by Ryoma.
"Lord seimei, he is coming!" a woman's voice filled with fear said.
Almost in response to this, Ryoma appeared in site on top of a house, holding what could almost be called a missile launcher. "Time to die, Seimei!" Ryoma yelled, pulling the trigger and sending the projectile directly at Seimei.
Two women held each other behind Seimei as he waved his hand, and the missile stopped in midair, then detonated without harming him or the women. "I can't believe you actually made it this far! Too bad you have to die now!" Seimei declared, causing a wormhole to open overhead. From it emerged a giant oni with a white face and head spikes like Getter-1, its body armored with large shoulders, the armor looking almost like human skin.
The oni swiped at the roof Ryoma was standing upon, destroying it. Ryoma jumped at the perfect moment, carried by the momentum of the oni's attack he managed to grab ahold of one of the tower's branching limbs. The oni, now at face level, stared at Ryoma with a smile. It opened its mouth, and prepared to swallow him whole.
"DAMN YOU!" Ryoma yelled, pulling an axe back and preparing to strike into the oni's face, not going down without one last fight.
Suddenly a massive drill emerged from the ground, tearing through the oni's skull. The oni's corpse fell to the ground as Getter-2 landed a safe distance away from Ryoma, illuminating the dark city like a fire in the woods.
"You idiots, what the hell took you so long!?" Ryoma yelled after the Getter, as it stared down at him.
The oni was not dead yet, Hayato realized just in time as it quickly rose to its feet. It let loose two beams of energy from its eyes, nearly burning Ryoma alive just from being close to him. Hayato dodged the attack, and opened the Getter into its plane forms.
"All right, let's do this!" Ryoma yelled, letting go of the tower and landing perfectly into the open cockpit of Getter-1. "Change, GETTER ONE!" Ryoma yelled with a smile, taking the lead.
Getter Robo-1 fell to the ground with a sprint, running straight for the unprepared oni. With a single motion from the Getter's right arm, the oni was sliced in half by the Getter's arm blades. Ryoma turned to face Seimei and declared "GETTER, BEAMMM!", letting loose the massive Getter-plasma combo, which ended before ever reaching Seimei.
During this skirmish, no one, not even Seimei, had noticed the approaching army. Raiko rode aboard her flag ship, followed by three dozen other flying ships, sailing into Seimei's home undisturbed. Seimei grew aware of their presence after the Getter Beam failed, and quickly summoned forth an army of oni to destroy the army, and another giant oni to face the Getter. This one was almost like the oni equivalent of Getter-2, with white flesh and bat wings growing from its back.
"Ryoma, let me give this one a shot!" Hayato said, watching as the oni flew into the air.
"Yeah, go nuts." Ryoma replied, detaching the Getters.
Flying oni attacked the ships as they dropped tanks with parachutes onto the ground along with samurai by the dozens. Raiko cut through the oni as they boarded her ship with ease, many samurai firing ancient Gatling guns into the oncoming monsters. She could see from the way the battle was going, she would soon reach Seimei with most, if not all, of her fleet intact.
Suddenly another giant oni burst from the ground, colliding with Raiko's ship, and soared into the air after Ryoma. Raiko ordered everyone to abandon ship as it began to fall to the ground, and was quick to order Kintoki to leave her to command the ground troops. Once alone aboard the vessel, she made sure it sailed directly into Seimei's tower.
Raiko jumped from the ship onto a limb, as her ship exploded below her. She cursed from the pain, and pulled herself into a sitting position on top of the limb so she could gather herself before continuing. She watched in fascination as this Red Devil cut the limbs and heads from giant oni as they appeared in the sky with a massive axe, defending her troops. Raiko suddenly felt sharp pain and grabbed the area below her left ribs. She looked down to see blood blossoming on her shirt.
"Oh… guess I didn't make it off okay…" she said, staring down at her now bloody hand.