This is essentially based on the remixes of Oshi no Ko and Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo, and how a lot of my discord buddies think that Ai could be a getter pilot. This fic is written to emulate the OVA format, so when it's finished it'd be better to be read as one chapter/oneshot. But since it was getting bigger I decided to start publishing it in parts. It also means that the fic will be written in parts, and this is Part 1 (it'll be clearer in the ending).

I'm creating an entirely new Getter continuity here. There will be some familiar faces from Getter Robo's canon, but I only tagged Ryoma Nagare for now. The nature of the getter rays is pretty much well-known after Arc, so if there was a sequel to Arc, I believe it'd start with them as antagonists.

Beta status: read by some discord buddies.

I loved them...

For the first time in her entire life, Ai Hoshino didn't live a lie. It was an experience so sublime she didn't dare to use the word "truth" to refer to it. It was a pity that she barely had time to enjoy it.

She could feel herself being unmade. The light of her soul becoming dimmer and dimmer. But at least she could remember the moments she had with her children.

I just wished I had told them sooner.

The darkness was much thicker than water. It felt like she was deep in oil.

But… what's going to happen to me?

Reincarnation? As part of her cultural duties, she met with Buddhist and Shinto priests. The Buddhist priests would say a beautiful soul like hers would be closer to nirvana. The Shinto priests said the gods would surely hear the prayers of a pure maiden like her. Such beautiful lies. When she asked them what happened to the "ugly" and "impure" souls, they said they'd reincarnate into insects and worms to repent from their sins. Ai, the cockroach. Ai, the shrimp. Ai, the tapeworm. How fitting that would be for her.

Hell? Once she went to a Catholic charity when she was a kid. The nuns there gave her clothes when she asked for. They also told her that God is love. If that's true, then she knew this God would never accept her. Maybe someone as big as God could love in a way that wasn't a lie. If not, then God would be a liar bigger than her. Either way, that meant hell was her only destination.

Oblivion? Before she knew she was Ai Hoshino, she knew nothing. After that, she would return to know nothing. Boring, but simple.

Independent of all these things, she knew one tru-…no, she was too unworthy of using that word. The fact that wasn't a lie was that she loved her children. And she hoped that they would forgive her for leaving them so soon.

In a blink, she could see something green.

Did I blink?

She blinked again. She briefly saw three human figures in front of her.

I definitely blinked! What is going on?

Ai opened her eyes. She was floating in a large tube-like structure, enveloped by a thick pale green liquid. She saw a trio of men wearing lab coats in front of her. She couldn't see their faces, but they were smiling at her.

She realized she breathed through a tube, connected to her throat, covering her mouth and nose. She could see the ends of her long, purple hair.

One of the men made a sign with his hands. Soon, the liquid started to drain. The tube detached from her mouth, after enough liquid was drained. She took a deep breath. When it drained fully, she kneeled for a moment, while getting used to that body.

Soon, she stood up. She felt a bit taller than usual. A woman wearing a gray uniform handed her a long towel. The words in her uniform: Saotome Institute.

Ah, I'm naked!

She quickly draped herself in the towel. If the paparazzi saw that, her career would be over.

Wait, what am I thinking?

"Gentlemen, Project Sophia is a success! We have our perfect soldier!" one of the men wearing the lab coat raised his voice.

The lights turned on. A large crowd sat down in an observation auditory above. They were all so different, but only a few of them wore lab coats. Some men wore suits, some women wore fancy dresses.

Behind them, something called her attention. There seemed to be an entire stone wall with some crude drawings. It felt they were made by cavemen. It portrayed some human figures pursuing other humans and other ones kneeling towards what seemed like a bigger human figure, made of rectangles; it had a face, where two emeralds were incrusted in what seemed to be its head. She felt a bit uneasy of how the emeralds seemed to stare down at her.

The crowd clapped. That dispersed her thoughts on the stone wall.

A familiar feeling emerged in Ai's heart. They were her new audience. Her new fans whom she couldn't disappoint. She still didn't understand what happened to her, but, as the ultimate perfect idol, she knew she needed to appease them.

"After many attempts, with DNA samples from the greatest athletes, soldiers and scientists, we have built the perfect specimen. She will be able to harness the getter rays and mold them as she wishes."

That just confused her. Did that mean she was in a new body? And this body was, according to what she could understand…a lie? Made up of many different bodies? So, that meant that she was reborn into a different world, right? That man would have mentioned her true identity if she was being reborn in the same world.

"We are calling her Sapphire. She will be a goddess born out of our efforts and desires. She will be full of love and cruelty, like a goddess should be. With her, we will tear down the pearly gates and take our rightful place in the universe!"

The crowd clapped again.

Sapphire. What a beautiful name. Either way, she would need to learn the ways of that new world. Her feeling, however, was that she'd be a performer again. Her intuition knew that crowd liked to hear lies. If they wanted lies, they would be getting lies. And so, she will love and be loved.

She took a step forward and bowed to them.

"As you wish."