Part 9 of GaoGaiGar vs Betterman! Sorry it took me so long, I got distracted.
Triple Zero flows through the underground rapid transit system, flooding the Earth with endless Zero Robos.
Then finally, Triple Zero flowed through the underground rapid transit system, diffusing to everywhere in the world at once, and inundated the whole Earth with infinite Zero Robos. If left unchecked, humanity- no, all life on Earth- will perish in accordance with cosmic law…
Even with the influence of Triple Zero gone, the cured old GGG members remember (and regret) their actions as Ruin Apostles.
None of them were happy to hear Gai’s welcome. As they should have been. They — the purified Hyuuma Geki, Entohji Kousuke, Ushiyama Kazuo, and Nakai Akiko — all remembered what they had done as Ruin Apostles.
A recap of FINAL and the story so far. The old GGG fought the 11 Planetary Masters with the fate of the Universe in the balance. They escaped thanks to Genesic GaoGaiGar's Galeora Road, but ended up at Orange Site, which contained the energy that would create the Universe and then destroy it. The Braves of the old GGG saves the Solar System (and likely the entire Universe), but in the process were corrupted by the energy of Triple Zero...
Dishonored as traitors and exiled from Earth, the old GGG fought the 11 Sol Planetary Masters in the Trinary Solar System with the fate of the universe hanging in the balance. After they had won, the ability of Genesic GaoGaiGar’s tool Galeoria Road allowed them to escape from the dying universe. However, they had arrived in between the dying universe and the universe to be born, at Orange Site. It was filled with the energy which would birth the universe, and then, like a receding tide, destroy it: Triple Zero. They had come at the very moment that the dimensional gate wrenched open by the 11 Sol Planetary Masters was about to spew Triple Zero into the Solar System. The old GGG Braves saved the Solar System from death by bursting Triple Zero, and were turned into Ruin Apostles as a consequence…
Hinoki's research compares Triple Zero to a chemical substance with an electrical signal, which can be used to change the nature and personality of someone (even if they're a robot).
According to Sai Hinoki’s research, Triple Zero was like a chemical substance with an electrical signal. Just as a stimulant can make a person berserk, it was a substance so dangerous that it could morph mecha. Tragic circumstances could cause symptoms of poisoning, changing nature and personality, but like illness, one could be restored to normal with the treatment called “purification”. Though as Ruin Apostles they might have had a vendetta against Earth, it was not their own fault.
Over the last month humanity has been under perpetual attack from Zero Robos created by the new King of Ruin. Although the armies of the world fought back, normal firepower could not retaliate.
Yes, this was the moment for mankind’s inner courage to be tested.
Over the last month, humanity had been driven into dire circumstances. The dense Triple Zero which the new King of Ruin had spewed all over the world generated hordes of Zero Robos everywhere, and though national armies had fought them, normal firepower could not retaliate at all, and they had suffered an unbroken chain of losses.
20% of the Earth's landmasses are occupied by Zero Robos. Both Blue and Green GGGs have resisted, but mainly prioritise saving people, and they stand little to no chance against King J-Der, Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJin.
At present, about twenty percent of Earth’s land was occupied by Zero Robos. Of course, both GGGs had tried to resist. But whenever Ruin King J-Der, Ruin GenRyuuJin, and Ruin GouRyuuJin showed up, resistance was futile. The only reason why they had not lost any Brave Robos yet was because they had prioritized saving people over winning. If they pushed themselves to strike back, they would most certainly be crushed.
At the rate of expansion, the Zero Robos are estimated to take over the entire surface of the planet, after which the fate of humanity would be unknown (although fleeing into space is an option).
If their comrades could be retrieved in the first place, that is. At the moment, the Zero Robo territory was only expanding, and if it kept up, it was estimated that in another four months every bit of land on Earth would be under their control. When that happened, what would become of humanity? Would they flee beyond Earth — or would they—
Hiiragi used Pondus' super gravity to hold the Ruins in place.
‘I used Pondus’ supergravity to hold the Ruins still, but their formation was exactly how Lamia predicted it from the start’.
Disc X is what allows Mic Sounders to focus the Solitary Wave on targets and not as an omnidirectional wave (which is why without Disc X Solitary Wave can't be used on Earth, but it can be used in space, as it was against the primevals).
An intermediary which limited the energy soliton blast of the Mic Sounders series — this was what Disc X was for. Without it, the dense isolated waves of energy, the Solitary Waves, would destroy every substance exposed to it. This sort of indiscriminate attack could not be done on Earth, but it was possible in space. When the Primevals emerged from the ES Window during the Primeval War, this was used.
Disc X was the revolutionary invention that allowed for a Solitary Wave burst to be used on Earth. This restricted the Solitary Wave to the characteristic vibration of its target, thereby curtailing any damage to anything else. If a Solitary Wave were fired on Earth without Disc X, the very ground would be decimated. It was created with such a refined technique that even Dr. Liger had difficulty producing it.
Dark earth is ground which has been corrupted by the Zero Robos, which one of Mic Sounders Disc X discs has been designed to target.
Over the past month, they had discovered that the territories overrun by Zero Robos were being terraformed into something different. Total darkness which no light could penetrate. That was the color of the earth which the Zero Robos ruled over. As GGG aided in rescue missions, they also sampled the dark earth. They then at last succeeded in burning a Disc X which would make the Zero Robos and dark earth the sole targets of the blast.
Mic has been traumatised by having to fight Mamoru and Kaidou, but even though he can delete the memories from his mind, he refuses to, as trauma must be overcome rather than erased.
Mic thumbs-upped. He himself was scarred by the memory of fighting Mamoru and Kaidou. But by discussing it with humans before this day came, he had overcome it. As his Super AI was manmade, it was possible to selectively delete bad memories. But that would not foster a “Brave Heart”. Trauma was not to be erased, but to be overcome… GGG’s policy had not changed.
There are so many Zero Robos that there's no point giving them all individual designation numbers anymore.
“…Here come the Zero Robos.” Kaidou said in GaoGaiGo’s Cereb Head. The innumerable approaching Zero Robos had been spotted not on radar, but by sight. So many multifarious Zero Robos had been appearing all over the world that it was almost impossible to assign them all designation numbers at this point. It would not be inaccurate to say that over this month, GGG had been fighting an endless evacuation battle against infinite enemies. However, the tides might turn on this day. As long as their counteroffensive — Daybreak — worked.
Mic Sounders Solitary Wave destroys the dark earth, but leaves the earth below it unharmed. Even in his newly-refurbished body, Mic's body is heavily burdened by the Solitary Wave.
Mic Sounders the 13th’s Solitary Wave fanned out and ploughed into the ground ahead. Or rather, to be more precise, only the dark anomaly smothering the surface was eradicated by the energy soliton.
“Damn, that’s a spine-tingling melody!” Even his newly-refurbished body was heavily burdened by the Solitary Wave’s high-power emission. Mic quivered as he strummed his Giragirahn VVV.
GaoFighGar uses an electromagnetic net to catch a Zero Robo, which he then uses like a hammer and swings it into more Zero Robos.
“I’ll handle these! PLASMA HOLD!” GaoFighGar arrested the vanguard Zero Robo with an electromagnetic net. “HAAAAAH!” He whirled the frozen Zero Robo like a hammer. Flung with incredible muscle, the Zero Robo knocked into its nearby fellows as it smashed apart.
The Solitary Wave is 230% the predicted value, and not only does it destroy all the dark earth in sight, but also it's effects are visible from space (via satelites and the GGG Orbit Base).
I’m no rocker if I don’t light their hearts on fire, baby! Revving his GS-Ride to the max, Mic kept up his shout — the Solitary Wave. The dark earth in front of him had already been eradicated as far as the eye could see.
“Results report satellite search has confirmed the Solitary Wave’s effective range it’s 230 percent the predicted value~~” In GGG Orbit Base’s Main Order Room, Tamara reported without pause from the Research Division’s operator seat in place of Hinoki, who had deployed.
Mic Sounders pushes it beyond his limit in order to save humanity with his rock 'n' roll soul.
This was clearly just a tough act. The nonstop medley had pushed the amplification system over its limit, the pick’s shredding set off sparks from Giragirahn VV, and Disc X had started to crack. Even still, Mic would not stop his shout.
Was it his atonement for being a Ruin Apostle once? Or was it courage in the hope of saving humanity? It was both, but even greater was his rock ‘n’ roll soul.
Ruin GouRyuuJin and Ruin GenRyuuJin gust out their auras, causing Mic Sounders to loose his balance and fall over.
“GouRyuuJin!” The green and red unit Kaidou named situated itself in front of GaoGaiGo. The two gusted out their auras, making Mic flying on Studio 7 lose his balance and hit the ground.
GaoFighGar and GaoGaiGo block attacks from Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJin with Protect Wall.
Ruin GenRyuuJin fired his Freezing Rifle and Lei Dun at the same time Ruin GouRyuuJin fired his Feng Dao Dan and Melting Rifle. The quadruple attack further powered up by Triple Zero flew towards Mic as he struggled to stand.
“PROTECT WALL!” But their attack was obstructed by the two Kings of Braves simultaneously erecting defense barriers. GaoFighGar and GaoGaiGo both had equipped Wall Rings, doubling the thickness of the ironclad wall. Even the two Ruin Generals could not break past it.
Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJin prepare an attack which they've only performed once before, an arcane link attack allowed through the combination via ZA POWAH...
They’re going to do… that technique! Gai flinched. Ever since Hyoryuu and Enryuu had gained consciousness, he had spent a long time fighting by their side. Even then, he had only seen their ultimate technique once. An arcane link attack, discharged by four Ryuus irregularly combined through THE POWER.
“Blow, ice and snow! Roar, lightning!”
“Howl, hurricane! Burn, scorching heat!”
Kaidou in GaoGaiGo picks up Mic Sounders with the mecha's Plasma Hold.
In a flash, he hoisted Mic with GaoGaiGo’s Plasma Hold.
The Ruin Generals unleash Maximum Tou Long for the first time on Earth. Before GaoFighGar can erect a Protect Wall (most noticably, after the attack's been launched), the Somniuns appear and turn into Bettermen and block the attack (also, prior to the attack landing).
“MAXIMUM TOU LONG!!” The voices of the two Ruin Generals boomed. Four shining dragons of energy bolted through the air. This technique had only been used at Jupiter once, twelve years ago, and now for the first time it had been unleashed on Earth!
Just as GaoFighGar was about to erect its Protect Wall once more…
A gash opened in the ground at its feet. Six silhouettes emerged from it and simultaneously put seeds into their mouth. Though they appeared human, they were not.
The Somniums are superior to humans, and can gain supernatural powers surpassing biological limitations by eatimg one of 6 Animus seeds.
“Bettermen!?” Gai called them by the common name humanity had given them. They called themselves Somniums. A race of primates surpassing humans. The Somniums could transform into supernatural beings by eating Animus seeds. Nebula, Ougu, Turba, Lume, Ahriman, Pondus. Each of them had abilities surpassing biological limits.
The Bettermen are 10m tall, about a third of the height of GaoFighFar, and block Maximum Tou Long with a compressed oxygen wall.
“The Bettermen stopped Maximum Tou Long!?” Gai shouted, shielded and surprised. The transformed Bettermen were all about ten meters high. They were about a third of the size of GaoFighGar. Despite this, they bore the brunt of the four dragons. Actually, they were not exactly bearing it. Turba’s compressed oxygen became an invisible wall, blocking them from it like a layer of bulky armor
The Bettermen dampen the Ruin Apostles attack while strengthening their allies defences.
“I may be frail, but Ahriman can be changed to augment the abilities of other Somniums.” Rice quipped from within Ahriman. The sound waves from Nebula’s mouth made Ahriman’s spiderweb maintain a frequency which cancelled out the dragon energy over a wide radius, and combined with Lume’s electric particles, its power was enhanced such that Maximum Tou Long could not break through.
“Lume softens the Ruin power as if it were ripples. Then it lifts Nebula’s power like the raging waves.” Yewya’s will echoed within the jellyfish-like Lume. The Bettermen had completely halted Maximum Tou Long.
They can only sustain this barrier for a few seconds against the Ruin Generals, but this is all the time they need for Rakan in Ougo to attack with "stroboscopic speeds."
But only for a few seconds. The fierce dragons glowed a deeper orange, piercing the stout wall and crushing the transformed Bettermen — Turba, Ahriman, Lume, Nebula — in one fell swoop. Lamia and the rest broke out of the wreckage’s cloud of dust. However, their aim had just been to stall for those few seconds. The rest would be carried out by Ougu, approaching at stroboscopic speeds and carrying the curio-like Pondus.
In these few precious seconds, Pondus creates a mini-blackhole and destroys the Four Dragons of Ruin.
“I can do this too…” Already aware, Hiiragi responded from within Pondus. Immediately after, Pondus shot out the micro black hole he had generated in the span of seconds towards the center of the four dragons.
The supergravity drew the four dragons to a single point. The forms of densely accumulated energy crashed into each other, fire against ice, wind against lightning, and annihilated each other. Scattering violent explosions all the while…
The Ruin Generals have hoarded a nearly inexhaustable supply of Triple Zero and instantly fire another Maximum Tou Long. Although the Bettermen are destroyed, the Somniums escape into a ST Bypass. This allows the GGG time to form a counter attack.
“–Yeah!” GaoFighGar, following up the rear, took flight. GaoGaiGo, with Mic in tow, had already left the battlefield. But Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJin had hoarded a nearly inexhaustible supply of Triple Zero. As the gusts and flashes raged, they immediately fired off a second shot.
“Maximum Tou Long!!”
This attack was what the Somniums had been waiting for. Hit point-blank, Pondus and Ougu were mercilessly fractured apart. Actually, they were already just shells. Transformations undone, nimble Rakan, taking Hiiragi with him, dove with Lamia and the rest into the ST Bypass underneath.
Although Mic Sounders had done a fantastic job, he'd only undone three days of Zero Robo teraforming (whereas it took 10 days to manufacture Disc X).
Mic’s Disc X had indeed eradicated the dark earth. However, it had only been about three day’s worth of the daily increasing surface area. At present, it took ten days to manufacture Disc X.
Deus had intervened in the battle the other day, and claims that he has no significant powers to bring about in dire circumstances (which the other Somniums sense to be true, and detect no trickery or falsehood).
“Deus— if you are truly the legendary oldest of Sominums, then why have you meddled with us and humans?”
“Is that really worth asking? I’m an individual intelligent lifeform born of this Earth as well. I think fondly of my fellow Somniums and the race known as humans.”
“Then why do you not exercise your full might in these circumstances?”
Deus answered Lamia’s question. “Simple. I’m an ‘observer’ and don’t have any significant power. Thus my only method of interference is to tell others of what I’ve observed.” There was no falsehood or trickery in his will. They sensed it to be the truth.
Deus have interfered with humanity countless times, often in the face of extinction (which would remove the source of the Anima seeds for the Somniums).
“Mmm… as a scholar, I have studied records of Somniums old and new, far and near. Through it, I learned of one dubious… or perhaps, astonishing truth in legend. Throughout the ages, the Somnium Deus has interfered countless times in matters that might have ended in our extinction.”
Although Somniums are very long lived (living much longer than humans), they are not immortal, and will eventually age over the centuries. Except for Deus.
Haughty Rakan, always looking down on others, now regarded Deus with admiration. Somniums had always been, unlike humans, quite long-lived to make up for their extremely low reproductive capability. Lamia and Rakan might have looked young, but they had both already lived several times the lifespan of humans. Still, they were not ageless or immortal. If they lived for another few centuries, they would no longer be immune to age and eventually perish like Elder Pachira. Despite this, the legends of Deus had persisted since the beginning of Somnium written history. Yet here he stood before them, youthful and boyish. Even among the supernatural Somnium race, Deus was quite an anomaly. And for Rakan — and everyone else present — this was their first opportunity to meet the legendary being.
Gai has the power to manipulate comm nets as an Evoluder.
As an Evoluder, Gai could manipulate comm nets as if they were his own arms and legs, and was keenly aware of how Alouette had been listening to the conversations for some time now with suppressed breath.
Alouette's brain cells run at several times the speed of anyone elses.
Alouette went red up to her ears and tried to think of an excuse. Her brain cells, always running at several times the speed of anyone else, were now fried and losing function.
The formation of the Chicxulub Crater, and how ChouRyuuJin stopped a modern catastrophe by pushing the asteroid back through the ES Window, which transported him and the asteroid to Jupiter, where due to the Pauli Exclusion Principle (that being no identical particles with half-integer spins can occupy the same quantum state same quantum system) they are bounced beyond the present space-time continuum, causing ZA POWAH, ChouRyuuJin and the asteroid to transcend time and space and end up 65000000 million years ago, which wiped out the dinosaurs.
In the past, ZX-06 Brain Primeval had attempted to transport large asteroids from the asteroid belt through an ES Window and drop them onto Earth. To prevent this, ChouRyuuJin pushed one of the asteroids back through the ES Window and went through it himself. The asteroid was transported to Jupiter, and due to the Pauli exclusion principle bounce effect, they rebounded beyond the present space-time continuum. When this happened, the byproduct of Triple Zero on Jupiter, THE POWER, transcended space and time along with ChouRyuuJin and the asteroid, and brought them to the Earth of 65000000 years ago. In the present day, they had determined that THE POWER was a trickle of Triple Zero flowing out of a space-time tear, and they had a theory on what kind of mechanism the asteroid had crossed space-time by as well. At this time, ChouRyuuJin was charged with THE POWER — a minute amount of Triple Zero — and fell to Earth with the asteroid. Until he reawakened in the present day, he slumbered in the Earth’s stratum… and the place where the asteroid had landed was the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
There have been abnormal geomagnetism and deviating gravity distributions at the Chixulub Crater.
“We’ve previously detected abnormal geomagnetism and deviating gravity distributions at the Chicxulub crater. But it was insignificant, only vestiges of 65 million years past. How do the Ruin Apostles plan to use it now…?”
With the power of courage the G-stones power is infinite. So long as courage doesn't run out the power of the G-stone won't run out, and can hold back even the influence of Triple Zero.
Back then, they had been corrupted by Triple Zero and turned into Ruin Apostles. The Braves of GGG Blue had risked their lives to rescue them. This time, it was their turn to do some rescuing! Kouryuu and Anryuu’s feelings intensified, and their GS-Rides revved! As long as they had the energy to overcome fear — courage — the G-Stone’s power was infinite. This was the very energy that would resist cosmic law’s impending apocalypse. Though they had once yielded to its overwhelming pressure, this time Kouryuu and Anryuu rebuffed it firmly.
The Ruin Apostles use cocoons of former GGG members so as to prevent wide-area weapons.
At the ground in front of them were four orange cocoons. Taiga Koutarou, Shishioh Liger, Swan White, and Utsugi Mikoto had turned themselves into Zero Cores. GGG would hardly ignore GenRyuuJin and GouRyuuJin, but this was a gambit to ensure they didn’t use wide-area weapons of destruction, unlikely as that was.
Big Volfogg and Big Porcauto use Holographic Camouflage and Protection Camouflage to sneak up on the Ruin Apostles without being noticed, and although their attacks would be pitiful against Ruin Apostles, it does take away the ground beneath them and throws their attack off (allowing GaoGaiGo and GaoFighGar to finish Final Fusion safely).
These were the offensive techniques of Big Volfogg and Big Porcauto, which scattered the Mirror Coating particles covering their Three-Become-One forms around the vicinity like a shotgun. They had used Holographic Camouflage and Protection Camouflage to approach their targets without detection and made the first move. These were both extremely pitiful attacks against Ruin Apostles, but this time they exhibited unexpected might and shaved away the ground at the Ruin Apostles’ feet.
Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJin have Triple Zeros infinite power brimming within them, and as such GaoFighGar and GaoGaiGo would be much better opponents than the intelligence robots and even Mic Sounders.
“Hmph, we have Triple Zero’s infinite power brimming within us. Mic and Big Volfogg weren’t satisfying opponents at all.”
“And that tiny little Big Porcauto, whoever he is. All in all, they’re a poor match. The best opponents for a showdown really are… the Captains!”
Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJinn can intercept the communications via the GGG-reserve code and run their AI interencing circuits at full force.
Intercepting the communications via the GGG-reserved code they knew so well, Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJin perplexedly ran their AI inferencing circuits at full force. As they did so, Gai called out to them from GaoFighGar.
Defeating a Vehicle Robo before it combines requires speed moreso than power.
To defeat a Vehicle Robo before it combined, they had judged that speed was more essential than power. Well-seasoned as they were, Hyoryuu and Enryuu’s Super AIs excelled at combat decisions the most among GGG’s mobile corps. This was the one point on which the four sisters could not live up to their four brothers.
The spirit of intelligent life (be they organic or artificial) is the only thing capable of defying cosmic law.
Originally, the universe is born in a Big Bang, loses heat, and freezes to death in a natural sequence of events. The activities of intelligent beings generate heat and go against that flow. Truly, ‘spirit’ is the one energy that can defy the natural phenomenon of cosmic law.
The intelligence robots would not be of help against the Ruin Apostles (infact they'd be a hinderance), so instead they fight with GaoGaiGo and GaoFighGar against the Zero Robos.
While their fight unfolded, GaoFighFar and GaoGaiGo faced the Zero Robo horde. Big Volfogg and Big Porcauto had also reappeared at the center of combat so that they wouldn’t be noticed. But they couldn’t recklessly assist in the high-octane slugfest between the Triple Zero-powered RyuuJins. In fact, there was the chance they would be more of a hindrance than help. Therefore, Akamatsu and Gai had decided that they should prioritize Zero Robo disposal.
The power gap between GaoFighGar & GaoGaiGo and the Zero Robos is so huge they don't even need to use Hell and Heaven to demolish them.
GaoFighGar and GaoGaiGo also tore through the Zero Robos and secured Zero Cores. The gap in their strength was so overwhelming that there was no need to even use Hell and Heaven. Lastly, the final one was demolished by the two juvenile units.
Ruin King J-Der is over 100m tall, has 500 feathers and causes the ground to shake when it lands.
Spreading its fiery wings, the colossus exuding an orange aura from its entire body landed in front of GaoFighGar and GaoGaiGo with an earth-shaking tremor. It was over 100 meters tall; counting the many burning feathers spread to either side, more than 500.
King J-Der is already more powerful than GaoFighGar and GaoGaiGo, but with its power magnifiedwith the resonance of G and J (Renais and Soldat-J), and further powered up by Triple Zero, their power is terrifying even to Gai.
A shiver ran down Gai’s spine. King J-Der was already more powerful than GaoFighFar and GaoGaiGo to start with, and now its output had been greatly magnified by the resonance of G and J, and then further enhanced by Triple Zero.
Ruin King J-Der bombards the mecha with microwaves, molecular bond-destroying anti-mesotron beams and guided missiles (which avoid obstacles using ES spaces).
Blinding flashes of light shot out from the King of Ruin’s body. Correction: though it looked like light, they were countless weapons. From its fingertips, stimulated emission high-powered microwaves! From its outer forearms, molecular bond-destroying anti-mesotron beams! And from its legs, guided missiles avoiding obstacles through use of ES spaces were all fired out at once!
With the less experienced Keita and Hinoki frozen in fear, Gai in GaoFighGar uses a Protect Wall to block the microwaves and the beams, but the missiles come around to strike them in the back (via ES Windows).
“Protect Wall!”
But at the same time, countless ES Missiles shot out of ES Windows from behind and rained down. Though the microwaves and beams were narrowly deflected, the rear point-blank missile strike was unavoidable; taking the physical brunt of the attack, GaoFighGar and GaoGaiGo knocked against the ground.
Ruin GenRyuuJin creates many illusions of himself, and uses this distraction to unleash an attack.
KiRyuuJin and ShinRyuuJin were encircled by countless Ruin GenRyuuJins. Only one was real, the rest icy mirages. As his baffled younger sisters dedicated all their circuits to searching around them, Ruin GouRyuuJin unleashed an attack. “Melting Hurricane!”
The Bettermen fuse with ShinRyuuJin's body, creating Bonderman.
The six transformed Somniums equipped themselves over ShinRyuuJin like parts of armor. The species could morph themselves into a better form to adapt to the situation. And this was their new amalgam armed form.
The Bettermen equipped themselves onto ShinRyuuJin’s body like armor. The sight was visible from the Wadatsumi as well, and footage of it was broadcast into the Main Order Room.
Mamoru pleads with Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJin, saying they didn't save the Earth and the Universe for it to end like this.
“Think back.. the Four Machine Kings… the 31 Machine Primevals… the New Machine Species… We fought against mechanization and protected the world… Earth… the universe, for what? Not for it all to end like this!” Mamoru’s firm voice shook their Super AIs.
Bonderman is able to fight back against the Ruin Apostles.
The two of them were strengthened by Triple Zero, but ShinRyuuJin was currently equipped with Betterman armor. Forte’s mighty punch pummeled them, Lume’s electromagnetism baffled their sensors, and Turba’s propulsion took them beyond their reach; the Ruin Generals couldn’t have expected this.
Ruin King J-Der's attack is described as being an infinite barage.
Amid a rapid-fire volley — or better put, an infinite barrage — of Five-linked Maser Cannons, Anti-Meson Cannons, and ES Missiles, it was all GaoFighGar and GaoGaiGo could do to keep dodging.
Keita and Hinoki are Braves too, so they fight against Ruin King J-Der! GaoGaiGo uses a Protector Wall to block the Ruin Generals attack, and the resulting explosions exceed 4000 degrees C.
Right before King of Ruin King J-Der’s full volley landed, the strengthened barrier system activated. On the far side of the warped space, the masers were nullified, the anti-mesons were neutralized, and the ES Missiles’ blast winds dispersed. From Keita and Hinoki’s positions, it looked like a brilliant fireworks show.
“WHOAAA, we’re just barely holding out even at max power! It looks pretty, but it’s terrifying!”
“The forward temperature is over 4000 degrees Celsius…! But you sound awfully confident, Kei-chan.”
Big Volfogg and Big Porcauto endure thousands of degrees of heat when they protect GaoGaiGo from J-Quarth of Ruin.
Shouting, Big Volfogg and Big Porcauto bounded to the King of Braves’ knees. Bearing thousands of degrees of heat, the two units managed to pull down GaoGaiGo, and the very next moment, the blazing J-Quath boomed through where it had just stood. The firebird swooped towards the other King of Braves standing at the rear!
GaoGaiGo with the Double Goldion Hammer uses the Clackers to pin J-Quarth (with the power of Triple Zero) and shave away the mightiest anchor in the Universe in 3 hits, turning it into light.
The Clackers were ready for the firebird enhanced by Triple Zero. The next instant, the tenacious J-Quath had two round holes opened in it. Actually, they were not holes. The globes had erased the space entirely — emitting particles of light.
“Light, revolve! Goldion Clacker!”
GaoFighGar’s brawny arm swung the Double Hammer, and each time the Clackers beat upon the J-Quath. Twice, thrice! Each successive time, the universe’s mightiest anchor was shaved away by gravity shockwaves, and at last was annihilated.
“J…! It was turned into light…! The J-Quath with the power of Triple Zero…!”
Although the updated Goldion Hammer's hits don't have the same amount of raw power, it can strike repeatedly making it easier to use.
Renais was stunned, while J realized its potential. Its function as a Gravity Shockwave Generating Tool was given not to the Hammer part, but to the paired Double Clackers instead. A single hit’s power was nowhere near the scale of the previous Goldion Hammer, but since the mobile Clackers could strike repetitively, it had evolved into an easier-to-use tool.
Using Goldion Slicer, GaoFighGar slices Ruin King J-Der in two! However, it then regenerates and escapes at great speeds.
The Clackers reconnected to either face of the Double Hammer. Then the belt-shaped part on the Hammer began to spin rapidly. The Gravity Shockwave Canceller had started up!
“Goldion Slicer!”
Blades of light sprang out towards King of Ruin King J-Der, who was at this very moment closing in. The gravity shockwave from the Clackers had been thinly honed by the Goldion Motor installed on the Hammer part. The brilliant blades that would turn everything they touched into light lopped off the fingertips of King of Ruin King J-Der’s hands.
“!!” Before J and Renais even had the time to properly react, the blades of light sliced apart the anti-meson turrets on the arms and ES Missile launch tubes on the legs. But even as it was being shredded to pieces, King of Ruin King J-Der did not fall to its knees. Instead it towered before GaoFighGar as if it were the winner of the bout.
“…Gai, as you said, it appears I was wrong.”
“What?”
“The moment we settle things… will not be at this time or place…”
Though its massive body was being sliced apart, the King of Ruin hardly stirred before the King of Braves. In fact, the scattered damage was already being repaired by Triple Zero.
“We will meet again… Evoluder.” Leaving these words behind, King of Ruin King J-Der set off into the skies. It transformed into the Ruin Carrier Ship J-Ark and burned its impulse drive at maximum power. As it quickly disappeared into the azure horizon, there was nobody left who had the freedom or speed to chase after it.
Gai knows about the J-Phoenix has his G-Stone was connected with Renais's at the time.
Not to mention, King of Ruin King J-Der had a last resort. The J-Phoenix that he had used on Repli-Earth — an ultimate move that turned its entire body into a giant firebird and crashed into its foe. Gai had not seen the technique used himself. However, because all of the G-Stones had been linked during that time, he had known of it through Renais.
Using Protect Protector, Dreamgear ShinnRyuuJin redirects oncoming spears of light back at her corrupted brothers (after they've been fired too).
“YAAAA! ShinRyuuJin, now it’s my turn!” A voice rang from the sky. ShouSeiRyuuJin had been waiting overhead. Kouryuu’s maser beams fired from the right side of her back. Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJin immediately attempted to shield their heads. But the spears of light were aimed at their sister, ShinRyuuJin.
“Protect Protector!”
Dreamgear ShinRyuuJin had deduced ShouKiRyuuJin’s intention and spread out the six defense units from the left side of her back. The same space-warping barrier system as the Protect Shade twisted the trajectory of the masers and instantly sent them on a course towards the older brothers. The rays, coming from a direction they hadn’t expected, hit the brothers square on their backs while they still held a defensive stance!
Maximum Tou Long is the attack which instantly obliterated moon-sized Primevals during the final battle against the Machine Primevals at Jupiter, but now this attack was fortified by Triple Zero, a power surparsing ZA POWAH.
The ultimate technique that had instantly obliterated the giant Primevals fused with moon-sized satellies during the battle against the 31 Machine Primevals at Jupiter — the legendary attack now fortified with Triple Zero, a power surpassing THE POWER, was about to be unleashed on Earth.
A Maximum Tou Long is unleashed by both sides, shaking the ground and seering the air.
Blue/yellow and green/red energy dragons formed on one side and charged forward. These were met by white/gold and silver/black dragons of energy! In the air, the eight colors of dragon wrapped around and collided into each other! As if they themselves were sentient creatures, the high energy dragons ripped into each other, vibrated in protest, and shrieked fiercely. The after-effects seared the air and quaked the earth! The never-before-experienced impact made even the steel bodies of the RyuuJins themselves creak.
Although the RyuuJins battle is close, slowly but surely the brothers are winning out over their sisters.
And eventually, the seemingly never-ending tussle shifted ever so slightly. The brothers’ dragons were slowly but surely suppressing the sisters’ dragons!
The Ruin Apostles are brimming with the infinite energy of Triple Zero.
“We’re brimming with the infinite energy of Triple Zero.”
Shouryuu moves at undetectable speeds (or too fast to be noticed).
The eight colors of dragon were colliding with each other, sparking out vast amounts of energy as they writhed. At the center of it all was one more dragon, rushing at undetectable speeds — a much smaller, light green dragon!
ShouKiRyuuJin and ShinRyuuJin spoke as one! “This fight is four on five!!”
The momentary opening the Bettermen had created for them had been enough. The small, slender ninth color of dragon that Shouryuu had unleased from ShouKiRyuuJin’s back melded in with the sky, flew through the middle of the battlefield at speeds too fast to be noticed, just now reaching Ruin GenRyuuJin and Ruin GouRyuuJin, and at last struck.
Although the other Zero Cores are in the shapes of orange cocoons, Mikotos is in the shape of Zonuda.
All the Zero Cores that GGG had previously collected were orange-colored cocoon-like objects. But the one in front of him was in the form of Zonuda. Mikoto had shaped her Zero Core into this by her own will. Perhaps it was to agitate Gai, or perhaps she had just thought this was the most appropriate garb for the circumstances.
Mikoto has gained the ability to use the Lumpid Channel during a time she was almost killed in the Trinary Solar System (which is in the universe previous to this one).
Mikoto’s will echoed in Gai’s head. The Limpid Channel — the ability Mikoto had gained when she came near death in the Trinary Solar System. Even though the Zonuda-shaped Zero Core had no vocal organs, Mikoto could still convey her thoughts to Gai.
During the final battle with the 11 Planetary Masters, Lamia delivered the thoughts of everyone on Earth cheering him on (which is worth mentioning that this is not only in a different universe, but the universe which came before this one).
Back when Gai was fighting in the Trinary Solar System, Lamia delivered the thoughts of everyone cheering on Earth to him. Just like back then, the wills of people were passing through Lamia to speak to the Zero Cores. Among them, some especially sentimental wills called out.
Yang contemplates why ChouRyuuJin wasn't discovered until 2005, when an island was pushed out of the seas by tectonic movements. It's also said that if ChouRyuuJin had been pinned under the meteor when it hit, he would have been obliterated without a trace (even if they had ZA POWAH), which is frankly nonsense, as with ZA POWAH they halted moon-sized Primevals and destroyed them (although, it's possible that they didn't take as much of ZA POWAH when they were flung backwards in time as they did during the final battle against the Primevals).
Back then, when the giant meteorite disappeared into the ES Window and formed the Chicxulub crater, ChouRyuuJin broke away from it and landed in the Pacific Ocean. If he were pinned under the meteorite as it crashed into Earth, even if he did have THE POWER, ChouRyuuJin would have been obliterated without a trace. In that sense, his conjecture must have been right. Yet how was he not rediscovered until 2005? He was found by coincidence at an island pushed out of the water by tectonic movement… and only a few weeks after he vanished into the ES Window, at that. Is that even conceivable?
Yang has had his doubts for the past decade, and wonders if ChouRyuuJin was even in the Earth's stratum when that happened. He goes on to wonder if history had been rewritten so he'd spontaneously appear in the stratum, and how many times this may have happened.
Yang had had his doubts for the past ten years. Was ChouRyuuJin not in the Earth’s stratum until that happened? When he went through the ES Window, had history been rewritten so that he spontaneously appeared in the stratum? If so, that showed that history could be rewritten again and again and humanity would not be aware of it. Only the world existing after the revisions could perceive it.
The J-Ark lurks in the Caldera of Mount Aso, along with three other ships about four times the size of the J-Ark (having been regenerated with Triple Zero). These ships are Ruin Tsukuyomi, Ruin Hirume and Ruin Takehaya.
But the J-Ark was not all that lurked here. There were three more giant warships that looked to each be four times the size of the J-Ark. These were all supposed to have been lost in the Trinary Solar System, but with the escape boat Kushinada as their core, they had been regenerated by Triple Zero. The process had only just finished.
Ruin Renais and Ruin J-Soldato, the last of the Ruin Apostles, are preparing to merge all these ships together so-as to create the Ultimate Tool against humanity; the Ruin Goldion Crusher!
Ruin King J-Der had not retreated because it saw itself at a disadvantage. Rather, they had plotted a course to Mount Aso because gaining this new power took precedence. In J’s hand was the operation approval key. The other approval key, to be used at the same time, was in Renais’ hand. The two keys would allow the giant ships to combine and form the invincible Ultimate Tool.
Namely, the Ruin Goldion Crusher!!
