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  RUMBLE!

  “Prepare yourselves, Dekai Gaers! Your end is nigh!”

  The city of Tokyo trembled as explosions echoed through the entire Shibuya district. Buildings colpsed oer another as people screamed and ran away.

  A gigantic battle between two massive behemoths occurred in this very instant as two massive monsters, one meical and the other made of flesh and bone, cshed.

  “We will never give up, Demon Kih!”

  “Our bonds give us strength!”

  “The city of Tokyo, we must protect it!”

  “More damage than this ot be tolerated…!”

  “Everyone! Don’t give up!”

  The giant proteg the people, and the buildings was a massive meical behemoth, posed of several maes unified as one, eae resembling a mighty beast of a different color.

  Uhey became the mighty Brave Gaoyusha, a giant of over three hundred meters of height, tasked with the prote of Tokyo and all of Japan from the monstrous Xes, powerful aliens that came to quer Earth.

  With the right harm of a blue dolphin with a sharp spear-like hand, the left arm of a green elephant with a long whip-like trunk, the left leg of a bck panther and the right leg of a cheetah for the best mobility, a torso made out of the mighty red lion, and the head of a pink fmingo.

  They create the ultimate warrior of humanity.

  The Mighty Brave Gaoyusha!

  “This world shall belong to the Xes, you stupid fools! And there’s nothing you do to stop us! Japan is only the beginning! The rest of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America! It’ll all be ours! Humans shall go extinct as we stomp them like ants!”

  And the one fighting them was one of the Demon Kings that had arrived from outer space, the third in and of the Xes, the powerful Demon Kih, queror of dozens of ps.

  His gigantic humanoid body resembled a massively muscur man with six gigantic arms, gray skin covered oallic bck scales, a long tail with the head of a snake, and his head resembling a bck lion.

  Easily surpassing three hundred meters of height, Demon Kih possessed tremendous physical prowess, capable of destroyiire cities in his wake.

  But that wasn’t everything…!

  “Now perish!”

  He pointed all six of his arms at the heroes within the mae, the Dekai Gaers, onal humans that were chosen by Deus Ex Maa, the subscious Divinity born from humanity’s belief in any god, to and the Deus Ex Beasts, relics of an a civilization that nded oh long ago and defend the p.

  TRUUUM!

  A massive sphere of pure Void and Darkness materialized within Demon Kih’s cws, and as he fired it against the mighty Brave Gaoyusha, the Dekai Gaers readied themselves, infusing their will and belief into the mae, p it up with their emotions.

  “It won’t work, you evildoer!”

  “Let’s go together!”

  “As one!”

  Their wills verged into a gigantic golden shield made from the Deus Ex Beasts, and with the head of a r lion, the beam cshed with immense might.

  BOOOM!

  The ruined city around them crumbled down, being nothing but ashes before the gigantic explosion. The shield resisted, but it quickly shattered into pieces. Brave Gaoyusha, meanwhile, colpsed into the ground.

  “Uugh…!”

  “We fell!”

  “Dammit, get up, quickly!”

  “Aarrgh…!”

  “He’s ing!”

  The Gaers panicked as they saw Zenith approach them rapidly; the mighty Brave Gaoyusha quickly stood up again.

  “We need something stronger; his scales deflect all our attacks!” the yellow Gaer said.

  “We should jure the mighty Heroic Sword then!” said the red Gaer. “Everyone, unify your Emotions!”

  Their powers verged, and as the Gaoyusha mae rose its hands, suddenly thunder from the skies desded, materializing into a gigantic golden sword.

  RUMBLE!

  “Hm?!”

  Zenith gred at the se, his six eyes squinting as his stoic, expressionless face ged into a slight surprise, his eyes revealing a hint of shock.

  “That’s the… Heroic Sword?! How did you…?!” Zenith muttered. “That is the prize of my retainer, Fallen Knight Zenos!”

  “Zenos succumbed to us long ago, Zenith!” the red Gaer said. “Aook his corrupted sword, bringing it back to the light it was inally born from!”

  “Tch! You will give back that treasure to me!” Zenith rushed forward, his Aura erupting as darkness enpassed almost the ey.

  “{Shadow Meteors}!”

  His massive fists reached Gaoyusha, unleashing tremendous explosive attack with each punch, resemblieors falling from the sky made of shadows.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  The mech barely resisted the blows, showing clear damage through its entire body, but it mao swing the Heroic Sword as a beam made of pure light erupted from the swing, sshing through Zenith’s fists!

  SLAAASH!

  “Unnggh?!”

  Zenith’s eyes widened as he saw the bde of light slice ly through his arms! His bck blood ttering into the ground, c the city with miasma.

  “Dammit! Accursed heroes! Taste the might of the Xes Demon Kih!!!”

  Zenith lost his mind as he opened his jaws, and his chest transformed into a gigantic crocodile-like mouth, opening as well, and to make things worse, even his snake-headed tail did the same.

  From each jaw, a gigantic beam of darkness and void were unleashed, impag the me front of him with immense force.

  BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

  Massive holes appeared across the Gaoyusha as its pieces and circuits started falling apart oer ahe Gaers held on, swinging the Heroic Sword once more while charging forward.

  “Zenith! We will not let you defeat us!”

  SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

  Three sshes reached Zenith, his gigantic body split apart into three, blood spttering everywhere as he screamed in agony!

  “Uuauaaagghh! Curse you, Dokai Gaers!”

  As Demon Kih agohe Gaers rushed to finish him off. Knowing full well of his regeion abilities, they had to aim at his head and split it open to finish him off.

  “Now, the st step! Everyone! We … do this!”

  The Red Gaer unleashed his Emotion, Ce, fueling the entire mae and giving his friends a st bit of Hope as they rushed forward.

  Yet!

  FLUOOOSH!

  “Wha…?!”

  “Hm?!”

  The rangers and the demon king gasped in disbelief in the middle of their battle as they saw a gigantic gray portal materialize right between each other, making them fall through it.

  “What is this?! Uuaaaggh!”

  Zenith screamed as his pieces fell through the portal.

  “Uuaaggh! Kenichi!”

  “What’s going on?!”

  “No, Gaoyusha is about to colpse!”

  “T-This is a wormhole?!”

  “Everyone! Grab anything you !”

  Meanwhile, Gaoyusha started being rapidly destroyed by the turbuleween spad time twisting and ing within the portal.

  BOOOM!

  And then they only saw darkness…

  …

  The dryness of his mouth and throat slowly woke him up, as a young Japanese man coughed blood, mostly cogged on his chest, vomiting it over the dry, desertic floor.

  “Ough…! Ack…! W-Wha…?”

  He gnced around, his red hair waving by the wind as his blue eyes analyzed his surroundings. His Red Gaer suit was torn down, greatly damaged, but its powers had somehow kept him alive.

  “E-Everyone…?”

  He gnced around, notig Gaoyusha pletely torn to pieces; even his Mecha, the Crimson Lion, was barely alive, groaning.

  “Crimson Lion! W-Where’s everyone else?!”

  Kenichi reached his loyal steed, his panion and guardian. The lion groaned, growing weaker until it dissipated into particles of red light.

  FLASH!

  “Crimson Lion…” he sighed. “Rest for now…”

  The Gaer powerful Maes could self-repair themselves by being spiritual and disappearing into another dimension for some time, which also allowed them to summo any time.

  However, the same didn’t happen for the rest of the Gaer Beast Guardians; their bodies were torn to shreds; there was nothing that could save them.

  Kenichi could no longer seheir life force at all…

  They were dead.

  “T-This ’t be happening…” The Red Gaer, the Herald of Ce, had fallen into despair.

  He fell to his kears streaming from his eyes. As he started hitting the dry ground, all five other Beast Guardians died, only leaving behind his lion, the rgest and toughest, barely alive.

  His friends too, where could they be?

  “I have to find them…”

  He gnashed his teeth, slowly standing up. He felt weak, barely capable of crawling, but Ce slowly started to spread through his body the more his heart was beating.

  “Deus Ex Maa, do you copy? Are you there?”

  He looked at the unicator devi his wrist, rapidly trying to call for the ohat grahem these powers, their true leader and general, Deux Ex Maa.

  Bbzzttt…

  Yet the only thing he could hear was statioise; the guardian couldn’t respond.

  “What… what is happening? Where am I? Where’s everyone else?!”

  He looked around, feeling pletely lost.

  Ding! Ding! Ding!

  “Ah!”

  He noticed a sudden holographidow floating in front of him, showg… his stat sheet, as if he were some sort of videogame character.

  “Huh? Is this a new fun? What is this? Skills…? Css?”

  He was fused, but he couldn’t really give it much attention to this, as Kenichi pressed a few buttons on his wrist device.

  Suddenly, a proje showing the surroundings noed appeared, alongside several colorful dots with the other rangers, very far away from him.

  Bck Gaer, Yellow Gaer, Green Gaer, Blue Gaer, and Pink Ranger were rather far away from him.

  For some reason they ended being thrown away very far, although closer with one another, almost a hundred kilometers from where he was!

  “They’re alive! But barely…! I o find them quickly!”

  Kenichi instantly started sprinting through the desert, only to hear a voice whispering into his head.

  “Red Gaer… Kenichi, was your name?”

  “Huh?!”

  He instantly reized that voice!

  “You…?!”

  He gnced into the distanotig that right behind a pile of metallic rubble and cables, a rge bck scaled arm with red eyes across it was resting, bleeding miasma into the nd around it.

  “Zenith?!”

  The Demon Kih had survived as well, somehow, his unique body position and biology even allowing him to be alive within every part of his body.

  “You…! You want to fight even now?! Just give it up already, Zenith! You’re just an arm!”

  “My other body parts… have been scattered.”

  “What?!”

  “I ot reach to them; something has takeheir neurobiological systems.”

  “Eh?!”

  “I suggest that, while swallowing our pride, we make a temporary… treaty of peace.”

  “NANI?!”

  “Stop overreag, you stupid human!”

  “A-Ah, my bad- Ahem! I mean, why would I ever do that?!”

  “It’s obvious; you’re very weak; your robots are destroyed, and I am, as you said, just a gigantic arm.”

  “So you’re suggesting we go together?”

  “I do much more than that, fool. If you ihe power of Ce into my body, my cells will react to it and adapt, transf into something… more suitable for this enviro.”

  “So that’s how you Xes adapt and have grown s…!”

  “Hmph, and it is how you pathetic humans will perish before ht… ter, once I figure out where I am to begin with!”

  “I don’t know, this sounds shady… How could I ever trust an evildoer such as you, Zenith? You’ve destroyed all of Shibuya and killed thousands!”

  “Simple, you have no choice, kehahaha…”

  “Tch…”

  Kenichi remained in silence; as a Japanese man, honor was a very important thing.

  To ally his deadly enemy, even if it was just to survive and find his friends…

  Was that something he would be willing to swallow his pride and honor for?

  “Your Stamina is very low; you won’t make it to your friends.”

  “…”

  “And that’s without even sidering what my other fragments, overtaken by a mysterious being, could do to this world…”

  “…”

  “You will die before you make it, fool. And so will I stop being myself! This is somethih require; don’t be stupid.”

  Kenichi recalled his friends, their smiling faces, the experiehey had together, the time they went camping out, that other time they visited the beach, and all the hot pots they’ve shared.

  He had only met them a year ago, but they had already brought so much light and happio Kenichi’s formerly lonely, sad life.

  He gripped his fists tightly.

  “You promise you won’t try anything while we are together, Zenith? Crimson Lion is fine. If you dare do something, I will not hesitate to call him, and we’ll destroy what remains of you.”

  “Hmph, fear not, hero. I shall honor my word as one of the three Demon Kings of the Xes!”

  “Very well…”

  Keniodded, walking towards Zenith.

  Then he pointed his hand at him, his wrist device overflowing with the red, bzing power of Ce.

  “Ce Heart e!”

  FLUOSH!

  The energy rushed into Zenith, making him overflow with new life and energy!

  “Uuoooohhhh! So this is the power of Ce! Kehahahaha!”

  Zenith’s arm started to transfaining red metallic scales that unified into giant ptes, then his fingers became loacles covered in bd red metal.

  Then, his eyes unified into two big, neon red eyes across his body; slowly, he stood up.

  And it resembled…

  “Huh? Is that a squid? No way! Hahahaha!”

  Kenichi couldn’t help but ugh at what Zenith had bee.

  “Grr! Don’t you dare ugh at my new form, filthy human! Now hurry, we must find my parts… and your useless friends!”

  Kenichi climbed on top of Zenith, the two mortal foes being temporary allies.

  …

  Meanwhile, far away, where the aers had arrived, a man with long bck hair, wearing a ese clothes with long robes of bd red c the colorful heroes on the floor before him.

  His eyes squinted as he smiled like a true devil, his aura overflowing with power, as he pointed his hands at them, who were now defenseless.

  “Such rich Fates you possess… Otherworldly visitors,” he ughed. “If you don’t mind, I will be taking it all for myself~”

  FLUOSH!

  Suddenly, he began to steal the very Fate of these Heroes, their Destinies and Fortune, abs them to gain tremendous power.

  “Uuaaggh!”

  “Aaargh!”

  “Uuggh!”

  “K-Keni… chi!”

  “What is happening…?!”

  The man ughed.

  “Now, now, don’t wake up yet; please, sleep. You o rest after all, heroes.”

  He smiled with fasation as he noticed five powerful energies reag him, pletely alien to him, which brought tremendous power.

  “Hahaha…! What is this? Incredible! Maybe with this… Killing Bing Xue will be easier than I imagined.”

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