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  RUMBLE!

  A gigantic meical squid-like creature moved across the wastends of North America, rushing towards the dire where the one riding this monstrosity could sense his friends’ Symbols were located.

  “We’re getting closer, Zenith!”

  Kenichi spoke through his Red Gaer Suit, as he gnced into the distah the augmented vision the suit granted him. He seemed very ed. From having to ally his lethal foe to having to seek his friends while he didn’t even know where they were.

  With the only “surviving” Deus Ex Beast being the Red Lion, he felt like this was their greatest crisis so far. Not only were they stranded on another pletely alien world, but his friends were scattered, and he had a bad feeling about where they could have gone.

  “Hmph! Once we find the aers, yoing to help me find my fragments!” said Zenith. “As part of our deal, of course! If you dare not ply with that promise, then I will not hesitate to destroy you!”

  “Fine, I know! Stop nagging about it!” sighed Kenichi. “A promise is a promise… Despite being my enemy, I will honor it and help you gather your fragments to unify them back to how you were. And ohat is done and we are finally back to hoere, we will settle things down ond for all!”

  “Yes, that’s right!” Zenith roared, ughing. “And this time I will not lose! Just wait and see!”

  “Hah! As if Justice would ever lose to an evildoer such as yourself!” said Kenichi, trying to calm himself down. “And-”

  “Huh? What’s that?!”

  Zenith gred into the skies, pointing at them with his long meical tentacles. Above the heavens and clouds, a gigantic structure began to slowly desd; dozens of smaller flying structures separated themselves from the rger one, flying above the skies and iing the area.

  “Aliens?!” Kenichi asked. “Don’t tell me…! Zenith! Is this your doing?! Are the Xes here?”

  “No, fool!” Zenith said. “Those bastards aren’t the Xe! I don’t even know where they’re ing from at all. Our spaceships are much rger and gigantid bck with many spikes. Those spaceships over there are strangely streamlined, with weird scales ailian appearances; look, that one even has a head.”

  “What in the world?!” Kenichi was shocked as several spaceships passed through the skies in that moment, and one of them stopped moving right in front of them, while two more stopped a bit away from them, desding into the ground.

  “Who are you?!” Kenichi roared as he quickly summoned his on for any battle.

  “{Crimson Bzing Sword of Ce}!”

  FLUOSH!

  A bzing crimson sword materialized out of nowhere, showg the power of the Symbol of Ce within the Red Dekai Gaer.

  “Graaashaak! Graack?!”

  However, from the spaceship floating in front of them, only unintelligible words could be heard, as it suddenly opened a rge tyrannosaurus-like oral head at the top, revealing a huge on.

  “Red Ranger, it is going to fire!”

  “I know! I’ll slice through it!”

  TRUUUM!

  The beam reached Kenichi, impag him with tremendous force! An explosion of red energy erupted, splitting the skies above and geing cracks through the ground.

  BOOOM!

  “Nnggh…! Dammit! What the- Ah!”

  Zenith’s eyes widened as he saw Kenichi slightly burned, but his armlowed with a fiery red aura, the Symbol of Ce glowing eversting, as his sword cut through the beam.

  SLAAASH!

  The sshing wave of fmes not only cut through the beam entirely, but it also reached the spaceship, dealing great damage to its surface armor aroying the on attached to the oral tyrannosaur head.

  “Now, Zenith! Push it down!”

  “Way ahead of you!”

  Zenith roared furiously, swinging his meical tentacles, grabbing the huge spaceship of over teers of height, and f it down into the ground.

  CRAAASH!

  As the spaceship impacted the dry h, several smaller explosions triggered all over the entire spaceship, as cables and pieces of wire fell to the ground, fmes spreading everywhere.

  “Gryyaaasshkaah!”

  “Gruooshka!”

  “Greeshka Khuaashk!”

  Suddenly, several huge, muscur reptiliaures crawled out of the burning spaceship, pletely shocked that a mere human and whatever that thing apanying were pushed down.

  They weren’t just a few, but dozens of such reptiliaures, with heads resembling Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Velociraptors, alongside colorful feathers over their heads that resembled hair.

  They wore, however, no tribal clothes at all, instead wearing highly teological equipment ed tightly around their muscur, green-colored scaled bodies.

  They pointed ser guns at Kenichi, firing a barrage of red sers at him.

  “Dammit, there were a dozen of them inside?! And they got ser guns! Zenith, protect me with your tentacles! I’ll go fight them head-on!”

  “Yoing head-on?! Hahaha! Maybe this’ll be the time I’ll see you perish.”

  Zenith teased Kenichi, but the Red Gaer did not care.

  He jumped into a, ser beams rushing towards him as he evaded them, jumping arouerously and heroically.

  “Damn Gaer!”

  Zenith used his tentacles to tank the sers as he rushed right behind Kenichi, furiously firing beams from his own eyes and blowing away some of the reptilians.

  “Now!”

  Kenichi jumped into battle as he swung his bde against the reptilian, who groaned in agony as its chest was sliced through and an explosion of fmes engulfed it.

  BOOOM!

  “Uuaarrck!”

  The rest of the reptilians took out giant meical ons, swinging them against Kenichi from every angle, but he quickly swung his sword as he spun forward, sshing through the reptilians’ bodies, explosions of fmes ing from his on!

  SLAAASH!

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  “Uuaarck!”

  “Kreekh!”

  “Gryack!”

  The reptilians couldn’t hold him back as much as they would’ve expected! Despite having the build of a normal human, he was much strohan all of them bined.

  “H-How is that human so powerful?!”

  “That armor! It’s strange!”

  “Agh, his robot is ing here again!”

  As they unicated with one ahey panicked as they saw the gigantitacles of Zenith ing down towards them.

  CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

  In mere seds, half of them were crushed to death, leaving behind nothing but spttered blood-covered innards and broken bones and flesh. Their powerful meical armors were of no use either.

  “D-Did you have to be so merciless?!” Kenichi asked Zenith. “We o talk to them! Don’t kill them all, Zenith!”

  “Hah! You’re too merciful, Gaer!” said Zenith. “These bastards simply deserve to die and disappear for daring to attack me!”

  Zenith rushed forward to kill the rest, only for the reptilian’s two other spaceships to begin firing massive ons at him.

  BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

  “URGH…!”

  Zenith moved back as his body gained rge holes through it, where his bck flesh could be seeh his meical armor.

  The remainiilians tried to run away, but Kenichi didn’t let them, quickly summoning a grappling hook made of red metal and grabbing one of them, pushing it towards him.

  The other two were engulfed in fmes, screaming in agony as they burned, but they were tough enough not to die from that.

  “I am not as merciless as Zenith, but that doesn’t mean I will be soft with you.”

  Kenichi quickly weakehem enough so they couldn’t fight back.

  “Tell me, who are you?! Have you seen my friends?”

  “Graaack!”

  “Grekekeh!”

  “Gryakuh?!”

  They couldn’t quite talk to him, speaking in their owilian dialect, making Kenichi more frustrated over time.

  “Even the Xes have teology that allows them to speak uage; why ’t you do the same?” He sighed, facepalming. “Whatever…”

  He quickly smmed their heads with his hand, leaving them unscious and half-burnt. The Gaers were protectors of humanity, not of aliens. This meant they were pretty merciless against them anyway.

  “Zenith! Attack them back; don’t let them escape!”

  “Hoh? I thought you were ag all soft before.”

  “Shut up and do what I say! I’m only getting more and more stressed here, my friends… I don’t even want to think that the worst happeo them!”

  “Hahaha! Fine! Let’s show them what we’ve got... Red!”

  “Tch… Fine, Zenith!”

  Kenichi knew what he meant, so Kenichi quickly ran over Zenith, entering a rge inside of the biomeical monster and eg his energies into his core.

  FLUOSH!

  “{Deus Ex Beast Transformation}!”

  He pulled out a red card from his wrist and pced it on top of the bck-colored trol pahe card released sparks of bck electricity, slowly turning bd red instead, growing corrupted.

  “Hahahaha! So this is the power you possess, Gaers! Now it’s mine!”

  Zenith ughed as his entire body began to transform, his tentacles unified into giant, burly arms and legs; his squid-like body became a torso, while a new, humanoid yet demonid malicious-looking head emerged above it.

  K! K! K!

  The meical head resembled Zenith’s inal face quite a lot, although it was now made of silver, red, and bck metal, with huge horns, a lion mane-like , and red jewels as eyes.

  “{Dark Deux Ex Beast Warrior: Demon Kih}”

  Uhe Mighty Brave Gaoyuusha, a bination of all the Gaers Deux Ex Beasts, this was only posed of one of Zenith’s body parts.

  However, it was big enough to reach fifty meters of height easily!

  “Hahahahah! I’ve gained supreme power!”

  Zenith ughed as he started moving, rushing towards the two giant spaceships firing massive beams at them.

  “e and die!”

  He swung his massive cws at them as he grew loacles that ed around the spaceship o him, dragging it ba.

  “I’ll rip you all to shreds!”

  Crack, crack…!

  CRAAASH!

  Zenith ughed like the terrifying warlord he was, using his giant cws to tear open the spaceship and break it into two. All the reptilians inside jumped out of the spaceship, trying to scatter like cockroaches.

  “Don’t you dare escape, is!”

  Zenith wasn’t merciful at all, crushing them all with his foot, stomping them as if they were actual is. The differen power was simply tremendous.

  BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

  “Zenith! Stop killing them all; they’re running away anyways!” said Kenichi. “Aim at the other spaceship; it is trying to fnk us from above.”

  “SHUT UP, RED! YOU’RE SIMPLY TOO SOFT!”

  Zenith smiled as he jumped into the skies, desding and kig down the spaceship attag him from afar with a massive strike.

  CRAAASH!

  The spaceship was instantly split apart, colpsing into the wastends below and exploding with tless reptilians running away from the explosion while covered in fmes.

  “Gryyaaaack!”

  Zenith smiled through his meical head, ughing as he began stomping them again. He was really enjoying the sughter.

  “Gahahaha! Stomp! Stomp, and stomp! GET STOMPED!”

  “S-Stop Zenith! There are people down there!”

  “Where? Tell me where to stomp them too!”

  “I said ENOUGH!”

  Kenichi’s powers suddenly forced Zenith to stop moving, his entire body paralyzed.

  “Ugh?! W-What the…?!”

  The Demon King couldn’t believe it, but the Red Gaer had taken plete trol of his body with his Symbol of Ce!

  “Did you think that you could freely do as you pleased?!” Kenichi furiously said. “The power you now have is thanks to me; as long as you use it, you have to also obey my orders as a Deus Ex Beast.”

  “D-Dammit! This isn’t fair, you bastard! Free me at once! AAAARRGH!”

  No matter how much Zenith pined, he was uo free himself, slowly moving as Kenichi willed with his mind. The giant slowly kneeled, gently grabbing the people on the floor.

  It seemed they were being abducted by the reptilians’ seds before they arrived and had miraculously not been caught in the explosions, mostly because the battle occurred several hundreds of meters away from them.

  “T-These are…! Everyone!”

  Kenichi gasped in disbelief the moment he learned who they were. It was his whole group; all five of them were here! They were unscious, and he couldn’t sense a hint of power from them anymore. But they were alive, however, in a state simir to a a.

  “Looks like they’re going to soon die! Leave them behind anyways; these bastards are useless!”

  Zenith tried to whisper him evil words, but Kenichi didn’t even hear him talking, his eyes filled with disbelief, traumatized by what he was seeing.

  “N-No…”

  Their Symbols were stolen, and even their lifeforce was rapidly fading away; the Deus Ex Beasts that beloo them were gone, hehey would be uo recharge their energies easily.

  “Why is this happening?! Dammit, dammit!”

  He ran out of Zenith’s body and quickly called upon his lion, which was summoned out of a huge red gate that materialized out of nowhere.

  “Red Lion, do you have some area where they rest?”

  “GRAAAOOH!”

  The Red Lion opened a rge door on its chest, leading Kenichi inside as the Gaer carried his friends one by one inside.

  He ran through the inside corridors, leaving them in a small infirmary ected to maes that kept them barely alive.

  However, they didn’t look good.

  “Who could have dohis to them…” Kenichi muttered. “Dammit…! Why is this happening to us? Everyone…!”

  He fell to his khe brave hero of ce was overe by grief and sorrow, g and despairing in front of his dying panions.

  “RED!”

  “Tch…! What do you want now?!”

  Kenichi was furious, gring at Zenith.

  However, once he stepped out, he saw someone approag. A dying man wearing a red and golden suit, rather different than his own.

  His body was covered in bruises, and it looked like one of his arms was bent the other way around.

  “U-Uuggh…! Someone, please help me…! My friends… Gaxy Man he’s…! They’ve gone insane… Urgh…!”

  “Wait right there! I’m ing to your aid!”

  Kenichi didn’t eveate to finally help another human, rushing to his aid and carrying him back to the infirmary within the Lion’s meical body.

  “You’re perhaps the first human I’ve seen here! What is your name? Don’t worry, I’ve treated your wounds.”

  “A-Ah… You’re… ugh… I’m Wingspeed, a hero that nded here a few days ago… Urk! Listen to me! my friends… They’ve been brainwashed by something; someone is taking over them! I just ran; I didn’t even know what to do!”

  “Oh… It’s the same with me… I guess… We’re in a simir predit.”

  “You don’t say…” Wingspeed ughed a bit. “Just what beef does life have against heroes with red suits, man…”

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