Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers Chapter 5

Border of District 7 and 12

After the Defense Force passed through, a few hundred civilians thought it would be a splended idea to camp out near the hills close to where the battle would take place and watch the Defense Force destroy the monster of the week as if it was a movie.

Two Japanese schoolgirls were not amused.

"What are you people doing!" Hikari shouted, earning the attention of a few onlookers.

"What do you mean...you people?" An apparently offended black american immigrant asked.

"She's not talking about your race, she's talking about the fact that all of you are sitting here in a district that's about to become a thermal nuclear warzone when the fighting is about to start after being told to evacuate." Hitomi explained before her young friend was punched. Some Americans could be a bit offended by unclear phrases.

"Oh...sorry." The strangely Australian sounding black man apologized, "But to answer your question, there's no point in running."

"Why's that?"

"Cause if Mecha Lord gets creamed then this city might as well put itself on a silver platter and call it quits." As pessimistic as the man sounded, Hitomi actually saw some truth in the man's words.

"But-"

"I'll take it from here Hitomi." A voice called out from behind and above the girls. They turned to see that it came from the mechanical raptor armed with more guns than most armies could afford, "Alright! Clear out!"

"Like you'd really-" The smug snake in the back was cut off when Leena fired her gatling gun at him and formed a perfect square of bullet holes around him without scratching is pretty face.

"Wanna test me?" Leena asked before the man promptly started telling his friends that they should leave, "Didn't think so."

"Is that a...mechanical raptor with guns?" Hikari asked, though it was more to clarify to herself that she was actually seeing what she was seeing.

"Yep! My demolishing Gunsniper! Ain't she a beauty?" Leena asked very sweetly.

"I wouldn't say-" Hitomi acted quickly to correct her words before Leena fired the large cannon currently aimed at Hitomi, "It's the prettiest piece of work I've ever seen!"

"Thought you'd like it." Leena beamed before everyone's attention was turned to the massive dragon that flew into the air before flying back down onto the mountain range just barely out of sight of the naked eye, "Is that a dragon?"

"Oh now they run." Hitomi mumbled as they denizens started fleeing as fast as they could now they knew exactly what was about to try and destroy them. Except for two people who she recognized, "Yoko? Nia?"

"Our fearless leader wanted a front row seat so he dragged us out here." Yoko explained as Deathwing's roar caused her massive tracts of land to jiggle with the angry vibrations, prompting a few fleeing males to attempt a peek. A knockout thanks to Hitomi and another "warning" shot from Leena discouraged any other attempts.

---------------------

Border Port of District 7

"Bit! We need to know how to hurt this guy!" Simon yelled over the intercomm, Mecha Lord had just barely managed to avoid the concentrated molten volcanic blasts that Deathwing kept firing in the machine's direction and with damage to the surrounding area ever increasing, Mecha Lord found it harder and harder to avoid damage without risking casualties among the still-evacuating pilots of the disabled Defense Force units.

"Then hold still so the analysis will go faster!" Bit yelled back, Mecha Lord had the tip of it's head singed by another blast that it had to cartwheel over and landed on the recently scorched earth.

"And let that bastard melt the flesh from our arms?" Shinji didn't sound too thrilled about getting hit. Come to think of it, Simon realized that Shinji never liked getting hit in combat and reacted panickly whenever Eva or Mecha Lord was damaged.

"Only cowards fear the inevitability of death!" Van rebuked when Mecha Lord brought out it's sword and used a piston slash to part a volcanic wave shot towards it. Sadly, the molten rock had also burned the edges of the sword, so that method of defense wouldn't likely be used as often in this fight.

"Then please! Feel free to eject and tell me how being burned alive feels!"

"Like you'd know!"

"I've felt enough to have a better guess than you!"

"Everyone shut up!" At Simon's impulse, Mecha Lord's right arm spun rapidly to form a large drill which it launched at Deathwing. The Drill impacted the dragon's underbelly and sent back with enough force to crash it into the mountain range they were fighting within reach of, "Now can you lock on?"

"Yep! Thanks Simon!" Bit sounded just as relieved as Simon for Van and Shinji to stop arguing. Which soon faded when Deathwing destroyed a fragment of the mountain range with it's roar.

"Damn..it doesn't look like that last attack did much." Roger observed, "But what is that burning energy in it's skin?"

"Enemy analysis complete!" Bit exclaimed, "Damn! It's like this thing is one big mass of energy underneath dragon scales and armor!"

"Look at it's forehead." At Simon's words, the crew zoomed in on Deathwing's skull to notice something white and shiny portruding from the scales, "Looks like it has something stuck in it."

"Oh! So if we pull it out, he'll get better and go away-" Bit was cut off when the white portruding object evaporated from a massive burst of the Dragon's energy, "Nevermind...it was just burned up by the heat in it's body..."

"Enough talk!" At Shinji's impulse, Mecha Lord expanded out it's right arm to form a twin barrels along the sides that fired a barrage of energy bullets into the creature's skull and underbelly. It wasn't very effective. "Did the heat of it's body evaporate my energy bullet?"

"Apparently, ruthless brutality isn't gonna do us much good in this fight." Roger lightly admonished as the dragon looked ready to charge another attack, "So...let's change tactics, shall we?"

"What are you doing?"

"Negotiating." Roger answered to everyone's cringing horror, "Is this Neltharion?"

"Yes."

"I'd like to ask a favor of you."

"Speak."

"As you can see, we are in humanoid robotic form and you are a dragon."

"And?"

"Is there a way for you to shapeshift so that this fight is a bit more even?" None of the other pilots could actually believe what Roger had just said, "That way when you kill us, no one will think that you cheated and undermine the power you truly have."

"This is never gonna work..." Bit whined as the heat around the dragon grew into an enshrouding cloak that none of Mecha Lord's sensors to pierce through.

"Very well..." When the cloak cleared, the dragon was gone. Replaced by a humanoid creature about the same height as Mecha Lord with an exoskeleton very similar to the dragon that originally stood in it's place, "Will this suffice?"

"I can't believe that worked! Now we actually stand a chance!" Bit's exclamation was cut off when the humanoid Deathwing grabbed a glaive from out of the heat that rose from the ground around and swung the polearm down and behind him. Creating a large gash in the ground extending into and beyond the mountain range, "You've gotta fuc-" Deathwing wasted no time, in exchange for decreased size, the creature had become immensely fast, bringing it's blade down on Mecha Lord's shoulder before the pilots knew that Deathwing was even there.

"It's burning into the armor!" Bit reported, though he was pretty much stating the obvious. Mecha Lord drew out it's sword and thrust to stab the monstrosity, only to have it's blade snapped off from hitting Deathwing's obviously improved armor.

Deathwing raked it's glaive across Mecha Lord's chest, leaving a burning scratch across it's armor and fired an immense beam of heat and energy from it's mouth that shot Mecha Lord across the landscape and leaving a heated trail in it's wake.

"This is the last time we ever let you negotiate!" Van yelled at Roger over the comm.

"Sometimes negotiations don't go as planned alright?" Even as he said this, Roger quietly agreed that convincing the already powerful opponent to condense it's size and energy wasn't a good idea.

"Taking structural damage!" True to Bit's warning, the remaining heat from Deathwing's attack had started to condense and burn into Mecha Lord's joints. Warning lights flared through the cockpits as the damage worsened while Shinji screamed his heart out.

"Everyone! Emergency Separation!" Roger ordered as he punched a glass protected button that initiated the emergency separation. From it's joints and crevices, a blue substance shot out and formed into an orb of blue liquid that swirled around Mecha Lord. A moment later, the orb vanished to reveal the mostly undamaged mecha that had originally formed into Mecha Lord.

"What was that?" Bit asked in remnant shock.

"Neutron-Plutonium," Shinji answered, "The same substance that powers our sychronization."

"That's what we've been using?" Bit's voice now shifted from shock to surprise, "Sure it's essentially the child-safe version of nuclear energy but I didn't think Kaiba would be desperate enough to use this stuff."

"So why is it so-"

"It's known for producing a wide-range of side-effects."

"Like what?" Van asked.

"I don't know, it's supposed to depend on what it's used for." Bit elaborated, "Like guys in metal shops being found with synthetic metal laced over their muscles, patients who used it to recover from aids becoming super immune to any disease, and...plants becoming highly concentrated energy sources."

"That's kind of cool." Simon spoke up, momentarily fascinated by energy that could give you super powers as a side-effect.

"Too bad we might not live to see what our side-effects would've been." Bit lamented.

"Why's that-" Van was cut off when they noticed Deathwing charging a large amount of heat in it's mouth, "This is gonna suck." The heat fired out of dragon's jaws and expanded out into a ray raw chaos that engulfed the team.

------------------

Angel Groove Command Center

"Okay...this is going a lot worse than I thought it would." Again, Kaiba's statement couldn't understate the situation the command crew observed anymore unless he had a bat credit card.

"Sir! At this rate, they won't be able to form into Mecha Lord again!" The bridge bunny who Seto was sure had a crush on his little brother yelled frantically.

"Seto! Send out the jet!" Optimus said from inside his jar. Everyone had been so panicked they almost forgot that he was there.

"But Optimus! The Jet isn't ready for something like this!" Mokuba argued, besides Seto really didn't feeling deploying it because it cost more money than most of the Defense Force combined.

"Deathwing is a force beyond any you can imagine...if it is allowed to win then nothing will stop it from destroying this world." Kaiba really hated Optimus' lectures simply because of his tone. It didn't leave any room whatsoever to be argued with. "Not to mention that you and your company will die along with it. Not deploying the jet would be a grave...mistake."

"Fine. Mokuba, you have the helm." Seto got out of his chair and left the center to deploy the jet. Whether or not he'd care if Mokuba sat in his older brother's chair once Seto was gone would've been anyone's guess today.

---------------------

Scorched Land that used to be the Angel Groove Port

"Status report..." Roger called out, though he could tell that no one was in a tip-top shape after what they just went through, "Of course."

"IT BURNS!" Shinji's scream filled the comms, sure this was a traumatizing situation, but it really sounded like the poor boy was in pain.

"What's his problem?" Bit asked out and then commed Van when he didn't immediately respond, "You alright Van?"

"My veins...feel like they're on fire..." a strained king of Fanelia answered, "WHAT DO YOU THINK!" Everyone turned silent when they remembered the humanoid dragon walking towards them. The heat swirled around him with each step, the air grew heavy with the hatred that was Deathwing, Destroyer of Worlds.

In challenge to this coming destroyer, Eva stood on it's feet, pulled a knife from it's shoulder and threw the knife at the incoming target.

"My eye! WHO THREW THAT?" Deathwing roared as it failed to pull the knife from it's left eye.

"Feel the burn, mother-" Shinji was cut off when Deathwing appeared above it and stomped the Evangelion into the ground before slashing it's glaive into the Eva's eye.

"How does it feel, mortal? Taste my pain!" Shinji cried out as Deathwing wiped it's molten blood from it's wounded socket and grabbed the Eva's head with the head.

"What the hell do you know about pain?" Shinji breathed back, Eva now looked horribly burnt from Deathwing's burning attack but it still tried to stand, only to fall onto it's back before Deathwing, who looked noticably angry.

"What is this nonsense about the meaning of pain? You weep that I know nothing of pain because you lie broken and beaten upon the field of battle, unable to accept that you lost because of my superior might. Therefore you cry as a philosopher and plead foul-play!"

"This pain I feel is nothing compared to what I've felt my entire life!"

"NO! No! No! No! No! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO NO!" With each no, Deathwing stabbed it's glaive into Evangelion's torso, splashing up what looked like blood with every thrust. It then grew out two massive flaming wings that grabbed the Eva and tossed it into the air, "THESE ARE THE COMPLAINTS AND BOASTS OF THE DEFEATED!" Deathwing cried as it impaled the glaive through the Eva's upper chest, "ACCEPT YOUR DEFEAT MORTAL! ACCEPT THE CERTAINTY THAT FATE HAS RULED AGAINST YOU, ACCEPT THAT THERE IS NO HOPE TO ESCAPE THE FATE THAT LIES FOR YOU THIS DAY!" As it spoke, it pinned Eva to the ground and proceeded to use it's free arm to rip armor and flesh from the purple bio-mecha.

"BUT DO NOT DESPAIR, I SHALL NOT KILL YOU YET MORTAL. I SHALL RAVAGE THE GROUND UPON WHICH THESE CITIES ARE BUILT AND DELIGHT IN THE WIMPERS AND SCREAMS OF EVERY LAST MAIDEN AS I MERCILESSLY DEFILE THEM! YOUR BABES I SHALL DEVOUR AS MY FEAST! YOUR WIDOWS SHALL MOURN THE DUSTED REMAINS I LEAVE IN MY WAKE! ONLY AFTER I HAVE BURNED EVERYTHING YOU HOLD DEAR, ONLY AFTER ALL YOU FOUGHT TO DEFEND IS DEVOURED BY MY POWER, ONLY AFTER YOU ARE LEFT WITHOUT A SINGLE BONE IN YOUR BODY SHALL I GRANT YOU A DEATH FITTING FOR A COWARD SUCH AS YOU!" Unsatisfied, the Dragonic humanoid grabbed the ragged Eva, holding it by it's head and legs and savagely bit down on the Eva even as the disgusting sound of breaking bone and melting metal filled the air until it lifted up it's head, breaking the Eva's spine like some cruel predator.

"Leave him alone!" Lagann charged at the Humanoid, it's hands as drills and launched into Deathwing's head like a spiral torpedo. The Dragon roared in pain as it dropped the broken Evangelion and caught by surprise, was forced onto it's back as Simon willed Lagann into a mad frenzy of drilled punches.

Until he realized the drills were broken and Deathwing's injuries were healing.

"I recognize your scent. You are a rat of the earth." The dragon spoke as it grabbed the small gunman and slammed it into the ground, "What reason have you to crawl from the ground into which you were driven? Perhaps you wished to flee the crushed remains of your parents?" Simon's eyes widened as memories of his parent's screams as they were crushed in that avalanche unwillingly came to his mind. So paralyzing was that memory that he didn't notice when Deathwing slashed it's glave into Lagann's chest.

"I speak close to the truth? Pathetic! What did you hope to find here you little ratling of the earth? Perhaps you wished to pierce the sky above your maze? PATHETIC!" Deathwing slammed it's free hand into the small gunman, creating a crack as despair began to creep into Simon's mind despite his attempts to stay defiant, "Where is your brave spirit now rat? Where was the mighty power that drove you when you stood upon the shoulders of another? It was never there...IT WAS NAUGHT BUT THE FALSE CONFIDENCE OF A BOY!" With those last words, Deathwing pulled it's glaive out and stabbed through Lagann's cockpit, shattering the glass and exposing him to the heated gaze of Deathwing's humanoid form.

"We...we can't do this on our own..." Simon meanwhile had tucked his knees up to his chest. He felt so weak right then, the power he'd given Mecha Lord and the other's had failed to win and now they were all going to die horribly because of him. "It's too powerful...it's too-" Simon was cut from his sinking despair when a red blur kicked Deathwing aside and sent him flying across the ground.

"Simon! Don't give up!" Simon's spirits rose when he heard that voice, the voice that could only come from the pilot of the red gunman with sunglasses standing between the battered team and further angered Deathwing, "Told ya you weren't gonna leave the mighty Kamina out of the action!"

"Bro!" Now out of his gutter, Lagann stood up and cheered on the arrival of his comrade.

"More mortals to defy me?" Deathwing boomed, "Stand aside rat of the earth! Return to your mine and shut yourself from the sun and I just might let you and the rest of your clan live."

"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!" Kamina roared at the dragon, "RAT? ANTS? THOSE ARE THE CLAIMS OF BITCHES ABOUT TO BE CRUSHED UNDER MY FEET!" Gurren didn't shift from it's stance as Deathwing stormed over to the gunman while Kamina spoke, "Ever since I was a kid I've faced dragons like you! Cowardly mine shift guards that bully you to hide their own cowardice, Peers so trapped in their own hopelessness that they can't bare to see you not fall too, American rich-slobs who thought they could keep us under, and beastmen who tried to step on us like the ants we were."

"Guess what happened to them? This sword in my hands, it used to belong to a guard who'd throw me in the brig just cause I annoyed him! These glasses, they were knives carved into my body before I pulled em out and made them into sunglasses! The Americans? They either worship my awesomeness or flee at the very mention of my name! The beastmen? Who do you think I stole these gunmen from?" Gurren didn't move when the dragon roared a current that striped the ground around where Gurren stood, "So bring on your fire, it ain't got shit on mine! Bring on your hate, I'm man enough to take it! COME AT ME WITH YOUR RAGE AND I'LL KICK IT TO THE GROUND WITH MY SPIRIT! Cause I'm Kamina of the Gurren Brigade...DAI-GURREN BRIGADE!"

Somewhere in the world, a volcano went off at that very moment.

"Damn...he's kind of badass." Bit said over the comm.

"If only he were Fanelian." Van lamented.

"Bold..." Was all Roger could admit as Gurren threw it's sunglasses at the dragon. They split into two as they neared there target and before the drake could react, latched into his wings and penned him against the mountain. Gurren then sneezed and blew out the air to punch the dragon further into the mountain as it roared in fury. The sunglasses formed into one and flew onto Gurren's face as the mountain exploded from Kamina's attack...

And Deathwing's rage.

"TINY! TINY. TINY. TINY. TINY LITTLE ANT!" Deathwing roared as it flew out of the mountain and struck the ground where Gurren was originally standing, "Entire empires have crumbled before my very breath, you dare mock me with the thought that your sneeze could defeat me!"

"No...I just had to sneeze." Kamina admitted, causing everyone to facepalm, "Well...time to advance...in the opposite direction!" With that Gurren turned on it's heel and started running away from the dragon.

"Giving up Mortal?"

"To be honest, I'd be an idiot to keep taking you on." Kamina admitted to himself, "But that's why I have Simon!"

"How dare you turn your back on-" The sound of gunfire sung through the air and was soon followed by Deathwing as he rocked the area with a howl of pain after said shot fired the knife stuck in his eye out through the back of his skull, "WHO DARES TO INJURE THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS?"

--------------------

Outskirts of District 7

"Name's Yoko and I'm the only one who dominates Kamina!" Yoko answered as she pulled the trigger and fired another bullet from the rifle improvised between her and Leena by taking the barrels from the weapons on Leena's gunsniper and connecting them into a longer shaft latched onto Yoko's sniper rifle. Judging from the roar of pain from faraway, she'd made another direct hit, "Thanks for the spiral bullets Nia." When Yoko first put the bullets in, they are no larger than the average round of her normal epic ammo, but somehow become bigger by the time they leave the improvished rifle's barrel.

"I don't really know how I did it." Nia admitted to the surprise of the others, "Miss Horaki? Are you alright?" Hikari's face was glued to the datapad keeping track of the pilots and looked worried.

"Yoko! Aim further up! Wind should shift down in a few seconds!" As much as Leena was unsure of Hitomi's supposed "psychic abilities" she was impressed when Yoko corrected to follow the japanese schoolgirl's advice and scored another hit in the creature's leg.

"Oh don't worry about the guys, they do this kind of thing all the time." Leena assured the younger japanese schoolgirl, but saw that something else was wrong. Namely, the status of Unit 01 on the datapad Bit scavenged from one of his earlier battles, "Is there a reason to be worried about the intense burns all over Eva?"

-----------------

Back to the Action!

"Master Roger." While Deathwing became further injured and enraged by the unknown sniper, Roger opened his comm to his butler back home, "You don't look very good right now."

"Yes I know, I'll be late for dinner tonight." Roger had a feeling that he wouldn't make it to dinner at all for some reason.

"We can perfectly see that Master Roger." Norman observed, "Dorothy just wanted to tell you to be efficient, that is all."

"I'll do my best."

"If you'll excuse, there appears to be someone at the door." With that Norman walked from the comm and Roger closed the channel.

"Simon!" Kamina called as Gurren neared where Lagann had hobbled back to the others.

"Right Bro!" Without another word, the rejuvenated Simon slammed his core necklace into his console and Lagann leapt into the air forming a drill on it's underside. Lagann then slammed into the top of Gurren as the brothers, Kamina and Simon spoke,

""If there's a wall in our way, we smash it down! If there isn't a path, we carve it out ourselves! The magma of our souls burns with a mighty flame! Super Ultra Combining, Gurren Lagann! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE!" Gurren Lagann complete, it pumped it's arms allowing the awesome of it's presence to leak into the area and cause another volcano to explode somewhere in the world.

"What is this? CEASE YOUR POINTLESS RESISTANCE-" Deathwing was cut off when a yellow spinning blur flew out of the air and struck him in the back at the same time that he was shot again and a chain thrown from Big-O caused him to lose his balance.

"Sorry I'm late, last time I take directions from t-rex!" The yellow star-shaped gunman shouted as it stomped it's foot on Deathwing's face and jumped to Gurren Lagann's side.

"Who invited you Kittan?" Kamina asked as Gurren Lagann slid it's left arm through a sling on King Kittan's back and lifted the now stiff gunman to deflect a blast of flame as if it were a shield

"Screw you Kamina! I'm here to kick ass and stomp on your balls!" Kittan barked at Kamina as Gurren Lagann charged through the flames and bashed Deathwing's head into the ground. "But that's right...you don't have any!"

"Which one of us is banging Yoko again?" Kamina asked as Deathwing rose ready to strike but was caught off guard by another bullet through it's still wounded eye. Gurren Lagann took advantage and slammed King Kittan into the side of the Dragon's neck.

"I'm really not hearing this am I?" Simon couldn't believe that these two would pick now to argue over Yoko. Kittan doesn't to get that there is no contest against Kamina, that's a fact of life.

"DO NOT IGNORE THE WRATH OF-"

"Oh shut up!" All three pilots yelled as they kneed Deathwing in the stomach and Gurren Lagann switched King Kittan to the right arm to deliver a special move that was thought up on the fly.

"King Kittan!" Kittan cried out as his gunman formed along Gurren Lagann's arm before expanding out into a yellow drill, "SPIRALLL DRILLL SPECIALL!" Again distracted by whoever the hell was shooting it, Deathwing was left unable to counter the yellow drill shaped missile thrown at it, "SHIT! I LOVE SPIRAL POWER!" The King Kittan Drill impacted into Deathwing's draconic chest and threw it across the charred landscape before an explosion encompassed both.

"I WILL LEAVE NOTHING OF YOU IN MY WAKE!" The fires of the explosion collapsed in on itself as King Kittan was thrown into the distance with Kittan yelling words that Simon felt were above his age rating.

"Everyone!" Simon called through the comm, "We're gonna need all the fire power we can get!" Not that he doubted him and his bro, but Simon wasn't going to take a chance with the still angry dragon.

"Combine?" Roger knew that his partner in crime was at his limit, but he knew that he'd rise to finish the job, "Big O...Showtime!"

"Up for it Liger?" Despite it's broken jaw, Liger Zero dared not resist giving off a roar and stood on it's terribly damaged legs.

"I'm a King, that I should die while Fanelia stands defies all convention!" Escaflowne picked up it's sword and stabbed into the scorched ground to allow it to rise to it's feet.

"I...mustn't...run...away!" Unit 01's helmet broke open when it revealed it's jaws and roared into the air.

"Mecha Lord FINAL FUSION!" Unit 01 flexed it's arm as if to psych up it's body. It's AT field changed to a green color and expanded out into a green dome that encompassed the team team and inexplicably repaired the damage to their parts.

Big-O blew out it's pistons as its legs were brought into it's body to form a chest-piece and arms for Eva to fit on.

Liger Zero roared as it combined it's legs together and became a set of legs for Eva to leap into and connect with and allowed Jager's boosters to form into barrels facing forward along the legs.

Escaflowne turned into a draconic shape that wrapped around Eva's waist and melded into the Unit to form into upper legs and lower torso armor complete with a draconic tail.

Gurren Lagann leapt up and landed on the Eva to form flame detailed shoulder plates on Eva's arms and an armor piece that grew down over Eva's exposed back and upper chest. A mass of red spiral energy covered over Eva's head and faded into a red helmet that bore a crescant shaped emblem on the front of the helm that lightly connected with the original horn of Eva.

"Mecha Breaker Lord. Activate!" Born from the flames of manliness, a volcano exploded behind it as the Mecha roared to life and flipped off the Massive Dragonic humanoid standing very angry before it.

----------------------

Angel Groove Command Center Hanger

"Oh look, they got reinforcements." Seto said to himself as he approached the jet he did not want to deploy, "Guess they won't need me-"

"Seto..." Kaiba turned to see Mokuba on the overscreen, surrounding by a crowd of young children taking shelter in the center, "All these kids want to see your jet."

"Damn my well-hidden affection for orphened children." Kaiba muttered as he climbed into the prepared jet and tinkered with the controls.

"Blue eyes white...Jet..." The announcer was doing a horrible job at keeping his snickering to himself, "You're cleared for...launch...I'm sorry it just looks so stupid!" Finally the announcer just lost it and started laughing as he collapsed in his seat while most of the communication's team followed suit.

"Ungrateful prick." Seto made a note to himself to horrible deduct that man's salary as the hanger doors opened and Seto Kaiba launched into the skies of Angel Groove.

------------------

Back to the Battle.

"Not to down a bailout but how are we in the same cockpit-"

"Awesomeness!"

"Okay Kamina." Bit made a note himself never to question some things in life as he focused in his seat in the somehow six man cockpit of Mecha Breaker Lord. Simon sat at the head of the cockpit with Bit and Van flanking his seat, Roger was just below and behind him, Kamina below and in front of him and Shinji behind him.

Finally relieved of the persistant gunfire of it's unseen tormentor, Deathwing roared as it charged for Mecha Breaker Lord, expecting an easy victory.

Right...

Breaker Lord grabbed the Dragon's shaft and after gaining a firm grip, snapped the shaft into pieces that incerated with blue fire, depriving Deathwing of it's lance. It then shot out a spinning piston before slamming drill shaped punch into Deathwing's head and fired the piston to send the humanoid dragon across the scorched area.

"You fight well for mortals." Deathwing's voice vibrated through the cockpit, sending chills down the spines of the pilots, "But in the end, your strength is no match for mine!"

"Does this guy ever shut up?" Kamina asked as Breaker Lord leapt over to the confident Draconic humanoid and delivered a spinning thruster powered drill kick that shattered the brace over Deathwing's lower jaw and sent him flying again.

"Actually having him talk makes him seem a lot less intimidating." Van noted as Breaker Lord drew out it's sword and allowed a blue energy seeping out of Breaker Lord's wrist to surge through the blade and extend it into a long white flashing sword which Breaker Lord swiped across Deathwing, leaving a large gash in it's chest that leaked of energy.

"Then again, he's still pretty creepy from being able to talk directly to our minds." Bit stated as Breaker Lord extended out it's left to form out a massive cannon with an energy core in the center of the gun that absorbed energy from the surrounding area. Deathwing charged another attack of it's own and unleashed a large wave of heat with Breaker Lord as it's target. Just before the wave hit it's mark, Breaker Lord fired a large blue beam from it's gun that clashed with Deathwing's heat wave and slowly edge the beam-o-war into it's favor as the surrounding area suffered all the more.

"How did we do that?" Van asked while Bit just starting flexing his hand as if he thought it wasn't there.

"Your friends are pretty chatty, Simon." Kamina observed as Bit and Van continued their discussion as Breaker Lord charged to close the distance between it and the damaged Deathwing and kicked him into the air.

"Don't look at me, bro." Simon admitted, "Some people are more comfortable with talking."

"Fair enough..." Kamina shrugged his shoulders as Breaker Lord allowed Deathwing to land it's head on Breaker's knee. As the dragon howled in pain, Breaker Lord brought up it's other leg to deliver a strike laser clawed kick that seared into the side of the Draconic humanoid's face, "HAD ENOUGH, BITCHWING?"

"IT'S...DEATHWING!" The Dragon cried as it roared and fired two fireballs from it's hands.

"He really needs some clear-eye." Simon thought, no longer at all intimidated by this dragon in human form as Breaker Lord punched through the fireballs and threw them back at Deathwing with a spin. "Then he wouldn't be as angry." The Draconic Humanoid barely had time to dodge the first fireball before the other one pierced through his chest, causing it to kneel as it held it's wound.

"ALRIGHT MORTAL! LET'S HAVE YOU TRAPPED UNDERGROUND RECUPERATING FROM A DEVASTATING ANCIENT WAR THAT YOU NARROWLY LOST AND THEN THOUSANDS OF YEARS LATER, SOME FOOL DECIDES TO THROW A LANCE INTO YOUR STILL-HEALING SKULL! WALK IN MY SHOES AND THEN TELL ME IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE DESTROYING EVERY LITTLE MORTAL THAT CROSSES YOUR PATH!"

"Okay...they're not that red-"

"OR I CAN JUST DO THIS!" Deathwing wrenched into it's wound and pulled out a massive claymore and swung it at Breaker Lord.

"Doesn't this guy have a volume control on his voice?" Kamina calmly asked when Breaker Lord caught the claymore in it's teeth, "Simon."

"Right, sit back everyone!" Breaker Lord crunched down on the blade and spat the piece at Deathwing as it kicked to shatter the sword. The shard hit Deathwing squarely in his already wounded eye and caused him to howl in immense pain.

"Finishing Move!" Breaker grabbed the sunglasses hanging under it's neck and threw the shades at Deathwing. The shades then split apart and grew large in order to wedge Deathwing between them and entrap him. Breaker Lord then lifted it's arms and formed it's ultimate attack as the badass leader of the Dai-Gurren shouted it's name, "Giga...DRRRIIIIILLLLLL...BBBRRREEAAAAAKKEEERRRR!" The boosters on it's legs flaring, Breaker lord launched as if it were a rocket, the drill sprilling before like a warhead ready to destroy it's target. Deathwing fired another blast to ward off the incoming drill, but the heat wave practically dissipated before the incoming drill. Leaving Deathwing nothing more to do but scream as the drill slammed into his body.

It didn't take more than a few seconds for Breaker Lord to pierce through the Draconic hide and unsummoned it's drill as it landed behind the hole it had created in it's target. Explosions enveloped the dragon as the shades flew back to their place on Breaker Lord before explosions eveloped more explosions, a sign that their enemy had been defeated.

Today was an exception.

"NO!..." Deathwing roared, through badly wounded and bleeding molten lava for blood, Deathwing was far from fallen, "I am not...FINISHED MORTALS!"

"This guy just won't die." Shinji breathed before Breaker Lord ran over to the fatigued Deathwing and kicked it a few hundred feet away. Breaker Lord then pulled a pair of lances from it's back that it threw into Deathwing's neck and crotch.

"Really Shinji? He's already dying." Roger signed, it was almost sad to see this proud Dragon King gasp for air and roar, but couldn't because there was a lance in his windpipe.

"There's a difference between dying and dead you know." Shinji shot back as if in pain, "Sides...what's the worse he can do? Is the Meaning of pain nonsense now bitch." Breaker Lord twisted the lance penetrating Deathwing's crotch and wrenched it out as the dragon tried to cry out, "It's easy for the guys on top to look down and say that us victims just whine and bitch...It's easy to not think about how it would feel to be in our shoes, what it would be like to not be able to control your own fate. That's what power does, power makes you complacent, makes you comfortable, makes you less able to move when you've gotta run. Now look at you, brought down by the mortals you called rats, weaklings, and ants that you had no qualms in crushing. Shall I now stop and listen to your complaints of foul play?"

"Eh...guys...we might want to-"

"No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No." Shinji's tone did not change as he thrust the lance back into Deathwing's crotch again and again after each no, causing Bit's words to die in his mouth. "They would just be the complaints of the defeated." Again, Shinji's voice was perfectly calm as he wrenched the lance out of Deathwing's crotch and then thrust the land through the dragon's crotch with a piston powered effort. "Because you're afraid of those beneath you." Breaker used the lance embedded through Deathwing's throat to pull the dragon along the shaft of the other lance and swiftly wrenched it's lower jaw from it's head, "Because you feed from our pain, you need our backs to build your power on." Breaker then grabbed Deathwing's other arm and twisted it until every single bone was out of place before wrenching it to where it split apart while using it's other hand to grip into the draconic human and wrench out any metal or molten flesh it could find and throw it onto the landscape, igniting the already scorched area with short-lived wild fires. "Because when that day comes when we decide to stand on our feet and destroy the heavens that torment us, you will not be ready for it. Your cornerstones need us to stay bowed and obedient because when we stand, you fall." Breaker took hold of the lances and pulled to rip Deathwing in half and threw the two halves onto the ground as the wildfires died out.

"Just as I thought I wouldn't have nightmares." Simon said as the scene he'd witnessed played unwillingly through his mind again and again. Then the scene turned into a galaxy sized version of Gurren Lagann being tore apart by a big black monster that didn't like spiral energy or something...Simon was about battle out.

"Does he do this all the time?" Everyone silently nodded to answer Kamina's question, not that he was scared and the guy wouldn't be getting up after that. But Kamina felt a lot of pent of aggression get released from those attacks.

"Still clinging to the illusion of being able to win?" Shinji said as Breaker walked towards where Deathwing's upper half had managed to crawl, "It's over."

"Please don't tempt-" Roger was cut off when Breaker was forced to leap back to avoid the white lance that instead pierced Deathwing in his chest, "Now for imagery to demonstrate my point." The entire ground shook as a white light enveloped the broken dragon that was soon followed by a bellow of black flames.

"I tell you the truth. No mortal has ever damaged me as you have." Deathwing's voice boomed as the light turned to smoke and fire and a firmly draconic face poked through the flames, "But while you shall rot with the wind and die or burn from the fires of mortality, my power shall never wan...never shall I falter!" Deathwing's roar sent a tremor through the ground and air as the flaps of it's wings blew away the smoke to reveal its form. Now in it's true draconic form, Deathwing was covered with less metal but the scales gave off a sinister glare as it stormed towards Breaker Lord.

"Just for future reference Shinji, this is why you don't brutalize the enemy!" Bit admonished, "Because when they find a way to get up, they won't be happy!"

"Sometimes I really hate you all." Roger admitted as Deathwing charged up a large heated blast in it's restored and enlarged mouth. Only for a large blast of white energy to sear into it's skull and send skidding to the side.

-----------------------

Cockpit of someone who isn't Seto Kaiba

"Really? I really have to save all of you?" Kaiba really wasn't in a good mood today, he'd just arrived and already he had to fire a neutron blast to save those idiots. Didn't he blackmail them to save him? "Fine! Clear a space for Seto Kaiba!"

"Override, acknowledged." Kaiba heard the AI state as he neared the increasingly chaotic battle, "Dragon Mode Synchronization initiated." Kaiba just sat back while his jet landed on Mecha Lord's upper back and latched onto the Mecha's shoulders. The Jet then formed into an upper back that slightly overhung Escaflowne and produced a pair of draconic wings from the shoulder blades and what appeared to some as draconic coatails that slid down from the back and over the legs.

"White Dragon Mecha Breaker Lord. Activate." The roar of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon sounded as the ground exploded around White Dragon Mecha Breaker Lord.

-----------------

Mecha Breake...I mean White Dragon Mecha Breaker Lord's Cockpit

"Who are you?" Bit asked to pilot who'd just somehow overridden the safety features and docked with Mecha Breaker Lord while forming a new battle mode and then slid into a seat behind Shinji like this was just part of the job.

"Hello Dwebs." The pilot dressed in piloting gear modeled after a Blues White Dragon but to the pilot's knowledge wasn't Seto Kaiba, "Since you decided to not perform as well as I expect, I decided to take matters into my own hands."

"I'm in command of the Command Center-"

"Shut up Mokuba." Not-Seto Kaiba said before closing the channel, "So what's the plan?"

"Same plan we always have." Roger answered though the rest of the team had the same thought in mind, "Show em that he picked the wrong city!"

"MORTALS!" Deathwing roared, further enraged due to Breaker Lord's draconic appearance, "YOU DARE CONFRONT ME WITH A VISAGE THAT MOCKS MY RACE? YOU MUST DIE!"

"Okay, let me set the record straight for you..." Not-Kaiba motioned the pilots for the dragon's name, to which some facepalmed.

"Deathwing." Roger answered politely.

"Yeah! What he said!" Not-Kaiba yelled, "Around here, there's only one dragon that I allow to roam the skies. In fact, you kind of look like a certain dragon belonging to a furry who I make my bitch every few weeks. You're a Red-eyes black dragon! Anyone who remotely knows shit about card games knows that the red eyes black dragon is always screwed over by the blue eyes white dragon! And guess which one of us is white and has blue eyes?" Deathwing just roared and started glowing in dangerous colors, "Let's just kill this thing before he causes anymore damage..."

"Final Finishing Move!" Dragon Mecha Lord held up it's arm, blue energy gathered around it as Deathwing charged a massive chaotic blast in his mouth, "White...Neutron...GIGA…DRIILLLLL…BREEEAAAAKEEEERRRRRR!" Just as Breaker had, Dragon Breaker Lord launched itself like a warhead at the massive dragon. Only this massive drill fired a wave of white energy that canceled out and dissipated Deathwing's attack before Dragon Breaker Lord flew through the dragon and landed on the other side after dissipating it's drill. Deathwing at first stood unmoving, as if it's body was taking time to compute what had just happened, until explosion after explosion encompassed the drake.

This time, it was dead.

----------------

Outskirts of Angel Groove

"Show offs." Yoko stated when the shockwave of the explosion threw everyone but her and Nia off their feet...including Leena's gunsniper.

"Shit! I felt that from my cockpit!" Leena cried out as the vibrations of Deathwing's demise rocked the ground of Angel Groove.

"I'm never gonna get used to this stuff." Hitomi lamented as she helped herself up after the shockwave passed.

"It's really pretty." At first Hikari had to pause and relieze what the little girl next to her just said. But on a further look and a glance that told her Shinji's condition wouldn't worsen, she just smiled and nodded.

"Yes it is Nia...yes it is." Hikari just beamed at the agreement and watched the amazing the explosions that continued on for at least an hour.

Clearly Deathwing had had too much Taco Bell.

-------------------

An hour later...the Aftermath of the battle

"Looks like our attack tore open it's body." Seto Kaiba, who appeared as soon as the mysterious pilot of that blue eyes white jet dissappeered noted as he, Roger, Van, Simon and Bit observed what Kaiba had found in the remains of the dragon that they had just waited an hour to stop exploding after they caused it to explode,"Without it's own armor to keep it in check, Deathwing's energy imploded on itself and condensed down into this shiny orb." The orb caused everyone to oh and awe with it's majestic beauty. It was completely black, but smooth without fault or a dent.

"RELEASE ME MORTALS!" Deathwing's voice boomed from the orb, shocking everyone except Kaiba, who just smirked.

"Which contains the very angry soul of our recently departed friend." Kaiba observed as they heard the growls of Deathwing inside the orb.

"It's his Eldunarí." Van explained, "Sometimes really old and intelligent dragons have these shiny orbs in their bodies that contain their consciousness after they die. That way, allies can draw on their strength and wisdom.

"So what we have here...is the stored power and consciousness of Deathwing, Destroyer of Worlds." Bit stated, the weight of every word sinking into everyone's mind, "What do we do with it?"

"DIE!"

"Nobody asked you!" Simon could've sworn he felt the dragon wimper when he slapped the orb, but noticed someone was missing, "Where's Shinji?"

"He's still stuck in Eva's cockpit." Sargeant Foley said when the others found where Evangelion lied on it's back after Mecha Lord's dissassembly, the sargeant and some soldiers were trying to open the cockpit with no success, "Ramirez! Get me a wielder!"

"His comm's silent." Van stepped up to the soldiers and drew his sword, "Stand aside!

"Need a hand.?" Kamina appeared at the scene with his sword already brandished, Van nodded to him and readied his sword, "One...two...three!" In perfect sync, the two slashed across the cockpit, allowing orange and red liquid to flow out of the perfectly symmetrical box they carved in the capsule halfway pulled out of Evangelion.

"Oh great, now I'll have to bye another capsule." Roger and Simon felt the urge to slap Kaiba but stopped when they saw the state of their friend after Ramirez pulled him out of the capsule.

"Someone call the Medic!" Foley cried as he grabbed the unconcious Shinji and laid him gently on the ground as everyone except Kaiba ran over to see how he was, "Hold on son." It almost pained Simon to see Shinji like this, his body was a mess of cuts, burns and blood.

The exact one's that Evangelion had recieved.

-----------------

Angel Groove Medical Ward

The team plus a bandaged guy named Kittan from Kamina's group had all gathered in the waiting room outside of Shinji's room. It had been several hours after the battle and some weren't too steller about their victory.

Thanks to Kaiba.

A few hours earlier

"Well...according to that old hag's report, Evangelion is one of those mind-synch robots that require you to concentrate to mentally control it." Kaiba explaned to the worried team as sexually dressed nurses carted Shinji into the operating room, "The higher you synch the better you control it, it also means the higher your synch, the more likely you are to feel the damage evangelion gets." A scream from Shinji only unnerved them even more, "What was Shinji's sync again?"

"85% while in Mecha Lord." A new employee with the nametag Odin Lowe read on a clipboard of notes.

"You sure?"

"Yeah you're right Seto," The employee gave the reports to Mokuba who glanced over them before looking up, "185%...damn..."

"Good news and bad news." A nurse who emerged from Shinji's room said to the team, "Good news is, he should be fine in a little while. The exertion from the fight took a toll on him."

"Glad he'll be alright." Everyone nodded in agreement with Simon.

"Bad news is, his pain threshold was passed." The nurse finished, "He'll have to be put on medical leave." Most didn't know what Pain threshold meant, but medical leave was fair enough. It could always be worse.

"Hi..." The team turned and noticed a young japanese student who Simon recognized as Hikari standing in the hall and trying to stay composed despite her obviously frightened state, "I...heard...that-"

"I'm fine." Shinji said as he emerged from his room, looking like he didn't just almost die, "Just got spooked from having my Eva get mauled by a very angry dragon."

"Then you returned the favor." Van muttered under his breath.

"What?" Thankfully, it seemed that Hikari hadn't seen any of the reports about Mecha Lord horrifically torturing it's opponant.

"Winning." Shinji said to Hikari as he wiped away a silent tear that crept down her face.

"Cute." The team turned to see that employee from earlier suddenly standing amongst them, startling some of those present, "Sir, Mr. Kaiba requests your presence on the bridge."

"Major Ikari...it's recommended that you-"

"I'll be alright." Shinji told the nurse before walking into his room and coming out dressed in an officer's uniform that he found hanging on his bedrail, "Thanks Hikari."

"Well...I thought you'd like a change..." She said half stuttering, Simon smirked at how smooth Shinji was with the ladies, "Since you're alright, I'll just...see you later..." She practically dashed away, leaving Shinji to briefly glance after her retreating form before noticing the pirahnas in the hall.

"Guys...I thought you liked older women." Everyone except Simon gagged at the subtle implication of Shinji's playful words and tried really hard to breathe after absorbing the shock of Shinji's joke.

"What the hell does Kaiba want now?" An annoyed Van asked while the group walked through the halls.

"Maybe he'll just admonish us for the costs we ran up." Bit guessed with a shrug.

"Really? I thought no one died in that battle?" Simon asked.

"Yeah, but shockwaves from our attacks messed up power lines, caused a few blackouts, not to mention the Defense Force Units we destroyed early on."

"Lives cannot be replaced as machinery." Van stated.

"Tell it Kaiba." Roger knew enough about the man to know that lives weren't as profitable as money to him.

"Screw Kaiba," Shinji said, causing a few employees to nearly trip in shock.

"That's the spirit bro." Simon pat his new bro on the back, which caused him to flinch but didn't break his upbeat stride.

"Bro...I like that, thanks Simon...and thanks for earlier."

"You'd have done the same, Shinji...and done it better too."

"That's enough little bros! You're badasses, enjoy the victory!" Kamina said, bringing both boys in for a hug from behind and hanging on to them through some of the walk.

"Wish I'd have been there earlier." Kittan grumbled, he only heard the stories from Kamina, but that dragon would've been an opponant worthy of badasses, "But I got bad directions from a small white mechanical t-rex."

"You're just making up excuses Kittan." Kamina teased, causing the two to start wrestling over who's giga drill would be more badass or who'd have the most badass death ever.

"Man I wish I could just go straight home." Bit said while Van nodded in agreement.

"I've already missed dinner." Roger realized when the group entered the bridge followed closely by the employee from earlier carrying another stack of reports from the intelligence bureau.

"No worries, let's just get this meeting with Kaiba over with and-" Everyone could literally feel the ghosts of despair and depression saturate the air as Shinji gazed on the reason that Kaiba had called them to the bridged, "No...No...no...NO! NO! NO! NO!"

"Hello Shinji." said Gendo Ikari.