July-SY102
“Sena, are you ready yet?”
“Un”
“Then get down here.”
I walk downstair. Today we are going to pick up Dad at the elevator base station.
*tip tap tip tap*
“The taxi is already waiting. Let’s go, Sena dear.”
Mom holds my hand and walks me outside.
…
“Dad should be here any minute now.”
“Un”
“Mom feels thirsty Dear. Can you buy Mom a milk from vending machine over there?”
“Un”
*tip tap tip tap*
I walk towards the vending machine. The vending machine itself can be operated with [ID Card]. After tapping the card on some sort of screen on the machine, a two-way communication between the machine and the card is established. Though the communication session will expire if you don’t quickly place order within 30 to 60 seconds. It seem varies between machines.
It was taught in ‘modern convenience everywhere’ afterclass, which was basically us going outside and be taught using various public utilities, including vending machine.
After quickly placing order for 2 cartons of milk I--
“Up toh.”
“...!??”
Suddenly my view gets higher.
“Help!! Kidnapper!!!”
I scream out. While twisting around my body trying to break free from the kidnapper.
“Kidnapper! Kidnapper! Kidnapper!!”
“Wait!! I’m not kidnapper.”
Thief would never tell others they are thief, same with kidnapper or so I think.
“Kidnaaapeeerr!!!”
“W-wait. It’s Dad. See...”
Huh?
Though before realizing anything, crowd of people already looking at this direction.
Quickly several security people appeared out from the crowd.
“Sir. Do you mind coming with us to our station a bit?”
I was then carefully put down.
“I-it’s misunderstanding. R-really, Sir. This is my son.”
“Ohh don’t worry. You will have a looott of time telling your story at the station. So please come with us.”
Sigh… It seems thing has became complicated.
In the end it was not until Mom was called to the station that the situation resolved.
…
Later we sit down at an empty bench with me sandwiched between mom and dad.
*Sigh* “Security guys can be so persistent at times…”
“It’s Dad’s fault.”
*Giggle*
Mom is just giggling happily at Dad’s misfortune.
We then go back home together with Dad.
…
During the dinner time, we have dinner together as family like usual, except it will be proper family dinner this time. No teledinner for now.
“By the way, Sena. Haven’t you been making friends here already?”
“Un”
“You should introduce them to dad later. Though maybe not tomorrow, since we are going soon. Maybe after we come back here from Japan?”
“Un”
After spending a night at home. Early in the morning, we go to the airport and board a plane headed for Japan. Arriving there we will go for a check in and spend the night at the hotel first.
...
“Sushiiii! Tempuraaa!! Fujiyamaaaaa!!!”
A kid behind us was shouting out nonsense, something like gaijin holy trinity in Japan right after he came out of the plane.
What a snotty brat.
…
Arriving in the hotel I was going back to reading but…
*Growl*
“Should we go for lunch?” Asked Dad.
“Un”
We left our room and headed outside the hotel. Dad said hotel’s food is expensive and not that good, so he proposed for us to eat outside.
He leaded us in direction of a nearby park. On the way, he bought us hot meals from vending machines along with drinks.
“We don’t eat inside?”
“It’s picnic, Sena. Picnic see. Since we have the chance, let’s have a time for enjoying outside scenery.”
After spreading picnic mat under a tree, we start opening the meals.
“Hmm~ how is it, Sena? Is it delicious?”
“Un. It’s delicious.”
Though I don’t really know how to describe food taste in words, except delicious or inedible. As long as it taste good then I will just say it’s delicious.
Not too far from us are several children playing together.
“Honey, how does it feel returning here?”
“Normal, I guess. It’s not like I particularly like or don’t like here. It’s been too long since I come back. I guess a bit nostalgic?”
“How about visiting your family? Sometime later I mean.”
“It’s fine. They probably won’t like me there anyway.”
It’s obvious from Mom’s name, but apparently Japan is her hometown, or at least her ancestor hometown. But it seems it’s really her hometown.
“Well, maybe Sena want to see his grandparents.”
“Then you ask him, Dear.”
“Huh? Eh? How about you?”
“I’m fine with anything really. But, maybe to be a bit honest. I prefer for us to spend our own time as family.”
“I see. Well if it’s something like that then.”
It seems mom doesn’t really have a good relationship with her family.
Like that we enjoy some more time outside. Dad seems to want to play with me, but sadly I’m not really the physical type. So we end up playing some multiplayer minigames together on our ID Card.
...
The following days starting with Monday, Dad starts getting busy with his work. Though we still have meal together like before in the colony.
“Sena, this Saturday there is this robot exhibition. Dad also happens to be free that day. How about we go out together? Sena and Dad together?”
“Mom?”
“Oh, sorry Dear. But Mom want to rest a bit in the hotel that day. So Mom can’t go with you.”
“So, Sena?”
“Un. I will go.”
...
On Saturday.
Me and Dad are now in a robot exhibition.
It’s said that Japan is a country of mecha and robot. It was one of pioneers in mecha. Even before the advent of MECHA, there are a lot of robotics related company. Those robotics company helped propel Japanese mecha and robot industry into one of the most advanced in the world.
Nowadays many mecha manufacturer also came from this country. So I was pretty excited wondering what kind of robot and mecha will be displayed.
Arriving there, we found many robots.
From the kid sized automatic garbage collector robot that looks like a garbage can, mini bug robot outfitted with camera, amphibious transport mecha robot shaped like lizard, and home chore helper robot. Hmm? Did something with seemingly suspicious purpose slipped in? Oh well, whatever.
There are also various pet robots. Dogs, cats, even hamster robots. Some vendor promote their advanced robopet’s AI. Others promote how their robopet mimics very close to the real ones in outer looks. Though I wonder why you don't just buy a real one instead.
There is even a beautiful androgynous human look like robot. Though somehow when I was approaching the booth, an employee drove me away. “Come back when you're older.” He said.
...
“Hmm? This is…?”
I see what is a blue-white humanoid mecha with height of over 30 meters in front of me.1Something like this
Source and credit to here
Main inspiration for the mecha is Dai-guard.
“Huge...”
“Isn’t it? This is The Big Protector. For short we call it, The Big P. It’s 42 meters in height when standing straight.”
“Huh?”
Big P? Where did I hear it before? Must be only my feeling.
“Hello, Kid. Are you interested in MECHA?”
“Un”
“Is that so. By the way, my name is Sasajima Kotaro. What’s your name?”
“Sena Rayfield, nice to meet you.”
“Nice to meet you too, Sena it is...? From your looks you are a tourist?”
“Un”
“Did you come here alone? Where are your parents, Sena?”
“Huh? Eh….?”
Where did Dad go?
“Are you lost?”
*shake* “Unn~”
“So you came alone here?”
*shake shake* “I’m with Dad.”
“So it’s your Dad huh. Where is he? Don’t tell me you two got separated.”
“It seems so…”
“Do you need help...? To find Dad that is.”
*Shake shake* “I can find Dad anytime.” I take out my ID from my belt bag. You can track family members or consented friends with it.
“Oh I see. You are smart little guy.” *pat pat*
“Mister, what is this MECHA?”
“Big P? Oh. You mean the spec huh. Well, to put it simply, it’s supposed to be heavy armored shock trooper. It’s a 3 pilot super heavy armor MECHA.
Its armor is actually pretty thick and very dense see. So it’s pretty heavy for its class. Well, actually a 42 meters MECHA is already pretty heavy huh. Mostly it’s 10-20 meters for military.
This guy won the tender for a military procurement bid you see. Though in the end, because of this guy high maintenance cost, not to mention it has been peace time for a while, the military won’t take him in. We also couldn’t simply throw away the money spent on this big guy.”
“You are selling him here?”
“Nope. We are not selling this guy here. Not to mention how expensive it is. It’s real deal military grade MECHA. It’s also still the only one of its kind. We are only showing it here as our mascot see.”
“I see.”
“Still though, if you want to buy something. We also have a lot of other products. Do you need pet?”
*shake shake* “Unn~ I’m going to go to Dad now.”
“That’s too bad. Well, see you, little guy.”
“Bai bai.”
I was about to leave when suddenly--
*wobble wobble*
“Huh??”
“Earthquake huh. Pretty rare. There was no warning beforehand. Are we near the epicenter??”
*Rumble Rumble*
“Should we go to a shelter or something?”
“Follow me, Sena.”
I was then led by hand somewhere, probably a shelter.
“Hah…ha..hah…”
Somehow I feel really tired, and my head is a bit aching…
*Rumble Rumble Rumble*
*Trips*
“Hey. Are you okay?”
“Sorry, my head is aching.”
Mr employee then crouch down in front of me.
“Get on my back.”
“Un. Sorry.”
.
.
.
I remember my earliest memory is when I was 5 or 6 year old.
At that time I didn’t remember knowing anyone. Not even myself.
“Sonny, it is Dad. Are you okay?”
“Huh? Dad…? What am I...? Where am I...?”
“You are our son, [&@#@]. My beloved child.”
“Son…?”
“It’s Mom. Don’t you remember…?”
“Mom…?”
“Dear… did he…?”
“It’s just a shock. Maybe it will come back tomorrow.”
…
“Oi [&@#@]!! Do you want to play??”
“Who?”
“It’s me, [$%$@].”
“Who are you?”
“Your friend.”
“Friend?”
“Hey, don’t play dumb! Anyway let’s go play.”
“Un”
…
“I want to know everyone.”
“Huh?”
“I want to know everyone. Can you introduce me to everyone?”
“Everyone? Well maybe everyone around here then. Okay, let’s go with me.”
…
“Hello, my name is [&@#@]. Can I know your name?”
“Huh? [&@#@]?”
“Can I know your name?”
“What? Don’t you remember? It’s me, [@$!@], your cousin.”
“Cousin...?”
“What?”
“Can we be friends?”
“Hah??”
…
“Hello. What’s your name? Can we be friends?”
“What…? Who are you?”
“My name is [&@#@]. What’s yours?”
“It’s [&^%$]...”
“Can we be friends…?”
“Hey what’s wrong with him?”
“Sorry this kid seems to lose his memory. Maybe he lost something else too in the head.”
“Can you be my friend?”
“U-uhh… Sure..”
…
That day I introduced myself to everyone. Making everyone, except the adults, my friends.
.
.
.
“uugh…”
“Ohh. You finally woke up, Sena.”
“…Where is this…?”
“Here is a nearby building. You passed out just like that, so I was worried if you got sick or something?”
“I’m fine, Mister. Thank you.”
“Well that’s great if you are fine. Still though, that was quite a big one.”
“Big earthquake? Will there be tsunami?”
Since we are next to the ocean.
“Oh, don’t worry. There seemed to be no warning of that, so there should be none. That or it's small enough that the installed anti-tsunami system can take care of it.”
“Oh I see…”
Anti-tsunami system is a system that tries to counter rouge waves by somehow interfering it destructively. It seems to be based on some nonlinear properties of wave and temporary modification on water characteristics. I don’t know much though, it seems to be a whole specialist field by itself.
*Rumble Rumble*
"Huh??”
“It seems there are aftershocks.”
*Screeeeeeech*2This voice
source is ray-type heterodyne’s cry
A strange crying sound unlike any animals resounds.
*Rumble Rumble*
"What was that???”
“Animal?”
“I will go out a bit to check it.”
“Wait, Mister!”
Mr employee ran out just like that.
I need to go after him. There is something I need to confirm and if my guess is correct, then we are facing quite a danger right now.
Running outside I found Mr employee just outside the building.
In the distance, I can see a strange organism that looks like standing starfish but has the size of twenty story building.
Or not, that guy is literally floating so it looks a bit taller than it's supposed to be. Well it's still big though.
It's floating on its two 'feet' with two tentacles stretching from each 'hand' for a total of four tentacles. In the center of the star is a red colored ball.
A loud cry from the giant starfish monster resounds.
*Screeeeeeeeeeeeeech*
“What is that…?”
“I don't know. But it's approaching here.”
“Huh should we inform everyone around to get out of the way?”
“Sena, are you already alright now? Can you go somewhere safe by yourself?
“Huh?? Where are you going to, Mister?”
“I will try to hold off that thing from coming further and giving time for you to escape.”
“How?”
“Using him of course.”
“Him? Oh.. Big Protector?”
*nod* "Ah."
“But, you said that thing needs three pilots.”
“I will manage. Somehow.”
“Mister. Let me help.”
“What? What can a kid like you do?”
“I can control the assistance system. Mister can just focus on piloting the main movement.”
“No—”
*Screeeeeeech*
*Bzzzzxzzzzztttt*
*Boom*
A jolt of lightning, coming from starfish monster's direction, struck a building near us.
*Rumble Rumble*
“Uwaaah”
“Tch.”
Suddenly I got grabbed by Mr employee and put over his shoulder. What was it called again? Fireman's carry?
Mr employee running while carrying me towards The Big P. Arriving there he put me down.
Standing near The Big P are a young man and a short haired young woman wearing a business suit.
“Sasajima!! What the hell are you thinking bringing a kid here??” Shout the young man at mr employee. Ah I guess he is mr employee too.
“He just happened to be with me. Didn't really have the chance to evacuate him. Might as well bringing him, since everywhere is dangerous with that monster around.”
“We might get sued by the kid's guardian you know??! Don't blame me if you don't get this month's pay.”
“Whatever. What's important now is to protect everyone.”
“Hah?? Protect everyone??”
“Let's hold off that thing with The Big P. We can make enough time for others to escape.”
“What the hell are you thinking?? We don't even know what that thing is. We should let the military handle this.”
“There is not enough time to argue like this, Ito. The military needs time to come here. We will hold it off until they arrive. Let’s go, Suzuki.”
“Okay, Sasajima-senpai.”
“You too, Suzuki?!”
“You as well, Sena. Follow us.”
“Un”
“O-oi. Oi, Sasajima!! Damn it.”
Following mr employee, we got on a lift that brought us up behind The Big P's torso.
Arriving on the backside of the torso, mr employee opened a hatch door leading into inside of Big P. I guess it's The Big P's cockpit.
“In the end you came here too, Ito.”
“Tch. You definitely owe me one for this.”
The three mr and ms employees sit themselves on the three seats inside then slid over safety belts and lock it.
…
The machine has been turned on and in front of us are three monitors, each in front of one seat, displaying view from outside, probably fed from several cameras outside the frame.
“Are you all ready?”
“Yes.”
*Sigh* “Ready.”
"Sena?”
I just finished tying myself with a rope to the main pilot seat.
*pipipi pipipi pipipi*
“Yes?" I answer a call from my ID card.
“Finally connected. Sena, where are you now??”
“In a big mecha.”
“Huh?? What?”
“Sorry, I'm busy, Dad. Later.”
“Wai—” *pip*
“Sorry for waiting. Anytime, Kotaro.”
“Is… that okay…? Oh well, whatever. Big Protector, Take-Off!!”
*Rumble Rumble*
It’s shaking quite a bit while The Big P is standing from its kneeling position.
…
“Big Protector, standing normal. Stability, 97%.”
“Then, let's go hit that uselessly big starfish!”
“Wait, Sasajima.”
“What, Ito? Don't tell me you're scared already, are ya?”
“That's not it! I'm just saying, let's launch the drones first to check the situation.”
“Ah, that's right. Ito, launch scouting drones now.”
“Four scouting drones, launch.”
Four different displays fed from different cameras is shown on the monitors.
From each drones’ camera, are scenes of people frantically escaping.
“Look, a group of people are trapped and can't escape because of burning cars.”
“Shouldn't we save them first, Kotaro?”
“You are right, Sena. Okay everyone, we are pushing those cars down to the sea.”
“Okay.”
“W-wait, we will definitely get sued for that!” the young man in business suit once again complaint about getting sued.
“Sue me or fire me or whatever. We are saving those people.”
“I agree.”
“Tch. You owe me a good drink tonight, Sasajima!!”
“Fine, fine. Big P, move.”
“Big P, moving.”
Walking toward lines of burning cars, Big P makes a rumble with each of its step.
*Rumble Rumble Rumble*
“Everyone please get a bit far away from the cars.”
After warning the group of people with a loud speaker fitted on The Big P, we, I mean Kotaro and others piloting The Big P, started pushing the cars down to the water.
After a while, a path of evacuation opened up.
“Now everyone, please evacuate to somewhere safe.”
People start running after the path opened up.
“Please be careful and don't push each other, everyone.”
Before long the people finished leaving the area.
“Phew… finally.”
*Bzzzzxxzxxzzzzttttttt* *Boom*
Suddenly it’s shaking hard inside the cockpit.
“Ugh.”
“What happened??”
“Suzuki, damage assessment.”
“An electric discharge hit the left arm. 30% circuit down. Must be that starfish lightning discharge ability.”
“Can we still move?”
“Overall is okay, but output power is reduced.”
“Okay, we are charging at that starfish before it can fire off another lightning. Haaaaahh!!”
Quickly Big P started running towards the starfish monster.
“Movement, code F. Stability, 77%.”
Ugh… it’s shaking so much.
*Rumble Rumble*
“Hey! Sasajima, don’t hit the buildings!! They are going to send us damage claims later.”
“Shut up. I’m already doing my best just to keep this thing running.”
“Sasajimaaa!!”
“Shut up! We are colliding!! Haaaaaaahhhh!!!”
The Big P charged at and push down the giant starfish.
*Boom*
The Big P collided with the starfish and fell down on top of it, pinning it.
“uweee…”
“S-sena… your face looks bad. Don’t tell me you have motion sickness. Please don’t vomit on me, okay…?”
“uuug-- s-sorry Kotaro, it’s just shaking so mu--weeee” *vomit rainbow*
“Gaaahhh, he vomited on me!!”
“Shutup, Sasajima. Just start moving already.”
“Ugaahhh!!! Die! Die!! Die!!!”
*Boom Boom Boom*
Kotaro started moving The Big P to constantly punching starfish monster’s head.
*Screeeeeeech*
*Rumble Rumble Rumble*
It seems the starfish is hitting Big P’s back with its four tentacles.
“Die! Die!! Die!!!”
*Boom Boom Boom*
*Screeeeeeeeeeeeccchhh*
*Rumble Rumble Rumble*
*Vomit rainbow*
“Gahhh!! Dieeee!!!”
…
*Boom Boom Boom*
*Screeeeeeeeech*
"Why it can’t go down already?!!”
“K-kotaro…”
“W-what, Sena? Please don’t speak anymore or you might get worse..”
“Core… hit the core…”
“Core?”
*Screeeeeeeeech*
Suddenly the starfish started levitating with The Big P on top of it.
“Whoa…we are floating..”
“G-get off of it, Sasajima.”
“What?? We are already pinning it. It will be a waste if we don’t finish it soon.”
“It might be aiming to throw us down from the sky. Get off now!”
“Core… hah… Crush its core.”
Uweee…. I still feel a bit shaking.
“What core?”
“That red thing…hah… in its center…uwee…. Crush it.”
“O-okay okay. I get it. Just stop talking now. Do you copy now, Ito?”
“What a civilian on top of that a kid knows about this monster?”
“We won’t know until we try it. At any rate, this thing is really tough anyway, might as well try anything. I’m starting again, you all. Suzuki, I’m leaving it up to you to keep us not falling off.”
“Leave it to me. P hooker, launch.”
A pair of hooks shot out of Big P’s waist and lodged itself onto the starfish monster.
“It’s ready, Sasajima-senpai.”
“Ito, max the power output.”
“Got it. Raising the power output. 40%...70%...99%…Output max. Go, Sasajima.”
“Finally… Oooohhhh!!! Dieeeee!!!!!”
*Boooom*
The Big P struck the red ball on the starfish body center with both its hands.
*Screeeeeeeeeeeecchhhh*
*Crack*
Cracks start appearing on the starfish's red core.
*Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeechh*
*crack crack crack* *shatter*
After enough cracks appeared, the core shattered.
“Did we win…?”
From drone’s monitor watching the fight from 3rd view, we can see that the starfish’s color turning grayish, it also turned stiff. Or not, it actually started disintegrating as if it was made from sands.
“Eh?” (All four)
*Falls down*
*Booooooom*
…
“Hah…. is everyone alright?”
“…I’m fine…. Senpai.”
“It felt like my bone just broke, Sasajima... If it really broke, I’m sending you my hospital bill.”
“Sena?”
“Uweeeeeegh”
“Gahhh!!”
…
Soon after coming out of The Big P, dad run up to me.
“Sena!!”
Dad hug me right after arriving in front of me.
“Are you alright? Sena?”
“Ugh… I’m fine, Dad. Anyway, it’s stuffy… Please let me go.”
“Ah, okay… And this is?”
“Hello, Mr Rayfield. I’m Sasajima Kotaro of West Pacific Security.”
“West Pacific Security?”
“Well, actually you see… yada-yada-yada”
Kotaro proceed to talk about how he met me and how I ended up on The Big P.
…
“I’m really sorry for everything, Mr Sasajima.”
“Uh oh, no it’s fine. Actually he was quite helpful to us. Without Sena, we might be still be facing that starfish monster right now, or maybe we already long disabled from its lightning attack.”
“Really…?”
“Yes. He correctly identified the monster’s weak point. He is smart kid, Mr Rayfield.”
“Is that true, Sena?”
“It was just coincidence, Dad. That part was kinda stood out like sore thumb, so I thought that might be the case. So we were really lucky.”
Actually I already know right after seeing the giant starfish that it was its weakness. The reason is it has something to do with previous life memory.
The Big Protector, was the titular mecha of mecha anime [Super Heavy Bodyguard - The Big Protector]. It was an anime about how a company using its mecha to defends Japan from beings of other dimension, homodynes. Each homodyne has weakness in form of a core, something similar to that red ball like thing before.
The anime story itself focused on the company running and bureaucracy, or the logistic and maintenance of the company special mecha, The Big P. The Big P high maintenance cost was quite highlighted in the anime, so it was really an anime about “reality” of super robot class mecha, The Big Protector.
What is super robot class, you say? Well, basically in the (previous life) mecha community, there was this bicategorization of mecha. These categories are the so called real robots and super robots. Though not quite all mecha fits neatly to either one of the 2 categories. In practice quite many mecha may be placed within spectrum between these two, but not always at the edge of one or the other. And then there are mechas which are not really mecha at all.
Back to Big P itself, it could be considered as almost right in the middle of the spectrum between super and real, with very slight leaning towards the real edge. Actually the design of Big P was that it was supposed to be a super robot in “real” setting.
“Sena?”
“Eh? Yes, Dad?”
Did I space out again?
“Should we go back now? Mom must be worried.”
“Un”
…
*Rooooooaaaarr*3This voice
original from here
Suddenly a very loud monser cry was heard.
“What was that??”
“Another one of that monster?”
“Its cry sounds different though.”
“Then a different monster?”
“Where is it coming from???”
Again there is another commotion starting after that very loud roar. It seems people are still quite agitated from the previous homodyne’s attack.
Still though, more importantly, it’s strange. Isn’t it supposed still to be The Big P’s [first episode], there should be no more homodyne for a while. At least not two in the same first day.
*Roooooooaaarr*
“Sea! Look at the sea!”
From the sea, something like a lizard head emerged. It has a single horn with upper parts of its head protected with something metallic.
*Roooooooaaaar*
“Monster!!” “Monster?!!” “It’s another monster!” “Run!!!”
The commotion started turning into a chaos with everyone trying to leave the area in panic. The army, who had arrived not long after the homodyne’s defeat, trying to control the situation to no avail.
“Ito! Suzuki!”
“Yes, Sasajima-senpai?”
“No, Sasajima. I know what you are thinking, but NO. Let’s leave it to the military this time. Let the professionals handle it.”
“Tch. What a coward.”
“Coward or whatever, I’m not risking this month’s salary for another of your stunts.”
*Rooooooooooaaaarr*
The horned lizard head opened its mouth, somehow it quickly gets somewhat hot here. An army tank not far from here starts burning, is it the cause of the heat? Wait no. It is…
“Collimated heat wave. That thing, it’s letting out something like directed heat wave from its mouth.”
“How did you know, Sena?”
“Just now, that tank over there started burning soon after it opens its mouth like that. And, don’t you think it’s getting hot, Kotaro?”
“I see. You are really smart for noticing something like that in this situation. Nevertheless, you and your father should go evacuate.”
“What are you saying, Sasajima? We are evacuating too. Let’s go, Suzuki.”
“Agreed.”
“What?? You too, Suzuki???”
“Big P has little energy left from last engagement. It is also quite damaged. It won’t move well considering both cases. More importantly, it’s not even equipped with any weapon systems at all. It will only be a hindrance to the military.”
“See, Sasajima. Even Suzuki agreed.”
“Wait, are we leaving Big P, here? What if that dinosaur destroys it?”
“Don’t worry, Senpai. The heli-carrier will be carrying it out of here soon. There.”
A convoy of several fairly big helicopters flying towards The Big P, some carrying trucks using something like a platform, while others carrying empty platform.
*Roooooooaaaar*
The lizard head is closer and closer to the shore. After probably about a hundred meters from the shore, its body already visible. I can see it is something resembling bipedal dinosaur covered in metallic armor in several parts of its body, especially the torso. Its left hand resembling something like a hook.4Reference to Mechasaurus Saki
“Now, we need to evacuate too, Sena.”
“Un”
Again dinosaur head opened its mouth wide.
“Another heat wave incoming! Be careful!” I tried to warn everyone.
This time several tanks and military mechas close to where Big P is, got swallowed by fire. There are also things exploding. Seeing that the helicopter convoy doesn’t dare to approach Big P further.
.
.
.
“You three.”
“Division Chief?”
“New order, you three take The Big P away from here.”
“Huh, us, Chief?”
“Yes.”
“Into that sea of fire?”
“Yes. Don’t worry, Ito-kun. Technology division has provided us with three heat-resistant pilot suits for you three. Yoneda-kun.”
“Yes, Chief. You three, come with me.”
…
*Boom Boom Boom*
*Ratatata-tat Ratatata-tat*
Military mechas and tanks are firing their firearms at the metallic armored dinosaur, trying to keep it from ashore.
*Roooooooaaaaaar*
However, the dinosaur also doesn’t stay still, it retaliates by firing off another directed heat wave at the military tanks.
…
“We are already inside The Big P, Yoneda-san. Starting up now… Emergency quick startup finished."
“Good job, you three. First open the battery slots and eject the empty ones. We will be sending down some batteries from the sky.”
“Understood. Ito.”
“Opening battery hatches. Ejecting three empty batteries.”
Two rectangular hatch opened out from both of Big P's shoulders. *Boof Boof Boof* Then quickly 3 cylindrical shaped objects ejected out of the shoulders, one from left, two from right shoulder.
“Empty batteries ejected.”
“Suzuki.”
“Synching coordinate to the control server. Standard deviation under 1 centimeter. Ready to receive.”
“Copy. Ready to receive.”
“Dropping down battery packs now. 3…2…1…battery packs dropped.”
*Ja Ja Ja*
*Za Za Za*
Three cylindrical objects dropped down from a big helicopter and landed inside three compartments extending down from both Big P's shoulders. After receiving the 3 cylindrical objects, the two hatches closed.
“Battery rerouting finished. We are ready to go, Sasajima. Let's get out of here, quick.”
“Yosh! Big Protector, Take-Off!”
…
Finally the dinosaur reached ashore. Its standing height is comparable to Big P, maybe slightly shorter. It started rampaging around, destroying military mechas and vehicles. Even after being ganged up by the military force, it’s still looking fairly fine, only getting bruises and armor scratches.
*Booom*
Suddenly, something big hit and pushed the dinosaur and together with it fall off to the sea.
“Uuooooooohh!!”
“Senpaaaiiiii!!”
“Sasajimaaa!!! You dipshiiittt!!!”
*Splash*
…
Two giants each roughly around 40 meters in height are facing each other over shallow (for the giants) water.
One is blue-white humanoid metallic entity with bulky body, another is an ancient beast unfittingly equipped with metallic armor with a hook for a left hand.
“Hehe.. Just like you wanted, Ito. With this we can fight freely without getting sued with damage claims.”
“Damage claim my ass. I’m suing you for emotional distress, Sasajima!”
“Well, after we are out of this situation.”
“You are the one putting us all in this situation!!”
*ROOOOOOOOOOOAAAARRR*
Water of height about the two giants’ waist started to stir. The dinosaur ancient beast opened its mouth.
“Senpai, the dinosaur is opening its mouth again.”
“Damn, don’t let it hit us with the heat wave, Sasajima.”
“Heh, leave it to me, Ito. Big P, charge!”
The Big P started running toward the dinosaur. However the temperature inside The Big P’s cockpit started rising before it could reach the dinosaur.
“What the hell are you doing, Sasajima? Quickly hit that mecha dinosaur. Do you want to fry us all???”
“I’m trying! I’m trying, see!! It’s just, running in the water hinder the movement.”
“Hah…Temperature inside already reached 40C, Senpai.”
“Dammit if it’s like this.”
Suddenly Big P dive into the water. The water quickly acts as heat bath and lowers Big P’s cockpit temperature.
“Phew… saved from heat stroke…”
“Like this, let’s crawl to that dinosaur. Suzuki.”
Big P started crawling, keeping its body under water.
“Understood. Routine movement, change pattern. Movement, code C. Stability 86%.”
Big P was approaching the dinosaur by crawling, when it was suddenly struck from above by something hard.
*Rumble Rumble Rumble*
"W-what is it this time?”
“It’s hitting us with its tail, Senpai.”
“I see. That means we are close enough now.”
“We are pinning it down, like before. Ito, Suzuki.”
“Calculating body movement trajectory. Routine movement, ready.”
“Rerouting energy supply to the routine movement principal skeletons. Rerouting finished.”
“Yosh. Uuuuooooooooohhhh!!!”
The Big P jumped on the dinosaur and rammed it into the air and onto its back. The dinosaur flailed around, trying to break free, but The Big P secured a position on the enemy’s abdomen.
“Use Big P’s body weight, Sasajima.”
“Okay. Uoooohhhh!”
Big P jumped up and down, slamming the dinosaur into the earth below. But it slipped on their third try.
*Boom*
The Big P slammed onto its back.
"Whoaaaa”
“Sasajima, you idiot. Try to keep the balance.”
“I thought that’s Suzuki’s job.”
“Senpai, no matter how rigid The Big P is, if it’s standing on something slippery, it will slip eventually. Please be careful.”
“Fine, fine.”
*Rumble Rumble*
"The dinosaur, it’s already back up. It’s kicking us, Sasajima!”
“I know, I know. Haaaaaahhh!!”
Big P caught the dinosaur foot kicking it and threw it down. The dinosaur landed on its face. Big P then rise up and pin down the dinosaur, locking it down with its weight.
“Hold the head! The head!! Don’t let it face us!”
“I know, I know! You don’t have to tell me that, Ito.”
The Big P grab the dinosaur’s head and ram it down into the earth, face first.
*Booom* *Rumble Rumble*
“Ito, I’m crushing the head.”
“Got it. Concentrating energy distribution into grab-hold routine principal skeletons. Rerouting completed. Now, Sasajima!”
“UooooooOOOOHHH!!”
*ROOOOOOAAAAARR*
*Splurge*
The dinosaur’s head was crushed, it went limp and stopped flailing around, to be more precise, it stopped moving at all.
“whoaa… So gore. Is it still alive, Ito?”
“Life signature is decreasing fast, it should be dead soon.”
“Phew… finally.”
“Let’s go back now.”
“I hope there is no more--*
*Rooooooaaaarr* *Rooooaaaarrr* *Roooooooaawwwgghrrr*
"…”
“AAAAHHHHHH!!!” (All three)
…
*Rooooooooaarr* *Roooooooaaaar* *Rooooaaaawwwggghrrr*
Three more ‘dinosaur’ monsters, each of different species from the first one emerged out from the water.
“What should we do, Ito, Suzuki…? Three-on-one is really overdoing it.”
“Let’s leave, Sasajima. Let the military handle it. Civilians also should already finished evacuating. We don’t have to stay here anymore.”
“Agreed. There should be military reinforcement soon.”
*Boom Boom Boom*
*Rumble Rumble Rumble*
*Haaahhh, what is it this time??”
“Senpai, a flying-type dropping explosives over us.”
“Trained dinosaurs with modern weapons. Isn’t it a bit cheating?”
“Let’s go back now, Sasajima. We really have no more business here.”
“Tch. Fine. We are leaving.”
*Whip* *Whip* *Whip* Suddenly several something like whips grabbed both of Big P’s arms.
“W-what? What is this?”
“These are… tentacles??”
“Under the water, Sasajima!”
“Tch. Uuuuooohh!!”
The Big P pulled up the tentacles, pulling along the source of the tentacles upward. They can see that it’s a sort of cyborg-octopus with a metallic cylinder as the main head/body, with the tentacles stretching from the one side of the cylinder, while snake-like head attached to another side. Half of its tentacles is grabbing The Big P, while another half is submerged in the water, probably lodged into the seafloor as well.
“Ito, max output!!”
“Ouh. Raising power output, 39%….67%….97%…Output maxed out.”
“Ooooohhhh!!”
The Big P suddenly pulled up the tentacles, throwing the octopus head upward, then slam it down into the water.
“Ha…ha…ha… Did we do it?”
“It’s still alive, Sasajima. Let’s run quickly!”
*Rumble Rumble* *Boom*
Suddenly something hard struck The Big P from down below. An armored triceratops popped out from underground undetected.
*Booom*
“Uaaaahh!!” “Kyaaaaah!!” “Dammmiiiiiittt!!”
*Splash*
The Big P was knocked and launched up into the air then returned back down in a hard landing. Thankfully the water cushioned it and relieved much of the impact to the pilots inside.
*Vssssshhhh*
Drops of water, splashed from Big P’s landing, rained down over the military force watching the battle.
“Ugh…Haah!”
The Big P was trying to stand back up, however a whiplash from the cyborg-octopus forced it to fall on its back.
“Let’s go back up… Ito, more power.”
“Impossible, Sasajima. We are surrounded. We are done for.”
“Not yet!!”
“Am I going to die here? Mom, I will meet you on the other side soon.”
“Arghh, you too, Suzuki! Don’t say such ominous thing!!”
…
3 dubiously cool looking somewhat jet-fighter-lookalike aircrafts flying over the sea in high speed.
“We are here, Ryu.”
“Ah. Let’s go. Hayate, Jiro. Transform. Setter-Fighter! Turn on!!”
The three aircrafts quickly entered into a uselessly cool combination scene. The result is a red colored mecha of height similar to the Big P and the first dinosaur monster. Its red cape flutters with the airflow as it flies through the sky.5The inspiration is from getter robo
…
“Ryu, the metalsaurus noticed us.”
“No problem. Setteeer.. Beeeaaaam!”6Reference to Getter Beam
*Suuu~* *Piiiiiiiiiinngg*
An energy beam fired from a hole that opened up on the red mecha solar plexus.
*Boom Boom Boom*
“Heh, that was easy.”
“Ryu, leave some for me too.”
“If there is any underwater, Jiro.”
“Hmm? Look over there, Ryu. Someone’s getting ganged up by two metalsauruses.”
“Where, Hayate?”
“There.”
…
“Whoa… someone just one hit the flying dino.”
“We are saved…”
“Mom, it seems I will stay over here for a bit longer.”
A reverberating voice resounds.7Reverberating like this
"Oiii, anyone inside that blue robo, are you fine???”
“Huh?? Eh uh. Thank you very much for your help. We are fine.”
“We?”
“Yes, me and two other pilot The Big P here.”
“Ohh another three piloted robo, Ryu.”
“What's so interesting about another three pilots robo?”
“Well we are comrades, Hayate?”
“Your definition of comrades is strange, Jiro.”
“You three inside, stay still and just watch. Don’t worry, it will end soon. Setter Hurlbaatt!!8Hurlbat Uwooaaaarghhh!!”
The red mecha took out axes from its shoulders, each went into its two hands. Holding axes in each hand, the red mecha charged at the cyborg-octopus tentacle monster.
*shlirp shlirp*
The cyborg-octopus respond with stretching out its tentacles toward the red mecha.
*Slash* *Slash*
The red mecha cut apart the cyborg-octopus’ tentacles approaching it with its axes and keep charging forward.
Realizing it can’t win in the air, the cyborg-octopus submerged into the water and quickly moving toward deeper water.
“Tch. It went underwater. Jiro, your turn! RE-Sett!!”
This time the red mecha disassembled back to three fighter jets and return into the air.
“Hehe, I have been waiting for this, Ryu. Transform. Setter-Tank! Turn on!!”
The three fighter jets combined again, but this time into a new different form, a bulky looking mecha with humanoid upper body but a tank for the lower parts, it. Right after it combined, the tank mecha fell from the air and submerged into the water.
“Hehe, so here you are. You can’t run you know. Setter Missile!”
The tank mecha shot out missile from each shoulder. The two missiles chase after the escaping cyborg-octopus. It haggardly tries to evade the missiles.
*Boom Boom*
The missiles hit and exploded upon contact with the cyborg-octopus.
“Heheh, Setter-Tank is invincible underwater.”
*Rumble Rumble*
“Huh? Where is the other one?”
“Below, Jiro.”
“Huh? Below?”
“Let’s switch, Jiro.”
“Uh, okay, Hayate. RE-Sett!”
“Transform. Setter-Mach. Turn on!”
This time the tank mecha disassembled back into three jets, however soon after the three jets recombined again to form a tall and lean mecha with drill right arm and a 3-headed plier for left hand.9Reference to change getter
Setter-Fighter = Getter-1
Setter-Mach = Getter-2
Setter-Tank = Getter-3
“Setter Drill!!”
The drill-handed lean mecha aimed its drill into the earth then started digging down into the earth. It moves the underground while using its drill to create underground tunnel as it moves.
“Found you. Setter Drill!!”
The drill-mecha kept drilling toward the burrowed triceratops. Finally it reached the the burrowed triceratops and pierce through it.
*Boom*
“Job, finished.”
After finishing the triceratops, it returned back toward the surface, appearing out in the shallow water next to The Big P.
“Wow… a transforming mecha. Can our Big P do it too, Ito?”
“No way. The Big P was designed for your run-off-the-mill military mecha. As if it will have something as frivolous as transformation like that.”
“You three, it’s fine now.”
A reverberating voice came out of the drill-armed mecha.
“Yes, thank you very much, err…?”
“Hayate. My name is Hayate. That rough and crude one was Ryu and the dumb-sounding one was Jiro.”
“Do you want a fight, Hayate?”
“I’m not dumb, Hayate. I can still control the Setter Robo, so I’m not dumb.”
“Heh. Anyway, we no longer have any business here now, let’s go back.”
“Thank you very much, Hayate-san.”
“Wait!! This is National Security Army. Anyone inside the drill-armed robot over there. Please state your affiliation and disembark.”
A loud speaker voice reverberating from the army’s direction.
“Tch. It became annoying, we are going now.”
The drill-armed robot disassembled and returned to being their jets form. Quickly they left the scene.
“Wait!!!”
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I was on the roof of a bit far away building looking at the whole scene happened. Thankfully I conveniently found a binocular lying around. There was also that remote controlled camera-fitted bug robot which I bought some before. If not for these coincidences I might had need to get closer to look at the whole scene and confirm my suspicion.
“So… it’s really something like that…”
What I realized after watching the scene happened before my eyes was that, this world is not really the world of previous life [Solar Angel]. Rather it is probably fused world of several robo-mecha series.
The show [Super Heavy Bodyguard - The Big Protector] was supposed to be set in 21st century. It definitely explicitly mentioned that it was in 21st century. While [Solar Angel] set in quite a bit more advanced world in Solar Year era. The technology and setting definitely differs for both series’ era setting.
Then there is the newcomer before, the 3-transforming robot. It was Setter Robo from [Setter Robo] animation show. It was actually a long-running series, spanning many spin offs. Though not quite well-known with my generation, it was quite popular with older folks. It was a super robot series started about several decades before my time and it had been several years, almost a decade since it last aired when I died. It was like one of fathers of super robots that inspire the future generation super robot series.
While the setting of the show’s world was ambiguous, probably somewhere in the 21st century, the production house of [Setter Robo] didn’t have much relation with production house of [Solar Angel] if there is any at all.
What’s really more important was that there is this story element in [Setter Robo] called [Setter Rays]. It was a mysterious form of energy which is the main power source of the Setter Robos. If [Setter Rays] exists in [Solar Angel]’s world, it should be at least mentioned or even became a good part of the plot, because it is as mysterious and as powerful, if not more powerful, as the [mannalite] in military application.
Anyway I’m really sure that [Solar Angel], [Super Heavy Bodyguard - The Big Protector], and [Setter Robo] were set in different settings and worlds.10Main inspiration reference:
[Super Heavy Bodyguard - The Big Protector] = Dai-guard
[Setter Robo] = Getter Robo
[Solar Angel] = Not sure but I would probably pick from here and there later. So how come they appeared in this same world, at the same time?
“Is it super series…?”
Then, this world is probably one from the super series, [Super Mecha War]11Super Robot Taisen. [Super Mecha War] was a long-running series of tactical RPG video games with mecha battles as its main premise, in the previous Earth. The mecha in the [Super Mecha War] was cross-overs coming from various mecha robot franchises. It was mecha robot all-star so to speak.
“If it’s something like that. It would be really troublesome…”
Yes, things would be complicated and troublesome. Complicated because, the plot in the super series would indeed follow the original story to some degree, however it would differ and even deviated from the original to quite significant degree. I don’t know which part of my past life knowledge will be useful now.
However, what really concerns me is that, with the cross-overs from multiple mecha series, with it also brings about various troublesome things. Quite many of mecha series has the world at stake as its main premise.
Some might be as ‘mild’ as long war, or at most world domination by the power hungry. But in others, there would be, world domination by mad scientist, disaster killing off 99% of Earth population, to outright destruction of Earth or even the whole universe.
What should I do now? Can I really protect my important people in this world…?
“…I need power…”
Yes, I need power. Power stronger than anything in existence so that I can protect my important things in this world.
(1) Something like this
Source and credit to here
Main inspiration for the mecha is Dai-guard.
(2) This voice
source is ray-type heterodyne’s cry
(3) This voice
original from here
(4) Reference to Mechasaurus Saki
(5) The inspiration is from getter robo
(6) Reference to Getter Beam
(7) Reverberating like this
(8) Hurlbat
(9) Reference to change getter
Setter-Fighter = Getter-1
Setter-Mach = Getter-2
Setter-Tank = Getter-3
(10) Main inspiration reference:
[Super Heavy Bodyguard - The Big Protector] = Dai-guard
[Setter Robo] = Getter Robo
[Solar Angel] = Not sure but I would probably pick from here and there later.
(11) Super Robot Taisen
Suddenly pineapple
Thanks for the chapter
Thank you very much for reading my work. I was actually rushing quite a bit in the last part of this chapter since I haven't been releasing anything. I hope I didn't write anything that sounds not right.