Jayr POV - Earth, Gekion - 1007 AFA-SW

  Watg as Simon tinues his relentless assault and his Spiral Power bees more and more unstable, the frown on my face grows bigger and bigger.

  Especially when all of a sudden, Gurren Lagann stops moving and starts throwing up Spiral Power as it kneels over raising its hand over its mouth in a futile attempt in stopping it, moreover the situation turns from bad to worse as the Spiral Power starts gushing out from the hole where usually the drills e out.

  At the same time, the ter-currents in Simon's Spiral Power that I sensed before became even stronger, and sensing that I mutter ihought, "Strange, right now Simon's Spiral Power is spinning in two opposite dires... How is this possible?" and while I try to find a reason for this, Lagann disect itself from Gurren and jumps down a nearby cliff into the fated yon where he will meet Nia, while the remaining enemy Gunmen follow after him leaving Gurren alone.

  Then it finally hits me and I realize what is going on as a terrible theory forms in my mind, especially as I start to notie simirities between Simon's current Spiral Power and what I felt from Lenome's unusual Spiral Power before and as I review everything I saw in the anime, 'Wait! Could it be that right now Simon is so deep into his despair that his Spiral Power is on its way t into Anti-Spiral Power!!?'

  And soon a full theory forms in my mind as everything I know from the anime and all I learned until now firsthand about Spiral Power surfaces, 'I know for a fact that Lenome Spiral Power is of an unusual bright red color different from all the others bright green. This red energy is Anti Spiral Power. It is the same as its terpart but driven by an opposiality. Both are powered by will and the refusal to give up. The red is paradoxically caused by a breaking of will so severe it inspires a new drive that opposes its inal desires. The green is the will and fighting spirit of natural life.'

  And as I grow more fident that my theory is true, I tihe red is the sheer force of will to go against your own desires aions for the greater good. Both Lenome and the Anti-Spiral tribe threw away everything for the greater good. They both believed that the atrocities they are itting are truly the only option, thus creating Anti-Spiral Power. They all represent the idea of fear. The fear of the unknown. They all chose to do horrible things in hopes of saving at least something rather than risk the immi destru they were all directly but unknowingly responsible for. Rather than keep evolving they chose to halt while retaining their drive to preserve life at all costs even if they must it atrocities to do it, for the sake of existence as they know it.'

  And soon, my mind clears as I realize, 'This is the core of Anti-Spiral Power. Not evil but a drive to preserve something at all costs. Including the cost of moving forward. Anti-Spiral Power is the will and fighting spirit but ied. Fighting fire with fire to avoid mutually assured destru should be impossible. Spiral Power made it possible by iing and being an equal force driven by opposite i. Fear, self-loathing, rage. All ive emotions but in this case driven by a selfless, if twisted, i.'

  Reag this clusion, I also realize that I had misuood my supposed ehe Antispiral, and as I realize this, all the as I saw in the anime have another meaning, 'If everything is really as I think it is, theispiral is a truly tragic figure. It is shown to be fully capable of deploying multiversal-scale attacks on a whim. However, it always meets its enemy head-on with as little force as possible. It cims this is to inspire despair.'

  But remembering the se of the universe-sized Super Granzeboma, this cim doesn't seem to hold, and so my introspe tinues 'On one hand, if it just popped Super Granzeboma iend crushed Earth it would have massive colteral damage. On another, we have the possibility that Spiral beings will just evolve when faced with an uable foe unless broken spiritually. So I 't help but feel that it does not want to cause destru. It is also shown to be inquisitive. It cims that it o know but not uand. This is because it already uands.'

  (AN: I know that his train of thought is going bad forth without a clear e, this is by choice because I wao copy the same state when one idea after another chaotically appears in one's mind. Bear with it.)

  Then I start to think back at the background of the Antispiral that I read on Wiki, 'The Antispiral is the collective sciousness of at least one species. A Spiral species. They collectively formed the Anti Spiral mentality and threw away their entire existeo create It. They gave up everything to create a guardian of the multiverse who could do what had to be done no matter the cost.'

  Then the ses of the fight between it and the Dai-Gurren Brigade once more surface, 'I remember that it showed anguish over the things it had to do when fag Teoppa Gurren Lagann. Its rage and fury were a show of frustration. It gave up everything and became a ic horror for the good of all creation. Now it's ing face to face with a race that is nearly equal and is fighting internally to suppress its owions and hize with them. As well as frustration that it might have given it all up for nothing. It had several opportuo kill them effortlessly and still doesn't. It even tried to trap them in their own fantasies. It didn't want to hurt and kill because it was sadistic. It did it because it believed there is no other way.'

  Reag this point, I think back to Earth's current situation, 'The fact that it allowed Earth to survive uhe rule of Lenome is further evide tries several times to give the Spirals a way out, which sidering the sacrifices it has made is pretty telling. It could just crush the opposition but tries to invoke despair so that the Spiral races exist without the threat of the Spiral Nemesis. Oh, it even asks Simon to take up its cause. It isn't evil, it just sees no other way. It eveerpreted as its desire to cause despair is actually a cry for help.'

  I look at the cloudy sky as if trying to see through the dense yer of clouds and look at the immense sky beyond it, 'In trying to fight on equal terms it could be doubting its own vis, and allowing the opposition the ce to try and ge its mind. Even if it 't admit it. Subsciously it's leaving openings as the hope of Humanity makes it doubt itself. In the end, it seems to even accept Simon as a successor rather tha its loss or despair of the possible Nemesis. As a stist it saossible other way and alloothesis to py out, letting Team Dai-Gurren "level up" to match it both in power and ideals. This doubt could even expin why his Anti Spiral Power is purple. It no longer has the true Anti Spiral mentality that causes the red energy.'

  While I realized all this, the unmen of the Dai-Gurren Brigade finally reached the downed Gurren piloted by the Rossiu Adai, and together they start to jump into the yon to rescue Simon, this brings me out of my storm of thought, and soon I follow after them to make sure that nothing wrong happens.

  Simon POV - Earth, Gekion - 1007 AFA-SW

  Feeling the wet sticky ud on my fad the cold rain falling on my body, I regain my senses and as I try to get up, a coughing fit hits me a reminder of that strange urge of throwing up that I've felt before.

  After a few moments, the coughing stops and as I regain trol of my body, I unsciously my mouth with my sleeve and look back at Lagann ying on the ground behind me and mutter in fusion, "Why did... the trols?" then I slowly move toward it and once agaier in the cockpit.

  Onside, I turn the Drill Core to check Lagann's current situation and trol if it works so that I climb up from this pd return back to the Dai-Gurren, and with relief I realize that Lagann activates without problem and mutter, "It works!" and so, following my trols, Lagann starts to slowly walk up the nearby slope as I start to climb up.

  At the end of the slope, I find myself in a strange pce, it seem like that pce Yoko told me about, if I remember well, she called it a junkyard, it is full of tless boxes, broken stuff, and the like, then I notice a Guanding on top of the opposite rock wall in the distance casually throwing another one of those box.

  That particur box nds on the muddy slope and starts sliding down until it stops just a few meters in front of me, and uo hold back my curiosity, I jump down from Lagann and slowly walk toward it as the spshing sound of my boots echoes all over this pce.

  On front of it, I move my hand over the etal surface, and then I notice a small familiar drill-shaped keyhole, exactly the same kind of keyhole found in Lagann, and realizing this, without thinking I run back to Lagann to grab my Core Drill,

  Standing in front of this box with the Core Drill in my hand, I notice that it is once again pulsing just like the first time I activated Lagann and that the same thing is happening to the drill-shaped keyhole.

  I ihe Core Drill into the keyhole and turn it, and instantly to my surprise the box lets out some freezing cold smoke and starts to opeing out even more smoke that blocks my sight of the tent of this pod.

  But soon the cold smoke clears away revealing what is iunning me, ihis box is a beautiful sleeping girl, and as I'm looking at her in my stuate, she stirs awake, and slowly opens her eyes, then she elegantly raises her body and looks at me for a few sed before an enting smile form on her face as she says, "Greetings!"

  Still stunned by her I stumble basure, "G-G-Greeting!?" then take a closer look at her, she is a beautiful and delicate-looking young girl of average height with long curly, light blue/pale blonde hair, which appears immaterial, floating and moving like a cloud with hair tips resembling the edges of a blue-gold cloud, peach skin and unique blue eyes with pink crosses "+" for pupils that looks like flowers and wears sal looking pink and white outfit.

  (Image Here - Nia Teppelin)

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  [colpse]While I'm looking at her, the girl asks in a sweet and elegant tone, "Who might you be?" unsciously raising my hands like a sign of surrender I repeat and mutter while feeling strangely nervous as I stand in front of her, "h-Who might I be? Asked so elegantly...!"

  But just before I could reply, she looks at the sky and excims with glee ione and asks, "Ah! This is outside, isn't it? Is this rain!?"

  At the same time, she raises her arms and opens her palms as she feels the rain falling on her.

  Then she suddenly starts to climb out of the metal box in such a way that she would carelessly expose the sery under her skirt, and notig that, I quickly tear my gaze away.

  Soon, I hear the spshing sound geed by her feet as they touch the muddy ground, and as I look back at her, I hear her say in wonder, "This is... cold!"

  fused, I mutter, "It's just the ground..." and notig the fact that she is barefooted, I ask, "Are you okay being barefoot?" which she replies with a tohat seems to indicate that she is enjoying the sensation, "It's cold, muddy, and sticky. It feels nice!"

  Hearing that, I further question her clearly fused by her attitude, "Are you sure... It feels nice?" but she doesn't reply, she just looks at me, and all of a sudden, she moves right in front of me and hold my face with her hands, so close that the only thing I see now is her clear and unusual but still beautiful eyes, I also feel her light breath toug my face, and 't help but feel incredibly nervous as a heavy blush forms on my face.

  At the same time, she asks with genuine curiosity ione, "Why are you the same as me?" such a question and the overall situation stuns me so much that I only utter, "Huh?" before she tinues, "You don't have a tail, fangs, or scales. And also your skin is soft!"

  As I start to calm down a little, I quickly reply, "Well, of course... that's because I'm human."

  The girl once more asks, "Human?" making me firm it once more, "Yes, human. As in, people."

  Hearing my reply the girl takes a step bad asks, "People? What exactly is that?" her clueless expression surprises me once more and after a few instants, I try to expin as well as I , "Eh... well... people are beings like you ahey're shaped like us and have faces..."

  The girl's face lights up as she asks with yearning iohere are more like us?" to which I simply reply with, "Yes... Yeah... there are."

  My reply seems to make her happy, then she asks, "Really!? And... they're all like you? With the same face?"

  I quickly reply with, "They're not all the same. If we all had the same face, it'd be creepy." the girl repeats what I just said with a question ione, "It would be creepy?" but then she raises her head and excims, "Ha! The rain stopped!"

  Hearing that I look up and realize that it's true, the rain stopped, and, at the same time, I notice that the cloudy sky that hunted us sihat dreadful day is starting to clear as the sun's rays start to make their way through the clouds, and say, "Ah... you're right."

  And after that, we fall into a strange silehat seems st ay, but a few moments ter she once more asks, "I wonder why I'm outside?"

  Uo find an ao her question, I start to stutter, "Eh... well... you ask why, but..." but then I suddenly remember that we are still in danger as there are the Gunmen of the Human Eradication Army nearby, and while starting to take off my boots, I say, "A-Anyway, we o get out of here."

  Then I y them on the ground in front of her feet and say, "Here..." and hearing her fused excmation, I expin, "You 't walk like that. Put these on."

  The girl then says, "Okay!" and is her feet into the boots, then with a smile she says, "I'm Nia. And you?" at the same time, the sun rays start to illuminate her figure, and feeling the heat on my cheek, I reply, "M-Me? I'm Simon."

  Nia looks at me and with a bright smile, she says, "Simon! That's a niame, isn't it!"

  Now that the light is shining on her whole body, she appears even more beautiful than before, and as I feel the heat on my cheek growing even hotter, I reply, "Thank you..."

  Nia then snaps and catches my attention by saying, "Hey, Simon..."

  Looking at her, I ask, "What?", she raises her hand and point with her fi something behind me and says, "What is that?", and with a hint of dread I turn around ahe enemy Gunmen if I remember right it is called Mezu, a horse-faced Gunman armed with sharp cws on its right hand and Gatling gun fingers in its left hand.

  Seeing that I let out a scream, then I quickly grab Nia's hand, and yelling "Quickly! This way!" I pull her toward Lagann, while the Mezu shoots at us with its Gatling, but luckily the Gunmen's rea was too slow and o started shooting, we are already away from the danger zone, running dowween the Mezu's legs.

  While we are running, Nia calmly asks once more, "Simon, what is that?" and in panic, I quickly expin, "It's a Gunmen! Human on the surface fight against them!" hearing that Nia asks, "Fight?".

  I feel the ground shake as the Gunmen behind us start to turn around, and as I briefly look back to che the enemy I answer her, "If we don't fight them, they'll kill us!"

  And as I said this, we finally reach Lagann and without hesitation, I jump ih Nia behind me, and ihe Core Drill into the circur dashboard, then I mutter, "Please! Lagann!" and turn it to activate Lagann hoping that it works.

  Luckily Lagann activates without problems and I full of relief yell "Yes!" but at the same time, the Mezu had the time to take aim and shoot a volley of missiles at us.

  Seeing that, I quickly close Lagann's cockpit, and as the missiles are about to hit us, I take trol of Lagann and jump toward the Mezu using the explosion and smoke created by the missiles as cover to start my terattack.

  Seeing the opening in the enemy's defenses, I once agaihe desperate urge to destroy them so that I avenge Aniki and fulfill my role as his rept, and so I bring out the drill from Lagann's forehead and rush toward the enemy ready to pierce through it.

  But once more Lagann stops and goes out of trol as it gushes out that green energy from everywhere, and that gives the enemy Guhe ce to hit us with a punch that sends Lagann crashing into the ground, and we fly out of it.

  Still disoriented from the impact, I find myself ying on the ground with Nia on top of me as she asks, "Simon, are you okay?" but I don't reply to her and mutter totally fused by what is happening, "Damn it! It happened again. Why? Why won't it listen to me? Lagann!"

  At the same time, the enemy Mezu approaches, and seeing that, I get up and say, "Run, Nia. You should run away without looking back. I'll hold the Gunmen off!" while saying that, I move toward Lagann and seary drill, the drill ied by my father and that has always apanied me since my days at Giha Vilge.

  Meanwhile, Nia tries to stop me, but I instantly interrupt her and yell my genuine feelings, "I 't bear it! I 't bear to watyone else die! If anyone else is going to die, then it's gonna be me!" but despite saying this, I 't hold on the drill firmly as my hands tio shake in fear of the thing that I'm about to face.

  I tio shake as I look at the big Gunman in front of me as it opens its horse mouth and reveals the huge missile ihat aims at me, but soon I feel a set of hands holding my own.

  I look at the person beside me, and see Nia looking back at me as she asks, "Do you want to die?" which surprises me, and then she tinues, "If you're scared, it's okay to run. You mustn't die."

  Hearing that and seeing her clear gaze, I look away and mutter, "I-I'm not scared." but she quickly catches my lie and says, "You mustn't lie either." I once again look at her and with a smile, she adds, "Let's run, together." and she starts to pull me away.

  But as we are running, the Gunman behind us fires that huge missile, and I clearly feel it as it quickly approaches us, but then I hear the familiar sound of Yoko's rifle firing three times, followed by the sound of her bullet hitting its target the same number of time, and soon after that, the deafening sound a of the explosion behind us.

  Then I hear Kittan's voice as he yells, "I'm here too! Kittan Stinger!" ahe sound of metal crashing as Kittahe usual tactipaling his enemy with the joined pointy end of his Gunmen, King Kittan, and look while still holding Nia's hand as he follows through by nding on the ground and by the opening of that poihat results into the enemy being ripped apart as he yells, "! Hellish Headsplitter!" causing the two halves to grandly explode.

  Jayr POV - Earth, Gekion - 1007 AFA-SW

  I look at the members of the Dai-Gurren Brigade plus Nia as they return back to the Dai-Gurren with a smile on my face, at the same time, I mutter, "It seems that everything is going well. Sure, Simon's Spiral Power is still very chaotic swingiweeural state and the Anti Spiral Power state, but that is something that should be fixed soon."

  I then look at the scraps of the Beastmen's Gunmen behind me, all of them destroyed by the bined effort of Yoko, and Kittan, with a little bit of support from me, and say, "And even if it doesn't and something ued happens, I alull out Kamina from my Soulbbouory and make him pune seo him."

  Then my gaze doesn't focus on anything as I think bay previous theory, 'If everything is really as I think, then should I try to save Antispiral too? If yes... how the hell I do so!? Well, first of all, the driving force of all of the Antispiral's a is to prevent the Spiral Nemesis, a theoretical apocalyptic event involving the overuse of Spiral Power...'

  I y eyes as I try to remember what I read on the wiki in the Arifureta's Earth about the Spiral Nemesis, 'The theory is basically that Spiral Power would eventually reach a point beyond lifeforms' ability to trol, causing them to spontaneously evolve into full-sized gaxies. The sudden increase in mass throughout the universe would lead to these mega-gaxies' mass being signifit enough to crush the ey of time and space itself, verging all of existeo a dimensionless singurity, a Big ch that will swallow the whole universe...'

  But as I think of that, a frown form on my face as another image forms into my mind, the se of the csh between Super Teoppa Gurren Lagann and Super Granzeboma's Giga Drill Breaks, 'But back then, when Super Teoppa Gurren Lagann and Super Granzeboma's Giga Drill Breaks collided, the Antispiral's universe began to colpse all mass into a singurity. But regardless of the reality-colpsi both sides had ihey had survived the Big ch... So even if the Spiral Nemesis could really happen it isn't as lethal as the Antispiral thinks and is iable. I still think of a few solutions to it. Or maybe I'm missing something?'

  I open my eyes and raise my hand then use my Spiral Power to create a hand-sized replica of the universe, then I will it to colpse on itself and the result of this is a small bck hole that I keep tained with my Spiral Power, and mutter, "This is the result of the natural life cycle of the universe. Everything colpse is devoured by the all-enpassing bck hole. But where there is an end, there is also a beginning!"

  And instantly I use the feeling of making my o burn and explode that is by now engraved in my very soul, and as a result, the bck hole explodes in a new Big Bang, beginning the creation of a new, bigger, and even stronger universe than before that tain much more Spiral Power before colpsing once more.

  And seeing that, I say, "This is something that will happen to all universes, the only problem here is that the Spiral Power as a force of evolution speed up this process by a lot... But still, the easiest solution to the Spiral Nemesis is to simply protect all the se lifeforms until a new universe is born. Hell, with Spiral Power they even speed up the creation of it...'

  But soon I'm brought out from my refle as I sense something quickly approag the Dai-Gurren from below, and soon all around it, four enormous pilrs of water erupt from the ground f a water wall all around the walking fortress, and seeing that, I mutter, "Here we go. Aneneral makes her appearance!"

  Odyin