Jayr POV - Earth, Gekion - 1007 AFA-SW

  After relieving Kamina of his worries, I ge the images of Simon and the others currently staying still in their prison, with those showing Nia fag Guame as they are sitting on some blo a dark room illuminated only by a soft pink light ing from the squares in the ground that surrounds the blocks they are sitting on.

  Notig the ge, Kamina quickly asks, "What is this? Why are you showihis se?" with my gaze fixed on Guame and Nia, I reply, "I want to make sure that nothing wrong happens to her. And I also want to show you what I'm sensing."

  At the same time, I think, 'Sure the Spiral Power has a higher ceiling than o. But despite that, mastering o granted me a greater awareness of everything else. And the same is also true with my Magic Power, it doesn't grahe sheer power or the awareness of both o and Spiral Power, but its advantage is that it is very easy to trol and much more precise aail-oriehaher two. I am sure that when I'm able te all of them together, the new energy will gain the best qualities of all of them, and maybe it will even allow me to awaken my 9th sense... Wait! If I awaken my 9th sense will that mean that I'll truly cease to be a human and bee a God with the capital "G" like Poseidon, Hades, and my girlfriend Saori, the Goddess Athena!?'

  I'm brought out from my deep thoughts by Guame's deep voice as he says to Nia, "The Spiral King dispatched me to eliminate you."

  Hearing that, Nia then asks, "Then, what Adiane said was true?" and Guame replies, "Yes, I believe so. If only you'd stayed in that valley sleeping, you'd have died painlessly." surprising Nia who remains stunned in silence.

  Guame gives her some time to digest what she just heard, then he says, "The Spiral King's life is eternal. He has already lived for more than a thousand years. He creates children just for eai. That's why whes bored, he throws them out. Just like dolls. That's all there is to it."

  With her unusual eyes spread open uo believe what she just heard, Nia mutters, "Doll?" and Guame then says, "I heard that you asked the King why you were born. That was a bad thing to do. The Spiral King hates the freedom of thought. And that should be so because there is no need for a doll to have free will."

  With her gaze lowered, and an expression full of sadness, Nia mutters, "I am... the same as that doll." she maybe remembers something that happened in her past, and at the same time, tears threaten to fall from the er of her eyes.

  Seeing that, Guame ughs evilly thes his hand over his and while gazing pervertedly at Nia's body he says, "But holy, you are way too beautiful to be killed, so I've been w if there is a way to save you." but at the same time, I 't help but notice that he doesn't truly lusts for her, something that fuses me a little.

  Then he moves closer and holds Nia's and says, "Perhaps you bee the chief of this vilge?" making Nia, with still a hint of tears on the er of her eye repeat, "The chief of this vilge?"

  With still the same grin, Guame says, "Why not? It's a vilge full of women gathered from other vilges before we send them to the Spiral King, someone o teach them proper manners."

  Nia then asks, "For urpose? What happens to the people taken there?" and Guame replies, "It's a favor for the Spiral King. Isn't that hey'll be given a taste of what their little run-down vilges could never offer them."

  Realizing what he truly means, Nia asks for firmation, "So all of those people... are dolls as well?" hearing that question, Guame's grin grows wider as he replies, "Hehehe. That's right. They'll be thrown away once he's bored. Just like you." at the same time, he moves his face even closer to Nia.

  Nia unable hold e any lets up and heavily sps Guame sending him flying a few meters.

  But despite the sp he just received, he is still fine, in fact, he starts to ugh loudly, "Hehehehe! Heehehehe! Hiehehehe!!!" at the same time, Kamina whistle and says, "Wow, that was a good sp! Did you see how much did he fly? She sure hide a lot of power in that slim body...".

  While he is saying that, I sense Simon's almost atrophied Spiral Power as it starts to stir and immediately I ge back to the view of the prison.

  Notig that Kamina asks, "Why did you ge?! Do you not care for Nia!?" but I quickly reply, "She is still fine, Guame strangely doesn't truly lusts for her body and is now leading her back to the Dai-Gurren and I'm not the only one proteg her, she will be fine. Now the most important is what is happening in the prison."

  Hearing that, Kamina focus ba the proje ahat every member of the Dai-Gurren Brigade is furiously attag the rocky walls and ground of their prison with any means possible, pung, kig, biting, scratg, headbutting, while Kittan yells, "Don't uimate us undergrounders! We'll break out of this p no time!"

  But all their effort are useless as they are only able to hurt themselves without damaging the hard solid rock wall at all.

  After all of them are ying on the ground wailing in pain, Leeron ents, "It's no good. We're just getting injured." followed by Yoko that says, "Why is this bedrock so hard!? I've never seen any like this before." theices that while all the other started to give up oer the other because of their futile effort, there is someone who is still trying to dig into the hard wall.

  And she isn't the only one as Kamina looks at the se on the proje with a fident grin on his face as mutters, "Simon...", as looks at the small figure of Simon's back as he tio slowly dig into the wall using his Core Drill.

  Meanwhile, the remaining members of the Dai-Gurren Brigade that were still trying to breach the wall give up while saying, "It's no good, I 't get through here either.", "No matter what we try, we just get injured.", "It's really discing.", "Are we finished already!?", "If Kamina were here at a time like this..." as their whole morale fell to the lowest possible.

  Then one of the children, Gimmy Adai, a young boy with e hair that falls low and straight down his face, framing his visage with a lock between his eyes and blue eyes, finally notice that Simon still didn't give up and that he is also slowly digging a hole into the wall and soon after him, the other child, a young girl with light pink hair and green eyes also notices the same.

  After them, all the members of the Dai-Gurren Brigade realize that Simon didn't give up yet and is still digging, and have their gaze fixed in a stupor on Simon's back as he tio relentlessly dig into the wall.

  Yoko theo realize something and mutters, "So that's how it was..." catg everyone's attention, then she expins, "Kamina told me before: "He's the ohat always saves me." "He's the ohat doesn't give up, even at the end."..."

  At the same time, Kamina beside me grins and says, "That's right!" with a proud look on his face.

  Then Yoko tells them the word that Kamina told her that night, "He said: "I didn't have any fidence. I thought I was living the wrong way. Impatiently. Why couldn't I go where my father could? Truthfully, I wasn't strong enough. When we were all trapped in that hole, there wasn't anything I could do. But Simon just kept on digging. Believing in my show of ce. In the end, he was the one who saved me. It was lucky, but... to me, that luck... and that path to escape, all came from believing in Simon. When I feel weak, or when I ck self-fidence, I remember Simon's back as he dug tirelessly. I wao bee a man whose back would never break. That's what I thought."

  After she told them this, everyone tio look at Simon as he focus on digging into the solid rock bed in front of him

  As he tio dig, I feel that Simon's Spiral Power finally stabilized and once again it starts to stantly and grow in power full of desire to break through all the obstacles standing in its way until, all of a sudden, I sehat Simon's Lagann on the Dai-Gurren's deck activates and start to quickly drill through it, quickly moving toward Simon.

  Realizing this, with a grin I say, "Keep your eyes wide open, Kamina. Simon is about to break free from his self-imposed s!"

  Then I ge the images shown on the proje to a close-up of Simon as he focuses on digging until he suddenly mutters with a tone full of vigor as he remembers the "st words" said by his beloved Aniki, very different from the Simon of a few moments ago, "Believe in yourself!"

  Soon Simon stops and looks at his Core Drill in surprise as it once again starts to pulse with power at a very quick pace, until Laganhrough the bedrod appears in front of him.

  Seeing that, Simon mutters in surprise, "Lagann?", then with a smile he once more calls, "Lagann!" and in respoo Simon, Lagann opens its eyes as they once again pulse with power ready to be unleashed under Simon's and.

  Simon then uses Lagann's drills to quickly break open the prison to allow the members of the Dai-Gurren Brigade to escape and start to retake the Dai-Gurren then he digs into the ground and quickly moves to search for Nia.

  Sensing what is about to happen, I once again ge the image shown in the proje, and will it to show the images of what is happening on the Dai-Gurren's bridge.

  It looks like Guame is just receiving a report from one of his men an Ostrich-like Beastmen, "Guame-sama! We've looked everywhere, but there's no sign of the mini-type Gunmen."

  Hearing that report, an uneasy Guame starts to yell back, "Don't tell me "there's no sign of it"... It should definitely be here. Search the hangar bay!" making the Ostrich Beastmen stutter, "S-Sir!" before he leaves the bridge running.

  Nia, who also notices Guame's uneasiness, asks, "Why are you in such a hurry, Guame?" making him turn his head to look at her standing beside another of him with her arms tied behind her bad asks, "What?"

  And Nia quickly tinues, "You're scared of him, aren't you? Of Simon."

  Not knowing who she is talking about, he asks, "Huh? Who the hell is he?"

  Still looking forward with her gaze full of fidence, she expins, "Simon was the first oo drop into the valley and rescue me. No, he's the person who alrotects me! There's no way he would lose to you."

  But hearing what she just said, an evil smirk forms on Guame's face as he says, "I see, so he's the pilot?" then he quickly ands, "Hey! Go find this Simon person and bring him here." which is met with a "Sir!"

  After that, Guame asks, "How are the preparations for the executions?" and one of his men replies simply, "Just pleted." gd to hear that, Guame says, "Very well. Then the first one we'll kill is this Simon."

  Realizing her mistake a shocked Nia quickly decres, "I won't let you do such a thing!" but in respoo that, the grin on Guame's face wides as up and moves his face closer to Nia and says, "I'm the one in charge here. Be a good little abandoned princess and do as I say!"

  But with a resolute gaze Nia replies, "I will not." and Guame keeps his gaze fixed on her and says, "Is that so? Then your other option is death."

  At the same time, he pulls out a mae gun and points the barrel right at Nia's head ready to pull the trigger at any moment, as there is ation in his eyes.

  Kamina who notices the same quickly yells, "Oyi! OyI! Quickly do something! Nia- is about to get shoot!! God! Where the hell is Simon!?" but I calmly watch as I know that nothing will happen to her.

  Nia loht into Guame's eyes and with a resolute and fident tone she decres, "I will not die!" the fidend belief in her gaze surprise Guame as he excims, "Huh?"

  And Nia quickly adds, "I might be another useless doll, but I've learned a lot sining to the surface." curious, Guame asks, "Learned what?"

  Nia then replies, "About how Simon believes in his Aniki. I believe in Simon the same way!" making Kamina beside me excim, "Atta, girl!!"

  Meanwhile, the se tinues with Guame, who looks at Nia with a cold gaze and says, "Even at the bitter end, you won't budge. How naive. I've lost i now. I don't want you anymore!"

  And without hesitation, he pulls the trigger and shoots but soon it is clear that he missed, because his mae gun is now pointing away from Nia, but not because he choose to do so, but because an old man with a rge hick white mustache and a few hairs on his head, silently appears in front of Nia and with his hand, he pushes the gun's barrel away from her.

  (Image Here - Old Coco)

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  [colpse]Nia, Guame, and Kamina are all surprised by his sudden appearance of course, the happiest about his intervention is Kamina who yells, "Way to go, Ossan (Old Man)!!" while Guame excims in shock as even he didn't notice his preseil the st moment, "What!?"

  Nia instead asks, "Oji-san! Why are you here!?" but he doesn't reply, and soon after the Dai-Gurren starts to shake making everyoumble.

  At the same time, Lagann starts to drill through the floor, as its drill start to rise behind Nia, breaking the wooden handcuffs, freeihen it es out from the floor and pierto the ceiling but stops as if struck.

  And quickly the cockpit opens and an upside down still dirty of all the dirt from when he dug into the prison Simon shows himself as he yells, "Nia! I came to same you! e on!"

  Moved almost to tears, Nia quickly moves and hugs Simon while g out, "Simon!!" theurns her head and with a smile, she says, "Oji-san, too!" but then she realizes that he already disappeared taking advantage of the chaos caused by Simorance.

  At the same time, surprised by his skill, I 't help but excim out loud, "He pulled off a perfect Batman vanishing act, even I, almost lost sight of him!!!"

  Meanwhile, Guame realizes what is going on and jumps to grab Nia, but Lagann starts to drill through the ceiling, making him fall into the deep hole in the floor left behind by Lagann while yelling, "Get that mini-type Gunmeeeeeen!!"

  At the same time, Lagann jumps out of the Dai-Gurren and tio rise again in the sky like a bright green signal fre.

  The image then focuses on Simon in the open Lagann's cockpit with Nia sitting on him iween the clear white clouds as he apologizes, "Sorry for taking so long." but Nia lightly shakes her head and says, "No..."

  Then with a bright smile on his face, Simon says, "I finally uand. Lagann taught me. Now I uand!" Nie smiles back with still a hint of tears in the er of her eyes and says, "So do I. Thank you, Simon!"

  Theops and looks at his still dirty hand holding Lagann's handles and after a few seds she requests, "Simon, move your hand..."

  fused Simon still let go of the handles and soon after, Nia puts her hands ohen she looks at Simon and with a bright smile, she asks, "Ready?"

  Simon looks at Nia in surprise and after she lightly nods, Simon smiles bad yells, "Yeah!"

  Meanwhile, the members of the Dai-Gurren Brigade together with the girls of the Beauty Vilge, who chose to rebel, started to fight the Beastmen in the Dai-Gurren and in the vilge and slowly gain trol while pushing bad capturing the enemies.

  But at the same time, I notice a curled in a ball Guame jumping out of the hangar bay into his Guhat y on the Dai-Gurren's deck, which quickly activates and ges bato its humanoid form, which has the appearance of an e-armoril, sp long, ioid antes name is Gember.

  (Image Here - Gember)

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  [colpse]With its overwhelming presence, Guame ihe Gember decres, "The bance of power has been reversed, human scum! You may have escaped, but now yoing tret it."

  At the same time, with a snap of the Gember's finger, Guame activates the projector that he prepared beforehand in all the human vilges in the world, in his attempt to demoralize the humans fighting spirit and cease this rebellion ond for all with his victory and the destru of the Dai-Gurren Brigade.

  Then he arrogantly says, "What do you think of Gember's magnifit form? Your helpless deaths will be broadcast to people all across the world."

  Kittan who is also on the deck together with Yoko, without hesitation, yells back, "So what!? You stinkin' punk!" at the same time, Rossiu piloting the Gurren steps forward and decres, "Your oppo is here!"

  Seeing that, Kamina beside me excims in shock, "What!? That big forehead boy is piloting my Gurren!? Why that stinking kid!? Why not Yoko!? Hell, even Kittan could have been a better choice!" but I quickly say, "e on, it isn't so bad... and remember that this is only a temporary measure."

  Meanwhile, the situation on the Dai-Gurren's deck gets more tense as Guame yells back, "Do you think you're any match from my Gember?" at the same time, Gember uses its long, ioid anteo grab the Gurren's arms binding it in pce.

  Then it transforms bato its woodlouse form and with the fa its back, it bites the Gurren while Guame asks, "What's wrong?" and the Gember starts to mun the Gurren as if eating it.

  On the deck, seeing that se Kittan starts to panic, "Ahhh! Gurren is gettien!", while Yoko beside him shoots with her rifle as she tries turren but the Gember's armor is too thid tough and the fired bullets are only able to gee some small spark on impact.

  Guame piloting the Gember totally ighem and tio focus on champing on Gurren as he says, "There, there... just a little more!".

  But just as the situation is about to turn really bad, Simon's voice is heard that says, "Rossiu! bine!" and quickly Rossiu replies with a tone full of joy, "Right!"

  Instantly Gurres arms to push itself with the Gamber still biting into it in a standing position, and quickly Lagann be seen falling turren, and Guame who just noticed it curses out loud, "Damn it! Is it that mini-type Gunmen!?"

  Then Lagann nds into its position and starts the bining process, and Guame 't help but ask himself, "Could this be the fabled Gurren Lagann!?"

  Ohe mecha is finally plete, the cockpit on Gurren Lagann's head opens and Simon stands up with his arm crossed and decres, "Aniki is dead. He is no longer here. However, on my back, within my heart, he tio live on!"

  Theakes the iic pose with his finger pointing at the sky and tinues, "Digging a hole to pierce the heavens. Even in a grave, I drill on. And if I break through, it's my victory! Who the hell do you think I am? I'm Simon. Not my Aniki, Kamina. I am myself! SIMON THE DIGGER!!" and everyone looks at this se in a stupor.

  At the same time, Simon once mets ihe cockpit and starts to pilot Gurren Lagann, who quickly brings out the drills from its forearms and uses them to pierce the "eyes" of the fa the back of the Gember f it to release Gurren Lagann.

  The Gember once again transforms into its humanoid form while Guame yells, "So yonna do things the hard way!" then the Gembar rushes toward the Gurren Lagann is caught in a bearhug hold and then it tries to crush it by using the needles that are released from the mecha's arms as Guame yells, "Gember Press!"

  But soon Simon's voice is heard as he yells, "Hissatsu!" at the same time, Simon's Spiral Power explodes in power and strength, and from all Gurren Lagann's hole drill es out that pushes Gember away, at the same time, the members of the Dai-Gurren Brigade reize what Simon is about to do, and Yoko even yells, "That teique!"

  Gurren Lagann throws its suhe Gsscutter, as a b tember, as the sungsses fly, they split into two and start to hit the enemy mecha until it is pinned betweewo Gsscutter, then Gurren Lagann summons its Giga Drill while Simon screams, "Giga... Drill... BREAAAK!!"

  Then it flies towards the pinned Gembar drilling straight through it and soon the Gsscutter reunites into a single pair and flies bato Gurren Lagann's lower fad this is then quickly followed by an explosion of the pinned Gembar.

  But while everyone is cheering, I sehat Guame was able to escape from his Gunmen's destru just in time and is now quickly esg from the battlefield with some of his previously captured men who took advantage of the fact that everyone was focused on the fight to get away from the girls of the Beauty Vilge that were watg over them.

  At the same time, I notice that Kamina beside me is strangely quiet, and turning my head to look at him, I see that his head is slightly lowered and also notie tears running down his face, worried, I ask, "Is something wrong? Why are y?".

  Kamina quickly turns around making me face his back, then I hear him loudly sniff as he uses his arm to clear his fad yells, "I-I'm n! The great Kamina-sama is a real man, he doesn't cry! And for sure I'm not moved by my Ototo's growth and wonderful speech!!"

  Hearing that, I simply say, "Sure, sure..."

  Then I close the proje and say, "Now, let's go bay Soulbouory we still have to do our daily training... The grid ops!" then I open the dark swirling portal and grab Kamina with Cratergann's hand then I walk through it.

  Nia POV - Earth, Gekion - 1007 AFA-SW

  I'm enjoying the warm feeling of Simon's hands as we tio hold onto Lagann's handles when I suddenly remember what Guame said about the other dolls, that are all still left to die in that valley where Simon saved me, and so I say, "Hey, Simon... There's a pce I'd like you to take me."

  And so after quickly dealing with the aftermath of the previous battle, we quickly move bad return to that valley.

  With Simon beside me, I look at the tless boxes all identical to the one I woke up, all ying like some kind of garbage, and looking at this se, I expin full of sadness for their demise, "These are all the princesses abandoned like me from many geions before my birth."

  And from behind, I hear Kittan-san's voice as he questions with a tone full of shock, "All of these!?"

  After a few moments of silence, I request, "I want to give them all a proper p the sun. Please." from behind, all the members of the Dai-Gurren Brigade reply, "Right!"

  And so, after finding a proper pce, we start to dig the holes in the ground where we will properly bury the boxes, and then mark the graves with some wooden stakes.

  The tinted red sky of the dusk greets the sight of the newly build graveyard and looking at it with Simon by my side I expin in a soft tone, "My father was the whole world to me. I believed only in my father and relied only on him. That's why I wao believe in him until the very end. In my father. I wonder... why were we born?"

  Then all of a sudden, I hear Simon say, "Nia, here." turning my head I see him me a beautiful green shiny stone, if I remember well it is called emerald, and fused I say, "Eh?"

  Simon is looking down as he says, "I'm giving it to you. I found it when I was digging earlier." I take it in my hand and excim, "It's beautiful!"

  Then Simon says, "I don't quite uand, but it doesn't matter why you were born, or if you are a princess. The Nia here right now is you. So it's okay if you just be yourself. And I'll just be myself."

  And as I look at Simon with a smile feeling happy about what he just said, I hear Kittan-san's voice as he says, "Right. That's the Dai-Gurren Brigade after all. Right? Leaaader." and pats heavily on Simon's back who is surprised about being the leader of this wonderful group of people.

  Odyin