Jayr POV - Earth, Teppelin - 1007 AFA-SW

  I parry Lenome punch aimed at my fad terattack with a strong low kick with my right leg aiming at his shin that causes a small soni clearly showing the speed and power behind it.

  But Lenome is able to read takes a quick step baove out of my leg's rahen with a grin on his face, he yells, "Got you!" while he steps forward and prepares to throw another of his heavy puhat could easily wreck a mountain.

  I put a lot more power than necessary in my kick because I already expected this rea to my low kid that is why I rebut with a grin, "Not yet!" as I take advantage of the trifugal force to twist on my pivoti leg and with a quick full spin I once again attack Leh a spinning high kick using the same right leg, something that takes Lenome by surprise who shouts, "You Bastard!" and forces him to cross his arms to block it.

  And with a loud sound akin to an explosion, Lenome is sent flying against the wall of his personal training area, a pce that he didn't use for a very long time as it is clear that his fighting skills are very rusty and his fighting style way th.

  As Lenome crashes against the wall, I start to think back at everything that happened in this month, 'After that day, Lenome, Guame and I tihly pn how to deal with the most pressing issues, like the ining Battle of Teppelin, taking care of Cathedral Lazengann that took the moon's pce, how to root out the virus carrying the Anti-Spiral Factor, and more important, how t the Beastmen and the Humans together. Of course, the most important thing is preparing to face the Anti-Spiral Race.'

  This is why I and Learted to spar daily, because his years of dece took a heavy toll on Lenome's fighting skill, while his body remains in its peak dition thanks to the biological stasis he granted on himself and Guame, the same 't be said about his skills who really took a dive, especially if you think that Lenome is a war veteran with more than a thousand years of experience.

  He should be more than capable of keeping up with me when we are simply using martial arts, but he keeps falling for faints and is way too careless.

  Looking at Lenome as he gets up and calmly walks toward me, I tio think, 'Of course, those aren't the only things we did. We also finished upgrading Viral while telling him the whole truth, we eve him watch the movie, and to say that he was shocked is an uatement but he got over it and decided to tinue his duty. Then Lenome and I took a page out of the Anti-Spiral's book and created a virus carrying a special gift, this virus will only ihe Beastmen and to make sure of that, and that it doesn't get out of trol and cause a disaster, we heavily coded with each of the Beastmen unique DNA, something easy for Lenome as he is the ohat created eae of them, so the virus will i only them. What this virus does is very simple, this virus carries what we call the Spiral Factor, which will modify their DNA, pleting them and granting the Beastmen the ability to wield Spiral Power and more important the capacity to naturally reproduce while removing the o go into stasis.'

  Sure it took a lot of time to correctly code the virus, but that was because we were very careful to not cause a mess, as if Resident Evil, Prototype, The Walking Dead, and other such media plus my experience as a medic taught me something is that you don't fuck around with viruses, you have to be very careful about what you make, that is why we also coded a kill switto it, 'Anyway, if everything else fails and the virus still causes some problems I will simply erase it from existeh my Spiral o.'

  I'm roused from my thoughts by Lenome's voice as he says, "Have I grown so weak that you eve your mind wander so carelessly...?"

  I smirk at him and reply, "To be ho... Yes. pared to my fellow Saint's mastery of martial arts. Yours falls quite a bit short. But don't take it as an insult, all Saints are masters of bat that trained from a very young age to be the very best warriors in the world or die trying. Hell among them, there are some that still easily kick my ass if we simply use martial arts and that with me taking advantage of my superior physical body."

  Hearing that, Lenome chuckles and says, "Damn, that is some scary folk. In this month that we sparred, I felt my fighting skills stantly ing back to their peak, and a week ago they even started improving, but no matter what, I 't seem to keep up with you..."

  I smile bad say, "You are a highly skilled fighter in your ht, but you rely too mu brute strength, resilience, and tenacity to overpower your oppos, your whole fighting style is tered on the enhang effect of Spiral Power, on pure skill you are still way behind the true masters. Moreover, you are clearly specialized in fighting with the Gunmen using your piloting skill..."

  Then I once more take the Pankration fighting stand say, "Now, less talking and more fighting..." and we once again start our spar, this time, I focus more on the grappling aspey favorite martial art, as I start to throw Lenome on the ground and then start to apply various submission maneuvers from the cssic stranglehold to applying pressure to his joints with other holds a's just say that I also ended up breaking a few of his bones and had to use Restoration Magic to quickly fix him.

  After our daily spar, Lenome reports, "My spies told me that the Dai-Gurren Brigade is quickly approag Teppelin, they will be there in about 6 days..."

  Then with a grin, he adds, "Now, I'll have to once more enter my evil Spiral King persona and have a meeting with my generals about how to face them. He, He. It's finally time, I 't wait any longer."

  Guame POV - Earth, Teppelin - 1007 AFA-SW

  I'm here once again ihrone room of the capital Teppelin together with my fellow general ahe only member of the Big Four uhe Spiral King that is still alive and ohe most distasteful among all of Lenome's creations.

  But he isn't the only one here, I clearly see the figure of Viral's Gunmen, Enkidu, kneeling behind Lehrone, piloted by Viral who has also been told the whole truth about the situation and is now guarding his king ready to take part in this performahe first among Lenome's creation to receive the ability to naturally reprodud thus to wield Spiral Power, in fact, he is the sed plete Beastmen to ever exist.

  We are listening tenome who is sitting on his throne and is bato his Spiral King persona, but different from usual, this time his harem isn't at his side, as he looks clearly focused on what is going on, very different from the attitude he had until now.

  Seeing him like that, I force the grin f on my face back keeping it steeled, but at the same time, I 't help but think, 'Yes, he is truly back! This is the real Lenome. Gone is that pale imitation that took his pce when he was drunk in despair. The warrior, the leader, the man I always had at my side... my best friend is finally truly back! How much I longed for this moment to e...'

  Learts the audience by narrating that very old tale, "God made the world in seven days. On the sixth day, he created humans."

  The young ander for once reizes what Lenome is g and excims in surprise, "That's..." a his words linger a little as he clearly fot the h that damned bird brain of his sure most of the birds are smart, but not the fmingos, and I don't know why Le quite a lot of fmingo DNA when he created ander, most probably is because he was simply bored at the time.

  And so I fulfill my role and tinue in his pce, "The five great scriptures." then I say, "And those humans will arrive here in six days. Fitting, don't you think?" while thinking, '...As if someone carefully pnned for such a thing to happen and discretely made sure that everything is ready by moving away the more peaceful and honorable members of our race while leaving behind only the most belligerent and the scum that taint the Beastmen's name.'

  ander chuckles and says, "Iing. In that case, please leave this duty to me." then he looks at me and adds, "I'll have Dai-Gantehe way."

  I nod and simply reply with, "Fihen ande bows tenome and uses his power over the air to disappear like a gust of wind leaving Lenome and I apparently alone.

  I let out a sigh and say, "A certain 200 something years old young kid seems to be treating this like it's aertaining game."

  Then the voice of the young warrior named Jayr is heard as he says, "Yeah it is truly baffling... despise having his ass kicked by them just a month or so ago, he is still uimating them..."

  At the same time, his figure appears beside me, it looks like he just teleported but the truth is that sihe beginning of the audience, he always stood between me and ander, he simply made it so that we would be totally uo perceive his presence, just another one of his "godly powers".

  I look at the calm and handsome young man and think, 'I'm truly grateful for what he did. He was able to do something I was uo aplish for a thousand years, he brought hope tenome and reignited his will to fight and move forward. But despite his calm nature and good iion, I also admit that he truly is a very scary oppoo have. Not only his apparent limitless power but also his very sharp mind are things that have to be both respected and feared.'

  My thoughts are interrupted by Lenome's voice as he says, "Never mind him... ander will simply plete his duty ahe perfect whetstoo sharpen the bde of the Dai-Gurren Brigade..."

  Then with a smile, he mutters, "I'm anxious for the first time in a very long time... For way too long I waited for the doors of a brighter future to open... finally, I see them in front of me. Now we just have to reach for them and push them open!"

  Jayr POV - Earth, Teppelin - 1007 AFA-SW

  After Guame and ander are gone, I calmly sit on a chair nearby Lehrone, and looking in his dire, I ask, "Do you want to see what is happening out there?"

  And as the six drill girls of his harem e and sit beside him, a grin forms on Lenome's face as he replies, "Hell yeah!"

  Hearing his reply, I use some Spiral Power to create the usual proje that shows all the things that I see and feel.

  Quickly the proje shows the images of the outside, where the battle begins with Dai-Gunten and its fleet approag the grounded Dai-Gurren, and once close enough it shoots a volley of missiles at the grounded fortress.

  Meanwhile, Leeron ae barely mao activate the levisphere in time to avoid Dai-Gunten's first salvo of missiles, at the same time, the Dai-Gurreurn fire but it fails to hit any of ander's flying soldiers.

  At this point, Dayakka orders the deployment of their own Gunmen, which are now equipped with flight engines of their own, including, to Kittan's shock, Kiyal, and Kiyoh.

  Meanwhile, seeing the se of Kittan bickering with his sister, Le out a sigh and says, "This Kittan and the one in the movie are quite simir, of course the one I saw was more mature, but it is true that he is also one of the major driving forces behind the Dai-Gurren Brigade."

  At the same time, on the proje, the Gunmen of the Dai-Gurren Brigade are quickly unched oer the other while, the Gurren Lagann, once more piloted by Simon and aed Kamina, quickly set off after them and with its greater speed, it overtake all of them and reach the front of their formation.

  With Gurren Lagann leading the charge, Simon yells, "Go! Gunmen Squad, move out!" followed by Kamina who shouts, "Good, Simo's show them the might of the full purren Lagann!"

  And Kittan tells them, "Heh. With you two back together this feels almost like the good ol' times! Listen up. We'll take care of the small fry so you fight the battleship!" before bining his Gunman with Kiyal's and Kiyoh's own units to lead the charge against the bombers.

  As both sides open fire, a legion of ground forces is approag, led by Guame's Dai-Gundo, and fog on him, the image of him sitting on the and chair with his arms crossed as he mutters, "Have a taste of my Gunmen artillery!"

  Seeing him like that, I 't help but ent with a grin, "Look at Guame, he even took the same pose you use when you pilot Lazengann and he is barely hiding his grin... He is truly enjoying himself..."

  Hearing that, Lenome chuckles and says, "Heh. He stood by my side way before the First Anti-Spiral War. We went through a hell lot together, and I wasn't the only one drowning in despair. Now that we finally see the hope we searched for so long, it is natural that let out some steam..."

  Meanwhile, under his and, the ground fuart to fire a barrage at the floating Dai-Gurren

  With Dai-Gurreing pummeled from below, Simon orders the rest of Team Dai-Gurren to take out Guame's army while Gurren Lagann handles ander's forces.

  Kittan protests, "Don't fool around! Are y to look cool all by yourself!?"

  Hearing that, Simon expins, "If Dai-Gurren goes down noon't be able to take on that freaking' huge Teppelin!" making Kittan suggest, "In that case, we'll split the Gunme squad..." but Kamina quickly stops him and says, "Baaka! If we divide our forces we will lose all ces of victory! Believe in Simon! Believe in me! Believe in the Dai-Gurren Brigade!! We do this, guys!!"

  With their fighting spirit roused and seeing the logic behind Simon's decision, Kittan leads the rest of the Gunmen back to Dai-Gurren, leaving Gurren Lagann alone against hundreds of enemies.

  Seeing that Gurren Lagann is alone now, ander ughs at the seemingly pathetic opposition, "Ha, ha, ha. How foolish. What you do all by yourself? Naked apes!"

  But Simon powers up Gurren Lagann, using hordes of tiny drills as missiles to quickly obliterate the Gunmen swarming towards them.

  Seeing his front line so quickly destroyed, the arrogant General seemingly cracks, cag insanely and g, "Iing, human!".

  I look at Lenome and while pointing at the crazed ander, I ask, "Did you drop him as a kid or something?" but Lenome frowns as he thinks deeply for a few moments then he says, "I don't remember well what happened when I was building his DNA sequence... I was more focused oing a triple blowjob by some of my girls... But now that I seriously think about I may have inputted some peyote cactus DNA by mistake that gave his blood some simir proprieties..."

  Hearing that I excim in disbelief, "Wait! Are you tellihat ander's blood has the same proprieties of a psychoactive drug and he is stantly us effect!?"

  Lehen awkwardly coughs and focuses ba the proje where Kamina tells Simon to pace himself, and as Simon takes a short break, Kamina deals with a massive barrage of missiles from Dai-Gunten.

  As he calmly mahrough the hailstander unches a particurly rge projectile from his aircraft carrier, but under Kamina's trol, Gurren Lagann easily destroys it by shooting a drill at it and also at the sed ohat was unched shortly after, disabling them both.

  With most of his artillery wasted, ander challehe heroes from his personal Gunman, Shuzack, "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Not bad, human... but there's more! ander-sama's Shuzack is here!"

  And taking advantage of the fact that Simon and Kamina are fog on him, four of ander's soldiers trap Gurren Lagann's limbs, immobilizing them.

  As the cag General approaches his helpless foe, Dai-Gurren opens fire, but ander's air fors a living shield in front of Dai-Gurren, blog the Dai-Gun's artillery.

  With Simon's Spiral Power depleted, their allies occupied, and Shuzack's stomach-mounted buzzsaw desding on them, it looks grim for Simon and Kamina, but Kamina finally unleashes his Spiral Power and breaks free of the restraints, and at the same time, Shuzack is suddenly pummeled by on fire.

  Angrily asking where his shield went, ander is informed that the shots weren't from one ship.

  To everyone's shock, aire force of Gunmen approach from the east, all flying the fg of Team Dai-Gurren, and seeing that, Kamina ughs loudly and shouts, "Ha, ha, ha. What did I tell you guys!! Believe in the Dai-Gurren Brigade's power!!"

  Meanwhile, from the newer force of Gunmen, a man's voice be heard, "Hey, you hear me? Soldier of the Gurren Brigade! We saw the images projected in the sky! I'm Bachou, from the southern vilge of Dokkanai!" and soon after another oroduces itself, "We're from the neighb vilge of Hatedai! Looking forward to workin' with you!" and another one, "I'm Shoubou, also from the east. We mao take out an enemy battleship."

  Then as Yoko wonders if they truly are reinfort, Bachou once more speak ups, "You're trying to take down that big fel up there, right? All ons, open fire!" and under his and the reinfort army opens fire with everything they have.

  And as these reinforts start pounding away at ander's battalion, while Team Dai-Gurren, not to be outdone, tinues destroying all of Guame's ground units.

  With the tide of battle turning against him, and Dai-Guaking serious damage, a nearly-manic ander is forced to transform the Shuzack.

  Unfortunately for him, it's too little, too te, because the Dai-Gurren proceeds to smack right into him and then crash into the Dai-Gunten, ripping it apart and Shuzad ander are ied in a ferocious explosion, killing the general.

  Seeing that, I ent, "And so the stoned general is gone... Really how could you give that rank to someone like him..." but Lenome defend himself, "I created him with that position in mind, sure, I got distracted a little and as result, he had a few issues, but he still was one of the stro Beastmen..."

  Meanwhile, the fireball that was the Dai-Gunten falls right tuame's fgship, and the armadillo Beastman mocks ander as a fool before the Dai-Gundo is engulfed in a massive explosion.

  At the same time, the drill girls loudly gasp showing their for their man's best friend, but Lenome quickly calms them by saying, "Don't worry, such a simple thing won't be able tuame's Dai-Gundo, it has the stro and thickest armor among all the Dai-Guns and take quite a punishment..."

  Then I add, "Moreover, if Guame is truly in danger I will simply teleport him to safety, and if he is injured, I also easily heal him... so you don't have to worry about him."

  Back to the proje, the humans loudly cheer sure of their victory, and Simon prepares to move on Teppelin, but Kinon warns them that the battle isn't over yet.

  And as expected, the Dai-Gundo emerges from the explosion, pletely unharmed.

  But just as the Dai-Gurren's crew wonders how they damage it, the massive mobile fortress heads toward Teppelin, and to everyone's shock, starts spinning uhe capital, surrounding it in a pink and purple tornado of energy.

  As the human forces get close to it, they are blown around by enormous wind forces inating from the murderous merry-go-round.

  Leeron realizes that the Dai-Gundo bined with Teppelin to gee an energy wall, meaning that if they don't stop the Dai-Gundo, they 't get he capital.

  Their new human allies, led by Ba, start charging toward this energy wall aing themselves destroyed, and the Dai-Gurren crew 't do anything because the twister in front of them is preventing unication.

  Seeing that, a frown form on Lenome's face as he mutter, "Huh... How they be stopped by something so simple?" but I quickly correct him, "It could be simple for us. But this is still the first time that they face a barrier of Spiral Power, moreover, one enhanced by the whole capital. Its power is quite strong. And more important, Simon and Kamina didn't make their move yet."

  Soon, an image of Nia suddenly appears in front of everyone, and she yells for them to stop.

  Revealed to be using a projector on Dai-Gurren's deia introduces herself and expins, "Greetings everyone. I am the Gurren Brigade's chef, Nia. As you see, Teppelin is currently blocked by a tornado of light. If we don't do something about it, everyone will be smashed, like the people just now. Please atiently for just a moment. The tornado will stop soon. Simon will stop it for you. Because Simon's drill... is ohat pierces the heavens!"

  As she says this, Nia also takes the iic pose with her finger pointing at the sky, and at the same time, Kinon realizes that Gurren Lagann is o be seen.

  In fact, Simon and Kamina are underground, digging towards the Dai-Gundo and emerging directly beh the massive Dai-Gun, Gurren Lagann attempts to drill up through the Dai-Gundo but only succeeds in lifting up the massive mecha.

  As Simon implurren Lagann for more puame orders the reverse thrusters to be fired, and Dai-Gundo sms into the ground with Gurren Lagah it.

  Seeing that, Yoko and the others are aghast, afraid that the Gurren Lagann was crushed, and Guame snidely ends the humans' bravery.

  As he gloats, however, his minio a whirring below them - not only is Simon still alive, he's actually grateful, the impact allowed the tip of his drill to pierce through the bottom of the Dai-Gundo.

  Renewing his attack, Simohe drill to reverse the dire the Dai-Gundo is spinning in, also drilling through the Dai-Gundo, and almost impaling Guame through the chest but just as it is about to happen, I quickly telepuame to my side, and at the same time, the Dai-Gundo explodes, dispelling the wall around Teppelin.

  At the same time, a somewhat dizzy Guame says, "T-Thank you... for a moment I thought I was a goner..." seeing that, Lenome smirks and says, "Well, well, it looks like they do it after all... Now it's time to start the final act of the Battle of Teppelin. The part where the heroes of the Dai-Gurren Brigade face off against the tyrannical Spiral King!"

  Meanwhile, because of the destru of the Spiral Wall, the structures c the surface of the core of the capital start to shed themselves and fall on the ground revealing the true face of the Beastmen capital, the enormous Space Gunmen Dekabutsu.

  Seeing the towers that make up the majority of the capital falling on the ground and colpsing, I let out a sigh of relief while thinking, 'Luckily we evacuated the capital before the battle of all non-batant and the most honorable Beastman... If not the loss of life could have been catastrophic...'

  Then I look at Lenome and as I pick up Guame with my Telekinesis, I say, "Well... It's time for us to hide from the gaze of others. Have fun kig your son-in-w's ass."

  Lenome looks back at me and with a grin he says, "Trust me... I will!"

  Odyin