"Who the hell are you?" I asked him, folding my arms. Gurren Lagann did the same.
The strange figure laughed, his horns bobbing up and down with it. I could see him more clearly now. He had the head of a man, but his body was pretty built up, showing that he had a lot of upper body strength. He apparently didn't own a shirt, seeing that his chest and abs were in full view. Two shining white horns curved over his head. Patches of black fur covered his forearms and his pecs, looking all polished like he cleaned himself up for a fight. The Gunman behind him had a face on its chest like Enkigann, smiling wide with sharp polish teeth. It had the head of a bull, with two pointy horns on top that matched the figure's. Its arms were by its sides, its hands rather large in size. The legs were similar to a cow's with jet black hooves at the bottom.
"The name's Grepearl!" the bull man answered. "I'm the captain of this squad from the Dark Spirals. I was sent hear to wipe out you waste of spaces using my Dai-Gunzen and my Osuushigann!" Grepearl let out a bellowing laugh as Osuushigann let out a small cloud of steam out of its nostrils.
"Dark Spirals?" I asked. "What are those exactly?"
"Wouldn't you just love to know?" Grepearl let out a hardy laugh, his upper body bobbing with it. "The only way I'm gonna tell you is if I'm dead!"
"Then why don't you get down here so I can kick your bullhorn ass back to the farm you came from?!" I clenched the handles within my palms.
"Don't taunt him! DX" Viral shouted at me. "We have no comprehension of what we're up against!"
"No no." Grepearl lifted up one hand, silencing Viral. "If it's a fight she wants, then it's an ass kicking that she'll get!" Osuushigann's chest mouth hissed open, revealing the cockpit inside. With one unbelievably nice back flip, Grepearl landed in the seat perfectly, grabbing hold of the handles as the mouth closed up. Osuushigann's eyes lit up red as his chest mouth smiled. With one mighty jump off the ship, Osuushigann landed on the street, forming a few cracks along the pavement and standing in a defensive stance.
I let out a small laugh. "You don't stand a chance! It's two against one here Grepearl!" I crossed my arms in satisfaction. "I'm piloting the great Gurren Lagann here! You might as well give up now while you still have a chance!"
"You stupid little girl." Grepearl stated. "I'm not gonna be the only one fighting here!" Behind him, another Gunman landed. This one was mostly head, with two long horns coming out of the back. Gozu. (Not this again!) Gozu slammed his club against the ground, causing it to tremble slightly. I heard Enkigann unsheathe all four swords to my left as I formed two fist with Gurren Lagann, drills poking parallel from the sides.
Viral popped up on the video feed. "I'll the Gozu. You try to fight off Osuushigann until I can take Gozu down."
"Wait, me?" I replied. "You want me to fight...that?" Viral just rolled his eyes. The video feed cut off as Enkigann charged at Gozu, who jumped over him at the last second. Enkigann ran down a side street and taunted Gozu with the famous hand taunt. Gozu fell for it and ran down the street with Enkigann, leaving me along with Grepearl and Osuushigann. What the actual hell was Viral thinking? I mean, I just got this Gunman, like newly-opened-Christmas-present just got this Gunman, and now he wants me to go up against someone who looks like they just bench pressed a three-story building. (Talk about unreliable, am I right?)
Two thick clouds of grey smoke bellowed out of Osuushigann's nostrils as Grepearl snorted and let a smile stretch across his face. He flexed his massive muscles, making his pecs bounce left and right (and don't hate me for this, but I found it, and you can shoot me where I stand, kinda hot. And me, can you blame me? Take away the fur and the horns and this guy is pretty much human.)
"Do you really think that you can go up against power like this?" He flexed his muscles a bit more, showing off his strength. "I'm the Corporal of the Dark Spiral Army and I didn't earn that title to go up against a little girl in an outdated Gunman!"
"Yeah yeah." I replied. This guy was really starting to get on my last nerve. I mean, seriously. This guy sounded like the Ira Gamagori of bulls with all of his shouting and rambling. "Why don't you come down here already so that I can take those horns and shove them right up your udder?!"
"If that is how you wanna die, so be it!" With those words, Osuushigann's chest opened up to reveal the control pit inside. Grepearl flipped backwards, landing perfectly inside of the seat as the chest closed up, smiling back at me with its perfectly polished metal teeth. Osuushigann leapt down onto the battlefield, cracking his mechanical neck as if he was preparing himself for a high school fight. I could tell by the black and purple color pallet of this Gunman that he was working with the other ones who were destroying my home.
My fist tightened around the handles. I may be new at this, but I'm not about to let this guy win! I'll fight to my very last breath!
"Last chance girly." Grepearl stated as Osuushigann slightly lowered his head, directing his horns towards me. "Either surrender to the Dark Spirals or die where you stand."
"Now my head is telling me to back off," I replied, "but my stomach is just screaming 'Free steak!'" Gurren Lagann put up his fist as I readied myself. "Come at me cowboy."
Just like that, with a loud and furious moo (yes, moo. Angry bull style), Osuushigann came charging at me, horns first, hellbent on skewering me right through the center. Yet, without even thinking, I grabbed Osuushigann's horns, getting pushed back a bit towards the buildings behind me but no damage was taken. I couldn't help but to smile at myself and let out a small but proud "Hell yeah!" but my celebration was cut short when Osuushigann violently jerked his head up and flipped me over its body, sending me upside down and crashing against the building where the grocery store was (or at least where it used to be). My head it the top of the cockpit with a loud THUD!, my goggles covering my mouth. Osuushigann slowly crept back upright, standing there with his mechanical torso being puffed out. Osuushigann looked closer to Grepearl than a giant metal bull.
"Did you really think that it would be that easy to fight me meat bag?" Grepearl snickered as Osuushigann stepped forward, the sunlight gleaming off his jet black metal hide. "I've trained my body in the most extreme of exercises! Even outside of my Gunman, these arms of mine can lift up four hundred pounds of pure awesomeness!"
"Ah shut it Gamagori!" I grabbed hold of the handles and pulled my self back into the seat. Gurren Lagann fell over onto his legs and stood himself up. Osuushigann prepared itself to charge again and this time, I don't think I'll be ready for this.
"Here I come!" Grepearl laughed loudly, charging towards me even faster than before. I was prepared this time, directing Gurren Lagann into action. It grabbed hold of Osuushigann's horns, trying to hold back the mechanical beast, but the further Osuushigann pushed back, the less of a grip we had on the horns. I could feel the horns slipping between Gurren Lagann's hands, inching closer and closer towards its neck. I was getting nervous, feeling out of place in all this, as if I was a little girl trying to be the adult in all this.
I lost my grip and ducked downward as Osuushigann's horns flew over me. I thought I was safe until Gurren Lagann's face met with Osuushigann's uppercut, sending me soaring upward. I was at eye level with him as it spun around, roundhouse kicking me into the rubble of another fallen building. I started feeling disoriented as I tried to get back up, but my efforts failed as I was forced back downward. I tried to move Gurren Lagann, but nothing worked. Osuushigann towered over me, its legs holding down Gurren Lagann's arms. It squated down, blowing thick grey smoke on top of Gurren Lagann.
"Get off of me you big metal steak!" I protested. Grepearl laughed bellowed inside Osuushigann.
"You see shrimp," he taunted, "girl scouts like you should have stayed home."
"I said get off!" I shoved the levers forward, but nothing happened. I tried again, but Gurren Lagann laid cold. I watched in terror as the light in the control panel swirled back into my drill. I kept going at the levers, but nothing working.
"I don't take orders from shrimps like you!" Grepearl let out another devilish laugh as Osuushigann started pounding against Gurren Lagann with its fists, jerking the head left and right. I was tossed around, hitting the inside walls of the head as if I was a tennis ball being passed between two players. I put my arm in front of my face, shielding myself from the impact of the walls, bruising up my arms more and more with each slam.
"Not able to take anymore girl scout?" Grepearl asked me as Osuushigann's fist clenched together. "Then allow me to put you out of your mercy!" Osuushigann raised its fist above its head, ready to bring them down upon Gurren Lagann's face, along with me inside. I kept at the levers, hoping that something would happen.
"Hey horns for brains!" Someone called off to the side. I couldn't tell who it was, but the voice sounded so filled with confidence that I couldn't help but feel just a little bit safer.
"Whatcha call-" Grepearl tried protesting the name, but was interrupted by an unexpected blast from the side of the head. I watched in disbelief as Osuushigann was bombarded with blast after blast. For a second, I thought that it was something that I was doing and I didn't notice. But as soon as the source landed on top of me, I found my answer.
On Gurren Lagann's face stood a tall curvaceous figure in thick black boots. My eyes followed up the body, from the dirty brown shorts to the black bikini top patterned in flames. A long red ponytail cascaded down her back as she tightened her grip around the nozzle of the long black rifle she held in her hand. She held up the giant gun, firing at Osuushigann again, sending it arching backwards as she kept firing, scraps of metal flying left, right, and center.
As it was a good enough distance, she stopped firing, lowering her gun and turning her head towards me, smiling wide as she lifted her yellow tinted shades.
"Yoko!" I called out to her in happiness
"Sorry I took so long." She replied, smiling. "Had trouble finding the pieces to my old rifle here."
"Still, looks like we got back in time." Viral added, popping up on my screen. His arms were folded. I looked past the communicator screen to see Enki standing over me, all for hand resting on different hilts of the sword. "You were getting your ass handed to you."
"I was not!" I protested, then folded my arms in anger, sighing. "Alright...Maybe I was."
"We'll hold off Osuushigann as long as we can so that you can collect yourself Inoichi."
"Yeah, just leave it to us!" Yoko winked at me before she jumped off, dashing towards the fallen Osuushigann. Enki followed, two swords drawn and ready for action.
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