From: Michael Liu To: All Msg #223, May 03, 92 07:56:00 Subject: Guyver 1.1 Created by Yoshiki Takaya Chapter 1: Altered Humans ------------------------- A truck with two occupants was making its way through the night. Trucker: Are you...being pursued? Seeing no response from the new, shabby passenger, the driver pressed on. Trucker: Since I let you in, you let me have a share. How's that? Man: What? Trucker: Don't play dumb. What's in the bag? Money? Drugs? Man: It's not what you think. Enraged by the response, the driver abruptly stopped the truck, threw his new passenger out then stepped hard on the man's face. Turning his back to the groaning man, the trucker went to examine the contents of the handbag, unaware of the transformation taking place behind him. The opened bag revealed three hexagonal objects. Trucker: What's this!? [turns around] Hey, wha... His screams were lost in the night. Next day, after school... Student: Looks like it was done by a great ape. All the bones in the body were crushed. Luke [packing]: ...What? Student 1: A driver was killed nearby last night. Luke: Ah! Students [speakers uncertain, same group]: Are you going home? / No, I'm going to the coffee shop first. --- * Origin: Magrathea, Now open for business (1:243/42) From: Michael Liu To: All Msg #224, May 03, 92 07:56:00 Subject: Guyver 1.2 Anne [bursts into the classroom]: Luke! What are you doing here? The general affairs meeting has begun! Hurry! Luke: Oh...right. [Turns to his friends] Sorry, I gotta go. See you! [Leaves room with Anne] Student 2: Was that the vice-president of the student council--Anne Waters? Student 3: Yeah, she and Luke grew up together. Student 1: Oh? Luke is a member of the student council? Student 3: He's the secretary. Student 2: Doesn't Anne... Student 3: ...Like the president Michael Island? Yeah. Student 1: Whoa! Luke's no match for Michael. At student council's meeting room... Michael: (to the two late arrvials) You're late. [Turns to another member of the council] Let's begin by hearing the accountant's report. As the meeting went on, a van passed by the school and entered the area near the mountain. A group of uniformed, helmeted men were being briefed by the driver of the van. Driver: The escaped experimental type has been sighted in this area last night. You must recover the Units! The van slowed to a stop. Seeing no one about, the driver opened the back of the van to let the team of men out. Driver: Retrieve the Units at all costs! Terminate the experimental type! In the nearby bushes... Man: [Pulls the top of a palm-sized object] The team burst through the bushes behind the man. --- * Origin: Magrathea, Now open for business (1:243/42) From: Michael Liu To: All Msg #225, May 03, 92 07:57:00 Subject: Guyver 1.3 Gregole (team leader): Finally found you....lab rat. Man: Lab rat!? Damn you! [transforming] You turned my body into this! [completing the transformation into a skinless, humanoid monster] Gregole: (To his men) Back off. [Transforms into a larger, more developed abomination] Gregole grabbed the hands of the astonished beast-man. Gregole: Idiot. A lab rat like you can't possbily beat me. [Crushes both arms of the beast-man] Time to go to hell! All were ignorant of the handbag and the palm-sized object that were lying nearby. Back at school, at lockers... As Luke put down his satchel and busied about his shoes, someone behind him asked whether he was headed for home. Luke: Clark! Clark: Where's Anne? Luke: She's gone shopping with the council accountant. Clark: We haven't walked by the pond on the way home in a long time. Let's go together. By the pond... Clark: It must be hard for you, Luke. [Luke looks puzzled] As her brother, I think my sister _is_ quite good, but she lacks taste. Luke: [blushing] Uh...Clark, I'm not... Clark: Don't be embarrassed. Aren't we good friends? Luke: [still blushing] I mean it. First of all, Anne... An explosion rocked the mountainside and completely diverted the two's attention from their conversation. Luke shouted a warning to Clark just before a hexagonal object struck the ground. --- * Origin: Magrathea, Now open for business (1:243/42) From: Michael Liu To: All Msg #226, May 03, 92 07:58:00 Subject: Guyver 1.4 Back in the forest... Team member: Tsk! The lab rat had a mini-bomb. (speaking into a radio) Gregole is still in his battle form. The experimental type has been taken care of. The recovery of the Units is still a problem. We've only found one, but it has some damages. Radio: There should be three of them. Search carefully! Team member: (to all but Gregole) There's two more! Find them quickly! At the pond, Luke began examining the mysterious object that has just hurtled to the ground... Clark: Hey, don't touch that! Luke: [Accidentally touches the 'orb' at the centre of the object] I think I pressed a switch. Clark: Fool! It might explode! The object began to open up, allowing the rope-like organic material to escape. Luke: Clark....It's alive. The organic material with the orb at its centre had completely exited the hexagonal case. Its rope-like tentacles enveloped Luke. Luke: As the material gradually took form over Luke's body, a spasm caused Luke to lose balance and tumble backwards into the pond. Clark called after him. As Clark watched the pond intently, another group of people arrived at the scene. Team member: Hurry! There's no time! Clark: [turns around at the noise and sees Gregole and his men] Ah...haha... Team member: Gregole, we've been seen...kill him. Clark: [As Gregole approaches] Hel... Everyone stopped suddenly in surprise, except Clark, who was already paralyzed by fear. He turned around to find a tall, mean-looking humanoid standing behind him. --- * Origin: Magrathea, Now open for business (1:243/42) From: Michael Liu To: All Msg #227, May 03, 92 07:58:00 Subject: Guyver 1.5 Team member: This is... Gregole: Interesting. Whatever it is, [moves up to the newcomer, who is dwarved by Gregole's size] anything that obstructs Khronos shall be destroyed! Gregole and the newcomer's hands became locked in a contest of strength. Surprisingly, the latter held. One of the team members marvelled that such a small body could go one-on-one against the tank-class Gregole. With a sickening sound, Gregole's arms were broken by his tiny opponent. Before Gregole could recover from the shock, the humanoid grabbed Gregole's head by the horn at the top of the head and by the upper mouth. The grip was then tightened to extinguish the life held within. When the humanoid turned towards the rest of the team, the agents of Khronos effected a hasty retreat. Still trembling, Clark half-ran, half-crawled when the mysterious newcomer's gaze turned towards him. The humanoid called his name. Clark: Luke? Is it you!? Luke: [looking at the quickly decomposing body of Gregole] This...Did I do this? [looking at his hands] These are my hands!? [seeing his reflection in the water] And this...is my body? [holding his head up with both hands] NO! Immediately the 'shell' fell apart from Luke and re-assembled behind him. Clark: Luke! Luke: Clark, I... Clark: Look! The 'shell' slowly sank into the pond, leaving the two to wonder what had happened. --End of Chapter 1-- --- * Origin: Magrathea, Now open for business (1:243/42)