Guyver - Synopsis


 

    The following is a chapter by chapter summary of the Guyver comic books.  The first part of it was contributed by Matthew Stephan and was editted b me.  This is from Book 1 to Book 13.  After that is the summary from Book 14 to the first chapter of Book 15.  This section has been translated and written by me.  A note: the names of some characters may differ from the American versions.  To relate the names to the American ones, visit the character profiles page where there is a description of each character and their pics.  Also, note that this file is LONG.

Book 1, Chapter 1
 On a back-country road, a trucker picks up a strange hitchhiker.  He tries to steal the man’s luggage, thinking there’s drugs or something else valuable in it.  He throws the man from his truck, and then a monster attacks.  The next day, in a school not far away, Sho Fukamachi is being dragged to a school council meeting by his childhood friend and would-be girlfriend, Mizuki Segawa.  Unfortunately for Sho, Mizuki has a crush on the Council President, an upperclassman named Agito Makishima.  A strange van drives through town. Once in a deserted area near Mt. Narisawa, strangely uniformed men pile out.  They are searching for something called “Units”, and the test subject who stole them.  They find the strange hitchhiker, who transforms into the monster; but one of the guards also transforms into an even stronger creature.  The first man has a bomb and suicides, blowing up the case he’d hidden the Units in.  Sho Fukamachi and his best friend, Mizuki’s older brother Tetsuro, are walking home nearby; Sho is nearly hit by debris from the explosion.  Among the bits of rubble is a strange, oval object with a mirror-bright orb in its center.  Touching it, the object explodes into a living thing that engulfs him.  Sho falls into the nearby swamp.  Tetsuro is then threatened by the men and their transformed comrade.  Another monster comes out of the swamp and drives the men away; this one has Sho’s voice.  The outer layer - a type of armor - floats away from his body and disappears, leaving the two with a mystery they have no idea how to solve.

Chapter 2
 Genzo Makishima is furious.  He is the head of Chronos Japan, the organization that makes the monsters - the Zoanoids - and which has lost the precious Units to the now-dead renegade.  There were three units; his men have only found one.  He sends more troops out to search.  Agent Oscar Risker, sent from Chronos HQ to monitor Japan Branch’s handling of the Units, is bitingly sarcastic.  At Sho’s house, Mizuki and Tetsuro are visiting the ‘sick’ Sho, who is still recovering from the shock of becoming the host for what Tetsuro is calling “the slime monster”. As Mizuki leaves the room to cook some chicken soup, Sho shows Tetsuro a rash that has appeared on his back.  They wonder if it is connected with the strange armor.  At Chronos Japan, Risker opens up the case protecting the damaged Unit the men have brought back; it engulfs him.  Sho and Tetsuro, now at school, are wondering if the “slime monster” is a bio-weapon of some type.  They are interrupted by the arrival of two men who want to question Tetsuro about the explosion at Mt. Narisawa.  Sho follows, and discovers they aren’t cops; they are Chronos goons.  Sho is captured and one of the men transforms to menace him in an attempt to convince Tetsuro to tell them where what they call ‘the Guyver’ or “Unit G” is.  Something in the name touches a cord in Sho; he yells “Guyver!” and the armor arrives.  He tears apart the Zoanoids, the control medal showing him how to use his megasmasher cannon.  Unseen, below them Agito Makishima watches the resulting destruction with an odd smile on his lips.

Chapter 3
 Risker announces he’s going after Guyver 1, saying only another Guyver can defeat him.  Sho and Tetsuro are still wondering what’s going on.  Mizuki is tongue-tied as Agito talks to her.  He wonders if she might be useful to him.  Risker has several Zoanoids attack Tetsuro; Guyver 1 comes to the rescue - then Risker, as Guyver 2, arrives.  He and Sho battle; and Tetsuro realizes Sho is at a disadvantage - if the armor gives the same advantage to both hosts, then the host with the greater martial arts experience will be stronger.  Sho is losing - then the control medal on Risker’s armor begins to oscillate.  Knowing from Risker’s boasting that the control medal regulates the armor, Sho risks hitting the medal.  It shatters.  Guyver 2’s armor goes wild and starts to literally eat Risker; Sho uses his megasmasher to destroy the dying Chronos agent.

Chapter 4
 Mizuki tells Sho she can’t walk home with him; she has student council work to do with Agito.  Upset, Sho finds Tetsuro and bitches.  Genzo Makishima has acquired a huge headache in the person of Commander Guyot, one of the leaders of the Chronos Corporation.  He is displeased with Genzo’s failures and relieves him of his command.  He then sends one of his Hyper Zoanoids after the Guyver.  Walking home, Tetsuro tells Sho that Agito Makishima is the adopted son and heir of Genzo Makishima.  Agito’s real father was bankrupted; when Genzo bailed him out the price was Agito.  They are then attacked by Chronos guards; then the Hyper Zoanoid Zarabubuth arrives.  Guvyer 1 is soon winning.  The Zoanoid grabs Mizuki, who is passing nearby, to use as a hostage.  Then he’s attacked from behind - Guyver 3 has shown up, and kills the Zoanoid before disappearing, refusing to answer Sho’s  questions as to who he is.  *All three Units have now been released,* Guyot thinks, considerably upset.

Chapter 5
 Guyot is developing a new Hyper Zoanoid, one designed specifically to deal with the menace of  the Guyvers.  He asks Agito Makishima, who stands behind him, if he approves.  Agito assents.  Guyot wonders at the fact Agito shows no emotion; for it is Genzo Makishima being turned into Enzyme, the new Zoanoid; releasing the prototype too early will result in its death.  Agito tells him that Genzo adopted him to have an advisor, a subordinate he didn’t have to pay; he did not teach Agito to feel sentimental toward him.  Guyot approves of that attitude.  Sho receives a note from Chronos telling him to meet them; he knows it’s a trap but goes anyway, accompanied by Tetsuro.  He is met by Genzo Makishima, who turns into Enzyme.  The battle is long and bloody; at the end Enzyme tears the control medal out of the Guyver’s head.  Even as the Guyver eats him, Sho attacks Enzyme one last time, and the Zoanoid dies with him.  Chronos has captured both control medal and Tetsuro, and take both back to HQ.  In the shadows, Guyver 3 thinks to himself that now everything is ready....

Chapter 6
 Guyot tells Tetsuro something of Chronos’ plans for world domination before he has him locked up.  Tetsuro may be able to tell them something about the control medal and the Unit, after all.  Mizuki is calling around trying to find Sho and her brother, but no one knows where they are.  In the lab where the control medal is kept, the scientists notice it is starting to grow organic material around itself.  Before they can report, Guyver 3 kills them.  Alarmed by the lack of reports, guards finally arrive, only to discover Guyver 1 has regenerated.  Guyot gets reports of a Guyver in the Zoanoid Development Block, destroying Enzyme prototypes.  Figuring he’s brought Guyver 3 into the open. Guyot dispatches guards - only to then get reports of a second Guyver in the Scientific Wing.  Guvyer 1 sees Tetsuro and releases him; all three then show up in Guyot’s control room.  Guyver 3 sardonically tells Guyot more of the Commander’s own plans.  Guyot demands to know who he is; only a member of Chronos’ elite would have access to that information.  Guyver 3 tells him to call him Zeus.  Then the building blows up, and Guvyer 1 grabs Tetsuro and flies out of the way just in time as the structure collapses.

Book 2, Chapter 7
 In the forest where Guyver met Enzyme, Sho’s arm - chewed off during the battle - begins to grow and regenerate.  Agito Makishima is looking at a report on the destruction of “Max Pharmaceuticals”, the cover name for Chronos’ Japan Branch. He gloats that all seems to be going as he planned.  At school, Sho is taking notes of test schedules, thinking that he’s now actually a clone of the original Sho Fukamachi, when Tetsuro drags him away - Mizuki is on the warpath!  They both turn tail and run rather than face Tetsuro’s fuming sister. A strange being who looks like a naked Sho appears, then morphs into a Zoanoid-like monster.  Guyver 1 arrives and drives it off; Sho is shocked when Tetsuro tells him it first looked like Sho.  Remembering his lost arm, Sho wonders if it could have somehow regenerate.  Eavesdropping, Agito is worried about the possibility that there’s more to bio-booster material than he thought.  He’s got to stop the creature before it can endanger his own plans.  The monster, now dressed and looking like Sho again, runs across Mizuki; it morphs when she starts yelling at it.  Guyver 1 chases his doppleganger away, and it is stopped by the appearance of Guyver 3.  It grabs Sho and tries to absorb him.  Guyver 3 prepares to blow both away to prevent the Zoanoid from gaining control of the Unit, but instead it is the Guyver that re-absorbs the monster.  Guyver 3 leaves, assured that his ally/pawn is safe for the moment; and Sho is left to wonder how he can ever free himself from the bio-booster armor without dying in the process.

Chapter 8
 Mizuki is still puzzling over what Sho and Tetsuro have to do with the various monsters that have been chasing her.  Sho and Tetsuro are attacked by a Zoanoid after school, Sho defeats it - and Mizuki sees him transform from Guyver back into human.

Chapter 9
 Agito discovers to his horror that Guyot wasn’t killed in the explosions at HQ.  Guyot tells him he’s brought in some special reinforcements from the other main Chronos Base in Japan, Relics’ Point at Mount Minakami.  They are the Lost Numbers, Zoanoids who experienced various failures while being developed that prevent Chronos from duplicating them.  Agito realizes he doesn’t have any information on their abilities, so it will be much more difficult to fight them than the Zoanoids he has battled before.  Tetsuro is explaining to Mizuki what has been going on; she takes things remarkably calmly.  Guyot sends one of the Lost Numbers after Tetsuro and Mizuki; Sho arrives in the nick of time and defeats it.  Agito reveals to the audience that he is Guyver 3, and tries to take on Guyot - only to discover that Guyot is just as strong as he is, even with the Guyver armor on!  Agito is forced to escape with the arrival of Zoanoid reinforcements, and Guyot wonders how Guyver 3 knew where he was - and begins to suspect there is a traitor among Chronos.

Chapter 10
 Chronos men try to capture Sho’s father, but are driven off by Guyvers 1 & 3.  They don’t notice they’re being watched by a young man who’s wearing sunglasses even in the dead of night.  Sho goes home and has a brief discussion about school with his dad.  Finals are almost over, and in a few days school will be over for the year.  At school later - on the last day of school to be exact - several of Guyot’s agents arrive to ‘escort’ Agito to see Guyot at Relics’ Point.  Sho suspects they are Zoanoids and goes after them, thinking that Chronos is now going after his acquaintances as well as his friends.  Two of the Zoanoids remain behind to fight him; one is Aptom, who can assume any shape (he becomes a major continuing character, too).  In this case, he duplicates the Guyver....

Chapter 11
 Sho fights the Zoanoids.  He calls to Guyver 3 for help, but Agito is still in the car with the other Zoanoids and can’t respond.  The young man with the sunglasses shows up and nearly fatally distracts Sho.  Tetsuro, Mizuki and Sho’s dad  Fumio are captured by Chronos.  The strange young man displays a talent for being able to telepathically command Zoanoids.  Sho defeats the two Lost Numbers, killing one of them while Aptom is forced to retreat.  Sho’s new acquaintance tells him he knows Guyver 1 is Sho Fukamachi.  He introduces himself as Masaki Murakami, a free lance writer who has been after Chronos for a while.  He tells Sho that Agito’s adopted father, Genzo Makishima, was director of Chronos Japan Branch, and that Agito is part of Chronos.

Chapter 12
 Sho is lured into a trap by Chronos using Mizuki as bait.  They are handcuffed together.  Masaki arrives in time to try and save them, and ‘Mizuki’ is revealed to be another shape-shifting Zoanoid.  The Chronos forces are defeated.  Masaki knows where a secret Chronos base - under legend-laden Mount Minakami - is located, and they head in that direction in the hopes of rescuing Tetsuro, Mizuki, and Sho’s dad.

Book 3, Chapter 13
  Mizuki, Fumio Fukamachi and Tetsuro are brought before Guyot.  Tetsuro is shocked to find the Commander still alive.  Then Guyot has Agito come out, and they realize he’s a member of Chronos.  They are locked up.  Agito sends the guards away as Tetsuro calls him names.  Agito tells them he’s planning on destroying Chronos, and calls the Guyver 3 armor.  He frees the three, and they try to escape.  Guyot and Dr. Hamilcar Barcas, another Chronos Overlord and member of the Council of Twelve, are watching.  Guyot’s plan has worked; Agito has revealed to them that he’s their enemy - “Zeus”,  or Guyver 3.  Dr. Barcas designed the Hyper Zoanoids and is one of Chronos’ top genetic engineers.  Guyot is suspicious about the real reasons Barcas has shown up at Relics;’ Point at this particular point in time.

Chapter 14
 Sho and Masaki arrive in the area of the Chronos base.  Sho realizes that Guyver 3 is somewhere near.  Agito is answering Tetsuro’s questions as they try to find a safe way out of the base.  Then the Hyper Zoanoid Team Five show up, and Guyver 3 quickly discovers he’s outclassed.  Gaster destroys one of the Guyver’s megasmasher cannons, and Agito is badly wounded as well.  Guyot and Barcas use the intercom system of the base to tell Guyver 3 they are aware he’s actually Agito Makishima. Barcas tells the Hyper Zoanoids to kill the traitor and take his control medal.  They’ll find some way to prevent it from regenerating Agito...Guyver 1 arrives on scene!

Chapter 15
 Guyver 3 warns Guyver 1 of the danger the Hyper Zoanoids present, then coughs up blood.  “Makishima-san!” Mizuki screams, and Guyver 1 looks at Guyver 3 in surprise - “Agito Makishima is Guyver 3??!!”  He’s so startled he almost doesn’t react in time to stop an attack by Thancrus, the Hyper Zoanoid with the sonic swords.  As Sho fights, Agito grabs Tetsuro and Mizuki and uses the graviton generator orb at his waist to carry himself and them up out the hole Sho blasted in the roof, telepathically telling Sho to get his father and do the same.  They emerge on the surface.  Elegen, who can fly, is on their heels.  He shocks Sho’s control medal with one of his tentacles (like an electric eel, Elegen can generate electricity and uses his tentacles to deliver the ‘punch’).  The Guyver armor deserts Sho, who collapses unconscious as Zx-Tole (another Hyper Zoanoid) grabs Fumio and drags the older Fukamachi back into the base.  Guyver 3 uses his remaining megasmasher to drive off the Hyper Zoanoids.  They pile into Masaki’s car and take off before more Zoanoids can arrive and capture them.  Barcas tells Guyot that so long as they have Sho’s father, the Guyvers will be back - and Barcas has plans for Fumio Fukamachi!

Chapter 16
 After his Guyver has had enough time to repair the damage done to itself and its host by Gaster, Agito gets out of the car to send away his armor.  He tells his comrades he knows of a place they can hide.  Barcas is examining records of Zoanoids, trying to figure out which would be the best ones to send against the Guyvers.  In hiding, Sho is having hallucinations about his father’s capture, and wakes up to find a strange girl tending to his wounds.

Chapter 17
 She introduces herself as Shizu.  Her father Yohei Onuma has been caretaker for a villa owned by the Makishima family.  Outside, Agito tells Onuma that his revenge won’t be complete until Chronos is destroyed, and says something about ruling the world himself.  Barcas shows Guyot the newest Hyper Zoanoid - based on Enzyme, it’s called ‘Enzyme 2’.  It’s even bigger and nastier than the original Enzyme, and has six insect-like clawed legs emerging from its back as well as the more normal two arms and two legs.  Each claw delivers Guyver-dissolving liquid to its target.  Recovered, Sho races off to return to the base to find his dad, and is joined by Guyver 3, whose own injuries have also healed - and who is afraid that if Guyver 1 goes alone, will be killed - thus depriving Agito of his most useful ally.

Chapter 18
 Tetsuro gets up to discover Sho gone; Shizu reports Agito is missing, too.  They discover the note Agito has left behind telling them the two Guyvers have gone to rescue Fumio.  Guyot and Barcas are waiting for the Guyvers, and make sure they get in with very little fuss.  As they free Sho’s dad, Agito worries that it’s been too easy so far.  They fight their way out.  On the surface, Agito realizes there are Hyper Zoanoids around, and sends Sho off with his dad while Guyver 3 fights.  He faces three of the five Hyper Zoanoids - Zx-Tole, Thancrus, and Elegen.  At Agito’s villa, Gaster and Derzerb arrive to take hostages.  Masaki senses their approach and tries to get the others out of the way. Tetsuro wonders how the other knew the Zoanoids were in the area.  As Sho runs with his dad on his back, insect-like claws like those we saw earlier on the Enzyme 2 prototype suddenly burst out of Fumio Fukamachi’s back...

Chapter 19
 Fumio screams and falls down as the claws emerge.  The older man looks at them in bewilderment.  Then Barcas’ telepathic order takes hold, and Mr.  Fukamachi transforms into Enzyme 2, completely under the control of the Chronos scientist.  At the villa, the two Hyper Zoanoids attack.  Near Relics’ Point, Guyver 3 badly damages Thancrus.   He finds the megasmasher has little effect on Zx-Tole, whose own armor absorbs much of the blast.  Guyot and Barcas watch as Enzyme 2 makes mince meat out of Guyver 1, who can’t bring himself to fight and hurt the Zoanoid that was his father.  Enzyme 2 nearly tears Guyver 1’s head off, ripping off the ‘crest’ and part of the head of the unit instead - including a good portion of Sho’s brain.  Guyver 1 falls to the ground.

Chapter 20
 Even in the heat of battle, Guyver 3 feels Guyver 1’s ‘death’. The distraction almost leads him to letting himself get fried by Zx-Tole’s laser beams.  Agito counterattacks and kills Thancrus.  Guyot and Barcas turn their attention away from Sho and Enzyme 2 for a minute to consider the other Hyper Zoanoids, and discover that Masaki is counter-manding their orders to the Zoanoids. Barcas telepathically intervenes, shaking the two Hyper Zoanoids lose of Murakami’s control.  Derzerb goes hand-to-hand with Masaki, and discovers to the amazement of all that the young man has just as much strength as the Hyper Zoanoid.  Further, Masaki’s forehead starts to glow...and he turns into something the Chronos elite recognizes as a “Zoalord”, a being genetically altered to be the ultimate in Zoanoid design.  More human in appearance than Zoanoids, the Zoalord is not only strong and equipped with various weaponry but can telepathically control Zoanoids and Hyper Zoanoids.  The two Hyper Zoanoids are ordered to retreat, and Tetsuro catches Masaki as he collapses upon returning to human form.  Masaki tells Tetsuro there’s no time for questions - Sho is in very deep trouble; they’ve got to find him immediately!  Elsewhere, Sho - or I should say, the control medal - has brought the Guyver armor to its feet once more before Enzyme 2 can tear out the control medal (partly due to Sho’s dad resisting Barcas’ commands for a few minutes).  Guyver 1 uses its’ megasmasher and destroys Enzyme 2.  A badly wounded Guyver 3 shows up as Tetsuro and Masaki watch Enzyme 2’s body disintegrate, and Guyver 1 collapses again.

Book 4, Chapter 21
 An unconscious Sho is brought back to Makishima’s villa, where Mizuki goes nuts upon finding him still out like a burnt-out light.  They decide not to stick around now that it’s obvious Chronos knows about Agito’s hideout.  They evacuate in two cars, Masaki driving one and Shizu driving her father’s truck.  Derzerb and Gaster report in to Barcas.  Tetsuro tells Mizuki about what happened to Sho, but leaves out the fact the Zoanoid he fought was actually his father.  They stop, and find three Chronos agents - who look like identical triplets - facing them.  Tattooed on their foreheads are:  EII-02 through EII-04.

Chapter 22
 The Chronos agents transform into three Enzyme II Zoanoids.  Masaki tries to control them but is unsuccessful; Barcas is a far stronger telepath and now that he knows Murakami has mind-control powers is insuring they obey only him.  Masaki leaps back quickly enough that he’s only slightly scratched by the Enzyme II he was trying to control.  Agito becomes Guyver 3 and tries to attack them.  He shortly discovers he’s considerably outclassed.  One of the Zoanoids lifts up the car Sho is in (still unconscious), and throws it to the ground.

Chapter 23
 The car explodes, but Guyver 1 emerges from the flames unharmed.  One of the Enzymes runs at him, and the Guyver armor deserts Sho, much to his startlement.  Masaki blocks the blow, almost losing an arm in the process.  Another Enzyme attacks Sho, and Guyver 3 knocks him out of the way, getting badly raked by the Zoanoid’s claws in the process.   Sho tries calling the armor again, but it refuses to come to him.  Masaki turns into his Zoalord form once more.  He easily cuts one of the Enzyme II Zoanoids in half.

Chapter 24
 Barcas grimly concludes that Masaki is a Zoalord; a “prototype body” for  Guyot’s battleform.  “But - you’re the one who processed me into my Zoalord form!” Guyot objects.  Masaki kills the other two Enzymes, and then collapses, turning back into human form as he does so.  (It takes a lot of energy to power the Zoalord bio-weapons, and as a prototype Masaki doesn’t have anywhere near as much power as a full Zoalord does.)  They all squeeze into the single remaining car and head off again.  Masaki wakes up and begins to tell them a little about how he was turned into a prototype body for Zoalord Richard Guyot.

Chapter 25
 Evidently Masaki was covering  the efforts of an archeological team in New Zealand.  The news team he was with heard rumors of strange monsters in the jungles and went to investigate - only to find out the hard way they’d stumbled over a Chronos operation.  They were wiped out by Chronos.  Masaki was the only survivor; he was taken to one of Chronos’  bases and became an unwilling experimental subject.  Barcas is reminding Guyot that while he was being transformed into his Zoalord form, one of the scientists working for Chronos, a Dr. Shinichiro Yamamura, recruited four of the prototypes to join him in a rebellion against the Corporation.  It took the efforts of the other 11 members of the Chronos Council of 12 to defeat them. Murakami must be a survivor.  “I wonder why they wanted to destroy you, Guyot...” Barcas remarks, his suspicion evident.  Guyot wonders if Yamamura had guessed his plans for the Unit Gs Chronos had found.

Chapter 26
 Our heroes have taken to camping out in the woods to avoid Chronos goons.  As they eat, Masaki tells them more about what he’s been able to learn about the Creators since he was taken captive and turned into a human guinea pig.  “The Creators made human kind into a war-like species, to insure we’d become the best combatants they could engineer,” Agito adds.  Unknown to them, Aptom is in the trees overhead and listening in.  Masaki tells them that a Zoanoid wearing Guyver armor is not only more powerful than any of the Creators, but also is freed from the telepathic control of Zoalords or Creators.  And a Zoalord given a Guyver Unit becomes incredibly powerful - Yamamura had wondered if perhaps the Creators had abandoned Earth when they realized just how supernaturally powerful their still-primitive creations could be. Of all the Chronos Overlords, only Guyot knew of this potential.  He had planned to bond with one of the Units and use the incredible powers that would then become available to him to destroy the other eleven Chronos Overlords, making himself the sole commander of all Chronos forces - and thus, eventually ruler of the whole planet.

Chapter 27
 Back at the base, Guyot is screaming at one of his pet scientists about a project the man is working on - a project he doesn’t want Barcas to find out about.  Guyot thinks Barcas has come to Japan to keep an eye on him.  He knows that if Yamamura had guessed Guyot’s plans, the prototype body must know them as well.  He doesn’t dare let any of the other Overlords discover his plans, especially as he may soon have the key to separate the Unit G from a host...which means he will have to deal with Masaki personally.  As our friends talk, it all becomes too much for Mizuki; she runs off to be ‘by myself for a little while’.  Actually, she’s upset by how Shizu has been hanging on Agito, and the fact he seems to accept it - while ignoring Mizuki for the most part.  All this talk of humans being designed to be living weapons doesn’t sit well, either; she wishes she could just return home and normalcy... Masaki tells them about the discovery of the G Units.  He hopes the fact the Units have bonded means Guyot will not be able to become host to one himself, but he isn’t sure.  Sho gets worried about Mizuki and goes after her.  Masaki suddenly starts up; he senses another telepath in the area...It is Guyot, in battle dress, come to take his enemies on himself.  As they watch, he transforms into his full Zoalord battleform, which is much larger - and more bestial - than Masaki’s.

Chapter 28
 Aptom is keeping Barcas abreast of events as Agito calls the Guyver armor to himself.  Unfortunately, the guards accompanying Guyot transform into several Enzyme 2 Zoanoids.  Masaki’s forehead begins to glow as he feels the pressure.  Sho has found Mizuki, and tries to find out what’s wrong.  “I want to go back home, return to my life as a normal teenager!” she replies bitterly, and breaks into tears.  Sho takes her into his arms.  Back at the picnic site, Agito is having problems trying to keep from getting skewered by the Enzyme 2 Zoanoids.  Masaki has transformed into his own Zoalord form, but finds his power levels are nothing compared to Guyot’s.  Guyot blows off one of Masaki’s arms as Agito is nearly wiped out by a clawed swipe; the two battered warriors struggle back to their feet.  The Enzymes disintegrate; Guyot has taken them out of their processing vats too early.  Masaki and Agito combine their most powerful attacks, but Guyot survives it.  He launches his own attack - and in the forest, Sho and Mizuki see the top of the hill their friends were on explode, flattening everything in the neighborhood.

Book 5, Chapter 29
 Sho and Mizuki climb to the top of the hill, afraid of what they’re going to find.  All they see is a big hole in the ground, and a strange man in the center of it--who collapses just as Sho realizes it’s Guyot.  Then the sound of helicopters break the silence, and Sho pulls Mizuki away.  “It’s Chronos!” he tells her as they run back into the forest.  The ‘choppers bring in many more Zoanoid troops even as the injured, exhausted Guyot is medevacted out.  The four remaining members of the Hyper Zoanoid Team Five - lead by Zx-Tole - are in charge of the search to make sure no members of Sho’s party are still in the area.  Above them, Aptom has abandoned his post.  Barcas tries to contact the shape-shifter but discovers that - perhaps due in part to the alterations the Zoalord has recently made to the Lost Number - he can no longer telepathically monitor or control Aptom. Sho and Mizuki are located fairly quickly, and are on the run again as Sho discovers he still can’t call his Guyver armor to himself.  They are rescued by a megasmasher blast, apparently from Guyver 3.  Sho and Mizuki take cover as the Guyver faces the Zoanoids - but a closer look reveals the Guyver’s form to be rough, incomplete...

Chapter 30
 Dr. Barcas is supervising Guyot’s treatment as the Commander wakes up.  Guyot says something about even if he didn’t get a chance to wipe out Guyver 1, at least he’s finally eliminated Guyver 3.  Barcas tells him that Zoanoids have reported fighting Guyver 3 after Guyot’s attack, and Guyot is shocked.  “What does it  take to kill that damned traitor?” he shouts.  Sho and Mizuki have taken refuge in a hidden cave, and watch the Chronos guards thrashing around in the greenery outside.  Sho wants Mizuki to tell him if the organisms on his back that he uses to communicate with his Guyver are still there.   When he takes off his shirt to show her the telepathic organisms on his back, Mizuki gets all embarrassed and makes him put his shirt back on.  Sho wonders why he can’t call the Guyver armor.  Mizuki reminds him that he and Makishima had gone to Relics’ Point to try and rescue his father; what happened?  “My father - what happened to my father?” he asks, and throws up as he gets a nightmarish vision.  “Yes, what happened?  Shall I tell you what happened to your father?” inquires another voice; it’s the fake Guyver 3 - this time Sho knows the truth.  “You’re not Guyver 3, who are you?” Sho demands.  The Zoanoid transforms back into (naked) human form.  Sho knows he’s seen him from somewhere before...  “I’m Aptom.  You killed my fellow Lost Numbers,” Aptom says.  “If you don’t figure out how to get your Unit back, however, my revenge won’t be complete.  Shall I give you some incentive?”

Chapter 31
 Aptom forces Sho to remember and re-live the death of his father.  He then grabs Mizuki.  “You’ll have to become Guyver to save your girlfriend!” the Zoanoid sneers.  He wants a worthy foe to fight, and Sho minus the Guyver isn’t it.  Sho tries to fight hand-to-hand but is badly outclassed.  Then, still gripping Mizuki, Aptom turns into Enzyme 2.  Sho calls the Guyver, but no response comes.  Then Aptom starts ripping apart Mizuki’s clothes with his claws.  He even skewers Sho with one of the claws, and strips the girl naked.  Finally, Sho snaps, and the Guyver comes to him.  He grabs Mizuki and carries her to safety, then turns to fight Aptom.

Chapter 32
 The battle rages, with Aptom transforming into several types of Zoanoid and even combinations of different types.  It seems Dr. Barcas has re-processed the Lost Number and greatly improved his abilities.  They destroy a hell of a lot of other Zoanoids and landscape in the process.  Zx-Tole gets a report of what’s going on - he’s shocked to hear that Guyver 1 is back up in battle form, and then his informant is wiped out in the next surge of battle.  Sho wipes out Aptom and half the countryside with a monstrously strong megasmasher blow, and the Hyper Zoanoids race to investigate - and discover only a mile-long furrow cut into the ground from the cannon blast.  A furry arm is left behind...and after everyone is gone, Aptom begins to regenerate from that small bit of his remaining body.  “You haven’t seen the last of Aptom,” he says as he rises from the muck.

Chapter 33
 Sho finally arrives back at the cave, much to Mizuki’s relief.  In her shocked state of mind, embarrassment over nakedness is forgotten as she hugs Sho close.  The Hyper Zoanoids are still investigating, but are called back to base by Dr. Barcas.  They are interrupted by the arrival of Aptom - only head, torso, and one arm have regenerated, and he drops out of the trees on top of Elegen.  He immediately begins absorbing Elegen’s body and bio-energy, killing the Hyper Zoanoid in the process.  Barcas screams at him, but Aptom will no longer be controlled.  He resists the attacks of the other Hyper Zoanoids and escapes easily.

Chapter 34
 Sho and Mizuki are running for their lives through a small town, Takashima.  Townsmen turn into Zoanoids, obviously not aware that they’ve been earlier processed into the monsters - Barcas controls them easily with his telepathic powers.  Sho doesn’t want to hurt innocent people, and they are nearly captured.  Then the Zoanoids are falling - Guyver 3 has arrived, and has no compunction about killing Zoanoids, even if in human form they were unaware of their ability to transform.  Sho verifies - it is Agito Makishima, and not Aptom again... The older Guyver tells them everyone is safe, and he’s come to bring the two back with him.

Book 6,  Chapter 35
 In Arizona, a meeting of the Chronos Council of Twelve is forming.  They and their staffs are being briefed on Guyvers 1, 2, and 3, as well as Zoalord prototype Masaki Murakami.  (Much of this chapter is a ‘This is what’s been going on in the story before now’ chapter, disguised as a briefing for the Chronos Council of Twelve from Dr. Barcas.)  In the hidden base under Mount Minakami back in Japan, Sho and Agito - both disguised as Chronos guards - smuggle themselves and Mizuki into a small lab in the lower levels of the base.  They are greeted by the man in charge of the section, Dr. Shiyu Odagiri.  He was the assistant to Dr. Yamamura, who worked on Guyot’s Zoalord mutation.  While they pretend to bow their heads to Chronos, in truth he and his men are renegades who have been searching for ways to destroy the corporation.   “Murakami - how is he?” Sho asks.  “Makishima said he was badly injured...”  Odagiri shows them the vat Masaki is in; still in Zoalord form.  His arm is slowly being regenerated and his other injuries healed.  “But we haven’t been able to get him to wake up yet...”

Chapter 36
  Sho is shocked.  “My God, he looks terrible!  What happened?” he yelps, and Tetsuro describes for him the battle with Guyot, and how Masaki and Agito together blasted a hole in the ground beneath them that took them out of the way of Guyot’s blast at the last minute.  Odagiri found them, and brought them back to the laboratory.  One of the other scientists warns them that Guyot has appeared and is walking around the remains of the Creator spacecraft they have been looking into.  Guyot jerks as something touches him mentally; his forehead begins to light.  Behind Sho and the others, the forehead gem Zoalord Masaki wears glows in response.

Chapter 37
  In the forest above, Aptom is cheerfully ‘consuming’ more Zoanoids; he’s learned he can absorb their powers and bio-energy at will just by touching them.  The fact this results in the death of the Zoanoids doesn’t bother him.  (He’s sometimes referred to as the Life Eater in the series for this reason.)  Barcas is worriedly searching through his files on Aptom; but Aptom is a Lost Number - the files on his initial processing are useless.  He is distracted by the commotion Guyot is causing; the ‘dead’ spaceship is also responding to the mental energy of the Zoalords.  Then the gem on Masaki’s forehead dims, and so does Guyot’s.  In the lab, they rush to Masaki’s vat as he slowly returns to human form.

Chapter 38
  Aptom, well-fed and content, is sitting in the branches of a tree and contemplating Guyot’s transformation into battleform.  Sho, Mizuki and the others are taking a long-needed rest as Masaki lies in a hospital bed.  Outside, Aptom watches a bolt of light heading groundward.  Chronos guards see it to, and go to their knees as it resolves itself into the form of a young, blond man who they immediately know is a Zoalord.  Not wishing his arrival to be known, he blows off their heads - and then cuts  Aptom into small bits as well before heading for Guyot’s base.

Chapter 39
 In Arizona, several more members of the Council of Twelve arrive to take their seats at their conference table.  “We’re not pleased with the performance of Commander Guyot in the matter of Japan Branch and the Guyver Units,”  one tells them.  “His actions have become suspicious.  Archanfel has gone to Japan to take care of matters.”   In the underground base, Masaki has finally woken up and is greeted joyfully by his friends. Barcas still worries about Aptom, but becomes aware that someone else of power is approaching.  Another scientist is talking to Guyot; Dr. Shirai has discovered something he calls a “Unit Remover”.  When used by a Zoalord and fueled with his power, the device can cause the Guyver Unit to leave its host.  This device is something left behind by the Creators.

Chapter 40
  Guyot is understandably excited by this new weapon to be added to his arsenal; he’s become obsessed with destroying Agito Makishima/Guyver 3.  Odagiri is telling our heroes more about the spaceship - it seems that the Guyver Units were originally found inside it by a Zoanoid, who died in the process of bringing the devices to the outside. Odagiri tells them that his team have discovered indications that the Creators were working on a new weapon, one that would be powerful enough to stop a Zoalord with ease - and perhaps even powerful enough to stop a Zoalord in the Guyver unit. Guyot is chortling over the acquisition of the Unit Remover when Archanfel arrives.  He appears to be a young blond man, but closer examination shows that he not only has pointed ears (a trait he has in common with quite a few of the Chronos Elite) but also golden, cat-slitted eyes.  The two confront each other, and it’s obvious they are foes of long standing - and Archanfel is looking forward to cutting Guyot down to size.  (There are overtones here that this is a power struggle that has just broken into the open, with Archanfel maneuvering to defeat Guyot, who has been slowly increasing his influence and power within Chronos.)  Sho and Agito stand outside the spaceship, the scientists with them as their armor is called up.  They are going inside the craft and find out what they can - the scientists believe that the key to the Creator’s experimental weapon is in there somewhere...

Book 7, Chapter 41
  Aptom has regenerated again, this time splitting himself into three; all now dressed and helmeted as common Chronos guards.  Determined to find out what is going on and take revenge on Archanfel, they are going into the base for information - and to absorb more ‘food’.  Dr. Barcas has located the center of the disturbance - and recognizes Archanfel as the foe who is facing down Guyot.  Below, the Guyvers have been equipped with mini-cams and communications equipment prior to entering the Creator spaceship.  Slowly they enter its ‘mouth’ - and I do mean mouth, as the inside of the spaceship appears more organic than technological.  It easily opens for them; it is as if the ship recognizes the Guyver Units as belonging there (the Zoanoid who was sent in earlier had a much harder time getting in, and was dissolving as it stumbled back outside with the Units).  After the entrance closes and they proceed inside, liquids of some kind gush in; but the Units are untouched by the solvent.  Then an inner door opens, and they proceed further inside the spaceship.

Chapter 42
  Elsewhere, Guyot faces Archanfel and transforms into his Zoalord battleform, racing to find clear ground to fight in.  Both carelessly kill numerous guards who accidentally get in their way.  Barcas is horrified by the waste of good manpower.  Sho and Agito are still exploring the ship.  Finally they enter a chamber, in the center of which is a mound - and the three dents on its sides exactly match the size and shape of the Guyver Units before they were activated!  A hole opens under the Guyvers’ feet, and they descend into a lower, innermost chamber.  The diamond and circular shapes on its ceiling begin to glow, and they see a control dais in the center - surmounted by what looks like a huge version of their control medals.  Their presence has activated what seems to be a control center, and the ship begins to vibrate and pull loose of its moorings.  Several other Chronos scientists run out of their labs to find out what’s going on.

Chapter 43
  The control medal in the middle of the dais begins to glow, and the ones on the two Guyvers’ foreheads pulse in return.  A bright light appears in the air over them, and they are lifted toward it.  Sho is pulled into its center, and his control medal slowly separates into individual pieces, but all the parts remain connected.  Agito is dropped back to the floor; the ship seemingly content with just one Guyver.  “He isn’t being hurt,” Agito reports as he watches with fascination.  Then he gets telepathic images from Sho, and Guyver 3 realizes the ship has begun to communicate mentally with Guyver 1.  Sho is shown how the Creators genetically evolved life on the planet Earth, including the capability of humans to be turned into Zoanoids.  The Guyvers could be used to counter the Zoanoids should they get out of hand - but there is also a device that can destroy the Guyvers, known as the “Unit Remover”.  When used, the Remover will separate the Unit from its host, inactivating the Unit.  They are currently at the center of the ship; and the control medal can be used to give it orders.  The ship continues to shift under Sho’s growing excitement and stress.

Chapter 44
  Guyot and Archanfel continue their battle, destroying large sections of Relics’ Point in the process.  Zx-Tole and the other remaining two Hyper Zoanoids watch with horror and growing anger as their comrades are callously killed left and right.  They debate about going out to see if they can help put things back together.  Gaster is terrified by the thought that Aptom might have used the chaos to re-enter the base, and is left in the control room by Zx-Tole and Derzerb.  The Hyper Zoanoid is unaware that a strangely familiar face grins evilly at his back from under a guards’ helmet.  His comrades are ambushed by Aptom in a corridor outside.  Zx-Tole tries to blow the renegade Zoanoid away.

Chapter 45
  At first he appears to have been successful.  Then Gaster appears through a door.  Derzerb greets him, but as they touch Gaster’s hand starts to absorb Derzerb’s.  It is actually Aptom!  Zx-Tole blows the two apart but it is too late; Derzerb transforms into a new Aptom shape: a combination of Elegen, Gaster, and Derzerb. The battle starts over.  For a few minutes it appears Zx-Tole has won, but then a hand reaches through the floor and grabs one of the Team Five’s leader’s legs, tearing it off.  Aptom absorbs power and energy even from that small a segment, absorbing enough DNA to use Zx-Tole’s shape and abilities, too.  Zx-Tole is forced to retreat, injured.  Aptom descends to his wounded clone and the two recombine into one.  He changes into something that is a cross between Zx-Tole and Elegen...and thinks that next time Archanfel won’t defeat him quite so easily!

Chapter 46
   Sho is still talking with the ship, and reporting his findings back to the scientists.  One of Odagiri’s men, monitoring what’s going on elsewhere, reports that large sections of the base have been destroyed and the entire Chronos guard contingent is on alert.  “There are now two separate battles going on inside!” he tells them.  Barcas watches unhappily as Guyot launches a very strong, “Black Hole Vortex” attack against Archanfel...

Book 8, Chapter 47
  Huge lightning bolts strike outside the underground base, and guards above ground race to see what’s happened.  The light resolves itself into the forms of the other members of the Chronos Council of Twelve, and the guards kneel before them.  They watch the battle with interest and some trepidation; it appears most of them favor Archanfel - and at the moment it appears Guyot has the upper hand with his Black Hole Vortex.  Archanfel is drawn into it despite his best efforts to break free as Barcas is also nearly drawn into the Vortex.

Chapter 48
  The labs are all being evacuated as the base starts to fall apart around their ears.  Masaki and the others race out to the ship.  Sho warns them to get on board quickly; the area is seismically active and the battle between Guyot and Archanfel has started an earthquake - “The volcano is starting to become active!” he tells them.  They are nearly knocked off their feet by the next trembler.  Above, the Council watches what’s going on, but still does not interfere.  The Vortex is closed, Archanfel having been sucked inside.  Exhausted, Guyot drops like a rock to the floor far below, as Barcas surveys the damage to the base with considerable dismay.  Below, Guyver 3 exits the ship to greet the others, and lead them inside.  Something huge drops to the floor nearby, and Masaki’s Zoalord senses go hysterical.

Chapter 49
  It is - you guessed it - Zoalord Guyot.  He rises to his feet, and is overjoyed when he sees who’s watching him.  With a telepathic command, he summons the Unit Remover to him.  “I’ve got you this time, Guyver 3!” he crows.    Agito leaps at him, and Guyot fires the Unit Remover.  Agito lands, hard, and his Guyver armor starts to sag around him, leaving his real skin and clothes visible underneath.  With a supreme effort of will, Agito forces the armor to reassemble, but he falls to his knees from the effort.  Masaki plants himself in front of Agito.

Chapter 50
  Sho, still inside the spaceship, knows what’s going on and is getting more and more upset.  Outside, Guyot laughs at Masaki’s effort to protect Guyver 3.  “I have to kill you, too, anyway; you’re just making it easier!” Guyot tells him, and begins to summon power.  Masaki’s Zoalord forehead crystal begins to glow in return due to the power flux, and Masaki is alarmed by its uneven ‘feel’.  Guyot tells him that Murakami  is just a prototype.  He, the finished model, can control the prototype’s power field.  Then Guyot shoots bio-lasers at Masaki - but Odagiri pushes the young man out of the way, taking the fatal blasts himself, falling into Agito’s arms.  Masaki struggles to his feet and transforms into his Zoalord form.  He knocks Guyot down in a surprise attack, as the Commander was still concentrating on Agito.  During the respite, the others all crowd into the spaceship as it begins to rise, taking the fatally wounded Odagiri with them.  He’ll get to see the inside of the spaceship before he dies.  Guyot struggles to his feet, but Masaki sees him and sends another power blast the Commander’s way.

Chapter 51
   Guyot loses one horn and gets a nasty cut through the shoulder from the attack.  He falls off the spaceship’s skin, and Masaki collapses to his knees.  Despite the efforts of his colleagues, Odagiri dies from his injuries.  The base collapses completely as the ship continues to slowly force its way upward.  The Council watches in horror, Dr. Barcas joining their number.  Masaki struggles to his feet, trying to reach the ship’s door.  A clawed hand reaches out and grabs him - it is Guyot, who hauls the exhausted Zoalord prototype up by one foot and holds him upside down.  Masaki is too tired to effectively fight back.  Guyot throws him to the ship’s skin, holds him down with one foot and tears one of Masaki’s arms off.  Sho screams with shared agony, and the ship leaps skyward.  The Council gapes as the ancient ship rises skyward.  Guyver 1 joins the fray, as Barcas screams to the Council that they can’t afford to lose a resource as valuable as the ship to their enemies.  “Best destroy it first!” he tells them.  Guyver 1 faces Guyot, who holds a bleeding Zoalord Masaki upside down by one foot once more.

Chapter 52
  Guyot shatters Masaki’s Zoalord forehead gem and throws him at Sho.  Guyver 1 catches the fatally wounded Masaki as Guyot laughs and points the Unit Remover at him.  Guyver 3 pops up behind him, and Guyot swings around - still more obsessed with destroying Agito than Sho.  Masaki dies in Sho’s arms.  Bolts of energy slash around them as the Council of Twelve attacks.  One of Guyver 3’s arms is blown off.  A bright light appears near them, and a strange form appears.  It is Archanfel, in his battle form.  The Council is overjoyed to see him, and his first move is to tear the Zoacrystal from the Commander’s head.  Agito kills  Guyot with a megasmasher blast, destroying the Unit Remover at the same time.  The two Guyvers combine power attacks against Archanfel, and but Archanfel is too power as he easily reflects the megasmasher blasts with one hand right back at the two Guyvers and the ship. The resulting explosion destroys the ship completely.  Archanfel lands lightly on the ground below, realizing that magma is rising from the ground; the volcano the base was built in has erupted.  Guyot’s power gem still in his hand, he stands before the Council of Twelve and watches the volcano’s bright destruction.  Behind him, he notices the still, fragmented form of Zoalord prototype Masaki and looks it over with a thoughtful expression in his eyes.  The members of the Council bow to him as the volcano’s fire lights the scene.

Book 9, Chapter 53
   Several months have passed, and Chronos has successfully made its move to take over the world.  Zoanoids are rapidly defeating armed forces all over (most of the ones Yoshiki shows are US military forces).  Zoanoids have even taken over the White House.  In Japan, the Japanese Prime Minister is admitting defeat to Chronos and the Zoanoids.  Brief scenes of normal humans ‘morphing out’ into Zoanoid form - many of them people who didn’t know they were Zoanoids and controlled in battle form by Chronos personnel - are shown from locales as far-flung as Beijing, Moscow, Paris, and London.  Cut to the seemingly barren Arizona desert (probably Monument Valley), and the Chronos base beneath its sands.  Several members of the Council of Twelve are discussing the status of their operation to take over control of the world.  More scenes of Zoanoids wreaking destruction against military forces.  They even prove they can withstand the forces of nuclear blasts (at least the ones on the periphery, anyway!).  Later, at Mt. Ararat, the Council meets to bow before Archanfel as he greets the rising sun, acknowledging that he’s now the top leader of Chronos.

Chapter 54
  Somewhere, a rock band called “Jukadan” is playing; the members are all Zoanoids.  As the crowd screams at the end of the concert, they all change back into bishonen - young men so handsome they’re almost pretty, and of course naked to boot.  The crowd goes wild.  A young woman walks along a street with groceries in her arms and looks at a TV monitor displaying the concert.  She makes an unpleasant face.  We draw away from her and see she’s in Tokyo, with the new Chronos Japan HQ building rising from the center of the city.  She watches a helicopter landing on the helipad at the top of the structure.  It is the arrival of Paul Kushtar, one of the members of the Council of Twelve, returning from Ararat.  His subordinate reports everything going smoothly.  Dr. Barcas is also present.  They go to look at a vat in which someone - something - is growing, but Yoshika doesn’t show us any details.  Cut to the inside of a small house, the name outside says Natsuki - the name of Mizuki and Tetsuro’s friend in high school.  Tetsuro, Mizuki, Shizu, Roujin are all inside, working at computers and such as Natsuki comes in the door.  It seems Natsuki has gotten a rather drastic haircut after graduating from school.  Mizuki looks over at pictures on the desk of Masaki and the Doctor’s group from the mountain, with incense burning before them.  She wonders if they should light joss for Sho and Agito, too; but hopes that somewhere the two Guyvers are still alive.  Tetsuro is busy trying to find information on Chronos that they can use against the enemy, but wonders if it’s any use at all.

Chapter 55
   Mizuki has gone out into the rain and uses binoculars to look at the house she and Tetsuro used to live in.  The sign by the front door still reads “Sugawa”,  and thinks she sees her mother and father.  The house is still being guarded by Chronos.  Then two cops come up and want to know what she’s doing, and Natsuki arrives just in time to drag her away before their questions become too pointed.  The cops go look through their ‘wanted’ list and discover she’s Mizuki Sugawa.  Before the men can alert anyone, a man comes up and grabs them both by the neck.  They try to transform into Zoanoids to fight him, but Aptom just grins and absorbs all their energy.  Back at Natsuki’s apartment, Tetsuro is having a screaming fit all over his little sister, who breaks into tears.  Eventually they go to sleep.  At Chronos, they’re looking at a strange oval object their forces found in the snows of the North America;  debris from the explosion of the Creators’ spaceship.  It is a little larger than a man, and looks like it is made of the same material as the Guyver armor.   In Toronto, Canada, humans are raiding a factory complex run by Chronos.  Zoanoids counterattack, and one breeches their defenses.  A blurred form whips past the humans, and Guyver 3 cuts the Zoanoid into shreds.  As Agito dismisses his armor, the men happily address him as “Boss”.  He is thinking of that oval object, too - Sho Fukamachi is inside it, and he wonders what changes are being made to his ally inside that cocoon.

Chapter 56
   A chopper arrives at Chronos Japan to pick up Dr. Barcas.  He is going to Chronos HQ to examine the oval object.  Aptom watches him leave.  He then returns his attention to the house across the street.  Through the window  he can see Tetsuro and the others.  He wonders if he should contact them; they are enemies of Chronos, too, and thus might be willing to become his allies.  *Not yet,* he decides.  *To them I’m probably still only another Zoanoid...* Somewhere in the US, in an abandoned auto plant, humans are building tanks.  Agito watches quietly, then turns to discuss the progress of their resistance plans with a young man.  (His group has, appropriately enough, taken Guyver 3’s nom du guerre of Zeus.) He describes how, after the space ship was blown away, the huge control medal that ran the spaceship caught up both he and Sho, encasing them in protective material.  Agito watched as Sho dissolved, and then Guyver 1’s control medal merged with that of the ship.  At that point the debris  landed, and Agito - arm partially regenerated - tore his way out of the covering.  Beside him was an oval made of the same material, a cocoon of some sort.  He could sense Fukamachi inside, but could not communicate with him.  Chronos troop choppers had arrived almost immediately, and Guyver 3 was not yet recovered enough to try and carry the pod away or fight the soldiers.  He had retreated into hiding instead, and watched in frustration as the troops had taken away the cocoon.  Agito is determined to retrieve the cocoon before Chronos breaks into it and does something to Guvyer 1.  Not only because Sho is friend and ally, but because he’s afraid one way or another Chronos may be able to discover a way to turn Guyver 1 - or at least the Unit - into a Chronos pawn.

Chapter 57
   Barcas has arrived at Chronos HQ and is going to view the oval cocoon.  He uses his considerable telepathic powers to probe the interior of the cocoon, but gets no response.  “There’s something alive in there, but it’s unconscious and does not respond to my thoughts,” he reports.  Inside, Sho is having nightmares about Archanfel in his battle form, knowing that this is the shape of the true enemy.  In Tokyo, Aptom is walking down a deserted street and enters the grounds of a construction project.  A powerfully built man follows him, and Aptom turns and recognizes the other as Zx-Tole, last of the Hyper Zoanoid Team Five.  Zx-Tole transforms, and he’s now different - he has willingly gone back into the vats and been engineered into an even more powerful Zoanoid.  Battle rages across the skies of Tokyo, and debris rains down on the city.  Tetsuro and the others hear the battle, and wonder if Sho or Agito is involved.  They go racing out to try and see something more.

Chapter 58
  The battle between Aptom and Zx-Tole continues in the skies.  Aptom fights stubbornly, but it becomes obvious that he’s outclassed by Zx-Tole’s new form.  Below, Tetsuro and the others run after the combatants.  Mizuki is convinced it’s Sho.  She screams his name aloud.  Back in the US, the cocoon begins to vibrate as Sho responds to her mental summons.  The cocoon rises as stunned Chronos personnel race around trying to do something - trace it, contain it, whatever comes to mind!  Agito senses Sho’s awakening, and - now not far outside the Chronos building - sees the oval disappear in a teleport jump.  Aptom falls from the skies, and Tetsuro and company run to the area where he’s crashed, expecting to see a damaged Guyver - instead, they see a badly injured Zoanoid sprawled out across a trashed car.

Book 10,  Chapter 59
  Chronos is trying to reassure the populace of Tokyo that the situation is under control, and most of the humans in the city don’t believe them - but also are mostly too cowed or apathetic to do anything about it.  The injured Zoanoid - he has one leg and an arm blown off - returns to human form, and Mizuki recognizes him as Aptom.  Tetsuro asks why Aptom is being pursued. Aptom replies he’s no longer with Chronos and is now considered an enemy of the organization.  Zx-Tole arrives and laughs as he realizes who they are; these are the humans Chronos has been searching for so long!  He blasts Aptom again, blowing off his other leg.  Before he can finish him off, there is a loud Boom! as the cocoon arrives.  “Master Agito!” Shizu screams as she sees Guyver 3 leap off the cocoon and land on a rooftop above them.  It seems his Guyver Unit was able to follow Sho’s cocoon into the teleport, and it dragged him along with it back to Tokyo.  “Where’s Sho?” Mizuki asks.  “In there,” Agito replies, pointing to the cocoon where it’s landed.  Mizuki runs to it as Agito becomes airborne and an incensed Zx-Tole, forgetting Aptom, flies up after him.  Paul Kushtar, monitoring the battle from Chronos Japan, sends out two Zoanoids to observe and report.   Tetsuro helps Aptom sit up, and the renegade Zoanoid sends a missile after Zx-Tole.  It startles the Hyper Zoanoid enough for Agito to use his megasmasher cannon.  Unfortunately, Zx-Tole just absorbs the blast - and then uses the smoke from the explosion to hide his own attack.  He rams into Guyver 3, the three sharp horns of his head impaling the startled Agito, then sends a strong electrical current through him before dropping him to the ground.  Zx-Tole follows, and blasts Aptom one more time before striding toward the unconscious Guyver 3.  “This time you won’t escape me, Guyver 3!” he snarls.  Shizu throws herself in front of him, and says he’ll have to kill her first; Zx-Tole says that won’t be a problem.  Mizuki screams for Sho, and the cocoon disintegrates, revealing a dangerous looking form - a huge Guyver: the Guyver Gigantic (among fans sometimes called the Hyper Guyver)  armor.  The control medal governing most of his actions, Guyver 1 protects everyone from Zx-Tole’s next attack, then takes off after the Hyper Zoanoid.  Fried'rich von Purg'stallis startled by what he sees through the observing Zoanoids; he isn’t sure what he’s witnessing.  Has Aptom found a way to gain even more power and assume this strange form?  Then he gets a good look at its head and realizes it seems to be some sort of Guyver.  Hyper Guyver destroys one observer, and Zoalord Kushtar flies out to get a look in person.  The second Zoanoid approaches the group on the ground.  He recognizes both Aptom and Guyver 3.  Unfortunately, Kushtar isn’t at his post to receive that report.  Zx-Tole prepares for a final, all-out attack on this new enemy,   and remembers his friends and vat-mates - the late members of the Team Five.  *One way or another, I’ll be joining you shortly,* he thinks as both he and the Hyper Guyver fire at each other.  Zx-Tole is dissolved by the blast.  Paul Kustar is injured, and struggles to control his fall.   Below, Aptom catches the second Zoanoid observer and uses its energy and form to revitalize his ravaged body.  He decides retreat is the better part of valor and takes off.  Hyper Guyver arrives; the outside layer peels off and disappears, leaving Guyver 1; then the regular Guyver armor leaves, and Sho - this time naked - collapses into Mizuki’s arms.  (Yes, this was a double-length chapter; probably done for a special issue of the manga magazine it appears in.)

Chapter 60
  Sho is having a strange dream, reliving the events of the past from the beginning of his battle with Guyot in rather surrealistic terms.  He wakes to find his worried friends all gathered around him.  They tell him the Doctor and his team all died after the explosion - they were evidently all booby-trapped and once outside their base, they died rather horribly.  Sho vows to revenge them, and Masaki.  Barcas is interviewing Kushtar, who managed to not make too bad a crash-landing.  He relays to them the images of the Guyver Gigantic.  In Tokyo, Natsuki returns to the house, and Sho at first doesn’t recognize her - and then finds it hard to believe that the quiet, demure Natsuki has turned into this rather loud, aggressive woman.  Sho doesn’t remember anything about the Guyver Gigantic armor, so they tell him about it; Agito adding in details he picked up from his own Guyver Unit.  Back in Arizona, the Council is discussing this new threat, and are rather relieved when Archanfel shows up.  “I have something to combat this new Guyver,” he says.  “Meet the newest Chronos General - Masaki Murakami.” It is indeed Masaki, his sunglasses intact, hair much longer and wearing a new uniform.  Shortly he is arriving in Tokyo.

Chapter 61
  A large, angry crowd is surrounding the Tokyo Chronos tower, wanting to know what’s going on.  The police and Chronos guards are struggling to keep them from breaking into full riot.  Later that night, the two Guyvers stand on the top of a building looking at the Chronos building.  Guyver 3 takes off for a covert entry, while Sho calls the Hyper Guyver and makes a frontal assault.  Eventually both get into the nerve-center of the building, where a man faces away from them, his hair halfway down his back.  “Paul Kushtar?” one of the Guyvers asks, hesitantly - even from the back this man doesn’t look like the blond Zoalord.   “I didn’t think I’d ever see you again - Sho,” Masaki replied, turning around.  Both Guyvers recognize him as their old friend...

Chapter 62
   Smoke pours from the Chronos building; Tetsuro and the others watch worriedly, knowing the Guyvers were in the middle of it.  Masaki faces the Guyvers, and his words prove that he’s been turned into a loyal Chronos general.  He then blasts the both of them with an energy bolt.  The force of the explosion punches the two Guyvers through the outside wall of the building.  Sho makes a crater in the concrete, and Masaki is close behind, intent on killing him before he has a chance to call the Hyper Guyver armor.  He is knocked back by power blasts, and then Sho is scooped up under the cover of the dust and smoke.  Masaki looks up and sees a strange Zoanoid with Guyver 1 in its arms.  “Aptom...” Sho whispers.  “Aptom? Bastard!” Masaki hisses.  He destroys the building in an attempt to get them, but both Aptom and Sho duck out before the blow can land; Aptom has recognized the attack as one Archanfel used against him when the Council member showed up for the first time at Barcas’ base.  Aptom fires a phalange of missiles at Masaki. The Chronos general protects himself with a shield and is unhurt, but doesn’t notice the strange noises and cracking wall behind him.  Then Guyver 3 breaks through the wall.  Never one to let sentiment get in his way when someone seems to have become an enemy, Agito launches a full-scale attack against Masaki.  Murakami ducks fast enough that only his cape and glasses are damaged by Agito’s sonic swords.  Holding one hand to his eyes as the glasses shatter, Murakami blows Guyver 3 away with a force ball; Agito’s limp form falls into Sho’s arms.  The glasses fall away, and we see Masaki now has Archanfel’s cat-like eyes.  Furious, the air crackles around Masaki as he starts to call his Zoalord form into being.

Book 11, Chapter 63
  Masaki transforms into his new Zoalord battle form, the zoacrystal once belonging to Guyot set into the middle of his forehead.  “I am Zoalord Imakarum Mirabilis!” he declares.  His new battle form looks more powerful, more massive than the prototype one he had before; while still far more humanoid than Guyot’s, it is more monstrous than before.  He sends a power-bolt at Sho, still holding the dazed Agito in his arms.  Both Guyvers are sent flying.  Aptom is repairing himself as he watches from below, trying to keep a low profile until he has an idea of what’s going on.  Sho is trying to talk to Masaki, but Agito warns him that Murakami has probably been totally brain-washed.  Guyver 3 notices that Imakarum’s forehead crystal is glowing again, and the two Guyvers barely get out of the way of the massive blast the Zoalord now sends their way.   Chronos - and the rest of the city - is watching the battle, as Chronos-controlled news crews zoom in with helicopters and telephoto lenses.  Mizuki and the others also get an eyeful, and wonder if this is the battleform of the Zoalord controlling the Pacific Area from Tokyo, Paul Kushtar. Chronos twists the news to suit their own purposes.  The battle has now moved out over Tokyo Bay.  Both Guyvers attack, but the Zoalord easily deflects their efforts, turning some of them back upon his foes.  Aptom arrives at full speed to knock both Guyvers out of the way of a particularly nasty attack.  Then the Zoalord sends a bolt that knocks all three of his enemies out of the sky, and Sho finds himself being held by the throat in Imakarum’s clawed hands, as the Zoalord starts to try and tear the control medal out of his forehead.  Sho briefly remembers the earlier Masaki, then calls up the ‘Guyver Gigantic’ armor.  Its arrival breaks Imakarum’s hold on Guyver 1, and he falls into the ocean.  The Zoalord uses his powers to blow a hole in the ocean, revealing the three he’s been fighting on the ocean floor - and the Guyver Gigantic getting ready to fire its megasmasher cannon.  Masaki is caught in the  nimbus of the blast, but only dazed - when he recovers, Sho, Agito and Aptom have disappeared.

Chapter 64
   Frustrated and upset, Agito and Sho return to Natsuki’s apartment to discover the Chronos-controlled media has named them the terrorists, and put the blame for the destruction caused during their battle with Zoalord Imakarum Mirabilis on the two Guyvers.  Imakarum is proclaimed a hero, valiantly saving the city from any further destruction the terrorists might have caused.Aptom is sitting atop a tower contemplating the powers displayed by the new Zoalord, so much like those used by Archanfel.  He remembers his fellow Lost Numbers, and wonders what is going to happen next.  In a structure near the Dead Sea in Israel, the Council of Twelve have gathered at Archanfel’s command.  Using all twelve of their zoacrystals, they activate another Creator  spaceship - this one much larger than the smaller one Sho brought to life earlier.  Shortly it is airborne, then space borne.  The Council gloats over this new acquisition, while the rest of the world wonders what it’s going to mean.

Chapter 65
  Tetsuro and the others read about the emergence of the new Creator spaceship with shock and trepidation, wondering what new weapons Chronos will find aboard. The Council is calling it “Hakobune” or “the Ark” - yes, as in Noah’s Ark; Agito remarks caustically that it’s probably actually a battleship of some sort.  The Council of Twelve has the ship spaceborne, and is putting it through its paces.  On a remote island, stocked with various genetic experiments - not only dinosaurs but also mythological creatures like satyrs and mermaids.  Archanfel and Imakarum arrive like bolts of lightning (Imakarum refers to Archanfel as ‘Master’).  They land on what looks like an old Mayan temple.  Archanfel collapses, and Mirabilis carries him inside the temple and places him on a stone slab; Archanfel has used too much power and must take time to regenerate.  Archanfel says something about needing one of the Unit Gs to completely regain his full power. The massive stone doors close behind Imakarum as he leaves, his goal to locate and destroy the Guyvers.

Chapter 66
  In Tokyo, a man is running for his life - Aptom is hunting him.  Cornered in a dead-end alley, Aptom grabs him by the throat and begins draining him - but the man turns into something that looks more like a primitive Zoalord prototype than a Zoanoid; and Aptom lets him go, suddenly realizing his prey is one of Odagiri’s team - and another experimental subject.  In fact - another Lost Number!   Imakarum and Zoalord Paul Kushtar, the Pacific area controller, are at the Chronos Tokyo  looking at four Zoanoid processing vats, in which new Zoanoids are being brought to maturity.  Imakarum seems pleased at their progress, while Kushtar seems a bit worried that the newest Zoalord seems to be entirely too obsessed with the Guyvers.
 At Natsuki’s place, the rebels are contemplating how events have turned out, and are not very happy.  There is a knock at the door - it is Natsuki, who has brought Aptom - and behind the Lost Number is the man whose life he has spared, Dr. Hayami.  Unknown to them, a Zoanoid has seen Aptom, and then recognizes Agito and Sho.  He notified headquarters.  Mirabilis’s lips curve in anticipation, and he summons his four new Zoanoids to him.  They transform into the new Enzyme III as he becomes Zoalord once more...

Book 12, Chapter 67
  In Arizona, Dr. Barcas is receiving reports of Imakarum’s hunt for the Guyvers, and wonders what Archanfel is up to.  In Tokyo, Dr. Hayami and Aptom are describing for the Guyvers and their friends some of the processes they went through when Chronos experimented on them, when Aptom notices the Zoanoid spying on them.  He immediately kills the observer, and they realize there are several Vamores targeting the house with their bio-lasers.  They barely manage to escape by taking to the air, the Guyvers and Aptom carrying the members of the group who cannot fly.  They head toward the countryside, only to find Zoalord Imakarum Mirabilis hovering in the air before them, blocking their path.

Chapter 68
  Imakarum gloats that the renegades cannot escape this time, not burdened with the need to carry their non-powered allies.  He strikes, and hits Sho with a power blast.  The Guyver Gigantic drops Tetsuro because of the impact, and Sho frantically dives after his best friend, barely catching him before he hits the ground.  Tetsuro has lost his glasses, and the other two land nearby, also depositing their passengers.  Imakarum lands on a rock in the middle of the nearby river.  He recognizes all  his former allies - including Dr. Hayami, who he thought had died.  As he speaks, the Enzyme 3 Zoanoids surround the group.  Aptom attacks one of them with Elegen’s tentacles and electrical pulses; then fires bio-missiles at them - but to no effect, as they almost immediately heal the damage they have taken.  They counter-attack, and Aptom finds himself on the receiving end once more. Mirabilis tells them gleefully that Chronos has learned a lot from previous battles with the Guyvers and Aptom; the Enzyme 3 models have been designed with that new information in mind.  They are even more powerful than the re-genetically engineered Zx-Tole was!  Sho decides to take the battle back into the air, and the Zoalord is immediately flying after him.

Chapter 69
  The Guyver Gigantic and Zoalord Imakarum begin their battle, Sho handicapped by his sentimental feelings for his former friend and ally.  The fight rages far overhead, above the cloud cover - from the ground all that is visible are flashes of light breaking through the mists.  Below, Guyver 3 is getting beaten up as badly as Aptom by the new model Enzyme Zoanoids.  The two stand back to back as they face their enemies.  Aptom and Agito make a quick plan; Aptom distracts the Enzymes long enough for the Guyver to use his megasmashers against them.

Chapter 70
  The others are horrified until they realize that while Aptom has been damaged, Agito managed to avoid killing him.  All that is left is his torso, but from that the Lost Number will be able to regenerate.  Guyver 3’s sensors then detect danger - he has not killed all the Enzyme 3s after all, as the one survivor bursts out of the ground in what he hoped would be a surprise attack.  Yohei throws himself in front of Agito, taking the brunt of the attack; both Guyver 3 and the old man fall to the ground - the Zoanoid’s clawed hand has gone all the way through Yohei and into Agito’s chest!  Aptom, even as crippled as he is, gets a bio-laser shot off at the Enzyme - who skips out of the way of the blast, also now out of reach of his victims.  Shizu collapses to her knees next to her grandfather, tears running down her  face.  Above, the Guyver Gigantic and the Zoalord continue their fight.  Sho strikes at Mirabilis’ neck with one of his sonic swords...

Chapter 71
  Sho can’t bring himself to deliver that final blow, and Imakarum takes advantage of his hesitation to knock his enemy away and increases his power levels, destroying his uniform to
reveal the full extent of his own transformation before he strikes at Sho once more.  Below, Shizu is still grieving over her grandfather’s body.  Aptom is too badly crippled to fight very well, and Agito’s Guyver has not yet healed its host -  still losing blood, he is too weak to even get to his feet.  As Aptom is attacked by an Enzyme 3, Hayami decides it’s up to him.  He begins his own transformation - and his allies realize that he was made into something half Zoanoid,  half Zoalord - while he does not possess a Zoacrystal, he is far more like Murakami and Guyot than a normal Zoanoid.  He attacks the Enzyme 3 beating up on the crippled Aptom.  The battle continues, with Aptom and Guyver 3 putting in their two cents’ worth as well as they begin to recover somewhat.  Hiyami leads the sole surviving Enzyme out into the river, then uses his powers to freeze both river and Zoanoid.  Guyver 3 finishes the Chronos monster off with his sonic attack, shattering its’ body into bits.  Hayami crawls to shore and collapses, returning to human form - reminding us of Murakami the first few times he transformed into his Zoalord prototype body.  Before anyone has a chance to relax, Mirabilis floats into view - holding up an unconscious Guyver 1 by a firm hold around Sho’s head. The Guyver Gigantic armor has disappeared.

Chapter 72
  A shuttle from Chronos’ “Ark” arrives at their main Arizona base, settling into the hollow center of the stone monolith it is located in.  One of the Council of Twelve, Zoalord Shin, debarks, and is greeted by Dr. Barcas.  They discuss the progress they have made in investigating the “Ark”, and wonder what Archanfel is doing now.  In Japan, Sho’s allies react with horror as they see what Imakarum has in a powerful grip.  “Hmm, I see my Enzyme 3s failed to take you down...” he remarks, then tells them he has won anyway.  Guyver 3 tries to contact Guyver 1 telepathically, eventually getting through Sho’s daze.  Sho begins to call the Guyver Gigantic.  Mirabilis begins to squish his head, but it’s too late - for Sho sends the cocoon of the Guyver Gigantic armor to Agito, and he steps into its enfolding ‘petals’  Alarmed, Murakami drops his beaten foe, as the armor’s case begins to open, revealing glowing, angry eyes...

Book 13, Chapter 73
  Agito emerges from the cocoon to face a startled - and somewhat shaken - Imakarum.  Guyver 3 names his version of the “Hyper Guyver” armor the “Gigantic Guyver Dark”, and tells the Zoalord that, unlike Sho, he won’t hold back in battle.  Imakarum takes off, Agito in close pursuit as the others watch.  Meanwhile, Zoalord Fried'rich von Purg'stallis monitoring the situation with some misgivings.  If the battle ends up over a major city... In the air over the city now, the two antagonists exchange energy weapon fire of one sort or another, with Mirabilis finally realizing just how powerful the Gigantic armor can be when controlled by a host who is a trained fighter not tied down by sentiment.

Chapter 74
  The battle continues, with the collateral damage mounting rapidly.  Fried'rich von Purg'stallis getting more and more upset at both property damage and the deaths of civilians.  Imakarum tries to dodge various blows, but Agito’s forehead laser wounds him badly.  In fear of his life, the Zoalord utilizes his ability to create a mini black hole, hoping to destroy his foe in a last-ditch attack.

Chapter 75
  The powerful black hole starts to suck up everything on the ground, people as well as cars, trash cans, buildings, ocean water... Fried'rich von Purg'stallis appalled when he realizes what Imakarum has done. Agito uses the Gigantic armor to resist the pull as he analyzes this new attack.  Seeing a weakness, he releases a double-barreled megasmasher blast at the center of the vortex, which blows it apart.  He follows up with an entirely physical attack (perhaps by this point his power levels are too drained for an energy attack?) and punches out Imakarum, striking the Zoacrystal in his forehead.  The crystal cracks - and Archanfel, distant as he is, is awakened by the echo of the blow as Mirabilis screams in agony.

Chapter 76
  The Gigantic armor comes apart, somewhat to Agito’s surprise.  I suspect he doesn’t have enough bio-energy left at this point to keep it going.  Imakarum falls into the sea.  Agito senses another Zoalord approaching, recognizes it is Paul Kushtar.  Agito disappears into the ocean depths as well. The area chief arrives and hovers in mid-air, assessing the damage done by the battle.  Paul is distracted by a warping of the air - and Archanfel arrives via teleport!  The chief Zoalord ignores Fried'rich von Purg'stall as he searches for Imakarum, finally telekinetically pulling him out of the ocean.  *Master...* comes the faint whisper in his mind from his subordinate.  Meanwhile, a triumphant Guyver 3 returns to where his friends and allies await him.

Chapter 77
  The Council - minus Archanfel and Mirabilis - meet in Tokyo to debate the most recent clash between Zoalord and Guyver.  The Guyver Gigantic armor is far more powerful than they had realized, they agree.  It makes a Guyver powerful enough to defeat one of the strongest of their number.  Barcas wonders if he should reveal to them what he knows about Archanfel’s origins.  Elsewhere, our rebels - minus Aptom for the moment - have retreated into the mansion that conceals the late Dr. Onigiri’s secret laboratory, where Hayami was processed into his Zoanoid form.  Agito tells them he’s going back to America to check on his men there.  Sho agonizes over the death and destruction that has been caused.   On Archanfel’s guarded, secret island, Imakarum, still unconscious, floats in an ancient processing chamber under his master’s watchful eye.  “Let me die, Master; I’ve failed you...* his mind-voice whispers to the senior Zoalord.

Chapter 78
  In New York, a squad of Zoanoids is attacking the hidden base Agito’s men have been working in. As they attack, several of the Zoalords discuss current events.  Barcas admits he isn’t sure Archanfel is entirely human in origin. The Zoanoids quickly overrun the perimeter defenses, cornering the human leaders in an underground room.  Before they can capture or kill the rebels, the Zoanoids begin to fall.  The humans find a trail of destruction, leading to the Guyver Gigantic Dark armor as Agito crushes the head of yet another Zoanoid.  There is a sigh of relief from the surviving men as they realize: “I don’t believe it!  Is that you, boss?”  Agito tells them the Gigantic armor may be the key to winning the war against Chronos.

Chapter 79
  Barcas reveals to the other Chronos Overlords that 400 years ago he was on a galleon as part of a convoy in the Pacific (I think they were Dutch merchantmen heading for Japan and China).  The fleet was sunk after being driven off course by a storm, blown into whirlpools caused by the currents around the reefs protecting a tiny island.  Barcas was the only survivor, and found himself washed up on the shore of the strange land.  The wildlife there was incredible.  He now knows that most of the beasts he saw were prehistoric creatures from various eras, as well as some mythological beasts - like real mermaids!  Panicking as some large dinosaurs approached, he  ran for his life - until he tripped over a vine and landed on an ancient, paved walkway.  Following it, he entered a huge stone temple (the same one Imakarum put Archanfel to sleep in back in volume 11).  The carvings on the wall showed all the various island life-forms bowing to a strange winged being (readers will recognize it as a rendering of Archanfel’s Zoalord manifestation).  Entering an inner chamber, Baracas saw a glowing, liquid-filled, egg-shaped capsule.  (It’s the same one Imakarum now floats in.)  Inside, visible through the transparent skin of the egg, floated a sleeping form - that of Archanfel..
 

Note: This below synopsis was written by Star.  Some translations are not 100% accurate and only things that are important to the plot are mentioned.  Stuff like 'how are you?' are left out as this is only a page by page SUMMARY of the important events.  Excuse any spelling and grammatical errors.

 Book 14, Chapter 80
In the huge Chronos building, Cloud Gate, Doctor Barcus continues to talk to the two Zoalords about Archanfel.  The hidden island of Silha, separated from the outside world by ten water vortexes and powerful electro-magnetic fields, was one of the Creator's experimental grounds.  On this island, animals from ancient times still flourish today.  It is, the last of the 'Holy Grounds' of the Creators.

"So then, is that where Archanfel remained under a dormant state?" asked Purg'stall

"Correct" replied the elder Zoalord, "Inside the temple..."

**goes back into Barcus' memories**

When Barcus touched the oval containing Archanfel, the man awoke and telepathically spoke to him.  Barcus knew that Archanfel was a far more advanced, intelligent, and more powerful life form as he could feel power emanate from him.  Barcus immediately yields and states that he will become his servant.

From that day forth, Barcus' life changed.  Archanfel reveals that he will be needing another ten servants, in addition to Baracus.  He will be sharing a portion of his power with them; because one day, he willl lead his army and wage war on Heaven.  So, before long, Arhcanfel took eleven Zoa-crystals from his body and gave them to his servants, one of which was Barcus over hundreds of years.  All  other Zoalords were hand-picked by Barcus after he received his crystal. 

As Chronos' corporate foundation bgein to develop and started to flourish, Archanfel's body started to change.  His presence at Chronos became less and less frequent until it became such that Barcus and the others only seen him once a year.  It appears that with his power divided, Archanfel has a 'sleep period' in which he lies dormant like a fake death. 

**comes back to the present**

Guyot took advantage of this knowledge, and attempted to takeover Chronos while Archanfel was in a dormant period.  After hearing this, the Zoalords were afraid that Guyot's replacement, Imakarum, will attempt to take over as Guyot did.  But, Barcus assured them Imakarum had a permanent mental link with Archanfel and is absolutely loyal to him.  It is almost as if Imakarum is a part of Archanfel's body.  Barcus goes on to reveal the current plans of Chronos.  The enormous space ship, the Ark, is near completion and someone like Guyot attempts to another takeover during this crititcal period in which Archanfel remains dormant, then Chronos will most surely crumble.
 

Book 14, Chapter 81
Fried'rich van Purg'stall and Sin Rubeo Amniculus are on Cloud Gate discussing the battle with the Guyvers.

Amniculus said, "Doctor Barcus has returned to the Arizona Branch of Chronos."

Purg'stall replied, "The other members have gone to New York.  How about you?  What do you plan to do?"

"I plan to stay here in Japan.  Despite the recent attack by the Dark Gigantic Guyver (Guyver III) with Zeus's Thunder Bolt on the New York Zoanoids, there was still the Gigantic Guyver that attacked Cloud Gate here in Japan.  This would mean that there are two Gigantic Guyvers and either one can attack at any time."  (since no one survived the Imakarum and Gigantic Guyver encounters as Imakarum is injured and the zoaniods are dead, they don't know that the two Guyvers share one Gigantic Guyver suit)

**scene changes to a man looking up at the Cloud Gate tower**

"Taking over the world...Entering the realm of space...Everything will be different from the way it was before! Using my own hands!"  said the man as snow continues to fall.

**scene changes to the hideout of Sho and his friends discussing recent events**

Agito and Shizu Onuma  have been in Amercia for three days and they have already made a huge impact there.  Agito is trying to reassemble and rebuild Zeus' Thunder Bolt in hopes that it will aid in the fight against Chronos.  This is not going to be an easy job.

Sho is in the background, thinking....while everyone else was asleep.  He goes out to have some time alone in the balcony."... Zoalord Imakarum Mirabilis, is his old friend Masaki Murakami , already dead!?  Although, Agito did not take his life, Agito and I are different.  Even facing Masaki, once he became the enemy, he showed no mercy.  Agito can be ruthless and do whatever it takes to achieve his objective, no matter what obstacle is in his way.  I on the other hand, can not be like Agito.  At the time, I was only one step away from eliminating Masaki , but I could not do it.  I knew that doing so, would mean putting Tetsuro and the others in danger but I...."

Suddenly, there was a small avalanche in which snow fell off a tree in front of Sho, revealing a Zoanoid scout!!!  The scout immedately jumps away to escape and Sho follows as he calls upon Guyver. 

"I was too careless", Sho blamed himself, "I must catch him before it's too late.  It is my FAULT!!"

The chase continues and after a while Sho notices that the scout is not escaping in the direction of the Cloud Gate tower, to where it is safe.  Instead he is going the opposite direction and to an abandoned factory.  As he wonders why the scout has led him here, he realizes that it was done intentionally!
 

Book 14, Chapter 82
**Guyver I has entered the factory area and is taking a look around**

With his extra sensitive perception, Guyver I picks up something, "Three, four, five...shadows.  They aren't normal Zoanoids."  As soon as he thought this, a blast of infrared laser shot out from the dark and nearly hit Sho.  Several blasts follow and Sho follows a figure that has moved off leading him directly to the Hyper Zoanoid Five!!! 

"How can this be?  All five of them are already dead!!"  Guyver I immediately calls upon the Gigantic Guyver suit...

**Meanwhile in Arizona**

Guyver III arrives secretly and undetected at a Chronos base hidden inside a mountain. 

"What? Sho is using the Gigantic Guyver suit...  What can be happening in Japan at this moment?  But the suit is needed here now!  This is too good of a chance to pass up...."

**back in Japan**

Sho is effectively holding off the enemy Zoanoids and is retaliating.  However, he is surprised at the surprise appearance of Imakarum Mirabilis and his mind waivers a moment; just enough time for Elegen to use his electric shock on him while Gaster, Dezerb, and Zx-Tole fire away at Sho who takes the hits heavily!!

"No..this is not right.  He isn't Imakarum.." states Sho as he uses his sensors.

Suddenly, the Gigantic Guyver suit automatically disassembles, returns to its container and disappears into subspace...

**back in Arizona**

Agito appears again, only this time, as Gigantic Dark!! 

"I was correct!  My link to the Gigantic Guyver Suit is strong than Sho's.  My will had won over his!!!  HA HA!  I am the true master of the Gigantic Guyver unit, and not SHO!!"

**inside the Chronos Installation at Arizona**

A big explosion occurs and a console blows up in the face of a soldier.  As the smoke clears he sees....
 

Book 14, Chapter 83
**inside the Chronos Installation at Arizona**

Barcus is examining the damage from the expolsion when the face of Gigantic Dark appears on the viewer.

"Nice to see you for the first time, Doctor Barcus.  How do you do?  I am Gigantic Dark"

"No, this is not the first time.  We have met before.  Guyver III?  No, you are Agito!"

"Hm, very good Doctor!!"

"Ever since the last attack on Zeus' Thunder Bolt, I always suspected that the black colored Gigantic Guyver was you.  What do you want?!!"

"My intention is to...wipe Chronos off the face of this earth!....  starting with this base, the largest Chronos base."

"Are you bluffing??  You think that just YOU can do this with one person?"

"As Gigantic Dark, it can be done with my powers.  Do you think your base can withstand an attack from  my Super MegaSmasher?"  (not exactly the best translation for the Super Mega Smasher, but it serves the purpose as it is way more powerful than the Mega Smashers on the regular Guyvers)

Fear runs through Barcus as the viewer goes off, contemplating on the result of Agito's threat.  He immediately calls for the base to go to FULL alert.  All the personel clear, going to safe areas while the doors close off sections of the base.  Five huge sets of doors close off the five levels of the base.  Zoanoids move into defending positions while all bio-blasters are to assemble in the lowest level. 

**Back in Japan**

"Very Ugly, very ugly indeed Sho Fukamachi !", said the fake Imakarum, "even your Gigantic Guyver suit has been stolen by Agito!"  The images of the Hyper Zoanoid Five and of the Zoalord merge, coming together to form the image of Aptom in his battlemode.  "It is because you are too stupid!"

"What?  Aptom??  Why? Why have you done this?"

"Why???  Because... I can't stand you...being so weak and stupid!  Sho Fukamachi , why is it that you fight?"

"I...."

"Is it because of your friends?  Is that why when you met the traitor, Imakarum Mirabilis, you captured him???  HA! Don't make me laugh!"  (note a HEAVY sarcastic tone)

"What do YOU understand?!  He and I...."

"You're right!  I don't understanding and a I don't want to!!  All I know is that you gave up in your battle against Imakarum Mirabilis, not caring for yourself or your friends!  Listen, at the time, everyone there could have been killed by him.  Is that called caring for your friends??  It doesn't look to me as if you were fighting because of them if you were going to let Imakarum kill them all!!!"  stated Aptom.  He moves over, grabs Sho by the neck and throws him into the wall, "I can kill you easily now and take revenge for my two comrades.  However, if I kill you now, I know that either of them would be happy.  (meaning he isn't worth being killed now)"

"....!"

Aptom thinks, "Wake up Sho!  Come on!  Regain your confidence!!  Where is that courage now, the same courage that was here when you fought me as the Hyper Zoanoid Five just now?  Don't be afraid to die!"  (kinda like an aside)

"Aptom....."

**inside the penetrated Chronos Base**

Gigantic Dark has made his way past the first level barrier of the Chronos base.  He easily takes out dozens of Zoanoids that are rushing at him and breaks down the second level barrier...
 

Book 14, Chapter 84
**inside the penetrated Chronos Base**

Speakers ---> "Defensive Doors, one and two have been destroyed!!  The Gigantic Guyver is now in the third level!"

Barcus has decided to stay and lead the Zoanoids, in an attempt to neutralize the invader.  His assistant argues with him, but is quickly dismissed as he says that he can not leave the base when the whole base is at stake; for without his leadership, the Zoanoids will most surely fail.  Moreover, on the bottom of the base is one of the world's last remaining relic ships where countless of their scientific, technological, and genetic knowledge came from and where countless more of those secrets are still yet to be unraveled.  To lose the base to Agito is unthinkable!!

"Doctor," reports a soldier, "some two hundred bio-blaster type Zoanoids have assembled at your request on the lower level, with their blasters aimed the fifth level door."

Meanwhile, Gigantic Dark easily defeats every Zoanoid that comes at him with ease.  While using the pressure cannon, he blasts open a wall, revealing some crates. 

"A storage room of information and equipement?  This might be useful" states Agito.

**Back on the lower level where the Bio Blasters are**

Barcus awaits for the arrival of the Gigantic Dark...waiting for him to break down the last door.  Once he does, he will telepathically order the Zoanoids to fire...and hopefully, with their blasters charged to full, this should be able to repel the Super Mega Smasher blast and destroy the Guyver...

Barcus waits but nothing happens. 

"Doctor!", reports his assistant, "I think the Gigantic Guvyer has left!"

"What???!!!  What did you say??  Had he some other motive for coming to the base?"

**High above the base**

Gigantic Dark flies away with a crate labled C-17.

"Barcus must be confused now!  Ha Ha!  He must have really believed that I was going to use the Mega Smasher.  But if I was really to use it in those circumstances, I would have depleted the energy reserves of the Gigantic Guyver suit and would have been automatically disassembled from it.  Thankfully for their retreat, I was able to complete my task.  However, when I get back, my 'real task' will begin!"
 

Book 14, Chapter 85
**Tetsuro and Sho are in the basebase of their hideout**

"What??  The Gigantic suit was forced to disassemble by a greater force??" exclaimed Tetsuro.

Sho nods.

"Agito did this?"

"Yes.  After, I tried several times to call upon it again, but there was no response.  I'm pretty sure that it heard my call.... I was lucky that this was only a mock battle by Aptom.  If this was a real battle, I certainly would have been killed."

"Agito must have knew this..."  replied Tetsuro.  He goes on to think, "What is he thinking?  I thought we were all in this together, in a fight against Chronos.  Unless Agito, he really is...."

Sho sighs and thinks, "...  I really don't know his way of thinking.  But Agito's has used his will and has made the Gigantic suit his own.  Aptom was right.  Things have become this way because of I am weak."

**Arizona Chronos Base, Conference Room**

Several Zoalords have gathered together to look at the damages to the base.  Damages were extensive, but considering the power of the Gigantic Guyver suit, it seems that there should have been more damages.  A couple of the Zoanoids in the group believed that they should retaliate, but Barcus quickly overrules them.  Reports confirm that Gigantic Dark stole a crate from base.  However, they have not been about to identify what he stole at the moment.

**Florida, USA, high mountains.**

Agito's assistant reports, "This factory building has been successfully acquired, secretly.  I have also made arrangements; the experimental tanks and bio-fluid are ready."

"What about the stuff inside the crate?" replied Agito.

"He says that the stuff is useful.  Also, he wants to talk to you."  reported the Assistant.  (The 'He' is not specified at this point)

"Alright.  No problem"
 

Book 14, Chapter 86

**On the island of Silha**

Archanfel walks into the chamber where Barcus first found him several hundred years ago.  However, inside the oval is Imakarum Mirabilis.

"Even though the injuries on his body has healed, the broken Zoa Crystals will require some more time to regenerate.  My body will be entering the dormant stage again soon.  Will he recover before then?" thought Archanfel as he stands in front of Imakarum's body.

**inside the thoughts of Imakarum Mirabilis**

"Where is this?  It's so dark.  I can't see anything.  Wait....a sound...." thought Imakarum.

"Awake....Awake our servant, Archanfel!" said a voice.

"What is happening?  What is this?"  thought Imakarum.

"I am God", said the voice, "I am the one who has created all life in this universe, also known as the Creators."

"The Creators?  Yes!  This must be the memories of Archanfel.  He must have been created by the Creators tens of thousands of years ago." thought Imakarum.

"Listen Archanfel!!  Very very long ago, we came from space to this planet, Earth, to research for our ideal biological weapon/warrior.  We have controled the evolution of life on this planet in hopes to find the best life structure; an intelligent life form capable of responding to our wishes, with the ability adapt to any environment, with amazing combat abilities.  Because you meet all our requirements, you are allowed to exist.  As for you, Archanfel, you have been created to lead these life forms."  The remains of a dinosaur come into view.  "These are your predecessors.  They no longer exist because their adaptability and size do not meet our requirements.  We led a huge asteriod towards Earth and drastically changed Earth's environment.  To our surprise, the destruction of the dinosaurs led to the rise of mammals.  Hence, we decided to change our plan.  Instead of having a life form with immense combat ability, we decided to first develop a multi-purpose life form in which we can modify step by step into the perfect biological weapon.  After numerous trials and errors in experiments,  we finally accomplished our task.  The basic form of the Zoanoids have been developed and hence, we have successfully developed the Human."
 

Book 15, Chapter 87
"Archanfel.  All the life forms we created, including you humans, are genetically programmed to obey us, the Creators.  Regarding the humans jwho have been altered into Zoanoids, they have been given the ability to conquor like us.  Because you have been created to be the highest/most powerful genetically altered life form, you are a Zoalord!!  You are one with all the Zoanoids on tis planet.  You will be leading all of Human kind/Zoanoids into battle for us."

Archanfel response," Understood, our Lord."

"Archanfel, we will be creating twelve Zoalords, like you.  The twelve of you will be leading countless billions of Zoanoid soliders in a huge intergalactic war.  We rest all hope in our first Zoalord, Archanfel."

Imakarum observes, "Archanfel's heart towards the Creators is one of trust and loyalty.  Hence, the Creator's real purpose ..."

"Our experiment on this planet is almost finished.  We must immediately move to another experiment testing grounds.  But, we have yet to discover the true potential that the Humans have to offer.  So, other than procuding them, we have gone ahead to conduct additional experiments."

**Guyver 0 appears **

"Master, what is this?", asked Archanfel.

"We have used an unmodified human and placed upon him a 'Bio-Booster Armor'.  We want to see what would happen to our weapons, the Humans, after they have worn the Armor.  Let the experiment begin."

A dinosaur apperas in front of the Bio-Boosted Human.  The combat abilities, ferocity, speed, and strength of the dinosaur have been magnified greatly.  The purpose of this experiment is to test the power of the Armor on the Humans. 

Soon, the Guyver defeats the dinosaur by killing it with its high frequency sword.

"Oh... amazing combat abilities!!!  This Bio-Boosted Human's powers is even greater than the powrs of a Bio-Boosted Creator by several hundred times.  It is no doubt that the Bio-Booster Armor is one of the best weapons ever created.  But, it's amazing that it can produce such amazing results on a human.  This is a very surprising discovery, we must re-plan our experiments.  This experiment has ended.  Disassemble from the Armor..." orders the Creators to the Bio-Boosted Human.

The Guyver doesn't respond.

"What?  Disassemble from the Armor!"

Suddenly, the Bio-Boosted Human pulls of the covering of it's mega-smasher and blasts a hole through one of the Creator's spaceships...
 

Book 15, Chapter 88

"Why?  What has happened?  The Bio-Boosted Human is not reacting to our commands.  Not only does it not follow commands, it is attacking us with its unimaginable power.  This is most dangerous.  Archanfel, lead the Zoanoids and destroy the Bio-Boosted Human.!" states the Creator.

"Understood, Master!!  Zoanoids, transform!!  Destroy the traitor of the Creators, Zoanoids!"

The Zoanoids attack the Bio-Boosted Human, but he makes short work of them.  Seeing that the Zoanoids are falling like flies, Arhcanfel decides to go attack himself when the Creators stops him.

"Wait, Archanfel!  Use this; it is called the Remover.  This will make a mechanism in the Armor revert to its inactive state."

Archanfel does as ordered and moves in on the Bio-Boosted Human.  It fires the mega-smasher in defense, but Archanfel resists the blast.  Once in range, he aims and fires the Remover at the Bio-Boosted Human and separates Human from Armor.  After they are separated, Archanfel kills the Human as ordered.

"What?  Archanfel had once fought against the primitive Guyver?" exclaims Imakarum as he observes the memories.

Now, the Creators realize the potential and the dangers of Humans.  Their existance is a threat to them.  But before the Creators leave, what change happened to Archanfel's body to make him the way he is now?


  

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