This is a series I occasionally add to as the mod strikes... thought I'ld post her to see what those who haven't seen it think. H'mmm... might need a tissue or two for a couple parts... Ste

Timenote: In this, Jun finds Jinpei when he's twoish, he's 10 in Gatch 1, so Joe and Ken would be twelve when he's adopted. Means that Joe's parents have been dead four years, and I'm having them start training at ten, or nine in Jun's case. ***************************************************************************************************** My name is... Is... Well, currently that's something I'm still trying to decide. I can tell you what it was, though. George Asakura. And once again, I am alone. I've had two families: the one I was born two, my Papa and Mama... it disturbs me that my memories of them are fading. I was only a young boy when they were taken from me, summary killed by Gallactor when they decided they couldn't go through with whatever they were asked for. The last memory I have of my mother is the fountain of blood errupting from her chest, matched by the look of... of... Regret. The more I consider it, the more it seems she knew what was happening, that she expected it, and was only saddened by the knowledge she was leaving me alone in the world. Except I wasn't. It was then that the stranger I eventually came to think as my father took me away, to meet my second family, a group of three other young kids, Ken Wahio, Jun and Ryu Nakanishi. It seemed we all had something in commen: Gallactor. The same terrorist organisation that killed my parents had also affected the lives of those three... but they have differant stories, which don't belong here. It's not my place to share the secrets of the dead. A while after we had met - perhaps a year, a year and a half after we had begun training for our Mission - we were on a training trip in the area of Mount Jupiter. It's funny. I recall nothing of the trip itself, other than the fact Jun found my fifth sibling that day - a young infant, who seemed to have been left for dead, but had fought for survival. The doctors said that he was undernourished but strong, and guessed that he'ld been alone for a couple weeks. Jun was, for a while, the only one he seemed to have any form of connection with - it was only because she was there that he would leave the area, and the two seemed to adopt each other. It was she who named him 'Jinpei'. Nobody really knew why, but it was clear she had a reason. And so we became five. In time, we completed our training and began the Mission: The defense of the Earth, and the Defeat of Galactor. I'm sure you've heard all the stories - how the gallant and dashing heroes of the Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman, the Eagle, Swan, Owl, Swallow and Condor repelled attack after attack, and finally, after a horrendous loss of life throughout the world, defeated their leader, Berg Katse, at Cross Karakorum, and drove the force behind them back into space. Except things aren't as you may have been told. Oh, sure, Galactor was defeated, but more through sheer dumb luck than anything else. You see, I was allready dying, thanks to a brain injury I had recieved when I rescued a puppy. A pup, of all things. If I knew then what I know now... well the world might be minus one pup. Wonder whatever happened to that mutt. I had only been given a matter of days to live, and since I had no intention of laying in a hospital bed waiting for the inevitable, I chose to go out in a blaze of glory. I attacked Cross Karakorum by myself, knowing it was futile, but hopeing that somehow I could make right what I had been doing to my family. It was a forgone result. I was captured, tortured, and shot. Left alone, feeling the life ebbing from me, I dragged myself up the stairs leading to the exit, determined not to die in that place, to once again see the sky, taste the freedom. It was only the rest finding me that let me do so. Ken picked me up in his arms, and laid me against the stone pillar that disguised the entrance. I forced him to go and finish the Mission, knowing he would, not wanting them to see me expire. The next I knew, I was waking in a strange place, a bearded man with a bird on his shoulder examining me. 'Welcome back to the living, Joe Asakura,' was the first words he spoke to me.

We didn't put the pieces together until it was far, far too late. As I sit here, writing pad before me, drink by my side, going through the motions, I'm starting to think that the shrink might actually have something. It's actually helping me to sort out the events that happened, as best I can. I've probably forgotten things, and there's others that I really don't want to probe to harshly at... but this seems to be helping some. You tell anybody that, though, and I'll kick your ass but good. And so... Ryu and myself had been sent to nose around after a group of scientists, engineers and physicists had disappeared over the course of a couple months. Nobody really thought there was a connection until security footage of the last couple abductions caught a couple of green garbed goons in the background. Not entirely knowing what was going on, and not knowing what GelSadora was up to, the two of us were sent to keep tabs on what Nambu and Pandora believed to be the next target, a theoretical scientist working on something they called 'Interdimensional Access Points'. It's all above my head, but the two of them seemed very concerned about what the collection of kidnappees could possibly create. They were right to be worried. The entire thing, from first assault to G-Town's destruction, took no longer than 22 minutes. It was meticulously planned, and solidly carried out by well trained assault teams. As ever, Gallactor thought nothing of throwing its troopers away in pursuit of the greater goal. By my reckoning, at least fifty troopers died when the base exploded. As well as everybody else.

As I wrote earlier, Ryu and myself were off base, investigating the missing scientists. We've only been able to piece together what happened from security logs transmitted to the GodPheonix when the attack started. The first thing that happened to let anybody know what was happening occurred in Namba's... my second father's... office. I don't know why, but Jinpei and himself were having some form of meeting there when this brownish simmering disturbed the air. Poor, dear little Jinpei. Ever the brave one, he jumped to Namba's defence as the Galtroopers poured through the portal, thinking nothing of putting himself in between them. He didn't even have time to transform, which might have at least stood him a chance. No, the green garbed bastards just shot him as he leapt to attack, his little body crashing to the ground and limply bouncing once. Namba just froze. Partly in shock, partly in horror, I guess... but it didn't last long. Grins splitting their faces, the Galtroopers continued to fire, round after round, shot after shot being poured into and through his body, weakening the viewport behind him, pinning him there long after he had to be dead, blood and brains and gore spread accross it - I'm sorry. It's just that those images which I can't get out of my head... which I see every time I close my eyes, why I wake with a wet pillow most days. I still can't deal with them most of the time. It's why I'm writing this - the psycologist claims it should help in the long run. Can but wait and see, I guess. The window eventually shatterd, and the ocean forced it's way into the room, smashing and crushing the Galtroopers against the walls. I still think it was too easy a death for all of them. The ocean smashed open the walls beyond Namba's office, thrusting it's way into the interior of G-Town, swiftly filling the corridors and rooms beyond. Fortunatly, the emergency systems kicked in, locking the watertight bulkheads and starting the pumps. it would take a while, but the vessel would be safe. Or at least it should have been. See, the attack in the office was only the first part of Sandra's plan. At the same time, another group was ported into the engine room and made short work of the engineers there. Due to the number of crewmen, though, the alarm was raised before they were all slaughted, and Ken and Jun rushed down there to take care of the intruders. The Galtroopers, meanwhile, had brought a bomb with them which was attached to the main powerplant. It took a short time, but with the doorways covered they were able to hold back the Eagle and Swan long enough to wire and start the timer. Looking at the footage again, it seems like they were fully expecting to be able to leave again, but whatever device they were hoping to use didn't work. It set them all panicking, and the organised assult collapsed, allowing Ken and Jun to enter and clear the room. Working with their usual swiftness, it took the duo around a minute to take care of the thirty or so Galtroopers inside the section. I don't know exactly how long was on the bomb's timer, but i do know it was just enough time for Ken to turn, hold Jun close and whisper something to her before it went off. As I think I've mentioned previously, G-Town was completely destroyed. The bomb had been wired direct into the atomic power plant, which exploded, sending a huge column of water into the air. The resulting wave resulted in mini-tsunamis spreading around the Asian and Japanese coastlines.

There are times when you just have to let the training kick in and take over. Otherwise, you'ld just shut down and be unable to carry on after events. Which is exactly what happened when Ryu and myself recieved the news of G-Town's distruction in the GodPheonix. We had finished our primary investigation and were enroute back to base when communications went down. As standard, we ran the system through a diagnostic and were puzzled when everything was in perfect working order. As Ryu was piloting, I was about to try and re-establish contact when the emergancy alert came through, stating that G-Town was under attack and to get our asses back there in a hurry. At that point, We were about twenty minutes away. Which means we made it back just in time to see the fountain of water explode out of the ocean as it exploded. A few seconds later, the shockwave hammered into the GodPheonix. Ryu fought with it whilst i desperately tried to contact somebody - anybody- I'm sorry. I need a break here. (-later-) I guess... I knew that what I was trying to do was useless. I had been following the results of the attack through the automatic com relay from G-Town, and had heard something about Jinpei and Namba being injured, as well as something to do with Ken and Jun dealing with a bomb. The fact that there had been such a large explosion didn't exactly fill me with hope, but i kept trying anyways. Lucky, really, that I did. One of the sweeps picked up a communication betwen what turned out to be a short range Observer ship and Gel Sandra. That allowed us to track it back to its base and plan a counter assult. 'Cause there was no way in this or any other hell that anybody was wlking out of there alive.