DIACLONE STORY (via: http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/diaclone/story/) ACT 4: LandMaster’s Critical Moment! Previous: ACT 3
The news of both the renewed Waruder invasion and the annihilation of the Mars Zone shook all of the Zones to their very core.
The observation post at Space Station CX-1, orbiting 100,000 km above the Earth, detected the sub-spatial reaction of the Waruder space fortress materializing in the Earth’s sky. Directly below was MetraZone Tokyo City. It was clear their target was LandMaster, the great central electronic “brain” that managed all of the Macro Zones.
Sirens blared throughout Tokyo City. The Zone City’s maximum level attack warning “Signal 11” was officially declared.
Tokyo City engaged its defenses, and a gravitational deflector shield was instantly deployed from the outer wall of the main facilities, as all transportation halted and citizens were evacuated into bomb shelters.
“The Waruder force is approaching! All hands prepare for combat!”
The Diaclone capital defense corps converged around the city’s central dome which housed LandMaster, and helped with the evacuation of the citizens while preparing for the Waruders’ attack from above.
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In a terrible flash of light, the beams of destruction rained down upon Tokyo City. The Waruders had started their operation to destroy LandMaster. The ominous form of the space fortress could be seen through breaks in the clouds up in the stratosphere, bristling with the strange and myriad gun turrets that radiated from every part of its hull bombarding the city with their barrage of lethal rays.
LandMaster shifted into defensive mode, and the central dome retracted immediately down a large shaft to the evacuation area concealed 1000 meters below the city surface, as massive battle vehicles emerged on the ground one after another in sequence. The trump card of the capital defense, a battalion of twelve great Robot Bases! While the bombardment from the sky intensified and shook the ground, the twelve massive machines reconfigured from tank to battle mode, with cannons equipped on both arms.
“Defend LandMaster with your lives!”
The Robot Base battalion opened fire with their Freezon Beam Cannons from 24 barrels in unison as the Diaclone Corps intercepted the space fortress!
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The continuous gunfire of the super-dreadnought cannons, which could each take out a mountain in a single shot, gradually whittled away the gun emplacements on the space fortress, finally putting an end to the bombardment. Seizing the chance for a victory, all the Diaclone machines of the metropolitan defense line switched to full-on attack mode and started to converge upon the Waruder fortress, which had remained silent.
But it had been a cunning trap by the Waruder forces.
A gate spiraled open underneath the fortress as if welcoming the the charge of the Diaclone Corps and from it all the Waruder war machines descended upon them all at once.
The invading Waruder forces entered firing range of the newly developed laser blasters of the Diaclone mecha and were gunned down one after another by the fearsome and overpowering strength of the mobilized Robot Base battalion.
However, the continuous rapid firing of the Freezon Beam Cannon had consumed vast amounts of energy and the Robot Bases’ rapidly deteriorating combative power posed little threat to the Waruder attackers. The relentless blasters of clusters of attacking Waruder Machines assaulted them with waves, and even fighting back with Freezon Missiles and Maser cannon-fire, the massive figures gradually were covered in gaping wounds.
At last, the machines of the invading Waruder raiders penetrated the heart of Tokyo City, surrounding the evacuation gate to LandMaster’s dome to menace its defending walls. The walls melted in an instant under the concentrated fire of the laser blasters, exposing LandMaster and putting the entire MacroZone into the most desparate situation imaginable! ….Yet at this moment, a Waruder Machine suddenly exploded, and the surrounding forces scrambled as yet more machines exploded again and again in rapid succession, scattering them as their siege broke up and dissolved.
The strafing fire came from a mysterious battle machine which dove from the sky at incredible speed.
The fighter craft with wings of steel pulled up at the last second, nearly grazing the ground with its nose, blasting the wreckage of the the Waruder Machines as it hurled by in a great arc and soared back upward.
A mysterious group of fighters engaged the Waruder saucers in aerial combat, while on the ground more of the aircraft changed to humanoid and less familiar combat forms and engaged the Waruder forces as a platoon. With both solid armor repelling the fierce barrage of laser blasters and stronger armament than the enemy’s, the mysterious fighters downed one Waruder Machine after another, and the Waruder forces were swept away instantly.
The tide of battle turned completely, in preparation for the second wave of Waruder attacks, the unidentified war machines transformed into flight mode and began to engage the space fortress above in the sky, assembling into a V-shaped formation. However, after slowly rising to the edge of the stratosphere, the fortress activated their sub-space drive and vanished from known space.
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Tokyo City’s crisis had ended. Signal 11 was rescinded and as LandMaster resurfaced and the fortresses withdrew, an interstellar signal was intercepted from the region of the dark nebula.
The giant space fortress which had failed was only the advance guard sent to determine the Earth’s war potential--the main body of the force was still stationed in the large dark nebula deep in the unknown far side of the galaxy, well beyond the reach of the human race for now! (To be continued in ACT 5!)