This was supposed to be a routine patrol [locked to Ryouma and ???]

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A few strange phenomena were reported in the area around Mt. Daisetsu, and Dr Saotome sent Ryouma in the Eagle Unit to check it out. At first it seemed to be nothing... But as he gets close, the area turns out to be covered in a lush, tropical jungle - certainly not normal for this place!

Ryouma doesn't have much time to ponder this, however. As soon as he's close to the mountain, it explodes in a fiery blaze - the mountain turned into a volcano! And not just that, a strange, biomechanical monster bursts out of it - before the Getter pilot can get a better look at it, it smashes into his machine with great force and escapes, disappearing in the fumes! Eagle Unit is quickly losing altitude - and to make it worse, now it's under attack by armored, flying pterosaur-like creatures! At this rate Ryouma's going to crash in the jungle!

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ONE HOUR LATER

[onewalksintomordor]

[Boy, that was SOME CRASH. After getting in contact with the Doc and finding himself totally incapable of following any instructions on how to repair the Get Machine, Ryoma wanders off. The reptiloids will come looking for him soon, and he can't go all Predator on them if he stays in the most obvious possible location.

...Of course, maybe someone beat him to it. It's not long before he climbs over a boulder in the jungle and, apparently, onto a snare trap. Suddenly he is upside-down, four feet off the ground.]

WAAUGH!

[threetimesasfat]

[Moments later, savage grunting and shouting emerges from the underbrush, followed shortly by savage looking ape men of some kind. The fuck are those doing here? One of them approaches Ryoma with a massive club, but just as it starts to wind up for the blow that will scatter his brains across the area, a voice interrupts.]

Oi! Cut that out, can't you see he's human!?

[The ape man stops, as much from the harsh tone of voice as from the actual words.]

[onewalksintomordor]

[Ryoma was in as much of a fighting stance as he could approximate in his current position, which was in all likelihood not going to be very effective but don't tell him what kinds of fight he can or can't win, dammit.]

Damn right, I'm human! First it's freak lizards, now the monkeys are acting up?!? I'm more evolved than you fleabags, I don't have to take this! CUT ME DOWN!

[He can't actually see Musashi yet.]

[threetimesasfat]

[Musashi enters Ryoma's field of view. A short, portly guy in a shabby school uniform who looks like he wrestles bears for a hobby.

He reaches over to behind a tree, where the rope is coming from.]

Watch your head.

[Yank, untie, fall.]

[onewalksintomordor]

[Not even Ryoma can land on his feet from something like this, so there's a loud "oof" as he hits the ground and scrambles back up.]

A human? Are these things yours?

[threetimesasfat]

Yeah. You show 'em you're stronger than them and they fall into line pretty quick.

[onewalksintomordor]

Heh. Guess apes can be smarter than humans, depending how you look at it.

[They don't seem to be smart enough to register that shit is being talked about them, though, which will probably make things easier. Anyway.]

The hell is going on here? I was supposed to do a flyover to find out, but we weren't expecting all this.

[threetimesasfat]

That's...a really good question. The whole valley is cut off, and when I came down from the mountain, half the people were turned into these ape guys. Also there's, like, lizard men or something wandering around?

They're up to no good is all I can say. I've been setting traps for them.

Sorry about that.