Farewell, Hiden Intelligence
The final round of the "5-Round Workplace Competition", with a referendum over the creation of a HumaGear automated city on the line, has the Rapper-Type HumaGear, MC Check It Out, suddenly leaning against Hiden Intelligence! Vulcan arrives at the scene caused by the runaway HumaGear MC Check It Out, only to find Gai speaking some difficult words to him. "Become a tool of ZAIA and defeat Zero-One". Despite Vulcan barely hearing Gai's orders, he slowly turns his sights on Zero-One...!
Episode Tropes
- All Your Powers Combined: The Rampage Gatling Progrisekey was created using the data of ten different Progrisekeys, mainly those used by Aruto (barring his Hopper Progrisekeys), Fuwa, Yua, Jin and Horobi. When using a finisher, Fuwa can even use the power of three different Progrisekeys to aid him depending on what mode the key is set to.
- And Then What?: Fuwa points this at himself, stating that he'd focused so much on destroying all the HumaGears that he'd never put any thought into what he wanted to do after that, before turning it on Yua by asking what her dream is.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Fuwa questioning Yua regarding her true stance towards ZAIA which leads to her having a Villainous Breakdown and aimlessly attacking him:Fuwa: Yaiba, what is it that you live for? You work for ZAIA like a dog, but what's that going to get you?
- The Bad Guy Wins: Gai wins the Workplace Competition and takes over Hiden Intelligence as his own.
- Curbstomp Battle: Vulcan's Rampage Gatling form delivered a brutal beatdown to both Thouser and Fighting Jackal Raider without giving them a chance to retaliate back.
- Downer Ending: The overall ending of the entire 2nd arc, overlapping this and the bitter part of this episode's Bittersweet Ending: Aruto has lost the Workplace Competition, thus Gai now controls Hiden Intelligence. That said, he succeeds in protecting Izu and Isamu managed to fight back against Naki trying to take over his body. While at least the heroes are not going to go down without a fight, things are now looking bleak for HumaGears and Hiden.
- Fighting from the Inside: Despite Naki constantly trying to usurp control over him, Fuwa never went down without a fight of his own, fighting back against Gai's control over him.
- Heroic Willpower: Fuwa managed to regain control of his body from Naki and proceeds to fight both Yua and Thouser in Rampage Gatling form.
- History Repeats: Of Hoist by His Own Petard and Didn't Think This Through. Gai should be none the wiser of repeating the same mistake with the MetalCluster incident but nope, he's doing exactly the same thing with Rampage Gatling!
- Hypocrite: Despite his belief that HumaGears aren't needed in human society, Gai still used Naki, a prototype HumaGear to do his bidding.
- No-Sell: Both from Zero-One and Vulcan:
- Even after tanking a barrage of attacks and finishers from both Fighting Jackal Raider and Thouser simultaneously, Zero-One nevertheless managed to keep his transformation long enough to defend Izu from being destroyed.
- As is the case of a new form's debut, Rampage Gatling demonstrates just how powerful it is. Against Thouser, Fuwa utterly tears him apart with little effort. Against the Fighting Jackal Raider, he just manhandles her by first throwing her around, kicking her into the air and send her back down with a scissors kick.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Despite Fuwa keep questioning her loyalty to ZAIA, Yua actively denied she's not a tool to them despite visibly shaken during her response.
- Title Drop: When Gai tells Aruto about the consequences of deciding to challenge the former, the latter says "No matter what you say, our dreams don't break."
- Voices Are Mental: During times when Naki takes control of Fuwa's body, he speaks in their voice instead of his own.
- Wham Line: Fuwa got a revelation of why he can use the Assault Wolf Progrise Key from Gai:Gai: Didn't it ever strike you as odd? How you were able to use Assault Wolf key, which only Metsuboujinrai.net can utilize?Yua: Because Naki was there...
