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THIS MOVIE IS RATED PG-13 - SUGGESTED FOR THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF 13 for Crude Sexual Humor, Fantasy Violence and Comic Mischief

FADE IN TO SUBTERRANIAN CITY - INT.

A city dug into a mine, next to an underwater grotto, lit up with lumenescent fish and fungi. Somewhere in the background is the WHIRRING noise of a PNEUMATIC DRILL.

MINE - INT.

SIMON, a 16 year-old boy, squints through his goggles. He's dressed in an a blue jacket with red trim, a red scarf, soaked-with-sweat tank top, khaki shorts and steel-toed boots, and is carving away at a rock face with his now much louder DRILL.

ANNOUNCER: Simon was just an ordinary boy...

BUSTLING UNDERGROUND MARKET - INT.

Simon scratches the back of his neck, with an awkward smile at a beautiful GIRL.

SIMON: I was wondering... if you would like to go to the Breakthrough Festival? ...with me?

GIRL: Get serious, Simon. Who would want to be seen in public with a Digger like _you?_

Simon's face falls.

MINE - INT.
Simon is still at his mining, and has made progress: his DRILL breaks through a section of rock. He grins and starts carving an entrance.

ANNOUNCER: ...of a people who had never seen the sky. Until one day...

NEW MINE SHAFT - INT.
Simon picks up and examines a drill-bit shaped PENDANT that glows golden.

SIMON: ...A drill bit?

ANNOUNCER: ...when he found a lost treasure...

LAGANN'S TOMB - INT.
Simon stares in awe at the 10' by 10' face shaped giant robot, LAGANN. His pendant streams forth golden light. He walks towards it, peering at it with his pendant, held like an LED flashlight.

SIMON: What is this thing?

The pendant touches the surface and WHIRRS, drilling into Gurren. Simon's jaw drops, as a hatch in the top opens up.

ANNOUNCER: That could split the very _heavens_ with it's power.

BUSTLING UNDERGROUND MARKET - INT - DAY.

A girl, YOKO, with a very, VERY large hand cannon, wearing a flame-pattern bikini, cut-off jeans, a scarf, stockings and platform shoes, drops through the crumbling roof. A gigantic FACE SHAPED ROBOT leers at her through a crack in the ceiling, letting streaming sunlight fall through.

Yoko spins in mid-air. FIRES. The gun leaves visible SHOCK WAVES and the recoil blasts her onto the ground in a perfect crouch, next to a gawping Simon peeking out of the top access port of Lagann, and the tall, shades-and-cloak wearing, handsome delinquent KAMINA.

YOKO: Get down! I can only slow this thing down!

SIMON: You're from the SURFACE?! WHO ARE YOU?!

Kamina's grip tightens on a katana.

KAMINA: ...and, for the love of god, put some real clothes on.

Yoko glares at him.

ANNOUNCER: Now, with his best friend Kamina and the rebellious Yoko at his side...

CUT TO: RESISTANCE HEADQUARTERS - EXT. - DAY
Warriors feild-strip thier BFG's, chewing on what food they can find and eying SIMON and KAMINA suspiciously. Simon looks like he wants to hide: Kamina is visibly impressed.

They sit at a table where Yoko point out locations on a crude map.

YOKO: We can always use more help... everyone counts in the fight against Genome.

SIMON: "Genome?"

ZOOM in on the map as Yoko speaks.

YOKO: A self-styled lord with an army of Beastmen...

The map becomes a camera swooping low on the castle of LORD GENOME, looking at his men, in face-shaped robots, from the battlements. At his side is LIEUTENANT VIRAL, a tall, arrogant man with bestial claws, feline eyes, and a row of jagged shark's teeth fixed in a sneer.

YOKO: (V.O.) ...led by Genome's right hand, Viral.

GENOME: They'd have to be fools to march on us with a mere two GunMen?.

VIRAL: I look forward to the taste of thier marrow.

BATTLEFEILD - DAY - EXT.
An army of GunMen? mecha tear through tall grass, swarming Lagann and it's big, nasty brother, an extra-large custom GunMan? called GURREN, with Yoko providing artillery support.

ANNOUNCER: ...Simon will embark on an adventure...

GURREN'S COCKPIT:
Viral speaks to Kamina through a picture-in-picture on the cockpit's heads-up display.

VIRAL: Surrender now, and I shall kill you _before_ collecting your thumb as a trophy.

Kamina pauses to consider this. Then:

KAMINA: WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!?

CUT TO BATTLEFEILD - EXT. - DAY

LAGANN dodges an attack with a leap high into the air. A split-screen shows Simon and Kamina screaming:

SIMON & KAMINA: GURREN-LAGANN! COMBINE AS ONE!

A huge drill on the back starts to WHIRR as it activates. It lands on Gurren, and starts to bore through the top, forming a head for the mecha.

ANNOUNCER: ...and, well, 'Epic' doesn't begin to describe it.

CUT TO GURREN'S COCKPIT - INT. - DAY

Kamina has casually cocked his head to the side to avoid a prefrontal lobotomy courtesy of Lagann's drill.

A sheepish Simon opens a Picture-In-Picture channel to him.

SIMON: Sorry 'bout that...

KAMINA: No worries, bro. LET'S KICK SOME ASS!

BATTLEFIELD - EXT. - DAY

Gurren-Lagann casually sweeps away the entire front row of GunMen?. Viral, standing by and watching this, drops his jaw in shock.

CUT TO GENOME'S CASTLE - INT. - NIGHT
Genome snarls at a battlefeild report, lighting it on fire from a candle at his banquet table. Viral takes it in stride as he bows on one knee.

GENOME: The fools don't realize the powers they are toying with... they could release the greatest enemy mankind has ever faced.

CUT TO - THE ANTI-SPIRAL THRONE - INT.
Spotlight on a sleeping figure on a shadowed throne.

CLOSE UP TO:

One of it's eyes opens.

ANTI-SPIRAL: ...The Heart of the Spiral... has awakened.

Shadowy figures rise up.

ANTI-SPIRAL: TO WAR!

They swarm towards the camera.

RESISTANCE HEADQUARTERS - EXT - NIGHT.
The wispy, blonde and retiring NIA sits with and Simon on a grassy hill, look up at the Milky Way.

NIA: You have a stronger connection to the Heart of the Spiral than anyone else I... or my father... have ever seen.

SIMON: I've felt a strange kind of energy...

NIA: Spiral Energy. The desire to strive for change, made manifest.

SIMON: So it's like evolution?

NIA: And more.

PLAY BGM - COLOR OF THE SKY

RESISTANCE HEADQUARTERS - EXT. - DAY
Kamina tries to give Simon respec' knuckles: Simon's response is half-hearted.

KAMINA: Come on. You know we can smash all of them combined any day of the week.

SIMON: I wish I had as much confidence in my abilities...

KAMINA: Simon... If you can't beleive in yourself...

Kamina grins.

KAMINA: ...then beleive in _my_ faith in you.

Simon stares at Kamina, blinking, then smiles.

LORD GENOME'S CASTLE - EXT. - DUSK

BGM: "I couldn't take the sight! Even now, I'm torn..."

The armies of Genome line up in formation, as Gurren-Lagann marches slowly up to the castle. Viral leads the charge. Genome watches. Both are visibly _sweating._

LAGANN'S COCKPIT - INT. - DUSK

BGM: "...I sometimes feel unworthy..."

Simon grits his teeth. Behind him, a spiral-shaped power meter starts to fill up, with a HUM.

GURREN'S COCKPIT - INT. - DUSK.

BGM: "...to gaze upon the endless sky!"

Kamina grins, and the spiral meter does the same in his, and the HUMMING grows louder and HIGHER PITCHED.

RAPIDLY CUT BETWEEN GURREN'S COCKPIT AND LAGANN'S COCKPIT as the meter spikes and they scream:

SIMON AND KAMINA: WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?!!

GENOME'S CASTLE - EXT. DUSK.

Gurren-Lagann charges, winding up a BUZZING drill-arm punch.

CUT TO TITLE CARD:

TITLE: TENGEN TOPPA...

Cracks form, making the rest of the title BURST out of the background:

TITLE: ...GURREN LAGANN

The subtitle falls down from offscreen with a thud:

SUBTITLE: SMASHING THROUGH HEAVEN'S DOOR

RESISTANCE HEADQUARTERS - EXT - NIGHT.

Simon and Kamina share a meal and campfire on the knoll. Simon gazes up at the stars, smiling.

SIMON: That Yoko sure is something, you know, Kamina?

Kamina grins.

KAMINA: I saw her first!

Simon laughs and playfully lunges for Kamina.

SIMON: You _bastard!_

TITLE CARD:

SMASHES THROUGH THIS SUMMER

CREDITS

FADE OUT


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