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Story:

Stage One: Diamonds Never Made a Lady

The setting is Neo Kobe City, FUTUREJAPAN. The world’s religion is under the Gods of Slam though there are many other sects of Gods in the Great Hierarchy. Love is valued above all else in this era.

Pan Belnades meets up with Akemi Takahashi. Pan holds an extremely high power level derived from love. This is because he is the great grandson of Thomas Anders. Akemi Takahashi is highly regarded for her power level along with another man in FUTUREJAPAN named Geronimo Orleans. The media dub them the Triumvirate of Love because their ability to love is just that intense. Pan and Akemi are intensely in love and have garnered immense financial success because of their union that acts as a miniature socialist system between the two, allowing them to endure the great economic crisis. Akemi is Pan's heart and soul. To celebrate their one year anniversary, Pan to breach their relationship's economical laws and decides to buy her diamonds. Modern Talking’s Diamonds Never Made a Lady begins to play.

As he travels down the street, a man in a suit stops him and says he can't impress the girl with diamonds. He threatens that it will be the end of Pan and that Pan himself should fall for him instead. Pan declines the offer but maddens at the man's insults at his love. They decide to duel to settle things. Pan kills him and the man mutters that all he wanted was love. Pan remarks that you cannot steal love. The man quips that Pan will be surprised then he dies on the street. The man dies… alone.

Pan purchases diamonds from Hammer, only to return to Akemi with a different man. Pan questions this and the man, Geronimo Orleans, her ex and the Prince of the Night, says that he has attached a bomb to Akemi. He says that he will kidnap her and bring her to his fortress. If Pan wants her back, he must brave through his dungeon of robots. Pan guffaws and says it will be an easy feat. The man agrees but then he says that Pan will still be unable to take back the love. Geronimo runs off with Akemi and Pan is troubled by what he said.

Pan discovers the fortress and quickly dispatches the robots, only to find Akemi deeply in love with Geronimo Orleans. Pan's heart is broken. She explains that the ten thousand drums playing in Geronimo's heart stirred up her old feelings for him. Pan offers her diamonds, but then she says, "Diamonds never made a lady," says that their love was based on faux fallacies and not true love, that he was limiting her power level potential with false love, and promptly leaves with Geronimo in his Cadillac. Pan screams to the heavens. Akemi has turned into the Princess of the Night. Pan is now fuelled by anger and hatred for Geronimo. He decides to find Geronimo's Cadillac before it's too late. But Pan realizes his power of love is too weak to engage in combat so he decides to recover with the remnant of Akemi’s love for him, stored in her cat, Galford.

Stage Two: A Highway for Fools

Before that, he decides to check up on Akemi's cat, Galford, hoping to find love from the cat, also a deep part of Akemi's life. Being so bonded with Akemi, it is essentially a part of her. If it still loves Pan, it’s a sign that Akemi still has feelings for him. But as Pan runs down the highway, he encounters Galford's corpse. He is road-kill. Pan screams. He was killed by a man named Gio Ferrari. Pan confronts the man and they have a quick scuffle. Gio says he lays no claim to murder and that the cat danced into his way as if by fate and that if anything, Pan should pay him since his love for the cat is so intense that legal law states that he now owns the cat instead of Akemi, breaking its bond with her. The cat's carcass had damaged and dirtied Gio's motorcycle, and since Pan is the owner, he should pay. Pan realizes that the cat is no longer Akemi's according to law. He is now truly stripped of Akemi’s love. Now absorbed in deep melancholy, he attacks Gio but Gio flees. Pan screams in frustration.

Pan makes chase on the highway and catches sight of Geronimo's Cadillac. He decides to do the greater good and take back the love of Akemi. He busts the Cadillac open to reveal Geronimo with three women, but none are Akemi. Pan is angered by Geronimo's quick adultery, but Geronimo explains that Akemi already broke up with her, and that even his robots have rebelled and left him. The two realize that Akemi is a lost soul on a relentless pursuit for love, but she will only end up empty-handed because she is so blind to the true love they give her, and that they must save her. They decide to forge a temporary alliance as the Romantic Warriors. After they rescue Akemi, they will have a duel at sunset to prove whose love is greater. Geronimo explains that he cannot help immediately because he must mend a broken heart and goes off to search for more women to soothe his shaken love. Pan himself curses at the Gods of Slam that they have given him so many gifts but have left him bereft of the most important thing, someone to love.

Stage Three: Lonely Tears in Chinatown

Pan travels to Chinatown to break in Akemi’s apartment for clues. After dispatching malfunctioning aggressive robots disrupting the town, he breaks in the apartment and finds a diary that speaks of a “Pillow Filled with Frozen Tears,â€? the source for her fleetness on love. It is the pillow she buried her head into countless times to cry whenever her love has been broken by others, but now it has accumulated enough tears to freeze her heart, and now, she has been in search of a cure for months, even going after Pan hoping that his high power level in love could save her but it didn’t. With the threat of an arranged marriage by next week (!), she has plans to start hastily dating men to find the right one to mend her heart before she is forced to choose the wrong one and be stuck with a frozen heart forever. There are a billion locations marked and there is no order to them. She is going on a worldwide tour of love, but Pan knows she will end up with an empty heart. Humanity has lost its ability to love as strongly as the Triumvirate, and now they are a niche group looking for love, and only ending up with heartbreak. The Pillow contains her lost love, fragments of her Self that could not also be used to trace her but this frozen love trapped in the pillow can be released and restored if held in the hands of a true love. Conversely, the harmed love that flows through the Pillow could be used to fuel the end of Love. With the right man, it could give back all the love. Pan must take back the love and find this Pillow.

Pan tries to find the Pillow, but it is missing from the apartment. A man similar to the one he met in Stage One appears and says that in 100 years, love will be illegal because the pillow will be used as proof against love. If anything, the man states, the Pillow is the Savior because it is all so true and that love is just a game for fools. He calls love an instant fire that hurts you but remarks that it’s so sad to see a good love go bad. He offers Pan a chance at new romance, but Pan again declines. The man dares not fight Pan and instead gives a secret message for a rendezvous with his leader. With that man being the only lead on the Pillow, he decides to go meet up with the leader.

Pan meets the leader in the local park and it turns out the leader is none other than Gio. Gio realizes how hard-headed Pan is. They decide to just settle things instead but Pan loses the fight. Gio decides not to finish off Pan because his heart is broken and it is limiting his combat potential. Gio is about to remark on why he called Pan but…

Suddenly, more malfunctioning robots attack and Gio flees, though he expresses frustration at the robots for “not following ordersâ€?, leaving Pan to fend for himself. Pan destroys all the big robots, when one giant one emerges from the Frozen Lake of Frozen Tears. It is the Mondo Buddha. Pan struggles to defeat it when Geronimo saves him at the brink. The Mondo Buddha burrows back below the lake. Geronimo nurses Pan back to health and they solidify a healthy friendship. Geronimo receives word that Akemi has sent a telegram to his heart. However, Geronimo cannot understand Morse code. Pan decides to listen to Geronimo’s heart and interprets that she wants to meet up at Shaire.

The two however realize that this is just a trap by the robots, remembering that the telegram offices have been ransacked by the robots since a few weeks ago. They decide to go anyway, further realizing that there could be a link between Akemi’s Pillow of Frozen Tears, Gio, and the robots.

Stage Four: Outside the Gates of Heaven, There Lives a Unicorn

They go to Shaire, FUTUREJAPAN, and encounter voluptuous belly dancers. They fall to the dancers’ charms because of their libidos erupting to compensate for their unrequited love. The dancers then attack and reveal they are evil sex robots. They imprison the Romantic Warriors in Unicron. Pan is frightened by the fact that his power levels cannot break the steel chains that bind him. He questions the strength of his love and falls into a stupor of melancholy.

Pan wakes to find himself in a strange dimension similar to the stereotypical depiction of Heaven. He is attacked by robotic wolves riding bigger robotic wolves but then a unicorn leaps from a vortex, telling Pan to climb onto his back. Pan does so and they reach a ravine and leap over it. The unicorn disappears saying he has done all that he can. Pan finds the pseudo version of Heaven breaking down into a forest in flames, with old love letters drowning in the sea with computers everywhere and controllers here and there. He stumbles across one letter that states that it is 100 years in the future and that love is illegal. Pan discovers that his heart is frozen and he has lost all that he felt. Pan does not scream. All he hears is the echo, “This is the Future of the Future. In 100 Years.â€?

Pan then actually wakes up and finds himself still in Unicron, but now he is severely shaken by the vision. The robot guards outside guffaw and point out that love is just a game for fools. Suddenly, the robots catch sight of each other and something stirs in their hard drives. It’s love. They explode, the Power of Love melts everything metallic, and Pan escapes. After running down a few corridors, he meets an evil robotic version of the Ultimate Warrior and fights him. As they struggle, they push each other out a window and they fall into the sea.

Stage Five: Atlantis is Calling (S.O.S for Love)

Pan is able to dispatch the Robotic Ultimate Warrior by saying that the real Ultimate Warrior is benevolent and loves all. The robot realizes this and is crushed by the pressure of having a mistaken identity all his life. Pan then finds himself in Atlantis. The Hulk Hogan greets him. The Hulk Hogan discusses that all of Japan is under turmoil because of the robots, but the United Nations is doing nothing. He says that only the men of Atlantis can make a stand against a gigantic crime. Pan agrees to help them and they go to the Launch Pad to vault Pan back into Unicron, striking the core, and making the greatest sacrifice in the name of love. The Unicron is conveniently also the control station for the robots. Suddenly, robots attack the Launch Pad and Pan must protect it and he does. The Hulk Hogan gives Pan a paper slip, saying it’s a S.O.S for love that will gather forces around the Wrestling World when Pan explodes in the core of Unicron. Pan adds onto the paper slip, apologizing to Geronimo that they couldn’t duel to prove who had the ultimate love. Love lives forever and now they will never be able to compare their love. It will be wrapped in mystery.

Pan is vaulted into Unicron and successfully explodes the core along with himself. The Hulk Hogan and his men salute the noble sacrifice before returning to wrestle and do crunches.

Stage Six: America

A few weeks have passed. The player takes control of Geronimo who successfully escaped the Unicron when it started to erupt in flames. FUTUREJAPAN has been captured by the robots and they are led by robotic versions of the Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, and the Iron Sheik. They are the Triumvirate of Hate. Akemi is still missing. Geronimo walks outside his apartment and is shot by controllers enforcing a curfew on the “baka gaijin.â€? He is still alive but on the brink. Suddenly, Pan arrives and destroys the controllers in a single blow.

Pan reveals that a God of Slam had given him the gift of the God Ski prior to the game, and that he was able to escape the destruction of Unicron because of this deus ex machina. The God Ski allows Pan to not walk and just gently slide across the surface with his feet (establishing why Pan has no walk animation). Suddenly, they are again surrounded by robots under the Warrior, but then an alarm sounds that their power source has been accidently shut down. The robots are mincemeat for Pan and the frail Geronimo. They realize that their power levels have always been high, but that the enemy only had something giving it an enormous boost, something that could shake the universe forever.

They are able to rationalize that the robots are actually powered by the Pillow of Frozen Tears, because Pan and Geronimo’s power levels are extraordinary and with this much trouble, it can only be Akemi’s broken heart that could cause them trouble. They further rationalize that the Pillow’s powers must be divided among the three robotic wrestlers, each individual being too weak to fully harness the power of the pillow because they are robots. Pan swears revenge on the Hulk Hogan for actually being an evil robot and the two decide to take him down first. They go to the Land of the Hogans.

Pan and Geronimo decide to brave the land separately because the Land of the Hogans is so labyrinthine and split in two distinct paths: Yellow and Red. Pan finds the Hulk Hogan. They decide to not share any words because there will only be hurt between fan and false idol. After a laborious battle that pushes Pan to the brink, Pan defeats the Hulk Hogan and realizes he was the human Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan coughs out blood and a frozen tear then gives a warm smile before passing. He says he is proud to die at the hands of the God of Slam. Geronimo enters and consoles Pan. The two realize that the only way to make further progress is to continue killing the other wrestling legends: The Ultimate Warrior and the Iron Sheik. Pan does question why the Hogan knew about the God Ski’s origin though. Geronimo says it should be obvious that the wrestling legends would know about the godly powers of wrestling, the God Ski included. Pan further questions why there is a triumvirate of power if they are human. Geronimo remarks that they are also a triumvirate of intense hatred so they would still not be able to fully harness the power the Pillow holds.

Stage Seven: From Black Hearts, No Blood Can Flow

The Romantic Warriors travel to the Land of Warriors, only to find it in turmoil. There is a revolution among the Warriors against the other robots. Their leader was killed by Pan earlier and there is no one to replace him. There was only a cardboard cut-out that is shown in the media, but the truth is that the land is chaos. While the robots hold the power of the Pillow, the Warrior robots have enough hot-blooded passion to make a stand. The location of the Pillow’s fragment is unknown. Pan and Geronimo look at each other, is the Iron Sheik a robot or a human?

The Warriors spot Pan and erupt in intense rage, screaming “BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAâ€? at the top of their lungs. Pan and Geronimo are chased into art gallery with the Ultimate Warrior’s paintings.

They are able to piece together that the paintings form a message,

“WHAT WE MUST DO IS BEYOND US HULK HOGAN I STOOD WITH MY BACK TO YOU HULK HOGAN AND I KNEW YOU WERE NOT DUMB BUT HULK HOGAN WHEN I LOOKED INTO YOUR EYES I SAW WORLDS WORLDS FILLED WITH FEAR FEAR THAT RAN THICK THROUGH YOU HULK HOGAN AT ROYAL RUMBLE I NEEDED NO FRIENDS I NEEDED NO PARTNERS EVERY MAN STANDS BY HIS SELF BUT THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR ALWAYS HAS BUT HULK HOGAN YOU STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND YOU STILL HAVE MISTRUST I NEED NOT YOUR PROTECTION HULK HOGANâ€?

This makes them realize that the Warrior is still out there, but not part of the Triumvirate. The Ultimate Warrior is a warrior of love, perhaps a love greater than both of theirs and possibly the power from the Pillow. If they find the Ultimate Warrior, the tides would turn to their favor. They explore the gallery more and find a trapdoor that leads to a library filled with the Warrior’s philosophical writings. The place is filled with clever traps and amateur human wrestlers seeking knowledge. They finally reach the final chamber and find a dead Ultimate Warrior, a knife through his stomach and the Pillow (but not the Pillowcase) in his mouth. They find a note in his hand saying that even he felt that he was succumbing to greed. He decided to join the triumvirate for the power in the Pillow. But then he realized the true worth of the Pillow and was forever shamed so he committed hara-kiri.

Pan gathers the Frozen Tear and the note. The Romantic Warriors mourn then leave. However, then the Ultimate Warrior’s body gets possessed and his hair turns into a hairstyle similar to the Buddha. He gains magnetic intensity and bulks of metal from the walls attach to him to form a make-shift power-suit. It’s the Mondo Buddha. Geronimo cannot bring himself to harm the legendary wrestler, leaving Pan to face the defiled corpse of the Ultimate Warrior. The Buddha dubs himself Buddhist Warrior and challenges Pan to his stiffest challenge yet. It’s a battle of attribution, but Pan is finally able to succeed when the Buddhist Warrior suffers a heart attack. His heart was black, and no blood could flow. And thus, no bond could be formed. The Mondo Buddha is forced out of the Warrior’s body. The Ultimate Warrior’s corpse slumps into Pan’s hands. Pan decides to give him a proper burial next to his feng shui garden, tears in his eyes. Geronimo pats his shoulder, ashamed of his cowardice, he decides to take a journey to improve his kung fu.

Stage Eight: Distant Fire, the Way to My Desire

Despite the fall of the Land of Hogans and the Land of Warriors, FUTUREJAPAN continues to be ruled under the iron fist of the Iron Sheik. Pan and Geronimo question why the absence of the frozen tears has done nothing. Only the Pillowcase is left and it is but a vessel for the tears. How can it even hold enough power to give robots the advantage? Are other humans too weak in their power levels? Is the love of others too weak? This troubles the now lonely Pan, Geronimo having abandoned him in the Land of Warriors. Pan decides the only path left is to take on the Iron Sheik and to learn the truth and end the hate. Pan travels to the Land of the Sheiks.

The land is a true utopia and none of the robots actually care to strike Pan. Pan finally reaches the huge palace where the Iron Sheik resides. It is actually on the moon and connected to the Earth by an orbital elevator. However, it’s guarded by Gio. He welcomes Pan and says that he missed him dearly. Pan questions Gio’s motives for allowing robots to overtake humans, now there is little chance Gio will find true love. Gio laughs and says that his true love is in front of him. He remarks that the men in suits were actually extensions of his love. His love was so powerful that it divided and they were so powerful that they become corporeal, and even then they were powerful enough to form into the highest level of organism, as humans.

He scolds Pan for trying to break his heart in Stage One. The aggressive act frustrated Gio enough that he planned the whole robot invasion in one second and was the one to convince Akemi that Pan wasn’t good enough. He played the Modern Talking song, Diamonds Never Made a Lady, and made her realize the fleetness of Pan and Akemi’s relationship based upon socialism. Geronimo, seeing Akemi’s broken heart, decided to console her when he realized just how crushed Akemi was, thinking the only justice would be to provide his love to her. He believed crushing Pan’s love by making him go through the whole charade of defeating robots then being rejected would satisfy Akemi who felt betrayed by Pan’s false love. And to add more injury, he brainwashed Galford to dance in front of his hovercycle.

Additionally, Gio did this to distract this Triumvirate of from interfering in his ploy to cause all robots to rebel, which in turn, would stir the old Luddite feelings in Pan. The crushed Pan would also be more susceptible to the charms of Gio, insecure about his mojo. Gio calls Pan the perfect lover and that now Gio offers him the chance to satisfy that deep and dark urge to destroy all robots with the defeat of the Iron Sheik. He set this all up to let Pan live his sweetest dreams so that Pan knows that Gio is his true love. He remarks he knows what’s best for Pan. He will not serve Pan because Pan cannot understand his true self, Gio will do Pan only the ultimate good. Pan blushes, but the echoes of Akemi seep through. Gio senses this and curses Akemi, but allows Pan to go on the orbital elevator, still wanting Pan to achieve his greatest fantasy. Pan reluctantly realizes that killer robots are a bigger issue and decides to go on the orbital elevator.

Pan arrives at the Palace of the Iron Sheik and breaks through all the guards. He meets the Iron Sheik. They both nod and fight like men. Pan humbles Sheik, but that is when Pan finds it all wrong. How could he even possibly do such a feat? Pan remembers that he only defeated the Hulk Hogan but the Hulk Hogan was the worst out of the three. He could not possibly be able to defeat the Ultimate Warrior and the Iron Sheik in fair combat. The Iron Sheik rises and takes off his mask; he is actually the Steel Sheik, the great grandson of the Iron Sheik. Pan is dumbfounded by the plot twist.

The Steel Sheik asks Pan how he actually feels about this fantasy. Pan says it is an utter nightmare because the Ultimate Warrior is dead. The Steel Sheik says that Gio’s cunning has only proved how terrible Gio’s love for Pan is. The Steel Sheik gives Pan the Pillowcase. The Pillow, Pillowcase, and Frozen Tears can now be merged to form the Pillow of Frozen Tears. It is successful, but it requires Akemi’s presence to work, otherwise the Love will flood out and be swept in the winds. The Steel Sheik tells Pan to go back down and challenge Gio, and to obliterate the false and terrible love. The Steel Sheik gives Pan the Mustache of the Iron Sheik, saving that the Triumvirate of Hate will fight with him in spirit and that they will give him an immense power because the world needs both Love and Hate; they are Yin and Yang.

Stage Nine: Gio the Mercury

Pan goes back down the orbital elevator to find it on a wrestling ring. Gio stands before him, knowing what Pan feels. They wrestle, but before Pan is able to land the final blow, Gio mutters that they are both the blood of Freddie Mercury. Pan stumbles back. He knows this to be true. Memories of being cradled in Freddie Mercury’s arms flood his head. Gio says that the two of them must be one, it is what Freddie Mercury would have wanted. Gio is the reflective introvert and Pan is the extrovert monster. Gio states that’s why the two of them have been unsatisfied with their love, always craving to push their power levels to the limit. Gio points out that this was exactly why Pan was attracted to Akemi, she had a high power level and he wanted it. If they fuse, they would have the highest Love ever, enough to offset all Hate from the universe. Pan brings up the point of Love and Hate needing to be balanced, but Gio retorts that it is what he believes as well. But he cannot hate until he has Pan. Gio reveals that Pan has the Hate Gene. Gio is forced to obsessively love at a level beyond Pan’s and beyond the good of humanity. Pan is the one that at least has a safeguard for his love.

Gio bluntly states that he needs Pan if the world is to be saved. Gio has considered suicide but that would mean the wrongful death of a Mercury, which mustn’t happen again. However, Pan catches sight of something. The Pillow of Frozen Tears still needs to return the love to Akemi. Gio steps back nervously. Pan realizes that even though Gio is a Mercury, he has still done questionable things. Shared blood does nothing to dilute the authority of justice. Furthermore, since Love and Hate act like Yin and Yang, Gio’s Love could never have a hint of evil since it is the extreme good. If anything, Gio wields a third new power, Lust. Besides that, Gio listed two contrasting intents and is not to be trusted. Gio laughs and applauds Pan for seeing through his plan.

Before Pan can land a blow, the wrestling ring is revealed to be the back of Mondo Buddha and Gio escapes while the Mondo Buddha’s back boosters blow Pan away.

to be cont.