Ken is flying over the country Hontwall in his G1 plane. He
is shocked when he sees the three Red Impulse planes. The figure
in one of the machines is undoubtedly his father. When the Red
Impulse commander asks him whether he should lead Ken to the new
base, Ken gets into contact with Nambu. However, without listening
to Nambu trying to stop him, Ken heads towards the base. Nambu
orders the God Phoenix to investigate what is going on in reality.
However, the God Phoenix encounters a mecha without the G1 on
board. It is caught and brought to the base.
Ken asks Red Impulse why he didn't let him know that he was alive.
Red Impulse answers that it was because he was looking for the
Galactor Headquarter. He says that he would like Ken to hand a
briefcase to Nambu containing information regarding the location
of some bases.
When Ken brings the briefcase to Nambu, he learns that they didn't
get any report from the God Phoenix. In order to make sure of
the real intentions of Red Impulse, Ken goes back to the base.
Because Red Impulse uses some delicate words, Ken understands
that Red Impulse is an imposter. The commander is Katse in disguise
and there was a transmitter installed in the briefcase. Ken gets
angry and grabs Katse by the collar. However, Katse takes advantage
of an opening and gets away. Ken is dropped into a subterranean
prison under the floor. His abducted team mates are there.
Ken escapes from the subterranean prison and contacts Nambu, telling
him to get rid of the briefcase. The signal of the transmitter
is interrupted and the mecha follows the small transmitter Ken
attached to Katse. The Galactor base and the mecha end up attacking
each other and are destroyed.
A celebration is held in order to praise the merits of the
Science Ninja Team. However, the participants are super robots.
They were invented by Nambu with purpose. His plan is to let them
be intentionally captured by Galactor. Then based on their message,
learn where the location of the enemy base is, have the real Science
Ninja Team sneak in there. But Ken thinks that the enemy will
not be fooled by them, so he takes the place of his robot.
As Nambu intended, a Galactor mecha appears, freezes the robots
and Ken with a freeze ray, and takes them to the base. After being
thawed, Ken mingles with the robots and sends a bird scramble.
The God Phoenix receives the signal and hurries towards the base.
But the robots explode upon touching high voltage electrical current.
It becomes obvious that they are fakes. The mecha is deployed.
Ken sneaks in the mecha and throws robots' debris into the propulsion
system. The mecha crashes and goes up in flames.
Ken is dead. With their breath held, his comrades look at the
screen in the God Phoenix for a long time. Before them, Ken's
figure appears slowly falling, having escaped by using the robot's
capes as a parachute.
Professional baseball players disappear in front of the spectators
during a short power outage in the middle of a match.
Nambu thinks that it's Galactor's fault and according to his instructions,
the Science Ninja Team are keeping guard everywhere in the baseball
stadium. During another game, a similar power outage happens,
and the players disappear before their eyes again. This time however,
Jinpei, who was acting as a ball boy on the field, has disappeared
as well.
The remaining four team members go to investigate the ground thoroughly
in the middle of the night. But suddenly the surface of the earth
breaks open and Ken and Jun fall into a secret subterranean base.
They are made to inhale some gas and are taken into a cell. Jinpei
is already in the cell. He says that the players are brainwashed
by some kind of drug and are to receive a special training in
order to turn them into Galactor members. The three of them escape
from the cell. Katse tells them that during the match this evening
under the floodlight, a hydrogen bomb might explode. It would
be capable of blowing away the whole country. Then he escapes.
Ken contacts Nambu. Joe and Ryu start to search immediately for
the bomb on the surface, but the game has already begun.
Ken gets information from the commander that if a homerun ball
hits the backscreen, the fuse will be activated. A homerunball
is hit. Joe and the others aim at the ball flying towards the
backscreen. All four weapons miss their aim. However, the ball
is knocked away just before hitting the backscreen. The ball falls
to the ground and it is pierced by Ken's boomerang.
A year earlier, the northern country Flanbel escaped from the
rule of the Dictator General Somure. But Galactor, who instructs
Somure, appears in the mansion of the Prime Minister and tells
him that he either obeys or dies. By the demand of the governor,
the Science Ninja Team sneaks in through the secret back door.
On the peace memorial day, presents are distributed to the children
by the governor. But the Suimusa group, which Jinpei met, have
their presents stolen by children from the upper city quarter.
That night during a patrol, the Science Ninja Team discovers that
all the families which opened the presents are dead. They learn
that the governor is a subordinate of Somure and has put poison
gas into the presents.
Meanwhile, the Suimusa group has gone to the celebration site
in order to tear down the snow man to vent their anger. However,
that snowman is the camouflage for Galactor's mecha. Mistaking
the shapes of the Suimusa group for the Science Ninja Team, Galactor
captures them. But they are saved by the Science Ninja Team who
follow them and take them aboard the God Phoenix and escape. The
mecha pursues them. In the interior are the governor and Somure.
Burying the mecha together with Somure and the governor, the God
Phoenix leaves. Inside, the Science Ninja Team says they want
to make a present as replacement for the ones the Suimusa group
missed. The Suimusa group replies that the best present was to
have been able to fight alongside Gatchaman.
The voices of the children echo "Justice will win for sure!"
The conserved brains of famous doctors keep getting stolen.
A monster also steals the brain of Dr. Yamashina, an expert in
robot engineering. The Science Ninja Team follows it, but lets
it get away.
But Nambu gets a hold of one of the tentacles from the monster.
Analysis shows that the monster is the low life form Bem from
space. Nambu fears that if Galactor's scientific powers can control
space life forms, they may be able to revive the dead brains.
At a scientific exhibition, Dr. Yamashina's creation, the X1 robot
X1, is planned to be revealed. In order to achieve that, Director
Anderson requests protection for it. At the exhibition, Bem appears,
unites with X1 and escapes. The God Phoenix pursues it, and discovers
Bem again at the spot where it lost sight of him before.
Galactor has Bem and the robot unite. With the brain energy of
the doctors Superbem is completed. Ken has it followed by the
God Phoenix and sneaks into the base himself.
In the base, the commander guiding Bem notices that a brain don't
have enough output. In reality, the stolen brain of Dr. Yamasina
is an imitation placed by Nambu on purpose. Ken sneaks in there
and destroys the energy source for Bem. His plan having failed,
Katse orders the self-destruction of Bem. Bem and the base explode
together and the God Phoenix, uniting with the G1, escapes the
explosion using the Firebird.
The queen of the country Monarins is a big fan of the Science
Ninja Tea. Every year, she donates big amounts of money to the
ISO. Katse comes into the country himself, planning to weaken
the activities of the Science Ninja Team by killing that woman.
Elsewhere it is predicted that a Galactor assault may take place
during the fashion show and the Science Ninja Team is put on guard
duty. Ken and the other sneak into the country as common tourists.
In the middle of the night, while Ken and Joe are investigating
the surroundings of the palace, they get a baptism of fire from
the finger ring bombs of some ominous figures. Ken, thinking that
it is difficult to evade this attack, intends to take over the
technique of the roller game which is a characteristic for the
Monarins country.
Also, Jun gets hired as a model by the designer responsible for
the fashion show. Shortly thereafter however, Katse and the Devil
Stars take the place of all the participants except for Jun. Jun
enters the palace and notifies the queen that the Science Ninja
Team will always be at her side.
In the final stages of the show, the designer announces an original
design that turns out to be the Devil Stars. The queen, beleaguered
by the Devil Stars, calls the name of the Science Ninja Team as
the fashion of justice. As a result of the special training, the
Science Ninja Team evades the finger ring bombs of the Devil Stars.
Katse sees that he's at a disadvantage and calls a mole tank to
escapes alone.
Katse, opposed to Sosai X's orders to destroy the Mantle Plan,
asks whether it wouldn't be better to conquer Earth after the
Mantle Plan was finished. X promises to Katse the rank of President
Z and lets him start the operation. But behind his back, X laughs
and says that Z is a symbol for murder.
Institutions of the Mantle Plan are attacked one after the other
by a jellyfish mecha. The God Phoenix faces it, but its missiles
have no effect. On the contrary, the launching ramp gets hit.
The God Phoenix wants to escape with the multiple firebird. But
mines are released upon the God Phoenix and it is wrapped in flames
in no time at all. The God Phoenix makes a forced landing in the
desert and explodes in the end.
While the rebirth of the God Phoenix is being carried out by the
ISO, the Science Ninja Team has no means to intervene and can
only watch Galactor's attacks. They are in an irritated state
when they receive the message that the revived God Phoenix is
finished. Each of their individual mechas has been outfitted with
a weapon. But Nambu tells the five team members that the purpose
of those weapons is not to kill, but for defending themselves.
When the message arrives that the jellyfish mecha is attacking
the ISO headquarters, the God Phoenix is deployed immediately.
Guiding the mecha to a mountain region, they defeat it with the
weapons on their invidivual mechas and the Super Bird Missiles.
But in Ken's heart there is the doubt that if the development
of new weapons continues, peace might still be far away.
One day on a small island in the south sea, a nuclear explosion
takes place.
The ISO research planes crash and burn in the high radio-activity.
From the remaining records, they learn that in the vicinity of
the island there's radioactivity, but not in the center of the
island. The God Phoenix is supposed to go to investigate, but
in order to overcome the radioactivity belt, they have to use
the Firebird on the way in and out. Beauce of this, they request
a research ship to supply them with fuel.
When they enter the island, there's no radioactivity, and the
buildings are also undammaged. But there's nobody around. Joe
sees human shapes in a tram which were exposed to very high heat
and instantly made molten. He is convinced that a nuclear experiment
has taken place. At that time, the walls of the buildings suddenly
start to come loose and the radioactivity gets very strong.
They get into the God Phoenix and escape from the island, but
because of the shock caused by the radioactivity belt not being
there anymore, they all lose consciousness. When they wake again,
they are on board the research ship.
There, Nambu is waiting and says that because of a change in plans
they will return to the base in the God Phoenix. Ken is about
to obey, but when Ryu says that, for passing the radioactivity
belt, they didn't use any fuel, he turns towards Nambu and throws
his boomerang. Nambu is Katse in disguise.
The strategy of Galactor - namely to pose as Nambu and to be led
to the base in the God Phoenix, has failed. Katse escapes in a
disc-shaped plane.
Galactor sneaks into the country Shosken, 80% of which is taken
up by the Ohara desert and mountainous regions. Communications
break off with a special troup which went there to investigate
in the old tombs. In order to search for them, the Science Ninja
Team splits up and mixes with the citizens. A woman confuses Jinpei
with her dead son. But he sees his mother in her as well and goes
to her house. There he hears the story that in the old tombs,
which are called the devil's cemetery, caravans and people from
the village disappear.
Jinpei thinks that those tombs are suspicious, and sneaks in there
alone. He finds a Galactor base where they are trying to gain
uranium from underground quicksand. The people who disappeared
are made to work there.
Jinpei calls Ken and the others, who join him. Together they corner
Katse. But Galactor has taken the village people as hostages and
they are forced to release Katse. Nevertheless, Galactor wants
to drop the hostages into the quicksand. But Ken's boomerang flies
towards them. Galactor members are about to fall unto the self-destruct
mechanism of the base. The self-destruct mechanism ends up being
activated.
Katse and the Galactor members escape. Ken and the others guide
the village people hostages outside of the base. The woman is
worried about Jinpei and wants to return to the tomb. But is stopped
and collapses crying.
Jinpei appears as a member of the Science Ninja Team and cannot
show his face to the woman. After returning to the God Phoenix,
he has a good cry clinging to Jun's chest.
Mummified corpses keep being found. Since the dammages continue,
Nambu orders the Science Ninja Team to find out the cause of all
this.
During a patrol, Joe saves a girl from a taxi which is being attacked
by mannequin mechas. He takes her to the hospital. But Ken blames
him for not contacting him from there and doesn't trust the girl.
Joe returns to the hospital and sees the girl running away from
her hospital room. He also sees the nurse who has been assaulted.
Joe follows the girl. The girl notices, and her face shows a slight
smile.
Ken, who has received a message and come to the hospital, brings
back a piece of plastic from the bed the girl was in. There he
receives a message from Joe, saying "the cemetery of the
puppets" and then breaking off. Connecting the plastic piece
to Joe's message, the Science Ninja Team searches for a mannequin
dumping place. However, Jun and Ryu are also captured by Maya,
the girl who controls the mannequins.
Through Ryu's Birdscramble, Ken and Jinpei sneak into the base
and save the other three. Then they defeat the mannequins.
Maya was allowed to leave Galactor if she succeeded in terminating
the Science Ninja Team. But Katse shoots Maya, who failed, and
goes away saying that it is not possible to leave Galactor alive.
The masks falls from Maya's face. She tells the Science Ninja
Team about the self-destruction of the base and murmurs that she
would have loved living under the sun, then she passes away.
The ISO discovers a new energy source in the Himalaya, but
an investigation troop sent there is annihilated by the Yeti.
Because of several rumours about Yetis, Jinpei goes to the Himalaya
alone. There he is attacked by the Yeti, but it is a Galactor
Yeti Mecha. The God Phoenix goes to the Himalaya to look for the
missing troop according to Nambu's orders. They get the message
from Jinpei about the apparition of the Yeti and head towards
the location this message came from.
Elsewhere, matters have developped in such a way that Jinpei has
been saved by Galactor members and is now working as a servant
in the base. While working, he secretly sends a bird scramble
signal. Additionally, when he brings food to Katse's chamber,
he hears there Katse speaking with X.
The God Phoenix appears in the vicinity of the base and Galactor
turns towards it, attacking it with missiles and flame throwers.
However, because of Ken's tactic the God Phoenix keeps turning
back and while it is continously shot at, an avalanche gets started
and the base is hit hard. The God Phoenix breaks into the base.
Ken and the others corner Katse again.
Ken tears away Katse's mask. Katse covers his face and from behind
him, X appears with a flash and introduces himself as the ruler
of Galactor. The Science Ninja Team is blinded by the light and
they lose consciousness. When they wake up again, Katse and X's
form have disappeared.
A certain anxiousness arises now that they are aware of X's existence.
The mountains of the Himalaya still enclose that secret.
In Amazonia the old entemologist (insect researcher) Toda who
is continuing his research, notices unusal behaviour in the locusts.
He notifies every authority and department, but he is not taken
seriously. Jinpei, who heard his story, returns with him to Amazonia.
The unusual appearance of the locusts is a Galactor deed. With
a guiding radio signal emitted by a locust mecha a swarm of locusts
is made to attack the city.
In the research hut of Toda, they are attacked by a swarm of locusts.
While protecting the hut with a pesticide, they capture the mecha
locust leading the swarm and Toda finds out the frequency of the
radio signal. However, because of the interfering radio signals,
Jinpei cannot contact Ken and the others. He comes up with a plan
and sprays the form of the bird head shape into a meadow with
the pesticide. Having received a message about the unusal appearance
of the locusts, the God Phoenix has come to Amazonia. They discover
the mark and join Jinpei and Toda.
Because of the appearance of the God Phoenix, Katse accelerates
his plan and releases mecha locusts and their locusts swarms,
heading for the capitals of the world.
Ken hears the story about the radio signal from Jinpei and has
the God Phoenix emit the the same frequency. He lures the locust
swarms released in the world towards the sea and blows them up
with a rocket.
Only Ken and the other know that the true credit belongs to the
old scientist who piled up years of research and was ignored by
everybody.
The Science Ninja Team vanquishes another mecha and has let
Katse escape yet again. With Nambu's transmission, they follow
the course of Katse's rocket. However, Katse has switched to a
car and heads towards a jungle. The Science Ninja Team descends
towards the jungle as well in his pursuit and separates into three
parties, searching for Katse.
X receives an SOS signal from Katse and, together with sending
a commando unit, takes additional steps by setting traps in the
jungle.
Joe criticizes Ryu for approaching a trap unprepared. But when
he distrusts a wounded young deer, Ryu retorts that there's nobody
more insensitive than Joe.
Meanwhile, Jinpei discovers Katse and corners him, but is in turn
caught by the commando unit.
Before an ice covered mammoth, Joe and Ryu discover Jinpei about
to be turned into a human sacrifice. They save him and additionally
corner Katse, who changed into a shinto-priest. But Katse seeks
refuge in the mammoth mecha and attacks Joe and the others. They
are saved by a hair's breadth by the God Phoenix and Joe wants
to shoot a rocket into the mecha. But when he sees a group of
deer below the mecha, he hesitates.
Luring the mecha into the mountains, they shoot at the ground
below the mecha with a rocket. The mecha disappears into an avalanche.
The Science Ninja Team is wrong in assuming that, because of the
jungle with the traps set, the headquarter is nearby. Its existence
is however still shrouded in the fog.
The mammoth which should be buried in a glacier, appears at
an amusement park where Jun and Jinpei have gone. While saving
the children, Jun's shoe falls off and gets stuck between the
mecha's claws.
Jun reports the loss of her shoe. Nambu tells her to look for
it. He says that, with Galactor's scientific power, they might
be able to discover the secret of the transformation from the
shoe.
In the Galactor base, Katse orders the analysis of the shoe which
remained completely intact after burning in the incinerator. At
last they find out the frequency of the electrical waves which
cause the shoe to transform into a white boot. X has Dr. Mizuno
start developing a weapon to undo the transformation. Additionally,
they start searching for G-3 based on the data gained from the
shoe.16 year old girls are recruited for a beauty center. Jun,
who is depressed because of losing her shoe, applies for the job,
even though she knows that it's a trap. The female commander,
who has captured the four other candidates besides Jun, puts them
to sleep and transports them to the base. Jun pretends to be sleeping
and transmits a bird scramble signal.
Jun is led off to the base and questioned by Katse. When it's
almost too late, the God Phoenix appears. Jun seizes the opportunity
and saves the girls, recovers her shoe and gets into the God Phoenix.
Katse fires the rockets of the mecha, but because of the guiding
system built in by Ken, the rockets return and the base explodes
together with the mecha.
While a Galactor mech is mobilized, one of the small planes
loses speed and collides with the fisher boat on which Ryu's father
is. The boat is shipwrecked.
When Ryu's younger brother Seiji hurries to Ryu's whereabouts
and tells him of his father's shipwreck, Nambu's mobilization
order goes out. Ryu desperately shakes his brother off, who is
crying and clinging to him. But he ends up being late for the
mobilization and the main research institute is already destroyed.
Shortly thereafter, while they are doing bodyguard duty for a
tanker, Ryu is worrying about his father's shipwreck as well and
misses the course. In the meantime, the tanker has been attacked.
Nambu scolds him that he didn't do his best. Ken defends Ryu and
tells Nambu that they are not robots which just follow orders.
Nambu tells them that they are under house arrest. However, Ken
and Jun hear from Seiji about the shipwreck of Ryu's father and
go out in the God Phoenix searching for the father without Nambu's
orders.
On one of the Amana islands they discover smoke and save Ryu's
father and his comrades who are safe and sound. At that time,
Ryu's father, without knowing that Ryu is his son, tells them
the weakness of the mecha. Namely - when the small planes detach
themselves from the main part of the mecha, the interior becomes
visible.
Aiming at an uranium store, the mecha appears again. The God Phoenix
is mobilized. As he learned from his father, Ryu makes a rocket
hit right on target into the main part of the mecha right after
the small planes have detached themselves. The mecha is defeated.