In the hospital room, Asuka slowly opened her eyes and looked up at the ceiling.
"That familiar ceiling again..."
She slowly sat up, only to bump her head against something hard.
"Ow..."
Mirror, who had been keeping watch beside her, stood up when he saw this.
"You're finally awake. Hold on, I'll put the capsule away."
With that, he placed his hand on the capsule Zero had made transparent.
To Asuka's surprise, a pale green, transparent substance appeared around her. Then the capsule dissolved into particles of light, flew back into Mirror's hand, and became a tiny capsule.
Asuka sat up and moved her body and limbs in disbelief.
All she remembered was being brutally beaten by an Alien, then thrown out of a vehicle. She had nearly died.
Yet now, apart from feeling a little tired and still hurting in a few places, her body was more or less fine.
Remembering Shinji's healing beam last time and the capsule surrounding her body, she guessed that Shinji and Zero must have saved her.
"Mr. Mirror? Did Shinji save me? How long has it been since I was hurt?"
Mirror nodded gravely. "Yes. You were on the brink of death, so Zero and Shinji poured a huge amount of energy into the capsule to heal you."
"It's the next day now."
Asuka was deeply touched, and her eyes reddened slightly. "Then how's Shinji? Why isn't he here? Don't tell me..."
Mirror sighed.
"The Alien who attacked you was a Knuckle Alien..."
Mirror Knight told her everything: how Shinji and Zero had spent a huge amount of energy saving her, how EX Black King and Armor Knuckle had beaten them, how Ultraman Jack had come to their aid, how they had transformed into Dark Radiant Sky Claw and gone berserk, and how