Kinnikuman 216

The 4-D Killer Combo have captured Kinnikuman Great within the infinite confines of Black Hole! Suguru would help him...but somehow Pentagon has a new power taking him down! Can either of them get out and get their first team victory?

Chapter 216: Dream Choujin Tag Arc (8): Chronos’ Secret!!

25.
CHOUJIN BEST TAG DIRECTORY (7)
HELL MISSIONARIES

INDIVIDUAL TITLE HISTORY
HELL MISSIONARY #1
-Unknown
HELL MISSIONARY #2
-Unknown

TAG TITLE HISTORY
-Unknown

*Note
Everything about this tag-team is unknown, even their true power is unmeasurable. They’ve just said that they’re a new power unaffiliated with either the Justice Choujin or Devil Choujin.

26.
Suguru: Aah.
Announcer: Kinnikuman Great has been entombed within Black Hole from the 4-D Combo’s Two-Platoon attack!!
(TN: A “two-platoon” is a double-team attack)
Suguru: Great, are you OK?
Black Hole: Ka—kakakaka, he’s within my massive, endless 4-D Space, unmatched through the universe. He won’t hear you no matter how much you yell!!
Suguru: Hehe! Even a really massive black hole has a weakness! Have you forgotten from when you fell to me before……

27.
Suguru: I escaped with my secret technique: White Hole!
Audience: He did it—
Suguru: !
Suguru: Ge
Black Hole: Even if I take your White Hole, my Black Hole Wall is double-layered, so you say!

28.
Suguru: Aah!!
Suguru: Aah…
Suguru: ………
Suguru: Master Kamehame…I can’t do anything.
Pentagon: Essentially he was exposed to the smiling faces of the audience, but thanks to him being entombed within Black Hole, he won’t be taking their gratitude and can’t be saved. Kakakakaka
Suguru: Shut up.

29.
Pentagon: Guhe
Black Hole: You…you can’t be pl…planning to fight us alone!?
Suguru: It’s enough for me alone to take on those like you!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman is using a Flying Body Attack--!!
Pentagon: Chronos
Pentagon: Change!!

30.
Suguru: Owa—
Black Hole: Ke—kekeke~~
Announcer: Again, the taker of the technique has changed—
Black Hole: OK, Pentagon, let’s entomb Kinnikuman into the 4-D Space too.
Pentagon: Got it!

31.
Black Hole: Good going, Pentagon!!
Suguru: I…have to do something~~
Kamehame: Kinnikuman!!
Kamehame: Don’t throw away your hope! The nucleus of the 4-D Killer Combo is the star on Pentagon’s face!!
Suguru: Great
Mayumi: Suguru—
Announcer: Will Kinnikuman, the final one of the Muscle Brothers, also disappear in the sea of another dimension--!!
(TN: The expression used here which I had as “the sea of another dimension” is “Ijigen no Mokuzu”, with “mokuzu” being a word that represents the metaphor “death at sea”. So instead of just making the full “death within the sea of another dimension”, I just kept the disappear part to show an influence of him “disappearing” and therefore “dying” within Black Hole’s 4-D void)

32.
Suguru: Burning Inner Strength~~
Announcer: Kinnikuman turns it around with both hands—
Pentagon: Haven’t you accepted it--!!
Suguru: You were planning it, but I’ve heard the voice of help from above--!!
Pentagon: Guo

33.
Suguru: I’ve thought of what Chronos Change is! Chronos is the god that rules over time!!
Suguru: In short, Pentagon, you’re a Choujin who freely controls the realm of space-time!!
Audience: Ge—a Choujin who freely controls space-time~~!?
Suguru: In short, the star on your face is a switch that controls space-time, thus you can bend space-time by turning it! How did you come to this if you come to this—to have a phenomenon that can reverse all situations!!
Terry: Right, that’s what reversed all of the techniques used by Kinnikuman!!
Suguru: However, Pentagon, this Chronos Change
Suguru: Will be used by me this time!! Chronos Change

34.
Pentagon: Uwa~~
Suguru: Take this: Pile Driver----!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman counter-attacks--!!
Kamehame: Ki….Kinnikuman!!
Suguru: Ha…Great’s hand!

35.
Suguru: Great~~~
Kamehame: Aah!! The entrance to Black Hole!!
Suguru: Your…mask!!
Black Hole: Ka—kakaka, the road linking 3-D and 4-D is completely cut!
Suguru: Ge!! He disappeared!!
Terry: The Choujin fighting in the ring is just Kinnikuman…so then, can the Muscle Brothers win?
Ashura: No. This is a tag championship. The victory won’t be recognized if both participants don’t partake in the win.
Brocken: So without the return of Kinnikuman’s partner Great, the Muscle Brothers won’t be declared the winner!

36.
Suguru: Kinnikuman Great, in whatever massive space you’re in!! I won’t abandon the wish that you’ve said to me this time!!
Kamehame: I’ve actually heard your words, Kinnikuman!! I will truly escape from here—
Voice: Sorya—

37.
Black Hole: Kakaka—that’s impossible, impossible!
Kamehame: Bl…Black Hole…why are you here!?
Black Hole: I’ve come to stop your life!!
Kamehame: ………!!
Kamehame: Uwa

38.
Kamehame: Kinniku Buster!!
Black Hole: Ge!!
Suguru: So…then escape is impossible……
Kamehame: Kinnikuman, I’m trying to escape Black Hole now.
Suguru: Oh…
Suguru: Oh!
Announcer: A crack is emerging from some space---!!
Everyone: Am…amazing!!

39.
Suguru: A bit more. You can do this, Great!
Pentagon: Can he?
Suguru: ………!!
Suguru: Kinniku Driver!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman has caught Pentagon in a Kinniku Driver above the ring—
Announcer: And somehow Kinnikuman Great has destroyed the wall of space with the power of a Kinniku Buster--!!

40.
Suguru: Muscle Docking~~~!!
Announcer: It’s a dream docking of Kinniku Buster and Kinniku Driver----!!

TN: Ah yes, the Muscle Docking...so simple yet so powerful and so cool at the same time! It's weird that Suguru and Kamehame would invent that so easily on the fly, but it fits so easily so it's not like it's that bad. But with that said, it's time for the big question of the whole fight: what the heck was up with Pentagon's Chronos Change...and why the heck didn't he use that against Warsman way back in the Choujin Olympics!? Well OK, it does work storywise that Suguru underestimated Pentagon's power based on his previous experiences with him (probably just hearsay since he fought Benkiman at the same time as Pentagon fought Warsman) and that Pentagon does seem to have suddenly emerged with this power recently. But still...how does a Choujin basically just known as an acrobatic fighter before suddenly control space-time? I guess for one thing it's just the evolution of using weird gimmicks in the wrestlers by this point from Yudetamago's perspective. Sure there were weird gimmicky Choujin earlier in the series, but most of them (Curry Cook, King Cobra, Benkiman) were minor threats along the road. All the really important Choujin seemed more concentrated on more technical and realistic wrestling moves...well Pentagon wasn't that important but he did at least try. It's only with the 7 Devil Choujin and Devil Knights bringing weirder concepts as major threats with characters like Stecase King, Springman, Sneagator, Sunshine...and of course, Black Hole that the weirder, gimmick-driven Choujin finally started to take over as threats for the more serious, wrestling-driven characters. Probably in order to work with Black Hole did Yudetamago finally give him a weird gimmick using his star for time control. But storywise, I think probably that Pentagon did a lot of training after his humiliation via Warsman, discovered his space-time power, and then joined up and won a title with Black Hole leading up to this point. It probably sucks as a retrofit, but that's all I can think of.

And one more thing about Chronos Change: somehow I think it made more sense when it was The Ninja's "power lowering and switching" jutsu than this...whatever it was.