Astral Chain (Nintendo Cinematic Universe)

Astral Chain is a Japanese graphic novel.
== Summary ==
Two twins from the Neuron task force are assigned to protect remnants of humanity from interdimensional creatures and aberrations that invade the planet.
== Characters ==
Japanese Voice 	English Voice 	Character 	Description
Nobunaga Shimazaki	Aleks Le 	Protagonist Howard	One of two twin police officers who are recruited into the Neuron task force.
Chika Anzai 	Brianna Knickerbocker	Akira Howard 	Protagonist's younger twin sister.
Takaya Hashi 	Joe J Thomas 	Yoseph Calvert 	A genius scientist, and the commander of the Neuron task force. He established Neuron, and was an influential member in the creation of the Ark.
Kenta Miyake 	Owen Thomas 	Maximilian Howard 	The captain of the Neuron task force. He is a good leader, and trusted by the team. He raised the protagonist and their twin as his kids.
Ayumi Tsunematsu 	Elizabeth Maxwell 	Alicia Lopez 	A member of the Neuron task force alongside the protagonist. Gets along well with Max, despite her teasing.
Shunsuke Takeuchi 	Jordan Reynolds 	Jin Wong 	A member of the Neuron task force alongside the protagonist, and long time acquaintance of Max and the twins. He acts as the twins' coach in Neuron.
Aimi Tanaka 	Cassandra Lee Morris 	Marie Wentz 	A police officer recruited into the Neuron task force from the traffic division. Takes care of menial jobs like cleaning the hallways and filing paperwork.
Azumi Waki 	Em Elridge 	Olive Espinosa 	Used to be a newscaster, but after witnessing the damage done to the Ark, volunteered to join the Neuron task force and is now an operator who supports the force from headquarters.
Eri Kitamura 	Megan Hensley 	Brenda Moreno 	One of the scientists involved in the research and development of the Legion technology at the ARI. Is also the doctor for the Neuron task force.
Daiki Yamashita 	Kyle McCarley 	Harold "Hal" Clark	A reclusive member of Neuron recruited because of his skills with technology, who is rarely seen in person. He controls an extensively modified drone to navigate the Ark instead.
Aimi Tanaka 	Cassandra Lee Morris 	Lappy 	The mascot character for the Ark police force, and eager assistant at Neuron.
Yuko Kaida 	Rebecca Davis 	Jena Anderson 	A mysterious woman dressed as a researcher who was missing for 20 years, before reappearing as a terrorist to the Ark and adversary to Neuron.
? 	Takaki Otomari 	Kyle Merkulov 	The current leader of a group of infamous hackers known as the Hermits, based in the abandoned Zone 09.
==Plot Elements==
*Protagonist and Akira are dispatched to respond to an aberration attack but are quickly outmatched by Chimeras.
*The twins are saved by Neuron officers Max, Alicia, and Jin, who wield Legions capable of fighting them. Yoseph assigns Legions to Protagonist and Akira, enabling them to repel the Chimeras.
*Afterwards, the twins are both formally inducted into Neuron. Their first investigation mission goes awry when Protagonist ends up being pulled into the Astral Plane, causing the rest of the squad to pursue him into the Astral Plane to save him. Due to prolonged Astral Plane exposure having the effect of weakening humans, the Neuron officers lose control over their Legions, causing them to break free and go berserk.
*In the end, only Protagonist is successful in subduing their Legion.
*Max battles the remaining frenzied Legions and sacrifices himself to allow the rest of the squad to escape.
*Meanwhile, Neuron's Legion production facility is attacked and put out of commission, leaving Protagonist as the only officer with access to a Legion.
*Protagonist is sent on further missions to respond to Chimera attacks, eventually recapturing the lost Legions in the process.
*During this time, the twins come into contact with Dr. Jena Anderson, a former pupil of Yoseph's who is instigating Chimera attacks and bears a grudge against UNION, the Ark's ruling government. She manages to critically wound Akira while evading capture, leaving clues to Protagonist to investigate Zone 09, a quarantined section of the Ark which Neuron officers are forbidden from entering.
*Protagonist goes undercover and explores Zone 09 with Hal, discovering that UNION developed a drug called Blue Evolve that could allow humans to fight Chimeras, which also carried the side effect of turning the users into Aberrations. After battling one of Jena's chimeric homonculi, he is saved by a recovered Akira, who has obtained a new Legion.
*As a result of entering Zone 09 without permission, Protagonist is jailed for insubordination, and Hal goes into hiding to avoid arrest.
*After another wave of Chimera attacks occur, Neuron is forced to provisionally release Protagonist to combat them.
*Jena stages a large-scale invasion of the Ark, announcing her intention to save humanity by merging Earth with the Astral Plane, which serves as a collective memory bank of humanity.
*The skirmish leaves Neuron's headquarters defenseless, allowing Jena to infiltrate it and take Yoseph hostage.
*The twins arrive to rescue Yoseph, causing Jena to power herself up with Blue Evolve before battling Protagonist.
*During the battle, Protagonist unwittingly ends up fully merging with his Legion and goes berserk, attacking Akira.
*Jena sacrifices herself by distracting the transformed Protagonist, telling him that this is the true form of their power.
*Yoseph then calls in the Ravens—a newly created task force of Legion users—and orders them to kill Protagonist, causing him to fall off an overpass.
*Protagonist wakes up back in his human form, having been rescued by Hal and Olive, and brought into a hiding place in Zone 09.
*Hal explains that Yoseph has largely replaced Neuron with the Ravens and is actively hunting Protagonist, accusing him of treason.
*While carrying out a covert rescue operation to retrieve Brenda from Neuron, the crew are confronted by Akira, who tries to convince Protagonist to return to Neuron, but they are ambushed by the Raven unit, revealing themselves to be clones of Akira.
*The Ravens attack Akira, causing Akira to inadvertently merge with her Legion and go on a rampage.
*To stop Akira, Protagonist willingly merges with his own Legion and manages to knock Akira back into her human form.
*Wanting to find out and stop Yoseph's plans, the twins stage an assault on his lab.
*After being confronted, Yoseph uses the Ravens as a catalyst to create the ultimate Legion, Noah, and merges himself with it, intending to absorb all life on Earth in order to become a god.
*Akira ends up being absorbed into Noah while trying to protect Protagonist.
*Protagonist battles Noah and weakens him enough to allow Akira to temporarily seize control of Noah's body, allowing the Player to destroy Noah, but killing Akira in the process.
*Following Noah's destruction, Chimera attacks begin to decrease drastically, allowing humans to consider leaving the Ark and repopulating the Earth.
*Alicia and Jin put Neuron back together, with Olive as interim commander, and the task force continues to handle the few Chimera attacks that still occur on the Ark.
*Akira is revealed to have survived through one of their remaining clones, having been transplanted memories by Brenda using traces found in the original's Legion.
==Notes==
*Set within the Nintendo Cinematic Universe.
**Part of the Galeem Saga.
*Based on Astral Chain.
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