Takeru Hayato (Humagear)

## **Takeru Hayato**

* Normal
* Infected (Hacked)
* Damaged

This **Takeru Hayato** (一文字 丈瑠, *Hayato Takeru*) was a Humagear replica of the prime version Takeru Hayato who served as the research assistant of Echo Hamilton.

## History

When Echo Hamilton stole a Humagear to learn of the Rescuers and Rescue Paw's history and mysterious powers, the Humagear is infected with the data of a damaged Rescue Red Rescue Card, "reviving" him in the process. After Takeru escapes to the city, he realizes the limitations of his new body after running out of battery life. After he was recharged and hacked by Gyaku at a parking garage, Takeru encounters Echo again, who intends to invite him to Baseplate Prime. Takeru transforms into Rescue Red to battle Cyber Knight Mnemosyne, and manages to absorb Mnemosyne's darkness. This allows him to print out the Shadow Emperor Attachment to evolve as Shadow Emperor Form. After destroying Cyber Knight Mnemosyne, Takeru takes over the Baseplate Prime building as part his plan of reviving a Monster Army. Before entering his new office, the Humagear replica was destroyed by a mysterious man in red.

## Abilities

* **Enhanced Strength**: Takeru is shown to be strong enough to destroy a quartz pillar and steel girder with no effort.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Takeru is also shown to run fast enough to reach his designated destination in only a matter of seconds.
* **Visual Recording Optics**: Takeru can record what he sees and replay it via projections or other means.
* **Optical Scan Sensors**: Takeru can scan whatever is in his field of vision to analyze. This can be used to identify people and objects or in scenarios where he is in battle, locate the weak points (or source of the abilities) of a opponent.
* **Cognitive Learning**: Takeru can learn new experiences and act according to what he processes from them.

### Weaknesses

* **Battery**: His Humagear body can run out of energy and he will eventually deactivate if he wanders for too long, and is alerted by the blinking lights on his Humagear Module. If left in this deactivated state for long enough, he be venerable computer viruses and become easier to hack.

## Forms

* Rescue Red
* Shadow Emperor Form

**Rescue Red**

* 1
* 2

"Rescuers!"
―Transformation announcement[src]
Like the original, Takeru is a balanced fighter who excels at both ranged and melee combat. He transforms using the original's damaged Rescue Card.

### Arsenal

* **Rescue Changer**
* **Rescue Buckle**
* **Rescue Sabre**
* **Rescue Gun**
* **Rescue Buster**
* **Ranger Cards**

### Final Waves

* **Rescue Blast and Slash** Takeru's preferred final wave. Inserting a Ranger Card into his Rescue Gun And into his Sabre, Takeru fires a **Rescue Blast** which is combined with the **Rescue Slash**.

**Rescue Red Shadow Emperor Form**

"Enter the Hallowed Darkness! Force of the Mysterious Evil! Rescue Red Shadow Emperor Form has raised! Fuhahahahahahahahahaha!"
―Transformation announcement[src]
### Arsenal

* **Rescue Changer**
* **Shadow Emperor Attachment**
* **Progrisekeys**
* **Darkness Buckle**
* **Thousand Jacker**

### Final Waves

* **Thousand Break** (サウザンドブレイク, *Sauzando Bureiku*): Rescue Red Shadow Emperor Form charges the Thousand Jacker with black and red energy before pointing it upward, creating a pillar of light that extends miles into the sky and is surrounded by rings of red energy and spiraling red lightning. With the pillar of light anchored to the tip of the Thousand Jacker, Rescue Red Shadow Emperor Form draws a circle in the air with the weapon, creating two rings of distortion above him. Finally, Rescue Red Shadow Emperor Form stabs the Thousand Jacker into the ground, causing dark black energy to travel back down the pillar of light. When the energy reaches the base of the pillar, it results in an explosion that sends out massive shockwaves of black energy which destroy the surrounding area.

## Behind the Scenes

### Portrayal

The Humagear replica is played by **Takeru Watanabe**, who also plays Takeru Hayato and his Prime Counterpart.

As Rescue Red, Takeru Watanabe did most of the stunts for Rescue Red himself, with an unknown person serving as a understudy. While Shadow Emperor Rescue Red, his suit actor is currently unknown.

### Etymology

Shadow Emperor is in reference to Shadowline Clover from Shadow Chasers who is reincarnation of the Shadow Emperor.

## Notes

* The ending part of Rescue Red Shadow Emperor Form's transformation is reused audio of Akio Otsuka and Tetsuo Kanao's voice clips combined.

## Appearances

* Project Intruders
	+ Cyber Knight: Blood War -The Mystery of Baseplate-