A huge turtle-shapes mecha, the "Turtleking" attacks
a uranium storage facility. The ISO and the delegates of various
countries are very concerned. Nambu, the only person who previously
knew of Galactor, now officially anounces the existence of both
the criminal organization "Galactor", as well as the
Science Ninja Team that has been formed to resist them.
The Science Ninja Team receives Nambu's orders, unites in the
God Phoenix, and flies off right away to a missile launching base
where the mecha was sighted.
Ken stops Joe, who's eager to get into his first real fight. Ken
takes Jun along and they sneak inside the mecha. With Ken's help
the God Phoenix then enters the mecha and Joe, Jinpei and Ryu
join the battle against the Galactor members.
Elsewhere, the commander of the mecha tells Berg Katse of the
Science Ninja Team's existence. Katse then relays the message
to Governor X. In accordance with X's instructions, Katse orders
the Science Ninja Team to be destroyed.
The order is to have the mecha make a suicidal plunge, taking
the God Phoenix with it, thus burying the Science Ninja Team.
But at the very last moment, the God Phoenix escapes the mecha
by using the Firebird Effect.
A spaceship disappears, along with a device that can report
and record the location of the Earth's resources.
The Science Ninja Team receives Nambu's instructions and heads
towards the bottom of the sea, in the vicinity of the spot where
contact with the spaceship was lost. There, prawn-shaped bulldozers
leave a huge aircraft carrier located on the sea bottom to build
a uranium factory. Ken stops Ryu who wants to fire a Bird Missile,
and sneaks into the aircraft carrier alone.
Ken discovers the spaceship's capsule inside the aircraft carrier,
but the astronauts have been taken hostage. Ken is caught then
too. In reality however, the pilots have already been murdered.
Showing them as if they were still alive has been a trap.
Jinpei has sneaked into the aircraft carrier following Ken on
Joe's orders. He is able to rescue Ken as he is being led underground.
The two of them collect the device and escape, destroying the
computer in the aircraft carrier.
The commander of the carrier gets blamed by Katse, and he gets
into the head of the Turtleking to hurl himself at the God Phoenix.
But due to Ken's quick thinking, the God Phoenix becomes the Firebird
and the flames consume everything.
Deadly crashes involving passenger planes keep happening. Ken, who's investigating these occurrences, encounters a boy named Makoto. The boy is awaiting the return of his father who was reported missing in one of the accidents.
Makoto's father is the younger brother of the inventor of Uranless,
Dr. Takahara. The string of plane crashes has been caused by Galactor.
They are intent on getting the Uranless, since it is capable of
neutralizing the means of propulsion of their giant mummy.
Ken has encountered the mummy in his Cessna before, and because
of that incident, he has data concerning the propulsion system
of the mummy. He contacts Dr. Takahara in order to get the Uranless.
He meets Makoto's father, who miraculously survived the crash.
But it's Katse in disguise. Katse battles with Ken and escapes.
Makoto blames Ken for torturing his father and Ken promises him
to bring back his father whereupon he gets the pin hiding the
Uranless.
The giant mummy appears at the airport and Ken is able to defeat
it by firing the Uranless into it. But Makoto watches Katse, still
in the guise of his father, flee in an escape rocket. He accuses
Ken of breaking his promise to bring his father back.
Ken accepts Makoto's hate silently since he lost his father ten
years before in a similar way and has had the same thoughts -
namely that his father would return some day.
During the investigation of an incident, Ken visits the Institute
for Earthquake Research. Because of an earthquake caused by a
mecha, he falls along with the director of the institute, into
a crevice in the earth. Ken transmutes and is saved, but he cannot
rescue the director.
Ken stands before the director's grave and is attacked by the
director's daughter Naomi, who firmly believes he's Galactor.
Ken understands her anger at not being able to avenge her father
and decides to let her know about his true identity as member
of the Science Ninja Team. Consequently, he lets her join the
team on the mission.
In an investigation it has been calculated which resources the
mecha will most likely attack next, and the God Phoenix encounters
the mecha there. Inside, Ken wants to let Naomi avenge her father
and asks Nambu for permission to fire the bird missiles. Nambu
doesn't give permission, but Ken ignores him and tells Naomi to
fire the bird missiles anyway.
Naomi hesitates to press the firing button, and Ken takes Naomi's
hand and makes her fire the missiles.
At the director's grave, Ken hands his bracelet to Nambu. He says
he wants to take the responsibility for making Naomi press the
firing button without permission and resign from the team. However,
Nambu says that Ken is needed for world peace and Naomi promises
not to reveal his true identity.
Oceangoing ships from the ISO keep disappearing. It always
happens in the vicinity of a place called "Cemetery of the
Sea". Director Anderson and Nambu ask the Science Ninja Team
to go to a base on the ocean floor which is most likely to be
struck next.
The Science Ninja Team gets Nambu's message and takes the God
Phoenix towards the base at the bottom of the sea. Then they encounter
a mysterious submarine, which leads them to the Cemetery of the
Sea, where they see countless sunken ships.
But when Joe says that all the ships are actually battleships,
Ken gets suspicious and has the God Phoenix surface. There's fog
everywhere on the surface. From the middle of the fog, a ghost
fleet attacks them, but the Science Ninja Team guess correctly
that the fog is man-made. They destroy the device creating the
fog, but from the ghost fleet appear countless disks which attack
them using light rays. The Science Ninja Team has to fight a hard
battle.
Just when all the missiles are used up and they don't know what
to do, three red planes appear and shoot down the enemy machines
using superior flying techniques. The commander of the fighter
plane unit introduces himself to the baffled Science Ninja Team
as "Red Impulse". He then flies away, leaving the words
"We'll meet again" behind.
Gold bars are stolen from the vault of the World Bank. It is
the deed of Galactor's Mini Robots.
The Science Ninja Team get their instructions and start a search
on the islands in the vicinity of the place where the gold bars
seem to have been taken. Joe makes sure that Ken, Jun and Jinpei,
in civilian wear, attract the enemy's attention and get taken
off to the base. He proposes that if this is the headquarters,
it should be destroyed right away. However, Nambu stops him by
saying it's not the Science Ninja Team's duty to attack. Joe leaves
a bored Ryu behind in the God Phoenix on the bottom of the sea
and sneaks into the base in order to prepare for retaking of the
gold bars.
While Ken and the other create a lot of confusion in the interior
of the base, Joe goes looking for the gold bars. He learns that
a missile is about to be fired at the God Phoenix when it is detected
by the surveillance cameras. He contacts Ryu in the God Phoenix,
right away.
Ryu, who is always merely on stand-by, is taking a nap, though
manages to evade the missile by a hair's breadth. With Joe's guidance
they store the stolen gold bars in the God Phoenix's interior.
Ken and the others are contacted and escape from the base. The
Galactor base and all its inhabitants are blown up because they
didn't manage to prevent the gold bars being stolen back.
There's a new kind of plane that does not pollute the environment.
In the middle of Ken's test flight of this ISO-developed plane,
he is attacked by a biplane, piloted by a man who introduces himself
as "Katzen Berig". Katzen Berig lashes with his whip
at the ISO plane, causing it to crash, but Ken saves himself just
in time by deploying a parachute.
Nambu suspects from the name that Galactor is involved and orders
the God Phoenix to attack immediately, but the God Phoenix's tailfin
gets damaged by the whip. Analysis of the material stuck in the
hull of the God Phoenix reveals that this kind of metal, called
"super metal whisker", is something that has been researched
by the ISO, but not manufactured. Nambu is taken aback at the
scientific power of Galactor, but when the production factory
is discovered, he gives the Science Ninja Team the order to destroy
it.
While the Science Ninja Team conducts a search with the God Phoenix
in a mining area, they detect a huge mine. When they discover
that this is where Galactor's secret factory is located, they
sneak into it. By the end of the battle, they have succeeded in
destroying the computer and the nuclear reactor. They try to make
their getaway in the God Phoenix, but are caught by the strong
magnetic attraction of the mine. They switch to jet propulsion
and escape by a hair's breadth, leaving the exploding factory
behind them.
A secret base. In order to resist their terrible enemy, Nambu
thinks about a base for the Science Ninja Team. But fearing enemy
intervention, he gives the Ninja Team orders to fly a patrol at
Point G in the southern Pacific Ocean. Following orders not to
intervene there, the God Phoenix leaves a smoke screen and flees
when it encounters a sea anemone mecha. That night, Jinpei is
with the other four team members, but he is not tired at all.
He takes the G-4 and dives to the bottom of the sea. Children
in the park had told him that G-4's popularity is the lowest of
all the team members, and he intends on gaining their favour by
being the best.
Despite the worries of the other team members, he wanders around
the sea bottom searching for the mecha. He never notices that
he is being tailed by the mecha he seeks.
Jinpei finds what seems to be a base under construction, but is
caught by the mecha. He contacts Ken, but the base is blown up
before his eyes. The mecha is destroyed by the God Phoenix and
Katse gets away again.
Jinpei wails that the base has been blown up because of his own
egoistic actions, but Nambu tells him that the destroyed base
was only a decoy. The Science Ninja Team had been the bait to
attract the enemy's attention.
The God Phoenix is flying high in the sky. Deep below stretches
a crescent shaped coral reef. Below the reef hides the base which
is capable of changing its location.
In the deep black sky the blue-white moon is shining.
Suddenly, a meteorite falls down to Earth. According to analysis,
the meteorite has the same composition as the moon. So Ken proposes
approaching the moon in the God Phoenix to investigate.
Approaching the moon, the God Phoenix encounters a swarm of meteorites
heading for Earth. Ken discovers a wrapped up body in the middle
of the swarm and, because this is not a meteorite he attacks.
But the Bird Missiles have no effect. The body falls to the Earth,
becomes a Scorpion Mecha and attacks an oil refinery.
Following Nambu's instructions from Earth to find the source of
the radio waves steering the mecha and the meteorites, Ken asks
Jun to trace the signal they detected while the mecha was on its
way to Earth.
The Science Ninja Team find the carrier sending out the control
signal and leave Ryu behind in the God Phoenix while they sneak
into it. They question the commander, but he doesn't reveal anything.
Joe loses his patience and fires carelessly into the control panels
with a machine gun. Shortly after the Science Ninja Team escapes,
the meteorites hit the carrier because the computer has been destroyed.
Meanwhile on Earth, the Red Impulse squad reports that the now
unguided scorpion mecha has been destroyed.
Suddenly, a whole city has lost power. Ken, in his Cessna,
is thinking about an anomaly in the power plant when he gets a
message from Nambu that the nuclear power plant has been attacked
by a large group of ants.
The Science Ninja Team goes to the site in question, but since
the missiles would have hardly any effect on the tiny groups,
they wash them away by breaking a nearby dam and using the force
of the water.
Upon analysing an ant they brought back, they learn that it's
a finely and precisely manufactured robot.
The robot ant gets repaired and, following its control signal,
returns to its base. It is followed by Ryu in the God Phoenix
in the sky and by the other four on the ground. They soon discover
huge ant-hills, and end up in a huge ant cave when they try to
sneak in. Katse is waiting for them where they fall and captures
them in a dome made of reinforced glas. The air is about to run
out and they don't know what to do, but in the end barely escape
by using a bomb. In the meantime, swarms of ants have attacked
the streets, but the Red Impulse squad exterminates them with
flamethrowers.
At this time, Katse lets a huge ant mecha take off. Red Impulse
and the God Phoenix drive the ant mecha into an underwater tunnel.
Collecting the sunlight with a mirror built into its nose, the
God Phoenix burns everything with a strong heat ray. But Katse
gets away again.
While flying, Ken is surprised to encounter the plane of the
Red Impulse commander. He pursues him, but Red Impulse gets away
using some superb flying technique; Ken longs to be able to use
similar techniques.
The Science Ninja Team gets order to guard the super powerful
plane "Blue Hawk", pride of the country Toritan. But
the crew of the plane has been killed before take-off and has
been replaced with Galactor members.
Nambu learns of this situation after take-off. He mobilizes Red
Impulse in order to protect the Science Ninja Team from the Blue
Hawk, since it is more powerful than the God Phoenix.
The God Phoenix continues to accompany the Blue Hawk without knowing
the situation onboard. Red Impulse appears, attacking the Blue
Hawk and, after shooting a timebomb into it, disappears again.
Ken sees that and firmly believes that Red Impulse is actually
an enemy. Ignoring Nambu who wants to stop him, he pursues Red
Impulse alone in the G-1.
While Ken is away, the other four members get abducted and taken
to a base located in a volcano. Ken however follows Red Impulse,
who in turn is following the signal emitted by the time bomb.
They arrive together and save the team just before they're executed.
Nambu tells them that Red Impulse is a friend battling on their
side. The G-1 and the Red Impulse plane fly through the sky wing-to-wing,
reminiscent of bird parents flying with their children. Nobody
at the time knows the meaning of the tear appearing in the Red
Impulse commander's eye.
The world's raw material for sugar gets stolen by the Galactor
mecha Ibukuron, and the world emergency sugar is getting very
low.
Ryu and Jinpei rush out into the street to buy candies. Just then,
they get the order from Nambu to move out in order to follow Ibukuron
and find the secret base.
During the pursuit, the God Phoenix gets drawn toward the mecha
by its strong magnetic force it uses to suck in the raw materials.
Ken uses this force to sneak into the interior of the mecha, along
with Joe and Ryu.
However, the interior turns out to be a sugar factory and the
three team members get sucked into the production process. They
almost fall into a huge cooking pot filled with seething raw material,
but somehow manage to escape. But then they enter a centrifuge
and are rendered completely helpless.
Meanwhile, Ibukuron has arrived at the base in a snow mountain
and Jun and Jinpei sneak into its nuclear energy chamber. They
turn off the power source, but get caught by the enemy. With the
power turned off, Ken and the others can escape and arrive to
rescue them. Just before escaping, Jun installs a time bomb and,
as a result, the base disappears in the middle of an avalanche.
The Science Ninja Team distributes the sugar, which they won back
from Ibukuron, in a park. The children are now happy again.
A ISO constructed storage lake, which is part of a plan to
make the desert fertile, disappears. The Science Ninja Team flies
to Africa to investigate. An Elder there tells them the legend
of the moving red sand. It is said that the red sand burns forever
and that it can make civilisations grow, as well as destroy them.
Ken asks the Elder about the sand's secret, but the Elder doesn't
tell anything.
Jinpei, following the Elder who's about to get abducted by Galactor,
finds a pendant. The red sand contained in its interior is sent
to Nambu and the analysis reveals that it's a new sort of bacteria
and also a previously undiscovered powerful energy source. It
has a thousand times the force of uranium and, if water is added,
splits up and causes a big explosion.
Because Galactor is looking for the red sand, a lion ant mecha
changes the lake's location via an underground channel. The God
Phoenix dives deep underground, discovers the caves used by the
mecha and sneaks into the base they discover. But Galactor learns
of the Science Ninja Team's arrival and they shoot the Elder after
he reveals the secret. They head to the location where the red
sand is locked up, one step ahead of the Science Ninja Team. Before
dying, the Elder tells the Science Ninja Team the location as
well. The God Phoenix gets there too late, the red sand is already
stolen by the mecha. As a last resort, the God Phoenix turns toward
the mecha as the Fiery Phoenix. As the red sand is touched by
the flames, Galactor's high ambitions are burned, together with
the sand.
It is reported that all kind of nuclear ships (cruise ships,
submarines, battle ships etc) are disappearing.
It is the deed of the Galactor mecha Icecander, aiming at nuclear
energy.
While investigating these incidents, the Science Ninja Team gets
a message that a suspicious iceberg is moving forward against
the current of the sea. The God Phoenix follows the iceberg, going
to the north pole, where they discover a base in the middle of
icebergs. Ken and Jun sneak into the base.
In the base, while they are trying to take out the nuclear reactor,
an operation is performed, designed to convert the crew and the
passengers of the ships into Galactor members. With this strategy,
Galactor wants to gain nuclear energy AND new members at the same
time.
Just at this moment, Katse wants to perform the operation on a
small girl, passenger on one of the cruise ships. Ken and Jun
invade the room and stop the operation, but Katse locks them up
and leaves a time bomb in the room. In this instance, an old man
in a wheelchair, who was on the same ship as the little girl,
takes the time bomb in his arms and sacrifices himself, saving
the others from the explosion.
Ken and the others exit the operation room. First they free the
abducted passengers and let them get back on board, then they
blow up the base and escape.
The Icecander pursues them, but the God Phoenix encounters it
using the fiery phoenix and the mecha goes up in flames.
The town "Ghost City" has been destroyed 10 years
earlier by environmental pollution. Communication with an investigation
team sending data from there is lost. The Science Ninja Team goes
there in the God Phoenix, which uses a soft skin (membrane) to
protect it against the pollution. But as soon as they enter the
city, they meet a Galactor attack. As it turns out, there's a
base here.
Nambu orders the U.N. military forces to attack. It seems everything
is cleared after the attack. In reality however, a jellyfish lens
created by Sosai X continues to grow at the bottom of the sea
near the city. It uses the polluted sea water as its amniotic
fluid.
After finishing its growth, the jellyfish lens which turns the
sunlight into energy a few hundred times stronger, completely
destroys fighter planes from the U.N. forces. It then starts to
attack the cities on earth.
The God Phoenix dives into the sea near the city and discovers
the base and the hiding jellyfish lense. They attack with missiles,
but even though they destroy the base, the jellyfish lense flies
out of the sea, pursuing the God Phoenix.
The membrane protecting the God Phoenix is peeled off and puts
it in a difficult situation. Just then, the Red Impulse group
gets Nambu's instructions that in order to dissipate the poisonous
gas the jellyfish lense breathes, they should throw high pressure
oxygen at it. Protected by the Red Impulse machines, Ken flies
they fiery phoenix into the jellyfish lense. The high pressure
oxygen goes up in flames and the jellyfish lense burns to ashes
on the surface of the sea.