VR Troopers

Zoom in on Ziktor Tower (no smog).

Recycled; fades in; fades out.

Karl Ziktor morphs into Grimlord.

Recycled.

The four main Generals in front, the mutants of the virtual dungeon step forth, pumping fists in the air.

Recycled; slowed.

Grimlord raises his right hand, palm outward, then points forth, shooting a beam of energy at us.

Recycled.

Grimlord's energy screen appears above the mutants in the Dungeon, forming an image of Colonel Icebot, bowing slightly, then turning around and walking into his lab as the automatic door opens for him.

Recycled backplate, recycled insert that runs longer at start than prior uses.

Colonel Icebot steps into a doorway, and holds up a device, which blinks to life.

Recycled but runs fully at start; mirror-flipped.

A device is aimed at the Icebot's lab monitor as footage of Earth exploding plays on it.

Recycled backplate, new insert.

Colonel Icebot nod-talks to our slight left.

Recycled; shortened.

General Ivar raises his right hand while talking, as the virtual mutants watch from behind the energy screen.

Recycled backplate, new insert; split.

Close on Grimlord talking.

Recycled; shortened heavily.

General Ivar puts his left hand to his chest and bows while talking, as the virtual mutants watch from behind the energy screen.

Recycled backplate, new slowed insert (cuts before he bows); split from two shots ago.

Extremely close on Grimlord, talking.

Recycled; shortened heavily.

Decimator talks, then turns around and walks toward the back of the dungeon, gesturing his arm. One of the virtual chambers opens up, the Magician Robot leaping out from within the mist, flipping across the dungeon and bounding off another chamber, then pinning himself to a ceiling corner for a moment, before dropping down to the floor.

Cuts follow-up due to onscreen Japanese text.

Decimator stares, as Magician motions his arms, and three Mutant Drones, his Assistants, lower from the ceiling and land beside him. He quickly crouches and bows.

Cuts shot 1 before he gestures; cuts follow-up Grimlord shot for a different one.

Grimlord talks in a mid-shot.

Semi-recycled, but runs longer, still cutting before he dematerializes.

Magician and his Assistants bow, then leap up and teleport away.

Teleport effects added; fades to black.

The Air Castle emerges from the clouds.

Recycled; plays in reverse; fades in.

Colonel Icebot raises his handheld device and looks at it.

Split.

Colonel Icebot grips his handheld device with both hands, causing it to blink to life.

Shot 1 is split from before.

Colonel Icebot steps into a doorway, and holds up a device, which blinks to life.

Recycled, but unaltered.

Colonel Icebot nod-talks and shakes his head.

Recycled; cuts before he rushes off.

Close on Colonel Icebot, nod-talking slightly to our slight left.

Recycled; cuts before he finishes shifting gaze our way.

Colonel Icebot talks to our slight right.

Partially recycled, but runs much longer at start than prior uses; cuts before he turns his head to our right more.

A device is aimed at the Icebot's lab monitor as footage of a green planet exploding then a massive fireball expanding outward plays on it.

Recycled backplate, new insert.

Close on the Air Castle as it rises up.

Recycled; fades out.

Air Striker approaches.

Recycled; transitions in.

Kaitlin's car drives on a multi-lane street.

Mirror-flipped; cuts before pan up to show other cars and the city.

Air Striker flies, his arms bobbing from side to side.

Recycled.

Zoom in on Kaitlin's car as it drives on the wrong side of the road.

Slowed.

Air Striker flies to our left.

Recycled.

Close on Air Striker flying.

Recycled.

Air Striker flies away from us into the clouds.

Recycled; mirror-flipped; trimmed heavily.

Kaitlin's car speeds past us on a forest-side paved road.

Mirror-flipped.

POV of Kaitlin's car driving on the right side of a paved road in the forest.

Recycled; mirror-flipped.

Kaitlin's car suddenly turns to our right.

Mirror-flipped.

POV of Kaitlin's car riding down a dirt road roughly, then as it rides down the road, pan over to Magician's Assistants lurking about in the woods.

Kaitlin's car keeps driving onward, pan over to Magician and his Assistants racing alongside it.

Kaitlin's car passes by us as seen from within the woods.

Zoom in on the woods, where the Magician's Assistants stalk us.

Two of Magician's Assistants flip over the camera.

Cuts before we see Ryan's counterpart.

A rope whips in.

Recycled.

Another rope whips in.

Recycled.

A Mutant Skug/Drone/Magician's Assistant, holding one of the ropes, sends an electricity charge through it.

Recycled; cuts before we see Ryan's counterpart.

Ryan's VR transformation sequence.

Recycled.

Zoom out as VR Ryan finds himself bound and fried by the rope-wielding Magician's Assistants.

VR Ryan's internal gyro spins to life.

Recycled, per source.

VR Ryan gets zapped with electricity from the three ropes ensnaring him by the five Mutant Drones, but ignores it, and jerks the ropes suddenly, sending the five Drones flying off. One lands and recovers, then fires glowing darts at VR Ryan, who dodges, sending the darts into another Drone who collapses dead.

Recycled.

A Magician's Assistant flips over the camera.

Split.

VR Ryan looks to our left slightly.

Mirror-flipped; cuts before he rushes off.

Another Magician's Assistant flips over the camera.

Split from two shots ago.

A Magician's Assistant leaps down.

Cuts before zoom out finishes and shows woman in cloak.

VR Ryan jerks a Magician's Assistant's arm down.

Cuts before he punches him aside and woman in cloak appears.

VR Ryan kicks the leg of a Magician's Assistant, then rips its blade out of its hand, punches it, then tosses the blade over into another Magician's Assistant, hitting it in the chest, causing it to fall over dramatically.

Pinkish impact energy effect added to shot 3.

VR Ryan turns suddenly to our left.

Recycled; cuts before he talks; plays in reverse.

A pair of Mutant Drones leaps in with spears in hand, so VR Ryan leaps up, bounces off a tree, and grabs both of them by the neck, before leaping up and tossing them into a quarry, where they explode together.

Recycled.

VR Ryan looks forth and nod-talks.

Recycled; trims start.

Zoom in on Magician, hiding in the woods.

Trims start; slowed.

The Air Castle emerges from the clouds.

Recycled again but cuts before it gets closer to screen; plays in reverse.

Colonel Icebot flips some switches on a console, then reaches down and turns some knobs.

Recycled; trims start.

Close on buttons on a machine blinking.

Recycled.

Colonel Icebot turns and looks to our slight left.

Recycled; cuts before he talks more.

Slow zoom in on Grimlord, talking on his throne, starting with a wide angle.

Recycled; shortened; plays in reverse; fades in; fades to black.

Grimlord looks over to and reaches out at computer console on our left.

Recycled; cuts before we see console fully; fades in.

Pan right as Grimlord ceases looking over at and reaching out at computer console on our left, then talks.

Recycled; plays in reverse.

A device is aimed at the Icebot's lab monitor as footage of Grimlord talking up close plays on it.

Recycled backplate, with recycled insert (though the insert's source is really a guess, it's too cropped to be able to tell where it's from precisely).

Colonel Icebot nods, then leaves, going up to his lab console and pressing a button.

Cuts before he ceases pressing button.

Colonel Icebot turns a knob.

Recycled; mirror-flipped; trims off button pressing.

The three Trooper teens raise their glowing Virtualizers.

Recycled.

Ryan's VR transformation sequence.

Recycled.

J.B.'s VR transformation sequence.

Recycled.

Kaitlin's VR transformation sequence.

Recycled from VRT 201; transitions out.

Pan down an icy river by snowy banks and icicles dripping.

Transitions in.

VR JB & VR Kaitlin trudge through the snow together, then close on VR JB coming to a stop and looking forth.

Cuts shot 2 before Japanese text appears onscreen.

VR JB's POV of a snowy mountain which blurs out.

Split; altered to fit VR JB vision.

VR JB's POV of a pair of gray boxes, a power transformer type thing.

Recycled; freeze-framed; Altered to fit VR JB vision.

VR JB's POV of as a snowy mountain blurs back into focus.

Split from two shots ago; altered to fit VR JB vision.

VR Kaitlin looks upward.

Trims start to remove onscreen Japanese text; cuts before she turns around suddenly; cuts follow-ups of them being strafed by Air Fighters repeatedly.

VR JB nod-talks to VR Kaitlin, she replies and they press on.

Mirror-flipped.

VR Ryan leaps up and forth.

Sharp zoom in on Magician.

Plays in reverse; cuts before Assistants join him.

VR Ryan kicks Magician.

Mirror-flipped; trimmed to remove woman in cloak.

Magician breaks his lance into two bladed halves.

Close on VR Ryan nodding.

Split.

Magician backflips onto a dirt mound.

Splits shot 2.

Close on VR Ryan leaping up.

Split from three shots ago.

VR Ryan flips over completely.

Magician leaps off the dirt mound with both daggers held forth, lunging into VR Ryan, who grabs the blades.

Shot 1 is split from three shots ago; splits shot 3.

As Magician stabs at him, VR Ryan dodges, then runs over to the dirt mound, turns around and blocks Magician's next jabs.

Cuts follow-up of VR Ryan flipping him over his back.

VR Ryan shrugs off the blades, then flips Magician over, where he rolls on the ground, then throws one of his daggers, which misses VR Ryan, who then grabs and pushes Magician back away from him. Magician then readies his lance.

Mirror-flipped (all but final shot); shot 1 is split from three shots ago; transitions out.

Skugs on snowskis drive past us, as VR JB & VR Kaitlin watch, then look at each other and exchange nods, before running down the snowy road they just drove down. Zoom in across the rapids at the pair of VR Troopers reading a riverbank.

Transitions in; shot 1 is mirror-flipped.

Monitors show VRs JB & Kaitlin racing up a snowy riverbank.

Recycled backplate, with recycled insert.

A Skug stands up and salutes, then his fellow Skugs race out of the room together.

Recycled.

Skugs races out of a cave with a golden backlight to it.

Trims start to remove wacky scientist; transitions out.

VR Ryan rushes in, dodges, blocks, grabs Magician by the spear and flips him overhead, sending him flipping onto his back. VR Ryan charges up his right hand, then rushes over, jumps up and chops down at Magician, who disappears at the last second, leaving VR Ryan looking around, puzzled, then rushes off.

Recycled but final shot runs a little longer than last time; transitions in.

VR Ryan glances about and speaks, his POV scans the area and finds Magician hiding in boulder, so he flings the javelin at it, causing Magician to appear and catch it. VR Ryan then flips over and lands before Magician, trying to dodge his spearing, causing him to fall and roll down the hill a little, before recovering, grabbing the javelin and relieving Magician of it, throwing it aside, before rushing over and punching Magician a few times, sending him falling and rolling. VR Ryan charges up his Lightning Hand, then leaps up and energy chops down into Magician, sending him crackling and writhing.

Recycled, shot 8 runs fully uncut for once; final shot has some added flashes taken from Metalder #18's massive explosion.

Close-up of VR Ryan nod-talking.

Recycled.

Skugs races out of a cave with a golden backlight to it.

Recycled; trims start so you don't see Horrorbot; cuts final shot before he departs; transitions out.

VRs JB & Kaitlin race away from a pair of laser rifle-packing Skugs.

Recycled but unaltered; transitions in.

Explosions erupt in the snow dunes around VR JB & VR Kaitlin.

Recycled.

Skugs fire their laser rifles.

Recycled; cuts before pan over to two VR Troopers.

Closer as explosions erupt in the snow dunes around VR JB & VR Kaitlin, sending them rolling down the snowy hill together.

Recycled, but shot 2 runs fully for once.

VRs JB & Kaitlin leap down into the snow, then are rushing along when the ground quakes.

Recycled.

The snowy ground collapses into a steamy sinkhole.

VR JB summons into the sky, as the VR Skybase slowly passes through some heavy cloud cover. VR JB & VR Kaitlin then leap up.

Cuts shot 2 before Japanese text appears onscreen.

VRs JB & Kaitlin fly up toward the VR Skybase and enter it.

Recycled, per source.

VR Kaitlin & VR JB land in their cockpit seats.

Recycled; cuts short so it looks like it's part of the next shot.

Sharp zoom in on VR JB in his cockpit.

Quick close-up of VR Kaitlin in cockpit.

Recycled.

VR Kaitlin & VR JB sit in their cockpit, barely moving.

Recycled.

VR Ryan charges up his right hand with electricity, not to mention his feet and his chest symbol, before VR Ryan energy slashes against a spectrum flash.

Recycled, per source (how do I know it comes from 18 and not 17? There's a partial artifact frame of Skullbot at the end); cuts close-up of Grimlord between shots 3 & 4.

A massive, screen-engulfing explosion erupts.

Recycled, but unaltered; trims start.

The VR Skybase passes to our slight left.

Recycled; fades in from white.

Freeze-frame on that gray box transformer thing.

Recycled; altered to fit Skybase monitor.

VRs JB & Kaitlin in the VR Skybase cockpit, raise their right arms and nod-talk.

Recycled; trimmed to remove landing.

VR JB shifts both of the Skybase controls then presses button.

Recycled.

The VR Skybase flies downward to our left and fires.

Recycled.

Zoom in on an approaching missile.

Recycled; cuts before it explodes in midair.

An explosion of a pair of gray boxes transformer things.

Recycled.

Close on an oil refinery getting set ablaze.

Includes a brief bit of an explosion from a prior cut off shot at start.

The VR Skybase flies away from an explosion on the snowy ground.

Grimlord's energy screen above the mutants in the Dungeon, shows an image of Colonel Icebot as he talks at us near a console.

Recycled, both sets, shortens insert.

Close on Grimlord, as he says nothing, for a change.

Grimlord's energy screen above the mutants in the Dungeon, shows an image of Colonel Icebot as he talks at us near a console, before turning back to face it, as the energy screen dissipates back into Grimlord's hand.

Recycled, both sets, trims start but runs fully to end; th.

Close on Decimator as he steps forth and talks for a bit.

Recycled.

Sharp zoom in extremely close on Grimlord, talking.

Recycled.

Blue Boar's row of mutants & Decimator's row of mutants suddenly stir to attention.

Recycled.

Close on Grimlord, talking as his eyes glow red, then his right fist clenches and glows red as well.

Recycled; fades to black.