Armor Strikers: Deep Surge

Armor Strikers: Deep Surge is the 13th season of the Armor Strikers franchise. It is based off of an upcoming magical girl anime series, "Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure". The series' themes are ocean and special forces.

Plot
6 years ago, Justin O'Brien lost his parents in a freak storm while on vacation in Mexico City. He was lucky enough to survive the storm, and not to get caught hitching a flight back to the states. Still, that memory would scar him for life but he didn't know what was the cause of the storm. Since then, Justin maintained stable temp work for money, and a stable education to go along with it. Despite being an orphan living in the mean streets of Atlanta, Justin adapted into being an urban survivor; but even with a pay gathered up from six months from odd jobs, Justin would always use the saved money on the same vacation back to Mexico City, to mourn over his parents, and washing away the sorrow by checking out the shops and cantinas in the main promenade, and sometimes catching up with his old friend named Ramon Nube. It's been now different 15 years, but the storm had returned. It was nothing like a hurricane, tornado, or intense monsoon, but it was just as deadly. He thought that this was coming back for him, as a matter of means that the storm was actually coming back to take him down with it or so it would seem. In the midst of the storm, he was taken to shelter and woke up in the medical brig of an advanced submarine. Turns out, it belonged to a retired Navy admiral named Nemo Nielson, and his little hologram dolphin assistant named Iruka. Even stranger, Justin's buddy he met five years ago, Ramon, was with him all along, but there was a logical reason to it. Ramon was the youngest student to attend Nemo's academy which he founded 5 years ago, called Surge Academy. The academy itself is located 50 miles underwater off the coast of Mexico, which is part of a nigh-futuristic underwater city that was built one year after the disaster where Justin's parents died.

The purpose of the academy is to train operatives to stop attacks by an organization called Nibiru, which has a cult-like status and has the belief of the sky is superior than those below it, including the land and ocean. Few operatives gain the right to become "Armor Strikers", complete with the ultimate technological advancements packed into one amphibious body armor, generated by gizmos known as Surge Tablets, which can only be activated by the Deep Seadriver. All of this recent info was a lot to process for Justin, a radar pinged inside the sub, detecting a spike in seismic activity. Nibiru has sent one of their monsters called a Petrelyzer. Justin saw the monster from a glance, and immediately took one of the unused Deep Seadrivers and a purple colored Deep Cartridge from Nemo's pocket. Nemo warned him that he was not authorized to use it, but Justin merely thought that monster was linked to the outer source outside what caused the storm. Adamantly, Justin said this to Nemo:

"I don't care if I have the authority to use this. As long as people are being attacked, I'll continue to fight what's attacking them.  I won't stop until I find the answers.  Listen, how about we make a deal?  I use this of yours to destroy that thing, and you get me into your academy!"

Before Iruka or Nemo could question Justin's adamant behavior, he put it on, and became an Armor Striker. After destroying the monster, Nemo was questionable whether his academy can handle a loose cannon like Justin, but knowing that Ramon was his friend, he had to accept that a deal was a deal. Now, Justin has begun a new adventure, inside the undersea establishment of Surge Academy. Along the way, he'll meet foes, new friends, and of course, rivals, on his way to finding out what Nibiru is all about. As Armor Striker Chapera, Justin O'Brien is later joined by Ramon Nube (Armor Striker Mogo), Jessykah Cooke (Armor Striker Casaya), Astor Nielson (Armor Striker Saboga), and Anderson (Armor Striker Gitano) to form the team as Deep Surge Armor Strikers.

Allies

 * Nemo Nielson (VA: Jeremy Inman)
 * Iruka (VA: Sarah Wiedenheft)

The Nibiru Cult

 * Qliphion (VA: Egoraptor)
 * Billy / Nibiru Striker Wairuha (VA: Ethan Murray)
 * Garrett / Nibiru Striker Mahri (VA: SungWon Cho)
 * Clyde / Nibiru Striker Phantoka (VA: Brendan Blaber)
 * Veronica / Nibiru Striker Mistika (VA: Morgan Berry)

Transformation Devices

 * Deep Cartridges
 * Deep Seadrivers (Except for Anderson because as Armor Striker Gitano, he can insert the cartridge into his nape since he is a robot.)

Weapons

 * Deep Katars (used by Armor Striker Chapera)
 * Deep Pistols (used by Armor Striker Mogo)
 * Deep Axe (used by Armor Striker Casaya)
 * Deep Scythe (used by Armor Striker Saboga)
 * Hybrid Cannon / Iruka (Note: Iruka fuses with Anderson / Armor Striker Gitano to become his weapon, an arm cannon that converts into a sword.) (used by Armor Striker Gitano)

Special Abilities

 * Salvage - As Armor Striker Chapera, Justin can release a magnetic field around his weapon, and can attract nearby metal objects or sand particles, whether on the beach or ocean floor, to use as a barrier or projectile stream.
 * Propulsion - As Armor Striker Mogo, Ramon is the fastest member of the team who can reach speeds of up to 200mph.
 * Thermokinesis - As Armor Striker Casaya, Jessykah is the strongest female member of the team who has her special ability to revolve around the conversion of water. On instinct, she can create water or turn nearby water, even in an oceanic atmosphere, into vapor or ice to act as a second weapon.
 * Blade Mastery - Astor's power as Armor Striker Saboga revolves around his weapon, the Deep Scythe. The scythe can be converted into an anchor for shorter range, or a kusarigama (chain sickle) for longer range.
 * Purify - As Armor Striker Gitano, this ability was created as part when Iruka becomes his arm cannon. Knowing that Nibiru uses human sacrifices, embraced by the influence of Qliphion, Anderson's power is to revive the human that was used in the Petrilyzer sacrifice, so the human that was used and the Petrilyzer become two, making it more of a relief.  All it takes is one giant flash of concentrated energy aimed at the Petrilyzer.

Production Order
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