Exo-Force ending theory

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For the two people here who still care about Exo-Force:

Recently I was rereading all the comics as part of a nostalgia binge, and now that I'm an adult I was able to pick up on a lot of the foreshadowing a lot better, which has allowed me to come up with this theory for how the story would have continued and inevitably ended. Obviously the series wasn't ever actually continued and this is all pure fanfiction. Still, it's nice to dream.

Let's start with what we know. In the last chapter, Jungle Mission, it was revealed that Sensei Keikan was the one who built Meca One at a hidden outpost near the Golden City. In Chapter 23, it's revealed that the Sensei has a dark secret he refuses to share with anyone because they may never forgive him. We know that Meca One is extracting knowledge from the Sensei's brain, which is referenced in Chapter 16 as a process that may either result in death or crippling psychological damage depending on your interpretation. We also know that the location of the Golden City outpost is unknown to both the robots and the Exo-Force team. Using all of that information, here is my speculative continuation story:

The Exo-Force arrive at the base where Sensei Keikan is being held just as Meca One is able to extract the location of the Golden City Outpost from his mind. As the base is destroyed in battle, Meca One reveals to them that Sensei Keikan was the one who built him and gave him the free will necessary to start the robot uprising. They're able to rescue the Sensei just as the base collapses, but Meca One escapes through another one of his copies and takes his robot army to the Golden City Outpost with one goal in mind: amass an army of independently operating robots identical to himself. These Meca robots differ from the copies by being their own unique individuals with each one having the power and independence to start their own robot uprising. Meanwhile, the trauma caused by the mind extracting process has put the Sensei in a coma and he is forced to spend the rest of this arc in a golden city variation on the regeneration station seen in Chapter 23, with Hitomi once again taking command in his place. During this time we get to see a series of flashbacks depicting the cruel treatment that the robots would receive from their human superiors in the mines, and a young Sensei Keikan, feeling that his robots have the potential to be more than just tools, deciding to reprogram Meca One to give him free will and the capacity to make decision on his own, followed by the horror as he realizes the consequences of his actions. The flashbacks end with the mountain splitting in two and Sensei Keikan coming up with initial concepts for the Grand Titan and Stealth Hunter. A lot of drama ensues between Takashi and Hikaru as they argue over whether or not they should tell Hitomi the truth. Back at Keikan's lab in the Golden City Outpost, Meca One is having a hard time getting along with his fellow golden robots, who are prone to acting against his orders. One of them [let's call him Meca Two] gathers some Iron Drones and launches an attack on the Golden City himself, during which he gets captured and the Exo-Force read the database of his mech to find the Golden City Outpost. Eventually, Ha-Ya-To is the one who tells Hitomi about her father's actions, she takes it surprisingly well and reveals that she had already suspected something was up, and is finally able to step into her role as new leader of the Exo-Force. Together, the five of them invade Keikan's lab and fight the golden robot army, and because the Meca bots can't work together the Exo-Force defeats them through sheer teamwork, destroying the lab in the process. The surviving Iron Drones and Devastators arrive at the Golden City and reveal that they have become sick of Meca One's cruel leadership and wish to reunite with the humans. Sensei Keikan awakens from his coma and feels ashamed for his actions, but Takashi, Hikaru, Ha-Ya-To, Ryu, Hitomi, and everyone in the Golden City throw him a giant welcome back party to show their forgiveness. There's food and dancing and music and we all get to see our favorite characters acting goofy and stuff as usual, and now having an alliance with the robots, a new era of peace has come! Or has it? ...

You may have noticed that I left some mysteries unsolved. Who were the ancient beings that created the Golden City? How were they able to create such advanced technology? And what is the state of the world outside of Sentai Mountain? All of these questions could be answered in future arcs, but there honestly isn't enough information for me to form a theory on any of that without pulling some massive leaps in logic. I should also note that I'm going purely on the story of the web comic, and I know the Greg Farshtey books tell a slightly different story. Unfortunately, the last two books in the series were never published and I can't find a lot of information on them. Perhaps they would have provided me with more information.

Anyway, that's my theory. Feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think, or if you have your own theories on how the story would have continued.