Ne Squad

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Ne Squad is a team ofEarth Defense Command operatives from theKiss Players portion of theGeneration 1 continuity family.

"There's a little girl inside all of us."

Named for the Rat sign of theChinese zodiac,Ne Squad (子小隊Ne Shōtai) is one of 12Tokyo-basedKiss Player teams in theEarth Defense Command (E.D.C.). Like the other Kiss Player squads, Ne Squad is made up of four younghuman females, each partnered with an artificially createdAutorooper transforming robot. They operate under orders from CommanderAmaō and are usually dispatched into battle at the scenes ofLegion attacks. They also combat resistance fighters, includingOptimus Prime,Hot Rod and their human partners.

Known Ne Squad members include:

Ringo Chikuma (Ne-01)
Kayu Michikusa (Ne-02)
Shaoshao Li (original partner of Autorooper Unit Ne-04)
Atari Hitotonari (second partner of Ne-04)

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Smoochy smoochy!

Despite her preference for pretty much any other E.D.C. assignment, Shaoshao Li was known far and wide as Ne Squad's top fighter and Kiss Player. Following an incident in which her fusion time limit was reached in the middle of a battle, however, she was quickly replaced on the team by the newly recruited Atari Hitotonari.

During the battle forOptimus Prime's body, squad member Ringo played a key role in a trap for a team of resistance commandos. Atari and several Kiss Players from other squads were swiftly rendered helpless whenMarissa Faireborn cut off their clothes with her knife.

Kayu remained fused with her Autorooper partner and was able to temporarily incapacitate the American attacker with aKremzeek bullet. But when her Autorooper spotted Prime's corpse nearby, it summarily ejected the naked and disoriented Kayu and attempted to merge with theAutobot's body viaParasitech fusion.

Some time later, Kayu was allegedly transferred to a different squad, but in all likelihood she became the subject of E.D.C. experimentation. A rogue Autorooper unit that Atari believed to be merged with Kayu was later shot down by Ringo and Ne-01; Atari seriously injured (or possibly even killed) Ringo in retaliation.