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a young girl named kayda enters an abandoned facility running from tyrannical bandit group that destroyed her home and and is chasing her comes across a insectoid type mechanical beast and out of desperation that it might be able to handle them as she is too injured to do any more awakens it but it heals her and forms a bond with her instead and gives her the abilities to not only gain an adult form for better fighting and piloting ability and also awakens her ability to turn into a hybrid beast form and gives a biosuit with sword and energy gun directly links skills to use it along with instincts after Bond complete garugan shifts into a mechanoid robot mode to assist the defeat of bandits when finished transforms into a bioship to leave area and the final trump card in battle is for both to semi fuse and Garugan to take the form of a giant mechanical dragon the robots gun become shoulder blasters and the sword splits three ways and becomes tail and arm blades.