The Galastream: Solar Slam results

*We fade into a large banquet hall with a podium.  Logos for Super NOVA and Matsuki Holdings hang on the back wall. Standing in front of the podium is RYOMA. Camera flashbulbs are going off as reporters start to take their seats. After a few seconds, RYOMA addresses them.*

[RYOMA:] "To some, the magnitude of what I am about to announce would call for a certain type of showmanship. However, I believe the gravity of the situation at hand demands conciseness. In Mr. Anomaly, Super NOVA is facing the gravest challenge in its illustrious history. His mere competitive presence threatens to imbalance this great promotion.  Therefore, the fact that he is the SNGW Universal Champion constitutes an existential threat to its very existence."

*RYOMA opens up a briefcase on top of the podium and pulls out the Cosmic Contract - pictured here - in his left hand. He holds it up to the crowd causing even more flashbulbs to go off.*

[RYOMA:] "I won the Cosmic Contract Rumble almost six months ago during Splendid Genesis. I had to go through thirty-nine of the best that Super NOVA has to offer: before finally facing the very best in Nobu Nakazawa, my former mentor. My victory immediately became one of the top achievements of my entire career. However, it also brought the responsibility that comes with opportunity, as the Cosmic Contract guarantees a Title match against any Champion I want to challenge. Therefore, effective immediately, I am challenging Mr. Anomaly for his SNGW Universal Championship using my Cosmic Contract."

*All of the reporters stand up and start jockeying for position to ask questions but RYOMA pounds his fist down on the podium which immediately silences them and they scurry back to their seats.*

[RYOMA:] "Mr Anomaly, you will not siphon the dignity, spirit, and livelihood of this promotion any more. I will defeat you for the Universal Championship and take my place among the heavenly bodies that created the proud lineage of that Title. "

*RYOMA turns to the crowd and beckons his hands, inviting questions.*

[Reporter 1:] "Has your arm fully healed after the injury you suffered in UBL last year?"

[RYOMA:] "Every part of my body is equipped and ready to be used as a weapon against Mr. Anomaly."

[Reporter 1:] "But are you 100%?"

[RYOMA:] "I would not dare challenge for this Championship at anything less. It would be an insult."

[Reporter 2:] "The sun has been a constant in our everyday lives for as long as I can remember-"

[RYOMA:] "I suspect much longer than you are giving it credit for."

[Reporter 2:] "I guess. I mean, I partied kind of hard in college so I'll take your word for it. Anyway, are you concerned that the sun may one day burn out or be swallowed by a black hole?"

[RYOMA:] "Apparently it is too easy to earn a journalism degree from the school you attended but I will use your question to make a point. As was correctly mentioned by your colleague, my arm was injured last year. During that time, I shared the same hospital wing as Barton Miller, a man known here as well as the UBL as the Marauder. Unfortunately, he was there as a result of a critical injury that would cause him to retire. But we managed to keep each other's spirit up by discussing our students, martial philosophy, and physics. He relayed to me a theory that he believed would aid in my quest here.

The black hole is one of the most feared and misunderstood phenomena in physics. It's metaphorical equivalent in Super NOVA is Mr. Anomaly. Both arise from unpredictable causes and are considered destructive deviations of the norm. They are difficult to study or approach without being consumed and threaten to swallow up everything around them.

However, neither one is invincible. Barton explained the theory of Hawking radiation to me - a dynamic which causes black holes to shrink and ultimately disappear. Although it is said that even the light of the sun is stuck within the clutches of one, a specific form of radiation still escapes from it. This causes the mass of the black hole to shrink while its vital rotation slows. Ultimately, the black hole withers and dies as a result of its lost energy.

[Reporter 2:]  "Follow-up question: Guh?"

[RYOMA:] "The point is that the rising sun takes many forms. It is not always the light from the brightest star in the sky that shines upon us all. Sometimes it is the energy from the fighting spirit within that burns through the darkness. Mr. Anomaly, that spirit will annihilate you and save Super NOVA. I am that fighting spirit, I am RYOMA."

*RYOMA walks off the stage with a stoic expression on his face.*