Vanguard Stride Gate: A Theory.

So I've been watching the Vanguard G anime for a while now, and something had been bugging me for a long time. That something being how are TRY3, Ibuki and group who co-operated to cause GIRS CRISIS going to stop Ryuzu Myoujin? Surely Ryuzu could just steal Chrono's Depend cards, as Ibuki did with Kanzaki's?

Chrono Shindou

As we found out last episode (Episode 34 of GIRS Crisis/Stride Gate) Ryuzu requires Chrono to fully awaken the Depend cards, so he can open the stride gate, as being the singularity, Chrono is the only way to fully bring a unit to Earth. We also found out that Chrono Dran is the only Depend Card to have been fully completed. Stealing Chrono's Depend cards would be pointless, as all twelve Depend Cards have to be fully completed to open the stride gate.

When we found out that Ryuzu Myoujin needs all 12 different depend cards, all of them complete to open the stride gate, I turned to attempt to solve another question: Why did Ibuki re-introduce Chrono to Vanguard? Surely that's a horrible idea when you're trying to stop somebody from plunging Cray into the dark ages for their own sakes?

Ibuki must know this, and wouldn't do this unless he had to, So he requires Chrono to have been awoken for his plan, But why?
After thinking about this for a while, and coming up with no solution, I decided I might be able to figure this out by looking at the how and not the why.

So how will TRY 3 and Co defeat the company and ensure that the Stride Gate will never open?

Kouji Ibuki

The Company won't back down because they lost a Vanguard Fight. That much is obvious. Whether they win or lose is irrelevant, though they tell themselves otherwise. After all, they might lose the battle but they will win the war. They've been shown to go as far as destroying buildings and endangering lives just to "punish" those who are plotting against them.

When you're this far down the rabbit hole, you're not getting back out.

Unless Chrono stops playing Vanguard and wipes it from his memory (which is highly unlikely for him to do,), the only way of stopping Ryuzu is somehow permanently destroying Depend Cards.

Logically, burning a Depend Card would release the unit trapped inside, making it so that the released unit could possibly be recaptured. In otherwords, our question isn't "How do you destroy a Depend Card", but it's actually "How do you destroy a unit?"

Then I had a Eureka moment:

The only way anyone can stop Ryuzu from opening the stride gate is with Deletors!

Daunting Deletor, Oksizz 

I can explain: In the Vanguard Movie, the Deletors were shown to be able to "Delete End" the avatar of whoever was beaten by them, turning the card black and effectively removing it from existence. We know the movie is canon in the G-Universe as Ibuki was given Neon Messiah at the end of the movie. Ibuki was the antagonist of the Neon Messiah Movie, and he used Deletors. In the Manga Ibuki is linked to Deletors as well.

So here's my theory: Ibuki's plan is to use the Deletors to "Delete End" Chrono Dran, and everything so far has been put into place to make it as easy as possible for Ibuki to achieve this goal. Everyone fighting against Ryuzu except TRY3 are working with Ibuki to achieve this goal.

Why Chrono Dran? He is the only complete Depend Card at this moment.

So why not use Deletors on Chrono after he created Chrono Dran's Depend Card? It's simple: Delete End targets the user's Avatar, rather then a card of their choice. Chrono Dran isn't Chrono's avatar, Chronojet is! Chrono Dran and Chronojet appear to be related, but lore wise they appear to be unrelated. It's confusing.

However, we know that Rive has 3 Depend cards, one of which could have been linked to Chrono Dran at the same time Chrono got his. Chrono Dran is likely to be Rive's Avatar, as it would remind him of his son.

Chrono Dran when first revealed.

Why is Chrono involved with this plan? To make it possible for Chrono Dran to be Deleted. He's also bait for Rive Shindou, who did everything in his power to stop Chrono from getting involved in the plan.

 Now that Rive knows he's invovled again, he's knows who exactly is to blame, Ibuki!

Rive is likely to return to Japan to confront Ibuki, no matter how hard it will be for him to do that. He is likely to challenge Ibuki to a Cardfight, and then all Ibuki has to do is win to stop Ryuzu from ever opening the stride gate. The sacrifice, rather then the entirety of Cray, is a Single Zodiac Time Beast: Chrono Dran.

Well that's my theory. There's only one way to find out whether it's true or not, and that's to watch the Vanguard Anime!

Hope you enjoyed this very different kind of article.