After the incident, Viral and the Dai-Gunzan met Team Gurren and Gurren Lagann fought the fortress Gunmen. Simon and Kamina were almost defeated by the Dai-Gunzan, but were rescued by Dayakka in his personalized Gunmen. The rest of Team Gurren were rescued from a group of Gunmen by Kittan, the eldest Black Siblings, who also had a custom Gunmen. Simon was able to trick the Dai-Gunzan and collapse it into the bottom of a gorge, and returned to find that people had heard of Kamina stealing a Gunmen, copied him, and assembled to join Team Gurren, now renamed Team Dai-Gurren due to their abundance of new members. They later managed to steal the Dai-Gunzan, at the price of Kamina's death, and it became the new base of operations for the team. Led by Simon, they decided to go to Teppelin and defeat the Spiral King.