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10-13-2014, 03:03 PM | #1 |
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Continued from Kamen Rider Xtreme
The Story So Far: (SPOILERS! (DUH!) ) Quote:
Sixteen year old Alex Darwin, an average high school student who's mother died and father disappeared, lived a life of comfort and normalcy with his best friend Cole Desmond along with the Student Council president Sarah Gardner and a timid girl who he didn't know existed, Madison Tyler. This all changed however when he received the X Driver and six powerful gaia memories from police chief Gordon Sampson and during an encounter with a dopant named Spite he was forever transformed into Kamen Rider Xtreme.
Soon after, he set forth fighting wave after wave of dopants from Gorge, to Flame, Shift and eventually the Shredder the one that murder his mother, Alice Darwin. Alex then learned that his own mother was once a Kamen Rider herself named Fata and with this knowledge in hand he stood face to face with the Shredder finding the strength he needed to defeat him and avenge his late mother once and for all. This marked the appearance of another rider by the name of Kamen Rider Gale aka Tara Archer who, all though annoying at first, proved she was a strong ally in her fight with Alex against the Ursa Dopant Siblings Minor and Major. This also inspired Alex's best friend Cole to become a rider himself under the name Kamen Rider Rock. Unfortunately however, this grabbed the attention of the Fury dopant Derek Mavrick who put the riders through hell in back resulting in the loss of Sarah's life and Madison's memories After the loss of both Madison and Sarah, Alex wanted nothing more to do with gaia memories, kamen riders or dopants but sadly the world was not going to allow him to do so as just when things seemed to be calming down more trouble showed it's face in the form of two new riders, Yuki of ice and Ryu-O of fire, both with murderous intentions. Yuki, revealing herself as a cold voiced girl named Shiore, eventually worked up a deal with Alex, Cole and Tara to take down Ryu-O. However, their plans were put on hold when someone unexpected arrived in Ardent City... Kamen Rider Decade. Decade challenged Alex to prove himself as a rider but this was not a test that Alex was ready for and upon his failure found himself in a world free of all riders and dopants. But this world simply did not feel right resulting in Alex fighting for the world in which he had wanted desperately to protect where he had gone through all sorts of hardship with the ones he cared about most. Alex made his decision to keep moving forward that day, and now his journey continues in Kamen Rider: Ultimate Xtreme! Episode List Act 4: Bonds Episode 1 (27): Father Episode 2(28): Genesis Episode 3 (29): Crimson Bodyguard Episode 4 (30): Supernova Episode 5 (31): Web of a Forgotten Fantasy Episode 6 (32): An Ice Cold Fire Episode 7 (33): Inverse, A Brand New Alex Episode 8 (34): Reversal, Here to Stay Act 5: End Game Episode 9 (35): The Major's Revenge Episode 10 (36): I Remember You Episode 11 (37): The Eye of the Hurricane Episode 12 (38): Fury's Violent Crusade Episode 13 (39): We Stand As One Episode 14 (40): Inertia's Final Gambit Episode 15 (41): Inertia's True Colors (Coming Soon) Episode 16 (42): Shiore's One Short Day Episode 17 (43): Shira's Midnight Howl Episode 18 (44): Vainglory's Perfect World Episode 19 (45): Xtreme's Dream Music Act Four Opening Theme: "Period" by Chemistry Act Four Ending Theme: "Reason" by Yuzu Act Five Opening Theme: "Alones" by Aqua Timez Act Five Ending Theme: "One" by Altima Writer and Character Designer: guncannon109 Episode Editor: algo448 (Act 4) guncannon109 (Act 5) Creative Consultants: ComicGuy89, algo448 & KamenRiderOOO Special thanks to: Uchihabro77 and Kamen Rider Vega Last edited by guncannon109; 05-07-2019 at 02:23 PM.. |
10-13-2014, 03:12 PM | #2 |
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Episode 1: Father Rain poured down hard onto Ardent City, thunder roaring overhead as lightning cracked the dark shroud of clouds that covered the stormy sky. A small group of four young kids, around seven-ten years of age crowded under a bridge. The oldest of the four threw a small seven year old boy into a wall of concrete causing him to fall face first of the ground, “Maybe that should teach you not to be such a smart ass huh Darwin?” “I... was only telling... the truth,” the small boy said as he tried to get back up on his feet, “It was your fault you got in-” “Shut up!” The older kid said kicking Alex’s face back into the dirt, “You should have kept your mouth shut you little shit!” “Hey Vince, why you hogging!” One kid shouted trying to push Vince aside of off Alex. “You can have what’s left of him once I’m done,” Vince growled shoving the other kid aside, “you got that?” A small whimper came from Alex who still lay with his face in the dirt. “Aw, you gonna go and cry now little boy?” the younger kid said kneeling down beside Alex, “well why don’t you just go run and cry to your mommy? Oh yeah, you can’t can you?” He smacked Alex over the head with a rock, “Maybe you go cry on her grave once we’re done with you then!” “What did I just tell you Logan?” Vince sighed kicking his friend away from Alex, “He’s mine so back off!” Glave stumbled around until he fell face first on the ground smacking the top of his head on a pair of sneakers. He looked up to see a dark skinned boy who looked to be a year older than Alex standing above him. “Ganging up on a single kid now Vince?” the dark skinned boy sighed, “that’s low even for you.” “Cole…” Vince said taking his foot off Alex’s head, “Hey, what’s up buddy?” “Well for starters it’s raining, the Aron I caught in Ruby the other day is now an Aggron, and you’re ganging up on a kid that has done nothing wrong,” Cole said walking over to Vince, stepping on Logan’s hand as he did so, “Care to rank them from best to worst for me?” “Why you pompous little,” A blond haired girl with violet, navy and silver highlights shouted out storming her way between Vince and Cole, “I’ll teach you not to stick your nose where it isn’t wanted!” She threw a punch at Cole which he easily dodged and moved to the other side of her. “Ashley Haze I presume,” Cole said calmly, “Sorry but I don’t hit girls, just isn’t my style.” He turned back to Vince, “Now then, how about you let that kid go and call it a day?” Vince sighed, “Fine, have it your way,” he grunted, kicking Alex in the face once again, “it’s not fun when they don’t fight back anyway” he proclaimed walking out from under the bridge and into the rain, “Come on guys, we’re done here.” “Gah, what a pain,” Ash grunted walking off with Vince. Cole looked over to Logan who was currently looking back at him. Cole raised an eyebrow before Logan clawed his way to his feet and ran out of the cover of the bridge. Alex slowly made his way to his feet and began crawling up the hill sheltered by the bridge. “Hey kid,” Cole called out grabbing Alex’s attention, “are you alright?” Alex shook his head, “Just leave me alone please… I have enough to deal with right now.” “Well can you at least tell me your name?” Cole asked. Alex gulped, “My name… is Alex… Alex Darwin.” “Yeah, I figured,” He walked up to Alex and extended his hand to him, “I’m Cole by the way… can we talk for a moment?” “Sure… I guess,” Alex returned grabbing Cole’s hand with his own. Alex then knocked on Cole’s head, “Hey Cole, come on get up.” Cole raised an eyebrow, “Huh?” Alex took in a deep breath and shouted at Cole, “COLE YOU’RE GOING TO BE LATE!” Cole’s eyes then bursted open as his surroundings changed from under the bridge to his own bedroom before he fell from his bed onto the floor. “Bwhahaha!” Alex bursted out laughing, “Sorry about that, didn’t expect you to freak out like that.” Cole blinked for a moment, “What are you doing up so early?” “You serious? This is when I normally get up,” Alex stated before helping Cole off the floor, “Now come on, we don’t want to be late on the first day back now do you?” “Um… okay?” Cole whispered in a daze. “Shiore and I are going on ahead,” Alex said making his way out of Cole’s bedroom, “Don’t take to long okay?” Alex shut the door on his way out leaving Cole confused as to what had just happened as the whine of an alarm clock drowned out the morning air. A small grin appeared on his face, “He certainly has grown up quite a lot since then… hasn’t he?” he reached over to the alarm clock and switched it off, “not like I can blame him though I guess.” {Insert Opening Theme - “Period” by Chemistry} Joel paced across the floor of Vainglory’s chamber with a large folder in his hand flipping through pages as he walked along the room. Rylee leaned against a wall on the far side of the room as Vainglory sat in his throne. “Roy Lawrence, dopant memory… Flame, Rank B-2” Joel called out turning to one page, “Was ordered to track down Subject X and return classified equipment to META HQ. Made contact with a student at Ardent Secondary School before sharing vital information regarding the nature of gaia memory with Subject X. Flame Memory destroyed by Subject X via Blast Diver combination. Current status of host... imprisoned” He turned to Vainglory, “Remind me again, who do you say it was that sent Flame after the rider?” “Flame was under Fury’s command,” Rylee explained, “Vainglory had nothing to do with it.” “I see,” Joel returned before flipping to the next page, “Ashley Haze, dopant memory shift, rank C-5. Acted on her own to steal a valuable necklace from the Ardent City museum before running into Subject X at a local water park, the brawl between the two causing a mild uproar. A group of high school students were seen leaving the sight with Subject X. A few hours later made contact with Subject X before having her memory destroyed by her own hand… current status of host, year long parole.” “We only distributed the Shift Gaia Memory, everything that she did up was out of her own free will.” Rylee proclaimed, “Besides, she proved to be of no use to us in the long run. If she had any worth she wouldn’t have given up as easily as she did.” Joel smirked, “Did I ever imply otherwise? Honestly you worry too much. ” He chuckled as he turned to the next page, “Besides it’s this next one that I’m more interested in. Greg Walker, AKA Shredder, rank B-3. Killed Fata only to be defeated himself and imprisoned. Was bailed out of prison on the date of Friday March thirteenth twenty thirteen. Encountered Subject X shortly after before fleeing and challenging him to a fight in a warehouse in the east end of Ardent City. Shredder had his memory destroyed that same night and was returned to prison,” he closed the folder shut, “It’s that last part that gets to me,” he said turning his attention to Vainglory, “The report says that Shredder was defeated by Fata, however it doesn’t mark his memory as destroyed until after his encounter with X.” Rylee raised an eyebrow, “what’s your point Inertia?” “A Gaia Memory that’s marked below the rank of A-5 shatters once the dopant is defeat.” Joel stated, “If he was indeed defeated by Fata as the report says they how come his memory remained intact?” he raised an eyebrow, “Care to explain that little detail… Vainglory?” “You were still in power at the point in time,” Rylee spat at Joel, “If anyone would know, it would be you.” “Oh would I now?” Joel asked turning to Rylee, “Then perhaps this might be a question you might be able to answer,” he looked to the empty under Rylee, “What happened to Gorge?” --- It was still sunrise, Alex was busy running his usual laps around the track just like he used to do with Sarah. It was strange, he started doing them because he had been forced to but now he was simply doing them out of habit. Shiore sat on the bleachers watching Alex as he mindlessly ran around at a steady pace. As Alex came around to Shiore he stuck out his arm, “Water.” Without saying a word, Shiore picked up a bottle and threw over to Alex. “Thanks,” he said catching the bottle and cracking it open taking a few sips of it. Shiore’s ear twitched as the clanging of a rock against steel echoed through the morning air. She turned her head towards the sound and saw a girl with long black hair done up in a ponytail with a red ribbon that resembled cat ears hurling small stones at an air vent. Alex raised an eyebrow, “what’s her problem?” Shiore shrugged. Alex set his bottle down on the bleachers, “I’ll go handle it.” He walked towards the girl until he reached the fence dividing the track from the rest of the school, “Um excuse me!” He shouted grabbing the black haired girl’s attention, “you think you could maybe keep it down?” The girl rolled her eyes, “Eh whatever,” she sighed dropping the stones she had in her hand to the ground, “I was just about to leave anyway… getting kinda boring watching you run round in circles ya know.” She said wiping her hands on her skirt. “Um… did you just come out here to watch me run?” Alex asked. The girl looked at him and laughed, “Don’t get too full of yourself, you ain’t as hot as ya think you are.” She reached for her bag and pulled out a chocolate bar from her sweater pocket and shoving it in her mouth. She hopped up onto a steel bar above her head, “Catch ya later Alligator,” she said giving Alex a salute before climbing up the side of the school disappearing over the edge of the roof. Alex blinked in confusion trying to determine what just happened was real or not, “Okay then…” he walked back to the bleachers where Shiore sat patiently awaiting his return. “What was that about?” she asked. Alex shrugged, “Hell if I know,” he turned to Shiore, “do I have a crazy magnet stuck to me or something?” Shiore raised an eyebrow, “a what now?” “A crazy magnet,” Alex repeated, “You know, it’s like a magnet that makes it so that all the crazy shit in the world gravitates toward you? You ever have that feeling, where all the weirdness is just drawn to you and you can’t escape it?” “You should be lucky if that’s all you have drawn to you,” Shiore sighed grabbing her bag and hopping down from the bleachers, “We should go… otherwise we’ll be late for class.” “Good idea,” Alex returned grabbing his bag and following Shiore down the dirt road to the school’s main building, “sure would suck if we were late on the first day back.” As Alex and Shiore made their way inside the school building, Tara knelt perched atop the roof looking down on them from above. “Good to see they’re off to a good start,” she sighed. “Now then…” She pulled out a small brown paper bag, “what the hell am I supposed to do with this?” “Well you eat it of course,” a voice called out. Tara turned around to see the black haired girl Alex talked to earlier leaning against the rail of the rooftop’s fence, “That is food right?” Tara sighed, “Yup, that’s what it is.” She placed the bag down on the ground beside her, “I just don’t want it.” The black haired girl reached for the bag and sniffed it, “I’ll take it off your hands for ya… if you want that is.” Tara shrugged, “Knock yourself out.” “Sweet, thanks!” the black haired said with a grin shoving the bag into her backpack. She turned back to Tara and looked at her closely, “Hey girl, what’s your name?” “Oh, it’s Tara… what’s yours?” The black haired girl smirked, “You can call me Kat.” Just then the bell rang signaling the start of class, “Op, that’s my cue to exit.” She announced dashing over to the edge of the roof, “See ya round Tara,” she said before leaping off disappearing over the edge. Tara raised an eyebrow as Kree flew down from the sky and perched himself on Tara’s shoulder, “Damn, and I thought I was the weird one.” Alex and Shiore made their way to their first period class which they fortunately had together. They reached the door to the classroom and made their way inside. “Al!” a familiar voice called out, “You made it on time for once!” Alex and Shiore turned around to see Cole sitting at a desk by the window. Alex sighed, “Wouldn’t be right if I wasn’t stuck with you for at least one class.” “Very funny,” Cole chuckled, “you and I both know you’d be dead without me.” “Fair enough I guess,” Alex returned sitting down at the desk behind Cole, Shiore taking the desk behind him. “Any sign of Tara?” Cole shrugged, “Haven’t seen her all day. Can’t say I’m surprised though to be honest, that girl is always off doing her own thing.” “Let’s just hope she doesn’t kill anyone,” Shiore whispered looking out the window to the courtyard below. A girl with long black hair and red ribbon caught her attention, the girl seemed to be feeding a stray cat a bit of food from a brown paper bag. “One can only hope I guess,” Alex said aloud thinking that Shiore was listening. Just then, the door to the classroom slammed open as a red haired girl about Alex’s age stormed in out of breath, “Sorry I’m late!” “You’re actually early,” a blond haired girl in a leather jacket who sat with her feet up called out to her, “Honestly Maddy, must you always make a scene when you enter a room?” “Ehehe,” the red head laughed awkwardly scratching the back of her head, “Sorry about that Ash.” Ashley sighed, “Just sit down already.” “Right, of course,” Maddy went to sit down but quickly noticed Alex on the other side of the room, Alex having his back turned to her acting like he didn’t notice her. “Hey,” she said walking over to his desk, “don’t I know you?” Alex turned around but avoided eye contact with her, “No… I don’t think so.” “Oh yeah,” she snapped her fingers, “You’re that guy I ran into at the waterpark last summer. Alex right?” Alex nodded, “that’s my name.” Shiore cleared her throat and glared at Madison. Madison blinked, “oh… are you two boyfriend and girlfriend then?” Shiore shrugged, “I don’t have much interest in dating at the moment.” Cole chuckled, “Isn’t that the truth.” As the group spoke, their conversation was cut short by a female teacher with long raven hair clad in a violet skirt and a white top that emphasized her chest opened the door and entered the room, swinging her hips with each step she took. A bright amber ring could be seen on the ring finger of her right hand. “Alright class, settle down,” she said looking over her students with sharp sapphire blue eyes that watched everything they saw like a hawk stalking it’s prey. “Oh gotta go, I’ll talk to you later okay Alex,” Madison bowed before scurrying back her desk. The teacher watched Madison as she sat down next to Ashley, then turned her attention to Alex, Cole and Shiore then finally back to the rest of the class. “Alright class, first off I must say welcome back. I hope you all enjoyed your time off,” she cracked her knuckles and deepened her voice, “BECAUSE FROM THIS POINT ONWARD IT’S GOING TO BE NOTHING BUT PAIN AND MISFORTUNE!” The entire class save for Alex, Shiore and Cole gasped. The teacher’s smile then returned to her face, “Just kidding.” She pulled out a piece of chalk and walked over to the board, “Now, my name is Sophia Seraphina but you may call me Madam or Ms S, no exceptions.” she picked up a green folder from her desk and opened it to reveal an attendance list inside, “Now, how’s about we get started with roll call.” she pulled out a pen, “Ned Bigby.” “Here!” a male student called out. Ms S ticked a box beside the students name, she then looked over to Alex, “Alex Darwin.” Alex raised his hand, “here.” Shiore paid close attention to Ms S as she continued down the list. She continued with roll call making her way through Cole, Madison, Ashley and even Shiore, “Katlyn Swindler,” she called out as she looked around the room for the student that the name belonged to, “Absent,” she sighed filling in a box by Katlyn’s name, “why am I not surprised?” --- Back in the shroud of Vainglory’s chamber, Joel flipped to another page in the folder, “Zix and Mikey Crater, dopant memories Minor and Major. Shared rank, B-1,” he read off from one page, “First encountered by Subject X along side another rider calling herself Gale. Gale and Subject X attempted to lure Minor into a trap but were countered by Major. The duo fought the two riders and were defeated, Minor’s life being compromised and Major imprisoned.” “I thought for sure that Gale’s host didn’t survive the activation test,” Rylee spat, “I checked to see if it were the same just in case… however my suspicions were correct,” she glared at Joel, “Why are you reading all these old records anyway?” “To make sure that they haven’t been tampered with,” Joel said flipping to the next page. He raised an eyebrow, “Oh, now here’s an interesting one. Sarah Gardner, aka Reptilian, rank C-5. Created by Fury after Rock’s activation.” “And who’s fault is that!” Rylee shouted. “Irrelevant,” Joel snapped back at her, “It says here that Gardner was merely a bystander, a civilian casualty. Fury used her as a weak point to get to Subject X, she was a good friend of his and had done nothing wrong to warrant her fate. Now tell me, how exactly do you allow something like that… Spite.” “Enough!” Vainglory slammed his fist down on his throne, “Where exactly do you plan on going with this pointless recap?” Joel smirked, “I was wondering when you’d ask that,” he said slamming the folder shut, “You see I noticed something with your records Vainglory, they mention specific names such as the dopants, riders and any bystanders, and yet the original Kamen Rider, the one calling himself ‘Xtreme’ is simply referred to as ‘Subject X’... why is that?” Vainglory raised an eyebrow, “Why does it matter?” Joel chuckled, “You have no idea who he is… do you?” “You dare speak to the commander in such a manner!” Rylee stepped forward. “As I thought, you really don’t have a clue do you?” Joel returned, unfazed by Rylee’s actions, “Well if you must know, his name commander...” he turned back to Vainglory, “is Alex Darwin.” {End of Part A} {Start of Part B} The bell rang signaling the end of class. Alex went to pack his stuff back into his bag as Cole grabbed his wrist and forced his hand open. “Here,” he said placing a brush steel grey flip phone into his friend’s hand, “try not to lose this one okay? My folks will kill me if you do.” “Relax man, I’m not going to lose it okay,” Alex said rolling his eyes at the whole thing. “Uh-huh…” Cole raised an eyebrow, “what even happened to you last one anyway?” Alex scratched the back of his head, “it’s a bit of a long story.” “How long?” Cole asked, “I’ve got time.” Alex laughed a bit, “About seventy pages or so?” “Nevermind,” Cole sighed, “We should get going to our next class anyway.” “True,” Alex nodded before turning to the girl sitting behind him, “you coming Shiore?” “I’m meeting up with someone in a bit,” she said quickly putting her things away, “go on without me.” “Okay…” Alex raised an eyebrow, “are you sure?” Shiore looked up and glared at him giving off the impression that she was rather annoyed. Alex looked at his wrist pretending there was a watch on it, “Well would you look at the time!” he stood up and grabbed Cole by the wrist, “Come on pal, we best get a move on!” Shiore rolled her eyes before getting up from her seat and walking out the door to the classroom, Ms Seraphina keeping a close eye on her as she left. Once the classroom was empty, Ms Seraphina switched the lights off and drew the blinds in such a way that let in only a small amount of the suns rays to enter the room. She sat back down as the small amber stone on her ring lit up for a moment, a quiet yet drowning mystical cry echoing from it. Ms Seraphina smirked, “So the wanderer has picked up a companion has she?... How interesting.” She raised an eyebrow, “You certain there isn’t something that has caught her interest?... hmm, I see.” She got up from her chair and looked out the window, “Alright, I cause you’ll just have to keep an eye on the two for now.” The clock ticked away behind her, as the ring on her finger called out once again. “Not so bad, fairly relaxing in all honesty,” She chuckled, “Now now sis, there’s no need for that kind of attitude.” The stone on her finger turned blood red for a moment. “Well… now that you mention it,” Ms Seraphina smirked as she peered through the blinds noticing Carter walking across the courtyard of the school, “I’ve managed to get pretty close to the last remaining members of the four clans. The wolf girl in particular has caught my attention.” The stone on her ring reacted once again, returning to it’s regular amber color. She chuckled, “You have your methods of entertainment, and I have mine.” She smiled, “Same, I’ll talk to you later,” she blew a kiss into the ring as a knock came at the door, “love you.” She took of the ring and slipped it into her pocket before sitting back down at her desk and looking over to the door, “Come in.” The door swung open as Kat walked into the room closing it behind her, “You wanted to see me Sophia?” “Yes,” Ms Seraphina looked at her with a disappointed glare, “You weren’t in my class this morning… explain yourself?” “Oh, sorry about that,” Kat returned scratching the back of her head before sitting down in a chair in front of the teacher’s desk, “I missed breakfast so I decided to have an early lunch.” Ms Seraphina raised an eyebrow, “what did you have?” “Grilled chicken sandwich wrap,” Kat smirked, “Gotta admit, never thought chicken could taste that good… whoever made it though used a bit too much spice though.” she breathed into her hand and sniffed it, “Thyme I think it was… never was that big a fan of it.” “ENOUGH!” Seraphina shouted slamming her fist down on her desk, “You had one job Kat! Have you forgotten that already?!” Kat jumped back in her seat beginning to sweat under the pressure, “Sorry ma’am! It won’t happen again!” she pleaded hanging her head, “I promise I’ll make it up to you!” Ms Seraphina smirked, “That’s more like it my little kitten… but how exactly do you intend to do that?” “Whatever you want,” Kat said clapping her hands together, “just say the word and it’s done.” “Alright then,” she reached into her desk and pulled out two magnets placing them on the surface of her desk, “Are you familiar with how these work my dear?” Kat nodded, “You put the two sides of same values together and they repel and the sides of opposite values attract… right?” “Yes exactly, the same sides repel and the opposite sides attract,” Seraphina said putting the positive side of one magnet to the negative side of the other, “people who different will cling to one another while those who are exactly the same will be even further apart. As a result, a person who acts to form bonds with others who are completely different from themselves will form the strongest of bonds with who they interact with. However…” she picked up the two magnets with one hand and with a flick of her wrist sent one hurling into a wall, “once that bond is broken, the two opposites will be even further apart than they were at first… and the bond will be impossible to repair.” “I see…” Kat nodded, she then tilted her head to one side, “what exactly does this have to do with anything?” Ms Seraphina sighed and rolled her eyes, “Use your imagination.” Kat nodded again, “Yes ma’am.” “Good girl,” Seraphina smiled at her, “Now, I shall be returning you to stand by mode for the time being.” “Do I have to?” Kat moaned, “I just got a chance to stretch my legs,” she pouted stretching out her arms and legs, “STAND BY MODE SUCKS!!!” Ms Seraphina raised an eyebrow, “What was that?” “Nothing!” Kat said with a grin as she jumped back into sitting up straight with both of her hands in her lap. “Thought so. Now then, get back to class,” Seraphina said shewing the girl away from her, “Before you anger me once again.” “Right!” Kat nodded and ran out the door, “I won’t let you down ma’am!” Seraphina leaned back in her chair and looked out the window, “feels good to be active in the field once again,” she said to herself linking her fingers together, “I for one am quite curious to see how all this will pan out.” --- Shiore sat on the windowsill in one of the school’s many stairwells, her gaia memory in hand as she gazed blankly out the window. After a while of silence, the door at the top of the stairs opened up and quickly closed.Shiore looked down to see Carter standing at the bottom of the stairs, “So… you actually decided to show up,” she said coldly to him, “that’s brave of you.” “I’m a man of my word,” Carter returned making his way up to Shiore and leaning against a rail, “I don’t have much time… so, what was it you wanted to talk about?” “Otoya Shirayuki,” Shiore said looking back out the window, “does that name mean anything to you?” Carter shook his head, “When was the last time you left the country?” “Never have,” Carter put simply. Shiore clenched her hand around her gaia memory and dashed over to Carter placing a kunai knife to his throat. She glared at him angrily, “Liar!” Carter stood in place, unphased by the girl’s sudden move on his life as a small bit of blood ran out from his neck and down onto the blade of the knife. “I am many things,” he said looking her directly in the eye, “but a liar is not one of them.” “Do you expect me to buy that?!” Shiore grunted pulling her knife away from the male, “Then how come I saw YOU downed in the armor of the Hono clan arrive at the Shirayuki main house and murder-!” Carter slapped Shiore across her face silencing her instantly, “The first time I began Ryu-O was when I was given the order to execute Derek Mavrick aka Fury. There were several candidates selected for the Ryu-O program to activate it, but all those who tried before myself died trying to get it to work.” Shiore rubbed her cheek where Carter had hit her, “That’s impossible, how is it that Ryu-O was able to be in Tokyo Japan if all the applicants died during the activation test?” “Well... there was one instance in which your story would make sense,” Carter stated, “but even that is a bit of stretch.” Shiore barked at him, “TELL ME!” “Alright, just calm down,” Carter sighed, Shiore attempting to hold back her frustration, “There was one subject that survived the activation test, but not for very long. He ended up going berserk, breaking out of the lab and leaving a trail of destruction in his path. Spite was sent out to retrieve him but by the time she got to him the damage had been done and he was already dead.” Shiore breathed heavily for a moment then crossed her arms and sat back down in the window looking outside, “What was his name?” “I couldn’t find one,” Carter returned, “the subject was only marked with one word… Macabre.” “Macabre…” Shiore thought for a moment, “as in death?” Carter shrugged, “I haven’t the slightest clue in all honesty.” “Thank you for your time,” Shiore said got up and made her way over to the downward staircase. She placed her right hand on the inner rail avoiding eye contact with the male, “and sorry… for wrongfully accusing you.” she said softly before descending down the stairs. Carter shrugged then walked up the opposite staircase. He touched down on the landing and reached for the door only to have it open from the other side as Tara walked through shutting it behind her making eye contact with him. “Oh… Thea,” Carter said awkwardly, trying to start a conversation with her, “How’re yo-” “GAH!” she screamed before slapping him across the face, “WHY IN THE NAME OF HILARY SWANK DO YOU KEEP FOLLOWING US YOU CREEP!” Carter blinked for a moment, “I guess I had that one coming.” Tara slammed her foot down in frustration, “Just get out of our way!” she said pushing her way past him, “and if we see you again you’re dead you got that!” Carter rubbed the cheek that had been slapped by the girl, “... she is certainly a lot stronger than she looks.” --- The final bell rang signaling the end of the day.“GAH! I CAN’T STAND THAT GUY!” Tara shouted as she walked out of the building along side Cole and Alex, “First he shows up out of nowhere acting like he knows me, then he brings me a creepy bag lunch with crap I’ve never even heard of and now he’s found out where I go to school! I need a restraining order or something else we’re gonna kill someone!” “Uh… you’re still going on about Carter right?” Alex asked taking a few steps away from the girl. “Do you know of anyone else that ungodly intolerable!” Tara returned with a growl in her voice. “I could think of a couple,” Shiore said appearing out of nowhere from behind Tara, “one of which being the girl yelling at the top of her lungs at the moment.” “GAH!” Tara shouted jumping into Cole’s arms, “Sayuri! Where did you come from!” “Inside… obviously,” Shiore returned. She glanced over to Alex then to Cole “So, what are you guys up to?” Cole’s phone began to ring, “Hold that thought for a sec,” he placed Tara back down on the ground then fished out his phone, “hello? Oh, hey mom what’s up?” Cole’s eyes shot open as he stood silent for a moment, he looked over to Alex then back to the phone, “are you serious?... I see, okay I’ll be right over.” “What was that about?” Alex asked as Cole dropped his phone back into his pocket. “Nothing major,” Cole said forcing a smile, “I’ll just need to be heading home early is all.” Alex took a step forward, “Wait, weren’t we supposed to-” “Go on without me,” Cole insisted placing his hand on Alex’s shoulder, “you were the one that wanted to go in the first place, so do it.” Alex nodded, “Okay.” “Hey Shiore, would you mind going with him?” Cole asked. Shiore shook her head. Alex raised an eyebrow, “You sure?” Shiore nodded. “Of course,” Shiore returned. “Alright, thank you,” Alex said with a smile, he looked over to Tara, “What about you?” “I’m a bit busy today,” Tara said stretching her arms out, “sorry.” she smirked, “I managed to get a part-time job at my dad’s cafe.” Shiore raised an eyebrow, “You sure he doesn’t have something mentally wrong with him or something?” Tara shook her head and placed her hands on her hips, “What can I say? He finally realized the skills I have as a waitress.” A small beep went off from the watch on her wrist, “Holy shiitake I’m late!” she picked up her feet and ran off down the road, “I GOTTA GO BYE!!!” Cole smiled, “Alright, then that’s that. I’ll catch you guys later then,” he said before making his way down the hill toward the street below the school. “See ya later!” Alex waved to him. “So,” Shiore spoke up, “where are we going exactly?” Alex smiled to her, “You’ll see when we get there.” Shiore raised an eyebrow noticing a large white paper bag in Alex’s right hand, “Alright… lead the way then.” The two took a long walk down the city streets. As they continued to go farther, Shiore noticed the ratio of houses began to grow thin until they were surrounded by nothing but fenced off and forested areas around the bare sidewalk and road that would very rarely have a car pass by. Shiore let out a small sigh, “I’m not sure if you’ve noticed this but… this place is completely dead.” “Well it is a cemetery,” Alex started putting out the gateway leading into a graveyard. Shiore fell silent realized why the boy wanted to come here, “I haven’t really gotten a chance to come by here as of late, so I appreciate you coming with me.” he smiled at her, “thank you.” She placed her open hand out to him, “It’s no trouble, you don’t have to thank me.” Alex laughed a little, “Right, sorry I forgot.” He reached into the paper bag and pulled out a bouquet of flowers, “Well, we should probably make this quick then.” Shiore nodded as the two made their way through the gate. They walked in silence along several rows of graves until Alex came to a stop at a pale pearl blue one with a bouquet already laid out in front of it. “Looks like someone was already here,” Shiore pointed out. “Must have been Sampson,” Alex returned kneeling down to the grave and placing his bouquet next to the one that was already there. He brushed a bit of dirt away from the stone and placed his hand on top of it, “Hey mom… I’m back. School was needless long, but it was a nice change of pace from what I’m used to.” “Alice…” Shiore read off from the headstone, “A celtic name meaning noble… it’s a nice name.” Alex nodded, “from what I’ve been told, she was a good person too…” he said holding back tears, “I know it’s hard on you being so far away from your family Shiore, but at least your folks are still around...” Shiore balled her hand into a fist gritting her teeth a little behind her lip, “Sorry… that came out wrong, what I meant is-” “It’s fine,” Shiore spoke out cutting him off, “I get what you mean.” “Oh, Alex,” a voice called out from behind Shiore, “You’re already here I see.” Alex looked over to the source of the voice, “Vince… how have you been?” Shiore turned around to see a young man with short wavy blond hair and bright sapphire blue eyes dressed in a well kept black suit, a bouquet of blue flowers in his right hand resting on his shoulder. A shiver went down her spine at the sight of him. “I’ve been better…” Vince said coldly, “It’s a sad day when a man goes to visit the grave of his younger sister.” Alex frowned looking back to his mother’s grave, “I know… it can’t be easy for you.” He let out a sigh, “I only wish I could have done something to prevent it.” “There’s nothing you could have done…” Vince said softly tightening his grip around the flowers in his hand, “stuff like this just happens… and there is nothing you or I can do to change it.” Alex nodded, “We were just finishing up here, you want to head over to Sarah’s now?” Vince raised an eyebrow, “we?” “Yeah, Shiore and,” he looked over to Vince and noticed that Shiore was nowhere to be found, “I… what the...?” Vince rolled his eyes, “Nevermind, let’s just go.” Alex stood up and nodded, “Okay.” The two walked over a few rows until they came to the grave marked with the name of Sarah Gardner. Alex reached into the paper bag and pulled out another bouquet of the same kind of flowers as the one he left for his mother, Vince placing his down right next to his making sure they were closer to the gravestone. Vince let out a sigh, “How pitiful… it hasn’t even been a year yet and we’re still the only ones that bother to come out to visit her grave, it makes me sick.” he proclaimed balling both of his hands into fists, “My own sister was taken from this world and all she gets is an empty grave with no one to see it.” “Sarah and I rarely got along… but I still thought of her as a valued friend,” Alex said softly, “I only hope that she saw me the same way.” “She did… I know that for a fact,” Vince returned looking over to Alex, “I know I picked on you a lot when we were younger so I don’t expect you to forgive me for the way I treated you, but even still,” he extended his hand out to Alex, “You have my thanks… for staying by her until the end.” Alex reached out and shook his hand, “She always was the backbone of the school,” he frowned and looked back down to the grave, “Hard to believe she’s gone.” Vince pulled his hand away from Alex and slipped them into his pockets, “I swear, I will hunt down whoever it was that did this to her… and I will bring them to justice.” Alex said nothing as a calm wind rushed over them picking up fallen leaves off the ground and sweeping them into the air. After a while, a small buzzing noise went off in Alex’s pocket. He pulled out his phone and flipped it open seeing that his alarm had gone off, the time was now 6:30 pm. “I should be going,” he said dropping the phone back into his pocket, “it was nice talking with you.” Vince nodded saying nothing else as the boy walked away. Once Alex had left, he noticed a small bit of movement behind Sarah’s gravestone. A big grey cat walked out scratching the side of it’s face with the rough side of the stone. “Oh, there you are Cheshire,” he said with a slight grin. The cat meowed and rubbed up against his leg. Vince gave him a scratch on the chin looking back to the horizon where Alex was still just barely visible. “So… he’s the one is he?” --- Alex walked along the busy city street until he came to the front steps of his and Cole’s building. He walked up the stairs and fished out the keys to the front door opening and stepping into the main stairwell.At that moment Cole ran down the stairs, “Alex… I think you might want to come up here.” Alex raised an eyebrow as he slowly dropped his keys back into his pocket, “Why?” “Just… follow me,” Cole returned heading back upstairs. Alex rolled his eyes, “Alright fine, this had better be good.” Alex walked up the stairs to Cole’s apartment and, to his surprise, the door was already closed and Cole had gone back inside. He went for the handle on the door and heard talking coming from the otherside. “I stopped by her grave on my way here actually,” a male voice called out, “It’s been far too long since I’ve paid her a visit.” “Well I’m sure she appreciates the sentiment,” said another more feminine voice. Alex out of curiosity turned the handle and pushed the door open. As he did, he saw Cole’s mother and father sitting on one couch by a coffee table while a grown man with the exact same eye, skin and hair color as his own sat on a reclining chair with his back to the large bay window at the front of the room. The man turned his eyes to him as he entered the room, “Alex… I’ve been wondering when you would get home,” he said getting up, “it’s been far too long.” Alex’s eyes shot open as his heart began to race, “... Father?” To be continued {Insert Ending Theme - “Reason” by Yuzu} Next time on Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme: A new force shows itself as META sets its next phase of action in motion. What lies ahead for Alex and company with new trials on the horizon? All will be decided when Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme continues in Episode 2 Genesis. Father, why now do you choose to return? Last edited by guncannon109; 10-13-2014 at 04:31 PM.. |
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Episode 2: Genesis Alex stood frozen as the grown man began to make his way towards him. Cole’s parents keeping a smile on their faces while Cole watched from the corner of the room taking a gulp every so often as he felt himself begin to sweat. “Rachel and Dominic have been telling me a great many things about you in the time I’ve been here Alex,” he said extending his hand to the boy, Alex gritting his teeth and balling his hand into a fist, “I trust you have been taking good care of yourself?” In that instant, Alex threw his fist into the air and struck his father across the face knocking him to the ground. Cole’s parents gasped, “Alex!” Rachel cried out, “Jason came a long way to come and see you. Why on earth would you-” “I SHOULD ASK YOU THE SAME QUESTION!” Alex barked back at them, he looked back to the man he just knocked to the ground, “As for you! I don’t know what the fuck you’re trying to pull but it’s not going to work, so just crawl back to the rock you crawled out of and just FUCK OFF and DIE already!” Alex then turned around and grabbed the doorknob and forced the door open slamming it into the wall beside it. Jason jumped to his feet and took two steps forward, “Alex wait, can’t we-” Alex stared back to him with eyes filled with burning hatred that had been built up for several years without any way of venting it and shouted, “FUCK YOU!” before storming off through the door and slamming it behind him. “Sorry about that, I guess he still hasn’t gotten over the fact that you left him for dead all those years ago,” Cole’s father sighed glaring angrily at Jason, “Not that I can blame him I guess.” “I’ll go talk to him,” Cole sighed before, heading for the door and passed Jason, “after all, someone needs to look out for him.” he whispered before walking out the front and slamming the door behind him. Jason let out a small sigh then looked out the window, “Perhaps coming here was a mistake.” “It wasn’t,” Cole’s father called out, “that boy hasn’t seen you in over ten years, it makes sense he would be upset with you.” he explained looked Jason in the eye, “However, I feel that leaving again would only make matters worse. You understand Jason?” “Yeah… I suppose you’re right,” Jason nodded,” thank you Dominic, I needed that.” Down on the lower level of the complex, Alex stormed into his apartment and slammed the door behind him. “FUCK!” he shouted before collapsing on the coach by the television, “Disappears for ten years then expects me to forgive him? What the fuck is that man’s problem!” At that second a small knock came from the door followed by Cole calling out, “Al?... can I come in for a minute?” Alex let out a sigh then looked over to the door, “Yeah sure, door’s open.” Cole opened the door and stepped inside, “Listen,” he said softly closing the door behind him, “I know you and your dad don-” “He’s not my father,” Alex interrupted looking away from Cole and out the window, “my father died years ago… he’s nothing but a shell to me now.” “ENOUGH!” Cole shouted causing Alex to look back with his eyes wide open, “I’m trying to talk here, so just keep quiet and listen.” Cole demand looking Alex in the eye, “I get that you don’t like the guy, but he came all this way just to see you. I understand, but you think maybe you could just give him a chance?” “He had his chance and he blew it,” Alex put simply, closing his eyes and lying down on the couch with his arms behind his head, “You might not want to believe this but to tell you the truth, as soon as my mom died… he didn’t want anything more to do with me.” Cole frowned then sat down on the couch beside Alex, “Tell you what,” he said looking over to the collection of DVDs on the shelf, “Have a small chat with him and I’ll…” he hung his head and pointed over to the shelf, “I’ll watch any of those that you want me too.” Alex’s eyes shot open as he looked up to Cole, “Y-you serious?” “Dead.” Alex thought for a moment, then let out a sigh, “Alright fine… but if that’s the case we’re watching Neon Genesis Evangelion.” Cole chuckled, “Okay okay, whatever you want.” {Insert Opening Theme - “Period” by Chemistry} Joel stood alone by the throne of Vainglory’s chamber. He stepped up to it and ran his fingers along it, a thin layer of dust coming off on his hand. The two large doors at the front then opened up as Vainglory, the doors closing behind him. “Inertia?... where’s Spite?” Vainglory asked walking up to Joel. “She’s out at the moment,” Joel returned, “that’s all you must know.” “I’m right here you nitwit,” Rylee scowled coming out from behind a pillar, “I was here first, you simply didn’t take the time to notice.” “Excellent,” Vainglory called out reaching into his cloak and pulling out Cheshire, “because I have found something for you.” Rylee gasped, “where did you find him?” she asked taking the large cat from her commander. “Found him wandering the cemetery on my way back,” he proclaimed, “must have gotten lost on a patrol or something.” “So the cat is found… but what of the boy?” Joel asked raising an eyebrow. “I ran into him while I was out,” Vainglory put simply, “He wasn’t exactly what I was expecting, but he has seemed to have grown quite a bit since the last time I saw him.” “So,” Rylee spoke out holding Cheshire closely in her arms, “what do you suppose we do?” “The boy and his friends are strong, but he seems willing enough to listen to reason,” Vainglory explained, “I’m going to see if I can convince him to see things from our point of view.” “And if you can’t?” Joel asked crossing his arms and watching Vainglory closely. Vainglory then extended his arm out to an empty corner of the room where a single lone pillar stood, in one quick instant a dark shadowy blade fired from the palm of his open hand and sliced the pillar into as if it were nothing more than a single sheet of paper before falling to the ground. Vainglory looked to Joel, “I think you can figure that part out for yourself.” A small shadow moved in the background, catching Vainglory’s attention. He looked to his subordinates with one simple instruction, “you’re dismissed, both of you.” Rylee and Joel left the room without a second word. Once they were gone, a tall busty woman with raven hair dressed in a dark blue dress, high heels and long gloves stepped out from the shadows and walked over to Vainglory. “You’ve certainly become quite the commander,” she proclaimed with a smirk, running her hand down Vainglory’s face, “with any luck, you’ll be able to open the gate before too long.” “Desire…” Vainglory looked over to her with cold tired eyes, “what are you doing here?” “The tides of battle shift in many ways,” she spoke out as she pulled out a large case, “I have come to even them out,” she said as she held the case open to Vainglory. Inside were three single slotted x drivers along with three silver gaia memories, three more in the colors of black, blue and green were lined along the top. Vainglory reached into the case and grabbed the black gaia memory that was marked with an s with a star on top of it, “where did you get these?” Desire smirked, “I think you can figure that part out for yourself.” --- The next morning, a young man with a guitar case strapped to his back stood at the bottom of the hill leading up to the school. He wore a dark red t-shirt with an open black button up shirt over top of it, he also had worn black denim jeans with a chain linked to two of the belt loops. Stubble was visible on his chin.“So, this is Ardent Secondary School hun?” he said with a sigh followed by a chipper grin, “Doesn't look like much, but I suppose I can make the most of it.” A few feet away, a city bus pulled into a bus stop and opened up it's doors. Madison quickly jumped out with a piece of jam covered toast in her mouth and a knapsack overflowing with papers strapped to her back. “Oh my god, I am so dead!” She panicked as she dashed over to the foot of the hill. She looked to her watch not really paying much attention to where she was going, “Seven fifty-nine, if I hurry I can still make it!” As she hurried around the corner, she slammed into the young man who had just arrived knocking both of them to the ground and sending everything Madison had stuffed in her backpack, including the piece of toast in her mouth, up into the air. The toast landing jam side down onto the top of the poor boy's head. “Ow...” Madison cried out rubbing the top of her head. She then opened her eyes and noticed the boy who sat on the ground next to her as the jam ran down his face, “Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!” she pleaded pulling out a tissue from her pocket, “Here, let me get that for you.” “Nah, it's okay,” the man said with a smile, throwing the toast off of his head and taking the tissue and wiping the jam from his face, “happens all the time really,” he said picking himself off the ground and laughed, “I should stop standing in the middle of the street.” Madison rose to her feet and brushed the dirt off of her, “Well, it was my bad for running into you still... there anyway I could make it up to you?” “Hmm, let's see...” the boy thought to himself for a moment. He then pulled out a folded up piece of paper from his back pocket and handed it over to madison, opening it up as he did so, “You think you can show me to each of these rooms?” Madison looked at the sheet of paper and saw it was an Ardent Secondary School student timetable. Out of simple curiosity, she looked up to the top where the name of the time table's owner was normally placed, “Lark Pearlman,” she read aloud to herself. She then looked to the boy and smiled, “rather nice name.” The boy shrugged blushing a bit, “Eh, not really... it's too flashy for someone like me.” “Well it's still a nice name for such a nice person,” she said with a smile grabbing the boy's hand with both of her's, “Come on, I'm running late but I can still show you to your first class. It's actually right next to mine.” Lark smiled at her, “thank you.” He took one step forward as a small crunch nose came from below him. He looked down to see several of the paper's madison had brought with her scattered on the ground. He picked one up and saw a poorly drawn red chinese dragon directly above an equally crude red stick figure with the words red ranger/fire – Zord: Dragon written below it with four question marks directly beside it in the colors of blue, yellow, pink and the final one be half green and half black. Lark raised an eyebrow, “Uh... what are these?” Madison's face instantly turned a bright red, “NOTHING!” she panicked as she snatched the paper away from him and grabbed the others that were scattered on the ground. She grabbed his hand and starting pulling him up the hill as fast as she could, “IIT'S JUST A TINY FITTLE JET PROJECT SO LET CURY UP A KOH!” While this was all going on, Alex had just finished up his early morning laps and had changed back into his normal clothes. However, when he came out of the change room he came across a sight that he had honestly not expected. Shiore, sitting on the bench by the window with her bag on the floor as if she were waiting for him. This was odd to him had he had not seen her since the other day at the cemetery. Alex took one step forward feeling he should say something, however Shiore beat him to it even though she kept looking out the window, “Sorry for disappearing on you… I had somewhere to be.” Alex smiled and patted her on the shoulder, “Don’t worry about it, you didn’t miss much.” At that second, the bell rang signaling the start of the day, “We should be going.” Alex then got down and picked up Shiore’s bag and swung it over his shoulder, however it didn’t last long as Shiore quickly grabbed it back from him and began making her way down the hallway, “We’ll be late.” Alex simply rolled his eyes and followed after her down the hall. They walked down two different hallways before coming to a stairwell, however as they turned the corner Alex heard a familiar voice as Madison came up the stairs with Lark. Madison stood in place upon noticing him, “oh hi,” she said with a wave, “Uh… Alex right?” Seeing her with another guy other than him bothered Alex greatly as his mind already jumped to conclusions upon seeing Lark come up next to her. He simply nodded to Madison, “Yeah… that’s it,” he then looked down to his wrist which had no watch on it, “Oh would you look at the time,” he looked to Madison and forced a smile, “sorry, wish we could stay and chat but unfortunately we need to be going” he said before grabbing Shiore by her wrist and pulling her up the stairs. Shiore raised an eyebrow at how strangely the boy had been acting, “Is there something the matter?” she asked delicately. “Of course not,” Alex said as he tried to keep his chipper attitude, slowly but surely letting go of Shiore’s hand in the process, “She’s safe now…” he said before sniffling a small bit, “that’s all that matters.” Shiore looked at him not fully convinced but at the same time was not about to intrude into someone else’s business, “I certainly hope so.” --- A little while after the bell had rung, Kat wandered outside with a tin of wet cat food. She went over to a tree with a small burrow of trash and other scraps of metal and opened up the can, whistling a small bit as she did so, “here kitty cat cat.”After a few moments, a large black cat came out from the burrow and rubbed itself up against Kat’s leg. She scratched the cat’s ears and placed the can of food down in front of him, “here you go,” she said with a grin as she licked off a small bit that got on her thumb. Just then, Cole walked by curious to know what she was up to. He walked up to her without her realizing and spotting the cat. “You know pets aren’t allowed on campus right?” He called out to her. “Gah!” Kat jumped and spun around as she was nearly given a heart attack. She then let out a small sigh, “Yeah, I know… it’s just that,” she stumbled poking at the ground with her foot, “well the poor thing has nowhere else to go.” Cole patted her on the back and grinned, “Don’t worry, your secret is safe with me,” he said before walking away from her. Kat blinked for a moment only to remember what Ms Seraphina had mentioned to her the other day. “HEY MISTER!” she called out to him, “What’s your name?” He turned back and grinned, “It’s Cole, Cole Desmond… and you?” “You can just call me Kat,” she said with a smirk, “and thanks again.” “Don’t mention it,” Cole turned on his heel and waved back to her as he began to make his way to his next class, “see you around Kat.” As soon as Cole left, a small buzz erupted from Kat’s sweater pocket. She reached in and pulled out a black cell phone with the caller ID marked as restricted service. She flipped the phone open and brought it to her ear. “Hello?” Kat answered, she bobbed her head then returned as she reached down and grabbed a small bit of cat food with one finger and put it into her mouth, “Nya, I just talked to a few seconds ago actually,” she licked her lips and smirked, “Alright, I’ll meet ya there.” Kat petted the black cat on the head and took off towards the school building, only instead of entering through the front door she chose to scale up the wall to an open window. She hoisted herself up and climbed into an empty classroom which had the lights shut off. She looked up to the clock on the wall which currently read 9:25, five minutes before the time she was given to meet up. Feeling that she could take a small break for the time being, she put two desks together and climbed on top of them before laying herself flat on the desk tops. Five minutes passed by in a matter of moments and the door to the room opened up as Ms Seraphina walked in, Kat quickly sitting up at attention. Ms Seraphina smiled at her, “Right on time… very good girl,” she said scratching her on the head, Kat smiling and closing her eyes enjoying the sensation. “So, what’s the sitch?” Kat asked pulling away from her. “There has been a slight change of plans my dear,” Seraphina stated as a older blond haired man entered the room. Kat raised an eyebrow, “Wait a sec, that’s...” “An old friend of mine, and your new commander.” Ms Seraphina said with a smirk, “you be sure to do him well, understand?” Kat looked at her and nodded. She got up with a smile and walked over to the blond haired man who cast a shadow upon the already dark room. “So commander,” she asked trying to make herself come off as friendly as possible, “whatcha want me to do?” “You are to keep a close eye on these five young ones,” he instructed holding out five photos, each depicting one of the five riders, “think you can do that without screwing it up?” Kat took the set of photos and glanced over them, her eye instantly being drawn to Cole’s image. She looked back up to him and smirked, “it would be my pleasure.” “Good,” he said once more in a cold and stern voice as he turned his back to her and headed over towards the door, “because I’ve had more than my fair share of failures… I don’t need any others,” he added before shutting the door behind him. “Cole Desmond…” Kat said aloud to herself starting laugh a small bit, “I’m looking forward to getting to know you.” {End of Part A} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ {Start of Part B} It was now lunch time. Tara was working shifts at her father’s cafe so Alex and Cole decided to spend the lunch hour in the school’s library, Shiore choosing to tag along as she was going there anyway to ‘study’ as she put it. Cole and Alex ate their lunch at the back of the library while making light conversation, Alex reading volume 14 of the manga series Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. “Look, all I’m saying is that if the girl was that madly in love with the main character and saw them die over and over and over again then obviously they’d eventually hit a breaking point and turn psycho,” Cole said to Alex. “Yeah, I understand that but… it just, still makes me feel cheated is all,” Alex let out a small sigh, “doesn’t exactly help that the main character doesn’t even remember all that she’s done for her…” he shut the book in his hand and got up, “Well, I’m done with this one. I’ll go grab the next one.” Cole jumped to his feet and grabbed the book, “That’s okay, I’ll get it for you.” Alex blinked, “Are you sure?” “Yeah, it’s no problem at all,” Cole returned as he took off down a row of bookshelves to where the manga was kept, “I’ll be right back.” “What’s up with him today?” Alex asked to himself as he sat back down. He looked over to Shiore who was still working at a desk with a large fortress of books built around her, “So… how’s the studying going?” “Hm?” Shiore looked at him, “It’s going.” she put simply, not going into details looking down at several sheets of paper with formulas and equations that looked far too complex to have been given out by any teacher with tech diagrams and long strings of data scribbled down on huge sections of grid paper. “Going to take a lot longer than I expected though.” Alex raised an eyebrow, “You need any help?” Shiore shook her head not saying another word. Alex shrugged and went back to eating, “Alright then.” On the other end of the library, Cole was looking through the manga shelf to find the next volume of the series Alex was reading when out of the blue his cellphone rang. He fished it out and read the caller ID which read Cat’s Eye Cafe. He flipped the phone open and held it up to his ear, “Tara? What’s up?” “I’VE GOT AN IDEA!!!” Tara shouted at the top of her lungs through the other end of the line, nearly deafening Cole who was forced to pull the phone away from his ear. “Okay, what is it?” he asked partially curious and partially deaf. “Well you know you said that Superstar and his pop pop needed a place to hang out for the afternoon?” Tara asked already knowing the answer. “That’s not exactly what I said, but yeah,” Cole rubbed his ear and continuing searching the shelves, “why do you ask?” Tara started to squee out of excitement, “Well I ask thinking, maybe we cou-” “Bring them by the Cat’s Eye?” Cole cut her off with a slight chuckle. “Yeah!” Tara shouted back, “... wait, how did you know?” “That’s your solution for everything,” Cole returned trying to keep himself from laughing to hard, “Two people not getting along? Bring em by the Cat’s Eye! I swear that should be your slogan or something.” “THAT’S A GREAT IDEA!” Tara began jumping up and down hardly being able to control herself, “Wait, you’ll talk to Superstar about it right?” “Yeah, I’ll tell him,” Cole grinned, “just promise me you won’t try to fix every problem with tea and cake next time okay?” “Deal! Anyway I gotta fly, Boss is gonna kill me if I don’t get back to work, later,” she said in her usual hyper tone before hanging up the phone. Cole dropped his phone back into his pocket and looked back at the shelf. As soon as he did though, Kat poked her head through a gap in the books on the shelf, “Who ya talkin too?” “GAH!” Cole shouted jumping back a small bit, “Oh, hey Kat,” he said forcing a smile, “Just a friend of mine.” “Oh?” an almost cat like smirk appeared on the girl’s face, “Just a friend, or was it your girlfriend?” “Tara and I are just friends,” Cole explained trying to ignore her and look for the book that Alex wanted, “that’s all there is too it,” “Oh, I see…” she returned eyeing him a small bit, “what are you looking for?” “Just a book for my friend,” he held the book up to her, “you see these around anywhere?” The red bow in Kat’s hair flexed for a moment, “Oh that one! I know where that is!” she grabbed the book and disappeared for a moment only to return moments later with the next two volumes, 15 and 16. “Whoever your friend is, he has really good taste.” “Could have fooled me,” Cole shrugged. He waved to her with the books in his hand, “well anyway, thank you.” Kat smirked at him, “no problem, I’ll see ya around okay.” “Yeah, see ya,” he said with a smile before walking back over to where Alex and Shiore were. He handed Alex the books, “Here you are.” “Oh, thanks,” Alex grinned taking them from his friend, “you have trouble finding them?” Cole smile and shook his head, “Nah,” he laughed a small bit as he sat back down in his chair. He looked over to Alex, “So… by any chance have you thought about what we talked about earlier?” “You mean about that bullshit idea you had about my favorite anime character that would ruin the entire series if it actually happened?” “No,” Cole glared at him, “I meant about having a sit down with your old man. You give it any thought?” Alex crossed his arms and looked away from Cole, “Out of the question.” “Oh come on, you’re being childish,” Cole sighed, “I’m just asking for one small talk, is that too much to ask?” Alex nodded without saying anything else. Cole grunted and crossed his arms, “Fine, be that way.” “If I can offer some advice,” Shiore spoke up taking her focus off of her work, “regardless of what they’ve done in the past, family is still family. You should try and mend old wounds while you still have the chance, because you never know when people will be taken away forever.” “She’s right you know,” Cole looked back to Alex and uncrossed his arms, “If it helps, there is an idea Tara had. You two could spend sometime at the Cat’s Eye, that way both her and myself will be there so it’s not like you have to face him on your own.” Alex opened his eyes and looked back to Cole, slowly putting his arms down on his lap, “Alright… I’ll do it.” Cole smiled, “Great, I’ll go tell Tara to make the arrangement,” he said as he got up and pulled out his phone before making his way out to the hall, “You get in touch with you dad and talk to him about it alright?” Alex nodded, “Will do.” “Watch yourself,” Shiore spoke out once again keeping her eyes fixed on the paper’s in front of her, “Shadows lurk around every corner nowadays, they’ll consume you if let your guard down.” Alex wasn’t too sure how to react to what the girl in front of him just said, though for whatever reason it still struck a chord with him. Even after being her supposed friend and comrade for more than a few months now, Alex still felt as if their was an impenetrable wall between him and Shiore. He wanted to get closer to her, that much was certain, however he was unsure of how to go about it what with the two of them being so different. He was about to say something but as soon as he so much as lifted a finger the bell signaling the end of lunch went off, and Shiore had a class next period where as Alex didn’t. Shiore upon hearing the bell quickly packed her stuff away back into her bag and swung it over her shoulder. She looked over to Alex, “you have a spare right now right?” Alex nodded, “Y-yeah.” “Take this time to set things up with your father,” Shiore instructed as she casually walked by Alex avoiding eye contact with him, “it’ll be easier if you have a clear head.” Alex didn’t say another word as Shiore passed him by. As she proceeded down the rows of bookshelves, Alex noticed something about the way Shiore walked. She always kept her eyes focused on what was directly in front of her, putting one foot right in front of the other in a quick and precise motion as if to get to where ever she was going as quickly and efficiently as possible. After thinking about this for more than he thought he needed to, Alex then shook his head and went out into the hallway long after Shiore had already left. He sat down on a bench around the corner from the library’s front door. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone, flipping it open and pulling out a small piece of paper that Cole’s parents had given him with his father’s phone number on it. He let out a small sigh, “here goes nothing,” he said before entering the number and placing the phone up to his ear. The phone rang once, then again and three more times after that. Alex hoped that after the seventh ring it would go straight to voicemail and he wouldn’t have to speak to his father at all. However that sadly was a hope that was quickly dashed as on the sixth ring the phone was picked up on the other end of the line. “Hello?” Jason called out from the other end, “Alex, is that you?” Alex planted his face into the palm of his hand and ran his hand through his hair, pulling on it before answer, “H-hi dad… look, I was thinking… would you by any chance like to, I don’t know, hang out tomorrow or something?” “Hmm… let me see,” the rustling of paper’s could be heard from the phone’s speaker, “I should have something open for tomorrow. Where do you want to meet up?” Alex groaned, “You know the Cat’s Eye cafe?” “I’ve been there once or twice,” Jason returned, “that’s the place your friend Thea’s dad owns right?” “Yeah, that’s the one,” Alex said with a slight huff as he was a bit annoyed that his father who left him for dead several years ago suddenly knew all about his personal life, “I’ll meet you there at five okay?” “Alright, sounds good. I’ll see you then, take care.” “You too… bye,” Alex quickly hung up his phone and placed it down on the bench next to him letting out a disgruntled sigh of both relief that it was finally over and frustration that he was going to need to put up with the same thing tomorrow afternoon. Before he could get a single second of silence however, Madison turned the corner in a sprint carrying several sheets of paper in her hands. She instantly noticed Alex and as she panted rapidly she asked him one simply question. “Oh… hey there,” she panted as the name of the boy in front of her eluded her, “you see Ashley anywhere?” Alex shook his head, “Oh great,” Madison moaned as she continued down the hallway, “just when I need her I can’t find her anywhere!” Alex laughed to himself as a small tear formed in his eye, “even without her memories… she’s still the same person she always was,” he sniffled wiping the tears from his eyes, “but still… it isn’t easy seeing her like that.” --- The next day after school got out, Alex found himself wandering over to the Cat’s Eye where he and his father agreed to meet. He didn’t want to see him, but part of him still felt like he had no other option. This was something he had to confront even if it killed him in the process.He walked in through the front door to the sight of Cole and Tara waiting for him, the two freezing for a moment upon laying eyes on him. Cole was dressed in his regular street clothes where as Tara was dressed up in Cat’s Eye waitress uniform which was comprised of a formal black skirt and a deep violet blouse with a solid red trim. A simple red apron was wrapped around her waist making the entire uniform to regulation save for a pair of bright yellow cat ears that Tara had decided to wear for extra flare as well as her own pair of rollerblades and her usual black shorts which she always wore under her skirt. “Is he here?” Alex asked simply, Cole nodded and pointed over to a booth at the back of the cafe. Alex sighed and began to make his way over, “guess there’s no way of avoiding it then.” “Hold it!” Tara shouted placing her arm out in front him, she pulled out a small blue bottle of lord only know what and gestured to Alex in a way that told him to come over to her, “open!” Alex opened his mouth as Tara squirted a small bit of the spray into it. Upon making contact with the back of his mouth, the spray somehow managed to trigger his gag relax. “THE HELL IS THAT!” Alex coughed with a sharp pain in his throat. “Uh… Breath Spray?” Tara looked at the label of the bottle and realized that she had grabbed the wrong one. It was a bottle of lavender scented perfume and not the mint breath spray she had intended. Her eye twitched as her face began to turn a bright red, “Uh… oops.” Alex began to growl at Tara in anger, “I’m gonna kill you, you know that?” Tara leaned in a took a sniff of Alex’s breath, “Hm, well hey at least it worked didn’t it?” She grabbed him by his arm and smirked, “Now come on, we don’t want to keep daddy waiting now do we?” “I certainly would,” Alex whispered aloud. “Aw, don’t be such a soursop!” Tara said playfully as she pushed Alex towards the booth that Jason was sitting at, “Tell you what, if you behave I’ll give you something on the house,” she winked, “and I ain’t talkin about the menu.” Alex’s face then became bright red, “The hell is that suppose to mean!” “THEA!” a loud voice shouted out as a young girl dressed in the same uniform as Tara minus the cat ears who looked about the same age as her with light shoulder length chestnut and deep hazel eyes ran up to her and grabbed her wrist, “What have I told you about manors?” “Whoops, sorry Nadi-boss,” Tara laughed scratching the back of her head, “I was just showing my friend to his table.” “Geez, how many times do I have to tell you it’s Nadia or Boss. You can’t use both,” the waitress said with a heavy sigh, “As for your friend, I’m sure he can find a place on his own.” “Excuse me,” Jason spoke up with a warm smile, “she was only trying to help, there’s no reason to scold her. Besides, I find her antics quite amusing.” Tara smirked at Nadia as if to say “I told you so.” Nadia however simply rolled her eyes and pushed Tara away, “Let’s just get you back behind the counter before you cause anymore trouble,” she sighed as she escorted Tara away from Alex and his father. Once back at the counter, Nadia sat back down on her stool and as if on cue instantly fell asleep. Tara laughing at her bosses’ unprofessional display. “You know that uniform really does look good on you,” Cole said with a grin. Tara smiled back at him and, grabbing the edges of her skirt, gave Cole a small curtsy, “Thank you.” Her smile however instantly went away when she looked out the window and saw Carter sitting on a bench with a large grey cat in his lap. Cole raised an eyebrow, “Everything okay?” “Yeah, I just…” she skated away from him and took off in a random direction, “I need to get back to work.” Cole blinked and then shrugged, “if you say so.” Back on the far side of the cafe, Alex looked over to Jason with a face that gave the impression that he really didn’t want to be seen with him. Jason glanced back and gestured to the seat in front of him, “Have a seat son.” “Please don’t call me that,” Alex sighed as he sat down in the booth, avoiding eye contact with the man sitting across from him, “just tell me this… what exactly are you planning?” Jason raised an eyebrow and laughed, “Planning? Can’t a man just want to catch up with his son after years of being gone?” “THAT’S NOT THE POINT!” Alex shouted as he slammed his fist down on the table resulting in the other patrons around them to stare, “You think you can just disappear… then come back without me getting upset?” he looked up to his supposed father as tears began to run down his face, “I don’t care what the reason is… I just want to know why… why did you leave when mom died?” Jason frowned as the words of his clearly wounded son pierced his heart harder than anything ever had before. He had expected his son would respond like this, however now that it was happening before his very eyes he hadn’t the slightest idea what to say. What could he say? Sorry for running off now I’m back so we can be happy? No matter how much he wanted it to, this wasn’t going to be resolved with something as simple as that. He placed his hands together and closed his eyes before taking a deep breath and then exhaling. He opened his eyes and looked directly into those of his son, taking a quick breath of air preparing to speak. However, before he could say a word a large explosion went off just outside the cafe, shattering the windows and filling the entire building with a cloud of dirt, smoke and rubble. As the smoke cleared a pair of dopants hopped into the cafe. One was resembled a rusty yet sleek robot you would see in your average low budget science fiction movie with sharp metal claws and a solid red eye in the center of his face while the other was comprised of jagged shards of metal with hands made of large scissor blades with similar smaller blades covering the entirety of his body. “WHERE ARE THE RIDERS!!!” demanded the dopant with the single red eye. Cole and Tara instantly glance over to one another while Alex sat puzzled has, unlike the other patrons, Jason stayed put in his seat and was completely unfazed by what was going on. “WE KNOW YOU’RE IN HERE! COME FORWARD OR I’LL BLOW THIS WHOLE PLACE TO BITS!” Alex instantly stood up and reached for his Star and Runner memories that he kept in his back pocket, however before he could get a word in edgewise a familiar voice called out from the other side of the dopants on the street just outside the cafe, “right behind you.” The two dopants turned around to see Carter standing behind them in his the dragon like crimson red armour of his rider form with his buster blade resting on his shoulder and the giant cat like dopant named Gorge standing behind him. The bladed dopant stared Carter down and in a deep voice said to him, “you are one… we asked for all the riders.” Carter looked over to Tara in the shattered window of the cafe then back to the bladed dopant, “Too bad, because I’m the one you’ve got,” he said as he aimed his sword at the duo, “and that isn’t going to change.” “You search for the others,” the bladed dopant instructed the smaller one eyed one, “I’ll handle this one.” The one eyed dopant nodded and headed inside the cafe as the larger one stepped towards Carter and Gorge. “Large blades covering your body as well as you hands…” Carter analyzed his new opponent, “you must be Glave, correct?” The large blade covered dopant chuckled, “always good to know META keeps its tabs on me.” Carter chose not to respond to Glave and and snapped his finger to Gorge ordering him to attack. Gorge charged at Glave who quickly guarded with the blades on his right arm and gritted his dopant form’s metal teeth, “Hey there girl… long time no see.” Back in the cafe, the second dopant threw small explosive charges at the feets of civilians as they ran away, “Yes you sacks of flesh! RUN LIKE THE RATS YOU ARE!” “HEY TIN HEAD!” Tara shouted at him throwing a can of pop at his head, the dopant turning around to face her as she stood alongside Alex and Cole. Tara cracked her knuckles and gave her a glare with her anger filled eyes, “You best be planning to pay for this one way or another!” “The name is Time Bomb,” the dopant chuckled, “and I only pay in bits and pieces.” “Well unfortunately for you, we don’t offer payment plans,” Alex said as he, Cole and Tara pulled out their respective gaia memories. Cole and Alex’s driver materialized on their waists while Kree flew down and attached to Tara’s wrist, “so it looks like your rampage ends here.” “HENSHIN!” the trio cried out as the slammed their memories into their drivers and activated them at once. “STAR! RUNNER! GALE! ROCK!” all three of their drivers shouted as their armour formed around them, the Rock Smasher forming in Cole’s hand while Tara pulled out her flail and swung it around. “Tara! Tie him up and bring him outside!” Alex instructed. “With pleasure,” Tara returned with glee as she hurled her flail over to Time Bomb wrapping it around him with ease before spinning him in the air and throwing him out the whole he had made in the window up front. The three followed him outside to the now empty street. Alex stopped for a moment and took a quick look back inside and noticed that Jason had disappeared. He sighed in relief, even though he hated the man for leaving him he still felt good knowing that he had at least made it out safe and wasn’t going to get caught up in the battle that was already in progress. Back over with Carter, Glave swung his blade lightly at Gorge resulting in the beast flying backward and over onto the ground. Carter gritted his teeth in frustration. “Useless animal,” he grunted as he tightly gripped his sword with both hands and swung it at Glave. Glave parried with one hand and punched Carter in the gut with the other, Carter simply winced and shot off a blast of fire from the palm of his hand into Glave’s face which knocked him back a few feet which then resulted in him tripping over himself and falling to the ground. Carter raised his sword to Glave’s face and looked down to him, “stay.” During all this, a blond haired man stood in the shadow of an alleyway with his hand on a golden gaia memory, “There’s four... now where’s the fifth?” Time Bomb continued to throw small chargers at Alex, Cole and Tara which exploded the second they hit them. As the barrage continued, the three felt it necessary to duck for cover behind the rubble from the cafe. “This is insane!” Tara panted, “How the hell do we even get close to a freak like that!” “Leave it to me,” Shiore whispered into the ear’s of the three as she dashed passed them and right up to Time Bomb, grabbing two kunai knives off of her belt and hurling them into the palms of each of his hands. “OW!” Time Bomb cried out in agony as he looked to the knives in his palms which were burrowed so deep that he wouldn’t be able to pull them out without rendering his hands unusable, “Where the hell did these come from!” Within a matter of moments, Shiore took both of Time Bomb’s arms and forced them behind his back with one arm before pushing him to his knees and raising the blade of her katana to his neck with the other, “From hell itself.” The blond haired man in the alleyway smirked, “and there she is.” he hit the button on his gaia memory which marked with a C layered with teeth on the inside. “CRAVE!” “Thanks,” Alex said to Shiore as he, Cole and Tara ran up to her. “Now then,” he knelt down to the dopant and looked him in the eye, “who sent you? Was it Vainglory?” Before Time Bomb could speak, a strong wind blew knocking all of four of them to the ground and shattering their transformations save for Time Bomb himself. “No,” a voice which sounded familiar to Alex called out, “That would be me, or rather... us.” The riders looked over to see a group of five dopants standing before them. One was a harpy with fully extended blood red wings who was the one generating the strong wind, another being fairly scrawny with a lightly padded black body glove that cover his entire body that had wires and what looked like bright blue keypads covering his arms and legs, a sleek gunmetal grey helmet with a black glass dome covering his head. On the opposite side of them stood two others one looking like a slimy sea creature who was covered in slime that drench the ground he walked on leaving a trail behind him. In the center of these four was a green overly muscular and demonic dopant with bright red eyes that stared into the very souls of four riders on the ground. Dull cracked emerald armour with a silver trim lined his body with the centerpiece of him being a rusted steel driver that bore a close resemblance to the ones worn by META’s commanders. Gorge who had remained on the ground looked over to the group of dopants and scratched the ground with its claws making its way back up to its feet. Gorge snarled as it walked over to Carter, raised its claws and slashed Carter across his back knocking him to his knees and breaking his transformation. Time-Bomb then threw four explosive charges onto Alex, Tara, Cole and Shiore which latched themselves onto the four riders. Glave grabbed Alex and Tara while the slimy sea creature constricted around Shiore and the harpy like one leapt up into the air and slammed him into ground. “GAH!” Carter cried out in agony, he looked back to Gorge, “What the hell are you doing!” “Following orders,” the green demon dopant declared, he raised his hand and gestured towards Gorge, “come here girl… your new master awaits.” Gorge snarled and made it’s way over to the group of dopants, kneeling just beside the green demon who seemed to be the leader, “good girl,” he said patting Gorge on the head, “you know where your loyalty lies,” he looked over to Carter, “unlike some.” “Girl?” Carter snarled as he inched his way to his feet, “What the hell are you talking about?” The leader dopant looked at Carter, “it appears you had a bug in your web… and changing the gender of one such as Gorge is easy for her.” “DAMN YOU!” Alex shouted trying to break free from Glave’s hold only to be dragged back and held even tighter, “Just who in the hell are you guys anyway!” The green demon looked to Alex, “I figured you wouldn’t recognize me the way I am now,” he said resulting in Alex raising an eyebrow not knowing what exactly he meant, “to keep things simple, you may refer to us as GENESIS… I am Crave.” “Genesis huh?” a voice called out from behind Alex and company, “rather overly pretentious of you don’t you think...” all eyes turned to the source of the voice to find Jason walking up to behind where the group of dopants had the riders pinned, “Crave? or should I say… Greed?” he looked over Alex with a cold and shameful glare then back to the dopant that stood before him. “And… you are?” Crave asked raising an eyebrow. Jason held out a gold gaia memory marked with an equally gold demonic styled v with a slight violet tint to it, “the one who made you.” He undid his blazer revealing a META commander driver strapped around his waist and pressed the button just below the label of his memory. “VAINGLORY!” the memory shouted as Jason slammed it into his driver. Alex’s eyes shot open and gasped as the dark shroud of a deep purple aura surrounded his father transforming him into the same dark armored figure that had attacked the police station and left Marcoh with a torn up arm little over three months ago. He felt the urge to scream but was left frozen by the mere sight of his father’s new form and the realization that the angry red eyes that he swore revenge on that day were the same eyes of the one who brought him into this world. Vainglory walked forward until he was a few feet away from Crave, leaving behind a trail of shadows which echoed a faint cry of many voices of agony before fading away just as they appeared. He looked Crave in the eye who looked back into his. Crave looked over to the mechanical dopant covered with keypads that stood beside him, “stay out of this,” Crave instructed his subordinate as, it nodding and enveloping himself in a clear film before disappearing. Crave then looked back over to Vainglory,“I had hoped to meet you someday… but I never expected you to deliver yourself to me so easily.” A shroud of several thousand shadowy blades shot out from Vainglory’s cloak and engrossed themselves around Crave, leaving him little room to some much as even breath. He narrowed his gaze and spoke in a cold haunting voice “Silence… you have done more than enough damage for my liking. So tell me, give me a reason why I shouldn’t just end you now.” Crave angrily gritted his teeth, “I should ask you the same question.” he flexed his arms outward and pushed the blades around him away before jumping back and dashing over to one side as two pale green blades shot out from from his wrist guards, “JUST FUCK OFF AND DIE ALREADY!” He shouted as he lunged at Vainglory jabbing both of his blades into him. Before Crave could land a single hit however, a thick wall of dark shadows formed by his side and blocked the attack before shooting out a barrage of spikes that covered the face of the wall and impaled Crave upon impact. Crave however wasn’t about to fall right when Vainglory was right in front him and gritted his teeth at the pain trying to stay planted on the ground. Vainglory then pushed the wall of shadows away from himself before dismissing it resulting in Crave falling to his feet, panting heavily as he did so. He forced himself back up and set his gaze back on Vainglory, Vainglory simply looking back at him in the corner of his eye without so much as moving to face him. “Seems I underestimated you,” Crave coughed as he snapped his fingers together resulting in all the dopants under his command to release the riders from their grasp and form up next to him, “Cyber, we’re falling back for now.” Vainglory simply watched as the keypad covered dopant with the black dome helmet reappeared beside Crave and began typing away on the keys on his left arm. After entering a long and complicated string of codes, he lowered his arms as he and his fellow dopants along with Gorge were then broken down into data and carried away by the wind where they were to be reconstructed elsewhere. Vainglory watched as the data flew away and removed his memory from his driver as his dopant form faded away in the same dark aura it had appeared in. “What… the hell…” Alex panted with his fists balled up as tightly as his body would allow. He gritted his teeth and narrowed his eyes at his father, “WAS ALL THAT!!!” “A child like you would never understand,” Jason coldly said as he turned his back to his own son, “even so, it’s better that you don’t.” “Like hell it is!” Alex growled as he ran up to Jason and threw a punch at him which smacked the older male in the back of his head. A cold wind blew over them as Cole and Tara stood in silence, unsure of whether or not they should do anything to help. Carter and Shiore on the other hand knew that it was not their place to intervene, at least not yet. After what felt like ages in the cold dead silence, Jason grabbed Alex’s arm which was still pressed against the back of his skull and thrusted his elbow into the boy’s gut before throwing him over his shoulder and down onto the ground. “This world is not yours to understand, so don’t even try,” Jason said with a cold voice as he walked passed Alex without so much as a second glance. Alex tried to get back on his feet but was quickly met with Jason slamming his foot down on his hand and looking down on him with the eyes of a killer, “stay down… you’ll only make your fate worse if you fight it.” Alex fell down on the ground burying his face in the dirt as Jason took his foot off the boy’s hand and simply walked away, “figures… if you can’t even keep your emotions in check, what chance do you have against me?” he said in the same cold voice which somehow sounded colder as he walked off into the distance and eventually faded over the horizon. “ALEX!” Tara shouted as she and Cole ran over to the boy who was still in the dirt, Shiore looking away with her eyes closed as she couldn’t stand the sight in front of her. “Are you alright?” Cole asked helping him to his feet. “Not again...” he growled as he balled his hands into fists and looked with eyes filled with a fire that was ignited by years of built up anger and hatred, “I’m NOT going to let you hurt me again!” he broke away from Cole and Tara and gazed angrily into the sunset, “I’ll find you… and I WILL kill you! FATHER!” To be continued {Insert Ending Theme - “Reason” by Yuzu} Next time on Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme:With the identity of Vainglory known and a new force on the prowl, it’s up to Alex and the other riders to take both of them down while looking out for the other. With a three way war about to begin, only the strongest will survive. But can each faction even trust themselves? All will be decided when Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme continues in Episode 3 Crimson Bodyguard. Ryu-O, where is your true strength? Last edited by guncannon109; 01-05-2015 at 09:16 PM.. |
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Episode 3: Crimson Bodyguard Under the dark of night, bits of data flew into the window of a bar that lay slightly below ground. As the were taken into the window, they reformed themselves back into Crave, Gorge and the other rogue dopants that ambashed Alex and the other riders at the cafe. “DAMN IT CRAVE!” Time-Bomb spoke out powering down and revealing himself as a scrawny man with ratty blond hair and bug like green eyes, “WE JUST ABOUT HAD THEM! WHY DID YOU FORCE US TO RETREAT!” “If we were to face off against Vainglory as we were they none of us would have survived,” Crave said as he pulled his gaia memory from his driver reverting the form of a young blond haired man, “and while we’re alone, calling me Vince will do just fine.” “It doesn't matter what I call you, you’re still a coward!” Time-Bomb yelled in anger, “If it were only me I would ha-” “You would have died,” Interrupted Cyber as he walked up from behind Time-Bomb and powered down, revealing himself as a slender man in his early twenties with short black hair and glasses. He wore a pale blue turtleneck under a done up white blazer, “though if you’re in a hurry to die, by all means hunt down the riders and challenge them to a rematch.” Time-Bomb snarled, “Maybe I’ll do just that!” he yelled as he stormed out of the bar slamming the door behind him. Cyber sighed, “So uncivilized.” “It’s a necessary lose,” Ms Seraphina called out as she suddenly appeared at one of the bar stools in a long black dress, “Only one who is of a strong mind and body can base through the gate, but an equally strong heart is required to open first.” she glanced over to the door, “that poor little rat has neither.” As she spoke, Gorge came over to her and snarled rubbing the top of her head against her as if she was her own cat. Ms Seraphina smirked, “Hey there little kitten… what’s say we get you out of that disgusting form, shall we?” {Insert Opening Theme - “Period” by Chemistry} Deep underground below Ardent City, Carter stood in the middle of a blank white room dawned in his rider form with various sensors placed all over him from head to toe. Three black beasts stood opposite him with the claws and fangs ready to attack. Within moments, the beasts charged at Carter as a whirlwind of fire constricted around the blade of his sword. As the beasts drew closer Carter took one step forward and with a single swing of his sword struck all three down and sent them plummeting to the floor in front of his feet, the beasts dissolving away in a shroud of black mist revealing three doberman with three shattered gaia memories lying next to them. Once the dogs were defeated a squad of scientists in white lab coats came into the room through a door by a large bullet proof window and collected them before falling back into the control room behind the window where Jason stood watching the entire thing. Rylee stood by him keeping a careful eye on him. “He’s certainly growing stronger,” Jason said with his arms crossed showing little regard for the boy’s safety, “but it still isn’t enough.” “Shall I send in the next round of rapids sir?” asked a scientist typing away at a computer. “No,” Jason shook his head, “give the next one to the new models.” The scientists eyes shot open, “but they aren’t ready yet!” he exclaimed as he stood up in protest, “Please sir, if you have them go up against the boy there’s no telling what could-” Before the scientist could finish, Jason glared at him which silenced him almost instantly, “I told you to send them in, now do it.” Rylee bit her lip, feeling the need to speak up in defense of her child but not wishing her commander’s fury be turned onto her. The scientist shook a small bit, “Y-yes sir,” she gulped as he sat back down. “Rylee,” Jason spoke up grabbing her attention, “keep an eye on things here,” he said handing her her golden Spite memory only this time it seemed different some how as it was much heavier than before, “I’ve enhanced your memory, it should now have power that matches the one Fury used against the riders if not more so. It hasn’t been tested yet though, so be careful.” Rylee nodded, “thank you sir,” she said quietly slipping the memory into her pocket and turning back to the white testing room her son currently occupied as the wall on the other side lifted up to reveal three figures in gunmetal grey suits. Without a second word more, Jason left the room leaving Rylee to oversee the testing. He stepped out into the hallway where a worker in a black suit was waiting for him. “Commander,” the worker silhouetted him with one arm and carried a file in the other, “might I borrow a moment of your time?” Jason nodded, “What is it?” “Well you see sir, it’s about those rogue riders we encountered a while back,” he said pulling out a photo and handing it to Jason, “as well as Ms Damon’s son.” Jason looked at the photo and examined it. It appeared to be a normal shot of Carter by the base of Ardent Tower, however there was something rather unusual about it. A red serpent like shadow hovered over him like an overprotective parent would hover over their own child. “How long have you had this?” Jason asked. “A little while after the incident,” the worker said taking a few steps back, “we would have brought it to you earlier but we assumed it was an error with the camera. However after checking over all of our equipment we determined that wasn’t the case. Sir… we may ha-” Jason covered the worker’s mouth and handed the photo back to him, “Burn this print and erase the original from the databanks,” he instructed looking the worker dead in the eye, “and do not, under any circumstances share this information with anyone… understood?” Worker nodded, “good,” Jason removed his hand and continued down the hall. “Now be quick about it.” “Yes sir!” the worker saluted once again, “right away sir!” “Looks like I’ve finally drawn you out,” Jason thought to himself as he kept his eyes fixed on what was ahead of him, “Fire Lord Ryujin.” --- Early the next morning, Ashley sat at her desk in her first period class taking a big yawn as she collapsed her head down into the pages of her open text book. “Why do we need to have classes in the morning?” she sighed as her eyes began to shut, “why can’t they just start school whenever I get here?” Before Ashley could fall completely asleep however, she was disturbed by the loud bang of a massive folder being slammed down onto the desk she was resting her head on. “GAH!!!” she shouted as she looked up to see Madison standing over her with an eager grin on her face. “Oh…” she sighed, “what is it this time maddy?” “I’m onto something!” she put simply as she swung open the page to a large map of the city with several circles in various parts of it. “I tried finding you yesterday but you left.” “Sorry, I had stuff to do,” Ashley blinked and looked down at the map, “Okay… what exactly am I looking at?” “Evidence!” she pointed over to the first circle which she had drawn in red over the most south west part of the city, “Right here at precisely six thirty seven PM on June 7th, the roads were closed due to reports of a highly corrosive gas leak. However, further research into the matter showed signs of craters, scorch marks, burnt flesh and ice formations that couldn’t have been formed by any gas I know of.” “Uh-huh…” Ashley nodded her head not really paying attention, “your point?” she thought for a moment then realized the date and details her friend had just mentioned. She thought to herself, “Wait a sec… that was the day I-” “I’m getting to it, just a sec!” she pointed to the second circle in the warehouse district on the east side of the city, “On the 15th of that same month, reports of humanoid insect began spreading throughout the local net. No photos were taken of it due to some sort of electrical interference but it was claimed to have traveled north to a quarry just outside the city where it supposedly crew and taken down by a team of only nine masked men.” “Which of course brings us to the city wide lockdown that took place over the summer,” she pointed to the tower located on the center of the map, “five of the nine masked figures that were spotted taking down the giant bug were found in a heated battle between six others that had never been seen before by anyone.” Ashley stood up and shut the binder on Madison’s fingers, “Is this really the best place to be talking about this?” Ashley laughed not wanting to Madison to blurt out everything to the entire class. Madison frowned, “Oh come on, I was just about done!” she cried, “It took me weeks to put this all together.” Ashley sighed, “Okay… just a small bit more.” she said as she released her hold on the binder and sat back down. Madison grinned and flipped the binder open once again, “Now, unfortunately like the last two I was on the scene when this one went down so I saw it with my own eyes. The battle itself sure was intense but it was only after the battle was over that I realized what was really going on,” she flipped the page over to a crudely down diagram of a red snake like squiggle and four question marks in the colors in the colors of blue, yellow, green and pink, “They do exist!” she shouted quietly. Ashley’s eyes shot open and raised an eyebrow as she hadn’t the slightest idea of what was going on, “Uh… who exist?” Maddison reached into her pocket and dumped an assortment of six random ranger keys on Ashley’s desk. The six being Lightspeed Rescue Red, Samurai Blue, Wild Force Yellow, Lost Galaxy Green, Mystic Force Pink and Time Force Quantum Ranger. “The power rangers!” she sighed as she crossed her arms looking down at the keys in front of her, “Look, I know it sounds crazy but I met one! He saved my life actually, and that’s when I found out it was him.” “You sure you didn’t hit your head?” Ashley asked knocking on Madison’s forehead. Madison smacked her hand away and pulled out a bright pink smart phone with a claw mark on the back of it, “I most certainly didn’t, here’s how I know!” hit a few buttons and pulled up a webpage before shoving it in Ashley’s face, “see for yourself!” Ashley took the phone and looked at the page, “Henshin Grid?...” she asked scrolling through it, “Just looks like another otaku hive mind if you ask me.” “Ugh! It’s not just that!” She grabbed back the phone, and pulled up three images of three different rangers, “there’s a forum on there with links to all sorts of ranger sightings!” One wore blue armor overtop a black morphsuit with silver stripes and matching boots and gloves. His helmet bearing the resemblance of a stag beetle with a golden number 2 emblazoned in the center just above a black v shaped visor. The second wore all yellow and a pair of gun metal grey shoulder pads along with a helmet that bore a resemblance to a car. He held a large double headed yellow hammer with blue highlights and what appeared to be parts for a cannon on each head. The third and final ranger was pure white with black arms and legs similar to the uniforms worn by the fictional Ninja Storm team. Gold highlights eyelined her white gloves and boots along with a gold belt and neck piece with a dream catcher design emblazoned on both. “I never thought it could actually be true, but apparently there are several different ranger teams scattered all over the world,” Madison went on with a grin, “and now there’s one here,” she looked over to Ashley, “You don’t think they’ve gotten their sixth ranger do you?” Ashley raised an eyebrow, “Why do you care?” “Because they are only ever six members per team,” Madison returned, “I just hope they haven’t filled that extra slot yet!” Ashley sighed and rolled her eyes, “Uh… I don’t mean to burst your bubble but you do realize how unlikely it is for you to actually join even if it were real right?” Madison glared at her however before their conversation could continue, Cole walked in through the door behind Ashley and patted her on the head, “Morning Ash, Maddy.” “Morning,” Ashley looked to him with a smile, “you’re awfully late.” “Don’t remind me,” Cole sighed as he shook his head and took his seat, “yesterday was not fun in the slightest.” “Rough day huh?” Ashley asked not really expecting an answer, “seems to be the case with everyone nowadays.” Madison looked around and raised an eyebrow, “Hey, where’s Alan?” Cole looked back slightly confused, “You mean Alex… right?” Madison blushed embarrassed that she got the name wrong, “Sorry, I keep forgetting for some reason.” Cole felt his heart sink a small bit, “Don’t worry about it, it’s an easy mistake,” he looked away and reached into his bag, “He’s… he isn’t really feeling very well today.” “Oh…” Madison frowned looking back over to the plastic keys she had scattered across Ashley’s desk, picking up the Quantum Ranger key, “that kinda sucks, hope he feels better.” Cole sighed as he pulled out his notebook, “I do too.” --- Downtown by a local bank, a small girl with long blond hair done up in a pair of pigtails and vibrant blue eyes sat outside on a bench looking up to the sky. As she sat there, a small object fell from the sky and bounced off the ground landing in the gutter by the side of the road.The small girl raised an eyebrow and out of pure curiousity got up from the bench and walked over to the gutter where she found what appeared to be a small grey usb like device with a blank black label printed on the top of it. She picked it up and raised an eyebrow unsure of where exactly it came from or what to do with it. However, before she could make a decision Tara came hurtling down the street on her rollerblades and smacked into her, catching a street sign with one hand and the small girl with another before either of them fell too hard. “Oh my god, I’m sorry!” Tara exclaimed, looking the small child over in a state of panic and embarrassment, “Are you okay little girl?” The small girl nodded quickly, “Are you?” “If I had a nickel every time someone asked me that question I’d be richer than Bill Gates,” Tara laughed a little and patted the small girl on the head. She was dressed in her cafe uniform and in the middle of a delivery, “What’s your name anyhow?” The small girl gulped, “It’s Becky.” “Well Becky, today is your special day! Hang on a sec,” she said reaching into one of the bags of food she was carrying and pulling out a small pastry. She handed it to Becky with a grin “Here you go! Hot out of the oven!” Becky blinked, “Wow, thank you miss!” she smiled happily taking the pastry from Tara, “It looks delicious!” “Tastes even better,” Tara smiled messing up Becky’s hair a bit, “we serve only the best at the Cat’s Eye Cafe, so if you ever go hungry again come on by for a visit.” The watch on her wrist beeped resulting in her looking at it, her eyes shooting open in a state of panic, “OH CRAP THAT CAN’T BE THE TIME!” she jumped to her feet and took off down the road, “I GOTTA GO LATER KATIE!” “IT’S BECKY!” the small girl shouted back quickly realizing that Tara could no longer hear her, she shrugged and stuck the usb into her pocket before unwrapping the pastry and taking a bite out of it, “Hmm… not bad.” “Hey there little missy,” a voice called out from behind he, “would you mind if I had a look at that thing you’ve got in your pocket?” Tara dashed over to the police station and rolled in through the front door carrying a pair of bags with four sealed food containers. She leaned against the side of the door to catch her breath then skated up to the front desk dawning an exaggerated grin once she caught her breath. A female receptionist looked up to her through her thick glasses, “Are you here to turn yourself in again?” Tara shook her head, “Sadly I’m only here on a food run,” she said holding up the bags in her hands, “special orders.” The receptionist nodded, “Of course, go right in.” Tara wasted little time and skated right up to Sampson’s office, knocking once before going in anyway. Shiore and Marcoh sat over by Sampson’s desk while Sampson stood by Alex who was frantically looking through records and any other valuable information he could find. Tara rolled over to the desk and placed the bags in her ontop of it, “Any progress?” she whispered to Marcoh and Shiore. The two shook their heads in perfect sync. “He’s been at this for almost three hours,” Marcoh said as he pulled out his wallet, “What does the total come to?” Tara raised her hand up and shook her, “no charge for today. Besides, it’s all leftovers from yesterday anyway.” Marcoh glared at her for a moment and put his wallet back in his pocket, “I see,” he sighed before taking one of the boxes and opening it up to three neatly wrapped sandwiches and a small pastry. “Beggars can’t be choosers I guess,” he shrugged as he unwrapped one sandwich and bit into it, “You know, for leftovers this isn’t half bad.” Tara grinned in an overt way of trying to look cute, “Thank you! The Cat’s Eye takes great pride in it’s quality!” Shiore paid little attention to them and instead focused her sight on Alex who was currently looking for something that made sense. She frowned slightly in a way that no one would notice her slight change in expression as she felt sympathy in him as she too knew better than anyone what it was like to be lost. “So what’s the report on the cafe’s repairs?” Marcoh asked out of curiosity. “Still working on patching the hole, but we’re currently offering take out until it’s all fixed up,” Tara explained with a sigh, “hopefully it doesn’t take too long.” “There are a lot of things I wish wouldn’t take very long,” Marcoh said looking over to Alex who had his nose shoved deep in various police records, “unfortunately, that’s just how things are every now and again.” {End of Part A} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ {Start of Part B} In a warehouse not too far away from the police station, a wall opened up as Carter stepped out of an old rusted elevator and proceeded outside. As he stepped out into the city streets several loud crashes followed by the howling roar of explosions rushed over where he stood. Without wasting a single second, he took off down the street passing by three small blocks before turning the corner to the right and coming upon the sight of Time-Bomb hurling several bombs into the crowd with one hand and holding a small girl with the other. The cybernetic dopant instantly sensed Carter’s arrival and turned to face him showing that it was Becky that he held captive, “I was wondering when I would draw you out,” he said with a smirk, “Say, where are your friends?” Carter took one step forward and pulled his Ryu-O gaia memory, “Drop the girl!” he demanded as his driver formed around his waist. Time-Bomb chuckled, “If you insist,” he said before picking the small girl up by her hair and hurling her over to Carter. Carter, closing his hand around his gaia memory, leapt into the air and caught the girl in his arms before landing down onto the ground directly in front of Time-Bomb. The dopant smirked and delivered an uppercut towards the young rider’s gut sending him flying backward put not taking him off his feet or letting go of the girl he held in his arms. “Are you alright mister!” Becky asked him, still in a state of panic as a result of what was going on. “I’ve had worse,” Carter returned panting heavily, winded by the blow. He set the girl down on her feet and stood up straight staring down Time-Bomb, “Just get out of here,” he said raising his gaia memory and hitting the button below the label, “I’ll take of him.” “RYU-O!” “Hen… SHIN!” Carter slammed his memory into his driver and spun the dragon’s head, several rings of fire bursting out of the driver and forming around him. “RYU-O!” The driver called out along with a light roar of a dragon as Carter was engulfed by fire, forming into his crimson red dragon like armor and mask with burning ember eyes. The Ryu-O Buster forming in his right hand. Becky stood in awe of the boy’s new form unable to move a muscle, “... Awesome…” she said to herself, instinctively pulling out a small disposable camera from her pocket and taking a quick shot of the rider that stood before her. Not wasting any time Time-Bomb began hurling several bombs at Carter’s direction, Carter slashing each one making sure the exploded on him rather than anyone else. After a while of using himself as a human shield, Carter planted his sword on the ground and panted trying to catch his breath. “You sure are a glutton for punishment aren’t you?” Time-Bomb laughed as he walked over to Carter. He armed another bomb and held his finger down on a button that prevented it from going off in his hand, “you know, truth be told out of all the other riders… you were the one I was looking forward to fighting the most.” He smirked as he through the bomb up in the air and took a few steps back, “Shame you’re nothing more than a disappointment.” As the bomb fell to the ground where he stood, Carter set his sights on it and grabbed it out of the air before it hit the ground placing his finger over the button that Time-Bomb had previously held it with before hurling it back at him exploding on impact stunning the dopant for a fraction of a second. In that small window of time, Carter grabbed his sword and threw it over his shoulder and dashed over to Time-Bomb. Flipping the sword over to it’s flat side, he smacked the dopant in the back of the neck with enough force to send him flying off to one side and on to the ground. He then ran over to Time-Bomb and held him in place by jabbing the heel of his foot into the dopant’s gut. “Am I still a disappointment?” Carter asked with the edge of his sword pressed up against Time-Bomb’s neck. Time-Bomb smirked and pulled out two bombs and armed them without placing his fingers on the buttons that would prevent them from going off, “Am I?” Out of instinct, Carter jumped off of him as Time-Bomb through the explosives up into the air far enough that he wouldn’t get caught in the blast when they went off. “That was fun,” Time-Bomb chuckled as he got back on his feet, “however I think it would be best if we played a new game for now,” he said as he pulled out yet another explosion, “Hope you like hide and seek!” He threw the explosive at Carter, resulting in a cloud of smoke surrounding him and blocking his vision. Carter swatted the smoke away with his sword and looked around to find that Time-Bomb had ran off. “Why must they always run,” he sighed as he removed his memory from his driver and powered down, his driver fading away soon after. “Um… excuse me,” Becky called out as she walked up beside him, “thank you for saving me from that... thing.” “You don’t have to-” Carter began to speak but was silenced as soon as he looked over and saw an explosive with a timer marked 02:00 attached to one of the girl’s pigtails. He looked down to see a similar one attached to his chest where Time-Bomb had hit him earlier, “So that’s how he wants to play then.” Becky tilted her head to the side “Uh… sorry?” Carter looked over to her and knelt down in front of her, “Don’t panic, but it seems like that monster wants to play a little game and wants us both to participate,” he said grabbing the bomb on the girl’s hair and trying to pull it off but being unable to, “yeah, it’s on there pretty good.” The girl began to panic realizing exactly what he meant upon noticing the bomb on his chest thinking she must have had one on her as well, “W-What are we gonna do!” Carter stood up and looked over to where Time-Bomb last stood before running off, “We’ll beat him at his own game.” --- Back at the bar that Crave used as a base of operations. While no one else was around, Seraphina sat on a stool looking into a pale blue flame that hovered above a glass filled with red wine. Inside the flame she could see Carter’s current position and was able to hear exactly what he and the small girl were saying.“I most certainly hope that you do,” she said with a smirk, “son of Hono.” --- Back at the police station, an officer ran in through the door to Sampson’s office.“Chief!” he shouted in an attempt to grab his attention, “We have dopant activity downtown! Half of a marketplace has been destroyed already! However, he seems to have gotten away.” Marcoh, Sampson, Shiore and Tara all looked over to the officer. Only Alex remained fixed on the records he was currently looking over not seeming to care. “Who has been sent over?” Sampson asked. “436, 473 and 445,” the officer returned. “Tell them to keep their distance,” Sampson instructed, “they are not to confront the target unless necessary, understood?” “Yes sir,” the office nodded, “Oh, and one more thing… there was a missing child report earlier today just before the attack, there is also sightings of a young man in pursuit of the target.” Shiore raised her eyebrow thinking of only one person with the drive to follow after a dopant. “Alright, we’ll keep that in mind,” Sampson nodded, “thanks for letting us know, you may go now.” The office quietly left and shut the door behind him. Tara pressed her against the door making sure the officer was far enough away so she could speak freely, “Alright, party crasher is gone so let’s say we head out and nab this son of a bitch!” “Do you even need to ask at this point?” Shiore asked, looking over to Alex. “Alex, we’re leaving.” Alex said nothing. “Did you not hear her boy?” Marcoh spoke up trying to get his attention, “You have a job to do-” “Is it Vainglory?” Alex asked not even bothering to look over to who he was talking to. “We don’t know for sure,” Marcoh returned, “but I highly doubt it.” “Not interested,” Alex said coldly keeping his focus on the files in front of him. “It doesn’t matter you’re interested or not!” Marcoh barked at him, “It’s your responsibility to fight these things because you lot are the only ones with the power to take them down.” “You have Tara and Shiore, plus I’m sure that Carter is already out there,” Alex explained, “what difference does it make if I’m not there?” Before Alex could say anymore, Shiore walked over to him and slapped him hard across the face before elbowing him in the gut and kneeing him in the crotch. “GAH!” Alex cried out as he fell to the floor, “The hell was that for!” “Anata wa baka no yōda!” Shiore snapped back at him, “Think about it, Vainglory seems to be connected to all other dopants so if we keep tracking down the rogues it will eventually lead us to him.” “I already know that!” Alex shouted back, “It’s just that…” he hung his head down, “I’m not sure if strong enough to fight him, even if I do…” Shiore knelt down and looked him in the eye, “That might be true, but you won’t be fighting him or any other foe alone.” “That’s right!” Tara interjected, “You’ve got Shishi, Cole and of course yours truly.” “Shishi?” Shiore raised an eyebrow, “In what universe am I in any way shape or form a lion spirit?” “Aw geez,” Tara rolled her eyes “it’s just a name.” Shiore continued to glare at her, “a name that does not make any sense.” Alex laughed a small bit, “Good to know nothing ever dampens your spirit Tara.” Tara looked over to Alex with a idiotic grin on her face. Sampson thought for a moment, then spoke up, “Hang on a second, if it’s a difference in power that’s the issue then the Xtreme memory should be more than enough to close it… you still have it don’t you?” Alex frowned as he reached into his sweater pocket and pulled out the black bird like memory, it’s usual red markings were now a dull grey, “It only worked twice… I haven’t gotten it to work since last summer.” Tara raised an eyebrow, “Hey Sammy, what the heck is that do who diddy anyhow?” “It was supposed to be an add on for the X Driver,” Sampson put simply hanging his head a bit, “however, no one could get it to work… not even Alice. Despite it not working however she said that it still held unimaginable power that others would want for their own, that’s why she gave it to me for safe keeping with the promise that on the day that five become one the memory’s true power would reveal itself.” “Oh great! A math problem!” Tara moaned, “I HATE MATH!” Alex zoned out to give what Sampson had just said some thought, “The day that five become one…” he thought over the details of what exactly happened on the day that he first received the memory hoping that the answer would be in there somewhere. He snapped his fingers, “Tara! Shiore! Come with me, I have an idea,” he instructed as he dashed out the door and pulled out his phone dialing Cole’s number. Tara smirked, “There’s the shining star,” she said as she followed Alex out of the room, Shiore coming shortly behind them and shutting the door behind her. Once the three had left the room and the door was shut Sampson, as if on cue, collapsed onto the filing cabinets and began coughing violently. Marcoh grabbing a box of pills from his desk and running over to him. Sampson snatched the box and forced down three right from the box before grabbing his chest and breathing heavily, a small bit of blood visible on his lip. Once he had calmed down he looked at his hand which was now covered in his own blood and balled it into a fist. “You know, you wouldn’t have to do this if you simply told them the truth,” Marcoh put simply. “I know,” Sampson nodded looking over to the door, “but they have enough to worry about… this will pass so there is no need to make that big a fuss over it.” Marcoh glared at him, “One can only hope that you’re right about that.” --- Back on the far side of the city, Carter trucked forward through an old rundown alleyway as the timers on the bombs that were strapped to them continued to count down slowly. Becky’s now reading 1:02 and Carter’s 1:14. Becky continuously tripped over herself as her heart was beating faster than she could think while Carter tried to remain as calm as he possibly could. Becky stopped, “Wait!” she said pulling her hand away, “Am… are we going to die?” she asked looking at the timer on Carter’s chest. Carter knelt down and placed his hands on her shoulder before looking her in the eye, “I’m not sure… but I promise that I’m going to do what I can do to get you out of this?” Becky sniffled a bit leaning into Carter as she began to choke up, “thank you… c-can I ask you something?... Can you tell me your name?” “It’s Carter,” he said patting the small girl on the back, “What about you?” “B-Becky Carmichael,” she said softly. Carter let out a small chuckle under his breath, “Just your first name is fine.” Becky giggled, “Sorry.” As Carter hovered over the small girl, Cyber stood hovering over him from a rooftop with his cloaking ability activated. He tisked for a moment and shook his head. “Time-Bomb you fool,” he thought to himself, “showing mercy to your enemy shall be your undoing.” (Insert Ending Theme - “Reason” by Yuzu} Next time on Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme: Carter and the small girl named Becky are put on the clock! Will they be able to snip the fuse on Time-Bomb’s wire? 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Episode 4: Supernova The school bell rang signaling the end of the day as Cole walked out the front door with his school bag in one hand, and Alex’s assignments in the other. As he walked over to the hill he glared at the sheets of paper in his hand. “Geez, I get that he’s upset but he could at least keep his priorities straight,” he said to himself as he turned his attention away from the stack of papers and to the street below. His attention was quickly grabbed by Madison standing by the bus stop at the bottom of the hill, resulting in him raising one eyebrow in confusion. “Hey! Maddy!” he called out to her as he walked up to her from behind. “Oh… hey Cole,” she smiled at him, “What’s up?” “Let’s see, I’ve got my work and Alex’s to do once I get home so… quite a lot it seems,” he said jokingly giving her a smile, “Taking the bus today? Don’t you live around here?” “Oh I do, I’m meeting a friend downtown,” she explained holding up a green flyer that read ‘Late Night Jam’ in large bolded letters, “he has a gig tonight at this music club they just opened up and I promised I’d be there.” “A new boyfriend of yours I see?” he chuckled a bit teasingly. Madison’s face turned a bright red as she quickly looked away from Cole, “N-no! Lark and I are just friends!” Cole patted her on the shoulder, “I know, I was just messing with you.” he said to her as the bus turned around the corner and came to a halt at the stop. Madison looked back to him and smiled, “Thanks Cole,” she said as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a toonie before hoping on the bus, “you’re a good friend.” “Thanks,” Cole smiled back as the doors closed and the bus took off down the road. He watched it until it turned a corner then frowned, “I try to be anyway.” At that instant, Cole’s cellphone rang from inside his pocket resulting in him quickly fishing it out and answering it, “Hello?” he nodded once, “I’ll be right there.” {Insert Opening Theme - “Period” by Chemistry} Time-bomb ran down a long dark litter filled alleyway and was about to make his way out until he was stopped by Cyber stepping forward and blocking his path. Time-bomb snarled at him, “What the fuck do you want now Ren? I’m on a tight schedule in case you haven’t noticed!” Cyber smirked under his vizor, “You honestly think I care about your petty problems? I’m merely here as a spectator for when you blow yourself up.” He reached up to his helmet and hit a small button on the side as the quiet hum of a cog began emanating from within it, “Just be sure you put on a good show for the boss alright.” Time-bomb spat off to one side and pushed his way passed Cyber, “Save your insults for when that fire breather’s head in is within my claws.” he snarled through his teeth as he made his way out of the alleyway, only to leap onto a wall with his metal claws and begin scaling up it. Cyber shook his head keeping his usual smirk, “We’ll see who loses their head when this is over and done with.” Meanwhile, a little ways off from the police station, Alex and Shiore drove down the road on the X Cyclone while Tara surveyed the area from the skies. She swooped down and hovered next to her comrades to report in. “No sign of creepox or short fuse just yet,” She stated through the mask of her rider form. “Keep looking,” Alex returned, he and Shiore still in their civilian forms, “they have to be around here somewhere.” Tara nodded and soared back up to the sky above. Once she was up in the air, the roar of a second motorcycle filled the air behind Alex and Shiore as Cole drove up beside them. “I miss anything?” Cole called out to the two, Shiore simply shaking her head once in response. Cole smirked, “Good, so what’s the biz?” “Carter and that bomber dopant are currently in a stalemate not too far from here,” Alex called out to him, “We’re going to put an end to it before it gets ugly, and hopefully get some answers while we’re at it.” Cole raised an eyebrow then turned his gaze to the road in front of him, “So we’re helping Carter?” Alex nodded, not saying another word. Cole shrugged and grinned, “I guess I can live with that.” Back by Time-bomb, the rouge dopant reached the top of the roof and dashed over to another only to forced back onto the roof he had climbed up on by the impacted of a stray metal bar that struck him in the face forcing him to the ground. “THE WAS THAT!” he cried out as he jumped to his feet to the sight of Carter throwing a bar to the side with Becky close behind him, “Oh… so you’re still alive huh?” he eyed the timer on Carter’s chest which currently read 1:17 and smirked, “but not for long.” “Becky,” Carter whispered looking over his shoulder to the small girl behind him, “Stay here alright?” Becky looked up to him and nodded. Carter then shifted his gaze back to Time-bomb and leapt over to the other roof before hurling a strong punch directly into the dopant’s single red optic in the center of his face, resulting in him getting pushed back a few good feet. Carter took full advantage of the opening and kicked him right in the chest before unleashing a barrage of well over twenty lightning fast punches with just as much strength as the first one, sending his opponent flying backward and onto the ground. “You… really… suck,” Time-bomb coughed as he picked himself up off the ground and onto his knees, “But no matter… no pain no gain right?” Carter raised an eyebrow at him, “What could you possibly have to gain from all this?” “You honestly think I care about winning this little game of ours?” Time-bomb chuckled, “The way I see it both you and that brat don’t have much time left regardless of who wins!” “BASTARD!” Carter yelled at Time-bomb before kicking his face in and forcing it to the ground with his foot, “So all you’re doing is just buying yourself time!” The dopant whipped out two bombs from his belt and smirked, “Bingo,” he said before throwing one at Carter’s face resulting in him jumping off of him allowing Time-bomb to jump back to his feet, the bomb thrown at him merely bursting into a cloud of smoke, “and congratulations!” he called out to Carter gripping the other bomb, “You just fell for the easiest trick in the book!” Before Carter could move, Time-bomb threw the second bomb at his feet only, unlike the first one, nothing happened save for a small puff of smoke. Time-bomb looked up at Carter and froze, “Hehe… could you excuse me for just a second?” “Sorry, I don’t have time for this anymore,” Carter returned as he quickly pulled out his gaia memory and smacked the button below the label. “RYU-O!” shouted the memory as Carter’s driver materialized around his waist. “Hen… SHIN!” Carter slammed him memory into his driver and spun the dragon head on the front of the buckle as several rings of fire erupted from it and constricted around him before enveloping him completely within the inferno. “RYU-O!” his driver called out once again as the flames dispersed revealing him in his rider form. He slammed his fists together and cracked his knuckles before snapping his fingers together and summoning his Ryu-O Buster in a quick burst of fire. Carter stepped towards Time-bomb and with one swing of his sword threw him across the roof. “I’ll ask this once,” he said aiming his blade at the neck of his opponent, “remove the bomb from the girl this instant.” Time-bomb gritted his teeth and clasped his hands around the blade of Carter’s sword, “TOUGH CHANCE!” he yelled as a pair of bombs clung to the rider’s blade and arming themselves instantly. Carter quickly threw his sword away before the bombs went off, the explosion shattering it to bits within seconds of him releasing it from his grip. Carter then looked in front of him to see that Time-bomb had vanished once again. “HEY FLAME BOY!” Time-bomb called out to him from another roof, “CATCH ME IF YOU CAN SUCKER!” he shouted before leaping to a building across the road and charging up it. Carter let out a painful sigh and walked over to the edge toward Becky before jumping back onto the roof she stood on. He eyed the bomb on the top of her head that currently read 0:57 then to his own which now reach 1:14. “Are you just going to let him get away?!” Becky cried out as her whole body shook, “You’re stronger than him aren’t you! Catch him already and kick him to the curb already!” “I CAN’T JUST DO THAT!” Carter yelled back at it looking her straight in the eye with daggers in his own, “Simply having power doesn’t make you strong.” Becky hung her head and then collapsed to the ground, “So… we really are going to die… aren’t we?” she quivered gripping the ends of her shorts with her hands and tears ran down her face. “I never said that,” Carter said as he knelt down in front of her and placed one hand on her shoulder and the other on her chin, lifting her head up to face him, “but one thing I will say is this,” he added looking her in the eye and wiping away her tears, “Fate isn’t always something we can decide for ourselves, however one thing we can do is choose whether to accept it or fight it… got it?” Becky sniffled a little bit but eventually nodded, “Y-yes… I do.” Her eyes then drifted down to Carter’s driver and noticed the red gaia memory and instantly remembered the device she had picked up earlier, “Can I ask you something first?” she asked as she fished out the blank grey usb like device, “what exactly is this?” Carter’s eyes shot open as he snatched it from her, “Where did you find this?” he asked her as he looked it over. “I just… found it lying on the ground,” she said simply, pulling her head into the collar of her shirt, “is that bad?” Carter sighed and put the blank memory into a pouch on the back of his belt, “A child like you has no business in stuff like this,” he said looking her in the eye, “You understand me?” Becky nodded, “I-I think so.” “Good, now answer me this…” Carter stood up and extended his hand to her, “Will you fight to save your own life?” Without saying another word more, Becky narrowed her eyes at the rider' standing before her and took hold of his hand before looking him in the eye and nodding once. With one quick motion, Carter picked up the small girl, hoisted her up onto his back and held her as tight as he could. “Better hold on tight kid,” he said to her before activating the boosters on the bottom of his feet and launching the two of them off the roof they stood on and across the street toward where Time-bomb had run off to. As they soared through the air, Tara turned the corner and passed by them as they landed on top of a near by building. Tara’s eyes shot open as she instantly turned around and flew back to Alex, Cole and Shiore who weren’t too far down the road from where she was. “COLE! SUPERSTAR! ICE QUEEN!” she shouted at the trio as she reached her fellow riders and hovered over them, “THE DRAGON IS IN THE EAGLE’S NEST!” Shiore raised an eyebrow in confusion, “English please?” “I’VE FOUND FLAME BOY!” Tara yelled at the ice rider as she turned herself around and took off back in the direction she came from, “HE’S RIGHT DOWN HERE!” Alex looked over to Cole and nodded, Cole nodding back to him as they revved up the engine’s of their bikes and chased after Tara at top speed. --- Back over by Time-bomb, the quick footed dopant leapt over a set of roofs as Ryu-O zoomed past him faster than he eyes could see as he flew right into the red rider’s fist before getting struck over the head by a quick axe kick which sent him hurling to the ground within seconds.“Aw shit!” Time-bomb groaned in pain as he forced himself to his feet, “The hell did I hit?” Before he could regain full sense of what had happened, he was grabbed by his arm by Carter who seemingly appeared out of nowhere and punched him across his face knocking him down to the ground once again. “Time’s up bomb,” Carter growled as he let Becky off his back who ran to a safe distance, “Now I’ll ask you this one final time… remove the bombs,” he demanded as he held up his hand and began charging a fire blast from his palm, “Now!” Time-bomb began froze on the ground looking for a way out of his current situation when he noticed Becky on the far side of him as Tara swooped in on her glider next to her and putting away her glider. The dopant snarled and held his hands up, “Alright… I’ll do it…” he said gritting his teeth, “but I need to be standing first, but step aside and give me some room.” Carter snarled at him and did as he said, “Make it quick.” “Thank you,” the dopant said as he picked himself up off the ground and returned to his feet. Carter kept a close eye on the dopant and held his hand with the charged shot up to him, “Now defuse the bombs like you said.” “Oh I will…” Time-bomb smirked under his mask, “but first,” he quickly kicked Carter’s hand causing him to shoot off his fire blast up to the sky before pulling out a dozen armed bombs, six in each hand and hurling them at Becky and Tara, “THINK FAST SHIT HEAD!” Carter froze for a moment then, without even thinking, dashed over to the two girls and threw himself in front of the bombs taking the full force of the explosion as each one hit his body. His armor shattered upon the first few hits leaving him completely exposed and unprotected as the flames engulfed his body fully, Becky and Tara watching in horror as the events unfolded before their eyes. Time-bomb chuckled as the smoke cleared and Carter’s charred body fell to the ground, “Game over Flame Boy,” he said to himself as he walked over to Tara and Becky, the yellow rider stepping in front of the small child. Carter’s eyes slowly began to close as the dopant’s feet drew closer in his already fogged vision, “Thea… Becky… forgive me…” “Carter!” Tara cried as she ran toward the rider and ducked to the ground he laid on. As she looked over his charred body, an image of a much younger equally cut up Carter in a dimly lit lab with shards of broken glass jabbed into him flashed before her eyes, “What… what is this?” she then felt a sharp pain in the back of her head, “GAH!” she screamed as she pressed down hard on her temples with both her hands. As Carter fell limp as a bone, Alex and Shiore drove up into the alleyway on the X-Cyclone with Cole following closely behind on the Rock Prowler. The trio hopped off their respective rides and looked at Carter and Tara on the ground in horror. “Tara!” Cole called out to her as he ran over to her side, “What’s wrong? Are you alright?” He held onto her but no matter what Tara, would not answer him. Alex took a few steps forward and stared down Time-bomb, “So you’re the one behind all this,” he took out his Star and Runner memories from his back pocket as his driver materialized around his waist, “clearly it was a mistake to let you get away… I’ll do what I must.” Time-bomb smirked, “I’d love to see you try.” {End of Part A} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ {Start of Part B} Carter opened his eyes to find himself in a blank white void which seemed to stretch on forever without any sign of an ending. “Where am I?” he asked to himself as he looked around, “Am I dead?” “Why are you here child?” A deep booming voice echoed. Carter turned around to see the burning yellow eyes of a massive chinese dragon covered from head to toe with blood red scales that were bursting with crimson and amber flames from the gaps with each breath it took. The colossal beast toward hover him as it stared down upon him. “You must be Ryujin… correct?” Carter asked the beast holding his breath. “I’ve been called many things child, but there was one who called me by that name,” the dragon proclaimed, “He was an honest man, a strong man with a great fire is his eyes,” he growled leaned in closer to the boy and looking him in the eye, “I see the same fire within you… but you know not how to truly wield it.” “I can wield it just fine,” Carter retorted, “What exactly would a beast like you know about my power in the first place?” “That statement alone proves to me just how juvenile you are young one, for you see I have been watching you from within your own shadow for quite sometime,” The beast proclaimed as it narrowed its gaze at the boy who stood before it, “However it seems that you with all your power could not see me.” “Well I can see you know can’t I?” Carter spat back, “What I can’t see is your point, so why not just send me back to where I belong already?” “I cannot release you from this plane,” the dragon put simply, “your physical form was destroyed in battle… there is no going back.” “ARE YOU NOT A GOD!” Carter barked at the beast, “I’ll pay any price to return to my sister, so name it and I’ll give up whatever you wish.” “Your resolve is strong,” the dragon said to him looking the boy in the eye, “for your sake I hope that isn’t all that is strong about you.” In one quick motion, the dragon wrapped itself around Carter and stared down at him as if he was going to eat him then opened his mouth and unleashing his fiery breath upon the boy. In less time than it would take to blink Carter found himself surrounded by a towering inferno that was slowly constricting itself tighter around him. “What the hell is this!” Carter demanded. “If you cannot control your own fire, then you shall be consumed by it,” the dragon said coldly as he released his hold on Carter, keeping the flames going, “if you wish to reclaim the life that was taken from you… become the master of the inferno that surrounds you.” Carter’s heart began to race as the burning walls around him drew closer. He thought for a moment, then his eyes widened. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the blank gaia memory that Becky gave to him not long ago. He gripped it in his hand then rammed the memory into the fire, the heat of the inferno searing his hand as he did so. The memory was beginning to wear away from the flames but slowly began to pull the fire into it. As the memory pulled in the fire a small crack burst out from one side, and shortly after another from the other side of it. Carter gritted his teeth and held wrapped his other hand tightly around the memory trying his best to hold it together. “Come on… just a little more,” As he tightened his grip on it, the memory began to heat up nearly burning the palms of his hands. Despite the blistering pain he felt, he simply clenched his teeth and held the memory in place. The memory was about to burst, however just before it did Carter was able to contain the last bit of the fire within. He instantly released his hold and panted like crazy as he lowered his arms and loosened his grip on the memory that now shone brightly in an amber other worldly glow as the cracks began to repair themselves. “You threw yourself into the fires of hell and have come out alive on the other side,” the dragon proclaimed as he reappeared behind Carter, “well done child.” “So happens next?” Carter asked turning to the dragon, “are you going to send me back now? The dragon nodded, “You have proven to me that you are worthy to hold the power of flame. Now you stand stronger than you were before. Up until this point you have relying on my power alone, however now you have managed to light a fire that is yours and yours alone.” the beast lowered his head and looked Carter in the eye, “What is your name child?” “Carter,” he said without hesitation as he clenched onto the memory in his hand as the glow faded from it revealing it to be of a crimson red color with a golden piece of metal in the shape of a bird hanging off the end of it, the letter P that resembled a phoenix with one wing missing forming on the black void of the label, “Carter Damon.” “I see, such a proud name. You have risen from the ashes a reborn man young Carter and now I shall bestow upon you a name to reflect that change. Phoenix King Ryu-O, carry that name with pride,” the beast said to him as a riff into the void opened up behind the boy, “Now go and return to those who need you with the power and strength to protect them.” Carter looked into the beast’s burning amber eyes and nodded without saying another word more as he turned his back to the beast and began walking off into the rift as it closed behind him. Back on the other side, Alex stood between Time-bomb and the unconscious Carter who lay limp in Tara’s arms, Cole and Shiore by his side while Becky watched in hiding behind a set of trash cans. “You’re the same dopant from the other day,” Alex said aloud to Time-bomb as he step closer toward him, “What do you know about Vainglory?” “You expect me to answer such a ridiculous question to a piece of rider trash like you?” Time-bomb cackled, “even if I did know, why in the hell would I tell you?” “Fair enough,” Alex returned placing his star and runner memories into his driver, “Looks like I have no further use for you anymore,” he said coldly placing his hands over the slots of his driver, “henshin.” As he went to split open his driver, Cole and Shiore both raised their arms to grab Alex and pull him back by his shoulders when suddenly. “Stop!” a voice called out from behind them, the trio turning to face Carter who was climbing his way to his feet as Tara helped him up. He gripped his newly made gaia memory in his hand and stepped in front of Alex and the others before staring down Time-bomb, “This one’s mine… and this time, it’s personal.” “Haven’t had enough pain yet flame boy?” Time-bomb laughed as he pulled out several more bombs as Carter walked slowly towards him, a warm amber light hovering over him as all his burns and cuts healed, “Well you’re in luck, because we’re having a sale!” He threw the bombs up into the air and began smacking them at Carter, “for the next five minutes only, NINETY NINE PERCENT OFF! ON YOUR BODY!” Carter caught one of the bombs and held onto the button that stopped it from exploding in his hand before leading right into a roundhouse kick with his right leg sending several of the other bombs flying right back at their owner before flipping onto his back leg and striking the rest with an axe kick sending them up into the sky and exploding just above the roofs of the buildings that surrounded them. Time-bomb was knocked back a bit from the impact of his own explosive but it didn’t phase him too much. He simply jumped right back onto his feet and regained his focus on Carter. “YOU THINK YOU’RE ALL HOT STUFF JUST BECAUSE YOU DODGED DEATH?!” the dopant screamed as he clenched his teeth together and balled his hands into fists quickly pulling out another set bombs but this time they were far bigger than the palm sized ones he had been using up until this point, “DON’T YOU FORGET META WORM!” he lifted the bombs over his head, “I HAVE POWER! AND YOU HAVE NOTHING!” Before the bomber could do anything wish he new toys, Carter threw the bomb he held in his hand at the dopant’s face stunning him as a result of the explosion on such a vital body part despite his helmet. He then kicked on up in the air and grabbed the other and threw it over to Tara. “THEA!” he shouted as the wind rider caught it, “GET THAT TO A SAFE ALTITUDE!” Without wasting a single moment, Tara hopped on her glider and did as she was told making sure she got high enough in order to release the bomb up in the air before it exploded. Meanwhile, back on the ground, Carter gripped the second bomb with one hand and held it so his thumb gripped the safety lock button which kept it from going off “As I’ve said before, having power isn’t enough,” he said before reaching out to Time-bomb with his free arm and grabbing him by the collar, “It’s being being able to hold back that makes you strong,” he proclaimed looking Time-bomb in the eye as held the bomb up to his face, “Now disarm the bombs... NOW!” “GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON!” Time-bomb demanded resulting in Carter bashing him in the face with his own bomb. “Release the bomb you have placed on the girl or I’ll blow the two of us sky high,” Carter glared at him inching his thumb slowly off of the safety lock, “Pick your poison.” Time-bomb shook as he looked around at the other riders who stood by and watched as Tara touched back down on the ground. He looked at the timer on Carter’s chest, which currently read 0:27, and contemplated whether he could outlast that time. However, due to how outnumbered he was the possibility of pulling another hit and run was beginning to look easier said than done at this point. After a moment in thought, Time-bomb let his arms down, “Alright fine… you win.” he sighed as he hit a button on his gauntlet resulting in the bombs attached to both Carter and Becky to disarm themselves and fall to the ground. “Perfect,” Carter returned as he released the dopant from his grasp and let him fall to the ground. He looked to the bomb that was still in his hands, “Now… deciding what to do with this is the biggest issue at the moment.” Time-bomb snarled on the ground, “WHY NOT SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!” he shouted thrusting his leg up into the air and kicking the back of Carter’s hand resulting in him losing his grip on the bomb as he fumbled out of his grasp and began to fall to the ground. Carter barley had anytime to think as he simply jumped backward to a safe distance outside the blast radius as the highly unstable explosive fell onto Time-bomb and landed right on his gut, the dopant instantly becoming engulf in the explosion that no ordinary human would be able to survive. Cole was stunned silent as the roaring fire before him, “D-did you kill him?” “You forget what he is,” Carter returned, “it will take more than that.” Up above on the roof top, Cyber watched the events unfold as a small light went off on the side of his helmet. He placed his finger onto it and spoke. “Cyber here,” his eyes shot open under his vizor, “Ma’am, surely you can’t be serious. We haven’t even tested it ye-” he was cut off mid sentence on the other end of the line and simply nodded, “I understand… it will be done.” He removed his finger from the com-link in his helmet and looked toward Time-bomb. He then turned his gaze to one of the keypads on his forearm and typed in a string of letters and numbers into it bringing up a display screen with Time-bomb’s vital signs with a tab marked with an x over top of it. He hovered his finger over the button and gulped, “Forgive me brother,” he said to himself as he pressed his finger down on the button resulting in the display screen instantly switching to red. Back on the ground, the smoke finally began to clear as the hum of several loud cogs accompanied by a bestial roar erupted from the clearing debris. Time-bomb stepped out of the rubble as a pair of razor sharp claws ripped out from his hands along with an equally sharp set of teeth that broke open from the now cracked mask he wore that just barely covered his now withered, torn and almost alien looking flesh. A cluster of three bomb like orbs protruded out from his right shoulder which was just above his now overly muscular right arm which contrasted his left that looked exactly the same as it did previously. Alex froze at the sight of the creature that stood in front of him, “What in the hell is that thing?” he demanded looking at Carter. “It’s Time-bomb,” Carter returned keeping his eyes fixed on the mangled figure that stood before him, “or at least… it used to be.” The bomb infused creature looked around until it’s eyes were drawn toward a solid brick wall. He took a quick sniff of it then licked it’s dried out and cracked lips before punching it with it’s larger arm, smashing it to bits before running off. Carter took one step forward only to be stopped by Alex shouting, “Wait! That thing was human once right!” “That doesn’t matter anymore,” Carter returned looking Alex dead in the eye, “If it’s not stopped then there’s no telling what it will do. It needs to be destroyed.” Alex balled up his fists and thought for a moment then looked back to Carter, “Alright… just this once,” he extended his hand out to the rider who stood before him, “we’ll fight together.” Carter grinned a small bit and took hold of Alex’s hand, “It would be my pleasure... Xtreme.” The two then took off after the beast with Cole, Tara and Shiore close behind them until they found the creature that was once Time-bomb in a thoroughly trashed plaza with several civilians running for their lives. “TIME-BOMB!” Alex called out, grabbing the creatures attention as he and Carter stood side by side, “You’ve done enough damage for one day, and now your time is up!” “No matter how you look at things,” Carter held up his newly obtained gaia memory and stared down the beast as Tara, Cole and Shiore walked up behind him and Alex, “Your rampage ends here.” Alex sighed, “and that would be my line.” Just then, the Xtreme gaia memory awoke from where it was being stored on the X-Cyclone and flew over to Alex landing in his hands, the dull grey lines on the front illuminating and becoming bright red once again as the Star and Runner memories that were still in his driver shone brightly for a moment in response to the memory. “The day when five become one,” Shiore repeated looking at the memory, “You think it will work this time?” Alex looked over to Shiore then back to the memory, “Only way to find out,” He slipped the memory into his driver and over the two that were already inserted as Cole and Shiore pulled out their memories and placed them into their own drivers, readying them for activation. “HENSHIN!” the three of them cried out in unison. “Yuki! Rock! Star! Runner! XTREEEME!” their drivers called out together as each rider’s respective elements swept over them and quickly became their armor and weapons. Alex of course taking on the appearance of his Ultimate form instead of his standard Star Runner combination. Tara, who was already transformed, watching in awe. Carter stepped forward and inserted his new memory into his driver and flipped the bird ornament on top downward so it formed a crown like shape over the dragon head on the buckle of his, “Hen… SHIN!” he said as he gave his driver a good spin. “PHOENIX! BURN!” Carter’s driver shouted as ten blue rings of fire shot out from it and encircled him before forming into his armor which appeared to be the exact same as his standard suit only with much larger shoulder pads with a gold trim and all accented detail that was once a deep maroon switching out for gold. His boots and the outside of his arm guards became gold as well as what appeared to be a phoenix wing jutted out from the outside of both of his boots along with a long flowing red cloak, the kanji for emperor becoming emblazoned in amber on the center of his newly redone chest. Carter looked over his arms and legs, taking back by his new form. Alex looked over to him and smirked under his mask. “Overwhelmed by the new memory’s power?” Carter shrugged, “A little… why?” Alex laughed a little and patted Carter on the shoulder, “You’ll get used to it.” He said turning his attention to Tara who stood just behind him, “Tara, little slugger!” Tara nodded and whipped out her flail before jumping out in front. Before the creature that was once Time-bomb could have time to react, Tara swung her flail around and sent it hurling at the beast. The beast instinctively jumping upward to the avoid the attack but was taken off guard when the chain of the flail instead wrapped around it’s legs. Tara smirked under her mask and turned on her heel, “BATTER UP!” She yelled out as she swung the beast around and over to the other riders. Alex and Shiore jump out of the way, Cole whipping out his smasher from it’s place on his shoulder and folding it out fully. Carter stepping out of the way as Cole swung his smasher like a batter swinging a baseball bat smacking the beast hard across it’s chest sending it flying back and falling down onto the ground in front of him. Sparks began to fly off of Time-bomb as it tried desperately to climb back onto it’s feet but ultimately failing. Carter and Alex looked at the creature in both disgust and pity, Alex looking toward Carter. “You want to do the honors?” he offered extending his hand to him. Carter snapped his fingers together and conquered a burst of fire which formed into a claymore style sword with a phoenix feather hilt. He then turned to Alex and held up his Ryu-O gaia memory to him, “You offered me a taste of your strength, it’s time I do the same,” he said placing the memory into Alex’s hand. Alex looked at the memory, then back to Carter and nodded. With one quick motion, he slammed the memory into the maximum drive slot on the side of his belt and slapped the button on the side. “XTREME! RYU-O! MEMORY CHARGE!” Both the Ryu-O and Xtreme gaia memories shouted in unison as the white gap that ran down the middle of Alex’s armor turned a bright red and fire blasters similar to Carter’s materialized in the palm’s of Alex’s hands. “Whao,” Alex said in awe of his new form, “Okay, this is awesome.” Carter slapped Alex on the back, “You’ll get used to it.” he said before spinning the dragon head on the front of his driver as it spun around once and came to a halt once the crown reached the top again, Alex opening and closing the Xtreme gaia memory as he summoned the X-Calibur in his left hand. “PHEONIX! RYU-O! XTREME! MAXIMUM DRIVE!” both their drivers shouted out once again as the two riders gripped their swords in both hands as a ruby red inferno constricted around Alex’s and a sapphire blue constricted around Carter’s. “Twin Maximum!” the two shouted as they dashed over to Time-bomb and slashed their swords through him, “Phoenix King Blaze!” the called out to one another as the creature behind them was struck by their attack and bursted into flames leaving nothing but dust in the wind. Alex and Carter keeping their backs turned to the explosion. Once the smoke cleared Alex and Carter turned to the rubble and undid their transformation. Alex raising his hand up flat to Carter with a smile on his face, Carter on the other hand simply took his eyes off him and began making his way out of the plaza. However he did get far as just as he was leaving Becky came out and ran toward him. “Carty wait!” she cried out as she swung her arms around him, “Don’t leave me!” “Sorry, but I have work to do,” he said patting him on the head and looking over to Tara as she, along with Cole and Shiore, undid her transformation, “besides, you’re in good hands now. They’ll help you now more than I ever could.” Becky looked over to the other riders then back to Carter, “I’ll see you again… right?” Carter nodded, “Of course you will.” Becky sniffled for a moment then back away from him and walked over toward Alex, “Alright… just promise me you’ll take care of yourself.” Carter nodded once again then looked up to Alex, “You’ll look after her right?” “Of course I will,” Alex returned quickly narrowing his gaze on Carter and placing his hand on Becky’s shoulder, “but on one condition.” Carter raised an eyebrow, “And what might that be?” Alex took one step forward took his hand off of Becky, balling both of them into fists, “I want you to tell me everything you know about Vainglory and the people you work for.” --- Back at Crave’s bar, Ms Seraphina held her hand over Cheshire who was encased in a vibrant blue other worldly glow as a string of data flew into the window and formed into a hologram of Cyber.“Time-bomb has… failed my lady,” he said as he quickly bowed his head, “I’m sorry.” “I see…” Seraphina returned softly not even taking the time to look back at the young man who stood behind her, “and how exactly do you intend to rectify this, Ren?” Cyber bit his lip and raised his head to look at Seraphina, “I won’t fail you my lady!” he pleaded bowing to her once again, “I guarantee you that much at least.” Seraphina smirked and turned around to face him, removing her hand from Cheshire as the light began to fade, “I most certainly hope you back up that claim... considering the fate of her brother.” She looked him up and down then waved her hand at him, “Very well, do what you will.” “Thank you my lady, you won’t regret this!” Cyber returned as the hologram of him cut out. The second he left, the glow around Cheshire resurfaced transforming him into a young female about Tara’s age with long black hair that almost covered her emerald green eyes. “Geez, why must that guy be so serious all the time?” the black haired girl yawned as she stretched out her arms before tying a red ribbon into her hair forming a bushy pony tail and giving herself a cat ear like bow in the process, “I mean it’s not like we’re even playing for keep this time around right?” “Who knows, it could turn out being mildly entertaining,” Seraphina smirked as she looked the girl over, “Would you care to make a wager my little kitten?” To be continued {Insert Ending Theme - “Reason” by Yuzu} Next time on Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme: With the Xtreme Memory operational again and Ryu-O with a brand new sword, what plan will Cyber devise to succeed where his brother had failed? And what of Carter himself? Can he even be trusted? All will be decided when Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme continues in Episode 5: Web of a Forgotten Fantasy! Gale! Yuki! Just shut up and work together! |
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Episode 5: Web of a Forgotten Fantasy In the dead of night, a small girl with long flowing navy blue hair dressed in a kimono as white as snow with a blue snowflake pattern knelt with her arms held tightly around a teenaged boy dressed in a simple black school uniform with a short pale blue head of hair. A belt with a wolf head buckle laid strapped to the boy’s waist. The girl’s eyes filled with tears that ran down her face and onto the older boy’s blood stained shirt as he lay lifeless in her arms.“Brother!” cried the small girl as she shook him around trying to get him to move, “Brother! Wake up!” Footsteps echoed resulting in the girl turning her head to see an older japanese man staring at her, “Father…” she gulped as she felt her heart sink. Within a fraction of a second, the man who stood before her vanished into thin air along with the boy in the girl’s arms as her surroundings changed to an old fashioned japanese house. Fire quickly spread around her as she saw the silhouette of a man drawing a katana cast onto the paper screen door in front of her. A horned figure who carried a large buster sword came into view and struck the shadowed man, killing him instantly and sending him to the ground. The girl’s heart skipped a beat as she fell back a few feet and slammed into the wall behind her, jolting a shelf and causing a small plate to fall and shatter. The horned figure instantly turned towards the door that separated the two rooms and stepped forward, slashing the door as a pair of bright amber eyes shawn through and piercing the girl’s vision, the girl instantly grabbing a sword from the mantle and aiming it at the red dragon like figure that stood before her. Second later, Shiore opened her eyes to find herself still laying in bed in her high rise condo staring blankly up at the sealing. She slowly rose and came face to face with a black dresser like cabinet with two large swinging doors taking up the upper half that were currently open to clearly display a set of three small framed photographs, the one farthest to the left being of an elderly japanese man with short black hair and the one farthest to the right portraying a young woman with vibrant blue hair done up in a long french braid that was swung over her shoulder. Shiore got up and tightened the sash on the blue robe she had on before walking over to the cabinet. She pulled out and lit a match before using it to light a nearby stick of incense, closing her eyes and clapping her hands together. “Good morning mother… father,” she said softly before opening her eyes and looking down to the third picture in the center which depicted the same pale blue haired boy from her dream, “Satoshi...” she gulped slightly and bowed her head, “please, watch over me.” Her peace and quiet was suddenly cut short by the loud ring of a phone which echoed through her condo. She calmly headed over to a white end table where the phone stood and read off the caller ID, sucking her teeth before sending straight to voicemail, “That’s the third time this week.” {Insert Opening Theme: “Period” by Chemistry} Hours later, Shiore sat at the back of Ms Seraphina’s class staring blankly out the window watching a pair of birds in a nest who chirped endlessly as their mother came back with a worm between its beak. Ms Seraphina was in the middle of a lecture as Cole sat at attention while Alex flipped frantically through his book to find what page they were on, taking one quick glance over to Madison across the room who seemed just as lost as he was as she tapped her pencil down on a notebook with one hand while shuffling through what appeared to be song lyrics on her phone with the other. Ms Seraphina eyed Madison over her shoulder as she finished writing down a long paragraph on the board, “And so in conclusion-” she spoke as she hurled her piece of chalk at Madison, jamming it in the wall causing the red haired girl to sit up in attention, “cell phones and other electronic devices are to be turned off during scheduled classes, you wouldn’t want anything bad to happen while you weren’t paying attention would you?” Madison shivered as Ashley reached over and patted her on the head, “Sorry ma’am, but if you don’t mind me asking,” Ashley raised her hand, “what exactly would happen in the middle of class?” “Who can say,” Ms Seraphina shrugged as she turned her gaze to Ashley, a smirk coming onto her face, “but too often I find that the most horrific events transpire when one has their guard down… for example, the story of the Rake.” “The Rake? What the hell is that?” the mass of students began asking among themselves. “Have I sparked an interest in this topic?” Ms Seraphina chuckled. She then shifted the blackboards around to hide her paragraphs behind an unmarked board before drawing what appeared to be a naked man mixed with a dog with little hair and a disfigured face, it’s eyes being left as two black voids. Several students began to cringe and even shiver, “Oh man… that’s freaky.” “Many people have recalled seeing it, but the most recent case happened not too long ago… a married couple were awoken in the middle of the night to catch a brief glimpse of it inches away from their faces, only to have it dart into their daughter's room. The couple chased to find their daughter half dead muttering under her dying breath ‘the rake… he is the rake.’” Madison shivered and covered her mouth, “I-I think I’m going to be sick…” Ms Seraphina grinned, “Then how’s about you pay attention in my class, okay?” she erased the drawing on the board and wrote ‘The Crow and the Genie’ in cursive in it’s place, “Ms Tyler, mind picking up from chapter 7 page 24?” Madison nodded violently as Shiore continued watching the bird’s, completely detached as the mother flew away with one leaving the other behind. Shiore sighed and turned her attention back to the front of the class as Madison stood up with her book in hand. “There once was a young crow who dreamed of big things,” the red head began reading, “In spite of his ambition, he lived in a run down old shack without much to call his own. This all changed one day when one day a genie came to him. 'I see you are in hard times,' she said to him with a warm pittying smile, 'so I shall grant you one wish.' The crow looked to her and said sternly, 'I want the world.' The genie looked to her and smirked before taking off a pale blue ring from her finger and said, 'take this and keep it close. Do that and you shall obtain what you desire.' and with that final word, the genie wished him luck and the two parted ways. The old crow tightly clenched the ring in his hand and nodded, whispering softly, 'I will'.” “Thank you,” Ms Seraphina smiled warmly at Madison, “now then, what do you think that this story over all is trying to convey?” “THAT BITCHES BE TRIPPIN?!” a boy called out rudely. Ms Seraphina chuckled, “Yes, that is exactly right.” she cracked her knuckles and glared at the boy, “Principle's office, NOW!” After an hour or so, the bell signaling the end of first period rang as the students cleared out of the room. “Alright, I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep tonight,” Madison shivered as she walked out the room, her arms crossed tightly over her chest, “I think that’s the first time I’ve ever had a teacher tell me something that disturbing!” “Aw, come on Mad,” Ashley cooed as she came up to Madison and patted her on the shoulder, “It was only a story, like there’s really such thing as monster like that. It’s only a folktale.” Madison still shivered a little but nodded once, “I really hope you’re right.” Back in the classroom, Alex and Cole were on their way out while Shiore slowly gathered her things, “Seems like quite a lot of bull to me,” Alex rolled his eyes as he turned back to Shiore, “Hey Shiore, you coming?” “Go on without me,” she instructed. “Alright, just be sure to meet us after school alright?” he called out to her only to get no response before making his way down the hall with Cole. He bumped into Madison for a fraction of a second, gulping and avoiding eye contact with her, “S-Sorry, I didn’t mean t-” “First day with the new feet?” Madison giggled, fixing her hair. Alex paused before muttering, “I gotta run,” he instantly waved to her and bolted down the hall, rushing through a pair of doors into a nearby stairwell. Madison blinked while Ashley raised an eyebrow. “Is uh… he okay?” Madison asked Cole, a puzzled expression coming onto her face. Cole grinned, patting her on the shoulder, “We should be getting class, you have literature next right?” Madison nodded. Ashley meanwhile kept her eye fixed on the door to the stairwell Alex had just bolted through. Back in the classroom Shiore gathered her things together as was on her way out when suddenly, “Excuse me Ms Fubuki,” Ms Seraphina called out to her, “May I perhaps have a word with you?” Shiore turned to her and raised an eyebrow, “Yes… what is it?” “I’ve noticed that you seem to be… drifting off in the middle of my classes,” Ms Seraphina put bluntly, raisng an eyebrow at the girl in front of her, “Is there something the matter with you?” Shiore took one solid look at her as she felt the piercing gaze of the teacher who sat in front of her jab itself right through her. She looked away from a moment and looked out the door, “No,” she said simply as she walked out of the room and slammed it behind her. Ms Seraphina smirked as the shifting light in the room bounced off the door and danced across her classes as she kept her focus on the door, “I should certainly hope not, Ms Shirayuki.” She eyed Kat who was standing just behind the door, “You're late again my kitten,” she raised an eyebrow, “explaination?” The girl coughed a little, “Sorry,” she laughed a little, “hairball.” Ms Seraphina glared at her, “Well try not to get them anymore, I have a job for you,” she gestured towards herself as the girl hopped over to her. She reached into her pocket and placed a yellow gaia memory with marked with an A in the shape of a bow and arrow, “Here, you're going to need this,” she explained, sliding it along the desk over to her minion. Kat raised an eyebrow as she scooped up the memory, “What for?” “When the time comes,” Ms Seraphina smirked, “you'll know.” Deep within the abandoned stairwell, Alex stood huddled under the stairs biting his lip. He balled his hand into a fist and slammed it down hard, putting a crack into the stone bricks, “DAMMIT!” he cried out as he fell to his knees, “Even after all this time… why the hell can’t I forget about her already?!” “Are did you seriously just fucking ask that?” called out a familiar voice. Alex quickly turned his head around to see Ashley leaning on a wall behind him, her hands in her pockets and giving a sharp glare with the eye that wasn’t covered by her long frizzy blond hair. Her over the top eyeliner making her look even more pissed off than she probably was. She sucked her teeth and shook her head, “Geez, you know how to make a girl feel important don’t you?” “She doesn’t even know who I am,” Alex pointed out, “How am I supposed t-” He was suddenly cut off by Ashley punching the wall, just missing his face, “Save me that load of bull,” she snarled, shooting him a sharper glare than before. “I get that things between you got tough, and she paid the price. But wishing to forget about something as special as what you two had,” she teared up a little, “I wouldn’t be able to forgive you if you did that.” “But!” he yelled only to quickly soften his voice, looking over to the side, “s-she’s moved on.” “Your point?” Ashley raised an eyebrow, grabbing him by the collar, “Let me tell you something about highschool love stories, they never end well for anyone. That’s coming from experience,” she looked him in the eye and puckered her lips up some, “would you like me.. to show you why?” she closed her eyes and leaned into him. Alex felt his heart begin to race and looked her in the eye, pausing for a moment before leaning in himself. Ash then instantly opened her eyes in a narrow gaze before tightening her grip on Alex and hurling him into a nearby wall. “OW!” Alex yelled, holding the back of his head “The hell was that for!” “To teach you a lesson,” Ashley sighed as she sat down beside him, avoiding eye contact with him, “I kissed you once but that was out of pity, besides I haven’t swung my bat for your team in a long time.” Alex cocked his eye and pointed at her, “You’re gay too?!” Ashley punched him in the face, “Hell no, and I ain’t bi either.” She let out a sigh and stretched her legs out as she looked up to the ceiling, “Gender honestly doesn’t me jack shit to me, and it hasn’t since the day I was born. I love a person for who they are, not what’s between their legs.” she laughed a little and shook her head, “Sarah and I even joked about which of us was gonna marry Maddy someday,” she gulped as she became teary eyed once again, “Well… I was joking at least.” Alex looked at her, taking a moment to breath before speaking, “You knew the whole time… didn’t you?” Ashley nodded, wiping her eyes and retaining her smirk, “You’d have to be an idiot not to see it,” she looked at her hand as it began to quiver, “She really did love that nutball.” Without warning, Alex wrapped his arms around Ashley and brought her in close, “I’m sorry,” he whispered with a tremor in his voice as he held her close. “Hey!” Ashley laughed as she flicked him in the nose, “Which one of us is supposed to be the idiot here?” Alex chuckled as he loosened his hold on her, “Pretty sure both of us at this point.” The bell rang, “Well, I should get going or Merde is gonna kill me,” Ashley lifted Alex’s arms off her, “that dumbass hates me enough already.” She stood up and made her way out of the shadow of the stairs, only to catch herself and turn slight back, “Oh, and it goes without saying but I meant the shit I said. No matter what happens, good or bad, never forget the people that matter and the time you spent together. Because believe me, you’ll miss em when they're gone.” Alex grinned and nodded, “I will, don’t worry about it.” Ashley smirked and waved to him, “Stay the ride alive,” she said as she slipped her hands back into the pockets of her leather jacket and walked off, “Superstar.” --- In the dim shroud of Crave's bar, a young man with medium length silver hair sat on a stool with a drink in his hand and his eyes fixed on the pale blue gaia memory that he held in his hand. “Hold it close, and you'll obtain what you desire...” the man scoffed as he down his drink and slammed the glass down on the table, “what meaningless trite.” “Hey! Ren, watch the table!” Crave glared at him from across the room, hanging up his coat as he fetched himself a drink. “Ren is dead Vince,” he scowled, balling his fist around the memory he held and holding it tight within his fist. Another gunmetal grey memory marked with a B lined with drills lay on the bar beside his hand, “there is only Cyber left.” The blond haired man raised an eyebrow, “Is that so?” he fished into his breast pocket and pulled out a note, “Well then, Cyber, you have a job to do.” he narrowed his eyes sharply, “and I expect it to be done in full.” Cyber glared at Vince, scowling at him before snatching the note from it, “Fine, consider it done.” He shoved the note and his memory into his pocket before downing the rest of his drin. He then grabbed the gunmetal grey memory before making his way out. Vince watched him carefully, narrowing his eyes as Ren left out the front door before slamming it behind him. “Sarah...” he muttered balling his hand into a fist, “I'm doing this for you.” --- Back at the school, Shiore stood on the roof of the school with her hand on the fence that enclosded it as she looked out to the cityscape. Her eyes natural fixed themselves on the tower that seemed to loom over her in the distance. “They sure took their sweet time rebuilding it, huh?” a gruff yet stoic voice called out to her. She turned around to find Carter staring blankly back as he leaned arms crossed against the door to the stair well. She tightened her gripped on the fence and glared at him, gritting her teeth some. “What are you doing here?” she demanded as her eyes turned to daggers. “I just want to talk,” he held out a can of coffee to her before raising an eyebrow, “You kept ignoring my calls. I wanna know why.” She let out a frustrated sigh and let go of the fence, returning her gaze to the horizon to avoid looking at him, “You should already know... you can deny what you did all you want, but I'll never forgive you.” He glared at her, letting out a frustrated grunt, “But-” “Save it!” she barked back coldly. She walked towards him, grabbing the can before taking her first few steps down the stairs, “I'm only taking this to be polite,” she continued, holding the drink over her shoulder some, “nothing more.” “Wait just a second!” he slammed his fist against the door as he turned towards her, “I'm leading your friends to my organizations headquaters, you can find what your looking for there,” as he said this Shiore stopped, her ear perking up some as she stood in place. “But that isn't exactly going to happen if you keep this pointless grudge against me now is it?” The two stood in silence for a moment which was only broken by Shiore muttering, “... Fine...” and without a single word more, she continued down the stairs until she gone from sight. Carter let out a small sigh, shaking his head as he cracked open his own can, “Women...” --- Within Vainglory's lair, the cold commander stood over in the center of the room with a breifcase in his hand infront of three masked men in skin tight bodysuits. Joel stood off to the side shaking his head while Rylee clung to a red collar in her hand, sucking her teeth at the male that stood beside her. “There's been a security breech,” Jason proclaimed, handing the case over to the center goon, “Inside this is all you'll need, whatever it takes you must not let anyone enter this facility. Is that clear?” The center goon nodded, “Yes sir,” he said before heading out the door, taking his fellow goons along with him. Jason watched as they left, “If you fail, do not return,” he ordered strictly as the doors to his chaimber closed. He then eyed his subordinates and raised an eyebrow at Rylee, “Still upset about that cat?” Rylee said nothing and in responce the commander shook his head, “All ties to this world are meaningless,” he said as he approached his throne and ran his hand along the arm rest, “opening the gate is worth any sacrifice,” he narrowed his sharp gaze at the woman, “Is that clear Spite?” Rylee looked at him with a glare, “Yes... sir...” “Good, then it's about time you should be getting this back,” he held out the female's golden gaia memory, strutting up to her and placing it firmly in her hand. “As I've mentioned, it's been modified to now hold greater power than that obomination of a memory that Fury used towards the end.” he looked her eye and took the collar from her and closed her hand around the memory, “Use it well.” Joel rolled his eyes and walked out of the room, not saying a single word. Rylee watched as her former husband left the room only to turn her attention back to her trusted commander the moment he had left, “Yes... as you wish,” she nodded, placing her hand over her heart, “my lord commander.” --- The bell rang over the school building signaling the end of the day, students pouring out in droves as Alex, Tara, Cole and Shiore met up by the bottom of the hill where Carter was waiting for them. “Is everyone ready to go?” the fire rider asked, looking them all over but paying double attention to the two girls. Tara especially. The group nodded in aggreement, Shiore maintaining a sharp glare at the male. “Oh, before I forget,” he reached into his pocket a handed out a set of stark black ID cards with each riders face on them with a fake name to go with them, “These will get you all passed security.” “You sure they'll work?” Alex asked cautiously. “Hey!” Tara called out, “Why is my name Tina Buttslover?” “They will,” Carter nodded, “and it was the only other name left that was on file.” Tara blinked, then laughed, “I feel some pain for the chick with that name!” she shook her head before slipping the card safely into her glove. “Can we go now?” Shiore demanded, maintaining her glare towards Carter. “Of course,” Carter bowed slightly, “follow me.” Without a single word more, Carter lead the group off down the road. He took them through various bus and subway routes making the trip as long and complicated as possible to throw off anyone who was trying to follow them and make sure that their destination was as hard to place as possible. After about what felt like an eternity of walking and public transit, the group found themselves at a run down warehouse that look as though it hadn't been touched in decades. “You're barking mad right?!” Tara groaned, cracking her back, “We took a bus that smelled that marmaduke shit, then a subway where the bitch wouldn't shut up about her foot lotion, only to get on another stank ridden bus, JUST TO END UP IN A DUMP LIKE THIS!” “Just give me a second,” Carter said, completely dismissing the girl's upburst as he pulled out his own ID card and opened up a small hatch on the far wall which contained an access panel. He swiped his card through only to have it be denied. Carter blinked, “What?” he swiped it again, this time the panel set out a heavy electric shock which ran right up the boy's arm, “GAH!” he screamed, holding his arm and gritting his teeth from the pain. “Problem with your machine Ryu-O?” a haunting voice called out, all the riders turning to see Cyber in full dopant form perched ontop of a stack of barrels. “HEY! YOU'RE ONE OF THE FREAKS THAT TOTALED MY DAD'S CAFE!” Tara screamed, flailing her fists at the the dopant, “THOSE REPAIRS ARE GONNA COST A FORTUNE YOU TARD!” Cyber smirked as he typed away on the keyboard on his left arm, bringing up a diagram of Tara's rider form, “Kamen Rider Gale. Speed, seven. Strength, three. Endurance, ten. Intellengence... negative one,” he narrowed his gaze on the younger of the riders, “Inspite of your high energy, you are probably the worst excuse for an opponent I've ever heard of.” “GAH! WHAT WAS THAT YOU CYBERNETIC DORK!” Tara screamed, summoning Kree to her wrist as he automatically switched into his driver mode. Tara whiping out her Gale Memory, “You want to come down here and say that to face fudge loving face!” Cyber smirked, narrowing his gaze on her, “If you insist... simpleton,” he rose to his feet and sprouted a large pair of clockwork style wings which cast a massive shadow upon the riders before hovering towards them with a single beat of his newly revealed appendages. “Tara...” Cole called to her timidly, placing his hand on her shoulder, “maybe we shouldn't be so hasty to fight.” “SHOVE THAT LOAD IN A MACHINE AND MIX IT INTO FUDGE!” Tara flicked Cole's hand off her before slamming her memory into her wrist mounted driver, “It's one on FIVE Commador! Let's see what your 8-bit ass can do!” “Five on one, eh?” Cyber smirked, Carter and Shiore both balling up their fists, “Let's say we even the odds then?” The living computer flared out his large wings, two orbs in the dead center of the top of each one beginning to glow in a blinding light. Cyber brought his hands together as a third orb began to charge in the gap between his now open palms before all three fired on Tara. The wind rider's eyes shot open, Carter instantly dashing infront and sticking his arms out to block the blast as it filled the room. Meanwhile, in the time it took for the light to reach the blonde haired rider, Shiore pushed her into the arms of both Alex and Cole before taking her place in the line of fire. As the light faded, Alex, Cole and Tara looked and gasped at the ground that was scorched in the shadows of the two riders that were no now nowhere to be found. “Hm,” Cyber tilted his head some as he held up an orb which now contained to faint dots, one red and the other blue, “I suppose two captives has it's advantage.” “BASTARD!” Alex shouted, his driver automatically materializing around his waist. He gritted his teeth as he pulled out his Star and Runner memories on instinct, “LET THEM GO!” “I plan on completing the whole set,” Cyber raised an eyebrow at him with a cold robotic voice as the orb sunk into the palm in his hand, “why would I release the two I've already caught?” “Then I'll kill you!” Alex yelled at him, slamming his memories into his driver. “Ah ah,” Cyber waved his finger, holding his palm to show the red and blue dots, “If you break my memory, this fragile little orb goes with them along with your precious little friends.” He readied his wings once again, “Now be a good little prize and join them.” Cole held Tara who was frozen from shock as Alex gritted his teeth, unsure of what to do. Suddenly, the access panel that Carter had previously tried to activate flashed brightly with a glaring red hazard light as an alarm roared from it. A timer that was currently counting down lit up on the display screen. “Scrap,” Cyber sucked his teeth, “time for plan b.” He waved his free hand and set out a stream of code that pushed the three remaining riders out the still open door before kicking off the ground and breaking a hole in the already totaled roof to the warehouse. The moment the counter reached zero, the access panel blew up and englufed the entire warehouse in flames before leveling it to the ground. Cyber looked down at the roaring fire as he hovered above from a safe hight, narrowing his gaze on the riders as the picked themselves out from the rubble. A red dot flashed in the corner of his eye, the dopant turning to face it as his radar brought up as four new gaia memory energy signatures began to approach the area from all angles. “Looks like I'll need to change my approach,” he sighed a little as he held out his palm to look at the blue and red dots, “what a pain...” Cyber flapped his wings and took off into the skies, disappearing in the cloud of heavy smoke that was still lingering from the ruined building. Meanwhile, Cole held Tara in his arms and looked down to her. He along with the rest of them was still short of breath from what they had just seen. “Tara... you again?” he called to her softly, brushing the rubble from her hair. Tara gulped then looked up to him, eyes wide before forcing a nod. Cole smiled slightly, “That's good at least... thank god.” “Guys, we're not out of the woods yet,” Alex spoke to them, his eyes still fixed on the wreckage. He turned to them doning possibly the most serious face he had ever displayed with his fists balled tight, “That thing won't stop until it has all of us. Besides, we might not have known them for very long, but we can't leave Carter or Shiore in that hands of that maniac.” Cole nodded, then chuckled, “When did you decide to become mister selfless? I thought you hated that guy.” “I do, that hasn't changed,” Alex cracked a small smirk, “but that guy took out Fury. I think we're better off with him on our side.” “THEN LET'S RESCUE THE TARDS ALREADY!” Tara screamed, seeming to return to her old safe as she grabbed the two boys by their wrists, “COME ON! COME ON! AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH AND ALL THAT JAZZ! THESE TWO PART STORYLINES ARE ANNOYING THE CRAP OUT OF ME!” Far off in the distance atop a two story building, Kat stood with her hand over her hands and a tuna sandwhich in her mouth, “Whoa...” she said between bites, “Looks like Rennie went over board again.” She pulled out a pair of small binoculars and aimed her sights on the wreckage where the remaining riders were, whistling upon laying her sights on Cole and Tara. The trio was now on the move in the direction that Cyber had flew off in. Tara was leading while Alex and Cole were shortly behind. Regardless of who was at the head of the pack, they all charged onwards with the same amibtion and dedication. “There goes the rock and his jail bait girlfriend... though I guess they are kinda cute together,” she shrugged, “almost makes me feel bad for 'em...” she smirked as she pulled out her gold Gorge memory along with a driver that was identicle to that of the META commanders and Crave's. “Like I said... almost.” {End of Part A} {Start of Part B} Carter slow began to wake up to the calloping of hooves on loose wood, his eyes opening to the sight of Shiore kneeling just beside him in a blue hakamone with a simple katana slipped into her sash. Her hand was gripped tightly on the hilt as her eyes remained closed, however she didn't seem to be asleep rather in a deep form of meditation. Carter blinked, “We're alive?” Shiore opened her eyes somewhat at him, “Yes... unfortunately.” Carter sat up, his chest now barred saved for a simple brown strap with a silver dragon buckle. A pair of layored samurai esque armor now covered his shoulders as he looked over to the side of their new location which appeared to be under an old bridge where a large buster sword lay propt up on it's side. He looked back to her, “Where are we?” “That's what I've been trying to figure out,” she said simply, “though wherever we are, it's forsure the doing of that dopant. Cyber.” Carter blinked, raising an eyebrow, “Cyber?” “I scanned Crave and his followers when they ambushed the others at Tatsumaki's cafe,” she explained, “Cyber was the memory name that matched this dopant's abbilities and appearance.” “Well whatever his name is, it won't do us much good to just sit around here,” Carter let out a small grunt as he rose to his feet which were now in straw sandles, his legs covered by lose fitting old baggy grey pants similar to those worn by warriors in the japanese edo period. Shiore gripped her sword and rose to her feet aswell but without using her hands, “There's no telling what is out there,” she looked out from under the bridge, “we should be careful.” Carter looked over to her, raising an eyebrow, “You suddenly care about me?” “It appears as though our drivers and memories were taken,” Shiore shot back, not looking in her direction, “For the moment it'll be better for the two of us to cooperate.” Carter eyed her carefully as he took the buster sword and slid it in the sheeth on the belt strap that was now wrapped around his chest, “That makes two of us.” The two slowly and carefully made their way out from under the bridge as they found themselves in the dead center of a bussling fuedal era japanese village. Carts and kimono clad villagers ran quickly on the freshly plowed dirt roads, most walking citizens barefoot and every person travelling by cart wearing either sandles or simple black shoes. “Let's go,” Shiore said in her usual monotone before heading into the crowd. Carter following her while they both kept their eyes open. “Excuse me, your clothes aren't exactly from around here,” a voice called out to them, the paired turned around to see an old man in grey robes with a heavy old hood. He looked up from his hood and smiled, his pale grey eyes leading into his thick white beard and eyebrows, “might you two be travels? Are you lost?” Shiore rolled her eyes and kept going, Carter meanwhile stopped and turned to him, “Yes, could you tell us where we are?” “Ah, why yes. You're in the town of Oum,” the old man smiled at them, “If you're new in town, you must go right to our lord Takasei,” he pointed to a large elegant castle on the outskirts of town surrounded by a wall. “Lord Takasei loves visiters, he'll most certainly give you anything you need.” Shiore rolled her eyes, crossing her arms and standing a few away awaiting the two to finish their conversation. “Thank you,” Carter reached into his pocket, his eyes widening some as he found a small pouch. Finishing it out, he found it contained several coins of gold silver and bronze. He took out three of the gold coins figuring they were the most valuable and held them out to the man, “Here, something for your troubles.” The old man smiled then raised his hand open hand up infront of himself, “That's alright, helping a traveller out is thanks enough,” he waved them along, “Now get a move on, Lord Takasei is waiting.” “We will,” Carter held the coins out once again, “but take these, I insist.” “That's alright, helping a traveller out is thanks enough,” the old man repeated his previous actions, “Now get a move on, Lord Takasei is waiting.” Carter raised an eyebrow, “... Okay...” he dropped the coins back into the bag before slipping the bag back into his pocket. He then linked back up with Shiore and the two continued down the road. “That was... odd.” Shiore looked back to the man who was still waving at them with the same warm grin, “Let's just see this lord and figure out how to leave,” she whispered quietly, not wanting anyone to hear here, “I don't like this place one bit.” Carter kept his eyes fixed on the road ahead of him, “That makes two of us.” --- Cyber stood perched at the tip of an old metal bridge, eyeing his captives in the palm of his right hand as they made their way through his hand held pocket demension, “Hurry along little riders,” the cybernetic dopant said coldly, “you'll only quicken your fate.” He then lowered his right palm that contained the two riders and raised his left to a projection of the other three. Cole, Tara and Alex made their way down as series of long interconnected alleyways, choosing to go on foot as their vechiles would be far too easy to spot due to Cyber's bird's eye view. The all agreed it would be safer and just all around smarter to prusue him from the ground. After a long heated pursuit, the group came to a hault just at the mouth of the alleyway to catch their breath. Tara and Alex practically collapsed on the street below while Cole leaned against the wall just inside the alley. Kree flew down from the sky and perched onto Tara's finger as she held it out to him. “How'd it go pal? You find him?” the girl asked her robotic friend, only to have him shake his head. Tara pouted her lip a little, “Dang... that sucks.” “We need to keep going,” Alex rose to his feet, stumbling a little as he became light headed for a moment. Cole catching him with a smirk. “Not on those legs we don't,” Cole chuckled, trying to break the tension. He raised an eyebrow, “You okay man?” Alex nodded, short of breath before forcing himself to speak, “I just... I just need a moment...” “Take as many as you need,” Cole patted him on the shoulder with a grin before turning to the girl on the ground, “What about you Tara?” Tara gave Cole a thumbs up and forced her usual insane smirk, “Fan-fracking-tastic!” she called to him, her teeth chattering a little. Cole raised an eyebrow, about to speak when suddenly a wall of binary code shot up between him and the other two riders before forming into a solid brick wall. Tara gasped as Alex instantly ran to the wall and began smacking it with his fist. “COLE!” he called out, passers by beginning to stare, “COLE WHERE ARE YOU?!” “I'm okay! I'll find my way around!” he called back, “Go after the others! I'll meet up with you later so just get going!” Alex nodded, turning to Tara and tapping her in the shoulder, “Let's go.” Tara nodded, raising her hands to her mouth before shouting, “DON'T DIE COLE!” as she and Alex took off down the road in the direction they last saw Cyber. --- Back within the pocket demension, Carter and Shiore made their way towards the palace on the outskirts of town. As they proceeded towards it they noticed a series of heavily armed guards standing at attention in front of the gate. Shiore tightly gripped the hilt of her sword as Carter merely balled his hands into fists. As they approached the guards, they quickly bowed and lowered their weapons before calling out in unison, “Welcome travelers!” A loud bell rang as the large gates opened, “The lord is expecting you, go right inside.” Carter took a step closer to Shiore, Shiore in turn taking two steps further away from him. The pair slowly but surely made their way in through the gates, the gates quickly closing behind them. Just inside the wall, almost in constrast to the glum world outside, was a beautifully kept guarden with flowers, trees and other forms of vegatation along with a calming pound that flowed into a stream which ran under the walkway that lead up to castle doors. The two in perfect sync took in a slight gulp before proceeding up to the doors which automatically opened as they drew close, the doors themselves leading into an rustic yet spacious wodden interier that gave of the impression of wealth and regality. “Please travellers,” a group of servants called to them as they stood in two lines by a large wooden staircase, “right this way.” Without so much as a word to the servants, the pair once again continued walking. They made their way up until they came to yet another set of doors that were thankfully already open to a large throne room. The room itself was covered in white and gold tapestries that blew in the wind as chimed echoed through the open tall room. “Ah, so you're the travellers I've heard so much about?” an old man called out as he sat back in the throne towards the back of the room. He was dressed in a gold and white silk robe that looked to be worth more than any single person could earn if ten lifetimes. He chuckled lightly as guards dressed in masked black robes knelt by his throne, “We haven't gotten visiters in quite sometime. Tell me,” he extended his hand out to them, “what brings the two of you to these parts?” “Excuse me, your highnest, but we are not here by choice,” Carter approached him slightly, placing his hand over his chest as he bowed a little to him, “We were forced to come here... wherever here is.” “Ah, I see,” the lord chuckled, “So I'm assuming that you wish to return to the land you came from then?” “Yes,” Carter nodded, “Actually-” Before the older male could so much as finish talking, Shiore formed an ice kunai in her hand and hurled it at the old lord. The knife just missed him by a hair and dugged it's way into his throne. “QUIT WASTING TIME!” Shiore barked as the lords guards raised their weapons and aimed them at her, she in turn unsheathing her sword and aiming it at the lord, “We want to leave, now get us out of here!” “Ah... you can harness the power of Ki?” the lord leaned in curiously, he held out his hand to his guards as a signal to stand down, “Yes, so you are as extraordinary as I suspected.” Shiore raised her eyebrow, “Ki?” she in turn lowered her sword slightly. “Yes, Ki is the energy of your spirit,” the lord explained, “Your own for example is cold and hard to connect to, hence why you Ki energy falls under the elemental domain of ice.” he turned his gaze to Carter, a small spark going off in his eye, “And you, yes I see...” he smirked a little, “you charge head first into battle, without a single care for your own well being. I can see that it is quite clear why your spirit falls under the domain of fire young boy.” Carter looked at him, raising his own brow, “How do you know all of this?” “Not important,” the lord waved his hand, “the two of you wish to go home yes?” The pair nodded in unison, “Yes.” “Then you are in luck as I know of one is able to do so,” the lord explained as a map appeared above his head showing the two and castle which lay south of a large temple at the top of a mountain range, “Legend says there is a relic at the top of this temple that contains a strong mystical spirit who is capable of granting any one wish to the first person who frees her.” “So you want that to be us?” Shiore sucked her teeth. “Why yes,” the lord smirked, only to don a more serious expression and ton shortly after, “But be warned, for this temple is guarded by a blue winged demon named Inubis. Several have tried to defeat him and take the relic, but he is very protective of his treasure.” He paused for amount then waved, regaining his grin, “Good luck!” --- Back in the real world, Cole inched his way back through the long constricting alleyway as the sun began to set. “Geez, why do I always find myself constantly in a random alleyway,” he chuckled a little as he flipped through his phone trying to get a hold of either Shiore or Carter before it suddenly went dead, “The hell?!” he smacked his phone a little as he finally reached the street on the other end, “I thought I just charged this thing?” “Cole?” a familiar high pitched voice called out to him, “What are you doing all the way down here?” He turned around to find Kat standing before him with a innocent grin on her face and her hands tucked delicately behind her back. “Oh... hey Kat,” he slipped his phone back into his pocket, “And was...” he paused for a moment as he tried to think up a lie “out with Tara and Alex,” he forced a grin and laughed, “We were on a little shopping trip when we got seperated. Now I'm trying to find them.” “Oh? How fun,” she giggled a little before skipping over to him and clinging to his arm, looking up at him with her overly forced dough eyed expression, “Mind if I join you?” she bumped her chest up his arm a little before patting her eyelashes, “I'm pretty good when it comes to finding the people I want.” “Oh.. that's okay,” he sweatdropped, scratching the back of his neck, “I think I'll be okay on my own.” “W-What?” she suddenly frowned, sniffling a little, “D-Do you not like me or something?” “N-No!” Cole gulped, “It's not like that!” “It's fine... you don't need to lie to me...” she pulled away, holding her arm as she hung her head, “I figured not even you would want to be around me... everyone hates me...” Cole felt his heartsink a little, “Boy...” he looked down the street and scratched the back of his head, “now that I'm think about it this city is pretty big...” he looked over to her a little, “I could use a little help... I guess...” “Great!” Kat chirped with glee as she instantly regained her chipper expression and clung back to his arm, “I know just where we can start too!” she said before pulling him down the road. She pulled up infront of him and kept her back turned to him, smirking devilishly once her face was out of his line of sight. Back at the top of the bridge, Cyber looked into the palm of his hand where the scene that had just played out with Cole and Kat came to a close as they began heading down the road in wrong direction. Cyber sucked his teeth, “Damn you Gorge, why must you always get in the way?” He typed a few strings of code into his arm resulting in a set of ten red copies of himself spawning behind him. “Have it your way, but don't blame me if you get caught up in the crossfire.” he said as the copies flew off in Cole and Kat's direction. He then turned his attention to Alex and Tara who were gradually making their way towards him, “As for you Xtreme... let's see if we can widdle you down to size a bit.” After entering another string of code into his arm, a wave of twenty red copies spawned behind him before taking off in the direction of Alex and Tara. Tara skipped along down the street while Alex nervously trudged along. All the confidence he had gathered was suddenly shattered the moment he was seperated from Cole and left with Tara who, admittedly, he didn't exactly trust to be all that helpful in a fight. “Tara...” he called to her with a tremor in his voice, “you think maybe we could wait until Cole's catches up with us?” “What's the matter,” she turned around with a smirk, skipping along backwards to keep up her pace, “Is the Superstar scared of a little computer bug?” “Well... no...” he forced a grin as he looked off to one side, sweat rolling down his face this point, “I just... think we'll have a better shot with three instead of two is all.” Tara raspberried her lips and rolled her eyes, “I'm scarrier than that little tectite,” she skipped to behind Alex and began pushing him forward, regaining her eager grin, “The great mighty Gale will keep you safe.” Before they got too far, ten red copies of Cyber landed infront of them. They all raised their arms and activated the same bright yellow energy blade from their wrists. Tara and Alex blinked, Tara taking in a big gulp. “Well...” Tara salluted her fellow rider, “IT'S ALL YOU SUPERSTAR!” she turned on her heel and took a running dash back the way they came only to see that ten more copies were directly behind her. “I don't think we're getting out of this one so easily...” Alex inched his way over to Tara so the two stood back to back, his driver materializing around his waist, “we're in trouble.” “Yeah, I see... in trouble...” Tara nodded, turning her head back to Alex before screaming into his hear, “IN TROUBLE IS NOT A LOCATION!” He flicked her in the nose, “Just focus for one moment please!” he parked at her as he pulled his Star and Runner memories out from his back pocket and slammed them into their appropriate slots. “Ow!” Tara rubbed her nose, glaring at him for a second before rolling her eyes. Kree then hopped onto her wrist and changed into his driver mode, allowing Tara to pull out her Gale memory and slap it into the slot at top of the bird's head. “I'm tagging you back for that.” “HENSHIN!” the pair called out in perfect unison, Alex splitting the slots on his driver apart as Tara twisted Kree's head around so his beak pointed down to her hand. “STAR! RUNNER! GALE!” their drivers called out as the pair were envoloped by twin twisters that circled around the two riders, breaking off and switching them into their rider forms as the eyes of their masks shown brightly for a moment. Alex's a bright fire red and Tara a blinding sky blue respectively. “Alright!” Tara beat her fists together and cracked her neck to the side, “Tara time again!” she screamed before reaching for the flail on the back of her belt and charging at the copies that stood before her. Alex rolled his eyes and snickered under his mask a little before cracking his knuckles, the copies that stood infront of him beginning to draw closer. “Okay... let's make this quick!” he called out before dashing forward at them, throwing in a good number of quick lightning fast jabs to open with. “Whew!” Tara faked a whistle at Alex as she ensnared a pair of copies in the chain of her flail before pulling them towards her and kicking them up into the air, “YOU'VE GOT THIS SUPERSTAR!” “STAY FOCUSED!” he called to her as he pulled his Star and Runner memories from his driver and swapped them with Blast and Diver before resetting the driver. “BLAST! DIVER!” the driver called out as he doned the sleak deep blue chest armor of Blast and the aqua blue finned legs of Diver, the Corona Blaster forming in his right hand before firing off bursts of high powered water at the copies. The copies that were dowsed with water sparked before falling over, exploding to bits upon contact with the ground. “So that's their weakness,” Alex thought to himself, twirling his gun in his hand before shouting over to his partner, “TARA!” “Already on it!” she called back, flipping onto her hands before spinning into a tornado kick as a twister formed around her. Alex then pulled the Blast memory from it's place on his Driver before slamming it into the slot on the top of his blaster. “BLAST! Maximum Drive!” the memory screamed as he aimed it upon the twister, the blaster reaching it's maximum charge before the boy pulled back on the trigger and shot a stream of high powered water at the twister which quickly filled the eye of the twister. Once the twister began to bubble at the top, Alex released the trigger and brought his gun to his shoulder, “NOW!” he called out, Tara instantly bringing her spinning to a hault before leaping up into the air allowing the now giant sea of water to rush out of the twister as it broke apart. Alex quickly swapped Diver for Kicker and reset his driver. “BLAST! KICKER!” his driver cried once more as his fins were replaced with deep green leg armor and sharp pointed boots. As the ocean of water rushed over him, he quickly shot out a grabbling hook from his blaster over to the nearest streetlamp, latching onto it as everything around him was washed away which thankfully included all the other copies. While the remaining water drained into the city's grate system, the now sparking bodies of the copies burst into dust as the city streets were cleared but were now totaled as a result of the makeshift hurricane. Alex smirked as he closed his driver and pulled out his memories, reverting back to his civilian form. He turned to Tara who gently landed on the ground, still in rider form as she firmly strutted over to him. He raised his open hand to her with a grin, “Put her there!” He called as Tara raised her armored fist and punched him square in the nose. “YAOW!” he screamed before grabbing his nose, glaring at her as blood began to drip onto his hands, “The heck was that for?” Tara pulled her memory from her driver, smirking at him as she reverted to her own civilain form before placing her hands on her hips, “Told you I'd tag ya back.” Alex glared at her even harder, blinking for a moment, “You're evil.” Tara laughed a little, patting him on the should as she walked passed him, “Tell me something I don't know.” Meanwhile with Cole and Kat, the dark skinned male walked ahead of the stick figured yet somehow busty long haired female he strode behind him kicking her slender legs up some with every step she took. “Hey Cole!” she called out to him with a sweet smile. “Yeah?” he looked around, still keeping his pace but not looking behind him to her. She smirked a little as she twirled her hair around her finger before muttering, “I... I think you're really cute,” she forced herself to blush. He stopped and blinked, looking over to her with a confused look, “Uh... thank you?” “Do you think that...” she looked down to the ground then back up to him, now blushing even harder, “I'm cute?” “Do we need to talk about this now?” he glared at her, “we're kind of in a hurry right now.” He said before continuing to walk. Kat's eyes widened slightly before narrowing on Cole as he kept on moving down the street, “Are we even going to the right way? Because I think you've just gotten me even more lost.” he called back to her only to get no answer. He then looked over his shoulder, “Kat?” To his surprise the girl who had been following him was now gone without a trace, almost as if she was never even there to begin with. The creepiest part about all of it was that she didn't even make a single sound, not even that of a footprint before disappearing. “Ah well,” he shrugged, “saves me the trouble of being the bad guy.” He continued down the street before turning a corner only to be greated by several loud screams as cars and pedestrians fled the area. He blinked for a moment before spotting the ten red copies of Cyber that had been sent after him, the copies spotting him instantly and aiming their arm mounted cannons at him. He felt his stop for a moment and cracked a nervous smile, “Well... at least Kat's safe... right?” --- Back in Cyber's pocket deminsion, Carter and Shiore climbed to the top of the rocky mountain they had been told about. The wind's whipped around them as heavy snow blew into their faces, however inspite of their attire they did not feel the bite of the cold in the slightest. Just as described, at the top of the mountain stood an old run down temple with four levels and despite the fact that it appeared as though no one had touched it in years it still gave off a haunting aura that sent a sharp chill down both their already stone cold spines. The two gave one another a single look before making their way over to it, cracking the old creeky doors open before heading inside to be met with a large dark room. Shiore tightly gripped the hilt of her sword as Carter took a single step in. However, this single step sealed their fates as the floorboard beneath his foot cracked ever so slightly which sent a loud echo through the room. The pair began to hear clawing at the top as over one million red eyes starred back at them from the black void that hung above their heads. “Remember,” Shiore said coldly as the two drew their swords, “When they don't kill you... I will.” {Insert Ending Theme: “Reason” by Yuzu} Next time on Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme: Will Carter and Shiore be able to break from the grasp of Cyber's twisted reality? Or will Shiore's lust for revenge consume her before the two can reach some for of an understanding? And what twisted path lead Cyber to entrap his enemies in a such a bizzard pocket demension? All will be decided when Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme continues in Episode 6: An Ice Cold Fire! Ryu-O! Yuki! Break through the chains that bind you! |
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Previously on Kamen Rider Xtreme:
Shiore and Carter were sucked into a pocket dimension by the dopant named Cyber and begin a quest by the old Lord Takasei to break free from it. Alex and Tara meanwhile get separated from Cole as both parties are met by a swarm of Cyber’s copies. Now it’s a race against time as the search for Cyber continues. AUTHOR’S NOTE: Sorry this took so long. I had stuff to take care of. ^^; Episode 6: An Ice Cold Fire Carter and Shiore ascended a long dark circle staircase, swords drawn and batting down the claws of beastly bat like soldiers that dared to come near them. With a spine rattling crack, one twisted up from the floor and bit the very blade of Shiore’s katana. The samurai girl gritted her teeth and forced her blade through the abominations throat. “What in all that is good are these things?” she held herself as she spotted the glimmer of a silver wedding band on the monsters now mangled finger. “Doesn’t matter,” Carter coldly cut down three before grabbing the girl, hoisting her up while cutting down the creature that held her blade within its slobber filled jaws, “we need to move.” Shiore stumbled for a moment, staring with a dead stare as the creature cried out in agony before falling to the ground. Regaining her composure, she took in a big gulp as she tightened her hold on her blade before continuing her way up the stairs as even more beasts descended from the void they trekked on deeper into. As they progressed, Cyber spied upon them through the pale glow of a dull blue orb. “Cut down as many as you wish,” he said coldly, “the broken souls you cut down will only add scars to your own.” --- Across down, Cole smashed his hammer into one of Cyber’s sickly yellow clones, it’s head shattering on the broken pavement. He panted as the once bustling street now lay abandoned as even more clones began to swarm in. The green rider gripped his heavy hammer that was only now beginning to show it’s weight, “Geez, you guys don’t know when to quit do ya?” he panted with a grin, “You’re lucky,” he threw his hammer over his shoulder and took a wide legged stance, “cause I don’t either.” Without so much of a second thought, he charged towards them and began hammering away at them. With each clone he took down, another took its place. However this did nothing to discourage him. He merely kept his feet sturdy and held his ground as another wave prepped for an attack. As this went on, the long black hair of Kat peeked out from the void of a dark alley. Her sharp green eyes watched Cole as she sucked her teeth, removing her candy from her mouth as she hissed, “I’m not letting you ignore me so easily,” she said under her breath with a smirk, “you slimy rock.” {Insert Opening Theme - “Period” by Chemistry} Alex trudged down the street, holding a blood stained rag to his nose as Tara skipped gleefully behind him. The sun was beginning to set and it was almost nightfall. The young male rider looked out to the horizon and gulped, stopping as Tara blindly bumped into him. “Hey, why’d you stop?” She blinked, reaching up to place her hand on his forehead, “you sick or something?” “No…” Alex sighed, “I just…” he gulped and turned to look down the road, pulling down the rag once he was sure the bleeding had stopped, “I’m just worried is all… what if we never find this crazy guy?” “That’s a pretty hefty what if, don’t ya think?” Tara tilted her head to the side before patting him on the back. “Don’t you worry, your big sis Tara is here!” she grinned, “She’s gonna make the whole thing a okay so don’t worry little brother.” Alex glared at her, “Haven’t I told you to quit with the whole brother thing?” “Oh, right,” Tara quickly covered her mouth, smiling awkwardly with a slight blush, “sorry about that Superstar.” “It’s alright, we have a more important issue right now” Alex let out a sigh and turned on his heel before continuing down the road, “now come on.” “Right oh!” Tara saluted before following behind Alex. --- Back in the void of Cyber’s nightmare world, Carter and Shiore finally reach the top of the stares and cut down the last of the demonic soldiers. They both panted heavily as they sheathed their swords before pushing through a pair of heavy doors. Inside was an empty circular room similar to the first floor, only this time it had no one in it. The only thing inside was a solid gold statue of a large lizard like creature with twenty eyes on it’s head and six rows of razor sharp fangs inside it’s gaping mouth. The two riders blinked.“Some sort of guard dog?” Carter scoffed. “It’s a statue,” Shiore closed her eyes as she proceeded to the other end and pushed open another set of doors which led to yet another set of spiral stairs, “ignore it.” Shiore held the hilt of her katana, dashing up the stairs without so much as a second glance. Carter examined the statue with his eyes, looking it up and down before shaking his head and following Shiore up to the next floor. The doors to the room closed as soon as the two left, the sound shaking the walls slightly causing one of the eyes on the golden beast to open. It scanned the room, cracking it’s joints as it hunch over before turning to the recently closed door with a heavy snarl. “No Glenda,” a blue orb spoke behind the beast, “pay them no mind.” The beast turned to the orb and raised an eyebrow, tilting it’s head before muttering some incoherent slur of groans and grumbles. “Ruby will see to their way out,” Cyber spoke as he looked at the beast from within his own blue orb. He ran his hand over the orb, changing the image it displayed to Cole who was currently taking the remaining clones out of commision, “I have something far more suited to your… skills, in mind. Don’t worry my pet.” --- Cole stood amidst the rubble and mangled bodies of all the clones. “Well,” he breathed heavily as he placed his hammer down onto the ground, “I think that’s all of ‘em.” In a flash, the clones dispersed into pixels and gathered into a cluster just above the skyline. Cole narrowed his gaze and blinked, “... what?”With a blindly flash and an ear shattering boom, a distorted portal opened up from the pixels and Glenda came crashing down to the ground just feet away from Cole sending the pavement and the green rider flying backwards. Using the blade from the back of his Axe, Cole anchored himself to the ground and gritted his teeth, “Guess this would be the boss.” He swung his hammer over his shoulder and pulled his gaia memory from his driver, “I’m down.” Before he could move a muscle however, a slender cat like figure with a long bushy ponytail and sharp metal claws lept off one of the wrecked buildings and dashed downwards onto Glenda. It dug its claws into the beast and held on for a moment before being swung off by sheer force. The cat like creature lander her foot onto the ground and flipped into the air before landing gracefully beside Cole who eyed her carefully. “I don’t know who you are,” he took in a deep breath as he held his hammer with both hands, “but would you mind helping me out?” The cat looked to him and nodded, readying her claws. Cole smirked, “Perfect.” Glenda roared before beating her fists together, digging it’s feet further into the ground as the cat and Cole braced themselves. “Try not to die,” the cat cackled in an overly raspy voice. Cole smirked under his mask, “I don’t plan to.” --- Carter and Shiore climbed the stairs to an empty circular room lined from wall to wall with Mirrors. They looked from side to side before spotting an open door on the other end of the room. Wordlessly and without a second thought, they walked towards it with a quickening pace. The moment they reached the center of the room however, both doors shut and locked themselves with iron bars to prevent them from being forced open again.A light cackle fill the air as the two looked up to see a witch with short black hair and a cropped kimono of the same color as her hair with a vibrant purple lining. “Did you do honestly think it would be that easy?” she giggled as she flipped around the banister and descended down, “Oh no, I’m afraid you won’t be leaving here without me having a bit of fun first.” Shiore sucked her teeth and drew her sword, dashing over to the witch in a blink and striking her across the chest. Within an even quicker blink of an eye however, the witch vanish from in front of Shiore and reappeared behind her with a pat to the back. “Oh geez, you really are just a ditzy airhead aren’t you?” she laughed at her, blowing a kiss to Shiore as Carter launched a fireball at her. The witch twirled around, blinking away before the ball of fire made contact with her and reappeared by one of the many mirror. “Let the games begin little kittens.” she winked at them before skipping into the mirror and fading into its reflection. Shiore let out a frustrated huff, listening carefully for where she was. Almost as quickly as the witch had disappeared, she reappeared in a mirror behind Shiore and leapt out of it. As the witch spun her hand around to create and barrage of black spikes, Shiore hurled her own barrage of kunai knives that only stuck to the ceiling as the witch retreated back into another mirror. The moment the witch was inside the mirror, Carter lobbed a fire blast at the mirror she was in and the one she had most recently came out of shattering them both in an instant. Shiore sucked her teeth, throwing a knife aimless into another of the mirror as the witch reappeared in that same mirror waving her finger, “Surely you can do better than that little kitten.” She faded away once again as Carter lobbed another fireball. Shiore balled her hand into a fist as her eyes burned with an ice cold fire, “Burn that witch alive.” Carter nodded, smacking another mirror the witch appeared in with a fireball along with the one on the opposite end, “Easier said than done.” While the witch taunted the riders, Cyber watched the whole event transpire safe from his orb on his perch. “If you think you can defeat Ruby, that mistake will be your last.” He said with a slight smirk. He raised his finger and switched the view on the orb back to Cole, “Now, let’s see how Glenda is fairing.” His eyes widened in shock as Cole and the cat like figure were currently having the upper hand, backing the now red monster into a corner. He slammed his fist down onto a steel gerdur, “Damn you Desire! Why must you and your pet always interfere?!” He gripped his gunmetal grey gaia memory marked with a B with drill bits making up the back of it, “I was planning to use this on myself, but so be it.” He touched the connecter of the gaia memory to the orb, the orb dissolving the memory into it. On the ground with Cole and the cat like creature, Cole drove his hammer into the gut of the beast as it let out a droaning cry. The cat like dopant ran up Glenda’s arm and struck it across the face with sharp kick to the jaw. The two leapt back, ready for one final blow as the sky opened up once again. Cole groaned and rolled his eyes, “Great! What now?” The tear in the sky spat out Cyber’s gun metal gaia memory and drove it into the beast’s neck, activating it upon contact. “!!!BITER!!!” Sparks ran up the beasts body as rough jagged armor formed around it. A pair of heavy gatling guns formed on its left wrist while rockets became mounted to the right. It’s hands became augmented with a pair of heavy duty drills as a set of huge rocket powered wings shot up from the beast’s back. Once fully powered up, the beast let out a loud mechanical roar as it revved up it’s gatling guns. The moment they were primed, Glenda aimed the guns upon Cole and the cat dopant and unloaded a hailstorm of armor piercing bullets. Cole ducked for cover as the dopant merely danced around them as she evaded her way back over through the rubble to where the beast stood in the ground. She leapt up and readied her claws, only to be batted away by Glenda’s heavy arm which smacked her back down to the ground. “HEY!” Cole screamed as he chucked a huge chunk of rubble over to the beast, “OVER HERE YOU UGLY PIECE OF SCRAP METAL!” Glenda rose it’s arm and released the cat dopant from its grasp before starting up its thrusters and charging head first towards Cole. Cole planted his feet hard into the ground, readying his hammer to swing as he braced for the inevitable impact. However, instead of attacking him Glenda open it’s huge hands and snatched Cole right where he had rooted himself on the ground before taking off into the skies. The cat dopant sucked her teeth and fired off the razor sharp claws that made up her left hand at Glenda, swiping her fist down in frustration once they ultimately missed due to the range. Glenda was already several miles above the ground. The cat dopant reached for her neck as a gold shimmer of the Gorge Memory rematerialized from it, revealing the cat dopant to have been Kat. She smacked a signpost and spat on the ground. “Annoying bastard, always cutting me out of the fun,” her ears perked up as the cry of police sirens filled the air. “Crap, clean up duty.” She grunted under breath as she dashed into a nearby alleyway, “Guess I’m back to standby mode for now.” On the other side of town, Alex and Tara made their way down the street aimlessly hoping to find some form of clue as to what Cyber’s location was. They were just about to call it quits when suddenly they both heard a drowning cry come from above. Tara blinked as she looked upwards, “Hey, the heck is that thing?” “Whatever is,” Alex balled his hand into a fist as he spotted it as well, “it has to be going where Cyber is.” He instantly darted down the road in the direction it was headed, pulling out his cellphone and calling for the X Cyclone in the process, hoping onto and revving up the engine without a moment of hesitation. “HEY!” Tara yelled, having Kree change into his glider mode allowing her to catch up quickly to Alex once she was latched in, “How do-” she breathed in, “KNOW that thing is connected to Cyber?!” “I don’t,” Alex narrowed his eyes onto the road as he kept Glenda in the corner of his eye in the sky, “but that’s just how these things work it seems!” “Guess you’ve got a point there,” Tara smirked as she looked back up to the beast, squinting her eyes a little. “Hold the marzipan,” she pulled down a vizor in the shape of an eagle mask, the vizor zooming in allowing her to show Cole caught in Glenda’s arms. Tara gasped slightly, “That thing has Cole!” Alex’s eyes widened for a moment only to shift back even sharper than before, revving up the engine once again, “Then we’ll meet him there.” His driver materialized around his waist as he pulled out his Star and Runner memories from his pocket with his right hand. He placed them into the slots on his belt and split them apart. “STAR! RUNNER!” {End of Part A} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- {Start of Part B} Ruby flipped once again into a mirror just as Carter blasted it away, the witch giggled as she faded away. Shiore dug her sword into the ground and gritted her teeth. “She is really beginning to get on my nerves,” Shiore grunted as she stood back to back with Carter, Ruby circling around them through the remaining mirrors. “That’s just what she wants,” Carter whispered back to her, “but we have her on the ropes and she doesn’t even realize it.” Shiore raised an eyebrow, “How do you mean?” “Take a look around,” Carter muttered back, Shiore doing as he requested and spotted how few mirrors were left, “she’s only focused on us… that will end up costing her.” He nudged her slightly, “Just follow my lead.” Shiore looked up to him and nodded before gripping her sword once again and charging head first towards the mirror that Ruby was currently occupying. “DIE ALREADY!” she screamed as she thrusted her sword into the mirror. Ruby simply flipped onto the tip of the blade and giggled in her usual fashion, “Silly girl, you never learn.” She flipped over Shiore and skipped out of the mirror and danced upwards to seek out another one. Her eyes turned to one just on the other side of the room. “Correction,” Shiore muttered under her breath as she pulled her sword from the mirror, “you don’t.” “What?!” Ruby glared at her as Carter hurled a pair of fireballs out from the palms of his hands, one hitting the mirror the witch came from and the other hitting the one she was heading towards. Ruby’s eyes shot open, frantically scanning the room for another but to her horror discovered that all of them were shattered. “You were too busy taunting us that you became blind to your surroundings,” Carter said simply, “simply put…” “Game over,” Shiore added coldly, leaping into the air and slicing Ruby across her chest and cutting her in two with a single stroke. The witch’s mangled halves fell to the ground, her eyes widened open as she gulped. “Master… forgive me…” she shook a little as her eyes dulled. Now lifeless, she withered away into a pile of black rose petals which eroded the floor away some as a tall glass vial with a gold cap rose from the mark it left. Shiore’s ears twitched slightly at the witch’s final words, sheathing her sword as she lowered her head. The moment she did this, a faint clap of applause filled the still air of the room. “Well done children, well done,” announced the familiar rustic voice of the old and feeble Lord Takasei. “I’m surprised, I honestly didn’t expect you two to make it this far.” he looked at them with an off putting smirk. “Alright, Carter glared at him as he took the vial, holding it up for the lord to see, “this is what we came for isn’t it?” “Indeed it is,” the old lord extended his hand, “now please. Would you be so kind as to hand it over?” Shiore looked up at the lord as Carter began to walk over to the lord. “Wait,” she spoke suddenly and quickly hurled a kunai knife over to the vial, shattering it instantly as the shards fell to the ground. “WHAT THE HELL!” Carter snapped at her, balling his fist around the base that remained, “We were just about finished!” “Correction,” Shiore shot a sharp glare at the lord, redrawing her sword, “he was.” “What do you…” Carter turned back to the lord who was slowly backing away. “Think about it Hono, this is that freak Cyber’s nightmare world. You think he would just let us leave so easily?” Shiore narrowed her gaze, “More importantly, you think an old man like this could make it out here on his own?” The lord cackled like a madman and stared Shiore down, “Impressive little girl, most impressive!” He hunched over as he hid his arms within his robe, “But calling me out will get you nowhere. Lest you forget, you’re in my world now!” “Figured,” Shiore raised an eyebrow, “and this Inubis you warned us about. Yet another fear tactic?” “The author always inserts himself into his own work,” Lord Takasei chuckled as a pair of demonic blue wings sprouted from his back, “Inubis, Takasei? No, the only one here...” he looked up at Shiore, his eyes now a soul devouring red, “is Cyber!” --- High above the cloud layer, Cole still hung in the clutches of the colossal beast named Glenda. He held on for dear life as he wiggled his way out from her grasp. Flipping onto her wrist, the beast somehow didn’t noticed as he swung via his hammer over to her back.With a wince, he gripped a cable that hung from her jetback, “Don’t see an off switch,” he said looking around before spotting a bright red glare at the back of Glenda’s neck, “Wait a sec…” He smirked, folding his hammer back up and reattaching it to it’s place on his shoulder armor before scaling his way up the cable. Just when he was beginning to feel victory in his grasp, one of his feet missed it’s mark and slid onto Glenda’s bare skin. With a groan and look back, the beast spotted him moving around. Cole gulped, “Oh great…” With a howling roar and barrel role, Glenda spun into a rapidly declining nose dive. Cole was unsure of what the beast was thinking, but one thing was clear. She planned to kill him. Tightly gripping the stray cable, the green rider kicked himself off of the beast's back and swung himself downward. Using Glenda’s built up momentum against her to lighten his descent to her neck, allowing him to flip around and land safely on his feet. “Alright,” he grunted, ripping his hammer out once again along with his Rock Gaia Memory, “time to put this puppy down.” Without missing a beat, Cole slammed his gaia memory into the head of his hammer allowing for the axe blade to swing forward and take it’s place up front. A few stray panels folded away to give clearance to it. “ROCK! Maximum Drive!” “ROCK BREAKER!” The male shouted with a sharp pull back on the trigger by the head. Swinging his now fully charged axe down hard on the beast’s neck, he smashed through the thick armor and broke through to a pulsing patch of skin directly beneath it. The wind whipped around Cole as the orange sky above faded into a deep cold blue, “Hey Al… Tara...” he thought to himself as he sharpened his gaze, just now starting to cut through the skin on the back of the beast’s neck, “I really fucked up.” --- Cyber sucked his teeth, breaking the orb in his hand as he threw the pieces away. “Damn brats,” he thought aloud to himself as the fragments flew back onto his wings, “they’ve angered me for the last damn time!”“Hey now, don’t cut us out just yet senior pissy pants!” Tara laughed as she touched down in her rider form, placing his hands on her hips in an overly sassy manor. Cyber snarled, “You!” He flexed his wings up and fired a barrage of sharp blue metal feathers at the yellow rider. With a flash of red and black, Alex appeared beside Tara in his Star Runner combo holding each of the feathers Cyber had fired. “Excuse me,I believe these belong to you?” Alex asked rhetorically as he tossed them to the ground. He took one step forward, pulling the slots of his driver together, “Now I’ll ask you once more,” he pulled out his Blast memory along with his Kicker memory. “BLAST! KICKER!” A wave of blue data and green tree leaves surrounded Alex as he stepped forward in his Blue and Green Blast Kicker form. “Release my friends,” the boy demanded, aiming his Corona Blaster at the dopant, “Both of them!” Tara smirked and smacked Alex on the shoulder, pulling her flail off from the back of her belt, “Yeah, you tell ‘em Aly!” Cyber glared intensely at the two riders, “Fine,” he grunted as he held up his hand to form yet another blue orb, “As you wish.” Deep within the orb was an image of Carter and Shiore fighting a more monstrous version of the dopant that stood before. This depiction of Cyber had deep blue eagle wings and bore a closer resemblance to a blue devil than the mechanical mess that was the dopant’s real life counterpart. The demon in the orb reach out a pair of long arms from within it’s back and forced Carter and Shiore into the floor. “Your so called ‘friends’ have been run through hell in my world while you have done nothing but annoy me in this one!” Cyber snarled as he gripped the orb, “as payment, I shall gladly release them from their torment! Then you shall take their place!” Inside the orb, both Shiore and Carter were thrown into the wall by the large blue demon that was once Lord Takasei. His razor sharp wings blocked the only exit as he fired off several large steel feathers at the pair who could only just barely block the onslaught of attacks. “Just how the hell are we supposed to beat this guy?!” Carter grunted, gritting his teeth as he hid behind the blade of his sword. Shiore ducked under a kicked open set of mats holding her arm which had been cut open a while ago. She peeked her head out from her cover and examined her foe, “Your guess is-” a small glare hit her eye, following it back to the glow of a yellow orb in the center of the demon’s chest, “Mine…” She gripped her sword and kept her eyes fixed on her new target. Carter raised an eyebrow at the white rider’s odd behavior, looking over to the demon and catching the same sight. “Oh… I see now.” “I’ll run decoy,” Shiore gripped her sword as she rose to one knee, “you get close while his back his turned.” “That’s reckless,” Carter scolded her, “You could-” “I will not take lectures from my enemy,” she shot back as she held her arm, “besides, sometimes you need to be reckless.” The male let out a huff, ducking down to his knee to make himself a smaller target, “Alright then… I’ll give you the lead.” The barrage stopped for a moment as Inubis looked over to rubble with a smirk, “Are the two of you still alive out there?” he spoke in Cyber’s voice, taking a step forward, “or did I already break you beyond repair?” In the corner of his eye, Shiore darted out from cover and lept onto the wall before kicking off it and launching herself forward at the demon kunai in hand and driving it directly for his neck. “Foolish girl,” Inubis smirked, pulling a small dagger from his side and using it to block the ice rider’s strike, “surely you didn’t expect that to work?” He batted her away with a flick of his wrist then fired his entire left wing of feathers at her, each one driving deep into her body and pinning her to the wall. “Admirable… such a pity you had to die this way. Oh well, this place should make a lovely tomb.” “Of course it will…” Shiore muttered to him in as her skin and flesh began to chip away as several large chunks of ice, “for you.” Inubis’ eyes widened as the girl in front of her began to melt away before him, crumbling to bits as nothing but melted water and cracked ice remained of her. “UP HERE FEATHER BRAIN!” Carter roared from above the blue demon. Inubis quickly looked up to the sight of Carter clinging to the ceiling of the room with Shiore in his arms. He sucked his teeth at them before firing off the remaining wing of sharp metal feathers at them, only to have Shiore form a shield of ice around them. Blocking the blades, Carter kicked off the ceiling drawn and battle ready. Being put on the spot, Inubis had only one option. He crossed his arms and moved his wings to cover his face as he called all of his blades back to their place on his wings. Before any of them could reach him however, Carter drew all his remaining Ki into the palm of his hand before slamming it directly on the demon’s metal wings melting them instantly upon contact. The demon stood there, stunned and motionless as each move he made was seeming to have been effortlessly countered. He snarled violently then grabbed one of the few feathers that had returned to him from the ground. “You… META Spawn!” he roared as he gripped the blade, taking two steps towards Carter before feeling a sudden and sharp jab in the center of his chest. He looked down, dropping his blade to see Shiore’s own blade rammed into the yellow orb in his chest. Carter had irritated him for a fraction of a second, but that small amount of time was more than enough to Shiore to deliver the final blow. He stared back at the girl with a smirk who glared back at him with a steady unwavering glare, “Well done…” he chuckled as his being began to fade away, becoming a blue mist which enveloped the two riders, “Shirayuki.” Back in the real world, Alex looked at Cyber and smirked, “Is that so?” he pointed to one of the dopant’s orbs and smirked slightly, “then what exactly is happening there?” Faster than the dopant could so much as blink, the orb on his left wing shattered to bits as Carter and Shiore leapt out of it in their normal civilian forms with their drivers and everything. They touched down on the ground then flipped over backwards to form a line with Alex and Tara. The dopant groaned, “Great, what else can go wrong?” Somehow, as if on cue, a massive meteor like object came crashing down where he stood. Gritting his teeth, the dopant flexed his wings and kicked off into the air to dodge the meteor as it struck the ground resulting in a massive cloud of smoke and dust. The riders coughed, fanning the air until the debris cleared to show Cole, still in rider form, clinging to the edge of the bridge and gripping his chest. “COLE!” Tara cried out with joy as she darted towards him, throwing her arms around her the moment he was back on his feet. “Way to make an entrance!” “You know me,” he looked at her and patted her head, “a boulder like me always makes the biggest splash.” Shiore and Carter looked to one another and nodded, pulling out the gaia memories and slotting them into place on their drivers. “YUKI! RYU-O!” Cried both of their memories as Carter was bathed in fire and Shiore encased in ice, emerging in the rider forms once their respective elements cleared away. “You useless children,” Cyber snarled as he descended down to the bridge, several air mounted turrets materializing around him and aiming themselves at the riders, “now I’ll end you!” Cyber unleashed the full firepower of each of his turrets and hurled a barrage of lasers directly at the fire riders. However, with a simple flick of their wrists Shiore formed a thick shield of ice around the riders while Carter conjured a massive ball of piping hot fire and chucked it at Cyber, burning up all of the dopant’s weapons from the mere heat of the blaze alone. “You call us children,” Alex proclaimed as he stepped out from the steam that once was Shiore’s shield as the Xtreme memory flew down from the sky and latched onto his driver as all five riders stood united as one, “but from the looks of things, it’s you who’s at the end.” The young rider flipped his hands down and split the device apart, “XTREME!!!” it cried out as Alex dawned his ultimate form. “Alex,” Shiore called to him, pulling her Yuki memory from her belt and handing it over to him, “I have a bone to pick with this one. Let’s end him.” Alex turned to her, raising an eyebrow under his mask, “Are you sure?” Shiore turned to him and pulled out a device that resembled the frozen skull of a saber toothed wolf and sharpened her gaze at him, “Head.” Alex stared at her for a moment then took the memory and nodded, slamming it into his maximum drive slot as Shiore placed her newly revealed memory into her own driver. With one quick motion, the both switched on their new gear. “XTREME! SHIRA! YUKI! MEMORY CHARGE!” Alex and Shiore's drivers shouted as a wave of wind and ice rushed over the two from the ground. Shiore broke out of the ice in armor similar to her standard Yuki form only now adorn with white spikes on her helmet and chest armor. The blue kimono with a white trim she wore under her armor had its colors reversed and the kimono itself extended to resemble more of a long coat with a jagged look to it at the front. Her sword was now primarily white with two blades on the end of its guard instead of only one and a chain with three kunai knives hanging off the other end. A triforce with a waning crescent moon adorned the center of her chest armor. Alex on the other hand had a very minor change, the silver gap running down the middle of his armor turning a pale icy blue while the wolf in the center of his chest switched to a bright silver. A pair of wolf like claws flipped out from his wrists. “Go!” Shiore muttered softly, as if her voice was a quick gust of wind as she she darted forward. She swung her one sword around on it’s chain for a fraction of a second to gain momentum before throwing it like a dart at Cyber’s legs. The chain coil around the dopant’s calves as the blade dug itself into the ground to act as an anchor. Shiore narrowed her gaze, hovering her free hand over her driver, “Game over,” she declared as she smacked her driver downward, the wolf’s head emitting a small crunching noise. Alex in turn pulled the two halves of his Xtreme memory together before splitting them apart once again. “XTREME! SHIRA! YUKI!” the three memories called out together as a whirlwind of crystalised ice swarmed around Alex’s claws while Shiore took a heavy hitting stance, “MAXIMUM DRIVE!” With a flurry of wind snow and ice, the two riders leapt forward and struck the dopant in unison turning his monstrous form to dust upon contact. The two riders stood shoulder to shoulder as Ren, now reverted back to his civilian for, lay cold and lifeless on the ground. With a quick pull from both of their drivers, they reverted back to their civilian forms as did Cole Tara and Carter. Alex stared down at Ren, taking one step forward before a laser shot struck the ground inches away from where he stood. “One more step, and it will be your last,” a voice called out as the riders looked around to see they were surrounded. On the edge of the bridge stood several blue soldiers whose armor bore a striking likeness to Alex’s Blast Diver form, only theirs’ were different somehow. They appeared far more refined they Alex’s old suit, stronger, dare one would say even better. A squad of eight green soldiers carrying swords clearly based on Alex’s own Bla-Jalibur descended from above along side a single red soldier who carried no weapons at all but was just about a one for one improvement on Alex’s Star Runner form. The red soldier starred the lot down as Kat in her dopant form scaled the top scaffolding of the bridge, looking down with a heavy pant as if she was trying to mask her presence. “Stupid Ren,” she smirked, gripping the yellow memory that Ms Seraphina had given her not to long along, “some birds just aren’t meant to crack their shell I guess.” “Thank for the help Mr Damon,” the red trooper spoke, nodding to Carter as the green Blade soldiers picked up what was left of Cyber and carried him off. The Blast troopers kept their guns locked on the riders. Carter barred his teeth at them, unwittingly stepping between Tara and the firing squad. “HEY!” Tara spat as she rose to her feet, “Just who the hell do you think you are!” she took one stepped forward, Kat from above narrowed her gaze onto her then chucked the memory she held downward towards the girl. With a sharp pinch, it burrowed its way into the wind rider’s neck. Her eyes shot open for a moment as her vision blurred then fell backwards to the ground. “TARA!” Cole shouted as he inched forward, only to the Blast troopers cock their guns at him. Carter, being mere feet away from the girl was able to catch her. He checked her pulse then raised his hand over her mouth, “It’s alright…” he said calmly, “she’s still breathing.” All eyes turned to the red Star trooper who starred them all down. “Thank you for all the help,” the clear red commander spoke, turning his sights towards Carter, “Mr Damon, by order of META’s officials we here by relieve you from duty,” the fire rider’s eyes shot open in shock, as the green Blade troopers took Cyber’s remains away, “under acts of betrayal and unwarranted communication with the enemy.” The Blast troopers made their leave, disappearing almost as quickly as they left while the red Star trooper turned to leave as well, “You are dismissed.” Alex and Cole turned their shaken eyes to Carter who starred back at them before turning his attention down to the sleeping Tara in his arms. High above them, Kat remained perched with a smirk, “Well, that was more fun than expected,” she cackled under her breath, “I’m really going to enjoy myself.” --- In the shade of Greed’s bar, Ms Seraphina sat with a smirk on her face as she guided her slender finger along the rim of a wine glass, and with that final word, the genie wished him luck and the two parted ways. The old crow tightly clenched the ring in his hand and nodded, whispering softly, 'I will'." She looked over and eyed a pale blue gaia memory with a D in the shape of a cracked heart with an arrow run through it, “This genie’s name,” she muttered to herself as she placed her hand over the memory, “was Desire.”{Insert Ending Theme: “Reason” by Yuzu} Next time on Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme: Up becomes down, left becomes right and a dopant with the power to switch things to their opposites come around. But what about Tara? Is she alright? Well, you’ll just have to wait and see when Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme continues with... Episode 7: Inversion, A Brand New Alex Xtreme, why do you look like that? |
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Episode 7: Inversion, A Brand New Alex Late at night roughly three weeks later, the city lay half asleep as rain poured down hard from above. A pale white dopant with deep violet swirls running up and down its body from head to toe darted across a long normally packed street with a single bound, only touching down when it neared the end and within an instant turned fifty degrees on its heel and kicked it's further down the adjacent street. The dopant looked back over its shoulder, smirking with its deep purple lips as Alex and Shiore followed close behind him on the X-Cyclone both of them in rider form. Alex Star Runner and Shiore her standard Yuki form. "Keep up best you can little kiddies," he snickered as he came to an intersection with cars zooming by with his way blocked by a red light. He placed his hands together then brushed them to the side in a butterfly stroke motion as green traffic light opposing him switch to red, resulting in a pile up as various cars slammed on the breaks. Alex turned his bike quickly to break into a heavy skin as he gritted his teeth. "Damn it!" he slammed on the breaks, "Just how do we get this guy?" "He's toying with us," Shiore pointed out as she held up her memory tracker, pointing to a path in the form of a figure eight that the dopant had led them through twice. Alex held his forehead, "You couldn't have told me this earlier?" Shiore blinked once, "I tried," she put bluntly in her usual monotone. "Alright then," he revved up the engine and proceeded down the road back the way they came, "hold on tight." "Planning on cutting him off on the return way?" Shiore asked as she held onto him tight. "That's the idea," Alex held onto his radio, "Rock, you get all that?" "Loud and clear," Cole spoke from the other end of the radio, "just don't keep me waiting, okay Aly?" Shiore blinked, "Aly?" Alex blushed a little bit under his helmet, "I uh…" he switched off his radio, "I have issues, let's leave it at that okay?" Shiore looked forward, keeping her eyes fixed on the road, "I'll say." "Let's just track this guy down," he revved up his engine once again and sped down the road as the rain began to beat down harder, "before we all turn into pumpkins." {Insert Opening Theme: "Period" by Chemistry} Rylee slammed her fist down hard against a stone pillar in Vainglory's lair, "YOU DID WHAT!" she screamed, grabbing her gaia memory and ramming it into her driver. "SPITE!" Cried her driver as Rylee dawned her sickly green demonic form and began unloading wave after wave of explosive red orbs of energy at her commander Vainglory who stood untransformed. All of the female dopant's attacks were for not however as the pale white skull faced Inertia sucked each ball of energy into his head as he stood by Jason. "Discarding the boy was necessary Spite," Inertia told her in Joel's voice, "you were aware of this from the moment we sent him into active duty." Spite's eyes focused intently on Joel, shedding a single tear as her entire being began to shake with rage. "Of course," her dopant form faded as she stood with a heartbroken smirk, "how could I have forgotten," she curtsied, hiding her glare of disdain. The woman turned on her heel and started on her way out. "Spite," Jason spoke in a voice that sent a shiver down the woman's spine, "leave us, and I'll have no choice." Rylee tightly gripped her gaia memory and gulped, "Of course… I wouldn't dare," she forced a small smirk, "my lord." She made her way out, the heavy doors shaking the hall as they closed behind her. "You don't think she actually would," Joel turned to Jason, "do you?" "Even if she did, I could never let her go," Jason told him coldly, keeping his eyes fixed on the door, "she is far too valuable to throw away." "I see," Joel lit a cigarette, offering one to Jason who put his hand and shook his head to politely refuse. "So, what about this new wild one?" he put the pack away and let out a small puff of smoke from his mouth, "Inverse was it?" "Its effects in testing were… interesting…" Vainglory leaned back in his chair, "let's leave it at that, shall we?" "Interesting huh?" he took in another puff then exhaled, "I'll be the judge of that." He put out his cigarette after a while then dug his hands into his pockets, "Jason, what exactly do you think keeps this group of ours together?" Jason looked at him and in a stone cold voice said, "Friendship." Joel stared the other male square in the eye, blinking for a moment then breaking down in a slight laugh, "Of course, that has to be the reason." --- Back on the city streets, the rouge dopant darted into traffic and cackled like a mad man. He snapped his fingers at a couple huddled under a bus stop, freezing their lit cigarette that they were sharing for both intimacy and warmth. "HEY!" the male threw his fist in the air, gasping for a moment once he spotted his fingers that were now for some odd reason coated in nail polish."My muffin bun?" the woman looked at him, now having a mustache on her face as she took hold of her husband's hand, "When did you do this?!" As Inverse soared down the streets he was cut off by a heavy hit from Cole's hammer which knocked him out of the air and into a dusty alleyway, knocking over several trash cans in the process. He climbed to his knees, eyeing Cole and licking his lips. "Alright crazy boy," Cole stared him down, resting his hammer on his shoulders as Alex and Shiore rode in behind the dopant from the other end of the alley, "end of the line." Inverse smirked, "So you think," the dopant clapped his hands together then slammed them down onto the metal trash cans, turning them into a molten metal which flooded the alleyway as he leapt up into the air high above the cityscape. The three riders wasted little time and grabbed the ladder of a nearby scaffolding, making their way up as Shiore froze what she could of the molten metal. Cole in turn slammed his fist down on the building he clung to, sending a shockwave down into the earth which resulted in a pair of thick rock walls shooting out to contain the remaining metal as it cooled under the already cold northern air the city naturally had. "We need to take him out before he causes anymore damage," Alex told his two comrades as he quickly made his way up to the roof, Cole and Shiore following close behind him. Inverse stood there at the furthest end of the roof, awaiting them patiently as the three riders climbed up onto the roof. Cole and Shiore drew their weapons as Alex pulled his Star and Runner memories out from his driver and replaced them with Blast and Kicker before resetting his belt. "BLAST! KICKER!" The driver called out as Alex's armor switched from its standard black and red to Blast's swift blue armor and Kicker's heavy armor green shin guards with gunmetal grey greaves. The young rider's Corona Blaster formed in his hand. "Cole, Shiore," he took a deep legged stance and twirled his gun in his hand before holding it single handedly parallel to his mask, "make a dash." The two riders nodded then darted forward, breaking off in separate directions as they kept their sights fixed on Inverse. The dopant smirked, rubbing his hands together as he cackled, "Let's try a little role reversal shall we?" He held his hands out to both riders that charged him only to catch Alex aiming his gun at him in the corner of his eye. Looking back to the two riders who were now closer than expected, he jumped into the air as Cole and Shiore grinded to a halt just as they reached the dopant's former position and used each other to regain their balance as they were now off. "Right where I want ya," Inverse licked his lips, holding his hands above the two riders. "GET BACK HERE SLIME BUG!" Alex yelled as he fired off a grappling hook from his blaster which latched on no problem, "Good lord I've become Tara," he thought to himself as he pulled Inverse towards him. "Such a nuisance," Inverse glared at him, grabbing the cable and electrifying it which traveled downward back to Alex which shocked the young rider to his very core before shattering his rider form and sending him to his knees. The dopant smirked as he touched down in front of him, "Think fast kid!" he cackled before delivering a heavy kick right to the boy's head. "ALEX!" Cole called out as he and Shiore darted back over to their friend and enemy. Inverse leapt to the other roof as Cole ran to his side, Shiore chucking a slew of kunai knives at the dopant, "Hey, you alright?" Cole called out to Alex, shaking him a little. Shiore eyed Alex for a fraction of a second then looked back to where Inverse stood only to find that he was nowhere to be found. She balled her hand up into a fist and snarled. "He got away." "We can deal with him later," Cole undid his transformation and felt Alex's forehead, feeling his friend beginning to burn up, "Aly isn't exactly the best right now." He chuckled, "You got hit pretty hard there, didn't you pal?" Alex held his head, "Huh?" he squinted at Cole as his vision beginning to blur, blinking a little as he tried to figure out just who he was talking to, "I… I'm not a tard!" his face began to turn red as his temperature quickly rose. "Geez, you're really burning up," Cole winced a little as he pulled a water bottle off of his belt and emptied some onto his hand before rubbing it onto Alex's face, "We need to lay you down." "B-But!" Alex panted heavily, beginning to sweat even more as his face grew pale and somehow even thinner, "R-Reverse." Cole chuckled a little and picked him up, "the only reverse you'll be going after involves a bed." He looked over to Shiore, "I'll take him on the prowler, follow behind on the Cyclone?" Shiore nodded and undid her transformation. Well over an hour and a half later of Cole driving down the road with Alex asleep in his lap and Shiore driving close behind them, they arrived at Cole and Alex's shared building. They pulled up to the curb and switched off the bikes, Cole reaching into Alex's pocket and pulling his keys out for him as he currently could not. Cole noticed something moving in the bushes, then turned to Shiore, "Take Alex inside and right to bed," he told her, tossing her the keys, "I'll be in in a sec." Shiore nodded and did as she was told, unlocking the door and taking Alex right inside. Once she was gone, Cole sighed then walked over to the rail by the stairs. "It's just me you know," he leaned against the rail and crossed his arms, "you don't need to hide anymore." "So, how is she?" Carter spoke as he emerged from the bushes. "I think they're both just a little stunned, but they'll live," Cole grinned, heading over to his bike and pulling out two cans of cola and offering one to Carter once he came back, "honestly, I was a little more worried about you." Carter glared at him, taking the can to be polite, "You know that isn't who I'm talking about." Cole sighed, "Still worried about Tara are you?" he cracked open his can. "Thea," the other male corrected him, looking down to his can, "she is my sister after all. It's my job to worry about her." "That's the thing I still don't get," Cole rubbed his eyes, "if the two of you are siblings, how come she never mentioned you?" "It's cause she doesn't know," Carter closed his eyes and cracked open the can, the memory of a younger Tara crying out in agony as violent winds swarmed around playing over in the back of his mind, "and frankly... I hope she never does." "Alright, just tell me one thing," Cole eyed him, "why tell all of this to me?" "Because she seems to be fond of you," Carter leaned his head back as he sat on the grass, "Guess you could say I'm trying to regain my relationship with her by piggybacking on the end of yours. Stupid I know." Cole looked at him and broke out laughing. The fire rider stared at him, his face turning a slight shade of red, "What are you laughing about?" "Nothing, nothing," Cole tried to control himself, wiping his tears away, "I just, I never pictured you as the settlement type that's all." Carter glared at him, "You do know I can set you on fire right?" Cole took a sip of his drink then smirked, "You do know that will upset your little sister, right?" The fire rider glared even harder at him, "Touche." "So, you have a place to stay yet?" Cole asked in order to change the subject. Carter blinked for a moment, then dodged the other male's gaze. Cole pouted his lips, raising an eyebrow, "You haven't thought about it, have ya?" "NO! OKAY!" Carter roared, practically spewing fire from his breath, "Happy?!" "Make yourself at home then," Cole tossed him a silver key, ignoring the last comment as Carter frantically caught the key, "The basement units have been vacant since before Alex came to live with us, but we upkeep them regularly. Plus they have their own separate entrance so you can easily dodge the ice queen if you want. I know you two don't like each other very much." Carter eyed the key then narrowed his gaze at Cole, "What's the catch?" "Just keep the place clean," Cole smiled at him warmly, "I think the world has dealt you enough to earn a little levity." He smirked, "I'd let you stay with me but I'm not sure if you'd be able to keep your hands off me." "Alright, screw Thea," Carter grabbed his gaia memory and rose to his feet, "I'm gonna kill you." "Joking! Joking!" Cole frantically waved his hands in front of him in defense, "Just… enjoy the room and take this time to relax okay?" "Alright…" Carter glared at him as he made his way up the front steps, "but I'm watching you." Once Carter was inside and out of sight, Cole practically collapsed and let out a heavy sigh of relief, "Geez," he forced a chuckle as he shook out his shirt to fan himself off, "some people have no sense of humor." Cole made his way inside, cracking open Alex's apartment door to see Shiore curled up on the coach with the lights off and the tv on playing Alex's copy of Madoka Magica in japanese. "A-Are you watching that dumb grim dark melodrama series again?" Cole sighed, slapping himself in the forehead. "I like it," Shiore commented, stuffing her face full of popcorn, "Alex is asleep, you're ruining the good part." Cole cupped his hand over his mouth then whispered, "I'll go check on the superstar quietly then." "Please do," Shiore muttered once again, turning up the volume. Cole quietly crept his way to the back of the apartment and over to the currently closed door of Alex's bedroom. Looking back over to Shiore, he pulled down the knob then gently pushed on the wood of the door before tiptoeing inside the dark shroud of the room, looking over to the bed just beside where the light now poured inward to where Alex was sleeping with his feet to the doorway and a cold wet towel on his forehead. "Oh man, what are we gonna do with you?" Cole whispered softly, going over and rewetting the towel in a bowl of ice cold water that Shiore had provided, ringing it out before placing it back on Alex's forehead. He checked his friend's temperature then let out a heavy sigh, "Well, at least your fever is going down." He got up, then left the room, pulling out his cell phone then dialing a number on his contacts. "Cole?" Sampson's voice echoed from the other end, "What happened? Did you guys get him?" "No he… he got away," Cole admitted, "Listen, there was something I've been meaning to ask. Would you happen to have the Evonna address?" --- The next morning, Alex awoke as the sun peered into his bedroom. He rubbed his eyes as he slowly sat up, looking over to see his alarm clock which currently read nine forty-seven. It was a saturday though, so he had nowhere to be. He grabbed a towel then got up and headed for the bathroom, Shiore still lying curled up on the couch fast asleep.He switched on the shower's hot water and allowed the room to fill with steam before disrobing and getting in, washing himself from head to toe for a good half hour as Shiore began to stir. Once he was all nice and clean, he shut off the water and grabbed his towel, drying himself off before wrapping the towel around his waist and heading over to the mirror. In one single stroke of his hand, he wiped the mirror clear of fog, allowing him to see himself in the full view of the mid morning sun. After a yawn he stared at himself in the mirror before his eyes were drawn downward to his chest. His eyes shot open, "W-WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?!?!" {End of Part A} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ {Start of Part B} Cole stood at the gates of a large white manor with a huge fountain out front and several cars lined up on the mile long driveway. His eyes flickered as he stood in awe, feeling his way to the buzzer. “This is Tara’s house?...” he gulped, “holy crap.” “Hello?” a voice called out from the speaker on the buzzer, “Who’s there? Is this another prank?! For the last time my mother graduated college with honors!” “Oh!” Cole hit the talk button, “No, sorry. I’m here to see Tar- Uh- Thea? I’m a friend of her’s from school. Is she home?” “Oh my goodness!” the man behind the speaker raised his voice as a sudden sense of urgency came through, “Y-You wouldn’t happen to be that Desmond fellow? Cole was it?” “That’s my name,” Cole blinked, “Thea wear it out already?” “Oh thank goodness you’ve come,” the male spoke once again with a sigh of relief, “here, I’ll open the gate for you. Please, come right in will you.” The gates opened and Cole, after taking a steady gulp, took one step over the line then slowly but surely made his way up to the brilliant and large white manor that stood before him. He couldn’t quite explain it, but there was an odd sense of dread yet something comforting as well. As if somehow him coming here was breaking down one of the many walls that divided him from the wild and often at times questionable girl he called Tara. After all of these thoughts raced through his mind, it was then that he reached the front door that sat just at the top of a tall staircase. He raised his hand to knock on the door but before he could they swung open for him, a large foyer standing to greet him along with two lines of roughly twenty maids and butlers. “Pleased to meet you Mr Desmond,” the butlers bowed while the maids curtseyed as a deep sign of respect to the male that now stood before them. “Ah, there you are,” a tall yet stout older gentleman dressed in a white suit came down the center stares and right over to Cole to shake his hand. His hair was a pale yellow, combed over to cover his bald spot, “The name is-” “Jaune Delearon Evonna, Thea’s father,” Cole shook the older male’s hand, “I figured as much.” “Yes, you’re right on the money my boy,” Mr Evonna nodded, “now please, follow me if you’d be so guide,” he guided the boy upstairs to a long corridor and lead him down to a room at the very end of the hall. “Wait,” stop for a moment, looking back to the man who had guided him here, “is… is this?” Jaune nodded, “Yes… this is Thea’s room.” Cole turned back to the door and gulped, “Y-You sure you want me going in here? You don’t even know me.” “True, but Thea does,” the older man smiled warmly, placing his hand on the boy’s shoulder, “She does keep things from me, and she’s always sneaking out to do god only knows what. But I trust her judgement and if she has deemed you well enough to be considered a friend, than you may as well be a son in my eyes.” He held his hand open to the door, “Now go right ahead.” Cole took in a deep breath then nodded, placing his hand on the doorknob and pushing the door open. The moment he stepped in a cool breeze swept over him, the door slamming behind him as the scent of flowers and leaving filled the open room. As his eyes focused, he laid upon Tara who sat with her back turned on her bed in a long white silk gown and a braided blond wig. The sudden slamming of the door made her jump, she then turned to Cole as her eyes widened. She stared at him without a word, her face giving the expression of a helpless damsel rather than the normal cocky yet inspiring smirk and fiery eyes she normally wore. Birds chirped off in the distance as time seemingly stood still as Cole stared down Tara, looking into the small statured blond’s soft warm yet vacant eyes. --- Far across town in the city’s red light district, Ashley yawned as she hopped off a bus before hoisting up her black studded purse. The heavy set female wore heavy eyeliner and was dressed in her normal punkish attire. She walked for about three blocks before nearing a somewhat run down house with a stair leading down to a bar marked ‘The Genie’s Lamp.’As the neon sign flickered, Ashley let out a sigh and balled up her hand, “Let’s just get this over with.” she rubbed her eyes some, “I need to be getting to work soon.” “You’ve got alotta nerve showing your sorry ass here,” a small cackle came from above her. “The fuck do you want?” Ashley looked up to see a slender girl with long red pigtails in a white tank top, a bright red mini skirt and somewhat worn chucks. “Harpy,” Ashley groaned, “great.” She covered her eyes to block the sun and grunted, “Well I certainly don’t want to see your ugly mug,” she glared at her, “You mind closing your legs, I can smell the fish from here.” The girl sucked her teeth than jumped down, landing on her feet than glaring at the girl who stood in front of her, “You’re lucky, I’d kill you but the boss was looking for you,” Harpy smirked and gave a hard flick to Ashley’s forehead, “Not sure what he’d want with a traitorous twat like you though.” Ash didn’t even flinch, she merely looked back at the girl in front of her with a hard glare, “Well, it’s a good thing I don’t work for him anymore. I only came by to pick up some crap I forgot to grab on my way out.” “Really now?” Harpy flipped her hair, “Shame, cause the old man has an idea for you.” Ash narrowed her gaze, “What kind of idea?” Harpy reached into her pocket and held her fist close, “I’m sure you remember your old gig, right?” The girl slowly opened her hand to reveal a navy blue gaia memory with a very familiar S pointed with vector arrows. Ash’s eyes opened, her balled fist loosening some at the sight of the memory. --- At around twelve thirty in the afternoon Marcoh sat reading a newspaper at his desk. He let out a long yawn as the phone beside him began to ring. Rubbing his bloodshot eyes, he took a big stretch before picking up the phone and raising it to his ear.“Ardent City Police Department,” he blinked as three seconds went by. He then let out a heavy sigh and rubbed his eyes again, “For the last time Ms Bran, you and your ex-husband are legally separated by the court of law not to mention your children are above the age of consent. If they wish to leave the city and cut all ties with you that’s up to them, I’d hardly consider it a crime.” He sighed once again, “Well at least your children’s brains are clean then aren’t they?” After a moment more of the crazy lady on the phone yelling his ear off the officer groaned, “Have a nice day Ms Bran.” He hung up the phone and massaged his forehead, “Fuck they don’t pay me enough for this shit.” “Ms Bran call again?” Sampson asked as he came out from his office. Marcoh nodded, “Third time this week.” The phone rang once again and the dark skinned officer glared at it with extreme disdain. Sampson chuckled, “I’ll take this one,” he said before picking up the phone. “While you’re doing that, I’m going for a smoke,” Marcoh rubbed his forehead as he got up from his seat and headed out the door, slamming it loudly on his way out. “Ardent City Police Department,” he spoke clearly, his eyes widening slightly for a moment, “Oh, Ms Fubuki, what’s the mat-” he was cut off, placing his hand over his mouth as he listened, “I see… we’ll be right over.” --- Back in Tara’s room, the blond haired girl stared at the open window where a tree sat with an empty nest perched onto its branch. A single baby bird chirped away as it fluttered there alone. Cole stood there silently, taking in steady breaths as he stared at the girl’s back.“Cole…” she finally spoke, balling her hands into the material of her dress, “just who am I?” “Well that much is obvious,” the male smiled sadly at her, as he placed his hand on her shoulder, “you’re Tara, aren’t you?” “JUST SAVE IT!” She snapped, smacking his hand off her and turning to look at him with tear filled eyes, “I-I… what happened to me? Last thing I remember is standing surrounded by those super star wanna bes after that cybernetic freakazoid went down, then… and then my… father?” she crossed her arms and tightly gripped her forearms as she hunched herself over, “No… No he isn’t.. Is he?” Cole let out a sigh and placed his hand on her head, “I… I think you’ll need to ask Carter about all that… If anyone should know, it’s him.” he said, lifting Tara’s head up and wiping the tears from her eyes. Tara stared at him, still shaking and swallowed her tears, “A-Are you sure that’s wise?” Cole looked at her and nodded, “Positive,” he pinched her cheek, “what’s with all the formal talk?” Tara, within a fraction of a second, smacked his hand away only to realize what she had done moments later and hid her face under her wig, “S-Sorry…” Cole’s chipper grin turned into a regretful frown, “It’s okay,” he cooed softly, wrapping his arms around her, “everything is going to be okay,” he gripped her slightly tighter, “I promise.” The small girl took in his scent, seemingly becoming engulf in the male’s grasp as she felt her heart begin to race faster and faster, “Cole… I...” she gulped, wrapping her own arms around his waist which just barely met her eyes, “thank you.” On the rooftop across the street, Kat stood with a pair of binoculars over her eyes and her hand on her hip as she stared into the window of Tara’s bedroom, watching the scene unfold. “Damn it all to hell, those to stick together worse than stink on shit,” she sucked her teeth, chucking the binoculars into a tree and disturbing a family of squirrels, “I’m gonna need to resort to more drastic measures,” she smirked, “this is gonna be so much fun.” --- In a public swimming pool that had currently been reserved for an event, four male swimmers readied themselves to dive as the crowd began to roar. Meanwhile, Inverse loomed overhead, liking his lips and rubbing his hands together. The instant the swimmers took off, the rouge dopant flicked his hands over the water freezing it instantly as the crowd gasped.A pair of shots struck his perch resulting in the nimble dopant flipping over on his feet and landing hands first like a monkey and looking over to see a pair of META’s Blast form X2 troopers with their guns aimed right at him. The dopant smirked at the pair of them, “Well well, seems like today’s catch just swam in.” he lick his lips and swung himself downward, just barely dodging a barrage of shots that struck a nearby billboard. With enough built up momentum, he leapt from the bar he hung from and bolted forward to the troopers. “Good aim boys, but try aiming in reverse next time,” he snickered, patting them both on the shoulder as he landed on a thin by the tips of his toes a good three feet from where he had kicked off from. WIthout wasting a second, the troopers aimed their guns at the deranged dopant and pulled back on the triggers. Inverse however merely snickered as the shots fired off from the backside of their guns and taking both soldiers out within mere seconds. Their limp bodies fell to the ice below, breaking upon impact as rescue workers chipped away to reach the swimmers trapped underneath, not even noticing the fallen troopers. Inverse stood above the chaos and laughed, “Never in my life have I had so much fun,” he smirked as ran his hands up and down his dopant form, his cackles turning into deafening moans “all this chaos gets me so worked up, I feel like I might just explode from all this excitement.” --- Sampson sat at a table in the backroom of a restaurant he had frequented. He wasn’t a fan others being around talking while he ate, so he had booked a private room for permanent reserve ever since he had first become chief. He sat in front of Shiore, staring at a girl with shoulder length chestnut brown hair and emerald green eyes. She was dressed in a black hoodie with a faded red t-shirt on underneath. It clearly didn’t fit her proportions correctly as it almost seemed to be choking her c-cup bust.Sampson took a deep breath then exhaled, “So… that’s really you Alex?” The girl hid her face and nodded, her face becoming bright red. Shiore looked at Alex and in her usual monotone said, “That dopant we fought last night did this to him… we aren’t sure how to reverse it.” Sampson thought for a moment as Alex to a good look at herself in the mirror. “Well, it stands to reason that if a dopant’s attack did this,” the police chief declared with a smirk, “then the way to fix it would be getting hit by that same attack.” “That’s what we figured,” Shiore returned as Sampson took a sip of coffee from the cup in front of him, stilling piping hot. Alex leaned forward to get a better look at herself in the mirror then raised an eyebrow, “Actually, I don’t think I really mind this all that much.” Shiore and Sampson both took a double take, Sampson choked on his coffee a little, “W-What was that?!” Alex blinked and looked to Sampson, “Well… I like myself a little better this way.” she shrunk her head down a little, “Is.. that a problem?” Sampson stared at her for a while then smiled warmly, laughing just a little, “Of course not, if you’re happy with this unexpected change than who am I to judge you for it?” Alex grinned, “Thanks,” she nodded, gaining a little bit of her confidence back, “however, just because I’m okay with this doesn’t mean anyone else will be.” Her eyes became slightly more intense, “there’s a dopant on the loose, and we need to get rid of it.” --- At the city’s waterfront, Ashley stood facing the tide as she watched the sun set over the horizon. She looked down to the blue gaia memory that she held in her hand, taking in a big gulp as she closed her hand around it. She raised her closed fist over her shoulder then pulled her arm back. Her gaze narrowed on the water, holding her stance there for a good long while before something interrupted her train of thought. The loud buzz of her cell phone erupted from her purse, the girl quickly jumping as she went to fish it out. She read the caller ID then let out a huff before flipping it open and raising it to her ear, “I’m busy Marcoh, what do you want?” “You remember our bargain right Haze?” the officer told her, “put in enough community service hours and you’ll be cleared from your probation. You’re currently at four of your required one thousand, don’t think I haven’t been keeping track.” “I’m already working on it,” Ashley let out a frustrated sigh, shoving the gaia memory into her purse, “Geez, you expect me to just walk in there and grab whatever grap I want like it’s god damn thrift shop?” “No, obviously not,” the officer returned, “however there are other ways for you to go about it.” Ashley raised an eyebrow, “How do you mean?” “There are a group of students I want you to investigate,” Marcoh explained, “do that and I might just count it for fifty hours.” Ashley groaned and rolled her eyes, “Why don’t you get Darwin and his band of nitwits to deal with it?” “The enemy knows them,” Marcoh retorted, “do it and I’ll count it for one hundred.” She thought for a moment then let out a sigh, “I’ll be at the station in ten.” She groaned then slammed her phone shut, “Crap! I fucking hate being the one on the leash!” --- Carter looked up at the ceiling, laying awake in his borrowed bed as he stared up at the unfamiliar ceiling he was now required to call home. He let out an empty sigh as his eyes drifted down to an empty desk with only one thing occupying it. A single dusty picture frame containing an old photo sat alone on the desk. The photo of course depicted Carter at the age of six staring blankly into the camera in a pure white outfit standing just in front of Rylee who gripped his shoulder in an almost possessive manor. Just beside them was a much younger Joel who held a warm smile on his face and a sleeping two year old Tara who was dressed in a similar plain white onesie, a grey pacifier and a small patch of brown hair on her smooth yet seemingly large head. Carter rolled his head back and let out a sigh, rubbing his forehead as his sigh turning into an aggravated groan. He continued this for a while before a single knock from the door broke him out of his miniature tirade. “Great, what now,” he himself out of bed and dragged himself to the door, “If it’s another witness, I don’t care about jehovah.” he opened the door and was greeted by Cole in his normal attire and Tara in a simple blue t-shirt and pale grey cargo shorts. Cole simply raised his hand, “Yo.” Carter blinked, “Desmond?” he looked down to Tara and raised an eyebrow, “W-What are the two of you doing here?” Without so much as a second word, Tara hung her head and placed the top of her head on the fire rider’s chest. “I… sorry I’m late...” she sniffled just a little, “I’m finally home…brother.” Carter’s eyes shot open, his heart nearly skipping a beat as he instinctively wrapped his arms around her and rest his chin against the top of her head. “Welcome home sis,” he cooed as he ran his hand through her hair, “you’re right on time.” {Insert Ending Theme: “And I’m Home” by Ai Nonaka & Eri Kitamura} Next time, on Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme Inverse is still on the loose, and the riders make a mad dash to track him down. Crazy things get flipped sideways upside down and backwards as this crazy nutjob tears up the entire city! How will they beat him? And just what is Marcoh looking to do with Ashley? All will be decided when Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme continues in… Episode 8: Reversal, Here to Stay. Gale, it’s great to have you back. |
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Episode 8: Reversal, Here to Stay Marcoh sat at his desk, digging through a box filled with loose papers as Ashley maintained a steady drum beat on her hands as she sat in a chair on the other side. "So... What exactly are we looking for again?" asked the voluptuous female. "Well, you're familiar with how each of our rider friends has a belt like device or something right?" the officer returned with a slight strain to his voice. Ashley raised an eyebrow, "Yeah?" "Well," his hands hit something firm, "ah, here we are." he fished out a black case and placed it down on the desk, "Of the twelve we know of, eight were created by modern human hands and of those all but two were destroyed." he looked at her, placing his hand over the case, "Do you know which two those are?" "The one Alex uses, obviously," Ashley crossed her arms, "and the other must have belonged to those one of the psychopaths that flipped the city upside last summer." "Wrong," Marcoh corrected her, "Alex's mother was a rider long before he was." he opened the case to reveal a driver similar to Alex's but with one slot instead of two, "This is that same belt, the lost driver of Kamen Rider Fata." Ashley's eyes widened slightly as she hovered her hand over it feeling the device's pull. She pulled her hand back moments later than looked up to Marcoh, "Why are you showing me of all people this?" "Because, this driver is the one key we have to locating our enemy," he told her, clasping his hands togethe, "if we can find the maker, we can put all of this to bed like some bad dream." Ashley laughed, slipping her hands into her pockets as she slid back in her chair, "Like you expect me to know?" "No," Marcoh told her straight, closing his eyes as he let out a sigh, "but you do know people who might. People who we currently have in custody." "Man, I didn't sign up for this shit!" she threw her arms behind her head than slunk her shoulders over the back of her chair as she crossed her legs, "don't ya suit boys have ingeration people for that shady crap?" "We do, but these former dopants won't crack," Marcoh explained, "Please Haze, at times like these... We need someone who understands them, who thinks the way they do." "Oh geez," Ashley laughed, "way to lump a whole mess of people into one shit filled pile." She sat up and shook her head with a smirk, "But what can I say, you ain't exactly wrong. Fucked up people think in the same fucked up way." "So," Marcoh raised a brow at her, "Is that a yes?" Ashley looked up at him with a smirk on her face, "It ain't exactly a no." {Insert Opening Theme: “Period” by Chemistry} Alex drove down an open highway, the setting sun overhead with Shiore directly behind her. The blue hair snow girl letting out a heavy sigh as she watched the setting sun. “Hey…” Shiore called out, her eyes refusing to look at Alex, “are you really okay with all this?” “It’s the same as normal,” Alex said back, keeping her eyes on the road, “we track down the dopant, then defeat it before it causes too much damage.” Shiore sucked her teeth, “too late for that don’t you think?” she glared at the girl in front of, “He already did a number on your brain.” Alex pulled back on the break, stopping dead center in the middle of the empty highway before turning back to Shiore with a confused look on her face, “What?! The hell are you talking about?” Shiore’s expression intensified, gesturing towards Alex’s chest and more feminine figure, “Is that really something you need to ask?” Alex looked down, blinking some as her look of confusion faded into a look of heartbreak, “O-Oh… this bothers you that much does it?” “I could care less about the change in esthetic,” Shiore looked away from her, hiding her own hurt expression as her heart felt like it was torn in two, “it’s your lack of caring about it that worries me.” “I never said I didn’t care about it…” Alex let out a sigh, “I realize it’s a problem…” Shiore looked back towards her, raising an eyebrow, “Then why lie to Sampson about it?” “I just... “ she let out yet another sigh, hunching over and letting resting her arms on her legs, “I didn’t want to have anyone worry about me, that’s all.” Shiore’s expression softened, slowly taking her arms and wrapping them around the girl infront of her. Alex’s eyes widened once she felt Shiore’s hand gently place itself at the top of her head, “People worry because they love you… at the very least, you should let them,” she bit her lip,, “don’t ever shut people out.. Okay?” Alex nodded, “Yeah… you’re right…” she pulled away and got back on the bike, “For now though, we need to find this guy before he does anymore damage.” She added as she revved up her bike once again. Shiore pulled out her gaia memory scanner, switching it on, “If he doesn’t turn you back, promise you’ll let me find another way to fix you?” Alex laughed a little, breaking a small grin, “Promise.” “Good,” Shiore eyed the scanner, “there’s a signal on the east end of the city. Think that might be our guy.” Alex smirked before gunning down the road on all cylinders, “Perfect.” Shiore let out a sigh, looking down at the scanner as she clung to the other girl, “Easy for you to say,” she thought to herself, taking in a big gulp. --- Ashley and Marcoh followed a pair of overly muscular guards, one male the other female, down a long cell lined hallway."Hey Farcity," a rapid looking male with barely any meat on his bones licked his lips as the female guard passed him by, "You're looking awfully tasty tonight." he spat on his hand and slicked it back, "I'd really be liking to take a bite outta you." Ashley glared at him while the female guard with her long black hair tied up in a bun spoke back to her, "Pay them no mind child, trash like them has no business getting to ya." "I know," Ashley forced her eyes forward as all the male and even some of the female inmates continued to hoot and holler, "I used to be one of them, remember?" "How could I forget," Farcity smirked, looking down to a bite mark on her arm, "your bite is meaner than the rest of them." "Yeah well you aren't anymore," Marcoh told her as he kept his eye forward and sharpened as the came to a bulkhead steel door. "Alright girls, here's where we keep the real loonie ones," the male guard said as he fished out a set of keys and slipped it into the heavy pad lock mounted on the door, "keep your wits close to you, cause all these ones will want to fuck with them." A heavy clang echoed through the hall as he turned the key followed by the clatter of several tumblers before the doors slowly but surely were opened by both the muscular guards. From the sound of it, no normal person could have open it on their own. Ashley’s eyes widened as she was greeted to several glass cells lined up in a row. She quickly regained her composure and smirked, “So… who do we start with?” --- Across town at Carter’s temporary basement apartment. “WHAT!!” Tara screamed at the top of her lungs at Cole who stood with his ear to his phone with Tara’s hands grasping at his collar, “SUPERSTAR AND ICE QUEEN ARE ALREADY BEATING US TO THE TWISTED FUCK!!!” She pouted and crossed her arms, “That traitorous son of a…” “Thea,” Carter called to his sister, Tara catching her attention and causing her to turn around. He raised an eyebrow, “Is now the best time?” “Uh… n-no.. I guess not,” Tara blushed, getting a little embarrassed. “Good, because we shouldn’t be in competition with our allies,” Carter told her, stepping forward and placing his hand on her head, “we should be helping them.” Cole chuckled, “When did you become such a good guy?” Carter glared at him, “I haven’t been able to be a brother for quite sometime… excuse me for wanting to make up for it.” “R-Right…” Cole sweatdropped, “how about we get going then?” he turned to the blond girl in front of him, “Right Tara?” Tara looked up to him and nodded, “Right!” she bolted out of the room, slamming the door behind her, “RACE YA BOTH!” Carter blinked, turning over to Cole, “I love her… I really do.” “I know,” Cole nodded, patting him on the back, “I do too.” --- In the dim shroud of Crave’s bar, Desire sat at her normal spot sipping a glass of her favorite red wine. “A jester you say?” she chuckled, eyeing her amber ring, “that’s certainly an interesting choice. Sounds like you and my little one have your work cut out for you.”A small coo echoed from the ring, Desire chuckled some more as she placed down her drink, “I know, you can handle it yourself.” The ring cooed once more, the blue succubus like dopant raising an eyebrow, “What makes you think I can’t handle things here?” she smirked as the door to the front chimed and Vince came through. “Phone call?” he asked as he slipped off his jacket. Desire slipped her amber ring off and slipped it into her sleeve, “Something like that.” “Secretive as always,” he groaned, going behind the bar and grabbing himself a bottle of whiskey. He unscrewed the cap and took a quick swig, “What’s the word on this new henchman of yours?” “Oh he’s doing wonders,”Desire retained her smirk, running her finger along the rim of her glass, “about half the town has been flipped upside down, and that meddlesome Subject X should no longer pose the threat he used to… or rather…” she narrowed her gaze at Vince, “the threat that she use to be.” Vince looked at her and raised an eyebrow, “So he’s a chick now?” he laughed, “I don’t quite see how that makes a difference in his capabilities.” “Oh dear Vincent,” Desire laughed, getting up as she made her appearance change, growing shorter with shoulder length blond hair and sharp blue eyes, “you shouldn’t worry about such trivial things.” She smirked as she got up close to him, completely her change once she looked exactly like Vincent’s late younger sister, “Need I remind you of what the end goal is once again?” Vince dropped the bottle, shivering some as he forced himself to look away, “How many times have I told you… of all the people to change into… that one is off limits!” he began to snarl. “Oh dearest Vincent,” she cooed, running her hand down his face to his chin, bringing his head up so that his eyes met her’s, “I thought this was what you wanted…” she inched herself closer to him, whispering in an overly seductive tone, “Wasn’t it you who told me once, that all that you needed was the love of your sweet little sister?” Vince quivered, inching himself closer as well, “Y-Yes…” “Well I’m right here…” she spoke once again, now mimicking Sarah’s voice as well, “I want you to hold me, just like you’ve dreamed… big brother.” --- Now in the dead of night, Inverse darted across the road as several patrols chased after him. “Geez, when will this fucks learn that they just don’t stand a chance?” he cackled as he froze several water particles in the air before chucking them a series of fire hydrants that lined the street.“ATTENTION! FUGITIVE” one of the officers shouted from his car via a megaphone as his partner drove the road, “IF YOU DO NOT STAND DOWN WE WILL HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO YOU FORCE!” Inverse smirked, “By all means big boys,” he cackled as each of the fire hydrants exploded around the cop cars, disbursing steam around them which froze into a solid block of ice with a single snap of Inverse’ fingers. A female cop on the other side of the block slammed hard on the breaks, sucking her teeth as she grabbed her radio, “This is Officer Claire Elsman, car 4219” she declared into the radio, “Sammy do you read me?” “Loud and clear,” Sampson spoke back, coughing just a bit, “what’s your status?” “All down Downsview has been frozen solid,” she explained to him, “five squad cars trapped inside sir. Requesting back up.” “Roger, our specialists she be arriving soon,” Sampson told her, “hang tight, do not pursue any further. Understood?” “Yeah I got it,” she let out a sigh and shut the radio off, “Geez, just what the hell are these specialists thinking letting the city go to shit like this?” Back on the other side of the block, Inverse stood to admiring his work while letting out a satisfied sigh, “If I were an art critic, I’d put this in a museum.” He laughed than huffed, “Though admittedly, it does get boring when chaos is so easy to commit.” He kicked a bit of dirt then turned to walk away, “is there no one out there daring enough to challenge my work?” “How about you look right in front of you!” Shiore called to him as she and Alex road up on the X-Cyclone, Shiore hoping of and staring him down, “But first, you can change my friend back to normal while you still live.” Alex gasped, raising an eyebrow at Shiore as she shut of her bike, “Friend?” she thought to herself, “That’s a word I didn’t expect from her.” “Ah yes, now things have gotten interesting.” Inverse chuckled as he balled up his fists, “Fine, I’ll accept your terms and do as you say. But only if you can catch me, got that?” Shiore narrowed her gaze pulled out her gaia memory as her driver materialized around her waist before hitting the button below the label of her memory, “YUKI!” it screamed as she slammed it into her driver, switching it into its active position. “YUKI!” A blizzard roared over Shiore, breaking away as she stood sword drawn in her standard samurai esc white rider form, “Deal.” Within a single blink of an instant, Shiore darted over to Inverse who merely stood there with open arms waiting for her. “As expected… this is going to be a fun ride.” {End of Part A} ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- {Start of Part B} In a white room in the back of the police station, Ashley sat table length across from a man in his mid thirties who was wearing a blue prison jumpsuit with his brown hair cut short. His hazel eyes looking at her warmly with a calm grin. A file lay in front of Ashley with a plate of cookies between her and the man. “So, Roy Lawrence was it?” she asked him, raising an eyebrow as she began to look through the file. The man nodded, “Correct.” “Reasons for being convicted, arson,” she looked him over, “but that isn’t the whole story is it?” she closed the file and slipped it away, “Look, the may have wiped your file clean but I know who you are,” she narrowed her gaze, “Flame.” Roy held his hands up, “You’ve caught me officer, I’m was once a monster. But that’s all in the past, all I want to do is serve my time.” “Fair enough, I was much the same not too long ago,” she clasped her hands together, placing them on the table before leaning forward, “I had a feeling you were a reasonable man by looking at you, that’s why I just came here to ask a few questions.” “Alright then,” he grinned softly before gesturing towards her, “ask away.” “You transformed into Flame using a gaia memory,” she jumped right to the point, “we wanna know where you got it.” “Gaia memory, so that’s what they’re called?” he looked at her, “I’m guessing you’re familiar with them then?” “I’ve used one, I too was a monster along side you,” she glared at him, “now tell me where you got the damn thing.” “Ah, I see,” Flame raised an eyebrow, leaning back in his chair, “But if you had one yourself, wouldn’t you know where they all came from?” “NO! OKAY!” She snapped at him, slamming her fists down on the table, “I was conned into it! A shitty friend of mine got it and told me to steal shit for him! That’s it!” she began to shiver, holding her head as she looked down to the the floor, “I’m just trying to get myself out… okay?!” Roy’s expression softened, once he saw that the girl’s tears were now hitting the table. “Sorry, I didn’t me to upset you,” he let out a sigh, taking one of the cookies and biting into it, “Truth is I know just about as much as you do. A guy came up to me on the street, told me he’d pay me, then once I ended up here I lost all contact with him. The number he gave me was shut off and everything, like he disappeared into thin air.” Ashley’s eyes widened, turning her attention upward to look Roy in the eye, “And… you're sure about this?” she sniffled some as she wiped her eyes. Roy nodded, “I have no reason to lie, which is why you won’t get any more information out of me. Simply put, it just doesn’t exist.” “Okay…” she gulped as she got up and gathered up the files and made her way out, “Sorry for wasting your time.” “Oh it wasn’t a waste at all,” Roy chuckled, “not many people here treat me like a human being. You were the first in a long time. Though I wonder…” he let out a sigh, leaning back in his chair once again, “can any of us dopants really go back to being human?” “Human is just a word,” Ashley balled her hand into a fist, “figure out what it means for yourself.” With that, she opened the door and slammed it behind her. Firmly slapping her hand on her face as she slumped into the door. “So?” Marcoh called to her as he stood with his hand on the frame of the door, “anything?” Ashley shook her head, “Nothing,” she eyed a glass cell that contained a muscle bound man in a ragged jumpsuit, his black head of hair shaved off into a buzzcut, “What about him?” “I wouldn’t waste your time,” Marcoh glared at the man in cell, “anything that comes out of his mouth isn’t worth the time.” Ashley blinked, looking over to Marcoh with a raised brow, “You seem rather ticked at him… what did he do?” “He sent Alex’s mother to the grave,” he told her simply, “that’s all I care to say on that.” “So, who else is left?” Ashley asked. “Come,” Marcoh guided her down the hall to a bulkhead door, following the light hum of an off key melody. He came to the door and casually slid open a small letter box sized slit, “Speak as you wish, she won’t be able to hear you from here.” Ashley looked into the slit to see a plain white room with a single chair in the center of it. On that chair was a woman with long ratter purple hair who had been tied to it by the straight jacket that restrained it. “Geez,” Ashley shivered, “does no one give this woman conditioner?” “Mikey…” she sang between humming, “my sweet little Mikey… who was it that took you away from me?” --- Back downtown, Inverse was thrown into a nearby building, debris scattering everywhere as a pair of Shiore’s ice clones formed around him. The white rider descended onto a stray pillar in her upgraded Shira form, the crescent moon on her chest slightly fuller than the last time she fought in that state as she gripped her twin chained swords and stared down the rouge dopant.“I’m putting an end to this little game of yours,” she snarled at him, “right now!” Alex roared down the street on the X-Cyclone, already in Star Runner form gritting her teeth, “At this rate she’s gonna kill him.” “YO! Super Star!” Tara called out as she glided down and matched Alex’s pace, “Saw the crash from above, Ice Queen go loco?” Alex nodded, “You could say that.” Tara’s ear perked up, turning over to look at Alex, “Did your voice get higher?” “Is that really important right now?” Alex retorted. “Fair enough,” Tara turned her gaze forward again, “I’ll speed ahead and cover her.” she threw in before gunning on the throttle of her glider and soaring forward at a speed that broke the sound barrier with relative ease. “Hopefully that bought some time,” Alex gulped before speeding ahead herself. Back over by Shiore and Inverse, Shiore recklessly slammed her fist down on the armored wolf head that now made up her driver and pumped it forward three times, “SHIRA! MAXIMUM DRIVE!” Shiore gripped both her swords as well over one hundred ice blades split off from them, “Frozen Tombstone,” she snarled before thrusting her blades forward at Inverse, hurling all of her conjured blades at the dopant who had currently been struggling to pick himself up. Inverse cracked his neck forward, smirking as the blade flew at him. The second before they were bound to make contact he clapped his hands together resulting in each ice blade to change into highly pressurized steam that erupted outward instead of stabbing inward, knocking Shiore backward as Tara flew down to catch her. “Dammit,” Shiore coughed as she squinted to try and see through the mist, “of all the…” “Hey, you’re still alive right?” Tara forced a chuckle to lighten the move. Shiore looked up and glared at Tara, pushing her away as she regained her footing, “Exactly, and so is he.” As the mist cleared Shiore readied her blades, wincing some as she felt a sharp pain in her left arm, “Come on, where the hell are you!” she gritted her teeth and scanned the area. Before the smoke could completely clear, a loud drilling noise shout out from below her. The ice rider quickly looked down with a gasp as Inverse spun out from the ground beneath her in a drilling motion. “RURURU!” He cackled as he shot up behind her, ready to jab her with one of his open hands which were currently as sharp as blade. “FIRE BREATHER!” A voice roared from Inverse’s side, Cole’s Rock Smasher coming in at the last second to smack Inverse across the road to Carter who stood charging a massive fire ball, “CATCH!” On cue, Carter formed his hands close together and shot the fire ball upward into Inverse’s flight bath. Inverse’s heart skipped a beat, then regained his smirk. With a snap of his fingers the fireball changed into water allowing him to phase into it unharmed. This however caused a smirk to appear on Cole’s own masked face. “Not so fast slick,” Cole slapped Shiore on the shoulder, “You’re up freezer,” he said before leaping into the air smasher in hand while Inverse was still in the ball of water. Shiore acted fast, quickly pulling one of her kunai and hurling it at the ball of water causing it to freeze upon contact with Inverse still partially inside. “Perfect.” Cole pulled his gaia memory out from his driver, then slammed it into the head of his smasher as the blade flipped around for axe mode. “ROCK! MAXIMUM DRIVE!” “Batter up!” Cole called out eagerly before giving the block of ice and good hard smack into the ground with his axe, rupturing the ground some on impact. Upon contact with the ground, the block of ice shattered along with several of Inverse’ bones. Without missing a beat, Tara whipped out her flail and after a few good spins formed a twister that flew over to Inverse and acted as a cage to trap him inside. “I think we can wrap this up,” Cole held his hand up to Shiore awaiting a high five, “Don’t you?” "Not yet,” Shiore narrowed her gaze at the dopant, stepping towards him before chucking a kunai into each of his wrists and ankles. “GAH!” Cried inverse as the blades ran themselves into his flesh. “We had a deal,” Shiore glared at him, “now act on it.” --- Ashley paced around the bound purple haired woman whose constantly rolled from side to side, her neck contorting in an unnatural fashion as she did so. “Zix Crater,” Ashley glared to her finally making a paused in front of the former dopant, “or would you prefer I call you Major?” “Mikey…” Zix muttered under her breath, “my dearest Mikey… they said you ran away…” Ashley gritted her teeth, “SHUT YOUR BABBLING!” she slammed her fist against the wall, the clearly messed up woman tilting her head up with a raised brow, “You might have fooled them, but I know what you really are.” She dug into her pocket and pulled out a familiar looking gaia memory, a dull purple one with a large M formed with two crescent moons, “So tell me, just where exactly did you get this from?” Zix just stared at her, her head falling back as her eyes rolled to the back of her head, “Sparkie sparkie for my Mikey…” “Fine,” Ashley grunted as she stormed passed Zix and headed over to the door, slipping the memory into her back pocket, “Stay here and rot for all I care.” Ashley’s ear perked up once she heard the ruffling of fabric. She turned back to Zix only to find her scratching the back of her leg with her foot. “Mikey…” her eyes began to space themselves apart, “my leggy itches…” Ashley sucked her teeth then stormed out of the room, “Mindless dolt,” she commented before slamming the door behind her. Once she was gone, Zix recentered her eyes and sighed, “Finally…” she then took her right foot and ran it up her left pant leg, clenching her toes around something as if she was grabbing onto an object, “thought that brat would never leave.” --- Downtown, while the police were cleaning up the scene, Alex finally reached the others and darted towards them cancelling her transformation in the process. Cole and Carter’s eyes widened slightly upon seeing her while Tara’s jaw hit the ground.“Shiore wait!” she called to her, “he doesn’t deserve this!” “SHUT IT!” Shiore snapped at her, all the other riders falling silent as she stared the dopant. She narrowed her gaze before aiming her blade at his throat, “Now fix him… like you promised!” Inverse looked at her for a good long while then after a while of silence a small cackled broke from his lips, “You think I ever had any intention of doing that?” he spat up a bit of his own blood, “Even if I could, what purpose would it serve me?” Shiore’s eyes shot open, “What did you say?” Inverse cackled, holding his still contact gaia memory in his hand, “What I’m saying is, that boyfriend of yours is stuck like that!” Shiore snarled, grabbing her swords tightly together before thrusting them down hard onto Tara’s wind cage in an attempt to break through it to end Inverse once and for. “SHIORE!” Alex grabbed her by the waist, going for her driver and breaking her transformation by force. She then threw her to the ground, holding her there to look her in the eye, “How many times must I tell you! He isn’t worth it!” Shiore panted, looking into Alex’s eyes before looking over to Inverse then back to the girl above her. Her eyes finally steadied, narrowed as she met the other girl’s gaze, “Fine,” she said coldly before shoving Alex off her, “have it your way then.” She climbed to her feet, her left arm hurting once again as she stood up. The snow girl instinctively holding it with her right hand. “Shiore, wait,” Alex called to her, going for her right shoulder and touching it with one finger before his comrade violently pulled herself away. “FORGET IT!” She gritted her teeth together as she began to shake, “I’m going home… so just forget it.” Alex’s hand fell to her side, her heart sinking as she watched Shiore leave. After a few moments of awkward silence, Tara let out a small whistle, “Geez, she’s more butt hurt about this whole thing than you are.” She looked to Alex. “Just let her be,” Alex let out a sigh before turning to Inverse, “we should focus on getting him behind bars.” “Excuse me,” Officer Elsman cleared her throat as she came up to them from her patrol car, “with all due respect, we at the police department appreciate what you all do for us.” She looked at them all as a street lamp fell to her side, “But just ONCE do you think you could take down one of these nut jobs without leveling half the city?!” Alex blushed, scratching the back of her head as she forced an awkward laugh as police sirens filled the air, “Uh… we’ll try better next time?” --- Back at the prison, Ashley let out a heavy sigh as she grabbed her bag, “Sorry I couldn’t get anything out of them… guess I’ll need to find another way to work off my hours huh?”“That’s perfectly alright,” Marcoh told her, “you did all that you could, it’s not your fault they’re all impossible to get information out of.” Ashley shot a tired glared up to him, “And you are just patronizing me?” “Of course not,” Marcoh went to place a hand on her shoulder, only to startled suddenly by a large crash that shook the entirety of the prison. Ashley and Marcoh both gulped, looking down the hallway towards the cells were the crash came from. The roar of a beast echoed from within followed by gunshots before finally before ended by the screech of sharp claws on metal. Without thinking, Marcoh and Ashley both darted down the hall to the dopant containment room. Their eyes shot open as all the glass cells were shattered open with their occupant torn apart inside. Ashley shook as she slowly turned to the thick bulkhead door that had contained Zix which had now been torn open from the inside. She frantically searched her hand through her back pocket for the Major memory she had used as leverage only to come up with nothing but a bus token and lint. The memory was gone. A stray week cough caught Marcoh’s attention, he looking over to find Farcity on the floor covered in her own blood and slashed across the throat. He quickly went to her side, using his sleeve to try and stop the bleed, “Farcity, what happened here?” he spoke to her, trying his best to remain calm but still finding himself shaking. “The… prisoner…” Farcity muttered weakly, gasping for air. Marcoh placed a finger to her lips, “Don’t talk, just… do your best to show me…” he took in a big gulp. Farcity quivered, beginning to become pale as she pointed upwards. Marcoh followed the gesture to the ceiling to find a massive hole torn open where three feet of steel and cement used to be. He reached for his radio and took in a big gulp before speaking, “Attention all units… we have a breach… emergency medical team requested at central prison block.” High above the city clinging to one of its tallest skyscrapers, a large violet humanoid bear in black demonic armor cackled as it stared down to the unsuspecting masses below. “Oh my dearest Mikey,” Zix’s voice sang from the beast’s jaws, “soon we shall have our revenge,” she gripped an assortment of files in her claws, “just you wait… little brother.” {Insert Ending Theme: “Blood Teller” by Faylan} Next time on Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme Time in prison has given Zix the chance to think things over, and now that she’s free she has only one thing on her mind. With Shiore isolating herself from everyone, and Alex trying to juggle several issues at once is there even a hope at stopping the bloodthirsty monster now on the prowl? All will be decided when Kamen Rider Ultimate Xtreme continues in Episode 9: The Major’s Revenge Yuki, won’t you let anyone in? |
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