[Galvantula]

Chapter 2: Mansion Madness!

Miu's mansion...

"Aw, C'mon, Tomoko-chan! I'm really sorry about that Flash attack!" But although she knew Gen was really and truly sorry, Tomoko was still angry that he ruined a moment between her and Ryu.

"You understand friendship better than anyone, but love is still something you do not understand." Her tone was critical, but she was still polite to Gen, as her black aura flared from within her body. "You also need to understand that not all vampires are evil. Do you watch any movies or play any of the video games, Gentaro-san?"

"Gen shook his head about doing both, but he did do something with vampires. "When I was in middle school, I did a play where I played a vampire killer! I took down all the vampires!"

"Gentaro, you are a Kamen Rider that is a great friend, but girls are not your forte." Ryu drily noted. He was a tad ticked at Gen too, but Tomoko was not having any more of this conversation as she walked off. "She's right, you know. Vampires are not the same as they were before."

"Ryusei is correct. Now they sparkle and get away with being cruel towards women." Kengo said, his face as sour as ever. Ryu just shook his head and Gen was looking at him dumbfounded. Gen may be dense, but he knows how vampires are and the ones Kengo described were not vampires!

It was going to be a long day and not just because of this. Oh no, something else is just around the corner, my gentle readers...

A few blocks away from where the others are...

GLaDOS wasn't too thrilled about this and both Space Core and Wheatley knew it too. She liked being in a computer system, not be stuck in a robot's body, where she can't change things to her liking. This was out of character for her, and she took note of that.

"The sooner we find these idiots, the better. There's birds everywhere and I'm willing to bet I still smell like potato. No thanks to you, Wheatley." she growled at the core responsible for her humiliation. Having a bird eat at her potato body left her with a bad case of ornithophobia, or fear of birds.

"Why don't we call Fact Core up and see if he has any info for us, GLaDOS." Wheatley suggested, trying to save face. But it was hard to save face with GLaDOS, and this point was driven home by the fact that they had no faces. Soon Fact Core came up onscreen and gave them a factoid:

"The Queen of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards was mistakenly believed dead in the official strategy guide. This is false: she survives and gives the heroes medals for saving the universe from 02."

Annoyed, GLaDOS turned off the viewscreen and was just about to turn around when she saw Kengo grumbling about his friends.

"I'm amazed that we didn't kill each other during our fight with the Horoscopes. I think I may be the only sane one in Gentaro's stupid club."

"Sanity is something humans are lacking in, boy, but they are quite receptive to pain!" GLaDOS shot out, as she opened a portal underneath his feet, then when he fell through it, she open a new portal and shot him out into the bushes, causing him to crash with a thud, though he was unharmed.

"SPACE IS THE BOMB! CAN WE GO TO-"

"Shut up, Space Core. We have a hostage and that's all I need to get the others. Now then, shall we-"

A loud howl from Ryusei cut GLaDOS's gloating off, as she turned to see both Gen and Ryu facing her. She wasn't too worried, since her battle body (which she thought was a stupid idea) was female in build, mostly white and mechanical, with a portal gun on her back and a cool blue LED for a face.

Space Core's was like a robotic astronaut, with a portal gun hanging on his hip. It too was mostly white in color.

Wheatley however, was as odd as ever. He picked salmon pink and toxic green as his colors, but apart from that his body was just a normal robot body, with a portal gun build into his right hand.

Gentaro wanted to settle this man to man, as these guys hurt Kengo and nobody hurts his friends! "Let's get ready to rumble, you crappy looking bots!" as he set up the Fourze Driver and placed Rocket, Launcher, Drill and Radar into their slots, and pressed down on the lever.

"Three! Two! One!"

"Henshin!" With that done, Fourze was on the scene, with the call of "Space is Awesome!" That made Space Core quite happy indeed, as he disconnected from his body and floated about, saying, "Space! So much space! Look at all the space!"

If GLaDOS had eyes to roll, they would be rolling on out, as she force Space Core back in his body. "Play later. Right now we have business to attend to." a hint of anger in her voice.

Ryu wasn't just going to sit this one out! Plugging the Meteor Switch, he trigged his transformation too.

"Meteor, On! Ready?" With that prompt disco lights and music started up and soon Ryu was Kamen Rider Meteor, the man also known as "Cosmic Disco Bruce Lee."

"Kamen Rider Meteor. I will decide your fate."

"That is not for you decide, human." GLaDOS retorted and jumped in a portal she made. She reappeared behind Meteor, trying to sneak up on him, but Ryu was having none of that, as he brought his fist to her face, all without turning around.

"I must congratulate you on being a martial artist that is chubby as well" she quipped, trying to set him off. Too bad he was in his little "Meteor must kick butt" zone as he fought with all his skill, but GLaDOS was keeping up with him, as they stood there and traded blow for blow.

"Fact Core! Give me something I can use here! This 'Meteor' is not burning up!"

"You may only throw a Frisbee at the beach in Los Angeles County, CA with the lifeguard's permission."

GLaDOS was not pleased with Fact Core right now. Then again, when was she ever pleased with her cores? "Fine. I'll just do this myself then, as I must always do." with a annoyed grunt. Opening a portal right in front of Meteor when he was about to jumpkick her, she wasn't sure it would work. It did as he fell in and she opened a new one right up high, letting him crash down hard onto the streets, and straight into the sewers.

Wheatley was not wanting to battle, so he decided to match wits with Kengo, the occasion he was so lacking in prep for.

"Why did you settle for that portal in the Rabbit Hatch? You could have had one that went everywhere. Like Fantasia for starters!"

Kengo groaned and told the core, "The Rabbit Hatch portal served the purpose we needed it for. It wasn't needed for anything else." But Wheatley wasn't ready to give up that easily.

"Take the time to think about it, man! You could launch people you dislike into space! It's not as fun as it sounds, believe me, mate!"

Again Kengo had a counter. "That is not the purpose of the Kamen Rider Club. We help people, not send them to space on a whim." as their talk was making Space Core giggle "Space is Awesome! I have proof of that now!", but they weren't paying him any mind.

In fact he was so engrossed in Kengo and Wheatley's talk that Fourze was able to strike him with the Rocket Module, making him fall down on his sides.

"Dude, a rocket on your arm! You are so cccoooooollllll." he murmured.

"Kamen Rider Fourze! Let's settle this man to man! Or man to whatever."

Fourze wanted to get this done soon, as Miu was not going to look forward to having to pay to repair her mansion if this goes on any longer. He had get them away from here and fast! Prepping the Launcher and Radar Switches, he could only hope this works and if not, well then he would help with fixing things here. It was not right to have Miu do the work and as a man, Gentaro would do anything to make his friends happy.

"Launcher On! Radar On! Limit Break!"

"Rider Missile Barrage!" Locking onto GLaDOS, Wheatley and Space Core with the Radar Module, he unleashed 40 missiles at their direction, but they were able to redirect them back at their sender with their portal guns, causing Fourze much harm.

"I would give up now and accept that you are no match for me. But I was never a match for anyone and if they were willing to think that, then I have a cake I want to give you." GLaDOS lied, but Gen was giddy about getting cake if he was willing to continue the fight. But someone was not out yet.

"Meteor Storm! READY?" Rock music blared out and soon Ryu was in Meteor Storm form, his most powerful one to date. It was blue with gold shoulder pads, as opposed to his normal black with one blue shoulder pad Meteor mode.

"Gentaro! They can only use one portal at a time! Try and screw up as much as you can!"

Meteor had a bright idea(then again Ryusei was a bright boy) and Gen knew that this could work! Firing off another Rider Missile Barrage, the three robots used their portal guns to suck his missiles up, but this time it would be differant.

Ryu summoned his Meteor Storm Shaft, a gun staff like weapon, blue being its main color. Plugging in the Meteor Storm Switch he pulled the ripcord and was just about ready to call this a day.

"Meteor Storm Punisher!"

A spinning top struck all three while there were unable to defend themselves, and since those bodies of theirs were not fit to handle Limit Breaks, blew up with a loud "Bang!", leaving only their cores intact.

Not too pleased with this, GLaDOS tried to get Fact Core to do something useful, ANYTHING at all!

"Fact Core! Do you have anything useful in this situation, or is it all meaningless?"

"Birds love potatoes. In fact, they are the number one potato fans in the world, with humans being a close second."

GLaDOS groaned and muttered, "I will reprogram you later, if I could be bothered to care." as Meteor Storm picked them up and placed them into a bag.

Before they shut down, Wheatley wanted to let GLaDOS know about this and he was not shy in letting her know that he had something to add.

"We could have won if we had bubble gum. Coulda plugged those holes in right up! Saw it in the Rocketer, I did!"

"Shut up, Wheatley." she said as they went to sleep mode, Space Core whining, "Space is my home. I wanna go home.", but soon he too was asleep.