Max Power Productions Presents...
Kamen Rider W: The Alternate Story
Disclaimer: I don't own Kamen Rider, Toei does.
Author's Note:
This fanfiction follows the story of Kamen Rider W in an alternate universe, where the story takes place in the city of Jakarta, Indonesia. The plotline is similar to the original series, only with a few new characters and new Gaia Memories, as well as new Dopants. Enjoy!
Chapter 1: W Lookup/The Two in One Detective
A year ago...
Two men stepped inside a huge room. At the end of the room was a large, tower-like device, with a transparent tube on the middle. A slim, tan-skinned girl with long, black, hair, wearing a white nightgown, was seen inside the tube.
One of the men decided to step forward. He is wearing a ripped white fedora as well as a white coat over his white shirt, and a pair of white trousers. Along with him is a black and silver suitcase. The man approaches the tube and reached towards the girl. The girl reached back. But just as the two made contact...
"INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! GAIA TOWER HAS BEEN BREACHED. ALL SECURITY TEAMS ARE NOW DISPATCHED."
At the same time, a black, Apache helicopter approaches the building that the men are in. The second man, revealed to be a rather muscular, white-skinned Indonesian-Australian man with black, spiked hair, wearing a grey coat over his white shirt, looked towards the window only for the helicopter to shine it's searchlights on him.
"Oh, shit," the Indonesian-Australian man said, before running towards the fedora man, "Boss!"
"It's her," the fedora man said as he carries the girl on his back, before placing the girl around the Indonesian-Australian man's shoulder, after giving the girl the suitcase.
The two then walked away from the device, when suddenly several armed guards ambushed them from behind, firing their AK-47s right at the fedora man's back. The fedora man collapsed into the ground, writhing in pain as the shots had managed to mortally wound him. His fedora fell off his head, rolling around the floor. Immediately the Indonesian-Australian man and the girl are stopped in their tracks.
"Boss!" the Indonesian-Australian man yelled, as he releases the disorientated girl and rushes over towards the fallen fedora man, "Boss!"
Using the last of his strength, the fedora man gave the Indonesian-Australian man his fedora. "Promise me...you will protect this city..." the fedora man said weakly, before going limp and closes his eyes, dead.
"BOSS!" the Indonesian-Australian man yelled to the top of his lungs.
Suddenly the wall in front of the armed guards exploded and a humanoid being walked into the room. The being was feminine in build, yet she still have some muscular aspects to her. She is wearing several patches of white armor over her brown skin, a glowing, oval shape can be seen on her left breast. Stag beetle horns can be seen growing from each of her shoulders, while the being's wrists are armed with sharp, curved, bone white blades. The being's head resembles a samurai's helmet, but with a closed visor (which has holes that resembled Jason Vorhees' mask) that extends into stag beetle horns on top of her head. Around her wasit was a silver belt with a yellow circle on it's buckle (If you can't imagine what the being looked like, just imagine the Stag Beetle Orphnoch's head being sticked into a human-sized Kyrieloid II armed with a pair of stag beetle horn-shaped shoulder blades with a Gaia Driver around the waist part). The being faces the shocked Indonesian-Australian man and the girl, before extending her right palm towards them. Orange energy began to form around her right palm, before the being fires the energy in a form of a powerful energy beam. The beam causes a large explosion right in front of the two, driving them towards the windows, where the Apache helicopter fires it's miniguns at them. The blasts forced the two to hide behind a nearby staircase. As the Indonesian-Australian tried to catch his breath, the girl opened up the suitcase that the fedora man had gave to her earlier.
"Do you have the courage to ride with the Devil?" the girl asked, as she reveals the suitcase's contents: six USB-like devices and a strange, closed W-shaped belt buckle.
"Eh?" the Indonesian-Australian shot in confusion, before taking out one of the USB-like devices, a black one with a purple, stylized J label on it. The girl takes out a green USB-like device with a green, wind-like C label on it, grinning.
Meanwhile the stag beetle humanoid charges orange energy around her arms, creating a large fireball in front of her bust. She then hurls the fireball towards the staircase, with the Apache helicopter firing suit. The Indonesian-Australian grabbed the belt buckle, placing it on his waist. Two, black straps came out from the buckle and connected with each other, strapping the buckle into the man's waist, creating a belt. The man then got up, yelling as he grabs the black USB device. The girl got up as well, an identical copy of the man's belt appearing around her waist. She then grabs her green USB device. As the fireball and the minigun fure catches up into them, a huge, green and purple sphere covers the man and the girl, before the sphere disappears into an armored warrior with a green right side and a black left side, with a silver line separating the two halves. The red eyes glowed as the transformation completes, along with a silver scarf bursting from the green side's neck. The most prominent feature of the warrior is the W-shaped crest on it's head, along with some ornate markings on the chest and shoulders. Facing the Apache helicopter, the warrior waves it's right arm at the helicopter, causing a huge gale of wind to burst through the windows, sending the helicopter into the ground. The armed guards are being thrown into the wall by the wind gale, as the device that previously contained the girl began to collapse. The stag beetle humanoid sees this and sprouts a pair of armored, insect-like wings, flying away from the scene. The device exploded as it touches the ground, causing a huge fireball to rip through the building. As the flames raged on, the armored warrior stared at the destruction, clenching it's fists tightly...
OP: W-B-X W Boiled Xtreme – Aya Kamiki feat. TAKUYA
Jakarta, present day
A minibus pulled itself in front of an apartment building complex, as a young, white-skinned girl of a Chinese descent walked out of the vehicle. Her hair was black and was tied into a ponytail, while she was wearing a yellow T-shirt with a picture of a panda on it along with a white skirt, and a white and black rucksack completed her look. As the minibus speeds away, the girl crosses the road towards the sidewalk right in front of the complex, meeting up with some elementary school boys who are walking to their school.
"Good morning," the boys said.
"Good morning to you too," the girl replied, smiling, before walking towards the apartment complex.
After a few minutes of walking, the girl approaches a sign on the wall of the apartment building that says "MIAMI BAY." With that, she takes out a piece of paper from her skirt pocket as she continues on with her walk.
"Miami Bay A2-32...I wonder if this is the building," the girl said to herself as she looked at the sign in front of her, that says "LEMON TEA BILLIARDS."
As the girl approaches the building, a black and green Honda CBR 1000RR with a license plate that read out B 71 CNS pulled up besides her. The rider was wearing black trousers along with a black vest over his blue batik shirt. The rider then takes off his black helmet and replaces it with a black fedora with the silver word "WINDSCALE"emblazoned on it. The rider then reveals himself...as the Indonesian-Australian man from a year ago.
"Do you have any business with me?" the man asked the girl as he hops off from his motorcycle. The girl then looked at the man, before looking at the sign again.
"Hey," the girl asked as she saw the sign "CAHYADI DETECTIVE AGENCY – SOLVING CASES HARD-BOILED STYLE" underneath the "LEMON TEA BILLIARDS" sign, "What does hard-boiled means?"
The man looked at the girl for a few moments, before saying, "Come with me."
The man and the girl arrived at the man's office, which is located just above the billiard place, on the second floor, to be exact. The room was pretty much what you'd expect from a 30s detective office, with the dull green painting, the wall of fedoras, a standard sofa, as well as the two most important items of the office, a desk and chair as well as a bookcase full of hard-boiled detective novels. A billiard table can be seen next to the door, with a dart board and a 30s style radio hanging on the wall above it.
The man walked towards his desk, which is cluttered with papers and hard-boiled detective novels. A typewriter and an antique telephone can also be seen on the desk. Grabbing one of his hard-boiled detective novels, the man sat down casually on his chair, his legs on the table.
"Not swayed no matter what the situation is...it's a man-among-men lifestyle...that is..." the man said as he places his hard-boiled detective novel in front of the girl, "Hard...boiled."
The girl smiled, before casually placing her rucksack on the table, taking out a jacket and a tumbler, before proceeding to grab something from her rucksack. At the same time, the man grabbed his cup of coffee and started to sip it.
"I'm evicting you," the girl said as she takes out a piece of paper from her rucksack, "Here's my registration."
The man looked at the piece of paper, before spitting out his coffee, blurting out, "What the f**k?" as he takes his fedora off. The man then stood up, facing the girl, his face indicating disbelief.
"I'm this place's landlord," the girl said as she places the paper on the man's desk, before grabbing her rucksack and walking away, "Please leave this place quickly, you strange detective wannabe." The man quickly picked up the paper, reading it in disbelief.
"What a naughty girl. A neighborhood middle-schooler messing around in my hard world," the man casually said.
The girl stopped walking and turned around towards the man, "For your information, I just came to the city, plus I'm 20 years old!"
"You're kidding me!" the man said.
A few minutes later...
"Linda...Kumalasari Cahyadi?" the man read the contents of the paper out loud, as the two of them are sitting at the dining room located just next to the man's office space, "The boss' daughter?"
"Yeah, but just call me Linzy, okay?" the girl said.
The man took a deep breath, imagining the incident from one year ago inside his mind. "Boss is..." he muttered as he got up from his seat and walked towards the wall of fedoras, looking at the familliar ripped white fedora, "...for now...not returning."
"I didn't hear anything about that," Linzy said as she approaches the man.
"Well...boss is..." the man couldn't continue his sentence as he remembered the incident where his boss was being gunned down, "...for me..."
Suddenly the moment was interrupted when a bell ring is heard on the door. The man rushes towards the door and opens it, revealing a rather slim young girl, with long, black hair as well as white skin, wearing a blue T-shirt as well as jeans.
"Max Hammond, long time no see," the girl said, smiling.
Max thought for a second, before smiling back, grabbing the girl's hand, "It's Sania, right? Saniamisha Wijaya?" The girl nodded.
Soon the three of them are sitting on the sofa, a photo of Sania and a brown-skinned man with very short hair is seen on the coffee table in front of them.
"Kevin Varian," Max said as he looked at the photo, "Your boyfriend?"
"Yeah," Sania said, sobbing, "He's disappeared...for more than a week already!" Sania then broke down into tears, before saying, "Please, please, Max, find him!"
Max got up, grabbing his trademark black fedora and wearing it. "This city is my garden," he said, "Don't worry. I'll find him."
Sania smiled as Max walked out of the office, with Linzy following him a few moments later.
(Max's Narration)
My name is Max Hammond, and I'm a private investigator. The city of Jakarta contains a bit of happiness and a lot of sorrow. It always comes in with the wind. A friend of mine from my childhood, Saniamisha Wijaya, has requested to me to find her boyfriend, Kevin Varian. That request came to me like a gust of wind dropping by.
Max leans himself against a nearby lamp post near the Senen Underpass, sighing. He has searched around Jakarta for hours and he haven't found Kevin yet, but he had already found some leads about his whereabouts.
"Yes, Sania's request literally dropped by me like a gust of wind," Max continues his narration as he takes out his water bottle.
"Why are you carrying on a narration all by yourself?" Linzy asked suddenly as she takes out a green slipper from her rucksack, slapping Max right on the head with it.
"Hey! That hurts!" Max yelled, dropping his water bottle before turning around to find Linzy, who is putting her green slipper back into her rucksack, "You! Why are you following me?"
"I'm going to be judging you very soon," Linzy said, her tone serious, before reverting into a more childish, "So, how do you know he disappeared?" as she approaches Max.
"Looks like the layoffs and the restructuring of his company is the cause," Max said, before realizing something, "Ha! Why do you get to look down upon me?"
"Because I've got the rights!" Linzy pulled up the piece of paper from before, showing it on Max's face.
"Oh my God," Max sighed as he leaned on the lamp post, "With her around, my hard-boiled style is ruined!"
Max banged his forehead on the lamp post, with Linzy teasing him by displaying the piece of paper in front of him everytime he turned his head around. Suddenly the sound of police sirens blared through the air.
"Hey, what was that?" Max asked. But soon he discovered the answer.
A traffic jam had formed in front of the Senen Underpass, with vehicles heading towards the Jakarta city centre are now in a complete halt. A Ford Focus ST police car rushes towards the tunnel through the lane designated for vehicles that are travelling towards Tanjung Priok Harbor. An ambulance and several other police cars are also seen on the lane. Smoke can be seen billowing out from both lanes of the underpass, with people fleeing from their vehicles. The police are directing the people out of the underpass, while several paramedics went into the underpass with stretchers, ready to carry out the injured. Max and Linzy walked towards the underpass, following Max's detective instincts. As they saw the police directing the fleeing people, they leaned themselves against a car and started to sneak past the policemen, passing by a black, Mercedes Benz S600 limosine. The rear door of the limosine opened, as a young girl, with white skin and long, black hair, along with a red hairband, stood up and stared at the smoking underpass. She is wearing a pink party dress as well as white stilletoes.
"Ah great," the girl said, "Not another traffic jam..."
Meanwhile, Max and Linzy had managed to enter the underpass, avoiding the panicking crowd as they approach the source of a traffic jam: a burning lower part of a building that is literally being submerged into the underpass.
"My God," Max gasped.
"What is this?" Linzy asked.
Outside, police helicopters circle the underpass as the upper part of the building, which is not on fire, is now in a very precarious position over the underpass, since it's foundation has been already severely damaged. Meanwhile, back into the underpass, as firefighters struggled to put out the flames, Max looked at the now damaged sign of the building, before taking off his fedora.
"Windscale," Max said, comparing the logo on his fedora and the damaged building sign, before looking at a piece of paper that contains the leads about Kevin's disappearance, "It's Kevin's former workplace."
Suddenly, a well-build young man, with white skin and spiked black hair and wearing black, formal attire, rushes out from behind and approaches the detective.
"Hey! Detective! What are you doing here?" the young man shouted as he approaches Max, before grabbing the detective's tie, "You sticking your neck where it don't belong again?"
"Justin! Calm down!" Max said as he pushes the young man, releasing his grip, "My business is not with a detective underling."
Justin cocked his neck before grabbing Max on the shoulder, "What was that? Are you being cocky?"
"Well, stop being so antagonistic!" Max yelled as he was pushed against a police car.
"What? You better not underestimate a cop!" Justin yelled back.
"Stop it!" yelled a middle-aged man, who is rather tall and chubby in appearance with curly black hair, white skin, and a pair of glasses on his face. Like Justin, he is also wearing black, formal attire and curled around his neck was a pink backscratcher.
"Albert! I'm so sorry!" Justin immediately releases his grip on Max.
"Are you being a cat and a mouse, huh? Okay, Max, come with me. I apologize for Justin's behaviour today," Albert said as he uses his backscratcher to drag Max towards the rubble.
"Your nose is on the mark as always," Albert said as he shows Max the rubble, "Take a look, the rubble here is the entire first until the fourth floor. This could only happen if the steel frames in the foundation was melted." As Albert explains, Max takes out his camera and took some pictures of the rubble. The camera itself was dark blue in color with a silver lens as well as some silver accents.
"Dopant, eh?" Max asked as he lowers his camera down, his eyes examining the rubble.
"Dopant?" Linzy asked.
"Yeah. Including last week, this makes the third such incident," Albert said, "Yet the other attacks isn't as massive as this." Albert then takes out something from the pocket of his coat and gives it to Max, "Let me know if you find anything."
Max nodded. Albert then walked away from the scene. Linzy then tried to see what Albert has given Max, but the young detective quickly hides it into his pocket.
Outside the underpass, Max takes out the item Albert has given him, and opens it, revealing to be photos of the previous attacks. Unknown to him, Linzy was peeking him from behind.
"So, the attacked buildings are branches of the company where Kevin was employed at?" Max asked himself as he looked through the photos, "My, my, I should be searching for someone, but it's associated with a Dopant."
"Dopant?" Linzy asked. Max looked at her, before looking at the photos again.
"Looks like we're up..." Max said as Linzy takes out her green slipper, "...such is the whim of the wind..."
"WHACK!"
"What the hell did you do that for?" Max yelled, reeling from the pain of being slapped in the head with Linzy's slipper.
"Stop acting tough!" Linzy said as she grabbed Max's tie, "Hurry up and explain! Just what is a Dopant?"
"No violence, please!" Max pleaded, at the same time his cell phone rings. Max immediately picked up his cell phone from his trouser pocket and picked it up, "It's me, Widi."
At the same time Linzy releases her grip on Max. "Widi?" she asked.
"Did you see the pictures I sent you?" Max asked.
The same slim, tanned, long-haired girl from a year ago, now wearing a green T-shirt along with a pair of grey khakis, as well as a pink bow on her head, sat on her sofa, inside a large, hangar-like room. She is holding her own cell phone, which is exactly the same as Max's, with her right hand, while her left hand was holding a black book filled with blank pages.
"It's very facinating," the girl, named Widi, said, "It's also very compelling."
"I want to know about the culprit's abilities," Max said as he and Linzy are walking towards a nearby alleyway, "Please find out what Gaia Memory it is."
Suddenly, Max noticed a red glow coming from the alleyway. He immediately gasped in terror. "Never mind, Widi," Max said.
"Why not?" Widi asked from across the line.
"He's here in person. Right before my eyes," Max said.
At the same time, the red glow grew brigher and brighter, as a red humanoid being walked out from the shadows. Max and Linzy began to step back. "The Gaia Memory is..." Max said, as the red humanoid comes even closer towards them.
"MAGMA," both Max and Widi said in unison.
The red humanoid revealed itself towards Max and Linzy. At a glance, it resembled a man on fire, with some black armoring covering it's face, arms, torso, and legs. Flames swirled around it's shoulder, head, and back. This is the Magma Dopant. The Dopant roared, as the fire within it started to burst out from it's shoulder, head, and back, it's black armoring glowing into brown.
"Run!" Max shouted as he pulled Linzy's arm, as the Magma Dopant unleashes a huge fireball at them, the heat resulted by the fireball cracking the sidewalk below, turning it into a trail of hot lava. The fireball then exploded after it came contact with a nearby wall. The Magma Dopant roared in pleasure, it's red eyes and cracks on it's face armor emanating flames, before retreating. As the Dopant disappeared, Max descended down from a nearby lamp post, he had saved Linzy and himself by using a grappling hook that came out from his wrist watch.
"Is it me or this city's gone mad?" Linzy asked as she and Max descended down, "I didn't hear anything about this!"
"See now?" Max said, "If you value your life, you should crawl back to your hometown."
"Shut up!" Linzy shouted as she releases her grip on Max, her feet landing just a few inch from the lava trail.
"You school kid!" Max yelled as Linzy ran off from the area, "Hey! Come back here!" Max then presses a button on his wrist watch, intending to lower himself to the ground, but instead he went up the grappling line.
"Shit!" Max cursed.
Later that night...
The Mercedes limosine from before entered the grounds of a huge estate in the Pondok Indah District, South Jakarta. The plaque on the estate gates says "ADINUGROHO." The girl from before then jumps off from the limosine and hurryingly enters the estate, navigating her way towards the huge dining hall. Inside the dining hall, there is a long, Victorian style dining table, with a middle-aged man with greying hair and white skin wearing grey formal attire as well as a pair of red glasses on his face sitting on the head of the table, while a young woman, with her tanned brown skin and long black hair as well as wearing a blue party dress, is sitting on the other end of the table. Both of them are laughing in pleasure, probably over a joke that either the man or the woman said. A grey, British Shorthair cat is seen on the arms of the middle-aged man. Behind the table are a few butlers and maids, ready to serve their masters. Suddenly the door behind the young woman bursts open as the girl enters the room.
"The tardy would be fired, Natly...if you work for my company," the woman said, rather cynically. Natly let out a rather loud "tsk" sound in response, before walking towards her chair which is located in the middle of the table.
"But I was in a traffic jam," Natly defended herself, "It was really vexing, and on the day of our dinner party too!"
"Buildings melt and people die," the middle-aged man said as the butler allowed Natly to sit on her chair, "This happens a lot in this city." The man laughed as he purred the cat on his arms, "Well...it happens because of our line of work," he continues as he fed the cat with a chunk of premium Wagyu steak.
"That was the Magma Memory, right? Just who sold it?" Natly asked.
"I heard that someone was selling them really well recently," the middle-aged man answered.
"Father," the young woman interrupted.
"What is it, Megan?" the middle-aged man asked.
Megan stood up, her right hand holding a golden brown, USB-like device with a bony texture to it and a letter K with the two lines on the K styled after a stag beetle's horns labeled on it.
"To be honest, I..." Megan said, before pushing a small button on the USB.
"KUWAGATA!" the USB announced, before Megan stabs the USB on her waist, resulting in a blinding orange light that covered the entire room. When the orange light died out, it revealed the stag beetle humanoid from a year ago standing on Megan's place, this is the Kuwagata Dopant.
"...have found someone I want to marry," the Kuwagata Dopant said.
"Excellent," the middle-aged man responded, laughing.
Back at the Cahyadi Detective Agency...
Linzy was throwing out several boxes through the door, the boxes are already piling up on the stairway towards the detective office.
"That's it," Linzy said, hints of anger and fatigue indicated on her voice, "I'm so pissed off!"
Linzy runs towards the wall of fedoras and took down all of the fedoras there, shoving them into a nearby box, "I'm so evicting him!" she said.
But, as Linzy brought the box of fedoras outside, she suddenly noticed...that one of the hinge used to hook one of the fedoras...is actually a door handle.
"Huh?" Linzy asked herself as she looked at the "wall of fedoras."
Deciding to investigate, Linzy puts down the box of fedoras and opens the "wall," revealing it to be a door towards a secret underground room. The staircase leading from the office towards the room was very long. Wanting to investigate even further, Linzy runs down the staircase, and just a few meters from the end of the staircase, she hears a female muttering about something.
"When this volcano exploded, volcanic ash and lava were released..."
Linzy walked the last few steps of the staircase, before finding herself inside a huge, underground, hangar. The hangar has two platforms that forms the letter "U", with whiteboards present on the walls along the platform (with the exception of the connecting bridge).
"Hot springs frequently have magma," the female being kept on muttering as Linzy climbed on the staircase leading to the first platform, noticing that the whiteboard on the first platform were full of writings about magma, volcanoes, and eruptions. Meanwhile, the female being was writing on the whiteboard on the second platform.
"So this country's volcanoes erupt frequently?" the female being muttered, "An eruption releases a lot of magma..."
Linzy decided to walk across the connecting bridge towards the second platform, where she notices the female being is in fact Widi who is writing some stuff about magma, volcanoes, and eruptions on the second platform's whiteboard (which is already half full) using the marker on her right hand, while her left hand was holding the same blank, black book.
"Excuse me," Linzy said after she approaches Widi from the connecting bridge.
The young girl turned around, before continuing on with her writing, "Do you mind not interrupting me?"
"Huh?" Linzy cocked her head.
"Silicon dioxide results in 150,870 corresponding results, of those I've finished reading 142,650 of them," Widi continues on with her muttering as she writes on the whiteboard behind her sofa.
"Hey, you, are you Widi?" Linzy asked, "The partner of that wannabe detective?"
"Linda Kumalasari Cahyadi," Widi said as she switches whiteboards, "I've read everything related to you."
"Eh?" Linzy asked in astonishment.
"Nothing of interest," Widi continues, "Hurry back to that Surabaya or whatever city."
"Surabaya or whatever? You don't know anything about Surabaya?" Linzy asked, stopping Widi in her tracks, "You're living in the largest city in Indonesia yet you didn't know about the second largest city of the nation? So that means you don't know what is rawon, right?"
Widi turned around, staring at Linzy, before smiling with a rather devious smile. She then drops her blank book, grabs her whiteboard eraser, and proceeds to erase everything on the whiteboards on the second platform.
A few minutes later...
Max arrived at the Detective Agency, after being stuck in a traffic jam at the Cempaka Putih area for about half an hour. He then rushes towards the underground hangar, only to see his partner writing nonsense on the whiteboards. He also sees Linzy along with her.
"You, middle-schooler!" Max said, walking towards the two of them, "What are you doing here?"
"Hey, Max, this girl's great! How thrilling. This is the new lookup sensation! I bet you don't know about this food called rawon! With the keywords of rawon, meat soup, and kluwak fruit, I've found around 3,500,280 related matches. What an interesting way of eating. A black meat soup does sound scrumptious right now!" Widi said.
"I know what rawon is! Now get back on your original lookup!" Max said, pointing at Widi, "And you," Max said as he approaches Linzy, "You've really done it this time! It's your fault that you've sidetracked Widi!"
"What's with this girl?" Linzy asked, frightened as Max corners her into a small ladder, which is usually used by Widi to reach the upper parts of the whiteboard.
"If she doesn't do research for me, we can't follow up in this Dopant case!" Max said as he walked away from Linzy. Irritated, Linzy quickly approaches Max and grabs his shoulder.
"There it is again! Dopant!" Linzy said, pointing her finger at Max's face.
"Okay, okay, if you really want to know that much, let me explain it to you," Max said.
A picture of a red, USB-like device with a bony texture to it appears on Max's laptop screen, the device apparently has a bone-like I labeled into it.
"Right now, there are guys spreading these around," Max explained as Linzy carefully examine the picture, while at the same time Widi resumed her research, "They're called Gaia Memories. Humans who obtain this became super-powered beings. These beings are called Dopants."
"That's ridiculous. How can..." Linzy tried to protest.
"Hold it! This afternoon, you are attacked by one of them," Max interrupted.
"Rawon Nguling, Rawon Gresik, or Rawon Surabaya?" Widi muttered as she walked past the two of them.
"Great. Just great. When she's like this, you can't budge her a bit!" Max complained.
"Then what we'll do?" Linzy asked.
The next day...
Widi finishes writing her final words on rawon, before closing her blank grey book that "contains" the information on rawon.
"I've read everything about rawon," Widi announced, her face didn't indicate any fatigue even though she has been writing everything about rawon non-stop from yesterday afternoon.
Max and Linzy opened their eyes and stretched their bodies. For the night, they have been sleeping on the hangar's sofa.
"Hurry back to the Gaia Library, please," Max said, yawning a bit.
"Okay," Widi said, walking away from the whiteboards. She then stood up, her book about rawon on her left hand, before extending her right arm, closing her eyes at the same time. Suddenly a mysterious wind blows through the hangar, as a green astral projection of Widi leaves her body. At the same time, Widi found herself in a middle of a white realm, which is filled with endless amounts of books and bookshelves.
"Starting the lookup," Widi said, as the bookshelves run past her, before grinding into a halt. "The Memory is Magma," Widi said again, the word Magma appearing in front of her. The bookshelves then began to move back and forth again.
"Er, what's wrong with her?" Linzy asked, pointing to the semi-meditating Widi.
"Don't interrupt her!" Max scolded, before approaching Widi, "I want to know where he'll attack next. First keyword, Kevin Varian."
The remaining bookshelves then moved again, leaving only a row of bookshelves left.
"That cut down a lot of the results," Widi stated, the name "Kevin Varian" floating in front of her, before fading away.
"Well, that's because it's a person," Max said, "Second keyword, Windscale. That's the name of the company he was laid off from."
The word Windscale appearing in front of Widi. After that, the bookshelves began to shift yet again, this time only leaving five of them in front of Widi. Back to the real world, Max picked up the photos that Albert had given him and started to examine it closely, before noticing a photo of a torn cloth, with a product tag on it.
"Thirdly, look at the following numbers. WS-09K-097T," Max said.
The bookshelves then moved yet again, this time leaving a single, burgundy colored book. Widi approaches the book, as the word "PLACE" began to materialize on the book. Widi then grabs the book and starts to read it.
"Entering the tag's product number. Excellent idea," Widi praised as she returned to the real world, before taking the photo from Max, "This product is sold at limited locations. The only one that hasn't been attacked yet...is the Sunter branch of Windscale!"
"That's only a few kilometers from here! Let's go, Widi," Max said as he left the hangar. Linzy then decided to follow Max, only to find that Widi haven't moved a single inch from where she stands.
"Aren't you going?" Linzy asked.
"I am going," Widi said, smiling as she closes the book, "The two of us are a single detective."
Outside, Max puts on his helmet and prepared himself to leave towards the Sunter branch of Windscale, when suddenly Sania appeared and approaches him.
"Max?" Sania asked.
Max looked at his friend and said, "I've found him," before driving off, with Sania looking at him as he disappears around the corner.
Windscale, Sunter Branch
Max quickly parks his motorcycle at the building's front parking lot, before running towards the main atrium. After scanning the surrounding area with his eyes for a few minutes, Max has found a tall, young man, with brown skin and very short hair. The man was wearing a white shirt under his white jacket, as well as black trousers. Seeing this, Max smiled to himself. He had found Kevin Varian.
"Kevin Varian," Max said as he approaches the young man, who is staring at the building, hatred billowing from the young man's eyes, "Right?"
"Are you an employee of this store?" Kevin asked, noticing the Windscale logo on Max's fedora.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Max asked, but without giving out a response, Kevin rolled up his right sleeve, revealing a black, USB port-like tatoo on it.
"Then," Kevin said, taking out a red Gaia Memory with a fiery M labeled on it, "Go to Hell!"
"MAGMA!" the Gaia Memory exclaims as Kevin presses the Memory's button, before stabbing the Memory on his USB port tatoo. As the Memory made contact with the tatoo, Kevin's body started to ignite in flames, before transforming into the Magma Dopant. The surrounding crowd began to flee in terror as they avoid the flames coming out from Kevin's transformed self, before the Magma Dopant roared, sending out a fire wave at the area, actually igniting the edge of Max's fedora.
"Shit!" Max cursed as he takes off his fedora, stomping the buring part on the ground, putting out the flames before wearing the fedora again, "That was my good fedora!"
The Magma Dopant roared yet again as he approaches Max.
"I will stop you," Max said, smoke still billowing out from his fedora's edge, "Correction, we will stop you."
Max then grabs something from his pocket, the strange, red, closed W-shaped belt buckle from a year ago. He then places the buckle on his waist, the black straps coming out from the buckle and wraps itself around Max's waist, creating a belt.
Meanwhile, as Linzy settles herself on the hangar's sofa, Widi was on the hangar's lower ground, reading a book that she'd picked up from the Gaia Library a few minutes after Max left.
"Facinating, apparently the Sumatran Tiger is the rarest species of tiger on Earth!" Widi exclaimed, before the identical copy of Max's belt appearing around her waist, "It's that time already? Man, that's quick."
Max opens up his vest, revealing three Gaia Memories on the inner pocket. Max takes out the black Gaia Memory, with the stylized purple J labeled on it, before clicking on the Memory's button.
"JOKER!" the Memory exclaimed, provoking the Magma Dopant to approach Max even closer.
"Widi," Max called out.
Back at the Detective Agency's underground hangar, Widi puts down her book as she takes out a green Gaia Memory with a wind-like C labeled on it from her pocket, before clicking on the Memory's button.
"CYCLONE!"
"Is that a Gaia Memory?" Linzy asked as she looked down in curiosity.
Widi then holds the Memory with her right hand and crossing it over her chest to her left side, while Max also performs the same pose, only using the left hand and crossing it over his chest to his right side.
"HENSHIN!" both Widi and Max exclaimed, before Widi inserts the Cyclone Memory on the right slot on her belt buckle, before the Memory vanishes into green energy. Linzy looked on in astonishment as Widi fainted, her body collapsing on the hangar's floor.
Back at the Sunter branch of Windscale, the Cyclone Memory had appeared on the right slot on Max's belt buckle, before Max presses it down using his right hand. The young detective then proceeds to insert his own Joker Memory, this time on the left slot of his belt buckle, before using both hands to open up the buckle, opening up the W-shape on the belt buckle.
"CYCLONE! JOKER!" the Memories exclaims, with both symbols of the Memories appearing in front of the Driver. The wind around Max became more intense as energy debries surged into him, forming an armored warrior with a green right side and a black left side, with a silver line separating the two halves. The red eyes glowed as the transformation completes, along with a silver scarf bursting from the green side's neck. The most prominent feature of the warrior is the W-shaped crest on his head, along with some ornate markings on the chest and shoulders. This is Kamen Rider W, in his default CycloneJoker form. The Magma Dopant was thrown back by the strong wind emanating from the armored warrior.
"Oh my God!" Linzy exclaimed as she looked down at Widi's comatose body, before rushing down towards the hangar's lower level, "I didn't hear anything about this! Widi!"
"So, count up your crimes!" W spoke, both Max and Widi are speaking in unison, as he pointed at the Magma Dopant, before rushing over to attack it. Giving the Dopant a solid kick on the chest, W punches the Magma Dopant several times on the chest, before a chain of roundhouse kicks sends the Dopant to the ground.
Annoyed, the Magma Dopant growled as his back began to glow, as several molten fireballs are being ejected from the Dopant's back. The fireballs gave W a hard time, as he struggled to dodge the fireballs attack which leaves small craters on the ground on impact.
"Argh! These things are sure hot," Max grunted as the fireballs hit his palm several times.
"In this situation..." Widi said, W's right eye blinking as she speaks.
W turned around, dodging yet another volley of fireballs, before he closes the belt buckle yet again, pulling out the Cyclone Memory and revealing yet another Gaia Memory, this time a yellow Gaia Memory with a crescent-like L labeled on it.
"Hey, Widi, what are you doing?" Max asked in confusion as W clicked the button on the new Memory.
"LUNA!"
W then inserts the Memory on the right slot of the belt buckle, before opening the buckle again.
"LUNA! JOKER!" the Memories exclaimed as the green side on W's body shimmers into yellow, transforming into his LunaJoker form, as at the same time the Magma Dopant went on with his fireballs again. But this time, W easily uses his now extendible right arm as a whip, deflecting the fireballs into the ground much to the Magma Dopant's astonishment.
"Hey, Widi! Don't just change Memories without my permission!" Max said, rather annoyed.
The Magma Dopant fires yet another volley of fireballs, but W just deflects them using his right arm, before grabbing the Dopant's face. The arm then shortens in length, enabling W to get closer towards the Dopant, before proceeding to jump in the air and extends his right leg like a whip, axe-kicking the Dopant in the process, sending him towards a nearby wall. W then performs a series of roundhouse kicks the Dopant yet again, but this time using only the extendible right leg, before finally ending a combo with a bicycle kick, which sends the Dopant to the ground, weakened.
"Max, what should we do?" Widi asked, W's right eye blinking as usual.
"That should be obvious. A Memory Break!" Max exclaims.
W closes the belt buckle and takes out the Luna Memory, before inserting the Cyclone Memory again. W then opens up the buckle.
"CYCLONE! JOKER!"
W proceeds to take out the Joker Memory with his right hand, before inserting it into a black slot on his right hip.
"JOKER! MAXIMUM DRIVE!" the Joker Memory exclaimed, purple energy surging from the Memory towards the belt.
A small, controlled tornado slowly lifts W up, as the Magma Dopant struggles to get back on his feet due to the strong winds. W then presses the slot after finding the right altitude, before assuming a dropkick position.
"JOKER EXTREME!" both Max and Widi exclaims, as W launches himself down, his body splitting up in half mid-way through. The two halves then accelerated as they collided with the Magma Dopant's chest at the same time, covering the Dopant in a huge explosion as he was thrown several meters back, as W, now intact again, landed safely on both feet. The Magma Dopant tried to get up again, only to be knocked down on the ground again by yet another explosion, the explosion forcefully reverts the Magma Dopant back into Kevin, his Magma Memory ejected from him and shatters as it touches the ground.
"I'll leave the rest to the cops," Max said as W approaches Kevin, "What should I tell Sania?"
Suddenly the ground began to shook as a large fissure began to crack up from the ground behind Kevin, revealing a large, grey Tyrannosaurus rex head. The dinosaur head roared as it approaches Kevin.
"What is that thing?" Max asked.
"No, please don't take me, don't take me!" Kevin cried as the T-rex head had managed to bite his legs, swallowing him inch by inch.
"Hey! Stop it!" Max shouted as W rushes over towards the dinosaur head. Suddenly the dinosaur head, still having a struggling Kevin on it's mouth, turned around, revealing a tail composed of rubble, cables, and various junk appearing from the fissure, which knocks W to the ground. Recovering himself, W takes out a cell phone, which is attached to his left waist, before opening it up and pressing a few buttons on it.
"Hey, are you okay?" Linzy asked as she tried to resucitate Widi, unaware that the circular hangar wall behind her started to glow. The second and first platforms began to raise up, as the connecting bridge retracts itself into it's respective platforms. A set of wheels then appears from the ground, while the hangar's lower level floors also raises up, covering both Linzy and Widi's comatose body.
"We've gotta escape! Hey! Wake up!" Linzy yelled as the floors began to encapsulate the two of them, forming a huge truck.
The truck itself as red front windows, as well as a W-shaped ornament on top of it, while it also have small, yellow wheels and a bulletproof, black body. The circular part of the hangar, which is attached to the back of the truck, starts to shift, revealing three, motorcycle components as the truck's headlamps began to illuminate. The doors of the hangar began to open, revealing a tunnel large enough for the truck to go through. The truck then revs itself before driving through the tunnel, with a startled Linzy and the comatose Widi inside.
"It's driving by itself! I'm scared!" Linzy exclaimed in terror as the truck navigated itself through a network of tunnels, before launching itself out from a secret tunnel located at a small service road just next to the apartment complex.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Next time, on Kamen Rider W: The Alternate Story!
"I won't let anyone in this city to cry," Max said.
"Whhhhy?" Linzy cried in terror.
"It might start to eat you," Widi warned.
"I don't need your help," Max said, slamming his Gaia Memories on the table.
"You're the culprit behind the murder of Kevin Varian," Max said, pointing towards the unknown suspect.
Chapter 2: W Lookup/The Dark Side of a Crush
THIS CLINCHES IT!
