Count the Medals
GammaTron: And here's another work. I'm amazed I even thought of this. It'll have a SonicXOC pairing but with hinted SonAmy before this story began. I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog or Kamen Rider OOO. I do own Echo Hino, Roll Cyber Sakurai, and Daisuke Sakurai. Also, Uncle Chuck?
Uncle Chuck: *walks in wearing a red business suit while OOO, Kamen Rider 1, Kamen Rider 2, Double, Fourze, Accel, and Birth dragged in a large container. Clears throat as a certain song played in the background* Happy birthday to you… Happy birthday to you… Happy Birthday dear…*the seven Kamen Riders nodded before they opened the container, revealing a massive ice cream cake with all the Kamen Riders on it*…Kamen Riders. Happy Birthday to you~!
Me: *applause* I know this is late by a few months, but I wanted OOO to end before writing this. This way, I can also add the OOO Movies to the mix. Now as for why Uncle Chuck sang that, this is the year 2011. On April 3, 1971, the first Kamen Rider appeared. That was Kamen Rider 1, Takeshi Hongo. Since then, there have been dozens, if not close or above 100, Kamen Riders known throughout Japan and even in other countries. As of this year, we celebrate 40 Years of Kamen Rider!
An Elegant Search! Your Personal Rider 48~
Type 1: Bride of the Child of the Sun! ~For Sagittarius A Type~
Urataros: *walks in* Yo! It's your idol, Urataros. For those who are Sagittarius A Type...You are Kamen Rider Black RX!
Black RX: *poses*
Urataros: You're as bright as the sun, but you hate irrational things. Let's move to our example.
*Cous Coussier*
Urataros Narration: One day, you went to her father to ask her hand in marriage.
Eiji: *wearing a black tux with blue button shirt and gold tie. Beside him is a nervous Roll. Puts his hands on the table* Please let me marry Roll-chan! *bows*
Roll: Eiji-kun...
Urataros: But her father is...General Shadow!
General Shadow: *sitting across from them* You don't have a steady job. You're just a wanderer with a baby girl! Shadow hates beggers, especially ones with babies! Shadow hates guys who are unsteady! *slams fists on table* Shadow has made his decision! I will not let you marry my daughter! *crosses arms and looks away from the slumped Eiji*
Urataros: This is the worst case scenario. But you are RX. This is how you would get out of this crisis.
Roll: *blinks and sees RX had replaced Eiji while the area had changed to a dark area*
RX: *gets up and poses* I am the child of the sun! Kamen Rider Black RX! To oppose marriage between those who love each other...it is irrational! I can't forgive that! RevolCane! *beats General Shadow*
Roll: *hugs the Rider's arm* So wonderful!
*HQ*
Urataros: Just what you expect from RX. It's refreshing just to watch. In the next corner, we will find your fated Rider. RX's best friend, Soul Friend Rider is ZO. His Devil Rider is Garren. If you're a girl, your lover would be V3. For marriage, I recommend Gills. Saa, go find your fated Rider okay?
Kivat: What about the other Riders? Check out your friends and family!
It was roughly early in the morning when the security system at the Kougami Art Museum was turned off. A set of three security guards slowly made their way into the storage area. The middle one, a Mobian Weasel with purple and white fur, began to laugh.
"This mountain of treasure is ours, boys!" the weasel laughed.
"Wow! Nack, this is awesome!" the green duck laughed, "Come on, Bark, let's get this stuff movin' to the groove!"
The yellow polar bear remained silent. He merely blinked at the green duck before shrugging. He pointed up at the ceiling.
"Heh. Yeah, right, Bark, as if he could stop us," Nack sneered, "I heard he's lost his speed."
"Where'd it go, Nack? You think it's in the lost and found?" the duck asked.
"Shut it, Bean. Plus, I drugged him; he's snoozing up a storm up there," Nack smirked, "Same wit' that kid he's got."
Bark frowned at Nack.
"What? You think I'd go and drug a kid? Hell no," Nack scowled, "No one in their right mind, not even Bean here, would hurt a little kid. 'Specially when it's a cute little baby."
Bark nodded. He never expected that he would show up last night with a baby girl, working as a security guard for the night. He slowly began to load up the various vases within the storage room upon a nearby cart with Bean and Nack. Nearby laid a stone container. The top was sealed by a strange lock. Unaware to them, a small pile of silver coins rested behind it. Upon the top of the pile was a pair of red medals, one depicting a hawk with the other depicting a peacock.
"It's all ours! That includes this and that as well!" Nack laughed.
"Oh, the tension's rising!" Bean cheered, "We're in the piggy banks~!"
Unaware to the three, the two red medals began to spin about. The silver medals began to coalesce around the two red medals. As the three began to get things ready to run off with, the medals formed a hand and arm. The limb grunted as it slowly climbed up and grabbed the strange lock. With a tug, it slowly moved away. The entire structure began to release a soft, gold light.
"Hey! Hey! Who turned on the lights?" Bean asked as he pulled out a stick of dynamite from nowhere, "I'm the only guy who can do that!"
Bark pointed at the container. The other two looked at it as the 'arm' reached into the light and ripped out more coins. It solidified and became a red and green arm. It seemed to be covered in a mixture of scales and feathers. Its fingernails were that of talons while the back of the limb had two tiny 'wings.' On two of its fingers were ornate, gold rings. It quickly flew off and out of the building. The container collapsed into a pile of silver coins and multiple colored coins. The piles coalesced into four different figures made out of the coins.
"Oh wow! Look at them! They're loaded with money!" Bean exclaimed as he hung off Bark's arm as the bear was running off with Nack, "Hey! Hey! Why are we running away? Did we quit getting the nice vases? Aw…I wanted that pink one. It went so well with my eyes, too."
A wall exploded nearby, revealing a figure riding upon a black and yellow motorcycle. The figure took out a gun and began to fire upon to coin being. The gun soon ran out of ammunition and the figure held a hand up to its helmet.
"This is Gotou from the Ride Vendor First Platoon. The Medals have begun to awaken," the figure spoke, the voice clearly male, "Your orders, please."
-Eliminate them- was the response.
"Roger that."
The collected coins clanked as the beings walked after the retreating rider. In flashes of light, the figures took solid forms. One was green with the form of an insect. The second one was blue and feminine-like with the form of a fish. The third was black and yellow with the look of a cat. And the last one was bulky with the face of a mammoth. All four of the monsters seemed uncaring of the weapons which were pointed at them and simply strode on without a care in the world.
Gotou regrouped with a group of riders on their own Ride Vendors. He took out a button and pushed down on it. His men aimed their bazookas upon the building. Wordlessly, they aimed and fired. The building began to erupt in various explosions, yet did not collapse. Instantly, the figures reverted back to coins and took off into the sky, leaving the explosions behind them. Within the building, a figure snored on a couch, unaware of the building's shakings. Nearby, a small infant was fast asleep in a baby carrier on the table.
"Ride Vendor First Platoon in pursuit now," Gotou informed as the Ride Vendors drove off after the coins.
The first squad chased after one of the four clusters to a highway overpass before it reconfigured into the form of the insect monster. It was colored mainly back and green with chitin-like chest armor which had a yellow circle in the center of its chest with green surrounding it, making plates that looked like muscles. From its shoulders ran long antennae not unlike a grasshopper while its arms were covered with black armor with a pair of long serrated blades coming from its right wrist. Its head was round with a long green visor which had round ends and a silver mouthplate which had the look of mandibles. Its final look was the horns which grew from its head that looked like Kuwagata beetle horns. What did seem odd was that its legs didn't seem to have any sort of covering and instead looked like ancient bandaging not unlike what a mummy would have.
The insect monster watched as the two riders who pursued it rode at him with their weapons being aimed at its form. Uncaring, it leapt into the air and came back down, landing on both bikes which had the unfortunate luck of riding close together. Grabbing the riders by their necks, the insect monster leaped back into the sky, letting the motorcycles crash. Once reaching the apex of its jump, the monster let the pair go. The pair fell screaming to the ground before they landed with loud thuds on the concrete, leaving splatters of red across the stone surface around their bodies. Landing on the ground once again, the insect beast smugly strolled away from the scene, letting the two bikes explode nearby, incinerating the bodies.
"Such weaklings. Has humanity and Mobianity devolved since our entombing?"
Not too far away, in front of a tunnel which went underground, the second mass of silver coins converged together to form the mammoth creature. Its legs were powerful and covered from head to toe in tarnished silver armor which spoke of power and endurance. Its feet seemed more like an elephant's rather than a humanoids. Its head seemed like a helmet with a small black visor with a short horn coming out of its forehead. On either side of where the jaw would be was a pair of tusks with a small trunk sticking out where the mouth would be. However, where torso and arm armor should have been was simply a humanoid torso and arms covered in black and brown wrappings like a mummy. The creature just stood, staring dumbly at the two riders which were racing towards him, shooting with reckless abandon. The bullets collided with it, but the creature didn't seem to notice at all. In fact, the creature was actually curious at what they were doing with things that were tickling him. As the riders drew closer to ram it, the monster smashed its fists into the motorcycles, crushing the front ends like tin cans and sending them end over end, riders and all, behind it before they crashed into the ground and exploded. The monster didn't seem all that concerned with the destruction that it had caused though.
"Mezool…Where are you?" the creature pondered as he went off.
Inside the tunnel appeared the third mass of coins which became the female fish-like monster. Her head seemed to have a helmet that looked like the body of a shark/whale hybrid of some sort that ended with her bright blue eyes. Her face was silver and had a rigid covering over her mouth. Her shoulders were covered with a dark blue cape that ran down her back almost regally, but her torso and arms were covered in black and brown bandages. Her legs were trim and smooth, colored silver as they ended in high heel boots. Down the front of her legs were studs which made her legs seem almost like octopus tentacles. The two motorcyclists charged at her while raising their guns. With a ladylike, but impatient, snort, she shot out her hand at them with an open palm. A blast of water surged forward from her palm, quickly gaining the size of a small tidal wave before crashing against the riders, sending them and their bikes sprawling backwards. The two quickly crashed into the ground with their rides, but the fish monster didn't stop shoot until they were cleared out of the tunnel. Satisfied that they were far enough away from her, she stopped the water pressure and smirked at the bones remaining. Seeing her task complete, the fish monster began walking away with a dainty giggle.
"Mezool!" the silver monster called out happily as it ran over and hugged her, "Gamel found you!"
"Hai, hai. That's a good Gamel," the aquatic monster giggled as she gently patted Gamel on the head, earning giggles of happiness from the silver monster.
At the opposite end of the tunnel, the last mass of coins merged together to form the cat monster as it landed on the ground in a crouch. Its face was certainly feline, but made of black steel with metal studs on the forehead. Dark yellow cords not unlike dreadlocks came from the back of its head while its lower jaw was made of gray steel. Its torso was covered with more black armor with a yellow orb in the centre with a silver strip coming up the middle. The pectorals of the armor were covered in more metal studs which matched its shoulders. The monsters arms were covered in large black gauntlets which ended in sharp metal claws and once more covered in silver studs like the rest of the armor. However like its comrades, it was missing something, in this case, the armor for its legs. Rather than some covering like the rest of its armor, the monster's legs were merely brown and black bandages not unlike a mummy. The feline monster snickered before leaping into the air as two riders charged at him. The monster proceeded to spin in their air at a ridiculous speed. The riders had no chance to dodge as the beast came at them; striking them so hard loud cracks could be heard from their torsos. At the same time, the force of the blows send them sailing off their bikes and crashing into the asphalt with loud thuds. They slowly started to get up when the feline turned into a blur and appeared before them. The two riders slowly moved ahead, their bodies staining the floor with their splattered and shredded organs as their diced bodies collapsed.
"Mobians and Humans leave such a mess. But still, even with my sight, the visage is still beautiful," the monster noted.
"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you…"
A hedgehog was currently applying a vanilla icing to a beautiful vanilla cake while a gramophone singing the traditional 'Happy Birthday' song sang in the background. The hedgehog's blue quills were slowly turning gray with his bushy eyebrows and mustache. He took careful detailing into the cake, keeping a single eye open behind his glasses. He was in a sky rise office filled with plush furniture and the only other person in the room was a Mobian cat in a frilly pink outfit, revealing a bit of her well endowed cleavage. Continuing to write, the hedgehog continued to sing as he finished the cake.
"Happy Birthday dear…" the hedgehog paused as he wrote down the final letter in chocolate frosting, "…Greeed. Happy Birthday to you~!"
The sleeping figure snorted awake as something hit him on the forehead. He got up and saw that the lights were out. The sound of babbling got his attention. Slowly, he turned and smiled gently upon the baby carrier. He gently picked up the small infant in it. The baby was a hedgehog, with a mix of pink and baby-blue quills. The baby babbled happily as she reached her arms up to the figure. He gave a chuckle as he let the baby take one of his white glove-covered fingers into her tiny hands.
"That's my little Echo…" the figure chuckled before he saw what had hit him on the floor, "Hm? What is this?"
He knelt down and picked it up. It was a red coin, depicting a hawk. The trimming of the coin was a solid gold. Echo babbled excitedly as she saw it, letting the figure put it in her little hands.
"This must be my work payment. Thank you, whoever gave this to me," the figure bowed as he put the baby into her carrier.
The hedgehog moved the carrier to look at a nearby window. He removed his tie and then his work shirt, revealing the blue quills and peach fur underneath. He undid the pants, letting them slide off his legs to reveal the tie-dye boxers underneath. He picked them up and hung them upon the wall next to a set of clothing. A creaking sound slowly filled the ears of the Mobian hedgehog. He looked about before the wall before him collapsed. His eyes widened in shock as he saw the various GUN members and firefighters outside along with the wreckage. He slowly rose his hands up while scooting to what remained standing of the wall. Echo giggled as she teethed on the coin.
You count the Medals! One, two, and three! Life goes on! Anything goes! Coming up OOO!
*The screen changed to the Taka, Tora, and Batta Core Medals in a triangle. It cut to a series of shots of OOO with a ring going over his body, showing a Combo Part. It then cut to a far shot of OOO transforming before cutting to Eiji tossing a coin into the air. He caught it and put it into a Vendor, transforming it into the Ride Vender. It opened up and transformed into the Ride Vendor. It then cut to OOO driving off on it as the title appeared*
Iranai montanai yume mo minai (Don't bother with dreams that are unnecessary or fleeting)
*It cut to a walking shot of Roll approaching the screen to the left before cutting to Ankh approaching from the right*
Free na joutai sore mo ii kedo (It's fine to just be completely free)
*It cut to a far shot of Eiji hanging up a pair of his boxers in the middle of a semi-grassy land*
Koko kara hajimaru! What you've been waiting for! Count the Medals! One, two, and three! (It stars now!)
*It cut to Eiji lying down beside the baby carrier holding a sleeping Echo before a ghostly glowing Ankh began to do the worm before the screen. It cut to a close up of Ankh's hand showing the Taka, Tora, and Batta Medals*
Unmei wa kimi hottokanai (But you can't ignore fate)
*It cut to Eiji looking over at his daughter to see her awake and teething on the Taka Medal*
Kekkyoku wa susumu shika nai (In the end, all you can do is keep moving forward)
*It cut to a far shot of Roll with a close shot of the Tora Medal sitting upright on a rock before cutting to a far shot of Shadow with the Batta Medal in front of the camera, standing upright in a pile of garbage*
Michi naru tenkai! Give me energy! Count the Medals! One, two, and three!
*It cut to a rotating shot of Roll, Eiji, and Shadow all holding one of the coins as a ghostly glowing Ankh doing the worm before the screen once more. It cut to Ankh first holding the Taka Medal between two fingers before cutting to him holding the Taka and Tora Medals and then to him holding all three*
Daijoubu! Ashita wa itsu date Blank (It's okay! Tomorrow's always a blank slate)
*It cut to a soaring shot of the Greed on the beach in the completed forms. It then cut to Roll chasing after Ankh before a red curtain-like fabric blocking her from the screen. It cut to her grabbing it and pulling it away, revealing Ankh had vanished. It then cut to a pile of Cell Medals with Ankh grabbing them hastily*
Jibun no kachi wa jibun de kimeru mono saa (You're the one who decides what your worth is)
*It cut to Sonic racing along Green Hill Zone before it shattered, revealing Eiji looking down at the three Core Medals with Shadow, Roll, and Ankh's back to him. It then cut to him scanning them in the OOO's driver with a cry of 'Henshin!'*
OOO! OOO! OOO! OOO! Come on!
*It cut to a coin showing scene of the chapter before cutting to OOO riding his Ride Vender*
Anything goes! Sono Kokoro ga atsuku naru mono (Anything goes! Fire up that heart!)
*OOO drove off before cutting to a close up of Eiji's gloved hand as sand fell off it to reveal the Medals. It then cut to Eiji becoming OOO's TaToBa Combo*
Mitasareru mono wo sagashite (Find something to fulfill you)
*It cut to a Taka Cell Medal with a head shot of Gotou looking to the left for a side shot before cutting to Satonaka looking at him with the back of a Cell Medal to the screen before cutting to Bark sitting on a couch with Bean as Echo giggled in the polar bear's lap at Bean's antics of annoying Ankh*
Life goes on! Honki dashite! Tatakau no nara (Time to get serious! If you are going to fight)
*It cut to OOO activating the Tora Claws before jumping up. It then cut to Roll hugging the red fabric before cutting to the other side, showing Ankh being hugged by Roll through the fabric, giving a strange expression*
Makeru ki shinai hazu*Then don't worry about losing)
*It cut to the Greed walking out from behind their own colored fabrics, all the same color as the fabric before cutting to OOO inserting three Cell Medals into Caliburn and activating the Triple Scanning Charge. He swung it down, creating a large sand explosion that sent Cell Medals flying all about and covering the screen with the dust. The three Cell Medals spun before ending at the front of the screen with the Taka Medal at the left and the Batta Medal at the right*
Coin 1: Medal, Underwear, Mysterious Arm
"You really didn't realize?" a Mobian Dalmatian pondered, "I mean, look at this."
"Oh…Well, my daughter and I were fast asleep," the hedgehog explained, still in his boxers while carrying a giggling Echo's baby carrier, "Was it a gas explosion?"
"We're investigating it right now," a voice said, making the hedgehog freeze up and gulp.
"Hey there…" the hedgehog began as he turned to another hedgehog, this one a solid black with red highlights, a white tuff of fur on his chest, and crimson eyes with a tan muzzle, "…Shadow."
"Don't 'hey there, Shadow' me, Sonic!" the hedgehog growled before turning to the dog, "Leave. I'll talk with him."
"Hai, sir!" the dog saluted before she walked off while Nack, Bean, and Bark was carried off into a hospital car.
"Hey, are those three okay?" Sonic asked.
"Those three are Nack, Bark, and Bean, Sonic. Or has going missing for the last year and a half made you an idiot?" Shadow demanded, "You fought each of them on various occasions!"
"But are they okay?"
"Not one has a life-threatening injury, but I…"
"Thank goodness! They may be thieves, but they gave me juice and fresh milk to little Echo here. Say hello to your Uncle Shadow, Echo."
"Pth!" Echo blew a raspberry at the ebony hedgehog.
"Bark even let her sit on his lap when she motioned to him. They're good Mobians!" Sonic grinned.
"Sonic, you remember how long they've been your enemies?" Shadow demanded.
"Hai. But they've been friends since this morning," Sonic replied before he walked over to the hole in the wall to get dressed, making sure Echo was looking out at the window again.
"You idiot! You've been gone for a year and a half, missing with your daughter, and when I find out you're here in just a pair of boxers, you act like this?-!" Shadow growled.
"Actually. My name is Hino Eiji," Sonic corrected, "Sonic is just my old nickname."
"…Eiji? You're Japanese?" Shadow blinked as Sonic put on a button-up tie-dye shirt and a long, brown scarf.
"Yeah. On my mother's side," Sonic replied, "Christmas Island is actually part of Japan, you know."
"Sonic, how the hell have you been taking care of her?" Shadow demanded.
"Oi! No cursing near Echo-chan!" Eiji scolded.
"Just answer the question!"
"Fine, fine," Eiji shrugged as he handed Shadow a rolled up cloth, "Here."
Shadow took the cloth and opened it. He blinked at seeing the change that was in there. It was all money both native and foreign to Japan. Not a single bill was in the pile, just change.
"This is everything? Where's your luggage? Where's her diapers?"
"I don't have any."
"Th-This can't be! You can't have a nomadic life with just this! Especially when you have to raise an infant!" Shadow snapped.
"We can! We have a little money and tomorrow's underwear," Eiji replied.
"You mean these?" Shadow asked as he opened the cloth all the way, revealing burnt boxers.
"Ah! It's burnt! Our tomorrow!" Eiji slumped.
"Don't give me that, you idiot!" Shadow growled.
Unaware to the two of them, the hand was slowly trying to get out from under a pile of rubble.
"Satonaka-kun. My Kougami Foundation's great art museum… as well as the Rider Vender platoon are mostly destroyed," the hedgehog noted as the cat indulged in the cake while sitting before a laptop, "That's how powerful the Greeed are."
"Chief, didn't you predict this? You look disappointed."
"Of course I am. It doesn't matter what it is…being born into this world is wonderful!" the hedgehog declared as he looked out at the city from his windows, "So, the resurrection of the Greeed may not be all bad."
Four silk banners fell from an overhead. The four Greed walked through the banners. Gamel stopped to look at his arms.
"What? This body…is odd."
"There's something vital that's missing," Mezool noted, "A Medal…and it's a Core Medal too!"
"Why?-! There's no way a Medal would just disappear!" the insect monster exclaimed.
"I saw Ankh holding them," the feline noted.
"Nani?-!" the insect gawked as the three turned to the cat.
"Ankh!"
"It can't be! But it looked like he could barely take form!"
"That bastard! Even after just awakening, he's still shrewd."
"Oh man…" Eiji groaned as he walked with Shadow, Echo in the carrier, "I've got to find a new job. Or Echo-chan and I won't have an inn today or underwear tomorrow."
"I'm serious here, Sonic," Shadow growled as he moved to stop the blue hedgehog, "What has gotten into you?"
"Time has, Shadow," Eiji replied, "And it's 'Eiji.'"
"I don't care if it's 'Queen Elizabeth the First!' Is this because you lost…" Shadow began when Eiji's right fist met his nose.
"Don't mention her name like that, Ultimate Lifeform…" Eiji spat as he smiled softly at Echo, "It's okay, Echo-chan. Uncle Shadow was being a meanie."
"You…" Shadow grunted as his nose fixed itself.
"Look, Shadow, why are you following us?" Eiji asked as he continued walking.
"You've been gone for a year and a half! Tails refused to tell us anything and when we tried to use a truth detector, he used one of his machines and erased the knowledge of where you two went!" Shadow growled.
"I still visit him to let Echo-chan be with her Onii-chan," Eiji noted when he stopped to see a vending machine, "Ah. Maybe you want some milk, Echo-chan?"
Echo giggled happily before nailing Eiji in the forehead with the coin. Eiji caught it in his free hand and looked at it.
"I forgot about this," Eiji noted.
"Sonic…Just what is that coin?" Shadow demanded as Eiji suddenly dropped it, letting it roll under the vending machine.
"Ah!" Eiji gasped before he handed Shadow Echo, "You let her down, I'll kick your sorry butt from Futo City to Tokyo and back to here."
Shadow looked down at Echo, who was blowing another raspberry at him before giggling happily at him. Nearby, Eiji tried to reach under the vending machine to get the coin. He struggled a bit before he tried to pick it up and use his foot to get it out.
"Ah! Excuse me! Under here," Eiji begged to a passerby, "E-Excuse me. Can you lend me a hand? I can't reach it. Excuse me!"
"Honestly…" Shadow sighed.
Nearby, a young Mobian Hedgefox was walking by. Her figure had developed nicely for the nineteen-year-old girl. Her sun-kissed blond fur seemed to have its own natural shine to it. She looked over at Eiji and Shadow, the former begging other to help while the latter was shaking his head while holding a giggling and babbling Echo. Unaware to everyone, the arm shot under the vending machine.
"I can't hold it!" Eiji gasped out before dropping it.
"Arrgh!-!" the arm screamed, making Eiji and Shadow look about while Echo looked down at the vending machine.
"Are you okay? I'll help you right now!" the Hedgefox exclaimed as she ran up in a yellow blur.
'She's fast,' Shadow noted before the Hedgefox easily lifted the vending machine up, "Holy…"
"Here's your chance. Hurry!" the Hedgefox spoke, her voice not even strained (in truth, she felt as if she were lifting up a set of books instead of the vending machine).
"Oh…but I'm fine," Eiji admitted.
"Eh?" the Hedgefox blinked before she looked down and saw the hand, making her scream, drop the vending machine on it once more (much to the arm's pain), and ran behind Eiji.
"Nani? What just happened?"
"It was an arm! A red, scaly, feathered arm!" she replied before it began to chuckle and wave at her on Shadow's shoulder, much to the laughter from Echo, "It…It's right there!"
"Nani?" Eiji blinked before the arm floated before him.
"I'll be taking this back; my Core Medal."
Eiji and the Hedgefox screamed. Shadow kicked it while keeping Echo's carrier balanced. The arm hit a pillar beside the vending machine and sent the coin into the air. Eiji caught it and the three looked over at the arm.
"Oi! That hurt! You…" the hand growled before the three began to run off, "Hey! Wait! Hey!"
"Why are you running so slow?" Shadow demanded.
"I can't run any faster than this!" Eiji replied as they turned a corner.
"Hey! Wait! Get back here! My Core Medal!"
"What do you mean you can't go any faster? You're Sonic the Hedgehog!" Shadow snapped.
"It's 'Hino Eiji!'" the hedgehog snapped.
"It's gaining up!" the Hedgefox yelped, she being the current carrier of the baby carrier.
"Ah! How did you get my baby girl?" Eiji gawked as Shadow put him on his back.
"Ask later, run now!" Shadow snapped.
Within a jewelry store, many of its patrons began to scream.
"What's that?-!"
"Hm?" the insect monster turned to see a woman huddled in a corner before picking her up, "That greed of yours is perfect."
He held up a silver coin. He turned the woman around and a slot appeared on the back of her head. He inserted the coin and a mummy emerged from her abdomen. She gave it a single look and screamed bloody murder.
"Don't freak out! This was born from your greed. You gave it shape," the monster said as the mummy ate the woman's rings.
"Noooo!-!-! My ring worth a hundred million yen!" the woman sobbed.
The mummy proceeded to consume the various jewelry in the store. Upon the last piece was eaten, it began to spasm. Green flames flickered off it before it exploded, revealing a mantis-like monster.
"Find my Core Medal and retrieve it."
"As you wish," the mantis monster nodded before jumping out of the building through a wall, landing before a police car with the Dalmatian in it, "I smell it. A Core Medal."
"W-What's that?-!" the dog gawked before shaking his head, "Ah! No time for questions! Better follow the thing!"
"What was that?-!" the Hedgefox demanded as the trio sat in a semi-crowded area.
"I have no clue," Eiji replied as he held his daughter in his arms, all the while Echo tried to reach out to the Hedgefox, "Maybe it's a cousin of Shadow's here."
"Oh no! You're not blaming me for this!" Shadow exclaimed when the hand floated in the middle of them, "Ah!"
"Give it back! It's my body!" the limb demanded before grabbing Eiji by the shirt, making him nearly drop Echo if Shadow hadn't caught her, "Hurry and hand it over! I'll let you live till then."
"Jerk!" the Hedgefox snapped as she slapped the arm's hand, "Can't you see how you're scaring us!-?"
"W-w-wait a moment! I just happened to find it in the art museum," Eiji explained.
"Yeah. I dropped it."
"O-oh! So you were there too? What a coincidence!" Eiji noted.
"Is he an idiot?" the Hedgefox whispered.
"Extremely," Shadow replied when Echo bit his hand, "Agh! Why you little…!"
"The Core Medal. Hand it over," a voice said.
"Duck!" Shadow shouted as he pulled down Eiji and the Hedgefox before five energy blade shot out and over them.
"Shadow, Echo had better not have touched the ground!" Eiji threatened when the hand blocked five more energy blades.
"You! Ankh!" the mantis monster gasped.
"Don't interfere! Don't stick your hand in! This is my Core Medal!"
"Hand it over!" the mantis demanded.
It began to swipe at Ankh, but the arm was too quick. It dodged the attacks most of the time and managed to catch the blades once or twice. The mantis then batted him to the side, breaking a nearby pillar.
"Don't interfere!" the mantis demanded as it grabbed Ankh by the wrist before it began to toss Ankh about.
"Oi! It's too one-sided!" Eiji gasped before he charged.
"Baka! Don't you dare!" Shadow growled as he handed Echo to the Hedgefox.
He grabbed the monster's shoulder before being tossed onto a table and broke it. A siren went off before a police car began to drive up. The Dalmatian began to open fire from the driver's seat. The mantis, barely feeling the hits, turned to the car and released five energy blades at it. The car careened and crashed into another car nearby. The dog slowly opened up the door and fell out. He struggled to get up as he tried to crawl towards the monster, gun in hand, before he collapsed.
"Detective!" Eiji gasped as he ran over to the canine, letting Ankh and Shadow distract the monster.
"Oh no…" the Hedgefox whispered, "Onii-chan!"
"Detective! Detective!" Eiji called as he shook the dog while the Hedgefox ran up, "…Onii-chan?"
"Onii-chan, are you okay?-! Hold on!" the Hedgefox begged while keeping Echo in her arms, the infant whimpering a bit.
Eiji looked down at the detective's right hand. In it was his gun. Nearby, Shadow threw a spear made of crimson energy at the mantis, managing to make it move back a bit. Ankh poked it in the eyes before the monster grabbed him by the wrist and Shadow by the neck. Gun shots struck its back. He turned to see Eiji holding the gun while shaking. Shadow blinked. He thought Sonic would never use a gun.
"I don't know what this is about, but stop it already!"
"Don't interfere! You have nothing to do with this," the mantis ordered.
"I do!"
"Hm?"
"I do. Same with the detective, my daughter, Shadow, and the Hedgefox. And him too. We've known each other ever since this morning," Eiji explained before the mantis put his blades to Ankh's wrist, "Stop it!"
He fired the last of the bullets in the gun before charging at him. The monster slashed Ankh before backhanding Eiji away.
"He's just an idiot…I can use him. No…This is the only thing I can do. This is my one hand," Ankh whispered before he flew over and pulled Eiji away from the stab the monster tried to perform.
"Ankh! Are you trying to save the Mobian?"
"What's your name?" Ankh demanded.
"It's Hino Eiji, father of Hino Echo," Eiji replied as he pointed at the whimpering infant in the Hedgefox's arms.
"Eiji. You've impressed me. I'll tell you how we can be saved," Ankh explained before his hand 'spit' out the lock on the container.
"Isn't that…the seal…" the mantis gasped.
Ankh pressed the lock to Eiji's waist. Shadow's eyes widened with Eiji's as the lock released a gold energy. It shattered to reveal a strange, oversized belt buckle with three slots in it. On the right side of his body was a strange scanner while the left side of his body had a small container. Eiji yelped as he got up and looked down at his new belt. Ankh chuckled as he turned to the monster.
"My hand held more than just the Core Medals. Eiji. The only way to survive and protect your baby girl is to defeat him," Ankh explained.
"And a belt helps him how?" Shadow asked.
"Three Medals," Ankh explained as he pulled out a yellow and gold Medal and a green and gold Medal before tapping the slots, "Insert them here. You'll gain power."
"Don't listen to Ankh! You'll pay for using it."
"And not using it won't pay?" Shadow growled as he threw more of the energy spears at the monster.
"Oi! What's a little risk? Better than us dying here. Hurry and do it, Eiji. Henshin!"
"Don't!"
"Oi! Stay out of this!" Shadow snapped as he threw more of the energy spears at the mantis monster.
"…I've been to many places, but saving lives is equally difficult everywhere!"
With that, Eiji tossed the red coin into the air. He caught it before inserting it into the right slot while slotting the green coin into the left slot. He then slid the yellow coin into the middle slot and the buckle slanted to the left. Ankh grabbed the scanner and held it up to Eiji.
"Use this."
Eiji nodded. He took the scanner and it began to let out a hum. He quickly scanned it over the three coins, each one making a 'clink' as the scanner went over it.
"Henshin!" Eiji called out as he put the scanner to his heart.
-TAKA! TORA! BATTA!-
Three rows of coin circled Eiji two side ways around his arms and legs and one through his body. Three coins that looked like the ones in his belt stopped in front and merged to form a single coin.
-TA-TO-BA! TATOBA! TA-TO-BA!-
The giant coin collided with his body, forming a black body suit and armor. His armor then took on three different colors. He had a red bird-themed helmet with green eyes, yellow gauntlets with three claws folded back with yellow lines running up to his shoulder pads, and green legs with an armor pattern on it that looked insect like with green shoes and green angled lines going to his chest. He also had a gold circle encompassing his chest with the images of a red bird on top of yellow tiger face with a green grasshopper head under it. Strangely, when one looked at it as a whole, the grasshopper made the tiger's lower jaw while the hawk made the upper half of the tiger's head.
"You fool!"
"Yeah! Just what I had hoped for," Ankh noted.
"Sonic?" Shadow blinked.
"Sugei! He became a Kamen Rider!" the Hedgefox awed.
"What was that song just now? A hawk, tiger, and grasshopper? That's what this is?-!" Eiji gasped.
"Don't worry about the song. That's OOO. If you fight, you will understand what it is."
"Eh?"
"Look out!" the Hedgefox called out.
OOO looked up and saw the mantis coming at him in a slashing jump. He held his arms up and caught the blades. The yellow part of his body glowed before the claws on his arms flipped out. He unleashed a slash and sent the monster rolling back, silver coins falling all about. The glow moved down to his legs as he laughed.
"I can feel the power in my body!"
He jumped and flew at the mantis. He proceeded to unleash a flurry of kicks, each one scattering multiple coins about.
"Ankh! Hand over the Core Medal!" the mantis screamed as he charged.
"Eiji! Scan the coins! Hurry!" Ankh shouted.
"H-Hai!" OOO nodded as he scanned them once more.
-SCANNING CHARGE!-
OOO's legs transformed to resemble grasshopper legs. He jumped high into the air and descended with a drop kick through the three rings that formed between him and the monster. After passing through the red ring representing the Taka Medal, he was surrounded in a red veil with wings; the yellow ring representing the Tora Medal gave an aura with claws; while the green ring representing the Batta Medal gave an aura with legs.
"See-Ya!-!-!" OOO roared as he collided with the monster, creating a small explosion with three energy rings representing his symbol before it began to rain coins all over, "That guy was…made of medals? Oh! Detective! Hold on! I'll call an ambulance right now!"
"I've found the perfect body for me," Ankh noted before he flew over and covered the Dalmatian's right arm and hand.
"Ah! Onii-chan!" the Hedgefox gasped when the Dalmatian's eyes shot open as he got up.
"Now…" Ankh and the Dalmatian began when the dog suddenly changed into a Doberman Mobian, "…I can move a bit more easily."
"You!" OOO gasped.
"Happy birthday to you…! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear…" the hedgehog sung as he wrote down a name in chocolate frosting, "OOO."
The Hedgefox let out a scream as Shadow and OOO moved back. Echo let out a small cry while trying to nuzzle into the Hedgefox. Whilst unaware to them, Gotou was watching nearby on his Ride Vendor. He took out a red and silver can and popped the top. It instantly transformed into a small hawk. More surrounding him flipped open and flew off towards the five. Gotou removed his helmet to reveal a human male around his early twenties with shoulder-length brown/black hair.
Next time of Kamen Rider OOO…
Hedgehog: Greed! It's a pure, wonderful energy!
Ankh: For us Greeed, the Core Medals are vital. I've taken this body. That form was a nuisance.
?-?-?: I've been waiting for a Speed and Power-Type like you!
Hedgefox: Will I…ever get my Onii-chan back?
Ankh: Cells and Cores. The source of the Medals is human greed.
Gotou: A pair of birthday presents from a great man.
Roll: Tako! Ne, Echo-chan, those are tako. Aren't they kawaii like Taka-Can?
Medal 2: Greed, Ice Candy, Presents