I do not own the Teen Titans or the Justice League Unlimited series. They are properties of Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. and DC Comics. I do not own the rights to the Kamen Rider Kabuto franchise. It is owned by Toei Inc. and Ishinomori Ind. I do claim ownership of the characters that I have made that use the Zecters in this series, any new Riders and Zecters, extra mecha, new enemies and also over the EX version of the Kabuto series Riders.
Kabuto EX
Author: Toku Warrior
Chapter 1: A New Hero in Town. Cast Off!
ZECT Entry Log – 0001.1.K
The Worm, the Native, Kamen Riders, the Rider System, ZECT. So many things have come into being over the past forty years. But our story takes place in the present. But to get to the present, one must first understand the past. The past holds the keys to understanding the present, and preparing us for what lies ahead in the future.
Forty years ago, a small asteroid crashed into a small district within Tokyo, Japan. It brought with it a group of beings known as the Native. Big and green in color, they looked like a walking chrysalis. They had faces that looked like skulls being held up by green arms and with a single horn protruding from the front. The Japanese government, wanting to keep the existence of the Native a secret, helped the aliens find seclusion within society without anyone the wiser. But to be able to blend in, the Native had a small yet dark and terrible secret. They could copy the genetic code of a person they came into contact with, including their memories and, in a woman's case, a pregnancy.
The Native told their human friends about the coming of the Worm; a race of alien cousins to the Native that wished for the destruction of the Native. To help fight the upcoming invasion, the Native helped the humans create a special battle system to give humans the power of the Native and the Worm. Thus, the Kamen Rider System was made. But the Native were far more crafty than what the humans thought.
Wanting to make Earth their own home, the Native slowly planned the conversion of every human on the planet into Native. To hide their secret agenda, they cooperated with the Japanese government to create a special militaristic task force. This force was dubbed ZECT. Their main warriors would be the Riders. It took twenty-two years to get everything set for the Rider system. During that time, a Native scientist fell in love with a human woman who was helping ZECT in the design and creation of the weapons the Riders would use.
In private, they started a secret affair. But as his feelings for her grew more deep, his loathing and hatred towards his own kind for what they had planned for the humans also grew. When she became pregnant, he told her the plans the Native had for them. But before any form of counter measure could be created, ZECT found out about their secret life and about the unborn child. ZECT decided that their child would be their most powerful warrior. The Native father, not wanting to have his unborn child lead humanity to its own destruction, secretly reprogrammed the Zecter that would one day become his child's partner; to protect his child from both ZECT, the Native and the Worm.
The Native and his wife then, after the birth of their son, secretly had their baby boy smuggled to his grandmothers' home in North America. Learning of their treason, ZECT imprisoned the Native traitor and forced his wife to continue her work at making weapons for ZECT.
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OP Theme: Period (FMA Brotherhood OP4)
By: Chemistry
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A young man looked up from his PDA at the sound of the cargo freighter's horn. He stood up and quietly looked over past the ships edge and at the city harbor. It was still dark out but it would be sunrise within the hour. Heading towards the docks on a freighter from Japan, he was close to making back to his home country. Having escaped the clutches of ZECT, he couldn't wait to get on dry land and look for cover. He knew that ZECT would come after him.
'Ah, home sweet home.' he thought to himself while looking at the California ship yard and docks. He was dressed in a pair of black pants and a white short sleeved shirt with a picture of a red Chinese dragon on the front. He wore a black long sleeved unbuttoned shirt over this white one and a pair of black sneakers. On his head he wore a black fedora. His eyes were hidden under the shadow casted on his face by the fedora but his facial features looked sullen, as if he was saddened by something. 'I may have been able to free the others from ZECT's control but that doesn't mean they'll be safe.'
He took out a small picture from his pants pocket and looked at it. Looking at the image you could see a group of young friends smirking at the camera. There were nine of them together, each one with a small bio-mechanical creature on his or her shoulder. At the bottom of the picture was a time code which showed the date of when the picture was taken. Only 5 days had passed since the group took this photo. In the group were 7 young men and 2 young women. The young man just looked at the picture and let a small smile adorn his face.
As he looked at the picture his outer shirt began to move. Poking out from the inside left pocket of his shirt a small red robotic looking beetle also looked at the image. It then looked at its master and made a small beeping noise, trying to get his attention. Coming back to reality, the young man looked down at his little friend and smiled.
"Don't worry aibou. I'll be just fine. But it was nice at least to finally meet Okaa-san and the Riders." the young man told his little friend. Having gone to Japan to rescue his mother, she had requested that he save the eight other Riders instead of her. She did not want them to be used by ZECT for their dark purposes. He did what she asked of him and broke the Riders out of their containment pods, helping them escape from ZECT. His mother warned him that ZECT would now come after him so he should return to America and seek the protection of an old friend of hers.
HHHHHOOOOOONNNNNKKKKKK! HHHHHHOOOOOOONNNNNNKKKKK!
He looked up at the deck house at the sound of the double horn blow and returned to his place in the small corner of the cabin. They would be docking within a matter of minutes. Until then he would just be patient. Sitting back down, both the young man and the little red mecha-beetle returned their gazes back to the PDA to catch up on their ZECT history. His mother gave it to him so that he could better prepare himself for the battles ahead ant to also have a way to keep track logs of his life from that point forward.
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After years of working on projects for ZECT, she was able to create many more Zecters; thus, giving them many more Riders to command. Nearly all the Zecters were based around insects while a few were based around some other creatures. Then, ten years prior to the present day, another small asteroid crashed into the Earth. With it came the Worm. The Worm, at first, decided to hide out until their numbers grew and also until they could track down the Native.
During the rescue of the innocent, eight young children were found and many of the ZECT officials noticed that they had a high resonance rate with the Zecters that were helping in the rescue. Taking these children into custody, ZECT put them through many trials to test their highest resonance rate. Eight of the Zecters did not like this treatment and rebelled against ZECT. But they were soon captured and put into containment pods. The children grew up over time and learned many of the tricks and lessons that ZECT had to teach them. But, secretly, they were devising their own escape. They didn't want to be soldiers of ZECT. They wanted to be free spirits.
Then, a week prior to the present day, the long lost son of one of the female scientists returned to free his mother. But she insisted that he instead free the trapped Zecters and the people that were being trained to be Riders. He agreed and helped them to escape. From there they all made a vow to somehow remain free and to also keep in contact with each other. They took a group picture to commemorate their vow and then went their separate ways.
Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep.
"Tack Log, ZECT Entry Log – 0001.1.K, complete. Awaiting further entry."
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Satisfied with what he had learned and also looking back at his escape from ZECT, the young man then stood up as he heard the sounds of foot steps coming towards him. Looking up as he stood, he could see the ships' captain, a rugged looking man with gentle brown eyes were a fishing boat captains yellow rain jacket and pants, coming towards him. He stopped and looked at his young passenger and then over to the side of the ship as it finished docking in the harbor.
"Well kid, this your stop. I kept my promise to your mother. Now hurry before those things catch up." the ship captain told the young man who nodded in response.
"Right, thank you sir. I'm in your debt." he said has he ran for the ramp and made his way off the freighter. The captain looked on as he saw the kid enter an alleyway between two warehouses. He then heard a strange mechanical sound and then noticed a bright red, black and silver blur run out from the alley way faster than anything he had ever seen.
'Farewell kid….and safe travels.', the captain thought to himself as he gave a small salute. The fast moving blur kept going towards the interstate and then moved on to farther destinations. The being within the blur was heading somewhere where he thought he would be safe.
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(1 week later)
Jump City, home to many businesses and people. And even to some of the low life criminals of the world. But these criminals had a group of enemies to fear. The people of Jump had a group of young hero's that would come to their rescue when needed. Jump City, home of the young super hero team, the Teen Titans. Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven and Starfire; these five young hero's gave it their all to protect the people of their city and the rest of the planet. Sometimes with assistance from the Justice League.
It was a nice and warm summer afternoon. The skies were clear and the city was peaceful. Crime had gone down some after the defeat of the Brotherhood of Evil. But all was not as it seemed. Recently, many strange things had begun to take place. Some people would disappear only to reappear shortly later but somehow changed. Strange green alien creatures had also begun to show up. Not a whole lot a first mind you. Only one or two every couple of weeks. They could easily be beaten given if you could defeat them fast enough. But things were slowly starting to pick up as the green monsters started to appear more frequently.
Because of this, the Titans would go out into the city every so often to patrol, keeping an eye out for any sign of the monsters. Today, on this beautiful summer day, a young girl wearing a purple tank top and purple skirt, thing high purple boots, a silver arm guard on her upper right arm and silver arm gauntlets and a silver breast guard was waling around the city with a smile on her face. Her skin was nice and smooth and really tan. She had the look of a supermodel and many people admired her beauty. She had long orange-red hair that came down to the small of her back and green hued eyes. This was Starfire of the Teen Titans, A.K.A. Princess Koriand'r of the planet Tamaran.
She was walking down the southern district of Jump City, heading towards the shopping center as a lot of the monster reports came from that area. On her way there she saw the view of the ocean from the riverside park. Seeing the beautiful Seagulls in the sky and the glimmer of the Sun on the ocean surface made it an all to perfect view. Smiling a pretty smile she quickly flew over to the railing alongside the waters edge to enjoy the view. She was supposed to be heading to the shopping center but she wanted to quickly take in the beautiful site before continuing on.
"Ah, it is so beautiful and peaceful here. I wish my friends could see this display of joyessness." the young Tamaranean princess said to herself. She then looked at the park and noticed many kids playing together with their friends while their parents watched over them. She thought of her own friends and then of her own family. Oh, how she wished that she could have her family and friends in the same place at once. Just to enjoy a peaceful day together. Her friends could easily do that but her family was a different story. Her parents were gone and her sister was evil and in jail, or so she had heard. She didn't know when her sister would be released.
As she continued to stare at the people and then back at the ocean, she did not notice a stranger looking at her from behind a stone wall leading to stairs that lead to the Underground. It eyed her with gleaming yellow eyes as it gripped the side of the stone wall with its long reddish claws.
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Walking alone in the park was a young man wearing a pair of black pants, a white short sleeved undershirt, a black long sleeved unbuttoned over shirt and black sneakers. Strapped to a white belt around his waist was a black fedora hanging from his left side. He was walking around, looking for a place to eat while listening to all the kids playing cheerfully. He stopped and looked at the ocean and smiled softly. His facial features were soft and he had fair skin. He looked like he was slightly of Japanese descent. He had short spiky blue hair with a hint of red streaks running through it. He looked at the water with a pair of crystal blue eyes as the wind softly blew his hair gently against his face.
Peaking out to look from within his inside over shirt pocket, a small red mecha-beetle also stared at the ocean. It then flew out from within his shirt and floated next to him to get a better view. Normally the young man would have kept his small friend out of site but this city saw strange things every day so he let it slid. The little mecha-beetle then looked to his master's left and noticed the young and beautiful Tamaranean girl starring at the ocean. It then noticed something coming up from behind her as well. Seeing the green creature slowly stalking her it acted quickly and made a small beeping chirp, alerting its master.
"Huh, what's wrong aibou?" he asked, looking at his robotic partner. The mecha-beetle nudged its long beetle horn towards the Tamaranean's direction and he too noticed the green monster slowly creeping up on her. "Uh-oh, it's a Worm." Looking towards his little friend, "Let's go, aibou!" The mecha-beetle chirped out in agreement as it flew after its master. Focusing his thoughts on his waist, a strange silver belt appeared. The sides each had a square shaped pad while the front had a type of docking platform on it. The mecha-beetle flew down to the belt and fastened itself to the front of its master's waist. "Henshin!"
"Henshin." the mecha-beetle said in a semi-robotic voice.
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Starfire was just enjoying the view when she heard a scream erupt from the park. Before she could turn around to look for the source of the scream she found a clawed hand grabbing her by her left shoulder. Spinning her around the being threw hear down to the ground while making a loud roar. "Ow." She rubbed her butt and then looked up to see one of the green alien monsters that they had been looking for towering over her. It looked at her eagerly and roared again. "Eep!" It raised its right hand that held long red claws, each one two feet in length, and prepared to bring it down on her. She prepared to retaliate, charging up her eye beams when she saw sparks come off of the monster.
The monster howled in pain as it was sent staggering to the ground. Both the monster and Starfire looked to the side and what they saw was an armored being running straight for them, wielding a strange type of gun. The armored warrior stopped in front of Star and kept his weapon trained on the monster. Starfire, ever the curious alien girl, got up and looked at her savior.
His body was first covered in a strange black body suit that had a strange pattern on them, making him look somewhat like a soldier. Over his body suit was silver and red armor. He wore black boots with silver metal plating on them going towards his ankles. The outer side of his lower legs had silver metal plates on them and his ankles had three to four silver bands wrapped around them. He also had silver knee pads above his knees. On the sides of his thighs were metal plates. His shoulders were covered in bulky metal armor that had rounded ends. The under side of the shoulder armor was red while the rest of it was silver. The front and back of the shoulder armor each had a silver metal orb that acted like a joint. Star noticed that on his left shoulder that the front orb had a strange symbol that looked like a bug and had the word ZECT written within it.
His arms were covered in silver segmented armor and his forearms were bound with silver jointed gauntlets. He wore a silver chest plate that had a red upper piece that wrapped around his neck. She then looked at his head and noticed that is was mostly silver in color. He had a silver antenna on the front of his head and a small forward facing horn on top of his helmet. He had a single blue eye plate set under the silver armor of his helmet, the edges around the eye plate trimmed in red. He also seemed to have a silver mouth plate. Then she looked down at his waist.
She saw a silver metal belt with square shaped pads on each side. What she saw on the front though looked strange to her. It was a beetle looking metal object stuck on the front of the belt, acting like a buckle. She looked over the curious looking being again and sparkles began to show in her eyes. 'Oh my, this warrior looks so…so marvelous.' she thought to herself.
The green monster looked at the armored being and instantly knew what it was facing. It looked at the being in disgust and then stood up slowly. It then let out a roar as its body began to glow red. Both Starfire and the armored warrior looked on as the creatures green outer skin melted off, like it was molting, revealing a new form underneath. Starfire and the warrior both began to back up slowly as the monster finished molting.
"Oh great, it molted before I could destroy it." the armored being chided. Starfire looked at him curiously, wondering what he meant.
"Excuse me friend in strange armor, but what do you mean by 'it molted'?" The armored man looked at her and then looked back at the monster as it howled angrily. What they were looking at now as a monster with rib like bones adorning its whole body. It had a boney high collar and a skull like face with razor sharp teeth. It began walking towards them slowly until a strange disc slammed into it, exploding on contact and sending the monster sprawling down towards the ground. It let out a pained howl as it looked back up to see its new set of attackers. Star and the armored warrior also looked to see that help had arrived.
"Hold it right there ugly!" one of the new comers shouted. Standing before Star was the rest of her team. On the far left was the green shape shifter covered in a black and purple body suit. This was Beast Boy. On the far right was a beautiful young girl with smooth alabaster colored skin. She wore a black leotard and a pair of blackish-blue booties. She had on a circular belt and blue cloak with a hood, which was pulled up on her head, covering most of her face with a shadow. This was Raven. Next to Raven was a young man with black hair. He wore a red spandex suite with green shoulder sleeves and black tights. He also wore a yellow utility belt and green gloves. His eyes were covered by a black mask and on the left side of his lapel was the letter R. This was Robin, leader of the Teen Titans.
Standing in front of them was a young African American male who was mostly covered in metal, or to be more precise, most of his body was made of metal. He had his right arm in the form of a sonic cannon trained on the monster in front of them. This was Cyborg. His red eye glowed as he looked over the armored person standing next to his friend. "You okay Star?" the young metal teen asked.
"I am well friend. This person came to my rescue when this creature started to attack me." Starfire replied sweetly as she pointed over to the armored man next to her and then over to the monster. The Titans got a good look at the monster and were clueless to what it was.
"Dudes, what is that thing?" Beast Boy shouted as the monster began to drool. It seemed it was getting hungry.
"I don't know and I don't care." Robin said sternly. "All I do know is that it went after Starfire and for that it's going down." Starfire looked at her boyfriend and a blush started to appear on her cheeks. Raven or course though was looking at Starfire's armored companion with a scrutinizing look.
"Ka….ka….kaaa…." the monster started to say as it looked at the armored being. The warrior looked back at it and tossed away his gun after pulling a long kunai shaped blade out from the back of it. The other Titans looked at Starfire for an answer. She noticed their stares and relayed what she knew.
"That creature was one of those green cocoon monsters until this armored person showed up. He knocked it away by shooting at it. It then began to glow red and somehow….changed into what you see now." The others just looked at her with confused looks until the monsters bellowed very, very loudly at the armored warrior.
"Ka…Ka…..KABUTO!" It then rushed at the armored being who in turn just stood there quietly and patiently. The creature lashed out with one of its clawed hands and went straight for his opponents head. At the last second though, the warrior side-stepped the creature and slashed at its back with his kunai blade, sending sparks flying as it stumbled to the ground in pain.
The Titans were impressed with the quick move the warrior pulled on the monster but the monster was down right furious. It got up and then began to crouch a bit. It then, faster than a person could blink, began running around almost as fast as the Flash. It ran into the armored warrior and slammed him into the stone wall before running out of site for a brief second. It then reappeared over in the park, standing on a park bench, growling in satisfaction. The Titans all looked on with their eyes bugging out.
"Whoa, that thing's fast!" Cyborg shouted at, trying to follow its movements as it once again began to run around at insanely fast speeds.
"Great…", Raven said in a monotone voice, "Just what we need. A monster version of the Flash." She then looked over to the armored warrior who was getting up while using the stone wall for support.
The armored warrior, now known as Kabuto thanks to the monster from before, stood up as if nothing had happened. He moved forward and kept trying to keep track of the speedy monster. 'Damn it. I didn't realize that things were getting this bad around here.' he thought to himself. He then raised his left hand ever so slightly and flicked the mecha-beetle's horn gently, making move just a bit. This in turn caused a reaction as his armor started to become surround in blue electricity as the outer bulky armor on his body began to quickly pop up as if become undone. 'Well then, two can play at that game.'
Starfire, looking at her armored friend, was beginning to wonder what he was doing. His armor then began to make a type of powering up charging noise. The other Titans looked at him too, wondering what he was doing. The monster also saw this and ran right towards him, claws extended, ready to close in for the kill. Then it happened.
(Insert song – Full Force)
"Cast Off!" Kabuto shouted as he grabbed the slightly lifted horn on the mecha-beetle and pulled it all the way to the right. The circular center split in two as the front of the beetle's head moved forward. Lights started flashing on a panel that was hidden underneath the out shell of the beetle's body.
"CAST OFF." the mecha-beetle said in its robotic voice. The outer armor on Kabuto's body then flew off at a very fast rate of speed, slamming into the monster and sending it flying. The Titans ducked, not wanting to get hit by flying armor pieces. Robin looked up at Kabuto and saw a long horn attached to the chin of his helmet rise up. It attached to a slot above his blue eye plate, creating a beetle horn. His single blue eye plate had now become two blue eye pieces. This gave him a look similar to a Kabutomushi (a Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle). With a clicking sound, signifying that the horn had locked on and his eye pieces glowing a bright blue, the mecha-beetle then said, "CHANGE: BEETLE". His transformation was complete and the Titans starred on in awe.
He still had on his black body suit but most of the bulky armor was gone. Now his armored body was much sleeker. This was Kamen Rider Kabuto – Rider Form. His thighs and lower legs still had the side armor platting and his feet still had the armored boots but the extra out armor was gone. He still had his silver knee pads too. Nearly all of the segmented armor on his arms were gone as well. His upper arms now only had a single silver plate covering the sides as did his forearms. His forearm armor plates connected to silver wrist bands which also connect to a black hand guard trimmed in silver on each hand. His shoulder armor was also less bulky. The top parts were a shiny red color while being trimmed in silver. The outer sides of the shoulder armor were flat yet slightly rounded.
His helmet and chest plate had undergone the biggest change. His chest plate was now more pronounced, looking like body armor. Nearly completely crimson red in color, only the lower sides around his ribs and parts of his back were trimmed in silver. A black track line separated the chest armor, giving it the appearance of two solid pectoral plates and two solid ab plates.
His helmet was really different. The top was mostly red in color while the bottom half was silver and trimmed in black. The black linings also seemed to separate some of the silver area, giving it a distinguished look, really like that of a beetle. The black part of his helmet also trimmed around his silver mouth plate and his blue eye pieces. On the top of his helmet was a small forward facing silver horn. The long red horn from before went right up the middle of his helmet and slightly spread out to the sides at the tip of the horn. Kabuto then looked up at the monster as it began to get back up.
"Cool!" – Beast Boy, giving him a thumb up.
"Interesting" – Raven
"Now that's sweet!" – Cyborg
"Amazing." – Robin, still skeptical of the armored warrior known as Kabuto.
"Glorious!" – Starfire, with sparkles in her eyes as she admired the Riders' new look.
Then the Titans heard a growl and realized they had forgotten about the monster. It growled angrily again before rushing at Kabuto once more. Kabuto quickly jumped to his left, not wanting to get rammed into by a super fast monster again. The monster moved so fast that Kabuto nearly didn't evade it in time. Landing in a crouch, Kabuto stood up and made his move. "Clock Up." he said quietly while slapping his left hand onto the square pad on the left side of his belt.
"CLOCK UP." – mecha-beetle
Everything then came to a halt, as if time had stopped. Well, it did for Kabuto and the monster anyway as both beings were moving at nearly half the speed of light. To the Titans though, it looked two blurs that kept slamming into one another. Once blur colored black and white while the other was red black and silver.
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(In Clock Up)
Still located in the park, Kabuto and the monster were quickly trading blows. The monsters lunged at Kabuto with a left palm strike which Kabuto side-stepped, following up with his own elbow strike to the back of the monsters' head. The monster stumbled forward a bit then turned around only to find Kabuto's right fist being slammed in its face. The monster fell back and Kabuto began to quickly yet elegantly advance on the monster. The creature quickly got up and grabbed on of the bone pieces on its arm. Pulling it out, it created a bone sword and began slashing wildly at the Rider.
Kabuto did his best to dodge a few slashes to his chest but then found himself being pushed towards the wall. This monster want to try and cut of his escape by cornering him. The monster lashed out with its sword, coming down upon Kabuto with a vertical slash. Kabuto moved to his right but not before getting hit on his left shoulder. "Ahhhh!" he screamed as sparks flew off his armor. The monster growled happily as it went on the attack again.
Kabuto was not without his own defenses though as he swung up at the monster with his kunai blade to block another vertical slash aimed at his head. He then punched the monster right I the gut, as hard as he could with his left fist. His shoulder hurt like hell but he blocked out the pain so as to fully deliver a stopping blow. The monster staggered backward and looked back at Kabuto who then used a powerful sidekick to send the monster straight through the stone wall.
"No way will I let your kind kill off humanity." Kabuto said coldly as the monster slowly began to rise up from the rubble. "You Worm are going down..." The monster knocked off the last of the rubble from its body as it got back up. "…because I am the one who walks the path of heaven."
"CLOCK OVER" – mecha-beetle
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(Out of Clock Up)
The Titans were shocked at how fast the two were moving. They only saw two blurs, a quick show of sparks and then one of the blurs being slammed into the stone wall, busting a hole in it. Then both blurs stopped as both the Rider and the Worm slowed back down to normal speed. Kabuto turned and began to walk away from the monster, heading back towards the Titans. While doing so he pressed three buttons on the top side of the beetle buckle with his right thumb.
"1 (walking up to the Titans), 2 (stopping a few good feet away in front of them), 3" Kabuto slid the front panel of the beetle buckles front backwards with his left hand while resetting the beetle horn of the buckle forward once more. Robin and the others began to wonder what he was doing when they noticed the monster run right out of the rubble and straight for Kabuto.
"Friend, you must watch out for the monster is coming right at you!" Starfire shouted out as she started running towards Kabuto with her eyes glowing, ready to fire her eye beams at the monster. But before she could even take two steps Kabuto softly spoke out to no one in particular..
"Rider…Kick." He pulled the beetle horn on the buckle backwards again, popping open the center once more.
"RIDER KICK", the beetle buckle shouted out as energy began traveling from the belt up to the horn on Kabuto's head. The energy then quickly went back down his body and down the right side of his leg, resting in his right foot. Kabuto performed a counter spin kick as the Worm got within a foot of striking him. Kabuto's empowered boot connected with the monster, causing it to explode in a burst of orange and green flames.
The Titans shielded themselves from the explosion and when the smoke and flames subsided they saw Kabuto raising his right hand into the air, pointing his finger towards the sky, while placing his left hand around the side of his belt. The Titans looked on with awe at the power that the armored person had just displayed. It took a few moments for all of it to sink in but after letting all of what they had just seen settle into their minds everyone was abound with compliments while Robin and Raven were full of questions.
(End Song – Full Force)
Starfire quickly flew up to her savior and pulled him into a powerful hug. She smiled sweetly while hugging the armor man who could only struggle to take in air as she was accidentally crushing him. One could hear his armor slightly squealing in protest to the pressure being put on it. "Oh, thank you friend for coming to my rescue. You were wonderful in that battle with the green monster!" Star squealed happily. That was until She felt a tap on her shoulder. She looked behind her to see Cyborg. "Yes friend?"
"Um, Star, I think your crushing him…literally." Cyborg pointed out. Starfire looked up at Kabuto and saw him squirming in pain and she immediately let go.
"I am so sorry new friend. I did not meant to cause you any harm." She began to approach him again to help him up but when she touch his left shoulder he yelped in pain. Stepping back she noticed the large gash in his armor. "Friend, you are injured." Taking his right hand, "Come, I shall take you to the infirmary for healing." Starfire was about to pick him up and take him to Titans Tower when both Raven and Robin stopped her.
"Hold it Star." Robin said as he placed his hands on his girlfriend's shoulders. Raven got her to let go and then held up the armored man, lending him some support. "I don't think it's a good idea to take him back to the tower." This got him a sad stare from the beautiful Tamaranean princess.
"But why Robin?"
"Yeah man, he helped us out 'n all…." Cyborg started.
"And he might need a doctor judging by that cut." Beast Boy finished for his best bud.
"Look guys, nothing personal," he quickly had his hands up in a defensive wave, "but we don't know the first thing about this guy."
"True…but how can he answer any of your questions if he keels over?" Cyborg asked his team leader. Robin had to admit that Cy had a point.
*What do you think?* Robin asked Raven telepathically.
*Like you, I don't know if we can trust him…yet. But we should at least get him to a doctor.* she replied. But before anyone could do anything Kabuto lifted himself from Raven's grasp and just looked at the teens.
"Sorry, but I should get going." Kabuto stated as he began to hear police sirens coming from the park entrance. He then looked back at the Titans and smiled under his helmet. "But maybe next time." With that he slapped his right hand onto the square pad on the right side of his belt.
"CLOCK UP" – beetle buckle.
And with that Kabuto sped off in a blur of red just as the police and a few military personnel came within view. Some reporters also started to show up on the scene and Robin knew it was going to be awhile before they got back home.
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(3 hours later)
Inside a hotel room located in the high-rise are of Jump City, a young blonde woman was watching the news. As she was drying off her hair after having gotten out of the shower she saw a report that she found somewhat interesting. Turing it up she heard one of the witnesses talking to a reporter say something that she had been hoping to hear.
"This big green monster was going to attack Miss Starfire from behind when really fast, this guy in silver armor over a black suit shot at it." a little girl told the reporter. "Then the monster the monster changed shape and looked like a walking skeleton. So the armored guy also changed into a slimmer armor. Then they both moved really fast and they stopped moving. Then the monster attacked the red armored man again and the man kicked him and then the monster blew up."
"Fascinating! Was there anything about this red armored person that stood out? Something that could help you recognize him if you ever saw him again?" the reporter asked the little girl. She just smiled.
"Of course! He had this bright red buckle on his belt, big blue eyes and single red horn running up the center of his head!" the little girl said excitedly. The blonde woman just smiled as she had just found her target.
"Well, well…so you are here." She turned off the TV as she walked in front of a full body mirror. She looked into the mirror and looked herself over. A small bio-mechanical black spider-like creature lowered down from the ceiling and landed on her shoulder. It looked up at her as she looked at it in the mirror. The woman smiled as she slammed a fist into the mirror. "I found you….Kabuto."
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ED Theme: Ray of Light (FMA Brotherhood ED4)
By: Nakagawa Shoko
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Toku Warrior: Hey guys. Been a little while since I put out a new Rider story. I know, I know, I have enough stories to write as it is but I just couldn't get this one out of my head so I decided to write it out. Kabuto EX is Kabuto but evolved. So far we've seen him as he looks in the actual TV series but as this is a fanfic he'll be changing shortly. I was contemplating on doing a Teen Titans/Kamen Rider OOO crossover but I decided to use a series that's already been aired. Plus I love Kabuto. I'll be adding in bits of Kamen Rider 555 and Kamen Rider Double when it comes to things with the Riders and ZECT. Stay tuned as I'll write this story as I think of more ideas for it down the line. Please R & R.
