Chapter 2: Ice, Desire, and the Medal Sword
Disclaimer: I do not own Kamen Rider OOO or Yugioh GX
"Eight-hundred years?" Jaden asks of Ankh as he follows him. "I'm more concerned about the guy you're possessing than what caused that thing to come after you, so this is news to me..."
Ignoring Jaden for the moment Ankh comes before an ice pop stand. While the owner gives two customers he dips his hand in and snags three of them. The owner notices him and shouts, "Hey, you gotta pay for those!"
Ah, sorry, sorry," Jaden says, getting a couple yen for the ice pops Ankh swiped. "Here, keep the change."
He then runs over to Ankh. "What was that about?" Considering what happened, he probably should have been more specific.
"800 years ago we were created from Core Medals; we're called the Greeed. That monster back there was a Yummy. It was sent by one of the other Greeed to take those color medals I have-"
"No, not that!" Jaden interjects for a moment, allowing Ankh to devour more of the ice pop. He seems to be really enjoying it. "What about the officer you're inside of? How are you gonna take care of a comatose man?"
"What's it to you? If I hadn't taken him over he would have died anyway." Ankh takes another lick of the ice pop before he separates one from his right hand using the left. He then says, "But don't worry. From time to time I'll take care of him."
"Take care?"
"Yeah, I can taste this through him; it's cold but I know it's sweet...Or would you rather I eat like this?" Ankh uses his hand to devour the ice pop.
"Stop it!" Jaden takes out the arm, and sees that the officer's back to normal. "Alright, he's back to himself!"
"How do you expect a comatose man to live for more than 10 minutes without me?" asks Ankh.
"Ah!" He then proceeds to try and force him back on the right arm. Ankh eventually manages to get back. "Right, so...that thing I fought...run that by me again about it being...well...WITHOUT those colored Medals?"
Ankh takes the ice in his left hand and holds it up to him. "Let me explain it to you in a way your mind will understand. There are two types of medals: Core Medals and Cell Medals. Myself and the monster who sent that thing after you are called Greeed, beings made of desire. Think of us like this ice pop; the Core Medals are the sticks that compose the pop's structure, while the Cell Medals are the ice meat that wrap around it. What you fought was a Yummy, a being made of desire; but unlike us they're simply lumps of ice."
Ankh then sticks the pop inside his mouth. "Now, eat up. I need you to live in order to accomplish my desire."
Jaden pulls out the pop. "Okay," he said, "but I might need another part-time job in order to keep up that intake...the last one I had blew up in my face...besides which, how would you know whether or not a thing like that would show up, anyways?"
"I know. I always do." Ankh finishes devouring his ice before going to the next.
Elsewhere...
"That was horrible," says a pudgy injured man as he sits outside of a hospital. He's next to his friend, a skinnier just as bandaged man.
"Nah, it was bad luck. We'll try again with something else!" says the skinny guy.
"Forget it; maybe this is a sign to quit."
"Nah!" He takes out a map and shows it to his partner. "Here; this time we'll go after an armored car!"
"A what?! Now you're just being...what's that?" The pudgy guy looks behind his partner at an assortment of medals.
Uva's body forms from the medals, who approaches the two guys who were caught up in the accident back at the museum. He then grabs the skinny guy and says, "Allow me to release that desire."
He inserts a Cell, creating another Yummy that scares everyone.
"Uva went off and made another Yummy. He's real extravagant seeing how important Cell Medals are," says the yellow cat from earlier as he and the other two Greeed watch the bug Uva go to work.
"Well shouldn't you?" speaks the blue female. "After all Kazari, Ankh is using both your Medal and his. He might be desperate."
Back To Action...
"Even though we've fully revived we're still missing medals, me more than the rest of them; that's why none of us have fully revived..." Ankh holds up the four medals he has, Taka, Tora, Batta and Kamakiri. "I won't let them get their way first."
After he speaks the officer's phone rings. Looking at the phone Jaden sighs. "I doubt I'm going to explain fully that whoever's been calling him is possessed by a thing that wants me to collect these Medals."
He then looked at his hands as a memory flashed in his head with a young woman in another region once more.
Elsewhere Alexis sends a text on her phone to her brother's. "Brother, I've finally found a job. I'll be working at Cous Cossier. And don't worry; it has nothing to do with me being a power type, whatever that is. Alexis."
After her text she heads inside of said restaurant, unaware of the next phone call she would receive.
Ankh taps on the side of a railing, as if waiting. His hand pauses before he says, "That's it! I hear the sound of Cell Medals...Let's go, what'syourname!"
"My name is Jaden!" he mutters before going after Ankh.
Ankh leads Jaden to a bank, where everyone around runs away scared. A Yummy can be seen eating gold and the walls. "It's still not matured yet."
Jaden looks at the monster and holds out his hand. "Does it matter? It's wreaking havoc and you're saying it's not ready? Why not just stop it now?"
"That's just why we're not gonna stop it." Ankh states, holding his hands out and pointing to the monster. "If you kill it now before it matures then we'll get no Cell Medals out of it."
"What about the people it might hurt?" asks Jaden.
Ankh turns to him. "Don't get the wrong idea; you're nothing more than a medal gathering peon. You only get to save lives when it pays for me."
"You really have no regard for human lives," Jaden mutters, giving the red hand a glare. 'What's the point of having power if the guy who's giving it won't let him help others?'
The Yummy begins to molt, turning into a leaf rolling weevil. What's weird is that it's body is mostly composed of hands grasping out, including its feet and under its mouth. Ankh watches as it crawls up the side of the building and eats it along the way. "Just let it eat this building."
"Eat?! What do you mean, eat?"
"It's as I said; that Yummy and the Greeed all feed off of desire."
"DESIRE!" Sheppard shouts back at his building. "It's an amazing and pure energy! The cake, this table, money, homes, buildings, even the country; Everything is a mass of greed created from human desire! ISN'T THAT RIGHT Truesdale-KUN?!"
Syrus remains silent, even as he spills cake batter on him. Satonaka comes up to the president saying, "President, we have an invitation to a party at a building that was recently made."
"WONDERFUL!" Sheppard shouts out as he walks over to a table. "When a baby cries it signifies what it wants; to want is to live. When medals are born from the greatest of that power and are collected, it creates a power that becomes infinite." Using frosting he draws an infinity symbol on it. He then draws a O. "And then, you achieve a power greater, Over Infinity; OOO!"
Looking down at the phone he took Jaden runs into the building and up the stairs, memories going through his head about an old friend who died. 'That girl is crying out for her brother.'
Ankh scuffs as he watches Jaden head into the next building, even as the Yummy devours parts of it. "Idiot; What concerns humans is none of mine... I guess I was wrong. He wasn't him."
Ankh detaches his arm and flies up the building where Jaden is, just as it falls on top of another building. He draws out the OOOdriver. "Hey, what's your problem? If you die I'll be at a disadvantage!"
"That's nothing compared to what happens if I don't help others," Jaden demands as he dangles from the building.
"Anyway, it's big enough; time to harvest." Ankh holds the driver before him.
"Promise me I can use it to do that!" Jaden demands.
Ankh scuffs again. "Putting me on the spot huh?"
That's when one of the stone parts cracks. The stones Jaden hangs onto eventually breaks apart, and the brown haired guy falls. Ankh floats down towards him, managing to place the driver on his waist and hold up the three medals. "What are you waiting for? Transform!"
"Not until you promise me that I can help humanity with it!" Jaden yells, not caring that he's about to die at this moment in the slightest.
'What the hell is wrong with this guy?! Is he playing me so he can get me to agree with him, or does he really not value his life?' "Alright, fine!" he says, hoping to get him to save himself before it's too late.
Jaden then slips them in. "HENSHIN!" he yells, sliding the scanner down in mid-air.
"TAKA! TORA! BATTA!" Jaden IMMEDIATELY activates the Tora Claws in order to slow his descent onto the ground. "TATOBA! TATOBA TATOBA!"
He then groans as he looks up. "Definitely going to need something to go up there. You have any medals that can make a guy fly?"
"Pheh. Even if I had 'em I would never-" He stops when the sound of a motorcycle goes off nearby. He glances at the person who just happened to show up, the blue haired male who sent the flock of birds. He dismounts his bike and carries over a long package to OOO, but trips and falls midway. "Huh?"
The guy picks himself and the box up, walking over carefully towards them now. "OOO, prepare to receive a gift from a great man."
"Wait, someone knows about my...transformation?" OOO asks of the guy. "And...wow, didn't see this coming. I can get that."
He then picks it up and undid the ribbon, revealing a blue sword.
"C-Cell Medals?!" Ankh is perplexed at the sight of Cell Medals by a weird blade. It's only reasonable; how did a human get their hands on medals?
"Whoever this guy is, I should thank him later. I need something like this in order to defeat guys like that." Jaden inspects a slot, and looks inside the package to grab the five silver coins. "Huh, guess saving the world isn't cheap."
The boy then points to a vendor just behind Jaden, saying, "Put a Cell Medal in that vendor and press the mid button."
"Um, I'm not thirsty but sure..." OOO becomes a bit surprised as he did so, changing the vending machine into a motorcycle. "Whoa! Sweet! Now we have to try it out!"
"Now how do I do it again..." The boy goes to his bike and presses a button on it, turning it into a vending machine. He then inserts a cell and presses one of the menus, and out flies a ton of cans.
"Tako can," it speaks as it gushes out cans. The boy then opens one, and it turns into a helicopter octopus. The others follow suit, and they form before OOO as a bridge to the building the Yummy is on top of.
"Remember, Medajalibur gets stronger with each Medal you add and scan."
The enthused OOO manages to use the Tako cans as a ramp to fly up and slash the monster.
The bug stomps the ceiling a bit, swinging wildly at Jaden. Ankh flies up at them, holding out the Kamakiri medal. "Boy, change the yellow medal with this!" He then flings it at him.
OOO catches the medal, almost wondering how Ankh is able to aim when he has no eyes. "TAKA! KAMIKIRI! BATTA!"
In that process, it replaces the Tora Claws with blades similar to a Mantis as he slashes it repeatedly, spawning a couple Cell Medals. He then rolls away to avoid being crushed and slashes at another leg, causing it to collapse. "Huh. This is pretty easy to use." That's when it knocks him off.
Enter the Takokans to hang him by a thread as he picks up the fallen blade, also changing his form back to Tatoba.
Ankh manages to catch some of the medals that have flown out, knowing full well those birds might be around to snag 'em again. The Yummy snarls as it awaits Jaden to come back.
"Oi!" Jaden yells to grab the Yummy's attention as he pushes it off the building with his bike. He then rides underneath it, inserting the three Cell Medals in the sword and using the OOO Scanner on it.
"TRIPLE SCANNING CHARGE!" the scanner yells, slicing the underbelly of the Yummy and giving it a final slash. This destroys most of the background for a while before the monster explodes into medals. As the medals fall he finds himself a bit surprised. "Do they usually get that big?"
At the moment Ankh can't answer, because he's engorging himself in medals. The boy from before rides off on his Ride Vendor, leaving the hand to scream, "Mine! THESE MEDALS ARE MINE!"
After collecting them all the officer's cellphone rings again.
Jaden dehenshins and looks at Ankh. "I'm going to need the officer's body for a moment. Good thing this guy has a camera...after a couple seconds, you can get back to collecting. I need to make sure whoever called doesn't find out about this...well...predicament."
"Oh fine." Ankh returns quickly to the body, and after standing takes out the phone. "What is this thing anyway?"
"It's a cell phone," Jaden replies, taking a picture of Ankh with it. "It also takes pictures, but right now, I need to put someone out of the loop for a bit until we can get this guy to recover fully."
He then texts a message to the woman calling him about a top-secret job concerning Unknown Lifeforms and that he'll be on the job for a while. "Hopefully, this cover story will hold up until this situation blows over. Feels like something out of a TV Show..."
As the officer Ankh walks off into town looking for more ice. "It's been rather busy...Still, who are those people collecting medals?"
He continues walking until he bumps into a girl with dirty blond hair. She looks up at him in shock, and smiles before shouting, "Brother," and hugging him.
Ankh pauses out of shock, looking down at this girl as he feels something weird inside of him. 'Who is this girl?' He transforms his right hand and places it on his head.
Alexis looks up and notes the hand, gasping when she remembers seeing it before. "Atticus, where did you get that arm?" Ankh reaches out and grabs her neck, choking her deliberately. She grabs the arm and flips him, ripping him off her brother like a glove. "Eh?"
"How did you do that?" Alexis screams in shock, before quickly passing out.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Jaden shouts at him.
"This person is the one who keeps calling us right? I'm simply taking her out of the loop for good," says the hand before he descends before her neck.
Jaden groans, finding the situation desperate as he would never allow another person to die. But then he notices that they're near a river, and while Ankh was approaching the unconscious Alexis...
"Oi!" he yells, holding the driver over the ocean harbor. "The baseline looks deep! I wonder what would happen if I dropped the driver into the water!"
"Hey, what are you doing? Get that away from there!" Ankh shouts, his interest in the girl now gone.
Jaden then smiles, before saying, "Now that I have your attention, killing someone because they're a witness is a bit of a deal-breaker in my end, and we both know you need me more than you would admit."
Ankh scuffs at him. "Fine." 'Maybe I ought to bring him down his high horse.'
The floating hand returns to Atticus and walks off. Jaden sighs as he carries the unconscious Alexis to the nearest restaurant. 'And this is why I wanted to keep her AWAY from all of this.'
Jaden comes to the restaurant Cous Cossier, who is greeted by a Japanese woman who bows to him and says, "Namaste."
The woman pauses for a moment seeing Alexis on his back, asking, "What happened?"
Ankh stands on top of the restaurant, awaiting his return. "For someone who's just a medal gathering peon, he thinks he can use me, huh?"
"She kind of fainted," is Jaden's response, but he pauses when he notices the layout, and a photo. "Guess I didn't think there would be other travelers except myself...although remind me, where did you take that photo?"
"Photo?" She looks to the left at the photos all around, and gasps when she sees him in a photo taken in a foreign country. "Hey, you're a world traveler?!"
Ankh stops by the door and knocks. "Come on!"
"Yeah, I am," Jaden says before turning to Ankh. "I'd best be going. Nice meeting you!" He then ran out as he looked at Ankh...then shook his head. "I take it you found out something about your host? You should know more than I do..."
Ignoring him, Ankh walks away from the restaurant. "It's getting late. The Greeed won't make any more moves today, and I need a place to perch." Taking a moment to think about his words Ankh searches the memories of Atticus, and Alexis pops up a few times along with a building. "How's the girl?"
"Still unconscious, but anyway I might need another part time job. Your ice cream runs are getting expensive..." Jaden says to Ankh as they head out.
"What you want his life story?" Judging from the look Jaden gave him the answer is obvious. "He's something called a police officer. His name is Atticus Rhodes and his sister back there is his only living relative left. He lives..."
Ankh then trails off to an apartment complex, climbing all the way up to his apartment room. "Good thing he still has his keys or else it would be breaking and entering."
Ankh picks the lock with his talons and opens the door. Looking around he chuckles at the mess. "Well, looks like we're not sleeping in a tree today."
"I'm a traveler; I'm used to sleeping in the rain," says Jaden as he lays down.
Elsewhere...
Police have gathered to an underground passage, where they have cornered the Greeed. A predator-esque monster approaches them and fires a twister, blowing them away. "Takes care of that."
"We still need to capture Ankh. Who's next?" asks the female member.
"I'm going again," says the bug man of the group as he takes out a Cell Medal.
"Nah, I'll go. Humans have changed these past years, along with their desires," says the predator.
The sun starts setting in the distance. As it goes down, elsewhere a koala faced man eating bento is slowly approached by the yellow Greeed. He notices him and backs away out of fear. "Allow me to release that evolved desire of yours."
As daylight hits another battle for Jaden would soon begin.
Kenshin: Next time on Kamen Rider OOO;
Ankh discovers technology.
Jaden meets Kazari.
Alexis meets up with both of them and discovers the truth.