DISCLAIMER: Don not own Teen Titans or Kamen Rider Gaim.
A.N: Sorry about the typos in the last chapter; for some reason is just wouldn't upload properly so some of the words are missing. Hopefully that won't happen again this time.
Also, I hope this one doesn't have as much exposition as the last one, but I think that the exposition last time was kind of necessary. The Titans needed to know about what they're dealing with.
With that said, here's Chapter 4.
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As soon as the alarm sounded, the Titans ran out of the tower and headed towards the park, where a hoard of Inves were attacking. The closer they got to the park, they started to notice a large amount of corpses leading towards the park. Beside each of these corpses was a broken Lockseed, indicating that they were either players of the game, or spectators who were caught in the initial attack. Something else they noticed was a series of green vines that started wrapping around lampposts and small buildings, accompanied by some odd purple fruit.
After several minutes of flying, or driving in Robin and Cyborg's case, they've reached the park. What they saw was simply a massacre. There were easily over 50 Inves, each one looking different from the last; they saw some that resembled humanoid flies and others that resembled anthropomorphic dragons. The most common type, however, was the one most commonly seen in the advertisements; simple hunchbacked creatures with clawed hands and mandibles, each sporting a generally grey colour scheme, the only unique identifier being either red, green or blue highlights. The rest of the park was general mayhem. Civilian corpses, parks of the park on fire, people running and calling for help; it was clear to the Titans that the Inves were no pushover. They needed to be stopped.
Upon arrival, Robin knew what to do; draw their attention.
"Hey! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?!"
With that, at least 15 of the Inves turned towards him, looking ready to fight him.
"Uh, you sure those were the right words, dude?"
Robin ignored the comment from the changeling, stepped forward and brought out his Lockseed. However, despite the confident appearance, inside he felt terrified, knowing that he would have to use padlocks to fight a bunch of monsters, with no idea how the fight would turn out. This was another thing that the World's Greatest Detective taught him; never back down, no matter how horrifying the situation maybe. With that, he swallowed his fear, held up the Lock and pulled by the switch.
"ORANGE!"
He looked at the Lock in surprise, but something else drew his attention; above him, he heard the sound of a zipper opening up. He looked up and saw what seemed to be an orange orb with a hole at the bottom, slowly descending from a portal that has just "zipped" open. He focused back on the Inves as he placed the Lock into the receptacle on the belt and pressed down on the latch, resulting in an odd locking noise.
"LOCK ON!"
From there, he started to hear Sengoku Era music playing, albeit slightly modernised, which seemed to be coming from the belt itself. He looked at the buckle in surprise as the Inves started coming closer and closer towards him, before remembering Takatora's instructions; that being "bring down the knife", which he did.
*SLICE* "SOIYA!"
Suddenly, he felt a weight on his shoulders. Literally. The orange ball slammed down and a sudden surge of energy burst through him, covering his body from the neck down in some kind of dark blue latex suit. He looked around the inside of the orb in confusion before hearing yet ANOTHER noise.
"ORANGE ARMS! PATH OF BLOSSOMS, ON STAGE!"
Before Robin could question what was happening, his head was encased in the same helmet that was on the left hand side of his belt, only with an orange coloured visor and a giant golden samurai blade acting as a forehead crest. With that, the orange ball split apart and started folding around his back, shoulders and chest, forming armour on his upper torso. Finally, to complete his new transformation, a blade themed after a sliced orange appeared in his right hand, whilst a blue and silver katana mounted on a sheath on his left hip.
At last having a chance to look at himself, Robin saw his reflection in a nearby glass building. If one could see his face, they would say he looked surprised beyond belief. His armour could very easily be described as a slimmed down samurai, albeit a very colourful one. The main colour scheme consisted of dark blue for the suit and orange of the upper torso armour. However, there were also gold highlights on his wristbands, shin and knee guards and, of course, of his forehead crest. He also had a silver mouth plate, thus covering his entire body in this suit. The armour itself seemed to be studded, giving a stronger look. He then glanced down at his belt, noticing that the Lockseed has been sliced open with the top half looking like a sliced orange, while the bottom half had a stylised picture of his sword.
He couldn't focus on his look however, as a pair of the generic Inves started charging towards him along with the humanoid dragon Inves. He snapped out of his stupor and charged towards them, slicing them with his orange sword. This proved successful, as the monsters recoiled in pain and with a slight scratch on each of them. From there, Cyborg decided to step in, speaking in a joking tone.
"Hey Rob, I can't have you taking all the fun, now can I?"
With that, he pushed up the switch on his Lockseed, which provided a different noise:
"BANANA!"
He heard the same noise as before, as a banana shaped object started descending out of the portal. Twirling the unlatched Lock in his hand, he put it on the belt with one hand and closed the latched with the other.
"LOCK ON!"
Instead of hearing Japanese music, he started hearing a triumphant medieval fanfare and prepared to bring down the knife as Robin fought off his Inves and a pair of dragonfly Inves started coming towards him.
With one last statement, he brought down the knife.
"Bring it."
*SLICE* "COME ON!"
The banana slammed down over his shoulders and he heard more triumphant music.
"BANANA ARMS! KNIGHT OF SPEAR!"
His body from the neck down was covered in a red and silver latex suit, with his torso looking like chainmail and his forearms having armoured plating as well as his shins, knees and upper thighs, all with detailed with vine-esque accoutrements. As the banana unfolded, both ends ending up as massive shoulder guards and the centre folding on to his chest and back, his helmet was revealed to be the same as the face on his belt, only with golden horns pointing upwards from the side of his head. In his right hand appeared a lance, which also had the idea of unfolded banana peels as the hand guards. His Lock, now sliced open, showed a cut open banana on top and a picture of his weapon on the bottom. Clearly, he was meant to look like a knight from the medieval era.
He could only say one thing after he saw his new look.
"Booyah."
The two then starting fighting together, back-to-back, as they continued slicing, upper cutting and kicking the Inves away from the remaining civilians, who were just standing there baffled at what they just saw the two Titans do. Granted, they were used to seeing the Titans fight off monsters, but never in this style. From there, they noticed the changeling step forward and bring out his own purple padlock.
"Hey, dudes, save some for me!"
With his Lock, he had to press the top button up unlock it.
"BUDOU!"
The same portal opened and the grape themed armour started descending. He slapped the Lock on his belt and closed the latch.
"LOCK ON!"
The green prankster started hearing Chinese stringed instruments along with pan flutes and symbols, indicating his music sequence and his moment to bring down the knife.
*SLICE* "HAI!"
The armour dropped on and the sequence came to its conclusion.
"BUDOU ARMS! DRAGON, FIRE, BANG! BANG! BANG!"
The armour folded down in a similar way to Robin's orange, but with a different result. His latex suit was mostly green, with gold highlights on his wristbands and shin plating. The suit was inspired slightly by a Chinese warrior's uniform with the look of an overlapping robe and slimmer proportions. As the armour folded down, the front of the grapes formed the chest armour, highlighted with gold and silver to give a stronger look. His helmet also seemed to be somewhat inspired by a Chinese dragon, with sharper edges around the golden mouth plate and the top of his helmet having the look of a bun leading into a golden dragon tail. In his right hand, a black, gold and purple pistol that seemed to look like a bundle of grapes with a handle and gun barrel attached, complete with a green stem at the back.
"Dudes! Look at me, I'm packing!"
He also joined in with the other two, showing off his surprising marksmanship, as he was able to hit a multitude of targets with purple blasts and dead-on accuracy. Seeing the good that the boys were doing, Starfire decided to join in.
"Come, friend Raven! We must join our friends in stopping these foul creatures!"
"I couldn't agree with you more, Starfire."
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Well, I better stop there, as I think explaining the look of Rae and Star in their new forms would make this chapter too long. We haven't even really touched on the fight yet.
So next time, I will talk about the looks of Gridon and Kurokage, and maybe even a bit of the fight. Wait and see!