Chapter 9: Stress, Pride and Surgery

Disclaimer: I do not own OOO or GX.

Kenshin: Sorry for the wait. Other stories came up, and we felt that no one reads this.


Last time on Rise of the Supreme Multi-King -

Medal monsters made of desire, Greeed, have revived and now attack humans. Standing in their way is the lone warrior, OOO. After receiving the seal Jaden Yuki becomes OOO and adopts the title Kamen Rider, where he swears himself to protect humanity from the Greeed, as well as any other danger. His allies in all this are the bird Greeed Ankh, whose body is torn apart because of the lack of his other medals and now uses OOO for his goals, as well as the Kougami Foundation. Where will this battlefield end?


Time passes by since the battle with Core. Alexis is in Japan, worried about how to spend her money wisely now that both Jaden and Sarina are gone. Ankh has been a bother too, always trying to sneak in and steal ice candy.

"Ankh, knock it off!" she shouts at him.

"Be quiet; I'm hungry!" he tells her, but that's when she grabs the ice and tosses it into the backroom. "Hey!" Seeing the look of death in her eyes he heads over to pick it up.

Finally their suffering ends the moment Jaden and Sarina enter the restaurant. "Hey guys! I miss anything?"

"Jaden!" she shouts, running up to him with a scowl. "Where did you go?! I was worried sick something happened; not to mention it's hard to get a job nowadays what with the Yummy attacks!"

"Sorry, Alexis! Jaden was with me in Rio!" Alexis stares at Sarina in shock.

"Huh?! But..."

"Long story. Where's Ankh?" Jaden looks around for the bird man.

"Ankh?" Alexis looks into the backroom where he and Jaden sleep.

Ankh storms out angry, tossing a pop stick into the trash. "Oh, you're back. Bout time."

Jaden grabs Ankh and pushes him back in the back. "You really don't know about the Dinosaur Yummy that attacked me?"

"I don't know what you're talking about; there are only supposed to be 5 core medals," Ankh replies. "If there are others maybe you should ask Kougami about it." 'Although, if he did fight one it might be worth thinking about.'

'I thought about it, but it might cost allot of Cell medals. We had to pay interest just for a couple of cells.' Jaden groans at the thought of having to go to Kougami for such a desperate situation.

Ankh walks off, his footwork revealing a frustrated attitude. The rider however sighs as he lays in the bed with the iPad. "Kamen Rider Double." Using the device he searches the internet for info about his two in one buddy, coming to a fansite all about Kamen Riders. He looks in shock at a new article about him, as OOO.

Night time rolls around, and as Jaden looks up information about his senpai the girls prepare for tomorrow's cosplay event, cowboys. By the time morning comes up he spots Ankh grumpily looking through the medal holder. "None...none of them are mine..."

"What?"

"My medals..." Ankh trembles with anger.

"Dude, calm down," says Jaden as he yawns himself awake. "They'll show up..."

"WHAT DO YOU KNOW!?" Ankh shouts, the pressure of everything coming up. "It may be alright for you but I'm stuck as a hand! I'm paying 60 percent of the medals you earn for that equipment and I need a roosting station to use that!" Ankh points at the ipad and iphone. "But to live in this situation; that woman with the cosplay fetish is pissing me off! Along with that blond girl of yours! Why is a human so strong; it's bizarre!

"Even more bizarre is the medal situation!" Ankh tosses the cores to the ground. "All these medals we collected from my siblings and none of them are mine! The memories I sought out are gone too! WHERE ARE THE OTHER 7?!" At the end he grabs hold of Jaden's neck. Also apparent is that he hasn't remembered their names at all.

"Sheesh...what are you stressed?" Ankh pushes him away and leaves.

Jaden picks himself up and stares at Ankh's fading form. "Guess it was a touchy subject." Although as he thinks about it, considering who gave him the Lion head there's a good chance whoever has Ankh's other medals could be Kougami, or even Saiou. "If I'm right, I doubt Kougami would scatter the other seven around the world."

Speaking of Saiou, back at his lab he's currently doing work on an important piece of equipment. Kazari enters the lab wearing his human skin. "Yo!"

"Did you create a Yummy," asks the creepy older man.

"Of course. Cell Medals are needed," says the panthera Greeed.

"It's fine until OOO shows up."

"Even if OOO defeats the Yummy the cell medals he sends to go to Kougami, and those come here to you and then me. I can't lose," he retorts. "Besides, I'm more interested in those Core Medals you were able to make."

"The black medals were unstable; that's why they broke so easily when OOO destroyed Core. If I could meet the alchemists who made the medals it'd be easily to replicate a proper one," says Saiou as he adjusts his doll.

Back with Ankh he has just noticed a Yummy. "Jaden, let's go!"

"Hey, how long were you here?!" Jaden follows after Ankh towards the Yummy. On their way to the sight they come before a group of four Yummys. They stare in shock at these grayer and poorly wrapped mummies. "...Is it these guys?"

"No...why couldn't I sense these things earlier?" Ankh holds up a set of medals, Gatatoraba, and tosses them to Jaden before knocking aside one of the Yummy.

Jaden slips the medals inside and scans before kicking another aside. "Henshin!"

"KUGAWATA! TORA! BATTA!"

Jaden transforms into OOO, wielding the Tora Claws and the Kuwagata horns. "Huh...Let's see, I used Gatakiriba and Uva can shoot lightning I think, so I should be able to too."

OOO charges in and slashes at the poorly wrapped Yummys, noticing his attacks aren't harming them at all. 'Are they impervious to pain?'

Ankh keeps quiet as the yummys attack, having to fight them back by himself in addition to Jaden. "Use the lightning horns on your head!"

OOO jumps in the air as green electricity forms around his horns. He then fires off spurts of lightning that destroys the Yummys, and reverts back to Jaden. Ankh walks over to the medal remains, only finding two cells broken into halves. "Whoever made these garbage must have medals to spare. Let's go!"

"Ah, Ankh wait!" Jaden chases after his partner, his hair electrified and fuzzy from Kuwagata.

Back in the secret hideout of the Greeed Uva enters as his bug form. Mezool is feeding Gamel candy on a stool, who giggles. "Ah, Uva. Did you find out who made that dinosaur Yummy?"

"Nope, but I did discover a new trick," says the insect. "It's time to make our move. While they're distracted by Kazari's Yummy we'll gain medals for ourselves."

Back to Action...

Jaden and Ankh stop by a hospital, where a group of patients are trying to gain admittance. "A hospital? Why would a Yummy be there?"

"Let's take a moment to think; ever since we returned humans have been showing strange desires, like a desire for destruction. So it shouldn't be strange to find a weird one now, like a desire for saving lives or surgery," says the bird Greeed. "But there's definitely a Yummy there. They're only taking past patients in this hospital, but that shouldn't affect this body."

"Speaking of which," Jaden begins while sighing, "how are we going to get in without getting injured? I don't think we can use Atticus in his injured state."

"Simple. We'll pretend I'm injured and you scoop around," says Ankh. "Call that girl."

"I hope Alexis is okay with this." Jaden takes the iPhone and contacts the dirty blond tomorrow girl.

After the call Alexis agrees to go through with it, and rushes over to help the rider and his supplier. With Ankh, Alexis and Jaden inside the rider splits up from them to search the hospital. He takes out a couple of Candroids, Unagi and Taka, and has them search the building.

"I'll look around. You guys..." He pauses when he catches a familiar sight. "...Syrus?!"

Syrus, completely bandaged and pretending to be injured as well, approaches Jaden. "I'm just looking for the Yummy. I had a Taka and Batta Candroid following you."

He points outside the window, revealing the two candroids. "Though, Kougami might be upset."

Ankh and Alexis stay silent, perplexed with Syrus' appearance.

"...Anyway, I'll go check down this hall. You go check the upper floor. There's a chance the Yummy is a surgeon," says the young Truesdale. He then walks off.

"A surgeon?" Jaden heads to the stairs with that thought in mind.

"...you look like a total clown," Ankh comments dryly.

"I could look like a clown," replies Syrus. "Or I could look like a glove possessing a man who looks like a clown."

That sets him off; faster than either of them could react, Ankh throws a rocket punch at Syrus, sending him flying into a couch. Laughing, he flies off, leaving Alexis to worry over her brother. "Atticus!"

Upstairs with Jaden, he comes to a scene containing an older man well in his 60s-70s and a woman.

"What are you talking about? They ask for my assistance and you keep stopping me from doing surgery!" says the female surgeon. Her tag reads Fonda Fontaine.

"You haven't been able to do surgery because you're not qualified to do it!" replies the director.

"My patients have proven that I'm qualified. You're a fool for letting their lives hang by a thread just because you're jealous of my skills!" Fonda walks off, but is stopped by the director.

"You stupid girl!" he shouts before pulling her aside. "You don't know anything about being a doctor; I will never let you hold a scalpel again! Got it?!"

Unfortunately his heart has an attack, and he finds himself falling back on a wall. "That's unforgivable...I want to perform surgery...I WANT TO!" Her face and right arm transform, revealing bandages and claws similar to syringes.

Jaden gives a dry sigh. "Found her."

The possessed woman edges herself closer to the hospital director, who is both shocked and in pain just by looking at her. "I will perform surgery on you!"

Jaden reaches out and grabs her arm, before dragging the woman off. They struggle a bit before he loses his grip and hits the wall. "From what I can tell this has to be Kazari's."

"Let me perform surgery," says Fonda in a sadistic tone as she approaches Jaden. The rider heads to a fire escape and leads her out, drawing the woman to an open field.

"Good. Now no one can get hurt." Fonda lunges at Jaden, but that's when Ankh grabs her arm. "About time!"

He knocks her aside and tosses Tatoba to Jaden. "Hurry up and finish her off."

The Yummy exits Fonda's body, before growing its body in the form of a BSDM cat girl. "...yeah, that won't give me nightmares." Regardless Jaden slips in the three medals and scans them. "Henshin!"

"TAKA! TORA! BATTA! TATOBA! TATOBA TATOBA!"

Becoming OOO Jaden activates his claws and engages, slashing at the cat woman fiercely. She leaps over his claws and scratches at his back mid landing. He turns around and ducks underneath another of her swipes before kicking at her legs and jabbing his claws into her chest. The cat girl rolls over the ground.

"Hurry up and finish her off!" shouts Ankh anxiously.

"Don't rush me!" OOO leaps in kicking at her. He then slashes several times before kicking the Yummy away. "Throw me that combo! The Sagouzo one!"

"Already memorized the name?" Ankh tosses the coins to Jaden, who grabs them. "If you can survive three combos at once this should be nothing!"

OOO swaps Tatoba with Sagouzo and scans.

"SAI! GORILLA! ZOU! Sagozo. SAGOZO!" At that moment, he makes a hot blooded roar and summons a gravitational force to repel the cat woman. He then activates a Rocket Punch on the Yummy. "That's just the punch I've been looking for!"

As he prepares to finish the Yummy off Fonda crawls over and faints, just on top of the Yummy. "Eh?! Where did she come from?!"

The Yummy enters her, and using Fonda's face runs away. "Hey, wait up-gah!" The strain of the combo takes its toll on Jaden, forcing him to become human again.

Ankh flies over angry, his limit breaching. "You let it get away?!"

"Don't blame me for using the slow combo!" he shouts at him.

"I gave you that combo to finish it off sooner, so it wouldn't get away!" Ankh then flies off, still angry at Jaden's hesitation.

"I told you, I wouldn't let anyone die!" he shouts back. "Just get back to Atticus and I'll find her!"

"NO! No more! I'M FED UP WITH EVERYTHING!" Ankh heads into the sky, going further away from the hospital.

Jaden, still feeling heavy, looks up at Ankh in shock. "Ankh...you're kidding right? Ankh?! What about the detective?!"

Back inside the hospital doctors have taken Atticus to the emergency room. Alexis waits just outside the room, staying there until suddenly Jaden comes in. "Jaden! Where's Ankh?"

"He hasn't come back... I don't think he will for a while."

"No way...then Atticus..." Just the thought of what would happen to him starts tears to form in her eyes.

"Don't worry, I'll bring him back!" Jaden tells her, clasping his hands over hers. She looks up to him, finding herself fighting back the tears.

"Jaden..." She subconsciously clenches on his hands, but not enough to break them.

"Alexis, have you seen the director? I need to find out why Kazari targeted her," he says, his hands still held together with Alexis'.

As if on cue a stretcher comes rolling by Jaden and Alexis, which has the director. He notes Jaden and says, "It's you from before!" He reaches out to grab him. "Tell me! Why did that happen? What's wrong with Fonda?!"

"She had a run-in with a cat monster that allowed her to get her desire fulfilled," Jaden says, looking off to the side with regret and pity. He really has to know the reason for being targeted. "Sorry, but I have to catch her before her own desire swallows her, which is why I have to ask; why did you deny her a chance to do surgery? Why hold her back?"

"A monster...made from desire possessed her...because I prevented her from performing surgery..." he mutters, still rearing from his heart attack. He grasps his chest as pain causes him to contract.

"Director, please stop!" says a doctor. "Save your energy for breathing!"

"I wanted her to understand the value of life; she did surgery and was so confident she could do it she didn't care about the life she had to look over... I tried to help her, but she ended up like this!" The director closes his eyes with shock.

"Cardiac arrest... I'm sorry, but I'll find her. Alexis, wait here; I'll bring back Ankh too." Jaden releases Alexis and rushes off. She reaches out for him without thinking.

Meanwhile he continues running through the park Ankh flew in the direction of. He digs into his pockets checking his medals. "Tatoba... I can use Taka to find Ankh, but I'll still need Cell for Candroids."

Elsewhere...

"It seems you've gone through allot, Syrus," says Kougami in his office. Behind him, because he's looking out the window, is Syrus.

"… President, I-"

"Don't talk! All you need to do is what you want!" shouts the big ham, shocking Syrus the moment he claps his hands. "Plus your replacement Jim here worked real hard." Jim collapses to the ground after consuming so many calories, while a crocodile begins eating the rest of the cakes. "Though he's not at Satonaka's level he worked very hard."

Syrus looks to the side. 'If only he knew she liked spicy food.'

"You need to be more like Jim, and Jaden," he tells him.

"I can't do what they can; I just find it disappointing," says Syrus.

"Syrus! The only thing keeping you from making it is that pride of yours!" shouts the president. "Use your desire to suppress that useless pride; I find that part of you to be very boring."

With Ankh...

"I guess there was no real reason to dump the handy dandy human..." says Ankh as he rests in a tree. His eye takes notice of Fonda, who has scared off a lady and her dog. "Look who just showed up!"

"Let me perform surgery!" Fonda spots Ankh close by, and approaches him.

"Behave like a good Yummy." Ankh flies about her, dodging her swings and swipes before he gets caught. "That hurt, ya bitch!"

She smacks him into the dirt, knocking out cells, and stomps on his wrist. "Now, let me dissect you..." She raises her claw to bisect him apart.

Jaden rushes in and bashes into her, knocking the woman aside and freeing Ankh. "Ankh, I need Cheetah! And you have to go back to the hospital!"

"Don't give me orders!"

"I know, I know! Just do it!" he begs before Ankh scuffs.

"Whatever. This woman's like that glutton back then so it should do the trick." He tosses Cheetah over and flies off. "Try not to lose 'em."

Fonda approaches Jaden, an evil but sexy look on her face. "I'll take you apart..."

"I'll bring you back to the director, if it's the last thing I do!" Jaden slips in the medals just as she transforms back into the Yummy. "Henshin!"

"TAKA! TORA! CHEETAH!" With the red and yellow random combo on as OOO the Yummy runs away. OOO chases her down and rapidly kicks her from behind. His kicks manage to tear apart the cells, only leaving her body behind. He then reaches out and grabs her, before pulling the woman out of the Yummy. They roll over the ground, OOO holding Fonda in his arms protectively. "You okay?"

"Who... Who are you?" she asks him.

"The director's in trouble! He's got a heart attack!" OOO says before going back to fighting the Yummy.

"He is?" Fonda stands up, shocked at the news.

"He didn't stop you from being a surgeon because he was jealous! You should know that!" OOO claws through a Yummy. Taking a nod, she rushes off to the hospital.

"Atticus! Please be okay!" Alexis begs as she holds her brother's hands. The doctors continue to work to save his life. "Please..."

She flinches seeing his hand twitch. "Atticus... You can feel my heart, can you?" She closes her eyes and continues to hold his hand, crushing his bones.

"Ouch!" She raises her head to see Ankh has merged with him. "Stop using your monstrous strength unless you want your brother in a coma ya gorilla!"

Angry, she flips him over off the stretcher, but then says, "Ah! Sorry brother!"

Jaden kicks the cat Yummy aside before scanning his medals. "SCANNING CHARGE!"

He then charges through the rings at it. But at that moment a twister blows at OOO, stopping him before he could make a hit. Kazari comes out of hiding. "Not only cell medals, I'll be getting Core Medals too."

"Kazari!" OOO groans as he picks himself back up. "Where do you keep popping up from?!"

"Should you really be worried about that right now?" Kazari leaps at OOO alongside his Yummy, promoting fierce attacks. OOO blocks his claws by grabbing his hands, but the cat Yummy slashes him from behind. Kazari then claws him several times, before striking the belt.

That last attack causes him to fall over into the grass, his Yellow medals gone. Kazari now holds them in his hand. "Crap."

Kazari absorbs the medals in his body. "With this my medal count is 7. I only need two more to fully revive, and with his help I'll grow even more... Too bad you won't get to see that."

Kazari playfully walks over to Jaden, claws drawn to cut open his throat. Luckily Ankh arrives just in time. "Kazari, long time no see."

"Ankh, he's stolen his two medals back!" Jaden warns him.

"Then here." He tosses Tora over to him. "You're stronger now, so you won't be completely overwhelmed."

"I'll take that one too," Kazari says to him. Trash Yummy come after the group, mostly Ankh though, but Kazari remains focused on Jaden.

"Henshin!"

"TAKA! TORA! BATTA! TATOBA! TATOBA TATOBA!"

(Regret Nothing ~ Tighten Up Plays)

OOO takes out the Medajalibur and begins to fight back, already slicing up the woman Yummy. He then stabs at Kazari, who dodges and counter slashes. OOO ducks and kicks him aside before slashing his arm. "Too easy."

Meanwhile Ankh begins fighting off the trash, finding his frustration going away through them. That's when Syrus comes rolling in and shoots at Kazari with a shotgun just before he could use fire a twister. "OOO, finish it off!"

OOO inserts two Cell medals, before ducking under Kazari's leap and then the Yummy. He then slashes at both of them to repel before inserting the third. With all three he pushes down on the lever and scans the sword. "TRIPLE SCANNING CHARGE!"

"Ah, seiya!" OOO swings his sword to slash at the two medal monsters, aiming for Kazari, but ends up only destroying the Siamese Cat. She explodes into cells, and the area fixes itself.

Kazari looks at the mess, before scuffing. "Whatever. You can keep the Cell Medals." These are his last words before he runs off.

Syrus then fires at the trash Yummy, destroying them. As he leaves, Ankh approaches OOO, who returns to Jaden, and while annoyed says, "I was gone for like ten seconds and you lose two medals? You're losing your edge!"

"Shut up! I'll get them back!" Ankh thrusts his hand at Jaden's neck, but he breaks free. Ankh then flies around his head hitting him. "Stop it! Kazari gave us a hint!"

"What?" Ankh floats before him to hear what he heard.

"He mentioned he was working with someone... It's worrying..." Jaden cups his chin as he thinks. That's when he remembers Alexis and Fonda. "Oh right, the director!"

Jaden rushes back to the hospital on the Ride Vendor. "Hey, wait up!"

Ankh returns to Atticus and manages to catch Jaden before he gets too far off. "It wouldn't be too far off if Kazari's working for someone. He's the most distrustful out of all of us so he would easily work with someone and back stab them later...but the only ones who could actually make a difference for him are those with Kougami."

'You're just like him though... You're honest, but like him.' Jaden continues to ride forward to the hospital.

Meanwhile, a school of piranha come towards Mezool-tachi in their hideout. The Greeed watch with satisfaction as the Yummy turn into medal. Gamel is especially pleased. "Wai! Medals!"

As the Yummy turn into medals the three Greeed begin to eat. "It was so nice of Kazari to distract OOO for us! We would never have gotten this much without his help, the poor fool."

"This is just the beginning; soon we'll take back our cores from Ankh and his pet king," says Uva as he absorbs medals. 'And then, I'll get more medals for myself.'

Later at the hospital Fonda comes out of the operating room. "He'll be okay."

Jaden and Alexis breath sighs of relief. The rider then looks to Alexis, saying, "That's a relief, right?"

"Yeah. You're such a talented surgeon," she says to Fonda.

"Yeah... I was scared though... This must be what he meant, my father." Fonda approaches Jaden before giving him a hug. "Thank you for saving me."

Alexis flinches the moment she touches him. Jaden, while shocked, stutters out, "No problem! I'm glad to help anyone I can."

Ankh leans back on a wall with a dissatisfied sigh. Of course he has no interest in what's happening. 'Kazari... Just who could he be working for?'


- Next Time on Kamen Rider OOO -

1. Ankh discovers one of his medals.

2. The Greeed make a full scale assault on OOO, Kazari playing the puppeteer.

3. A new rider arrives and assists OOO.