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Count the Medals
An Elegant Search! Your Personal Rider 48~
Type 24: My Duels are Always Right! ~For Cancer A Type~
Kivat: *flies in* Yo! I'm Kivat! For those of you who are Cancer A Type…Your Rider is Kamen Rider Raia! You are quiet and docile…but you never let a friend in trouble down. You're passionate about friendship!
*Cous Coussier*
KAMEN RIDERS POKER BATTLE!
*sitting at a table were Raia, Garren, Chalice, and Mephiles.
Kivat Narration: Card Riders and Mephiles the Dark are having a Poker Duel with their Prides at stake! Garren's hand is…amazing. It's a Flush! Chalice…oh! He has a Straight! And Mephiles…Amazing, a Full House! Everyone's doing great. How about Raia?
Raia: *beings to put his hand down on the table, lining them up before Mephiles*
Kivat: Huh? He's started to line up the cards. What is he trying to do?
Raia: *points at Mephiles* Draw.
Mephiles: Me? *picks the middle and reveals 'Bad Luck' was written on it*
Kivat Narration: Unbelievable! This is fortune telling. While pretending to play Poker, Raia was fortune telling!
Mephiles: *gets up* You jerk! Properly duel me in Poker! *gets hit on the head by a gold wash bin, knocking him out*
Raia: Heh. My predictions…are always right.
*Castle Doran*
Kivat: Always 'my pace.' Just as expected from Raia. In the next corner, we'll find your Fated Rider. Raia's best friend, Soul Friend Rider is Kick Hopper. But his Devil Rider is Sasword Masked Form. If you're a girl, your lover is W. For marriage, I recommend RX. Now, find your Fated Rider!
Momotaros: I wonder about the other Riders. Who will appear?
Previously on Kamen Rider OOO…
800 Years ago, Medal Kaijin, Greeed, are created from Desire. Each made from a set of Nine Core Medals. Who will collect them all? OOO-Tachi? The Greeed? Or the Kougami Foundation, ran by Uncle Chuck, the uncle of Hino Eiji and granduncle to Hino Echo?
The sunlight shined pleasantly upon the land, the grass, flowers, and trees enjoying the fresh light and oxygen. A young blue hedgehog, around seven, ran across the grassy land, looking at the various natural structures that exposed the brown checkered ground beneath the grass. As he ran across a bridge made of logs, a portal appeared in the skies above. Distorted and colored in a blend of blue and violet energies, a shadowed figure floated within. It glared upon all the land, its cyan eyes glistening with malice and fury. It crossed its arms as a sphere of darkness began to engulf it. With a release of itself, a massive shockwave erupted, engulfing all in its wake. The hedgehog barely looked up as his world turned to white.
"Okay! That's perfect!" Eggman called, "Rotor, shut it down!"
Eiji panted as sweat drenched his body, covered by a breathable black jumpsuit with blue designs on the sides and gloves. It had been nearly one and a half months since the incident involving Dr. Finitevus. While he was glad the bullet was gone from his leg, he was also afraid of using it again without training. Currently, he was spending Saturdays at the research foundation, doing running tests/training for Tails, Rotor, and Eggman.
"You're doing great with these tests, Eiji," Rotor noted as he looked at a printed set of papers, "You're up y nine hundred miles yesterday."
"Thanks," Eiji nodded.
"Well could you please get a shower now?" Eggman demanded, keeping his nose covered, "You smell like Cubot when he had that Garbage Man's Voice Box installed."
"Don't remind me of that day," Rotor shuddered.
"…Eh?" Eiji tilted his head.
"Just take a shower!" Ankh snapped, "Even with my dull senses, you reek!"
"Hai, hai," Eiji nodded as he walked off.
"…" Ankh turned to the two scientists once Eiji had left, "What did you say earlier?"
"It appears that you're…evolving in some way," Eggman explained, "Remember that first test I gave you?"
"You stick a thermometer there again and I'll kill you," Ankh growled.
"Right, right, right. Anyways, the test we did on you last week came in and everything had increases significantly," Eggman informed, "You have improved vision, hearing, taste, touch, and smell."
"I think it's because you're incomplete and that you've kept the extra Core Medals inside of you along with your borrowing of Daisuke's body," Rotor noted.
Ankh blinked. He did note that his ice pops had been tasting better lately…when someone wasn't messing with them such as putting laxatives or switching them with tiny chairs. He just thought his letter to them to add more flavor to the pops had worked.
"I can't believe you did this…" Shadow muttered.
"He deserves it this year, Shadow-san," Roll, wearing a pair of white butterfly-designed rings on her wrists, explained as Echo giggled as Taka and Tako were applying streamers about with Orbot and Cubot.
"You're in person for one of these things for once," Rouge blinked.
"But of course. This is a grand day," Uncle Chuck grinned as he put a large container on the table.
"I'm amazed you were able to get contacts with a few old friends of his," Rouge noted as she watched a tall Mobian Crocodile in gold chains and black and gold headphones, a bee wearing an orange pilots jacket and a black pilot's helmet, a purple chameleon, Mighty, a yellow-furred flying squirrel, and Philip were nearby with Cream and Cheese, the bee making the rabbit giggle, "I mean, you managed to get the 'detectives' Vector, Charmy, Espio, Mighty, Ray, and their new member Philip here from Futo City."
"I have good contacts all over the world," Uncle Chuck replied.
"Hello again, Charles," Vanilla greeted as she walked up.
"Hello, Vanilla," Uncle Chuck bowed.
"Tell me, were you able to get Alpha to come?" Vanilla asked.
"He couldn't come due to him being at Station Square doing something important," Uncle Chuck informed before holding up a wrapped package, "However, he did send this for him along with his regard."
"That was kind of him," Vanilla smiled gently.
"He'll be here…any second…!" Tails panted as he ran up.
"Stations, everyone!" Orbot yelped as Eggman's car-finally repaired from the Swallowtail Butterfly Yummy incident-drove up, letting the four get out, the blue hedgehog wearing his normal outfit.
"Are we having a party of some sort?" Eiji pondered as he walked up to the group.
"…" everyone turned and Uncle Chuck opened the container, revealing a white cake with the top having a blue design resembling Eiji's head on it made of blueberries, "Surprise!"
"A-sa-pa!" Echo called in baby talk while the Candroids called out in their squeaks.
"Ah!" Eiji yelped before Knuckles, Rouge, Vanilla, and Satonaka used a party popper each in unison, causing the hedgehog to chuckle sheepishly, "Aw…Minna…"
"It's kinda impossible to surprise you," Tails explained as the party went underway
"You really got me this time," Eiji chuckled, "I wasn't even expecting one."
"You keep that thing away from me…" Ankh warned as he glared at the party hat Roll tried to put on him.
"Oh…You're completely right, Ankh!" Roll agreed.
"Heh," Ankh smirked…until she put a red party hat on his head.
"There! That's much better!" Roll giggled as she took a picture of him, "Chiyoko-sama is going to like this."
"…" Ankh turned and slammed his head on a tree, "Tch! That onna…Even when she isn't here, she makes my life Hell with such tiny things…and she put the hat on askew! I don't do askew with hats…"
"Happy Birthday, Eiji-kun," Roll blushed before holding up a plate with a Chili-Dog on it, an edible red bow with gold trimming tied onto it for him.
"A-Arigatou," Eiji nodded as he took the gift and took a bite of it, "Umai~ This is amazing."
"Your Uncle Chuck taught me how to make it," Roll explained.
'That explains why I saw her at times when I was giving status reports on the latest Candroids,' Tails thought.
Ankh suddenly stiffened nearby. The air just changed to the Greeed's senses.
"Duck!" Ankh shouted.
"Yes?" Bean asked as Ankh ducked down.
Everyone else stared at Ankh. Why did Ankh want them to duck? Their reply appeared after a second passed via a powerful blast of wind. The food set up along with the presents and Eiji's Chili-Dog were sent flying due to the wind while making everyone shield for it.
"Hm? Eh?-!" Eiji gasped when he saw his meal present from Roll was gone, "The Chili-Dog…"
"Eiji, look!" Rotor yelped as a portal seemingly made from violet, pink, and cyan clouds appeared in the sky before the shadowed figure emerged from it, "What is that?"
'It can't be…!' Eggman thought, paling a bit.
"What's it doing?" Orbot gasped.
The figure crossed its arms, causing the sphere of energy to reform. The figure released them and a shockwave ripped open multiple portals made of the energy, showing various locations. The crocodile tried to grab the bee when the suction caused by the portals pulled the bee away from the attempt and into one, closing it upon entering. The crocodile yelped with the chameleon as they were dragged in next into two portals. Philip, Mighty, and the flying squirrel were pulled into a portal together while Cream, Cheese, and Vanilla were sucked into the one beside theirs. Knuckles screamed as he, Rotor, and Rouge were pulled into separate ones. Shadow managed to grab onto Satonaka just as they were pulled into one before Gotou and Omega were sucked into another. Wave, Jet, and Storm screamed as they were pulled into another.
"Hey! Not cool!" Eiji scowled, "Henshin!"
=LION! TORA! CHEETAH! RATA-RATA~! RA-TO-RA~TAH~!=
OOO shot off like a rocket at the figure. He jumped into the air and bared his Tora Claws. Just as he was about to hit him, the massive figure batted OOO into a tree, forcing him out of Henshin and knocking him out. Ankh growled as he held onto the tree, burying his transformed arm into it while moving behind it to keep Daisuke's body from being pulled off. Bean screamed for his mommy to save him while demanding the floor to not save him as he and Bark were sent into another portal. Eggman, Orbot, and Cubot screamed as they were pulled into another.
"Help us…Eiji!-!-!" Tails screamed as he was pulled into a portal next before Roll screamed as she and Echo, the baby being held close to Roll, were pulled into the last one.
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 Vendor. 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! (Mysterious turn of events!)
*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 black screen with the Chaos Combos and seven Chaos Emeralds surrounding them before cutting to OOO riding his Ride Vendor*
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 Birth looking to the left for a side shot while holding a Cell Medal before cutting to Birth engaging his Caterpillar Leg and Drill Arm with the back of a Cell Medal to the screen before cutting to Birth charging at the screen with his Caterpillar Leg going full throttle while attacking with his Drill Arm*
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*
Count the Medals! Currently, how many Core Medals can OOO use? Twenty-One.
Medal 24: Birthday, White Space, Triple Threat
His head was pounding, the beating of his heart echoing was only making it worse. He heard someone cursing about something and, if his baby girl was around, he'd beat the guy up silly. The first thing he was able to regain sight of was the stitching of his right glove. It was then he was suddenly pulled upward and into the shouting face of Ankh.
"…And if you don't wake up, I will shove a thermometer up your ass!" Ankh finished his ranting, letting him pant.
"A…Ankh?" Eiji mumbled as he managed to stabilize himself while looking around, seeing nothing but white all around, "Wh…Where are we?"
"How should I know, dammit?-!" Ankh growled, "All I recall is that damn white light and then we're here! Tch! How humiliating…That damn thing…"
"Ano…I think I see something over there," Eiji noted as he pointed ahead.
"Hm?"
Eiji and Ankh looked head to see something. It was a strange area, yet familiar to one of them. The two ran over and saw a gate before them, reading '?-?-?' on the sign it had. The two looked at each other and walked through the gates. The two blinked and saw they were in a land of colors. The grass was of two different shades, set up in a checkerboard pattern. Ankh looked at a nearby nature-made 'wall' to see the ground under the grass was made of two shades of brown in the same pattern as the grass.
"I…I'm getting déjà vu," Eiji noted.
"Just where are we?" Ankh pondered.
"It…It's familiar," Eiji replied before he heard an engine, "Eh?"
Eiji looked up and gawked. Floating above them was a cartoon-like robotic bee with big eyes that were glaring at him and engines on the sides of its middle part with robotic bee wings. Eiji tapped Ankh's shoulder and pointed up. Ankh looked up and saw the bee.
"You've got to be kidding me," Ankh paled.
"Buzzbomber!" Eiji screamed before he grabbed Ankh's non-transformed arm and ran off.
"What was that?-!" Ankh demanded, "What kind of freak of nature was that bee?-!"
"It was a Robian!" Eiji exclaimed, "They're Mobians that were turned into robots. But I thought I destroyed that invention of Eggman's when I was…seven."
"I think nature hated this place," Ankh noted as he pointed ahead, managing to get onto Eiji's back.
"Aw crud," Eiji paled.
Straight ahead of them and approaching fast was a large natural loop. Eiji increased his speed and managed to make it. Once they got past it, Eiji stopped and Ankh stumbled over to a bush and released the food he had eaten at the party.
"You're fuckin' insane!" Ankh snapped, "I thought you called me insane!"
"You wanted me to not help others when that Ant Yummy was eating those two buildings," Eiji sweatdropped.
"Not again…" Ankh growled as he heard another motor.
"That sounds like a Motobug with a Crabmeat on its back," Eiji recalled.
The two turned ahead to see ten Buzzbombers with five round red and black bug-like robots with wheels for lower bodies, a red robotic crab with oversized claws that held rockets on their backs.
"Henshin…Henshin now!" Ankh snapped.
"R-Right. Henshin!" Eiji called.
=TAKA! TORA! BATTA! TA-TO-BA! TATOBA! TA-TO-BA!=
"I really hope this doesn't kill them," OOO noted as he inserted three Cell Medals into Caliburn.
=TRIPLE SCANNING CHARGE=
"See ya!" OOO roared as he swung his blade diagonally, causing two trails of light to appear before them and over the robots that slid the sight before them out of place and corrected itself, resulting in an explosion that revealed various woodland animals such as birds, squirrels, and chipmunks.
"There really were animals in them," Ankh blinked.
=TAKA! GORILLA! CHEETAH!=
"Let's get going, Ankh," OOO spoke.
"I'll keep up my own way," Ankh growled before letting his wings spread out.
OOO nodded. With that, the Rider ran off with Greeed-possessed Mobian flying after him. More Robots appeared in their path and OOO quickly took care of them by slamming his armored fists into them, freeing the animals inside, while still running. Eventually, the two came upon a giant floating gold ring with a red star in the center.
"…I'm not going in there," Ankh stated.
"I remember this," Eiji noted, "It's a Goal Ring."
"Goal…Ring?" Ankh repeated, "Looks more like that ring that sent us to that alternate reality."
OOO walked up to the Goal Ring and dropped his Henshin. He tapped it and the ring vanished into him. A light engulfed the two with Ankh cursing out Eiji before it faded, revealing the two before the entrance, this time almost everything was in full color and the sign reading 'Green Hill Zone.'
"You stupid idiot! We could've died!" Ankh snapped as he tried to hit Eiji on the head with a tree branch he had got while they were in there.
"Ah! Matte, Ankh!" Eiji pleaded before he ended up bumping into something, "…Eh?"
Ankh stopped when he saw the sight as well. It was Tails, but solid white. He was frozen in place, a look of fear in his eyes with a hand outstretched and trying to grab something. Suddenly, Tails regained his colors and blinked. He lowered his hand and began to look at them before checking his tails. He gave a relieved sigh before turning to Ankh and Eiji.
"Oh thank goodness…I thought I was dead, floating in a black limbo," Tails spoke before shivering, "I'm going to have nightmares for weeks about that experience…"
"You think that was bad? I just had to fight against cartoon robots, dammit!" Ankh snapped as he pointed at the area behind the gates.
"Was it just me, or is that place familiar?" Eiji pondered as he looked at it.
"Mmm…Not to me," Tails replied.
"I can't help but look at it and somehow feeling that I should remember it," Eiji noted.
"Well, it looks like someone drained the color out of almost all of it," Tails noted, "Very peculiar, if you ask me."
"It's kina like helping genies in storybooks and saving aliens in an interstellar amusement park," Eiji noted.
"I'm more concerned with the damn Mix," Ankh scowled.
"You miss Roll-sama?" Eiji asked.
"No…She has the other Medals!" Ankh barked, earning a groan from the two.
"Hm?" Tails looked ahead to see a metal hill with another white structure in the distance, "What's that over there?"
"A construction site of some sorts?" Ankh pondered, 'Are we…traveling through time?'
"I'll check it out," Eiji spoke before he ran off…before he appeared running up.
"Huh? Oi! You said you were going to check that place out!" Ankh snapped.
"Okay! Okay! Yeesh, what crawled up your butt and died?" Eiji demanded before he ran off, "I'll be back soon!"
"…Was it just me, or was he naked except for his gloves and shoes?" Ankh asked before Eiji ran up from behind them again.
"Holy! Eiji, you weren't kidding when you said you'd be back soon," Tails gawked, making Eiji stare at him in shock.
"Now he's shorter…" Ankh muttered.
"I thought you already left…twice," Tails noted, earning a nod from Eiji before he ran ahead.
"Oh!" Ankh gasped as he saw the remaining colors of the scenery behind the gates return, "How did this even happen?"
Eiji skidded to a halt. The area around him was eerily familiar to the hedgehog. The skies were darkened with pollution as searchlights were moving about. Sirens for intruders went off as the lights from the searchlights and the explosions shined upon the blue, silver, black, and yellow metals. Unaware to him, the second Eiji was farther into the area, going across a wide gap by striking multiple hanging spider robots as the third Eiji was in a ball and rolling through a set of pipes on a level lower than the second Eiji. Eiji quickly ran ahead and began to try and find the Goal Ring. He quickly scanned his Core Medals.
=SAI! UNAGI! CHEETAH!=
OOO dashed off. As he ran along the area, his used the Sai Helmet to ram through the machines in his path. He stopped before a wide gap with a ceiling that had a single robotic spider. He activated the Unagi Whips and tied up the spider with one. He tugged twice before he swung over the gap. OOO proceeded to electrocute the robot, blowing it up. OOO proceeded to run off, missing the taller of the other two Eijis running by with a tidal wave of pink water following him. OOO eventually came upon a control room with the Goal Ring in it.
"…Eh?" OOO looked at a set of control and felt his eyes widen, "'Robotnikland Plan: Step 1: Kill Sonic the Hedgehog. Step 2: Take over the world. Step 3: Dance on hedgehog's grave. Step 4: Get drunk, puke, and pass out on said grave.'"
"…It must have been an, as you would say, 'off day' for him," Caliburn noted.
"You know…This place is truly familiar to me," OOO noted before his hand brushed a button, pressing it down.
=SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE HAS BEEN INITIATED=
"Oops…" OOO sweatdropped before he jumped into the Goal Ring as various areas of the Zone exploded.
"Sonic!"
The taller of the two other Hino Eijis turned to see Tails wearing just shoes, socks, and gloves, fly over with his namesakes. He landed and walked up to the hedgehog.
"Tails!" Sonic nodded, a hand on his hip.
"This Chemical Plant feels familiar. I'd never forget a smell like this! And that pink water makes me really nervous for some reason," Tails noted as he looked over at a broken container that was spewing gallons of water.
"You're right, Tails. This place is giving me déjà vu all over again!" Sonic nodded.
The smallest of the three ran along a pathway that started to fall off as he ran over them. A blur shot by him and turned to fly ahead of him. It was…him? No, it was a metallic blue where he was blue while the lower arms and lower legs were metallic blue. The feet resembled his shoes and made of metal while its hands were yellow with silver claws. The upper arms, upper legs, and muzzles were silver. The center of its body was a yellow and black engine. It glared at the blue hedgehog with its black and red optics before releasing two yellow blasts from its body, destroying the path ahead of the hedgehog. The smaller Sonic quickly jumped along the debris to the other side and resumed his running.
=FACE ME IF YOU WISH TO HAVE THE CHAOS EMERALD= the robot declared.
Eiji walked out of an entrance to the area, seeing the words 'Chemical Plant' appeared on the sign it had. He really thought it was familiar back there. A soft moan caught his attention. He turned to the right to see a sight that made him weak in the knees, his mouth dry, and his heart racing with mixed emotions. It was a Mobian Hedgehog around 14. Her quills were of a gentle shade of pink while her eyes were a soft emerald in color. She wore white gloves with gold rings on the wrists, a pair of red boots with had a lone white stripe going up the middle of them, and a red dress without sleeves or a back, a white stripe on the hem and the neck. In her quills, brushed to point down, was a red hairband. She did a small twirl as she stretched.
"A-Amy…" Eiji whispered.
"Hm? Sonic!" the hedgehog gasped as she hugged the older hedgehog, "Oh, thank you so much for saving me! Oh my…! That poncho looks amazing on you!"
"Hai," Eiji nodded gently.
"Sonic, you're crying," Amy gasped before wiping his eyes with a handkerchief.
"It's just…I'm happy to see you, Amy," Eiji sniffled a bit.
"Eiji!"
"Fuck you, Ankh…" Eiji muttered as the Greeed ran over with Tails.
"A-Amy!-?" Tails gasped.
"Tails? Oh my, that's such a cool look on you!" Amy exclaimed as she looked at Tails' clothes.
'How is Amy here?' Tails thought frantically.
'I knew it! We are travelling through time!' Ankh thought before he looked ahead, "Clouds?"
The other three looked over to where Ankh was observing. Ahead of them was a strange area resembling clouds and marble buildings, some reminding Eiji of the place he had seen in Greece and Rome.
"I guess that's the next area," Eiji noted.
The small Sonic jumped into the air as the sparking robot fell. With a well-timed kick, the small Sonic sent the metal Sonic flying off, exploding. He stopped before a post with his upper body, smirking on it. A light caught his attention. It was a fine-cut purple jewel. To him, it looked like an emerald. Is this what that robot-him called a 'Chaos Emerald?' He caught it and appeared outside the area, parts of it colored in. Standing before him was a statue, completely white. Suddenly, the light filled in to reveal the Babylon Rogues. Jet shook his head as Storm let out a massive yawn, earning a bop on the head from Wave.
"Sonic?-!" Wave gasped, "You…You shrunk?"
The small hedgehog frowned. He did not like this lady. …Was he getting smaller? He looked at the metal of the area and nodded. No, he wasn't getting smaller.
"Sonic!" a voice called before a small version of Tails ran over, "That was a weird place, wasn't it?"
"Oh my goodness…Tails, you shrunk!" Wave gasped before she fainted.
"Wow…Did he go in the dryer?" Storm asked, earning a sigh of annoyance from Jet.
"Do we…know you three?" the little Tails asked, tilting his head in confusion with the mini-Sonic.
"What now? Oh come on, Eiji, you forgot me? Really? Your racing rival?" Jet demanded.
The mini-Sonic froze up. He suddenly began to glare at the three birds. How did they know his name?
"Eiji? No, his name is Sonic," the mini-Tails corrected.
"…I think I see what's goin' on here," Jet sweatdropped before the four walked off, Storm carrying Wave, "We'll explain while going away from here. It gives me the creeps for some reason."
"Yeah. That pink water is giving me the creeps," Mini-Tails shuddered.
"Heh. That was fun, besides nearly drowning in that pink stuff," Sonic noted as he and Tails walked out of the fully-colored Chemical Plant.
"You're right about that," Tails shuddered, "The stink is going to be in my fur for weeks."
"Subarashi!" the two screamed as they turned to see Uncle Chuck with Bean and Bark.
"Heya! Wow! Sonic, you're naked!" Bean exclaimed quickly, earning a roll of eyes from Bark.
"Uncle Chuck?" Sonic pondered before the middle-aged hedgehog held out a cake shaped like Sonic's head.
"Happy Birthday, Nephew!" Uncle Chuck declared.
"You remembered!" Sonic grinned, "Though this really isn't the time for that…And why are you with Bean and Bark?"
"I hired them," Uncle Chuck replied before Bark pointed at the next area.
"Okay, now I just know I've been there before," Sonic frowned as the five went over to the area.
"That's because it is Sky Sanctuary. You wrote to me about how you liked laying on the clouds and even fell asleep on one with Tails and your new friend, Knuckles," Uncle Chuck explained.
"Oh yeah…" Sonic realized, "Man was that cloud soft…"
Bean snapped his fingers before Sonic's face, getting the hedgehog's attention.
"Right, right. I know I'm supposed to check it out."
"Not alone. Bark!" Uncle Chuck ordered as the polar bear strapped on his belt.
"…Henshin," Bark stated, startling the hedgehog and fox, before he transformed into Birth.
=CUTTER WING=
"Whoa! When could he do that?-!" Sonic gawked.
"Amazing," Tails noted as he flew around Birth with his namesakes.
"I forgot how relaxing a cloud is," Eiji noted as he laid down on a cloud near the entrance.
"It feels so nice," Amy noted as she sat on another.
"Oi…" Ankh rolled his eyes, "Will you just get going, you baka?"
"Ankh," Eiji frowned before the Greeed grabbed his ear and pulled him into the place, "Ah! Ooh! Ow! Ite…ite…ite…"
"How rude…" Amy pouted as she glared at the retreating Ankh.
"That's how Ankh has always been since I've known him," Tails shrugged, "I think it's because he lost his ice candy when we got sent to this White Space."
"I see…Tails?"
"Hm?"
"You're not the Tails I know, are you?" Amy asked.
"I forgot how smart you were," Tails chuckled, "Nearly three years can have that affect on ya."
"Three years?" Amy repeated.
"It's nothing too important, Amy. You wouldn't understand it," Tails replied as he looked up at the white sky on his own cloud before he felt something he hadn't felt in nearly three years.
"Tails…!" Amy began.
"Uh oh," Tails paled before he ran off with Amy giving chase.
"Get back here and tell me!" Amy demanded as she began to swing her Piko-Piko Hammer at him.
"Ankh, why did you do that?-! Do you know how long it's been since I saw her alive?-!-? Three fuckin' years!" OOO, RaToraTa, ranted as he tore apart robots shaped like Eggman with blasters in their right hands.
"And I should care…why?" Ankh rolled his eyes as he crushed the head of another robot.
"She was my wife, dammit!" OOO growled as he shredded ten more, "My beautiful, strong, loving wife! And what's more, she's Echo's mother! Her mother, Ankh! I love her, Ankh! I love her so much! And for you to just do that…that…I could care less if your Core Medals break right now!"
"What!-? Don't go and say that, you asshole! My Core Medals are my life!" Ankh snapped as the two went further ahead.
"Well Amy is mine! You're a selfish bastard, Ankh, a big, fat selfish bastard!"
"Oh, I'm being selfish! Look at you! Moment the pink one shows up and you're a big old puppy dog!"
"Why you…!" the two growled at each other.
=Prepare to…= the last robot said as he aimed.
"Shut up!" the duo snapped as they rammed their fists into it, tearing it to shreds.
"…Well I feel so much better," OOO noted.
"I'll have to agree with you on that. Is smashing robots always this stress relieving?" Ankh asked.
"Only when you're stressed, Ankh. Only when you're stressed."
"Yikes…" Sonic blinked as he and Birth looked about the destroyed robots, "These Badniks sure got pummeled."
Birth nodded. He noted how many of them had been sliced and slightly melted. As he recalled, the only ones that could do this much carnage are Ankh…and OOO. He looked over at Sonic. Now he was sure that this Sonic…was the Sonic he knew back then.
"You shocked at this, Bark?" Sonic asked, earning silence from Bark, "Guess not, huh? Well, let's keep on going."
Sonic took a step ahead when the ground collapsed around him. It fell out of the structure and continued to fall through the sky. Sonic gulped as he looked down before looking up. Birth slowly pulled up the hedgehog.
"Uh…Yeah. I'm okay," Sonic nodded, earning a pat on the shoulder and a thumbs up from Birth before he flew him over the hole with his Cutter Wing, letting them continue their journey through the area, while, nearby, the smaller Sonic snored quietly as he slept on a cloud.
Eiji and Ankh walked out before spotting Amy being held back from Tails by a shocked Knuckles. Ankh realized just who the last owner of that damn hammer Roll had was.
"Hey, Knuckles," Eiji greeted.
"Can you tell me how Amy is here?-!" Knuckles demanded as Tails ran behind Eiji.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Amy demanded as she glared at him.
"Crap," Knuckles paled.
"Amy-chan, matte," Eiji spoke as he gently wrapped his arms around her waist, earning a small blush from her, "Everyone is here, Knuckles. At least…that what I think."
"Fine. …What is this place? It's so white a creepy. I've never seen anything like it," Knuckles noted as he looked around.
"I'm just calling it 'White Space,'" Tails shrugged as Ankh continued to glare at the hammer.
"Ankh, stop staring at the Piko-Piko Hammer," Eiji sighed as Amy looked at the Greeed in confusion.
"This thing is the devil's work. I just know it," Ankh scowled.
"I didn't even know you're Christian," Eiji noted.
"I prefer a blend of the cultures," Ankh replied, never keeping his glare away from the Piko-Piko Hammer.
"You should really put that away," Tails noted.
"How you fell asleep on a cloud, I will never know," Jet grumbled as he and the smaller Sonic exited the gate on Jet's J-Type.
The smaller Sonic was really excited from being on the Extreme Gear. The way the wind blew felt like when he was running! Jet groaned when he saw that Wave was on another cloud, being massaged by Storm. The smaller Tails looked at a part of the structure nearby, a marble statue to be precise. The statue glowed before filling in with color. Eggman fell to a knee while shaking his head while Cubot and Orbot popped out of their shape modes.
"Good heavens. What was that?" Eggman pondered.
"It felt like I went through a blender...again," Cubot moaned, his yellow metal red with oni horns on the forehead and black designs all over him.
"I never put you through a blender," Orbot noted.
"Who are you?" the small Tails asked.
"Wha…?" Eggman adjusted his glasses as he looked at the smaller Tails, "Good heavens! You've regressed into childhood! That hasn't happened since my little Baby Gas Plan…"
"Huh?" the small Tails blinked as he tilted his head.
"I'm starting to think that these two are really their younger selves," Jet whispered, causing Eggman's glasses to slip, revealing wide red eyes in black.
"Whoa! How did you get your eyes to be like that?" the small Tails asked.
"Oh! Uh…" Eggman coughed a few times as he hid his eyes once more, "My name is Dr. Eggman. A pleasure to meet you and your blue friend over there." 'I thought I would have never done this plan…I thought I swore I would never do it!'
"Let's keep on moving," Jet ordered as he looked out in the distance to see a large portal resembling a clock and various gears.
"I've got to admit, Bark, you're not like what I expected," Sonic noted, earning a roll of the eyes from the polar bear, "I can see why Uncle Chuck here hired you."
"It seems you're getting along well. Subarashi!" Uncle Chuck declared as they walked up to the same portal Jet had seen.
"…" Tails looked away from Satonaka when she looked at him, the fox blushing, as Gotou looked at the portal.
"Looks like pea soup," Bean noted.
"When is pea soup purple?"
"When you 'pea' in it, duh," Bean snickered, earning a groan from the only human of the group and sweatdrops from Sonic and Tails.
Eiji walked down a dark hallway. Ahead of him was a floating door, opened to reveal a white light emanating from it. As he walked along, it was then he came upon two mirrors on his sides. He stopped and looked at them. The one to his left was showing him, just slightly shorter and without his current clothing. He remembered this him was around before he started dating Amy. His right mirror had a smaller version of the image on his left with onyx eyes and a lighter shade of quills. He remembered that little guy. It was himself when he first began to fight Eggman and could barely talk to anyone that wasn't his foster mother, the Chao in her garden, or newborn foster sister.
"Take a good look at yourself, Sonic!"
"Dr. Eggman?-!" Eiji's taller 'reflection' exclaimed as his 'smaller' reflection looked at the door ahead with a confused expression.
"It's the last look you'll get before I close your eyes forever! Hoo-Hoo-Hoo!"
"Henshin."
=TAKA! TORA! CHEETAH!=
"Another Sonic?-!" the taller 'reflection' exclaimed as the smaller one and OOO ran to the door, "What!-?-! Wait a second!"
The smaller Sonic shot into the door before the doors closed. OOO and Sonic hit the doors and fell onto their faces.
"Ow…Stupid floor…" Sonic groaned as he glared at the floor before looking over at OOO, 'Whoa! He…I mean me…I mean we…' "Ahh! This is confusing me!"
"You and me both," OOO agreed.
The smaller Sonic ran along a corridor. He jumped out the end and ended on a rising platform. Across from him was a large robot the size of the Ant Yummy Eiji fought on his second day of being OOO and based upon Eggman. Its hands were made of three drills with a black bum. The smaller Sonic narrowed his eyes at the machine as it jumped into the air and tried to stomp him. He ran out of the way and did a Spin Dash into its rear, causing a small explosion. The robot got up and shot its arms at him, the hedgehog quickly dodging the drills that impaled the floor. He ran about the machine and did another Spin Dash. The rising floor emerged into a large area with three stages, some holding buttons. He jumped onto a platform with a button, pressing it down. A bomb appeared above him. The robot fired an arm at him, making the hedgehog dodge and let the bomb short-circuit the robot. He quickly ran onto the extended limb and did a Jump Attack on the head, causing a mini-explosion. He got onto another platform and activated a second bomb. The robot fired and got short-circuited once more, letting him run up the limb and did another Jump Attack. He jumped high into the air, using the mini-explosion as leverage. He proceeded to do a Spin Attack as he fell, ramming into its cranium. The robot fell over, exploding in a flash of light. The light faded and the smaller Sonic appeared at the double doors. He tilted his head before he walk off to the entrance of the dark hallway.
Next time on Kamen Rider OOO…
Ankh: As if one of you was a big enough pain in my ass! Now I have to deal with three of you!
Sonic: I have a kid?-!
Amy: I have a baby girl!-!
Eiji: Another one of those gates.
?-?-?: Oh-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Classic Tails: Dr. Robotnik!
Medal 25: Mushrooms, Casinos, Big Arm
Tails: Aw man! This is really bad! We forgot to do the Rider Fashion Check for last chapter and the girls, except for Wave, are missing!
Wave: Relax, shorty. The two of us will do it.
Amy: Hey! You forgot me!
Wave: *flinches* Sorry, Amy, just not used to seeing you after so long.
Amy: Really? What do you mean?
Tails and Wave: It's nothing.
Tails: *sighs* I hope you're right. Hey, everyone. I'm Tails, this is Amy, and this is Wave. Since Rouge and Roll aren't here, we'll be doing the Rider Fashion Check.
Wave: Today we're going to do two Riders…well, the second one will just be something he uses so we'll start with his.
Amy: What does he use?
Tails: This…
=CRANE ARM DRILL ARM SHOVEL ARM CUTTER WING CATERPILLAR LEG BREAST CANNON=
Wave: …The Sasori CLAWS! The six attachments of Birth, once 1000 Cell Medals are used in unison, will fly off Birth and connect to form this big guy! His strength is on par with a Greeed as you saw on the last chapter.
Tails: The Cutter Wing becomes a claw while the Crane Arm and Drill Arm become a tail. The Cutter Wing, Drill Arms, and Shovel Arm all have the ability to shoot off on a cable to return the limbs to Sasori CLAWS.
Amy: *looking at Birth's manual* It says here that the finisher uses all the energy within the seven parts to create a powerful laser on the Drill Arm's tip. And that it can split into its parts and burrow in the ground and glide across the water. But it can't fly.
Tails: Good job, Amy. Now let's move on to…
=SASORI! KANI! EBI! SA-SA-SA-SA~SANI~~SANIBI~=
Wave: OOO's Venom Combo, SaNiBi!
Amy: Ew! Is that poison dripping from his helmet?-!
Tails: *rolls his eyes* The power of this Full Combo lets OOO survive even the worst of the acids or pollutions and can heal others affected by a poison or acid. His head is the Sasori Skull, which has the Sasori Whip which, upon contact, will expel a powerful acid that can melt almost anything.
Wave: The Kani Legs can fused together to resemble the tail of a shrimp, yet gives him the ability to swim faster than any other sea animal through any liquid surface.
Amy: *looking at a scrip* The Kani Arms create the Kani Klaws…Really, *points at the script* the 'claws' here is spelled with a 'K' and not a 'C.' *giggles* Anyway, these…*giggles* Klaws…are strong enough to crush almost anything and cut through anything as well. They also make good shields when they're put together.
Tails: The Scanning Charge is 'Venom Vengeance,' where OOO charges at the enemy and releases a barrage of pinches from his Kani Klaws before stabbing the enemy's heart with his Sasori Whip.
Wave: That's all the time we have here. So, until next chapter!