The Sins of the Father, part 2 - Cleaning House

Tribute to: Metroid Fusion and Kamen Rider Gaim Gaiden: Kamen Rider Zangetsu

"Henshin!" Takatora begins transforming when he unlocks his Lockseed, throwing it in the air before catching it as it falls. He then equipped the Lockseed into the Sengoku Driver.

*LOCK ON!*

"Soiya!" The Sengoku Driver stated, after Takatora pressed the driver's cutting blade, causing the Melon Arms to materialize from the Crack and fall over his head; as the Ride Wear begins to materialize, as the Melon Arms begins to split into armor parts; subsequently completing the transformation into Zangetsu Melon Arms.

"Melon Arms! Tenka Gomen!" (Note: Tenka Gomen means "acknowledged by the heavens")

Zangetsu drew out his Musou Saber, and is ready to battle. Once he and Samus opened the gate, the monsters began to charge right back at them. Zangetsu relentlessly swung his sword on an attacking Phantoms and Mirror Monsters.

"Hey, why you are not using your suit?!" Zangetsu inquires at Samus when he saw her fighting a pair of Zodiarts with just her skintight Zero Suit. Suddenly, a flash began to affect Takatora's movement.

"It's a Slowdown!" he senses the presence of Roidmudes, as he is pushed into the corner by the monsters he is facing. Samus, on the other hand is unaffected, due to the Core Driviars being implanted on to her while meeting with the Special Investigation Unit.

In order to break Takatora free from the Heaviness, she uses the Faiz Axel Watch's ability to travel in supersonic speeds for 10 seconds.

"START UP!" the watch said in a computer-generated voice, as it initiates a ten-second countdown. Samus lunges the trio of attacking Roidmudes, whilst dual-wielding the Faiz Edge, Kamen Rider Faiz's lightsaber-like weapon along with the DenGasher (Den-O's multi-changing weapon in Rod Mode), slashing them one by one, ala-Kamen Rider Agito in Trinity Form.

THREE...

TWO...

ONE...

"TIME OUT!" as 10 seconds finally expires, Samus returns to her normal running speed, destroying the trio of Roidmudes in the process. However, the numbers game becomes too much for her and Zangetsu when they are being cornered by more Mirror Monsters; consisting of five types of Buzzstingers, as well as Makamou, and familiar monsters that Samus encountered from her world; namely Hornoads and Sheegoths. However, help came in the form of the Auto Vajin in Battle Mode, where it began to rain a hail of bullets on the attackers, buying enough time for both Samus and Takatora to get inside the facility.

When they finally made it inside, Samus finally activated her Varia Suit.

"I think we finally lost them." Takatora said as he took a deep breath. "Now that we are inside, let's split up. Samus, I suggest that you should fight in close combat, this place appears to have contain a lot explosive barrels around here. If you try to shoot it, we all get killed, and the place would collapse instantaneously. I guess you are aware of that, too."

Samus nodded her head as she heeded the older Kureshima's warning, as they split up and investigate the instituion. Samus went on the basement, while Takatora in the main floors building. As Samus begins to investigate the basement of the facility, she begins to see chains on each beds, several apparatuses that has been unknown to her.

"Takatora was right. Who would've thought that a place used to care for children would become a house of torture?" Samus examines the area, among the apparatuses she saw are very familiar plants from the forest of Helheim. "This breaks my heart... Children are treasures of one family, but using them as dress-up dolls or guinea pigs is unforgivable. No wonder, Takatora's reputation began to erode when he learned the truth about his father..."

Meanwhile, on Takatora's side. As he explored the area along the way, he feels a rather nostalgic presence. He recalls a flashback when he first came into the isolated facility alone, when he was attacked by a masked assailant, this was the same attacker who beat Sid up and almost dropped Minato at that time. When he unmasked the attacker, it turns out to be the Kureshima's household maid, Akatsuki Touka.

Takatora: Touka...
Touka: You knew, didn't you? Why?
Takatora: (he stared intently at Touka) What are you talking about?
Touka: Why do you always possess the Kureshima blood? That's why I must kill you.
Takatora: (his eyes became watery as he learns of Touka's true motives) So, is this revenge?! This is really the place where you grew up?
Touka: This institution came to be to raise potential members of Yggdrasil

Seconds later, Samus interrupts Takatora's flashbacks as he hears her transmission through the Melon Energy Lockseed.

"Is something bothering you?" she asked.

"Yes. A lot." Takatora replied. "When I come here for the first time, it was here on the fateful day that everything about my father came to light, along with a painful revelation." The older Kureshima then reflects to the fateful confrontation against Armored Rider Idunn.

Takatora: Is this why my father kept you by his side?
Touka: But not all everyone lived up to Yggdrasil's expectations, tragedy awaited to those who weren't chosen ones.
Takatora: Human experiments... That Inves that I saw just now, was among those?!
Touka: Amagi-sama's mind was poisoned by Helheim. They were all sacrificed for that!

"So, your father took interest on all of Helheim's horticulture projects?" Samus again clarified to Takatora's flashbacks.

"To be honest, it's rather complicating." Takatora nodded as he continues to examine one room after another. "When I became a figurehead for Yggdrasil's Research Team, all I had in mind is to take interest on the entire forest; until I was warned about the true existence of the forest itself, inhabited by even more powerful Inves, called as the Over Lord Inves. But here, given to how this place blend itself as a day-care center. In the shadows, smiles become an echoing cry of despair for young ones, where they end up being experimented on."

Meanwhile, he finds a quartet of harmless creatures. They stare intently at the White Armored Rider.

"Samus, what are these creatures?" he asked, as he walked briskly with the critters following him.

"Those are the Dachoras and Etecoons." Samus stated, to her surprise, how did the creatures she saved in the BSL Research Station wind up on planet Earth? "The last time I saw them was in the research facility that was overrun by X Parasites. It's anyone's guess how did they wind up here?"

The older Kureshima continued recalling more flashbacks as he heads for the basement of the facility.

Touka: (sneering) Amagi-sama's end was surely fittingly pitful.
Takatora: (almost breaks into tears) My father is dead. You already have your revenge!
Touka: No. It's not over yet.
*Takatora becomes wracked with heartbreak and grief...*
Touka: (whilst displaying her Ringo Lockseed in front of Takatora) Because Yggdrasil still stands, you and Mitsuzane Kureshima are still breathing. And everyone related to Amagi Kureshima, must be erased from this world!
Takatora: Touka...
Touka: Henshin! (unlocks the Ringo Lockseed)
*RINGO!*
(Lockseed equipped on the Sengoku Driver) *LOCK ON! COME ON!*
Ringo Arms! Desire Forbidden Fruits!

As Takatora makes his way to the basement of the facility, he is again attacked by another set of monsters. A quartet of Makamou began to attack the White Armored Rider, but effortlessly took them out when he makes use of his Sengoku Driver's Au Lait function, a powerful Melou Blast instantly vaporized the attackers one by one.

On Samus' point of view, she again fends off a platoon of Worms, Hazlyn, Hornoads, and more Fangires and Mirror Monsters by extension, she transforms her suit to the Shogun Suit.

"This is my stage now!" as Samus channels Kamen Rider Gaim's fighting style whilst fighting more monsters around the basement. Summoning the Daidaimaru out of nowhere, upon being held on her left hand, she begins to slice down the attacking monsters abruptly.

Elsewhere around the basement, a strange-looking man observes Samus' fight non-chalantly. After Samus finishes cleaning house, she reverts back to her Varia Suit.

"Are there more where they came from?" she said, feeling more amount of pressure of enemy presence.

"It's anyone's guess." said by the mysterious man's voice. He jumps from right above Samus and looks at her intently.

"Who are you?" Samus asked the mystery man.

"Sorry, I have no time answering such questions. To be honest, nothing personal." the giddy and lighthearted man wastes no time for questions as he drew out a gun, and a very familiar-looking card.

"That's..." Samus looked on, shocked. As she begins to make a sentiment if that man is related to Decade.

The man inserts his Card on his gun.

*KAMEN RIDE!*

Pointing the gun onto the sky, he shouts "Henshin!"

"DiEnd!" The gun declared upon pulling the trigger as the man transforms into a Kamen Rider, bearing a simliar motif to Decade, Kamen Rider DiEnd!

"You! Are you related to him?!" Samus continues clarifying at Diend, as he bears some similarities to Decade.

"Him? He must be out buying some sea cucumbers." DiEnd quipped a wrong answer at the bounty hunter, as he relentlessly kept Samus at bay.

Then, Samus receives an incoming transmission from Takatora.

"Samus, what's going on?"

"I'm being pinned down... By another Kamen Rider!" said Samus whilst being at the mercy of DiEnd.

DiEnd draws two cards from his pocket, which has Kamen Riders Rey and Saga.

(A/N: The actors for Kamen Rider Rey (Takato Shiramine; Kiva Movie) and Saga (Taiga Nobori; Kiva TV series) were played by Shouma Yamamoto.)

"Kamen Ride, Rey!" Diend inserted the Rey Card on his gun. "Kamen Ride, Saga!" then followed by the Saga Rider Card. Upon pulling the trigger, it sent out the Riders through a CGI-esque hologram. The Rider Card puppets of DiEnd began to pummel Samus, as she is unable to use not only her arm cannon, as well as her power bomb. As a result, she takes desperate measures to defend herself, as she engaged them in unarmed combat while in her suit.

To be continued...