Lord Baron, part 1 - Kaito's Resurrection
Tribute to: Kamen Rider Gaim Gaiden: Kamen Rider Baron
Author's Note:
-Thank you Dash master 48 for giving good feedbacks in my recent chapters, most especially in the Kamen Rider Blade tribute arcs. He must have appreciated how Micchy's character being portrayed in the story. Well, Micchy has become mature throughout the chapter as much more once he started following Samus all throughout. As stated in the concluding part of the Blade Tribute chapter, Micchy is the antithesis to Minato/Marika to Samus being Baron; considering Yoko being so loyal and close to Kaito.
-Samus regains the Gravity Suit, plus a barrel extension that turns her arm cannon into a sniper weapon, which is a homage to the Imperialist from Metroid Prime Hunters. Which would be dubbed as the Sniper Arm by Go. That barrel extension is collaboratively created by both Rinna Sawagami and Harley Hendrickson; the sounds of the Sniper Arm reuses that of the Door-Ju, Kamen Rider Drive's sidearm. The Sniper Arm has some kind of bolt-action use, upon cycling, Krim's voice can be heard saying "Charge!" much like the Door-Ju is being reloaded.
-The Gravity Suit now allows Samus to move freely during Clock Up and Gravity Accelerations.
-This is the first time Samus meets Kyu Saijo. As a result, she has met all members of the Special Investigation Unit.
-Kaito's resurrection is similar to Zen-Aku's return when Merrick becomes the Lunar Wolf Ranger in Wild Force. Here, Kaito is hellbent in killing Mitsuzane.
This part of the Kamen Rider Baron chapter arc is dedicated to MsSamusAran.
P.S., reviews are strongly appreciated!
-Samus: Gravity Suit and Sniper Arm-
SHIP LOG #6503
Aran, Samus
Kureshima, Takatora
Kureshima, Mitsuzane
Shijima, Go
Tomari, Shinnosuke
LOG DATE: March 10, 2016 (A.D.)
I brought the Kureshima brothers and Go here in the starship to help me something with my Gravity Suit upgrade. Eventually, Go called some acquaintances from the former Special Cases Division, their head mechanic, Rinna Sawagami, and his mentor from America, Professor Harley Hendrickson to help me with the suit upgrades, along came with them are officers Kiriko Shijima and Shinnosuke Tomari. Ms. Sawagami is one of those responsible for transplanting Core Driviars into my body with Krim's approval. The Core Driviars were able to restore the original appearance of my Power Suit long before it was infested by the X. Along with Adam's help, Ms. Sawagami and Prof. Harley immediately process the Gravity Suit upgrade process.
END LOG
"Gravity Suit equipped." Adam declared. "Okay, Lady. You're Gravity Suit is ready for use. Rinna was able to configure most of your Rider Suits features onto the Gravity Suit, such as moving through slowdowns, even though the Roidmudes are extinct. Also, you can now switch between your Varia and Gravity Suits if you need to. But, regardless of the Suits you are using, you can still change into any of your Rider Suits while maintaining the feature of either of them."
"Okay, Adam. I got the point." I said while looking at the sight of my suit, while my face being visible behind the visor as the two professors looked at me.
"Your Gravity Suit is amazing, Ms. Aran." Professor Harley grinned. "It's a sight to behold!"
"Cool! The shoulders of that suit are just as big as her chest!" Shinnosuke's amazed reaction, as he looked intently at my suit.
"(police siren sounds) Tomari-san!" Kiriko just abruptly pinched her husband's ear, yanking him pulling him out away from me. I never saw Mrs. Tomari getting jealous for that reason.
"Ow! Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow! Owww!" The police detective is dragged away, much to the hilarity of everyone.
"Oi, oi! Shin-niisan! You already have nee-chan. Why bother falling head-over-heels for a bounty hunter?" Go laughed, well its pretty obvious. Before turning his attention to me. "Hey, Sammy-chan! Don't you wanna try Professor Harley's creation?" he asked me to try this gadget that would fit into my arm cannon. It looks like some kind of a barrel extension with a folding bipod.
"Come on, guys. Let's try that outside." Rinna suddenly brightened up an idea. Outside the ship, the Special Cases Division members Genpachiro Otta, Jun Honganji, and Kyu Saijo built some kind of a rifle range.
"Woooaaaahhhhhh! Shougin kasegi kitaaa~!" the nerdy man said. (Note: Shougin Kasegi translates as "bounty hunter" in Japanese)
"Oh, it's you missy!" inspector Otta greeted me, I remember this police detective when I was looking for officer Tomari days ago. "We were asked by Shinnosuke to build this shooting range to help him test you that weapon sensei built."
"My, oh my! If isn't Ms. Samus Aran. How is the bounty hunter of the future doing these days?" Honganji, the older policeman addressed me.
"I'm doing fine lately." I looked at him whilst answering him.
"Did you know, that the tie I'm wearing matches the color of your armor! Do you get it?" the senior policeman jubilant proudly presented his necktie before me, matching the Gravity Suit's color. He perceives this to be a good luck. Well, according to Shinnosuke, officer Honganji is fond with the concept of fortune telling of sorts.
"Okay, Samus. Perhaps it's time you try that thing on." I was asked by Takatora to equip that barrel extension that Rinna invented. And yes, that gadget fitted on my arm cannon. Once the extension is attached, it was too heavy for me to lift it up. "Is this some kind of a-"
"Oh, I almost forgot to tell you, that barrel extension turns your arm cannon into a sniper weapon!" Rinna noted, much to my dismay without letting me know about this in the first place.
"A sniper weapon?!" come to think of it, the last time I used a sniper weapon with my cannon, came from Trace's weapon, the Imperialist. When I attempt to hold with my left hand, and fired on one of the targets. The recoil is too powerful, like much conventional heavier sniper rifles used in the present time, from what I heard in the internet.
"Aaaaah!" the recoil caused me fall to the ground, within moments, Takatora and Mitsuzane managed to catch me before I hit the ground. "Thanks, you two." with that, they helped me stand up to my feet.
"Could you at least fire in a position you are comfortable with?" Mitsuzane notified me firsthand. And so, I crouched whilst aiming.
"No, try lying prone on the ground." Takatora rose an eyebrow, at this time I lie on the ground face down. Considering the fact that the extension has some kind of a foldable bipod, I unfolded them. Honestly, this weapon is like your actual sniper rifle used by modern military now of these days.
Now I can aim accurately with this weapon. My visor switches to its sniping mode, as I took aim on each of the target and fire. The visor can automatically zoom through the target even at the farthest of distances, allowing me to aim with pinpoint accuracy. Marksmanship is one of my vital prowess in terms of my Power Suit.
"Amazing!" everyone commented.
"Absolutely flawless! She can pinpoint targets with perfect accuracy! It must be our lucky day!" Officer Honganji took note.
"She's able to hit them!" both inspector Otta and Kyu took note simultaneously. "But how? How can she fire all of those without a scope." Otta asked.
"Perhaps her helmet has some kind of a combat visor." Takatora told them. "And of that note, when she equipped that weapon attachment, it also gave her the sniping feature of her visor." I guess Mitsuzane, Shinnosuke and Go already knew of that.
After finishing the target practice. I hate to say this weapon is quite amazing. "This weapon has some kick, I gotta say." Like when I first used the Imperialist, the weapon disables the charge feature from my Charge Beam, and does not stack with my other beams such as my Ice Beam.
"See, what did I told you?" Shinnosuke tapped me on the shoulders again. Even though the Special Investigation Unit have already parted ways, all of its members managed to give me a helping hand in my journey in this world.
-Kaito Revives!-
Elsewhere in the dead of night, a light began to emanate in an undisclosed location, thus taking form of a human being. However, this being that came from this light looks a little more familiar... It's Kaito Kumon! He's back from the dead! But, how?
"I thought I'm already at peace now." Kaito muttered. "This time, I'm free to do whatever I want. For the time, being I have to tie up some loose ends before I can finally rest in peace. That is... to... kill... Kureshima Mitsuzane." Kaito walks to an unknown destination as he immediately took form of Lord Baron, seemingly focused of putting Mitsuzane out of his misery.
Even though Mitsuzane has now redeemed from all the crimes he had committed, he seems to be unaware what's going to haunt him again. Back from the fateful time where Mai eventually died when Ryoma dissected the Golden Fruit from her body, he was lucky enough that Kaito had to leave him a sobbing and broken mess he was, rather than Kaito would just kill him personally before he could set his sights at the Golden Fruit beforehand.
There was one time Mitsuzane had a hallucination of Kaito who was Lord Baron, although it happened to be a Gurongi.
Two days later, Mitsuzane decided to take a breather from following Samus, as he continues watching the Beat Riders dancing from a distance, despite him leaving them to follow the bounty hunter. However, he seems to be unaware that someone else is also watching him, revealing to be Kaito. As evident by the former Team Baron leader clenching his fist.
"Huh, is that...?" Mitsuzane seems to take notice of a familiar, ominous presence overlooking him. "It seems I had a feeling that I'm being watched by a mysterious presence."
Mitsuzane roamed around Zawame to search around over what or who is calling him. Until that familiar presence finally appeared before him.
"K-K-Kaito?!" Mitsuzane almost saw a ghost. "I thought you were dead!?"
"You seem surprised why am I here again alive." Kaito coldly said, causing Mitsuzane to tremble momentarily. "It seems God put a curse on me, or I asked Him to return to the living for one reason. I have an unfinished business to take care of, is to drag you into the depths of Hell!"
Mitsuzane's nightmare reaches deja vu as Kaito reveals that his revival is to kill Mitsuzane Kureshima alone. It is pretty obvious for Mitsuzane as he is aware of Kaito's personal background especially his innate hatred against Yggdrasil Corporation for the latter's misfortunes, not to mention Mitsuzane's family are one of the key figures of the said company. He also played a part within Kaito's hatred, the fact the Mitsuzane did betrayed his own friends for his own selfish gain.
Therefore, Mitsuzane becomes unfortunate enough to fall prey into a karmic confrontation against a resurrected Kaito, despite the younger Kureshima already redeemed of his past sins.
"Kaito... I thought you are done with this with Kouta-san? Why are you still sowing seeds of hatred at my own family?!" Mitsuzane objects to Kaito's ulterior motives.
"The hell do you know?! After all, you betrayed the trust of your own friends! You don't have the right to sympathize with my own weakness!" Kaito walked towards Mitsuzane and delivers a straight to his face. "You are in fact just a weakling who is still a pawn to those damned Overlords!"
"Kaito, don't you even dare put my brother into this mess! I worked hard atoning for my sins from over what happened back that time. What would you justify about trying to kill me for everything I have done?!" Mitsuzane tried to reason Kaito...
"Atone for your sins?! What a complete joke." ...only for Kaito to rebuke smugly. "A one-track minded simpleton like you, trying to make amends for his crimes? Pity. If you really want to know what my own personal redemption means, let me tell you what... You are just a child, who wants everything for himself alone. You wanted to kill all of us, Kazuraba and myself, so you can have Mai for yourself! Let me reaffirm this, besides my intent to remove every weakling living in this world, I will start by erasing the existence of those you cherish the most, including YOU!"
It seems convincing him is all for naught. As Kaito's Sengoku Drive appeared out of nowhere on his waist, and he drew out a different Lockseed. Turns out to be a Ringo Lockseed.
"Henshin!"
"RINGO!" the Lockseed declared, as Kaito twirls the lock before placing it at the central indent of the belt.
-LOCK ON!-
"Come on!" the Sengoku Driver said, out came an apple-shaped armor from a Crack while Baron's suit forms. "Desire Forbidden Fruits!" thus completing Kaito's transformation as Kamen Rider Baron Ringo Arms.
"I've seen that kind of Lockseed before..." Mitsuzane thought, as if it looks like a very identical Lockseed that was used by Kougane when he returned with a vengeance. Then, Baron proceeds to unsheathe a sword holstered from the shield, as he proceeds to maim a defenseless Mitsuzane, who just immediately transformed into Ryugen Budou Arms. The Budou Lockseed is new, coming from a Helheim fruit that sprouted outside their doorstep, when the Etecoon told the young Kureshima how it came to be, he already knew Kouta planted that fruit to regain the Lockseed as a result.
"Budou Arms! Ryuhou Ha! Ha! Ha!"
"Kaito, what do you have besides hatred and disdain for the weak?!" Mitsuzane continued reasoning to Kaito in a same way Kouta did during the final battle against the latter.
"Go to hell!" Baron exclaimed, as he overpowers Mitsuzane with a string of sword slashes.
Despite Ryugen's efforts fighting a newly-revived Baron, he still fell at his mercy despite the vain efforts to defend himself...
to be continued...