Episode 052: Villkiss Evolves!


Author's Note #1:

- This will be the first time in this story to feature some giant robot fights a-la Power Rangers/Super Sentai. Sometimes within the Kamen Rider universe crossover movies, best demonstrated in the first two Super Hero Taisen films, Kamen Rider Taisen, SHT GP: Kamen Rider #3, some Kamen Riders tend to be involved with the Super Sentai giant robots.

- The Space Explorers can now gain access to the Villkiss starting this chapter, because in the last episode of Cross Ange states that the Ragna-Mails (the transforming giant robots of the said anime) respond to the strong wishes of their riders. However, the way they will pilot the Villkiss will contradict from the anime. When the Villkiss transforms from its flight mode to destroyer mode (robot mode to make sense), the cockpit will change from a pilot seat-style to a panoramic cockpit similar to those seen in Mobile Fighter G Gundam mixed with the Megazords from Power Rangers Dino (Super) Charge and the recently Power Rangers Ninja Steel, the latter of which allows controlling the robot with a weapon, the Villkiss's cockpit control weapon is the Super Gashacon Key Slasher.

- Samus will now use the Giri Giri Chambara Gashat to gain a new form in this chapter, the Chambara Action Gamer Level 3. As such, she can now use the Gashacon Sparrow formerly used by Lazer (and Genm if you read the last two chapter before this since Genm was killed off for real).


-Invasion (continuation)-

"You.", Taiga turned his attention to Samus after she and Mayu managed to save Snipe from being outnumbered by a horde of Arachni-, Manti- and Scorpitroids. "What are you guys doing here of all places?"

"We'll explain later.", the bounty hunter replied. "But first, we need to deal with these attackers from space!"

Taiga separates himself from Huntress and Mage as they fight all of the attacking Arachnitroids and Mantiroids, while Taiga wastes no time to play as he gives what he has in his utility belt to fight his way out. When Nico is ambushed by one Scorpitroid from behind, Ryugen in Melon Energy Arms makes the save as he shoots the alien from behind.

"Get out of the field if you hate bugs!", Mitsuzane snarled as he tells Nico to get out of the killzone. Around the area, Ange, Momoka, Tusk, and Hilda help the people to get away safely as the Kamen Riders repel the attackers. More Arachnitroids swarm in as they back up the other Mantiroid grunts.

As Nico escapes from the line of fire while following Ange and company. The girl asks the Norma.

"Hey, why are you hanging out with those guys?", Nico asked, this time to Ange.

Ange is irritated if anyone asks question in a perilous situation that is an alien invasion. "You don't need to ask before those aliens can turn the Earth into their turf!", the Norma shouted. More Arachnitroids continue chasing Ange and company.

Mach, Necrom, and Specter arrived moments later to absorb the pressure. The three Riders on the Space Explorers side provide cover for Ange and her friends as they lead Nico out from the battlefield. Snipe arrives to fetch Nico.

"You.", Ange recognizes the presence of Kamen Rider Snipe.

The Kamen Rider looked at Ange and her companions, "I've seen you before.", said Taiga.

"Look out!", Nico shouted when another Scorpitroid is about to stab Taiga with its poisonous tail. But, Taiga kicks him out of the way. The Doctor of Darkness reminds her not to tell him what to do. Snipe inserts the Jet Combat Gashat on his Gashacon Magnum, after that, the Gashacon Magnum (in Handgun mode) exclaims, "JET CRITICAL FINISH!"

Snipe aims his weapon upwards and fires, an energy bullet is fired into the air before they form into a cluster of micromissiles that home at the targets, destroying them. Thus allowing Snipe to lead the way to let Ange and company to advance.

Meanwhile, Mach, Specter, and Necrom fight more of the attacking Black Cross foot soldiers as they regroup with Samus, Mitsuzane, and Mayu.

"Damn, it's like an infestation here!", said Go. "Where the hell did those assholes come from?"

"We need to take them out before they kill a lot of people here!", Makoto grunted as the three fight the Black Cross Armada foot soldiers.

"Let's just absorb the pressure!", said Mitsuzane.

"Right.", Samus nodded as she pulls out the recently acquired Giri Giri Chambara Gashat she snagged from Genm after she and the party managed to kill Kuroto. Samus had her thoughts to herself while holding the Gashat. Lazer, lend me your power. She thought to herself, considering the fact that this Gashat originally belonged to Kiriya before being bequeathed by Kuroto after killing off the coroner.

*Giri Giri Chambara!*

After Huntress switches the Giri Giri Chambara Gashat on, the Chambara Gamer spawns out from the game title screen. Huntress closes the lever of her Gamer Driver as she inserts the Gashat into the second slot of the belt.

"Mode Three, Engage."

"Gacchan! Level Up!", the Gamer Driver exclaims as two screen projections combine into one as they passed through Huntress and the Chambara Gamer splits apart. With the Chambara Gamer's hands turning into the greaves for Huntress, and the legs becoming the armor pieces on the arms and shoulders along with the visage of the Gamer being a samurai-esque mask and the body of the Chambara Gamer is attached onto the front lower section, thus Samus transforms into Huntress Chambara Action Gamer Level 3.

*GASHACON SPARROW!*

By assuming Chambara Action Gamer Level 3, the Gashacon Sparrow is summoned. That being said, as the Gashacon Sparrow is now her third personal weapon, she splits the Sparrow into its Sickle Mode, instead of slashing it, Huntress throws the separated weapons like a boomerangs that slices every Arachnitroids in sight.

"Mitsuzane, let's finish them off.", the bounty hunter instructed. As she puts the weapon back to Arrow Mode.

*ZU-DOON!*

"Right.", Ryugen nodded. In turn, he loads his Melon Energy Lockseed on the Sonic Arrow, with Samus putting the Giri Giri Chambara Gashat on the Gashacon Sparrow.

*MELON ENERGY!* / *GIRI GIRI CRITICAL FINISH!*

Both Huntress and Ryugen open fired their arrows at every Black Cross foot soldiers, killing them as they explode. Things continue to go downhill as more waves of enemies continue to appear in both in the air and on the ground. Makoto pulls out his Deep Specter Eyecon and prepares to insert it in his Ghost Driver.

*DIVE TOO DEEP!*

Specter closes the lid of his Ghost Driver and the belt itself exclaims, "Eye!", Specter's Parka Ghost disappears and his transient undersuit changes from jet-black with blue to pearl white and purple all over as the Deep Specter Parka Ghost jettisons from the Ghost Driver, all while the belt chants in a loop, "Girotto Mirou~!", followed by pulling and pushing the lever of the Driver, triggering the transformation.

"Gen Kaigan! Deep Specter!", the Ghost Driver stated as the Deep Specter Parka Ghost drops below Makoto's head as he flexes his arms sidewards. "Get go, kakugo! Giza Giza Ghost!"

Deep Specter once again pulls the lever of his Ghost Driver, causing the belt to chant, "Gira Gira Mirou~!", and pushes the lever back, "Genkai Dai Kaigan! Gekikou Specter!", doing so, ethereal demonic wings sprouted on his back, "Dead go! Gekido! Giri Giri Ghost! Tousou! Bousou! Ikari no Soul!"

Deep Specter proceeds to fly into the sky as he lures all enemy gunship into chasing him. Back on the ground, Mage arrives to provide cover for Huntress, Ryugen, Mach, and Necrom on the ground.

*Yes, Special! Understand?*

After Mayu scans the Special Ring on the Hand Author of her Mage Belt, she casts a fireball at the attacking Black Cross foot soldiers. As more Arachni- and Mantiroids are coming. Samus is forced to use a more powerful form: Puzzle Gamer Level 50. She pulls out her Gashat Gear Dual Alpha and turns the dial to the Perfect Puzzle X.

*Perfect Puzzle… X! What's the next stage?*

Samus puts on the Gashat Gear Dual Alpha into the Gamer Driver after ejecting her currently used Gashats (Mighty Action X Special and Giri Giri Chambara) and after it is inserted, she closes the Driver's lever before opening it back.

*Gacchan! MUZZLE UP! Akai kobushi tsuyosa! Aoi Puzzle rensa! Aka to ao no kousa! Perfect Knock Out!*

Given the fact that Samus holds five out of eight Legend Stones, she can use Hypermode in Level 50. With Huntress finally transforming into her Puzzle Gamer Level 50 form, she began to gather every Energy Item medals on her surroundings, as she mixes every Energy Items around the playing field. Doing so, she uses five Muscle-Up Energy Items, activating her Hypermode; with her vision inside her helmet turns grayscale. Seconds later, Huntress turns the dial of the Gashat Gear Dual with to neutral to use the Critical Bomber finisher.

"Gacchon! Urawaza!", the Gamer Driver's voice spoke after closing the belt. Then, Huntress opens the belt's lever, "Gacchan!"

Doing so, Huntress draws her hands back as she gathers tremendous amounts of energy in a form of a red and blue sphere of concentrated energy in between the palm of her hands. The Gamer Driver then exclaims, "Perfect Knock Out… HYPER CRITICAL BOMBER!", Samus thrusts her palms forward and discharges a massive red and blue beam of energy at the enemies in front of her, obliterating them without mercy.

As always, Hypermode with the Legend Stones is very taxing on the user's body. As shown with Samus collapsing to her knees after unleashing a finishing attack while in Hypermode she is forced to revert to her Level 2 form.

*Level Up! […] Mighty Mighty Action X!*

Huntress' Rider Gauge is at the red zone. Mayu pulls out her new Restore Wizard Ring to recover Samus's Rider Gauge.

"Samus!", Mayu rushes to see Samus's Rider Gauge at the red zone. "Here, put this ring on.", as Samus puts the Restore Ring and Samus puts her hand (where she wore the said Wizard Ring) on Mage's Hand Author.

*Restore, Now!*

Doing so, Huntress's Energy Tanks began to refill as well as her Rider Gauge. As no more enemies are spawning, and Makoto managed to defeat all enemy gunships in the sky. The team regrouped.

"I think that was the last of them…", said Samus. But, this is not the first time she saw a planet being invaded by evil aliens. "I have never seen this kind of invasion before…"

"The question is, how did these assholes got here in the first place?", Go asked since this has to be the Space Explorer's second encounter with the Black Cross Armada.

"I can't believe that the Bugsters were nothing more but an opening act!", Mitsuzane said bitterly. Knowing the fact that an alien invasion that happened right now is completely unprecedented. Of course, the enemies that Samus and the rest of the party are fighting right now are at an entirely complete different level than the ones that they fought previously – namely the Black Bodhi Tree, and the recently deceased Kamen Rider Genm.


-Send in the Xenoframes!-

Elsewhere on the Black Cross Mothership…

In the deck, the Grand Admiral notices the familiar individuals that his men encountered in AZ-007.

"Who are these people?", the Grand Admiral spoke within the earshot of his lieutenants. "They managed to thwart all of our fleet in one stroke."

Xenogaea, however knows that the individuals who managed to defeat each of their soldiers, refers to what the Admiral mentioned are those who protect the planet. "They are called Kamen Riders, sir. It seems these are humanity's line of defense."

"These humans are vexing.", Viper expresses his disdain after seeing the Kamen Riders defeating the fleet.

The Grand Admiral gives a go to send their bipedal mechs to continue their attack. The Xenoframes.

"Send in the Xenoframes!", the Grand Admiral called out.

A Xenoframe is launched from the Mothership to the Earth where it is prepared to crush the Kamen Riders.

Back on Earth, the Xenoframe arrives on the ground. To the shock of the Space Explorers, the Black Cross Armada even sent out a bipedal mech to take them out. Samus uses her scan visor to identify the bipedal mech…

"Xenoframes?", Samus described the name of the bipedal mech, complete with multiple weapons from head to toe – examples being Vulcan cannons on its shoulders, a nano-fiber sword, and a rail gun!

"How can we put that thing to scrap?", Mitsuzane said in grimace as he thought it's not going to end well. But…

"Wait!", Ange shouted as she, Tusk, and Hilda regrouped with the Space Explorers. "The Villkiss can help us with it. This time, Samus… I need you to use Villkiss. Take my royal ring.", Ange reminds the Space Explorer leader that those who can pilot Villkiss need a ring for it to work. "Ragna-mails responds to the will of our people. I bet you have a strong will to protect this world as a Kamen Rider."

"Let's see what does this thing can do.", said Samus as she receives Ange's royal ring from the latter. When Samus touches the Misurugi royal ring, it gives out a radiant glow and the ring itself starts to undergo a drastic change…


-Super Gashacon Key Slasher-

The royal ring transformed into a weapon that resembles Ex-Aid Double Action Gamer's Gashacon Key Slasher, only that it has the color of the Villkiss: red, blue, and white. The main difference that this weapon lacks the keys of the original Gashacon Key Slasher, only that it has the gem of the Misurugi royal ring embedded at the center of the hilt. Huntress christens this as the Super Gashacon Key Slasher.

Villkiss is summoned in its flight mode. Huntress hops into the Villkiss, considering the fact that the gem of Ange's ring is embedded at the hilt of the Super Gashacon Key Slasher, Villkiss is now under Samus's control as she is in use of the Super Gashacon Key Slasher.

The Villkiss now rushes into the fight as it now transforms into Destroyer Mode, the term when a Ragna-Mail transforms into its robot form. Inside Villkiss's cockpit, the cockpit itself goes into a drastic change; from a pilot-seat style cockpit into a wide-opened, panoramic cockpit as Samus stands in the platform by herself as she is now synchronized with the Villkiss's movements.

"Super Gashacon Key Slasher, engage!", Huntress declared as she prepares for battle, while piloting the Villkiss. The Villkiss battles the Xenoframe. Inside the cockpit, Huntress presses the "Blade" button of the Super Gashacon Key Slasher, with the weapon exclaiming, "Jaja-ja-kiin!", a sword fight ensues.

Inside the Villkiss's cockpit, whenever Samus swings the Super Gashacon Key Slasher, the Villkiss does the same thing and swings its sword. Whenever Samus throws a punch, the Villkiss replicates the attack, the same does when Samus throws a kick, the Villkiss does the same action as the pilot does.

"It's time to put you into the scrapheap!", said Samus as she inserts the Drago Knight Hunter Z and the Giri Giri Chambara Gashats on the Super Gashacon Key Slasher. She shouts, "Super Gashacon Key Slasher, activate!"

*KIMEWAZA!*

Villkiss's sword generates into a beam sword in response to the pilot loading two Rider Gashats into the Super Gashacon Key Slasher. Huntress pulls the trigger of the weapon and she swings the weapon…

"Hunter! Chambara! CRITICAL FINISH!", the Super Gashacon Key Slasher declared. Villkiss emulates the pilot's action as the Ragna-Mail swings its beam sword at the Xenoframe, cleaving it half. The Xenoframe is destroyed in the process. Villkiss stands victorious at the end of the battle.

"Target purged.", Samus declares the closure of the fight.


See you next mission…


Author's Note #2:

Huntress Puzzle Gamer's Perfect Knock Out Critical Bomber has a second variation aside from its Rider Punch variation. The second version of the Critical Bomber is very similar to Vegeta's Final Flash.

The Super Gashacon Key Slasher, being the weapon used to control Villkiss functions like the Dino Super Drive Saber, but like the canon version of the Gashacon Key Slasher, the Super Gashacon Key Slasher still needs two Rider Gashats to activate the Villkiss's finisher. The weapon transforms from Ange's royal ring whenever any of the Kamen Riders (either of the Space Explorers' side or the Doctor Riders) pilot the Villkiss.

Samus's second version of her Perfect Knock Out (Hyper) Critical Bomber takes form of what appears to be resembling Vegeta's Final Flash from the Dragon Ball series.

And oh, if you guys read chapter 50, since Genm is killed which triggered the canon divergence, the truth about Emu's game illness is never revealed.