Now this next monster is a bizarre one. Not because of what it's based on, but more because of its gender role. You'll see before long. I gotta say, this is weird. But that's tokusatsu for you. Disclaimer: I don't own Kamen Rider, Angel Beats, or any other referenced media.
*The four previous Riders, X, Angel, Life, and SSS, drive down the road. They part their formation to reveal a blue-armored warrior with eye symbols over his armor, driving a modified Suzuki TM250. This is the last of the Battlefront Riders, Kamen Rider Eyez on his Sapphire Storm.*
Kamen Rider X!
*With that declaration, the music begins as we get our title.*
X Beats
*The five Riders drive in a V formation with X in the center, a close-up of their helmets being shown.*
Set Up! Set Up! Set Up!
*With each declaration, we see first X, then Angel and SSS, and finally Life and Eyez leap up a hill on their Rider Machines.*
Behold! That silver helmet and that long black scarf
*We see Eyez and the Sapphire Storm from behind.*
That forehead of his just shines through, blazoned V and V
*The camera moves to show SSS and the Moth Wing from the side.*
Stop GOD and their deadly treachery
*Life and the Soul Rizer are shown from the other side.*
The sound of the waves can be heard in his father's screams
*Angel and her Wing Racer are seen from the front.*
Bring the fury of the Ridol, end his enemy
*There's a close-up of the front of the Cruiser with X riding on it.*
X Rider fighting all the way
*The five Riders are shown on their Rider Machines as they drift around a corner.*
Kamen Rider X! X! X!
*X is seen posing in front of the university, followed by Life and Eyes, and then Angel and SSS.*
The final Rider is Ayato Naoi, who's brother was killed in a car crash instigated by GOD, sending Ayato's life spiraling into depression.
*The five Riders reveal their human forms in turn.*
Reborn with the rest of the Kamen Rider Battlefront, Ayato joins Yuzuru, Kanade, Hideki, and Yuri, in the fight against GOD.
*They race across the screen in Rider form, passing by each other in midair.*
X, Angel, Life, SSS, and Eyez. Five Riders unite together to fight against GOD in the name of justice.
*The five Riders pose one after another before they're all shown in a group shot.*
Chapter 30: Dracula's a Woman?
An old woman was sitting by a fire near a large lake. "Pitiful humans! It is GOD that rules this world! You will see before long!" She kept chanting in praise of GOD, declaring that humans should die. Judging from the bones surrounded by leeches in the water near her, she had already gotten started with a few that had gotten near her. She called one of the leeches over. "You shall have your fill of young maidens' blood!," she said.
Elsewhere at a hospital in the city, the ringing from the old woman's chants could be heard. It approached a young woman in bed with a broken leg. She spotted a giant leech attached to the window and freaked out. The leech dropped below the window, only to be replaced by the old woman. But the old woman was gone when the nurse looked, making her think the girl was just delirious. And why not, since the window was actually three floors up.
But that night, the old woman was still outside the hospital. She had set up a fortune telling service, calling over any young woman who happened to pass by. When on got close, she spotted the leech and the old woman transformed into a humanoid leech monster briefly, freaking the girl out even more. The old woman cackled as she fully transformed, tossing the leech at the girl as she ran for it. The leech immediately began sucking the girl's blood, and began to grow fangs.
As it happened, Yuzuru and Yurippe were driving nearby, hearing the screams. "We'd better check it out," Yurippe suggested. They drove in the direction of the screams and found the young woman walking off. The old woman was right behind them. "You'll be seeing terror soon enough, Kamen Riders…!" She slipped into the hospital and attached her leech to one of the female nurses. Another nurse heard her screams and hurried to check on her. "Michiko, is something wrong?"
Michiko ignored her and walked out of the room. The old woman approached, shifting in her monster form. "Won't you offer your blood to my darling pet?," it asked in a more masculine voice. Instead of giving her a choice, he latched one of his leeches on to her. She too began to grow fangs and her skin started to become pale. It seemed whoever had their blood drained by those leeches would become similar to a vampire.
Yuzuru and Yurippe were actually visiting one of Malty's students, the girl who had broken her leg. The radio then came in with a sinister voice. "You are mistaken in thinking you are unbeatable, Yuzuru Otonashi!" Yuzuru and Yurippe hurried out the room to find the source of the broadcast. They wound up running into several of the vampirized women, demanding blood to feed on.
"Sorry, our blood is synthetic," Yurippe said, "There's no way it would kill you." The women didn't seem to heed her, as the old woman came up behind them. "Those women had their blood drained by my blood-sucking leech! Now they wander in search of new blood!" She walked away as the two Riders hurried after her. They soon found her nearby, chanting more and more about how GOD would be ruling the world.
She immediately called the leech to attack them, transforming into her monster form as it latched onto Yuzuru. "I am Leech Dracula of GOD's Villain Army, inheritor of Vladimir Tepes's blood!" "So why the old lady disguise?," Yuzuru asked. "For some reason the DNA sample that made me included both male and female chromosomes," Leech Dracula explained, "Now give your blood to my… Leeches?" The leech that had latched onto Yuzuru had already dropped off, dead.
"We tried to warn your other vampires," Yuzuru said, "As cyborgs we have synthetic blood, which is toxic to creatures that normally feed on it." "Basically it's a case of poisoning the well," Yurippe noted. She got out her Metamorpher as Yuzuru activated his Ridol. "Henshin!" "Dai Setup!" Transformed into X and SSS, they went to battle Leech Dracula. He launched his extending mouth to try and choke out X. "Moth Laser!" SSS blasted the monster back, releasing X. "You're yet to see true terror!," Leech Dracula said as he disappeared.
King Dark addressed Leech Dracula within his lair. "How is your plan progressing?" "Just you wait," Leech Dracula said, "I will soon unleash horrors that will have the Riders writhing before me!" "You'd better," King Dark warned, "The Kamen Riders have become far too much of a thorn in GOD's side. If we cannot secure a victory against them soon, we will lose our destined place as the rulers of this world!"
Leech Dracula's vampires were already hunting for more blood, targeting anyone they thought they could get their hands on. They were already started to spread through the hospital, taking several victims who became vampires in turn. Word of the incident quickly spread to the Rider team. "This must be what Leech Dracula was taking about," Yuzuru realized. Suddenly, the TV turned on with an image of a leech. Leech Dracula appeared on the screen in his old woman disguise.
'By now you have already heard of the victims I have taken. Once their blood is drained, they will hungrily seek out the blood of others! Tokyo has now became a hive of vampires! If you want it to stop, then bring me the pieces of RS Device's blueprints that you already have! I will await you at the banks of Corpse Swamp…' The TV turned off. "So what do we do?," Ayato said, "We can't just let more vampires be created, but at the same time we can't just ruin all the progress we made." Yuzuru thought for a moment.
The old woman was chanting at the edges of the swamp, proclaiming that she would see the deaths of the Riders in her chants. The swamp below her was bubbling as swamp gas was released from the water. The Riders were already racing to the swamp, where they leapt to confront the old woman. "Alright old woman," Yuzuru said as he pulled out the blueprint pieces, "This is all five." The old woman grabbed them, noting that they were real.
She then transformed back into Leech Dracula. "And with that, I'll take my leave!" However, the Riders blocked his escape. "You aren't going anywhere until you do something about those vampires!," Hideki declared. "As if I care!," Leech Dracula called out, knocking the Riders into the swamp. "Corpse Swamp is bottomless! Once you go down, there's no coming back up!" He laughed as he saw them go under.
"You have done well to eliminated all five Riders," King Dark said, "You have truly proven yourself superior to all of your predecessors." "And now all those bloodthirsty humans will take care of the rest," Leech Dracula replied. He laughed as he turned back into the old woman. "Before long all of Tokyo will under our command, and we can hunt for the remaining blueprint pieces as we please!"
Tobei was hurrying to get the student out of there, but wound up cornered by the vampires. However, he was able to ward then off when he tossed some sort of powdered substance at them. Whatever it was, it made the vampires feel like they were melting before turning them back into humans. Tobei looked at what he had thrown. "Salt… Oh course! They were vampirized by leeches, and leeches can't stand salt! We've got to tell the Riders!"
"Here are the other blueprint pieces," Leech Dracula said, holing the papers out. "That's excellent work!," King Dark said, "Your peers in the Villain Army could learn a lot from you!" Leech Dracula laughed. "One who inherits the blood of Dracula has no peers!" Just then, the ink on the blueprints disappeared. "What this!?," King Dark called out, "We've been tricked! The blueprints disappeared!" Leech Dracula looked at the blank papers in disbelief. "Damn! The Riders must have used disappearing ink! These were just recreations of the real blueprints!"
"You imbecile!," King Dark said, "Why did you not fully examine the papers before bringing them!? Go back and deal with the Riders properly! They must pay for this insult!" "I'll drag them out of the swamp myself!," Leech Dracula declared as he crumpled up the useless papers, "Then I'll see to it that five more corpses are added to Corpse Swamp! They will rue the day they thought that they could pull one over on me!"
He hurried back to the swamp to see if he could find any sign of the Riders. "I don't see them from here. Could they have already drowned?" A sudden laughing could be heard from the swamp. To Leech Dracula's surprise, the five Riders leapt out of the murky waters, explosions going off as they did. The Ridol, Angel Player, Soul Blazer, Metamorpher, and Gogglizer were triggered. "Henshin!" "Dai Setup!"
X, Angel, Life, SSS, and Eyez landed right in front of Leech Dracula. Warfare Agents came in to attack, but were quickly taken out. Leech Dracula tried throwing his leeches, but he soon saw them dying even faster, thanks to the salt lining their suits courtesy of Tobei. "You're vampires have already been cured," X said, "It turns out simple salt was all the cure they needed."
"Which means you're losing on multiple counts!," Life called out, cracking Leech Dracula across the face with his Soul Bat. "By now you've likely figured out that we copied the blueprints with disappearing ink!," SSS said, striking the monster with her Mothrang. "Did you really think we'd hand over the genuine article?," Eyez asked, crowning Leech Dracula with his Eye-Beam. "It's about time you learn that no one unbeatable!," Angel pointed out, stabbing the monster with her Hand Sonic.
Leech Dracula tried firing off his extending mouth, only to get it ripped off by X. He then used his Synchro Drive to fully channel Shiina's ninja techniques, leaping into the air. "Synchro Shuriken Volley!" Multiple throwing stars struck Leech Dracula, hitting him in all of his vital areas. He toppled over from the numerous fatal wounds and exploded. Thanks to their actions, the Riders were successful in keeping the blueprints they had collected out of GOD's hands. But King Dark was furious over the loss, determined to get his hands on RS Device.
To be continued…
Well, no new blueprints this time, but at least the Riders didn't lose any of their pieces. Let's hope they can keep that up. Read and review.