Here we have a monster that's not even based on anyone specific. It's times like these when I think the bad guys, and by extension the producers, are just running out of ideas. No wonder this season only lasted thirty-five episodes. 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 31: King Dark's Anger

It was another peaceful day by the lake, out near the Nasu Rindo Lake Family Ranch. The family that owned the ranch was feeding the fish in the lake, banging to get them near the surface so that they could get their fill. Just then, the young daughter of the family heard a light musical tune coming from somewhere. "What's that?" She followed the sound of the music until she saw a cute little doll in the water. One of the workers fished it out for her. "Yuki!," another worker called out, "Your mother's calling for you. Come on, it's starting to look stormy out."

Meanwhile, King Dark was opening his eyes deep within his lair, cackling as lightning struck outside. At the ranch's management office, a lizard could be seen on the sign. The Nasu family was asleep as the doll responded to the blinking light of the lizard that crawled inside. The sound of the music it made woke the family up, shocking the mother as Yuki reprimanded it for being a "bad baby".

The lizard dropped off the door frame in a puff of smoke, transforming into a lizard monster with viking armaments. "I am Lizard Viking! Member of GOD's Villain Army! Little girl, would you let Uncle Lizard see that doll?" "No!," Yuki called out, "She's my baby!" Lizard Viking laughed. "How precious! That's what I love about little girls!" He saw the parents looking at him funny. "Not like that!"

Warfare Agents entered as the father tried to act in defense of his daughter, only to get blasted by some sort of liquid from Viking Lizard's mouth, turning his hands into lizard hands. He quickly did the same to the mother while she was in shock. Yuki quickly high-tailed it out of there, Lizard Viking giving chase. By the time they go outside, Yuki was already gone. "That little brat is faster than she looks!," Lizard Viking realized.

The next day, Yui and Iwasawa were walking through the ranch, singing their favorite songs in acappella tones. They stumbled upon Yuki, lying in the grass clutching the doll. Yui knelt down to the girl. "Hey, are you alright? What happened?" "She looks out cold," Iwasawa noted, "Let's her back to the hotel." Yui nodded. Once Yuki came to inside the hotel, she explained what had happened to the Riders.

"A lizard monster…," Yuzuru muttered, "Sound like GOD is up to it again." "But what would GOD want with a doll?," Ayato asked. "Well, we still have three pieces of the RS Device blueprints to find," Yurippe pointed out, "Maybe the doll has some secret involving the location of one of them." Yuzuru looked it over and found nothing. He tried passing it to Yurippe but they dropped it, triggering an automatic message. 'I'm a friend of Nanbara's! I hid a very important blueprint inside this doll! Whoever is listening, please protect the blueprint-'

The message cut off abruptly. Yuki quickly grabbed the doll and ran, having apparently not understood the relevance of the message. The Riders quickly ran after her, but lost track of her. "She's fast," Hideki noted, "She could be a track star when she grows up." "Only if we can find her before GOD does," Yuzuru pointed out. Yuki was already running through the fields, calling for her parents. She quickly ran in the other direction when she spotted a lizard in the grass.

Lizard Viking appeared. "It's no use running! Now hand over the doll!" Warfare Agents arrived on horseback to cut off Yuki's escape. Just as she tripped, letting the monster get close, Yuzuru and his team came roaring in on their bikes. "Yuzuru Otonashi and his band! So you decide to interfere once more!" "It's worked out for us so far!," Yuzuru pointed out. They stopped their bikes, anger seething in their eyes. "Terrorizing children is one step too far!," Kanade said. "We won't let you get away with your actions!," Yurippe declared.

The Warfare Agents moved to try and trample the Riders as Lizard Viking grabbed Yuki. The Riders quickly got out of the way, taking out several Warfare Agents on foot. They then activated their devices. "Henshin!" "Dai Setup!" Transformed into their Rider states, they leapt onto five of the horses, tossing their riders off and taking the reins. With a level of expertise one wouldn't expect from college students in the city, they rode the horses to take out the other horseback Agents.

They then saw Lizard Viking running off, and intercepting him at a historic site called the Killing Stone, a stone that was said to be a shapeshifting fox that would kill any who touched it until a Buddhist priest exorcised it. "One wrong move and-" He promptly got decked by SSS's Mothrang, making him let of Yuki. "I get knocked in the head, start seeing stars, and go all loony tunes…" He started wiggling his finger over his lips and making weird noises as he toppled over. "Wow, SSS," Life said, "You didn't even let him finish his ultimatum." "I wasn't going to let her wind up like the siblings in my previous life," SSS pointed out.

Lizard Viking got to his feet and tried to fight the Riders, but was easily outmatched by all five of them. He tried to attack with his axe, but had to hesitate when X grabbed the doll and used it like a shield. This gave the others an opening to lay into the monster, sending him flying across the field. However, he manage to get the upper hand when he revealed that he had two of the workers from the ranch held captive, causing them to hesitate, allowed him to grab the doll and take them prisoner.

King Dark was certainly pleased by that turn of events. "I must say, I'm impressed. Now all that is left to do is finish off the Kamen Riders." "I'm already getting that ready," Lizard Viking said, "I'm sure we'll both enjoy every second of it!" "One thing first," King Dark said, "Let's make sure they haven't pulled any last-minute tricks. Present the blueprint immediately."

Lizard Viking pulled the doll's head off and tried to empty it, but nothing came out. "I don't understand! It was supposed to be in here!" "Imbecile!," King Dark said, "That girl must have gotten it somehow! Find her, and get me those blueprints!" "That girl will die for this insult!," Lizard Viking declared, decapitating a nearby Warfare Agent with his axe. "Don't do that again," King Dark said, "We have so few of those remaining as is." "Sorry," Lizard Viking replied.

Yuki had run back to the hotel, where Tobei found her. She immediately relayed everything that had happened. She also handed over the blueprints she had found in her doll. The Battlefront mobilized at once. Tobei's jeep stalled when lizards started crawling through the engine, Lizard Viking appearing. Meanwhile, the workers were buried up to their shins in sand, a catapult being used to launch flaming rocks at them. Luckily, the catapults weren't very accurate.

The Riders, meanwhile, had their hands bound in chains as Tobei was dragged over to them. "Take the Riders to the kiln!," Lizard Viking called out, "Block the entrance!" Walled inside, the kiln was set aflame, as Tobei and Yuki were set next to the workers and blindfolded. "The Riders are dead by now!," Lizard Viking called out, "Nobody else can save you!" Little did he realize the Riders were using the flames in the kiln to melt off their chains.

Once free, they activated their devices. "Henshin!" "Dai Setup!" They transformed and leapt in just as the catapult was getting to fire. "Surprise, Lizard Viking!," X said. "You should know better than to think a Rider can be killed so easily!," Angel called out. "Or that we alone stand in your way!," SSS pointed out, the Battlefront appearing and surrounding the GOD forces. Lizard Viking was gobsmacked. "You… You shouldn't have been able to survive!"

"Oh but we did!," Eyez said, "And now you'll suffer the same brutal torture as that which you perform on your victims!" Their Riders Machines roared down the hill as the Battlefront moved in to attack, taking out a number of Warfare Agents. Life grabbed the burning rock and shoved into Lizard Viking's face, causing him severe burns. "You feel that!? Huh!? Doesn't feel so good, does it!? This is what you do to people!"

SSS and Angel started firing the catapult on the Warfare Agents, letting them fell the burn as well. X knocked Lizard Viking's axe out of his hands, then struck him in the shoulder with it. This prompted him to retreat. "You bastards will pay for this!" "You're the one who's going to pay!," SSS called out. The Riders quickly chased him down as the captives were freed by the battlefront.

Lizard Viking saw the Riders gaining and tried to get the jeep to move faster. However, it was a normal jeep versus five modified motorbikes, so the Riders caught up quickly, X leaping to stop the jeep. Lizard Viking tried to hoof it down the nearby hill, the Riders following close behind. Before long, Lizard Viking found himself as a punching bag between the five Riders. X eventually used Lizard Viking's own axe to chop the monster's arm off, before summoning a sniper rifle. He took aim using Oyama's sharpshooting skills. "Synchro Sniper Shot!"

The bullet went right through Lizard Viking's brain, sending him flying into the water, exploding like a depth charge. Afterward, Yuki got reunited with her parents, returned to normal with Lizard Viking's death. She didn't even mind the loss of her new doll, since she had her family back. But King Dark was not happy. "Another blueprint lost to the Kamen Rider… Why am I surrounded by such failures!?" He stood up to his full, tremendous height. "Perhaps I should do the job myself!"

To be continued…

Could we finally be getting the final confrontation? Well, soon enough. But not just yet. We still have a couple more chapter to go. Read and review.