We're closing in on the ending here. And we've almost gotten the entire blueprint. I'm not sure if this is the last one or if there are two more, I know my count but the show says this is supposed to be the last one. Just in case, we'll name the title something that has nothing to do with blueprints. 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 32: Goodfellas
A young woman was walking toward the Coffee Shop COL. However, it was apparently closed for the day. Fortunately, the woman was able to note a number to call and memorized it. She didn't see the car full of Warfare Agents observing her. They reported her to King Dark. "Sachiko Noda, student of the late Doctor Nanbara. We suspect she has one of the blueprint pieces." "If she does," King Dark replied, "You must hurry and beat the Kamen Riders to it!"
"Sounds like a job for me," came a voice from the shadows. An ant dropped to the ground and transformed into a man dressed like a Chicago mobster, a cigar hanging out of his mouth. He tipped his hat to King Dark. "Ah, Ant Capone," King Dark said, "A fine choice for this assignment. If anyone can get that piece back, it's a criminal so skilled and tactful that it took tax fraud for the police to finally arrest him. Begin at once!" Ant Capone took the cigar out of his mouth. "Just leave it to me."
Elsewhere in the city, a girl named Nanae was bringing coffee to her father. "Thanks, Nanae," the father said. Nanae nodded. "I promised Mommy that I'd look after you until she got back." The father nodded, but gasped when saw Ant Capone's face in the coffee. The lights went out in the house as the mobster appeared within the room. "I was expecting to meet Missus Noda." "Sachiko is away right now!," the father said, "What do you want with here!?"
"She's carrying a very important piece of a blueprint from her teacher Nanbara," Ant Capone said, "I'm here to retrieve it from her. I don't suppose you know where she is?" "I don't know anything about any blueprint," the father said, "And I don't know where Sachiko is right now." "Oh now, don't give me that," Ant Capone reprimanded, "What kind of husband doesn't know where his wife's gone? Now out with it. Where is she?" "I'm telling you, I don't know!," the father insisted.
Ant Capone breathed out some smoke from his cigar, transforming into an ant humanoid. "You can call me Ant Capone! Now where's Sachiko!?" "I swear I don't know!," the father replied. Ant Capone fired a dart from his cigar, causing the man to collapse in pain as Nanae tried to get him up. "Alright kid," Ant Capone said, "Where's your mother?" Nanae shook her head. Ant Capone sighed. "I'm trying to do things the easy way here. Guess I'll have to force the issue."
He tossed an ant onto Nanae's head, which she threw off. "She's gone to the Nasu View Hotel." Ant Capone chuckled. "Good girl! Now you came along with me! I'm sure you want to see her again!" He picked the girl up. The ant had had used produced a hypnotic state in Nanae, which is why she immediately talked. Now Ant Capone thought he had what he needed. But he would soon find out just what he was up against.
The Rider gang was still at the hotel, which is why the coffee shop was closed. Yuzuru got out of the pool when Tobei called out to him. "Hey, Yuzuru! There's someone on the phone for you! Some woman asking for you by name!" Kanade raised an eyebrow. Yuzuru answered the phone. "Hello, this is Yuzuru Otonashi." He blinked when the person on the other end spoke. "A blueprint from Nanbara?"
The Riders looked at each other. It couldn't be so easy. Sachiko said that the Nanbara Group had begun to hear about the Kamen Riders looking for the blueprint pieces and decided to hand one over, with Sachiko being asked to deliver it. "I see," Yuzuru said, "We'll meet you right away. How do we recognize you?" 'I'll be wearing a red flower,' Sachiko replied. Yuzuru nodded. "Okay, red flower."
He and the other Riders raced out. But as they did, explosions went off around them, Warfare Agents showing up when they got knocked off their bikes. "Oh great," Hideki said, "GOD's onto us again." "You're not going anywhere!," one of the Agents declared. He promptly got punched in the face. "That's not your decision to make!," Ayato called out. He drew the Agent close to his face and held up a clothespin. "Recognize your inferiority to the clothespin…"
Hideki laughed at the Agent having an existential crisis over such a simple tool. "Better him than me!" "Back when we were dead that was you," Yuzuru pointed out. Meanwhile, Tobei drove up to Sachiko in his jeep to pick her up. Sachiko was reluctant until Tobei introduced himself, at which point she got in his jeep with no complaints. "So where's Yuzuru?" "Probably held up by GOD's agents," Tobei replied, "He'll be dealing with them before long." He wasn't wrong, as the quintet had just finished cleaning up and were heading off again.
The Agents soon got up and nodded to each other. Tobei was still driving with Sachiko. "I'm betting GOD's chasing their tails right now," Tobei said. A sudden laughing rang out, and an ant was clinging to the back of the jeep. It quickly turned into Ant Capone. "Don't underestimate GOD!" He stuck Tobei with one of his ants and kept Sachiko from leaving the jeep. "Now get driving, my little slave!" While he was distracted, Sachiko removed the flower. When the Riders found it, Yuzuru picked it up. "So GOD managed to find her." "But the underestimate our network," Yurippe said, "Tobei should still have the homing device in his bag."
Sachiko was soon tied to a tree in the mountain forest. "Hand over the blueprint and you'll be free to go!," Ant Capone said, "Ah, before you say anything about knowing anything. Take a look around you." The tree was practically swarming with his ants. "Even a single ant is enough to hypnotize you," Ant Capone said, "All of them together can drain your blood in seconds!" "Not if we can help it!," Hideki called out.
Ant Capone turned to see the Riders. "Don't you ever know when to butt out!?" "That's our line!," Yuzuru retorted, "Why can't you just leave Japan alone!?" The Riders leapt in, Ayato grabbing an ant that had crawled onto Sachiko's face and sticking it on one of the Warfare Agents. Ant Capone pulled a rapier out of his cane to attack the group, but a skillful dodge from Yuzuru same him accidentally cut Sachiko free. "Thanks for the help," Yuzuru quipped, "Now to fit you for some cement shoes!" He and the others triggered their devices.
"Henshin!" "Dai Setup!" X, Angel, Life, SSS, and Eyez now confronted Ant Capone. Eyez grabbed the monster mobster's cane from him and used it to stop his rapier attacks. Ant Capone then saw Tobei driving up. "I can still get that blueprint yet!" He headed off, while Eyez spotted the ant on Tobei and removed it. He then turned Tobei to face him. "You will cease to be under control of Ant Capone forevermore." Tobei blinked as he came too and looked around. "Where did Sachiko go?" "We'll need to catch you up," X said, "Ant Capone had you under hypnosis. Sachiko should have gone back to the hotel."
However, there was no word from her for five hours. Yui thought maybe Sachiko had gone back to Tokyo, but Hideki dismissed that idea. "Ant Capone hasn't quit yet, so she must still be here. She's not that naive." "You don't think she'd hand it over for her own safety, do you?," Kanade asked. "Who knows?," Yurippe replied, "I wouldn't, but that's just me. We can't dismiss the possibility. But we were going to have to fight GOD for the rest of the blueprints eventually anyone. After all, they still have one piece."
Just then, a busboy was let into the room with a letter for Yuzuru. It turned out to be invitations to the hotel restaurant. The restaurant was featuring a Jambo African Show, with authentic African dancers. There were traditional Kenyan instruments, fake spear fighting, and even an African version of limbo that involved sharp knives jammed into the pole. Sachiko soon came over to the join the group.
"Thank you for accepting my invite," she said, "I thought we'd stand out less in the middle of a crowd." She started to get her bag, only for someone else to grab it. Warfare Agents showed up, prompting a fight with the Riders. Some of them even wound up on stage as the Riders transformed, knocking the grunts around. Some of the Warfare Agents nearly cornered Sachiko, only to got smacked around by one of the Jambo dancers. "This is what you get for ruining our show!"
He turned to Sachiko. "You should get out of here." Sachiko nodded. "Thank you." She hurried back to her room. "So you arrived," Ant Capone said, appearing in his human form, "I'll be taking that blueprint now. That is, if you value Nanae's life." He brought Nanae out. Sachiko lowered her head. "The blueprint is in my handbag, but it got swiped." Ant Capone nodded. "Yes, I saw that. You'll have to go get it." He picked up Nanae. "Then we'll make a trade. But be sure to come alone. If I even see a Rider, Nanae's dead!" He hoped back in the closet.
That's when Yuzuru walked in. "We got your bag back. Is everything okay?" "Ah, yes," Sachiko said, "Sorry, but I misplace the blueprint. I assumed I would be safe if they thought I'd given it you." "I see," Yuzuru said, "GOD probably thinks you've given us the blueprint. There should be nothing to worry about." Sachiko nodded. "I should head home. My daughter should be waiting for me. I can make it by myself, don't worry." Yuzuru raised an eyebrow as she left.
Sachiko was brought to meet Ant Capone as the cable car station. He still had Nanae at the top of the mountain. "Good, you came alone. Now hand over the blueprint." Sachiko handed it over, then Ant Capone had them both taken to the edge of the mountain. "You only get one chance at tricking GOD!," he said, "You can both die together!" "No Ant Capone!," X called out as he and the other Riders raced in on their Rider Machine, "The only one dying today is you!"
Ant Capone was flabbergasted. "But my men confirmed Sachiko came here alone! How did you find us!?" "Sachiko changed her mind way too quickly!," Life explained, "So we followed her! At a distance of course!" "Seriously, you were modeled after the world's most notorious American gangster!," SSS pointed out, "How could we not figure out what was going down!?" "You can consider us worse than the IRS!," Angel declared, "Because we take quite the interest when it comes to paying what is due!"
"You're already too late!," Ant Capone said, "I have the blueprint piece!" "Do you?," X said, "Are you sure it's not another fake? I'd think King Dark would destroy you himself if yet another another fake was presented to him." Ant Capone quickly double-checked, Angel leaping in while he was distracted, grabbing the blueprint piece. "Tricked ya! This is real!" She started striking Ant Capone and his Warfare Agents with her Hand Sonic.
Ant Capone fired the dart gun in his cigar, only to have it blocked by Life's Soul Barrier. "Smoking's bat for you health!," he called out as he clocked the monster mobster with his Soul Bat. X charged up his Mercury Drive, channeling the Synchro Drive to unleash Matsushita's martial arts prowess. "Synchro Open Palm!" He struck Ant Capone with a heavy iron palm technique, sending him flying. "I'm sleeping with the fishes!," he called out as he landed hard, exploding.
"This loss matters not!," King Dark called out, "GOD will triumph in the end! All of those blueprints shall belong to King Dark!" He emerged from his lair, standing straight, showing just how massive he truly was. He was so large that even from far away the Riders could see him. "Jeez, why can't get a giant robot to fight in!?," Life asked. "Behold my majestic form!," King Dark called out, "With this form, I swear to you all crushed beneath my boot heel one day!"
To be continued…
We're getting closer to the end here. Now King Dark has come out personally. Not that he's fighting yet. But soon. And you'll see how the Riders are supposed to even fight this colossus. Read and review.