The feeling of weightlessness spread across my whole body as electric fields picked the pieces of tower we stood on and began spinning us around the Third Herrscher.
Huh, she does have boss stages. This universe was based on a game after all…
As we stood, Raiden Tohka floated at the center of this cyclone of wind and thunder with that enormous claymore in hand. "Humans, you prove yourselves ungrateful of the mercy granted by God, rejecting her sentence? Foolish and Futile. I shall take pleasure on avoiding her dirtying her hands by killing all of you right now!"
The thunder strikes bombarded us as we evaded, the electrical counter-current our suits generated didn't stop the heat and shrapnel her strikes generated. Shit.
[ARK Notification: Invading Horseshoe Crab Rider Armor Mode 2 ready for implementation]
Do it!
[ARK Notification: Upgrade in Progress.]
A glow came from Tango Hotel and she was on me trying to cut off my head. I deflected with a Lightning Kaban Strash, my whole body shuddered as I held back her electrified blade. One of Watchpoint ran and shield bashed Tohka from behind. She took it like a champ and lightning struck the Raider point blank. He was sent back with armor smoking from the hit. Another Raider caught him before he flew off the piece of roof we were on, using his(her) Invading Bolide to anchor themselves to it.
"Futile struggles of yours!" She came at me again, and only by using Ark and Zea's prompts did I manage to parry and counter some of her attacks. She kept using suppressive fire at the same time the Raiders did. They could not come closer, but I also kept her away from them. It was a stalemate she was set to win.
I set my own Driver to silent mode
[ROCKING SPARK!]
As my own red lightning snaked across my body I took off towards our foe.
Himeko Aikawa wanted a beer.
Oh, she desired one so much.
Fighting against this bitch was. Such. A. PAIN!
She had shields, teleportation and fucking doppelgangers. In addition to that lightning barrage move she used to keep Watchpoint and her at a distance, Tyler had almost got himself blown off the rooftop but another private caught him in time. Yinsen was now going super speed with his sword at that bitch but she didn't even see phased at the blur of slashes that would have turned a tank into grated cheese.
Her Shotriser and Tridenta changed ammunition again, High explosive for the AR, the handgun instead got a uranium core armor penetrator. She let both rip akimbo as the monster in human skin sent Yinsen flying from a sword thrust that would have skewered anything else.
The rest of watchpoint hadn't stopped firing as soon as they had a window, but that bitch kept her thunder barrage on them. Her HUD then showed her a notification.
[Mobility Pack Available. Implement upgrade?]
Yes!
[Raider Battle Armor: Spec 2 deploying.]
In a moment, she felt as plates on her lower back, shoulder and legs shifted accommodating gear appearing from somewhere in a light show.
[Mobility Package Ready]
Himeko launched herself at Tango Hotel, kicks and punches were dodged bit a hair breath as she began using that big red button on her belt.
[INVADING BOLIDE!]
[INVADING BOLIDE!]
[INVADING BOLIDE!]
One gave Himeko gave her energy blades like Tyler's, only hers were more like large knives. Another gave her more speed. The last one boosted the countercurrent her armor was running to keep her from getting fried by this thundercunt. The bitch avoided her attacks until someone landed a high ex on the back of her head. Himeko took the opportunity to ram her knives into this bitch's guts.
"Wha…" The thing looked shocked as the attack connected but then Himeko was sent flying by another lightning blast from somewhere to her left. "Your insolence knows not boundaries!"
By this time more Shotriser gunshots echoed amongst the storm howling around them. HUD Warnings barely gave anyone time to dodge as thunder struck across the rooftop. Pieces of the other tower suddenly smashed into their piece of rubble and were held there by something, essentially duplicating the area they had to move around. A blessing, if anything.
Plasma beams coming from Watchpoint members curved around the Monster as did a hail of bullets. Some exploded, some managed to nick that thing and one set her leg on fire. That last one got Watchpoint a look of utter loathing as she rushed at Himeko with her sword ready to run her through. "You dare tarnish the beauty granted to me by God?"
Yinsen took that moment to come back with a kick that nailed the monster on the arm, the sound of bones breaking echoed as it sounded more like two boulders crashing into each other. Yinsen did a backflip as he brough up something on his hand.
A shotgun blast took off the monster's left arm at the shoulder, and this time, did it scream.
Pain or fury. Probably both.
Fuck! I missed! The Kaban Shot that would have torn her core apart instead tore her left arm. While that was incapacitating and probably lethal in any human, our enemy showed it was anything but that.
She let out a scream and more lightning struck me. Seventeen strikes my HUD helpfully notified me as this time, the armor protections were not enough, and shocks coursed my body. I managed to lift the Typhoon Magnum and pop a few shots before a dozen new strikes sent me back, smoking. More alerts showed up as the Energy levels around us spiked.
"COME TO YOUR QUEEN! SANDALPHON!"
...And now there is a dragon flying around.
Crap.
Private Hideaki Tyler looked at the brand-new type of bullshit flying around their AO.
A dragon, a mother fucking dragon. Red as blood, its roar answered the scream Tango Hotel let out as her arm turned into mist, courtesy of Yinsen. The humanoid boss flew at the armored spook and unleashed a barrage of sword slashes as the dragon reared back its head above the members of Watchpoint. Tyler had no doubts of his next action.
[INVADING BOLIDE!]
[INVADING BOLIDE!]
[INVADING BOLIDE!]
The Shield on his arm covered his whole body, those little things on the sides of his boots turned into anchors as they gripped the concrete he stood on. A continuous beam of lightning hit him, and someone had come from behind him, grabbing onto his shoulder as she began going full auto on the flying lizard. He knew his teammates even if they now looked the same thanks to the kit that had saved their bacon over a hundred times already.
This fucker didn't have the bullshit shields that Tango Hotel had, so the hail of Hypervelocity Depleted uranium tore one of its wings to shreds and one Plasma beam cut through another.
The Lt. Aikawa and Yinsen could focus on the bitch, this lizard was all Watchpoint's.
The others focused on the Honkai Dragon with surprising effectiveness, enough that even the Herrscher paid attention allowing a combo of Kaban Shot and Typhoon Thunderer to send her skidding. A Raider who I could say with certainty was Aikawa rushed in with energy knives and put those to good use, becoming a blur as Raiden struggled to parry with only one arm.
"INSOLENT. MONGREL!" Some lightning gathered at her shoulder stump. I wouldn't allow her to pull a Hachiman and get an arm made of lightning, so slotting the Cheetah and Flacon keys into my guns, I let her have a close look down the barrels of my guns as Aikawa came at her now with a machete and Shotriser combo.
The Herrscher still held her own against us as I pulled more and more moves that Neo would be proud of. Not as flashy but certainly with more substance as my blows would have folded I-beams. Not-Tohka still held us at bay with bullshit Honkai powered swordplay. Energy knives and guns flashed with inhumane speed and were deflected by extradimensional fuckery.
The dragon close to us went down with a roar of pain as its wings were rendered useless. Without constant protection of its queen, the thing was though, but not enough for Kamen Rider tech to not affect it, even before my improvements. She looked at it in astonishment as Aikawa and I went to town on her. "Sandalphon?"
Aikawa Himeko kept slashing at the bitch in front of her, it had the gall to look concerned for her pet lizard while Himeko used everything learned from her drill instructors about knife fighting. Yinsen had kept himself as close gun support but his bullets were still getting deflected by whatever this thing used as shielding.
More roars of pain erupted from the lizard as five beams went through its head and 2 balls of plasma detonated on its chest. Both holes smoked as the monster began dissolving into glowing ash-like things.
The bitch screamed once again. "SANDALPHON! YOUR QUEEN DEMANDS IT! STOP PLAYING AROUND AND KILL THEM THIS INSTANT!"
"WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Himeko's knife buried itself into the thing's inner leg, and she drew it along where the femoral artery would be. Bitch's face contorted in pain as she let go of her sword and then folded Himeko's body around her remaining fist. The Raider Lieutenant got sent back a few meters back, but the suit's boots stopped her from flying off to the ground.
As Himeko struggled to stay upright, she saw the thing pull out some kung fu moveset that rained blows and kicks on Yinsen, lightning hitting him from his blind spots. Her last punch folded him as his armor broke.
His armor broke.
His armor broke.
Oh no.
Himeko watched in horror as thirty consecutive lightning strikes hit him before the thing's claymore flew and nailed him to a nearby floating piece of rubble.
He didn't move.
Himeko felt hollow at that moment, before something hit her helmet and landed at her feet. Yinsen's shotgun bounced on the floor and something popped out of it. She picked up the pink card thing before noticing the abomination was nowhere in her sights.
A heavy upward slash hit her, lifting her up and consecutive strikes destroyed he gear. Pieces of rifle, belt and key went flying, another hit brought her down and she felt her armor plates creaking as they almost broke too.
"I SHALL ENJOY FLAYING YOUR SOULS!"
She heard the screams of pain of her squadmates, her subordinates, her people as they too were brought down by this overpowered bitch.
[Warning: Unexpected Riser disconnection, 45 seconds of energy remaining.]
An additional warning flashed across her HUD, but she didn't know what to do. Until she looked down. Her silver Shotriser was still there, stuck to her leg. She grabbed it.
[Compatible Hardware detected. Warning: Transformation drivers missing…]
[Emergency Override: Driver package received. Transformation Authorized.]
[Please Insert new hardware into the U-COM Receiver]
Numbly, Himeko did as the diagram told her to, the gun had a notch on the left side. It matched what remained for her Raidriser. She slotted the gun in.
[SHOTRISER detected, insert Progrisekey to maintain transformation.]
She struggled to stand back up; she wasn't fast enough. Her body felt like lead and even as her Raider armor vanished into particles, she still held onto Yinsen's key. She pressed down the button as he'd taught her to.
"WING!"
The screams continued, and the drawing on her HUD told her the next step. She tried opening the key but found that it was stuck closed. She tried again.
The bitch finished electrocuting another member of Watchpoint and was now looking down at the smoking bundle or armor at its feet. "Pathetic worms, you think you can stand before the Hand of God?"
Himeko saw red. In the back of her mind, something snapped.
"You won't hurt them… you won't hurt anyone else!" Rational thought screamed that it was a lethal mistake to call the thing's attention to herself. But finally, after continously dealing for almost a week of that thing's bullshit she'd had enough. "You killed my friends! my family! My city! But you won't kill them! Nor anyone else!" That thing had the gall to look amused at Himeko, which only fueled the fury she once for all let out. "I'll fucking kill you, I'll tear your pet apart, Watchpoint style! and then shove it up your ass!" Himeko felt something give. "WE ARE WATCHPOINT! AND WE HOLD THE FUCKING LINE!"
And with a mighty roar she finally opened the pink key. Her breath came out with something looking close to embers, and her eyes shone in a way that gave pause to the Third Herrscher. The battered woman's crimson hair was let loose as her helmet fell to pieces. She slammed the key into her gun.
"AUTHORIZE!"
"KAMEN RIDER, KAMEN RIDER"
"KAMEN RIDER, KAMEN RIDER"
Himeko pulled and aimed the silver gun at the Herrscher of Thunder, she didn't know why she knew that name, but she didn't care. Bitch was going to die. She pulled the trigger. A word escaped her lips.
"HENSHIN!"
"SHOTRISE!"
The bullet flew, it went around the Herrscher and hit her multiple times, and then came back towards Himeko. She received it with a punch.
"FLYING FALCON!"
"Spread your wings and prepare for a force."
Himeko didn't care where anything she was going to speak was coming from. She had something to do.
"Kamen Rider Wing is here… to tear your ass apart!"