Lightseeker walked over to the dying Wolf Gurongi.
"Game over." She stated.
"Daughter of Haruka." The Gurongi growled.
"Daughter of who?" Lightseeker asked.
She was ignored.
"You have been found. You are dead. Just like your w***e mother."
"'W***e mother'? Well, I don't know my mother, but if your calling me the daughter of a b***h then you won't be the first!" Lightseeker swung Hyaku Sukiru down, destroying the Gurongi.
Suddenly, the monster turned into energy that formed into three new Element Daggers!
The first had a bright-bronze blade which was shaped as a triangle. The handle was pitch-black and under it was a bright-silver trigger. It had the word 'GRAVITY' written on the side in bright-yellow text.
This the Gravity Element Dagger.
The second dagger was identical to the Gravity Element Dagger. Only the word was colored mid-purple and spelt 'POISON'
This is the Poison Element Dagger.
The final dagger was identical to the last two. Only the word was 'FIRE' and was written in bright-red script.
"Huh, that's new." Lightseeker absently said as she grabbed the three Element Dagger.
Her mind was still on what the Gurongi had said as she was pulled back into the real world, turning back into Carly in the process.
'My mother, I barely remember her.' Carly thought.
A woman was seen placing the amulet around her neck.
Carly looked around at the peer, it had been utterly destroyed by the fight in Limbo. "I'd better get out of here."
Half an hour later:
Carly was walking down a road as multiple emergency vehicles shot in the other direction.
A car pulled up.
Honoka was at the wheel. "Are you okay, Carly?"
Carly didn't look at her. "How do you know my name?"
"My boss knows you, she wants to meet." Honoka explained.
Carly said nothing.
"Please? I risked my life for you back there." Honoka tried.
Carly scoffed as she leaned against the car's open window. "I didn't ask you to do that or for your help."
Honoka turned to look at the road.
Another police car zoomed past.
Carly sighed and got into the car. "Don't get any ideas, I don't like owing people."
Honoka spun the car into a U turn and drove away. "I work for an organisation called Muse, heard of it?"
"Something to do with that masked freak on the net?" Carly asked.
"That's my boss." Honoka deadpanned.
"Wonderful, can't wait." Carly also deadpanned.
The camera moved up to a TV billboard showing a news broadcast.
"We have just received reports of a terrorist attack on the peer in the west district of the city." The screen showed the destroyed peer. "The police are asking the public to remain vigilant as further attacks could take place anywhere, at any time, when you least expect it.
Back in the building, the red haired woman and black haired woman were both watching the news report smugly.
"We have your scent, daughter of haruka. Now, it's only a matter of time." The red haired woman boasted.
Back with Honoka and Carly:
It was late into the night by the time Honoka turned off the main road.
She drove up to an alley that was blocked by a pair of gates.
A camera noticed the car.
The gates opened.
Honoka drove into the alley.
The camera tracked the car.
The gates shut behind it.
Honoka drove to the end of the alley. She parked the car, turning off the engine and got out.
Carly followed.
"Welcome to Muse." Honoka gestured at a half open garage with graffiti painting onto it's door.
"Not what I was expecting." Carly replied.
"That's the idea." Honoka deadpanned.
The two of them walked forwards, ducking under the door.
"The Gurongi are amongst us, Carly, they are enslaving womankind." Honoka touched a brick that was the nose of a piece of skull graffiti.
The brickwork that made up the mouth, moved to the side, revealing a keypad.
"The world is asleep, brainwashed and helpless." Honoka typed in a code.
The bricks making up the skulls left eye moved, revealing a scanner.
"We're fighting back." Honoka placed her eye up to the scanner and let it be scanned.
The skull reformed.
The whole wall moved away, revealing a white passage.
Honoka walked in.
Carly followed.
A camera tracked them.
"We are a small handful of freedom fighters." Honoka explained.
Carly looked around as she was led down a dark corridor.
"We are the last and only line of defence." Honoka added.
"Defence?" Carly ran her fingers along the wall. "You got no chance." She shook them, getting rid of the dust.
"We don't leave things to chance!" Honoka snapped.
The two of them moved through a room that had multiple people working at computer banks.
"We've accumulated vast intelligence on the Gurongi's and their collaborators. Work leaders, bankers, pop stars. We can hit them where it hurts." Honoka continued.
Carly looked around the room in wonder.
Honoka led Carly through a pair of steel doors.
There was a single occupant.
She was an asian female that looked around nineteen. She had blue eyes and blond hair that was pulled up into a ponytail.
She wore a bright-blue top, a dark-blue jacket, a black skirt and black dress shoes.
Honoka folded her hands behind her back as the doors shut.
"Amazing." The woman muttered.
Honoka walked around behind her, like one would to a superior officer.
Carly stopped a few feet away.
"Carly, it's really you." The woman greeted.
Carly shrugged.
"You don't remember me?" It was more of a statement or confirmation than a question.
"No, should I?" Carly asked.
"How much of your childhood do you remember?" the woman asked instead of answering.
"Not much." Carly explained. "I had meningitis when I was five, it took away my memory, why?"
"Ha!" The woman scoffed. "They told me I was in a car crash that resulted in total amnesia."
"Your point?" Carly didn't see where this was going.
"Meningitis is a human affliction, Carly." The woman walked forwards. "You are not human, so you cannot be affected by it. All war is fought with deception, and you have been tricked, your past has been hidden from you for a reason."
"Back up a second, who are you?" Carly pointed at the woman.
"My name is Eli." The, now named, Eli took a step back. "I created Muse to help fight the Gurongi's." She gestured around the room.
"You really think you can make a dent?" Carly raised an eyebrow.
Eli looked at her in shock. "'Make a dent'? With the two of us working together I believe we can win the war!"
"So that's what this is about!" Carly realised. "You need me to help fight the Gurongi, help save the world."
"What else were you planning on doing with your life?" Eli asked.
"Look, you people seam tight. But I have trust issues and prefer to work alone." Carly replied.
Honoka took a step forward. "Carly, I don't think you realise what is at stake here."
Eli raised a hand.
Honoka shut up.
"If you want to turn your back on this, on me, then I'm powerless to stop you." Eli said.
Carly looked ready to do that.
"But you'll be making a big mistake." Eli pleaded. "Not just for yourself, but for mankind."
"Mankind?!" Carly demanded.
"Yes!" Eli exclaimed.
"What makes you think I care?!" Carly shouted.
There was a moment of silence.
"At least give me a chance to show you." Eli requested.
"Tell me what?" Carly asked after a second of silence.
"Who you really are." Eli smirked.
Hook.
Line.
And sinker.
Next day:
Honoka drove her car into the ruins of an old mansion.
It looked like a freaking war had blasted through it!
Eli led Carly into an entrance hall. "This was your home."
"I don't remember." Carly replied as she walked up next to Eli.
"You will." Eli turned to Honoka. "Ready the portal."
Honoka nodded and placed her hands on the ground. A circle formed. It was made of two layers with runes between them. The whole thing was green.
"What are you doing?" Carly bent down to look at the circle.
"Our world the Limbo are very closely superpositioned. They clash in places, creating what we call rifts. It's here, in the rifts, we can create places to and from Limbo." Honoka got back up.
So did Carly.
"Go on." Eli pointed at the circle. "The house has secrets, I've found mine, now it's your turn."
"How do I get back?" Carly stepped into the circle.
"Just make your way back here." Eli explained. "Be careful, it can get rough in there."
"I'll be fine." Carly grinned at Honoka as she was sent into Limbo.
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Honoka asked Eli. "She doesn't seem to care."
"She's raw, like you were when I first found you." Eli explained.
Honoka looked down.
Meanwhile, with Carly.
Carly appeared in a corridor. She darted down the corridor.
Now she was in another entrance hall.
There was a compass engraved into the floor, at the end of it was a short slight of stairs. The stairs split in two, leading to the left and to the right. Each set led to a balcony that had three doors in them.
The first and second doors on the left balcony were blocked, as were the first and third doors on the right balcony.
Carly looked around. "So, this was my home? Well, show me your secrets!"
Nothing happened.
"Didn't think that would work." Carly ran up the left staircase and through the unblocked door.
She followed the corridor she was in to the left and found herself in another room.
It had been trashed by whatever had destroyed the house with raiders taking whatever had been left.
Yet, for a second, Carly's mind pulled up what the room had once looked like. "I remember this place."
As Carly snapped back to reality, she noticed that one thing had remained untouched in the room.
Opposite the door was a painting of a brown haired asian woman. She had blue-green eyes, wore a blue shirt and a red knee length skirt along with black boots.
The wall around the painting was badly burnt. It still being there was certainly not for a lack of trying on the part of whoever destroyed this place.
Carly walked up to the picture. "Who the heck are you?" She looked down at the name tag. 'Haruka'?"
"Daughter of Haruka." She remembered what the Wolf Gurongi had called her.
Carly looked back up at the painting in shock. "My mum?!"
Suddenly, black rocks exploded from the ground, forming barriers that trapped her in the room.
A new type of Drone Gurongi exploded from the ground.
This one looked like a humanoid Porcupine made of black leather. It had a claymore and a large circle-shaped shield with spikes on the front of it.
This is the Porcupine Drone Gurongi.
Let the battle begin!
The Kuuga Driver appeared around Carly's waist in a bright-silver flash.
KUUGA DRIVER!
Carly summoned the Astral Order Dagger to her right hand and tapped its trigger with her right thumb.
ASTRAL!
Carly slammed it into the driver's top slot, making the light turn onto the Holy Setting.
Carly called the Gravity Element Dagger into her left hand and hits its trigger with her left thumb.
GRAVITY!
Carly swung it into her driver's right slot, making the light add the Planet Setting. This was where the innermost ring of the driver's light turned gravity-yellow.
The Poison Element Dagger appeared in Carly's right hand and she tapped its trigger with her left thumb.
POISON!
Carly placed the dagger into her driver's bottom slot. The light showed the Venom Setting. This mean that the middle ring of the driver's light turned poison-purple.
The Fire Element Dagger teleported into Carly's left hand, she used her right thumb to push its trigger.
FIRE!
Carly rammed the dagger into her driver's left port. The outer most ring in the driver's light turned flame-red.
She reached to the sky with her right hand, turning it into a fist.
"HENSHIN!"
Carly slammed her fist down on her driver's button.
GO!!
The belt formed a ring of pure-white light around Carly's waist. The ring split in half, forming two rings. The upper ring rose up and the lower ring dropped down.
Carly's clothes vanished as her shin turned into pitch-black chiten. Her hands shifted into pitch-black gloves and her feet shifted into pitch-black boots.
Her head transformed, it now looked like a dark-black helmet.
Her wrists and ankles turned into bright-golden shackles.
Carly's body age to the point she looked nineteen.
This is the Initial Civilization.
HOLY!
A blast of yellow light exploded from behind Carly.
Her mouth transformed into a bright-silver mouthpiece that looked like bug teeth.
Her chest turned into a white chestplate made from scales, it had muscles etched into it and left her stomach exposed.
Her left shoulder was turned into an oval-shaped holy-yellow shoulder pauldron made of scales.
The sides and outside of her lower left arm transformed into a holy-yellow forearm guard.
A holy-yellow circle-shaped gem appeared in the outside of her left wrist shackle.
This is the Astral Translation.
PLANET!
A gravity-yellow meteor appeared and slammed into Lightseeker from the front.
Lightseeker's chestplate turned gravity-yellow.
The front and sides of her left lower leg were coated by gravity-yellow scales.
A circle-shaped gravity-yellow gem appeared in the outside of her left ankle shackle.
This is the Gravity Base.
VENOM!
A poison-purple cobar appeared on the ground and wrapped around Lightseeker before merging with her.
The outside of her right lower leg turned into bright-purple scales.
A bright-purple circle-shaped gem appeared in the outside of her right ankle shackle.
There was now a bright-purple ring around the base of her chestplate, her neck and each of her chestplate's arm holes. There was a vertical bright-purple line connecting the neck ring and bottom ring. A horizontal bright-purple line connected the two arm hole rings.
A poison-purple cobra hood appeared on the back of her helmet.
This is the Poison Inscription.
FLAME!
Fire-red flames appeared over her head and dropped down.
The cobra hood now had a single flame-red circle-shaped gem in the back of it.
The poison-purple markings on her chestplate now had fire-red runes running through them.
Her right shoulder shifted into a square-shaped shoulder pauldron made of red carapace.
Her right upper arm, lower arm, elbow and hand all turned into red armor carapace. The carapace of her hand and lower arm made it look like she was wearing a knight gauntlet.
A circle-shaped flame-red gem appeared in the outside of her right wrist shackle.
This is the Fire Rune.
TRANSLATION IS NOW CONFIRMED!
Three new weapons appeared in front of Lightseeker.
The first was a cleaver. It was colored white with a neon-yellow blade and a black handle.
This is the Heavy Crusher.
The second was a dart with a rope. The dart was colored white with a neon-purple edge and the rope was also white.
This is the Venom Dart.
The final weapon was a mace. The head was shaped like white flames with neon-red claws. The handle was pitch-black.
This is the Fire Club.
After a few second all of the weapons vanished.
Now the battle can really begin!
Lightseeker slammed her right fist down on her driver's button once.
PREHISTORIC TRANSLATION!
Lightseeker drew the Holy Slasher and held it to the sky. The ground glowed bright-yellow as several rocks pulled themselves up. She swung her sword down and fired the rocks.
The Porcupine Drone Gurongi held up its shield, blocking the attack.
Lightseeker shot forwards. She held her katana in her right hand and swung it to the left, forming a crescent of yellow energy that spun forwards.
The Drone Gurongi swung its claymore down, shattering the crescent.
Lightseeker's sword burst into flames as she thrust it forwards.
The Drone Gurongi held up its shield to block but cracks spread through it as the sword impacted it and send the Drone Gurongi skidding backwards.
Lightseeker gripped her sword in both hands and turned her body. She slashed her sword through the ground and upwards as gravity around it went bye-bye, throwing her into the sky.
The Drone Gurongi slashed down with an overhead slash, deflecting the upwards slash from Lightseeker.
Both combatants landed on the ground.
The Drone Gurongi charged.
Lightseeker pushed down on her driver's button twice with her right thumb.
CLASSICAL TRANSLATION!
Lightseeker threw six right jabs.
The Drone Gurongi held up its shield.
As Lightseeker's fist impacted the shield, the gravity around her fist increased, letting it shatter the shield.
Then Lightseeker pulled back her right fist and shot it forwards as it lost its weight. Her fist slammed into the Drone Gurongi's chin, throwing it into the sky.
Lightseeker held up her right hand and a rock appeared above the Drone Gurongi. She turned her hand into a fist and the rock shot down, smashing the Gurongi into the ground.
Lightseeker leapt into the sky as the Drone Gurongi impacted the ground. She increased her weight and came shooting down, stomping the Drone Gurongi deeper into the ground.
The Drone Gurongi got back up and charged with a shield bash.
Lightseeker summoned the Venom Dart and tapped her driver's button three times with her left palm.
MIDDLE TRANSLATION!
Lightseeker whipped her weapon into the air and then slammed it down.
The Drone Gurongi raised its shield, but the shield shattered as the rope of the dart impacted it.
Lightseeker leapt into the air and whipped her dart down, firing six spinning purple crescents.
They rained down on the Drone Gurongi, cutting into it.
Lightseeker landed on the ground and threw her dart forwards. It slammed into the Drone Gurongi's arm and removed gravity's effect on it, sending it flying through the roof.
Battle ended!
With the battle over, Lightseeker heard childish laughter. "Who's there?!"
She ran out of the room.
Suddenly, the corridor extended and Lightseeker fell down a hole that opened under her feet!
"What the-?!" She landed on the floor below the one she had just been on.
"That was rude." Lightseeker ran out of the only exit and into a square-shaped room.
There was a single door on the right wall and no sign of what the room might have once been.
She ran through the door.
"Woah!" Lightseeker was barely able to stop herself from falling into a hole. She looked around and saw that the hole was the only was to proceed. "At least I'm going down of my own free will this time."
She jumped down the hole.
Lightseeker landed on the next floor down and looked around.
She followed the corridor forwards and then to the right before jumping up through another hole.
"Down, down and now up? What is with this place?!" Lightseeker complained as she ran through a door.
Now she was back in the entrance hall.
"I'm back where I started?!" Lightseeker looked around.
Black rocks formed into barriers.
A Wolf Drone Gurongi exploded out of the ground.
Let the battle begin!
Lightseeker pushed down on the Kuuga Driver's button three times with her right thumb.
MIDDLE TRANSLATION!
She vanished in a purple burst and appeared to the Wolf Drone Gurongi's right, throwing the Venom Dart forwards.
The Drone Gurongi swung its sword up, only to stagger back as the dart was much heavier than it should have been thanks to Lightseeker's gravity powers.
Lightseeker pulled her dart back and then made it shot forwards as it burst into flames, blasting a hole into the side of the Wolf Drone Gurongi.
Lightseeker teleported above the Drone Gurongi and formed six small suns around her weapon as she whipped it down.
The Drone Gurongi's wound healed as it ran to the side, causing the attack to miss and blow a hole in the floor.
The Drone Gurongi ran up the stairs and jumped off them, leaping towards the Kamen Rider.
Lightseeker teleported down and used the Venom Dart to yank a piece of rubble from the ground. She threw it up and hit it, turning it into a barrage of rocks that hit the Drone Gurongi.
Then Lightseeker used her left hand to push down on her driver's button four times.
MODERN TRANSLATION!
Lightseeker held her hands forwards and fired a pair of fire from her right hand and a beam of yellow solar fire from her left hand.
The Wolf Drone Gurongi could do nothing as the fire washed over it, it dropped to the ground, badly burnt.
The Gurongi recovered and raced forwards, stabbing with its tanto.
Lightseeker set her right fist on fire and formed a flame barrier on her left arm. She used the barrier to deflect the sword to the side and step into the Gurongi's guard, slamming her fist into its stomach, firing a burst of fire through it.
Lightseeker hit her driver's button once.
PREHISTORIC TRANSLATION!
The Wolf Drone Gurongi swung its sword down.
Lightseeker held up her right hand, forming a barrier of yellow gravity, deflecting the slash.
Lightseeker dropped the barrier and glowed with yellow light. She shot forwards, leaving speed lines behind her. As she ran past the Drone Gurongi she punched it in the stomach.
Lightseeker then spun around, she formed a small sun in her hands and threw it forwards, the sun transformed into a beam of solar plasma that impacted the Drone Gurongi from behind.
The Drone Gurongi spun around and charged at the Kamen Rider.
Lightseeker spun into a spin kick.
The Drone Gurongi held up its sword to block.
Only for Lightseeker to increase her boot's weight, shattering the sword.
Lightseeker hit her driver's button twice.
CLASSICAL TRANSLATION!
She drew the Heavy Crusher and swung the cleaver-shaped weapon six times, degressing gravity around it, making her swings faster.
The Wolf Drone Gurongi fell to pieces.
Battle ended!
With the battle over, Lightseeker looked around.
She saw a pair of ghostly children on the right balcony.
"This way, Carly!" One of them called out.
"Okay! Can't catch me!" The other called.
Both ran through a door.
"Carly? Did I hear that right?" Lightseeker ran up to the door.
She reached for the door.
Only for a red barrier to appear in front of it.
"I don't have time for this!" Lightseeker growled as she turned her right hand into a fist, set it on fire and smashed the door down.
Lightseeker followed the corridor to the right and then to the left, arriving in what had once been a bedroom.
She could only tell that because of the bed flung against the wall.
Black rocks rose up, forming into barriers.
"Bring it!" Lightseeker shouted.
A Fly Drone Gurongi exploded out of the ground and flew into the air.
Let the battle begin!
Lightseeker pushed down on the Kuuga Driver's button twice with her right thumb as she summoned the Heavy Buster.
CLASSICAL TRANSLATION!
The Heavy Buster appeared in Lightseeker's hand in a bright-yellow flash.
The Fly Drone Gurongi threw a bomb down.
Lightseeker gripped her sword in both hands and swung it down, smashing the bomb to pieces.
Lightseeker held her cleaver in both hands and swung it up while twisting her hips. Rock spikes shot out of the ground and slammed into the Drone Gurongi turning into shackles.
Then Lightseeker slammed her sword onto the ground, firing a cone of rocks along the ground with the wave spreading out from the impact point. The rocks impacted the Drone Gurongi, damaging it and breaking it free.
The Drone Gurongi shot into the sky and reached into its bag. It hurled ten bombs at Lightseeker.
She flipped her sword into a reverse handed grip. Lightseeker held the sword to her right side with the tip on the ground and slashed up, firing 3 bright-yellow crescents that sawed through the bombs.
Lightseeker then dismissed the Heavy Crusher and used her right wrist to tap her driver's button three times.
MIDDLE TRANSLATION!
Lightseeker teleported into the air, appearing behind the Drone Gurongi as her right boot burst into flames. She spun, kicking the Fly Drone Gurongi in the back, throwing it to the ground as it burst into flames.
Lightseeker swung her left arm down, firing seven bright-purple crescents that spun, cutting into the Drone Gurongi before she landed back on the ground.
The Drone Gurongi got back up and threw a bomb at Lightseeker.
Lightseeker teleported to the right, avoiding the bomb and then zipped forwards. She coated her left knee in purple poison, growing a blade from it and slammed it into the Drone Gurongi's stomach.
As the Drone Gurongi bent over, Lightseeker kicked down with her right leg, firing several poison-tipped spikes from it that threw the Drone Gurongi backwards.
Lightseeker then grew a spike from each of her right knuckles and shot forwards. She caught up with the Drone Gurongi and rammed her fist into its face, the spikes adding to the damage.
Lightseeker formed a small sun in her left hand and threw it. It exploded into countless spikes that shone with heat, all of them impacted the Fly Drone Gurongi, destroying it.
Battle ended!
Lightseeker looked around.
She saw the ghostly children crawl under the bed.
"That was me, I remember this." Lightseeker reached under the bed and pulled out a wooden kite shield.
It was then that she noticed that the black rocks had not gone down.
"Oh come on!" Lightseeker shouted.
Another new type of Gurongi exploded out of the ground.
It was identical to a Porcupine Drone Gurongi but was covered in black leather armor.
This is a Porcupine Gurongi.
Let the battle begin!