Reviews:
Shooting Star Dragon 3000: Yeah, the thoughts of Fuwa controlling a mecha would just be *terrible*. And yes, she *is* a cinnamon roll.
Spidey Viewer: We're back, baby! Yep, things are going to turn up.
Sonicflash78: Aruto is a cyborg. Fuwa and Yua saw this earlier, and the reason for the 'blue blood' is for his cybernetics.
Dragon Rider 66: Yeah, Izu hearing those housewives was hard to hear. We'll have to see how much Naki is there.
MKDemiGodzilla-Warrior: You'll have to wait and see.
Robin Chwan Fatliyansyah: Grey and I will not be making a 'Build Revised', we are planning Revised stories on shows that didn't perform well.
Here are some reviews answered by our own GreyKing46:
Raven Soriano: The toys do it, because of how they are designed. Using toy mechanics to make the story accurate! It's what I love to do.
Robin Chwan Fatliyansyah: As we said LAST CHAPTER, no. We are not doing a Build Revised.
MKDemiGodzilla-Warrior: We already did Dodo. Just shortened his appearances and simplified it.
Dragon Rider 66: Gai is a d-bag and goes "no, waste of resources"
And Horobi's experience makes up the power difference for now
Bahamut0: No, no more secrets. It is just Fuwa being irrational.
Ham-Chan: Yay, someone who explained themselves! And your first option is basically right. Aruto has two forms of 'blood' running through him. Red, human, blood for his origans and body and limbs and everything. And Blue, cooling fluid, to keep the implants running properly. We've seen Aruto bleed red before, now we saw him bleed blue.
sonicflash78: Aruto IS NOT a HumaGear. We've said in a past chapter, he is a cyborg.
Spidey Viewer: No. He already knows Aruto is a cyborg. He is just being irrational about his dislike of anything HumaGear.
Shooting Star Dragon 3000: Hey, that's not fair!... She ALWAYD wins that award!
HackerEX: Not. At. All. We've already said, Aruto is a cyborg. Fuwa just thought he had generic robot bits. Not that Hidden used HunaGear styled technology in the process. So seeing Aruto bleed blue, something only a HumaGear should do, caused his stupid switch to be flipped. Aruto had bled red before.
Toa Solaric: Coolent. For Aruto's cyborg bits
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Kamen Rider Zero-One Revised
Chapter 17: A Sticking Situation
Co-Writer GreyKing46
We do not own these characters. All rights belong to Shotaro Ishinomori, Ishimori Productions and Toei Company
It was a couple of days since the incident at the Community Centre. Fuwa was still thinking about that blue liquid coming from President Hiden's jaw...he saw the prosthetics he had. His X-Rays showed flesh and bone among all that metal. No, he couldn't be thinking about that right now, he had to think about MetsuBouJinRai and when they would strike...but something was confusing him. If the Progrise Keys were the same; how come Horobi's was so much more powerful than their own?
He was sitting at his computer, glaring at it.
All this technical jargon was just going over his head. He needed a clearer answer for this. He leaned up to fix his posture before getting to his feet. "Where's Yaiba?" As he headed to her station, hopefully, she wasn't in the office and in the training area or in AIMS HQ.
He found the engineer at her desk, working on data clearly connected to the Progrise Keys.
Knock, knock
He tapped on her desk to grab her attention. "Got a minute?"
"I can spare a few. What do you want, Fuwa?" She asked, not breaking concentration from the screen. "If you want me to work on your paperwork-"
"No, not that. It's about the other day; when the President and I fought Horobi." He responded, which made her break concentration.
"What about it?"
Fuwa took a deep breath and sighed. "What the hell is with MetsuBouJinRai's Keys? They seem stronger than us. How is that possible?"
"Their keys are exactly the same. The difference is how they are used." She responded casually "There you go."
...
"Don't give me that; how? Is it their Drivers?"
"Yes. Exactly." She responded. "Now can you let me get on with my work?"
Thump.
"Yaiba. Answers, please."
She took a breath and sighed heavily and calmly. "If I explain this to you as clearly and slowly as possible, will you go away?"
"Yes."
Yaiba nodded as she bit a few buttons, causing the room to grow dark, as projections filled the air.
On the walls were clips from all their previous battles. Both ones involving Zero One as well as ones involving Metsubo Jinrai
And in the middle of the room were holograms of the five riders so far.
"Okay. Where to start." She hummed, standing up "I guess the first place would be how OUR system differs from Zero One's."
Fuwa pulled up a seat and nodded. "Ours don't have that circle scanner, Zero-One has." He pointed to the Driver's yellow circle.
"Very observant of you." She rolled her eyes "But yes, it doesn't. That is probably because of the belt's link to Zea. The belt needs less processing power to deal with the keys, hence the Ride Module coming down. The Riser system has to do all the heavy lifting, compressing it into the bullet. However, there is more than that."
"More?" He hummed "... His suit stays the sa-"
"Fuwa. If you continue on that talk, I AM kicking you out." She huffed "Here is a perfect example." Flicking her hands through the air, the holograms began to move around and change images
Eventually, the footage on-screen showed a battle from a while ago. Back when Fuwa first used Trapping Spider, Aruto borrowed the Shooting Wolf power. At the same time, the Zero One hologram shimmered, showing the form change.
"Tell me. What are the differences between when YOU use the key, and the time the President did?" Yaiba asked.
Fuwa looked at the footage and the holograms. He thought about it and gave an answer. "He scanned the Key over his Driver after activating it."
...
"I mean using the key's POWER, Fuwa." She sighed "Our Riser's also have a scanner. It is just inbuilt when you load the Key."
Fuwa groaned as he tried to think. "Hmm...His base suit shifts around to make room for the form change, ours just gets replaced with the armour." He muttered to himself.
"Not the form. The POWER of the key." She responded, pointing at the footage
...
"Oh yeah! He had those missiles in his armour!" He nodded "I'd forgotten since I was so focused on MY fight."
"Seriously." She sighed "Yes, the third try is the charm."
"... Why doesn't my suit have missiles?" Fuwa hummed "Or does it, and you've never told me?!"
"It doesn't have missiles." She said, pushing him back in his chair before he could stand up "Not that I designed, anyway." She whispered "You see, our systems work similarly but different. His forms are weaker than ours but use the key's power in a much more varied output of abilities. And as he grows more used to the system, I'm sure we will see him grow more adapt and show us more creative uses of said abilities as well as abilities we have yet to see. Meanwhile, ours is more power-based. Fewer abilities, but stronger."
Walking around the room she typed away at the tablet for a second and Zero One changed into his Biting Shark form.
"For example. Say one of us used this key. We would not have the blade projection power, nor the propulsion boost nor the ability to float on water as he does." She continued "We would just have the arm fin blades. But ours would be sharper and harder than the Zero One version. Less variety, but the options we DO have are more enhanced."
"Oh, I get it. While we've got stronger stuff, he's more flexible." Fuwa nodded. "So, what does that make MetsuBouJinRai?"
"The literal opposite case." She responded seriously.
Once more the images rushed around and changed.
"They have no versatility. They have ONE ability... And their power is pushed to the max." She explained as she showed a fight footage of Zero One, Vulcan and Jin with some scans and read-outs around them.
And the ones around Jin were almost double the other two.
"THE HELL ARE THOSE NUMBERS?!" Fuwa yelled in shock.
"It appears all three paths are carved by the notes of Soren Hiden." Yaiba hummed "Metsubo Jinrai improving the original design since the original system was basically the same. Common of prototypes, since you just want it to WORK. I tried to improve it, keeping to the philosophy of the design but fixing the flaws. And Zero One is the true next generation of Soren's notes, fixing all the flaws and getting the balance perfect."
"What are you talking about?" Fuwa frowned.
"Nothing." She chuckled.
"Whatever. What's with the numbers?" He asked again.
"Well, there is an aspect I have never mentioned before." Yaiba explained as she typed away and brought up a new set of footage.
Zero-One jumped into the air surrounded by yellow energy, and Vulcan aimed his gun while blue energy sparked around him. Once again, all the data readouts appeared, the info now on par with Kamen Rider Jin's levels.
"... What?" He blinked.
"Ours, and Zero One', systems normally only use around 50% of a Progrise Key's power." She explained "Only during a finisher does 100% come out. It when we use the Fever function, but that is for such a short time it doesn't even register."
"But what about the 'Blast-Fever'?" He asked.
"That boosts the key's power by over-clocking the Riser, bringing it to 150%." She explained, "It is why those finishers are stronger but also leave you more tired."
"And what about Metsubo Jinrai?" He added.
"It appears that they are using the key's power at 100% all the time, and overclocking it when they use a finisher. Bringing it to 150%." She nodded.
"Wait..." Fuwa frowned as he remembered something "But the bastard Horobi used a different key to perform a finisher without changing forms! And that overpowered a double finisher from the Prez and I! Heck, I was even using the Fever boost thing with the finisher and well!"
"I saw." She sighed "This is just a theory. However, looking back at Soren's notes, I believe this is leftover from the prototype system as well. It's an attempt at versatility. It was the first attempt, after all. Basically, letting you 'add on' a key to another o... ne..." She suddenly pulled up her tabled and began to type away "Is that where Zero One's form change system concept originated? Fascinating."
"Yaiba, focus." Fuwa smirked weakly.
"R-Right. Sorry." She coughed "Basically and remember this is a theory... But with the Zetsumeriser we have on hand, which appears to be based on their ForceRiser system but a downgraded mass-production model, I believe this may be true. By using another keys finisher, he is adding his base suits power with the full power of a Progrise Key's boosted finisher. Without going through the data properly he could be outputting anywhere between 200 and 250 per cent a keys normal energy."
"I... What?!" Fuwa gasped.
"And that also explains why." Yaiba hummed "They are HumaGear. If a human used that much of a Key's energy for that long, their body could be ripped to shreds from the inside out."
"God...If it was us, we wouldn't live. But the President might-"
"Don't even think about it. President Hiden's...condition, might be able to last a little longer...but it would mean his death too." She answered.
Fuwa sighed and nodded. "You're right. You're right." He then thought back to Aruto's jaw dripping blue liquid again...Was it possible though? He is an advanced HumaGear? So far advanced that he was practically human? He shook his head to get that thought out of his mind.
It was the prosthetics. They were probably based on HumaGear tech. He was letting his hatred of the machines cloud his judgment.
...
"Wait." Fuwa blinked.
"What? What is it? Have you thought of something?" She asked.
"If they are constantly running the keys at 100%, and overcharge them so much, then... Will the keys be useable by the time we retrieve them? Or will they be burnt out?" Fuwa asked.
"The Keys will return to normal should we use them. It's only in the ForceRisers that they get pushed to their limits. If either you or Aruto grabs the Falcon or Scorpion Keys from Jin or Horobi, they'll work like normal Progrise Keys within our own systems." Yua explained. "I'm more surprised their BELTS can handle this output for so long. A good question, honestly, Fuwa. But it isn't a concern."
"I guess. God...I wonder what the President is going to say when we tell him...if we tell him." Fuwa leaned back in his chair, looking at the numbers.
"I am sure he knows." Yua commented "I bet Izu has told him at least " she responded, a bit of venom at the HumaGear's name slipping out.
Fuwa managed to catch that bit of venom in Yua's speech...it reminded him of his days as an assistant teacher. Some students did not get along because of either differences or other things. "I'm sure you're right. This is just going to be our day; isn't it?" He thought with dread about what their day could entail.
*With Aruto*
"You want me to be a corpse?!" Mr Fukuzoe snapped as he heard that.
We arrive in Aruto's office as he had just gotten news about their latest HumaGear who had become an actor. 'Enji Matsuda', having joined the cast of a new movie to work alongside the famed actor 'Shinya Owada'. Aruto had...just asked his Vice President to be in a cameo role.
"Mr Fukuzoe...Please understand." Aruto tried to calm him down while trying to hold back his laughter.
"What is this company's name do you think I am? A clown?" Mr Fukuzoe snapped.
"Jun, think about this for a second." Mr Yamashita spoke. "This could be good PR for the company."
"'Good PR'?" Mr Fukuzoe snapped before calming down as he heard that. "...Yes. Yes, I suppose. But won't it seem that strange if a member of Hiden Intelligence to help finance the movie in some way."
"Exactly." Aruto answered with a smile. "I'll try not to tell dead jokes while you're corpsing. HAI! Aruto ja~ naito!"
...
"Where is the shooting taking place?" Mr Fukuzoe asked begrudgingly.
"Ah, well." Aruto began to speak before Izu 'interrupted'.
"President Aruto's E-Mail shows that it is being done in film lot five that was scheduled for use, Sir." Izu informed.
"It seems that you are on top of things, Izu." Shesta commented.
"She certainly is." Aruto nodded. "What do you say, Vice President Fukuzoe?" He spoke with respect towards him.
"...Very well. If this is only for a cameo." Mr Fukuzoe answered.
"Oh, absolutely." Aruto answered. "You'll be on screen...maybe...ten? Fifteen minutes? A very important part to the story."
"Alright, very well." He answered. "I'll allow this. But don't make me out to be a fool, President Hiden."
"All the respect, Mr Fukuzoe." Aruto reassured.
*Elsewhere*
We return to Daybreak where Horobi had finished getting patched up and now working hard on rebuilding the Assassin Magia. It was concerning for Jin as well since he had never seen Horobi come back damaged. He had always been the one doing damage.
"There, this should make this latest model more efficient. And hopefully, be rid of that damn tic." Horobi muttered to himself.
"Um, Horobi." Jin gulped a little, wanting to grab his attention.
"What is it, Jin?"
"I was wondering if I can go on this mission this time."
"You want to go on this mission?" Horobi turned to Jin, almost glaring at him.
"Yes. Because...you're still repairing yourself." Jin responded logically. "Even if you're not fully fixed, that could mean you could get even more broken if in battle."
Horobi listened to Jin and stared intently. "You make a good point. And it will give you more practice fighting Zero-One and AIMS."
"Yeah, exactly." He nodded. "So...can I?"
"Alright, but don't tell them where we are. Little Assassin will assist you."
"Awesome! Thanks, Horobi!" Jin jumped a little and beamed.
"Don't celebrate just yet. I have to get him online first." Horobi turned back and typed on the computer.
Bwoom
Little Assassin's eyes widened as he was activated, his hair had more red streaks because of all the adaptations and upgrades that they had been through. "I have...returned?" He asked.
"Yes, you have another mission, Little Assassin," Horobi spoke, while Little Assassin's eyes focussed on him. "You have been more of a straightforward fighter than an actual assassin. You must learn subterfuge and how to hide. Take Jin and find someone who can teach you to kill."
Little Assassin's headset whirred as he took that aboard. "Understood. I will become a great Assassin."
"Excellent, I expect great things from you. Jin, here." He tossed over the Flying Falcon Key.
"Thanks, Horobi!" He responded. "Let's go Little Assassin."
"Yes." It responded, 'stiffly' getting up. "It is time to assassinate."
'...Tch. I thought I got rid of that.' Horobi growled angrily.
*Elsewhere*
We see that Aruto was on set with the film crew, making sure that everyone was getting along well with this. "Thank you for this opportunity, President Hiden." The director spoke. "A HumaGear actor...Enji has been a great addition to the crew."
"Of course, happy to help. Where's Mr-"
"Mr Owada? He's just going over his lines." The director spoke, pointing the head actor out.
"Wow...This is amazing." Aruto admitted as he was nervous to get close to him.
"Ah, President Aruto." A new voice caught his attention.
"Oh, Enji." Aruto turned as he saw, wearing a dark blue suit and tie, a black-haired male HumaGear, dressed as a detective. "Good to see you."
"Thank you, I am enjoying the chance to be the first HumaGear actor." Enji politely answered.
"Hey, you've gotten there. Okay?" He responded. "Does the headset get in the way of anything or-?"
"In preparation for the film, the special effects crew have included a program that replaces a HumaGear's headset with human ears, as not to break the immersion," Izu informed.
"Wow, a lot of hard work I take it."
"That's an understatement, Mr Hiden." Mr Owada spoke, getting up from his chair. This was a refined gentleman, dark black hair, parted at the front, wearing a green turtleneck shirt, a black suit, silver chain and black trousers. He seemed to be in his mid-seventies but had that air of 'not going to slow down' about him.
"M-Mr Owada. I...Am a great fan of yours." Aruto spoke as he recognised that famous voice, bowing to him.
"It's good to see my reputation is still known." Mr Owada answered humbly. "This is going to be a movie of many firsts, Mr Hiden."
"I hope so too." Aruto nodded.
"Now, where is our 'victim'." Mr Owada spoke, clapping his hands.
"He's just in makeup." Aruto chuckled a little.
"I see. Well, let's see if your company's vice president can remain still." Mr Owada chuckled as he and Enji walked off to the set.
Aruto chuckled nervously and nodded. "Yeah...Let's hope."
"Mr Hiden, if you'd like to stay here. Actors only, you understand." The director asked.
"Yeah, of course." Aruto nodded as they went behind the camera system. "Where is Vice President-?"
"Don't. Laugh." Mr Fukuzoe frowned as he had his face covered in powder to give himself a 'corpse-like' look to him.
...
"Nice!" Aruto praised genuinely.
"Excellent. Now, let's get you all into position." The director asked, guiding the actors to their stations.
"And to our guests, please remain quiet."
"Yes, sir." Aruto, Izu and Shesta nodded.
*Elsewhere*
"So...Little Assassin. Ready to get back into the swing of things?" Jin asked as they were sneaking about the city.
"Let's assassinate!" the HumaGear cheered.
"Whoo! Got that fire." Jin smirked. "Okay, where to go? We can't really proclaim where we're going. I learned that the hard way."
"I see. Then how shall we proceed?" Little Assassin pondered, their blue eyes shining as their head tilted.
"Well...Err. We go and find some friends. We've got the Key and Riser."
"Is that how you've been doing things so far?" Little Assassin inquired.
"...Yeah. Basically." Jin nodded.
...
"Foolish." Little Assassin replied.
"W-Well, I've never had a partner on missions before. Horobi just let me go on my own." Jin admitted.
"Again. Foolish." He repeated.
Jin looked down, sad and shy. But also, a TINY bit annoyed.
"How did you acquire your Key?" Little Assassin asked.
"Oh, I...I took it. From Zero-One." Jin answered.
"Hmm. You seemed to have done well on that one." Little Assassin responded.
"Tha-hey." Jin frowned, hearing some level of snark from their tone. "Well, what do you want to do?"
"Learn. I want to learn." Little Assassin answered simply. "As Horobi instructed."
"Alright, I think I know somewhere where we can get something that can help." Jin answered. "C'mon, this way." As he headed to a TV shop where they were playing reruns.
*With the heroes*
Enji and Mr Owada were currently in a scene, Mr Fukuzoe was playing a very convincing corpse.
Aruto smiled as he saw this, standing with Izu as they were behind the cameras.
'This is amazing.' He thought with positivity, this was going on so well.
"Giri..." Mr Owada spoke to Enji's character in the scene. "We meet again."
"You rat! Why are you here at the crime scene?" Enji responded as his character.
"I've got a feeling something like this was going to happen soon." Mr Owada responded.
"What do you mean?" Enji asked, ignoring the cameras around him.
"Humans are like coins. They have a front face...and a hidden side." Mr Owada spoke with brimming confidence. "You can't see the hidden side of humanity with just duty and humanity."
"That can't be true!"
"CUT!" The director called out. "Perfect!"
Aruto nodded as he saw this, seeing the film crew doing well in their shoot, Mr Owada being a professional and Hiden Intelligence being part of something like this.
He was really proud of Enji.
"President Aruto," Izu asked him gently. "AIMS have arrived. They are currently patrolling the area."
"Are you serious? Right now?" Aruto whispered, worried if this would cause problems with the shooting.
"I don't believe they will cause any disturbances while the break is in place," Izu reassured. "But why?"
"Routine checks?" Izu suggested with a concerned shrug
"I guess."
Over by the side, Mr Owada was contemplating something, looking over his script while the Director was concerned. "Mr Owada, is everything okay?"
Mr Owada took a sigh as Enji was getting touched up by the makeup department, just to keep the 'naturalness' of his face. "It's Enji. I'm concerned if he has the talent to *be* an actor."
"Well, he's been programmed to-."
"I know he's been 'programmed'. I'm concerned if he hasn't got the 'actor's soul'." Mr Owada answered with passion, coming from years of acting.
The director looked at Enji with a concerned look and then back at Mr Owada. "I understand, I've been in this game a long time too. But please, endure it for a little while longer."
"As an actor, I'll put my pride to the side for now." He answered.
"Thank you, I just hope this drama doesn't lead to drama." The director spoke hopefully.
'No...' Aruto thought.
'President Aruto?' Izu whispered, noticing how upset he was as he heard that. "Perhaps we can talk to Enji?"
"No...No, I-I don't want to cause him any trouble," Aruto answered.
"Ah, I should be an actor." Mr Fukuzoe spoke as he got from his spot, realising that he...actually made a convincing side character.
"At least someone's happy," Aruto mumbled to himself.
*Elsewhere*
"Thank you for visiting." A shopkeeper spoke as Fuwa walked out carrying a burger and a hot dog.
"Here, you look like you need it." Fuwa passed the hot dog to Yaiba, after dragging her from her computer.
"Thanks." she nodded.
"No problem." He answered, biting into the burger. "Did you hear about Hiden's new project?"
"You mean the 'drama project'? Yes, I did." She nodded, after biting into the hot dog. "Hmm...This is a good one."
"I've got to be honest, I think MetsuBouJinRai will attack," Fuwa admitted.
"You've been thinking that for ages." She answered calmly. "But with this drama being a public and important thing, it might be an actual target for them to attack."
She reached into her coat, removing a new Key.
"Another new Key?" Fuwa asked as he saw it, however, Yua's thumb was covering the picture and part of the name.
"Yes. I had it made because Horoi knows all our tricks. And considering your theme of 'attack first', I thought I'd give you an animal that reflects that mentality." She answered seriously.
On the front, Fuwa could only make out:
GATLING and REVOLVER
He took the Key from her hands and expected something dangerous, like a puma or a komodo dragon; or possibly- "A hedgehog?"
Squeak, squeak
He imagined the sound of a hedgehog in his head as he saw the front of the Key.
It was a dark green coloured base and screen with the imprint of a hedgehog on the front, a green hinge and a silver button on the top.
GATLING HEDGEHOG
ABILITY: REVOLVER
Click
"Snrt! The look on your face." She chuckled, seeing Fuwa's shocked look as she held her phone.
Fuwa grumbled and growled as he saw the Key. A hedgehog? A hedgehog? She couldn't make it something cool? Whatever. It was a new Key with a strong sounding ability.
"This is a joke, isn't it?" he grumbled.
"Nope. No joke." She answered. "Try it, press the button."
Fuwa looked at the Key in his hand and was tempted to...just to see what would happen.
He stuffed it into his pocket with a huff "Where do you even get these keys?" He asked suddenly.
Yua went silent as she had to contemplate that answer. She couldn't outright say the name, yet Fuwa was her fellow AIMS agent. "A...supplier. Someone who creates them for our cause."
"That's still not a name, Yua." Fuwa frowned.
"Let's just leave it, Fuwa. All we have to know is that they trust us to use their products." Yaiba answered.
"Yaiba. You mean your REAL boss, don't you?"
Yaiba's throat went dry as she was asked that. She couldn't get Fuwa dragged into this. But maybe he could be 'evasive'.
"Who are you loyal to, Yaiba?" Fuwa added calmly "Humanity or your employer?"
He did not even give her a chance to answer and walked away.
'F-Fuwa.' She thought as she held the napkin from the hotdog...and crumpled it as she was contemplating who she was loyal to.
*elsewhere*
"Thank you for being an extra in this, Mr Hiden." The director spoke as Aruto was now wearing a medical examiner's scrubs and holding a camera.
"It's fine." Aruto smiled, making sure his face would be fully covered thanks to the outfit.
'Tch. At least he isn't making a show of this.' Mr Fukuzoe thought as he was playing the corpse again. 'This seems to be going along well.'
"Reviewing your lines, Enji?" One of the producers asked.
"Yes, sir." He nodded, not robotically but with enthusiasm.
"Good. Places!" The director heard that and called out to everyone, getting everyone in their spots ready for the scenes.
Outside, however, there were a small number of AIMS officers who were patrolling the area. "Think they're going to wrap up soon?"
"They are filming a movie." a second soldier commented "Who knows how many more scenes they are needed for."
"Jeez, hope it's worth it." The first responded.
Over by a corner of the building lots, a certain pair of HumaGears were spying on the area. "AIMS and police," Jin mumbled as he and Little Assassin were back from their TV binge.
"Assassinate!" the killer mech nodded.
"Right. Just like in the TV show. We sneak up and take them out." Jin informed.
"I know, I watched the same thing as you." Little Assassin responded quietly.
The two waited for the two police officers to turn and then they struck, running at them and striking them from the back of their heads.
Chop!
CHOP!
The two police officers were knocked out and taken down, Jin and Little Assassin had completed step one!
...
'Wow! I didn't think that'd work!' Jin thought excitedly as he tried not to jump around in excitement.
"Jin, this way." Little Assassin pointed to the van the police had.
"Right!"
The two rushed as fast as they could, hoping that they could be a good distraction, or get some weapons to kill the humans with.
The two approached the police van, this was going to be a crowning-
"Who's there?" An AIMS soldier called out.
'Crap!' The two thought as the assassination unit did its job.
"Stay low." Little Assassin whispered to Jin as he turned and glared at the AIMS soldier. "Assassinate."
"You again? This is-!" The AIMS soldier spoke into his walkie, trying to contact his fellow squad, this was going to be difficult since this HumaGear was going to kill him.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
The AIMS soldier was fired upon, his new body armour was protecting him, yet his walkie was shot off his shoulder and broken. The Assassin had shot it clean off. "Damn you!" The soldier growled and fired.
The Assassin dodged the enraged attacks and fought the soldier in close combat, since it was a human versus a HumaGear, flesh on metal, it was obvious who would win, despite the soldier's determination.
thud
The soldier's eyes shrunk in his head as he fell to the floor, Little Assassin standing tall over him.
Little Assassin dropped the used gun and replaced it with the gun with the soldier, having a fresh weapon was always needed.
"Sleep. Foolish human." Little Assassin commented, before walking towards Jin again.
"Amazing! how did you do that?" Jin bounced.
"That show we watched. I took it on board." Little Assassin responded as he gave one human a small kick.
"Well...Yeah, okay. But it means more fun for us right?" Jin mumbled, trying to be friendly to Little Assassin.
"Supposedly." Little Assassin answered as they snuck into the van and found some of the weapons AIMS used to patrol the city.
"Thank you, Zero-One. Making this easier for us." Jin chuckled.
"Hey! Those aren't yours!" Fuwa's voice called out, catching them in the act.
"Vulcan?" Jin heard and groaned as he heard him. "How did you get here?"
"Because 'AIMS'; that's why." He answered, attaching his ShotRiser around his waist.
"Only one here. Your ally wasn't lucky." Little Assassin remarked.
BULLET!
"They called it in. And that deserves praise, your damn dead bird."
AUTHORISE!
KAMEN! RIDER!
"I'll put you down, mad dog." Little Assassin responded, attaching the ZetsumeRiser to his waist and activating the Dodo Key.
DODO!
WING!
"Don't leave me out of this." Jin chuckled, attaching the ForceRiser around his waist.
"HENSHIN!" Both Fuwa and Jin proclaimed, the bullet fired and falcon erupted from the ForceRiser.
FORCERISE!
SHOTRISE!
Z3T_SU_M3_R1S3!
"HA!" Fuwa grunted as he punched the bullet and his grey armour with blue wolf detail formed around him.
SHOOTING WOLF!
FLYING FALCON!
BR34K_D0WN!
SHINK!
The Dodo Magia glared at Fuwa while Jin crouched a little as he was ready to soar since flying would always give him an advantage. "Assassinate!"
"HRARGH!" Fuwa roared as he fired upon the Magia while Jin flew upwards.
The Dodo Magia used the swords he had on hand to slice the bullets in the air, raising a hand out to attach to any nearby HumaGear that he could sense. 'Must make Vulcan pay. Will not be ashamed again!'
"All to-GAH!" Jin smirked as he was ready to attack Fuwa from above, only to be attacked by someone in the air.
"Miss me, Jin?" Yua spoke as she flew in the air, currently in her Lightning Hornet form.
"When did you-?" He asked before shaking his head. "Joined at the hip, Valkyrie?"
"We're partners!" She snapped at him, buzzing fast and struck him. "That's it!"
"Oh sure, 'partners'!" Jin joked as he struck Yua.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
Jin and Fuwa fired at their respective opponents, though Fuwa on the ground was soon becoming overwhelmed by oncoming Trilobite Magia.
"Damn it all!" He grunted and activated his ShotRiser.
FEVER!
ATTACHE SHOTGUN!
"HA!" Fuwa grunted as he switch-aimed and fired on the Magia, though he felt like he was in a videogame and sloppily firing upon them.
"Overwhelmed, fool?" Little Assassin commented, raising their swords and slashing down at Fuwa who blocked with his Shotgun. "I'm just getting started."
BANG BANG!
*In the filming area*
The cameras were rolling on the current scene, a shoot out between Giri and the Legendary Assassin. Enji held his small prop gun in defence of Mr Owada who used a prop revolver. Some charges were set against the set for the shots.
"You only see things on one side, Giri. The side for Justice is in the light, facing upwards, while the side cloaked in shadow remains hidden. For me...I see both sides." Mr Owada spoke his lines and fired over Enji's head to the set.
However, the set was rumbling because of the outside's fight and the charges broke off the nails and glue of the set, causing it to fall. "Look out!"
Aruto covered Mr Fukuzoe instinctively as the set fell...but the set was in such a way that there was a large portion of it as a doorway, so it harmlessly missed both people.
"Are you okay?" The director asked, halting the scene.
"Someone check the set and charges!" A member of the props department called out, worried about what happened and went to the set.
"Get...off me. Please." Mr Fukuzoe grumbled as Aruto pulled himself off.
"Sorry, are you okay?" Aruto asked.
"Fine. Just shocked." He admitted.
"Clean up!" The producer asked as they all paused for the day. "I'm so sorry, Mr Owada."
Over by the side, Izu caught the fight going on outside, AIMS was fighting MetsuBouJinRai! "President Aruto, you're needed." She grabbed his attention.
"Huh?" He asked and turned, seeing the fight going on through the large doorway. "Err-Um. Apologies. I-I just need to go for a minute."
"Huh? Mr Hiden?" The producer asked while consoling Mr Owada on the prop gun.
*Outside*
"Hnn!" Fuwa grunted as he had gotten from the ground...and pulled out his new Progrise Key. "You better be good." He told the Key, as if it could hear him and pushed the button
REVOLVER!
"Hnn...argh!" He grunted as he opened the key with force.
CRrrck! CRRRck CRRRRACK!
AUTHORISE
SHOTRISE!
Shooting from the ShotRiser were a small group of six green bullets that fired and shot around the Magia and then at Fuwa who arm-punched them.
The bullets broke apart and shot onto Fuwa's body, his white armour was being peppered with green needles, his grey undersuit remained the same. His thighs now had green needles and armour plate, his arms were protected by two different green plates with green spikes protruding from them, rounded shoulder guards with green spikes pointing outwards, and a green chest plate with spikes. His mask had its white face with blue eyes but the outside of his face had spikes that had the impression of a hedgehog's quills and face.
GATLING HEDGEHOG!
Infinite Spines Shoot Towards The Enemy!
"What?" Jin and Little Assassin double-took in shock.
"Right. Let's see if you-!" Fuwa balled his hand and punched his open palm...unfortunately stabbing into it. "HNN!" He squeaked as he tried to play off the pain.
"Idiot." Yua shook her head.
"Me or him?" Jin asked before he was struck by Yua's hornets and bullets.
Down on the ground, Aruto's eyes widened in shock, seeing the amount of Magia here and Fuwa was overrun. "Fuwa!" He called out.
JUMP!
"Zero-One." Little Assassin glared as Fuwa was being overrun with Trilobite Magia.
RISING HOPPER!
Aruto leapt into the air, leaving a small stream of yellow data energy and holding the Attache Shield in his hand since this was going to be a different kind of assault.
CLANG!
"President?" Fuwa blinked in shock as Aruto had blocked the oncoming slashes.
"I've got the front, you handle the others!" Aruto called out.
"Hmm!" He answered, ripping out his hands from the spikes and firing at the Magia around him using Aruto as cover.
CLACK!
"Got it." He answered simply and took fire.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
The Dodo Magia saw that Aruto was being used as a Shield and *using* that shield was problematic, its swords couldn't cut through it...yet. But for now, it had to use its new knowledge to fight back.
Whoosh!
'Huh?' Aruto thought as he saw an oncoming slash going around the shield.
Aruto had to roll back, to dodge the oncoming sword but almost into Fuwa to knock him over. "Sorry!"
"Watch where you're going!" Fuwa snarled, firing at the Trilobites.
"Zero-One and Vulcan are having trouble; hey, Valkyrie?" Jin remarked as he struck at her.
"Just focus on me!" She answered pressing her Key's button.
THUNDER!
L! I! G! H! T! N! I! N! G! B! L! A! S! T! F! E! V! E! R!
The electricity sparked around her, Yua rushing in leg first.
Jin's eyes widened as he tried to change his trajectory, flying away from the attack, but Yua's speed followed Jin as an electric cone surrounded her in the form of a hornet's stinger and struck him in the back.
LIGHTNING BLAST! FEVER!
"Whoa." Aruto's eyes looked up just briefly as she and Jin plummeted, though with Yua she was falling with style.
"So many damn Magia!" Fuwa growled angrily as he continued to fire.
"You cannot stop us. We will prevail!" Little Assassin spoke slicing at Aruto and tossing him away.
"GAH!" Aruto screamed as he was separated from him.
"Pres! Damn it, I'm going to have to do this!" Fuwa growled as he ripped off his ShotRiser from his waist.
REVOLVER!
Little Assassin heard that and turned in shock, with Aruto now on the floor, they had a to run.
G! A! T! L! I! N! G! B! L! A! S! T!
Green energy formed within the ShotRiser as Fuwa's spines seemed to glow and then he fired. "HA!"
Rapid green energy projectiles shot out and hit the Trilobite Magia causing large explosions that destroyed them, causing large explosion clouds that covered the battlefield. Aruto covered himself with the Shield while Yua covered her eyes due to the light of the flames. "GAH!"
The flames of the explosion dispersed and left Yua, Aruto and Fuwa.
"Did...Did it work?" Aruto asked in confusion and worry.
"I'm never making fun of hedgehogs again," Fuwa commented, surrounded by the scraps of various Magia surrounding him.
"Fuwa...That was insane." Yua commented, walking over to him, removing her Key from her Driver.
"Thanks. I didn't want to go overboard; you know?" He responded, removing his Key and turning back to normal.
"Good." She responded. "President Hiden?"
Izu was helping Aruto up since he was trying to stay calm. "Are you alright, President Aruto?"
"Yeah...Yeah, I'm fine." He nodded. "Jin...Where-? Where's Jin?"
"Destroyed. Maybe. The Dodo must be gone too." Fuwa responded confidently.
Aruto sighed heavily as he heard that, removing his Key and Driver. 'Maybe...'
"Mr Hiden! Mr Hiden!" The director called out, running to him in a panic.
"What's wrong? Mr Director, what's wrong?" Aruto asked, trying to calm him down.
"It-It's Mr Owada. He-He's left the project!" The Director responded.
"...Eh?" Aruto's jaw dropped in shock. "HUUUUH?!"
To be continued
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