"Are you okay?" Honoka asked. "That looked tough."
"Tell me about it." Lightseeker muttered as she walked past Honoka.
It took them another five minutes of walking before they were at the top of a large vertical tunnel. The pipe was bolted to the top of it and went through a hole in the center of a fan at the end of the tunnel.
"Now what?" Lightseeker asked.
"This will lead you to the generator." Honoka explained.
"How do I get down there?" Was Lightseeker's question.
"First off, I cannot follow, from the real world, this is a solid floor." Honoka pulled out what looked like an egg timer.
"Is that an egg timer?" Lightseeker asked.
"It's a channel for my power." Honoka replied.
"What are you going to do with it?" Lightseeker asked.
"You jump, I twist." Honoka explained.
Lightseeker looked down the tunnel and then back at Honoka. "Are you serious?"
"Trust me." Honoka pleaded.
*RING! RING!*
"Hold that thought." Honoka walked a few paces away and pulled out her phone. "Yeah?"
"..."
"Eli? What's wrong?"
"..."
"Slow down! I can't understand you!"
"..."
"WHAT?!"
Lightseeker jumped at the shout.
"Are you sure?!"
"..."
"Okay, thanks." Honoka hung up and walked over to Lightseeker. "Change of plans. I'm coming with you."
"Okay." Then Lightseeker realized what Honoka had just said. "WHAT?!"
Honoka pulled out a knife and drew a circle on her palm. Suddenly, she was in Limbo. She leapt over the edge of the pipe.
"Honoka, are you crazy?!" Lightseeker jumped after her.
Honoka turned the egg timer and the tunnel switched from vertical to diagonal. She turned it a second time and now the tunnel was straight.
"Honoka, you know how dangerous it is in here!" Lightseeker shouted as she caught up.
Honoka held her hands around her waist and in a silver flash, a Driver appeared. It was a silver belt with a gameboy-shaped buckle on the front of it. It had two small buttons, one above the other. A plus pad, an A button and a B button.
This is the Rescue Force Driver.
"Wait, your-?!" Lightseeker gasped.
Honoka reached into her pocket and pulled out a dagger. It was colored dark-blue with a triangle-shaped blade and a black handle. Written on the side of the blade was the word 'SPEED WARRIOR' in grey text.
This is the Speed Warrior Dagger.
She slammed it into her driver's slot. [SPEED WARRIOR!] The screen lit up, displaying a gray figure that looked like a female on roller skates with a breathing mask. [SET UP!] Honoka slammed her right thumb on her driver's fisr button. "HENSHIN!" Starting her transformation. [BUILD UP!]
Dozens of holographic screens appeared around Honoka. When they vanished she was wearing a black bodysuit that covered everything from the neck down. She wore white boots that stopped just before her knees and white gloves that stopped just before her elbows.
Then three circles appeared around her, the middle one was straight but the other two were at an angle, forming an X. Pieces of armor shot out of the circles that shot on to her.
Now she wore gray armor. It covered the top of her boots with a wheel on either side of her heels. Armor wrapped around her lower legs and the front of her knees, her upper legs and the outside of her hips.
Streamlined armor also coated her chest. Her shoulders were coated in shoulder pauldrons that curved down. Arm guards wrapped around her lower arms.
Her head was covered by a grey helmet with a black V shaped visor. Honoka's mouth was protected by a gray breathing mask with a tube that lead down to her chestplate.
In a holder on the right side of her belt was a white firearm. It looked like a white pistol with a black stock, barrel and the front of the handle was black.
Honoka had transformed into Kamen Rider Warrior, Speed Translation. [THE WARRIOR OF SPEED LEAVES HER OPPONENTS IN THE DUST!] She was armed with the Five Blaster.
"Since when were you a Kamen Rider?!" Lightseeker shouted.
"Years ago." Warrior replied.
The two of them jumped over a gap that suddenly opened in the pipe.
"Then why did you never tell me?" Lightseeker demanded. "For that matter, why have I been fighting alone all this time?!"
Pitch-black rocks formed into barriers.
"I will gladly explain after we've beaten this Gurongi." Warrior shot back.
"You'd better." Lightseeker replied.
A new type of Drone Gurongi burst from the ground.
It looked like a humanoid rhino that had a spike along each of its knuckles.
This is a Rhino Drone Gurongi.
Let the battle begin!
Lightseeker used her right hand to remove the Lightning Element Dagger from the Kuuga Driver's slot, turning off the driver's light. The dagger vanished in a blue flash and was replaced by the Tech Order Dagger. Lightseeker loaded it into her driver's slot. [TECH!] The light turned back on, now displaying the Tech Setting. "HENSHIN!" Lightseeker used her left hand to hit her driver's button. [TRANSLATE!] Transforming from the Storm Order Lightning Element into the Tech Order. [TRANSLATION CONFIRMED!]
Lightseeker took the Tech Order Dagger out of the Kuuga Driver's slot with her left hand, turning off the light. The dagger vanished in an orange flash and the Animals Element Dagger appeared in a mid green flash. She loaded it into her driver's slot. [ANIMALS!] The driver's light turned back on. Now it displayed an orange background with a mid green paw in front of it.
This is the Tech Animals Setting.
"HENSHIN!" Lightseeker tapped her driver's button with her right thumb. [TRANSLATE!] Starting her transformation.
A green paw logo appeared in the center of her torso armor.
The Tech Gun shifted so that it was now a white shotgun with a green barrel.
Kamen Rider Lightseeker had transformed into the Tech Order Animals Element. [TRANSLATION CONFIRMED!] She was armed with the Tech Gun Animals Mode.
Lightseeker pushed her driver's button once. [PRE BIG BANG TRANSLATION!] She fired a green eagle construct from her visors. The Rhino Drone Gurongi punched the eagle, destroying it.
Warrior pushed her driver's up arrow. [UP!] She shot forwards. The Drone Gurongi punched at where her head was. Warrior dropped into a sliding kick and kicked up, hitting the Drone Gurongi in the chin, throwing it into the sky. "Hit it!"
Lightseeker summoned the Tech Gun and pushed her driver's button twice. [POST BIG BANG TRANSLATION!] She fired a wolfs that turned into energy pins, pinning the Drone Gurongi to the side of the pipe.
As the pins faded away, Lightseeker pushed her driver's button three times. [CAVE WOMAN TRANSLATION!] She stomped on the ground and time around the Drone Gurongi slowed down.
Kamen Rider Warrior pushed her driver's A button. [A!] She leapt into the air as her body was coated in gray energy. She shot forwards, slamming her boot into the Drone Gurongi several times, causing the Rhino Drone Gurongi to explode.
Battle ended!
"So how about some answers?!" Lightseeker demanded.
"We only have a few minutes before the tunnel turns vertical again!" Warrior stalled.
Before Lightseeker could say anything, she jumped to a floating platform and then to the next section.
Pitch-black rocks formed into barriers.
An Alpha Wolf Drone Gurongi burst from the ground.
"We don't have time for this!" Lightseeker shouted.
Let the battle begin!
Lightseeker removed the Animals Element Dagger from the Kuuga Driver's slot with her right hand, turning off the light. She switched to the Storm Order Dagge and slammed it into the driver's slot. [STORM!] The light turned back on, now displaying the Storm Setting. "HENSHIN!" Lightseeker tapped her driver's button. [TRANSLATE!] Transforming from the Tech Order Animals Element into the Storm Order. [TRANSLATION CONFIRMED!]
Warrior pushed down on her driver's plus pad. [DOWN!] She shot forwards and spun into a spinning kick, spinning like a top. The Alpha Wolf Drone Gurongi blocked with its claymore sword.
Lightseeker tapped her driver's button three times. [CAVE WOMAN TRANSLATION!] She stomped on the ground, zipped around behind the Drone Gurongi and stomped again. The Drone Gurongi was about to slash down through Warrior when it was fired into the sky by a pair of geysers.
The Drone Gurongi turned in the air and slashed down, firing a vertical crescent of black energy. Lightseeker zipped to the right, avoiding the attack and pushed her driver's button twice. [POST BIG BANG TRANSLATION!] She fired five lightning bolts from each hand. The Drone Gurongi landed on the ground and deflected it.
Warrior tapped the left button on her driver's plus pad. [LEFT!] She flipped back, firing a vertical gray energy blade that slammed into the Gurongi, throwing it towards Lightseeker.
Lightseeker pushed down on the dagger. [STORM!] She tapped her driver's button. [FULLY TRANSLATION!] She was coated in blue energy that was pulled into her palms as she shot forwards in a burst of lightning. She appeared in front of the Alpha Wolf Drone Gurongi and threw both hands forwards. "LIGHTNING STRIKE!" Two beams of lightning roared out of her hands, blasting the Drone Gurongi to pieces.
Battle ended!
"We have to keep moving!" Warrior ran past Lightseeker. She jumped to a branch coming off the main pipe, then to another one. She leapt to a third branch and then back down to the tunnel.
"Is is just me, or did that look like a tree?" Lightseeker landed behind her and looked up at the pipe.
"Yeah, I guess I can see it." Warrior looked up.
Pitch-black rocks formed into barriers.
"But I can definitely see that!" Warrior looked back down.
A Fire Porcupine Drone Gurongi exploded out of the ground.
Let the battle begin!
[TECH!] "HENSHIN!" [TRANSLATE!] [TRANSLATION CONFIRMED!] Lightseeker shifted into the Tech Order.
Lightseeker glared at the Fire Porcupine Drone Gurongi and pushed her driver's once. [PRE BIG BANG TRANSLATION!] A explosions happened in front of the Drone Gurongi, but it blocked with its shield.
Warrior pushed the right button on her driver's plus pad. [RIGHT!] She ran around behind the Drone Gurongi and slammed her elbow into the back of its head.
In response, the Drone Gurongi stabbed the ground, forming a dome of fire around it that expanded, throwing Warrior backwards. Lightseeker hit her driver's button three times. She formed the Tech Gun in its multi barrel chaingun mode and fired. [CAVE WOMAN TRANSLATION!] A barrage of bullets slammed into the Drone Gurongi, it blocked with its shield but the shield shattered after the first several hundred hits.
Warrior, still on her back, pushed the up button on her driver. [UP!] She drew the Five Gun and fired twenty blasts from it, striking the Drone Gurongi from behind.
The Drone Gurongi spun around and raised its sword at Warrior. Lightseeker pushed down on the Tech Order Dagger. [TECH!] She hit her driver's button. [FUTURE TRANSLATION!] Orange energy exploded from her body and was pulled into her right fist. "EXPLOSION BEAM!" Lightseeker punched forwards, firing an orange beam. It slammed into the Fire Porcupine Drone Gurongi from behind and exploded, destroying it.
Battle ended!
"Let's keep moving!" Warrior ran to the edge of the pipe as another gap opened. She leapt to a floating piece that was vertical and kicked it, making it turn horizontal.
She ran off it and leapt to another floating pieces before jumping up to a branch and then hopping over to a piece of solid tunnel.
The tunnel was starting to shake.
Warrior took out her egg timer. "We don't have much time left!"
"How do you know that?" Lightseeker landed next to her.
Pitch-black rocks formed into barriers.
"I'll explain when we are out of this tunnel!" Warrior shot back.
An Ice Porcupine Drone Gurongi exploded out of the ground.
Let the battle begin!
Lightseeker used her right hand to remove the Tech Order Dagger from the Kuuga Driver's slot, turning off the driver's light. She switched the Tech Order Dagger with the Dread Order Dagger and slammed it into the driver. [DREAD!] The driver's light now displayed the Dread Setting. "HENSHIN!" Lightseeker tapped the driver's button. [TRANSLATE!] Transforming from the Tech Order into the Dread Order. [TRANSLATION CONFIRMED!]
Warrior pushed down on her driver's plus pad. [DOWN!] She leapt into the air, drawing the Five Gun and fired ten shots from it. The Ice Porcupine Drone Gurongi blocked with its shield.
Lightseeker pushed her driver's button twice as she summoned the Dread Kunai, turned it into its bomb mode and threw it. [POST BIG BANG TRANSLATION!] The bomb slammed into the Drone Gurongi and relased a cloud of poisonous smoke that let Warrior retreat.
Warrior pushed the left button. [LEFT!] She ran around the Drone Gurongi, blurring into a circle of gray light as she fired blast after blast at it. The Drone Gurongi stabbed the ground, freezing it and causing Warrior to fall over.
Lightseeker pushed her driver's button three times. [CAVE WOMAN TRANSLATION!] She threw her Dread Kunai into the tunnel's shadow. Ten Dread Kunai's shot out of the Drone Gurongi's shadow, badly damaging it.
Warrior pushed her driver's B button. [B!] She leapt forwards, jumping onto her hands and spun several times, kicking the Ice Porcupine Drone Gurongi enough times that it exploded.
Battle ended!
The shaking had gotten worse.
"We have less than a minute left!" Warrior jumped over a gap that appeared in the tunnel and ran for it.
Another gap opened in the tunnel, but she leapt up to a branch coming off the main pipe and then leapt forwards, landing back on solid ground.
More pitch-black rocks formed into barriers.
"They really want us dead." Lightseeker landed next to Warrior.
A Swordfish Drone Gurongi burst out of the ground.
Let the battle begin!
Lightseeker used her right hand to remove the Dread Order Dagger from the Kuuga Driver's slot, turning off the driver's light. She switched the dagger for the Mountain Order Dagger and slammed it into her driver's slot. [MOUNTAIN!] The driver's light turned back on, revealing the Mountain Setting. "HENSHIN!" Lightseeker struck her driver's button. [TRANSLATE!] She shifted from the Dread Order to the Mountain Order.
[TRANSLATION CONFIRMED!]
Lightseeker shifted the Mountain Hammer into its axe mode and pushed her driver's button once. [PRE BIG BANG TRANSLATION!] The Swordfish Drone Gurongi revved up its chainsaw and charged. Lightseeker slashed down, countering the chainsaw.
Warrior pushed her driver's right button. [RIGHT!] She skated up a wall and jumped off it, firing multiple energy blasts down at the Drone Gurongi, letting Lightseeker break through its guard and slash down through it.
The Drone Gurongi roared and spun around, swinging at Lightseeker. Who hit her driver's button twice. [POST BIG BANG TRANSLATION!] She placed both hands on the ground and formed a wall of rock, blocking the attack and causing the Drone Gurongi's chainsaw to get stuck in it.
Warrior landed on the ground and hit her driver's A button. [A!] She shot forwards at high speed and kicked the Swordfish Drone Gurongi in the back, destroying it.
Battle ended!
The tunnel was now shaking really badly.
"We only have a few seconds left!" Warrior ran off the edge of the tunnel. She leapt to one of the pipes branches, then to another before jumping back down.
Now she was in front of the fan.
She kicked open a hatch door and dived in.
The tunnel started to return back to its vertical form.
"Huh, that really was an egg timer." Lightseeker jumped into the hatch and it swung closed.
The two Kamen Riders started to run through a narrow tunnel.
"Huh, what a stink." Lightseeker grunted.
"Yeah, the fuel that the Gurongi's use to power the generator isn't exactly air freshener." Warrior admitted.
The tunnel widened into a giant room. The pipe came down from the ceiling and lead into a black tank. The tank was full of what looked like oil and had several pipes coming from it that lead to black machines were spewed out dirty smoke.
"So I'm guessing this is the generator?" Lightseeker pointed.
"Yep." Warrior nodded.
"Let's get smashing!" Lightseeker leapt towards the generator.
"Carly, wait!" Warrior shouted.
It was too late.
A beam of energy slammed into Lightseeker, knocking her to the ground.
Warrior jumped down. "It's nice to see you again, sister." She said coldly.
Another Kamen Rider walked out from behind a machine.
She wore a black bodysuit with white elbow high gloves and white knee high boots. She wore thick gray armor over her boots and hands. Thick brown armor covered the rest of her body except her chest and head. Thick red armor coated her chest and her head was covered by brown armor that had rock like bumps on it. Her eyes were coated by narrow horizontal yellow visors. Around her neck was black collar that looked out of place. Around her waist was a Rescue Force Driver.
She was Rider Gurongi RockStone Warrior.
"Wait," Lightseeker stumbled out from behind a machine, pulling a bucket off her head. "Since when did you have a sister?!"
Pitch-black rocks formed into barriers.
Separating the two Kamen Riders.
A new type of Drone Gurongi jumped out of Lightseeker's side of the barriers.
It was identical to a Rhino Drone Gurongi. But it was coated in black leather armor.
This is a Rhino Gurongi.
Let the battle begin!
Next time!
To be continued!