Doras walked slowly into the outskirts of the Valley, looking around as if he sensed something before he prepared his shoulder laser. Indeed there was someone watching him, appearing in the view of a red visor from high above, in the rocks.
Doras suddenly sensed something flying towards him as he moved out of the way just in time, a flashing red object that resembled an arrow just missing him! He growled up at the rocks as the same strange rider in black and silver armor with the red visor jumped down with its bow at the ready. A voice, surprisingly feminine sounding, echoed electronically from the rider's helmet. "How long are you going to keep wasting your power on defenseless dinosaurs?"
The rider readied herself to attack as Doras scanned her with his eyes, more diagrams coming into view as it addressed her in a deep growling voice. "Chalice…" (pronounced KAHL-EES) Chalice soon charged in afterward, launching a rapid fire array of energy arrows from her bow, before swinging the sharp bladed edges of her bow at Doras, who dodged most of the arrows and ducked around the bow swiping, giving her a backhand to the helmet as she fell on her back. Doras slowly approached Chalice, moving in for the kill before she suddenly reached in and grabbed a dagger from her belt, tossing it as the blade suddenly lodged itself in Doras' chest!
Doras roared in pain as he plucked the dagger out, clutching it as green blood began to ooze from the wound, while Chalice quickly leapt onto her feet releasing another rapid fire blast of arrows as Doras dodged them, clutching his chest still as he morphed into spherical form and fled the scene.
Chalice panted a bit as she watched Doras flee. "Well, that should keep him from coming back for a while…but what were those two other creatures?" She had come into the valley right in the middle of the fight involving Agito and Gillis, and thus did not know it was really Littlefoot and Shorty. Chalice then got onto all fours and transformed back into the form of a certain young female longneck not seen in the Valley for some time!
Ali morphed back completely from her new form. She had to learn most of her new abilities herself, since the grasshopper had never come to her for some reason. "I wonder if I should go in there?" she thought to herself as she looked into the valley, longing to see her friends again, especially Littlefoot. She shook her head a bit. "No…we haven't seen each other in years, and they'd be freaked out to know that I can change into one of these…things they've been seeing in there…" She sadly walked off, looking back every now and then…
"What the hell is going on here?" Mihara asked Takumi as they surveyed the planet Earth from above, not finding anything in orbit around it. "Isn't the professor's ship supposed to be in this area?" Takumi ran some deeper scans around the planet. "Well, it's been a really long time since we lost contact with him. Maybe he went someplace else and didn't tell anyone." Mihara shook his head. "But that doesn't sound like something a scientist would do. If he were going someplace else, he would have contacted somebody, in case something went wrong, so they would know where to locate him"
Takumi then looked at a screen. "Hold on a second…I'm getting a very faint signal…and it's coming from the planet's surface." Mihara looked right at Takumi. "Oh no…you don't think…" Takumi quickly interjected. "I don't know what to think…it's best not to start jumping to any conclusions at this point. He could simply have busted communications, or he could be dead. We won't know until we get down there and check it out." Mihara nodded, settling back into his seat as Takumi engaged the cloaking device on his ship and headed for the surface of Earth. "I hope to the great creator that he's alive…I don't even know what he was doing on that ship with that brand new computer of his…" He looked slightly worried at what he might discover there as he piloted his ship into the atmosphere.
Back in the Valley, Littlefoot and Shorty were by themselves in a secluded area, conversing with the grasshopper, which was sitting on a leaf nearby. Littlefoot had summoned the tiny robot by simply closing his eyes and concentrating on it, a new ability he had recently discovered.
"How may I serve you today?" The grasshopper asked them, as Shorty asked "Can you tell us more about what we have here?" Littlefoot nodded. "Yeah. In the last fight, I suddenly was able to change my form and use a new weapon for some reason." The grasshopper scanned Littlefoot and clicked a few times. "I do have some basic files on the suits you have inside of you. I will project them now…"
A light suddenly shot out of one of the grasshopper's eyes, displaying a diagram of Agito to Littlefoot. "You are the host to Mochizuki's series A101D Model, code name: Agito, after the famed guardian of light in Paxerian mythology. One of the professor's more advanced and complex models, this combat suit comes equipped with basic enhanced jumping and strength, as well as instinctive combat abilities. The defining feature of the Agito model is another innovation of the professor, known as the "Evolver" chip. The wearer of this suit, through experience in combat, will slowly learn to gain access to newer, more advanced forms of Agito, each with their own weapons and tactics."
"Wow" Littlefoot said to himself, as Shorty looked on, even more curious than before. "What about me? Which one do I have?"
The Grasshopper clicked a few more times, before a new diagram was displayed in front of the two. "You are the host to Mochizuki's series 655321B model, code name: Gillis, based on the mythical Paxerian lord of the forest from ancient times. This suit gives its wearer great swiftness, jumping abilities even greater than Agito's, and ten times the strength of one of your so called "Sharpteeth". The wearer is also given the abilities to form what the professor dubbed "organic" weapons, such as the blades that can appear on the hands and heels. However, there is one notable drawback to the Gillis design…"
Shorty looked slightly scared at what that might be. "And that would be…"
The Grasshopper continued. "The Agito suit is at full power when it's user is calm and focused. Gillis, however, is fueled by pure, animal rage. Just enough rage is sufficient to make Gillis an effective weapon, however, if the user relies too heavily on this rage, or lets his emotions get the better of him in a situation, he will go berserk, attacking almost anything that's in his way, even allies and friends…"
Shorty looked down and shook his head softly as Littlefoot looked over at him "Hey, don't worry. I'll be right there to make sure it never comes to that." Shorty nods slowly and smiles a bit, a bit unsure of how this will turn out, but has little choice in the matter now. "Thanks." Littlefoot looked back at the grasshopper "Are there any other suits this professor sent out?" The grasshopper clicked a few more times. "Yes, but they have not awakened yet, and there's one I will not be able to find myself, because it has a faulty transmitter that the professor never had a chance to repair."
Shorty just shrugged. "Well, that's ok, if we don't find him, he'll probably find us eventually." Littlefoot nodded slowly. "You're probably right…ok, I think that's all the information we can ingest for now." He addressed the Grasshopper as it clicked. "In that case, I shall leave again. Good luck in defending your home, young riders." It then turned and flew off as the two pondered over what they had now.
Mihara looked around on the surface of the "Mysterious Beyond" as the cloaked ship rested on the ground. "Are you sure you were reading that scanner right? I can't see anything out of the ordinary here…" Takumi stepped out as he held a miniature version of the scanner. "I swear, I saw a signal coming right from this location…"
Mihara looked at his partner. "Well, what is it saying now?" Takumi glanced a few more times, confused. "It's not picking up anything…" Mihara threw up his arms. "Oh great. Our equipment's malfunctioning now…" Takumi glared at him and shook his head. "What have I told you about jumping to conclusions?"
He continued to scan as Mihara sighed and calmed himself. "Sorry." Takumi talked as he scanned "A good agent keeps his cool at all times, Mihara. You'd do well to remember that."
Mihara nodded as he walked around the area a bit, trying to stay calm as a sphere suddenly floated down near Takumi, watching him use his scanner as he suddenly picked up something right behind him, and the device began beeping a warning. Takumi froze, and turned to see the sphere suddenly fly over to a space nearby and change, revealing the form of Doras! Mihara looked over and ran to the ship. "Takumi, hang on!" Takumi simply stood, in awe and frightened of this hulking creature as the voice of the Neo Organism echoed in his head. "You know very well I cannot have outside parties involved…kill them both!"
Doras growled and extended his hands, as balls of light arose from them, creating two hideous looking vampire bat monsters! They shrieked loudly as Takumi stood his ground, waiting for Mihara as he ran out with the two cases, tossing Takumi the red and silver one marked "Faiz".
"Takumi! Catch!" Takumi nodded as he caught the case, pulling out a utility belt and attaching it to his waist, pulling out a device that looked like a cell phone as he punched in the code number: 555. "Standing by…" a voice called out from the phone, as Takumi raised the phone and yelled "Henshin!" before attaching the phone to the belt buckle. Doras and the monsters watched as the phone said "Complete" and red photon streams shot out from attachments on the belt, wrapping around his body and changing it into a humanoid armored form, the armor silver with black coverings and red lines where the photon streams had gone, with big yellow eyes on the helmet with tiny horns on the top, taking the form of the warrior simply known as Faiz.
One of the bat monsters ran towards Faiz, who flicked his wrist after changing, swiping at him with its claws as Faiz ducked and nailed him with a few hard punches to the chest, his moves very rough and reminiscent of simple street fighting, as he sent the monster flying with a hard kick. Mihara was about to open up his case, as Faiz tossed him the handheld scanner. "No! Go off and figure this out yourself. I'll handle these guys!" Mihara nodded and ran to his bike onboard the ship, specially shaped for his Paxerian body as he revved it up and took off, getting away from the fight.
The one bat monster Faiz had nailed with a kick got up and flew away like a coward as Doras simply left Faiz to the other monster, which scored some quick hits on him with it's own claws, shrieking as it pinned him against a wall, about to try and sink its fangs into the armor on his neck, before he suddenly pulled back with his fist, and punched the creature in the gut, putting his fist through it's stomach and out through its back!
The creature shrieked in agony, as it was somehow still alive, stumbling as green blood flowed freely from the wound. Faiz then pulled a device resembling a metal tube, called the "Faiz pointer" from his belt, attaching to it to his right leg as the voice said "Ready." He then stood up and flipped open the phone on his belt, pressing the "Enter" button as the voice then said "Exceed Charge!" The bat creature then tried to ready itself for another attack, as Faiz jumped, somersaulted in mid-air, and extended his foot, a large red light shooting from the pointer and hitting the creature, holding it in place as he shot down in jump kick formation, hitting the spot on the creature that the pointer directed him to, and disappearing as he shot through the bat, appearing on the other side soon after in a flash of light. It was then that the creature shrieked one last time, as it went into a kind of arrest from the energy that shot through it, a huge red light in the design of the letter Phi appearing over it as it suddenly turned to dust and crumbled.
Takumi breathed heavily as he recovered, before getting onto his own bike and driving off, looking for Mihara as he hoped he was on the right path.
Meanwhile, Bron was in another part of the valley, enjoying some especially good leaves he found by himself, as he tended to do sometimes, unaware of the object flying towards him. He turned once he heard it screeching a bit, looking towards it. "What…What is that weird thing?…Oh no…" he soon realized it was probably another dangerous creature, trying to head off and warn the others before it suddenly latched onto him, sinking it's fangs into his neck!
Bron yelled out in pain as Shorty and Littlefoot sensed the creature's attack from far off. "Someone's in danger" Littlefoot said as he ran off with Shorty, before another flash came over his mind and he froze…"What? What is it?" Shorty asked him, before Littlefoot snapped back into reality. "I sensed something else…it's not too far from here, I should check it out. Go and take care of the other one!" Shorty stared at Littlefoot as he ran off, before going off on his own.
Bron wrestled to get the suckling bat off his neck, but it was no use, it was latched onto him too well, feasting on his blood. It would not turn him into a vampire or anything of the sort; he was just a simple meal to this bat. All seemed lost until something came from out of nowhere and hit the bat in its backside!
The bat shrieked and fell off of Bron, who soon grunted and fell over from exhaustion and blood loss, as the bat turned to see Ali as Chalice facing it! "We have enough problems with sharpteeth trying to eat us" she said in her echoing suit voice. "We don't need something disgusting like you making things more difficult!" The bat shrieked and took off flying, trying to get away before being hit with a barrage of energy arrows, falling back to the ground as Chalice ran over and slashed it across the chest a few times with her bow's sharp edges.
Chalice then got into a stance, and cried out as she pulled back her arm from the bow, energy building up in her hand as she used it to launch a big, dark red energy arrow, which sailed quickly across the clearing as the Bat creature tried to dodge it, finding out that it was a homing weapon quickly as it shot right into it, the sheer amount of energy causing it to keel over and explode almost instantly!
Ali, still in her Chalice suit, ran over to Bron, who wasn't moving. She discovered that he was still alive, but the attack drained him severely, and would leave him groggy for some time. "Hang in there…" she calmly said, patting Bron on the neck as she stood up.
It was right at this moment that Shorty ran in, finding his beloved guardian lying on the ground, looking like he was dead, and seeing a creature he had never seen before standing over him. Chalice didn't see Shorty as he just stared down at the downed longneck and quietly said "Bron…" his mind and heart swelling with emotion, quickly beginning to lose control of all rationality…
Seconds later, Chalice suddenly heard the sound of a young male crying out in rage, looking up and seeing a very angry Gillis running right towards her, his mind consumed in anger! He launched himself at her, catching her off guard with a flurry of kicks, making her drop her bow!
It was at this moment that Mihara stopped his bike in the distance, his hand scanner picking up something faint, yet unusual, as he began to pick up the energy output from what looked like two life forms engaged in combat. He then decided to prepare himself and check it out, putting down his case, and pulling out a utility belt like the one Takumi had…
As this was going on, Gillis and Chalice were fighting each other rapidly and heatedly, Chalice letting loose with some good punches, but didn't have much of an effect on Gillis, his body too powerful and unstable from all of his rage, as he jumped and hit Chalice with a double kick, before grappling with her, and tossing her upside down over his head with an impressive over the shoulders throw!…
Meanwhile, Littlefoot was still searching for the other being he sensed, suddenly seeing the image of a figure on a bike. Not knowing that this was Takumi/Faiz he sensed instead of a monster, Littlefoot promptly changed into Agito, getting onto a bike he made appear soon after from his belt and went charging off after Faiz, who was still on Mihara's trail…
Mihara soon slapped the belt onto him, and pulled out a slightly different device from Faiz's phone, looking like a small hand recorder with a numerical pad on it, as he entered his code: 333. A "Standing by" was heard as Mihara said "Henshin!" into the little microphone, jamming the device into the side of his belt as the voice said "Complete!", white photon streams shooting out from the belt and wrapping around his body, giving him a humanoid form as he was now covered in black armor with white stripes where the streams had gone, two large red eyes on the helmet. Mihara had now taken the form of the warrior called "Delta", getting onto his bike, and driving in the direction of the signals…
Chalice was still trying to fight off the Enraged Gillis, picking up her bow and firing energy arrows, which Gillis promptly chopped away from him with his extended claws, before kicking her away.
He then raised his fists, growling into the sky as the blades grew on his heels once more! He circled around Chalice a bit as he readied himself for his finisher, before finally taking to the sky, his foot raised high into the air as he approached her, letting out a deafening roar of pure rage as he started to bring down his deadly bladed foot…