Kusaka sat on a hilltop, far beyond the reaches of the valley, and away from those troublesome sharpteeth, as he fixed up a few scratches and dents on the Kaixa gear, which had been slightly damaged in his last fight with Faiz, and the mysterious warrior who appeared from out of nowhere.
He was not deterred by this setback one bit. "Once I've fixed this thing completely, I'm gonna go back, and I'll really raise some hell this time…" he growled under his breath as he adjusted a loose screw. "Those animals think they can keep repelling me just because fortune's been kind to them? They're wrong…"
He smiled just a little as he made the final adjustments to the Kaixa gear, adding little bits of extra energy with tiny amounts of battery power transferred from his bike.
He then heard a subtle noise. He quickly turned and looked around, as the sound was definitely that of footsteps, the steeps of feet in large boots.
Kusaka then finally turned to see the same warrior he had fought before, Leangle, standing a few feet away from him.
Instead of acting shocked, Kusaka simply let out a "Hm.." as he slowly got up and slapped the belt around his waist, his blaygun holstered on the side of it.
"And what, might I ask, brings you here?" He addressed the large armored figure in green and black.
Leangle responded in the voice of a bold young male. "You and I have a fight we never finished, and there's nothing I hate more than never finishing what I start."
Kusaka shook his head slowly as he walked down with the belt attached to him. "You sound like another cocky young warrior, not completely knowing what he's getting himself into." He then casually picked up the Kaixa driver and rolled it in his hands a bit. "You know, I've already killed someone on this planet, and I would hate to have to do it to someone else…unless of course you're just another animal, then I'd have no regrets about the matter whatsoever…"
Leangle breathed a bit heavily as he looked Straight at Kusaka. "Why?...why do you keep calling us animals?"
Kusaka gave him a serious look, realizing that Leangle was one of them under that suit. "Because that's what you are…you are wild, you are filthy, you are unable to comprehend what really goes on beyond your little world…you just exist, eating and procreating without a care in the world…you are animals, and it's about time you stop getting in the way of Paxerian affairs…"
He then entered the code on the Kaixa driver, 913, and pressed enter as a "STANDING BY" was heard in the same dark distorted voice, holding up the phone and saying "Henshin" calmly as he placed the driver into his belt. "COMPLETE"
The photon streams shot out as Leangle watched, the figure of Kaixa now standing in place of Kusaka.
Kaixa simply stood and motioned for Leangle to come. "Come on now, let's get this going quickly…I've got rations to heat up."
Leangle then pulled out his staff and extracted the tri-blade at the end of it, yelling out in rage as he ran towards the cocky warrior, who was ready for him this time. Just as Leangle was about to strike, Kaxia took out his blyagun and extracted the sword part, instantly slashing it at Leangle and slamming it into his armor!
Leangle grunted and fell back as Kaixa rolled his neck and shoulders a bit, before charging in and letting him have it with a series of quick slashes. Leangle blocked and defended each one as best he could, but it was clear he was no match now for the rested and prepared Kaixa, Who kicked him and sent him to his knees as he cocked the gun and fired with a spray of bullets.
Leangle rolled out of the way and brought up the other end of the staff, smashing Kaixa in the helmet before he could turn to fire more bullets! Kaxia grunted and lost the aim of his gun as Leangle dropped the staff and now used his powerful fists, smashing Kaixa in the chest numerous times as he also dropped his blaygun and caught Leangle's hands just as he was about to deliver more punches.
The two stood there, struggling against each other, trying to gain the upper hand before Kaixa finally saw an opening, and kneed Leangle right in the groin! Leangle yelled out in pain from the cheap shot, falling onto his side and curling up a bit as he grunted and breathed heavily in agony.
Kaixa caught his breath before picking up his blaygun and cocking it, aiming it at Leangle as he spoke, "A word of advice, animal…never fight if you're not willing to fight dirty."
He was just about to pull the trigger when something hot and painful hit him in the back! He yelled and jumped off to the side as he saw the figure of Garren standing behind him, holding up his smoking gun after having just fired a few bullets into his back.
"That's very good advice…" Garren stated, in a male voice, its tone somewhat lighter than Leangle's.
Kaixa looked over at Garren and hm'd softly. "Another one, eh?...just like vermin, you guys keep popping up…"
Kaixa looked down at Leangle, who was slowly getting back to his feet. "Don't think that fortune's going to keep smiling on you, animal…I suggest you don't charge me like that again unless you want an early death."
He then caught Leangle off guard with a hard uppercut, sending him back to the ground! He smiled a bit under his helmet as he kicked Leangle in the gut, before getting another bullet shot in his back, making him grunt with pain.
"Get the hell out of here!" Garren shouted, readying his gun for another shot.
Kaixa nodded slowly to Garren. "Very well…until next time, animals…" he then slowly walked off, taking his bike with him and leaving the scene.
Garren then ran over to Leangle, helping him up and calling out his real name, the identity under the suit.
"Rock!...You ok, buddy?"
Leangle then got on all fours as his suit making it vanish to reveal an adolescent three-horn underneath, who slowly nodded his head, not making his pain from the battle too big of a deal.
"Yeah…yeah, I'm just fine, Slick." Rock said, addressing Garren by his true name as well, as he shifted back into his true identity, that of an adolescent male duckbill.
Slick walked over to Rock and shook his head. "I told you, you had the element of surprise last time, and that's why you beat him then. If you keep trying to take this guy on yourself, you're gonna get killed. If you'd just let the others help you…"
Rock quickly interjected. "Slick, you know why we can't do that. The more the other warriors know us, the more the enemy's gonna know us. Right now they're more focused on defeating the others in the valley, and as long as we're outside of it, they can't locate us, since you shot off those homing device things on us."
Slick nodded slowly. "Yeah I remember, that grasshopper told us all about them when our powers awakened while we were just outside that valley…speaking of which, why did you have to smash him up like that?"
Rock sighed at this subject being brought up again. "Look, something like that grasshopper wasn't going to lie or keep secrets from the others. The most important thing to us right now is our cover, and we can't have anything or anyone trying to blow it. We need to maintain the element of surprise to help the others. It worked the first time with this Kaixa guy, and it also worked with you and those other bad guys, right?"
Slick nodded slowly "Yeah, it worked…but how long is this going to keep working, Rock? Huh? Answer me that…"
Rock looked out in the direction of the Valley. "As long as we can possibly keep it up…"
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Littlefoot in his Agito suit was prepping his bike to leave the area where the last battle took place, as Takumi walked up next to him in his Faiz suit, getting his own bike ready.
"You fought well out there." Faiz said to Agito.
"Thanks" Agito responded, smiling under his hemlet.
"That was amazing." Faiz mused. "I've seen you with the sword, and I've seen you with the staff, but I've never seen you use both at once. Your abilities seem to be evolving nicely."
Agito nodded as he stood next to his bike, back in his original gold form. "Yeah…it's like I have new instincts going into my brain all the time. How much further do you think I'll progress?"
Faiz chuckled a bit. "I'm not the professor Littlefoot, so I really can't tell you. You could progress further than anyone has even imagined. You could very well end up becoming the most powerful being on the earth."
Agito looked off into space for a moment. "Wow…that's kind of scary when you think about it. Having power has a lot of pressure you know…"
"Yeah, I know all about that pressure." Faiz said as he walked around Agito's bike. "It's enough to tear a lesser person apart…but I've gotta tell you, after what I've heard about you from some of your friends, you're definitely not a "lesser" person by any means."
Agito simply looked at Faiz and nodded. "Thanks Takumi…"
Faiz chuckled a bit. "Please…call me Tak."
As this was going on, Shorty approached Ali in her Chalice suit, still in his Gillis suit as he gently patted her on the shoulder happily.
"Hey…way to follow your instincts there, Ali." He told her, referring to her efforts to save him earlier with a well-placed arrow that could have hit him if she wasn't careful enough.
"Thanks" Ali responded. "I just did what you told me. I just shut off that part of my brain that told me to hold back. I'm just glad I got the arrow off well enough."
"Well you did, Ali, and my being here alive right now is proof of that, so good job." Gillis smiled.
Ali smiled too, and stole a quick hug from Shorty as he grunted a bit and looked on in confusion before she finally broke it off.
"What was that for?" Shorty asked, looking a little dumbfounded.
Ali just giggled a little bit as she looked at Shorty. "You know, you're a much sweeter guy than you let on Shorty, and I'm glad I got to see that part of you. You should learn to drop that tough-guy façade of yours a little more often."
Shorty just looked at her as she smiled and got on her bike, revving it up.
"Façade?...what's she talking about?..." He shook his head and chuckled at this notion, but Ali knew what she was talking about. He just wasn't admitting that she was right, as the entire group finally took off, heading back for the valley, hoping everything was still ok.
Back in the valley, Cera was standing around inside of Takumi's ship, waiting for Ducky as she could hear her going through all of Takumi's things.
"I can't believe I'm actually doing this…" Ducky sighed, going through the objects in the corner as she tried to appease her friend's curiosity.
"C'mon, just let me look at the thing for a minute, and then you can put it back without him ever knowing you got it out." Cera said, still waiting.
Ducky very carefully lugged out the case with the Delta Symbol. "I hope you can appreciate the fact that we're disturbing the memory of a dead person here." She then opened the case and took out the heavy, but lift able belt that the Delta driver went into.
"Here…now are you satisfied?"
Cera looked over the belt wide-eyed. "Very…" she smiled and looked over at some of the other things in the case. "Hey, what else is in there?..."
Ducky looked over the gun and other devices that belonged to the wearer of the Delta gear. "Whatever it is, it looks like dangerous stuff…we should probably put it all back."
Cera nodded slowly as Ducky began to put the belt back in the case, still holding onto the driver, before they suddenly heard a scream in the distance!
"What was that?" Cera asked as she and Ducky both ran out of the ship to see where the source of the screams was.
They immediately saw a female Duckbill running for cover, protecting her children as the figure of Lucia came walking towards them. In the distance, they also saw other dinosaurs lying on the ground, badly injured from getting in her way as she wielded her crescent-shaped sword.
Ducky gasped as she immediately recognized the Duckbill. "Mom!"
Her mother looked to her and responded, terrified. "Ducky! We're under attack here. Where are your warrior friends?"
Ducky shrugged and looked on, too scared to think of anything as Lucia looked over and saw that the young duckbill was holding the Delta driver in her hand.
"My goodness, what a coincidence…" She mused as she walked over to Ducky's area. "I happen to attack the mother of the one who has access to the Delta Gear." She then narrowed her gaze at Ducky. "Now, as long as I know it's here, why don't you be a good girl and hand it over to me?"
Ducky scoffed a bit as she clutched the driver in both of her hands. "And why would I want to do that?..."
Lucia looked over at her Mother and her sisters in the distance, gazing on in fear. "Because I have most of your family at my feet here, begging for mercy, and unless you comply, I'm going to start executing them one at a time…It's only fair since we lost Radia on this planet, and he was worth dozens of your pathetic lives…"
Ducky stood there with her eyes wide open as she heard this, unsure of what to do now as she suddenly heard Cera call out. "Ducky!...Catch!"
Cera now had the belt around her horn, tossing it off towards Ducky as she caught it.
"Ah good…" Lucia said, "It looks you creatures aren't completely unreasonable after all…" She reached out with her hand to take the belt and the driver, expecting Ducky to give it to her.
"You know what you have to do…" Cera said softly, under her breath so Lucia couldn't hear.
Ducky thought this whole thing over…she could have just run off and called Takumi, hoping for the best, but her family's life was at stake, and she wasn't sure if she wanted to take that kind of a risk and leave it to someone else…
She then shook her head slowly. "Sorry Takumi…I've got no other choice…"
Lucia then gasped as she saw Ducky slap the belt around her waist! "What do you think you're doing?"
Ducky flipped open the number pad and remembered the code: 333, as she looked over at Lucia. "You want this thing?...then come over here and take it!"
She then pressed the enter key as the familiar "STANDING BY…" was heard, along with a pulsing noise. She remembered what Takumi told her, holding the microphone up and saying "Henshin!" before sliding it into the side of her belt, causing the white photon streams to shoot out and wrap around her, changing her body shape painlessly as she was covered in armor quickly.
Cera and the others watched in amazement as the form of Delta now stood in place of Ducky, who now inhabited the suit. She looked at her hands, and felt along her form as Lucia sighed and shook her head at the young Duckbill.
"So you want to make this hard on yourself, eh?...very well…"
She then produced a cone-shaped container and spoke into it. "Go…Giga fighters." She threw the container into the air, as it burst into many bright lights, each of them landing on the ground and producing a robotic foot soldier with a single red eye in the center of the head, chittering electronically as they ran around Lucia.
"Keep an eye on the others…" Lucia told them. "Make sure none of them escape from me…"
The giga fighters obeyed her command, surrounding the other dinosaurs in the area as Lucia slowly walked towards Ducky, who was unsure of how to use this suit, getting into a shaky fighting stance before Lucia quickly dashed over and slashed her across the chest plate with her sword!
Ducky yelled in pain from the blow as her mother cried out. "Ducky, what do you think you're doing? Get out of there!"
Lucia threw the reluctant new Delta around like a rag doll, taking her out with a series of kicks and punches, along with some slashes from her sword that Ducky dodged as best she could. As this was going on, Cera noticed that her Father was in the area too, confronting the quick little Giga fighters as he tried to drive them away.
"Dad!" she yelled, running of to try and help him, as Ducky flailed at Lucia with her arms, trying to punch her, but not quite knowing how, as Lucia easily grabbed her arm, and judo flipped her over her head, pinning her to the ground with her foot!
"Are you through playing with me?" She asked Ducky, as she struggled under the weight of her strong foot, her Mother and sisters watching in terror as Lucia readied her sword.
As this was going on, Cera ran to where her father was, calling out his name as she tried to charge one of the Giga fighters, only to be met with a sharp kick in the head! She was thrown three feet by the blow as her father looked on and yelled.
"Cera! Don't do anything rash! I can handle these guys!" He then saw them turning their attentions to Cera as Doras suddenly appeared in front of her, growling loudly.
"You stay away from her!" he yelled as a group of Giga fighters ran over and grabbed a hold of his legs and horns, using their own tremendous strength to restrain him as Doras walked over to Cera, looking at her as she backed away slowly.
"What in the world do you want with me?" she asked, as Doras extracted his shoulder laser, and fired! Cera quickly dodged the blast with a speed she never knew she had before, looking herself over. "What the?.."
She dodged a few more blasts before two Giga fighters grabbed her and restrained her as well.
As this was occurring, Ducky reached to the number pad on the Delta driver, entering random code numbers in the hopes of finding something as Lucia held her down, hearing an "ERROR…" from the driver every time she pressed the enter key.
"This really is pointless…" Lucia told her. "But if you insist on dying in this fashion, so be it."
She brought up her sword, ready to finish her off with it, before Ducky finally found a code that worked, simply pressing: 111, then enter. Just as Lucia was bringing down the sword, the voice called out "A.I MODE" and Ducky's arms suddenly shot up to catch Lucia's, stopping her!
Lucia gasped, then grunted in surprise, as Ducky followed a whole new set of impulses being shot to her brain through the driver, brining up her leg and kicking Lucia off of her! Lucia cried out from the force of the kick, falling away from Ducky as she quickly got onto her feet and withdrew the pistol from her belt, firing it at Lucia as she deflected the blasts with her sword. She then charged towards Ducky, ready to strike again before Ducky caught her arm, and backhanded her across the helmet, tossing her aside!
"How is this possible?" Lucia asked herself as she got back on her feet, as Ducky's family watched on in utter shock at their daughter's sudden improvement.
Meanwhile, Cera's father could only struggle and watch as his daughter was being held down by the two Giga fighters. Cera struggled and struggled, wondering why this strange creature was only targeting her now. She had seen this before with Littlefoot, and that was because…
"Wait a minute…" a flash came over her as she suddenly realized something and smiled widely…
Doras was about to finish her off with a well-placed laser, before Cera suddenly threw off the two giga fighters with great strength, avoiding the blast!
"Cera!" Her father yelled, in awe of the great display of strength as she turned to the fighters and Doras with a smile, a strap suddenly wrapping around her waist and attaching to a belt buckle that simply appeared in the middle of her body, with a spade symbol in the center.
"Sorry ugly…" she said to Doras. "Looks like you're a little too late…again!" She turned her front foot a bit and said "Henshin!" as her father looked on in absolute amazement.
She transformed almost instantly, gaining a humanoid form inside of the suit, which was silver with blue mesh all round, her helmet crowned with a single sharp horn on the top from the forehead, as two big red eyes protruded from the helmet, glowing as a sword was holstered at her side, her chest plate displaying the same spade symbol at the bottom.
"Blade…" Doras growled, sounding out the name of the last hidden suit.
"Correct…" Cera responded, finally awakening to her true power as her father watched on, simply speechless as she took out her sword and slashed it at the giga-fighters that had restrained her before, slicing open the chest of one before spinning and decapitating the other with great speed, sparks flying as Doras simply watched.
Ducky was too busy fighting Lucia in the Delta suit to realize what had happened to Cera, blocking and ducking the kicks and slashes from her opponent before catching one of her legs and throwing her off to the side. As Lucia grunted and got back up, Ducky took off , running towards her and jumping onto her shoulder with one leg, using the other to kick her right in the back of the head, springing off the impactor in the process!
Lucia cried out in pain as Ducky/Delta somersaulted and landed right on her feet, before looking over and seeing the giga fighters ganging up on her family. She gasped and took advantage of Lucia's momentary fatigue, running to the case with the Delta gear, and taking out a few more weapons, including a rather impressive looking rifle.
Doras looked on as some more Giga fighters ganged up on Cera/Blade, sizing her up as she suddenly reached into a pocket on her belt and whipped out a sharp dagger, throwing it at a giga fighter, and making it go right into the robot's single red eye, as it fell, sputtering. The others charged her as she fell to the ground spinning, slicing through three of them with her sword, and kicking a fourth one as she got back onto her feet.
Blade charged up energy in her sword hand as another fighter charged her, only to be met with a powerful bolt of electricity that she shot from her sword, taking the robot out of commission immediately.
There were still three more fighters left though, as they all teamed up on her with three simultaneous jump kicks, knocking her back as she grunted and got back up, growling a bit at the fighters.
"Ok…playtime's over!" she shouted, before charging up the same energy from before in her feet this time as she raised her sword and jammed it into the ground. She then made sure all three fighters were together as she took off, leaping over her sword, somersaulting, and yelling out in rage as she extended her foot, glowing with the blue energy as it smacked into the chest of one giga fighter, energy bolts shooting out from the point of impact and crashing into the other two as Cera jumped back from the kick and landed on her feet, watching all of the robots fall and explode from the surge of energy.
Lucia made another effort to take down Delta, shooting her own bolts of energy from her fingers as Delta simply doged them and shot at her with her rifle, seeing an opening as the laser smacked her right in the chest! Lucia screamed as she fell back from the force, allowing Delta to run towards her family and shout out in anger, firing another laser, careful not to hit her family as it smashed into the head of one giga fighter, making it's head explode!
The other robots took notice, and all ran over to Delta, as she aimed and readied herself to shoot, but still not wanting to hit her family by accident. So she decided on another tactic.
She reached into her belt, and pulled out a square-shaped device, which fit perfectly over her right hand on the suit. She then pulled a power source from the Delta driver, and slipped it into a slot on the center of the device, promptly kicking away one giga fighter as the voice said "READY" on her driver.
A giga fighter tried to catch her with a roundhouse kick as she dropped down and sent it onto its back with a well placed sweep, while another tried to kick at her from above while she was still down, before she suddenly sprung off her hand and kicked it right in the helmet, keeping them all at bay as she got back up.
She then pressed the enter key on the driver as the familiar "EXCEED CHARGE" was heard, a flash of energy traveling to the device on her right hand. She then ran towards one of the giga fighters in the group, as the device beeped slowly, before gradually beeping faster and faster as she got closer to her enemy.
She then ducked and delivered a hard punch to the robot as a flash suddenly came over both of them, time almost seeming to slow down at the point of impact as the triangular Delta symbol appeared in the back of the giga fighter. It was at this point that things suddenly sped back up, the punch SMASHING hard into the chest of the giga fighter as it broke apart and smashed into all the other giga fighters, causing a huge chain reaction as they all tumbled and rolled across the valley before finally exploding into a massive fireball!
Doras helped Lucia back to her feet as this was happening, growling a bit as she looked on at all the destroyed giga fighters. "Well…it seems we've underestimated our enemies once again…let's see if Logia or your creator has any more bright ideas…" Doras just growled as they both left the scene to regroup back on the ship.
Delta finally saw Blade as the two looked at each other for a moment, while all the curious dinosaurs around them went in for a closer look.
Cera was absolutely ecstatic about what they had accomplished "Hey, Ducky! We did it, hahaha! Girl power!" she laughed
Delta tilted her head. "Cera?...is that really you?...you've got one of those suits now?"
Blade nodded quickly as she walked down to meet with her friend. "Nothing gets by you, huh?"
"Nope, nope, nope." Ducky shook her head as she laughed, their hands meeting in a sort of high fiver gesture as Agito, Faiz, Gillis, and Chalice all drove in on their bikes, all of them very surprised at what they saw.
"What in the world is going on here?" Takumi asked, very shocked to see someone else using the Delta Gear as Ducky took out the driver and pressed the cancel button, changing back in front of him.
"I'm sorry Takumi." She said "But things got too dangerous for me to just stand back and watch.
"Ducky!" Agito called out as he shifted back into Littlefoot, getting off his bike and walking towards her, before staring at Blade. "Wait a minute…who's this?"
"What's wrong Littlefoot? Don't recognize your own friends anymore?" Cera chuckled as she shifted back to her true self in front of him.
Ali immediately shifted back from her Chalice suit as she walked towards the group. "Cera?...you're one of us too?"
Cera Nodded as Shorty quickly ditched his Gillis suit, walking over curiously as Takumi shifted back to his true form as well, looking out over the remains of the busted giga fighters.
"Ok…just what happened here while we were away?"
Cera just smiled as she sat. "I thought you'd never ask…gather round, and I'll tell you all about it."
The others quickly complied as they gathered to hear what the new heroes had just accomplished.
Back on the enemy ship, Logia walked in to see some interesting activity going on in the main control room for the Neo-Organism. Most of the computers seemed to be analyzing something, as the physical manifestation of the super-computer emerged from the green screen, looking at him.
"Is there something you needed?" the being asked, as Logia looked at the object that was being scanned.
"What exactly is this, just out of curiosity?"
The Neo-organism smiled a bit. "This is a rather interesting piece of one of the dead creatures from this planet. Doras brought it to me earlier on my request."
Logia looked over the object, which he know realized was a bone. "And just what is so interesting about this particular bone?...what relevance does this have to what we're after?..."
"You will know in due time…" The Neo Organism responded. "Now of you could please leave me to my studies…"
Logia nodded and slowly walked away "Very well…but let's hope you don't intend to simply study forever…"
The Neo-Organism ignored the comment as he sunk back into the screen, scanning the DNA structure of the bones as some readings came up on a screen nearby:
SPECIMEN AGE: Not yet determined.
SPECIES: Earth creature. Saurapod.
GENDER: Female.