Stage 7: Big Fruit of the Warrior!?
Note: I do not own Infinite Stratos or Kamen Rider
Things have been different for the I.S Academy when Katsuo arrived here it was awkward to be here in the school of girls. Except for Ichika who's been in this school for months. However, it looks like everything is fine with him as Chifuyu strictly forbids every student not to bother him in his schoolwork and be kind of Katsuo around. Even though his a visitor, he still in school at the mainland which makes Katsuo better.
However, three I.S students will not comply with this as they still believe that Katsuo's the one who keeps invading this academy.
Right now, Katsuo is at the cafeteria with Maya as she's her job is to help him with his homework, however, some students were spying on them making it hard for him to focus.
"Look, you got a question right!" Maya said happily.
And as for Katsuo, he dumb straight with eyes narrowed blank. "I know I'm fifteen, right," he tells Maya his age, but she just smiled with his mouth opened as she rubbed his top his causing him to grumble.
"I'm getting tired of this" Katsuo muttered as he was about to get back to work when he turns around and sees is nothing.
"Katsuo, is something wrong?" Maya asked as she noticed looking at something.
"Nothing, I thought someone was there" he replied before getting back to his homework.
But what he didn't know is that someone is spying on him as this person has some sort of grudge against him. The figure was a female in this academy as she glares at Katsuo noticed.
"You are a false sibling to the Orimura, and you don't deserve to live" she muttered darkly as she clutched her fist and grit her teeth.
Playing Just Live More by Shōnan no Kaze
The scene starts with four riders, Gaim, Baron, Ryugen, and Zangutsu posing back to back with their weapons in their hands, as the camera focuses on Gaim.
Then the next scene change with Helheim forest vines vanishes as the as it only leaves an object behind as every weapon smash and slash it revealing to be a title.
Infinite Gaim
(Got to move….wow!)
(Don't say no! Just live more! Don't say no! Just live more!) the scene showcases all four riders in a dojo with samurai armour for display. Then the scene focuses on Gaim as he pointed his Musou saber at the camera while he reflects on his original self shows of Katsuo.
(Survival you gotta move. Gendai wa sanagara sengoku) Katsuo watches the sunset as on his back pocket is his orange Lockseed before turning around just before he passes through the hallucination of Gaim.
(Dare ga kachi nukekru? Kagi wa akerarete shimata, {Don't say no! Just live more!}) then the scene display Ryoga in a dark warehouse sitting on the box as he clutches both of his hands hard while his banana Lockseed place next to him just as hallucination of Baron stand behind him. Then the scene charge showcasing scene two split sides screen of Katsuo and Ryoga with their respective colors and rider forms in the back posing.
(Doko ni aru Don't say no! Just live more!) then next scene shows Ichika and Houki standing before Suzuki and Hakaru were next while their riders form posing in the back as Chifuyu crosses her arms with her own rider from behind her.
(Dou tsukau? Kindan no kajitsu) the rider appearing with their respective Lockseed at the back in split screens. The scene changes as Baron rides on his bike as Gaim in the Suika armor yoroi before changing in gyro mode and flies up when Baron rides under him. Then it shifted the scene as Gaim, Baron, and Zangetsu active their belt.
(Imu to iu kaze wa) as Katsuo transform into Kamen Rider Gaim and prepare for battle.
(Nani wo tsutaeru tame. Okame ko motoki fuku.) then it showcases a battle between Gaim versing all of the IS pilot at the IS Academy battleground.
(Tsuyoku! Tsuyoku! Blowin' up) just as Ichika in his Byakushiki joins in as he Gaim and Baron stare at each other and charges towards each other as they clash.
(Ashita ga, Yume ga, mada miekakute mo) Ryugen firing at the cage until it collapses. Then Zangetsu spins around as unleash green slash at the front with his shield up. Then a blonde girl that looks like Chifuyu but shorter stand on a hill with the sun behind her as he reaches out her hand at the camera.
(Soko genkai seiipei! Ikite iru to ieru kara) this scene shows Gaim armour, Lockseed, and the bracelet of the Byakushiki on the ground. As the scene changes as Gaim and Ichika past by each other while staring eye to eye. The next scene shows the banana armor and Lockseed on the ground just as Ryoga lets out a roar and actives his Baron knight.
(Utsumuku ka yo {Kao wo agero} doko made memo {Mageru koto naku}) Baron charges down and slashes the Inves at Helheim forest as he poses. Then it showcases Ryugen Budou armor, Shenlong bracelet, Melon armor, Rafale Revive Custom II pendant, and the Pine armor, Blue Tear earring on the ground with their respective Lockseed as well.
(Shinjita michi wo yoke {just live more!}) in each area of the Kamen Rider posing as Zangetsu stands in a dojo, Baron stage show, Ryugen on a building top, and finally Gaim in a forest with cherry blossom glowing a pond. Then Katsuo lets out a roar as he throws out his fist and punches it in front of the camera.
(Don't say no! Just live more!) the final scene takes place as the camera focuses on Gaim, riding a horse and rush into battle.
It was a nice day at the I.S Academy as everyone is at the field arena practicing in their I.S, however for Ichika, things aren't going well as Houki, Rin, and Cecilia are teaching him how to control the I.S properly.
"What I'm trying to say is that you have to do it like whoosh, clang, dang and then you know!"
"You understand what she's getting at right, it about your feelings. Ah, why don't you understand you moron!"
"For defence, tilt your right-side forward at a five-degree angle. When you maneuver til backward at a twenty-degree angle."
Unfortunately, all of them teaching him differently as Ichika just stood there with his eyes closed while in his I.S, the Byakushiki, as he can't understand all of it with his dense head. "Let me be honest with all of you," he muttered as he can't take any more of this, "I DON'T GET IT!"
"Why don't you get it!" Houki hollered at him.
"Yeah, just pay attention like you're supposed to do!" Rin agrees.
"I'll explain it to you one more time," Cecilia said as she repeatedly explains to Ichika of defence.
Giving Ichika a sigh as he can't take another this.
Meanwhile, inside the control room, Katsuo is there with Chifuyu and Maya as he watches this on the screen with Ichika on it.
"Wow, Ichika's not doing well at this is it," Katsuo asked Chifuyu.
"Ichika a pain in the butt ever since he arrived, however, he is our brother after all" Chifuyu said to him as Maya looks at her with a smile expression on her face.
"I guess you're practically right, but are you sure bring him here is a good idea. I mean I get why he here, however, he's not much thinker" Katsuo points out.
"I understand Katsuo but Ichika is the first male to ever piloting an I.S system. So bring him here is the only option" Maya explained. "But if we understand why he was able to control it will understand."
Katuso understands before he started walking when Chifuyu asked. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going back to the room" Katsuo replied.
"Alright, but don't disturb the other students while practicing, got it" Katsuo nodded before walking out of the room.
As he left the control room Katsuo walks down the hallway with his hand on his back head. However, he looks around the area before he recognized some of it when he came here two times as Gaim. and even though he knows this place, he only came in the arena and not the rest.
Just as Katsuo continues walking he heard gunfire at the arena, before he runs down and sees what's the commotion now. Once he got there he saw Ichika down there, with Charl in front of him in his I.S.
It was orange with white parts of his I.S head band-like on his head with two yellow hexagon, white shoulder pads and chest plate. And his left arm is a pile bunker shaped-like shield.
A large bullet part rolls on the ground as Katsuo looks at the other way and sees another I.S with a short girl in it.
Her I.S is black with red lining on it, two boosters like hovering behind her back, black wings, a cannon on her right-side, and hear headgear with two antennae of a rabbit-like.
"Okay, what's going now?" Katsuo thought to himself, wondering what is happening down there. He couldn't tell from far away, but it seems that's an argument down there, or so he thought.
But just as the fight between those three I.S was just getting started, someone stops this.
"Attention, students on the field! what are you doing down there!" a feminine voice demand.
As the girl with the black I.S disappeared before she runs off and left the field. Some of the students are concerned about what the other girl talking about while Houki, Cecilia and Rin were curious about him as well.
(Back at the mainland)
Suzuki walks out of the school entrance after his class ended as he headed off somewhere on his own until he went to a cafe as he takes a seat at a table and waits for his order once a waiter arrived.
"I'll just have tea" Suzuki ordered.
As the waiter nodded before walking off to get his order. While Suzuki waits, Hakaru appeared in front of him as he pulls a chair and takes a seat with him.
"You're here early, I thought our meeting isn't until three a clock?" Suzuki asked him as Hakaru was about to reply. "I gotta be at Kendo soon and practice. But before that, I need to ask something" he explains to him.
The waiter arrived to serve Suzuki a cup of tea as he takes a sip of his tea before nodding. "Go on, because of the way you think, I can see that you don't trust me" he wonders to himself.
However, Hakaru stares at him with his eyes narrowing, holding both of his hands as he clutches it after hearing to the dragon grape riders. "Yes, your right I don't trust you" he replied to Suzuki's question. "The reason why is because you know Katsuo since you arrived, as well as him being Gaim, and the way you said his name when you arrived in our school" Hakaru replied to him.
Suzuki just stood being silent while having his tea after listening to Hakaru explanation.
"It's only coincidence that I know him"
"That's impossible, there's no way Katsuo would've met you ever since first grade," Hakaru said coldly as he still doesn't trust him no matter what Suzuki said.
"I'm telling you the truth, I would never have tried to kill him in my life. Is there I can do earn your trust?" Suzuki asked him.
Hakaru closes both of his eyes while thinking of a way to earn Suzuki truce. He thinks hard as possible to figure out a task-specific for him to trust him. Then an idea just pops up in his head as he knows what to do for Suzuki.
"On second thought, there is another way to earn your truce," Hakaru says before Suzuki place down his cup of tea and listen to his instruction up close. "If you wanna earn my trust, I need you to come with me at night in the old building got it" he explained.
"Alright, I'll be there" he replied before Hakaru checks his watch before getting up from his seat and was about to leave.
"I gotta go now, my kendo's about to start soon, so sure to be there on time" Hakaru reminded Suzuki before leaving the cafe,
Just when Hakaru left, Suzuki looks down at the ground and looks at his cup in his hands as he clutches it hard.
"If you wanna trust than I'll do what you say" Suzuki muttered to himself when he places his tea on the table before he gets up and leaves the cafe restaurant.
(Back at the Academy)
The day was almost at an end as Katsuo was walking down the at the park, thinking what happened back at the arena.
"Okay, what was that all about, are they just practicing, or…" Katsuo thought to himself of what happened. As he kept walking he heard someone talking across the way there, he spotted Chifuyu and that girl back at the arena.
He took a look at them as both of them are having a conversation near a river.
"Please answer me, mentor, why are you in a place like this?!" the girl said out loud.
"Mentor?" Katsuo thought as he wonders why she calls her like that. Did those two meet long ago?
"Don't make me say the same thing over and over again. I have my own role to play, that's all you need to know" Chifuyu said to her.
"What kind of role could you possibly have to play here in the far east! I'm begging you, mentor, please come back to teach us in Germany once again! You can't exert half of your ability of this wretched place!" she begged to Chifuyu, as she doesn't seem to be interested in coming to Germany.
"Uh-huh," Chifuyu hummed to her response.
"The students of this academy do not deserve to be taught someone of your stature, they lack a sense of danger, and mistaken the I.S of some kind of extravagant fashion accessory!" the girl continue asking her. "I find it unbelievable that you could even get that time of day of these people, especially that so call sibling of yours!"
"Sibling, is she talking about me?" Katsuo wonders before he accidentally stepped on a branch that attracts Chifuyu's attention.
"Step out, if you dare not showing your face!" Chifuyu hollered.
Katsuo lets out a sigh and steps in front of them with a smile expression plus a waving hand.
While Chifuyu stares at him with her arms crossed, the silver girl grits her teeth and a narrowed eye on the left before walks up to him before pulling a knife. There, she places it on Katsuo's neck as he didn't move.
"W-What are you crazy!" Katsuo yelp as the silver girl didn't listen to him.
"You, you're the reason why my mentor is here, because of you!" she hollered at him.
"M-My fault, what are talking about?" Katsuo said speechless as he confused why she's blaming him.
As the silver girl grits her teeth and stared at him, since he lives with the Orimuras, she doesn't accept this. "False sibling of the Orimura, my mentor! You don't deceive to live!" she exclaimed with her eyes opened up wide before she can finish off Katsuo once and for all.
Until Chifuyu slaps her in the left cheek causing her to be shocked, including Katsuo. "I think I heard enough little girl," she said with a cross expression on her. "You've grown up a bit since the last time I saw you, but not enough to assume the chosen one when your only fifteen."
"I-I was just..!"
"I'm a busy woman and you need to get back to your dorm girl. And if you dare touch Katsuo in front of me one more time, I'll suspend you of using an I.S ever again" Chifuyu said coldly at her.
The silver girl was shocked before she turns her head at Katsuo as she let go of him and runs off the scenery. As she left, Katsuo watches her leave before Chifuyu approaches him and stands in front of him.
"Sorry, I should've stopped her Katsuo" Chifuyu apologized to her little step-brother.
"It's fine Chifuyu" he nodded before looking at the pathway where the silver girl walks off. "So who was that?" as he asking who was that girl.
"That would be Laura Bodewig, the transfer student that just arrived from Germany" Chifuyu explained this to him as the silver girl 'Laura Bodewig' was transferred to another Academy, as she also told him that she'll be another contestant for another country.
"So she from another country, huh?" Katsuo said as Chifuyu nodded to him. But Katsuo seems to have another thought in mind. "But that girl, the way she talks, it acts if the I.S as a weapon to her or something?" he thought.
"But while you're here, try not to temper some of the students here. They can be rough around for you and Orimura around" Chifuyu said to Katsuo.
"Got it" Katsuo nodded to her response.
Chifuyu turns around and stands in front of the lake and stares at it while didn't say anything but silent. "Male student over there, were you eavesdropping or indulging in some aberrant sexual behaviour!" Chifuyu called out as the person reveal to be Ichika.
"How could you say that Chifuyu!" Ichika complain to his sister. "You're my sister for christ's sake!"
"At school, you will call me Mrs. Orimura!" she reminded him about her name.
"Yes ma'am" Ichika sighs from her orders.
"You don't have to waste lurking in the bushes, you should be out there training. At the rate you're going, you're going to be defeated in the first round of next month's tournament" Chifuyu continued talking to Ichika.
"I know that" he responds.
"In that case, fine," she said as Chifuyu was about to leave before Ichika was about to ask something else. "Hey wait a second" he got her attention as she listens to Ichika question. "I wanted to ask you something about what Laura said to me in class earlier. She said she doesn't approve of me being your brother and Katsuo being with us."
Ichika looks down as he understands why Laura disapproves of him and Katsuo's sibling to her. "Was she talking about, the way you miss out on the chance to win the second championship match because of me and Katsuo?" He wondered.
"That all in the past kid," Chifuyu spoke up to him as she doesn't have a problem with that, "there's no need for you to worry about it now, later kay," she said before she left the area.
Ichika sigh of depression before he turned his at Katsuo as he showed him a smile on his face. "Hey Katsuo, didn't see you there" he chuckled sheepishly.
"Yeah, sure," Katsuo said dully,
So then both Katsuo and Ichika walk with each other at the park before heading into Ichika dorm. But as they walk, the two of them talk of how well they are doing.
"So this is life in Academy full of girl then huh?" Katsuo said making Ichika lowered his head and sighed out loud after what he experiences here at the I.S Academy.
"Yeah, it's not easy to be the only man who can pilot an I.S" Ichika admitted himself.
"Well, there has to be a reason why you are the only one here?" Katsuo wondered.
Ichika frowned "I'm sure there is" as he daydreams himself in an area full of girls before he runs off to leave all of the girls until a Rin and Cecilia in there I.S machines and Houki was there wielding a wooden sword. Once his daydreaming is over, he shakes his head before asking Katsuo spoke up.
"So about back there, it is. It wasn't your fault" Katsuo said as he reminded Ichika of what he and Chifuyu discuss back there. "Looks, you were kidnapped out of nowhere you could've known that would've happened."
"I know, but it causes Chifuyu to forfeited the match to save me. And the reason why I got kidnapped is that I was weak, because of me, Chifuyu lost her second win in a row and paying the Germany government for the info back by being their instructor over a year" Ichika said as he felt guilty for his older sister losing her second win in a row. He clenched his fist and a foreshadowed covers his eyes. "So that's why I must be stronger. I can't rely on Chifuyu's help anymore" He clutches his fist tightly and looking down at the ground sadden as felt Katsuo the same.
Then Ichika shows Katsuo a smile and tries to cover to keep it happy."So anyway, how's everything back mainland?" Ichika asked as he's wondering how everything fine in the mainland.
"Yeah, everything's alright, except doing kendo routines every day with Hakaru" Katsuo groan as he still sore from last week ago.
"Well then everything is fine then," Ichika said cheerily when Katsuo grunted to his question with his shoulders lowered especially his head.
"Well, except for that new student who transfers from China" this caught Ichika surprised.
"A new student from China?" he asked his stepbrother.
"Yeah, he's an oddball" Katsuo tries to explain to Ichika about Suzuki when all of a sudden, popping out of nowhere Houki, Rin, Cecilia came in front of both boys as all of them don't seem to be happy for some reason, and only having their eyes on Ichika.
"H-Hey guys, how you been, you remember Katsuo this morning?!" Ichika shrieked while Katsuo blinks confusion as he doesn't know what's going on.
All of the girls were yelling only at Ichika and ignoring Katsuo.
"How could you not told me you have a brother!?"
"Yeah, I'm your childhood too! We should know about this!"
"I am very disappointed in you!"
As they all have an argument with Ichika, Katsuo sigh before walks up to the girl and decided to settle this. "Okay look, I'm actually his adoptive brother, there's no need to be a fuss about it," he said.
"No need to fuss about it!?" Rin yelled before she, Houki, and Cecilia dashes to Ichika. "Ichika we all need to have a talk, private" she whispers before they all set away from Katsuo leaving wondering what they're talking about.
"Are you crazy to bring 'him' here!" Rin snapped.
Ichika tries to calm her down, but she's not the only one having this conversation. "Come on, he's my brother, sort of, but Chifuyu told all of you to be nice to him" he reminded them all that his older sister told everyone.
"But this is the same guy that's been attacking us if you remember through your thick skull!" Cecilia scowled.
"Look, I know he looks exactly like the man from before, but Katsuo wouldn't do anything to hurt all of you" Ichika tries to reasoning them, however, none of them seem to believe him.
"Oh come on Ichika we all saw it, he has to be the one who's been attacking this Academy," Houki said as she thinks this is the same one.
"You guys are a pain, I mean look at Katsuo, he's fifteen years younger, he couldn't hurt a fly," Ichika said as he pointed his finger at his little stepbrother. But only for Katsuo disappeared all of a sudden causing the group to blink wondering where he has gone off too.
Katsuo kept walking down as he wants to get away from Ichika and the girls that attack him when he arrived here. He had both hands on his back head.
"I'm sure Ichika will be fine, but I don't know about those girls though" Katsuo muttered to himself.
walking down to the other way. Katsuo kept watching as he decided it's time to go until he felt an instinct inside of him as he can feel it on the inside. He looks around as he felt it as if it's closer nearby before Katsuo saw something, someone he recognizes as the cloaked man who happened to have Katsuo exact same face as he glared at him with his eyes narrowed and clutches his fist.
"Ah, Katsuo Kazuraba, Kamen Rider Gaim," he said as he removes his mask only have a smirked expression.
"You" Katsuo growled with a deep voice as he stares himself with the other Katsuo. "Who are you really."
"If you wanna know my name, you should know that back then," he said.
This gives Katsuo confusion of what the other Katsuo's talking about
The other Katsuo huffed as he still has the same expression and staring at the original one. "You don't remember about the incident do you."
"What incident?" he asked.
Before the other Katsuo explain it to him. "Years ago in the laboratory of Yggdrasill, an accident happened over there as the fire started burns the building down and destroying ever of its research. However, I've managed to survive that even."
"Wait how are you in this?" Katsuo wondered.
"Because I used to work there" this causes Katsuo shocked as he has no idea that the other Katsuo was injured.
"What does that have to do with me!" he wonders as the other Katsuo smirked as he laughed evilly. "That fire damage everything, except for me. "So after that, I've been working with the unknown employer for years to stealing I.S data" this causes Katsuo a reminder of what happened not long ago when Yusaji collected data from Cecilia.
"You mention it back before, just what are you planning with those " Katsuo demanded.
As the other Katsuo grinned expression on his face before he pulls out another Lockseed before he presses and opened up a crack. "If you want answers, you'll have to catch me" he smirked before leap back and enter through the crack, for Katsuo, he decided to chase him down to get answers.
Not far away Ichika was looking around the area to search for Katsuo anywhere. "Ah man, where could he have gone off to? If I don't find him, Chifuyu is gonna...kill...me" just when Ichika continues searching, he witnesses the crack portal in front of him.
He recognized that portal where all the Inve came from. Then Houki appeared as she approached the only male I.S.
"There you Ichika, we still need to do training at the dojo right now," Houki said harshly before she noticed him looking at something. She turns her head and sees the crack portal as she is shocked to see. Just when Cecilia and Rin join in and recognized that portal too.
"Does that portal look familiar to you?" Rin asked.
"It is indeed so, the same one where all those dreadful beasts came from" Cecilia answered Rin's question it with her arms crossed.
While the group stares at the crack that brings all of the Inves from that strange forest that's been attacking this Academy for months now. Until Houki steps up as she is walking straight towards it when Ichika stops her of what she was doing.
"Wait, Houki what're you doing?" Ichika asked her.
"I want to take a good look at it" Houki replied.
"Are you crazy?!" Rin hollered.
"That is utterly insane" Cecilia agrees with her, even though she hates her as a love rival.
"Look, I'm just taking a peek, it no biggy," she said.
"But it's dangerous to go up close!" Ichika warns her.
"Don't worry so much" Houki as she started to ignore him and approach the crack portal without any hesitation.
Then Rin and Cecilia followed her lead when Ichika tries to stop them. "Wait, you are not thinking of going in there too!?" Ichika yelped when both of them turn around as they look at him.
"Houki's right, let's take a look at that place," Cecilia said.
"Yeah, besides I'm tired of these things attacking us" Rin growled.
As the girls walk through the crack portal, Ichika sighs while thinking if he should go with them or not. Unfortunately, he followed them in case if they're all endangered by the Inves. But what they don't know is that someone is watching them.
(In the Forest)
Katsuo searches the doppelgangers of himself 'Yusuji' around the strange forest where he found himself. But as he kept looking for him he noticed a couple of Elementary Inves nearby, when Katsuo hides behind a tree and watches them doing something over there.
However, it turns out the Elementary Inves were eating as Katsuo take a closer look and see them eating those strange fruits here.
"That what they eat?" Katsuo muttered, as he notices a nearby strange fruit and picks it off from the vines. He looks at it remembering what happened to that man back then.
"These fruit" Katsuo frown.
But what he did remember is that when he grabbed the strange purple fruit in his hands the last time he was here, then remember that once's he puts on the Sengoku belt the purple fruits turn into Lockseeds.
Katsuo pulls out his Sengoku belt in case an Inves attack invades the academy again as he places it on his waist as the purple fruit materialized into a new lock seed. It was a watermelon faceplate and a code number 'L.S 10' on it.
"That's a new Lockseed, wonder what this will be?" Katsuo wondered as he decided to take it and put it in his pocket.
But as he was about to go to another, he heard footsteps nearby before Katsuo turns around and see Ryoga who's here in the forest as well.
"Oh, it's just, what're doing here?" Katsuo asked harshly while Ryoga didn't care about it.
"What's it look like to you" Ryoga replied deeply and what he seems to be carrying a bag in his hands. "I'm collecting more of these" he opened up and show Katsuo what's inside.
He looked and saw lots of Lockseeds inside the bag. "Lockseeds? All of them?" He wondered why Ryoga is collecting all of it.
"If you must know, the best one you can find will get stronger as you use it, like the one I found" Ryoga then pulls out another Lockseed with a manga faceplate and the code number 'L.S 11'.
Katsuo narrowed his eyes "But even using those Lockseed makes us stronger. You still think of using them for power" he said.
"As you don't seem the capability the belts can use. Your much naive then that so-called brother of yours as he isn't capable with the I.S" Ryoga snarled harshly before he started walking away.
But before Ryoga was about to leave, Katsuo stops him as he asks a question. "Wait, there is one thing I want to ask you?" As Ryoga turns around and stares at Katsuo with a darkly look.
"If you are referring to my I.S Baron Knight, I already told you that" Ryoga responds as he did explain it back at the arena where he first uses it.
"That not it, it's about you gaining so much power. Why do you want all that power in the first place?" Katsuo wonders.
Ryoga fazed with a forehead shadow clover his eyes as he visualized a woman lying down on the floor before changing to a man dangling with a rope that's tied up to a branch of a tree.
"Because I do not want to be weak and must be strong, unlike you," Ryoga said darkly before walking. Leaving Katsuo with a concerned look on his face.
(Meanwhile with the group)
The group walks down the strange forest as they take a look around as if they have never seen this place before.
"Wow, look at this place" Ichika amazed as he looks around the strange forest.
"Yeah, I never have seen this place before?" Rin wonders about this place.
"Indeed, though I still don't understand is why those beasts keep attacking our academy?" Cecilia pointed out as she has a good question of why the Inves keep coming in the I.S Academy.
"Who knows, maybe it's that brother of course" Houki suspected it's Katsuo before Ichika denies that.
"No, Katsuo wouldn't do anything like that," he said.
Before Rin spoke up. "Oh come on Ichika, you know it was him! Are you really that dense!" She hollered out loud. "Besides he could out here plotting to attack us again" as Rin continued talking to the group when she was interrupted by a group of Elementary Inves who surprise attack them.
"Where did those things come from!" Ichika shocked.
"It doesn't matter, let's get out of here!" Houki exclaim as the group was about to run away from the Inves Elementary when they surrounding the pathway. There's nowhere to run now.
"Where trap!" Cecilia hollered.
"And there's nowhere to escape!" Rin exclaims before punching one of for defence.
Not far away Katsuo was about head back to the academy without anyone noticing. But as he's was heading back he heard something as if someone is screaming.
"What that?" He wonders.
Although he doesn't know who's over there he out his belt and pulls out his Orange Lockseed.
"Henshin!" He announces before pressing the button.
"ORANGE"
He did his poses before the metal orange appeared as Katsuo placed it on the belt compartment and close it.
"LOCK ON! SOYIA! ORANGE ARMS! HANAMICHI! ON STAGE!"
Katsuo transforms into Kamen Rider Gaim right away as he rushed into battle with his Daidaimaru in his hands.
As the group where surrounded by a group of Elementary Inves, they have nowhere to escape from them. "Stay behind me, I won't let you hurt them!" Ichika hollered.
But the Elementary Inves ignore him as they all roared before charges at them furiously at the group. Until Gaim jumps in and kicks on of them, sending all of the Elementary Inves falling on the ground.
"Get behind me!" Gaim hollered before he charges at them and slash them with his Daidaimaru.
The group watches this fight from behind as Gaim swings his Daidaimaru at the Elementary Inves. The group of Elementary Inves stand up and charge once again at the orange samurai.
"Guess they'll never quit, do that" Gaim muttered before he pulls his Pine Lockseed out and replaces his Orange Lockseed
"PINE!"
The metal Pine appeared above on top of Gaim.
"LOCK OFF!"
He replaced it with his Pine Lockseed as the place it to the belt compartment.
"LOCK ON! SOYIA! PINE ARM! FUNSAI DESTROY!"
Gaim transforms into Pine Arms as he uses the Pine Iron in his hands and swung it at the group of Elementary Inves effectively. This causes them pain from that, Gaim swings his Pine Iron above as all Elementary Inves charges at him as he swings his weapon downwards at the group of Elementary Inves before they all scream out loud and fell on the ground before they exploded.
The last two Elementary Inves were right behind it as the other one gets up, they were about to charge at Gaim again before he uses his Pine Iron and swings it at the Elementary Inves. He wraps all around as Gaim holds them down he press the knife blade lever down twice.
"SOYIA! PINE AU LAIT!"
Gaim quickly pulls out his Musou Saber and tosses the handle of the Pine Iron before running down towards them and slash it three times, before all of them scream out loud and explode.
Gaim revert back to his Orange Arm walks up to the group if they're alright. "Are all of you are okay? He asked them before Ichika call up.
"Yeah, we're all okay," he said.
"We okay but we can defend ourselves you know" Rin grouch as she turns away.
"Well if you were, you shouldn't be here" Gaim points out to her before Cecilia her turn to speak up.
"How dare you speak to us with some manners from your mouth!" She argues with him.
"Who ask you," Ryoga said Speaking of which, where exactly are we?" she asked that question.
Although Gaim doesn't know more about this forest, he turns around and didn't look at the group, leaving them wondering what's he doing before he turns back to them and answered her question. "Unfortunately, can't answer that, but I can get you all return back where you came from" he offers them a transfer back to the academy.
"That alright, but we know our way back to the Academy so we fine" Houki spoke up with her arms crossed.
"If your that strong, then your a fool of being here" a familiar voice calls out as the group looks around, revealing to be Ryoga in front of them.
Ichika glares at him, but he's the only one who isn't happy to see him as the girls were also glaring at him here.
"It's you" Ichika growled as Ryoga doesn't care before walking up to him.
"Well it's nice to meet again, Orimura" he sneered at him darkly.
Houki grits her teeth seeing that second I.S pilot here after what he said to Ichika back at the academy arena. "Why are you here" she growled before Ryoga turn his head and looks at Houki for a moment.
"The inverter of the I.S and the anger issue little sister" Ryoga insulted as he's talking about Houki.
"Excuse me!" Houki hollered as she didn't take this one kindly.
As she was about to approach him before Ichika uses his arm and blocked her way. "Don't Houki" he muttered at her. "Even though this guy a jerk, let's just get out of here, I think I've seen enough here," he said quietly at Houki.
Then all of a sudden, a gust of wind blows through as the group and Gaim look around before seeing Yusuji in front of them.
"Hello again a student of the I.S Academy" he sneered with his teeth showing.
As the I.S group glares at him as they know him how many times they met this guy keeps attacking the Academy.
"Ha! I knew it was you!" Rin hollered with her hand pointing at the fake Katsuo.
Cecilia yelled "So you did come here to attack us are you!" at the other Katsuo while.
Ichika on the other hand just can't believe it was Katsuo doing all those bad things to him and the Academy. "No that can't be him, it just can" Ichika muttered as his eyes are twitching and fist clutching hard.
"Ichika look at the facts, this so-called 'brother' of your is one that keeps attack us!" Houki hollered angrily.
Ryoga on the other seems to look at the other Katsuo before turning his head on the real Katsuo who is Gaim right now. He pulls out his Sengoku belt and places it around his waist.
"It appears I'm standing facing an enemy who seems to have been a fake," Ryoga said as the group looks at him. "Then prepare to see my true power" as he pulled out his Banana Lockseed out of his pocket.
"Henshin!' he proclaimed before pressing the button.
"BANANA!"
The metallic banana appeared above his head as he twirls his Banana Lockseed, insert it on the belts compartment before closing it press down the knife lever.
"LOCK ON! BANANA ARMS! KNIGHT OF SPE~AR!"
As the metallic banana landed on top of Ryoga head and transforms into Kamen Rider Baron. He slowly walks up to the other Katsuo with his Banaspear extended, before he charges at him and swings his Banaspear at him.
But the other Katsuo manages to dodge it and leap up in the air and landed on the ground right behind. The group was shocked as the other Katsuo pulls out six Lockseeds in his hands, and opened up all of them summoning all of the elementary Inves, with a couple of Komori and Shika Inves among them.
"Kill them all" he orders all of them,
Before all of the Inves obey his command and began to attack the group before Gaim block they way while holding them down. "Quickly get out of here now!" he exclaims.
"Bu-."
"RUN!"
Ichika speechless as he only watches Gaim holding before the orange samurai pulls out his Musou saber and swing to the left slashing all of the Elementary Inves with very effective. He saw how great Gaim was protecting before he snapped and get the girl to regroup.
"Come on we gotta leave hurry," Ichika said to the girl.
"Absolutely not, I'm an I.S pilot and I do not run!" Cecilia hollered before was about to summon her I.S before a Shika Inves jump in front of her surprised causing her to lose focus.
When Baron appeared and pierce it in the stomach as it fell on the ground.
"Leave this to the real fighter" Baron scowled before rushing to back and slash three Elementary Inves away.
"The nerve!" Cecilia murmured in anger.
However, Rin was the only one notice her standing there. "Come on Cecilia! Forget about your pride!" she yelled at her.
Cecilia grit her teeth as she can't let this one go, but she ran with the other and leave the forest as soon as possible. However, the other Katsuo notices the group leaving, giving him a smirk expression on his face as one of the Elementary Inves appeared with him.
"Follow them and bring some of your friends to the human, go!" the other Katsuo commanded it.
The elementary Inves nodded and obey his command as it and the other followed the group to their world. Gaim notices some of the Elementary Inves are following Ichika and the others back to the real world.
"Crap, their following!" Gaim gasp before pushing one of them and followed them as well.
(Back with the group)
"Finally, we're back where we came from!" Ichika hollered.
While he and the group made it back to their world safe and sound as they all ended in an alleyway.
"Yeah, at least we finally got away from those things" Rin grouch as leaning on a wall tired from running from the Inves back in the forest.
"Uh ...Rin" Ichika said speechless.
"What!" she complains out loud, before hearing a growling voice near her as Rin turns around and sees an Inves in front of her but with greater numbers on its side.
"Oh crap, they must've followed us!" Rin hollered.
"Keep running!" Ichika exclaim.
Before all of them makes a run for it and headed down the alleyway to the street. But then Houki stops and realizes something. "Wait Ichika!" she hollered.
"What!" Ichika shouted before a Komori Inves appeared out of nowhere.
The group was shocked as they backed up before turning around and see the Elementary Inves group appeared. It trapped both sides as the group has nowhere to go while figuring out a plan.
"Maybe we can use our I.S?" Ichika suggested before he pulled out his arm and was about to active his I.S.
"No, we can't!" Rin hollered.
"Not outside of school grounds!"
Ichika grits his teeth as he out of options until the Komori Inves screeches as it charges in, heading straight towards Ichika. The girls were all shocked as they see the Komori Inves rushing straight towards.
"Ichika!"
"Behind you!"
"Look out!"
Ichika just stood there as the Komori Inves charges towards him until Gaim appeared out of nowhere and kick it in the face. He landed on the ground just as Ichika collapses on the ground breathing in and out before Gaim bends down to see he's alright.
"You alright?" Gaim asked Ichika.
"Yeah" he replied before the girl approaches them wondering Ichika is alright.
"Ichika are you alright!?" Houki cried.
"You idiot why didn't you move!" Rin hollered.
Ichika was about to reply to her answer before Cecilia spoke up but this time she talks to Gaim. "And you! Did you come back to us! We can handle it ourselves, we are I.S pilots!" she demands.
"I'm with her, why did you come back!" Houki agrees.
Before Gaim stands up and looks at Cecilia and Houki's answer. "Because can protect all of you" this causes Ichika's eyes to widen after what Gaim last sentence said. "My main duty was to make sure all of you," Gaim then stop for a moment and see more Inves heading this way. "No matter how difficult there is, I will protect!" he exclaims and charges down while pulling his Musou saber out and swing both swords at the Inves.
"There's just too many of them" Houki concerns.
"Why going all that trouble?" Cecilia wonders.
"He's just gonna kill himself," Rin said
As Ichika watches his fights he also noticed the girls uncommonly talking about Gaim. "Don't you guys heard him" the girls turns their heads at Ichika who's clutching his fist with a dark shadow covering his eyes. "He said he did it to protect us, can't you guys see it. That's why he's doing his best to keep fighting" Ichika explain his reason about Gaim.
The girls were stunned as they have no idea until another group of Inves appears out of nowhere and with them is the other Katsuo.
"It looks like everything is going down to ashes" he sneered as he watches this on the balcony rooftop.
Gaim kept fighting the Inves as he swung his Daidaimaru up at the Shika Inves and pierce his Musou saber at the Elementary Inves in the stomach. However, the Inves just keep coming as they all surrounded the orange samurai outnumbering him.
"Grrr they just keep coming!" Gaim hollered while holding down two Elementary Inves in his hands as he just can't keep it up.
Then all of a sudden he remembers back in the forest, he got a new Lockseed in his hands and decided it's time to use it. He pushed the two Elementary Inves back and getting out his new Lockseed.
"Alright, let's see what this one's gonna be?" he wondered before presses the button.
"SUIKA!"
A crack opened up above him and emerge a huge watermelon resemblance causing Gaim.
"Eeeehhh! What the hell!" he shrieked.
The group also shocked as they never see something that big before their entire life.
"Deer goodness!" Cecilia shrieked.
"Holy crap!" Ichika shrieked.
That a big one" both Houki and Rin hollered in unison.
Baron also made it here as he takes down one Elementary Inves with his Banaspear before seeing the huge watermelon as well. "That's big," he said but also surprise.
"Rrrhhh what the hell I've might as well do it!" Gaim decree before taking out the Orange Lockseed and place the new one on his belt compartment.
"LOCK ON!"
The group watches this as they hope that Gaim can survive this as presses the knife lever down as it cutting the front revealing to be a slice inside the watermelon, and the bottom with a double-bladed sword on it.
Gaim lift both of his hands and try if he can hold that huge watermelon. Unfortunately, the huge watermelon we so big it immediately press him down completely.
The ground stood there stunned with shocked as they the one tries to protect who immediately got crushed by a huge watermelon.
On the other hand, the Elementary Inves takes a look at the watermelon with curiosity. As they take a examine it the huge watermelon suddenly spins sending all three of them flying.
The group was surprised as the huge watermelon rolls around destroying every Inves left.
"SUIKA ARM! ODAMA BIG BANG!
After it stops rolling Gaim pops up with his visor has watermelon sliced like.
"Alright! Now that can come in handy!" Gaim hollered.
The group was relieved to see him alright, as for the other Katsuo he grits his teeth in anger. "No it can't be, it can't!" he growled as seeing this making him angry.
But then he spotted one Elementary Inves still standing as this gave him a smirk on his face, he dropped six of his Lockseeds on purpose falling and landed on the ground. Giving the Elementary to gather all of the Lockseeds in a plie and eat all of it, causing its body glowing transforming.
The resemblance of a boar with a red and white body, longhorns and on it back is armour with horns like on both sides. This Evolve into Inoshishi Inves.
The group was shocked when Gaim notice it as the Inoshishi Inves charges towards the orange samurai, sending him rolling to the wall.
Gaim felt that impact before he turns and sees the Inoshishi Inves roaring at him. He acted quickly and stands up straight before it charges at him when Gaim jumps up in the air and falls on top of Inoshishi Inves effectively.
Then Gaim pops head up as he sees the Inoshishi Inves down. "This is my stage!" he hollered as the Lockseed glows up red.
"YOROI MODE!"
The huge watermelon transform shifted and reforming into a large armour suit with green shoulder pads, chest, legs with dark green shades on it. On its hand, double blades sword-like watermelon slices. Inside, Gaim's body can be seen, controlling its entire body. His helmet is a dome-shape of a samurai-like, with a gold and red crest decoration on its forehead. This is Kamen Rider Gaim Suika Arms Yoroi Mode.
"Wow, it kinda looks like an I.S" Ichika amazed.
As the girls nodded and agree before Rin notice the other Katsuo watching on the rooftop.
"Come on, we have to take him down!"
"But!" Ichika tries to stop them.
"We have to stop him. You don't have a choice!" Houki said before running off as Ichika growled but decided to go along with them.
Gaim and the Inoshishi Inves both charges at each other as both of them collided. Then both of them back and stands away before the Inoshishi Inves throws blue saw disc energy from its horns, but Gaim deflected with his double-sword before rushing in and slash the left side of its armour.
Then both of them hold down each other, Gaim slashes and its entire armour destroys before he kicks it, causing the Inoshishi to retreat.
"You are not getting away you overgrown beast!" Gaim hollered before he chases after it.
"OBAMA MODE!"
As the Inoshishi Inves runs down the streets as Gaim rolls down and chases after him. But it was far away he can get to him in time
"Damn it, there's no way I can get him!" Gaim growled.
Not far away, as the Inoshishi Ives kept running, a red streak of blur appeared slashing one of its legs, before it disappeared.
As it was hurt, Gaim manages to catch up to the Inoshishi Inves.
"YOROI MODE!"
The watermelon revert to mech mode, Gaim then press down the knife lever down one.
"SUIKA SQUASH!"
Gaim twirls around his double-sword with a holographic watermelon appeared. He hit it as the watermelon headed straight towards the Inoshishi Inves trapping in a sphere before Gaim jumps up in the air. "I'm gonna slice you up!" Gaim shouted as he swings his double sword and slashes the Inoshishi Inves. Then he delivered the final blow as he swung the double sword downwards at the sphere. The Inoshishi Inves cries out loud and exploded with red bits of the watermelon coming out.
Gaim landed on the ground in Orange Arms as he slides down safely.
"That got it," Gaim said before he turns around and walks away.
But he didn't know there's someone there hiding before it walks away from the scenery.
(Back with the group)
The group manages to surround the other Katsuo as he has nowhere to run now.
"This is your last chance, surrender now!" Cecilia hollered giving his one final chance.
The other Katsuo stood there quiet as he didn't make a sound.
"Just give, we can if you know what's good for you," Houki said darkly with her arms crossed.
Ichika isn't liking where this is going, there's no way that Katsuo would do something bad, he knows him ever since he was young.
The other Katsuo smirked as he stepped back a little to the edge of the rooftop, causing Ichika to act fast. "No Katsuo!"
"Ichika!" the girls shouted unison.
But the other Katsuo than kicks in as he grabbed him by the arm and lift him up and sending him flying stray to the girls except for Rin. he then rushes towards her and grabbed her by the arm with the necklace of her I.S and scans her before it was complete.
"I.S generation three, ShenLong data scan complete," voice box said.
"Finally got another one" the other Katsuo grinned, before kicking Rin away and jumps off the rooftop shocking the group of what he did.
Gaim was there as he saw this on the ground and see the other Katsuo falling. But then he landed on the ground safely shocking the orange rider as if there's no way someone can survive that fall.
The other Katsuo smirked give Gaim clutching his fist. "Who are you really" he demands to know.
The other Katsuo smirked before opening a crack portal behind him as he walks through and headed into the forest when the crack zipped up and disappeared. Know the question remains, who is he really?
(Nighttime)
Somewhere in the storehouse as the door opened up revealing to be Hakaru in Zangetsu, and Suzuki in Ryugen.
"So this is what you mean at night time?" Ryugen intrigued.
"I notice something off about this old building, so I will search around if there's anything suspicious" Zangetsu explains the plan before Ryugen nodded.
The two riders look around the area floor by floor if there's anything that can find. However, as they made it to the next floor they found a room as the two searches around to see if there's anything around here.
But then Ryugen found something as he calls Zangetsu. "Hey, I think I found something!" Zangetsu heard him before he rushed down to see what he found.
It was a bunch of computers and blueprint around the wall and floors as both take a look and examine it up close. On the blueprint was the design of Lockseed on it.
"Those are designs of the Lockseeds," Zangetsu thought as he recognizes it is "but what using these?"
"Hey, I think gonna want to see this" Ryugen said as Zangetsu followed him and saw the computer on. It was the I.S picture of Blue Tears.
"It's data of the I.S model" Ryugen recognizes what it is.
"You know this?" he asked.
Ryugen nodded as he pointed his finger at the screen. "Look there description about the I.S abilities and generation. My guess is that he must've stolen it."
"Stole it?" Zangetsu confused before he remembered what happened back at the arena last month ago, that the other Katsuo manages to steal the I.S data from Cecilia.
Then another picture pops up revealing to be the design of the ShenLong from Rin.
"Okay, what he trying to pull here?" Zangetsu wonders what was the other Katsuo planning to do with the I.S data and the Lockseeds.
Next time on Infinite Gaim
Rin: it was him all this time!
Ichika: then maybe you don't have to be with me anymore!
Hakaru: the other Katsuo is planning something and it involves the I.S
Charle: I'm sure there's a reason why he's doing this
RINGO ARM!
Idunn: en guard
Sorry for making you that long my exam was in and I'm a bit rusty for months from studying it. So I'll do my best for the next new years, so I apologize for this and I'll make the post the next chapter. See ya later and happy holidays.