Well—it has taken me an age to finish, but here: have another brief glance into the world of KRDK. Five parts.
Reconnaissance
One week, Xaviax watches Kit Taylor.
It's not that he specifically schedules out a week to follow a teenage boy around, no. Nothing so eyebrow-raising as that. More like, it just so happens that Xaviax finds time between mass-producing agents of mayhem, scolding his subordinates, and feeding humans to his machine to see how his most delicate potential asset operates.
And see, this isn't planned, because if it was he would have picked a time that was less hectic. As he had before. That way he would have a more accurate picture of this longest-of-played-games with insight on what really makes the kid tick.
(Hmm? What's that? ...Why yes, Xaviax has watched Kit before. Several times.
The first time he spies those familiar steely gray eyes across the street, when the boy stares down a cop accusing him of shoplifting, he has to hold back from blasting him to pieces on the spot and creating a very messy situation. Because instinctively his first reaction is: Adam?! How is he here—how did he and that girl escape my prison and cross worlds when the brat doesn't have his armor?!
But then he thinks rationally, chokes off his rage. Adam would not leave that illusion Xaviax crafted for him without the girl—and if he had left with her somehow, he wouldn't have let her out of his sight, because then Xaviax would vaporize her with one pinky twitch.
More importantly, Adam's surname isn't 'Taylor'.
And so what if elation makes him pull a few strings at the police station, get the kid sent home with a warning for the time being instead of cooling his innocent heels in jail? There's always next time to get a good criminal record going. And if he's going to execute his plan to sway more Kamen Riders to his side before Wing Knight finds any of them, he needs to know where Adam's handy little twin lives—sooner rather than later.
So Xaviax finds out about the Taylors' dumpy apartment and watches the little fox kit play back all his father's old messages on the home phone, and when the kid finally leaves he leaps through the kitchen sink's standing water puddle and leaves the Dragon deck in the apartment. Just in case.
Then he follows Kit again. And again. And again.
And fine, no, he doesn't watch Kit closely enough to prevent Len from getting his self-righteous paws on him anyway, but lay off. Cast not the first stone or whatever. Xaviax can't be everywhere at all times, that just wouldn't be fair.)
But instead of having some down time to examine his foe and suss out any other weaknesses, things get... busy, for a while. Hectic. For months. So Xaviax's stakeout only kicks in during perhaps the second worst week of Kit's life.
