Power Rangers Samurai vs. Ronin Warriors
Act 15: Why is a Detective with a Red Car Here?
In a predetermined location in Panorama City, a gear-shaped portal opened, and a group of Grinders and a human-sized robot teddy bear came out.
"Hurry up Grinders! The boss won't be happy if we don't get that thing into position!" It shouted.
The foot soldier robots carried what looked like a water tank over to a spot on the roof of a building and then proceeded to bolt it in place. One Grinder was sent back through the portal to report the installation was successful.
Later that morning, the seven Samurai Rangers crawled out of bed, still tired from their ordeal the previous day. Ji had sent them on a wild Mooger chase the entire time; no sooner would they take out one group there was yet another that needed destroying. It was a miracle they had any Mojikara or Symbol Power as they called it when they finally returned to the Shiba House late that night.
"Good morning Rangers. Did you sleep well?" Ji asked.
"Like rocks," Jayden replied. The others nodded in agreement.
"Man, I thought the Moogers would never end!" Mike exclaimed.
"Ji, did Dr. K finish her upload?" Kevin asked.
"Yes. We should be able to detect if anything comes over from the RPM world." He replied.
As if in answer, the Gap Alarm went off, so to the map table they went, as Ji pointed out the tripped sensor.
"Let's go, guys," Jayden said.
On cue, right after the Samurai headed out the door, Sakura, Suiren, and Navcase raced into the room. Ji showed them where the Rangers were heading and they charged off on Kanesada.
Elsewhere in the city around the same time, the Shinkengers, Haruto, and Kousuke had decided to go out for breakfast and ran right into Sigurd and Marika. As well as a few dozen Watermelon and Tulip Lock Vehicles under the control of Sigurd, and if things weren't bad enough, Marika had called in Inves. Kanji were written, and rings were donned.
"Shinken Red. Shiba Takeru."
"Princess Shinken Red. Shiba Kaoru."
"The Same! Blue! Ikenami Ryunosuke!"
"The Same! Pink! Shiraishi Mako!"
"The Same! Green! Tani Chiaki!"
"The Same! Yellow! Hanaori Kotoha!"
"The Same! Gold! Umemori Genta!"
"Kamen Rider Wizard! Sōma Haruto!"
"Kamen…Rider…Beast! Nitoh Kousuke!"
"The Samurai Sentai authorized by Providence!" Takeru declared.
"Shinkenger!" The others answered, striking poses.
"Going Forth!" They all finished.
" Now, it's Showtime!" Haruto answered, in Flame Style.
"AND it's breakfast time!" Kousuke said.
Swords were drawn, and the battle was joined. Unfortunately, the mechanized enemies that Sid supplied were the wild card in the fight, as he knew full well that they were weak against machines. Every time they tried to concentrate on the Inves, the Tulips and Watermelon robots would interfere. The latter would have to be dealt with before the former.
"Maybe I can melt them." Haruto thought aloud, switching rings.
"Flame…Dragon! Bou! Bou! Bou-Bou-Bou!" His Driver announced.
"Chōīne! Special! Saikō!"
The Drago Skull was summoned, and Haruto let loose with a fire blast, but to no avail.
"Any luck?" Haruto asked Ryunosuke, who was attempting to fire arrows from a distance while at the same time calling Gentaro and Ryuusei.
"No! They must have turned their phones off!" Ryunosuke called back.
"Maybe they're not morning people?" Kotoha thought.
"Unfortunately Kotoha, they're the only ones we know who are equipped to handle machines well." Mako reminded her.
"There's no one else?" Kotoha asked.
No one wanted to admit to their youngest and most innocent member that the situation was hopeless, as a small purple car observed the situation. It began making shamisen sounds to no one in particular.
Elsewhere in the city, a twenty-four-year-old in a suit with a loosened tie was lazily eating milk balls in the park when his belt began speaking.
"Shinnosuke, Midnight Shadow reports that two of your sempai and the Shinkengers are in trouble. They are holding out, but they will lose without help."
"We Riders come in all shapes and sizes, and from different cities, but when one of us is in trouble, those of us who are nearby should go help them. I'm done thinking about it. "
At this, the man straightened his tie, climbed in the driver's seat of his car, and sped off to the scene.
At the Panorama Hotel and Suites, in the one occupied by the Space Kamen Rider Club, Gentaro, Yuki, JK, Miu, Shun, and Kengo all emerged from their bedrooms to find Ryuusei and Tomoko asleep on the couch.
"Ohhh, how cute!" Yuki said as softly as possible.
"Should we wake them up?" JK asked.
"I don't think that's such a good idea. Sakuta might be really grumpy in the morning. I'm not in the mood to be hwatchaed." Kengo cautioned.
"What about Tomoko-chan?" JK asked.
"I'm guessing a former Goth girl is probably a night person as well," Kengo explained.
"Uissu! Then we'll all go down to breakfast then!" Gentaro declared.
"Oops! You should probably change first Gentaro." Miu explained, pointing to his rocket ship boxer shorts.
"Did Eiji-san give those to you for Christmas?" Kengo asked as deadpan as possible.
"Yup! He gets all us Kamen Riders underwear for the holidays!" Gentaro exclaimed. "Ryuusei got a pair with meteors on them."
Somehow this had not woken up the two semi-lovebirds on the couch, so they went back to their rooms, changed, and headed down to breakfast. JK hoped that Yoko's friends were not there as well to interrogate him.
Things were not going so good with the Shinkengers and the Kamen Rider Mages. Kaoru had brought out her Rekka Daizantou and managed to trip and then smash one of the Tulips with it, but there were plenty more where that came from. Bringing out their special weapons helped a little, but their armored bodies were too much for weapons designed for maximum effectiveness against Youkai. Kousuke had brought out his Buffalo Mantle and used his enhanced strength to try and fight back, but one of the Watermelons went to its ball mode and knocked everyone over like bowling pins.
Sigurd was off to the side with Marika, enjoying their advantage when a spirit appeared.
"LOCK DEALER SID!" It declared.
"You're the ghost of that kid who turned into an Inves!" He exclaimed.
Hase's ghost turned into Kurokage and headed for Sid, who sent his robots after him. Unfortunately, he dropped his special Lockseed, so all the robots went out of control.
"Get back here!" Marika demanded.
"Keep him away from me!" Sigurd shot back.
"He's a ghost, how can he even hurt you?"
A mysterious hooded Rider in orange and black with a wasp-like helmet appeared and "glared" at Hase, who left in a huff before the Rider left as well.
"Well, I hope you didn't see that Takeru!" Chiaki replied, patting their leader on the shoulder. "Takeru?"
Shinken Red fell over, and all present observed that his crotch area was a darker red than the rest of his suit.
"TONO!" exclaimed Ryunosuke.
"Take-chan's down! Now what do we do?"
"YOU DIE!" Sigurd replied, loading his Lockseed into his Sonic Arrow and preparing to fire when he and Marika were attacked, as a fancy red car with an orange aura around it slammed into the two New Generation Riders and knocked them through the air. The same young man in the suit got out of the driver's seat with what looked like a car's dashboard secured by a seatbelt around his waist.
"Hey, Haruto! That guy's got a Driver, I think." Kousuke observed.
"A Driver? I thought Gaim was the only other Rider here."
"I'm in Top Gear! Let's go for a spin, Belt-san."
"Okay. START YOUR ENGINE!"
The man turned an ignition key on his belt, and then removed a red car from a rack on his belt, turned the rear upside down, inserted it into a wrist device,
"Henshin!" He called out.
He then lifted it up and lowered it down like a lever.
"Drive! Type…Speed!" His belt called out as he went through arm motions, tire rings appeared around him putting on an undersuit before armor formed over his body while upbeat jazz music played in the background. A tire then manifested between one of the front wheels of his car, before locking onto his torso like a bandoleer.
(Insert Music: Surprise Drive)
"Kamen Rider Drive!" He announced, before leaning on one leg. "Hey, Cherry. I'm going to take you for a ride!"
Turning his ignition again and lifting the Shift Car on his Brace three times, "Speed Speed Speed!" Drive moved at warp speed, punching Sigurd with rapid punches, forming a speedometer in the air before sending him flying backward.
"I'm going to put you behind bars for a little while." Drive declared as he swapped out the car in his Shift Brace for a police car, turning the ignition again and lifting and then resetting the new car.
"Tire Koukan! Justice Hunter!" The tire on his body flew off and hit Sigurd before a new one attached and gave him what looked like a bar box in his hands. He turned his ignition again, and lifted Justice Hunter three times, and then threw the Justice Cage into the air, which spit out bars and then enclosed Sigurd, who was electrocuted when he tried to escape.
He turned the ignition again, then pressed a button on the side of his Shift Brace,
"Hissatsu!"
He then lifted Justice Hunter a single time.
"Full Throttle! Hunter!"
Tires appeared next to him, propelling him forward, then up in front of the cage, then in a loop and then across the ground, as the cage temporarily lifted as he slid into Sigurd, knocking him out of henshin. The purple car from before drove up and began making shamisen noises.
"You want to help too, Shadow? Okay then!"
"Tire Koukan! Midnight Shadow!"
Activating its special by turning the ignition and lifting the Shift Car three times, giant purple shuriken appeared in his hands, and he tossed them at two of the Tulips, destroying them.
"Shinnosuke, go back to the Speed Tire and finish off the rest of those Tulips!" Mr. Belt instructed.
He did so, and once again turned the ignition, pressed the Igniter button, and activated his Full Throttle Speed finisher, causing his car, Tridoron to speed around in a loop, as he kicked off and slammed into all the Tulips pinball style, destroying them before skidding to a stop.
"What about the other things?" Shinnosuke asked.
"Let's try immobilizing them with Spin Mixer!" Mr. Belt suggested.
Switching out the sports car for a cement truck, Mr. Belt announced, "Tire Koukan! Spin Mixer!"
Activating his special by lifting and lowering the Shift Car three times, the Spin Mixer tire spun on his chest and sent out cement projectiles that kept the Watermelons stuck in their Yoroi mode.
"Now go Type Wild and use your Drift Kaiten!"
Shinnosuke replaced the cement mixer with a dune buggy, and filled with ambition to fight; he lifted the lever.
"Drive! Type Wild!"
Shinnosuke changed from his red Speed Type into a black and silver form with a tire on his shoulder instead of like a bandoleer.
"Come, Handle Ken!" He called, as his sword with a steering wheel as the guard flew to his hand. He turned the wheel and then pressed the horn, drifting and spinning into the Watermelons and destroying them with his Drift Kaiten.
"I guess I'll put you on ice!" He declared, putting a green garbage truck into his Shift Brace, lifting it after turning the ignition, which changed him into a green robotic form.
"Drive! Type Technic!"
He then inserted an ice resurfacer into his brace and did a Tire Koukan into Road Winter. He unleashed a freezing wind at Marika, freezing her solid.
Just then, a Shift Car he had never seen before began driving into his foot, so he reached down and picked it up.
"Do you know this car, Belt-san?" Shinnosuke asked.
"Never seen it before. Let's give him a try!"
Activating the car turned him into a samurai form, with an orange slice for a hat, as well as the Daidaimaru and Musou Saber!
"Drive! Type Fruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuits! On Stage!"
"Hey, Mayonnaise, doesn't he look like Kouta?" Haruto asked.
"Kinda, but he doesn't have that silly hat!" Kousuke commented.
"Belt-san, I guess this is our stage now!" Shinnosuke joked.
"Let's go into Battle!" Mr. Belt added in English.
In the Team Gaim suite, Kouta sneezed loudly in Mai's face, who twisted his arm painfully until he apologized.
Incorporating dance-like movements into his normal fighting style, he helped the other two Riders and Shinkengers finish off the Inves, which they had been fighting while he dealt with the Lock Vehicles, before executing a finisher on Marika that knocked her out of henshin as well.
"DAMN YOU DRIVE! " She shouted, grabbing Sid and running off.
"My poor Lock Vehicles…" Sid sobbed as they retreated.
"Whew!" Haruto called out.
"Hey, thanks for the help!" Kousuke said as everyone powered down.
"No problem. We Riders help each other out, right?" Shinnosuke replied. "I'm Shinnosuke Tomari, a detective from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. I was here to speak before the Panorama City Police at a conference when Midnight Shadow let me know you were in trouble."
"Are you familiar with Department Zero?" Haruto asked.
"Yes, actually it was someone from there who recommended that I go to this conference. Do you know a Rinko Daimon?"
"Rinko-chan?" Haruto exclaimed.
"I take it you've met."
"Met? He saved her from a Phantom!" Kousuke explained.
"Ah yes. Kyu-chan told me about them. You almost became one as well, and you have a Phantom in your Driver that eats them, correct?" Shinnosuke said.
"Yeah, he eats mana, preferably from Phantoms, but he's not picky unless you try and force feed him."
Suddenly, Shinnosuke's phone rang, and when he checked it, he had multiple calls from the same person, who presumably had called while fighting as Drive.
"Um, if you have any other troubles while I'm in town, feel free to call on me. I've got to go now and get yelled at by my wife. Belt-san, could you drive for a little while?"
Getting back into Tridoron, Shinnosuke's tie as if by magic became loose again as his wife blasted his ear off for not returning her calls.
"Calm down, calm down…I'm sorry for not calling you back sooner…I was fighting as Drive helping Wizard and Beast…" he tried to explain. "I wonder how Terui-san puts up with this…"
Meanwhile, the Power Rangers Samurai had arrived at the location, where a robotic teddy bear was wreaking havoc with the aid of Grinders and Moogers.
"That doesn't look like any Nighlok I've ever seen," Mike commented.
"That's because it's probably an Attack Bot. Someone should use the Black Box, so the rest of us go Mega Mode, and then change our Spin Swords into Mega Blades..." Lauren strategized, but unfortunately, the boys had already charged towards it with Samuraizers drawn.
"Boys will be boys. Let's show them how much smarter we are." Mia suggested.
"Samuraizer! Go Go Samurai!"
The three girls drew their respective kanji and summoned their suits.
"He He He! Have some of my Youth Gas! You'll never know how old you'll end up!" the Attack Bot replied.
"Youth Gas?" Emily repeated.
"Jayden! Watch out!" Lauren shouted after her brother.
"Samuraizer...Go" Jayden and the others began to declare, but they were barely into their first brush stroke when a strange red gas shot out of the Attack Bot's mouth and the male Rangers began coughing.
"Super Samurai Mode!" Lauren declared, donning the white jinbaori and at the same time, Mia and Emily changed into Mega Mode. Mia and Emily spun the disc on their Spin Swords the opposite way they would to summon their special weapons, which changed the Spin Swords into Mega Blades.
"Let's go!" Lauren shouted as the three girls charged forward into the fray, landing numerous strikes on the Attack Bot.
"That hurt! I'm going to take a break for now. Enjoy being babysitters!" It declared before skipping off into a portal, leaving the foot soldiers.
"SUPER BLAZING STRIKE!" Lauren declared, energizing her Super Spin Sword and turning the Moogers to ashes. Mia and Emily, being unused to fighting Grinders, were at a disadvantage until plasma blasts struck several of them as Sakura arrived on the scene with Suiren and Navcase.
"THUNDER...BOLT...CUT!" Suiren exclaimed, sending a bolt of electrical energy at the Grinders, destroying them as well.
"Better stay this way until that gas dissipates," Lauren suggested. The other girls and Navcase agreed.
When the gas finally cleared, there was an unusual sight before them. Where Jayden, Kevin, Mike, and Antonio had been before being hit by the gas cloud, there were now four boys about the age of seven resembling them standing there now.
"Hey sis." the boy resembling Jayden said to Lauren after the girls powered down. "At least I think you're my older sister...when did you get so old?"
"Wait...Jayden? Is that you?" Lauren asked.
"Of course, I'm Jayden Shiba. I'm training to be a samurai!"
"Me too!" the young boy resembling Kevin chimed in.
"Me three, but I really don't want to." the one resembling Mike added.
"I'm the son of a fisherman, but I want to be a samurai too!" the young boy resembling Antonio said.
"Um, Jayden, could you excuse and my friends a moment?" Lauren asked.
The three girls went into a huddle with Sakura and Suiren.
"Navcase, you're a samurai, see if you can keep the boys distracted while we figure this out," Mia asked him in Japanese.
As Navcase demonstrated his swordsmanship and the boys clapped in appreciation, the five girls tried to figure out what had just happened.
"Okay, we've got four boys that look like Jayden and the others."
"Lauren, considering the one that looks like Jayden recognizes you, I'm willing to bet that is Jayden," Mia concluded.
"And the one who looks like Mike saying he really doesn't want to be a samurai is exactly what Mike would say," Emily interjected.
"Okay, so the four of them have turned into kids. That bear said something about we'd never know how old they'd end up, so should we ask them how old they are?" Suiren asked.
"Boys? How old are you?" Sakura asked.
"Seven!" They all shot back.
"Let's get them back to the house; maybe Ji can help us figure something out," Lauren suggested.
The five broke the huddle and went over to the still mesmerized Seven-year-old Samurai.
"Hey guys, we're all going to go over to Jayden's house to practice samurai stuff!" Emily exclaimed.
"Yaaaaaay!" Jayden, Kevin, and Antonio shouted in unison.
"Oh all right, although I'd rather be playing video games…" Mike replied.
"So far so good..." The five girls thought to themselves.
Meanwhile, Tomoko and Ryuusei had finally woken up and were looking around town for a good thrift store to buy stuff to decorate Tomoko's room. Ryuusei could not help but notice the death grip Tomoko had on his hand.
"Um, Tomoko-chan, could you loosen your grip a little? You're cutting off my circulation I think." Ryuusei asked.
"Oh, sorry Ryuusei-kun." she replied, blushing a little.
It was clearly obvious that she liked him. Ryuusei felt the same way about her but was unable to figure out how to go about it. Maybe he could ask JK or Shun about it later. Shun had already proposed to Miu; although he had only dated her in the first place because his father felt that the school's king should go out with the school's queen, through the experience, he had realized he had actual feelings for her and thus had popped the question. He could not, however, find a ring with a gigantic ruby in it that Miu claimed she saw on some biker's hand the day he proposed. Miu later calmed down about it after Tomoko had shown her footage of Kamen Rider Wizard fighting and realized he needed the ring more than she did.
"Ryuusei-kun...there's a giant teddy bear over there," Tomoko replied in her usual hushed voice.
Ryuusei came out of his thoughts to notice what Tomoko noticed and instinctively put on his Meteor Driver as people fled in terror and moved the lever all the way over into its ready position.
"Meteor, Ready?"
"Oh look at the cute couple! You're about to get cuter!" the Youth Bot exclaimed.
"Henshin!" Ryuusei shouted just before the Attack Bot fired the same red gas that had already affected the Samurai Rangers, as he hit the bumper on the side of his Driver, causing a beam of Cosmic Energy to fire down from M-BUS, surrounding him and Tomoko and transforming him.
The gas cloud cleared, and a Rider in a black starry suit with a blue helmet with reddish eyes and shaped like a meteor in flight stood before the Youth Attack Bot. Tomoko was next to him, unaffected as well.
"Tomoko-chan, get to safety and call Gentaro," Ryuusei replied.
Tomoko nodded and ran off, as Ryuusei took his fighting pose.
"Kamen Rider Meteor! I will decide your fate!"
Ryuusei pulled down one of the Switches on his gauntlet, as it announced, "Mars!" He then placed his finger on the pad to confirm it, as the Driver answered, "Okay, Mars!"
"Woo..." Ryuusei exclaimed as he took a stance and a projection of the red planet appeared over his hand, "HWACHAAA!" he added as his Martian fist collided with the Attack Bot, hitting it with an attack of intense heat. The Attack Bot reeled back in pain.
"That hurt! Grinders!"
The rust-colored mechanical foot soldiers appeared to help out.
"Saturn! Okay, Saturn!" his Driver declared as he fired off Saturn-shaped projectiles at the newcomers, before charging forward in a chorus of "HWACHA!"
Tomoko on the sidelines was cheering him on and miming his movements. The Attack Bot noticed this and started to make a move in her direction.
"Oh no you don't!" Ryuusei declared, inserting his Meteor Switch into his gauntlet to initiate a Limit Break. He then let loose with a barrage of punches and "Hwacha's," each punch with a comet trail behind it, before striking with the final punch that sent it flying through the air and rolling over several times along the ground.
"Time to finish this," Ryuusei said, pulling out the Meteor Storm Switch but the Monster headed off.
"Where's it going?" Tomoko asked.
"Check your tablet, Tomoko-chan. I put one of the Nuggets on him while he wasn't looking."
She did, and then had a look of shock on her face.
"He's heading for Gentaro and Yuki-chan!" Tomoko replied.
"Then let's get going, hang on tight!" Tomoko grabbed onto the hero with another death grip.
"Lit-tle too tight," Ryuusei replied, and Tomoko relaxed her death grip.
He turned into a ball of light with Tomoko in tow and flew off to help out their friends.
Gentaro and Yuki, meanwhile, were going to visit a space museum that Tomoko had found in town. Unfortunately, the Youth Bot, not wanting a repeat of his last fight with Meteor, wasted no time in firing off his Youth Gas, catching Gentaro just as he had gotten his Driver on and Yuki as well, the gas clearing just as Meteor arrived on the scene.
"Look Gen-chan; it's a giant teddy bear!" Yuki exclaimed.
"SPACEMAN KITAAAA!" Gentaro added.
"Gentaro, Yuki, when did you get so small?" Ryuusei asked.
"Ryuusei-kun, I think they turned into four-year-olds," Tomoko explained.
"WITCH!" Gen-chan and Yuki-chan exclaimed, taking cover between Meteor's legs.
"Um, don't worry kids, she's a nice witch. I want you to go with her while I deal with that robot over there, okay?" Ryuusei explained.
The two headed off to a safe viewing spot with Tomoko.
"You're going to pay for that..." Ryuusei declared, inserting the Meteor Storm Switch in his Driver, turning it on, and then spinning the pinwheel on top. A guitar riff was heard, and he changed from black and blue to blue and gold.
"Kamen Rider Meteor Storm! My fate will deliver a storm!" he announced.
Tomoko loaded "Evolvin' Storm" by everset on her tablet and turned the volume up loud enough so that Ryuusei could hear it.
Moogers came down to help out along with the Grinders, and with a cry of "HWACHA!" Meteor Storm was back to work again. Armed with his staff, he struck down minions left and right, before placing the Meteor Storm Switch on top of his staff, gathering energy into it, before releasing it like a top in the Meteor Storm Punisher, slicing and dicing the remaining foot soldiers, leaving only the Attack Bot.
"Now for you," Ryuusei replied, spinning the globe on his Driver to initiate a Limit Break.
"I'm going to go get repaired now, but I'll be back!" it declared, leaping into a portal and vanishing from sight. Ryuusei powered down and headed back over to Tomoko.
"You two okay?" Ryuusei asked in his best talking to small children voice.
"Uissu! Will you be my friend? I'm the kid who will befriend everyone in the world, Gentaro Kisaragi!"
"I'm already friends with you, but you don't know that yet, but, sure." Ryuusei extended his hand, and Gentaro shook it the same way he always did.
"I'm Yuki Joujima! I'm going to be an astronaut someday!" the little girl exclaimed.
"What do we do, Ryuusei-kun?" Tomoko asked.
"I did a number on that teddy bear; it won't be back for a while. In the meantime, let's take them back to the hotel; they are Gentaro and Yuki after all."
Later…
"Oops! Gentaro and Yuki got turned into little kids?" Miu answered in shock when Ryuusei and Tomoko explained what had happened.
"But why didn't I get turned into a four-year-old?" Tomoko wondered.
"The field that surrounds Sakuta while he transforms into Meteor was also surrounding you, Nozama." Kengo began to explain. "It allowed Kisaragi to take off his Fourze Driver in the vacuum of space to give it to me while I was being affected by the Core Switch, so..."
"You're saying that we can only be affected by the gas if we breathe it in, right, Kengo-kun?" Ryuusei replied.
"First things first, we need to get the Fourze Driver away from Kisaragi. The last thing we want is a four-year-old Fourze." Kengo said, walking over to Gen-chan and trying to take the Driver off of his waist.
"No! It's mine!" Gen-chan exclaimed.
"KISARAGI, GIVE IT TO ME NOW!" Kengo shouted, trying again, only for it to result in a race around the suite with Kengo in hot pursuit, ending with Gen-chan cowering behind Miu.
"Gen-chan, can Miu-neesan have your belt?" Miu asked, bending down to his level.
"Okay," Gen-chan replied, handing it over.
"I'm back!" Shun replied, entering the suite with several bags. "I brought coloring books, crayons, and snacks," he said, doing his signature salute.
"YAAAAAY!" Gen-chan and Yuki-chan exclaimed, heading over to Shun. "Thank you Shun-niisan!" they answered, bowing in thanks.
"For a couple of kids, they pretty well-behaved," Miu observed.
"Considering Yuki's family, I'm surprised at how normal she acts," Ryuusei answered. Tomoko whacked him upside the head.
"Mr. Spaceman, can you hear the voice of space too?" Yuki-chan asked.
"I told you Yuki-chan, he's not a spaceman, he's a Kamen Rider that protects people from the shadows," Tomoko explained.
"What's a Kamen Rider?" Gen-chan wanted to know.
Tomoko launched into a lengthy lecture, explaining the history of the Kamen Riders, the men who turn into them, their Drivers, their Rider Machines, special attacks, evil organizations fought, the differences between Showa and Heisei, etc.
"There are rumors now that a Kamen Rider Ghost is out there searching for something called Ghost Eyecons..." Tomoko explained.
Unfortunately, she had lost her audience. Both Gen-chan and Yuki-chan were out like lights, and she had even knocked out Miu and Shun who were asleep on each other. The only ones still hanging in there were Kengo, and of course, Ryuusei, even though he too was secretly fighting to stay awake, even though she did mention him in it.
"…so that he can come back to life. They're all asleep..." Tomoko observed.
"You should have used more visual aids to keep the kids interested. Other than that, it was really interesting. You showed lots of enthusiasm in talking about Kamen Rider Amazon...and Fourze and me." Ryuusei replied.
"What do we do now, Kengo-kun?" Ryuusei asked, putting a blanket over Miu, Shun, and the kids.
"First we call JK and let him know. His girlfriend is a sentai member, so she might be able to help with this too. After Daimonji-sempai and Kaneshiro-sempai wake up, two of us take turns taking care of Yuki and Kisaragi while the others try and search for that kaijin."
"It didn't look like a Zodiarts. I'll go on the net and see if I can find a match to kaijin other Kamen Riders have fought." Tomoko said.
"I'll help you out," Ryuusei answered. "Kengo-kun, what are you going to do?"
"I'm recalibrating the Maximize Switch from a normal Astroswitch into an S-class one. Given the current circumstances with giant robots everywhere in this city, it makes sense for Fourze to have a Switch that turns him into Giant States rather than making his leg bigger. I'm going to do the same for Minimize once I get Maximize working. I'll also send out the Foodroids on patrol to look for the monster while we wait."
"Well, I embedded one of the Nuggets on that thing, so you should be able to track it," Ryuusei explained.
Elsewhere in town, Team Gaim was preparing to go on stage. The sound of a horogai sounded through the auditorium, as the lights came on Team Gaim as Kouta ran out followed by a spotlight.
"Ei Ei Oh! Ei Ei Oh! Ei Ei Ei Oh! RISE UP YOUR FLAAAAAAAAAG!" Kouta sang. "Everyone, this is our stage now!" he declared, as Team Gaim danced along.
"Shinjitsu" sono aji wa nigakute
Nakanaka nodo wo tooranai
Sore demo nomikonde miseru sa
Mada michi nakaba
Onaji tetsu mata fumanai tame ni
Ano hi yori tsuyoku naru shika nai
Hinoko wo furiharai chikazuite'ku…
Kakushin
Akirame wa shinai... agaite miseru
Kono sekai... Rule... buchikowasu made
Shutsujin kachidoki age
Mou mayou koto nakare
Aratana chikara ga Ore no koto
Tamesou to shite itatte
Takaku hata wo kakage
Ookina koe sakebe
NEXT LEVEL ni tadoritsuku
Michi no tsuyosa kono te ni
Ei Ei Oh! (Rise Up Your Flag)
Ei Ei Oh! (Rise Up Your Flag)
Ei Ei Oh! (Rise Up Your Flag)
Rise Up Your Flaaaaaaaag!
Kanawanai aite no kachikan ni
Makarete kizutsuki tsuzukeru
Mugon no Follower ni narutoka
Kitto dekinai
Fukisusabu kaze ga urusainara
Hajimari no basho e tome ni yuku
Ikitai ashita wo eraberu kibou
Mamoru sa
Rifujin na... gisei.. atarimaeda to
Unazuite... itara.. kinou to onaji
Shutsujin kachidoki age
Touzen tairo wa tatte
Aratana michi ga hirakereba
Osore wa mijin mo nai
Ookiku hata wo futte
Noise wo furiharae
Ima aru joushiki buttsubushite
Sekai wo kaete miseru
Ei Ei Oh! (Rise Up Your Flag)
Ei Ei Oh! (Rise Up Your Flag)
Ei Ei Oh! (Rise Up Your Flag)
Rise Up Your Flaaaaaag!
Shutsujin kachidoki age
Mou mayou koto nakare
Aratana chikara ga Ore no koto
Tamesou to shite itatte
Takaku hata wo kakage
Ookina koe sakebe
NEXT LEVEL ni tadoritsuku
Michi no tsuyosa kono te ni
Ei Ei Oh! (Rise Up Your Flag)
Ei Ei Oh! (Rise Up Your Flag)
Ei Ei Oh! (Rise Up Your Flag)
Rise Up Your
Flaaaaaaaaaag!
[A/N: Destonus doesn't want to get sued for posting full song lyrics in his fanfiction, so:Fujibayashi, S. (Lyricist), & tatsuo (Composer). (2014). Rise up Your Flag. On Kamen Rider GaimMusic Arms [CD]. Tokyo, Japan: Avex Entertainment. ]
Back at the Ginjiro, the call came through from the EMC that a Metaroid had been detected.
"Let's see if this thing works," Renn said, grabbing the prototype Buster Soul and heading off with his teammates.
"Good luck! Bom Bom!" BOMPER replied.
"Hiroto-san told me he's worried about that dispenser he found earlier. I checked, and there are five of them in Panorama right now." Ryuji explained to Jin.
"Wonder what they're for? Let's get Hiromu and Yoko-chan and go have a look! J! We're going out on a recce!" Jin explained.
"What are we wrecking?" J asked.
"NOT WREAKING, REC-CE! You know, reconnaissance?
"Ah! This will be interesting." J replied.
The five Go-Busters arrived at the site of one of the dispensers throughout town, already transformed just to be on the safe side. Guns out, Hiromu, Yoko, and J, formed a perimeter around it while Ryuji and Jin examined it closely.
"We should probably get a sample of this stuff to analyze, Jin-san."
"Good idea Ryuji! J, come here and get me a sample!"
"Okay!"
"Sorry, I can't let you do that because I'm curious too." a voice answered.
The Go-Busters looked to see Ryoma Sengoku and Kaito waiting for them.
"We'll keep him busy, Jin-san. You two get that sample!"
"Henshin!" Ryouma and Kaito called, opening their Lockseeds and attaching them to their Drivers, transforming them into Duke and Baron.
The Busters fired back with their blasters, but the output was not enough as the two Riders shrugged it off. Duke charged up and fired a blast from his Sonic Arrow that sent the three Busters flying.
"Ranged fighting isn't going to help us here. We need to close in!" Hiromu said.
The three called in their blades and moved in close, but Kaito parried all three and forced them back. He activated his Au Lait function, depressing the blade on his Driver twice, then jamming his spear into the ground, causing a banana shaped energy projection to emerge from the ground and send the Busters flying into the air and then crashing down. The three brought out their Custom Visors and powered up into Powered Custom and went back on the attack, as Baron and Duke teamed up to fend them off.
"Boost Up for Buster." came the call from Jin's sidearm as he fired at Duke, knocking him back.
"J! Are you done getting that sample yet?" Jin asked.
"I am almost done!" the Buddyroid replied.
"Good, because I'm tagging in!" Jin shot back as he brought out his sword and joined the fighting.
"Ryuji, you and Yoko-chan take the banana boy, Hiromu and I will concentrate on this lemon loser!" Jin instructed.
Jin powered up his sword and slashed at Duke, as Hiromu struck with a Volcanic Attack, which surprisingly failed to de-henshin Ryouma. He responded by doing his own special, surrounding them with energy projections and then unleashing a volley of arrows on them, knocking them out of henshin.
"I have the sample!" J announced.
"Good, then let's get out of here!" Ryuji called, picking up a section of rooftop and hurling it towards the two Armored Riders, who powered up themselves to smash the rubble, only to find that the Busters had used the opportunity to escape. The two powered down.
"Kumon-chan, why didn't you use the new Lockseed you showed me?" Ryouma asked.
"I'm saving it for Kazuraba, and that Francophile if he tries to boss me around again." He replied.
"Oh well, let's get a sample of this stuff and see what it is!" Ryouma exclaimed happily, bringing out a chemistry kit.
Elsewhere in the city, the Go-Ongers had arrived at the coordinates that the EMC had provided.
"This is where Morishita said he had detected the Metaroid," Hiroto said.
"Then where is it, Ani?"
"I'm right here!" a voice said.
This Metaroid did not look like anything like its source item if it had one at all. It instead looked like a humanoid machine, with the number "-001" on its chest.
"Let's see how you like this!" it replied, as a wave of energy hit the Go-Ongers.
"What's this? My body feels so heavy!" Sousuke exclaimed.
"Mine too! I can barely move!" Renn added.
"What are we supposed to do then?" Saki asked.
"Interesting. I'll have to make a note of that power if I have a moment." Enter said to himself.
The Metaroid, on the other hand, had no trouble moving, and was pounding the incapacitated Go-Ongers.
Elsewhere in the city, Shinnosuke was driving around town when Mr. Belt announced that he'd detected a gravity surge.
"A gravity surge here? That's impossible; I thought we destroyed all the Roidmudes Belt-san?"
"Needless to say, we should check it out, Shinnosuke." Mr. Belt replied.
"Let's go then," Shinnosuke replied, transforming into Drive Type Speed inside Tridoron and then speeding off towards the epicenter.
Back at the fight, the Go-Ongers cried out in pain as the Metaroid struck again and again, with their bodies too heavy to fight back.
"This must be that Heaviness they reported in Kuruma!" Gunpei theorized.
"But I thought the monsters that were causing it were all destroyed?" Hanto added.
Meanwhile, Shinnosuke had gotten stuck in traffic!
"We'll have to go on foot. Only one way to get there in time!" Shinnosuke called out, swapping in an F1 Racer.
"Drive! Type Formula!"
Shinnosuke turned into a blue, F1 Racer form, with stickers all over his body bearing the names of all his Shift Cars. He then ran off at Mach speed to help the Go-Ongers.
"I'll have Tridoron meet us there. Go! Booster Tridoron!" Mr. Belt called out, as the two Ride Boosters flew in and attached to the back wheels, lifting the car off as it soared over the city to the scene.
"Couldn't you have done that before?" Shinnosuke asked as he raced by, causing everyone he passed to feel like a strong wind hit them.
"Well you were so adamant about going there on foot, I didn't have time to!" Mr. Belt replied.
"Ah! There they are!" Shinnosuke called out, trying his best to slow down from his full speed, only to go by the Go-Ongers, temporarily releasing them from the effects, and slam into a nearby building. Shaking off debris and cobwebs, he headed over to the Metaroid and punched it in the face, then letting the tires on his arms spin, the friction knocking it away.
"Tire Koukan! Formula 03!" Mr. Belt announced as a set of wrench blades appeared on one of his forearms. He let loose with some slashes, coming into range of the Go-Ongers, who could finally move normally thanks to his Core Drivia.
"Stay close to me, and you'll be able to move normally! I'm Kamen Rider Drive! Let's take this guy for a spin together!"
Melee weapons drawn and using their speed, Shinnosuke, Sousuke, Hanto, and the Wings all flew past the Metaroid at high speed, slashing it, before Gunpei and Saki hit it with their ranged weapons.
"What? How can you all move?"
"You're the one who won't be moving soon! Let's finish this guy!"
Unfortunately, the Megazord took that time to show up.
"Let's do this quickly!" Shinnosuke called, as he readied the Trailer-Hou, placing Formula in its slot and then placing the other two Pit Crew members in the windowed slot within the weapon. Renn grabbed the Buster Soul; doing so turned it from gray to blue, and then inserted it in place of an Engine Soul into the Highway Buster. The Wings formed their Wing Boosters and loaded Toripter and Jetras.
"Formula-Hou! Hissatsu! Full Throttle: Full Full Formula Taihou!"
Everyone fired; as a ball of energy formed in front of the Trailer-Hou and flew out at the Metaroid; Bus-On declared, "It's Time for Buster! ON ON ON!" as Gunpherd, Toripter, and Jetras all came out as well, slamming into the Metaroid and destroying it.
"BOMPER! The Engine Casts!" Sousuke called as the case appeared before them.
The core five went straight into G6 while the Wings formed Seikuu-Oh. But when they went to attack, their gattai robos, slow as they were, were barely even moving!
"I forgot the Megazords could do the same thing as the smaller ones!' Renn exclaimed.
"So what do we do?" Sousuke wondered.
Shinnosuke was busy thinking about everything and came to a conclusion.
"It's all come together! Belt-san, I have an idea!" Shinnosuke replied, bringing out the Tridoron Shift Car.
He pressed a button to activate it, declaring, "Fire All Engine!" and then held it near Mr. Belt to send a laser into it, initiating the transformation into…
"Drive! Type Tridoron!" Mr. Belt announced as Tridoron itself broke apart and formed armor for Shinnosuke. He used Jacky to launch himself into the air and then into the G6's cockpit, where amazingly, a console appeared for him, and he inserted the Handle-Ken into it.
"You guys should be able to move normally with me here! Let's finish this!" Shinnosuke exclaimed
"Blaster Soul, Set!" The five Go-Onger's declared. Shinnosuke readied his Door-Ju as a substitute.
The spirits of their Engines plus Tridoron were unleashed upon the Megazord, with a Seikuu Impulse from the Wings added to it, sending the Megazord down in flames.
"Go-Onger! Checkered Flag!" Everyone called out.
Back at the Shiba House, Jayden, Kevin, and Antonio were out back practicing sword drills with Navcase, who was under strict instructions NOT to show them any of his special techniques, while Mike had somehow snuck off, found one of his adult self's video games and was playing it in his room.
"You're positive that it wasn't a Nighlok that attacked them?" Ji asked.
"It had to be one of those Attack Bots the RPM Rangers told us about. Whoever is sending over the Grinders is also sending over Attack Bots." Lauren explained.
"Fortunately for us, Dr. K found out and decided to upgrade our system to track Attack Bots coming in as well," Mia added.
"Unfortunately, though, the boys decided to charge in blindly and got turned into seven-year-olds." Emily finished.
"Sakura, do you think that you five can handle the Attack Bot on your own?"
Sakura thought for a moment on their situation. Someone had to distract the boys, and Navcase was doing a good job of that. She would have liked to have his experience in battle against a new foe that the Samurai girls were unfamiliar with, but they would have to make do without him.
"It's possible, but without Navcase available, I wish we had a ringer. Suiren?" Sakura asked her sister, who seemed to be half listening to the war council and half texting her friend Yoko back home.
"Hrm?" She asked wordlessly.
"That girl is really going to hate me for this, but could you try giving Kouta a call? Maybe he could give us a hand." Sakura asked.
Unseen by the population of Panorama, the ghost of Ryoji Hase wandered about, looking for the man who had killed him, Lock Dealer Sid. Unfortunately, he had run into a young man in a flowery hoodie.
"Get rid of that Ganma Eyecon! Those things are dangerous!" The young man pleaded.
"Not until I take my revenge! I'm now powerful enough to take him out!" Hase shot back, transforming into his Inves form, which could probably be classified as a Ganma now.
"Looks like I'm going to have to do this the hard way." The young man replied, summoning a Driver near his belt, taking out a strange object and pressing a button on the side of it, opening his belt buckle like a portable cassette player and inserting it, pulling out the lever.
"Eye!" The Ghost Driver announced. A strange orange and black coat thing called a Parka Ghost then flew out of the belt and began floating around as the Driver intoned "Batchiriminā!"
The young man went through a series of kata motions and then shouted, "Henshin!" as he pressed the lever in.
"Kaigan: Ore! Let's Go! Kakugo! Gho-Gho-Gho-Ghost! GO! GO! GO! GO!" The Driver announced as the Parka Ghost merged with the young man, as parts of his body glowed while transforming him into Kamen Rider Ghost. He pulled his sword out of his belt buckle and then charged at Ganma Hase. He slashed away with his Gan Gan Sword, only for Ganma Hase to block several times, and take swings at him, but Ghost simply floated to safety. His Driver went back to standby mode as he switched in a new Eyecon and pushed the lever in.
Kaigan! Robin Hood! Hello! Arrow! Mori de Aou!
A green coat appeared on Ghost, and a Condor combined with his sidearm to form a bow. He pulled and pushed the lever one more time to activate his Omega Drive.
"I HATE ARCHERS!" Ganma Hase shouted angrily.
"My life is burning bright!" Ghost declared as multiple projections of him formed as they all drew back their bows and opened fire, separating Hase from the Ganma Eyecon, and, which exploded.
Back at the Kamen Rider Club Suite, Tomoko had finished her analysis.
"Ryuusei-kun, it doesn't look like that kaijin is even a kaijin. It doesn't match anything other Riders or we have fought." She explained.
"I have better news, Sakuta. It's back. Here are the coordinates." Kengo said, not looking up from the Astroswitch Kaban. Ryuusei went out on the balcony, transformed into Meteor and flew off to the scene.
Back at the Shiba House, the Gap Alarm went off, and the five ladies rushed off to do battle as well.
"Sakura, sorry, I couldn't get in touch with Kouta. He texted me secretly that he'd have his Driver back soon, but not until after the competition..." Suiren explained.
"We'll figure something out," Sakura answered.
"There he is!" Emily exclaimed, pointing to the Attack Bot, which was busy scaring off some people.
"Samuraizer! Go Go Samurai!" The three girls called, drawing their kanji and transforming. Suiren and Sakura followed suit by summoning their armors.
"Super Samurai Mode!" Lauren called, using the Black Box to go Super and make Mia and Emily switch to Mega Mode. They switched their Spin Swords to Mega Blades and then started to land hits on the Attack Bot.
"Help! Grinders!" It called out, and the mechanical foot soldiers came in.
"We'll handle these guys! You three trash that thing!" Sakura called as she and Suiren went after the Grinders.
A blue ball of light touched down, as Kamen Rider Meteor Storm arrived on the scene.
"Who are you?" Mia asked in Japanese.
"Kamen Rider Meteor Storm! My fate will deliver a storm!" Ryuusei replied.
"Well, if you've got issues with this guy too, feel free to join in!" Lauren added. As the three Samurai Girls and Ryuusei hacked away at the Youth Attack Bot, Sakura and Suiren worked on the Grinders.
Meanwhile, Kamen Rider Ghost fought against Ganma Hase, but being demigoddesses, only Sakura and Suiren could see him.
"Hey sis, maybe we should ask that orange guy to come help out too!" Suiren asked.
"He looks like he's pretty busy at the moment, let's concentrate on these guys," Sakura replied. Sakura reversed the grip on her swords, and then launched into her Kaiten Kenbu Rokuren, reducing the Grinders to scrap metal.
At the same time, the Youth Attack Bot was on the ropes. Ryuusei stood by, while Lauren charged up the Super Bullzooka and Sakura charged her cannons, and Suiren started gathering energy for her sure-kill.
"THUNDER...BOLT...CUT!" She called out, gathering energy around the blade and then swung through the Attack Bot, then shot clear as both Sakura and Lauren opened fire, followed by a Meteor Storm Punisher, which caused massive explosions as everyone struck their victory poses.
Back at the suite, Gentaro and Yuki turned back to normal, as did the Samurai boys. The chip kicked in, making the Attack Bot gigantic, and it was time for round two. Lauren went all out, breaking out the Samurai Gigazord. It did, after all, turn her younger brother into her little brother, and made Emily a cougar, considering the age difference that it had put between her and Mike. Lauren went Shogun as well, and with the girls filling in the missing kanji of the guys, they opened fire, finally taking down the Attack Bot for good.
Later, at the victory party at a local Japanese restaurant, the boys could not believe they had been turned into seven-year-olds.
"The Attack Bot turned us into kids? I hope we weren't a handful." Jayden said.
"Relax little brother; Navcase kept you all distracted while we took care of things," Lauren assured him.
"I can't believe we just charged in blindly like that. We should have thought things through first." Kevin mused.
"Relax Kev. It's all over." Jayden assured him.
"Yeah, for now. Wonder what the Nighlok will cook up next for us." Mike wondered.
"Ow!" Octoroo yelped as one of the Grinders took a sample of Octoroo's skin.
"Relax, Octoroo." The man in orange replied.
"Ooh-ah-ooh! I just wish I knew what you were going to do?"
"All the dispensers are in place, despite some complications. It's time to put those Samurai out of business."
This Brings this Chapter to a Close...