It has been 10 years since the Skywall Tragedy.
In the attempt to open Pandora's Box and release it's massive amount of energy capable of destroying the world…
… A new Battle has begun!
Sekai no owari de umareta hikari ima kaze no naka
(rising up underwater rays of light beaming down, as we exit the water we see Sento holding the Rabbit Bottle. He turns to look at us as we zoom in on his eye. His red eye turns blue, then into a rainbow of colors. Scene changes to the Pandora Box as it opens)
IS Infinite Build
Kireigoto dake ja ikirenai
(We move out to the Japan skyline, a massive tower in the center of Japan as we pan up to the sky.)
Yasashisa dake ja iyasenai
(Change to a sky view as every Rider passes by with a concerned look on their face.)
Ubawareta no wa nanda ?
Kawaranai sekai de
(A pair of feet running across the ground jumps off a building, as we zoom out to see Cecilia and the IS girls along with an army attacking the Tower.)
Kikoete kita no wa nanda ?
Shukusai no uta
(Chifuyu reaches out, as she and Sento hold hands, only to change to Katsuragi as he and Sento stand off against each other.)
Everything is bright
(All of the Full Bottles light up, coloring a clear blue skyline.)
Kudakechitta yume o
(Build jumps up, as Sparking rises up behind him. Panning right, we pass Rabbit Rabbit, Tank Tank, Cross-Z, Cross-Z Charge, Akatsu, Akatsu Charge, Grease, Grease Crusher. As Rogue jumps in and kicks the screen.)
Asu no hate ni hibikaseru you ni
(Scene changes to a hidden Winged Rider flapping his wings out, flying past and taking up view is a Glowing Red Dragon Rider. View changes to upper body, their body's still shrouded but with another shadow behind both, as our view is split down the middle.)
Sekai no owari de umareta hikari
Bokura hitotsu ni
(We pass in a flyby of every character not connected to the Riders.)
Ima kaze no naka
(Change to Chifuyu Smiling at the Camera)
(Tabane stares at the screen, as red and blue light color halves of her body.)
(Namba stands with his cane as the same red and blue lights illuminates him)
(Sento stands tall, as his lights are a rainbow illuminating different shades across his body)
Construct 117: Overflow Magma! Pt 2
We are Observer
Stark:(glances at Cross-Z) Now… I'm sure you're itching for a fight.(crimson aura bursts forth) We should begin too.
Cross-Z:(takes out Magma Knuckle) Stark…(charges Stark) WHAA~!
Stark:(tanks punches) The Transteam System is merely a borrowed form.(hits Cross-Z in the back) You cannot beat me!
Stark knee kicks Cross-Z in the face, stumbling back Cross-Z goes to throw his fist again. Stark creates a crimson flame wall that deflects the fist then slams Cross-Z back. Build kicks the Clone Smash back and slashes the Clone with the Buster blade. With Build's other arm forming into a blade and slashes the Smash up. The Clone Smash sumbles back but moves back towards me.
Build:(confused) What?... That did nothing?
Stark:(arm locks Cross-Z) Oh, right. I forgot to mention.(kicks Cross-Z away) Those Clone's don't feel nothing. They will fight till they die! So… Have fun!
Build:(takes out Full Full Bottle) Damn it!(swaps armor) Come on!
Cross-Z:(pacing around Stark) What are you after? Did you kill Kasumi just to make me stronger?!
Akatsu:(glances over) What?
Stark:(chuckles) Rogue told you that?(long sigh) Oh, Gen-Chan, what a blabbermouth.
Cross-Z:(charges Stark) Answer me!
Cross-Z throws his fist at Stark, who catches his fist. "That's right! What I seek is your strength." Stark said, pushing aside Cross-Z fist. "But it's still… not enough!" Stark dodges to the side, placing her hand on the box as a laser blasting away Cross-Z. "Ichika!" "Cross-Z!" Akatsu and Grease shout, "What was that?" Build wonders. "Stark~!" Grease and Akatsu charge at Stark. Leaving Build to deal with the Clone Smashes.
Stark:(deflects and attacks) Oh ho! Did Cross-Z fire you two up?(grabs Grease) But you're not strong enough either!
Akatsu:(swings blade) Stark!
Stark:(lays hand on Box) Houki-chan.(pillar blocks blade) You're closer than the others… But not enough!
Akatsu:(pushed back) Wha-?!
The Box lights up, the wall slams Akatsu into the wall knocking her out. "Oriya!~" Stark uppercuts Grease then a pillar shoots out of the wall and slams Grease into the wall, her armor fading away. "Houki! Madoka!" Cross-Z shouts. "He can control Pandora's Box?!" Build said blasting a Clone Smash. Stark laughs as she pats the box, glows again. "That's my power!" A Box outline forms around Cross-Z as a series of explosions go off inside the box, the box fades. Ichika drops to the ground gasping for air as smoke rises from his body.
IS Cafe… We are Chloe…
Scrolling through the wall of text data, we come across something. "I was right." Sawa said, pulling up a report and images relating to the report. Images of a Young Ichika, cellular, and DNA structure. Alongside are examples of images to compare.
Sawa:(looking through) It says here that they discovered Banjou had a non-human gene structure.
Chloe: Non-human?(eyes widened) Like Extra-terrestrial? Alien Genes?
Sawa:(steps back) Yes… It seems they found a similar but different gene match.(taking glasses off) This is just my speculation… This may be a similar case to you and Shinonono-chan.
Chloe:(looks at Sawa) What?
Sawa:(pulls up separate files) I don't have all the details yet, but I've been having trouble with accessing the Shinonono data, but there is a similar mystery around Houki-chan.(brings up previous files) But I think there was an alien hiding in the Unmanned probe for Ichika, it somehow entered Banjou's Mother in some form.
Chloe:(sets down plush) Then it possessed Ichika in the womb.
Sawa:(nods) Yes, until his parents died in the accident… Banjou regularly visited Namba Heavy Industries Integrated Sciences Laboratory for examinations after.
Chloe:(looks at Sawa) But Ichika never said anything about that.
Sawa: Yeah, Chifuyu didn't mention anything about it. Did the Laboratory carry out the examinations in secret? Or did they do something to Banjou?... I don't know.
Chloe: Didn't you say something about Shinonono?
Back at the fight… We are Ichika
I fall face flat on the ground, pain aching all through my body. "Is that all the power you have?" Stark asks, I attempt to move my head but each turn aches too much. "Ichika!" Build's shouts echo in my ears, clear my left but muffled silence in my right. "Stop it!~" Build footsteps quickly approach from behind. "Nope! Boop." Stark said as she placed her hand on the box, I wince and close my eyes bracing for the inevitable. A flash of light followed by an explosion… Opening my eyes and with great pain I look up to see Sento the Build armor heavily damaged. His arms out to block the blast. The Build driver drops to the ground as the armor fades off Sento.
Ichika:(struggling) Sento…
Stark:(steps over) Oh, Sen-chan. Taking a point-blank shot?(grabs Sento) You want to die that badly?(knee kick's Sento) Oh well…(drags Sento) In that case. I'll just kill you like you want then.
Ichika:(reaches out) N-No… S…Stop…
Stark:(chock grabs Sento) Are you just gonna let someone close to you die again?
Sakura petals suddenly float down around me. Each one brings me back to her, back to Kasumi. Her warm arms wrapped around my own, the glee I felt in my heart. The happiness of that time, suddenly the pedals flew off, a cold gust of wind just like the one blowing in my face as I held her in my hands, her body glowing and fading away with the wind. I watch Sento as he is being beaten by Stark. His words of science, his support of me, his smile, that he shared with me and so many, made me feel whole again. Houki fell to the ground before my eyes, the support she showed me, the feeling of happiness I felt with her. All of it, now cold and distant, like a limb without feeling frozen and heavy.
Ichika:(struggling to move) C-Come on… Why?(trying to clench a fist) Why isn't my body moving?! Why can't I stand up?! He… They… believed in me!
Sento:(gritting teeth) Do-Do your… Worst!
Stark:(clenching fist) Don't say I didn't warn ya~!
Ichika:(watching beat down) He gave me back my future! Helped me love again!... Yet… Once again, I can't do anything…?! Is… This really okay?
Staring at the dirt under me, the shadow of myself. My eyes water, as a drop falls from my eyes. A feeling of helplessness, but it's soon replaced with another feeling. I think back to everytime Sento got back up, how he must have felt. That same feeling, but being reminded to get back up, how he must have felt. The people by his back, his own love of others driving him. A feeling wells. 'No… NO!' That warm feeling in my heart begins to grow hotter and hotter. As my fist finally clenches.
Ichika:(pushing himself up) The… Hell…
Stark:(glances over) …?
Ichika:(eyes glow red) NOT!
Stark:(drops Sento) Good…(steps over to box) Keep going, Ichi-kun!
A red beam of energy from Pandora's Box is blasted into me. The blackened bottle flies out of my pocket and floats in front of me. The red hot rage inside me, seems to burn- No, it's hotter than that! It melts all around it! It's glowing Magma, white hot! My body flows with a crimson arua all of the pain in my body seemingly vanishes as my aura enters the bottle, shattering into a fully formed bottle. I reach out and grab it, as I hold my Magma Knuckle ready.
Sento:(points to Knuckle) Ichika! Insert it into the Knuckle!
Ichika:(nods)...
I shake the bottle and open the cap, then insert the top of the bottle down into the slot in the Knuckle. "Bottle Burn!" I flip the grip sliding it over the top of the knuckle making a top grip. I insert the knuckle into my Driver, as the front of the knuckle parts to the side showing the bottle inside. "Cross-Z Magma!" A warmth builds in the belt as I grab the crank and turn it. Heavy music plays as a Magma Knuckle shaped cauldron of molten metal forms behind me and raises itself over me ready to tip onto me. "Are you Ready?!" "Henshin!" I shout as the Molten steel falls over me. The hot magma fills the room but not touching any one as magma dragon heads rise out from the magma as they are exposed to the air, the metal darkens and becomes solid as does the steel over me. The cauldron then turns up right and slams into me breaking the steel and revealing the new suit.
"Infernal Muscles! Cross-Z Magma! Akc Cha Cha Cha Cha ACHAA~!"
Cross-Z Magma has a color scheme of black, orange, shades of yellow, and gold. The Undersuit is orange, obsidian pieces of armor are black, eyes are gold, and various shades of yellow mixed in among the orange Magma. The helmet has twin orange dragon visior eyepieces, with a black dragon with gold eyes going down the center between the eyes. The chest piece is a black dragon face with gold eyes, orange magma flowing between as magma wings spread out form the collar out behind the back. The Shoulders are the same dragon heads. Black obsidian armbands are wrapped around the upper arms, while the gauntlets are black dragons, jaws open with flowing red magma hands out of them. The belt has the Magma Knuckle inside it, with black skirt pieces to the side. The legs are dragon heads going down from the waist. The head armor stops just at the ankles that are marked with obsidian ankle guards.
Sento:(glances at Stark and points) Cross-Z Magma…
Cross-Z:(clenching fist) My power is filled to the brim! My soul is on Fire! My magma is Overflowing!
Stark:(snaps fingers) Show me what you got.
The two Clone Smash run up to me and grab my arms. The flame in my heart blazes and fills my body, a flame aura blasts out of my body knocking the Clone Smash back. I spin around, clenching my right fist as the dragon on it folds over creating a Dragon Head Knuckle guard. My fist rams against the Clone Smash crushing it's face inwards before blowing it away through a pillar and into a wall behind it where it proceeds to explode. Looking at the other that fell over, the obsidian scales across my suit raise up and fires off. The scale missiles fly straight into the Clone Smash launching it into the air. The chest dragon rises out and opens its jaw wide as a ball of Magma forms and blasts into the Clone Smash completely destroying it.
Cross-Z:(turns to Stark) No one can stop me now!
Stark:(battle Cross-Z) Good Ichika! Show me how powerful you are!
Cross-Z:(punching Stark) Just what I wanted! Come here!
I bring back my hand and throw it at Stark, the Dragon head on the Gauntlet flies out grabbing Stark and flies around the room, slamming Stark though pillars and into a wall. "Burn!" I shout, puffing out my chest as a Dragon face rises from it. 4 other Dragon heads from the shoulder and from over the shoulder move up next to the head. All 5 dragon heads open their jaws with rays of energy beam on the dragon head at the chest. A massive ball of energy builds before a torrent of magma blasts at Stark encasing her in a shell of obsidian. The obsidian suddenly begins to glow again before exploding, dropping Stark to the ground.
Stark:(stumbling up to feet) Gah!~ Not bad! Heh…
Cross-Z:(cranks belt) Right now, I don't feel like losing!
"Ready GO!" Jumping up into the air, Magma dragons follow my path upwards before I drop kick down at Stark, who tries to deflect the dragons that charge it with the chest Snake. Only for the Snake to be burnt away before the combine at my foot forming into a dragon head that rams into Stark. "Volcanic Attack! ACHAA~!" I drop down to the ground. That warmth in my body… Starts to feel kinda… Hot.
Cross-Z:(grumbles) Ow! It's hot! Ow! It's hot! Way too hot! Hot! Hot!
Sento:(points at Box) Ichika! Pandora's Box!
Cross-Z:(helmet unfolds) Whoa! That's much better! Still hot!(looks at Sento) Huh? Oh right!(rushes over to the box) Hot! Hot!
Stark:(getting up) I won't give up Pandora's Box.
We are Sento…
Stark raises her gun trained on Cross-Z's exposed head. "Ichika!" I shout, just as Cross-Z grabs the Box. It glows crimson red as the wall suddenly shoots out hitting Stark into a wall. "What?!" Cross-Z and I exclaim at the same time. The wall to the right of Cross-Z begins to shift revealing an exit. "Hey? Hey?!" Cross-Z shouts.
Sento:(looking at the room) It changed… The tower is changing? Why?
Cross-Z:(helmet folds back on) I don't understand, but let's go!(gestures) Sento come on!
Sento: Ah- Ri-(nods) Right, I'll grab your sister.
"Wake up Bakadoka!" Cross-Z exclaims stepping past her, he kneels down to Houki putting the box in her hands. Another crimson glow comes from the box as it gathers around the item I gave her. 'What is happening?' I wonder as I hoist Madoka up in my arms. "Hold on to this for me." Cross-Z said, lifting Houki up in her arms in a princess carry. "Okay, let's move!" Cross-Z shouts as we head down the path that has opened before us.
Stark:(giggles) Finally, the Vessel is complete. Now I just need to find the ultimate Driver and everything will be in place.(chuckles)
Sento:(looking at Stark)...
Cross-Z:(walking past) What are you doing? Let's go!
Sento:(nods) Right…
We leave the room, leaving Stark alone to laugh to herself. Seemingly satisfied with herself.
Outside…
We are carried out by a box that suddenly forms around us as the ground shakes. The box unfolds revealing us to be back in Touto. On the ground, I place down Madoka as she and Houki just come too. "Ugh… Where are we?" Madoka asks, looking around. Ichika removes the Knuckle as he reverts to normal, still carrying both Houki and the box.
Ichika:(looks at Madoka) What?(sets Pandora box down) You didn't see my heroic form?
Madoka:(looks at Ichika) Huh? The hell you talking about?
Ichika:(smiles) Cross-Z Magma was freaking strong!
Madoka:(sighs) Well, talk is cheap.
Ichika: What? Who do you think saved you?
Houki:(blushing) Um… Ichika? Y-You can set me down now!
Ichika looks at Houki with a smile. "What? Didn't you want to do this Back at the Academy?" Ichika asks, Houki's face becomes even more flushed red. "Wha-But-Y… You remember?" Houki said meekly, burying her face in her hands. "Tch!" Madoka kicks Ichika. "Ow! What the hell?" Ichika shouts, as this happens I can't help but glance back up at the tower. Then slowly back to Ichika and Houki. 'Those crimson glows… They happened every time Stark controlled them…'
Sento:(muttering) How did he control Pandora's Box? And… Does Houki possess that ability too?
Ichika:(stepping back) Hold on! I'm carrying Houki! Stop!
Houki:(holding onto Ichika) He's right! Stop, Madoka! Stop it!
Madoka:(frustrated) Oh! Think you can be all lovey dovey! And shove it in my face!(reels back leg) I'll show you!
Ichika and Houki:(in synch) STOP!~
IS Cafe… We are Chloe
As we scan through the data, Sawa pauses and quickly highlights a line. "Chloe-chan! Look here!" She exclaims pointing at the line. It's a line regarding leadership in the research project. "The person in charge of Banjou's research!" I read closely and recognise a familiar family name. "Katsuragi… Shinobu" I muttered.
Chloe:(leans back in chair) Katsuragi Takumi's… Sento's… Father.
Construct 117 Complete…
Next Time Kamen Rider Build!
A conspiracy contrived by Sento's Father?
Ichika: What do you mean I'm not human?!
Sento: To think my father was researching them…
Houki: What… What are you saying!?
Stark: Your powers are the same as mine. It is for destroying the world.
Banjou destroys the World - ? Life blooms in destruction.
Houki: Even if it burns… I'll still be growing until I bloom! Henshin!
Construct 118/119: Programmed Tragedy and The Rebirth Bloom