A/N: Hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed the previous chapter as well as the special surprise at the end of the previous chapter. I haven't uploaded the latest chapter of The Hunt for the Eyecons (Kamen Rider Ghost x Ghost Hunt) because it is hard to think of a good chapter for it so I am still in the brainstorming stage if you can call it. ALso Chapter 2 of Kamen Rider Faiz: Eyes Glazing Over (Kamen Rider 555 x Coppelion) will be uploaded on January 2nd, 2016 since on December 25-January 1st, I will be gone for a little while. And look forward to the Christmas special for Remnants of Desire (Kamen Rider OOO x RWBY) on the 24th (Christmas Eve). And feel free to submit more OC Shift Car/Signal Bike/Viral Cores but on PM. Now let us begin the chapter of this story!
Henshin!
Third Person View
'Thought'
Mr. Belt
Roidmudes/Monsters
The young man was exploring the new place. It kinda reminded him of Japan but at the same time it was different. To him it was very interesting so he decided to get out his camera to take photos of the buildings and sights.
"Is it possible that we're in different world?" The figure pondered.
The toy bike honked, wondering the same thing as they looked at their surroundings. They saw signs here and there until the toy honked very loudly.
"What? You detected Roidmudes? Here?" The young man asked. The Signal Bike pointed at a certain direction. Following the direction, he took notice of a small glimpse of a black and blue car driving in the other side.
"Masaka… the NEXTridoron…" The young man muttered in disbelief. How can it be possible when Paradox was defeated by Shinnosuke?! "That means Paradox is here…" he muttered, clenching his fist.
The Signal Bike honked with affirm tone.
"We need to find out what Paradox want with this place and stop him." The young man said with resolved.
He didn't noticed a certain purple-black bike went passed along with the NexTridoron.
Kamen Rider Dark Drive: Hyperdimension Road
Chapter 8: Welcome to Lowee! Going at Mach Speed!?
After a little more walking in the save, we soon walked out and saw that we made it to Lowee and the sight was amazing. It kinda reminds me of the country Japan that Mr. Belt mentioned. "So this is Lowee." Chase noted. "It does remind me of home."
"You're right about that Chase." Mr. Belt agreed.
I looked at the others but noticed one thing. "Wait, where's Plutia?" I asked.
"Huh? She's not with us?" Neptune wondered the same thing.
"Plutia went missing?" Noire looks surprised.
"We were heading here but I guess Plutia was behind us before noticing." Chase assumed.
"So you two left her behind?" I raised an eyebrow.
"I didn't know she wouldn't catch up." Neptune replied.
"Then let's go find her then." Chase informed. We nodded as we began our search.
Our search was taking us 5 minutes here and there as we looked for Plutia as the others were asking where she was. Trying to ask more people to find out where she is, I noticed an old man wearing a brown hat, brown jacket. "Excuse me." I called out, his attention averting to me. "Have you seen a girl with pale purple hair, wearing pajamas and has red eyes?" I asked.
"Sorry, lad…" the old man said in a cranky and sick voice.
"Oh okay." I muttered with my shoulders slumped. "Why does she have to be like this." I walked away to continued my search to look for her.
We regrouped after a while as Chase leaned against his Ride Chaser while I sat on the hood of NEXTridoron. "Any luck?" I asked him.
"Nothing yet. I sent the Viral Cores to look for her." he answered.
"You guys!" Neptune's voice called out.
We turned our heads to her as she had a smile on her face. "Noire found Plutia, come on!"
Getting off of our vehicles, we followed Neptune as we saw Noire running up to Plutia. "Plutia."
"We found her pretty easily." Neptune cheered.
"I thought you guys got lost?" Plutia asked causing me, Noire, and Neptune to sweatdrop.
"That's Plutia for 'ya." I chuckled.
"But you were the one who got lost!" Noire argued.
Plutia tilted her head. "Huh? I was lost? Really…?" she asked making me and Noire sweatdrop.
"And who's she?" Noire pointed, making us look at the woman behind her, making me blush from seeing who she is.
The woman has long, light blond hair with long bangs framing her face and has blue eyes. She was wearing a dark sea foam-teal colored dress with puffed somewhat sleeves and black spiked cuffs. She has very thin light green straps connecting to a choker piece on her neck, resembling the belt she has. The dress covers her lower half and goes between her legs, while the back part is much longer with spiked lining. Around her waist she has a black belt-like piece with green circled pads on each hip, connecting to a very light blue ribbon/sash. Her hair also has a matching colored hair bow, while on her neck was something matching the belt. Her shoes are black slip-ons with same pads at the toes and ballerina-like wrappings around her legs. And her dress revealed a bit of her… busty assets...
Me and Chase were left completely quiet as we saw the woman in front of us five. To put it into words, she has a figure that other women would die for. I gulped from seeing her as my blush increased more. "U-Um…" I stammered.
"Enrique, why is your nose bleeding?" Mr. Belt asked.
Suddenly I felt a chilling aura and saw Noire is the one responsible for it. "E-Enrique…" Noire growl with dark aura.
I quickly wiped the blood off my nose before looking at Noire with a small panic. "S-Sorry!" I apologized but I also noticed a hint of… jealousy in her eyes? Why is she acting like that?
I quickly got my senses together and regained my composure. "Who are you?" I asked.
Before she could answer, Neptune spoke up. "IT'S VERT!" she exclaimed in joy.
This caused the woman to have a shocked look. "Y-You know who I am?" she asked, nervous.
"You know her Neptune?" Noire asked.
"Yeah. In my world Vert is Leanb-" before she could continue, the woman now named Vert covered her mouth before pulling her away.
"Huh? What was that about?" I asked.
"Don't know." Chase muttered as he shook his head a bit. "It's strange though. I was having this weird feeling when I saw that Vert woman."
I noticed Mr. Belt quiet. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know but I sense that we are being watched."
"By who?" I asked.
"I don't know but it feels… familiar for some reason." he answered.
"Huh…" I muttered as I looked around. But I look around and I don't see anyone.
Meanwhile the young man from before taken off of his old man disguise as he spied on them. 'Is that Chase? But how is he alive!? What is he doing with Paradox?!' The young man thought as he watching them while hidden behind the bushes.
He is quite surprised to see the young man he came across with Chase and realized that he might be Paradox's new human disguise.
The young man was having many thoughts in his mind. But this doesn't make any sense as to why Chase is working with someone like Paradox.
"What shall I do?" He pondered. There is no way he could face Paradox since he can turn into Dark Drive. Not to mention, Chase might be brainwashed to work for him.
"Don't worry… I will get you back somehow, Chase…"
After a bit, Neptune and Vert returned to join us.
"So you know Vert?" I asked.
"Kinda but she isn't the Vert I remember." Neptune said in a joyful tone.
"Then let's get moving to the Basilicom and bust down the front gates!" Noire declared.
"Isn't that a bit extreme?" Chase raised an eyebrow.
"So what? The CPU of Lowee was responsible for what happened to my factory back in Lastation." she argued.
"If I may, can I join the party?" Vert asked politely.
Noire crossed her arms. "You expect us to let some total stranger tag along with us?" she questioned.
"Wasn't that the same thing you told Neptune when she introduced me to you and Plutia?" I quirked an eyebrow.
"That was because it's you. This is different." she countered.
I sighed. "Let's just let her tag along." I muttered as we were about to travel until the air suddenly shifted.
"A Slowdown is here as well." Chase noted as we looked around. We also took notice that Vert was experiencing it.
"What… is going… on?" she asked, shocked.
I handed her Funky Spike, causing her to move at a normal pace. "Just hold onto that Shift Car. It will help you move normal under the Slowdown." I informed.
"Oi! I thought you and pig-tails were stuck in that pit!?" A voice exclaimed.
Following the source, our sights were on two individuals who looked to be twin guys. One with blue hair wearing a flannel shirt with red striped while the other had red hair with a flannel shirt that is blue striped. "Uh… do we know you from somewhere?" Neptune asked.
Pixels soon surrounded the two before revealing their actual forms. It was Roidmude with the numbers 018 inscribed on its chest and has a hat on top of its head and another Roidmude with an ammo belt on his chest and waist with a light brown cape on its back, and a hat with his face having red eyes; this was Roidmude 017, the Gunman Roidmude "074 said you were suppose to be stuck in that pit!"018 pouted. "And I thought me and onii-chan could finish our snacks!"
The Gunman Roidmude dropped the box of sweets he carried as the two got their weapons ready. "Time to take you out, Drive! Grim Reaper!"Gunman Roidmude roared as it and 018 charged for another round to fight.
We were about to attack until a set of mini tracks were created as it went around the two Roidmude, hitting them. "Belt-san, did you call the Shift Cars to do that?" I asked.
"That wasn't me, Enrique." he answered.
"Nor me." Chase added.
"That would be me, Roidmude." A familiar voice answered.
We soon turn around as Chase and mine eyes wide in shocked to a young man with brown hair, white jacket, wearing yellow pants and shoes.
"Gou…" Chase said in disbelief. "You're here?"
"Holy…" I muttered in shock to what I saw what he was holding in his other hand. "The Mach Signal Bike!"
"Masaka…" Mr. Belt muttered in disbelief.
"Onii-chan, it's another one of the other Drive Riders!" 018 pointed at Go.
Gunman growled. "It's that bastard from before! We won't fall like last time!" he noted. "You get him."
"Alright!" 018 laughed before going after the Go.
But Go sidestep to avoid the attack and deliver some kicks at the Roidmude's behind.
"Don't call me weak…" He said before opened up the Mach Driver as a trumpet like noise went off and insert the white Signal Bike into the Driver.
"SIGNAL BIKE!"
He then closed it onto the driver.
"RIDER~!"
Soon enough, the left side began to ignite as if it is flaring up for ignition as Gou got ready.
"MACH!"
"Let's…" Gou moved his arm a bit in a gesture. "Henshin!"
A holographic cylinder formed around him. And as that happened a set of horns can be heard. Then bits and pieces of armor formed around him until they placed on top of him forming a suit. The new Rider stands in a black bodysuit, but was densely covered in white protective armor, segmented in pieces, the chest plating appearing like protective plating a motorcyclist would wear. On his side was a pair of red stripes which rand vertically down his body. Over his heart, was a yellow R-like symbol. On his right shoulder, face outward was a motorcycle wheel with a blank rim. Hanging from his neck in a dramatic fashion is a scarf, white with red stripes. His helmet looked very much like a motorcycle helmet, colored with red stripes running up the front. His visor was exactly that, a visor of blue which looked like it could fit with a motorcycle helmet. As an accent, he had a set of V-shaped antennae coming from the forehead.
"Tsuiseki…." He then spun around as he grasped his hands together.
"Bokumetsu…" he moves his hand in a gesture.
"Izure mo…" He then clapped his hand together before spreading his arms out.
"Mach!" the new Rider said, doing a stance.
"Kamen Rider! Ma~ch!" He declared as he was battling against the Roidmude.
"Whoa… who is this guy?" Neptune asked.
"T-The original user of Mach armor, Go Shijima…" I stammered.
"But how is he here?" Chase asked in disbelief.
018 try to fired at Mach, but Mach jumps out of the way and got out his weapon the Zenrin Shooter to countered fire at the Roidmude as sparks flying up in the air.
Soon Mach charge forward before delivered couple of punches at 018's chest to made him stagger.
Mach suddenly spins the wheel on his Zenrin Shooter.
"FRONT WHEEL!"
Mach then spun around and slash the 074 again as sparks flying in the air.
"Too slow..." Mach chuckled before taking out a red Signal Bike from his side, replacing it with the one in his Driver.
"SIGNAL BIKE!"
He then pressed down the Mach Driver.
SIGNAL KOUKAN! KIKEN!
The music that resembled a horror violin chord was heard, as a missile picture can be seen on the tire he is equipped with.
"SHOOTER!"
He shot at the air before pressing the button on his belt.
*VROOM!*
KIKEN!
At first we thought was something big.. but a little... animated bullet came out? We all stared at the tiny bullet as it was walking on its tiny legs. "What is that littl-" Noire soon saw the Roidmude try to shot at the animated bullet.
"You shouldn't have done that." Mach comment.
Suddenly the little animated bullet grew large and roared.
"Holy canoli!" Neptune gaped. "It grew into a huge thing-a-mabob!"
"No way…" Noire muttered terrified.
018 started screaming as he got bitten by the animated bullet.
"I told you this would happen again." Mach comment.
"Onii-chan! Onii-chan!" 018 cried out.
Now Gunman looked at Mach in anger. "You put him down!" he roared as he went after Mach but I intervened as I kicked him back.
"Not this time." I vowed. "Belt-san!"
"Start Our Mission!"
I turned the knob as the music played and I thrusted my arm out, presenting the Type NEXT Shift Car in my other hand. "Hen...shin!" I announced as I insert it to the Shift Brace.
I was then donned in my Dark Drive armor as the lenses glowed before it dimmed.
DRIVE! TYPE: NEXT!
"Let's begin the mission." I announced.
"So I was right! Y-You're Paradox!" Mach exclaimed angrily. "What are you planning, you sick bastard?!"
"I'm not Paradox!" I exclaimed with a tick mark. "Jeez, first Chase and now you!?" I then kicked 060 back once more before getting out Blade Gunner. I slashed the Roidmude across the chest before shooting it, causing sparks flying off its chest.
"Like I believe you!" Mach spat.
Mach noticed that 018 try to shoot at the girls, but he got out another Signal Bike immediately and swapped with the one in his Driver.
SIGNAL BIKE!
SIGNAL KOUKAN! TOMARE!
The picture on Mach's wheel changed to a picture of a downward triangle with the word 'STOP' on it and he pressed the button four times.
SUDDEN TOMARE!
A red energy stop sign came out and it stopped 018 in his tracks.
"Damn it…" 018 grinning his teethes.
"To think you're low at harming little girls… unforgivable." Mach said before changing the Signal Bikes again, this time being green.
SIGNAL BIKE!
SIGNAL KOUKAN! MAGARU!
Mach then aimed his gun up high, shooting multiple shots overhead.
"Why are you missing the target?" Neptune asked, confused.
But Mach had other plans after he rapidly hit the button on the top of his belt.
SUDDEN MAGARU!
The shot literally curved towards and hit 018 dead on, on the chest.
"GAAHH!"
But Mach isn't finished there, he then places the Mach Signal Bike into his Zenrin Shooter and spin the wheel.
HISSATSU!
Mach pressed down the button on his Mach Driver.
FULL THROTTLE! MAGARU!
018 began to escape from the fight. However, Mach suddenly releases a shot into the air before it goes down on Roidmude 018, causing him to exploded.
"Why you little!" Gunman roared as he went after me but I blocked his attack before I struck him from the side and punched his face.
"Not this time, Roidmude." I grabbed Max Flare from my Shift Holder and insert it into the Blade Gunner.
HISSATSU!
I pressed the button on the side of the Blade Gunner.
FULL THROTTLE! MAX FLARE!
Now the Blade Gunner was ignited in flames as I charged towards the Roidmude. "Seyah!" I exclaimed as I struck the Roidmude in a fiery slash.
"Not again….!" It cried out before it exploded.
I sighed in relief before I turn and find Mach pointing his gun at my face, right on my forehead plate.
"Why don't you dropped the act and show us who you really are... Paradox?" Mach questioned in a very cold tone.
"I'm… not… Paradox!" I shouted. "I'm not that Roidmude! Belt-san chose me as the new Drive and we ended up with the NEXTridoron!"
"He is telling the truth, Go!" Mr. Belt confirmed, causing Mach to look down at Mr. Belt. "Please lower your gun."
"Belt-san… No way..." Mach muttered in disbelief. "You're here too…"
"He isn't a bad person!" Neptune protested.
"Yeah, he is a nice person." Plutia defended.
"They are right. He is a nice guy." Noire added. "He helped us fight monsters."
Now Mach found this situation very awkward before having another question. "Then how is it possible for Chase to be here? I-I thought he was gone."
"I was brought back but in this place." Chase explained as he held his grip on Break Gunner. "I escaped before my memories were gonna be wiped out."
"Again, someone is reviving the Roidmude, huh?" Mach said before removing his Signal Bike from his Driver to revert back to his original form.
NICE WORK!
I released the breath I held when he pointed his gun at my forehead. I removed the Shift Car, reverting back to civilian form.
"Nice Drive!" Mr. Belt said.
"Well Belt-san and I have been here for three years." I explained. "I was 19 with fragmented memories when I got here and still am young now, still remembering and getting my memories back."
"Sorry about your loss." Go said, putting his hands into his pockets. "Wait you said you're still 19? How's that possible?"
I chuckled nervously before I removed the contact lenses that made my eyes dark brown, revealing the white power symbol iris and cyber blue eyes. "This is why." I explained as I also pointed at the blue tints at the edge of my hair. "A CPU Memory gives a person the ability to be a CPU but can have a chance to turn you into a monster if it fails. However, it became a Shift Car and made me part CPU. Neptune, Noire, and Plutia are full fledged CPUs."
The young man looks at the three girls. "He is telling the truth." Neptune said.
"Then I take your friend is the first guy CPU?" he asked.
"Yuppers!" Neptune nodded.
"Well, I'm Enrique." I introduced myself before gesturing to the three girls. "These are my friends; Neptune and Plutia: CPUs of Planeptune." I then gestured to Noire. "This is Noire, CPU of Lastation." She huffed as she turned her head away from Go.
"Let's me guess… she is tsundere." Go mused.
"Hey!" Noire barked.
"Oh, and this is someone we just met, Vert." I gestures to her.
"Good evening," she smiled.
When Go saw her, he blushed a little. "Umm, nice to meet you..."
"Hey lookie, he is having that same reaction on his nose." Plutia pointed.
"Umm… Go, your nose." I pointed out.
Gou looks down and noticed his nose have some blood before he wiped away in embarrassment. "My bad."
I looked at Chase and Gou knowing that it is a reunion between the two. "Go, during my three years here, Belt-San has been helping me get through some situations as well as teaching me." I explained. "And it is an honor to meet you. Belt-san told me about you." It is true that I met another veteran Rider but I didn't want to tell him about how in my Earth he is a fictional character.
"No problem. Sorry that I mistakened you as Paradox." He then dug through his pocket before getting something out and walked up to Chase. "I think this belongs to you." He smiled at his friend.
Chase recognized the Chaser Signal Bike and his driver's license. "Go… Thank you." he said, putting it away.
"No problem, pal." Go said.
"I hate to break the reunion but we need to get to the Lowee Basilicom." Noire informed us.
Go looked at her, a bit confused. "Basilicom? What's that?"
"It is a building that houses the Goddess of each nation." Chase explained before pointing at Noire, Neptune, and Plutia. "Noire, Neptune, and Plutia are Goddesses."
This made Go sweatdropped. "No way… I thought Goddess are supposed to be taller." he comment.
"Neptune, show him." I said.
"Of course." Neptune said before transforming into Purple Heart. "What do you think?" she asked.
"I stand corrected." Go muttered. "But it is a bit revealing..." Purple Heart giggled before she went back to her normal form.
"But one other thing, Go…" I slowly pointed at Plutia. "For the love of all things, do not go near her when she is in HDD form."
"Why?" Go asked.
"She makes anyone around her the lower grade while she is the dominant." I shuddered. "In HDD form, I am considered her 'toy'."
"Whoa…" Go looks nervous at Plutia. "Thanks for the warning."
"The only person who isn't affected by her is Chase." Mr. Belt said before saying quietly, "Thank goodness for that…"
"If anyone can scare Belt-san like that… is my concern." Go comment quietly. "Then let's go to this Basilicom since you guys are heading there."
"Wait, you are tagging along?" Noire asked.
"He should, Noire. Chase and Go are friends and he has experience like Chase does." I explained.
"Fine." she accepted.
Go has join the party
Go blinked as he looked at me. "What wa-"
"You will get used to it." Chase and I answered in unison.
"Hmm… this reminds of a videogame…" Gou comment.
Our walk continues as I saw Go talking to Chase, making me smile. Go started to hate Chase and first but called him a friend when Chase died by risking his life to try to beat Banno. 'At least now they can continue as friends.' I smiled.
"So Banno is using Lupin, huh." Go said after Chase explain the situation to him. "And the Roidmudes don't even realize that he is here."
Chase nodded. "And there is a group called Seven Sages. We encountered one of their members and defeated him."
"I see…"
"There is one thing I've been wondering, Go. How did you end up here?" Mr. Belt asked.
"That I would like to know too." I said.
"Well… I'm not exactly sure what happened." Go said.
"So you don't know?" I asked. He nodded.
"But I do remember being kicked out of some portal." Go said. "Some grayish like mirror… It was something I came across while I was working with Hakase."
"Grayish mirror?" Chase and I looked at each other.
"What about you? How did you end up here?" he asked me.
I lowered my head. "I don't remember to be honest. I woke up in the NEXTridoron and met Belt-san." I answered. "During the past three years, parts of my memories keep returning. I remember where I came from, having parents… even losing a father..."
"I see…" Go said. "Was your father… a good person?"
I slowly nodded. "From what I remember, he was a soldier and the person I looked up to a lot…" I replied. "I was 11 when he died."
"Looks like we are here." Noire informed us.
We looked at the Basilicom in front of us and it was a tall building. "It is a nice place." she commented.
Go got out his camera and took a picture of the Basilicom. "A nice place indeed." he agreed.
"It's like a princess's castle…!" Plutia commented in awe.
"Baww, unfair! Only Blanc gets to live in such a cool place!" Neptune pouted. "Plutie, let's make our Basilicom bigger!"
"Awww, I like cozy ones… It gets all echoey and lonely if the place is too big." Plutia said.
"You can discuss your renovation plans at length once we get home. For now, let's move." Noire informed the two.
However, Vert took notice of something. "The security is quite lax for a Basilicom." she noted. "Are they being careless, or…?"
"Let's tread carefully." Chase informed. We nodded as we entered the Basilicom.
Meanwhile inside the Basilicom…
"Lady Blanc, reports indicate that the CPUs and the one called Dark Drive have entered our Basilicom." The minister informed. "And they brought two more people with them as well."
"So they are on their way up here…" she muttered.
"You intend to go through with it? Fighting three CPUs and a man with unknown power all by yourself?"
Blanc narrowed her eyes at him with a threatening aura. "You think I will lose?" she questioned.
This made the minister panic a bit. "No, no! Of course not." he denied. "But eliminating three of the CPUs seems like a lot to take on…"
"I don't plan to eliminate them."
"Oh, is that so?"
"That would only make the people revolt. I'll just… give them a painful message." she answered. "My fists will tell them, "Don't you dare defy Lowee ever again."
"Aren't you letting them off easy? As long as they live, they are a threat to Lowee."
"They don't be." she assured. "As long as I run a tight ship."
"Forgive my impudence, but your ship is not running tightly. Is that not why we are under attack now?"
Now the aura around Blanc became more threatening. "...The hell was that?" she growled.
Now the minister panicked more. "P-Please forgive me! I said too much!" He pleaded. "But it is my duty as your trusted aide to give my candid opinion.
"Don't get full of yourself just because of your title."
"Y-Yes. Of course. Well… I have various things to prepare, so if you'll excuse me." he said before he quickly left.
"Tch. That asshat has a pretty rotten mouth. But that'll end after today, too." she said. "I won't lose. I will remain Gamindustri's only CPU!"
The moment we entered the Basilicom, it started out as a large open area. "Wow this place is a big place." I said in awe.
"So how do we go up there?" Gou pointed at the first floor of the building.
We pondered for a moment as Neptune run ahead of us. "Any ideas?" Vert asked.
"Hey you guys!" Neptune called out to us.
We looked at her and saw she was already at the first floor.
"How did you get over there?" I asked.
"There's a shiny crystal over there and it brought me here." she answered cheerfully.
We looked to where she pointed at and saw a floating crystal.
"What do you guys think?" Chase asked.
"It won't hurt to try it…" Gou said before touching the floating crystal and vanished.
"He's gone!" We exclaimed.
"I am up here!" Gou said, waving his hand with Neptune.
We looked at each other before we went to the crystal before it teleported us with Gou and Neptune. "Now that was interesting and fascinating." Mr. Belt commented with a happy emoticon.
"Let's keep going." Noire informed as we began our trek in the Basilicom. We had to go through multiple teleportation crystals that lead us from the floor to the first floor then back to the bottom floor. No wonder there are teleportation crystals, this place is like a big japanese-style castle.
After getting to the last teleportation crystal, we saw that we were back at the ground floor again but this time, there was walls around the area and a large room in front of us. "This must be where Blanc is." Neptune said as she slid the door open. "Oh hey, a big open room!"
The rest of us entered the room as we looked around. "It sure is…. Um, this could be…" Plutia started.
"Our destination, maybe. Looks like the CPU got tired of waiting for us." Noire finished.
"You're late. I figured you all retired or something." a voice said. We all looked at the source and saw the same girl with light blue hair and red eyes back at the border.
"When you say it like that, it sounds like you've just been sitting here, waiting for us." Noire countered.
Blanc who was in her HDD form looked at Chase and Gou. "Who are those two clowns."
"Who are you calling clowns?" Gou questioned with a tick mark. "I thought Goddess are supposed to be taller."
"Are you calling me short!?" she roared with a murderous aura.
"Bad idea to say that when she is HDD'd up, Gou." Neptune said.
"What if I am?" Gou asked with a smirk.
Now we saw a shadow cover her face as a red eye was only there. "I'll kill you all… Prepare yourselves! I will become the only CPU in the world!" she declared as she got out a very large axe at pointed it at me. "That includes you CPU brat."
"The world's only CPU, hmm?" Vert repeated.
"If you want a fight, you got one!" Noire said.
Before the rest of us could react, a door, out of nowhere appeared before it was opened by the Abnes girl. "Ga-thunk!" she announced. "Hey, don't start fighting yet!"
"What a little girl doing here?" Go asked.
"Stop calling me younger and younger things!" she pouted she pointing at the rat we recognized, Pirachu. "As for you, get that camera set up!"
"Ugh, why'm I the one who always has to do the bitch work…?" Pirachu complained as he was getting the camera set up.
"Stop whining! I'm busy with other things myself, but I still came here to do this." Abnes countered.
Plutia saw Pirachu as her expression became more happy. "Oh, goodie. Mister Rat is here too. Tell me why, please…"
"It's not that complicated. Lowee and the Seven Sages are obviously in cahoots." Noire answered for her.
White Heart huffed. "You're too quick to judge. They're just giving me a helping hand."
"I see, I see…" Vert muttered. "Lowee and the Seven Sages."
"Sounds fishy." Go said.
"Get ready for a beatdown you CPU newbies!" White Heart said to Noire.
"Pretty confident, aren't we? Let's see how you fare against us brand-new CPU newbies!" Noire retorted.
"Is that a threat, bitch!?" she growled.
"Come you rat, it is about to start!" Abnes questioned.
"Shut up, you priss! I ain't use to this kind of thing so…" he then got the camera set up. "Okay, all set!"
"All right, let the camera roll." she said before getting out a microphone. "Greetings, Gamindustri! It is I, the lovely idol of the Seven Sages, Abnes!"
"... Yeesh. It's creepy how much of a two-faced girl you can be."
She glared at the rat before continuing. "I'm sure you're all soooo surprised with my sudden broadcast, but this is must-see TV!" she then pointed at us. "Right here, in front of adorable ol' me, are a bunch of CPUS and three fighters preparing to fight it out!"
"What the heck! We are on TV!?" Noire exclaimed.
"Oh, I thought it would be good for the world to see your faces when I beat the hell out of you!" White Heart explained with a smirk.
"Or they will shows us kicking your sorry butt." Gou suggested, making White Heart more pissed.
"If that is how it's gonna go…" Noire was soon covered in a light before transforming into her HDD form. "I'll show the world how fast Lowee's CPU falls in battle!"
"Come on you five, transform." she said to me, Chase, Gou, Neptune, and Plutia.
"Are you sure…?" Neptune asked nervously because of Plutia.
"I am."
"A-Are you out of your mind, Noire!?" I asked. "What if children saw this on television!?"
"That would be really bad!"Mr. Belt added.
"Are you all gonna fight me or not!" White Heart growled.
I looked at the two until I looked at Vert. "Vert, keep an eye on Plutia." I said as Gou, Chase, and I stood by Neptune and Black Heart.
"Aww… I can't transform." Plutia pouted.
"Let's do this…" Gou said, getting out Mach Signal Bike.
"As a team…" Chase said with Break Gunner at the ready.
"Right." I nodded as I got Type NEXT in my hand.
White Heart raised an eyebrow at Chase and Gou.
Chase pressed the barrel against his palm as music began to play. "BREAK UP!" it announced before Chase was soon in his Mashin Chaser form. "I am the guardian of humanity, Mashin Chaser."
"SIGNAL BIKE!"
"Star our Mission!"
As Gou opened us the Driver and placed his Signal bike inside, I thrusted my arm out with the Shift Bracer and got the Shift Car ready.
"RIDER~!"
Soon enough, the left side began to ignite as if it is flaring up for ignition as Gou got ready.
"MACH!"
"Let's…" Gou moved his arm a bit in a gesture. "Henshin!" he announced before he was donned in his Mach armor.
"Tsuiseki…." He then spun around as he grasped his hands together.
"Bokumetsu…" he moves his hand in a gesture.
"Izure mo…" He then clapped his hand together before spreading his arms out.
"Mach!" he continue, doing a stance.
"Kamen Rider! Ma~ch!" He declared.
"Hen...shin!" I announced before I insert the Shift Car into the Brace.
With that, I was soon donned in my Dark Drive armor with the Tire attached to my chest.
DRIVE! TYPE: NEXT!
"Kamen Rider Dark Drive…" I got out Blade Gunner. "Let's begin the mission."
Now Neptune decided to transform before she was in her HDD form.
"So… there are more of you so called Riders…" White Heart muttered. "But I am going to enjoy this."
She charged forward at us five but Black Heart blocked the attack but was pushed due to the amount of force.
"Don't forget about us." I said to White Heart as I got Blade Gunner ready to strike her. She took notice before she pushed Black Heart back and blocked my attack. It is a good thing the blade was made with the material I got with Mr. Belt's help to withstand attacks like this.
As we continue our clash once more, I used the gun function to deliver a few round onto her, causing her to stumble back but made her pissed.
"I will smash your helmets to pieces!" she growled as she deflected the next strike and delivered a slash across my chest, sending me back.
"Is that so?" Mach asked as he charged forward with his Zenrin Shooter. She tried to strike him but he dodged it. When she tried to aim for his legs, he jumped before using the Wheel on his Shooter to strike her. "Miss me." he taunted.
She went for his head but Mach ducked before using his weapon as it made contact to her before he used that advantage to spin around as the blade struck her.
This send White Heart flying backward in the process.
When she got up to get ready for another strike, she felt a tap on her shoulder, making her look back and saw Mashin Chaser as he punched her right in the face with the use of Break Gunner. "Even if you are strong, the strongest can be the weak." he informed her.
"Damn you, you piece of scrap metal!" she roared as she brought her axe up, ready to cleave him to two. However, Purple Heart intervened by striking her by the side, interrupting her attack and said, "You shouldn't get too distracted when their are other opponents."
White Heart was now angered at a maximum level. "Then take this!" she roared as she slashed Purple Heart, sending her flying before going after Black Heart who tried to dodge the attack but instead White Heart grabbed her arm and spun herself before throwing her to the wall.
She then looked at us three and charged forward but saw Mashin Chaser charging. "Not this time scrap metal!" she brought her axe down and fly over and struck him by the back.
"Chase!" Mach shout with worried. "Are you alright?!"
"I'm fine. That CPU is a tough one for her size. The more she is angered, the more she gets powerful." he assured.
"What should we do…?" Black Heart asked as she got back up.
"I have an idea." Mr. Belt said.
"What?"
"Enrique, call out Digital CPU and Type Wild."
I was wondering why until my eyes widen behind my helmet. "I forgot, Digital CPU doubles my power with the abilities and Type Wild boosts strength and defense." I realized. "Then in that case… Digital CPU, Wild!"
With that, a set of mini tracks appeared before I caught Type Wild and switched Shift Cars and pumped it.
TIRE KOUKAN!
With that, my armor formed into Type Wild.
DRIVE! TYPE: WILD!
"Seems a bit different than Shin-nii." Mach noted since the visor almost looks like Dark Drive and the pattern on the black armor.
"And now…" I caught Digital CPU. "For another power boost."
I switched Shift Cars and insert Digital CPU.
TIRE KOUKAN!
The Wheel on my shoulder changed as a tire similar to the Type Wild appeared with the power symbol on the rim and the blue digital circuits on the tire.
DIGITAL CPU!
"Oh man, this feels awesome!" I said as I got my arm out with the rim on my right shoulder glowing before it released two bladed disks that slid down to my hand, before usng my other hand to hold onto the other bladed disk. I charged forward with White Heart charging at me. When she struck my armor, it caused a sudden quake but I didn't budge from it.
"What the hell!? Is this how strong you are…" White Heart uttered.
The bladed disks powered up before I struck her multiple times and threw them around her. As the disks went to attack her from the sides, she blocked them but failed to notice my shoulder charge as I rammed her to the wall like a mad bull.
"Whoa… I wonder where I can get one like that…" Mach muttered, impressed by the ability of the weapons.
White Heart got herself out of the wall as she stumbled a bit. "You think… I will lose to a shitty brat like you?!" she growled. "I won't lose to a bunch of CPU newbies or to you so called Riders!" she went for one more strike but I used the disks to block it.
"We are not brats or newbies. We do what we can to fulfil our duties." I countered as I pushed her back with the others joining my side. "Let's finish this!"
We soon charged once more as Purple Heart and Black Heart attacked her with a cross strike, Mach and Mashin Chaser used their weapons to deliver multiple rounds as I pressed the button on the Shift Brace.
HISSATSU!
I pumped the Shift Car.
DIGITAL CPU!
Now symbol on the tire glowed bright as it created circuits on the armor before going into the disks as they glowed with dark blue energy. Once fully powered, I charged forward and threw them as they began to strike her from all directions before the floated onto my arm as it enclosed into a cannon. "The mission ends here." I declared before sending a blast that sent her flying to the wall once again "Mission complete."
White Heart fell on her knees as she cringed in pain.
"A-And there you have it, fiend!" Black Heart panted. "CPU of Lowee, this was a lesson in humility!"
"She sure is the same Blanc I know, to have held her ground against the five of us for so long…" Purple Heart noted.
"At least she was taught a lesson." Mach crossed his arms.
"And that's a wrap! Did you see that, Gamindustri!?" Abnes said to the camera. "Not only we seen a group of guys able to transform but the CPU of Lowee has lost! She has been utterly defeated!"
"I… I lost…?" she muttered. "Me? I did…?"
"Lookie, lookie!" Abnes pointed at her. "Look how sad the CPU who ruled over you like a tyrant appears now! Ahahaha! So lame! Incredibly uncool!"
"I...I.." White Heart went back to her normal form, revealing a young woman wearing an outfit inspired by a Shrine Maiden attire and consists of a red dress with fold-skirt and a leafy pattern along the bottom. The dress has a black tank top piece with an accessory with red lining and a blue sphere in the center with thin strings. At the top of the dress is a golden flower piece with black strap connecting around her waist. Over this is a white jacket with a big tassel hanging on the ends of both sleeves with flowers. On her right arm is a bracelet, made with oversized black and white beads. Her white cap has red and pink petal pattern and a black circled segment in the center. She also has on high high stockings with red lining and black sandals with red ribbons at the toe and flower symbols. "I'm losing so many believers… My powers are drying up…"
"Blanc.." Purple Heart muttered with a pity expression.
"What a brat. I don't care about Lowee's CPU or anything, but that's going a bit too far.." Black Heart muttered.
Mach glares at Abnes and Pirachu. "You two…" he growl. "Sickest bastards."
We saw another man enter the room as he was wearing a business suit, white hair, and glasses. "Oh, dear… Lady Blanc…"
"Minister… I…" she muttered but didn't know what to say.
"I see that you have lost. I expected as much." he recalled.
"What… should I do?" she asked. "If this keeps up, my nation… Lowee will.."
"Do not worry, leave everything to me." he assured. "Yes… because I will do whatever I want to this nation!"
"Huh? ...Minister?"
The man laughed. "Minister!? How wrong you are. My true identity is… Mister Badd of the Seven Sages!"
"A member of the Seven Sages!?" I exclaimed, surprised.
"Seven Sages…? You?" Blanc questioned. "H-How can this be…?"
"You must have appointed him as your right hand man without realizing he was one of the seven members of that group." Mashin Chaser assumed. "He must have planned this: us beating the CPU of Lowee."
"Bwahahaha! Right you are! We are grateful to you all." Mr. Badd laughed. "Had you CPUs and fighters lost, I would've had to keep ingratiating myself under this hot-headed child."
"I'm out." Abnes said before she left.
"Hey, wait for me!" Pirachu shouted.
"Hold on a moment." Mr. Badd stopped Pirachu. "You must broadcast my political and socioeconomic agenda as this nation's new leader." he then looked at us. "Before that…" he snapped his fingers.
With that the doors opened, revealing soldiers that look to be for Lowee but they weren't alone... we even saw some Roidmudes with them.
"This looks bad." Purple Heart said as she was looking at the numbers.
"Arrest them. Make sure they don't have any game-breaking escapipes to warp out of prison with!" he ordered.
"Understood!/Understood!" nodded.
"This can't be good." I growled.
"We can't fight them all when me and Purple Heart are already low on energy…"
"Then we need to retreat." Mach suggested.
"You three won't escape." a familiar voice said.
We looked and saw a man with dark blonde hair, wearing glasses as he was wearing green suit.
"Brain!?" We exclaimed. "Is that you!?"
He chuckled. "That's right. And you three have no escape so I suggest you do as we say." That was then we realized that Brain might have had his memories wiped out of anything related to Banno.
We gritted our teeth behind our helmets. "Enrique, we can't let them take the Shift Cars, Signal Bikes, and Viral Cores…" Mr. Belt whispered.
I slowly nodded as I whispered to the five I held. "You guys get out of here…" I muttered.
The Shift Cars I had were quiet before they honked in understanding.
"You guys too." Mashin Chaser and Mach said.
They all honked before they made their fast escape as we all reverted back to our normal forms before the soldiers got out braces to keep us restrained with Brain walking up to me with a smug grin. "You may not be that Drive I remember but I will enjoy seeing you rot behind bars." he grinned before he walked away.
"You bastards…" I growled at Mr. Badd and Brain. I was gonna resist but one of the Roidmudes punched me as everything around me went black.
To be continued….
(ON THE NEXT DRIVE)
"We are in some dungeon, Enrique…" Mr. Belt responded but I was glad they didn't take him.
"We are getting you guys out of here." Vert said as Plutia placed in the key.
"How did you all escape my dungeon!?" Mr. Badd demanded.
"Time to show you how I roll at Mach Speed!" Gou announced as he presented a familiar motorcycle with side car.
SIGNAL BIKE/SHIFT CAR!
RIDER! DEADHEAT!
Next time: Prison Breakout! Fighting Another Member of the Seven Sages!?
AN: Sorry about the cliffhangar folks but that is it for this chapter. Don't forget to check out my other stories as well as my upcoming story The Divine Providence of the Three Kingdoms (Kamen Rider Gaim x Koihime Musou) and look forward to more. I will see you all in the next chapter! Stay in the shadows everyone!