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Chapter 16 – The Rise of Valhalla Part 3: Escape and Grand Scheme
Nexus Lupin: Previously, Temple Fortress Alpha was under attack by a mysterious military organization known as Valhalla. They managed to sabotage their defenses and communications, allowing them to execute a surprise frontal assault upon the base. With no way of calling for help, Temple Fortress Alpha had no choice but to evacuate everyone while the garrison buys enough time for them to escape. But it seems that Valhalla has already gotten through and are in the process of invading the whole temple fortress and the people are still in the process of evacuating. Not only that, it seems that the army has set their sights on the vault, where some of the Multiverse's most powerful and dangerous artifacts are stored. Now what could be so valuable inside that's caught Valhalla's attention? And will all the inhabitants of Temple Fortress Alpha ever escape this siege? Well... let's go and find out...
We open to one of the hallways of Temple Fortress Alpha where we see the group composed of Nova Corps members Corpsmans Tazer Ral and Rhoss Drevirn, Denarian Zevor Kreld and the unnamed Nova Corpsman and UNSC members ODSTs Tyler Kirby, Doran Dunn AKA Slammer, ODST captain Sergeant Angelo Garcia and Spartan II Chief Petty Officer Daisy-023 recuperating from their narrow escape from Valhalla.
Daisy who had her damaged (and now useless) helmet removed was currently sitting on the floor with her back leaning against the wall as Sergeant Garcia and Corporal Kirby were tending to her wounds.
"Alright..." said Garcia after applying a UNSC medical substance called Biofoam onto the Spartan II's wound "I've managed to seal your wound chief" he said "I'm afraid, this is all I can do for you until we can get you some medical attention" he told her.
"Ugh... it's alright sergeant, I appreciate it though" responded Daisy with a nod.
"Dang it..." uttered out Tazer "Can't believe we got our keisters whooped!" he said.
"We were taken by surprise Taze, there was no anticipating that a situation like that would happen to us" reasoned Rhoss.
"I know! But it's still frustrating! We failed to secure the prisoners and not only that, we lost some of our team back there!" ranted Tazer.
"Excuse me?! If you hadn't noticed bucko, but we lost our team back there as well!" pointed out Slammer "And not tah mention it was practically most of OUR team!" he ranted.
"You wanna fight Helljumper boy!?" shouted Tazer as he and Slammer got into each other's faces "Wanna bet Nova boy!?" shouted back the ODST as they both growled at each other.
"Oi! Dejalo! Stop it you two!" chastised Sergeant Garcia as he and Denarian Kreld got in between the two and broke up their fight "We don't have any time for this pointless squabbling!" agreed Kreld.
"They're right..." spoke Daisy as everyone turned to her "Right now, our top priority is to regroup with everyone else and make our escape" she said as Kirby helped her get back up on her feet.
"Yes sir!" saluted everyone else, knowing that there's no point in arguing with a Spartan.
Suddenly, the sound of a strange noise was heard "What was that?" uttered out Kirby as everyone turned to where the sound was coming from which revealed to be at the end of the hallway where they came from. Said hallway had two paths, one to the east and one to the west and the source of where the sound came from was mostly coming from the east which was opposed to where the UNSC/Nova Corps group came from after their narrow escape.
"Keep your guard up" warned Daisy with narrowed eyes despite her injured state. The group did so as they took out their weapons and pointed them at the end of the hallway and all of a sudden, a greenish blue blur with red streaks came rushing their way alerting them. Before they could act though, the blur stopped in its' tracks creating a strong gust of wind causing the group to cover their sights due to the force of the wind. When it subsided, the group was met with someone standing in front of them.
Said someone was clad in a black full-bodysuit with black gloves with dark gray straps around the thumb, index and middle fingers of the gloves similarly to rings, greenish blue and silver armor with hints of black and dark gray tied up by silver and dark gray straps composed of greenish blue and silver bulky skeletal like chestplate with a red line at the center, silver bulky shoulder armor with two red lines on them, greenish blue and silver bracer armor, greenish blue and red top palm armor, greenish blue and silver thigh armor, greenish blue and black greaves, greenish blue, black and dark gray armored boots, a black and red patterned armored collar that takes a motif similar to a scarf and a black, silver and greenish blue masked helmet with magenta colored bug eyed visors with two silver antenna making it look like a grasshopper. Around his waist with a white belt and black progrise key holders was none other than the Cyclone Riser with the Rocking Hopper Zetsumerise key attached to it with it opened revealing a red background with a grasshopper skeleton on it. This was none other than Kamen Rider Ichigata and currently held over his shoulder was the mission control officer Lucas AKA Lucky who had swirls on his eyes.
Upon seeing the rider, the UNSC/Nova Corps group pointed their weapons at him "Freeze!" shouted Sergeant Garcia and Denarian Kreld.
Ichigata in response raised up his free hand in surrender "Wait, wait! Stop! Don't shoot, I'm on your side!" he reasoned.
"Doesn't look like it judging by how you're carrying that guy like a sack a potamoes" retorted Tazer.
"It's… "potatoes" Taze" corrected Rhoss.
"Ugh… it's okay!" spoke Lucky slowly getting out of his dizzy state as Ichigata put him down "He's on our side" he said while balancing himself.
"You sure about that?" questioned Slammer having a bit of doubts.
"I assure you that I'm on your side, I'm Masahiko Hiden, member of the the Dimension Guardian Force" he said getting the group's attention.
"You were the one at the comms earlier when we met up with the other escort groups!" realized Kirby recognizing Ichigata's voice.
"That's right" nodded Ichigata in confirmation "The one with me is Lucky, one of Temple Fortress Alpha's mission control officers" he said gesturing to Lucky "The only officer to survive that is" added the latter.
"What are you two doing here? Shouldn't you be meeting up with the others?" asked Kirby.
"We were doing that but the routes were crawling with a lot of enemies, luckily, Masahiko's speed was able to go past through them, but then he detected you guys here so we came as fast as we could" said Lucky.
"Glad you came for us then amigos" said Sgt. Garcia "Perhaps you can get all of us out of here then?" he asked.
"That I can do" nodded Ichigata.
"We'll need to get to the hangar pronto, the chief needs medical attention ASAP" said Slammer.
"Just a minute though, let me find a route" said Ichigata as green digital numbers started to stream through his eye visors. After a few moments, the numbers disappeared before the rider turned to the group "Alright, I've found a route, follow me" he said.
Everyone nodded before gathering their bearings and followed Ichigata, hoping to reunite with everyone else.
"DOOF!" exclaimed Gaisorg as he, Sharivan, Orga and Richard Griffin hit the floor "Ugh… this guy's tough" said Gaisorg as he looked towards their opponent, the Valhallan officer known as Klaus Höffner who was currently in the form of some silhouetted monster.
"Hahahaha! Not zo tough now, are you ja?" taunted Höffner, his monstrous claws raised up to the sides.
Gaisorg growled "We have no time for this…" he uttered "We have to get out of here and regroup with everyone else and escape" he said.
Orga who heard, glanced at Gaisorg. He hummed in thought thinking of what to do and after a few moments, his mind was made up. He stood up and charged forward with a roar and swung his Orga Stranzer at Höffner.
"Vhat?!" exclaimed Höffner taken off-guard as he blocked the attack "Guys, you go ahead!" said Orga "I'll keep them busy!" he said.
"What?!" exclaimed the rest of the group "Have you gone nuts Liam!?" exclaimed Gaisorg in disbelief.
"Even with your power, there's no guarantee that you'd be able to take him on all on your own! Let alone his troops!" reasoned captain Griffin.
"No time to argue guys! Just go!" said Orga pushing Höffner back before sending a few slash attacks at some troops who dared come close to him.
"But what about you?!" questioned Sharivan who he along with everyone else fought back other attacking troops.
"If I don't meet up with you guys in time, all of you get out of here!" said Orga shocking the group "I'll make it out on my own, I promise!" he swore.
Gaisorg was hesitant at first but understood "Take care of yourself then!" he said striking another Valhallan troop before opening his Gaisoul Ken and took out a RyuSoul, this one being silver, light green and gold and a yellow closed eye, plus it resembles a Protoceratops. This was the MistSoul "Get behind me guys!" called out Gaisorg flip opening the MistSoul, turning it into a silver knight with a black and light green shield and a gold arm holding a golden sword that releases some splash-like substance before inserting it into the Gaisoul Ken.
MISTSOUL!
Announced the Gaisoul Ken before Gaisorg chomped it closed.
ANCIENT BREAK EDGE!
Announced the weapon before Gaisorg raised up the Gaisoul Ken, the blade facing downwards before stabbing it to the ground releasing large amounts of mist surrounding the area in a quick pace.
"WAS?! (WHAT?!)" exclaimed one of the Valhallan soldiers in shock upon getting hit by the mist.
"And vhat do you hope from creating zis?!" questioned Höffner putting an arm in front of him upon receiving the impact of the incoming mist.
"Oh nothing, just a distraction to allow my friends to escape!" said the voice of Orga before the Valhallan officer received a slash attack causing him to stagger back.
"Laser Blade!" exclaimed the voice of Sharivan before the sound of slash attacks followed by the sound of surprised cries and gunfire were heard within the mist.
When the mist cleared, Höffner saw Sharivan, Gaisorg and Captain Griffin getting away, the former of the three wielding a sword on his right hand which had a long straight silver blade and a black long handle with a black guard called a Laser Blade.
"Zey're getting away!" exclaimed Höffner "Get zem!" he commanded pointing a clawed finger towards the escaping trio as some soldiers proceeded to pursue.
"I don't think so!" said a familiar voice as Orga jumped over the soldiers with a flip and landed in front of them before sending a horizontal slash with his Orga Stranzer sending them back "Your opponent is me!" he declared.
Höffner growled "Stand down soldats…" he commanded "I'll deal vith zis…" he said with narrowed eyes as he approached the Kamen Rider.
Orga got into a ready stance glaring at Höffner behind his helmet and the Valhallan officer glared in return.
After a long silence, with a war cry the two charged at each other as they engaged into another fight.
*BOOM!*
"WADE!" exclaimed Kamen Rider Gatack in alarm upon witnessing fellow Dimension Guardian Wade Chapman get hit by the rockets launched by Valhalla soldiers.
"Hah… vhat a fool zat man vas" commented one of the soldiers making the other soldiers laugh as they stared at the spot where Wade stood which was replaced by a smoking pit.
Suddenly, from the smoking pit, a powerful kinetic energy was unleashed towards the Valhallan soldiers sending them flying to the floor taking them off-guard and surprising everyone else.
"Ugh… VHAT?!" exclaimed a Valhallan soldier getting up from the floor.
Back at the smoking pit, a voice let out a yell and the smoke immediately cleared up revealing a figure in its' place.
The figure was a male clad in a silver and black spandex with the black portions located in the middle of the torso, under arms and legs and orange stripes in between the black and silver, a sigil of a compass with a white circle and a red and black magnetized needle located in the middle of the chest, silver gloves with orange wrist cuffs and metallic blue forearm cuffs, silver boots with metallic blue cuffs, metallic blue belt with a metallic blue holster, metallic blue and transparent red shoulder armor and a silver helmet with a black intricately curved vision visor with orange accents at the bottom and transparent red stripes at the top, a metallic blue mouthguard with four V-shaped breather grills and a silver antenna-like fin facing back at the top of the helmet. Strapped on the figure's left wrist was the Mercury Morpher and held on his hands was a what looked like a metal detector, only it looked like it was built for combat. It had a metallic blue and black color scheme with a black and orange striped handle and black trigger with the same unique sigil located on the side of the shaft near the handle and the bottom part having the detector ring with a silver blade making it look like the sigil.
"Heh… try and kill me now eh mate?" spoke the spandex figure in an all too familiar voice while shouldering his metal detector weapon.
"VHAT?!" exclaimed the soldier in shock.
"Jeezes Wade! Don't scare us like that!" shouted Gatack "And a close call too" said Gatack Zecter.
"Sorry abou tha mates" said Wade giving his allies a two finger salute "It was a close call but I managed to make it!" he said.
"Close call would be an understatement!" retorted Gatack.
"Just… just who are you?!" questioned one of the Valhallan soldiers.
Wade smirked behind his helmet before turning to the soldiers and swung his weapon around and got into a cool pose "Kickin ta overdrive! Mercury Ranger!" Wade announced his alter ego before swinging his weapon around again and got into a stance.
(Power Ranger Operation Overdrive Theme Song)
The Valhallan soldier growled "It doezn't matter!" he shouted before pointing forward "Get him!" he said as he and some soldiers charged towards their new target.
"Drive Detector!" said Mercury Ranger swinging the now named weapon before charging towards the incoming soldiers.
He swung the weapon at a couple of soldiers knocking them back before dodging a right hook from another soldier who received a stab from the Drive Detector in return. Mercury Ranger struck a couple more soldiers and sent a couple of punches and kicks before jumping up high in the air.
"Vhat?!" exclaimed the lead soldier, he along with his comrades looking upwards.
Mercury Ranger retracted his Drive Detector and folded it in half revealing a gun barrel switching it to blaster mode "Here I come mates!" he said before opening fire sending a barrage of blue lasers at the soldiers taking them of guard.
The paladins, priests and trainees looked on in awe at Mercury Ranger's great skill while Gatack on the other hand smirked behind his mask "Heh… show-off" he said.
"He does like to be flashy a lot" commented Gatack Zecter.
Once Mercury Ranger landed, he fired a couple of shots at some soldiers and followed up with a few kicks, punches and pistol whips at a few more soldiers before switching his weapon to lance mode "Could use a little help here mate!" called out Mercury Ranger.
"Right!" nodded Gatack as he reached for the mandibles of the Gatack Zecter and split them open causing a humming sound which turned into beeping while orange electricity emitted from the Zecter and travelled through his bulky armor on his arms, shoulders, chest and helmet loosened, opening up and even his Gatack Vulcans were opening up, all while releasing a *HISS!* sound.
"Cast Off!" said Gatack before folding back his Zecter's mandibles to the sides of the body.
CAST OFF!
And just like that, Gatack's upper armor dispersed, sending pieces of armor everywhere hitting a few Valhallan soldiers in the process while the Paladins and Priests and as well as Mercury Ranger ducked avoiding the flying armor. Everyone then turned to Gatack.
CHANGE STAG BEETLE!
Now relieved of the bulky upper armor, Gatack now had blue, silver torso armor with gold accents at the front part of his armor, blue and silver light armored shoulder pauldrons with a pair of curved blades horizontally attached to the upper part of the shoulder pauldrons in place of his Gatack Vulcans, the butt of the hilts facing front, silver upper arm armor, elbow armor and gauntlets over some bracers, silver wrist cuffs, black gloves with silver and black armor on top of his palms and his helmet was now blue, silver and black with a green jewel at the forehead area, red circular eye visors, his mouthguard was the side and at the side of his helmet were two blue and yellow antler-like horns sticking to the sides as they folded upwards attaching to the sides of his helmet revealing to resemble stag beetle mandibles. This was Kamen Rider Gatack's true form: his Rider Form.
Everyone minus Mercury Ranger looked on in awe and shock at Gatack's change in appearance. It didn't last long as Gatack got into a running stance and took hold of his shoulder mounted blades and detached them with a running charge and struck a couple of soldiers causing them to stagger or fall down and that snapped them out of it as the Valhallan soldiers charged at Gatack with a battle cry.
The blue stag beetle rider got into a stance with his weapons at the ready and swung them at incoming enemy soldiers. The weapons Gatack wielded were called Gatack Double Calibur: two one handed swords resembling stag beetle mandibles with blue and black curved blades with three teeth pieces on the back with a stripe, one white stripe on one blade and one gold stripe on the other blade, dark blue and black handles with two yellow stripes each and white "ZECT" sigils on the side of each blade.
Gatack and Mercury Ranger continued to fight against more incoming soldiers as each continued to fall one by one until one remained.
(End Soundtrack)
"You're outnumbered now mate!" said Mercury Ranger his Drive Detector in blaster mode and pointed towards the last Valhallan soldier present "Either surrender or retreat to the rest of your forces" he said.
The soldier growled "Nein!" he shouted in defiance before taking out what looked like a futuristic looking grenade resembling the Handgranate from Wolfenstien New Colossus alarming everyone "I vill never surrender or retreat in cowardice!" he said "I vill take all ov you VITH MEEEEE!" He declared with madness in his eyes.
But before the soldier could activate the grenade…
"Clock Up!" shouted Gatack before hitting the button on the side of his belt.
CLOCK UP!
And in just a few moments…
CLOCK OVER!
The soldier's eyes widened when he felt something wrong. His hand which held the handgranate suddenly felt numb and not only that, he felt a sudden pain both on said hand and his stomach. He glanced at his hand and saw that it had been cut off reducing it to a stump. He then touched his stomach with his remaining hand and felt something wet, he looked down to realize that he was bleeding. Finally, the soldier glanced behind him and saw none other than Gatack, Gatack Double Calibur in both hands while in a post slashing stance.
"Too slow…" said the stag beetle rider smoothly.
"Mien gott…" uttered out the last soldier as he fell onto his knees "How did he…" he uttered but fell limp before he could even finish his sentence.
"Heh… that takes care-a that!" said Mercury Ranger spinning his Drive Detector before holstering it.
"Ugh… thanks for the help" said Captain Godfrey McGrath while one of the Celestial Paladins helped him up on his feet and supported him by his shoulder "We gotta hurry and get out of here" he said while the other paladins helped up the two trainees who were in danger.
"Couldn't agree more mate" said Mercury Ranger as he and Gatack nodded to one another.
Suddenly, a beeping sound was heard on Mercury Ranger's morpher alerting him and Gatack that someone was calling them. The former checked his morpher and saw that the ID of the caller was Ichigata and answered it "Hello, mister Hiden, where you at mate?" he asked through his morpher.
"We're on our way back to the hangar and I'm currently with a couple of UNSC and Nova Corps personnel right now" said Ichigata "Apparently, they're part of the four escort groups in charge of transporting the prisoners alongside us" he added.
"Does that mean you have the prisoners with you right now?" questioned Mercury Ranger.
"About that…" said Ichigata trailing off before continuing "It turns out that Rhyjack's an accomplice of Valhalla and he let himself get captured as a distraction allowing that infiltrator to sabotage the temple fortress' defenses" he revealed "And while The UNSC and Nova Corps soldiers were escorting him and Scrozzle, Valhalla ambushed them and overwhelmed them forcing them to retreat without the prisoners" he said.
"Crikey… tha's not good" swore Mercury Ranger.
"We're moving as fast as we can but we'd end up having obstacles along the way and even with my speed, I don't think I can get everyone to the hangar on time" said Ichigata.
"Can you send us your current location? I can head over there right now and help get to the hangar faster" said Gatack.
"Sure thing, I'll send it right to you in a sec" said Ichigata and after a few moments, Mercury Ranger's morpher beeps and he pressed a button and viewed a holographic image of the temple fortress' map where it showed two dots identifying both Mercury Ranger and Gatack's current location and Ichigata's group's location.
"There it is!" said Gatack pointing towards Ichigata's dot and it was somewhere far but the stag beetle rider might be able to make it "I got your location Mr. Hiden, I'm on my way now!" said Gatack.
"Be sure that you do Cunningham" said Ichigata before he hung up.
"Good luck getting Mr. Hiden and the others outta there mate" said Mercury Ranger wishing him luck.
"I'm counting on it" nodded Gatack giving his fellow dimension guardian a two finger salute before calling out "Clock up!" and hit the button on the side of his belt.
CLOCK UP!
And just like that, Gatack disappeared into a blue blur and ran through the hallways where the Valhallan soldiers came from.
Mercury Ranger then turned to everyone else "Alright you lot, let's get tah the hangar! On the double!" he said.
Everyone including captain McGrath and Gideon nodded as they helped the last of the injured and headed towards hangar 7.
Meanwhile back at the temple fortress' vault, the celestial paladins were halfway finished with transporting the artifacts as a number of paladins and priests moved every artifact of every shape, size and weight through the secret passage at a steady pace and with care.
High Priest Godwin Ballard opened the door to the room where the most dangerous artifacts were kept and upon entering, he stared at the three artifacts that stood in front of him. He let out a serious hum with narrowed eyes before approaching the pedestals that kept the Giff Stamp and Magnus Liber Mortuorum. He deactivated the security functions and took the two artifacts from their respective pedestals and left the room.
"I need some men over here quickly!" the high priest called out as some celestial priests and paladins went over to the room as Godwin ordered them to carry the Giff coffin out of the room and with their combined effort, the paladins and priests lifted up the coffin using the former's strength and the latter's levitation spells and put them on a hover cart.
"Hmm… it seems that things are going along smoothly" said grand master Rowan Geronimus with arms crossed while high priest Cassius Reginus hummed with a nod as both of them watched the troops move the coffin towards the secret passage.
Suddenly, a slight tremor followed by a muffled sound of an explosion occurred causing almost everyone in the room to slightly lose their balance before stabling themselves.
"What was that?!" exclaimed a paladin trooper in alarm.
"That sounded awfully close" said a celestial priest warily.
Grand master Arnaldus Reinfred let out a silent hum as he turned to the doors to the vault's entrance with narrowed eyes.
Not a moment sooner, the sound of blaster fire was heard outside the doors alerting them.
"That doesn't sound good…" uttered out a paladin trooper.
"Paladins! Take your positions now!" commanded grand master Reinfred putting on his helmet followed by Geronimus doing the same.
"Yes sir!" said the paladins as they all ran to the door until they were at a good distance from it before getting into the formation: Defender Paladins at the front energy tower shields at the ready, Vanguard Paladins behind them weapons at the ready and Interceptor Paladins at the rear ranged weapons prepared, the two grand masters joining them, Arnaldus bringing out one of the staves on the right side of his back activating it turning into an energy hammer and activating his left buckler on his gauntlet creating an energy tower shield while Rowan took out his dual pistols which resembled a pair of futuristic looking Colt M1911 Pistols.
"Celestial Priests! Into formation as well!" commanded high priest Reginus magic staff at the ready.
"Yes high priest!" said the priests as they too joined into defensive formation including Holy Warrior Priest Terricus "Terric" Owain, only for high priest Ballard to put a hand on his shoulder stopping him along with another celestial priest in their tracks, the latter being a Magus Priest.
"Hold up you two" he said getting their attention "I have a special task for the both of you" he said before presenting them with the Giff Stamp and Magnus Liber Mortuorum "I need you to take these with you and head to the ship where the other artifacts are being transported and make your escape" he instructed them.
"What?" said Terric in surprise along with the other priest.
"High priest, what about you?" asked the second priest.
"I will stay here with the others and hold of the enemy until you escape" he said.
"What?!" exclaimed Terric in shock "No you can't!" he said.
"Listen to me!" said the Mystic High Priest "Right now, you must ensure that nobody gets these artifacts" he said "If both of these artifacts fall into the wrong hands, then the multiverse is at stake!" he reasoned "So please, as one of the high priests of Temple Fortress Alpha, this is my last order to you… take these and escape to the realm of the celestials!" he said.
Terric and the priest glanced at each other pondering for a moment before nodding and took the items, the former the Giff Stamp and the latter the book "At once high priest!" they said.
High priest Ballard hummed with a nod before another tremor occurred and it came from the doors as the rest of the paladins and priest got into ready defensive positions.
(Insert Transformers the Movie (1986) - Instruments of Destruction by N.R.G.)
In just a few moments the doors were blasted open via an explosion and from the smoke came the forces of Valhalla entering the vault and leading them were Kamen Riders Sorcerer and Dark Para-DX, Utopia Dopant, the unknown Kommandant and the two hooded figures.
"Go! Now!" commanded high priest Ballard to Terric and his fellow celestial priest while he brandished his cylinder activating it revealing an arming sword with a blue energy double edged blade.
"Yes high priest!" said the two before they ran to the secret tunnel along with others who were carrying artifacts.
"Soldaten! Vernichte sie! (Soldeirs! Annihilate them!)" commanded Dark Para-DX pointing forward.
Iron birds of fortune
Adrift above the skies
Grand master Arnaldus charged forward weapons in hand followed by a few Defender Paladins. The leading grand master jumped up high poised to attack the Valhallan soldiers, only for Dark Para-DX to point his Gashacon Bugvisor Zwei at him and unleash a powerful and well aimed shot hitting Arnaldus on the chest and through his back, mortally wounding him as he fell to the floor.
Cloudy revelations
Unseen by naked eyes
Every celestial paladin and priest looked on in shock at what's befallen of the lead grand master. It stopped when high priest Reginus commanded the troops and priest to open fire as they unleashed a hail of lasers and magic spells at the enemy soldiers.
Flying tools of torment
Will penetrate the sphere
The spells hit a few soldiers but the rest were blocked by a magic barrier courtesy of Sorcerer. Utopia Dopant retaliated by brandishing his cane pointing it towards another hail of spells as they stopped in place shocking the celestial paladins and priests.
Erupt the rock of ages
Bringing final fear
Utopia Dopant waved his cane again sending the spells back to their casters mortally wounding some while the others including Reginus used protection spells blocking them just in time. Suddenly, one of the hooded figures raised up their hand summoning a magic circle sending multiple beams of magic energy piercing through the protection spells and mortally wounding the casters including Reginus who took one last glance at the hooded figure before his world turned black and fell backwards to the floor with a *THUD!*.
Instruments of destruction
Tools of foul play
Grand master Geronimus, high priest Ballard and the remaining paladins and priests retaliated by unleashing a barrage of lasers and spells at the enemy soldiers. Some of the soldiers and those leading them ducked for cover before returning fire with a barrage of their own.
It's a vile interruption
Existence drifts away
The barrage managed to get through hitting some of the paladins and priests. Dark Para-DX pressed the B button on his Bugvisor activating his finisher as he unleashed a powerful laser at the group creating an explosion sending many flying while confusing the others disorienting their formation.
Does it really matter
When nothing really does
The unknown Kommandant pointed forward commanding the soldiers to attack as they charged forward towards the confused paladins and priests as they engaged them in close combat.
Grave eternal darkness
When you're, drained of every ounce
Shots, strikes and blows were exchanged but the Valhallan forces had the advantage in strength and firepower as the celestial paladin and priest forces slowly dwindled.
And when the nightmare's over
The final from the storm
As the celestial paladins and priests continued to hold out, some of the Valhallan soldiers got to the room where the most dangerous relics were placed only to find nothing. The soldiers reported to their commanding officers of what they found and Utopia Dopant and Kamen Rider Sorcerer glanced at each other before looking towards the secret passage.
Dust of all creation
To ashes we transform
Utopia Dopant pointed his cane towards the passage way commanding a squad of soldiers to pursue and the soldiers obeyed as they ran towards to passage way in an attempt to go after the escapees with the relics. Sorcerer decided to get a head start as he cast a magic spell summoning a magic circle below him teleporting him.
Instruments of destruction
Tools of foul play
With Terric, he along with a group of paladins and priests ran through the secret passage transporting what artifacts they could including the Giff coffin when all of a sudden, a certain magic circle appeared in front of them revealing Sorcerer blocking their way.
It's a vile interruption
Existence drifts away
Sorcerer cast a spell sending an explosive shockwave sending them flying. The paladins and priests immediately got back up and proceeded to fight back using their close combat weapons while Sorcerer summoned a halberd and fought back.
-Instrumental-
Despite the disadvantage in numbers, the dark rider had the advantage in skill as he started to overwhelm them.
Terric and his group did all they could to try and get past Sorcerer but he wouldn't budge due to his superior skill with a halberd as his brothers in arms started to fall one by one until he and the magus priest who was with him were the only ones remaining. The magus priest looked for any opening but he couldn't, and so without even a second thought, he gave the holy warrior priest the Magnus Liber Mortuorum and ran towards Sorcerer with sword in hand.
Sorcerer stabbed him on the stomach with his halberd but that was what the priest was waiting for as he dropped his sword, grabbed hold of the other end of the halberd and cast a spell creating a kamikaze style explosion engulfing the both of them much to Terric's shock.
Once the explosion cleared, it revealed Sorcerer still alive but disoriented. This gave Terric the opening he needed as he ran towards Sorcerer and shoulder tackled him causing the dark rider to stagger to the side allowing the holy warrior priest to run passed him and towards his destination leaving the Giff coffin and other artifacts behind.
Sorcerer recovered just in time for the squad of Valhallan troops to arrive. The dark rider pointed forward commanding the squad to pursue Terric in which they obeyed.
Instruments of destruction
Tools of foul play
Terric arrived at the secret hangar where a white and cyan ship resembling a YV-929 armed freighter awaited. The paladins and priests currently there were in the middle of finishing transporting artifacts into the ship when they saw Terric rushing towards them.
It's a vile interruption
Existence drifts away
Terric frantically told them that they must leave quickly confusing them before a certain magic circle appeared in front of him and Sorcerer appeared once more who backhand slapped him knocking him down causing him to drop the Giff Stamp and Magnus Liber Mortuorum.
Instruments of destruction
Tools of foul play
Terric shook his head, slowly standing back up, only to see Sorcerer pick up the Magnus Liber Mortuorum who smiled in triumph behind his helmet. His moment of triumph was interrupted when the celestial paladins and priests who're near the entrance of the shuttle open fired with their ranged weapons and spells at him forcing him to defend himself with his magic.
It's a vile interruption
Existence drifts away
This distraction allowed Terric to lunge forward, grabbed the Giff Stamp and rolled passed Sorcerer. He ran towards the ship and entered while ordering everyone to get onboard in which they did before it closed.
Instruments of destruction
Tools of foul play
The transport ship retracted its' landing gear and proceeded to hover towards the tunnel that would lead outside, all the while the squad of Valhallan soldiers arrived and open fired at the ship in an attempt to stop it.
It's a vile interruption
Existence drifts away
Their attempts were in vain as the ship activated its' boosters before accelerating at full-speed leaving a shockwave in its' wake. Sorcerer just watched on as their prey escaped.
-Vocalized shout-
Somewhere in the desert area a short distance away from the currently smoking temple fortress, a portion of ground split open revealing a secret hatch as the transport ship flew out of it and headed straight for the stars.
As the ship exited orbit, it became transparent activating a cloaking device as it flew through the Valhallan fleet blockade before heading straight for its' designated coordinates.
(End Soundtrack)
Back at the vault, several corpses lay dead on the floor, both from Valhalla and the celestial paladin and priests' sides but most of the majority were the latter group. Among them, grand master Geronimus lay motionless on the floor on his front, his upper torso filled with a number of laser marks smoking on his dead corpse while high priest Ballard also laid on his front motionless and limp while still clutching his deactivated sword.
The remaining forces of Valhalla present were currently walking around the vault, gathering the spoils of their victory collecting what artifacts they could carry and/or use for their cause. Utopia Dopant was overseeing this as he looked around commanding troops to search or gather whatever they can to transfer later before taking notice of certain devices that were still in their pedestals as he let out a hum while approaching them.
Dark Para-DX was with the two hooded figures overseeing things as well when a voice called out to them as they turned to see a couple of soldiers carrying none other than the Giff coffin towards them.
The two hooded figures let out awed gasps as they approached the coffin.
The first figure was the first to arrive in front of the coffin as they slowly raised up their hand and touched it "Giff-sama…" uttered the figure revealing to be female while sounding as if she was reunited with a lost lover.
The second hooded figure slowly raised up their arms forward to the sides and trembled in excitement and awe while letting out exited cries upon seeing the coffin as if they were gazing at a figure of magnificence and majesty "At long last!" the figure exclaimed, his voice revealing to be male "We have finally found you Giff-sama!" he exclaimed.
"Hmm… an interesting sight I must say…" said Dark Para-DX walking over to the two while inspecting the Giff coffin.
"Yes… It wouldn't be a surprise that you'd be awed by our lord's magnificence…" the male figure assumed before turning to the dark rider "None of this wouldn't be possible without your help… and we thank you for it" he said.
"I suppose that this makes our "contract" officially sealed?" asked Dark Para-DX offering a handshake.
"Indeed…" said the male figure returning the gesture as the two shook hands "We look forward to working alongside you in the future" he said making Dark Para-DX grin deviously behind his helmet all the while the female figure continued to marvel at the Giff coffin.
A few moments later, a magic circle appeared and Sorcerer appeared along with the squad of troops with him getting their attention.
"Sorcerer… I suppose your task was a success?" asked Dark Para-DX.
"In a way" said Sorcerer holding up the prize "I have been successful in obtaining the Magnus Liber Mortuorum but I have failed to obtain the stamp" he said getting the female figure's attention.
"It matters not…" said the male figure "We already have Giff-sama, we'll recover the Giff stamp once the time comes" he said.
Sorcerer nodded "Valhalla's main objective was the book after all" he said holding up said book.
"Herr Oberst Gruppenführer!" called out one of the soldiers getting their attention. They turned to the soldier who called the CO who happens to be Utopia Dopant who approached the soldier, the unknown Kommandant following suit "Vhat iz it?" questioned Utopia Dopant.
"Ve ave found zomething zat might benefit us" said the soldier as he stepped aside to show a couple of soldiers carrying none other than the case containing the Sporix.
Utopia Dopant held his chin as he gazed at the sporix in awe and thought "Hmm… vhat are theze?" he uttered out.
"Ah… these must be the sporix that our spies have told us about" said the Kommandant arriving next to Utopia Dopant.
"Sporix you say Kommandant?" questioned Utopia Dopant glancing at the Kommandant intrigued.
"Ja…" nodded the Kommandant "According to the info, when a Sporix hatches, they become a creature known as a Sporix Beast and they come in different forms and come with various abilities" he said.
"Fascinating…" said Utopia Dopant turning back to the case with a grin if it could be shown.
"Oberst Gruppenführer Berkhoff!" called out a voice with a German accent.
Utopia Dopant who's name was Berkhoff turned to the source of the voice along with everyone else as they saw a Valhallan officer walking towards them accompanied by two infantry squads. The officer was clad in a uniform that looks regal depicting his higher ranking. His face was currently obscured and to top off his uniform, he wore a black and light gray accented overcoat with hints of gold over his shoulders similarly to a cape.
"Mein Führer!" said Utopia Dopant revealing the officer to be one of the supreme leaders of the organization as he and everyone else (with the exception of the hooded figures) did the Valhallan salute. The supreme leader held up his hand gesturing them to at ease in which they did "Have you been successful in retrieving the objective Berkhoff? Were you able to retrieve the book?" he questioned.
"Ja mein führer" nodded Utopia Dopant before gesturing to Sorcerer "Sorcerer… I mean Oberführer Krüger vas zee vone to recover zee book before zee enemy could escape vith it" he said.
The supreme leader turned to the dark rider who bowed his head and held up said book "Mein führer…" he said presenting the book to him, the supreme leader taking the book and examining it.
He nodded while humming in approval "Well done Krüger… very well done…" he said receiving a bow of gratitude from Sorcerer "It is my honor mein führer" he said.
"Ve have also found zis amongst our spoilz ov victory" said Utopia Dopant gesturing to the chest containing the sporix getting the supreme leader's attention "Ah… so this is the Sporix I believe…?" he said while handing back Sorcerer the book.
"Ja mein führer" confirmed Utopia Dopant.
The supreme leader hummed as he placed a hand on top of the chest "With these… Sporix in our grasp… and the Magnus Liber Mortuorum… our plans will progress at a higher rate of success…" he said mesmerized at the sight "Nothing in the multiverse will stop us…" he said "We'll be invincible" he declared.
"NOOOOOOO!" shouted a voice.
The Valhallans quickly turned towards the voice revealing to be none other than High Priest Godwin Ballard still alive yet injured as he managed stand back up on his feet.
"Vhat?" uttered out Utopia Dopant in calm shock.
"Hmm…?" hummed the supreme leader with a raised eyebrow.
Godwin charged at the group causing the soldier and the unknown Kommandant to quickly raise up their weapons at him, the former using a futuristic MP40 SMG while the latter a futuristic Walther P38 pistol and open fired a few purple laser shots at the High Priest, only for the latter to repel them using his sword similarly to Jedi using lightsabers against blaster bolts.
"Was?! (What?!)" exclaimed the Kommandant in shock before High Priest Ballard jump flipped over the group just behind the soldiers carrying the case of sporix and raised up his free hand casting a spell sending a powerful wind blast at the group sending almost everyone flying.
"AAAAHHHHH!" exclaimed the three Valhallan soldiers letting go of the case.
"Sheisse!" cursed Sorcerer not being fast enough as he too was sent flying causing the Magnus Liber Mortuorum to get sent flying.
Utopia Dopant on the other hand managed to withstand the force of the wind blast and the same went with the supreme leader who just stood there with his hands behind his back as if the shockwave was nothing but a gentle breeze.
The Kommandant meanwhile was unfortunately another one of those who ended up getting sent flying, albeit to another direction, he then crashed into a pedestal knocking it over. The Kommandant groaned and immediately recovered before taking notice of a certain artifact next to him.
"Hmm…?" he hummed while picking up said artifact.
Back with the other group, the case containing the Sporix landed on the floor causing it to open releasing the Sporix as they all began to float up into the air and fly around the vault at a rapid pace.
"Get ze Sporix!" Utopia Dopant commanded.
"The book!" exclaimed Sorcerer who was on the floor as he pointed towards the airborne Magnus Liber Mortuorum.
"I think… not!" retorted high priest Ballard as he began to chant some incantation while trailing his hand through his sword as runes were marked on its' filler, lighting up in a golden color. Godwin swung his sword sending a golden horizontal slash towards the airborne book as it hit its' mark causing a bright light.
"NEIN!" exclaimed Sorcerer upon witnessing what the high priest just did while he and everyone else shielded their eyes from the bright light. When the light cleared, it revealed the book, only there were about a hundred or so copies of them floating up in the air, all glowed a white aura.
"Was?! (What?!)" exclaimed Utopia Dopant in shock while the supreme leader remained unfazed.
Before anyone could do anything, Godwin raised up his free hand creating a hand sign before making a circle motion. This caused a number of white portals to appear and it was where various copies of the book along with the sporix were sucked into a different portal each before disappearing.
"Nein!" exclaimed Utopia Dopant seeing the sporix and books get sucked into the portals.
CONNE~CT NOW~!
Sorcerer acted fast and scanned his ring to his belt summoning a magic circle next to him. He put his hand through the portal where another magic circle appeared above near some of the books that were getting sucked into the portal. His hand came through said circle allowing him to successfully snatch one of the books before it went through the portal.
Sorcerer pulled taking the book to the portal and back to his grasp, he examined it as the white glowing aura faded.
At the same time, the last of the books and sporix entered the portals before said portals closed disappearing without a trace.
The mystic high priest sighed, breathing heavily while using his sword for support.
"You!" shouted Utopia Dopant pointing his cane at Godwin getting his attention "vhat did you do to ze sporix!?" he demanded.
"And what have you done to the book…" uttered out Sorcerer still examining the book. In the eyes of just about anyone, the book looked alright but to Sorcerer and those with intellect like him, he sensed that there was something off about the Magnus Liber Mortuorum.
Without even looking, Godwin said while panting "I split the Magnus Liber Mortuorum… into fragments… and scattered them… along with the sporix out of this dimension…" he uttered out loud enough for Utopia Dopant, Sorcerer and the supreme leader to hear "I'm not letting you use them for whatever schemes you have planned…" he said "And as for the book… you may have managed to get one fragment but you won't be able to use its' full power without the rest of the fragments" he added.
*BZEW!* *BZEW!* *BZEW!*
"Gah!" exclaimed Godwin in pain as he fell to the floor backwards with a *THUD!* after getting shot on the shoulder, right side of his stomach and leg by three laser shots.
Utopia Dopant, the supreme leader, the other Valhallans and the hooded figures turned to the culprit revealing to be the unknown Kommandant standing with his Walther P38 Blaster Pistol pointed forward held on one hand with the barrel smoking and held on his other hand in a reverse grip was what looked like a sword.
"Is that so…?" said the Kommandant walking forward approaching the downed high priest as everyone including Utopia Dopant and even the supreme leader stepped aside and gave way until the Kommandant was standing above the mystic priest gun still pointed "Why don't you tell me where you sent them?" he demanded casually.
Godwin grunted in pain "They're scattered around the Multiverse…" he said "Even I don't know where they've ended up…" he explained "So long as they're far away from you… you'll never get your hands on them…" he said defiantly.
That earned a slight chuckle from the Kommandant "Oh, that won't be a problem at all…" he said holstering his gun within his coat "After all…" he trailed off while taking out the sword on his other hand switching it to his dominant hand brandishing it "We have our ways of tracking down things" he said.
Godwin glanced at the sword and his eyes widened in shock. The sword was mechanical looking with a pure black blade with the center filler being transparent with orange outlines and intricate designs, a silver sigil in the form of an open book in the shape of a pentagon located at the bottom center of the filler that seems to look like a scanner, a black and orange handle with a silver portion in the middle, an orange trigger and what looked like an orange circular sigil at the center of sword in between the blade and handle with a black symbol of what looked like bird wings with three vertical line above it and on either side of the sigil was what looked like the sword guard which resembles bird wings with an orange and black color scheme while facing two different directions: one of the left side facing upwards and the other on the right facing downwards. This was none other than the…
MUMEIKEN KYOMU!
"That's…!" uttered out Godwin Ballard recognizing the sword.
"Hmm… so, you recognize this sword Ja?" mused the Kommandant while letting out a chuckle "Glad to know that you do…" he trailed off before raising up Kyomu holding it with both hands, positioning the blade facing downwards "'Cause this is the last thing you'll see… before your end…!" he said lifting up his sword aiming for the high priest's chest "Auf Wiedersehen…"
But before he could plunge the sword into him, a hand took hold of one of the Kommandant's arms stopping him "Wait…" said the hand's owner.
The Kommandant turned to said owner "Mein führer?" said the Kommandant confused why he was stopped.
"I have a better idea…" said the supreme leader giving Godwin a sinister grin before glancing at one direction "Ihr beide! Nehmen Sie ihn weg! (You two! Take him away!)" he ordered and the last thing Godwin knew, a couple of Valhallan soldiers came over, forced him up and one of them hit him on the back of his head with the butt of his futuristic looking StG 44 Rifle before his whole world turned black.
Grand master Gunter Averet groaned in pain as all he heard was the sound of ringing in his ears. He then heard the muffled sound of someone calling out to him.
"...unter…! Gunter…! Gunter wake up dang it!" shouted the voice of the one calling out to him.
Gunter opened his eyes with a groan as light hit his sight. His vision became blurry until it slowly cleared revealing high priest Aurelia Serrana looking worse for wear with some injuries and some parts that were bleeding but all in all, she was alright.
Aurelia let out a sigh of relief "Oh, thank the celestial gods that you're alright" she said.
"Wha… what happened?" asked Gunter as Aurelia helped him sit up "All I remember was that we were defending the entrance to the vault… and then there was this explosion… and then nothing…" he said before he groaned out in pain as he held his side.
"Don't move too much" cautioned Aurelia as she slung Gunter's arm over her shoulder while helping him up to his feet "All that matters is that we survived and we need to get out of here" she said.
Gunter glanced at his surroundings and saw the whole place was trashed. Fires and cracks everywhere and not only that, several bodies of celestial paladins and celestial priests lay dead on the ground. Gunter sighed before nodding to Aurelia "Right then… let's get out of here" he said.
Aurelia nodded before raising up her hand in a hand sign while chanting a few words before making a circular motion creating a white circular portal "Let's get out of here" she said.
"Hey! Da drüben! (Hey! Over there!) " yelled out a voice causing the two survivors to turn to their left only to see two Valhallan soldiers. Apparently, they've been spotted.
"Überlebende! Töte sie! ( Survivors! Kill them!)" shouted one of the two as they proceeded to open fire with their SMGs.
"Shoot!" exclaimed Aurelia in alarm as she carried Gunter towards the portal as fast as she could while trying to dodge the soldiers' line of fire. In the end, the two made it through the portal, only barely as the portal closed.
"Scheisse!" swore one of the two soldiers, failing to eliminate the two survivors.
At the secret underground hangar, almost all of Temple Fortress Alpha's personnel have successfully evacuated with only a few people remaining as the last five transports composed of two Condors, two Paladin Shuttles and a Pelican were almost ready to depart.
"Alright people! Last transports, anyone who hasn't boarded, get on! We're not leaving anybody behind here!" shouted a Celestial Paladin Troop Leader as personnel boarded the transports.
Suddenly, a white circular portal appeared behind the troop leader alerting him. He raised up his futuristic M16 Rifle at the portal, only to lower it upon seeing who came out of said portal.
"Grand master Averet! High priestess Serrana!" exclaimed the troop leader in surprise as he ran over to the two and helped Aurelia carry Gunter.
"There's not a lot of time to explain, grand master Averet needs medical attention!" said Aurelia.
"Yes high priestess!" nodded the troop leader "Is there a transport with medical equipment or even a medic here!" he called out.
"Over here! There's a built in medical bed and we've got a medic as well!" called out one personnel from a paladin shuttle. Aurelia and the paladin troop leader went over to the shuttle and with the assistance of other personnel, placed grand master Averet in medical care.
"Thanks for the help troop leader" said Aurelia as she sat down on the shuttle with another medic applying medical care to her.
"No problem high priestess" nodded the troop leader before getting off the shuttle "I'll be joining up with my squad soon. We're almost ready to depart, so you better hang on tight high priestess" he said.
Aurelia nodded "You as well troop leader, may the celestial powers guide you" she said.
"May the celestial powers guide you" replied the troop leader with a nod before the doors to the shuttle closed.
Once every last personnel boarded the transports, the troop leader joined his squad on a condor and all the transports took flight and accelerated through the tunnel.
Awhile ago before the vault was raided…
Meanwhile, Kamen Rider Ichigata together with Lucky, the two groups from the UNSC and Nova Corps were running through the halls with Kamen Rider Gatack running alongside them. The stag beetle rider having joined them a little while ago after helping clear a path as they ran passed a few fallen Valhallan soldiers Gatack took down.
"Alright guys, just a few ways of here and we'll turn at the next corner and we're almost there!" said Gatack.
Suddenly, a white circular portal appeared on the left side of the hall ahead of them as they stopped in their tracks.
"Uh oh, don't tell me it's them again…" said Tazer holding up his arm mounted blaster towards the portal as everyone else was in high alert.
Surprisingly, what came flying out of the portal wasn't the enemy but grand master Mariun Kahler who landed on the floor skidding on her back. She let out a groan before the portal closed. The grand master had a number of cuts and bruises on her body and a very bad gash on her left side where blood was coming out.
"Grand Master Kahler!" exclaimed Lucky in shock as he and everyone ran over to her. Mariun let out a painful groan as Lucky and Ichigata helped her sit up "Master Kahler are you alright?" asked the former in concern.
"Ugh… I'm alright…" groaned Mariun "It's just a a couple of bruises" she said before hissing in pain.
"Doesn't look like a couple of bruises to me Señorita" said sergeant Garcia taking notice of the cuts and gash on her "First aid kit! Apurarse!" he ordered as Kirby gave his CO said kit before the former proceeded to apply first aid to the injured grand master.
"What happened out there?" questioned Daisy.
"I was stationed up at the front walls with high priest Anders before the enemy attacked…" she said "When the enemy came, we retaliated and did all we could to hold them back. But then there was this huge blast and the next thing I knew, I woke up seeing the wall collapsed and I ended up fighting a very dangerous enemy" she said before going into a coughing fit "I fought back… but he was just too powerful for me to handle… and I was easily getting overwhelmed… I could've been killed" she said before getting into another coughing fit.
"How did you survive then? Did it have somethin to do with tha portal?" questioned Slammer.
Mariun stayed silent for a moment before responding "It was High Priest Anders…" she said.
~Flashback~
Mariun was on the floor panting heavily on her knees, holding her injured side with one hand while using her other hand to hold onto one of her swords she was currently using for support. She was glaring at her opponent standing in front of her who was the dark knight Zex, while she obtained a lot of injuries, Zex on the other hand stood unscathed.
"Hmph…" scoffed Zex, his wolf head shaped helmet's red eyes gazing at Mariun's glaring almond brown ones "I was hoping you'd be a better challenge to me" he said in disappointment "But I guess not…" he said before raising up his sword poised to strike down Mariun.
The young grand master merely glared even more in defiance, leaving the dark knight unfazed "Auf Wiedersehen…" he said.
But before he could execute the finishing blow, a fireball came hurling at him from behind causing him to stagger forward making him growl. He turned to the culprit revealing to be high priest Paul Anders still alive with a gash across his front and a hand glowing with a red aura outstretched forward while breathing heavily.
"Paul!" exclaimed Mariun in shock upon seeing her comrade still alive.
"Hmph… merely a nuisance…" scoffed Zex unamused before turning his sights towards the injured high priest.
He swung his sword at him only for the high priest to raise both his hands up conjuring a barrier causing the dark knight's sword to bounce off. Zex Growled before he swung his blade again only to get the same result before doing it again repeatedly. This caused the high priest to struggle.
"Paul!" exclaimed Mariun managing to get back on her feet.
She attempted to run towards him and his attacker, only for a barrier to stop her "What?!" Mariun exclaimed in shock and confusion putting her hands on the barrier.
She looked towards the high priest who had one of his outstretched hands pointed towards her direction confirming that he was the one who conjured the barrier blocking her way towards him and Zex "Paul, what are you…?" the injured grand master questioned confused.
The high priest merely shook his head confusing her even more. What the high priest did next was make a hand sign with his outstretched hand and made a circular motion and the next thing Mariun knew, a white circular portal appeared behind her.
"Wha?!" she exclaimed looking back at the portal only for an unknown force to push her in. With that, high priest Anders deactivated his forcefield before he was struck down by the dark knight causing the young grand master to reach out her hand and cry out in anguish and the last thing she saw was Zex glancing at her with his menacing looking red glowing eyes before the portal vanished.
~End Flashback~
"...He saved me…" uttered out Mariun "I wouldn't be alive right now if he hadn't…" she said sadly with a crestfallen expression.
The group was shocked before they too had sad expressions, mourning at the loss of the high priest.
It didn't last long though as Gatack let out a sigh "I'm sorry for ruining this moment of grieving but we need to get out of here" he said.
Daisy nodded in agreement "Cunningham's right, we need to evacuate as fast as we can" she said.
Mariun also nodded in agreement "Yes… we need to get out of here… and warn the Celestial Council… Agh! Hssss…!" she said before yelping and hissing in pain.
"Easy grand master" said Lucky before he and sergeant Garcia helped her up.
Suddenly, a beeping sound was heard coming from Gatack to touched the side if his helmet with two of his right fingers "Gatack here, what is it?" he asked through the comms on his helmet.
"Len, it's Wade" spoke the voice of Gatack and Ichigata's fellow dimension guardian Overdrive Mercury Ranger "We got a bit of a problem mate" he told Gatack.
"What is it?" questioned the stag beetle rider while switching his comms to speaker.
"Well, good news is tha all the students are all accounted for and are almost onboard the transports ready to depart" said Mercury Ranger "Bad news is… those bloody enemy soldiers found us and are attackin us mate!" he shouted before the sound of battle was heard at the background.
"WHAT?!" exclaimed Gatack in shock and the same went with everyone else in the group.
"Yeah, and not only that a lotta those wankers are fillin up like a mob a emus runnin fer their lives, only they're deadset on killin us!" said Mercury Ranger.
"Hang on Wade, we're on our way!" said Gatack.
"I don't think that's possible" said Lucky looking at a holoscreen on his communicator "The current path we're heading to that leads to hangar 7 has started to swarm with Valhalla's soldiers and we won't be able to make it in time even with your clock up powers and Mister Hiden's speed and not only that, I detect two strong energy signatures heading for the hangar and according to this, both signature's energy readings are off the charts" he said.
"Crikey! All of us will be blown up if we don't get off this rock on time!" said Mercury Ranger who heard Lucky.
Gatack grit his teeth in frustration at this.
"What do we do Len?" Gatack Zecter asked his partner in concern.
Gatack thought for a few moments before taking a huge breath and sighed before getting back to his comm "Wade, I want all of you to get out of there" he said surprising everyone.
"What! You want us ta leave you mates behind?!" questioned Mercury Ranger.
"Lucky, can you find us any transport near here?" asked Gatack turning to the mission control officer.
"I'll try" he said as he searched for any transport somewhere "Found one!" he said getting everyone's attention "There's a Condor on hangar 4 just a few blocks from our position, there are also a couple of Star Blasters there as well" he informed "Fortunately, they're all still intact" he added.
"Great! Hopefully that Condor's got some medical supplies for grand master Kahler and the chief" said Slammer.
Gatack nodded before going back to his comm "You heard all that Wade?" he asked.
"Loud and clear mate!" replied Mercury Ranger before making a grunting sound and soon after the sound of laser fire followed "We'll take care a these wankers and then get outta here as fast as we can, you mates concentrate on makin your escape" he said.
"Got it!" nodded Gatack "Good luck out there" he said.
"You too mate! See you all soon" and with that, Mercury Ranger hung up.
"Alright guys, guess this means we're headed for hangar 4 then" said Gatack turning to everyone else.
"So long as we have a way ta get off of this place, I'm in for it" said Tazer.
"Yes, let's go" nodded Daisy in agreement and everyone else voiced out their agreements.
"Alright then, let's go!" said Gatack.
And with that, the group headed straight for hangar 4.
(Insert Star Wars OST - Grievous and the Droids)
Earlier, back at hangar 7, Overdrive Mercury Ranger and his group successfully made it back with the injured trainees and teachers who including Godfrey were immediately given medical attention on either transport they were placed in.
And just when the last sum of the trainees were about to board their assigned ships, as what Mercury Ranger said, Valhalla found them and were now attempting to stop them from escaping causing Mercury Ranger and the able instructors to defend the ships as a firefight occurred between both sides and even some of the Hengemen from the Gaisoul Voyager joined in on the defense, some fought back against the Valhallan soldiers while some helped in protecting the boarding trainees.
"Crikey!" exclaimed Mercury Ranger ducking near a crate "These wankers are relentless!" he quipped while returning fire with his Drive Detector in blaster mode.
"You done with communicating with Len's group!?" called out Seitaro Kawakami who was fighting against some of Valhalla's troops upclose alongside some of the Hengemen.
Seitaro was now clad in a dark blue and blue full-body suit with while vertical linings in the upper arms, a blue and silver chestplate with a bronze circular plate at the center with an upside down Y sigil in the form of silver train tracks at the center making it look like a clock and two blue curve fin-like armor pieces at the back with train tracks lining the top connecting to the chestplate, blue shoulder pauldrons with similar fin shaped pieces at the top with the same train track motiff also connected to the chestplate, blue and white accented bracers with gold cuffs, dark blue gloves with bronze fingers and a blue armor piece on top of the palms, blue front thigh armor with white outlines in the shape of the letter "I", silver knee armor, blue and white outlined greaves with bronze cuffs, blue and silver armored boots, a blue, black and silver chinned helmet with bronze lines at the top sides, a silver mouthguard with v-shaped lines, a silver train track shaped vertical armor part in the middle, silver fin-like armor parts one either cheek areas, a green jewel at the forehead are and two red fin-like visors resembling parts of the New DenLiner with top parts extended like antennas. Finally wrapped around his waist was a belt called the New Den-O Belt which was gold and black with four metal pieces; two each attached on either side and at the buckle area was a scanner-like screen with a black sigil of a clock similar to the Rider Pass with a white arrow at the right side of the buckle and at the left side were four buttons composed of red, blue, yellow and purple. This was Seitaro's transformed state whereas he's known as Kamen Rider New Den-O.
Currently held in his hands was a mechanical looking machete. It had a blue and silver edged blade with a silver gun barrel at the top of the back, a black handle, silver handguard and blue part with two silver pommels and at the back of the bottom of the blade just above the handle was what looked like a blue face with two blue horns, two black dotted eyes with black vertical lines below the eyes and silver teeth. This was none other than Teddy in his weapon form called the Macheteddy.
"I sure did mate! They'll be goin to another hangar to escape, hopefully they'll meet up with us outside!" said Mercury Ranger.
"What about Drew and the others?" questioned New Den-O swinging his Macheteddy at a couple of soldiers.
"I can't seem ta get in contact with any of them" said Mercury Ranger switching his weapon to lance mode and started to engage the enemy in close combat.
"Dang it…" uttered out New Den-O.
"All trainees are inside the Grand Birth!" called out Evelyn "Evie" Lancaster who was at the entrance of said mothership while Gideon Rowlands stood near her using an energy shield to block the incoming laser fire.
"Same here with the Gaisoul Voyager!" called out Koto Kobayashi near said ship with Solon next to him.
"Same with the New DenLiner!" called out celestial priestess instructor Amelia Calliwell using a magic want to cast shield barriers.
"Alright then!" nodded Mercury Ranger "Let's all get outta-!"
"Seitaro! I sense two powerful energies coming our way!" warned Teddy his teeth moving, getting the overdrive ranger and New DenLiner rider's attention.
"What?/Nani?!" exclaimed the two in alarm before…
READY GO~!
The sound of techno-punk music was heard following the announcement.
"Huh? Wha?" said Mercury Ranger as he and New Den-O searched for the source of the sound.
VOLTECH BREAK!
Only for a couple of missiles to come whizzing towards them, hitting the two dimension guardians on the spot as they exclaimed in shock before hitting the floor.
"Wade-san! Kawakami-senpai!" exclaimed Koto in shock and alarm.
"Oh my goodness!" exclaimed Solon.
"Ugh… who the bloody hell did that?" questioned Mercury Ranger rubbing the top of his helmeted head.
"Seitaro! Up ahead!" warned Teddy.
New Den-O and Mercury Ranger (who heard Teddy) did so as they saw none other than Kamen Riders Metal Build and Sylphi standing at the entrance, the former wielding a Drill Crusher and the latter her Hells Cane, the former had his weapon in Gun mode and pointed towards the two dimension guardians, the barrel smoking.
"Dark Riders!?" exclaimed New Den-O in shock.
"You gotta be bloody kidding me!" exclaimed Mercury Ranger in frustration staggering to his feet.
"Guten Tag…" greeted Metal Build lifting up his Drill Crusher.
"Eet zeems zat all ov you are in quite zee hurry, but vhy leave zo zoon? Let'z get to know each othzer more!" said Sylphi as she held out her hand and vines magically flew out of them and wrapped around the two dimension guardians.
"Crikey!" exclaimed Mercury Ranger in surprise as he fell to the floor.
"Dang it!" exclaimed New Den-O also ending up restrained on the floor.
"Wade-san! Kawakami-senpai!" exclaimed Koto in alarm. He took out a Sengoku Driver (which had a different picture of a rider on the rider indicator) from his person aiming to help his seniors.
"Hang on I'm coming!" exclaimed Gideon also aiming to help.
"No! Stay away you two!" called out Mercury Ranger stopping them.
"What?!" exclaimed Koto in disbelief.
"Why not?! There's no way you can escape at your state!" said Gideon.
"You got no chance against these two!" said New Den-O struggling to get out of his bindings.
"Seitaro's right! I sensed their power earlier and there's lan unlikely chance that you'll survive facing against them" said Teddy who's trapped within the bindings with New Den-O.
"Yeah! I can even tell how tough this bloke and Shiela are just by their postures alone" added Mercury Ranger.
"Just forget about us and get out of here!" ordered New Den-O.
"You should listen to your comrades die Kleinen" taunted Metal Build.
"Ja, indeed but who said zat you'd be leaving!?" said Sylphi before cutting her lockseed twice with her driver's cutting blade.
SOIYA! HELLS AU LAIT!
She stabbed her Hells Cane to the ground and a number of vines popped out of said ground as they lunged towards the New-Denliner, Gaisoul Voyager and Grand Birth respectively as some wrapped around each transport locking them to the ground.
"No! The Grand Birth!" exclaimed Evie in alarm upon seeing the vines trap the mothership to the ground.
The trainees who were aboard the New Denliner meanwhile, screamed in fright upon seeing the vines wrap around the bullet train.
"Oh no! now that's not a good sign at all" said Solon in distress upon seeing the vines wrap around the Gaisoul Voyager's landing gear.
Metal Build let out a sinister chuckle "Looks like all of you will be staying" he said with a smug tone.
"I think not!" shouted a defiant voice.
"Huh?/Was? (What?)" said Sylphi and Metal Build in confusion.
"Ancient Break Edge!"
ANCIENT BREAK EDGE!
"Sharivan Crash!"
"Hyah!"
Suddenly, three crescent energy slash attacks; one silver, one red and one purple came flying out of nowhere.
"Eingehend! (Incoming!)" warned a Valhallan soldier too late before he and some of his comrades were sent flying by the explosion caused by the silver slash attack while the red slash attack sent another group of soldiers flying and the purple slash attack hit the two dark riders sending them flying, although at the last second, Sylphi managed to maintain her momentum and landed gracefully on a crouching position while Metal Build landed on the floor with a groan.
Sylphi scowled as she glared at the culprits revealing to be none other than Gaisorg, Sharivan and Captain Griffin with their weapons out.
"Kite!" exclaimed Evie happy to see her brother okay.
"Captain Griffin!" exclaimed Gideon glad to see the paladin captain.
"Oh, thank goodness you're alright!" said Solon relieved to see Gaisorg alive and well.
"Hmph… more annoyances…" scowled Metal Build getting back to his feet while pointing his Drill Crusher to the side without even looking, shooting down a Hengeman that tried to attack him while he was distracted.
"Crime Buster!" exclaimed Sharivan pulling out said weapon and fired a couple of shots at the two dark riders forcing them to dodge or block, allowing the three to reunite with their allies.
"Ugh… took you blokes long enough!" said Mercury Ranger as Gaisorg and Captain Griffin helped him and New Den-O out of their bindings.
"Sorry for the wait but we're here now" said Gaisorg.
"Destruction Beam!" said Sharivan aiming his Crime Buster at the vines, destroying them instantly freeing the three transports.
"Let's get out of here guys!" said the space sheriff.
"Right!" nodded Evie before calling out to the surviving instructors "Everyone to the transports quickly! We're leaving!" she called out as everyone quickly retreated to their assigned transports.
"Where's Liam?" questioned New Den-O getting up with Teddy in hand.
Gaisorg let out a sigh "He gave us an opening to escape so that we could get back to you guys" he said.
"What?! Are you saying you left him back there?!" exclaimed Koto in shock.
Mercury Ranger groaned with a face palm (helmet palm) "Ugh… of course, had to go and play the sacrificial hero again" he said nonchalantly.
"As usual…" sighed New Den-O.
"What are you saying?!" Koto exclaimed in disbelief "We gotta go back and rescue Elliot-san!" he said.
"We got no time for that rookie!" said Gaisorg.
"Yeah, Liam can take care of himself" said Mercury Ranger as he began to drag Koto to the Gaisoul Voyager much to his protest.
"Hey, it's not like this is his first time getting left behind" said New Den-O facing the enemy who were in the middle of recovering.
"Hai, Elliot-san is quite persistent, he's been able to get out of several mishaps before and he always reunites with his comrades in the end" said Teddy as New Den-O scanned the Rider Pass on the New Den-O belt causing a red outlined sigil on the rider pass to light up.
FULL CHARGE!
Announced the belt as the buckle blinked gold while red dotted lights traveled from the center of his chestplate to around the bronze circular plate before blue lightning emitted from the the chestplate before it traveled all the way to his arm and to Teddy's blade form as it glowed with red energy while wreathed in blue lightning.
"Take this!" exclaimed New Den-O getting into a stance before announcing "Counter Slash!" and executing a horizontal slash sending a red energy crescent. But it wasn't aimed at the enemy, it was aimed at the ceiling above them and the moment it hit, debris came falling down the enemy's side.
"Shiesse!" swore one of the soldiers before he and his comrades ran for cover and the same went for Metal Build and Sylphi.
While some managed to avoid the falling debris, some were unfortunate enough to receive tons of debris fall on top of them, heavily injuring or killing them.
The falling debris caused a huge dust cloud to form blinding the enemy soldiers.
"Now's our chance! Let's get out of here!" shouted New Den-O as he headed for the New DenLiner, Teddy changing back to his Imagin form following suit.
Everyone else including the surviving Hengemen managed to get inside before their respective transports closed.
Inside the Gaisoul Voyager, Mercury Ranger, Gaisorg and Koto ran straight for the bridge while Solon and the Hengemen went to their stations.
"Solon! You and the Hengemen prep the turbo lasers!" commanded Gaisorg.
"Already on it!" called out the Solonosaurus.
The three dimension guardians later made it to the bridge where Gaisorg sat on the pilot seat and Mercury Ranger the co-pilot seat while Koto took a seat by one of the terminals a bit away from the co-pilot seat.
"Alright! Powering up engines, activating shields and prepping weapons!" said Gaisorg pressing a few buttons and flipping a few switches.
"Hang on all a you lot, this is gonna be a bumpy ride!" said Mercury Ranger informing the trainees and instructors who were currently located inside the conference area of the ship as the Gaisoul Voyager prepared to leave the hangar.
Inside the Grand Birth, the Lancaster siblings ran past a few trainees and instructors, some reuniting with their friends and some who were comforting one another as the twins headed for the bridge.
In one room we see Gideon reuniting with his sister Dorothy who was with her best friend Alison "Ali" Richfield and squire paladin Fredrick "Fred" Reeves, the young Paladin Trooper holding the trembling priestess apprentice in a reassuring embrace that everything was going to be alright.
In the medical area, we see Captain Griffin reunite with his comrade Captain McGrath who was being attended to by one of the other instructors.
We now go to the Grand Birth's bridge where the Lancaster twins entered as Sharivan quickly manned the pilot's seat while Evie got to one of the consoles.
"Powering up engines" said Sharivan pressing a few buttons and flipping a few switches.
"Shields activated, power at maximum charge!" said Evie working on a holo-screen on her terminal.
"Weapons on standby and at the ready" said Sharivan checking the weapons before putting a hand on a switch "We're now ready to depart" he said.
Evie nodded before she activated communications through the Grand Birth "Everyone! We're about to take off, so please hang on to something!" she warned as the Grand Birth prepared to leave.
Inside the New DenLiner, New Den-O and Teddy entered the cockpit of the bullet train where a bike was docked into a special platform.
The bike in question resembled a Honda XR250 dirt bike but was modified with a white and blue color scheme, a blue spoiler-like piece at the back, white and silver handle protectors and a white and blue beak shaped front with two yellow headlights. This was the Machine New DenBird, New Den-O personal transport and the main control mechanism of the New DenLiner when docked.
New Den-O quickly mounted the New DenBird and revved up the engines.
"Alright Teddy, let everyone know we're leaving!" said New Den-O ready to depart.
"Hai!" nodded Teddy as he ran to a terminal and pressed a button activating the speakers "Attention, all passengers, we are now departing Temple Fortress Alpha, please be advised to stay seated, for this will be a very rough travel" informed the Imagin.
Outside, the rocket boosters of the Gaisoul Voyager and Grand Birth powered up as both ships began to levitate in the air, their landing gear retracted while the New DenLiner sounded its' horn before proceeding to move.
By the time, Sylphi and Metal Build got through the rubble and dust, they made it just in time to see all three transports blast out of the hangar and the only thing they could do was watch.
Sylphi clenched the grip on her spear as she watched in frustration her pray escaping her grasp while Metal Build just hummed as he watched the three transports escape including the New DenLiner which looked like it was flying in the sky as tracks magically appeared and disappeared at the front and back of its' path respectively.
(End Soundtrack)
At the same time in hangar 4, Ichigata, Gatack and their group arrived and just a few ways ahead of them was a UNSC D80-LRT Condor which stayed intact and vacant and as well as a few unused Nova Corps Star Blasters nearby.
"There's the transports!" said Lucky pointing towards said transports.
"Whoa~! We just got lucky guys! 'Cause that ain't any ordinary condor that's a SuperCondor!" revealed Slammer as said supercondor was bigger than the standard condor.
"Perfecto! It has an additional floor and it even has a bed where there are medical supplies nearby!" said Sergeant Garcia.
"Not only that, it's our ticket out of here!" Added Tazer.
"That's good!" nodded Denarian Kreld turning to his remaining troops "Ral! Drevirn! Draven! I need you to get on a Star Blaster quickly! That SuperCondor's gonna need all the escorts it needs!" commanded the Denarian.
"Yes sir!" saluted Tazer, Rhoss and the Nova Corpsman now identified as Pinn Draven as the group ran to the transports.
Suddenly, a huge platoon of Valhallan soldiers appeared out of nowhere.
"Stoppen Sie genau dort! (Stop right there!)"
"Nicht bewegen! (Don't move!)"
"Bleib wo du bist oder wir schießen! (Stay where you are or we'll shoot!)"
Some of the soldiers demanded as the whole platoon surrounded them weapons pointed at them.
"Ugh! You've got to be kidding me!" exclaimed Tazer in annoyance and frustration.
Among the troops was their acting leader Kamen Rider Amazon Neo Alpha with Neo Alpha Sweeper in hand as he approached the group "You're not getting away my pray…" said the Valhallan Amazon rider tapping the flat of his weapon's chainsaw at the palm of his hand.
"Uh oh… this is not good" uttered out Lucky.
Ichigata and Mariun narrowed their eyes while Daisy and Gatack remained calm and analyzed the situation.
"Surrender… it is futile for all of you to escape, we have you surrounded" demanded Neo Alpha.
Tazer and Slammer (who depolarized his helmet) glanced at each other before glancing at the two riders with them present.
Gatack and Ichigata glanced at each other before glancing at the two and nodded to them.
The Nova Corpsman and UNSC brutish Helljumper smirked getting what they have planned as they turned to the Valhallan Amazon.
"If ya think you punks can win by surroundin us with guns pointed and demandin our surrender, then you got another thing comin!" taunted Tazer.
Neo Alpha scoffed "Oh really? How so?" he questioned deciding to let them humor him.
"Cause, you may have the advantage in numbers… but we got advantage in another thing" said Slammer.
"Oh…? And what's that?" he mused.
Tazer and Slammer grinned as the latter's helmet visor polarized "You gots one rider on your side but our side gots two riders! And unlike youse, our riders gots what you don't gots!" the latter declared.
"What?" said Neo Alpha in confusion.
"SPEED!" declared Tazer and Slammer.
"Clock up!" exclaimed Gatack before slamming his hand to the button on the right side of his belt.
CLOCK UP!
Gatack suddenly vanished into a blue, black and silver blur and at the same time, Ichigata's briefly glowed before disappearing into a greenish blue and red streaked blur.
"WAS?! (WHAT?!)" exclaimed Neo Alpha in shock before the platoon of surrounding soldiers were suddenly sent flying.
"Gah!"
"Was war das?! (What was that?!)"
"Etwas gerade aufgerichtet und uns getroffen! (Something just up straight and hit us!)"
"Woher kommt es?! (Where's it coming from?!)"
The soldiers exclaimed taken by surprise looking for the source of whatever sent them flying. Suddenly, two certain blurs appeared moving everywhere hitting the soldiers disorienting and confusing them to the point of the platoon resorting to using their guns to shoot them down only to end up missing or shoot their comrades instead.
"Wo sind sie?! (Where are they?!)"
"Sie sind da drüben! (They're over there!)"
"Schieß sie ab! (Shoot them down!)"
"Ich kann sie nicht sehen! (I can't see them!)"
"Gäh! Ich bin getroffen! (Gah! I'm hit!)"
Neo Alpha growled as he watched all the chaos unfold "Nicht schießen! Nicht schießen! (Hold your fire! Hold your fire!)" he commanded his troops but to no avail.
While that was happening, The rest of the joint group was all lying flat on their bellies to avoid stray shots from the soldiers.
"Man… talk about crazy!" commented Slammer with his hands on his helmet.
Denarian Kreld meanwhile gave hand signals to his men telling them to prepare themselves for when the time's right, get to the star blasters receiving nods in return.
Kreld narrowed his eyes behind his helmet as he waited for an opening. Once he found one, he signaled Draven to go first.
Draven nodded and quickly got to his feet and ran towards the star blasters. Next came Tazer, followed by Rhoss and finally him as the three Nova Corpsmen and Denarian ran to their ships.
But as they were headed for their ships, one of the soldiers took notice of them "Kommandant! Sie entkom- OOF! (Commander! They're getting awa- OOF!)" he said, only to get smacked by one of the two blurs.
Unfortunately, Neo Alpha managed to hear him and turned to see the members of Nova Corps escaping "Töte sie! (Kill them!)" he shouted pointing his weapon at the four before opening fire and some of the other soldiers followed suit.
"Get down!" shouted Kreld after noticing as he lunging to cover and the same went for Tazer and Rhoss but Draven couldn't as he continued running.
"Draven! Look out!" warned Kreld as Neo Alpha's bullets were closing in on the Nova Corpsman but just when it looked like Draven was done, a certain clock up rider stopped the amazon.
CLOCK OVER!
*Smack!*
Neo Alpha's aim was thwarted by Gatack who appeared out of nowhere and kicked the former's arm forcing him to stop.
"You're opponent is me!" declared Gatack taking out his Gatack Double Calibur and swung them at Neo Alpha who retaliated with the chainsaw part of his Neo Amazon Sweeper.
Meanwhile, the second blur revealing to be Ichigata rushed in and struck the soldiers who're shooting at the Nova Corps team knocking them down before continuing on with his distraction.
Ichigata and Gatack continued on with their distraction until a loud humming sound was heard. Everyone turned to the source of the sound and saw that one of the Star Blasters powered up and began to levitate as the Valhallans looked on in shock while the joint group couldn't help but smirk.
"Engaging enemies! Fire!" said the voice of Pinn revealing him to be the pilot as the gun barrels at the tip of the ship's nose unleashed a barrage of lasers at the Valhallan soldiers while straffing arround taking the enemies off-guard as they all ran for cover, some soldiers ended up getting send flying from the shockwave of the laser blast near them, some also ended up getting heavily injured while some were unfortunate enough to end up getting vaporized.
"Hahaha! Way ta go rookie! Ha ha!" laughed Tazer cheering for Pinn before he and the other Nova Corps members went for their ships.
"Nein!" exclaimed Neo Alpha, stopping his fight with Gatack before he and the Clock up rider lunged for cover.
"Now's your chance everyone! Get to the condor!" shouted Ichigata.
Everyone nodded, got up and made their way towards the condor transport.
Lucky was the first to arrive as he pressed a button near the condor's doors allowing said doors to open and lower itself. Once it was down, the joint group got inside. Daisy and Mariun were placed on medical beds located on the second floor of the condor with Lucky tending to them while Slammer and Sergeant Garcia manned the pilot seats.
"You know how to pilot a Condor sir?" questioned Slammer.
"Si compadre, although I'm an ODST, I learned how to pilot some aircrafts" he said while pressing a few buttons and flipped a few switches as the Condor started to power up.
Kirby meanwhile was at the entrance of the SuperCondor as he took out his MA5B Assault Rifle and fired a few short bursts at some Valhallans who'd come near the ship or shoot him as he waited for the remainder of the group to board the ship.
"Hey guys! It's time to go!" the ODST corporal called out as Gatack and Ichigata finished their fights and got to the entrance.
"Don't think all of you will get away from me!?" exclaimed Neo Alpha staggering to his feet while pointing his Neo Alpha Sweeper at them.
"We don't think… we know" said Gatack confidently while getting into a stance with his Gatack Double Calibur held in an X formation as it powered up with blue lightning.
"Double Rider Slash!" exclaimed Gatack as he swung his blades creating a blue X-shaped energy slash as it flew towards Neo Alpha.
RIDER SLASH!
Neo Alpha growled and without even looking, he grabbed a Valhallan soldier next to him and put him in front of the attack and before the soldier could even register what happened, the attack hit him resulting in an explosion as the soldier let out a scream shocking Kirby, Gatack and Ichigata at what the Amazon rider did.
Kirby immediately snapped out of it and turned to his comrades "Let's go!" he said snapping the two riders out of it as they got inside before the ship's door closed.
When the smoke cleared, it revealed the Valhallan soldier burned to a crisp before Neo Alpha tossed him aside as he growled witnessing the SuperCondor take up in the air followed by three other Star Blasters (piloted by Tazer, Rhoss and Denarian Kreld) before all five airborne vehicles flew out of the hangar.
The air vehicles were now flying side by side as they distanced themselves from the invaded temple fortress.
"Whew! That was a close one!" said Tazer through the comms.
"You could say that again! Those punks almost busted our chops there!" commented Slammer.
"Don't celebrate just yet boys! We're not yet in the clear" informed Denarian Kreld.
"Si! We still need to get out of this dimension and regroup with the rest of the escapees" said Sergeant Garcia.
"Sirs! I'm picking up an emergency transmission coming from nearby!" informed Corpsman Draven.
"Can you patch us through Corpsman? Everyone might want to hear it" said Kreld.
"Patching through…" said Draven connecting his comms to the rest of the group as the transmission was heard.
"Mayday! Mayday! Can anyone here us? This is Evac Squad 30! Enemy planes are attacking us! Requesting backup! Repeat! Requesting back- AAAHHHH!" Everything turned to static after that.
"What was that?" questioned Slammer.
"Trouble…" was all Denarian Kreld said with narrowed eyes.
Earlier…
Somewhere else, exited a secret hatch were five transports composed of two Paladin Shuttles, two UNSC Condors a UNSC Pelican as they took to the skies away from the under siege temple fortress.
"Evac Squad 30 now in open airspace, proceeding to commence dimension transport" said the pilot of the pelican "Activating portal engines in five… four…" "No, wait, wait hold it! We got bogeys incoming right in front of us!" warned one of the pilots of the condors.
(Insert Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) OST - Jakku Loading Loop)
And low and behold, a squadron of Sternenvögels appeared out of nowhere and proceeded to fire a barrage of lasers at the Evac Squad.
"Break formation! Take evasive action!" commanded the pelican pilot as the five transports scattered while the Sternenvögels gave chase.
"All transports! Get those planes off your tails and warp out of here as fast as you- GAH! We're hit!" instructed the pelican pilot before he was hit by a missile from one of the enemy planes "We're going down!" said the pilot before the transport crashed and exploded upon impact killing everyone onboard.
"Dang it! They got one of the transports!" exclaimed one of the pilots of the paladin shuttles.
The Valhallan jets continued to pursue the transports who were doing all they could to get away, doing several loops and curves but the squadron was relentless in their pursuit.
"Mayday! Mayday! Can anyone here us? This is Evac Squad 30! Enemy planes are attacking us! Requesting backup! Repeat! Requesting back- AAAHHHH!" radioed one of the pilot of the condors in a desperate attempt to call for help before he and those onboard were blown to bits by one of the enemy planes missiles.
"Another transport down! They got Dean!" shouted the second condor pilot.
In the paladin shuttle carrying Gunter and Aurelia, the latter grit her teeth in frustration "At this rate… we'll all be goners…" said the high priestess as she got up only for one of the medics to stop her "No high priestess, you can't! You're still injured!" said the medic.
"We'll all be dead if I don't go out there!" reasoned the injured celestial priest and without even waiting for a reply, she opened the doors where she stood by the edge as she raised up her hand and cast a few spells sending a number of fireballs, icicle projectiles and thunderbolts at the enemy planes.
Some managed to hit their mark taking down a few Sternenvögels while the other projectiles missed. The planes retaliated by sending missiles at Aurelia's transport only for her to hold out her hand summoning a magic circle and stopped the missiles in their tracks shocking the enemy pilots.
"Was?! (What?!)" exclaimed one of the pilots before Aurelia thrust her hand forward sending the missiles back at the enemy taking them down. Aurelia cast a few more spells striking the rest of the enemy planes and in just a couple of minutes, all enemy planes were taken down.
The surviving transport pilots and occupants onboard cheered as they got back into formation "Nice going High Priestess Serrana!" complimented one of the paladin shuttle pilots making Aurelia smile while panting in exhaustion.
"Look out! More incoming!" warned one of the pilots.
(Switch to Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones OST - Gunships Arrive (Film Edit))
Aurelia turned to see a lot of Sternenvögels heading their way.
The high priestess' eyes widened "Oh no… I don't think I'll be able to hold them off like this…" she uttered out due to her weakened state.
Just when the fighters were closing in, a barrage of lasers came flying through and took down one of the fighters, next came a few energy projectiles and even more powerful laser beams taking down more fighters forcing the rest of them to break off.
"Someone call for backup!" said a familiar voice as four star blasters swooped in to the rescue and pursued the enemy fighters firing a barrage of lasers "Eat this ya creeps!" shouted Tazer as he, Rhoss, Pinn and Denarian Kreld open fired at the enemy fighters.
This made the transport pilots and occupants cheer as help came "Evac Squad 30, this is Sergeant Angelo Garcia of the UNSC" said Sergeant Garcia as the SuperCondor flew next to the Evac Squad "We were just leaving when we received your distress signal, glad we made it in time to save the rest of you" he said.
"Roger Sergeant Garcia, thanks for the assist and we're glad that you made it" said one of the surviving pilots.
"This is Space Sheriff Sharivan of the Galactic Union Police" spoke the voice of a certain space sheriff as the Grand Birth appeared and flew above the evac squad "I as well have heard your call and my allies and I have come as fast as we could to help out" he said as the Gaisoul Voyager and New DenLiner came flying next to the rest of the group.
Aurelia sighed in relief before activating her communication device "This is High Priestess Aurelia Serrana, I thank you for saving us and I'm glad that we aren't the only ones remaining here" she said.
"High Priestess Serrana?! Thank the Celestial Gods you're alright!" said the voice of sister Calliwell "This is sister Calliwell, I'm currently with a handful of instructors and some students inside The New DenLiner, this flying train of sorts, the remaining students and trainees are on the other transports, it's a miracle that you're still alive!" said the celestial priestess instructor.
Serrana smiled "I wasn't the only one who survived, grandmaster Averet is here in the transport I'm currently boarded in" she informed.
"High Priestess Kahler's also alive and she's being tended to here in our condor" said Gatack through the condor's comms.
Aurelia let out a sigh of relief after hearing that "That's a relief, thank the Celestial Gods" she said.
"Glad ta know you're still alive and kickin Len!" said Mercury Ranger through the Gaisoul Voyager's comms.
"Glad to know you're okay as well Wade, did all of you make it?" asked Gatack only the hear a sigh.
"Unfortunately, Liam ain't here with us as he distracted the enemy allowing Drew nd his crew ta escape" said Mercury Ranger.
"But knowing him, it'll take more than a huge number of soldiers to take him down" said New Den-O through the New DenLiner's comms.
"You got that right" said Gatack.
"Alright then everyone, enemies are off our tail now!" said Denarian Kreld as he and the other three star blasters rejoined the other transports "Let's get out of here before more come" he said.
"Agreed" nodded Aurelia in agreement before closing the shuttle doors.
"If I may, might I suggest going off-planet before activating our portal devices? If we activate them now, there might be a chance that the enemy might tail us or even shoot us while we're not even noticing" suggested Gaisorg.
"Better than getting shot at then" said Tazer as the other pilots agreed before all transports flew up high headed for outerspace.
"Sir, I'm detecting a number of fighter squadrons fighting off the enemy squadrons nearby" spoke Corpsman Draven.
"It must be the squadrons defending the temple fortress" said Lucky.
"I'll contact them to let them know that we've escaped, so that they can escape themselves" said one of the Paladin Shuttle pilots as he established contact with the squadrons.
"Attention fighter squadrons, this is Evac Squad 30, we've successfully evacuated, please make your escape as soon as you're able!" informed the pilot.
There was a short silence before a reply came "Roger that Evac Squad, this is Delta Leader, we've received your message and now pulling out" said Delta Leader "See you on the other side" said the Paladin Shuttle pilot "Solid copy" replied Delta Leader.
"Alright ya'lls, let's get out of here!" said Slammer as the transports flew higher up towards outerspace.
(End Soundtrack)
Outside the planet's orbit, the joint evac squad were seen exiting orbit when they came upon the massive fleet of German Kriegsmarine-esque starships in front of them.
"Dang… that's one huge fleet…" commented Slammer depolarizing his helmet.
"Incoming fighters!" warned Corpsman Draven.
(Insert Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep OST - Shrouding Dark Cloud)
Suddenly, squadrons of Sternenvögels came swooping in towards the joint evac squad unleashing a barrage of lasers at them.
"Evasive maneuvers!" exclaimed Sergeant Garcia as the transports and fighters scattered.
"Evac Squad 30! We'll keep them busy, you make your escape!" said Sharivan through the comms.
"What about the rest of you? And not to mention you're all carrying the students onboard!" said Aurelia.
"Please, do not fret High Priestess, I have complete faith that the Dimension Guardians can safely protect the students and trainees and I promise that we'll regroup with all of you as soon as we can" assured sister Calliwell.
Aurelia pondered for a few moments before letting out a sigh "Alright, I trust you" she said.
"May the Celestial Powers guide you" said sister Calliwell.
"May the Celestial Powers guide you" responded the High Priestess before the Evac Squad separated from the scattered group and activated their warp engines and escaped.
"Alright mates! Once we've got these buggers off our tails, let's get outta here!" said Mercury Ranger.
"Right!" replied the remaining ships as a game of cat and mouse between the enemy fighters and ships began.
It was an intense chase as the ships did a few tricks and turns everywhere outsmarting and outmaneuvering the squadrons as some of them ended up either crashing into nearby asteroids or into each other, misled to somewhere before getting ambushed or even the classic barrel roll and shoot combo trick and heck, even a large ship such as the Grand Birth or even a flying bullet train was able to outwit the fighters.
In the end, the transports regrouped after managing to escape their pursuers.
"Whoo hoo! That was awesome yo!" exclaimed Slammer ecstatically as everyone cheered.
"Alright guys! Let's get out of here before-"
"Denarian Kreld sir! Help! My ship's been damaged and I'm under attack by pursuing enemy fighters!" exclaimed Corpsman Draven as everyone turned their sights to see his Star Blaster with smoke and sparks on the left wing.
"Hang on corpsman! I'm on my way!" said Denarian Kreld.
"I'll go with you sir!" said Rhoss as he followed Kreld.
"Hey! Wait up!" said Tazer also following them.
"Just hang on Pinn! We're coming!" said Rhoss as the three Star Blasters were closing in on their fellow Nova Corp member.
"Hurry! I'm just about at the enemy's line of- AAAHHHHHH!" said Pinn only to scream upon getting hit by one of the enemy fighter's missiles which instantly destroyed his Star Blaster killing him in a fiery explosion.
"PINN!" exclaimed Rhoss in shock and horror at the death of his fellow Corpsman.
"Heads up!" warned Tazer as he and Rhoss evaded the incoming fiery remains of Pinn's Star Blaster. Denarian Kreld unfortunately wasn't fast enough to react as he ended up flying through the explosion obscuring his ship's vision. Once his ship's vision cleared after flying through the explosion, Kreld was met with an enemy fighter in front of him.
"Sir! Look out!" warned Tazer.
"Whoa!" exclaimed Kreld as he evaded, but only barely 'cause at the last second, the two opposing fighters hit each other damaging their planes, one of the Sternenvögels' wings got torn off causing the fighter to spin uncontrollably before exploding killing the pilot while Kreld's Star Blaster also ended up getting its' wing get torn off, albeit half of it and not only that, the lower right and upper right flaps got damaged as well and part of the ship got scraped exposing some of its' circuits resulting in the space fighter to lose control while frantic alarms started blaring in Kreld's monitor.
"Hang on sir! We're coming!" exclaimed Rhoss as he and Tazer flew to their CO's rescue.
"There's no time for that you two! Just go on without me!" said the Denarian much to the two Corpsmans' shock.
"WHAT?!" exclaimed Rhoss in disbelief.
"ARE YA SERIOUS HERE SIR?! THERE'S NO WAY IN XANDAR WE LEAVIN YAS BEHIND!" protested Tazer.
"It's too late for me Corpsman! This ship is about to blow anyway!" reasoned Kreld as he struggled to stabilize his ship "So as your commanding officer, this is my final order! I want you two to regroup with everyone else and get out of here!" he ordered.
Rhoss and Tazer were hesitant upon receiving this order as they didn't want to lose another fellow Nova Corps member.
"IS THAT UNDERSTOOD CORPSMEN!" shouted Kreld snapping the too out of it.
"SIR! YES SIR!" the Corpsman responded resolutely as they turned back towards the other transports.
Denarian Kreld nodded in approval as they watched his men return to the others.
"We'll inform Nova Prime of your sacrifice… it's been an honor fighting under your command sir…" said Rhoss with a heavy heart.
"We're gonna miss ya despite our short time together sir…" uttered out Tazer before their transmissions ended.
Kreld just let out a sigh feeling the same way. He then turned his sights towards the remaining Sternenvögels headed towards him. Kreld narrowed his eyes and with determination, he blasted off towards the enemy fighters.
"This is for Draven and the rest of my Corpsman!" he declared as he pressed a button on his console upon closing in.
As the two remaining Star Blasters distanced themselves from their CO's Star Blaster, an explosion occurred depicting their CO activated his ship's self-destruct function destroying him and the ship, taking the enemy with him.
"Dang it!" swore Gaisorg as he and apparently everyone else heard the Nova Corp members' conversation and also felt the distant explosion as they were all distraught from the fate of what happened to their fellow comrades.
"Dang it foo! Mother crusher!" swore Slammer, slamming the controls in frustration.
Rhoss let out a heavy sigh after he and Tazer regrouped with everyone "Let's get out of her everyone! We'll have time to grieve once we're in the clear! We need to report all this to the Celestial Council!" he said and everyone nodded in agreement despite what just happened.
"Initiating warp engines!" said Gaisorg as he and the others activated their transports' own warp engines or similar dimension transport devices and they all went through a huge portal that took them to safety and by that time, another squadron of Sternenvögels attempted to pursue them, only for the group to escape as the portal disappeared.
(End Soundtrack)
"Herr, kapitän! Zey escaped!" informed one of the men in the bridge of the flagship towards the captain.
"Let zem…" replied the captain with a calm posture "Zey vill be zee vones to spread zee message…" he said as he gazed at the planet that was surrounded by the rest of the Valhalla fleet.
Later…
Back at the seized Temple Fortress, the Valhallan forces gathered at a huge main hall that was twice the size of a ballroom big enough to fit the whole army where the troops recuperated from their successful operation and gathered up their spoils of victory and prepared them for transferring to their ships.
Some of regular soldiers made some conversations with one another or just resting while others were helping with gathering of obtained goods with high ranking officers overseeing the task at hand.
The door to the hall then opened, getting the soldiers' attention and walking through the doors were a number of Valhallan soldier squads marching through, followed by four officers; these officers were clad in military uniforms looking more regal than the rest of the soldiers and officers complete with peaked caps currently obscuring their upper faces and they all wore overcoats over their shoulders similarly to capes: one black with light gray accents and hints of gold, one light gray with black accents and hints of purple, one dark gray with black accents and hints of red and one black with red accents and hints of bronze. These four were the Oberste Führers, the supreme leaders of Das Walhalla Reich, otherwise known as Valhalla.
All the soldiers stood in attention and saluted upon seeing their leaders enter the room.
Following behind the supreme leaders were Kamen Riders Sorcerer, Sylphi, Dark Para-DX, Amazon Neo Alpha, Metal Build, Utopia Dopant, Dark Knight Zex and as well as Holzer, Höffner and the unknown Kommandant followed last by other unknown officers.
Also accompanying the group were Scrozzle and Ryjack as the former looked around the room overwhelmed with nervousness and intrigue "Oh my… I never knew they had such a huge army!" he commented despite his nerves.
"Heh… if you think that's impressive, just wait till ya see the whole fleet" mused Ryjack.
"Just try not to make too much of a fuss, lest you get your vocal circuits ripped out" said Holzer.
"*Gulp!* yes sir…" nodded Scrozzle.
Ryjack chuckled in amusement.
The groups continued to march/walk until they were now standing in the middle of the hall, the supreme leaders standing at the center and the dark riders, their allies, unknown officers and the escort squads behind them standing at attention on either sides as they all faced the soldiers who also stood at attention.
"Hmm… zat eez eh nice sword kommandant" said Höffner noticing Mumeiken Kyomu held in the Kommandant's hand.
"Why thank you kommandant Höffner" said the Kommandant before taking notice of something "And that is an interesting belt you have there" he said.
Höffner smirked as he put a hand on the Orga Belt that he currently had strapped to his waist "Vhy zank you mein freund, juzt a prize I obtained avter dizpozing of eh pest" he said casually making his fellow kommandant hum in understanding.
One of the Oberste Führers (the same one who was at the vault) then stepped forward "Mein comrades!" he spoke out holding out his arms to the sides as everyone listened "We are victorious!" he declared raising his arms up as the soldiers cheered and yelled out in triumph.
It soon ended once the supreme leader gestured them to silence themselves "We have successfully stormed this great fortress sanctuary and have taken it from our enemies who now flee before us!" he said as some of the soldiers cheered again "And through this victory, we have gained… new power!" he declared as an officer approached the supreme leader from behind holding a tray in his hands, said tray contained none other than the Omni Force Wonder Ride Book.
The officer presented the item to the Oberste Führer with a bow of his head as the Oberste Führer slowly took it from the tray, meanwhile the other three Oberste Führers were presented with special items of their own which were the Eden Driver and Eden Zetsumerise Key, the Sengoku Driver with Genesis Core and Zakuro and Blood Orange Lockseeds and Ziku Driver and Barlckxs Ridewatch respectively as said Führers picked up the items.
The lead Oberste Führer raised up the ridebook up high with his hand as if presenting a medal of victory "With this power, we will reach heights no other civilization has ever dwelled upon and with it, shall our ambition for our grand quest come closer to fruition!" he declared as the soldiers cheered for their leader again "And now…" the supreme leader trailed off as everyone fell silent "Bare witness… our new power!" he declared glancing back to his fellow Oberste Führers who nodded before they each strapped on their respective drivers.
EDEN DRIVER!
SENGOKU DRIVER!
ZIKU DRIVER!
The three Führers then activated their items for their respective drivers.
BARLCKXS!
BLOOD ORANGE! ZAKURO!
EDEN!
The lead Führer did the same opening the cover of the metallic book by its' cover.
OMNI FORCE~!
Announced the book revealing a white sigil picture of some kind of tree on the first page while on the back of the cover was a picture of some magic circle with a hole at the center and red writing in some unknown language over the picture excluding the hole.
Densetsu no Seiken to Erabareshi Hon ga majimaru toki, idai na chikara o tokihanatsu! (When the Legendary Seiken and the Chosen Book intersect, the great power has unleashed!)
Announced the book while the lead supreme leader held it up front. As that was happening, a golden belt appeared around his waist and it had a peculiar shaped gold buckle with circular parts on the left side with a line facing diagonally; the top circle being from top left to bottom right while the bottom circle being top right to bottom left and finally it had a black rectangular button at the top. This was the Dooms Driver Buckle.
The lead Oberste Führer let out a dark smirk as he and the other Oberste Führers inserted their items into their respective belts.
LOCK (LOCK) ON! (ON!)
"Henshin!" they said before activating their belts causing flashes of light engulfed them all as their soldiers watched on in awe.
RIDER TIME! KAMEN RI-DER BARLCKXS!
HA! BLOOD ZAKURO ARMS! KURUIZAKI (HA!) SACRIFICE! BLOOD ORANGE ARMS! JA NO MICHI ON STAGE!
PROGRISE! ARK! IMAGINE! IDEAL! ILLUSION! EDEN THE KAMEN RIDER! The creator who charges forward believing in paradise.
OPEN THE OMNIBUS! FORCE OF THE GOD! KAMEN RIDER SOLOMON~! Fear is coming soon.
When the light cleared, it revealed four armored figures, one of them standing in front of the first three.
The first armored figure which stood at the center of the three was clad in a black full-body skin suit under armor composed of a black chestplate with dark green pectoral areas, silver abs and a black and bronze outlined armored collar, a pair of leather brown straps, one wrapped around the lower torso and the other wrapped around across the left shoulder, the latter strap resembling a wristwatch's strap with black squares and a bronze buckle at the center of the chest, bronze shoulder armor with designs themed similarly to a watch with hints of black armor under it, black upper arm armor, black bracers with an insect-like appendage sticking out at the back and two metallic gray holders called Ridewatch Holders which carries two ridewatches strapped to each bracer by two silver watch straps, black gloves with black armor on the fingers and back palms, black thigh armor, black knee pads, black greaves with gold ankle ring cuffs, black armored boots, the Ziku Driver strapped around his waist by a metallic gray belt and the watch attached to the right side of the driver and worn on his head was a black round helmet with the forehead area and mouthguard being bronze with gear designs, a watch crown at the top, silver clock hands forming antennae in a V-shape and covering the rest of the helmet's face was the word "Rider" in red katakana for a visor. This armored figure was Kamen Rider Barlckxs.
The second armored figure that stood to the left of Barlckxs was clad in a dark gray full-body skin suit with the torso being silver with a pattern similar to chain mail, the Sengoku Driver with Genesis Core attached to his waist with the lockseeds opened, red glossy tattered looking cloths located on his shoulders and sides of his waists; those on the left side being a bit long that reaches up to past his upper arm and knee while those on the right being short that reach shoulder and halfway through his thigh, red, silver and black designed torso armor resembling Sylphi's armor, two red differently designed shoulder armor, the right shoulder armor resembling Sylphi's shoulder armor without the bell-like attachment, silver elbow armor, silver bracers, dark gray gloves with silver armor at the back of the palms, silver thigh armor with black pattern designs, silver knee pads, silver greaves, gray armored boots and a red and black helmet with a red mouthguard, red and black intricately designed crown-like forehead piece and two red oval-like shaped vision visors that have a design resembling some insides of some reddish fruit. This armored figure was Kamen Rider Saver.
The third armored figure that stood to the right of Barlckxs was clad in a dark gray full-body skin suit with black and red outlined patches located on the upper lower leg areas, forearms, sides of the torso and hips and red linings trailing down the sides of the inner arms, neck and the side of the hips down to the thighs, black, purple and white torso armor resembling a human ribcage with red stream designs resembling blood vessels and a black collar, black, purple, red and white shoulder armor, black, purple, white outlined and red bracers, black gloves with red armored fingers and purple and red outlined back palm armor, the Eden Driver strapped to his waist with a progrise key holder on either side of his hips purple, white and red accented armor located at the front of his upper thighs, dark gray, purple and red lined small greaves, purple and red lined armored boots and a black and purple helmet with a white jaw, red eye visors red line streams and four red zigzag designed antenna, two at the back of the lower jaw and two at the sides of the cheeks pointing upwards towards the back. This armored figure was Kamen Rider Eden.
And the fourth and last armored figure who stood in front of the three was clad in a black full-body skin suit under silver and gold regal looking armor composed of a gold, silver and black torso armor with a silver and gold collar and red sigil of couple of swords in a cross formation with an open book above and what looks like writing of a strange language all within a ring located at the chest area of the torso armor, silver, gold and black intricately designed shoulder armor with one red armor part at the side, gold and silver upper arm armor, gold and silver bracers with hints of red, black gloves with gold finger armor and black back palm armor, the Dooms Driver Buckle and Omni Force Wonder Ride Book strapped around his waist with the latter item opened revealing what looks like the rider's face, silver and gold straps on his hips, gold and silver lower thigh armor that reach up to the knees with black armor at the knee area, gold, silver and black greaves, black and gold armored boots, a reddish brown tattered cape and a silver, black, red and gold sinister looking helmet with the upper front part resembling an upper jaw of a dragon with black eyes, a gold and black serrated edged blade with a red filler at the top of the forehead of the helmet like a horn, a silver jawline with gold triangular chin resembling a dragon's lower jaw, black mouthguard and a black and red visor resembling cracks coming from the left and right side. This armored figure in place of the lead supreme leader of Valhalla was none other than Kamen Rider… Solomon.
The Valhallan soldiers looked on in awe while maintaining their disciplined posture while Ryjack and Scrozzle looked on with different reactions, the former remained indifferent, he was impressed while the latter was awed, yet intimidated at the sight.
"Oh, my…" uttered out Scrozzle slightly trembling both in fear and awe "Am I glad that I'm on their side" he said.
"Hmm… impressive" said Ryjack.
Solomon looked at his hands clutching them as he processed his new appearance before looking towards his army "Behold…" he announced raising up his hands to either side "Ultimate… power!" he declared as the soldiers all began to shout out and cheer in triumph.
"And not only that…!" continued Solomon as the whole crowd went silent "We have obtained our main objective…!" he said as Sorcerer stepped forward and stood next to Solomon as he presented the book to him with a bow as Solomon took it before lifting it up showing it to the whole army "Behold! The Magnus Liber Mortuorum! With this powerful artifact, we can easily replenish our forces by simply bringing them back from the dead and even revive those whose bodies have been destroyed!" he said "And not only that, we can even revive those with ideals similar to ours and make them our allies, our forces will be plenty and no matter how many forces we lose, we can just bring them back! No one will stop us!" he declared as everyone cheered aroused by their supreme leader's speech.
"But…" said Solomon as the crowd turned silent "Unfortunately, we've been thwarted!" he said making the whole hall resound with murmur "Just when the Magnus Liber Mortuorum was upon our grasp, a single fool came along and stripped the book of its' full power!" he said as the soldiers began to exclaim and yell out in outrage at this.
"And this…" said Solomon pointing behind him "Is the fool responsible for such act!" he said as the other three supreme leaders stepped aside revealing two soldiers dragging along a heavily beaten up Godwin until he was in front of the crowd as the soldiers forced him to kneel.
Solomon gave Sorcerer the book before he began to pace around the beaten high priest "This man… is one of the high priests of this temple fortress and he dared interfere with our quest, robbing us of the books full power, dividing it into hundreds of pieces and cast them out onto the far reaches of the multiverse, leaving us with the only fragment you see before you…!" he said pointing towards the book in Sorcerer's hand "Stripping it of its' full power… and delaying our plans of grand conquest!" he said as the whole army shouted out in outrage and started throwing insults at Godwin.
"And for that…" trailed off Solomon turning to the high priest "He shall now suffer the consequence… for his act of intervention!" he declared as he summoned a weapon on his right hand.
Said weapon was black and gold wide bladed sword with hints of red. It had a black, gold and red grip that resembled some kind of robotic leg and a guard also resembling a leg but facing sideways with the leg facing the left and the blade being black and not only that, the body of the blade resembles a gold, black and red mechanical upper body with golden arms holding a golden blade with a red center filler facing downwards and the whole upper body was positioned upside down to the legs. This was Solomon's main weapon Caladbolg.
The dark rider leaned the blade against Godwin's neck as the high priest kept up a stern look despite his current predicament.
"Any last words high priest?" goaded Solomon with a smirk behind his helmet.
Godwin merely glared "You can take my life… but the Celestial Gods will know of what you've done. They will be coming after all of you… them… and the Celestial Nexus Patrol Alliance, you'll all receive judgement for your transgressions… mark my words" he said defiantly.
Solomon scoffed in amusement "We'll see about that…" he said. And with that, Solomon swung down Caladbolg executing a downward diagonal…
*SLASH!*
Resulting in Godwin instantly falling forward towards the floor with a resounding… *THUD!* as he laid limp and lifeless.
(Insert Star Wars Revenge of the Sith OST Jedi Temple March)
Solomon stared at the dead body of the high priest whipping his weapon to the side removing the blood that drenched it, he then turned to his soldiers "Let this serve as an example of what happens to those who dare oppose or defy Valhalla's ambitions…!" he trailed off "From without… or within!" he added.
Solomon looked around his troops who remained silent "Today, we rejoice our triumph of victory… tomorrow… we shall set off to the far reaches of the multiverse and reclaim the power that was rightfully ours…!" he said trailing off "And Valhalla shall stand master of the multiverse… reborn as sole rulers of a grand utopia in a new age of advanced civilization…" he said "Our enemies will be powerless against us… if they dare… try and oppose us we will send legions to bring judgement upon them!" he declared "If they slay a hundred men… a hundred shall rise from the grave…" he trailed off glancing back to his fellow Oberste Führers and elite troops and officers "Heil Valhalla"
And with that declaration, The other Oberste Führers along with the Dark Riders and other elite officers raised up their arms in a Nazi salute fashion only with their hands formed into a fist and chanted…
"HEIL VALHALLA!"
"HEIL VALHALLA!"
"HEIL VALHALLA!"
"HEIL VALHALLA!"
Scrozzle looked around him confused before deciding to follow suit as he did the Valhallan salute as well since he's now a member of the organization while Ryjack merely chuckled amused.
Solomon turned back to the rest of the present army and raised up Caladbolg in the air as all the soldiers saluted in unison and chanted as well.
"HEIL VALHALLA!"
"HEIL VALHALLA!"
"HEIL VALHALLA!"
We now change to the planet's orbit as the Valhallan fleet stood proudly in front of the planet.
Inside the bridge of every ship, holo-screens were activated as they watched a view of the conquered temple fortress as the four Oberste Führers stood on individual floating platforms as they each floated in front of each side of the temple fortress from a distance.
Somewhere from afar near the supreme leaders was Sorcerer together with the unknown Kommandant, Metal Build, Dark Para-DX and Utopia Dopant observing their leaders upclose while also standing on a floating platform but used for carrying a small amount of people. Even Scrozzle and Ryjack were spectating.
"Uh… what are we doing here?" questioned Scrozzle.
"We are here to witness our supreme leaders' new power and give our enemies a warning that we declare our dominance in the multiverse by destroying the temple fortress" he said.
The four supreme leaders gazed at the damaged temple fortress as all four of them held a weapon in their hands.
Solomon wielded Caladbolg.
Eden wielded a weapon known as the Thousand Jacker. It was a high-tech looking lance which was just about the size of a sword with a gold and black lance head with a purple diamond shaped jewel, a meter-like monitor located at the bottom center and a port on the right side where a progrise key can be inserted. It also had a black handle with a gold trigger on the left side and a gold ring located at the bottom of the hilt.
For Saver, he wielded a weapon known as the Dark Daidaimaru. It was a single edged wakizashi style sword with a black and silver handle with a port at the bottom, a green tsuba and a blade resembling an orange slice but it was red and white.
And for Barlckxs, he wielded the Barlckxs Sword which was a saber with a long thin silver blade and a golden hilt with intricate clock gear-like designs and a red jewel with a fan-like shape at the center of the hilt.
They continued to gaze at the temple fortress before they reached for their drivers/belts.
Solomon closed his book before opening the cover as it announced in an ominous voice.
OMNIBUS LOADING!
Barlckxs meanwhile pressed the button of his ridewatch.
FINISH TIME!
It announced while Barlckxs pressed the top button of his driver making it tilt downwards with the watch facing down.
And with that, the Oberste Führers of Valhalla activated their belts; Solomon pressing the button of his belt once turning a page at his book, Eden slamming the zetsumerise key on his driver, Saver cutting the lockseeds on his driver thrice and Barlckxs spinning his driving full 360.
SOLOMON BREAK!
EDEN IMPACT!
HA! BLOOD ZAKURO SPARKING! BLOOD ORANGE SPARKING!
BARLCKXS TIME BREAK!
Announced the belts as the supreme leaders raised up their weapons, four different colored orbs materialized and began to enlarge until they were about the size of Wargreymon's Gaia/Terra Force, the four orbs were hurled at the temple fortress as they crashed into the huge structure like meteorites as Temple Fortress Alpha was slowly engulfed in an explosion, little did they all know… they were about to unleash something that would cause some huge trouble.
Inside a very huge and currently spacious lab, we go to a room where hundreds upon hundreds of glass tanks that contain strange purplish blue liquid sat. On one tank, it had a label that read DIMENSION FUEL and a yellow caution sign that read "WARNING: HIGHLY UNSTABLE. COULD CAUSE UNKNOWN CATASTROPHES WHEN NOT HANDLED WITH CARE".
All of a sudden, the whole room began to shake. cracks began to form in the walls and floors before bright lights came through the cracks and expanded as they begun to engulf the whole place, all the glass tanks began to crack as this was happening.
Back outside, the whole temple fortress was currently being engulfed in a huge domed explosion creating a shockwave in its' wake destroying everything it touched.
"Oh my!" exclaimed Scrozzle holding onto the rails of the platform for dear life.
"Hmm…" hummed Ryjack impressed with his arms crossed unfazed by the shockwave.
The officers looked on with their own reactions of amazement.
"Erstaunlich…" uttered out Utopia Dopant in astonishment.
"Indeed comrade… simply… astonishing…" said Dark Para-DX in agreement.
The explosion continued to expand as the spectators watched. Suddenly… it began to recede as the shockwave turned into a vacuum.
"Oh no…! What's happening?!" exclaimed Scrozzle in alarm.
The shockwave receded even more until it became a massive orb of purple energy twice the size of the temple fortress. Before it could explode, Barlckxs raised up his free hand thrusting it forward the sound of clocks ticking being heard as everything stopped in place with the exception of the supreme leaders and the spectators.
(End Soundtrack)
"What?" uttered out Scozzle looking everywhere seeing everything was frozen but he could see some areas were glitching as if he was inside a TV.
"Hmm… it zeemz zat von of our Führers av stopped time bevore zis explozion could take us" said Utopia Dopant.
"Hmm… I didn't calculate this outcome" said Metal Build "Must've missed something" he quipped.
"Huh… I guess tha's mah cue tah get outta ere" said Ryjack holding out a wrist watch "I'll be expectin mah pay once we get outta this" he told the officers.
"It vill be done bounty hunter…" said Utopia Dopant "Ve look forward to do more business vith you" he said.
Ryjack nodded before pressing a button on his watch and teleported off-planet.
"*Gulp!* So what do we do now?" uttered out Scrozzle looking towards his new bosses.
Sorcerer got a contact from Solomon, the former nodding and without a single word, the wizard themed rider flipped the switch of his belt's hand author making it like a right hand.
LUPACHI MAGIC TOUCH GO! LUPACHI MAGIC TOUCH GO!
Chanted the belt before Sorcerer put his ringed hand over it.
TELEPORT! NOW~!
And just like that, magic circles appeared below the group and the four supreme leaders. The circles moved upwards through them making them disappear, when they all made it through, the circles vanished.
(Insert SD Gundam OST - Zapper Zaku)
And in just a few seconds, the sound of clocks ticking were heard again as the whole place glitched again as time moved forward, the orb unleahing a huge explosion sending a huge shockwave that travelled around the planet but not only that, a massive purplish blue wormhole vortex appeared on the ground in the explosion's wake as it began to suck in everything it could; the remains of the temple fortress, the earth near it and even the mountains and stone structures as nothing could escape the powerful force of its' vacuum.
In outerspace, upon orders, the Valhallan Fleet began to distance themselves from the planet that was slowly being devoured by the wormhole.
The inhabitants of every retreating ship witnessed as the planet's surface slowly broke down and receded into the wormhole like sand. It continued to recede until it imploded completely leaving nothing behind.
But just a couple of moments later, a single twinkle occurred from the source of the planet's destruction before it turned into a bright explosion creating a simultaneous number of great shockwaves.
In the point of view of those who'd watch TV, the shockwaves looked like purplish blue planetary rings of energy that gradually expanded but if you were seeing it up close and in person, you'd see that it would look like a wave of purplish blue energy that expands and come towards you like a tidal wave.
This was the case for the escaping Valhallan fleet as the shockwave began to expand towards them in the explosion's wake, luckily, they all managed to escape on time as they all entered hyperspace Star Wars style before the shockwaves could hit them.
The waves continued on to expand through the far reaches of the stars not knowing what awaited it's arrival.
Unbeknownst to many out in the vast stars, these waves will affect just about every world in the vast multiverse.
Whatever affects the waves will unleash upon the dimensions and its' inhabitants… will decide the very fate of all life and existence… in every world... in every galaxy... in all of the multiverse... forever.
(End Soundtrack)
*Clap!* *Clap!* *Clap!* Bravo…! Bravo! Just amazing! What a way to end a story, just amazing!" spoke the voice of Nexus Lupin "Valhalla has quite the ambition don't you think? Taking over the multiverse and rule with an iron fist!" he said.
"But it seems that their plans have been delayed and they'll have to recover the pieces of the book they need to conquer the multiverse, but will they succeed in achieving their ambition? And is there anyone who'll stop them from collecting all fragments of the Magnus Liber Mortuorum?" he said "And who're those hodded people with them and what's their connection to the Giff Coffin?" he added.
"Well… I believe you'll have to find out next time but unfortunately this is where we say our goodbyes for this is the end of the line for this story but don't you worry, we'll see each other again, whether on the sidelines… or in adventures in the future" said Nexus with his final goodbye.
"Adieu~!"
Author's Notes:
Inspired by XP4Universe and Fir100
Phew! That took a long while but after so much delay, I have completed the final chapter of this arc and by extension this story.
Valhalla has succeeded in their siege of Temple Fortress Alpha taking down its' garrison but luckily they bought enough time to allow all none combat and inexperienced personnel to evacuating and although the remainder of the evacuees lost some of them, they escaped nonetheless.
And now they've gained new power including the power to revive the dead using the Magnus Liber Mortuorum and not only that, it seems they have mysterious llies that have an interest in the Giff Coffin. But unfortunately for the former group, one of the high priests of the Temple Fortress split the book into pieces casting them along with the Sporix to portals that led to several dimensions before he was executed and so Valhalla now sets off to every dimension in search of the book fragments while conquering all of the multiverse and what's worse, they caused a planetary explosion (unintentionally) that created bizarre looking shockwaves that'll possibly affect the multiverse as a whole.
Now I know what some of you are wondering… what will become of the multiverse? Will the ones who've escaped the Temple Fortress warn the Celestial Council in time? And how will those strange shockwaves affect the Multiverse?
Well, you'll just have to find out on the epilogue of this story.
This is XD Warden warping out.