Arc 2: Ladies and Gentlemen, Let's get Ready to Henshiiiiiiiin!

Part 3: The Dragon, the Snake and the Peach

Disclaimer: Kamen Rider is owned be Toei and Shotaro Ishinomori, I own nothing but this Fanfic.

Ryoutaro and Shinji were standing outside the empty parking building. Shinji checked his watch which read 8:45. "I guess it's about time..."

"Right." Ryoutaro agreed and they began to walk towards the building. 'I'm gonna give that Ren guy a good beating!'

'Ryoutaro. We're the ones fighting, remember?' Momotaros explained.

'R-right. Sorry...'

'But, even if we do beat Ren, there's still the problem of Ryuki's identity...' Urataros questioned.

'Well for now, we'll just have to see where we go.' Ryoutaro enthusiastically explained.

The two entered the hidden entrance of the building and walked down the passage until they came to the 'reception'. Recognising Ryoutaro, the receptionist allowed him to proceed down the left corridor. Ryoutaro and Shinji farewelled and proceeded down their respective paths. Ryoutaro met the assistant from his previous battle.

"Welcome back." he greeted.

"Thanks..."

"You ready?"

"As I'll ever be..." The assistant turned and began to walk towards the doors of the arena, Ryoutaro following suit. The two stopped beside the big double doors.

"Once again, good luck..."

"Thanks..." Ryoutaro opened the doors and nervously stepped thought them. 'Alright Momo, you're up!'

'Alright! Let's go!' As Ryoutaro walked down the path he flashed red, becoming possessed by the Imagin.

Momotaros entered the main area and the crowd began to cheer. He could even see Shinji in the audience waving like a child. Ren was already standing in the ring.

"So, you decided to show up after all..." Ren taunted.

"Hey, hey! Do you think I'd run away from some punk like you?!"

"Now now kids." The referee interrupted their bickering as he entered the ring and looked up at the crowd. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the fight you've been waiting for has come: Ren vs. Ryoutaro!"

As the crowd cheered at the referee's narration, Momotaros and Ren walked towards the center and looked up at the crowd.

"Psst, Nogami..." Ren whispered, trying to look inconspicuous.

"Whaddya want?!" Momotaros grunted back, making Ren flinch from his brashness.

"Listen, whatever happens right now, don't interfere..."

"Wh... what do you mean?" Momo asked, confused. Ren just returned his gaze to the audience. 'That was weird...'

"Tonight, we have a very special guest!" The referee announced to the crowd. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mister Takeshi Asakura!"

The crowd 'ooo'ed as the well-suited owner entered the ring, smiling up at the audience. "Hello, everyone!" He walked over to the two contestants and placed a hand on each of their shoulders. "These two are some of the best fighters I've come across, despite having such a short time running this business."

"Thank you, sir." Ren graciously accepted.

"Yeah, I am pretty awesome!" Momotaros chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head, earning a sigh from Ren and a chuckle from Asakura.

"Well, at any rate, it's time to start the match!" Asakura concluded, earning another cheer from the crowd.

"Actually sir, there's one small thing." Ren faced his boss with a look of seriousness.

"Oh, what might that be?" Asakura asked.

Rather suddenly, Ren punched Asakura square in the nose. Asakura began to pull his hands up to his face in pain, but Ren grabbed his hand and twisted it behind his back, restraining him and bringing him to his knees.

Momotaros and the crowd gasped in shock. "Hey! What the hell are you doing?!" Momo began to walk towards the two but was stopped by Routaro.

'Wait Momotaros, Ren told us to not interfere in this...'

"But... alright." Momotaros accepted.

Still restraining Asakura, Ren reached into his back pocket and pull out a small leather pad and showed it to him. "Takeshi Asakura, I'm detective Ren Akiyama. You're under arrest for the illegal possession of dangerous weapons, the organising of underground fights, possession of stolen property and murder!"

The entire crowd gasped shock, even Momotaros giving an over the top reaction. "Oh?" Asakura questioned, seemingly unfazed. "So you were some rat for the pigs the whole time?"

"Yes, I've gone undercover to get you out here. We've been after you for a few years now, and now I'm taking you in!"

"Pardon my rudeness detective, but how do you plan on taking me out of here? I mean, there's an entire crowd here who wouldn't like to get involved with police business..." The crowd chuckled menacingly, some of the more intimidating ones cracking their knuckles.

"Hehe, about that..." Ren chuckled as he checked the time on his watch again. Suddenly, the door to the audience opened and a horde of armed riot police burst through the door. "Right on time!"

"Nobody move!"

"Put your hands up!" They called out as they surrounded the now panicking crowd.

'Hey! Momotaros! Do something!' Ryutaros yelled at the Imagin.

"Gaaaaah! It's just so confusing! I mean, Ren was a contestant, but now he's not a contestant, he's a good guy, and he called all these police guys here, and-"

"Hahahaha!" Asakura bellowed maniacally, still restrained by Ren.

"Hey! What are you laughing about?!"

"Well, you've certainly planned ahead... but-" Asakura managed to overpower Ren, breaking free of his hold. "Did you really think I'm not prepared fro something like this?" He gave a devilish smile as he reached inside his coat's inside pocket and pulled out a small, purple deck.

"T-that's...!" Ren and Momotaros gasped as they saw him pull it out.

"Y'know Ren, I should thank you for forcing me to do this. I'll be honest, the business man thing never suited me." Asakura chuckled as he pointed the face of the deck towards the mirror. A bright light emerged from the mirror and latched itself around Asakura's waist as the familiar silver belt. "Henshin..." he breathed as he slid the deck into belt. With a high pitched 'scree' sound, a black body suit covered with purple and silver armor that looked like a cobra formed over Asakura's body.

"No way! He's also a Kamen Rider?" Momotaros exclaimed.

"Yes. Out of all the decks that I took, I decided that this one was the strongest. So I always keep this one for... insurance."

"Took? So you did steal those decks!" Momo declared in realisation.

"Well I guess there's no point in hiding it any more. I stole all these decks from Shocker." he shamelessly admitted.

"But how?"

"I had a friend who worked for them. One day I convinced him to show me what he did for work and he took me there. I saw that they had these decks and, as they say, when opportunity knocks."

"So you stole them and started this..." Ren concluded.

"That's right. But now you ruined it..." Asakura held up a cobra shaped staff and pointed it towards Ren. "And now you'll pay..."

"Well, I'm sorry to disappoint. But..." Ren smirked as he reached inside his coat pocket. "I also have an ace up my sleeve." He pulled out a black deck with a golden symbol of a dragon head on it.

"No way! You mean you're..." Momotaros gasped as he recognised the deck. Ren pointed the face of the deck at one of the mirrors. Similarly to Asakura, a silver belt attached itself to Ren's waist.

"Henshin." Ren slide the deck into his belt and a red body suit covered with grey and black armor with a grey dragon-like helmet appeared on Ren's body. He lifted his fists in a defensive stance. "I'm taking you in, Asakura!"

"Huh?! You mean Ren was Ryuki the whole time?!" Momo hysterically exclaimed.

"Ryuki? That's what this form's called?" Ren turned as he heard Momotaros speak.

"So you were the one sneaking around in here?" Asakura questioned, turning angrier.

"Yes. I was gathering information from behind the scenes in two ways. As a contestant and as 'thief' as you all keep calling me."

"I see..." Asakura then quickly dashed towards Ren, now Ryuki, and jabbed him in the gut with his staff. Ryuki flinched in the pain, and Asakura ran off between the double doors of the entrance.

"Stop right there!" Ren yelled as he ran after him, still recovering from the sucker punch.

'Momo! What are you doing?! Go after him!' Urataros ordered.

"R-right!" Momotaros pulled out his pass from his pocket. "Now it's my time to-"

"Ryoutaro! Help!" Momo heard from behind him. In the commotion that had happened in the upper floor, Shinji had managed to climb over the railing to get into the arena. But, he was scared of the drop down, so he was left dangling a couple of feet in the air. "Help me! I'm stuck." he cried.

"Shinji! Now's not the time!"

Shinji's grip loosened and he had to let go of one of his hands. "Aahh!" He let out a girly scream, startling Momotaros who ran over to him.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Hang on, I gotcha!"

Ren and Asakura ran through the halls of the underground complex. Asakura was simultaneously trying to lose Ren and make his way back to his office.

"Stop where you are!" Ren yelled in the commotion as he shifted the dragon shaped gauntlet on his left arm down and pulled out a card from his deck. He hastily placed it in the compartment of his gauntlet and shifted it back into place.

Strike Vent

In a flash, a dragon head appeared on Ryuki's right arm. He shoved it forward and it shot a fireball in Asakura's direction. Asakura managed to roll forward to avoid it. Realising that he won't be losing Ren anytime soon, he turned to face him. "You're persistent, aren't you?"

"I said that I'll take you in. And I will!" Ren determinately took a defensive stance.

"Hehe... Ren? Do you know how long I was in possession of these decks before starting my little operation?"

"No... how long?" Ren asked cautiously, but decided to play along.

"A couple of weeks. During that time I tested them all out. Checking perimeters, finding strengths and weaknesses..."

"What's your point?!" Ren asked impatiently.

"I learned a few things... for example: Did you know that you can't use another deck's card with your own?" Asakura reached down to his belt and slowly pulled a card out which appeared to have a picture of a golden wing. "Well... some cards are exceptions of course." Wind spiraled around Asakura's left arm, which held his staff. It seemed to change, now forming a cobra shaped gauntlet.

"W-what are you..." Ren nervously asked.

Asakura opened the mouth of the cobra's head, placed the card into its mouth and closed its head.

Survive

Momotaros managed to get Shinji down safely and now the two of them were running after Ren and Asakura. 'Dammit! With Shinji here, I don't wanna transform...' The two kept running down halls, taking corners every now and then, until they came across and ugly sight...

Shinji was running ahead of Momotaros slightly and when he took a corner, he stopped and stared. "R... Ren!" he cried out. Momotaros turned around the corner to see Ren lying against the wall, slumped down, eyes closed and with some blood dripping down from the corner of his mouth. The two ran over to him. "Ren! Get a hold of yourself! Ren!" Shinji shook him a few times in hopes of a response.

Ren slowly opened his eyes and blinked a few times. His eyes focused on the two. "Sorry... he got me..." Ren breathed in a faint voice.

"Wait right here! We'll get one of your friends to help!" Momotaros frantically reassured.

"Wait..." Ren stopped the two of them. He then reached inside of his pocket and pulled out his Ryuki deck. "Shinji... please... stop him." He weakly handed it to Shinji.

"Wait, me? Why?!"

"You wanted to find the truth and expose Asakura... Now prove it. Take him down... He went to get the rest of the card decks in his office, but he should be outside by now..."

Shinji took the deck and gripped his friends hand. "Yeah... I will." Shinji answered, his voice shaking.

"Wait, Ren! I need to ask you something!" Momotaros intervened. "Where did you find this deck?"

"Find it?" Ren stared off into space as he tried to remember. "It just appeared on my desk one day... With a bit of experimenting, I found out how to use it."

'He found it? So maybe it came from you guys' world...' Ryoutaro guessed.

"Now hurry up and go!" Ren barked, making Momotaros and Shinji stand up attentively.

The two then began to run towards the entrance that they usually use. 'Ren... he entrusted this deck to me...' Shinji monologued. 'I have to stop Asakura. For his sake. But first...' "Why the heck are you following me?" Shinji barked at Momo. "You should go back to find help for Ren!"

"Like hell I'm gonna do that! I haven't had a good fight in a long time! And besides, Ren couldn't beat that purple-y snake bastard. Even with his deck, what makes you think you can beat him by yourself?"

"I, uh..." Shinji struggled to find an answer.

"But if I transform with you, we have a better chance."

"Wait, you can transform? How can you do that?!"

"I'll explain later, for now let's just beat Asakura!"

"Right!"

The two made it out of the entrance that they usually take and made it outside. They ran out into the street to see that it was already night. The street was abandoned save for a single figure walking off in the distance. Momotaros and Shinji ran after the figure until they caught up to it. Hearing the two arrive, the figure turned to see the two. "Oh? So someone has caught up with me." Asakura laughed as he noticed them.

"Ryoutaro, doesn't he seem kind of... different?" Shinji asked. Upon inspection, Momo also noticed that Asakura's armor had several more spikes sticking out of the shoulders, a gauntlet attached to his arms and some sort of tail sticking out of his back.

"Yeah... Hey! What's with the new getup?"

"Oh this?" Asakura casually responded. "I like to call this Ouja Survive form."

"Survive...? Hey! isn't that Ryuki's form!?" Momotaros exclaimed.

"Ryuki? So... Ryuki has a Survive card too?" Asakura asked, surprised.

"I do?" Shinji also inquired.

'Sempai, you gave away too much.' Urataros scolded.

"Ugh... That doesn't matter, let's just fight!" Momotaros pulled out his pass in frustration.

"R-right!" Shinji pointed his deck towards a glass window, and the silver belt appeared around his waist. Momotaros also wrapped the Den-O belt around his waist and pressed the red button. "HENSHIN!" Shinji declared, sliding the deck into the belt.

"Henshin!" Momotaros passed the pass over the face of his belt

SWORD FORM

Their different suits form on Momotaros's and Shinji's bodies, making them Den-O and Ryuki respectively.

"Ah! Oh..." Shinji flinched as he noticed Momotaros's new form. "So, this is..."

"I'm Kamen Rider Den-O!" he declared as he began arranging his Den-Gasher into its sword form.

"Right... and I'm Kamen Rider Ryuki!" Shinji declared in a similar manner at Ouja.

"Two against one, huh? Hehehe... bring it!" Ouja taunted. Den-O ran forward first, followed by Ryuki. Den-O slashed diagonally, but Ouja knocked the sword to the side and veered the rushing rider off course, letting him stumble down. Ryuki ran and was preparing to land a punch, but Ouja grabbed his fist, threw it to the side and kicked him in the stomach, making him step back in pain. "Is that all?" Ouja taunted as he retrieved a card from his deck. He opened the mouth of his gauntlet, placed the card inside it and closed the mouth.

Sword Vent

In a flash of light, a spiral bladed sword appeared in Ouja's hand. Ouja slowly, menacingly walked towards Ryuki who was still recovering. "Wait... don't I have cards as well?" Shinji asked in realisation. He retrieved a card from his deck. "And now I do this..." He pulled the head of his own gauntlet down and placed his card into it. "Now this should..." Ouja raised his sword and began to slice it downwards, but Ryuki shifted the gauntlet back into position.

Sword Vent

In a moment of frantic flailing, Ryuki swung the new curved sword that appeared in his hand and managed to swat Ouja's sword away and landed a hit on him. Ouja backed away and prepared to strike again Ryuki again, but was caught off guard again by Den-O managing to sneak up behind him and hit him with his sword, sending sparks flying out of his back. Ouja rolled out of the way to get enough distance to recover. Ryuki and Den-O met in the spot where he was and faced him, swords at the ready. "You two are annoying... In that case-" Ouja retrieved yet another card from his deck and activated it with his gauntlet.

Advent

Shinji and Momotaros heard an ominous hissing sound, but couldn't figure out where it was coming from. They kept turning their heads in hopes of finding the source, but nothing came into view.

"Ryoutaro, do you hear that?"

"Yeah... it kinda sounds like a sn-" Momo's guessing was cut short when a large purple snake flew out of the window and dashed towards. Before either of them knew what had happened, the snake rammed into them, sending them both crashing into the ground. "Gah! What the heck was that?" Momotaros managed to get to his feet. He saw that the large snake had moved over to Ouja and coiled its body up, now hissing at Den-O and Ryuki.

"I figured that two on one was a but unfair." Ouja said, casually petting the large monster. "This is my Advent Monster, Venosnaker. Well, he's Venoviper now."

"It doesn't matter how many are one your side, we'll still take you down!" Momotaros ran towards the two, only to have Venoviper smack him to the side with its tail. Momotaros got back up on is feet to see that the large snake had begun to inch closer to to him. "Uh... Shinji, you handle the rest!" Momotaros explained, before running off, Venoviper in toe.

"Eh?! What about me?!"

"I'm sure you can handle it! Use that Survive card you have!" he yelled, now further away, dodging the snake's attacks.

"Survive? Do I really have one?"

"Stop messing around!" Ouja yelled as he slashed down with his sword, but Ryuki blocked it with his own. They were both pushing their swords against each others. "It's been too long since I've had a good fight... If you have a Survive mode, use it!" he barked as he kicked Ryuki in the middle of their grapple.

Ryuki tumbled backwards, but quickly got back on his feet. "Survive, huh...?" Shinji panted. 'Ren wanted to take this guy in...' Shinji reached down to his belt and pulled out a card. Looking at it, he noticed that the picture on it was of a golden wing. 'And he entrusted me to do that for him...' Flames began to burn at Ryuki's feet. As the flames burned brighter, Ryuki's gauntlet disappeared in a flash of fire and was replaced with some sort of gun in the shape of a dragon's head. Shinji placed the card in the dragon head's open mouth and then closed it shut. "Let's go!"

Survive

The flames grew, then engulfed Ryuki's entire body and in a flash, his armor changed to a black suit with the armor now red and extending up passed his shoulder, and the armor on his arms, legs, chest and helmet were all highlighted with gold.

"So, you've finally used it." Ouja readied his sword. Ryuki pulled out another card from his deck, pulled out a black handle from his gun which opened a compartment, slid the card in and closed it.

Sword Vent

A blade extended from the end of Ryuki's weapon. Ouja ran towards him and swiped his sword downwards, but Ryuki instinctively blocked it with his new weapon. "Now... Entertain me!" Asakura yelled.

Den-O dodged another one of Venoviper's attacks, but then got a glimpse of Ryuki and Ouja parring each other's attacks. "Alright! Ryuki's got Survive!" Momotaros punched the air in celebration. His victory was short lived as he noticed the giant snake creature jab its tail in his direction, which Momotaros just barely dodged.

'Hey, be careful! That's my body you're using!' Ryoutaro scolded.

'A real man wouldn't be distracted so easily!' Kintaros added.

"Heh, I guess you're right." Momotaros shrugged. "With Shinji fighting that snakey bastard, I'll have to try my best with this snakey bastard." Momotaros faced the snake monster and gripped the Den-Gasher with both hands. "Let's go, let's go, let's go!"

AN: So, I intended to pretty much complete the rest of this arc in this chapter, but it's been a while since I updated and this is running on too long. I also decided not to have previews for the next chapter at the ends of chapters as it just kinda feels restricting when I have to make lines fit into scenes. Sorry if you guys liked them...