The Riders and the Rangers ride away from the scene while Jack and his employees are sifting through the wreckage.
"Sir, what do we do now?"
"Get them!"
"Sir, they accessed the terminal and took our files."
"What!? Are you kidding me?"
"No sir."
"Sarah, Doug, Julian, go after them now!"
"Yes sir."
Jack pulls out his phone and calls in a favor while the trio heads out to pursue the team.
"Listen, I thought I told you to tell us everything about them."
"I did, but you didn't give me enough to work with."
"Alright, since you failed me and they got away with our files, kill them now!"
"I'm assuming that I'm getting my cut of the pay?"
"Yes, now do it!"
The Riders enter the city while trying to find a place to hide until everything dies down. Marvelous arrives from his ship and he warns them about the Piercers that have been sent to kill them.
"Guys, we need to go now. Those morons will come to kill us unless we find a way out of this mess."
"Yeah, let's get out!"
"Wait, look out Samurai!"
A pair of familiar looking blades attack Samurai from behind, but he just uses his DJ Gun to blast them. Samurai is devastated when he sees Dragon Slayer alongside Moon Slayer, Queen and Viking.
"You gotta be kidding me. It was you?"
"Hey Cade, maybe next time you should be careful who you trust. You might just get burned."
"Well, it looks like my suspicions are confirmed. I felt that your aura was bad, but now I know it's bad. It's a good thing I didn't trust you."
"Well Wizard, it's too bad for you. Now hand over that USB or we will kill you!"
"You're going to kill us anyways so how about fuck no?"
"Fine, then we're going to kill you."
"Well Matthew, I should have been more careful around you, but now I'm going to have to defeat you."
The Rider and Ranger team clash with the dark Riders and they engage in a grueling fight. Dragon Slayer tries to slash Samurai with his Kiwi Blades, but Meteor jumps in to help using his Saturn Switch.
"Saturn, On!"
The attack works and forces Dragon Slayer back. Moon Slayer tries to shoot his sonic bow at Samurai but Wizard arrives from behind via teleportation and kicks him down. Queen tries to go after Samurai, but John and Marvelous push her back and attack her with their swords. Birth and Medal attack Viking using their Medals and Double and Accel force Moon Slayer down.
"Alright guys, let's finish this!"
"Maximum Driver Power!"
"Scanning Charge!"
"Breast Cannon Blast!"
"Rider Rocket Drill Kick!"
"Jupiter Storm Attack!"
"Flame Slash Strike!"
"Falcon Saber Strike!"
"Shogun Slash Au-Lait!"
"Banana Split!"
"Sky Raider Final Strike!"
"Special Ops Final Blast!"
The combined attacks force the dark Riders to retreat, but Dragon Slayer looks at Samurai and throws a finger at him.
"I promise that I will finish you off Cade, I promise!"
"Alright guys, let's go now. We need to read these files."
The Riders and Rangers fly back to Omega Defense where they quickly power down and John heads to the main facility to upload all the extracted files. However, that is until they see the news of the Pantheon attack.
"Today, fear has settled in to Bunkerdome as a group of costumed individuals attacked Pantheon and have caused massive damage to the facility. CEO Jack Yeager has said that the individuals stole files that were in their terminal and that they are cooperating with the authorities to find out what has happened."
"Damn it! I knew this was a bad idea. We're supposed to be heroes, not corporate terrorists."
"Hey, they forced our hand. Plus someone within that company blew our cover."
"You know what, it was Matthew all this time. He was the one who gave away our every position."
"How do you know that Cade?"
"Because only he knew where I was and the only times we were together he had his phone around."
"Yeah, that makes sense. Well, I decided to do my homework and discovered that within Pantheon there were several communications made with Jack and this number here. The last communication was five minutes before we entered the facility."
"Who is the number?"
"Hold on, let me do a tracer on it."
"Wait, how are you able to track every phone call?"
"We can do that because we have satellites in space that can help us triangulate the position of every communication we need."
"Isn't that illegal?"
"No, because we're only interested in communications that involve monster attacks or rescue missions. Plus, we don't care about your private conversations. That's not how we play. Anyways, according to the phone records, the phone used to contact Jack was indeed Matthew. According to my database, Matthew is an employee of Pantheon and has been working there for six months now."
"What? I knew there was something wrong with him."
"Okay, now let's upload these files."
John uploads all the files, but not before easily breaking through the complex firewall. What John sees not only disturbs him but brings concern to the other Riders.
"Oh my god, this is not good."
"What is it?"
"According to these files, Pantheon planned to wipe out 80 percent of the population by using the skin infections as a weapon."
"You mean they're purposefully creating the infection?"
"Yes Flynn. They're doing that in order to create what is known as the master race. They were going to use those Driver Belts to strengthen the population and the monsters that you guys saw were being used to extract their DNA as a means to create the infection. That's why they didn't want to stop the infection."
"But why?"
"According to these files, Jack was interested in an item called the Forbidden Fruit. It seems that he wanted the power for himself and the forest was the key to that."
"Damn, we gotta tell people about this."
"I don't think they'll believe us."
"Yeah, especially since we came in and destroyed Pantheon."
"Not to worry guys, I have a friend who works there that will love to read this. Let me just send him the relevant files."
John immediately emails the files to his friend at the News Station KXNV and wait. After the commercial, the screen portrays the breaking news banner and they watch.
"Breaking news. Apparently we have gotten an email from anonymous sources about the files that were stolen from Pantheon and according to this source, the substance of the files are disturbing and sure to rock Pantheon. According to the files, Pantheon intentionally withheld the cure for the skin infection in order to infect the populace and as we see in these images, they planned to wipe out 80 percent of the population in order to create a master race, in their own words. We reached out to CEO Jack Yeager for comment but we have yet to hear from them. More breaking news, we have gotten an email from Tanaka Enterprises in Tokyo saying that they will no longer invest in Pantheon and that they're pulling their funding. Several Japanese lawmakers including Prime Minister Takegawa Mishumu have called for the prosecution of the heads of Pantheon. The stocks of Pantheon have plummeted to zero as all investors have pulled their money from it and widespread condemnation has spread across the world. It seems that the costumed individuals may have done more good than harm in these discoveries. That is it for Breaking News. We promise to keep you updated on this fast moving story."