Parasite Eve II: Armageddon
The Prince of Tennis gets to star in this chapter…as he finally tries out the Scorpio Zecter and Yaiba Blade…assuming the mantle of Mask Rider Sasword…
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At ZECT, Mishima learned that Neo-ZECT has a traitor among their ranks as he learned that the three Zecters are within Kyuu's grasps and intends to fins someone who can match up to the Renjou boy, and a thought hit him as he looked at the monitor screen which shows Ryoma Echizen doing his tennis technique, and an idea formed in his head as this would certainly give ZECT a temporary boost.
"Looks like I'll have to approach him…"
NEXT LEVEL by YU-KI
(Opening Song from Kamen Rider Kabuto)
Kimi ga negau koto nara subete genjitsu ni naru n' darou
Erabareshi mono naraba
Bousou hajimete 'ru sekai wo moto ni modosu ni wa mou
Jikan ga nai
MOVING FAST Kokoro no tokei ni hashirase ashita no sono saki e
Kimi no tonari tatakau tabi umarekawaru
Me ni mieru SPEED koete 'ku MOTION
Ittai jibun igai dare no tsuyosa shinjirareru?
Kousoku no VISION minogasu na
Tsuite koreru nara...
Hikari ga sagashite iru atsui kumo no aida kagayaku
Erabareshi mono dake wo
Kimi ga souzou shite 'ta mirai ga arukidashita michi ni
Mirai wa nai
TAKE A CHANCE kokoro ga motome-tsuzuketa shunkan koko ni aru
Dare mo inai jikuu hitori shinka shite 'ku
Mitaiken eria de hajimaru riaru
Zettai jibun dake ga kono jidai wo kaete yukeru
Saikyou no LEGEND minogasu na
Tsuite koreru nara...
[Instrumental]
Kimi no tonari tatakau tabi umarekawaru
Me ni mieru SPEED koete 'ku MOTION
Ittai jibun igai dare no tsuyosa shinjirareru?
Kousoku no VISION minogasu na
Tsuite koreru nara...
Dare mo inai jikuu hitori shinka shite 'ku
Mitaiken eria de hajimaru riaru
Zettai jibun dake ga kono jidai wo kaete yukeru
Saikyou no LEGEND minogasu na
Tsuite koreru nara...
Ch. 58: Ryoma no Shōkan
At Seigaku Academy, the next day, Mishima approaches Ryoma and invited him to join ZECT to help and oppose Neo-ZECT and offered him the benefits and privileges should he accepted the invitation. The rest of the Seigaku team members were eavesdropping and wondered if Ryoma would leave Seigaku if he joins ZECT and wondered why Tezuka isn't here today since they know the Seigaku captain is working for ZECT.
"What do you say…? You'll receive lots of benefits and privileges once you join ZECT…and your family will be placed under ZECT's protection…so you won't have to worry about anything…and everything. Does this meet your approval…?"
But after a few minutes of thinking, the Prince of Tennis asks Mishima to give him at least a week to decide claiming that this won't be an easy task considering what he went through, which Mishima accepted and allowed Ryoma to keep the Scorpio Zecter and Yaiba Blade in case Artificial NMCs might show up and attack him.
"Very well…you may keep the weapons in case your family come under attack…and you do not need to rush…you have time to think things through…just remember that this offer is good for the ones successfully chosen…and I believe you will be among the ones to be chosen…you have the potential to protect Japan."
"I will keep that in mind. And thank you for allowing me to keep these weapons. I will give you my answer by next week."
"I look forward to it. Until then…good day."
"Good day to you, sir."
After Mishima left, Coach Ryuzaki then had a talk with Ryoma and encouraged him to chose what's right for him and assured to him that Seigaku will keep its doors open for him if he decided to leave Seigaku and join ZECT, which Ryoma responded by saying he is still undecided on what to do next, though he reiterated that Seigaku will always be his first choice.
"Seigaku will always be the place I belong…but I'll have to consider that ZECT might give my family protection since Neo-ZECT would probably target them just to get at me…"
"Of course…only you can decide which path you choose to go…"
After that, Ryoma and the Seigaku team resumes practicing until it was time for classes. Coach Ryuzaki glances at the limousine where Mishima is riding as he takes his leave, pondering why he would approach Ryoma at a time like this as he should have taken a consideration that Ryoma had just recovered his freedom from Neo-ZECT.
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Much later, as classes ended, Ryoma, Fuji, Momoshiro and Kaidoh left school to head for a nearby park, Daisuke and Ken shows up and demanded Ryoma to surrender the weapons, which the Prince of Tennis defies, and Ryoma urges his three schoolmates to leave, but then Tezuka shows up and stood by Ryoma as Daisuke and Ken initiated their transformations into the Hopper Riders while the two Seigaku players initiated their transformations into Sasword and TheBee.
"Aniki…let's take their Zecters…and their heads…"
"Right on, partner…"
"A pair of Hoppers…at least I can test out the Zecter I got and see if I can blend tens with this…"
"Be careful, Ryoma…they're DDS students…Neo-ZECT brainwashed them…try to knock them out so we could save them…"
"Got it, captain…"
The Seigaku members could only watch with worry while Fuji is calm and is guessing who will win the battle knowing that Ryoma and Tezuka are there fighting, and with their Zecters and their tennis skills, he is confident that their friends will prevail over the two brainwashed DDS students.
"They'll win for sure."
"How can you be so sure, Fuji?"
"You forget, Momoshiro…they're ace tennis players…sss…"
"Kaidoh's right, Momoshiro…they'll be fine…just watch them…remember the fight between Ryoma, Tezuka and the faker…"
"Ooohhh…fine…"
And so the three Seigaku members watches the fight as Sasword and TheBee began to move separately which causes the Hopper riders to follow their targets on individual ranges, with Sasword against Kick Hopper while TheBee faces off against Punch Hopper, and both parties braced themselves for this is going to be a very difficult battle.
"Mada-mada dane…I doubt you'll be kicking anyone's butt once I kick your butt…"
"You dare laugh at me?"
"Who else am I mocking?"
"You'll regret those words…"
"After I whack you with my tennis racket…"
"RRRRAAAAGGGGHHHH!"
Kick Hopper roared angrily as he goes after Sasword, but then stopped midway as he saw his opponent swinging his Yaiba blade and he narrowly evaded the sword strike and had to move around to avoid the strikes, but then Sasword picked up some palm-sized rocks and uses them as tennis balls as he uses the blunt side of the Yaiba Blade as a tennis racket and executed the "Twist Serve", and this hits his mark. Kick Hopper was starting to lose his cool after being struck by the pebbles for a few minutes.
"This isn't the tennis court you Prince of Bullshit!"
"I'd talk less and start running around you Hopper-horny."
"You'll regret those words, you dwarf!"
"Raindrops keep falling on your head…"
Pissed, Kick Hopper thought of a way to get past the boulder-shaped "tennis balls" and got an idea as he toggles with the Hopper Zecter and the Anchor Jack on his right armored ankle is activated and initiated the Rider Jump, which is one of his special attacks.
Hopper Zecter: "RIDER JUMP…"
As Kick Hopper jumps up, he was able to evade the Twist Serve attacks of Sasword and is now descending downwards, getting ready to execute the Rider Kick, but the Prince of Tennis has other ideas in mind…and in store for his opponent, which he calculated beforehand and is sure that his opponent will not have time to react or to come up with a counterattack or defense, as he toggles the Scorpio Zecter and initiated "Cast Off".
Scorpio Zecter: "CAST OFF…"
Sasword's bulky armor exploded and sends debris towards the descending Kick Hopper as he assumes Rider Form but this didn't deter him as he toggles the Hopper Zecter and activated the Rider Kick, just as Sasword toggled with his Zecter.
Hopper Zecter: "RIDER KICK…"
Scorpio Zecter: "RIDER SLASH…"
As Kick Hopper descends faster, Sasword came up with an attack with a twist as he executed the Rider Slash before jumping in the air and uses the "Cyclone Smash", and the energy waves traveled straight towards Kick Hopper, hitting squarely and the force of the impact was great, and the impact knocks Kick Hopper down, but luckily it only disables him and the injuries were not fatal, only with enough force to immobilize him.
"That's one down…"
Kick Hopper is down on the ground, de-armored and the Hopper Zecter is detached from his belt. Sasword checks on Daisuke and sees that his is safe and relatively unharmed save for a bruise on his midsection. He then shifts his sight on TheBee as he deals with Punch Hopper in an even scale as both traded punches and TheBee assumes Rider Form as he tries to beat his opponent using speed, though he has not yet activated the "Clock Up".
However, Punch Hopper toggles with his Zecter and activated the Rider Jump and hopped around to evade his opponent's attacks, while delivering cheap shots by stomping onto his opponent, which causes Sasword and the three Seigaku members to get worried in seeing Tezuka getting pummeled. Despite this, TheBee persevered and timed his counter and when Punch Hopper landed, TheBee grabbed his opponent's leg as he swings and slammed him to the ground.
"See…I told you the captain will pull through…"
"Alright…looks like we're going to celebrate…"
"Sss…Fuji, Momoshiro…look carefully…looks like the next move will determine the outcome…"
Fuji and Momoshiro blinked their eyes as Punch Hopper and TheBee are toggling their Zecters and both are bracing and preparing to execute their final attacks which will show and tell the outcome of the battle and determine who will emerged the winner and who is going to fall down and move forward.
Hopper Zecter: "RIDER PUNCH…"
Wasp Zecter: "RIDER STING…"
Punch Hopper gets up and does a straight punch and TheBee did the same, as their fists collided and an explosion took place with smoke covering the battlefield, which made everyone wonder who won and who lost, which neither one of them couldn't tell what happened to the two, and the Seigaku players were pinning their hopes on Tezuka emerging on top, while Sasword braces himself in the event should Punch Hopper emerged the winner.
As Ryoma had anticipated, Punch Hopper emerged and stood there, while Tezuka was on the ground, knocked out and de-armored, though PunchHopper was clutching his right forearm as the impact seemed to have injured him to a certain degree but he can still fight, and upon seeing Daisuke down he became enraged and ballistic, and began to head for Sasword, intending to kill him.
"Oh no…"
"Tezuka-sempai…!"
"Darn…!"
"You…you dare hurt my partner…I'll kill you…!"
Sasword stood in front and shields his teammates with his Yaiba Blade but Punch Hopper struck him with the Rider Punch as he activated it and punched both the Yaiba Blade and the Scorpio Zecter away from Sasword's hands and then punched him away, de-armoring Ryoma and is now kicking the Prince of Tennis up. The three Seigaku players rushed in to help but they were shoved aside.
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By this time Taichi and Hikari passed by the area and saw the Punch Hopper beating up Ryoma Fuji recognized the Yagami siblings and their Digimons, so he rushed towards them and informed them of the situation at hand, and Tailmon said that this is the chance to disable Daisuke and use this opportunity to save him and Ken, and so the two Digimons evolve into War-Greymon and Angewomon and aided Ryoma in weakening Punch Hopper and continued to fight him until their combined attacks de-armored Motomiya and then punched him on his gut and face, putting him out of commission, and the fight ended thus the Hopper Riders are down, and by then Tezuka got up and informed them that they must de-brainwash the two Class C members and decided to bring the two to Kitazawa Laboratories in Mt. Edo to de-brainwash the two Class C members.
To Be Continued…
Lord Of The Speed by RIDER CHIPS feat. Yuuki Sato
(2nd Ending Song from Kamen Rider Kabuto)
Unmei no gate toikakete iru
Left of right? kimi wa doko wo mezasu
Kono sora no shita de saikyou na no wa
That's my pride jibun no mi
Itsudatte massugu ni hashire lord of the speed
Chikyuu to iu na kono hoshi ni kiseki ga okoru
Zetsubou... (who's got the real?) soreijou (they've never seen)
Kiki no sukuu sonzai
Daremo tomerarenai jikan wo nukisatte yuku
Saisoku no... (you've got the speed) soreijou (they've never seen)
Tsuyosa ayatsuru mono
Ame no hitotsubu (just change your form)
Ai suru hito e (got to cast off)
Otosanai to chikau nara kumo no kanata e toberu darou
Unmei no gate ima hirakareta
Dead or alive kimi wa tadori tsukeru
Saki wo yuku mono to sore wo ou mono
That's my pride tada hitori
Michi naki michi dake wo hashire lord of the speed
Nijuuyon jikan to iu ichinichi sugoshiteite mo
Dare de mo (who's got the real?) kitsuka nai (they've never seen)
Ichibyou ga aru darou
Kehai wo kanjite furikaeru sonna shunkan
Saisoku no (you've got the speed) kaze no naka (they've never seen)
Kiseki ga okotteru
Fuan na yoru wo (just change your form)
Ai suru hito e (got to cast off)
Misenai koto chikau nara donna asa demo tsuretekuru
Unmei no gate toikakete iru
Left of right? kimi wa doko wo mezasu
Kono sora no shita de saikyou na no wa
That's my pride jibun no mi
Itsudatte massugu ni hashire lord of the speed
Looks like the Hopper Riders' rampage have ended as luck and perseverance reigned and now the two are about to be restored to their normal sanities…though Ryoma will have to prepare to give his answer on whether he would join ZECT or turn the offer down…
Preview:
DDS are now bracing to invade Neo-ZECT, but K' challenges Kyuu again…who will win this time…?