A/N:
I apologize for the late release, some issues came up as well as planning for other stories. I'd like to say that the release dates for each chapter would be extended due to the release of Batman: The Beginning and Pokemon: Battle of Legends- Red VS Ash.
Anyways, enjoy as always!
Prologue:
The world had fallen to the zombies. The war against them was lost. Earth's forces had found no way to combat the zombies. The zombies constantly changed. Many stayed in their basic forms, some turned giant, and others were mutated from radiation from nukes, causing each one of the radiated to have a special ability.
Faisal Dunkshovie had survived underground for 3 years. He was trained by the greatest Masked Rider, and was taught to fend for himself. He learned to kill the giants with ease, and many other strategies to kill other zombies with a single strike. His great trainer had left, but one day, he went back to Faisal, and invited him to go to Hong Kong. Faisal was eager to go, as Kabuto was selected by the government to defend them. Kabuto also got a job as the boss of a teahouse. Faisal was Kabuto's assistant in the teahouse. At rare cases, the two riders had to go fend off zombies. The forces at Hong Kong were a force to be reckoned with.
Faisal learned of Kabuto's identity as well, as he could no longer stay in the rider form during his job at the teahouse. Faisal learned his name was Tendou Souji, but was nicknamed Tendon by most of the other workers and Faisal himself.
Tendou had decided to retire, as he felt like the rider job was useless, and he didn't touch his rider belt for a very long time, much less glance at it. It was Faisal's duty to keep the peace, something he did very well.
For a city in peril, Hong Kong was doing remarkably well. Most of the citizens had no fear of being attacked or invade. Hong Kong's defense systems were so advanced, zombies were almost no danger.
Faisal stood by the new Basco Wall that was built to surround the city. The wall was surrounded by a forcefield as well, just because the city was afraid of a mass invasion, and everyone had already known of the zombies' great strength. The forcefields were programmed to incinerate anyone who went through the forcefield, but occasionally, some lucky zombie would crawl through whole and Hong Kong's defenses would kick in and destroy the zombie.
Faisal pulled out a cigarette, and looked out beyond for trouble…
Underground Shibuya
The remnants of ZECT went to the underground bunkers after the zombies managed to invade Asia, and soon, Japan. For a while, they did well, until the zombies stumbled onto the underground paths, and destroyed ten of the bunkers. Only eight were left, and much of ZECT's staff had died in the last fight.
It was Christmas Day. Alex Walker was patrolling the bunker borders along with James Perez. It was a hard life down underground. No time for presents, or hanging up a tree, or decorating. It was war time every day. ZECT had changed for the worse, and everyday seemed to have a death in the underground.
She and James had reconciliated, but things were still a bit tense around them. A day in the underground was almost the same. Wake up, eat, debrief, patrol or do work, eat, continue work, eat, sleep. It was already three years; the routine was already too remembered. She would fight zombies daily, but she was tired.
Draco and Haku were still alive, but Sasword wanted to travel to some place, and nobody could stop him. Everyone trusted that he would remain safe. He had told her he would find help from elsewhere.
Recently, one of ZECT's supplier buildings located in Osaka had been captured by rogue riders struggling to survive. The zombies later destroyed Osaka, having most of the supply building surrounded by zombies. The rest of the supply buildings had not responded to their recent calls, and ZECT was running low on supplies. A dangerous mission to recover the supplies was considered, but it would've meant sending all the riders to fetch them and risk infection. The ZECT officials had been talking about it for days, and Alex didn't know what they would do. But she knew.
She walked inside the main bunker, where Draco, Haku, a couple riders and several other ZECT officials were discussing the mission with Riku Kagami. They were still arguing on whether the mission is initiated or not.
"If we go in that building we risk losing everyone," a ZECT official said.
"Would you rather starve to death or live?" a rider asked.
"You guys will be eliminated, and we won't be able to survive anyway!" another ZECT official.
"You can't change what we riders do and can't do!" another rider said.
"Stop this!" Alex yelled, barging in.
"And what is a minor rider doing in this bunker?" a ZECT official asked, narrowing his eyes.
"You can't control the riders' destinies, we do what we choose. You gave us the power, and we had to know what to use the power for. I got my powers, and I chose to help humanity. The riders are supposed to help humanity, defend Earth, and keep the peace. You may have sent some riders to defend the quarantined cities, but how much longer can we last without supplies. Your suppliers are not responding, you're not willing to fetch them yourselves. Why do you fear the zombies? You are being dominated by them! You have to show that YOU are dominant. Why have the humans been the dominate species for so long?"
"We took action in things," a ZECT official mumbled.
"We did what had to be done," a rider stammered.
"Then why not take action now? ZECT may have trained us for this role, or our supporters have encouraged us, but now, training is nothing! The will to act is everything! If we don't want to die out and let the zombies kill everyone, we have to act. We survived this long, and we won't go out this. We will get the supplies, so we can fight for another day," Alex announced.
The officials then shifted amongst themselves uncomfortably, talking about what they should do, but Riku Kagami wearily stood up.
"I agree with Ms. Walker. We must take action ourselves or risk dying out."
"I agree as well," Draco said. Alex gave him a surprised look.
"We have to do this, I will organize the mission immediately," Haku announced.
And at that very moment, Alex knew that the battle would soon commence.
Battle Bunker, Underground
"Our supply building is a 50-floor skyscraper, basically speaking, a factory," Haku said.
"Getting into the building would be extremely dangerous. A battalion number worth of zombies are in that territory. Going there would be suicide," a ZECT official said.
"It would, but not if we take a different route," Haku said, pressing a series of codes on the holographic screen.
"An 'underground railroad' will be used. A 50-year old route was formerly used by smugglers to transport goods or anything else, our scanners detect that the zombies have not reached the tunnel, nor had it been in use for 30 years. I believe that the tunnel leads to a hidden entry on the 9th floor, as there is an unused but intact lift in another hidden door that would lead to one of the high floors, close enough to the supplies," Draco explained.
"But our supplies are located on the top floors, it'll take a hell of a time and a long time just to get up there. The zombies are everywhere inside that building," a ZECT official pointed out.
"I did a full scan of inside that building by sending one of our scout drones, most of the zombies are on the lower floors and some of the staircases to the top floors are destroyed, the elevator doesn't operate, and most of the supplies are intact," Haku said, showing the officials and the riders data on the building.
"We are to infiltrate the building in four squads. One squad attracts the zombies from the left wing to another place, another would attract the zombies from the right wing to elsewhere. The two other squads will eradicate whatever is in their way, get the supplies, get more help from the last squads and escape," Draco explained.
"You riders are on your own, the ZECTroopers stay and guard everything else," the ZECTrooper general, Fujiyama Yuri, announced.
"That is fine, we wouldn't want a mass battle. This is a stealth mission," Haku said.
"What about the zombies outside? Once we draw them out, the rest will come in!" Alex asked, pointing to the picture of zombies outside the building.
"We have been setting up traps near the building recently, we'll activate them once we get to the scene," Draco responded.
"Should we use clock up?" a rider asked.
"Try not to approach the zombies during clock up. They may see us, but they can't chase us," Haku replied.
"Got it," the rider said.
"When do we leave?" another rider asked.
"Tomorrow at dawn," Haku said.
"Until then, rest up, do whatever you need to do, and then the heist will start," Riku Kagami said, and then he walked out.
Alex's Dorm
Alex went back to her room after her little speech and the battle plan. Her speech had inspired the scared ZECT members to finally take action. She felt satisfied, and she looked at her Drake Grip, which was held once by one of the first few riders, Daisuke Kazama. Kazama was one of the "worm fighters" and had fought alongside Alex's mentor, Kabuto. To this day, Alex had never known his identity.
Alex heard a knock on the door, it was James.
"Um…hey," Alex said.
"I liked your speech back there," he said.
"Eh, it wasn't all that inspiring," Alex admitted.
"Enough to change my mind to go attack if I were one of them," James laughed.
"Oh, you think?" Alex asked, laughing as well.
"Hey, you wanna hear this joke I heard when I was in prison?" James asked.
"You were in prison?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I used to be a…bad kid," James shrugged. "Just hear it."
"In prison: You spend the majority of your time in an 8x10 cell.
At work: You spend most of your time in a 6x8 cubicle.
In prison: You get three meals a day.
At work: You get a break for 1 meal and you have to pay for it.
In prison: You get time off for good behavior.
At work: You get rewarded for good behavior with more work.
In prison: A guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
At work: You must carry around a security card and unlock and open all
the doors yourself.
In prison: You can watch TV and play games.
At work: You get fired for watching TV and playing games.
In prison: You get your own toilet.
At work: You have to share.
In prison: They allow your family and friends to visit.
At work: You cannot even speak to your family and friends.
In prison: All expenses are paid by taxpayers with no work required.
At work: You get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they
deduct taxes from you salary to pay for prisoners.
In prison: You spend most of your life looking through bars from
inside wanting to get out.
At work: You spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside
bars.
In prison: There are wardens who are often sadistic.
At work: They are called supervisors.
In prison: You have unlimited time to read e-mail jokes.
At work: You get fired if you get caught."
Alex laughed very hard.
"It's just like at ZECT for god's sake! Hey, I have one too," Alex said. She cleared her throat.
"A father came in the bedroom to find his 13-year-old daughter smoking a cigarette. "My God! How long have you been smoking?" screams the father. "Since I lost my virginity," replies the girl. "You lost your VIRGINITY! When the hell did this happen?" shrieks the father. "I don't remember," says the girl. "I was completely drunk."
"Oh my god, that's also pretty funny," James said between laughs.
"Oh, you think?" Alex asked. "Just look at your joke!"
"Oh no, your joke is bigger," James said.
"Nah, your joke was like funny as hell," Alex said.
"You should get some rest, the heist would be beginning in a few hours," James said, standing up and turning to leave.
"I think I should," Alex said. She then fell asleep on her bunk, just before James decided to walk back in to give her a small kiss. He quickly left afterward, feeling more nervous than ever.
Battle Bunker
"Okay! Alright ladies! We're about to start, we all head to the abandoned tunnel at 6'o clock sharp!" Draco announced. The rider slowly awoke and began to start getting in ZECT uniforms and waiting near the doors.
"Draco, lead the way," Bruce said, transforming into Masked Rider Bat. The rest of the riders did the same.
"Oh shit," Draco said, transforming into Masked Rider Drago. He then led the riders out of the doors.
"We're going to have to touch a bit of surface, ladies," Drago snickered. The riders went out of the thick titanium doors, and walked out. The air was reeking of corpses and zombies. What was once a bustling city, was now a wicked wasteland. The meteor with the first worms that had fell all those years ago, had already taken a portion of the city, making it uninhabitable. Now, the rest of Shibuya might as well be radioactive.
"Just, uuunguh! Right in here," Drago grunted after lifting the heavy doors that led to the underground tunnel.
It was a large tunnel, about 30-ft tall, it stretched very deep into the ground. The doors consisted of 7 layers of titanium, 3 inches long each. Even a giant zombie, or ten or a hundred of them wouldn't be able to get inside the doors. Even so, no zombie would've ventured down towards the tunnels or have detected it.
The riders went through a series of turns until they reached a wall. There were many tiles on the wall with various pictures on the tiles.
"It's a dead end," a rider said.
"No, it's a door," Drago said. As there were 16 panels on a 4X4 layout, Drago pushed the panels in an X formation, and the door opened. The door here was just as thick as the tunnel entrance.
"We are at a hidden smuggler hideout, looks like it hasn't been in use for a while," Drago said. There were provisions and weapons, but most of them were dusty and the weapons were from the late 1900s.
"There's a hidden door on the right here. Once we get out, Alpha and Bravo squads rush out by clock up, draw the zombies away from the top floors. Charlie and Delta squads will rush up the stairs and get the supplies as fast as they could, smuggle them, get out back into the lift same room, and go into the tunnel and wind up back at ZECT. I hope you remember where the entrance is, because the tunnel can go several ways," Drago said. Bruce stepped up.
"Alright, stay close; don't get separated until at least the 30th floor, then we will get the supplies. Supplies under that floor are not to be touched, too risky, zombies everywhere."
Even Alex added in something. "Alright mates, we need to make this thing quick. I don't want any zombies on our trail after we escape."
A rider simply called "The Big Guy" said, "Better not destroy that tunnel, if you can. It is our only way out!"
"We ready or what!?" Drago shouted. The riders responded "READY!"
Alpha Squad
The Alpha riders rushed towards the lower floors of the building, aiming to prevent any zombie from climbing any further up. Any surviving human would've thought that they were attacking the zombies. But they were not. Instead, the riders would cause a distraction where the zombies would start following the riders, as when the zombies are provoked, they go after their target until it is too far or it is missing or it is destroyed. Meanwhile, the Bravo riders would drive the zombies outside the building away from the riders inside.
Drake was part of Alpha Squad, as Drago thought that riders with long ranged weaponry would be perfect to drive away the zombies. Drake led the squad, and while they ran down the stairway, Drake glimpsed at the window. Already there were several explosions going on outside.
As Drake and her squad stepped down the 16th floor, there were already signs of zombies. There were few, but if you had fought them without experience, you would've already been eaten in a few zombies bites. Drake shot a zombie in the head, and it went down.
"I'd suggest picking off the small groups first," Drake said. The rest of the riders nodded in agreement. As a dozen zombies saw their fallen "comrade", the twelve rushed towards the riders, but they were shot down almost immediately.
"Conserve your ammo!" a rider said.
"Not really necessary, most of our weapons have unlimited ammo," Drake explained.
Many long-ranged weapons made for the riders had unlimited ammo. Drake's weapon had infinite rounds and the Kunai Guns, which were held by most of the squad right now, only used energy bolts instead of bullets. There were few weapons that had limited ammo, like Tarantel's (Tarantula-based rider) web crossbow or Salamandra's (Salamander-based rider) flame blaster.
Alex's squad shot their way down 6 floors until the zombies got larger in number. The numbers went from a dozen to thirty.
"Should we clock up?" Tarantel, one of the leaders asked.
"Let's go, try going around the zombies," Drake suggested.
The riders then clocked up and started to round up the zombies, who started to follow the riders. The zombies could follow their clock-up movements, which made it perfect to divert them from the "supply" riders.
The only bad thing was; the riders could still be hit or bitten.
Two riders were already stopped in their tracks as some zombies jumped them. Still, Alpha Squad had moved on.
"Keep together!" Drake yelled.
The riders soon approached the 9th floor, which was teeming with zombies.
"I need this floor clear!" The Big Guy said. The riders proceeded to shoot the rest of the zombies, making the floor clear
The zombies followed them all the way to the 6th floor, where even more zombies were at.
"Time to take out the trash!" a rider yelled in a gruff voice. The rider then fired a large energy ball from his weapon, literally called "The Garbage Truck". The "Truck" had enough energy to disintegrate, vaporize, or incinerate a hundred targets, depending on which mode the Truck was in.
The energy ball destroyed most of the zombies, but unfortunately, the staircase was cracking from the energy. Drake cursed, and decided to contact Bat.
"Hey, Bat! The staircase on the 6th floor is too unstable, is there another way to go back to ZECT? We can't approach the lift or the tunnel," Drake said.
"I can't find another way out besides the main doors and the tunnel. Try finding another intact staircase on the other side of your floor later on, you should be able to find your way to the lift. From my map, I see the other staircase on the 6th floor able to use," Bat said.
"Good, I'll send some riders to secure the area there," Drake said.
The call was cut. "Hey you five! I need you guys to find the other staircase on this floor and secure it! It's our only other way out!"
The riders rushed over there.
"Hey Big Guy! We need to finish off the rest of them, and then we'll meet the others on top!" Drake yelled.
Big Guy gave her a simple nod, and he blasted another large group with his bazooka.
"Try to not hit the staircases!" Drake yelled again.
"I know what the hell I'm doing, girl!" Big Guy retorted. Drake stayed silent.
As she approached the 2nd floor, Drake got a good image of Bravo Squad. They were being chased by too many zombies…
Delta Squad
"Get those supplies!" a rider shouted.
"Keep moving!" another yelled.
"Pack it on the lift! One at a time!" a third rider instructed.
Bat ensured the riders that the lift was beyond its time after being discovered by some of the workers which had settled in the building before and that it would be able to carry about 30 tons per lift.
Bat went into his "detective mode" with his visors, and saw that the Beta Squad riders were being chased, and the Alpha Squad members defended the staircase on the 6th floor pretty well.
"How is it down there?" a rider asked.
"Going smoothly, let's get the rest of the supplies down! Only what would be needed!" Bat yelled.
The Charlie Squad riders were on a higher floor; that was where most of the weaponry and equipment were, those riders would transport them to Floor 27 with the only intact elevator. Floor 27 was where the lift would go down to Floor 9. Ironically, the elevator stopped working at the 27th floor.
While the supplies were gathered, Bruce and some other riders fixed the elevator to start working, but the cables and the elevator would start to fall once it went lower than 27.
There were several zombies that would linger on the high floors, but they were all handled with care and finished off. Most of the staircases were intact surprisingly, something that Bat had made a mistake on.
"Sir! There's a problem with some of the boxes," a rider said to Bat.
"Well, let's have a look," Bat said, amused.
As the rider led Bat to the boxes, there were timer bombs on them.
"Some rogue rider must've snuck up here before us and knew of our plans…" Bat speculated.
"Yes, that's what I did," the rider said. The rider, called Rybamech (Swordfish-based rider) slashed Bat with his twin arm blades. Bat grunted as he landed on the floor.
"Why…? Why are you doing this?" Bat stammered.
"Ha ha ha, ZECT is doomed anyway. So why try supplying them with all this shit? The world's bound to fall, and we can't even stop them all in one building!" Rybamech sneered.
"You don't know that," Bat rasped.
"Look at your Bravo Squad, they're being chased down like dogs, look at your alpha squad, they don't even know what to do! And look at ZECT; we're living underground like we're prisoners in a pit! I've decided that nature takes its course. I'd say let the zombies take over, because how much longer can humanity survive? Why hide underground when there's no hope?" Rybamech asked.
"We hide to fight another day. Stop this madness at once," Bat rasped again, this time in a darker voice.
"TRY AND STOP ME BITCH!" Rybamech yelled. The traitor rider let out a battle cry, and Bat roared as they charged at each other…
"I'm going to help them," said Drake as she pointed to the Bravo Squad riders.
"Then I'm going to, but are you sure the rest of them can secure that staircase?" Big Guy asked.
"I'm positive, Big Guy, we gotta help them," Drake pulled at Big Guy's arm and they both ran.
Meanwhile, the Bravo riders were still getting chased by their adversaries, and as Alex observed; the riders would eventually be surrounded.
"Hey Big Guy, use the Garbage Truck on that one area," Alex said, pointing to a clearing with a horde of zombies.
"I'll contact Drago, so he can tell the others to avoid that area," Big Guy said, and then he started telling Drago.
"Once the dust clears, go through that opening!" instructed Big Guy.
Big Guy then aimed the Garbage Truck on the clearing, and set the mode to "vaporize".
"Mahalo motherfucker," Big Guy muttered as he pulled the trigger. About a hundred zombies who were in the area were instantly vaporized as the energy ball hit.
"YES!" yelled Big Guy as he pumped a fist in the air.
"GO GO GO!" Drake yelled to the Bravo riders as they zoomed away towards Drake and the Big Guy.
"Hey, you know, after running miles after miles in a giant-ass circle, our legs tend to start falling off?" Drago asked.
"Hahah, well you got the help, now let's just finish them off and get back to base," Drake replied.
"Good, I'm pretty sure if something is going on with the other squads, they're gonna need some big help," Big Guy said.
Bat was busy defending himself from Rybamech's attacks, and as their battle raged on, the zombies had heard them and clumsily, but eventually, started trying to attack the riders.
"You cannot win!" Rybamech shouted as his blades clanged with Bat's arm spikes.
As Rybamech had his two blades locked with Bat's gauntlets, Bat kicked him in the stomach and roundhouse kicked him in the face. Rybamech stumbled back, but then he whirled around and swung his blades, but Bat jumped over the strike and kicked the traitor in the back of the head.
"You're outmatched, give it up," Bat growled.
"I'll never submit to you," Rybamech screeched. The rider then ran at Bat again, who had dodged his attack and got into a defensive stance.
Rybamech brought his blades up and brought them down with brute force, with Bat rolling away just in time for him to get out his grapple gun. Bat shot it at him, intending to grapple him over, but Rybamech simply swatted the grappling hook and jabbed Bat with both blades, causing him to fly back into a box.
Bat jumped back up and elbowed Rybamech, making him stumble back. Bat then punched him in the face and grabbed his head with both arms and head-butted him. As Rybamech screeched in pain, Bat did a "Scorpion-style" backflip kick and sent Rybamech flying towards another box. As Rybamech scrambled back up, Bat threw a batarang at him, bringing him back down.
"Stop this, and there will be no further death," Bat grumbled.
"NO!" Rybamech shouted as his two arm blades launched out of his gauntlets. One missed Bat narrowly, but the second had impaled itself into Bat's armor…
"AGGGHH!" Bat shouted as he felt the pain of the blades.
Rybamech then ran towards Bat, grabbed the blade out of Bat, and slashed him in the face. Bat fell down two floors, and rolled in pain.
"It's time to end this mission and let ZECT rot away into the dark," Rybamech said.
"NO!" Bat yelled. He felt his energy rise and soon ran at full speed towards the traitor, ignoring his stomach wound.
Bat did a bicycle kick on the traitor, and then threw a smoke pill at him, blinding and confusing him. Bat then launched out a missile from one of the underground missile turrets, and made it target Rybamech. Bat got out his shock gloves, and started to electrocute the rider. Bat gave the traitor a knee to the jaw, and then threw a mini-bomb at him. As the missile approached, Bat back-flipped while the missile hit Rybamech, turning him back into his human form.
"You shouldn't have turned your back on us," Bat said, slightly groaning from Rybamech's stab.
As Bat walked over to Rybamech, he punched him in the face.
"GIVE ME THE DETONATOR!" Bat growled.
"Oh heh-heh, you mean this detonator?" Rybamech asked, and then he pressed the button. The bombs started to count down.
"YOU SCUMBAG! YOU BITCH! YOU'VE DOOMED US!" Bat growled, and then he knocked a grinning Rybamech unconscious. Bat ran over to the bombs, there were exactly 7 minutes left.
"Everyone out! There are some bombs on a few boxes! Everyone evacuate!" Bat yelled. The riders finished battling the zombies and they started to carry the boxes into the lift. Fortunately, most of the supplies were inside the tunnel.
"What's going on?" Drake asked as she got up the stairs.
"Rybamech planted bombs on some of the boxes, I ordered an evac," Bat rasped angrily.
"What kind of bombs?" Drago asked.
"I don't know, it's not ZECT tech. When all of these explode it has enough strength to take down the entire building," Bat said.
Drake then felt a chill in her spine. "I hope James makes it out with the rest of them."
"Then what the hell are you waiting for?" the Big Guy asked.
The four riders then ran to the lift. They went down, and snapped the chains so nobody else could go to the lift. But as they were about to approach the metal doors, they heard a large noise, and the whole building shook.
"What the hell was that…?" Drake stammered.
"A giant," the Big Guy grumbled, getting his bazooka ready.
"It's larger than most!" Drago yelled.
"Jump!" Bat yelled. They all jumped as the giant zombie swatted his hand across the building. What was left of the area was nothing but debris and a hole leading down to several floors.
"Oh shit," Drago growled. The rider then pressed 4 on his staff, and threw it right at the giant's neck, the giant sniffed from the pain and Drago landed on the giant. Drago then took the staff back up, pressed 1 and jabbed downward, but the giant felt nothing and swatted Drago into the metal doors, knocking him unconscious as well as making a huge Drago-shaped figure on the doors.
"So much for indestructible walls," Drake said.
Drake then charged up and fired a "Rider Shooting"at the giant zombie, but it barely affected the zombie as it brought its fists up and brought them back down. The three riders rolled away just before the area where they were standing at was complete gone.
The Big Guy then fired at the giant with the Garbage Truck, but even that only made the giant stumble. Big Guy fired it three more times, and the giant fell. Bat then tossed several exploding batarangs at the giant, bringing it down once more.
"A missile should buy us a lot of time," Drake said.
"That would risk destroying the building along with us," Bat countered.
"How much time on the bombs?" Big Guy asked.
"Less than 2 minutes, but I have a plan," Bat said.
Bat then tapped the side of his belt. His Zecter then announced "CLOCK UP!" and in less than a few seconds, Rybamech's bombs were on the 9th floor.
"But wouldn't that mean…?" Drake asked.
"Correct, the blast will destroy the zombie and the underground tunnel, we can escape now!" Bat yelled.
"LOOK OUT!" Big Guy yelled. The zombie then swatted the three riders into the wall, a stray bomb box went haywire and exploded right at their feet, and Drake flew high up in the air and landed with a thud. Big Guy and Bat flew towards the doors.
"Shit…" Drake grumbled as she got up.
The zombie then saw the rest of the bombs, and saw interest in them.
"Oh mother of god no! He's going to detonate those bombs!" Big Guy yelled.
"INTO THE DOOR!" Bat yelled. The zombie's hand was nearer towards the bombs each second, and the bombs only had a few seconds left…
Bat grabbed the unconscious Drago and started running towards the doors.
"CLOSE THEM!" Bat yelled to Drake. Drake nodded and shut them.
"How much time!?" Drake asked.
"15 seconds!" Bat yelled. The three riders then activated Clock Up and started to run. They soon heard the bomb go off, and heard a loud moan as the giant lost its life. The flames of the bomb were so intense, it burned through the tunnel doors and started to fill the tunnel in flames. The scorch started to reach the riders.
"I have a plan!" Drake yelled as she pulled the lever on her Drake Zecter.
"RIDER SHOOTING!" the Zecter yelled.
"My energy balls should buy us some time, but I need Drago's staff!" Drake yelled.
Bat quickly gave her the staff, and Drake pressed 2. She then pulled the trigger on the Drake Zecter and pressed the button on the Dragon Staff. The Dragon Staff's laser beam and Drake's Energy Ball collided with each other and created a giant blue ray that started to counter the deadly flames.
"Come on!" Bat yelled.
"No! If I stop now we're dead anyway!" Drake yelled. But suddenly, she was shoved aside as her energy beam stopped. Drake thought that the riders were doomed for good, but something else held the flames at bay. It was the Garbage Truck using it's superlaser form.
"Big Guy!" Drake yelled.
"Go! You need to survive!" Big Guy yelled.
"I'm not leaving!" Drake replied, but Bat and Drago were already heading down the remainder of the tunnel.
"You need to find Kabuto! He's the key to solving everything!" Big Guy yelled.
"Kabuto!?" Drake asked.
"You'll find out! Right now, you have to go!" Big Guy yelled.
Drake then found herself in a trap. She knew Big Guy couldn't handle the flames much longer, and Kabuto would trust no one but her right now…
"Fine, but what do I do!?" Drake asked.
"Deliver this to him, he'll know what to do," Big Guy said, handing a letter to Drake.
"Okay," Drake said in tears.
"Go…" Big Guy said in a broken voice.
Drake then used Clock Up and raced out of the scene. She then heard an explosion as she finally reached the exit. She rolled out, breathing hard on her knees as she heard the Big Guy perish in the flames.
Drago soon awoke, and Bat helped him on his feet. Drago limped towards Drake, and looked at the tunnel.
Suddenly, the three riders heard something make a large clang! And out of the flames came the Big Guy's Garbage Truck. As far as the riders could tell, the weapon was very much intact.
"This is what's left of our Hulk…" Drago said sadly.
"Which is why we must honor him for his bravery," Bat rasped.
"And carry on his task," Drake said. "He told me to find Kabuto, saying that he was the key to stopping everything."
"Open the letter, and we'll see," Bat suggested.
"I don't think we should. If it was meant for my mentor, then it is something only he should see…" Drake replied.
"Good point. It has been a rough day, the other riders are waiting for us," Drago said.
As Bat helped Drago walk down the path towards the riders, Drake glanced at the charred tunnel doors, and The Big Guy's Garbage Truck. She walked up to the weapon, and hoisted it on her back and followed the other two riders.
Days Later… Underground Bunkers
The three riders told Riku Kagami of their story. Most of the riders made it back with no injuries, although several were infected and rumored to have perished in the explosion of the supply tower. They also told of the Big Guy's death.
"This is indeed a sad loss, Braddock Steel has served us for many years," Riku Kagami said.
"He was a good friend…" Haku said.
"And he saved us," Alex added.
"Nevertheless, we will continue our race for survival, and we will eventually carry out the task Braddock has assigned us," Riku pressed.
"Then let us hold a moment of silence for our fallen comrade," Draco said.
"I agree," James said, he had appeared in the room minutes after Alex. James smiled at Alex, Alex held his hand tight.
Just a second into their moment of silence, a ZECTrooper came rushing through the room.
"COMMANDER COMMANDER! IT'S THE VORPAL! THE VORPAL HAS RETURNED!" the trooper yelled in excitement.
"What!?" Riku asked in shock.
The four riders, the trooper, and Riku Kagami ran outside, sure enough, the stunning image of the Vorpal was seen in the sky.
Years ago, Masked Rider Gatack and a few riders went on Mars for a mission to find alien life. Now that they returned, Riku Kagami thought that his son would've found something, and that the Vorpal's crew would be equally surprised of what had happened in the time that had passed.
Alex had never felt happier, she hugged James as he smiled at the sky.
"It's here, help is here," James said.
"Now all we have to do is find Kabuto," Alex said.
But first, we have to send out some riders to pick them up," Haku said, beckoning Draco.
While Alex and James held each other, and Haku and Draco headed into the other bunkers to share the news and gather a search party. Riku Kagami simply looked up at the sky.
"Help is here…"