A/N: Hey guys I'm back, I'll be focused on finishing this story so don't expect any new Batman chapters this month. Only four chapters left!
Plus, there's a little surprise at the end for all of you.
R&R!
Prologue:
Three zombie riders circled the Japanese Rhinoceros-Beetle rider. The rider was unfazed.
The zombies growled in satisfaction through the broken helmets. They "licked" their dead lips in hoping for defeating and infecting their opponent. The zombies charged, but the rider dodged all their attacks. The rider kept dodging their hits and blasted the riders with his Kunai Gun.
The zombies then aimed at his head with their teeth, they all had missed. The rider then pulled a zombie's head off, and sliced off another with his Kunai Gun in Axe Mode. The last zombie rushed at him, but the rider stunned the zombie by grabbing its neck, and blasted the zombie at the head. The zombie's head blew up into pieces.
The rider walked on like nothing had happened.
"That's three less riders to deal with," the rider said. Just then, he heard something in the sky. It was a spaceship.
Two more years had passed, and the world was infected. A grand number of cities thrived through quarantine, but over time some had fallen to the zombies. The rider was everywhere and about, hunting down zombies. He had trained two riders his battle strategies and tactics, and techniques in combat. He was uncertain what happened to the both of them. All he knew was that sooner or later, everyone would die.
The rider recognized the spaceship. It was the Vorpal, where those 4 or 5 years ago, ZECT launched a mission to explore life in outer space. The rider wondered what the crew had discovered.
The rider knew his best friend; Arata Kagami was on that ship. He was the mission's leader, and almost the most powerful of riders. The ship wasn't heading for Hong Kong; it was heading towards Shibuya…
Aboard the Vorpal
The four years on Mars had been weary. Kagami and his squadron of riders had helped the Ni-Lok Tus, a native martian species, drive off a dictator martian species called the Kin-Lok Sa. A series of other martian nations were also allied with the Kin-Lok Sa, but the riders had managed to recruit the rest of the free martian nations against the Kin-Lok Sa. None of the riders had died, but many martians had died in the war.
"It's just like our own world wars," a rider had said.
Kagami walked to the pilots, who had set the ship to Auto-Pilot for a drink.
"That is toast to a success on the Red Planet!" the pilot said to his friend, clinking their drinks.
"I hope my friend from the Ni-Lok Tus, Tsuraruu, survived his chest injury, after all, martians are much different from us," the co-pilot said.
"You all seem to be having a good time," said Jim Clane, one of Kagami's most trusted riders and a childhood friend.
"But we all need to focus on getting back to Earth and report to my father about the martians," Kagami said.
"Yeah, and who would've thought that there were really martians?" another rider asked. The riders laughed at the truth.
"We're not the only intelligent life out there huh," Clane remarked.
"Well not everyone on Earth is exactly intelligent," the pilot said to his friend, the co-pilot, who had dropped out of high school.
"Shut up!" the co-pilot said.
"Hey guys! I think you should really see this…" a rider in the back of the ship said.
"We're coming Xavier," Kagami said. The riders then went to Xavier, who was looking at the window.
"We've entered the lower atmosphere, and I'm shocked," Xavier said shakily.
A rider peered down at one of the small windows of the ship.
"I think I see our base!"
"But it's in ruins…" another rider said.
"Hey Kagami, look at this! It's a bunch of those zombie things," the pilot said.
Kagami couldn't believe what he was seeing. Encountering the ZECT base was frightening enough, but seeing a bunch of zombies around it made the situation worse. If Kagami and the Vorpal Crew stayed, could they have avoided such a fate?
"Are we the last ones?" Clane considered.
"The remnants must be in the underground bunkers, and I'm pretty sure some cities are quarantined. Last time we were here, many cities were already placing themselves under heavy guard," Kagami said.
"Should we check the bunkers then?" Clane asked.
"Might as well, we better go stealthily, too many zombies would come after us," Kagami said.
The two pilots went back into their seats.
"Alright, let's go," the pilot said.
As the ship went to the destination of the bunkers, Kagami wondered how the zombies were able to overwhelm ZECT. When Kagami first saw the zombies, they were nothing but pale humans with white eyes and unusual strength, now some of them had more grotesque features, like protruding spikes or natural projectile weaponry. Kagami even saw a giant zombie throwing one of its own up into the air.
"We're approaching the bunkers, but there are zombies near the entrance," the pilot said.
"Kill them, kill all of them," Clane said, reading Kagami's mind.
The Vorpal activated her laser cannons, while the riders went into battle stations.
"Laser cannons! Fire!" the co-pilot yelled.
A stream of laser bolts collided with the zombies. Some incinerated instantly, others were broken to pieces but still crawling or hopping towards the direction of the ship.
The Vorpal then activated her Maser Cannon, which aimed itself at a giant zombie.
"Phaser! Fire!" Clane ordered.
The Maser Cannon hit the giant square in the chest, but it got a rock out of its body and hurled the object towards the ship.
"Dodge it! Dodge it!" the co-pilot yelled. The pilot flew away from the incoming projectile, but it slightly grazed the top of the ship.
"Kill that son of a bitch!" Clane growled. The Maser Cannon fired again, and the giant zombie went down, squashing a number of weaker zombies with its dead corpse.
"Take that, you ugly piece of shit!" the pilot yelled.
"Let's land the ship," Kagami suggested.
The pilot found a clearing where the zombies were killed, the ship landed, and Kagami stepped out first.
"I'm sure if they were in the bunkers, they would've sent out a search party," a rider said with an uncertain look.
"That's only if ZECT is in there," another rider retorted.
"Hey guys, more zombies," Clane pointed.
A horde of zombies (luckily not the giants) rushed towards the riders. In turn, the riders got out their belts and Zecters started to crawl or fly towards their users.
The Spider Zecter jumped up to Clane's hands, and Clane attached it onto his Rider Belt.
"Henshin!" Clane yelled.
"HENSHIN!" the Zecter announced as armor developed around Clane, in the form of a spider. Clane became Masked Rider Spindus.
The Gatack Zecter flew to Kagami after killing two zombies by itself.
"Henshin!" Kagami yelled as he attached the Zecter onto the belt.
"HENSHIN!" the Zecter announced as armor developed around Kagami, who became Masked Rider Gatack.
"Let's go!" Gatack yelled.
The riders charged at the zombies, but soon they were overwhelmed. The lack of training for zombies and prolonged battle with martians made the riders underpowered with unconventional and useless tactics and moves against the zombies.
"Just go for their heads!" Gatack suggested.
The riders went with that idea, and they soon retaliated, but soon a rider was bitten…
"AHHHH!" the rider yelled as he was repeatedly hit by the zombies.
Another rider was heard screaming as a bunch of zombies jumped on top of him and began to chew off the rider armor, where the screams soon ended.
"Sick…" Gatack thought.
"Where the fuck is ZECT when we need them!?" Spindus growled, shooting electrical webs at the zombies, ensnaring them and frying their already dead bodies.
The two riders used Cast Off, and then clocked up. The other riders did the same, but unknown to them, the zombies could track Clock Up movements, and the riders were soon brought down again.
"Gatack! Help!" Spindus grunted as a zombie bit his armor, and to Gatack's horror, bit his skin…
"GAAHHHH!" Spindus yelled in anger, he pulled the zombie's head off and kicked the head to another zombie, who caught it with undead surprise.
"Spindus!" Gatack yelled, rushing to his side. A zombie raised both skinny hands as it was about to kill them both, Gatack was about to block the hit….
Just then, the zombie was hit with a bat-like boomerang, and the zombie exploded.
"Bat!" Gatack sighed with relief.
"We saw your ship! We knew you would need help!" Bat said.
Drago slashed a zombie with his staff, and impaled a zombie's head with the other end of it.
"Drago!" Gatack yelled.
"Good to see you too," Drago grunted, who then used "2" and sliced off a few zombie heads. Behind him came a few more riders.
"Help the wounded!" Gatack ordered the riders. They responded with a nod and picked up two wounded riders.
"Kagami," Spindus said weakly.
"Yes?" Gatack asked.
"Kill me, spare me the pain of being one of them," Spindus babbled.
"I can't just," Gatack began.
"KILL ME GODDAMN IT! KILL ME!" Spindus pleaded.
Gatack sniffed, as he felt a tear streak down his cheek.
"If that's what you wish, old friend," Gatack stammered.
Gatack slowly pressed the full throttle button thrice on the Gatack Zecter.
"1," the Zecter announced.
"Just remember this in your heart," Spindus began.
"2," the Zecter continued.
"That I…" Spindus continued.
"3," the Zecter continued.
"Will always be your friend," Spindus finished.
Gatack flipped the Zecter's horns to its original position, creating an energy surge that went to the horns on his head and then to his foot.
"Rider…Kick…." Gatack said between tears. He was about to lose his childhood friend, one of his closest friends.
Before he put the horns back, Gatack decided to look back at the past. Jim Clane was a student from America, and he got picked on for his race. Kagami became friends with him and defended him from the bullies, which made him unpopular with the other kids. Their friendship grew over the years, until they parted during college. They later met back at ZECT after the Worm Crisis.
"RIDER KICK!" the Zecter announced.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gatack cried as he did a flying roundhouse kick on his friend. Spindus exploded, escaping his fate as a zombie…
As the explosion cleared, Gatack went to where he was previously standing, and knelt on the floor. Gatack pulled his Zecter out, and Kagami started to tear up.
He heard Haku and Drago come over, and they helped him up.
"During this fight, many deaths are inevitable, Spindus's was an unfortunate one," Haku said sadly.
"Nevertheless, we must continue on and honor our fallen comrades' wishes," Drago said with a hard but saddened voice.
"I agree, this isn't the first time something like this happened. I almost gotten used to it, but it is still heartbreaking…" Kagami said as he shook away the tears.
"You're strong, I grant you that. But now we have to go to your father," Haku said.
"Come on Kagami, we'll tell you the details once we get to the bunkers," Drago added.
All Kagami could do was nod in deep silence.
ZECT Underground Bunker
"So there is life on Mars…and it seems they would be in peace with us," Riku Kagami said after his son debriefed.
"Not the Kin-Lok Sa or their allies, but they don't have the technology to come to Earth, we should be safe from them," Kagami said.
"I know how you feel about all this. It seems so sudden doesn't it son?" Riku asked.
"Yeah, so much has happened since our journey to Mars…" Kagami said.
"Anyway, we have to find Kabuto," Riku continued.
"Tendou? Why?" Kagami asked.
"Ask Alex, she-"
"Who's Alex?" Kagami asked in confusion.
"The new Drake. Kabuto trained her, she knows he is the key to solving everything, how she knows or how he is the key, no one knows," Riku said.
"That's not good enough, but we might need him anyway…" Kagami replied.
"We're going to have to find Sasword as well," Riku continued.
"Tsurugi-kun isn't here?" Kagami asked.
"He went on a journey of his own, he can hold himself well," Riku pointed out.
"Did he tell you where he was headed?" Kagami asked.
"South Africa. Surprisingly, the whole country is intact," Riku said with an amused look.
"How many riders are left?" Kagami pressed.
"During the invasion, half of our riders perished. We have about 40 or so here, and the remainder of teams Griffin, Scorpion, and Unicorn are around cities worldwide, Bat and Dragon teams remained to defend us. We've recently raided a supply building after it was overrun with zombies and rogue riders, but we are pretty much good here. We'll survive for another few months before the supplies run out," Riku explained.
"Good, we're gonna have to find Kabuto and Sasword then," Kagami said, getting ready to leave.
"Stay here for a few days, I haven't seen my son in ages," Riku said.
"Of course, dad," Kagami replied, patting him on the shoulder.
"Finding Kabuto is first priority, Sasword will come eventually," Riku said lastly.
"Got it dad," Kagami said, then left the bunker.
As Kagami left the room, he turned around and saw a young woman in a ZECT uniform.
"I'm guessing you're Alex," Kagami said quickly.
"Correct," Alex replied.
"How'd Kabuto get the Drake Zecter to you," Kagami asked.
"After Kazama commit suicide, he left a note and the Drake Grip on the ground. Tendou picked it up and gave it to me, and before the main attack began, he trained me to be a better rider," Alex said, walking around.
"Why'd Tendou pick you?" Kagami asked.
"Because he saw a vicious lady-warrior that can kick ass. I know you don't like me being Drake, Kagami," Alex said.
"I never said…"
"Don't bother, it's alright, a lot of people say I can't live up to Drake's expectations," Alex admitted.
"If you think you're as good as you think you are, let us spar," Kagami suggested.
Alex got into a fighting stance, and Kagami just bent his knees.
"Hi-Yah!" Alex yelled as she flew towards Kagami, but the seasoned warrior intercepted her kick with a chop to her knee. Kagami did a palm strike at her back, sending her a few feet back. Alex landed on the ground with ease.
Kagami rushed forward and aimed a punch at Alex. Alex raised her arms to defend herself, but Kagami did a sweep and tripped her.
Alex grunted, but hopped back up. Kagami threw several punches at her, but she blocked them. Alex jumped and kicked Kagami in the face, but all she managed to do was make him step back.
"Interesting," Kagami said.
The two rushed back at each other. Alex aimed a round-house kick but Kagami ducked and grabbed her leg. Kagami threw her onto the ground.
"Looks like you're better than I thought," Kagami said.
"Oh, why so negative?" Alex asked, getting back up.
The two continued exchanging kicks and punches, and soon their sparring session attracted a small crowd of ZECT personnel.
"Is Alex actually holding her own against Kagami?"
"Damn this is intense."
The two kicked each other and they both stumbled back. The two ran towards each other again. Alex spun around and grabbed her gun, but Kagami threw a smoke bomb on the ground and after the smoke cleared, Gatack had one of his swords pointed at her throat.
"Too slow hotshot," Gatack said.
"Damn it," Alex grumbled, putting her gun away.
Kagami took his Zecter off his belt, and smirked.
"Kabuto trained you well," Kagami said.
"He did," Alex beamed.
"I see already that you have good potential, I look forward to fighting alongside you in the battlefield," Kagami said, he then walked away without a word.
The rest of the crowd soon disappeared as well, leaving Alex alone.
"That was a hell of a fight," James said, coming from behind.
"You watched?" Alex asked.
"You could say that," James said.
"Well then," Alex said. "I don't think you wanna spar with me."
"I could, but nah," James decided.
"Good enough, let's go up to the surface," Alex said with a mischievous voice.
"But we had clear orders to not go up there," James objected.
"Who the hell cares?" Alex said, grabbing James's arm.
"I don't wanna get busted!" James cried. A couple riders snickered at the two.
Days Later
"Kagami, it's time to find him," Riku said.
"Yes, but are you sure that Tendou's the one? What if he's already dead?" Kagami asked.
"But he's not," Riku replied. "He is in Moscow, according to some inside sources.
"Then I'm heading out," Kagami replied, getting out of his seat.
"But wait," Riku said.
"What?" Kagami asked.
"Leave a couple of riders here, and stay safe my son," Riku said.
"Of course, dad," Kagami said. He then left the room.
As he went out of the bunker, Alex Walker, Haku Kamijo, and Draco Stark were outside.
"So?" Draco asked.
"We head out today, in 20 minutes," Kagami decided.
"Good, let's find Tendou," Haku said.
"My father said to leave a couple of riders here, grab whoever you want, and meet me here in 20 minutes," Kagami said. The three riders nodded and walked away.
20 minutes later, the three riders came back with most of the riders, 27 by Kagami's calculations.
"Alright, everyone ready?" Kagami asked.
The riders nodded and shouted "Ready".
"Then let's go," Kagami said.
"I'm actually surprised there are still trees out here," a rider said as they crossed a concrete path. The riders were in what used to be a playground.
"Well the zombies don't have interest in them," another rider replied.
The riders had been trekking through for four hours, trying to find a Clock Up port somewhere near Shibuya.
"I've always wondered what would happen if the worm came back," a rider said.
"Shut up! We don't want that shit happening again," Alex countered.
"Calm down, we need to find the nearest Clock Up port," Kagami ordered.
"And I think my computers just scanned a station, just a mile away," Haku said.
"Where is it?" Kagami asked.
"Under where Tokyo Tower used to be," Haku said, pointing to the remains of the tower.
As the riders approached near there, zombies started appearing from doors of damaged buildings.
"What the hell…it's like they know we're here!" Kagami shouted.
"Form ranks! Transform!" Haku ordered the riders. One by one, each rider transformed, and got their weapons out.
"Henshin!" shouted Kagami, Haku, Draco, and Alex, they transformed into Gatack, Bat, Drago, and Drake respectively.
"Let's bust these guys!" Drake yelled.
The riders charged at the oncoming zombies and soon punches and kicks collided with undead skulls.
"For my fallen comrades!" Gatack yelled as he sliced the head off a zombie. He ducked between two zombies and stabbed the zombies' chest upward into their heads.
"You've seemed to learn much from that simulator," Drago shouted, coming over to Gatack's aid.
"Yeah, seems so much easier now," Gatack grunted as he pried a zombie off his shoulder.
"Watch out!" Drago suddenly yelled. Gatack looked up and saw a giant fist coming towards his direction.
Drago ducked, but Gatack jumped onto the giant zombie's fist and ran up to its head. After disappearing behind it, the gigantic creature fell to the ground with a giant thud.
"How's that?" Gatack asked.
"Very cool," Drago nodded as he zapped another zombie with his staff.
While they fought, Drake and Bat were back-to-back, blasting and throwing projectiles at the zombies while they were at it.
"Seen anything like this before the whole zombie thing?" Bat asked Drake.
"During Special Forces, during the Gulf War," Drake said.
"You were in the Gulf War?" Bat asked curiously.
"Some assignment," Drake replied as she blasted a jumping zombie.
"There's a lot of them, and they keep hopping out of those buildings," Bat said, pointing to the line of buildings a few yards out.
"How the fuck did zombies learn to form ranks?" Drake asked.
"Don't know! But I suggest blowing up those buildings fast!" Bat said.
Gatack and Drago came over to them, panting.
"What about those buildings?" Drago asked.
"I got just the thing," Drake said as she pulled out a small box that quickly transformed itself into a bazooka.
"What the hell is that thing?" Gatack asked.
"It's the Garbage Truck," Bat simply said, giving Gatack a thumbs-up.
"Garbage Truck!?" Gatack asked.
Drake fired it at one building, the building vaporized when the energy ball impacted.
"That's one hell of a weapon," Gatack said breathlessly.
Drake switched the firing mode to "incinerate", and aimed it at a group of zombies coming towards a few riders.
"Incoming!" Bat yelled to them, they ran out of the way as a red projectile hit several riders, leaving nothing but dust.
"What now?" Drago asked.
"We blast the rest of the damn buildings!" Alex shouted as she set the Garbage Truck to "Disintegrate". She aimed it at two buildings and fired, zombie screams and screeches were heard as green slime disintegrated the building.
"Riders! Rally the rest of the zombies!" Gatack shouted.
"What's in your mind?" Drago asked.
"First, give me that weapon," Gatack said, beckoning Drake. She gave it to him as he set it to the fourth mode, "Energy". But then she realized that the cannon had a security system. If someone unrecognizable used the cannon, they'd be electrocuted with 50,000 volts of electricity.
"Wait! The cannon hasn't-"
"Recognize. Masked Rider Gatack," announced the cannon as it fired a big, white energy ball which destroyed the rallied zombies.
"Well, that was fun," Gatack said, giving the bazooka to Drake.
"How'd you…" Drake asked but couldn't say anymore.
"Maybe when this was built they put me on the recognizing list first," Gatack suggested.
"But then you didn't know what it-"
"I oversaw to the construction of the weapon, but didn't get a chance to see the final product," Gatack said.
"Well then, let's get a move on. We have to find that Clock Up port," Bat said, beckoning the two riders, they shrugged and followed him.
"Nothing on the surface," a rider reported.
"It must be underground, but my computers can't seem to scan where the port is…" Bat said.
"Then we'll just have to look, if it's under the damn tower it should be easy to find," Drago said, walking on.
"I suggest we split up," Gatack said.
"Going underground and splitting up is not exactly the best idea," Drake replied.
"I agree," a rider called out.
"Then we'll stay together," Bat said, walking away.
The riders blasted their way into an underground entrance, and walked under for minutes, finding no port.
"We have to split up, the area's too large to explore in one group," Gatack pressed.
"Fine then, split up into two groups. Bat, Drake, and Gatack will follow me," Drago growled. The riders soon split up, leaving the four riders walking on their own.
"That's strange, my computers just shut down on me," Bat grumbled.
"You have us to thank," a voice boomed.
"Who's there? Show yourself?" Gatack yelled. A throwing knife nearly impaled his face had Gatack not dodged it.
"Just who the hell are you," Drago growled.
The voice along with three other figures appeared, they were dressed in suits with a symbol closely resembling a snake was on the back of the suits.
"You've been trespassing in Cobra Territory," a female "Cobra" said.
"Since when was Tokyo Tower your territory?" Gatack challenged.
"After the zombies took over, we Cobras decided to defect and make our own group, the Cobras. And you ZECT dogs are trespassing," another Cobra said.
"We're finding a Clock-Up port, if you could show it to us we'll be on our way," Drago said.
"It's OUR Clock-up port, no one goes in there," a third Cobra retorted.
"Then I guess we're just gonna have to get in there ourselves," Drago growled.
"Wait! This doesn't have to get any messier, we just need to get our riders to Moscow using the port, and we won't bother you again," Bat said persuasively.
"You can either leave or be destroyed," a big guy, the one with the big voice said. Two of the riders put on rider braces, the other two pulled out belts.
"Guess we have no other choice," Drago growled, Drake nodded.
Four snake-like Zecters suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and jumped into the four rogue riders' hands.
"Henshin!" the riders called.
The riders with the braces tapped a button, and two Zecters wrapped their brace arm. The riders with the belts tapped a button, and the other two Zecters wrapped themselves around the riders' waists.
"HENSHIN!" the Zecters announced in an odd and dark voice. The rider armor started to slowly envelop on the riders, soon their armors flashed, signaling that the process was complete.
"Change! Viper!"
"Change! Rattlesnake!"
"Change! Anaconda!"
"Change! King Cobra!"
The four Cobra riders got into battle stances, Drago and the rest of the riders did the same.
"I got King Cobra!" Bat suddenly yelled as he charged towards the Cobra boss. The other three riders picked their slithering targets.
Bat threw a batarang at King Cobra, which he ducked under. King Cobra got out two swords and thrust both of them at Bat's chest. Bat fell to the floor, but immediately hopped up and kicked King Cobra in the leg, making him kneel. Bat then stepped on King Cobra's head and used both his feet and kicked him in the back.
Drake and Viper fired at each other with their projectiles, gun versus dart-gun. Their projectiles continuously intercepted with each other; a bullet would stop the impact of the small sharp dart, or the dart would pierce through the bullet but lose speed and trajectory in the process. The two females growled and charged towards each other. Drake ducked from Viper's high kick and punched her stomach. Viper growled, and grabbed Drake on the arms and lifted her up into the air and threw her into the wall. Drake impacted, creating a massive crack on the wall. As Drake scrambled onto her feet, Viper shot her with her dart-gun, causing Drake to stumble again and fall. As Viper walked towards her with fists clenched, Drake pulled out her Drake Grip and fired at Viper, who fell to the floor.
Drago and Anaconda wrestled, each trying to overpower the other with pure strength.
"I could crush you if I wanted, but this is getting interesting," Anaconda said in a snaky voice.
"Oh yeah, think again!" Drago yelled. He kneed Anaconda's arm, making him yell out in pain. Drago got his staff from his back and pressed 4, throwing the weapon at Anaconda, sending him flying a few feet back. Drago reached his hand out, and his staff came right back to his hands.
"So you want to play that way? Alright then!" Anaconda shouted.
"I hate your voice," Drago growled in reply. Anaconda screeched as he got out an electric whip, Drago found himself on the defensive as he tried to counter Anaconda's whips. Drago made the wrong move and Anaconda then gave a couple of electric lashes to Drago, as Drago was stunned, Anaconda did a drop kick on him. Drago then pressed "3" on his staff and released some Mizer Bombs to distract Anaconda, but the plan failed as the little critters couldn't get close because of Anaconda's offensive fighting style. But it distracted Anaconda enough for Drago to press "2" and shoot a laser beam at Anaconda's head, making him fly back into a pipe.
On the other side of the room, Gatack and Rattlesnake fought in hand-to-hand combat, each randomly switching from offense to defense. Gatack soon found trouble trying to block Viper's scimitar slashes.
"Poor Gatack, you've been in Mars for so long you probably forgot how to fight a rider like me," Rattlesnake said as he kicked Gatack to the ground.
"I've forgotten nothing!" Gatack yelled as he grabbed his Double Caliburs from the floor.
The two kept exchanging slashes but Rattlesnake was much faster than Gatack. Rattlesnake elbowed Gatack's chest, and swiped Gatack's legs with his scimitars.
"Before you and your friends die, you should know, that we were the ones that managed to control the zombies against you," Rattlesnake sneered.
"That was you?" Gatack stammered. "But how?"
"Mind-control devices, the zombies' brains are still active, so we could control them and make them do what we want," Rattlesnake sneered as he stepped on Gatack's chest.
"You…scumbag!" Gatack yelled as he brought all his strength on one move, and used both of his blades and slashed Rattlesnake on the left leg.
"ARGH!" Rattlesnake yelled as immediately fell to his knees and clutched his left leg.
"People like you shouldn't be surviving," Gatack growled as he put his Double Caliburs in a scissor-like configuration.
"No! No! Please!" Rattlesnake shouted.
"Too late," Gatack growled.
"RIDER CUTTING!" the Gatack Zecter announced.
"Hah!" Gatack shouted as he plunged both blades into Rattlesnake's chest, as the Cobra rider looked down on his chest, his rider armor fell off him, and his Rider Brace started sparking. Before Rattlesnake hit the ground, he was already dead.
Meanwhile, Drake was being tossed around by Viper as the Cobra rider proved to be faster in Clock-Up than Drake. Viper also managed to disable Drake's Clock-Up for a short period of time. As Viper circled Drake, Drake folded the Drake Zecter's wings into its scope position. Drake pulled the throttle, and the Drake Zecter began to charge up energy. Drake closed her eyes and put the Drake Grip towards her head, then opened them and fired.
"RIDER SHOOTING!" the Drake Zecter announced. The energy ball split into three. One ball hit Viper, stopping her Clock-Up. The other two hit her square in the chest, making her fly into the wall.
"Time to finish you off," Drake growled. "I had enough of you."
Viper simply growled.
Drake grabbed a gauntlet called the Wave-Motion Arm Shot. She attached it to her right arm, and pressed the button on it. Energy formed around the Arm Shot as Viper struggled to get up.
Drake pressed the button again, and the charge was complete; the energy formed itself into a giant yellow ball. Drake then punched the ball at Viper, who was instantly destroyed before she could mutter out another word.
"Checkmate," Drake growled.
Drago on the other hand had Anaconda stunned after pressing "1" and hitting him on the head very hard.
"Time to finish what you started," Drago said in a dark voice. He pressed all four buttons.
"1, 2, 3, 4!" the Dragon Zecter announced.
"Rider Slash!" Drago shouted.
"RIDER SLASH!" announced the Dragon Zecter. Drago then brought his powered-up staff up and brought it down on Anaconda's head. He exploded soon after.
Meanwhile, Bat threw a batarang at King Cobra, which exploded at his face. The explosion sent him twirling in the air, but just then, another rider swooped in…
"RIDER STING!" the TheBee Zecter announced.
"Ha!" TheBee yelled as he punched King Cobra near the heart. The enemy rider went down, but was still alive.
"Bruce," TheBee said.
"James," Bat replied.
Drake ran up to TheBee and hugged him, Drago and Gatack ran towards the fallen enemy. Behind James were the rest of their riders.
"You were hit in the heart, you'd be dead in minutes," Bat grumbled.
"But first, tell us where that Clock-Up port is," Drago demanded.
"I ain't tellin' you jack…" King Cobra gasped in broken words.
"Tell us!" Gatack yelled.
"Before you die you can at least do something honorable," Drake reasoned.
"Two rooms left from here, one room to the right afterward, you'll see it…" King Cobra groaned.
"Thanks for the information, but why were you controlling the zombies?" Gatack demanded.
"The Cobras were hired to do it," King Cobra gasped. "Not on my orders."
"Who hired you?" Bat asked.
"You don't need to know, you're gonna die if you try to cross them," King Cobra said.
"Where are they!?" Bat yelled.
"I…d-don't know…" King Cobra said.
Bat got up, so did the rest of the riders as they were signaled by Drago to find the Clock-Up port.
"Thank you, for your cooperation," Bat said, then he stabbed an exploding batarang into King Cobra's stomach. Bat walked away with Drago, Drake, TheBee, and Gatack following.
"No! What did you do to me!? What did you!-
He never got the chance to finish, as the batarang exploded.
"Found it sir!" a rider said.
"Good," Bat grumbled.
"Fully operational!" another rider said.
"I've set the coordinates already, outside Moscow City Walls," a third rider said.
"Then let's go," Drago said. "Everyone line up!"
The riders lined up, and soon, 32 hands pressed on their clock-up pads.
"CLOCK UP!"
The riders all rushed into the portal, and then they were gone…
Epilogue
"Ah! Damn it! If only we went back to the train in time!" a red monster said.
"Oh, but look at the beautiful scenary…" a blue monster said.
"This is Japan? Looks more like a desert," a yellow monster said.
"Ooh! Goodie! Look I found a doll!" a purple monster called, digging a stuffed animal out of the sand. It closely resembled that of "Woodie the Cowboy"
"Let's pull the string!" the purple monster said.
"No you brat! It could be a bomb! Kuma! Stop him!" the red monster yelled.
The purple monster pulled the string.
"There's a snake in my boot!" the doll said.
"Ew! Where's the snake at then?" the purple monster asked, searching the doll.
"You idiot! It's just a toy!" the red monster said.
"Calm down, Senpai," the blue monster said, facepalming himself.
The four found themselves arguing again very loudly, but then a few survivors passed by.
"Um…are you guys zombies?" a survivor asked.
"EHHHHH!?" the four monsters asked.
"Ahh! Monsters!" a second survivor said.
"We're Imagin! Not monsters!" the yellow monster said.
"He-hello lady, mind if I reel you in?" the blue monster said to a female survivor. In reply, the female bonked him in the head.
"Owie…" the blue monster said sadly.
"So what happened to this place? This looks nothing like Japan…" the red monster asked.
"Years ago, a small meteorite crashed. It contained the body of a dangerous alien. The corpse infected some scientists, and they became zombies. The zombies were stopped, but one crawled out and started infecting everyone else. And before we knew it, all of this happened!" an old man said.
"AHHHHHH?" the four monsters said in surprise.
"It's true!" the old man said.
"Oh no sempai! We're doomed!" the blue monster said.
"This is trouble!" the purple monster yelled, running around.
"So you guys are called Imagin…" the female said.
"Shouldn't you be afraid of us?" the red monster said, sticking his face at the old man. The old man and everyone else did not flinch.
"We got used to the gross stuff," the old man said.
"Oh…" the blue monster said. The yellow monster growled and started to sit down.
"I am hungry," the yellow monster said.
"So what are your names…?" another survivor, a child asked.
"Ryutaros," the purple monster responded, showing a cute picture to the kid.
"Urataros," the blue monster said.
"Kintaros," the yellow monster said.
"Hmmph," the red monster said.
"So your name is Hmmph?" the child asked.
"Ahh!? No! No! It's Momotaros!"