Great. Sonic. Booms. Gaim is boiling down to the finale, and things are getting intense! Rosho having gone to extreme means to protect the Forbidden Fruit, and a whole bunch of more stuff like that occurs in the most recent episode. And while more subtle… we finally get some subtitles to "Ranbu Escalation"... so it's something.

Anyway, getting back on track with this story, this chapter will have some base from rumors I've been reading, that I don't know if they're true or not. So, let's get this going.

Also noticed a small error in the story description, when it should say 'six' views, not seven. I fixed it, but something worth noting.

I don't own Kamen Rider, it belongs to Bandai, Toei and such.

How I ended up where I am now… I honestly have no clue. Well, I do know… but at the same time, it feels like a blur. Almost like… my memories were leaving me. I was treading this forest, simply looking for something to help me regain who I once was.

But… I knew that the only ones who had that knowledge were dead now… the Overlords… I could only sigh, and hope that he… would put me out of my misery.

I had long searched for power… that I could remember, but why I wanted to… I couldn't remember. I did however, remember how I got into the mess I am.

It was when Sour Grapes had betrayed us… or rather, made it known to the others, since I already knew, I had arrived to help The Hero, but I made the foolish mistake of not being henshined… one of the Overlords had attacked me… it left a cut that got the Helheim Infection… and it began to spread up through my veins.

I had a chance to try and ask their king to heal it, however… I wasted my chance, and the king was killed… all of the Overlords were dead… or seemingly, anyway.

With the Overlords gone, the Inves had no commanders, like they needed commanders in the first place anyway. We had to clear them out, and hope that from there, the world could be restored. However, the Helheim Infected cut continued to spread… I could hardly even control my right arm anymore… it felt completely numb… and when it didn't, I had no control over it.

But that was not the end of my pain… no, in fact, it was FAR from the end of it. I was told that the Infection would continue to spread… until it turned me into an Overlord. I felt like denying it… I looked to my arm and saw red scales starting to form on it. I had obtained a power beyond compare… but it wasn't from a Lockseed… or anything of that sort, but rather, through some unfortunate luck, I got it.

Much like a certain nutty Beat Rider… I tried to fight it… but alas… it was a fairly futile effort, as the red scales spread down my right arm, and up it, reaching my shoulder. The Professor told me that I would still be me until the infection reached my brain and my heart.

With few hours left as a human, someone managed to get this info onto Sour Grapes, and he attacked me. I spent the last few hours with my humanity fighting for my life. I managed to damage his new Lockseed a bit… I could only hope The Hero would have enough power to destroy it. During this, the scales begun to spread up my onto my chest and onto parts of my legs.

After escaping Sour Grapes, I looked to a water source to see my reflection… the final time I saw my human face. My face mutated into a sort of version of my Rider helmet before the Armor Part attached onto it, with a blue jester like mask over the visor area. I tore off my shirt to see red scales were forming, when my shoulders gained asymmetrical spikes, when suddenly, a sort of cape dropped down from my shoulders… I had turned into the monsters I had tried to stop.

I spent hours wandering around to try and stop myself… this is not the power that I had wanted… the Inves had swarmed me… like they were looking for a leader. I was not scared… but I would not be their leader.

Suddenly, the Hero had shown up and cleared the Inves that surrounded me… but a single look told him everything he needed to know. Who I was… and that I was now the enemy. But, he refused to attack me. I couldn't take this pain anymore…

I told him that he could kill me… I would strike first. I told him to call what he was about to do 'self-defense'. He turned into the form that would eventually make him like me… but I was not scared. He used a copy of my weapon to make me stay still, apart from my right arm. He approached and said he wouldn't kill me. He had his ultimate weapon in hand, and I gained an idea. I took out my primary Lockseed, while a little bit chipped from the fight with Sour Grapes… it would work one final time. I reached out my right hand, and managed to put my Lockseed into his ultimate weapon.

The weapon charged up, he paniced, as he tried to stop the blast, but I assured him it would be okay, and told him to keep looking for his own power. I reached my one hand onto the trigger… and fired it at myself.

The final thing I heard was him shouting my name in agony… I could only smile as I knew my search for the ultimate power was over… but did I care? Not really… I wished the Hero luck… not like he needed it. He had the ultimate power, and something I never had: powerful hope.

Well… Gaim's got a few episodes left. Sure, it'll be shorter than Wizard, with a total of 47, and shorter than it's first Super Hero Time partner, I think what we got going is going to be great. And I plan to hold Drive up to some HIGH standards given this season.

Anyway, guesses to who this is? I hope you can figure it out.

Just Live More.