Songs in order of appearance:
Aerial's theme - The Witch from Mercury
1 hour Gothic Cathedral Music (don't need the whole hour)
Believe Yourself - Agito
Meteor - Gundam Seed
"AAAAAH!" Marcy screamed.
The Taiwanese woman sat up, panting as she tried to get her breathing under control.
"Whoa, Mar-Mar, you okay?" Sasha asked as she awoke.
"What's going on? Did you have a bad dream?" Anne inquired.
It had been twelve years since the events in Amphibia, twelve years since they defeated The Night. And it had also been twelve years of them being together. Anne had only gotten more beautiful, letting her afro hair grow out longer until it was now flowing down her back. Marcy wouldn't lie, a few other parts of Anne's figure got bigger in all the right ways, as well. Her gaze shifted to the right, and that's where she found her second wife, Sasha. The former cheerleader had gotten buffer as well, but still retained her feminine charm, her hair was cut shorter, for as much as she liked her long hair, in her own words, "I've had one too many bad guys slam me around by my ponytail!"
Marcy had also gained some muscle, a byproduct of their years of fighting across the multiverse to protect their world, Amphibia, and others from extradimensional threats. So far, though, there hadn't been as many, and it allowed the three of them to settle down for a time. Which was fine with Marcy, having little domestic moments with her wives was just as good as fighting alongside them.
"I'm sorry girls, I…I had a bad dream is all," said Marcy.
"You've been having them a lot lately," Anne noticed.
"What was it this time?" Sasha asked as she placed a comforting hand on her lover's shoulder.
"I…I don't know what I saw. It was…confusing. I saw us, like, back when we were thirteen. I saw…myself…like I was watching it from a third person perspective. There was another me, but it wasn't me. She had the same voice, but she was…well…like a dark version of me. Someone, or rather, something that twisted everything about me."
"Sounds like a real nightmare," said Anne.
"I even saw her propose to you, Anne."
"Me? Well, if she's supposed to be you, then that checks out."
"No, it wasn't the same way!" Marcy insisted. "She…She was practically forcing you to be her wife, giving you no chance to refuse or else you'd lose everything! The Plantars, Sasha, your parents, they'd all be dead if you didn't accept her offer! And Sasha, she wanted to make you a pet!"
Sasha blinked.
"Okay, I know we've had discussions about roleplay and all, but…"
"NOT LIKE THAT! The way she said it was sinister!" Marcy held the sides of her head as she shook. "That other me…it was as if I was seeing another timeline…one where I became the ultimate evil and you two have to stop me!"
Marcy's wives moved closer to her and embraced her. Trying to comfort their wife the best they could.
"Shh, it's alright, Marcy. We're here for you," said Sasha.
"It was just a bad dream, seriously. That's all it was. You'd never become something like that," Anne assured.
Marcy released a sigh as she allowed herself to be comforted by her lovers, marrying these two girls was the best decision of her entire life. The Taiwanese woman gently broke their embrace and shimmied her way out of the bed.
"I'm just going to go and check in on the kids, is that alright?" Marcy asked.
"Sure, we'll be waiting," said Anne.
"And if you need us to help you chase away the nightmares, well, we can do a few things to help with that," Sasha teased.
Marcy blushed as she retorted, "How the heck can you still make me blush like a schoolgirl."
"Because you're so adorkable," her wives stated in unison.
Marcy rolled her eyes and exited their huge room. As she walked through the halls, she passed by one of the balcony areas and went outside. From there, she gazed into the wide-open sky and vast, sprawling metropolis of Newtopia. While Amphibia had been changed to a more democratically run republic, the newts, toads, and frogs of Amphibia still revered and saw the three girls as pseudo rulers of Amphibia. Which was probably the only reason why they kept the castle, and kept it fully staffed. Plus, it also served as their base of operations for whenever they went off into another world.
Amphibia had entered into a new age of technological advancement thanks to Marcy bringing back some tech from Earth, along with books on the matter. She made sure that they were reprinted so that all Amphibians had access to this knowledge, and thanks to it, they were able to better utilize their resources, while keeping the environment intact, something Earth could take a lesson from.
The sea breeze was cool as the full moon shined down upon their second home. It was beautiful, and it was there's. This was a world that she and her wives helped save, and it was the place that they decided to raise their family. After taking in the sight, Marcy returned to her walk and ended up at the door to their children's room.
It was honestly a miracle of science. While the things that Andrias's ancestors learned through their exploits was used for nefarious and selfish purposes, the theories and technology were not unusable for other things. Good things. And three of those good things were now sleeping soundly in their room.
Astrid was the first of their children to be born, she was conceived through Anne and Sasha. Seth was the middle child, and was Marcy and Sasha's child, biologically. And lastly was little Mana, Marcy and Anne's biological daughter. Marcy had proposed that they used the first letter of each of their first names to make a name for their child, Anne's "A" went to Astrid, Sasha's "S" went to Seth, and lastly, Marcy's "M" went to Mana.
They were all sleeping peacefully in their room, and seeing their faces calmed Marcy's nerves. This was the life she wanted, to be able to go on adventures with the ones she loved, to be together with them, and now she had a family. Marcy closed the door and sighed contently.
"My life is perfect," said Marcy.
"Is it though?"
Marcy snapped her head to the right and saw something in the shadows of the long corridor. A faint emerald glow could be seen in the shadows of the hallway, but Marcy couldn't make any discernable features or details of the intruder.
"Who's there?" Marcy asked. "And what do you mean?"
"I mean, is this really the life you wished for?"
"What kind of stupid question is that? Of course, it is! I have my wives, my children, and we're defenders of the multiverse!" Marcy's eyes started to glow green. "I don't know who you are, but if you're here to threaten my family, then I won't hesitate to end you!"
"I can't threaten what doesn't exist."
Marcy's hair suddenly changed to bright green as a gust of wind blasted and propelled her forward. The Taiwanese woman, without fear, threw a spinning kick at the faint glow of emerald light, only to have the glow vanish before she made contact with it. Marcy spun in the air for a moment before she corrected herself and landed, feet first, on the floor. She quickly glanced about the hallway, looking down the different corridors to try and spot the intruder, but she couldn't find them.
"Was…Was that even real?" Marcy asked herself. "…What did he mean he 'can't threaten what's not real'?"
Marcy kept wondering about this as she made her way back to her bedroom, and the bed she shared with her two wives. Sasha and Anne heard her come in and smiled at her, each of them extending one arm, beckoning to Marcy. The Taiwanese woman climbed onto the bed and took her place in the middle between them. Anne and Sasha wrapped their arms around her, keeping her close and comforting her with their presence.
This…This is real.
They are real…
All of this is real…
…Isn't it?
HEROES!
ALL IN!
(Part 2)
The military was fighting a losing battle as they tried to contain the attack, but the robots were soon going to break their lines. All while Darcy and Andrias watched from the floating castle via monitors. Darcy would take control of the army here and there, using a replicated version of a keyboard and mouse setup, as if she was playing a game. Which this might as well be, it was game on easy mode, and she was tearing through them.
"AHAHAHAA! Oh, man, this is so much fun, big blue!" Darcy exclaimed happily. The dark persona spared him a glance and remarked, "Why so glum, chum? You should be excited! Everyone else up here is! And your father's pretty happy as well."
"No, forgive me, I am happy about this master. After so many years, the reality of it finally happening made me reflect on how we at long last got to this moment," said Andrias.
"And what a moment it is. Oh, by the way, how has my future fiancée and her little motley crew been doing? With all this fun I haven't had the time to check up on them."
Andrias made a face that showed his displeasure with Darcy's little proposal. He didn't know until later that she was planning on extending a marriage proposal to Anne Boonchuy like that, it was disturbing. Despite Darcy being her own entity within Marcy's body, there was just something uncomfortable about her obsession with the meddlesome human.
"Unfortunately, I do not know," Andrias admitted.
"Ah, then, will you do me a favor and go check in on them? We caused a lot of havoc in just a short amount of time. Actually, bring Anne here. I want her to see what we've done so far. Perhaps this will finally persuade her to see things our way," Darcy ordered. "I mean, it's not like you're really doing anything right now anyway, right?"
Andrias sneered but bowed his head and went to go and check on their prisoners. Although it wasn't his father's voice speaking to him, Andrias had little doubt that that last remark was from him somehow. Now that Andrias thought about it, that was probably the thing that really disturbed him. The fact that he was looking at Marcy every time she spoke. It was one thing when Darcy had her helmet on, but now he had to keep seeing the face of the girl he betrayed. A young naïve girl who called him a friend, and wholeheartedly believed him.
No, friendship is a lie. A fickle thing that will break with the slightest touch. Just like love…She taught me that.
Andrias assumed that Darcy was just going to keep Anne around as her "wife" for entertainment purposes, or for the purpose of further demoralizing and breaking her will. Personally, he'd much rather grant the child mercy and kill her, but the idea of her powers fading into the ether, and making the box lose its power by doing so, would only harm their efforts. Andrias eventually made it to the holding area, he closed his eyes as he sighed and mustered up some bravado before entering the room.
"Hey there, everyone, comfy? Huh…?"
The King of Amphibia's eyes widened with shock as he stared at a huge hole in the middle of the floor, right where the prisoners should've been.
"They escaped…!"
Andrias ran as fast as he could back to the control room, coming to a skidding halt as he entered.
"MASTER! The prisoners! They've–!"
"Escaped," Darcy cut off. "I know."
"Wait, since when?" Andrias inquired.
Darcy turned around, with a look of dissatisfaction on her face as she said, "Oh, gee. I guess the first hint was THIS."
The dark persona snapped her fingers, and one of the monitors appeared before Andrias.
The military was losing ground, and the Frobots were moving in, however, that's when something strange happened.
COMMANDER!
MASQUERADE (30x)!
Suddenly, multiple men and women wearing black and white suits appeared. There were no discernable features among them, they looked like carbon copies of each other. They also wore black, mask-like coverings around their heads, with white rib decorations upon them. Again, about the only thing you could confirm about them was that they were either male or female, but essentially, they all looked the same, these were all Foundation X agents, and the Gaia Memory they used, Masquerade, was a standard use item that granted the user enhanced strength, speed, endurance, and stamina above that of a human.
The thirty Masquerade Dopants charged straight into the fray as the Frobots opened fire. Some of the Masquerade Dopants were hit, causing some sparks to fly off their bodies as they were knocked onto their backs. But unlike the normal humans, who just died upon getting hit, the Masquerade Dopants managed to get back up and ran back into the fight. The small army began throwing punches and kicks once they were close enough to the Frobots. Their attacks either caused huge dents in the robots, or outright tore them apart. Once one Masquerade Dopant was done with their target, they quickly moved onto the next.
It wasn't just here, more Masquerade Dopants began popping up around the outer perimeter of the city, each of them smashing through one Frobot squad after the other. However, some managed to be felled by the Frobots, but compared to the losses that were suffered by the military, the Foundation X agents were able to push back as hard as the Frobots.
In addition to these forces, more were called in from the Commander Dopant. The monster stood about six feet tall, its body had a silver coloring, with pauldrons that matched an old style general, complete with tassels. The Dopant had a triangular shaped head, with yellow eyes that shined brightly. Upon his left wrist was a device that it used to call forth its own army. With a push of a button, several Troopers appeared. They were dressed in black tactical gear, with an army green colored helmet and a single red eye lens in the center of it. Each of the Troopers held a baton that sparked with electricity.
With a wave of Commander's hand, the Troopers spread out, heeding the Dopant's unspoken command to spread out and contain the attack. The Troopers engaged with the Frobots, since they were just constructs and not living beings, they had no fear of death, nor did they feel pain, which made them the perfect soldier to fight against an enemy that was much the same. Instead of getting torn or punched apart like how the Masquerade Dopants were doing, they were using their batons. One hit from the baton broke down the opponent into digital pixels that dispersed into nothingness.
"How is this possible?!" Andrias exclaimed.
"Foundation X. Guess Director Keisuke wasn't lying when he said he was going to fight back." Darcy answered. "Oh, and then there's this."
Another monitor appeared, and Andrias's jaw dropped.
The sound of two motorcycles echoed through the city streets, catching the attention of the Frobots that were still wreaking havoc. In the distance, they saw something approaching, and without waiting to see what it was, they all opened fire, barraging the incoming objects with a hail of laser fire. The lasers created multiple explosions everywhere, kicking up a dust cloud that obscured their vision of their targets.
{I think we got them,} a Frobot announced.
Oh, how it was wrong.
From the cloud of smoke two bikes blasted forth from it. One was Machine Tornador, carrying Kamen Rider Agito. The other was Machine Duos with Kamen Rider Gemini and Kamen Rider V on it. GX-02 popped out of the smoke as well, and behind her, with a big gust of wind trailing behind, was Tempest as she roared mightily into the air. Upon her back was Kamen Riders Amp and Bellona, along with GX-01, Sprig, and Hop Pop.
V hopped up, planting both feet onto the seat of Machine Duos before she vaulted off the motorcycle. The bio Kamen Rider twirled midair before she picked one of the Frobots down below and came down bearing her claw-like fingers.
{Uh-oh…}
Kamen Rider V raked her claws down the middle of the Frobot, leaving five long gashes before swiftly giving it thrust kick forward. The robot was sent flying into its companions before it exploded and took out two more of its kind. V released a threatening growl as she held out both of her arms. The exoskeletal armor around her forearms glowed for a moment before extending outward into a pair of two-foot-long blades.
Now armed, V charged straight for a battalion of the Frobots and slashed through them with ease, dodging their lasers, but maintaining close distance to prevent them from letting off too many shots, otherwise they'd take out their own.
Gemini revved their engine as they popped a wheelie and plowed through several of the Frobots, scattering them to the sides before they brought their wheel down and came to a skidding, screeching halt. Once stopped, Gemini jumped off their bike, twirled in the air, and came down smashing their fist into the face of the closest Frobot. The two-in-one Rider coated their fists in sparkling pink and blue light before dashing towards more Frobots, throwing one super charged punch after another, and exploding them upon impact.
GX-02 fired her short-ranged Sprite Lite gun from her shield, blasting the heads off some of the Frobots that were airborne. Some of the Frobots managed to surround her, but GX-02 was ready for them.
[Initiating: THUNDERBOLT SLASH]
The blade on the shield flipped and extended outward. Different sections of the GX armor began to glow bright neon pink as the entire blade started to crackle and spark with neon pink lightning.
The Frobots were not sure what to make of this, and their hesitation proved to be their mistake. GX-02 spun once in the air while slashing with her sword, creating ringlet of neon pink lighting that blasted outwards in a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree radius. The circlet of lightning rapidly extended outwards, slashing through the Frobots simultaneously, lobbing off either their heads, arms, or torsos depending on their position in the air. Within seconds the air rang out with multiple explosions before GX-02 flew off to cut down more airborne targets.
GX-01 jumped off Tempest, before he hit the ground, the cannons on his back acted as a jetpack, releasing a burst of energy to slow his descent until he landed softly onto the ground. Now armed with his rifle, the Long Shot, GX-01 took aim and fired multiple energy rounds at another squad of Frobots. The railgun hip mounts extended out and started unleashing rapid fire kinetic rounds, piercing and crushing the Frobots that were in range. GX-01's HUD warned him of incoming reinforcements from the air, which only made him smirk. He widened his stance, planted his feet, and had his Thunder Cannons get into firing position.
[Initiating: THUNDERBOLT BLAST]
Sections of GX-01's armor began to glow as neon yellow electricity surged around the twin cannons on his back. The mouths of the cannons started to take in particles of neon yellow light, building up more and more. The targeting system in his helmet locked onto the incoming squadron, and once he had, the Thunder Cannons unleashed a twin blast of neon yellow beams that crackled with neon yellow lightning. The Frobots had little time to evade as the beams struck them, causing a huge explosion in the sky as the lightning discharge snaked towards the few that did manage to get away, shorting and frying the circuits of the survivors and making them fall out of the sky like flies that were hit with a bug zapper.
Amp jumped down from Tempest, as she sped around her father, smashing her fist into the faces of the Frobots that dared to get near him. She threw elbow and knee strikes into the heads and chests of the robots, while also using her electrical powers to fry the murder bots from the inside out. Laser fire started to rain down on her, and Amp quickly pressed the right hip device on her belt, shifting into Spike Form. She continued taking heavy fire, that is until GX-02 came flying in and slashed through the robots that were daring to shoot at her child. Amp nodded up at her mother as she summoned the Sting Striker, and began tearing through more of the robots, but just then, she saw her father getting swarmed.
Amp dismissed her Spike Form and pressed the left hip device, shifting into Poison Form. The lightning Rider dashed towards her father as she jumped into the air, spun, and fired streams of corrosive poison plasma at the Frobots around him. The poison ate through the armor of the machines, destroying them on the spot. When Amp landed, there were three Frobots with their cannons aimed at her, but GX-01 fired off his railguns and Thunder Cannons, blasting the three in front of Amp before they could get a shot off.
"Nice one, Dad!" Amp cried out.
"Just returning the favor," he replied.
"Anne, honey, there's a big one," GX-02 warned.
Amp and GX-01 watched as huge Frobot came walking out from around the street. Amp smirked as she shifted back to Lightning form just as GX-02 landed beside them.
"Hey, wanna do that?" Amp suggested.
GX-01 gasped as he looked to his wife and asked, "Oh-ho-ho, please! Let's do that! C'mon, honey!"
GX-02 sighed and relented as she said, "Alright then. I kinda want to do it too."
The horn crest on Amp fanned out as the sections of her armor started to glow bright blue. GX-01 holstered his rifle while GX-02 retracted the blade on her shield, both armored Riders widened their stances as their daughter did the same.
[Initiating: THUNDERBOLT KICK]
[Initiating: THUNDERBOLT KICK]
Blue, neon pink, and neon yellow lightning began surging around the three Riders respectively, their eyes glowing brightly as they took aim for the huge target right in front of them. The tanker Frobot raised its arms and fired two powerful shots at the heroes before it. Two big explosions erupted, obscuring the three family members from sight. However, a moment after the explosions took place, the symbol of Amp appeared outside of the smoke cloud. A second later, the smoke cloud was blasted away as three different colored lightning bolts shot through it, with the blue one passing through the symbol of Amp. The rotund robot had no chance of escape as the three Riders pierced straight through the machine's chest and landed on the other side, coming to a skidding halt as the massive machine toppled over and exploded loudly, causing smoke and fire to bellow forth as the flames cast shadows on the Rider family.
Amp and GX-02 heard sniffling coming from GX-01, making both mother and daughter look at him with concern.
"Dad, you okay?" Amp asked.
"I just performed a Rider Kick with my wife and child…I'M BETTER THANK OKAY! I'M CRYING TEARS OF JOY UNDER THIS HELMET!" GX-01 exclaimed.
Amp shook her head as she chuckled, "Dad, c'mon."
"Bee, don't cry, you'll fog up your helmet," said Oum.
"Dang it, I don't care!"
Meanwhile, Agito was speeding towards a large number of Frobots. Agito jumped up as he switched Machine Tornador into its long-board mode. The legend Rider then pressed on the left hip port of his AlteRing Driver, causing the center of the belt to glow blue. Blue winds gusted around Agito, causing the armor to shift and change to a blue and gold color scheme. Agito placed his left hand against the center of the AlteRing, causing it to glow and produce a weapon. Within seconds, a full, double-bladed staff was produced, called the Storm Halberd. Now armed, Agito held out the Storm Halberd as Machine Tornador sped through, allowing Agito to slash through several of the Frobots in one pass through.
The legend Rider performed a backflip off of Machine Tornador, landing on the street as more Frobots began to surround him. Agito began twirling the Storm Halberd around, kicking up a strong whirlwind that buffeted the machines and threw them into the buildings around them. Agito's body glowed as he canceled the Storm Form and pressed on the right hip device. Flames erupted from his body, transforming Agito into his Flame Form, with the center crystal of the AlteRing changing to bright red. Like before, he placed his hand against the device, and pulled out the Flame Saber.
Agito stood still for a moment, his head lowered as he held up his sword. And in the next moment, Agito turned around and slashed the air. But instead of slashing nothing, the air in front of him began to distort, and revealed a Cloakbot, now with a burning gash across its chest. Agito turned around again and slashed, cutting through the air and damaging yet another Cloakbot. The clairvoyance power of Agito, which allowed him to sense the Lords, had evolved into a kind of danger sense, allowing him to know if there was a hostile in the area. And despite the cloaking of the assassin robots, they could not hide from Agito's sixth sense.
Bellona dropped down from Tempest next, landing on the ground with a thud as the asphalt cracked beneath her feet. The flame Rider smirked as she charged in with her Phoenix Wing sword, igniting the blade and slicing through one Frobot after the other. She grabbed one by the arm, torn off the arm, and then beat another Frobot over the head with that same severed arm before she threw a roundhouse kick, sending it flying through the window of a shop.
"BRING IT YOU PILE OF SCRAP METAL!" Bellona bellowed.
The Frobots opened their missile pods and fired a barrage at the red Rider. Bellona switched her sword to her left hand as she used her right to press down on the right hip device. Her entire right arm was now adorned in golden-yellow armor, and in a flash of magenta light, a shield formed around her right forearm. The shield glowed and expanded, transforming into energy as it did. The missiles all landed against the shield, exploding one after the other, with not one hitting Bellona. Once the barrage was over, Bellona had the shield return to normal as she tossed it like a frisbee disk. The shield whistled as it soared through the air and smashed into the heads of different Frobots in a ricochet pattern before the shield disappeared and reappeared on Bellona's arm.
Bellona set her sword on fire again as she slashed the air and released a wide arc of flames at the Frobots, setting them ablaze. Another tanker Frobot appeared and began unleashing cannon shot after cannon shot at Bellona. Thankfully, her Scutum Form had the durability to withstand the assault, but she was going to need a little more kick to take that thing down. After the machine stopped its attack, it switched to two huge, spiked maces on either hand as it stomped towards her to smash her into the pavement. Bellona used this chance as she dismissed her sword and pressed down on the left hip device. The armor on her right arm returned to normal as her left arm's armor changed, creating a huge gauntlet weapon around her left forearm.
Now in Cestus From, Bellona thrusted that same fist towards the sky, igniting the jets that were on the Cestus as they carried her into the air. The tanker Frobot attacked with its right mace hand, intending to crush Bellona in one attack. However, Bellona used the jets on the gauntlet as she spun around to build up momentum before thrusting her fist forward. The Cestus gauntlet crashed into the spiked mace hand of the tanker Frobot, instantly destroying it as pieces of it rained down on the ground. The tanker Frobot's eyes looked angry as it threw its other mace arm at her.
But instead of punching it, Bellona flipped and rolled along the length of its arm before jumping to her feet and used the jets on the Cestus to carry her onto the tanker Frobot's head. Once there, Bellona raised her left arm and smashed her Cestus gauntlet into the head of the tanker Frobot. But then fired the jets on the gauntlet at full burn, launching it off her arm as it burrowed through the giant robot's head until it came out from under the machine. Bellona jumped off the giant tanker Frobot as she flipped through the air and made a three-point landing, striking her right fist against the ground as she held out her left arm, with the Cestus flying back to reattach to that same arm just before the huge robot exploded behind her.
Bellona glared at the Frobots still assembled and asked in a threatening manner, "Who else wants some?!"
Tempest and the Plantars weren't falling behind either. Sprig was sitting on the back of Tempest, sniping at Frobots that were either in the air or on the ground with his Silverbolt slingshot, and hitting them with their supply of boom-shrooms. Tempest released bolts of lightning from her wings as she flew over the ground, destroying several Frobots in one swoop. She dropped low and landed on the ground, allowing Hop Pop to jump down as he knocked the knuckles of his gauntlets against each other.
"Don't think my grandkids are the only ones who can fight!" Hop Pop stated.
The elderly frog raised his fists, getting into a boxer's stance as he squared up with one of the Frobot's. The robot switched its hand out to a bladed weapon and attacked, but Hop Pop used his left gauntlet to block, and with his right, he balled his hand into a fist and smashed it into the groin area of the robot, releasing an electrical discharge that caused the spot he hit to explode. The robot made a strange squealing sound as its robotic eyes now had spirals in them. The machine dropped to its knees, allowing Hop Pop to jump and perform an uppercut, firing off another electrical discharge that boosted the damage of his punch as he took off the robot's head with one swing.
The old frog jumped onto the shoulders of the now headless robot and then vaulted off it as he came down with another punch right into a second Frobot, taking that one's head off as well. Hop Pop rolled along the ground and came up to another robot, this time aiming at its knees, as he made the machine fall onto its back. The patriarch of the Plantar family got on top of the metal soldier and began smashing his fists into it, firing off one lightning discharge after another until the top half of the Frobot was one.
Hop Pop quickly stood atop the machine and thrust his arms into the air as he yelled, "CRY HAVOC! AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
Just as Hop Pop said that a Frobot aimed for him, but Tempest landed behind it and snapped her jaws around it, biting the machine in half as its lower half fell to the ground.
Andrias couldn't believe what he was seeing, there were more Kamen Riders on Earth. He knew of that one other human, but she was, supposedly, trapped in another world. But the newt king couldn't deny what he was seeing, there were four additional Kamen Riders who joined in the fight to oppose them, four that he had no idea about.
"I didn't expect there to be more Riders on this Earth. The fangirl in me is giddy at this, and at the same time, I'm annoyed. It seems Tsukasa, Kamen Rider Decade, made good on his word to oppose us if we threatened the multiverse," said Darcy. "Strangely, though, I don't see him among the combatants."
"Do you want me to join the battle, Master?" Andrias asked.
Darcy looked upon the images of the Riders and Foundation X agents doing battle against their forces. It was a typical, villains and heroes uniting against the bigger bad kind of scenario. While Darcy didn't put it past Foundation X to put aside their dislike of Kamen Riders for the sake of stopping the invasion, she hadn't expected that there would be this many Riders coming to the aid of this Earth.
"Guess we'll have to shift things into the next phase a little early," said Darcy as she snapped her fingers.
A pipe organ rose out of the floor in place of the original control panel. Darcy walked up to the high-tech looking pipe organ as a chair formed behind her. She flipped her cape up and then sat down. Once she did, the dark persona cracked her fingers before getting them into position.
"My lord, are you really going to activate it now?" Andrias asked.
"Andrias, when it comes to games, you should know, you always got to raise the difficulty level. Otherwise, it's not a challenge, right?"
"Yes…and I didn't know you could play the pipe organ."
Darcy chuckled and remarked, "Marcy doesn't, but your great-great-great to the whatever power grandfather does. So, let us play a requiem for our heroes. Shall we?"
The dark persona began to play, creating an ominous melody as the MetamorphRing CORE started to resonate with the instrument. Andrias looked at the monitors as his master continued to play, and it seemed as if the next phase of the attack was about to commence.
A lot of the Frobots ceased their attacks as soon the sound of an ominous pipe organ began to echo through the air. The Masquerade Dopants, along with the Commander Dopant's Troopers watched curiously, trying to figure out what the machines were going to do. The answer came in a moment. Many of the Frobots suddenly began to bleed Dark Ichor from the creases in their armor, consumed by the dark liquid until they were all wrapped up in a black cocoon. The cocoons soon began to crack and shattered apart like glass. When the cocoons were gone, what stood in their places was a new type of Frobot.
The techno-organic monstrosities stood about a head taller than they used to. The Frobots now had the glowing, thirteen eyed symbol of The Night branded upon their chests, their eyes glowed bright crimson as their mouth slits now turned into working mouths, featuring rows of sharp teeth as they grinned manically. They still retained their long spindly arms, but now their fingers were replaced by long claws. Their backs had black feathered wings that flared out and sheened in the sunlight due to their metallic nature.
The tanker Frobots weren't any better, they were still the same height as before, but now they had a significant upgrade to their weaponry. The spiked maces now had beams of solid energy that acted as the spikes. Their cannons now mounted onto a second pair of arms that were attached to their rounded bodies, and many of them sported a crest like that of a rhinoceros beetle. The Cloakbots, like the one before it, looks similar to the last iteration that had become a Fallen. Now, nearly every robot in the invading army had become a Fallen, stronger, and deadlier than they were before.
After their transformation, the Frobot Fallen resumed their attacks with the Masquerade Dopants and Commander Dopant's Troopers. Unlike last time, the Masquerade Dopants were having a much harder time. The Fallen Frobots were stronger, not just in physical strength or firepower, but also more durable. Before, a couple of punches was all that was needed to fell one of the robots, now as Fallen, it took more than that, heck, some of the Masquerade Dopants had to work together to take down at least two of them.
Commander, who had remained mostly out of the fight, growled as he saw his Troopers getting overwhelmed. While their deletion batons were still effective, it seemed that the Fallen transformation allowed them to resist deletion. Normally this would happen in an instant, but now it took ten or more strikes from the batons before they were digitized and deleted. Commander crossed his arms over his chest as he arched his back. Six barrels grew out of his back, and once they were out, the barrels fired off large missiles that angled themselves at the Fallen Frobots.
Multiple explosions went off as the Fallen Frobots were destroyed, at least some of them were, others managed to withstand the barrage and glared at Commander with murderous intent. The Commander Dopant summoned more of his Troopers, and with them at his side, he charged forward to meet the techno-organic monsters head on.
V didn't expect something like this to happen, one minute she was fighting robots, now she was fighting monster robots. Despite this change, she didn't back down. V's attacks were still effective as she tore through one Fallen Frobot after the other, however one of them managed to get behind her and slashed her with its laser blade. Sparks flew off her body as she grunted in pain. But again, she didn't stop. V spun around and drove her spike ridden right shin into the monster's head, taking off its head with one kick.
Another group fired on her with enhanced laser cannons. V quickly jumped out of the line of fire and latched onto the side of a wall. Once there, she identified the ones that shot at her, and vaulted towards them, breaking the wall she was standing on as she launched herself. V came down with an ax kick, caving the head in of a Fallen Frobot before stepping off that one and jumping onto another where she drove both of her forearm blades into it. A Fallen Frobot rose up behind the one she had just stabbed and fired a powerful blast of energy from its enhanced cannon. An explosion went off that sent V flying off for a few seconds before she landed, hard, onto the asphalt.
Many Fallen Frobots were quick to surround her, ready to fire on her. However, a silver streak of light suddenly cut through the techno-organic monsters, and a moment later, they all exploded. V quickly jumped to her feet as she got on guard, but as a couple more tried to attack her, that same silver streak appeared and slashed through them. After they exploded, the one responsible finally revealed herself.
"YOU!" V exclaimed.
"Hey there my little duckie, miss me?" It was Agent Miranda of Foundation X, but now she was the Slash Dopant. "Don't tell me you're having trouble with these tin cans."
"What are you doing here?" V asked.
"As you can see, these things just got a major upgrade. So, the Director thought I should get down here and lend ya a helping hand," she explained.
Just as she said that Cloakbots started to appear around them, now surrounding V and Slash. Both fighters widened their stances as Slash raised her sword arms, and V her forearm blades.
"You expect me to thank you?"
"No, love, I expect you to watch my back. Now, let's have a bloody good time, shall we?!"
The Fallen Cloakbots transformed their arms into glowing energy blades as they began to rush the two. Slash thrust out with her right sword arm, instantly piercing the chest of the first Fallen Cloakbot that dared to get close to her, while V slashed through another. V and Slash spared each other a glance, before the two fluidly switched up as Slash, with the Fallen Cloakbot still skewered on her sword arm, threw her kill into the rest of its allies before slashing with her left sword arm and firing an energy crescent that obliterated it and five others.
V growled with feral ferocity as she slashed and tore through one Fallen Cloakbot after the other. One was about to cut her from behind, but Slash quickly cut that one down. V focused the power of her magi-stone and caused her forearm blades to glow bright yellow, at the same time, Slash's sword arms glowed bright silver. The two shared another glance before they attacked.
The Fallen Cloakbots charged them, but as soon as they did, V and Slash began dancing around each other as they swung their blades through the air, releasing one crescent energy wave after the next. The two continued to maneuver around each other, launching one crescent after the other before they came to a stop, arms held over their chest in an "X" pattern.
"Rider…Slash!"
The Fallen Cloakbots had remained motionless, that is until glowing yellow and silver lines appeared on their bodies, indicating where they had been cut by the crescents. A moment later, explosions set off all around V and Slash in a perfect circle. When the explosions ended, V and Slash stood up and shared another glance, with Slash carefully placing her sword arms against her hips.
"Nice work there," said Slash.
"Still don't like you."
Just then, more of the Fallen Frobots fell out of the sky, with their weapons trained on the Rider and Dopant.
"Ugh," they groaned in unison.
GUNSLINGER-SHOOTINGSTAR
Like the others, Gemini was also having an increased difficult time with the transformed Frobots. The two-in-one Rider fired six streaking energy rounds from their Gunvolver, spun the barrel to reload, and then fired another volley. The Fallen Frobots that where hit exploded upon impact, but others managed to survive their shots and get back up for another fight. Gemini took out the Gunslinger Memory and slotted it into the Gunvolver.
} GUNSLINGER! MAXIMUM DRIVE! {
The barrel of the Gunvolver began to glow with combined green and pink energy that sparkled wildly as it built up.
"SPARKING SHOOT!"
A linear beam of light blasted forth from the Gunvolver. The Fallen Frobots that were out in front of Gemini were immediately destroyed upon contact as one explosion after another lit up the street. Gemini took out the Gaia Memory from the Gunvolver and reinserted it back into the G3M1N1 Driver, however, some rumbling caught their attention.
"Uh, Dip…"
"Yeah…?"
"There's something big behind us isn't there?"
Gemini turned around and saw that one of the Heron Fallen was now behind them. The avian beast screeched loudly at the small Rider before it raised its left foot to stomp on them. Gemini quickly ran out of the way of the foot and went to aim their Gunvolver at it.
"Yeah, this isn't gonna cut it," said Dipper.
Suddenly, the monster's mouth opened, and a high-pitched screeching sound started to be emitted. Particles of light rapidly gathered to its mouth, and Gemini knew what was coming. Before they could act, the teal Heron Fallen fired its sonic ray at the two-in-one Rider, the beam was big enough to cover the whole street, leaving them no room dodge.
DYSTOPIA!
Gemini turned away as the beam was suddenly redirected upwards and away from them. When Gemini looked back, they were surprised to see the Dystopia Dopant. Its body was black with gray pieces of armor. Upon its back was a tattered navy-blue cape, and its face was covered by a mask, with only its right orange eye visible. Once the beam stopped, the Dystopia Dopant dropped to the ground and slammed its palm against it, causing a wave of destruction to erupt as the teal Heron Fallen was blasted away and sent crashing into a skyscraper.
Dystopia turned around, crossing his arms as he looked down at the Rider and asked, "Surely, you're not about to let yourself get beaten by a giant bird monster, are you? Or are you just not taking them seriously?"
Gemini stood up and dusted off their armor as they looked Dystopia in the eye.
"You want serious?" Dipper asked.
"Then let's get serious," said Mabel.
HERO-SHOOTINGSTAR!
After switching back to their default form, a white and gold, "U" shaped Gaia Memory came flying out of the sky. The eyes of Gemini glowed as the G3M1N1 Driver opened on its own and fired two beams of green light straight up. The "U" shaped Memory followed the green lines as it came down and docked with the G3M1N1 Driver, with the Driver itself locking in the new Gaia Memory.
\\\ UNITED! /
Gemini's right and left sides started to glow bright blue and bright pink, as this light was being emitted, a white light was shining from the crack in the divider that ran down the middle of their suit and helmet. Gemini used their right and left hands to grab each side of the divider and pulled at it. The moment they did, the middle section opened, revealing a white crystal-like matrix. Once the middle section had been opened, the light from it shined brighter, obscuring Gemini for a moment. When the light finally faded, Gemini was now in their Final Form.
The pauldrons were now oval shaped and had gold colored "U" decal armor pieces around the front and back. The bracelets and ankle bracelets now had a wing motif, with the wings colored white. On the back of Gemini were six exhaust ports that were in the shape of wings. The helmet had changed as well, now sporting two horns in an upside down "L" shape and two fin protrusions from the corners of the eyes. Gemini held out their right hand, and in a flash of rainbow light appeared their special weapon for this form, the Crysal Zaiber. It was a large, single edged sword. The guard had six ports on either side of it, matching the wing shapes on the back of Gemini, with a seventh port at the pommel of the sword. The blades was made of rainbow crystal that was constantly shifting between different swirling colors, and close to the guard of the sword, the blade curved upwards to give it a kind of ax shape.
Gemini twirled their blade around before stabbing into the asphalt and placing both of their hands on the pommel as butterfly wings that burned with pink, white, and blue colors blazed from the exhaust ports on their back. This was Kamen Rider Gemini: HeroShootingStarUnited.
"Serious enough for you, Keisuke?" they spoke as one.
"Better," Dystopia remarked.
The teal Heron Fallen screeched in rage as it tore itself off the building and gave another threatening screech at the two opponents before it.
"I do believe we're being challenged, let's not disappoint it."
"After you, we insist."
Dystopia rose into the air as Gemini pulled out the Crystal Zaiber and flew into the sky after him. Once they were both at the same altitude, the two enemies charged for the monster.
Amp was smashing her fists repeatedly into a Fallen Frobot before kicking it away. She zipped towards another one, but raised her arms as the machine monster swung its arm and struck her, making Amp skid on her heels before coming to a stop. The second Fallen Frobot created an energy blade from its arm and slashed at her from the left, but Amp quickly sidestepped out of the way, narrowly escaping the attack. However, a third one fired its laser cannon and nailed her in the back, sending the hero flying in the opposite direction before getting clotheslined by a fourth. Amp managed to get to a kneeling position, but that's when Bellona came crash landing next to her.
"Sasha! What happened?!" Amp asked.
Bellona got up and groaned, "One of those overpowered mooks went and grabbed me, took me into the air, and then threw me down here."
An explosion went off behind the two young Riders, and from that explosion they saw Agito flying towards them. Amp and Bellona quickly got to their feet and held out their hands as they managed to catch him before he could fly any further.
Agito got back to his feet and said to the girls, "Thanks for that. This fight took an unexpected turn, didn't it?"
"Now I know why there were very few Fallen while we were in Amphibia. Darcy was saving it all for this invasion," said Bellona.
"She probably didn't plan on using it, but I guess we pushed her into going this far," Amp commented.
A team of Fallen Frobots and Tanker Fallen Frobots started to march down the street towards the three Riders. All of them ready to tear the heroes apart.
"Then let's push back a little harder. What do you say, Anne-kun, Sasha-kun?" Agito asked.
The two young Riders smirked under their helmets as they nodded at the veteran Kamen Rider. At the same time, Amp, Agito, and Bellona pressed down on their hip devices. All three of them shined with different colored lights until the light faded and revealed that all three Riders had entered their Trinity Forms. Agito's Trinity Form had the Flame Form armor on his right arm, the Storm Form armor on his left arm, and the center chest armor remained in the golden Ground Form. Agito placed his right hand against his AlteRing and drew the Flame Saber, and with his left, he drew the Storm Halberd, dual wielding both weapons.
Agito, Amp, and Bellona charged straight for the incoming Fallen Frobots. The Fallen Frobots fired their laser cannons in their direction, but Bellona ran out ahead and raised her Scutum Shield, making it expand into a light shield that blocked the beams as they came. A second and third shield appeared on her right and left, facing upwards. Amp and Agito jumped onto the shield and vaulted off them as they landed right in the middle of the fray.
Amp created two Sting Strikers and began slashing through the Fallen Frobots, charging one end with lightning, while the other was coated in corrosive poison plasma. Agito spun the Storm Halberd around with one hand as he created a whirlwind that picked up some of the Fallen Frobots into the air. Those ones fired their jets and managed to stabilize themselves, only to get sniped out of the air by Bellona's flying Cestus gauntlet. The gauntlet rounded back and reattached to Bellona's arm as she slashed with the Phoenix Wing sword, creating raging flames that were absorbed by the whirlwind of the Storm Halberd, creating a flame tornado around them.
Agito raised his Flame Saber into the air, absorbing the flame tornado. Bellona jumped into the battle and stood beside Agito as both their swords burned with intense flames. Amp jumped into the air just as Agito and Bellona slashed in a wide circle that unleashed bellowing flames in all directions that destroyed many of the Fallen Frobots around them. For the ones that took to the air, Amp united her two Sting Strikers into their shuriken mode and tossed the weapon. The lightning and poison plasma coated throwing star sliced through the Fallen Frobots that were hovering near them, blowing them up upon cutting through them. Amp landed on the ground beside Agito and Bellona, holding out her right hand as the shuriken returned to her before she had it return to her armor.
Three Tanker Fallen Frobots were left among the batch they just defeated, so the three of them decided to take them out together. Bellona's wing frills fanned out, along with Amp's horn crest, and Agito's horn crest. The legend Rider threw his weapons to the side, letting them disappear and return to the storage space within his belt. Bellona did the same with her sword as all three of them widened their stances. The symbols of Amp, Agito, and Bellona appeared in the air before them, and after a moment, all three of them ran, jumped, and then were propelled forward by their power as they passed through their individual symbols.
Before the Tanker Fallen Frobots could even try and defend themselves, all three Riders hit their mark. Blasting through robust chests of the huge techno-organic monsters before coming out the other side and landing on the ground. The first tanker blue up with sparks of lightning, the second with bellowing flames, and the last with a bright flash of light.
"Not bad you two, not bad at all," Agito complemented.
"Thank you, Mr. Tsugami," Amp replied.
"Can't let a veteran Rider catch us slacking, am I right?" Bellona joked.
More of the monster robots came down. The three Riders groaned, but they were far from done.
"Time the next wave," Agito observed.
Bellona moved closer to Amp and whispered, "Hey, Anne, does this feel sorta like…"
"Like one of those Dynasty Warrior games where you just hack and slash through hordes of enemies? Yeah…" Amp spared a glance up at the floating castle. "Feels like something that Marcy might enjoy."
"So, she just sees this as one big game. I can't wait to get up there."
"Be patient, we still need an opening, we're doing great keeping them here, but your moment will present itself Sasha-kun," Agito assured.
The two young Riders nodded before all three of them charged into another battle.
"Okay this has officially gotten a lot worse!" Sprig exclaimed.
After the Frobots had turned into Fallen, it became too dangerous for the two of them to engage in direct combat with them anymore, unfortunately, that didn't stop the Fallen Frobots from engaging with them. Sprig and Hop Pop stayed on Tempest's back as the transformed Kill-a-moth took to protecting them. She flew around the city, using her lightning bolts to either destroy the Fallen Frobots or at best keep them from getting closer to her passengers. Tempest knew how important these frogs were to her caretaker, and she was not about to let them die on her watch.
The three of them kept flying around, taking sharp turns here and there, but the Fallen Frobots were dogging them every inch of the way. Unfortunately, they didn't realize that they were being herded into an ambush. The moment that they turned the next corner, twenty Fallen Frobots were awaiting them. Tempest came to a stop in the air and was about to ascend but saw another twenty flying above them. Hop Pop and Sprig turned their heads to look back and saw that the other twenty that were chasing them had now caught up. They were trapped on either side by tall buildings and were basically now in a kill zone.
"Hop Pop…"
"Be brave boy, we're not licked yet," said Hop Pop, trying to reassure his grandson.
The killer bots all produced laser cannons and took aim at the moth and her passengers, readying rain down death upon them. However, Mr. Littlepot would not be visiting these two today. From out of nowhere, green laser beams rained down on the Fallen Frobots, destroying them on the spot. With their ranks broken, Tempest flew as fast as she could out of the kill box and to a higher altitude to keep their enemies below them.
"What the heck was that?" Sprig asked.
"Ah don't know," Hop Pop confessed.
{SORRY WE'RE LATE, FAM!}
Hop Pop, Tempest, and Sprig watched as a streak of pink and purple zipped around the air before descending. When they saw what had saved them, Hop Pop and Sprig's jaws dropped, even Tempest's mouth gaped.
It was Frobo, but the robot had been given a serious upgrade. His armor was colored in varying shades of pink and purple. With his pauldrons bearing a shooting star logo on them. Upon his back was a flight pack with two wings that fanned out into four panels, which produced blue exhaust flames and released glittering pink sparkles. The primary wing panels at the top each had what appeared to be a cannon holstered into them. Frobo's thighs had black panels on them, for what reason neither frog knew as of this moment. His head now sported a crest with four horns coming out from it, and both his forearms had bracers with two short blades attached to them.
{Gotta little hung up back there, we were taking care of the perimeter, so now those Foundation X freaks should be able to hold the line now that we gave them a breather.}
"Wait, where's Polly, I know I heard her?" Sprig asked.
{In here, bro.} Frobo's chest opened and revealed the little tadpole standing inside. There was a simple control panel inside, upon which her flippers were wrapped around two joysticks that seemed to indicate she was controlling Frobo. "Like the new look?"
"Polly Petunia Plantar…what in the name of Frog did you do to Frobo?!" Hop Pop exclaimed.
"Oh, Allie and Jess really got me into mecha anime. And we workshopped some ideas about what kind of redesign and upgrades we could do for Frobs if we had the tech. And thankfully, Mr. X provided that tech, as well as what I learned after taking apart and looking over some of the Frobots we destroyed back on Amphibia. So, I'd like to introduce you three to the new and improved member of our family, Strike Frobo!" Polly announced.
Frobo struck a pose as he winked at the three.
(Meanwhile, back at SJMS's metal shop classroom…)
Allie and Jess were sprawled out on the floor, panting, and tired.
"That was the quickest build we have ever had to do," said Jess.
"For sure…but…it…was…WORTH IT!" Allie exclaimed.
"So…worth it!" Jess agreed.
Allie and Jess gave a fist bump before knocking out and saying at the same time, "Wake us up when the invasion is over…"
"But…are you controlling him or…?" Sprig questioned.
"Eh, only a little, Frobs is still calling the shots, I just provide additional input here and there, so I am and am not piloting him." Polly turned Frobo around and finally took notice of the Fallen Frobots. "Yeesh, Darcy went all out with the Dark Ichor stuff on these guys huh?"
"Polly, they're a lot stronger now they've been transformed, even the others are havin' some trouble against 'em," Hop Pop warned.
Frobo's chest closed up as his eyes glowed.
{Then it's a good thing backup's here.}
Inside Strike Frobo, Polly's HUD began locking onto the many Fallen Frobots that were littering the skies around them. More had come in, adding to the numbers from before, but that wasn't a problem for Strike Frobo and Polly. Frobo brought its wings into position allowing the cannons on the wings to fold out and point forward, he then transformed his left and right forearms into laser cannons. In addition to this, six panels were released from Frobo's back, and began zipping and floating around him.
{LET'S ROOOOCK!}
Frobo released a few electronic chirping sounds before his wing cannons fired two powerful energy beams. At the same time, his arm cannons, and the Laser Bits that were flying close by unleashed their own barrage. The sky was then littered with a green laser beam barrage that pelted the Fallen Frobots, blasting off their heads, piercing through their chests, severing their limbs, and everything in between. The barrage continued as the sky was lit up with several explosions, one after the other.
Sprig, Tempest, and Hop Pop's jaws dropped for the second time as they just witnessed Polly and Frobo wipe out a whole squadron of the Fallen Frobots on their own. But they weren't done yet.
The Laser Bits returned to Strike Frobo as the wings bellowed out their jet flames. Strike Frobo then zoomed off into the distance as they made their way to help out the others. Polly saw V and Slash still fighting off their horde of Fallen Cloakbots, so the mecha pilot decided to lend them a hand.
{STAY STILL!} Polly yelled to the two below.
V and Slash looked up just in time to watch as Strike Frobo released its Laser Bits again and let the drone-like weapons zip towards the horde. The Bits began firing more green energy beams, raining down destruction from on high. Strike Frobo brought its wing cannons into firing position and strafed its two powerful beams around the Rider and Dopant as a chain explosion went off around them. When that group of Fallen Cloakbots was destroyed, Strike Frobo and Polly immediately headed off to their next targets.
"Uh…Did we just get saved by a Gundam knock off?" Slash asked.
"That depends. What's a Gundam?" V asked.
Slash looked at the Rider and shook her head as she said, "Oh, you poor thing."
Strike Frobo sped straight towards where GX-01 and GX-02 were fighting off their own horde of Fallen Frobots but stopped when they saw the familiar face of Frobo appear before them.
"Hold on, is that…Frobo?" Oum asked.
"Frobo as a super robot!" Bee corrected.
{As expected of a man of culture, Mr. B. Now, let us take care of this for you!}
Strike Frobo opened the palms of its hand, and out popped out two sword hilts. The combat mecha grabbed both of them out of the air as both hilts produced glowing, green beam blades. The Fallen Frobots switched targets and went straight for Strike Frobo and Polly, just like they wanted. Frobo released his Laser Bits as he flew at the incoming dark versions of himself. The first Fallen Frobot brought out its own laser swords and slashed downward. But Strike Frobo raised the left beam sword up, blocking the attack as sparks flew off the two contacting blades. The Fallen Frobot was about to stab Strike Frobo with its left arm blade, but a Laser Bit zipped in and shot one beam, blasting the Fallen Frobot's arm off.
Once disarmed, Strike Frobo stabbed the Fallen Frobo with his right beam sword, and slashed upwards, cutting the dark mecha in half. Strike Frobo zipped towards its next targets that were shooting a barrage of laser fire at him, but the black panels on Strike Frobo's thighs opened, allowing three gold-colored fins to emerge as they released a gold-colored glow. As Strike Frobo flew, he began to zigzag around, and in the process created afterimages of himself that made it hard for the Fallen Frobots to lock onto him.
Strike Frobo closed in on the two that were firing on him and slashed their heads off as he passed by and had the Laser Bits follow up by shooting them from all directions until they blew up. Strike Frobo and Polly kept this up as they slashed and blasted the Fallen Frobots until they were all destroyed.
{Onto the next! Catch ya later, Mr. and Mrs. B!}
Strike Frobo took off once again, this time coming to the aide of Agito, Amp, and Bellona, they were surrounded by Fallen Frobots and tanker types as well. But like before Polly and Strike Frobo descended from the heavens and rained down justice upon the dark techno-organic machines.
Amp, Agito, and Bellona looked upon the robot that had saved their lives, and while Agito was impressed, Amp and Bellona were rendered speechless for a few seconds.
"Holy crap! When Polly said a serious upgrade, she wasn't playing around," said Bellona.
{You know it,} Polly replied.
"Wait, Polly, are you inside Frobo?!" Amp asked.
{It's Strike Frobo, and yes.}
Agito cupped his chin as he commented, "Huh, this reminds of an anime I used to watch for some reason."
The tanker Frobots started to engage as they swung their mace arms. But they weren't any match for the speed of Strike Frobo and his Mirage Fins keeping them from accurately hitting them. Strike Frobo strafed his Laser Bits on one of the Tanker Fallen Frobots, having them rain down continuous fire on the body of that one, while Strike Frobo himself used the wing cannons and his own arm cannons to blast the one in front of them. After a few seconds, the first Tanker Fallen Frobot exploded, and then the second, but unfortunately, they were blindsided by the third as it smashed its mace arm into them, sending the mecha flying through a window and into an office building.
"POLLY!" Amp cried out.
However, Amp's worry was misplaced as the roof of the office building was blown through, allowing Strike Frobo to fly out of it.
{Oh, now I'm mad.}
Strike Frobo's eyes narrowed as it changed its arms back into their normal state. Inside Strike Frobo, the control system began to shift as Polly now stood on her two feet. A green beam of light scanned her for a moment before the words, [Combat Mimic System: Engaged]. Polly took a fighting stance, and Strike Frobo mimicked her movement. That's when Polly raised up her flipper, with Strike Frobo doing the same.
{This hand of ours burns with power! It's flaming grasp tells us to destroy evil!}
The panels on Strike Frobo's chest released a light that created a holographic symbol of Amphibia over its chest. The right hand of Strike Frobo started to glow an angry orange and yellow color as intense heat and energy were gathered around it. The brace armor that was around the forearm shunted forward as the blades on the top of it rose up.
{BURSTING! BLAZING! FINGER!}
Strike Frobo's jets erupted and propelled them forward as they thrust out with their burning right hand and pierced straight into the head of the Tanker Fallen Frobot.
{AND NOW…BURNING END!}
The entire head of the Tanker Frobot started to expand, turning into the same angry orange and yellow color that Strike Frobo's hand was. And in the next moment, the dark machine's entire head exploded sending the rest of its body falling onto the ground with a great thud.
"…"
"…"
"…"
{Yeah, we're awesome like that.}
At that time, Sasha got a call from the earpiece in her helmet.
{Sasha, come in!}
"Yeah, Grime, what's up?"
{We managed to find an opening in the shield, near the northeast jet. That flying machine created enough of an opening for us to get in! You need to hurry up and get here as well!}
"Got it." Bellona looked at Agito and Amp. "They found a way in; I'm going to dip and head up there now."
"Don't worry, we can handle the rest down here. Just get up there, take down the shield, and then we can take down the castle and stop this army at the source," said Amp.
Agito patted Bellona on her pauldron and said, "Good luck, and be safe."
Bellona nodded as she ducked into an alleyway, only for a flash of magenta flames to go off as she rocketed up out of the alley and towards the flying castle, staying slow to the streets to avoid getting seen until she was right under the castle and could find locate the entry point.
Darcy's left eye was twitching as she watched all the goings on through her monitors. Andrias himself was speechless as he had watched the colorful Frobot tear through their forces like wet tissue paper. While they still had a few good many more Frobots left, it was just…a sight to see.
"…A Gundam. They literally have a Gundam now. Beam spamming and everything," said Darcy with contempt.
"I must admit…I reeeeeeally didn't see that coming," said Andrias.
"Ugh! Okay, time to clear the board!"
Darcy switched back to the keyboard control setup and tapped the two Heron Fallen. Upon the monitors, Andrias watched as the two Heron Fallen went to the center of the city, having broken off their engagement with Gemini and the Dystopia Dopant. Upon getting there, the two Heron Fallen's wings began to glow. Just like before, they released a violet tornado that raged all around them. Cars were thrown about, windows were shattered, brick and motor were peeled away, and metal was twisted.
Andrias and Darcy kept a close eye and were pleased to see that the Riders and their allies were thrown in different directions from the super tornado that they had generated.
"Anne, you really didn't need to make it this difficult, but I guess I have to show you why you should've taken my offer sooner. Because now I have to take away a few of your family members," said Darcy.
With a few keystrokes and mouse clicks, Darcy designated the new targets for the two Heron Fallen.
Down in the city below, after the giant power tornado that the two Heron Fallen produced, everyone was scattered about. Thrown through buildings or tossed far from the initial battlefield. There were drones flying about the battlefield as well, but these didn't belong to the invading army nor the Riders or Foundation X. These belonged to the news media. During the battle, special drones were called in to zip into the danger zone to get images and live stream video to the various news stations that the drones were deployed from.
There were helicopters that flew on the outer perimeter of the city, capturing the battle from there and avoiding getting hit by the two Heron Fallen's attacks. Many people were tuning in, watching as the Kamen Riders, and some monster people were fighting against the invading army. Indeed, this battle was being broadcast not just in the US, but around the world.
Mr. X, for his part, was busy coordinating the military response on the ground, while also using his connections in Washington D. C. to keep them from dropping a nuke on the city. As well as having those same people convince the other world superpowers from doing the same thing. He had just watched his team getting blown away, literally, by that tornado, and he and Jenny were looking through the multiple monitors they had set up in their van, hacking into the direct feeds of the drones that were in there to try and get an idea of where everyone was.
"Sasha Waybright looks like she made it into the castle, along with her team. We just have to wait until they can bring down that shield. Now, where is everyone?" Mr. X pondered aloud as he continued to look across the monitors. "GX-01, GX-02, give me a SitRep."
There was no answer.
"GX team, please come in," he called again. "Dammit, is anyone responding, Jenners?"
Jenny glanced over her shoulder and shook her head, she had been hacking the security and traffic cameras around the city, but so far couldn't find the team. They knew that they weren't dead, just scattered from that last attack, but their condition was a different story.
"Oh, Frog, my head's spinning. Frobs, you okay?" Polly asked.
The monitor in front of Polly read, [I am OK.]
"Good, we need to find everyone before something–"
*THUD!*
"…else…"
*THUD!*
Polly had Frobo turn around, and that's when she laid eyes upon the two giant Heron Fallen, glaring down on her and Strike Frobo.
"…happens."
Both Heron Fallen released a threatening screech, and upon hearing it, Polly froze. Somewhere, in the back of her mind, hearing that terrible screech and seeing their imposing forms triggered her memories. She remembered hiding in the basement with her big brother. She remembered the sound of crackling flames, the crashing, the screaming, and the horrible, horrible screeching of the herons as they killed and destroyed just outside. Polly's breath began to quicken as her flippers shook, and Frobo could tell something was wrong.
The teal Heron Fallen attacked first, but instead of counterattacking, Frobo flew as fast as he could away from them. However, the two Heron Fallen were not about to let them escape. Both monsters gave chase as they jumped atop buildings and slashed at the air with their claws. Strike Frobo released his Laser Bits and had them fire at the monsters' eyes, trying to at least blind them to give them some more breathing room. However, their attacks weren't enough to harm them, if anything, it was annoying them.
The purple Heron Fallen opened its mouth and unleashed its sonic ray attack. The ray cut through the top of a couple of buildings, causing them to slant before toppling over and crashing into the streets below. Frobo narrowly dodged them, but part of one of the buildings struck him in the back, throwing him off course as he crashed into the windows of a glass building before coming to a stop inside.
Frobo got to his feet, but just then a long claw smashed through the building and tried to reach for him. Strike Frobo ignited his Assault Wing and flew backwards as he fired multiple shots at the claw, retreating the whole time. That was when the purple Heron Fallen appeared in his retreating path and swiped its claws horizontally through the building, catching Frobo in the process and swatting them out and to the streets below. Again, it wasn't for the armor upgrades, Frobo would be destroyed yet again, but that wasn't his concern right now. Polly wasn't thinking, she was scared and panicked, and right now he couldn't do anything for her with the two monsters hounding him.
Just then, the sound of thunder and a lion's roar could be heard echoing through the air as Tempest flew down out of the sky and used her sharp lightning claws to slash across the eye of the purple Heron Fallen. The creature screeched in pain as it backed up, and when it did, Tempest unleashed a multi lightning bolt attack from her wings, while Sprig readied to shoot his boom-shrooms. However, a single glare from the monster, and both him and Hop Pop froze.
Polly was too young to remember fully, but Sprig saw the monsters just before they were placed in the basement. Those blood red eyes, and screeching, and the screams. His hands began to tremble, making him release his boom-shroom which only sailed over the head of the monster, not even hitting it in the face. Hop Pop's hands were trembling as well, he tried to muster up the courage like he did before to fight these things, but now, they looked even more demonic than they once did, as if they had truly become the monsters that he and the rest of the citizens in Frog Valley saw them as.
Tempest, too, noticed the hesitation of her frog companions, and instead focused her multi lightning bolt attack into two huge lightning bolts that hit the monster right in its eyes. The huge creature was now in pain as it staggered backwards and fell against a building. This allowed Tempest to fly down to Strike Frobo, and once Tempest had, Frobo opened his chest and allowed Polly to come out as she ran into the waiting arms of her family.
"S-Sprig, H-Hop Pop," Polly cried.
"Ah know, Ah know. It'll be alright," Hop Pop tried to assure them. Not sure if he was trying to convince them or himself at this point.
The Heron Fallen duo's eyes regenerated from the damage, shook off their pain, and got back to what they were ordered to do. Kill the Plantar family. Tempest and Strike Frobo got into attack position, resolute in their intent to defend the Plantars with all that they had, even if it meant them dying.
Just as the two Heron Fallen were about to attack, a streak of neon pink zipped back and slashed the teal Heron Fallen across the face, deep enough to draw black blood from the monster. The giant bird monster screeched with pain, but not before two powerful explosions hit it in the back, forcing it to stumble forward, staggering past the Plantars, Tempest, and Strike Frobo, until it fell onto its front a few feet away from them. That same streak of neon pink flew by once again, revealing that it was GX-02.
But she was carrying GX-01, holding him by the forearms as she whipped him forward. The heavy weapons Rider landed on the beak of the monster and whipped out his pistols as the Thunder Cannons and railguns took aim. GX-01 pulled the triggers of his two pistols at the same time as his railguns and Thunder Cannons fired, causing a large explosion to go off right between the eyes of the teal Heron Fallen. The monster screeched with pain as it threw its head back, making GX-01 have to jump into the air as he started to go into freefall. The cannons rotated around and started to release bursts of energy that slowed down his descent until he safely landed on the ground, with GX-02 landing beside him.
Both armored Riders were sparking with neon yellow and pink lightning, which surged across their bodies as the glowing sections of their armor glowed even brighter than usual. But after a couple more seconds, the glow went back to normal, and both Boonchuys slumped a little as they began to pant.
"Mr. B, Mrs. B! What's wrong, are you okay?!" Sprig asked.
"It's okay…Sprig," said GX-02. "We saw how the monsters were attacking you. So, we used the Overdrive System."
"The what now?" Hop Pop inquired.
"Overdrive…System. It doubles everything, our speed, strength, endurance, and stamina, all of it is boosted for one minute," GX-01 explained.
"Downside is…it puts a lot of strain on our bodies."
The Heron Fallen duo recovered from the last attack, and were now getting back up, even more angry than before. GX-01 and GX-02 glanced at each other, and then at the Plantars. They could see how frightened they were, and honestly, they were kind of scared too. They were facing two giant bird monsters, and the others weren't around. But the Plantars did all they could to keep Anne safe from the creatures that roamed Amphibia, at least before she got her powers, and even times after she did. So, now it was their turn to return the favor, and protect them from these creatures.
[Overdrive System: ENGAGE]
[Countdown Initiated: 01:00:00]
The Plantars, Strike Frobo, and Tempest watched as the GXs' armor began to glow brighter again, as neon yellow and neon pink electricity surged around their bodies. GX-02 grabbed her lift hip sword and tossed it to GX-01. At the same time, GX-01 tossed his reloaded pistol over to GX-02. The two armored Riders dashed in different directions, with GX-02 taking to the skies.
GX-01 activated his railguns again, but his HUD told him that his ammo was depleted. Thankfully, he utilized the other function of the railguns. The linear rails released electrical discharges that created a magnetic field, causing pieces of metal to come straight to the railguns. The metal was then tightly compacted until it was the size of a softball, and once formed, were fired right at the legs of the monster. Pieces of the teal Heron Fallen's right leg were blasted away, while GX-01 used the cannons to dash faster towards its left leg.
[Initiating: THUNDERBOLT SLASH]
The pink edge of the sword that GX-01 was given turned neon yellow as that same electrical energy raged around it. GX-01 closed in and slashed through the monster's ankle, creating a large gash that brought the monster to its knees.
GX-02 zipped around in the air like a pink bolt of lightning , making it hard for the purple Heron Fallen to accurately hit her. The flying armored Rider came down with a slash of her Lightning Blade sword, cutting the monster down the left side of its face, creating a long gash through its eye. GX-02 then flew around to the right side and aimed the pistol at that eye.
[Initiating: THUNDERBOLT SHOOT]
Neon pink lightning surged around the pistol before she pulled the trigger multiple times, firing streaking neon pink lightning bullets. They embedded themselves in the eye of the monster, but a moment later, exploded violently. At this point, both Heron Fallen were getting severely annoyed by these small creatures hurting them and blinding them repeatedly. So, they decided to blow them all away once again. But neither GX Rider was about to let that happen a second time.
[Co-Link System: Activated]
GX-02 landed on the top of the purple Heron Fallen's head, and when she did the wings on her back detached, floated in the air, and then shot down towards GX-01. While this was happening, the cannon pack of GX-01 detached, floated in the air, then jetted towards GX-02. The two backpacks flew past each other as they arrived at their destination. With the wings attaching to GX-01, creating neon yellow wings of light, and the cannon pack attaching to GX-02, which now got into firing position.
[Time Remaining: 00:15:20]
[Initiating: THUNDERBOLT BLAST]
[Initiating: THUNDERBOLT CUTTER]
The wings on the back of GX-01 surged with the power of the Thunderbolt and the Overdrive System. They extended further out as GX-01 rapidly ascended into the air, aiming directly for the wings of the teal Heron Fallen.
[Time Remaining: 00:10:05]
Once in the air, the beam wing emitters moved closer, merging the light wings and then widened again, creating two extremely long, crackling wings of neon yellow lighting.
[Time Remaining: 00:07:30]
GX-02 ran towards the back of the monster's head and then jumped down, sliding on her heels and following the arch of the monster's back as the Thunder Cannons primed themselves.
[Time Remaining: 00:05:00]
GX-01 flew straight down and used the two beam wings to slice through the first set of teal Heron Fallen's wings. Simultaneously, GX-02 fired two powerful beams of neon pink lightning from her cannons, shooting the wings of the purple Heron Fallen at their base.
[Time Remaining: 00:04:00]
GX-01 managed to cut through the first pair, and now made it to the second, he had the rest of the power source propel him forward completely intent on cutting off these two birds' main method of attack. GX-02 was right behind her husband as the first two wings of the purple Heron Fallen were blasted off from the base, but she didn't stop the cannons from firing as she burned grooves into the back of the monster until they hit at the base of the second pair of wings.
[Time Remaining: 00:03:00]
Both GX Riders released a loud battle cry as they put everything they had into this attack.
[Time Remaining: 00:02:00]
Finally, the last pair of wings on both Fallen were cut and blown off, with both Fallen's sets of wings crashing to the streets below, where they disintegrated into a pile of black feathers that soon vanished into nothingness. The husband-and-wife Riders escaped from the backs of the monsters, with GX-01 flying over to grab GX-02 to fly her to safety.
[Time Remaining: 00:00:00]
[Overdrive System: DISENGAGE]
Bad timing.
The moment the Overdrive System stopped, GX-01 and GX-02 were immediately wracked with extreme fatigue and aching pain all over their bodies. That was enough for the purple Heron Fallen to use its claw and swat the two Riders out of the air, taking them all the way to the ground where it smashed them into the pavement with its hand.
"MR. AND MRS. BOONCHUY!" The Plantars exclaimed in terror.
The Heron Fallen duo were in pain, their wings were regenerating, but it would take some time before they were fully regrown, but in the meantime, they were going to kill the ones responsible for maiming them. When the purple Heron Fallen removed its hand, it left a hand sized crater in the street, with the GX Riders lying in the center of it. The husband-and-wife team groaned painfully; they hadn't used the Overdrive System back-to-back like that before now. In truth, this was the third time they used it during this whole battle. They used it once to break free from the rubble they were trapped under before coming here, the second was to help the Plantars, and the third time was just now.
"Well…I hurt," said GX-01.
"Same," GX-02. "Can you move…?"
"Heh…Oh, you mean that miraculous thing where your arms and legs do what you tell them to do…? Yeah…no."
"Dear," GX-02 chuckled, "shut up."
"Love you, too."
The two monsters opened their beaks, their sharp teeth showing as they salivated at the mere thought of being able to tear them apart piece by piece and eat them. They wouldn't exactly fill them by any means, but it was still going to be satisfying to hear their bones crunch between their teeth.
The Plantars were watching these events unfold before them, still scared, but that fear was quickly being replaced by something else. Anger. As one the family trio stood tall and walked past Tempest and Strike Frobo. Once they were out front, they called out the Heron Fallen duo.
"HEY, WE'RE NOT AFRAID OF YOU ANYMORE! WE'RE TICKED OFF!" Sprig yelled.
"YOU WON'T TAKE OUR FAMILY AWAY FROM US, NOT AGAIN!" Polly declared.
"Kids, what do you say we teach these monsters some manners?" Hop Pop suggested.
All three members of the Plantar family widened their stances, and as one, they dropped into a crouching position and began the scared Plantar Family Hunting Dance. GX-01 and GX-02 managed to regain some movement and were able to get themselves out of the crater. When they did, they watched as the frog family began doing a strange dance. They were about to go and get them out of harm's way, or at least try to in their current states, but that's when something strange happened.
The two Heron Fallen, instead of going to kill them, were watching them with rapt attention, almost in a hypnotic way. Polly, Sprig, and Hop Pop began smacking their faces into the pavement two times before finally thrusting their left arms in the direction of the two Fallen and snapping their fingers. The moment they did, the two beasts went stark still, as if they had been utterly shutdown.
GX-01 and GX-02 managed to limp their way over to the Plantars, staring up in awe of the fact that the two monsters were no longer hostile, heck, they were barely conscious of what was going on at all.
"What…was…that?!" GX-01 asked.
"The Plantar Family Hunting Dance."
Sprig, Polly, Hop Pop, GX-01, and GX-02 turned around to look behind them. And when they did, that's when they saw Kamen Rider Amp in her Raging Heart: Vengeance Mode and walking beside her was Kamen Rider Agito in his Super Form, Burning Form. Unlike before, Agito's armor was different. His chest plate, pauldrons, and lower leg armor was an angry red color, with cracks that glowed with barely contained flaming energy. The bracers around his forearms were now silver in color and had three curved blades protruding from them. In addition, his hands were now claw tipped at each finger. Agito's helmet had become silver, with a red crest that was in a constant flared position, and yellow compound eyes.
However, as the smoke from the numerous explosions and dust from the debris started to clear, the bright shining sun began to shine through. Agito looked up into the sun, the moment he did, his next form began to engage. The cracks on his red armor plates started to extend and multiply, but instead of flames spewing from them, they emitted a bright shining light. Within seconds, the armor shattered, like an insect breaking from its cocoon, Agito had entered his Final Form. The armor was now a gleaming silver color, with red accents near the collar and on the top portions of the pauldrons. The bracers no longer had the blades but were now smooth and had ancient red writing engraved on them, which now matched the ancient red writing on the greaves. This was Kamen Rider Agito: Shining Form.
"ANNE!" The Plantars and the GXs exclaimed joyfully.
"Mom, Dad, Sprig, Polly, Hop Pop, you've done enough," said Amp.
"Now let us take care of the rest," said Agito.
"Oh, we want in on this, too."
Agito and Amp looked to the sky and watched as Gemini and Dystopia appeared above them.
"Indeed, I don't take getting thrown around like a piece of trash lying down. Especially from an overgrown bird," said Dystopia.
"Then let's hit them while they're still like that. Guys! CLEAR OUT!" Amp ordered.
Strike Frobo and Tempest quickly flew to the Plantars and GXs, with the robot grabbing the Plantars and the GXs getting on Tempest's back. Once the two of them were out of the line of fire, the three Riders and one Dopant readied to destroy the two biggest guns of this invading army.
Gemini had the slots of the Crystal Zaiber face them as they began inserting their Gaia Memories into it.
} HERO! MAXIMUM DRIVE! {
} SHOOTINGSTAR! MAXIMUM DRIVE! {
} DRAGON! MAXIMUM DRIVE! {
} FANTASY! MAXIMUM DRIVE! {
} GUNSLINGER! MAXIMUM DRIVE! {
} BUBBLE! MAXIMUM DRIVE! {
Gemini took out a seventh Gaia Memory, this was a shimmering silver with the stylized letter "Z" in the middle of the device. The two-in-one Rider inserted this Gaia Memory into the seventh and final slot in the pommel of their sword.
} ZENITH! MAXIMUM DRVIE! {
Amp drew out her sword, Saipha, as her crest and blades fanned out, gathering energy as she widened her stance and the symbol of Amp appeared out in front of her. Saipha's blade opened and released a crackling energy blade. Agito placed his hand at the front of the AlteRing, and pulled out ring-like weapon, a moment after getting it in hand, the weapon folded out, revealing itself as a dual sided sword. Agito grabbed the middle of the Shining Caliber with both hands and pulled, separating the weapon into its Twin Mode. The legend Rider widened his stance as well as the symbol of Agito appeared in the form of blue flames out in front of him. Dystopia held out his right hand, and as he did an angry orange sphere of destructive energy formed. When he gripped the ball, the sphere transformed into a sword made of the same power that crackled and raged.
The three Riders and single Dopant, at the same time, dashed and flew for the two Heron Fallen. Amp raised her sword and slashed down vertically, while Agito slashed in an "X" pattern that left a shining streak of silver light. Gemini's Crystal Zaiber released a beam of light that shined like an aurora and released sparkles of white light as they slashed from the right at the same time as Dystopia slashed from the left. The Riders and Dopant appeared on the other side of the two huge beasts, and upon landing on the ground, the two beasts' bodies showed the glowing gashes of their attacks before exploding powerfully in the middle of the city, shattering windows and taking chunks out of the buildings around them.
Amp turned around to see the flaming remains of the monsters they had just defeated, and under her breath she said, "That was for all the lives you took, and for the parents you took from my family."
To say that Darcy was getting a little frustrated was an understatement. She was getting really frustrated. Now their two biggest kaiju-sized Fallen were taken out, and the Plantars remained alive, her little plan had failed.
You focus too much on the girl.
SHUT UP! I can handle this!
Then why do you struggle so much against these lesser beings?
It's not like you all anticipated these additional forces. I don't see you coming up with any countermeasures either.
You had better shape up, or we will seriously have to consider your continued existence amongst us.
While the internal debate between The Core and Darcy was going on, Andrias stood there dumbfounded by what he had just witnessed. Not the fact that the Heron Fallen were destroyed, never mind that. It was what he saw the Plantar family do that gave him pause.
That…That dance…it was…it was just like Leif's! B-But how?! How did…? The realization finally struck Andrias as the pieces fell into place. I see…they…they are your descendants, Leif. Your family. Heh…first Barrel's hammer reappears before me and wielded by a toad and his human who sought to dethrone me. And now…descendants of your bloodline stand against me. A thousand years later, and you still work against me…
"ANDRIAS!" Darcy yelled.
The newt king snapped out of his thoughts and turned to face Darcy, who now glared at him with eyes that glowed with intense anger.
"This has gone on long enough! It's time for you to get off your big blue ass and prove your worth to your father and the rest of The Core! Go down there and take Anne down!" Darcy ordered.
"Wait, my lord, you want me to kill her?" Andrias clarified.
"No, you dolt! We need her alive until we can figure out how to get the power out of her. After that, I can do whatever I want with her. If you have to, break her legs, break her arms, break her, then do it! But not to the point that she's not repairable. Understood?"
Andrias bowed to Darcy and responded, "It will be done, my lord."
As the King of Amphibia headed towards the door, the voice of Darcy made him stop.
"Oh, and Andrias. I have a message from the rest of The Core. If you fail to put this resistance down, you can forget about ever joining your father and the rest of us up here," Darcy stated as she tapped the side of her head.
Andrias sighed heavily as he looked down at the sentry Frobot and said to the machine, "Ready the Dyoplosaurus."
Darcy watched as the doors closed behind Andrias, when she returned her attention to the monitors, she spotted something. The security camera picked up movement in the castle, and when she looked, Darcy smirked. There on the screen was Sasha, Grime, Lady Olivia, and General Yunan.
"Oh, a little sabotage mission, is it? Well, I could use some stress relief."
So far, Sasha and her team managed to avoid detection. With Olivia's help, they were getting closer and closer to the shield generator room. Once that was taken out, they could begin destroying this castle from the inside out, and perhaps bring it down along with the many robot minions that were still housed inside of it. They used a lot of different shortcuts and passages that were, hopefully, still hidden from Darcy and Andrias. After a long search, Olivia brought them before a ladder.
"This should take us to the hall just outside the shield generator room," said Olivia.
Sasha nodded as she tapped her into her super strength and jumped upwards towards the ladder, leaving a pair of two-inch-deep boot prints on the floor. She turned off her powers just as she grabbed the ladder, just so she didn't accidentally crush it. However, as she tried to pull herself up, she felt a tug at her leg.
"Grime, stop yanking on my leg, I'll give you a hand up," said Sasha.
"Uh, I'm not," Grime corrected.
Sasha looked down and realized that Grime really wasn't grabbing onto her leg, but it did feel like something was pulling on it. Suddenly, something wrapped around her neck, choking her for a second before tossing her off the ladder and onto the floor. Everyone looked up to see what had done that, and when they did, a Cloakbot deactivated its camouflage, showing that it was using its claws to cling to the wall just next to the ladder. The assassin robot chuckled mockingly at the intruders, prompting Grime to whip out the Warhammer as he swung to smash it into the machine.
Unfortunately, the Cloakbot turned its camouflage back on, and when Grime struck, the only thing he hit was the wall. As soon as the Cloakbot disappeared, everyone started to get attacked. Yunan extended her gauntlet claws, ready to tear the robot apart, but she was punched repeatedly from different directions, unable to defend.
Olivia was in the same boat, she tried shooting in random directions, being extremely careful not to hit her allies. But that was proving futile as she, too, was assaulted before getting knocked to the ground. Sasha drew her swords and set the blades ablaze to cut through the assassin, but even she was helpless to defend herself against the invisible opponent. Grime kept getting smacked around as well, and the toad warrior was starting to get fed up with this.
"ENOUGH!" Grime yelled as he brought the hammer down.
He smashed Barrel's Warhammer into the floor, the impact of the hit caused a cloud of dust to rise into the air and spread out in front of them. In a matter of seconds, the dust clung to the Cloakbot and made it reveal itself. But unfortunately, it wasn't alone. The reason why they were getting hit from multiple directions was because there was more than one Cloakbot, at least three in total.
"Grrr! Sasha! Go on and get to the shield generator," said Grime.
"No way, now that I can see them, I can–!"
"Don't waste your energy on them," Grime retorted. "You've fought hard already down there, and if we're going to face Darcy, then you can't be too fatigued to fight. So, let us take care of this and save your power for the real fight to come."
"Grime is right, Sasha," Olivia agreed. "Anne is down there waiting for you to bring down this shield so you two can fight together and save Master Marcy and our worlds."
"And besides, I've been itching to fight these things. Haven't gotten to see much action since we were controlled, and I want in on this! So, go!" Yunan ordered.
The magenta glow faded from Sasha's eyes as the swords' flames was snuffed out. The blonde war commander sheathed her weapons before making her way to the ladder, ascending it as quickly as she could.
"Now, come and get some!" Grime yelled as he charged into the fight.
"Shall we, my lady?" Yunan asked with a smirk.
"Yes, let's shall, my dear," Olivia responded.
Sasha had to trust that Grime, Yunan, and Olivia would be alright, and hope that those robots didn't have any Dark Ichor in them. Otherwise, they were dead already. Sasha continued her run through the hallway, and eventually stumbled upon a huge open door with a large machine at the back wall.
"This must be it," said Sasha.
The young teen drew her swords and summoned her power as she prepared to destroy the generator and begin the next phase of this battle. However, that was not going to happen as several mechanical tentacles detached from the wall and lashed out at her. Sasha began slashing through them, leaving trails of embers in the wake of each of her slashes. The tentacles finally stopped attacking, but what came next was much worse. The tentacles in the ceiling parted, and on one of them rode in Darcy. Arms behind her back as she smiled wickedly down at Sasha.
"Sasha, good to see you," said Darcy.
"Wish I could say the same," Sasha snapped.
"Oh, don't be like that." Darcy hopped off the tentacle and looked upon the blonde girl. "You've all been putting up a decent fight, I must say. Which is good, a story of great conquest needs an epic struggle. If it was just us running over you all, it'd be boring as hell."
Sasha raised her left sword and pointed it at Darcy.
"I don't want to hear anything from you. I'm going to get Marcy back, even if it means beating you out of her body!"
"Heh, you really are a brute. Marcy always thought so. But between you and me, she kind of likes it." Darcy chuckled. "Tell me, Sasha, are you more mad about the fact that I'm in Marcy's body? Or because I proposed to Anne before you did?"
Sasha shook her head in confusion as she uttered, "What?!"
Darcy began slowly circling Sasha as she explained, "Oh don't act like you don't know. You're jealous of Marcy. Compared to you and Anne, Marcy has known Anne the longest. And formed a bond with her first. She's always looking after that accident prone nerd, and such things tend to lead to romantic feelings. Which, as it turns out, little Mar-Mar already had. Let's face it, Sash, when it comes down to it, if Anne was given a choice, she'd never choose you."
Sasha's eyes glowed brighter as she gripped her sword tighter.
"You shut your mouth!" Sasha shouted.
"Heh. Hit a nerve there? You know it's true. There's no guarantee that if – and that's a big IF – you manage to win, that she'll stay with you. Such things like this tend to fizzle out after so long. But…" Darcy stopped once she returned to the spot from where she started. The dark persona then held out her right hand towards Sasha. "There is a way to ensure that we all stay together forever. Join me, Sasha. Be mine, just like I want Anne to be mine. And if you do, you can have what you always wanted. A family, one that will never break apart, one that will always be together forever. Don't you want that? You can have it. Just swear to be mine."
Sasha lowered her sword for a moment as he said, "That is a good offer, and you're right, I do want a family. One that will stay together forever. One that won't break apart…"
"See? Then isn't it better if you–"
"But you aren't the other girl I love. She's trapped in there. And you? You're just some twisted version of her. If anything, you sound like me when I was going down a similar dark path. As far as I'm concerned, Darcy, you're the living embodiment of everything I hated about my past self."
A ring of fire appeared around Sasha's waist, transforming into the MetamorphRing TRI Driver.
"And this fight is going to be very therapeutic for me."
Darcy narrowed her eyes as she lowered her hand.
"Fine, I gave you a chance to join in our happiness. But now I'll have to discipline you, and make you heel at my feet like the good dog I'm going to make you into!"
Sasha pressed down on her hip devices at the same time as Darcy. A magenta dome of flames wrapped around Sasha, as a light shined from the center. Darcy was engulfed in a dome of orange and yellow crackling energy, the dome expanding at the same rate as Sasha's. A moment later, both domes shattered, revealing Kamen Rider Bellona Invictus: Burst Gladiator Mode, and Kamen Rider Terminus.
Bellona pressed her hand against the crystal filament of her Driver and drew out her dual sided Hyperion sword. Terminus mimicked Bellona's action as she drew a long pole. The butt of the pole had a shell design with a few spikes coming out of it, and at the top of the staff was an orange eye. The eye suddenly glowed, and a reaper's scythe blade made of pure energy manifested around it. Terminus cracked her neck as she twirled her scythe around and struck a pose before the red Rider.
"Let's rumble, girlfriend."
Now that the Heron Fallen were finally defeated, the battle was going a little more smoothly. However, it was getting more tiring for the Rider team. The Fallen Frobots didn't get tired, and didn't need to rest, so they could keep fighting indefinitely. Compared to everyone else who was at some point going to get exhausted, heck, GX-01 and GX-02 had to rest up after using their power up three times.
"You know, it would be much easier if I could just wipe out the entire city," said Dystopia.
"Yeah, that's not happening," said Gemini.
V and Slash were panting as their arms hung limply, tired from the several mechanoid monstrosities they've had to cut down.
"What's the matter love? Tired?" Slash asked.
"I'm just about to catch my third wind," V retorted.
Meanwhile, the Plantars and Amp had just finished taking out a few of the Fallen Frobots that were on the roof of a skyscraper. Polly had returned inside of Strike Frobo, with Hop Pop and Sprig keeping an eye out. Amp returned to her civilian form, using this chance to catch her breath.
"C'mon Sasha, bring down that shield so can end this," said Anne.
{Uh, Anne, something's happening,} said Polly.
Everyone looked up and watched as the bottom of the castle opened, and from that appeared a huge machine that was flanked by some non-Fallen Frobots. The huge robot dropped onto the roof of one the taller skyscrapers in the city and stood tall and proud for all to see. This new robot had thicker armor than was seen on the other robots, with glowing orange lines that ran around its armor, and a long mechanical tail. Its head was "U" shaped, and had two red glowing eyes, the new robot looked about its surroundings before opening its arms out wide.
{WHAT'S GOOD, PRIMATES!}
"Andrias," Anne whispered with a narrowed gaze.
"Ten coppers says I can snipe him from here," Sprig bet.
The robot's upper half began to open, and when it did, it revealed King Andrias inside of the machine. The robot was not really a robot at all, but rather a high-tech exosuit of armor. The suit was amplifying his voice, allowing anyone within range to hear him. And as he spoke, many of the news copters that were keeping a safe distance away dared to get closer to cover what he was saying, along with some of the news drones.
"I gotta be honest. You've put up a pretty good fight. Totally unexpected. Lots of heroes coming out of the woodwork to protect your little mudball of a primitive planet. And while we can easily wipe out everyone and everything, this is becoming somewhat tedious. So, I'm willing to strike a little bargain."
Anne didn't like where this was going, and neither did any of the Riders or Foundation X people.
"I'll call off this whole invasion, leave Earth be, and go and conquer another world. If, and only if, ANNE BOONCHUY faces me in single combat and manages to defeat me! Or as you all may know her better as…KAMEN RIDER AMP!"
Just out me to the entire world why don't 'cha, thought Anne.
Andrias shrugged his shoulders and continued, "That's it. No gimmicks. No tricks. One life for trillions. Sounds like a good deal to me. And if she doesn't face me. Well then, allow me to give you a demonstration as to why your chances of defeating us are still very, very slim."
Suddenly, the structure at the top of the castle began to transform. Within seconds it resembled a cannon-like weapon, with the longest part of it acting like the hammer of a pistol. The barrel area began to shine and glow as energy was built up, and when the hammer struck, a huge beam of blue light fired from the weapon. That beam sailed into the distance, past the perimeter of the city, and struck the Hollywood sign dead on. A massive explosion took place that engulfed most of the mountain where the sign was located, sending up a mushroom cloud into the air. When the smoke cleared up, everyone gasped when they saw that the blast had burned through the mountain, bisecting it and leaving a gap a few miles wide.
V gasped when she saw the level of destruction the weapon had caused. Realizing that this whole time they could've used this weapon on them.
"Bloody hell…"
"They've had something that powerful this entire time…"
Gemini tightened the grip of their Crystal Zaiber, realizing now that they still had more weapons to use on them.
"That was…unsettling," said Dystopia.
"Ya think?!" Mabel retorted.
"YOU HEAR ME, ANNE! IT'S TIME FOR A REMATCH!" Andrias declared as the Dyoplosaurus armor reformed around him.
Anne took a few steps forward as she stared down his form from her spot on the skyscraper a couple of miles across from them. She doubted he would keep his word, but if he was down here, and if she managed to defeat him, then it would be one less obstacle between them and getting Marcy back. And one more step closer to ending this war and saving both their worlds.
"No, Anne don't do it," Sprig cried out.
"It's a trap for sure, Anne, ya know he won't make good on it," Hop Pop warned.
Frobo's chest opened, allowing Polly to come out as she ran up to Anne.
"Anne, you don't have to fight him alone! We can beat that jerkwad if we all fight him together," said Polly.
Anne reached into her suit pocket and took out the paper for her essay that her principal wanted her to write. The words on the paper, "Who Am I?", which were once so daunting, so scary, now they weren't anymore.
"You know, before I ended up in Amphibia, I didn't care what was right or wrong. I just took the easy path. I let people walk all over me. I think that's because I didn't love myself. It's also the reason, I think, why I both loved being around Sasha and Marcy, and at the same time, why I was also jealous of them. Because they made me feel like someone who had worth, because I thought I was a nobody, that I'd just be nothing and my future wasn't worth caring about because there was nothing special or extraordinary about me."
Sprig walked up to Anne and gently grabbed her hand.
"Anne, you're wrong! You are special and extraordinary! Even before you got powers," said Sprig.
"Thanks, dude. But seriously, all of that changed the moment I met you three. And the months that we spent together have shown me who I really want to be. Someone who is unafraid of the future, and is willing to do the right thing, even if it's hard. You guys showed me what it means to be a hero, what it means to be me." Anne released Sprig's hand and turned her head to look directly in Andrias's direction. "Even if it's a trap, even if he's completely lying about calling off the invasion, I have to do this."
Anne looked down, suddenly feeling her legs embraced. And when she did, she saw Sprig, Hop Pop, and Polly hugging her.
"Then you better give him a Rider Kick right in his big, stupid butt!" Polly exclaimed.
"Heh-heh. Couldn't have said it better myself," said Hop Pop.
"You got this, Anne," Sprig encouraged.
Anne stepped back as she knelt before them and brought all three members of the Plantar family into a group hug.
"Thanks, you guys."
Just then, Frobo came up behind them and got all four of them into a big hug, which nearly broke their spines, but they felt the love all the same. Once Frobo released them, Anne whistled as loudly as she could. In no time at all, Tempest came flying out of the sky and landed on the roof. Anne mounted her mighty steed and Tempest flew her to where Andrias was awaiting her.
Go Anne, we believe in you, thought Sprig.
Anne and Tempest drew closer to the skyscraper. Once close enough, Anne's eyes glowed blue as she jumped off of Tempest's back and landed on the rooftop. She stood up to her full height, staring up at the armored king with no fear in her glowing eyes.
"You called, Andrias?" Anne goaded.
{You know, I think I finally figured out why the stones picked you as their champion, Boonchuy.}
"Oh? Really?" Anne asked as she crossed her arms.
{From the moment you walked into my throne room, I admit, I underestimated you. A scruffy little girl with one shoe and leaves in her hair. Yet, underneath it all, a true warrior. Such a brilliant deception,} said Andrias.
"Tch, look who's talking. You went from jolly Santa Claus to supervillain pretty quick," Anne retorted.
Andrias chuckled as he replied, {Touché. Well then, I think it's only sporting that I give you a chance to give up. No shame in realizing you're outclassed, Anne.}
"Yeah, I seem to recall dragging your face across a mountain the last time we fought," said Anne with a smirk.
{Oh, I haven't forgotten our last encounter. Which is why I brought this to fight.}
Anne looked at the armor up and down before commenting, "Not impressed. I mean, compared to how you looked when you were a Fallen, this is less menacing."
{Oh, Anne, I thought you would've learned by now. Looks can be deceiving.}
"Oh no…don't tell me…"
The Dyoplosaurus armor suddenly began oozing Dark Ichor from the cracks in the armor. Anne took a step back as she watched the entire Dyoplosaurus armor get engulfed in a giant black cocoon. Violet fissures of light began to form along the surface of the cocoon, that's when it shattered apart and revealed the new monster that lurked within.
The new creature stood twice as tall as before. The armored skirt around it now sported the thirteen eyes of The Night, along with the black crown symbol. Its hands, which were once mechanical fingers, were now four long, razor-sharp claws that gleamed in the sunlight, matching the ones on its feet. The tail of the techno-organic monster now had a blade attachment at the end, along with the lines of the armored beast now glowing with greater intensity than before. The armor's head had changed as well. No longer was it a "U" shaped thing, instead it was a full bestial head, with the top row of its sharp teeth sticking out from its upper lip, and two long fangs at the ends. The monster had seven orange and yellow eyes and sported an energy mane coming out of the back of its head.
"Behold, Anne Boonchuy! This is the Mastodonsaurus Fallen, or just Mastondonus Fallen for short. We pooled more Dark Ichor into this armor. It was made to allow me to go toe to toe with you in your Final Form. So, I guess you could say I have achieved my Final Form," said Andrias, his voice echoing from the beast.
Inside, his body had fused with the Dark Ichor, utilizing his own to ensure that the machine did not take him over, but that he controlled it. The Mastondonus Fallen got into a crouching stance as it waited for Anne.
"Now, Anne, do you still want to fight me?"
Anne furrowed her brow as a ring of lightning formed around her waist.
Meanwhile, as this was going on, the rest of LA was watching with bated breath as this young thirteen-year-old girl was standing up against a demonic beast of a monster. The TV anchor on the jumbotrons and television screens said it best.
{It appears the fate of the Earth rests on…a disheveled teenage girl?! We're doomed!}
Mrs. Murphy, who had taken shelter in her home and stockpiled a bunch of essential supplies, spat out her drink as she recognized the girl who was about to fight the demonic looking monster.
"ANNE?! I just wanted you to write an essay! Not fight a hell beast!" Mrs. Murphy shouted.
Maggie had been moved to a shelter for kids that were evacuated from the surrounding schools. Many of them were her fellow classmates, mixed in with other children from the other schools.
She, like everyone else, had been watching the news coverage regarding the battle between the Kamen Riders and the invading robot army. While she didn't really show it, Maggie was a closet fan of the hero, Kamen Rider Amp. So, you can imagine how ecstatic she was when she saw the limited footage of Amp alongside other Riders fighting to protect their homes and world from the evil invaders.
The new drones had lost sight of her hero amidst the chaos of the battle, and she wondered if Amp was alright. But that's when she heard the leader of the invading army call out her name, publicly challenging Anne to a duel, and even outed her as Kamen Rider Amp herself.
"No way…Boob – er – Boonchuy?" Maggie whispered.
"No way this is real!" one of the SJMS students exclaimed.
"Yeah, there's no way that slacker, Boonchuy, is Amp," said another.
"I bet she's working with those invaders, maybe that's why she was gone for so long!"
"Yeah, she probably sold us out, and offered Marcy and Sasha up as a sacrifice or something."
Maggie listened as the kids kept jumping to conclusions regarding Anne's allegiance. She didn't want to believe that. Anne was a lot of things, but even she wouldn't do that to her friends. Plus, she was Amp, the hero of Los Angeles. Her hero.
"She…"
"OH, WOULD YOU GUYS JUST SHUT UP WITH THAT NOISE!" Everyone went silent and parted around Desi and Rico. The former looking particularly peeved off. "I can't stand it anymore!"
"Desi," Rico said.
"No, can't stay quiet now." Desi looked at everyone, making eye contact with as many people as possible. "You're all so quick to make Anne out to be some sorta secret villain or some crap! Just like that! Well, all of you are dead wrong! That girl has been fighting to keep us safe from that evil king and his robots! She, Marcy, and Sasha are both fighting as Kamen Riders to save your sorry asses from getting killed! And all you can do is dunk on her! Tch, I honestly feel sorry for Anne having to do so much for us, and not get an ounce of gratitude for what she's been through!"
"Oh, shut up, Desi, like you know," said a student.
"Actually," Rico retorted, "we do. We accidentally discovered Anne's secret, and she gave us the scoop on what happened to her and her friends. She's going to save our world; she's going to fight that monster because she's willing to put her life on the line for the people she cares about!"
"Anyone else here think they can step up like that? I'm not gonna stand here and pretend like I can do what she's doing. So, unless any of y'all are going to grab a weapon and charge in there to fight back, shut up and hope that Anne can beat this a-hole!" Desi scolded.
That got many of the SJMS students to quiet down, going silent at the chewing out that they were given.
Maggie turned her attention back to her cellphone as she watched Anne widen her stance.
Good luck…Anne.
The MetamorphRing TRI manifested fully onto her waist. Anne concentrated and called to the power deep within her. That's when her entire body erupted with blue light, her eyes shining bright as her hair turned azure, with leaves and branches growing from it. The MetamorphRing TRI's crystal glowed brighter and brighter as the power within built up.
"…Henshin!"
Anne's entire body turned into bright blue light as the Vengeance Mode armor formed around her and latched onto her body. Cracks formed in the armor as it shattered apart, bringing Anne into her Final Form. Kamen Rider Amp Raging Heart: Justice Mode. A flaming blue aura raged from the top of her head as the aura around her body flowed around her, taking on the appearance of a blossoming lotus flower as her energy scarf flowed behind her.
Amp got into her fighting stance as she squared up with the Mastodonus Fallen. The seven eyes of the techno-organic beast glared straight into Amp's glowing blue eyes. An orange and yellow aura ignited around the Fallen as the roof of the skyscraper started to show cracks, crumbling under the sheer power of these two warriors. In the blink of an eye, Amp dashed forward, cocking back her right fist, at the same time, the Mastodonus Fallen balled up its left hand into a fist and punched with it. Amp threw her punch at the same time, and upon contact, a massive explosion of orange-yellow and azure light ignited the roof of the building.
The final battle for the Earth and Amphibia had officially begun…
