"I said I'm sorry." Louise cried as the two siblings made their way back home.
"Yes, but that doesn't make up for the fact you got us into this mess." Saikyo growled. "Let's just hope that Elder Kettle has a solution to this problem."
Elder Kettle was an old kettle that had been taking care of the two girls ever since they wound up here ten years ago with no memory.
He was currently rocking back and fourth on his rocking chair, nearly asleep when his two daughters burst in with twin cries of: "ELDER KETTLE!"
The old man woke up in fright. "Saikyo! Louse! Where were you two and what in blazes is going on?!" He barked with steam flying out of his spout/nose.
"Elder Kettle, we need your help!" Louise yelped.
A quick explanation of Louise's colossal screw up followed.
Kelder Kettle looked crossed and concerned. "What a fine pickle you have gotten yourselves into." He scolded.
"I get it. I messed up, no need to rub it in." Louise looked to the side. "Saikyo's been doing that that whole journey back." She whispered.
"I know you don't wish to be pawns of the Great Leader." Elder Kettle confirmed. "But if you refuse, I can't bear to imagine your fates."
Both girls shook in fear imagining their heads being served up to the Great Leader on a silver platter.
"You must play along for now, collect those people." The old teapot ordered. "And you best be ready for some nasty business."
"Why's that?" Louise asked. "We're both great fighters."
"And look where that got us." Saikyo snarled. "And unlike us, these people got away!"
"Exactly." Elder Kettle nodded. "Your debtor friends won't be friendly when you run into them. They won't hand over their contracts without a fight and will likely turn into horrible monsters."
"We better get started." Saikyo started out the door, dragging Louise along with her. "See you later Elder Kettle, hopefully."
"You don't sound too confident there." Louise said as the two walked down the path.
"I'm not." Saikyo deadpanned.
They followed the path around some trees and then walked over a bridge.
Sitting on one of the bridge's support posts was a person that looked like a man crossed with an apple.
"Hey ladies. Looks like you've bitten off more than you can chew now, eh?" He said in a squeaky voice.
Saikyo sighed. "Don't tell me about it, Mac."
"I used to be the same way." Mac continued. "Always getting into trouble. Running, gunning and jumping all over the place. But now I prefer strolling around and going to the pictures."
"Good for you. Do you have any idea where the root pack is?" Louise questioned.
"Down there." Mack pointed down to a giant vegetable garden.
"Thanks." The two walked off.
After a few minutes of walking, they were inside the garden.
"Eww, not vegetables, anything but that!" Louise whined.
"Louise, one day or another, you're going to have to eat your greens." Saikyo lectured.
"She's right about that." A voice said.
Out of the ground popped three people. Each had the silhouette of a human female combined with a plant.
The first was a female crossed with an onion.
The second was crossed with a potato.
And the third was combined with a carrot.
"Oh no, I think we scared them!" Moaned the potato.
"Oh relax Weepy." The Carrot human said in an australian accent. "This is probably the first time they've seen large greens. How are you doing fellas?"
Saikyo pulled out the list. "Are you lot the root pack?"
"That's us. This is Moe Tato, Weepy and I'm Psycarrot." The carrot leader replied.
"So, what did you two come here for? Care for some freshly picked veggies?" Weepy offered.
"Vegetables picking vegetables, there's a pun in there somewhere." Louise muttered.
"Sorry you lot, but we're here to enslave you to the Great Leader." Saikyo explained.
"WHAT!?" All three shouted.
"Now listen, we don't want to hurt you but-" Louise began before she was cut off harshly.
"Let me guess." Began Psycarrot. "You made a deal with the Great Leader. Well sorry, but we're not going to be mind controlled by her without a fight!" All three of the root pack burrowed underground.
Good day for a swell battle!
You're up!
"So much for resolving this peacefully." Louise sighed.
"Welp, looks like we're going to have to fight them! Come on!" Saikyo reached behind her back, pulling out the Decade Driver and slapped it around her waist.
DECADE DRIVER!
She used both hands to pull the driver's handles away, causing the main body to spin up. Saikyo drew the Fool Ride Card from her pocket dimension "Henshin!" She flipped it around so the back was facing forwards before loading it into her driver.
KAMEN RIDE!
The Kamen Rider Setting appeared in front of the driver as Saikyo pushed the handles. The driver returned to its horizontal position.
THE FOOL!
The Kamen Rider Setting transformed into the Fool Setting before being pulled back into the driver. The twenty circles appeared around Saikyo before transforming into their armored gray hologram forms and merging with Saikyo. She had transformed into Kamen Rider Arcana, Fool Rider.
Louise reached behind her back and pulled out the Fuse Driver. She slapped it to her waist, causing its belts to shoot out and lock it in place.
FUSE DRIVER!
She drew the Behemoth Rider Card, holding it between her right thumb and index finger. "Henshin!" She swung it through her driver's scanner.
BEHEMOTH!
The driver's light displayed the Behemoth Setting before she used her left thumb to tap the middle button.
SCAN TWO GO!
The Fuse Driver projected a hologram of the Behemoth Setting that spun into a pitch black holographic suit of armor that shot backwards, turning into solid matter around Louise. She had transformed into Kamen Rider Endbringer, Behemoth Rider.
"Buttered, smashed and mashed! It's over for you!" Moe Tato taunted as she burst from the ground.
She threw a right hook at Endbringer's face. The Kamen Rider blocked with her right arm, pulling out an Attack Ride Card.
It was identical to the Fire Burst Attack Ride Card. Only the right side of the top line displayed the words 'LIGHTNING FORK' in white. The main image was of red lightning.
She tapped her driver's top button with her right thumb.
ATTACK RIDE!
Leaning back to avoid another punch, Endbringer slashed the Lightning Fork Attack Rider Card through her driver's scanner.
LIGHTNING FORK!
The driver's light displayed red lightning before returning to the Behemoth Setting. She crossed her arms, blocking another punch and then sent a blast of bright red lightning through the potato woman.
Only for it to do nothing and she got a punch across the faceplate. Arcana pulled open her driver and drew a new Attack Ride Card. It was identical to the other Attack Rider Cards, but the right side of the top line displayed the words 'WILD IMPACT' and the main image was of a black dog with red eyes slamming a paw onto the ground. She tossed the card into the driver.
ATTACK RIDE!
The word 'ATTACK RIDE' appeared in front of the driver as a bright red hologram. This is the attack ride setting.
Arcana closed her driver, causing the words to float up to the top of the driver. The words 'MASKED RIDER FOOL' appeared under the attack ride setting in white, with the word FOOL being bigger. This is the fool attack ride setting.
The fool logo appeared in front of the driver in red. Floating in front of its right side was the word 'FOOL' in white and in front of the left side was the word 'WILD IMPACT' in slightly bigger white letters. This is the fool wild impact setting. Arcana closed her driver.
WILD IMPACT!
The setting was pulled back into the Decade Driver as she ran forwards and threw a left spinning kick. Moe Tato blocked with her right arm and threw said arm out to the side, forcing the Kamen Rider away.
Arcana recovered and hopped into the air, spinning and coming down with an ax kick from her left leg. The potato woman crossed her arms over her head, blocking the kick. Only for Endbringer to close the distance and punch her in the stomach with a fist coated in red lightning. The woman screamed in pain as she stomped the ground, firing out a shockwave that flung both Kamen Riders away. She punched forwards, firing two clumps of mud and rock, one at each Rider. Arcana flipped so her body was horizontal and swung her left leg down after spinning, smashing the mud ball aimed at her to pieces.
Endbringer fired a blast of red lightning from her left hand, only for the dirt and rocks to absorb it, making the attack twice as deadly. It impacted her breastplate and she was thrown off her feet. "Louise!" Arcana shouted as her sister crashed into the fence. She turned back to the potato woman, just in time to see her punch the ground. A worm burst from the floor near Arcana's feet and wrapped around her. "What the heck?! Get off!" Moe Tato stomped forwards as earth brown light gathered around her left arm. She threw a left hook that impacted Arcana's breastplate and sent her flying back. She bounced along the ground twice before landing in a field of carrots with her armor fading.
"Saikyo!" Endbringer shouted as she got back to her boots. "That tears it!" She pulled out a new Kamen Rider Card. It was identical to the rest of them but the logo on the right side of the bottom line was four white oval shaped eyes over a black wave, which was also shown on the back of the card in inverted colors. The right side of the top line displayed the word 'LEVIATHAN' in white text and the main image was of a dark green helmet with four bright blue oval shaped visors, three in a vertical line on the left side and one on the right side. The mouth guard was bright green and the top of the helmet had a sea green shark fin coming out of it.
This is the Leviathan Rider Card.
She swiped it through her driver's scanner.
LEVIATHAN!
The Fise Driver's screen displayed a sea green wave with a sea blue shark swimming through it. This is the Leviathan Setting. She tapped her driver's middle button with her right thumb.
SCAN TWO GO!
The driver projected a sea blue hologram of the leviathan setting which spun into a holographic suit of armor. The suit flew back and merged with Endbringer, overwriting her current suit.
Now she wore sea green armor that covered the lower half of her legs. A thin sea blue line led up the center of her legs and to a sea green circle-shaped knee guard with a sea blue outline. Around her chest was a chestplate that was connected to a water blue backplate. The part under her arms and over her lower ribs were colored sea blue. In the center of her breastplate was a water blue stone that was shaped as a vertical rectangle. The middle of the part that covered her lower ribs was made from three sea green horizontal lines and a sea green square covered each over her breasts. Her shoulders were coated by water blue shoulder pauldrons that were oval shaped. Running along the front and back of them was a sea blue line that curved into an upwards pointing spike. Wrapped around each lower arm was a sea green arm guard with a sea blue line running down the inside of it. Her head was coated by a water blue helmet with a sea blue mouthguard made of three overlapping segments. Her eyes wer covered by four ocean blue oval shaped visors, three on the left and one on the right. Coming from the top of the helmet was a sea green shark fin. Emerging from the back of her backplate was a sea green whip shaped tail. Everything that was not covered by the above items was coated in water blue mesh.
She was now Kamen Rider Fuse, Leviathan Rider.
She drew another Attack Ride Card. Its bottom line circle displayed the leviathan logo. The right side of the top line showed the words 'WATER ECHO' and the main image was of three leviathan riders made of water.
Endbringer tapped her driver's top button with her left hand.
ATTACK RIDE!
She swiped the card through the Fuse Driver's scanner.
WATER ECHO!
The driver's screen displayed the water echo image for a second before turning back to the leviathan setting. She shot forwards, far faster than she could in the Behemoth Rider and punched Moe Tato in the face before she could react. The monster flew backwards as an aura of water appeared around Endbringer and shot off her. It impacted Moe Tato and hurled her further backwards, sending her crashing into a fence. Endbringer leapt into the air and cupped her hands. A ball of water appeared in front of them and shot down at the potato woman. Moe looked up, just in time for the orb to hit her.
As Moe Tato was drilled into the ground by the water orb, Endbringer pulled out a new Final Attack Ride Card. It was identical to the others but on the right side of the top box was the word 'LEVIATHAN' and in the center of it was the leviathan logo in gold, which was also printed on the back. She slashed it through the Fuse Driver's scanner.
FINAL ATTACK RIDE!
The driver's screen changed to the leviathan logo as she struck the top button with her left fist.
LEVIATHAN!
The sky darkened above Moe Tato. "DOWNPOUR BOMBARDMENT!" Moe Tato had just enough time to look up before the clouds empty their bowels. The rain pelted her like little spears, badly damaging her. There was an explosion and she was knocked out.
A knock out!
To be continued!