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AN: Here it is! My fic KR Raika – Conquest. Now, I originally planned to have like this, but for some reason, I decided to scrap the idea at the last minute and go with something else. Still, I think I should show you what I had, since I was making such a big deal about it. Enjoy.
Summary: A mysterious Rider has taken over one of the Kamen Rider worlds. Now it's up to Raika and the other Riders to defeat this new foe and take that world back! Please R&R!
There are many worlds out in all creation; some very similar to other, while others can be the exact opposite. Amongst the worlds are the worlds of the Kamen Rider whose worlds have been told through stories that narrate their fight against evil. Despite all of the stories told, there are other Rider out there amongst the Multiverses. Riders whose stories have not been told, yet continue their struggle to triumph for good.
However, there are stories who have been discarded, and left incomplete. The thought may seem impossible, but it is and it aggravating to the Rider of a discarded story. So much that the said Rider will do anything to get back at the one responsible.
This story centers on one of them...
Neo-Córdoba: the setting for a story of another Kamen Rider who fought evil. The city itself was in the center of a grassy terrain with hills surrounding it. Much like the medieval Córdoba of Moorish Spain, it was once a place of knowledge and power, where the ruler maintained his rule over the people.
However, that image was replaced with a Neo-Córdoba that was nothing more than an abandoned ghost town. The moon reflected off of the metallic streets and walls of the city, and the tall buildings that were filled with technology were now empty shells with some rust on them, much like the cube-shaped building that once housed dozens of families. In the center of the city was a large, white palace with a golden dome on a roof supported by large pillars. The life that once filled the city were now replaced by what appeared to be dozens of silver robots.
Each robot had large plates of armor on it entire body, and they were all equipped with a blaster on their left arm and a blade on their right. These patrolled the streets of the futuristic medieval city and there were also some that guarded the long white wall that protected the city from any invaders. There were a few at the palace to guard whoever was inside.
As the robots carried on their normal duties, they were not aware of being watched by a white armored figure from miles away on top of a large hill. That figure was none other than the armored form of Kamen Rider Lock, who stood right next to his counterpart named Kamen Rider Arch. The two Riders would have been seen as identical twins due to the similarities in their armor, but Lock's red visor seemed more demonic due to the fangs, while Arch had a simple red visor. "Anything?" Arch asked Lock.
Lock removed his visor from the city of Neo-Córdoba to Arch and shook his head. "Nothing."
Arch sighed in a little irritation. "Raika's getting a little anxious."
"Well, he's going to have to wait," Lock told Arch as he brought his visor back to city. "If he gets upset, that's his own problem."
"Maybe he wouldn't be like this if we told him about what happened sooner," Arch reasoned.
When he said those words, Lock remembered that day when he and the others told Raika the bad news. A month ago, a mysterious Rider taken over the city of Neo-Córdoba with silver robots as his grunt soldiers. The Rider was inside the city, yet remained unidentifiable to the other Riders. At first, Arca, Sage, Lock, and Arch tried to take back Neo-Córdoba themselves with little to no success, so they eventually told Raika the situation. After they told him, Raika was little more than irritated at the fact that such knowledge was kept from him.
Lock sighed. "You're right about that. Still, we can't afford to mess up."
Before Arch could say anything else, he and Lock heard footsteps coming from behind, so they turned around to see the familiar black armored form of Kamen Rider Sage walking towards them. One aspect that made Arch and Lock curious was the black fedora hat Sage wore. "What is it, Sage?" Arch asked.
"Raika just arrived. He wants to see us at the tent," he informed them.
Removing his visor from Neo-Córdoba, Lock nodded at Sage. "Alright, we'll be coming," he told Sage.
The three Riders then headed towards a nearby tent at the peak of the hill. The tent was held up by a four large poles and it seemed to be so large that it could fit about ten people. Inside the tent was a large table with a map of the city of Neo-Córdoba inside to plan strategic attacks. At the entrance of the tent was Sage's own counterpart, the white armored Rider known as Arca, who did not wear a hat like Sage did. "Where's Raika?" Arch asked.
"He's inside the tent," Arca answered.
The Riders entered the tent expected to see Raika standing at the table, but their eyes widen in surprise at his armored form for it was different than usual. For one Raika wore a black belt with a case on the right side as well as a buckle that had a golden crystal in the center and a slot at the top. However, that was not the only thing different as the Riders continued to stare at him. "Raika, what did you do to your armor?" Lock asked.
"Well seeing how we're fighting a new enemy, I thought it needed an upgrade," Raika stated as he showed his armored form.
Raika wore a white sweatshirt and black pants under a breastplate covered in dark red. He also wore dark red elbow-length gloves and knee-high boots, both of them metallic. Raika still wore a white hood along with a dark red visor and white mask. "What do you think?" he asked.
"It's fine, I guess," Arch shrugged.
Raika simply shrugged at that as well before he leaned on the table. "Alright, I brought you here to let you know the army assembled," he announced. "We can now take back this world."
Everyone nodded with gleaming anticipation, except for Lock, who interjected, "But wait, where is this army?"
The other Riders' anticipation left them when Lock brought up that question as they looked at Raika with curiosity. "It's outside," Raika answered, his visor now focused on the map.
Curious, the other Riders looked outside of the tent and at the other side of the hill. Their eyes widen to see a full army of golden robotic humanoids, very similar to the cybernetic androids of those inside Neo-Córdoba. The army of what seemed to be a few thousands waited at the base of the large hill to prevent any of the silver robots from detecting them. "That's a lot of robots," Arca whistled in amazement. "How many are there?"
"I'd say about 3000 robots," Arch guessed. "Same amount as those inside the city."
"Yeah, guys!" Raika called out to them, making the other Riders turn to face him. "I brought the army here, so I'm wondering when would be the best time to attack."
"Attacking now would be too premature," Sage stated. "We don't know our army's strengths and we would be rushing to make a plan."
"I agree," Lock nodded as he walked towards the map on the table with the Riders looking at him with curious looks. "There are multiple hills surrounding the city. The robots can hide there and reserve their energy for a day or two. That way, our enemy doesn't know our numbers and we can have time to make a plan where they can hide."
"Sounds fine to me," Arch nodded before looking at Raika. "How about you, Raika?"
Raika nodded. "Yeah, it's fine."
"Alright, then," Lock announced as he looked at Arca, Arch, and Sage. "You three, get the army to those hills without any detection. Lock and I will try to make a plan."
The three Riders nodded as they left to take of their army of robots, leaving Lock and Raika alone in the tent. While Lock checked the map to see if he could formulate a plan, Raika was deep in his thoughts, wondering about the one holding the city of Neo-Córdoba. As he did, Lock shifted his eyes towards Raika for a moment, knowing the Rider was hiding something, but whatever it was, it would have to wait.
Soon, night turned into day as the sun now replaced the moon in the now blue sky over Neo-Córdoba. The army of golden robots stood some miles away from the walls that that surrounded Neo-Córdoba with Arch, Arca, and Sage in the front to lead them. Meanwhile, the remaining two Riders, Raika and Lock remained behind at the tent to observe the outcome of this confrontation. The only ones standing with them were a dozen golden robots, who were standing behind the hill that the tent was placed on.
"Do you think this plan of yours will work?" Raika asked Lock as he turned his head towards him. "I know you and the guys went over it for hours last night, but will it really work?"
Lock turned his head towards Raika and replied, "It has to work. Arca, Arch, and Sage can attack directly from the front, while we get inside the city through the wester wall. We let them in, and while the others are fighting the robots, we can take care of this Rider."
Raika nodded, seeing there was a possibility of the success, but still was cautious about their chance of failing as well. "And if this plan doesn't work?" Raika questioned.
"Then, we can always fight them," was Lock response as he took out his sword. "Best get your weapons out, just in case."
Sighing, Raika simply reached for his belt and unhooked an object from it, making Lock look at the object to see it was a black Gaia Memory with a stylized 'B' on it. When Raika pressed the button on it, it announced, "BLASTER!"
Lock watched with wide eyes underneath his red visor as the Memory, which he could identify as the Blaster Memory, in Raika's hand immediately took the form of a two-foot-long blaster. The blaster had a glowing, yellow rod for a barrel that was placed in a casing that had sharp blades on the bottom, making it looked like a harpoon. "Interesting, a Gaia Memory that can turn into a weapon," Lock mused before looking at Raika. "What else do you have?"
To answer Lock's question, Raika drew out two more objects from his belt; a card with the words of "HYPER CLOCK UP" on it, while the other was a black, cylindrical sword hilt. "A Hyper Clock Up card and laser sword," Raika answered with respective to the weapons in his hand.
Raika's response made the other Rider look at him with an incredulous look. "That's it?" Lock questioned. "I thought you would have something more powerful with you."
Before Raika could comment on that, the two heard the sounds of metal pounding against the ground and blaster bolts scorching the air. The sound of battle made both Raika and Lock whip their armored heads around to see Arch, Arca, and Sage leading their forces towards the wall of Neo-Córdoba. "They've begun the attack," Lock stated. "Can you see what's happening?"
After putting away his laser sword hilt and his Hyper Clock Up card, Raika peered his golden visor at the invading forces of the golden robot army. "Yeah," Raika nodded.
The two Riders could see the other three lead their forces of golden robots towards the wall that separated them form the city of Neo-Córdoba. They could see blue blaster bolts firing across the air to strike the wall or the silver robots guarding it, but it did not come without a cost for the silver robots retaliated, firing their own blue bolts at the golden robotic army, striking down some of them. Fortunately, the three leading Riders were not affected by the blaster bolts, since they were able to either block or dodge them as they charged at the wall.
"Let's go," Lock told Raika as he left the hill.
When seeing Lock leave, Raika immediately rushed to catch up to him with the golden robots following Raika to their destination.
Blaster bolts soared through the air as they tried to hit their respective targets of either silver or golden robots. Those that were struck by the blaster bolts were destroyed as their mechanical bodies died and fell to the ground to be crushed by the other marching robots. The walls were bombarded by the blaster bolts from the golden robotic army as well as energy attacks from the Riders known as Arca and Sage. Most of the golden robotic soldiers charged towards the walls in hopes of climbing it, while the rest did their best to to destroy the wall that blocked their path of reaching the city of Neo-Córdoba.
Amidst the chaos of battle was Arch who used his sword to deflect the blaster bolts coming from the silver robots under the current holder of Neo-Córdoba. Some of the blaster bolts were sent back at the silver robots, destroying them, while other bolts struck some of the golden robots climbing the wall. "We got to hold them!" Arch shouted over the sound of battle. "Lock and Raika should be inside!"
"That may take some time!" was Arca's response as a white energy ball appeared in his hand. "We can't hold them for much longer!"
Turning his attention back to the battle, Arca fired a white energy ball at the silver robots. The energy ball struck the battle mounts that a couple of the silver robots were placed upon were sent flying through the air and exploded. As for Arca's counterpart, Sage climbed up the wall on one of the ladders that was used to climb it, doing his best to avoid any blaster bolts from the silver robots. When he reached the top of the battle mounts, Sage first turned his attention to the silver robots as he slashed his black energy blade at them. One by one, the silver robots on the battle mounts fell to Sage as he continued his attack.
After finishing off the last of the silver robots, Sage thought he heard an explosion, so he whirled his head around towards the eastern wall to see a large hole in the lower bit of the wall with smoke coming out of it. Sage recognized what was going on and he knew who was responsible for that. "It's Raika and Lock," Sage recognized before he looked over the wall down upon Arch and Arca. "They've broken through!"
Hearing that brought Arch and Arca's morale up as they soon began climbing the white wall surrounding Neo-Córdoba to catch up with Lock. Arca and Arch used their blades to deflect any blaster bolts, yet it seemed Arca was quicker as he sprawled up the ladder with Arch following behind him. "C'mon!" Arca shouted to Arch.
Arch just tried to increase his speed to catch up with Arca, hoping Lock and Raika were succeeding in infiltrating the city.
At the eastern wall, a group of silver platted robots arrived at the scene with blades and blasters coming out of their arms, ready to fight whoever was coming through. However, bolts, and energy bullets flew from the other side of the hole, striking the silver robots down as Raika and Lock ran into Neo-Córdoba with a dozen golden robots behind them. The smoke from the battle did well to cover their appearance from the sight of those guarding the wall.
Turning his head towards Raika, Lock said, "We've got to head towards the palace. There, we can take control of the city and destroy the enemy."
Raika nodded. "Alright. Let's go."
The two Riders headed immediately through the black-paved streets of Neo-Córdoba, passing through the many skyscrapers and buildings. However, the two stopped their run when they noticed that a couple of the golden robots in their group suddenly exploded into scrap metal. Metallic limbs and circuits flew all over as Raika, Lock, and the remaining robots were blinded by the smoke that covered the entire. The entire group halted their progress within the city as they attempted to regroup and try to find this mysterious attacker. "What was that?" Raika demanded.
Raika received his answer when a voice spoke, "That was me."
The Riders and the golden robots turned their heads to see an armored form walking through the cloud of dust that covered the vicinity. When the figure walked out of the settling dust and into the open, the two knew what was standing before them. "A Rider," Lock recognized.
The Rider wore a black bodysuit underneath his blue chest plate that had had the image of a cricket etched in the center. He wore round shoulder guards, and on his gauntlets and boots were small blades. His round helmet had a black stripe going down the center, stopped at the silver mouth guard, and a pair of antennae. Around his waist was a silver belt with a blue case inside of his rectangular buckle. The Rider's dark blue lenses was focused on the Rider known as Raika, who he snarled at. "Hello, Raika."
Underneath his visor, Raika's eyes widen as he recognized who was standing before them. "Cobalt," Raika identified, his voice a little shocked.
Surprise that Raika knew this Rider, Lock looked at him and asked, "You know him?"
Lock's question was only met with silence from Raika, so Cobalt decided to take it upon himself to answer it. "He knows me, alright. I was once a Rider apart of a story Raika gave up. Ever since then, I've been building my army and I've decided to take over this world to establish a base here," Cobalt explained before looking at Raika. " Then again, you knew that didn't you Raika?"
Again, Lock looked at Raika with surprise under his visor and mask, but Raika ignored his fellow Rider and nodded. "Yeah I did."
Lock raised an eyebrow underneath his visor. "For how long?" Lock inquired.
Again, Cobalt answered for the Rider standing next to Lock. "Ever since he found those designs in an old Dai Shocker base," Cobalt explained. "The same place where I got my army of robots."
Raika just stood there, finding himself under the gaze of not only Cobalt, but Lock as well as the Rider just stared at him in shock at the secret he kept hidden. However, Lock understood as to why: Raika though this knowledge this knowledge would only make the other Riders hate him, so he kept it a secret. Before Lock could say anything, both he and Raika saw a group of silver robots flanking Cobalt on either side. "Get them," Cobalt ordered his robots.
With that the silver robots charged at Raika and Lock to annihilate them, while Cobalt turned around to leave the area, confident his minions will complete their task. Raika raised his blaster and fired energy bolt that struck some of the oncoming silver robots as Lock and the other golden robots prepared. When the two opposing forces met, Lock and the golden robots used their bladed weapons to slash at the silver robots, while Raika fired his blaster at them.
As the golden robots clashed with their silver counterparts, the two Riders tried to get out of this mess, using their weapons to strike those that got in the way. The closer silver robots fell to Lock's sword, while Raika fired his blaster at the farther one. "We can't keep this up for long!" Lock shouted to Raika as he slashed at a silver robot. "Head towards the palace! That's where Cobalt should be!"
Taken surprise by Lock's command, Raika asked "Are you sure?"
The moment of surprise distracted Raika as he felt one of the silver robots slashing its blade against his armored chest plate, forcing him back. As Raika recovered from the strike Lock immediately went to Raika's assist, destroying the silver robot by slashing it in half. After eliminating the robot, Lock turned his towards Raika and said "I'll take care of this here! You just get to Cobalt!"
Reluctantly, Raika nodded and ran away from the fighting between Lock's group and the silver robots, heading towards the palace. As Raika left, Lock momentarily watch him leave before he returned his focus back to the battle at hand, hoping Raika would succeed.
Raika's footsteps echoed throughout Neo-Córdoba as his feet ran on its paved streets that seemed to stretch for miles on end. He continued to run until he reached the center of the city with the palace of the ruler of Neo-Córdoba on his left. The palace was made white marble bricks with a golden dome on the top, and silver, barred gates of the entrance.
Though a little hesitant, Raika pushed open the gates of the palace, and entered through its courtyard. Upon entering the frontal courtyard, the first thing that Raika saw through his visor was the main entrance that had a horseshoe arch. It was supported by large, thick pillars with long coils wrapping around them and the floor was consisted of white marble tiles that the courtyard and the palace floor.
When entering the palace, Raika walked through the large, silver halls that had stained glass windows made of a multitude of colors. The halls continued for long distances and branched off into more pathways that went into more courtyards and rooms. However, Raika's path was heading somewhere else entirely and when he reached the designated room, he knew what it was: the throne room.
The throne room of the palace was round with pillars to support the arched entrances as well as a large, golden throne that was placed with five other thrones, each one smaller and covered in bronze. The ceiling was shaped like a dome with small, glass windows that allowed beams of sunlight enter through them and reflecting into the center of the throne room. The throne room itself was very tall, with a height of thirty feet that that would astonish the most brilliant of architects as to how anyone could design such a structure. 'How did such a place like this turn into a war zone?' Raika wondered as he stared at the throne room.
His thoughts were interrupted when he heard footsteps from behind him, making Raika turned around to see the familiar form of Cobalt entering the throne room. Placed in Cobalt's right hand was a metallic sword that had a silver blade and a sapphire hilt.
Quickly, Raika raised the blaster in his hand at Cobalt and fired an energy bolt from his weapon, but Cobalt moved to the side to avoid it before he charged at Raika. He continued firing his blaster at Cobalt until the blue armored Rider reached Raika and slashed his sword against his armored chest, forcing him black. Discarding his blaster, Raika removed the black sword hilt hanging from his belt before pressing the button on the bottom, thus activated a golden laser blade. "This ends here," Raika said.
"So it does, Raika," Cobalt snarled at him as he pointed his sword at Raika.
With that declaration, Cobalt charged at Raika, who just stood there with both his hands on the hilt of his golden laser sword, preparing for Cobalt's attack.
The silver robots fired barrages of energy bolts from their blasters, each one hoping that at least one of them would strike the Rider named Lock, whose forces of golden robots were now lying on the ground in pieces. Barrages of blaster bolts were fired at the Rider, who simply deflected them as he charged at them. They continue to fire, red blaster bolts shooting out of the tips of the blasters and heading towards Lock. As he rushed towards the robots, Lock dodged some of the blaster bolts, and those that he couldn't dodge were simply deflected with a slap of his sword.
Once reaching the robots, Lock quickly sliced the nearest one in half, its top half falling to the ground before it was followed by its bottom. Then he turned his attention to the closest two as he slashed one's head off before slicing the other one down the middle. The remaining nine robots quickly spread out to get away from as much as possible, while firing their blasters at Lock. Still it was not enough for them as Lock charged at a couple of them, quickly dodging and blocking the blaster bolts, before slicing two robots to pieces.
Lock turned his attention to the other robots about for fire their blaster bolts at him, but they were suddenly struck down by two energy swords. One blade was white, while the other one was black. The final remaining silver robot was shot by a red energy bullet that struck it in the head, and its body fell to the ground before its robotic head could touch it.
Lock turned his head towards to see Arca and Sage charging in with their energy swords illuminating the air around them, while Arch came in with his gun in hand. Following them, was the army of golden robots that they were leading in the invasion. "Lock!" Arch called out as he ran towards Lock. "Where's Raika?"
"He went off to fight that Rider," Lock said, withholding the information he gathered of Cobalt and his relation to Raika.
Arch's eyes widen underneath his red visor. "We need to get going, then!"
However, before anyone could do anything, a blaster bolt struck one of the golden robots, sending its mechanical body onto the ground. The Riders and their robotic army turned their heads to see battalions of silver robots marching towards them. "We've got bigger things to worry about," Sage said as he gripped the hilt of his energy saber.
The four Riders, then, found themselves standing side-by-side in a straight line, in front of the golden robotic army they led into the city of Neo-Córdoba. The air was thick as each of Riders were preparing themselves, both physically and mentally, for the oncoming forces of silver robots. Lock gripped his sword and raised it above his head, shouting "CHARGE!"
With that, one side charged at other with each side planning to take out their respective opponent. Once the two forces collided, the Riders found themselves fight against the silver robots, while being surrounded by golden robots and their silver counterparts seeking to annihilate each other. Arca and Sage used their energy sabers to slash at the silver robots as well as fire energy blasts from their hands, while Arch and Lock simply used their weapons against their foes.
It was complete chaos as the streets became filled with two sides seeking overcome in each other in the heat of battle. One of the silver robots slashed at Lock, but he ducked before slashing his blade against its stomach, causing the robot's to be cut in half, and Lock proceeded to slash his sword at another one. After slashing a couple of silver robots, Arch took the hilt of his sword and turned it into his gun mode, firing energy bullets at charging enemy robots, thus destroying them. The black and white energy sabers of Sage and Arca, respectively, swung around the air, striking down the silver robots where they stood and the streets became littered with mechanical parts.
Soon, the four Riders were able to gain some space from the battle robots and they prepared their final attacks, in hopes of ending the battle quickly. "Rider Kick!" both Arca and Sage announced.
"Rider Kick-Initiating!" came from their buckles simultaneously.
Arch and Lock, meanwhile, drew their respective cards from the case on the side of their belts and slid it into the buckles. "Final Attack!" their buckles called out.
Colorful energy began covering the right foot of each Rider; black for Sage, white for Arca, and silver for both Arch and Lock. The Riders leaped into the air and stuck their foots out, ready to strike the enemy. "Portal Smash!" came from Arch.
Lock shouted, "Sealing Crash!"
Their charged feet struck some of the silver robots, causing them to explode, yet it also caused a chain reaction as some of the silver robots were caught in the explosion, destroying them as well. The four Riders landed safely on the ground to see the remaining silver robots being eliminated by their golden counterparts that were under the Riders. "Come on, we need to get to Raika!" Lock shouted as he ran towards the palace.
The other Riders soon followed Lock, each other wondering how Raika was faring.
The sounds of a metallic blade clashing against one of laser could heard from throughout the entire palace as it echoed. In the throne room, Raika and Cobalt duked it out with their blades as Raika lunged towards Cobalt, stabbing his laser sword towards him only for the golden blade to be swatted away. Cobalt then swung his sword downward on Raika, which would have hit its target if Raika did not raise his golden laser sword in time to block it. Cobalt swung his sword down at Raika, but his eyes widen seeing Raika blocking his sword with his laser sword. Raika then lashed out a kick, but Cobalt quickly jumped back to avoid the kick and landed a few feet away from his original position.
Raika slashed again at Cobalt, but his golden laser blade was blocked by Cobalt's metallic blade before Cobalt forced Raika back from the fight with a kick to the chest. Cobalt charged, swinging his sword horizontally at Raika, which he was fortunate enough to duck in time before delivering a slash to Cobalt's armored chest. Cobalt was sent staggering back, but he caught himself and glared at Raika.
Then, Raika thrust his golden laser sword forward at Cobalt, but he blocked it before swinging his yellow blade at Raika's side only to be blocked by Raika's blade. Cobalt used the Force to sent Raika flying back, but the young armored Jedi caught him as he did a backwards somersault in the air and landed on the ground. When he landed, Raika saw Cobalt charging at him and he raised his laser sword in time to block Cobalt's.
"You've grown weak, Raika," Cobalt smirked underneath his helmet. "Now you shall die!"
Unknown to Cobalt, Raika pulled out his Blaster Memory and pressed the button on it, making it announce, "BLASTER!"
Once the Memory turned into the black blaster, Raika sat up at fired multiple barrages of blaster bolts at Cobalt, each blast striking his chest armor. Despite the hits he received, Cobalt charged swinging his sword at Raika only for him to block the slash before Cobalt tried slashing at his waist, but Raika brought his laser sword down in time to block it. When Cobalt slashed his sword again at Raika, Raika blocked it again, this time their blades still connected against one another. The sapphire-armored Rider noticed Raika left his stomach open so he lashed out a kick to Raika's stomach, forcing him back as Cobalt charged at him. Raika noticed Cobalt charging at him so he moved to the side as Cobalt sword struck the ground where he was a moment ago.
Cobalt swung his sword at his opponent, but Raika ducked before slashing his laser sword against Cobalt's waist. Once Raika's golden laser sword blade struck Cobalt, he fell on his knees as his sword clattered on the ground. Cobalt soon found himself staring at Raika's dark red visor and spoke, "Finish it."
After Cobalt said those words, Raika's hand went down to the case on the right side of his belt and drew the only card inside of it. "I'll make it as painless as I can, Cobalt," Raika told Cobalt, a hint of sorrow in his voice.
When Raika slid the card into his buckle, it announced, "HYPER CLOCK UP!"
Time around Raika froze automatically, allowing the Rider to have time to approach Cobalt. As he did, his face underneath his mask was filled with regret. He knew he was the reason why Cobalt did this, and it did not make him feel better to do this. "I'm sorry for ending your story Cobalt. I'm for how this turned out," Raika said before he called out, "Rider Kick!"
Raika charged at the time-frozen Cobalt as golden energy gathered at his right foot, and he kicked out his charged foot at the blue Rider. "HYPER CLOCK OVER!" his buckle announced as time sped up.
Cobalt was sent flying into the air and he let out a final yell of anguish before he exploded into a blaze of smoke. Raika landed his two feet onto the ground stared at the spot where Cobalt was. There was a moment of silence from Raika, but that was broken when he heard the shout of, "Raika!"
He turned around to see Arch, Lock, Arca, and Sage running through the halls of the palace and towards him. "Guys?" Raika asked, somewhat surprised seeing them. "Did the battle go well?"
When the other Riders approached Raika, Sage was the first to answer that question, stating, "The rest of our forces have been able to defeat the remaining robots."
Raika nodded at that, trying his best to hide his regret for eliminating Cobalt. "Good. You guys can secure the city then."
With that, Raika walked passed the group of Riders and began walking through the halls of the palace with the others staring at him in confusion. "You're leaving this to us?" Arch questioned.
Turning around, Raika explained, "You guys don't need me for this bit. You're capable of taking care of it yourself." Before anyone could make any objections, Raika said, "Well, I'd better get going! See you guys!"
And so, Raika turned around to leave the palace, and soon the city, of Neo-Cordoba, off to take care of what else was out there in the Multiverses.
A/N: And that's it! Please leave your comments in the reviews, and if you have any criticism, please let it be constructive! Now, this story is NOT up for adoption.
Raika out!