Alrighty! With Fuuto PI out on Crunchyroll and Muse Indonesia for the anime, that's got the old imagination going once again! I'm gonna see how a cool, tried and true rookie detective girl would fit in with the boys of Fuuto in one of the best Kamen Rider seasons, Kamen Rider W, as the new Skull. And yes, there will be some Japanese language littered throughout the story, as it does take place in Japan, and those will be italicized in the English written lines and vice versa for thoughts. If y'all don't like it, deal with it. So, let's get started! (pulls out a Gaia Memory and clicks it)
DISCLAIMERS!
(tosses the Memory at the screen)
Disclaimers: I don't own Kamen Rider W or Fuuto PI as they are productions from Toei and Studio Kai, but I do own any OCs I may make.
Fuuto, the Windy City of Japan. It's been quite a while since I was here, considering the fact of my dad's good friend Sokichi Narumi's demise this past Christmas thanks to these Dopants, but I'm hoping to continue on and help his protégé build on the legacy Uncle Sokichi started as the new protégé to the two in one detective... whatever that means. But there's a little problem: My own bestie and godsister is coming to the city to reclaim the office her papa operated out of and she doesn't know about Sokichi's death. I just hope I can handle Aki-chan's eccentric nature throughout the whole time...
A young navy blue haired woman closed her journal as she looked up at the Windy City and the windmills lining on the various areas of the town. "Alright! First day in the city and I'm full of pep!" She skipped off the boat she was riding on as the platform was lowered and headed into town, looking around. "Man! I wish Mama and Papa could see me now! Finally getting to work with Sho-kun and his friend as a detective! More than that, their protégé! Iya~! I'm so excited!!" She skipped down the street, heading in the direction she had been given instructions for and checking her map to make sure she was following the right path from time to time.
A couple of kids ran by her and waved to her as they called out, "Good morning, miss!"
She waved back and replied, "Morning, kids!" She continued on before running into someone and falling to the ground, the person she had run into hitting the ground as well.
"Itai! Watch where you're going!!" The person shouted in pain as she held her head slightly.
"Sorry about that! I'm really sorry!" The woman apologized to the other person, rubbing her forehead before she got a good look at the person and smiled upon seeing the familiar face. "Aki-chan!"
Akiko Narumi looked up and saw the woman, grinning excitedly. "Mina-chan!"
The girls hugged each other and squealed excitedly, giggling like they were children before Minako broke the hug and exclaimed, "Oh my gosh, it's been ages since I saw you! How have you been?"
"Absolutely great!" Akiko smiled eagerly before she looked at her paper. "Oh, crap! I think I'm lost!"
"Eh?" Minako tilted her head. "Where are you going?"
Akiko showed her friend the address to the building. "It's supposed to be a billiards place."
Minako raised an eyebrow curiously. "Seagulls Billiards, huh? I think that should be on the map here." She double checked her map and spotted it. "Yep, just down the street a couple blocks ahead."
Akiko nodded. "Then let's get going. I got a bone to pick with the nut using the place." She got up and headed down the hill.
Minako frowned nervously. "Oh boy, I hope she doesn't mess this up..." She got up and followed her bestie, wondering what kind of crazy adventures would be up their sleeves, but already having a good idea.
(Cue theme - W-B-X)
W-B-X crime and the city
Mata dare ka ga Totsuzen doa wo tataku
Jiken no yokan "Welcome to Windy City"
Kono machi ni wa Namida wa niawanai ze
Yami ni hisomu keyword
Mitsukedasou! (Mitsukedasou!)
Hitori de wa todokanai yume
(Kensaku suru mugen no archive!
Kioku toiu umi e to dive!)
Kimi to nara kanaerareru, Half and Half!
(W-Boiled Extreme!)
W-B-X!
Futari no body and soul!
(Hoka ni nai sa only! Tsumari ainori)
Hitotsu ni
W-B-X!
Saikou no paatonaa,
Deau toki (Deau toki)
Kiseki okoru (so we can make it!)
Daburu wo sagase!
(W-B-X crime and the city)
Case 1: The Search for W/Two Detectives in One
A couple of minutes later, the two women arrived at the building as Minako checked her map. "Well, this is the place, but I don't see how it matches the description of a billiards building."
Akiko shrugged a bit. "Maybe that's just the name of the building? It would make sense overall."
Suddenly, the sound of a motorcycle caught their attention as Minako jumped out of the way with a yelp of surprise and looked at the driver. "Oi, careful! I don't wanna be a dead trainee on my first day on the job! Mou!"
The rider took his helmet off and Minako blinked slightly, seeming to recognize him from pictures she had been sent a few months ago as she mentally screamed, "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!! Uncle Sokichi never mentioned how handsome his protégé was!! My heart's fluttering like crazy!!"
Indeed, Shotaro looked like the stereotypical handsome young detective of every teenage mystery manga she had read about.
Speaking of said detective, he looked at the girls and calmly placed his fedora on his head. "Can I help you two ladies?"
"Mou, Minako-san! Snap out of your fantasies!" Minako mentally berated herself before coming to and nodding, quickly walking over. "Y-yes, sir! Um, I'm... Minako Sakurada! Your protégé from Tokyo! It's an honor to meet you, senpai!" She bowed her head respectfully to him.
Shotaro nodded a little bit. "Oh, so you're the little shrimp who's joining the agency."
Minako shot her head up slightly at that as her thoughts exploded in her mind: "SHRIMP?!? Why, I never... This son of a...!!"
Unfortunately, she never got to say anything as she found herself shaking hands with her new boss as he smirked at her. "Welcome to the team, rookie. You're gonna find this city pretty damn crazy at times." He patted her shoulder as he got off his bike.
Minako blinked slightly in confusion as she watched him, only one thought crossing her mind: "Uh... What just happened?"
"Hey, what does that mean, the whole 'hard boiled' thing?" Akiko's question snapped Minako out of her thoughts once again as the junior detective finally took the time to examine Shotaro's ride closely.
"A Honda CBR1000RR... sleek and fast on both wheels... looks to be able to split apart from the green side in some way..." She put on a pair of deep blue glasses to get a better look.
Shotaro looked at her and chuckled softly. "You know your motorcycles, huh?"
Minako looked up at him. "Oh, yeah." She took her glasses off and walked over to him. "My dad's a motorbike mechanic. I picked up some lessons from him."
He nodded a little bit. "Nice. Maybe you fix up the HardBoilder after a rough fight one of these days." He headed into the office.
Akiko followed behind Shotaro, leaving Minako standing confused once again. "Eh?" The junior detective looked around before she finally followed the other two inside.
Once the trio were in the building, Minako got a look around the room, noting the retro look of the office. "Good grief, Shotaro sure likes to play the hard boiled detective..." She turned her attention to her companions and watched Shotaro pull a book out of a shelf as he explained to Akiko: "Being hard-boiled means I don't let my emotions dictate my actions. I remain stoic at all times."
Minako nodded a bit. "Some of the best anime protagonists I've seen can be described as hard-boiled in their own quirky way, similar to Light Yagami in Death Note."
Shotaro pointed to Minako with a smirk. "Exactly. Emotions dictate actions in everyone, except those who are trained to suppress them." He sat down at his desk and opened his book, sipping some coffee in the process.
The blunette blinked slightly as she watched Shotaro, thinking to herself: "Wow, he seems kinda all over the place. One minute seeming to be a cool detective and the next thing I know he's got something else up his sleeves. Seems more half-baked than hard-boiled to me."
Akiko seemed to be unfazed by the explanation and simply dropped her bag on the desk, pulling out some paperwork. "I'm gonna have to evict you. I have the deed right here."
Minako sighed softly and facepalmed. "Yare yare..." She heard the spit take from Shotaro and looked over at him to see him looking at Akiko in disbelief.
"Excuse me?" He completely turned his attention to her.
Minako walked over and smirked as she rested an arm on Akiko's shoulder. "Shotaro Hidari, meet my best friend, Akiko Narumi."
Shotaro blinked in shock when he took a closer look at Akiko. "You're the Chief's daughter??"
Akiko nodded. "Yep. I received the deed to this place a couple weeks ago. Didn't give me much time to pack."
Minako but her lip slightly, knowing Akiko still didn't know about Sokichi's death. The junior detective had been told about it through her father, but she knew she couldn't tell Akiko for her safety and sanity. Not only that, but she had another secret that she was to hide until she started fully working with Shotaro.
(Flashback)
The week after Sokichi had died, a package had arrived at her front door in Tokyo and she had opened it up to reveal Sokichi's favorite fedora - now with a bit of a tear in it - and what looked like a weird buckle and USB that had a note attached to it that read:
Minako,
If you're reading this, then by now I have passed away. But Fuuto is not safe yet. The night that took my life is just the beginning. Please, I hope and pray that you can help my protégé Shotaro continue to protect the Windy City of Japan from tears. To do this, I'm presenting you with the Lost Driver and Skull Memory to become Kamen Rider Skull, powerful items that I once used against monsters called Dopants. But I don't want Shotaro or his partner knowing that you have the gear until you're ready to tell them, and if Akiko is with you, please keep her safe and don't tell her about my death.
Your beloved godfather,
Sokichi
Minako made a face, knowing the letter didn't match Sokichi's usual handwriting, but dismissed it as she looked at the Skull Memory and turned it in her hand, pursing her lips slightly as she gained a slight spark of determination, putting the hat on calmly.
(Flashback End)
Since then, Minako had been worried about if the day would come that she had to say something about Sokichi's death.
Apparently, Shotaro wasn't sure how to explain it either because he stood up and walked over to where a white fedora similar to Minako's fedora was hung on the wall. "The Chief... isn't gonna be joining us... in the near future."
"What? Nobody ever told me that!" Akiko walked over to him in confusion.
Minako wiped away a few tears as she looked at Akiko. "There's a good reason for it, Aki-chan."
Akiko looked at her friend. "What is it, Mina-chan?"
Just then, the doorbell rang, alerting them of a client and relieving Minako as the scarlet head girl went to the door and opened it up. "Greetings, can I help you?"
The woman standing at the door nodded. "Yes, I'm looking for Shotaro Hidari."
Minako nodded. "You're in the right place because this is his office. Please, come in." She stepped aside for the woman, who happened to be one of Shotaro's old friends.
"Yosuke Togawa." Shotaro looked at a picture of the woman, Marina, and a smiling man beside her before he looked up at the former. "Is he your boyfriend?"
Marina nodded to him. "Yes, but it's been a week since he disappeared. Please help me find him!"
Minako listened to Marina's explanation, frowning slightly as she thought to herself, 'Okay, Minako. No time for witty talk or quick comebacks. Gotta get serious like Uncle Sokichi would.' She looked at Marina, noting the lack of tears near the nose or damaged makeup, but keeping it to herself as she asked, "Where was the last place you saw him since the previous week, Marina-san?"
Marina looked at Minako. "Um... we were at our place and we had a bit of an argument because he had just recently been fired."
Minako nodded and watched Shotaro put his hat on as he spoke up to his old friend, "This is my city. I'll find him, Marina. Don't worry."
He turned his attention to the remaining ladies. "Akiko, think you can help Marina calm down?"
Akiko nodded. "Of course. I'll make her some tea."
Shotaro turned to the navy haired girl. "Minako, you're coming with me. Let's see how good of a detective you are."
Minako stood straight and saluted. "Yes, sir!"
As the 'two got out on the streets, Minako started thinking to herself: 'This is how I began my journey with my boss. The two of us as private eyes, searching far and wide throughout Futo. Joys and misfortune are bound to be within the wind here, but this request from Marina was something neither of us expected, much like an unforeseen gale.'
Minako frowned as they stopped by a windmill and sighed softly, brushing her hair back coolly.
Shotaro looked at her. "Gotta ask, what made you decide to become a detective?"
She turned to him in confusion. "Excuse me?"
He shrugged. "I mean, with all the jobs in the world, you could have been anything and working anywhere else, even following in your dad's footsteps as a mechanic. So why Fuuto? Why be a detective?"
She twitched her nose slightly. "To be fair, my godfather is Sokichi Narumi. It's why Aki-chan and I are so close. I always admired Uncle Sokichi for how cool he was as a detective and he was my inspiration. When I heard about his death from my dad, I was devastated. But... at the same time, it ignited a spark in me. A spark that pushed me to make sure no one else suffered anything like what he did." She looked at him. "Sokichi Narumi's death didn't just make you into what you are, you know. It made me into what I am as well. I think with the two or three of us, considering your own partner, working together on these odd cases, we'll be able to handle who dares to make anyone fall into tears."
He smiled and chuckled softly, patting her shoulder. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you and I were connected souls in a past life. There's some good hope for you yet."
She made a face. "And what is that supposed to - ?" She stopped as soon as she heard sirens, looking at where they came from. "Hey, do you hear that?"
"Huh?" He looked over with her, the duo noticing smoke coming from a nearby traffic tunnel and looking at each other in concern before they headed over, passing by the cars and quickly ducking once they were near a cop, sneaking past and heading into the tunnel.
What neither of them noticed as they passed a limo, however, was a woman with twin buns coming out of the back of it and watching them sneak in while fanning her hand in front of her nose and muttering, "It stinks."
The detectives got past the remaining officials and saw what was going on; rubble from a building had collapsed into the tunnel and was still smoking... somehow.
Minako blinked in shock. "Who or... what could have done that?"
Shotaro noticed a piece of rubble with words on it and took his hat off, showing her. "Windscale." He put his hat back on and pulled out the picture. "Togawa used to work here."
"YOU AGAIN!!" Suddenly a man ran over and started struggling with Shotaro. "I TOLD YOU BEFORE, PRIVATE DETECTIVES AREN'T ALLOWED IN CRIME SCENES!!"
As they started a shouting match, Minako felt something snap inside and grabbed the man, knocking him back with a powerful punch to his face before she shouted, "YOU STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM MY BOSS OR I'LL MAKE SURE YOU'RE WRITTEN UP FOR ASSAULTING A CIVILIAN WITHOUT REASON, BAKA-YARO!!! GOT IT?!?"
A different man, one who looked like a senior detective, walked over and pushed the first man back. "Go take care of that broken nose, Makura." He looked at Minako respectfully. "You're probably the first woman who's managed to wrangle the stubborn man. I'm impressed."
Minako nodded. "Thank you, sir. I'm Minako Sakurada. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Likewise, Minako. I'm Detective Mikio Jinno." Jin introduced himself to her before leading her and Shotaro over to the debris. "Fourth floor of the building went completely down. You'd have to melt the steel bars in that place to do so."
Shotaro took a couple of pictures with an odd camera as he looked on. "So a Dopant did this."
Minako looked at him. "I've heard about the Dopants. Aren't they like juiced up because of those Gaia Memories?"
Jin looked at her. "You did your research too. You're definitely a worthy student for Shotaro." He turned to the rubble as he explained to them, "This is the third incident in two weeks, each with the same MO, but this one really takes the cake." He passed over an envelope to her. "Lemme know if you guys find anything."
Minako accepted it and nodded. "Will do, sir." She watched the senior detective walk away before she passed the envelope to Shotaro and knelt down, snapping on some rubber gloves for decontamination and sifting through the rubble before she noticed a slightly smouldering tag and flipped it over, seeing the Windscale marking again. "Windscale... so this building must have been operated by them... much like the other two buildings." She tucked the tag into an evidence bag and got up, going to Shotaro as the latter leaned against a railing when she approached him and said, "Something tells me this isn't a missing persons case anymore."
He nodded. "Looks like it's time for my partner to make his appearance known."
She nodded. "I'll keep checking around for anything else." She walked away and started to think about the clues she had gotten. 'Hm... Melted steel, a slightly burnt tag with the smell of sulfur dioxide, smoke that almost looked like it was steam... only one thing I know of could cause that much damage. And that's...' She stopped thinking as she looked up, feeling an odd heat coming from the tunnel and seeing a volcanic like monster that was causing it, the red glow of its appearance giving her the connection she needed just as Shotaro saw it as well, with the two at the tunnel and the third voice on Shotaro's phone speaking in perfect unison: "Magma!!"
The Magma Dopant roared and unleashed a burst of fire from its body.
"Run!" "YIKES!!" Shotaro turned and bolted as Minako followed his lead quickly, the flames behind them creating a trail of lava that split the road in two.
The Dopant looked on at the river of magma and saw that they were gone, clearly proud of its achievement as it turned and left the area.
Shotaro lowered himself and Minako down with his wristwatch gadget as he looked at the girl hanging on to him like a monkey. "You alright?"
She nodded. "I knew this city was nuts, but not like that!"
He nodded a bit. "Yeah, that's why we gotta be careful, rookie. It's practically suicide dealing with Dopants without the proper equipment."
She nodded slightly; looked like she was gonna have to make her move soon.
"Huh?! No one ever told me that!!" Akiko shouted in surprise: Minako was explaining to Akiko about the incidents that had happened.
Minako nodded a bit. "I know, it's crazy. But... I think this is what Uncle Sokichi wanted me to do. Make sure I helped Shotaro with protecting the city."
"What do you mean? How can you possibly protect the city? If what you told me is true, there could be hundreds of these Dopant things running around." Akiko pointed out to her.
Minako nodded and looked at her bag, remembering that her Driver and Memory we're in there. "True... but there's also warriors who fight injustice to protect the just." Whoever wrote that letter to her in Sokichi's handwriting had told her not to say anything about his death, but they didn't say that she couldn't tell Akiko about the gear and her responsibilities.
"Alright!" Minako went to her bag and grabbed the Driver, looking at Akiko. "You heard of Kamen Riders, right?"
Akiko blinked slightly. "Umm... aren't they armored heroes?"
The navy head nodded. "Yep." She put the Lost Driver on and held up the Skull Memory. "I think Uncle Sokichi or maybe one of his friends wants me to take his place as a Rider. But I need you to promise you won't tell Shotaro about this until I'm ready to tell him."
Akiko nodded confidently. "Of course, cross my heart and hope to die."
Minako smiled and took out her fedora, backing up and readying the Memory before she clicked the button. (Skull!) She slotted the Memory into place and posed confidently while holding the hat against her chest. "Henshin!" She flicked the Driver slot so it looked like an L (Skull!), staying still as a sphere creating a black and silver armor formed around her, her helmet looking reminiscent of a skull with a black line forming an S down the front to the forehead while a white scarf flowed out behind her as she put the hat on her head.
Akiko was amazed by the transformation. "Wow! That is so cool!"
Minako chuckled softly. "It sure is!" She pulled the Memory out, changing out of her armor, and took off her Driver, putting both items away before she noticed a small crack in the hat rack with a light coming from it. "Eh?"
Akiko looked over and went to the rack, pushing it to reveal it as a door. "Whoa!" She stumbled into what looked like a small base.
Minako peeked inside and blinked slightly. "I guess this must be where the boss's partner is." She looked over and saw a boy talking to himself about magma and volcanic eruptions as she muttered, "and I'm right." She walked into the room with Akiko on her heels, the girls looking and watching him curiously.
"Excuse me, are you Phillip? Shotaro's partner?" Akiko called out to him.
The so-called Phillip turned to them as Minako tilted her head, noting his appearance as she thought, 'Kinda looks like he could still be in high school.'
"Akiko Narumi and Minako Sakurada." Phillip acknowledged them. "I know all about you both." He looked at the latter girl. "I think you're probably more interesting to me considering your history."
Minako blinked in confusion. "How do...?" She couldn't finish as she saw Phillip turn back to his board and continue his work.
Shotaro came into the room and saw Phillip doing his writing, sighing softly and not noticing Minako stuff her fedora back in her bag as he said, "Oh man. He's on his tangents again."
Akiko looked at Shotaro. "Oh Shotaro, Mina-chan was explaining to me about what happened earlier, and... I don't really get what Dopants are."
Minako nodded to him. "I think you should explain it to her better, boss."
He nodded and led Akiko down to the computers as Minako watched Phillip.
Later in the morning, Minako was coming back in with some coffee for the group when she heard the definitive book snap from Phillip and looked up from her position as he spoke, "Alright. My research is done."
Shotaro nodded and yawned. "Time to access the Gaia Library, partner."
Phillip acknowledged his request by standing near the edge of the platform and for a split second, Minako could swear she saw a greenish data apparition of the young man.
Her focus was dragged back to attention as Shotaro spoke up: "We need to find the next attack location. Keyword: Yosuke Togawa."
Moments passed before Phillip spoke, "That narrows it down quite a bit."
Minako nodded. "It's a name, so not surprising." She passed Akiko a cup and then she handed one to Shotaro.
He accepted it with a nod and a smile before looking at Phillip again. "Second Keyword: Windscale. It's his former company."
Minako pulled out the tag from the evidence bag, and looked at Phillip. "Hey, Phillip. Try inputting this serial number: WS-09K-097T."
Phillip acknowledged her and came back to reality a moment later, looking at her. "Good idea keeping the product tag. That's a limited edition sold in select stores." He opened his blank book and looked into it. "There's one Windscale store still standing with that tag: In Kazetani."
Shotaro clicked his fingers. "That's our cue then. Minako, with me! Akiko! Stay by Phillip! He'll need a fall buddy!"
Akiko blinked in confusion. "Fall buddy?"
Phillip looked at her. "You'll see when I gain something on my waist."
Minako sighed softly. "Here we go again." She followed Shotaro out the door quickly.
Once they were both on the HardBoilder, Minako saw Marina coming to them and smiled. "We know where he is! Be right back, Marina!" With that, she held on to Shotaro as he drove off.
At the Kazetani district, the detectives arrived right on cue, looking around before they saw their suspect: Togawa, and he was looking pretty shifty.
Minako hopped off the bike and went to him, smiling. "Yo. You're Yosuke, right? I'm Minako. I don't think we've actually ever met before."
The blonde man looked at her and spoke menacingly. "You're working here? Then it's time for you..." He pulled his sleeve up and activated a skeleton looking Gaia Memory (Magma!), pushing it into a chip like tattoo on his arm as he shouted: "...to burn!" His eyes flashed orange as the Memory was absorbed into his arm and he transformed into the Magma Dopant before her eyes, causing her to back up quickly as the civilians screamed and started to run away.
Yosuke growled and unleashed a flame burst that caught on Minako's jacket.
She quickly slapped at the flame. "Yipe! Hot, hot, hot!" She got it out, leaving a bit of ash as Shotaro came up next to her and looked at the Dopant.
"I will stop you. No." Shotaro declared as he pulled out a Driver like Minako's, only with two slots. "We will." He put the Driver on, the straps wrapping around his waist.
Back at the base, Phillip saw the Driver appear on his waist. "That's my cue." He looked at Akiko. "When my consciousness goes to Shotaro, catch my body." He pulled out a green Gaia Memory and clicked it. (Cyclone!)
At the Kazetani district, Shotaro pulled a black Memory from his vest and clicked it. (Joker!)
Minako immediately took the cue to step aside for him. "Go get him, Boss."
Together in a split screen, Shotaro and Phillip moved the right and left arms respectfully to form a W. "Henshin!"
At the base, Phillip inserted his Memory and let it disappear into data before he passed out.
"Whoa!" Akiko caught Phillip and laid him on some blankets. "Guess that's what he meant."
Back at the district, Shotaro pushed the Cyclone Memory into the first slot before flipping the Joker Memory around and sliding it into the second slot, pushing both sides out to form a W and holding his arms to his sides as the wind started to blow harder. (Cyclone! Joker!) With a dual tune playing, a sphere of energy formed around Shotaro and made a green and black armor form around him, the large bug eyed visors flashing red as the transformation finished.
"No way! Sho-kun and Phillip-kun are a Kamen Rider!" Akiko noticed the Driver and smiled eagerly, wondering how the battle was gonna go.
W posed confidently with his left hand up and pointing at Yusuke as Shotaro and Phillip spoke in unison: "Now count up your sins!" The Rider ran forward and started knocking Magma back with a volley of kicks.
Minako looked around and took it as her cue to change as well, running behind a nearby wall and pulling out her Driver and fedora. "Alright. Here I go, Uncle Sokichi. I hope you're watching me." She put the Driver on and activated the Memory (Skull!), quickly putting it in. "Henshin!" She flicked the Driver open and tossed her hat in the air as the energy sphere encapsulated her and transformed her. (Skull!) She caught the hat and placed it on, rounding the corner again just in time to see Phillip activate another Memory. (Luna!)
"Makes sense with more than two Memories." She muttered as she watched W change into a yellow color on the right side and use his arm like a lengthened whip, knocking away any fireballs.
"Hey, Phillip! Give me a heads-up next time you switch Memories on me!" Shotaro chided his partner before they started using the skills of the Luna Memory to attack the Dopant, knocking him back further.
Minako followed them and quickly made sure she had gotten her special voice modulator on before she saw Magma ready to attack again. "Don't think so!" She whipped out the Skull Magnum and fired off a few rounds, the shots hitting their mark.
"Huh?" Shotaro saw the Dopant get knocked back and looked around, seeing a familiar figure and almost freezing up. "Masaka..."
Even Phillip had his disbelief as the right eye of W flashed. "Impossible! That can't be!"
Minako walked over to the half-and-half Rider and looked at him. "Take it easy, guys. I'm not who you think I am. You could say I'm a successor to the powers." Her modulator made her voice about three times smoother so they didn't recognize her.
W looked at her and spoke in Shotaro's voice: "Then who are you?"
Skull looked at them. "A friend. That's all you need to know for now. We have a bigger problem at hand." She turned and pulled out her Memory, placing it in her side slot and tapping it. (Skull! Maximum Drive!)
"Fair enough." Phillip agreed as W changed back to Cyclone Joker and activated their own Maximum Drive, floating in the air as Hikaru sent up a skull projection and jumped after it.
"Joker Extreme!" "Skull Crusher!" The Riders launched their respective finishers with W splitting and kicking Magma twice before Skull kicked the energy construct at him, both heroes landing as the Dopant exploded, leaving Yosuke on the ground with a broken Memory.
Shotaro nodded to Skull. "Let's leave him for the police." He sighed and held his head. "Man, how do I tell Marina?"
"Your problem, not mine." Minako shrugged before she suddenly stopped upon feeling a shaking below. "Hold it. What's that below us?"
Suddenly, what looked like a head burst out of the ground and roared as it charged at Yosuke.
"Whoa! What's that?!" Shotaro shouted in surprise.
"It's going for Togawa!" Minako immediately sprang into action and shot the head back, getting a better glimpse of it as she got close enough; it looked almost like a tyrannosaurus. No time for the mystery, though: She grabbed Yosuke and pulled him out of harm's way, taking the smack from the T-Rex's tail to her head and hitting the side of the rails while cushioning Yosuke's fall, her hat falling off. "Ow!"
The T-Rex left the scene just as quickly as it had come and Shotaro ran to the two. "You both okay?"
Minako nodded. "Yeah. But I have a feeling that thing's gonna be back sooner than later, maybe to make Mr. Togawa its meal." She accepted her hat from Yosuke with a grateful nod and put it back on.
Shotaro sighed. "Man, and I thought this wouldn't be any harder." He pulled out his unusual phone and pressed a few buttons.
At the base, Akiko kept Phillip steady as she noticed the base circle glow and the platforms folding back. "Eh? What's going on now?" She watched two sides close around them with machine parts appearing around the construction as it encapsulated them in darkness: The RevolGarry had been summoned and was ready to go, waiting as the panels in front of it were opened before it took off on its own.
Akiko held on to the back end. "Whoa! Is this thing on autopilot?! This is crazy!!"
The RevolGarry headed to the Riders as the episode closes out with the Memories encircling the scene in a hexagon shape.
Next time on W: A Case of Detectives!
Shotaro: This is my city, and I won't let anyone cry here.
Minako: This is deeper than we expected.
Phillip: Don't blame me if it snacks on you.
Shotaro: I don't need your help.
Minako: Now count up your sins!
This clinches it!
Yeah, it's been a while since I watched Kamen Rider, but I don't regret it. Next time, we see how this two-parter ends, so don't miss it!