Thank You For Coming To Read The Latest Chapter Of Kamen Rider LL! I Apologize For The Delay, I Hope You Enjoy It! This Will Be A Big One, Continuing From Where The Previous Chapter Left Off, And Leave With A Nice Little Surprise At The End. Until Then, Enjoy! I Own Nothing, And This Was Co-Written By Hallucigenia77!
Deep in the heart of Ghana, a large car was driving across, in it was Professor Archibald Wilder, his Grandson Charley, and everyone that had decided to go with him on his expedition. "Thanks again for letting us all come with you, Wilder-Hakase!" Sakura said. "My pleasure, Sakura!" Professor Wilder replied. "Say, Charley, I'm a bit surprised that you and Nyansipo decided not to bring Atea and Aika along with us!" Lincoln said. "Yes well, they have other priorities at the moment." Charley reminded them. "Plus, we don't want to put them or our kids in any potential danger!" Nyansipo added. "Makes sense. So where are we headed first, Professor?" Lori asked. "To the city of Accra." Professor Wilder said. "The capital city of Ghana?" Lisa asked. "Yep! I've got a contact there. In fact if it weren't for him, I never would have found the temple to begin with!" Professor Wilder said. "Cool! What's his name?" Clyde asked. "His name is Nkyinkyim!" Professor Wilder answered. "And apparently, he too is descended from the people of the spiders." Professor Wilder told Clyde.
That caused everyone to gasp in surprise, especially Aurachnid. "Not only that, but I've been hearing rumors that the People of the Spiders still exist! That's what this expedition is about, to see if there are any truth to the rumors!" The Professor said. "Whoa! That's definitely an adventure worth going through!" Afia said in excitement. "You're so lucky to have such a cool Grandfather, Charley." Stella said. "You don't know the half of it! For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to be an Archeologist just like him, so this expedition's a dream come true for me!" Charley said. "I know the feeling! My father is a Paleontologist and I always wanted to be one since I was four years old! Thankfully, because of my intellect being high enough to qualify, I was able to attend paleontology classes at Rhodes University at age 7 and studied there for four years before I graduated at age 11 and received a master's degree in paleontology!" Afia noted. "A similar thing applies with me, since my own father is a Geologist, and I really love to study minerals, especially crystals and gemstones! Of course, I attended at a different college, specifically Stellenbosch University, at age 7 and studied there for four years before I then graduated at at age 11 and got an Honors degree in geology!" Said Onyina. "As for me, I too have a high enough IQ to attend college, though the one that I attended in was the University of Ghana, which is actually in Accra, as I began my attendance there at age 4 and studied there for four years before I then graduated at age 8 and earned several degrees in Computer, Software, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineering!" Ama said, much to everyone's amazement and surprise, including Lisa's, though the latter was also rather envious at the same time.
"Lisa-chan, are you okay?" Sakura asked, noticing the second youngest Loud's disposition. "In all honesty, I'm incredibly envious that Afia, Onyina, and Ama were able to attend and graduate at college at the ages of seven and four, respectively, while I, on the other hand, am still stuck in elementary school, even though I have a triple-digit IQ that should make me qualified enough to attend college classes!" Lisa said in honest envy. Everyone cringed at that. "Seriously? Why weren't you able to attend college like Afia, Onyina, and I, even though you have an IQ as high as you said it would be?" Ama asked in confusion. "Honestly, I don't know! I tried asking Principal Huggins about that a year ago and he said that the best thing that he could offer, most likely due to my age, was 5th Grade, which led to me being in the same 5th Grade class as Lincoln at the time!" Lisa answered. "But that didn't exactly go over so well." Lisa admitted as she, Lincoln, and even Clyde shuddered at the memory. Then, Aya, Nyansipo, Afia, Onyina, Yaa, and Ama read Lisa, Lincoln, and Clyde's auras and saw their memories. *Groan* "I see what you mean." Aya said.
"Yeah! Lisa, you tried to make yourself look and behave like an average kid, mainly because Lincoln asked you to do so after his friends Liam, Rusty, and Zach refused to let him sit with them at the cafeteria out of being irritated by your smart attitude! Heck, you went as far as inventing a correction collar that squirts you with water every time you act smart! Plus, you went and used a robot named Todd to destroy quiz papers and you even instigated a food fight in the cafeteria! Of course, unfortunately, your new attitude went too far as you have refused to do anything that involves science, including not helping Luna prepare for her test when she asked you to, not helping your father with his cooking, purposely costing Lori and Lola a chance to win free tickets to the Royal Woods Spa, not telling your mother when her father was supposed to arrive at the train station, and even refusing to help out your teacher Ms. Shrinivas when her students had caught strep throat and needed a cure, which all caused Lincoln to get blamed for your attitude change!" Ama said, much to Lisa's guilt. "Yeah, it's one of those things we don't really like to talk about." Lincoln said. "Like the time you willingly took the blame for clogging the toilet with Lucy's Princess Pony Book?" Nyansipo asked upon further inspection of Lincoln's aura. "Dang! You're really good! And, yes, that's one of them!" Lincoln answered. "Of course, during our first encounter with the Ninja Turtles, very long story, I finally decided to confess the truth about my Princess Pony Book and, well, needless to say, everyone was shocked! Of course, Mother had Father sleep on the couch for a week after finding out that he grounded Lincoln without bothering to ask him, not to mention that my sisters, minus Lily, got grounded for the same amount of time after finding out they were going to make fun of me for having that book in the first place!" Lucy explained. "I still can't believe, after all that talk about the Ace Savvy convention you and Clyde were planning on going to, you did that! Willingly!" Lori said.
"Well, she's my little sister and, because she can't handle being teased like I do, I couldn't just let her go through being made a laughingstock for the rest of her life by you girls!" Lincoln said while staring angrily at the Loud Sisters. They all flinched at that. "I think it's sweet. Goes to show how far he's willing to protect those he loves. It's one of the many things that makes him such an amazing Kamen Rider. And an even better boyfriend." Sakura said, kissing Lincoln on the cheek. That caused Lincoln to smile bashfully while blushing while the girls gushed by saying "Awwwwww!" in delight. "By the way, you mentioned something about meeting the Ninja Turtles! Last I checked, they are fictional characters! How did that even happen?" Nyansipo asked. "Well as it turns out there's a world where they are very much real." Lisa stated. "Well as it turns out there's a world where they are very much real." Lisa stated. "And they, along with Master Splinter, ended up in our world by accident after Michelangelo tried to use a device known as the Portal Stick to get rid of a minor enemy of theirs known as The Garbageman!" Lincoln added.
"Of course, that encounter also brought to light a very startling revelation! Apparently, King Draco, the leader of our enemies, the Animarius Empire, is actually the reincarnation of the Ninja Turtles and Master Splinter's old enemy Drako, spelt with a 'k' instead of a 'c' to avoid any confusion, who died in their last encounter!" Said Sakura. "Yikes." Nyansipo said. "You know, I've been rather curious about those jets you kids used." Professor Wilder said. "Oh, you mean the Vectors?" Lincoln asked. "Yes, where did you get them from?" Professor Wilder replied. "The Vectors, as well as Mecha Pollon-chan were gifts from an organization from another dimension called Neo-DEAVA." Sakura explained. "They gave them to us as a gesture of good will after finding out that the Tree of Life, the huge tree in King Draco's castle the Animarius Empire uses to create their soldiers and resurrect themselves with their Soul Cores, is actually the offspring of the Tree of Life from their dimension!" Lisa added. "Also, the Vectors we've mentioned have the capability to combine into a giant robot called Aquarion!" She explained.
"Understanding Aquarion would take an even longer story." Aurachnid complained, rubbing his spider temples. "We were actually invited to a wedding taking place next week in their world." Sakura said. "Which thanks to my innovations, we will be able to attend." Lisa confirmed. "Very interesting! So, aside from the Ninja Turtles and Neo-DEAVA, what other interdimensional encounters have occurred to you people?" Ama asked. "Well, we actually have encountered Kamen Riders from another universe, with the first two being Kamen Rider Wizard, real name Haruto Soma, and Kamen Rider Beast, real name Kosuke Nitoh!" Lincoln explained. "The other Kamen Riders we've encountered so far are Kamen Rider Ghost, real name Takeru Tenkuji, Kamen Rider Specter, real name Makoto Fukami, Kamen Rider Necrom, real name Alain, Kamen Rider Kanon Spector, real name Kanon Fukami, who's Makoto's younger sister, Kamen Rider Birth, real name Akira Date, and Kamen Rider Birth X, real name Shintaro Goto! We also encountered a Super Sentai team from that same universe called the Engine Sentai Go-Onger!" Clyde explained. "They were a real help against the Garbageman. Don't let his ridiculous name fool you, he's insane!" Lincoln said.
"Yeah! That guy was able to unite a great majority of the street gangs in Michigan under his leadership, including the Junkyard Gang, the White Wolves, the Hammerheads, the Paquete De Ratas, the Green Rhinos, the Yellowjackets, the Black Jackals, the Blue Tigers, and the Red Griffins!" Lisa explained. "Plus, he had those gangs steal a few items from a military base to make a homemade interdimensional portal in order kidnap the Three Gaiark Ministers, who are former enemies of the Engine Sentai Go-Onger, out of a place called Junk World and force them to work for him by attaching collars on them that would electrocute them when they don't cooperate and then having them build a massive flying battleship that has the ability to transform into an evil giant robot called Garbotron!" Clyde explained. "But we were able to crush his plans like a trash compactor." Lincoln said. "With major help from Lucy, who was able to sneak her way into Garbotron through the air vents and forcibly ejected The Garbageman out of his own robot by pressing the emergency escape button!" Aurachnid explained. "I still don't understand how you're able to sneak around so easily without people noticing, Lucy-chan." Sakura said.
"It's just the way I am, I guess!" Lucy replied. "Anyway, the last interdimensional encounter we had so far was a team-up with Popeye!" Lincoln explained. "Popeye?! As in, Popeye the Sailor Man?!" Professor Wilder asked in surprise. "The one and only!" Sakura said. "Of course, unlike our previous interdimensional encounters, this is one where we actually go to Popeye's universe after Eugene the Jeep and his own family of Jeeps came to our world to find help from us when an Animarius named Krakano, who's based on a Kraken, attacked Popeye and his family and friends!" Lincoln explained. "Plus, we were able to discover a new power item for Sakura called the Mystic Pearl, which was stored within an underwater kingdom of actual mermaids, whose rulers are a royal family that eerily resembled our own family!" he added. "Seriously, it's scary how much they resembled us." Lincoln said.
Meanwhile...
Shibogumon was controlling a dark grey skeleton like robot and using it to spy on the heroes as they travelled. "Hey, Shibogumon!" Leo said. "Yes?" Shibogumon asked. "Your boss called, he says he's sending backup from the home base." Leo said. "Really? Who's he sending?" Shibogumon asked. "Apparently, the names I got are Fulicana, Siafury, and Hibberton!" Leo answered. "Excellent!" Shibogumon said. "I'm also told that General Aquilis is sending three more soldiers from her Bird Army as back up and aerial surveillance as well as some of my own soldiers as extra muscle, plus one more from General Tyrannus's Dinosaur Army, just to be safe!" General Leo added as a portal opened up and fourteen new figures stepped through. Three of them are clearly Shocker Kaijin while the other eleven are obviously Animarius soldiers. The first Shocker Kaijin was a curvaceous female humanoid being wearing a dark brown fullbody spandex suit that had a helmet on her head that resembled the head of a snail while also having a large shell, resembling that of a Giant African Land Snail, attached to her back as well as having a snail-like tail on her rear end, two snail-shaped gauntlets on her lower arms, a Shocker belt around her waist. The second Shocker Kaijin was a curvaceous female humanoid being wearing a red fullbody spandex suit that had a helmet that resembled the head of an African Driver Ant, a.k.a. Siafu, on her head while also having an ant-like abdomen on her rear end, two driver ant-shaped gauntlets on her forearms, and a Shocker belt around her waist. The third and final Shocker Kaijin was an armored male humanoid being that resembleed a humanoid version of the Hibbertopterus, a species of Eurypterid or Sea Scorpion, with claws for hands and four Hibbertopterus legs at the sides of his body. The first Animarius soldier was a female humanoid Peregrine Falcon with wings on her back and wearing a Valkyrie helmet and armor on her body while having the symbol of the Bird Army on her left shoulder and carrying a spear in her right hand and a shield in her left hand. The second Animarius soldier was a male humanoid Griffon Vulture with wings on his back and wearing a Roman Centurion helmet and armor while having the symbol of the Bird Army on his left shoulder and carrying a vine staff in his right arm and a sheild in his left hand as well as having a longsword stored on the left side of his belt and a pugio dagger on the right side of his belt. The third Animarius soldier was a male humanoid Ostrich with his wings on his back and having the symbol of the Bird Army on his left shoulder. The fourth Animarius soldier was a male humanoid Black Rhinoceros with a muscular bodyframe and having the symbol of the Mammal Army on his left shoulder. The fifth Animarius soldier was a female humanoid Common Hippopotamus with a overweight bodyframe, complete with large breasts and a very big belly, while wearing an outfit similar to those worn by African warrior women and having the symbol of the Mammal Army on her left shoulder and carrying a spear in her right hand and a bow in her left hand as well as having a quiver of arrows strapped on her back. The sixth Animarius soldier was a male humanoid Cheetah with an athletic bodyframe and having the symbol of the Mammal Army on his left shoulder. The seventh Animarius soldier was a male humanoid Meerkat with a thin bodyframe and having the symbol of the Mammal Army while wearing a solder helmet on his head and a bandolier of grenades around his chest and back. The eighth Animarius soldier was a male humanoid Common Warthog with a muscular bodyframe while having the symbol of the Mammal Army on his left shoulder and a black Mohawk on his head. The ninth Animarius soldier was a male humanoid Zebra with a muscular bodyframe and hooves coated in iron while having the symbol of the Mammal Army on his left shoulder. The tenth Animarius soldier was a male humanoid Giraffe with long legs and a long neck as well as an athletic bodyframe and having the symbol of the Mammal Army in this left shoulder. The eleventh and final Animarius soldier was a male humanoid Ornithocheirus (a species of pterosaur that bore a distinctive convex "keeled" crest on its snout and its fossils were found the United Kingdom and possibly Morocco) with leathery wings on his back and hair-like feathers covering his body while having the symbol of the Dinosaur Army on his left shoulder. "I'm called Fulicana, the Giant African Land Snail Kaijin!" The first Shocker Kaijin, now named Fulicana, announced. "I'm known as Siafury, the Siafu Kaijin!" The second Shocker Kaijin, now identified as Siafury, said. "And you may refer to me as Hibberton, the Hibbertopterus Kaijin!" The third Shocker Kaijin, now known as Hibberton, stated. "Falkyrie, here to assist!" The first Animarius soldier, now named Falkyrie, announced. "Vulturion, always on alert!" The second Animarius soldier, now called Vulturion, announced. "Ostrush, here for the kicks!" The third Animarius soldier, now known as Ostrush, announced. "Rhinosteel, ready to charge!" The fourth Animarius soldier, now identified as Rhinosteel, announced. "Hippola, armed for battle!" The fifth Animarius soldier, now known as Hippola, announced. "Cheeturbo, born with the need for speed!" The sixth Animarius soldier, now known as Cheeturbo, announced. "Meerkrack, prepared for demolition!" The seventh Animarius soldier, now known as Meerkrack, announced. "Farthog, gassing things up!" The eighth Animarius soldier, now known as Farthog, announced. "Zebronco, cracking skulls with my iron hooves!" The ninth Animarius soldier, now known as Zebronco, announced. "Giraffrag, literally towering over my enemies!" The tenth Animarius soldier, now known as Giraffrag, announced. "Ornithocrash, terrorizing the sky!" The eleventh Animarius soldier, now known as Ornithocrash, announced. "Perfect." Shibogumon said, looking over to the truck and getting an idea. "Hey, Hippola. How accurate are you with that?" Shibogumon asked, pointing to Hippola's bow and arrows. "Very arcuate! Hippos such as myself have very good eyesight!" Hippola answered proudly. "Unlike Rhinos like him." The Hippo Animarius stated while pointing at Rhinosteel, who simply shouted "Hey!" in annoyance. "Accurate enough to hit say, the front tire of a truck going 50 km/h?" Shibogumon asked. "Calf's play." Hippola said as she then put her away her spear and grabbed an arrow from her quiver, right before knocking an arrow back and aiming it at the front tire of the truck. Meanwhile, in the truck, Lincoln and the others were still talking about their interdimensional adventures with Charley and company. "Man! That must have been quite an experience you guys went through, being able travel to another dimension and save it at the same time!" Said Afia. "Yeah, it definitely was! Plus, we actually made more friends in Popeye's universe than we can count! Heck, we even had a little beach party celebration after the battle was over!" Said Lincoln. "You know, cosidering that you people actually went to a universe where Popeye is real, it makes me wonder if other fictional characters exist in their own universe!" Ama noted. "Yeah! First, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, then Popeye! What next? The Powerpuff Girls?" Yaa asked.
Meanwhile, in another universe...
"ACHOO!" A voice sneezed as we then see the Powerpuff Girls (the original versions, NOT the Rebooted ones) flying over Townsville. "Whoa! Blossom, are you okay?" Buttercup asked in confusion as Blossom was the one that sneezed. "Did you catch a cold or something?" Bubbles asked in concern. "I don't think so." Blossom said. "It's probably either too much pollen in the air or someone talking about me from very far away!" She added.
Back with the others...
A loud pop was heard as the tire blew. "Whoa!" Professor Wilder shouted in bewilderment as he then hit the brakes and forced the truck to screech to a halt. "Is everyone okay?" The Professor asked his passengers. "A bit shaken, but not stirred!" Luna answered. "What the heck just happened?!" Lynn Jr asked in confusion. "I guess the tire blew. Fortunately, I learned from yesterday, and made sure to pack plenty of spare tires!" Professor Wilder said as they all hopped out to see an arrow having gone straight through the rubber of the tire. "Okay, who would have the audacity to shoot an arrow at the truck?" Lola asked in annoyance. Suddenly, everyone heard clanking footsteps. "What's that?! Who's there?!" Leni asked in fright. Everyone turned to see an adult sized skeleton robot walking up to them. "You guys see the skeleton too, right?" Lucy said. "Skeleton?! That thing literally looks more like the T-800 from the Terminator franchise than anything!" Lori said in fright. "Impressive isn't it?" Shibogumon asked as he crawled up to the robot's shoulder. "Hello again, Kamen-" Shibogumon started saying, only for Leni to cut him off. "SPIDER!" She said in fright, picking up the tire Professor Wilder was about to replace the popped one with and tossing it, knocking Shibogumon off the robot's shoulder.
"HEY! IT'S RUDE TO INTERRUPT SOMEONE WHEN THEY'RE TALKING, ESPECIALLY BY THROWING SOMETHING AT THEM!" Shibogumon angrily yelled. Aurachnid started laughing uncontrollably. "I'm sorry, it's just that now that I'm on this end of that, I find that to be oddly hilarious!" He said. "Shut up, you!" Shibogumon said. "That voice, masaka! Shibogumon?" Sakura asked in shock. "Yeah, that's right! It's me!" Shibogumon said as he crawled back up to the skeletal robot's shoulder. "But how? I destroyed you!" Sakura said. "You destroyed my original body, but thanks to the teachings of one Tenjuro Banno, I was able to transfer my consciousness into what you see before you!" Shibogumon explained. The mere mention of Tenjuro Banno caused Shintomaru to facepalm in frustration. "Who's Tenjuro Banno?" Lincoln asked, noticing his friend's demeanor. "He's an old enemy of Kamen Rider Drive!" Shintomaru started explaining. "That's right! And with a combination of his efforts, and those of Cicadeath and Flygor, I have once again become a force to be reckoned with!" Shibogumon said.
"Huh? I don't get it! What did he mean by that?" Clyde asked in confusion. "*Sigh!* Tenjuro Banno was a scientist and also a former friend/rival of Krim Steinbelt as he and Krim created a race of artificial lifeforms called Roidmudes!" Shintomaru explained. "And thanks to that, I have this new toy! Say hello to the Skeletron!" Shibogumon said. That's when the skeletal robot, now named Skeletron, made a few martial arts fighting poses in a threatening manner. "Yikes! That thing is a lot scarier than I thought!" Lori said in fright. "You think that thing is scary, then you should've seen the Roidmudes! They were originally built for good, but, unlike Krim Steinbelt, Tenjuro Banno wasn't exactly in his right mind! First, he began to perform lethal experiments by forcing one Roidmude, known as Roidmude 002, to take on the appearance of Shinzo Hiroi, a businessman who refused to invest in Banno's research, just for his own twisted delusion of torturing him! While Krim Steinbelt rescued Hiroi at the last second, he ceased his partnership with Banno after witnessing his insanity! At some point later in his life, Banno was engaged in a romantic relationship with Sumiko Shijima, and fathered two children with her, Kiriko Shijima, who would later become a member of the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Circumstances and Incidents Investigation Division a.k.a. the Special Investigation Unit, and Go Shijima, who would later become Kamen Rider Mach! While details regarding his life with his family is unknown, it resulted in Banno no longer part of their family and causing Sumiko to feel depressed every time he is brought up! Nevertheless, Banno continued working on the Roidmudes and installed evil chips into the Roidmudes containing negative emotions! However, doing so caused the Roidmudes to rebel against their creator as they vowed to evolve to surpass Banno and humanity itself! Banno's body was killed by Freeze, Heart, and Brain, the three lead Roidmudes, while his mind was later stored into a tablet that was often used by Brain! As for Krim Steinbelt, as soon as the Roidmudes went out of control and began harming humanity, he resolved to stop them by using contingencies including the equipment that would later be used by Drive, but his mansion was attacked by the first three Roidmudes, and he was mortally injured by Roidmude 002! However, before he died, Roidmude 004 appeared to copy his data for Banno! He was originally supposed to inhabit the body of Cyberoid ZZZ, but abandoned it due to the need of a stronger will! Thus, he transferred his consciousness to the Drive Driver, intending to finding a partner to fight the Roidmudes! He later reawakened Proto-Zero, a prototype Roidmude created by Krim that wasn't corrupted by Banno, and chose him to become Protodrive and fight against the Roidmude! During the hours that followed the Global Freeze, Krim as the Drive Driver continued assisting Protodrive to investigate the Roidmude's primary motive! While Protodrive proved to be an nigh-infallable warrior against the Roidmudes during Global Freeze, Krim was seperated from his partner after Heart defeated him in battle! Following Protozero's supposed death and being haunted by dreams of his past life, Krim grew to fear both Heart and 001!" Shintomaru explained.
"Can you blame him?" Sakura asked, shuddering at the thoughts of the nightmares she had following her parents and brother's deaths. "Of course, sometime afterwards, Krim received help from one of his old colleagues, Jun Honganji, who set up the formation of Special Investigation Unit as well as the setting of the Drive Pit, which would be the base of Kamen Rider Drive and a storage unit for his Rider Machine Trideron and his transformation devices the Shift Cars! He even recruited Rinna Sawagawa, an Electron Physicist who is researching the Roidmudes monsters' powers and abilities, to create most of Drive's arsenals and seeking his mentor Harley Hendrickson to built a new Rider System that would surpass him as a safety precaution! Krim continued to supervise the upgrades to the Drive system and scouted out a new candidate, finding one in forlorn, super depressed slack-off police officer named Shinnosuke Tomari! For about a month, Krim kept communicating with Shinnosuke while riding Tridoron until he found where the sound was coming from! While the Drive Driver wrapped around his waist, Shinnosuke began to call him "Belt-san" and the latter informed him about the Roidmudes and how he must use the Shift Cars to fight them as the warrior Drive!" Shintomaru explained. "Cool!" Lincoln said. "But Banno had also managed to find a way to transfer his consciousness into a Driver, and with the help of another Roidmude became the villainous Gold Drive." Shintomaru said.
"Gold Drive?" Lincoln asked in confusion. "Yeah, the reason Banno was called that because his Rider-like form heavily resembled Kamen Rider Drive, albeit colored gold and lacked a Shift Tire on his chest!" Shintomaru explained. "Yikes! But that doesn't matter! We defeated you once, we can do it again!" Lincoln said as he and Sakura equipped their drivers while Aurachnid bit Clyde's wrist, summoning his own driver.
0-0-0-1, Let's Go!
Ruby! Sapphire! Topaz! Emerald!
Spider On!
"Henshin!" The three said, transforming into their Kamen Rider forms. "Fun! I wish I could do that! Oh wait, I can!" Shibogumon said, sinking his fangs into a pair of spider bite mark shaped holes on the Skeletron's shoulder. As he did that, everyone saw Shibogumon's purple venom flowing through Skeletron's cybernetic veins before a silver-colored web-shaped belt buckle appeared around its waist. "Huh?" Everyone asked as the Skeletron picked up Shibogumon. "You know, Aurachnid. I really should thank you. Without your 'contribution' this wouldn't be possible!" Shibogumon said. "Contribution?" Aurachnid asked in confusion before gasping in realization. "That's what Akampulse wanted my venom for!" He said. "Exactly! By mixing your venom with samples of my own venom, which I had stored away back at the Shocker mobile base, I have been given the power to do same thing that you do with your partner!" Shibogumon explained.
Skeletron then placed Shibogumon in the spot that corresponds to Aurachnid's. "Armed Spider On!" Shibogumon announced. "Say the word, Skeletron!" He commanded. "Henshin!" Skeletron shouted in a deep menacing voice. That caused black-and-sliver spider webbing to shoot out of Shibogumon's abdomen and cover Skeletron from head to toe in order to form a web cocoon while heavy metal music was playing in the background. Finally, a dark purple shined within the cocoon before four large mechanical spider legs, resembling those of a Brazilian Wandering Spider, burst out of its back and then torn it open to reveal Shibogumon's rider form, much to everyone's shock and horror. "Kamen Riders LL, Jewel, and Anansi. Meet, Kamen Rider Armadeiras!" Shibogumon announced as he drew his sword. "An evil Kamen Rider?!" Sakura asked in shock and confusion. "It's not exactly an uncommon thing. There's Gold Drive, Overlord Baron, Solomon, Ark-Zero, Eternal, Poseidon, Kabuki, Ouja, Ryuga, Caucasus, Gaoh, Sorcerer, Wiseman, and Evol, just to name a few! Of course, because people often associate the name Kamen Rider with the good guys, the evil Kamen Riders are often referred to by an alternative name as Dark Riders!" Shintomaru said.
"And don't get me started on those labeled as anti-heroes, a list that admittedly, includes my previous life and Diend." Shintomaru said. "Diend, I believe, since we've met him before, but how does your previous life, Kamen Rider Decade, even qualify as an anti-hero, Shin-kun?" Sakura asked in confusion. "It's a long, complicated story that involves amnesia and Dai Shocker." Shintomaru said. Of course, when Shibogumon heard that, he was rather surprised to say the least. "Dai Shocker? Oh yeah. Wasn't their original leader some poser by the name of..." Shibogumon started saying as Shintomaru started freaking out. "Don't say it, don't say it, please don't say it!" He begged. "Decade?" Shibogumon asked. "Dang It!" Shintomaru said in frustration with a facepalm while everyone else simply just gasped in shock, especially Stella. "Shintomaru, what's he talking about?" Stella asked. "I did a lot of things I'm not proud of in my previous life, okay? I was known as the destroyer of worlds." Shintomaru admitted.
"In my past life as Tsukasa Kadoya, I was born in a wealthy family and lost my parents at a young age! That left me and my younger sister Sayo Kadoya in the custody of the family's butler, Nobuhiko Tsukikage! Due to Sayo's fears of going outside, she manifested the ability to open Aurora Curtains! I would then exploit those abilities to explore different worlds! As a late teenager, I would be appointed as the "Great Leader of Dai-Shocker" by Tsukikage, who started the creation of Dai-Shocker when he realized that he could manipulate Sayo into creating dimensional bridges started by me and after bringing together Alternate Reality versions of Jigoku Taishi, Dr. Shinigami and Shocker combatmen, and be given the Decadriver and the Ride Booker! Using my position and power, I began a conquest across different dimensions! However, after one year into my campaign, I suffered from amnesia caused by turbulence while traveling between numerous dimensions and stranded in an unknown peaceful world! While wandering in the unknown world, I began to take pictures at Hikari Studio, where I met Natsumi Hikari! However, the images I captured on my camera would be distorted and not develop well due to my status as an outsider of the world!" Shintomaru explained in shame.
"But that never stopped you." A familiar voice said as everyone turned to see Daiki and Natsumi as Diend and Kiva-la. "Daiki-sempai, Natsumi-sempai, what are you doing here?" Sakura asked in surprise. "I got bored so we decided to come visit you guys, and when we saw this pale imitation, we knew there was trouble." Daiki said. "Also, we had managed to find Sayo-chan, who we have not seen in a very long time, and told her everything that happened since we last saw each other, including about you died and reincarnated into this world!" Natsumi added as a young Japanese woman with long black while wearing a long white dress appeared behind the two veteran Riders, much to the shock and surprise of Shintomaru. "Well, this certainly is awkward!" Shibogumon, who was simply lazing about, waiting for some action, said. "Oniichan? Is that really you?" The young woman in white asked in confusion. "Sayo-chan." Shintomaru said in surprise. That caused the young woman in white, now identified as Sayo, to gasp in shock. "Well this day just keeps getting more interesting." Professor Wilder said.
"It is you, Oniichan! I really didn't believe Daiki-san and Natsumi-chan when they told me that you've died and reincarnated as a middle school child, but here you are!" Sayo said in astonishment. "Yeah, it is." Shintomaru said. "Of course, since I'm actually younger than you now, I guess that technically makes you the Oneechan here!" He added. This caused the girls to chuckle. "You know what? I was going to kick your guys' butts, but the moment has been ruined, so instead, I'll just leave you here. But I will be back, and I won't be alone!" Shibogumon said, shooting a web similar to Venom's and flying away. "Well, that's one way to get rid of a villain! *Chuckle!*" Lincoln noted with a chuckle. "Great, just what we need." Aurachnid said sarcastically as they ended their transformations. "Yeah, not only do we have an evil Kamen Rider to deal with now, but that guy is actually using Aurachnid's venom for evil, not to mention that he's clearly in league with both the Animarius Empire and Shocker, since he has both of their emblems on his chest in addition to his own spider symbol!" Clyde noted in seriousness. "Gasp! But, that would mean that the Animarius Empire and Shocker are in an alliance together!" Lucy said in realization.
"But didn't Ronnie Anne-chan say that Shocker is working with the Pecadiablos?" Sakura asked. "Somehow, I get the feeling that Shocker might actually be pretending to be allies with the Pecadiablos in order to sabotage them from within!" Shintomaru surmised. "That does sound like something someone like the Great Leader would do." Daiki said. "That brings me to an interesting question! Who exactly is the Great Leader?" Sakura asked. "No one really knows." Shintomaru said. "He's as mysterious as any lead villain would be! Even I don't know his true origins!" Shintomaru added. "Not even Phillip, one half of the team that is Kamen Rider W, knows, and he has access to all the knowledge in the world." Daiki said. "All we Kamen Riders know about him is that he's the leader of Shocker and has been known to take on many different forms and identities as well lead different villainous organizations after each time he gets defeated and resurrected!" Shintomaru explained. "That's honestly quite terrifying." Clyde said. "Yeah, the Great Leader is indeed terrifying, especially considering that it's not exactly easy to kill him!" Shintomaru noted. "Every Showa Era Rider from Ichigo to Black RX has faced him in some way, it's complicated. And while it seems he was defeated, it's not for long." Daiki said.
"Yeah, it's mostly because of his tenacity, determination, and annoying ability to resurrect himself at any given time!" Shintomaru explained. That caused everyone to gulp in fright. "Yeah, no kidding." Daiki said. "Well, everyone, I've managed to change the tire. Why don't you come with us?" Professor Wilder asked Daiki, Natsumi, and Sayo. "Well, I've got to do at the moment! So, sure, why not?" Daiki replied. "I'm in." Natsumi said. "I just got here and finally reunited with Tsukasa-niichan, so I'll go too!" Said Sayo. "Wonderful!" Said Professor Wilder before he then asked "Do you mind introducing yourselves?" Daiki and Natsumi ended their transformations. "Boku wa, Kaito Daiki, Kamen Rider Diend." Daiki said. "Watashi wa Hikari Natsumi! With my Kibat partner Kiva-La, we're known as Kamen Rider Kiva-La!" Said Natsumi as Kiva-La flew up next to her. "And I'm Kadoya Sayo." Sayo said. "Pleasure to meet you all! I'm Professor Archibald Wilder!" Professor Wilder said in introduction. "This is my grandson, Charley." Professor Wilder said. "Hello!" Said Charley. "This is his friend, Nyansipo!" Professor Wilder said. "Nice to meet you!" Said Nyansipo. "Hello." The three visitors said. "And over here are Nyansipo's cousins, Afia, Onyina, Ama, and Yaa!" Professor Wilder said while introducing Afia, Onyina, Ama, and Yaa to the veteran riders and Sayo. "Pleasure to meet you." They said. "Daiki, Natsumi, and Kiva-La have already met us! I take it that they told you about us, right, Sayo?" Lincoln said to Sayo.
"A little." Sayo said. "Well, I guess we might as well properly introduce ourselves! I'm Lincoln Loud, also known as Kamen Rider LL!" Lincoln said in introduction. "Watashi wa, Hoseki Sakura, Kamen Rider Jewel." Sakura said. "And I'm Clyde McBride! And the golden spider on my shoulder is Aurachnid! When working together with him, I become Kamen Rider Anansi!" Clyde said. "Pleased to meet you! The pale imitation you just saw run away is Shibogumon, a Brazilian Wandering Spider Kaijin that can apparently work with that Skeletron thing to become the evil Kamen Rider Armadeiras." Aurachnid said. "Hey, what's with that name, anyway? Armadeiras?" Lori asked. "It's a Brazilian-Portuguese word for "Armed Spider", which, along with Banana Spider, is an alternate name for the Brazilian Wandering Spider!" Lisa explained. Leni shuddered. "As if those things couldn't get any scarier." She said. "Oh, yeah! Sayo, these are my sisters, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn Jr, Lucy, Lana, Lola, and Lisa! I do have one more sister named Lily, but she's back at the village with my parents, mostly because I don't want to put her into any danger, since she's only two years old!" Lincoln said while introducing his sisters to Sayo.
"Eh?! You have that many sisters, Lincoln-kun?!" Sayo asked in surprise. "I know, crazy right?" Sakura asked. "Even crazier is the fact that these." Sakura said, unveiling her wings. "Are real." She said. "You see, I'm actually part-Nature Fairy!" Sakura explained. "Kirei! (Pretty!)" Sayo said in amazement. "And, before we forget, here are our friends! This is Clyde's girlfriend Chloe!" Lincoln said. "Bonjour!" Chloe said. "This is Shintomaru's girlfriend, Stella!" Clyde said. "Hello!" Said Stella. "Over here is Rocky, Lucy's boyfriend!" Said Lincoln. "Hi!" Said Rocky. "Then there's Skippy, Lana's love interest!" Said Clyde. "Hey there!" Said Skippy. "Here's Winston, Lola's love interest!" Said Lincoln. "Greetings!" Said Winston. "Right over there is David, Lisa's love interest!" Said Clyde. "Salutations!" Said David. "Next to me is Aya-chan, who's a cousin of Nyansipo-kun, Afia-chan, Onyina-chan, Ama-chan, and Yaa-chan!" Said Sakura. "Hello! And just to let you know, I do have more cousins on my mother's side than the five individuals you see over here!" Aya said. "This is my Alebrije friend, Vularena." Aya said, pointing to the Alebrije on her shoulder. "Um, hello! In case you're wondering what I am, I'm an Alebrije, a guardian spirit!" Vularena said nervously. "Kawaii!" Sayo said.
"Over here is Mpatapo, who's also Aya's cousin, but from her father's side of the family!" Said Lincoln. "Hello." Mpatapo said. "Right over there is Duafe, who is Aya's best friend!" Said Clyde. "Nice to meet you." Duafe said. "These two over there are the twins Andros, who's Duafe's boyfriend, and Phixia, who's Mpatapo's girlfriend! And, yes, they aren't actually human! In fact, they are actually Animarius children based on Sphinxes! Fortunately, they are our good friends, nonetheless!" Lincoln said. "Much to my eternal frustration." Leo said, watching from afar. "Hello!" Andros and Phixia said at once. "Over here is Denkyem, Aya's boyfriend!" Said Clyde. "Hello." Denkyem said. "And, finally, right over here are two more Animarius allies, Gorf and Mambana, with the former being a Japanese Tree Frog and the latter a Black Mamba!" Lincoln said while pointing at Gorf and Mambana. "Hello." Gorf and Mambana said. "Um, same to you! Sorry, I'm little wary around venomous snakes!" Sayo said nervously when looking at Mambana.
"That's understandable." Mambana said. "Okay, so now that introductions are out of the way, you mind telling us where you all are going?" Daiki asked.
An hour later...
"Here we are, everyone! Accra, Ghana!" Professor Wilder said as they drove into a large city. "Woah, this place is amazing!" Leni said. "Not only is Accra Ghana's capital city, it's also it's largest." Lisa said. "Fun fact, he word Accra is derived from the Akan word Nkran meaning "ants", which is a reference to the numerous anthills seen in the countryside around Accra!" She added as she then pointed at a few anthills nearby. "Cool!" Lana said. As this was going on, the man interested in Clyde and Aurachnid was at a street cafe, talking to the chief over a bluetooth headpiece. "I assure you, this won't interfere in anyway with our goals for the Golden Spider." He said. "Well, whatever you're doing, Nkyinkyim, make sure to bring the golden spider and the descendant of Akoma to our secret village!" Chief Adinkrahene answered through the Bluetooth. "Don't worry, everything will be fine." Nkyinkyim promised as Professor Wilder drove up. Everyone stepped out. "Ah, Professor Wilder. I was wondering when you'd get here." Nkyinkim said. "Sorry for the delay. Tire issues." Professor Wilder said. "Ah! That's understandable!" Nkyinkyim replied. "And I see you've brought guests." Nkyinkyim said, looking at Clyde. "Yes, this is my Grandson, Charley." Professor Wilder said.
"Hello! You must Nkyinkyim! It's nice to meet you!" Said Charley. "It's nice to meet you as well, Charley. Your Grandfather told me a lot about you during our last expedition." Nkyinkyim said. "Yes, well, there's two new things new about me! First one, today's my thirteenth birthday!" Charley said. "Ah, well happy birthday." Nkyinkim said. "Thank you! The other thing new about is that, well, this is going to shock you, I'm currently a young father of twins!" Charley said, much to the shock of Nkyinkyim as well as Daiki, Natsumi, Kiva-La, and Sayo. "Yeah, it was a surprise to me as well." Professor Wilder said. "And I'm not only one who's a young father! My friend Nyansipo here is also a young father, of course he has only one child!" Charley said while pointing at Nyansipo. "Both accidents. It's a long story." Nyansipo said. "Yikes! How did either of your parents react about that?" Nkyinkyim asked in shock. "They were surprised at first." Nyansipo said. "Fortunately, my mother read my aura and, after finding out that I had no intentions of getting my girlfriend Aika pregnant, decided not to punish me and even allowed Aika, who was a Japanese girl whose parents died in a plane crash, to become a part of our family as my future wife!" Nyansipo explained. "As for me, well, after they were gathered shocked that I got my girlfriend Atea pregnant, I calmed my parents down and told both them and Atea's parents that I'm willing to take responsibility by staying by Atea's side and helping her raise our babies together once they're born!" Charley explained.
"Huh! That's surprisingly mature of you, Charley!" Nkyinkyim noted. "True." Charley said. "Besides, I truly do love Atea and I really didn't want to abandon her in her time of need, otherwise I would be no better than a heartless coward!" He added. "Yeah, from what Atea told me, Charley is really into romantic novels, movies, and TV shows since he was seven! Of course, he doesn't like anything that goes against true love, such as abandonment, abuse, betrayal, cheating, cruelty, deceit, and many other negative things!" Nyansipo explained. "Well good for you." Nkyinkyim said. "Anyway..." Professor Wilder said, continuing with the introductions. "These are Nyansipo's cousins Aya, Afia, Onyina, Ama, and Yaa!" He said. "Hello." They said. "Over here are Daiki, Natsumi, and Sayo, who we just met on the way here!" Professor Wilder said."Ah, pleased to meet you." Nkyinkyim said. "Over here are Mpatapo, Aya's cousin from her father's side, and Duafe, Aya's best friend!" Said Professor Wilder. "Hello." Mpatapo and Duafe said. "Over here are Lincoln and Sakura, the latter being Lincoln's girlfriend and also Aika's cousin!" Said Charley. "Nice to meet you." Lincoln said. "Konichiwa." Sakura said.
"Right over here are nine of Lincoln's ten sisters, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn Jr, Lucy, Lana, Lola, and Lisa!" Said Nyansipo. "Ten sisters?" Nkyinkyim asked, starting to chuckle. "Tell me about it." Lincoln said. "Over here are Aya's boyfriend Denkyem and Lincoln's friends Stella, her boyfriend Shintomaru, and Chloe!" Said Charley. "Hi!" Said Denkyem. "Hello!" Said Stella. "Konichiwa!" Said Shintomaru. "Bonjour!" Said Chloe. "Right over at the truck are Gorf and Mambana, who also aren't human, but still are our allies!" Said Nyansipo. "Greetings." Gorf said. "And this young man is Clyde, he too is descended from the people of the spiders, not just any people, but the spider warrior himself!" Professor Wilder said. "Um, hello!" Clyde said nervously. "Oh really? You're descended from Akoma?" Nkyinkyim asked. "That's what Aurachnid told me when he found me!" Clyde said as Aurachnid crawled up to his right hand. 'The Golden Spider in person!' Nkyinkyim thought in amazement. "Hey, there! How's it going? The name's Aurachnid! It's a combination of Aurum, the Latin word for Gold, and Arachnid, the animal group that spiders belong to!" Aurachnid said in introduction. Nkyinkyim fell to his knees. "Oh great Golden Spider, you have no idea how honored I am to be in your presence!" He declared, bowing before Aurachnid.
"Wow! Thanks! It's been like, 5,000 years since people treated me with respect like that!" Said Aurachnid. "Seriously, when I first awoken from my 5,000 year dormancy and tried to find someone of Akoma's bloodline, I ran into a teenage girl that treated me like people do to cockroaches, first by spraying me with pesticides, then by swatting with a fly-swatter, and then by throwing random kitchen supplies at me including a frying pan, which really hurt like heck!" He added in complaint while pointing at Leni. "Hey, I can't help it that spiders freak me out!" Leni said in defense. "Kind of makes you wonder why she came on an expedition for a tribe called the people of the spiders." Andros whispered to Phixia. That caused Phixia to snicker a little. Unbeknownst to any of them, Falkyrie and Vulturion were watching from a skyscraper. "Targets have met up with someone, waiting further instructions." Vulturion reported via walkie talkie. "Just keep watching until I say that it's time to strike!" General Leo replied through the walkie talkie. "I hope you know what you're doing." Leo told Armadeiras as he used a stone to sharpen his sword.
"Don't worry! Besides, the riders don't know anything about my powers and my fighting skills, mostly because of that untimely interruption by Diend and Kiva-La, not to mention the unexpected arrival of Decade's sister!" Armadeiras anwered. "I may require the assistance of two of you however to fight LL and Jewel, while I show Anansi who the master web blaster really is." Shibogumon stated. "I'm in! There are plenty of driver ants around the countryside of this city to control with by pheromones!" Siafury said in eagerness. "I'll go too! Ostriches may not be able to fly, but we sure can fight!" Ostrush volunteered. "If he's going, then I'm going too, since Secretarybirds are capable of fighting as well, though we can fly as well, but usually only in a mating display and to fly up to our nests! Besides, I'm getting tired of being left out of the action anyway!" Secretarius said. "Excellent! Then the four of us will follow them, and when the time is right, we strike!" Armadeiras declared. "Okay, but what would the rest of do in the meantime?" Cheeturbo asked in confusion. "Wait, just in case these three fail." Shibogumon said. "Sounds fair enough, I guess!" Rhinosteel said with a shrug. Just then, a portal opened up in front of General Leo and the others to reveal a humanoid Electric Catfish with the symbol of the Fish Army on his left shoulder. "Huh? What the heck?" General Leo asked in confusion. "Greetings, General Leo, I'm Electricus and I'm for some sparks to fly! Also, General Leo, sorry about the sudden arrival! I'm sort of a last-minute addition to your small army, under the request of General Megalonis, of course!" Said the humanoid Electric Catfish, now known as Electricus.
"Alright, what can you do?" Leo asked. "Well, I'm an Electric Catfish Animarius, so I can do this!" Electricus answered as he then turned his attention to a nearby crocodile that was in the river and shot out a discharge of electricity at the animal, causing it to be electrocuted. "I don't suppose you'd be willing to let him come with you, would you?" Leo asked Shibogumon, clearly impressed by Electricus' powers. "Tempting, but I think I'll save him for later! Besides, I don't see any rivers within the city anyway and I believe his powers are more effective when in the water!" Shibogumon answered. "Ah, that's okay! I'm willing to wait! Besides, I'm getting hungry here and I could use a bite to eat before I can go into battle!" Electricus replied as he then headed to the river where he electrocuted the crocodile and started picking up some dead fish that got caught in the crossfire of his electrical discharge.
Meanwhile...
Nkyinkyim was leading the group through a jungle. "This is the same path you took me through with the temple." Professor Wilder realized. "So, why are we heading back there?" Lori asked. "Well I-" Nkyinkyim said, only to be cut off by a feather courtesy of Secretarius. "What in the world?! Who threw that feather?!" Nkyinkyim asked in confusion. "Up here, humans!" Shibogumon said, catching everyone's attention. "Oh not you again!" Aurachnid complained as the other Animarius soldiers, plus Siafury, walked up. "Who are those guys?" Charley asked in confusion. "I am Secritarius, the Secretary Bird Animarius!" Secretarius said. "I am Ostrush, the Ostrich Animarius!" Ostrush said. "And I am Siafury, the Siafu Kaijin!" Siafury declared, making everyone look at Lisa in confusion. "The Siafu is a Swahili name for the Dorylus, also known as the Driver Ant or Safari Ant, which is a large genus of Army Ants native to Africa, usually found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range also extends to southern Africa and tropical Asia!" Lisa explained. "Unlike the Army Ants found in North, Central, and South America, the Siafu form temporary subterranean bivouacs in underground cavities which they excavate and inhabit - either for a few days or up to three months! Also unlike some New World army ants, Siafu are not specialized predators of other species of ant, instead being more generalistic with a diet consisting of a diversity of arthropods! Also, Siafu Colonies are enormous compared to other army ants and can contain over 20 million individuals! As with their American counterparts, workers exhibit caste polymorphism with the soldiers having particularly large heads that power their scissor-like mandibles! They are capable of stinging, but very rarely do so, relying instead on their powerful shearing jaws! Driver ant queens are the largest living ants known, with the largest measuring between 40 - 63 millimeters, or 1.5 - 2.4 inches, in total body length depending on their physiological condition!" Ama added.
"That's a big bug." Lynn commented. Secretarius caught sight of Mambana. "Looks like I found myself a little treat!" She said. "Uh, Lisa? Why is Secretarius looking at Mambana like that?" Lynn asked. "The Saggittarius Serperntaurius, or Secretary Bird, is a primarily carnivorous bird." Lisa started explaining. "Specifically, it's specialized in using its long legs and talons for hunting and killing snakes, which, unfortunately, includes Black Mambas!" She added as Mambana started screaming in terror and shouted "DON'T EAT ME!" as she turned invisible out of fright. "Talk about a 'snake in the grass'!" Luan joked. "*CHUCKLE!*" Get It?!" She added with a chuckle, to which Phixia slapped Luan across the face in anger. "Too soon?" Luan asked. "Way too soon." Phixia confirmed. "Also, not funny at all!" She added. "Phixia's right, Luan! I can tell by Mambana's aura that she's truly terrified of Secretarius, especially since she knows what kind of bird he is!" Aya said.
"Serves the filthy traitor right! And speaking of filthy traitors." A voice said as Leo stepped out of the bushes. "Hello, children." Leo said, making Andros and Phixia growl in anger at their father. "That lion is your father?!" Charley asked in confusion. "Only by blood." Andros said. "Wait a minute! Afia and I have, along with the rest of our cousins as well as Atea's mother and Nyansipo's mother, have seen him before! We turned into our werehyena forms and chased him and Secretarius as well as their elephant friend out of the village!" Onyina said upon recognizing General Leo. "Yes, thank you so much for that!" Leo said sarcastically. "Yeah, our "father" is actually afraid of spotted hyenas, mostly due to him being bullied and nearly violated by a female Spotted Hyena Animarius named Hyenia when he was cub!" Phixia explained. This made the ones capable of transforming into a Werehyena laugh. Of course, that made General Leo rather embarrassed, to say the least. "Stop Laughing! This Isn't Funny!" General Leo shouted in anger and embarrassment. "Yeah, What's Wrong With You Humans?!" Elephantor shouted as he appeared next to Leo.
"Huh? Lieutenant Elephantor?! Is that you?!" Gorf asked upon recognizing the African Elephant Animarius. "Lieutenant Gorf?" Elephantor asked in surprise. "I no longer go by the title of Lieutenant ever since Master Toadus and I left the Empire!" Gorf replied. "Wait a minute! Gorf-san, you know that elephant over there?!" Sakura asked in confusion. "I'm afraid I do! That's Lieutenant Elephantor, the lieutenant of the Mammal Army!" Gorf answered. "That's odd! We were never told that General Leo had a Lieutenant in his army!" Phixia noted. "Well, last I remember, he was amongst the Animarius that got killed off by Hoseki Ryu, long before Brachios' disappearance!" Gorf explained. "Yeah, that human was annoying!" Elephantor said. "Only because he didn't have the driver at the time." Sakura muttered. "I actually heard that!" Elephantor stated, causing Sakura to jump up in surprise. "Elephants have sensitive hearing." Lisa said. "That's right! In fact, that, along with my photographic memory, came in handy when we followed you all the way to that village!" Elephantor replied. Aya facepalmed at that. "Well it doesn't matter who you are! This is the end of the line for you!" Lincoln said as he, Sakura, Daiki, and Natsumi prepared to transform while Aurachnid bit Clyde's wrist.
"You probably outta stay at the sidelines for this, Elephantor! Besides, you're the only Lieutenant I've got right now!" General Leo warned, to which Elephantor said "Good idea, General Leo! I don't know how to fight against Diend and Kiva-La anyway!" in agreement and retreated back into a bush.
0-0-0-1, Let's Go!
Ruby! Sapphire! Topaz! Emerald!
Spider On!
Kamen Ride! Diend!
"Henshin!" The five Kamen Riders said, donning their armor. "Bring it on!" Ostrush said in eagerness. Nkyinkyim made a quick call. "Sir? We've run into a bit of a problem and may need backup." He said. "Problem? What sort of problem?" Chief Adinkrahene asked through the Bluetooth. "You know how the story tells of a race of alien beings Akoma fought? Yeah, they're back." Nkyinkyim said. "*Gasp!* Understood! I'm sending help on the way immediately!" Chief Adinkrahene replied. "Leave Anansi to me. You guys handle his friends." Armadeiras ordered. "Got It! I'll take on LL and Diend!" Ostrush declared. "I'll take on Jewel and Kiva-La!" Siafury said. "That just leaves me with the traitor Gorf and his delicious snake friend!" Secretarius declared, much to Mambana's fright. "Don't worry, Mambana." Gorf said, pulling out his katana. "I've got your back." He assured. "Don't forget about us!" Said Andros as he unsheathed his claws while Phixia levitated a few rocks with her telekinesis. "I'll handle them." Leo said, cracking his knuckles.
"If you're fighting, then so are we!" Aya declared as she, Nyansipo, Afia, Onyina, Ama, and Yaa transformed into their werehyena forms. *Shudder* "Just keep away from me!" He said. "I'll take care of those hyenas, General Leo!" Siafury declared as she then made a whistle and started unleashing pheromones from her body. That caused a swarm of Siafu, a.k.a Driver Ants, to appear from the ground and start crawling onto the werehyenas before biting onto their skin with their sharp mandibles. "Well that's one way to take advantage of the powers of a social insect." Lisa said. "Ow! Eee! Ouch! Tell me about it! I heard of 'ants in your pants', but this is ridiculous!" Nyansipo complained as he and the other werehyenas were jumping and yelping in pain from the ant bites, causing General Leo to laugh their misery. "Oh, that's definitely hilarious, seeing my own worst fears being tormented by something that gives them intense pain!" Leo said while laughing. However, Andros cut Leo's laughter off by scratching him on the chest, opposite to the scratch he left previously.
"*ROAR!* How Dare You?!" General Leo shouted in plain and anger. "That's for laughing at our friends' misery, General Leo!" Andros declared in anger. "You may have helped give us life, but you are not our father!" Phixia said, tossing a boulder at Leo. That caused General Leo to be sent flying across the jungle upon getting hit by the boulder. "Nice!" Andros said, fist bumping Phixia. "Oh it's so heartwarming to see how much the two of you remind me of your mother and I when we were young." Leo said. That's when General Leo had managed to recover from the attack and came back to the area rather quickly, much to Andros and Phixia's chagrin. "Too bad that you two have betrayed me and the Empire, not to mention fell in love with human children!" He added in contempt. "I'll have you know Duafe's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me!" Andros said. "Same goes for me with Mpatapo!" Phixia said. That made General Leo rather unhappy. Duafe and Mpatapo, on the other hand, were elated. "I'm gonna enjoy teaching you two ungrateful children a lesson by skewering those humans you love with my claws!" General Leo declared as he unsheathed his claws.
This frightened Duafe and Mpatapo. That also made Andros and Phixia, along with the Werehyenas, who were still in pain from the ant bites, very angry. "Don't even joke about that!" Andros said angrily. "Who said that I was joking?" General Leo asked rhetorically. "If you want to kill Duafe, you'll have to kill me first!" Andros said. "Same goes for me with Mpatapo!" Phixia said. "Don't forget about us!" Aya angrily declared. Unfortunately, the Werehyenas were still being bitten ruthlessly by the driver ants, so they couldn't do anything. "That can easily be arranged!" Leo said eagerly.
With Lincoln and Daiki...
They were having trouble attacking Ostrush, due to his speed and agility. "Dang, this guy is tough and fast!" Lincoln said, summoning his screen.
6-7-8-9, Shinobi!
"Rider Ninpo! Henshin Mist!" Lincoln said, entering his super form. "Good thinking." Daiki said, pulling out a card and loading it into the NeoDiendriver.
Kamen Ride! Shinobi!
Firing the Driver, a copy of Kamen Rider Shinobi (One Of The Future Riders From Zi-O, Hey, If The Guy Can Summon Movie Exclusive Riders, He Can Do This) appeared. "Whoa! Who's that guy?" Lincoln asked upon seeing Kamen Rider Shinobi. "That's Kamen Rider Shinobi! He's actually a Future Kamen Rider from an alternate version of the year of 2022 that was created by Zi-O's dreams! It's a bit difficult to explain!" Diend answered. "What part of Zi-O isn't difficult to explain? Seriously, we've both met him, and even I still don't fully understand everything!" Shintomaru said. "Well, whatever the case, I wouldn't mind having him teaming up with me!" Lincoln said. Just then, without warning, Ostrush took advantage of the riders' momentary pause by running past Lincoln and Shinobi before he then kicked Daiki very hard in the crotch. "ITAI!" Daiki yelled in very agonizing pain while dropping to his knees and covering his crotch. "Yeah, be careful of that one! An Ostrich's kick has the potential to kill people and predators, such as lions!" Lisa said. "Ah mou! Ima, anata wa watashi ni iu! (Now You Tell Me!)" Daiki complained. Ostrush simply laughed hysterically at Daiki's pain. "Hope you didn't have plans for kids!" Ostrush joked.
That comment made Daiki rather angry and annoyed while still in pain. "Uru...sai." Daiki complained. "Okay, now that's just cold! Real cold!" Charley said in disapproval of Ostrush's comment. "Oh what do you care? You knocked up a 13 year old girl who's currently 14!" Ostrush said. "Okay, that's a low blow!" Charley complained. "And don't get me started on him!" Ostrush said, pointing to Nyansipo. "Just what do you have against us being young fathers?!" Nyansipo asked in annoyance while still being bitten by the driver ants. "A lot of things, really! Seriously, the very idea of kids making babies with each other is disgusting! So much so that even King Draco himself doesn't like it! In fact, he even made a law that makes it illegal for young Animarius couples to make love and reproduce until they are legal adults!" Ostrush answered. "It was an accident! I was trying to give us abs!" Nyansipo said, rubbing his temples. "Accident or not, it's still disgusting!" Ostrush retorted. "You don't think we know that? But it doesn't matter, because it was the best accident to ever happen to me!" Nyansipo said. "Same here!" Charley retorted. "Hmph! Whatever!" Ostrush replied with a huff. "Hey, Big Bird! You forgot about me and my Shinobi friend!" Lincoln said as he and the copy of Kamen Rider Shinobi charged towards Ostrush with their katanas out.
"Oh no, you don't!" Ostrush declared as he landed a kick at Lincoln's crotch. However, what he actually hit was a straw dummy. "What the?" Ostrush asked. "Yokatta." Sakura said upon seeing that her boyfriend wasn't damaged in that way. "Over here, dummy!" Lincoln shouted out as he quickly slashed his katana across Ostrush's body while the copy of Kamen Rider Shinobi did the same with his katana. "I am more than ready to oblige! Nobody does that to me and gets away with it!" Daiki declared in contempt as he pointed the Neo-Diendriver at Ostrush.
*-#, Final Attack!
Final Attack Ride! D-D-D-Diend!
As soon as that happened, the copy of Kamen Rider Shinobi transformed into an orb that entered the muzzle of the Neo-Diendriver. "Rider Ninpo! Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai Shuriken!" Lincoln called as Daiki pulled the trigger. Afterwards Lincoln threw his giant Shuriken at Ostrush while Daiki shot out a blast of blue energy at the Ostrich Animarius. Ostrush started panicking. "Feets, don't fail me now!" He said, trying to escape the path of the two finishers. However, his 'feets' did indeed fail him as he was struck on both sides. "AAAAAAAAAGH! I'VE RAN OUT OF LUCK!" Ostrush yelled in pain, right before he then exploded and reverted back into a Soul Core with the image of a running male Ostrich on it. Flipping the Soul Core in the air and spinning on his heels, Lincoln proceeded to seal Ostrush. "One down!" Lincoln said.
Meanwhile, with Sakura and Natsumi...
They were having trouble against Siafury, who was using expert martial arts skills against them as well using her ant-shaped gauntlets to block their weapons. "Dang! She's rather tough, especially for an ant queen!" Said Sakura. Sakura then got an idea, pulling out the Sapphire of water.
Sapphire!
Switching to Ocean mode, Sakura summoned a giant wave. "Your pheromones are giving our friends trouble, why don't we give you a bath!" Sakura said. "I don't think so!" Siafury declared as she unleashed some more ants from behind Sakura and Natsumi. "Gomenesai, Ari!" (Ants) Sakura said, using her powers to create a wave big enough to sweep all the ants threatening her, Natsumi, and Aya's family away. "Fortunately for you, Sakura, ants can actually survive in water by using their own version of the doggy paddle as well as floating in the water with their bodies, not to mention that they can hold their breath underwater for at least 24 hours!" Lisa informed. "Yeah well, it's a good thing they aren't, *GULP* Osuzumebachi!" Sakura said in a shaky tone of voice at the mention of the Asian Giant Hornet's Japanese Name. "Oh, yeah! That's the insect motif that my friend Queen Hornet has!" Siafury noted. That got Sakura scared. "What's with her?" Professor Wilder asked, noticing the situation. "When we were young, she got attacked by a swarm of Asian Giant Hornets and nearly died. She's been terrified of them ever since!" Shintomaru explained.
That caused Professor Wilder, Charley, Nyansipo, Afia, Onyina, Ama, Yaa, Nkyinkyim, and Sayo to gasp in shock. "Oh dear! That's horrible!" Charley said in worry. "Compared to what the Animarius known as Cerberion did, that's an understatement." Lisa said. "Oh, yeah, Queen Hornet told me about him! Apparently, he doesn't want anyone to kill Jewel except for him!" Siafury noted. "Fortunately for you, Jewel, I'm not going to kill you! But, I'm definitely gonna make you suffer a little, since there are plenty more ants from where they came from!" She added as she then summoned more ants from the ground that crawled onto Sakura and Natsumi before they got underneath their helmets and started biting their faces. "Itai!" Sakura said. "Hey, Queen Ant, let's see you handle a Queen Bee!" Daiki said, loading another card into the NeoDiendriver.
Kamen Ride! Aguilera!
That's when a copy of Kamen Rider Aguilera appeared in front everyone. "Huh? Who's that?" Lincoln asked in confusion. "Kamen Rider Aguilera, once an enemy, but she became an ally of Kamen Riders Revi and Vice." Daiki explained. "The latter two riders mentioned are a T-Rex-themed duo consisting of a young man named Ikki and his literal inner demon named Vice, respectively!" He added. "You know, it's actually funny, he has a younger sister, who's also a Kamen Rider, Jeanne, who has a cobra theme, that's also named Sakura." Daiki said. That took Sakura by surprise. "Eh?! Seriously?!" Sakura asked in surprise. "Yeah, and she is fierce!" Daiki said. "Sugoi!" Sakura said before she then shouted "Itai!" as she and Natsumi were still bitten by the driver ants. "Hmph! Big deal! I'm not afraid of that bumblebee standing in front of me!" Siafury declared smugly while looking at the copy of Kamen Rider Aguilera. "You should be." Daiki said. Then, the copy of Kamen Rider Aguilera brought out her daggers and charged towards Siafury.
Like the bee that serves as her motif, she struck Siafury with her daggers like a stinger. "Agh! Okay, so she's tougher than I thought!" Siafury noted while clutching herself in pain.
Meanwhile, with Gorf and Mambana...
Mambana was hiding behind Gorf while the latter was fighting against Secretarius, who was fast enough to keep up with Gorf's ninja skills. "You certainly are a fast one!" Gorf said as he was fighting Secretarius with his katana, only for his sword strikes to be blocked by Secretarius's very sharp talons that were covered in metal. "Faster than you, traitor!" Secretarius said. He then grabbed Gorf's katana his talons and broke it in half. "I don't need a sword, Animari Ninpo! Mizu Shuriken!" Gorf shouted. However, once Gorf summoned and threw the water shuriken and threw them at Secretarius, the Secretarybird Animarius decided to counter that attack by spinning around and unleashing a tornado that sent the water shuriken back at Gorf. "What?!" Gorf asked in confusion as he immediately dodged his own water shuriken. "Did you really think that I wouldn't have something to counter that attack?" Secretarius asked rhetorically. Gorf growled.
Meanwhile, with Clyde...
He was having some trouble fighting against Armadeiras, who was obviously much faster and stronger than him. "You're a fool to think you can beat me!" Shibogumon said, attacking with his sword, while Clyde blocked with the Calabasher in knobkerrie mode. "You're unfit, unskilled." Shibogumon started saying. "You're forgetting one! Unstoppable!" Clyde said as Aurachnid bit the Calabasher.
Spider Break!
That's when the Calabasher glowed in a golden color while Clyde swung it around before shouting "SPIDER SMASH!". "Do you really think that scares me?" Shibogumon said, biting Armadeiras' sword.
Venom Slash!
That's when the blade of his banana-themed sword, the Musorocaban, started glowing in a dark purple aura. Armadeiras then swung the Musorocaban. Afterwards, both Clyde and Shibogumon charged towards each other and then clashed their powered-up weapons against one another. A huge explosion was created, sending both Spider motif riders back. "Clyde! Are you okay?" Lincoln asked, running to his best friend. "*Groan!* I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew with that guy!" Clyde replied in slight pain as he was on the ground. "We need to finish these guys and quick. Mecha Pollon!" Lincoln called. As soon as Lincoln called him out, Mecha-Pollon flew over to the riders in a matter of seconds. Unexpectedly, Mecha-Pollon also had some very familiar hitchhikers on his back, namely the living pinatas Fergy Fudgehog, Paulie Preztail, Franklin Fizzlybear, Les Galagoogoo, Ella Elephanilla, Hudson Horstachio, Simone Cinnamonkey, Tina and Teddington Twingersnap, and, lastly, Chortles Chippopotamus. "Whoo! That was certainly a blast! A jet blast, that is!" Chortles joked, much to the other pinatas annoyance, minus Ella, who simply said "*Chuckle!* That was fun! Let's do it again!" in excitement while the other pinatas were trying to catch their breath. "I'd say let's not!" Tina said in exhaustion. "That, I can agree on!" Teddington replied in agreement. "Nani? What are you guys doing here?" Sakura asked in confusion. "Well, we were actually helping Chortles here look for you guys, since he wanted to answer Luan's Funny Business card!" Paulie answered "Unfortunately, by the time we got to the house, none of you were there, so we went ahead and tried looking for you all at the base, only to find out that none of you were there either!" Fergy added. "But then, when we saw Mecha-Pollon had woken up, we figured that he could lead us to you, so we all decided to hitch a ride on his back before he took off!" Franklin explained. "Of course, the ride itself was rather intense, to say the least! Seriously, I nearly swallowed a bug!" Hudson said. "And I had to hold onto dear life with my tail, just so that I don't fall off!" Simone added.
"Seriously, that thing is lightning fast!" Fergy said. "Well, this certainly is interesting." Professor Wilder said as he scratched his head in confusion while Nkyinkyim and the others simply looked on in confusion. "You know what? This is actually a good thing, see if you guys can get those two together!" Lincoln instructed, pointing to Siafury and Secretarius. "Okay, who are those guys?" Paulie asked. "Bad guys we're trying to eliminate, which is why I called for Mecha Pollon in the first place!" Lincoln said. "Wait, who's Mecha Pollon?" Ella asked in confusion. That caused everyone to groan at Ella's forgetfulness. "That elephant is dumber than Leni-neechan." Sakura muttered. "Definitely a living opposite of the phrase 'an elephant never forgets'!" Charley noted. "Just get them in range of the Trinity Buster and run!" Lincoln instructed. "I got an idea about how to deal with that long-legged bird over there!" Tina said with a smirk. "Tina, what do you think your about to do?" Teddington asked in curiosity. "Let's just say we wrap our conjoined body around his legs and trip him up like a boleadora!" Tina answered. "Alright, but just be careful, that's a Secretary Bird Animarius, which eat snakes, and he might see you guys and get hungry." Sakura warned the conjoined snake pinata.
"*Gulp!* Duly noted!" Teddington replied nervously. "What about Siafury?" Lincoln asked. "I don't know! Unleash some termites at her? She's an ant after all!" Paulie guessed. "Where are we going to get termites and get them to attack the ants?" Aurachnid asked. "Um, I actually befriended a few termites from the termite mounds at Aya's village and had them stow away in my backpack!" Lana confessed as she took off her backpack and presented a few African termites from within it. "Leave it to Lana-chan to do something like that." Sakura said. "Okay, so we got some termites, but how are we going to use them against her?" Fergy asked. "Leave that to me! I'll carry them over to Siafury and throw them at her! But, I might need a ride on Hudson's back to get there faster!" Lana answered while looking at Hudson. "Sure, hop on!" Hudson said. Hudson then went down to a quadruped stance and allowed Lana to hop onto his back. "Let's go!" Lana said. Then, Hudson went up a little and neighed before he then charged towards Siafury with Lana on his back. As soon as the termites were thrown and landed on Siafury, the Siafu Kaijin started screaming and freaking out. As soon as the termites were thrown and landed on Siafury, the Siafu Kaijin started screaming and freaking out. "AAAAAAAAHH! TERMITES! GET THEM OFF, GET THEM OFF!" Siafury shouted in fright and panic as the termites started biting at her face and body relentlessly. That caused Siafury to lose her control over the driver ants, which in turn caused the ants to stop biting Sakura and Natsumi and crawl out of their helmets and off of their bodies in confusion. "Whew! That's one way to get rid of Ari (Ants)!" Sakura said in relief.
"Now's our chance!" Tina said. "Okay, Tina, if you say so!" Teddington replied as he and Tina slithered quietly towards Secretarius. While that was happening, Secretarius was able to finally land a few kicks at Gorf before he knocked him down and pinned the Japanese Tree Frog Animarius to ground with his talons. Secretarius started laughing before Tina and Teddington wrapped themselves around his legs. "What the?" Secretarius asked in confusion as Tina and Teddington pulled their conjoined body in opposite directions, causing the Secretarybird Animarius to lose his balance and start tripping over himself. "Now toss him into Siafury!" Lincoln called. "Uh, we might need a little help!" Said Tina. "As you can see, we're kind of tied up at moment, literally speaking!" Teddington said as he and Tina having trouble with unwrapping their conjoined body from Secretarius's legs. "I've got you!" Phixia said, using her telekinesis to help Tina and Teddington. "Thanks!" Said Tina. "Much appreciated!" Teddington added. "You're welcome!" Said Phixia. Once that happened, Gorf back up on his feet and then grabbed Secretarius by the legs before spinning him around and then tossing him right at Siafury, causing the Secretarybird Animarius to crash right into the Siafu Kaijin.
"Get off me, you overgrown chicken!" Siafury said. "Chicken?! I'm a Secretarybird, you stupid ant!" Secretarius replied in anger. "You both look like a couple turkeys to me! And do you know what we do to turkeys?" Lincoln asked as he, Sakura, and Clyde aimed the Trinity Buster at the two. "We fry them!" Lincoln said as he was about to pull the trigger. "Wait!" Lana shouted, causing the Kamen Riders to groan in annoyance. "Now, What, Lana?!" Lincoln asked in annoyance. "I gotta get my termite friends off of Siafury before they could get fried along with the bad guys!" Lana answered. "*Groan!* Fine! But make it quick!" Lincoln said. "Thanks, big brother!" Lana said as she quickly ran towards and gathered up all of the termites from the Siafu Kaijin's body and face before putting them back into her backpack and running back to the group for safety. "Okay! Now, you can obliterate them!" Lana called out. Lincoln pulled the trigger. "Sealing Blast!" Lincoln announced as the Trinity Buster shot out its blast of lights, causing both Siafury and Secretarius to shout in pain and say "WE'RE BLASTED AWAY!", right before they both exploded, with Secretarius being reverted back into a Soul Core with the image of a Secretarybird on it.
Lincoln quickly grabbed the Soul Core and sealed it. "Thanks for ruining my one liner, Lana." Lincoln said sarcastically. "This isn't over, humans!" Shibogumon said, arming the blades on his arms. "Talk about an 'armed' spider!" Luan joked as a resounding horn sound could be heard. That's when everyone looked around in confusion. "Oh Fudge! What was that?" Fergy asked in confusion. "Finally." Nkyinkyim said as a second, longer horn sound resounded. "That tune." Aurachnid said as a third horn, this one being longer than the first two resounded. "It can't be!" Aurachnid said as several men came out of the bushes. They were wearing traditional Akan warrior clothing, with golden helmets and chestplates, while carrying a sword in their right hands and a golden shield with a spider emblem in their left hands. "The Anansian Guard!" Aurachnid recognized in shock and awe. Once the Anansian Guard appeared, an army of large brown cat-sized spiders that had purple markings on their abdomen appeared next to them and started to make clicking sounds.
"I can't believe they're actually here!" Aurachnid said. "Aurachnid-san, what do you mean? Who are these people?" Sakura asked. "The Anansian Guard, elite warriors sworn to protect the people of the spiders at all costs! Akoma was actually the leader of the guard of his time before Shockwing's group invaded!" Aurachnid said. "That does explain some things!" Lincoln said. "But, what about those brown cat-sized spiders that are with them?" Sakura asked. "The J'ba Fofi! The Anansian Guard's loyal companions!" Aurachnid said. "J'ba FoFi?! As in the Congolese Giant Spiders?! Those are spider cryptids from Africa, last time I checked!" Clyde exclaimed in surprise. When Lisa heard that, she was beyond flabbergasted. "Oh, they're very real, alright!" Aurachnid said. "Mysterious monsters, and fake spider warrior, you are hereby ordered to leave these grounds or we will be forced to take action!" The apparent leader of the Anansian Guard ordered. "Oh yeah? And how are you going to stop us?" General Leo asked smugly. "With our J'ba FoFi companions, of course!" The lead guard said as the cat-sized spiders, now known as J'ba FoFi chartered in readiness to strike. The sight of the giant spiders made Leni faint out of fear.
"Is she okay?" Chortles asked in confusion. "She's terrified of spiders." Lori explained. "Even more so, since there are literally cat-sized spiders in front of her!" She added. "Can you blame her?" Fergy asked, hiding behind Andros. "Uh, Ferg? You do remember that we have a friend named Artie Arocknid, who's actually a spider pinata?" Paulie asked. "Oh! Right! I nearly forgot!" Fergy said sheepishly. "Hah! You humans and your pathetic spiders are going to have a tough time taking me down! My skin is impenetrable, since I'm based on a Nemean Lion after all!" General Leo said boasfully. "Then how do you explain that?" The Anansian Guard leader asked, pointing to the fresh cut left by Andros. "D'OH! Forgot about my son's claws being the only thing that can cut through my skin!" General Leo said in complaint. Andros and Phixia fist bumped at that. "Go get him, our arachnid companions!" The lead guard ordered. That's when the J'ba FoFi went and charged towards Leo before jumping onto him and biting him in the open cut, causing the Nemean Lion Animarius to roar in pain.
The leader then aimed his sword at Shibogumon. "You! You dare use the image of our legendary spider warrior for evil? For that, we cannot allow you to live!" He declared. Shibogumon simply responded by using the Musorocaban to slice the lead guard's sword in half without any effort. "You're an even bigger fool than him if you think you scare me!" Shibogumon said, pointing to Clyde. "Hey!" Clyde said in complaint. Leo managed to get the J'ba Fofi off him. "We'll do a strategic retreat for now, but we will be back, with reinforcements!" He warned. Suddenly, the venom of the J'ba FoFi started to take effect as General Leo started becoming stiff as a statue before falling down on the ground. "Dang It! Can't... Move... A Muscle!" General Leo complained while being paralyzed. "Don't worry, General Leo, I've got you!" Elephantor said, picking up Leo and running. "This isn't over!" Shibogumon said, reluctantly following them. "Well, that's definitely an interesting turn of events!" Professor Wilder noted. "Eh, just another Sunday for us." Lori said.
"Speaking of 'Sunday', does anyone have any ice cream, cause I'm sweltering a bit from the heat!" Chortles said in a joking manner. Luan and Fergy were the only ones to laugh. "Good one, Chortles!" Fergy said as the Anansian Guard approached Clyde and fell to their knees, bowing. "Great Golden Spider and champion of Kwaku Anansi, when we had heard of your return, the village had rejoiced! When Chief Adinkrahene told us you might be in trouble, we got here as soon as we could!" The leader said. Even the J'ba FoFi went and bowed in respect to Clyde and Aurachnid. "Well this is certainly unexpected." Lincoln said, approaching Clyde, however, the Anansian Guard stopped him, aiming their swords at him and Sakura. "Woah! It's okay! They're friends of mine!" Clyde said. "It's true! We can vouch for them!" Aurachnid assured. "Apologies." The leader said as they all put away their weapons and shields. "Allow me to properly introduce myself! I'm Dwennimmen, leader of the Anansian Guard!" The leader of the Anansian Guard, now known as Dwennimmen, said.
"Nice to meet you." Lincoln said, as he, Sakura, and Clyde undid their transformations. "I'm Lincoln Loud, Kamen Rider LL, this is my partner and girlfriend, Sakura Hoseki, Kamen Rider Jewel, and my best friend, Clyde McBride, Kamen Rider Anansi. You're already acquainted with Aurachnid." Lincoln said. Upon closer inspection, Dwennimmen noticed something familiar about Clyde. "Is something wrong, sir?" Clyde asked. "Forgive me, but I can't help but notice something rather familiar about you, Clyde!" Dwennimmen answered. "Apparently, Clyde is a direct descendant of Akoma!" Nkyinkyim said. That caused Dwennimmen to gasp in surprise. "Yeah, that's why he's able to use these powers. If I bite anyone else, they explode." Aurachnid explained. "*Gasp!* The last people that I knew who were directly descended from Akoma was my old friend and previous captain of the Anansian Guard Mframadan, who died in battle twelve years ago, and his long lost son Nsoromma!" Dwennimmen stated. That caused everyone, especially Clyde and Aurachnid, to look at him in confusion.
"I think we found another reason to take these people to the village." Nkyinkyim said. "Question, is that village you have mentioned very far, because I want to don't walk all the way there and get my all feet sore again!" Said Lola. "It is far, but, fortunately, we don't have to walk all the way there, since we have a special means of travel!" Dwennimmen answered. "But, before we can do that, we need to get the map leading to the village from the temple, just so that we would become prepared for the dangers of the path to the village!" Said Nkyinkyim. "Just follow us to the temple and you'll see what I mean!" Nkyinkyim answered as he motioned everyone to follow him. "Uh, we might need to wake up Leni first, because she's still fainted from the sight of the J'ba FoFi earlier!" Lincoln said as he pointed at Leni, who's still unconscious on the ground. Everyone groaned at that. "I got this!" Said Sakura as she used her water powers to splash a small amount of water on Leni's face, causing Leni jolt up and spit out the water in shock and confusion. "What happened? What did I miss?" Leni asked in confusion while looking around before she spotted the J'ba FoFi again. And fainting once more. "Dang It! I guess one of us will have to carry Leni along the way!" Lincoln said in complaint. "I got her." Lynn said.
Lynn Jr then used her impressive strength to carry Leni over her shoulder. "Lead the way, strange spider guys." Lynn said. "Lynn! Show some respect!" Lori said. "No, it's okay. We kind of expect this talk from outsiders, anyway. Just wait until you reach the village." Dwennimen said. "So the rumors about the people of the spiders still existing aren't rumors after all? They're cold hard facts?" Professor Wilder asked in astonishment. "Yes, though there are good reasons for why we kept ourselves hidden for quite a long time!" Dwennimmen answered. "Excuse me, Mr. Dwennimen? While I'm not a direct descendant of Akoma, I am one of his sister-in-law, Ofui." Aya said. That took both Dwennimmen and Nkyinkyim by surprise. "Yeah, It's the same with me, Afia, Onyina, Ama, and Yaa, since we're Aya's cousins from her mother's side!" Nyansipo added. "Interesting." Nkyinkyim said. "You think that's interesting? We also inherited Ofui's magical abilities, which includes the ability to read auras and the ability to turn into a werehyena!" Yaa said. "And if you know of any girls 10 years of age or older, we are willing to share our family's beauty enhancement potion." Ama said.
"Beauty enhancement potion?" Dwennimmen and Nkyinkyim asked in confusion. "It's an ancient potion recipe, invented by Ofui and passed down through the generations, that allows any girl at age 10 or older to grow large breasts, with the starter size depending on the girl's age, as well as give any girl with magical or supernatural abilities a permanent boost in power! Plus, it comes with a few extra benefits, such as strength enhancement magic in the back, to prevent back pains and stiff shoulders, and anti-gravity magic in the breasts, to prevent breathing problems and sagging, as well as preventing acne, or clearing out the skin permanently for those that already have acne, and dulling down the pain that comes with menstruation! Not only that, but it also prevents wrinkles, gray hairs, arthritis, dementia, osteoporosis, fatigue, hearing loss, sight loss, muscle degeneration, voice changes, and even cancer, which means that the woman who drink that potion would essentially have eternal youth, even in their elder years! Though, unfortunately, while that means that we can't die from old age or from cancer, it doesn't mean that we can't die at all as we can still die from other things, such as infectious diseases, poison, venom, toxins, pollution, starvation, dehydration, suffocation, electrocution, drowning, freezing, burning, and anything else that can kill a normal human being! And before you ask, the beauty enhancement potion does not work on boys, since it was made specifically for girls only!" Aya answered. "For proof of it's working, simply look at us." Aya said, pointing to every girl above the age of 10 present.
"Yeah, I'm literally a K-Cup since the day I drank it, since I'm actually 18 years old right now!" Lori added while pointing at her own chest. "And my boyfriend Bobby is loving it! Ever since I drank it, he can't help but go ga-ga at it." Lori said with a laugh. "Same with my boyfriend Benny!" Said Luan. "Of course, a lot of the girls at our schools are a bit jealous that we had gotten big breasts in such an easy manner!" Luna said. "But who can blame them?" Lynn Jr asked. That caused Sayo to become rather interested. "Um, Aya-chan, is it okay that I can have that beauty enhancement potion?" Sayo asked Aya. "Um, I guess! But, I do need to know your exact age before I could give you one! The last time I gave the beauty enhancement potion to an adult woman without knowing her exact age, she ended up getting breasts so huge that she had to get a new custom-made top to fit her new size!" Aya answered. "Oh! I see! Well, in that case, my current age is 27!" Sayo replied. "*Whistle!* Oh, boy! In your case, your breasts would definitely end up being a lot bigger than Lori's! Specifically, your breasts would become a T-Cup!" Aya said. "And, no, I'm not referring to an actual cup from a tea set, Luan!" Aya added while looking at Luan. "Dang It! Ruined the moment for a good tea joke there!" Luan complained. "A T-Cup?! I don't think that there are any bras that can fit something like that!" Sayo said in worry. "Well, to be fair, despite popular belief, it's not actually illegal to be braless! I'm not wearing a bra and neither are the girls who I gave the beauty enhancement potion to!" Aya said, much to Sayo's surprise. "Eh?!" Sayo asked in confusion. "Yeah, Aya-chan is telling the truth! Because of the fact that the women in my family are late bloomers, I was, well, flat-chested and I was jealous of those my age that have bigger breasts than me! Fortunately, I made two friends in Japan named Hima-chan and Tsu-chan, both of whom were early bloomers, and we even made a special promise to never wear bras, mainly because we don't see them as mandatory items nor do we like the idea of having our breasts compressed by them! Heck, I even kept that promise once my breasts grew after taking that potion and I even convinced a lot of the girls that drank it to do the same!" Sakura explained. "As for me, Leni, Luna, Luan, and Lynn, as well as our friends Sam, Mazzy, and Carlota, we used to wear bras before we took the potion! Of course, we were literally nervous about being braless once we took the potion! Thankfully, Aya convinced us that it's okay to be braless, especially since the potion's effects actually prevents our breasts from sagging and weighing us down, so we did just that and it turned out better for us than expected, especially since our love interests really enjoyed it!" Lori explained. "Ah! Well, if that's the case, then I guess I don't mind being braless once I've taken the potion!" Sayo said while blushing. "That's the spirit, Sayo! Oh! Of course, you might want to take your bra off in a private area before taking the beauty enhancement potion, just so you don't end up hurting yourself when your breasts grow in!" Aya said. "That's actually not a bad suggestion, Aya-chan!" Sayo said in realization. "Thank you!" Aya replied.
"You've certainly found some interesting new companions, oh great golden spider." Dwennimen told Aurachnid. "You don't know the half of it." Aurachnid said. "So, Chortles, your friends said that you wanted to answer my card for Funny Business Inc, is that correct?" Luan asked. "Oh! Yes, that is correct! Thanks for reminding me why I came all the way here! I've been pondering about your party business for quite a while and then I finally realized that this is a golden opportunity to be a part of something that makes kids laugh with joy! So, I have come to a conclusion and decided that I want to join your company, Luan!" Chortles answered as he pulled out the business card that Luan gave him at Aya's birthday party. "Awesome!" Luan said. "I'm definitely going to enjoy working with you on some fresh comedy routines together, along with my boyfriend Benny, my pet rabbit Gary, and my ventriloquist dummy Mr. Coconuts as well as some of my friends from Clown School!" She added in delight. "Thanks!" Chortles said.
"I brought plenty of my own comedy props, just to be safe!" He added while pulling out a suitcase that he opened to reveal several items, including a ukulele, a false arrow-through-the-neck item, a violin with a bow string, a small wooden mallet, several different types of hats, and a microphone. "Nice!" Luan said. "If you think that's nice, you should see my garden back on Pinata Island! It really shows that I have green thumbs!" Chortles replied while pulling out a pair of green-colored fake thumbs from his suit case. Luan laughed out loud. "Nice one!" She said. Everyone else, however, groaned in annoyance, especially Tina and Teddington. "Great! As if his jokes weren't bad enough!" Tina said in sarcastic complaint. "Wait, what's a joke?" Ella asked. "Seriously? Even Leni's not that dumb!" Lola complained. "Yeah, Ella is the most forgetful pinata on Pinata Island! She's just like that!" Paulie explained. "Perhaps I have a way to make Ella a lot less forgetful, using some reverse psychology, of course!" Ama suggested. She then went towards Ella and told her "Ella, remember to forget!", to which Fergy, Hudson, Simone, Chortles, and Tina and Teddington shouted "Oh No, Not Again!" in fright. Then, Ella said to herself repeatedly "Remember to forget! Remember to forget!" as we zoom in towards what appears to be Ella's mind, where we multiple smaller copies of herself in a line dropping files, representing her memories, into an elaborate-looking paper shredder before we then see another copy of herself sleeping on a chair in front of an old-school computer console, only to be woken up by a bright red siren alarm and immediately pulling a lever that caused the paper shredder to reverse itself and the destroyed files to restored and given back to lined-up Ella copies, who all then moved out of the line and started storing the files into the filing cabinets behind them instead of shredding them. Once all that happened, we zoom back to the real world, where we see Ella saying "Got It! Remember to remember!" in delight, much to the chagrin of Fergy, Hudson, Simone, Chortles, and Tina and Teddington.
"You should not have done that. Trust me, I unintentionally said that to her once! It didn't go over to well." Fergy said. "What do you mean by that?" Ama asked. "Well, one day, about sometime after I got into an argument with Paulie, long story on that, I discovered that whatever secret I told to Ella, she would forget it in a few seconds! That's when I got the idea of putting her into a business where every pinata on the island would go to Ella and tell her their deepest, darkest, and rather stressful secrets, knowing that she would forget them later! Plus, it was so successful, that I got rich quick in millions of chocolate coins! Unfortunately, sometime before that business started, I told to remember to forget everything, which, as you just demonstrated, Ama, caused her to remember everything! In fact, I didn't realize my mistake until after the business was finished and when Ella actually remembered to be on time for the next line of customers! What's even worse it's that Ella started going around and spilling everyone's secrets, starring with Simone and Hudson and then with Tina and Teddington before moving on to the rest of the customers!" Fergy explained. "And something tells me they're still upset about that." Fergy said as everyone glared at him.
"How can we not be upset about that?! Ella told me that Simone thinks that I'm a big pain-in-the-mane diva that drives her crazy with my demands!" Hudson angrily retorted. "And Ella told me that Teddington believes that all the brains were in his half of our body!" Tina said angrily. "While she also said that Tina believes that all the personality was in her half of our body!" Teddington added in equal anger. Fergy laughed nervously. "Yikes!" Said Ama. "Oh! I'm starting to remember something! Specifically, about the secrets of Professor Pester!" Ella said, gaining everyone's attention. "Wait a minute! Professor Pester told you some secrets of his own?" Fergy asked in confusion. "Yeah! He came to me while wearing a disguise consisting of funny glasses with a fake nose eyebrows, and mustache as well as a purple-colored fruit hat and told me that his secrets are that he loves little baby Galagoogoos, he still wears fuzzy Fizzlybear slippers around his house, he calls his mommy every night, and he flosses after every meal!" Ella explained. Once the pinatas heard that, they started snickering a little before they all burst out in hysterical laughter.
Meanwhile, in a Michigan State Prison...
Professor Pester and his Ruffians were in their cell when the Professor sneezed. "ACHOO! Oh No! Somehow, I get the feeling that my most embarrassing secrets have become publicly known to my own enemies, especially the pinatas!" Professor Pester exclaimed in worry before he took out a tissue and blew his nose into it. The Ruffians snickered. Even Barry Bonboon, who was wearing bandages around his body after Professor Pester and the Ruffians beaten him up and ate his candy and living in a cell right next to Professor Pester's, started snickering a little after hearing that. "Quiet, you!" Pester said. "Shutting up!" Barry replied in frightful compliance.
Back with the others...
Dwennimen and the rest of the Anansian Guard were leading the group. After a while, they finally reached the abandoned spider people village and saw the temple, which had the image of giant spider carved on top of it, in the center of it all. "Woah!" Charley said. "It doesn't look like anyone's been here in millennia." Lisa noted. "Yes! There's actually a few good reasons for why this village has been abandoned for a very long time! One of those reasons was the slavery of African tribes by Americans in the 1600's, which our ancestors were alerted to by an escaped slave!" Nkyinkyim explained. "Fortunately, what you see isn't always what you get." Dwennimen said. "What do you mean by that?" Clyde asked. "Within that temple, there's a map to a long hidden passageway that leads to the new village that our people have been living in since the day our ancestors left this one!" Nkyinkyim said. "And only a true Person of the Spider can read it." Dwennimen said. "That includes me and Dwennimmen and I believe that Clyde here can do so too, since he's a direct descendant of Akoma himself!" Nkyinkyim said while pointing at Clyde. "Thanks for the pressure, you two." Clyde said sarcastically.
"Don't worry, Clyde, I believe in you!" Aurachnid assured. "Same with me! I am your girlfriend, after all!" Chloe said as she then kissed Clyde in the cheek out of encouragement. "Aww!" All the girls went as they entered the temple. "Ah, this brings back a lot of memories. Over there is where Akoma saved me from the Scorpions, and over there is the altar where Akoma prayed to Kwaku Anansi for the power needed to defeat Shockwing and his cronies!" Aurachnid said. "I have a question, Aurachnid! Couldn't help but remember that you told us that Akoma was a boy when he saved you from the Scorpions and that he was a young man when he became the Spider Warrior, yet you were alive when both instances occurred! Last I checked, male spiders usually live for at least a year before during after mating while the females tend to live a lot longer, ranging from 25 to 40 years! How is it that you are alive for both instances of Akoma's life before becoming the golden spider you are today?" Lisa asked. "Oh, right! I guess I neglected to mention something about myself and my fellow spiders! Apparently, the Bum-eyed Spiders that lived in this temple, including myself, were blessed with a much longer lifespan than most spiders by Kwaku Anansi himself, since we were used as his avatars on Earth! Of course, that blessing also comes with a few other perks! While we weren't given the ability to talk to humans, we were given the ability to feel emotions like humans and even allow us to have a few human-like social skills like careing for our young or tending to our injured fellows! Plus, that blessing also prevents the females from becoming cannibalistic with the males when mating!" Aurachnid explained.
"The females still had a problem with the whole 'dying after birth' thing, though." Aurachnid said. "Speaking of death, I can't help but notice there are a lot of caskets in here." Lucy noted. "That's because it's tradition to bury people who have done great things here. Chieftans, healers, warriors, with the greatest of them all being right over there." Nkyinkyim said, pointing to a golden casket beneath a statue of Kwaku Anansi, which Aya dusted a name plate off. "It says, 'Here lies, Akoma'." Aya read. That caused everyone to gasp in shock while Aurachnid hopped off of Clyde's shoulder and went to the casket in question. "Normally, golden caskets are reserved for Chieftans, but the chief at the time of Akoma's death felt that he was more deserving of one of these than any chief we've ever had, so he ordered that Akoma be placed in this one, which was reserved for him, and placed here." Dwennimen explained. Then, Aurachnid went over to the statue of Akoma and looked at it while sighing and remembering the good times he had with Akoma.
"Are you okay, Aurachnid?" Clyde asked in concern. "Yeah, just...a little emotional is all." Aurachnid said. "Yeah, you told us that the moment that Akoma died was also the moment where the failsafe on you was triggered and you got sealed away inside of a spider statue!" Clyde noted. "Not a day I like to think about." Aurachnid admitted. "You know, I would normally joke about things, but since this is a sacred place of the buried, I'll have to refrain from making any jokes, just out of respect for dead!" Chortles stated. "Agreed." Luan said. Just then, Clyde noticed something on the wall behind Akoma's statue. "Is that the map you told us about?" Clyde asked. That's when everyone looked to see a map showing a jungle landscape with a winding river, a few small mountains, and a large cave. "Indeed it is. Our ancestors designed it specifically to show several paths, but only a true person of the spider can see the true path." Nkyinkyim said as Clyde saw a golden light making a path through the map.
"Whoa!" Clyde said in astonishment. "What do see, Clyde?" Chloe asked in confusion. "The true path shows that we have to go through the river and then climb over a small mountain before reaching into a cave!" Clyde answered. "Is that really the best path?" Lori asked. "Considering the fact it's the only one without booby traps, yes." Dwennimen said. "Booby traps? What sort of booby traps?" Nyansipo asked. "All kinds, Punji Stakes, we got that idea from the Viet Cong, pit falls, arrows, the works, every 10 meters." Nkyinkyim said. "Yikes! At least the true path doesn't have any of those dangerous traps!" Lincoln said. "Indeed. Fortunately, we know it by heart, so you don't have to worry about anything." Nkyinkyim said. "Of course, there's something living within the cave that we have to get past before we can even enter it!" Dwennimmen said. "And what would that be?" Lisa asked. "It's a primordial part-elephant and part-snake creature known as the Grootslang!" Dwennimmen answered. "A what?" Everyone but Lisa and those from Africa asked.
"The Grootslang or Grote Slang, which is Afrikaans and Dutch for "big snake", is a legendary cryptid that is reputed to dwell in a deep cave in the Richtersveld, South Africa! According to legend, the Grootslang is a primordial creature as old as the world itself! Tales state that the gods, who were new to the crafting of things, made a whole group of Grootslangs, only to realize that they had made a terrible mistake in the Grootslangs' creation as they gave them tremendous strength, cunning, and intellect! After realizing their mistake, the gods split the Grootslangs into separate creatures and thus created the first elephants and the first snakes! However, one of the original Grootslangs escaped, and from that one Grootslang, it sired many more Grootslangs! Legends claimed that Grootslangs devour elephants by luring them into their caves! The cave that the original Grootslang lives in is known as the "Wonder Hole" or the "Bottomless Pit", which supposedly connects to the sea, which in turn is 40 miles away! According to local legend, the cave is filled with diamonds! It is also said to live in warm rivers and lakes! While some people described the Grootslang as a giant snake with orange gemstones for eyes, most believe it to be a huge elephant-like creature with a serpent's tail! Also, according to the tale, Grootslangs covet gems, particularly diamonds, and despite the creatures' lust for cruelty, victims can often bargain for their freedom by offering a Grootslang enough precious gems!" Ama explained. "We shouldn't have problems with Lola then!" Lana joked. "Fortunately, this Grootslang is a descendant of one Akoma saved from Shockwing, they've been loyal guardians for the people of the spiders ever since." Nkyinkyim said.
"Whew! That's a relief! For a minute there, I thought it would be a ferocious man-eater or something!" Lincoln said in relief. "Only if they're not escorted by a person of the spiders, or a prisoner sentenced to death." Dwennimen said. "*GULP!*" Everyone gulped in fright. "Question, Ama, you mentioned that the one original Grootslang that escaped from the gods sired all of the Grootslangs existing today! How was that Grootslang able to do that without a mate?" Phixia asked. "Well, I believe it through a biological process known as parthenogenesis, which is a female animal's ability to produce offspring without having to mate with a male! It's a reproduction method that's most commonly found in invertebrates, such as tardegrades, aphids, and scorpions, and in very few vertebrates, such as some fish, amphibians, reptiles, and very rarely birds! As a conclusion, I believe that the first Grootslang and all of its descendants are in fact all female!" Ama answered. Everyone looked to Lisa for a dumbing down. "*Sigh!" Because the Grootslang is part-snake, it most likely has the ability to lay fertile eggs without any males to fertilize them, even it would have the ability to mate with a male, much like in real snakes such as pythons, anacondas, pit-vipers, boas, gartersnakes, filesnakes, and even rattlesnakes! The better alternative word for parthenogenesis is virgin birth, mainly because the females that produce offspring that way wouldn't have to mate with a male!" Lisa explained.
That got Aya thinking. 'Without a male?' She thought, looking over to Luna, it was plain seeing her aura that she hoped for a future with Sam, and that got her thinking about Ronnie Anne, Sid, Becky, and Dodge. 'Perhaps one day.' Aya thought to herself. "Question, Clyde mentioned that we have to go through the river in order to get to that cave you've mentioned! Does that mean that we have to go swimming or go boat?" Lola asked. "Neither, actually! The J'ba FoFi aren't the only companions we have!" Dwennimmen answered. "We have a herd of Ngoubous as well!" Nkyinkyim added, much to the confusion of everyone, minus Lisa and those from Africa. "The Ngoubou, meaning 'horned one' in the Baka language, is another African cryptid, this one being with a rhinoceros-like appearance! In fact, there are actually two subspecies of Ngoubou! First, there's the Savanna Ngoubou, which is around the size of an ox, with a beaked mouth, a small elephant-like tail, a single nasal horn, and a series of six horns around a supposed frill! Those last two features made a lot of people think that the Savanna Ngoubou was a living ceratopsian dinosaur, though that claim was later disproven, due to the fact that it has an elephant-like tail and it is said to give birth to live young, which are traits that are never seen in any dinosaur! Like the Emela-ntouka, which is another famous African cryptid, the Savannah Ngoubou is reputed to disembowel elephants. The other Ngoubou subspecies is the River Ngoubou, which is said to be almost as large as the African forest elephant and had two nasal horns positioned laterally, meaning one next to the other, not one-behind-the-other as in rhinoceroses, which makes it resemble the Arsinotherium, which is an extinct mammal that is actually related to elephants in spite of its rhinoceros-like build! It is capable of hiding by submerging itself underwater, like a hippopotamus, and is believed to kill elephants and occasionally attack canoes!" Ama explained.
Everyone shuddered at that. "Thankfully, the Ngoubous we have are a lot more tamer and docile than the wild ones, especially since they are actually domestically raised hybrids between the two different Ngoubou subspecies that Ama mentioned earlier!" Nkyinkyim explained. "Now, come on! Let's go!" Dwennimen said.
Outside...
"It sounds like they're following a specific path." Elephantor told everyone. "One that will take them through a river." He informed them. "Sounds like your time to shine has come again, Hippola." Leo informed the Hippo Animarius. "Perfect!" Hippola said in eagerness. "Giraffrag and I will come along with Hippola, just to aid her on the land on each side of the river!" Zebronco volunteered, to which Giraffrag said "Yeah! What he said!" in agreement. "I'll come along too! The Hibbertopterus, the aquatic arthropod I'm based on, doesn't have the ability to swim, but it does breathe underwater and crawl in the swamps and rivers of its prehistoric environment!" Hibberton volunteered. "I'll go as well! I'm a catfish, after all!" Electricus volunteered. "Just don't try to accidentally electrocute us while we're in the water, okay?" Hippola warned. "And remember. You maybe a fish, but the river is my territory. Hippos are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal in Africa, so I'll be in charge of this mission, capiche?" Hippola said. "Yes, Ma'am!" Electricus replied in compliance with a military salute. "Good, let's go!" Hippola said, leading everyone. "Tell Cicadeath and Flygor to have the Enlargement Ray on standby, just in case." Leo told Armadeiras. "Agreed" Armadeiras replied.
Meanwhile...
The entire group went out of the temple and then walked around behind it to see a herd of large rhinoceros-like animals that resembled the Arsinotherium, albeit with three nasal horns positioned laterally instead of two and had a bony frill on the back of their heads that have six long horns growing out from it, similar to the frill horns of a Styracosaurus. Plus, the animals have saddles worn on their backs. "Holy Shamoly! Are those animals the hybrid Ngoubous you guys just mentioned?!" Clyde asked in surprise. "They sure are!" Dwennimmen answered as he went towards the Ngoubou in front and petted it. "Woah!" Aurachnid said. "Dang! Those Ngoubous do indeed have some resemblance to the extinct Arsinotherium, albeit with three nasal horns positioned laterally instead of two and with the addition of a ceratopsian-like neck frill with six long horns!" Lisa noted. "They look more like this freak to me." Daiki said, holding up a card depicting Kamen Rider Thouser.
"Kamen Rider Thouser? Who exactly is he?" Lincoln asked. "He's a Kamen Rider from Zero-One's world and his story is rather complicated as he basically started off as a villainous rider before he would sometime later become an ally of Zero-One! Also, while most of the Kamen Riders of Zero-One's world usually only have one primary animal motif, Thouser actually has two, with one motif being a Caucasus Beetle and the other being the Arsinotherium!" Shintomaru explained. "And take it from Zero-One, his rider form is not one to be trifled with." Daiki added. "Yikes!" Sakura said. "Very much so." Shintomaru said as Nkyinkyim, Dwennimen, and the Anansian Guard helped everyone get onboard the Ngoubous. "Whoa! That's definitely what I call a ride!" Lana said in amazement. "They will help us get to the Grootslang's cave in no time, once we're there, it will be a cakewalk to the village. There you will get to meet someone I'm sure will be very happy to see you, Clyde." Nkyinkyim said. "Huh? Who do you mean?" Clyde asked in confusion. "You'll see." Dwennimen said.
Then, the Ngoubous started walking towards the river, where the Arsinotherium-related creatures then dipped their feet into the water and then started swimming into the river without getting their riders and passengers wet. "At least I won't have to worry about my outfit getting wet." Lola said. "Now, I should warn you kids, there are a few hippos in this area, and Hippos are known to cause more human fatalities than any other animal in Africa." Dwennimen said. "It's true, whether by brute force or their impressively sharp teeth." Lisa stated. "Aren't Hippos supposed to be herbivores? Why would they want to kill humans?" Lana asked in confusion. "Usually with males in territory and females when it comes to their young." Ama answered. "Plus, hippos are known to be most aggressive and territorial herbivorous mammal on the planet! Even crocodiles have to be careful around them when swimming in their territory!" She added. "Their lower teeth, the equivalent to an elephant's tusks or a rhinoceros' horn, can cut through a boat like a knife through butter." Lisa said.
"And they can, no doubt, use those tusks to critically injure or kill crocodiles lions, hyenas, and even humans!" She added, much to everyone's fright. Even Chortles was frightened, especially considering that he's a hippo pinata. "Yeah, so be on the lookout, if you see any, let us know so we can steer clear of them!" Dwennimen said. "Got It!" Everyone said in agreement. Just then, as the Ngoubous were swimming through the river and passing underneath a tree that was hanging over the riverbed, everyone saw a group of frogs on the branches that had bright green skin and a horn on their snout that flashed with a red light. "Whoa! Cool! What kind of frogs are those?" Lana asked in amazement. "*Gasp!* Those are Flashlight Frogs! They are another cryptid species native to Africa! In this case, they are amphibians with a bioluminescent horn on their snout that produces a red light, which allows them to lure insects to them before they then catch them with their yellow spiky tongue, which is covered in a deadly saliva!" Ama explained. "And I thought the frogs we had back home were freaky!" Lola said as she felt the glare of Lana and Gorf piercing into her very heart and soul. "Present company excluded." She said.
Just then, one of the Flashlight Frogs hopped off of the branch and landed on Lana's lap in a friendly manner. "Is it just the tongue that's deadly or is it okay to touch it?" Lana asked. "Just the tongue that's deadly! So, yes, you can touch it!" Ama confirmed. "Just make sure to use some of this afterwards." She said, pulling out some hand sanitizer. "Okay! Thanks!" Lana as she then started gently petting the friendly Flashlight Frog's back. "I think I'll call you Flashy, since you're a Flashlight Frog! Do you agree with that?" Lana asked the friendly Flashlight Frog, who nodded in agreement. "Leave it to Lana to befriend a freaky frog." Lola said. "Ahem!" Lana and Gorf said in annoyance while glaring at Lola. "Ooooh! Right! Sorry!" Lola apologized after realizing what she said. "So, Charley, is it? Any idea when your birthday is, because I don't mind being the main pinata of any party, including birthday parties!" Hudson said to Charley. "Actually, today is my birthday! My thirteenth birthday, to be exact!" Charley answered. That took Hudson and the other pinatas by surprise. "Oh! Well, then, happy thirteenth birthday! I've been into plenty of thirteenth birthday parties for a while, including Jewish Bar Mitzvahs!" Hudson said in delight.
"Thanks." Charley said. "I also want to inform you all that today is also my tenth birthday, since that would mean I'm old enough to take part in the beauty enhancement potion!" Ama informed. "Which we can take care of once we get home!" Aya said. "Thanks, cousin Aya!" Ama said. "So, Charley, what exactly do like, you know, hobby-wise and stuff?" Paulie asked. "Well, I like to read romantic novels and watch movies and TV shows that involve romance since I was seven years old!" Charley answered. "Awww!" The girls went. "I've also wanted to be an archeologist like my grandfather." Charley said, pointing to Professor Wilder, who was interviewing Paulie and Fergy. "So there's a literal island inhabited by sentient pinatas?!" He asked. "Yep! And a lot of them love to go to pinata parties across the Earth in our universe, via the Cannonata, and get themselves beaten and broken up by human kids, so that they would allow the kids to have the candy stored in their bodies! Afterwards, they return to Pinata Island in pieces, so that the pinatas would get put back together and fully repaired in order to be ready for the next party!" Paulie explained. "Of course, Paulie and I are the only pinatas that don't like to go to pinata parties, since we don't like the idea of getting bashed to pieces with a stick! Sure, we pinatas don't die from getting broken apart, but it's rather scary to us and very painful! In fact, the only exception is Aya's birthday party, since she made it clear to everyone that we are her friends and nobody is supposed smash us!" Fergy added.
"Although Carl-kun didn't seem to get that memo." Sakura said. "Yeah! He went all baseball bat-crazy and chased us around the house! Fortunately, his cousin Ronnie Anne stopped him by pulling down his pants and exposing his train-themed boxer shorts or as Carl calls them, his Choo-Choo Chonies!" Paulie said before he and Fergy snickered in that memory. Everyone laughed.
Meanwhile, in Great Lakes City...
"ACHOO!" Carl sneezed. "Are you okay, Carl?" Axolota asked. "Yeah, just sneezed for some reason." Carl said. "You know, in Japan, there's a superstition that says if you sneeze, someone's talking about you." AkaRed said. "Really? What exactly about me would anyone talking about?" Carl asked in confusion. "I don't know! Perhaps, they might talking about your train-themed boxer shorts!" AkaRed guessed. This got Becky, Dodge, Ricky, and their Alebrije laughing out loud. That caused Carl to turn bright red from embarrassment.
Back With The Others...
Vularena started tensing up. "Something wrong, Rena?" Aya asked. "I'm sensing something off." The Alebrije said. "How off?" Aya asked. "Well-" Vularena started saying as the Ngoubous started groaning in pain. "Hey, what's going on with these guys?" Lori asked. That's when Aya, Nyansipo, Afia, Onyina, Ama, and Yaa read the auras of the Ngoubous and figured out what was wrong. "They're being electrocuted!" Aya said. "By what?" Lincoln asked. "Something tells me whatever's swimming in the river, repeatedly touching them is behind this!" Vularena said, noticing a shadow quickly going from one Ngoubou to another. "But what kind of creature can do that?!" Fergy asked in worry. "I don't know, but I don't think that's the only thing we should be worried about!" Nyansipo said as arrows started flying in their direction. Thankfully, Ella caught one of the arrows with her trunk and said "It's coming from that direction!" while pointing at the where the arrows came from. "Sakura, you and Phixia try and figure out what's going on in the water, Clyde, Andros and I will investigate the arrows!" Lincoln said.
"Daiki can help us, while you guys help Sakura and Phixia." Lincoln said. "Sounds like a plan!" Natsumi replied. "Let's go, guys!" Lincoln said as he, Clyde, Andros, and Daiki hopped off their Nguobous and headed to where the arrows were coming from. "My telekinesis should help get rid of whatever it is that's bothering us!" Phixia said. "Focus your telekinesis on that moving shadow and pull it out of the water!" Vularena instructed. "Right!" Phixia said, doing so. Once she spotted the shadow, Phixia her telekinesis to pull it out of the water, revealing the culprit to be none other than Electricus. "A catfish Animarius?" Sakura asked in confusion. "Not just any catfish. Malapterurus Electricus, the Electric Catfish!" Lisa said. "ELECTRIC CATFISH?!" Everyone asked in fright. "Much like the better known Electric Eel, the Electric Catfish is able to use Electricity in nature." Lisa explained.
"It is reputed that Doctors in ancient Egypt used shocks from the Electric Catfish to reduce the pain of arthritis! Strangely enough, that trait is still used today in some areas!" She added. "Well this electricity isn't helpful!" Electricus said, firing a bolt of electricity at Phixia. That caused Phixia to scream in pain, forcing her to let go of Electricus. "Phixia!" Mpatapo said. Sakura and Natsumi growled and prepared to transform. "Hah! Yes! Take that, you traitor! I'm not called Electricus for nothing!" Electricus boasted in prideful victory. Mpatapo rushed over to his girlfriend while Sakura pulled out the mystic pearl. "Nice trick, let's see you do that with us!" She said.
Pearl!
"Henshin!" Sakura and Natsumi said, transforming into their Kamen Rider forms. "You think those forms scare me? Pa-lease! I can easily take you both on!" Electricus boasted. "Bring it!" Sakura and Natsumi said.
With the boys...
They were still searching in the direction of where the arrows came from. Andros got a headache. "We've got a problem. Phixia just sent me a telepathy message saying they're dealing with an Electric Catfish Animarius!" He said. That caused Lincoln, Clyde, Aurachnid, and Daiki to gasp in shock. "An electric catfish?! Aw, man! Of all the rotten luck!" Aurachnid in annoyance."It's about to get worse for you, riders!" A voice said as Hippola, Giraffrag, Zebronco, and Hibberton popped up, an arrow knocked in Hippola's bow. Hippola then shot the arrow at the heroes, causing them to dodge out of way. Unfortunately, the arrow simply bounced and ricocheted off the trees until it finally landed a hit, right at Andros's butt. "YEOW!" Andros shouted in pain. "I get that Hippos are supposed to be dangerous, but why does that one have a bow and arrow?!" Andros complained. "Alright, just who are you jerks and what do you want?!" Lincoln asked in anger. "I am Hippola!" Hippola said.
"I'm Zebronco!" Said Zebronco. "I'm Giraffrag!" Giraffrag said. "And I'm Hibberton! In case you don't know, I'm A Hibbertopterus Kaijin!" Hibberton announced. "A hibber-what now?" Aurachnid asked in confusion. "I'm not familiar with that creature!" Clyde said. "Me neither!" Lincoln said. "Same here!" Andros said. "That's the first time I've ever heard of such an animal!" Daiki said, much to Hibberton's annoyance. "Seriously? None of you have ever heard of the Hibbertopterus?" Hibberton asked in annoyance. "No." Everyone said. "Dang It! Fine! I'll explain! The Hibbertopterus is from an extinct arthopod group known as Eurypterids, which are related to horseshoe crabs and are also known as sea scorpions, due to some bodily resemblance to actual scorpions, though they don't have venomous stings in their tails nor are they related to true scorpions! Also, despite being called sea scorpions, only the earliest eurypterids were marine, since many later forms, including the Hibbertopterus, lived in brackish or fresh water! Plus, they have a dual respiratory system that allows them to move into terrestrial environments for short periods of time! Of course, while most Eurypterids have paddle-like appendages that allow them to swim, the Hibbertopterus and its relatives from the Eurypterid suborder Stylonurina doesn't have those as they have walking legs that they use to crawl within the swamps and rivers as well as for sweep-feeding, which is basically raking through the substrate in search of prey!" Hibberton explained in frustration.
"Oh!" Everyone said. "You heard everything, Lis?" Lincoln asked through the comm link. "It's just as he says." Lisa said. "Honestly, what are they teaching you kids in school if you've never heard of the Hibbertopterus?!" Hibberton complained. "I don't know! Maybe it's because that it's one of those lesser known extinct creatures?" Lincoln replied. "Yeah, when people think of extinct animals, they usually think of either dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, Wooly Mammoths, Sabertooth Tigers, Ground Sloths, Trilobites, Ammonites, Meganeuras, Megalodons, Dimetrodons, Dodos, Thylacines, Haast Eagles, Titanoboas, or even Quaggas!" Clyde stated. Hibberton hung his head in shame and started drawing in the dirt. "Why me?" He complained. That made Hippola, Zebronco, and Giraffrag facepalm in frustration. Aurachnid started laughing. "How pathetic are you?" He asked. Even Daiki laughed at Hibberton's misery. "Shut up, you!" Hippola said, firing an arrow that narrowly missed Daiki. "Whatever, you're going down!" Lincoln said as he and Daiki prepared their drivers and Aurachnid bit Clyde's wrist.
0-0-0-1, Let's Go!
Spider On!
Kamen Ride! Diend!
"Henshin!" The three Kamen Riders shouted, taking on their rider forms as Andros removed the arrow. "Ow! I'm definitely gonna make you pay for shooting an arrow at my butt, you big fat hippo!" Andros declared while unsheathing his claws. "Is that supposed to be an insult? If it is, then I'm afraid that the joke's on you! This is actually a perfectly natural body weight for a hippo!" Hippola proudly stated. "And I'll have you know, I think I look fabulous!" Hippola said, smacking her rear end. "I could have gone my entire life without seeing that." Lincoln said. "*SHUDDER!* Same here!" Clyde said in agreement. "I heard that!" Hippola said, firing another arrow. "We're going to need some backup." Daiki said, loading the NeoDiendriver.
Kamen Ride! G3!
Kamen Ride! Leangle!
Kamen Ride! Buster!
Firing the NeoDiendriver, Daiki summoned clones of Kamen Riders G3, Leangle, and Buster. When Clyde and Aurachnid noticed the spider motif of Leangle, they were quite amazed! "Is that guy Leangle, the Kamen Rider that Shintomaru mentioned to us?" Clyde asked. "Yep, but whereas your motif is that of a Bum-eyed spider, Leangle's is that of the Onigumo Spider." Daiki said. "Yeah, Shintomaru and Lisa already explained to us about what the Onigumo Spider is! Apparently, both the Bum-eyed Spider and the Onigumo Spider are from the Araneus genus, meaning that are related spider species!" Lincoln noted. "Ah! I see! That does make some bit of sense!" Daiki noted. Then, Clyde went over to Leangle clones side and brought out the Calabasher in Knobkerrie Mode. While the Leangle Clone brought out the Leangle Rouzer. "Cool! We both have a spider motif and a club-based weapon!" Clyde said in amazement. "I'll work with the G3 clone." Lincoln said, walking up to the clone of the Kuuga rip off secondary rider. (Which Let's Face It, Is What G3 And G4 Are)
"I guess that leaves me with the Buster clone!" Andros said as he walked up to the clone of Kamen Rider Buster. "Come to think of it, why is his rider name Buster?" Andros asked in confusion. "He's affiliated with an organization called 'Sword of Logos', each member being a Kamen Rider armed with a magical sword imbued with an elemental power. In Buster's case, the Dougoken Gekido, is imbued with the power of Earth." Daiki explained. "Also, each of the Kamen Riders from the Sword of Logos are named after different types of swords! In the case of Kamen Rider Buster, his rider name is a corruption on the term "bastard sword", which were large two-handed swords used in Europe during the 17th century, and also coincidentally shares a name with the Buster Sword, a giant sword wielded by the protagonist Cloud Strife from "Final Fantasy VII"!" Daiki explained. As if demonstrating what Daiki was talking about, the Buster Clone pulled out a clone of the Dougoken Gekido with the Genbu Shinwa Ride Book in it's slot.
"Man, that is one big sword!" Andros noted upon seeing the weapon. "You can say that again." Lincoln said. "Can we just start fighting, already?!" Zebronco asked impatiently. "Yeah! Less talk, more action!" Giraffrag added impatiently. "Right!" Lincoln said.
Meanwhile, with the girls...
They were having trouble fighting against Electricus, due to his fast swimming ability and his electricity, which he then used to electrocute them after he managed to grab both of their weapons while they still holding them. "There's got to be something we can do against this guy! Lisa-chan, how much time until we can use the Trinity Buster?" Sakura asked. "I'd say about six minutes from now!" Lisa answered. "The Trinity Buster requires three people to use, that's you and I, but Phixia-chan's still recovering from Electricus' attack!" Sakura said. "That's not good!" Natsumi said in worry. "I think I can help!" Aya said. "I can simply use my werehyena form while holding the Trinity Buster, that's all!" Aya replied. "And I can use my powers to provide a little boost!" Vularena volunteered. "That's actually a good idea! Arigato, Aya-chan! You too, Vularena-chan!" Sakura said in delight. Upon hearing that, Electricus decided to call Hippola on his walkie talkie. "Pst! Hippola! Bad news! It appears that the riders and their ally Aya and some creature named Vularena are going to call that super weapon over here in six minutes and I don't want to end up like Siafury and Secretarius! Permission to call Ornithocrash for aerial support!" Electricus quietly said. "Permission granted!" Hippola answered through the walkie talkie. "Great! Thanks!" Electricus replied as he then pressed the adjusted the walkie talkie. "Hey, Ornithocrash, I called Hippola and she said that you can join in the battle as air support!" Electricus said. "Got It! I'm on my way!" Ornithocrash answered through the walkie talkie.
"I don't like the sound of that!" Kiva-La said. "I wonder what kind of creature this Ornithocrash is based on!" Vularena wondered. Suddenly, Ornithocrash ran in. "Bombs Away!" Ornithocrash called out as he swooped down and knocked Sakura, Natsumi, and Aya off of their Ngoubous and into the water. "Oh dear." Lisa said. "It appears that Ornithocrash is based on the Ornithocheirus, a pterosaur species whose fossils were discovered in the United Kingdom and in Morocco! The Ornithocheirus, and other related pterosaur species from the subfamily Ornithocheiridae, has a distinctive convex "keeled" crest on its snout, making it rather unique among pterosaurs, though its relative, the Tropeognathus, has much more developed crest! Of course, another feature that makes Ornithocheirus unique is that it has relatively narrow jaw tips compared to the Tropeognathus and its other relative Coloborhynchus and, unlike its relatives, its teeth of were mostly vertical, rather than set at an outward-pointing angle!" Lisa explained. "You call it all of that, I call it UGLY!" Lola said. "I heard that!" Ornithocrash retorted in annoyance as he then went and knocked Lola into the water. "LOLA-CHAN!" Sakura called.
Of course, Lola was okay, but she not happy. In fact, upon realizing that she's wet, she became furious. "You Got My Dress Wet! How Dare You?!" Lola shouted angrily and Ornithocrash, who was still flying in the air. "Yeah? Well, what are you going to do about it, human?" Ornithocrush asked, starting to laugh as Lola unleashed a primordial scream. That scream was so loud, that it woke up a flock of large reddish living pterosaurs, which resembled the Rhamphorhynchus (A pterosaur with a long arrow-tipped tail) with a crested toothed beak like that of an Ornithocheirus and a crest on their heads like that of a Pteranodon, from their nap on top of a few nearby trees. "What was that?!" Daiki asked as he, Lincoln, Clyde, Andros, and their foes had heard Lola's scream. "Uh Oh! I know that primordial scream anywhere! That's Lola and that means she's mad! Extremely Mad!" Lincoln answered in fright. "And trust us, when Lola gets mad, whoever she's mad at is going to get hurt, badly!" Clyde said. "Especially since she's incredibly strong for a seven-year-old girl!" Lincoln added.
Unfortunately, Ornithocrush didn't hear that part, and instead got to witness that strength first hand when Lola jumped incredibly high and started giving him a royal beatdown! "OW! HEY! STOP IT, YOU LITTLE BRAT! HOW ARE YOU SO FREAKISHLY STRONG?!" Ornithocrash shouted in pain. "Yeah! That's a good question! How is she that strong?" Charley asked in confusion. "We have no clue! We prefer staying on Lola's good side rather than do anything to get this kind of treatment!" Lori said as she and the other sisters hid behind trees while Lola sucker punched Ornithocrash so hard, all his teeth came out! "OW! MY TEETH!" Ornithocrash shouted in pain while holding his now toothless beak in agony. "OOOOOH! That's gotta hurt!" Electricus said while wincing at Ornithocrash's pain. "This Day Just Can't Possibly Get Any Worse!" Ornithocrash complained. Much to his chagrin, it did get worse as everyone heard a bunch of screeching noises before looking up to see the flock of living pterosaurs flying towards the scene.
"Fascinating! It seems that Lola's primordial scream has attracted a flock of Kongamato!" Ama said. "Konga-what now?!" Lana asked in confusion. "Kongamato are yet another famous African cryptid species! In the Kongamoto's case, they are a species of living pterosaurs closely resembling the Rhamphorhynchus, which is a pterosaur species with a long arrow-tipped tail, albeit larger, having a reddish color scheme, and having a crested beak like that of the Ornithocheirus as well as having a crest like that of a Pteranodon, with the males having larger crests than the females! While they usually feed on fish, the Kongamoto are capable of eating humans if they are hungry enough! In fact, their name means 'breaker of boats' or 'overturner of boats' in the Kaonde language, as the kongamatos are said to have capsized the canoes of natives and attacked people who ventured too close to the nearby rivers!" Ama explained. Everyone realized what Ama was saying.
"Yeah, that's actually the main reason why we use the Ngoubous to travel through the river instead of boats! So, that the Kongamotos won't attack us without risking getting injured by the Ngoubous' horns and because Ngoubous aren't as easy to overturn as boats!" Dwennimmen explained. However, Electricus and Ornithocrash weren't so lucky as they were being pecked mercilessly by the Kongamotos, who all see them as intruders. "OW! STOP THAT! I'M A PTEROSAUR TOO, YOU KNOW!" Ornithocrash complained in pain. "Ouch! I don't suppose there's enough room onboard one of those things for two more is there?" Electricus asked while being pecked. "Here's a better idea. Mecha Pollon-chan!" Sakura called. Afterwards, Mecha-Pollon flew onto the scene, though he had two unexpected hitchhikers on his back. Specifically, they were Cecil Cocoadile and Langston Lickatoad. "Nani? What are you guys doing here?" Sakura asked the two new visitors.
"I was looking for Paulie and Fergy, who are way overdue for a pinata party! Then, I ran into Cecil here, who explained to me that Paulie and Fergy, along with Franklin, Les, Hudson, Simone, Tina and Teddington, and Chortles have already left to through the portal to Lisa Loud's bedroom! So, I asked him where it is and he pointed at the portal, which was somehow accidentally left open!" Langston explained. "Alright, who's idea was it to let Ella close the portal?" Paulie asked. "Not me! That's for sure!" Fergy answered. "Nor me! Even I know better than to trust Ella to not forget something as simple as closing the portal!" Hudson added. Les, simply made high-pitched gibberish. "I don't remember asking Ella to close the portal! I should know, because I can't lie!" Franklin said. "I never asked Ella to close the portal!" Teddington said. "Neither have I!" Tina added. "Oh! I remember now! It was Chortles who kindly asked me to close the portal after we went through it!" Ella said while pointing at Chortles. "Whoops! She's right! That was my idea! Sorry about that, everyone! My bad!" Chortles admitted in apology while embarrassed. That caused the rest of the pinatas, minus Ella, to groan in frustration. "Anyway, while Langston's reason for coming to this universe is simply to bring Paulie and Fergy back to Pinata Island in order for them to be launched to a pinata party through the Cannonata, my reason to come here is much different! While I was willingly helping Chortles by cleaning his house for him while he was gone, I found an item underneath his bed that Chortles must have forgotten to bring with him before he left, so I decided to go with Langston to the portal in order to give that item to Chortles! Of course, when we both arrived in the Loud residence, the place was empty, except for the pets, we couldn't find you guys anywhere! So, Langston decided to go searching top and bottom around the house, in case you guys were actually hiding, until he found a hidden lever in one of the rooms, which he then pulled and caused us both to be sucked down a tube that lead straight down to a hidden lair of sorts! After we got our beings straight, we explored the place a little before we saw that winged robotic dog awaken from his doghouse and accidentally picked us up on his back before he took off at incredibly high speeds! And believe me, it was the most intense ride I've ever been on! That dog was so lightning fast, that we both had to hold onto his back for dear life just so that we don't fall off!" Cecil explained. "Well, we're kind of busy here, so do you mind waiting a bit, Langston-san, Cecil-san?" Sakura asked politely.
"Oh! Sure! Thanks for asking politely, young lady!" Langston replied as he and Cecil hopped off of Mecha-Pollon and went to a nearby Ngoubou. "Trinity Buster time, Mecha Pollon-chan!" Sakura said. Mecha-Pollon then barked in confirmation and jumped up in the air before instantly transforming into his Trinity Buster Mode, which was then caught by Sakura, Natsumi, and Aya. "Lola-chan, get out of the way!" Sakura told Lola, who was still beating up Ornithocrash. "You just got lucky, punk!" Lola said. She then hopped away to a nearby Ngoubou while the Kongamotos were still pecking at the Animarius soldiers. "Um, Lana-chan, do you mind convincing the Kongamotos to stop attacking? because we don't want to accidentally blast them, if you know what I mean!" Sakura asked Lana. "I can try!" Lana said. She then hopped around on some Ngoubous before she then got close enough to where the Kongamotos were and then said "Ahem! Excuse me!", gaining the living pterosaurs' attention. "Yeah, my friends here are supposed to blast those two creatures that you all are attacking into oblivion and I'm asking that you all to please kindly move out of the way, because none of us want any of you get caught in the crossfire, if you all know what I mean!" Lana said to the Kongamotos.
She then pointed at Sakura, Natsumi, and Aya, who were already holding the Trinity Buster. The leader of the Kongamotos, who was obviously larger than the others and had a even larger head crest, screeched at Lana out of anger and distrust. "Hey! Don't you dare take that tone at me, mister!" Lana sternly shouted back at the lead Kongamato, much to its shock and confusion. "Yeah, that's right, I can understand animal languages, including yours! Look, I'm trying to help you and your flock get out of harm's way! Seriously, what do have against humans to the point of attacking and eating them? Yes, I know about your kinds' reputation of overturning boats and killing people on them, but why do all that? Just what did humans do to you Kongamotos to warrant such violence?" Lana asked. That's when the lead Kongamato answered by making a few clicking and screeching sounds. "Wait a minute! The reason you all attack humans is because that they are eating the same kind of fish that you all usually eat and you all fear them as being the competition that might eventually deplete your food supply?" Lana asked in shock. The lead Kongamato responded by nodding in confirmation. "Hold on, let me see if I can discuss some sort of compromise here." Lana said, rushing up to Dwennimen. "So, Dwennimmen, did you hear everything about what I just heard from the Kongamotos' leader?" Lana asked.
"Indeed, I suppose I could talk to Chief Adrinkrehene about searching for a different water way we could fish from." Dwennimen said. "Ah! I see! Thanks!" Lana said as she went back to the Kongamotos and told them what Dwennimmen just told her. The leader looked at Dwenimmen with a look that said 'you better' before starting to lead the flock away. Of course, before the flock could get far, Electricus declared "Oh No, I'm not gonna let you pests get away with attacking me!" before he then fired a discharge at them. However, Lana saw that and shouted "NOOOO!" before she then deliberately jumped in front of the Kongamotos and took the hit instead. Upon witnessing that, everyone was shocked and horrified. Even the Kongamoto leader was shocked upon seeing a young human girl taking the hit that was ment for him and his flock. "Lana-chan! Oh, you just made a big mistake, punk! Sealing Blast!" Sakura said, pulling the trigger. Then, the Trinity Buster fired out it's beam of light and hit both Electricus and Ornithocrash dead on. "AGGGH! THIS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN TO A PTEROSAUR LIKE ME!" Ornithocrash shouted in pain while Electricus shouted "AGGGH! NOR IS IT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN TO AN ELECTRIC CATFISH LIKE ME!", right before they both shouted "THIS BLOWS!" and then exploded and reverted back into Soul Cores, with one having the image of an Ornithocheirus in flight and the other having the image of an Electric Catfish shooting out electricity from its body.
Sakura picked up the two Soul Cores. "Lincoln-kun will seal you." She told Ornithocrush's Soul Core. "But you will pay for what you just did." She told Electricus' Soul Core before crushing it in her bare hand. "Gorf-san, how's Lana-chan?" Sakura asked. "She's electrically stunned, but still alive! I'll go ahead and give her and Phixia some healing potions I brought in case of such emergencies!" Gorf answered as he pulled out a healing potion. "Arigato, Gorf-san. Oh, when Lincoln-kun finds out about this!" Sakura said as the leader of the Kongamotos landed in front of the three girls. Aya and Vularena checked his aura. "He wants us to thank Lana for him, and that he owes her his life." Aya read in the aura. That took everyone by surprise. "We'll go ahead and tell Lana about that, once she wakes up!" Aya assured the Kongamoto leader. Afterwards, the leader nodded in confirmation. The Kongamotos then took off. Then, after Gorf gave her the healing potion, Lana started waking up, much to the delight of everyone, especially Lola and Skippy. "Lana-chan, daijobu?" Sakura asked in concern. "*GROAN!* Man! That really stung like the dickens!" Lana answered as Lola and Skippy went over to her and hugged her tightly.
"That was very noble of you, Lana." Dwennimen said. "Yeah! You deliberately took that hit in order to protect the Kongamotos!" Nkyinkyim added. "Um, Thanks! I just didn't want them to get hurt, you know!" Lana replied with a blush before Lana slapped her across the face in anger. "Don't you ever scare us like that again, Lana! Seriously, I can't stand the thought of losing my only twin sister!" Lola said in anger before she started tearing up and crying loudly in sadness. "Nor do I like the idea of losing the only girl that I ever love!" Skippy added. "AWWW!" The girls went as Sakura noticed 11 familiar mechs flying overhead. "The Alebrije mechs?" Sakura asked in surprise. "I called AkaRed while you guys were dealing with that, just in case." Mambana said. "Sounds like that they arrived a little late!" Lynn Jr noted. "They might be able to help Lincoln-kun and the others." Sakura said. Then, while the Alebrije mechs flew down towards the group, Gorf went and gave Phixia the healing potion, causing her wake up and say "Huh? What happened? Last I remembered, I was shocked by that Electric Catfish!" in confusion. "Don't worry, Phixia-chan, we took care of him." Sakura said.
"Though, he managed to electrocute Lana-chan after she took a hit meant for the Kongamotos!" She's added in bitterness as she presented the crushed remains of Electricus's Soul Core to Phixia. "Which reminds me, the leader says thanks, and that he owes you his life, Lana." Aya said. "Whoa! I definitely will remember that!" Lana said in amazement. "Ronnie Anne-chan, I'm glad you're here! Lincoln-kun, Clyde-kun, Andros-kun, and Daiki-sempai went into the forest to check out some arrows, but they haven't got back yet!" Sakura told the Lucharangers. "Oh! I see! By the way, who are these people that we have not met before?" Ronnie Anne asked as she pointed at Dwennimmen, Nkyinkyim, the Anansian Guard, and Sayo. "Oh! These people over there are Nkyinkyim, who's our guide, and Dwennimmen, who's the captain of the Anansian Guard, which are the warriors in golden armor you see here! They are actually members of the people of the spiders, the same tribe that Clyde's ancestor Akoma came from" Nyansipo said while introducing Nkyinkyim, Dwennimmen, and the Anansian Guard to the Lucharangers. "Hello!" Sid said. "Nice to meet you as well!" Nkyinkyim replied. "As for her, this is Kadoya Sayo! She's actually my past life's younger sister!" Shintomaru said while pointing at Sayo, much to the shock and surprise of the Lucharangers.
"Past life?" Ricky asked in confusion. "It's a long story." Casey said. "Short version is that our friend Shintomaru Kadokawa is actually the reincarnation of an interdimensional traveling being named Tsukasa Kadoya, better known as Kamen Rider Decade!" Sameer explained. "Reincarnation? I don't know what that is!" Ricky said in confusion. "I'll answer that question, Ricky! Reincarnation, in the belief systems of Hindus and Buddhists, is a process where upon death, a human soul would be reborn in another body instead of going straight to the afterlife, usually as either animals or, in the case of Shintomaru, other humans! Of course, the end results of reincarnation tend to vary with each individual! Sometimes, they have absolutely no memories of their past life and live and behave as a complete new person! Other times, they would have the memories of their past life locked away for a certain amount of time before regaining those memories while still maintaining the memories of their current life, which is exactly the case for Shintomaru! And in other cases, they would completely maintain all of their memories from their past life after being reborn and also have the same personality of that past life! Of course, the time of when an individual would be reincarnated tends to be random, whether they be sent forwards in time in either a few months or a few years or even a few centuries and also the location of their rebirth would also be random! Of course, in recent popular media, usually Japanese media, there are depictions of people getting reincarnated to other universes rather than different locations on Earth!" Lisa explained. "Case in point." She added, pointing to Shintomaru.
"Ohhhhh! Now I get it! Thanks!" Ricky said in satisfaction. "You're welcome!" Lisa replied. "Okay, in all seriousness, Shintomaru, how come you had never told us that you have a younger sister in your past life?" Sid asked in confusion. "Honestly, because I haven't seen Sayo-chan in a very long time, I kind of forgotten to mention that!" Shintomaru answered sheepishly. "Also, you never asked." He said. "Can't argue with that logic." Nikki said as they all ran off in the direction the boys went.
Meanwhile...
Lincoln, Clyde, Andros, and Daiki, along with the clones of G3, Leangle, and Buster, were having trouble against Hippola, Zebronco, and Giraffrag while Hibberton was still in his depressed state. "You humans are nothing!" Hippola said, shooting an arrow, which Clyde managed to dodge away from, only for it to bounce off the trees and finally struck Clyde's butt *POKE!*. "YEOWCH!" Clyde yelped in pain while Hippola laughed at him. "Okay, now you've just made it personal!" Clyde angrily declared as he then pulled the arrow out of his butt "Ouch!". "Aurachnid, I believe it's time that we show that hippo what happens when you bite someone not from my bloodline!" Clyde said to Aurachnid, who replied by saying "You got it partner!" and then climbing up to his partner's arm. Then Clyde threw Aurachnid like a baseball while the golden spider shouted "~TA DA DA DA DA DA!~ SPIDER POWER!" as she he sailed towards Hippola. However Aurachnid accidentally ended in Hippola's breast cleavage, much to the shock and appall of Hippola herself. "Dang It! Wherever this is, it's too dark and cramped in here and there's not enough air! I better get out of this place!" Aurachnid complained as he then crawled out of Hippola's cleavage and gasped for air. He then heard some angry snorting from above and turned around to see Hippola, who was growling in anger. Upon looking around and seeing where he actually had landed, Aurachnid looked at Hippola's face and sheepishly chuckled before saying "Oh! Whoops! Sorry about that! In all honesty, this is not what I had in mind for a landing point!" in embarrassment. Unfortunately, Aurachnid's apology went on deaf ears as Hippola angrily shouted "HOW DARRRE YOOOU!" and then put her finger in left nostril and snorted Aurachnid up her right nostril, right before she then blew him out of the same nostril, causing the golden spider spider to be sent flying towards a nearby tree while shouting "Yaaaaaaa-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooey!" before crashing into it *CRASH!*. "OOOH! That's gotta leave a mark!" Lincoln winced at the sight of Aurachnid stuck to a tree. "Aurachnid! Are you okay?!" Clyde asked in concern as he went to the tree and pulled Aurachnid out of it. "*GROAN!* A bit winded, but still alive!" Aurachnid answered. "But, next time, Clyde, when facing against female enemies, make sure you avoid throwing me into places where females don't like getting touched at, cause I really don't like the idea of being wrongly accused of perversion and getting punished for it, if you know what I mean!" He added in a strict tone. "Right! Sorry about that, Aurachnid!" Clyde replied in embarrassment with a sheepish smile. Then, several more arrows were shot at Clyde and ended up hitting the tree while surrounding Clyde. "Jinkies!" Clyde said in fright as Hippola was docking another arrow on her bow in angeer. "You and your spider are going to pay dearly for that unwarranted attack on my person, you punk!" Hippola angrily declared as she then shot the arrow only for Sid to unleash a sonic scream. "Ow! What in the world?!" Hippola asked in confusion as she, Zebronco, and Giraffrag covered their ears in pain while Hippola's arrow was sent flying back and ended up striking another tree. "Huh?" Lincoln asked as the turned to see the Lucharangers. "Sorry we're late, lame-o." Ronnie Anne said. "When did you guys get here? And more importantly, who called you over here?" Clyde asked in confusion. "Mambana called." Sid said. "It happened while Sakura and Natsumi were fighting against an Electric Catfish Animarius named Electricus and an Ornithocheirus Animarius named Ornithocrash, with the latter one getting beaten up really badly by Lola after he knocked her down into the river and got her soaking wet!" Sameer explained. "Yeah, that sounds about right." Lincoln said, recalling the primordial scream they heard earlier.
"Of course, they had some help from a flock of living pterosaurs known as Kongamatos!" Adelaide informed. "Konga-what now?" Andros asked in confusion. "Kongamatos are African cryptids, specifically living pterosaurs that resemble the Rhamphorhynchus with crested beaks like the Ornithocheirus and head crests like the Pteranodon! They are known for attacking people and overturning boats!" Sameer informed. "Yikes! I'm starting to think that those things are the reason why the Anansian Guard use the Ngoubous to travel through the river instead of boats!" Clyde noted. "Ngoubous? You mean those multi-horned rhino-like creatures we saw with everyone when we got here?" Laird asked in confusion. "Yep! They are also African cryptids and these Ngoubous are actually domestic hybrids of two different Ngoubou subspecies, the Savanna Ngoubou, which has a single nose horn and six additional horns on a bony frill, similar to the Styracosaurus, and the River Ngoubou, which had two nose horns positioned side-by-side and heavily resembles the extinct mammal Arsinotherium, which is actually a relative of the elephant and also what the Ngoubous are related to!" Clyde explained. "And they aren't the only domesticated cryptids! The Anansian Guard also has the J'ba FoFi, also known as Congolese Giant Spiders, as their companions!" Aurachnid stated. "Those were spiders? I thought they all had small dogs with them!" Nikki said.
"Technically, their size is more closer to that of a large domestic cat, like a Maine Coon, than that of a small dog!" Clyde informed. "Also, you should be glad that those J'ba FoFi you saw are domesticated, because the wild ones are known to attack and prey on anything that gets caught in their webs, including humans, unfortunately!" Aurachnid added. "Good thing Bobby isn't here." Ronnie Anne noted. "Yeah, we know what you mean! In fact, when Leni saw them, she fainted, twice!" Lincoln said. This got the Animarius laughing. "What a craven coward! Scared of a few cat-sized spiders!" Zebronco said while laughing. "Hey! No one disrespects my sisters like that!" Lincoln said. "Ooh! Right! That reminds me! When Electricus tried to zap the Kongamatos after they pecked him, Lana deliberately jumped in front of them and took the hit instead in order to protect them!" Ronnie Anne said, much to Lincoln's shock and horror. "WHAT?!" Lincoln asked. Even Clyde, Aurachnid, Andros, and Daiki were incredibly shocked upon hearing that. "Don't worry, she's okay. And Sakura, Natsumi, Aya, and Rena obliterated Electricus and Ornithocrush with the Trinity Buster before Sakura crushed Electricus' Soul Core in her hand." Sid said.
Lincoln then sighed in relief upon hearing that. "That's somewhat of a relief! But, Lana will have a huge scolding from me for pulling such a reckless stunt like that, once we get back with the others!" Lincoln stated in slight anger. "Lincoln, it's Lana we're talking about here. Of course she'd risk her life for animals." Clyde reminded. "*Sigh!* I know that, Clyde! I'm just really worried about her own safety, you know!" Lincoln replied in slight exasperation. "I know buddy. And it's like Sakura said, it's that attitude that makes you such a great brother, Kamen Rider and boyfriend." Clyde said. Zebronco and Giraffrag decided that they hace had enough of the talking between the heroes and immediately ran quickly towards Lincoln, Clyde, Andros, and Daiki before they went and directly kicked all four of them in their crotches. This made the male Lucharangers cringe. "My Neither Regions!" Andros shouted in pain as he, Lincoln, Clyde, and Daiki when down on their knees in agony. "*WHINE!* Why Do They Always Go For The Kiwis?! WHY?!" Lincoln shouted in agony as Adelaide went up to the four injured males and applied her signature healing technique Healing Moon on them, allowing Lincoln, Clyde, Andros, and Daiki to slowly recover. "Mou! This is the second time that has happened to me!" Daiki complained.
This caused Giraffrag and Zebronco to start laughing out loud. "Hey, that was pretty funny." Ronnie Anne said with a chuckle. "You know what else is funny?" She asked as the two turned to see the Lucharangers holding the LuchaCannon and Wild Bazooka. "The fact that we're about to obliterate you!" Ronnie Anne said as she and Becky pulled the triggers.
"Uh Oh!" Zebronco and Giraffrag said in fright as they attempted to dodge the beams of light. Of course, when Hibberton saw the blasts coming his way, he got out of the way by diving into the water while the blasts ended up hitting a nearby rock, destroying it. Once that happened, Hibberton got out of the water and he was rather annoyed by the sudden attack. "Okay, whose big idea was it to interrupt me while I'm in my depressed state?!" Hibberton asked in annoyance. "That would be them!" Hippola said as she pointed at the Lucharangers. "Dang It! We missed!" Becky complained. "Also, who's that guy?" She asked. "I'm Hibberton, the Hibbertopterus Kaijin!" Hibberton answered. "A what, now?" Everyone, except for Sameer, Batelegong, and Lunastura, asked in confusion. "Seriously, you too?!" Hibberton complained.
"We got this guys! The Hibbertopterus is a Eurypterid, an extinct aquatic arthropod group that's actually related to horseshoe crabs and are also known as sea scorpions, due to their slight resemblance towards actual scorpions, despite not having venomous stings on their tail!" Sameer explained. "Of course, despite the nickname sea scorpions, Eurypterids aren't actually related to scorpions and only the most early of Eurypterids ever lived in the sea while those that came after lived in brackish or freshwater!" Plus, they have a dual respiratory system that allows them to move into terrestrial environments for short periods of time!" Batelegong explained. "Of course, while most Eurypterids have paddle-like appendages that allow them to swim, the Hibbertopterus and its relatives from the Eurypterid suborder Stylonurina doesn't have those as they have walking legs that they use to crawl within the swamps and rivers as well as for sweep-feeding, which is basically raking through the substrate in search of prey! Plus, the Hibbertopterus is actually the largest Eurypterid in the Stylonurina suborder and it's fossils are actually discovered in deposits ranging from the Devonian period in Belgium, Scotland and the United States to the Carboniferous period in Scotland, Ireland, the Czech Republic and South Africa! Also, the type species, Hibbertopterus scouleri, was first named as a species of the significantly different Eurypterus by famous geologist and antiquarian Samuel Hibbert in 1836 while the generic name Hibbertopterus, which was coined more than a century later, combines his name and the Greek word pteron meaning "wing"!" Lunastura explained, much to Hibberton's delight. "YES! Finally! Thank You! Some people actually know about the animal I'm based! Almost makes me want to spare your lives!" Hibberton said in delight. "Almost." He clarified.
"Oh, you want to spare us? How about you spare us the chit-chat, alright? Let's do this!" Sameer retorted before making a kung fu stance. "Hah! I'll be more than happy to oblige" Hibberton declared in eagerness as he brought out his claws and snapped them before he and Sameer charged towards each in a battle cry. Then, Hibberton struck first by slashing his claws at Sameer's chest before the green Lucharanger retaliated by punching the Hibbertopterus Kaijin in the chest. "Let's see you handle this! MaxLucha Power!" Sameer said, shifting to his MaxLucha mode. He then punched Hibberton punched Hibberton in the gut before striking him at the face with a roundhouse kick, causing Hibberton to stagger back a little. "Oof! Man! Your tougher than I thought! Let's see how you deal with my tail!" Hibberton said as he then swung his tail at Sameer, who counted with his own tail.
"Nice try, but no enchilada!" Sameer declared as he then charged towards Hibberton and punched him again before he then placed the Kaijin's neck on his shoulder and grabs his thighs. Afterwards, Sameer then shot up into the air with his wings before he then stops and drops down while shouting "Kinniku Buster!" and landed hard on the floor in a sit-out position, creating a crater in the ground upon impact while also causing damage to Hibberton's neck, spine, and crotch. "Ooooh! That really smarts! Well played!" Hibberton stated in pain as Sameer dropped him to the ground. "Dang, Sameer! Where'd you learn that move?" Nikki said in amazement. "I was watching an old English dubbed anime on the internet called "Ultimate Muscle" and the main character performed that very move, so I thought I might try that out!" Sameer explained. "Well, whatever that is, it sure gave a huge impression and severely damaged that guy over there!" Ronnie Anne said. "*Groan!* This day just can't possibly get any worse!" Just then, everyone heard a loud roar from a distance. "What was that?" Laird asked in fright. Then, something sprang out from the river. It was a huge creature that resembled a leopard, but with a short curved horn on its forehead, long fangs like those of a Smilodon, Pangolin-like scales covering its body, webbed feet with sharp claws, and long fish-like tail. "Uh, Lisa?" Lincoln said into the comm link.
"What's wrong, brother unit?" Lisa asked. "Do you know anything about a creature that's a mix of a Saber-tooth Tiger, a Pangolin, and a fish?" Lincoln asked. "And with a short curved horn on its forehead?" He added as the creature roared loudly. "And webbed feet?" He added. "Hang on a minute! I think I'll let Ama explain things!" Lisa said as she turned to attention to Ama and gave the comm link to her. "Hello, and based on what I heard, it seems like you're dealing with a Dingonek. Also, the correct term is 'Smilodon' or 'Sabertooth Cat', not 'Saber tooth tiger'." Ama said. "Not the time for semantics, Ama!" Lincoln said. "Also, what exactly is a Dingonek?" He asked. "Yet another famous African cryptid! Its very description is that it resembles a Smilodon with Pangolin-like armored scales all over its body, a long fish-like tail, webbed feet with sharp claws, and a short curved horn on its forehead, which is most definitely the creature that you are all encountering right now! The Dingonek is said to be a carnivore that can choose to hunt or devour nearly whatever it wants, except for elephants! This is because of it having fangs that are over a meter long and being so large, ferocious and aggressive, that even large bull hippos fall prey to it! As for how the Dingonek would presumably be able to do so, it would be by ambushing hippos! Specifically, by sneaking up on them and then sinking its meter long tusks into the thick skin of the hippo as if it were just jelly!" Ama informed. Hippola heard that last bit of information and started freaking out as she saw the Dingonek eyeing her.
"Don't worry, Hippola, we got your back!" Zebronco said as he and Giraffrag got in front of Hippola in order to protect her from the Dingonek, who was still eyeing her. Of course, when it got onto land, the Dingonek took notice of Hibberton, who was still alive, yet laying on the ground and unable to move due to the injuries Sameer inflicted on him earlier. "Uh Oh!" Hibberton said in fright as the Dingonek sniffed him and then decide to have him as an appetizer as he then sunk its fangs into Hibberton's body like a knife through butter, causing the Hibbertopterus Kaijin to yell in agonizing pain while the Dingonek dragged him into the water. Then, after few minutes of thrashing within the water, the Dingonek came back out of the water and burped out what was left of Hibberton, specifically his Shocker belt, while still eyeing at Hippola. "Boys, run!" Hippola said. "Yeah, that might not be good idea, since it would undoubtedly chase us anyway!" Zebronco said. "Perhaps I could help with that. Give the order to Cicadeath and Flygor, fire the enlargement ray!" Leo ordered Elephantor. "At once, General Leo!" Elephantor replied with a salute as he then pulled out a walkie talkie.
"We need three super sized soldiers ASAP!" Elephantor said over the radio. "Coming right up, Lieutenant Elephantor!" Cicadeath answered as he and Flygor were already standing by at the Enlargement Raygun. Aiming the ray at Hippola, Zebronco, and Giraffrag, Cicadeath hit the button that caused the elargment ray to fire. After traveling all the way towards Africa, the beam finally hit Hippola, Zebronco, and Giraffrag, causing the Animarius trio to grow into Kaiju size, much to the shock and confusion of the Dingonek. "How do you like us now?!" Hippola asked. The Dingonek whimpered in fright before Hippola stepped on its tail, causing to howl in pain. "Dang it! We're going to need to go big here." Lincoln said. "Vectors, launch!" He and Clyde said, releasing Vectors LL and Anansi, the two flying up, Sakura in Vector Jewel flying up to join them. "I better go ahead and help the Dingonek!" Adelaide declared as she went over the injured Dingonek. "Healing Moon!" Adelaide said.
Once she said that, Adelaide performed her signature healing technique on the Dingonek, causing its tail injury to be fully healed. When the Dingonek looked at Adelaide in confusion, the silver Lucharanger said "It's okay! I came here to help you after what that big bully did to your tail! Besides, I really love animals and don't like it when they treated with cruelty!" in a calm and assured tone. The Dingonek happily responded by licking Adelaide with its tongue so much that it unintentionally knocked her helmet off. "I'm glad you're happy." Adelaide said. "Looks like my little sister made a new friend!" Sid noted upon seeing that. "Yeah, but we still have a big problem!" Ronnie Anne said. "Aquarion can't take all three of them on alone, we're going to need to help! Sid, Casey, Sameer, Nikki, Laird, Carl, and Adelaide, with me in LuchaChampion, and Becky, Dodge, and Ricky go in LuchaWild!" Ronnie Anne ordered. "Right!" The Lucharangers shouted at once. "Sorry, Mr. Dingonek, I have to go help my friends fight those big bullies up there! But, don't worry, I'll come back to you after it's over!" Adelaide said to the Dingonek, to which it nodded in agreement . Afterwards, Adelaide put her helmet back on and joined up with the others.
"Alebrije Henkei!" The 11 shouted, taking on their mech forms. "Oy! Do you guys mind if you bring me along?" Daiki asked. "If you insist." Lincoln said, pushing a few buttons on his cockpit, beaming Daiki onboard. "Alright, since they have an archer, we'll counter with one of our own! Sakura!" Lincoln called to his girlfriend. "Understood, Lincoln-kun!" Sakura replied. "Nenshin!" Clyde and Aurachnid called. "Gattai!" Lincoln called. "Go, Aquarion!" Sakura called. "Cho Alebrije Gattai!" The core eight Lucharangers shouted. "Alebrije Gattai!" Becky, Dodge, and Ricky called.
(Cue "Kimi no Shinwa ~ Aquarion no Dai Ni Shou" by AKINO with bless4)
Then, the Vectors shot up into the sky. Afterwards, the Vectors started to transform, starting with Vector Jewel as it's front hull opened and straightened up before moveing down to form arms while the back boosters containing the Topaz and Emerald detached themselves from the Vector as it's two large front turbine engines moved forwards to become the chest. Next, Vector Anansi front leg parts spread away from each other before twisting around, extending, and opened up panels to form the upper wings while its spider leg-structures on its sides extended and opened up panels to form the lower wings. Finally, Vector LL's front part splits open in halves, moved completely downwards and then extended to form the legs while its wings folded over it form a skirt, right before its tail fin split open and and stayed on the back. Plus, the boosters from Vector Jewel attached themselves to the ends of the legs to form feet, with the Topaz on the right foot and the Emerald on the left foot. After that, the Vectors finally started to combine. First, Vector LL merged underneath Vector Jewel. Then, Vector Anansi connected to the back to form the wings. Finally, the front hulls of Vector Jewel flipped over to reveal robotic hands with the Ruby above the right hand and the Sapphire above the left hand. Afterwards, the part of Vector Jewel that contains the cockpit twisted backwards and flipped open to reveal the head, which resembles that of Aquarion Spada, but with a heart-shaped visor and a silver bejewled tiara on top of it. When the combination was completed, the resulting robot, which looks like a female robotic fairy, did a few dancing poses. Then, it finished by striking an elegant pose, similar to that of Fairymon/Kazemon from "Digimon Frontier", with its wings projecting out energy structures that resembles butterfly wings while Sakura shouted "AQUARION! JEWEL!".
Afterwards, the purple, blue, red, green, pink, and yellow Alebrije mechs transformed and combined into LuchaKing like usual while the gold and silver Alebrije went and changed differently. First, the gold Alebrije mech detached its head from its body while detaching it's lower arms containing its talons from its upper arms as well as detaching a golden piece from its chest, right before the upper arms moved upwards to the top of the body and positioned themselves forwards while flipping out two cannons from underneath the shoulder panels. As for its hind limbs, they folded in and flipped out two cannons from its hips before pointing forwards while the tail detached itself from the rear body. Afterwards, right after the wings detach themselves from the back, the body of the gold Alebrije mech split itself verticallly into two halves. Meanwhile, the silver Alebrije mech detached its head, wings, and tail from its body while it's four front legs folded into themselves and its two hind legs moved back, right before the body vertically split itself into two halves while two foot-like structures flipped out from the rear ends and two panels flipped open from the belly. Finally, the pieces started to come together. First, the pieces that were the silver Alebrije mech's body attached themselves to the bottom of LuchaKing's feet before folding their panels over said feet, becomeing the boots. Next, the silver Alebrije mech's moth wings vertically split from each other as they attached themselves to LuchaKing's legs, with one half attaching to right side of the green Alebrije mech and other half attaching to the left side of the yellow Alebrije mech. Then, LuchaKing's arms detached themselves from each other, allowing the pieces that were the gold Alebrije mech's body, upper front limbs, and hind limbs to attach themselves to each side of LuchaKing's torso before said pieces flipped out a connector point on each upper side that allowed LuchaKing's arms to attach to them. After that, the forearms of the gold Alebrije mech covered over the fists of LuchaKing before the heads of the gold and silver Alebrije mechs attached themselves above the forearms of the gold Alebrije mech, with the gold Alebrije mech's head attaching itself to the right forearm and the silver Alebrije mech's head attaching itself to the left forearm. Then, the falcon wings of the gold Alebrije mech attached themselves to lower back of LuchaKing, giving the Mecha six wings instead of four. Finally, the golden piece that came from the gold Alebrije mech's chest flipped around and detached another smaller golden piece from behind it that attached itself to LuchaKing's belt area, becomeing a championship belt buckle while the original larger golden piece attached itself to behind LuchaKing's head and flared out gun-like spikes at the sides and a crescent moon-like crest on the top to form a crowned helmet. Once the combination was completed, the newly formed mech flared out its six back wings (two condor wings, two Pteranodon wings, and two falcon wings) as the tail of the red Alebrije mech flipped out a handle from its rear before the silver Alebrije mech's tail attached itself there rear-first, which allowed the gold Alebrije mech's tail attaching itself rear-first to the tail fin the silver Alebrije mech's tail before the purple Alebrije mech's tail attached itself rear-first to the gold Alebrije mech's tail fin, resulting in a long bladed sword/spear-like weapon. Finally, after the new Mecha caught the weapon with its taloned hands, it flew up to sky and did a heroic dramatic pose with its weapon while the Lucharangers shouted "LUCHACHAMPION! AWAKEN!"
Then, the cyan, orange, and magnet-colored Alebrije mechs shot up into the sky and started to transform. First, the Harpygolverine mech detached her tail while her hind legs folded into themselves, right before her lower body went and folded down a little while leaving an empty space underneath her upper body. Next, the Harpygolverine mech's front legs straightened up and then moved down before her front paws flipped upwards and allowed robotic hands to flip out from the lower arms while her dorsal fin split itself in half and folded down on the back and her Harpy Eagle wings moved down as well, right before her head and neck moved upwards over the body. Then, the Aurastrolumba mech folded in all four of his legs before his head, tail, and wings detached themselves from the body, which then transformed further by splitting in half and then move downwards to form lower legs and flipped out two panels that became the feet while also revealing a robotic lower torso attached to two robotic upper legs. Once that happened, the Prawngolequin mech folded in her wings and closed her Elytra shut before she then tucked in her Pangolin and Giant Tiger Prawn limbs and curled up into a ball. Finally, the pieces started to together as the now-transformed body of the Aurastrolumba mech merged underneath the now-transformed Harpygolverine mech's body, right before the curled up Prawngolequin mech connected into the empty space between the two mechs with her closed spotted Elytra facing forwards in display while the pigeon wings of the Aurastrolumba mech attached themselves to the lower back of the Harpygolverine mech. Afterwards, the head of the Aurastrolumba mech attached itself to the chest space above the Prawngolequin mech while the head of Harpygolverine mech faced forwards and opened its mouth to reveal a robotic face with a Luchador mask, similar in appearance to the mask worn by Becky and Artemis in the Lucha Libre Club, that was colored in cyan, orange, and magnet colors. Once that happened, the Harpygolverine mech's piranha tail transformed into a blaster gun by flipping out a handle underneath it and sliding out a cannon barrel into the front of where the tail detached from the main body while the tail of the Aurastrolumba mech transformed into a gattling gun by flipping out a handle underneath it and sliding out a gattling gun barrel from where the tail detached from the main body. Finally, the new Mecha caught the two weapons, with the blaster gun in the left arm and the gattling gun in the right arm, and twirled them around before it did a few dramatic action hero poses with its guns while Becky, Dodge, and Ricky announced "LUCHAWILD! AWAKEN!"
"Nice mech!" Lincoln told Becky's group. "And cool guns!" Clyde added. "I know, right?" Becky asked. "Skyring, descend!" Ronnie Anne said, summoning LuchaChampion's coliseum. "Follow us if you dare!" They declared, flying up into the arena. "Uh, I'm afraid that we can't follow you all up there, even if we wanted to! None of us can fly!" Zebronco pointed out. "Perhaps I can help." Leo said, pulling out the walkie talkie. "Cicadeath! You know those giant jetpacks you and Flygor have been talking about developing, just in case? Are any of them complete?" He asked Cicadeath. "Only three, but none of them are past the prototype stage!" Cicadeath said. "Don't care! Send them over, now!" Leo ordered, roaring at the now. "*GULP!* Yes, General Leo, sir!" Cicadeath replied in fright. He then turned to Flygor and said "We better deliver those jetpacks immediately, because General Leo is not willing to wait any longer!" "But we haven't even tested them yet!" Flygor said. "Do you want to be the one to tell him that?" Cicadeath asked, offering the walkie. "*Gulp!* Nope! You're right!" Flygor answered in fright. "Locking in on Hippola, Zebronco, and Giraffrag's last known coordinates!" Flygor said, typing away at a computer.
Then, he turned his attention to three advanced high-tech jet backs with wings, resembling the flightpack of Buzz Lightyear. "Here's hoping this works!" Flygor said, flipping a switch that opened a portal. Once that happened, Flygor pressed a button on the jetpacks, causing them to roar to life and fly through the portal before suddenly enlarging themselves to match the sizes of Hippola, Zebronco, and Giraffrag. Once they flew through the portal, they attached themselves to the three giant Animarius, but they started flying out of control. "Hey! What's going on here?!" Hippola angrily asked. "Yeah! How do you work these things?!" Zebronco asked in complaint. "Seriously, what's wrong with these contraptions?!" Giraffrag asked in annoyance. "This is why we should test these things before we send them out." Cicadeath muttered. "Seriously, making us release inventions before they are properly ready for action can easily lead to disasters like this! General Leo should ought to know better than rushing us like that!" He added in complaint.
Leo grumbled as the pilots of the three mechs watched from afar. "This is sad. And pathetic. But mostly pathetic." Aurachnid said. "I'm not even sure if I'm supposed to laugh at that!" Carl noted. "I am." Becky said before laughing like a maniac. "*Groan!* This is an embarrassment!" Hippola said in complaint. "Tell us about it!" Zebronco complained while flying uncontrollably. "You guys just want to put them out of their misery now?" Dodge asked. I don't see why not!" Sakura replied as Aquarion Jewel drew out its Aquarion Bow. However, before Aquarion Jewel could draw any arrows, Hippola, Zebronco, and Giraffrag finally came flying toward the Mechas, albeit still out of control, right before they crashed into all three robots *CRASH!* That's when we see the Animarius trio and the Mecha trio all piled up on the floor. This made everyone on the ground cringe. "Ouch! I heard of a crash landing, but this is ridiculous!" Paulie said. Even General Leo, Lieutenant Elephantor, Falkyrie, Vulturion, Cheeturbo, Rhinosteel, Meerkrack, Farthog, and Fulicana winced upon seeing the crash. "Get off of me!" Becky demanded. "Can't! Because there several others on top of me!" Zebronco retorted. Everyone groaned. "Fine! We'll get off first!" Carl said as LuchaChampion started getting off of Hippola. Unfortunately, LuchaChampion's left hand accidentally grabbed Hippola's chest, causing the Hippopotamus Animarius to gasp and turn red with rage before shouting "HOW DARRRE YOOOU!" and delivering a hard uppercut at LuchaChampion. "Nice going, Carl." Ronnie Anne said as they crash landed.
"Sorry, prima! I never meant to do that! It was an accident!" Carl apologized. "Plus, I never dared to touch a woman there before and I certainly wasn't planning on to!" He added in embarrassment. "At least he has better sense than Chandler." Lincoln said. Then, as Hippola got up and charged towards LuchaChampion in anger, Aquarion Jewel got up as well, followed by Giraffrag, Zebronco, and finally LuchaWild. "Let's see you handle this!" Sakura said as Aquarion Jewel pulled it's bowstring back, knocking arrows made out of fire, water, stone, and wind, while LuchaWild prepared it's guns. Of course, Hippola was too busy angrily pummeling LuchaChampion to notice. "NOBODY TOUCHES MY BREASTS AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!" Hippola angrily yelled while beating up LuchaChampion relentlessly before she then bit her lower teeth right into the Mecha's left arm. "Ow!" Regaluco said. "Yeow! I feel that too, Luco!" Nikki said while feeling pain in her left arm. "Well, Hippola's about to feel this!" Sakura said. Then, Aquarion Jewel shot its arrows towards Hippola before they landed a hit right at Hippola's very big butt *POKE!*. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Hippola yelled in pain as she lets go of LuchaChampion and jumps up high in the air.
LuchaWild then shot it's double blasters, Skeet style at Hippola. "OW! STOP SHOOTING AT MY BUTT, YOU BRATS!" Hippola yelled as she landed on floor and covered her butt in pain. Zebronco and Giraffrag started laughing. Hippola heard that and slapped them both behind their necks in anger. "Quit laughing at me and get those brats!" Hippola ordered. "I've got them!" Zebronco said. "Yeah, I don't think so. Lucha Ball!" Dodge called. LuchaWild then put away its guns and detached the Lucha Ball from its midsection before throwing it right at Zebronco's crotch. This caused the Zebra Animarius to recoil in pain. "Oooooh! Right... in the coconuts!" Zebronco stated in pain. "Weak! Get them, Giraffrag!" Hippola said. "Yes, Ma'am!" Giraffrag replied in compliance as he then swiveled his legs around and kicked LuchaWild in the crotch, causing the Mecha to seize up in paralysis, before kicking Aquarion Jewel in the chest. "Again with this!?" Ricky asked in pain, writhing on the floor, holding his crotch. "I guess I have neglected something about Giraffes in general! Apparently, a giraffe's kick can generate an impact of 2,000 Pounds-of-force Per Square-inch, or PSI for short, which is strong enough to not only kill a lion, but also possibly decapitate it!" Lisa informed through the comm link.
"In other words, you should consider yourselves lucky." She added. Of course, when Lincoln, Clyde, Daiki, and Andros, who was still at the ground, heard that, they remembered about when Giraffrag and Zebronco kicked their crotches and immediately shuddered in fright. "Hey, you guys know what they say about brains. They beat brawn! Champion Saber, Mind Mode!" Laird called. That's when the eagle wings detached themselves from the Leaquilfin part of LuchaChampion and then attached themselves to the crossguard of the Champion Saber. Laird then focused his telekinetic powers and lifted all three Animarius up off the ground. "Whoa! Hey! What's going on?!" Giraffrag asked in confusion. "Yeah! Who turned off the gravity here?!" Giraffrag asked in equal confusion. Everyone started laughing. "Nice work, Laird-kun!" Sakura called. "Thanks!" Laird replied. "Now, what do you say we end this?" Lincoln asked. "Gladly!" Sakura replied as pressed the button for the Big Bang Smasher, causing Aquarion Jewel raighten up and charged up the twin turbines on it's chest.
LuchaWild then prepared the Lucha Ball for it's finisher and LuchaChampion did the same with the Champion Saber. "Big Bang Smasher!" Sakura announced as Aquarion Jewel blasted out a wave of white energy from its chest turbines. "LuchaChampion Grand Victory!" The core eight Lucharangers shouted, slashing with the Champion Saber. "Wild Dodgeball Smash!" Becky, Dodge, and Ricky announced as LuchaWild charged energy into the Lucha Ball before throwing it with great strength. The finishers hit the Animarius dead on, with Aquarion's hitting Hippola, LuchaChampion's hitting Giraffrag, and LuchaWild's hitting Zebronco. "AAAAAAAAAGH! WE'RE BLASTIN' OUT!" Hippola, Zebronco, Giraffrag shouted in pain before they all exploded and reverted back into Soul Cores, with Hippola's having the image of a female Hippopotamus with its mouth open, Zebronco's having the image of a Zebra standing on its rear legs, and Giraffrag's having the image of a Giraffe with its neck standing straight up.
"Aw man!" Elephantor said. "No more of this. Once they reach wherever it is they're going, we're launching a full scale invasion!" Leo declared. "About time! I'm getting tired of waiting for my turn anyway!" Rhinosteel agreed. "Man, this job just keeps getting better and better!" Becky said as Lincoln beamed Hippola, Giraffrag, and Zebronco's Soul Cores onboard, sealing them. "But what's with your guys' finisher? The Big Bang Smasher? I get the joke, but still 'Big Bang'? That's a pretty weird euphemism for breasts." Dodge said.
Meanwhile, on Vega...
While everyone was making some last minute preparations for Amata And Mikono's upcoming wedding, Andy got a strange sensation, and soon sneezed insanely loud. "ACHOO!" Andy sneezed loudly. "Andy, are you okay?" MIX asked in confusion. "Yeah, I think so." Andy said, feeling his forehead. "I think somebody must be talking about me or something to do with me!" He added. "Whatever." MIX said before walking over to where Mikono and Zessica were talking. "You're thinking way too much about this, it's Amata we're talking about here. He's going to be flying with happiness, literally!" Zessica told the bride to be. "I know Zessica, but this isn't exactly something you can just spring on someone!" Mikono said nervously. "Still though, you shouldn't keep something like that a secret for a long time!" Zessica replied. "Especially something like this! It's not obvious now, but it's only a matter of time before you start showing!" Zessica said. "She's right. And besides, the only real person you should worry about with reactions is Cayenne. Granted, any negative reactions will most likely be directed to Amata, but still." MIX said.
That only made Mikono even more worried. "Hey, don't worry, we'll be there to help in anyway we can." Zessica promised. That's when Mikono's pet rabbit/cat-like creature Shushu came out of her hair and made a few meowing noises on her shoulder. "Thank you, I appreciate this." Mikono said.
Meanwhile...
"So wait, the Animarius Empire has a Kamen Rider of their own now?" Sid asked as everyone continued on the path, the Lucharangers having decided to come with since there was nothing big coming up in any of their lives at the moment. "Unfortunately, yes! And it's not just anyone! He goes by the name Kamen Rider Armadeiras, but he's actually none other than Shibogumon, who actually survived his own destruction after the last time we fought him by transferring his consciousness into a cybernetic robot spider!" Clyde explained. "And because of Akampulse stealing a sample of my venom, Shibogumon has all of my powers, it's so irritating to think about!" Aurachnid complained. That caused the Lucharangers to groan in exasperation. "Man, he should be lucky he doesn't have to deal with us!" Harpygolverine said. "True that!" Becky said. As they were talking, the Dingonek was swimming alongside the Ngoubous without causing any trouble. "Hey, Adelaide-chan, looks like your little friend has decided to follow us." Daiki said, noticing the Dingonek.
"Oh! Hello again, Mr. Dingonek!" Adelaide said in delight as the Dingonek, now called Mr. Dingonek, allow her to pet him on the head. "I guess Adelaide healing his tail made him more friendly and affectionate!" Ama noted. "You might be right about that, Ama! Plus, I think it might be good idea for him to come along with us, since there are dangerous hippos living in this river and Dingoneks are known to eat them, so his presence would obviously keep the hippos from attacking us!" Nkyinkyim noted. When Mr. Dingonek took notice of Chortles on one of the Ngoubous and came close to him before sniffing him, he quickly figured out that the hippo pinata isn't exactly as edible as a real hippo and sticked his tongue out in disgust before he went back to Adelaide's side. "What was that all about?" Chortles asked in confusion. "I'm guessing that our Dingonek friend here prefers the taste of real hippos over pinatas resembling hippos, mostly because of the fact that pinatas in general are made out of Papier-mâché, which isn't exactly very edible to anyone!" Lisa answered. "Well, at least I know in relief that he won't be eating me, which is a good thing for me, because I certainly don't want to be swallowed up along with my career as a comedian, if you know what I mean!" Chortles said while joking a little. The only ones who laughed at that were Luan and Cecil, though the latter laughed harder than the former as he was hysterically laughing while bursting out rivers of tears from his eyes. "*Chuckle!* Careful, Chortles, you might end up making Cecil turn the river all salty with his tears!" Luan said with a chuckle. "Oh! That's a good one, Luan!" Chortles replied. As soon as Cecil stopped laughing and calmed down a little, he went to Chortles and said "Here, Chortles! I almost forgot to give this to you!" before he then pulled out a blue book with the title "Chortles's Book of Gags and Jokes!" on the cover and gave to Chortles. "Oh! Thank you, Cecil! I was getting a feeling that I was forgetting something, so I definitely appreciate your help!" Chortles said in delight. Just then, the group spotted a large bloat of hippos near them. "Uh, guys, we got hippos at ten o'clock!" Clyde said while pointing at where the hippos were. "Oh, Good! Thanks for the warning, Clyde!" Dwennimmen said as he motioned his Ngoubou to stop, causing the rest of the Ngoubous to stop as well. "Well, what are going to do? Wait for those hippos to get out of the river or something?" Lynn Jr asked. "Actually, we might need to wait very long! Look!" Said Lincoln as Mr. Dingonek smacked his lips and swam towards the bloat of hippos, aiming for the biggest bull hippo. Then, as quick as a flash, Mr. Dingonek struck the big bull hippo with his fangs and pulled it underwater while scaring the rest of hippos away to the shore. After a few minutes of waves thrashing and some blood staining the water, Mr. Dingonek surfaced above the water and licked his lips before letting out a loud burp in satisfaction, much to the shock of a majority of the group. "Thank goodness, he's on our side, cause I don't want to end up like that hippo!" Clyde noted. "Well, at least that Dingonek was kind enough to do his feeding underwater, cause I'm pretty sure that it would be a lot messier when feeding on land!" Ama noted. "Excuse us, but we are literally going to hurl!" Lori said as she and the other sisters, minus Lucy and Lana, turned green out of disgust. "Same with us, dudes and dudettes!" Franklin said as he and the other pinatas started feeling sick in the stomach as well. "PUKE FEST!" Luna shouted as the Loud Sisters, minus Lucy and Lana, and the pinatas got off their Ngoubous and headed to the shore. While the Loud Sisters were puking in some bushes, the pinatas were seen throwing up all their candy onto the floor "BLEEEEEEEEEEEEGH!". "THE HORROR! THE HORROR!" Fergy said in fright. "I'm going to have nightmares about this, and for once, it's not a joke!" Chortles said in fright. "Same with all of us!" Tina replied. "Nice going, Ama!" Lincoln said in sarcasm. "Sorry!" Ama apologized. "Good thing I brought an extra empty bag with me in case I want to collect something!" Lana said as she pulled out a huge bag and went down to where the pinatas were in order to pick up their thrown up candy. "While I normally don't like the sight of killing, this is classified as part of the 'Circle of Life' as they call it, so I'll let that slide! Plus, the blood shot within the water is a rare sight worth seeing!" Lucy noted, creeping out everyone else. "This is going to be a long ride!" Sakura said in annoyance. After a few hours on the water, they disembarked the river. "The Grootslang's cave is just past this path." Dwennimen said. "Good! Because I'm starting to get a bit hungry after all those hours in the river!" Lana said while her Flashlight Frog friend Flashy was sitting on her hat.
Just then, everyone heard something rustling within the trees and bushes nearby. "Okay, now what?" Lincoln asked as a creature revealed itself through the plant life. It was a very large rhino-like creature with grayish brown skin, a single long nose horn, a pair of small elephant-like ears, a wide mouth with hooked lips and , and a long crocodilian tail. It then made a few snorts at the group in an aggressive manner. "Dang It! I forgot about the Emela-ntouka living here!" Dwennimmen said in frustration. "A what, now?!" Everyone, minus those who live in Africa, said in confusion. "The Emela-ntouka is an infamous African cryptid that is said to be an elephantine, rhinoceros-like amphibious creature with a large horn on its nose, small elephantine ears, and a heavy crocodile-like tail! Its name means "elephant-killer" in the Lingala language, which is an appropriately name, because, while it may be an herbivore, it is extremely aggressive and very easily to provoke as it will attack and anything that disturbs it, especially elephants!" Ama explained. Batelegong and Ella quickly hid at that. Even Elephantor, who heard that from a distance, became frightened.
"*TRUMPET!* Oh No! Of all the rotten luck! Why did it have to be an Emela-ntouka?!" Elephantor asked in fright. Leo sighed in frustration. Back with the Lincoln and the others, the Emela-ntouka rumbled and growled at the group while stomping its front feet in a territorial manner. "Anyone have any ideas on how to safely get past this thing?" Lincoln asked. "I've got one! I'm getting bored from those long hours along the river and I'm itching for a challenge!" Lynn Jr answered as she rolled up her sleeves, got off her Ngoubou and marched towards the Emela-ntouka in an act of bravery. "Lynn-neechan! Are you crazy?!" Sakura asked in shock as Lynn Jr went and glared intensely at the Emela-ntouka. "Lynn? Crazy? That'd be like asking Lola if she has anger issues!" Lori said. "I heard that, Lori!" Lola retorted in annoyance. "And you just proved my point." Lori said. Lola simply grumbled at that as Lynn Jr went and cracked her fingers while the Emela-ntouka dragged its right front foot into the dirt in preparation to charge. Once that happened, Lynn Jr and the Emela-ntouka charged towards each other. A skirmish soon started, making everyone cringe. "Ooh, that's going to leave a mark." Leni said. "Yeah, on the Emela-ntouka." Aya said. To prove Aya's point, Lynn Jr was seen punching the Emela-ntouka in its right eye.
Then, after getting beaten up a few more times at various parts of his body, including its nether regions, the Elephant-killing cryptid ended up making pained shouts, running away in fear. "That's right, you big elephant-killing bully, you'd better run!" Lynn Jr shouted while shaking her left fist in the air. "Yep, she's crazy." Sakura muttered as Dwennimen lead everyone into the cave. Once inside, everyone saw an assortment of gemstones and crystals scattered across different areas of the cavern. "So shiny, so sparkly!" Lola said with stars in her eyes. "I wouldn't take any of those gemstones and crystals if I were you! After all, these items actually belong to the Grootslang and taking them would be classified as stealing, which is a crime!" Dwennimmen warned. "And she doesn't take too kindly to crime of any sort, especially stealing, and especially when it comes to these." Nkyinkyim said. Lola was about to touch one of the stones, but recoiled at the last second after hearing that. "Fine." She said, pulling out her sleep mask. "Just so I won't be tempted." She said, placing it over her eyes. "Here, you might need this." Nikki said, using her powers to create a crystal walking stick.
"Oh! Thanks!" Said Lola as Nikki gave her the crystal walking stick. "At least it's something crystal." Lola said. Then, as everyone continued down the path, everyone heard an elephant-like roaring echoing in the cavern. "I take it that's the Grootslang?" Lincoln asked. "Yep! It's her greeting call!" Dwennimmen confirmed. Then, everyone saw something appear from a corner of the cavern the caverns. It was a very large creature that looks like an African Elephant with long tusks that have hole under the tips, green snake-like skin and a long serpentine tail like that of a python as well as having snake-like teeth in her mouth and round orange diamonds were her eyes should be. "Ah! Dwennimmen! Nkyinkyim! I see you two and the Anansian Guard have returned!" The creature spoke in a female voice. She then got scared a little. The Grootslang noticed the outsiders. "It's okay, they're with us." Dwennimen said. "Does that include the strange multicolored animals I'm seeing, especially the the one that looks like an elephant?" The Grootslang asked as she pointed at the pinatas, specifically at Ella.
The Pinatas all nervously nodded. "I see! And what's with the Flashlight Frog and the Dingonek?" The Grootslang asked as she pointed at Flashy, who's still sitting on top of Lana's hat, and Mr. Dingonek, who was right behind the group. "Oh! This is Flashy! I befriended him along the way here!" Lana answered. "And that's Mr. Dingonek! He became friends with me after I healed his tail! Plus, he was very helpful against the hippos by, well, eating one of the bull hippos and scaring the rest of them away!" Adelaide explained. "Interesting." The Grootslang said before noticing Aurachnid. "The Golden Spider!" She said in realization. "You recognize me?" Aurachnid asked. "You don't live this close to the people of the spiders without hearing of their legends." The Grootslang said. "Oh! That makes sense!" Aurachnid noted. "If I remember correctly, from what Nkyinkyim told us, you are a descendant of the very Grootslang that my old partner Akoma saved from Shockwing!" Aurachnid said. "Indeed." The Grootslang said.
"Say, I don't suppose you have a personal name, since Grootslang is a species name, right?" Aurachnid asked. "Ah! Yes! How rude of me not to introduce myself properly! My personal name is Veliane!" The Grootslang, now known as Veliane, replied. "Nice to meet you, Veliane." Clyde said. "Well, we might as well introduce ourselves! I'm Lincoln Loud!" Said Lincoln. "These are my sisters, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, and Lisa." He said. "We do one more sister named Lily, but she's currently with our parents back at the village, mostly to keep her out of danger, since she's a toddler!" Lisa informed. "Understandable." Veliane said. "This is my girlfriend Sakura Hoseki, my best friend Clyde McBride, his girlfriend Chloe, our other friends Stella Zhou, her boyfriend Shintomaru Kadokawa, Lucy's boyfriend Rocky Spokes, Lana's love interest Skippy, Lola's love interest Winston, Lisa's love interest David, Aya, her cousins Mpatapo, Nyansipo, Ama, Afia, Onyina, and Yaa, Aya's best friend Duafe, Charley Wilder, his grandfather Professor Wilder, Daiki Kaito, Natsumi Hikari, her bat-like companion Kiva-La, Sayo Kadoya, Ronnie Anne Santiago, her girlfriend Sid Chang, Casey, Sameer, his girlfriend Nikki, Laird, Ronnie Anne's cousin Carl Casagrande, Sid's younger sister Adelaide Chang, Becky, her girlfriend Dodge, Becky's younger brother Ricky, the Alebrije Jaxondor, Ailuxucara, Trisaurus, Batelegong, Regaluco, Leaquilfin, Jaxondor's younger brother Magnifalcougar, Ailuxucara's younger sister Lunastura, Harpygolverine, Prawngolequin, Aurastrolumba, and Vularena, our Animarius allies, who defected from the Empire and are currently helping us, Duafe's boyfriend Andros, Mpatapo's girlfriend and Andros's twin sister Phixia, Gorf, Mambana, and the pinatas Fergy Fudgehog, Paulie Preztail, Franklin Fizzlybear, Les Galagoogoo, Hudson Horstachio, his manager and agent Simone Cinnamonkey, Tina and Teddington Twingersnap, who are both conjoined twins, Ella Elephanilla, Chortles Chippopotamus, Cecil Cocoadile, and Langston Lickatoad!" Lincoln said in full introduction.
"Pleasure to meet you. Any friend of the Great Golden Spider is welcome on these grounds." Veliane said. "Thanks!" Lincoln said in delight. "Of course, please do kindly to not take any of my crystals and gemstones without my permission! And I do mean you, Mr. Kaito!" Veliane politely warned as she took notice of Daiki eyeing the pile of the gemstones right next to him and was about to reach one of them before stopping upon hearing the Grootslang's warning. "~Busted!~" Kiva-La said in a sing-song tone. "*Chuckle!* Sorry! I was getting really tempted back there!" Daiki said with a chuckle. That caused Natsumi to get annoyed as she then went to Daiki and said "Hikari-ke Hiden: Warai no Tsubo! (Hikari Family Secret: Laughing Pressure Point!)" before she then struck a pressure point on Daiki's neck with her thumb, causing Daiki to laugh uncontrollably. Everyone turned to Shintomaru. "Oh, I'm sorry, did I forget to mention that?" He innocently asked. "Yes, you did!" Everyone answered at once. "What the heck was that?" Aurachnid asked in confusion. "That's Natsumikan's signature technique, the Warai no Tsubo, meaning "Laughing Pressure Point" in Japanese! She often uses it on anyone who irritates or annoys her, including my past self!" Shintomaru explained.
"And if you think your Grandma's Chancla is scary, you should see Narumi Akiko, an ally of Kamen Rider W, as well as Kamen Rider Accel's wife, and her slipper!" Shintomaru told Carl. This made Carl flinch. "Yikes!" Ronnie Anne said. "You have no clue." Shintomaru said. Then, Veliane went and sniffed Clyde with her trunk and smelled something familiar about him. "Something wrong, Veliane-san?" Sakura asked. "That scent! It couldn't be!" Veliane said in shock. "That is what I'm thinking as well." Dwennimen admitted. "Okay, could someone explain to me what's going on here?!" Clyde asked impatiently. "You said you're a direct descendant of Akoma, correct?" Dwennimen said. "Yes, that's exactly right! Otherwise, Aurachnid's venom would have killed me!" Clyde answered. "There hasn't been a descendant of Akoma in our village in 12 years." Nkyinkyim said. "Really? Why?" Clyde asked. "It all started 12 years ago. The last known descendant of Akoma was my predecessor as captain of the Anansian Guard. As well as my best friend and brother-in-law." Dwennimen said.
"You see, for a very long time, since the day our ancestors had left our original village and moved to a new village, life for the people of the spiders was relatively peaceful!" He added. "However, that peace was abruptly shattered when an evil eight-headed snake monster named Nyuvwirath had managed to overpower me and started attacking the village!" Veliane explained. "Nyuviwrath?" Andros asked, looking to Phixia, the two seeming to remember hearing that name somewhere before. Of course, when Gorf heard that name, he was horrified. "Gorf-san? Andros-kun? Phixia-chan? What's wrong?" Sakura asked, noticing their Animarius friends' faces. "Andros and I remember hearing that name from our mother Sphinxia!" Phixia answered. "You're saying this Nyuviwrath is an Animarius?" Lincoln asked. "Unfortunately, yes! In fact, I know who Nyuvwrath really is more than anyone! He's from King Draco's Royal Guard and he was also close friends with me and Shockwing before the Lightning Bird Animarius's desertion! As for what kind of mythical creature Nyuvwrath is based on, it's an eight-headed snake called the Nyuvwira!" Gorf explained. Everyone looked at Lisa and Ama in confusion. "The Nyuvwira is an enormous eight-headed snake that is associated with precious minerals and is native to the Chitipa District of Malawi! It has the ability to generate electricity and light up at night and it also lives underground, which is considered fortunate to many as it is said to be extremely toxic! When it moves above the surface, about every 200 years, it causes death and disaster! It is said that any airplane flying over a Nyuvwira would crash to the ground in a fiery blaze! On a side note, the skin of a nyuvwira, when held in one's pocket, prevents planes from moving and is said to be a powerful charm for wealth! Also, in order to kill a nyuvwira, one must construct a spiral hut and line it with razors, then entice the snake in by ringing bells, which would cause it to crawl over the razors and cut itself to death!" Ama explained.
Everyone cringed at that. "Yeah! Pretty gruesome, that last part!" Ama said. "Anyway, Gorf-san, you said that this Nyuvwrath is close friends with you and Shockwing? How, exactly?" Sakura asked. "Believe it or not, he's actually in the same ninja school as me, Tytus, and Shockwing, though he was far more closer to Shockwing than anyone else, primarily because of the fact that they both have electrical abilities and were literally lighting fast! Of course, Nyuvwrath later got promoted as a member of the Royal Guard, since King Draco saw very great potential in him and his unique abilities, and not just his electrical abilities, but also his ability to control and shape crystals and gemstones, his ability to dig tunnels with greats ease, and his ability to produce very powerful toxins! And that was long before the desertion of Shockwing and the Lost Tribe!" Gorf answered. "And it's those powers that helped him overpower me!" Veliane said. "Specifically, he shocked me with his electrical abilities and then made me sick with his toxins before he then dug a hole underneath me and I fell into it while he levitated my crystals and gemstones and buried them on top of me! I was rather lucky to have survived that ordeal, especially when the Anansian Guard later discovered me in my predicament and got me out of that hole before taking me to the village and healing my injuries as well as curing me of those toxins!" She added. "And that doesn't even begin to describe the ordeal he put our village through." Dwennimen said.
"No sooner did he overpowered Veliane, Nyuvwrath went and started going out on a wild rampage, by burning buildings with his electrical abilities and poisoning our people with his toxins!" Nkyinkyim explained. "*GULP!*" Everyone gulped in fright. "Indeed. The Anansian Guard tried to fight him off." Dwenimmen said. "And my old friend Mframadan, who was the previous captain of the Anansian Guard and also my brother-in-law as he was married to my sister Fawohodie, was the one that lead the defense against Nyuvwrath!" He added. "We all fought hard, but none of us stood a chance against Nyuvwrath." Another guard said. "Even worse, Fawohodie was pregnant during that attack, though she didn't know about it yet at the time!" Another guard said. "And Nyuvwrath saw her and tried to attack." Dwennimen said. "However, Mframadan wasn't going allow his wife to be harmed in any way, so he deliberately jumped in front of Fawohodie in order to protect her!" He added. "Unfortunately, that act of valor cost him his life! Add soon he as got in front of Fawohodie and pierced his spear into Nyuvwirath's heart, the evil eight-headed snake monster retaliated by biting Mframadan with his fangs, causing my brother-in-law to become afflicted with Nyuvwrath's venom!" Dwennimmen explained.
"But he didn't go down without a fight." Nkyinkyim said. "As he kept on pushing through the pain, Mframadan went and punched Nyuvwrath many times with his bare hands before he then pushed his spear further into the evil eight-headed snakes heart, causing Nyuvwrath to explode and leave behind a medallion with the image of the Nyuvwira on it!" He added. "Where's that medallion now?" Lincoln asked, holding up his driver. "This possesses the ability to seal them!" He said. "It's still currently in our village, specifically in the home of our leader Chief Adinkrahene!" Nkyinkyim answered. Unbeknownst to any of them, Leo's group was just outside the cave, and Elephantor, who had heard that, told it to Leo. "Interesting." Leo said, pulling out his talkie. "Cicadeath, give this to King Draco." He ordered. After being by General Leo about what Elephantor heard, Cicadeath replied by saying "At Once, Sir!". At the Animarius Castle, Cicadeath ran into King Draco's throne room where the rest of the Pantheon, Cerberion, and Tytus were. "Your majesty! General Leo has just the location of Nyuvwrath's Soul Core!" Cicadeath said.
After being told by General Leo about what Elephantor had heard, Cicadeath replied by saying "At Once, Sir!". At the Animarius Castle, Cicadeath ran into King Draco's throne room where the rest of the Pantheon and Tytus were. "Your majesty! General Leo has just found the location of Nyuvwrath's Soul Core!" Cicadeath said. "What?! Nyuvwrath?! Where?!" King Draco asked in surprise. "Apparently, he's been reduced to a Soul Core in the same village that Kamen Rider Anansi's spider is from! He's requesting permission to use a fruit from the tree of life to revive him!" Cicadeath said. "Hmm! His abilities would be useful to us, especially since I was the one that promoted him to a member of the Royal Guard in the first place! Permission granted!" King Draco answered. "Tytus! Deliver the fruit to General Leo!" King Draco ordered Tytus. "Yes, your majesty!" Tytus replied. As Tytus left to go to the Tree of Life, Aquilis handed Tytus a small disc. "The time for us to strike is near. Find a way to give this to the riders without anyone noticing." Aquilis whispered to her daughter. "I'll try, mother!" Tytus replied as she then flew over to the Tree of Life.
Back at the cave...
"After Mframadan's funeral, we were distraught. We thought that Akoma's bloodline had been brought to an end. But then, one day, as I was visiting Fawohodie, a humanoid Spotted Hyena visited us." Dwennimen explained. "A humanoid Spotted Hyena? That's a Werehyena!" Aya said in realization. "I wonder. Did it look anything like this?" Aya asked, shifting to her Werehyena form. "Yes! Though the one that visited us was clearly a young adult, due to her being much taller than you!" Dwennimmen answered. "Did she say her name?" Aya asked, shifting back. "I believe her name was Osanya, last I remember!" Dwennimmen answered. "That was my mother!" Aya realized. That took Dwennimmen by surprise. "Really? How is she now?" Dwennimen asked. "Unfortunately, she died of sleeping sickness." Aya explained. "Courtesy of a Tsetse Fly that got into our house!" She added while tearing up. "And that traitorous familiar, who is also responsible for the death of my sister, Akofena!" Aya added, her tears being mixed with anger. "Familiar?" Dwennimmen asked in confusion.
"This is going to be a shock to you guys, no pun intended, but the familiar she's referring to is none other than Shockwing!" Lincoln explained. That caused Dwennimmen, Nkyinkyim, and Veliane to gasp in shock. "It's a long story. But don't worry, he's no more. And we have a new and better familiar." Aya said, scratching behind Vularena's ear. "Interesting. But, anyway, Osanya told us not to worry, as there was indeed another, and that Fawohodie was actually carrying Akoma's heir. A boy that would one day don the armor of Kwaku Anansi's champion." Dwennimen said, looking at Clyde. "Upon hearing that, Fawohodie decided to name her unborn baby Nsoromma, meaning "child of the heavens" in the Akan language!" He added. "Akoma's heir? Are you saying that Fawohodie, is my birth mom?" Clyde asked. "Yes, that's exactly right, Clyde, or rather, Nsoromma!" Dwennimmen answered, much to everyone's shock, especially Clyde and Chloe's. "Woah!" Lincoln said.
"But, that would mean that you're my boyfriend's biological uncle!" Chloe said in realization. "Indeed. And I think it'd be best if you saved any further questions for my sister. But for now, if you would please." Dwennimen told Veliane. "Right! Everyone, follow me!" Veliane instructed as she started leading the group further into the cave. "We'll need to find a way past that thing!" Leo reminded his group as they hid in the cave. "I got an idea about that! I can dig us a tunnel underneath the cave!" Meerkrack suggested. "And if she does give us any trouble, I can handle things!" Shibogumon said. "Of course, I could make things easier by simply knocking her unconscious with my gas!" Farthog suggested. "Maybe, but Shibogumon's way is better. Plus, it doesn't risk us having to smell that!" Leo said. "Oh! Sorry!" Farthog apologized. "Just get to digging!" Leo told Meerkrack. "Sir, yes sir!" Meerkrack said.
Meanwhile...
Veliane lead everyone outside the cave. "We're here." She said as everyone but Nkyinkyim, Dwennimen, and the guard stood agape. It was a village that looks like a combination of a classical African village with straw huts and Wakanda from Marvel Comics with high tech buildings, albeit with a giant spider statue overhead on top of a small mountain, which contained a waterfall, instead of a panther statue. Also, there was also quite a ton of jungle trees and plantlife as well as a lot of huge spider webs around several areas and a few rivers flowing through the streets that was connected by the aforementioned waterfall and a swamp. Plus, the village was filled people walking alongside some J'ba FoFi and some large, short-tailed, long-fanged felines with either reddish fur and vertical white stripes or with pure black fur, that resemble the Smilodon, with some of them having lion-like manes, while a few flocks of butterflies were flying overhead. There was even a large grayish-brown serpentine lizard with short legs and serated ridges across its back that was napping near the swamp while basking in the sun's rays. "J'ba Fofi, Ennedi Tigers, and Nguma-monene?!" Ama asked in shock.
"What are Ennedi Tigers and what's an Nguma-monene?" Everyone, minus those that live in Africa, asked in confusion. "Ennedi Tigers are a group of mountain-dwelling sabertoothed feline African cryptids that, despite having 'tiger' in their name, are actually related to either the Megantereon or the Machairodus, which are both relatives of the more famous Smilodon that can be found in Africa! They are also known as Ennedi mountain tigers or tigre des montagnes, that's French for "tiger of the mountains" or "mountain tiger" so you know! In fact, there are several different species of Ennedi tigers! One of them is Coq-djingé, meaning "red cat" or "dangerous cat" in the Yulu language, which is considered to be the primary example amongst Ennedi Tigers, since it's well known for it's reddish fur with white vertical stripes! Another one would be the Gassingrâm, which is usually has brown fur, is mostly nocturnal and has a powerful eyeshine as well as being known to be strong enough to carry large prey in its mouth! One other species would be the Vassoko, which, like the Gassingrâm, also has a powerful eyeshine and also mostly nocturnal as well as strong enough to carry large prey, though the difference is that the Vassoko tends to hoist its prey on its back while carrying them and its described as well as having hairy legs that erases its tracks, a bushy tail, and small dog-like ears, and, according to the folklore of the Vakaga region, it's said to be followed by clouds of butterflies! Yet another Ennedi Tiger species is the Hadjel, which is said to be maned like a lion and, unlike other Ennedi Tiger species, has melanistic fur, meaning it has black fur! Of course, unlike other Ennedi Tiger species, which are said to be rather ferocious and bad-tempered, the Hadjel is described by Hadjerai folklore to be a harmless animal that can only take small prey, as the great size of its teeth is supposed to cause it pain whenever it opens its mouth!" Ama explained. "Which species of Ennedi tigers are these?" Stella asked nervously. "Judging from the coloration, the black ones with manes are obviously Hadjels while the ones with smooth reddish fur with white vertical stripes are clearly Coq-djingés! I also spot a few brown ones, which means that these are Gassingrâms, and I see some that also have red hair with vertical stripes, but with shaggy hairy legs, bushy tails, and small dog-like ears, and have butterflies flying over them, meaning that those are Vassoko! Heck, I see few that look like hybrids between any one of those Ennedi Tiger species!" Ama answered. "Yes, but don't worry. Every one of these are domesticated." Dwennimen said.
"How's that even possible?" Lisa asked in confusion. "Basically, they are all descendants of the Coq-djingés, Gassingrâms, Vassokos, and Hadjels that Akoma resecued when Shockwing's friend Pantherious attacked their mountain home! In fact, once you get to know those Ennedi Tigers, they are a lot more social than everyone had thought, since their social structure is more akin to lion prides! Plus, they are very helpful with us when we go out hunting for food, usually for Wildebeest!" Dwennimmen answered. "Speaking of Akoma, you said he was Captain of the Anansian Guard once too, right? So why didn't he have a J'ba Fofi?" Lori asked. "He did, but sadly, the J'ba Fofi sacrificed himself to save Akoma from Hornetra." Dwennimen said. "Ooh! Sorry to hear that!" Lori said while wincing at that. "It's okay! That J'ba FoFi was as loyal as any of our own J'ba FoFi and would rather die than allow Akoma to get killed in any way!" Dwennimmen replied. "An honorable death! What an acceptable way to go!" Lucy noted. "So, what about the Nguma-monene? What exactly is it?" Lincoln asked in confusion. "The Nguma-monene is another famous African cryptid! In this case, it's a large grayish-brown serpentine lizard, with short legs, a snake-like head and neck, a forked tongue, and triangular serated ridges lined straight across its back! A lot of people believed it to be either a mosasaur, a spinosaur, or even a synapsid related to the Dimetrodon! However, as you all can see, the Nguma-monene is clearly none of those things! In fact, judging by its appearance, I'd say it's most likely a modern-day descendant of the dolichosaurs, which is a primitive semi-aquatic extinct group of lizards which had short limbs and elongated bodies! Of course, it's pretty clear that it has evolved to have functional short legs that it can use to travel on land like monitor lizards, not to mention that the triangular serated ridges, which is something that existing dolichosaurs didn't have! Anyway, the Nguma-monene tends to move rapidly through water, swamps, and on the ground, and is known to feed on birds and monkeys! Uniquely, its body is described as producing an electric current, similar to that of electric catfish!" Ama explained.
Phixia and Lana shuddered at the memory of what Electricus did to them, while Leni started freaking out at the sight of all the spider decorations. "I think I'll just hang out in the cave with Veliane, if that's okay with you!" Leni said. "Really, Leni? You do realize that the J'ba FoFi are friendly, right?" Lori asked in annoyance. "Yeah! And besides, what about that time you momentarily over came your fear of spiders in order to save Frank the Tarantula from an exterminator?" Lana asked. "Yeah, but I'm still working on that, and this is just a little too much for me right now!" Leni said as one J'ba Fofi crawled up her back. "There's one on my back isn't there?" She asked. "Yep!" Everyone said in confirmation. "Great, can somebody get it off so I can run screaming into the cave?" Leni asked nicely. "*Sigh!* I'll get him!" Clyde said as he went towards Leni. Clyde let the J'ba Fofi crawl onto his arm. "Thank you." Leni said before screaming and running into the cave. "I'll keep an eye on her." Veliane said. "Thanks, Veliane! The one thing we don't need is for someone to get lost within the cave!" Said Dwennimmen as Veliane went back into the cave.
"Now, come on everyone! Chief Adrinkehine has been very interested in meeting you." Nkyinkyim told Clyde. "Right!" Said Clyde as the J'ba FoFi on his arm, which is obviously a young one, due to being a bit smaller than the other J'ba FoFi, started making clicking noises to him in a friendly gesture. "Cute!" Chloe said. "Any idea what he's saying, Aurachnid?" Clyde asked. "Oh! He's saying hello and he wants to be friends with you!" Aurachnid answered. "Aww!" The girls went. "Oh! Well, then, I guess I'll have you as a friend! In fact, I'll give you a name, just so I know what to call you! How about Webster?" Clyde said, to which the young J'ba Fofi squeaked in agreement. "He says that works." Aurachnid translated as Dwennimen lead everyone into the village.
Meanwhile...
"But then it turns out it was actually Lucy who clogged the toilet with a Princess Pony Book, but Linky, even after talking about that Ace Savvy convention he and Clyde were planning on going to, and knowing that it would get him grounded, willingly said it was him!" Leni told Veliane as they were talking. "Sounds like you girls should consider yourselves lucky to have a brother like him." Veliane said. "Yeah, that's true!" Leni noted before noticed a few large eggs in a nest at a corner within the cave. "Um, whose eggs are these?" Leni asked. "Oh! Those are actually my eggs! I had laid them about 54 days ago!" Veliane answered. "Aw, congratulations!" Leni said. "Thanks! They are supposed to hatch either today or five days from now, depending on the conditions!" Veliane explained. "Oh that's wonderful!" Leni said. "Indeed, I-wait, do you hear that?" Veliane asked. "Hear what?" Leni asked in confusion. "It sounds like someone's singing." Veliane said. Unbeknownst to either of them, Meerkrack was leading Leo's group beneath Veliane's cave, and he was indeed singing. To be more specific, he was singing "Diggah Tunnah" from the Lion King 1 1/2!
"Can somebody please shut him up!" Shibogumon complained as Meerkrack said 'Before the hyena come!' for what felt like the 1,000th time. "I swear, If I have to sit through one more verse, I will save the Kamen Riders the trouble and kill him myself!" He said. "I'll shut him up!" Rhinosteel said as he then conked Meerkrack on the helmet with his fist, causing the Meerkrack to stop singing and shout "Hey! It's not nice to interrupt someone while their singing!" in irritation. "Well your singing is annoying all of us!" Rhinosteel complained. "Yeah! Seriously! You've been singing that same song for literally a thousand times already! It's nearly driving me insane!" Fulicana complained. "Well, excuse me!" Meerkrack said, offended. "It'd be wise to make as little noise as possible, anyway. I was able to hear the Grootslang talk about how she could hear your singing, even through all this dirt!" Elephantor said. That took everyone by surprise. "Seriously?!" Shibogumon asked in confusion. "Unfortunately, yes! The Grootslang is part-elephant, so that definitely means that she can hear as well as I can!" Elephantor said. "*Groan!* You hear that, Meerkrack? That definitely means that you need to stop singing and keep on digging in silence! Cause, if you don't, I'll personally tear you apart with my claws in order to shut you up!" General Leo threatened, causing Meerkrack to gulp in fright and say "Yes, Sir! Sorry, Sir!" in compliance before he then resumed digging while not singing.
Meanwhile, with the others...
As they were guided by Dwennimmen and Nkyinkyim through the village they were greeted by a very friendly hybrid Ennedi Tiger that was colored black, red, and brown with white vertical stripes and had a lion-like mane, small dog-like ears, shaggy legs, and a bushy tail while a flock of butterflies were flying over it. "Kawaii!" Sakura, Natsumi, and Sayo beamed. "Ah, there you are, Addae!" Said Nkyinkyim as the hybrid Ennedi Tiger, now known as Addae, went to him and rubbed his forehead against him while making a few friendly moaning sounds. "Is that Ennedi Tiger your friend, Nkyinkyim?" Nyansipo asked. "Yes, he is! This my Ennedi Tiger companion Addae! He's actually a four-way hybrid Ennedi Tiger, since his father is 1/2 Hadjel and 1/2 Gassingrâm while his mother is 1/2 Coq-djingé and 1/2 Vassoko!" Nkyinkyim answered. "100% absolutely Kawaii!" Sakura beamed. "So, how do you explain why the Vassoko and hybrid Ennedi Tigers that are part-Vassoko constantly have butterflies flying over them?" Lisa asked upon seeing the flock of butterflies flying over Addae. "Oh! Apparently, it turns out that Vassokos produce an odor from their skin that makes them smell like flowers, which tends to attract any butterfly that's nearby!" Nkyinkyim answered.
"It's truly a wonder of nature that makes Africa what it is." A voice said as everyone looked up to see a man. "Chief Adrinkhene!" Nkyinkyim said as he, Dwennimen, and the rest of the Anansian Guard fell to their knees in respect. The man, known as Chief Adinkrahene, was in his mid-30's wearing traditional Akan chief clothing, consisting of a kente, a traditional Ghanaian textile made of handwoven cloth, strips of silk, and cotton, that's colored in gold, black, green, and blue, and a black crown decorated with golden stars, seashells, triangles, and crescent moons and topped with a golden spider web with a tiny golden spider in its center, while also wearing black pants and tan sandals. He also had two animal companions with him, specifically a giant tortoise-sized Softshell Turtle and an Ennedi Tiger that had a grass-colored fur coat with both stripes and spots was well as a rather large belly, implying that this was a pregnant female. Also alongside Chief Adinkrahene were several people, four adult women, four preteen boys, one preteen girl, and one very young-looking fifthteen-year-old boy. The first woman, who was in her mid-30's, like Chief Adinkrahene, was also wearing a kente, albeit colored pink, purple, yellow, and silver and a lot longer as it more resembles a woman's dress, and wearing a red headband, two golden spider-shaped earrings, and a pair of white sandals on her feet (Chief Adinkrahene's wife Morowa). The second woman, who was in her late 20's, was wearing a green dress with a green hair bow and green sandals (Dwennimmen's wife Serwa). The third woman, who was in her mid-20's, was wearing a pink shirt with a red skirt, purple beads tied up in her hair, and orange sandals (Nkyinkyim's wife Ozigbodi). The fourth woman, who was in her early 30's, was wearing a black dress with white spider web markings, black sandals, and a necklace with a spider-shaped amulet (Dwennimmen's sister and Clyde's birth mother Fawohodie). The first preteen boy, who was a ten-year-old, was wearing a golden shirt with brown shorts and black sandals as well as a golden headband (Chief Adinkrahene and Morowa's son Kaatachi). The second preteen boy, who was a twelve-year-old, was wearing a blue shirt with green shorts and brown sandals (Dwennimmen and Serwa's son Adwenpa). The third preteen boy, who was also a twelve-year-old, was wearing a white shirt with gray shorts and black sandals (Nkyinkyim and Ozigbodi's son Nkyimu). The fourth preteen boy, who's also a twelve-year-old and looks identical to the third preteen boy, was wearing a black shirt with gray shorts and white sandals (Nkyinkyim and Ozigbodi's other son and Nykimu's twin brother Nkonsonkonson). The preteen girl, who was a twelve-year-old, was wearing a silver tank top with a purple skirt and blue sandals (Chief Adinkrahene and Morowa's daughter and Kaatachi's older sister Kisi). The fifthteen-year-old boy, who looks a lot younger than his actual age, due to his short height and his very youthful and cute-looking face, making him look more like a short twelve-year-old, was different from the others as he clearly looks to part-Japanese, due to his facial features, and part-German, due to his blonde hair, light blue eyes, and fair white skin with no freckles, instead of being African, plus he was wearing a white shirt with blue shorts, blue sandals, and a blue-colored Tyrolean hat on his head (Dwennimmen and Serwa's adoptive son and Adwenpa's adoptive older brother Tomoki Durchdenwald) while he himself was accompanied by three large jackal-like canines that had large bat-like wings attached to their backs and flying squirrel-like gliding membranes in between their front and hind legs. "Hallo!" The young-looking fifthteen-year-old Japanese-German boy said in a high child-like voice (imagine him sounding like Momiji Sohma from the anime "Fruits Basket").
Realizing who they were in the presence of, and not wanting to seem insensitive, Lincoln and his group quickly repeated Dwennimen, Nkyinkyim, and the Anansian Guard's gesture. "It's okay, everyone! You can stop bowing now!" Said Chief Adinkrahene. Upon hearing that, everyone got back up. "Chief Adinkrahene, as promised, I have returned with the Golden Spider, as well as Akoma's heir." Nkyinkyim said, gesturing to Aurachnid and Clyde. This made Chief Adinkrahene and his group delightfully surprised. "You have the spider warrior's blood in you? May we see the armor of Kwaku Anansi's champion?" Adrinkrahene asked. "Uh, sure." Clyde said, allowing Aurachnid to bite his wrist, summoning his driver.
Spider On!
"Henshin!" Clyde said, donning his armor. Upon seeing that, Chief Adinkrahene and his group were awestruck. One of the women, specifically the one wearing the spider web-patterned dress and spider-shaped amulet, approached Clyde and started crying. "My son, you have returned." She said, happily hugging Clyde. "Huh? Are you, my Mom?!" Clyde asked in surprise. "Indeed she is." Dwennimen said. "Welcome back, my little Nsoromma!" The woman, now identified as Fawohodie, a.k.a. Clyde's birth mother and Dwennimmen's sister, said. "AWWWWWWWWW!" All the girls went. Even the Alebrije and the pinatas found that moment to heartwarming. Clyde ended the transformation as Fawohodie let go. "It certainly has been a long time since I have seen you, Nsoromma! You're almost a spitting image of your father when he was twelve! Though, I never actually imagined that you be wearing glasses!" Fawohodie stated. "Yes, well. And I actually go by Clyde McBride now." Clyde said. "Huh? Clyde, you say? I'm guessing whoever adopted you must have given you that name!" Fawohodie said. "Yeah, I was actually adopted by a gay couple." Clyde admitted, holding up a family photo of himself, Howard, and Harold.
"Huh! And where you living at?" Fawohodie asked. "Royal Woods, Michigan, United States!" Clyde answered. "Well, that's good to hear, because, unfortunately, a lot of governments in most African countries are actually against same-sex relationships, with Ghana being one of them!" Fawohodie said. "That's actually good for us as well." Luna whispered to Ronnie Anne, Sid, Becky, and Dodge, who nodded in agreement. "This brings me to an important question, Mom! Why Did You Give Me Up For Adoption In The First Place?!" Clyde asked loudly. "The night you were born, I was elated, but I received a vision from Akoma in my sleep. He told me that my child was destined for greatness, but that destiny would take him far from the village." Fawohodie started explaining. That caused everyone to gasp in shock. "So, unfortunately, that would mean that I would have to give you up for adoption as soon as I gave birth to you!" Fawohodie explained while tearing up. "Dude, that's so sad." Luna said. "Yeah! I can't imagine how much emotional pain you must have went through!" Lori noted.
"It was. But, as long as you're happy, that's all that matters." Fawohodie said. "But, how did I end up out of Africa and into America?" Clyde asked in confusion. "The people of the spiders spread far beyond this little village. When Fawohodie told me about her decision, I contacted a member of our people who runs an orphanage in Lansing, Michigan." Dwennimen explained. "We then explained to him about her decision, which shocked and surprised him!" Nkyinkyim said. "But he understood and arranged for us to come there." Fowohodie said through tears. "That was the hardest thing I've ever done." She said. Upon reading her aura, Aya, Vularena, Nyansipo, Afia, Onyina, Ama, and Yaa quickly understood Fawohodie's feelings. "Losing your husband, and having to give up your son just nine months later, that is bad." Aya said. "Yeah! Charley and I are really glad to be alive and around to help our girlfriends Aika and Atea when they got pregnant with our babies!" Nyansipo stated, much to the shock and surprise of Dwennimmen, the Anansian Guard, Fawohodie, Chief Adinkrahene, and his group as well as the pinatas.
"Wrong time and place, Nyansipo-kun." Sakura said, pinching the bridge of her forehead. "Sorry!" Nyansipo apologized. "Long story short, Nyansipo tried to make a male equivalent to our family's beauty enhancement potion, which only works on girls, but it didn't have the intended effect." Aya said. "Yeah! It was supposed to give us muscles and 6-six pack abs! Instead, it caused our, uh, private parts to become temporarily enlarged and well-endowed, complete with stiffies and increased male fertility, which caused to our girlfriends to become more attracted to us than usual and then one thing led to another and, well, that pretty much caused us to accidentally get our girlfriends pregnant! Plus, that potion came with some permanent side effects, which prevents our voices and facial features from changing and prevents us from growing any kind of facial or body hairs!" Charley explained. "But at least something good came out of it." Nyansipo said as they both pulled out pictures of their accidental kids.
"Awwww! So cute!" Simone, Ella, Fawohodie, and the females from Chief Adinkrahene's group said while gushing. "Wait just a doggone minute there! I thought only grownups and teenagers are capable of making babies, not preteen kids like you two!" Paulie said in confusion. "Well, technically, preteen boys and girls are capable of making infants when they start puberty, specifically when their reproductive organs become fully functional, though they are not usually allowed to do so until they are married adults! Plus, in most cases, like with what happened to Nyansipo, Charley, and their respective girlfriends, young couples wouldn't actually plan on making babies at all and would end up doing so by complete accident, though it would be caused by them losing control of their hormones rather than a failed potion!" Ama explained. "Oh! That does make some sense!" Paulie said in minor satisfaction to that answer. "Say, Nyansipo, you and Charley were trying to get muscular with that potion, right?" Fergy asked. "Yeah, that's right!" Nyansipo answered. "Why do you ask Fergy?" Charley asked. "Well, I sort of understand why you two want muscles, given the fact that you are guys and all! But, having a muscular bodyframe isn't always what's cracked up to be! Trust me, I know more than you all think!" Fergy answered. "What's he talking about?" Charley asked. "Oh boy, this story is a bit of a doozy! It all started when Franklin, Fergy, and I were all sitting together on the couch while watching our favorite soap opera "As The Pinata Sways", until it got to a commercial featuring an ad for Meinhardt Mousemallow's fitness center! At first, Fergy wasn't interested, until Franklin said that Meinhardt must have never went to any parties, thinking that he was unbustable! Upon hearing that, Fergy got the idea of working out at the fitness center in order to become muscular enough to avoid any parties, as he believes that nobody wants an unbreakable pinata!" Paulie explained.
Aya looked at Fergy's aura to see how it went and cringed. "Good grief! You weren't kidding when you said that story was a doozy, Paulie!" Aya said. "Yeah, apparently, when he started working at the gym, Fergy was a bit unmotivated and lazy as well as having difficulty with the gym equipment, especially the weights! Heck, he even went and brought his own couch, much to Meinhardt's chagrin, since that goes against his training regime rules! Of course, he didn't get properly motivated until he saw Langston at the gym as well, who was preparing to be able to catch up to Fergy when he would chase him! Then, after a few days of intense training, Fergy became all muscular, complete with an Austrian-German accent that was somewhat like that of famous movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger!" Paulie explained.
"You mean the guy who plays the title role in the "Terminator" franchise?" Lori asked. "Yep! That's the one!" Paulie said. "Of course, having gotten my desired muscles actually felt great, at first, especially when Langston tried to break me with the hardest baseball bat ever built, in our universe that is, the Ultra Bat 3000, which was attached to a robotic hand, only for the bat and the robotic hand to literally blow up in his face and reduce him to a head and a tongue while I came out unscathed!" Fergy said, causing everyone to laugh at Langston. "Yeah, yeah, yeah." Langston said, annoyed. "Heck, I even called myself Mr. Unbustable out of victory! Also, I have a photograph of my muscular form, just so you all can see!" Fergy said as he pulled out a picture that showed himself with a muscular upper body and arms. "Cool!" Lincoln and Clyde said while impressed. "Thanks! Unfortunately, my happy moment didn't last long as Langston went and posted a video advertisement showing me defeating the Ultra Bat 3000 and then said I was now a star attraction where every kid would want to line-up and attempt to destroy me at any party and by any means necessary! In other words, my whole plan has backfired on me, which is bad for me, since I heard that those kids wouldn't just use baseball bats, but also chainsaws, dynamite, car crushers, and laser swords!" Fergy explained.
Everyone looked at Langston in annoyance. "What? I saw a money making opportunity, and I took it!" He said. "Of course, after a rather motivational speech from Meinhardt Mousemallow himself, I decided to push myself past my limits and become even more buffed out than before!" Fergy said. "Basically, by the time he gotten himself ready and entered Party Central, Fergy ended up becoming a hulking Fudge beast that only speaks in German gibberish!" Paulie explained as he pulled out a photo showing Fergy with an even bigger and more muscular upper body than before, much like the Incredible Hulk. Everyone shuddered. "Dang! That makes Fergy look somewhat more like the Incredible Hulk than anything!" Lincoln noted. "Yeah! That clearly means that he took his training wasy too far!" Clyde added. "I'm afraid it gets even worse! Not only was Fergy even more bulked up than before, but also became more aggressive as well! In fact, when Fergy got scanned at the Candiosity Meter, only to become unqualified for any parties, due to only having two pieces in him, Langston got angry and insulted Fergy by saying, and I quote, "I can't send you up with no cady! You'd be an embarrassment! A useless, pathetic, musclebound joke! You're only good for laughs! Ha! Ha! Ha!"! Needless to say, that ticked Fergy off so much, that he went on an out-of-control rampage, fueled by rage and too much exercise! Heck, I even made Langston apologize to Fergy in hopes of calming him down, though, unfortunately Fergy was far too angry to even listen as he then simply crushed Langston underneath a pipe!" Paulie explained while glaring at Langston.
"Did you have to bring that up?" Langston complained. "Well, that's what you get for being such a jerk, dude!" Luna angrily retorted. Everyone else agreed. That caused Langston to sulk in shame. "So, how did Fergy return to normal?" Lincoln asked. "Oh! Thanks for reminding us! Since making Langston apologize to Fergy didn't work, I came up with a different strategy! That's when Paulie, Franklin, Tina and Teddington, and I brought Fergy's beloved couch over to the Candiosity Meter! Upon seeing his couch, Fergy stopped his rampage and went towards it out of happiness. Of course, Meinhardt Mousemallow tried to stop him from getting on the couch, since he didn't want Fergy to become lazy again, but he was quickly overpowered and got trapped in the seat cushions while Fergy went and fell asleep on the couch! About 60 seconds later, Fergy quickly returned back into his normal self, since Meinhardt's training regime required no resting for even a minute! Heck, even Meinhardt got shrunken down into a tiny non-muscular Mousemallow after being stuck in that couch for that long!" Hudson explained. "So many things wrong with that." Lisa said.
"Yeah, well, I did learn a few things that time! One, there is such a thing as too much exercise! Two, all exercise and no rest makes for a very cranky Fudgehog! Three, it's just not worth having big muscles if I end up being a star attraction used for nothing but getting attacked by kids with random and very dangerous objects at parties!" Fergy stated. "Besides, about a few minutes later and after we had tracked him down, as payback for getting that idea into Fergy's head, we ended up loading Meinhardt into the Cannonata and sent him to the party instead!" Paulie said. That got Lola laughing. "Serves him right! I'm guessing that he had gotten beaten up more ways than one!" Lola said in laughter. "Anyway, mom, this is my best friend, Lincoln." Clyde said. "Hello!" Said Lincoln. "Nice to meet you." Fawohodie said. "And these are 8 of his 10 sisters, Lori, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, and Lisa." Clyde said. "In case you're wondering about the whereabouts of our other two siblings, Lily, who's the youngest at two years old, is currently with our parents at Ofuikurowa in order to keep her out of any danger while Leni, who's the second eldest at seventeen years old, is currently hanging out in the cave with Veliane the Grootslang, due to this place being too much for her to handle, especially since she has severe arachnophobia!" Lisa informed.
"Better known as the fear of spiders." Lisa added. "Boku wa, Hoseki Sakura." Sakura introduced. "Huh?" Chief Adinkrahene and his group asked in confusion. "She said her name was Sakura Hoseki." The Japanese/German boy said. "Finally! Someone who actually understands Japanese around here!" Sakura said. "I speak Japanese." Lisa said. "Oh! Sorry, Lisa-chan!" Sakura apologized. "Anyway, Sakura is Lincoln's girlfriend. And speaking of girlfriends." Clyde said, gesturing Chloe to come over. "This is mine." Clyde said. "Bonjour, Clyde's mother! I'm Chloe! It's a pleasure to meet you!" Chloe said. "Wow, I haven't seen you in 12 years, and already you have a girlfriend." Fawohodie said. "Yeah, I fell in love with her at the school dance when we were in fifth grade! Of course, we didn't become an official couple until I confessed my feelings for her about almost a month ago!" Clyde explained. "I'm just glad he fell out of love with me." Lori told Luna. "True that." Luna said.
"Well, she certainly is a good girl to have as your girlfriend and even as your wife!" Fawohodie said. "Not even 10 minutes and she's already embarrasing me." Clyde lamented while Chloe chuckled. "Well, I definitely wouldn't mind getting married to you when that time comes!" Chloe said as she then kissed Clyde at the lips. Aurachnid chuckled as Clyde continued with the introductions. "Anyway, over here my other friends from Royal Woods, Stella, her boyfriend Shintomaru, Lucy's boyfriend Rocky, Lana's love interest Skippy, Lola's love interest Winston, and Lisa's love interest David!" Clyde said. "Pleasure to meet you." Everyone said. "Over there are our friends from Great Lakes City, Ronnie Anne, her girlfriend Sid, Casey, Sameer, his girlfriend Nikki, Laird, Ronnie Anne's cousin Carl, Sid's sister Adelaide, Becky, her brother Ricky, Becky's girlfriend Dodge, and their Alebrije partners, Jaxondor, Ailuxucara, Trisaurus, Batelegong, Regaluco, Leaquilfin, Magnifalcougar, Lunastura, Harpygolverine, Aurastralumba, and Prawngolequin." Clyde said.
"Whoa!" Fawohodie, Chief Adinkrahene, and his group said in surprise upon seeing the Alebrije. "Yeah, it's a long story." Ronnie Anne said, scratching Jaxondor under her chin. "Over here is my distant relative Aya and her cousins from her mother's side Nyansipo, Afia, Onyina, Ama, and Yaa as well as Aya's cousin from her father's side Mpatapo, Aya's best friend Duafe, and Aya's new familiar Vularena, who's also an Alebrije!" Said Clyde. "Hello, and in case you're wondering, I'm actually a direct descendant of Akoma's sister-in-law, Ofui." Aya explained. That took Fawohodie, Chief Adinkrahene, and his group by surprise. "And I'm also the daughter of the humanoid hyena that told you that you were carrying Akoma's heir." She explained. "*Gasp!* You're Osanya's daughter? How is she doing now?" Fawohodie asked in excitement. "She died of sleeping sickness, and my sister Akofena died from a Black Mamba attack." Aya explained. That caused Fawohodie, as well as Chief Adinkrahene and his group, to gasp in shock and horror. "Yeah, and even worse, both deaths were caused by our family's original familiar, one your people is all too familiar with. Shockwing." Aya explained. "Shockwing?! But how?!" Chief Adinkrahene asked in confusion.
"It's a long story. But for now, these are our friends, Gorf, Mambana, Andros, and Phixia. Yes, they aren't human. Yes, they're the same species as the invaders, but don't worry, they're friends." Clyde said. "Plus, Andros is actually Duafe's boyfriend while his twin sister Phixia is Mpatapo's girlfriend!" Chloe added. To prove Chloe's point, Andros went and kissed Duafe on the lips while Phixia did the same with Mpatapo. "And these are actually friends of Shintomaru from his past life, it's complicated." Clyde said. "They are Daiki Kaito, Natsumi Hikari, and Sayo Kadoya, those she's actually Shintomaru's younger sister in his past life! Again, it's a long story!" He added. "Hey! What are the rest of us? Chopped liver?" Fergy asked in complaint. "Whoops! Sorry, Fergy! These sentient creatures are actually living pinatas, who are our friends from another universe, long story! They are Fergy Fudgehog, a Hedgehog Pinata, Paulie Preztail, a Fox Pinata, Franklin Fizzlybear, a Grizzly Bear Pinata, Les Galagoogoo, a Galago or Bush Baby Pinata, Hudson Horstachio, a Horse Pinata, his manager and agent Simone Cinnamonkey, a Monkey Pinata, Tina and Teddington Twingersnap, who are conjoined twin snake pinatas, Ella Elephanilla, an Elephant Pinata, Chortles Chippopotamus, a Hippopotamus Pinata, Cecil Cocoadile, a Crocodile Pinata, and, of course, Langston Lickatoad, who, despite having 'toad' in his name, is actually a Frog Pinata!" Clyde said. "Hello!" Franklin said. "Right over there are Professor Archibald Wilder and his grandson Charley Wilder!" Clyde said. "Charmed!" Said Professor Wilder. "And these two over there are local African cryptids we have recently befriended along the way over here! They are Flashy the Flashlight Frog and Mr. Dingonek!" Clyde said while pointing at Flashy, who was sitting on Lana's hat, and Mr. Dingonek, who was close behind the rest of the group. "Well it's nice to meet all of you." Fawohodie said.
"Thanks!" Everyone said. "Well, I believe that it's polite to introduce ourselves as well! I'm Chief Adinkrahene and this is my wife Morowa, our twelve-year-old daughter Kisi, and our ten-year-old son Kaatachi!" Said Chief Adinkrahene as he introduced himself and his wife Morowa (the African woman wearing a pink, purple, yellow, and silver-colored kente and spider-shaped earrings), their daughter Kisi (the twelve-year-old African girl wearing a silver tank top and purple skirt), and their son Kaatachi (the ten-year-old African boy wearing a golden shirt, brown shorts, and golden headband). "Hello." Kisi said. "Nice to meet you!" Kaatachi said. "I'm Ozigbodi, Nkyinkyim's wife, and these two are our twelve-year-old twin sons Nykimu and Nkonsonkonson!" Said Ozigbodi (the African woman wearing a pink shirt with a red skirt, purple beads tied up in her hair, and orange sandals) as she introduced herself as well as her and Nkyinkyim's twin sons Nykimu (the twelve-year-old African boy wearing a white shirt with gray shorts and black sandals) and Nkonsonkonson (the twelve-year-old African boy wearing a black shirt with gray shorts and white sandals). "Welcome!" They said.
"I'm Serwa, Dwennimmen's wife, and this is our twelve-year-old biological son Adwenpa and our very young-looking fifteen-year-old adopted son Tomoki Durchdenwald!" Said Serwa (the African woman wearing a green dress with a green hair bow and green sandals) as she introduced herself as well as her and Dwennimmen's biological son Adwenpa (the twelve-year-old African boy wearing a blue shirt with green shorts and brown sandals) and their adopted son Tomoki Durchdenwald (the very young-looking fifthteen-year-old Japanese-German boy resembling a short twelve-year-old boy and wearing a white shirt with blue shorts, blue sandals, and a blue-colored Tyrolean hat). "Durchdenwald? I seem to recall my Oniichan telling me about a tragedy involving a family with that name." Sakura said. That's when everyone looked at Sakura in confusion. "What do you mean, Sakura?" Lincoln asked. "From what Oniichan told me, there was a family known as the Durchdenwalds, with the husband being German, the wife being Japanese, and their child being part-German and part-Japanese!" Sakura explained. "As evident here." Aya said, examining Tomoki's Aura.
"Not only that, but the wife was actually one of my mother's sisters Honoka Tojo!" Sakura said. "Really?" Lincoln asked. "She's not kidding! Apparently, Tomoki's aura has some similarities to Sakura's aura, meaning that he's one of Sakura's cousins!" Said Aya. "Another one of your cousins that you thought were dead has actually been here in Africa this whole time?" Lincoln said. "Yeah! Quite a crazy coincidence, right? From what my Oniichan told me, Stefan Durchdenwald, his wife Honoka, and their child had died when their private jet had suddenly been struck down by lightning and then crashed down in a fiery blaze somewhere in Africa during their vacation!" Sakura explained. Upon hearing that, Tomoki began tearing up and started crying loudly. "Wrong place, wrong time, understand. I actually feel your pain. My parents and Oniichan actually died in a car accident. At least what I thought was an accident." Sakura said.
"Are you sure he's fifteen years old? He looks and sounds more like a young elementary school boy than anything!" Daiki said in confusion. "That is because, from what the doctors told us, that he's a late bloomer, mainly because he hasn't reached puberty yet, and he still hasn't, and because of the trauma he went through during the crash when he was only three years old!" Serwa explained. "It's plain to see in his aura." Vularena said. "Honestly, I don't mind my very youthful appearance and voice and, yes, I'm well aware that my face is a bit feminine-looking, but I don't mind that either! Anyway, I like the way I am right now, especially since I like cute things and I even sometimes wear frilly clothes that can make me a bit more feminine than usual, though I don't go as far as wearing dresses or skirts because they are too drafty for my liking and my underwear could easily be exposed, which is rather embarrassing to me!" Tomoki explained while drying up his tears a little. "Well, good for you, I guess." Lincoln said. "Anyway, Sakura, there's more to my backstory than meets the eye! You see, when I was three years old, as soon as our plane crashed into the jungle after it was struck by lightning, we actually made it out alive, though my birth parents were more injured than anything! Unfortunately, we were soon met by a monster that looked like a large humanoid snake with arms and legs and eight heads, who then immediately killed my birth parents right in front of me with some sort green poisonous cloud!" Tomoki explained while starting to tear up again.
"Humanoid snake with arms and legs?" Gorf, Mambana, Andros, and Phixia asked in confusion, looking at each other. "Eight heads? Wait a minute! That must be Nyuvwira, isn't it?!" Clyde asked in realization. "It would seem so." Dwennimen said. "I'm guessing that he must have caused the jet crash sometime prior to his attack at our village, given the fact he has electrical abilities as well as toxins and crystal manipulation!" Chief Adinkrahene noted. "So, how did you make out of there alive, Tomoki?" Lincoln asked. "Apparently, I was rescued by an Mlularuka, who found me after that eight-headed snake killed my parents and grabbed me with her mouth and flew me away from the crash site before that monster could kill me!" Tomoki explained. "A what, now?" Everyone, except for those who live in Africa, asked in confusion. "An Mlularuka, also known as a Winged Jackal, is another African cryptid, specifically a canine often found in Tanzania! It is described to be a large jackal-like canine, but with bat-like wings, hence the alternative name Winged Jackal! Also, unlike most canines, which feed on meat, the Mlularuka is a frugivore, meaning fruit eater, since it has been known to raid Tanzanian fruit farms for mangoes and pomegranates while crying out in the dusk! Of course, most art depictions of the Mlularuka as having gliding membranes, like those seen on a flying squirrel, instead of bat-like wings, mainly because some people believed it to be a large flying squirrel related to the Anomalurus derbianus, better known as the Lord Derby's scaly-tailed squirrel! Of course, as you can see by those three canines that are with Tomoki here, they do indeed have bat-like wings on their backs as well as flying squirrel-like membranes between their front and hind limbs!" Ama explained while pointing at the three bat-winged, flying squirrel-membraned jackal-like canines, now identified as Mlularukas, that were next to Tomoki. "Ah, yes, the Mlularuka that saved me was actually a mother and these Mlularukas over here, who I call Fluffy, Puffy, and Tuffy, are actually her pups as she raised me on her milk alongside them and fed me and my pup brothers with mangoes and pomegranates that she and her mate had collected from their foraging trips!" Tomoki explained while petting the three Mlularukas, now named Fluffy, Puffy, and Tuffy, on their heads.
"Kawaii!" Sakura, Natsumi, and Sayo went at the sight of the already grown-up pups. "You can say that again." Tomoki said. "You got raised by animals just like Tarzan, who was raised by apes, and Mowgli, who was raised by wolves? Lucky!" Lana said enviously. "Figures you'd say that." Lola said. "Yeah, that's about right! I was lucky, since the Mlularukas have been treating me very kindly as if I was one of their own! Of course, as for how long I was raised by the Mlularuka parents alongside Fluffy, Puffy, and Tuffy, it for at least two years before my now adoptive father and mother discovered us near Veliane's cave!" Tomoki explained. "When we found him, we just couldn't resist and ended up adopting him, and the entire family." Serwa said. "And I ended having an adoptive older brother, even though he doesn't look older than me!" Said Adwenpa. "Well, at least you're safe." Sakura said.
"Thanks, Sakura! I'm glad to find out that I have a blood-related cousin from my birth mother's side!" Said Tomoki. "Well, as crazy as it sounds, you're not only cousin of mine that was thought-to-be dead and ended up alive in Africa! My cousin Aika, who is also Nyansipo-kun's girlfriend and got pregnant with his son Yasuke-kun, actually was also a victim of an airplane, though the differences are that the plane she was on was a commercial jumbo jet, her parents didn't survive the crash, and the one that caused the crash in the first place was an evil Akampeshimpeshi Animarius named Akampulse, who turned himself into a lightning bolt and deliberately took down the plane just for the sick thrill of it!" Sakura explained. "Something I know all too well, as my parents and Oniichan were killed when the Cerberus Animarius Cerberion destroyed the car they were in for the same reason." She added. That caused Chief Adinkrahene and his group, especially Tomoki, to gasp in shock and horror. "Worst part is Cerberion has a plan that involves the upcoming eclipse, and he says that's the day he'll kill her." Clyde said. "Oh, my goodness! That's terrible!" Tomoki said. "Yeah, it is!" Sakura said sadly. "So, what's with the giant softshell turtle and that Ennedi Tiger that's colored like grass and has both spots and stripes?" Luna asked upon noticing the giant softshell turtle and the grass-colored Ennedi Tiger with spots and stripes while trying to lighten up the mood. "Well, for the turtle, that is actually an Ndendecki, which is an African cryptid that is basically a very large relative of the Trionyx triunguis, a.k.a. African Softshell Turtle! Its rounded shell is 12' to 15' in diameter, which makes it very large amongst Softshell Turtles! Also, it is aquatic and it feeds on organic matter! Fun fact, because it's size alone, people tend to call it the Dinosaur Turtle!" Ama answered.
"Makes sense." Trisaurus said. "Yes, like the J'ba FoFi, Ngoubous, and Ennedi Tigers, the Ndendeckis we have here are also domesticated, since they are quite docile and also, because they are omnivores like the African Softshell Turtle, can easily be fed with fish, crustaceans, palm seeds, fruits, vegetables, bread, and even fallen leaves, which comes in handy when cleaning up houses, streets, and rivers for dead leaves! Plus, because of their size and strength, the Ndendeckis can actually carry a person, animal, or object on its back on both land and in the water! This Ndendecki here is my companion, who I have had since I was a young boy and he was a juvenile! His name is Dame-Dame, meaning "checkered" in the Akan language, appropriately named after the Adinkra Symbol of the same name, due to him having a marking on his leathery carapace that looks exactly like that very symbol, which in turn is actually named after a Ghanaian Board game that so happens to be a variant of the game known as Checkers or, as the British called it, Draughts!" Chief Adinkrahene explained as he presented the giant softshell turtle, now identified as Dame-Dame the Ndendecki, to everyone and showed everyone the large marking of the 'Dame-Dame' Adinkra Symbol on top of the turtle's leathery shell. "Cool!" Lana said.
"As for the Ennedi Tiger over there, *Gasp!* that's actually a different species known as a Wanjilanko, which is easy to identify with its grass-colored coat that has not only has stripes, but has spots too! It was allegedly found in the wildest parts of the woodland in Senegal, where it slept in caves "in the deep gloomy forest filled canyons" during the day, coming out at night to hunt! It's also known to very aggressive, and allegedly habitually killed lions! Unfortunately, the biodiversity of Senegal's forests, including those in the Casamance region, have been severely depleted in the 21st Century, due to the effects of mass deforestation, poaching, and political strife, which, due to the lack of sightings in modern times, would have made the Wanjilanko appear to have died out alongside the lions it was reputed to kill! Of course, as you see with this one, it clearly isn't as extinct as everyone had thought!" Ama said while pointing at the grass-colored Ennedi Tiger with spots and stripes, now identified as a Wanjilanko. "I wonder how General Leo would react if he knew that little tidbit." Aurachnid joked. knowing the Nemean Lion Animarius' fear of Hyenas. "Probably won't scare him as much as hyenas do, since he's a Nemean Lion and not an ordinary lion!" Gorf pointed out.
"Oh! Right! Of course!" Aurachnid said. "Well, thankfully, just like the Coq-djingés, Gassingrâms, Vassokos, and Hadjels, the Wanjilankos we have here are also domesticated, though that happened when our ancestors brought their ancestors over from the Senegal forests before the deforestation began! As for this one over here, this is Zuhrah and she's my companion!" Said Morowa as she petted the Wanjilanko, now named Zuhrah, on the head. Then, Aya took notice of Zuhrah's belly and started using her aura-reading powers. Upon seeing multiple auras within Zuhrah's belly, Aya gasped in shock and said "Oh my goodness! Zuhrah's pregnant, isn't she?", causing everyone else to gasp in surprise. "Yep! And the lucky soon-to-be father is Addae over here!" Morowa said while pointing at Addae. "AWWWWWW!" The girls all went.
"I would say that's congratulations to you, Addae!" Nyansipo said. That's when Addae went over to Zuhrah as the two Ennedi Tigers started rubbing each others faces out of affection. "How long until Zuhrah gives birth?" Yaa asked. "The doctors say that she should be due to give birth at any day now!" Morowa answered. "That's great!" Said Afia. "So, how do guys explain the Nguma-monene taking a siesta over near the swamp? Is he domesticated too?" Clyde asked as he pointed at the Nguma-monene, who was still napping near the swamp. "Oh! Actually, no, he's not domesticated! He's actually one of the few non-domesticated cryptids that frequently visit us here! But, don't worry, he does not attack people unless he gets provoked in some way, mostly if someone disturbs him while he's sunbathing! Plus, he's actually quite nice, once you get to know him! And, yes, he does eat birds and monkeys, but that is actually a good thing, since the ones he eats when visiting here are usually red-billed quelea and vervet monkeys, both of which are considered agricultural pests in Africa!" Chief Adinkrahene explained. "Cool!" Lana said in admiration of the lizard like cryptid.
"Are there any other cryptids living in this place?" Lincoln asked. "Well, for one thing, there's the Ngoimas, also known as Guanioniens, which is are giant eagle-like birds that has a 9' to 13' wingspan and dark brown to black feathers with lighter underparts covered in leopard-like spots as well as lighter shadings and patterns underneath the tips of their feathers and they also eat monkeys, small goats, and sometimes even chimpanzees! Thankfully, because we don't have goats or chimpanzees around here, the Ngoimas only go after the local monkeys, usually the vervet monkeys, though their method of hunting is rather gruesome, since they tend to pluck the eyes out of their victims as soon as they catch them!" King Adinkrahene explained as he pointed at a nearby palm tree that had a large eagle-like bird, which had dark brown feathers with lighter underparts covered in leopard-like spots as well as lighter shadings and patterns underneath the tips of its feathers, building a nest upon it. "*SHUDDER!* I'm glad that I'm not a monkey, because I definitely don't want have my eyes plucked out by one of those big birds!" Said Lincoln. "Speak for yourself!" Said Simone as she hid behind Hudson out of fright. "Oh! Right! Sorry, Simone!" Lincoln apologized. "Anyway, there are also the Inkhomi, also known as Crowing Crested Cobras, which are actually relatives of the black mamba, not actual cobras, that have a crest on their head resembling that of a chicken and making chicken-like sounds, with males have large rooster-like crests as well as waddles underneath their chins and making crowing noises and the females having smaller hen-like crests and no waddles and making clucking noises! However, unlike most of the cryptids here, they aren't truly tame, as they are very dangerous snakes, due to their venom being deadly enough to kill anything in an instant and their skin causing rashes to anyone that touches them, not to mention that they have a tendency to attack and kill any person or animal that gets within their striking position, mainly to use their use their victims' corpses as a way to cultivate maggots, which is their true food source! Thankfully, our people and the Inkhomi have a mutual respect that keeps us from getting into conflicts with each other as we provide the Inkhomi with leftover meat from our meals that they would put in a pile in their own designated forest to feed their maggots! Plus, the males' crowing calls tend to serve as a natural alarm clock for us in the mornings!" Chief Adinkrahene explained as he pointed a nearby forest that's separated by a river and showing a group of buff-colored snakes resembling black mambas, with the males having red rooster-like crests on their heads that point forwards and a pair of red waddles underneath their chins and the females having smaller red hen-like crests on their heads while having no waddles at all, that were hanging out on the tree branches.
They also see a big pile of rotting meat with millions of white maggots in the center of the forest. "Okay, those Inkhomi are definitely very unique-looking snakes! That, and they are surprisingly intelligent enough to cultivate maggots as their own personal food supply like farmers do to their livestock!" Said Lisa. "Yes, that's one of the unique things about the Inkhomi! Of course, we make sure not to enter their forest without providing them an offering of meat as payment for entry, mainly so that they won't attack us!" Said Chief Adinkrahene. "Good to know! Oh! By the way, Mambana, I believe that it is best that you stay away from the Inkhomi, because I get the feeling that eating even one of them might literally start a war!" Aya said to Mambana with a warning. "*Sigh!* I might as well try to find something else to eat, then!" Mambana said in disappointment. "There are plenty of rats scurrying around the village that you can pick off when you get the chance!" Nkyinkyim suggested, much to Mambana's delight. "Okay, that's good to know, especially since a black mamba's diet isn't just other snakes!" Mambana noted. Of course, the sight of the rotting meat pile and maggots made Lola sick to her stomach. "*Groan!* Is there a trash can around here, because the rotting meat pile is so gross, that the sheer sight of it and the maggots makes me wanna puke! *Hiccup!*" Lola asked while her face turned green. "There's one right over there!" Dwennimmen answered while pointing at a nearby trash can. "Thank You!" Lola said as she dashed towards the trash can and threw up into it "BLEEEEEEEEEEEEGH!". "Yeah, my twin sister can't handle gross stuff like I can!" Lana explained. "That's understandable!" Dwennimmen said. "Anyway, another type of cryptid we have are the Olitiau, which are a species of giant carnivorous eagle-sized bats related to the yellow-winged bat that are colored coal-black, have very little hair, blood-red wings with a 12' wingspan, a semicircle of pointed white teeth in their lower jaw that's set about their own width apart from each other, and a monkey-like face, specifically like that of a Barbary Macaque! They are usually nocturnal as they go at night to hunt for fish and rodents while they spend most of the day sleeping within a cave that's on the top of the cliffside over there!" Chief Adinkrahene explained while pointing at a cave that was on top of a nearby cliffside.
"Wicked!" Lucy said, making everyone back up in fear. "As for visiting cryptids, other than the Nguma-monene, there's an Inkanyamba, which is a serpentine creature that resembles a cross between an eel and a snake with a horse-shaped head, a finned mane, large front flippers, and a pair of bat-like wings, that regularly visits our village during the summer, which is right now, and likes to hang out in the waterfall over there! Fair warning, though, Inkanyambas are temperamental creatures and can be quite violent when angered, which makes people associate them with violent summer storms, so try not to do anything that could anger this one!" Chief Adinkrahene said as he pointed at the waterfall where everyone sees a large serpentine creature, which had snake-like skin, an eel-like tail, a horse-shaped head with sharp teeth, a finned mane on its head, two large front flippers, and a pair of large bat-like wings on its back, resting underneath it. "Duly noted!" Everyone said.
"Another visitor we have here is the Lukwata, which is, in fact, a living Plesiosaur with a small rounded head, a long neck, a body that resembles that of a dolphin, complete with a dorsal fin and a tail fluke, but with four large flippers instead of two, and smooth skin with its color being a brownish pigment and a white under belly! Now, normally, the Lukwata tends to attack fishermen and their boats, much like the Kongamatos living at the river path leading to Veliane's cave! Fortunately, the Lukwata no longer does that today, as he became much more friendlier and tolerant towards us since the day we took him to our village and healed him after he was injured by a bull hippopotamus!" Chief Adinkrahene explained as he pointed to a river, where everyone saw a living Plesiosaur, which had smooth brownish skin with a white underbelly, a small rounded head, a long neck, a dolphin-like torso, dorsal fin and tail, and four large flippers, rise up from the water. Cool!" Lana said. "And actually, I'm glad you mentioned the Kongamatos, Chief Adrinkrahene, we ran into them on our way here, and found out something interesting." Dwennimen said.
"Really? What is it that you all found out?" Chief Adinkrahene asked. "Apparently, thanks to Lana's ability to understand animal languages, we found out that the real reason why the Kongamatos attack us at the river in the first place is because we were eating the same kind of fish that they usually eat and they fear us as being the competition that might eventually deplete their food supply!" Dwennimmen answered. "Interesting. Well, I'll see to it on the double that we find a waterway that has no Kongamatos." Chief Adinkrahene promised. "Thank you, Chief Adinkrahene! I believe that the Kongamatos would definitely be happy to hear that, especially since that they owe Lana their life after she actually risked her own life in order to protect them from an Electric Catfish Animarius named Electricus!" Dwennimmen said. "I wasn't about to let that thing treat their leader like a fried chicken!" Lana said. "I see! That was very noble of you, Lana!" Said Chief Adinkrahene.
"Oh! Thanks, Chief!" Lana replied. "So, what else is there to know about this place?" Clyde asked. "Well, I forgot to mention this before, but the name of our village is called Anansi-Amena, meaning "Spider Valley" in the Akan language!" Chief Adinkrahene answered. "That certainly makes sense, especially with the presence of the J'ba FoFi and the spider statues decorating the place!" Clyde noted. "Also, other than the Nguma-monene, Inkanyamba, and Lukwata, we also have a Kasai Rex that visits us on occasion to have its teeth cleaned!" Chief Adinkrahene explained. "Kasai Rex?! As in the legendary theropod dinosaur cryptid that, despite being named after the Tyrannosaurus Rex, is said to be a living relative of the African theropod dinosaur Carcharodontosaurus, is colored red with black stripes, and is known to feed on rhinoceroses?! That Kasai Rex?!" Ama asked in surprise. "That's right!" Chief Adinkrahene answered, much to everyone's surprise. Lisa, however, wasn't truly convinced. "Oh, please! The Kasai Rex can't be real, especially since those alleged photographs of it were found out to be hoaxes, with the first one actually showing a common monitor lizard being colored with the stripes, the second one having confirmed to be a picture of a dinosaur statue cut on top of a photo of a dead rhino, and third one actually being an illustration of a common monitor lizard that had actually been cut out from a nature magazine and placed on top of a rock, which was said to be a rhinoceros! There's no possible way that a dinosaur like the Kasai Rex could ever possibly exist!" Lisa complained. "I don't know, Lisa-chan, we have already seen plenty of prehistoric animal cryptids that most of us previously thought to be not real, like Nessie and the Kongamatos, and we just saw Lukwata just now! So, it is possible that living dinosaur cryptids do exist!" Shintomaru pointed out. "Shintomaru's right about that, Lisa! I should have mentioned this to you all before, but my home of Ofuikurowa also has visiting cryptids, namely the Mbeilu-Mbeilu-Mbeilu, which is a living stegosaur that's related to the Kentrosaurus and has large plank-shaped plates on its back while covered in green algae, which we collect for potion ingredients and medicine, the Muhuru, which looks like stegosaur with heavy bony armor and triangular plates on its back as well as a clubbed tail instead of a thagomiser, meaning that it's actually an ankylosaur with some physical traits of a stegosaur, and finally the Mokele-mbebe, which is a sauropod dinosaur that has a row of tall "Y" shaped neural spines along its back like its relative the Dicraeosaurus and a rooster-like crest on its head and has a reputation for attacking hippos out of territorial issues and even attacking people on their boats, though, thankfully, the Mokele-mbebe currently has good relations with my people after we cured it when it fell ill after accidentally eating a few poisonous plants!" Aya explained. "Plus, there's one right over there." Tomoki said, pointing in the distance.
(Cue "Jurassic Park" theme music)
That's when everyone looked towards a canyon saw a large theropod dinosaur, which looks exactly like a Carcharodontosaurus and was colored red with black vertical stripes and had a bright red crested mane of feathers on its neck and back of its head as well as some feathers on its arms, which were longer than a T-Rex's and had three clawed fingers instead of two, and a fan of feathers at the tip of its tail, walking towards the village in a calm, majestic manner and making a roar in announcement to its presence. Needless to say, while everyone else was amazed at the sight of the Kasai Rex, Lisa was shocked and flabbergasted beyond belief. "Rational Mind... Shutting Down!" Lisa said before she then went and fainted from the shock of seeing the Kasai Rex. "Whoa! Lis! Are you okay?!" Lincoln asked in concern. Then, Lisa woke up a little before making a babbling noise with her finger and lips before fainting again. "Yep, it's official! Lisa's mind is fried like an overheated computer system! The sight of the Kasai Rex must have overloaded her rational brain!" Ama stated upon reading Lisa's aura. "You'd think after what we've been seeing, she'd know not to be so skeptical." Lynn mused. "She did say to us earlier that the Kasai Rex was believed to be hoax, but I'm guessing that the very fact that it is actually real must have been the last straw for her!" Paulie noted. "Well, we definitely can't leave her like this! Any ideas on how to get Lisa back up and running?" Lori asked. "I got one!" Lynn Jr said with a mischievous smirk as she then picked up Lisa and dropped her into the river water. That caused Lisa jolt up and swim up to the surface before spitting out water from her mouth. "Okay, who's the idiot that dares to pull this stunt on me?!" Lisa asked angrily while still wet. Everyone immediately sold Lynn out. "Aw, you finks!" Lynn Jr said in annoyance. "Lynn Loud Jr, you've just poked a bear!" Lisa declared as she then grabbed Lynn Jr and pulled her into the water, causing Lynn to get soaking wet. "You get me soaked and now you're soaked!" Lisa said while everyone laughed at Lynn Jr, much to the latter's chagrin. "Dang It!" Lynn Jr complained.
Meanwhile...
Leo's group finally broke out of the tunnel. "Okay, we're finally here!" Meerkrack said as Leo's group found themselves to be inside of a large traditional hut that was decorated with some golden spider statues and web-patterned rugs. "Woah! Good thing General Kabuto's not here!" Elephantor said. "Yeah! Those spider decorations alone would make him go into a panic attack!" Leo noted. "Just like LL's sister!" Elephantor said, laughing out loud. Unbeknownst to any of them, Leni and Veliane were near the hut entrance and saw everything. "First things first, recovering Nyuvwrath's Soul Core before LL has a chance to seal it!" Leo said. "I'm on it! Warthogs, like many pigs, have a strong sense of smell, after all! I can find that Soul Core in this place, wherever it is!" Farthog said as he then started sniffing the hut for Nyuvwrath's Soul Core. First, he sniffed the spider statues, but found nothing. Then, Farthog sniffed through the rugs, but found nothing either. Finally, Farthog noticed a wooden cabinet and decided to go towards and sniff it. That's when he recognized the scent of a Soul Core within the cabinet and opened the top drawer to find Nyuvwrath's Soul Core, which had the image of Nyuvwira (an eight-headed snake) covered in electricity, within a small wooden box. "Found It! Here, General Leo, Catch!" Farthog declared as he pulled the Soul Core out of the box and tossed it over to General Leo, who caught it within his right hand.
"Perfect!" Leo said. "Put that down!" A voice said as everyone turned to see Leni holding a blaster and aiming it at everyone. "What the heck?! How did she get in here?!" Rhinosteel asked in confusion. "That doesn't matter! I've already sent Linky a text telling him you guys are here!" Leni said, pulling out her phone, showing a text warning Lincoln. However, General Leo and his group laughed at Leni unafraid. "You think that's going to scare us, then you thought wrong! We were planning on fighting LL anyway!" General Leo declared with pride. "And now that we have a captive, he'll have no choice!" Shibogumon said, shooting a stream of webbing at Leni. That caused Leni to scream in fright while getting wrapped up in spider webbings with only her head sticking out. "Ah, Shut Up!" Shibogumon declared as he shot one more webbing at Leni's mouth in order to silence her.
Meanwhile...
Lincoln and the others were pulling Lynn Jr and Lisa out of the river and helping them dry off. When Lincoln pulled his phone out of his pocket, seeing he got a text from Leni. "Oh that can't be good." He said upon reading it. "What's wrong, Lincoln-kun?" Sakura asked in confusion. "Leni just sent me a text. 'Big Lion guy is here, and he's brought an army.' Give you three guesses as to what she means by 'big lion guy'." Lincoln said. "*GASP!* General Leo!" Lincoln's group said in realization. "But how?" Andros asked in confusion. "That doesn't matter! Mom, I need you and everyone else to get the village to safety!" Clyde told Fawohodie. "I understand, my son!" Said Fawohodie. Just then, everyone saw Veliane running towards them in worry. "Veliane-san, what's wrong?" Sakura asked. "I heard someone digging a tunnel underneath the cave, so Leni and I followed the path of the tunnel, using my ability to vibrations underground, and found ourselves at Chief Adinkrahene's hut, where we saw saw several Animarius, plus a female humanoid with a snail motif and a guy that looks like an evil version of the spider warrior, searching the hut for what they call Nyuvwrath's Soul Core!" Veliane explained. "That's them, alright." Lincoln said. "And it sounds like Shibogumon's back too!" Aurachnid said.
"What about the female humanoid with a snail motif?" Sakura asked. "Well, I don't know what she is, but she's clearly not an Animarius, since she doesn't have a medallion on her left shoulder like the others! But, strangely enough, she seems to be wearing a belt with a golden eagle on a globe!" Veliane answered. "Shocker again?!" Clyde asked in shock. "The Great Leader is ruthless. Any Kamen Rider who has had the displeasure of meeting him knows that." Daiki said. "Who or what is Shocker?" Veliane asked in confusion. "It's a long story, Veliane." Lincoln said as he and Sakura pulled out their drivers. "We might need some backup. Shintomaru, see if you can find a Kamen Rider or two that might be able to help us, the more we can get, the better." Lincoln instructed. "Right! Stella-chan and I are on it!" Said Shintomaru. "By the Veliane, where's Leni? Wasn't she with you?" Lincoln asked. "I'm afraid that is the main reason why I came here! Leni tried to confront the intruders with a gun, but, unfortunately, she ended getting captured by that evil spider warrior lookalike!" Veliane answered, much to everyone's shock. "I'm starting to really hate this guy." Clyde said. "They went and kidnapped Leni?! Oh, now those guys have just made it personal!" Lincoln angrily declared. "Let's go, guys!" He said.
"Right!" Sakura, Clyde, Aurachnid, Daiki, Natsumi, Kiva-La, Ronnie Anne, Sid, Casey, Sameer, Nikki, Laird, Carl, Adelaide, Becky, Dodge, Ricky, Aya, Gorf, Mambana, Andros, and Phixia said at once. "You guys go ahead and do that! Stella and I will go and find some Kamen Riders that might be willing to help us!" Shintomaru said as he opened an Aurora Curtain before he and Stella walked through it. On the other side, Shintomaru pulled out a small tablet, which he pushed a button, transforming it into IRAD. "Fortunately, I already have a good idea for some riders. IRAD, track down Kamen Riders Drive and Mach." Shintomaru instructed. IRAD made a few beeping noises in response and started scanning the area. "Maybe he'll also find your driver." Stella said hopefully. "Yeah, here's hoping!" Shintomaru noted.
Meanwhile...
Tytus flew down to where Leo and his group were, handing the general the Tree of Life fruit. "Took you long enough get here, Tytus!" General Leo said. "I ran into a flock of Pterasaurs on my way here. Trust me, they weren't pleasant." Tytus said. "Oh, yeah, those were the Kongamatos! Those pterosaur cryptids don't take too kindly towards intruders in their own territory!" Elephantor stated. Tytus just handed them the Tree of Life fruit before flying off, unbeknownst to any of them, Tytus actually just flew beyond the village, trying to figure out a good time to give the riders the disc Aquilis gave her, and how. "Now, to bring back Nyuvwrath!" Leo said, preparing to place the Soul Core in the fruit. General Leo then placed the Soul Core into the fruit, which caused the fruit to swell up and then burst open. That's when it revealed a large humanoid eight-headed snake with yellow-green skin covered in dark green diamond patterns. "I Live Again!" The eight-headed snake spoke. He then saw General Leo. "General Leo!" Nyuvwrath said in delight upon seeing the general. "Good to see you too, Nyuvwrath!" Said General Leo.
*Groan* "What happened? Last I remember is exploding after killing that pathetic human who thought he could stand a chance against me!" Nyuvwrath said. "Apparently, your Soul Core was kept here by the chief of this place for the last 12 years!" Lieutenant Elephantor explained. "That's right, and this time you're being sealed!" Lincoln said as they all looked around to see him and the others. "LL, Jewel, Anansi. So good to see you and your friends again." Leo said sarcastically. "Give back my sister Leni this instant!" Lincoln angrily demanded. "I don't think so." Shibogumon said, drawing his sword. "My blade craves fresh human blood, and right now, I'm tempted to make it that of this weakling." He declared. That caused Leni, who was wrapped up and gagged in spider silk, to become frightened. Suddenly, the sound of an engine revving could be heard as a big red sports car drove in, knocking aside Leo and his group before opening up as someone grabbed Leni and pulled her in. "Woah, sweet car!" Lincoln said. "Yeah! But, who's behind the wheel?" Clyde asked in confusion. "That would be the backup you requested." Shintomaru said over the commlink.
That's when a man in a black suit with a red tie exited out of the car while another man, wearing an orange shirt with a white open jacket and black pants, drove in on a white armored motorcycle. "Hey, Shinnosuke-niichan, these guys are uglier than some of the Roidmudes!" The motorcycle riding man said. "Yeah, but let's not let our guard down on them, okay, Go!" The black-suited man, now identified as Shinnosuke, said as he pulled out a high-tech belt buckle from within the car. "Meet Tomari Shinnosuke and Shijima Go. Kamen Riders Drive and Mach." Shintomaru said. "Don't forget about myself!" The high-tech belt buckle, which was being held by Shinnosuke, said. "Oh, and Belt-san." Shintomaru said. "Whoa! Nice to meet you!" Said Lincoln. "Likewise!" Go said. "So, I was told that someone with connections to Banno is here! Is this true?" Belt-san asked. "You must be Krim Steinbelt. Banno had a lot to say about you. Mostly stuff I'd rather not repeat in front of present company." Shibogumon said.
"So, it's you! Just who are you and what exactly is your connection to Banno?!" Belt-san asked in demand. "You may call me Shibogumon or Kamen Rider Armadeiras." Shibogumon said. "As for what my connection is to Tenjuro Banno, about a few years ago, back when he was still a human being and I was still a Kaijin, Banno taught me how to transfer my consciousness into another, specifically a mechanical one! In my case, I had some of the Shocker scientists build a cybernetic spider and then have implanted within my body, so that I would be able to directly transfer my consciousness into it in case my original body gets destroyed, which did happen about 5 days ago! Of course, there's more to my relationship with Banno than just a technological mentor! Before I was a Kaijin, I was known as Shijima Kumonosuke, the elder brother of Shijima Sumiko, who was the woman that Banno married and had children with!" He revealed, much to the shock and confusion of everyone, including Shinnosuke, Go, and Belt-san. "Awkward." Daiki said.
"Brother?! Okaasan never told me and Kiriko-chan that she had an older brother! But, wait, that would mean that you're my..?!" Go asked in shock. "Uncle? That's exactly right! As for the most likely reason why Sumiko never mentioned me, it's probably because I wasn't exactly a kind and caring older brother to her, unlike most elder siblings in families! In fact, I would often ignore her whenever she wants my attention and I would sometimes beat her up if she gets too annoying for me! As for how ended up becoming a part of Shocker in the first place, I basically ran away from home when I was only 16 years old, after finally having had enough of my incredibly strict overbearing parents and my annoying sister, and then hitched a ride to America via a boat before I then started a criminal career as a serial killer called the Wandering Spider, as I often scaled up walls with white-roped grappling hooks like spider webbings, parkour across rooftops, catch people in spider web-shaped nets, used knives and syringes filled with Brazilian Wandering Spider venom, which I usually steal from various research labs, as my tools of murder, and then leave behind Spider-themed calling cards after each kill for the sole sake of the thrill of the kill, and was I never caught by the police no matter how close they were to arresting me! Of course, after five years of my serial killing career, I was found by a group of Shocker Combatmen, who handed me an invitation from the top scientist of Shocker's American branch, Professor Hakai, to join Shocker as a new recruit! Seeing that it was a golden opportunity to me, I gladly accepted the invitation and allowed the Shocker Combatmen to guide me to the Shocker Mobile Base, where I was then given the option of either becoming a Shocker Combatman or a Shocker Kaijin! Believing that my own talents would be waisted as a Combatman and I always wanted to surpass my own humanity, I chose the second option and even requested to have my Kaijin form be based on the Brazilian Wandering Spider, to which Professor Hakai agreed! After some biological experimentations and technological enhancements by the Shocker scientists, I was more than happy with the results of my Kaijin transformation, given the fact that the Brazilian Wandering Spider is my favorite animal and my killing techniques are far more efficient than before!" Shibogumon explained. "And thanks to our new colleagues, those skills have been made even better! Allow me to demonstrate." Shibogumon said, latching off his driver and onto Armadeiras' right leg.
Venom Kick!
He then jumped into the air while his right leg was coated in a dark purple aura before diving towards the group with his right foot forward. Everyone quickly dodged, narrowly avoiding getting hit by the initial kick, but the shockwave knocked them all back and did some serious damage to the surrounding, thankfully uninhabited, homes. "*Groan!* That guy's more powerful than I thought!" Aurachnid noted. "And I thought our family was messed up!" Andros told Phixia. "We're going to defeat you!" Lincoln said as the riders all prepared their driver. Then, a red toy-sized car, Shift Speed, and a white toy-sized motorcycle, Signal Mach, drove through on magically appearing tracks and got caught by Shinnosuke and Go, respectively, before Shift Speed was twisted around and slid into a bracelet on Shinnosuke's left wrist while Signal Mach was inserted into a slot in Go's driver and closed into it.
0-0-0-1, Let's Go!
Ruby! Sapphire! Topaz! Emerald!
Spider On!
Kamen Ride! Diend!
Start Your Engine!
Signal Bike! Mach!
"Henshin!" Lincoln, Sakura, Clyde, Daiki, Natsumi, and Shinnosuke announced while Go announced "Lets Henshin!"
Drive! Type Speed!
With that, the seven riders entered their base forms. "Since these two are here, it's only appropriate that I use this one." Daiki muttered, loading a card into the NeoDiendriver.
Kamen Ride! Chaser!
With a shot of the NeoDiendriver, a clone of Drive and Mach's Roidmude enemy turned ally, Kamen Rider Chaser appeared. That caused Shinnosuke and Go to stare at the clone of Chaser in shock and surprise. "Huh? Why are you guys staring at him like you've seen a ghost?" Aurachnid asked in confusion. "Kamen Rider Chaser is actually a Roidmude who took up the name Chase. He started as a Kamen Rider named Protodrive, but was captured and reprogrammed into Machin Chaser by the Roidmudes, but eventually became what you see before you. As for why they're acting like this, it's probably because Chase had sacrificed himself to help in the final battle against the Roidmudes." Shintomaru explained. "*Gulp!* You mean that he's dead?!" Laird asked in worry. "Unfortunately, yes!" Shinnosuke confirmed. "This may only be a clone, but I'm actually glad the three of us get to kick some evil butt again!" Go said. "Plus, I'm still working on a way to bring Chase back to life!" He added. "But for now, this will work!" Shinnosuke said. "Don't forget us!" Ronnie Anne said. "Lucha Power!" They all shouted, transforming into the Lucharangers. "Eh?! There's a Super Sentai in this world, too?!" Shinnosuke asked in surprise. "Storm Power! LuchaPurple!" Ronnie Anne called. "Sound Power! LuchaBlue!" Sid cried. "Metal Power! LuchaRed!" Casey said. "Sand Power! LuchaGreen!" Sameer shouted. "Crystal Power! LuchaPink!" Nikki cried. "Mind Power! LuchaYellow!" Laird called. "Solar Power! LuchaGold!" Carl said. "Lunar Power! LuchaSilver!" Adelaide called. "Energy Power! LuchaCyan!" Becky called. "Matter Power! LuchaOrange!" Dodge called. "Magnet Power! LuchaMagnet!" Ricky cried. "Guardian Spirits, awaken and unite! Alebrije Sentai!" Ronnie Anne chanted. "Lucharanger!" The 11 called at once.
"Lucharanger?" Go asked in confusion. "It's a Luchador motif." Ronnie Anne said. "Oh, you mean those wrestlers from Mexico?" Shinnosuke asked. "Yeah, them!" Becky said. "That's actually pretty cool! And better than some of the motifs we've heard of existing. No joke, there's one Sentai with a train motif." Go said. "I like trains!" Said Carl. "Yeah, we already figured that out, Carl, just by the fact that you wear train-themed boxer shorts, a.k.a. your Choo-Choo Chonies!" Aurachnid said. That got Becky, Ricky, and Dodge laughing again. "DUDE! NOT COOL!" Carl yelled in anger while blushing underneath his helmet in embarrassment. "Let's just get these guys already!" Magnifalcougar said. "Speaking of which, who are those guys over there?" Casey asked while pointing at Leo's group. "The elephant over there is General Leo's Lieutenant Elephantor! As for the others, I actually have no idea!" Lincoln answered. "Then allow us to properly introduce ourselves! I'm Falkyrie, the Peregrine Falcon Animarius!" Falkyrie announced. "I'm Vulturion, the Griffon Vulture Animarius" Vulturion announced. "I'm Rhinosteel, the Black Rhinoceros Animarius." Rhinosteel announced. "I'm Cheeturbo, the Cheetah Animarius!" Cheeturbo announced. "I'm Meerkrack, the Meerkat Animarius!" Meerkrack announced. "I'm Farthog, the Warthog Animarius!" Farthog announced. "And I'm Fulicana, the African Giant Snail Kaijin!" Fulicana announced.
The male Lucharangers couldn't help but snicker at Farthog's name. "*Snicker!* Seriously? You're name is actually Farthog? What kind of a ridiculous name is that?" Ricky asked while snickering. "Boys." Ronnie Anne said, she Sid, Nikki, Adelaide, Becky, and Dodge shaking their heads. "Why don't I show you?!" Farthog said, jumping up and aiming his rear at everyone. "Oh boy! He's gonna blow! Here, guys, put these on!" Meerkrack said as he put on a gas mask and then tossed over some gas masks to General Leo and his group, with each one specifically designed to fit over their unique heads. "Oh No! Not That! AAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Lincoln and the others shouted as Farthog let out an incredibly loud fart *PFTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT, BOOOOOOM!" while releasing an incredibly huge mushroom cloud of fart gas. Needless to say, the stench was so bad, that everyone started coughing and gagging in agony, with Andros and Phixia having the worst of it, due to their incredibly sensitive noses. "*COUGH! COUGH! COUGH!* THE GAS! *COUGH, COUGH!* IT BURNS!" Andros and Phixia shouted in agony, right before they both fainted from the Farthog's gas (*PAC-MAN DEATH SOUND EFFECT!*).
"It's worse than Lori-neechan and Lynn-neechan combined!" Sakura complained. "Tell me about it! This is even worse than CJ's farts!" Carl complained. Then, Aya started groaning in pain and turned green before she then threw up into a nearby bush "BLEEEEEEEEEEGH!". "Good thinking with the gas masks there, Meerkrack!" General Leo said. "Thank you, sir!" Meerkrack replied. "Nice going, Ricky!" Becky complained to her brother. "*COUGH! COUGH!* Sorry, Sis!" Ricky apologized. Even Daiki, Natsumi, Shinnosuke and Go, along with Gorf and Mambana, were gagging from Farthog's gas. "Mou! I thought our helmets were supposed to protect us from something like this!" Daiki complained. "Technically, they're supposed to protect us from poisons. Apparently, the noxious fumes of a Pumbaa wannabe doesn't count." Lincoln said. "Still though, It Stinks!" Natsumi complained. "Yeah! What she said!" Go replied in agreement. "Ugh! Just what is that guy eating to make himself smell this bad?!" Shinnosuke asked in complaint. "Being a snake, I can smell things with my forked tongue instead of my nostrils and I would say that he ate a lot of things, including grass, berries, roots, tubers, worms, and a lot of insects, with most of them being stinkbugs!" Mambana replied in disgust.
This made the heroes gag while the villains started laughing out loud. "Oh, you think that's funny?" Sid asked, unleashing her sonic scream. However, the villains immediately dodged out the way before the sonic scream could hit them. "Oh yeah? Then, how do you like this?" Meerkrack asked as he then took out a grenade from his bandolier, pulled out the coffee pin, and then tossed the explosive towards the heroes. As soon as the grenade hit the floor, everyone gasped in fright. "Oh No! It's a grenade! Everyone, get back!" Shinnosuke warned. Unfortunately, as everyone started stepping back, it was too late, as the grenade quickly exploded, which also caused the gas that Farthog farted out earlier to be ignited in a fiery blaze. This got the villains laughing even harder. As soon as the smoke was cleared, the villains see that the heroes were knocked down to the ground and groaning in pain while covered in soot from the explosion. "A bull's eye! Excellent shot, Meerkrack!" General Leo said while impressed. "Thank you, sir!" Meerkrack replied in delight. "Plus, it helps that Farthog's farts contains enough methane to make my grenade's explosion much more powerful than usual!" He added. "You call that an explosion?" Becky asked, looking to Dodge and Ricky. "We'll show you an explosion! Energy!" Becky shouted. "Matter!" Dodge shouted. "Magnet!" Ricky called. "Summon, Wild Bazooka!" The three shouted, summoning and arming their finisher. "Let's see how many of you freaks we can take out at once with this bad boy!" Becky said, pulling the trigger.
However, as soon as the Wild Bazooka fired out its energy beam, something unexpected happened. Rhinosteel got himself in front of General Leo and the others and "Animari Ninpo! Hagane no Hada! (Steel Skin!)" as he was then coated his whole body in steel and allowed himself to take the hit directly and come out of it unscathed, causing the attack to be blocked and nullified, much to the shock and chagrin of the heroes. "What?! That's not supposed to happen!" Becky said in confusion. "HAHAHA! Fools! This is ninpo of mine where I coat my entire body in unbreakable, blastproof, austenitic steel is why I'm called Rhinosteel!" Rhinosteel stated in pride. "Yeah, I probably should have mentioned Pachyderm Animarius Ninjas like Rhinosteel have found a way to take advantage of their tough skins. My bad." Gorf admitted. That caused the heroes to facepalm in frustration. "Hah! I knew it was a good idea to have you in my army, Rhinosteel!" General Leo said proudly. "Thanks, General Leo, sir!" Rhinosteel replied in gratitude. "By the way, General Leo, I couldn't help that those two over there are still down for the count, if you know what I mean!" Meerkrack said as he pointed over where Andros and Phixia were still unconscious from Farthog's gas. "HA! Serves those traitorous children of mine right!" Leo said.
"If I recall, and I always do, they must have passed out when they smelled Farthog's gas earlier! In other words, General Leo, I believe that your children must have an extreme weakness towards anything that smells bad!" Elephantor surmised. "Good to know!" Leo said. 'Note to self, better bring the Stinkers, Ratella and Skunkus, back to life sometime later, just in case I need them for any future plans!' he thought to himself. "Does anyone have any other ideas?" Ronnie Anne asked. "I could try to use my magnetic powers on him!" Ricky suggested as he sent out magnetic energy at Rhinosteel and tried to levitate him. Unfortunately, nothing had happened, as Rhinosteel was not levitating and he laughed at Ricky's attempt. "What?! But, steel is magnetic! Everyone knows that!" Ricky exclaimed in confusion. "Fool! The steel that covers my body contains nickel, which is an austenitic type of metal, meaning that this is nonmagnetic stainless steel!" Rhinosteel explained with pride. "Well, that's all I've got." Ricky admitted. That caused the heroes to groan in annoyance. "Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to go wreak havoc! Maybe the fact that I somewhat resemble their precious spider hero will do something!" Shibogumon said, running off. That caused the heroes to gasp in shock and realization. "Oh No! Shibogumon's going towards the village! That's where my mother is!" Clyde said in frightful realization. Lincoln placed his hand on Clyde's shoulder. "Go after him, buddy. We'll handle things here." He said. "I'll help you as well! After all, he's the evil uncle that I never knew about!" Go said. "I'll also provide some help." Daiki said, loading Leangle's card in the NeoDiendriver.
Kamen Ride! Leangle!
Pulling the trigger, Daiki summoned a clone of the Spider/Club motifed extra Rider. He then loaded another card in the Neo-Diendriver.
Kamen Ride! Demons!
Pulling the trigger, Daiki summoned a clone of the spider-themed Reiwa rider Kamen Rider Demons. "Who's that?" Clyde asked in confusion. "Kamen Rider Demons. And just for fun." Daiki said, loading another card in.
Kamen Ride! Demons Trooper Alpha!
Firing the gun again, Daiki summoned a clone of one of Weekend's Demons Trooper Alphas. "It's complicated." Daiki explained. "Well, at least they are all spider-themed Kamen Riders!" Clyde noted. "Come on, guys!" Clyde told Go and the clones. "Right!" Said Go as he and the rider clones followed Clyde towards the village. "You must be quite confident if you think you can still take us down even with four people gone." Leo said. "First of all, Andros and Phixia aren't gone! They've just been knocked unconscious by your Warthog soldier's farts!" Lincoln pointed out. "I'm trying to wake them up, but apparently, Healing Moon doesn't work on people who got knocked unconscious by horrible smells!" Adelaide said. "Thankfully, I have brought smelling salts given to me by Master Toadus, in case of such emergencies!" Gorf said as he brought out smelling salts and hopped towards Andros and Phixia. He whipped them under the Sphinx twins' noses. That caused Andros and Phixia to jolt up and gasp for air. "Holy cow! That was like Lori and Lynn's farts mixed with sweaty gym socks, and a hint of skunk fumes!" Andros said. "Yeah! That, and maybe a few hints of Honey Badger fumes and Stinkbugs!" Phixia added. "And whatever was in Lisa's trash can last week!" Andros added.
"I heard that!" Lisa said through the comm link in annoyance. "And Lori isn't too happy about how everyone keeps referencing her for this smell." She added. That's when Lori can be heard yelling in the background. "WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP SAYING THAT?! I DON'T FART!" Lori angrily said before the unmistakable sound of a fart could be heard. "Nice one!" Lynn said. "IT WAS MY SHOES!" Lori angrily said. "Wow, she has issues." Daiki said. "Yeah, Lori's very sensitive about her body functions! She had that farting problem since she was a baby!" Lincoln explained. "I DON'T FART!" Lori said. That caused everyone to cover their ears in pain from Lori's yelling. "Are you kidding? From what mom and pops told us, when you were a baby, they kept having to check every 10 min-" Luna said before screaming. "The next shoe won't miss!" Lori said. "Okay, she scares me." Shinnosuke said. "Kind of reminds me of Accel-sempai's wife and her slippers!" He noted. "You should see my Abuela. She never misses!" Ronnie Anne said. "I'm certainly not going to miss!" Cheeturbo announced as ran towards the group in incredibly high speeds, ala the Flash from DC Comics, and then slashed at them with his claws.
"Oh, you want to play that way?" Shinnosuke said as a small shift car in the shape of a race car flew in. "Let's play!" He said, exchanging the type Speed Shift Car for the Type Formula one.
Drive! Type Formula!
That caused Shinnosuke to change into the F1-themed Type Formula. "I've got this one!" Shinnosuke said, chasing after Cheeturbo. Then, Shinnosuke struck a punch at Cheeturbo, causing the Cheetah Animarius to retaliate by slashing at the car-themed Kamen Rider with his claws.
Meanwhile...
We see Shibogumon enter the center of the village. "Now, then, time for me to start dragging the name of these people's precious spider warrior into the mud!" Shibogumon declared as he drew out his sword. "I don't think so, Shibogumon!" Clyde said as he, Go, and the clones showed up. That caused the people of the village to stop what they are doing and see the heroes standing together against Shibogumon. "Look! That golden armor! It must be the descendant of the spider warrior!" One of the villagers said upon noticing Clyde. "But who's that?!" Another asked, noticing Shibogumon. "Yeah! That guy clearly has a muddy brown color and the spider on his belt looks like a completely different spider species than that of the golden spider!" Yet another villager noted. "So you actually followed me, and you brought friends. No matter!" Shibogumon said extending the blades on his wrist then springing from one blade to the other, sinking his fangs into each one. "None of you are a match for the likes of me!" He declared.
Venom Break!
Shibogumon then charged towards the riders with his dark energized blades fowards. With ease, he destroyed the clones, slicing through them like a hot knife through butter. "Holy Shamoly! Go, did you see that?" Clyde asked in shock and fright. "Unfortunately, yes, I did!" Go answered back. "The Brazilian Wandering Spider is amongst the 10 most dangerous spiders on the planet. I just demonstrated how dangerous they can be!" Shibogumon said. "In other words, we'd better be careful around this guy!" Aurachnid said. "Especially since nowhere on that list he just mentioned is the Bum Eyed Spider." Lisa said, having heard all that through the comm set. "Well, that's great! Just how are we supposed to beat this guy?!" Clyde asked in frustration. "Simple, you don't!" Armadeiras said, pulling out his sword and charging. "Oh yeah?" Clyde asked, pulling out Vector Anansi while Go pulled out the Deadheat Shift Car. Then, Go switched out the Signal Bike Mach from his driver and put the Shift Deadheat in its place.
Signal Bike Shift Car!
"Let's Henshin!" Go announced as he activated the transformation.
Rider! Deadheat!
Go then transformed into his Deadheat Mach form. "Battle Spider Mode!" Clyde called as Vector Anansi enlarged and formed his battle armor. The villagers were quite astonished by the appearance of Clyde and Go's super forms. "Good, you just made this interesting again!" Shibogumon said, charging at the two riders.
Back With The Others...
Shinnosuke and Cheeturbo were still relentlessly matching blows against each other at high speeds while everyone else was fighting the rest of the villains. "You're as fast as me! That kind of makes you a worthy opponent, I can admit that!" Cheeturbo said. "But that won't get you very far!" He said. "We'll just see about that!" Shinnosuke said. However, unexpectedly, Shinnosuke started slowing down while being shocked by blue lightning. "Mou! Not now!" Shinnosuke complained as he slowed down and stopped at a nearby rock before laying down out of tiredness. "Oh, what's this? Out of energy? Perhaps I underestimated you?" Cheeturbo said. "This isn't over yet! Belt-san!" Shinnosuke said. "Yes, Shinnosuke! Summon the Pit Crew!" Belt-san responded as three Shift Cars drove onto the scene. Specifically, they are Shift Mantarn F01, Shift Jacky F02, and Shift Sparner F03. "What the heck?" Leo asked upon seeing that. Cheeturbo, on the other hand, simply laughed at how small the three Shift Cars were. "Seriously? How can those tiny toy cars possibly help you?!" Cheeturbo asked while laughing. Of course, being sentient vehicles, the three Shift Cars didn't take too kindly with Cheeturbo's comment and started beeping angrily.
"You really shouldn't have insulted them like that! The Shift Cars are not toys! They are sentient vehicles that provide help for us, through our transformations and weaponry!" Shinnosuke explained. "And they're actually kawaii!" Sakura beamed while blocking an attack from Falkyrie. The three Shift Cars beeped happily and blushed upon being called cute. "As for how how they would help us, let's have them show you!" Belt-san said. That's when the three Shift Cars, specifically known as Pit Crew, started using their powers to help Shinnosuke, specifically with Jacky creating an energy jack to lift him up, Sparner summoning multiple wrenches to repair Shinnosuke's armor, and Mantarn refueling him with an energy boost. "Okay, that's actually pretty awesome!" Lincoln said. Once the Pit Crew had finished their work, Shinnosuke was able to stand up again. "Now, the finisher!" Shinnosuke said, turning the shift car.
Hissats! Full Throttle!
Cheeturbo saw that and said "Oh No, You Don't!" as he than charged towards Shinnosuke. However, Shinnosuke was faster.
For-For-Formula!
That's when Shinnosuke gets covered in bright blue energy as he then strikes Cheeturbo with a flying kick. "NO!" Cheeturbo said as he exploded. Afterwards, Cheeturbo reverted into a Soul Core with the image of a Cheetah that was running. "That's one down." Shinnosuke said, picking up the Soul Core. "Hey! What do I do with this?" He asked. "Toss it over to me, so that I can seal it away within my driver!" Lincoln said while fighting against Rhinosteel. "Alright." Shinnosuke said, tossing the Soul Core over to Lincoln who proceeded to seal it. "Now see if you can help me against this brute!" Lincoln said. "For that, I'm going to pull out all the stops." Shinnosuke said, pulling out the Type Tridoron Shift Car.
Fire All Engines!
That's when the Tridoron had returned to the scene while several more Shift Cars drove on through in the air and absorbed themselves into the Shift Tridoron Car. Shinnosuke briefly undid his transformation before placing the Shift car in his brace. "Henshin!" Shinnosuke shouted as he pulled Shift Tridoron like a lever.
Drive! Type Tridoron!
That's when the Trideron disassembled and converted into armor for Shinnosuke's ultimate form, right before the Type Trideron Tire went and attached itself to Shinnosuke's left side. "Why don't we have a car like that? All we have is Vanzilla, and it is no Tridoron. Far from it." Lincoln said. "You do remember that Clyde has Vector Anansi, which allows him to activate his Battle Spider Mode, right, brother unit?" Lisa said through the comm link. "True, but dad wants to give Vanzilla to me!" Lincoln reminded. "What's Vanzilla?" Shinnosuke asked in confusion. "My family's van. It's been in the family since my Great-Grandfather was old enough to drive. One look on the inside is enough to see why we call it that." Lincoln explained. "Anyway, my dad wants to pass Vanzilla onto me, once I'm old enough to have a driver's license!" He added as he pulled out a picture of Vanzilla and showed it to Shinnosuke. The sight made him shudder. "That van is so old, that it should belong in a museum!" Shinnosuke stated. "I seriously doubt any museum would take it in the state it's in." Lincoln said.
"If anything, it should belong in a junkyard!" He added. "Believe me, we've tried." Lincoln said. "*SHUDDER!* Perhaps you should have that thing fully upgraded or something, because it's practically a health hazard the way it is now!" Shinnosuke stated with a shudder. "That is if you survive this encounter! Animari Ninpo! Tetsu no Ken! (Fists Of Iron!)" Rhinosteel called. That's when Rhinosteel charged towards Shinnosuke and Lincoln and then rapidly punched them with his fists, which were coated in metal. "Ow! And I thought Lynn hit hard!" Lincoln complained as he and Shinnosuke were knocked backwards. Rhinosteel laughed at their misery. "Might I make a suggestion, big brother?" Lisa asked over the commlink. "What is it, Lis?" Lincoln asked back. "Rhinos are vulnerable to sunburns." Lisa said. "And I have a fire form! Perfect, thanks Lisa!" Lincoln said, summoning his screen.
0-0-0-5, Fire!
That's when Lincoln transformed into his Fire Mode. Needless to say, Shinnosuke and Belt-san were impressed. "Alright, Rhinosteel, you maybe magnetic proof, but are you fireproof?" Lincoln asked, shooting streams of fire out of his palms. Rhinosteel saw the attack coming and shouted "Animari Ninpo! Hagane no Hada!" before he then coated his whole body in solid stainless steel. "Hey, Lisa? What's the melting point of nickel infused steel?" Lincoln asked, continuing to shoot fire. "I would say about 2,750 degrees Fahrenheit! By the way, I would suggest having someone splash him with water, so that his armor would crack from the sudden cooling!" Lisa answered. "Hey, Ronnie Anne! A little help over here?" Lincoln called. "Okay!" Said Ronnie Anne as she broke off from her fight against Farthog. "Careful, my love!" Sid said, shooting her sonic scream at Meercrack and Farthog, causing the Timon and Pumbaa wannabes to hold their heads in pain. "OW! OUR EARS!" Meerkrack and Farthog shouted in pain. "Nice one, babe!" Ronnie Anne said, rushing over to Lincoln. "Ready to give that rhino a good old quenching, Lame-O?" Ronnie Anne asked. "Gladly!" Lincoln said, turning up the intensity of his fire.
As Lincoln did so, the metal covering Rhinosteel's body turned bright red from the heat. "Hot, hot, hot, hot..." Rhinosteel started saying. "And that's my cue!" Ronnie Anne said, shooting a large stream of water at Rhinosteel. That caused the metal covering Rhinosteel's body to cool down and return to its normal color, right before a crack started appearing on Rhinosteel's chest. "Oh, that can't be good." Rhinosteel said. "Mind if I take this opportunity?" Shinnosuke asked. "Sure! Go ahead!" Lincoln replied. "Trailer-Hou! ("Trailer Cannon!)" Belt-san called. That's when a somewhat big, yet toy-sized semi-trailer truck, complete with a trailer, rolled on over on a magically appearing car track. "Okay, where did that thing come from?" Lincoln asked as Shinnosuke pulled out the Speed Shift Car. "You know, I never really figured that out." He admitted, loading the car into the cannon.
Speed-Hou!
Aiming the Trailer Hou at Rhinosteel, specifically the spot where the crack in his armor was, Shinnosuke pulled the trigger. That caused a part of Rhinosteel's metal armor to be blown off before the rest of the armor cracked and then shattered off his body while he got knocked down to the ground. Rhinosteel got up. "Ha! I'm unbeatable!" He declared. "Maybe, but are you uneatable?" Lincoln asked. "Huh? What do you mean by that?" Rhinosteel asked in confusion as a shadow looms over him, causing him to look up and see the Kasai Rex that Lincoln and the others earlier staring down at him. "Eh?! Ikite iru Kyōryū?! (A living dinosaur?!)" Shinnosuke asked in shock and confusion. Even Belt-san was shocked to see the Kasai Rex. "Actually, it's a Kasai Rex, I know, crazy right? It's an African Cryptid that has a fondness for eating Rhinos." Lisa said over the commlink Lincoln had put on speaker. "WHAT?!" Rhinosteel asked in fright. "I'm guessing that he must have picked up Rhinosteel's scent and decided that he wants him as his next meal!" She added, causing Rhinosteel to freak out. The Kasai Rex started licking his chops, making Rhinosteel run, screaming while the cryptid chased after him with incredible speed before managing to pounce on the helpless Animarius.
Then, the Kasai Rex grabbed Rhinosteel headfirst with his jaws and then picked him up before shaking the Black Rhinoceros Animarius, like how a dog does it with a toy, and then swallowed Rhinosteel whole. Letting out a belch, a saliva covered Soul Core with the image of a charging rhino fell at Lincoln, Ronnie Anne, and Shinnosuke's feet. "Nope, not touching that!" Ronnie Anne said. "Me neither!" Shinnosuke said. "Ugh! I better have that cleaned up before I could seal it away!" Lincoln said in disgust. "And I'd better get back to helping Sid." Ronnie Anne said, walking away.
Meanwhile, with Clyde and Go...
They were dodging and blocking Shibogumon's attacks, all while making sure that the villagers don't get get harmed in the process. "I can't fire my missiles here, too many people around!" Clyde said. Suddenly, the Anansian Guard battle horn could be heard. "Eh? What was that?" Go asked in confusion. Suddenly, everyone looked up to see Dwennimen leading the Anansian Guard into battle. "Get the civilians to safety, I shall help the Spider Warrior and his friend!" Dwennimen said. "Yes, Sir!" The rest of the guards responded as they started getting the civilians to safety. "Uncle Dwennimen!" Clyde said. "That guy's your uncle? Lucky!" Go said, glaring at Shibogumon. "I mean seriously, look what I have! And I'm trying my best with my nephew, Eiji." He said. That last bit of information took Shibogumon by surprise. "Really, you have a nephew?" Clyde said. "My Oneechan, Kirika's son. And the 'nii-chan' part isn't just some nickname I have for him, well it was when I first met the guy, but then he married her, and well." Go said. "Oh! I see! You know, it's kind of a coincidence that your nephew has the same first name as Eiji Hino, also known as Kamen Rider OOO!" Clyde noted. "Yeah, you'd have to talk to them about that." Go said as Dwennimen attacked Shibogumon with his sword. "You are not going make a mockery out of the Spider Warrior's legacy any longer!" Dwennimmen declared. "Bring it on, humans!" Shibogumon declared, extending the spider legs on his back and using them to walk. "Certainly!" Clyde said, doing the same with his. Then, the two spider-themed Kamen Riders charged towards each other in a battle cry. Unbeknownst to any of them, Fawohodie was watching from afar. "Be careful, my son!" Fawohodie said.
Back with the others...
We see some of the Lucharangers fighting against Fulicana, who was surprisingly nimble for a snail-themed Kaijin. "How is a snail this fast?!" Carl asked in frustration as he and Adelaide pulled out the keys representing Beet and Stag Buster. However, Fulicana saw that coming and said "Oh No, You Don't!" as she then fired a beam at Carl and Adelaide from the stalked eyes of her helmet, causing them move in slow motion. "Okay, that's not fair!" Laird said. "She wants to deal with speed? I'll give her speed!" Casey said, sneaking the Red Buster key in his Lucha Changer. Then, after twisting the key and ringing the bell twice, Casey gained a belt buckle with the Go-Busters symbol on it and a replica of Red Buster's helmet. "Here goes nothing!" Casey said, using Red Buster's speed to dash around Fulicana. However, Fulicana was patient and waited until Casey was in the right position. "Gotcha!" Fulicana said as she fired her beam at Casey, causing him to move in slow motion as well. "Ohhhhh, Soooooo Clooooooose!" Casey complained in slow motion. "Ha! That's the beauty of my patent-pended Slowdown Beam! Took some inspiration from the Roidmudes that Shibogumon told us about, specifically their Jūkasoku or Heavy Acceleration ability!" Fulicana said with pride.
"What I wouldn't give for a bucket of salt right now!" Sameer complained. "And since there are more of you heroes than us, here's a little something to turn the tides in our favor!" Fulicana announced as she pulled out a bag and dumped out a thousand tiny snail shells that burrowed themselves into the ground like drills. "Come Forth, Carnosnails!" Fulicana announced as the ground shook and a thousand large raptor-sized Giant African Snails, which had arms and legs like those of the Raptors from "Jurassic Park" and razor-sharp teeth in their mouths, burst out of the ground. "Dang it!" Everyone said. "Whoa! Now that's impressive!" General Leo stated in amazement. "Anyone have any ideas?" Becky asked. "Here's an idea! Half of you, destroy those meddlesome heroes! The other half, start ravaging the village!" Fulicana said as she ordered half of the Carnosnails to attack the heroes while ordering the rest to attack the village. "Oh no you don't!" Lincoln said, summoning his screen.
6-7-8-9, Shinobi!
"Rider Ninpo! Henshin Mist!" Lincoln called, entering his super form and summoning his screen again.
*-#, Final Attack!
"Rider Ninpo! Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai Shuriken!" Lincoln shouted, tossing his giant shuriken at the Carnosnails, only for Fulicana to hit it with her Slowdown Beam, catch it, and then destroy it before hitting Lincoln with her Slowdown Beam as well. "Daaaaang Iiiiiit!" Lincoln complained in slow motion. "You are not not going to stop my Carnosnails that easily, fools!" Fulicana said. Suddenly, horns honking could be heard as several Shift Cars drove in, attaching to Lincoln, Sakura, and the Lucharangers' waists, freeing those affected by Fulicana's Slow Down beam from it's control. "Whoa! What was that?" Lincoln asked as he got back to normal. "One cool thing about the shift cars is that they allow whoever has some on their person to walk freely through the Roidmude's freezing abilities. Figured since she said she got inspiration from that, they'd help with this as well!" Shinnosuke said. "Arigato, Shinnosuke-sempai! But, unfortunately, half of Fulicana's Carnosnail army has made it past us are now heading towards the village!" Sakura said as half of Fulicana's Carnosnail army was heading towards the village.
Several noises could be heard as everyone looked to see a small army made up of the cryptids that call this village and surrounding areas home appeared. "What in the world?!" Ronnie Anne asked in surprise as the Cryptids seen are the Ngoimas (Giant Eagles), Inkhomi (Crowing Crested Cobras), Ennedi Tigers, Ndendeckis (Dinosaur Turtles), Olitiau (Eagle-sized monkey-faced bats), and even the Kongamatos and Flashlight Frogs as well as the Lukwata, Nguma-monene, and the Inkanyamba. Furthermore, they were led by Lana, who was riding on top of one of the Ennedi Tigers, and Lucy, who was next to the largest Olitiau. "Hey, guys!" Lana said. "Lana-chan?! Lucy-chan?! What is going on here?!" Sakura asked in confusion as Veliane appeared in the cryptid army. "We brought backup!" Lana said.
"Long story short, we overheard that Fulicana's Carnosnails were about to invade the village, so, with some help from Veliane and Lucy, I went around convinced the local cryptids to help us fight off the invaders! Of course, while I was able to easily convince Lukwata, the Ennedi Tigers, and Ndendeckis to us, since they want to protect the people that took care of them, I had to convince the Inkhomi by telling them that they can kill the Carnosnails with their venom and use their corpses to feed their maggots as well use the shells as cooling shelters! As for the others, Flashy here sent out a long range vocal message to the nearby Flashlight Frogs to join us while Lucy went to the bat cave and used her ability to communicate with bats to convince the Olitiau to help us. The Nguma-monene and Ngoimas were easy to convince, once I told them that they can eat the Carnosnails for food, while the Inkanyamba was a bit difficult to convince, due to his aggressive behavior, though Veliane was able to talk him down and explain to him that getting rid of the Carnosnails would help him have a better relationship with the people and also reestablish the peace! Finally, Veliane, Mr. Dingonek, and I went out and searched for the Kongamatos, whom I immediately told that Chief Adinkrahene is going have the people fish at a different river, much to their delight, and convinced them to help us, since they owed their life after I saved them earlier!" She explained as Mr. Dingonek finally joined the cryptid army. "Well, it's a good thing you did! You guys handle the half that went into the village, we'll handle this half!" Lincoln said.
"You got it, big bro!" Said Lana as Yaa, Tomoki, his three Mlularuka brothers, and several more Mlularukas joined in with the cryptid army. "You guys mind if we can join in too?" Yaa asked. "Huh? Where did you get those Mlularukas from?" Lana asked. "My pup brothers and I were concerned about our home being invaded by carnivorous dinosaur/snail hybrids, so we, along with Yaa, went out and searched for more Mlularukas! Thankfully, being able to communicate with them in their language, I was able to convince these Mlularukas to help us!" Tomoki explained. "As for why I went with Tomoki, well, I sort of developed a crush on him!" Yaa said while blushing. "AWWWWWWWW!" All the girls present went. "I know, but can you blame me? I mean, he has that very sweet voice and a cute, almost doll-like physique even though he's actually the same age as me! Not to mention that he has a kind and caring personality!" Yaa said while blushing and smiling at Tomoki. "That's great, Yaa-chan!" Sakura said as they left to get the half of the Carnosnails that entered the village. "Good luck getting all of us, riders!" Fulicana said. "I don't need luck! Shinnosuke, Daiki, I'll need your guys' help for this, and Ronnie Anne, I'll also need the Lucha Cannon!" Lincoln said.
"Good idea, Lincoln!" Ronnie Anne said. However, before anyone could do anything, everyone heard loud thundering noises coming towards them. "Okay, now, what's going on?!" Andros asked as the noise got louder. That's when everyone heard several moaning noises and turned their attention to see three large herbivorous dinosaurs coming their way. Specifically, a large stegosaur resembling a Kentrosaurus with large rounded plank-shaped plates on it's back and green algae covering its body (Mbeilu-Mbeilu-Mbeilu), a large ankylosaur with a stegosaur-like bodybuild, albeit with heavy bony armor and triangular plates in its back as well as a clubbed tail instead of a thagomiser (Muhuru), and, finally, a large sauropod dinosaur that resembles a Dicraeosaurus, obviously due to it having a row of tall "Y" shaped neural spines along its back, with a rooster-like crest on its head (Mokele-mbebe). Furthermore, there were several familiar people riding the dinosaurs' backs, namely Master Toadus, Lynn Sr, Rita, Lily, Akoben, Atea with Panyin and Kakra, Aika with Yasuke, Fihankra, Adwoa, Mofoa, Afua, Amanko, Nsaa, and Atena as well as Nyansipo's parents, Charley's parents, Atea's parents, Mpatapo's parents, and Duafe's parents. "They went that way." Lincoln said, pointing in the direction the others went, deciding to save questions for later.
"Oh! Thanks, Lincoln! Also, Master Toadus told us that he felt something big and important was going to happen, so we had to get here as soon as we can, which became easier and possible, thanks to Mbeilu-Mbeilu-Mbeilu, Muhuru, and Mokele-mbebe!" Said Atea as Master Toadus jumped off of the sauropod known as Mokele-mbebe and joined up with the heroes. "What do you mean, Toadus-san?" Sakura asked. "For one thing, I felt a familiar presence, namely him!" Master Toadus explained while pointing at Nyuvwrath. "Hello again, traitor!" Nyuvwrath said angrily. "Oh, yeah, from what we were told, Nyuvwrath was in Africa twelve years ago and he had actually invaded this village before!" Lincoln explained. "Where he managed to kill Clyde-kun's birth father!" Sakura said. "Though, the latter managed to hold on long enough to reduce Nyuvwrath into a Soul Core before he died!" Aya added. "Well, it's a good thing you brought Clyde up!" Lynn Sr. said as Howard and Harold showed up. "What the heck? You guys weren't with us when we traveled to Africa! How did you two even get here!?" Lincoln asked in confusion. "I went back to Royal Woods to pick them up." Toadus explained.
"Of course, the right there was quite bumpy, in a literal sense, since he was hopping all the way while carrying both of us in his arms!" Howard said. "Tell me about it! I nearly threw up from motion sickness!" Harold complained. "My apologies." Toadus said. "Was there anything else?" Lincoln asked. "Yes, I believe it has something to do with someone in this village that's biologically related to Clyde and an evil doppelganger of his rider form!" Master Toadus anwered. "What do you mean?" Lincoln asked. "I am afraid it's one of those "Death in the Family" sort of omens!" Master Toadus replied in sadness. "That doesn't sound good!" Sakura said. "You guys go on to help the others, we'll handle things from here!" Lincoln said. "Right!" Everyone said as they ran towards the direction of the village. "Now then, Mecha Pollon!" Lincoln called. In a matter of seconds, Mecha-Pollon flew onto the field. "Shinnosuke, we're going to need your help here." Lincoln said.
"Say no more! We are at top gear!" Shinnosuke said as he brought out the Trailer-Hou. "Trinity Buster!" Lincoln called as Mecha Pollon transformed into the finisher, Lincoln and Sakura catching it, with Shinnosuke holding on as well, still holding the Trailer-Hou. "We'll help too! Storm!" Ronnie Anne called. "Sound!" Sid said. "Metal!" Casey called. "Sand!" Sameer shouted. "Crystal!" Nikki called. "Mind!" Laird called. "Solar!" Carl shouted. "Lunar! " Adelaide called. "Summon, Lucha Cannon!" The core eight shouted summoning their finisher cannon as Daiki prepared his finisher.
Final Attack Ride! D-D-Diend!
The clone of Kamen Rider Chaser disappeared into the tunnel. "And just to make sure, Rider Ninpo! Time Freeze!" Lincoln called, executing his version of the Roidmudes' power. That caused the area and the Carnosnails to freeze in place. "I only have 60 seconds!" Lincoln said, rushing over to the rest of the Animarius soldiers and positioning them in a way that they all get in the path of the four finishing cannons. "Right!" Said Shinnosuke as he loaded the Shift Speed Car into the Shift Landing Slot at the top of the Trailer-Hou's barrel
Speed-Hou!
Then, he pulled out the Shift Tridoron Car and loaded it into the Trailer-Hou's Shutter Gate Panel.
Fire All Engines! Hissastu Full Throttle!
He then aimed the charging-up Trailer-Hou forwards while everyone else started charging up their weapons. Once the time was up and the time unfroze, all four pulled their triggers.
Full Speed Big Kai-Hou!
"Sealing Blast!" Lincoln, Sakura, and Shinnosuke shouted while the Lucharangers shouted "Fire!" and the Trailer-Hou unleashed the Tridoron itself, causing Shinnosuke to revert back into Type Speed. When Meerkrack and Farthog saw that, they were both frightened. "They say to have no worries, but...!" Meerkrack said in fright before Farthog finished by saying "We're Definitely Worried!" in terror. The beams of the four finishers sailed through the Carnosails, obliterating them. "Fall back!" Tytus' voice could be heard via communicators in Falkyrie and Vulturion's ears. "At once, Lieutenant Tytus!" Falkyrie and Vulturion replied in compliance as they flew away from the battlefield. While the four finishers sailed through everyone else. However, while Meerkrack and Farthog were destroyed and reverted into Soul Cores, with Meerkrack's having the image of a standing Meerkat and Farthog's having the image of a trotting Warthog, General Leo, Lieutenant Elephantor, Nyuvwrath, and Fulicana were simply knocked back.
"You'll pay for that! Cicadeath, Flygor, fire the enlargement beam on Nyuvwrath and Fulicana!" Leo ordered. "At once, General Leo!" Said Cicadeath and Flygor as they fired the Enlargement Raygun towards Fulicana and Nyuvwrath's location. "Enlargement what now?" Nyuvwrath and Shinnosuke asked as the beam hit. That caused Nyuvwrath and Fulicicana to be enlarged into giants. "Okay, now I get it! Quite a new improvement, I would say!" Nyuvwrath said while impressed with the results. "Dang it!" Everyone said in frustration
Meanwhile, with Clyde...
He and Shibogumon were clashing their weapons against each other. "Clyde, buddy. We've got a situation!" Lincoln said over the commlink. "Situation? What kind of situation?" Clyde asked in confusion. He then turned to see the giant Nyuvwrath and Fulicana. "Oh, that kind of situation!" Said Clyde as Go and Dwennimmen looked to see the enlarged monsters as well, much to their shock and confusion. "That's new!" Go said as Clyde pulled out Vector Anansi. "Oh, what am I supposed to do? They can't form Aquarion without my Vector, but this guy is in the way!" He said. "In that case, let me take him on!" Go said as he then removed the Shift Deadheat Car from his driver and pulled out the Ride Crosser Shift Car before placing it into his driver.
Signal Bike Shift Car!
"Let's Henshin!" Go announced as he activated the transformation.
Rider! Mach Chaser! (Groovy music and heavy metal guitar solo)
That's when he transformed into his Mach Chaser form, much to Clyde and Dwennimmen's surprise. "Whoa!" Clyde said in surprise. "You go with your friends. We'll handle things from here." Dwennimen said. "Thanks, Uncle Dwennimmen! You too, Go! But, please, don't get yourselves killed, okay?" Clyde replied. "Don't worry about me!" Go said. "I promised to protect this village at all costs, so I can't make a promise like that." Dwennimen said. "*Sigh!* Okay, I understand!" Said Clyde after remembering about the story of his birth father's honorable sacrifice to save the village twelve years ago. "Vector Anansi, launch!" Clyde said, launching his Vector. That caused Vector Anansi to be enlarged to its normal size before it teleported Clyde and Aurachnid to its cockpit. "I love you my son!" Fawohodie said as Clyde met up with the other riders and Lucharangers, already in their Vectors and Alebrije Mechs. "Sorry, I took so long, you guys!" Said Clyde. "That's okay, buddy! By the way, I decided to have Shinnosuke and Belt-san ride along in my Vector, just for the convenience of it all!" Lincoln replied as Shinnosuke can be seen sitting next to him. "You don't scare us, humans!" Nyuvwrath declared. "We'll see about that! Clyde, I'll let you take the lead for this one!" Lincoln said. "Thanks, Bud!" Clyde replied. "Nenshin!" Lincoln called. "Gattai!" Sakura cried. "Go! Aquarion!" Clyde and Aurachnid called. "Eh?! Gattai?!" Shinnosuke asked in shock and confusion. "Aquarion?" Belt-san asked in simple confusion.
(Cue "Kimi no Shinwa ~ Aquarion no Dai Ni Shou" by AKINO with bless4)
That's when to Vectors began to transform. First, Vector Anansi's front leg parts spread away from each other and twisted down while the spider leg-structures on its sides went upward and extended to become much longer spider legs. Next, Vector LL's front part splits open in halves like it did for the LL formation, only for those halves to move downwards and extend to become spider legs while it's wings stayed straight and its tail fin to simply split open while staying on the back. Finally, Vector Jewel's back boosters containing its topaz and emerald detached from it while its front hull sections opened and then went downwards and twisted sidways to form legs. After that, the boosters attached themselves to behind the lower legs while the part containing the cockpit tilted back. As that was happening, Shinnosuke was feeling energy flowing through his body. "NANI?! WHAT IS THIS POWER THAT I'M FEELING?!" Shinnosuke asked while feeling the energy. "I don't know, Shinnosuke! The readings of this particular energy is unlike anything ever known to mankind!" Belt-san replied while scanning the energy. "IT'S OKAY! JUST GO WITH THE FLOW!" Aurachnid said while feeling the energy. "AURACHNID'S RIGHT, SHINNOSUKE, BELT-SAN! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHENEVER OUR VECTORS COMBINE!" Clyde explained while feeling the energy. "WHENEVER OUR VECTORS MERGE, SO DO OUR MINDS, BODIES, AND SOULS!" Lincoln explained. "NOT ONLY THAT, BUT OUR POWERS ARE AMPLIFIED AND OUR EMOTIONS ARE SHARED WITH EACH OTHER! IT'S JUST THAT GOOD!" Sakura explained while feeling the energy. After that, the Vectors finally started to combine. First, Vector Jewel merged underneath Vector Anansi while unfolding its end parts to form feet. Then, Vector LL connected to the back to for the lower spider legs and jet wings while the spider abdomen-like rear of Vector Anansi covered over it. Finally, Vector Anansi's front spider leg-like parts started to form arms by opening up the upper parts to form shoulder blades while robotic hands flipped out from underneath the lower parts and the end parts formed arm blades. After that, the top part of Vector Anansi's front popped up to reveal the head, which resembles the head of Aquarion Gepard but with eight spider-like eyes and a mouthpiece the looks like a spider's mouth. When the combination was completed, the new robot form did a few poses with its spider legs out. Then, it finished by striking a heroic pose like Spider-Man while Clyde and Aurachnid shouted "AQUARION! ANANSI!". "Don't forget us! Cho Alebrije Gattai!" The core eight Lucharangers shouted. "Alebrije Gattai!" Beky, Dodge, and Ricky shouted, forming their mechs. "LuchaChampion/LuchaWild, awaken!" They all shouted.
"Sugoi!" Said Shinnosuke as he got his bearings straight. "Indeed!" Said Belt-san. "Skyring, descend!" Ronnie Anne called. That's when LuchaChampion lifted the Champion Saber upwards and shot out a beam that summoned the Sky Ring from the clouds, much to Shinnosuke and Belt-san's confusion. "It's something we can summon in order to avoid collateral damage." Ronnie Anne explained. "It's something we can summon in order to avoid collateral damage." Ronnie Anne explained. "Follow us, if you dare!" Becky declared as Aquarion, LuchaChampion, and LuchaWild flew up to the Skyring. "One big flaw with that, idiots! We don't have any flight capabilities!" Fulicana pointed out. "And another thing, we would rather cause collateral damage down here than mess around with you fools up there!" Nyuvwrath added as he smelled a familiar scent with his tongues. "Wait a minute! I remember that scent!" Nyuvwrath said as he looked down and noticed Tomoki with Yaa and the Mlularukas within the African cryptid army, which was successfully culling down the remaining half of Fulicana's Carnosnail army via Veliane's tusks (which inject venom like venomous snake fangs), the claws and teeth of Mr. Dingonek, the Ennedi Tigers, the Mlularukas, the Olitiau, and the Kongamatos, the talons and beaks of the Ngoimas, the highly venomous fangs of the Inkhomi, the deadly saliva-covered spikey tongues of the Flashlight Frogs, the electric shocks of the Nguma-monene, the snapping jaws of the Ndendeckis (Yeah, they may not have teeth, but softshell turtles are pretty much as capable of biting at things as well as snapping turtles), the Lukwata, and the Kasai Rex (the latter having recently joined the fight out of curiosity and deciding that the Carnosnails were tasty enough for him to eat), the large gale-producing wings of the Inkanyamba, the thagomiser of the Mbeilu-Mbeilu-Mbeilu, the clubbed tail of the Muhuru, and the stomping feet and whipping tail of the Mokelefright. "*Scream* My Carnosnails!" Fulicana said in horror.
"Forget your soldiers! That boy there. Yes, I remember him!" Nyuvwrath said, looking at Tomoki. "What's so special about him?" Fulicana asked in confusion. "Of course, when I got to the crash site, I went ahead and used my toxins to kill that boy's parents! And I would have managed to kill him too, had it not been for that meddling Winged Jackal that flew him far out of my reach! So, since I really hate unfinished killings, the next day, I tried to search for him in order to finish the job, only to discover something else far more interesting, a cave leading to a hidden civilization!" He added. "This civilization." He added. "So, I decided to put my search for that boy on temporary hold and invade that village! Unfortunately, as you already know, I met my end here by that warrior and got reduced to Soul Core for the last twelve years, meaning that I was unable to resume my search for that boy!" Nyuvwrath said. "But now that I'm here, I can finally finish what I've started!" Said Nyuvwrath as he went towards the area and loomed over where Tomoki and Yaa were. Once Tomoki noticed the huge shadow and looked up to see Nyuvwrath staring right down at him, he was beyond frigtened. "*GASP!* No! It can't be! It's You! Stay Away! Stay Away!" Tomoki cried out in fright while tearing up. "Tomoki!" Yaa said upon seeing her love interest's face. "Tomoki, eh? So, that's your name, boy! *Chuckle!* Well, that makes it all the worthwhile to finally end your life after I killed your beloved parents!" Nyuvwrath said in malicious delight.
"I don't think so!" Clyde said as Aquarion's spider legs wrapped around Nyuvwrath. "You've killed enough people! Father, watch as the son you never knew you were having avenges you and Tomoki's parents and proves Akoma's legacy!" Clyde said, firing Aquarion's rockets, allowing him to drag Nyuvwrath into the Skyring. Of course, while that was happening, Fulicana marched over to where her the last remnants of her Carnosnails were stayed by the cryptid army. Needless to say, she was very unhappy. "They've destroyed my beautiful creations! Now, I'm Beginning To Get Really Angry!" Fulicana angrily declared as she loomed over the cryptid army. As soon as her shadow was above the army, the cryptids, along with Lana, Lucy, and Veliane, all looked up to see a very furious Fulicana. "Something tells me that destroying those Carnosnails just made Fulicana very angry!" Said Lucy. "*Gulp!* I think you might be right Lucy!" Lana said in fright. "You Blasted Meddling Creatures! How Dare You Destroy My Precious Carnosnails?! Do You Have Any Idea How Much Hard Work And Effort I Put Into Making Them?!" Fulicana angrily yelled. Suddenly, Fulicana was lifted off the ground. "Not really, and we don't care!" Ronnie Anne said as LuchaChampion used the Champion Saber in Mind Mode to lift Fulicana up, dragging her with them. "Why you little!" Fulicana said, noticing there was one Carnosnail left. "Leo, enlarge that last Carnosnail! At least this will make this matchup even!" Fulicana requested Leo.
"Fine by me!" General Leo said. "Cicadeath, Flygor?" Leo called. "Already on it!" Cicadeath said as Flygor fired the enlargement gun again. "But next time, be sure how many soldiers you want enlarged! This thing overheats surprisingly easily!" Flygor said. The one remaining Carnosnail got hit by the enlargement beam, making the Cryptid army look up in horror. "Don't tell me we're the ones who have to pick that thing up and drag it to the Skyring!" Aurastralumba complained. "Yeah! I don't like snails! They're so icky and slimy!" Ricky complained. "Technically, snails produce mucus, not slime!" Prawngolequin pointed out. "But if you want, we can use our powers to make a salt storm, dries them up." She offered. "Now why couldn't they do that?" Harpygolverine asked. "Probably because that they can't jump high enough!" Becky guessed. "*Sigh!* When we get back, we better ask AkaRed if there is any way to add ladders or teleporters to the Sky Ring, because it's not fair that some of enemies can't fly or jump high enough!" Dodge noted. "Well to be fair, all of our enemies and mechs have wings, so he probably didn't take this into account." Aurastralumba said.
"Well, except for Arachnia, since she used a web string to climb up to the Sky Ring!" Batelegong noted. "Let's just get up there, I'm in the mood for Escargot!" Harpygolverine joked. "*Snicker!* That's a good one, Harpygo!" Becky said as LuchaWild flew up to the Sky Ring. Once inside, Aquarion and LuchaChampion threw Nyuvwrath and Fulicana to the ground. "Ow! Not so rough!" Fulicana complained. "Lucharangers! Let me handle Nyuvwrath, I've got a personal score to settle with him!" Clyde said, gripping his controls. "Clyde./Clyde-kun." Lincoln and Sakura said, feeling their friend's emotions due to Aquarion's influence. "Personal score? I don't even know who you are!" Nyuvwrath stated. "Tomoki's not the only one who lost a parent to you! The human who destroyed you just before dying because of you was my birth father!" Clyde said. "Woah, did you hear that?" Harold asked. "Yep!" Howard answered in surprise. "Yep!" Howard answered in surprise. "By my birth mother Fawohodie, I'm named Nsoromma! And by my adoptive family, who are actually a gay couple, I'm named Clyde McBride! But, you can call me Kamen Rider Anansi!" Clyde declared intensely.
"And on behalf of my ancestor, Akoma, I will defeat you!" Clyde said, raising Aquarion's spider legs above, preparing to strike. "Your father may have defeated me, but I'm not going to allow myself to be defeated a second time!" Nyuvwrath declared as he then produced a powerful electrical pulse from his whole body and struck Aquarion Anansi with it. Thinking quickly, and remembering the first fight they had with Aquarion Anansi, Clyde raised two of it's spider legs in the air and the other two in the ground. That caused the electricity to be rendered useless as it was harmless dissipated. "Darn It! Good thing that I have more than one set of powers!" Nyuvwrath said as he then telekinetically lifted a cluster of crystals from a nearby mountain and hovered them over to his side. Of course, the crystals he had managed to levitate weren't ordinary ones. They were, in fact, Eternium Energy Crystals. "That's bad, right?" Laird asked, noticing the crystals. *Gasp!* Those are Eternium Energy Crystals, just like the one that was stolen from a military base by The Garbageman!" Ronnie Anne said. "And the ones that were unearthed at Ofuikurowa yesterday, after our battle against Hirudom and Wolverog!" Lincoln said in realization.
"Indeed, allow us to show you what they can do in more capable hands!" Nyuvwrath said, taking a crystal and handing one each to Fulicana and the Carnosnail. Of course, while Fulicana clutched one crystal in her bare hands, the Carnosnail grabbed the other one with its radula (a file-like rasping organ found in snails and slugs) and swallowed it whole. "That can't be good." Aurachnid said. That's when Fulicana gets charged up with energy while the Carnosnail underwent a startling transformation by growing dragon-like wings on its back, gaining long sharp horns on its head, becoming more muscular, and turning bright red before breathing out an energy beam from its mouth. "Okay, that's just creepy." Clyde said. "I'm afraid it's about to get worse! Animari Ninpo! Kyofu no Kiri!" Nyuvwrath declared, shooting a black mist from all of his heads. "Fog of fear?" Sakura, Shinnosuke, Belt-san, and Daiki translated in confusion. "What does that even do?" Laird asked nervously.
The three mechs were shrouded by the fog. "On your toes, everyone!" Lincoln called as Aquarion backed into something, when they turned, they saw Nyuvwrath. "There!" Clyde said, using the Spider legs to attack, only to see that it was an illusion and they were actually attacking LuchaWild. "Ow! Hey! Watch It!" Becky angrily shouted. "Oh, sorry Becky! I thought you were Nyuvwrath!" Clyde said. "What just happened? Just what is this Mist of Fear anyway?" Aurachnid asked in confusion. "It's one of Nyuvwrath's favorite techniques! Armies that are enveloped in it can't tell who's friend and who's foe, amongst other things." Gorf said over the commlink."In other words, we're caught in an illusion technique!" Shinnosuke said in realization. "Exactly." Gorf said as LuchaChampion attacked Aquarion. "Hey! Ronnie Anne-tachi! Stop It! It's Us!" Sakura shouted. "I'm so sorry, you guys! We thought you were Fulicana!" Ronnie Anne said as Nyuvwrath's laughter filled the air as multiple Nyuvwraths, Fulicanas, and Carnosnails suddenly appeared. "Oh, dear! This is bad!" Laird said in worry. Back at the ground, Gorf and Master Toadus were with Yaa, who was trying to calm Tomoki down. "It's okay, Tomoki! I'm here! You can calm down now!" Yaa said in a soothing tone while petting the whimpering Tomoki's head.
"Nyuvwrath always was nothing more than a coward. Preferring to instill fear in his foes rather than fight fairly." Gorf said. "Not to mention merciless and cruel! To make someone like Tomoki go through the trauma of seeing his own parents get murdered at three years of age definitely makes Nyuvwrath a monster that would be on par with Cerberion!" Master Toadus said upon hearing about how Tomoki's parents were killed by Nyuvwrath. "No, kidding! When Nyuvwrath was looming over us, I read his aura and he's beyond evil!" Yaa said while still calming down Tomoki. "Just be glad you haven't met Cerberion." Gorf said. "Or King Draco." Toadus said. "Is there anything that can be done about Nyuvwrath's Fog of Fear?" Yaa asked. "I'm thinking." Gorf said.
Meanwhile...
"Only three of us are real, humans! See if you can find out which of us it is!" Nyuvwrath challenged. "This is going to be a bit difficult! I better add some extra muscle to our group!" Daiki said as he pulled out the J Rider Card and loaded into the Neo-Diendriver.
Kamen Ride: J!
Then, Daiki pulled the trigger and summoned a copy of the gigantic Showa Era rider Kamen Rider J into the fray. "I'm not even going to ask." Lincoln said. "That's probablyfor the best. We don't really talk about J or Z0, hardly anybody really knows about their existence." Daiki said. "Even with backup, we'll still have a hard time." Sakura said. "Shine light!" A mysterious voice called, catching everyone's attention. "Huh? Who said that?" Shinnosuke asked in confusion. "Gorf-san, is that you?" Sakura asked. "No time to explain!" The voice said. "The only thing that can destroy the Fog of Fear is light!" The voice explained. "Light? What's that supposed to mean?" Becky asked in confusion. Looking at her chest, Sakura got an idea. "Daiki-senpai, do you mind taking over the controls for me real quick? I want to try something!" She said. "Are you sure? The last time I piloted a giant robot, I wasn't exactly in the best of moods!" Daiki said. "He really wasn't!" Shintomaru's voice could be heard saying. "It's just for a minute." Sakura said. "Fine!" Daiki said. Sakura allowed Daiki to hop in her controls before flying out of her cockpit and landing on Aquarion's shoulder. "Here's hoping this works. I haven't done something like this on such a grand scale!" Sakura said, focusing intensely as her birthmark started glowing. "What's she doing?" Belt-san asked in confusion. "Sakura has a birthmark on her left breast in the shape of the Kanji for light, recently she learned this birthmark gives her light related powers!" Lincoln said.
That took Shinnosuke, Belt-san, Becky, Dodge, Ricky, Harpygolverine, Prawngolequin, and Aurastrolumba by surprise. "The potion gave me an increase in my powers, hopefull this is enough!" Sakura said, unleashing a bright flash of light from her chest. "What on Earth?!" Fulicana asked in shock and confusion. Nyuvwrath started feeling intense pain as if he was being burned. "AAAAAAAAAGH! THE INTENSE LIGHT! IT BURNS! IT BURNS!" Nyuvwrath shouted in agony. As Nyuvwrath got blinded, the fog of fear was destroyed. "Sugoi!" Shinnosuke said in amazement as the copies of Nyuvwrath, Fulicana, and the mutated Carnosnail disappeared along with the Mist of Fear. Sakura fell to her knees as she saw that the birthmark remained on her suit and markings appeared on her wings."Nani? What's happening?" Sakura asked in confusion. Deciding to talk to Toadus and Gorf about it later, Sakura jumped back in and took the controls back. "Sakura-chan? What happened to your wings?" Daiki asked in confusion. "I don't know, I'll have to check them out later to see if it's just something to go with my rider form or not." Sakura said. "Arigato, Becky-chan!" Sakura said. "I'm confused, how did you do that? And you're saying you can summon your wings outside your rider form? How's that possible? Last I checked, humans don't have wings." Aurastralumba said. "That's because I'm actually part-Nature Fairy! Specifically, one of my ancestors was a human Ronin named Hoseki Ryu while my other ancestor was a Nature Fairy named Naturia!" Sakura answered.
"It's a long story." Sakura said as Nyuvwrath got up. "One we don't have time for! Clyde-kun!" Sakura said. "Right!" Clyde said as Aurachnid bit his leg, sending energy into it and Aquarion's leg, while LuchaChampion prepared the Champion Saber and LuchaWild prepared the Lucha Ball. "Mind if I add my finisher to yours, Clyde?" Shinnosuke asked. "Sure! Go ahead!" Said Clyde. "Arigato!" Shinnosuke replied. Then, Shinnosuke prepared his own finisher.
Hissatsu!
Then, Shinnosuke pulled the Shift Speed Car like a lever to activate the finisher.
Full Throttle! Speed!
That caused a large holographic copy of Trideron to suddenly appear and spin around Aquarion Anansi and Nyuvwrath at high speed, creating a red barrier that prevented Nyuvwrath from escaping. Then, while Aquarion Anansi's right leg was glowing, Shinnosuke said "Let's go for a ride!" as the Mecha jumped and bounced off of the spinning copy of Trideron multiple times like a pinball while repeatedly striking Nyuvwrath with its glowing right leg. Finally, Clyde, Aurachnid, and Shinnosuke shouted "AQUARION SPIDER SPEEDROP!" as Aquarion Anansi bounced off of the spinning copy of Trideron one last time and delivered a final fiery rider kick towards Nyuvwrath. "LuchaChampion, Grand Victory!" The core eight Lucharangers shouted as LuchaChampion drew it's sword in a circle and summoned the spirits of the Alebrije before attacking Fulicana. "LuchaWild, Dodgeball Smash!" Becky, Ricky, and Dodge called as LuchaWild threw the Lucha Ball at the Carnosnail. As soon as the finishers struck them, Nyuvwrath and Fulicana yelled in agony while the Carnosnail screeched in pain. The three exploded, with Nyuvwrath reverting once more into a Soul Core that Lincoln beamed up and sealed. "Now no one will have to live in fear of you ever again!" Lincoln said.
Back on the ground...
Leo saw the three monsters exploding in defeat and growled. "Elephantor, Armadeiras! Retreat! This mission has failed!" He ordered. "No need to tell me twice, General Leo, Sir! Look!" Elephantor replied as several new cryptids appeared from the jungle, the tall grass, and the river waters, specifically a group of male and female gray-haired apes that resembled large chimpanzees with gorilla-like features (Bili Apes), a large pride of leopard-spotted lions, led by a mane-less male spotted lion (Marozi), and a group of bluish green-skinned crocodilians that had a straight gait with their legs oriented vertically beneath the body rather than sprawling outward, similar in appearance to the rauisuchians (prehistoric quadruped archosaurs that had an upright semi-erect stance with limb bones placed below the hips and were related to crocodilians, best examples being Rauisuchus, Postosuchus, and Prestosuchus), and had sharp conical teeth (Gbahali), as well as one large big-sailed living pelycosaur that clearly resembled the extinct Dimetrodon (Rift Valley Monster), and came towards General Leo and Lieutenant Elephantor while glaring at the two Animarius in anger. *Shudder* "Let's get out of here! Armadeiras, we're fleeing!" Leo told Shibogumon. "NO! My pride as an assasin will not be satiated until I kill someone here!" Shibogumon said, biting down on the blade of his sword.
Venom Slash!
"Bring it!" Dwennimen said as he and Go prepared their weapons. 'Hmm, these two look determined, not an easy kill. I need an easy kill.' Shibogumon said, looking around, and then he saw Fawohodie. "Perfect!" Shibogumon said, jumping up and grabbing her. "Huh? Hey Clyde, isn't that your birth mother that Shibogumon just grabbed?" Becky asked. That caused Clyde to shout "WHAT?!" in shock and anger. "I need to get down there!" Clyde said, pulling a lever on his controls, forcing Aquarion to split up before flying down. "Congratulations, human. You get to be my first kill with these new powers!" Shibogumon said, his blade hovering over Fawohodie's throat. "Stop!" Clyde said, catching everyone's attention. "Let my mother go, you heartless coward!" Clyde demanded. "Oh, she's your mother? That makes this even better!" Shibogumon said, laughing out loud before slitting Fawohodie's throat. That caused Clyde, along with Aurachnid, Go, and Dwennimmen, to gasp in sheer horror.
"MOM!/FAWOHODIE!/FAWOHODIE-SAN!" Clyde, Dwennimen, and Go shouted in horror as Fawohodie started choking. "Alright, now we can go. Be warned, Kamen Rider Anansi, next time, you won't get off so easy." Shibogumon warned, using his spider legs and agility to join up with a dumbstruck General Leo and Elephantor. "Dude, that was insane!" Elephantor said. "Yeah! Killing Anansi's mother in cold blood? I'm liking you more and more! Tell you what, why don't you come to my lair later, and Cerberion and I will fill you in on a little secret." He whispered to the Brazilian Wandering Spider. "Oh! Sounds interesting!" Shibogumon noted with interest. Soon, they walked through a portal, heading back to the Animarius Castle.
Meanwhile...
Everyone was on the ground, with Toadus and Lisa working on Fawohodie, in a desperate bid to save her. "Well?" Clyde asked. "Armadeiras' blade has severed every vein in her throat and injected a special venom, one that's completely different from any Brazilian Wandering Spider I've ever seen!" Lisa said. "Oh man, there's got to be something we can do! I just met her, I can't lose her again! Adelaide, can't you do that 'Healing Moon' thing of yours?" Clyde asked LuchaSilver. "The Healing Moon only works on non-mortal wounds." Lunatura said. "And even so, that won't work on this venom, like Lisa said, it's completely different from what we've seen. If I had to guess, because it was made from Aurachnid's venom, and we already know what that's capable of, I'm afraid it's already too late. Her heart is already being destroyed as we speak." Toadus said.
That caused everyone present to gasp in horror and sadness. "No, no! It can't be true!" Clyde said desperately. "Huh?" Laird asked as Fawohodie looked at him. "Yes." Laird said. "Yes what?" Ronnie Anne asked. "She just asked me if I can read minds, she's asking me to pass a message to you, Clyde." Laird said. "Huh? What message?" Clyde asked in confusion. "Just place your hand on our head, and you can hear it." Leaquilfin instructed. Then, Clyde did exactly what Laird instructed. "My son, do not cry. For though we only just met, I will always be with you. Become the hero you are destined to be. Kamen Rider Anansi, the heir of Akoma, my son, I love you." Fawohodie said as her voice cut off. "No, no! Mom!" Clyde said in horror as Lisa checked her pulse. "She's gone. I'm sorry." Lisa said. That caused everyone to either start tearing up or, in the case of Shinnosuke and Go, to yell in anguish.
Later, everyone was at a funeral for Fawohodie, her body in a casket being carried by the Anansian Guard. "As tradition with spouses of the Anansian Guard, Fawohodie shall be buried alongside her husband, Mframadan, in the temple of Kwaku Anansi." Chief Adrinkhene said as the procession passed by everyone. The Kamen Riders and Lucharangers having removed their helmets out of respect. Even Veliane, Flashy, Mr. Dingonek, the J'ba Fofi, and the rest of the African cryptids bowed their heads down in sorrowful respect. Clyde couldn't help but shake in sorrow and anger. "Everything's going to be alright, buddy." Lincoln said. "Lincoln, Sakura, I want you to promise me something." Clyde said. "And what's that, Clyde-kun?" Sakura asked in confusion. "From now on, whenever we fight, and Shibogumon is there, leave him to me! I want to be the one to end his reign of terror once and for all!" Clyde said. That caused Lincoln and Sakura to get worried after seeing the look of vengeance in Clyde's eyes. But, he was their friend, so... "Of course, Clyde." Lincoln said.
"We understand, Clyde-kun." Said Sakura. "Thank you." Clyde replied. Then, Shinnosuke (with Belt-san) and Go came up to Clyde and placed a hand on Clyde's shoulder. "You know, Clyde, you're not the only one that lost a parent!" Shinnosuke said. "What do you mean?" Clyde asked in confusion. "My father was murdered by someone we all thought was his friend." Shinnosuke explained. "For a while everyone, until including me, thought that my father died in the line of duty! However, it turns out that Nira Mitsuhide, who was once police partners with my father Tomari Eisuke, killed him out of pure jealousy after stealing a robber's gun and deliberately shooting my father with it! Even worse, for a while, nobody, not even I, knew that Mitsuhide even committed the crime and he managed to get away with it for quite a while!" He added.
"Oh, that is just wrong!" Aurachnid said. "Fortunately, sometime after we defeated the memory-manipulating Roidmude and with some help from our friends, we were able to finally expose Mitsuhide for my father's murder and brought him to justice as he's now currently in prison for his actions!" Shinnosuke said. "Well, good for you! As for me, I would rather have that evil rider torn to shreds after what he did to my mom!" Clyde said in a vengeful tone. "You should be careful not to let your quest for vengeance get to your head, Clyde-kun. Not like Accel, who was obsessed with finding the Weather Dopant who killed his family, or Meteor, who was obsessed with finding the Aries Zodiart, who's power could free his friend from a slumber he had been placed in after activating a malfunctioning Zodiarts Switch." Daiki warned. "Or like me, who became obsessed with destroying all Roidmudes after two of them, named Gaff and Bean, killed my best friend Ethan Woodward!" Go added. "The life of a Kamen Rider isn't all fun and games, Clyde-kun. Once you become one, you can't just stop." Shintomaru said.
"Also, as you have already seen, there are moments where even Kamen Riders can't save everyone, no matter how hard they try!" He added. "One of the first things you learn about this job, you can't save everyone." Lincoln said. "Dude, did you seriously just quote 'Into the Spider-verse?" Luna asked. "Wasn't trying to!" Lincoln replied. Clyde was looking at his helmet, thinking about what the others were saying.
At The Animarius Castle...
"And that's the jist of it." Cerberion told Shibogumon as they and Leo were in the Mammal Army leader's base. "Wow! That's quite a plot! So, how long until that eclipse you've mentioned begins?" Shibogumon asked. "Still a few weeks away." Leo said. "Interesting. I want in." Shibogumon said. "I'm glad you want in, but let me ask you this! How are you going to benefit from our plan, especially since you are not an Animarius like Hell's Watchdog and I?" Leo asked. "Simple, the cover of darkness will give me the perfect opportunity to continue my killing spree! Anansi's mother was just the beginning!" Shibogumon said, laughing maniacally. "I see what you mean when you said he was insane!" Cerberion said.
Meanwhile...
Aquilis was in her lab, working on something, when a familiar voice called out. "Everything's in place, mother." The same voice that told the Kamen Riders about Nyuvwrath's weakness called out. "Enjoying the new toy, Tytus?" Aquilis asked her daughter who was wearing a voice disguising headset. "Indeed. I was able to place the device on Anansi's Vector just as they were about to form Aquarion. And my new assistants were able to escape with no one the wiser." Tytus said as Falkyrie and Vulturion flew in, bowing before Tytus and Aquilis. "We have returned!" Falkyrie and Vulturion announced at once. "I appreciate your willingness to help with this project, Falkyrie and Vulturion." Aquilis said. "We are more loyal to you and Lieutenant Tytus than of the other Animarius, so, naturally, we are more than willing to go along with your plan, General Aquilis!" Said Falkyrie. "Especially after you told us about how King Draco was the one that actually murdered King Ddraig and Queen Tatsuko and drove away Prince Tian!" Vulturion added. "Where is he now, anyway?" Tytus asked. Where is he now, anyway?" Tytus asked. "Who knows, my darling, who knows." Aquilis responded.
Meanwhile...
The rest of the trip was eventful. Not only was Ama able to drink the beauty enhancement potion, but they were able to witness Veliane's eggs hatch and Zuhrah give birth to four happy, healthy, and in Sakura's words 'Kawaii to the max' cubs. We then see Tomoki and Yaa talking with Clyde and the others. "So, Tomoki, how does it feel, now that your birth parents have now been avenged?" Clyde asked. "Well, honestly, I feel relieved, now I know that eight-headed snake monster won't ever be coming back, though I doubt that I won't have nightmares about him anymore!" Tomoki admitted. "That's understandable, Tomoki-kun! I still have nightmares about my own parents deaths!" Sakura said. "Well, on the bright side, at least I now know that I have blood relatives that I can see for the first time in twelve years!" Tomoki noted. "You know, it's still rather surprising that you don't look any older than an elementary schoolboy or a young middle schooler, even though you're actually fifteen years old! It's almost as if your an eternally young anime boy character!" Sakura stated. "Yeah, the doctors say that I have a very extreme case of late puberty caused by genetics, most likely from my birth mother's side, and trauma from witnessing my birth parents' murder at age three! Though, in all honesty, I like the way I am, even though the other boys my age tend to tease me for being shorter than them and still sounding like a little kid as well as not being as 'well-endowed' as they are 'down there', if you know what I mean!" Tomoki explained. "Well, I certainly don't mind you like this at all, Tomoki! After all, your voice is both cute and alluring and your body as whole is as adorable as a doll! Plus, I can tell from your aura that you have a kind and caring personality, especially towards your Mlularuka brothers and your adoptive family as well as your current home! It makes you a perfect boyfriend for me!" Yaa said as she then kissed Tomoki on the lips, causing the latter to blush in cheeks. "Awwwwww!" The females present gushed. As this was going on, Aya and her family were passing out beauty enhancement potions to the young girls of the village. Among those girls was Chief Adinkrahene's twelve-year-old daughter Kisi, who, upon drinking it, was incredibly delighted at the sight of her new E-Cup-sized breasts. "Wow! This is awesome! And feels good, too!" Kisi in amazement as the other young girls, ranging from ten to twelve years of age and above, admired their new breast sizes. Then, Kisi took notice of Adwenpa, who was staring at her while flustered. "I think that Adwenpa is really loving your new look, Kisi!" Aya said, much to Kisi's delight. "Well, I am certainly glad he is! After all, Adwenpa is my boyfriend and my fiance, since we are supposed to be married tomorrow!" Kisi replied, much to Aya's confusion. "Wait, what?" Aya asked in confusion. "Oh, right! I guess we forgot to mention something about our marriage laws here in Anansi-Amena! Here, it is legal for both boys and girls to get married at age twelve as long as the bride and groom are the same age as each other or at least a few months older or younger than each other, though they are still required to attend school and they are also given the option to wait until they are older before they get married!" Chief Adinkrahene explained. "Of course, Adwenpa and I have been dating since we were eight years old, so it wasn't until a few weeks that he finally proposed to me, to which I delightfully accepted!" Kisi explained. "Huh! That's actually rather similar to the marriage laws of the shrine where Sakura's cousin Akari and Shintomaru's cousin Zensuke lives!" Aya noted. "Well, congratulations, you guys!" Aya said.
"Thank you!" Said Kisi as she then went to Adwenpa and kissed him on the lips. "Awwwwww!" The females present gushed. "By the way, I just remembered that my thirteenth birthday in two days, just so you all know!" Stella said. "Thanks! Since my boyfriend Shintomaru already had his thirteenth birthday three days ago, I want my thirteenth birthday to be just as special as his!" Stella replied. "I'll talk with my parents about making that happen." Shintomaru promised. "Thanks, Shintomaru! I definitely wouldn't have a better boyfriend than you!" Said Stella as she leaned over and kissed Shintomaru in the lips. "Awwwwww!" The females present gushed. Then, Aya went over to Sayo and gave her the last potion-filled calabash. "Here's the beauty enhancement potion I promised to give you, Sayo!" Said Aya. "Arigato, Aya-chan!" Sayo said in delight. "You have already removed your bra discreetly, right?" Aya quietly asked. "Hai! I went and did so in the bathroom!" Sayo answered quietly. "Good! That's what I needed to know!" Aya replied quietly. Then, Sayo went and drank down her potion and started glowing in a bright pink light, causing her breasts to grow into a rather enormous size. Once the light died down, Sayo looked and saw how big her breasts have gotten. Fortunately, her dress was stretched and kept her breasts well-clothed without any damage. "Thank goodness, her dress is staying on!" Stella noted. "And without any rips or tears!" Leni noted. "How big is she?" Kisi asked in confusion. "Well, Sayo is actually 27 years old, so her breast size would be a T-Cup! Thankfully, like with any girl drinking the potion, she's also given strength enhancement magic in the back and anti-gravity magic in the breasts to prevent her new size from weighing her down and hurting her back as well preventing from having breathing problems and saggings!" Aya said.
"Thanks, Aya!" Sayo said. "You're Welcome, Sayo!" Said Aya. "So, anyone else besides Yaa have found love today?" Stella asked. "Well, I decided to talk with Chief Adinkrahene's ten-year-old son Kaatachi and it turns out that we have a few things in common! We both have a fascination towards the environment and we like to do things that help keep it healthy!" Ama said as Kaatachi walked up next to her. "So, after some heartfelt conversations, we decided that we should start dating each other as a young couple!" Said Kaatachi as he and Ama held hands with each other. "Awwwwww! That's wonderful, Ama! Congrats!" Said Aya. "Much appreciated, Cousin Aya!" Ama said. "Anyone else found love today?" Stella asked. "Yeah, Afia and I took a liking to the twins, Nkyimu and Nkonsonkonson, respectively and decided asked them about their favorite things!" Said Onyina. "Turns out that Nkyimu likes paleontology as much as I do while Nkonsonkonson likes geology as much as Onyina does! So, after some talking, Onyina and I decided to confess our feelings to our respective love interests and they were actually quite happy to find out that we love them!" Said Afia as Nkyimu went up to her while Nkonsonkonson went up to Onyina. "Yeah, we were delightfully surprised to find out about Afia and Onyina being in love with me and my brother, respectively! We were also surprised to find out that they both already attended and graduated from college!" Nykimu said. "So, after some thought, we decided to accept them as our girlfriends!" Nkonsonkonson said as he held hands with Onyina while Nykimu held hands with Afia. "Awwwwww!" The females present gushed. "Thanks! And before you ask about marriage, my brother and I aren't actually ready for that quite yet, since we just met Afia and Onyina and we would rather wait until we're a bit older and after we dated our girlfriends for a while before we can decide when to marry them!" Nkyimu said. "Well, that's good know! It's not really a good idea for someone to get married immediately before they can get to know their love interest anyway, since love requires time before it settles in and rushing into things can, at most times, lead to disaster!" Rita noted. "Then, it's a good thing that Kisi and I started dating at eight years old, because that gave us enough time to decide on our wedding day!" Said Adwenpa said while holding hands with Kisi. "Good to know!" Said Shintomaru. "So, Tomoki, what about you? Have you met any girls before you met me and did you fall in love with them?" Yaa asked. "I did meet a few girls, but I didn't fall in love with any of them, mostly because I couldn't find that spark of love and because those girls see me as more of a friend/younger brother than a love interest, due to them already having love interests and also because of my youthful and somewhat feminine appearance!" Tomoki answered. "Well, then, it's good thing that I see you as a love interest, because your cute and somewhat feminine appearance really complements a tomboyish sports-loving girl like me! And besides, your kind and caring personality really makes me really want to be your girlfriend and, hopefully, future wife!" Said Yaa as she held Tomoki's hands, causing Tomoki to bashfully smile while blushing. "Um, Danke, Yaa! That means "Thank You" in German! " said Tomoki. "You're welcome!" Said Yaa. Later, Lincoln and the others were talking to Shinnosuke, Go, and Belt-san as the latter were preparing to leave. "Sorry you guys had to leave, especially after what happened today!" Said Lincoln. "Daijoubu, Lincoln! It's as you said, you can't save everyone!" Said Shinnosuke replied. "Plus, it was good for Shinnosuke-niichan and I to fight together as Kamen Riders again!" Said Go. "Even I was glad to be partners with Shinnosuke again after the last time we fought together!" Said Belt-san. "Well, at least you guys were a big help in driving our enemies away from this place and foiling their mission!" Said Lincoln. "Though, Shinnosuke, I'm getting the feeling that your wife Kiriko wouldn't be too pleased to hear that she and Go have an evil uncle that's still running around!" Clyde said. "Yeah, no kidding." Go admitted. "Speaking of which, Shinnosuke, Go told me that you and Kiriko have a son named Eiji, which is kind of coincidental that he shares the same first name as Eiji Hino, a.k.a. Kamen Rider OOO!" Said Clyde.
"Yeah, that's him. I actually have a family photo right here." Shinnosuke said, pulling out his wallet. "He was born in 2016 and he's currently 6 years old!" Shinnosuke said as he showed everyone a picture of himself with Kiriko and their son Eiji. "Aww." The girls went. "By the way, Go-Sempai, do you have a love interest of your own?" Sakura asked. "Actually, yes, I do! Her name is Nishihori Reiko! She's a former criminal!" Go replied. "Her? Seriously? When Kiriko finds out about this!" Shinnosuke told his brother-in-law with a chuckle. That caused Go to chuckle nervously. "Oh! I just remembered something! Daiki, you mentioned the Weather Dopant earlier during the funeral, right?" Clyde asked. "Yes, I did!" Daiki said. "Why do you ask?" He asked in confusion. "Well, you guys are definitely not going to like this! Apparently, from what we heard from King Draco himself, we have reasons to believe that Isaka Shinkuro, the Weather Dopant, has been reincarnated in this world and we don't even know where he is or what he looks like now!" Clyde answered, much to the shock and horror of Shinnosuke, Go, Belt-san, Daiki, Natsumi, and Kiva-La. "Ryu-san isn't going to be happy about that!" Natsumi said.
"Yeah, knowing him, Accel-sempai definitely wouldn't let that slide!" Shinnosuke noted. The four sempai riders shuddered. "Speaking of reincarnations, you guys remember Kamen Rider OOO, right?" Lincoln asked. "Yeah, we heard about what happened from Ankh-san." Go said. "Well, apparently, given the fact that our friend Shintomaru is actually Kamen Rider Decade reincarnated, we have reasons to believe that Eiji Hino might be reincarnated in our world too, though we still haven't found him yet!" Lincoln explained. "That makes sense." Belt-san said. "So, what do you guys intend to do now?" Aurachnid asked. "We'll be headed back to our world. If we find anything about the NeoDecadeDriver or OOO being reincarnated, we'll let you know." Shinnosuke said. "Great! Thanks!" Said Lincoln. Shintomaru then opened up an Aurora Veil leading to their world. "Take care, you guys. Especially you, Sayo-san." Shintomaru said. "Yeah! Hopefully, I might find a boyfriend of my own one day, which wouldn't be too hard now that I got really huge breasts!" Sayo replied while pointing at her chest.
Shintomaru chuckled at that statement, while the small part of him that was still Tsukasa Kadoya cringed at that idea. "Well, good luck! Oh! And if you come across Ichigo or the other Showa Riders, better let them know that Shocker is currently in an alliance with our enemies!" Shintomaru suggested. "Ah, mou! I can't believe those freaks are back!" Go said. "Yeah! Especially since the last time we fought them involving that History Alteration Machine of theirs!" Shinnosuke complained. "Long story." Shintomaru and Daiki said. The Loud Siblings, having figured out that it ment some form of time travel, shuddered at that. "Yeah, Anyway, we'd better get going. See you!" Daiki said as they all walked through the veil. "Bye! Hope to see you again!" Said Lincoln as the veil closed.
After Aurora Curtain has disappeared, Lincoln and the others were met by the group of cryptids that confronted General Leo and Lieutenant Elephantor earlier. "Oh! Hi there!" Lincoln said nervously. "You can relax, guys! I can tell from their auras that they have no hostile intentions!" Aya assured. "Oh! That's a relief!" Lori said. "So, what kind of cryptids are they?" Clyde asked. "Well, to start things off, the felines over there are called Marozi or Spotted Lions, which is quite obvious because of the presence of leopard-like spots on their hides! Of course, unlike regular lions, male Marozi don't have manes, but they are still larger than the females!" Ama explained while pointing at the Marozi. "Yeah, the Marozi aren't domesticated like the Ennedi Tigers, but they are friendly to us, especially since the day when Fawohodie and I have rescued their leader from a flood!" Dwennimmen explained. That's when the lead male Marozi made a few soft roars in slight sadness. "What's he saying?" Clyde asked. "He's saying that Fawohodie is like a friend to him after she healed his injuries and he's already missing her, now that she died!" Lana answered. "Oh! That's so sad!" Rita said in sympathy. "I'm so sorry to hear that! I too already miss her, since she's my mom!" Clyde said in sadness, to which the lead male Marozi responded by rubbing his head against Clyde out of affection. "Aww!" The girls said. "Anyway, the primate cryptids, which look like large gray-haired chimpanzees with gorilla-like body features, are known as Bili Apes! They have the nesting behaviors of gorillas, but they also have the omnivorous diet of chimpanzees!" Said Ama as she pointed at the Bili Apes. "Yeah, the Bili Apes are actually our wandering neighbors, as our people have good relationships with them after Fawohodie and I, along with everyone else, resecued the whole clan from a landslide!" Dwennimmen explained. That's when the largest male Bili Ape, who was clearly the leader, made a few grunting noises and did a few sign language motions. "What's he saying?" Clyde asked. "Oh! He's using sign language! It's something we had taught him and the other Bili Apes while they were recovering! He's saying that he and other Bili Apes feel sorry for your loss and they want to offer their condolences!" Nkyinkyim explained. Clyde responded by saying "Thank You! I really appreciate it!", to which the lead Bili Ape responded by gently patting him on the shoulder in a 'There, There!' manner. "The crocodilians here that have a straight gait with their legs oriented vertically beneath the body rather than sprawling outwards are known as the Gbahali! Appearance-wise, they closely resemble the rauisuchians which were an extinct group of reptiles related to crocodilians, with their famous members being Rauisuchus, Prestosuchus, and Postosuchus, the latter being bipedal while the other members were quadrupedal! As for what the Gbahali do, well, they're known for killing people that get too close the rivers they live near!" Ama said while pointing at the Gbahali, much to everyone's fright. "Yeah, like with the Inkhomi, our people have a mutual respect with the Gbahali by simply not trespassing on their river territory while also letting them feed on the invasive wild boars that occasionally come through here! Of course, Fawohodie became friends with one of them after healing his broken leg!" Dwennimmen said as one of the Gbahali came forward and lifted his front right leg to reveal a small scar where he used to have a broken leg. "I see! You must have missed her too, huh?" Clyde asked, to which the scarred Gbahali nodded in sad confirmation. "Yeah, I know what you're feeling! I'm sad too!" Clyde said while the scarred Gbahali let allowed him him to touch his head. "Finally, the creature over there, that is obviously a living relative of the synapsid known as the Dimetrodon, is simply called the Rift Valley Monster, appropriately named because of him living in the Great Rift Valley, which is a vast desert! Unfortunately, nothing else is known about the Rift Valley Monster, including about how he survives in his desert environment!" Ama said while pointing at the living Dimetrodon relative known as the Rift Valley Monster. "Let me guess, he's a visitor here too, right?" Lisa asked. "Right! The Rift Valley Monster comes here for food and water as well as place to rest and relax! As for what he eats, he also feeds on wild boars, though he also feeds on gazelles and fish occasionally! Plus, like the Kasai Rex, he likes to have his teeth cleaned!" Dwennimmen answered. Then, the Dimetrodon-like creature made a few soft growling noises. "Oh! He's just saying hi and he wants let everyone know that he feels sorry for our loss today!" Lana said. "Oh! In that case, thanks for letting us know!" Clyde said. "That reminds me! Since you're often called the Rift Valley Monster, I think could give you a cool shorter name! How about Rifter?" Lana suggested, to which the living synapsid, now named Rifter, nodded in agreement. "Oh! Speaking of loss, Tomoki-kun, how would you like to see your parents again?" Sakura asked. "Huh? What do you mean?" Tomoki asked in confusion. "Master Toadus has a very special magic spell that can temporarily bring back the spirits of lost loved ones for only once a year per person! He did so for Sakura, Aya, and Aika!" Lincoln explained. That took Tomoki by surprise. "I guess that's okay with me!" Tomoki said. "Clyde, do you want to do the same with your birth parents?" He asked. "Thanks, but no thanks! I'm not ready to do so quite yet, at least not until Shibogumon gone for good! Besides, you deserve this more than I do right now!" Clyde replied. "Oh! I see! Well, then, shall we get started?" Tomoki asked. "Of course! Toadus-san?" Sakura called out. "Yes, Sakura?" Master Toadus asked. "Do you mind making that magic circle to bring back Tomoki-kun's birth parents for today?" Sakura asked. "It would be my pleasure!" Master Toadus answered. A little later, everyone was gathered around as Master Toadus had just finished drawing the same glyph that he used to summon Sakura's parents, Aya's mother and sister, and Aika's parents. "Now, fair warning, young Tomoki, once the this spell is cast, the glyph would slowly start to disappear, and once it does, the connection is cut!" Master Toadus warned. "Understood, Master Toadus!" Tomoki said as Master Toadus then muttered some mystical gibberish before slamming his staff into the ground and causing a bright flash of light. Once the light died down, Tomoki looked and saw the spirits of his father Stephan Durchdenwald, who was a German man with short blonde hair and a muscular bodyframe and wearing a white shirt with a green vest, green lederhosen, white socks, brown shoes, and a green Tyrolean hat, and his mother Honoka Toho, who was a Japanese woman with long black hair and wearing a modern Dirndl (a feminine dress that consists of a close-fitting bodice featuring a low neckline, a blouse worn under the bodice, a wide high-waisted skirt and an apron, which originated in German-speaking areas of the Alps and traditionally worn by women and girls in Bavaria, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Alpine regions of Italy) with white socks and black shoes. "Vater? (Father?) Mutter? (Mother?)" Tomoki asked while tearing up. "Tomoki!" Stephan and Honoka said in joy as they went and hugged their son.
"Awwwwww!" The females gushed. "My son! I can't believe that you're alive!" Honoka said while crying tears of joy. "How long has it been? Nine years? Maybe ten?" Stephan asked. "12, actually. The accident and seeing you guys get killed traumatized me so bad, a few things have happened." Tomoki said. "For one thing, as you can see here, I have a very extreme case of late puberty that was not only caused by the trauma from witnessing your deaths, but also caused by genetics from your side of the family, Mutter, which means that I still look and sound like a very young twelve-year-old boy, even though I'm actually fifteen years old!" Tomoki explained. "Another thing is that the eight-headed snake monster that killed you two is also the one that caused our plane to crash! Thankfully, I was rescued by a family of Mlularukas, also known as Winged Jackals, and was raised by them for two years before we were found and adopted by my new father and mother, Dwennimmen and Serwa, and raised alongside their biological son Adwenpa for the last ten years!" He'd added as he then introduced Stephan and Honoka to Dwennimmen, Serwa, Adwenpa, and the Mlularuka brothers Fluffy, Puffy, and Tuffy, who all bowed in respect to them. "Well, I'm just glad you're safe." Honoka said with tears rolling down her face before noticing Sakura and seeing something familiar about her. "Excuse, young lady, but I can't help but notice something familiar about you! Just, who are you?" Honoka asked.
"Boku wa, Hoseki Sakura." Sakura said. "Hoseki? Are you related to Hoseki Kenta, by any chance?" Honoka asked. "My dearly departed Oniichan." Sakura answered. "Eh?! You're Kenta-kun's Imoto and you're saying that he's dead now?! What about your father, Daigo, and your mother, as well as my sister, Sora? Are they still around?!" Honoka asked in shock and confusion. With tears rolling down her own face, Sakura simply shook her head. "*Gasp!* Oh No! How did that even happen?!" Honoka asked in shock and horror. "In a similar way to you, a monster named Cerberion destroyed the car they were in." Sakura explained. "The only reason I was alive was because I was staying at Obachan's house at the time!" She added with tears. Lincoln walked over and pulled Sakura into a hug before gently kissing the top of her head. "There, there, Sakura, it's okay!" Lincoln said in a soothing tone. "You know, while I was in the cave with Veliane, she said we should consider ourselves lucky to have Linky as a brother, and after seeing this, I agree." Leni told her sisters. The rest of the sisters nodded in agreement. "Sakura-chan, who's that?" Honoka asked in confusion. "My boyfriend, Lincoln-kun." Sakura explained.
"Hello!" Lincoln said. "Oh! Nice to meet you, Lincoln-kun!" Said Honoka. "Thanks! Sakura started dating about a month ago!" Said Lincoln. "Speaking of love, Vater, Mutter, I would like you to meet Yaa! We just met today and she, surprisingly, fell in love with me at first sight, even though I look younger than her!" Said Tomoki as he introduced Yaa to his parents. "It's very nice to meet you both. I just wish it was under better circumstances." Yaa said. "Yeah, true! Well, at least you look like a fine young lady that would make our son happy!" Stephan noted. "Thank you, Mr. Durchdenwald!" Yaa replied. "Oh! Also, just so you know, I'm actually a young fifteen-year-old women's Football champion!" She added, much to the surprise of Tomoki's parents. "Really? Well, what a delightful coincidence! I happen to be a Football fan myself! Heck, I used to play on the Germany national football team before I met Honoka and then I later retired after we got married in order to look after our son Tomoki! Of course, I was hoping to come out of retirement and play Football again after our son was old enough, and perhaps even teach him a few moves of my own, but I guess fate hadn't been too kind to us!" Stephano noted. "Well, don't worry, Oji Stephano, no one will ever have to suffer because of Nyuvwrath ever again!" Sakura assured.
"Nyuvwrath?" Stephan and Honoka asked in confusion. "That's the name of the eight-headed snake monster that killed you two! But, don't worry! Nyuvwrath has already been defeated twice! The first time was twelve years ago, when he invaded this here village and poisoned my late father Mframadan, though the latter managed to pierce the eight-headed snake monster's heart and revert him into a medallion called a Soul Core before he succumbed to the poison! The second and final time was today, when Nyuvwrath got revived by General Leo of the Animarius Empire and then got turned into a giant before Lincoln, Sakura, and I, along with some friends of ours, used a giant robot called Aquarion to not only destroy him, but also revert him back into a Soul Core, which was then sealed away by Lincoln in his driver!" Clyde said. "Well, that's good to hear." Honoka said. "I hate to be rude, but..." Gorf said, pointing to the glyph which was starting to disappear. "Oh, Dear! It looks like our time is almost up!" Stephan said upon noticing that. "Before you guys, leave, there's one more person that wants to see you!" Sakura said as she pointed at Aika. "Hello." Aika said. "Aika-chan? Is that you? The last time I saw you, you were only two years old!" Honoka said in surprise.
"Yeah, it's me. My parents got killed by the Animarius as well, specifically by a half-goat half-crocodile monster named Akampulse, and I've been here since. I miss them, but it's been eventful, I found love, and had this little accident that I actually don't regret at all." Aika said, showing them Yasuke. "Eh?! You mean that you've gotten yourself pregnant, even though you're a young teenager?!" Honoka asked in shock and confusion. "Yep! This little baby boy is my son Yasuke-kun! As for who the father is, that would be my boyfriend Nyansipo-kun, who is currently twelve years old!" Aika explained as she pointed at Nyansipo. "And I can assure you, what happened was not my intention!" Nyansipo nervously said.
"What tried to do was create a potion that can be used on boys to give them muscles and 6-packs, much like how my cousin Aya's family's beauty enhancement potion can be used on girls to give them big breasts! Unfortunately, as you can see, it didn't give me the intended effect! Instead it caused me and my friends Charley and Cianán to have temporarily enlarged private parts, complete with really big stiffies and increased male fertility! The moment that Aika, Charley's girlfriend and my other cousin Atea, and Cianán's girlfriend Aoife saw our 'conditions', they became more attracted to us than usual! Then, one thing led to another and, well, as you can figure out, that one time is what caused me, Charley, and Cianán to accidentally get our respective girlfriends pregnant!" Nyansipo explained as Charley and Atea came forward with their twin babies Panyin and Kakra. "Thankfully, our parents forgave us after we've explained to them about what actually had happened and we decided to do the right thing by helping our girlfriends raise our babies together!" Charley explained.
"Aww!" Honoka said as the glyph continued disappearing. "Vater, Mutter, I'm sorry that we aren't be talk to each other again for at least another year! I really am going to miss you both more than anything!" Tomoki said while tearing up. "Don't cry, Tomoki, we'll always be with you." Stephano said. "And besides, you have your adoptive family to look after you now! Plus, you have a girl that really loves you! Hopefully, she might even become your wife one day!" Stephan added. This made Yaa chuckle as the glyph vanished, taking Tomoki's parents with it. "Goodbye." Honoka could be heard saying. "Farewell, Mutter and Vater!" Tomoki as he then turned his attention to Master Toadus and said "Danke, Master Toadus! I really needed this!" in tearful gratitude. "My pleasure, Tomoki." Toadus said.
One Day Later...
After celebrating the wedding of Adwenpa and Kisi, as well as enjoying the feast that came afterwards, everyone was at the airport, ready to head home. "We've been waiting to give you this." Dwennimen said, handing Clyde a white orb that had the 'Sesa Wo Suban' Adinkra Symbol (a five-pointed star set within a spiked wheel) on it. "What is this?" Clyde asked. "No one knows, we found it in Kwaku Anansi's temple with the words 'My Champion will return, and when he does, this give this to him' written on the wall." Dwennimen said. "Huh! You know, the symbol on that orb looks like the Adinkra Symbol known as Sesa Wo Suban! In the Akan language, it means "Change or transform your character"!" Aurachnid noted upon closer inspection of the orb. "What could it be?" Clyde asked in wonder. As this was going on, Aya, Denkyem, Mpatapo, and Duafe were saying goodbye to their parents. "Well, Daddy, I guess this is goodbye again, at least until our student exchange program has ended!" Aya said.
"Actually, we have a little surprise for you." Aya's father said. "What is it?" Aya asked. "Yeah, what is it, sir?" Denkyem asked as he, Mpatapo, and Duafe looked in confusion. "The five of us, after realizing that it might be better that you'd be able to stay in Royal Woods, have decided to move to America." Aya's father explained. That caused Aya, Denkyem, Mpatapo, and Duafe to gasp in surprise. "Really?" Aya asked. "Yep, we just have to finish up the paperwork, but it should be done by the day your exchange program ends." Mpatapo's mother said. "But, what about the beauty enhancement potion recipe? Who's going to pass it down amongst the future generations in Africa while we're in America?" Aya asked. "You can leave that to me and the rest of your cousins, Aya!" Said Ama. "Besides, you have every right to pass the recipe to future generations yourself!" She added. "Thanks, Ama! Here! I have made a second copy of our family's beauty enhancement potion recipe, in case of emergencies!" Said Aya as she passed a paper, containing a copy of the beauty enhancement potion recipe, over to Ama. "Thank you." Ama said. "And as an added bonus, this will give us the perfect chance to keep an eye on you two." Duafe's father said, looking over at Andros, making him chuckle nervously. "Daddy!" Duafe said angrily.
"Honey, please don't tease our daughter like that!" Duafe's mother said. "Relax, I'm just kidding." Duafe's father said, before glaring at Andros in a way that says 'hurt my baby girl in any way, and there will be consequences'. That caused Andros to flinch. "Thanks for getting your Obachan to let us stay with you guys for a few days, Sakura-chan." Aika said, pulling some luggage and carrying Yasuke in a car carrier. "You're welcome, Aika-chan! When I told Obachan that you and Tomoki-kun are all actually alive in Africa the entire time, she was incredibly surprised!" Sakura replied. "Even more so, once I told her that you have a boyfriend and gotten yourself pregnant with his baby!" She added. "Needless to say, she was a little surprised by that." Sakura said. "Hehe! I don't blame her! I'm more than glad to see her again after so long, not to mention that I can introduce Yasuke-kun to her!" Said Aika as Nyansipo went next to her while Charley and Atea were pulling some luggage and carrying Panyin and Kakra in car carriers, with Tomoki and Yaa helping them. "Well, I'm definitely glad that I'm coming along too, since Aika is my girlfriend and I never really left Africa before, so it would be a new experience for me! Plus, I might be able find some way to make a new version of that failed potion of mine while I'm there!" Nyansipo said. "Just make sure you find different test subjects." Lisa said.
"Yeah, after what happened last time, I decided that I ought to be more careful with my potions and have them propertly tested before they could be ready to be used on boys! Plus, after hearing about Fergy's story about how he went on a rampage after getting himself too muscular, I think that, when I get the new version of my potion ready, I'll have the muscles become more of a manageable size and not too big, though I might include a 6-pack and superstrength magic to make up for it! Of course, there's still those pesky side effects to worry about!" Nyansipo noted. "You mean the ones that prevents boys' voices and facial features from changing and preventing body and facial hair growth?" Tomoki asked. "Yep! Those are the ones!" Nyansipo answered. "Why do you ask?" He asked in confusion. "Well, don't get me wrong, but maybe you don't need to get rid of them!" Tomoki said, much to Nyansipo's confusion. "What do mean by that, exactly?" Nyansipo asked. "Well, for one thing, most boys that learn about puberty often dread the idea of their voices changing, especially those with voice acting and singing careers in their personal life plans as well as those that like to crossdress! Plus, not all guys like the idea of having facial hair and body hairs, especially if it means that they would get itchy from all the hairs and would have to constantly shave them off, which would be considered a hassle that they would rather live without! And, Yes, I'm well aware that I haven't even started puberty yet, even though I'm fifteen years old, but, I like myself the way I am right now, because I'm rather lucky that I don't have to go through any of those unwanted changes! Basically, what I'm saying here is that you should at least be considerate to those types of boys that I've mentioned!" Tomoki explained, causing Nyansipo and everyone to stare at him in shock. "Dang, Tomoki! I never even thought about that! Perhaps you're right! I should at least keep those side effects! Of course, I think I would have them modified to a certain point! For the side effect that prevents voice changes, I think I would have it permanently active to boys whose voices haven't started changing while also have it rendered null and void to boys whose voices have already changed, though for those that started voice cracking but don't sound like teenagers yet, the side effect would undo the cracking and have their voices reverted back to their normal sound! As for the side effect that prevents facial and body hair growth, it would be permanently active for boys who haven't started growing those kinds of hairs, but for those that already have started growing a type of hair, whether it be a chest hair, a moustache hair, an armpit hair, or a even pubic hair, then the side effect itself would go in reverse, which means it would encourage hair growth rather than prevent it, though, thankfully, the hairs from that effect won't grow back incredibly fast after being cut or shaved off!" Nyansipo suggested. "Huh! That does sound fair enough for all boys!" Tomoki noted. "Thanks! Though, one other problem is the temporary 'frank and beans' growth and increased male fertility that obviously wasn't supposed to be the primary effect of the potion, since that is what led to Charley, Cianán, and I to accidentally get our girlfriends pregnant! Part of me wants to have it removed and replaced with the muscles while the other part of me wants to keep it and have it altered to become permanent!" Nyansipo pondered. "Maybe you should try to do the latter, because there might actually be some health benefits to that effect, especially for guys who have fertility problems and impotency! Heck, you might as well have it used to prevent prostate and testicular cancer! Plus, in several ancient cultures, much like how big breasts symbolize female maturity and fertility, the male reproductive organs are often symbolize male maturity and fertility, so it's possible that your potion might not be as much of a failure as you might have thought, though it could use some adjustment in that department!" Tomoki suggested, causing everyone to look at him at confusion. "What? It's part of the world culture and history classes that I attend at school in Anansi-Amena!" Tomoki explained. "That would explain a few things!" Lisa noted. "Hmm! Well, Tomoki, you do make a very good point, especially about the health benefits! Perhaps I should have that particular effect become permanent! Of course, I would also have to make sure that it doesn't cause our 'franks and beans' to grow too big, especially regarding those of teenagers and adults, otherwise us guys would have incredible difficulty in finding pants and underwear that could properly fit us, among other embarrassing things!" Nyansipo noted. The males present shuddered at that thought. "*SHUDDER!* Yeah! That would definitely be beyond embarrassing, especially since I'm already well-endowed for my age!" Shintomaru noted. "Well, hopefully, I would make sure that the potion wouldn't cause us to get any bigger than what Charley, Cianán and I have gone through, because that's considered big enough to me! And before you guys ask about causing accidental pregnancies, I believe that best suggestion to prevent that would be to either to keep yourselves and your girlfriends under control or to get some protection, if you know what mean!" Nyansipo assured. "That's actually a good call!" Howard noted. "Yeah! Howie and I aren't exactly ready to be grandfathers quite yet, so it might be good time for us to give Clyde and Chloe some very important things to prevent them from going through the same incident that you, Charley, and your respective girlfriends went through!" Harold stated, much to Clyde's embarrassment. "Dads! You know that Chloe and I have better self-control than to do something like that!" Clyde shouted in embarrassment. "We, know that, Clyde! We just want to look out for you and your girlfriend as best as we can, that's all!" Harold said. "It's what parents do! We get worried for our kids' futures!" Howard added.
"One of the many reasons I decided long ago to save myself for marriage, which I hope with all my heart will be with you, Lincoln-kun." Sakura said, kissing her boyfriend on the cheek. "Awwwwww!" The girls gushed. Then, we see the three Mlularuka brothers, Fluffy, Puffy, and Tuffy, come next to Tomoki. "Are you sure it's a good idea to bring Fluffy, Puffy, and Tuffy with us, Tomoki? After all, Mlularukas are classified as cryptids, you know!" Yaa asked. "Yeah, I had considered to leave them behind in Africa, but I just don't have the heart to do so, since they are my pup brothers! Thankfully, my family and I made sure that they get their vaccinations before they can go with us, just so they don't catch any lethal diseases, if you know what I mean!" Tomoki explained. "Oh! That's good to know! That kind and caring personality of yours definitely makes me glad to be your girlfriend" Yaa said. "Thanks! Also, there's one more cryptid that wants to come with us, specifically with Clyde!" Tomoki said as Webster the juvenile J'ba FoFi crawled on over to Clyde's right arm. "Webster?!" Lincoln asked in surprise. "Yeah, whatever reason, he really doesn't want to leave my side!" Clyde replied. "Believe it or not, the juvenile J'ba FoFi that you've named Webster is actually a direct descendant of Akoma's J'ba FoFi companion, so it must mean that he's destined to be with you!" Dwennimmen said, much to everyone's surprise.
"Hey, it's fine by me! It gets lonely being the only spider around, especially since these two keep trying to squish me with frying pans." Aurachnid said, pointing to Lynn Sr. and Leni. "Hey!" Lynn Sr and Leni shouted in annoyance. "I guess it's fine with me, then! But, I have been meaning to ask, what do J'ba FoFi usually eat?" Clyde asked. "Well, as hatchlings, J'ba FoFi feed on insects, just like most spiders! Of course, as they get bigger, they require larger prey, usually feeding on diminutive forest antelope, birds, and other small game! Fortunately, their appetites can be satisfied with rodents, usually brown rats!" Dwennimmen answered. "Good to know!" Clyde said. "At least there are pet stores that sell frozen rats, usually for snakes, birds of prey, and African bullfrogs!" He noted. This made Lola shudder. "That is really disturbing!" Lola said in uneasiness. Even Lana shuddered at that. "Yeah! For once, I agree with you, Lola! Plus, I better keep my pet rat Bitey away from Webster, just so that he doesn't get eaten!" Lana noted. The call for their flight came. "We'd better get going, thanks for everything, guys!" Lincoln said as they headed towards the terminal. "Hey! Don't forget about us! We need to come home with you guys in order to get back to Pinata Island!" Fergy called as he, Paulie, Franklin, Les, Hudson, Simone, Tina and Teddington, Ella, Chortles, Cecil, and Langston came rushing in. "Don't worry, I'll be sure to work on a device that will allow you to travel between your world and ours without the need of that monstrosity of an outdated, and barbaric transportation machine." Lisa said.
"Okay, but can you guys at least let us on the plane? We don't like being left behind, after all!" Said Paulie. "I'm sure we can find a way." Lincoln said. "Well, as long as we have good seats, I don't see any reason to complain!" Hudson noted. Soon, everyone was on the plane, and the pinatas were in the cargo hold. "This isn't what I had in mind!" Hudson said. "Yeah, sorry about that Hudson, but I'm afraid that this only way to get you guys on the plane without drawing too much attention!" Lincoln said. "He has a point! After all, people might freak out if they see talking pinatas!" Ella pointed out. "*Sigh!* Oh, well! Easy come, easy go!" Hudson said in slight disappointment. Later, as the plane was in the air, Clyde couldn't help but think about what happened. "Clyde, are you okay?" Chloe asked in concern. "Still thinking about what Shibogumon did, huh?" Lincoln asked. "Can you blame me? 12 years, I've lived with people I could only call family in name, but the moment I find my real family, she's ripped out of my life by a madman!" Clyde said. That caused everyone to feel sorry for Clyde. "I know how you feel, Clyde-kun. When my parents and Oniichan died, how I am when I talk about it is a mere breeze compared to the F5 Tornado of emotions I felt at first." Sakura said. "A similar thing can be said about me when my mother died and, later, when my sister got killed!" Aya added.
"But you have friends and another family to help you in every way possible." Lincoln reminded, patting his best friend on the shoulder. "Not to mention a girlfriend that truly loves you!" Chloe added. "Thanks, guys." Clyde said, looking out the window, seeing a cloud shaped like Shibogumon's spider form. 'I swear, Shibogumon, you will pay!' He thought to himself.
That Was The Latest Chapter Of Kamen Rider LL! I Realize It Was Cruel To Kill Off Clyde's Birth Mother, But I Have Reasons. Besides, Hallucigenia77 Wanted To Kill Off Dwennimen As A Sort Of Uncle Ben Type Character, But I Have Something Else In Mind For That. Anyway, I Hope You Enjoyed This Chapter, Read, Review, Favorite, And Follow!
