Natsu grabbed Lucy and rolled to the right, the monster's blade slashed through the air, an inch from her hair. She left Lucy against a wall, the younger girl curled up into the fetal positions, gently sobbing.
Natsu reached behind her back and pulled a strange object, it was a black rectangle with a red arrow on the left side, a bright-silver arrow in the middle and a black circle on the right side. The left half of the circle was outlined in bright-yellow and inside the circle was a black rectangle that pointed upwards to the right. Inside the rectangle was a bright-yellow line that followed the direction of the shape it was in and at the bottom of the rectangle was a bright-yellow circle. Behind the circle was a slot.
This was the zero one driver!
She slammed it onto her waist and a bright-silver belt shot out of either side of it, they met behind her with a bright-yellow circle linking them before they tightened, locking the driver onto Natsu's waist. [ZERO ONE DRIVER!] The belt shouted as it came online.
Natsu reached behind her back again with her right hand and pulled out a keycard. It's main body was pitch-black and there was a dark-brown rectangular screen fixed to the front of it by a dark-brown circle-shaped hinge. On the right side of the screen was a black circle with the upside down outline of a hornet inside of it. On the left side of the screen was the side view of a black hornet above which were two lines of black text. The first line read 'ABILITY: SWARM' while the line above it read, in slightly bigger font: 'SKITTERING HORNET' Along the top line of the keycard above the black circle was a bright-silver button.
This was the skittering hornet progrise keycard.
Natsu hit the key's button. [SWARM!] She held the keycard over the zero one driver's circle, revealing that it was a scanner. [AUTHORIZE!] By this time the Magia had turned around and lunged at Natsu, only for the red arrow on the driver to glow before a giant mechanical hornet flew out of it and spun, slapping the monster away with its tail.
The hornet was made of bright-silver metal with dark-brown circuits coming through it and bright-red eyes.
This was the hornet ride model.
Natsu used her right thumb to flip the keycard's screen, it's hinge flipped, causing the screen to point to the left, parallel to the main keycard. She chanted the word said by every Kamen Rider that was a declaring of their determination and their prayer for success: "HENSHIN!" She slammed the progrise keycard into the driver's slot. [PROGRISE!] The silver arrow slid to the left, covering the red arrow, it pulled the scanner's half circle outline with it. As the silver arrow moved, it exposed a bright-white circle / core with a hole in it, which the progrise keycard's circle could be seen through, displaying the, now right side up, hornet's outline. The right half of the core had a bright-yellow outline and the scanner's outline completed the circle. [HARASS THE HEROES!] Two bright-blue screens appeared in front of Natsu before they slid towards each other and merged, forming the outline of a humanoid schematic. It slid back through her, before vanishing, revealing her changed form. Now she wore a pitch-black bodysuit with attached gloves and boots of the same color. Her head was covered by a black helmet with a bright-silver mask that was made of exposed gears and wires. There was red circuitry going through her chest and partly on her thighs. A silver line start at the bottom of the front of her shoulders, it curved down the front of her upper arms before curving down across her lower arms and stopping in front around the inside of her lower arms.
This was Kamen Rider Worm, initial data.
[SKITTERING HORNET!] The hornet rider model flew above her and broke into five pieces, the head, the legs, the wings, the main body and the stinger. Energy that looked like DNA helixes attached each piece to a part of Worm's body. The head was connected to her helmet, the main body to her stomach, the wings to her feet, the legs to her arms and the stinger to her legs. Each piece started dematerializing, armor was printed onto Worm.
Her lower arms were coated in dark-brown armor that was shaped like a pair of short swords. Black pauldrons covered her shoulders, curving with them, they had bright-red outlines. Her lower legs had dark-brown armor going down the front of them, the left was in the shape of a sword while the right looked like a gun. Armor covered the outside of her hips and the top half of her upper legs, each piece was identical to the armor on her right lower leg. Dark-brown armor covered her back, the right half was shaped like a gun while the left half was in the form of a tower shield. Her stomach and breast armor were also in the shape of two tower shields. Each piece of armor had bright-yellow lines forming octagons on it, giving it a honeycomb theme. Her face plate was now light brown with a pair of dark-yellow circle-shaped visors over her eyes. There was a horseshoe between her visors and the ends of it extended outwards, going over her visors and upwards. The mouthguard was dark-brown and was split in half vertically, making it look like a hornet's mouth. [THE GIRL BETRAYED BY THE SYSTEM BECOMES THE PROTAG!]
Attached to the small of her back was a pitch black briefcase made from metal. It had a dark brown line going from the upper right to the lower left on each of its long sides. There was a dark brown rectangle shaped trigger on the right inside corner of the handle and along the bottom edge was a slot for a progrise keycard.
Natsu had transformed into Kamen Rider Worm, skittering hornet data, she was armed with the case staff.
Cue Firefly by A*Teens!
Let the battle begin!
The Berotha Magia lunged at the Kamen Rider, she ducked under a scythe to the head and punched upwards, slamming her fist into the elbow joint, breaking it. She spun and kicked the monster in the stomach, driving it backwards.
Worm quickly pushed the skittering hornet progrise keycard into her driver. [SKITTERING IMPACT!] The armor on her right lower arm detached from it, revealing bright-red circuitry. The wasp drone shot forwards and rammed into the Berthoa's Magia's stomach, the monster was thrown back through the air before the drone broke through it, leaving a hole in its stomach. Then the drone returned to Worm and reattached to her lower arm.
Skitter tapped the keycard's button once. [SWARM!] She pushed it into the driver's slot before letting it spring back out. [SKITTERING HIGH IMPACT!] She slammed her right boot into the ground as dark-brown energy lines burst around it before leaping forwards.
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She ducked her left leg in and extended her right leg forwards. "SWARM BURST!" The Berotha Magia had just managed to get back to its feet when Worm's boot slammed into its face. The gun on her right lower leg fired, propelling Worm away and blowing the monster's head off. It slumped to the ground and exploded! [SKITTERING HIGH IMPACT!]
End Firefly by A*Teens!
Battle ended!
New form revealed!
Skittering hornet data
This is Kamen Rider Worm's initial form, it is based on Taylor Hebert aka Skitter from Worm and a hornet as well as the Aerial Gundam. It is good at everything but a master of nothing.
Its main power is its drones: Attached to her lower arms and lower left leg are three wasp drones which are shaped like swords. Coating Worm's lower right leg, her hips and the right side of her back are her bee drones, each looking like a rifle. Finally, the left side of her back, her upper arms and both sides of her breastplate are covered by her five hornet drones that act as shields.
The drones can rise off of Worm to attack her opponents but doing this reveals the red circuitry that they protect as armor. Even a glancing hit to any of these circuits can cause Worm massive pain, paralyzed that part of her body and since the drones are guided by her thoughts, making them drop out of the air.
Finishers:
Driver:
Insect bite: Skitter detaches one of her bits.
Swarm burst: Skitter jumps into the air and comes down with a rider kick, the gun on her lower right leg fires.
Harassing swarm: Worm ejects two of the bits from her body.
Bee rush: Worm fires a barrage of energy bolts from all four bee drones.
Bee smasher: Worm jumps forwards and rams her knee into her opponents stomach.
Insect biting: Worm jumps into the air and comes down with a rider kick, a stag beetle projection forms around her legs as she does a scissors kick.
Honey wall: Worm has three hornet drones block an attack.
Spider crush: Worm forms eight spider legs around her right leg and crushes her opponent
Insect net: Bee drones form a net in front of opponent, slicing of their limbs before the wasp drones attack
Case staff:
Beetle sting: Worm thrusts her weapon forwards.
Bee drill: Worm swings her staff up with a swarm of dark brown bee construct following it.
Wasp rush: Worm forms a wasp construct around her staff and stabs several times
Centipede arc: Worm swings her staff from left to right.
Author notes:
With this story I'm not going to do the thing where the drivers repeat the attack at the end every time or where they spell out the attack.
The drivers and weapons will only repeat the attack when finishing off a monster. They will only spell out an attack if it is the last one for the chapter.
End author notes.