Scene #7437: Super Hero Taisen X-OVER I

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Reliant	OUTSIDE THE SPECIAL CASES DEPARTMENT... (In Other Words The DMV) A humanoid robot with a grotesquely skeletal face and spider-like lower jaw stands outside of the DMV. He arrived about two minutes ago and started shouting at the building, demanding that the police's Kamen Rider COME OUT AND FIGHT. Despite the demand he's 'merely' an ordinary unevolved spider-type roidmude, with a prominent series of red lines like spider legs framing his chest. Displayed in the center is a plate bearing the number 012. It's only once somebody visibly important comes outside that Roidmude 012 actually does anything, however. Out of nowhere Roidmude #012 produces a... belt. This is an immediate red flag, and any possibility that it's merely for show goes out the window when the belt automatically clamps onto 012's waist and secures itself firmly. With a gutteral growl it announces: F O R C E R I S E R "A.I. will not be crushed underneath the heel of cruel, oppressive humanity! My brother in arms has given me the power to oppose Kamen Rider!" 012 exclaims. 012 presses a button on a cartridge in hand, which announces: CHIROPTERA ... And slams it into the belt. A colossal armored bat bursts into existence, hurling itself onto the ground and cratering it in front of 012, disrupting any imminent effort to approach him with a thunderous boom. Then the belt announces: V I R A L R I S E The giant bat bursts apart and collapses on the roidmude in a vicious swirl of connecting wires that flense away a lot of the 'detail' of the roidmude base body and leave behind a more ordinarily humanoid shape. The numbered core on its chest gleams and separates for a moment -- it is not, despite appearances, vulnerable in this instant -- and melds with the cartridge in the belt. Colossal black wings tipped with distinctive golden-black claws burst out from its back, distinctive light plating and a helmet of purple and black with blue eye lenses collapse onto it. Kamen Rider Chiroptera spreads its arms and wings out wide. An intense wave of heaviness spreads out into the surroundings, gravity intensifying and making it harder -- impossible, for most -- to move. The strength of it is more akin to what Chase can muster than any other roidmude that has been encountered before. Chiroptera pumps the lever on his forceriser twice, which announces: DISSONANCE ENCORE Each of Kamen Rider Chiroptera's wings begin to gleam with a purple silhouette, rapidly reaching a thundering apex. As soon as it does they stretch to their full span and a emanate a wave of sound so intense that it shakes and churns ground and concrete and glass and steel apart along its path, churning trees to splinters, sidewalk to rubble, vehicles to rubble, glass to particulate. It opens up the face of the building into the cafeteria on impact. Kamen Rider Chiroptera laughs uproariously and claps his hands together like an excited child, elated by his own display of power. He declares, in a positively giddy voice, "With the twist of a key I've gone past advanced and become one of the super-evolved promised number! No one can look down on me now! Not even Kamen Rider!"
Xion	MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE THE DMV "Wow! Yeah yeah! Go go!" Xion (pronounced Shion) cheers from the swoopy stone barrier-wall outside the DMV, black-on-black-on-black coat tails hanging down the barricade. She watches the V I R A L R I S E with a deep wonderment, adding a few 'woo!'-s as the forceriser restraints really lock in Chiropteran's power. "Wow! With this power, I can feel it!" Placing both hands over 'her heart', Xion closes her eyes and smiles. "You've gotten so much closer to a fully realized heart." She beams, switching to two thumbs way up. "All that's left is for KAMEN RIDER to show up!" 012's special attack drowns out her other words, a screaming set of VREEEEEEEM soundblasts obliterating the place she's sitting on. Xion remains sitting on a single piece of rubble, which oblidgingly falls just after all the others, resettling her a foot and a half down, but no worse for wear. "Heart's going to... he's going to..." Xion's eyes are wide, but her smile remains bright. "He's going to do something, I bet! It'll probably be good! Now, Come out!" Xion cups her hands to her mouth. "Come out, Kamen Rider!"
Forte	Forte had been here, actually, for nefarious purposes. Namely turning in a driver's license application with an injected SQL attack embedded in the personal information, to see if anyone would catch it or if it'd crash the system. (And secondarily to test if whoever was working the DMV would budge at his ironclad, straight-faced insistence that his birthplace was really ');Create Login Forte; grantrole(Forte,Sysadmin) Execute('. or that he was ');truncate table msdb.securitylog;(' meters tall. It was a longshot, admittedly, but one does not function as a freelance unsolicited pentester by assuming competence or only taking sure bets. "Ah. Trouble," says Forte, his eyes shifting to look outside while the rest of him remains stationarily floating in the middle of the lobby. "Someone feeling strong enough to attack a local authority, openly." This presents a problem. He does not care about the DMV per se, but he cannot break its security unless it still stands. The navi exits the DMV just in time for the last of the transformation and powerup to go off - and floats right into the sound wave, getting knocked right back through the door. "Super evolved, gone past advanced, and nobody can look down upon you," says Forte, floating back out with a bit more hustle and some shards of DMV lobby furniture and window glass on his cloak. "Let's have a sample of it, then," he states, calmly, speeding up into an airborne dash, closing in towards the roidmude, one glowing hand extended- -=--=--=-COSACK INDUSTRIES - AUTONAVI.SYS-=--=--=- -=--=--=--GETABILITY.BAT READ MODE READY--=--=--=- -=--=--=--=--=--=--=-EXECUTE--=--=--=--=--=--=--=- One touch is all it takes, and even that one touch stings like hell - but Forte's going for more than just a touch. He's going for a full throat grapple.
Shinnosuke Tomari	Shinnosuke Tomari was inside the ~~DMV~~ Special Cases Department doing paperwork. If he was going to help Go set up that project with new funding, he'd have to see if it was even possible. But he was barely doing any work - mostly eating milk candy and watching the clock on the wall. Up until he finally got informed about the Roidmude outside looking for him. With a stretch, the detective stood up, deposited his candy into his pocket, grabbed the Drive Driver off a stand, and went outside, placing it on his waist as he did so. "May I help you?" Was Shinnosuke's first, and for now, last words to the Roidmude. It was a normal Spider-type. This shouldn't be too hard - until it grabbed that belt, and fastened it to its waist. His eyes widened as soon as he realized it wasn't for show, and he gets out a reaction to Xion. "Xion, this isn't a game! Get out of here!" That horrible gutteral growl shows this is dangerous. A Shift Car is quickly grabbed - the red with white stripes Shift Speed - and placed in the bracer, simultaneous to Chiroptera's own transformation. "Henshin!" Shinnosuke flipped the bracer, posing his arm outwards. A black bodysuit, with red breastplate and gauntlets, formed over him. A black tire flew from around the corner in the parking lot, fastening onto him from his left shoulder downwards diagonally. The helmet was bug-eyed, hiding the rider's reaction of sheer confusion. DRIVE! Type -- Speed! It's lucky that Shinnosuke transformed when he did, because the soundwave blasts him backwards, slamming him into a cafeteria table. He gestures out towards anyone doing at the DMV frantically. "Get out of here, quickly! I'll cover you!" Leaping to his feet, he points at Chiroptera. The Heaviness is coming over him, but the Shift Cars are assisting in dealing with it, allowing him to move enough to fight, even if it isn't ideal speed. "How did you...? Agh! Tridoron!" The Tridoron suddenly blares to life, slamming down the road from a parking space, the red super-car firing a pair of lasers and moving to slam straight into Chiroptera, as Kamen Rider Drive makes a run for the car, leaps on top of it, and then moves to jump off and kick straight into the enemy Kamen Rider(?!). The flying dropkick moves to aim straight for Chiroptera's center of mass, hopefully using the increased power from Tridoron's double attack to do heavy damage!
X	Having had a lot to mull over regarding himself and his place in things the past few days, X stares into the red crystal of his helmet. Cherry blossoms wafted across the blue sky of the park he situated himself in, squarely on a wooden bench. His reflection in the jewel was warped and skewed, staring back at him with one eye too large and the other too small, wild and impractically spiky dark hair clump and muddying in the image. " - ?!" An explosion of some kind from well down the way captures the super fighting robot's attention, bringing a frown to his lean face before he casts his gaze back to his helmet, resolve building with finality in his chest. X places the helmet over his head, a pneumatic hiss sealing if in place. His boots rapidly pump against the concrete as he sprints, until he's clear enough from fleeing civillians to begin dashing, the nodules on his shoulderblades and the backs of his legs flaring as he became a blue blur, exhaust shooting out as he propels forward, coming to a stop a good meter or two away from the newly dubbed Kamen Rider Chiroptera, along with his allies. Which included a familiar human girl, although ... didn't she look different before? The only reason he really recognized her was from her voice. "What are you doing?! Stop it, you're putting everyone here in danger!" X points a finger at the trio, which quickly transitions into a clenched fist, "Are you...Roidmudes?!" He knew this was Shinnousuke and Go's neck of the woods, after all. In fact .. wasn't this their homefront? Then the Kamen Rider they were trying to egg out was probably... A flash of anger runs through X's body like a shudder as he transforms his clenched fist into his trusty X-Buster. "I don't want to fight you, but I'm not going to let you do as you please, either. I'll defend the peace!" Drive cuts in with a hearty combination attack and, an unknown figure swoops in alongside him to attack the Roidmude-turned-Rider, while X levies a low-power warning shot at Xion's feet.
Hellwarming Trio	"...is really good. The address?" Utsuho squints as she glances around the snack shop she's just come out of, holding a phone up with an orange-yellow eye on it to the door. Satisfied that she didn't just record the inside of the shop (she totally did), Utsuho holds it close to her gut with her other hand occupied by an ice cream cone (peanut butter cup with a chocolate shell) as she hears some strange yelling from a nearby somewhere! "Huh. Must be a fight. This place is pretty busy with those, isn't it? That should be fun to watch." Sounding more animated with the likelihood of witnessing random violence growing by the second, she flies about a block over just in time to witness the bat-roidmude fusion into Kamen Rider Chiroptera in front of the DMV. "Oh, cool. It's another one of that cop's friends. Told you. There must be something else showing up to star-" The Dissonance Encore comes tearing through, and it blasts right into Utsuho's everything. She manages to bear the brunt of those sound waves and even slip her phone into her pocket for safe keeping, but the ice cream isn't so lucky as it gets smeared right into her, and she can't even react quickly enough to catch whatever's falling because of the Heaviness slowing down her initial reaction time (more than usual, anyway). Utsuho looks down, picks off and eats the remnants of the shell to not let that go to waste, and the rest burns right off of her as an intense heat covers her body. "Hey. Rider! None of those robot guys are here, so what's your problem?!" She shouts down at Chiroptera as she divebombs right at the fused Rider, arms spread to her sides to maximize the potential impact zone with flames trailing in her wake as she tries to slam right into/through him on landing. That flame explodes off Utsuho on impact/landing for good measure, and she levels an intense glare at Chiroptera after the fact. "Unless you were itching for a fight with anyone... Then I'll-" She pauses, only then noticing Xion and Shinnosuke. "Chase? Cop guy? Good, you're here. Your friend just wrecked my food!" She points a finger in accusation at Chiroptera. Clearly, she has the wrongest idea about this whole situation, and she only looks more confused as Drive straight up attacks Kamen Rider Chiroptera.
Hibiki Tachibana	Hibiki Tachibana, on a multiversal quest to look into children's (and mercenaries') card games and maybe pick up a few other things she can't get back at home after a chat the other day, happens to be in the vicinity of the DMV on her way to another part of town. Truth be told, she's taken a pretty roundabout route; having an excuse to take her time and explore cities in other worlds and compare them to her own Tokyo is an experience she's still getting used to but actually likes a lot. The fact she's here right now is actually a complete coincidence, one perfectly timed to have her turning the block right as Kamen Rider Chiroptera takes the scene. Oh. And her eyes promptly widen as she's frozen in place by Heaviness, or at least they /would/ if that wasn't brought down to slow motion as well. There's not much she can do to defend against the earth-shattering roar that roils across the entire area, only particularly spared from taking it as bad as the streets and the building itself because she's just about on the fringes of it. But as it shakes her body, it also jolts her into action - with the song inside of her resonating with her pendant even before the actual words come out, a red shine of Phonic Gain pushing back against the the freeze just enough, for just a moment. "Balwisyall...nescell...Gungnir tron...!" Hibiki explodes in golden light, visible musical scales and notes surrounding the sphere before it all explodes outwards, with the two trailing tails of her golden scarf flowing behind her as she leaps forward. Clad in her Symphogear with the armored gauntlets still in the process of interlocking themselves by the time she moves, she's able to leap across the street and push through the Heaviness enough to act, rearing back her fist as she goes. Did she hear 'Kamen Rider'? Those superheroes she also heard about in a different conversation? Well--none of that matters when there's people in that building who are going to need help, and not caught up in this thing's problems. "If you want a fight, then leave innocents out of it!" She closes in at full speed, the piston in her gauntlet pulling itself backwards right before she twists her weight into a momentum-driven blow - where it slams back in to transmit the force and slam into Kamen Rider Chiroptera to help send him flying back.
Go Shijima	Go hears the Roidmude. Of course he does. But this is right outside of the DMV, right next to where all of his eccentric allies are about their daily work. True to what he'd said earlier following the discovery that he was totally outmatched by Evehime, he's been pushing the belt to its limits every day, bringing himself to exhaustion and pushing that redline a little farther back each time. His friends are nearby and he's been working hard to improve himself. Yes, it's the perfect chance to show off. It actually isn't, because even though he's not done his suit training today it's still been an extremely taxing week. Go doesn't exit through the front door, or even through a window. Instead he breaks into a sprint, apologetically bumping past frightened DMV employees taking shelter in the halls, finding the stairway and aggressively flipping, wall-running and vaulting his way up it, until he arrives at the roof. From there, he calls out, sweat trickling down his brow. Tomari has beaten him to the punch, but he doesn't care. An entrance is an entrance. "Roidmude!" Now two Kamen Riders have come out. A dramatic point from on high. "...and Break Mashin X, pronounced Key...?" He blinks, still able to lean on certain figurative walls despite his confusion. Why is she here? No matter. Just more people to do cool things in front of, right? "...Get ready for superstar action!" The Drive Driver is already around his waist. The Mach Shift Bike, a miniature motorcycle in white with red stripes to match his zip-up hoodie, is procured with the non-pointing hand, held up triumphantly as Tridoron races in down below. "Let's..." Go leaps from the rooftop, slamming the bike into the Mach Driver as he makes a frontflip. Inverted in the air, he catches the uppermost branch of a tree, nailing a perfect handstand, just as the Heaviness comes in. There's a startled cry as the sudden shift forces him from his perch, and he has to transform in the middle of a fall. "Henshin!" He cries, but his lips seem out of synch with his words, and his fall is much slower than it should be. MACH! A sleek bodysuit of lightweight white armor with two red vertical stripes down the left side appears, complete with a blue-visored full motorcycle helmet with V-shaped antennae, and a waist-length shoulder cape also at the left side. On the right side of the chest, at shoulder level, there's a wheel with the hubcap facing outwards. "How did he get a belt!?" The Heaviness subsides from the moment the rider armor appears, but his Intro was Interrupted--he lands in an awkward, unstylish low stance to spread out the impact of the ground. Quick glance to Xion. "And why aren't you helping?" "Ah, forget it!" Again, he decides that something doesn't matter and decides to just rush in with no further thought. "They can't be reasoned with," he yells to X, running past him. He leaps into the air for a jumping snap kick, going on the offensive and attempting to strike following Hibiki--but...
Chase	012 (Pronounced Zero-One-Two). A completely unremarkable Roidmude, not achieving a single thing, but being such a non entity they have never been on the list to be reset. So when exactly did a complete non-entity get in contact with this mysterious benefactor? A benefactor that produces equipment eerily similar to Kamen Rider... A question to ask later, but for now he has to 'protect' them. Chase pulls out the Break Gunner from his jacket, pushing the barrel of the weapon into his empty palm. BREAK UP! He lets go, walking forward closer to the Special Cases Department as phantom tires spin around their person, before closing in on him and wrapping him in black and purple armor. "Come. Kamen Riders. Show me your 'Justice'." Go...Kamen Rider Mach appears to help, and Mashin Chaser quickly slots in a silver car into the top of the weapon, the sound of fluttering bats coming from the device as it announces: TUNE - CHASER BAT! A giant bat-themed crossbow manifests on his arm, attaching to the Break Gunner as wires feed into a silver wheel on his back. Still walking forward, he points the weapon up at the incoming Go, pulling the trigger as the crossbow lets out an energy arrow to intercept him.
Xion	Are you... A Roidmude? There's many questions that, right now, Xion would react pretty negatively to. That one is not one of them. X's confused expression, the pain of barbs raking against tender understandings, draws Xion to her feet. "I'm not a Roidmude, or a Humagear, or a Reploid, or an Android. I'm Shion. Shion, Fourteenth of Organization XIII. I'm Nobody." She lifts her finger gently, to point upwards to the sky. "I'm here to make sure the message gets sent: Kamen Rider isn't a hero of justice. It doesn't give you any extra rights. It's a responsibility, to be better. To protect people. To protect everyone." X's reaction, the warning shot cast at her feet to throw sparks onto her feet, instantly and expressively feels like the wrong thing. Xion doesn't even look down. The sparks freeze around her, twinkling like stars in a constellation around her legs and the edge of her coat. "Shijima Go -- Kamen Rider Mach -- is a racist. But I can't punish him for that. Today, that's the Grim Reaper's job. But you, X?" She points up, at the noontime sun that hangs high over the DMV, and the constellation around her is all the rest of the solar system. "You've all fallen short of where you need to be. So I'm here to correct you. Okay?" The smile that comes with her words is thin, because it's a precursor to more than a warning. "If you only have the power to protect the people around you, then do that. If you have the power to protect everyone, though--" From a beam of sunlight and the twinkling stars of her buster-lemon-spark constellation, her Keyblade - a long and simple affair capped by an empty star at its tooth - 'shwinks' into her outstretched hand. "--Then the absolute minimum is to be a hero for everyone." Tomari. Go. X. Others. They all tell her to step aside. To stop messing around. "I'm right where I should be. The hero of everyone's hearts -- Xion. The one who needs to account for where they're standing -- is you!" In a singularity-horizon moment, Xion disappears, twisting out of a two-dimensional black line (a horizontal portal) and swinging her keyblade down in a repeated wheeling slash that she finishes with a perpendicular spin-kick. "Why aren't you standing for the hearts of your people first?! Reploid -- Roidmude -- THEY'RE THE SAME!!!"
Reliant	Pushing forward into Kamen Rider Chiroptera's space is... strange. The air is vibrating around him, making it difficult to reach in at all without being shaken violently. Even so, Forte.EXE manages to lay a hand against a shoulder and draw in a combination of information and energy. There are three layers here-- two aren't particularly significant, and they seem to be most of what this person is made of 'themselves'. The third, however... It's not a 'part' of Kamen Rider Chiroptera exactly. It isn't "him". But it is the benefactor, the source of power. Taking in a little bit of it, enough to chow down on a portion of what Chiroptera is mainlining, is perfectly possible. But the actual source is enormous-- not in just terms of power, but also in terms of processing power. Forte can feel it pay attention to him. UPLOADING... A progress bar pops into Forte's vision, and it is most definitely not an intended result of what he did. "AHH!" Kamen Rider Chiroptera cries, jumping backwards as if he had been touched by a particularly cold hand. "What did you do? What was that?!" He swings in beneath the outstretched arm, punching at Forte's center mass. There doesn't appear to be a lot of technique to it-- Chiroptera is running off of sheer power, and it's not even his own power. But the blow seems to carry with it some vibrational force that is very definitely more dangerous than the actual technique involved. In reaction to the appearance of Tridoron, Kamen Rider Chiroptera lets out a squawk and pounds both of his fists together. The light is suddenly sucked out of the immediate surroundings, making aiming difficult-- there is a flash of sparks in the darkness that signals that Chiroptera WAS hit, and Tomari feels himself make contact on the kick, but precisely how well the hit landed is unclear save that it didn't finish the job. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Chiroptera exclaims as he skirts the edge of Utsuho's charge in relation to the ice cream he ruined. He seems absolutely unrepentant in every other way. But he does add, "But I am here for a fight! Isn't that what Kamen Rider does?" Immediately afterwards Kamen Rider Chiroptera meets Hibiki's charge with crossed arms, the piston hammering forward on contact and eliciting a shower of sparks that stand out in the dark. The darkness lifts, and Chiroptera scratches at the side of his helmet quizzically. "Innocent humans? Are those real?" He wonders. "Whatever! I'm not getting distracted! Take this!" Kamen Rider Chiroptrea shouts, striding forward to aim a kick at Hibiki's leg and then follow up with a clothesline towards her face. He beats his wings to gain distance from her and fires, one-handed, a follow-up wave of destructive vibrational force towards Utsuho, before finally turning his attention towards Kamen Rider Drive. "Why'd you try a finisher so fast?! That's not how this goes!" Kamen Rider Chiroptera criticizes, gaining some more altitude before dropping into a dive that carries him into a vicious kick towards Kamen Rider Drive. When he lands on the ground afterwards, Kamen Rider Chiroptera positively stares at Mach. He glances over his shoulder to see if he has a scarf and finds, to his disappointment, that he does not. "Aw."
Forte	It's fascinating. It's like going to pull up a carrot out of the garden, and finding it held down by a mass of... something. Some rats nest of other subterranean vegetables, unseen from the surface. "You've got a sponsor," Forte says, with the tonal emphasis of a raised eyebrow even if his actual eyebrow does not raise. He's about to say more when he gets punched in the gut - hard enough for his whole body to ripple. "-" He's not so much winded as shocked - the hit hurt, it hurt hard, and between that and the sheer force of whatever it was he just sampled, his internal loading bar is spinning in place a little bit. Oh, and there's an upload bar. That's... probably not good. His eyes track Chiroptera moving about the battlefield. The sheer force of weight, the strength of those hits, the... whatever that was, at the source. A sponsorship. A sponsorship of someone who seems - less than focused, suggesting that the source can afford to not be picky with who they sponsor. Worrying. Enticing. The dark navi gets into motion again - standing still may benefit introspection, but not survival. He chases Chiroptera, forming an energy sword, trying to dart in enough to get a quick hit in, testing his defenses a bit in preparation for a big attack...
Hellwarming Trio	Utsuho's teeth chatter as she pushes through into Chiroptera's vibrating airspace, and the feeling is rather confusing for the hell raven. She knows she's not afraid, so why is she having this reaction? Maybe there's something wrong with her. Maybe... There's an earthquake going on. "So that's what that 'Heaviness' is... No wonder all those robots hate you guys." She concludes, casting a distinctly judging stare at Chiroptera, Drive, Mach, and Chase. It even seems like Utsuho's temper is starting to settle down after that initial rush at Chiroptera, especially when he apologizes. "Well. As long as you know not to mess with that crap again. Don't let anyone ever say the Strongest Hell Raven can't be merciful, too!" A smug grin appears on Utsuho's face as she flaps her wings once, her cape expanding dramatically for what would almost be a cool parting shot if her camera was trained on her and not shoved inside her pocket. "... But if you're here to fight, then I'm not gonna say no. We'll keep you company as long as you want!" Stomping forward once, Utsuho grits her teeth as the vibrational force hammers into her again, a flame bursting to life behind her to hold her in place defiantly. She holds one arm up to keep her head covered while the other slides on her control rod, the latter starting to glow as she draws energy between that and her concrete-covered leg. "Hm... If you're strong, though, who cares if you throw out your finishers early? If you're strong, then you can go as hard as you want as long as you want!" The fire at Utsuho's back flares up as she swings the control rod forward to point it above Kamen Rider Chiroptera. Instead of advancing through the waves, however, she remains mostly in place as she launches a miniature sun above him, the glowing orb splitting into multiple pieces as it rains down massive balls of plasma that look like they'd be nigh impossible to avoid! ... At first, anyway. The closer they get to the ground, the smaller they get until they're more along the size of basketballs. Flesh-burningly hot basketballs that leave holes in the ground, but they're not nearly as overwhelming as they looked at first.
Hibiki Tachibana	"Of course they are! What did they ever--" Hibiki's retort is cut off when Chiroptera retaliates, which she probably should have expected after how he took that attack. She's struck in her leg and gets her balance upset for long enough that the follow-up clothesline strikes head-on, bowling her over backwards and briefly sending her tumbling before she digs a hand into the earth and uses it to skid to a stop. The moment gives her a chance to take stock of the others - Kamen Rider Drive, Kamen Rider Mach...and the man standing in his way. Utsuho's entrance. Forte...and X, who she remembers well from before. Catching up will have to wait. But also Xion, whose words get her to pause and perk her head up for a moment. "Responsibility? The power to protect everyone...?" After a moment of closing her eyes, the Gungnir girl opens them back up with a furrowed brow and gets back to her feet, spreading her stance out and bringing up her fists. Her attention briefly shifts to Drive. "Oi, Kamen Rider! I'll help cover everybody inside!" Angular protrusions on her knee-high armoring shift from vertical to horizontal alignment, then eject out behind her connected to lengthy red pistons to embed themselves into the ground...only to snap back into place in the blink of an eye, timed with her jump forward to propel her at a much faster speed than her charge from before! "Did you really just come here to fight!? Or what, show off that power of yours!?" Which is no joke. She can't underestimate him. Speechifying a lot more than should be possible at her speed, Hibiki retaliates with a knee shoved upwards to slam into the Roidmude slash Kamen Rider's chin, then twist around in mid-air into a roundhouse kick. One that also sends her leg pistons flying back once again, this time into thin air--and thus getting a lot more distance by the time she tries to plant her metal boot into the center of Chiroptera's torso, hammering them back in to add an ensuing shockwave focused to punch straight into him.
Shinnosuke Tomari	Xion is fighting X. Chase is fighting Mach. Kamen Rider Drive and the others are fighting Chiroptera, who claims to be a Kamen Rider. Right as Xion makes her announcement about Kamen Riders not being heroes of justice, Drive grimaces, and points out. "You're all wrong! Kamen Riders don't just fight...they protect civilians - including the ones the Roidmude threaten! They are heroes of justice! Which means - you're not a true Kamen Rider! All you care about is yourself - your own power!" The remark about finishers is entirely ignored, though Tomari doesn't go for another one at this time, as the vicious kick launches into him, sending him slamming into a wall with a painful thud and sparks coming off the Drive armor. He reaches a hand out, and Tridoron's doors open, allowing him to grab the Handle Sword and point it straight at Chiroptera. "You infuriate me! Wild, I need your help!" He grabs a black buggy, places it in the bracer, flicks the switch on his belt, and shifts the car. DRIVE! Type -- Wild! In a flash of special effects, the armor begins being shifted out for different ones. The bodysuit switches out for a silver one, as red armor switches out for black, including greaves, and the chest of the armor represents the front of a buggy. The tire disappears, with a new all-terrain tire appearing attached to the right shoulder. The helmet eyes are much more like a buggy's front lights, but still bug-like. Type-Wild, which is slower but focuses more on Drive's decent strength and powerful weapons, moves to start slashing into Chiroptera with that sword. It's a flurry of powerful slashes, up, down, side-to-side, followed by a true x-slash, diagonally down left and then up left. "Shinnosuke! Be careful! I've only heard rumors of stuff like this!" Mr. Belt calls out, even as Drive continues to strike furiously, not listening for once.
Go Shijima	The energy arrow smashes into the shoulder of Go's lightweight white breastplate, sending of a shower of sparks. A pained cry escapes him; the suit isn't able to prevent all of an attack's energy from getting through, and Chase's weaponry is powerful enough that even a glancing blow like that can knock Go off balance when he's not expecting it. His would-be entrance into the fight against Chiroptera is interrupted, and he crashes to the ground, having only gained a few feet from X's position. Damn that Xion. Who's she to say where I'm standing?! Maybe I am prejudiced... but if she knew these Roidmudes like I did... she wouldn't think it's me that needs correcting! A memory of a friend bubbles up to the surface. The thought fills him with such anger that he quickly gets back to his feet with an impressive kip-up, mashing the button on his belt four times. "Today it's you who gets punished, Grim Reaper!" The Zenrin Shooter, a laser pistol with a large wheel resembling a motorcycle's front wheel placed below the barrel, appears in his hand. That Chaser Bat is powerful... and I've pushed myself hard the past few days. ...I can't let him get a direct hit on me! His form is a blur of white and red. Zipping from point to point in a zig-zag approach, the sound of a superbike's engine revving accompanies each burst of high-speed motion. Each stop, there's a hail of fire from the Zenrin Shooter, sending blue darts of energy at Chase, varying up his approach and gradually getting closer. Maybe Chase is better at range--so Mach closes in and attempts to force a melee engagement. Chase can tell right away that Mach is trying to end the fight as quickly as possible. His attack is aggressive--a flurry of kicks, left, right, right, turning after the third to spin the wheel on that pistol. ZENRIN A rapidly spinning strike is made with the wheel, attempting to add centrifugal force to a blow from Chase's hip to his shoulder.
X	Protecting others .. that's what he was doing, wasn't it? Protecting everyone? Of course, to protect someone meant that you couldn't protect someone else; there were two sides to a conflict. The aggressor and the aggressed. Taking a side meant that the other side wouldn't receive your help. Not every conflict had two sides, and black wasn't always intersected with white. Things had gotten significantly more complicated sense intergrating with the multiverse ... but his core dillemmas never changed. Mavericks or humans. There wasn't an in-between, as much as he wanted and tried to foster good relations between reploids and humans, mavericks fundamentally could not exist with them. Every argument ever had on the topic always ended the same way -- us or them. In this instance, it was much the same, yet the simplicity of the statement; or rather, the implication, was frustrating. Whirling as Xion re-appears from the dark corridor, X fires his buster in rapid succession to deflect as many of the keyblade lashes as he could, until being sent hurtling to the side with a powerful kick, the weight of the slowdown wearing on him. "Ngh...!" Bouncing off of a fire hydrant, and into a wall, he picks himself back up with a grunt, the Force Metal embedded under his waist beginning to light up red and causing the nodules along his arms, legs, and his back to to do the same. W A R N I N G A bright red scarf of Force Metal energy blasts out of his back, whipping around him as he pushes himself to overcome the slowdown, dashing at high speed to try and come at Xion, his afterimage fading out from in front of her as he attempted to land a kick from her flank to break her guard and open her up to the charged shot he'd been holding, a green bolt of energy from the precise, middling amount he put into it. "It's not that simple! It's cold to say ... but Mavericks can only be dealt with one way. You're not helping anyone by promoting these attacks!" Following Go's earlier advice, his body shifts colors into an orange and cream tone with white lines trimming the bodysuit, his X-Buster being swapped out for some kind of armored fist that, despite its size, was something he wielded easily.
Xion	"Would a real hero of justice lash out the second someone said something they disagreed with?!" Xion shouts, over her assault at X. "It's too convenient that someone is or isn't what you need them to be, at any given time! Is that your justice, Kamen Rider Drive?" "Or your rationalization?!" Kicked away by a Force Metal enhanced jet-repulsor boot, Xion tumbles back through the air to land in a crouch on her own feet, breaking the last of her momentum with a sweepback of her blade. "Just because you have only one way of dealing with them doesn't mean that's the only way." Xion replies, voice cool. "I've met them. Worked with Chase, their Grim Reaper. Their Heart, and their Brain." She rises as he dashes at her, keyblade held in both hands at ready -- striking down the charged shot to send sizzling plasma to either side of her shoulders and alighting her eyes. "I'll agree, X, that fighting people using violence to get what they want is what must be done. But if you're telling me the ultimate hero of your world thinks that the only way to be Everyone's Hero is killing the people who don't agree?" The SUPRA ARM lifts back, and Xion reverses her grip on Starlight to step-dash in, swinging the boxy hilt right for X's throat, following through with a right-leg planted pivot-kick that swipes her blade across him diagonally, all boosted with a dark, surging pressure-detonation of dark magical liquid. "You're Nobody's Savior! You're just choosing who's left." "If that's what you are, then step aside, X! I'll be everyone's hero. And I'm Starting By Defeating You!"
Reliant	"Of course I have a sponsor," Kamen Rider Chiroptera replies to Forte, though it doesn't have the dark gravitas of someone being smug about it. "I'm... not like Heart, or Brain, or the Grim Reaper. If I do things the way they do, I'll just... be useless forever. So I don't mind, taking help from somebody who is offering it." There's no small amount of shame in 012's voice as he talks about himself. Darkness engulfs the surroundings during Forte's charge, but he lands a fairly direct hit that sends sparks dancing into the surroundings in a great fountain that briefly illuminates Chiroptera's body. There is a great sound, as if a vast tarp has been unfolded-- or in this case, great wings have been extended. But this time around he doesn't counter-attack Forte directly. The upload bar he's seeing begins to increase, a red light crackling around his body as it does so. "W-who cares?! I care! You have to do these things right! You go back and forth for a bit and then somebody does a big kick and BOOM!" Kamen Rider Chiroptera stammers out of the darkness, shortly before being hammered from multiple directions -- eliciting another set of great bursts of sparks -- from basketball-sized nuclear infernos. But Hibiki seems to actually offend Chiroptera. He growls out of the darkness, his voice as if he's gritting his teeth, "T-they could've saved us! They could've done something! They could STILL do something! But they don't! They just kill us when we're inconvenient!" Hibiki's charge makes contact with the bone spur of a wing, followed immediately by the wings crossing over one another. Their silhouette hums quietly with a purple light, similar to the one that built from his DISSONANCE ENCORE, and it continues to build as the piston-kick presses in. It's a hit-- but it's not the hit that was wanted. The darkness doesn't dissipate this time. By the time Kamen Rider Drive reaches Chiroptera, he has gone stone still. The black rider hammers into the purple rider, who draws back his humming wings and glares down at him as he slices into the armor. The blade hums and vibrates dangerously from the blows, each one having more shock in the palm and wrist than would be ordinary. It's not painful in itself-- but it is wearying. Abruptly Kamen Rider Chiroptera reaches out and grabs hold of Tomari's belt. He doesn't pull it off, or even try to, but he does drag Tomari in and up-- raising him so that he's at eye level. The lenses of Chiroptera's mask gleam. "Do you even know what HE let happen to us," Chiroptera would be spitting if he were in a human form, "KAMEN RIDER?" He releases his hold on Kamen Rider Drive and continues the fight properly, unfurling his wings and lessening the humming field around them with a blast of sonic force that pushes outward in a ring and tapers off towards its edges.
Shinnosuke Tomari	012 is...interesting. Kamen Rider Drive pays attention to his words in some part of his brain, but he's too angry to really react to them. But as the belt is grabbed, pulling Drive up to squirm briefly, his anger subsides a bit, as Mr. Belt makes a noise, and Tomari, inside the suit, realizes he never learned exactly what happened with Krim and the Roidmudes. They'll need to have a Talk. The Dissonance Wave ring blasts Drive back again - it's too strong for even Wild to handle straight-up - causing him to skid across the ground. He's put out a lot of force, so his solution is to lower how much energy he's spending. "If you have anguish, that doesn't mean you can just wreak vengeance on humanity! I won't let you...!" The Handle Sword is swung overhead, down onto Chiroptera. This is followed by the sword being held back for a kick to the gut, and another sweep of the sword to the side. He realizes that the blows he's giving are making him weary, some sort of dampening, but... He can't hold back too much. He has to hit hard enough to hurt Chiroptera.
X	X sets his jaw -- the niggling guilt in his hard heart eating away at it slowly, like a rust spot -- as he charges to meet Xion's blow head on, ducking his head out of the way of the attack at his throat before throwing his massive, plated fist forward. Her keyblade smash into the knuckles, and the dark pressure erupts as X pushes his weight into the punch, struggling. "Grrr....haaaaaah!!" A whirlwind breaks out between the two, imploding two crashing forces, the Supra Arm pushed back along with X, who skids along the ground painfully, though still upright. "No. I won't lose! You're the ones who keep picking these fights..!" Punching out again, the fist leaves his arm, propelled like a rocket to slam into Xion briefly before disappearing, as X shifts back into his usual color tones and begins charging his X-Buster once again. "You think you know what's best ..? It's easy for you to say as if you've ever been in my shoes. ... I'm not stepping aside, for you or anybody else. So long as Mavericks exist, humans and reploids will never know peace. And if you won't stop, I'll stop you!" Firing his charged shot, this one is a thick blue shell wrapped in a tight film of chaotic red energy that aims to engulf Xion in a flash of explosive strength.
Chase	A flurry of kicks and punches along with the Zenrin Shooter's spinning tire connects with Mashin Chaser's torso. Sparks fly and armor pieces shake nonstop, but outside of a step back, the Grim Reaper remains firm. "Such intensity... Do you despise me that much, Kamen Rider?" They launch their counterattack, armored fingers reaching out to grab the wheel of their gun. There's the distinct sound of rubber burning as more sparks fly from the Roidmude's hand, but even so he doesn't let go, instead winding back the arm holding the Break Gunner. "If so...Fight me with everything you've got, Kamen Rider. Help me place this feeling in my chest when I fight you!" They yank the white gun towards them, trying to pull Mach along with them as they plant a foot forward. They thrust their weapon arm outward, fist aimed straight for the Rider's helmet as the protruding nodes on the Break Gunner's handle glow a bright purple.
Hellwarming Trio	Hearing Xion and Shinnosuke, Utsuho furrows her brow as she tries to comprehend the weight of their words and their dueling motivations. Of that anger being directed at X over his choices in who to save or who to fight, of Hibiki's questioning towards why Chiroptera is truly here. It's all a bit much for Utsuho, although it can't be said that she's not visibly straining to try and keep track of things, even going as far as muttering quietly to herself and letting her finger bounce from person to person as though she was keeping track of an invisible scorecard. Go and Chase seem easy enough for her to understand, at least, even if it's just on a surface level. She can't quite grasp Forte's just yet, either, but she's not too worried there. Even Kamen Rider Chiroptera's motivation seems straightforward enough, both for his dedication to survival and... "... Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Sounds like you've got rules to follow just like I've got back home." Nodding confidently, Utsuho stomps forward once more as she braces herself against the next burst of sonic energy. This one actually takes her off her feet to her surprise, and Utsuho tumbles head over heels a few times before catching herself with her control rod wedged into the ground. "I get you... So you build up, I build up, and then we put our big hits together to see what happens. Let's see who can last long enough to get their biggest hits out, then!" Laughing again, Utsuho raises her non-covered hand to point at the sky as the miniature sun floats overhead, then slams down into Utsuho directly. The glowing ball grows brighter as it shrinks steadily, eventually leaving only her control rod glowing with a blinding light. "Kick, kick, what kind of kick...?" As she mulls over what kind of kick-based attack to utilize, she flings herself at Chiroptera once more. Joining her attack with Shinnosuke's, she goes for a horizontal swing as he comes down, a straight thrust when he goes for the kick, and then she just fires some of that excess energy in a shotgun-like burst in time with Shinnosuke's second slash. Ideally, anyway. Her timing's nowhere near perfect! Especially not while she's distracted. "Maybe a spin at the end...?"
Hibiki Tachibana	"What--" Hibiki's half-obscured expression of focus becomes a grimace of confusion, flipping back off of the folded wings and deep darkness before Chiroptera retaliates heavily against his Kamen Rider foe. What the Roidmude says, on top of his sheer aggression and offense, gets her to freeze in place for a reason besides Heaviness, staring at the scene with slightly widened eyes. "Could've saved you...? What did they do?" She looks to Drive once more. "Hey, what is he talking about!?" She doesn't know if Shinnosuke actually knows or not, but... First what Xion said to X, and now this. The situation is a lot more complicated than she thought. And unlike what she's used to fighting, these Roidmude are more than able to understand them...and are packing one hell of a grudge. This one in particular. Her fist shakes, hesitating...even as the blast of sound roars through the area, forcing Hibiki to raise her arms up and brace herself against it. She still ends up skidding backwards hard and into a surface that was well behind her a minute ago, but grits her teeth and braces through it. After a sharp inhale, she lowers them back down. "...Sorry. I don't know what's really going on here," she breathes out through her teeth. "And I don't really want to hurt you. But I have to protect the people right in front of me, too...!" Her perspective on the fight has changed. But the fact remains that as long as Chiroptera keeps causing chaos in the middle of the city like this, nobody's going to get anywhere. His fight might be with Kamen Rider, but she can't stand by either. Hibiki braces her foot against the ground and lunges back in. "Tell me! What could they do!? And what did /he/ do!?" She doesn't even know who 'he' is in this context herself - but she's going to break into a flurry of blows meant to force back, but still packing enough punch to try and break through his defenses. His power is seriously overwhelming.
Forte	The upload continues. Forte starts feeling it. Feeling... whatever this is that's happening. The upload. The connection that he can't quite force close. That his body won't quite let him. Data is data, and it craves data, of any type it can get, even something like this. The upload progresses further, and Forte drops like a rock, landing on his feet unsteadily, struggling just to stay upright as it reaches his programming core system- -=--=--=-COSACK INDUSTRIES - AUTONAVI.SYS-=--=--=- -=CRISIS MODE ACTIVATED, SEEKING COUNTERMEASURES=- -=COUNTERMEASURES FOUND, COMPILING AND EXECUTING=- -=--=--=HIKARI-CROSS-SYSTEM_PRE-ALPHA.DAT-=--=--=- Forte glows with the force of something else activating, writing over those same key system files, replacing them with something new. The upload is forcibly paused, and then it is allowed to continue - but segregated into an empty sector, carefully monitored, with extraordinarly powerful antiviral agents standing over it and ready to knock down anything the upload tries to break out, like a game of whack-a-mole. And as the glow subsides, Forte's changed. A different color, a different style, a different chest emblem. -=--=--=--=--MOON CROSS FORTE - READY--=--=--=--=- Forte doesn't have time to wonder at what just happened - feeling better again (or at least, not feeling like the upload is going to be what does him in) he gets back off of his feet and goes after the roidmude again, sword swinging as his cloak billows out behind him dramatically! And then in the same timeframe, he strikes again! And then in the same timeframe, he strikes again again - the power of TIME BBULLSHIT letting him hit thrice all at the same time!
Xion	"I think I've got a better idea of what's best than you, murderer!" Xion shouts back with eyes wild, sword lifted high, both hands gripped tightly around the hilt. It's not a stroke that you make against someone you aren't ready to end with all your power. The SUPRA ARM's knuckles gently caress Xion's stomach. She looks down, confused, mid-swing. Then she's blasted off, as the fist stops suggesting she move and starts Rocket-Mandating she move. There's no scream or even shout, as the rocket carries her high in the air, outside of their whirlwind fight. X barely has to focus. It's effortless. The VWS knows how. His firing arc is perfectly calculated as if the whole thing was a cut-in attack he'd have executed an arbitrary number of times. Charge shot meets Rocket Punch missile tail, and the fist, the red blast, and Xion all together explode into an energetic fireball. Seconds pass. The cloud of damage disperses. From the sky, spinning out of the sky, Xion's keyblade Starlight tumble-tumble-tumbles down and embeds itself into the shattered asphalt outside of the DMV. It smokes, gently. From over X's right shoulder, there's a whistle. o/~ o/~ o/~... o/~o/~ What falls out of the sky isn't a black-coated girl, but a red column of light that reforms into a red-and-black armored individual. A rounded helmet with a black-reflective visor shades the eyes, and a scarf billows out from around the shoulder. The figure's left arm is entirely dominated by a large white-faced shield trimmed in red. The left arm takes up the hilt of the sword, the weapon fusing into a star-muzzled arm cannon across the figure's right hand. It's not Blue's voice that comes out of the Protoman figure, but Xion's. "I'm the hero of Everyone's hearts, Rock-Man X. It's why I can't stand the way you live. You've forgotten the lesson the Doctor--" Protoman isn't clear which Doctor. "--tried to teach you. It's not about when you fire the Buster that matters. It's when you stop." '''Protoman''' sets their shield forward and lunges, charging right through interception fire with their invincible shield to smash their hurtbox right into X, before swiping out with a shield-tip thrust backed by the muzzle of their own arm-cannon. Glowing white, '''Protoman''' returns X's previous attack with a combo -> charged shot of their own.
Go Shijima	This fight is already difficult enough, with as hard as Go has pushed himself to get to this point. Mashin Chaser is like hitting a brick wall that hits back--but as if the power and fortitude of his opponent weren't bad enough, both Chase and the Rider Roidmude are sticking in his mind with their words. They aren't twisted out of shape as badly as the others... How is Chase keeping such a cool head? And that Chiroptera... almost sounds ashamed of themselves for not being able to contribute. Chiroptera... is that feeling so universal even a mechanical doll could know it? And then Chase yanks his arm, nearly pulling it out of his socket. He has to move with the force, which is exactly what the Grim Reaper wants, putting him in direct and perilous proximity to the Break Gunner. Inside the helmet, face awash in the soft glow of tactical readouts, Go's eyes are wide with fear. In a panic, he steps further into Chase's grasp, places the elbow of his free arm alongside his opponent's weapon, and strikes, knocking it aside at the last minute. Mashin Chaser is deceptively fast for his bulk. But the fear is burned away when Chase's words ignite the anger inside of him. Does he despise Chase that much? "Of course!! Roidmudes killed my father and my best friend!" He shouts furiously back at Chase, such that his throat aches from the venom and his voice is briefly hoarse. He leaps up, bringing his fist around in an attempt to crash it into Chase's temple. "And you want to keep giving them second chances..." A superspeed assisted vault onto Chase's chest, with a vicious kickflip that puts some space between them. If he's that strong even up close, Mach will have to play to his strengths to win. Before his feet have touched the ground, he's got a Signal Bike slotted into the belt. A few 'keep away' shots are fired, then... SIGNAL BIKE//Signal Change! DANGER The hubcap of the tire on his shoulder changes to a yellow caution sign, the Zenrin Shooter is fired again. A slow-moving seemingly hollowpoint bullet advances towards Chase... before rapidly growing larger than the average automobile, bearing fangs and eyes. It latches onto him, attemping to maul him and throw him to the ground!
Reliant	Kamen Rider Chiroptera marches towards Shinnosuke without hesitation, allowing the darkness to fade away. He takes the blow of the sword on the elbow, the kick to the chest in his gut. The reaction is smaller; the weariness is taking its toll. He staggers, and then proceeds forward again. He sweeps a wing forward and out towards Kamen Rider Drive, quite literally trying to swat him aside-- but the force is diminished. It's not because Chiroptera is getting tired; Tomari can tell he has reserves. No, it's that... he simply didn't want to hit any harder than that. "Why not?" 012 asks. The question is blindingly, troublingly sincere. Chiroptera takes a full-on direct hit from Utsuho when she kicks at him, and seems to realize what's about happen He spins to the side, getting out of the way of a portion of the energy blasts that rain down around his body. The humming that surrounds him fades away. "Yeah! Just like that!" 012 exclaims. He seems so pleased with the exchange that he forgets to counterrattack directly. His attention turns towards Hibiki, but the question asked seems to lock him up. Chiroptera raises a hand to his head, as if the act of remembering by itself gives him an intense headache. "B-B-Banno, he..." 012 manages to stammer out, but just that much seems enough to make his shoulders shake and breathing grow unsteady. Until the first strike hits him. The unsteady posture corrects itself at the first sting of pain, and by the second blow Kamen Rider Chiroptera has adopted a more firm stance. The blows rain down against him, not heavy but not negligble, scratches and nicks beginning to appear in the absence of the ablation field. With a cry of what is definitely anguish, Chiroptera angles one of his wings towards Hibiki with apparent intent to Blast Her In Particular, only to abruptly get bodied by Forte coming in with a three-hit combo. He staggers, is forced to a knee, and the ground craters beneath him from the force all at once. A pronounced crack pattern appears in his chestplate, and 012 lets out a pained groan. But. Forte has been here before. Taunted with a miserable trauma and seriously wounded perhaps only for the second time, Kamen Rider Chiroptera rises with surprising speed. He beats his wings and swipes upwards, talons elongating from his fingertips as he attempts to rake Forte from chest to head. Once he has some air he hovers impossibly in place, spreading out his wings and firing a renewed wave of sonic power across Utsuho and Hibiki-- though it's so centered on Hibiki that it's likely he's not even intentionally targeting Utsuho. MEANWHILE, IN FORTE'S HEAD... The upload bar is cleared away. One of the pieces of fragmented data informs him that it was a connection to something called MetsubouJinrai.net.
Forte	Forte bookmarks that address. MetsubouJinrai.net. He'll follow up on it later. The claws rake out - more damage, yet more damage. Even with the power of the moon and shitposting on his side, Forte's taking damage faster than the moon cell's data flow can heal it. The claws leave sharp furrows - there doesn't seem to be any blood or vital organs to hit, but the loss of data integrity with each strike means that the damage is showing all over. There's no elegance in return, Forte just taking the opportunity to press the advantage- -And taking the opportunity to press the advantage- -And taking the opportunity to press the advantage, three seperate strikes homing in on three seperate openings!
Shinnosuke Tomari	"Why not...?" The wing knocked Drive backwards before he can respond, an oof and several sparkks, and before he can say anything else, the enemy Kamen Rider says a name. "Banno...!" Mr. Belt says, reflexively, grimace in his voice, revealing that he in fact knows What They're Talking About. This shakes Drive enough. Banno...he's never heard that name before. But, even so, the Kamen Rider speaks up. "Because...just because you're hurting doesn't mean you can take it out on all of humanity! There's other ways to vent your pain! But taking it out on people who aren't even related...that's just..." He can't even finish his sentence, but that doesn't stop him from leaping up onto Tridoron again, and moving to just drop on top of Chiroptera with a two-foot kick. It's the last of the energy he can muster. He doesn't have much fight left in him... But surrendering isn't something a Kamen Rider does, even when they're struggling, or so believes Shinnosuke Tomari, at this point in time.
X	As Xion is engulfed in an explosion of energy and detonated rocket fist, X frowns slowly. There wasn't a single flaw in his execution, even as he began getting hotheaded -- it was all smooth, like one domino pushing against the next. At least, until the armored figure appeared. Was that even her? It was her voice, but she didn't really have the same inflection, anymore. Some part of him realizes, she's similar to Axl ... those different forms she has wasn't very different from the way his Copy Flasher operated. Which meant that this form, he could infer .. Was most likely someone from the time period of 20XX. X's buster pellets are deflected by the Break Shield as the sudden assault overtakes him, and X finds himself with a hole blasted clean through his midsection, just above where the Force Metal was located. "...!!" The blast sends him tumbling back, his beam muffler dying out as the internal pressure began going out of control, forcing the Force Metal in question to shut down. The expanding gases could be seen leaving the smoking, red hot hole the shot left behind. "Guh ... huh ... " That whistle did not exist in his memory. He'd never had the opportunity to meet his 'family' and really, whatever mediocre knowledge he possessed of it now came from what little experience he had with the ones running around the Multiverse, recently. But he could remember Doctor Light. He'd met and spoken with him precisely one time, just before he was placed inside of his capsule. You really are just like us humans, X .. But that's why I fear for you ... The name X also carries..connotations of danger... I'm sorry X ... I don't think I'll be able to see you enter the world. I've given you the power to /grow/ .. to /worry/ ...and to evolve as you fight. But that power ... Doctor, I ... I'll use this power to fight for justice. To fight for hope. Oh, X ... of course you will .. X, I want you to use that conscience of yours to fight for your future, most of all. Doctor Light --!! Farewell .... X. X's fizzling green eyes focus, the red gem on his head lighting up. He shouldn't be moving with that wound, and yet -- "If I don't protect them ..." the humans of his world, "Then no one will!" As long as mavericks continued to sue their point with violence, the only response they would be met with is violence. Taking it out on people who had nothing to do with the problem wasn't being anyone's hero, it was being a villain. Doctor Light had left him with a responsibility, an expectation ... but also the power to choose. To self-determine. Aiming his Buster, with the incredible power of his potential charging it instantly, his arm strains as he fires a streaming purple blast, a charge shot past the very limit!
Hibiki Tachibana	Hibiki tries to keep the Roidmude on the defensive, having noted his shift in posture and /something/ different about him and most of his mannerisms up to now the moment before she struck. Too late to take it back though, especially when Chiroptera squares back up properly. "Banno...?" Her moment of thought would have left her completely wide open to the ensuing wing blast, if it wasn't for a certain someone stepping in with his new power. She hops back clear as their opponent is grounded, looking to Forte with a brief raise of her eyebrows--though there's not much time for words right now. When Chiroptera takes flight again, Hibiki is caught dead center in it. She not only raises her arms up in an attempt to deflect the attack, but tucks her knees in as well when the sheer force ends up carrying her right off the ground. She goes sailing back into the half-ruined wall of a nearby building and makes a Hibiki-shaped indent in the weakened concrete, wincing in pain and groaning. Taking a direct assault on top of everything already has left her struggling to get her strength back, on top of the conflict in her mind, but... Hibiki pries herself out and touches back down on a knee, then back to her feet shakily. He's mad now. "Damnit...! No matter what happened...all you're doing right now is destroying! That won't save /anyone/, your people or humans! That belt, and that appearance...are you just using that power to get revenge, or are you a Kamen Rider!? I don't know much about Kamen Riders at all..." She lowers her stance, rearing back her fist. The half-cylinder gauntlet shifts and morphs, expanding back down the length of her arm as the armor thickens and rocket boosters reveal themselves at the back. And it ignites in flame to help propel her forward as she kicks off the ground in time with Drive, exposed turbines spinning as a knuckle guard drops down over her hand. She's going to do what she does best. The only thing she really knows how to do. "...But you should act like what you want them to be!" Punch really hard and hope what she's feeling makes it through. She knows very well from her own experience that 012 trying to get what he wants like this won't go anywhere good.
Hellwarming Trio	Somehow, Utsuho actually seems rather pleased with Chiroptera's reaction, and she rewards his exuberance with a brief moment of screentime! Finally remembering that the phone is still in her pocket, she makes sure to get some wide-angle footage for those watching the BB Channel affiliate. "Oh yeah. So this is Kamen Rider Chiroptera, and he's on... Uh. I think he might be a robot or Roidmude or something, but also a Kamen Rider. Turns out these Riders have their own rules of escalating in fights like how there's rules for spell card duels back home. Pretty cool, right?" And that's enough of that. The raven raises an eyebrow slowly when 012 speaks, looking over her phone for a moment before slipping the thing back into her pocket. "Who?" The significance of the name is lost on her, but not that moment. Sort of. She's still not in the loop at all, but it's still enough to pique Utsuho's interest. There's still a fight going on, though, and she braces herself again as burst of sonic power takes her off her feet again. Even with it being as indirect as it is, it still carries her upwards and into a parked vehicle, the impact making a rather painful crunching noise for both herself and the car. "I don't really know what's going on in your head, but if fighting's the way to get your head sorted out, then let's keep going until our legs give out!" She's certainly having more fun with it than her fighting partners in this endeavor might be, and it shows when Utsuho snaps her fingers and raises her hand to the sky. Immediately, she starts shouting unintelligibly while floating upwards steadily as a pillar of glowing fire and light starting to form. It's just burning wildly at first, but starts to shape into a jagged javelin of sorts if the tip was made of fire, the shaft was made of fire, and the rest of it was also made of fire. Once it becomes twice as long as she is tall, Utsuho snatches it out of the air, then spikes it downwards right at Chiroptera. The nuclear-powered javelin actually doesn't explode right away, but only because Utsuho has something else planned. She's going to try something she's seen several people present in this very battle do before. Still shouting all the while, she divebombs right at Chiroptera and her javelin, building speed rapidly. Just before making contact, she flips herself over with her concrete-encased leg pointed forward, divekicking the javelin to (ideally) slam it right into Kamen Rider Chiroptera with a giant explosion capping the whole thing off! She doesn't get that post kick slide, sadly. She just sits up from landing on her back, still grinning like an idiot all the while. "Alright... Your turn, Chiri! Don't let us down!"
Reliant	Before the sonic shield faded away, Kamen Rider Chiroptera wasn't taking true damage. The final attack combo that Forte performed did away with that entirely-- Kamen Rider Drive's presumed final attack drops onto his shoulder and causes a small detonation, staggering him backwards and causing some of his shoulder armor to slough off from losing too much structural integrity. Forte plunges in practically simultaneously, a scattering of blows across the torso causing Chiroptera to wheeze and crumple -- though he doesn't seem to need to breathe, the response is emulated -- to the ground. Chiroptera stirs, pushing himself up partway back up and to a kneel just in time to get knocked back down by Hibiki's rocket punch, which lands square across his facemask. When he rises again -- truly rises -- Kamen Rider Chiroptera throws his arms and wings wide and a wave of heavy gravity passes over the area. Moving becomes harder-- not impossible, especially for superhumans, but it's still like pushing through molasses. He's not in time to stop Utsuho from plowing into him. There's a moment of tangible shock that passes before the explosion follows immediately after. 012 cries out in alarm, "WAUGH!" The heaviness field stops abruptly as the explosion engulfs his position. It would be reasonable, with another Roidmude, to assume that that was the end of him. Kamen Rider Chiroptera is not just a roidmude. Scorched, scuffed, cracked, and clearly having been tangibly damaged, Chiroptera comes out of the debris cloud swinging a claw towards Kamen Rider Drive before propelling himself at Forte with his wings to deliver a kick and then a powerful wing-sweep that generates a potent gust of wind that hurls debris his way. He pauses after this to look at Hibiki, "You're wrong. If I kill Kamen Rider, the humans won't have the means to kill roidmude anymore. There were only a hundred of us. There were only..." 012 trails away. The thought seems to give him the resolve to continue, "Maybe I'll leave this building alone. But destroying Kamen Rider, that WILL save my people." Another two heavy beats of his wings follow, this time more intense, attempting to generate enough wind and force to send Hibiki flying away-- and preferably, into something. "And you--!" 012 points at Utsuho. "I'll replace your ice cream later. You're very good at this!" Chiroptera follows up the thought by pulling half-a-destroyed bench off of the sidewalk and hurling it at Utsuho. One gets the idea that what's going on between Chiroptera and Utsuho is more like "play" than the heavy words being exchanged elsewhere.
Xion	The memory of Doctor Light. The unlimited potential of growth. The Supra-Force Metal in the VWS charging instantly. Protoman X doesn't have a chance to bring up their own shield in defense. No time to shout out a resistance. wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww) Shot 'through', Protoman X wavers and 'flakes', bits of the armor peeling off. That smear of atoms struggling not to come apart. In slow motion, the shield on Protoman X's left arm comes up, breaking the flow of the beam across the full surface of the shield. Like a geyser of energy, the beam is stopped. wwwwwwwwwwwwww(o The energy of the transformation, all the color and power of it, leeches in towards the shield, the whole of the Proto-Medallion becoming a single white-and-red barrier. The white peels away, even so, and the shield is nothing but a bracer against the whole purple wash of destruction. And yet, it stops. It cannot go farther. The VWS cannot reach through to Xion and defeat her. X's eyes can analyze the effect in real time -- the very last layer of impenetrable shield isn't sourced out of 20XX in his time... But 20XX of right now. The battle-data of Mashin Chaser, the protector of Roidmude, holds on to Xion's very last few points of fight-capable Life Energy. A stubborn bit of the right-side HP Bar whose last pip won't clear. The helmet falls off of Xion's head in parts. The only red left on her body is concentrated around her star-barreled arm canon. A thin plate of purple, barely a buckler, remains on her left wrist. There rest, beyond skin, is coat or charred black. "If you don't protect them... No-one will?" Xion croaks, smoke coughing from her nose and mouth. "Amazing." Her left hand comes up, revealing the dimmed, tarnished medal held in her fist. It shows a picture of Drive's Type Speed helmet. "Everything you've said is selfish and wrong. How dare you come to this world to murder your people for humans who already have a protector. Two protectors. Dozens of protectors: Kamen Riders. Two are right here, right now." The medallion's light flashes from her left hand into her arm cannon, data merging together. "You can't defeat me with a resolve like that, X. Too brittle, too weak. I know exactly where I am. I know exactly what I'm doing." Her arm cannon comes up. The weapon data goes from 0% charge to 1000% charge in an instant. "Super Double X." Pronounced 'Super Two-Key'. FULL THROTTLE POWER GEAR She fires back, a crimson star. *wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Forte	Forte dies. ... Or he would have. The Moon Cell intercedes. The fire hose of data via the connection Moon Cross has opened is just enough. His wounds close up just enough. His data integrity recovers just enough. He still stands. That may not be true in a minute. But it's true now. "A fight for survival - understandable. You have my sympathies." He gets back up from where the hit had sent him sprawling. "... And, unfortunately, nothing else. Just sympathies. At best, you're an obstacle. At worst..." < <AUTONAVI SLOT IN> > SUMMERROSE S - EXECUTE A blade of green and red - a sword of nature appears in Forte's hand. Before it's even finished forming, he's slashing - and anywhere it strikes blooms beautifully with roses and new plant life while, simultaneously, the original matter decays away. "... a corruption to be purged."
Shinnosuke Tomari	The claw swipe impacts with Drive. It's got power behind it, rage at Mr. Belt, that the weakened Rider can't hold any longer as it impacts directly with his chest. Sparks fly, as he belts out, the suit rippling away as Shinnosuke Tomari is sent sprawling across the ground. Mr. Belt sputters. But before Kamen Rider Chiroptera can take advantage of the KO'd rider... Two things happen. Tridoron is suddenly maneuvered, placing itself between Chiroptera and Shinnosuke... And a beacon is sent out, to inform others in the Paladins that Drive is down. It might be picked up by someone else, it might not, but even so, Shinnosuke can no longer fight today, even as he tries to claw his way forward. "No..."
Chase	Mashin Chaser's attack misses, but just as they're about to follow up, but- "Of course!! Roidmudes killed my father and my best friend!" They freeze up. They try to move forward, but it feels like their body won't let them. They let out a noise that's a weird mix of a grunt and a sigh, before Mach uses his chest as a springboard, sending them stumbling back and breaking them out of their stupor. The few keep away shots fired at him are intercepted by the Grim Reaper's own bullets, though it doesn't stop the giant DANGER bullet from being fired, the massive bullet monster tackling them to the ground as it attempts to dig its teeth into the Roidmude. And so it does, the teeth find their target, sending a large amount of sparks flying as they scrape against armor. It'd be easier to just lie down and 'belt out' here. 012 and Xion seem to have things handled, after all. But.. "Chase-kun, be honest: Do you know what you are, as a being?" He has to know... For his wish. Kamen Rider is the key to all of this. That annoying feeling in his chest when he fights them, that nagging in the back of his head when they talk. To that end, he'll keep fighting, even if it kills him. There's an almost guttural roar as Mashin Chaser grasps on to the teeth of the DANGER bullet, prying them open as he throws the Signal Bike attack off of them. He rolls to the away and then forward, standing up on one knee as his other leg is splayed to the side. He slams the barrel of his gun into his hand once again and holds it there, his movements backed with a cold passion that wasn't there before. EXECUTION! The winged crossbow on his arm moves to his back, forming a pair of metal wings. "That's it... Show me your heart, Kamen Rider... No, Shijima Go, so that I might find mine!" The wings flap once, producing more than enough force to get Mashin Chaser airborne. He aligns his legs into a flying kick formation, one leg wrapped and braced under the other, his feet wrapped in energy as he hurls himself at Kamen Rider Mach. FULL BREAK- BAT!
Hellwarming Trio	As the fires start to settle down around Utsuho, she's still standing tall while listening and taking in everything she's seeing. It's all a little much for her to feel a personal stake in, but she can certainly understand what everyone's motivation seems to be in the moments leading towards the end of the battle. "... This stuff's getting pretty heavy. Guess that really does mean you'll just have to sort this out by seeing who's the strongest, huh? Even if it means a whole lotta people have to die for it." She puts it in simple enough terms that even she can understand, although she doesn't sound upset or put off by the idea. She just says it in a thoroughly matter-of-fact way, then starts laughing again when 012 addresses her directly. "Sounds good, Chiri! You're pretty strong, too, so keep training and getting stronger!" The notion of fighting for fun certainly seems to be enough for her, but her gaze is a little less mirthful when she looks towards everyone else. "You, cop guy, that girl that keeps transforming, blue robot guy, uh..." She squints at Hibiki, Go, Chase, and Forte. "... I dunno who the rest of you are. But you better get stronger, too, or I'll be real disappointed next time! Fight because you wanna, because you believe in protecting whoever's more important to you, but don't half ass it, or I'll burn you all up myself!" Confident that she's put the fear of fire into anyone who's even paying attention, Utsuho turns her own attention back to Chiroptera. Once again, she stands her ground, punching forwards with a flame-covered fist to break through the bench instead of evading it, although she does get whacked in the face with several exploded chunks of metal and wood in the process. After taking a moment to bite back the pain of getting hit in the face with solid steel and wood, Utsuho goes right back in for more helpings of fisticuffs. Unlike before, however, she doesn't go for anything excessively flashy. She's actually burned quite a bit of her reserves with that exploding kick maneuver, so she has to settle for just getting into close range and swinging her control rod around like a flaming club! She goes for a lot of spinning swings, too, relying more on the momentum of the swings rather than putting excessive force into each one, but the heat from the rod seems to be growing with each swing. "Come on, Chiri... I showed you my big move, so show me yours!"
Hibiki Tachibana	After throwing as much as she could muster into her punch, Hibiki hits the ground running and nearly stumbles over from the toils of their fight. She's panting for breath and watching the smoke cloud that Utsuho's attack unleashes tentatively...and is totally unprepared for the sheer speed that 012 comes streaming back out of it. The residual windburst from his assault upon Forte slams into her weakened form, bowling her over and sending her rolling across the ground a good few meters. By the time he speaks back to her, she's shakily returning to a knee once again, unsteady enough that her first attempt to stand back up only ends up with her falling back down to it. "Thanks for leaving the others out of it...but even if I'm not in much of a position to say it...I think you're wrong." Even though he trailed off, she picked up enough context, and it helps her actually push herself up slowly. "Maybe...destroying Kamen Rider will solve it for a while. I remember when all I did was throw myself at the Noise, over and over. If I destroyed enough of them, they wouldn't be able to hurt anyone else, and maybe that ache in my chest would go away." She starts forward at a walk, slowly but surely speeding up to close the distance again. "But they always kept coming back--you and them, aren't the same, but...! Your problems won't just go away either! As long as humans and Roidmude don't see eye to eye, they'll probably just find another way to do it! That's why this kind of thing isn't going to get you anywhere, damnit!" With very noticeable frustration in her voice, she readies her fist and its now-normal gauntlet while picking up speed, until she's in a run straight towards Chiroptera that she couldn't stop even if she wanted to. All the way to throw her arm forward and go to strike him for what's almost definitely the last time. No pistons or rockets this time, just all her momentum and weight into her hand going towards him. "Hraaaaaah!" And when she has nothing to lose from giving it everything she's got, she's sure going to do her best to try and smack what she feels like is sense into him.
X	The Spiral Crush Buster fizzles out, and as it does, X's systems fire back a slurry of warnings his way. The barrel, cracked and peeling, falls off in clumps ... as his arm falls down to his side, practically blown open. Stray, torn cables crackle with weak electric signals, fluid draining down the side, the internal energy recycling chamber that leads into what was previously the refocusing lense and barrel had been busted inwards, showing that the weaponry -- no, X's arm from the elbow down was destroyed. Even his hand was gone. His body wouldn't move, after putting it under that much stress .. fuzz lined his vision. He could hardly hear. His feet wouldn't lift off the ground, his joints all locking into place. Everything you've said is selfish and wrong. How dare you come to this world to murder your people for humans who already have a protector. Two protectors. Dozens of protectors: Kamen Riders. Two are right here, right now. X forces his neck to look at her, the green of his eyes beginning to break apart into a sequence of 1's and 0's. The red star explodes and consumes him, the street beginning to cave in on itself from the sheer firepower that'd been exchanged, dropping him below and burying him under smolten rock, pipes, and frigid water. " . . . . . " His vision finally disappears, his face and blasted apart helmet half-submerged into the green, chemical drenched water.
Go Shijima	Mach is ready for that second burst of Heaviness, mashing the button on the Mach Driver to break free of it. It's just at that point when Chase's sheer strength and force of will literally tear the DANGER Bullet in two, the hard light construct quickly dissolving into constituent motes which vanish into the air. "He broke it...!" Not only did he break it, but he's coming in for more. Demanding to see his heart. Mach obliges, mashing the button four times. HISSATSU//Full Throttle! DANGER With a forward leap, he makes several somersaults, extending a foot to meet Chase's. An aura, yellow and black, with the suggestion of that DANGER bullet, surrounds him, the fangs appearing the very instant before their attacks connect. A brilliant explosion with yellow and purple electricity and sparks occludes both of their forms. Mach lands. He stands on two feet, but his armor is sparking. It flickers and fades, with the Mach Driver's AI offering its usual remark. Good Work! But he's not finished. He has to be certain--because there was no core that he saw. Roidmudes are the enemy. No matter what they say about hearts or feelings. They have to be, because... His brow knits with worry. Don't think any more on it. He transforms again, the armor once more appearing... but he stops. Alerts from radio bands flash on the HUD of his helmet. People need help elsewhere. People need help here. Tomari is out. He could try and Finish Chase... but a memory of something recent comes to mind. "You've met people, who think they're 'upholding order', but who... who are motivated by feeling small. By not having control. And- try to reassert that, with aggression over others. ... Are they ever good people?" A look towards Tomari, belted out... and an frustrated, inarticulate shout. The downed Rider is scooped up, brought to Tridoron. "Mr. Belt, get him out of here. I've... I've got to be somewhere else." Krim can tell--from the readings Rinna shares, Go should not be suited up right now. But he'll brook no argument. "MASHIN CHASER! That feeling you're feeling... if you're not just a broken, dangerous thing... it's shame. You know what you're doing is hurting humans to save Roidmude that can't be fixed." He doesn't know if it's true. But what Strawberry said about him, deny it though he might, is true--he's motivated by having that control, and felt the need to say something hurtful just because he feels he doesn't have it. He summons the Ride Macher and is on his way to the Waprgate without any further remarks.
Reliant	Kamen Rider Chiroptera is struck across the chest by Forte's blade. Armoring and perhaps body underneath are erased and replaced with a bloom of life. Cornflower stems wind their way up as if planted in soil, blooming against the dark purple with their own blue-purple hue. Truly, though it is surely a terrible blow, the change seems rather fitting to Chiroptera's scheme. More than that-- although he lets out an all-too-human hiss of pain, when he looks down at them the noise he makes is rather delighted. It's hard to say why. But Chiropteran doesn't go after Forte hard again, at least not immediately. He stalks ominously towards Kamen Rider Drive. He's brought to a complete halt, however, when Tridoron screeches into the way. There's a moment in which his wings twitch outwards, and Mr. Belt can tell -- beyond a doubt -- that he's very seconds away from simply taking to the skies and firing a sonic blast that ends either Tomari or his own life. A single blow from Utsuho comes down and cleaves through his lefthand wing. Chiroptera leaps out of the way of the follow-up blows, most likely disabled from flying on top of being distracted by the opponents who remain active. He's so focused on not getting hit by Utsuho's attacks that he's caught completely off-guard by Hibiki's charge. The blow catches him amidst the integrity break caused by Forte turning portions of his chest into flows, and Chiroptera sways on the spot as something INSIDE him bursts, blasting flower petals across the ground. He makes a strangled, anguished noise, his hands shaking. Both of his wings -- one torn apart down the middle -- spread out again and begin to glow. "Maybe I am wrong. Maybe I am a corruption to be purged. But the same can be said of my enemies. You keep telling me, this is not the way. What IS the way? How do we obtain justice? Isn't this how it's supposed to be?" "Doesn't Kamen Rider bring his own justice?" "Don't YOU?" Kamen Rider Chiroptera pumps the yellow lever on his belt. A voice announces: W I N G D Y S T O P I A The purple energy that had silhouettes Kamen Rider Chiroptera's wings completely replaces it now. It takes a distinct triangular shape, something between scales and feathers, that build up into what might be interpreted as a sort of energy shield. It is not an energy shield. The feathers burst into the air and grow, raining down into the surroundings in a great shower of energy implosions that strike the ground and burst outwards, purple spheres of light swelling into the surroundings and threatening practically anything that might happen to be there at the time. Even Mach will be racing these to escape with Tomari-- though he's plenty quick enough to make it out.
Hibiki Tachibana	Hibiki is, to be blunt, not in any position to avoid W I N G D Y S T O P I A. And definitely not stop it. She's only barely able to keep her footing at all before the feather burst exploding across the entire area catches her clean in it, a chain of explosions creating sparks against her armor smacking her around within them - until she ends up being tossed outside of the growing cloud of light and debris, smoking and rolling to a stop on the ground. After a moment, her Symphogear vanishes and returns to pendant form in a flash of light, leaving her lying there on her side in her casual clothes and groaning weakly, struggling to get back up on her elbows. "...Justice? My justice...?" She finds she...doesn't have an immediate answer to any of Chiroptera's questions, opening her eyes halfway to look back off in his direction while delirously asking herself some of her own. Questions that will also have to go answered for now. Because in the next few seconds, she falls entirely unconscious on the spot, with 012's words, Xion's words, and also Utsuho's demand for them all to get stronger ringing in her head.
Forte	Oh, it's an energy shield. No, wait, it's not an energy shield. Forte goes down, hard, losing Moon Cross in the process. And then his entire form dissolves, losing data integrity, turning into junk data like a demagnetized hard drive. (He'll wake up in the Moon Cell later, confused.)
Hellwarming Trio	As Chiroptera's belt announces something particularly ominous sounding, Utsuho's excitement grows. She's in danger, but she can take it! She knows she can. If nothing else, she's confident in her ability to survive, and when the feathers come down in that massive array of energy, she starts shouting incoherently again as if pumping herself up to bear the brunt of whatever comes her way. She explodes. Figuratively, anyway, as the rain of feathers obliterates everything around her, and she's laid out flat on her back by the time the smoke and sparks clear. Groaning painfully, she still manages to laugh off the pain even as she sees fit to keep sitting there for a while, reaching over to rub her shoulder and pull on it forcefully to make sure everything's still in place. "Hah... Whoof. That was a good one, Chiri! Stylish, too. Now..." She slaps her knees, stands back up, then lands right on her back with another crack of the ground. "... Not now. Later. Oh." Utsuho fishes her phone back out of her pocket, then focuses it on Chiroptera once more. "This stream's sponsored by BB Channel. Good night, everybody." She's content to just lay there for now while everything still hurts.
Reliant	In that moment... a hulking red figure with golden-yellow charges onto the front drive of the DMV from the next convenient quarry over. Heart lifts Xion under an arm, and does the same for X. A single mighty leap carries him from their position all the way to Chase, in front of whom he stands protectively. When the feathers descend on his position a sphere of fiery energy emanates outward from him, repelling them from the damaged and fallen. "Chiroptera, if you keep fighting like that you're going to destroy our friends!" Heart calls, not angrily but certainly earnestly. Kamen Rider Chiroptera jumps and spins around, his demeanor akin to that of a child that has been caught upturning a cookie jar. "L-Lord Heart! But we could destroy Kamen Ride--" He turns, and notices that Tomari Shinnosuke is Just Gone. "W-W-What?!" Chiroptera exclaims. This seems to be enough for Heart to coax him to Get The Hell Out Of Dodge. Chiroptera hastily produces a notepad and pen from the passenger seat of a quarter of a car, scribbles: I owe you one (Drawing Of Icecream), which he stuffs into Utsuho's hand, and then books it with Heart.
Xion	Xion, who had put nearly 'her whole self' behind the Full Throttle Power Gear megablast, drops to one knee, heaving with breath as her arm cannon smokes and steams. She's about to fall over when-- Strong Hands catch her, and Xion's determined fierceness fades into a blushing, relieved sigh. "Oh gosh, now I can take it easy..." Xion murmurs, carried under-arm or scruffed by the Strong Hands of 'Lord Heart' and escaped with.