Scene #7587: KRE: Alfredo and the Fetucini's

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Chase	There's an emergency call broadcasted a couple of hours earlier, both as a warning to avoid going out at the moment as there's currently a bugster on the loose, and as a weird desperate call for help as it also lists directions to its current location. An undescript part, the kind you'd find everywhere in Japan. There's also a general health advisory about not playing too many video games to lower exposure chance to the Bugster Virus, to respect GAMER DRIVER (tm) equipped medical staff, and to wash your hands after going to the arcade. MEANWHILE AND A LITTLE LATER AT THE PARK STEPS: There's already a fight taking place on top of a flight of brick stairs. An obese blue man in a chef suit battles a black and purple Rider, and it's clearly not going well for the chef. Each clumsily thrown blow to the mysterious Masked Rider is easily ducked under, and in turn responded with a swift whack of a mallet that creates a visible HIT graphic when it connects. Once they realize they aren't alone however, the mystery man's fighting style changes. The Bugster throws itself at them, and rather than avoid it, they take the attack head on, holding them in place as they jab them with some sort of device and then... Shove them down the stairs. There's a comical set of effects as the engorged chef monster falls down the steps, and the black and purple simply waves in a nonchalant as they walk away, now leaving the Bugster to the group. The Bugster that's now picking itself off the ground in a confused and angry state.
Cantio	"So this is what Japan looks like... It feels kind of nostalgic somehow." Cantio comments idly as she hurries through the streets of this particular place in Japan, finding her way to the designated location easily enough between the directions provided and the noises of combat coming from the stairs above. As she stops at a corner to look up dramatically, she blinks slowly at the HIT graphic just popping out of the big blue chef. "Is that... Uh. Normal?" She asks whoever else happens to be at that same street corner before running the rest of the distance towards that building, getting to the bottom of the stairs just in time for the Bugster to land at the bottom! "Which one's the Bugster?" She looks from the Bugster to the mysterious black and purple man as he waves and disappears from sight, then back at the now-angered Bugster once more. "I guess that answers that question... Surrender! Um.. Whatever you are!" As Cantio issues that command, she holds her hand sideways as a tiny handle becomes a hilt and a whole-ass sword that might not actually look too out-of-place here, considering it looks like a translucent plastic children's toy instead of an actual sword. "If this is just a misunderstanding, please say so, and we'll get this resolved peacefully! Otherwise... Er. We won't!"
Kaito Kumon	A motorcyle approaches, jumping the curb and coming to a neat stop right on top of the 'DO NOT WALK ON GRASS' sign. It's helmeted rider watches the fight for a moment, still astride his motorcycle - but as the tempo of the fight changes, they step off of it, taking his helmet off as he does so. "Hey," calls Kaito, at the retreating figure. "Are you with Emergency Services?" He doesn't expect the answer. Purple looks like he has places to be, in a hurry. "That there is the bugster," says Kaito, answering Cantio as he approaches unhurriedly. "This city has been having a problem with them recently. And they don't tend to surrender." He reaches into his vest pocket as he closes in on it, and pulls out a padlock, clicking it open with one hand. "Henshin." BA NA NA A hole in reality unzips, and a giant metal banana drops onto Kaito's head as he puts the lock in his belt. LOCK ON! BA NA NA ARMS! The banana unfolds, forming armor and a lance. "There's really only one way to deal with it," Kamen Rider Baron says, finishing that thought.
Hibiki Tachibana	Answering a Kamen Rider Emergency(TM) isn't a new thing for Hibiki. This particular brand of it, though...not so much. Bugsters, huh? The name would make you think of something sort of insectoid or something. You know, some of those Kamen Riders actually have those kind of vibes, so it makes sense. Wait, Bugster Virus? Not playing...video games? Hitting the scene and skidding right past Cantio to look up at the same moment, she stops and blinks up a few times at the ongoing fight. Whoever that Rider is, they don't really look very suited for the job, especially compared to a certain other sword-wielding hero who she also remembers made cool H I T effects. "Uh...for some of them?" What she wasn't expecting was for the mystery Rider to do.../something/ to the Bugster and throw it down at them. Seeing the chef-monster go down tumbling almost makes her feel kind of sorry for it. There's a wince every time it bounces off the stairs with some flashy special effect, and the biggest one as it finally comes all the way down. "Oi--wait a second!" By the time she's looking back up and calling to the Rider, they're pretty much gone. Leaving her also squaring up against one very (understandably) upset-looking Bugster, grimacing a bit and slowly pulling her pendant out from under her jacket collar. "...Don't suppose we can talk this out over burgers or something?" No, she figures they won't, but just looking at it kind of makes her remember she hasn't had lunch yet.
Muramasa	"Hamburgers, really, Master?" Muramasa sighs exaggeratingly, clearly making fun of her. He's a big one though, isn't he? Eyeing the bulbous, blue Bugster critically, the casually dressed Servant makes a small shrugging motion as he rolls his shoulders before voicing support for the overall sentiment, though, "I'd rather not fight in the city like this if it could be avoided. How about a time out?" Although he looks ready to pop his top, so a peaceful solution isn't likely.. Slinging his white jacket over his shoulder, fully exposing the silk-screen koi-print shirt he was wearing, Muramasa breathes in deeply and focuses. He visualizes the gun in his head and begins to load it -- if, when, things devolved he had to be ready to go so that he could minimize the damage to the surrounding area.
Chase	The oversized chef monster lets out an annoyed grunt as Cantio questions it, rubbing its head as it gathers its bearings. "Ugh, who are-" He's cut off by the obnoxious jingle of Kaito's WARRING Driver, their annoyance turning to panic and anger as they begin aggressively and accusingly pointing at everyone. "NO! NO! You're with the services! I know how this works, you aren't tricking me! You're the ones getting GAME OVER'D, not me!!!" As if in response to their outrage, additional backup begins to materialize around him. Several dozen humanoid creatures with weird orange heads covered draped in overcooked pasta and large oversized eating utensils, all letting out a shrill noise as they aim to overrun the group with sheer numbers rather than any sort of skill.
Cantio	"Services? Um. Who's...?" Cantio gives the chef monster a genuinely confused look as she glances over at Hibiki, Muramasa, and... Did she ever get the banana wielder's name? He's familiar enough for her to actually glance over at him as though he might have some idea about that, especially in the context of the Bugster becoming more aggressive after that jingle. "No, we're not with...!" Shifting into a defensive stance, Cantio clashes with the rubbersuits, laser sword bashing against fork as she tries to sort her thoughts in the middle of a fight. She takes a glancing blow from one of the pasta-powered grunts, scoffing afterwards before steadying her stance and gripping her weapon with both hands. "Is that the case? Tch.. If they're really that hostile, then I guess a virus sweep is in order!" Pivoting on her forward foot, Cantio swings downwards to try and cleave right through the closest minion before thrusting it forward, firing a laser shot from the tip of her weapon at the same minion to try and clear her path towards the big chef commander.
Kaito Kumon	"The Services? The riders who have the bloated bureaucracy weighing down their every action?" Baron takes hits - but he keeps advancing, trying to fight his way through the oncoming swarm of goons. "I am Kamen Rider Baron - and my forces shall surpass Rider Services. You shall wish you had the bureaucrats and the policemen upon your doorstep," he says, swinging his lance around to clear a bit of space before slamming his fist down the warring/sengoku/wargoku belt. "HYAH!" He swings his lance around - COME ON! BA NA NA SQUASH! - and a large energy banana emerges from the point of the lance, sweeping through the crowds surrounding him!
Hibiki Tachibana	Muramasa will learn the power of burgers, one day. For now, they have bigger problems. "Great..." Hibiki murmurs in response to Kamen Rider Baron as he mentions the lack of surrender. He's also not helping with her hunger issue, but it's not as bad as it could be compared to the sudden reinforcements backing up the Bugster. "Wait, we're not trying to--" Before she can get the chance to say anything, it looks like there's no choice but to defend themselves. "Balwisyall nescell Gungnir tron..." With an echoing call, the pendant in her grip explodes into golden light that forms around her in a sphere, encircled with musical motifs and ancient texts. It's solid and impossible for the grunts to get past, obscuring Hibiki's form for several seconds until it explode outward into particles that leave her clad in her Symphogear. "Then if you're going to make us fight first...!" She braces against the ground, then kicks forward in a blur to grapple ont of the Gruntsters by their arm when it comes in for a swing. With a wrench of her body to the side and a slam of her heel down, she goes to swing it off the ground and around in a faster and faster whirl that'll have her using the unfortunate pasta-themed mook as a makeshift weapon to knock over everything in the vicinity. "...You'll get what you want!" The last word is punctuated by the Gungnir girl flinging the Bugster at his boss at full force!
Muramasa	"So that's what it comes down to, huh ... " But, while ready for the bloated, blubbery 'chef' -- a visual disgrace to those versed in the art of food-crafting -- to strike back against them, he hadn't been expecting the massive swarm of adds that seemed to apparate from out of nowhere. "Hold on, he had a bunch of back-up dancers like that?!" The sheer numbers are difficult to overcome, as Muramasa uses hastily projected knives to deal with their unfettered, malicious use of their cooking utensils. "That's not how you use those ... ! This is unforgiveable!" Pushing back against the swarm, Baron's BANANA SQUASH gives him the kind of breathing room he needs to deliver a sturdy, reinforced roundhouse kick right into the chest of one, which is forceful enough to knock back several of them and give him an opening to break through the encirclement and reach Hibiki, firmly placing his hand against the small of her back. "Trace on. Alright, I'm not sure what that 'chef' is supposed to be, but those noodles are not 'al dente'." Her Symphogear glows alight with the grid-mark patterns of his Reinforcement magecraft, burning blue-green. With that done, he focuses, intent on providing his full support -- and to do so, he'd need to project the right tool for the right job. Which, for starters, could begin with his smithing mallet, a sturdy wooden shaft with a thick, black iron head that he hurls directly at the Bugster's face moments later. "D O R Y A H!"
Chase	The pasta themed Bugster mooks really don't stand much of a chance. Muramasa's hammer caves in the the rubbersuit's face, causing them to fall over and dissolve into pixels. Cantio cleaves her own enemy in twain, though given this is a children's show, there is no blood or anything messy, before she fires a beam that defeats even more of the pasta men with surprising ease. Hibiki, meanwhile, does not have weapons, but she has her fist. And a Bugster, which she makes rather efficient of use of as a makeshift weapon, cleaving through multiple of its kind before tossing it directly at the Big Bugster itself. There's an audible video gamey sound as it does so, and the bulbous chef falls over and recoils in pain from the attack. Baron, having clearly played Musou games before, sweeps large swathes with his big banana stick. There's a satisfying thwack that clears an entire wave of lesser Bugsters, but unfortunately it's not the cool video game sound that Hibiki got earlier. EVEN ANGRIER NOW, the evil cook picks itself up off the ground yet again, this time raising their short arms into the air as a huge poorly animated CGI energy meatball floats over their head. One would expect there to be a pasta joke right before the attack, but there isn't, it instead just silently throws the giant meat meteor down at the group, sparring them with the pain of pasta puns.
Kaito Kumon	Baron clears some space. "I shouldn't be trying to reason with you," he decides, looking over at the bugster. "Whether or not you understand my goals, you're deleted either way..." And then he looks up, and up, at the gigantic meatball that's crashing down at the group. "Ah," he says simply. Baron goes flying, slow-motion, in the way Riders do after getting hit by the boss's attack, landing roughly some distance away, and struggling to his feet. "And that time of deletion... is now," he says, slamming his fist on his belt twice. "Since you like playing with food so much..." He charges, and then he jumps - COME ON! BA NA NA AU LAIT! "THEN HAVE SOMETHING FRESHER!" A similarly gigantic energy banana gets swung down along with his descending attack, threatening to simply crush the bugster out of existence!
Cantio	That's a meat meteor. Cantio stares at it blankly as her mind struggles to comprehend just what's happening, but she can't quite get the words out in time. Instead, she focuses telekinetic force into a small spot above her, using it to 'punch' upwards at the meteor repeatedly even as it comes down and engulfs her whole. There's nothing for a moment, and then a pillar of light blasts upwards from where Cantio had seemingly been crushed by the meat-eor, lingering for several seconds with a vaguely triumphant tune coming out of it until it dissipates. When it does, Cantio is once again visible, but in her white and pink leotard getup on. Her sword has doubled in width even as she's holding it in one hand, the other hand in front of her face as she holds a translucent pink visor in front of her eyes. "My name is Cantio, Drive Core Candidate of Cadenza! Anyone who tramples on the innocent and the injured will have to answer to me!" She announces her presence with an almost boisterous tone, punctuating her introduction with a dramatic sweep of that hand that was holding the visor and... Hurling the visor directly into the nearest wall, shattering the little piece of plastic on impact. Her face remains perfectly still as she tries VERY HARD not to look at where she just hurled her visor, instead bringing that hand back to the handle of her sword so she's two-handing the whole thing once again. Tip pointed straight ahead, weapon level with her shoulders, and then she stomps forward with one foot. "And if you're not going to atone for attacking civilians, then... Then this is the price you'll pay!" Still trying to sound cool, Cantio launches herself towards the chef, arcing the great sword behind herself to build up momentum before slashing upwards at the chef. As she does that, however, she also cheats by directing telekinetic force from behind the chef to try shoving it right towards her swing, then following that swing up with an entire flurry of upwards that ends with a spinning slash from bottom to top!
Hibiki Tachibana	Hibiki fistpumps. She can get the video game SFX too if she tries. You just have to use the environment! Thankfully, these grunts are no match for all of them working together, but it's not over yet. Her mid-pump arm falls at the sight of one massive meatball building up overhead, and she blinks a few times as if trying to understand what exactly she's seeing. "W-Wait, this theming is getting a little out of ha--" As it comes down and explodes in a mass of presumably practical flames, the Symphogear user is sent flying backwards off her feet and hits the ground of the park hard with a wince. That didn't make her any hungrier, but it did really hurt. "Ugh...alright...if that's how it's going to be..." Thanks to her reinforced armor, courtesy of Muramasa, she's able to hop back to her feet without hesitating. And seeing that not only is Cantio getting serious but Baron is doing the same sort of thing that she's seen a few other Riders and even Mashin Chaser do a few times - that being belt greeble finishers - Hibiki tenses up and decides immediately to follow suit. A deep breath, and she kicks off into the air. Into a mid-air pause, followed by her skirt's thrusters igniting to shoot her straight down like a meteor herself, straight down at the rotund Bugster! "Haaaaa!" There are no fancy piston tricks or energy releases this time--just an actual, full force slam of her heel into it that'll probably end with her sliding past in slow motion after.
Muramasa	The meaty meteor --a meateor if you will -- smashes into the pavillion like a runaway bomb, his reinforced clothes doing little to protect him from the blowback, even after crossing his arms to protect his vital spots. Thrown harshly off screen, almost as if he'd been demoted to being an extra, Muramasa picks himself back up by rolling painfully across the potted plant that had broken his fall, or perhaps made it more painful, and pushing himself up by his knees. "Gh...typical, big meals -- but all salt," he mutters. "Trace on." Projecting two modest hatchets; or, rather, they were shaped too peculiartly for that, in hand, he hurls them at the source of the Bugsters in the area, that big balloon of blue lard. "Tomahawk! Now -- " With a running start, he digs his shoes deep enough into the concrete to leave an imprint, and takes to the sky with a big leap, hands clasping at a yet-to-be-visible grip that materializes on the way down, accelerating his drop by the laws of gravity. It's a massive and unwieldy sword made of stone, with only a single and jagged edge to its name as he spins like a top, the air heating around him from the friction, and smashes the tip directly over top of the Bugster's noggin. "I'll call this the Berserker Shot, take it, and never step foot in a kitchen again!"
Chase	The collective might of Hibiki's foot, Muramasa's axes, and Baron's Banana Slamma are brought down against the mighty blue lard's massive girth. One might think three people banging against one body would be a bit crowded, but the Bugster is a big guy, he can take it, even as his cushion-like folds begin giving away to the assault. Then Cantio with her telekinetic cheatery and additional onslaughtery joins in, and the corrupted mascot's body suddenly pops into a mist of pixels, though they manage to get one last sentence in before they fully fade away. "Looks like I've pasta waaaaaaaaaay!" There's an awkward, almost uncomfortable silence, before a loud voice suddenly announces: GAME CLEAR! There's even an accompanying graphic to go with said announcement. It's all very nice. Weirdly, almost on cue, a man in a business suit runs up to the group, a briefcase in hand and several security guards behind him. He stops once he reaches the heroes, bending over and resting his hands on his knees to catch his breath. "I'm not late, am I? I heard the news and canceled all of my appointments to get here as fast as possible."
Hibiki Tachibana	Standing back up straight as the Bugster goes up in a shower of brightly colored 8-bit effects, Hibiki almost says something but ends up just standing there with her mouth slightly open and one eye shut more than the other as the chef's final words come out. "..." The moment is broken when the loud announcement of GAME CLEAR gets her to jump back a step, glancing up and then around quickly before she ends up blinking a few times at the hovering graphic. "That's--...never happened before." These guys are really on their video game theming. Does that happen every time they're beaten? But it's also kind of satisfying in a way, and everyone (even Baron, who doesn't look like he'd care at all) get a small grin and a nod of appreciation from her, before the man sprinting up towards them ends up drawing her attention. "Late? ...Actually..." She glances back towards where the Bugster dispersed. "...We kind of just finished things up here. Sorry." Her transformation ends in a quick burst of the same light it appeared in, leaving her back in casuals and her Symphogear as a simple pendant around her neck. "Are you another Kamen Rider...? There was one here fighting this guy before us, but he didn't stick around. He also..." She trails off, frowning a bit as she remembers what he did to the Bugster...
Cantio	"Pasta...? Oh. ...Oh." Cantio bites back a snicker at that awful pun-at-death, resting the sword on her shoulder and having to catch her breath a bit roughly around the same time the man in the business suit approaches the group. Her first instinct is to hold an arm out in case he might actually run right past them to do something stupid, but when he just stops instead, she relaxes again. "Ah... Just by a hair, I'm afraid. But you're just in time to... See who stopped the Bugster?" She's really stretching to try and make it sound like he didn't completely miss everything. Putting on her best nation-representative smile, she lowers her sword to her side before bowing lightly at the waist. "Cantio, Drive Core Candidate of Cadenza. It's nice to meet you, Mister...?" And of course, she provides an easy opportunity for the man to introduce himself. "Are you from Rider Services, or...?"
Muramasa	"Guess he wound up overdone, huh?" Muramasa asks, openly, after a cricket chirp's worth of silence. Could this be a newly revealed character trait? But if so .. for such a handsome face, he'd probably be better off keeping his mouth shut, but we all knew that already. "Ah, yeah, we already grilled them out of the kitchen -- but I'm sure we'll appreciate your help next time." he says with a genial smile. "Speaking of that other Rider, though, it looks like that 'Baron' guy also flew the coop when we weren't looking, Master." Muramasa gives an acknowledging nod and wave to Cantio as she introduces herself, recalling her from their time-bubbled adventure in Neverland, largely.
Chase	"A Kamen Rider that leaves the job unfinished is rather concerning, but I'm sure they had their reasons. As for me? A Kamen Rider? Oh no. I just produce some of the equipment on the side, my company is primarily devoted to video game development. Ah, names, that's right." The mysterious suited man waves his free hand to dismiss his guards. As they leave, he bows properly to the group like a good Japanese businessman. The gesture is both rehearsed and heartfelt, truly giving off the vibes of a Good Man. Or a man who's practiced really hard at being one. "I'm Dan Kuroto. CEO of Gemn Corp. If it's not too much for me to ask, could you continue to deal with the Bugsters? The CR Doctors equipped to deal with it are sadly understaffed at the moment."
Cantio	Cantio lets out another uncomfortably and badly hidden snicker at Muramasa's pun. "Do you do this all the time?" She eyes Muramasa first, but Hibiki gets a look as well for confirmation. Once the danger aura subsides, meanwhile, Cantio finally dismisses her weapon with a wave of her hand and a flash of light that also reverts her to her 'human' form. "You're a game developer? But why would...?" She starts, then furrows her brow before dismissing it with a light grunt. "I guess it makes about as much sense as a... 'CR Doctor'?" She gives Dan a blank stare as well. "What's the CR stand for? Ah... And of course! If there's something threatening civilians, then it's a leader's responsibility to protect them. if you know anything about these Bugsters, though, please let us know. They..." Cantio furrows her brow in thought once again. "They're not like the viruses back home, but studying them might still be useful. Where they come from, how they're made, what they're made of, if there's any similarities we can use to figure out their weaknesses..." She might be jumping ahead a fair bit, but it's all for the sake of science and protection! Probably.
Hibiki Tachibana	"Genm Corp..." Huh. Hibiki hasn't really given a ton of thought to who makes the Kamen Rider's equipment. Though it seemed like Shinnosuke and Go's stuff was a lot different, and all of the Riders she's seen seem to work off different technology. There's them, what little she saw of Brave, a few others...so maybe these guys are for the CR Riders? "Hibiki Tachibana." She doesn't bow, but she does give a small wave. "And yeah, he does." A serious nod is given to Cantio without actually looking at her. Back to Dan, she folds her arms and relaxes. He's...polite. Really polite. Because of his position, maybe. It's a little too stiff for her, when most of everyone she works with back home is beyond casual. "Well...that 'Bugster' wasn't too hard to deal with, so I don't mind myself. I'm kinda getting used to helping Kamen Riders out here. Though..." She glances to Cantio for real this time, who says what's basically on her mind, and then looks back. Then she just asks it plainly. "...What are they, exactly?"
Muramasa	"Muramasa." he introduces simply. Dan Kuroto, with all of his politness, does just about anything but rub him the wrong way as Muramasa exchanges pleasantries with a small bow. "Of course, we'll do everything we can to help -- after all, helping others can't be wrong." If anything, thinking about it, he kind of liked the cut of the developer's jib. "Although, I'd also like to know what exactly these 'Bugsters' are .. I can only assume, from all the warnings, they're related to video games?" Between that and the..'flair' of the rubbersuits, anyhow.
Chase	Being the ever resourceful man, Dan listens to the group's questions whilst he kneels down and attends to his briefcase, opening it up as he browses its contents. Hibiki will probably recognize that the devices inside are the exact same thing that Kamen Rider Brave uses. "CR Doctors are those equipped to properly deal with Gaming Disorder. A few of them are Kamen Riders, though you didn't hear that from me." Fingers tracing over the many greebles now on display, he snatches a one with a dualcolor'd red and blue shell, before tossing it to Hibiki. The label on it reads 'Kasai Breathers'. "Press the button on the side and it should help you deal with any future Bugster's, though I'll admit I haven't done a lot of testing with that game. Anyway, I can give you the basic summary and then some, but you gotta promise me you won't tell anyone, ok? Last thing we need is a public panic." The CEO closes his briefcase and stands up. He's continuing to multitask, now holding a phone that he's sorting messages on. Being trained in the art of business, he manages to keep eye contact with everyone as he does this. "They're a disease, simply put. They infect their host, and take the shape of various video game mascots. MY mascots. Once they leave the victim's body, their life is on a timer so to speak. So time really is of the essence. How they're infecting people, and if video games are really the problem, is a bit of a mystery though. Video games being directly linked is a bit of an educated guess." Dan pauses for a moment, and begins to open his mouth again before his face sours. A complete 180 from the cheerful, welcoming face he had before. Whatever he's reading on his phone, he doesn't like it. "Well. I did try to cancel all my arrangements today, but it seems like someone in the company is overstepping some boundaries again. Please, have a good night, I'll continue to keep in touch." He bows once more, before turning around to leave, the bodyguards that had left him now regrouping as they escort him back to what's probably his really big and fancy limo or something.