Scene #7750: KRE:Beta Testing

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Chase	"Beta? This was merely the alpha. As both reward for your help and punishment for the sin of copying my work, allow me to show you what a beta test really looks like." Kamen Rider Genm holds the newly formed Gashat up in the air so that its label is clearly visible, before pushing in the button on the side. "ACTION MASTER 52!" Closing the Game Driver on his waist, the Kamen Rider slots the device inside of one of its empty slots, before hinging it back open. "LEVEL UP!" A clearly plagiarized jingle starts playing as a swarm of various mechanized gaming mascots fly towards Genm, breaking up and forming various pieces of armor that clamp and snap on to the black kamen rider. There's a rapid series of glitched out beeps to signify that the transformation is over, and Genm Level X(?) raises their arms in the air. "Now! look upon the form of your new God and despair." Flexing their hand for a brief moment, they eventually clench it into a fist and punch downward, creating a shockwave of fire and ice that travels along the Earth before exploding violently underneath the group of heroes. Hibiki if she has two brain cells, probably recognizes it as being similar to the Kasai Breathers Gashat she's currently holding on to. But it's probably just a horrible coincidence. Good guy Kuroto Dan would never give his technology away to EVIL people. He's too cool for that...
Go Shijima	The Ride Macher--that white and red superbike Go always seems to have around--roars. Tires squeal as he pulls it into a drift. It's headed straight for that shockwave of fire and ice. At the last minute, Go leaps from the bike, flying sideways over the attack. Flames singe, ice bites, but he lands on his feet... More or less. "Gh..." His hand clutches at his side. Of course God would show up right after I strained my everything fighting with Persephone... even so... Having fallen to one knee from the effort of such a high flying evasive action on his exhausted body, he slips the Mach Driver on. SIGNAL BIKE//SHIFT CAR - Dead Heat! "Let's..." Shakily, he rises to his feet. "Henshin!" As hard light constructs flash-forge armor over his body, the red breastplate is soon overlaid with a tire that flies in. A smaller tire before the right side of the armor displays an RPM gauge slowly inching towards redlining. If I want this over quickly... I'll need Dead Heat's brute strength. Even that jump winded me! "Drift..." Mach charges towards Genm X, Zenrin Shooter in his right hand. Feathering the trigger to open up with a volley of energy blasts, "Overtake!" The weapon's front wheel is spun with his palm, as his elbow makes a strike at Genm's collarbone. "I'm always at..." Edging closer to lock up Genm's leg, he shoulder-checks the other rider, then capitalizes... "Mach speed!" Two swipes of the rapidly-spinning wheel to try and bowl him over. "Kamen Rideeeer... Mach!" He takes this highly inopportune time to do the signature low-wide stance.
Xion	LAST TIME ON: Cheetahman X ~ The 52 Games of Deeztiny (OVA) A number of bugsters had menaced the Ajinomoto Stadium field, where local authorities had cleared the pitch from the (distressingly sports themed) data-punks and their bat and cat based antics. A purple and black rider had sort of assisted, and after the stunning finisher, all had been well! Pumping her right fist as her left hand raises to capture her keyblade in its return arc, Xion smiles towards the camera, her eyes reflecting the turnining shape of GENM and his goggled eyes as she utters a 'huh what', and a grey screen filter happens as the title card shows: ==========(TO BE CONTINUED)==> --- After what feels like months, the next OVA releases in the critically acclaimed series: Mighty Action Black RX ~ The 52 Ascensions of GameDeez After DENYING the kind and foolish XION her rights as a GAMER and TESTER OF A GAME to PROVIDE FEEDBACK about the BETA EXPERIENCE, the mysterious GENM unleashes a mightly LEVEL UP to ascend both his power and DARK STONKS to ascend from ONLINE harassment to IN-PERSON harassment to ELEMENTAL harassment. The damage goes from figurative, to requiring therapy, to requiring evasion! Unphased and unhurried as she emerges from the thick flame pyros and resulting ice smoke, Xion hops through a conveniently spaced fire barrier with a clearing swing of her silver-lengthed keyblade, and lands pointing. "If this is a lesson about not trusting black and purple Kamen Riders, I'm not really here to learn it. It's fine to ascend to godhood, I guess. Congratulations!" Pulling down her hood, Xion frowns. "You're not 'my' god, just because you put on some new powers!" Bounding forward, Xion skips from the start of a running animation as Go strips past her. "The answer to being pushed isn't pushing yourself harder..." Purple energy gathers along her blade, vortexing in before the cloud coalesces into a purple column, which she thrusts tip-out towards Shin Genm Deluxe Lawsuit Edition in a gravitic column of crushing pressure and kinetic force. "Try putting the load on others!"
Hibiki Tachibana	With the way-too-familiar Bugster finally taken out thanks to everyone's efforts, Hibiki thinks it's high time that they take the chance to question the mystery black Rider that keeps showing up. She's seen him ever since her fights against the Bugsters started, stabbing them with whatever that device was before leaving as quickly as he came. This is the best chance she'll get to find out what's really going on here. Did it all have something to do with that Gashat he just made...!? But she doesn't get the chance to answer that, faced with the fearsome form of ACTION MASTER 52 in a somewhat glitchy henshin sequence that vaguely reminds her of something she's been given. The connection becomes undeniably clear only a moment later, making her eyes to go wide at the incoming wave of flame and cold. "Wait, that's just like what Kuroto-san gave me--!?" Her voice fades out as she vanishes within the rising explosion. KASAI BREATHERS! A similar shockwave (and the terrible smell of seared plastic) rips out from within it, canceling out the worst of the force with her own - coming from the red and blue dragonhead gauntlets that have slotted over Gungnir's existing ones. The magical girl lifts them up in a boxer stance, grimacing beneath her scarf. "Copying your work...? What's this all about!?" She pulls back, holds it for a split second, and then breaks out forward into a sprint right towards Genm with a yell, right on the heels of Mach and Xion. Right after both of them, she's just going to punch him. Right in the chest, as hard as she can. Right behind it is a barrage of more, hooks and uppercuts one after another without any breaks between them, HIT! or MISS!, with bursts of fire and ice coming out with each strike. "Aren't you the one copying /his/ stuff!?"
Staren	Staren is late. A moment after the bugster is defeated, she flies in on her broom. She nears the ground while the 'Game Master' is finishing his speech. "Aww, guess I missed the party, huh? Anyone need help?" Wait, this guy is shouting about gods and despair. She barrel rolls, her coat still getting a bit scorched/frozen by the attack. "Hey! Wow, rude! And you think just grabbing powers from as many places as possible is gonna make you super-powerful? Do you know who I am?! I'm Staren Wiremu, I tried that when you were but a schoolchild, and buddy, I gotta tell ya: That alone doesn't get you what you want!" She takes a breath. "Guess you need a lesson from the Multiverse's poster child of doing this, but first, I gotta know, what's your deal here?" She flies backwards a bit as battle constructs warp in in front of her; A squad of metal statues shaped like cutesy horned quadrupeds, with missile racks where a real beast might carry bags. A squad of humanoid robots in riot gear with caseless assault rifles. And one big clockwork spider that spits acid. All of them open fire on Genm Level X! The quadrupedal golems also try to dive in front of attacks and take them for the others! Staren, meanwhile, floats behind the defensive line she's created, and looks at Genm, and looks at Genm, the thought that Persephone gave her asking of the figure before her: Why are you the way that you are?
Chase	"Did I hear you right? Not your God? No, I think I've simply misunderstood you, or perhaps you've misunderstood me. My status isn't negotiable." Between the mix of Go's brutish blows that create sparks as they connect and Xion's crushing gravity, Shin (God) Kamen Rider Genm Level X (pronounced 'ex') doesn't bother to even defend himself, rather he simply stands in place to take it like a champ to stress test his new product. He eventually becomes bored however, like all good Gods do. Reaching out just as Mach is about to land their last blow, Genm pushes through the binding weight of the Keyblade's magic as he grabs hold of Go's helmet, lifting them slightly off the ground as they use his free hand to make a finger gun that he proceeds to jam into the Kamen Rider's stomach. "Bang." Like a proper DBZ villain, they fire a beam projectile into Mach's stomach, which generates enough force to send them promptly flying into Xion. The health bar meter on their chest now at half, they turn direction to Staren,striding menacingly at the new catgirl. Again, they don't dodge, letting the clockwork spiders and the golems get their attacks in. Acid burns slightly through the makeshift armor and the golems pile on, but again, Genm grows tired of the stress testing, and eventually cuts through them by brandishing a weird arm mounted chainsaw thing. It's very toyetic. "If you tried and failed, it doesn't count as trying at all, as far as I'm concerned. As for your title as 'poster child', I find that hard to believe. I would think someone who's called that would have a bit more of a marketable quality, but as you are now I would not even consider you as a side character in one of my works." Now upon Staren, he turns the chainsaw weapon he's holding around, the other end equipped with a pair of double barrel blasters which he fires at the cat's face. Genm's prepared to follow up on that, but he's cut short by Hibiki's punch, being sent flying through one of the stadium walls as he's completely caught off guard. It takes him a moment, but he eventually pulls himself out of the pile of debris he's in and back into the fight, laughing as the health bar on his chest drops to zero and then... Refills back to full. "A child like yourself wouldn't understand. But I'll be taking that gashat from you. I think you've had it long enough." Running across the field back towards Hibiki, Genm delivers a series of blows and punches aimed squarely at the girl's stomach, ending his assault off with an elbow to the top of the head and a heel kick to the back as she falls to the ground.
Go Shijima	"Never," Mach teasingly replies to Xion. She can feel that he really does appreciate the advice, however--and maybe even that he intends to act on it. He has his chance to literally share the burden when Genm just grabs a hold of him. His repeated hard strikes to the other rider's elbow, wrist and chest do nothing to free him. And so, blasted through the stomach, Mach is sent flying backwards into Xion. "On the other hand," he says, palm flying outwards to spring off of the sidewalk and avoid totally tackling her by acciden (really more of a rolling collision), "Maybe there's something to it after all!" Back on his feet, he grimaces, his expression at once illuminated by the HUD and concealed by his visor. That suit can take quite the beating... but we'll see how it does against Dead Heat's redline. Mach's armored fist crashes into the button atop his driver, over and over. Each press makes the driver rev up, a cone of flame spewing from the exhaust as crackling red lightning dances across his shoulders, fists, and legs. The RPM gauge steadily climbs higher and higher, until it's topped out-- The tire around his chest explodes. The Mach Driver revs up again as its wearer rockets forward, kicking up a trail of torn asphalt in his wake. His slipstream carries it forwards, pelting Genm with chunks of pavement as he abruptly jukes right at the last second to hurl a vicious jab into the other rider's ribs with a war cry. "HAAAH!" His knee crashes into Genm's abdomen, and scarcely a second passes before another rev of the Driver has him on the opposite side, attempting to catch the other rider's arm in a joint lock and make a furious one, two, three knee strikes before sweeping with his left leg--again, trying to ground him. "YAHH!" The last strike in this powered-up assault is a haymaker driven into Genm's sternum just as the left sweep is made, using his leg as a fulcrum to drive the black and purple rider forcefully down. "If you're talking that way..." "You've never tried in your life!"
Hibiki Tachibana	Between all the hits that Genm is willingly(!?) taking and that haymaker blow she just delivered, Hibiki wants to hope that this'll be over sooner than she thinks. That hope is very quickly dashed by the time the Kamen Rider is pulling himself upright again, and the determined look on her face changes to one of surprise at the state of his health bar. It filled back up...!? What the hell? "Of course I'm not gonna understand if you keep being a cryptic asshole! ...But you're not taking anything from me!" Those words don't stop her from promptly getting rocked however, with the speed that Genm can approach with despite all the additions to his suit catching her off-guard. The first punch slips past her guard and forces a one-eye-shut-one-wide wince of pain that leaves her open just long enough for the rest of the barrage to slip through, until the final one-two sends her first down onto her hands and knees, and then flat into the dirt. Only for her gauntlets to clutch into the dirt, and for the magical girl to pry her face off the ground. "And I'm...not much of a fan of the way you talk either!" The call comes out at the same time Mach comes revving in, giving her an opportunity to bring herself back up to a knee - and the spring herself forward in a low to the ground leap. In the middle of the Rider's beatdown, she comes in with a fly-by swing with her left fist that leaves a trail of definitely not CGI'd ice in its wake to freeze over where she strikes. "None of us are gonna lose to someone stuck-up enough to call themselves a god!" She keeps going past, only to twist around and plant her boots down to skid to a stop and lunge back the way she came. Another full-speed passby that has Hibiki throwing the other hand forward this time, striking the same point with flaming fury. As everyone knows, the heat will do extra-effective damage.
Xion	'My status isn't negotiable.' Shin (God) Kamen Rider Genm Level X (EX) declares, as his health bar refills. Xion's hooded head lifts, eyes shining in cool defiance. "Just because-" She gets out, before Mach is hurled into her, the white-and-red armored rider collapsing into her arms. Heaving Mach for a moment as her keyblade Starlight clatters to the ground and fades into a dull silver set of twinkles, Xion grunts and slides back, pressured by the eruption of Shin (God) X (EX) power. "... Just because you've got more acronyms doesn't mean you're better than me. Does using that Gashat make you a God, Genm? Okay." Mach bursts forward, while Xion stances, both hands reaching into her coat to draw items: Gashats. From her right wrist, a red-and-white charm bracelet hangs that wasn't there before. "Then I'll understand it myself." Her right hand thumbs the first Gashat's action stud. MIGHTY ACTION X Her crossed and presenting left hand thumbs the second. ACTION FIFTY TWO! "I'll break through your godhood - at Mach speed." Her dangling Mach-themed bracelt shines a blinding white, as, driverless, the crackling RGB immensity of Fifty-Two action games and thus fifty-two times the p-P-P-POWER scattering pixellated lightning bolts and stars from her left hand. From her right, a monochrome world of greyscale LCD expands, dappled in magenta. Body, and coat, become uncertain, as she is the silhouette under a symphony of lights and blurring, mingling color effects. From the distance, an engine roars, thunder-loud, a supercar tearing down a mountain path. From above the stadium, a flash of yellow-and-black arcs into Xion's back like a low-flying bumblebee-beam and detonates the eruption of power into a collapsing column. After burning the SFX budget of the entire season, what steps forth is a menacing, motocross-like helmet with crowned visor of regal bearing over a pair of prominent goggles and narrowed eyes flecked like two spedometers, the eyebrow-hatches burning in time with a distant 'vroom broom!'. Blank but for a spiked, tooth-or-fang pattern across the front of the face, the armor's bulk bears the RGB Action Suit look as an underarmor, with the red meshed with highlights of Dead Heat Mach's accessorizing and racing lines. A black scarf sweeps back like a regal shoulder-cape. From nowhere, a loud horn fanfare plays. <THE MOMENT OF THE PROMISED FINISH LINE> Xion lifts her hand imperiously, as counter-villain pyros detonate with gusto all beneath and underneat Shin Genm X EX. "Bow down before your god, then. Shin (God) Mighty Action X X." Pronounced 'Key EX'. As she clenches an armored fist, a ripple of RGB reveals the heads of baseball bats, tennis rackets, and basketballs. "Level Fifty-Two."
Staren	Staren asks for understanding, and gets it. She winces a bit upon the vision of a child genius, dealing with his mother's death and his father's betrayal. And yet... And yet... he doesn't care about all this. This is just a test, there's no 'I'll use this power so that no one else is hurt like this sgain' or the like. Staren looks... sad. Pitying. It overshadows her annoyance at the DISSING going on. And he's just tanking all this shit. How do people DO that? Staren looks a little surprised. Staren's used arm-blasters for years and recognizes the motion. Evasive action and a shield are already up, a bubble of force briefly appearing around Staren to absorb the blast. Constructs are hacked to pieces by chainsaw, but they've done their job. Staren sighs. "You know what, I was gonna do a whole BIT here. Throw things used uncomprehendingly, without finesse or synthesis of why they worked where they worked, at you, and show they had a quantity to them, but weren't a match for someone like you." She dismounts, floating gently to land atop the fallen spiderbot, making an arm-sweeping gesture at the chainsawed construct pieces. The spiderbot rumbles, magical senses picking up on some contingent effect popping off involving bad sacrificial juju, and the earth and debris in the area suddenly gloms onto the spiderbot, making a bigger, rock-and-metal spider-shaped golem (Staren perfectly times a little jump so her feet aren't stuck in it) which then stands menacingly. "Oh look," Staren says sarcastically, "I took THIS thing, and added magic to it, and now after you killed it once it came back and now it's bigger. This is going to be, like, SO effective at stopping you now that it's just a big dumb rock and can't even use its acid or what intelligence it once had." She continues, dryly, "This was a brilliant and innovative idea. I am a genius." Staren takes a deep breath, and sighs. "And THEN, I was going to discuss what I just did, how peering into your mind was actually USEFUL. Maybe demonstrate some other stuff. But what's the point?" Staren shrugs, palms-up. "You don't care about anyone you hurt. Nothing I can do will show you the right way, because you can't understand why it's right. The others are probably doing a better job of teaching all that, anyway." She punches her open palm a couple of times (and then shakes her hand, ow that stings) "So I'm gonna stop you, get your nonsense off the board..." she smiles, "...and then pick through your stuff for anything worth using to help other people." Staren makes a sweeping gesture with her right hand, coat and skirt fluttering dramatically in the wind as a WHOLE LOT OF MISSILES warp in around her and immediately launch at Genm Level 52XX (God), homing and airbursting and generally making his immediate vicinity extremely unpleasant to be in due to high explosives and directed lances of high-energy physics. (Staren's forcefield flickers on to protect her from any part of the blast that reaches her, except for MORE DRAMATIC COAT BILLOWING.)
Chase	Shin (God) Genm Level X (EX), predictably, does not bother to dodge again as he's pelted with concrete and then pummeled by Go and Hibiki, simply laughing as the Kamen Rider's fists and feet knock him around before ultimately sending him crashing into the ground, his armor warped and cracked from the combination of heat, cold, and brutal melee. And again, it doesn't bother him, as he sweeps his feet to try and knock Mach down as he picks himself back up, chaining it together with a blast from his arm mounted blaster shot at Hibiki's right arm. "Gods don't have to try. I'm simply gifted to succeed. Admittedly, I've had quite a few failures, but the difference is I'm resourceful enough to make my failures useful. And again, if you're done talking, hand over that Gashat of yours." Staren talks, and Genm listens. Perhaps listens a bit too well, as there's an almost sinister silence that exudes from them as they stare at them with their weird combination mascot/compound eyes. It finally dawns on the Kamen Rider what she's doing, but by the time it does he's engulfed in a violent torrent of missiles and explosions... ACTIONING CRITICAL FINISH!!! Lunging out of the explosion with a full HP Bar like some sort of video game grasshopper, Genm delivers a MIGHTY flying roundhouse kick full of HATE and retro 90's SFX flare directly into Staren's loveable catgirl face. It doesn't actually take esper abilities to know that Genm now wants her dead by his actions alone, but between a feeling of anger and feeling personally violated, Staren /REALLY/ knows he's not happy. Rebounding off the attack, they gain their footing only to get hit by a wave of budget eating CGI sports equipment. He reacts accordingly, by nearly falling over while sparks fly from his armor, but eventually, given his massive girth, he fights his way to a standing position, before disappearing through the ground in an extremely glitch-like fashion. He reappears behind Xion, wrapping an arm around them before their head into their ear to say something only to them. "Your sins are unforgivable, but since I'm a benevolent God. If you want to learn my true goals and join me, you know in your heart where I am." Xion can probably pick up the smell of overheated circuitry and burning plastic, right before Shin (God) Genm Level X (Ex) judo throws her into the ground full force. Honestly it's kind of rude of him to do that after offering a heart to heart(?), but black and purple kamen riders always act mysteriously.
Go Shijima	I've gotta admire Hibiki's spirit... He laughs, though it's pained from the exertion the suit is taking on top of the exhaustion from his previous encounter. "Hheh. I lose all the time," he says proudly. "But it's not about the finish line. You three are right... before we do anything else, he's got to be stopped." He's in the zone. It's been a while since he's been here even at peak performance, much less beaten halfway to hell and back. When Genm tries that sweep, he's ready for it mentally, his body lagging behind just enough for it to catch his inner leg. Mach quickly adjusts, changing his stance with an agile hop and a shout. Mach makes a nimble sideways moonsault to leap clear of Staren's missiles, landing with a pained grunt, panting. Xion has his back. More than that, she has an extremely colorful, high-speed combination of... A gashat and my Mach Driver?! Nice work, Xion! We might just... stop him. Hah, of course. Mach slots a tiny bike into a chamber in the Zenrin Shooter. STOP "Everyone! Pile on everything you have--I'll hold him as long as I can!" The Zenrin Shooter fires a red tangle of electricity that quickly expands into a triangular hard light stop sign, threatening to envelop Genm and overwhelm him with oppressive, time-dilating Heaviness. That's not the only one. As the trigger is held down, a full-auto mode is enabled, swarms of time-dilating red lightning clusters flying angrily towards Genm. Endurance is this rider's specialty--but Mach is hoping to neutralize that advantage by forcing him to eat everyone's attacks with minimal ability to fight back! "Huh?" Hard-light power tools appear all over his body, stripping and replacing the blown-out tire in seconds. 748 - PIT PIT CHANGE "Mach 555 can do that?! Awesome!" He immediately mashes the driver and makes the tire blowout again, the swarming shots growing larger and meaner as the suit once again redlines.
Hibiki Tachibana	Hibiki is left skidding to a halt, panting with some light exertion. Even now, he's just taking hits without caring...and his tune isn't changing at all. The fact they're not getting anywhere is, she can't hide it, frustrating. If his 'health bar' will keep resetting the way it did, is he actually as invincible as the 'god' title makes him sound...? That moment of emotion is enough that the blaster shot catches her reacting slower than normal, striking clean against a portion of bare skin on her right arm and sending her recoiling back. "Agh...!" She catches herself after a few steps, clutching onto where she was struck. It doesn't actually hurt all that much, compared to plenty of things before. But it inflicts just enough of an emotional jolt, having her arm in specific targeted, that she's left wincing and stuck in place briefly - long enough to watch Genm get /really/ angry, something she doesn't need any powers to be able to tell. The sheer malice with which he goes to Rider Kick Staren with tells enough. Xion's words ring through her ears. 'He is the one who's already hurt. He either needs a godlike power to be healed, or to start walking again, himself. That's what his heart says.' "What his heart says..." 'He won't listen to just our words - we have to reach him with our own powers first.' "So it's like that again...alright!" As usual, Xion knows exactly how to put it. And she had the right of it; there's not going to be any reaching or understanding if they don't stop Genm first. So she will. She can't help but get all her energy back at once with Shin (God) Mighty Action Key EX (spelled X X) taking the field, Mach doing his best to make an opening, and Staren bringing all her firepower to bear. "Nice lockdown, Go! And you...! If you think Shin Action 52 makes you a god, let's put to the test! And if you want this Gashat back--!" The magical girl re-enters her ready stance, body tensing up and heels digging into the ground. This is normally the part where her gauntlets would transform themselves, her Symphogear's internal energy being put towards an explosive finish. But with the vaguely plastic-y equipment added on by Kasai Breathers, both dragon heads instead begin spilling out an excess of heat and cold, filling the air around her before they suddenly swallow it back up. "Then you can TAKE IT ALL!" She punches them both forward simultaneously, all the built-up energy released in an explosive, high-budget eruption of red and blue light that become somewhat less high budget pixelized dragons of the same hue. They let out 8-bit roars as they surge forward, twisting around one another on their path towards Genm, until both of them speed up to crash directly into him and detonate into a massive two-colored explosion!
Xion	Unloading a harrowing Sports Network Synapse Attack, Xion still has to recoil at the sheer relentlessness of the Real Deal. Her medallion copies had the power of her collected feelings and magic: KR Genm simply had the objects to draw power from. As exploding basketballs pelt and detonate, Xion's RGB-and-Racer-X form is seized from behind by the game-breaking regeneration of the glitch-god Shin (God) Genm Level X (EX). Lifted slightly, she struggles and maneuvers around the hold for a moment, mashing through grab frames and bringing her elbow back for a violent strike-- To hear a voice. A voice of a creepy person, whispering 'hey if you'd like to join my shady number organization to stop the REAL darkness' or something alike, holds her attack in a violent escrow - paused while readied. The readiness becomes moot as Shin (God) Genm Level X (EX) judo throws her into the pavement, causing a large ground explosion that chunks up the earth in cartoonish voxels that rise and about 70% fall back in the right place, another 20% falling in the wrong places, and 10% simply disappearing. Action 52 is not a stable power, and neither is Genm's Proto Mighty Action X. That the spine of Xion's 'Shin (God) Mighty Action X (Key) X (EX) Level 52' was actually the racer-Rider power of Mach spoke more to the stability and performance of that suit than any insane overreach of power fusion to match a god at their own game. They were the Game-Master. It was appropriate. Rolling to a knee and then simply jittering frames to a standing posture, Xion rights as Go charges, laying down that STOP-sign blast. "Sometimes - the right path forward is a pit stop!" She offers, before clapping her fist into her hand with an audible 'whump-whump'. "And sometimes, it's definitely time to switch it up to take advantage of the friends in your reach -- not just the people who need help. If you'll hold him still - I'll bring the power!" Raising her right fist high, she begins to toku shout, loudly. "CHEETAH CHANGE!" As she does, the waves of golden light that had rippled and pelted and blasted away with the multitudes of SPORTS and ADVENTURE games condenses and spins together in a large ball about her fist that compresses and condenses until the armored fist is coated in a brilliant yellow-gold. Touching fist to opposite armored-palm, the metal stretches, spotted in pools of black like cooled rocks floating on magma. "Hercules Power!" The hand-coating crawls and expands like large paw-gauntlets over her hands, vaguely reminiscent of Hibiki's large punching pistons, with cat-clawed articulated fingers in the gauntlets. Following up Mach's swarm of shots, Xion's absurd bellow is thankfully drowned out by thunderous swarms of bursting weapons fire. "This Shin (God) Mighty Action X (Key) X (EX) Level 52 isn't just for show!" With her 52 levels of power all focused into the fisticuffs, Xion looks to follow up Go's faith... with force. Her high powered flurry finishes with a lunging strike that drags space-rending THE CHEETAHMEN (TM) infringement claws across the Gamemaster's latest powered form in an X-cut. "Together with Hibiki -- You can't hold all of the power of your games! It's bigger than you! One person can't own an idea!"
Staren	Staren does briefly look shocked at the intensity of the anger and violation. Like, she wasn't even snarking or lashing out this time! And even when she does, it never hurts people that deeply! Shocked, though. Not afraid. This dude isn't Lilian. People like that wouldn't be having this fight in the first place... The spider-golem rears up. It doesn't manage to take the full hit, but even catching the kick partway is enough to shatter most of the earth and debris, breaking the enchantment and leaving the cut-apart clockwork spider collapsed in a puddle of oil and vaguely organic-looking fluids leaking out of... maybe don't examine that too closely. The oil promptly ignites from the SFX sparks and burns with intense heat and an unearthly, bone-chilling SCREAM that immediately fades from relevance and into the general background pyrotechnics of a multiversal toku fight. Staren had raised her arms in a defensive gesture, a vambrace projecting some sort of beam shield appearing on one arm, then immediately overloading as the kick continues and encounters magic defenses like supernaturally-tough steel. The catgirl fails to completely muffle a groan of pain as her arms are kicked into her, but she's focused on using flight magic to NOT get kicked far through the air but instead arrest her movement after several feet. Pain is briefly visible on her face before tiny robots in her blood pump her full of drugs. (She could have used the other forcefield and been kicked across the arena like a hamsterball, but she's trying to be impressive here, dammit!) "A god. You really haven't done your homework... Gods who expect everything handed to them on a silver platter because of the title meet sad ends." Her stern tone briefly becomes more sad as she finishes that sentence. Staren looks over at him fighting Xion. "Listen to yourself. Who would follow you? Sins, forgiveness... You play at being a god, but these are empty words. There isn't even the consideration of the consequences of your actions -- if not for others, than for yourself, and the world you walk in." Staren's already got an idea of what to do here, but how to make sure it has the chance to work? Go provides the answer, doing everything in his power to lock Genm down. Staren takes a breath, and then-- Suddenly, she's flying at near-highway-speed through the air, clothes continuing to flutter dramatically, as she angles around Go's hard-light attacks. "It's time to take the toys away!" She doesn't even bother NOT telegraphing her attack, pulling one arm back-- --and then she's floating next to Genm, right hand thrust out. The vambrace has been replaced by a black, cylindrical assembly with a thick golden ring with a spike through it at the base, capped by metal on the end around her wrist. A slim copper cylinder is slotted in, and from it, wires run here and there around the device, connecting to embedded bits of jade and black tourmalines according to some rules of magic circuitry which aren't immediately apparent. Staren spreads her fingers and the whole assembly glows a somehow ominous magenta-pink -- in the light cast by it, Staren's colors seem to temporarily change, her boots and shirt and hair gold, her skirt still black, her coat and scarf brown like a trenchcoat, and her eyes red -- but, more importantly, the magic imitation of Forte's abilities reaches out hungrily for data to destroy and absorb. Hopefully it will do something to that damn suit and the Gashat. The light makes Staren's grimace look sinister, but really, she's just thinking IhopethisworksIhopethisworksIhopethisworks...!
Chase	Shin Genm Level X is held in place by a big dumb CGI stop sign and properly seasoned with electrical clusters to make him perfect combo food for the rest of the team. Truly, Kamen Rider Mach 555 is the people's Rider. Hibiki burns more of the OVA's already negative budget by delivering a powerful red and blue powered CGI punch, followed by Xion's fist of fur(r)y. The poor material that makes up the Rider's armor flex and buckle under the might of the attack, before the stop sign holding him in place breaks and he's sent flying. Capping it off is Staren and her legally distinct Mega Man beam. It's hard to tell if the data eating property is doing anything, given the fact that he's just consumed in a column of pink as he's sent flying into another part of the stadium. Really, that should be the end of that, but unfortunately, the pile of rubble moves, and Genm stands up once again... And then the HP Bar fills back up. Genm lets out another deranged laugh. "You think I sit on my laurels and profit off your scraps!? For someone who dares to walk in other people's heads without permission and preach about trampling on others,you really haven't picked up anything. Everything you see before you is the-" His explanation is cut short as the Action Master 52 Gashat starts heavily smoking inside the Gamer Driver. A jolt of electricity freezes the Rider in place, and he lets out a series of distorted grunts as he tries to get his body to move. "What is- ???" He's cut short yet again, the distinctive sound of a sniper rifle being fired fills the air as a bullet hits his Game Driver and dislodges the Action Master 52 Gashat, causing it to clatter on to the ground. Genm, predictably, bails the moment he's capable of moving, placing a new Gashat into a holster into the side of his belt which summons a bicycle he begins to ride away on at high speeds. "Go, The Gashat." The source of the bullet, and the voice, can be traced to yet another Kamen Rider on the scene. This one, rather than being black and purple, is a garish dark navy blue and bright light green. He also, somehow, looks even meaner. At the very least however, he's not shooting at the group.
Go Shijima	Mach removes the Dead Heat shift car from the Driver. Good Work! "Sure thing," he says, unsuited and covered in welts and bruises from a very trying couple of days. Raggedly shuffling over to the dislodged Gashat, he picks it up. He has a Feeling he knows who helped them out. But it would be rude to say it outright. So instead, he tosses it into the air, catching it--nearly falling over as he agitates a wound and doing a really awkward and uncool stumble-walk to keep from eating shit--then coughs and pretends no one saw. "I'll make sure this gets to... someone who can synthesize a vaccine." "Thanks."
Hibiki Tachibana	If /that/ didn't do it, she's not sure how far they'll have to go to make something stick. That's what Hibiki thinks, tensely, until the rubble that Genm is buried under rises up once again. "He's still not down yet...!?" She's only left to purse her lips tightly at the Kamen Rider going off on Staren, unable to say anything. There's not much she /can/ say. Whoever Genm really is, they must have taken the intrusion very personally. Even so...if he's still going to give his godly speeches and refuse any chance at a proper dialogue, they'll just have to keep going until something gets-- Oh. Action Master 52 going on the fritz actually surprises her, in a good way...and double as much when the Gashat is removed from his hold entirely thanks to a well-placed shot. "...! Wait!" Rather than finding the source immediately, her attention is snatched by Genm putting the pedal to the metal and sports biking away, leading her to start running after him. She makes it only a few steps before she realizes that there's no keeping up with such furious biking after two fights back-to-back, and slows to a stop with a frown. So as her own Gashat-created greebles vanish back into particles, she turns to glance back towards the Kamen Rider who'd assisted them. "Um..." She glances to Go retrieving the Gashat, and then back. She looks like she's not sure what to say. "...Yeah. Thanks. I don't want to know what would have happened if he kept ahold of that." She glances back in the direction that their foe shredded off in. "But now that this has happened...what's he going to do next?" She stops and pauses like that's going to be episode end, only to double-take back towards their helper. "Wait, you're a friend of Go's? ...Did you just get here, or were you just watching this whole time?"
Staren	Staren does bow her head slightly at being told off for peeking at Genm's past. She hoped the nature of the attack would be especially effective at disabling the Action Master 52; The imitation doesn't actually convey Forte's full data absorption abilities, so it's hard for her to judge what she deleted/damaged, but what's important is that one way or another it is disabled. She looks around for the sniper, sees them not preparing another shot, and launches into her lecture. "I respect your achievement; it really was formidable. But your manner... As Hibiki said, before anything else, you had to be stopped. I'll, uh... let the magical girl and the heart expert take it from here." She glances at Hibiki and Xion, before walking over to-- oh, Go already got it. "...You can make a Bugster vaccine from this?" Staren looks at the Action 52, then at her imitation buster, wondering if she can find some way to recover the data currently being eaten 'inside' it. She looks up at Go and pats him on the shoulder. "Godspeed, then. I just want this business to be over." Oh right, there's a new person. Staren looks over at Snipe. "So, uh, who are you? And what's your deal?"
Xion	Snipe's arrival doesn't surprise Shin (God) Mighty Action X (Key) X (EX) Level 52, but, in her mildly glitchy high-powered state, replete with power Cheetahman Change energy still rippling off of her, she has a moment of tension as Genm goes for another Gashat. It escapes her as he pedals furiously away. Pulling the Shin (God) Mighty Action X (Key) X (EX) Level 52 'Gashat' (really, a complex motorcycle with weird color-coded wheels on a keychain, that--) Clearing her form in a fading collapse highly similar to Mach's armor, Xion lets out a hard exhale, looking deflated in a literal sense afterward. "That kind of power... That's a lot. Thanks for helping us get through it, Snipe." Nodding to Go, Xion shakes off her hands at the wrists and works her fists closed and open, before giving a lazy salute to Staren. "Thanks for helping, you too. Hibiki and I have been trying to work on this Bugster thing, and Go has been doing an investigation... that's turned up some friends! If more happens, we'll try to let you know." Looking between the two remaining Kamen Riders one more time, Xion hops over to Hibiki tiredly. "Glad you held onto what was yours, Hibiki."
Chase	"You could save time and just give the gashat to me, but I suppose you want to do things 'professionally'. Well, 'he'll' be waiting at the usual place." Despite the gruffness of Snipe's voice, he seems weirdly laid back about the Action Master 52 gashat. Probably because he assumes Go 'knows'. He knows, of course, so it only makes sense SuperStar Detective boy over there does as well. It's just really sound logic. Jumping down from his sniping spot, the Kamen Rider folds his rifle down into a more manageable pistol before attaching it on to a hardpoint on the side of his belt. "Both of your questions don't matter. I did what I did because I could. Be glad I'm not taking your gashat as well. Though..." Snipe stares at Hibiki and Xion with his one uncovered eye, before pointing at them with a raised finger. "Next time, I'm taking yours." There's a surprising amount of seriousness in his tone that makes it sound like he actually means it, but if that were the case, it'd make more sense for him to try and take them now. It doesn't matter though, he's already turning around to simply walk away... Because he doesn't even have a BMX bike, nevermind a motorcycle... Someone please help the Ex-Aid Kamen Riders, they are seriously lacking in the Rider department.