Chap 142: just like him
"It's him again." A male voice said.
Two people, both are watching Shin Godzilla and Takumi as Ultraman fighting across the city.
"Should we go there and take him down?" The second voice asks.
"Let's wait a bit. I wanna see if he'll actually do it."
"Why wait, you think he'll do any good?"
"Can't be too quick to judge a person." The voice said, before stepping through a gray veil.
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Godzilla’s grotesque body writhes against him. With a determined shout, Takumi surges upward, his silver and red body streaking through the smoke.
His arms locked around the creature’s neck and shoulders. The ground shatters beneath their combined weight, the two titans rise skyward, cutting through layers of clouds like a silver spear dragging a burning mountain.
Godzilla thrashes violently, its tail whipping and splitting the air like thunderclaps. Each movement sends searing blood leaking from its wounds, splattering like molten rain.
Takumi’s grip tightens, his body straining, trembling as he breaks through the upper atmosphere.
As they reached the edge of space, Godzilla began to glow an intense purple. As its mouth opened, Takumi summoned an item to his palm and shoved it right into its mouth. Twisting his body, he let go and kicked Shin's belly with both legs, sending himself far away from the explosion that was about to occur.
That's all the power he has left, and the beeping from his timer stopped. As he begins his descent, Earth’s blue curve reflects across his silver body. The red light now gone, his body can't sustain the form of the silver giant. His body slowly faded into tiny particles, leaving the unconscious body of Takumi to crash back into the earth.
"Since I don't have my beam attack, I guess a nuke could do the same job." The height they were at wasn't enough for him to throw Shin to space.
*BOOM!* An explosion blooms silently in the void, a radiant storm of red, and violet light.
The Tsar Bomba activated inside of Shin Godzilla's mouth. Shredding Shin's body into many smaller chunks, the falling lumps of flesh started to be pulled back to the earth to be disintegrated.
Takumi had purposely taken her height just enough to be pulled back to earth by gravity, so if the bomb can't incinerate all of her cells, then she'll be burnt to a crisp upon re-entry.
Takumi, being drained from all the fighting, closed his eyes. His body is also drifting back down. Unable to see that some unknown hands are grabbing hold of his body.
"Hey, you're finally awake." Takumi awoke to a voice, sat up straight, and saw himself in some room. He was lying on a bed, and someone was sitting next to him.
"Who-" he immediately went into defensive mode, jumping out of bed, he was about to attack the stranger.
"Wait, hey, hey, I'm friendly!" The stranger got up just abruptly.
Getting a good look at him, Takumi can only say this stranger is just that. A stranger, there wasn't anything that was too noticeable about him, an average face and height, his clothes seemed mundane, if anything, his vision can pick up though. There's an air of mystery surrounding him, but that part was rather easy to tell.
The memories of the event before he blacked out return, now facing a stranger like this. Takumi's head is filled with questions.
"Tell me, who are you? And what's your purpose for saving me ?"
The man in front of Takumi paused, as to consider how to talk to him.
"Ah, yes. Introduction, you can call me Ichika, as for my reason, I know what I'm about to say is important, but I need you not to overreact, ok?"
"Just out with it."
"I'm just like you, an otherworlder."
'Otherworlder!?' His mind, which was calming down, is suddenly put on high alert again.
"Yes, so let's be calm and reasonable here, I think we could-"
"Mahoraga!"
*BOOM*
The top of a building exploded out of nowhere, shocking the people around.
The stranger, Ichika, was violently flown back through a window by the shock from Mahoraga's sonic scream.
"Fine. There's always gotta be a brawl." As he said, a belt materialized around his waist.
"Henshin!" He slides the card into the slot, prompting the device to announce, “KAMEN RIDE: DECADE!”
The DecaDriver’s panels open like camera shutters, releasing light that projects multiple gray sets of armor around him. They all merge with Ichika’s body, pixelating and assembling his Rider armor. Cards flying into his head gear like a bar code, bringing color into his suit with a flash, armor in magenta. With some white and black mixed in, the eyes of his armor are green and there's a gem glowing with purple energy on his forehead.
The transformation completes, accompanied by the echoing call: “Kamen Rider... DECADE!”
'Transformation?' Takumi sees the man put something into his white belt.
Mahoraga charged right in front, her punch was about to land when some gray armor blocked the hit, some cards then flew and hit her backwards. Before coming to Ichika, he completed his transformation.
Ichika, the Kamen Rider, landed on a building across from Takumi. The two stared at each other.
Takumi saw him insert a new card into his belt and, without hesitation, ordered Mahoraga.
"Block it!"
[Attack ride: Blast]
In Ichika's hand is a gun, taking aim at him. The gun split into four more purple versions of itself. When Ichika pressed on the trigger, all the guns unleashed a rapid volley of glowing energy bullets.
The rapid volleys of magenta energy tear through the air, each explosion shaking the ground as they hit the back of Mahoraga. Her colossal form covers Takumi.
The shikigami staggered under the relentless assault, its body scorched and cracked by the Rider’s dimensional energy.
*clink*
"Take me away from here." The giant Shikigami picks him up, bending her knees to gather the strength before bouncing off into the air. Pushing her feet back, she kicks the air again, creating a sonic explosion as they try to run.
"Don't think you can leave that easily." He pulls out another card and slides it into his belt.
[Attack ride: Wizard]
Takumi mind is bewilderd by this turns of event, the first time meeting an otherworlder like himself, his usual calm demeanor fallen into shamble.
His previous encounter of a otherworlder still left him with a bit of unease so he really can't trust this guy.
"Get me far from here." Hearing him, Mahoraga continously kicks through the air. Breaking the sound barrier as they were above the ocean.
"Why are you even running." Decade loudly ask, not so far, actually, he was closly catching up to him.
Takumi can hear a roar of some creature, turning back, he spoted Ichika riding a dragon chasing him.
Isn't obvious ? He was buying time, no way he's going to fight him alone. This was just tactic so he can wait until his other bodies arrived.
Putting his hand together, "take care of the dragon!" He told Mahoraga. She just nodded and let him go, from his shadow came Nue for him to land on.
Spreading her form wide out to let the air drag her back, she falls directly on the dragon and started to fight it.
The two beast tangle of with each other, the dragon clawing and bitting at Mahoraga who has her blade arm slashing and beating at the dragon. The two locking in a death grip.
"That should buy me some time." Just then.
[Final attack ride:Decade]
Yellow cards project through the air, they move to line themself like a auto aiming missile to chase right behind Takumi. His heart began to race uncontrolblely, looking franticly, he threw out all the talisman he have in his inventory.
Focusing his mind, he chanted, pouring all the curse energy he can into them. Forming a sphere barrier to protect him.
*whosh* *whoosh* *whoosh*
Ichika, his body apear and vanish through the cards in a flying kick pose, the last card landed on Takumi's barrier and Ichika body went through it.
*BOOM!*
When his kick connects, a devastating explosion engulfs Takumi entirely and warps the surrounding space.
Ichika stared at a body wraped in fire falling down to the ocean, just as a white object flew pass him.
*BOOM*
Turning back to another explosion, he saw that his dragon was killed and blown up.
"Hmm." As he was falling straight down, Ichika remain in a standing posture as the fall didn't affect him at all, his hand took out another card.
[Kamen ride: kuuga-ULTIMATE]