Chap 72: ending shocker 3
Adding the entrance of Takune, they can face them more efficiently now.
Grabbing one by the throat, he bashes her face in a single punch. Spinning to a kick behind him, his leg crushed the fake rider's ribs and folded her body. Kicking one of them, Ichigo sent them into a ball of flame, and they exploded. Nigou sent a punch right through the gut of the final one; pulling out, she walked away as the last cyborg lost too much blood, and parts that helped her were also destroyed.
They all jump to the door leading to the director, pushing the door to meet her. She sat with her back relaxed in a reclining chair; her demeanor was completely calm.
"So, you have switch sides now ?" She said plainly.
"Yeah, i didn't really get a chance to voice my opinion on that matter. Consider this my resignation letter."
Charging up, he twisted his arm and punched into a wall. His eyes widened in surprise; looking at the wall that had just been erected, he found it to be translucent.
'A force field!?' recognition showed through their voice.
"Well, I have thought of that. I even try to activate the chip in your head again, now that I have seen you have no intention of serving for S.H.O.C.K.E.R in my own eyes. It is my regret to fire you now." She made a final speech, loud and clear for all of them to hear.
The force field formed a globe shield protecting the director, who then pressed some button on a nearby panel.
The whole room shakes, walls fall apart, and mechanical parts surround the director. Connecting metal parts together as the whole building was unable to withstand the changes and then fell down.
Standing on the debris in the air, the double riders quickly maneuver their way by jumping on each block down. Neo didn't bother to do it; instead, he focused the energy on his suit. Lines around his suit began to glow, creating bug-like wings slowing his descent as he glided down.
Turning their eyes to the flying globe in the sky, encased in metal, they can see many more parts also made of metal materials being pushed toward her via rocket thruster.
They turn with clicks and turn of mechanical sounds, and they transform into a giant resemble a giant beetle-like creature; with one long horn that is essentially the main cannon, equipped with many turrets and missile launchers set in various positions on its body.
"Damn it, we were so close to her." Nigou angrily muttered.
'Hey, you know about this thing ?' Ichigo asked him through the link.
'Yes, i fought a prototype of this thing before.' He said, recalling when he was shot down by it, 'i lost though, wasn't even able to get close to it.'
Ichigo frowned as she heard it, a weapon like that would be hard to take down. She wasn't sure if they could take it on.
'I can, however, take a guess as to where its power source is. At such a size, it must consume a high quantity of energy to operate.'
Under their augmented eyes, they scanned, and sure enough. In the core, there exists a huge core that's letting out a high-power reading to them.
"You see that Nigou ?" She asked her friend.
"Yeah, i got the jiss of it now. We just need to break that core, and the giant beetle will go down, correct ?" She replied with eagerness in her voice.
"First, we need to drag it down low enough for us, uh..." Ichigo paused, "what do you say, kamen rider Neo ?"
"Hmmm...kamen rider Neo huh? I like it." If one can see behind Takune's helmet, they could find a smile plaster across his face.
Three of them began to put energy through their augmented legs and then dive forward in a flash of green.
Neo flies around, dodging turret bullets as they shoot at him. Doing a couple of barrel rolls before doing a dropkick, slamming his feet into the hard shell that made up the huge machine body.
"Hahaha! Did you really think your pitiful strength could even dent the great Shocker Obliterator? Its armor is forged from the strongest alloys known to man, powered by the energy core of a sun! Your futile efforts are nothing but entertainment to me. Now, kneel before Shocker's invincible might!" The director watches the failed attack with a smug grin, crossing her arms as sparks harmlessly bounce off the tank's impenetrable armor. The attacks didn't do much other than to push her creation down by a few meters.
Which didn't matter much because of the height they were on; even if they used all of their might, the double rider could touch her all the way up here. She threw her head back in mocking laughter, her hand then moved in a taunting movement, daring them to try again.
*BANG*
"What the..." A shake was felt, and the director was almost thrown off her seat by the sudden jerk of the whole machine.
Adjusting her hat, her eye then hovers over the monitoring system of the bug tank. She detected injury to the lower part of the tank. Switching to the camera, she got an eye visual of the double rider using their bike as a boost to ram into her vehicle. Their crash resulted in the abdominal part of the machine that was damaged.
'No, they didn't.' Her mind caught up a bit late to the already successful plan of these despicable riders. 'The core, they entered my machine to destroy it from the inside.'
"What were you saying again ? Our futile attempts were nothing but entertainment ?" A mocking voice coming from a female sounded through her coms, it was Ichigo.
"Tell me, oh great leader of shocker. Are you not entertained ?!" Neo shouted loudly from the outside as he shifted his body in the air continuously, away from bullets fire and sending powerful hits here and there to annoy her even more.
Gritting her teeth, "I won't lose. Not like this, not without accomplishing the dream." She said anger escaping from her lips.
Quickly, she adjusts by pressing buttons on one of the many panels inside her control room.
'Switching to the autopilot mode, for now, I will handle these riders' nuisance myself.' She thought, getting up from her seat.
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"Here this should be the core, right behind this door." Ichigo and Nigou go through the spiraling corridor of pipes and running engines inside the giant machine.
The inside hallway is long and dimly lit, with overhead beams running along the length of the ceiling, creating a sense of compression. The walls are clad in metal smooth surfaces. The air is tinged with the scent of engine oil; they step on the clanking metal floor, guiding them further deep to the heart.
They searched to finally get to the core, as it was behind just a flimsy metal door.
"Leaving your comrade outside by himself to fend for himself, how un-madam like of you. Ichigo." The director greets them in a mocking voice, her face showing a stern expression.
"He is a kamen rider, like us." Ichigo said.
"And we wouldn't fail his trust either." Nigou said.
"Trust heh, what rubbish." She made a dash forward.
At once, the double rider rushed to meet her fist first.
*Bang*
Both punches were caught by a clawed hand, twisting them. The director transformed in a short moment, flipping them in above the ground before tossing them full force away.