ICABW - RPM StrikerS 3

[drunkenpandaren]

Magical Chronicle RPM StrikerS 3


Shamal was woken to the sound of violence. The yells of their new tenant Eiji Hino, along with the crashing of Vita’s mallet and Hayate trying to calm them all down. There was the sound of Signum’s weapon going off and Zafira trying to attack something that resounded in bouncing off her bedroom wall from the other side.

Grumbling, she hauled herself out of bed and put on her housecoat and asked “What is going on in… here…?”

She was treated to the sight of Eiji trying to wrestle with a disembodied arm, Vita tugging at it, Hayate standing back being protected by Signum and Rein cheering with little pompoms.

Shamal blinked. And decided to put on some coffee because lord knows it was one thing she didn’t screw up.


“So your name is Anhk,” said Hayate once they had gotten the disembodied arm in binds. Signum and Vita loomed menacingly and if it was possible for an arm to GLARE it would be. “And you need the red coin that Eiji-san has?”

“It’s my Core Medal woman,” snapped Anhk. “Tell him to give it back!”

“I would if you didn’t attack me first!” exclaimed Eiji hotly. “What kind of person comes into a room and demands in the middle of the night?”

“Batman?” inquired Rein. They rolled their eyes at that.

“Right. And what will you do with that?” inquired Signum, pressing the edge of her sword at his pinky. “Answer well, or loose a few fingers.”

“Tch. Women.” Snorted Anhk. “Fine. I want it so that I can get more Cell Medals and fully revive.”

“So you need it to live huh?” said Vita. “You’re just going to attack us if we do right?”

“Like hell! Once I get my Core Medal from him, I’ll be on my way.” Snorted Anhk.

“I don’t trust him,” said Zafira. “He smells of lies.”

“I am a Greeed, I always lie,” snapped Anhk.

Eiji, who had been watching the byplay, decided as he walked over and held out the Core Medal. “Here. You’ll need this.”

“Eiji, what the hell?” demanded Vita as Anhk snatched it up and it was absorbed into his hand with a sigh. “What the heck?”

“Because, it’s a piece of him,” said Eiji reasonably at Vita’s temper. “And he just wanted it back.”

“Heh, you humans are so odd, being able to trust someone like me,” said Anhk. “We have nothing in common!”

“Yes we do,” said Eiji with a half-smile. “We met today. Which means we have something in common.”

“…. Tch.” Said Anhk. Hayate smothered a giggle, Shamal beamed and Vita blushed and looked away. Signum and Zafira shared a glance of “is he for real?” and Rein drank her tea.

“However, you attacked a TSAB household. This can’t stand. You’ll have to stay here with us.” Said Hayate. “We’ll deal with this in the morning.”

“I’ll make a barrier,” said Rein, floating towards Anhk who sweated at the sight of pure adorable in front of him.


“This is bullshit!” howled Anhk as he was pulled along in his binds. “I am not a dog on a leash that you can drag me anywhere!”

“Just for now,” said Rein with a giggle as she tugged Anhk along. “You need to get accustomed to this place first.”

“Ah leave me alone you tiny little pest!” exclaimed Anhk, trying to swat at her and missing.

“Not until you get a talking to Anhk-kun!”

“Who the hell are you calling Anhk-kun?!”

“This is who we’re supposed to look after?” asked Erio curiously as Rein nodded.

Agito on the other hand folded her arms. “Hey Lu, I think this guy looks shifty.”

Anhk’s fingers splayed menacingly. “Of course I’m shifty! I don’t need all of this bullshit!”

“That’s enough now,” said Rein, swatting him and earning a “Ow!” from the disembodied Greeed. “For now can you four look after him? We need to find out more about these Greeed before we let Anhk-kun go somewhere on his own.”

“I’m telling you I need to go and find my Core Medals and more Cell Medals!” snapped Anhk. “What’s wrong with that?!” A beat. “And stop calling me Anhk-kun!”


“Greeed huh?” said Yuuno, turning around in his chair. “I’ll look it up but it’ll take some time. Just a few hours tops.”

“Do what you can,” said Hayate. “For now we’ve got RPM looking after Anhk but if we’ve got more coming then we need to figure out what to do with this.”

“Right. Should I get our Not-Ranger-Business Specialists on the horn?”

Hayate thought for a moment and nodded. “Alright. Give it a shot.”

Yuuno nodded and tabbed the call over. After a minute or so, it picked up. “Narumi Detective Agency!” chirped a peppy young voice. “How many I direct your call?”

“Ah, Akiko-san? This is Yuuno of SPD.”

The caller blinked and grinned. “Yuuno-kun! Hi! You don’t need to be so formal! Are you looking for Shotarou-kun?”

“Him or Phillip,” said Yuuno. “Are they in?”

“Mmm no sorry, they’re on a case right now,” said Akiko, shaking her head. “You know them.” She panned the screen over to show the feminine-looking Phillip laying on the couch, a belt in the W position and passed out. “As you can see it’ll take them some time.”

“Ah, well I’m going to look into it on my end, but can you have Phillip look at this casefile for me? It’s on this new potential threat known as Greeed….”


This was part of the job she hated; talking to victims of attacks. Still, Vita was there with her ever-present shadow Eiji Hino behind her. The pair had become fast friends since they had met and Eiji wanted to learn more about being part of SPD.

“And this thing just popped out of you and ate the rings off your fingers?” inquired Vita of the distraught woman.

“Yes, it was a 15,000 dollar ring!” wailed the woman. “Can you get it back for me?”

Vita tried not to flinch at the loud tone. “We’ll do what we can.”

Heading back to the car, she met up with the two other officers that were on duty at that point in time. “Detective Izumi, what do you make of it?”

Shingo Izumi shrugged. “I’ve been on the beat for a while and I haven’t seen anything like this. I’m afraid I haven’t done anything Ranger-related yet while on beat save for the clean up on the Troobian attack.”

“So we’re looking for a Mummy-like thing?” inquired Eiji curiously and Izumi spared him a curious look. “Ah sorry. Didn’t mean to get in the way…”

“It’s quite alright,” said Shingo. “Vita-san, is this your new partner?”

“More like my shadow. Eiji wants to learn how SPD works and since this seems to be a related incident to last night, he wanted in.” said Vita. “Eiji Hino, Shingo Izumi, a recent transfer from Tokyo.”

“Nice to meet you,” said Eiji, bowing politely.

“Honored I’m sure,” said Shingo with a smile. “Vita-san, if there’s anything else we can do, please let me know.”

“For now, spread word out that any monster activity that isn’t pegged for Troobians let us know,” said Vita. “We need to figure out which ones are these Greeed things and which aren’t.”

Heading back to the vehicle, the pair got in as Vita started the car. “Tch, back to square one,” said Vita as she pulled away from the store.

“Greeed’s and Yummy is what Anhk told us?” said Eiji. “This is getting complex…”

“Yeah. Maybe you should head back to the base. If we get into an attack I wouldn’t want you to get hurt Eiji,” said Vita.

“No, I made it my business,” said Eiji with a resolute shake of his head. “Besides, this is quite interesting.”

Vita chuckled a moment before she slammed the brakes as a energy blade cleaved the car in half.


Ching-ching-ching…

Anhk looked up from where he was resting and proclaimed, “A Yummy! And it’s getting big…”

“Oi!” he yelled at his watchers. “You five, I need to head out. Don’t wait up.”

“Hey wait a moment!” exclaimed Rein but it was too late to put bonds on him again as Anhk dived out the open window and zoomed away. “Quick follow him!”


“Uuugh,” groaned Eiji, his vision blurring as he crawled free from the wrecked car and dragged himself over to Vita, shaking her awake. “Vita! Vita!”

“Nnngh what hit us?” groaned Vita as she looked over at the mantis-like Yummy. “Tch, get the drop on us huh…? I’ll…” She stumbled to her feet and let out a cry as she fell over. “My leg!”

Eiji scrambled over and checked it, eliciting a yelp of pain from Vita. “This is bad, it’s broken!”

“Damnit…” Vita handed him Graf Eisen. “Here, hold it off. You can still move right?”

“Eh? Me?” gaped Eiji.

“JUST DO IT!” And she shoved him towards the Yummy who started to swing at Eiji. “Block it!”

Eiji brought up Graf Eisen who expanded and impacted with a resounding crash. “Graf Eisen, listen to Eiji for me!”

“Jawoul!” exclaimed the Device as Eiji took a ready stance.

“What do we do now?” asked Eiji of Vita as the mantis creature leaped at him again.

“IDIOT STOP STANDING THERE!” roared Anhk as he grabbed Eiji and hauled him out of the way of a blow that would have taken his head off.

“Anhk!” growled the Yummy. “So you haven’t fully regenerated yet?”

“More than enough to stop you!” snarled the hand as he clahed with the Yummy, punching out as best as he could and darting around the attackers.

“I don’t think I could do much with your hammer Vita,” panted Eiji as he tried to keep a hold on the Device.

“Damnit…!” growled Vita as she tried to stand and fell over again. “If only my leg wasn’t broken…!”

With a sharp cry, Anhk was blown away and Eiji dropped Graf Eisen and dove at him, catching him before he went over into the sea. “Are you okay?”

“… you saved me,” said Anhk. “You might be of use.”

“Huh?”

“Tell me, do you desire anything? Do you crave a little risk? Do you dare to ride with the devil? Answer me idiot!” roared Anhk as the Yummy advanced on the fallen pair.

“I… I don’t desire anything… but to protect people who I just met, that is the meaning of my life!” exclaimed Eiji.

“Tch… idiot.” And Anhk produced a stone item and the Yummy stopped short. Pressing it to Eiji’s waist, a belt appeared.

“The seal! Anhk you bastard, why do you have it?!” demanded the Yummy.

“Put these into the slots,” said Anhk, producing three coins, one red, one yellow and one green. “And then use the scanner to swipe across it.”

Eiji took the coins and slotted them in, picking up the O-scanner as the Rangers arrived, out of breath.

“This is bad,” said Erio. “Ready?”

“RPM! Get in…”

“HENSHIN!” bellowed Eiji as coins spun around him.

“TAKA! TORA! BATTA! TATOBA! TA-TO-TA-TATOBA!” sung the belt as a black armored figure formed over Eiji.

Before Eiji could wonder what happened, the mantis-thing attacked, shooting energy sickles at the Rangers who were too flabbergasted to move. “Look out!” exclaimed Eiji, getting into the middle of it, the attacks rebounding off him.

“Anhk, do you realize what you’ve done?” demanded the Yummy.

“Ah, I do. I released OOOs.” Smirked Anhk despite having no mouth.

“OOOs,” said Eiji, looking at his body. “Such power…!”

“OOOs,” said Vita as she was being healed by Caro. “KICK HIS BUTT EIJI!”

“He won’t get that chance!” roared the Yummy as he charged in, but Eiji was faster, delivering a powerful hit to the middle of his chest, causing him to stumble. What followed was a show of unpolished form, smashing into him, punching and kicking as coins exploded from each impact.

Twin blades on Eiji’s arms flipped out and he scored a large hit across the Yummy’s chest, showering coins everywhere. “This is so amazing!” exclaimed Eiji.

“Eiji, stop playing around and finish him!” ordered Anhk. “Use the O-scanner!”

Eiji nodded and picked it up, scanning the coins again. “SCANNING CHARGE!” roared the belt as his arm blades glowed. The Yummy tried to scramble out of the way, but Eiji was too quick for him, slicing down. And in an explosion of flame, the Yummy died in a shower of fire and coins, coins which Anhk scooped up with zest.


“Happy Birthday to you… Happy Birthday to you… Happy Birthday…” Three circles were drawn on the edible platter. “OOOsssssss…”

Kosei Kogami smiled to his two trusted people as he put the cake in a box. “Gotou. Please deliver this to Eiji Hino.”

Gotou nodded, took the cake and briskly walked out of the room, cake in hand.


“Are you okay?” inquired Eiji curiously as Vita was wheeled out of the room.

“Ah I’ll live. Thanks to Shamal I’m only going to be in the cast for a week,” boasted Vita. “You did pretty good there.”

“Ah, well I just did what I was told,” said Eiji, embarrassed as he took Vita’s wheelchair and pushed her along the hallway, some recruits saluting the tiny girl. “I don’t really deserve the credit.”

“Tch, idiot,” said Vita. “Your form is unpolished and then you just go attack something recklessly… you really are a first class idiot.”

Eiji blushed as she looked up at him. “But you’re an idiot who needs training. We’re not going to let you fight the Yummy alone. When I get better, the real training will begin.”

“Really? You’re going to let me train?” inquired Eiji.

Vita’s answering grin was all he needed.