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ICABW - RPM StrikerS 4
Magical Chronicle RPM StrikerS 4
It wasn’t quite a Mexican standoff, but it was close in the way that all five RPMers were sitting around looking a little nervous in interacting with each other, specifically their two elder members, Series Green and Black: Subaru and Tiana.
It was Caro who broke the silence with an offering of cookies. “Cookie?”
“Oh thanks!” exclaimed Subaru as she picked up a cookie. “So you three are our juniors huh? How did you get picked up for the Ranger program?”
“You can thank Fate-oneechan for that,” said Erio. “She was the one who took guardianship of us and asked us to join.”
“As for Lulu and myself, we enrolled as soon as our mom said we could,” added Agito. “Lulu and I have been together for years.”
“Ah I see.” Said Tiana. They all looked like competent kids and if SPD was hiring at this age, they had to be special. “Well Subaru and I have been training for the Ranger program since we were kids.”
“Wind Ninja Academy,” said Subaru proudly. “Tia’s a master of the Air-style while I’m an Earth-style. Though we’ve got extra training from Uncle Lothor.”
“And Uncle Cam,” said Tiana, reminding her of the bespectacled Ranger. “he’s a good influence on both of us. Taught us the discipline of the Samurai too.”
“Wow, all we’ve got is the usual Mid and Belkan styles,” said Erio, suitably impressed for he had heard about the training grounds on Earth were top notch when they weren’t being attacked by evil space aliens.
“Lulu’s a summoner and so’s Caro,” added Agito proudly. “Garyuu is often on patrol for Lulu while we’re off duty.”
“This is Fried-kun,” said Caro, gesturing to the dragon who made a trilling noise. “He’s my familiar too.”
“Ah, he’s such a cute dragon!” exclaimed Subaru.
Across the way, Signum and Shamal watched the gathering with amusement. “They’re getting along fairly well,” said the tall knight.
“I think so too,” said Shamal with a relieved sigh. “They were working separately for a while until now. It’s good that they’re managing to stay together well.”
“Between Megane’s child, two wards of Fate and the trained from childhood members of the Nakajima and Landster families, it should be worth watching.”
“This is your usual set up for Rangers in training,” said Nanoha as she pointed out the simulation of a large field which was made to look like the park in Angel Grove. “Ranger battles can happen anywhere, but Parks are instinctively built around large ley line nexuses which are prime real estate for attacking enemies. The energy attracts them like a magnet.”
“Other such locations are quarries and the middle of downtown. The quarries are of a similar energy source as parks which they can manage to hold energy that is very attractive to enemies.” Added Nanoha as she leaned on the control panel. “For the purpose of this exercise, we will be using the Type-1 enemies. Yes, Subaru?”
“Type-1?” inquired Subaru after she lowered her hand.
“Ah, the weakest overall enemies with the most glaring weaknesses. For that purpose, we have ourselves a guest.” Nanoha stepped back as a well dressed man with sandy brown hair and warm eyes stepped forward.
“My name is Larry Zardon, otherwise known as Lord Zedd. I was the prime enemy of the Power Rangers during their second year of service.” He nodded to them as he created a staff similar to the Z-staff he once used, but in gold. “For the purposes of this training session, you will be fighting my minions.”
And he hefted the staff and lightning crackled as numerous bolts struck the ground. Where they touched, dozens of Putties appeared, all with Z’s on their chests. “You want to use civilian powers if you have them to defeat them,” said Nanoha, pleased with the sheer number of enemies that Larry had created. “But no morphing. This is a test of endurance than anything else.”
“Putties, don’t hold back,” ordered Zedd to the bubbling masses. “If you feel like you can take a debilitating shot, then you must tap them as they are Out.”
“Combat begins in five minutes,” added Nanoha. “Get into your places!”
Caro ducked and weaved around the attacking force. They were definitely wearing her down twenty minutes into combat considering that they were all being worn down by their rather tough enemies. Hitting them in the Z provided the result they were looking for but there was so many of them.
Ducking an attack, Fried spat a bolt of flame at the Z-putty which exploded into pieces. But it was then that Caro felt a tap on her shoulder and a Putty bubbling at her. She sighed as a buzzer sounded and marched off the field, sweating and dusty.
“You did good Caro, twenty minutes and fourty five seconds of straight combat,” said Nanoha as she joined Lulu and Subaru who had been tagged early on due to reckless action. “Take a breather.”
Caro nodded as she took a drink of water provided to her from a bottle. “Thank you,” she said to Larry who smiled down at her.
“No problem little miss. You seemed like you needed it,” chuckled Larry. “They are doing very well.”
Erio was in the middle of the attackers, the sheer press of them not slowing him down one bit, but even he was getting extremely tired from the goon squad raining down on them. Tiana was showing injury as well, but she was taking shots that were curving around attackers, smashing into the enemies that slipped past Erio.
“Go Tia!” cheered Subaru. “She’s really gotten good at that.”
“The curving attacks thing?” inquired Caro. “I didn’t know energy shots could do that.”
“Normally they can’t, but Tia has reinforced Cross Mirage with a new module that was sent to us by an ally. It allows her, with extreme focus, to strike enemies and weave around obstacles while doing so. Without the use of magic.” Said Nanoha. “I’m very proud of her progress.”
“Rider System isn’t it?” inquired Subaru and Nanoha nodded.
“Rider System? What is that?” inquired Caro.
“The Rider System is a new development, aided by our allies in Japan. Lord Takeru of the Shiba Clan, as well as the good people at the Narumi Detective Agency.” Explained Nanoha. “It’s like creating a new set of Rangers, but a Rider is a little different.”
“Years ago, a man and his friends came to our world known as Kamen Riders,” said Subaru in way of explanation. “His name was Decade, and he fought alongside the Shinkenger of this world. Soon afterwards, a new Rider appeared months later in the city of Fuuto. The people called him Kamen Rider W, the hero of the populace.”
“It’s been quite some time since there’s been a new set of Riders, but here at SPD we’ve managed to incorporate some of the technology into the Ranger System.” Added Larry with no amount of satisfaction. “We managed to produce the first SPD-Based Rider. We call her Kamen Rider Saint King.”
A buzzer sounded as Erio and Tiana were tagged out and Nanoha waved them in as Larry dismissed his Putties.
High above in space, lurked a ship. It was cloaked from SPD’s sight, a rare feat to see at that moment.
Emperor Grumm was not in a pleased mood, considering that his recent attempts at attacking the Earth and claiming it for his own was ending in folly. “Moira,” he snapped. “Isn’t there anything you can pull out of that hidebound book of yours?” he snarled.
“Well if you ask me, there’s little we can do right now,” retorted Moira. “There’s a lot of things to consider and…”
“I did not ask for your excuses!” snarled Grumm.
“If I may sir,” interjected Broodwing. “There should be more enemies we can contact surely?”
“I am not going to lower myself to work with amatures!” snarled Grumm. “Leave me be!”
Feeling that their leader was getting frustrated with the years of attacks going sour, the pair got up and left. Once out of earshot, Moira turned to Broodwing. “He’s getting tense recently.”
“Can you blame him? Grumm has always been angry and unhinged, but lately it’s getting worse,” said Broodwing. “What do you think?”
“I think it’s time to see how our little pet project has been going,” said Moira with a little smirk. “Don your disguise Broodwing; we’re going to get some soup.”
“Are you sure these reports are correct?” inquired Yuuno as he glanced over them.
“Double and triple checked. Seems like there’s a faction of the underground government groups who wanted in on the Memory Tech,” said Chrono, folding his arms. “Phillip and Shotarou have been tracking them for months now.”
“Alphabet Soup huh… there’s a name we thought we hadn’t needed to deal with in a long time,” mused Yuuno. “Let’s get going.”
“This is a bit too high profile for us to be mucking with,” said Chrono. “I’ve notified Tommy and Andros, but we need a new team on this.”
“What about RPM?” inquired Kat who stood to the side. “They’re being trained for this sort of thing as we speak.”
“I agree,” said Anubis. “RPM is shielded from the potential damage a Memory can inflict on someone. If we adjust the bio-fields, we’ll be able to shield the rest of our Rangers but in time. They’ve got the technology needed to defeat any threat we’ve got coming.”
“I’ll notify Kotoha then, tell her that her team is auto-assigned to this case. Also, we’ll need to tell Tiida that we’ve found the people who hurt Devin.” Said Chrono. “There’s going to be hell to play.”
“It’s good of you to show up today,” said the man in black.
“Yes, we were wondering if our investors would come soon,” said the woman in black.
“We couldn’t stay away,” said the tall elegantly dressed woman as her companion, a stiff looking butler in blue nodded politely at them. “Has she delivered?”
“Yes she has,” said the man in black as he held up a USB with a V scrawled across it, the rib-like cage casing looking fairly menacing. “Engineered from the most powerful GaiaMemory technology and the genius of our little K, we’ve gotten a new driver worked out. And a new test subject for it.”
“Yes, that boy and his sister,” said the tall woman. “Did they adapt well to the cyberbiotics?”
“Incredibly so,” said the woman in black smugly. “Either or can be a nice candidate for the V-Driver.”
“And what of the Go-Driver?” inquired the butler. “What of it?”
“The Go-Wings project was scrapped,” said the man in black. “The twins are working on something else.”
K knew she had to hurry.
With the V-Memory and V-Driver removed from her presence, there was no telling what kind of damage Alphabet Soup could do with it. Quickly, she snuck down the halls and opened up a holding cell where a young man glared at her. “Who are you? Where’s the…?”
“Shut up and listen,” K said sharply. “We haven’t gotten much time. They’re planning on using you and your sister to host the V-Memory but I’ve only been able to design ONE which means at least one of you are expendable. I’ve sent Gem and Gemma ahead, and they’ve got the Go-Drivers with them. Take them and get out of the facility.”
“How do I know we can trust you?” demanded the young man.
“Because I’m the only person you can in this place, save for Gem and Gemma. My name is K. Now GO!” And she shoved him towards the door.
“Not without my sister,” he said. “Where are they keeping her?”
“She’s in the holding bay. Quickly now.”
He nodded and paused for a moment. “Why are you helping me if you created the V-Driver in the first place?”
“Because this is my mistake, and you’re the best method of containing it.”
“So it’s a mutual thing. Scratch your back, you’ll scratch mine?”
“Something like that.” K looked down the hall. “You have to hurry. They’ll notice I’m missing from my room soon.”
“You’re not planning on escaping?” inquired the nameless young man.
“Later. Now go!”
“The power of OOOs is finally arrived, and the power of the Greeed has shown itself,” said Kosei as he stood watching the city below him. “But there are new players in the eternal struggle of good and evil, power and greed. GREED! It’s a most wonderful thing, born from want it is a incredible source of energy! DON’T YOU AGREE GOTOU-KUN?!”
“Yes sir,” said Gotou, clearly unphased by Kosei Kougami’s enthusiastic howling.
“Sir, there is a representative from SPD,” said Erika Satonaka as she lead Kat Manx into the room.
“Ah Miss Manx, a pleasure,” said Kosei as he turned, smiling and bowing at her. “What brings the head scientist for SPD here?”
“SPD would like to extend a thank you for the work you’ve been doing for our city Kogami-san,” said Kat, using the polite honorifics of his home country. “In helping rebuild after each attack and developing new technologies for our group.”
“Think nothing off it my dear!” pronounced Kosei, delighted he could help.
“There is another thing we would like to ask, and that is your invested interest in OOOs,” added Kat. “We’ve seen your man Gotou around the attacks of Yummys in the last week, and we’d like to know why.”
“Ah, well that is no big surprise. My goal is to help OOOs in any way I can,” said Kosei. “It is not profitable if someone manages to defeat OOOs. My Medal System would be in trouble if he was.”
“Hmm.” Said Kat in a non-plussed manner. “And what is your intent collecting the Cell Medals of the Yummy when they are released?”
Kosei smiled and wagged his fingers. “A businessman has no intention of revealing his whole hand. What I can say however is that my plans will affect the WORLD! Greed is everywhere and from it, the purest energy can be released. I will be generous enough to share it with the defenders of our world.”
Kat nodded, satisfied with the answer. “Very well. Just remember that SPD wants to protect this world too. If you are intent on it, then I will issue SPD gear to your men and Gotou-san here. Also, one last thing: what have you heard of Alphabet Soup…?”
It wasn’t quite a Mexican standoff, but it was close in the way that all five RPMers were sitting around looking a little nervous in interacting with each other, specifically their two elder members, Series Green and Black: Subaru and Tiana.
It was Caro who broke the silence with an offering of cookies. “Cookie?”
“Oh thanks!” exclaimed Subaru as she picked up a cookie. “So you three are our juniors huh? How did you get picked up for the Ranger program?”
“You can thank Fate-oneechan for that,” said Erio. “She was the one who took guardianship of us and asked us to join.”
“As for Lulu and myself, we enrolled as soon as our mom said we could,” added Agito. “Lulu and I have been together for years.”
“Ah I see.” Said Tiana. They all looked like competent kids and if SPD was hiring at this age, they had to be special. “Well Subaru and I have been training for the Ranger program since we were kids.”
“Wind Ninja Academy,” said Subaru proudly. “Tia’s a master of the Air-style while I’m an Earth-style. Though we’ve got extra training from Uncle Lothor.”
“And Uncle Cam,” said Tiana, reminding her of the bespectacled Ranger. “he’s a good influence on both of us. Taught us the discipline of the Samurai too.”
“Wow, all we’ve got is the usual Mid and Belkan styles,” said Erio, suitably impressed for he had heard about the training grounds on Earth were top notch when they weren’t being attacked by evil space aliens.
“Lulu’s a summoner and so’s Caro,” added Agito proudly. “Garyuu is often on patrol for Lulu while we’re off duty.”
“This is Fried-kun,” said Caro, gesturing to the dragon who made a trilling noise. “He’s my familiar too.”
“Ah, he’s such a cute dragon!” exclaimed Subaru.
Across the way, Signum and Shamal watched the gathering with amusement. “They’re getting along fairly well,” said the tall knight.
“I think so too,” said Shamal with a relieved sigh. “They were working separately for a while until now. It’s good that they’re managing to stay together well.”
“Between Megane’s child, two wards of Fate and the trained from childhood members of the Nakajima and Landster families, it should be worth watching.”
“This is your usual set up for Rangers in training,” said Nanoha as she pointed out the simulation of a large field which was made to look like the park in Angel Grove. “Ranger battles can happen anywhere, but Parks are instinctively built around large ley line nexuses which are prime real estate for attacking enemies. The energy attracts them like a magnet.”
“Other such locations are quarries and the middle of downtown. The quarries are of a similar energy source as parks which they can manage to hold energy that is very attractive to enemies.” Added Nanoha as she leaned on the control panel. “For the purpose of this exercise, we will be using the Type-1 enemies. Yes, Subaru?”
“Type-1?” inquired Subaru after she lowered her hand.
“Ah, the weakest overall enemies with the most glaring weaknesses. For that purpose, we have ourselves a guest.” Nanoha stepped back as a well dressed man with sandy brown hair and warm eyes stepped forward.
“My name is Larry Zardon, otherwise known as Lord Zedd. I was the prime enemy of the Power Rangers during their second year of service.” He nodded to them as he created a staff similar to the Z-staff he once used, but in gold. “For the purposes of this training session, you will be fighting my minions.”
And he hefted the staff and lightning crackled as numerous bolts struck the ground. Where they touched, dozens of Putties appeared, all with Z’s on their chests. “You want to use civilian powers if you have them to defeat them,” said Nanoha, pleased with the sheer number of enemies that Larry had created. “But no morphing. This is a test of endurance than anything else.”
“Putties, don’t hold back,” ordered Zedd to the bubbling masses. “If you feel like you can take a debilitating shot, then you must tap them as they are Out.”
“Combat begins in five minutes,” added Nanoha. “Get into your places!”
Caro ducked and weaved around the attacking force. They were definitely wearing her down twenty minutes into combat considering that they were all being worn down by their rather tough enemies. Hitting them in the Z provided the result they were looking for but there was so many of them.
Ducking an attack, Fried spat a bolt of flame at the Z-putty which exploded into pieces. But it was then that Caro felt a tap on her shoulder and a Putty bubbling at her. She sighed as a buzzer sounded and marched off the field, sweating and dusty.
“You did good Caro, twenty minutes and fourty five seconds of straight combat,” said Nanoha as she joined Lulu and Subaru who had been tagged early on due to reckless action. “Take a breather.”
Caro nodded as she took a drink of water provided to her from a bottle. “Thank you,” she said to Larry who smiled down at her.
“No problem little miss. You seemed like you needed it,” chuckled Larry. “They are doing very well.”
Erio was in the middle of the attackers, the sheer press of them not slowing him down one bit, but even he was getting extremely tired from the goon squad raining down on them. Tiana was showing injury as well, but she was taking shots that were curving around attackers, smashing into the enemies that slipped past Erio.
“Go Tia!” cheered Subaru. “She’s really gotten good at that.”
“The curving attacks thing?” inquired Caro. “I didn’t know energy shots could do that.”
“Normally they can’t, but Tia has reinforced Cross Mirage with a new module that was sent to us by an ally. It allows her, with extreme focus, to strike enemies and weave around obstacles while doing so. Without the use of magic.” Said Nanoha. “I’m very proud of her progress.”
“Rider System isn’t it?” inquired Subaru and Nanoha nodded.
“Rider System? What is that?” inquired Caro.
“The Rider System is a new development, aided by our allies in Japan. Lord Takeru of the Shiba Clan, as well as the good people at the Narumi Detective Agency.” Explained Nanoha. “It’s like creating a new set of Rangers, but a Rider is a little different.”
“Years ago, a man and his friends came to our world known as Kamen Riders,” said Subaru in way of explanation. “His name was Decade, and he fought alongside the Shinkenger of this world. Soon afterwards, a new Rider appeared months later in the city of Fuuto. The people called him Kamen Rider W, the hero of the populace.”
“It’s been quite some time since there’s been a new set of Riders, but here at SPD we’ve managed to incorporate some of the technology into the Ranger System.” Added Larry with no amount of satisfaction. “We managed to produce the first SPD-Based Rider. We call her Kamen Rider Saint King.”
A buzzer sounded as Erio and Tiana were tagged out and Nanoha waved them in as Larry dismissed his Putties.
High above in space, lurked a ship. It was cloaked from SPD’s sight, a rare feat to see at that moment.
Emperor Grumm was not in a pleased mood, considering that his recent attempts at attacking the Earth and claiming it for his own was ending in folly. “Moira,” he snapped. “Isn’t there anything you can pull out of that hidebound book of yours?” he snarled.
“Well if you ask me, there’s little we can do right now,” retorted Moira. “There’s a lot of things to consider and…”
“I did not ask for your excuses!” snarled Grumm.
“If I may sir,” interjected Broodwing. “There should be more enemies we can contact surely?”
“I am not going to lower myself to work with amatures!” snarled Grumm. “Leave me be!”
Feeling that their leader was getting frustrated with the years of attacks going sour, the pair got up and left. Once out of earshot, Moira turned to Broodwing. “He’s getting tense recently.”
“Can you blame him? Grumm has always been angry and unhinged, but lately it’s getting worse,” said Broodwing. “What do you think?”
“I think it’s time to see how our little pet project has been going,” said Moira with a little smirk. “Don your disguise Broodwing; we’re going to get some soup.”
“Are you sure these reports are correct?” inquired Yuuno as he glanced over them.
“Double and triple checked. Seems like there’s a faction of the underground government groups who wanted in on the Memory Tech,” said Chrono, folding his arms. “Phillip and Shotarou have been tracking them for months now.”
“Alphabet Soup huh… there’s a name we thought we hadn’t needed to deal with in a long time,” mused Yuuno. “Let’s get going.”
“This is a bit too high profile for us to be mucking with,” said Chrono. “I’ve notified Tommy and Andros, but we need a new team on this.”
“What about RPM?” inquired Kat who stood to the side. “They’re being trained for this sort of thing as we speak.”
“I agree,” said Anubis. “RPM is shielded from the potential damage a Memory can inflict on someone. If we adjust the bio-fields, we’ll be able to shield the rest of our Rangers but in time. They’ve got the technology needed to defeat any threat we’ve got coming.”
“I’ll notify Kotoha then, tell her that her team is auto-assigned to this case. Also, we’ll need to tell Tiida that we’ve found the people who hurt Devin.” Said Chrono. “There’s going to be hell to play.”
“It’s good of you to show up today,” said the man in black.
“Yes, we were wondering if our investors would come soon,” said the woman in black.
“We couldn’t stay away,” said the tall elegantly dressed woman as her companion, a stiff looking butler in blue nodded politely at them. “Has she delivered?”
“Yes she has,” said the man in black as he held up a USB with a V scrawled across it, the rib-like cage casing looking fairly menacing. “Engineered from the most powerful GaiaMemory technology and the genius of our little K, we’ve gotten a new driver worked out. And a new test subject for it.”
“Yes, that boy and his sister,” said the tall woman. “Did they adapt well to the cyberbiotics?”
“Incredibly so,” said the woman in black smugly. “Either or can be a nice candidate for the V-Driver.”
“And what of the Go-Driver?” inquired the butler. “What of it?”
“The Go-Wings project was scrapped,” said the man in black. “The twins are working on something else.”
K knew she had to hurry.
With the V-Memory and V-Driver removed from her presence, there was no telling what kind of damage Alphabet Soup could do with it. Quickly, she snuck down the halls and opened up a holding cell where a young man glared at her. “Who are you? Where’s the…?”
“Shut up and listen,” K said sharply. “We haven’t gotten much time. They’re planning on using you and your sister to host the V-Memory but I’ve only been able to design ONE which means at least one of you are expendable. I’ve sent Gem and Gemma ahead, and they’ve got the Go-Drivers with them. Take them and get out of the facility.”
“How do I know we can trust you?” demanded the young man.
“Because I’m the only person you can in this place, save for Gem and Gemma. My name is K. Now GO!” And she shoved him towards the door.
“Not without my sister,” he said. “Where are they keeping her?”
“She’s in the holding bay. Quickly now.”
He nodded and paused for a moment. “Why are you helping me if you created the V-Driver in the first place?”
“Because this is my mistake, and you’re the best method of containing it.”
“So it’s a mutual thing. Scratch your back, you’ll scratch mine?”
“Something like that.” K looked down the hall. “You have to hurry. They’ll notice I’m missing from my room soon.”
“You’re not planning on escaping?” inquired the nameless young man.
“Later. Now go!”
“The power of OOOs is finally arrived, and the power of the Greeed has shown itself,” said Kosei as he stood watching the city below him. “But there are new players in the eternal struggle of good and evil, power and greed. GREED! It’s a most wonderful thing, born from want it is a incredible source of energy! DON’T YOU AGREE GOTOU-KUN?!”
“Yes sir,” said Gotou, clearly unphased by Kosei Kougami’s enthusiastic howling.
“Sir, there is a representative from SPD,” said Erika Satonaka as she lead Kat Manx into the room.
“Ah Miss Manx, a pleasure,” said Kosei as he turned, smiling and bowing at her. “What brings the head scientist for SPD here?”
“SPD would like to extend a thank you for the work you’ve been doing for our city Kogami-san,” said Kat, using the polite honorifics of his home country. “In helping rebuild after each attack and developing new technologies for our group.”
“Think nothing off it my dear!” pronounced Kosei, delighted he could help.
“There is another thing we would like to ask, and that is your invested interest in OOOs,” added Kat. “We’ve seen your man Gotou around the attacks of Yummys in the last week, and we’d like to know why.”
“Ah, well that is no big surprise. My goal is to help OOOs in any way I can,” said Kosei. “It is not profitable if someone manages to defeat OOOs. My Medal System would be in trouble if he was.”
“Hmm.” Said Kat in a non-plussed manner. “And what is your intent collecting the Cell Medals of the Yummy when they are released?”
Kosei smiled and wagged his fingers. “A businessman has no intention of revealing his whole hand. What I can say however is that my plans will affect the WORLD! Greed is everywhere and from it, the purest energy can be released. I will be generous enough to share it with the defenders of our world.”
Kat nodded, satisfied with the answer. “Very well. Just remember that SPD wants to protect this world too. If you are intent on it, then I will issue SPD gear to your men and Gotou-san here. Also, one last thing: what have you heard of Alphabet Soup…?”