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((Too lazy to proof read too much and I wrote it off and on for a while so this is probably not a great solo post, but whatever. ))

*A soldier approached Dalton, halting him from training with his new weapon. Informed of a monster that had been running loose, with no riders to stop it and other soldiers being repelled, Dalton knew he had to go fight. Quickly rushing off, he arrived on the scene and hopped off his motorcycle. A car flew past Dalton and his motorcycle as he came to a halt, then get off of it. Surveying the surrounding damage, he looked to the strange bright green monster as it turned to see who was foolish enough to get in it's feeding path.*
All this damage and no one else is around? There must be a lot going on...even Era should have been around by now. At least I'm here to stop you. *Taking out his belt, he posed.* Henshin! *Slotting the gearden in, he once again assumed the role of Kamen Rider Ardence.

Taking out the Barret Crius, he put his training to the test and began firing it towards the monster. Though his accuracy and ability to use the weapon had improved, the monster was ready to counter by quickly slashing the shots out of the air with super-speed moves. It moved a second pair of insect legs on it's chest area to also block shots, increasing it's defense against the shooting. Stopping his line of fire, Dalton shook his head.* Of course, I'd do all that training only to get a monster who's ability it is to make my gun pointless right now. *As Ardence took a moments break in firing, the cricket monster responded by quickly rubbing the second set of arms together and begun to generate sound around itself and electricity around it's limbs. Releasing the pent up sound and electric energy, both thunder and lightning roared towards Ardence.*

Not good! *Sprinting as fast as he could, Ardence jumped out of the way of the lightning and sonic boom of energy, narrowly avoiding the blast. As he rolled to his feet, he fired a few more times only to have the main arms quickly block the shots. His second hand formed a gearden and quick slotted it into the driver to switch forms. Becoming HeatTrigger Double and using the Trigger Magnum alongside his own weapon, Double-Ardence unleashed both gun's fire towards the monster. The added fire shots began to help a bit, overwhelming the circket monster's quick blocking technique using just it's main arms. However, it's building up lightning and thunder attack reached a point where it formed a sonic barrier around the monster, enough that the fireballs mostly were weakened and the Crius' shots were also lessened in impact.

Unleashing the full might of it's charged attack in that instant, Ardence once again found himself running and jumping to try and avoid being ripped apart by the oncoming storm. Ripping into a building, the lightning attack screamed out followed by the large booming sound that followed the attack. Though he managed to avoid the lightning, the sound boom that came with it knocked Double-Ardence off his feet and through the air, straight into a parked APC the military had brought in and abandoned. Denting it considerably, he let out a groan of pain as the double form went away and he landed in his normal one. As he got up, he noticed the creature charging an attack again.* No you don't, you ugly monster! *Firing as he ran forward, he made the creature get into a defensive blocking motion with it's arms so he could come in and try drop kicking the monster while screaming.

Suddenly, he went into a baseball-like slide and past the monster as it was still busy trying to block. Confused, it turned to attack but Ardence kept in his blind spot and kicked him in the side hard. The monster hissed out, unleashing the energy it had built up and hitting another building that was nearby. As the rubble fell, Ardence followed up by punching the monster with his free arm several times and going to kick it. As he did, the monster turned to grab his leg and attack with it's second set of arms when the Crius met it's advance with one of it's own. Both the shots from the gun and the strong kick landed, knocking the monster back and causing it to stumble a bit.

As Ardence went to fire again, the monster jumped back into some shattered glass, vanishing into it.* What? Where did it go?? *Ardence looked around, confused by the ability that the monster just used. Suddenly, from a parked car's mirror, the monster jumped out and knocked the gun from Ardences hand while also rapidly hitting him with it's other three arms. Hit a few times before he began to put up his arms to block, he tried to quickly devise a plan. Ducking a swipe from one of the arms, he brought up a fist of his own and hit into an opening in the chest area of the creature. Stumbling back it coughed up a bit, but it had managed to get several more good hits onto Ardence as well. As the rider also tried to recover, a green flame came racing down from the sky, impacting the ground and stopping the two form fighting to observe. The fire split itself open and let out a mighty roar as it began to take shape. Feeding off of the multiple fights going on, it accelerated it's growth period and began to fulfill the desire it was spawned from.

Taking the chance to charge it's attack, the second legs went to quick work beginning to rub together and generate the sound and electrical energy. Ardence stared at the monster as it emerged from the green flames. The velociraptor gatherer quickly rushed forward, running in to attack.* This one looks more vicious than the bug... crap how will I fight them both at once? *Turning it's target, the cricket monster unleashed a blast of energy as a warning to the other one to stay away from it's prey. An ice wall formed around the monster, diverting the electrical energy, then broke and absorbed the sonic boom that followed.

Rushing through the shattering ice, the "yummy" ran forward and slashed claws on it's hands out towards the cricket as it began to panic and generate the energy again. The slashes in the air generated what seemed like curved ice replicas of the claws which proceeded to swing through the sky before impacting the rival monster and bursting into more ice. With both sets of it's arms sealed by the ice, it was vulnerable for the incoming attack the raptor monster was charging in with. Suddenly sliding on the ground with charged up attack and killing intent, it was behind the monster in the blink of Dalton's eyes. Suddenly the cricket let out a noise before turning to ice and exploding into pieces. Not sure of how to react, Ardence simply watched.*

Th-thanks? Your good right? *Not sure of who he should trust or not, he recalled how there were evil Riders such as the "Fury" one that attacked him before. There could be good monsters, this one being one of them as it had just taken out a monster he was sure it would team with. The raptor "yummy" turned towards Ardence, breathing deeply despite not seeming to be strained by the previous attacks at all. Glowing faintly for a moment, it suddenly deployed a second set of arms from it's stomach, and began charging electricity and sound like the monster it had just beaten.* I'll take that as a no then.

*Jumping out of the way, Ardence avoided a quick-charge shot of lightning from the second set of arms the monster had just formed. Ducking behind a car, he allowed his senses to catch up to him.* So the second monster killed the first one and got his powers. Just what I ne- *Cut off from his self dialog, he suddenly was forced to run as the car he was using for cover froze and broke apart. Ducking and weaving, he avoided several more shots by the monster only to be pegged by several of the ice boomerangs. Stumbling back, he froze in place and was open to attack by the monster. Thinking quickly, he realized he still had Double's gearden in his belt.* OK belt, do your stuff!

*Willing the belt to re-activate the gearden, Ardence shifted to become Double's HeatTrigger form again. The heat from the form began melting the ice, but before he could think to react and strike back Ardence was hit by a more charged up blast of electrical energy. Flung back by the attack, he crashed through a nearby stores' window. Bursting from the glass, Double-Ardence lept out and fired the Heat-powered Trigger Magnum several times towards the velociraptor monster, but it managed to block the blasts while the second set of arms zapped Ardence with lightning once more. Stumbling back, he knew he would have to do something in this loosing fight.* All I can think of...is this!

*Shifting away from the double form, Ardence's gears began rotating rapidly as the energy once again formed gears on his feet and began to pull him forward. Rushing towards the monster, it propelled him up in the air and towards the monster. The gears ripped through the lightning blast that the monster shot out, breaking through the attack and going directly for the monster. Charging it's claw up, it slashed quickly and smashed the gear energy into pieces while repelling Ardence through the air again. Smashing on the ground, he began sparking slightly. Slashing the claw at the rider on the ground, the energy flew out and into the rider causing the sparking to increase and spray most the street. Gasping for air as his chest smoked from the attack, Ardence reached out to try and get back to his feet.* W-wel- well... th-that...was a mist..ake...

*As Dalton dehenshined from being Ardence and began to loose precociousness, he noticed a figure step in between him and the monster about to finish him. Before he could say anything, Dalton's eyes grew heavier and began to close.* So this is where we felt the energy? What a repulsive creature before us. It is harming the boy, we have to defend him! Defend him? Lets just kick this guys a**! Shouldn't the safety of the injured be our first concern? Enough bickering. He's preparing to attack. Henshin now, Hirazaki! Right! *taking out a pass similar to what den-o has, he tapped two parts of the belt before swiping it past the front.* Henshin! *A red and blue imajin suddenly appeared, combining into a purple looking creature before entering Hirazaki. Armor materialized around him, as more pieces appeared and began shifting and attaching to the base armor. A purple energy emitted from the rider as he formed his weapon. As this occurred, Dalton lost the fight to keep conscious and passed out.

Swinging the double ended staff weapon in the air as he ran forward, it repulsed a blast of lightning and sound energy the "yummy" had been charging up. Another quick blast was shot off towards the rider, but was deflected easily. Getting within range, the rider quickly stabbed into the monster with the spear-tip of the weapon, opening up the umbrella area around the spear blade and sending off a large repulsion blast which sent the velociraptor into the air and into the side of a brick building. As the bricks and raptor gatherer fell to the ground, Magnos spun the weapon around and stabbed towards the monster with the glave bladed end. Despite being a distance away now, suddenly the monster flew forward in the air and past the falling debris straight into the glave blade. Sparking, it hit the ground hard.* Vile beast, what is your purpose?

*Hissing out, the monster got back up and quickly began slashing out ice from it's claws again as it's second set of hands charged up another blast. Smashing the ice out of the air, the weapon Magnos was using began freezing up from the impact of the attacks. Using this to it's advantage, the monster rushed in to slash into the rider with it's claws, charging energy into them at the same time in order to finish this rider like it did the last. The ice stuck and frozen to his weapon suddenly broke apart and repelled into a mist of frozen ice particles which sprayed into the charging monster, adding to it not being able to avoid the follow-up by the weapon slashing several times into them. The gatherer sparked a bit more, but attempted to slash in with it's charged claws despite the attacks. Blocking a swing with his arm, the rider let out another pulse of energy which sent the monster back from them again.* I know you can respond, beast. What is your purpose for existing?

Strengthhhhh... I willlll grow strongerrrrrr untillll I ammm strongestttttt!!!!!! *Slashing out with it's claws, it unleashed the charged up energy from a range in an attempt to catch the rider off guard. Deploying the umbrella side of the weapon again, Magnos repulsed the strong energy enough to cut down on it's momentum and absorb the attack into the umbrella like a shield.* What a small reason to exist. I will put you out of your misery then, beast. Allow me to destroy it. I have a hunch on something. This fowl beast is our responsibility to finish Naruki. No need to fight you guys. This is a special occasion, it isn't every year they allow us to travel like this. Lets all go at once! Brilliant idea Sir Muroshi. *The rider took their pass, tapping another area of the belt, before the same two points as before, then swiping the pass in the front of the belt. A silver-white monster appeared before jumping in with the rest. A bright flash of energy and light lit up as the armor re-arranged itself and changed the form of the rider.

Stumbling back and blocking it's eyesight, the velociraptor watched as the purple rider became a mix of it's old armor with some new white and silver parts, including several vent-like areas which hadn't been in the base armor before.* This... is a new one. Right! This will be something special. Lets make this a flashy exit for this dog then. That is a dog? Now is not the time Gnistaki
*Swiping the pass in the front of the belt once more, the rider casually began walking towards the raptor gatherer who was preparing to charge in. Responding, the belt said out loud "FULL CHARGE". Slashing wildly with a mix of energy charging and ice, the monster tried to buy time for itself to keep charging up the second set of arms. Easily swinging the weapon he used around as he walked forward and began charging up, the rider continued walking for him.

As the rider approached, the armor began to glow and build up energy as air vented out of the vents that were added to it. Unleashing the largest built up blast of lightning and sound energy yet, the gatherer attempted to obliterate the rider. However, it didn't count on the increased power that the rider had gained from the form change it underwent, allowing the repulsion ability to knock the lightning and sound back on itself and into the monster. Sparking greatly, it stumbled back and fell to a knee, hissing out and considering retreat. Tossing his weapon to the side and on the ground, Magnos suddenly sprinted the rest of the way to the monster before leaping up.* Rider Kick! *Coming down with a great deal of charged energy. Despite trying to block, the kick smashed into the gatherer and sent it flying back. Cackling with a bit of energy, it exploded. Several cell medals flew out, but cackled with the energy as well. Breaking and dissolving away, almost imploding, the cell medals that came from the defeated creature vanished away.

Suddenly, the figure that had made the gatherer from Ryan hissed out in pain and fell over, clutching their chest and panting in pain.* What kind of attack could do this? Tch... I had hopes for that one too. *Reeling in pain a bit, she began laughing.* His people can be surprising some times, but I will surpass them all! *Back at the fight scene, the rider looked around the destroyed area and let out a sigh. As he did, the armor broke away and a silvery-purple energy left, splitting into the three that formed the entity before vanishing. Looking to Dalton, Hirazaki smiled a bit.* The problem point has been fixed. Things can go as they should now. *Stepping back in anticipation of something arriving, the young man watched a "flying train" come from a ripple in space-time and pass by him. When it was gone and heading back into another ripple, the rider had vanished with it.*

Several hours after the scuffle with Kiva, an untransformed "Ryan" had made his way to bustling outdoor cafe in popular shopping area of the town. His movements had become more erratic as he was swinging at things and muttering to himself. It was clear that he was a danger to himself and others.

As the pedestrians looked on, thinking that this man belonging in the Psycho Ward of the nearest Mental Hospital, the possessed rider fell onto and knocked over one of the cafe's tables. As the startled customers, backed away, "Ryan: mumbled to himself, "I will be strongest."

((Best I could do. Let's get this show on the road Itami. razz ))

Note
Like Itami's post above with the other "yummy" created from Ryan, this too is a solo battle.

"Ryan," who had by now stumbled to back his feet, looked over to see at the approaching figure. "Just who ar...." He stopped mid sentence and let out a yell of agony as his body surged with cyan colored energy. The "yummmy" who had sensed a more powerful host and stronger desire" was starting to come up.

As it finished finished "crawling out" out of Ryan's stomach, it started to slowly shuffle its way over to the alternative Fang, arm out-stretched. Unlike the other yummy that was created from Ryan, this one was golden color with black highlights. It looked much like the Smilodon Dopant, though much more streamlined.

As the monster bared its fangs, Ryan had stopped screaming and collapsed face first on the concrete. He softly moaned in pain.

Ryan started to come to and raised his head drowsily. Through his hazed filled vision he saw what appeared to be Sabertooth like monster rampaging, terrorizing innocent people.

Ryan closed his eyes, thinking he was only dreaming. None of it seemed real. Then he opened his eyes again. He could hear the screams of pain and fright, No, this can't be a dream, he thought.

The Smilodon, who realized he was tricked and had been rampaging ever since, turned back to repossess its former host. However it growled in shock as it noticed Ryan had managed to get back at his feet. The Smilodon "Yummmy" assumed a crotched attack stance, ready to attack and repossess its target, one way or another.

Ryan meanwhile had no idea what was going on or how he even managed to get back to his feet. He was still just as in bad of shape as he was admitted to the hospital after the attack by "Eiji."

"I have no idea what's going on, but..." he panted Noticing the cat getting ready to attack, "....I feel like I've got to do something." Ryan took out his Lost Driver and placed it on his smoothie stained gown. The Sabertooth, noticing what was about to happen started to charge.

"Henshin!" Ryan yelled, managing to slot the Fang Memory in.

Now transformed, Ryan was tackled by Smilodon, but managed to roll through and stand back up. Fang wobbled a little as he assumed a loose battle stance. The Transformation into Fang had helped a little, but he was in tremendous pain and he truly felt like he could collapse at any moment. He had knew he had to go big now.

The Saber Memory appeared on his shoulder before jumping into his hand. Converting it from its "Live" Mode" and removed the Fang Memory. |Saber| the Driver loudly announced. As the rider emerged in his final form, the Smilodon took off and FangSaber followed suit easily matching it in speed.

Catching up, Fang summoned his Saber Shaft and started to trade blows with the Yummmy's claws at break neck speeds. The Smilodon, getting the worst of the exchange, changed direction, hoping that the rider would crash into an "approaching" building. Ryan slammed his blade into the ground and reduced enough of his momentum to safely turn.

As FangSaber started to build up speed again and search for the Yummy, powerful energy blasts exploded around him stopping him in his tracks. Looking past his raised, free arm, Ryan noticed that the Yummy was standing above him on the cafe's roof. It fired its bolts of golden energy again. Fang knocked away most of them with his weapon, however as they harmlessly exploded around him one of the blasts managed to knock the Saber Shaft out his hands.

Not wasting time, the Yummmy jumped down from the roof and extended is razor sharp claws. In conjunction with its speed, the Smilodon speed past Fang several times, each hit causing sparks to fly out from the rider's armor. Going for the kill, the Smilodon Yummy crouched before speeding off with its "final" attack as the rider tried to get up.

"Not this time." Ryan said, now fully "awake," pressing the memory's tail twice. Now invisible, the claws cut through empty air.

Bewildered, the Yummy looked around. "Looking for someone?" Fang asked. The Smilodon was then backhanded by unseen attacker and sent back-peddling. Noticing the reappeared rider, it retreated. Scared for its life. It had truly found somebody stronger then it.

As the Yummmy attempted to run away, Ryan pulled the tail. Energy surged from the driver to his leg.
|Saber Maximum Drive Throwing a Kabuto-style reverse kick, the collected energy tracked its fleeing target before finally connecting.

Ryan watched the resulting explosion. As the cell medals began to rain however, the transformation suddenly cancelled the young rider collapsed. The Lost Driver still on his waist.

((Not the best Solo I've done. But it did its job. razz ))

Rio had arrived at the hotel only to discover Kio thrashing on the bed. Jolts of red power shot from his body, making the young human cry out in pain. "Kio! What the hell?!"

Before Rio could move to his ally, Ankh stopped him. "That is a bad idea. If you were to touch him right now..you might get knocked out. Best to let this drain out of him."

"You are that...Ankh guy right? What's happening to him?" Rio looked to the thrashing Kio.

"A surplus of power created by his core medal and driver. It was small before today..just little things...but today..it got very bad. He fought destroy and somehow their belts reacted to each other. I dont know why it did that while DestrOy was there...something is definetly odd with that guy. But...i might know why Kio's belt and medal are doing this now.."

"Then why? Tell me."

"Its best..i tell Kio first. If he wishes..he will tell you. Go out and gather the other rider's you met. Something tells me...things are about to get even worse."


~Omega Shocker~

(this takes place the next day...at dusk)

Shadowmoon laughed and shifted on his throne. "Doctor..i do think its time we set our final assult into motion..dont you?"

"Indeed lord Shadowmoon. I will send out the shock troopers and my latest experiment."

"Excellent. Also...i do hope the ship is ready."

"Ready and waiting. It was not easy recreating that thing but...there was enough of it to do so after Double destroyed it."

Shadowmoon stood and walked to the edge of his seating. Bellow on the lower level were hundreds of shocker troopers, and even a few kaijin. They saluted and he smirked. "Finally! We destroy all those that oppose us! We shall finaly rule all the worlds! And this time...none of the originals can stop us! Shocker!"

A resounding "Ni" rang through the building along with Shadowmoon's laugh.

Kio was asleep as Ankh sat on the window ledge. He was buisy eating an ice cream bar. He looked to Ryan as he opened the door. "Oh so you are back from the hospital. Good. Kio hasn't left his bed in the last couple days. There was..some complications. He got into a fight with DestrOy."

Ankh just groaned. "Kio's belt gave off huge surges of power...like when OOO first started using combo's. But these were much stronger. I dont know what caused the surge but i can tell you this..i am impressed Kio survived. Any lesser human would have probably died from such an event."

Ankh raised a brow and looked at Ryan. "You do? Well then that's good. Still i got this bad feeling. Like something big is coming."

The greed shook his head and sighed. "Anyway..with the location known to us we can strike them...and i might be able to get a few medals as well. Could be usefull if you ask me. By the way...have you noticed something odd about the sky? It looks like its shimmering just beyond the city. like something is in the sky but cloaked."

At that time, Kio groaned as he came to. He shook his head and winced sitting up on the bed. "Did someone get the number of that bus that hit me? God i feel awful."

"Tsk...you are lucky to be alive. Still it says something about your conviction...and your perseverance."