[Location: Mansion of the beam beacon]
At Kisuke's side, the group finally reached the doorstep of the mansion after another lengthy trek across the fields and prairie.
In contrast to the vibrant tones of sky blue and verdant green, the actual mansion seems more rundown than anyone has expected.
Kisuke led in the front as Natsumi and others closely followed behind.
CREAK-KK
The door opens with a noisy creak, as a wave of stench came drifting out. Everyone instinctively pinched their nose as they slowly stepped in with caution.
They looked and set their sights around the interior of the mansion.
It was much more derelict than what they have thought to be, despite the hint of the moldy stench that has pounced onto their nose in a bid of warning.
“Yuusuke-san, there are two spiraling stairway on our left and right, let's split into two parties from here, we would also bump into Kaito-san easier this way.”,
Kisuke offered his advice in face of the mansion's interior of seemingly towering height.
“I agree too! Natsumi-chan, Oji-san, let us head for the right stairway while Kisuke-tachi go for another.”
Henceforth, in split ways they venture further up the mansion.
Yuusuke, Natsumi and her gramp cautiously climbed up the stairway.
At the top of the stairway, a one-route hallway leads to a chamber with paintings framed in all sizes on the circular insides of the chamber.
As they went into the chamber, the lights above them went off suddenly.
“Be careful, Everyone!”
Yuusuke ushered everyone behind him, as they felt the chamber rotated, leaving them to exit at another hidden section of the mansion's right wing.
“This is?”, Natsumi looked sharply at her strange environment as a familiar voice called out to her.
“Natsumi-Chan! Is... Is that you? I am right here! *Flitters* ”
“Kiva-la! Where have they hide you? Stay there and I will get you out of here.”
Natsumi turned towards the torch-switch on the wall to her left as the pitch-dark hall finally lit-up brightly, as their reflex causes them to turn their sight away from such sudden exposure of light.
CLAP CLAP CLAP
Just then, a man in white uniform came out to the center of the hall from nowhere, as he continued to greet his unexpected visitors,
“Welcome to the humble mansion of Foundation-X's energy research facility, it was impressive of all of you to have come all the way here. For this I have to give you all a round of applause”
Of course, anyone who have been there to hear it would knew that the white stranger doesn't mean any good intention.
Up in the center of the hall high up the ceiling, attached to the chandelier is a tiny cage where Kiva-la was imprisoned in.
Natsumi got worked up as she commanded the dubious man, “Let her go!”
The man sneered at her absurd requests as he responded in reply,
“Young lass, I am afraid that's not possible. To have you all come such a long way here, Of course I have to issue a handsome reward for that! To dissipate and to become a part of the facility's energy source for the beam beacon! *as his tone turns insane* Now, Isn't that great!?”
The white host of the mansion took out a proxy driver from his hind holster as he sets them on his hip, promptly the driver releases the belt that envelops his hip, the man tapped the core of the proxy driver as he turns into Proxy Leangle.
Having transformed, so has his tone changed for the complete, into one like a madman on an adrenaline rush.
“Come! Be good and claim your rewards!”
Yuusuke materialized the Kuuga Belt – Arcle, on his hip as he stepped forward to face the mad, monochrome menace,
“Natsumi-chan, back down with the gramp! Let me handle this!”
CHOU HENSHIN!
Yuusuke transformed into the Rising Mighty Form of Kamen Rider Kuuga.
Proxy Leangle being madly full of himself, isn't exactly happy with the sight of it, the adrenaline has seem to fade a little from his tone, but it has however grew more aggressive.
“What is this? An unexpected form of resistance I am getting. Even better, I will take over your belt and become a true rider while I ditch this accursed form of the shadows once and for all!”
Kuuga charged up with a fist to his opponent's face, as the fist closes in onto Proxy Leangle's face, the nimble tarantula rider swerved his body slightly, though the punch managed to brush against the side of his visor.
With the crimson-clad rider's body positioned close against him when he partially dodges the punch, away from Kuuga's line of sight, he tried to retaliate with a lowdown punch to Yuusuke's stomach.
However Yuusuke tapped into his razor-sharp reflex as he tightly grabbed the impending fist from under with his free hand, in this state both were tangled in a wrestle of push and pull for a moment.
After a few tugs from both sides, Kuuga finally let go of Leangle-Proxy's hand as they repelled each other off.
As Yuusuke regained balanced swiftly upon the repel, he initiates another attack once again- this time Kuuga runs towards the hostile rider as he jumped and send a sweeping kick from the side.
The aerial kick assault happened so fast that the monochrome rider took a violent sweep to the head from his left.
Despite suffering concussions from that attack, Proxy Leangle managed to grab hold of Kuuga's leg as he did a powerful momentum of round turn and swings Yuusuke away, slamming him against the wall.
BAM!
A loud bang echoed across the hall as the golden-trimmed rider gets brutally slammed and crashed.
“Yuusuke!”, Natsumi called out to Yuusuke upon the sight of his injury.
With his back lying against the wall, Yuusuke struggles as he musters all his strength to pick himself up from the impact.
As he stands up, behind the Proxy Rider Leangle, an ornament rifle that was hung on the wall caught his attention.
Thoughts began to race through Yuusuke's mind as he devises a follow-up plan against his enemy.
“Oh, is that all there is to your power?”, The white hostile in his rider form taunted.
“Give Kiva-la back to us!”, Yuusuke shouted as he starts to get a little angry.
“Hah! What a fool! Come get her back yourself, if you're good enough, that is!”
Materializing his rouzer, the grim tarantula rider processes the power of the cards of ♣ 3 (Screw Mole) and ♣ 4 (Rush Rhinoceros).
Thrusting the rouzer forward, he comes at Kuuga with every force he has with the execution of the “Rush/Screw Combo”.
In face of such tremendous attack, Yuusuke clearly knew he possibly had only one chance to free Kiva-la, Its all or nothing!
The spiraling menace of the rouzer drill came thrusting like a dash of lightning bolt, Kuuga utilized every ounce of his senses as he dodge rolled from the drilling rouzer.
“Now!”, Yuusuke exclaimed to himself mentally as he sprints towards the ornament rifle that was hung on the wall.
Kuuga reached for the ornament rifle with his hand as he forcibly pulled the rifle off the nail that pins itself on the wall.
Holding the ornament rifle in his hand, Yuusuke paused briefly to catch a breathe as his eyes continued to look keenly at his brutal foe.
“Now, wait a minute. What would you be trying to do with an ornament rifle? You think a toy like that's gonna hurt me? Hahaha don't be silly, you imbecile!”
The madman's tone grew with lunacy once more, however Yuusuke did not pay the slightest attention to whatever he was saying, Yuusuke shut off his eyesight and took a deep breathe for a second as he readies himself for the most important part of his battle plan.
Clutching the ornament rifle in his right hand, he tapped into the power of the arcle belt as he cried out,
CHOU HENSHIN!
Using the ornament rifle as an object of medium, Kuuga was able to transit from the form of Rising Mighty into Rising Pegasus Form.
“Now Natsumi! Catch hold of Kiva-la!”, Yuusuke called out to Natsumi as he fires the arrow at the exact point between the chandelier and the cage with extreme accuracy, as expected of the pegasus form.
The pulling gravity began to take its toll on the cage as it breaks hold from the chandelier.
“Kiva-la!”, Natsumi hurriedly hurled herself forward as she stretches out her arms to catch hold of the cage in time.
“*Flitters* Nat...Natsumi-chan!”, Kiva-la's eyes gleamed a little with the tears of gratitude.
Natsumi inspects the cage door and tried to pull open by force but to no success.
Just then, her gramp Eijiro who has been keeping calm and observing all the chaos from a corner, came forward to take a look at the cage as he assures his dear grand-daughter.
“Let me take a closer look.”, Eijiro the gramp squints his eyes as he goes even nearer to take another look at the shape of the cage's lock on the miniscule door.
He began to search his obsolete-looking vest accompanied by a series of tinkling sound from it.
“Ah, this should do!”
Out from the vest in his hand was a key that Natsumi found somewhat familiar,
“Wait, Jii, That was one of the keys for our home's attics, you don't mean...”, the old man's grand-daughter was apparently surprised.
The old gramp nodded his head to his grandchild's speculation as he inserted the key into the keyhole of the cage door.
*TWEAK*
The cage door unlocked as it opens gently.
“ Hurhur~~ Free at last, Shall we go? Natsumi~?”, Kiva-la is freed as she expresses her state of readiness to initiate a transformation with Natsumi.
“Let's go, Kiva-la.”
Natsumi extends her right arm outwards as Kiva-la flies into her hand, with the petite white bat in her right hand, she stretches her right arm out as she said out together with Kiva-la
Henshin!
The white bat kisses Natsumi's forehead to create emblems of heart as her human host transforms, into a feminine rider in white with a few touches of purple.
“Kamen Rider... Kiva-la!”, Natsumi gripped her saber with poise as she assumes her battle stance, joining the battle with Kuuga against their common enemy.
The crazed persona that lies beneath the armor of the tarantula rider, finally crosses his mental threshold as he bursts out in a fitful rage,
“THIS IS ABSURD! Looks like all of you would not bow down in submission until I wipe the floor with all of you!”
Leangle-Proxy took out a couple of cards from the card-holder holstered at the side of his waist, as he processed the power of ♣ J (Fusion Jack) and ♣ Q (Absorb Queen).
Augmented with the might of his cards, he lets out a deep cry as he morphs into Proxy Leangle (Jack Form).
“This-this is...! Be careful, Natsumi-chan, I sensed a great surge of power within him!”
Empowered and bestowed with the power of Jack Form, the reborned rider of the monochrome is larger in size compared to its previous form.
Facing such opponent of physical intimidation, Kuuga tossed his cross-bow aside as he assumes another form.
CHOU HENSHIN!
This time, the azure green rider turned into the Rising Titan Form of the violet armor.
“Together! Yuusuke!”, Natsumi relayed to her comrade as she dashes towards the arachnid hulk, taking aim for a strike with her saber.
Kuuga materializes his Rising Titan Sword as he charges fiercely from another side.
As both rider were about to hit, the proxy rider took a card from his holster as he accessed the ability of that card with his gigantic rouzer.
*Proxy Rider Leangle (Jack Form)’s Rider System: (♣7 : Gel Jellyfish) – GEL! *
The physical body of the leangle transmutes into a liquid form as both the Rising Titan Sword and the Kiva-la Saber passes through his aqueous body.
*SLASH!*
By the time Yuusuke and Natsumi noticed the trasmutation of their enemy it was already too late to pull back, resulting in them landing an attack on one another by accident.
“Yuusuke-kun, we have to think of something about this situation.”
Needless to say, for Kuuga to fight against the Proxy all these while, Yuusuke did come to a certain conclusion, that is – The gap of inertia when the foe takes time to process the card.
Feeling egoistic about his superior power, the proud man approached Kiva-la step-by-step.
When he took out another couple of card from his card-holder, Yuusuke immediately noticed the opportunity as he shouted out,
NATSUMI-CHAN! HEAD FOR HIS CARDS!
Kiva-la's entire body jerked up as the shout reaches her, she quickly picks up her saber.
Proxy Leangle isn't deaf and of course heard it too, vigilantly defending his cards, he brutally thrusts his rouzer down at her with swift velocity.
In respond to the sudden assault, Natsumi performed a great act of riposte – dodging the attack and landing a brilliant touche at her opponent's waist, piercing through the card-holder and the deck of cards inside.
Torn at the sight of his destroyed deck of cards and the powers from it, he cried out loudly in fury
WH-WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
Finally, with the powers of obstruction aside, Yuusuke creates a second Rising Titan Sword from his Arcle Belt as he unleashes his finisher together with Natsumi.
*Kamen Rider Kuuga (Rising Titan)’s Rider System: Double Rising Calamity Titan*
*Kamen Rider Kiva-la’s Rider System: Sonic Stab*
As the Proxy Jack Leangle suffers heavy damage from both ends, he finally dropped to his knees as he explodes, leaving the remnants of the proxy driver to shatter into dusts.
Both of them dispels their rider forms as they hurried along with the gramp and Kiva-la bat,
“Quick! I am afraid something might have happened to Kisuke-tachi too.”, Natsumi couldn't stop herself from worrying.