“It has been quite awhile isn’t it?” Nako says to Lessa as she takes off her hood. Nako also takes out a coat of arms of the Sword Maiden.
“It…..cannot be…it’s you….really….you.” Lessa says.
“How can this be? We all thought you were….”
“Dead? You are the one to talk. I heard that you almost gone to the here after too EvilIvy.” Nako says.
“Hey, at least the key word is almost. You were considered dead. How could you do this to us?” EvilIvy says.
Scythe just cries as he hugs Nako. Tricky justy stands there without saying another word. He just walks towards Nako. Nako gives him a hug before he can react.
“HEY!! Quit IT!! Let go off ME!! This is EMBASSESSING!!” Tricky says. Everyone just laughs.
“It seems you two have some improvement since the last time I saw you.”
“Why didn’t you come back to us? We all thought you were….”
“Scythe, wasn’t it better that way? Because of that, I was able to get two years of peace on this planet.”
“So, how did you make it to this planet? How did you survive?”
“Lessa, that’s a story I have to tell you another time. Right now, we need to protect this planet. There is still much to be done.”
At this time, Kenshin squeezes himself through the crowd and get to Nako.
“You are…..HIME?”
“Yes, I am what you people would call...ah yes….the hybrid, or Half-Breed like someone else would say.” Nako says.
“The style you use is beautiful. Can you teach me?” Kenshin asks.
“Wait! She was…I mean is my master after all! It is not like you can just barge in and get her to teach you! Right, Master?” Scythe says as he looks at Nako.
“You just never get tired of making that puppy face aren’t you? I do guess somethings just never changes. Then again, I don’t think it is your business to mind whom I can or cannot train right?” Nako says. Tricky just giggles after he hears from Nako. Kagetsuki walks up to the group.
“Ahhh….I hate to break up your lovely reuion, but we ARE in the mist of a battle after all. Shouldn’t we try to move to somewhere safer?”
“Good idea! Some other Riders are there too.” Nako says as she presses a button on her armor. Then a holographic face of Orga appears.
“Orga, we are requesting permission to send the Zero-Liner here. We have to leave the front line for now. We also have to pick up a few people on the way. Have Dened to support us.” Nako says.
“Nako, if your friends are going to come soon, I think they better make this quick.” Tricky says as he points to a direction. Everyone looks and sees a sea of saber-wielding droids and heavily armed battle units are coming on their way. Nako is about to go forth when Kagetsuki blocks her way.
“This time….I will do the heavy load for you.” Kagetsuki says as he takes out his sword. He presses a button on his sword.
“Excution 01 permissed: Bolt from the Deep…..start up.” a voice comes out from his sword. Kagetsuki just does a great swing towards the ground. Then he puts his sword back into the shealth.
“What did you do?” Kenshin asks.
“Wait for it.” Nako says.
Then, a huge blast comes out from the deep underground which leads to the surface. Not only energy, rocks and sands are being spring up from the ground. It is like raising mountains from plains.
“That should take out a number of them plus hold them for a while.” Kagetsuki says.
“You have got to teach me how to do that.” Tricky says to Kagetsuki.
Nintendo and some other local armies have the troopers pushed back from their sector. Nintenod takes down a lot of troopers with his speed attack. He goes around the battlefield unchallenged. Just then, he feels the ground is shaking. He senses something is wrong. He calls everyone back as he leaps into the air. Then in front of his eyes, mountains spring up from the ground.
“What power! Who could have done this?” Nintendo says to himself. Just then, he finds himself still in midair.
“What the….I didn’t jump that high!” Nintendo looks down and sees the troopers and the army like ants. That because when he is above to jump, the ground below springs up as well which launches him straight into the air. Now, the problem is landing.
“Need a lift?” Garren garbs Nintendo and then swings Nintendo awau from a certain direction before he can react. Then, Nintendo lands on Urataros’s slider.
“I guess I have no choice but let to sting you along with me.” Urataros says. Nintendo just sighs.
“What just happened?”
“Oh…that must bo Lok…no..I mean Kagetsuki’s doing: Bolt from the Deep.”
“What? Did you say Kagetsuki? I thought he is….”
“Dead? We are thought so. Well, now he is fully awakened along with the other one. Now, we have a chance to win this!”
“So, one man can raise mountains?”
“Well, the Lunar Knights proessed mysterious powers. They all have special connection with the force itself. He can tab into the flow of change.”
“The flow of change? What is that?””
“Beats me. I once asked him to explain; I never get a complete answer from him.”
“He is one strange guy isn’t he?”
“Well strange enough to make the princess falls from head to toe for him.”
At that moment, Nintendo and Urataros see a train like vehicle passes by on the ground.
“This looks like an armored train…..” Nintendo asks.
“Well, I must say this is our ride! You are sure a lucky man! You are going to get your questions answered!” Urataros says in a happy tone.
“What do you mean?” Nintendo asks. The two land on the ground and the train stops. Urataros waves his rod and then a door opens. From there Lessa and Kenshin walk out from it.
“What? What are you two doing in there?”
“Nin!! Look who is here?” Lessa says. Nintendo looks as a female figure in white dress like armor comes out from the vehicle. She has long black hair and skin as plate as snow.
“Hello there, old man. Welcome on board the “Zero Liner”. This is ours mobile battle station and transport.”
“You……” Nintendo cannot find any words to answer.
“Well…..do you find sting me along too? It has been a while since I ride in this thing!” Urataros says. Nako just gives a pondering expression. Urataros just keep nagging Nako. Just then, Kagetsuki walks out from the Zero Liner.
“Well, I guess we can let him in. We do need aother gunner after all. Fraiz is still in space while the others are fighting everywhere.” Kagetsuki says.
“True, we still need to go back and meet with Orga and the rest of the Kngiht Riders.”
“Orga? Who’s that?”
“Orga is the leader of the Knight Riders. He is the one who is directing the whole battle throughout this planet. Now everyone get in, we do not have much time to waste.” Nako says. As everyone get in, a number of Blood Hound’s jetpack fighters arrive on the scene. They start firing rocket launchers towards the group.
“Man….these people are very annoying!! No wonder they do not have any girlfriends!” Urataros says.
“How do you know that?” Kenshin asks.
“Well if they have girlfriends or love ones, I do not think they have enough time to come to this planet and lay waste. This is a very simple concept. You have much to learn. Want me to sting you along? You may learn a lot more.” Urataros answers. Kenshin just grunts.
“Alright, everyone hang on! We are moving out!” Kagetsuki says as he starts the Zero Liner. Nako then switch on a button and activiates the defence system. Tricky and Scythe see there are actually many weapons on this vehicle.
“What….what is this thing?”
“Zero Liner is the latest model for heavy transport and armed unit. Trust me on this part: the Knight Rider process weapons that no one has ever heard of.” Urataros says.
“I don’t know about that. In the Knights Reborn, the Nexus Max is one of the latest models in space battle crusiers. Surely we also we something else that you people haven’t even heard if.” Kenshin says. Urataros and Kenshin just lock into this argument when suddenly Nako and Lessa appear in front of them.
“ENOUGH!! What are you people? 12 years old or something?” Nako and Lessa say to the two.
“I haven’t seen that for a long time.” Scythe says.
“Yep those two always move and work together. So where are we going? This battle seems pretty much decided that we are on the winning side.” Tricky says.
“Yes, no doubt we held off the capital and the near by cities. Then again, look at this image of the other areas on the planet.” Nako says.
Everyone takes a look and sees a shocking image.
“What is this?” Lessa asks.
They see that every building has some kind of spore grew on to it. There are people and animals that got inflected too. There are spores grew out from their corpes. There are videos recorded that some innocent people struggle painfully as the spores are growing out from their bodies. The scene is so sickening even Tricky cannot handle it.
“How can they do this? This is nothing but meaningless slaughter!!” EvilIvy says.
“Aren’t all wars are the same? Listen up people; this is the enemy’s new weapon. Some of our members recorded these videos and brought it back to us. They are transmitting these images to every Rider on the planet.” Kagetsuki says.
“So where are we going now?” Scythe asks.
“We are going to the Knight Rider’s base: ZECT.”