Kamen Rider Spirits - Chapter 3 Not Spider Island

[darkblade]

I got nothing interesting to say for an opening so let's jump right into Kamen Rider Spirits Chapter 3.



Ichimongi wipes the floor with the cyborg soldiers before turning his attention to the general. With a Rider Kick.




It doesn't exactly work out as planned as the General reveals his Spider form. It is something of a tradition to have Kamen Riders start off by fighting a bat monster and a spider monster since those were the first two monsters Kamen Rider 1 fought. Now this is not universal by any means but that is the reasoning behind having the first two arcs in this manga be about fighting Vampire Preachers and Cyborg Spider Warlords..



We also get explaination for the whole Red Fisted Demon thing but it really is no surprise. Kamen Riders may be hardcore in their dealing with bad guys but indiscriminate murders they are not.

Anyways with Hayato webbed up and then left under rubble and Taki is shot the General Parker Gwin leaves them for dead and kidnaps the Doctor and the kids, taking them to another different temple where he explains his evil plan to them and it's a dooozy.




Yeah that's pretty damn sick. Over the top and cartoonishly evil but still pretty fucked up. Probably it was meant to make a ham-fisted statement about child soldiers and maybe suicide bombers in war torn countries but damn that takes the idea a little too far I think. It makes it loose any impact you could have had by being close to real life and instead becoming a little bit silly.

Hayato and Taki return from their seeming demises proving that despite being a sick fuck the General is not all that smart and could do with a look over the Evil Overlord List. Namely the part about leaving the man who just killed all your soldiers single handily for dead without even bothering to check.

Hayato transforms and gets ready to kick Spider Ass.



That right there is oddly enough one of the most quoted lines in the Kamen Rider fandom. Almost never is it used in context or even about the same character but no matter what corner of the internet you go to if you talk Kamen Rider you will hear that line and “ORNOE DICKIEDO!” I personally kind of like it due to the cute narm and Bigger Than Jesus connotations. That and since I'm a nerd who considers Ghost Rider a Kamen Rider in spirit and he's pretty damn sure there is a God it gives it another little layer of humour to me but your mileage may vary.





With that the General is killed and we come to the mandatory touching moment comes in the form of poor orphans smiling that the horrific spider monster/tyrant/warlord/guerrilla leader was just killed in front of their eyes by a similar horrific grasshopper monster. So much for all those who kill being demons in the eyes of children.





11 pages from a 34 page chapter.

Next week: Kamen Rider V3 goes Egypt, hunts treasure and fights cyborg mummies.

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[majingojira]

Think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Super Robot Wars.

Then think of the song "Everything You Know is Wrong" because everything that is conforms to what came before by and large.

I've been working on it for 5 years, have over 2000 characters written up and currently mark the story part of it at over 87,000 words. I've lost count of how many series are in the RPG, and of exactly how many characters are there. However, the fic has over 42 series appearing either majorly or just in cameo form.

Let me share with you one of the minor character's histories from the RPG section (who have a decent sized roll in the fic).

The Powerpuff Girls.

"Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice
"These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girl
"But Professor Untonium accidently added an extra ingredient to the concoction:
"Chemical X
"And thus The Powerpuff Girls were born!"

A convenient fallacy.

The truth of the matter stems from a Nazi Super Soldier project beyond even what Hugo Danner had initially brought with him. Taking the genetic material of the various super-powered human mutations in an effort to create the ultimate soldier for their covert war. Professor Utonium was given the Gladiator Formula; the purest, least addictive form of Velocity known; the biological/radioactive material of the original Doctor Philip Solar; Wendigo genetics; Kryptonian cells; and the genes of a so-called “Sonic Mutant”. He devised a theoretical solution to mix these formula and genetics.

Herman Von Klempt implemented the hypothetical process and then showed Utonium the fruits of his labor. Utonium was horrified and fled at the mass produced—often deformed--creations. He managed to contact the BPRD who shut the operation. They burned the facility down and thought they destroyed all the proto-Hitler youth in the facility. However, they were very wrong.

In total, there were 7 survivors. The Professor rescued the three girls (which he named Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup), Herman Von Klempt rescued three boys (Butch, Boomer and Brick) and a fourth girl who ran into the wilds later named Bunny. This last one became, like many of the experimentees, hideously deformed and mentally retarded. She later detonated when her powers shorted out. Sadly, it was in the Powerpuff Girls home town that it happened.

Professor Untonium took his girls to the states where he managed to adopt them rather quickly and raised them as best he could as a single-dad/scientist. Surprisingly, the girls turned out very well all things considered. He found that his hypothesis only worked in part, as the girls managed to display the effects of the Gladiator and Velocity formulas, some Kryptonian features but beyond that, they seamed to only have a few different powers. They first began to use their powers to help the small town they lived in at the age of 5 or so—and did so almost naturally. Utonium later deduced that this was due to the influence of them watching Batman the Animated Series before nap time.

As such, the professor did his best to train his budding super-prodigies as they grew up, and again found himself rewarded with, as he put it “three perfect angels”.

However, their feats of daring-do soon drew attention: Large mutant animals began to occasionally appear (nothing with armor greater than 30m long however); A local Bigfoot took a particular vendetta out on the girls—throwing rocks and meat at their home; A gang of zombies called the Gangrene Gang began to terrorize the town (use Criminal stats from the Angel book but with the Zombie quality for the most part); and then, Herman Von Klempt began to terrorize their town.

He wanted to reclaim his subjects as each one represented almost one hundred million dollars in resources. He sent their ‘siblings’ the “Rowdy-rough Boys” to recapture then, but they too found themselves defeated. Partly because they were preteens and those cursed hormones were kicking in.

All of these calamities were visited upon the girls in part due to the Mephistopheles/Kaworu Nagisa/Satan/Ryou Asuka/Mephilas-Seijin manipulations (s/he gets bored easily and does so love using mortals as playthings), hoping to break the girls psychologically. So far, he has failed to do so—but is still having a blast doing it. He forms an avatar of himself that the girls refer to as only “Him”. As Him, he has been a major threat or a minor annoyance depending on how well his other plans are going.

The girls grew up and entered high-school soon after the turn of the millennium and will graduate outside the parameters of this write-up. Their little family is very important to them and they do what they can to protect it and the town they live in. They spend their time in the millennium living normal lives, awaiting a call from the Mayor or a cry for help to rush in and save the day once again.

As a side note: Professor Blum and Hellboy were also quite angry to find out what some of their staff had done without informing them—only to find out that they had moles in the organization from another government black op. Their investigation, and others of the early nineties, eventually revealed the existence of a shadow-group called Cadmus that, ever since Hypolyta Trevor took command of the SHIELD/UNIT, had been working for the “Human Agenda” away from the supernatural and beyond human elements that were ‘taking over’. Cadmus has proven to be a very difficult entity to dispatch, though their final death knell was delivered by Buffy Summers when the organization behind Cadmus, the Twilight, began to make war on the Slayers.

I'm a sick bastard.

[darkblade]

Wait are you the person who posted that huge forum thread/encyclopedia thing on No Scans Daily. I was rather overwhelmed by most of it but I remember Jack O'Neil piloting the RaXephon and Powergirl becoming the new Oracle.

[majingojira]

Yup.

I'm that crazy person.