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Rickey Shane Page (c) vs Sister Abigail- MPW World Championship- MPW: Run Rickey Run

It had finally come down to this. Since Rickey Shane Page won the MPW World Championship, seemingly everybody had been waiting for him to finally defend it. He’d spent more than a month ducking challenges and wrestling exclusively in non-title matches, but now he finally had to put the belt on the line. As Rickey made his way to the ring, flanked as always by Eric Ryan, Eddy Only, and Sami Callihan of the 44OH, the MPW World Championship belt slung over his shoulder. MPW fans were practically standing on the rail, some looking like they were about ready to come over it, as they shouted obscenities about Rickey, his boys, and the state of Ohio directly at the 44OH. Still, none of it seemed to phase Rickey, that same smirk that he usually had plastered on his face was ever present now, as he locked eyes with Abigail, who was already staring daggers into him from the ring.

As Rickey and the rest of the 44OH approached ringside, they were cut off by the Second Gear Crew. Syn, Mance Warner, Effy, and Manders had formed a wall to stop the 44OH from passing, and as Rickey and the rest of them drew closer, Syn pointed to the back, and reading his lips, one could tell he was telling Rickey to leave his boys in the back. Eric, Eddy, and Sami looked ready for a fight, but Rickey put a hand out and stopped them from advancing on the SGC. Rickey leaned down and whispered something to Eric Ryan, before nodding and telling his boys to go. The rest of the 44OH walked to the back, and it appeared Rickey would be going at this one alone, at least for the time being.

Rickey shoved his way past, shoulder checking Syn as he did. Syn looked as if he wanted to lash out, but the Second Gear Crew’s role here at ringside tonight wasn’t to directly influence the outcome of the match by attacking the competitors, rather, it was to discourage outside interference. Although perhaps it was a little telling on both the part of the SGC, and Paul Heyman, that Amaya Winters and Atticus Cogar were allowed to be at ringside for Abigail, but, those biases were there for a reason.

Rickey got into the ring and took off his entrance jacket, before handing the MPW World Championship over to referee Jason Ayers, our official for our main event tonight. Steve Guy finished up the formal championship introductions, and exited the ring, and Jason Ayers called for the bell, our world championship main event was officially underway!

The ring was outfitted as typical for an MPW Deathmatch- Light tubes taped to the ropes, two panes of glass already in opposite corners of the ring, while several other weapons were scattered about the ringside area. Rickey Shane Page and Abigail circled each other for a moment, before this one started with a lockup, Rickey quickly taking control and slipping behind Abigail and trapping her in a waist lock, before catching her with a shot to the back. Rickey then sent Abigail into the ropes, and as she hit them she shattered the light tubes she crashed into, but it didn’t seem to faze her like Rickey thought it would, as she came off the ropes and leveled Rickey with a huge clothesline! Rickey hit the mat and quickly rolled up to his feet, stumbling into the corner, looking as if that clothesline took him completely by surprise. Abigail charged Rickey in the corner and leveled him with a body splash, and then ran across the ring, hit the opposite set of turnbuckles for momentum, and crashed into Rickey again, before pulling Rickey out of the corner, and tossing Rickey with an Exploder Suplex! The strength of Abigail is on display as she manages to lift the massive Rickey Shane Page and toss him overhead! Rickey hit the mat and rolled up to his knees, and Abigail got back up and hit the ropes again, before driving Rickey face first into the mat with a sliding flatliner! Abigail rolls Rickey over for the first cover of the match!

1…. Kickout!

Rickey manages to quickly kick out at one, and immediately rolls himself out of the ring, trying his best just to create some space from Abigail. Rickey stumbled to the outside, but was quickly pursued by Abigail, who grabbed Rickey and drove him right into the steel guardrail! Rickey cried out in pain and held his back, before launching a few stiff forearms at Abigail, but they seemed to have little to no effect, as she stepped back, measured, and blasted Rickey with a roundhouse kick that sent him over the steel guardrail, spilling out into the fans! Steve Guy reminded the fans to stay out of the way of the action, and many of the fans grabbed their belongings and vacated their chairs, getting out of the way of the warpath. Abigail picked Rickey back up, and threw him into the chairs, sending Rickey rolling and crashing through several rows of chairs! Abigail continued to hunt Rickey, stalking towards him slowly as he struggled to get up. Abigail grabbed one of the chairs that had been knocked over by Rickey and folded it up, before bringing the chair down across Rickey’s back, the slap of steel on flesh echoing throughout the Showboat! Rickey cried out in pain again and once again stumbled away, just trying to create distance between himself and Abigail. Abigail threw down the chair and continued to go after Rickey, grabbing him by the hair and pulling him over to a vacant chair, sitting him down before blasting him with a couple of stiff chops to the chest, each of which sounding like a shotgun going off in the Showboat. Abigail punctuated the sequence with a headbutt, which knocked Rickey loopy, before taking the beer can from one of the fans that offered it to her. It was relatively full, and Abigail took the can and smashed it over Rickey’s head, knocking him right out of the chair, and sending beer flying everywhere!

Abigail grabbed Rickey once again, and lifted him back up, before once again sending Rickey careening into another row of chairs, each chair Rickey crashed through causing him even more and more pain. This match had been almost 100% Abigail from the very start, The White Reaper looking super motivated tonight, determined to take the belt back from Rickey Shane Page and the 44OH. Abigail grabbed Rickey again and tossed him back over the guardrail into the ringside area, before climbing over herself, and catching Rickey with a kick to the ribs. Abigail grabbed a bundle of tubes from ringside and tossed it into the ring, before grabbing two more light tubes from a box laying at ringside, and setting those on the apron. Abigail grabbed Rickey again and hit him with a forearm, before lifting him up, and planting him on the apron and on those light tubes with a brutal looking Uranage! Rickey was slammed right into the hardest part of the ring, made even more excruciatingly painful by the addition of light tubes! Abigail rolled Rickey back into the ring, and slid in herself, hooking his leg for the cover, to win the title!

1….2…. Kickout!

Rickey stays alive, keeping the championship for the time being. Abigail brushed her hair out of her face, before getting back to her feet. Abigail grabbed Rickey again and lifted him back up to his feet, and nailed him with another stiff forearm, before hitting the ropes, possibly looking for a spear, but before she could connect, Rickey suddenly scooped Abigail up and drove her down to the mat with a Death Valley Driver! Rickey sits up after dropping Abigail, taking his chance to catch a breather for the first time in this match. Rickey reached over and grabbed a handful of Abigail’s white hair, before dragging her back up to her feet, and sending her off the ropes again, before connecting on the rebound with a knee to the gut, sending Abigail to the mat! Rickey then dropped to the mat and began hammering away at Abigail with a couple of stiff shots to the head with his forearm, before trapping Abigail into a headlock. Rickey continued to put pressure on Abigail’s head, sticking his tongue out to mock the crowd as they broke into their usual chants of “FUCK O-HI-O” directed at the MPW World Champion. Rickey’s game was much more slow and methodical than Abigail’s usual violent frenzy, and slowing the match down to his pace would only work in his favor. Rickey continued to put pressure on her head, squeezing her cranium, and continuing to mock the crowd.

Abigail began to fight back, catching Rickey with a few shots to the midsection, before managing to get her feet back underneath her, and start to fight back to her feet. Steadily, she began to rise, and Rickey began to look worried, before Abigail suddenly lifted Rickey up and dropped him to the mat with a back suplex, breaking the hold! Rickey landed flat on his back and quickly rolled back up to his feet, clutching the small of his back as he stumbled towards the ropes for stability. Abigail charged Rickey, but Rickey quickly grabbed one of the light tubes off the ropes and blasted Abigail in the head with it! Abigail dropped down to her hands and knees, as blood began to drip from her forehead. Rickey grabbed another light tube, and shattered it over Abigail’s head and back, once again covering her in broken glass shards. Rickey pulled another tube off the ropes, before walking back over to Abigail, and pulling her up to her knees. Rickey stuck the tube in Abigail’s mouth, before pulling on the ends of the tube, breaking the tube right in Abigail’s mouth! Abigail grabs for her mouth, which is surely cut to shreds after a move like that! Rickey lifts Abigail back to her feet, before driving her down with a Michinoku Driver! Rickey covers, to retain the title!

1….2…. Kickout!

Abigail kicks out, keeping her title hopes alive! Rickey pulled himself up to his knees, and began to mockingly wipe his hands off, shouting out to the crowd how this was all just “too easy”. Rickey got back to his feet, and grabbed Abigail again, dragging her up by her hair, before wrapping his hand around her throat, going for the chokebreaker, but Abigail is quick to smack his arm away, nail him with a headbutt, before grabbing Rickey and whipping him right through the pane of glass sitting in one of the corners of the ring! The pane of glass explodes as RSP crashes through it! That might be catastrophic for RSP’s title reign! Before Abigail can do anything about it, though, suddenly, Eric Ryan, Eddy Only, Sami Callihan, and now Jake Crist all run down to the ring and slide in, attacking Abigail from behind! You knew when 44OH went to the back earlier that they wouldn’t stay away for long, and now they were here, stomping Abigail down to the mat! But within seconds of them hitting the ring, Syn, Effy, Mance, and Manders, Paul Heyman’s hand picked ringside enforcers, all slide into the ring and begin taking the fight to the 44OH! Syn on Ryan, Mance on Sami, Effy on Crist and Manders on Eddy, the Second Gear Crew begin to hammer away at the 44OH, not letting them get away with ruining this match and costing Abigail. All four members of the 44OH bail out of the ring and try to hop the barricade to run away from the SGC, but all four members of SGC slide out of the ring and give chase, running after the 44OH, and hopefully chasing them right out of the building!

Abigail gets back to her feet, and sees Rickey beginning to recover in the corner, pulling himself up to his feet. Abigail grabs the tube bundle she brought into the ring earlier, and charges Rickey, before smashing the bundle over his head and dropping him into a seated position in the corner! Abigail grabs another tube bundle, and lays it against Rickey, before running across the ring, hitting the ropes, and smashing into the tube bundle and Rickey with a running face wash, shatting the tube bundle against Rickey’s face! Abigail dragged Rickey out of the corner, and went for the cover, looking to win the world championship!

1….2…. Kickout!

Rickey Shane Page saves his title again! Rickey’s face was now a near full crimson mask as blood ran down from his forehead, and his back was also nearly entirely covered with blood. This match was doing a number on both competitors, and we weren’t done yet. Abigail grabbed Rickey and dragged him closer to the corner, before Abigail began to climb up to the top rope. Abigail set her feet, before leaping off with a gorgeous Moonsault, trying to crash down onto Rickey, but Rickey suddenly came to life and as Abigail made contact, Rickey trapped her in a rear naked choke! Rickey locked his arms and wrapped his legs around Abigail’s body, before trying to squeeze the life out of her! Abigail was fading fast, and Jason Ayers was continuously checking her, making sure the challenger was still conscious. If Abigail faded out, that would be the end of her title opportunity! Abigail tried to pry at Rickey’s arms, but she was quickly losing consciousness. Before she could, however, suddenly, Amaya Winters rolled into the ring and began attacking Rickey Shane Page! Abigail’s protege wasn’t going to let her mentor go out like that! Amaya hammered away at Rickey, until Rickey released the hold on Abigail, doing his best to cover up from her attack. Rickey rolled away into the corner, and Amaya went over to Rickey, grabbed him, and dragged him up to his feet, before sending Rickey off the ropes, looking for the Unholy Kiss, but Rickey manages to dodge it. Amaya turned around just in time as Rickey came off the ropes and blasted her with a Rolling Elbow, knocking Amaya out of the ring! Atticus ran over and checked on Amaya, as Rickey stood in the ring and laughed at the pathetic display. “You picked the wrong side, weirdos!” Rickey yelled out to them, before going back over to Abigail, trying to lift her up, but suddenly getting caught by jawbreaker! Rickey stumbled backwards, creating just enough space for Abigail to get up and level Rickey with a big boot! Rickey is knocked to the mat, and Abigail looks to seize the opening! Abigail lifts Rickey up and gains wrist control, looking to nail Rickey with a Famemaker and potentially end this match, but Rickey had it scouted, and as Abigail spun him out for the ripcord lariat, Rickey caught Abigail by the throat, lifted her up, and drove her down across his knee with a devastating Chokebreaker! Abigail’s back might be broken, and her title hopes look to be all but over! Rickey hooks the leg!

1….2…. Kickout!

Abigail kicks out of the Chokebreaker! Rickey can hardly believe it! Rickey pulls himself up to his knees, his usual smirk and air of confidence gone, instead his face twisted in anger and frustration as referee Jason Ayers tells Rickey that it was just two. Rickey gets up and gets in Ayers face, giving him a shove. Ayers gets right in Rickey’s face, but Rickey simply laughs at the much smaller man. “What’re you gonna do about?” Rickey asks as he shoves Ayers again, backing him towards the corner. “Title match, no DQ, I can do whatever the fuck I want.” Rickey gives Ayers another push, but that seemed to be one push too far, as yes, Jason Ayers couldn’t disqualify Rickey, but what Ayers could do is pull his fist back and cold cock Rickey right in the jaw! Jason Ayers caught RSP with a right hand! Rickey stumbles back, half shocked, half stunned from the shot, and turns right around into Abigail cracking a chair right over his head! Amaya Winters had recovered from the Rolling Elbow from Rickey, and had slid her mentor in a chair! Abigail stood over Rickey, chair still in hand, looking down at the world champion. Abigail had done some awful things in her life. Things many people still hate her for, and with good reason. So it says something when an individual is so vile of a human being, it makes even her skin crawl, but that’s exactly what the look she’s giving Rickey Shane Page conveys. Abigail lays the chair down across Rickey’s chest, before hitting the ropes, and comes back, crashing down hard onto Rickey and the chair with a senton! Abigail tosses the chair out of the way, before hooking the leg for the cover!

1….2…. Kickout!

Rickey kicks out again, keeping his title reign in tact for the time being. Rickey begins to roll out towards the arpon, and Abigail makes eyes towards Atticus and Amaya, and begins directing traffic. On Abigail’s instruction, Amaya and Atticus retrieve another pane of glass, and set it up between two chairs on the floor outside. Abigail then begins to follow Rickey out on the apron, as Amaya and Atticus begin to back out of the way. Abigail slithers out onto the apron with Rickey and stands up, catching him with a shot to the back, before dragging him the rest of the way up, and wraps an arm around his head. Abigail looks to the pane of glass, and mutters something to herself, perhaps a small prayer, before she and Rickey both go off the apron, Abigail putting both herself and Rickey through the pane of glass with the Black Arrow! An explosion of glass punctuates the impact, as now both competitors were down on the outside, as the sold out crowd here at the Showboat, in the Carousel Room, were all on their feet, and LOUD.

“HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT!”

Abigail was the first to begin to stirr, using the apron to pull herself up using the apron, and does her best to try and drag Rickey up to his feet and toss him into the ring as well. Abigail collapses before she’s able to pull herself into the ring, and takes a couple of seconds to rest on the outside, kneeling, exhausted from the fight, and perhaps starting to go a little dizzy from blood loss. Atticus got Amaya’s attention and the two walked over to their mentor, each putting a shoulder under her arms and lifting her up, aiding her in getting back into the ring. Abigail dragged herself to the corner, and watched as Rickey had began to try and do the same. Abigail pulled herself back up to her feet, before charging across the ring at Rickey. Abigail went for a splash, but before she could land it, Rickey pulls referee Jason Ayers in front from of him, and Ayers is smushed between Rickey and Abigail as Abigail lands the corner splash. Abigail stumbles backwards, realizing what she’s done as Ayers drops to the floor, taken out of the equation by that accident. As Abigail is distracted by Ayers getting knocked out, Rickey takes advantage, leaping up and catching Abigail in the back of the head with a brutal enziguri! Abigail is knocked out, flat on the mat, and Rickey falls back against the corner, before looking down at Abigail, and realizing she’s vulnerable. Rickey begins to climb up onto the top rope, setting his feet, and taking a deep breath. Rickey was looking to end this, as he leaps off the top rope, looking to crash down onto Abigail with a Swanton Bomb….

But Abigail gets her knees up! Rickey’s spine landed against Abigail’s sharp knees, causing Rickey a world of pain, as he fell to his knees and clutched his back in agony. Abigail gets back to her feet and grabs Rickey, gaining wrist control, and blasting Rickey with a Famemaker, nearly taking Rickey’s head off!

Abigail dropped down and covered, but quickly realized there was no referee to count the pin. Abigail pressed her fate into the mat in frustration and agony as she realized this, as the crowd’s counting got all the way to ten, giving Abigail the visual win, but not one that counted for anything.

Suddenly, the crowd came to life as Paul Heyman ran out from the curtain, removing his blazer and dress shirt, revealing a referee shirt underneath! Heyman shouted for Abigail to cover Rickey again, as Heyman slid into the ring to count the pin! Abigail hooked the leg!

1….

2…..

KICKOUT!

Rickey manages to stay alive! If Abigail would’ve been able to get a pin counted sooner, it might have been a different story, but for now, this fight would have to keep going. As one could imagine, Heyman wasn’t exactly being impartial, kneeling next to Abigail and practically begging her to finish this. Abigail got back to her feet, and brushed her hair out of her face, before grabbing the chair she’d brought into the ring earlier, and setting it up. Abigail called out to Amaya and Atticus, who tossed her another chair into the ring. Abigail set the other chair up, and grabbed the other pane of glass that had been into the ring, and placed it between the chairs, before grabbing Rickey by the hair, and dragging him up, before lifting him up onto the top rope. Abigail nailed him with a few forearms, before climbing up to the second rope, and nailing Rickey with a few stiff headbutts, before lifting Rickey up, climbing up to the top rope, and putting Rickey and herself through the pane of glass with a superplex! Abigail takes a moment to grimace in pain from the glass cuts, before rolling over on top of Rickey, going for the win!

1….2…. Kickout!

Rickey manages to kick out again. Abigail pounds the mat in frustration, and nearly collapsed to the mat, starting to feel the effects of the blood loss and the long, grueling match. Abigail pulls herself back up to her knees, and has to use the ropes to lift herself back up to her feet. Abigail looked out to Amaya and Atticus, asking for another pane of glass. The two grab one from outside of the ring and slid it into Abigail, before Abigail grabbed the pane of glass, and put it back between the two chairs, and grabbed Rickey again. Abigail picks Rickey back up and does her best to try and hook his arms and lift him up into a Baptism By Fire, but Rickey was practically dead weight at this point, and Abigail couldn’t manage to lift Rickey. Abigail drops to her knees and lets Rickey go, clutching her back in pain, perhaps having pulled something from attempting to lift Rickey up. Abigail did manage to lift herself back to her feet, and elected to go for a different approach. Abigail stalked Rickey, before charging at him, going for a spear, but Rickey suddenly finds some fight, tosses Abigail into the air, and catches her with a kick on the way back down from a backdrop! Abigail cries out in pain, and arches her back from the pain of the kick. Rickey stumbles into the ropes, and grabs one of the light tubes off of them, before smashing it right over Abigail’s head! Abigail falls flat on her back, perhaps unconscious after that. Rickey looks at the pane of glass, and then up at the top rope, before apparently deciding that he was going to return the favor. Rickey grabs Abigail and lifts her up onto the top rope, before quickly climbing up top himself, and lifting her up onto her feet on the top rope as well. With both of them standing on the top, Rickey suddenly lifts her up, before the two of them freefall off the top, Rickey putting Abigail through the pane of glass with a Release Gutwrench Bomb from the top rope!

Rickey dropped down into the corner, looking on at the carnage he’d just caused. Abigail was practically motionless, laying in the middle of the ring. Rickey looked over at Heyman, and offered him a victorious smirk, before crawling over to Abigail. Rickey goes to hook her leg, demanding Heyman count…

But Abigail kicks out before Heyman can even register a one!

Abigail shoves Rickey off, and before Rickey can even react, gets back to her feet, hits the ropes, and impales Rickey with a spear! Abigail hooks the leg, looking for the win and the championship!

1….2…. KICKOUT!

Rickey Shane Page kicks out again! Just what the hell is it gonna take to end this match?! Abigail pulled herself up to her knees again, and pressed her forehead into the mat. She sucked in a few deep breaths and tried to regain herself, but the crowd suddenly going from cheering her on to booing caused her to look up. Sure enough, Eric Ryan, Eddy Only, Jake Crist, and Sami Callihan were slowly making their way to the ring, almost like lions moving through the tall grass. They appeared to have lost the Second Gear Crew’s pursuit, and were now making their way back into the ring to interfere in this match once again. Amaya and Atticus both rolled into the ring, and Abigail pulled herself up to her feet, as the three members of The Fallen prepared for the oncoming assault. Heyman backed into a corner, unsure about what was going to happen, but knowing damn well he didn’t want to be in the middle of it. Atticus pulled a light tube from the ropes, and held it, ready to swing if they got too close. Eric, Eddy, Sami, and Jake slithered into the ring, and began to back the three members of The Fallen onto their own side of the ring.

That is, until Atticus Cogar stepped forward, light tube in hand, and held it up like he was ready to swing, stopping all four members of the 44OH right in their tracks. Slowly, Amaya stepped forward as well, standing, ready for a fight. If they were going to go down like this, they were going to go down, the three of them, together, and they were going to try and take as many members of the 44OH with them. The air in the building was heavy with tension, as everyone waited for someone else to make a move…..

And then Atticus Cogar turns and smashes his light tube over the head of Amaya Winters!

Amaya dropped to the mat, and Abigail stared at Atticus in shock, her face twisted in a mix of confusion and betrayal. Atticus stood over Amaya, not sparing Abigail a look, as suddenly Eric Ryan, Eddy Only, Sami Callihan, and Jake Crist rushed past him, and began a four on one beatdown of Abigail in the corner! Abigail was quickly overwhelmed, and did her best to cover up, but the 44OH quickly beat her right down into the mat, stomping her down and leaving her laying there, as they all turned to look at Atticus. Eddy Only even did a Scott Hall-esq point, as Atticus Cogar removed his hoodie, revealing underneath the green & black t-shirt of the 44OH. Atticus Cogar was Abigail’s judas, Atticus Cogar had aligned himself with RSP and the 44OH. Atticus tossed his hoodie aside and reached into his pocket, pulling out a set of neon green skewers, and grabbed Amaya again, dragging her to the ropes and displaying her for the entire crowd to see, before pounding the sharp points of the skewers into her head! Amaya was then pulled back up to her feet, and lifted up into an electric chair by Eddy Only, who held her up there, as Jake Crist took hold of Atticus’ hand for balance, scaling the ropes, before jumping off and driving Amaya, head full of skewers and all, face first, all the way down into the mat with the All Seeing Eye!

Rickey Shane Page sat in the corner, a wide, disgusting grin on his face, as he watched with glee his plan come to fruition. As Atticus kicked Amaya out of the ring, Sami Callihan and Eric Ryan had exited the ring to retrieve another pane of glass from the outside, and Eddy Only went about setting the chairs up, giving the pane of glass something to bridge between, as Sami and Eric set the pane of glass up. Atticus was now standing over Abigail, looking down and saying nothing, before he began to stomp on his former mentor, before dragging her up to her feet by the hair. Atticus then got under her arm, and Callihan took the other, as the two lifted Abigail up onto Eric Ryan’s shoulders, before the three men slammed Abigail through the pane of glass with a Triple Powerbomb! The pane shattered and glass flew everywhere, much of it embedding itself in Abigail’s back.

Rickey stood up, a wide grin on his face, his hands clapping, giving himself and his 44OH brethren a round of applause. Rickey even walked over to Atticus and gave him a big hug, reading his lips you could tell he was telling him “Welcome Home”. Rickey and Atticus ended their embrace, and Rickey looked back over to Abigail, before turning to his boys. “Chairs, I need chairs.” He said, directing traffic, and Sami, Jake, and Eric Ryan slid out of the ring and began tossing all of the chairs they could find into it, creating a decently large pile close to one corner of the ring. They all slid back into the ring, and Atticus and Eddy Only grabbed Abigail, as Rickey began to walk over to the corner where all the chairs were piled up. Atticus and Eddy helped lift Abigail up and put her on Rickey’s back upside down, allowing Rickey to hook her arms, holding her in Vertebreaker position, before they helped Rickey to climb up to the second rope, keeping Abigail upside down and steady. There was a count to three, and then Atticus and Eddy backed off, and Rickey jumped backwards, slamming Abigail down onto the chairs with her own finishing move from the second rope, Baptism By Fire on the pile of chairs!

Abigail wasn’t moving as she was dragged off the pile of chairs, and into the middle of the ring. Rickey dropped down and hooked Abigail’s leg, staring Paul Heyman dead in the eyes as the other members of 44OH surrounded him, ordering Paul to get down and make the count…

1……

2…..

Paul stops counting. Before Paul can register a three, Paul looks up and looks Rickey in the eyes, eyes burning with hatred. “No!” Paul shouts, putting a middle finger right in Rickey’s face. “Fuck you, I’m not coutning it!” The crowd comes to life, popping for Heyman’s defiance, but all it earns him in the end is pain, as Eric Ryan blasts Paul Heyman with a bundle of light tubes, shattering them over Heyman’s head! Heyman falls to his side, potentially unconscious.

Rickey stands back up, and grabs Abigail’s unmoving, potentially unconscious body, as he’s handed a thinner tube bundle by Atticus. Rickey grabs Abigail by the throat, and lifts her up, before moving the tube bundle to his knee and smashing Abigail across it, hitting Abigail with a Light Tube assisted Chokebreaker, making the move even more devastating that it usually is. Sami Callihan and Jake Crist drag referee Jason Ayers, who was just beginning to recover from earlier, into the ring, as Rickey covers Abigail.

1…...2…….3!

“Here is your winner…. And still MPW World Champion… Rickey Shane Page.”

Steve Guy’s voice made it clear he didn’t wanna say it, and the reaction of the fans made it clear it was the last thing on earth they wanted to hear. Garbage began raining down into the ring, thrown by the fans, beer cans, food wrappers, whatever the fans had on hand was being thrown into the ring, and in the direction of the members of the 44OH, as we looked to just about to have a near riot on our hands! The MPW fan base was absolutely livid! Rickey was handed his belt by Atticus, and he held it high above his head as he stood back up. You could tell multiple members of the MPW audience were trying to hit him with garbage, but none of their aim seemed to be good enough. Eddy Only had a can of spray paint in the ring now, and stood over the MPW logo in the middle of the ring, before spray painting a neon green 44OH! Over the logo, causing the fans to get even more irate.

Rickey looked over his shoulder and quickly alerted the rest of his stablemates to get out of the ring, as all of 44OH bailed to the outside and towards the curtain, as over the guardrail came Syn, Mance Warner, Effy, Manders, Trent, VENY, Pandemonium, Alex Shelley, Tre Lamar, Yuki Kamifuku, Riley Ishimori, Violet, Matsumoto, Jordan Oliver, Zachary Wentz, Desmond Xavier, Lilith Brookes, Eddie Kingston, and Lacey Karmens, all of whom looked absolutely pissed, the entire MPW locker room practically wanting to get their hands on the 44OH. Rickey and the rest of his crew stopped at the curtain, with Rickey holding his belt up high, and blowing everyone in the ring a kiss as his music began to play us out.

Lacey, Pandemonium, and Alex Shelley rushed to Heyman’s side, and the Rascalz hopped out of the ring to check on Amaya. In what was probably a shocking site before you considered the circumstances, Syn had helped Abigail up and was currently helping her to stand, practically supporting all of her weight himself, before Kingston rushed over to assist him, dropping under her other shoulder to help carry the load as well. Lilith Brookes and Jordan Oliver both stood on adjacent turnbuckles, shouting for the 44OH to stop being cowards and come fight, a sentiment also being shouted by many other members of the MPW roster.

44OH may have won the battle, but in the process they may have united the entire locker room against them, if they hadn’t already done that. What does this mean for the World Title going into Thunder In Paradise?

We’ll figure this out, folks. See you next week. Goodnight.

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Royal Enfield new launch bike - To India and Back

Through need, and in the same way as most other designing organizations of the day, Enfield didn't confine themselves to one line. They likewise made lawnmowers, bikes and rifle parts for a Little Arms production line in Enfield. An educate lies their logo which portrays a gun, which I need to state, is endlessly in a way that is better than a yard cutter. With the episode of World War 1 of every 1914, royal enfield new launch bike was mentioned to outfit the English military with assault rifle conveying blends and cot bearing bikes. Their witticism of 'Made like a firearm, Goes like a shot' is additionally proof of their military inclusion. In 1907, the organization united with a business with the improbable name of 'Alldays and Onions', to create the Enfield-Allday vehicle. Luckily, the onion was dropped. These vehicles stayed underway until 1925.

Royal Enfield delivered their first mechanized vehicle in 1898, a vehicle that would today be portrayed as a 'Quad'. This early exertion had a De Dion-Bouton 2.75 hp motor. As the twentieth century unfolded, a bike with a 150cc motor mounted over the front wheel was presented. The year after in 1902, a comparative machine was fitted with a 239cc Enfield motor. The acclaimed V-Twins showed up in 1910, principally fitted with a Motosacoche 344cc motor, yet later supplanted by Enfield's own capacity unit. The main little, two phase motors came around in 1915 with the 200model.

The organization likewise won an agreement to gracefully machines to the Russians. In 1917, when most healthy men were at battle in Europe, a police power comprised of ladies was given with 600cc Royal Enfield cruisers.

#royal enfield new launch bike

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Zero One 03: When in doubt, apply more elemental forces

It’s Kamen Rider Valkyrie time! Here we go!

–

So, Aruto and Izu are at a small sushi restaurant, to finalize a contract for an artisan sushi-chef HumaGear. Said HumaGear prepares a serving, which he presents ot Aruto. When Aruto goes to try, Izu yoinks the tracy away from him, saying that they aren’t supposed to be here for food.

He grabs the sushi anyway, surprising her.

He thinks it’s great, but the owner of the restaurant tells the ‘young prez’ that he’s backing out of the deal, and they can take the HumaGear back.

Izu, being the wonderful ball of snark that she is, asks if it was because of the ‘joke’ Aruto made.

But no. It’s because it’s a robot.

This is the first time we’ve heard the word robot in this show. It’s always been HumaGear, up until now.

A woman steps in, saying that ‘he still doesn’t get it.’ Hi, Yua. What’re you doing here? I can’t shake the feeling that you know the chef. But she also says that there is great value in HumaGear. This surprises both the elderly chef, and Aruto. He’s not used to her siding with him.

–

A HumaGear sits in a chair, with morse code playing in the background, and a narration starts up…

IT’S OP TIME.

(Oh gaim, I can’t wait to see how GenmCorp properly stylizes the lyrics, and same for O-T. RiderTime doesn’t sub songs at all, and the other two haven’t uploaded yet.)

The narration gives a short rundown of what HumaGear are, and then brings up the young CEO who will “jump to the sky to protect the dreams of many.” The shot here? It’s footage of Aruto about to transform, from episode two. From when he was going up against Ekal. (Oh, no, my heart.)

Accompanying the chant of ‘zero one’, we have headshots of each Rider – helmet first, then themselves. Zero One to Aruto, Vulcan to Isamu, Valkyrie to Fua, Jin to… well, Jin, and Horobi to Horobi. The numerals 0 and 1 appear each time the respective one is said, the helmets lining up with the 0’s and faces with 1’s. There’s then brief suit shots framed in what look like written characters, but zoomed in too close for me to tell.

As the lyrics themselves start, there’s a fast pan from the fencing around Daybreak Town, across the city, and directly up the Hiden Intelligence building into Aruto’s office.

Aruto’s becoming quickly surrounded and overwhelmed by stacks upon stacks of binders, not helped by Izu adding more and more. Eventually, he just slumps down, sobbing in defeat, and she bows in ‘apology’ as a stack slides down onto his head.

There’s Isamu, walking through a lobby, and the shot pans to his ShotRiser, held in his hand, which turns and transitions to Yua’s ShotRiser on her desk.

Then Jun, Shesta, and that one other Hiden board member in front of Jun’s portrait quickly falling off the wall, with Aruto’s behind it – and oh, god, it’s Aruto trying to make a joke. (Shesta doesn’t even blink at the giant painting about to land on the three of them.)

A dark area, with the ruins of Daybreak Town as a frame, with Jin and oh goody, he’s shooting at the screen with his literal gun, which he loaded on screen with his creepy grin. He looks behind him, and we pan to Horobi, who has his usual stoic glare, and he holds up a ZetsumeRiser.

The center of the ZetsumeRiser transitions to looking down the barrel of an AIMS grunt’s gun, and zooms out to have battle-ready Isamu and Yua aiming their own guns at the screen. He has his ShotRiser, and she has a normal gun.

Then it jump-cuts to Aruto, running toward the camera down a very, very ruined street, reaching desperately out. Oh, no.

The next jump cut is to a long-haired Izu, in a similarly ruined street. With her ear pieces lit in red, as are her eyes. Oh, no. She raises up a hand, and there’s. Uh. I didn’t catch this in the live watch. As the screen very quickly glitches out, it looks like there’s blood in the palm of her hand. Fortunately, I’m able to get a decent pause after about 10 tries, and can see that everything in this shot is greyscale, with the exception of three colors. The teal of her outfit and index fingernail, the red of her eyes, and the bright blue of the HumaGear blood in her hand. (I know that technically, it’s hydraulic fluid or some such, but. Well, for a HumaGear, it’s the same thing.)

The shot drops directly from her hand to a giant puddle of the HumaGear blood. Oh, no.

It zooms right through said puddle, turning it to the lake that used to be Daybreak Town, going right for that crashed satellite.

Jump cut. A generic HumaGear looks up at the screen, eyes glowing bright red, and quickly zooms out to a crowd of HumaGear in the same state. Yay!

Profile shot of a HumaGear entering it’s Magia form – earpieces glowing red, and those awful pipes escaping its mouth.

A massive circle of HumaGear in that state, surrounding Aruto before he transforms. They’re fully made over into mooks at the same time as his armor forms.

Zero One delivers some of his lighting fast kicks to the swarming mooks. The camera spins to a different location, with Vulcan, similarly surrounded, punching and then shooting at mooks. Valkyrie uses his shoulder as a launch point to leap into the air, shooting some bullets of her own, before literally bouncing off of the giant phone that falls out of the sky. She goes off screen as the phone turns into Zero One’s bike, which he lands on.

We have our first shot of the three of them together, all landing in the street, surrounded by mooks.

Then we have separate, generic action shots of the three with their weapons of choice – Zero One’s attache-case sword, and the preferred sizes of Vulcan and Valkyrie’s guns. Then shadowed shots of Jin and Horobi (suit forms), although I genuinely don’t know which one is which.

Tranistion from the second, who I suspect is Horobi, going by the firsts more ‘actiony’ stance, to in front of Hiden Intelligence. Hiden Korenosuke stands there, is quickly replaced by Hiden Soreo, and then Aruto – the three generations of Hiden men. Aruto’s looking down, hesitantly, at the driver in his hand. Then, he finds his determination.

Jump to a very concerning shot of the Zero One Driver, two ShotRisers, and what I suspect are the drivers that Jin and Horobi are going to use, among a lot of rubble, in the rain. Then, a somewhat glitchy cut to the lower portion of Izu’s face, with a single tear running down her cheek. Oh, no.

Then, Aruto staggering, clearly injured, in the rain through a very destroyed street. he’s practically in the background, honestly, with rubble, fences, patches of fire, and destroyed HumaGear taking up most of the scene. The HumaGear are both mooks and normal, I think. There’s still a lot of that once-pristine white that the mooks lose.

He collapses, either giving up, or giving in to whatever injuries he has. Or both. But Izu reaches down to him, the sun coming out, and he takes her hand. She helsp him up, and they stand, back to the camera, facing the sunlight.

Red and blue lines of light form a platform of sorts in an otherwise black void. Jin and Horobi step toward the left of the screen, and then Isamu and Yua toward the right. Aruto and Izu stand in the center.

Everyone is in their normal forms momentarily, before their armor forms around the five Riders, and Izu dissolves into a light blue stream of zeros and ones. Smash cut to the five Riders helmets. I’m using smash cut very literally here, as each is framed in the largest sections of what is essentially a shattered mirror.

Fast transition to the silhouettes of the five, the eyes of their helmets lit up, as their shadows stretch to toward the front of the screen.

–

I really like this OP sequence. We’re on some Ex-Aid levels of foreshadowing and special effects here. Not so say I haven’t liked other OPs, but honestly, of the ones I’ve seen (Decade through to now, and Kabuto) this is tied with Ex-Aid, and they both only just beat out Builds. Build would have made it a three way tie for first, if they had ever updated certain shots. You know, like. Cross-Z Charge should have been phased out for Cross-Z Magma, and they just kept that shot of governmental Gentoku at the beginning of it throughout the entire run, even though it was out of date by the end of about the first half, or even third of the show.

It makes sense, this truly is Mr. Takahashi’s style. There was a comment I made right after watching live… uh. Something about “Oh, they wouldn’t put Izu getting Magear’d into the OP sequence as foreshadowing, it’s just an unfortunate timing thing to have her right before the hacking sequence…” And then I remembered the shots in the Ex-Aid OP of Emu dissolving, and I felt true fear.

–

Okay, okay, back to the show.

Jin and Horobi are being ominous, as usual. Jin asks, while bouncing around the room, if Horobi’s really going to ignore Zero One and AIMS. Horobi’s not concerned, since they already have their plan underway.

I really don’t like the next comment of his, though. “The completion of our arc revival is near,” accompanied by the camera following a giant bundle of cables through a pipe, and to that crashed satellite. I don’t like this at all. I’m also not liking how RiderTime translated that line, it feels really awkward, but whatever.

They just need to collect more data, which is also very concerning, and Horobi hands Jin another Zetsumerise Key.

–

Okay, so. Up in Jun’s office, he’s kinda pissed that the literal CEO of the company is out doing sales rounds. Which, okay, valid. But still. Aruto is a good boy, and he just wants what’s best… and, as Shesta says, he’s also visiting HumaGears workplaces to try and catch the local terrorists. (Pity they’re actually based in the quarantine zone.)

Anyway, the restaurant is called Magokoro Sushi. The owner, the old man, has been looking for an heir since he injured his back.

Jun says that they may as well leave this be. If the contract works out, the company will look good. If not, then he can totally use this as an excuse to get Aruto out of the company. He and his lacky start laughing, and Shesta… ‘joins in,’ just saying ‘ha ha ha’ over and over. It’s wonderful.

Also something I noticed about Shesta is that she has a red streak in the back of her hair, similar to the teal undertones that Izu has. Both of them match the accents on their respective outfits. Neat.

–

Back at Magokoro Sushi, Yua uploads… something to Nigiro, the HumaGear of the day. She doesn’t really explain what she’s just sent him when Aruto asks, just saying that he ought to know if he’s the CEO. Which. Uh. That doesn’t help us in the slightest. I don’t think it’s the learning program she mentions next, though. I’m hoping it’s some sort of security patch. Key word being hope.

(I mean, I’ve already seen the episode raw, so. Uh. Yeah. The key there is that I really, really hope there are security patches.)

Izu, thankfully, is a fountain of information, and explains that Nigiro analyzed data from Yua’s Risephone, and is making the choice most suited to his patrons tastes.

And suited it very definitely is, given her almost ecstatic reaction to her serving. Looks like we’ve found the way to her heart: A healthy appreciation for technology, and good food.

Aruto’s really glad that she gets his appreciation of HumaGears, even though she immediately tried to return to her usual stoic tendencies when she remembered who she was with. As she says, it’s up to humans how to live with HumaGear.

(Her expression at this point, and it being in reaction to food, is what led me and Miyuko to make our first ‘Kabuto: TWO’ comment of the episode.)

The chef still doesn’t look impressed.

–

Elsewhere, a barber HumaGear hears a slight beeping sound as he bids another satisfied customer farewell. He’s confused, a little, and then freaking Jin bounces in out of nowhere to make a new friend.

Go away, Gremlin 2.0!

–

Nigiro prepares a serving of sushi – squid, this time – for the owner, who very reluctantly eats it… and calls it disgusting. He says, bitterly, that making sushi isn’t a job for a robot. Again, he’s specifically using the term ‘robot,’ and says that it’s because they don’t have souls.

Oh, no.

Aruto’s a little confused.

But the owner, hobbling to his feet, says that Magokoro Sushi will die with him.

(Sir, this is Kamen Rider, and we’ve already seen that this season is not above the dark stuff! Don’t tempt fate like this!)

The group watches him leave, and Yua’s phone rings. I like her ringtone, it’s some sort of mechanical tune.

There’s a Magear on the loose.

–

Outside, the barber is advancing on a fleeing group of people – including someone who was clearly in the middle of being his customer.

An AIMS van pulls up, troopers and Isamu in tow.

The bullets, as usual, do absolutely nothing to damage the poor hijacked HumaGear. They do, however, provide a convenient smoke screen to cover up his transformation. Thus, the show is saved just that little bit of CGI budget, and we don’t have to see that again.

The CGI budget for the horrifying transformation pipes is then immediately spent on attack tentacles.

I wish I were kidding.

Today’s Magear is Neohi. He’s a squid. Or, well, he’s based on Neohibolites, a genus of cephalopod. …He’s a squid.

Isamu, whose general attitude is ‘when in doubt, apply more bullets’, pulls out his transformation kit. He still has to force the key open. It doesn’t take nearly as much force this time, but I, personally, think he broke the locking mechanism last time.

Yua, after last episode, probably: I’m not fixing it until you stop being an ass!

Isamu: Then I’ll just have to keep doing this my way.

Gods, his transformation is still way too cool for him. The bullet actively zooms around to block the tentacles before rushing back to him for him to, and I feel this can not be over stated, literally punch in order to form his armor. I’m probably never going to get over this, so. Fair warning on that front.

Yua runs up, pissed that he’s done this again.

Yua, I love you. You deserve a better partner. Have you considered becoming Aruto’s advisor on technology? He could use it, and you deserve to get away from Vulcan.

(Also, please note that they haven’t used the name ‘Vulcan’ in show yet, only ‘Zero One’.)

Frustrated, especially at how Vulcan tells her that this one is his, so she can just stand back and watch, Yua heads to the van, determination written on her face.

Unseen by either AIMS agent, Aruto and Izu also join the party, and he quickly transforms after calling Vulcan a showoff.

There's some brief but efficient fighting, including Zero One bullet-timing a jump over the shots Vulcan aimed at him. I love the choreography in this show.

So, Zero One manages to slice off a few of Neohi’s tentacles, which promptly get stuck on him. because. Y’know, suckers. And also they’re still squirming. Neohi promptly decides that it’s time to get out, and spreads a thick smokescreen to cover his escape.

As they see that the Magear is gone, Aruto remembers that Vulcan thinks he’s a rogue HumaGear, too, and launches himself the heck out of there… still with the tentacles wrapped around him. Vulcan tries to shoot him down…

And the only thing he accomplishes is getting the tentacles to let go, which Aruto thanks him for as he disappears.

–

Now then, let’s head back to Aruto’s office to confront the fact that Aruto wasn’t able to make the sale!

Jun and his lackey are blaming Aruto for not only not completing the contract, but also for not finding the terrorists at the same time. Aruto says it’s because that tentacled freak got in his way, which is true, and makes some sort of terrible tentacle pun. Shesta just says that it doesn’t compute.

Aruto: Izu likes my puns, though…

Speaking of Izu, she seems to have uploaded herself to the cloud – er, satellite. Or, she’s interfacing with it, anyway, down in front of the 3D Printing Studio. The goal of this is to have the system analyze the results of the last fight, and design a new Progrise Key to best suit the challenge.

You know. Like with Nigiro and his own analysis program, to make the best selection to suit the customer.

I’ve noticed that on Aruto’s desk, and on the assorted bookshelves in the office and lab, there are a lot of old-school tin robot toys. Those were there when he first entered the office in episode two, so they aren’t things he brought in. They were his grandfathers. It’s a neat little touch.

Set decoration notes aside, Nigiro is here, too, with an inquiry.

Can a soul be turned into data? The boss wants a successor, but that successor has to have a human heart. So, if one could be installed-

Izu cuts him off. It’s impossible, a soul can not be turned into data.

(She’s not saying that he could never have one, mind you. She saying it a soul can’t be turned into data. Not that data can’t become a soul – that he can’t grow one of his own.

You know, like the whole singularity/awakening thing.

The one that’s being weaponized.)

Aruto thinks of what the owner said, about Magokoro Sushi dying with him. He asks Izu to look something up about the restaurant.

–

It’s nighttime, and Isamu confronts Yua outside of the AIMS van, since she hasn’t tracked down the tentacle freak yet. He also accuses her of having been playing on her phone earlier. When he tries to take a look at what’s on her screen, she hides it away, and he scoffs, saying he’ll just go find the magear on his own.

Once he’s walked away, she laughs a little. He doesn’t get it. He has no idea how tools work.

She pulls her phone back out, and walks in the other direction.

Interesting.

–

Back at Magokoro Sushi, the owner is cleaning the bar, preparing for the next day. He slips, because of his back injury, but Nigiro rushes in to catch him.

Aruto and Izu are with him, asking for him to give Nigiro one more shot. Aruto says that the owner has trained many apprentices, but they’ve all left without taking over.

The owner asks if that’s what his precious data told him, but says that it’s true. They couldn’t keep up with him, their souls bent in frustration.

Nigiro says that his soul won’t waver. It can’t, because he doesn’t have one.

Aruto continues the discussion. The owner has a special technique, right? He’d asked his former pupils.

Flashback to a larger, less personal restaurant, where one of said former pupils is talking to Aruto and the two HumaGear. He shows them a video of the secret technique, which is… it sure is something. I’m not sure what goes on, but it involves tossing at least some of the ingredients into the air. Aruto’s watching the video in surprise, Nigiro has one eyebrow raised in slight confusion, and Izu? Izu is bouncing up and down behind them, trying to see. She’s too short to see over their shoulders.

Izu, sweetie, I love you.

The former pupil says that it’s a weird technique, isn’t it? He can’t see the point in it, but it’s that type of thing that they were asking about.

(Cue our second Kabuto: TWO comment)

Back to the present, where Nigiro performs the same technique. He’d been following the textbook preparations before, but now he’s analyzed and learned the owners method.

He thinks he understands why the owner uses this technique, now, even though it’s inefficient.

It’s because it carries his sincerity.

The owner looks… taken by surprise, before falling back into his judgmental expression from before, and trying the sushi.

Nigiro described it differently, this time. For Yua, he’d called hers “a serving based on skill.” For the owner, the first time around, he’d called it “a serving to his tastes.”

This time? A serving from the soul.

I really hope that one of the other sub groups elects to translate that sign in the back, when the camera focuses on it, because it’s clearly significant, but I can’t get Google translate to recognize it as a word.

The owner doesn’t say it’s bad – but he tells Nigiro to do it over. 10,000 times, over and over. He’s telling him to practice.

“Got it. 10,000 times, is that correct?”

“Geesh, you’re more stubborn than a human.”

Aruto smiles. Izu is confused as to why this is making Aruto happy – the owner is angry, he doesn’t look happy about this at all.

Aruto smiles at her, telling her that humans aren’t that simple.

That’s just how this man is – he’s stern, and strict, and doesn’t emote… but he’s impressed enough to take a HumaGear under his wing and train him, even if he hasn’t said as much in those exact words. It’s all about the subtext.

–

Oh, look, Gremlin 2.0 is on a rooftop with Neohi… and tells him that it’s time for them to make some new friends.

Oh dear lord, that’s a lot of tentacle cables.

…Like the ones Berotha used to create the mooks in episode one.

Oh, no.

Ohhh, no. Neohi transforms some construction workers, and then a waitress, into mooks.

And a cable reaches into Magokoro Sushi… and takes over Nigiro.

It’s painful – for all of them, it hurts just to watch, and it’s so well performed by the actors. These characters aren't human, they aren't supposed to react like humans do… and yet, without fail, it’s made clear that the HumaGear definitely feel pain as they’re being overwritten.

Aruto, Izu, and the owner run – Izu helping support the old man, and Aruto trying to push Nigiro back.

He’s still trying to reason with him, even though he’s not even a Magear proper – he’s a mook, stuck repeating his lines with a stutter, like a skipping record.

Like. Geez, Zero One. It’s episode three. This is so hard to see these characters we got attached to wind up going out like this. And he didn’t even get turned into a Magear of his own – no, he just got hijacked, doesn’t have any will anymore.

If his death is inevitable, at least let him go down fighting on his own. Please.

Shots are fired, knocking the former Nigiro backward into the recently arrived crowd of mooks.

Aruto can’t even tell which one he was anymore.

Yua strides forward, with a word of ‘advice.’ You can just bring him back if you back-up his data. That’s all HumaGear are, after all, AIs. Even if they’re destroyed, their data can just be restored.

Now we get into the ‘what measure is a person’ issue. Humans aren’t so simple that you can tell what they’re feeling by analyzing their reactions based on expressions alone… and HumaGear aren’t so simple, either. They’re partners that work in harmony with humanity. They aren’t just tools.

This speech seems to get through to the owner, who seems to finally get where Aruto is coming from.

Yua doesn’t look down at Aruto, as he’s trying to push himself to his feet. She just says that they are tools, as she pulls out a belt, her ShotRiser already attached to it, and places it around her waist.

She pulls out an orange Progrise Key, spinning it as she brings her hand up.

Dash!

She inserts it directly into the ShotRiser, without opening it first – and look at that. The top of the gun is open, and she can just unlock the key while it’s in there.

Sucks to be you, Isamu, she’s got style.

Her transformation… She fires, the gun on her waist, and the bullet – orange, as opposed to Vulcan’s blue – swoops close around her, before breaking apart on its own. She’s already running as it forms the armor around her.

Rushing Cheetah!

There’s a motion blur as she knocks the first few mooks away, one of them landing on the ground with her standing on its chest.

I love how the wild arcs of Vulcans armor bullet imply that it wouldn’t actually turn into his armor if he didn’t punch it, since Valkyrie doesn’t even need to look at it. Hers circles once around her outstretched arm, and then moves in front of her to turn into the armor.

“AI in violation of the law verified. Eliminating targets.”

Her voice is cold and analytical – and it matches her sharp, efficient fighting style. She delivers quick blows to her opponents, knocking them away. And she must be ripped under that business suit, because a number of them go flying when she hits them – that’s not just the armor at work there.

Aruto, watching, is finally able to get to his feet, and the owner starts to reassure him that he’s not wrong. They’re not tools. (We see Nigiro making his comment about the owners form showing his sincerity.) Yua had said it herself – it’s up to humans to decide how to live with HumaGear.

Neohi arrives, swinging one of his attached tentacles like a rope of some sort.

Aruto tells Izu to get the owner somewhere safe – so she just picks up this old man, and carrys him in a piggy back out of there. The old man is very confused about this, but at least he doesn’t see the giant neon grasshopper drop out of the sky behind him.

Zero One starts fighting Neohi, pulling out his Attache Calibur.

(I still have trouble believing that this is our protagonists main weapon. A briefcase sword. You’re putting Drives weapons to shame here for sheer oddness with just this single one, you know that, right? And there was an axe that you had to wait for its crosswalk signal to use back then.)

This monster takes Combat Tentacles to a whole new level. Not only can they be used as a whip-like attack, but when severed, they still cling to whatever they land on. In addition, the ends are bladed, and can be used as handheld weapons – which is exactly what he’s doing right now.

–

Over with Valkyrie, whose name I will hopefully be able to spell without Autocorrect within the month, she’s kicking all sorts of Trilobite ass. Er, turns out that’s what the mooks are called this time around. They’re ‘Trilobite Magear.’

But she’s good at this. She is definitely the technology specialist and the tactician. Like, she’s just shoved a giant crate at the mooks, and is running behind it, using it as a shield to block the gunfire from the mooks.

Also, why are the mooks able to generate machine guns and knifes? I mean, at least they only have one or the other, but… how.

Eventually, as the giant wooden crate slides to a stop, she leaps out and starts firing.

–

Meanwhile, with Aruto, he’s… been knocked into a drainage channel, and is tied up with the tentacles. Again. He is not enthused, and probably considering swearing off of squid forever.

He pulls out his newest Progrise Key: Biting Shark.

The beam from the satellite is, appropriately, blue this time, as opposed to the yellow for Rising Hopper. Also, the shark bot? It can dive up and down through the ground, treating it like water. Man, that’s a cool tactic, I always get a kick out of that. One of the Yummies in OOO used it, and then Another Build did, too. I think Haruto did something similar a few times as Wizard, but I might be misremembering some of the ways he used the Liquid ring.

There is almost definitely a pun that RiderTime missed here. They translated Aruto’s line as “here we go.” You know, Iku ze. Except it sounded an awful lot more like Ika ze. Ika – aka squid. RT, I’m disappointed. If he was actually just saying it normally, then I’m disappointed in Toei, instead.

Oh, man, the arm section of the Rising Hopper armor turn into arm fins, that’s so cool. And I much prefer how the faceplate readjusts for Biting Shark than for Flying Falcon. Here, they rotate downward, so it doesn’t look nearly as much like he’s got eyes on the side of his head.

The Biting Impact finisher is neat! It starts with Zero One putting his arms out, cupping the air, as a pen-and-ink image of a shark appears next to him, much like the grasshopper at his leg for Rising Impact. He slashes at the attack tentacles with the blades on both his arms and on his legs. Notably, the energy slash effects are different for both. For his arms, where the blades are from Rising Hopper, theres yellow effects, but with his legs they’re blue, where the armor is from Biting Shark. Nice touch!

Eventually, he’s gotten in close enough to punch Neohi into the air, and proceeds to charge energy into his arm blades. And holy shit, said energy takes the forms of two giant rows of sharks teeth emanating from each arm, which he uses to crosschop – sorry, bite through the Magear.

The Magear falls to the ground, where he explodes, creating a glorious spray of water for Aruto’s “cool guys don’t look at explosions” shot.

–

Over at the mook battle, Valkyrie prepares her finisher, as Vulcan fights his way into the background. He sees her, and her ShotRiser, and realizes who it must be under the armor.

She starts her finisher, firing shot after shot of orange energy into the center of a group of mooks – not aiming at them, but at the center, where the shots collect and grow into a giant orb of energy as she runs literal rings around them. When she finally comes to a stop, it’s with a tire screeching sound effect. The energy bursts into a giant ball of fire as she poses, and the mooks are straight up incinerated.

VALKYRIE I LOVE YOU.

THE BEST WEAPONS GIRL HAS FIRE POWERS.

YES.

Vulcan watches as she calmly removes her Progrise key from her gun, and we don’t get to see the de-transformation, because he’s blocking it. But there’s smoke coming off of her when the shot pans to the other side, and we see Yua, telling Isamu that that is how it’s done.

Actually, now that I think about it, have we seen any of the three riders actively detransform yet? I don’t think we have… feel free to prove me wrong!

Because we see Vulcan pull his own key out, and glow blueish white, but we don’t see the transformation actually end. He walks off screen, and when he re-enters the frame, it’s Isamu, with similar wisps of smoke coming off of him. Interesting.

Isamu’s pissed, but Yua ignores him as he complains that she should have told him there were two ShotRisers.

–

Jin picks the ZetsumeRise key up out of the water.

–

Turns out that even with a ‘new’ Nigiro, they’ve still made the contract with Magokoro Sushi.

Aruto, watching the owner training new!Nigiro, wonders if he’s the only one who can see that HumaGear do have hearts. Izu tilts her heat, looking at him, asking for him to clarify. “Well, after all, he was able to move the owners heart.”

Aruto then apologizes to the owner, because now he has to start all over again. (The ‘Beginner’ icon flashes breifly over new!Nigiro’s earpeice.)

The owner is okay with that, though, because it means he just gets to teach him thoroughly from the beginning.

New!Nigiro serves Aruto a piece of Squid sushi, to which Aruto makes a comment that I’m pretty sure Ridertime didn’t translate well, because Japanese wordplay is a pain. Regardless, Izu goes on to explain the pun, calling it quite the joke.

Aruto: Eh?!

She then goes and does his little punchline thing, the ‘and that’s aruto’ thing.

Thing is?

Aruto wasn’t even trying to make a pun. It was just a coincidence! Also, stop copying him! (He does the motion while telling her not to copy him.)

–

Elsewhere, a mysterious figure plays chess… as Yua gives her debrief.

Oh, no.

(Cue our third Kabuto: TWO comment.)

She says that she’s discovered Hiden Intelligence’s secret. The HumaGear have an auto-transfer program for their perception data. She wasn’t uploading her preferences to Nigiro, back in the beginning of the episode.

She was uploading spyware, to hijack his feed.

So, when Izu gave Aruto the Biting Shark Progrise Key in the office, Nigiro saw it. And, as a result, so did Yua. That’s why she was on her phone outside of the van. She was watching along with us.

Also, whoever she’s reporting to has a bracelet that can function as a holo-projector, because it’s showing him the same footage now.

But that isn’t the secret – that’s probably just technical specs.

No, the secret?

Hiden Intelligence isn’t supposed to have the Progrise Key data.

It was thought to have been destroyed in Daybreak.

You know, where metsuboujinrai.net is based out of.

Her boss (?), who sounds and looks young, from what we can see, says that… oh dear.

He says that this means ‘the arc will rise again,’ and that the CEO of Hiden is the key to it all… Zero One.

You know, the arc, the thing that Horobi was talking about earlier.

Oh, no.

End of episode.

–

So. Yua definitely knows that Aruto is Zero One. She also reports to someone that I’m pretty sure Isamu doesn’t. I’m hoping this is a case of ‘the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing’, but that seems pretty unlikely.

Okay, so this season is somehow Ex-Aid, Drive, and Kabuto TWO.

WOW.

(Yua, please don’t be working for a fourth party, I don’t want to lose you…)

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