trans_9 | It's The Final Countdown

The Memory exploded the moment the attack connected, and Ren plummetted the sixty or so feet from the Ohm's head, being caught by Seraphiel just in time. There was no strength left in his body at all, and among other injuries, he'd completely torn the ACL in his right knee.

Still, he kept himself conscious, watching his friends and allies fight, only able to hope that they'd be able to win.

Andy clenched his teeth as the Megazord almost finished forming. They were definitely going to have to cover Billy with this. They didn't have any choice at all.

Lash! What exactly can those CO powers of yours do?

Billy! Hoshi said, gritting her teeth as well. Now that they were down one Rider, the remaining two had to do cover them just long enough for the Megazord to fully form, same as the Tigerzord Warrior Mode. She racked her head for an idea, yet just as she did this, the malfunctioning Driver sent a rather considerable shock to her body. She let out a scream and wrapped her arms around herself to shoulder the pain that left her body twitching.

...I can't endure any more of this for much longer, she told herself, finally admitting to some weakness before she continued. Shoutarou, Philip - I'm gonna attack once more and break my henshin. Ren, I'm gonna have to borrow your Driver to continue the fight as long as I have to. So, you two, Rangers, do whatever you gotta while I do that.

Truthfully, she didn't know what was keeping her afloat and still able to fight. Maybe it was her indestructible fighting spirit that was still lit through this or maybe it was just the need to keep her friends safe. Either way, it was time to do what she did best and that was keep on pushing through the odds against her.

She drew her sword while Seraphiel was still at Ren's side, making sure that he was going to be protected. Just then, her blade became surrounded in flames as Hoshi focused her strength in this strike. She drew a circle surrounded in flames and sent several sword shaped attacks for the Ohm, intoning "Seven Focus Slash!"

Hoshi didn't bother with seeing if her attack actually struck and she took advantage of Nazca's hyper speed to get herself down to the ground. She took her Memory out of the Driver with her transformation breaking in a flurry of flames as she braved the cold to race over to Seraphiel and Ren to retrieve his Driver. Who knew, maybe she could punch out a few Ohm the old fashioned way like this while she was making her way over there.

All the attacks on the Ohm general didn't seem to do much damage--at first.

But minute cracks started to appear in certain places on its carapace. It was strong, but not invincible.

However, it was now mad. With swipes of its massive claws it started to send abandoned tanks and carriers flying towards the different groups of fighters, and then let off another powerful energy blast in the direction of the zords.

Better duck, you guys!

"Take it," Ren insisted as Hoshi came over, removing the Driver with shaking hands. His leather jacket was doing some good to help against the cold, but he was still shaking from the cold and loss of energy.

But then he saw the Ohm throwing tanks at them, and he shouted, "Look out!"

He tried to get to his feet, but his right leg buckled underneath him, and he landed hard on it in pain.

Meanwhile, Shoutarou's been off-camera, cutting at joints he can reach via jumping, and getting knocked around a bit for his trouble. He's not quitting yet, though. He may only be a minor nuisance right now, but he figures maybe he'll eventually score a distraction on the thing...

...except that's what Billy wound up doing with the Tigerzord. Crap.

And there go tanks off toward the back--and toward Hoshi and Ren. "Damnit!" He couldn't make it on foot in time, but...

A flurry of memory names and repetitions of 'Maximum Drive' came from Double's shield once the sword was slotted back in. "BICKER FINAL ILLUSION!" Once again, a multicolored laser fires from the weapon, striking at those tanks in the air - if they can't destroy them, maybe they can at least knock them to where they'll not hurt anyone where they land.

Kate blasted some of the Ohm overhead with her wind attacks, swooping around to cover the others. She was so focused on that, and not the return hits the Zord took in a few minor areas. Or the initial call to form the Megazord.

Hang on, guys. She finally said before shifting to the forming structure in the remaining spot.

When Hoshi came over to Ren, she took the Driver from him and was about to transform once more, however she took a brief moment to glance over her shoulder and saw the tanks and carriers being flung for them. She went to protect Ren with her body before Seraphiel came to knock the vehicles away from his mistress and her friend.

"T-Thanks, Seraphiel, Ren," she said, giving her holy beast a smile. She shrugged out of her vest and handed it over to him to keep him warm, already having the necessary Memories with her. Within a few moments, she stood as Nazca once more, but in the blue armor this time.

"'Fine', huh?" she said in a slight cocky tone as she helped her friend up from the ground. "Do what you can to stay warm and keep the pressure off of your leg." She then went to get her bike and bring it over to Ren for him to lean on before she took off to the skies once more.

While the others were transforming, Jamie was busy using his staff to fend off some of the Ohm threatening the Riders, trying to keep them from being overwhelmed with the sheer numbers on the battlefield. He was still keeping an eye on the Juggernaut, however, and behind the helmet, his eyes widened in alarm.

As the beam shot towards them, he leapt into into the air and towards the other Zords, out of the way of the worst of the blast - but the concussive force behind it was enough to knock him slightly off course. Jamie had to scramble to avoid crashing, fingers running over the toggles in the control panel inside his Zord as he let the instinctive knowledge that came with the morph take over. If he had tried to think about what he was doing, he wouldn't have been able to pull it off. However he managed - barely - to key in the correct sequence in time and the Warrior slid into its place in the formation.

Riders or anyone who can hear me, if ye can get back into the fight, see if ye can attack in the same places ye were attacking it before. Lash, if ye have an idea on using your CO power, I'm all ears.

The Mega Thunderzord strode toward the Ohm, batting at a vehicle that came flying its way, knocking it to one side and safely away from the others. As it did so, it drew the Thunder Saber. While he wasn't going for its strongest attack just yet, it still made a good weapon to use - especially if there were any weak points in its shell he could use to the Ranger's advantage. And it should give the others some breathing room - he hoped.

Right. Time to see how ye deal with something more your own size! he said, before closing and swinging the sword at what he thought looked like a suitably weak area.

Edited 2011-08-26 00:21 (UTC)

A Kamen Rider listening to sound medical advice? Not going to happen.

At the very least, Ren was keeping his weight on his left leg as he pulled out his deck and Survive Card.

"Last chance," he whispered. This time, he wasn't letting Darkwing get out of control again. "Henshin!"

A powerful wind blew through the battlefield as Ren transformed directly into Knight Survive. With no real way to fight with his sword, he scanned a card.

The Visor on his arm generated a crossbow, and he began firing energy arrows at the Ohm.

Step One to becoming a Kamen Rider: Kindly throw out all logical thought processes in regards to self-preservation. Step Two: Replace those with being too dumb and/or headstrong to quit.

Shoutarou covered his eyes as that wind blew by - and something surged inside Double.

"...wind...Aha! The wind!" The silvery-clear streak running down the middle of Double's body turned gold, and six long, circuited wings sprouted from Double's back.

"Thanks, Ren! This'll definitely help out." And wooosh, up in the air Double goes to chop at the general's joints more.

Well, if that was how the life of a Kamen Rider was - then consider her in! She definitely had the headstrong behavior required for the job, just to start off with.

"...Man, Double gets cooler the more I learn about it," Hoshi said in mostly a way to boost morale of the team. She heard Jamie's request and nodded to it. You need some more firepower? I'm down with that. Leave it to us.

Now, if they were gonna do that, then she'd have to kick it up a notch. She took out the Nazca Memory and inserted the Level 3 Memory, shifting to the orange suit once more. And, instead of using the same old attacks again, she was going to change it up a bit. She took out a Memory given to her by Philip, it specifically being the Heat Memory. She inserted it in her blade and felt her fire power (pardon the pun) magnify greatly.

"Let's see what you can do individually."

Flames surrounded her sword while she flung the powerful attack straight for the Ohm. Hope you liked your Ohm meat well done!

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Here's the deal, Lash explained from her post. Two zord and all the ummm... geeze what did they call themselves? The other guys out there should totally be easy for me to power up. Lies, but they didn't really need to know about that until it was all over. Idiots being worried made too many mistakes anyway (at least that's what she told herself).

You know how it works already, right? I'll call up my CO power and its going to make both zords a lot easier to move, boost up the defense and attack power. If we do that at just the right moment, it could be the final blow we need, tee hee hee! I don't know if it will be enough to take it out, but it will definitely give us an edge. She shook from her post as the robot finished transformation. But there was something else in her mind.

Did you notice it's attacking without a proper target? she theorized. Well by that I mean it's attacking everything, but not going after what's the strongest, but what's closest. At least I think! Even wunderkinds could be wrong.

That gave her another idea.

I'm gonna go climb its head with my tank. Thanks to my genius and my powers, it should be a snap to get up there. If I'm able to keep it distracted by making swats at me, you should be able to land in really good hit on it.

The idea was near-suicide, but considering that the others seemed to be drawing near their last powers it could be a good way to keep everyone alive.

Billy could not quickly list all the ways in which this plan struck him as a Bad Idea. He was scrambling to get the Tigerzord morphed into warrior mode as quickly as possible, hoping against hope that he wasn't struck out---

---and somehow, despite the damage, he made it. Almost immediately, he was on the defensive, lifting the Zord's arm to block an attack. When he could, he charged a punch---best to wear it down a little.

So let me see if I understand this, Billy answered in a low voice. Your plan is to partially drain your strength by boosting ours, and while doing that you're going to bait it? We should share the burden---I should do it, he hurried to say, managing one of his blasts. I don't want all of that just on you.

Yeah, Lash that plan kinda strikes me as suicidally stupid, really.

And Ron knew a thing or too about stupid plans.

If she could have glared at him from her helmet, she would have.

Shut up before I kick you again. It's going to work. Besides, and this part was directed at Billy, I'm the most brilliant tactician there is! There's no way this is going to fail! Come on, it wasn't like she was worried for everyone's safety and was actually caring about them or anything at the cost of getting hurt herself. THAT WOULD BE SILLY.

Sides, you're all gonna share the burden anyway, genius. You guys are going to have to drive with one less person at the controls. You better not get yourselves killed before I get there!

She wasn't doing this to play the bigshot hero, or to look brave in the eyes of others. Lash was doing it because it was the most sound, logical, best way for them to win right now and, (not that she'd ever admit it) keep the others out of harm's way. As a commanding officer, this choice was the most optimal, or so she had decided. As a Ranger, she knew she was the only one who should be doing this.

And let's not forget that it might not completely defeat him either! If it knocks down two of us, we'd look like complete idiots struggling to control the Zords! So yeah, stop arguing with her already.

[ooc: Can someone comment to this when it's time for a new npc tag? I want to tag in with stuff, but I also don't want to interrupt your flow, so I wanna toss them in when they're ready to slam the general down]

[ooc: I think everyone's gone at this point, if I'm not mistaken? So, here you are!]

What?! Lash, that's the daftest thing I've ever heard. Jamie commented, hand moving over the controls as he continued to press the attack. You'd be taking an awful risk by going out there on your own. This oversized bug's not the only one out there, ye know.

She had a point, though, about her powers. If they had the extra boost they provided, and then coordinated an attack, they could very likely take the Juggernaut down. And there wasn't anyone else here would could boost them like that - not in the immediate area, anyway.

Are ye sure you'll be able to get there without getting hurt?

Definitely not.

Not a problem! Truthfully she was wondering why she was lying about this at all. It's not like she cared!

Besides, it's not like you can stop me. And that. Was Lash in a nutshell.

If all else fails, I'll get her out of harm's way, Shoutarou interjected. You keep that thing distracted, like that, then Philip and I will give it one heck of a kick in the back. Thing's got a wasp waist. Enough force might make it snap...

Swing the sword, dodge the claws, fail to dodge the other claws, recover and put the sword and shield a way while moving away from the strikes...

An idea comes to light! ...if the floor's still open for crazy ideas, could I get one of you giant robot guys to throw me up in the air as hard as you can?

Andy sighed. This plan was definitely the stupidest thing that they could ever come up with. But well... it's not like they had anything remotely resembling a choice right now, did they?

Lash, just be careful! And then he heard what Shoutarou wanted. ... What are you going to try?

You don't need to worry about strengthening me, Lash. The adapter I have can handle that much. I can do what's needed to get you to the head in time, since the Nazca Memory is rather fast in a pinch, said Hoshi while she sent off a few more spheres of energy at the Ohm.

Then, an idea came to her just as it did with Shoutarou. Ah! I got it! She snapped her fingers in victory. Ren, use your Trick Vent card. While you are too injured to fight normally, the copies can. Shoutarou, Philip - if you guys are gonna go that route, I can strike from the sky with you via a Rider Kick. Then, when Lash is ready to do her CO thing, I'll help get her up to the head of the Ohm and get her out just in time. As for you guys-- Naturally, they were the Rangers. --do your Zord magic against the Ohm.

Everyone okay with this idea?

Got it, Ren answered, scanning the card and creating eight copies of himself, who drew their swords and attacked. They couldn't be hurt, though they could hurt the enemy.

Unfortunately, it also meant that he couldn't keep firing, making him even more vulnerable.

I need someone to cover me, he pointed out. If I'm hit, the copies will all vanish.

"Meow," replied Similodon, moving in front of Ren to protect him from harms way. The dopant nodded at him and brandished his claws.

Let's do this. replied Philip.

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