The Rumble-Disc flew over Bellwood and caused a panic among the populace. Khan was waving to everyone down below. “Smiles, people! Smiles! It’s your last chance if Ben doesn’t give me Life!” Just then, a boom reached his eardrums. Khan put his hand to his ears and fell in pain as the subspace tunnel deposited the heroes. During the journey, all Kamen Riders had changed into their suits. Royal and Herald O charged at the Author. The Author got out of the way and pulled out a handle for something. A mechanical spider then scuttled up to him and attached itself to his waist, forming his belt. He pressed a button on the handle.
“What’s the word?” asked the spider.
“Henshin!” called Khan. The handle then split in half and he put each half under the spider’s legs. The spider then wove a cocoon around him, then he broke out as Kamen Rider Weaver.
“Stop this ship, Khan!” snarled Royal.
“With what brakes?” asked Weaver. The three Riders then clashed.
Meanwhile, Batman and his family managed to open the hatch. “It’s too small for Transformers,” said Batman.
“We’ll stay topside,” replied Optimus. “You just get in and get control of this tub!”
“Aha! Dead weight!” called Nemesis Prime’s voice. His foot then slammed into Optimus’ face. Once Nemesis landed, Optimus readjusted his jaw.
“Arcee! Sky Runner! Glyph! Form up!” he ordered as he deployed his battle mask. Batman led everyone else into the ship.
“Ah, I see I caught you in an indecent phase!” chuckled Nemesis as he pointed to Optimus’ mask.
“You, on the other hand, are PERMANENTLY indecent!” snarled Optimus. His teammates then surrounded Nemesis.
“Tell us, Nemesis,” asked Sky Runner as she leveled her sword at him, “why bother giving a human the ability to make a gaseous form of Dark Energon and assist him in poisoning the city, yet keep Dad alive?”
“To drive you guys batty, of course!” laughed Nemesis. “And one of you is already there!” Optimus growled at the Batman joke and swiped at Nemesis. Nemesis twirled away and shoved Arcee to Optimus.
“Ma!” called Glyph. Nemesis ended up behind her and drove his knee into her back. Sky Runner then slashed her sword across Nemesis’ back.
“Answers, Nemesis!” she snarled.
“Do you really think I’d allow someone else to eliminate my favorite sparring partner?” asked Nemesis. “Ha! I reserve that pleasure for me alone!”
“Then why-?!”
“Because I missed your daddy’s company!” Nemesis jumped out of the way of Sky Runner’s next chop and was now facing every Autobot. “We’re two sides of the same card, Optimus. After all, you knew where to find our toady, Vilgax, and I knew all along that if there was a trail of breadcrumbs, you’d find a way to gobble them up!”
“Nemesis, you’re not making any sense!” said Optimus. “Why would you side with the Author at all when you could just take the Tome?”
“Because you’ve always been my Ace, Optimus! My Ace in the Hole! Nemesis Prime, SLAYER MODE!”
“Optimus Prime, SUPER MODE!” A trailer for each bot then appeared out of thin air and unfolded itself into limbs. Nemesis’ trailer made arms and legs while Optimus’ just made legs. His legs came up to his arms as they assumed their alt-mode shape. Once his legs attached themselves to the split truck-bed, the feet folded into the legs as hands were deployed. The new upper torso attached itself to the legs as a harness lowered itself onto the shoulders and deployed a large gun to rest by each side of his head. The new super robots then dueled as Sky Runner, Glyph, and Arcee gave Optimus covering fire.
Inside the Rumble-Disc, Phury led everyone through the corridors. “All right, the engine room is somewhere here,” she said.
“Not one more step!” snarled Phury’s voice.
“Okay, that wasn’t me!” gulped Phury.
“Actually, it WAS you, but not you,” replied another voice. Metaltron and the Evil Phury stepped out of the shadows.
“…I am NOT going through all that alternate me nonsense!” snarled Phury. “That naked coward is NOT me!”
“Naked coward, am I?!” snarled Evil Phury.
“Now that’s an insult,” mused Metaltron. “And insults must be responded to in kind.” Metaltron then brought out a belt-buckle with a single slot in it. She fastened it to her waist as Evil Phury brought out a gray lantern. She then turned it sideways, put it to her waist, and it made a belt strap. Metaltron brought out a strange device with a hinge in the middle as Evil Phury tilted the left of the lantern up and put a red ring on her finger. Metaltron then put the hinged device into her belt and then put her hands to opposite sides of the buckle.
“Henshin!” the two women called. Metaltron pulled little levers and the hinged device closed to reveal a Dalek’s head as Evil Phury punched the lantern with her ring hand, then tilted it back to its horizontal position so one could see a white version of the Red Lantern Symbol against a red background.
“Base Armor!” called Metaltron’s belt as her armor teleported onto her. It had Dalek aesthetics and the helmet made her look like a cockroach.
“RAGE!” shouted Evil Phury’s belt. As red light surrounded Evil Phury, the belt spoke again “Hellish Hate! Red Rage!” The light died down to reveal Evil Phury in red armor with the Red Lantern symbol functioning as her helmet’s face.
“You,” remarked Seeker as she pointed to Metaltron, “I know you’re Kamen Rider Ex, but what about Phury’s evil twin?”
“I’m Kamen Rider Spectrum,” replied Evil Phury.
“Ben, Rosadera, Phury, form up!” called Sora. “We’ll knock them down a peg or two!”
“Bad idea,” replied Batman. “Red Lanterns are rage incarnate, just like a Dalek. Spectrum’s going to be tough to beat if Metaltron’s joining her.”
“Like they always say,” snarked Ben, still as Upgrade, “to beat your enemy, you gotta think like your enemy!”
“Ben, hold it!” called Phury. Upgrade touched the Omnitrix symbol on his chest and green light surrounded him. His form became muscular and tiger-like. He was now a male Appoplexian in a Luchador outfit, sans the mask.
“rrrrRRRAAAAAAAAATH!” roared Ben. Rath was now in control. He snarled at Spectrum and Ex. Spectrum cooed in pleasure.
“I see why you chose him as your future mate, sister,” she purred at Phury. “His Appoplexian form’s quite the specimen of virility!”
“LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, KAMEN RIDER SPECTRUM, RATH’S GIRLFRIEND’S EVIL TWIN!” roared Rath. “RATH IS ALREADY TAKEN! YOU WANT A PIECE OF RATH; YOU GOT A PIECE! BUT YOU JUST BIT OFF AN EYE THAT’S BIGGER THAN YOUR STOMACH CAN CHEW!”
“…So, the men are just as dimwitted here,” muttered Spectrum as she charged at Rath. Sora intercepted her and threw her out of the way. Rath then went on all fours and charged at Spectrum. Spectrum then used her ring to make a gun-sword out of red light. She then fired on Rath and Sora.
“THAT’S ANOTHER MISTAKE!” bellowed Rath. “WHEN YOU SHOOT RATH, IT JUST MAKES RATH MAD!” Phury and Rosadera looked at each other, then nodded. Phury then went on all fours and charged at Ex while Rosadera touched her hair flower and it formed armor. As the fight went on, everyone else headed into the engine room.
Hiro and Dr. Borg were in the engine room, standing guard. A Lord had reported that everyone else had engaged the enemy. “So, we’ve got Optimus, Charline, and Megumi topside,” muttered Dr. Borg, “and the Author and Nemesis Prime have already engaged them. We have Phury and Metaltron fighting Ben, his Phury, a…Blue Lantern, and Rosadera. That leaves me and the Lords to fight the rest of our enemies.”
“What about me?!” protested Hiro.
“You’re needed topside. Khan doesn’t know Megumi like you do.”
“…Meh, I’ve been getting bored anyways.” Hiro then took out an eagle-shaped belt buckle and set it to his waist. It formed a belt strap and fastened itself to Hiro.
“Shocker Driver!” it announced. It then went into a musical loop consisting of a flute and drum. Hiro then took out a red i.d tag.
“Henshin,” he said. He then inserted the i.d into the belt and it dropped into a slot modeled after an eagle’s talons.
“ROGUE!” it announced. It then sang. “Hito yon’de Akuma no Shocker! Hito yon’de Akuma no Shocker!” (People call us the Devil, Shocker! People call us the Devil, Shocker!) Hiro became Kamen Rider Rogue and Dr. Borg summoned a teleport circle.
“Away you go. I’ll handle the engine room.” Rogue dashed onto the circle, then he vanished as Batman led the remaining heroes into the room. Arsha locked eyes with Dr. Borg.
“I’ll handle the bug,” she said. “The rest of you keep the Lords of my back and find a way to stop this thing.” Arsha and Dr. Borg then clashed.
“Is that all I am to you, a bug?” asked the cyborg Sprite.
“In this case, a cockroach!” replied Arsha.
“I prefer wasp!” Dr. Borg then swung a kick at Arsha. Arsha caught the leg and flipped her opponent but forgot about the wings. Dr. Borg caught herself in the air and swung her feet at Arsha’s face, swiping it with her talons. Everyone became occupied in some fashion, with time against them.