“Warning! Ring now at 32%!” warned Green Lantern’s ring. The rocket boots he created were staring to fizzle out!
“Come on! Come on!” he strained. Just then, robotic arms shot from the Watchtower and grabbed the Den Liner.
“Hal, just focus on the TARDIS!” called the Flash’s voice through the comms.
“Right!” replied Green Lantern. He shifted the glove so that only the TARDIS rested in it, then brought it to a halt. “…Phew!” sighed Green Lantern in relief.
The Den Liner and TARDIS were brought into a hangar along the Watchtower’s perimeter. Green Lantern and the Flash looked over the Den Liner. “I’ve never seen that before,” remarked the Flash. Green Lantern looked at his ring.
“Ring, scan and analyze,” he ordered as he created scanning equipment constructs.
“Scanning vehicle,” replied the ring. By then, the TARDIS doors opened and its crew stepped out.
“Oogh!” groaned the Doctor. “Headache from hell!”
“Take it easy, Doctor,” soothed Amy. That was when Momotaros stepped out of the Den Liner.
“Where’s that Doctor?!” he snapped. “I’m gonna get her for this!”
“Momotaros, I warned you about that chronal surge!” argued the Doctor. “If you had just listened to me-!”
“Oh, sure! Listen to a lady that doesn’t know the first thing about time travel!” The Doctor’s jaw dropped.
“Doesn’t know the-?! Sir, all of time and space is my backyard! The laws of time have been baked into my upbringing since day one!” The Doctor and Momotaros argued and Amy and Lurra Rus rubbed their temples.
“Just like two reckless drivers on a freeway,” muttered Amy. Lurra Rus then spotted Green Lantern and the Flash.
“Oh, hello again!” she said.
“Hey there, Lurra Rus, Amy,” replied the Flash. “Who’s the lady arguing with the demon?”
“Oh, that’s the Doctor,” replied Amy. The Flash looked in confusion at the Doctor.
“…Could have sworn…” he muttered.
“Her people have a tendency to cheat death by regenerating their bodies,” explained Lurra Rus. “That includes their minds, so there’s a new personality.” The Flash crossed his arms.
“Some aliens have all the luck!” he grumbled.
“Analysis complete,” reported Green Lantern’s ring. “Vehicle is the Den Liner, the time traveling vehicle for Kamen Rider Den-O.”
“And furthermore-!” The Doctor stopped arguing with Momotaros. “…Hang on, did that ring just say ‘Kamen Rider’?”
“It did,” replied Green Lantern.
“Kamen Rider…” muttered the Flash. “…Hey, aren’t they those karate bug people that ride around on motorcycles in Japan?”
“Karate bug-?!” spluttered Momotaros. “It’s a bit more complicated than that!”
“Yes, most Kamen Riders aren’t so reckless,” remarked the Doctor.
“Who are you calling-?!”
“Doctor,” came a voice. The argument stopped as a man stepped out of the Den Liner. He was a Japanese man in a brown suit in his late 60’s or early 70’s with his hair slicked back and carrying a cane for show. The Doctor blinked.
“…Owner?!” she gasped.
“You know the Owner?” asked Momotaros.
“She should,” replied the man, the Owner. “We were rivals at the Academy.”
“On Gallifrey?” asked Amy. “You’re a Time Lord like her?”
“You vanished before the Time War broke out,” the Doctor recalled. “Your TARDIS was destroyed, but you left it behind. What happened?”
“I had become a singularity point along with the Stationmaster,” replied the Owner. “Now, with the train of time, the Den Liner, I can travel along the Sands of Time.”
“How did you even get into that subdimension?” asked the Doctor. Before the Owner could explain, Green Lantern’s ring flashed.
“Warning! Red Light energy signature detected!”
“Is that as ominous as it sounds?” asked Amy. “Should I be summoning my hammer?”
“Not a bad idea,” replied Green Lantern. “That always means a Red Lantern’s been spotted!”
“Oh my,” remarked the Doctor. “One of Atrocitus’ minions, hopefully.”
“Hang on! I can smell an Imagin!” said Momotaros.
“Probably you,” remarked the Doctor. “Maybe you should take a bath?” That was when a red vortex opened and the Lantern Imagin stepped out of it! “…An Imagin?! With a red ring?! Oh no!”
“I need soldiers!” snarled the Lantern Imagin. “I must fulfill my contract!” The Imagin spotted the Doctor. “YOU! You have tremendous anger!”
“The Doctor?” asked Lurra Rus. “She’s not one to surrender to anger.”
“That will change!” The Lantern Imagin vomited his napalm blood all over the Doctor’s face! The Doctor screamed in agony as the blood burned her face, filling her with hatred and anger!
“WHAT DID YOU DO?!” demanded Amy as she summoned her hammer. The Lantern Imagin then created a wall construct with his ring. “Wait a minute! COPYCAT!” shouted Amy.
“This is bad!” shuddered Green Lantern. “While us Green Lanterns are powered by willpower, Red Lanterns are powered by rage and hatred! They’ve become agents of vengeance instead of justice!”
“And the Doctor is the angriest, deep down!” said the Lantern Imagin. “Atrocitus wants soldiers, I shall give them to him! You, Doctor! You’ve fought for this universe all over time and space! But your work is constantly stymied! The Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, they all have done their best to ruin the universe despite your best efforts! How can you ever forgive those evil monsters?!”
“I…I cannot…” strained the Doctor.
“THEN BURN AS I DO!” The Lantern Imagin opened his hand and a red ring floated towards the Doctor. The Doctor strained as she tried to resettle her head.
“…I cross…the void…beyond the mind!” she recited. “The empty space…that circles time! …I see where others…stumble blind…to seek a truth…they never find! …Eternal wisdom…is my guide! …I am…THE DOCTOR!” The ring shattered and the napalm blood evaporated from her face!
“WHAT?!” shouted the Lantern Imagin as the Doctor picked herself up.
“…You’re right,” she said simply. “I DO hate what my enemies do to my work. But my will to see a better universe is stronger than my hate towards my enemies!”
“All of time and space is burning, Doctor!” warned the Lantern Imagin.
“Then I’ll put out the fires where I can. Right now, you need to go back to whatever time you came from. You Imagins are walking chronal surges.”
“No! Not until my time is fully restored!”
“Oh, get over it!” complained Momotaros. “Kai was a crap leader and you know it!”
“THAT’S IT! TAKING MY REVENGE NOW!” The Lantern Imagin created a sword construct and swung it at Momotaros, but the swing was intercepted by Green Lantern’s shield construct.
“You’re under arrest for intergalactic terrorism and attempted murder!” said Green Lantern.
“I obey no law but my own!” snarled the Lantern Imagin. The two Lanterns then dueled with Green Lantern creating vehicle constructs and the Lantern Imagin countering with various sword constructs.
“This is bad!” groaned Momotaros. “With Ryotaro somewhere else, I can’t easily turn into Den-O!”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” asked the Doctor.
“The Imagin that are associated with Den-O’s forms,” explained the Owner, “must possess a body in order to give the person wearing the belt the powers they need.”
“And the usual person isn’t on the train?” quizzed Lurra Rus.
“I’m afraid not,” replied the Owner. “Unless someone with a proper fighting spirit can step forth, the Lantern Imagin will overpower Hal Jordan.”
“Yes, even the Flash’s upcoming help won’t be able to avert that future,” remarked the Doctor. The Flash tried to get a hit on the Lantern Imagin, but the Rage-fueled creature kept creating red portals to sidestep the Flash’s attacks.
“…Momotaros, how picky are you?” asked Amy.
“…You mean about someone being Den-O?” quizzed Momotaros. “I mean, I have SOME limits, but…wait, are you-?!”
“Amy, NO!” protested the Doctor.
“That IS her choice, Doctor,” remarked the Owner.
“Doctor, if I become Den-O, will Hal have a better shot at beating the Lantern Imagin?” asked Amy. “A simple yes or no will suffice.”
“…Yes, but-!”
“Then that settles it! Momotaros, where’s that belt? It’s time I try out being a Kamen Rider!” Momotaros shook his head as he chuckled.
“Here,” he said as he handed Amy a belt and pass. It was a simple belt with a circular scanner and four buttons on the left of the buckle. “Fair warning, though, your hair’s gonna get spiky.” Momotaros then turned transparent and entered Amy’s body. Amy spasmed as red energy crackled across her body, then a fanatic grin crossed her face! Her eyes were now red, her quills gained red highlights, and she was dressed in a leather jacket and rose-patterned skirt. As she spoke, Momotaros’ voice came out. “I don’t usually like possessing girls,” he said as he held the pass, “but beggars can’t be choosers! Besides, this girl’s strong enough!” He pressed the red button and a red light within the belt’s scanner flashed while music played. “HENSHIN!” Momotaros then waved the pass over the buckle.
“Sword Form!” announced the belt. A black bodysuit with a white railway line motif then formed over Amy’s body. Armor pieces then circled around her while a red peach went down the rail line running over her face. The peach stopped at her face as the armor attached itself into a simple red configuration with shoulder pads jutting outwards. The peach then split open to make itself into red lenses with antennae. As an added flair, the suit grew a rose-petal shaped skirt like Amy was wearing.
“Ore…SANJOU!” announced Momotaros, Kamen Rider Den-O in his sword form!