章節 5: That One with the Best Match! 5

The two motorcycles raced through an abandoned industrial area. It had many white colored buildings whose paint had slowly faded over time. The area was a bit overgrown with weeds and wild bushes that used to be planned vegetation. Trees and bushes planted to offset the look of the bleak building gave off before the area was left on its own.

A corner or three of chase later, neither widened nor closed the gap between the two machines.

'Impressive...how will you deal with this though?'

Sento decided to escalate things. He pressed another icon on his device.

His left hand, which was once empty and on the grip of the bikes handlebars, was now stretched out, an oddly shaped yellow and black gun appeared out of nowhere and he grasped it! It was now pointed in Ryuga Banjos direction!

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

High caliber rounds were fired from Sento's strange gun! The gun possessed exactly the same handle as the drill-like sword Kamen Rider Build had summoned and gone on to defeat the Hedgehog Needle Smash from last night with!

As a matter of fact, it was the same weapon.

The tip of the drill had been inserted into a different port of the black handle; this handle was know as the "Bray Grip", he named the trigger "Vortex Trigger" and the gauge lodged into the handle was "Vortex Meter".

Sento called this device the "Rotary Sword-Gun Drill Crusher" or just Drill Crusher for short. In sword mode the drill blade was called "Dri-Spiral Blade, when being used as a melee weapon, it could rip enemy armor into shreds when revolving!

When the gun feature was being used, like right now, the bullets being fired would also get an extra rotational effect, buffing them with an insane penetrating power! Sento called this mode "Gun Spiral Muzzle" and Ryuga was terrified as the high energy rounds flew past him and his bike!

'He missed?' Ryuga thought for a brief second. He could not have been more wrong!

Ryuga was headed towards a sharp right turn, followed immediately by a left. On the left side of the road sat many barrels and drums of different sizes and colors, full of who knows what.

BOOOM!

Sento was targeting those barrels. As the rapidly spinning rounds ripped through them, a fair sized explosion was caused, shooting several of the steel drums into Ryuga's path! There clearly had been plenty of volatile chemicals left in them, which the ruptured metal sparking ignited!

"Oh Shi!" was all the escapee could shout before laying his bike sideways in an attempt to stop! It was too late, however, and his machine connected with the drum and launched him over the top like a catapult!

Ryuga's body rolled several times in the air and his body bounced 3 times. His rough crash landing lasted 50 feet or so before he came to a halt. "Ugggh.."

He picked himself up and ripped off his helmet, throwing it at the ground. He then put his hand on his knees, taking in a few deep breaths. He straightened after he caught his breath.

Ryuga was still a little bit shaky.

Sento came to a stop as well. "Whoa...he's okay after that?" Asides from a bruised arm, Ryuga didn't seem too worse for the wear after that violent crash, all things considered.

"Who the hell are you!?" Ryuga demanded as he steadied himself, glaring at Sento fiercely.

Sento grinned and pointed at Ryuga. All you could see was his mouth and not his eyes due to the visor his helmet had.

"Just a guy that's here to bring in a murderer. Namely you."

"I DIDN'T KILL ANYBODY!" Ryuga screamed back at him.

Sento pulled his helmet off, then dismounted the bike. He laid the helmet on the seat and turned back to Ryuga, then mocked him.

"Do you realize how unconvincing that sounds, from a fugitive?"

"I didn't run because I wanted to!" Ryuga held his sore left arm, favoring it as he retorted.

Sento put his hands on his hips, not convinced at all. "Then why not just go back to jail?"

"I CAN'T!" Ryuga's look turned from anger to genuine concern, even fright! "If I go back, they're gonna get me again..." His thoughts drifted away for a moment as the volume of his voice dropped.

They both were quiet for a moment while just looking at each other. Sento broke the silence. "They?" He looked somewhat interested now.

Ryuga stared at Sento while thinking before he answered. His face scrunched back up into angry mode.

"You already said you won't believe me!" With that Ryuga rushed towards Sento, closing the distance extremely quickly for an injured man on the run.

He threw a powerful right cross at Sento, whom leaned back to avoid it. Sento fired the exact same punch back at Ryuga! It was stopped by Ryuga's right arm, he grasped Sento's as he made contact and threw the mysterious man behind him.

Sento spun and they squared off again, Sento throwing a left jab and then a straight right towards Ryuga's face!

Ryuga narrowed his eyes.

Maintaining a boxers stance, he bobbed and weaved through both of Sento's punches, dodging them without needing to move his feet! He then proceeded to do a Dempsey roll on Sento, hitting him 3 times, side to side! Sento was pushed back a foot from the force of the blows. Ryuga shoved his adversary yet another couple meters back!

Sento blinked and then rushed back towards Ryuga.

This time, instead of boxing with him, Sento tried to kick Ryuga with his right leg. To his surprise it was blocked by Ryuga's right leg and as both of their legs fell down, the rest of Ryuga's body moved downwards as well! Ryuga then slightly rose while charging forward violently, as he put his shoulder into Sento's solar plexus!

Sento staggered back, trying to retreat, but Ryuga was on him in a flash! He then gave him a strong right straight to his gut! He stood there with his fist held out in place as if it was a finishing move.

Sento stepped back at least ten steps, while half bent over and holding his midsection.

His looked up with a face of pain...which then turned back into a grin much too quickly for it to have been real!

Normally, when someone gets hit there, they tend to lose their ability to breathe for a few moments, this was not the case as Sento called out to Ryuga.

"Not bad, Mr. former pro-fighter...but.."

He reached into his coat and pulled out a shiny red bottle similar to the yellow one he used to transform the bike. It's ends were black and it almost looked like a a cylinder with a hourglass inside. Countless red particles flowing back and forth are what gave the bottle its vibrant color.

Sento started to shake the red bottle up and down. It almost sounded like a maraca as he shook it with gusto.

"...I'm about to take a slightly different approach."

Sento then smiled widely and nearly disappeared from Ryuga's vision! He was nothing short of a red blur as he circled around and then behind Ryuga from his left side! Before Ryuga could react, Sento was already standing behind him!

Ryuga whipped around but it was already too late, as he pivoted 180 degrees, his face was met with the sole of Sento's sneaker! It knocked him onto the ground before he knew what was happening!

"That strength..." Ryuga slowly rose back up. "...You...Did those gas mask freaks get you too?...Or are you on their side?!"

"Gas masks?" Sento's eyes widened.

"Don't play dumb!" Ryuga exclaimed while walking forward towards Sento, grabbing his collar and pulling him close. Sento did not stop him, he wanted answers.

Ryuga started his aggravated story, his eyes starting to water slightly as he remembered what had happened to him.

"They turned me into a damned guinea pig!" His eyes looked into Sento's, making sure he had his full attention.

Sento thought about his recurring dreams. "Gas masks and human experimentation...what do you mean?"

""What's there to explain?!" Ryuga pushed Sento back away from him in a fit of anger.

His face then dropped into a miserable, sad state again.

"...Some bald-headed guard got the drop on me in jail...injected me with something and before I could do anything I passed out...when I woke up, a bunch of gas masked scientists were lurking over top of me! I was laying down in some sort of clear glass box full of green liquid....I yelled at them and tried telling them to get off of me but there was so many of them...They threw an oxygen mask on me, strapped my arms and legs down and filled the box even more!"

Ryuga took a moment to pull in some air and continued.

"They had multiple I.V.s stuck all over me, before they started pumping whatever was on the other end into me, I looked over and could see a bunch of other guys on hospital beds...they were all in gowns and were also strapped to their respective beds."

Ryuga looked extra sad while he spoke now.

"They were yelling things like 'Let me outta here!' and 'Let me go, please!' all while struggling to get free...The lead scientist pulled a giant lever and a bunch of something went into my veins while some green mist was released into the box I was in...it was like the green mist was attracted to me...as soon as it touched my body I could feel it getting sucked up by my skin and felt...like I had just been filled with adrenalin and an intense pain."

Sento stood there staring at Ryuga talk, his eyes growing wider with every word!

"I couldn't stand it anymore, and to my surprise, I was now able to snap those restraints like nothing...I smashed up the glass box and beat the hell out of each one of those researchers with ease..."

Sento suddenly reached out and grasped Ryuga's shoulders. He started shaking him and asked, "Is that all true!?" with a concerned look on his face.

Both of them were so absorbed with each other, neither heard the heavy foot steps that were falling 50 feet away from them.

"Then you must have seen the bat man too...A man wearing a black suit, with a bat design."

"I don't know!" Ryuga shoved Sento away again.

Both stood there looking at each other, deep in thought again.

"AARRGGHH AAYE YAH!"

BANG! SCREEEEETCH!

A weird call and grunt was shouted out and a second later an abandoned sedan came hurtling at the pair, skidding and making sparks across the ground as it went!

They both managed to run out of its way and looked over to the source of the noise.

It was a hulking, blue and orange smash! It looked like a mix between a sleek rock man and a gorilla. It had robot like, circular shaped joints. Its chest, head and neck were one solid mass and it appeared as if it had 3 coffin shaped faces set in upon it. The outside 2 faces had two, solid black vertical eyes while the center one had three positioned in a triangular formation.

It's legs and waist were grey, the arms, inset 'heads', shoulders and back were mostly blue and the hideous creature's mid section, chest and forearms were orange.

It banged it's two thick, powerful looking fists together and rushed towards Sento!

"Oh crap!"

Before Sento could even properly defend himself, the beast was already in his face. It pulled its massive arm back and punched him, sending him flying over towards another abandoned car!

Bang!

Crack!

He bounced across the hood, cracked the front windshield and ended up rolling over onto his back while wincing in real pain. "Ugh...cough...cough...that hurt."

The creature turned towards Ryuga, who was now back in his trademark stance. "What is that thing?"

"A Smash!"

Said smash slowly walked towards Ryuga as Sento held onto his gut in pain.

"A smash?"

Sento struggled to rise back to his feet and he grunted out a brief explanation. "A Smash is a person in a monstrous form, with extremely violent tendencies!...They can't be reasoned with unless you beat them!"

After hearing this, Ryuga did not hesitate to throw his strongest right punch at the Smash!

"Ora!"

Pang.

There was a weak, muted metallic sound when his fist connected with the Smash's chest.

The creature responded and smashed its arm down on Ryuga, violently sending him to the ground. It then grabbed him and with its other hand punched the road beneath them with extreme power!

A massive dust cloud accompanied by a powerful gust of broken air was generated. As Sento leaned over the hood of the car he shielded himself, resisting the pressure, he expected to see a massive pit in the ground but something strange happened that left Sento's mouth hanging open in surprise!

With Ryuga in its grasp, it used the force of the blow to launched itself and the captured human a mile or two into the air and out of sight!