[HEADING=1]THE GREAT LEADER![/HEADING]
"And so, the curtain falls, at last."
When the Great Leader's identity was exposed, it was altogether not surprising that he was absent at the time his execution was decided. He was hardly a fool, of course, but then you must ask yourself - as Black Cross did - why was he back
here again? It was the wreckage of his base, only a few rooms and his private chambers left intact. His trusted servant had never gone in here before, but now...what else could he do? The Great Leader should be warned of the impending attack, correct? He found him there, facing perhaps the one intact computer in the entire place, having just finished some sort of unknowable task, switching it off as the Black Cross entered.
Black Cross: Great Leader...what are you doing
here? They know who you are. This base no longer holds any defenses. We must be away!
There was no response. Black Cross approached him, grabbing at his shoulder to turn him around.
Black Cross: Did you hear me? I
said- Oops!
He must've pulled at the wrong moment, because the Great Leader tripped and fell against the nearby wall, his mask falling off as a curious device [http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODAwWDEyMDA=/z/r7wAAOSwabhUUtam/$_1.JPG] fell to the ground and - for some reason - shouted the word
"Masquerade!" where it lay. Black Cross looked up from this to his boss and gasped.
Black Cross:
You're not the Great Leader! You're just a...a
Dopant!
YES, and a mere servant, in fact. The man nodded from where he sat, against the wall.
Dopant: I am
not the Great Leader, no. I am but a converted soul to his cause. He spared me, changed my life... In return, I serve
him. All of your instructions were his, relayed through me, and all of your counsel transmitted to him, in turn. I regret, that in my failing, there is only one course left open to me now.
He opened his cloak to reveal a good number of explosives strapped to his body.
Dopant: I suggest you fly away now. The timer is already set...
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Meanwhile, outside the ruins of the Great Leader base, just to the left of the now-headless MechaGodzilla, our heroes are walking up the trail.
Jack O' Ripper: Hurry, guys! We don't want him to get away!
Caramel Frappe: Hey...is that a flying cross leaving the building?
It was! And that made them run faster, but soon...
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BOOOOOOOOOMMM!!![/HEADING]
Everyone was alright, but they were all singed from the explosion.
SupahEwok: There, see? He was there, now he's gone!
Told you I didn't do it!
Jumbo Palace: We'll do battle another day. Let's get out of here.
Caramel Frappe: Was that really the end of the Great Leader?
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Well...it might be the end of the Great Leader's campaign, but in order to show you the
real identity of the man...we must take you to a warehouse on the waterfront of one Futo City. In the darkness, a figure in a white hat stood up from a computer that had been concealed in some crates.
"So ends the Great Leader."
"Not
yet."
The figure suddenly looked back and saw...a flashlight in his face, exposing him to the world! He was really...
Kaman Rider Skull!
...AKA Sokichi Narumi of the detective agency same! And he could see now who it was that found him: His protege', Shotaro [http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Shotaro_Hidari], AKA Kamen Rider W! The Skull crossed his arms now.
"I see. So, you realized from the hint at the beginning that if anyone was to be the foe, it would be me, correct?"
Sho: I did, but...I didn't want to believe it. Why'd you do it, boss?
"I'll tell you..."
"As a detective, I have always wished to solve crimes and make those responsible pay for their sins. When I became a Kamen Rider [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xChtr49TnaI], that changed somehow to saving he world, even from itself. I fought with the Sonozaki family, as you know, because you were the one who finally defeated them, while I had been rescusitated by Shroud in secret. Still, with the Sonozakis gone - save for the one - I should have been able to retire and leave the business to you. Such was not the case..."
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"There was a power vacuum, and I saw a long list of corrupt individuals flying the so-called flag of justice, when all of them were just easily-influenceable puppets to power. I had to eliminate them for the true leader - The Great Leader - to stand up. At first, I started small."
The baseball man was swinging homers, right and left, as the heroes tried to get a shot in, edge-wise. In the middle of the fight, waaay out of sight, the Skull pulled out his special magnum and fired it to alter the trajectory of a baseball, causing it to plow through EvilRoy's chest.
"I let my helper, a man I turned away from serving Foundation X, use whatever methods he wanted to draw attention away from me, and planned my next move, which turned out unexpectedly...yet in my favor."
On the battlefield, he spotted the Green and Red Ranger amidst the battle with the penis monster Mukadender. Tizzy was about to show off his ultimate attack, when the Skull Magnum fired at his arms and...
Aerosteam: YOUR AIM IS WAY OFF! OH FU-
[HEADING=2]
BOOOOOOOOOMMM!!![/HEADING]
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"Feeling vindicated, I then caused Shoggoth to fall on his head, since he had no helmet on, but someone later made him recover without his powers. That was when I first learned of the Necromancer...but I am getting ahead of myself. Incidentally, all of those monsters? They were Dopants, including MechaGodzilla. They were various levels of the Gaia Memories...Sports, Kaiju, Bird, and Machine. As a former distributor of Memory, my friend would have had them available for use. It's very surprising how many of their own they swiftly took down themselves."
"And all of this was so
you could be the Great Leader of the world?"
"No...not me. Philip."
"Philip?!"
"Think about it. As the last surviving member of the Sonozaki family, he has rights to all of their assets, influence, and power. More to it, he has a good heart and soul, plus access to the total memory of the planet. He is truly the one to lead us all out of the dark."
"Maybe, maybe not. I can understand why, but not the means. Killing people to have your way, even on behalf of another or a greater ideal...that's not how it's done!"
Joker!
Cyclone!
Shotaro transformed!
"Come on, Sho... I taught you everything you know, and I'm still better than you."
"I don't need to be better...because I have
this!"
He pulled out a foggy-gray-colored Gaia Memory with eerie blue stripes. Placing it in the belt, it suddenly shouted
"Ghost!", and...oh my god! The ghosts of every felled target on the list suddenly appeared alongside him! That's right... It's the episode where the characters come back to life! They were all there. Aerosteam, Tizzy, Cait, Josh, Revenant, Pirate, Sweetshark, Revnak,
Shoggoth?!
Shoggoth2588: What the
hell?! I'm dead again! How'd that happen?!
"Sorry."
Lastly, and frankly surprisingly when you consider he was the first, EvilRoy!
"Even you, Roy? I thought we had a deal."
EvilRoy: *Shrugs* Ehh.
"I'd rather we didn't have to do this, boss, but we will."
"I'm of the same mind, Sho. That is why- Skull Punisher!"
He began rapid-shooting energy bullets from his Skull Magnum to drive them back, then leapt out a window suddenly. Sho moved to follow, knowing that the Kamen Rider was going for his motorcycle hidden outside, but EvilRoy held him up.
EvilRoy: Relax. I took care of it.
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BOOOOOOOOOMMM!!![/HEADING]
Oh. Well...that seemed to wrap things up, then. They went outside and...there was debris everywhere and a white fedora floating on the water. A closer inspection would show that, no, there wasn't a head under there. At any rate, this was the end, which led to Sho reverting to normal.
"Umm...the Memory's power lasts about an hour, guys, so use it well."
He headed off. The others decided to organize a basketball game, all but two, that is. The first was Shoggoth, still shouting that he was still alive. The second was EvilRoy, who pulled out a phone just then and called a number.
EvilRoy: Yeah, uh-huh. They're gone now. Well, we DID have a deal and I
guess I kind of owed you. At least it was convincing enough, right? Okay, later, man. I've got a game to go to.
And so, with the mystery of the Great Leader truly revealed, we bring you to...
[HEADING=1]THE END...?[/HEADING]