The boys were walking towards the throne room with Valkyrie before Dillon decided to ask a question, “So what are the inhabitants of that town like if you don’t mind me asking?”.

“Well, for the most part peaceful, even though most of them, to begin with, were monsters who used to cause grief for everyone, since Shade created this place most came to see this town as a safe place where they aren’t judged for their looks. Not really surprising considering how some of us look and what we can do.”

“At least I'll know where to go so I'm not attacked on sight again,” Axel replied.

“Well unless you come across people who hate Shade. Then that may still happen, you do have his mark on your hand.”

“Noted” Axel responded.

“At least that rider that tried to kill you isn’t here” Ziggy commented.

“Hopefully” Axel replied with a shrug before looking at the mark on his hands immediately remembering the night he got it.

Dillon then asked Valkyrie, “How did you meet Shade then?”.

“Well… it wasn’t on the best of terms that we met. I attacked the castle in an attempt to try and create a new Phantom from someone who lived here 1000 years ago. Shade dealt with me and I kind of broke down pleading for my life and in my fear swore loyalty to him, and now well… I follow his orders to the letter without question.”

The boy’s just looked towards him in an awkward silence Dillon letting off a quiet “Oh…” before going quiet again.

Not even a moment later Ziggy immediately spoke up “Isn’t that technically a slave?”.

Axel immediately put his hand on Ziggy's mouth, shutting the boy up.

“Pretty much,” Valkyrie responded, “but to be fair, it was better than what most riders do to monsters after defeating them, at least I wasn’t killed in an explosion, cut in two, shot hundreds of times or got punched or kicked through the chest.”

Ziggy moved Axel’s hand away from his mouth, “Fair enough” he replied with a nervous chuckle.

“Yeah, leaving with your life as a slave is probably a better fate than what a rider can do to someone they don’t plan on sparing” Dillon admitted.

They all went silent as they continued to walk until Ziggy decided to speak again “Hey how long til we get to the throne room?” the boy asked clearly, wanting to change the subject.

“It shouldn’t be long,” Valkyrie responds as they come up to a long hallway with what looked to be 5 people standing at the front of the room, two in front of the door and three in a line.

“At least it isn’t 20 people or more,” Dillon commented.

“And it looks that two of them are together so it shouldn’t take too long,” Valkyrie added as they walked to the back of the line as a single pony walked out the door at the front of the room, and two of the ponies in the queue walked inside the room ahead.

They waited in line for a couple of minutes and while they did Dillon just sat on the ground, and a moment later he felt Axel nudge him as he stood back up as the two ponies from before walked out of the throne room and the one ahead of them walked in.

The boys stood there waiting until Ziggy decided to place his fist in his palm, Dillon noticing this saw Ziggy give him a smirk clearly wanting to play rock paper scissors, Dillon in response did the same before tapping their fists against their palms before shooting them out,

Dillon had paper while Ziggy had rock as Dillon smirked covering Ziggy’s rock with his paper, Ziggy in response just scoffed in response and turned away crossing his arms.

“Stupid game anyway” Ziggy muttered as he refused to look at Dillon's smug smirk, Axel just looking at the boy's interaction in amusement before they looked at him, their smirks returning as they challenged him.

He accepted the challenge and they played the game once more only this time Axel won while Ziggy and Dillon just gave up, Axel immediately grabbing them both as the pony that went into the room was suddenly thrown out the room, the two guards by the door glaring at him in anger.

“Stupid idiotic prince. He should kick all of these monsters out this stupid town or kill them all off,” the figure muttered to himself.

“That dude definitely isn’t happy” Dillon muttered as the figure glanced at him with a glare before walking away.

“Yeesh,” Ziggy commented as Axel then placed them back on the ground as the boy’s and Valkyrie walked into the throne room next.

As soon as they walked into the room they found it to be mostly empty, the walls having nothing decorating them except a single banner with the Crimson eye-shaped logo on it, and a large stone seat behind a desk at the front of the room.

“Cool” Dillon and Ziggy comment, while Axel mainly focuses on the crimson eye logo on the banner before he glances at the mark on his hand again slightly zoning out, getting stuck in his thoughts before shaking his head as he sees Dillon and Ziggy looking at the banner.

They continued walking forward before stopping directly in front of the desk, as they saw an Alicorn sitting at the desk with their head down as they looked to be writing some notes down.

The group then heard an annoyed groan from the Alicorn, who didn’t look up at the group before saying “Okay, what's the problem this time? Are you here to argue against my stance on the monsters living here again? If you are then you know where the door is so leave, I don’t have time to kick anyone else out again today.”

“So that’s why that guy got launched back through the door, serves him right besides I don’t really have a problem with the monsters” Dillon replied with a chuckle.

“Neither do we” Axel added, referring to himself and Ziggy.

The Alicorn then sighs to himself before saying, “then if it’s not that, what have you come to ask me to do now? Is it permission to build a statue in the town, or to tear down a ton of homes that people are in so you can have a mansion to live in. If it’s either of those, the answer is no.”

“Technically we're here to report to you about the damage to the buildings” Dillon replied.

“And he was adamant about seeing you,” Axel commented.

Valkyrie just shook his head before coughing a few times, “Lord Shade. There is nobody else to visit you today to deal with their selfish desires. We have come for both a personal meeting and in my case to report back to you as requested before you had to handle the fallout of the attack.”

“Right,” the Alicorn, now revealed to be Shade responded, taking a single deep breath and slowly breathing out as he looked up at Valkyrie, “how bad is it?”

“Luckily there doesn’t seem to have been any casualties from the attack, some people escaped with minor burns and one with serious ones who has been looked after by some of the doctors that moved in yesterday. Thankfully the princesses sent them with some basic equipment to take care of anyone who needs it.”

“That's good at least. So we can start on the repairs with no issues,” Shade responds with a relieved sigh.

“Of course Lord Shade,” Valkyrie responds with a bow, “but if I may, you have three guests that wish to see you in person.”

“Three guests?” Shade asked, looking down to see Dillon, Ziggy and Axel in front of the table.

“Hey, it's been a while!” Dillon commented as he waved towards Shade, Ziggy just showing a nervous smile before giving a short wave in his direction, while Axel gave a slight bow towards him clearly trying to keep his composure.

“I’m sorry you had to see that,” Shade replies, shaking his head as he looks at Dillon, “you seem to be doing okay, have your injuries from before healed correctly?”

“Yep, especially with some medication I had gotten from a pony that lives in a cottage she was nice” Dillon replied with his usual fanged smile.

“That's good to hear,” Shade responded with a kind smile before looking to Axel. “You doing okay there?”

“I'm doing okay Lord Shade” Axel replied, before getting elbowed in the sighed by Dillon Axel giving him a glare before fixing his stance.

“Dude, stop with that” Dillon muttered.

“Wait let me introduce you to Ziggy” Dillon said as he grabbed Ziggy and placed him in front of him, “Shade this is Ziggy, Ziggy this is Shade”.

“Hi” Ziggy quietly stated as he waved again.

Shade looked at Ziggy for a couple of seconds before standing up walking around the desk before kneeling down in front of Ziggy, “Are you doing okay little one?”

“Y-yeah im doing okay” Ziggy replied.

“He tends to be shy around new people,” Dillon commented.

“Should have seen him when the pack was getting bigger he was so shy around the new additions” Axel added.

“I take it things have happened with your family since I last visited,” Shade responded

“Yeah the pack has gotten a lot bigger, only for the reason that they attacked us and lost and became a part of ours” Dillon replied.

“But one wasn’t very keen on the idea but he’s been taken care of” Dillon admitted.

“Was it the idea of being cared for… or a different reason behind it?” Shade asked.

“He wasn’t happy with being a part of a pack that didn’t have an alpha and he decided to rebel and try and attack Ziggy” Dillon replied.

“We had to resort to a form of marking to get him in line” Axel commented.

“I have a feeling I don’t want to ask what you mean by that,” Shade responds looking back at Axel, “if it’s a last resort it must be something traumatic for a Timberwolf.”

“He was terrified when I did it so yeah” Dillon responded scratching his ear on instinct.

“Lets just say it took a while for that Timberwolf to actually accept being a part of the pack he still is hesitant but doesn’t really show outward hatred anymore” Axel stated.

“I know this sounds obvious, but why have none of you taken the role up to correct that. I mean I’m sure someone could easily be the Alpha of your pack?”

“Trust me we’ve tried seeing if someone could take that role but its been met with refusal, I then suggested Axel but he said he didn’t feel worthy of the role couldn’t choose Ziggy since he’s to himself most of the time, and honestly I wouldn’t take it because I feel like most of them are afraid of me” Dillon quickly replied.

“You’ll need to resolve that sooner or later you know,” Shade points out, “Either way. Why did you all come to visit me today?”

“We saw the commotion with the monster and that Zord and went to check it out and low and behold we ended up here at the castle” Dillon responded.

‘And after that we came across Valkyrie and decided to help and waited in the barracks until we left to come here to the throne room and honestly I just wanted to see how you were doing since it’s been a bit since we’ve seen each other” Dillon stated.

“He was very, very adamant about seeing you” Axel Commented as Dillon turned his attention to him.

“Do you have a problem with that?” Dillon spoke as gave Axel a glare before putting in a choke hold as Axel gave him another noogie Shade seeing that the two had gotten very close since the last time he saw them.

“Stop it, I'm sorry!” Dillon yelped out before Axel dropped him to the ground.

“Was that so hard?” Axel replied with a smirk.

“Screw you…” Dillon grumbled out.

“What was that?”

“Nothing!” Dillon squeaked out.

“That’s what i thought” Axel replied with a smirk on his face.

“Question what was with that Zord we saw earlier?” Dillon asked.

“Don’t forget about the train” Ziggy spoke up as Dillon nodded.

“Yeah, what was with that train as well?” Dillon added

“Well… they are both one in the same,” Shade responds calmly. “I will assume that what you are referring to was the fight a few hours ago, if so that train that appeared turned into what you are referring to as a zord.”

“Oh that explains a lot” Dillon responded.

“Can we see it?” they heard Ziggy ask,”The zord I mean”.

“I don’t see why not,” Shade responded calmly, placing his hands at his sides, “Besides I don’t see any harm in showing you all around this place. Is there anything beyond the train you want to see or do?”

“What else is there around here exactly?” Dillon asked.

“Apart from the trains, we do have a colosseum I use to train alone,” Shade admits, “but not much else considering how long we’ve had to set anything up. Not like this place is a major tourist hotspot being in the center of the Everfree and all that.”

“Fair enough” Dillon replied

“Well then shall we go?” Shade asked, looking at the group.

The boys nod in response as they immediately start walking behind Shade before he held his hand up as the floor seemed to shift as a staircase formed in front of them.

“Whoa” Dillon comments as he and the others view this occurring in front of them.

“Would you keep something that can turn into a giant robot in clear view?” Shade asks as he begins to walk down the steps, gesturing for the others to follow.

They immediately follow him down the stairs as they continue down the stairs behind him, “No I guess you wouldn’t” Dillon then responded.

The group went silent for a moment as they continued to walk behind Shade, Ziggy seemingly wanting to say something until he felt Axel nudge him as he looked up to his face which looked to be saying “Go ahead and ask”.

He doesn’t say anything while they continued the stairs, until they reached the bottom into a single long dimly lit hallway.

“Thats a long hallway” Dillon comments as they begin walk through it

“It’s not too long. Just a slow minute long walk,” Shade responds as he continues walking onwards casting his eyes back to the group.

He see’s Dillon with his normal fanged smile, Axel just walking behind the boy with his arms behind his head and Ziggy just holding a curious look on his face while they all walk behind him.

“Something on your mind?” Shade asks as looks at Ziggy

“I was just wondering from what Dillon had told me, I thought that you would look human but you don’t, why is that exactly if you don’t mind me asking?” Ziggy quietly replied.

“Well, do you want the short or long explanation?”

“The long explanation please” Ziggy responded.

“Okay. When I was sealed on the moon around one thousand years ago I took a trip to a different reality, during that time I was with a group of creatures that created teams comprising of both Riders and Rangers like Dillon is. In that world one of the inhabitants managed to take what they thought was my real body instead of the form I project from myself and I was given a puppet-like body for me to inhabit until I could get my real form back, after which I was kinda stuck in a weird state where I couldn’t hold either my true self of the form you see now” Shade explained.

Ziggy just looked on in silence before shaking his head stating, “Ok that was definitely a lot, but thank you for explaining it to me”.

“I think you scrambled his brain a bit with that,” Dillon commented with a chuckle.

“Wait to clarify something, your current body isn’t your original one, but a puppet that acts as it until you get your original back?” Ziggy then asked, motioning his hand seemingly trying to understand a little more.

“Well it was I do technically have my old form back, but considering how the pony nobles treat any non ponies races how do you think most would treat a human walking alongside them, I simply choose to use this form as my real one as to now deal with the strange looks,” Shade admitted.

“That's fair I mean that guy you threw out the throne room definitely didn’t have anything good to say about monsters especially right before he left he glared at me” Dillon commented.

“Oh him… He hates anything that isn’t a unicorn. Honestly I’ve kicked him to the curb every day since I started leading this town. With him ordering me to execute anything he doesn’t like in the town.”

“He's definitely persistent that's for sure” Ziggy muttered out as he and Dillon shook their heads.

“Guy’s like that really don’t understand anything do they?” Dillon stated.

“I have another question, how many in the town hold that same value as that guy anyway?” Ziggy asked.

“That has said it to my face… four,” Shade responds, “Two are in hiding from me after I threatened to lock them in cages under the castle, one is in the dungeon under the castle as he both ordered me to do it and tried to kill someone from the town in front of me, and that one who won’t listen.”

Ziggy just had a look of horror on his face, muttering out “Jesus…” as Dillon just pinched the bridge of his nose from hearing this.

“Oh yeah, and the one currently in the dungeon also funded a kidnapping ring where they took children and women of all races and mutated them into monsters… or bred the women repeatedly for test subjects to turn into monsters,” Shade added

The boys immediately looked towards him in shock, Dillon covering his mouth as he spoke, “I think I'm gonna be sick…”.

Ziggy meanwhile looked like he was about to throw up, unable to say anything after what he was told, while Axel just stood behind them just grasping his arms tightly not saying a word.

“Luckily those we have found are now safe. Most of the older ones now live in the town above… but the younger ones and newborns… well that's a difficult issue to handle considering some of the… mutations they have.”

“God….” Dillon quietly mutters before stating “I hope that bastard suffers for what he did” pure hate in his eye.

“Well he does suffer from claustrophobia… and we do constantly shrink his cell so it’s millimeters above his head constantly pushing him to the floor with little room to move.”

“Good he deserves all of it” Axel finally spoke.

“It does also help that he's been forcibly branded, so he has even less free will than I do, even if he was free he’d still be trapped in his own mind eternally,” Valkyrie added, his voice seeming to come from in front of the group even though they couldn’t see him.

“As long as he doesn’t have control in what he does I'm happy with that” Axel replied the other two boys looking around wondering where Valkyrie's voice was coming from.

“I have another question,Dillon only told me bits and pieces from the day he met you, how did that day go from your perspective?” Ziggy asked clearly wanting to change the subject.

“Well I returned from the moon, made my way to castle. Encountered Dillon being surrounded by a group on monsters, beat said monster before leaving, then found him again later under attack by another creature and ‘dealt’ with them.” Shade explained purposely being vague in his response.

Axel immediately scratched his head in response Dillon noticing this just gave him a smug smirk before turning back to Shade.

“What happened after that?” Ziggy then asked.

“In simple terms I left him there for a while until I found him again in a curtain place you three know well, spent some time there before we took a trip to a nearby town, someone almost got killed, I helped bring him home and left after he woke.”

“And after that I got medicine from the pony I introduced you to a week ago and before me and Axel went back to the lake we went to the town and found you in that alleyway before Axel got attacked by that rider”.

“Attacked by a Rider?” Shade quickly said stopping in his tracks, “do you know which one?”

Dillon just stopped in place as he placed his hand on his chin in deep thought before he said “All I remember is something along the lines of Drive I think, she didn’t seem bad but she was dead set on destroying Axel” .

“Well there are two Drives now… black and blue suit or red and black suit?”

“It was a red and black suit from what I remember”.

“So normal drive… Yeah she’s a loose cannon, and not very smart either.” Shade responds as they walk out into a large open area that looks to have two trains in it.

The first looked to be almost destroyed bullet train that looked mostly white in colour however it had large dents on the carriages and main train, all of which looked to crumpled inwards with a smashed windows the remains of red glass being seen clinging to the corners of where the widows would have been.

The second train however looked barely damaged and seemed to resemble a steam train. It was mostly black in colour with red marking running down the side of it into a familiar crimson eye in the centre of the train, while each of the carriage seemed to have a logo on the side of them, some matching the main logo while others differed in design.

“Cool...” Ziggy stated as he looked on in awe.

“It's kinda interesting seeing this thing up close now” Dillon commented as he stepped up close to it examining it.

Ziggy walked next to Dillon as he commented, “how bad was that fight because this thing looked like it went through hell”.

“Well that one wasn’t in the fight, that crashed landed in the forest a few days ago, there were some people trapped inside it that we took out.”

“Who were the people that were trapped in it,?” Dillon asked, looking towards Shade.

“Well there were 5 in the front train and three in the carriages, two of them young children and one woman, who was holding them close to her.”

“At least they're okay right?” Ziggy asked, still looking at the train.

“Well at least two of them are still unconscious, three of them are watching over them, and the others are awake and moving… oh yeah… and one was my little sister from before I died.”

“That's good at lea- wait you have a sister?” Dillon asked in surprise

“Wait, what do you mean before you died?” Ziggy asked his attention fully towards Shade at that moment.

“On the day I was sent to this world, I was ran down by a man on a bridge who crushed me under a car and drove off, when I regained consciousness I saw myself in a hospital bed and watched myself die, before someone turned me into what I am now,” Shade responded simply, his voice almost sounding like what he said didn’t matter to him.

Axel just looked on in surprise not really knowing what to say, so elected to stay silent.

Ziggy meanwhile just looked at Shade in silence before speaking, “Oh”

“I take it since you’ve been like this for a while, what you just said doesn't really matter or bother you anymore does it?” Dillon asked.

“The whole death part… no… the fact my own little sister is both alive was kidnapped and was almost killed when the train crashed into this world… yes.”

“Yeah that would do it” Dillon muttered in response.

“Well, at least you have your sister with you,” Ziggy commented.

“I suppose that is true,” Shade responded calmly looking at the train that wasn’t damaged.

“Is something wrong with that one?” asked, standing next to him.

“No… I suppose you could say that this train belongs to me, the other in essence belongs to someone else… probably one of the people who are unconscious.”

“Sounds complicated…” Dillon replied, scratching the back of his head as he glanced at the train.

“Any idea which one it belongs to exactly?” Dillon then asked.

“I have no idea,” Shade responds with a shrug of his shoulders. “As I said three were five people up front, and two of them were unconscious, I couldn't really ask who it belonged to.”

“Fair point” Dillon replied with a nod.

They both then hear Ziggy as he asked, “What do the trains look like on the inside?”.

“The damaged one… a trainwreck,” Shade responded simply. “While the other one, I would say for the carriages the best description is an old style stream train, they do have mainly black walls and leather seats. Although I can’t answer for the last three carriages.”

“Sounds fancy” Ziggy responded with interest in his voice.

“We might as well go inside,” Shade responds as he places his hand against the door to the steam train before it opens and he walks inside the main train.

They follow behind him into the main train Ziggy immediately walks around on the inside of it with an attentive smile on his face while Dillon and Axel just stay around the entrance of the main train.

As Ziggy looked around the main train he saw what looked to be multiple monitors around the area with the one at the very front having a large crimson crying eye shaped logo above their consoles while the rest looked to be blank with what looked to be empty spaces above them.

“Cool…” Ziggy said in amazement.

“You must really like trains Ziggy,” Axel said with a chuckle.

“How can you not like this, this is cool!” Ziggy shouted in response as he motioned towards the stuff he was looking at before.

“I mean it does look cool though,” Dillon commented.

“I swear, I can't with you two sometimes,” Axel replied with a laugh.

“C’mon Axel you gotta admit this does look cool!” Ziggy responded.

“C'mon say it Axel you know you want to” Dillon commented.

“Fine I do admit that it's kinda cool” Axel replied.

Ziggy immediately smiles before asking Shade another question, “So how does this stuff work anyway?” as he glanced back at the area of the train with the consoles.

“The easy answer is it responds to my touch… I used my powers to wrech control of it from someone else and in essence made it follow my commands… it seems that my powers work on both living and non living things,” Shade admits as he places his hand on a console as it lights up revealing a crimson eye shaped logo on the screen in front of him before a voice that sounded almost like a secretary would said, “Welcome back, Kamen Rider Shade.”

“Whoa” Dillon muttered as Ziggy just looked on in childlike wonder.

“Cool” Ziggy said out of awe.

“Unexpected but cool nonetheless” Dillon then commented as Axel meanwhile was just looked on in silent interest.

Shade’s eyes seemed to focus on Axel for a moment before he said, “Do you want to move to the next carriage or do you want to keep looking around for a bit longer?”

“I want to look at the other carriage” Ziggy immediately said as he quickly began to go towards the other one.

“Okay guess we're doing that then” Dillon commented as he followed closely behind Ziggy leaving the carriage with only Axel and Shade inside it.

‘Axel. Whats wrong?’ Shade asked mentally into Axel’s mind

Axel flinched in response as he glanced toward Shade, “It’s, it’s nothing” He responded before seeing the eye symbol again on the screen, fear slightly showing in his eye as he looked away from it.

Shade then walked beside him placing his hand on Axel’s shoulder, a small spark shooting into Axel’s arm before Shade asked into his mind again, ‘Axel. Are you lying to me?’

“N-no lord Shade” Axel stuttered out fear now clear in his voice, as he felt Shade’s eyes bare down on him, seeming to be solely focused on him.

‘I want the truth. I can see something worrying you. So you can either tell me yourself, or we do a repeat of last time for me to find out the truth,’ Shade stated, his hand moving towards Axel’s head.

Axel immediately spoke out fear in voice, “The symbol every time I look it I remember that night anytime Im with Dillon or Ziggy im fine but whenever I look at it, the fear just takes over I try to not have them notice but it's getting harder every single time” he spoke in a single breath, looking like he was about to cry.

‘There. There. Was that so hard?’ Shade asked, rubbing his wing over Axel’s back, ‘Is there something I can do to help you get over your fear of that night?’

“I, I don’t know” Axel replied completely unsure.

‘Tell me. Is it the mark, or the thought of letting me down that scares you?’

“Its….both, both of them scare me” Axel slowly replied.

‘Why are you scared of the mark?’

“It makes me feel like I'm weak, like I'm powerless to stop anything” Axel responded.

‘Then we just need to change that,’ Shade responds, placing his hand on Axel’s head sparks flickering between both Axel and Shade with a spark flickering through Axel’s eyes every couple of seconds, ‘this mark means that I have placed my trust in you, more than anyone else considering you have one on each hand. To you this mark is a sign that you can grow stronger to support both me and everyone who shares the mark with you, it’s a sign that you can keep fighting through everything and keep getting stronger.’

“Pride and a reason to keep fighting?” Axel said as he looked towards one of his hands looking at the mark but the fear wasn’t there anymore, instead replaced with a warm feeling in his chest. “It can push me to grow stronger, so I can protect others” Axel then stated.

‘If you want it to. It can mean that and so much more.’ Shade admits removing his hand from Axel’s head. ‘Is there anything else bothering you?’

Axel shook his head, “No, No there isn't Lord Shade” Axel then responded as he looked towards him directly.

“Lord Shade I have a request, is there anything you have that will further my ability to protect others or something that can push me further to that goal” Axel asked as he waited for a response from Shade.

“For now you’ll need to wait on that. I’ll need to see how far you have come before I can make a choice on that.” Shade responds.

“Ok lord Shade” Axel responded with a nod as they both heard Dillon and Ziggy walk back into the carriage.

“Hey, is something wrong!” they hear Dillon yell.

“Yeah, is everything ok, the whole vibe changed!” They then hear Ziggy shout out.

“Yeah everything is ok you two” Axel replied walked next to them ruffling their hair.

They both attempt to remove his hand as smiles could be seen on their faces.

“He just wanted to talk with me about something, so shall we continue?” Shade asks as he claps his hands together.

“Yep!” Dillon and Ziggy shout in unison.

“So where do we go next?” Dillon then asked.

“Well there are the carriages… then the three carts I know nothing about,” Shade responds walking towards the door to the first carriage.

The boys nod as they follow behind Shade into the first carriage, before the door closed behind them.

Once they walked into the next carriage they found it to be filled with rows of leather seats throughout the entire carriage and seemingly nothing else.

“This one seems cozy” Axel comments.

“Yep” Dillon and Ziggy reply as they walked to the other carriage entrance,

“Lets keep going, there might be something interesting in the next one” Ziggy states as they walk to the next one.

They went through the next to carriages only to see more of the same with both of them, both of them being strikingly similar to each other in appearance as the group went to the next entrance of a carriage.

“Well I did say that three of these are plain carriages,” Shade pointed.

“True” Ziggy replied,

“You said the next one’s after these are the ones you don’t know about right?” Dillon asked.

“Yep, all three carriages appeared after the fight, as in they randomly appeared from thin air.”

“That's definitely interesting,” Dillon replied.

“You said it” Axel commented as Ziggy walked up to the door of the next carriage and reached his hand out to open it, only for a spark of energy to move towards his hand.

“Whoa!” Ziggy jumped back.

“What happened?” Dillon asked.

“Something sparked on my hand” Ziggy replied as he shook his hand letting out a low wince, “Ow..”.

“Why do I get a feeling it doesn’t want you going in first?” Shade responds reaching for the handle himself before a black spark moves towards his hand before both a red and black spark jumping back into the door before it opens as the same voice from the front of the train calmly said, “welcome to Rider Gattai Storage. Kamen Rider Shade.”

“So that's what this is,” Dillon commented.

“Is it safe to go forward?” Ziggy asked.

“No idea,” Shade responds plainly as he walks through the door.

Dillon slowly brought his hand through the doorway noticing nothing happening he immediately walked through along with Axel and Ziggy.

Dillon let out a whistle as he looked at the interior of the carriage, “this is definitely different”.

As they looked around the carriage they saw that the walls were black like the carriages before them except this one looked to have no windows, instead the walls were lit by red lighting along the walls with a symbol in the shape of familiarly stylized ‘R’.

Beyond this in the centre of the room was the strange sight of a red and white sports car, that had a matching stylised ‘R’ on the front of it but seemingly no number plates on the front or rear of the car.

“Is that a car?” Ziggy asked.

“Looks like it… thinking about it two large car shaped things did join up with my zord during the fight… I think they formed on the legs.”

“Makes sense, now since something like this is in here there’s probably stuff similar in the next carriages,” Dillon stated.

“I know there were 2 cars… but no idea on whatever the third will be… there isn’t a third thing to become a zord.”

“So the third is a complete mystery to what resides in it?” Ziggy asked.

“Pretty much,” Shade responds with a shake of his head, “that's if we are correct with the other one being the other car.”

“We won’t know until we see for ourselves right?” Axel commented as they walked to the door of the next carriage.

“Agreed,” Shade responds with a nod of his head, “just don’t try opening the door, unless you want to risk another shock.”

“Yeah I'll leave that to you” Ziggy responded as Shade went to open the next door, getting a spark like the last time before it opened as he walked though into the next carriage.

The follow behind him and when there through they see a room in a similar style to the last but instead of red lights this one had blue ones while on the centre of the carriage was another sports car, but was black with blue jagged lines covering it.

“At least we know it's another car now,” Dillon stated as he walked by the car.
“Well it matches the idea that a new zord gives me a new carriage to haul with this thing,” Shade responds, “Still that doesn’t help me guess what is in the third.”

“Yeah that’s definitely an enigma” Dillon replied, glancing at the last door.

“So I guess we look in the last one and see what we get,” Shade responds as he walks to the door getting the same spark as before this time though hearing a voice say ‘welcome to the holding cells and interrogation chambers, Kamen Rider Shade.”

“Excuse me did that voice say interrogation chamber!?” Ziggy shouted as he and the other two followed behind Shade into the carriage.

“Is that carriage the equivalent of a brig?” Dillon asked before muttering to himself, “Wait how do I know what a brig is?”.

Axel overheard him just pat him on the back saying, “Don’t worry about it for now buddy”.

“Ok…” Dillon replied before putting his attention on the interior of the next carriage, along the walls were what looked to be large tubes that seemed to be built into them with each tube having a small screen by the side of them, each showing what seemed to be heartbeat monitors on the screen. At a glance they all seemed to be blank, until the group heard a single faint beeping sound being heard from one of the tubes further down.

“This is definitely something, does anybody else hear a beeping noise?” Ziggy asked, his ears twitching from hearing it.

Dillon and Axel nod as their ears do the same, the boys slightly freaked out.

”I expected something but it definitely wasn’t this…” Dillon commented before looking to where the beeping noise was coming from before looking towards Shade.

“Should we check where that noise is coming from?”

“I’m going to have to at some point… besides considering what we heard this carriage being called, it’s not like I can put it off.”

“Yeah fair point…” Dillon replied, glancing back to where the noise was coming from before turning around to see Ziggy was gone.

“Ziggy where did you go?”

Dillon glanced at Axel who only pointed forward as they saw Ziggy slowly walking to where the beeping was coming from.

“What the?” Dillon muttered as he immediately followed behind him.

As the group reached the tube they had heard the beeping coming from and they looked inside it finding a familiar looking body inside it. Valkyrie’s body, with multiple black chains looped around it’s limbs and neck..

“What the heck!?” Ziggy jumped back as Axel and Dillon just looked on in utter confusion.

“Why is Valkyrie's body inside that tube?” Dillon asked, confused before looking towards Shade to see if he had an answer.

“Well, the monster that grew in size was another Valkyrie… I guess this is the one that grew in size that I stopped,” Shade responds.

“Oh that explains a lot then, what are you gonna do with this Valkyrie then?” Dillon replied.

“I’ll sort that in due time, for now, could you go back to the first carriage, I’ll catch up soon,” Shade requested.

“Alright” Dillon replied as he began walking back through the entrance “Ziggy, Axel let's head by to the first carriage”.

“Alrighty,” Ziggy said, jogging after him to catch up while Axel just walked behind them as they followed him back to the first carriage.

Author's Note

I know I'm not the best writer in the world but im trying and honestly, if anyone of you have any tips for me or just have any criticisms, tell me I'll try to the best of my ability to improve my writing so it doesn't seem to be an incoherent mess.