Everything's Better With Mayo!

Keisuke waited for Kousuke to arrive at the bottom of the ruined elevator shaft. The kid had a smile on his face once he set foot on the rubble. The metal of what had been the elevator, at least, wasn’t quite as twisted as the kaizorg would have expected from something that fell from that kind of height however many years before.

The distress of the boy over his bag hit him. The attempts to move the door on the young human’s behalf were almost pitiful. He wanted to just move him aside and open the doors himself. He could easily have done it.

Instead, he looked around. There were a few twisted remnants of the elevator’s frame that stuck up nearby. He yanked on one of them and pulled it out, grinning. “Hey, let’s try prying it open with this,” he said.

Course he wasn’t actually going to say that to the man, he wanted to try to trick the guy into admitting things himself or give him so much proof he couldn’t deny it one bit. Maybe they’d be lucky (unlucky?) enough to run into an old, still working, cyborg in the depths of this place and not only would he get his proof but he could fight side by side with the senior.

That’d be so cool if it did happen! A way to blast right into the past, by experiencing some of it yourself. Oooh that’d be so awesome!

Lucky for him, his day dreaming was kept pretty internal so the elder man hardly knew what the young one was plotting and wishing for to have happen to the goofy duo.

The Rider wasn’t sure if Kousuke had caught on to what he was after he lifted the pack or not. With all the slips he’d made, Keisuke couldn’t doubt the youth had his suspicions, but it seemed he didn’t press for answers. That was a relief, to be honest.

Gravity pulled harder on Keisuke with the pack on his back. He hadn’t tried anything like this in a few years. He wasn’t all that worried about falling, though. His body could withstand it. The kaizorg tightened his grip on the rope and put more control into his descent.

Keisuke thought of what Kousuke had said while he descended. G.O.D.’s movements had been fairly easy to figure out once he’d found their plots. Compared to how he traveled now, he almost missed the regularity of the organization.

The rope moved above him and Keisuke looked up. Kousuke was descending, and at a good pace. Keisuke had better pick up his own pace. He loosened his grip a bit on the rope, allowing gravity more influence. The rope slid more free along his hand. Had he been human, his hand would have gotten rope burn from the friction.

Landing on the ground below he stretched a bit and shook off his hands. “That is always a fun adventure going down like that. Heheh, kind of wish that was a necessary action more often. I feel like some secret agent spy sneaking around in a base trying not to get caught.” Ah the kid was such a nerd, but he was an archaeologist so what was to be expected other than that?

Looking around the new space though it was quick for him to notice the hole. “Aww no.“ Was his first response as he went over to the hole. “Noo. I wanna take it with me. Hm.” Deciding to try, as terrible of an idea as it was probably, he tried to push open the doors more in an effort to make the pack a space it could go through. It was easy for him to realize there was an honestly super easy way for him to make it through (if my knowledge of his rings is correct) but that would mean turning into Beast since he wasn’t exactly an out-of-suit magic user like Haruto was.

Keisuke frowned as he tried to remember his time fighting G.O.D. Not many of his battles ended around bases. He’d only really encountered two if his memory served right. His seniors talked about finding multiple bases around Japan. Some of his juniors relayed the same kind of information. He couldn’t remember if they said some were obvious or not. ”I think it was harder getting out of the bases, if anything.”

"Whether you’re fighting an organization as big as those the older Riders fought or fighting smaller groups of enemies doesn’t matter so much," he mused, "it’s still for the sake of humanity. That’s the purpose of the Riders."

He looked back at Kousuke and grinned. “If you do that, you can proudly call yourself a Rider, right?”

The kaizorg ignored the warning of the weight and walked over to the pack. “I’m a bit stronger than I look,” he said, picking it up. His eyes widened as he slung a strap over his shoulder. For a human, and one of Kousuke’s frame, to carry it so easily astounded him. Keisuke opened his mouth to ask if he was a cyborg, too, and then closed it. Kousuke was human. Of that, Keisuke was sure.

He had to laugh a bit seeing him pick up the back. He decided to play dumb and comment as if he was gonna ask how a guy like him carried something like that. "Yeah, I told you it's heavy still. I carry that everywhere. Though it has some more useless stuff it has all my archeologist needs all tucked inside nicely. I got all I need, but for food, to dig up the whole desert if I wanted to." Laughing a bit he smiled big.

"Always prepared so don't worry about me going down. There's a lot of times that's a necessity to do. I just can't wait to see what it looks like down below."

I'm so lucky to have run into him. This would have been a great trip without him here but with him here it's like I'm getting a tour of his past along side him. What an honor.

As Keisuke secured the rope, he chuckled. “Tunnels?” he repeated. “That would certainly explain a few things.”

He tossed the rope down the shaft and looked over to the boy. ”I don’t think they would have had quite that expansive of a tunnel system, though.” He shrugged. “Too much work to maintain while you’re trying to conquer the world, isn’t it?”

The Apollo Palace certainly didn’t have any tunnels connecting it to other bases. He had seen the entirety of the base’s layout and while he’d found a few different entrances, none of them had led to another base.

Keisuke glanced at the large bag. Kousuke seemed intent on bringing his large back with him. It wasn’t a bad idea, really. He couldn’t be sure what to expect in the dead base. Even if they were both Riders, there was still the possibility that they’d need whatever was inside.

Rubbing the underside of his nose he laughed a bit. "I'm happy most of the stuff I fight aren't so tricky. They are bad too, but they are easy enough instead of a huge organization. Maybe I can learn a thing or two from this trip for helping me be a better rider." He state.

"Oh, eh, yeah if you want you can take it down, but careful it's pretty heavy." The younger man warned with a smile. "I have all my camping gear in there as well as a lot of other random supplies so the pounds are pretty up there. I can always just take it down instead since I'm used to it."

"Then, you tell me where and I’ll be picking you up for our first date and I’ll be there by eight."

"Does Mayo-chan recognizes that Juri is always the top? Because if he does, we can definitely give it a shot."

"Maybe… "

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"They used to have a lot of security from what I remember." He frowned and then quickly added, "From the stories I’ve heard, of course."

He kept his eyes forward and tried not to be that obvious that he tacked that on in the last minute. He’d rather not explain his lack of aging because of a single slip of the tongue.

Looking deep inside the kid had to scratch the back of his head. It was a bit weird, he had to admit, checking out a old man made place in such recent history instead of places before electricity but all the same he was so excited! What would they find? Who knew! Well... Looking over at Keisuke he had to admit he probably had an idea but otherwise still, he didn't himself.

Nodding he took off his backpack and dug through one of the pockets. "Here we are! Rope." He announced with excitement as he took it out and handed it over to the elder man so he could put his pack back in order so he could get it ready to send it down with them.