My body...
No snacking on Phillip!
Dammit...
Let go!
Who do you think you're chewing on!?
Ready for your second course?
Chew on this.
JOKER MAXIMUM DRIVE
JOKER EXTREME
Aki...
Didn't you say you'd take care of my body?
I... I got nothing.
Now, now, we know you're upset.
Still, that's another pre-production Memory, making a normal citizen go on a rampage...
I guess a Kamen Rider's work is never done.
Kamen Rider...
It was you...
What? Could it be...
You're one of Kamen Rider's fans!?
Seriously!? Ahem, hello there, I'm the hard-boiled detective—
What is this!?
My head hurts!
What is this!? Does she have some kind of power!?
You did it... you killed Katsumi!
Katsumi? Are you referring to Daido Katsumi?
To the citizens of Fuuto...
I am Kamen Rider Eternal.
The man who will free you all from your destiny
of having your lives dictated by the Gaia Memory power structure.
Now, everyone... Enjoy your hell.
Phillip... the winds...
The winds of Fuuto are...
Giving us power!
It's been a while... since I last died.
That maniac who destroyed the Fuuto Tower!?
Look out!
METAL
CYCLONE METAL
LUNA
LUNA METAL
Let go of me...
Let go!
Listen, psychic lady...
Are you a friend of Daido Katsumi's?
I dunno what kinda beef you have with us, but...
You're talking about the villain who tried to send Fuuto straight to hell.
Send it to hell—?
That can't be!
Katsumi was the one who saved us from hell!
Nobody knows what Katsumi was really like...
Perhaps you could explain?
Katsumi was...
Our hero.
Your hero?
You mean like...
A Kamen Rider?
Mom... thanks for everything.
Oh, what's this?
Open it.
What could it be—?
Katsumi, thank you!
This is an official report for Foundation X.
Daido Katsumi, sixteen years old.
Killed in a traffic accident.
It's your son!
Katsumi!
Katsumi—!
Following this, he received an experimental serum designed to revive the dead from his mother, Maria,
and underwent testing as the first subject to become a Necro-Over, a.k.a. NEVER.
The restoration process was nearly perfect.
Katsumi...
Through administration of a special bio-stimulant, Katsumi was made to age year-by-year, appropriately.
We can assume this was done to commemorate the years since his death.
His mother may have carried this act out to remind herself of the reality of her situation.
Regarding NEVER's combat potential:
First, a nearly indestructible body, immune to conventional weapons.
Second, athletic capabilities several times beyond those of the living.
Third, the elimination of any fear towards the possibility of death.
Come on!
Soldiers created from resuscitated corpses, truly monstrous beings.
The official adoption of the program was almost guaranteed,
but the competition proved to be even more remarkable...
TERROR
The NEVER were competing against the program submitted by Sonozaki Ryuube, head of the Museum.
The Gaia Memories that the Museum had created
utilized the "Earth's consciousness" to give rise to a variety of superhuman abilities.
The Foundation, having responded favorably to that versatility,
chose to fund the production of Gaia Memories, and halt NEVER's.
Upon learning that Foundation X had rescinded financial support,
Daido Katsumi is said to have told the messengers this:
This isn't over.
This is only the beginning for NEVER.
A High-Level Security Risk Detainment
Center In A Certain Country
A serial armed robber, scheduled to be executed today, huh?
This little hottie?
Look.
She made a break for it!
The newbie's got some guts!
No...
Not like this...
This saves us the trouble of stealing her corpse.
She's got a nice body...
But...
My chest is bigger.
My chest is bigger!
Something about her bugs me...
Whatever Katsumi wants, he gets.
Isn't that right?
Yeah.
I appreciate it, Mom.
He doesn't seem to enjoy anything besides finding new undead comrades...
Welcome to the land of the dead.
Hell seems kind of dreary...
and more boring than I expected.
She's got a sense of humor, too.
Hanehara Reika...
Your fighting skills are sublime.
Come work for me.
No thanks.
I hate it when people do me favors to try and force me to help them.
I hope you're ready to go back to being dead, then.
We didn't bring you back to life, sweetie.
You're still dead.
I...
...died?
Without regular injections of this bio-stimulant serum,
after a little while, you'll be nothing but a corpse again.
That's what we are... NEVER.
NEVER?
You're not satisfied, right?
Don't you want a little payback at the world that locked you up?
My name is Daido Katsumi.
Come with me.
It's time for a little exercise to wake you up.
We're heading to southeast Asia to take down the boss of a certain terrorist group...
What are you babbling about?
We're a mercenary company.
Country "S" In Southeast Asia
Over here, over here!
Your punishment!
Careful now!
Whoa...
I'm pretty good, too...
Good job.
You're a quick learner. I knew I made the right choice.
Give me some!
Watch out now!
Oh, did I have some bad curry—?
Mongolian chop!
Roll, and leglock with me!
What're you looking at? Swinging around that knife...
Don't even try and touch my hair!
Come on, brother, get some!
That was a snap!
I bet we get a bonus for this one.
So, you're just after money?
What do you think you're doing!?
Quiet, newbie!
A silly girl like you could never understand Katsumi's ideals!
How am I supposed to know about those anyway, creepy old guy?
Yes, a creepy old guy... wait, creepy old guy!?
How dare you!? That's the greatest insult you could call a lady!
Oh snap!
Oh no! Oh, no you didn't!
In the name of the sun, I'll punish you!
Still up for some more?
Fly away, now!
There it is!
That really tingles, doesn't it?
The merc jobs do earn good money, but,
the real idea is to show off NEVER's combat skill.
We're going to show the people who cut us off a thing or two.
We're going to humble them...
I'm not going to be outdone by a bunch of cheap looking toys.
TERROR
Let's wrap this up.
And put some pants on!
There's our target...
Got 'em!
Hold it.
Help me...
Is he okay?
What... what was that?
Look out! Stop!
Psychic soldiers—?
Come and get it, come and get it, come and get it!
Oh, you're lovely...
Be careful Katsumi!
She's really good! Especially at bondage!
I don't hate it!
Off I go!
I guess the downside to all those fancy powers is it takes a lot out of you.
Us NEVER are pretty resilient, by comparison.
Hurry up and kill me...
No thanks.
There's no point in killing someone who was forced to fight.
What's your name?
Mina.
That was how I met Katsumi...
And...
The beginning of those tragic events...
This little gal did all that—?
Mina...
Who's making you fight?
Don't ask that.
NEVER?
What a coincidence!
Two types of experimental soldiers founded by the same organization, meeting on the battlefield...
No way! Foundation X sponsored you guys too!?
We are the Quarks...
The ultimate warriors, who have received treatments that give us incredible paranormal abilities...
The polar opposite to a bunch of zombie mercenaries like you...
Oh, really?
Hand Mina over.
She's one of Dr. Prospect's favorites.
Dr. Prospect?
Burn...
All of you, split up!
Katsumi, stay safe!
Promise me!
Katsumi!
Kyosui, move your ass!
A Gaia Memory soldier—!?
You're well-informed.
This is Eternal...
Eternal!?
The one Gaia Memory that will one day control all others...
Guess that makes it my nemesis, then...
Nemesis?
No, that's not it.
I feel something...
This thing... it's my...
It's my—!
ETER-
Etern-
E-E-Eternal...
A malfunction...
I had heard that it was a temperamental Memory... perhaps it's because it's only a preliminary T1?
That white suit... are you with Foundation X?
Wait!
Don't kill him.
What a strange request...
How could I possibly kill a corpse like him even further?
I assure you it's not possible.
Corpse—?
Dr. Prospect would probably be interested in him...
Shall we take them with us?
To the village.
Katsumi! Katsumi!?
Katsumi! It's no good, he isn't responding.
Where's it going—?
Where am I?
Well one thing's for sure...
It's nowhere good.
Everyone here... we were taken from all over the world...
We're kept here because of our high potential as Quarks...
The doctor told us!
He said if we beat you, we can become elite warriors! Like Mina!
I see...
So, he wants to turn me into a punching bag for a bunch of psychic soldier recruits?
Hey!
You guys are pathetic.
What was that!?
With all the power you have, why not rise up against him?
It makes me sick, seeing people act like they're accustomed to being treated like livestock.
What the hell do you know!?
A security system with a high power electric pulse
is set up all around the village to keep us from leaving it.
The only way to survive here is to do what the doctor says...
To become a killing machine!
Say... what happened to that woman who was with me?
You don't need to know...
I'll go look for her, then.
She really is as cold as a corpse...
Well, excuse me for being cold...
Stop it!
Mina.
S-stay away, Mina!
Don't take this chance from us!
He has something...
Something more than the doctor does...
What are you talking about?
The doctor's watching!
Haven't you forgotten that his eyes are everywhere?
They're right, Mina.
You're a Quark with a bright future...
Pyrokinesis, psychokinesis, psychometry...
You're the only subject to manifest all of these abilities at once.
You should abandon your foolish reluctance.
It's you—?
Indeed.
I am the man known as Dr. Prospect.
The creator of the Quarks, and their overseer...
EYES
Those eyes are projections of my power that I've implanted within them.
I can use them to monitor everyone.
In essence, they're all watching over each other.
And if you die, will those eyes close?
What?
You see, there's something about you I don't like.
That's rather cocksure of you, isn't it?
I was hoping you'd at least make good target practice, but...
Now, I think it might be better to eliminate you.
EYES
Don't!
Don't try and fight the doctor!
He can read all my attacks...
I can see your next move.
The tightening of your muscles, your facial expression, among other things,
all tell me exactly what you're going to do next.
My Eyes can see everything.
I suppose that resilience is your selling point. Just what I'd expect from a corpse.
I'm out of serum...
Well, things just got dangerous.
Get on.
Nice bike. Where'd you find it?
They owed me something, after that "massage."
I knew I made the right choice with you.
We'll find them immediately!
It's fine...
Divine punishment will be on them soon enough.
I knew what the divine punishment he was talking about meant...
Something inside me told me to find Katsumi...
You sons of bitches sold me out...
Where's your damned honor!?
Where's your sense of honor, huh!?
Well, in this city...
That garbage hasn't existed for about thirty years, now.
Who's this hottie—?
Forget about these rats.
You belong to me, now.
Dreamy...
What the hell are you trying to pull!?
I'll give it all... to you...
So... darn...
Dreamy! Oh, no!
I was having flashbacks again!
That happens when you die, right!?
I died! I must've died because we ran out of serum!
I died! Wait, I was already dead, what's going on?
Am I double dead? Double dying!?
Oh, shut your mouth, Kyosui!
Just put a sock in it, brother, I'm begging you!
Ken, dude, say something!
How are you so calm!?
Just thinking... about the good times.
Yeah, I guess so.
Katsumi chose every one of us.
Is he dead?
Forget about it...
Stop development! Protect our wilderness!
Who are you!?
We have to get up!
We have to get up! Come on boys, let's get turgid!
I won't be satisfied unless I die with Katsumi! It'd be totally underwhelming!
Here it comes...
Approximately eight hours after we ran into trouble...
Professor Maria is as precise as ever...
Here it comes! Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes!
Here comes the serum!
This is emergency code D362.
You're to head to Dr. Prospect's facility and the village he's built around it.
Get the serum to Katsumi as quickly as possible.
I'm counting on you, NEVER.
Katsumi...
I got a present for you, Katsumi. Here.
Mom!?
You don't look so good...
Mom will find us...
Then Kyosui and the others will get here, and back us up...
I'm not so sure...
Maybe that creepy guy's dead...
You should take this...
That emergency serum won't last long.
You should save it for the last second.
So they've found us...
I was able to follow your psychic imprint with this...
You're a pretty good bloodhound...
Well, now that he's found us, is it going to be an all-out attack?
Don't! You can't win.
Katsumi!
Come on!
You... you were an experimental weapon just like me.
Did you see all that?
Then you should realize there's no point in stopping me.
You can't go now!
In a few minutes, the divine punishment will start...
What's that mean?
The divine punishment... Heaven's Fall.
It's a regular, automated process that disposes of escapees.
Disposes!?
An electric pulse at maximum output floods the area surrounding the village...
Any of the people at the village, with low Quarks potential... die instantly.
So, that's how Dr. Prospect does things...
I want to fight him now more than ever.
Wait!
I should be able to protect the two of you, with my powers...
Stay here.
You should be able to fight longer if you use this, right?
You're sure?
Just hearing about this guy makes me think he's trash. Go kick his ass.
Wait—!
Why... why do you want to fight so recklessly!?
Stop, answer me!
That's rather ruthless, Doctor.
I'm positively horrified.
Not even the corpses will remain.
It's a very effective method of purifying the test group.
And it'll get rid of them, as well...
Those damned zombies...
Goodbye, you worthless trash...
Those powers aren't that scary...
If you can just get up close...
What do you people think you're doing!?
Hey, stupid! You're all about to die.
That electro-pulse is gonna come down and wipe you all out.
What did she just say!?
I'll take Prospect down, the rest of you should get out of here.
There's no way you can beat the doctor!
What a bunch of chickens...
Do you really wanna die in vain that badly?
Shut up! You guys don't know anything!
That's right! Don't butt in!
What idiots...
Go ahead and die, then.
Mina. Hand me my harmonica.
What are you going to do—?
It's worth a try.
What... what was that?
I don't know why, but I've always felt really relaxed after hearing that tune.
I thought you all should hear it.
When you become a NEVER, any emotional ties to your past gradually fade away...
You're just a corpse, after all.
I don't even remember where this music comes from anymore.
My body just remembers it.
No...
You're alive, aren't you!?
All of you...
If my past is going to fade away, then I at least want a future.
That's what we're fighting for.
So...
What sense does it make that a dead man has higher hopes than any of you?
Take it, Mina.
You shouldn't forget. Any of it.
Katsumi...
I could tell you wanted help... from the very beginning.
Guys... let's try fighting back.
Like Katsumi...
Mina...
Let's get out of here. We...
We're still alive, after all.
Okay...
Damn you all...
I'm gonna turn you all into cinders!
We'll blow you away.
We rose up.
We had a hero to inspire us, in Katsumi...
What exactly do you think you're going to accomplish?
I'm going to get rid of you, and demolish this disgusting testing ground you've created.
I'm afraid that testing is necessary for the development of this new technology.
Foundation X—!
I actually take it upon myself to test all our new projects, personally...
Which includes the technology the Museum is experimenting with, in the testing grounds of Fuuto...
These.
You're going to use my hometown to run your Gaia Memory tests!?
Eternal is malfunctioning...
So I will use my most powerful Memory...
To eliminate you, permanently.
UTOPIA
I suppose I can't absorb the life force of a NEVER...
I wonder if that means the dead have no ideals?
Goodbye...
This is it...
These moments of near-death...
That's the only time I can really feel alive.
You're one ghoulish monstrosity... now die.
Give me a break!
I'm not gonna die any more than I already have...
I'm immortal.
Until the day that I make sure the world remembers who I am...
Eternally!
ETERNAL
Eternally... Eternal.
Impossible! It's supposed to be broken!
ETERNAL
Transform...
ETERNAL
What the...
The Memory could sense its destiny to be mine,
and decided it wasn't going to be used by you anymore.
That's completely impossible!
I could tell the moment I laid hands on it...
Eternal has power that makes it supreme among Gaia Memories.
ETERNAL MAXIMUM DRIVE
No—!
Eternal's Maximum Drive has the power to disable other Gaia Memories—!
In the end, I am Eternal.
Katsumi stopped the pulse...
Everyone! Now's our chance!
For a damn corpse to try pulling all this...
You'll pay.
EYES
Mr. Kazu! Mr. Kazu!
Foundation X cannot afford to lose you!
It's no good... he's dead.
Wait... there should be samples from the NEVER development at HQ.
My head's going... to split...
I'll burst your head from the inside...
Game start...
One side!
We're here to back you up, newbie!
On the ground!
Reika!
You're falling apart—!
What happened to your emergency serum!?
I gave it to Katsumi...
That's crazy... this is why amateurs are so annoying.
But, I don't hate it.
You did a good job... for a newbie.
I haven't gotten praise like that in a long time...
It's a little underwhelming coming from a creepy old guy, though.
How dare you!? I am a lady!
Twist and shout, twist and shout...
I'm a slippery snake, slippery snake...
Slippery snake, slippery snake!
Come on, now.
The truth is... I'm quite strict with women.
Punishment time!
You get the special treatment...
Come on!
Flying roly poly armbar!
I'm very strict with women!
Follow me!
Katsumi...
Thank you.
They're free now!
Idiot... do you think you're some kind of savior for lab rats everywhere?
You'll regret this.
What!?
Allowing them to die peacefully with Heaven's Fall is a merciful gesture.
They'll see hell soon enough...
No—!
Everybody, run!
This way! Get a move on!
This way! Come on!
Over here!
Wait, what's wrong?
What's wrong? Mina, what's happening?
Are you okay!?
To make sure no one tried to leave the facility without my approval...
I made those eyes so that they could kill them.
No... we tried to save them, and...
A Gaia Memory can do this—?
Katsumi...
Help me...
Mina!
You just led them to their deaths.
You got me, doctor.
I'm impressed you could cook up such a cold blooded move.
I must have forgotten for a moment...
That people are all devils.
ETERNAL
Transform.
ETERNAL
How!? I can't predict his attacks!
Bring it!
Time to wrap you up...
Fly away!
You freaks...
I'm sure the only place you'd find more interesting than your little village...
is hell itself.
So why don't I send you there?
ETERNAL MAXIMUM DRIVE
Now... Enjoy your hell.
This can't be... defeated by a corpse!?
And now, you're a corpse too.
I guess that's all a prototype can handle...
I'll see you again, Eternal.
Wait!
Can't we make her into a NEVER—?
Enough!
Katsumi... your eyes are so cold.
We just need to focus on the future.
It's like he's really become a devil...
Something that'd make the Museum shake in fear...
We better think up something like that.
Everyone...
I know where our goal is now.
Where?
It's Fuuto!
I get the feeling he's got something terrible in mind...
Something that could mean the end of the world...
But that can't be... he's...
He's our hero.
Mina. You survived, didn't you?
But... it's been years since I woke up. And I didn't remember what had happened.
As soon as I did remember, I...
I learned about what they had done in this city.
Maybe if Daido had known you had survived...
Maybe he...
I know.
I know Katsumi was a bad person.
But...
He wasn't just that. He wasn't always that!
I wanted the Kamen Rider who defeated him, to know that...
Hey!
Otakanomori Hospital
Where'd they go?
To see Katsumi and the others.
Daido Katsumi!
You...
Maybe if just one thing had been different in your life...
You could've been a Kamen Rider who defended Fuuto, like us.
That's who you were...
Are you gonna laugh and call me half-boiled again, Phillip?
I won't, Shotaro. I feel the same way.
Now that we know that he was no simple devil...
Daido Katsumi!
You hurt this city deeply.
That sin will never go away.
But, at the very least... we will lay flowers at your grave.
Yeah.
Fuuto was where he was born... and where he died.
Here you go. It's important, right?
Katsumi...
You shouldn't forget. Any of it.
Your heart still holds dear
The promise we made that day...
You find yourself dragged along by time's passing
And the nights seem to drain your resolve away
You build up your world, blind to how you destroy it
Yet still I remain here for you
All this earth holds is yours
Yet the skies welcome you no more
The pain of your wings being ripped away
Is proof you still live, staring at the wisp-like clouds
This city may have been what brought us together
But the hurt we felt was because our love was true
This melody shall still haunt me in pastures new
So I spurn what tomorrow brings, and return once more
If my past is going to fade away, then I at least want a future.
That's what we're fighting for.
So...
What sense does it make that a dead man has higher hopes than any of you?
All this earth holds is yours
Yet the skies welcome you no more
I wonder if the burden the future brings
Is truly better than what the past has wrought?
You forgave my sins, and held me in your embrace
That sinful night, out of place amongst the blue-skied days
This melody shall still haunt me in pastures new
As that beautiful star burns and fades
When I met you, the fading melody stirred once more
And in search of a new tomorrow, I'll return once more
For it was you that showed me
That little stretch of pure blue sky