Pursuit, Alchemy, Skebows!

is the second episode of Kamen Rider Gotchard. It features the debut of Gotchard OdoriMantis Wild. It also features the debut of Golddash and Supana Kurogane.
==Synopsis==
After transforming into Kamen Rider Gotchard, Houtarou wants to learn more about the Chemies and is advised by his teacher Minato to take the entrance exam for the secret Alchemist Academy. However, Houtarou runs into a problem.
Meanwhile, Ryo Kajiki meets a talking skateboard who loves to play with children, but...
==Plot==
Continuing where the pilot left off, Houtarou asks Mr. Minato what he is doing dressed in a costume and what he wants with him. Mr. Minato explains that he is an instructor at Alchemist Academy which Rinne says is a school for young alchemists and she is a student there. Houtarou is shocked that Rinne attends two schools, but she ignores him and informs her instructor that the 101 Chemies have been unsealed, but Mr. Minato says not to worry as the Academy is discussing what to do about it right now.
He turns his attention to Houtarou, asking what job he wrote on his Career Survey, Houtarou is reluctant to tell him he didn’t write anything. Mr. Minato sees that the three Chemy in their cards have taken a liking to the boy and decides that maybe he would like to try being an alchemist, something Houtarou is unsure of but he does want to learn more about the Chemies.
They go to the building with the secret entrance that Houtarou saw Rinne enter before, entering into the Alchemist Academy and Houtarou is escorted to his classroom. 
Houtarou is very excited at all the equipment and materials that the classroom has and thinks he could even learn magic if he studied here. Mr. Minato tells Houtarou that he must pass a test in order to be officially a student of the Academy. Rinne wants to confirm something first, asking Houtarou where he got the Driver and who gave it to him, but he didn’t get the old man’s name and everything happened so fast. 
Rinne confirmed what she suspected, calling the man a traitor who stole the 101 Chemies that the Academy was protecting and then vanished. She leaves, clearly upset about something related to the man but Mr. Minato stops Houtarou from going after her to ask if he is against becoming an alchemist.
Rinne is outside the classroom, remembering Fuga telling her a bedtime story as a child about the Alchemist of the Dawn, a nameless legendary heroic alchemist who protected the world 100 years ago from powerful demons using his alchemy with the help of the Chemies. The Alchemist defeated the demons and then afterwards disappeared. Little Rinne thinks that the Alchemist of the Dawn sounds just like her father because he is her hero, with Fuga laughing with joy over such a compliment.
The memory angers Rinne, calling herself stupid for believing in her father….
Mr. Minato explains to Houtarou about the test, using the Odorippa and Kamantis Ride Chemy Cards. Each individual Chemy has its own unique mass and the test is to figure out a way to make the two Chemies weigh evenly so that they are balanced. Odorippa is heavier than Kamantis and hard for Houtarou to carry, Mr. Minato says if the boy fails the test, he will disqualify him from entering the Alchemist Academy.
Houtarou returns home to Kitchen ICHINOSE in the evening and apologizes to his mother for not calling her to let her know that he would be late coming home. He offers to help with the dinner service, but Tamami insists that he changes clothes first upon seeing the dirt stains on the elbow of his sleeve. 
The two of them are washing dishes at closing time and Houtarou asks Tamami how she thinks his father is doing. She cannot say exactly but he is somewhere in the world traveling, going on adventures. Houtarou says that the restaurant was his father’s original dream but then he just left it to his mother and just walked out on them, asking her why she isn’t angry at him for leaving. Tamami believes she cannot be angry at those who chase their dreams. She senses that her son has finally found a dream to go after, because she’s his mother and knows him well. Houtarou promises her that will work hard on this dream and continues working on the dishes.
At a park, Ryo is confused about earlier, believing he saw something but cannot remember what it was. The Chemy Skebows rolls around nearby and finds some kids with skateboards and decides to go play with them, possessing one of the skateboards and doing tricks to impress the children. Ryo witnesses this and immediately goes over to investigate while the kids try riding on top of Skebows and do different tricks while riding. A red car stops at the skate park, two thieves with large bags of cash getting out to remove the taped cardboard covering the license plate. The malice of one of the thieves infects Skebows and he follows them as Ryo goes after the Chemy.
At a playground, Houtarou is on the swings, stumped on how to make the two Chemies the same weight and even asking Odorippa and Kamantis for help. Rinne arrives, apologizing for worrying him and explains that the technique he is being asked to perform is called Mass Exchange, a staple of an alchemist’s abilities where they can freely transfer portions of the mass of one object to another object. Rinne believes that Houtarou cannot do it but he says he still has to try, then asks her what alchemy even is. She says it is the ability to create something from nothing and to create life from death. Rinne then demonstrates by levitating surrounding objects in the park. Houtarou is amazed, thinking alchemy is similar to magic, but Rinne says that isn’t the case as alchemy is closer to science and doesn’t last forever as the objects return to the ground before the children nearby notice. There is a one in a million chance that an alchemical reaction does last permanently through a technique, resulting in inanimate objects giving birth to life: the Chemies. 
Elsewhere, the thieves are counting their duffel bags of stolen cash, they were former employees of a company and robbed their company president of his savings. One of the robbers gets greedy and throws his partner off a bridge, presumably murdering him and taking all the loot for himself. Skebows gets close to the thief and absorbs more of the evil within him, fusing with him to become the Skateboard Malgam. 
Back at the playground, Rinne exposits that Chemies are a creation that is against the natural order of the world and thus cannot bond with human malice and she learned from Mr. Minato that the monster fusions of Chemies and humans are called Malgams and about the Three Dark Sisters. She also knows that the world is filled with people who have malice in their hearts and so the Chemies are not safe to roam free. 
The Skateboard Malgam finds a van carrying briefcases of money and causes it to spin out of control with his powers, knocking out the armed guards and absorbing the cash into his body as the police arrive. 
Rinne continues to exposit that because of the dangers that Chemies pose, alchemy societies were established like the Academy to seal them in cards to preserve the natural order of the world. Houtarou asks if the Chemies really needed to be sealed, but Hopper1 senses a Malgam and drags him away with Rinne following right behind them. 
The police are being pulverized by the Skateboard Malgam in their fruitless attempts to apprehend and arrest him when Houtarou and Rinne arrive on the scene. Rinne tries to use Alchemy levitation on sewer grates to attack the Malgam and almost succeeds in freeing Skebows, but the thief’s rage, greed and malice sucks the poor helpless Chemy back into his body to become the Skateboard Malgam again. 
Skateboard tries to run over Rinne in revenge but Houtarou pulls her out of the way and tells her that he will save the Chemy, angry that the thief has used it to hurt people when all Skebows wanted was to have fun and play. He becomes Gotchard and fights Skateboard, hitting him with low level Rider Kicks and strikes. After they ask Houtarou if they can help, Odorippa and Kamantis lend their power to become Odomantis Wild to create a cyclone that carries Skateboard into the air followed by a Fever attack to make him dizzy. Skateboard makes a run for it and Mr. Minato shows up to give Houtarou a new Chemy to chase after him: Gold Dash, the motorcycle Chemy. Mr. Minato is impressed that Houtarou can understand how the Chemies feel after seeing him have a short conversation with Gold Dash before riding off. Unbeknownst to Rinne or Mr. Minato, a young man arrives and watches them from behind… 
Houtarou chases after Skateboard on Gold Dash across winding roads and almost loses him thanks to the Malgam pulling a dirty trick and making Gold Dash spin out of control with his abilities. Houtarou is about to crash into a excavator shovel but changes into Steamhopper Wild to catapult Gold Dash over it and then leap across to the other side. He then loads Kamantis into the Gotcharge Gun, uses Gold Dash’s boosters to overtake Skateboard and then stops the Malgam in its tracks with a Gotchargic Buster that fires energy blades. Skateboard tries to throw his board at Houtarou, but the hero uses transmutation alchemy to turn it into a glowing rubbery mass that also blocks Skateboard’s oncoming wheel projectiles and fires them back at him like a slingshot with Gold Dash’s help. Weakened, Skateboard is defeated by the Steamhopper Fever and a happily freed Skebows goes back into his Ride Chemy Card. The Rider Kick also burns the stolen yen that was inside the thief’s Malgam body, causing him to cry at all the money he lost. He then passes out from the beating he received earlier and the sound of police sirens emerges as Gotchard drives away. 
Back at the Academy, Houtarou passes his Mass Exchange alchemy entrance exam. Rinne is shocked and asks how, to which he says he simply asked Odorippa and Kamantis nicely to shift their mass to equal weight earlier on the playground. Odorippa would “go on a diet” and Kamantis would “eat more”. Mr. Minato is upset because that is technically cheating as Houtarou was supposed to do the alchemy on his own. But he allows Houtarou to pass on a technicality and gives him his Academy Ring. An excited Houtarou tells Mr. Minato he finally knows what to write on his Career Survey form: “A Big Shot Alchemist”. Mr. Minato replies not to get cocky and come to alchemy classes tomorrow morning. 
Two other students walk in seeing Houtarou leaving, asking Mr. Minato what that was about, though the one student speaks so softly and timidly that the other criticizes their inability to speak clearly. The male student then has an artificial intelligence on his tablet repeat what he said aloud, asking if the boy that they saw just leaving was a new student.
Rinne is walking with Houtarou, believing he would have failed alchemy wise on the test but he retorts that he knew it wasn’t impossible and he found his own way to solve a problem. Houtarou says that when he is an alchemist, he will befriend all the Chemies and live freely with them for a better future. Rinne smiles and chuckles, asking if that was his attempt at poetry while also stating that unlike him she will continue to follow the rules on her path. Houtarou is fine with that as everyone should be free to do their own things.
Unbeknownst to either of them, a figure is lurking behind, the same one that observed Mr. Minato and Rinne earlier. A young man with a wrench blade who scoffs at Houtarou for being a “wannabe alchemist” who is also a Kamen Rider, thinking he is a pathetic joke and revealing that he too is an alchemist with his ring glowing ominously.
== Cast ==
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===Guest Cast===
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===Suit Actors===
*Kamen Rider Gotchard: 
*Skateboard Malgam: 
==Forms and Collectibles Used==
===Ride Chemy Cards===
*Card Used: 
**Gotchard
***Hopper1, Steamliner, Odorippa, Kamantis (once in Gotcharge Gun)
*Form Used:
**Gotchard
***Steamhopper, Odorimantis Wild, Steamhopper Wild
==Errors==
*to be added
==Notes==
*As part of Super Hero Time, this episode aired alongside episode 28, 
*Sponsor Spot Ride Chemy Cards: Skebows, Goldash
*Closing Screen Ride Chemy Cards: Kamantis, Odorippa, Skebows, Golddash
*Count at episode end
**Ride Chemy Cards in Gotchard's possession: Hopper1, Steamliner, Kamantis, Odorippa, Golddash, Skebows
**Ride Chemy Cards in Valvarad's possession: Madwheel
*This episode also features the debut of Gotchard Odorimantis Wild.
*Aside from flashbacks, the Three Dark Sisters do not appear in this episode.
==External links==
*TV Asahi's official episode guide for 追跡、錬金、スケボーズ！
*KR Official's official episode guide for 追跡、錬金、スケボーズ！
*JAE's official episode guide for 追跡、錬金、スケボーズ！
Category:New Form Episode