Lampryis Worm

**Lampyris Worm**(ランピリスワーム *Ranpirisuwāmu*) is a Firefly-based Worm that appeared in Episode 3 of Kamen Rider Kabuto.

## Appearance

The Lampryis Worm has an exoskeleton with a black/green color-scheme. It has a skull-like head with black, hollow eyes, a sideways mouth with black-colored, sharp teeth, and has black collar around the back of it’s neck. It also has a green, ball-shaped club in place for it’s right hand, an entirely green-colored left arm, and a black insect leg sticking out of it’s right shoulder.

## Biography

During nighttime, a group of ZECT Troopers were in the middle of shooting down a Salis Worm on top a building until it suddenly molts off it’s exoskeleton, turning into the Lampyris Worm. Once undergoing it’s metamorphosis, the Lampyris Worm uses it’s Clock Up ability to speed around the ZECT Troopers and kills all of them except for one. Afterwards, the Lampyris Worm attacks a police officer and mimic’s his physical appearance, only to find a woman, named Yuki, has witnessed it. The Lampyris Worm chases after Yuki and manages to catch up to her, then mimics her appearance. Fortunately, before it could kill her, the police arrive so the Lampryis Worm mixes itself up with Yuki and one of them grabs the other’s hair clip. One of them escapes while the other Yuki gets arrested. ZECT tries to investigate the case where Misaki talks with the Yuki in jail and Kagami tries to question the Yuki hiding from the police. While Kagami chases after her through a crowd of people, he suddenly gets distracted by a stranger who looked familiar to him and loses her. Later, Tendou heads to police department with Kagami where the Yuki is in jail at. Misaki claims that she’s not the Worm after hearing about her despair of missing a date. Just then, Tendou arrives and helps the jailed Yuki escape. The two Yukis arrive at a fair for a date and the two start fighting each other over which one of them is the real Yuki. Kagami and Tendou appear as well where Kagami points his gun at the Yuki who was hiding from the police while protecting the one that was jailed. However, as it turned out, the one Kagami is protecting, as well as the one that was jailed, is the fake Yuki as she reveals her true form as the Lampryis Worm. Once the Worm has been revealed, Kagami shoots at it but the bullets show little to no effect. So Tendou summons the Kabuto Zecter and places it on his belt, transforming into Kabuto Masked Form. Kabuto starts fighting against the Lampryis Worm until it uses it’s Clock Up ability against him. Kabuto then activates Cast Off to change into his Rider Form and chases after the Worm after activating his own Clock Up. The two start to fight each other on top of a roller coaster track where the Lampryis Worm breaks an upcoming roller coaster cart in half. Kabuto manages to save the attendant from falling and places him on a merry-go-round where he and the Lampryis Worm continue their fight on. Kabuto manages to beat the Lampryis Worm before his Clock Up wears off but once the Worm gets back up, Kabuto reactivates Clock Up to finish the fight. After kicking down the Lampryis Worm, Kabuto turns his back to activate the Rider Kick on his belt. Once the Rider Kick is activated, the Lampryis Worm charges forward but gets hit by Kabuto’s charged-up Roundhouse Kick, causing it to blow up into green flames.

## Powers/Abilities

**Clock Up**: The Lampyris Worm is able to accelerate it’s own body speed. Whenever it uses Clock Up, it’s chest, right shoulder, and right hand club glow green.

**Human Mimicry**: The Lampyris Worm is able to mimic it’s victims’ physical appearance.

**Bullet Resistance**: The Lampryis Worm’s exoskeleton is tough enough to withstand ordinary bullets.

**Hand Club**: In place for it’s right hand, the Lampryis Worm has a green-colored, ball-shaped club that it uses to clobber it’s victims and opponents. The club can also discharge energy when hit with that can break vehicles in half.

## Trivia

* The Lampryis Worm is named after the genus of beetles in the Lampyridae, which includes Fireflies.