Greed and desire. They were supposed to be two different things, but for someone like Maki who was more Greeed than human, he saw them as the same thing. And his desire was to research, to contemplate, to think. The Badan Empire was now home to many creatures and entities, many of which had no idea of the other existed. So he was conducting research, research into other beings similar to himself. You see, in actuality seeking knowledge was a feint to disguise his true intentions. For he wasn’t reading so much as about the creatures themselves, but how they died.
Beautiful..
Each and every one of these creatures fought to the end, dying to a Kamen Rider. It was a truly wonderful way to die. Maki believed in the end of things, all things. Life was only valuable when it ended, and one could evaluate its results in full.
Badan is a disgrace. Taking away so many endings…by reviving us all.
On some level, he was secretly glad he was alive, he looked back on his first life and declared it a failure. He failed to show OOOs that endings were beautiful which in turn caused him to fail doing the same to the entire earth. So in that respect, he welcomed having another chance, but deep down he was personally offended. All of these spectacular endings had no right to be undone.
But, there laid the problem of how he would bring about these endings. Last time he used the Greeed’s very bodies against them. Using them as a instrument to bring about the end of the world, but now his Greeed comrades were suspicious of him now. However, he still needed allies or pawns. This was what the research was for, finding similar people to himself who he could manipulate or bring back earthly destruction. The research would take a long time, but it was a pleasant joy he liked. Nobody bothered him in the library and for now he had all the time he needed.
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Sudo cautiously walked through the open doorway of the Library. Once he was inside, he could see what was hundreds of bookcases. If he cared about books and other old things, he might have marveled but instead he groaned.
How is anyone supposed to find anything here?
He wasn’t even sure where to start.
“Having trouble finding something?” A voice asked behind him.
Sudo turned around to find a creepy old man wearing a red suit and dark glasses standing awfully close to him. Immediately Sudo took out and flashed his badge. He seemed harmless, but Sudo knew better than that, everyone in Badan was something terrifying.
The old guy smiled, “Ah a officer of the law. Again, are you looking for something?”
Sudo took out his notes, “I’m looking for a killer with these specifics..”
“Give me the keywords for each of your notes..” the Old Man said.
“Uhh okay,” Sudo said as he watched the man hold out his arm to his right side and close his eyes as if in a trance, “First off I’m looking for a group.”
“That barely lessens the results..” The Old Guy said.
“Fine,” Sudo said, “Arrow weaponry.”
“Much better but still much to weed through,”
“Kicking attack, similar to a Kamen Rider,” Sudo said.
“Closer…”
He had no idea what was actually going on, but he went on with it, not wanting to anger this strange librarian.
“Melee based weaponry,”
“Still a few redundant books left,”
“Slash marks something from claws perhaps. That’s all I have..” Sudo said.
“Then that’s all I can do,” The Old guy.
He opened his eyes and four books came flying off the bookshelves landed into the arm of the librarian. He handed Sudo the books. This made Sudo slightly jumped before realizing it really was just flying books.
“I trust these four will get you started,” he said.
"Thank you," Sudo said, "Is there a spot where I can avoid any and all reflections?"
The librarian pointed to the left but as Sudo was walking there
"You're quite jumpy," the librarian said, "Afraid of Mirror Monsters? They are quite terrifying but fascinating creatures."
Sudo stared but did not nod, not wishing to continue the conversation.
"But officer you may want to conquer your fears because otherwise we'll eat you alive.." The Old Man said with a smile.
He really wished he didn't say those particular set of words. He walked to his seat but in his haste accidentally bumped into another strange man. One who was reading a pile of books and had a creepy doll on his shoulder.
Kickhopper leaned on the gates by himself. Kageyama still wasn’t back yet, and that made things extra boring. He didn’t mind guading the gates, he just wished something more interesting would happen.
He’s probably reporting that Orphnoch to the top guys. Ugh. He thought.
He wouldn’t say anything about it though, Kageyama may still have a small streak of light, he liked that about him. And things were happier now that Kageyama wasn’t a Worm anymore. He would eliminate them all before he let that happen again.
Next, a group was coming up to the gate, Kickhopper eyed them suspiciously. They were a group of 11 Combatmen, each one was dressed differently. Strangely, they each represented the original organizations under Badan during the showa period. And also looked more buff than the average Combatman.
“Are you guys Worms?” Kickhopper asked.
“No.. of course not,” The Gel-Shocker Combatman said.
He had a deep voice, almost like an old man. But he eased confidence.
“You can go in,” Kickhopper said pulling open the gates as he let them inside.
Kageyama would probably find this suspicious but he’s not here to complain.
Detective Sudo stared at the body while making sure to avoid any and all reflective surfaces. This was the third Cyborg human this week. He knew it was the same killer because of the animosity displayed on the corpse and like the other murders, the security camera showed nothing. He suspected they were hacked.
"Well?!"
His hairs stood up as he forgot he was alone. His superior, Colonel Zol was hovering over him using a battle drone, streamed directly to his office.
Sudo regained his composure.
"There’s a serial killer on the loose." He said trying to sound as serious as possible.
Zol groaned, "I already knew that! May I suggest you make yourself more useful!"
Sudo gulped. Due to his experience as a police officer and a Kamen Rider, he was elected….no forced to conduct the Crimes Division of the Badan Empire. What he didn’t tell them that after his death(s) plural he had developed a deep fear. Mainly of his "partner" though Sudo tried to use him as little as possible.
He was Kamen Rider Scissors and his partner was the crab monster Volcancer. A creature that literally ate him before he was revived.
"This body in particular was killed with slash marks. The last one was killed by an arrow and the third a kick." He explained.
"Hmm so you're suspecting one of our riders did this.. interesting!" Zol said.
"Not necessarily, this whole city is full of suspects.” Sudo said as he became to process his own theory, “I'm in a mad house!,"
"Regain your composure you work for the Great Leader!" Zol said.
"Yes…sorry" Sudo said not actually knowing much about the Great Leader beyond reputation, "My point being plenty of lifeforms here are capable of this not just riders, further more I suspect a group."
Zol's drone hovered over the body, "Do you have a motive?"
"It seems that the killer is targeting humans considering all the victims have been Combatmen or Cyborg humans." He said.
"Ha!" Zol said, "That means either of us could be a target isn't that exciting? Hahaha ha!"
Sudo said nothing, the idea disturbed him. He was glad to be alive but why did he have to revive with all of these lunatics? He didn’t understand what karma was. Before he was a rider, many people told him he would get what he deserved. They were weak, undeserving of their possessions..their lives… and he was a powerful hunter. A punisher of the weak. He used to look down on people weaker than him, and now.. Things were the opposite. In life he was certain people were at the top and others were so far down at the bottom. It was the opposite here, he was at the bottom, fighting to survive. If this was karma, it wasn’t what he deserved. He missed his previous life.
“I welcome this killer, may he strike at me.. And I will strike him down!” Zol said.
He thought Zol was crazy. But if he wanted to take out his problem, he’d be okay with that. Climbing higher on the food chain requires, thought and tactics. He might as well try his hand at some manipulation.
“Oh yes.. Colonel Zol,” Sudo said, “I would be honored if you took care of our killer.”
Zol was silent for a moment before saying, “Detective, rest assured if I am the one to take care of your problem or anyone else for that matter, you will have be deemed excess to Badan’s cause.”
“E-excess?” he asked.
“Waste. Useless! Someone who does not belong in our society,” Zol said.
Even over a drone intercom, Zol’s words carried a sinister energy as if he had experience in eliminating “waste” before. He gulped.
“Understood,” Sudo said, “Is there..uhh” he was trying to think of the right words, “a database for me to weed through suspects?”
Colonel Zol sat at his desk polishing his sword as he listened to one of his Extermination Team members. It was Punchhopper, Shun Kageyama who was reporting in the incident. The Hoppers were considered unreliable, but Kageyama still had a more “heroic” streak in him. Even if it sometimes came from selfish desires.
“Kickhopper doesn’t know you’re here?” he asked.
“No,” Shun said, “Yaguruma wouldn’t approve..”
He put down his sword and twilded his pencil ready to write down the report.
“Explain the incident,” he continued.
“I got almost killed by an Orphenoch, that’s what!” Shun said as he leaned back into a chair, “Big bro and I are supposed to take out Worms, where’s the Orphnoch exterminationt team?”
“Carry on with your efforts,” he said, “I will send out our best agent..”
He pressed a button at his desk.
WOOSSSHH!
A rider entered. He was a recent revivalee, and somehow not native to this universe. (The nature of this was still yet unknown as Zol was told by the scientists within Badan.)
“I will execute each Orphnoch in five moves or less,” he said.
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“This blows,” Lost Ankh said tossing a ball against a wall and catching it.
The Greeed had been settled in for some time, but they were all cooped up living together, awaiting orders. They were allowed their full Core Medals, but not allowed to create any Yummies of desire. And worst of all they were kept in check by the despicable Shocker Greeed. A silent but imposing figure whose only desire was to maintain Badan’s commands.
Kazari didn’t think any of this was fair. The Shocker Greeed was the only one who got to chase his desires that made him whole. Not to mention the fact he hated most of the people here, except for Lost Ankh, he wasn’t annoying like the others. The younger Greeed threw his toy ball as it bounced and hit Uva’s head.
“If you’re bored.. Take a walk...enjoy the quiet ,” Uva said.
Kazari groaned, “You’re as dull as ever Uva. We are Greeed! Our desires are unmatched and we deserve to seek them out to our own ends.”
He kicked over a table in frustration.
Uva sat down and kicked back on a chair, “Maybe,” he said, “But I don’t care anymore, after all that business with OOOs and Maki, I’m just glad to be alive.”
“I’m just glad to be with Mezool!” Gamel shouted having no inside voice.
Mezool touched his chin motherly, “That’s a sweet Gamel. Kazari, it seems like you and Child Ankh are the most..disturbed.”
“I’m not a child!” Lost Ankh said accidentally with a voice crack.
Kazari stood in the center of the group, “Listen all of you!” he said, “Badan resurrected us, but they restrain us, keep us from living out as our true selves. All while that Shocker Greeed and Maki do as they please!”
The other Greeed fell silent and stared.
“Say something!” he asked.
He was hearing a low deep echoing sound behind him, “Eeeeeeeeeeeee”
Kazari turned around to unexpectedly find the Shocker Greeed standing behind him.
“Its you” Kazari said, “The fake Greeed...”
With a swift swipe with its claws, the Shocker Greed smacked Kazari crashing to the ground. Kazari wiped his face and growled. He readied a feline pounce for this fowl creature when he was met with a heavy kick to his stomach. The Shocker Greeed hit hard. And then it turned around and walked away. Kazari hated that the most, it didn’t even stay and fight properly, only beat them in submission. He hung low to the ground when Uva leaned down.
“Is your ambition worth being beaten for?” he asked.
Kazari stood up and stared out the large window they had, before opening up it up and hopping outside.
“Maybe,” he said.
He supposed he would take a walk, but not to be boring. For research. That was a word Maki used to use a lot.
“The incident passes…and all that remains..” Kickhopper said, “is the gates of hell..”
They both slumped against the walls. There wasn’t much else to do, but it was a amusing enough job.
BEEP BEEP
That was his communicator, alerting them of their next task.
“Nevermind,” Kickhopper said, “Time for work.”
Ouja wasn’t the only threat to the hells of Badan. They were also tasked taking care of an old enemy. In near sync, Kick and Punch pressed a button on the side of their belts.
CLOCK UP (CLOCK UP)
Clocking up was the system on their drivers that allowed them to achieve super speed. While many riders and monsters had enhanced speed, the Zect Drivers allowed for a form of hyper speed. A speed so fast most people could barely see the movement. And for those using Clock Up everything except them seemed to be in still motion. This was not a speed that could be achieved by any other rider.
They were running to Badan’s very own “death valley.” While Badan had created something of a environment for their underground society, it turns out creating “life” wasn’t their forte. Like most of their populace, even the foliage was resurrected. Recycled. Reused. Dug up and forced to wake up. The plants weren’t even all fitting, they were of different species, different locations, and some even different time periods. It turned out that this method of creating life wasn’t sustainable as some plants outright died out and others outright cannabalized each other. It was a struggle for life like no other which resulted in a dry desert. And in that desert laid the other outcasts.
Warms or Worms as they were called. Bug-like alien species who were deemed untrustworthy due to their malicious nature. Worms were an invasive species that landed in a meteorite years ago. Their nature was to copy… no.. steal the identities of other lifeforms. The average most basic form of the Worms were big and green pupae forms called Salis Worms.
Kickhopper didn’t know why Badan bothered bringing back them back, but he didn’t care. He could see a group of three. He signaled over to Punchhopper for them to begin their attack. Punchhopper activated another button on his belt.
RIDER PUNCH
Energy activated on the belt in a satisfying cackle and with a single explosive punch, the Worms were destroyed with green smoke filling the area. Both riders came to a halt as they remarked over their destruction.
CLOCK OVER….CLOCK OVER
“I remember these Worms more and more, how they fight, how they move, its too easy.” Punchhopper said, “Back to the gates eh?”
WHRRRRRR
Kickhopper knew that sound. He immediately reached for his belt but he knew it’d be too late.
“Bro..Watc-!” he shouted.
Punchhopper was sent flying, in the air by something flying by. It was only a blur, but he recognized it, the appearance of something in Clock Up.
CLOCK UP!
He darted forward seeing a spider-based worm. Aracnea he thought? The creature made eye contact with Kickhopper and lunged forward firing a net of spider web. He went fast, sliding on his knees forward with a frontal jab to the Worm’s stomach. And then sent forward a series of rapid kicks keeping the Worm moving backward, giving his partner time to recover.
CLOCK UP!
There he was. Punchhopper ran over grabbing the Worm and tossed him to the side with his own punch.
“This must be the target..!” Punch said.
“I envy him. Living free from Badan’s grip,” he said, “Yet unaware he is caught in the same.”
The Worm growled as they both now sent a fist forward. After the force, it surprisingly ran backward zig zagging back and forth. The Hoppers followed pressing their belt buttons again.
RIDER JUMP….RIDER JUMP
Flying high in the air, they readied to strike again. They couldn’t immediately execute another finisher, but could still put the hurt.
FWSSSSHHH!
Except then the Aracnea Worm fired another web net entrapping them as soon as they landed. They were still in Clock Up, but stuck in one place. Immediately they were trying to tear through the webbing, but its substance was difficult. The Worm snarled at them, which Kickhopper could only assume was a taunt.
Then suddenly before they could get any further, Kickhopper noticed something flying toward them. It looked like a spear. It was flying at them in what seemed to be slow motion but was still unexpectedly close. Which meant it was thrown ahead of time to anticipate their location!
WHANNNNNGG BOOOOOM!
They were knocked out of transformation as they rolled over to the ground. They had some light bruises but nothing they couldn’t get handle. Kickhopper immediately readied his Zecter for use again as he saw his new opponent. It was a creature he had no experience fighting, a Orphnoch. Judging by its markings, it was a lion. The kaijin retrieved its spear, as the Spider Worm stood next to him.
“Worms… and Orphnochs.. Working together?” he asked.
And then in a flash, the Worm grabbed the Orphnoch and they were gone. Punchhopper showed visible frustration but Kickhopper stood up and began walking back toward the city gates.
“I envy them.. “ he said, “Having comrades.”
“You have me brother,” Punchhopper said.
Kickhopper said nothing knowing this was true but instead wishing to brood.
“Bro?”
He helped his partner up. It didn’t matter that they lost, just that they fought and experienced the pain of losing. There would be other battles.
Of course while everyone had a “fresh start” not everyone made good use of it. Those who were disruptive to Badan’s original plans were exiled, and displaced. Troublemakers that weren’t necessarily killed in case they proved to be eventually useful. Asakura Takeshi formerly Kamen Rider Ouja was one of these people.
THUMP…THUMP….THUMP…
He banged his head on the blackgold wall gates continuously loitering.
“Come.. on” he muttered, next banging his fists now and progressing to a shout, “Someone come out and fight!”
He was almost immediately kicked out for trying to kill the other occupants of Badan City, and a stern refusal to follow orders. At best disruptive and at worst too chaotic to be part of their grand plan. That didn’t stop him from being annoying though. He wouldn’t stop making noise till he was acknowledged.
WHSSHSHH!
A figure seemed to suddenly appear perched on the skull-gate pillar peering over at Asakura. He was a “human” male wearing a black hat, a long brown and green scarf. Asakura took notice of him as the man smiled and plopppe down relaxing his stance. With a closer look, he didn’t consider him a “man” at all, more like a kid with his young arrogant face. Asakura began scanning the ground for a rock or some other blunt object he could find to throw at him.
“You don’t look like much but you can amuse me,” Asakura said.
He immediately went for a jab at the kid, but his attack was easily dodged. Then diving to the ground with a grunt, he grabbed a rock and threw. The rock soared, but was quickly caught in his opponent’s palm. This made him all the angrier as he dashed forward with a scream attempting to grab him.
FWSSSSSS! SMACK!
In a blur, Asakura was smashed aside as a green monster form had taken the kid’s place. Asakura stood up and wiped off his face.
“You vex me..” he said.
The monster laughed from his belly with an annoying high pitched tone.
“We don’t have to fight dear Asakura..!” the monster said now seemingly more like the kid again.
“Fighting is all there is. If you don’t want to fight.. DIE”
Asakura this time picked up a long tree branch, this was more to his liking. He jumped forward swinging it like a devil. Aiming for the kaijin’s forehead.
WHANG!
The branch cracked and flew off in different directions having no effect. Asakura growled in frustration as the kid crossed his arms.
“We can be friends..” he said.
He stood still for a moment unsure what to do next.
“I don’t make friends,” he said.
He tried to scan his target. He much preferred blunt and direct force, but he wasn’t stupid. If he could find a weakness on this kid, monster, or whatever he’d take it.
“We’re similar” The Kid said, he then extended his hand, “I’m Sora Takigawa..perhaps you’ve heard of me?”
He stared at his hand refusing to touch it. He never did such things, nor did he respect who was in front of him. Asakura only respected people who let him fight.
“No..”
Sora titled his head presumably in annoyance, “Now you’re irritating me…”
“Get to the point,”
The thing calling himself Sora sighed before returning to his human form with a obviously fake smile, “We’re the same you and I” Sora then leaned uncomfortably close to Asakura ears, “Killers…” he said in a whisper.
Asakura brushed him aside with his shoulder but was slightly more interested and also annoyed, “I said get to the point.”
“I can get you your “Advent Deck” back if we work together,” Sora said, “Hmm? What will you say? Killer…and killer?”
He let out a groan, the kid was right. Badan had taken away his Advent Deck shortly before he was exiled. If he had it, he could really raise hell. But something about this kid really vexed him, he seemed like a trickster.
But he seemed like he was hearing something off in the distance..
WHHZZZZZZZZRRRRRR
Running like troublesome gnats, the two gate guards entered the scene, The Hoppers. They came in a pair, and sometimes they were just as annoying as this kid was right now. Kickhopper and Punchhopper leaned against the twin stone pillars, as Sora and Asakura were talking. They didn’t seem to care that Sora was here.
“Asakura..!” Kickhopper said, “Join us together in hell..”
“Big bro is right,” Punchhopper said, “We’d give you your gear back. Right now there’s just some Combatmen using it.”
Asakura groaned. He found these guys annoying too with their ability to move at extreme speeds. He ignored them but Sora wasn’t. Perhaps he was concerned about being ratted out, but an opportunity was all he needed. With a swift cobra-like strike, Asakura grabbed Sora by the neck and gripped onto him. Sora seemed to look onto with wide eyes, he didn’t expect this to happen to him. He kept his eyes centered on Sora’s, he didn’t care what the Hoppers did.
“You’re a fake. I smell it,” Asakura said, “We’re nowhere near the same! You are cheap tricks, I am blunt force..you.. VEX me.”
He then tossed Sora to the ground and let out his own smirk. Putting the brat down a peg was..exciting. Exciting enough to leave.
“I’ll leave now,” he said walking off into Badan’s artificial jungle, “But I’ll be back.”
Sora was enraged. How did he? How could he?! How did he have the audacity?! He slammed his fist on the ground. Nobody made a fool of Sora Takigawa. Not even other serial killers! He picked himself off the ground and realized the Hoppers were still watching.
“So you’ve seen hell…” Kickhopper said.
Sora puffed out his chest, “I am…hell!”
He exited with a mighty leap back into the city grounds.
Fanfiction-Ultraman Tiga and Trigger Saga 01- Water War
The first installment in a collaborative fanfiction series!Kengo Manaka aka Ultraman Trigger is distantly related to the ancient giant Ultraman Tiga, but how much? It all begins when Trigger meets a time displaced Tiga Dark..in this character and universe spanning start of a saga....
Introduction- The Tiga Trigger Saga is a series of roleplays on the Ultra Zone Discord Server. Due to the nature of a roleplay, some events are naturally going to seem chaotic or strange.
Key
——– Indicates a writer shift to a new character
******* Indicates a character shift by the same writer
A: indicates an author note for context or general author commentary
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Floating through space appears to be a large gigantic body of ocean water. Large enough to be a large asteroid, it appears to be swimming..away from the direction of Earth. And most disturbingly it’s big enough to host a small fraction of Earth’s sea creatures, as fish, coral, sand, and even dolphins can be seen within this body of water. It appears as if a large ecosystem is just…floating in space. But how? Why? Where? Deep within one would hear a monster roar..
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The Story So Far
Tiga Dark- A time-displaced ancient Tiga Dark snatched to the present just before he could grasp the light. He fears returning to his time and facing his Dark Giants.
Written by Gom
Ultraman Trigger- Kengo Manaka, similar or near identical to events in the Ultraman Trigger TV series, but Decker and the Absolutian War are where his history deviates.
Extra note, you know this isn’t just any water, it’s actually a part of the ocean. That’s right earth is missing a small part of the ocean. Kind of dangerous don’t you think?
A: Nobody was responding to my RP scenario so I added some informal incentive- Advent
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Well, this was concerning for this Giant. The question is, he didn’t seem to fit here, out of all places possible..And so, arrived the ancient giant 30 million years ago. The original Tiga himself (X edition), confused as he simply flew beside the asteroid.
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Tiga would see an earth whale float by him in the giant body of water.
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“What the scallop,” He said, as he went closer. His visions kept finding for any unusual activities, excluding the flora and fauna already being the unusual part. Perhaps, a Kaiju. Maybe, a Seijin. He had this intention to pet the whale, but for some reason.. he felt wrong to do so. Maybe because of his status, perhaps.
A: “What the scallop” is Gom’s catchphrase for ALL his characters.
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A large amount of energy would be within the body of water as well as the presence of a large kaiju deeper within
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Well, this was scary. But fear wouldn’t stop his massive curiosity inside. He finally dived straight into the ocean, landing on its ground for a moment. He looked everywhere, sensing the energy. Not sure if it’s harmful or not; considering he was harmful. Maybe he still is.
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Inside Tiga would notice that the water is a perfect copy of Earth’s ecosystem…including all forms of animals. A battle here could be devastating..
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Partially true, but his belief may not find it too problematic. He’s still, after all, learning. He may be perfectly honed to kill, destroy, corrupt.. but to protect? He continued journeying, trying to find this large amount of energy.
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A violent thrash of water was behind him as if something was there. Cue theme music from Eiji tsuburaya’s Jaws
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It raised his alarm bells, which made him turn around and immediately taking a fighting stance. He wasn’t sure what was it, but he was prepared more than ever.
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Suddenly a powerful slash came at Tiga’s back. If he was fast enough Tiga would catch the outline of a large kaiju creature as it swam into the shadows again
Outside of the body of water, Ultraman Trigger had arrived to inspect the situation. Earth’s water had disappeared and with his ultra eyesight he could see it within deep space, but perhaps it would be best to inspect the perimeter before going on inside…
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Gah, he was hit! But his eyes managed to see a glimpse of the large Kaiju.. This reminded him of his ally back then, Darramb. The underwater and all.. He blasted a simple dark slash towards where he had last seen the mysterious Kaiju.
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Trigger was using something Akito taught him. Observing the situation by learning about it. He was flying around learning the mass of the body of water. But he could see something black inside..
Suddenly a whirlpool of water flew toward Tiga catching him in its grip and he would hear a giggling kaiju-like roar
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“IS THIS MAGANOTHOR!!”
So, Tiga was captured by the grip and struggled to escape from it. He heard the giggling kaiju-like roar, but his eyes seemed to be more focused on trying to escape this hold.
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Slimy hands grab Tiga’s back as a monster grabs and flips him over followed by a sonic scream.
The creature is Leilons not that this Tiga would know.
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Tiga immediately was rolled to the ground, but he managed to recover himself. Of course, being the past Ultra he had no prior experience with such being. But his anger and darkness surely made him see the Kaiju as nothing more but an enemy. Or the cause for this thing to happen. Thus, he ran forward and went for an attempt to land a flying kick!
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Leilons had enhanced speed and strength underwater so it quickly dodged and grabbed Tiga’s foot.
“Something’s fighting the sea life!” Trigger said, “Fighting in this environment would be hazardous to Earth if he destroyed the natural habitat. Sky type would be best…”
He transformed and tossed the Circle Arms beside him. It would be too hazardous. But would this be wise or deadly? He dived in.
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Tiga was struggling, with his foot being grabbed. But he tried to escape, by trying to kick it with his other leg.
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Tiga’s powerful kick knocked Leilons and freed him but the kaiju was ready to really test his strength with its claws as it unleashed a flurry of claw strikes.
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Bad luck for Tiga Dark, as he was hit by the flurry of claw strikes! Each strike meant a spark would come out from him, showing that he was damaged. To stop this from continuing any further, he leaped forward, charging his palm with dark energy as he attempted to land a devastating chop towards Leilons! Even if the chop didn’t work, he hoped his weight would at least ram Leilons!
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The attack worked as Leilons was knocked backward, it quickly swam away into the darkness faster than Tiga could..
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Which was pretty lucky, he had room to breathe. He looked around, hoping that he could escape from this sea.. But knowing Leilon’s speed, it would be unwise to do so right now.
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Trigger swam toward the same energy Tiga sensed and saw him attacking Leilons.
“Another Tiga? This isn’t very smile smile…could it be one of my Tigas who got trapped in their dark form like I did so many months ago?”
He then caught a look at Tiga’s face before diving forward grabbing Tiga Dark by the neck!
“One look at your face told me all I needed to know…clone. Your smile is lacking, it’s too grim. The REAL Tiga always has a warm but hopeful smile. I won’t let you dilute Tiga or our ancient race’s legacy!”
A: The first line of dialogue is referencing a storyline that was written by the previous writer of Trigger’s character. As someone who read through the backlog and enjoyed it, I wanted to give this a nod.
A2: There is some confusion on why Trigger attacks Tiga here, so I wanted to point out that Kengo’s ability to “see” smiles on Ultras would logically have some sort of ability to see emotions. So the idea here is that Kengo thinks this Tiga is a fake because he is battle-hardened and guilt-ridden.
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Not only that, he was now choked by another Ultra! What’s with them wanting to hunt him down, and what did Trigger mean by the REAL Tiga? He is the REAL one!
“Gaghk!-” He tried to break free from Trigger’s grip, by rapidly punching him on the face! Hmm, the way he grunted on the last one didn’t seem like a normal grunt.
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Trigger could not sustain Tiga Dark’s attacks as he was pushed off. Using his superior speed to backflip away he tossed several light bullets at him
“His strength seems as powerful as other dark ultras I’ve faced, perhaps even more. “
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He formed a barrier, protecting himself from the incoming light bullets.
“Stop!” He’s not sure what to say anymore to explain his desires, perhaps filled with fear that..
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Continuing his assault of light beams, Trigger quickly swam over Tiga and dives forward like a bullet!
“You’re aren’t as chatty as the other Dark Giants..I guess things differs in other universes”
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Tiga, who had seen Leilon previously sidestepped before doing the same move as the Kaiju. He went to grab Trigger’s foot, before spinning around and throwing him elsewhere!
“Camearra? Darramb?” He asked. Did his friend to enemies come here as well?
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Trigger quickly balanced himself as he realized that this “enemy” wasn’t trying to pulverize him. It made him pause.
“Something’s wrong..do you even know where you are? Who you are?”
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He looked at himself, his hands specifically. He seemed to know who he is, just.. more confused with the Ultra in front of him. How did he know of them?
“Were you.. with them at some point?” He asked, implying his question was meant by the four Giants of Darkness.
He assumed this Trigger was apart of them after he left accordingly. But why light, then?
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Kengo studied his face for a moment. “I’m sorry I misjudged you,” Underneath the grim facial expression, he could detect confusion not just at the current situation but at his very identity..
“I was part of a group of Dark Giants..before I realized I wanted more out of life when I encountered the holy light. My memory is fuzzy..reincarnation and all..”
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“Reincarnated..?” That’s an interesting line. If this was really true, maybe Trigger was his reincarnation? He does not know, obviously.
“So you do know Camearra..” “What happened? What happened to them?” He questioned. He believed they were also reincarnated as well, perhaps converted into the light..
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“I do know a Carmeara in my world but I don’t know of your versions..think of us as like a fun house mirror. At least that’s what Shizuma told me. Similar but different!” Trigger said.
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“Mirrors?” So, he assumed that this Trigger was nothing more than just an alternative counterpart of he, himself. So this one turned out to be good and accepted the light.. But he, who needed to accept the light? He simply just couldn’t afford to do such things. He felt guilty and wrong to do so. After all, he’s done unforgivable acts as the Giant of Darkness. “You knew my name.”
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“The name “Tiga” is legend across the multiverse at least that’s what Shizuma te-“
Leilons roared as it dived between them slashing both Ultras and then quickly made its distance..
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Tiga was again, hit by the incoming slash. Sure, he heard the callout but he wasn’t fast enough to react.
“Have you ever fought this thing?” Tiga asked, now taking his battle stance behind Trigger to cover the view Trigger could not see. He hoped Trigger would do the same, covering his back.
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Trigger was hit as well as he was thrown a distance away.
“Me? He’s YOUR kaiju at least that’s what Shizuma said..he talks about you a lot. ” he said rubbing his back.
“I caught a look at that kaiju’s face. He’s not angry or evil..but sad? Something’s very strange is happening here..”
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“Huh?” That’s a strange explanation. Shouldn’t they kill the Kaiju in the first place; and surely this Tiga Dark likely had never seen this Kaiju. Due to of course, timeline shenanigans.
“What do we do?”
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“We make it smile! But hopefully, we don’t bruise it up too much. I’ll distract it, maybe you can find out where that energy is coming from.” Trigger said as he turned his back to swim the opposite direction.
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And with that, Tiga agreed to the terms Trigger given. He’d definitely treat things recklessly if he’s the one to distract Leilon. He didn’t say anything further, though. He simply waited for the Kaiju’s appearance, before splitting up with Trigger with a new objective. Find the source of the energy.
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Leilons appeared into view and roared! It seemed to be focusing on Trigger.
But before it could attack, Trigger flew first firing several light bolts at it diving under its feet.
“Go Tiga!”
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Tiga immediately bolted out of the scene to find the source Trigger talked about. He dived, but not too fast due to him not possessing the multiple arsenal Types his light entity and Trigger himself have.
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Tiga would be growing closer to a stronger energy…something swirling in the water..A bright light was nearby.
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A bright light? Could this be intoxicating, for the embodiment of ancient darkness himself? Tiga was a bit fearful, though. But to become a Hero.. why not? He went straight into the light, albeit with a deepened grunt.
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The light appeared to be a disguise to hide something as Tiga would now a giant swirling purple portal pouring water into it. It wasn’t pouring water INTO the portal but instead, water was flowing out into space…Looking through the portal would reveal the water was coming straight from Earth’s pacific ocean!
Meanwhile, Trigger was manhandling the Leilons feeling fairly confident.
“Ahahaha.. am I too tough for you?” he joked.
Leilon’s eyes then seemed to glow purple..unusually so..
“Wait..a minute..” Trigger said.
A powerful blast from Leilons expelled Trigger away as he was now caught in a psychic hold.. “Frown..frown! Zett and Haruki told me this must be…magic!”
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Was there a way to really destroy this thing? That’s really the only answer Tiga would assume after seeing the current situation. Charging up his own Dark Zeperion Ray, he blasted it towards the portal to see what would happen. Would it affect the Earth, or something else would happen?
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The blast hit the portal but it fizzled out as if the portal was immune to attacks both light and dark. The portal glowed purple indicating some type of magical resistance.
Leilons controlling Trigger became slamming him onto the dirt over and over.
Not wanting to attack in fear of endangering the wildlife around them, he lets it happen.
Trigger felt dazed but his color timer wasn’t blinking.. “Smil-…Smidle..? Smileoo?”
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How would he dispose of magic? Tiga thought to himself. It’s an energy he didn’t have enough knowledge into, but.. with magic, shouldn’t there be a mastermind who controlled the portal or some sort? A sorcerer, perhaps? Dark magician? Could Leilons be that answer? Everything seemed so hard to guess, and with each reveal felt like more questions were left unanswered..
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Trigger tossed some more light beams toward Leilons. This broke the monster’s concentration and freed him from his psychic hold. Diving forward he pushed Leilons towards Tiga’s direction.
“What’s going on?”
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“Magic. Something I don’t know well,” Tiga said, grabbing Leilons thanks to Trigger’s push as he attempted multiple energy chops to damage Leilons. “There’s a portal that brings the ocean from Earth to here.”
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Trigger looked up and down. “Someone is stealing our oceans..? Taking it somewhere..”
These words caused Leilons to let out a violent screech as it roared unleashing a barrage of explosive bubbles at Tiga and Trigger.
“Woah!” Trigger said throwing up a barrier, “Did you see that? It got angry when I said that..It understands..and takes offense.”
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Rather than a barrier, Tiga Dark aggressively reflects away the incoming projectile. But that was only for the first, due to him finding out it’s explosive on contact. He crossed his forearms to block more. Wow, he’s tanky. “It understands us?” Speaking up was probably the worst thing Tiga could ever do. He rarely spoke in his time. “Calm it down.”
Leilons did not, in fact, smile even once, but instead twirled its hands around as they glowed purple..A lighting storm conjures up above them.
“Look out it’s crafting spells!”
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Tiga Dark proceeded to try and block the raining storm, only for the impact to push him completely to the point he crashed into a seamount. “Let’s take it down,”
Tiga’s convinced that it was better to just kill rather than saving or whatever. The thing was, what would really weaken Leilons?
“Whatever it is, we have to find a way to weaken it. Phrases.” Tiga gave a suggestion, before trying to perform his ability; Forehead Prison which was encasing Leilons into an orb. He hoped in this way, they could think for a moment or at least give Trigger a moment to attack.
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“The creature is more fairly powerful than a normal Leilons but that portal is the bigger problem..If we close it how do we get the water back to earth? But we can’t just let it sit..” Trigger charged up his light energy and fired Trigger Freezer!
However, upon shooting instead of a flying bolt, the bolt immediately began creating ice rapidly expanding…It did hit and freeze the portal, but now ice was quickly expanding around them!
“Uh oh…” Trigger said, “I didn’t take into account what the blast would do!”
Leilons continued banging on the shield bubble trying to escape as ice was encasing them.
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“If we break the ice, it’s going to make the portal work again!” Tiga shouted.
He had the ability to heat up and break the ice.. This was such a hard moment to choose. However, it’s clear that he preferred to let the portal continue before both of them freeze and make this entire operation fatal. With that, Tiga proceeded to directly go towards the ice- at the cost that Leilon may have broken free (the choice is up to the other roleplayer).. as he infused himself with the heat of darkness, before touching the ice. His own version of Ultra Heat Hug.
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The ice is spreading fairly quickly so the heat hug breaks the portal…but the ice still begins to spread as the heat hug isn’t powerful enough..
Leilons breaks free but and tries to use its psychic attacks to break the ice, prioritizing saving the water instead of attacking.
“This is my fault! Even after all this time.. I’m still inexperienced..” Kengo said panicking.. “No time for a catchphrase..”
In a flash of light, Trigger turns into Glitter Eternity. “I’ll burn it away!” Using the power of the Eternity Core.. Trigger’s powerful light shines to heat up the ice around them..but at a great cost of energy as his color timer starts blinking..
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Tiga grunted. The situation was getting dire, and he was pretty much tired too. But his colour timer didn’t blink (for the fact there was no instance of Giants of Darkness having their colour timers blinking).
“We’re running out of time. What should we do?” Tiga asked. “You mentioned it understood us. Tell me, Leilons. Who brought everything here to space?”
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Leilons screeched wildly as it fired bubbles at the remaining blocks of ice as things calmed down..water again began to again be sucking in..from earth. Back to step 1..
Upon hearing Tiga’s words, it turned around not looking the Ultras in the eyes..
Kengo squinted from within the light, “It’s crying..emotionally at least..”
Leilons shrugged…and reached its arms toward the portal.. closing it. Things were stable for now..
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“….Why?” Tiga seemed to believe one thing- Was Leilons trying to leave the Earth? Why would it bring everyone with it, though?
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Trigger looked around.. “Something’s different here. Different from earth’s oceans..” He twirled around looking for any sign. “There’s no trash..debris.. ships.. any sign of.. humanity. This isn’t a random instance, but calculated and planned.. by the Leilons..”
Leilons seemed to growl in agreement as it created a portal back to earth outside of the water. Perhaps a peace offering?
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“They leave Earth so they no longer can contact humanity..?” That was a surprising reveal. So the Leilons knew what they were cooking.. “…” He’s not sure what to act at this point. Was this the right thing to do?
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“We have littered our oceans..” Trigger said sadden.. “I can see why it wants to leave..”
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“…Shall we leave?” Tiga asked. He’s not sure what he should do anymore, because all in his mind was just smacking tf out of Leilons.. until he understood its true intentions.
“We’ll take care of our oceans.”
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“I…no..its took a large portion of earth’s oceans.. I’m not much of a science person, but that’d do something bad to our environment.. Earth needs its water..Isolation can’t be the answer.”
Trigger’s color timer began blinking rapidly.. “I’m sorry.. for the ice thing..Tiga. I believe you can handle th-” Trigger immediately faded away into light..in his place a glowing orb of light.
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“…” Tiga was silent. The Earth surely needed its water.. so what could he do? Speak up. That’s the answer. “Leilons.. No, this is the wrong thing to do.” Tiga said in a saddened tone, no- confused even.
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Leilons studied Tiga.. and roared..It wouldn’t give up without a fight..perhaps even to the death Its eyes glowed purple again. It used its psychic powers to kick up a rage of dust into Tiga’s view..and then past that another barrage of bubbles..
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Tiga, this time, read the incoming attack like a book. He wasn’t so sure if he should go for the kill, but he needed to do so in case he needed to live. He formed his barrier before the dust came in contact with him, making the followup useless. To counterattack, he would try and grab Leilons- before proceeding his own grand plan. To try and bring it straight out of the ocean.
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Unaffected by its own bubble strikes Leilons was grabbed and tried to claw Tiga wildly. Oddly not using his dangerous magic powers..perhaps instinct had truly taken over..
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And that meant an advantage for Tiga; the embodiment of ancient Darkness. Unfortunately, he was hit by the claw, which promptly forced him to throw Leilons in hopes it did go to space.
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Leilons was thrown into space and it seemed to be slower too outside of its element, though I suppose being in space isn’t too different from being in water. idk there’s a lot of scientific liberties in this scenario.
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Now it’s a good time to fight and going totally all out. After all- fighting in deep underwater would cause devastating effects. By flying upwards- he charged up his fist with dark energy. He went in an attempt to land a blow towards Leilons!
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Tiga would feel another similar but distinct warm light within his being.
“That’s it! you got it away from the ocean” Kengo said. He appeared inside Tiga’s light with his human form. “I hope you don’t mind but I caught a ride here..”
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“Huh?” Within Tiga’s light was just someone who looked like Daigo. Someone finally freed him from his agency. The light felt intoxicating at times though. Likely due to the darkness he had. “How are we taking it down?” He asked, before flying towards Leilons and unleashing a beam from his hands; his Bright Shot (Or Dark Shot, for that matter)
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Leilons took the hit and tumbled backward into an asteroid. It looked up and readied a magic spell. It threw dozens of pieces of asteroid at Tiga!
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Kengo looked to see his Circle Arms still floating about.. “The Circle Arms! You can use that..!” He pointed.
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He grabbed as told, using the said weapon for defensive measures- a shield, precisely. He stumbled backward, though. By using the sword-bow like weapon, he flew towards Leilons in an attempt to land a vertical slash.
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Leilons continued to hurl debris at Tiga hoping to stop him in his tracks.
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“It’s in bow and arrow config but it should still work as a sword staff. Look out!”
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So, Tiga messed around and found out. He proceeded to shift the Circle Arms by pulling the.. ‘blade’ to create a sword staff. [SKY ARROW]
He spun the arrow, cutting down the debris. Using the energy darkness he had, he fired out multiple arrows- but imbued with his own darkness rather than light.
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Tiga’s blasts seemed to be working as the arrows destroyed the incoming targets.
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“I’m sorry we couldn’t protect earth’s oceans Leilons but we of the land and the water are of the same kin!” Kengo said as he transferred some of his light into Tiga to enhance his attacks.
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Combined with light and darkness, Tiga fired one arrow that was more devastating than any of the previous arrows. He aimed it straight to Leilons’ head.
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The light arrow flew straight through Leilons creating an explosion and wounding the creature but it was still alive. It roared.
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“What can I do with this?” Tiga Dark asked Kengo in his own light. Soon enough though, a Tiga Dark Hyper Key was created out of nothingness.
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“Our light and darkness synchronized..creating something new!” Kengo said.
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Letting out a simple grunt, Tiga Dark grabbed his own Hyper Key. He shifted the Circle Arms back into- [MULTI SWORD]
He then inserted his own Hyper Key into the weapon. [MAXIMUM, BOOTUP; DARK] He then pressed the TRIGGER, and the sword engulfed itself with light and darkness! [TRUE ZEPERION SWORD FINISH]
Tiga unleashed a crescent wave attack, but far more powerful than Trigger’s own attack- thanks to them combining their own strength!
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“Tiga-san…” Kengo watched as the blast soared toward Leilons.. “We were never very different after all..”
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The blast flew and hit Leilons exploding the kaiju upon impact.. its explosion was purple to reflect its magical powers..
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Suddenly the portal seemed to turn into a wormhole sucking all the water back to the earth.. perhaps sucking Tiga Dark in..
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Ack! Tiga was pulled in a similar moment of Dyna’s wormhole! Yooooo!
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“Smile.. Smile!” Kengo said as they were both pulled in.
The portal sent all the water back into the Pacific Ocean along with Tiga Dark with Kengo.
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Crashing onto the deep barren water, Tiga swam up for a moment until he floated to the sky. He flew towards nearby shore. “So it ran away because of what humanity was doing.”
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“Yes..it intended to take all of the ocean’s life forms with it..” Kengo said rubbing the back of his head.
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He remained silent for a moment until he landed on the nearby shore- before reverting back to his human form. He looked similar to Daigo but with a black robe. “We have to take care of the oceans, then.”
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“I suppose humanity always makes ugly mistakes, from ancient times to now.. I see it now. This is why we became human light.. so we can do all we can..” Kengo stepped forward giving Tiga a bow. “I almost doomed us back there.. that would have made a mess of time..sorry. Though if its anything like my time travel adventure (my memory is fuzzy on that) I think that things will work out for the best.”
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Tiga remained silent during his speech. Time travel? That was an interesting word. Because he precisely time traveled (the way is unknown, perhaps by accident or intentionally). “Time. I don’t think I’m supposed to be in this time.”
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“I caught of a glimpse your memories while I was in there, maybe you caught some of mine too. You’re not the Tiga I’ve met, but you’re the same light or at least the beginning of your growing light. You’re the Tiga from ancient times.. before..” Kengo’s voice trailed off fearing of creating something called a parallel isotope that Ribut told him about one time.. “Just keep discovering yourself Tiga. You’ll find your answers.”
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And he did (Owner never watched the show sorry bros), with him giving a nod in agreement. “Find myself..” He muttered. He pulled out his own transformation device- The Dark Sparklence.. “This is the time we depart. May I know your name?” He put back his transformation device into his own robe.
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“I’m Manaka Kengo.. aka Ultraman Trigger.. New Generation Tiga!” Kengo said this proudly finally understanding the significance of both of their lives being so similar.
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A: [hardest title drop ever]
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He let out a small grunt. To be fair, he did find it funny. “Kengo, have this.” He said, lending out the Hyper Key of Tiga Dark to Manaka Kengo. “Call me Taiga, or Tiga. Your choice.” He finished the interaction with a small smile, before walking away.
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Epilogue of things to come..
Kengo caught the Tiga Dark and observed it closely.
“I better not let Ignis steal this one!” he said before turning to run off into the opposite direction.
He was sure he’d run into Tiga again and he’d tell Shizuma about this adventure soon. He smiled looking at the setting sun and realized he hadn’t actually been on Earth in a while..Mars had taken up most of his time..in fact now that he realized it he was kind of lost.
Until he ran across this young woman standing on the beach seeming to be looking out into the sea.
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Kamen Rider Ryuki-Crossover Ryuki Chapter 9 (Final)
Ryuki arrived outside of ORE Journal, there was just one thing he had to check. A reporter always knows to follow up any loose ends. He saw Tatsuya in the same spot.
“Tatsuya!” Shinji said.
“Ah yes, Shinji. How has your case been going?” Tatsuya asked.
“I figured it out, its Odin or at least someone using Odin’s power. I just need to find him. I was hoping you could tell me anything.” Shinji said.
“Odin? Odin is gone. He doesn’t exist anymore.” Tatsuya said.
“Well if I use the card I found, it’ll lead me to whoever has been attacking the riders anyway..!” Shinji said.
He took out his deck.
“Wait… Shinji is that such a good idea? Let’s think about it before we try something.” Tatsuya said.
“Henshin!” Shinji said as he transformed.
He took out the card of the blue Rider from before.
“Abyss? You have Abyss’ card?” Tatsuya asked.
“Adobento!” his visor said.
Then next Kamen Rider Abyss landed next to Tatsuya.
“I had my suspicions, but I didn’t want to believe it,” Ryuki said.
Tatsuya’s eyes darted towards Abyss, who awaited orders from his master. His face turned from a naive look to a more cold one.
“Good work Ryuki,” Tatsuya said.
Suddenly Tatsuya broke apart into mirror shards revealing himself as Odin. He then took out a card from his visor that read
“Illusion Vent.”
“Single-use but long-lasting enough to hide myself and who owned my cards, I didn’t expect you to keep your memories, however,” Odin said.
Ryuki’s stance became more confident as he put his hands on his hips, “I’ve been through this before. I wrote everything down this time..!”
“You were only supposed to stall and annoy the riders so nobody could figure out my plan in at least a day,” Odin said.
“Were you ever really Ryuki?” Ryuki asked.
“Little of what I told you was true. I tried to run away from Kanzaki, but he forced me into becoming Odin. And there I was a mindless puppet t-till I was….. Murdered! And why? Just so you Kamen Riders could fight. Pathetic. When the Time Vent happened, I really did fall through the cracks as I kept my memories. Gold Phoenix sought me out. Thus I became Odin once again, but this time I am the one who is in control. Abyss kill him.” Odin said.
Kamen Rider Abyss charged forward as Ryuki threw a punch at him. Abyss was knocked back as Ryuki took out a card.
“Freeze Bento!”
Abyss became trapped in ice as Ryuki took out another.
“Guardo Bento!”
Ryuki charged forward with his DragShields and he broke through the ice destroying Abyss.
“Alright..!” he said.
Odin then floated in front of him hovering just above his head.
“Ah yes, those new cards I gave you. I only gave them to you, so you wouldn’t die early. I’ll be taking those back now..” Odin said.
Suddenly the three cards flew out from Ryuki’s belt back towards Odin. Ryuki tried to grab them, but they were too quick. Odin took out the Time Vent card.
“Now let’s reset time and I’ll kill you yesterday. It messes with my plan a lot, but I’ll figure something out.” Odin said.
“Final Bento!”
Suddenly Knight flew down hitting Odin. An explosion covered the scene as the Time Vent card flew in the air dissolving into pieces. Knight glided out of the flames towards Ryuki.
“Ren!” Ryuki said, “…thanks.”
Knight nodded, “I can feel my memories from before coming back.”
“I guess destroying the Time Vent card did that,” Ryuki said.
Odin then walked out of the flames dazed, “No! My plan!”
“Let’s stop fighting Tatsuya, you have no reason to,” Ryuki said.
“Yes, I do! You Riders preyed on me, an innocent man! There’s no justice. I didn’t even have a pure wish when Kanzaki stole my lif! And my killers stand before me escaping punishment? I’ll kill you all!” Odin said.
He then pulled out a bunch of Advent Cards, each one showed different monsters.
“Adobento!”
“Adobento!”
“Adobento!”
“Adobento!”
“Adobento!”
“Adobento!”
“Adobento!”
Ryuki and Knight were then surrounded by six different monsters. Each one Ryuki had seen before. The Owl Lord, the Falcon Lord, the Crane Orphenoch, the Bird Dopant, the Bee-Woman, and the giant four-legged monster Faiz was fighting. Behind them was an army of Shocker Grunts.
“Time to prove yourself, Kido..” Knight said.
Ryuki swallowed in nervousness. The four-legged monster charged first Knight jumped upward as Ryuki rolled out of the way, he turned around to see Knight was on top of the monster leaving Ryuki to fight the horde. Odin watched from above before teleporting. Suddenly Ryuki was slashed from behind him pushed forward towards the Crane. She smacked him backward.
“Arghh!” Ryuki grunted.
“What’s the matter Shinji? You heard the man, prove yourself! This was all about you wanting to impress the Riders!” Odin said as he laughed.
The Bee Woman flew forward slashing Ryuki as he fell.
Those.. Cards.. I need them. If I didn’t survive the Rider War..
Ryuki tried to get up but was kicked by the Bird Dopant.
“This is pathetic..get out your Survive card or something!” Odin said.
Ryuki then pulled out the Survive card as flames erupted around him he stood up, then suddenly Odin teleported in front of him and slapped him knocking the Survive card out of his hands. It fell on the ground and Ryuki’s transformation was broken. Odin laughed.
“You really are just a guy with a card deck,” Odin said.
Shinji looked down grimly.
I don’t want to die again..! They were right, I am weak..!
Just then Shinji heard the familiar tune of the Den-Liner as it appeared behind him. Ichigo and Nigo jumped out kicked the Bee-Woman and the Bird Dopant back.
“Ryuki!” said Ichigo.
The other riders jumped out of the Den-Liner rushing into battle to fight the Shocker Grunts as Ichigo held out his hand towards Shinji. He pulled himself up.
“Stand tall, you’re the one who led us here,” Ichigo said.
Shinji saw as Den-O appeared nearby and slashed the Crane Orphenoch.
“And we brought some reinforcements.” Momotaros’ said.
“Rejoice!” Ryuki turned around as he heard the booming voice of the man with a book and scarf, “The overlord of time is here! Kamen Rider ZI-O!”
Decade and ZI-O jumped forward.
“So we use Ryuki’s power to beat this guy right?” the rider asked Decade excitedly.
“Right.” Decade said.
“Kamen Ride Ryuki!”
“Final Form Time Ryu-yu-yuki!”
Shinji saw as the two Riders were clad in armor similar to his. He could tell that Odin was ready for them. Odin took out one of his cards as Decade used Strike Vent to attack him.
“Sword Bento!”
Odin teleported away and slashed Decade’s back with his twin swords. ZI-O dashed forward and clashed with Odin’s blades. Decade got up and jumped forward with a Rider Kick, in which Odin teleported behind ZI-O and pushed him into Decade’s kick! ZI-O was knocked back into his base form as he clutched onto a watch-looking device that had Ryuki on it.
“You know last time I fought this guy it was a lot easier,” Zi-O said looking up at Decade.
“Keep trying, he can’t teleport his way out of all my attacks.” Decade said.
“I believe I can,” Odin said taking out another card.
“Final Bento!”
Odin then floated up laughing as he pointed at Decade. The Gold Pheonix burned brightly as it combined with Odin. He then flew down crashing into Decade and emerged unharmed. Both Decade and ZI-O were completely knocked out of their transformations once again. Momotaros stomped his foot on the ground.
“Even with Ryuki’s power they still can’t beat him! He’s too fast!” Momotaros said.
“All Kamen Riders that oppose me will die, clearly I cannot be stopped!” Odin said.
“Ryuki.” Said Ichigo.
Shinji looked up and saw Ichigo was looking at where the Survive card had landed.
“You should fight him,” Ichigo said.
“But I can’t! I’m sorry, but all of this time I’ve been in over my head! I’m not a chosen one, a cyborg, or have any sort of superpowers. I really am just a guy with a card deck. A weak one too.” Shinji said.
“Toh!” Ichigo said as he jumped over and grabbed the Survive card, “That’s not true!”
“Listen, kid, you may have died but you’ve impressed me. I connected the dots you tricked me earlier!” Momotaros said.
“Ryuki!” shouted Agito as he fought the Owl Lord, “You don’t have to be special to make a difference.”
“Yeah, I’m just a man in an armor suit who doesn’t give up!” G3 said emptying out his gun.
“A journalist isn’t the same as a detective, but you sure solved the case,” W said as he punched a Shocker grunt.
“The sun isn’t always around, others can be a light as well,” Kabuto said dodging every attack his way.
“You know sometimes it’s nice to just talk with a well-meaning humble guy like you Ryuki,” Gatack said.
“You can’t live your life moping around,” Faiz said he flew firing at the 4-legged monster.
“Ryuki..friend!” Amazon said.
“We’re calling you to defeat evil!” Stronger said.
“You can soar into a new tomorrow,” Skyrider said.
Faiz flew down and grabbed Knight dropping him off near the other riders.
“Kido maybe you were brought back for a special reason,” Knight said.
“I didn’t wanna admit this, but while I admit your fighting style is silly, but you have a different way of thinking that can turn the tables on the enemy. We need that about right now.” Decade said.
“I’m like what you said, “just a kid too!” but I’ve met you in the future, your powers and heroics are well remembered!” ZI-O said.
Shinji looked around at each of the riders as his spirit began to lift up, “Really everyone?”
Ichigo pumped his fist, “We’re all just men, but at some point, we made the choice to become Kamen Ri-ARGGHHHH!”
Ichigo then fell over as Odin had thrown one of his swords into his back.
“That was a lot of riff-raff. Who does he think he is? Captain America?” Odin asked as he examined his other sword, “I hope I can get that cleaned.”
Shinji grabbed Ichigo, “Kamen Rider..! Come on finish the sentence! Hang in there!”
Weakly, Ichigo held out the Survive card. Shinji could almost feel tears in his eyes as he snatched the card and stood up.
“Riders regroup!” shouted Momotaros.
Shinji stepped forward as he heard the jumps and running of the other Riders. He took out his Advent Deck as flames erupted behind him. He heard the transformations of Decade and ZI-O from behind him. His Advent Deck turned from black to red. Shinji moved his arm just like Ichigo.
“Henshin!” he shouted.
“Survive!”
He stared at Odin as all of his monsters had regrouped as well.
“Wait! Wait!” an excited but familiar voice shouted.
Ryuki turned around as he saw Kamen Rider Build running towards him down the street carrying cards.
“Sorry I’m late, but Philip and I examined your cards and Decade’s cards, and well… I’m a genius!” he shouted jumping up with glee.
Shinji then quickly slotted a card into his DragVisor Zwei as he heard something being thrown at him.
“Gaurdo Bento!”
DragRanzer flew down and protected him from another one of Odin’s sword strikes. Ryuki looked up. Odin’s hands were on his face as if he was bored.
“Look I’m just tired of interruptions,” Odin said.
Kamen Rider Build handed Shinji the cards, as Ryuki examined them each card were Advents and abilities of other Kamen Riders.
“We got the idea from when you used Den-O’s sword the other day, and I couldn’t just help myself..!” Build said.
Everyone really did believe in me, I was just thinking too much! He thought.
“Thank you! Let’s try these cards!” Ryuki said as he grabbed them.
Ryuki looked at his selection of cards and chose one that had Faiz on it, he then loaded it in.
“Just attack already,” Odin said.
“Shoot Bento!”
Faiz’s gigantic gun from his Blaster form flew down into Ryuki’s hands as both riders and monsters charged forward. Ryuki fired the gun downward at three Shocker Grunts and the Crane woman, then upward towards Odin. Odin promptly teleported out of the way. Ryuki then loaded in another card, this with Den-O.
“You’ll never be able to properly hit me.” Odin gloated.
“Sword Bento!”
Den-O’s sword fell into Ryuki’s hand as he slashed forward knocking back another group of Shocker Grunts.
“Oh, I’m just having fun! For you don’t know my joy.” Ryuki said.
Odin then teleported behind him and slapped him forward, however, Survive form proved more resistant to his attack.
I need some way to distract him!
Just then Gatack ran past him.
That’s it!
“Gatack.. Clock Up and fight Odin!” Ryuki said.
Gatack nodded and activated Clock Up.
“CLOCK UP!”
Gatack then ran at super speeds at Odin, who then teleported once again away, however, Gatack quickly switched gears as he continued to chase after him. Odin was forced to constantly teleport out of the way. Ryuki heard him yawn.
“You won’t be able to catch me,” Odin said.
Ryuki then slotted in several cards.
“Rider Adobento!”
“Rider Adobento!”
“Rider Adobento!”
“Rider Adobento!”
Next Agito, Den-O, W, and Wizard were teleported doing their Rider kicks flying towards Odin.
KABOOM! KABOOM! KABOOM! KABOOM!
There were multiple explosions but it was not enough to hit Odin, who then kicked Gatack away.
“The area of effect isn’t large enough!” Ryuki said.
“I feel like I can help with that,” ZI-O said holding a golden watch.
“Grando Time! Grand ZI-O!” his belt said.
“I think I see your plan Ryuki.” Den-O said, “Kabuto! Faiz! Help Gatack!”
Kabuto and Faiz nodded.
“Start Up!”
“CLOCK UP!”
“You’ve got ten seconds Ryuki!” Den-O said.
Odin can handle one-speed Rider, but can he handle three? Ryuki thought.
Kabuto and Faiz dashed forward and Odin was completely distracted this time.
“Alright now I’ll bring him down..!” ZI-O said.
Ryuki watched as ZI-O pressed the statues of the other Riders all over his body including Ryuki’s. All of the main Heisei Riders (except for the ones chasing Odin) were now in the air ready to Rider Kick. They all came down like meteors as the explosions didn’t stop coming.
“Urghhhh!” Odin said.
The smoke began to clear as Odin emerged. His armor was cracking and the golden colors had faded more, Ryuki felt like this indicated he was weak. Odin took out another card and slotted it in.
“Gaurdo Bento!”
Odin then caught the shield as he put it up to protect himself.
“This guy just doesn’t know when to stop,” Momotaros said crossing his arms.
Ryuki then noticed two other Rider Advent cards, they were of Ichigo and Knight. He felt a hand on his shoulder as he turned to see Ichigo.
“Kamen Rider..? You were faking?” Ryuki asked.
Ichigo laughed, “If there’s anything I’ve learned from you Heisei Riders, it’s how to be more dramatic!”
Another hand on his other shoulder, “Kido, let’s go.” Knight said.
Ryuki then jumped up slotting in the two cards, Ichigo and Knight appeared behind him as they all three jumped forward, their feet crashed into the shield as it broke, Odin was then hit.
The impact knocked him backward rolling onto the ground several feet away, yet he continued to stand up.
“How could he withstand that?” Knight asked.
Odin held up a single card, it read “Confine Vent.”
“He must have slotted it in as we were kicking!” Ryuki said.
“Rider Punch!” Ichigo said dashing forward.
“Freeze Bento!” Odin’s visor said.
Ichigo was then frozen, Odin then slotted in another card.
“Clear Bento!”
From the air, Knight was hit by Odin’s twin swords. He was knocked backward out of his transformation before appearing before Ryuki.
“These new cards prove that you’re useless with your own power!” Odin said pointing at Ryuki.
Ryuki paused for a moment.
Could he be right?…No! He thought.
Ryuki then laughed.
“I’ve always been a formidable fighter, I understand that now. Besides everyone needs help sometimes!” he said taking out the Survive card from his DragVisor Zwei. Ryuki then reverted into his base form and kicked Odin away. Odin then charged back, fist forward, and let out a frustrated grunt. Ryuki quickly slotted in one of his cards.
“Guardo Bento!”
Ryuki then held up his DragShields and charged forward crashing into Odin. Splitting apart the shields, Ryuki then headbutted him, and then crouched downward slamming the shields onto his legs. He heard Odin grunt in pain as he kicked him again. Odin backed away holding his hand over his chest. Ryuki then took out his sword vent card and caught his sword, clutching it.
“I-I-I can still teleport..!” Odin said.
Ryuki could hear the desperation in his voice as he nodded. Golden feathers then fell in front of his face as he quickly turned around and slashed Odin.
“ARGGGGHHHH!” Odin screamed again.
“Strike when you see golden feathers!” Ryuki shouted.
Odin was then on the ground, tired and weak.
“Kill me. You Riders always wanted that.” Odin said.
Ryuki stared at him, “I’ll never kill anyone Tatsuya. You’re just a guy who got mixed up in all of this.”
“No!” Odin said, “I’ll die on my own terms then!”
Odin disconnected his cracked deck and smashed it on the ground. Ryuki then heard the Golden Phoenix screech from behind him. It flew towards Tatsuya intending to eat him as the Contract had been ended.
“No, you don’t!” Ryuki said.
“Adobento!”
DragRedder flew downward shooting a fireball at the Phoenix before opening its mouth to chomp upon the bird.
“WHY?!” Tatsuya asked, “How could you let me live after all I’ve done?”
Ryuki turned around as he saw Ren picking up Tatsuya, “That’s just how Kido is. Now.. Get lost!”
Ren threw him into a mirror forcing him to leave the Mirror World. Ryuki then looked at his arm as it was fading away. It was time for everyone to leave. Ryuki left with Knight and Ichigo. (The ice had cracked as soon as Tatsuya had left transformation.) Everyone boarded the Den-Liner.
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There was a massive Rider party aboard the Den-Liner. Ryuki sat at a table with Ren, Hongo, and Momotaros. Naomi served them coffee. In the background, the other Riders were dancing with the Imagin.
“Thank you Naomi,” Shinji said smiling.
“You’re welcome Shinji..!” she said winking at him.
“I’ll pass,” Ren said.
Naomi then gave him a mean glare.
Shinji saw as Momotaros covered his mouth, “That’s right we never told her it was you and not Knight-jerk who refused her drinks.”
Shinji sipped Naomi’s drink before spitting it out, “I accepted this time to be polite. Also, I have a date with her on Saturday.”
Momotaros laughed, “Good luck Drag- Shinji!”
Shinji then looked at his watch as his eyes widened, “I’m late for work!”
“You know this is a time travel train right?” Momotaros asked.
“Yes, but you always chose the wrong time..!” Shinji said.
“Alright..alright,” Momotaros said.
“I’m first this time?” Shinji asked.
Momotaros nodded as he exited to another part of the train car.
The train came to a halt as Shinji hopped off, Ren followed.
“Ryuki!” Ichigo’s voice said from behind.
Shinji turned around to see all of the other Riders waving goodbye. Shinji smiled as he waved goodbye.
“I’m going back to Eri. See you around Kido.” Ren said as they went separate ways. Shinji composed himself and walked to the front door, but he heard someone beside him. He turned to his left to see Tatsuya holding out a cup of change. Shinji pulled out his wallet and gave him some money before stepping inside.
If he had stayed a moment longer he would have heard Tatsuya say, “Thank you.. Ryuki.”
Shinji was sitting on the Den-Liner as Momotaros, Urataros, Kintaros, and Ryutaros all crowded around.
“So you can make Decade more cards based off of me..?” he asked.
“Certainly! We send him new cards all the time based off of the newer riders. ” Momotaros said.
Ryutaros covered his face, “Momo that’s supposed to be a secret!”
Urataros leaned into Shinji’s ear and said, “Sempaii isn’t the most efficient leader.”
“A secret is a secret!” Kintaros declared.
“SHUT UP!” Momotaros said stomping, “SHUT UP ALL OF YOU! SHINJI IS THERE ANY IMPORTANT MOVES YOU DO BEFORE BATTLE?”
Shinji rubbed his chin, “Well there is one thing.”
Later…
Decade ran forward as he chased after an Mirror Monster.
I thought Ryuki was supposed to have taken care of all of these things?
The Mirror Monster was based off an Rhino and was quite large. It jumped into a mirror to escape Decade, as he quickly chased after it.
This will be the perfect time to try out those new cards the Imagin gave me.
He took out his cards and opened the Neo-Decadriver. The card he read was called “Attack Ride- Sha!” Decade looked at it puzzlingly and put it in the driver.
“Attack Ride..! Sha!”
Not being in control of his movements, Decade forcefully copied Ryuki’s signature fist pumped and shouted “Sha!”
The Mirror Monster looked at him confused as it charged into him throwing him into a wall before escaping. Decade groaned and held onto his stomach.
“Those idiot Imagin and their cursed catchprhase cards!” he said.
Elsewhere Metalgelas returned to his master Kamen Rider Gai as the beast held out an card stolen from Decade. Kamen Rider Gai snatched the card.
“The fool probably didn’t even know what hit him. This will do nicely.” Gai said.
He held the card up to the light, it read “Kamen Ride RYUKI Survive.”
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Ren and Shinji had fought many times, but never like this. Ryuki stood outside on the city streets. He heard Ren’s footsteps behind as he took out a card.
“Sword Bento!” his visor said.
Ryuki caught his sword as he immediately charged forward. He wasn’t going to wait for Knight to strike first. This time he would be the aggressor. The one that wanted to fight. He slashed forward as Knight sidestepped away poking him in the stomach. Shinji groaned as he got a grip.
Losing will mean not gaining respect.
He jumped forward tackling Knight ignoring the possibility of another sword attack. Knight pushed Ryuki off of him as he loaded in a card.
“Nasty Bento!” his visor said.
Darkwing flew forward screeching out sonic waves to stun Shinji, he withered as he struggled to grab another card.
“Freeze Bento!”
Darkwing was then frozen in place, Ryuki looked up as Knight was surprised.
“Where did you get that card?!” Knight asked.
Ryuki didn’t care to answer as he punched Knight and then jumped forward with his sword, Knight then rolled out of the way as he then poked Ryuki again. He then jumped up leaping off of Ryuki’s head to Darkwing. Ryuki saw as he had his back turned slashing at the ice trying to free Darkwing.
“Strike Bento!”
Ryuki then tossed a fireball forward, the resulting blast left behind an explosion. Darkwing soared above freed.
“Trick Bento!”
Next several Knight copies raced forward towards Ryuki as Ryuki put up another card.
“Gaurdo Bento!”
Ryuki held up the twin DragRedder shields as he tried to block the attacks. The Knights surrounded him as Ryuki crouched himself downward holding the shields above him. He then pushed himself upward knocking all of the Knights off of him.
“Sword Bento!”
The real Knight jumped forward towards Ryuki. He was holding a powerful lance. The resulting strike broke Ryuki’s guard, Knight then slashed again sending Ryuki upwards into the air. Ryuki came downward with a kick towards him, which sent Knight flying in the other direction as Ryuki took out another card.
“Clear Bento!”
Ryuki dashed towards Knight and slid behind him ready to attack when Knight swung around and slashed him.
“Arghhh!” he said.
He fell on the ground as he could be seen now. He pulled out another card.
“Adobento!”
DragRedder flew spraying a stream of fire as Knight leaped over a car for cover.
“Adobento!”
Next Darkwing flew towards Ryuki hitting him like a batting ram, Ryuki clung on. Darkwing could not handle Ryuki’s weight as the beast slowed down its speed. Ryuki sliced a lamp post and let go falling off of Darkwing. He quickly rolled away as the lamp post fell on top of Darkwing. He heard the running of footsteps behind him as Knight pushed him out of the way with DragRedder chasing behind. Ryuki took out another card. He watched as Knight tried to lift the lamppost off of Darkwing. They were using their combined strength, this made Ryuki hesitate.
I just want to stop him from stopping me.
He slotted the card into his visor.
“Final Bento!”
Ryuki jumped up as Dragredder flew around him, just then Knight immediately lifted up the lamppost as he took out his own card. DragRedder shot forth a fireball that propelled Ryuki forward.
“Final Bento!”
Suddenly Knight jumped over Ryuki’s head as he landed on the ground creating a crater. He looked up as he saw Knight and Darkwing’s cone spiral fall down upon him.
KABOOM!
Ryuki was on his backside.
Tricked! Come on Shinji, get up.
“Stand down Kido, you’re tired and beaten,” Knight said.
An idea of his own popped into his head. He reached for his belt. The Survive card. Flames erupted around him as his visor transformed into the DragVisor Zwei.
“Survive!”
He slowly got himself up and waited for Ren to transform.
“Kido…” Knight said.
Ryuki stood waiting as he kept one of his hands close to his cards.
“Very well..” Ren said.
Ren pulled out his Survive card as the wings around extinguished the previous flames. However, the trademark sound of the Advent Card being pulled out was heard twice. One from Knight and the other from Ryuki.
“Survive!”
Ryuki held his own final card, as he turned it around to show Knight. He slotted it inside.
“Confine Bento!”
Suddenly Knight’s Survive armor broke into mirror shards. He was left in a confused state, so Ryuki ran forward giving him a sideways kick. Knight flew out into a mirror as Ryuki followed. Both of them had disconnected their decks now as Shinji picked up Ren ready to punch him.
“Stop!” said a deep and familiar voice.
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Nigo had encouraged Ichigo to seek out Knight and Ryuki. Ryuki had been acting strangely and Knight did not seem to trust his friend’s abilities. It was strange to him. He trusted Nigo. He trusted the other riders that fought Shocker, but these Heisei Riders were different. Never the less he considered them heroes like himself, even if they sometimes only shared the name “Kamen Rider” in common.
I remember what it was like to be young. He thought.
He picked up Ren and Shinji with each arm and separated them.
“I can only guess what this is about,” Hongo said.
“He doesn’t believe in me! He never told me what happened..!” Shinji said.
“He’s going to get himself killed. Kamen Rider help me restrain him.” Ren said.
“No…” Hongo said looking at Ren.
“I’ve solved the case. I can find the Rider behind the attacks! I’m capable!” Shinji said.
Hongo sat Shinji down and put a hand on his shoulder, “Why do you think you can do it alone?” he asked.
“I just know I can especially with my new cards,” Shinji said.
“New powers.” Hongo said thinking back on the various powers of the Riders after him, “Go Ryuki.”
“Go? He can’t just go.” Ren said.
“But Ryuki, promise me one thing,” Hongo said.
“What..?” Shinji asked.
“When you need help call for us.” Hongo.
“I promise,” Shinji said.
He then ran off.
“If he dies, it’s on my hands,” Ren said.
“Then follow him. Respect your friend.” Hongo said.
He then put Ren down as the Rider ran off towards Shinji.
Unsure what to entirely do, Shinji frantically took out his notepad and began taking notes. If he remembered correctly, he would forget the future entirely by tomorrow.
What should I write down?!
He tried to calm himself and think back to previous events. He examined the Advent Card again.
This was the Rider, Decade was fighting. He claimed to be behind the monster attacks. But then why is the Rider on the card? Usually, monsters are on the Contract Card. Also, how could he have used Time Vent after he died?
Shinji wrote down the sequence of events on his notepad and took a deep breath. It would have been impossible for that Rider to use Time Vent.
That means that he wasn’t behind it all. The real villain used him as a setup. But then who is the real villain? There has to be some sort of connection right?
Up above Shinji heard a swooshing sound. He looked up as he saw another monster fly towards Restaurant Agito. It looked just like the owl monster but was blue.
Wait, there weren’t two monsters yesterday..! Time has changed!
Shinji wrote this down and then described the two monsters.
Both birds..huh. I wonder why specifically birds? Maybe there’s a clue, but first. I should collect their cards. I must have not found them before because I was in a hurry.
Taking out his deck, Shinji transformed and then took out his Survive card.
I’m still in a hurry, but my new cards and Survive form will make short work of everyone.
“Survive!” his visor said.
Ryuki called forth DragRanzer as he then loaded in his Clear Vent card. Both Ryuki and DragRanzer then became nearly invisible as they flew over to where Agito and G3-X were fighting. As the birds were flying in the air, DragRanzer blew a large stream of fire engulfing the monsters in flames. Ryuki then used his gun to shoot them out of the sky.
KABOOM!
KABOOM!
Two Advent Cards flew down into Ryuki’s hands. There were now blank.
This confirms that the same person summoned these monsters. Off to find the others!
Ryuki flew off leaving behind a confused Agito and G3.
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Back at the stadium with Kabuto and Gatack, Ryuki took note that just like with Agito there were now two worms. Remembering how effective Freeze Vent was, he used it again. The enhanced power of Survive froze both of the Worms in place as Ryuki used Dragranzer’s tail to slash both of them into pieces, he then jumped down to the ground to collect their Advent cards. Again both were blank.
“Ryuki! What are you doing here?” Kabuto asked.
“There’s no time for that! Quick tell me what significance do those Worms hold?” Ryuki asked.
“One of them was a puppet imitation of my sister!” Kabuto said, “I should have been the one to..”
Ryuki cut him off, “What about you Gatack?”
“That Worm is the one that killed my brother,” Gatack said.
Hmm, so the Worms were connected by sibling relationships.
“Thank you..! Be on guard.” Ryuki said climbing back onto DragRanzer.
“Say haven’t we been through this before?” Gatack asked rubbing his helmet.
“Yes. You have.” Ryuki said before flying off.
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Next, he was flying over towards Faiz who was now being chased by the large monster and a smaller flying monster. Ryuki then noted that the smaller one seemed to resemble a crane.
Another bird interesting.
Sneaking up behind, Ryuki rushed in.
“Sword Bento!” the visor said.
He then slashed into the air making an “X” shape. Fire burned from the blade making the x into a powerful flaming projectile. It flew towards the Crane monster destroying it. Shinji rolled forward collecting her Advent Card.
“Ryuki?” Faiz asked, “I think I remember this..”
“Then let’s destroy that thing..!” Ryuki said.
“Exceed Charge!”
“Shoot Bento!”
Faiz jumped forward and kicked the monster, the energy from his kick created a powerful shockwave that started to burn its face and neck. Ryuki charged up and fired his gun at the belly as DragRanzer let out a stream of flames. The creature very quickly turned to ash. The Advent Card flew into Ryuki’s hands.
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Ryuki tackled the Bird Dopant. He managed to stop it from throwing W’s bike. Shotaro, Philip, and Akiko rushed out.
“Eh, what’s going on?” Akiko asked.
Ryuki slashed the Bird several times with his sword and then kicked it away. He then took out another one of his cards.
“Clear Bento!” the visor said.
You know the problem with this card is I have to have the confidence that it’s actually working.
He ran behind the Bird Dopant and slashed at its back, Ryuki raised his sword up again.
“Memory Break!” W shouted.
W’s kick came forward hitting the Bird Dopant as it was followed by an explosion. Ryuki raced to grab the Advent Card and then rushed off to leave.
“Wait..!” Philip said, “I have so many questions!”
“I have your number,” Ryuki said.
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Ryuki was then back at the scene where ZI-O would be fighting, Ryuki saw up ahead ZI-O was already fighting the blue shark rider along with the Bee Woman.
All the monsters had Advent Cards, meaning they all came from the same source
Ryuki’s walk was slowed down as he continued to fill up his notebook with details. He was also breathing heavily. The rushing around and constantly being in Survive form took out a lot of energy from him.
But who could be behind this? Let me reexamine my notes.
He flipped through the pages as the sounds of battle continued up ahead.
All the monsters share a bird motif, except for the Worms and the giant monster. The Worms are connected through a sibling connection. The monster can be explained as an outlier. There’s always at least one outlier. If ZI-O wins, then its possible time could be reset again. There’s only one Rider that could be the culprit. Odin but it’s too obvious to be Kanzaki. Has to be I’ve got to tell Den-O, but he wouldn’t listen to me.
Then immediately the Den-Liner appeared in front of Ryuki. Exhausted, Shinji removed his Advent Deck and nearly closed his eyes.
Get a hold of yourself Shinji, still need to solve the case.
His eyes began fading as he Ren rush out of the train with his trademark angry look on his face. It was then that everything went black.
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Raydragoons were everywhere. On the streets, flying in the air. They were attacking people everywhere. A desire entered Shinji’s mind. A desire to save them all. The victims of the Rider War, the victims of the Mirror Monster. He could win and maybe save them all. But there was so much blood. On his blue jacket. In his mouth. And he felt very tired. Like he wanted to sleep for a long time. But then there was a light. A light that brought him back to a old-time, but an old place.
“Kido!” he heard Ren say.
His voice was like an echo. Shinji could tell he was in a dream because echoing voices were the standard for dreams.
“Kido!” Ren said again.
He did have their eerie feeling that this dream had shades of memories, but there was no time to dwell on this. He had to stop Odin. Time to awaken.
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Shinji forced himself awake as he was laying on a couch with Ren staring at him.
“Kido!” he said.
Shinji smiled, “You already said that.”
Ren crossed his arms, “What do you think you’ve been doing?”
“I’m sorry Ren, but I’ve already been through all of this. What time is it?” Shinji asked standing up.
“You passed out for the entire night! Sit down.“ Ren said.
“So time didn’t reset. I wonder why?” Shinji said.
“Time reset? I don’t know what you’re talking about but please sit down. Eri and I will go get you some tea. Like the kind at Atori’s.” Ren said.
He then exited into the next room. Shinji smiled.
Eri really has softened up Ren.
He took out his deck and checked for the Blank Advent Cards he collected.
Ren won’t believe me. He’s too worried about me. Den-O won’t listen to me.
He looked at the coffee table in front of him. Ren’s Advent Deck lay before him. Reaching forward he grabbed the deck and quickly walked over to a human-sized mirror.
“Henshin.” He said quietly.
Shinji examined his body surprisingly it wasn’t as strange as he thought to see himself as Knight. Darkwing appeared in the mirror and screeched lightly in confusion.
Shinji put his finger to the helmet and said, “Shhhh it’s only for a little bit.”
He then hopped into the Mirror World. Heading outside onto the road, he pulled out a simple business card. This card had the cartoon drawing of the Imagin along with the Den-Liner train. It was a card used by Riders to contact Den-O if something related to time travel happened. Shinji readied his stance to appear more like Ren and practiced his voice to be a bit deeper.
“I am Ren.” He said to himself.
That sounds alright enough. I hope.
He put his thumb on the corner of the card and it glowed. Shinji looked around waiting for something to happen.
Gee, I hope they can travel to the Mirror World. That’d be embarrassing if they couldn’t!
He turned around about to leave when he heard the familiar sound of the Den-Liner. He quickly turned back around as the train doors opened up revealing Momotaros.
“Knight? What is it, did you talk to that dragon-jerk?” Momotaros.
“Yes, but more importantly I’ve solved the case. Someone is messing with time.” Shinji said.
Momotaros then pulled him inside the train, “I knew it! I can feel changes in time in my knees, I just can’t tell what!”
Shinji stood on board as he saw Ryutaros wave. He waved back.
“I collected these Blank Advent Cards, I’m sure that the Rider behind this is Kamen Rider Odin,” Shinji said.
“Ah, Kanzaki Shirou we have a large file on him.” Said a voice.
Shinji saw an older man eating rice.
“I don’t think this is Kanzaki. He only cared about his sister.” Shinji said.
“But how do we find him, Owner?” Momotaros asked.
You know I was so tired, I didn’t think about that.
“One would think that such a troublemaker would be easy to track,” Urataros said.
While they talked, Naomi offered Shinji a drink. Shinji politely held up his hand to indicate no.
“Please, it’s a new blend, I’m sure you’ll like it.” She said.
Again Shinji said no.
I have his cards. Maybe I can use them to find him?
“Knight do you have any ideas?” Momotaros asked.
Suddenly a memory popped into Shinji’s head. He remembered during the Rider War, when he used Zolda’s cards. They would always go straight back to the source.
“I have an idea!” He said his voice slipping back to normal, “I’ll find and handle him myself.”
There was a pause, “Well sure you seem pretty confident.” Momotaros said.
Kintaros hit Shinji’s back, “You’re a strong warrior Knight!”
“We’ll be able to track you if something goes wrong anyway. Thanks for taking care of the problem for us either way.” Momotaros said.
Shinji then hopped off the Den-Liner, he waved goodbye to the Imagin as he walked off.
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“You know he sounded different,” Momotaros said.
“He was much nicer than he usually is,” Ryutaros said.
“Maybe he had a cold,” Kintaros said.
Naomi however crossed her arms and had a grumpy look on her face, “But why didn’t he try my coffee?! He should have brought his friend, Ryuki! He’s a lot nicer!”
The other Imagin looked away not wanting to tell her the truth. They all liked Naomi.
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Shinji disconnected the deck as Ren stood in the living room angry. Shinji disconnected the Advent Deck and held it out to Ren. He snatched it out of Shinji’s hand.
“What do you think you’re doing?” Ren asked.
“You’ll see. You’ll all see I’m going to prove myself to the other riders.” Shinji clutched his own Advent Deck and began to walk away.
“Kido.. Just stop! We’re done fighting. You don’t have to prove yourself.” Ren said.
“No. I love being a Rider, but I don’t like not being taken seriously.” Shinji said.
“You’re not taking your own life seriously. Kido, I already watched you die once!” Ren said.
Shinji’s eyes widened.
“W-what? But you told me..!” Shinji said.
“I lied. You died like a true hero, truth is it should have been me. You were always the better man.” Ren said.
“No! I stopped the Rider War.. I survived! I told you I’d never die.” Shinji said.
“Kido we were all brought back to life by chance. I can’t let you die this time. Even if I have to stop you.” Ren said.
“Why didn’t you tell me? I kept telling myself that I survived. I stopped the Rider War. It was my confidence!” Shinji said.
“Kido, you were never a warrior, just someone who found a card deck. I can’t let you die again. There’s so much good you can do.” Ren said.
Shinji got out his deck and walked over to the mirror, “Then..then..I’ll show you how strong I really am! Henshin!”
Shinji transformed and leaped into the mirror again.
Ryuki ran onto the scene finding a purple clock-based rider fighting a blue Rider. The two riders were dueling with swords ready to face off. As the blue Rider turned, Ryuki noticed something to his surprise. The rider clearly had an Advent Deck. The other rider appeared to be the much-talked-about Kamen Rider ZI-O. The man with the book and the scarf was also there appearing to observe the battle.
Two new Riders?
“You Riders may have stopped my monsters for now, but you can’t stop me forever.” The rider said.
He’s behind the monsters? If I can help him win, I’ll surely impress the Riders.
“A king protects his subjects, even other Riders,” ZI-O said.
“Behold… the overlord of time will defeat yet another Mirror Rider..!” the Scrafed guy shouted.
“You know Woz, sometimes it feels like you don’t help out much,” ZI-O said.
Ryuki took out his Sword Vent card.
“Sword bento!” the visor said.
He leaped up and caught the sword and dashed forward when suddenly the Den-Liner appeared in front of him blocking the way. Ryuki stopped in his tracks. The door opened as Ren exited the vehicle.
“Kido, we need to talk.” He said.
“Ren? What are you doing? Transform there’s a Rider right there!” Ryuki said.
“No.” Ren said standing in front of Ryuki’s way, “ZI-O can handle it himself.”
“ZI-O? You mean that’s the king of time over there? What’s going on? You sound grumpy.” Ryuki asked.
Ryuki could now only hear the sounds of battle as he anxiously waited for Ren to leave.
“I need you to stop doing this,” Ren said.
“Stop? I’m just lending a helping hand out..” Ryuki said.
“No.” Ren said, “You’re just looking for validation. Kido, Riders stay in their own business.”
Shinji took a moment to think back and realized he realized he never really saw the other riders much except when during a crisis.
“I suppose that’s true but-” Shinji said.
“Then you don’t need to help ZI-O. Go home.” Ren said.
“He’s literally fighting a guy with an Advent Deck and besides I just wanna ask him something too!” Shinji said.
Behind the Den-Liner, Shinji heard “Finish Time!” This sound was followed by an explosion and screaming. Ryuki then rushed past Ren and jumped over on top of the train.
“Kido!” Ren said.
Ignoring Ren he went to investigate as ZI-O was examining a card.
ZI-O!” he said.
ZI-O turned his head in surprise to see Ryuki and the Den-Liner.
“You guys are a little late.” ZI-O said, “He left behind a weird card.”
Shinji recognized the back of the card clearly meant it was an Advent Card.
“I use those cards!” Shinji said.
ZI-O tilted his head, “Then you can have it.”
Shinji took and examined the card himself. The border of the card was gold-tipped similar to Survive, however, the card was completely blank.
“Huh?” Shinji said out loud titling the card around hoping to find something.
Maybe this is a clue after all.
“What are you guys doing here?” ZI-O asked.
“Oh! King of time, I wanted to ask you something. You use my dragon powers a lot right?” Ryuki said.
“Dragons are cool,” ZI-O said.
“How useful do you consider them?” Ryuki asked.
Decade held onto his chin to think.
“Well, fireballs and DragRedder are pretty useful. You know I think that even my evil future self uses or used DragRedder.” Decade said.
“You make it sound like DragRedder is more useful than me,” Ryuki said.
“I summon all of the Heisei Riders fairly often,” ZI-O said.
“Hey..wait! Do you ever copy my fighting style?” Ryuki asked.
Woz rubbed the back of his head, “Your fighting style is too silly for the overlord.”
“Silly?!” Ryuki said.
Ryuki turned around as Ren was coming towards him again.
Am I really silly?
“Ren? Am I silly?” Ryuki asked.
Ren raised an eyebrow, “..Yes? Without question.”
Ryuki sighed.
“Get on the train, we’re leaving Kido.” Ren said.
Ryuki removed his Advent Deck as he followed Ren. On the train, he was greeted by the other Riders and Momotaros.
“Hello everyone,” Shinji said softly.
He turned his attention to Momotaros, “I found this strange Advent Card at the scene! I think it has something to do with the monsters appearing..!”
Momotaros turned his head and said, “I don’t know a thing about Advent Cards.”
“Maybe you and I can solve the case. I can tell you all about the Advent Cards!” Shinji said.
“Well..” Said a voice.
Shinji turned to the crowd, as he saw the man wearing the scarf again. He flipped through pages of his large book.
“The book of time actually says that Kamen Rider Knight will help Momotaros solve the case.” He said.
“Then that settles it, punk-jerk you’re staying with me!” Momotaros.
“No..! Take me back to Eri. I don’t care about any of this.” Ren said.
“Ren? Solve a case? That sounds impossible.” Shinji said holding the blank Advent Card.
“It is prophesied, but time has a way of tweaking and working itself out. I’m sure you’ll realize that.” The scarfed man said smiling.
He winked at Shinji as the Den-Liner stopped.
“This is your stop! But I’ll be talking to you soon Knight!” Momotaros said.
Shinji and Ren got off at the same spot. The Den-Liner quickly left after they stepped off.
“What does all of this mean? Why did I find this Blank Survive card?” Shinji asked.
“Don’t know. Don’t care. Forget about it Kido. The situation is probably over with.” Ren said.
“I feel like there’s something more with this.” He said.
Shinji looked off as he saw Ren walking away in the moonlight. Shinji yawned himself. He heard a clock ring. For a moment he closed his eyes. He then heard a strange Mirror Call. It was familiar to him.
Then when he opened his eyes, it was daytime. And he was in front of Restaurant Agito where he saw the owl monster from.. Yesterday?
What’s going on? It was just night! I couldn’t have fallen asleep.
Memories flashed to him.
Punch when you see golden feathers!
He quickly pulled out the Advent Card from Decade’s fight. The card still had a blank symbol however, the type was Advent and the creature summoned was the Rider that ZI-O was fighting.
I’m not sure how, but I’ve traveled back in time.. Again!
Shinji had arrived back at ORE Journal’s front building, he looked and found Tatsuya in the same spot, even towards the evening.
“Shinji you’re back, how did things go with the Riders?” Tatsuya asked.
“Amazing! I may have screwed up a little bit, but I was much stronger!” Shinji said.
“Splendid, I’m glad I could be of some help,” Tatsuya said.
“I want to thank you! Come with me!” Shinji said.
“Come with you?” Tatsuya said his eyes widened.
“I’m going to take you to a cafe. A way to repay my debt.” Shinji said.
“If you insist,” Tatsuya said.
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The waiter had scoffed at Shinji, presumably for bringing in a homeless man, but he did not care. Repaying your debts was important. He had ordered soup while Tatsuya had steak. He wanted to find out more about him, he had his fair share of money problems but he had never been homeless.
“Tatsuya? If it isn’t a rude question to ask, why are you homeless?” Shinji asked taking a bite.
Shinji noticed that Tatsuya took large bites and was quick to ask their waiter for more drink.
He then swallowed and said, “You see that’s the problem Shinji, when you’re homeless people ALWAYS take advantage of you.”
A swell of anger ignited within Tatsuya as he clenched his fist slamming it on the table. Shinji held his mouth open, not putting his food in his mouth. The other participants in the restaurant turned to stare.
“My father used to be the owner of a start-up computer company, however, his life was cut short,” Tatsuya said.
“Cut short how?” Shinji asked.
“He was killed by a Mirror Monster,” Tatsuya said.
“A Mirror Monster? But they’re all gone after I stopped the Rider War which forced Kanzaki to reset time! That’s what Ren told me.” Shinji said.
“Your friend Ren is correct, but that doesn’t change anything! My father was mysteriously murdered and I was a prime suspect. There was no real proof, but accusations and suspicions arose. I couldn’t run my father’s company, I wasn’t ready. Everything fell apart. And then Kanzaki found me and took away my life.” Tatsuya said.
“He killed you? Just for not taking the Ryuki deck?” Shinji asked.
“Not just kill me, he sent Mirror Monsters after me. A bat monster I’ll never forget… I’ll never forgive him. It wasn’t enough for him to just kill me, no the puppeteer reversed time to bring back only to torment me again. These memories, I cannot shake them even in this new world.” Tatsuya said.
“T-that’s awful, but we were all given a new life. We should do our best to move past it all right?” Shinji said.
“Never. I won’t forget. “ Tatsuya said as his face was burning red.
Shinji closed his mouth and quietly took a bite of his food.
“Let’s just eat our food..” Shinji suggested keeping his head down.
Tatsuya calmed down and quickly waved down the waitress for more food and then turned to Shinji.
“But isn’t it funny?” he asked.
Shinji’s mouth was full, “What is?”
“I complain about being taking advantage of and misfortune of life, yet here I am taking advantage of your generosity. I complain about dying, while outside the cafe there appears to be a group of Shocker soldiers in the street. Yet here I am eating steak as a man is about to die.” Tatsuya said smiling.
“What?!” Shinji said as he turned around.
Tatsuya’s rant distracted him from the other parts of the room and he noticed the crowds weren’t looking at them anymore and instead were beginning to rush out the door. He looked out the window to his right to see an older man being taken, hostage.
“You should have told me..!” Shinji said as he stood up.
However, Tatsuya grabbed his arm, “No. Don’t go. What purpose would it serve? You’ve shown the riders how strong you are, let us watch the harshness of life.”
Shinji felt his emotions shatter within as he pushed Tatsuya’s hand off of him, “Listen. I’m a Rider to protect people, first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. I wanted to believe you were a well-meaning man, but you’re really just a bitter man who can’t let go of his past…even when his past is erased!”
Shinji then ran forward to the glass taking out his Advent Deck, “HENSHIN!”
He felt his armor land on his body as he jumped through the window kicking the Shocker grunt and freeing the older man. The older man quickly ran away as Ryuki turned to face the other group.
“Sha!” he said before taking out his Guard Vent card.
“Guardo Bento!”
Catching the sword in the air, Ryuki observed his surroundings. There were a group of eight Shocker Grunts walking down the street.
Everything was normal a minute ago, when did these guys get here?
“Eeeee!” they shouted as they ran towards Ryuki.
Clutching his shields, he waited for them to come towards him, the second one of them got close he swung his shield to bash them. The Shocker grunts were never smart, they were a break compared to his previous battles. In a matter of minutes, Ryuki had made a pile of unconscious bodies. He crossed his arms in confidence.
I’m pretty cool eh? He thought to himself.
“So you defeated my Combatmen…” said a voice.
Ryuki looked up to see a cockroach-looking monster standing above the cafe. Interestingly enough, the monster had a cape. The monster jumped down from the cafe and stood away from a short distance from Ryuki. Ryuki kept cautious as he waited for the monster to make his move.
“I am Gokiburijin of Neo-Shocker, once again you Riders have gotten in Shocker’s way!” he said pointing at Ryuki.
“That’s what we Riders do, protect the peace,” Ryuki said.
“Hmph! Then die!” Gokiburijin said.
Suddenly he moved at extremely quick speeds circling around Ryuki.
He looks to be going a similar speed to Clock Up…!
Ryuki could hear the echo of laughing as he wasn’t sure what to do. He slotted in one of his cards.
If it worked on a Worm, why not this him?
“Freeze Bento!”
A blast of ice appeared in the afterimages of the monster, but it seemed to not have any effect.
“What?!” Ryuki asked.
The laughing continued, “My turn!” Gokiburijin said.
The cockroach jumped forward with several swirling kicks towards Ryuki’s face. Ryuki stepped backward as he sent a punch forward only to miss due to the monster’s remarkable speed. He then felt a punch towards his back as he fell to the ground. He groaned and forced himself up headbutting into Gokiburijin as he then pushed him down. He then took out another card.
“Final Bento!”
DragRedder circled around Ryuki as he jumped up and was propelled by a fireball directly towards Gokiburijin. The monster swung his cape in front of him and Ryuki was deflected off and instead was launched through a window.
My kick is ineffective? But that’s impossible..!
“I shall be the first to defeat.. A Kamen Rider..!” Gokiburijin said.
The sound of lightning then crackled followed by sounds of rushing wind and a loud primal-like screech.
“The heavens cry out!” shouted a voice.
Gokiburijin turned around and said, “No! Not now!”
“The earth cries out!” the voice continued.
Ryuki couldn’t tell where the voice was coming from, but Gokiburijin seemed annoyed.
“All calling us to defeat evil! Listen up villains, we are the warriors of justice Kamen Rider!”
Ryuki saw three Riders jump down from the room he had fallen in. Getting up he took a look outside to see Showa Riders, Stronger, Skyrider, and Amazon.
“His strength relies in the cape..steal that and he’ll be defenseless!” Skyrider said.
“Ah yes, Skyrider.. My predecessor fought you before, but you won’t be able to catch me..” Gokiburijin said.
“GIGIGIGI!” Amazon screamed as he jumped forward claws first.
“What..?!” Gokiburijin said.
Amazon jumped on his back digging his claws onto the monster’s back. Gokiburijin roared in pain as Amazon ripped off the cape in one swift pull.
“Electro Fire..!” Stronger shouted as his left fist was charged in electricity. He slammed his fist on the ground as an electric current traveled towards Gokiburijin shocking him in place.
Skyrider then clutched his belt, “Sailing Jump!”
He flew upward then launched forward with a kick, “Sky-Kick!”
What happened next was an explosion as Ryuki hopped down to his fellow Riders followed by more laughing.
“But cockroaches adapt!” shouted Gokiburijin among the smoke.
There were four of him now, the center one with the ripped cape and the other three each having their own capes.
“Riders go for the capes, Ryuki..finish your fight!” Stronger said as Skyrider and Amazon immediately split off from the group.
“Yosha!” Ryuki said as he took out one of his cards.
“Strike Bento!”
“You needed to be saved by your seniors…pathetic!” Gokiburijin said.
“Don’t let him stir doubt within you Ryuki!” Stronger said.
“Ryuki… friend!” Amazon said.
“I needed help from my seniors too. Riders are comrades!” Skyrider said.
“Thanks, everyone!” Ryuki said as he shot a fireball towards the Shocker cyborg.
Gokiburijin rolled forward under the fireball and sped up close and personal with Ryuki. He swung his arm forward and Ryuki blocked it with his DragClaw.
“Ouch!” shouted the Gokuburijin as he retracted his arm.
Ryuki then shot a spew of fire underneath them knowing he was at least immune to fire thanks to his dragon powers. However, the fire spread to Gokuburijin’s legs as he reeled in pain. Ryuki slotted another card.
“Adobento!”
DragRedder flew forward teeth first knocking over the cyborg, Ryuki shot another fireball. It flew forward as he was distracted resulting in a direct hit. Gokuburijin exploded for good this time.
He then turned his attention towards Amazon whose claw strikes were not able to pierce through the cape. DragRedder flew forward as Ryuki grabbed onto one of DragRedder’s legs.
“Amazon!” he shouted.
Amazon jumped back and saw Ryuki. He hopped onto the side of DragRedder crawling like a lizard unseen. DragRedder flew around their opponent. Ryuki saw that the clone of Gokuburijin could not run fast enough to escape DragRedder’s long body. Amazon remained unseen. Suddenly Ryuki heard, “GIGIGIGGI!” as he saw Amazon suddenly jump from above clutching himself onto the back of the copy.
“Arghhh! Infernal riders!” he cried.
Amazon was able to slice parts of his cape to shreds as Ryuki lifted himself forward into the air and launched his own kick. Amazon bounced himself off lining up the copy for his kick. Another explosion occurred.
Both Amazon and Ryuki rushed to Stronger’s aid. Ryuki slotted in another card.
“Sword Bento!”
“Electric punch! Electric kick!” shouted Stronger as he sent a flurry of kicks and punches towards his opponent.
Like Amazon, his attacks were useless against Gokuburijin’s cape. An idea popped into Ryuki’s head as he motioned Amazon to line up behind them, Ryuki ran further back and waved towards Stronger.
“Electro Fire!” Stronger said as he slammed his fist on the ground.
The lightning bolt forced Gokuburijin to moved backward despite him blocking the attack, Amazon stuck out his claws to rip the cape and Ryuki slashed his sword at his back. Another explosion erupted.
Next was to help Skyrider, Ryuki already had an idea. He instructed DragRedder to spew flame at the final Gokuburijin. Distracted by Skyrider, the cyborg was unable to escape the flame, which burnt his cape to shreds. Ryuki then slotted in the last card.
“Final Bento!”
However, when DragRedder circled around him, Ryuki instead pointed towards Skyrider. DragRedder flew around Skyrider, as he activated his sailing jump.
“Sky kick!” he shouted as DragRedder propelled him with another fireball greatly enhancing his sky kick.
This made the biggest explosion out of the four. Ryuki and the other Riders rushed towards Skyrider. Stronger patted Ryuki’s back.
“Interesting strategies young rider!” he said.
Ryuki rubbed the back of his head, “Thanks, guys. Were these guys part of the reviving enemies?”
Skyrider shook his head, “No, but we were doing our own investigating when we stumbled upon this Shocker plot.”
“Shocker is still around?” Ryuki asked.
“Battle never stops,” Amazon said.
The Showa Riders have been fighting for longer than anyone all while their enemies never truly disappear.
“I-I-I admire your strengths.” Ryuki said.
“That’s the thing with us Kamen Riders, the battle may be long, but we won’t rest till we defeat evil!” Stronger said.
The three Riders summoned their bikes as they rode off as the sun began to set.
There’s a lot I can learn from those guys. I wonder how I can call my moped to do that.
Ren was riding his bike on the way to see Eri when he heard the distinct tune of the Den-Liner approaching from behind. Ren immediately sighed and decided to speed up instead of slow down. He then turned on his motorcycle radio to drown the train out.
“Hey!…Hey!” Ren pretended to ignore the shouting of Momotaros, “Hey! I’m talking to you! I SAID I’M TALKING TO YOU!”
Ren continued to ignore him, but then suddenly his rock music switched to pop.
“Li jan! Sugee jan! Li Jan! Sugee jan!” the radio sang.
Ren recognized the song as their obnoxious theme music. Realizing they weren’t going to leave him alone, he stopped his bike as the Den-Liner accidentally shot past him. Ren sat there unamused, waiting for the Den-Liner to backup. After a minute, he was face to face with Momotaros.
“We need to talk to you,” Momotaros said.
Ren took a step inside the train and saw a multitude of Riders. If there was another world-ending crisis, he wished they’d not call him on nights he wanted to spend with Eri.
“What is it this time?” he asked.
He looked around and spotted the Showa and a portion of the Heisei Riders.
“It’s about Ryuki. He doesn’t listen to me.” Momotaros said crossing his arms.
“What’s he doing?” Ren asked.
Whatever this is, Kido’s going to owe me more money.
“We just want you to talk to him. He’s acting kind of strange.” Agito said.
“I could tell he was being reckless. He thinks he has something to prove.” Faiz said.
“Precisely so, if he thinks he can fights Worms. Worse, he stole my kill.” Kabuto said.
“He was a little help, but mostly someone who messed up our flow,” Shotaro said, “and worst of all Philip won’t shut up about his dragon.”
“But what is he doing?” Ren asked.
“He’s meddling in their businesses! We can’t just have Riders showing up and disturbing our fighting styles.” Momotaros said.
“Sorry.” Ren said, “We haven’t had Mirror Monsters so Shinji does little more than stop purse-snatchers these days. He is kind of a restless guy now that he doesn’t have a war to stop. I think he misinterpreted my advice about proving himself in a battle.” Ren said.
“Ahem!” said a voice from behind.
Ren turned around to see the Showa Riders. Nigo pushed Ichigo forward, “You know what to say Hongo.”
Ichigo pulled himself together, “He’s a proud young man. Why can’t riders help each other? You should believe in your fellow riders.”
“When someone wants to do more, you should let them,” Nigo said.
“Says the cyborgs..” Ren said.
“Why don’t you believe in him?” Ichigo asked.
“You don’t understand,” Ren said. “Kido is always in over his head. He doesn’t remember this, but he died. He never survived nor stopped the Rider War. He just doesn’t remember.”
“You never told him?” Momotaros asked.
“No,” Ren said. “There was no need. Kido was happy.”
“But we should trust in our allies,” Ichigo said.
“He’s a better man than I, but he’s a reporter, not a superhero. I can’t let him die again” Ren said.
“Well, tomorrow he’s going to try to help ZI-O according to Owner,” Momotaros said.
“Give me the location, and I will put a stop to this,” Ren said.
“Knight, we’ve all lost allies,” Nigo said.
Ren looked around the room as many of the Riders looked away. Presumably lost in the thoughts of the ones they lost.
“Amazon’s friend, Mole Beastman was lost to Geddon,” Amazon said.
“Kusaka..Kiba..Mari….so many sacrifices.” Faiz said.
“Yukina,” Agito said softly.
“Not even the sun can shine on everyone,” Kabuto said.
Ren looked down at the ring on his fingers.
“You’ve all lost someone, but Kido doesn’t need to die again. I will make sure of it.” Ren said.
“If that’s what you really want. We will take you there soon.” Momotaros said
“No. I want to settle this now. This is a time machine train, take me to tomorrow. ” Ren said.
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Shinji had a checklist, he had written down every Rider he could reasonably visit. But first, he wanted to grab a few things from ORE Journal’s offices.
“Hello, again Shinji,” Tatsuya said sitting in the same spot.
“Oh..hi! I have some spare change for you this time!” Shinji said.
“I actually have something for you instead,” Tatsuya said as he reached into his torn coat pocket.
“Oh really? Thank you..! What could it be?” Shinji said smiling.
Maybe he found a winning lottery ticket and wants to split it!
But Tatsuya instead pulled out something much more surprising than a lottery ticket, it was instead a blank Advent Deck.
“An Advent Deck? You shouldn’t have that, it could be dangerous!” Shinji said.
“Ah, you don’t understand Ryuki. I’m here to help you. I’m a Rider too, or was.” Tatsuya explained.
“A Rider? I don’t remember you in the Rider War.” Shinji said.
“I was able to escape my fate, I was meant to be Ryuki. Kanzaki or Odin originally gave me the deck, but being the coward I was, I gave it to my friend Koichi Sakakibara.”
It was hard for Shinji to remember the Rider War, but he did remember how mysteriously he had found his Deck in Sakaibara’s apartment.
“I never found out what happened to Sakakibara, Ren told me he was eaten,” Shinji said.
“He was. And then it was passed onto you. I’ve lived with that guilt for years.” Tatsuya said as he stood up bowing, “I’m sorry Shinji.”
“But why do you have a blank deck?” Shinji asked.
“Shinji have you ever considered that your deck is actually quite weak compared to the others? You have no special ability cards.” Tatsuya said.
“Well..” Shinji looked at the cards in his deck, “They’re all good but outside of a fireball there’s not much.”
“You see the Ryuki deck was originally going to be the most powerful. Kanzaki assumed that being a homeless man I would fight more viciously to win so there were several extra cards created for the deck. However, I ran away from Odin and dropped these special cards.” Tatsuya said.
Tatsuya took out the cards from the blank deck. They were Copy, Freeze, Clear, and Confine.
“But those are other Riders’ cards! I remember them.” Shinji said.
“They were then found by Odin and redistributed to other Riders as ways for Kanzaki to tip the scales. It was only since a new timeline being formed I have been able to collect them. I thought that it would help me bury my guilt, but I can’t shake it. I want you to take the cards Ryuki and I hope you can forgive me.” Tatsuya said.
Shinji rubbed the back of his neck, “It’s alright. I made it out alive and stopped the Rider War. I don’t remember all of the details, but that’s what Ren told me. Really everything’s fine.”
“Stopped the war?” Tatsuya said with confusion in his voice, “Why.. Yes! You’re a great hero. Please take the cards. They’ll change to be part of your Contract once you use them.”
“Thanks! You know.. I was just thinking that I might be under-classed compared to the other Riders. These cards will surely help me with that! Thanks again, but I should be going!” Shinji said.
Shinji then emptied out his wallet to Tatsuya and waved goodbye. Tatsuya smiled back.
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Kabuto and Gatack fired their shots at a former foe. Mysteriously, the Bellcricetus Worm had reappeared. Kabuto wasn’t in the least bit surprised though, his Grandmother had taught him to expect things like this. They had gotten word of the creature and tracked it towards a stadium.
No matter how hard one tries, you cannot block out the Sun.
The sun of course referring to himself. Kabuto made a mental note to chronicle that quote down. While anyone who met him would know that he quoted the wise musings of his Grandmother, few heard the musing of Kabuto himself. So he opted to write his quotes down. They would work well in his latest cookbook.
Nevermind all of that, the Worm needs attention.
“Stop.” He told Kagami.
Kagami stopped firing as Kabuto lowered his gun. They had just spent a minute firing into the Worm and it seemed to make little difference. Clearly, this one was stronger than the previous incarnation. Kabuto suspected a greater work was at play, but they couldn’t be much of a problem if this was what they sent to block out the Sun.
“Tendou? What’s wrong?” Kagami asked.
“Someone else is here,” Kabuto said.
Just then Kamen Rider Ryuki appeared seemingly out of nowhere slashing the Worm with his Sword.
“Bet you didn’t see that coming!” Ryuki said.
The Worm offered no communicative response as Kabuto activated his Cast Off mechanisms.
“Cast Off.” He said.
“CAST OFF STAG BEETLE!” his belt said.
By then the Worm had activated Clock Up.
“Get out of the way!” Kagami shouted.
Too late. The Worm moving at super speeds smacked Ryuki sending him flying forward, fortunately, Gatack caught him.
“Clock Up,” Kabuto said.
“CLOCK UP!” his belt said.
The Worm ran off in the opposite direction as Kabuto chased after it.
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“Ryuki? What are you doing here? Didn’t Den-O teach you guys that we fight Worms?” Gatack asked as he put down Ryuki.
“A monster is a monster and I fight monsters. What do they do?” Ryuki asked, looking a little dizzy.
“They’re able to run at supersonic speeds! You can’t keep up!” Gatack said.
“Keep up? Sure I can! Watch me!” Ryuki said.
He then pulled out one of the cards from his belt. Gatack couldn’t see it and had no idea what was going to happen.
Ryuki is the guy with the Castle Dragon right? Gatack thought
“Freeze Bento!” said Ryuki’s Visor.
Gatack had no idea what was supposed to happen, but in the next instance, Tendou suddenly appeared flying towards them. Before a crash could occur, Tendou gracefully landed on his feet in front of them. Gatack then noticed that the Worm had been frozen solid.
“Tendou did you just trip?” he asked.
“No. I nearly tripped. There is a difference.” Tendou said.
“Hello Kabuto, I’m glad to help,” Ryuki said, holding out his hand.
Tendou ignored the gesture and pulled Gatack aside.
“Did you invite him to our city?” Tendou asked.
“No. I don’t know what he’s doing here. Maybe he just wanted to help out?” Gatack said.
“He’s ill-advised.” Tendou said.
“He froze the Worm, maybe he can be of some help?” Kagami asked.
“Fine, but I will be the one to defeat it.” Tendou said.
They turned and noticed the ice was crumbling very quickly. The Worm then rushed forward, however, the ice had made it slower.
“Final Bento!” Ryuki’s visor said.
Ryuki’s dragon then flew around him juggling the worm into the air, Ryuki jumped up and was propelled forward by a fireball towards the Worm. The resulting kick exploded the Worm as Ryuki landed on the ground.
“Ugh.” Tendou groaned.
“Did you see that? I used DragRedder to protect myself from its dash!” Ryuki said.
“Yeah! Good job Ryuki!” Gatack said.
“I don’t like him,” Tendou muttered.
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This is going great! These new cards really give me an edge. Shinji thought
He was driving down the street of his moped hoping to find Faiz. Some roads appeared to be blocked off with policemen guarding the area. Shinji considered this unusual since this was supposed to be the main highway. Then suddenly, he felt the ground shake. This was followed by a loud thumping sound with increased larger shakes. Shinji quickly got off of his moped.
I think something’s about to happen..
And something did happen as Kamen Rider Faiz flew down the street being chased by a massive, four-legged, grey beast.
“What the..!” Shinji said.
I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve worked with the other riders to fight off much larger monsters but it’s still a shock to see something that big.
He immediately raced down an alleyway finding a cracked mirror.
“Henshin!” he said.
After transforming he then ran towards where they went, while pulling out his Survive card.
“Survive!” his visor said.
Changing into Survive mode, he hopped on DragRanzer as they flew towards Faiz. Faiz was ahead of the monster chasing him in his Blaster form.
“Hey, Faiz!” Ryuki said.
Faiz slightly turned his attention to an unexpected flying Ryuki allowing the monster he was fighting to headbutt him into the ground. Ryuki flew down as DragRanzer fired three fireballs at the monster. Like the other monsters, the gigantic creature was silent and did not seem to wince in pain. It turned its attention to Ryuki as it fired a horde of needles towards him. The needles knocked him off of DragRanzer, but the dragon swooped under him, breaking the fall. Ryuki jumped towards Faiz who fired his gun into the monster’s mouth.
“Ryuki..!I heard you might be making a visit..” Faiz said.
“You did?” he asked.
Faiz then ran down an alleyway as the giant monster kicked Ryuki towards him. Faiz then caught him.
“I’m not sure why you’re here, but you need to settle whatever’s going on with you,” Faiz said.
“I’m just trying to help!” Ryuki said.
“I don’t need help,” Faiz said.
“You don’t need help? You’re fighting a giant monster!” Ryuki said.
Faiz pressed a sequence of buttons on his gun, “I don’t want to see anyone else die.”
“Exceed charge.” The device said.
Faiz jumped in the air kicking towards the monster’s face. A powerful shockwave of blasts spiraled around him. Then the monster lunged forward knocking Faiz off onto the ground. Just then DragRanzer and Ryuki flew in front of Faiz. DragRanzer blew fire at the monster forcing it to step back.
“I don’t want to see anyone else die either,” Ryuki said.
Faiz contemplated and then pressed a different sequence of buttons.
“Exceed charge.” It said again.
“Then get ready..!” he said.
DragRanzer flew behind Faiz as Ryuki took out his Final Vent Card.
“Final Vent!” his visor said.
Dragranzer transformed into a bike as Ryuki drove towards the giant monster. Fireballs flew out from DragRanzer’s mouth, keeping it away from Faiz. Faiz fired his gun and the blast began piercing the monster’s skin.
KABOOM!
It then turned into ash.
Faiz then deactivated his transformation as Ryuki stood before him looking at the ash.
“I transform to fight monsters you know?” he said.
“You’re alright, but don’t throw away your life recklessly. Someone once told me, that we only have one life.” Faiz said.
Faiz removed his belt to turn his attention towards Ryuki.
“Lives are precious. That’s why I spend mine saving people.” Ryuki said as he removed his card deck.
Takumi walked away, “Good answer.” He smiled and walked off.
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Shotaro was typing out a case.
“And so W and the Kamen Riders thwarted another army of mooks. The battle was long but relatively easy. However, I can’t help but think there’s something more afoot, but with no clues or evidence, I’m out of luck. Philip and I should stay in Futo anyway, the other Kamen Riders can handle the other parts of the world. We Riders stick to our own corners unless we’re truly needed to unite.”
Just then a young man wearing a bike helmet and blue jacket walked in clumsily knocking over a coat rack.
“Oh..sorry!” he said picking up the coat rack.
That voice..! I’ve heard it before.
Philip lifted his eyes from a book as Akiko got up from the couch to welcome their new customer.
“Narumi Detective Agency! How can we help?” she said.
“Yes..yes.. Yes.” The man said digging out something from his pocket.
He’s one of the riders I’m sure, but which?
Shotaro went through a list of Riders in his head remembering their voices.
No, not Zeronos. Definitely not Hibiki. He kind of looks like that Faiz guy, but his voice is too high.
The man then pulled out a card deck and shoved it into Shotaro’s face.
“Greetings, I’m Kamen Rider Ryuki!” he said and then bowed.
Shotaro reeled in surprise.
“Ah yes.. Well Mister Kamen Rider are you here for a case..?” Shotaro asked, taking a drink of coffee.
“No, I’m here to meet up with you guys.. Kamen Rider W!” Ryuki said.
Shotaro unnaturally swallowed his coffee to prevent doing a spit take.
“H-how did you know?” Shotaro asked.
“I read newspaper articles and compared locations to sort of guess where you would most be! Also, that bike outside is a dead giveaway!” Ryuki said.
“I told you we should hide that bike Shotaro!” Akiko said.
“But it looks so hardboiled,” Shotaro muttered.
“H-hardboiled?” Ryuki asked, raising an eyebrow.
Philip and Akiko walked towards them.
“It means he thinks he’s cool,” Akiko said.
“But we all know he’s really half-boiled,” Philip said.
Shotaro frowned.
“Ryuki.. Is there some sort of crisis again?” Shotaro asked.
Ryuki rubbed the back of his neck, “No, I was just hoping there would be though.”
“Hoping?” Shotaro asked.
Then without warning, Shotaro’s bike flew through the window. Akiko screamed as Philip grabbed her to take cover.
“My bike!” Shotaro said as he looked out the window.
It’s always bad luck to type out the case before 5:00.
It was an older enemy, the Bird Dopant.
“I was thinking something kind of like that,” Ryuki said as he transformed.
Ryuki jumped forward unseen.
“Philip let’s go!” Shotaro said taking out his Joker memory.
“Henshin!” they said.
“Cyclone! Joker!” the belt said.
“Last time we fought this Dopant, we had help,” Shotaro said.
“We’ll have to make due and hope Ryuki doesn’t get in the way,” Philip said.
Ryuki was holding the Bird Dopant but his grip loosened and It slashed him away. Shotaro took note that the Bird Dopant was in its strengthened form. Running forward, W punched the Dopant with his Cyclone half. The punch created a gust of wind that forced the bird to take flight.
“Shotaro. This bird is just a pale copy. It’s not a real person. We can go all out.” Philip said.
“Noted!” Shotaro said.
A fireball shot through the air grazing the back of the Bird Dopant. It then fell down feet first onto Ryuki. Shotaro reached out for the Trigger memory.
“Luna Trigger!” the belt said.
The Bird Dopant was knocked over inside the Detective Agency.
“Alright..let me try something!” Ryuki said pulling out a card.
“Confine Bento!” his visor said.
Suddenly W’s gun refused to work. As if it was out of bullets, which would be impossible.
“Huh?” Shotaro asked.
Ryuki turned his head towards them, “Uh oh.”
“Uh oh? What do you mean uh oh?” Shotaro asked.
“I used a card that nullifies powers. I guess it just sort of defaulted to you..Sorry!” Ryuki said.
“Great..” Shotaro said switching to HeatMetal.
“Heat! Metal!” his belt said.
Standing up the Bird Dopant slashed several strikes forward, the first strike hit Ryuki and W. The second strike W blocked with his staff, as Ryuki was hit a second time. W poked the Bird Dopant as Ryuki took out another one of his cards.
“It better be something useful this time,” Shotaro said
“I’d like to look up Advent Cards sometime,” Philip said.
“Not now Philip!” Shotaro said.
“Guardo Bento!” Ryuki’s visor said.
Arming himself with shields W watched as Ryuki charged forward only for the Bird Dopant to fly above him and kick.
“He’s not the brightest Kamen Rider..” Philip said.
“I’m still not even sure why he’s here,” Shotaro said.
“Yoshhaa! I got it.” Ryuki said.
He then took yet another card.
“You know Ryuki, we can handle this perfectly fine..” Shotaro said.
“Adobento!” his visor said.
Suddenly Ryuki’s dragon flew down swirling around the Bird Dopant. W watched from down below as the bird attempted to claw and kick its way to freedom, but the dragon’s hide was too thick.
“There! Now do something!” Ryuki said.
Shotaro grabbed the Metal memory placing it into the compartment on his staff. Both sides of the staff burned with intense flames as W jumped up forward into the vortex of the dragon.
“Metal Branding!” Philip and Shotaro said.
KABOOM!
W landed gracefully on the ground and returned back to Shotaro.
“Heh. That was pretty cool.” Shotaro said.
“Maybe even hardboiled?” Ryuki asked.
“Hardboiled means a bit more than just cool, but sure we’ll take that,” Shotaro said.
Philip and Akiko walked out of the agency.
“Shotaro get a broom!” Akiko said holding up a slipper menacingly.
Shotaro sighed, “Why can’t Philip do it?”
“He’s going crazy with curiosity..” Akiko said.
“That was amazing! Ryuki!” said Philip. “Tell me about your dragon! The Mirror World! Your cards! Everything!”
Shotaro watched as Ryuki was bombarded by Philip.
“Listen I actually gotta get going..” Ryuki said rubbing the back of his head.
Shinji left but not without first exchanging contact information with Philip for further study.
My name is Dest Lance and I am tormented by a golden sphere.
My name is Dest Lance and I am tormented by a golden sphere. Each night after a long and stressful day I conclude to my bed, I struggle to fall, but eventually release into a deep sleep. For four months, I have had the same vivid dream. I’m outside on a runner’s track laying on the ground. The sun is out, the weather is perfect, not too hot, not too cold. Clouds but no sign of rain.
Now, I’m no athlete. I’m not over nor under the line of weight, I do not regularly exercise. But I’ve always had legs born to run. Not just sprint, but to go fast. Ideally, I was in the perfect place to run, and each moment I took in made me want to run. The only thing that looked imposing was that the track stretched so very far till I could not see an end. I looked down the track seeing no other runner in sight. Standing in front of the line was the golden sphere, it floated just above as I contemplated running. I eyed the ball suspiciously tilting my head sideways feeling something eerily familiar about it.
Next, I heard the patter of steps behind, everytime I turn around to see who it is as a runner stops his jog. Upon examination this man is everything I wish I were. Immense energy, great strength, and a certain posture that radiates confidence.
“Who are you?” I always ask.
“I am West. I’m your ~~~” he said.
“What was that? I couldn’t hear that last part.” I said to him.
“Run towards the sphere. Catch it.” he says.
“Catch it? Why?” I ask.
He then starts running down the track at remarkable speeds
“Wait! You didn’t answer my question!” I called out.
He doesn’t listen and he’s gone as soon as he came. I look towards the sphere and eye it like a cat. I dash forward with a powerful sprint reaching out to grab it, but to my surprise, it flies forward making sure to stay just out of my reach. I stop and catch my breath. The sphere remains floating about a foot in front of me, I again just jump forward attempting to grab it as it eludes me.
Alright..alright.. It wants a challenge. That’s fine by me. I can catch it.
I position myself onto the concrete and eye the sphere. I’m not sure why I think I can catch it, but I still want it. I sprint forward once again trying harder this time.
Faster! Faster! See, this isn’t so hard!
My arms reach, my fingertips just about to touch the sphere’s grace. My emotions fill with pride.
But then…
KACRACK!
I fall over in pain as if lightning struck and went straight through my heart. I hear whispers of voices. They sound familiar but I can’t place them. Worried emotions from the day’s events swarm me as I fall to the ground forcing myself to a grinding halt. Fear grips me. Paranoia strangles me. I dare not say what troubles me in the real world, for some things are to be kept private, but here it is the golden sphere that consumes my problems. I look up at it and move away. Doubt has filled me.
I don’t know what to do so it’s easier to just not do anything at all.
And then the dream ends only to continue the next night. The next night I refuse to try to catch the sphere, it worries me too much. I hear footsteps behind me again, as I turn around to see West.
“You know what you must do,” he said.
“Push through? No, I can’t. I’m not like that.” I said.
“You can and will,” he said before running off again.
I stared at the golden sphere. Pushing past pain was no small feat, but others did it every day. Why couldn’t I? I sat on my legs, every part of me aching to pounce. There was a desire to still catch the golden sphere, even if it hurt. Again, I wait for the dream to end. This occurs for two more nights till I consider the idea.
Despite my fear, there is still a desire to catch it. I want to see things through.
I ready myself and dash forward, the pain strikes, but I am ready for it. This time, I continue running forward and stretch out my arm yet again. My teeth clench as I’m about to grab it.
KACRACK!
A stronger, more intense pain happens. The voices are louder, the doubt of abundance, and fear hits me. I stop suddenly but do not fall. I take a breath to calm myself.
I ran through fire once, but it looks like I’ll be asked to do it again.
I needed to rest, so I sat down and waited for the dream to end again. The next few nights I made great progress. I ran through at least five more hurdles. I was proud of myself, I felt like the sphere was nearly in my reach. My speed had been increasing along with my courage and confidence.
One more sprint perhaps and I’m home free?
The thought was puzzling. What would come after I catch the sphere? Would there just be more trouble? I could not tell you what the sphere meant, there was no concise meaning or implication on what catching it was meant to be, but I could feel emotions coming from it. I imagined it had something to do with the real world, but my thoughts from there were miles behind me here.
Still, am I ready to catch the sphere?
I nodded my head. Yes, I was ready. I had to be. If I didn’t catch it, I’d always want to. If it wasn’t a golden sphere, it’d be a red sphere, or a green sphere, or even a blue sphere. There would always be a sphere for me to catch. Whatever responsibilities entailed with catching the golden sphere I would work through. I just needed this one final sprint and it would be mine.
I stretched upon the track getting myself excited. I could feel the rush of running in my veins. I stood up ready to dash.
I am ready for my future.
Go! Rushing forward I move my legs with all my might. I remind myself of everything I’ve worked towards as I edge closer to the sphere. It continues to elude, but this time it can’t escape me.
But..
KACRAAAAAACCCCKKKKKKKKK!
The lightning struck twice this time. Their intense ripple is felt across all my body, I force myself to stop. The shadow of doubt looms its head again, casting across the confidence I gained. A barrier forms in front of me preventing me from even seeing the sphere. I’m afraid to go past it. I don’t know what went wrong. Was I too late to catch it? I kneel down, placing my head onto the barrier. And this is where I have resigned since. Not moving. Not trying. Just waiting for things to be over with. It’s not great, but I’m out of options. What am I supposed to do? Run through a wall?
“Yes.” West’s voice said.
I turn around to see him behind me. What does he want?
“You must push through,” he said.
I hold my hand up at the barrier, “Through that?”
He nods.
“No! I’m tired. Tired of fighting myself, there are too many battles. I can’t do that. ” I said.
He walked over to me and held out his hand, “You can. Let’s run.”
I reluctantly take his hand and stand up. My bones still call out for me to run. Everything around me cries to me telling me to run.
“You just need a headstart,” West said.
He drags me by arm ten feet away from the barrier. Ridiculous.
“I can’t run through a wall, that’s impossible!” I shouted.
“Try. Let’s do it together,” he said.
I scrap my foot against the pavement, “Fine. One last time.”
We both ready ourselves and then dash forward. I start running keeping up with West’s pace. We inch closer and closer to the barrier much to my worry.
“Faster!” he says.
I immediately push myself to go faster. Our speed increases significantly and despite the short distance from our start to the barrier, it seems to go on forever till my nose is about to touch the wall.
KABOOM!
Somehow we crashed through the wall, pieces of brick fly everywhere. I can’t believe what just happened. Regaining my focus, I see the golden sphere and we race towards it. Our speed keeps increasing, but we nearly stumble. I look down at West, and I notice that I’m going too fast for him. He loosens his grip about to let me go. The intensity of the wind rushes through my ears, I feel a massive burst of energy within me.
“I am West, your inner self. Run towards the sphere, catch it,” he says before letting go.
I look behind me as I soon cannot see him. I look down at myself and find my body to look more like West’s with some changes I’ve grown comfortable with. It all makes sense now. I was him. He was me. I am becoming like him. He was like me. I look towards the sphere again and increase my speed. I’m going faster than I’ve ever gone before.
KACRACK! KACRACK! KACRACK!
Not this time.
I rush past and avoid the lightning trying to strike me down. I won’t fall into those pitfalls again, my speed increases. I’ve never seen anyone go this fast. The feeling is great, I have no worries. I am free. The sphere is mine. I go faster and faster as I reach out for the final time.
But wait…
I can go faster. I retract my hand and push myself. My breathing is heavy. Closing my eyes, I summon all the remaining strength within myself to fight against the urge to stop. I adjust my position to the left of the sphere and run past it, I go faster and faster by the second. Now, the sphere cannot keep up with me. I smile as the world shatters like glass behind me. The dream is ending now. I am happy.
My eyes are greeted by the sun’s light as I get out of my bed. I feel refreshed and renewed, the previous day’s problems no longer bother me. Today is a new day, and today I’m going to better myself.
