Disclaimer: I own nothing about Super Heroine Chronicle or Kamen Rider.
First Show – Opening Performance
It was hot. At least thirty degrees Celsius and factoring in the humidity, it felt more like thirty seven degrees. In this type of weather, no sane person would be staying outdoors for long and no sane person would certainly be travelling across a desert. But yet, this logic seemed to escape two young female travellers.
"It's definitely this way! The bird flew this way some time ago!" The tall female had a black top hat and golden ribbons in her long brown hair. Her outfit consisted of a one piece pink outfit that had part of her chest exposed in the middle along with her belly button. The dress portion had the four suits sewed into the fabric. Long white boots and gloves covered her legs and hands and she wielded a stage magician's black magic wand.
"Geez, you are always this careless, Noel. There's no way the bird would fly towards town." The shorter companion had a pigtail style with her orange hair along with simple blue ribbons. She wasn't as well concealed as the taller girl, with only a bikini top, a star choker around her neck and a blue vest. A pink belt, white skirt and mismatching dark stockings made up the rest of her outfit.
"Buuu~! Then, which way is it?! You tell me, Meru!"
The smaller girl threw up her arms in frustration. "I don't know! Whose fault is it that we ended up in this place with nothing but sand?"
"It's ok! Because we have been taught well by Sensei! We'll overcome any crisis that comes!" exclaimed Noel, ever the optimist.
"Wait a second! Even if you say that, we still don't have enough training yet! With Sensei missing, there's no way we can master her teachings!"
"Really? Don't you think we're pretty strong right now? Now that I think about it, Saint Mont Blanc Academy's strongest team should be us...right?"
Meru simply glared at the taller female. "After saying that, why did you turn it into a question?"
"But Maron-chan from the class next door went on a great adventure before. It's possible we could be second," replied Noel.
"Strange time to be lacking self-confidence…"
"B-b-but… when the time for the fight comes, wouldn't it be suspicious to defeat the Invincible Undefeated?"
"Then it's just fine that we use force to prove ourselves as the strongest." Meru then shot an impish grin at her friend. "Honestly, Noel is such a child."
Noel stomped her foot in frustration. "I'm not a child! I consider myself more like a big sister!"
"Enough of this talk, which way is the town?" Geez, it was just sand everywhere with a big fat pyramid over in the north end.
"Um, it should be this way! Let's go!" exclaimed Noel enthusiastically.
"Picking a random direction again," grumbled Meru. "Will it be like the last two times yesterday?"
"Don't lose your way! GO FOR BROKE! Here we go!"
"We don't have a lot of supplies left. Wouldn't it be bad if we don't reach town by tomorrow?" Well, they could ration out the remaining food and have that stretch for another two days but water was going to be the main issue.
"Let's cross that bridge when it comes! Come on, come on, and let's go!"
Meru sighed loudly. "In your case, you've already gone over it! In times like these, you should be taking more prudent actions!"
"Prudent, like how?"
"How about trying to head towards the direction where we hear people?"
Noel snorted. "Quit the jokes. There's no way there are people in this kind of place."
She was proven to be wrong as Meru spotted someone. "Ah, over there!"
"No way!"
The two ladies saw a teenage boy stumbling in the sand. He had a school uniform on with white medical strips wrapped around both his hands. A tattered cloak was placed over his white hair to help prevent overexposure to heat and on his waist was a peculiar looking buckle shaped like a black hand with red outlines. His blue eyes looked quite weary.
"He looks a bit unsteady," noted Meru.
"I-Is he gonna be okay? Well, he seems to be holding out. Hey! You over there!"
The boy didn't hear Noel call him over. "...wa…"
"Um, can we ask for some directions? Which way…?"
"...wa-water..."
And just like that, the exhausted boy collapsed right in front of the two girls. Meru was the first to find her voice.
"Hawawawawa! He collapsed!"
When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer in the desert. Instead, he found himself in a forest area and what was important; his mouth was no longer dry. He pushed himself off his makeshift bed made from his brown cloak and noticed that his left hand was no longer wrapped in those wrappings. "W-Where am I?"
"I'm glad. Giving him water revived him!" exclaimed the smaller girl happily.
"But that was really precious water though!" complained the taller girl.
"I don't know who you two are, but t-thank you very much." He bowed to the both of them in gratitude.
"Um, are you lost too?" asked the small girl.
"I...probably am lost. Besides my name, I don't remember anything from before. All I have is this weird buckle and some rings. My name is Claude. And you are?"
"I'm Noel, the Magical Magic 1-Hit Hissatsu battle style Succession Candidate, by using martial arts, and tactics to exploit the enemy weaknesses," introduced the tall girl.
"I'm Meru, the Magical Yo-Yo martial arts Succession Candidate, who is supported by the assassination weapon magic Gekiha-Kaiten Koma Himo. We walked here from the opposite side since there's no town that way."
"A town?"
Noel nodded. "That's right! We're looking for someone! A strong, really cute, has a curvy figure, but an airhead sensei. Do you know her?"
"Geez! I still haven't even gotten to listen to the answer about directions yet!" Meru crossed her arms over her small chest. "Uh, Uh, that is to say, we don't know where to go so we got lost. Do you know where we are?"
A look of confusion appeared on the boy's face. "U...um, where is this place..."
The taller girl sighed. "No good! That's right, there's no way a person who only remembers his name could know where he is."
"Sorry..." He wished he could be of more help. Before he could try saying anything else, a strange light surrounded the trio.
"Hn? Why is there a strong light appearing?" Meru tried to shield her eyes.
"W-What? It's so bright!"
"W-W-W-What's going on? M-My eyes...!?" It was too much for Claude and he was forced to close his own eyes. Eventually the light died down and when he opened his eyes again, he and his two companions found themselves in the middle of a damaged city.
"We made it to a town? How did that happen?" asked Meru.
"Could it be...that in me was a sleeping power of the Magical Magician that just awoke!" Noel stuck her chest out proudly. "My time has come!"
"That is 200% not it!" Meru's response was well done for a tsukkomi. "Um, what is going on though?"
Claude gave a slight shrug. "I...I-I don't know..."
"Well, it's okay! Don't know what is going on but we arrived at a town-like place anyway," came Noel's optimistic reply.
"Again with another random response...! You shouldn't take it so naturally. We should be moving along steadily instead," retorted Meru.
"But, we did decide to go to another town. Alright, let's compete on who can reach a person in town faster!"
"Geez...Noel really is a child. But, since we reached town, it can't be helped. We should hurry up and find someone." Before Meru could get moving, the group suddenly found themselves surrounded by strange blue looking humanoids.
"So are these Claude-kun's friends? Will they help us out?"
"Miss Noel, I really wonder what type of thought process you used to conclude that I have anything to deal with these… things!" Claude was clearly insulted.
"Hawawa...What, what, what! Is that Claude-san's friend?"
"Not you too, Miss Meru!"
The smaller girl ignored Claude for a moment. "That skin quality! That's a captivating-like form! And, how mysterious it is blending with the world like that! Geez! Where were they hiding? Ugyuuuu!"
"Then if they're not your friends, what are they?"
"Why are you asking me, Miss Noel? It's not like I can read their mind and know what do they want!" exclaimed Claude in a frustrated tone before the blue humanoids began to multiply and reproduce additional beings.
"Th-Th-They're multiplying! Rival Bonus two, three! ...765 times!" exclaimed Meru.
"So many of them! Hold on a sec." Noel turned to their male companion. "Do something, Claude-kun! You're a guy!"
"Me?! You two are successor candidates to those martial arts and one hit kill moves! I can't do stuff like that!"
"I wonder if these are strays. Did the owners lose them? Ooooh… if there was only one, I would totally take it home with me. Ugyuuu!"
'Seriously, what is wrong with that girl?' Claude had no time to figure it out before one of those creatures tried to attack him. He managed to move out of the way just in time.
"Even though they're so cute, why do they have such an intense killing intent against us? That last attack back there was meant to kill!"
"Gee, ya think?!" That Meru girl was really going to drive him up the wall.
"Ugyuugyuugyuugyuu~~, that hateful nature multiplies it's cuteness by 100 times! I want it to return my pure love~!" Meru whipped out her yo-yos.
"Whether it's cute or not doesn't matter...Sensei's teachings tell us this is now a battlefield! As Saint Mont Blanc Academy students, we must be ready to fight!" Noel prepared her magic wand.
"Let's begin! I'll give you a heartbreak!" Meru shot the magical yo-yos forward to wrap around the blue humanoid before charging the strings with electricity to fry it. Her attack hit directly but there was no visible reaction from the humanoid on the damage. "No way!"
"No resistance… but it didn't get affected," observed Claude.
"Let me try. No tricks or gadgets up my sleeve!" The taller female whipped out a deck of cards and scattered them in the air before channeling her magic. "It's over!"
The cards then came to life and assaulted the same humanoid before detonating right in its face. The result didn't change as it remained the same as ever.
"Arere~!? My magic wasn't effective against it?"
"This isn't good. We need to get out of here!" exclaimed Claude but that was easier said than done with all the enemies surrounding them.
"How?! We're surrounded!" shouted Meru.
Noel's hand gripped around her black magic wand. "I can try the Instant Movement Magic and then..."
"Like you can pull that off in time before we're beaten! Also, because we can't all use it to escape, that's rejected! Argh! Even in a situation like this, you don't think properly, Noel!"
'Is this the end…?' Claude grimaced as his right arm pulsed but he fought to remain composed. 'You're not getting me that easily, J. I was able to survive what happened back there at the cost of my memories and part of my body and I'll survive this too!'
His mind turned back to what the mysterious voice had told him about the hand buckle and how to use it. He had also been supplied with the small number of rings although one of them changed shape from a generic orange mask to a black mask of sorts when he touched it. The ring's base also changed colour from silver to gold. 'Can I activate that power? Would it even work properly for me?'
As the group prepared themselves for the worst, a female voice called out to them. "Don't give up!"
(Ya-Haiya- SETSUNA HIBIKU Ya-Haiya- MUJOU E)
Their ears were treated to the sensation of a wonderful song and they saw a blue haired girl in a bodysuit and bits of armour phase in behind the enemy. She wielded a large sword in her hands. What stood out were the two additional blades attached to her legwear. "I am the sentinel that shields mankind. With Ame no Habakiri, I will cut open a path! HAAAAA~!"
With one swing of her sword, she sent a blue shockwave of energy which instantly took out one of the enemies which amazed Noel. In her imagination, she could even see a sign announcing the technique as 'Blue Flash'. "It's a one hit kill!"
"Now, Kazanari Tsubasa is coming forth! Return to the void!"
"A-Amazing..." Meru was astounded at the sheer confidence of this new arrival.
"That person's singing while fighting!"
"Eh~! That's what you find amazing, Miss Noel!?" Claude wasn't really picking up on this at all.
"All of you! You can all hear my song, right?" shouted Tsubasa over to them. "Then it's now okay even if the Noise touches you. My songs will protect you."
"Is that so? Then our attacks will work this time! Okay!" cheered Noel.
The blue haired girl looked a bit startled. "W-Wait a second, I didn't say for you to fight!"
"Fufufu~! Don't know until we try! Time to counterattack!" Noel readied her wand again while Meru had her yo-yos ready.
As for Claude, he himself had something he wanted to try. If this worked, at least he could do something to help the girls instead of just being protected. He picked out one ring in his pocket which had a little hand engraved on the outer edge and pressed it against his buckle.
DRIVER ON; NOW!
His belt buckle activated and some knobs appeared on the side of the hand shape while it flipped the hand finger directions to the other side and began to sing.
SHABADOOBI TOUCH HENSHIN! SHABADOOBI TOUCH HENSHIN!
Claude's next step was to place the black mask ring on his left hand and flip the visor down. "Henshin!" He brought the black mask ring over to his buckle to initiate the transformation.
CHANGE NOW!
A golden magical symbol appeared above Claude's head before it swept over him, encasing him in a gold and black bodysuit with a small miniature black sarong around his waist. The upper part of his black and gold helmet resembled a pointed hat and he had a black cape attached to his black shoulder pads.
"Claude-kun…?" Noel looked shocked at this transformation.
The newly transformed male stepped forward to fight with his companions. "I am Kamen Rider Sorcerer! This is where the limelight shines!"
"Kamen Rider…?" Tsubasa's eyes widened in recognition. "Then he's just like…"
ROUTE SPLIT!
(A) "Eiji-san." (Kamen Rider OOO: Song of Desire - Blazedragon94)
(B) "Shiroshi." (Kamen Rider Blade: The Song of Battle – Spartan719)
Since the Rider bug has bitten me and infected my muse, I decided to apply my writing treatment to this crossover RPG and give Claude (original character from that game who is mainly a medic and a coward) some competence buffs. Hope this works.
As for future story development, I'll leave some of that to you readers. Let's start with the original cast and series list used in the game:
Symphogear: Hibiki, Tsubasa, Chris
Familiar of Zero: Louise, Siesta, Tiffania
Infinite Stratos: Houki, Char, Rin, Cecelia, Laura
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Rena, Mion, Shion, Satoko, Rika
Aria, the Scarlet Ammo: Aria, Shirayuki, Riko, Jeanne, Reki
Dream Hunter Rem: Rem, Professor Shinigami
Super Sonico: Super Sonico
Di Gi Charat: Dejiko, Puchiko, Usada Hikaru
Kyousogiga: Koto, Yase
Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel: Haruka, Aoi, Kurumi, Tesla, Nine
Right now, I only have some degree of familiarity with the top half of the series list. Only the first four series listed (Symphogear to Higurashi) have existing Kamen Rider crossover stories written for them as far as I know. For those four series, I'm willing to swap in a version of those characters that have interacted with a Kamen Rider in an existing fanfic and possibly insert their respective Riders as well.
Example case with Symphogear Route Split above: Tsubasa recognizes the Kamen Rider type armour due to her interactions with either Eiji or Daisuke/Hajime from the fanfic stories mentioned.
Additional example case with Familiar of Zero: Louise would stay in the story and may be accompanied by her respective Rider familiar (TenFacedPaladin's OOO, hawkeyeriku's Eternal, Fenikkusumaru's Wizard or someone else) who would replace Tiffania. Siesta may get dropped out for an accompanying secondary character that has an impact on that Rider's character.
This will obviously depend on whether I can get author permission along with how strong the reader demand is.
For the bottom five series (Dream Hunter Rem to Twin Angel), they are highly likely to be replaced with an anime/game series that I do have familiarity with and can reasonably fit into this setting without being a super game breaker. My current possible series candidates are:
Koihime Musou, Date A Live, Black Rock Shooter, Hyperdimension Neptunia, Seikoku no Dragonar, Ambition of Oda Nobuna, Maburaho, Unbreakable Machine Doll, Sailor Moon, Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka
If you have any preferences out of the candidates above, please pick your top five series that you would like to see as replacements. Alternatively, you can even suggest a different set of series as a replacement along with your reasoning for picking them. Just keep in mind that I may not be familiar with the titles suggested and that I may not have the time to thoroughly look into whether they would be good fits or not.
In terms of writing priority, I'll be focusing on my main story more often and work on this when I need a breather from Saru and Bujin Gaim. This'll also give some time for you readers to figure out where I should start steering this thing.