Symbolic Joker: MWUAHAHAHAHA! AND IT ALL! STARTS! AGAIN!

OathToOblivion: Yep. And this time, we know Gaim. This time, the Gaidens are being taken into account. Here we go, all over again!

Symbolic Joker: But I swear to God, though... if there's a Gaim Gaiden 3 after this...

OathToOblivion: If there's a Gaim Gaiden 3, I'm going to give up and do every single other story in the SOTRC instead.

Symbolic Joker: And I'm just going to focus on the crazy multi x-over idea that may or may not be introduced to you all through this story, plus Riku SAM Jamillion's Paint the World In Your Colors, along with my college duties.

...

CURSE YOU, SCHOOL!

OathToOblivion: And with that in mind, let's get started...again!

Let's Ride! This is Our Stage Now!

HeartCatch Pretty Cure – Just Live More REDUX

Episode 01 – Precure no Sekai?! The Orange Samurai Debuts!

"U-Ugh..." A figure winced as he awoke, the bright sunlight shining in his face. He blinked in confusion at this, before immediately sitting up. Looking around, he seemed to be at what appeared to be some kind of park. "Where am I? I don't remember sleeping outside," the figure said to himself in confusion. As he got to his feet, he looked around. There didn't seem to be anybody nearby. The figure immediately started thinking about the circumstances leading up to this event.

'Let's see. I rewatched Day of the Doctor, which was still Awesome! Saw Drive 45 subbed. FUCK YOU, BANNNO! I hate you with the intensity of a trillion burning suns! Caught up with Joker, Zero's still stuck in his own ideas, CB's stuck with Pokemon, Stranger's playing video games, and Zeta is busy with his Drive/Neptunia thing. I think I was about to ask Ross how he was doing with Melody of Desire, then I... I... What was I doing?' It was then that he realized that he couldn't remember anything after that. What had happened?

"Well, no use standing around here," he decided, stepping forward. No sooner than he had done that, though, that he heard a bit of a crunch sound. Lifting his foot up, he saw what he had stepped on. "A Sengoku Driver?" he asked in confusion, bending down to pick it up. It was indeed a Sengoku Driver. It looked the same as the ones used in the show; mainly black with an indent in the middle, the Drive Bay. The silver Lock On Arm extended out above the Drive Bay. It had a blank faceplate on the left, with the fruit knife-like Cutting Blade on the right. But that wasn't all.

"Lockseeds too?" the figure said, placing the Sengoku Driver under his armpit so as to lift the fruit-shaped padlocks off the ground. They were all of Gaim's regular Lockseeds that had been used throughout the show, with no Energy ones or any of the other Lockseeds to be seen.

Orange. Pine(apple). Ichigo (Strawberry). Suika (Watermelon).

Each Lockseed was here, complete with the image of the fruit they represented on the front and their L.S. serial code stamped on the front. Orange being L.S. – 07, Pine: L.S. – 05, Ichigo: L.S. – 06, and Suika: L.S. – 10.

"Strange. People don't just leave merchandise like this lying around for some schmuck like me to take," the figure noted to himself. Just as he was about to think more on this, a strange glowing light erupted not far from where he was. He was of two minds about that after the shock died down. "Hmm. I could do the smart thing and go the other way. But on the other hand, if TV and video games have taught me anything, it's that that's probably important. And that people in this situation will get involved with important things regardless of whether they want to or not," he commented. So, he left to go find out what was going on.

As the figure came up to where the light had emanated from, he paused. He kind of had to considering what he was seeing. Specifically, a giant doll plastering a girl with pink hair into the ground. The floating fairies and the elderly woman did nothing else to dissuade what he was seeing. But it was impossible!

'If I'm not actually dreaming, then that girl that got smashed into the ground is really Hanasaki Tsubomi, Cure Blossom. But how?! This is the World of Pretty Cure, isn't it? How am I here?!' he thought frantically. It certainly didn't feel anything like a dream; not that he could remember any of his dreams to begin with. But the fact remained; how had he appeared here? It didn't matter much to him, as he was panicking.

"Oh man oh man. If I'm really in the actual Precure World, then I'm in a lot of trouble. I don't have powers or anything; I don't have any defense against the baddies of this World-Wait a second.' It was then that his thoughts turned to what he was carrying with him. He just happened to be by the site of an Anime-come-to-life and just happened to have what seemed to be toys from some other series? He'd read fanfics like this before, and if what happened there had happened now... "...Could this be a real Sengoku Driver?" he whispered to himself, holding it out in front of him. 'But at the same time, if I do this, there's no turning back. Not to mention, won't this mess up the story if I interfere? What if my doing this results in Erika not being purified, or not wanting to be Cure Marine?!' It was obvious to anyone who was noticing him that he was panicking. Luckily, the choice was taken out of his hands by what happened next.

Blossom's other opponent, the Desert Apostle Sasorina, was holding something in her hand. She fiddled with it, opening a mid-air zipper and releasing ELEMENTARY INVES?! It was indeed members of the Kaijin species of Kamen Rider Gaim in their first forms. Their bodies were lumpy and grey, with weird faces on the front. They came in three different types that were signified by color; red, blue, and green. But there wasn't really much difference between them; they were just dumb animals.

The person watching crept closer to get a better look at what Sasorina was holding. His suspicions were confirmed, as it turned out to be a Himawari (Sunflower) Lockseed, L.S. - 00, with the image of a sunflower seed. This confused him enormously. 'Wait, I thought only Riders could summon physical Inves with Lockseeds! And how did she summon so many with just one? She's definitely not a Genesis Rider!' It didn't make much sense to him that that was even possible. But the fact remained that she had done it. What was he going to do now?

'If I go down this road, there's no turning back. I will have to fight. But something's definitely fishy here that Sasorina has a Lockseed, so somebody has to do something. After all, this is outside the Precure's context; it'll take someone who recognizes it to figure out what's going on. That, and I'm a nice guy like that, unlike certain people I can think of...'

Meanwhile, in the country of Malaysia on a world parallel to the World of Pretty Cure, a certain someone blinked as strange feelings overtook him while he was staring at his Kamen Rider Drive merchandise when he should be instead getting ready for college.

"…Why...do I have the sudden urge to go on a murderous rampage?" he asked himself in confusion. "I mean, I know I hate school and all, but I've never felt like this before..." he muttered to himself.

At any rate, it looked like Tsubomi, AKA Cure Blossom, was about to say something to Sasorina. "Not only do you make Erika suffer, but the flowers too. I-I'M NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH THIS!" she yelled. 'Well, that definitely looks like a good spot. Time for an entrance, I guess.'

He came out of his hidey-hole, clapping as he did so. Everyone in the scene paused what they were doing as they noticed his appearance. As he walked forward, he couldn't help but comment. "You know, that's what I like about you Precure. Even if it looks hopeless, you don't give up," he noted.

"Who the hell are you?!" Sasorina asked in confusion.

The figure ignored her and walked near Blossom. "You know, I originally was just going to watch. I had absolute faith you'd win, Cure Blossom," he confided. Blossom was shocked.

"Eh?! Really?" she asked.

"Of course," the figure nodded. "But then I saw them." At that, he pointed at the Inves. "I don't what Inves are doing here, but you can't focus on both them and that Desertrian this early in your career," he pointed out.

"Hey, how do you know what they are?!" Sasorina demanded. Again, the figure ignored her and walked forward.

"So, I decided I'd help you out. You tackle the giant doll, and I'll deal with the lumpy things. So, shall we get started?" he said rhetorically, bringing out the Sengoku Driver and putting it on his waist. A yellow belt strap zoomed out of one end, wrapping around his waist and connecting to the other side. With the sound of a horn, the faceplate flashed. A helmet formed on it, with a rainbow visor and a yellow pattern seen behind it. This was the Rider Indicator of Kamen Rider Gaim! 'Makes sense considering I have his Lockseeds,' he thought to himself.

Sasorina was shocked at the appearance of it. "Why do you have that?! If you have that, you're supposed to be one of our allies!" she snarled.

While Blossom flinched at that, the figure just frowned. "Really? Somebody on your side has a Sengoku Driver too, huh?" he asked. "Probably the same person who gave you that Himawari Lockseed, right?" he guessed.

Sasorina was taken aback. "How do you know that?!" she yelled.

The figure rolled his eyes and put his arms together into a mock-thinking pose. "Gee, I don't know. Maybe because you just told me so?" he pointed out. At this, Sasorina gritted her teeth in anger at her blunder.

The figure then brought out his Orange Lockseed in his right hand and held it across his face. "No getting off this train now. Time to push forward," he declared, flicking the switch on the side to open the Lockseed.

ORANGE!

With that announcement, in one fluid motion he twirled it around and slapped it into the Drive Bay. He then closed it over the Lock On Arm.

LOCK ON!

With that declaration, a zipper opened in the air, releasing, "A giant orange?!" Blossom asked in shock. Also, Japanese horagai music started playing from the Driver; a sort of Standby Tune. The twin Fairies, Chypre and Coffret, started dancing around at this. The figure shook his head at this; was this really the time?

"Henshin!" he declared, pulling the Cutting Blade down. The Orange Lockseed opened at a hinge to reveal two images inside. The top looked like what an actual orange would look like if cut open, while the bottom showed a sword that looked like an orange slice. The bottom image also formed a holographic rainbow-colored image of itself over the actual image.

SOIYA!

As the belt declared that, the Orange dropped down as if to cover his head. But Sasorina had seen this before. "Like I'm going to let you!" she declared, tossing her ponytail at him. It wasn't any ordinary one though, as it extended and seemed to end in a scorpion's tail! As he saw this, the figure widened his eyes. Instinctively, he placed his arm up so that the Orange would fall on it, and placed it in front of him like a shield. The Orange opened up like a fan blade, spinning to stop the thrusts of the stinger-ponytail, and kicking up a dust cloud.

Sasorina retracted her ponytail, growling at the fact that the ends were all frayed now. Blossom had covered her eyes at the dust cloud that was kicked up, but as it cleared, everybody widened their eyes. They saw what appeared to be a samurai with a blue bodysuit with gold markings on the legs and arms. He had golden arm and leg guards, as well as a golden crescent on his helmet. The helmet completely covered his face and had an orange visor reminiscent of an orange slice. Orange armor folded down over his front as well as his shoulders. As this happened, an announcement was heard.

ORANGE ARMS: HANAMICHI ON STAGE!
(ORANGE ARMS: FLOWERED PATH ON STAGE!)

"'Hanamichi'?" Blossom wondered.

"Well well. I don't believe it. Another Rider," her grandmother, Hanasaki Kaoruko muttered to herself. Blossom heard her though.

"'Rider'?" Blossom asked in confusion. But at that point, the armor had finished folding down over the Rider. In a splash, three things happened. First, a black katana formed into being on his left. For some strange reason, it also had a trigger and gun barrel on it. This was the Musou Saber. On his right, a black holder of sorts formed with the other three Lockseeds he had clipped on. This was obviously his Lockseed Holder. And in his right hand, the orange slice sword seen in the cut-open Lockseed appeared in a flash of orange light. This was the Daidaimaru. This was Kamen Rider Gaim!

"I have just one thing to say here," Gaim started, resting the Daidaimaru behind his neck. "Koko kara wa ore no stage da (This is my stage now)!" he declared, rushing into battle. Blossom would have said something, but she was then distracted by the Doll Desertrian.

Gaim immediately rushed into the fray of Elementary Inves, swinging the Daidaimaru around like a madman. Normally, that wouldn't really work, but since there were so many in the group, it felled a couple. He shook his head as he skidded to a halt. Now was not the time to act all crazy. But still, he was an actual honest-to-goodness Kamen Rider now! That's awesome! Nevertheless, he calmed down and held the Daidaimaru properly. It was then that the Inves finally reacted. Groaning out strange noises, they ran at the samurai Rider, clawing at him with their large hands.

Gaim reacted fairly well, blocking their claws with the Daidaimaru ("Hah! Yah!"), kicking them back when they started getting too close, and slashing away when he could. However, he gradually started getting swarmed, until the entire group of Inves was practically right on top of him. "Get. OFF ME!" he yelled, shifting the Daidaimaru to his left hand so he could draw the Musou Saber with his right.

Using both swords, he managed to knock the group off of him, causing them to stumble. Quickly, he connected the ends of both swords together into their Naginata Mode. Using the double-ended sword, he performed quick circle slashes ("Yah! Hah! Orya!") to quickly take out the group encircling him. But more jerked forward at him. Seeing as they were the last ones here, Gaim saw a chance. He removed the Orange Lockseed from his Driver, causing it to let off a notification that he did so.

LOCK OFF!

Then, he put the Lockseed into the Drive Bay on the Musou Saber. Or, to be more accurate, the Drive Launch. No, I don't know why it's called that either. Regardless, he slammed it shut over the Saber's Lock On Arm.

LOCK ON!

Ichi! Juu! Hyaku! Sen! Man!
(1! 10! 100! 1,000! 10,000!)

As it counted up, Gaim fired twin energy slashes ("Ha! Orya!") from the Musou Saber end of the Naginata at the approaching Inves, trapping them in a large sphere that looked like an orange. Just as he did, the counting finished, and the Saber announced the name of the Fruits Charge.

ORANGE CHARGE!

At this, Gaim readied himself. "Here comes the finish! Naginata Musou Slicer! Sei-ha!" he declared, rushing forward the Daidaimaru end pointed towards them. He slashed through the sphere, destroying the Inves and sending holographic orange slices everywhere! He panted heavily as the adrenaline high wore off. He took the Lockseed off the Musou Saber and reattached it to his Driver.

LOCK ON!

With that done, he then separated the two swords, sheathing the Musou Saber. As he calmed down, he noticed Cure Blossom using her finishing move, the Precure Pink Forte Wave, to purify the giant doll and release the Heart Flower it had been formed from, as well as the regular doll that had been used as a host. He sighed in relief at this. 'Oh good, Erika was saved right on schedule. Now, hopefully, she'll become Cure Marine like she's supposed to,' he thought to himself.

'Anyway, I can't believe that I was able to do that! That was so cool! Looks like swinging sticks around like swords really does come in handy!'

He then walked over to where they were, just in time to notice Sasorina in a crater, her Himawari Lockseed utterly destroyed. "H-How did this get broken so easily?!" she stammered.

Gaim couldn't help but speak up at this. "Well, that's what you get for using a piece of D-class trash. Unlike my A-class Orange, a D-class like Himawari is easily destructible," he mocked.

Sasorina gritted her teeth in extreme anger before remembering about her other annoyance. "Curse you, Precure, as well as you, Armored Warrior! Next time we meet, I'll strike you both down with my poison stinger!" And with that said, she teleported out of there. Meanwhile, Blossom gave back the crystal containing Kurumi Erika's Heart Flower to the orb containing her body, which returned her to normal, although she was unconscious.

After a pensive stare at the person who was just rescued, Gaim then turned to Blossom. "Nice work with that," he complimented.

"Um, thanks?" she almost asked.

"Hey, relax, I'm not a bad guy," Gaim laughed, closing up the Orange Lockseed. With it closed, this sent a signal to the Driver to revert transformation, so it did. In a flash of orange light, Gaim's armor vanished.

"But, just who are you?" Blossom couldn't help but wonder, as she unconsciously powered down herself.

The figure gave her a thumbs up. "They call me Kamen Rider Gaim!" he declared with pride. And let's face it, wouldn't you be if you had the ability to turn into a Rider?

"I never thought I'd see another Rider again," Hanasaki Kaoruko commented as she walked up. "You wear that armor well, young man," she complimented.

The figure rubbed his head in embarrassment. "Eh heh. Thanks, uh, I didn't exactly get your names," he lied. Actually, he did know their names, but if he were to say them without being prompted, they'd probably ask uncomfortable questions.

"Ah, how rude of me. I am Hanasaki Kaoruko, and this is my granddaughter, Tsubomi, the new Cure Blossom," Kaoruko introduced. As for Tsubomi, she was rather embarrassed herself. As well as slightly shocked at all that had happened.

"Nice to meet you both! As for myself, I'm..." 'Oh crap! Name, tell them name! But I don't want to just give my name out! World travel, name! My name is-!' "...Kadoya Tsukasa," he introduced. 'And that is NOT my name, brain! Oh well, if I change it now, they'll probably wonder why I couldn't even remember my own name properly. Guess I'm stuck with it now," the newly dubbed Tsukasa thought to himself.

"Um, you don't really look like a Kadoya Tsukasa," Tsubomi hesitatingly pointed out. Tsukasa was silent at this, before he sighed.

"Saw right through me, didn't you?" he said rhetorically. "Truth be told, that's not my real name. But, it's the name that fits this situation, so that's the name I'm using. I guess I could've also used Kazuraba Kouta too, but that would be too cliche for something of this situation," he mumbled to himself.

"But why not just use your real name?" the floating blue fairy, Coffret asked. He was going to be the partner of Erika when she became Cure Marine. Speaking of...

"Before I answer that, I don't think that's a good place for her to be lying," Tsukasa said, drawing attention to the fact that Erika was still just lying on the ground unconscious.

"Ah! Erika!" Tsubomi cried out in remembrance, picking her friend's body off of the ground.

"Why don't we continue this as we take Erika to my Botanical Garden?" Kaoruko offered.

Tsukasa shrugged. "I'm down with that," he agreed.

"So you used that name because-?"

"Kadoya Tsukasa is the name of someone who traveled between many Worlds. Since I've somehow come to this one, it only made sense to use his name."

"But you said he travels Worlds, right? What if he comes here and finds out?" Tsubomi asked as they walked back to the Botanical Gardens. Tsukasa had offered to carry Erika for her, but Tsubomi had insisted. Seeing that Look, Tsukasa had left her alone about the subject.

Tsukasa shrugged at that question. "Well, I happen to be a huge fan of his, so I'm sure he'll understand if I explain things. Besides, I don't think he's encountered Gaim yet, so he'll probably more focused on finding out more about my Rider powers."

His attention then turned to the other Hanasaki in the group. "Anyway, Mrs. Hanasaki, you said you've met Riders before?" he asked.

"Yes. Riders have been in this town for the past year. Two have been helping the Desert Apostles, while the other helped Cure Moonlight against them," she said.

"Did you ever get their Rider names?" Tsukasa asked.

"I did meet the one who worked with Moonlight, once. He said his name was Kurokage," she revealed.

"Kurokage, huh? He's another of my type of Rider. He uses the Matsubokkuri (Pine Cone) Lockseed. Although, stat-wise, he's technically the weakest. So much that they eventually used his design as troop cannon fodder. He must have had a lot of trouble at first," Tsukasa commented.

"From what I heard from Moonlight, he did. But he got better fairly quickly, and was a rather skilled fighter," Kaoruko reminisced.

"Do you happen to know where he is? If I could meet him, then-." Tsukasa was cut off when a flash of light shone out, causing everyone to cover their eyes. An "OOF!" sound was heard, and as the light died down, the group was shocked to find that Tsukasa was now on the ground, and some strange figure was now lying on top of him.

"Mr. Tsukasa! Are you alright?!" Tsubomi asked in shock.

"I'm fine," he groaned, pushing this new figure off of him. "Who the heck is this guy?" he wondered. The new figure had black hair, cargo pants and a red sleeveless hoodie on. He was unconscious to boot. As Tsukasa looked at him, he noticed some things next to him. "Hm?" he wondered, picking them up.

Tsubomi recognized them. "Wait, aren't those-?"

"Yeah. It's a Sengoku Driver," Tsukasa proclaimed. It was indeed a Sengoku Driver, with a blank Rider Indicator. There were also a couple of Lockseeds with it, and Tsukasa recognized them immediately. "Banana and Mango. I think this guy is Kamen Rider Baron," he guessed. Well, he couldn't know for sure because the Rider Indicator was blank, but Occam's Razor and all.

"Another Rider?" Tsubomi wondered.

"Yeah. He's the second, well, third Rider I found out about from my type. He's knight-themed, and is roughly on par with me as Gaim. It's strange though...I feel as though I know him from somewhere," he said pensively.

"From where?" Tsubomi asked in confusion.

"That's the thing; I don't know. It's just a feeling I have," Tsukasa said in irritation. He shook his head. "At any rate, let's get both him and Erika-san inside," he pointed out. And with that, he picked up the unconscious person. 'Still though, this was been fairly interesting. Being sent to Precure no Sekai, becoming a Rider. I wonder what'll happen next?' In time to come though, he'd find out. And he wouldn't like it...

Episode 01 - Fin

OathToOblivion: So, you people who have read the previous version may have noticed that this chapter looked a little familiar. That's because this is based on an already revised version of the original chapter 1. Minor edits include removed Gratuitous Japanese, such as honorifics. Eagle-eyed viewers will also notice that a certain plot point from the original is also missing, namely our lack of knowledge about Gaim.

Symbolic Joker: Well, yeah. Our constant delays got so bad that Gaim's direct successor, Drive, has almost reached its end!

OathToOblivion: Yeah...Kamen Rider Ghost looks pretty interesting too. Hopefully, we won't take that long to get back up to where we were, though (we are totally going to take twice as long).

Symbolic Joker: But! As Kamen Rider fans we should take the time to pay our respects to those sacrifice their lives to stop the devil that is Banno (Still cannot believe Ichigo Kurosaki is... Banno).

OathToOblivion: Yeah. R.I.P Chase: Kamen Rider Proto-Drive, Mashin Chaser, Kamen Rider Chaser. You were one of the most awesome characters in Drive. ...He's totally coming back for the Movie War though. He definitely backed his memories into Signal Chaser like how they were in Shift Proto-Speed.

Seriously though, I honestly think he's going to come back at some point. The Roidmudes' Cores are more likely than not their Core Driviars. Obviously, Krim knows how to make Core Driviars.

Symbolic Joker: If that was the case though, then Krim would've just built a new Proto-Zero and continued from where they left off. Heck, with Rinna joining him, he would've definitely had "hands" to create a new body for a back-up of Proto-Zero. Sure, the memories would be in Shift Speed Prototype, but wouldn't Krim have saved the memories in another back-up, like say inside the Drive Pit's computers?

Also; you're forgetting somebody else. Someone who didn't get to finish his last words.

...BTW people, but I can't help but mention this due to reading on TV Tropes. Chase... plus Heartbreak equals to Manly Tears.

OathToOblivion: I guess you have a point. At any rate...

Next time on HeartCatch Precure - Just Live More Redux: Knight of Spear! Cure Marine takes the Stage!

And we will see you guys in the next episode! Bye-bye! (Why yes, I did rip off Markiplier right there. Why? I felt like it.)