Author's note: Madoka just fills me with so much inspiration! For some reason, I feel like writing more Madoka Crossovers... oh well, here we go.
P.S. For those of you who still follow 24 Days- The Second Mitakihara Case, Don't worry. I haven't forgotten about it.
P.S.S. I am a Kamen Rider fan (Have been since I was 8) and I'm not afraid to admit it.
Kamen Rider 555 Alternate: Me and her Against the World
Prologue: Complete- Kamen Rider Faiz
The only constant in the universe is that it is destroying itself.
That, and the strangeness of creatures we call "humans".
All humans desire. It is a constant. They strive for materialistic or even strange emotional goals.
It is when the person's possibility can no longer keep up with the desire itself that we Incubators step in.
We give them an opportunity to become Puella Magi. We give them the opportunity to gain something they normally could not have.
In return for a price.
It is when they refuse to pay that price that we send another force into action.
The Three Kamen Riders: Faiz, Kaixa and Delta.
They are humans who gave up everything to transcend humanity and become one step closer to the perfect beings. It is their duty to maintain a steady rate of corruption and despair in the system. It is their duty to eliminate excess witches to make sure that new... sacrifices would always be necessary.
But humanity seems to always find ways of messing things up.
Name of Incubator recording: Kyubey. It has been twenty four years since the witch known as "Walpurgis Night" destroyed Mitakihara City.
This is the other story of the unexpectedness of humans.
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April 2nd
It was the day after Shirokawa Ryou's second most hated day in the year: April Fools. Apparently, people didn't have anything better to do than play pranks on each other. His most hated day in the year was Halloween.
Grumbling about the various pranks played on him, he walked down the halls of Asumaro Middle School. He was about to enter his classroom when a girl about his height -moderate-, a mischievous face and green hair tied in twin tails stood in his way.
"Morning, Ryou."
"Reiko... you..." Ryou grumbled.
"Don't tell me you're still sore about that prank yesterday... I mean, it was harmless."
"Do you have any idea how long it took to get that marker off my face?"
Shirokawa Ryou and Kurosawa Reiko were best friends. However, if anyone in the class was confronted with that fact even two months ago, their first reaction would be akin to "you're crazy". They expressed their friendship in a constant back and forth war of annoying the hell out of each other.
Of course, none of the classmates knew that under that facade of animosity lay a deep comradeship.
"Oi! Ryou! Reiko!" another voice, this time male, came up to them. He had brown hair and glasses in front of black eyes.
"Shiro. Good morning." Ryou grumbled.
"Morning Shiro!" Reiko said, giving the newcomer a grin as they shared satisfaction in teasing Ryou.
"Is he still sore about that yesterday?" Mizuhiro Shiro asked.
"Yep."
It had been thirteen months since the incident that made the three of them friends. For Shiro, the world was at equilibrium.
But that would soon change.
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It was during the evenings when it would happen. Reiko would take out a glowing gem. Ryou would take out a suitcase filled with strange objects. Late at night, around Asumaro city, the two would begin the night's worth of fighting.
"This way." Reiko would lead the way, letting the soul gem direct them to monsters called "Witches". Occasionally, they would encounter "familiars" instead. It didn't matter.
The two walked for a while around the sleeping town, the only light being the glow of her soul gem.
"Are you sure there's nothing wrong with it?" Ryou would occasionally ask.
"It's not possible. It's a piece of my soul."
"That would explain why it was broken."
"What do you mea- hey!" she slapped him in the shoulder for that. The routine would happen almost every night.
Just then, there was an abrupt stop outside of an alley. "It's here."
"Are you sure?" Ryou asked, suddenly serious and opening the briefcase.
"Positive." she replied. She held out her soul gem and transformed, donning a green-themed dress and holding a spear with green jewels imbedded. Her soul gem was now hidden among her hair-bands. "Hurry up." she chided Ryou.
"Don't rush me." he grumbled as he put on a strange belt with an empty slot in the centre. Holding up an equally strange cell phone, he dialled the numbers "5-5-5" and pressed Enter.
"Standing by." the belt said in a mechanical voice.
"Henshin!" Ryou inserted the cellphone into the slot.
"Complete." the belt said.
A pattern of red lines came out of the belt, formed it's way around his body and glowed. Soon, he was encased in a black, silver and red bodysuit.
"Remind me again what this is supposed to be called?" Reiko asked.
"Apparently, I'm Kamen Rider Faiz." he told her, remembering what he read in the labelling around the suitcase.
"Kamen Rider? What the heck of a name is that supposed to be?" She sniggered.
"Shut up, Sailor Moon." he retorted. Reiko looked like she was about to snap back, then opened the way into the labyrinth and the two of them went inside.
The first thing that confronted them was the flames. Flames were everywhere. Rising up like towers; the fire was so thick they could barely see the path in front of them.
"I guess that the theme of this witch is rather obvious." Ryou stated.
"You think?" Reiko scoffed. Both were protected from the usually fatal flame, Reiko by magic and Ryou by the armour he wears.
Suddenly, from the flames dozens of pixie like creature arose. Reiko saw them and readied her halberd. Ryou, on the other hand, took out the cellphone from his belt, dialled "1-0-3", pressed ENTER and bent it so it was shaped like a gun.
"BLASTER MODE." the cellphone/gun announced.
Pointing at the familiars, he fired at the ones on the left, shooting out red lasers from his phone, while Reiko battled the ones on the right. It was relatively short work. Almost pathetically so.
"Ha, I finished faster than you." Reiko grinned at the Kamen Rider as they continued on their way.
"Pfft, yeah right. That's because you only had ten to fight. I had fifteen."
"Those last five did not count. They were too close and too easy of an target."
"Targets are targets."
The pair continued their bickering as they walked down the fiery halls. They stopped once they got to the centre. In the middle was what looked like a giant phoenix. Large fiery runes were dancing around her, and as flames spilled out of her they formed into more of the familiars.
"A large fire bird. What the heck do we do?"
"I'll take on the bird." Ryou instructed. "You keep the pixies out of my way."
"Argh, fine." she groaned. "Hogging all the glory." she muttered.
"Hey, I heard that!"
"Good!"
Ryou sighed as he took his fighting stance in front of the phoenix. Since it was, well, fire, he decided that simply rushing up and punching wouldn't do any good, so he got out another strange device with the words "Faiz Edge" on it. Activating the device, a red lightsaber like weapon activated. Charging at the bird, he took a slash to see how it would go. To his satisfaction, the portion of fire that had been cut off from the bird sizzled and disintegrated.
Screeching at the loss of a portion of her precious fire, the phoenix reared up to attack, sending a stream of fire at the Kamen Rider, who dodged it with ease. He slashed again, taking off a bigger piece of the phoenix's body.
Through the eyes of the Faiz Armour, he analyzed the witch. The witch had less than 50% of it's energy left. He could finish it now. Taking out a queer cylinder-like object, he attached it to his feet. He then opened the cellphone on his belt and pressed "Enter".
"EXCEED CHARGE."
He knelt down on one knee, waiting for the energy to load. When it did, he ran towards the phoenix, who was still roaring. Leaping, a shot of laser fired and formed into a red digital drill pointing at the phoenix.
Twirling in the air, Ryou/Faiz kicked at the phoenix , the red drill leading his kick and destroying the phoenix. The Greek letter "Phi" hung red in the air for a moment, marking another victory.
"About time." Reiko said with a grin on her face as Ryou turned to face her. The barrier around them crumbled, reverting to a normal dark alley. Seeing as the battle was won, Ryou pressed a button on the cellphone, cancelling the transformation and returning him to being a normal human. Reiko also reverted to her normal human form. Placing the belt back into the suitcase, Ryou turned to her. "You're fine, right?"
"Yeah, of course." she rebutted, then winced as she tried to hide a burn. The notion did not escape Ryou's notice. "You're hurt!" he exclaimed.
"Nothing serious." she waved it off as she began to walk. "Come on. It's late. We have a math test tomorrow."
Ryou sighed, worried for his friend. But, as always, she refused to accept that she needed help. Sighing, he bent up and picked the strange black gem that witches usually dropped. "You forgot this." he reminded her, tossing her the grief seed. Catching it, she turned back with a thankful smile and continued on her way as Ryou sighed, picked up the suitcase containing the strange belt and went on his way as well.
It had been a year since he had gained the Faiz Belt. For him, the world was at equilibrium.
But that would soon change.
