The sun shined on Tokyo, the lush green grass beneath her feet felt calming. The dark-haired girl stared down at her wristwatch seeming to check the time as a rabbit's face popped up with a smile, "We are close to restoring the balance of the universe, Cure Grey." The voice speaking had a deep bass that didn't quite fit with his appearance. "But then what'll happen, Tsuki? Would I have purpose in this timeline again or…" The girl, who had answered to Cure Grey, sat down against a large tree. Cherry blossoms were blooming and she curled up her legs remembering back to her first encounter with the rabbit.
A dark haired girl tied her hair into pigtails looking in the mirror. She was beginning her first year at Verone Academy, remembering that her friends were going to a different school then dampered her mood. She was going to be alone...again. I can't let this affect me, the girl thought grabbing her phone and running out the door with a slice of bread in her mouth. At the same moment in a distant land ruled by fairies and pixies a rabbit was scurrying through a forest with a gear in its mouth. He checked behind him and seeing noone, the rabbit approached a tree and dropped the gear panting. "I should be safe. They probably gave up after seeing my great clockwork skills." With a smug expression the rabbit thought of the statue that would be built for him once he returned. He was still lost in his dream world when a great wave of darkness swept through the area knocking down trees.
"Oh snap they're here!" The rabbit though picking up the gear and dashing off. A tall man soon blocked the rabbit's path, his outfit taking heavy inspiration from steampunk. Gears and bolts circled the man's body as he extended an arm, "Now now little rabbit, give me that Jikan Gear and noone has to get hurt." The rabbit barreled under the man sticking his tongue and proceeding out of the forest only to be greeted by a wide open lake. "My oh my, nowhere to run darling." A woman's voice declared sending out another wave of pure darkness. "If only you had listened to my partner your world wouldn't be in such...how should I say, disarray." The woman gave a low chuckle wiping locks of red hair out of her face. "Charlemane, why are you needing the gear so badly? Time will be out of balance without it." The redhead gave another chuckle pointing a jagged finger at the rabbit, "You see little rabbit, my sister...her Highness if you will won't allow us to have...any fun with anything related to history but that gear. Well that gear can bypass her barriers and with that power, time will be bent to my bidding." The rabbit held the gear closer inching towards a tree, "That's selfish of a person like you! Your sist-" "I don't care what my sister thinks! Now give me the Jikan Gear!" A dark slice came towards the rabbit and he ducked in fright. Behind him came the growl of a man, "That's too slow lil' rabbit!" With a snort of a pig and a raise of an axe, a burly man came bursting through the forage landing a hit on the rabbit causing him to drop the gear and near the water.
Charlemane slowly approached the gear and bent over picking it up, "Ah the final piece of the puzzle." She gave a roaring laugh and the rabbit chuckled, "Fell for the old bait and switch. Clock On!" A giant clockface appeared above the rabbit and he stood bringing out a grey gear from his pocket, "Adieu Princess Char." He hopped through the clock and was soon gone.
Once the rabbit had left, Princess Charlemane turned to her two assistants and grinned pulling out three gears resembling the one the rabbit had been carrying. "Even without the last gear we can still wreck havoc on the time stream." Darkness over took the gears making them sharper than they were originally. "I bestow the Corruption Gear to you, Cameron. That gear the rabbit holds shifts to the holder's dreams. Using that gear you will become his obstacle." The man with gears and bolts surrounding him nodded taking the dark gear into his body. The gears around him soon gaining the faces of previous times: the emblem for Heartcatch let out a shine. "Destroy the Pretty Cure timeline...as for you...Watsuki, I bestow the Gear of Death. Use this to create our footsoldiers. We must not let that rabbit have his way." Char waved a hand crafting a clockwork portal, "Now go forth you two." Without a word the two men entered the portal leaving Char by herself. She held the final gear close to her with a determined look.
In the castle overlooking the lake the Queen of Time sat on her throne, the crystal ball in front of her shifting through various times. "Please Tsuki find a guardian and fast." The ball stopped on an image of Tsubomi and Erika meeting for the first time as it slowly began to unravel like it was a ball of yarn. The Queen reached over to the counter beside her picking up a small broken watch and let out a hefty sigh. Her gown changed colors now and then, shifting through a solid rotation of pink, blue, green, yellow and purple. It soon became a solid black as it slowly transitioned into white becoming an even grey at one point. Her gloves extended past her wrists going up her arms with a small ribbon at the end. If you had looked her way, well, most men would fall head over heels and being the Queen of Time it looked like she hadn't aged past twenty.
Back on Earth, the girl stood up with a gulp feeling everyone staring her direction. How should I do this? Do I play it coy or do I ramble about my hobbies?, She thought to herself and finally spoke, "My name is Gurē Hitashi, I just moved here from Kyoto and I enjoy reading." She then bowed and took her seat feeling her face flush. A few hours later and she was sitting on the roof alone, options had reeled in her head about trying to join other people at the tables outside but another part of her decided to give up on the idea. She was used to being alone anyways. Gurē curled up eating her takoyaki in silence watching the horizon. "Agh! Why can't I ever decide? Why am I so indecisive?! Why is life so...boring!" Upon kicking the trash can sitting next to her the girl held her now hurting toes sucking in breaths to calm down.
A sudden chill ran down her spine as she turned spotting a man chewing on a bolt, "A borin' life you says? Well I can make it more interestin' for ya." The dark haired girl stood and leaned against the opposing rail asking the strange man, "How'd you get in the school?! I'll get my friends to beat you up." The man chuckled extending his hand which held the Corruption Gear, "A Pretty Cure tellin' lies now that has to be fixed." She blinked her eyes in confusion, "What is a Pretty Cure? Listen, you better leave before I call my friends!" Her face was burning once again. The man sat back down pulling the gear back, "I guess I should tell you then before...well," He let out an ominous chuckle, "Before I erase your existence from this timeline." Gurē held onto the rail as the man began his tale, "I, along with two other people, are Time Travelers who wish to bring peace and solitude to our land. I am Cameron, a loyal servant to the rightful ruler of the land, Charlemane." She had inched herself towards the door only to find it padlocked with wire. Cameron chuckled once more, "I ain't lettin' another rab'it escape." His right eye glowed a dark red as he sent the corrupted gear towards Gurē. It was soon jutting out of the door where she had been standing. Her eyes wide with fright of the thought that this crazy man was intending on "erasing" her existance. "Ah dangit I missed." He was about to send another gear her way whenever a small rabbit landed between them. It's fur was blend of black and white with the tufts on the ears slowly blending together. The rabbit had solid black eyes that seemed to scare the man. "An' da rab'its multiply, ya better hand ova that gear ya hear?!" With a sharp kick to the man's side, the small animal bounded to the girl's side and looked at her, "Were you the energy I felt?" They shared a few blank stares as more gears flew at the two. "So ya sensed et too, 'er PreCure energy." With the drop of his legs the three of them fell onto the bottom floor. "We have to get out of here!" The rabbit shouted and pulling on Gure's sleeve, he dragged her out a window. The two landed on the ground in front of a large tree with Cameron hot on their tails.
"You've got to transform now!" Gurē didn't know what to make of this situation as pipes bursted from the ground bending to stop their path. "T-Transform?! But how?! Why?! I'm not one of those Pretty Cures you two keep mentioning!" Their pursuer finally boxed them in using lamp posts near the tree and another chuckle was heard. "Come on, you're the Pretty Cure of this timeline! Of course you know how to transform!" The pipes began to close in forcing them to become side by side. The rabbit handed her the Jikan Gear and watched it become a perfume bottle, a wand and lastly a pendant before finalizing on a wrist watch. "Put it on!" The rabbit shouted and Gurē hurried to do as he said watching a compartment slide out. "N-Now what do I do?!" The rabbit slapped her in the face, "Believe in yourself because if you don't, you can kiss both our futures goodbye." She took in a deep breath closing her stormy grey eyes. Believe, she had to believe. Why did that strange gear become a wristwatch of all things? What good could that do? Suddenly words formed in her mind as a wave of energy burst forth from her stopping the pipes in their tracks along with the birds and various other people. The man who had been pursuing them wasn't stopped in time as he was taken aback from this sudden time stop. Gurē brought her hands out in front of her and slowly swung them clockwise ending with both her pointer fingers directed at the sky. With a loud shout she declared, "Pretty Cure! For my future!" A clock appeared behind her blinding the man. Red threads slowly winded around her forming short gray boots, dark gray gloves and a flowing gray dress. On her hips were two small bejeweled daggers that looked like the hands on the clock. The light faded and Gurē jabbed her fists to the air staring Cameron down, with another deep breath she spoke the words that had popped in her head: "The emissary between time! I am the guardian of time, Cure Grey!"