Chapter 1: Beginning of the end
A/N: Just to recap, this is a rewrite of my original story, Kamen riders's new home. The plot in this is similar to the original but entire story will be different compared to the original. So, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Kamen rider but I do own my OC.
"Hmm?"
Tsukasa looked around. It seemed to him that he had traveled into another World, yet again."This seems familiar. I wonder who's World this one is." He turned and a Dimensional Rift appeared before him and it passed through his body, cladding him in some sort of businessman suit.
Then, Natsumi stopped beside him,"Tsukasa-kun, which rider do you think is in this World?"
Still examining his new clothes, Tsukasa replied,"No idea, Natsumi-chan. But we'll soon know. For now, let's explore this World." Next, Tsukasa took out his pink camera and took a picture of the busy street in front of him.
A hand was placed on his shoulder and he turned to see a smile on Natsumi's face. He gave her his own smile as he made his way into the crowd with Natsumi following while they made their way towards the nearby city.
Unknown to them, a man wearing a white shirt with the rest of his clothing in the color of beige with glasses, stepped out from behind a building and he scoffed,"Decade, this shall be the end of the line for you. This World shall be your grave."
A soft laughter was heard and the man turned to see a small white mechanical bat with round ears and a pair of big red eyes floating beside him.
"Hello~ Narutaki," the bat spoke in a singsong manner.
The man, revealed to be called Narutaki, smiled,"Kivala, how has it been traveling with Decade?"
Kivala shrugged,"It's been alright so far. So, what's your plan now? How are you going to eliminate Tsukasa this time?"
Narutaki smiled,"Simple, this World is just a trap that contains a rider that I have recruited and not even Dai Shocker knows about him. This rider's has been isolated from the others because this rider may be the only one who is capable of destroying Decade once and for all. Keep an eye on the Destroyer, Kivala. You might be able to see this new rider since he is luring Decade into his trap."
Kivala giggled,"Oh? Tell me Narutaki, if this rider might be able to destroy Decade, why haven't you sent him earlier?"
Smiling, Narutaki replied,"Because I was unaware of this rider's presence. His world has been hiding in the shadows of Blade's World. But now that I have seen his powers, he is the one I've been looking for."
"Someone's feeling confident." Kivala said."So what's the name of this new Kamen rider?"
"It's a secret, Kivala. He will show himself eventually." Narutaki replied.
"Tsukasa! Look at this!" Natsumi cried.
When the two had arrived in the city, Natsumi was amazed to see that the people of the city were different from previous Worlds that they have been before. Instead of having monsters roam around attacking people or having people see them as enemies of the public, the people of the current World were cheerful, exactly how it should be for a normal city.
Tsukasa walked over to where Natsumi was and before he could say anything, Natsumi shoved a muffin into his mouth."It tastes good, doesn't it, Tsukasa?"
Nodding, Tsukasa removed the muffin to catch his breath before he spoke,"Natsumi, you can't just shove anything into my mouth like that, even if it's delicious."
A man walked up to them and laughed,"It's nice to see a young couple having a good time, especially those who are new in the city."
Hearing that, Natsumi blushed,"W-we're not a couple. We're just close friends."
The man smiled,"You may never know, young lady. Most people who argue usually fall in love with each other." He heaved a sigh before he picked up two more muffins identical to the one Tsukasa was holding and continued,"Here you go. On the house!"
As they took the muffins from the man, Natsumi smiled and thanked him whilst Tsukasa simply accepted it before taking a bite out of it, only to receive a jab to his ribs by Natsumi.
Again, the man laughed,"You two take care now. Don't get in trouble or the guards will appear and trust me, you don't want to mess with them."
"Guards?" Natsumi repeated.
"I knew it. This World was too good to be true. Dai Shocker's influence must have made it to this one as well." Tsukasa spoke as he took a few more pictures of the city.
Natsumi rolled her eyes,"You could be wrong, Tsukasa. Those guards could just be the city's soldiers or officers. Not every World is influenced by Dai Shocker, you know. Besides, if this World is even influenced by Dai Shocker, you can just destroy them. Just enjoy some freedom once in a while."
Just then, the two stopped. They looked up at one of the buildings and what they saw shocked them. Pasted on the side of the building was a giant poster of Tsukasa in his Decade suit and holding his Ride Booker in its Sword Mode. At the bottom of the poster, the words "Beware! The Destroyer could be anywhere!" was written on it.
"Scary, isn't he?"
Both Natsumi and Tsukasa turned to see a familiar face standing beside them."Daiki! What are you doing here?"
The newcomer, Daiki, smiled,"Isn't it obvious, Tsukasa? Every World has a treasure worth stealing and I'm here to steal my next treasure. This time, I have a good feeling about this treasure as well."
"So what can you tell us about this World's relation to Decade?" Tsukasa asked.
Daiki sat down on the bench behind them and he spoke,"According to this World's history, this city was once a small village in the middle of a dense forest. Apparently, the village was also attacked very often by outsiders wearing strange black clothing with white straps who were also accompanied by Kaijin. Any of those ring a bell, Tsukasa?"
"Dai Shocker was here?"
Nodding, Daiki replied,"That's right. Dai Shocker attacked this village."
Tsukasa sighed,"I knew this World has been influenced by them."
Daiki shook his head,"That's not quite true, Tsukasa. The story goes on and it says after the strange outsiders's fifteenth attack, the village decided to call for help by praying. In the end, their savior appeared the next day when the outsiders attacked. It's said that the savior also had Kaijin helping him but only when he threw something onto the ground and then his weapon would say "Remote" before his Kaijin would appear."
"Remote?" Natsumi repeated."Tsukasa, doesn't that sound kind of familiar?"
"It is familiar. It's one of Blade's World's Undead Card, Remote Tapir. This World must be another duplicate of Blade's World." Tsukasa replied.
Daiki shrugged,"Who knows? Maybe it could be another rider who uses the Undead Cards. There's no telling what kind of rider protected the village. But as history say, when the rider defended the village from the outsiders, he created hundreds of Kaijin that resembled cockroaches and their only purpose was to defend the village from anymore attacks. I would say this so-called "savior" was an Undead as well. But not just any Undead, he is another Joker Undead."
"Another Joker?!" Tsukasa exclaimed."Great! Just what I needed, another World with an Undead problem."
"Tsukasa, this Joker is on the good side this time. I mean, he did protect humans from Dai Shocker and his Kaijin is protecting the humans as well. You have nothing to worry abut." Daiki replied.
Tsukasa rolled his eyes,"Yes. So you're saying that the poster that says that I'm a "Destroyer" isn't going to affect my time here?"
Daiki waved his hand,"You have nothing to worry about as long as you don't change into Decade." Then, Daiki got up from the bench."Oh, and by the way, I'll be taking your muffin." Before Tsukasa could react, Daiki snatched the muffin from Tsukasa's hand and disappeared into the Dimensional Drift.
Tsukasa sighed,"I guess Daiki's attitude won't change." He turned towards Natsumi and spoke,"Natsumi, let's head back to Hikari Studio. We'll call this a day so I could get my pictures developed. I'm interested in hearing the history about this new Joker Undead." After agreeing, the two made their way back to Hikari Studio.
Unknown to them, someone had been listening to the entire conversation.
"So the Destroyer has finally shown himself. The boss needs to know about this." The person made his way down the alleyway, where a motorbike was resting against the wall. The person put on his helmet and revved up his bike before driving onto the crowded road and making his way pass the crowd of people.
Hours later, the day ended and the night arrived.
In Hikari Studio, Natsumi was with her grandfather in the living room having their dinner while Tsukasa was in another room developing the photos that he had taken while he was out with Natsumi.
"So Natsumi, how do you find this new World? I know I have." Natsumi's grandfather asked with a chuckle.
Natsumi smiled,"It was all right. But what have you done?"
"Oh, I was out grabbing some ingredients to make this dinner. The people in this World are very different from other Worlds. One of them even gave me a book about the city's history. It's quite interesting if I may say so." He pulled out a brownish book from the shelf and handed it to Natsumi, who turned her attention to it as she opened the book.
At that moment, Tsukasa entered the room with his developed photos. He sighed as he threw them onto the table and collapsed onto the couch."It seems that this World also rejects me just like the rest." He looked towards Natsumi and noticed the book in her hand."What are you reading, Natsumi?"
Natsumi handed the book over to Tsukasa and pointed to one of the paragraphs."Read it, Tsukasa."
Tsukasa shrugged and read the paragraph aloud,"As the hero who defended the village fought back against the invaders with the help of his Kaijin allies, he was able to eliminate the invaders's Kaijin but he spared the lives of the invaders, saying that he does not wish to harm humans but only to show them that they have taken the wrong path. The hero then created hundreds of Kaijin which he called NatureRoaches who, til this day, are still protecting us as our guardians."
"Don't you think we should give this Joker Undead a chance? He did protect humans in the past." Natsumi asked.
"That was in the past, Natsumi. He may have turned his back on the people of this World by now." Tsukasa replied.
Natsumi sighed,"Why can't you give him a chance? Look, you gave Wataru a chance so why..."
"Because Wataru is more human than Fangire!" Tsukasa interrupted."Wataru has helped us in many different problems. He helped us fight back Apollo Geist and his allies with Asumu. We can trust that boy. But this Undead hasn't helped us even once, Natsumi. We don't even know about him and this book won't help us know more about that Undead. He might attack us when he sees us."
"How would you know that? Look, he may be persuaded by Narutaki but he might change his mind if you talk to him. Just give him a chance and maybe he would help us instead of against us." Natsumi replied.
Tsukasa sighed as he picked up his photos,"What use does it even do? An Undead is too hard to convince. It might not work at all."
At that moment, Natsumi's grandfather walked in with three cups of tea. But as he took a few steps, he tripped on the rug and stumbled onto the side of the room, causing a picture to fall and cover up the picture underneath it. A glow emitted from the picture and when it faded, Tsukasa and Natsumi went over to it. As they did, they observed the picture.
On it was an image of a Kamen rider standing in the middle of a group of Undeads while a shadow of a Joker Undead replaced the rider's own shadow. And right behind the rider was a giant three-headed Undead, Kerberos.
"Tsukasa, that rider looks a lot like Daiki's brother's rider suit." Natsumi pointed out.
Nodding, Tsukasa replied,"This World's rider uses the power of the Undeads and apparently, he uses Glaive. But his design doesn't match the one we've seen before. And that image of Kerberos, what does that mean?"
"It means that this rider has two identities, Tsukasa." Natsumi's grandfather replied."Like you said before, this rider is both and Undead and a Kamen rider. That is what the picture means, Tsukasa. The shadow of that Joker represents his true self while the image of Kerberos represents his fighting spirit. But what I don't know is what those other Undeads represent."
"Where did you learn that, Gramps?" Tsukasa asked.
Natsumi's grandfather gave him a smile as he lifted up the book that Tsukasa had read a minute ago."When I got back, I decided to take a look at this book and I found the page with the same picture and found it interesting. Apparently, the one who made this picture was an artist who was saved by this World's Kamen rider a few months ago and he had also managed to talk to him. That's how he was able to paint this picture and describe what they meant. All but those Undeads."
That's when Natsumi came up with an idea. She looked towards Tsukasa and spoke,"Tsukasa, why don't we go and meet this artist? We could learn more about this World's rider if we do." She grabbed the book from her grandfather and flipped through the pages before stopping,"The book has the artist's address right here! It's not far from here. We could go there right now."
Tsukasa looked towards the picture for a moment before he looked at his photos for a moment and sighed,"All right. I guess I have to since there's nothing much to do anyway."
On the other side of the city, Narutaki arrived at the entrance gate of the city.
Then, a motorbike stopped in front of him. The person riding the bike got off and removed his helmet,"You again. What do you want, Narutaki? My boss isn't in the mood after what you did to the Category King Undeads. They're running around and destroying human property and even hurting them. What do you have to say for yourself?"
Narutaki smiled as he walked towards the person, completely ignoring his question,"I'm sure you saw Decade during the day, Daigo. You should probably go and tell your boss about him. Make it quick too. This World is in danger as long as Decade is here." Before Daigo could say anything, Narutaki had already vanished into the Dimensional Drift.
Daigo sighed as he got off his bike and set the helmet on it.
"What did Narutaki say?" Daigo turned to see an Undead standing before him. But he wasn't any Undead, he was a Joker. The Joker's greenish body glimmered in the night light as a few spikes on his arms and legs retracted back into his body held a card in his hand and swiped it over his belt's Rouzer,
- Spirit! -
The Joker was then coated by a dark static-like aura before his form was replaced by a human. His human form roughly at the same height as Tsukasa. A dark green hood hid his face and blonde hair but his glowing emerald eyes gave away his facial features.
He removed his hood and Daigo bowed,"Boss, Decade has finally arrive in our World. What should we do, Adam-sempai?"
The Joker, or as Daigo had called him Adam, sighed,"What horrible timing fate has. Daigo, I need you to track down the Category King Undeads. I'll handle Decade."
"As you wish, boss." Daigo replied before he got back on his bike and drove off back into the city while Adam remained outside.
Adam snapped his fingers and vines wrapped around him almost instantly before they fell to the ground, revealing Adam in his Joker form again. He looked towards the sky and clenched a fist,"Decade, you will not harm this World as you like. I will put a stop to your destruction. Prepare yourself, Decade, for I am the hero of this World. I am...Kamen rider Kerberos!"