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(Melon)

AN: Before reading, I want to warn you guys to have knowledge of the Muv Luv Alternative universe to know its history. Since this is the first prologue I won't delve in the history in depth.

(Melon)

Prologue 1: The birth of Zangetsu

Third person POV:

One night of 1980, on a snowy forest, a family was running for their lives, escaping from their pursuers. It was cold and dark yet they kept running. "Keep running Lise!" One of them spoke.

He was a young man in his teens, with red messy hair and greens eyes. The boys name is Theodor Eberbach. "Yes, Onii-chan!" The one who spoke was a girl, who Theodor was holding her hand tightly. The girl has a slim figure, blonde long hair tied with a ribbon and blue eyes. This girls name is Lise Hohenstein. Theodor's adopted little sister.

The last of the in the family were Lise and Theodor's father, Thomas Hohenstein and their mother. "Don't stop you two, just keep running, were almost at the wall!" Their father yelled out then gunshots were fired by their pursuers, the Official state security service of the German Democratic Republic, the STASI.

The pursuers started shooting at their direction. But due to the darkness almost all of their shots missed. But one of the bullets was able to hit at Thomas leg. "Arg!" he cried out in pain and fell on the snow filled ground.

"Dear!" their mother said and had caught the attention of Theodor and Lise. "Daddy!" Lise cried out and run straight to her father. Their father looked at Lise and then to Theodor. "Theodor, take Lise and run!" he asked, no begged to his adopted son.

His mouth hanged open in shock. He looked over to his mother who had the same expression as the father. He then looked at her little sister, who was crying her eyes out. He clenched his hand and then grabbed her hand. "We need to go Lise!" he then started to pull her up. Yet her sister struggled from his grip.

"But…!" she looked back at her parents her tears never stopping. Theodor then pulled her harder. "We need to run! RUN!" Eventually she complied and started to run with her brother. "Run, run!" Theodor yelled in his mind.

Then Lise was grabbed by one of the Stasi officers. "Onii-chan!" Theodor quickly turned to his sister, but was met by another Stasi soldier, who punched him in the gut. "Arg!" Theodor cried out in pain and fell to the ground while clutching his stomach.

"Onii-chan!" her sister called out to him while struggling from the soldiers grasp. "Damn it… let her go!" Theodor said and the soldier kicked him in the face. "Theo! Heinze Axmann you…!" Thomas looked over to one of the soldiers in the group. The man was quit tall, with red slick black hair and ember colored eyes. This man's name is Heinze Axmann.

Heinze looked over to Thomas and gave in a sadistic grin. "You have brought this upon yourself, traitor. And it is the Stasi's duty to eliminate people like you." Thomas could do nothing but glare at him.

Heinze sight was then placed over to Theodor, who was struggling to get up. He then laughed at his futile attempt. "Alright bring everyone back to base!" he ordered and every one of his soldiers followed his command without question.

Theodore could only watch as the Stasi were taking his family. His eyes darted to his sister who, up till now, was still struggling from the soldiers grasp while crying out to him. "This can't end like this, why, why can't I fight back?!" He desperately cursed himself. "WHY!?"

"Well as you are now, you simply just can't." His eyes shot open and started to look around and what he saw left him speechless. Everyone was frozen, not like frozen in ice, but frozen like time had stopped for them. "You know kid it's really rude to ignore people."

He then looked over to his side and saw a strange man wearing some strange clothing, but could tell that he was of Japanese descent. (AN: Basically Sagara's clothing for his show. Considering it's the 80's our modern clothing would be strange to them.) "Who…?" was all Theodore could say until the strange man gave him a whimsical smile.

"Ah, I should introduce myself first. My name is Sagara. It's nice to meet you face to face Theodor Eberbach." Theodore looked at the smiling man in confusion. "How do you know my name?" In response Sagara had put his hand under his chin and adopted a thinking pose.

"Well… let's just say I've been observing you and found you quiet interesting." Theodore continued to look at the man until he realized his situation. "Wait! What is going on?! Why is everyone frozen like statues!? And who the hell are you! He yelled and Sagara scrunched his brow and gave him a confused look.

"I already told you my name is Sagara." Theodore gained an annoyed tick mark and was about to yell at Sagara, but stopped when he raised both his hands in a surrendering manner. "Okay, okay calm down kid. Bottom line I froze time in order to talk to you and assist you." Sagara explained and Theodore looked at him like he was crazy.

His rational mind could not accept his claims, but given what has happened Theodore gave him the benefit of the doubt. "Okay let say I believe you. What reason could you have on helping me?" he asked while Sagara's smile grew and leaned over to Theodore.

Theodore stepped back from his sudden action. "Like I said, I'm interested in you." Theodore didn't say a word. Sagara then took out something from his inner pocket and threw it over to Theodore. He acted fast and caught the object that Sagara threw.

He stared at the strange object in wonder. It was some short of enlarge belt buckle with a knife like lever on its side. "What is this?" he asked. Sagara then started to explain to him about it. "It's called a Sengoku driver. Place it in front of your waist and see what happens." Theodore did so and a yellow belt appeared and securing it in place. The blank slate on the belt then glowed and a face plate materialized. The image that appeared was an image of a white armored helmet with a darker white background. His eyes widened in surprise and once more looked at Sagara.

"That my little friend is something that could help change your fate and of the world." Sagara explained and Theodore looked at him in wonder. "To change my fate and the world?" Sagara had yet again given a smile. "Yah, a power to save your family, a power to even take back your world and defeat these so called BETA'S. I have to tell you I have never seen a more sorry excuse of an existence than these BETA'S."

That had left Theodore speechless. A power to defeat the BETA! A force that had eradicated six billion lives! Something like this was given to him for free! He then gave Sagara a distrustful look. "You're just giving this power to me? What's the catch?" Sagara didn't lose his smile at his distrustful question.

"Oh no there's no catch. I just want you to rock the world to its core." Theodore closed his eyes in deep thought. If what he say is true. Then this will be a bloody path. His eyes opened with determination, a look with no conviction at all. "Fine I will accept this burden. I will save my Father, my mother and Lise… and I will change this god forsaken world!"

Sagara then started to laugh in joy at his declaration. "I knew you would be interesting! Oh and by the way, catch!" Just like with the driver he threw another item at him. Theodore caught it and once again looked at it in wonder.

The item had an appearance of a silver and black lock and had the image of a green melon and the number LS-4 was labeled at the center. "That my friend is what we call a lockseed. Without it the Sengoku driver is but worthless."

Theodore looked at the lockseed, examining all its inches. "Now last thing before I go. To use it press the button on its side and once the shaft is unlocked, place it on the driver and lock it in place. Then use the cutting blade. There the magic will happen."|

Theodore nodded at his instruction. "Good bye for now Theo-kun and do please make thing interesting." Sagara then vanished in a pale green light. Theodore then looked back to his frozen family and soldiers. Slowly they all started to move.

"Onii-chan!" was the first thing Theodore heard and saw that everyone started to move like nothing had happened. Theodore then glared at Heinze. "Let them go you Stasi dog!" his demand had caught Heinze by surprise. Not only him. His sister, his parent and every soldier had stopped, shocked and confused on what Theodore said.

"What did you say?" Heinze began his left eye twitch in irritation. "Onii-chan?" her sister voiced out her worry and confusion. "I said, let them go and I will let you live dog." Heinze paused for a while and started to laugh. Not only him but all of his men started to laugh with him. For his family had looked at him like he was crazy.

"That was good one kid. For that laughable joke, I'll lessen your torture huh?" Theodore gave him an icy smirk and raised the melon lockseed for everyone to see. "What's that, a toy? You think a toy will stop us?" Theodore didn't responded and was about to unlock the lockseed, until he heard his sister. "Onii-chan?" He then gave her a smile. Reassuring her that everything was going to be alright.

"Don't worry Lise. I'll end this now." And with that he pressed the button on the lockseed. And for some strange reason he spoke a word that felt so right to say when he activated the lockseed. "HENSHIN!"

"MELON!"

The shaft on the lockseed opened and a zipper like portal had appeared above him. Everyone gasp in fright when a giant metallic melon came down from the portal. Even Heinze gapped like a fish on what had transpired. "What the hell is that?!" One of the soldiers said.

"Your death." Was all Theodore said and he placed the melon lockseed on the driver and locked the shaft.

"LOCK ON!"

Then a horn like sound was heard. The sound was like the warring state horn used by the Japanese. Theodore grasped the cutting blade and pushed it down.

"SOIYA! MELON ARMS! TENKA GOMEN!"

The lockeseed was sliced open. The upper part that remained attached on the driver, bared the image of a sliced melon while the bottom half depicted a melon based shield.

The melon arms dropped over him. His little sister had screamed in shock when the melon arms fell on her brother. Thinking something that heavy would had crushed him. But to her relief it safely landed on his shoulders.

A liquid like energy came from the melon arms and started to cover his body. Then it materialized a white body suit. The gauntlets and greaves gleamed gold with black lines rising up from his arms and legs. The metallic melon then began to unfold. The front section came together in green plating with gold accent. The sides folded together to form shoulder plating, but remained slightly apart to mimic spikes.

The reveled helm have sported large melon base eyepiece with a silver mouth plate and a gold crescent moon on the forehead. The helmet attached was designed like a melon skin with gold sliding like a samurai helm and a melon stem on the top.

A flash of light appeared over his left arm, creating a large shield with a golden center ending in a crescent moon with gold sliding and around disk on the top. The rest was covered with the same melon skin texture. This was the Melon defender.

The last one was a sword attached on his side. The sword bore Japanese design with its sword guard bearing an appearance of a gun. This sword is called the Musou Saber. Theodore is now Kamen rider Zangetsu.

Theodor started to study his armor. He related it to the samurai armor of Japan. A thought went through his mind. "What's with the entire Japanese theme? First the lockseed and now the armor."

While in deep thought Zangetsu failed to see one of the soldiers pointed his gun at him and started to shoot him. "Die you freak!" the Stasi soldier pulled the trigger. Zangetsu heard the gun fired and ended his thinking. He stared at the soldier unfazed by the gunshots.

The guns magazine emptied and the soldier desperately tried to reload the gun. A white, green bluer passed by him and Zangetsu was now behind the man with the Musou Saber drawn out. Every one stared at the soldier and saw him frozen in place.

Then they saw the upper half of the soldiers body started to fall forward, leaving his lower half steadily standing. The soldier's body fell to the ground with a loud thud and an eerie silence fallowed.

"A-a monster!" One of the remaining soldiers screamed in fear and like with the earlier soldiers started to shoot at Zangetsu. The other soldiers followed him and began attacking Zangetsu.

Zangetsu moved once more and becoming a white green bluer. He first attacked the soldier that was holding his sister. He had sliced the soldier's head clean off, freeing his sister. He didn't waste any more time and went to the next soldier. He had sliced his arm clean off and a fountain of blood gushed out. The soldier screamed in pain while clutching his now stump of an arm.

He continued to decimate them. He either butchered them or dismembered them, leaving them to bleed to death. The soldiers that remained tried to run away in order to save their sorry excuse of lives. Zangetsu had noticed this and by instincts, pulled the cutting blade, activating the drivers squash function.

"SOIYA! MELON SQUASH!"

The melon defender started to glow and Zangetsu threw the shield towards the escaping soldiers. The melon defender has started to spin around like a Frisbee and effortlessly sliced the soldiers in half. Like a boomerang the melon defender returned to Zangetsu's hand and he turned his gaze to the last Stasi, Heinze Axmann.

Heinze was now on the ground with a terrified expression. He was trembling in fear watching Zangetsu decimate his men. Never once in his life was he afraid as he is now. Ever since he was in the Stasi it was always other people at his mercy. But now he was at the mercy of this boy, no this monster.

Zangetsu slowly walked towards Heinze. He desperately took out his pistol and started to shoot at Zangetsu. Like before Zangetsu was unfazed by the gun and when the gun runs out of bullets, he started to crawl back in a futile attempt on escaping the white demon. "Stay back! I said stay back!" by now Heinze was rumbling. "Do you know who I' am! I'm Heinze Ax…" he stopped when the melon defender was thrown inches from his face. "Hiiii!" he squealed in fear.

Zangetsu was now in front of him and immediately lifted Heinze by the throat. "How does it feel to be in the other end huh, Axmann? How does it feel to be at the mercy of someone with greater power? Tell me what are you feeling right now huh?" Heinze stared in horror at Zangetsu gleaming visor. To him it was the eyes of the devil. "Please… spare me… I'll do… whatever you want…" Zangetsu didn't respond at once, but his shoulders started to tremble and he broke in laughter.

"Hahahaha! Listen to this father! The same mouth that ordered the deaths of many, either man or woman, old or young, innocent or guilty! Is now begging for his pathetic life! Hahahaha! Oh this is rich!" Zangetsu didn't wait for his father to respond. He pulled him until Heinz's face was inches from his helm. "Tell me, how many have begged you to spare them and yet killed them in cold blood?" Heinze didn't say a word, knowing full well his answer will do no good.

"Now it's your turn." Zangetsu then punch him on the chest. As the result, Heinze threw up a large amount of blood and saliva. Zangetsu released him from his grip and let him fall to the ground. Heinze continued to cough up blood and clutching his chest in the attempt to mend the pain.

Zangetsu stared at him, examining the damage he caused with just his punch. "My punch… I used the same amount of muscle strength as flicking my finger and it caused this much damage?" He then noticed Heinze was recovering and proceeded to raise the Musou Saber. "I'm getting bored looking at you. It's time to pay!" Heinze could only raise both his hands together in a last ditch effort to protect himself. "NO! DON'T KILL ME!" Zangetsu was about to end this until he felt some clutching his back.

For a moment he thought a Stasi soldier survived his attack, but removed that thought when he noticed, even with the armor on, the one clutching his back was too small to be a soldier.

He turned and saw Lisa was the one on his back. He saw that she was trembling and her eyes were shut while trying not to cry, but failing. "Lisa?" When she heard her brother utter her name, she opened her eyes and looked straight at her brother visor. "Onii-chan, please stop. You beaten them, they can't harm us anymore." He stared at her sister, confused on what she said. "What are you talking about?! This-this animal doesn't deserve to live! Do you know what he could have done to us, to you! Just thinking about it makes me want to drag this piece of shit to the BETA and let them eat him!" Lisa didn't look away from him.

"I know. I know what he could have done. But if you kill him, you'll be no different from them." She looked down to the ground and continued in a more whisper like tone. "I-I don't want you to be like them… I don't want you to stoop in there level… Please onii-chan…"

Theodore didn't know what to do. He wanted to kill the son of a bitch, but he didn't want to refuse his sisters wish. Refusing anything she asked of him, is the last thing he would ever do. "Theo…" he heard his father calling to him. Zangetsu turned his attention to his father and saw that he was now standing while being supported by his mother. "My boy, listen to your sister. If you kill him, you'll be no different." His father pleaded and his mother gave her piece. "Please Theo listen to your father and sister."

Zangetsu lowered his Musou Saber and his family sighed in relief. Zangetsu then returned his attention back to Heinze, who was still cowering like the cowered he was. "You should be thankful to my family dog. Because of them you would live another day." Heinze was now a bit relaxed knowing he was spared, but grew more worried when he heard what Zangetsu said next. "But I want you to remember this dog. Even though you will live, remember your life is on borrowed time. Know that I could easily come for you when ever I please. Live everyday in fear and spread my name to your comrades of what has happened here today. Live and remember who you have angered." Theodore didn't know where his last words came from, but to him it felt so right to say.

The clouds that had blocked the moon light had slowly moved and the light shunned on Zangetsu. His family and Heinze stared at him in awe. It was almost like the heavens themselves have acknowledged him, deeming him as their equal. "For you have angered me, Zangetsu. He who has been authorized by the divine providence."

Not a sound was heard. It was like the whole world fell silent, fearing to gain his wrath. "Now leave dog, before I change my mind." Heinze wasted no time and started to scurry away and never looking back, fearing that Zangetsu will kill him if he did so.

He sighed and his shoulder slumped. "Onii-chan, what is this armor anyway?" He heard his sister's question. When he turned to face his sister, she flinches at his sudden reaction. He looked at her and then to his parents. Both looked like they had the same thing in mind. He sighed once more and as of instinct, he folded the melon lockseed. This caused the armor to disappear in to molten lights, reverting him back to normal. His sister and parents were taken aback at this, but relaxed when they saw him reverting back to normal.

"You'll think I'm crazy you I tell you the truth." They looked at him unsurely. Theodore then pressed the silver button on the driver realizing the lockseed from the driver. He held the melon lockseed, looked at it in amazement. "This… is my power… the power to change my fate and the world."

The three looked at tier adopted son in confusion. "We should move now. Theo can explain himself once we cross the wall." Every one nodded at Thomas's words. Except for Theodore, who was still looking at the lockseed in a trance like state. "Onii-chan we have to go." Lisa said to her brother, while holding his hand.

Theodore was brought out from his thoughts when his sister started tugging his arm. They then started to walk towards their destination, knowing full well they would make it with Theodore and his strange powers. They could finally rest easy knowing they had averted a terrible fate.

(Melon)

Sagara watched the family he indirectly saved, walking toward the Berlin wall. He smiled satisfied with his decision on choosing the boy. He started to thing to give him a present for the entertaining opening act he displayed. But decided to leave that for another time, for now he had more pressing matter's to attended to.

"Hmm… who should get this next?" He looked at the Sengoku driver and Banana lockseed in his hands. "I'll leave the last driver to Shirogane Takeru, but who to give this one too." He closed his eyes, like he was searching for something in his mind.

His eyes shot wide open and gave a toothy grin. "Ah this one is quit interesting! Having no father! His family and friends ridiculing him for being half Japanese and desperately trying to escape that and proving himself to others! You would be a do greatly! Time to meet the new Baron!" He then teleported some were or sometime. No one knows, for the will of Helheim could not be truly comprehended.

Chapter end

(Melon)

AN:

Okay I have no idea what possessed me to write this. I just had a writer's block when I was writing my KR OOO and Date a live fic when this came in mind. It was so destructing I had to write this now. So I'm sorry to say the update for the OOO and DAL fic will take a bit more time.

Now on with this story, as the prologue set this takes place three years before canon of Schwarzesmarken. As I read the novel I really hated that most of the cast were killed off, I mean this was the darkest of the Muv Luv I have seen.

I really felt sorry for Theo. So in this fic I gave Theo Zangetsu's power to 'level the playing field' so I'll say it now, the Kamen rider will literally curb stomp the BETA. I mean let's face it, Kamen Riders faces enemies way stronger then the BETA and pretty much dealt with hordes upon hordes of Kaijin with slightly powered kicks. (Check KR battride war) with ease.

This first part will be Zangetsu's chronicle. As I revealed at the end that would be Gaim (Shirogane) and hinted who Baron is, would be the other protagonist of the different Muv luv series. The four main riders are Gaim, Zangetsu, Baron and Ryugen. Each will have a different set of stories and at the end all will meet in a final big fic.

The appearance of the rider's would shifter the Alternative universe in a major change. What type of changes I would reveal later on.

Lastly the 'Creator' would play a major role here, but would leave that to your imaginations for now.

This is Berserkerzero7 signing off.