KKD: Hey guys! Here is the team-up fic that Gammatron and I have been working on. Also, I have decided to make this my contribution to celebrate Sonic's 20th birthday, and the 40th birthday of Kamen Rider!
Sonic: Uh, KKD?
Momotaros: In case you didn't notice...
KKD: Yes, I did notice I'm way off in terms of month and day, but as long as it is 2011, I might as well label it as such. Anyway, I've got to thank Gammatron for bringing this general idea up on the Kamen Rider Club forum, which I invite you to join if you're into Kamen Rider. Now for the disclaimers.
DISCLAIMERS: We do not own Sonic the Hedgehog, Kamen Rider Den-O, or anything else that would happen to make any appearance in this story. The only thing we own as of now would be Mirai the Hedgehog.
KKD: Now for the story.
Sonic Climax Jump
Sonic Climax Jump
New Story: Sonic Climax Jump! A train that crosses time? DenLiner? I don't know what's going on, but 2011 is mine!
Ryoutaro: Perhaps I thought Momotarou-kun was a hero when I was little.
Mirai: Baka! Do you want to die?-!
Ryoutaro: All I know is that it's something I have to do. Henshin.
Momotaros: Let me tell you: Ore wa saisho kara saigo made climax de ze! Crossing time, ore sanjou!
Chapter 1: Ore, Sanjou!
Our story begins not on some far away planet, but inside of time. It wasn't much; it looked more like some sort of desert with silver sands and a rainbow colored sky. In this desert known as the sands of time, a red and white bullet train was zooming down some tracks with some appearing before it and some of it vanishing behind it. This is the train that crosses through time, Denliner.
What the train was chasing was a strange mass of yellow orbs of light flying ahead of it. These lights dashed ahead towards a canyon before diving downwards into it. Some sidetracks appeared next to Denliner's main rails so that the train could follow the light into the canyon. As the train got closer, though, the orbs of light entered through a strange portal before vanishing from the Sands of Time. The rails of the train, that somehow hovered in midair, soon reoriented themselves to catch Denliner before it crashed onto the canyon floor. The train then turned to a complete stop at the bottom of the canyon.
Meanwhile, in the year 2011, out something in the normal skies above Mobius, a portal appeared releasing the strange orbs of light over the city. Strange thing about the orbs was that we could hear strange grunts and mumblings from them if you listened in well enough. But our focus is not on these orbs of light, it is on one character in this city.
We turn our attention to a young mobian hedgehog. His blue quills were slicked back cleanly and had that kind of wind-swept look to them. At the moment, he was clearing some sand out of his emerald green eyes with his large gloved hands. While resting his red and white sneaker covered feet. What was odd about him, though, was the fact that he was sitting in a tree, not as if he climbed up it, but as if he somehow landed in it. This 20-year old hedgehog was the ever-popular Sonic the Hedgehog, and he incidentally heard the noise from above and looked up, but didn't see the orbs of light in the slightly dark clouds behind him which soon disappeared as the clouds somehow returned to being white. Sonic then went back to clearing the sand from his eyes again.
Meanwhile below, some human construction workers spotted the young hedgehog and the one holding a ladder decided to go get him down.
"OI! Daijoubou ga? (Are you okay?)" the construction worker asked.
"Hai! I just got sand in my eyes." Sonic responded back still clearing his eyes. This caused the construction worker to sigh.
"I wasn't asking about that!" The construction worker then set up the ladder by the tree Sonic was in and began climbing as he began to think out loud to himself, "Damn, man. This can't be possible."
*A few minutes ago*
A sign fell down as Sonic was taking his usual jog. He was confident he could make it around, but when he braked, Sonic accidentally rolled up into a ball and was launched off of the sign as a ramp and ended up in the tree.
*Present*
"Guess some guys just have really bad luck." The construction worker said still climbing. "Daijoubou ga?"
"Oh, yea." Sonic said before he was aided but down by the worker. Sonic then stretched his legs again before lightly jogging off. "Thanks!"
"Be careful!"
"Hai!" Sonic then continued on through the streets of his home before he somehow slipped on a pipe and rolled down the hill until he bumped into it next to a gang of Mobian hedgehogs with quills of varying dark colors and red highlights.
"I'm sorry!" Sonic apologized while getting up. "Are you o… kay?" He then realized who he was speaking to. The three hedgehogs were beginning to look intimidating to him, surprising since Sonic fought some of the greatest disasters of his time, but the attitude he took was mostly for show. What he was showing now was his true slightly timid personality.
Meanwhile, back in the Sands of Time, Denlier had gone in reverse out of the canyon and back forward onto it's scheduled course.
Inside Denliner's diner car, three peculiar figures were going about their business. Walking through the car preparing something was a pink female hedgehog wearing a black and white outfit with red boots and white gloves. It seemed that the girl was preparing somethingAt one end of the car was a black hedgehog with black hedgehog with slightly spiked up quills, powder-blue highlights, and green eyes with slit pupils. He was sitting there with no visible mouth, but it was apparent that he had some sort of expression neutral expression on his face as indicated by his eyes.
The last of those in the car was a female hedgehog with pink and white quills while wearing a white shirt, black skirt, and matching shoes. This hedgehog stepped forward to the obviously older male hedgehog near the back and stared at him for a moment as if trying to convey something to him. The male simply stared back at her indicating something else. Moving on, Denliner continued to travel through time across a bridge similar to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
The train of time, Denliner. Will the next station be in the past or the future.
Jikan no nami we tsukamaete (Grab on to the waves of time)
*Denliner drove through an opening in the canyon wall and drove across the bridge as the camera zooms out before seeing an hourglass in front of the mess*
Ima sugu ni yukou yakusoku no basho (Right now let's go to that place of promises)
*We then see Den-O walk up to the Denbird in Denliner's engine before the scene changes to a coffee table with an hourglass, a coffee cup, and a Denliner pass sitting on it before Ryoutaro's hand reaches out to grab it. Once he picks it up, we see Ryoutaro looking at the pass before staring off in one direction before leaving the Milk Dipper with Airi and Manic looking on in confusion at where he was going*
Genkai mugen iza tobikome. Climax JUMP (You have unlimited boundries. In a pinch, jump over it) Ii jan? Ii jan? Sugee Jan? Ii jan? Ii jan? Sugee Jan? (Isn't it good? Isn't it good? Isn't it great? Isn't it good? Isn't it good? Isn't it great?)
*The scene changes to Den-O hopping onto Denbird then inserted his Denliner pass and started up the bike causing some of Denliner's cars to disconnect from some of the main cars as Den-O steered the train to the left allowing the train to enter a portal through time before the title appears*
Kanaitai yume ga aru nara (If you have a dream that you want to come true)
*Burning calendar pieces began falling from the sky as we see images of gameplay from Sonic's adventure burning as well. Some of these fall at Ryoutaro's feet as he stared on at what happened around him*
Shinjinakacha negatta hibi wo (…then there were days when you believed it would come true)
*We see Ryoutaro looking off towards the camera before it switches to Mirai staring walking off into the distance before seeing her face with some tears in her eyes*
Catch the wave!
*A hand flips the hourglass back in the Milk Dipper upside down*
Mayoi sou na toki kanarasu (When you're lost…)
*The scene changes to Ryoutaro holding the pass while pointing his finger into the distance before a zoomed out image shows holographic train tracks appear on either side of him*
Omoi no tsuyosa ga michibiku (you're sure to be guided by the strength of your feelings)
*We see glimpses of Den-O's armor from behind his helmet, then behind him at a shot of his hand before we see a shot of Sonic running in Green Hill Zone before the image shatters revealing Ryoutaro getting ready to execute his henshin*
Kimi ga nozomu mirai sude ni in you hands (The future you wish for is already in your hands!)
*We see Ryoutaro execute his Henshin before we catch a glimpse of Den-O's sword form helmet attach to his plat form face completing his Henshin into sword form. Then Den-O executes his Ore sanjou pose before setting up his Full Charge sword*
Hajimari wa itsumo totsuzen (Beginnings are always sudden)
*We see Den-O sword form swinging his sword around using his charged up blade.*
Unmei wo tsurete yuku time tripin' ride (…Bringing fate along on this time tripin ride)
*We see Mirai making happy expressions in Denliner with Ryoutaro's back to her, before it changes to the Milk Dipper with Airi doing something similar that Mirai did with Ryoutaro's back to her. The scene then changes to see Ryoutaro's reactions to what they girls did before we see him split into his four imagin possessed forms before a quick glimpse of Den-O's Axe and Rod forms appeared*
Dare yori takaku [Ii jan? Ii jan? Sugee jan?] Kinou yori takaku [Ii jan? Ii jan? Sugee jan?] (Higher than anyone else [Isn't it good? Isn't it good? Isn't it great?] Higher than Yesterday… [Isn't it good? Isn't it good? Isn't it great?])
*With a quick shot of Momotaros and Naomi in Denliner, the scene changes to shots of Ryoutaro's imagin possessed forms hanging out in Milk Dipper with his Gun Form imagin possessed form tossing a pass to the original Ryoutaro before a shot of Den-O is seen of him getting ready to launch Denbird into the air*
Climax Jump! Ii jan? Ii jan? Sugee Jan? Ii jan? Ii jan? Sugee Jan? (Isn't it good? Isn't it good? Isn't it great? Isn't it good? Isn't it good? Isn't it great?)]
*Den-O makes the jump before we see Momotaros in the four corners of the screen doing a dance while Denliner leaves one time era, gets ready and zooms off to another era*
Sonic is seen still with the hedgehogs from before surrounding him with one very familiar hedgehog stepping forward.
"Now don't complain; give me compensation money," one of the hedgehogs demanded. Sonic was willing to cooperate and was about to hand over his wallet to the group when suddenly …
"Sonic?" a voice called out.
This caught the attention of the hedgehogs in the area as they all turned to see a green hedgehog that looked similar to Sonic except for some shaggier quills, he wore a red vest, spiked wristbands, and an orange fanny-pack.
"Manic?" Sonic pointed out.
"Sonic! I've been looking all over for you. You know Sonia's had me looking all over for you," the green hedgehog stated.
"Hey, get out of here pal. This is between me and blue boy." A certain black hedgehog with red highlights said to Manic.
"Back off pal! Do you know who this is?" Manic shouted to the black hedgehog. It took a while, but one of the other hedgehogs then recognized them.
"…OH! Sonic the Hedgehog?" one of the hedgehogs finally identified.
"Sonic?" the black hedgehog asked. It was here that Sonic finally recognized the black hedgehog.
"Shadow?" The blue blur pointed out. "Well isn't this a surprise."
"Yea, I haven't seen you since that point when Eggman tried to messed up time so that he beat you instead of the other way around."
"By the way, this is my brother, Manic."
"Pleased to meet you," Manic said casually.
"Likewise," Shadow responded. "Well, I suppose I'll just go on my way. Later, …faker." Shadow then started walking away with those of his "gang." Manic then had a confused look on his face while Sonic merely grinned while waving good bye.
"Faker?"
"Back when we first met, he thought he was the real deal and I was copying him," Sonic explained. Sonic then noticed a soda can on the ground and picked it up and aimed for the trash can. However, when he threw it, the can bounced off the side of the trash can …and hit Shadow in the back of the head!
Boy was Sonic in for it now, but before that happened, Sonic and Manic couldn't help but notice a picture Shadow had hanging out from his glove being held in place by one of his power stabilizing rings. The next thing Sonic knew, one of Shadow's fist came flying towards his face.
The next thing Sonic knew, he was laying face flat on the sidewalk with Manic trying to wake him up. Sonic then sat up getting the ringing out of his ears.
"Sonic! Are you ok?" Manic asked with obvious concern in his voice. I mean you'd be concerned too if your sibling was punched so hard that they got a big bruise on their cheek.
"My bad luck is particularly bad today," Sonic admitted as he got up, sand falling off his body, "Look at all this ash."
"Uh …Bro? That's sand, not ash," Manic corrected.
Sonic dusted a bit more sand off his body before looking down. Stuck in a part of the grates was a small black pass. He pulled it out and Manic looked over his shoulder. The twoo saw that there was an image in it, depicting a circle with a terminal shaped like a 'T' in the center with train track designs on the sides. Sonic turned it over to reveal the same symbol on the back.
"Why can't we keep it again?" Manic asked.
"It might belong to someone," Sonic replied as they approached the Police Station.
Manic was the first to go in. As Sonic approached the door, the time was 11:11:10. Sand began to pour out of his gloves and shoes as the time turned to 11:11:11. He opened the door and walked into a desert with white sands and a rainbow sky.
"Someone dropped this. …Eh?" Sonic looked up and around, "Eeeeh~?-!"
A strange melody filled the air. Sonic looked as a set of tracks formed before him. A bullet train slowed down to stop before him. The train was streamlined in shape and painted primarily white with black and gray added to it. The front of the train had two parts that reminded him of a peach split in two. Three cars away from Sonic, the pink and white hedgehog hopped out of the train. She moved a bit of her hair/quills back and ran to a door that formed. She opened it to reveal another part of the town. She ran off in a hurry.
Sonic heard the sound of a door sliding open. He turned to look up at the pink hedgehog with jade eyes. She poured a cup of coffee into a black and white checkered cup on a checkered plate.
"Would you like some coffee?" the hedgehog offered, "Here."
Something about this hedgehog rang as slightly familiar to Sonic, but putting that aside he merely blinked a few times. Slowly, he reached for the cup and made the hedgehog's smile grow. Sonic took the coffee and turned to where he entered. The hedgehog bowed and waved good-bye as Sonic walked out. Once the door had closed, Sonic blinked before turning around to see Manic walk out, …or rather DASH out.
"Cheese it!" Manic shouted as he grabbed Sonic's arm and ran off, making him drop his coffee cup.
"Get back here!" a bulldog police officer shouted.
"Not here," the hedgehog gasped as she looked at the grates, "I can't believe it. This is bad."
She got up. This was really bad for her. She had been trusted with it and what happens? She loses it. She took five steps before hearing a small sound of paper being stepped on. She moved her foot and looked down. There, on the ground, was a picture. It depicted Shadow with a young human girl, possibly her age, and an elderly scientist with an egg-shaped head. She picked it up and sighed.
"At any rate, I should recover it quickly," the hedgehog noted.
She ran off just as Shadow came upon the site.
"Damn it…" Shadow scowled.
As he looked in a bin, the bulldog police officer was walking down the stairs.
"Lousy no good…" the officer grumbled, "I'll get that Manic yet…"
"Hey. Did you see a picture here? It has myself with a young human girl and an elderly scientist in it," Shadow informed.
"Nope. But there was this one hedgehog who found a lost item. Then it became fuzzy when I saw that Manic…" the officer grumbled before tapping his chin, "Come to think of it, the hedgehog did have a lot of ash on him. …Or was it sand?"
"What kind of hedgehog?" Shadow scowled.
"Um… I think he was blue with green eyes…"
"Blue with green eye…" Shadow's eyes widened.
He ran off. Just as he turned a third corner, a sphere of light hit him in the back. Sand began to pour off of him in large loads. Shadow looked around.
"What?-!"
The sand twitched before shooting together into a new form. The upper half of the body seemed to remind Shadow of a bat. The shoulders, back, and arms all resembled bat wings white its fingers were talons. Its head was akin to that of what a vampire's would be mixed with the face of a bat. The upper half of its body floated above its lower half.
"Tell me your wish. I will grant any wish. Just compensate me with one thing…"
"It must have been a hallucination…" Sonic muttered to himself, "That couldn't have happened."
"Well it did. We just got chased by ol' Fatty," Manic frowned, "I knew I should have checked the schedule before we went."
Unaware to them, a sphere of light nailed Sonic in the back. Piles of sand fell off the hedgehog and quickly reformed behind them, taking on the image of a demon of sorts with two horns on its head. Manic looked at a watch on his left arm and screamed.
"WE'RE LATE!"
"Tell me your wish."
"MOVE IT, BRO" Move it, move it, MOVE IT!" Manic barked as he jumped onto Sonic's back before the hedgehog dashed off.
"AH! Oi! Get back here!" the sand creature shouted before giving chase, "Why did I make a contract with a guy who turns into a blur, dammit?-!"
A calm part of town was home to one of the best cafes there. It had a feeling of home to it with the small plants in various areas and the pictures decorating the walls. A few customers would always ask about a few, mainly the ones that involved celebrities with the majority being that of comedians such as Jeff Dunham and his puppets along with Keenan Thompson, but would just earn that they found the place like home as a reply. Books lined the various bookshelves as the scent of fresh coffee permeated the air, mixing in with the scent of fresh foods all cooked to the liking of the customers. On one stand was a special item; a small telescope for viewing stars on top of a blue blanket decorated as the night sky along with the ceiling. This was the Library Café, Milk Dipper.
Inside, the only customers were all Mobian men with a few Human men. All of them were currently gazing upon a hedgehog as she poured coffee into a cup. She was around her late twenties. Her magenta fur stood out from the pink quills on the front of her head. She wore a simple violet dress with hints of red lining. The skirt went down to her knees while her arms were covered in gloves that went up to just below the shoulders. On her neck was a small necklace that resembled a piano. She gave a small, soft smile as she kept a careful rose-colored eye on the drink.
Nearby, a red Echidna gulped. His violet eyes darted around, the adventurer's hat on his head with three star buttons on the left side keeping them hidden. He adjusted his brown vest and the white gloves that had no separation for his fingers to give them the appearance of spiked mittens. He carefully picked up a love letter he had written along with the bill. He got up and walked to the counter.
"Sonia..."
"Oi!"
"Here," the Echidna offered.
"Hey!"
"Wait a moment!"
"No fair!"
It became a small disturbance as all the males there suddenly grabbed him and pulled him away. Many of them had bouquets of various flowers and other having chocolates or presents.
"Me too, Sonia-san."
"Sonia-san."
"Shhh...Right now, the coffee-tachi are doing the last of their work."
"Sumimasen (I'm sorry)," many of the men apologized.
It was then a regal-gloved hand took the Echidna's love letter. Attached to it was a blond Mobian canine. His hair was neatly combed while he wore a blue business suit with pink button shirt and plaid tie.
"Knuckles-kun! You're a regular customer; you mustn't force your feelings upon dearest Sonia like this."
"Bartleby..." the Echidna growled as he tried to get it back before the two were hit on the head by a rolling pin from Sonia.
"Look, bubs, the coffee-tachi are finishing their jobs so sit and be quiet," Sonia ordered.
Many of the men flinched and complied. Sonia had what many called a dual personality. While she was a kind and angel among the populace the majority of the time, they had to remind themselves she could be as dangerous as a wildfire. The doors opened and Sonic stopped on a dime before the counter, Manic hopping off his back.
"Neesan, gomen nassai for being late."
"What happened, guys? You get chased by the coppers again?" Knuckles questioned.
"Yes," Manic replied to the Echidna.
"Ah...You're pretty badly beaten up!" Bartleby noted before Sonia moved between the two and looked over Sonic.
"Ryou-chan! What was it today? Did you fall in a manhole? Or were you hit by a tricycle like before?" Sonia asked, her tone having a motherly worried tone to it.
"Iie..." Sonic blushed as many of the males in the building just blinked, "I kind of did this myself."
"Bro just ended up throwing a can, hitting it against the trash can, and then hitting the head of a black hedgehog. Ended up with a fist to the face," Manic recapped, "And then we ran away from the Old Mutt."
"Manic!" Sonia barked, "You stole something again, didn't you?"
"Uh..."
"What did I tell you about stealing?" Sonia asked with a frown.
"To not to?"
"Give it."
Manic sighed as he pulled out a police badge. He gave it to Sonia, who put it into a box. On it read the words 'Stuff Manic Stole.' She sighed as she tried to recall the past. They had found each other after ten years of being separated from their parent's deaths when they were twelve and that was only after Sonic had defeated a creature called 'Perfect Chaos.' She had been able to convince them both to come live at the Milk Dipper and help run it. It was then she had learned about Sonic's real personality and that Manic...had been raised by thieves. It became habitual for Sonic and her to check him daily for stolen items.
"Man...Ryoutaro-kun, your bad luck is Guinness Level," Bartleby noted.
That was another thing that Sonia recalled. Not many knew her brother's real name was 'Ryoutarou Nogami,' Sonic being just a nickname. She still didn't understand why he called himself it even if it was obvious. The majority of the regulars all knew his actual name, but only Bartleby used it. She frowned at Bartleby before going behind the counter. Her two younger siblings sat down and she placed a plate of Chili-Dogs for the older male and a Hijiki seaweed salad for the younger.
"Hijiki seaweed salad again?" Manic groaned.
"It's good for you," Sonia replied in a motherly tone.
"Arigatou," Ryoutaro smiled.
"Ryoutaro-kun. Look. You still have sand on you," Bartleby noted as he took out a brush, "Allow me."
Ryoutaro nodded. As Bartleby dusted, the canine blinked at how much sand was on him. Did he end up at a beach? Knuckles began to pat the other shoulder, making more sand fall off.
"Oi...This guy is a pain in the ass to find..." the creature groaned as he slithered in the form of a pile of sand before stopping near the Milk Dipper, spotting the blue hedgehog in it through a window, "Ah! There he is!"
"There we go, Ryou-chan," Sonia smiled gently as she ran a hand through the blue hedgehog's quills with Manic, the story closed for the night.
"Just another day for you, Bro," Manic cracked a small smile, "Right, Sis?"
"Yes. It must have been quite troubling today," Sonia noted.
"Ano...It wasn't that much..." Ryoutaro replied.
"Oh come on!" Manic snapped as more sand fell off their brother.
"There you are!" the three siblings looked down at the sand as it reformed into the creature, his legs dangling in the air, "You...Oi! You Ao-Yaro! Do you think it's easy for a guy like me to follow a fast blue guy like you?-!"
"Wh-What the heck is that!-?" Manic gawked.
"The Sandman?" Sonia guessed.
"Do I look like an old guy's ass covered in sand?-!" the creature snapped before pointing at Ryoutaro, "Oi! Ask any wish and I'll grant it!"
Ryoutaro just stared at the creature of sand. His eyes rolled to the back of his head while he gave the silliest grin he could give.
"Ah! Bro!" Manic yelped as the blue hedgehog fell over, passed out from the shock.
"Ah! Oi! Man...Why did I get such a weak guy!-?" the sand creature whined before looking up at Sonia's glare.
"Why you little..." Sonia growled.
"Ahhhhh!-!-!"
"Ohh..." Ryoutaro groaned.
"Come on, Bro," Manic frowned with concern on his face as he continued to wave the smelling salt under his brother's nose.
Slowly, the hedgehog started to get up. He shook his head and rubbed the spot where it had met the floor. He checked his hand after that. Good, no blood.
"Manic...I had a weird dream."
"Does it involve a sand guy?" Manic asked.
"Hai."
"No dream," Manic replied as he pointed over at a table that had the sand creature on it.
"Yo."
"N-Nani!-?" Ryoutaro exclaimed.
"Kinda looks familiar, doesn't he?" Sonia asked as she kept a glare on the being.
"Man...For my host, you're way too weak."
"Hey!" Manic and Sonia snapped.
"Tch. Heh."
"Ano...Who are you?" Ryoutaro asked.
"Imagin."
"Your name's Imagine?"
"It's 'Imagin!' E-MA-DJINN!"
"Where do you come from?" Sonia asked, "The future?"
"Yep."
"So all future Mobians and Humans look like this?" Ryoutaro asked as Sonia tripped a little at the reply.
"Let me warn you...This form is also your fault!"
"Eh? Why me?"
"I used the image in your mind to take form! In other words...it's your fault I look like this. What is this? Couldn't you have come up with something cooler?"
"Trust me, bub. This is cool for Bro."
"Ah. Maybe you're Momotarou. He was my hero when I was little when I was staying with Vanilla-sama."
"Momotarou?-!" the creature exclaimed before Manic began to laugh, "Don't laugh! What a poor imagination you have!"
"Then we'll call you 'Momotaros,'" Sonia smiled.
"Oi! Don't call me t..." Momotaros began before seeing the sweet smile on her face, "Eeeeh...Man! Fine! I'll agree to it! Just stop with that damn c... Ah! That's right. The Contract! Ryoutaro! Tell me your wish!"
"Bro, wish for money."
"Manic," Sonia frowned.
"Earned money?"
"Better," Sonia smiled sweetly.
"Tch! Not your wish! His wish, dammit you Midorikuso Hedgehog!" Momotaros snapped as he pointed at Ryoutatro.
"Ano...Why do you want me to wish?" Ryoutaro asked.
"Because I get to have a body!"
"But you have one already, Sand Man."
"You be quiet, Midorikuso Hedgehog. This is between me and the baka with no imagination."
It was then the four heard a small object hit the floor. they turned to see it was the small pass Ryoutaro had picked up. Momotaros blanched at the sight of it. A Rider Pass? Ah! He didn't...
"Ah. Oh no! I took it with me!" Ryoutaro gasped as he picked it up and ran out.
"Ryou-chan!" Sonia called as the hedgehog ran out, unaware of Momotaros not being in the room.
"I did a bad thing," Sonic frowned as he looked at the Rider Pass, "The person who is looking for this is looking for this right now."
As he ran, a portal appeared behind him on the road. His ears twitched when a melody began to play before the train from before emerged from it. Ryoutaro screamed as he ran, the train keeping up with him. He looked at it as a door slid open, revealing a magenta and silver hedgehog wearing a white shirt, black skirt, and matching shoes. She also had a soft pair of gold eyes from what he noticed.
"Hey! Chotto!"
"Why is there a train here?"
"Mama, it's a train," a little girl in a car awed as the train drove beside them, startling the mother.
"Ne. You picked up the Rider Pass, right?" the female hedgehog asked, "That's mine. Can you give it back? It's a black case pass."
"If you've lost something you have to go to the police station."
"What are you saying?-! Please! It's really important to me!" the hedgehog begged before the blue hedgehog turned a corner, "Matteo!"
It was then she noticed it. As Ryoutarou let out a whimper as he ran away, sand floated away from him.
"Eh? It can't be..."
"Wh...What was that just now?" Ryoutaro pondered before he froze at seeing Shadow and his gang from before.
"Hey, bro. Stealing's no good," the hedgehog with a leather jacket snorted as he motioned to a scowling Shadow.
"You have Aniki's picture, don't you?" the hedgehog with a flame-decal hat asked as he pointed at Shadow with his thumb, sand collecting at the black hedgehog's feet.
"Eh? Picture? Iie. I don't know anything about that. Gomen. I'm in a hurry."
"Hey, stop there!" the leather jacket hedgehog shouted as they gave chase.
"It's one strange incident after another. It's like I'm haunted or something," Ryoutaro whimpered a little as he entered the park.
"Yeah...You're haunted..." Ryoutaro looked about as he heard Momotaros's voice, "...By me."
It was then Ryoutaro, not noticing where he was going, hit a tree. He stumbled backwards...right into the three hedgehogs in Shadow's gang.
"I'm done playing Tag with you," Leather Jacket scowled.
"Since you ran away, you must know about it," the hedgehog in an orange tracksuit frowned.
"That picture is important to Aniki," Leather Jacket scowled as he pulled Sonic up to his face.
"Chotto matte. Picture, what was in it?"
"The one with his Neechan and Grandpa in it," Leather Jacket growled, "You know, don't you?"
"...Oh."
"So you do know!" Hat exclaimed.
"I knew he had it, demo..." the hedgehog began before Hat bopped him in the nose.
"Remember?" Hat sneered.
Ryoutaro shook his head. Tracksuit responded by punching him on the back of his head.
"Just say you're the one who picked it up!" Tracksuit demanded.
"If I picked it up..." Ryoutaro coughed as he got up.
"If you don't hurry and talk...we'll have to open up that mouth with some pain," Leather Jacket scowled before kicking Sonic in the gut before they began to beat him up.
'Am I...going to die? Even after all I've been through with ol' Eggman and everything I've dealt with? Gomen, Neesan, Niisan,' the hedgehog thought as he was tossed before the trio.
Tracksuit began to stomp on Ryoutaro when the hedgehog grabbed Tracksuit's foot. With a roar, Ryoutaro pushed. Tracksuit screamed as he landed in a bare tree, landing on a branch...on his nuts.
"Satoshi!" Hat gasped.
They turned to Sonic as he got up, a wave of sand falling off him. The two stepped back before Sonic rammed a fist into Leather Jacket's face and taking his jacket. Sparks came off his quills as they grew messy with a red highlight appearing in it. The scarlet muffler he wore fit with his new leather jacket. The two gulped when they saw his eyes had turned from emerald to an angry scarlet. The girl hedgehog from on the train ran into the area and saw him.
"Ore...Sanjou..."
"I knew it," the girl gasped, "An Imagin."
"He's my contract holder. I can't just stand by and let you beat him any further," M-Sonic stated, "Listen. I don't do warning shots. From start to end...it's completely a Climax. Say your prayers."
Now that Sonic looked like he did at that moment, he was starting to freak both Leather Jacket and Hat out of their wits. They weren't sure what to do until Hat decided to try and punch the changed hedgehog before him. However, M-Sonic merely spun around and kicked Hat in the back. M-Sonic then turned to find a sculture of sorts made of black pipes near where Hat landed. M-Sonic placed his foot on one piece of pipe before grabbing the one closest to him and yanking it off the sculture with a strength that was unknown to Sonic outside of his enhanced forms.
M-Sonic then began to wield the pipe as if it were a sword of some kind and looked on at Hat and Leather jacket with a wicked grin on his face. As Hat screamed and ran off a bit, M-Sonic swung the pipe with such force that it broke a piece of marble nearby. As the remaining goons of Shadow gang staggered back in fear, M-Sonic swung the pipe once more before turning to find the were running in the opposite direction he swung. Ignoring the fact that he missed, he began his chase after the two hedgehogs.
"Ikuze, ikuze, IKUZE!"M-Sonic shouted before jumping into the air in a ball before landing on his feet back in front of the two fleeing hedgehogs.
Once he turned back towards Hat and Leather Jacket, he swung again causing the two scared hedgehogs to fall back onto their backsides ready to scurry backwards.
"Don't run,"M-Sonic spoke with confidence unknown to even Sonic. "Let me show you the hissatsu waza I just thought of."
Once M-Sonic finished saying this, he entered a pose ready to strike with the pipe as a strange red aura began to glow around him, freaking out the two hedgehogs before him in the process. M-Sonic's eyes then began to flash and glow a brighter red than before and the aura grew stronger.
"Hissatsu! Ore ne hissatsu waza!"
Once the aura dissipated and the glow vanished from M-Sonic's eyes, the possessed hedgehog started to fully thrust the pipe at the hedgehogs ready to knock them unconscious if not kill them when…
"Aah~! Chotto matta!" Sonic screamed in his own head making M-Sonic stop mid-swing with both imagin and hedgehog conflicting between each other for control with Momotaros grunting as he did so. Once M-Sonic did finish the swing, the pipe completely missed it's intended targets, but making a crater in the sidewalk in the process.
The hedgehog from the train could only stare in shock and awe at what just happened involving Ryoutaro and the imagin possessing him.
"Wha-what are you doing?" Sonic asked Momotaros inside his head. "This isn't right!"
"Oi!"M-Sonic said out loud, "Don't stop me at the good part!"
"Momotaros?-! Why?"
"Why's it matter?-!"M-Sonic shouted as he reared his arm back again in frustration ready to actually strike the two hedgehogs who threatened to kill Sonic. Yet as he tried to bring the pipe down onto them as before…
"That's not good! STOP!"
With this, M-Sonic's hand was having difficulty hanging onto the pipe due to struggle of control for the hedgehog's body. After a few seconds, and Momotaros grunting as he tried to regain control, M-Sonic released the pipe with Hat and Leather Jacket still nervous and unsure of what to think.
The next thing they noticed, Sonic's red muffler was gone, and his quills returned to being full-on cobalt blue, slightly cleaner and in the neat six spines from before, and on his near-exhausted expressed face were his familiar emerald eyes. However, Sonic was breathing heavily due to the struggle he had in order to regain control. That was almost tougher than surpressing his Super Dark Sonic form.
Meanwhile, the female hedgehog realized something significant happened here.
"It can't be," she said as she just grasped the gist of what happened before her, "He surpressed him?"
Once he glanced at the scene and realized what Momotaros had done using his body, Ryoutaro removed the leather coat on him and handed it back to Leather Jacket before running off with the hedgehogs from Shadow's gang still confused and the female hedgehog from the train finally realizing something important.
"That hedgehog…," she said to herself, "might be…," she then started chasing after Sonic.
Once Ryoutaro finally stopped, he found himself at the old warehouse section of the city with the buildings obviously old and damaged. Sonic couldn't take much more for running surprisingly as being possessed by Momotaros and ejecting him seemed to take much more out of him than he realized.
"Oi, Omae. How were you able to stop me?"Momotaros asked slightly confused yet mostly not caring.
Sonic was shocked to hear Momotaros' voice again as he stood on his knees to find where it came from, not realizing the sand falling from his gloves once more. The sand then reformed itself into Momotaros' form once more. Yet seeing form just seemingly from out of nowhere made Ryoutaro quite surprised as he backed off.
"What a strange guy,"Momotaros thought out loud, "First his speed, then how weak he is, now this. Oh well. Now that your siblings ain't here, its time for the formalities, and I need to do it proper this time."Momotaros merely cleared his throat as Sonic stared in confusion.
"Tell me your wish. I will grant any wish. Just pay me one thing…"Yet Momotaros didn't exactly get to finish as Ryoutaro started to back off and whimper in slight fear and confusion. Well, …Ryoutaro had some experiences with somethings that granted wishes before. Some good, some not quite. Yet, this was going a little too far was he backed off, but the imagin simply moved closer as Sonic realized that even though the demon was moving, his torso stuck out from the ground while his legs were above his head.
"Oi,"Momotaros said as he got closer.
"I don't know if what you said back at the Milk Dipper was true, but get outta here you freaky future sand genie!" Sonic shouted out of fear.
"Who's a freaky sand genie, you Ao-Yaro!"
"That's not what it is…" the hedgehog from the train stated bluntly walking towards the duo getting their attention, "well …not quite anyways …the thing in you."
"You're the one from the train…," Ryoutaro realized.
"I sensed it that time," she said as she got closer. "You are special. You're called a singularity point."
"Eh?" Sonic said confused once more, "Singularity?"
"Sigularity point?-!"Momotaros said in realization moving to Ryoutaro's right causing the hedgehog to look at the imagin. "For real?-! AGH~! This is the worst!"
Sonic was still staring at Momotaros so intently, that he didn't even notice as the female hedgehog walked up behind.
"I've found you," the female silver and magenta hedgehog said slightly spooking Sonic out for the moment. "Someone like you can become Den-O."
"Eh?" Sonic asked before he heard the wind start to pick up.
With the sudden wind and sand blowing through, both hedgehogs and the oni imagin turned to find Shadow, who was struggling to stand, walking towards the trio with sand falling from his body.
"Give it back," Shadow nearly demanded.
"This guy…" the girl hedgehog realized.
"Give it back," this time, more sand began to nearly explode from the black hedgehog's body before reforming into the sand form of the creature that possessed him earlier. However, this time the creature soon merged it's upper and lower bodies properly as it gained a violet-blue color with purple and dark gray accents. It glared at the two with its dark-pink eyes.
"A Kaijin!"
"I see...A Singularity Point? You must be destroyed!" the Bat Imagin roared as he rushed at the blue hedgehog.
"Yeow!" Sonic yelped as he jumped over the attack, "I don't swing that way, buddy! Sides..."
"Eh?" Momotaros and the female blinked, seeing that the scared shy hedgehog just became fun-loving and thrill-seeking.
"I'm way past cool to be destroyed," Sonic finished.
"D'oh! Teme!" Momotaros roared as he charged at the Bat Imagin...only for him to be batted into a pile of sand, "Oh come on! Twice in one day?-!"
"You know what my Sis always says: 'Can't stand the head, keep away from the kitchen!'" Sonic smirked as he curled up and began to spin on the ground, "Spin Attack!"
With that, Sonic shot at the Imagin, a blue trail following him. The Bat Imagin scoffed as he batted him to the side. Sonic flipped before unleashing a Homing Attack that nailed the Bat Imagin on the back. The Imagin turned and flapped his 'wings,' unleashing a blue tornado that sent Sonic into a wall.
"Get a hold of yourself!" the girl called as she caught the hedgehog and shook him, "Ne! You have that pass, right?-! Use that and Henshin!"
"H-Henshin?" Sonic groaned before grabbing her and jumping over another tornado attack, "What do you mean by Henshin?"
"Baka! Do you want to die?-!"
"Oi! If you die, I'll disappear too! Do it!" Momotaros barked as he reformed before turning to the Imagin, "Or rather let me do it!"
"Ah! Momotaros, matte!"
"You bastard! I'm pissed off now!" Momotaros roared...until the Bat Imagin fired a sonic attack that sent Momotaros into a pile of sand, "Eeeh...I $^*in' hate this goddammed sandy body!-!-! Hate! Hate!-! Hate!-!-!"
"Come on! Hurry!" the girl barked as the blue hedgehog.
Slowly, he reached into his quills and pulled out the pass. He gulped as his normal personality began to show again. This guy was tougher than Eggman or the others he's fought normally. Was it because he made this 'Contract' with Shadow?
"Do it already!" the girl snapped.
"H-Henshin!"
A small trail of light began to spin around him waist. It solidified and became a belt. It was streamlined and primarily silver. Traces of black were on the front and buckles while a blue arrow was painted on the right half of the buckle. The center had the same emblem as the pass did while four buttons-Red, Blue, Yellow, and Purple-were all lined up on each other on the left side.
"Mou!" The girl fumed as she quickly buckled the belt.
Sonic blushed a bit from the contact. He was just not used to any body contact outside of handshakes except for his siblings and friends. As he looked at the belt, his hand with the pass went over the buckle's symbol. It released a trail of white energy that quickly solidified and altered Sonic's appearance. He was now the size of a human male his age and wore a strange outfit. It was a black jumpsuit that covered his entire body. His arms and legs up to the elbows and knees were silver with the fingers black. The silver on his knees extended upwards a bit. The sides of his belt sported four pieces that resembled parts to a train. The shoulders and torso all had train track designs with silver plating on the sides of the 'tracks.' His helmet was a solid white with a train track going down the back and up and over to his chin. His mouth was covered in a silver face guard resembling the grill on the front of trains. the eyes were a solid black. The sides of his head had gold bars.
"Hm?" the transformed hedgehog looked at himself before turning to the girl, "What is this?"
"Don't get distracted! He's coming!" the girl snapped as she turned and pushed Ryoutaro to the Bat Imagin.
"Uh...R-Right!" Sonic nodded as he turned to the Kaijin, "Okay, buddy. Time to make you deaf."
He was about to run when he felt something...off. He tried to use a sonic boom, but just tripped on his feet and the Bat Imagin slashed him twice on the torso. Sonic's eyes widened under his mask. His...His speed...it was gone!-? He got up and proceeded to run away from the Imagin. He couldn't fight like this! He dashed through a building, throwing a few boxes at the Bat Imagin as it flew after him.
"Hey! Fight!" the girl shouted.
"Easier said than done!" Ryoutaro cried as the Bat Imagin flew after him, knocking down a concrete pillar in his pursuit of the armored hedgehog.
Ryoutaro stumbled into another building, knocking over a few steel barrels. The Bat Imagin grabbed him from behind and tossed him into a tower of the barrels. The armored hedgehog managed to grab a broom and bonked the Bat Imagin on the head...only for the broom to splinter.
"No effect!" Ryoutaro screamed as he ran up a flight of stairs...only for the bat Imagin to pull him down and slash him on the torso, sending him into a pile of boxes.
"Oi! Switch with me!"Momotaros demanded inside Ryoutaro's head, "You fall back!"
"How do I fall back?"
"Like I'd know?-!" Momotaros snapped before the Bat Imagin threw Ryoutaro onto a lower level, "Switch with me already!"
"But how?-!" Ryoutaro whined as he got up.
"Press the red button on the belt!" the girl shouted as she ran up.
"Eh? Button? Button...Button..." Ryoutaro muttered as he pressed the red button while getting up and swiping the pass over the belt once more.
-SWORD FORM-
The sound of a train's whistle echoed as a red 'peach' slid down and over the mask. The tip rose up before splitting down the middle, becoming a new mask while revealing the 'tracks' on his mask had turned gold. Six pieces of armor, four red and silver and two gold and black, spun around him. The red and silver parts attached to the shoulders and the sides of the 'tracks' on his torso as the black and gold slid onto the sides of the 'tracks' on his back. The armor flashed red as a small pulse of energy came off him.
"Ore...futatabi sanjou!"he declared as he pointed his thumb at himself before posing with his arms stretched out ahead and behind him.
The Bat Imagin roared as he flew at the fighter. The armored warrior just chuckled as he connected the two parts on his left hip, revealing a heart/peach design on one side. He tossed it up into the air and grabbed the remaining two parts. He connected the four parts together to resemble the bottom half of a sword. A red blade appeared on the end and the figure slashed at the Imagin, send it tumbling away.
"You jerk...what are you thinking?" The Bat Imagin growled as he got up, "Have you forgotten our mission?"
"I never knew it in the first place. I was disappointed before..." the figure stated as he looked at his sword, "...but this seems like fun. Or rather..." he rested his sword on his shoulder as he turned to the Imagin, "...I came because I wanted to do this." he pointed his sword at the Imagin, "I don't care who my opponent is!"
"Are you a baka?" the Imagin sighed.
"Let me warn you...Ore wa saisho kara saigo made climax de ze!"
The two charged at each other. The armored warrior just chuckled as he got in the first strike of Round 3 with his sword. He grabbed the Imagin's arm in mid-strike before slashing him three more times and kicking him out through a wall. He barely got up when the red warrior ran out and kicked him in the rear. The Bat Imagin couldn't get a single attack or block in as the red armored warrior began to strike him over and over again with his sword. The armored warrior kicked the Imagin away. The Bat Imagin groaned as it tried to get up, sand pouring out all over its wounds. The warrior just chuckled as he swiped the Rider Pass over his belt once more.
-FULL CHARGE-
The figure flicked his pass away as red lightning began to seep into his sword.
"Ore no Hissatsu Waza...Part Two," the figure stated.
The blade shot off into the air. The girl ran up just as the figure used a vertical slash to strike the Imagin, slicing apart a bit of the outside roofing. He made a horizontal slash that cleaved into two concrete pillars and the Imagin. He preformed a final vertical slash and cut the Imagin down the middle, leaving a red energy line going through it. The Imagin screamed as he exploded. The warrior just chuckled as the blade reconnected to its place.
"Done," Momotaros chuckled as the armor shattered to let Ryoutaro collapse with Momotaros's sandy body forming near him.
"That was scary..." Ryoutaro panted, "Nearly as scary as when I first fought Eggman..."
"That just now was Den-O," the girl explained as she walked up to the two, "I've been looking for someone to become him for a long time. Fight with me. Invaders from the future are coming. We must protect the stream of time."
"What? What'd you say?" Ryoutaro asked as she helped him up, the sound of the train from before playing. A portal appeared and train tracks shot out from it. The train from before emerged and skidded to a halt before the three, Momotaros turning into a pile of sand and hiding inside Ryoutaro.
"For now, get on," she ordered as the doors opened.
"I don't have any energy left to faint."
"Baka..."
"Hurry. It's going to depart."
With that, the girl dragged him into the train. The doors slid shut and the train drove off into another portal. Shadow stumbled into the area, moments after it left. Unaware to him, the sand was starting to recollect near him, forming the Bat Imagin's arm.
KAMEN RIDER DEN-O!
Ryoutaro: Are all future Humans and Mobians like this?
Sonia: The Star of Good Luck is still far off.
Manic: Especially since you went and lost your speed to Bad Luck.
M-Sonic: That Koumori-Teme...He's alive?-!
Mirai: Right now, the Imagin has flown to this hedgehog's most memorable past. They have one goal. To change the past thus change the present and future.
Ryoutaro: I don't really get it...but I do understand that I have to do it. Henshin.
Den-O SF: Ikuze. Ore no Hissatsu Waza...Part 2
Stop 2: Ride-On-Time
KKD: And that's the first stop on this journey through time with this Zone's Sonic. Please note, for those who have read it, this will not be related to the Den-O in Gammatron's "A Different Path." However, I hope you fav this, review, and join me on the Kamen Rider Club forum. 'til then, Jaa ne!