OathToOblivion: Okay, you guys are probably wondering about this, aren't you? So, we've had our break from Precure/Rider, and now we're back! Thing is…JLM still isn't flowing properly. Not only that, but some of you guys have wondered about the characters in DX2; don't tell me you haven't! So we have to tell their stories too, right?

Symbolic Joker: Of course. Otherwise everybody who reads the fic is going to rage at us to give them the prequels to JLM.

OathToOblivion: So, that's why we're going back to the very beginning of the Symbolic Oath To Rider Cure Universe. What happened during Cures Black and White's original adventure due to the presence of Kuuga and the Grongi? Well, we're going to tell you! Sorry to say, though, Joker isn't going to be around for a bit. The above line of his is the only one you're going to see for a bit. Instead, please welcome the person who helped me with this through my Writer's Block!

Novice' Writer Zero: I actually get to be a major part of writing for a SOTRC Universe fic! This will be awesome. I hope this goes well.

OathToOblivion: Of course it will! At any rate, we don't own Kamen Rider Kuuga or Futari wa Pretty Cure. Toei does, as should be well known by now.

Let's Ride! To Protect Everyone's Smiles!

Futari wa Pretty Cure – Into the Blue Sky

Episode 01 – Journey to a New World! Growing in Power!

"…Well, I suppose I can't really complain. But it's kind of a disappointment." This was followed by the speaker sighing to express said disappointment. Though, he really should have expected that online delivery would take a long time. This young man's name was Onodera Ichido. He had short black hair, and looked nearly identical to Onodera Yuusuke, the Decade incarnation of Kamen Rider Kuuga. This was something that always confused him when he watched Decade. Hell, his last name was even the same! But that's besides the point...

Ichido was ordering Kamen Rider Kuuga merchandise online in the hopes of expanding the size of his Kamen Rider collection, for all he needed to have it completely up-to-date was said Kuuga merchandise. He supposed that he should also finish his Wizard collection, but he never really counted the currently running series. Anyway, in the pursuit of his goal, he had ordered many things: the DX version of the Arcle, otherwise known as Kuuga's Henshin Belt; Figuarts of all of Kuuga's Forms and Gear; even a Daguva Figuart. But the only things that had arrived today were the Arcle and SHFiguarts of Rising Ultimate Kuuga from Kamen Rider Decade, the TryChaser 2000, Gouram, and the BeatChaser 2000.

Though he was disappointed, he decided to get over it by doing what any other Kamen Rider fan would do: mess around with the transformation belt. He even decided to do a bit of playacting by pretending that he was transforming into Kuuga himself. Eventually, he got bored and decided to watch some TV, though he didn't bother to take off the Arcle due to laziness. Regardless, he popped out the first DVD he spotted, Futari wa Pretty Cure. If anyone questioned him why he had Magical Girl DVDs, he would have simply stated that it's perfectly fine for an 18 year old guy to enjoy these kind of shows, because that would be like hating someone just because they're a 'Brony'.

Nonetheless, he popped in Disc 1, selected Episode 1, and hit the Play Button. …Except, the TV wasn't working. "What the-? This doesn't make sense. This looked perfectly fine when I bought it three months ago." With this thought, he got up and decided to check for any faulty wires. What he found was that the wires were in perfect condition, thus leaving him even more confused. "Oh, come on; did I get ripped off or something?" Right after thinking that, things started to get weird.

The Arcle started lighting up and making a screeching noise. "Ah!" he screamed. "What the hell; did I press a button by accident?!" Though when he looked, he noticed that he was wrong, for it was acting on its own. He also came to realize that it wasn't just the Arcle that was lighting up; he was lighting up too! It was then that the World started swimming all around his perception, as though he were underwater. A searing pain then shot through his sides and waist. "Ahh!" Through the pain, he barely noticed that the Arcle looked a bit different than before. He didn't realize it at the time, but it looked completely show-accurate, to the last detail.

The last thing Ichido noticed before the pain knocked him out was a strange voice in his head. "Yes… You'll do fine, Linto…" Before he could understand what had been said, Ichido lost consciousness. He didn't know it at the time, but he would never see home again after that day…

"Ugh," Ichido groaned as he opened his eyes to a twilight filled sky. "What happened to me?" He then picked himself off the floor and immediately noticed that things were off. For one thing, he was in an amusement park rather than his own home. Not to mention, something about himself felt off as well. As he looked around, Ichido spotted a ticket counter window; there was enough light for him to see his reflection, and what he saw was not what he expected.

'What's going on?!' He backed up in shock, for an obvious reason. 'I look like I did when I was 15! What happened?!' He then looked over himself, seeing that his clothes had not changed from his black shirt, his blue jeans, his white sneakers, and his grey hoodie. The only thing out of place was the Arcle, which he couldn't find anywhere. He had suspicions, but before he could think on them, he heard what sounded like an explosion.

"What the-?!" He regained his bearings and looked in the direction of the noise to see some smoke. "Guess that's where I can find some answers." With that said, he ran off towards what very well may be a dangerous situation.

To say that Nagisa was having a bad day would have been an understatement. It started out good; go to school, go to Lacrosse practice, come home, deal with her little brother, the usual thing. Then a meteor ended up crashing into her room, only to find out it wasn't a meteor, but actually a talking phone-thing, with a bear-like face, calling itself a fairy, which then got her out of the house to follow his directions to somewhere. Then things got crazier when she and another girl with a talking phone-thing, only this one's face was rabbit-like, were being chased by some sort of leather-clad Albino!

Said Albino had chased them towards a Merry-Go-Round at the local amusement park, and then demanded something called 'Prism Stones'-whatever that was- or be killed. Self to say, it was a terrible day. 'Arienai (I can't believe this)!' She screamed in her head.

Ichido paused, so that he could hide behind the Merry Go Round. What he saw shocked him, and somewhat explained to him just where he was. What he saw was two teenage girls being accosted by a leather-clad-Albino. He recognized said albino as Pissard, the first of the Dark Zone Generals, and the weakest of the Precure Series Villains. The two girls were much more familiar to Ichido, which only cemented just where he was.

'No way! I'm in Precure-no-Sekai!' He yelled out in his head. 'And going by this scene, this is episode 1 of season 1, which is kind of ironic, considering that was what I was going to watch before I was sent here…'

"Play time is over!" Pissard called out, breaking Ichido out of his internal ranting. That call meant that it wasn't much longer until the first Precure transformation in the Human World's history, aside from Cure Flower of the HeartCatch Pretty Cure. Though that did beg the question of which timeline Ichido was in, because for all he knew, he wasn't even in the All-Stars timeline. But he couldn't dwell on that, for at this moment, he had to focus on staying out of trouble.

Pissard then levitated a whole bunch of objects into the air, and then tossed them at the girls! Ichido cringed, but he knew that the two would get through this fight on their own, so he stayed hidden behind the Merry Go Round. It was then that Mepple shouted to the girls, "You two, transform-mepo!"

Misumi Nagisa, the girl with short orange hair, and the soon-to-be Cure Black was confused and a little irritated at him for saying nonsense like that. "This is no time for jokes…" But Mepple interrupted her admonishment. "Take out the Pretty Cure Cards-mepo!" It was then than Nagisa casually ducked under a flying object and brought the Cards out from her pocket, while Yukishiro Honoka, the girl with long bluish-black hair, and the soon-to-be Cure White did the same.

Ichido would have watched a bit longer, but it was then that one of the flying objects almost flew into his head, causing him to duck for cover. By the time he emerged from his hidey-hole, the two girls had already slashed the cards through Mepple and Mipple's Phone Forms. A rainbow-like disk appeared in the sky, and a sudden burst of light fell down from the heavens. Ichido shielded himself with his arm so he could see what was happening.

"Dual Aurora Wave!"

That was the synchronous call from Nagisa and Honoka, who were holding hands and pointing their other free hands into the sky, palms facing up. Of course, Nagisa was a bit flabbergasted at what she had just said. "What did I just say?" It was clear from the look on Honoka's face, that she didn't understand what was happening either. They then flew up into the sky in a rainbow burst, transforming into their brand new alter-egos!

"Emissary of Light, Cure Black!"

"Emissary of Light, Cure White!"

"Futari wa Pretty Cure!"

'Title Drop, anyone?' Ichido thought sarcastically, finding the trope appropriate, and thanking whatever Kami that was listening that he learned English so that he could read TV Tropes.

"Servant of the Dark Power…" started White.

"Return to the darkness from which you came!" finished Black.

"…Say what?" was the only thing that could go through Cure Black's head before Pissard attacked. Despite all this, Ichido couldn't help but grin. He was now living in Precure no Sekai (The World of Pretty Cure)! No matter what has happened to him at this point, that simple fact was just awesome! He should have felt sad that he had no way of going home, but it wasn't like there was anyone waiting for him anyway. But he put such thoughts aside, for he still needed to keep hidden, otherwise he could be captured as a hostage.

At this point in time, Black and White were getting accustomed to their powers, and were kind of in awe at what was going on. They probably didn't realize the gravity of the situation, for they were just trying to survive. After a bit of fighting, they managed to knock back Pissard. This angered him, and he proceeded to jump on top of the Spinning Pirate Ship. He then called forth a Zakenna! "Raging spirits of the heavens, Zakenna! Heart of darkness, make them understand the horror of the Dark Power!"

The Zakenna spirit proceeded to rise up and possess the Roller Coaster Train! Black and White were taken aback by the sudden appearance of something like this, and the Zakenna took advantage of that by shooting laser beams from its eyes! The two dodged it, and ran as the Zakenna continued to attack. It launched its wheels off like spiky spherical boomerangs, and while Black dodged them all, one was about to hit White in the back before Black deflected it. Ichido smiled at this; the first sign of their friendship. Because for those of you who don't know, unlike the other Precure, Cures Black and White gain more power as their friendship deepens.

It was then that they proceeded to activate their first, and some would argue greatest, attack together.

"Black Thunder!"

"White Thunder!"

"Our beautiful souls…" started White.

"…shall crush your evil heart!" finished Black.

The clasped hands, and let off that most famous of their attacks!

"Precure Marble Screw!"

The spiral of black and white energy…Spiral Power, anyone? The spiral launched directly into the Zakenna, purifying the Train and eradicating the spirit that possessed it with a burst of light! The only thing Pissard could say was, "What?" As the light died down, the Zakenna spirit broke up into little stars and vacated the place while Pissard was nowhere to be seen.

By this point in time, it was dark. The girls, and subsequently Ichido, thought it was over now. So, Ichido decided to do something stupid, and come out of his hidey-hole. "Um, excuse me?" he called out. The two girls jumped in surprise, and nervously turned around, noticing the unexpected viewer of recent events. Though, with how dark it was, all they could notice was his grey hoodie. "Um, was that some sort of show, what was it, Cure Black and Cure White?" he asked in a confused voice, hoping to sound clueless.

"Y-Y-You saw that!" Black screamed out, with embarrassment written all over her face.

"U-Um," White stuttered a bit. "Why did you call us 'Cure Black' and 'Cure White'?"

"Well, that's what you practically screamed out after that rainbow burst earlier," Ichido replied. "So, are you two doing a Mahou Shoujo cosplay or something, and what was with the leather-clad-albino?"

"Um," White started off, trying to think up an excuse due to her being the rational one compared to Black, who was still panicking. "That's- wait, look out!" She changed mid-sentence before knocking Ichido to the ground. Both he and Black were confused, until they spotted what was left of a projectile headed for where Ichido's head used to be. Basically, it was a big glob of webbing. All three then turned to where the projectile came from, and screamed.

The reason for the screaming was what appeared to be mix between a man and a spider, with the spider parts mostly around the head. Ichido recognized it as Zu-Gumun-Ba, the first Grongi that Godai Yuusuke ever faced as Kuuga. 'What the hell?!' He screamed in his head. 'What's a Grongi doing here?! This isn't Kuuga no Sekai (The World of Kuuga)!'

"W-What is that thing?!" Black screamed out. "Was he with that other guy?!"

"No-mepo!" Mepple answered. "He was definitely not with the one from before. In fact, this guy feels completely different-mepo!"

"Hmph. Three Linto, two of which are female warriors. They will be perfect for this Gageru!" Gumun spoke. Of course, no one understood what it was saying, but the moment Ichido heard the word 'Gageru', he knew that this Grongi wanted to kill them!

"Oh, no you don't!" Ichido yelled out, and stupidly charged towards the Grongi, despite the calls of the two Precure behind him, and immediately tried to punch the Spider Kaijin. Emphasis on try, for the Grongi easily sucker punched him, knocking him back towards the two girls.

"Are you alright?"

"Hang in there!" White and Black spoke respectively, though Ichido was in a bit too much pain to answer.

For the two girls, this was starting to become too much. Right after fighting for their life against some weirdo and a mutant Roller Coaster, they get attacked by some weird spider thing. And to top it all off, some guy they barely know was hurt in the process. So, Black's next action was a bit predictable.

"Haaaah!" she screamed as she charged to fight the Grongi, getting somewhat better results than Ichido. Her results grew with assistance from White, but the fight, didn't last much longer than Ichido's, for Gumun just managed to smack them back towards Ichido. The two girls were knocked to the ground. They were exhausted, and getting up soon didn't seem to be in the cards.

Ichido was personally a bit scared, and not sure about what to do. All he could think of was this battle, and how likely they were going to die. He didn't want to see these two die trying to protect him. So his next action was justifiable. He screamed and charged again, only this time, as he punched Gumun with his left hand, he actually got a desirable result. His punch managed to push Gumun away. Stunned silence followed for a few seconds, until Ichido looked at his hand and found a surprise.

His hand was covered in what appeared to be black spandex, a golden band, and a white gauntlet. He recognized this as well. "This is..." Ichido muttered. With renewed fighting spirit, he continued his fight with the Grongi, the rest of his body being covered in the substance on his arm, until finally the Arcle and a helmet formed. The final result was a surprise for all involved.

Ichido knew the armor well; a black bodysuit with only minimal armor on his knees, chest and elbows. His hands and lower arms were covered in white gauntlets with gold trimming, the same as the gold ankle armor and the gold that was on the neck-facing side of his chest armor. His helmet was black with red eyes, and short gold horns, while the Amadam Stone in the Arcle was a kind of orange color. As it happened, his senses expanded, although not by much considering it was simply Growing Form.

"I... turned into Kuuga?" Ichido-no, Kuuga muttered. He nearly fell, due to a bit of exhaustion, but managed to right himself up into a battle ready position. Everyone else had varying reactions towards this change.

For the Precure, they felt shock from the fact that he changed into that form, though Black started to hassle Mepple for answers, much to his misfortune. For him and Mipple, it was the same, as well as a bit of fear, due to a slight intimidating aura that was emanating from Kuuga unconsciously. As for Gumun, it was surprise and anger. "Kuuga! So you're still alive! Is this another one of your forms?!"

"I don't know what you just said..." Kuuga started. "...but I'm not going to let you kill anyone here!" With that declaration, he tackled the Grongi, and the fight started to get a bit more even. It wasn't by much though, as he was still struggling to fight Gumun due to the overall weak stats of Growing Form. Eventually, Gumun managed to pin Kuuga to the ground.

"What's wrong, Kuuga?! You're usually much stronger than this!" The Grongi asked in a condescending tone. Kuuga ignored that, and instead focused energy into his legs, and then kicked Gumun in the stomach.

"Ugh!" The Grongi grunted. It didn't do too much damage, and Kuuga knew it, so he needed to hang on a bit longer.

While this was going on, Black and White were watching the scene with a bit of awe, and at the same time guilt. Guilt from not being able to help.

"There's got to be something we can do to help him!" White finally let out.

"With what? We could barely get any hits in before it pushed us back!" Black retorted.

"Well," White paused for a bit, thinking. She then looked to the two faeries. "Um, excuse me, how do we use that 'Marble Screw' again?"

"Eh?" Mipple let out. "Just remember what you did before, and the answer will come to you-mipo!" She answered in her soft voice.

"What we did before?" Black asked. The two girls looked to each other, nodded their heads, and then proceeded to focus. At this point, Kuuga was on the ground again, and Gumun was about to go in for another punch.

"This is the end for you," The Grongi started. "Kuuga!"

"Black Thunder!"

"White Thunder!"

Before Gumun could attack, he heard a rumbling of thunder, and then looked for what was causing it.

"Our beautiful souls…" started White.

"…shall crush your evil heart!" finished Black…again.

At this point, Gumun looked towards the two female Linto he had forgotten about. But by the time the thought to stop them passed through his mind, it was already far too late.

"Precure Marble Screw!"

The spiral of energy came out once again that night, hitting the Grongi right in the chest where he was kicked earlier. It weakened him to near death, and pushed him away from Kuuga. With this chance, Kuuga got back up on his feet.

"Thanks, you two," Kuuga told the two Precure, with a thumbs up. "I appreciate it!" With the thanks out of the way, Kuuga prepared himself, and gathered energy into his feet again. Gumun was just starting to get up, but Kuuga was ready at this point, and went charging into a flying side kick.

"Growing Kick!"

The kick connected to Gumun's badly abused chest, resulting in the Kuuga symbol becoming attached to it, which caused the Grongi even more pain. "Ugh! Damn you, Linto Warriors! Damn you, Kuuga!" the Grongi screamed, before it exploded!

Silence once again filled the park, except for our heroes' exhausted panting. Though he struggled, Kuuga managed to get up, and was about to walk away...

"Wait!" Black yelled out. Kuuga turned towards her. She took a step back, being a bit intimidated by his appearance for some reason. "Who are you?"

Kuuga paused for a bit. What should he tell them? He couldn't reveal his identity right off the bat, otherwise things could get complicated. So, he just decided to be a bit vague. "You can call me Kuuga. That's what that thing called me. And I just want to be clear," He looked directly at the two girls for this one. "I am not your enemy." He said the last part with a thumbs-up. He then ran as fast as he could before the girls could question him more.

Kuuga ran out of the park, lots of questions running through his head. 'How did I turn into Kuuga?! Why are the Grongi here in Precure no Sekai?! How did I even get to Precure no Sekai to begin with?! Just what's going on?!' Poor Ichido was simply confused out of his mind. It also didn't help that he was feeling incredibly tired as well for some reason. It was then, that things got really weird.

"Hm...a bit sloppy, and you needed the help of the females, but good enough for the first try. I suppose I was right to entrust you with Kuuga's power, Linto," a voice rang out from nowhere. Kuuga immediately froze, looking in all directions.

"Who's there?! Calling me a Linto...you've got to be a Grongi!" Kuuga deduced. "I'm warning you now, I won't let you kill anybody!" he warned, dropping into a ready pose despite his exhaustion. The voice then spoke up again.

"Fool! I am most certainly not a Grongi! Even if I was, I'm not there, I'm here!" it cried indignantly.

"Where's here?" Kuuga asked suspiciously.

"Look down, you idiot..." the voice sighed. Kuuga looked down, but only saw the Arcle.

"...Okay, I am. Where are you?" he asked.

"Moron! Isn't it obvious?!" the voice yelled. At the same time though, the Arcle flashed. ...Wait, why did it do that?

"Why is the Arcle flashing?" Kuuga wondered.

"...How could you be the best choice...when you seem to be as dumb as bricks?! I'm the Arcle, fool!" the voice declared. ...Wait, what?!

Kuuga was even more confused. Since when could the Arcle talk? This, coupled with everything else was too much for him. And so, he powered down to normal, and just fainted in the middle of nowhere.

"...Just terrific. I suppose I'll have to wait for him to wake up before we can get anything done," the Arcle groused to itself, before it disappeared from Ichido's waist. He continued to lie there, until a figure approached in the distance.

Episode 01 - Fin

OathToOblivion: I know what you're thinking. "Oh no, there's no way it's someone suspicious this soon." ...And you'd be right. I'll spoil things and say that the figure is our favorite takoyaki-making saleswoman! That's right, the person who found him unconscious was none other than Fujita Akane!

Novice' Writer Zero: Really, Oath. You rejected my idea of Ryou (AKA: Agito) being found by Akane, but you'll have Ichido be found? I don't really see the logic in this. Then again, I'm socially awkward, so I'm not sure.

OathToOblivion: The reason I rejected Agito being found by her is because at the same time, Hikari is there. Two at the same time sounds like some kind of bad cliche to me. At any rate:

Next time on Futari wa Pretty Cure - Into the Blue Sky: A City Targeted by Darkness! A Mighty Promise!

See you guys then!