"So what is Tsukasa meant to be this time?"

The question came from Yuusuke, referring to his friends current clothing.

"If I had to guess, a negotiator?" Natsumi offered

"So I'm meant to bring peace to this conflict? Might be interesting."

Suddenly the door opened, and a trio entered.

"Huh? Wasn't this a fruits parlour?" The first man to enter, wearing glasses, asked.

The men who followed, one in a black jacket and the other in makeup, looked around equally confused.

Eijiro entered from the back. "No, this is a Photo Studio. But it happens I've just made a fruit salad. Please come in an eat."

The men, stil a little confused, sat down. The quartet listened to their conversation.

"We have no choice now," the man in glasses began. The other factions are too far ahead.

"Are you giving up Jonouchi?" his friend in the jacket asked, "if we can get the Golden Fruit none of the loss will matter."

Daiki's ears perked up at the sentence.

"There's no choice," The man in make up responded, "we have no choice but to become protectorates of Yggdrassil."

"I can't believe you're giving up as well Oren-san."

"It's not giving up Ryoji. It's looking at the facts."

Ryoji punched the table in frustration. The door opened again.

"Welcome!"

The two tabled groups froze, seeing who had entered. The newly arrived trio consisted of Kaito, and two lieutenants they'd seen in the battle, Zack and Peko. They walked over to the guests.

"Join me!"

"No!" Ryoji responded.

"Then you know what's going to happen."

The guests got up and walked outside after the Baron members. Tsukasa and the others came out after them.

Outside, they found Kaito had already become Baron and was waving his lance at the trio, who quickly pulled out their own belts and lockseeds.

"Donguri!" "Matsubokkuri!" "Durian!"

"Henshin!"

"Donguri Arms! Never Give Up!"

"Matsubokkuri Arms! Ichigeki in the Shadows!"

"Durian Arms! Mr. Dangerous!"

The trio tansformed, the quartet noticing one of them, Ryoji, had transformed into a form like that of the soldiers they had seen. In response to the trio tansforming and fighting Kaito, the other 2 took out drivers. Zack's was the one Kaito had taken from a soldier earlier, but Peco's was a different driver at all.

"Kurumi!" "Matsubokkuri Energy!"

"Henshin!"

"Kurumi Arms! Mr. Knuckleman!"

"Matsubokkuri Energy Arms!"

Were it not for the different belt and weapon, Peco would look exactly like the soldiers. The two joined their leader in fighting the trio, Kurokage Shin targetting Gridon, Knuckle fighting Bravo, while Kurokage was gunning for Baron.

"We can't let this continue can we?"

"Agreed," Tsukasa said, placing his belt on, "Henshin!"

The Lemon armoured rider thrust his rapier towards the banana armoured rider who deftly dodged the strikes, and then with a single thrust the banana rider struck his opponents driver, shattering both the seed and the driver. The man wearing the driver stumbled back and smiled as the banana rider removed this own suit, revealing Kaito beneath it.

"Very impressive!" Ryoma smirked at Kaito, and held out a briefcase towards the victor, "I'm interested to see what you do with this."

"You sure about this? I'm working against your lord after all. And I'm sure you have something for HIM as well."

Ryoma laughed, "I don't care who wins this battle. All I care about is seeing what happens in the end. I hope you make good use of this. The seed is stronger than the others.

He walked away laughing, stopping only to throw away his driver and take a Genesis Driver from his jacket.

"Alfred!" Kaito called out, and his butler entered the tunnel and walked over to him. Kaito opened the case, holding a Genesis Driver and a red Lock Seed. "Use these when the time comes!"

Alfred bowed and took the case.

Author Note: I'm intending to work in all the Gaim Riders to the AU. Not sure if they'll all impact the story.