Chapter 3. Thanks for the reads and the review. Just to note, in this story, I'm adoptingg a more scientific approach to the Rider World, so please bear with me. This fic is best enjoyed in an anime format, with each chapter being an episode. Also best enjoyed with coke and chips. Anyways enough said, time for the fic!


General POV

It's been about two days since the battle between Sojun and Azusa took place, and now, we find the entirety of class 1-2 in the arena's bike course, having a practical lessons on biking. The bike course was designed with all-terrain environments in mind, with sections of dirt tracks, asphalt and even mud, all surrounded by stadium stands.

"All right! Mizutani, Yamaguchi, transform and get your bikes out!" ordered class 1-2's instructor, Yamaguchi Hisana herself.

'Yes ma'am!" The two students shouted in unison.

Sojun and Azusa both took out their gears, and readied slotted the card into the buckle and placed it on his waist, forming a the meanwhile, Azusa put on her belt and took out her phone, and keyed in the transformation code.

-STANDING BY-

"Henshin!" The two shout simultaneously while activating their systems.

-TURN UP-

-COMPLETE-

Sojun then walked through the blue hologram, the blue-and-silver armor of Blade forming into him, while Azusa emerged from the light surrounding her as Faiz. Sojun then pulled out a card from the holder on his waist. The card did not have a suit, only the words 'SPADER' on it, and a picture of a blue motorcycle against a green background. He then swiped the card.

-SPADER-

A holographic screen appeared about two meters away from Sojun, and moved towards him, stopping only a few centimetres away. When the screen disappeared, all that was left was a bike, with a blue windshield shaped in the spades symbol, with a red seat and yellow headlights. This was the Blue Spader, Blade's customized motorcycle.

While Sojun was doing this, Azusa took out her phone from her belt, and keyed in the numbers 5841, before hitting the Enter key.

-AUTO VAJIN-

A red-and-silver bike then drove out of nowhere, and stopped in front of her like a tame and Azusa mounted their motorcycles and revved their engines, the bikes rocking to and from the staring line of the course.

"Ok you two, max speed, full course! Go!" Shiori ordered the two.

And with that, the two drove off. The two of them managed to navigate the course easily, so Azusa tried to make a little bit of small talk to ease the boredom.

"Ano, do you understand the fundamentals of combining biking with combat?"

"Huh, I guess so," Sojun replied, a bit confused.

Didn't this girl kick me in my soft spot a couple of days ago? he thought privately

"If you need any help, I'll be more than happy to-" Before Azusa could finish, she was cut off by a voice from the comm link in their suits.

"Yamaguchi, spec-wise, your bike should be faster! Take out the Nine of Spades and swipe it in the bike's Rouser!" Hisana ordered her brother.

"H-hai!" Sojun then flipped open the holder on his Blay Rouser, and pulled out the Nine of Spades, a jaguar with thrusters for shoulders, the Mach Jaguar. Quickly, he swiped the card.

-MACH-

The Rouser system in the Blue Spader then responded with a voice similar to his belt and Rouser's.

-MACH SPADER-

"Woah!"

And just like that, the bike accelerated suddenly, causing Sojun to lose control of his bike. The Blue Spader raced across the asphalt into the dirt path, then veered right off the course at the bend. Sojun flew off his bike, and crashed right into the side of the arena. When the dust settled, a pair of blue legs were seen poking out of a mountain of rubble beside a ruined wall.

"Owwww..." Sojun groaned, though it was muffled from the rubble on top of him.

"Sojun-dear! Are you alright?" Azusa said, while getting off Auto Vajjn and running over to help him up.

"Wait. Sojun-dear? When the hell did that happen? Before that, when the hell did you even starting caring about me?" came the reply of Sojun, who was dusting himself off.

"Ah...that's because…battle…cool…THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" Azusa's face switched from troubled to blushing and finally to anger, screaming at Sojun so loudly the comm link blasted feedback for a good five seconds.

"Argh...I've got a bad feeling about today..." Sojun muttered to himself.


*scene change*

In the cafeteria later that day...

Sojun's POV

"Yamaguchi-kun, congratulations on becoming the class representative!"

"Congratulations~!"

*PA!* *PA!* *PA!* *PA!* The pops sounded from all around me, and the colored ribbons that landed on me weighed a lot more on my heart than it did on my body.

On a side note, it's now free time from now till curfew at ten. Everyone in my class is gathered here, and each one is holding their own drink. The atmosphere's rather animated.

"..."

I don't want to celebrate! I want my sleep! What the hell is this party for anyways!?

I glanced at the wall. There's an 'Yamaguchi Sojun class Representative Assignment Party' banner. Oh, so it's a assignment party...sigh.

"Sojun-dear, how is the party?"

"What on earth were you thinking? You make me fight you, kick me in the balls, and now you're giving me the position? Geez, couldn't you have done that earlier? And why the hell would you even give me your position anyway?" I reply.

"Ahhhh...""She wants to have your kids." Chizuru cut in nonchalantly.

"MATSUMOTO-SAN!"

"Forget it. Sojun's only making babies with me," Misaki interrupted Azusa's attempts at hitting Chizuru. She actually looks pretty cute doing that. But if I said it out loud she's probably gonna hit me instead, so I shut up.

But more importantly…

"What the hell does that mean?" I shouted incredulously at Misaki, who looked at me with watery eyes.

"Sojun, let's make Sosuke and Asuna tonight," she said.

"WHAT?"

"I've got the alcohol ready. Don't worry, it's my first time too."

"THAT'S NOT THE POINT HERE!"

So the party went on, with loads of chitchat between us. I was starting to ease into the atmosphere and found serenity in the chatter, until one of my classmates asked a question.

"Yamaguchi-kun, did you ever have a girlfriend before?"

Immediately, my serenity seemed to be washed down a drain. Closing my eyes for a very brief moment, opened them and got out of my seat. Question-Avoidance 101: Fastest way is to escape.

"...I'm sorry. I'm not feeling too good. Good night everyone, thanks for the party."

And just like that, i left the cafeteria, went back to my room, and collapsed onto the bed, letting the beautiful entity known as sleep take over.

* Timeskip to three weeks later...*

8.50 a.m.

"Hey did you hear? We're getting a new transfer student today!'" Chizuru told me excitedly.

"And I should care, why?"

"Stop acting, Sojun! She came here to spy on me!" Azusa said, while puffing up her chest, causing her... Never mind. I don't want to get kicked in the balls again. And yes, I've figured out why she kicked me there.

"Right..." I sighed.

Half a second later, the school bell rang, signifying the start of homeroom. Natsume-sensei and Hisana-nee both walked in on cue. Natsume-sensei then spoke.

"Alright class, we're getting a new student today!"

She said while clapping her hands together, smiling. There was a small ripple of whispering within the class, quelled near-instantly by a glare from Hisana-nee.

"Alright, come in." Hisana-nee called towards the door.

The door then slides open, revealing an impossibly beautiful girl. With long shimmering black hair tied neatly into a ponytail and green eyes with a glitter comparable to emeralds, she gave off an aura of refinement and maturity, an aura that felt awfully familiar. Wait…

The class started to break out murmuring, what they were talking about, I didn't hear. I felt a chill rush from my chest towards my fingertips and toes. Could it be her? She could be just some girl that looks like her. Well, only one way to find out.

"Alright, introduce yourself." Natsume-Sensei told the girl.

"Hai, Sensei. Good morning everyone, I'm Yoshida Shoko. It's a pleasure to meet you all." The girl said before bowing. Holy shit, it's really her?!

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" I shout, while standing at my seat. The coldness I felt was rapidly disappearing, replaced by a burning anger.

"Eh, S-Sojun!" Shoko's eyes widened at seeing me. What the hell is she here for?

BANG! As per her habit (or at least I think it is), Azusa slammed the table.

"WHA-WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS! HOW IS IT THAT YOU TWO KNOW EACH OTHER?" she shouted.

"...I hope you become infertile, Sojun." Misaki plainly stated. She turned around and made false sobs.

"Sniff, sniff. Sosuke, Asuna, Daddy has abandoned us…" Stop it with that already!

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU, Y-Y-YOU TITTY MONSTER!"

Chizuru, equally shocked and pissed, shouted, while pointing to Shoko's ample chest. She looked down at hers (which was small, but not completely non-existent) and let out a displeased "Muu…"

"Oh Yamaguchi-kun~"

came the sickeningly sweet voice of Natsume-Sensei.

"What's your link to her?" Hisana-nee followed up, with a murderous aura emanating from her.

"Tch." was all I could say. Or rather, all I bothered to say.

"You see, I was Sojun's…um…ex-girlfriend," Shoko lowered her head and spoke quietly. What's she getting off to acting all remorseful?

Meanwhile, the class took a few seconds to process, before they could come up with the most appropriate response to the given situation.

"EHHHHHHH!?"

She then took the seat to my right, not daring to look at me.

"Great job making my life worse."

I growled. Call me cruel, but if you know what's actually going on, you'll let it slide.

Ignoring Shoko (not that she mattered in the first place), I processed the scene around me. All the girls were glaring at me, a sharply vindictive air hanging over the classroom. I gulped and turned to my other classmate, a girl with brown pigtails named Nagasaki Setsura.

"Ehhh...Nagasaki-san, what period is after SHR?"

"It's practical lessons, Yamaguchi-kun," she replied with a cold smile.

Oh shit.


*Scene Change*

About an hour later in the changing room...

Sojun's POV

Damnit. That woman had to go screw me over, didn't she. I got changed into my attire, grabbed my buckle and walked out of the guy's locker room, venting my frustration on the door for good measure, and head to the training grounds. Once I got there, I got into line and tried not to be bothered with Chizuru and Azusa glaring holes into the back of my head. A few moments later, both Hisana-nee and Natsume-sensei arrived, wearing something like my attire, but black instead of blue. Hisana-nee held a buckle similar to mine, while Natsume-sensei was carrying a briefcase similar to Azusa's, but smaller.

"Alright class, today we're going to have a mock battle. Yamaguchi, Mizutani, Tachibana and Matsumoto. You're up." Came the happy voice of Natsume-sensei, though you coul feel the murderous aura coming from her.

"So Yamaguchi-sensei-" I was cut off by Hisana-nee.

"Shut it. Today you all will see a mock battle between Yamaguchi and the three of them. Get ready!"

"WAIT WHAT THE HELL YAMAGUCHI-SENSEI! THAT'S NOT FAIR!" Hisana-nee just turned to me.

"The world is unfair. Live with it, kid." And just like that, she walked away.

"Sojun." said Chizuru, with a demonic aura oozing out of her. Misaki on the other hand was staring expressionlessly at me.

"Sojun-san~" Azusa followed up, in a sickeningly sweet voice and a smile to match.

"Time for you to die." Both of them said at the same time. Strangely enough, Misaki didn't say anything.

I could swear both Hisana-nee and Natsume-sensei had sadistic smiles. Guess i've got no choice. I pulled out my buckle and strapped the belt around my waist. Azusa put on her gear, while I saw Chizuru take out a red belt buckle, with what seemed to be two slots pointing upwards on it. Placing it on her waist, a belt shot out and wrapped around her waist, with a black holder on the right, while another belt, identical to the one Chizuru has, materialized out of thin air around Misaki's. Whoa. This must be the double rider system I read about a few days ago.

Wait a minute…Misaki took out something that looks like a bright green thumbdrive, and pressed a button on it.

-CYCLONE!-

Chizuru followed behind Misaki, but with a black-colored drive.

-JOKER!-

Azusa opened up her phone and keys in the code to transform like last time.

-STANDING BY-

"Henshin!"

She shouted as she brought the phone to her chest level, then inserted it into the belt.

-COMPLETE-

Red light ran over her body, then engulfed her, and she emerged from the light as Faiz.

In the meantime, both Misaki and Chizuru shouted their call, and Misaki slotted her drive into the right slot of the buckle. It disappears in a wisp of data, then reappears in the left slot of Chizuru's belt. Chizuru pushed the green one in, then slotted hers in. Holding the left slot, she swivels the buckle open casually.

-CYCLONE! JOKER!-

And with that, Chizuru becomes the Double rider from what I've read, W, with completely green armor trimmed with a shinier green on the right and black trimmed with black on the right, with red eyes. Misaki on the other hand, passes out. At least its only one body. So physically, it's two on one. Then W spoke.

"Now, it's time to count up your sins and die, you playboy!"

In a voice that was a combination of both Misaki and Chizuru, while flicking her wrist to point at me. So it is three on one. At first glance, the W system currently doesn't have any weaponry, so my best bet is that it can only rely on hand to hand combat. I sure hope that's the case.

Quickly, I slotted my card into the buckle, placed it on my waist to let the belt form and pulled the lever.

-TURN UP-

The holographic screen appears, and I walked through the screen, transforming into Blade. Guess I have no other way out of it.

"BEGIN!" ordered Hisana-nee.

Things are gonna get dicey.


GENERAL POV

"BEGIN!"

Both W and Faiz started by rushing at Blade, but were stopped by him with a sidestep. Blade wheeled around and kicked Faiz in the side, causing her crash into W. With the both of them getting up, Azusa prepared the Faiz Edge, while W swiveled her buckle back into its original position, taking out the Joker Memory. W took out a light blue memory that had a picture of a gun designed in the shape of a 'T' and presses the button on it.

-TRIGGER!-

Replacing the Joker memory for the Trigger memory, she then swiveled the buckle back outwards, and the system responds.

-CYCLONE! TRIGGER!-

The black side of W is replaced by light blue one, with a gun attached to the chest. The two got ready, with Faiz coming in from the front, and W coming from the back. Blade responded to the attack by pulling out his Rouser to block Faiz, but was stopped by a series of shots from W's Trigger Magnum. This allowed Faiz an opening she needed to strike, causing Blade to fall on a distance away from the two.

"Damn it..." muttered Blade.

"Heh! Seems like you can't keep up!" mocked Faiz

"Like we said, it's time for you to die!" announced W.

Blade simply got up, opened up his Rouser, in almost an instant, mildly surprising Hisana at his recovery speed. He took out the 3 of Spades card, the Beat Lion and the 5 of Spades card, featuring a green and black locust with noticeably longer legs, the Kick Locust. He then swiped the cards in numerical order.

-BEAT-

-KICK-

The holograms of the individual cards appeared in front of him. Running through the holograms, Blade saw that the two girls were already charging at him. Taking advantage of the new effects, he also charged at them, only to jump over them at the last second, and landing behind Chizuru. He started with a strike with his Rouser, followed by a punch to the gut to get her out of the way. Azusa had barely enough time to respond, before she was kicked in the head by a jumping hook kick, knocking her towards the ground, but before she connected with the ground, Sojun's knee shoved her upwards before swinging a fist in her face.

Rather pissed, Chizuru removed the Memories in her belt, and took out a red memory with a fireball styled after the letter 'H' on it, and a greyish white one with a piece of metal styled after the 'M' on it. She then pressed the buttons on them.

-HEAT!-

-METAL!-

She then placed them into the belt, and swiveled it outward for a third time.

-HEAT! METAL!-

Chizuru then changed from green and blue to red and silver, with a staff on her back, the Metal Shaft. Taking it out, she got ready to attack, with Chizuru coming in from the left and Azusa from the right.

"I've got him now!" was the thought that both of them shared, but it did not happen, because Sojun did a low sweep kick, knocking both off balance. Using the opening, Sojun then moved towards Azusa, and executed a back flip kick, hitting her in the chin. Using the momentum from the flip, Sojun then landed on his hands and pushed off in an instant while rotating his body 180 degrees, causing his heels to strike Chizuru in the shoulders, knocking her down as well.

Everyone who was watching the battle were completely shocked, even the seniors who were also using the arena stopped to watch Sojun, who, just over three weeks ago, struggled against Azusa alone, but was now taking her and another Rider on with ease. The two weren't even landing any hits on him.

"When did he get so good?" was the only thing everyone in the arena could think of at the time.

"Hmph. Natsume-Sensei." Hisana said, not looking at Shiori.

"Yes?" She replied with a smile on her face.

"Suit up." Hisana then slotted a card into her buckle. The card was similar to Sojun's Change card, but had a reddish brown stag beetle on it, with a green diamond on its abdomen. Also, instead of displaying the spade suit, her card had the symbol of the diamond suit. She then placed the buckle to her waist, and a silver belt formed, with a black card holder with a sliver diamond on it. She then brought up a hand to her face level, while the other pushed the lever open.

"Henshin."

A Plate similar to the one on Sojun's belt appears, but this one is green and had a golden diamond.

-TURN UP-

A blue hologram appeared in front of her, and she walked through it, transforming into BOARD's first Rider, clad in red and silver, with green eyes, Garren.

Meanwhile, Shiori opened her briefcase, revealing a belt similar to that of Azusa's, but this one had no slot in the middle of the buckle. Instead, it had a video camera attached to its belt, and a walkie talkie that was stylized after a gun's handle. Putting on the belt and taking the walkie talkie, she spun it around her finger several times, before gripping the handle at face level.

"Henshin!"

She then slotted the handle into the butt of the video camera.

-COMPLETE-

Bluish white streams of photon blood shot out from the buckle, and engulfed Shiori in a white light. She then emerged from it as SMARTBRAIN'S first Rider, Delta.

This also shocked some of the students, as they had never seen a Proto-Heisei Rider before, and also that their own teachers had their own systems.

"Now class, you will see what happens when a Rider takes on too many opponents~" Shiori said in her happy voice, creeping out some of the girls.

The two charged in, firing shots at Sojun with the Garren Rouser and the Delta Mover, causing him to be pushed back. Rushing over to where Chizuru and Azusa were, they helped them up, and whispered something into their four then rushed at him, landing blow after blow on him. Sure, he could handle two riders at one go, provided they were student level Riders. But this? He was fighting with two of the most powerful instructor level Riders, alongside two student level Riders.

He managed to get the occasional hit, but for every hit he managed to land, at least four others would land in him. In short, he was getting his ass handed to him on a platter with a side of extra pain. A very loud cry of pain was heard throughout the arena, and in three minutes, Sojun was sprawled on the floor of the arena.

"Hmph. That felt good, don't you agree?" Shiori smiled at her students, causing them to shiver in fear. Then the school bell sounded, hailing the end of lesson.

"Owwwwwwwww..." came from Sojun, who was slowly getting up. Seeing this, Shoko ran over to him.

"Sojun! Are you ok? Are you hurt?" Shoko asked worriedly, but it was met with a reply of irritation.

"Get off me. I don't need your damn help." Sojun said, managing to stand.

After flexing his limbs, he began to walk back to the lockers, but then something black swooped down into the arena, knocked out Chizuru, struck Hisana, and grabbed and knocked out Shiori, who had just placed her Delta gear back into its carrier suitcase, and flew a distance above the arena. Usually, this wouldn't have happened, but the group had just disengaged their systems just moments ago, and really didn't expect this.

"Natsume-sensei!" shouted the students, worried about their teacher.

"Shiori!" came the worried reply from Hisana.

"Who the hell are you!?" shouted the very irritated Sojun.

The figure then stopped in mid-air, and turned around to face the people below. The figure turned out to be the the Jack of Spades, the Eagle Undead. Then he spoke.

"If you want your precious teacher back, get the boy to fight me!"

"Che, like hell I would! Give her back!" shouted Hisana.

And just like that, the Eagle Undead swooped down to attack Sojun, but was blocked by Hisana's Garren Rouser.

"Henshin!"

No response. The plate had flipped over to reveal the diamond, but the system did not activate.

"Tch..." the Eagle Undead was not amused by this, and promptly gave her a backhand strike to the face, causing her to fly a few meters.

Getting up, she looked in the direction of the students and shouts.

"All of you to evacuate! That means you too Sojun! I'll take this one myself! " Hisana ordered.

However, Sojun stood his ground.

"I should fight...no...I MUST FIGHT!"

"How the hell are you going to fight that guy? The personal system users are all down, my system is busted, and that thing is a high-level undead! You're not gonna get lucky like what you did to the Queen!" Hisana replied

"Then I'll fight with him." A third voice then sounded.

"Yoshida, what are you doing here? Didn't I say to evacuate?!" Hisana stated.

"I'll fight with him. Besides, I have a personal system myself." Shoko replied Hisana with a serious expression on her face.

"No way. There's no way I'll fight with you." Sojun said, with irritation in his voice.

"Yamaguchi. You'll fight with her." Hisana replied to Sojun, while pointing the Garren Rouser at his face.

"Tch... fine. Don't blame me if anything goes wrong." Sojun reluctantly replied.

The Eagle undead, with Shiori still in one hand, spoke.

"Enough with the chitchat! Fight already!" Sojun just looked up at him, muttering a few words.

"Guess I'm gonna have to do it the old-fashioned way..."


Sojun's POV

I look at the Eagle Undead, and I see that he's flying. Well, hovering actually, but you get the point. How the hell am I supposed to go up there?


General POV

While Sojun was wondering how to reach the Eagle Undead, Shoko took out a black, palm-sized, rectangular, pass-like item, the Rider Pass.

She flipped open the pass, revealing a circular shape with a T shape tilted 45 degrees counter-clockwise. The background was grey with a circuit-board design in which the wires terminated at the bottom right with four rectangles colored red, blue, yellow and then takes out a card and slots it into a slot in the Rider Pass, large golden belt buckle appeared appeared at Shoko's waist, with a grey belt around it. The belt around Shoko's waist had a buckle with a rounded square framed in gold in the middle. The square itself had a crystal in the shape of the symbol on the pass set in it, and next to it were four buttons that were colored red, blue, yellow and purple. She then brings the pass near to the crystal.

"Henshin!"

-STRIKE FORM-

A rainbow-colored pulse of light formed a train track around with pieces of armor moving along the tracks. Another flash of light engulfs her, forming a black and white suit with white gaunlets and grey knee length boots. The black and white helmet and the chest plate had a shiny silver strip that resembled a train track running down vertically, splitting the helmet and the chest Lengthwise. Attached to the side of her belt were four blocky items, two on each side.

Blue armor then appeared out of thin air, did a flip and docked itself with her armor, before a red faceplate attached itself to the top of her head, and 'rode' the railway down to her face. The face plate split and docked, turning itself into two triangular pieces that formed a visor. The armor itself had railways on it, and four of them extruded out of her shoulders, and her chest plate had a railway design similar to the circle on her belt.

"So, let's begin, shall we?" She then presses the red button and the blue button on her belt simultaneously and then brings the pass near it, before placing the pass back in its holder at the back of her belt.

-DENGASHER : DUAL FORM-

She takes out the four pieces on her waist and begins to assemble them. The weapon itself was modelled after a bullet train colored black with light blue highlights on it, with the front piece having a bullet train head on it. Shoko grabbed a section resembling the front of the bullet train and attaches a grip to it at an angle, forming a boomerang. She then takes the other piece, with a blade in its side and attaches another grip to it, and the blade grows in size, forming a hand axe.

"Oi! Chicken wing bastard!" Sojun shouted at the Eagle Undead.

"Get your butt down here!" Shoko followed up after him, earning her a stare from him.

"Stop that." Sojun said, with irritation in his voice. Shoko just kept quiet, while Sojun began running towards a wall.

Using the walls and pillars of the arena, he jumped off them, till he reached the highest point of the arena and just jumped off, with Shoko in tow. Unfortunately for the Eagle Undead, the jump was high enough to reach him, and had his left arm cut by Sojun, causing him to lose grip of his captive. Both the Eagle Undead and Shiori began falling towards the , seeing this, immediately jumped towards her falling teacher and managed to catch Shiori, before landing on the ground perfectly. Quickly, she brought her to the bay doors of bay one, where Hisana was waiting, and Hisana received the unconscious Shiori. Shoko was about to leave, but Hisana stopped her.

"Make sure the idiot over there doesn't die. You would probably know how he is." she said, while carrying Shiori.

"Yes Ma'am!" And with that, Shoko turned around and ran back into battle, while Hisana carried the unconscious Shiori to the control room.

In the meanwhile, Sojun had just executed a scissors kick on the Eagle Undead, causing him to fall, but before he could hit the floor, he was hit with the Blay Rouser. Getting up from the strike, he immediately rushed at Sojun with a flurry of strikes with his wrist talons, but Sojun managed to block most of them. One lucky strike, however, managed to connect, and had sent the Blay Rouser flying into a wall, lodging itself there, before he was hit to the other side of the arena. The Eagle Undead then began to strike the ground where Sojun was, but he managed to dodge by rolling over.

Just then, he executed a sweep, causing the Eagle Undead to momentarily lose balance and falter, allowing him to get up. Regaining his balance, he immediately struck at Sojun, who managed to jump above the attack, causing the Undead's talons to be stuck in the arena walls. Landing on the arm of the Undead, he tried punching the Eagle undead, but the Undead's other free hand backhanded him away.

The Eagle Undead had just got his talons free, when two objects shot for his head, but he bent backwards, effectively dodging the strike, causing the two objects to be lodged in the arena wall, one above the other. Upon closer inspection, the two objects were the boomerang and the hand axe that Shoko had used. Shoko then rushed at the Eagle undead while he was still bent backward, and jumped over him, then proceeding to jump onto the hand axe and boomerang, before pulling them out and pushing off the walls to launch a strike at the Eagle undead, while Sojun was pulling out his his Rouser now free, Sojun began to charge at the Eagle Undead, who was at the moment locked in a parry with Shoko. Then suddenly the Eagle Undead broke the parry, dodged a slash from her, and then jumped, causing Shoko to accidentally strike Sojun.

"What the fuck did you think you were doing Shoko?!"

"Sorry about that..."

"Sorry's not gonna cut it. It's not gonna do anything..." Sojun said, while looking away.

Right then, the Eagle Undead landed, and spun himself violently while keeping his talons outstretched, causing the two to be hit multiple times. Another strike managed to knock Shoko's boomerang out of her hand, but she managed to kick the boomerang in an attempt to strike the Eagle Undead, and met with success. At the same time, Sojun had managed to get back up, reversed his grip on the Blay Rouser and sliced him from waist to shoulder.

Seeing that he was currently at a disadvantage, the Eagle Undead immediately flew up into the sky, and began an aerial assault that consisted of swooping down and striking before the two could react. Sojun, seeing this, tried to jump off the arena walls to the highest point of the arena and jumped off it to try and reach the Eagle Undead. He was able to reach the Undead, but was hit before he could strike him, causing him to fall towards the ground. Just as he was about to hit the ground, a bullet train with its front modelled after Shoko's visor appeared out of a portal, and managed to stop Sojun's fall.

"Owwwww. Whoa. What the heck is this?" Sojun said while getting up.

"This is the New Den-Liner. The train that travels through time." Shoko replied, over the communication device in their suits.

"Save me the crap about time-travel and all. Where the heck are you?"

"I'm driving this train."

"Yea whatever. How the hell are we gonna beat it?" Sojun asked himself, while the Den-Liner began to Eagle Undead responded to this with another swoop, but this time, it was aimed at Sojun. Sojun responded to the Eagle Undead's advance with a flip, landed himself behind his foe, and managed to land a slash on him, before kicking the Eagle Undead off of the roof of the Den-Liner. Being curious as to where the Eagle Undead was, he looked over the edge of the roof of the Den-liner, and was promptly struck with a talon by the Eagle Undead, who flew upwards at blinding speeds. This caused Sojun to fall off the Den-Liner, with the Eagle undead chasing after him, intent on striking him. However, this never happened, as the Den-Liner had crashed into the Eagle undead, while catching Sojun on the Den-Liner again.

"Arghhhh. I must have a natural aptitude for falling out of the sky or something..." Sojun said to himself, while the Den-Liner was busy manuvering itself in the sky.

"Sojun!"

"What?"

"When I say jump, run to the front of the Liner, and jump off of it."

"ARE YOU FREAKING CRAZY!?"

"Do you have a better plan?"

"Eh... no..."

"There you go. Just jump when I say so."

"Tch, whatever."

The Den-liner then began to charge upward, with the front of the Den-Liner opening up."Wha..." was all Sojun could manage at that point.

"Now!" And just like that, Sojun had ran all the way to the front, and had jumped off, only to land on his feet on Shoko's bike, the Machine Den-Bird, in mid-air. At the same time, the Den-Liner had just executed a very steep dive, before changing into a very steep climb, ramming into the Eagle undead.

"Sojun, jump off and kill him!"

Shoko then jumped off the bike, while taking out the two cards needed to finish the job. The Six of Spades, the Thunder deer, and the Two of Spades, the Slash lizard, and swiped them.

-LIGHTNING-

-SLASH-

Given that the effects of his previously roused cards were still in effect, the Rouser resolved all of the cards in a chain.

-LIGHTNING-

-SLASH-

-BEAT-

-KICK-

-LIGHTNING PINWHEEL-

At the same time, the Eagle Undead had just managed to break free fro the Den-Liner's ramming and moved to side, only to have a shadow cast over him. He immediately looked up into the sky, and was met with Sojun doing forward flips in mid air, while falling through the holograms of the Slash Lizard and the Thunder Deer. His limbs and sword was then wrapped in a light blue crackling energy, and then when he was close enough, opened himself up, and flipped one last time, before using the flip to slam his heel into the eagle undead's shoulder, before using the momentum from the flip to execute a slash from shoulder to waist.

This combination had incapacitated the Eagle Undead, who began falling to the ground, while Sojun landed on the Den-Liner, with Shoko back in the Den-Liner then moved back to the ground, and stopped next to the Eagle Undead, who had just hit the ground. Jumping off the Den-liner, Sojun got his blade to the ready, but when the Eagle Undead managed to stand back up, the buckle on his waist had opened, revealing the letter 'J ' in it.

"Tch. I've lost, boy. Now seal me. But I warn you. The darkness is approaching, and should you not be ready, it will devour all you love..." the Eagle Undead trailed off, while Sojun took out a blank Rouse card, one without any wording or picture on it.

He then threw the card at the Eagle Undead's chest, where it lodged itself into, and began absorbing the Undead. When it was done, the card flew back to Sojun's hand. Looking at it, the card had the word 'FUSION' written on it, with the golden spade symbol and the letter 'J' written in red below it. The card's picture had a golden eagle on it, with its eagle spread out in the shape of a Spade.

"The Jack of Spades...Fusion Eagle." Sojun muttered to himself, before collapsing on the ground from the sheer strain on his body.

"Tch..." was all he could muster.

"S-Sojun..." Shoko said as she tried to reach a hand to his shoulder, but was brushed off by Sojun, who had managed to stand and disengage his system.

"Shut it, i don't need your bloody help." he said while walking to the lockers, leaving Shoko there, with tears in her eyes.

"Why..." was all Shoko could say.

So here's chapter three. Rate , review, fav, follow and the like.

Next on SRG: a chapter name that i have no idea what it will be!