CHAPTER 003
FAMILY OF CHOICE
[To the Kiryu Sento's house, with Hana]
The weekend has come and Hana happily going to his teacher's home. Despite how easily that sentence can be misinterpreted, Hana didn't actually want to meet his teacher, Kiryuu-sensei. No way! Nay! Nein!. When the pink haired girl reaches the soon-to-be cafe, she also met her new best friends, Yakushiji Saaya. Apparently, both of them want to meet Hagu-tan. Playing with a cute baby is always fun. But when they entered the cafe, they were greeted with cranky Hagu-tan and sleepy Harry.
Thus, their day fussing over bad mood Hagu-tan began.
[Kiryuu Sento's lab, with Sento]
Sentou looked at the preheart, this one didn't have any holder yet. He borrowed it from Harry and after lengthy debate to not dismantle them, Sentou finally allowed to borrow it. Of course, learning how it ticks and how it works without disassembling them is hard. But a handsome and brilliant physics teacher can do it. He just hoped he got Hana's preheart instead.
The energy, either Asupower he got from Hagu-tan's gem or Togepower he got from Oshimaida, feel familiar somehow. He suspected that this was form pandora energy, but dismissed that theory quickly after reminding himself that Pandora Boxes didn't exist in this world.
Asupower and Togepower was a form of energy. Regardless of how illogical power made out of hope and future is, it still is energy. When Hana purified togepower, it becomes Asupower. When Asupower corrupted, it becomes Togepower. As the law of conservation energy dictates: energy can neither be created nor destroyed; instead, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another.
The power Pretty Cure and Criasu company used may feel magical, but it still obeys a physical law, some of them anyway. Sento even didn't have any idea how Criasu Company turned energy into sentient malicious being called Oshimaida.
Looking at the paper, text on the whiteboard and many scribbles in wall and floor, Sentou smiled. It has been a long time since he enjoyed researching something new. For a moment, Sentou missed his old lab and his old crew.
"Senseeeei~."
the lab's door opened, and Nono Hana barged in
"We want to go out, you coming?" she asked.
"Sorry, I have something to do here," Sentou pointed at his room.
"Whoaaa~ what a mess," Hana amazed, "You want me to help cleaning all of this?"
"Not now," Sentou answered, "You say you want to go out, right? I will come to you when I finished this, so bring this."
Sentou gives Hana a necklace. It was colourful and probably fit for thirteen years old girl. Hana looked at the glittering necklace with awestruck face and received them.
"What is this?" She asked.
"Just a present. Put your Mirai Crystal there," Sentou answered, "This one is for Yakushiji."
And then Hana's smile become pout.
"Yeeeees~," Hana said with depressed voice and then leave the lab.
Sentou looked at the pink haired girl with a confused face. What just happened? The girl sure can change their mood fast. Shrugged, Sento continued his works.
[Kiryu Sento's house, soon-to-be cafe, above ground with Nono Hana]
The necklace got prettier when Hana and Saaya put them on their new necklace. But their fun having new accessories was ended when Hagu-tan cranky baby voice heard. Before Hana met his teacher in his labs, Saaya has explained that when a baby is in environments, they aren't accustomed to, babies sometimes feel uneasy and get upset. To remedy this, they opted to have a fun walk. Thankfully Hagu-tan is a magical baby, so Harry produces a specific device called Mirai Pad that can give an idea what the baby thinking, more or less.
"Device from your world sure is amazing," Banjou praised, but sadly, the muscle-brained man didn't understand how to operate them, so it falls to Saaya, the more tech savvy of the bunch, to operate this unknown device.
"I think we should start searching for what made Hagu-tan cranky," Saaya said.
"Harry, you can sleep here," Banjou added, "I will take care of Hagu-tan. You have taught me well how to do that."
"I get more worried now," Harry answered, "But I have no choice," Harry then looked at the girls, "Please, Please, if things got bad and this idiot did something dangerous, call me!"
"ye...yes..." Saaya and Hana answered.
[Hagukumi City, still with Nono Hana and Co]
They followed the red dot on Mirai Pad with Hagu-tan sat on a Baby carrier who are worn by Banjou. They got into a traditional garden at first, but Hagu-tan was still crying.
"I think she didn't want to go to a specific place," Banjou said.
"Banjou-san, I think you are smarter than Sensei said," Hana said while showing that the red dot moved.
"Eh, really?" Banjou look surprised, "Well, I only know how to fight and even learning how to made coffee is hard work for me," Banjou confessed.
"For now, let's follow the red dots," Saaya suggested.
The next place leads them to Nobinobi-chou's famous roving petting zoo. There were many hugable animals here, and the dot in Mirai pad clearly didn't move again, so the group decided to look around to see what is the red dots.
They entered one of the fenced fields, and Hana picked a guinea pig.
"This kinda looks like Harry," Hana laughed a bit, but Hagu-tan mood didn't get better.
Looking around, they decided to rest in one of the benches surrounding a tank monument. But because Hagu-tan mood still didn't get better, and the little baby began to cry again. Some people looked at Banjou weirdly who try to cheer her up by playing peek-a-boo, but clearly, it didn't work.
"Shut your kid, man," A wild salaryman suddenly appeared, "I am here to enjoy life-sized tank, and yet they decided to put a playground here. Now I can't enjoy this place with peace," he complained.
"Well, It was normal for a baby to crying," Banjou replied, "Do you want to start a fight, old man?"
Banjou released the baby carrier and give them to Hana, but before a fight occurs, suddenly a short blond haired girl standing between them.
"Kagayaki Homare-san," Hana looked at surprise while Hagu-tan cries louder.
"You two are adult, don't you think your behaviour is shameful?" Homare looked at both of them.
"Ah, but I am not the one who..."
"Don't care, but fighting here in front of kids like us, I think you are failed as an example of an adult," Homare continued.
"Ah, Somehow sorry," Banjou feel shame, but the salaryman who started the fight just clicked his tongue and then got away.
"What a stylish outfit! so mature!" Hana praised
"By the way," Homare suddenly looked at Hagu-tan, "So Cute!" and her face changed from serious and frown into an adorable smile.
Hagu-tan enjoyed getting praised and for a while stopped fuzzing over. Banjou took over Hagu-tan again while Homare distracted by Hagu-tan cuteness.
"Eh, you are her father?" Homare asked after she realised that Hagu-tan has moved.
"How do you come into that conclusion?" Banjou asked furiously.
"Well, you have the same nose and mouth," Homare, "Or rather, isn't that obvious? You are the only adult here, you know?"
"Ah, I guess," Banjou didn't have come back for that.
"Such a cute child from scary father," Homare faked her tears.
"Kagayaki-san, why are you in this place?" Saaya asked curiously.
"Well, I often come to this place. I enjoyed petting an adorable animal," Homare answered.
"Such a cute hobby from a girl like you," Banjou smirked, but he got a kick on his feet from Homare after saying that.
"Onee-chan? is that you?" suddenly a voice can be heard, and when looked at the source, Hana found her sister and mother outside the petting zoo, "Eh? A baby? what are you doing with grown-up father?"
[NobiNobi Tower, still with Nono Hana and Co]
Hagu-tan finally rested and asleep after Hana's mother took over. Turn out the red dots actually indicate Hana's mother. They were surprised that the answer was actually easy: the presence of the mother. Should be apparent when the baby lives with three grown-up men with only one of them actually changing her diapers and making her milk. Regardless of how she comes from another world, Baby still needs mother after all.
They also got new skill from Hana's mother: How to carry a baby. The girls probably can't get this skill until they are grown up more and Banjou apparently clueless if they aren't forced to take care of Hagu-tan.
"But to think you are the father of this child," Hana's mother said.
"How do you come to that conclusion?" Banjou asked again.
"Well, you have the same ears and nose, so I thought..."
before Hana's mother continued that sentence, a hand suddenly patted Banjo's head, and Sentou's face appeared from behind.
"Actually, yes, This is his child," Sentou said.
"Sensei? how do you know we are here?" Hana looked in surprise.
"I am a Handsome and Brilliant physics teacher, you know?" Sentou answered as a matter of factly, "you see, madam, this guy still can't believe he has become a father because the mother just put the baby outside of our door. I think he told his girlfriend how he wants to have a family with her but due to circumstances, he is separated from his girlfriend."
"Such a tragic story. I am sorry I have misgivings," Homare shed her tears, but Banjou looked astonished.
"I am sorry, we need to talk a bit," and then Banjou drags Sentou away from the girls.
"Hana, is that your homeroom teacher you talked about?" Hana's mother asked.
"Ah, yes," Hana answered.
"He is unique," Hana's mother added.
"Handsome too," Her sister agreed.
"Little sister-chan," Saaya said, "You shouldn't pinning after Sensei, you know. Your big sister apparently liked him."
"What are you talking about, Saaya-san! I am not!" Hana protested.
"Well, Hana, if you really did like Kiryuu-sensei, you will have many challenges," Homare teased.
"What do you say, Kagayaki-san! I am not!" Hana insisted.
The girls laughed at flustered Hana, but deep down her mother was worried.
[Still in Nobinobi Tower, but with Banjou and Sento]
Meanwhiles, the supposedly grown-up men, bickering a bit and then pinching each other cheek before agreed that they do need a cover story for the baby from another world and Harry being her father didn't precisely good cover story since none of the city inhabitants knows who he is. The hamster didn't even have paper.
"Well, Hana's mother already concludes that I am her father, so I can't really take that back," Banjou give up, "But, where is her mother anyway? I understand he comes from another world that is doomed. But why is she here with that hamster? that kinda irresponsible don't you think?"
"Stupid, that was insensitive things to say," Sentou scolded, "But I actually also curious."
"I think Harry can answer that," Saaya who approached them with Hana said, "I think sensei and Banjou-san should lower their voice a bit. Thankfully not many people are here. But that was a risky topic to discuss."
"Oh, Harry is here actually," Sentou pointed at his chest pocket and at that the orange hamster appeared.
"My world was once like this, you know, "Harry's voice sounds serious while looking at the city from the Tower's glasses window. He jumped, looked around and then turned into his human form, "Cheerful, a world full of smiles and hope. A world where peace and love are maintained. That is until Criasu Company came and stopped our time. They stole our Asu-power, and everyone's future was gone, all but mine."
"That's awful," Hana commented with a concerned face.
"Why are you even changed to your human form?" Banjou asked curiously.
"How about Hug-tan's mother?" Sentou asked.
"Somehow, Hug-tan and I managed to escape thanks to her mother's Mirai Crystal White," Harry answered, "But it depleted all of the Mirai Crystal White's power. If we can get the power of ten Mirai Crystal to Hug-tan, time will begin moving again."
"Mirai Crystal is...?" Hana asked, "The same as our Mirai Crystal?"
"Does that means you need to find ten girls with so much Asu-power they can turn into Precure?" Sentou asked.
"I am honestly don't know, I am sorry," Harry continued while showing one of blank Preheart from his pocket, "But we only have four Preheart so no more girl can become Precure."
"Well, this world still has future, so we can still look forward to finding them," Sentou said.
"But if we didn't find them, Criasu Company will be unstoppable, and this world will be like mine," Harry added.
"I will not let that happened, Harry," Banjou patted Harry's shoulder, "I didn't have any reason to fight before beside helping Sentou. But now I know the world in danger, I will keep the peace and love of this world."
Sentou nodded and then patted Harry's other shoulder, "And I will guarantee that your world will get their love and peace back too."
The girls looked at the budding friendship from the grown-up men and then smiled. But from far away, darkness gathered, and a monster will raise up.
[Outside Nobinobi Tower, with our favorite Criasu Company's agent]
"TOGE POWER IS DETECTED! GOODBYE, THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE! NEGATIVE WAVE!"
Togepower gathered around the tank fans salaryman, and the man soon feels weak and felt choked by the darkness. The man looked at the tank, hoping that his favourite piece of a monument, the hope from his young age, the light of his life when his work crushed his bones, helped him.
He remembers kindly that he wants to join JSDF and drive a tank but the future coming and yet he can't get the chance. He ended up as an ordinary salaryman you can find everywhere, and then he got overburdened, have no time to assembling tank model like how he used to when he was younger.
The hope of assembling tank model or driving real tank disappeared from his heart.
"REQUISITION! OSHIMAIDAA!"
and soon that hope become giant Tank Oshimaida.
[NobiNobi Tower, with Nono Hana and Co]
The Nobinobi Tower is in a panic, people running scared to what appeared outside the tower. A Giant tank monster with hand. It was weird looking, scary and its mere presence distort reality. At the same time, the necklace in Saaya and Hana's neck blinking.
"Uh, Onee-chan, why is that blinking?" Hana's sister asked, but Hana has no time to answer before Sento showed up.
"Madam, I think we need to evacuate," Sento said, "It would be bad if we were trapped here when that monster appeared. You girls, go ahead with Banjou and Hagu-tan. The baby is the first priority."
Hana and Saaya complied and then run along with Banjou who carryed Hagu-tan along with Harry. Sentou wants to make sure that everyone is evacuated before he goes to battle. This tower will be bloody if the monster manages to knock it down. Beside, Sentou believed that Banjou, Hana and Nono can defeat the Oshimaida.
Thankfully Hana's mother and Sister didn't have time to ask where are Hana and her friend goes. Either they believed in Banjou's reliability, or they were also in a panic. But glancing towards Hana's mother, the woman didn't look panic at all. Heck, the physics teacher didn't know what to think about her.
[Nobinobi Tower's terrace, with Nono hana and Co.]
"Mirai Crystal!"
"Kakusei! Great Cross-Z Dragon!"
The girls and Banjou called their respective transformable device. Hana and Saaya put the Mirai Crystal in their preheart while Banjou put the Dragon Evol Bottle and Great Cross-Z Dragon into his Build Driver. Banjou then spins the Build Driver's handle while Hana and Saaya shake their own Preheart.
ARE YOU READY?
"HENSHIN!" / "MY HEART! LET IT SHINE!"
The light surrounding the girls, changing their clothes into their Pretty Cure costume while the armour slammed into Banjou's body and formed his Kamen rider suit.
Wake up Cross-Z! Get Great Dragon! Yeah!
The three of them took a pose and then announced their catchphrase.
"Embrace your shining future!" Hana announced, "Cheer on the world Precure of spirit! Cure yell!"
"Embrace your shining future!" Saaya announced, "Heal the world! Cure of wisdom, Cure Ange!"
"Protecting love and peace of the future!" Banjou announced, "Kamen Rider Great Cross-Z!"
"That belt sure got noisier," Harry commented.
"Said the guy who gives transformation device with background music," Banjou replied.
"Banjou-san, I think we should focus on the monster at this moment," Saaya said.
And then three of them jumped. The Tank Oshimaida shot a huge bullet, and Banjou gets downed by it. He landed on the ground, and the shell soon exploded.
"Banjou-san!" Saaya asked in worry.
"I am fine!" and then a fire surrounding where Banjou fall and the ex-boxer can be seen holding orange knuckle on his hand, "but damn, that hurts!"
A bullet was shot again, and it manages to get Banjou again before he got away. A cloud of smoke was raising so Saaya can't see if he survive that or not.
Saaya landed and then dodge another bullet, but Hana can be seen manage to land a punch the monster away. The Oshimaida was durable though, so it manages to land without a scratch.
"OSHIMAIDA!"
"Finally you appeared, Pretty Cures, Kamen Rider!" The man who stands above the Oshimaida was the same man in the previous attack. He looked annoyed and angry.
"Why are you doing this?" Hana asked, furious.
"If you want a promotion, you gotta be willing to step over your coworkers. This guy only looking out for number one!"
Cure Yell rushed again and then began to punch the Oshimaida, but it proved difficult when the gun on its head started to spinning very quickly and then hit Hana.
Hana was thrown away but not too far, and soon she noticed the salaryman spreading a lot of Togepower from his body.
"That man is the source of Togepower. If you beat him, the man will be back to normal!" Harry announced.
"It's not just the old man...for all of you, Tomorrow isn't coming!" The Criasu Company's employee said.
"Cross-Z Magma! Are you ready?" A sound can be heard, and when the dust cleared, Banjou was seen surviving the bullet and holding a knuckle on his hands. He put the knuckle on the Build Driver and then it announced again, "Gokunetsu kinniku! Cross-Z Magma! Achachachachachacha Acha!"
After a sound finished, suddenly a boiled magma fall on Banjou and several dragon heads rushed trough Banjou body. A new armour emerges after the dried magma dried quickly and crushed down. It was similar to Banjou previous armour, still with dragon motif, but it got orange, red and black all over its body, and several dragon heads can be seen decorating his armour.
"There is no way I will let you stole the future!" Banjou said with a determined voice. A hot magma flowing in his armour and soon a wing then appeared and Banjou fly.
"Ange, grab my hand!"
Cure Ange complied and then she flies together with Banjou. When they reach the monster, Saaya took off her hand from Banjou's and then kicked the Oshimaida from above.
"OSHIMAIDA!"
The Oshimaida's spinning quickly got stopped, and Hana then punched its gun tank until it bends.
"Hana, Now!" Banjou called.
"For Hug-tan, I have to grow up more and more!" Hana punched the tank Oshimaida again and soon, her punch was filled with colourful Asupower, "To be super cool grown up lady!" The Oshimaida was thrown away, and Hana landed.
Hana then summoned her pompom and then chanted, "Hurray Hurray! Heart For You!" and then the Asupower that gathered around her formed a heart and then shoved the heart-shaped asupower towards the Oshimaida.
The man who summoned the Oshimaida was suddenly panic and then jumped out of Oshimaida. Meanwhile, the Oshimaida looked delighted and then fly away towards the sky, "I will quitting~~" it said and then disappeared.
"Good job, girls!" Sentou suddenly appeared in his bike and then stopped behind Hana.
"Sensei!"
"Now, let me show you my invention!" he took out full bottles from his pocket and put it in the gun-like contraption. Sentou then aimed at the remaining Asupower in the sky, and with one click, the light was absorbed into the gun like.
The gun then sounded "Asupower! Recovered!" and Sentou then took off the fullbottles from its gun.
Banjou, who just landed with Saaya, looked at that full bottles.
"Is that Tank FullBottle?" Banjou asked, surprised.
"Yeps, Asupower-powered Fullbottle!" Banjou smiled brightly, "Isn't it amazing? Isn't it awesome?"
"I don't really understand, but..." Hana looked at his teacher, "Congratulations?"
[In the Tank Monument Park, with our victim of the week]
The adult salaryman who is the source of Togepower suddenly feels refreshed. He looked at the Tank monument in front of him. He feels nostalgic. Maybe it's time to stimulate his mind? He looked at his wallet and then decided it was enough to buy a cheap tank model. He will assemble a tank model again and then organise his life. Maybe hoping to get into JSDF again.
Or maybe its time to make a model shop? He was sure he can call some people to help. As long as he is close with his beloved tank, he didn't care. There is hope in his heart, and he will look forward to the future.
On the feet of the Nobinobi tower, Homare looked awestruck. He just saw Pretty cure, even though at afar. They jumped high that they almost fly. Homare remembered her dream before her accident, can she still jump and fly like that again?
[Nono's family house, with confused Banjou]
What happening here?
Banjou looked at Hagu-tan who drank the milk cheerfully. Harry, her supposed guardian, was resting in his head and Hana's entire family looked at him.
"Tha...thanks a lot," Banjou said nervously.
The big man, Hana's father, looked friendly. But he felt the guy can crush him into two despite Banjou being ex-boxer.
"That's healthy appetite," The big man said.
"Thanks for everything, Papa-san," Banjou said, "All of you. I have a lot of new knowledge for taking care Hagu-tan."
"It must be hard raising a baby without woman touch," Hana's mother added while looking at Sentou, "If you need anything, you are welcomed here."
"Eh, ah, yes," Sento also answered nervously, "I will hold onto that promise."
Sentou remembers he has a family, but that memory belonged to Katsuragi Takumi. Looking and feeling actual family feel different, even though they were not their own. Of course, Sentou loved his mother, but due to his amnesia, His past didn't feel real, more like a fragment of Katsuragi's memories.
He missed a family, Sentou thought.
An: Thank you for your comment, I read them, and that comment is one of my reason I keep writing this. So keep commenting, all right?
Anyway, I noticed that I forgot a lot of things and made a lot of mistakes when writing the Kamen rider side, something that I will edit that mistake when I manage to edit the previous chapter into better grammar, hopefully. But I will address some of them here.
Sparkling have access to all best match weapons, yes. I forgot this! But to be honest, I don't think Sentou need a weapon...yet? Because most Oshimaida can be beaten by Precures with a bare hand. Well, I just simply forgot them, But I will add the need to use a weapon in the future chapter, plus, it will be a good reason for getting Precures original weapon. Thank you for everyone who points this out.
Also, thank you for everyone who pointed out that I got the wrong sentence or incomplete when in Henshin scene. To be honest, matching Kamen Rider's Henshin and Pretty Cure's Henshin is a bit hard because Kamen Rider has more line to write compared to Pretty Cures, but when I find a way, I will edit the previous chapter and stick to it.
I think that what I need to address for now. Can Sentou use the asupower-powered Tank fullbottles? What fullbottles will he get next time? Can Banjou adapt into Hagu-tan father persona? At least in public? What Harry will do now that his canon role hijacked by Banjou?
found out in the next chapter~
see ya~~
edited : 03/10/2018