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Chapter 7

Disclaimer: Don't own Kamen Rider! The franchise belongs to Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei! I only own the plot and my OC Rider(s).

AN: Alright, before I being I want to say sorry for not getting this up earlier because I was quite busy with school. I had a lot of tests this week to study and do a lot of homework, but now I don't have to worry about that right now, so I'm back on this story.

Also, I want to thank those who are reading (and hopefully reviewing) this story. They have given me hope that someone is reading this, and though their responses aren't all good, it's criticism I will use for future stories.

Now before you read this chapter, be aware that this one may be too confusing for you. I just should warn you about that. Now with that out of the way, on with the chapter.

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Sarah's eyes widen at what Adam said. She couldn't believe it! It was just a story! "W-what?" she said with disbelief as she dropped the notebook.

"I'm sorry Sarah, but Arch was just a story," Adam explained as he hung his head in shame. "I wrote every single word of it but I never thought it would come true."

"What was it about?"

"It was about us traveling to other worlds to save them," he replied before looking at Sarah. "I had no idea the worlds would actually be combining. I'm so sorry Sarah."

His words fell on deaf ears as tears began to run down Sarah's face. "Why do this!" Sarah demanded. "My world is danger! Everything because of you! Just why!"

Adam just stood there, taken back by her reaction, while Sarah just stood there, her red face glaring at Adam. He was about to go to Sarah, but restrained himself as he instead walked out the house, leaving a teary eyed Sarah alone in her sorrows.

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Adam walked slowly towards his school. He noticed in the empty parking lot was a figure who Adam recognized as the one who gave him the fighting capabilities. He continued to walk until he saw the robed figure look turn his head towards Adam. "So you've finally arrived," the figure stated.

Adam stopped where he was. "Who are you?" Adam demanded.

"Transform and I'll tell you," the hooded figure said.

Adam let out a frustrated groan as he placed his Arch buckle on his waist and gained his belt. "Henshin," Adam slid the card into the buckle and he turned into Arch.

"There," Arch said. "I've transformed, now tell me!"

Arch saw the figure smirked before he threw back his hood. Arch's eyes widen underneath the helmet. He saw himself! The guy in front of him looked exactly like Arch in his human form! The only difference was that this guy had an 'L'-shaped scar on his left cheek. "Who are you!" Arch demanded as he took a stance.

'Adam' smirked. "You'll know soon enough!", and he waved his hand summoning a rift that swept over Arch.

"What!", Arch shouted in shock as the rift swept over him.

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Arch charged forward hoping to get to 'Adam', but found himself instead in what appeared to be an, empty white void that continued forever. He looked in astonishment. "What is this place?"

"Wouldn't you like to know," a voice spoke.

Arch turned around to face whoever said that. The one who said it was Dan, who stood with the other Riders in their human form. "Just what is this place? What are you doing here?" Arch said as he took off his belt, undoing the transformation as Adam now stood there.

"This is a pocket dimension," Aaron replied. "It was created when the world combined."

Adam nodded at Aaron's response, but that didn't clear away his confusion. "Alright, but how are you here?"

"When we left through the rifts, someone suddenly appeared trapped us here," Oma replied.

Dan continued from there. "And now, we can't get out. We can only watch what's happening."

"Do you know who trapped you here?" Adam questioned.

"The same guy who sent you here," Oma replied.

Adam looked at the Five Riders. They were obviously hiding something and it had to something with that guy. "Okay, who was that guy? Why did he look like me?" Adam demanded.

"Hold on!" Corban halted him. "Let us explain."

Oma stepped in after Corban said that. "You know your story has come true, but you don't know how," Oma said.

Then, Soran carried on from there. "You know about paradoxes?"

Adam nodded and Soran continued. "Well you see someone has made a sort dimensional paradox by making your story come true. Your story itself has become a sort of infinite paradox."

"Why do it though?" Adam asked. "What good would that do?

"To cover up something," Aaron answered.

Before Adam could ask, Corban said, "All of this was just a set up."

"But who set this up!" Adam demanded.

The five Riders looked at each other before nodding to one another. Then, Dan answered, "The one known as Lock."

"Lock?" Adam raised an eyebrow.

"Yes", Soran answered. "He's that 'copy' you met. Lock's really a parallel of you. He uses the same cards and armor, but he is the behind this."

"Whatever his motive for all of this is unknown," Aaron pointed out.

"However, we know he has been expecting you," Corban said, pointed at Adam.

Adam stood there, surprised at the explanation from the five Riders before him. Lock, a parallel of Adam, was the one responsible for all of this? Suddenly, a thought popped into his head. "So if I defeat him," Adam suggested, "everything will go back to normal?"

The Riders remained silent at this for a while, until Aaron replied, "Yes."

Adam was fine with that response, but remembered that he, the only Rider left, was now trapped here and couldn't stop him. He frantically looked at the others. "Don't we have any plans? Anything to hold Lock?"

"For now we only have one line defense," Oma said. "Terra."

The other Riders saw Adam's face was filled with shock. Most likely because he thought that Terra's user was Danielle. "But I thought that Danielle was dead," he stated, his voice croaking a little.

"She is," Corban said, "but we found another user."

"Doesn't the Terra armor kill its user?" Adam stated, remembering what it did to Danielle.

Soran nodded. "Yes, but we made changes so it doesn't do that."

"Who's the user then?"

The five Riders froze as they looked at each other. They all then turned to face Adam. "Sarah," Oma answered. "It's Sarah."

Adam's eyes widen. "What!" Adam shouted. "You turned her into Terra!"

"Yes," Corban said, unhinged at Adam's reaction. "And right now she's fighting Lock."

"But you can't send her up against Lock!" Adam shouted. "She doesn't have any experience!"

"Neither did you," Soran stated. "Like the Arch buckle, the Terra buckle provided its user with knowledge of fighting."

"But still..." Adam began, but was cut off.

"Look, Sarah thinks she's fighting you, Adam," Dan explained. "But we can get you back."

Adam raised an eyebrow. "How?"

"We can blast a large hole in this place for you to get out," Aaron explained, "but it can only one person can go through. It has to be you."

Adam sighed. Despite he didn't want to leave the others here, it was the only chance of Adam getting out of here, so he had to take it. Adam nodded to the Five Riders, who summoned their belts. "Henshin," the five Riders said in unison as they took their Rider forms.

As Adam stood back, the Riders activated their finishers. With the announcements of "Final Vent!", "UNLOCK!", "CHEVRON LOCKED!", "CHARGE! WIND!", and "Wake Up!", the Riders unleashed their attacks on one specific point. The attacks collided with each other causing an explosion. However, the explosion disappeared immediately as a swirling vortex took its place. Adam stood in front of the vortex. "Alright, here I go," he said he was about to step in it.

"Alright, but before you go, take this," Dusk said tossing a card to Adam who caught it. "A gift from Tendou."

Adam's eyes widen at the card. At the top it said, HYPER CLOCK UP. Despite his shock, Adam put it into his sweater and looked at the five Riders. "When can you guys show up?" Adam asked.

"Not until Lock's been taken care of," Wyvern said. "Now go."

Nodding, Adam entered the vortex, leaving the Five Riders alone.

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Right now, Sarah was in the high school, and was running for her life, which seemed pretty fast thanks to the Terra armor. Her long black hair came out the back of her helmet and flew into the air a bit. Only fifteen minutes after Adam left, Sarah received a strange device, which she immediately recognized it as the Terra buckle, as well as a note saying that Adam was trapped. Sarah still hated Adam for being the reason that put them into all this mess, but part of her said to save Adam. Sarah did use the Terra buckle and became Kamen Rider Terra, and hoped to first rescue her dad.

However, she didn't expect to encounter 'Adam'...

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(Flashback)

"Adam what are you doing!" Terra demanded as she backed away from him, thinking that he was the Adam she knew.

'Adam' said nothing as he placed his buckle on his stomach and his belt wrapped around his waist. He drew his card and saying "Henshin," he slid his card into his buckle. A silver rectangular projection swept over him, transforming him into what seemed to be Arch.

'Arch' wore the exact armor, but instead of the A's were L's inscribed on the chest and gauntlets. Also, the red visor seemed more menacing with it pointing out a bit at the ends, making it seemed like fangs.

'Arch' slowly walked towards her. "Now, prepare to meet your end," he said coldly.

(Flashback end)

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And that's why Terra is running for her life. She continued to run however she stopped, seeing 'Arch' only a couple yards away from. 'Arch' walked towards her, drawing his blade-less hilt that was identical to the real Arch's, and turned it into a gun. "Adam stop this!" she shouted to him as she extended her claws, but it fell on deaf ears.

'Arch' said nothing as he fired a round of golden energy bullets at Terra. She raised her claws to block the bullets, which they did, but didn't see 'Arch' charging towards her with his gun turned into a sword. Despite Terra dodged and evaded the slashes as much as she could, the sword eventually slashed against her chest. 'Arch' slashed his sword down on Terra, who raised her left clawed gauntlet to block the slash. However, Terra left herself open as 'Arch' kicked her in the stomach, sending her into the air and landing her back onto the ground. Terra raised her head to look up at 'Arch.' "What happened to you, Adam?" Terra asked him.

'Arch' raised his sword to finish Terra. "If you haven't noticed, I'm not him!" he shouted.

Terra looked away as 'Arch' brought his blade down. She waited for the strike to happen, but it never did. Terra looked up to see that someone grabbed his sword arm, stopping 'Arch' from striking. Her eyes widen seeing it was... "Adam!"

Yes, it was Adam, in the form of Arch, who forced 'Arch' back with a kick to the gut. 'Arch' staggered back but caught himself as he stood straight and gripping his sword. Despite she was shocked at seeing double, Terra got up and stood next to Arch. "Who's that?" Terra said to the real Arch.

The real Arch glared at 'Arch.' "That's Kamen Rider Lock," Arch answered. "My parallel, and the one behind all of the worlds combining."

Terra's eyes widen underneath her helmet as she looked at 'Arch', now identified as Lock. Lock, however, laughed. "About time you figured it out!"

Arch drew his sword and charged at Lock with Terra following him. Arch slashed his sword at Lock, who merely raised his own sword to block it, before forcing Arch back with a kick to the chest. Terra lashed her right claw at Lock, but he moved his head to the side before catching her right arm. Lock twisted Terra around and held her close to him. She tried to break free and Arch ran to rescue her, but they froze as Lock brought his sword up to Terra's neck. "Let her go!" Arch demanded.

Lock ignored him as he paid attention to Terra. "I wonder, did he ever you know why he wrote that story?" Lock asked, bringing his head close to Terra's ears.

Arch's eyes widen underneath his visor. 'Oh god please don't!' Arch thought, worryingly.

"W-why?" Terra asked, frightened by the sight of Lock's sword at her neck.

Lock grinned underneath his metal mask. "It was because Adam loved you," Lock said.

Terra froze at what Lock said. Lock smirked as he removed his sword from Terra's neck and kicked her towards into Arch, who fortunately caught her. They both were left open as Lock changed his sword into a gun, and fired upon Arch and Terra. The two cringed as they saw the bullets heading towards them. Smoke rose from the air, covering the two Riders. Lock smirked as he rested his gun on his shoulder. However, his smirked disappeared hearing, "SPEED ATTACK!", and Lock saw two blurs running out of the smoke and into the school.

Lock let out a frustrated groan. "So persistent," he said before following the trail of the two blurs.

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AN: That's all I have for now. You're most likely scratching your head in confusion at the end of this chapter aren't you? Well, like I said a couple chapters ago, this fic is the Decade of my stories, so it's obviously going to be confusing. Also, the chapter is shorter than the recent ones. Well, that's because I was sorting through the story and that's how it turned out and that's how the next chapter's gonna be. Sorry but that's how it is.

Despite that, just let me know what you think. You can leave a review stating your comments and if you have a problem with the fic, please leave constructive criticism that I can use for future fics. Thank you.

Raika out!

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