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(Disclaimer: I don't own Senki Zesshou Symphogear or Kamen Rider Ex-Aid characters. I just own idea and OC's)


Stage 4.2: The Split of Roles II. Battle START! The Goriest Uprising!


(Somewhere in the north of city) (Shira's POV)

I, with the other two Riders... and nurse Asuna were heading towards the signal. But as I drove, my mind just couldn't get why Kuroto did what he just did.

Why Kuroto reveal my identity as a Kamen Rider to those two? Isn't keeping it a secret be more his taste rather than reveal it? I'm pretty sure that there was better way for him to get me out of that dilemma.

Moreover, Kuroto planned to build a Rider Gashat using a Relic's data. Is that why he wanted to cooperate with the 2nd Division so that he could get the data easier? However, I don't think he would do something like that since he would just be making more enemies once he turns his back on them. Unless... he has some other motive that I'm unaware of.

"Dammit..." I muttered. I don't really care about most of is going on, but why? Why did I intentionally get dragged into this? Now that think about it, I could have just turned down Genjuro's offer to work for the 2nd Division and this entire mess to begin with, but I didn't. And if I did, Tsubasa would have remained like her previous self, and worst case scenario she will end up hurting someone she cares about faster than she thought. And that time, I really didn't know what they would have done if I refused. Already knowing the location of their base, I'm pretty sure they won't let me go just like that.

I could have also chosen not to follow Kuroto's orders and defend Graphite before, but I still do it. Though I told Kuroto many times that I do not work for him, I still go along with it.

Why? Why did I become like this? Am I a hero? Or a villain? I pretend to be a good guy, but also pretend to be bad guy. What with this inconsistency!?

What has happened to me…?

"Your will is weak! That's why they died leaving you!"

"Grr..." Dammit! Not now! Why are his words still haunting me!? I don't have any connection with him again. Damnit... damnit damnit DAMNIT!

"Stay calm... Stay calm..." I chanted. I must stay calm. I can't let my emotions play with me like that. Like I said before, I don't have any connection with him, I don't. He just in the past, that I need to forget.

"After I deal with whoever this Bugster is, I need to get back to training even harder," I resolved. I've been focusing too much on strengthening my body that I almost forgot to strengthen my mind and will too. I can't be a weak. If I weak, I'm nothing. I can't do anything, even if I wanted to.

After a quite long drive, we finally arrived somewhere around the northern part of the city. We stopped our rides only to notice something looming over us in the sky.

A black cloud, and huge scary one at that. Well... that's not good.

"So that is the source of the Bugster?" asked Taiga as he got off his ride.

Hiro took out the scanner and aimed it at the black cloud, "It is. I'm detecting a large amount of Bugster virus from it," he said. Well, he's right considering that the cloud is giving off some sort of evil aura, "We need to prepare. We require someone to go and scout the situation."

"And who will do it?" Asuna asked.

Maybe this is my chance to know if the Bugster is Graphite or not, "Let me do it. You guys can come back me up afterwards," I said as I got stares from both riders.

"Just to remind you, I don't about the rest but I still don't trust you and consider you one of us," Taiga said, "I don't know what the government was thinking, letting someone like you get involved. Furthermore, you're no doctor."

"No need to worry about me," I said while took off from my bike and took of my helmet, "I may not be qualified to be a doctor or have any experience on the medical field, you can instead definitely count on me when it comes to combat," I said jabbing my thumb at myself. It may sound like I'm just bragging, but wait till they see what I can do.

"We'll see how you do on the battlefield," Hiro said while getting off from his bike along with Asuna," Let's go."

"Alright," I said before walking off to the source.

The place we're in is some kind of junkyard. Plenty of scrap metal and old cars ready to be demolished surrounded us. At least all the metal around us was somewhat organized allowing us to walk with little difficulty. As we're walking, I went on high alert as I kept watch of my surroundings in case of an ambush.

Once we've arrived, Hiro, Taiga and Asuna hid themselves while I continued getting closer to face whoever's responsible for messing my workplace. And there standing before me was a single familiar person. It seems my guess was correct; the one who was responsible to the mess is none other than Graphite in human form, standing there as if he was expecting us.

However, he was not alone. The person's face was covered by bandages, only revealing the only eyes. All I could come up with was that he's a man from his body structure and his clothes, a hooded jacket with the hood on, a black shirt and green baggy pants with black shoes. One thing that caught me is the blood stain-like design on his jacket. You almost couldn't even tell the difference whether it was a real blood stain or not.

"So you have arrived, Kamen Rider," Graphite said to me.

"I see... So you're Graphite, aren't you?" I asked.

"Yes, I am. It seems you still remember me."

"Yeah and I recall you being destroyed before my very eyes, how did you survive that anyway?"

"Indeed I was destroyed," he answered, "However, Master only did it because I'm wasn't in that strong enough in that form!"

"Master?" I looked to mysterious man beside him, "You talking about him?" I pointed.

"That's correct. Master here is the one who revived me; making me stronger than ever before and now, there is no one that can stop me from destroying humanity!"

I see, so even he has same motives as his show's counterpart too. And from what he said to become stronger... did he get proto-Dragon Knight Hunter Z gashat? Probably stolen it off Kuroto's hands, but didn't he say that that mysterious man he calls 'Master' is the one who revived him. So is that 'Master' the one who gave it to him? But how did he get it in first place?

"That won't necessary," Hiro said while stepping out, "This place will be your grave, Graphite," It seems Hiro knows this Bugster's name, which I don't care.

"So, is this the Bugster causing all the problems here?" Taiga said following suit, "You seem familiar, but that won't matter since your life ends here regardless."

Hiro and Taiga both took out their respective Gamer Drivers and placed them on their waist. I also do the same while we all took out our respective Rider Gashats.

Graphite also took out the proto-Dragon Knight Hunter Z gashat and was about to activate it. However, the mysterious man, 'Master' lend out his arm preventing Graphite from continuing.

"He's the only one who can fight Graphite," the Master said with deep distorted voice. Wait, he? Who's he talking about?

"Who do you mean?" I asked, which he then answered by pointing at... me? "Why I am only one that can fight Graphite? These two are just as capable of kicking his ass as well."

"If you insist on defying me then so be it, I'll stop and finish you myself," the 'Master' said with a threatening tone. He seems insistent on making me fight Graphite alone without help of the other riders, but for what reason?

"We have no need to listen to your demands," Taiga said while readying his gashat, "Our mission is to eliminate that Bugster. If he gets in the way, we will have to deal with him as well," he then activates his gashat.

[BANG BANG SHOOTING!]

"I agree," Hiro said while also readies his gashat, "This is an operation and I'm the doctor."

[TADDLE QUEST!]

"Seems like your demands were not heard but don't worry," I also ready my magenta gashat, "I'll still fight Graphite with or without these two,"

[MIGHTY ACTION X!]

The game area starts to spread with blocks coming from mine, chests from Hiro's and barrels from Taiga's.

"""Henshin!"""

[GASHAT!] x3

[Let's Game! Metcha Game! Mutcha Game! What's your name?! I'm a Kamen Rider!] x3

We're transformed into our respective level 1 form before opening the lever.

"Second Phase Initiated..." I said.

"Proceeding to Level 2," Hiro said.

"2nd Tactic," Taiga said.

[GACHAN!] x3 [LEVEL UP!] x3

[Mighty Jump! Mighty Kick! Mighty-Mighty Action X!]

[Taddle! Meguru! Taddle! Meguru! Taddle Quest!]

[Ba-Bang-Bang! Bang-Ba-Bang! Yow! Bang Bang Shooting! Go!]

I donned with same suit as before but is now replaced with magenta and light green. The eye's ouline on my visor turned orange and my chest plate turns light blue. This is actually Kamen Rider Ex-Aid's level 2 form. I don't feel any different, except the color was not really my taste. Also my Bugvisor I used before is now replaced with another weapon, a small hammer called the Gasachon Breaker.

Hiro donned with light cyan knight-like armor with his head resembling a knight's helmet. There's also a small shield on his left arm while he holds the Gasachon Sword-Flame mode on his right hand.

Taiga donned with same outfit as before. A soldier-like armor with pale green side cape and soldier helmet with one eye covered with pale green eye visor. He wields the Gasachon Magnum-Rapid Fire mode.

Seeing that we're ready for battle; Graphite also activates his gashat.

"Bio."

[DRAGON KNIGHT HUNTER Z!]

Graphite injects the gashat to his body; transforming him into his Bugster form. He has the same appearance as before only now colored black with a gold gauntlet that covered his entire arm. I did not pay much to attention to Graphite though as I knew what to expect from him. I was instead more concerned about the person beside him.

It was the 'Master'. First, he takes out the bugster buckle before put it on his waist turning it into a belt. But it was what he took out next that really surprised me.

In his hands were the Bugvisor and a Gashat. It had a blood-red color to it. He then attaches the Bugvisor to the Buckle to form the complete belt before activating the gashat in his hand.

[GACHON!]

[IGNITE NEMESIS!]

A blood-red game area starts spreading and started to pass us, leaving behind an intense heat wave which made me almost feel like I was being burned inside-out. Hiro and Taiga also got caught in the heat wave causing to stumble from the heat before getting up.

"What's with that gashat?" Hiro asked.

"I never seen that gashat before," Taiga said.

The the two, I also did not recognize the gashat. However, what I do know is that that gashat is holding some kind of power that feels... dangerous. As if a lot of dark energy such as grudge and revenge is compressed into that gashat. What the hell...

The 'Master' not wasting more time also mutters the magic word, "Henshin..." he inserts the gashat on the right slot of the Bugvisor before pressing the small red button on the left.

[MODULE UP!]

[Destruction! (Redemption!) Genocider! (Annihilator!) Sever the Fate! Ignite Nemesis!]

A flame suddenly bursts out from beneath him covering his figure. A crimson hologram appears in front of him before burning causing a few cracks before he breaks out from it while destroying the rest of the hologram. He was still engulfed in flames before finally subsiding, allowing his full form to be revealed.

He had the appearance of Genm's Zombie Gamer form but replaced with blood-red armor where the white was while the eyes of his visor is now colored in crimson on the right and azure on the left. The rider gauge is the same as before, full but in a burnout-like state while the right part of chest had a flickering red light that still give a vibe that something was 'beating'.

"Kamen Rider Gore... Level Unknown," he declared.

Huh!? Level Unknown!? What does that mean!? Did he mean his level is immeasurable!? What kind of level is that!?

"No matter what level you are, if you try to hinder us from beating the Bugster," I pointed at Graphite, "Then I'll have no choice but to take you down as well. Right guys?" I turn to Hiro and Taiga.

"This is an Operation. Anyone hindering it wouldn't be forgiven," Hiro stated while readying his Gashacon Sword.

"Same here," Taiga said while ready his Magnum, "You don't deserve any mercy from us."

"Well then, let the games begin!" I said.

"Come at me!" Graphite provoked.

"..." Gore kept silent but was just as ready for battle.

We're dashed toward Graphite while he and Gore did the same with Gore moving significantly faster than Graphite was.

"Let see how you deal with this!" I said while throwing a punch forward. However, something unexpected happened. Gore didn't even try to defend or counterattack, but instead he evades and slips by me before going straight for Hiro and Taiga, "What the!?" I looked back to see him engage Hiro and Taiga in combat.


(Switch to 3rdPOV)

Gore passes Shira and charges at Hiro and Taiga. Hiro saw the attack coming and tried slashing him with his sword. However Gore just took the attack without even flinching. He then grabs Hiro's sword and forcefully throws it to side before launching two strikes with his bare hands before sending Hiro flying onto ground. Taiga tries to assist Hiro by shooting Gore continuously only for the attacks to do much as catch his attention while the shots bounce off him. He just went straight to Taiga while Taiga's shots continued bouncing off his armour. Once he got close, Gore just slapped Taiga's arm that was wielding the Magnum on the ground before delivering several punches and ending it with a kick, sending Taiga crashing into the nearby scrapped cars.

"Strong..." Shira said as he witnessed the fight. Besides the fact that Hiro and Taiga was able to land a hit on him but to no effect, Gore combat skills were flawless, almost as if he was someone who's been formally trained all his life. It's not something as reckless as street fighting. But it's more like some sort of martial art which only masters whom had trained for years was able to pull off. Nevertheless, Shira was completely flabbergasted by Gore's technique.

"That fighting style, it's almost like...!?" Shira can't help but feel like he've seen it before. Images of a certain old man suddenly flashes in his head. It was someone whom he recognizes, with the same body structure and everything. For one reason or another, a feeling of hatred and resentment started to swell up within Shira. It was a feeling that Shira had forgotten for a very long time.

"As you can see, your friends stand no chance against my Master," Graphite says while playing with his weapon, "I, myself had already tested his power, and even with my current power, I can't even give him a scratch!" he said with excitement, "With his power, nothing that can stop us, humanity shall fall before us!"

"Like I'll let you do as you like!" Shira said, "I may not really care about others that much, but to let you do as you like when I have power to stop you," he clenched his fists, "I won't be able to forgive myself if I let that happen!"

"Then prove it! RAAAAAGGGHHHH!" Graphite shouted as he charged towards Shira.

"As you wish!" Shira responded as he did the same towards Graphite.

Graphite sends an attack at Shira with his Graphite Fang but Shira parried it and went to counter it with his hammer. However, all the attack did was cause him to stumble a little. Seeing the opening, Graphite sends another attack and this time Shira tries defending against it, only for the attack to knock Shira back. Using his momentum, Shira managed to safely land, before turning to see Graphite already preparing another attack.

"Do-Do-Do Kokuryu-ken!" he yells as he sends an energy slash from his Graphite Fang towards Shira.

"Shit!" Shira once again tries to guard the oncoming strike which forced him to fly back and crash painfully onto the ground. And as a result, causes his rider gauge to go down.

"Is that all you got!?"" Graphite taunted.

"Damn... this hurts way more than I expected," Shira grunted while trying to regain his footing, "Level 2 ain't gonna cut it with Graphite's current power, only if I had the Drago Knight Hunter Z gashat to even the playing field. Looks like I've got no choice ," he then reaches into his gashat holder to grab his newest green gashat before a shout catches his attention.

"Use this!" said the owner of the voice while throwing something at him.

"Huh?" Shira caught what the source of the voice thrown and turns to see his hand, "This is!?" he sees a red colored gashat with an image of a red robot on it, "The Gekitosu Robots gashat!? Who was...!?"

Shira looks towards the source of the shout as he finds Dan Kuroto standing near a wrecked car, "Sorry for being late. That gashat took a longer time to make than the others," Kuroto said to Shira.

"Others?" Shira said as he looked towards Hiro and Taiga who were still trying to defeat Gore only to instead lose half of their rider gauge doing so while Gore remained unharmed.

"It's no use," Hiro said to Taiga, "We need more power to go against him."

"Then let's get over with it," Taiga said as he took out an orange gashat, followed by Hiro that taking out pale yellow gashat.

[JET COMBAT!]

[DOREMIFA BEAT!]

The pale yellow and orange game area starts to spread out to surrounding as each of respective hologram appeared behind each riders. A jet-like robot came out of Taiga's hologram while a DJ-like robot came out of Hiro's hologram. Then, they both closed their levers before inserting the gashats and opening the levers once more.

"Proceeding to level 3," Hiro said.

"3rd Tactic," Taiga said.

[GACHAN!] x2 [LEVEL UP!] x2

[A GACHA!] x2

[Jet! Jet! In the Sky! Jet! Jet! Jet Comba~t!]

[Do-Do DoReMiFa-So-La-Ti-Do!(Yeah! Yeah!) OK!(This is the Beat they asked for!)DoReMiFa Beat!(To the beat! To the beat!)]

Each of robot came down to their respective owners as they opened up and became the extension armor for each rider.

Hiro gains a pale yellow hat with a magenta visor and headphone-like gear, a pale yellow chest guard with a shoulder guard, a DJ's turntable attached on his right arm and a speaker-like device on his left shoulder. Meanwhile, Taiga gains a jet pilot's front part helmet and orange visor, a white and orange chest armor that looks like the front part of a jet fighter, a white-black shoulder guard and pair of orange jet wings with the word "STG" written on his back with also two orange Gatling guns on his waist side.

This is Kamen Rider Brave's and Kamen Rider Snipe's level 3 form!

"There is nothing I cannot cut," Hiro said.

"Mission start." Taiga said as he begins to fly.

"*Whistle* they already leveled up," Shira said while turn toward Graphite, "I'm not gonna be left behind then!"

[GEKITOTSU ROBOTS!]

A red game area spreads around as the hologram appears behind Shira, including a red robot from it. The robot punches Graphite twice before retreating to Shira's side, "Third Phase Initiated..." he closes the lever, inserts the gashat before opening the lever once again.

[GACHAN!] [LEVEL UP!]

The red punching robot opens up and seems look like it swallowed Shira, but it actually combines with him as it changes the shape.

[A GACHA!]

[Buttobase totsugeki! Gekitotsu Punch! Gekitotsu Robots!]

Shira gains a red headgear with big golden V symbol on his helmet, a red chest plate from the robot's body and shoulder guards from the robot's feet. The robot's arms combined together and attaches onto his left arm and became a big red gauntlet.

This is Kamen Rider Ex-Aid's level 3 form!

"Heh! Even if your current level, that won't change anything!" Graphite said.

"Well, there's only way to prove it, right?" Shira said as he begins to charge ahead.

Seeing Shira charging at him, Graphite delivers another slash with his weapon, but this time Shira was able to defend against it properly using his red gauntlet before swiping it away and delivering several punches at Graphite. Though being at level 3, and Graphite at level 5, Shira still believed that there was still a chance he could defeat him.

"I said it is useless!" Graphite says with annoyed tone, "I admit your will to fight is strong, but without power it is useless!"

"Yes-yes, keep spouting nonsense while I beat crap out of you," Shira said in a mocking tone.

"You fool!" Graphite says as he deflects Shira's attack and charges his weapon, "Do-Do-Do Kokuryu-ken!" and delivers another energy slash, however—

"Chance..." Shira muttered as he barely evades Graphite's energy slash by turning in the air and using Graphite defenseless state and his own momentum to deliver a hard uppercut toward Graphite's chin.

"Guagh!?" Even if less effective, it was successfully caught Graphite in surprise as he loses his balance.

"Not yet!" Using this chance, Shira activates the gauntlet's rocket booster mechanism and increases his own uppercut power to maximum. His attempt successfully staggers Graphite as Shira readies another attack with the Breaker's sword form, "Ora! Ora! ORA!" he keeps slashing Graphite without mercy to deal as much damage as possible before Graphite could recover. Then, he continues by turning back the Breaker into it's hammer form before taking out the Gekitotsu Robots gashat from his Driver and inserts it into the Breaker's Kimewaza slot.

[KIMEWAZA!]

His Breaker generates an energy gauntlet that has same appearance as his red gauntlet and after the charge was enough, he swings it up like he was doing an uppercut while triggering the finisher.

[GEKITOTSU CRITICAL FINISH!]

"GUAAGH!" Graphite shouts in pain as he was sent flying upwards.

"That's not all!" Shira said as he took out the red gashat from his Breaker and inserts it into his Kimewaza slot on his waist and presses the finisher button.

[KIMEWAZA!]

Shira waits as his gauntlet charged with red energy. Once Graphite was falling before him , he punches him and presses the button once again with his other hand.

[GEKITOTSU CRITICAL STRIKE!]

The gauntlet let's out all it's energy as it sends Graphite flying towards the scrap and while causing a small crater.

"Fyuuh... Hopefully that was enough," Shira said as he sighed, "I don't think it was enough to kill him, but at least it was enough to weaken him," Shira then turns around to see how Hiro and Taiga's were doing.


(Switch to Shira's POV)

[DOREMIFA CRITICAL FINISH!]

[JET CRITICAL STRIKE]

As I expected, even with the level up they got, they were still completely outclassed by Gore. This may make me sound desperate, but judging from how Gore fought, I think that it is going to take all three of us to defeat him, considering Gore's level is probably higher than us.

Seeing the final explosion from where Gore stood, "Well, it's about time. Let's get them and end Graphite's life for real," I walked towards Hiro and Taiga who were both exhausted from using all they got, until something caught my eye.

"Ugh..." Gore, whom was badly beaten and injured with all of his body wrecked as his limbs were badly broken from the attacks began to rise up in an unholy and creepy way as his whole body covered in black-crimson silhouettes and then stood up normally as if nothing happened to him.

"Dammit! Don't tell me he have similar abilities like Dangerous Zombie!". This is bad, really bad. If this guy has same abilities as Dangerous Zombie, we're screwed from the beginning!

"Do you think that was enough to defeat me!?" I heard Graphite yelling from behind me. I turned around to see him ready to deliver his energy slash. I put my arms in X form to defend against it before hearing a familiar song.

"Balwisyall nescell Gungnir tron..."

Hibiki coming from out nowhere kicked Graphite in her transformed state, sending him flying to nearby car scraps. She saved me, I wanted to thank her up but there was something I should focus on instead.

"How the hell did you get here?" I asked her.

"Um... well—"

"You know what, save it. We'll talk about it later after we're done with him," I cut her words while pointing at Graphite, who was standing back up once again.

"How dare you!?" Graphite said in a pissed off tone, "No matter. After I deal with him, you're next!" he points at Hibiki.

"Hibiki quick question, how many times have you actually beaten someone else in a fight?"

"Let see... zero?" she innocently answered.

"Oh, thanks for the info," I said in very sarcastic tone, "Now we're all screwed."

"Sorry..."

When we got in a stance, ready to go against whatever Graphite will throwing at us, I heard a very faint sound of a motorcycle engine from somewhere.

"DIE!" Graphite once again charged his weapon with the black-yellow lightning-like energy, "Do-Do-Do Kokury—"

"Imyuteus Ame no Habakiri Tron..."

However, as much I want to say that it was a bad day for Graphite, I can't help but smirk under my helmet as Graphite once again got his attack interrupted, this time being hit by a motorcycle, which caused him to fall to one side while the motorcycle exploded when it crashed into nearby car scraps.

"Sorry to keep you're waiting," said the source of sound whose spinning the in air before landing safely on the ground in front of us.

"Okay, first Hibiki, now it's Tsubasa," I said while massaging my helmet forehead, "who's next? Kanade?"

"I'm here!" Kanade said not far from their place, behind a car junk.

"Dammit!" I cursed my own luck. How in the world do these girls know where I am!? "Someone better explain how you all got here in first place!"

"We will," Tsubasa answered, "But first we need to eliminate that black monster, right?" she then took a glance at my entire body, "Why is your suit pink?"

"It's not pink, it's magenta!" I yelled in protest while understanding a feeling a certain other rider had."And yeah, we need to defeat him or boss and everyone in Flower will die."

"What!? That's horrible!" Hibiki said, "We must to defeat him!"

"You're right Tachibana," Tsubasa said to Hibiki, "How can I call myself a Sakimori if I allow someone to die in front of me!"

"Alright then," I saw Graphite standing up after being crashed by Tsubasa's motorcycle, "Let's turn the tables!"

"Like I'll let you!" he charged toward us.

We're split into our own positions. I faced Graphite from the front with Tsubasa from behind me as backup. Hibiki stood back too as the second support as she's still not good in combat yet. Graphite sent waves of attack toward me which I evade and defended against it by knocking a few with my Breaker with some difficulty. Tsubasa used this chance to find a hole to attack and when she found it, she rushed towards Graphite and delivered several slashes before retreating and evading Graphite's counterattacks. Hibiki also found a chance and punches him right in the gut, causing him to stumble for a while. I used this chance to deliver my own punch to him which forced him to get knocked back a little due the force of our attacks.

"Good punch, Hibiki," I complied.

"Thanks,"she replied.

"But you still lack power," I suddenly critiqued her, "After this, you may need some formal training."

"Yeah, I know…" her mood dropped a little from my fact.

"You two get ready," Tsubasa said next to us, "It won't be easy to defeat him," she stated as I spot Graphite stand back with very hostile aura from him.

"ENOUGH OF YOUR PETTY LITTLE GAMES! I'LL SLAUGTHER YOU ALL!" he declared as he charged another energy attack only this time feeling clearly stronger before.

"Okay, that ain't good," I said as I felt the intense energy emnating from Graphite's Dragon Fang, "I've got no choice. Hibiki! Tsubasa!"

"Yeah?" Hibiki said while coming to me, followed by Tsubasa.

"Listen, I'll use all I've got to deflect that attack," I explain to both of them, "Tsubasa, go all out on him once I reveal an opening, Hibiki look out for another opening and get him with the strongest attack you've got. You two got that?"

"Understood!/You got it!"Both of them answered respectively.

"TAKE THIS! Kyūkyoku Kokuryu-ken!" Graphite cried as he sends a big arcing dark energy slash towards us.

"Now!" I shouted as Tsubasa and Hibiki backed away from me as I confronted Graphite's attack. I never thought about using the finisher continuously like this due to the potential side effects, but looks like I don't have much of a choice! Once again, I insert the Gekitotsu Robots's gashat to my Kimewaza slot and press the button.

[KI-KIMEWA-WAZA!]

A felt a sinking feeling as I heard the slot holder sound a little off, but this is between life and death so I paid no attention to it and continued by pressing the button once again.

[GEKITOTSU CRI-CRI-CRITICAL STRIKE!]

*CRACK!*

"Gaagh...!" I heard a bone in my left arm cracking right after. As I thought, using the finisher continuously would put too much strain on my body.

With Graphite's incredible energy attack's coming toward me. I left only with my will, forced and aimed my arm and gauntlet straight at the energy attack and collided with it

"BLAST THROUGHHHHH!" The rocket booster on my gauntlet lets out a roaring cry as it kept pushing against the energy attack. I can tell that I was being pushed back, but if I lose here... I'll lose more than just my life! "I won't lose here. If I lose here alone then it's fine, but with all the people's life on my shoulder, I can't give up or lose here!"

*CRACK!*

As if it's like a miracle, the energy attack cracked slowly as I pushed it forward and forward toward Graphite.

"IMPOSSIBLE!?" Graphite shouted in shock.

Slowly but surely, I was able to push it back as the crack got bigger and bigger. With one last push, I was able to completely destroy it. It seems from what miracle I was created make Graphite defenseless in shock.

"NOW!" With the gashat's finisher attack still online, I dashed forward and got ready to deliver a heavy uppercut at Graphite.

"Eat this!" Hibiki got the signal as she also dashed forward to deliver her own heavy uppercut towards Graphite. Both our punches came together and collided straight on Graphite.

"GUAAGH...!" Our combination attack seems to have an effect on him, but not that much. In that case, I increased my own attacking power by activating my gauntlet's rocket power. On the other hand, maybe because of her own instinct or something Hibiki pulled out a part of her gauntlet, revealing a piston mechanism that seems tobe powering her punch as the combined power of both punches, Graphite was sent flying up into the sky.

"I'll end this!" Tsubasa said when she jumps up and summons a huge blade and dives down towards Graphite.

[Heaven's Wrath]

In one strike, Tsubasa finishes off Graphite as I spot an explosion in the sky and him crash on the ground. While Tsubasa safely landed right in front of me afterwards.

"Hah... finally," I sighed as I checked my arm's condition, "Ouch!" As I thought, my arm is broken from the impact. At least the strain is not that much and wasn't really anything life threatening.

"Hah... we've finally defeated him," Hibiki said as she fell to ground exhausted. As much as it was her more or less third battle if you count Tsubasa's incident, she was pretty good. However, "Ugh... I feel so weak," she needs more training if she wants to continue from now own.

"You need more training Tachibana," Tsubasa said as if her mind are in sync with mine. Out of three of us, she is the only one who has taken the least amount of damage from battle. As expected from a seasoned warrior like her... or more like from a Sakimori as she said before. At least... it was finally over—

"Dammit... I have underestimated you all..." I turned to see Graphite, beaten up and wounded while emerging from the crater of where he crashed. Dammit! After all we have done it still wasn't enough to kill him!?

"Shit..." Most of us were out of shape. My arm is broken, Hibiki is exhausted and I think Tsubasa is as well, even if she wasn't showing it directly. Even if Graphite's condition is far worse than us, it was still clear that he could still kill us with his remaining power.

*CRASH!*

I heard something fall really hard to ground behind me. When I turn around, I found both Hiro and Taiga untransformed with their bodies beaten up and bruised. Then, I saw Gore not far from them, standing as winner of their battle untouched! Shit! This guy is really a bad message after all!

"This... is not over! I won't die here!" Graphite says as he stumbles towards Gore, "Master! Please give me more power so I can finish them all—"

"You're weak..." Gore said in cold tone, "You don't deserve the life given to you," then he reaches for his Bugle Driver and pressed the A and B buttons together.

[Warning! Warning! Warning!]

Those sound echoed as his Bugle Driver continuously lets out a red light on its screen.

"...!" Suddenly I felt a feeling of dread when Gore activates it. In an instant, I turn around and shout at Hibiki and Tsubasa, "All of you! Look out!" I shout as I put a defensive stance towards Gore, followed by Tsubasa whom covered Hibiki and summon her oversized sword to act as shield.

"Begone..." Gore said as he pressed the B button on his Bugle Driver.

[IGNITION DEAD!]

And then, the next scene is just like an upcoming disaster. Gore's body engulfs in incredible hot-blazing flame and suddenly dashed towards us, actually towards Graphite but with me, Hibiki and Tsubasa in his way, we got caught by his disastrous attack. I was sent flying and was forced to untransform when I crashed onto ground. Meanwhile, Tsubasa's sword shield was able to stand against most of Gore's attack, but not without some burnt scars and small wounds on some parts of her body as it actually almost destroyed her shield. Hibiki as well received several scratches and small degree burn wounds on her body, even though not as much as Tsubasa.

"GRAAAAGGHHHH!" Graphite's cry can be heard from that disastrous attack as he engulfed in flame without mercy and then destroyed afterward.

"GAGH...!" After I crashed, I was barely conscious to make out the scene in front of me. Most of the surroundings got blown away and burned down by Gore's attack as if the earth itself got shot by a giant flamethrower. Tsubasa and Hibiki were barely able to stand as Kanade ran up to them to help. Hiro and Taiga were able somewhat survive while Asuna came to help them as well.

Then, I focused my vision to Gore, who's standing alone when already finishing what he done. To kill his own ally without hesitate, this guy is far more dangerous than what I though. Then, he looks toward me for a while before disappear without trace.

"Gore... who... the hell are you?" I got before I fell the world turned black before my eyes.


(Later)

"Where am I?" was my first thought after I awoke from my slumber. I spot a white ceiling and it seems I was lay on bed, "This is...ouch!" I tried to get up but the sudden jolt of pain which sent me back laying on the bed.

"I see... I was... defeated," I recollected from what happen before and made that conclusion. Well... it was to be expected while going against Graphite with his ally he calls "Master", the result is more or less like this. At least it was not as severe as I thought.

"Uu..." I heard something close by. As I looked in front of me, I saw Hibiki with some of her body wrapped in bandages was sleeping beside me, with half her body resting on my bed. From her eyes, I can see trace of tears on her eyes. She was really worried about me huh?

"Ah, Shira! You're awake!" Then, I heard a familiar voice come from the door. It was Kanade with Tsubasa following behind, also covered in bandages as well.

"I see, you're awake," Tsubasa said. Even if she looks like not worried, her tone is opposite of how she was acting. Really...did I really make them worry that much?

I then I see Hibiki slowly wake up and rubbing her eyes probably due to all the ruckus. Then, she looked at me and rubbed her eyes once again; probably think she's still half asleep. Upon realizing that it wasn't a dream or her hallucination, she suddenly leap at me with teary eyes.

"You're awake!" she exclaimed happily.

"Gugh... Hibiki, turn down your voice," I said to her while struggling from her unbelievably strong hug, "We're in a hospital... and please let me go, I'm still in pain if you can't tell."

"Ah... right..." she backs down with her face shaded in a tinge of red.

"A~ny~way, we're glad you're awake," Kanade said to me, "You're really made us worried! Well... You're more or less got hit directly so I won't blame you."

"Hahaha... you're damn right ouch!" I said excitedly before getting another jolt of pain, "Damn... with this, I probably won't be of much help to you guys for a while."

"It's okay," Tsubasa said, "You need to rest. That's what's important for now."

Well, she was right. If I wanted to get back in action, resting should probably be my first priority. However, I couldn't tell whether my hearing went bad for a moment or did Tsubasa sound a little caring when she said that?

"Yeah sure," I said to her, "pretty strange that you're concerned about me like that," what I said it somehow made her blush a little.

"Yeah, I can see that," Kanade smirked, making Tsubasa think she got the wrong idea.

"Y-you wrong Kanade!" Tsubasa strangely denied, "I-I'm just showing concern for my fellow comrade on the battlefield, that's all! There's nothing behind it!"

"Ara? Did I say something like that?" here goes her teasing like always, "I was just talking about how you looked like you liked what Shira said, that's all,"

"Uu~~ Shira! You idiot!" and now she blames me? Well, saw her embarrass face is somehow satisfied. Damn, am I sadist or something?

"Well, aside from my condition, don't you two need to rest as well, Hibiki, Tsubasa?" I asked them, "You're no different than me, well... at least not as badly off as me."

"Well... even if you say that, you made me worry after that fight," Hibiki said to me, "Anyway, who was that we were fighting? Was he a Kamen Rider like you?"

"Yes, probably," I answered.

"But why attack us? Aren't Kamen Riders protectors of humanity's freedom?"

"Hah... listen here Hibiki. You two as well," I began to explain a little, "Indeed, a Kamen Rider is a person whom protects humanity's freedom with whatever power they possess. However," I raise my right hand's index finger, "Some who have the power will not always do good things. Some Kamen Riders however have used their powers for their own selfishness, which can cause harm to others if they so desire."

"Their own selfishness..." Kanade muttered, "So, it was depends on the user's intentions on how they want to use it. How about you?"

"Me? I'm actually in same category as what I've described," that's gave me a few death glares from the girls, "But you're lucky that I don't have any bad intentions to use it. I just... how to describe it... do what I want to do. That's all."

After some small talk, well all said good bye at me as I answer them back with hand wave and smile. Once they left, I turned my expression as I look at my hand.

"For my own selfishness...eh?"


(Back to the girls) (3rd POV)

"Okay! See you later!" Hibiki said as she parted ways from Kanade and Tsubasa.

"Yeah, see you later Tachibana," Tsubasa answered.

"See ya!" Kanade answered.

With Hibiki gone, those two were finally alone. Well, not like there'll be anything happening between them anyway as they're just talking to each other while they made their way back home.

"So, evil Kamen Riders do exist after all," Kanade said.

"In this world, there's yin and yang, good and bad. There's a protector, and of course there has to a destroyer too, I guess," Tsubasa said.

"As always, your explanation is still as complicated as ever," Kanade said feeling like a her head was spinning.

"You may need to study harder, Kanade."

"W-what!? Aren't you as same as me!?" Kanade retorted.

"At least not as bad as you."

"Guegh!? You're so mean Tsubasa~~" Kanade said, almost crying in shock.

"That's what you get for teasing people," Tsubasa can't help but giggle in the end.

"Wait... that was for what I did!? Damn... you're cruel, you know?" Kanade said as she realized something, "Is it just me or is your cruelty somehow similar to Shira?"

"W-what!? How!? In terms of cruelty, he's far worse than me!" Tsubasa retorts back, "Didn't he hurt you just to snap some sense into me back then?"

"Ah... yeah, you're right."

"Anyway, how's your leg?"

"Still in pain, but I can still walk normally."

"Please don't force yourself, Kanade," Tsubasa said concerned for her friend, "Last thing I want to know is you lost something even more important than your singing voice. If that happens—"

"Oh please! Don't become such a grim! I'm fine and alive now! And you know very well that I can't just sit back and do nothing except watch if I have chance to help, whatever it is."

"I see... whatever the chance it is, right?"

"Who!?"

They both are suddenly in alert as they heard a sound from their back. They're turn around to find the source of the voice.

It was a tall man with messy black hair, wearing a long sleeve magenta shirt with a black coat that has some colored cables on it, purple pants with pixel-like motive and black sneakers. Even if his appearances were not that threatening, Kanada and Tsubasa are still caution toward this guy, especially since he appeared out of nowhere behind them.

"Who are you?"

"Me? I'm Parad," he introduced himself, "And I think you've said something that caught my attention, Kanade Amou."

"What? The thing I said before? That's not—"

"What if I were to say that is possible?"

"...what did you say?"


And that's all for the second part. It was really hard to make fighting part of this story, but it went well at least. Anyway, it was finally the full appearances and fight of Kamen Rider Gore! To be honest, I don't know what level he is and I don't want to make him level X as he was "far stronger" than the level X rider.

As my previous state on previous chapter, I still open the recruitment for anyone who want be my Beta-Reader. The requirement can be see on late chapter.

Okay, that's all I want to say. And oh yeah, there's little surprise for you guys in the end of this chapter. Feel free to read it or not. Anyway, Asharoth out!


The calamity has arrive...

Hibiki: "We can't lose any hope!"

The great battle...

Tsubasa: "Am I... can't do anything...?"

That will decide the world fate...

Chris: "Dammit, there's no end..."

Are you ready...

Maria: "Don't give up no matter what!"

To changes the world fate?

Shirabe and Kirika: "PUSH THROUUUUUGGGGHHHH!"

What is your answer...?

Shira: Who... are you?"

?: Me? I'm a sinner, who will change the fate with my own hands!

[COMING SOON]