Neo-Heisei Riders Tail

by So-Pro Warrior

The Kamen Riders discover Dai-Shocker's next plan to take over the world involves traveling across the Multiverse to gather an army of evil and destroy all the good in their wake. The decision is made to send the five latest Riders to stop them from succeeding. The Five Riders soon find themselves in a magical world and to combat their enemy join the Mage guild known as Fairy Tail.

25. The Shinigami of Dai-Shocker

Insert Opening Theme: Ft.

(Scene starts off with Natsu and Gaim standing atop two pillars of rock overlooking a canyon as off in the distance the sun is slowly beginning to rise. Sweeping past a pillar the scene zooms in closer to them as they continue overlooking the canyon, passing another pillar the scene switches to the front of them as Gaim looks at Natsu who's eyes are closed before he raises his right hand and lights it up at there same moment he opens his eyes with a serious look)

Whoa Whoa Whoa… (x4)

(Suddenly the fire snaked out from his hand zig-zagging around in the air above him and Gaim. The title appeared zoomed in on and was slowly scanned across while fire was burning in the background behind it. The title fully appears over the canyon with the fire still burning behind it as the sun continue to rise up, brightening up the once night sky as the fire dispersed just as the sun came over the canyon cliffs and Happy appeared below it with his wings and a happy expression on his face)

Daijoubu ore ga nanman kai mo sakende yaru

(In the middle of a ruins, Lucy is on the ground scratched and bruised up with her eyes closed holding her left arm in pain with her right hand, Happy is beside her with his paws on her right left trying to comfort her, Gray is a few feet behind them on his right hand and knee looking down at the ground also beaten up, the Riders are also a few feet behind him as Double in Heat/Metal supports himself up using his Metal Shaft, Wizard is kneeling down beside him in Water Style with his hand on his shoulder making sure he's okay, Fourze is leaning against a pillar holding his right arm with his left hand, and OOO is on the ground lying against a rock with his head down, the Riders also heavily beaten up. Just then they all look up and forward as their heads up perk up at the sight before them, Lucy and Happy's hurt expressions turn to joy while Gray still has a serious look on his face. Natsu and Gaim stand atop a reptilian creature with yellow spikes sticking out its back, both of them yelling up into the air with Natsu having his fists out by his hips and Gaim raising his Daidaimaru into the air with his Musou saber by his side while pillars of smoke rise behind them with Natsu's scarf and clothes blowing in the wind)

Kimi no ashita ga subete kagayaite iru to shinjiteru

(Erza is also seen standing in the same ruins in her normal armor looking up at the cloud breaks in the sky as rays of sunlight shine through them, a sword in her right hand as it is held backhanded and pointed at the ground and the wind blow through her hair. Erza then turns around as the scene switches to show the others as Natsu jumps up and raises his right arm into the air cheering, Lucy giving a wink and points her thumb at herself, Gray looks towards her with a smirk, Happy in the middle of the ground with his wings raising his right paw up, the Riders behind them as Double strikes his normal pose and points at her back in Cyclone/Joker, OOO has his arms crossed, Fourze throws his arms up into the air, Wizard holds his left hand up striking his pose, and Gaim shoulders Daidaimaru. Erza seeing them smiles)

Yume o kanaeta subete no hito ni kasanariau kyoutsuuten

(Scene shows a young Erza in her torn up white prison clothing with her broken handcuffs still on her wrists looking up at the night sky with a full moon, alone on a beach. Scene then switches to Juvia walking down the street of a town away from her teru teru bozu as the sun shines brightly in the sky above her)

Akirame nakattatte koto soredake sa maken nayo

(Scene then shows all of the younger versions of Cana, Elfman, Mirajane, Erza, Gray, Lisanna, Natsu, Happy and Master Makarov standing/sitting, for Cana and Gray, on a beach looking up at the sunset. Scene then shows Laxus with an evil toothy-grin back to back with Gajeel with a dark background behind them looking forward/back when Natsu appears with a serious look on his face before he raises his right fire-engulfed fist up and throws it forward in an arc)

Mukaikaze ni nagasare kujike sou na toki wa

(Scene shows the henshined Riders from left to right Gaim, Wizard, Double, OOO and Fourze with their heads tilted up slightly as they looked off in their respective directions, above behind them was Kamen Rider Ichigo looking up to his right and Doktor G grinning with evil as he looked up and to his left with a blue background behind them. Scene then showed Lucy with her back turned towards her father who stared at her out of the corner his eyes angrily at her, a memory of her younger-self with her rice ball present to him destroyed behind her as she sat on the ground with her back to it crying)

Kono te nigire TRY TO TAKE A CHANCE mou. Kimi wa hitori nanka ja naize?

(Scene switches to showing Erza in a white dress in what looks like the ocean, a saddened look on her face as she is looking down and begins to cry, tears only coming out of her left eye before she finally looks up. Scene goes behind her as she is floating aimlessly in the water and looking up at the sun shining down through the dark water)

(Scene then switches to the top of the Tower of Heaven with dark clouds rolling over it before the camera pans down it to the very bottom and shows Team Natsu and the Riders with Juvia alongside them. From right to left is Happy, Natsu, Gaim, Erza, Wizard, Gray, Fourze, Lucy, OOO, Juvia, and Double. Scene then switches to in front of them going from the left side to the right of the team before they, except Happy, then charge forward and the scene freezes)

Motto motto mae e mae e kimi no ikashita yume akiramenaide (Whoa Whoa Whoa (x2))

(Scene then switches to show Erza's friends Sho who is smirking, Wally Buchanan who is smirking and has his right hand on his fedora, Millianna with a happy look and her left arm raised up, and Simon with a serious look on his face. The camera pans up next showing the members of Trinity Raven Ikaruga who is pointing forward with her right finger and has her left hand on her sheathed sword, Vidaldus making a rock sign gesture with his left hand and sticking his tongue out, and Fukuro who has his arms crossed. Goes up more to show Jellal with his dark cloak on covering his face and above behind his left shoulder is General Shadow holding his Shadow Sword up with the blade in front of his face)

Sou naite nai de susume MY WAY ima (Whoa Whoa Whoa)

(Scene shows Team Natsu and Rider jumping up and appearing one by one in this order as each member appears and the other flies back after the other, Double extends his feet out as they are covered in green wind for a Cyclone powered Kick, Gray has his hands together to use his Ice Make Magic, OOO has his Tora Claws extended out as he has his right claw forward and his left claw held back, Juvia has her hands raised above her head with water circling around it, Fourze flies forward and pulls back his Rocket module, Erza swings back her one sword in both hands, Wizard extends his right foot outwards with it enveloped in flames, Lucy swings one of her Celestial Keys up beside her head, Gaim swings forward both Daidaimaru and Musou saber and Natsu appears throwing both of his fists up as fire flies out from both of them and he uses them to propel him forward through the air)

Kimi o terashiten da hikari (Whoa Whoa Whoa)

(Scene then shows Ultear standing beside/behind Siegrain behind his right shoulder both spinning around/away with a green background as Jellal appears beside/behind Siegrain with an evil grin before the background and the other two disappear back to Jellal floating in front of the tower of heaven as he summons a ball of dark magic and sends blasts flying from it with evil, monstrous glowing faces on them)

Akirame nanka zenbu sutete tsuyosa to hikikae ni mata kizutsuite (Whoa Whoa Whoa (x2))

(Gray puts up an Ice Shield while Fourze puts up his Shield Module but find both of their defenses broken through and blasted back as they fall out of the air. Erza flies past the two in her Heaven's Wheel Armor and requips into her Clear Heart Clothing as she begins to engage Jellal, swinging both of her swords at him as he blocks the first three attacks causing red sparks to fly out from her swords as she swings again and Jellal flies past to her side and blasts her away)

Demo kimi no massugu na hitomi ni wa. Ima mieru daro hikari

(Jellal then turns his head and sees Natsu with fire coming out from both of his fists and Gaim in Kiwami Arms with his two sabers as they both fly up from the ground and then launch themselves towards him, Natsu trying to catch him while Gaim tries to cut him with his Daidaimaru but both miss as Jellal flies upwards and they look up. Zooming out to see the entire top of the Tower of Heaven, Jellal as a purple streak, Natsu as a fire streak, and Gaim as a white streak, the three streaks fly around in the air occasionally coming into contact with each other. Scene switches to Jellal covered in purple light flying forward as the scene then shows Natsu covered in fire and Gaim covered in white light as they fly forward, Natsu pulls back his right fist and Gaim flips forward and throws his right leg out into a Rider Kick as Natsu and Gaim slam their attacks into Jellal as the scene switches to a view of the entire Tower and the island it's on as an explosion erupts at the top before it expands out and a light shoots out which sends up waves in the sea)

Whoa Whoa Whoa…(x3)

(A frozen in time scene is shown, Gray holds Juvia up with her right arm over his shoulders as he holds it and the two of them look up at the battle, behind them Double and the other Riders also look up at the battle between Natsu and Gaim against Jellal. Camera pans over and up to show Happy being held by Lucy in her arms as they also watch the battle with awed looks on their faces. Scene then switches to a frozen scene of Erza yelling out with her swords held out by her hips. Scene then shows Natsu with fire emitting from his body looking angrily up with Gaim beside him also looking up. Final scene shows Team Natsu and Rider, both with white auras around them looking up but not directly at Erza's friends, Trinity Rave, and Jellal and General Shadow. Natsu seems to be yelling out in anger as his left fist is on fire, Happy above him also yelling out, Lucy with her right hand around her waist and a worried look, Erza with a serious look as she wields a sword in her right hand, and Gray and Juvia with serious looks as well. Double is pointing at them in his pose, OOO is in his pose as well, Fourze has his fists by his hips, Wizard has both of his hands down, and Gaim has both of his sabers held down towards the ground. Above them Erza's friends and Trinity Raven look down, Jellal and General Shadow above them with dark aura surrounding the both of them)

End Theme

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So the meeting with Master Makarov wasn't too bad. When Makarov had learned about Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Gray, and Erza finding out the Riders secret, at first he wasn't too very pleased about it and the fact that they had gone and already done a mission alongside the Kamen Riders without his permission made him even madder about it. Luckily Erza managed to calm him down a bit and even made sure that the Riders didn't get in trouble since it was herself and the others who discovered the secret themselves and forced Shotaro and the others to tell them as well as allow them to fight alongside them against Dai-Shocker. Makarov eventually relented and decided to allow them to aid the Kamen Riders in their mission against Dai-Shocker, knowing for a fact that he wouldn't be able to keep Natsu and the others out of helping their friends anyways and let them all off with a warning to not say anything to anymore members of the Guild or there would be consequences for the one who blabbed.

Following the meeting the team traveled back to the Riders house where they began to tell their friends their individual stories of how they became Kamen Riders and their time fighting against their respective enemies. Shotaro and Philip went first, Shotaro telling them about how even as a child he wanted to protect his hometown of Futo and stop anyone that makes the city cry, leading him to become the protégé of the private investigator Sokichi Narumi. Shotaro learned many things from his "boss" before his death due to his recklessness at a time of an investigation which led him to meeting Philip and the two becoming partners as well as Kamen Rider Double. Shotaro and Philip would go on to tell them about their first year as a Kamen Rider, their fights against the people who used Gaia Memories to become Dopants to hurt others, their friends like Akiko, Ryu aka Kamen Rider Accel, their fight against Museum the ones who were supplying people with Gaia memories, everything ending it all off on how Philip actually isn't alive and is actually an avatar of the Full Gaia Memory which is what gives him access to the Gaia Library.

After getting over that last part of Philip actually not being alive in a way, Eiji went next in his story of how he became Kamen Rider OOO. He started off first of where the Medals as well as the power of OOO came from in the form of the first OOO who was simply known as King who unlike Eiji was actually malicious, and a power-hungry greedy king that had a desire to become a god, thus in order to achieve his goal he had four alchemists create the Core Medals which then manifested themselves into monsters known as Greeed. Eiji would finish off what happened to the original OOO as well as the Greeed and then move on to his past life before becoming OOO, such as how he was the son of a politician who traveled the world with his grandfather. He explained his time in the country of Africa, his befriending of a young girl named Alfreed who is unfortunately killed during a civil war between villages, how he was captured for ransom and how his family paid for it allowing him to escape, but finding out they used his tragedy to gain public support for his father's political platform making him lose any selfish desire and become willing to help those in need, going so far to even risk his life for complete strangers. Eiji continued on with how he returned to Japan to fund for more of his travels working part time jobs, one of which as a security guard which would be what led him to meeting the Greeed known as Ankh who would help Eiji become OOO. Eiji went on to explain the time he helped Double out in a fight to save his city from a group of terrorists, as well as his first year as a Kamen Rider, telling the mages about his friends and fellow Riders like Birth and Proto-Birth and his fight against the Greeed which in the end led to his friend Ankh getting killed, Eiji showing them the other Taka Medal which was broken in half and telling them how he has been searching for a way since then to re-forge it together so he could bring Ankh back.

Some parts of Eiji's story definitely made the Fairy Tail mages shed a few tears, with the young girl Alfreed dying, as well as Eiji's friend Ankh and his wish to find a way to bring him back, Lucy found herself relating a bit to Eiji with the part about how his father used Eiji's tragedy to only support his political platform, after all it wasn't that long ago her father tried taking her away from Fairy Tail just so she would be forced to marry some snobby-rich boy for her father's company.

Gentaro went next, explaining to them how his parents died in an accident when he was only in the third grade making him have to live with his grandfather. He was always a friendly person and following his parents deaths and his father telling him to always keep his friends close to him, Gentaro actually made it his goal to befriend every single person wherever he went, thus when he went to Amanogawa High School he would literally announce many times how he would befriend every single person in the school no matter what. After becoming Fourze due to his friend Yuki and her friend soon to be his friend as well Kengo, Gentaro eventually learned of the Kamen Riders thanks to a girl named Tomoko and decided to inherit it to become Kamen Rider Fourze. For his enemies he had to deal with fellow students as well as teachers who used Zodiart Switches to become monsters based on the constellations, telling them how even after fighting them and all they tried to do he would befriend that person in the end and they would accept him as their friend as well. Gentaro would continue on then telling them about certain Zodiarts that would pass a certain stage to become Horoscopes, a group that would be made up by twelve Zodiarts/Zodiacs that had passed the stage, and those who did ironically happened to be the leader Sagittarius, Virgo, Leo, Libra, Scorpion, Cancer, Aries, Capricorn, Aquarius, Taurus, Gemini, and Pisces. He continued on how alongside his fellow Rider Meteor the two faced off against the Zodiarts and Horoscopes in an attempt to stop their leader Sagittarius who just so happened to be their school's founder from causing an event known as the Day of Awakening where he would use all twelve Horoscope Switches and a vortex above the school to reach a mysterious sentient will of the universe that called out to Humanity known as the Present by conjuring a Dark Nebula, something which would've sucked in all of Japan with it had the Kamen Riders not stopped him.

While Natsu and the others found this story interesting as well just like the other two's, Lucy was even more intrigued due to the fact of how the constellations were Gentaro's enemies, not only that, the members that made up the Horoscopes literally just happened to coincide with what the Twelve Golden Keys are in her's and the others world, with her of course having Aquarius, Capricorn, Taurus, and now Sagittarius, she was definitely not looking forward to meeting this Sagittarius though since usually when someone is the leader it means they're really powerful which meant he was probably going to be scary looking as well. Now she was kind of wondering though what would happen if these Horoscopes were to face off against the twelve Zodiacs of this world who would win?

Next up was Haruto, and Natsu was definitely looking forward to his story. Haruto told them about how in his childhood his parents were badly injured in a car crash, during the event before they died he made a promise to keep his hope alive, something that would later save his life as an adolescent when he was kidnapped and was to be sacrificed during an event known as The Sabbath during a solar eclipse which would give birth to monsters known as Phantoms. The reason him and others were a part of the ritual was because they were known as Gates, humans that had potential for using real-life actual magic, the Sabbath would force Haruto and these other people into deep despair as Phantoms were born from human despair, while everyone else around him died giving birth to their Phantoms, Haruto managed to keep his inner Phantom, Dragon, from tearing him apart through the sheer willpower of his hope and thus survived the ritual and gained the ability to use magic. Haruto would go on to tell them how he was given his Driver and beginner rings by the White Wizard as well as given the task of protecting a girl named Koyomi who at that time he thought was another survivor. During his fights against the Phantoms and to make sure no more gates went into despair to create more Phantoms, he met some new friends along the way who helped him out as well as his fellow Rider, Kamen Rider Beast and gained more rings as well as new powers thanks to Dragon such as his Dragon Styles and eventually Infinity. Haruto would then go on to tell them about the White Wizard's true identity, as well as how he was the one who was trying to do the Sabbath to revive his daughter Koyomi who died before the first Sabbath and how he was trying to do another one, the whole thing about the Gates and Phantoms being born from them just happened to be a side-effect of the Sabbath since Gates do need to be used for the ritual, but the Phantoms that would be released were to also be part of the ritual as well due to the large amounts of magic released from them. In the end he and Beast were able to stop a second Sabbath from happening which would've killed everyone in the city of Tokyo, but at the price of Koyomi whose entity became one with the Hope Wizard Ring which was now sealed in his Underworld.

Once again the Fairy Tail mages were in awe, but at the same time a bit saddened that even in the other world there was still those who used magic for evil purposes. Natsu asked Haruto if there was any possible way he could meet the actual Dragon that resided within Haruto, but Haruto says that while he does have a ring that can summon Dragon it only works when he is in someone's underworld, though quietly to himself Haruto questioned in his mind wondering if he could potentially summon Dragon with the ring since he was in a world of magic now.

Finally next was Kouta and ever since they heard about the whole him being a "Space God" on their way to Makarov they were all very interested to hear his story. So Kouta started off with his childhood like the others, his parents also died in an accident causing him to be raised by his older sister. He went on to explain how after High School he would join a street dance group known as Team Gaim, the city he lived in Zawame had changed a lot between his childhood and adolescent years which led to his and other street dance groups known as Beat Riders forming and then making a competition between each other for who was the better Beat Rider group in the city, both in dancing and then in a game known as the Inves Games, which at their time they thought was truly a game and just that. Kouta would explain why the Beat Riders were formed following the rising of the Yggdrasill Corporation as well as its changing of their city, about his friends of Team Gaim as well as some members of the other teams like Kaito Kumon, his leaving of Gaim to "try and grow up" and find a job to help his sister, and then the finding of the Sengoku Driver and his first encounter with the Inves and the Helheim Forest. Kouta then explained how he wanted to use his powers to help people and didn't think much of the Inves monsters and Helheim at that time until he started digging into them and eventually found out about how Yggdrasil was related to everything that was going on in their city, they had been researching about the forest for who knows how long along with way creating the Sengoku Drivers and Lockseeds. Kouta went on about how as the Inves attacks got worse from cracks from Helheim him and the Beat Riders were getting blamed for it thus becoming the scapegoats for Yggdrasil as no one knew what was really going on behind their doors and how he and the other "Armored Riders" attempted to release the truth out to the public. Kouta continued on then talking about the discovery of the Overlords and then the eventually invasion of not just Zawame but the entire world as well as he and the other Armored Riders attempted to help the people left behind in Zawame and defeat the Overlords and find a way to end the invasion. Kouta finally ended it with his fight against Kaito as the two vied for the power of the Golden Fruit, Kaito for his belief that only the strong should survive and the weak should perish and Kouta to help out everyone both weak and strong. In the end he defeated Kaito and won the Golden Fruit thus becoming the Man of Beginning and Mai the Woman of Beginning, thus "Space Gods" as Kouta used his new powers to send Helheim and the Inves to another world where he and Mai watch over it.

And like that, the Riders completed their individual stories to the Fairy Tail mages. Their reactions to Kouta's story just like the others left them in awe, sadness in some parts, angered in others, but the part that definitely surprised them was the whole "Space God" thing. And to even prove it, Kouta transformed right before them into his Man of Beginning look, his hair now blonde, silver armor covered his body, arms, and legs, and a white cape was worn around his neck and covered his entire back. Here were their reactions.

"We're not worthy! We're not worthy!" Natsu and Happy continued to cry out bowing down to him back and forth rapidly with tears streaming down their blank eyes.

"You-You seriously became some kind of God?!" Gray yells in shock.

"Doesn't that make you like some omnipotent being or something?!" Lucy cried out in shock.

"I will bring no harm to you my lord!" Erza yells kneeling one knee with her right fist to her chest.

"GEEZ YOU GUYS ARE SERIOUSLY OVERREACTING!" Kouta yells out in shock with wide blank eyes.

After calming them down and returning to his original look Kouta told them not to treat him any differently just because he was a "Space God" and just treat him normally like they always did before revealing himself like that. When asked again if he was an omnipotent being Kouta replied that it was true he did gain some powers becoming the Man of Beginning, but to say he was invincible was crossing it as he had been defeated before even as the Man of Beginnings by someone known as Megahex but was brought back to life thanks to his friends. As for if he would ever use his powers Kouta said only if absolutely necessary as using such abilities would draw unwanted attention to him and then eventually the other Riders, and because he didn't want to rely on his powers constantly, still wanting to be human if a little bit and rely on his own Rider powers as well as skills if there is a possible chance that someday his Man of Beginning powers either disappear suddenly or are stolen from him.

And thus ended the long day, night had fallen and so Natsu and the others returned to their respective houses with the intent of going on their play mission the next day, the Riders not wanting to be a part of it since they now had to focus on gathering some intelligence from the next three Dai-Shocker bases. The next day came and it was late in the afternoon when there was a knock at the Riders front door, the Riders at the time were in their secret base with Shotaro having sent his Memory Gadgets to one Dai-Shocker base and Haruto sent his PlaMonsters to the other, they were just about to head out to the third one to do some reconnaissance when their silent alarm system went off warning them of someone at the front door. Looking through their surveillance lacrima they saw Mirajane on it and thus quickly went upstairs to greet her. Welcoming her inside, Shotaro asked her what she was doing there where she quickly told them that she heard from the others before they left for their job early in the morning that they decided not to go with them.

Eiji quickly came up with the excuse of them not wanting to go so that way Lucy could receive more of the reward for completing the job since she had finally found something where Natsu and the others wouldn't be able to cause too much destruction that would result in half of the reward going towards reparations, luckily she believed it. But then. Mirajane told the Riders that she and Makarov were going to be going next week when the show opens to support Lucy and the others in the play and asked Shotaro and the others if they wanted to go early that day to greet them before it opened. While Shotaro would've said no to anyone else, that angelic smile of Mirajane's and having of seen her cry before from the mean things Gray accidentally said to her, literally had Shotaro sweating like crazy and had himself questioning whether he should say no and suffer the consequences of her crying or yes, they had three Dai-Shocker bases to deal with, sure they had a week before the play but they still had to gather intelligence on the enemy's location and then plan out the attack. Eventually Shotaro caved in to the smile of Mirajane and said "Yeah, sure, we'll go" Shotaro says.

So in that one week, well not much happened unfortunately. While their Memory Gadgets and PlaMonsters were able to gather some intelligence on the other two enemy bases like their locations, as well as the monsters that inhabited them, Shotaro and the others had some trouble locating the third enemy base. Most likely unlike the other two bases, it seemed whoever was the commander of this base was having his forces lay low for perhaps a while. It figured as much that word would've traveled about the Riders attack on their first base, but while the other two bases didn't seem to care about being seen or not, this bases commander thought otherwise and seemed to want to stay out of sight for a while, and that worried the Riders a bit. If this commander was having his forces stay low, then he was either just smart and didn't want his base to be discovered, or he didn't want it to be discovered because of something that might be in the works in the base. The week passed by rather quickly before the Riders knew it with not even an encounter from any Dai-Shocker forces in the area and they had to return home again to prepare to see the play Lucy and the others were participating in the next day.

The Riders woke up and met Mirajane and Makarov at the station and took it to the town of Oshibana where the performance was being held, they were all now actually quite interested to see how this was going to go, especially with people like Natsu, Gray, and Erza there being a part of the play as well. The group soon arrived to the town and made their way to the theater, arriving there in just a few minutes. Which is when things got a bit weird. Standing outside the theater was a strange assortment of people the Riders have met before who they soon learned were also there to support Lucy and the others in the play. Master's Bob, the Riders were definitely terrified when they saw him and he came over to "greet" them and it didn't even help that Makarov told him that Shotaro and the others were in fact the Requip mages from that night against Lullaby when Bob asked him if they were new recruits making him gush over them and terrify them more, and Goldmine were there. But they weren't the strangest ones. Also there was the fake Salamander, Bora, as in the guy who tried to kidnap Lucy and all those other girls for slavery, that giant man-chicken the group encountered on their way back from Everlue's mansion mission when he and his fellow runaway Eisenwald wizards tried to eat Happy, the chief from Galuna Island Moka and even that girl Lulu who seemed to have fallen for Gray, that pirate captain who brought Erza to the island and then them back to Hargeon, and the two members of Phantom Lord Boze and Sue.

But as it turned out Phantom Lord had been dissolved and Jose stripped of his title of a Wizard Saint, so technically Boze and Sue were no longer a part of it and were actually there to give support to the Fairy Tail mages, holding no grudge against what happened to their guild or anything else. Shotaro definitely questioned Bora who said that he has reformed himself following the incident in Hargeon and while he was in prison and promised that he would never do such horrible things again and was also there to support Natsu, Lucy and the others. There was however one person among the group that the Riders didn't recognize, a short, old man at Makarov's height with light-brown thick eyebrows and a small toothbrush moustache that reached halfway to his mouth. He wore a brown long-sleeve shirt with black vertical stripes and a black three-spiked hat, Makarov introduced the Riders to his friend Yajima, a former member of Fairy Tail who was now a member of the Magic Council, that last part shocking the Riders just a little bit. Yajima greeted the Riders and told them how they had been a stir of the Council recently, actually bringing some good news to Fairy Tail as many of the Council Members seemed to dislike Fairy Tail because of their tendencies to caught tremendous damage during their jobs, so when word started traveling of the Riders and how they seemed to never cause the same destruction as the rest of the guild when they went out on jobs on their own shocked the members of the Council making them question how people such as them could be a part of Fairy Tail.

After talking to Yajima a bit more about the Magic Council as well as him talking to him about recent events involving them, Makarov silently told the Riders that he was the inside source of where he got the information on Dai-Shocker from and how while he didn't know the truth about the Riders yet he would continue to give Makarov anymore information he might have on strange creature sightings. Though he had a feeling that sooner or later he would have to tell Yajima about them, that they didn't have to worry as Yajima was completely trustworthy of keeping such a secret, after all, he's one of the members who's been able to keep Fairy Tail from being disbanded by the Council. Soon Lucy and the others came out, Lucy the only one completely shocked by the strange assortment of people before them as Natsu and the others casually greeted their friends as well as old enemies. Soon the play started and the Riders were in the theater in their seats to see how Lucy and the others would do in the play.

"Nothing could go wrong right? It's just a play" Gentaro says.

"True, I think Lucy may have found a job for her and the others to do where they won't be able to cause any trouble or damage" Haruto replies.

Though...by the end of the play that had all but changed. From what Lucy had told them, Erza actually seemed excited and ready to do the play and had no trouble at all during rehearsals, but then the play started and...she was a nervous mess. Sweat ran down her head, her whole body was shaking, and she was stumbling over her lines like crazy. Seeing this left the Riders stunned with small blank eyes and sweatdrops "The great and powerful Erza...gets stage fright?" Gentaro questioned.

"I did not see that coming" Kouta says.

"How intriguing" Philip says, neutral as always.

"She can fight gigantic monsters without breaking a sweat, challenge powerful wizards, and yet what really defeats her is...being on stage?" Haruto says.

Suddenly a red magic circle appeared in front of Erza and from it ten different weapons appeared and flew into the audience causing a lot of panic at first as everyone cried out in terror, luckily no one was skewered but there were a few close calls, one of them being Shotaro and Eiji as a sword was embedded right between the two who also cried out in terror.

"Ever heard of fake props!" Shotaro yelled out.

Lucy appeared soon as a princess in need of rescue by Erza who was a prince, Lucy's character was in need of rescue from Gray's character, the two remained calm obviously while Erza was still stumbling over her lines and everything else, suddenly there was an appearance by Horologium with Erza inside of him as she was for some reason blue and had dizzy eyes before recovering and stepping out from him. Then there was a...rather short fight between Erza and Gray as Gray created a sword of ice but Erza just summoned ten swords and shot them around him making him run away gaining a few calls out from the audience who called him weak and told him not to run. Next Erza cut Lucy down and "proposed" to her...then saying let's have 30 children or so.

The Riders were once again in shock with their eyes closed and sweatdrops "3-30 children?" Eiji questioned.

"That's a bit too much don't you think?" Gentaro says.

Suddenly Gray reappeared and seemed to call forth his "dragon", which was none other than Natsu in a dragon made up of barrels which was being carried by Happy. "Well, that's a bit fitting for him" Haruto says as Natsu spews fire from his/the dragon's mouth. Then things got even more confusing.

Erza and Gray's characters all of a sudden decided to team up? Even though Gray's character called the dragon in the first place garnering a few more outbursts from the confused crowd, Lucy suddenly saying she would handle the dragon while the other two run away...which they did leaving the audience confused once again.

"Does anyone even know what's going on anymore?" Kouta questions.

"Nope, completely lost the whole story" Shotaro says.

"I just realized something, should Natsu be breathing fire on a wooden stage with everything up there being made of wood?" Eiji says.

Next thing the Riders know, Happy seems to lose his grip on the ring he's using to hold Natsu up on a rope causing Natsu to fall onto the stage, unfortunately while spewing fire which then catches some of Lucy's clothing on fire forcing her to cry out for Gray to help. However Gray is then knocked down by Erza who then proceeds to jump at Lucy and...cut her clothes apart causing a lot of the male audience to blush as the Riders cry out in shock and quickly cover their eyes.

"Nothing could go wrong huh? It's just a play huh?!" Kouta yells at Gentaro.

"Okay a lot could go wrong apparently!" Gentaro yells back.

Lucy is covered up by Erza's cape as she seems to be calm now even with how bad everything is turning out, Natsu then continues spewing fire which then travels out above the audience causing more panic as people begin to get out of their seats and run for cover. Then there was the sudden appearance of Taurus saying how he appeared so he could protect Lucy's body before disappearing again, Erza once again gaining stage fright as she, Natsu, and Gray were about to fight, and then suddenly the entire building except for the stage and audience seats collapsing down all around them...and yet in the end the audience enjoyed every single bit of it.

"They...enjoyed it?" Haruto questioned.

"Seriously? These guys can't even do a play without causing destruction?" Shotaro says annoyed by this.

"Looks like we made a good call not doing this job with them" Gentaro says.

"I think this is the first and last time I'm ever going to see a play starring any of them" Kouta says.

"Can't wait to see and hear what the director says about this" Eiji says.

Needless to say a week later when the group had finally finished their performances and returned to Magnolia, the Riders were shocked to hear that the director was actually happy about how everything turned out and it also made the show quite popular.

"Who the hell is this director guy cause he just sounds insane" Shotaro says.

"Any other director would've lost their marbles with what happened" Eiji says.

"How in the world did you guys ruin a play and make it popular?" Kouta questions.

"I don't know. And I don't ever want to go through it again…" Lucy says with her eyes closed and tears streaming down her face.

---

Two Days Later…

Fort Term…

Two days have passed since Natsu and the others return from their crazy show experience. Things have gone back to normal and at the current moment the Kamen Riders along with their Fairy Tail friends/teammates were attacking a secret base for a gang of thieves in the west outskirts of Magnolia, a pillar of smoke could be seen rising out from the building.

"Moo~!" Taurus yelled out as he punched another thief on the head, leaving a massive bump coming out from his head as he fell down and knocked out.

"Good job! One-hit knockout!" Lucy cheered out giving a high-five to Taurus who gladly high-fived her back with heart eyes.

"You're so amazing, Lucy!" Taurus replied happily.

Natsu slammed a terrified thief into the wall knocking him out and leaving the upper half of his face dark blue with blank eyes and a dropped jaw "These guys are such pushovers" Natsu says.

Behind him was Gray who was keeping another thief pinned to the ground with his foot against his face while the man was crying his eyes out, while behind him were the rest of the thieves who were all either knocked out or injured but conscious lying against or sprawled out on their destroyed table, crates, and barrels in the room. "Don't go robbing people when you're such weaklings!" Gray says.

"You think you'll get away with doing this to us?" One of the conscious but beaten up thieves said in anger.

"Master Devon won't stand for it!" another thief stated.

"I wouldn't worry about him, he's already being dealt with" Happy says sliding in from out of nowhere.

In the Fort's main room…

A thief finds himself kicked back to the ground sliding up to a few of his comrades as they look down at him. Double calmly walks forward "It's not too late now to surrender to us you know. Unlike three of our friends down below we'll actually give you guys a little mercy. Just surrender now and you won't get hurt" Double/Shotaro says stopping in his tracks.

"Don't bullshit with me!" One of the thieves yelled out as he charged at Double, swinging his sword down on him as Double simply sidestepped to his right and sighed "They never learn do they" Double/Shotaro says, throwing a left side kick across the thief's head knocking him down to the ground. The other three thieves charge at Double with their weapons raised as well "Nope, they never do" Double/Philip answers as Double swings his right leg forward all the way around in a full circle producing a green blast of air which sends the thieves flying back. OOO blocks a thief's mace with his sword sideways, pushing up on his sword and following with a downward slash of the thief sending sparks flying from him as he falls backwards and cries out in pain. Two more thieves charge OOO from behind as he turns to see them coming, transforming his legs into Batta Legs as he launches himself over them to their backs before they even realize what just happened as they turn around only to be struck down one by one by OOO sword.

"Stamper, On"

Fourze kicks a thief in his chest with his Stamper Module sending him flying back into a group of five other thieves who catch their comrade, just then the five and the thief who was kicked notice the "stamp" of the Kamen Rider Club logo on his chest and wonder what's up with it, before the stamp then glows and suddenly blows up sending them all flying in different directions.

"Big, Please"

Wizard puts his right hand through his red magic circle, enlarging it as he hovers his massive hand over a group of thieves who cry out in terror seeing the giant hand lingering above them as a few of them fall to the ground in their attempts to get away from the giant hand as Wizard then slams it down onto the thieves crushing them underneath it. Lifting it back up reveals the unconscious thieves in the middle of the crater of where his giant hand slammed down on.

"Who the hell are these guys?!" A thief yells out in terror.

"Where the hell are the guys from downstairs did they get beat by those other mages?!"

Just then the leader of their group Master Devron, a man with the a blond mohawk wearing a red t-shirt and blue unbuttoned jacket steps up with two swords in his hands "Damn you wizards. I'll make you pay!" Devron yells pointing his swords at them.

"Orange Squash!" Gaim jumps up into the air and extends his right leg out as it is enveloped in orange energy, letting out a battle cry as he flies down towards Devron and his remaining men delivering his kick into them as they explode and cry out in pain. Gaim slides to a stop on the ground and stands back up looking back as he sees Devron and the rest of his men on the ground groaning in pain and unconscious with smoke coming out from their bodies.

"And that takes care of that!" Gaim says.

"Looks like we're clear up here" Wizard says as he and the others look over the rest of the defeated thieves.

"Bet Natsu and the others took care of their guys no problem. Kouta, why don't you go down there and tell them we're all done up here. We'll start tying these guys up" Double/Shotaro says looking towards him.

"Got it!" Gaim replies as he runs off to report to Erza and the others.

Down below…

"I've finished up over here as well" Erza calls from up a flight of stairs, knocked out thieves surrounding her with one being held by his shirt in her left hand as Lucy turns and looks up at her. "That;s our Erza!" Lucy yells back giving her a thumbs up.

One thief who seems to have managed to survive the whole ordeal but is on the ground in terror finally decides to try and make a break for it, turning around onto his knees as he attempts to pick himself up to run. Erza however spots him and is immediately on him, kicking him across his face sending him flying forward "You won't escape!" Erza yells.

The thief hits the ground with his butt sticking up into the air, all of a sudden his eyes and mouth shoot open in shock and pain as Erza has her left boot literally on his butt pushing it around with a serious look on her face "Looks like you haven't had enough punishment yet…" Erza says in a serious tone.

Of course seeing this causes Taurus to cry out in shock but at the same time excitement as his eyes are widened narrowly and he has smoke coming out from his nose and pink blush on his cheeks. "Erza! Please punish me as well!" Taurus yells out in plea as his eyes change to hearts, when he is suddenly covered in golden light and disappears.

"Forced Gate Closure, yeah!" Lucy cheers out with her eyes closed while holding Taurus's key out.

Gaim runs down the stairs "Hey guys we got their boss. How're things-WHAT IN THE WORLD DID I RUN IN ON!?" Gaim yells out with widened eyes of shock seeing what Erza was doing to the thief.

Erza stops her "punishment" and looks at Gaim "Good to hear" she simply says as Natsu and the others regroup with her.

A few minutes later outside…

"That took less time than I thought" Erza says.

"Too easy" Double/Shotaro simply says with his hands relaxing behind his head.

Natsu however didn't seem to enjoy it as he whines out "I didn't get to go nuts enough!" with blank narrowed eyes. Unknown to anyone a certain water-mage from the now dissolved Phantom pokes her head out from behind the rock in the background as Gaim suddenly turns his head around forcing Juvia back behind the rock before he sees her. Gaim turning his head back around and scratching his head with a confused look on his face as Gray spoke "You were plenty nuts back there buddy."

"Besides, they were just a bunch of thieves. No need to go all out on them, they're not mages or Dai-Shocker monsters" Wizard says.

"Now if you could just hold back like you did now in future jobs maybe we'd have the entire reward to split between all of us" Fourze says.

"Lucy, check out this jewel!" Happy says holding a diamond in his left paw catching Lucy's attention as she cries out in shock "Hey! You can't just go taking that!"

"You do realize that was stolen from somewhere by the thieves right?! It needs to be returned to its rightful owner!" OOO said in panic as well with sweat flying from his head. However Happy then seems to notice something down the road making him ignore what Lucy and OOO just said as they then notice his attention turned elsewhere and follow his gaze.

"Hey, isn't that Loke over there?" Happy asks.

Sure enough, down the road from them was Loke who also seemed to notice the group and stopped in his tracks. "What a coincidence" Gray calls out as the group walk over to him.

"You had a job around here?" Natsu asks.

"Yeah. You too?" Loke asks, all of a sudden yelping out in a panic upon seeing Lucy as she casually approaches him "Lucy?!"

"This is perfect. I wanted to thank you for…"

"Sorry, I'm in the middle of a job~!" Loke says before turning around and taking off yelling off the last part as he runs with his arms up in the air, leaving behind the group with confused blank stares on their faces, Lucy with a sweatdrop and dark lines coming out from the right side of her body.

"W-What is with him?" Lucy questions with an annoyed look on her face.

"What did you do to him?" Gray asks, once again Juvia popping up from behind a rock again behind them.

"He is so totally avoiding you" Natsu says.

"I didn't do anything!" Lucy cries out with sweat flying from her.

"Didn't Mirajane say he had problems with a Celestial wizard before?" OOO says with his arms crossed as he looks at Double and Fourze.

"Yeah she did. But that was someone else, why's he acting that way around Lucy?" Fourze says lifting his right hand up with his left hand on his waist.

"Maybe a traumatic experience that had him really scarred about dating Celestial wizards ever again?" Double/Philip says.

"He can date and break hundreds of girls' hearts and just one experience with a Celestial wizard makes him stay away from them no matter what? Must've been a really bad experience" Double/Shotaro says.

Gaim suddenly turns around again, once again Juvia is quicker and gets behind her rock for cover as Wizard notices Gaim's strange behavior "Kouta, you alright?" Wizard asks.

"Don't you hate that feeling you get like you're always being watched? Well, maybe not me but just that someone's following us and they're spying on the entire group or at least someone in it?" Gaim asks.

"Well, yeah. But I don't have that feeling" Wizard replies.

"Yeah well...I don't know…" Gaim says.

"Must be your imagination Kouta" Wizard says.

"I'm telling you I've been getting this strange feeling like we're being followed almost everywhere since the end of that war against Phantom Lord. Especially once we started rebuilding the guild" Gaim says.

"Do you need some rest or something?" Wizard asks.

"Wh-I-Ah~ forget it" Gaim says.

The group make their way back and overlook the fort once again to see the smoke coming out from it, the thieves all in there tied up and unconscious, left for the Army that will be there soon to take them to prison. "Now then, shall we go back?" Gray asks.

"Hey, since we actually finished a job early for once, why don't we head to a spa and take it easy?" Lucy asks.

"Lucy…" Erza says causing Lucy to become frightened as her eyes widen and jaw drops with small blue lines going down the side of her face as Natsu and Gray's faces go dark blue and their eyes go blank, also frightened by what Erza's probably going to say or do.

"Yes?" Lucy yelps out.

"That's a good idea" Erza says, causing Lucy and the others to let out sighs of relief.

"A spa?" Fourze asks.

"Yeah why not? We've kind of been through a lot recently, what with Eisenwald and Lullaby, Galuna, the war with Phantom, and then you guys and your secret as well as the first fight against Dai-Shocker, and then that horrible play experience...since we've finished the job earlier than expected why don't we just go to the nearby spa town Hosenka and just relax for the night?" Lucy says.

"Hm~. That actually does sound good about now. We haven't really gotten a break since we arrived in this world, and with all that's happened I think we should get a little relaxation" Gaim says.

"Maybe it will help Kouta with his crazy feeling of us being followed everywhere" Wizard says, garnering narrowed eyes and an annoyed grunt from Gaim.

"I don't know. We still have those three Dai-Shocker bases we need to get to work on soon…" Double/Shotaro says thinking about it with his left hand to his chin and right hand to his elbow.

"Like Lucy said Shotaro. It's just one night there and that's it. Besides, we still have your Memory Gadgets and Haruto's PlaMonsters scouting out that area for the third base, and we've pretty much gathered the information we need on the other two so we can attack them anytime we want" OOO says.

"Yeah, come on. Even a "hardboiled" detective like you must need some relaxation from time to time" Fourze says.

"Hm~. Fine, you have me convinced" Double/Shotaro says.

"Yeah/Yay!" The others except Erza cheer out.

A Few Hours Later…

The spa town of Hosenka, Magnolia's most popular spa town which was set up by a Duke influenced by the Orient, it is a garish and somewhat iffy tourist spot. Shotaro lets out a huge sigh of relief as he sinks into the massive spa pool, only his head above the water which for some reason is red.

"Alright. I made the right choice" Shotaro says. The other Riders are also in the pool relaxing like they came here for, Natsu, Gray, and Happy having already left a couple of minutes ago to get ready for bed.

"Indeed you did, Shotaro" Philip says also bobbing his head out of the water.

"It does feel nice releasing all of the tension we've been through since we've arrived here and just relax" Eiji says as he lays against the outer rocks that outline the pool.

"Yeah, no kidding. Not having to worry about anything and just sit in this pool just feels really, really nice" Gentaro says also sitting against the rocks with his arms out on them.

"I'm a bit confused on why the water's red but as long as it isn't dangerous and relaxes us I'm fine" Haruto says in the same position as Haruto.

"Ever since I became a space God I've forgotten what being in a spa feels like, especially their nice warm pools" Kouta says with his head also bobbing out from the water.

"Boys, for just tonight only. Dai-Shocker is not our concern...unless they attack us out of nowhere" Shotaro says.

"Don't jinx it!" the others except Philip yell.

Thirty Minutes Later…

"It begins!" Natsu who is dressed in a blue bathrobe with his scarf hanging down both sides of his neck yells out, two pillows underneath his arms.

"Upa!" Happy cheers out jumping into the air with a pillow in his paws.

"What's all the racket? I'm sleepy!" Gray says annoyed as he turns around in his sleeping back to look at Natsu.

"Hey, look around you! We're at an inn! Nighttime in hotels means pillow fists!" Natsu says excitedly.

"You mean pillow fights…" Gray corrects.

Out of nowhere Erza and Lucy also in their bathrobes appear with Erza having a confident look on her face and two pillows under her arms "All the pillows of merit in the room are already under my control!" Erza declares.

""Of merit?"" Lucy questions.

"I will defeat Erza!" Natsu yells out as he pulls back his right arm with a pillow in hand.

"What am I going to do with you people?" Gray says with a sigh. Natsu throws his pillow forward at Erza who jumps up and out of the way causing the pillow to slam into Gray's face. The pillow slides down leading a red mark on his face with a bit of steam coming off it as he angrily stands up "Natsu! Why you little…" Gray begins to say when he looks down to his right and notices a pile of pillows that mysteriously appeared out of nowhere "Wow, where'd all these pillows come from?" he questions in joy, unknown to him the pillows being supplied by Juvia who is outside behind a rock with another pillow in her hand.

Gray picks up one of the pillows as he gets his game face on and joins the fight, letting out a battle cry as he throws the pillow past Erza right into Natsu's face actually sending him flying back as he cries out in pain.

"Erza, you're next!" Gray yells throwing another pillow at her, Erza easily catches it without problem "Not bad"

Lucy seeing her friends doing a pillow fight causes her to laugh at the scene before she decides to get in on the action pulling back on her right sleeve "Alright! Maybe I'll mix it up myself" Lucy says, failing to notice though three pillows thrown right at her as they impact into her literally sending her crashing through the Japanese-style screen doors along with the table and a bowl of oranges to outside. Natsu, Gray, Erza, and even Happy continue to cry out as they continue their fight and throw more and more pillows at each other, failing to notice how they literally knocked Lucy out of the room. Just then the inside door slides open revealing Shotaro and the others as Shotaro has his black fedora back on his head "Hey, hey, what's with all the racket in here?" Shotaro questions only to then be hit with a pillow and sent right to the ground shocking the others who look down at him and then back into the room to see their friends, minus Lucy for some odd reason, in a...pillow fight?

"A pillow fight?" Eiji questions.

"Didn't expect that" Haruto says.

"Hm~. Haven't done a pillow fight in a long time since I was a kid. Alright then! It's pillow fight ti~me!" Gentaro cries out in excitement shooting his arms up into the air before rushing into the room with to join the fight.

Shotaro stands back up as he and the others exchange looks at one another before smirking and deciding to join in as well, letting out battle cries as they rush in with their pillows at the ready. Even Philip decides to join in as he smiles and rushes in without saying a word. The room turns into complete chaos as mages and riders alike throw their pillows at each other, no team, no mercy, everyone for themselves. Happy is about to throw a pillow when he is hit in the face and sent flying back into the wall, hitting it hard but not enough to damage it as he slides down it to the ground and falls face forward. Kouta jumps back and takes notice of Happy as he is beginning to pick himself up from the ground "You alright Happy?" Kouta asks.

"Yeah I'm fine" Happy replies.

Kouta then decides to ask him where Lucy is remembering how she wasn't in the room "By the way, where's Lucy at?"

"Oh? Hm~ I don't know. She came in with Erza, but when the pillow fighting started she disappeared" Happy says.

"Really? Uh~ could you go look for her? I don't know if she should be wandering around by herself this late at night" Kouta says.

Happy sprouts his wings and floats up "Yeah sure, I guess I could go look for her. Have fun guys!" Happy says as he flies away. As Kouta watches him he suddenly sees Erza throw a pillow right at him as it slams into his face and sends him flying backwards to the ground.

"Ow~. Okay, so maybe playing this game with three insanely strong mages wasn't such a good idea. Might explain why Lucy disappeared. Well, not like I'm going to get any sleep until these guys run out of energy" Kouta says as he then picks himself back up. Kouta grabs two nearby pillows "Alright then, let's turn things around! This is about to be my stage now!" Kouta says as he runs back into the fight.

---

The Next Day….

After a really long night of pillow fighting, everyone soon ran out of energy and immediately fell asleep in their sleeping bags, but not before Lucy and Happy finally returned from who knows where. The next morning the team headed out back to Magnolia, Natsu asked Lucy and Happy where they were last night, and while Happy explained to them that they ran into Loke who saved Lucy from being kidnapped by two dark mages and Lucy was finally able to hang out with Loke a little bit and talk to him, Lucy remained strangely silent with a concerned look on her face. Happy didn't know what they were talking about last night, but whatever it was had Lucy completely zoned out from the others who decided to let her be for now.

The team was back home in Magnolia, and while Erza decided to head to her room at the all-female dormitory for the female wizards of Fairy Tail Fairy Hills, which Lucy seemed to not and still not know about due to being zoned out still, Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Gray headed back to the guild. The Riders decided to head back to their house.

"Alright, for now on if those three decide to have a pillow fight. Let's be smart like Lucy and get out of dodge" Shotaro says cracking his neck which along with the majority of his body was sore from the pillow fight.

"No kidding. I forgot we weren't playing with normal people" Eiji says with his right hand on the back of his neck while leaning forward a little.

"Those pillows felt like footballs being thrown by them. No, maybe even stone" Gentaro says.

"Speaking of Lucy, she didn't look so good on the way back. She seemed deep in thought about something" Haruto says.

"Yeah, no kidding. I wonder what she and Loke talked about last night." Kouta wonders.

"Maybe something finally happened between them?" Philip says.

I~ don't think that's it. We already know for a fact Lucy isn't into him like that. Maybe he told her why he has a bad history with Celestial wizards?" Shotaro says.

"It's still strange why I can't find anything on him in the Gaia Library. Whenever I try to look him up no search results appear" Philip says.

"Nothing appears? So what, are you saying that Loke doesn't exist or something?" Haruto questions.

"It is strange. But it's not like we can force him to say anything. Maybe Lucy knows something, but until then there's nothing we can do" Shotaro says as the group finally arrive back to their house, unlocking the front door as they walk in. The Riders head down to their secret headquarters when suddenly Gentaro's Radar Astroswitch begins ringing catching their attentions.

"Is that you're…" Kouta says.

"Uh. Yeah. It is" Gentaro says as he and the others are confused, wondering just who in the world could be contacting them. Gentaro quickly places his driver on, flips the four switches and pulls the lever transforming into Fourze as he then hits the Radar Astroswitch.

"Radar, On"

The Radar module appears on Fourze's left arm as the screen flicks to life, at first it is nothing but static, however a image soon begins to appear on it along with a familiar voice.

"Hello? Hello~? Is this thing on? Yo, guys can you hear me?"

The image soon appears, revealing Decade in what appears to be the Rabbit Hatch. "Ah, there we go. Much better now" Decade says.

"Eh~?!" The Riders except Philip tell in shock.

"D-Decade!?" Shotaro says in shock with wide eyes.

"Is that really you?" Eiji asks with wide eyes also.

"Yeah. It's me. Well, not just me" Decade says as he takes a step to his left, Ichigo then appearing in the video screen as well.

"Ichigo!" The Riders say in shock seeing him there as well. Just then Fourze's friend Kengo appears on screen as well in between the two Riders.

"Kengo?" Fourze says surprised to see him there.

"It's been a while. Double, OOO, Fourze, Wizard, Gaim. How are things in the world you're in?" Ichigo asks.

"Wait a second, how're you guys contacting us?" Kouta asks.

"Ichigo and the other Riders have been busy since all of you left. They found a Dai-Shocker base with the technology to communicate across universes with. The Rabbit Hatch was the only place with the gear to utilize the tech of Dai-Shocker which is why they're here" Kengo explains.

"So we finally got the means of contacting you guys huh?" Shotaro says.

"More like only we can contact you. The Radar Astroswitch doesn't have the power to communicate from a different universe, I'm surprised we were able to reach you. In fact, it probably won't be long until the switch begins to lose the transmission. Meaning you guys need to find your own communication gear from Dai-Shocker to use if you plan on contacting us" Kengo says.

"Quickly now, we don't have much longer until we lose the transmission. What's happened so far in the universe you're in?" Ichigo asks.

"Not a lot I'm afraid. We've have very few encounters with Dai-Shocker so far, one of which did lead us to destroying one of their bases they set up here in this world. They're laying low, but we were able to discover three more of their bases from a map they had of the country we're in. We've gathered some intelligence on their bases and are planning out our attacks on them" Shotaro says.

"I see. Figures they would attempt to lie low. Build up their bases and forces before launching an all-out attack" Ichigo says.

"What kind of world are you in?" Decade asks.

"We're in a world of magic. There are people here that are mages that use their powers for good and evil. These mages are a part of guilds that use their powers to do jobs, the legal guilds use their magic to help people, the dark guilds to hurt and kill people" Haruto says.

"We believe Dai-Shocker will attempt to make alliances with the powerful Dark Guilds. We've all joined a legal guild called Fairy Tail under the guise of mages who use Requip Magic, magic that allows the Mage to change their weapons and armor" Eiji says.

"We've had to do some jobs not pertaining to Dai-Shocker but still helping people, for food and other necessities, it also allowed us to build a base which we can operate from" Kouta says.

"I see. Well, that's good to hear. If I may ask, what're these wizards of Fairy Tail like?" Decade asks.

"Hehe, they're all amazing people. We've pretty much befriended most of their members, and they're all also really powerful as well. Especially the five we've formed a team with to do jobs together" Fourze says.

"And these five or no one else in Fairy Tail have gotten involved...right?" Ichigo asks.

At this the Riders become silent and look at each other, not liking what they were going to have to say next. Ichigo and Decade could see it too as Ichigo sighed. "What happened?" Ichigo asks lowering and shaking his head.

"The first person to find out about us was Fairy Tail's master. He's powerful and wise, as soon as he saw us in battle he met with us secretly so he could question us who we were. We knew we couldn't lie to him so we were forced to tell him the truth. We trusted him though to keep it a secret from the rest of the guild as well as anyone else. Fairy Tail is really close to each other, like a family. The master sees all of its members as his children and him their father, he would never let anything bad happen to them. And if anyone messes with them, you will literally be regretting your action instantly. But then…" Shotaro says.

"Our teammates were the next ones to find out. We went out on a mission against Dai-Shocker and they came to our house while we were out and accidentally stumbled across our hideout. They accidentally got trapped aboard Doubles RevolGarry when we called on it for assistance so they saw our fight with some Dai-Shocker forces. They questioned us and of course like before we couldn't lie to them, especially after everything they saw in the hideout and during the fight" Eiji says.

"We told them everything as well. They promised to keep the secret from the others as well, but only under the condition that they be allowed to help us in our fight against Dai-Shocker. We couldn't say no to that, otherwise the entire guild would've gotten involved" Haruto says.

"But you don't have to worry that much about them. Like we said, they're all really powerful actually. They can easily go toe to toe with the weaker monsters of Dai-Shocker. And we'll make sure to look out for them when it comes to the stronger monsters, in fact if we work together we might be able to overcome a lot of what Dai-Shocker might throw at us" Kouta says.

"Hm. I see...if you believe in them. Then we shall too. Just be careful not to get any more people involved" Ichigo says.

"We'll try our best, Ichigo" Shotaro says. Just then the video screen begins to get static. "We're losing the transmission" Kengo says.

"Hey Sempai! If we find the means to contact you guys or if you call us at the right time, maybe you can meet our friends! We can show you how strong they are!" Fourze yells.

"Just be careful! Remember, they're lives are in more danger then before now that they're fighting alongside you! Dai-Shocker will be ready for you and them!" Decade yells back as finally the transmission cuts out.

The Riders let out a sigh, relieved to have finally gotten some kind of contact from back home, now if only they could find the means of contacting back home themselves. Not to mention a way back home once Dai-Shocker had been dealt with.

"Hey guys…you thinking about hoping our Sempai are doing good in finding is the means to get back home once this is all over?" Kouta asks aloud, receiving nods from the others as Fourze de-henshins.

"You do realize, that once Dai-Shocker's gone. We're probably never going to be able to see Natsu or any of the others ever again" Kouta says.

That's when it all hit them, and it hit them really hard. Most likely once they were done with Dai-Shocker, not only were they going to have to return home, but most likely the dimensional gates used would have to be destroyed as well so that way no more future evil organizations or anyone could use them ever again to try and harm other universes. Which meant that they would never be able to see Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Gray, Erza, or anyone from Fairy Tail ever again. To think that they'd never be able to see their wizard friends ever again once everything was over, brought sadness to their faces as they all looked down. Decade didn't have the ability to travel across alternate universes, and they couldn't risk the gate used by Dai-Shocker to fall into the wrong hands, or else harm could come to this universe or another. They would never be able to see Fairy Tail ever again.

"Ah mou!" Shotaro yells out in anger. "Guys...lets...just...put that shit aside for later. We're far from over, we can't let that thought get in the way of our mission. Just forget that shit until the time actually comes, and let's live each day with them like any other day before. Alright" Shotaro says.

The others take heed of what he said and decide to forget about that whole idea until the time really does come. They were going to make each day with their friends count, until that day when they finally do have to return home and leave their second family behind. Suddenly Shotaro's Memory Gadget and Haruto's PlaMonsters fly in from the secret ventilation shaft that leads outside that they use to get in and out of the hideout, catching the Riders' attentions.

Shotaro's Memory Gadgets return to him as the Gaia Memories eject out from them returning them to their normal modes as Shotaro puts his Stag Phone away and looks at the Digicam to see what it had, Haruto's PlaMonsters fly in front of him before he thanks them and they disappear. "What is it?" Eiji asks Shotaro as he continues to look at the Digicam pictures.

Shotaro looks up at the others after a few seconds "We got the third base. And we need to move out now" Shotaro says with urgency.

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Without the others, the Riders henshin, mount up on their Rider Machines and drive out. "It's no wonder we couldn't find their base before! They used a projector to hide the cave entrance, from the outside all we saw was a mountain wall, from the inside they can probably see us and everything that goes by!" Double/Shotaro says.

"Meaning they waited for us to leave before going out and doing anything" Double/Philip says.

"But why are we hitting the base? Shouldn't we plan it out later and hit one of the others instead?" Fourze asks.

"One of the pictures Bat Shot took was of a hooded monster, lots of combatmen around him entering the base. Could be possible he's a Dai-Shocker general, if we're extremely lucky maybe even Doktor G himself! Either way, we hit this person now while they're not at the main base, we can weaken their leadership!" Double/Shotaro says.

"Sounds good to me!" Gaim yells.

Deep in a forest…

A normal cliff wall is seen, not a single opening in sight of the wall. That is however not true. For a second a part of the wall flickers like it wasn't real, and it wasn't. On the other side of the fake holographic wall was two Dai-Shocker combatmen who were acting as lookouts for their hidden base. As the two continued to look through their projection, suddenly a gold and blue bolt shot out from the treeline towards them, the two energy bolts passing through the projection and striking them as they fell backwards to the ground. From the treeline, the Kamen Riders appeared, Double in his Luna/Trigger form and Fourze with his Camera module on his arm using the Camera Astroswitch, the others in their basic forms.

"Got ya" Double/Shotaro says as the team walks right through the hidden cave entrance, unknowingly walking through a red-laser tripwire immediately upon entering it as the Dai-Shocker base alarms go off, the sounds of it echoing out towards the Riders.

"Well, they definitely know we're here now" Wizard says.

"Let's move!" OOO says as the Riders run deeper into the cave.

The Riders soon arrived at the double doors to the base, the doors opening up allowing a large group of Dai-Shocker combatmen along with Poison Lizard Man to rush out and stop a few feet away from the Kamen Riders who also stop in their tracks. "This is far as you get, Kamen Riders!"

"Oh yeah, let's see about that!" Double/Shotaro says as the Riders charge forward, the Dai-Shocker forces doing the same thing as the two groups collide. Gaim swings his Daidaimaru and Musou saber around, striking down any Dai-Shocker combatmen that charge him from all directions, three combatmen jump up into the air towards Gaim, Gaim quickly pulls back on the Musou pallet loading it up as he aims and fires three shots from it into the three combatmen who cry out in pain and hit the ground to never get back up. Wizard roundhouse kicks two combatmen, turning around to do the same thing to two more combatmen sending them twirling around to the ground and rolling away.

"Bind, Please"

Metal Chains shoot out from a large red magic circle beneath a group of Dai-Shocker combatmen who are wrapped up together in the chains as they attempt to break free "Come on Slash, Shake Hands! Flame Slash Strike! Hi-Hi, Hi-Hi-Hi!" Wizard swings his flame enveloped sword forward sending a fire slash at the combatmen, hitting them as they cry out one last time before exploding.

"Gatling, On"

"Kuwagata, Tora, Batta!"

Fourze fires his Gatling Module while OOO fires green electricity from his Kuwagata horns taking out a large group of combatmen in an explosion. Double in Cyclone/Metal swings his metal shaft up a combatman sending it backflipping face forward to the ground as he then turns back around and swings his weapon around producing blades of wind which cut apart at the Dai-Shocker combatmen around him as well as Poison Lizard Man, the combatmen cry out before exploding while Poison Lizard Man is sent flying back to the ground and rolling back a few times. Poison Lizard Man pushes himself back up and charges back at Double swinging his baton down at him as Double dodges the first downward swing and then blocks the second upward side swing, knocking the baton away and quickly swinging his metal shaft back across Lizard Man's face sending him twirling around and stumbling away a few feet.

"Metal! Maximum Drive!"

"Metal Twister!" Double yells as he calmly walks towards the recovering monster. His weapon becomes enveloped in green wind as he holds it with his right hand and begins spinning around swinging it repeatedly around at Poison Lizard Man, striking him time after time again as he produces green winds from his weapon while spinning around. Striking him one last time Double sends the monster flying back and exploding mid-air.

"Definitely looks like they're trying their best to keep us out" Double/Philip says.

"Yeah, well they're going to have to do better than that" Double/Shotaro replies as the others regroup behind him and the group rush through the opened doors into the base, only for more Dai-Shocker combatmen to greet them with their swords and batons at the ready "Like I said, they're going to have to do better, Kouta, you're up" Double/Shotaro says.

"Right" Gaim says stepping up past Double as he takes out his Kachidoki Lockseed.

"Kachidoki!"

"Lock On!"

"Soiya! Kachidoki Arms: Iza Shutsujin! Ei, Ei, Oh!" Gaim brings up his DJ Gun turning the pitch to low and scratching the table as the tune plays in a low, slow beat. Gaim aims his gun forward and fires the first shot obliterating a bunch of Dai-Shocker combatmen in the middle before turning to his left and firing another shot eliminating all of the combatmen there and finally turning to his right to eliminate all of those combatmen.

"Come on, is this seriously all they got?" Fourze questions.

"Makes me wonder if one of their generals really is here. So far we've run into one monster and a lot of combatmen. I feel like there'd be more if one of their leaders were here" Wizard says.

"There's only one way to find out. Come on" OOO says as the Riders start running, again, deeper into the base. After running for quite some time and not even having any encounters with more combatmen, the Riders begin to wonder if there really was a general here in the first place and why this place is more well-hidden when compared to the other two bases. After finding themselves in a massive room much like the last Dai-Shocker base, they take notice of this room having a lot more technical equipment as well as tables full of vials and glasses holding strange colored liquids "Whoa. Would you look at all this stuff" Gaim says as the Riders spread out to look at all of the equipment and other things in the room.

"Yeah. This isn't any normal Dai-Shocker base. Looks like this base was designed to build things, maybe do experimentations on local wildlife, and probably even people. Maybe that's why this place was better hidden when compared to the other two" Double/Shotaro says.

"Especially considering they know we're here. They're probably going to start improving their hideouts to make them harder for us to find, especially ones that could be of importance" Double/Philip says.

"Hey guys! If this place is where they build weapons and who knows what else, maybe they might have some communication equipment for us to contact our sempai back home!" Fourze says.

"He's right" Wizard says.

"Then start searching the place, schematics, maybe even the equipment itself" Double/Shotaro says, suddenly from hidden doorways that open up more Dai-Shocker combatmen rush out to surround the separated Riders who seeing this get ready to fight again. Not just combatmen, but a few more monsters as well in the forms of Scorpion Imagin who groups up with the combatmen around Gaim, Go-Jaraji-Da to Fourze, Shiomaneking OOO, and Cobra Man groups up with the combatmen around Wizard.

"And who says that you will even be leaving this place alive, Kamen Riders?" a voice from the shadows on the stage calls out drawing the Riders to it as the figure steps out. An old man with black hair, wearing a white suit and cape that was black outside and red inside with a high collar around the sides and back of his face.

"Doctor Shinigami, also known as Ikadevil. Figures, find a place with a lot of crazy looking stuff for experimentations, find a crazy doctor of Dai-Shocker" Double/Shotaro says.

"You Kamen Riders are sneaky. For a moment, I thought my base would be the last place you would find out of all of the others. It seems I was wrong though. Hm, what's this, you're Fairy Tail mages aren't with you? Perhaps they were scared off from their previous encounter" Doctor Shinigami says.

"Nah, don't bet it. They're just off doing some other stuff, they ain't afraid of you guys one bit!" Fourze says.

"Heh, either way. It's too bad they aren't here, maybe they might've changed the situation. But now...you Riders aren't going to be going anywhere at all" Shinigami says with a malicious smile.

"I don't know. Let's test your theory out doc" Double/Shotaro says quickly bringing out his Trigger Memory.

"Trigger!"

"Cyclone, Trigger! (Technical guitar to rock guitar riffs)"

Double quickly takes aim and fires his Trigger Magnum, acting quickly Doctor Shinigami spins around and becoming enveloped in light transforms into Ikadevil as he extends his right tentacle out and whips it around blocking Double's air shots before throwing and extending it towards Double who quickly rolls to his left to dodge. Just as Double attacks Ikadevil the other Riders engage with the Dai-Shocker forces around them as well, Fourze quickly jumps and uses his hover pack to launch himself over a table of vials to the other side, landing as he quickly backhands a combatman to his right and kicks another to his left. Gaim switches his gun to machine gun mode and quickly fires at all of the Dai-Shocker combatmen around him, hitting most of them while a few others manage to dodge with Scorpion Imagin included as the monster stands back up and jumps forward towards Gaim swinging his axe down towards him as Gaim blocks it with his gun and the two become deadlocked as they run to their right/left.

OOO fires electricity from his horns striking two combatmen charging him as he turns around and blocks attacks from two more with his Tora Claws, pushing them back as he swings his Tora Claws back down on them, turning to his left in time to duck under Shiomaneking's claw and spin away from the monster who gives chase with a few other combatmen. Cobra Man charges at Wizard with his laser saber as the two collide blades, both push off of each other and proceed to deliver several strikes to each other at the same time sending sparks flying from both but are not fazed by them as they swing their weapons and slide past each other striking each other again. Cobra Man turns around swinging his saber down at Wizard who crouches down as he turns and switches his weapon to gun mode, pulling the trigger and firing a bunch of silver bullets into the monster before he can strike him sending Cobra Man stumbling back from the impacting shots.

"Xtreme! (Turbine whirring sound to epic orchestra)"

Transforming into his Xtreme form Double calls out his sword and shield just as Ikadevil fires explosive balls of ink at Double who blocks them with his shield, forcing him to try and attack him by swinging his tentacles and extending them out at Double who manages to cut them to pieces with his sword, though only for them to grow back as he is continued to be on the defense.

"Kiwami Arms: Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai Shogun!"

"Donkachi! Melon Defender!"

Scorpion Imagin fires stingers from his hands at Gaim just as his weapons fly into his hands, putting up the Melon Defender to block the needles as he charges towards Scorpion King and swings the Donkachi warhammer upwards hitting the monster in the chin sending him flying up and down to the ground. Gaim de-summons his Melon Defender "Kiwami Squash!" powering up the Donkachi Gaim jumps up high into the air as Scorpion Imagin stands back up and looks up at him in terror. Gaim cries out as he comes down on the monster and slams the warhammer down onto him causing the Imagin to cry out and explode. Coming out from the explosion, Gaim takes notice of Double having trouble striking back at Ikadevil and quickly rushes to help out "Budou Ryuhou!" Gaim calls out the blaster as he aims and fires at Ikadevil striking him a few times sending him twisting around to the ground.

"You alright?" Gaim asks Double.

"Yeah, thanks for the assist" Double says.

"Shachi, Unagi, Tako: (Splash) Sha-Sha-Shauta, Sha-Sha-Shauta!"

OOO swings his left Unagi whip forward wrapping it around Shiomaneking as the monster struggles to get free from it, with his free hand OOO takes the scanner and scans his driver "Scanning Charge!"

OOO then jumps up into the air, liquefying his legs and transforming them into his Octo Legs as he propels himself down towards the ensnared monster as he impacts into the monster who cries out and explodes as OOO comes out from it. Go-Jaraji-Da pulls his right hand in front of him before throwing it out and firing some needles at Fourze "Shield, On" using the module Fourze quickly blocks the incoming needles with ease. "Winch!"

"Winch, On"

Replacing the shield with his winch module Fourze quickly swings it out and traps Go-Jaraji-Da in it as he pulls up on it, sending the monster crashing into the ceiling first before pulling it outwards sending the monster into a wall next followed by into the opposite wall and finally crashing down onto a table destroying all of the vials on it injuring the monster as it lies on the ground and twists around in pain.

"Elek On! (Electricity crackle, followed by high-energy techno music)"

"(3 warning alarms) Limit Break!"

Fourze runs forward towards the downed monster and then jumps up into the air "Rider Ten Billion Volt Burst!" Fourze yells out as he slams the tip of the rod into the monster's stomach causing it to be surged with electricity and explode. Ikadevil blasts back Gaim with his Ika Bombs sending the Kamen Rider flying back into Double knocking the two to the ground. Fourze and OOO seeing the other two quickly begin to rush over to help them, Ikadevil sees them coming and extends his tentacles out towards them, wrapping the two Riders up as they struggle to break free from his grasps. Ikadevil lifts the two into the air and proceeds to slam the two Riders into each other a few times before sending a surge of electricity through the tentacles electrocuting the two Riders who cry out in pain and are then tossed back, OOO slamming into the wall and Fourze crashing onto a operating table.

Wizard in Land Style blocks Cobra Man's saber with his sword again when he notices the others "Guys!" Wizard yells, only allowing Cobra Man to push him back and strike him a few times with his saber sending the Kamen Rider twirling around to the ground. Cobra Man begins approaching Wizard who quickly gets back up into a crouched position and places his Hurricane Ring on his finger "Hurricane, Please: Fu-Fu, Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu!"

Wizard jumps up and hovers himself in the air as he aims his WizarSwordGun gun at Cobra Man and fires a few shots at the monster, hitting him a few times as he stumbles back a little bit. Gaim and Double have recovered and engage Ikadevil up close, Double swinging his Prism Sword and Gaim his Daidaimaru as Ikadevil manages to block or dodge each of their swings, managing to kick back Double sending him flying back as Gaim brings his sword down on him only for Ikadevil to manage to grab his wrists as Gaim struggles to bring his sword down. Ikadevil then fires his Ika Bombers at point blank into Gaim sending him flying back to the ground and rolling a few feet next to Double as smoke comes from his armor. Ikadevil seeing that he has the upper hand laughs in victory "Farewell, Kamen Riders!" Ikadevil yells as he prepares to send a massive barrage of his bombers at Gaim and Double.

Suddenly Cobra Man creates a swarm of metallic balls around him which he sent towards Wizard who flew to his right to dodge them, the balls flying past him as they impacted into the ceiling directly above Ikadevil causing an explosion as Ikadevil, Double, and Gaim were drawn up to it. They noticed that the explosion destroyed the ceiling above the three causing it to come toppling down towards the three, the two Riders act more quickly and roll away just as Ikadevil cries out and is crushed underneath all of the rubble. Cobra Man gasps in shock seeing what he had just done, which leaves him open to an attack "Choine, Kick Strike, Saiko~!" His right leg becoming enveloped in green winds Wizard launches himself down towards the remaining monster, slamming into him with his kick and causing the monster to explode.

Returning to their basic forms the Riders regroup behind Double and Gaim who are looking at the pile of rubble that crushed Ikadevil "Think that squids as good as squished?" Gaim asks looking at Double.

"Probably. At least we won't have to worry about him for a while. Don't know how long it'll be before Dai-Shocker notices him gone and attempt to revive him again. Gotta be glad that they're reviving processes take a while" Double/Shotaro says.

"Now that they've been dealt with, perhaps one of us should look for communication equipment, the rest of us should set up the explosives so Dai-Shocker can't use this base for a long time" Double/Philip says.

"I'll look for that stuff. You guys do your thing" Gaim says as the Riders split up, the others going back to their Rider Machines outside where they have some Explosive Lacrima packed up to demolish the place. Knowing Dai-Shocker they would probably try to restore the base when they left, but by demolishing it they would at least make their progress restoring it take a long time to happen.

An hour later…

The sun has begun to set. The Riders stand outside the now revealed cave entrance as the ground around them rumbles and smoke erupts out from the cave, signaling that their explosives went off, behind them the RevolGarry had an assortment of computers, some schematics, and other equipment as the Riders did manage to find some communication gear. All they had to do now was debug the equipment in case Dai-Shocker had tracking systems or anything that could damage it on it and then set it up so they could contact their sempai back home.

"Well, that takes care of that place" Gaim says.

"And we got some communication equipment. Contacting our sempai will be a lot easier now" Fourze says.

"Yeah, too bad we didn't find any more maps in there with more Dai-Shocker bases on them" OOO says.

"Perhaps we'll find some at the other two bases. Somehow though I have a feeling Dai-Shocker's going to be ready for us even more now" Wizard says.

"Yeah. They're gonna start setting up contingency plans to burn their maps and stuff for now on if we attack their bases. That way we can't find any more of them. And if they do plan on doing that, we're going to need to act faster in attacking these bases so we can gather information from them before they're erased" Double/Shotaro says.

"Well, guess it's time to head back. I think we could all use a good rest" Wizard says as the others nod their heads in agreement and turn to their Rider vehicles to go back home.

"Wonder what the others have been up to while we've been gone" Gaim asks.

"Probably just rebuilding the guild more or sitting around doing nothing" Double/Shotaro says.

Meanwhile…

Back inside the ruins of the base…

Indeed the entire base was in ruins. Piles of rubble littered the base leaving very few things standing or even very few patches of what was originally the floor being revealed. On what's left of the stage, an arm with tentacles around it shoots up from the pile of rubble.

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The next day…

Fairy Tail Guild...

"HUH~?!" Shotaro, Eiji, Gentaro, Haruto, and Kouta yell in shock after hearing what they just heard.

"A spirit?" Natsu asks.

"You're a spirit, Loke?" Happy asks.

"Yup, that's the deal" Loke says rubbing the back of his head with his eyes closed. As it turned out, Loke was actually a Celestial Spirit Leo, as in Leo the Lion. Yesterday while the Riders were gone, Loke had seemingly disappeared from the guild after quitting it, forcing everyone to look for him, Lucy had been the one to find him however at the grave of his former Celestial Spirit Mage master, a Blue Pegasus woman named Karen Lilica. It appeared this woman Karen was an abusive master to his fellow spirit Aries the Ram, often mistreating her or directly hurting her once even using her as a shield against attacks. Just as this Karen was about to sentence Aries to seven days imprisonment in the human world, which seemed to be deadly for Celestial Spirits to be in the human world for far too long, Loke appeared to take her place.

Loke demanded that the contracts with him and Aries be terminated and that he would stay in the Human world until she did so, thus rendering Karen unable to summon any other spirits, resisting her attempts of forced gate closure by using his own magic. By staying in the human world, Loke prevented Karen from summoning any other Celestial Spirits for combat, thus taking away her ability to perform jobs. Karen made several attempts to persuade, beg, trick, and force Leo into returning to the Spirit World, all of which he refused, much to Karen's anger, causing her to beat him up. After three months in the human world, Loke eventually grew accustomed to his new environment and believing that Karen had been punished enough decided he would forgive her, and should Karen abuse Aries again, he could simply defend his friend once more. However, he soon learned that Karen, in desperation, had attempted to complete a job without her Celestial Spirits and had been killed by another Celestial Spirit Mage. As such, for violating his contract with Karen and inadvertently causing her death, he was forbidden to return to the Celestial Spirit World. It was soon after this he disguised himself as a human, named himself Loke, and joined the Fairy Tail Guild as a Mage.

It was because of this history he acted strangely around Lucy, as well as of late because he knew his time was coming to an end since he had been in the human world for too long. However, thanks to Lucy who was able to convince the Celestial Spirit King that saving friends was not a sin like Loke had done for Aries, he was able to return to the Spirit World and was now one of Lucy's spirits as she now had his key.

"So, that was the weird feeling I had when we switched bodies that one time" Philip says thinking about the changeling incident.

"Yup, that's what it was. Though I guess I could say the same thing to you about your body, am I right?" Loke says looking at Philip, taking the Riders back by this statement.

"I heard everything from my fellow spirits as well as Lucy. Don't worry, I won't say anything to the others since Lucy said not to" Loke says reassuring the Riders.

Kouta sighs in relief "Well, I guess that's good"

"I didn't notice at all!" Gray says.

"But wait...You're not a cow or a horse or nothing?" Natsu asks eyeing him suspiciously.

"You know Virgo, Natsu. She has a human form, remember?" Loke says.

"Yeah, but she can turn into a gorilla" Natsu says.

"Technically it's just a really grotesque human form" Eiji says with a sweatdrop.

"Yeah, well with a look like that I would probably mistake it for a gorilla as well" Shotaro says with his eyes closed and arms crossed.

"Oh yeah that's true" Loke says.

"Loke's the Lion Spirit" Lucy says to the group as she sits at a table looking back at them,

"Lion?!" Natsu says in shock with blank eyes as he and Happy gasp at hearing this, Happy for a different reason though as his eyes are also blank as he suddenly flies up in front of him "A grown-up cat!"

"That's right" Loke says.

"No it's not!" Lucy yells with bulging eyes.

"Technically lions are just big cats...just a lot more vicious" Haruto says.

"So, you're the Leo of this world huh. Man, you should see the Leo Zodiart, he was one tough guy for me to handle" Gentaro says.

"So I've heard. Still, I wouldn't mind facing him, as well as the Sagittarius Zodiart. In a way, I'm kind of the leader of the 12 Zodiacs in this universe so should I ever have the chance to face those Zodiarts, I'll be sure to come out and show them my power" Loke says.

"Cool…" Happy suddenly says on Loke's left shoulder...drooling on him with his eyes closed?

"But are you feeling okay?" Gray asks.

"I'm not 100% yet, but I figured I'd come to say hi to everyone. And I wanted to see Lucy again as soon as possible" Loke says, this causing Lucy to blush a bit taken back. Happy suddenly appears behind her with his paws in front of his mouth "He l~ikes you!" Happy says causing Lucy to close her eyes with an annoyed look.

"Stop rolling your tongue!" Lucy says, when she is suddenly picked up by Loke bridal style as he begins walking away with her, causing her to start squirming in his arms not liking it. "So let's talk, you and I, about the future!" Loke casually says.

"Man I'm jealous. I wish I had a spirit" Natsu says with his eyes closed and arms crossed.

"What kind of spirit?" Happy asks.

"I don't know how I'd feel if you were my master if I was a spirit" Kouta says with a questioning look on his face as he looks at Natsu.

"A dragon duh!" Natsu says ignoring Kouta's comment. "Then I could test out my Dragon Slayer magic for real!" Natsu continues.

"Spirits aren't things you summon to test your strength!" Lucy angrily yells having of escaped from Lucy.

"That's the same thing as abusing the spirit you moron!" Shotaro yells angrily.

"That's right" Loke says appearing beside Lucy as he puts an arm around her, once again the look on her face saying she wasn't liking it as she had her left hand up between her and his face. "Spirits are for spinning tales of love…"

"From running away in fear to hitting on her, wow how that changed quickly…" Kouta says with a deadpanned look.

"You, go back already…" Lucy says as she then holds up his key and looks at him "You're still not fully recovered, right?" Lucy says. "Wait a second" Loke says as he then reaches into his left pocket. From it he pulls out what look like ten tickets to somewhere "Here!"

"What are these?" Lucy asks.

"Tickets for a resort hotel. You guys really helped me out a lot" Loke says, causing everyone to yell out something random that they are excited about that would be at the resort with wide eyes of either joy or awe. While Lucy and Natsu seem to be dancing around in place with their tickets, Lucy with heart eyes and Natsu blank eyes, Happy is floating away with his ticket while Gray and the Riders look down at theirs. "I already gave Erza hers, so please have fun" Loke says.

"Hey people!" the familiar voice of Erza calls out causing Natsu, Lucy, and Happy to stop what they are doing as everyone turns towards where her voice came from. "What are you standing around for? Want me to leave you behind?" Erza asks...already packed and dressed for the occasion, a blue sundress hat, floral decorated t-shirt and ripped, shorts with an innertube around her.

"Now that's fast!" Lucy, Gray, Shotaro, and Kouta yell out in shock with bulging eyes and dark lines down the sides of their heads.

"Yeah let's go! I'll head off just like this!" Natsu cheers with his arms raised and stomping up and down one leg at a time.

"Me too!" Happy cheers with him.

"Idiot, I have to pack for a trip like this so hold up" Gray says.

"Yeah, same with us. We need to get some stuff ready for this as well" Eiji says.

"Though I don't think we need as much as what Erza has…" Haruto says.

"Lucy…" Loke says catching her attention "It's not like my sins have completely disappeared. But you've given me the confidence now to move on. Where once I was a member of Fairy Tail, now I am your spirit, Lucy. I'll show up whenever my owner's in trouble. Think of me as your prince on a white horse" Loke says.

"I'm not your owner. I'm your friend, right?" Lucy says giving him a wink and sideways thumbs up with her right hand. Loke gasps slightly before smiling at her "That's right. From now on, let's count on each other, Lucy" Loke says before disappearing back to the Celestial Spirit World.

"Same to you, Loke!" Lucy says holding up and looking at his key.

"Lucy, we're leaving" Erza says coming up to her from behind.

"So, Erza...If...If someone here was hurt or lost their life because of me. I think I'd suffer a lot like Loke. But, it's okay. Because if we all work together, we can overcome any trouble we might have, right?" Lucy says as the others gather behind her with smiles on their faces.

"You couldn't have said it better" Erza says, Lucy turning around with a bright smile on her face "Yeah!"

"That's right. A little something I've told my friends from time to time. With our friendship, we'll take on the universe! Or in this case, the multiverse!" Gentaro says slamming his right fist into his chest before extending it outwards. Causing the others to all look at Gentaro and nod at him, agreeing with his saying.

"Hey, let's hurry and go!" Natsu says.

"Aye sir!" Happy says.

"Let's party all day and night, non-stop!" Gray says.

"Looks like this break's going to be better than that one night at the spa" Shotaro says.

"According to my lookup, this resort is very popular amongst tourists. It has a hotel, amusement park, and casino, this will be quite interesting" Philip says.

"More like quite fun with all of those things combined" Eiji says.

"Alright! Let's go!" Gentaro says.

"This will be quite a showtime, yeah?" Haruto says.

"Thank you Loke!" Kouta says.

"It's a favor from Loke, so we're going to have lots of fun!" Erza says.

"Aye sir!" Everyone in the group yells as they begin to head off, Natsu, Lucy, and Gentaro throwing one/both arms into the air in excitement.

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Hey guys, So-Pro Warrior here to let you in on an update. I have started back to school...yep...I know...which means because of that I might not be able to update as quickly as I used too. Luckily I have two college classes a day Monday-Thursday at the most and they all end around the afternoon but still with homework and then my life with hanging out with friends and family...yeah it might get difficult to update as quickly as i did before so just letting you guys know.

Q&A…

To Mike 19: Thank you, and with this chapter I've counted Eiji using two mix forms so far. The reason being is just cause there are occasions where I imagine him just using a full combo, and then occassions like the two where he uses a mix combo. If I see a situation where he needs to use a mix combo, I will do that, other than that full combo.

To EclipsePheniox: It's like you read my mind...but of course I will make it a bit more interesting for when that time comes.

To Spikedmaster290: If they appear, it would just be for cameos. Keyword Neo-Heisei as in Double forward as that is what they are dubbed sometimes, other then Heisei.

To Everyone who pointed it out: Yeah, I don't know how I missed Kabuto since he's one of the Heisei Rider series I have seen besides Kuuga, Agito, Decade and forward. Have tried watching the other series but haven't gotten far into them. But anyways I quickly fixed that and Kabuto is now among the Riders listed off by Lucy.

To PersonaQeminod1: Finding occasions for that will be difficult since unlike Philip, Shotaro's body would be left defenseless for the enemy to attack if they get smart while Double is using that form. I have thought of one occasion already but that's it so far, I will look for more.