Gaim La Kill

by GammaTron

Destiny, a thing men and women battle for dominion over. To control and forge for themselves. To weave it into their own, or paint it in their colors for their sake. Wars have been battled for Destiny, to have one person take hold of it and dye it with their will and power.

1. Chapter 1

GT: ...Why are we wearing fruit farmer clothes in the middle of winter, Z0?

Z0: Because...we are cultivating fruit! *holds up helheim fruit* best organic energy source in the cosmos. Now just hurry before the owner of this planets lawn finds us.

GT: Right. Well, if you readers can't guess? We're doing Gaim this time. But who we're crossing it with?

Z0: We're also here to pluck alien parasites...in the shape of strings…. Don't get it yet...don't worry you will...but first tissues for your nose bleeds...cold water to splash in your face...and uh...yeah thats all I can give you to prep for this world...Get it now...risky sentient clothing...fan service so bad you can't watch this show with family around and lots of social darwinism and action.

GT: Agreed. And prepare to call someone a female Oda Nobunaga.

Z0: But without a weird obsession with guns.

GT: Too right. So without further ado, we don't own anyone but any OCs. And now we…*a snarling noise went off* ...Was that you, Z0?

Z0: No...not it was not. Well as usual folks enjoy...we have a mystery monster to deal with!

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'Destiny, a thing men and women battle for dominion over. To control and forge for themselves. To weave it into their own, or paint it in their colors for their sake. Wars have been battled for Destiny, to have one person take hold of it and dye it with their will and power.'

Amidst a battle and war torn field, all of the ground scorched and damaged, several factions stared down upon the patch of clear ground. Leading one faction was a blue samurai with orange armor riding atop a horse. Tied around his arm and that of the creatures which comprised his army were black and red flags. Opposing him was a red knight with silver and yellow armor brandishing a lance. Standing beside him a knight in black and brown armor, them and their forces had white and blue flags. Overwatching them was a third faction. A white samurai with green armor, and a green warrior in purple chinese armor sat atop a cliff and watched over the battle about to take place.

The Samurai roared as he gave his horse a light kick making it charge forward. The Knight aimed his lance as he mounted a motorcycle and charged. At an unspoken command, their armies began running behind them. Both sides roared as they closed the distance, the thunderous footsteps of their armies shaking the ground. The Samurai roared, swinging his sword down just as the Knight thrust his lance forward.

'Raise your arms warriors and claim victory to dye destiny in your colors! Battle like the warring states! With your armor and clothing of war, claim your victory!'

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"And so, Nobunaga and his men perished in the flames after performing a mass Seppuku. However, it's rumored that Oda Nobunaga's body was never found and that he actually escaped the burning structure," a teacher with a weak voice spoke writing own on a chalkboard.

The class he was teaching had walls of iron and a bulkhead door which looked like something that belonged inside a naval ship. Said teacher had messy blue hair and large thick lensed glasses. His lesson was mostly being ignored by his students as several actually snored, having fallen asleep.

Suddenly, the bulkhead door exploded off its hinges and bounced around and slammed into the desk. A large leg ending in a cleated boot slowly lowered down from having kicked in the solid iron door.

"Ano...we're in the middle of class…" the teacher muttered to the now opened doorway.

Suddenly, a large man squeezed his way in through the doorway. He was dressed in a white school uniform with a black marking on his chest in the form of a cross with two smaller cross sections on each arm. Three metal spikes jutted from each shoulder his arms covered in large metal gauntlets with small spikes along the forearms and three knuckle studs with the same black star marking. His skin was slightly tanned and his blond hair neatly combed back, with a silver earring dangling from his left ear. He seemed to just...Tower over the poor teacher, as if he had to crouch down just to fit in the classroom.

"I'm on official business!" he declared loudly, the teacher jumping away and bowing in respect just as rows of goons in a similar white uniform but with no decorations and each and everyone with the same bowl haircut entered.

"Ah! Gomen nassai!" the teacher apologized, bowing deeply quickly.

"LISTEN UP!" the man in the white uniform roared, startling the students awake and at attention, "I'm Ira Gamagoori, Disciplinary Committee Chair!"

"The Disciplinary Committee?"

"Oh god...what the hell did someone do here?"

"ZzzzZzzzZ!" one boy snored in the middle of class, his black hair cut short and messily tousled to the right, with a braided cornrow of hair on the left side of his head giving him a unique hair style, and wore a blue hoodie covered in graffiti patterns over his school uniform.

"Was it Kouta?" someone asked.

"Ah...Tofu curry hold the spice…" he snorted awake, "Wait a minute...this ain't my job…"

"SILENCE!" Gamagoori barked, "There is a thief on the premises. What they have stolen is a One Star uniform."

"?!"

"Is it this creepy guy clutching his bag?" Kouta asked, still half asleep as he pointed to a student to his right. Said student began sweating bullets as Gamagoori aimed his glare at him now, "Hey wait...are you even in our class? ...I don't know you, dude."

"Kouta!" a boy with long silver hair hissed, putting his hand over his mouth and dragging him away from the center of attention.

"Hmmm…" Gamagoori held up a tiny tablet (at least, it was tiny in his hands) and looked at it, "You're not a student in this classroom. In fact...you're formerly from a school we recently conquered."

The boy shot up while still nervously sweating. He then slowly raised his arm, holding a ball of some kind. The orange ball looked normal until he finally tossed it down and let it explode into a giant cloud of green smoke. Everyone cried and coughed in shock as the mystery boy ran out of the classroom and down the stairs.

"Hahahahaha!" Gamagoori laughed, free falling down the side of the building. The student ran around the spiral of stairs and around the windows again, "Hahahaha!" he was heard while still free falling. The student finally made it to the door out but the moment it opened Gamagoori was already standing there waiting, and proceeded to quickly grab the poor student spy "You seriously think a tear gas bomb will help you escape!?" he shouted, spinning around and tossing him away and skidding across the massive dirt courtyard in front of the school.

"Ahhhhhhhh~!" the boy cried as he skid then skipped head over heel, and finally rolled across the dirt before coming to a stop.

From atop the giant stone wall surrounding the school, a group of boys looked down at the scene. All of whom wore suits consisting of a red shirt, silver-grey vest, black long coats with red lapels and cuffs, and matching black pants and shoes. Their leader had long auburn hair with bangs that cropped down just above his eyes.

"Check it out boss...the Gorilla is at it again," a shorter member of the group laughed at Gamagoori.

"Silence...I want to see where this goes." their leader spoke, "Let's see if this little runt has some fight in him if he got Gamagoori down here."

"Kuso…" the boy growled, turning over and pulling a uniform like those of the grunts that followed Gamagoori around.

"One Star Goku uniform confirmed," Gamagoori noted, "So you're going to put it on, boy?"

The boy quickly put the uniform on, "Amazing! It's as if power if flowing into my body and soul!" he awed as the uniform seemed to come alive and fit his body...and turned his body slim and muscular, "Th-this is...!"

Gamagoori lifted his right hand to his left and pulled from his sleeve a long thorned whip. He then began swinging it around rapidly, however the boy ducked and weaved out of each swing in perfect time, his body becoming a blur of motion.

"My body is moving so fast! I've never felt so strong!" he declared shocked.

"Of course! This is the power of the Goku Uniform!" Gamagoori declared as his whip was slapped away by the boy.

"Eat this!" he roared, punching at the giant of an opponent. But...nothing, it was like punching a wall of cement covering a wall of iron.

"However...my uniform...is a Three Star," he explained as his collar revealed three star symbols opposed to his one, "Did you think an attack from a simple One Star uniform would do anything to me?" he asked, holding both arms up as whips extended from gauntlets as he began swinging wildly, each time the whips striking the poor boy across the face and jerking him around with the force of each strike. Finally, Gamagoori swung down with both arms and smashed him into the ground, the whips quickly snared around his body cocooning him, "What were you planning sneaking out a Goku uniform!?" he demanded, swinging him around and slamming him into the wall, he then swung and did it again, "You must be a Kobe trash spy!" he declared, swinging faster and faster slamming him from side to side, "But it's wasted on someone as weak as you!" he roared, slamming him into the front gate, the poor boy beating to a pulp already, "You aren't cut out for a Goku uniform. TAKE IT OFF!"

At that, he pulled his whip and unwound him while ripping the uniform off his body, leaving his naked form stuck to the high wall. The uniform fell through the air before it landed back in Gamagoori's hands, neatly folded as he dusted it. He then held it out for one of his goons to take.

"Waste of time…" the leader of the black clothed group sighed, "Just another insect buzzing around."

"I was really hoping for something more," another noted, "They really suck at intel gathering at times."

"Ooh...Why do they always try?" the previously-sleeping teen pondered, looking out the window Gamagoori had jumped out of, "...And how did he jump through this without breaking it?"

"No one knows, Kouta...no one knows…" his silver haired friend sighed.

"Oi, Yuya, do we go back to class or...?"

"I don't see how...Sensei is out like a light." Yuya sighed.

"If he doesn't wake up in fifteen minutes we can leave, right?" Kouta asked everyone.

"Pretty sure that's college only…"

"Isn't Gamagoori Senpai 20?" Kouta countered.

"Do you want us to get in trouble for mentioning ages?" Yuya asked.

"Right, right…" he sighed. He then turned around and looked around for someone, "Mako...oi, Mako? You still here...your desk got blown up in the gas grenade bit! Hey Mako!"

"Zzzzz…"

"Let me," Yuya sighed, "Mako-chan...your croquettes were destroyed."

"FOOD?!" a broken desk broke apart further as a shapely young girl in a white and blue sailor fuku popped out of it, her brown hair done in a bowl cut as she looked frantically before seeing a stomped green container, "Ah! My lunch~!" she hugged Yuya's legs, "Why, Yuya-kun, why~~~~~?"

"We can't leave you sleeping in here all day." he sighed.

"Come on, we need to relocate to a new room as the door is repaired." Kouta grunted, picking her up and letting her cling to his back as he carried her off, "Let's go out to eat...on Yuya!"

"Not after last time." he smirked.

"Boo!" they both pouted.

"You ran the bill so high, my descendants felt the bill!" he laughed.

"Okay we'll skip class and eat at my place of employment! Curry!" Kouta cheered.

"Dibs on mapo curry!" Mako cheered.

"Yosh...let's escape!" Kouta laughed.

"I suggest we hurry…"

"Eh? Why?" Kouta and Mako asked.

"Gamagoori-Senpai is coming back this way." Yuya chuckled.

"Run! Hi Ho, Kouta! Hah!" Mako ordered, kicking his sides.

"Ah!" he yelped, running via instinct.

"Those two…" Yuya sighed out a chuckle.

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-The Next Day-

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Honnouji Academy, the tall building nestled atop the mountainous place that was the center of Honno City. It was a city which build upon itself, starting from the slums and building up to better and better places higher and higher up. It was essentially an island nestled in the center of a bay, large walls closed it off with only several long bridges to drive, ride or walk across. Truly a walled off city if ever there was one.

Standing on one of the many paths was a girl of medium height, she had mid-length black hair with a single red streak running through her bangs. She had bright blue eyes with peculiar gear shaped pupils. Her attire consisted of a black and white jacket over her white shirt, with a red ribbon tie around her neck; a black miniskirt and white sneakers. This girl stared at the one of a kind city with a look of determination, her name was Ryuko Matoi!

"So this is it…" she spoke, staring at the top of the city, "Honnouji Academy…" she sighed, tugging on the strap keeping the metal guitar case secured to her back.

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Ryuko handed over several Yen to a shopkeeper. She nodded to the man before walking away from the rundown store, a lemon in hand. She took a bite of the lemon, rind and all, and began to chew it as she looked out at the slums of the first several layers of the mountain-like city. The houses were all more like apartments colored in a different way with each layer of the apartments. Pipes leading up towards the higher levels were visible in areas, a dull red in color, and graffiti in several areas. A thing of interest to note, though, were the reinforced large screens set up in several places to be shown all over the lower levels. Currently, the screens were displaying a group of teens dancing together on a stage in the slums, the stage made of scrap metal and a tatami mat stage.

=Yo, yo, yo~! DJ Sagara here with your Beat Riders on the scene!= a man looking to be in his early twenties in a red bandana, a bright yellow shirt with a fireball design on the from, and headphones draping his neck shouted on the monitor =It's after hours for the academy, so ya know we're gonna be getting some sweet dancing from teams made from students there! And right now, everyone is waiting for the Number 1 team, the Victorious Team Baron! Lead by none other than Kumon Kaito, the boy who rose from the slums to the top with his pure iron will! It's said he's the strongest man in the city. With a glare like that, I bet he's a real lady killer too! Rawr!= he joked as images of the man with auburn hair appeared on the screen naming him to those who didn't know, mostly Ryuko =Following after him is the underdog Team Gaim, who are all No-Star Students!= he motioned to the dancers on the screen beside him in the background =Ah, it goes to show ya that stars ain't all that matters when it comes to dancing!=

"Dance?" Ryuko questioned, pausing to watch as she was halfway up some stairs.

=YES, DANCE!= DJ Sagara seemingly replied =The ultimate art form, and the way our youth show their freedom from oppression! What? Have you been living under a rock?=

"What's with this DJ?" she asked due to how he seemed to be able to respond to what she said.

=Just look at 'em go!= DJ Sagara cheered.

Ryuko decided to keep going on her way. While entertaining, she had no time to waste watching. She had a destination to reach, so she kept climbing up the stairs towards her objective: Honnouji Academy. Along the way, her path was suddenly cut off by a young boy.

"Oops sorry!" he cheered running around her before rushing down the stairs. He ducked around a cover, and rested against a wall before he reached into his shirt with a chuckle, "Piece of cake!" he laughed before blinking as he looked at a bitten lemon, "I was sure I snagged her wallet!"

"You're a cute kid stealing a lemon someone already took a bite of." Ryuko spoke snatching the lemon away, crouching down above him on a platform "You're that eager to learn what first love tastes like?" she laughed, jumping down and landing in front of him.

"Don't be all witty with me, Bitch!" the boy snapped, clearly annoyed at being looked down upon, both figuratively and literally given how much taller she was, "Besides, I've already had my first kiss!"

"With your mom doesn't count."

"URUSEI!"

"Though if not, then there truly is no such thing as regret in this world anymore," Ryuko noted.

"Heh. That's my line, sister. Come on out, guys!" the boy declared as a group of boys came out with various weapons in hand, "You've insulted the great Lightning Speed Mataro-sama! This neighborhood's my turf! Honnou Town Blind Alley. It's a dead end for lives and a feared hangout for drifters. If you wanna get home in one piece, leave yer wallet and get outta here!"

"Come on, what's with this cliche street punk routine?" Ryuko laughed, looking at her 'attackers', "I knew this city was weird, but now I know for sure the people who live here are just as freaky!" she laughed once more before giving them all a smirk, "Alright then. It's my policy to see a fight through to to the end, so bring it on."

"GET HER!" he shouted as his three friends jumped...only for all of them to be punched and effectively juggled around in the air by her fists for a few seconds before she finally got bored and let them fall face first into the dirt.

"Ah…" Mataro gawked, "...Boys, assume the maneuver!"

"Hai!" the trio replied...before all four bowed several meters away from her, "GOMEN NASSAI, ONEE-SAMA!"

"What the hell?" Ryuko gawked totally surprised by how quickly they did this, and the fact they had an entire routine for it as well.

"We're really weak against stronger people! That's our own strong suit," Mataro explained.

"I guess I can't beat people who are bowing out as soon as they realize they stand no chance…" Ryuko chuckled, trying to just go with the flow since it might be the quickest way out of this weirdness, "I'll let it slide just this once." she told them as she walked off without a care or second glance.

Mataro sighed in relief at the fact he was safe, mainly since he wasn't hit and he was really scared she would hit him. Sadly with his guard down, he didn't see a book bag flying at him 'till it was too late...and he was sent flying through the air and past Ryuko.

"Wah...best distance this week!" a boy cheered as suddenly a figure shot past Ryuko and put Mataro in a headlock.

"ORA!" Mako roared, "Out shaking people down in the afternoon again, I see!"

"Oh shit! Mako-Onee-chan!"

"You can't get away!" Mako snapped as she pulled him into another hold, "How many times do I have to tell you to stop mugging people! I bet you skipped school again, too!"

"Mako...stop while you're ahead...we had off campus lunch yesterday," Kouta chuckled.

"Sorry about them," Ryuko looked over at Yuya, "It's nice to meet you. I'm Yuya, this is Kouta and those two are Mako and her little brother Mataro."

"GOMEN! GOMEN! I'LL GO TOMORROW! I'LL GO!" Mataro begged.

"Butt Buster!"

"...It's best you don't try to figure them out and go with the flow," Yuya advised, trying very hard to ignore the screams.

"Eight...Nine...TEN! Winner, Mako-chan!" Kouta cheered.

"Kouta…"

"Ah, come on...This little dude just needs some discipline!" Kouta laughed as he separated the siblings.

"He has your wallet again," Yuya pointed out, "And your pants."

"Eh?" Kouta looked down, "Huh…" he looked at where he had been holding Mataro only to find his shirt, "...Huh…"

"No way am I gonna go to no mandatory school stuff! No way no how!" Mataro cackled as he and his 'gang' fled with Kouta's pants.

"Ah mou~! Not again!" Kouta panicked as he ran after them, "Oi, get back here, Mataro! Don't make me tell your Kaa-san about this again!"

"Don't you dare!"

"Give me back my jeans! And don't be cheeky again and take the wallet! I mean leave everything in them, too!"

"NEVAH!"

"Mako-chan attack!" Kouta ordered.

Yuya sighed as he shook his head before turning back to Ryuko, "New to Honno City, right?"

"That obvious?"

"Well, everyone who lives here is very use to this...nonsense..." he laughed, "He's just a kid, so don't worry...They are the only ones who actually do stuff like that around here."

"You seem like the only other normal person here…" Ryuko pointed out bluntly.

"Well, someone has to be the straight man to those two," Yuya replied, pointing a thumb at the fight cloud that had formed, "So are you looking to join Honnouji Academy or just here visiting?"

"I have a bit of business here with the place."

"Ah. Then take the cable car. It's a straight path using it," Yuya explained as he pointed at a nearby cable car.

"It'll take you anywhere you need to go!" Mako cheered, having returned suddenly..

"BWAH!" Ryuko jumped as she looked back at the fight cloud to see the boys all had their heads shoved into the ground like ostriches...even Kouta...who still didn't have his pants.

"...Okay, you read that manga series again, didn't you?" Yuya deadpanned.

"Which one?" Mako blinked confused.

"You know which one," Yuya replied simply, "This girl, as you see, is a bit energetic, but she's a good guide around town."

"I know where to get the best ingredients for Kaa-san's Mystery Croquettes!" Mako beamed.

"...Right…" Ryuko replied.

"I got my pants!" Kouta cheered, coming back...only now his shirt and uniform jacket were gone, leaving his hoodie open to expose his well toned torso, "Anyone else feel a breeze?"

"...I'll go call Mrs. Mankanshoku," Yuya sighed, pulling out a cell phone and hitting speed dial, "Mako, can you show Ryuko-san here to Honnouji Academy while we get Kouta's shirt and jacket back?"

"Hai! Ike Ryuko-chan!"

"AH! My shirt!" Kouta realized, slapping his chest, "Now everyone can see my three chest hairs."

"He names them!" Mako smiled.

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Since classes were over, the Cable cars were empty making for a...semi-relaxing ride. It'd be just relaxing if not the for the game of Billion questions from Mako, who tried to learn every single detail from Ryuko. It ranged from very simple to some very personal ones she randomly added in there.

'What is she on? Did someone replace her blood with liquid sugar or something?' Ryuko pondered.

"And we're here! Try and ignore the cow skulls...some teams thought it'd add character to the dirt field around here." Mako muttered kicking said item out of their way, "It was fun the first week when Kouta would wear one as a hat...but it got boring and creepy later."

Ryuko ignored most of that along with several other long stories she had. She looked up at the crack like opening which was the front gate. Hanging from the top most section of the opening was the boy from yesterday, left naked with only a sign covering his bits and pieces.

"'This is a naked pig who dared defy Honnouji Academy'." she read slowly, "'As such Justice was Dealt'. Huh...wow...this place really is dangerous."

"That's the spy from yesterday!" Mako chirped happily, "A lot of the teams took pictures with the Student Council's latest kill...uhm...is he...actually though...I don't think anyone's checked." she paused for a moment before pulling out a hand bell and rang it, "Bring out yer dead!"

"What are you doing?"

"Monty Python," Mako replied before ringing once more, "Bring out yer dead!"

"Ignoring that…" Ryuko muttered as she entered, 'Still...this is pretty interesting. Something tells me I'll find some leads here.' "So, Mako, who's the top dog of this place anyway?"

"Um, if you mean the city then that'd be Yggdrasil!" Mako noted.

"Yggdrasil?"

"Uhn-uhn! Originally, the city was going to be made by this company called REVOCS but then Yggdrasil bought the entire land outside of the lake and then the lake itself. It was all like 'oh you want this place? Then you have to pay us to make it!'" Mako explained, "But it's all really great! I heard that things in the lower part would be a lot, lot, lot worse if it wasn't for Yggdrasil!"

"So you mean a company...no, I mean like who's in charge here?" Ryuko motioned to the school, "Like a top dog person whom I can confront...I don't do business."

"Oh! Well that'd be the Student Council!" she declared, pointing up, "They meet all the way up there where the ominous dark storm clouds gather. They run the school and their system determines how well you live. You can rise up in the city other ways, too. The Dance team rankings are as good as being a 3 Star if you're at the top."

"What Star?"

"Yuya knows how to word it better…" she murmured to herself, "Here at Honnouji Academy, we have a star system to rank us. No Stars are the normal students who are more or less zero. Then the 1 through 3, who are the best and higher ranked students. They are given out by the President Satsuki Kiryuin, who decides who is worthy."

"Ranking system got it." Ryuko nodded.

"There's also the uniforms."

"Uniforms?"

"Hai, hai. Our uniforms have sugoi powers to them! ...If you're not a No Star, I mean," Mako noted, "One Star and higher students get super powers from their uniforms! They're called Goku Uniforms! For Two Star students and higher, they get customized ones related to a club they're in or a committee they're a part of."

"That all seems complicated and like it's super gimmicky," Ryuko pointed out.

"Nah. That's what Beat Riders have!" Mako noted.

"Hah?"

"While they're dancers, they also fight using these cute little locks called Lockseeds, too," Mako noted, "They all have yummy fruits and seeds on them, too! Yuya has this yummy orange one, but I chipped a tooth when I tried to eat it."

"So it's a lock with a fruit picture on it...and you tried to eat it?" Ryuko asked.

"It looked so yummy and realistic…" she cried at the memory of the pain, "Kaa-chan was so upset with me...and Mataro laughed until Kaa-san pulled him into a half-nelson. Then Tou-san started laughing at Mataro, so Kaa-san pulled him into a full-nelson. Then Guts laughed and he got put in the doghouse she put in the living room with a door on it for the night."

"So what do Lockseeds do?" Ryuko asked.

"Summon monsters from another place to fight for you...You know, like any Monster catching video game but real," she explained.

"Seriously?"

"Yep! I even have a video of the last time Yuya-kun used his in a Lockseed fight!" Mako beamed as she dug into her shirt and pulled out a cellphone before showing her a video, "See? See?"

The video displayed a tall humanoid blue beetle like monster as it fought with a red humanoid Lion monster. The two traded blows back and forth as the human masters with Yuya controlling the beetle, while the Lion was controlled by Kumon Kaito. The monsters traded blows before the Beetle used its whip-like antenna to strangle the Lion and pin it down.

"That's insane," Ryuko noted, "And I thought the sane one of you three."

"Oh, he is," Mako confirmed, "When Yuya challenges someone, he always goes for the dance battles instead of Lockseed Battles."

"Then it's this other guy?"

"Kumon Kaito! He's the same age as us, and captain of Team Baron, he's got so much control he can do anything...a lot like Satsuki-senpai," she went on, "He's all about fighting. You want anything from him, you have to fight it out of him. But he isn't easy to beat. He can control Five monsters all at the same time and with that will, he's overwhelmed one of the Elite Four of the Student Council before."

"Interesting," Ryuko admitted.

"Yep...but he's super scary!" she added, "He looked my way one time and I was so scared I thought I was going to pass out. He's so intense all the time...I don't know why girls like that scary look...the one time he and Satsuki had some kind of intense stare off...half the school passed out and woke up the next day! Oh, I missed so many meals..."

"You're not altogether up there, are you?" Ryuko asked, tapping Mako's head.

"Ah! Am I going bald?!" Mako gasped, quickly pulling out a mirror from her shirt and looked at her hair in it from various angles.

"Answered it for me…" Ryuko sighed, "So where can I find these head honcho's?"

"You mean Satsuki-san and her Elite Four?"

"Yep."

"Oh...Up there," Mako replied as she pointed at the tallest point of the school, "Though no one but approved workers and Three Star students are allowed up there. Oh! And people from Yggdrasil, though I don't think Satsuki-san likes it when they're here..."

"Alright...so I have to bring the Princess down from her tower," Ryuko smirked.

"I don't think she likes that nickname...Kaito called her that once...We had the worst week of school ever…" Mako cringed at the memory.

"So...how do I get her down here…?" Ryuko muttered.

"You could always wait 'till she comes down those steps normally every morning," a voice spoke, making the two girls jump just as a boy maybe a year younger with medium length black hair, wearing a hoodie under his uniform jacket spoke as he walked out holding a book in his hands, "Mako...what has Kouta-san told you about bothering new students?"

"Um...Oh! To not call their name and jump at them to give them a bear hug until I know them for a day!" Mako beamed.

"Close enough..." he sighed while closing his book before looking at Ryuko, "I apologize for her. I'm Mitsuzane…"

"We call him Mitchi!" Mako cheered.

"Only friends can call me that," Mitsuzane sighed at that, "And you are...?"

"Ryuko...I take it you're one of her friends?" she pointed at Mako, who moved around so as to stand right next to said pointing finger.

"Hmm...underpaid babysitter." he mused jokingly.

"Unpaid?! ...Well...that does make sense with Tou-san's job on slow days…" Mako admitted, "And you did sit on…"

"We agreed to never bring up that incident," Mitsuzane reminded.

"Oh come on! We all had a laugh about it!" Mako giggled.

"Never again." he spoke simply, "Never...ever...again."

'What the hell happened?' Ryuko pondered.

"You're never gonna find out," Mitsuzane spoke, reading her face and making her jump in surprise.

"How did you…?"

"He does that to me all the time!" Mako noted, "It's really cool how he does it! Look!" she made a face at him, "Mmmm…"

"No, I am not getting you an ice cream cone with pickle juice as the topping...again."

"See?" Mako pointed at him while looking at Ryuko.

"How...how do you do that?" Ryuko asked.

"In this school, we need to learn means of talking without getting on the radar of the student council. Me and my friends seem to have developed some method of reading each other's mind by reading faces." he explained, "It's actually based off reading the muscle twitches and cues in ones face in order to…"

"ZZZZZ!" Mako snored suddenly.

"It's mind magic…." Mitsuzane groaned as she woke back up.

"Yeah, that's it!" Mako smiled before looking at the face he was making, "Now that's uncalled for language, Mitchi!" she huffed, "How rude."

"...Riiiight…" Ryuko noted with a drop of sweat going down the back of her head.

"If you're gonna go to school here...you need to get use to weird," Mitsuzane spoke to her, "If not...you're not gonna last a single day here." he moved his hand and patted the top of Mako's head, "This one is just the tip of the weirdness iceberg."

"Hi, I'm Mako!"

"...Mario Party?"

"Yep!"

"How'd someone...bookish like you get to be friends with her?" Ryuko asked a burning question that was on her mind.

"Friends with Kouta...boyishly handsome short black hair, met her when they both got detention, then we met all sorts of other outcasts and formed Team Gaim." he explained, "Then we just couldn't get rid of any of our friends."

"Gaim...ah, that was you guys on the screen earlier today," Ryuko recalled.

"Yes, yes it was." Mitsuzane smiled, "Those were a surprise, but I guess whoever put them up likes DJ Sagara."

"So what's with the dancing?" Ryuko asked, "Some sorta competition?"

"It started when Satsuki-sama decided to change how clubs worked here." he explained, "Because of that, no one could enjoy the club or hobbies like before. A lot of the students from the dance club hated the change and, as an act of rebellion, formed a dance team to do things their own way. One by one, more students who didn't like how she ran the school formed teams, most chose to wear their team uniform over the school uniform. But like Kouta-san and Yuya say, we're just dancing for the fun, we're not interested in going to war with the student council...I'm scared of Gamagoori-senpai…" he muttered that last part with a nervous shiver.

"Besides that is Team Baron!" Mako added, "Last week, they stole Gamagoori's car and painted it red then left it out of gas and with a dozen parking tickets."

"Gamagoori?" Ryuko repeated before a large object landed behind her, "?!"

"Ah! We said his name three times and he appeared!" Mako panicked.

"Ulp…" Mitsuzane gulped as he looked up at Gamagoori.

"...You…" Gamagoori spoke as he looked down at Ryuko before pulling out a blue book and looked at it, "Ah. Matoi Ryuko. Transferring to Honojii Academy." he closed it before handing her a uniform like Mako's, "Classes begin at 6AM sharp."

"Wait, wha…" she blinked, confused by the sudden change from danger to...borderline normalcy.

"We'll make sure she gets to class on time, sir!" Mitsuzane informed quickly, bowing.

"See to it," Gamagoori nodded before pulling out a book as big as him and handed it to Ryuko, who fell over from the size, "The school rulebook. Your schedule is in the front cover."

"Majidayo!" she shouted, escaping from under the book, "This thing's the size of a freakin coffin!"

"Oh, they double as safety bunkers in emergencies," Mako noted.

"She's kidding...she's kidding!" Mitsuzane laughed, seeing how awkward and weird it was getting for Ryuko now, as Gamagoori left, "That's just...once a month type thing…"

"Huh?" Mako tilted her head before looking down, "...No blood, so nope."

"Ugh…." he groaned at that.

"Seriously, what is with this weird place..." Ryuko muttered, "I don't know whether to embrace the madness...or curl up in a corner and question life."

"You will have plenty of time for that in class tomorrow." Gamagoori added, "I trust you to ensure she doesn't cause trouble like your other friends, Mitsuzane."

"Yes sir!" he shouted nervously.

"Oh name one time we did anything as bad as Team Baron!" Mako laughed.

"The Pudding Incident with the Cooking Club."

"...Mitsuzane did it."

"That was you and Rat!" Mitsuzane barked.

"Mitchi, what poor memory you have." she sighed.

"Just 'cause I'm a first year doesn't excuse you doing this bit." he countered.

'...Either that's a nickname or his name really is 'Rat,'' Ryuko thought.

"Well all seems in order, I'll just leave this new student in your hands. She should be in the same homeroom as your other friends." Gamagoori muttered, looking at his little book, "Is there anyone else reliable enough to show her around?"

"I think he's looking at you," Mako whispered to Mitsuzane.

"Grr…" he growled as silently as possible.

"Ah! I found ya!" Kouta shouted, suddenly jumping into the scene, "I got 'em from here!" he declared to Gamagoori, "You can leave them to me! Run before he registers we might have done something wrong...again..." he whispered to Ryuko.

"Aga…" Ryuko began before Mako picked her up and ran off, "...IIIIIIIIINNNNN?!"

"..." Gamagoori clicked a stopwatch, "...Hm. Beat her last record by 0.0001 seconds."

"Run Mitchi!" Kouta shouted as he used the school rule book as a sled to slide down the insane incline that made up the city. Said first year clinging to Kouta for dear life.

"Gyah! Matte, matte! Slow down!" Mitchi yelped, "Ah mou...Kouta-sempai, I'm telling Yuya-sempai!"

"Cowabunga!" Kouta cheered as they kept going.

"Second years…" Gamagoori groaned. "They always go crazy or lazy...And it's always the crazies who are left for me to deal with."

"...I'm not dead yet…" the hung spy groaned only for Gamagoori to whip him.

"Silence, filthy spy!"

---

"Whoo!" Kouta cheered as they all landed in a dumpster that seemed to have been padded up for this exact situation, "I think I broke my personal record for street boarding."

"Mercy…" Mitchi groaned as he stumbled out and collapsed beside Ryuko and Mako.

"...What the hell just happened?!" Ryuko exclaimed, throwing her arms up in the air.

"I...I wish I could say this is rare...but it's not…" Mitchi sighed, "This is our lives...and as long as you're here...it's yours, too."

"...Dammit…" Ryuko groaned, 'The one best damn lead I get...and I'm stuck in crazy town…'

"Gamagoori-senpai has a weird hair trigger," Kouta spoke, "Saying the wrong thing will set him off and leave you like that poor dude Satsuki-senpai hung in front of the school. The faster you can finish talking to him without setting him off, the better, as he'll keep you off his radar."

"Either that or you're Mako and he gets blindsided," Mitchi muttered.

"It's true!" she cheered.

"But he tends to still blow up eventually if you talk to him too long," Kouta sighed, "He seems to forget we're part of a team since we wear normal uniforms, but most times he snaps at them, mainly 'cause he really hates what Team Baron did to his car."

"Oh! Since you're new, why not join our team?" Mako asked.

"Mako...you can't just recruit random people we just met…" Mitchi sighed.

"Eh? But why not? Then she can live with us, have access to all the free clothes we get, and she'll probably have a better chance of doing whatever she came to this city for!" she listed.

"...Did she hit her head and go into logic mode again?" Kouta asked, checking her head for bumps.

"If she did, don't let her head get hit again," Mitchi joked.

"Well….I mean I can't deny that doesn't sound bad." Ryuko muttered.

"You realize by doing this you could make an enemy of the Student Council, and all the other figures of power in town," Mitchi pointed out, "Everyone will see you as acting on the rules set up by this city and...and...this is just selling you on the idea even more isn't it?"

"So where do I sign up?" Ryuko confirmed.

"Oh, let's go see Yuya-kun!" Mako beamed, "He's the leader of Team Gaim!" she dragged Ryuko off, "To the fruit shop! Smoothies on Kouta-kun and Mitchi-chan!"

"...Darn. She's back to normal," Mitchi deadpanned.

"AH! Unfair! I paid yesterday!" Kouta shouted.

---

Once more, faster than Ryuko could understand, she was dragged to the middle most section of the city before going to a shopping center bordering on the upper section of town. Once there, everyone made a Beeline for a particular shop, the sign on it read: 'Drupers.' The letters were painted to look like they were made of various fruits. Once inside, it was actually a large interior with nice looking table and chairs and multiple sections, seemingly split up amongst the many Dance team factions. Save for one corner near the back which had one entry and a man dressed in black with a bowler hat could be seen sipping a smoothie.

Ryuko was lead to the center of a room where an island like table was where she was seated, a centerpiece made of many fruits sitting in the center. She looked down to see a symbol on the table: a silver bolted ring with a blue katana pierced through it and the kanji squeezed inside the circle reading: 'GAIM.'

"Welcome to Drupers!" Mako cheered, "The most popular fruit themed establishment in the city!"

"It's all fruit?" Ryuko asked.

"No, that'd be silly, but it's what sells most, Smoothies, parfait, Fruit salad...and fruit hats." Mako smiled.

"Only you get that." a woman with the most neutral sounding voice spoke up, walking past the table.

"Hi Iyo!" Mako waved.

"New girl, what can I get you?" Iyo asked pulling out a notepad.

"Me?" Ryuko blinked.

"No, the other new girl with the cool edgy bad girl look the next table over." Iyo replied.

"Hm?" Mako looked over at the next table over, "...Um...That's a guy."

"She doesn't get Sarcasm," Iyo looked back at Ryuko, "So use it at your own pain."

"Um...right," Ryuko replied before looking at the menu, "A lemon smoothie then."

"Regular lemons, pickled, or a mix of both?"

"Uhm...both…" she muttered unsure how to react to this neutral toned girl.

"Ah finally made it…" Kouta huffed, sliding in.

"Ah good Kouta, I'm on break. Take over for me." Iyo said tossing her apron over his head.

"Nice to see you to Iyo…" Kouta muffled out.

"You work here?" Ryuko blinked.

"Guy has to earn some green somehow." he sighed, putting the apron on and adjusting it for his body, before grabbing the notes, "Hai hai, Mako her regular plus fruit hat thing, Ryuko Lemon smoothie, Mitchi his regular...and one shift of working around people who hate me for me…." he sighed, walking off, "Bando-san! I'm here for work! Can I have an advance on my salary!?" he shouted jokingly.

"No, not today!" a man shouted back, sporting curly hair and dressed in a colorful hawaiian shirt and slacks with an apron for cooking over his torso, "Earn it like a normal kid, will ya."

"Hai, hai," Kouta replied.

"So we'll find that Yuya guy here?" Ryuko asked.

"He normally comes here around this time when Kouta works so they can talk...and Kouta can work without having to really do work," Mako explained, "He gets paid to hang out with friends!" she cheered before an orange was tossed and covered her mouth, making her fall over.

"Two points," Mitchi muttered.

'What a weird place…' Ryuko thought before tensing a bit and looking over at the far-off part, seeing the man sipping his smoothie, 'Got a bad feeling about that guy…'

"That's Sid," Mitchi spoke, "He's called 'Lock Dealer' Sid. He sells Lockseeds, and as the only person you can get them from, he makes the prices whatever he feels like." he explained as one guy walked out of his little private section holding a Pineapple themed Lockseed and grinning happily like an idiot, "The Lockseeds have levels, the strongest is Class A, which can fetch a pretty penny in this town. Our team only has two Class A Lockseeds, and that's lucky, most don't have one."

"Except Kaito who has five of them...to himself!" Mako declared, "All of them are Banana." she paused to think, "..."

"Don't...don't ask," Mitchi told Ryuko.

"Kouta-kun, extra bananas in the hat please!" Mako called.

"Yes Ma'am!" he declared happily.

"Do people here just act crazy to blow off steam?" Ryuko asked.

"Highly likely." Yuya smirked, walking out of Sid's corner and taking a seat, "Sorry, Sid called some of us Team Leaders in to talk about some new product he's going to begin selling."

"New product? ...Is it a fruit hat Lockseed like I suggested?" Mako asked.

"...In a way…"

"Yay!" Mako cheered before she leaped only for Yuya to grab her, "Sid-san~!"

"He won't do it if you hug him," Yuya warned.

"Aw…" Mako pouted before recovering, "Ryuko-chan wants to join Team Gaim!"

"Was this her idea or did you kidnap her and bring her here and tell me she wants to join so you can have a new female friend to even out the team's gender ratio?" Yuya asked, "Like the last 15 girls you suddenly dragged here."

"Oh come on...one was a boy who crossdressed," Mako waved off his accusation in the form of facts.

"We agreed to never speak of it." Mitchi and Yuya spoke simply with uncomfortable expressions.

"Oh-hoh~" Ryuko chuckled, "I think I got the idea what happened."

"But she is honestly interested." Mitchi sighed.

"Well I'm open to more members, so welcome Ryuko-san." Yuya smiled, "I take it your here for the combat elements of this stuff?" he asked, earning a smirk, "Well you look like you are someone I can trust to keep the less combative members safe."

"No problem," Ryuko replied.

"Welcome to Team Gaim then." he smiled, "Mako, the sweater box."

"Roger!" she smiled before pulling out a cardboard box filled with blue happi themed hoodies. After a few seconds she somehow pulled out a jacket that looked like a blue hooded version of the jacket Ryuko was currently wearing, "Ah! Found one that'll fit you! Sorry it's one of the boy sizes. None of the girl sizes look like they'd fit you."

"Why...she looks pretty...what's the right word here?" Yuya asked.

"The right thing to say would have been nothing." Kouta spoke walking past them.

"Oh, she's got big boobs," Mako bluntly replied earning spit takes from any male within earshot, "A lot bigger than any of the girls we know, even." she squeezed her own chest, "Bigger than me, too."

"Tissues for everybody!" Kouta shouted, tossing tissues around, two shoved up his nose, "Some for your bleeding noses."

"Mako…" Yuya groaned as Mitchi tried very hard to fight the blush on his cheeks.

"Looking at the ceiling…" Mitchi muttered to himself.

"You guys are weak." Ryuko chuckled.

"Your face is red, too." Kouta pointed out, poking her cheek for emphasis.

"Oi, where's my smoothie?" Ryuko grumbled.

"Yes, Ma'am!" Kouta saluted as he ducked away before coming back with three different smoothies and a whole plate of desert for Mako...along with a hat made of fruit, "There you go, now back to work...time to mop up spit-take…" he sighed, grabbing a mop and whistling as he worked.

"In case you can't figure it out, Kouta is the only person able to keep up with Mako." Yuya sighed, "He's arguably really strong...but too nice to do much with it."

"Yay! Fruit hat~ Fruit hat~ I got my fruit hat~" Mako cheered, donning it before going to town on her plate.

"And her?"

"Team Mascot." the three boys all spoke in unison.

"Here!" Mako raised her hand.

"Seems right," Ryuko nodded.

"Well welcome aboard, Ryuko." Yuya smiled.

"Banzai!" Kouta cheered, pulling the string on a huge party favor and causing an explosion of confetti to rain all over the place, "And I gotta clean that…"

"Yes, you do!" the owner declared.

"Mou…"

"Hahahaha…" most of the others laughed.

"Kids…" Sid spoke out as he finished his drink, "Good for business...but annoying…" he sighed, tapping a tablet and making a list of Teams by name, he then moved Gaim to the very top, with a smirk that spoke of trouble and intent of chaos.

---

After a few hours there, the members of Team Gaim decided to head home. After learning Ryuko didn't exactly have an actual place to stay the night, it was decided she'd be allowed to use Team Gaim's HQ as her temporary living quarters. Kouta was currently unlocking the front door to what had once been a garage and now revitalized as a hangout for a group of teenagers. The former area where cars were worked on was now decked out with a small bar, swinging benches, and there was a volkswagon bug parked in the middle with a sunroof cut into the top. It was also stored with beach toys like a giant blow up dolphin and beach balls.

"Home sweet home!" Kouta cheered, turning on the lights as he jumped down, "This is Team Gaim HQ. It used to be an old garage, but they messed up fixing Gamagoori's car so we got the place pretty cheap afterwards!"

"Huh...It's pretty neat," Ryuko noted, "...What's with the car?"

"Dunno...They just left it here...Only me and Yuya know how to drive...but well...we found we can store our beach stuff in it when it's not summer...so we leave it here for that very purpose." he muttered, "I think we just keep it for decoration honestly...The last time we tried turning her on, she blew up in Rat's face…"

"Guess I'll be meeting the other members sooner or later," Ryuko noted, "Any warning on how they act? Any like Mako?"

"Nope...no one's like Mako...except maybe her Kaa-chan," Kouta spoke, "The other members are Chucky, Rica, and Rat." he listed, "Chucky is the big sister to Rica, Rica is everyone's little sister, Rat...he's Rat...our friend." he muttered the last part, "You...you'll get the hang of him fast." he added, "Also, don't let Mako's brother in. He made a secret room in the walls last time. Mako's dad is not allowed near here after last time...and Mako's dog sometimes gets in here…"

"Mako's family seems very central in everyone's lives." Ryuko muttered.

"Of course they are. On Team Gaim, everyone's family!" Kouta smiled.

"Everyone?" Ryuko blinked.

"Yeah…" Kouta sighed, "Not all of us got...perfect family set ups." he revealed with a small sad smile, "So...we all bunched together...and made our family even bigger! Now you got a big family, too."

'Family, huh…' Ryuko thought.

"Ah!" Kouta cheered, opening a closet and pulling out a bunch of futons and blankets before creating a makeshift bed near a warm spot in the room, He then moved it behind the bar, "Here. This way if someone comes over early, they won't wake ya!" he then cleared a spot near by for her to prop up her guitar case, "So what kind of guitar is it anyway?"

"It's not one," Ryuko replied.

"Eh?"

Ryuko knelt down and opened the case. Reaching in, she pulled out what Kouta thought was a giant prop piece of half a scissors. It was a deep scarlet in color, almost like freshly-spilt blood. The handle had small grooves meant for the fingers of a hand to hold it while the cutting edge of it was very sharp. Near the middle where handle met blade, there was a hole meant for the piece that would connect the two.

"Hasami?" Kouta blinked shocked, "Is that a real edge?" he asked looking closer, even moving to touch it before she moved it out of his reach.

"Yes...you know you could have cut yourself." she pointed out.

"But I was touching the not sharp part...wasn't I? Ah...this is such a confusing design...which side is sharp?" Kouta complained, putting his hands to the side of his head.

"It's just sharp so be careful, dingus." she snorted in amusement.

"So what is this thing?" Kouta asked in a more calm and serious tone.

"...It's, well...the last thing I have from my dad," Ryuko replied, her eyes narrowing, "The other half of it was stolen."

"And you're here to find the other half...and the person who stole it…" Kouta guessed, "I may not be smart like Mitchi, but I'm not that dumb." he chuckled trying to lighten her mood a little, feeling this was a sensitive subject, "I can't say I've seen something like this around here...but this city has a lot of people come and go. I'm sure we'll find it with some elbow grease."

"You'd help?" she questioned shocked.

"Sounds important to you...so it's important to Team Gaim." Kouta grinned, "We ain't the smartest, but...we are there for our own." he explained tapping her shoulder with his hand, "Sides it's better than listening to Satsuki-senpai call us pigs in human clothing…"

"Pfft...hahaha...you're good at ruining a mood, aren't you!?" Ryuko laughed.

"It's what me and Rat do!" he declared proudly.

"Seriously, is his name actually Rat?" Ryuko asked.

"He's considered legally changing it…" Kouta muttered in the same incredulous tone.

"Seriously?!" Ryuko laughed, "Well...meeting them seems like it's going to be something insane."

"Not as high as Mako, but yep. Anything else?"

"...Is Gamagoori a teacher or something?"

"No...he's the student head of the Disciplinary Committee...and yes...he is 20 years old…" he muttered, "But the last time someone asked this to his face...they got the thorny whip he hides in his sleeve."

"Was it you?"

"Maybe…"

"It was totally you."

"Yes…" he finally admitted after a few awkward moments of silence, earning a hysterical laugh from Ryuko in response to finally admitting it, "It's not that funny...left a giant bruise across my face for two weeks."

"Hahahaha!" Ryuko laughed, picturing it in her mind.

---

After a rather relaxing night's sleep where-at worst-Ryuko had to tune out noisy neighbors, she was awake and on her way to class with Kouta and Yuya. Halfway towards school, Mako appeared and got lazy so she just climbed on Kouta's back and was carried the rest of the way. Ryuko raised a brow at Yuya, who chuckled with a shrug.

"It's just how we roll…" Yuya sighed, "Mako and Kouta have been friends since they were little. They...have a halfway decent brain when working together."

"Hey~!" they both replied, "It's 3/4ths." they nodded proudly.

"That's not a thing to be proud of…" both Ryuko and Yuya muttered.

"Oh! Do you know what class you're in?" Mako asked, "You get it with your rulebook in the cover!"

"I swear that's a giant brick, not a book," Ryuko muttered as she pulled out a slip of paper, "Ah, it's this one."

"Oh, that's our classroom," Kouta noted.

"Oh! Yay! We can be desk buddies!" Mako cheered, "Well...desk buddies on the left since Kouta's my desk buddy on the right."

"Welcome to the madhouse," Yuya sighed as they entered, "Ohayo sensei!"

"Yo teach, how you doin'?" Kouta added as he carried in Mako.

"We brought the transfer student!" Mako smiled and waved.

"Hm? Ah…" the scraggly, blue-haired teacher in bottlenose glasses looked at Ryuko and then a sheet of paper, "Matoi Ryuko, hai?"

"Yeah."

"Ah, soka, soka," the teacher nodded, "I am Mikisugi-sensei. Hopefully, you're not a spy like the last transfer was."

"Oh, we noticed he wasn't hanging anymore," Yuya noted.

"Ah...Yggdrasil took the boy down to take to the hospital. Apparently, the school would have been under several fines if he hadn't been taken down soon," Mikisugi-sensei noted.

"Ah...he was alive?!" several asked.

"To be fair, I don't think Gamagoori-senpai even tried…" Kouta muttered.

"How regular is this?"

"A bi-weekly basis at times," Mikisugi-sensei replied, adjusting his glasses before looking to the students, "Students, this is Matoi Ryuko. She's transferred here from…" he looked at the sheet and paused, "...Wait, really? You, uh...are you sure you went there?"

"Yes," Ryuko grumbled.

"Ah...well...from Shibuya's Kiseki Academy," Mikisugi-sensei informed.

'...The fancy all-girls boarding school?' several students, Yuya included, thought, Yuya trying hard to connect the fancy uniforms, proper manners, and all-around stereotypical girl types the school seemed to produce with Ryuko.

"What's that?" Kouta asked, shattering the tension, "...What!? I never heard of it! I work after school!" he complained as some groaned when he did that.

"Now for seating...ah. Over there by Manshako-san, I suppose," Mikisugi-sensei noted as Mako waved excitedly and pointed at the empty seat beside her with both hands and a foot.

"D-do I have to?" she whispered to her teacher.

"Better there then around some of the other weirdos in this class…" he responded.

"Who's weirder than her?" Ryuko asked.

"Uh…."

"I'll just take the seat…" Ryuko sighed, sitting down.

"Yay! Good to have ya, Ryuko-chan!" Mako beamed.

"Alright, let's get on with the lesson," Mikisugi-sensei informed.

As if a switch had been flipped, Mako had her book out and set up before her, standing upright. In a second, she had her lunch out on her desk behind the book and proceeded to eat it all in five seconds. Upon the end of the last second, she fell asleep with her head in her emptied container and a snot bubble in her nose.

"She's already asleep!" Ryuko whispered in shock.

"That's normal," Kouta replied as he replaced the container with a tiny pillow, "It's a combination of her boredom...and a food coma from her mom's cooking."

"Is that safe?"

"She...seems...I want to say fine," Kouta muttered.

"Surprisingly, she learns while she sleeps," Yuya noted.

---

"I'll bite. Why the hell's with the class bell being an air siren of all things, Kouta?" Ryuko asked.

"I assumed it's 'cause this school is like some kind of old battle ship," Kouta argued, "I mean look at this! The windows are manholes! This is like some kind of military battleship that has been refurbished into a school on the top of an island."

"Ah, I see…"

"Ryuko-chan~!" Ryuko stepped to the side, causing Mako to zip past them in the air, arms outstretched to glomp only to crash into some trash cans.

"...So where's Yuya?"

"Oh, he had to go see Sid after school," Kouta explained as he helped up Mako...who now sported a banana peel on her noggin.

"Mou, Ryuko-chan, why'd ya dodge?" Mako pouted cutely as the trio exited to the outside of the school's building.

"It's common sense to dodge something flying at you," Ryuko snorted.

"We all do it, Mako…" Kouta laughed as they kept walking around the school.

"Aw, I was just giving my female bestie a hug!" Mako pouted.

"I didn't want it…" Ryuko argued simply.

"You got use to Mako fast. Maybe you two are on a similar wavelength..." Kouta muttered, "Then again most of us are...we can even accurately guess what she fantasizes about." he chuckled, "Like right now she's imagining eating a giant boulder-sized ball of takoyaki."

"He's right!"

"That's weird!" Ryuko gawked.

"Oh, that reminds me! That big case of yours...do you play guitar? Play it! Come on, play! I'll sing!" Mako cheered.

"You're in for disappointment." Kouta sighed.

"You guys are all gonna ask…" Ryuko sighed as she moved to show what was in her case.

However before she could, she was shocked out of her thoughts by how suddenly students lined up and formed a path through the school grounds for someone. Ryuko, Kouta, and Mako poked their heads through the rows of students to see what was going on.

"Ah...Satsuki-senpai must be walking this way…" Kouta realized.

"Sa…" Ryuko began before Mako grabbed the back of her head.

"Ah, Ryuko-chan! Hurry, hurry! Bow! Bow!" Mako panicked, pushing Ryuko's head down to bow with her.

"It looks like it's Gamagoori-sempai," Kouta noted, peeking up from his bowing to see Gamagoori walking down a set of stairs, the metal pieces of his uniform glinting in the sunlight.

"Ya know...This is kinda weird. Why's his uniform so different? Is it because he's from another year?" Ryuko asked, choosing to crouch instead of bow.

"Iie, iie, iie. Gamagoori-sempai is the Disciplinary Committee head and is a Three-Star Student. You, Kouta-kun, and I are all No-Stars."

"Stars?" Ryuko repeated.

"It's a weird system here." Kouta explained, "You get ranked from 1 to 3 Stars depending on your standing here in the school. Regular students or No Stars are the bottom and live in the...well...live where we live. Then you get to One-Stars: just slightly better but more or less the disposable grunts of the Two and Three-Stars. Any and every Club President in the student council is a Two-Star student, with the only Three-Stars being the Elite Four of the school: the Four Devas."

"Ah, so they're the top dogs," Ryuko noted.

"Well, the near-top dogs," Kouta admitted as he got tired of bowing and copied Ryuko's lead and crouched instead.

"Hai, hai, hai. The top-top-top wolf of the school is Student Council president Kiryuin Satsuki-sama," Mako informed before gasping softly, "Ah! It's her! It's her!"

"Ah...Mabushi…" Kouta complained, putting on sunglasses to protect his eyes from a sudden blinding light.

"Where is that light coming from?" Ryuko complained.

"No one knows…" both Kouta and Mako stated.

Stepping down from the stairs was a tall shapely wound woman with flowing black locks of hair, two long strands of it framing her face and reaching down just past her shoulders. Her attired was a pure white suit with pale-blue and gold detailing, giving her outfit a more militaristic motif. In her right hand was a sheathed katana.

"That's her, Kiryuin Satsuki-himesama," Kouta explained, "She's the top dog, strongest, and more or less owns this place." he muttered the end part.

"I heard it would have been a whole lot worse if Yggdrasil didn't come," Mako noted before looking at Ryuko...only to find nothing there, "Eh? Ryuko-chan?"

"So, I hear you're the queen bee in this school," Ryuko noted...standing right in Satsuki's path, "I have a question for you."

"...Oh, this is gonna suck…" Kouta cringed as he stood up.

"Uhn. Especially when she realizes she's being squeezed on her butt," Mako noted, looking at a female student in glasses and pigtails gawking at Ryuko...while a male student was also gawking at Ryuko with his hand on her behind.

"Ah dude!" Kouta complained, "Wait, not important!" he panicked moving to go to Ryuko's side only to be blocked by several One-Stars, "Ah...look! Negative opinion of Satsuki-sama!" he pointed, making them look in that direction before he jumped over them, "Suckas!"

"Bitch! How dare you!" another One-Star snapped as several jumped at Ryuko, only to be batted away by her spinning her guitar case while she opened it and whipped out the scissor-shaped blade.

"...Scissors?"

"Half a scissors?"

"Hm?" Satsuki glanced at the blades with her sharp, blue eyes.

"Muhyu! Dekai Hasami da!" Mako gawked.

"Well...someone's gonna get cut…" Kouta muttered as several One-Stars had him in an awkward dogpile in an attempt to hold him back.

"That's right. This is half of a pair of giant bladed scissors," Ryuko went on as she pointed it at Satsuki, "I'm looking for the owner of the other half. Prez, I noticed you were shocked just now. You've seen it before, haven't you? You've seen my Scissors Blade!"

"And what if I have?" Satsuki questioned calmly.

"Wait. Ryuko, calm down…" Kouta grunted seeing how her face twitched with anger instantly.

"The way she said that…" Ryuko growled, her temper already flying out of control, "You're the woman with the Scissors Blade, aren't you!" she snapped jumping to a wild conclusion...before actually jumping towards Satsuki and aiming her blade at her with the intent to run her through.

"Ryuko!" Kouta panicked as he elbowed some of the One-Stars off him, "Yamero!"

Ryuko barely made it halfway when a massive red and black object rammed into her.

"TEN! KEN! FUN! SAI!"

"Ah! Ryuko!" Kouta gasped, running towards where Ryuko was falling only for a red and black oversized bokken strike him from behind, sending him into Ryuko in midair and causing them to collapse on the ground, "Gah!"

"Kouta! Ryuko!" Mako panicked, not able to get close due to the line of One Stars blocking off the other No-Stars.

"Gh...that...hurt…" Kouta grunted, getting up slowly, "Am I bleeding...all I see is red…"

"That's my line...but blue…" Ryuko grunted as they pushed themselves off one another, Ryuko moving strips of Kouta's jacket which was cut to shreds by the attack leaving him in only a torn T-shirt.

"Fukuroda," Satsuki noted, "Sanageyama."

"Yes, ma'am. Boxing Club President Takaharu Fukuroda," the one that struck Ryuko, a bald student with a bare chest, a large white and silver jacket, boxing shorts and boots, a spiked silver boxing headgear, and two red and black boxing gloves with the right glove three times the size of the left one replied, standing beside a taller male student with messy green hair in a white uniform like Gamagoori's in that it sported three stars on it.

"Was a bit bored and the way she was flying, the impact would've ended up making an explosion that would've had debris in your path," the green-haired student noted, tapping the red and black oversized bokken her was holding, "Ah, gotta remember to give this back to my kouhai in the kendo club."

"That...was uncalled for…" Kouta grunted as his shirt fell apart, exposing his super well toned chest to everyone.

"Ah, if ya don't mind, I'll deal with the guy," Sanageyama shrugged.

"Satsuki-sama, permit me to finish off this insolent wrench that dared to attempt to strike!" Fukuroda pleaded.

"They're yours," Satsuki replied.

"Gah! Stand aside, you bastards!" Ryuko snapped, trying to not look at Kouta.

"Ryuko, calm down!" Kouta called out in worry, "This is a really bad idea…"

"Outta the way!" Ryuko roared as she swung at Fukuroda, only for her blade to bounce off his oversized glove, "Is that made of iron?"

"Don't you even know your uniforms?" Fukuroda asked in disbelief.

"Oi, Kazaruba. From how you're familiar with the new transfer, I thought you'd already tell her about stuff like that," Sanageyama noted.

"It's a lot to get to…" Kouta replied as he wiped his face, "I was just getting to you guys when suddenly she does this...it's like having a violent Mako…"

"OI!" Ryuko complained at that comparison before pointing her blade at Fukuroda, "And what the hell do ya mean?! You're not even in uniform!"

"To boxers, these gloves and trunks are our uniform!" the boxer replied, "As well as the Athleticism-augmenting Two-Star Goku Uniform given to me by Satsuki-sama!"

"Imbuing even ordinary gloves with a Goku Uniform's power and they'll have more than enough power to break even steel walls," Sanageyama noted, "And for not being quicker, I think it's time for a punishment for ya, Kazaruba."

"Meep," Kouta squeaked as he surprised them by ducking under his next swing and then jumping over a low swing, "Oh come on...can't we talk? AH!" he panicked, flipping out of the way of another.

"Nope," Sanageyama replied grunting as he missed again, "Nanda kono speed…"

"I'm a dancer...moving fast is my thing." Kouta mutered, jumping over another swing and landing on the bokken, striking a silly pose as he did, "Hehehe...I'm surprisingly nimble…"

"Annoyingly so!" Sanageyama complained, shaking him off the Bokken and sending him tumbling along the ground.

"I'd...like to call foul on the grounds only you guys got a weapons…" Kouta grunted.

"Do you wanna trade with me!?" Ryuko complained as her swing was deflected again.

"Nah, I'm good!" Kouta quickly replied.

"I don't fully get it, but if they're made of something tough as iron, then I guess I really don't need to pull my own punches," Ryuko noted, flipping the scissors blade around.

"Pull your punches?! Don't you dare slight me!" Fukuroda snapped before throwing his smaller glove...before the single glove split into hundreds that all struck a startled Ryuko, "Left jab that rules the world! And a left hook!" he then swung his massive glove, striking Ryuko and sending her into the air, "And then a right upper!"

"Ryuko!" Kouta shouted in worry before leaning to the side just in time to dodge a powerful downward swing, "Abunai…." he then jumped back and performed several flips before landing by Ryuko's side, in the process his leg swung down and kicked Fukuroda's headgear and pulled it down over his eyes, "Ah gomen!"

"I can't see...where is he!?" Fukuroda snapped.

"Ryuko, daijobu?" Kouta asked.

"Gh...I'll live…" Ryuko grunted as she got up, 'Dammit…'

"I thought you might prove slightly amusing, but you're just a fool who has no idea how to wield that scissor properly. How dull," Satsuki stated as she turned and walked away while a rain started pouring down.

"Wait…" Ryuko coughed out, "You do know something, don't you!?"

"Ryuko...calm down...you won't learn anything this way…" Kouta argued as they were walled in on two sides.

"Grrr…" she growled before calming down like Kouta asked, she didn't like it but he was right, and they were surrounded if it was just her on her own she could manage...but Koutta was here helping her. "Sorry man. Kouta, I got a plan."

"You do?" he asked.

"Yeah. It's my greatest weapon, so follow my lead…"

"Eh, weapon?" Kouta asked.

"OK!" Ryuko roared, "Watch this, my ultimate super secret move! You forced my hand, you bastards!"

"Nani…? What's going on? What's she doing?" the still blinded Fukuroda asked.

"Oh?" Satsuki blinked, interested.

"Damn it...the woman hid something…" Sanageyama complained.

"Ryuko…?" Kouta asked in worry.

"Here goes my hissatsu no waza…" she said...before turning around, "RUN AWAY, KOUTA!-!-!-!"

"AH!" Kouta shouted as he ran with her, "Mako, tell Yuya it wasn't my fault!" he shouted, "Ah gomen!" he shouted, knocking an old Ramen delivery man off his scooter and picking up Ryuko as they drove off.

"My scooter now!" Ryuko shouted, leaving behind his deliveries as Satsuki's eye twitch mostly out of self shame for actually expecting something she wasn't the only one.

"...EH?!" everyone finally exclaimed as they realized what happened.

"What happened?" Fukuroda asked, only for Sanageyama to smack him hard on the head with the bokken.

"Ahh... Neither of them went whoop-whoop-whoop," Mako pouted. She then realized everyone was looking at her, "What...Is my skirt flipped up again? I hope not. I didn't wear my sexy panties today."

---

"Kouta did what?!" Yuya snapped on the phone with Mako, "Where are you...you what?! Mako...why would you let them capture you?! ...I...oh nevermind...I'll deal with Satsuki…" he sighed before hanging up, "Oh Ryuko-san…." he shook his head as he walked over into Sid's little...corner of the restaurant.

"So...you finally arrive, Team Gaim no leader…" the man spoke tilting up his bowler hat, he then looked out the window as Kouta and Ryuko raced down the road screaming their head off, "Looks like your team is in a bit of a pinch...maybe I can help...protect you?" he smirked.

"You do protection now, Sid? Are times really that hard for a washed up gangster?" Yuya asked.

"Oh no...No no...I mean I'll give you a deal...on a fancy tool to help...even the scales," he explained as he pushed a box forward.

Inside of it was a black buckle-like device due to its curve. It was rectangular with two smaller square extensions to the sides. On one was an empty removable faceplate; and on the other was a yellow and silver 'knife' that seemed to be pushable. The box was also decorated with an orange tree branch with an Orange Lockseed seeming to dangle from the branch with how it was displayed. A silk bed below the device and a small tanto dagger finished the display case.

"Straight from Yggdrasil...their reply to the Goku Uniform if you will. Take it from me, this thing...can easily match those Triple star or whatever brats," Sid sighed, not caring for the proper terminology.

"Honto?" Yuya asked in surprise, "This is equal to a Three-Star?"

"Maybe more if paired with a high class Lockseed." Sid added, "Which I'm also providing," he explained, tapping the case over the Lockseed, "Thanks to you selling the Locks you win off those other losers, I have an endless merch cycle to abuse by selling them back the Locks you pawned off to me. Call this my thanks for stimulating my economy."

"How much?" Yuya asked.

"Free...first customers are free...so soon, everyone will scramble here with their money...to become like you guys, and I can ask any price by then," Sid explained, rubbing his fingers together, "It's the green, it's the green that I need~"

"So...I'm plugging your product…" Yuya realized, "But you mean it when you say this thing is strong?"

"I am a man of quality, dirty tactics...but oh so wonderful quality." Sid smirked.

"Alright...I'll take your deal," Yuya said while grabbing the case.

"Just be careful kid, once someone puts it on...it's theirs forever. The DNA lock is unbreakable. So make sure only the best of your gang uses it," Sid warned as he pulled out his tablet and looked over his product list. He then pulled up a file on his next Free client, "Kumon Kaito…" he smirked, hitting a message button to contact him.

---

High in the private meeting room of the Student Council, the sounds of wood striking skin and cries of pain filled the lavish room. It was large with red velvet carpeting and dim lighting sources in the form of a few lamps. There was white and gold piano constantly being played by a One Star, a white tiger rug...and Fukuroda in the middle of the room on his knees as chips of wood lay around him from another wooden bokken splintering upon striking his head.

"Not only did you allow that transfer student who mocked Satsuki-sama to escape along with the student known as Kazaruba Kouta of the Dance Team known as 'Gaim,' you failed to confiscate that scissor as ordered!" Gamagoori declared before turning to Sanageyama, "Mistakes made by the club you run are your mistakes, Sanageyama! Especially when you were involved as well!"

"Oi, oi, oi. You're already making me pay the bills for all these bokken you ordered to have me whack him and me with," Sanageyama rolled his eyes, taking two bokken and whacking Fukuroda upside the head with one and the other on his own noggin, "I would've done this anyway if it had just been him!"

"Heh-heh. I think he got involved because Kazaruba was a member of one of the clubs under him before the Dance Teams formed, Saru-baka."

"Shut it, Jakuzure!" Sanageyama barked at a young-looking girl in a white marching band captain's uniform with pink hair, "And another thing, Gamagoori! Your Disciplinary Committee's mistake in allow Satsuki-sama to be mocked is yours, too, if you're gonna have me take the blame for the Boxing Club!"

"I've turned up some data on her," a fourth voice spoke, coming from a blue haired bespeckled young man, who's simple uniform seemed to be hooked up with computer and usb cables, its next most distinguishing feature being his very large collar which, closed over his mouth whenever he wasn't talking, "She's been starting quarrels in eastern Kanto region, at high schools subjugated by Honnouji Academy. Apparently, these battles were at the personal level so they never sent word."

"Such Negligence…" Satsuki sighed as an elderly butler served her tear in a porcelain cup and saucer, "Inform all branch High school principals to be on guard, Inumuta."

"My apologies!" he bowed in respect and concern.

"Ara-ra, Gama-kun, Saru-kun, Inu-kun, have all screwed up their jobs," Jakuzure laughed, pointing at the three male members.

"URUSEI!" the Gama and Saru of the three snapped.

"For shame…" the Inu sighed, fixing his glasses, "Still...to think that student, Kazaruba, could avoid a Three-Star's swings like that…"

"Those moves were from a mixture of ballet, samba, hip-hop, and a little tango," Jakazure pointed out, "I should know considering I'm in charge of all the dance clubs aside from the Beat Riders."

"Beat Riders?" Sanageyama repeated.

"Heh-heh. Saru-kun hasn't paid attention to DJ Sagara, ne? He coined the term 'Beat Rider' for those teams to differentiate them from the dance clubs," Jakazure reminded.

"There is also the fact that Yggdrasil endorses them to circumvent needing a Two-Star leader for them," Inumuta noted.

"Those Inves creatures can be troublesome," Gamagoori groaned, "Yuya, the leader of Team Gaim, and Kumon Kaito of Team Baron can control those creatures as if telepathically."

"You mean like the time Kumon Kaito beat you and tied you to your own car?" Jakuzure reminded.

"IT WAS A DRAW!"

"That doesn't explain how you ended up on the hood of your own car…" Inumuta muttered, his collar quickly closing after saying his piece.

"What I want to know is what was up with those scissors." Jakuzure changed the subject, trying not to lose her composure, "I looked at some One-Star uniforms that got too close when she revealed them and they were actually cut through." he magenta eyes turned to Satsuki, "How can this be, Satsuki-sama?"

"It is a specially made weapon developed to combat the Goku uniforms." Satsuki revealed, making her Four Devas gasp in shock that such a thing was possible.

"What is a transfer student doing with such a thing!?" Gamagoori asked in total shock.

"Her name?" Satsuki asked, turning to Inumuta.

"Matoi Ryuko," he quickly answered.

"Matoi, eh…" Satsuki repeated as a small smile formed from this information, "As I thought."

---

"Out of gas!?" Kouta snapped, looking at their stolen scooter, "Come on, baby. Don't die on me! Don't you give up!" he complained, trying to start it several times.

"Kouta, leave it alo-…" Ryuko began before an explosion went off.

"AH!" Kouta cried as he jumped rear first into a puddle of water, "Ah~..."

"The hell was that?!" Ryuko exclaimed.

"Uh...Scooter's on fire," he pointed to...indeed a burning scooter, "Ma-...D'oh, no Mako to blame it on…"

"How?!" Ryuko demanded.

"I don't know! I'm just a very very cold boy!" Kouta complained, motioning to his chest which was dripping with water from the rain, "I'm half naked, and it's raining, and my butt was just on fire! ...wait..." he patted his behind, "...Phew. Okay, my boxers are good still."

"Speaking of...don't you think you could have stolen a shirt or something on the way?" she muttered, trying not to stare at his torso.

"Well you drove us all the way out here…" he pointed out.

"Well…" Ryuko began before trying to think of a counter, "Tch. Dammit."

"Well, guess I'm gonna have to walk around shirtless…" he sighed, "Ah, my three chest hairs are free for everyone to see." he complained while walking ahead, "Ryuko...was this your place?" he asked, stopping at a family name plaque.

"...It was my tou-san's," Ryuko replied as she looked at the burned-down remains ahead of them that had once been a mansion of sorts.

"Guess you came here out of instinct, huh…" Kouta sighed.

"I guess so…" Ryuko sighed while walking forward, "I finally found the smallest of clues...and I ran…"

"Ryuko, what could you do…? They have Goku uniforms…" Kouta argued.

"So what?!" Ryuko snapped, stabbing the Scissors Blade into the ground, "Dammit! I finally found clues, but...dammit!"

"Ryuko…" Kouta spoke concerned.

"If only I had more power!" she went on as, suddenly, the ground below her feet opened into a trap door, "...Eh?"

"Ryuko!" Kouta panicked, running to the hole and looked down, "Ah mou...that's a deep drop. I don't even see the bottom...Ah...ah…" he looked around, "Ah! There's rope back in the garage!" he shouted as he began rushing back, "Don't worry, Ryuko! I'll be back with help and people smarter than me!"

In his haste, he never once noticed Mikisugi-sensei standing behind a burned wall with a remote control in one hand. Taking off his glasses, his features seemed to sharpen as his eyes opened to reveal them to be a sharp cyan. Sliding his hand up, he slicked back his hair which became a darker healthier sheen, leaving a bit to cover a bit of his-shockingly bishounen-like-face.

"The rest is up to you, Matoi Ryuko-kun," Mikisugi noted, his voice smooth and would arouse many-a-woman.

---

"AH!" Ryuko cried, falling down the oddly changing trap hole as it curves, and narrowed and widened at off points until she slammed into a section which must have been built over at one point as she, and large piles of old drywall and lumber, hit the ground. For Ryuko, she expected something hard, but all she felt was softness, "E...Eh?" opening her eyes, she looked around, "What the hell is this place?"

Clothes. Piles upon piles of clothes as far as she could see laid before her eyes. There were so many clothes, she couldn't even see any signs of the floor, even. Well...she took that as a bout of luck as it made the fall not as bad as it could have been...at least, that was 'till she felt a sharp pain in her left arm, a wound from earlier opening up from the first impact with the sealed part.

"Iteiteite…!" Ryuko hissed before grabbing a bundle of clothes and pressed it against the injury, "I had no idea something like this was under the house...Then again...with how little I was there when I got older…" she threw the bundle away as she slid down the pile, "Guess it was sealed over and then the fire half a year ago mixed with weather musta made that trapdoor for this place break down." she looked up at the hole, "...Dammit, that's the only way out, isn't it? Crap." she rubbed the back of her head, "There's gotta be another way outta here…"

"More...give me more…" a voice spoke earning her attention, "I NEED more, give me more!"

"Who's there!?" Ryuko demanded, looking at the pile she landed on as it began moving, unknown to her her blood stained the old clothing she had used to clean her reopened injury and seemed to be sucked up by...something.

Suddenly, the pile exploded. She swung her Scissors Blade and cut a random piece of clothing, only for the owner of the voice to finally be revealed. The owner of the voice...was a pitch black sailor fuku, trimmed in a rich, blood-red. It used the ascot to imitate a pair of rabbit ears of sorts while the breast areas were a pair of 'eyes' with the right eye covered in an 'eyepatch' with an 'X' on it while the left eye was a pure yellow with the iris being orange. The two halves of the outfit were connected to make a 'mouth' for it.

"A-A sailor fuku…?" Ryuko gawked before the outfit slammed her against a brick wall, pinning her by her wrists, "Wha…?

"Don't go! Put me on!" the fuku snapped.

"Gyha! The clothes spoke?! Get away from me!" Ryuko snapped, trying to push it away with her foot only to get no movement from it.

"If you're that scared, then put me on!" the fuku snapped before ripping her shirt and jacket off, exposing her impressive bosom held back by a white bra, "I'll strip you down!"

"What are you? A pervert?!"

"Put me on! Wear me! Then, feed me blood! More and more and more blood! I don't want to go back to sleep!"

"Seriously, are you a perverted tsuchumogami?!" Ryuko panicked.

"Don't worry about it and put me on already! Nothing is more important than that!" the fuku snapped as it tackled her over, sending up dust and various things on the clothing into the air, obscuring the two outside of her skirt being added to the things she's lost thanks to the fuku.

"I say the fact you're a talking Sailor Fuku is pretty important! Since when can clothing talk and move!?" Ryuko argued.

"Quit your babbling! Fine, I'll make you wear me by force!" it shouted as they struggled, "I'll make you wear me with all my might! Ikuze! Ikuze! Ikuze!"

"Stop!"

"That's it! I'm a perfect fit!"

At that, a red light shone from the dust as it stopped and flashed again. Ryuko slowly stood up as the red glow...emanated from her. Above, the ruins lit up as a pillar of red light erupted from it.

---

"Ah…" Yuya sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose as he sat in a chair in the garage, "Of course it'd be something like this…a public execution if Ryuko-san and Kouta don't show up in another hour of all things…"

"Yuya! Danger! The ground ate Ryuko!" Kouta shouted, pushing the door open as he ran in.

"Ah! Kouta, what happened to your clothes?! Why are you in your boxers?!" Yuya yelped.

"A dog stole my pants because Mako put bacon in my pockets and they were cooked when the moped exploded and set them on fire!" Kouta replied, "But danger! Tatsukete! I need the ro-WHOA!" he yelped as he tripped on the stairs and tumbled into Yuya.

"Gwah!" Yuya yelped as they tumbled across the floor until they hit the wall.

"ITE!" both yelped as their hands snapped to the back of their heads.

"Ah...Kouta…" Yuya groaned before blinking twice, "..." he slowly put his hands down, "...Where is it?"

=Sengoku Driver~!=

"My belt just shouted something!" Kouta panicked, standing up to reveal the device Yuya had gotten was now on his waist, held there by a gold belt, "Why do I have cutting board on my waist! ...Oh, I think Mako's Kaa-chan needed a new one."

"Kouta! Do you have any idea what that is!?" Yuya shouted.

"No! No, I do not! ...Yuya...am I gonna die?" he asked freaked out.

"Probably..." Yuya sighed.

"Ah!" he shouted, "What even is this thing?"

"I don't know. Sid gave it to me and said it was like a Goku uniform...but better and never gave me an instruction manual." he sighed, "And now it's bonded to you until you die."

"AH!" Kouta screamed, "But I don't wanna die!" he went on before Yuya slapped him, "I needed that...I need Mako to keep me the mature one…"

"Kouta...you've never been mature a day in your life since you became my best friend," Yuya replied, "But...this...could be good. You're the most physically fit member of the team, so naturally you are the best pick."

"Well how's it even work?" he asked, touching it and messing with the little cutting knife.

"Sid said it pairs with a Lockseed." he spoke, "So...maybe try activating one." he offered as Kouta grabbed the Orange Lockseed and clicked it.

=ORANGE!=

"No inves...no arena…" Kouta muttered as he ran his thumb across the center of his new belt before feeling the indentation in the very center that fit something...like...a Lockseed, "I think this goes...here…" he spoke, clicking it into place in the Sengoku Driver, and pushing the arm of the lockseed down to 'lock' it onto the belt. He then put his hand on the knife before pushing it down and 'cutting' open the lockseed.

=SOIYA! ORANGE ARMS!=

Yuya's eyes widened as orange light filled the garage. A crack opened above Kouta as a metal orange fell down and over his head, light forming a blue suit across his body with golden accents decorating his gauntlets and greaves. From inside the orange, Kouta's head was covered by a blue helmet with a silver seemingly fanged mouthplate, with a large circular visor for him to see through, a large golden katana themed helmet placket formed over his forehead. The orange split open and folded into armor on his chest, shoulders, and back as his helmet was now covered in an orange themed samurai kabuto with a green orange stem at the top and two yellow wings on the sides of his helmet. His visor was now orange in color and looking like a slice of...well...an orange.

"EH!?" Kouta shouted in his new armored form, "Ore...Ore wa...HENSHIN DA! SUGEI!" he shouted, running around before he noted in his hand was a large sword shaped like a long orange slice, "NANI KORE?! Ken...ken da! Ah! A katana!" he shouted, pulling out a long katana-like sword which was more akin to a saber; it had a crossguard section resembling the port for his belt, a yellow tab on the back a gun handle as a cross guard and a guarded trigger under that, "What am I!?" he shouted, looking at his reflection in the window.

"You look like a fruit samurai," Yuya noted, "...Huh. Would've guessed 'fruit ninja' if Sid had said it'd make armor."

"This is awesome!" Kouta shouted as he bench pressed their car, "I have super strength! I feel power surging through my body! I feel great! Like my body is being fueled by energy from the suit, reinvigorating me!"

"Enough to rescue Mako-chan?"

"...Eh? Mako? What happened?"

"You left without her and now she's going to be publicly executed by the Boxing Club's captain if you and Ryuko-san don't show up," Yuya deadpanned.

"WOAH!-!-!" he shouted, running and knocking down the door in his mad dash, "Hang on, Mako! Kouta's on his way!" he shouted, knocking cars out of his way.

"We just repaired it last week!" Yuya groaned before Mataro poked his head in.

"Uh...what was that, Yuya-aniki?" the kid asked, "And have you seen sis? It's nearly dinner and she never misses a meal when Kaa-chan cooks."

"Public execution," Yuya sighed.

"What did she do this time?! ...It wasn't the Pudding Incident again, was it?"

"We all agreed to never recall that!" he said, "Come on...let's see if Kouta's new power can save us…"

"Wait...we're trusting Kouta?" Mataro asked.

"Come on," Yuya spoke as he picked up Mataro and began to leave.

"Psst!" Yuya paused to look to see Ryuko peeking out, her face the only thing he could see in the brown cloak she was in, "Yuya, I-uh-need help?"

"...How long has she been here?"

"A day and three-quarters."

"And she already realizes you're the go-to guy to ask for advice?" Mataro blinked a few times, "Wow."

"This town is crazy, but predictable," Yuya sighed, "Go on ahead and help your sister...and make sure Kouta doesn't...you know."

"Burn the town down?"

"Or flood it…" he sighed as Mataro rushed ahead, "Ryuko, what happened? Kouta said you fell down a hole or something."

"I did, but I got out," Ryuko replied before looking around, "Where is he, anyway?"

"Going up to Honnouji Academy to rescue Mako from public execution," Yuya replied.

"EH?! Public Execution?! What did she do?!"

"You forgot to grab her when you ran off," Yuya replied, "And why are you wearing that?"

"It's a long story with an odd series of events, and an end result that's left me in a compromising position." she explained.

"Got it," he nodded simply, "Trust us...this town is freaky. Do you need a change of clothes or something?"

"Yes...well you don't get a say. No, of course clothes can't choose that!" she hissed to herself, as if arguing with someone, "You're going and you will like it!"

"And here I thought 'finally...another normal person…'" Yuya sighed.

"I am normal, dammit!" Ryuko snapped before shaking her head, "Anyway, where is Mako?"

"Up at the school, about to be executed…" he sighed, "And instead of helping Kouta learn how to work his new super powers...I'm here."

"...How long was I gone?" She asked after hearing 'Super powers.'

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"And finally, initial here," a man in a business suit informed.

"Razza-frazzin'..." Sanageyama muttered as he initialed the last page of a pile of papers, "Are we done now?"

"Yes. Yggdrasil thanks you for your cooperation," the man informed with a nod before leaving, ignoring the boxing ring beside a bound Mako hung upside down over a boiling vat of cooking oil.

"God damn lawyers…whoever squealed we were doing this to those guys is gonna get it..." Sanageyama complained once he was out of earshot.

"I can't believe how fast he got here...or the fact he parachuted in," Mako added as if having a regular conversation with her captor.

"Silence from the bait," Sanageyama grumbled, "Okay, Fukuroda, we're good now. Start the declaration!"

"Hai," Fukuroda nodded before pulling out a mic, "Exchange Student and Kazaruba...DO YA HEAR ME?! In an hour from now, the execution of your friend will take place! This is the joint responsibility of your treason against Honnouji Academy!"

"Wow, that's loud!" Mako noted before looking 'down' and panicked, "AH!" she crossed her legs, barely catching her skirt, "Mako is in a big pinch with no chance! At this rate, people are going to be seeing my panties! No~! I don't have the sexy ones I wanted to use for my first public exposure on~!"

"I'm sure them or Yuya will arrive," Sanageyama smirked, "Either way, a potential danger to us will be taken down."

"IF YA DON'T COME OUT OF HIDIN', HER DEATH WILL BE ON YER HEADS!" Fukuroda called on his mic.

"Yare, yare...why didn't Yggdrasil stop this?" Mikisugi-sensei sighed as he stood beside an elderly short man looking down at the sight from in the school.

"While they own the majority of the city, the academy is owned by Satsuki-sama's mother's company," the elder sighed, "At most, they just had him do paperwork that basically said that Yggdrasil can't be sued by Manshankou's family for her death. We hired personel cannot do a thing about this since the school is basically Satsuki-sama's."

"Wah...how managerial…" Mikisugi-sensei muttered at that, "Still surprised he went through all that paperwork anyway. That was, what? Several hundred pages he had to sign, date, and/or initial, principal?"

"He must really be furious with those two if he didn't stop like all the other times," the elder noted.

"This better be worth it...both our hides are on the line…" Sanageyama muttered to his subordinate, "Maybe we grabbed the wrong one... What's the name of their other dumb one they all love...Rat?"

In the crowd, a student with messy brown/blond hair gulped, 'Come on, Yuya...Kouta...someone save Mako-chan…'

"Matte Matte matte!" Kouta's voice shouted as he walked in in his normal state, dressed in jeans and a blue jacket over a graphic T-Shirt with a picture of a samurai on it, "Whew...I...I made it in time…"

"Oh? Not even showing up in proper uniform," Sanageyama noted.

"A dog ate my pants because of your bacon, Mako!" Kouta shouted.

"AH! My bacon's gone?!" Mako gawked.

"What about my bacon!?" Kouta complained before turning around and presenting his rear, earning stares from many female classmates, "A mad beagle almost took my buns!"

Sanageyama facepalmed, "Fukuroda…"

"Hai!" Fukuroda nodded, "Oi! Kazaruba, listen up! While you're here, the transfer student's not yet! IF she ain't here by the hour's pass…" he held up a shrimp and dunked it in a tray of powder above the boiling vat and below Mako before dunking it into the vat and pulled it out, revealing it to be deep-fried, "She goes in and comes out like this shrimp!"

"EH?! No~! Not that! I'm in white! People are going to see through my clothes~!" Mako whined.

'I should've gone with another member of Team Gaim,' Sanageyama thought.

"Ryuko...AH! Ryuko! I left her at the bottom of a hole in the ground!" Kouta panicked, "Help! Someone get a rope so we can save her! Senpai, get a rope! Onegai!"

"..." Sanageyama groaned, feeling a migraine, "Know what? I'm dealing with him. When the transfer shows up, she's all yours, Fukuroda."

"Understood!" he saluted.

"Ah, what do I do...I need to save Ryuko and Mako! What a horrible day this is!" Kouta panicked, "Ah mou…" he groaned before a blur shot by him, "Eh?"

The blur jumped along the faces of the One-Star Students before grabbing ahold of the device Mako was secured to. Mako gasped in surprise before seeing the red scissors-themed blade in the blur's free hand.

"Ryuko-chan!" Mako exclaimed.

"Just hang on tight," Ryuko noted, quickly slicing through the bindings holding Mako onto the device.

She grabbed the brunette and barely jumped out of the way of several One-Star male students that tried to tackle them, only to collapse onto the tray that broke and fell into the vat. Moments later, they all scrambled to get out, covered in the fried material, screaming and yelping madly. Ryuko skidded to a halt to beside Kouta.

"Ryuko?!" Kouta gawked before Ryuko whacked him upside the head, "ITE!"

"There was rope in the shed in the backyard, dammit!" Ryuko snapped, holding Mako still, who was as stiff as a board and just blinking.

"...There was a shed?"

"Yatta, she's safe," Rat sighed in relief before seeing Yuya with Mataro, "Ah! Ya found them!"

"More like they found me," Yuya sighed.

"What the hell?! I panicked and was half naked!" Kouta complained, rubbing the side of his head, "What's with the cloak? ...Your clothes get messed up by the beagle, too? ...Mako, did you put bacon on her when we weren't looking?"

"No, I only had enough bacon to hide in your pants and Rat-kun's," Mako replied as Ryuko put her down.

"Wait, what?!" Rat shouted.

"So you both finally made it," Sanageyama spoke, "About time. Let's settle this now!"

"Yosh! Let's do this!" Kouta cheered.

"I'll handle it, Kouta," Ryuko spoke up.

"No, I'll handle it!" he declared, taking a step forward.

"...They're arguing again, sir," Fukuroda noted as the two had begun to argue over who'd 'handle it.'

"Oi! Matoi, get in the ring!" Sanageyama barked, "Kazaruba, get over here!"

"Will you let us handle this?!" they both snapped.

"Okay, you get shrimpy; I'll get senpai."

"Screw that the green haired guy is stronger I'll fight him!" Ryuko complained.

"No, he said he'd fight me!" Kouta argued.

"Wah...what back and forth...like a married millennial couple," Mako noted.

"Shut up, Mako!"

"Just hit them with your strongest punch…" Sanageyama groaned, tired of this bit, "Teach them now is no time for their nonsense."

"Hai Sir!" Fukuroda saluted before charging at them, "Corkscrew!" his massive glove twitched before transforming into a spiraling drill that slammed into Ryuko, who barely blocked with her Scissors Blade, "TEN! KEN! FUN! SAI!"

Ryuko grunted as a shockwave erupted from the impact. Surprisingly, she wasn't knocked back by the blow like the previous time. Unfortunately for Ryuko...her cloak shredded to pieces from the shockwave. A red-faced Yuya covered Mataro's eyes as Rat collapsed, twitching with blood flowing from his nostrils.

"GUFFAW!" Kouta shouted, doing the same as the blood launched him back like a rocket with how much was expelled.

Ryuko's face lit up as she heard the various reactions in the crowd. What she was wearing...was most certainly not a sailor fuku. At best, it could be called skimpy video game bikini armor. It was pitch black with blood-red detailing and blood-red straps connecting the panties and miniscule open skirt to the armored top that barely held her impressive bosom. Her legs were covered in black and blood-red stockings that became heeled shoes seemingly fused with the stockings, hugging them snug enough to show every curve of them while her hands and arms were completely covered in black and blood-red fabric. Bits of black and blood-red armor poked out of her hair that had become slightly more wild and showed a bit more red underneath, the bits poking out making her look like she had tiny rabbit ears on her head. Over her chest was more armor that looked exactly like the 'eyes' of the sailor fuku.

"Ryuko...why…Ju...just why?" Yuya asked, his eyes closed.

"It did it on its own! Not my fault, dammit!" Ryuko barked.

"You bled on me and woke me up," the armor noted in the fuku's voice.

"Urusei," Ryuko hissed under her breath.

"I imagine there is a story behind this, right?" Kouta asked as he stuffed his nose with tissue.

"I blame you for not getting rope sooner," Ryuko glowered.

"EH? I'm expected to take responsibility for this!?" he gawked, motioning to her attire, "Ah...it's just too sexy…" he turned away and pinched his nose.

"Agreed! Y-You're trying to distract me with sexiness!" Fukuroda snapped.

"I'm not wearing this because I want to!" Ryuko barked.

"You make a mockery of boxing! No, of all sports!" Fukuroda barked.

"This...has been one strange day…" Yuya sighed.

"Oh! Ryuko-chan's a stripper!" Mako noted beside Yuya, making Yuya do a double-take since he was sure she had just been between Ryuko and Kouta.

"JANAI!" Ryuko barked.

"Ah, I'm getting tired of this bit!" Sanageyama snapped as he grabbed a bokken and rushed. He then paused when Kouta swung and kicked the weapon away, but what really made him pause was seeing the Sengoku Driver in his hand, "That's...that belt…" he gasped, seeming to recognize it.

'Senpai knows this belt?' Kouta pondered before putting it on, making it more visible to others due to the golden belt strap around his waist.

"Oh! Kaa-chan was looking for a new cutting board!" Mako awed, "Kouta-kun, can I give it to Kaa-chan when you're done here?"

"Mako, no," Yuya sighed as he backed everyone away.

"I wanna see!" Mataro whined.

"I'm not sure what this thing is...but this is my response to your Goku Uniform, Senpai!" Kouta declared, holding up his Orange Lockseed. He clicked it as the crack opened above him and once more the orange lowered down, he then placed it on his belt before closing it, "Henshin!" he shouted, cutting the Lockseed open.

=Soiya~! Orange Arms: Hanamichi On Stage!=

With that, the orange fell down and the same armor covered Kouta as everyone just gawked at what the hell they just saw. Ko-

=HELLO EVERYBODY!= DJ Sagara's voice shouted as screens formed along the walls of the school, =DJ Sagara here to bring you the live feed on an interesting event happening up at Honnouji Academy!= he shouted as images of Ryuko and the armored Kouta appeared on the screens and seemingly all across the town, =But what's this? Two new fighters who aren't members of a club or student council! Why...no! They are in fact two BEAT RIDERS! But wait...what's this...Male and female armor? That makes them...ARMORED RIDERS!=

"Wait, is...is he streaming this!?" Ryuko panicked.

"Where are the cameras?" Kouta asked.

=Let's take a look at these two. Kazuraba Kouta and Matoi Ryuko. Well Ryuko's got a nice name, but Kouta...nah! That boy needs a hero name for that mask! I got it, he's a member of Team Gaim...People, meet Armored Rider: GAIM!= At that, the screens displayed Kouta in his now dubbed Gaim armor.

"Oh, I'm on TV! Hi, Neechan!" Gaim waved, only for Ryuko to push his waving hand down and aim him at their enemies, "Right!"

"Sagara!?" Gamagoori shouted, seeing the screens just appear, "When...how...why!?" he asked before...another Lawyer appeared and held a paper up to his face, "'By signing this paper on behalf of Satsuki Kiryuin, you now give Yggdrasil exclusive rights to broadcast from your school at any given time as well as air the broadcast live for all students?!' SANAGEYAMA!-!"

"Aw crap...the gama's mad…" Sanageyama muttered before looking at Gaim, "...Oi! What the hell are you doing?!"

"Eh?" Gaim tilted his head.

"Hold it straighter, dammit!" Sanageyama barked, "Don't you even know how to use a sword properly?!"

"Obviously not…" Gaim muttered as he rested his orange themed sword on his shoulder before crouching into a pose, "But I make it look nice."

"He was a member of the Football Club before becoming a Beat Rider," Inumuta noted, watching from the top of the tallest tower.

Satsuki was too busy staring at the new forms of the two. Taking in the many implications and new problems and interesting events that could happen now. A small smile forming once more, she paid closer attention.

"Making a mockery of samurai and swordplay…" Sanageyama growled.

"Sanageyama!" the green-haired student looked at the tower where Satsuki looked down at him, "You're authorized to use the second form."

"Yokatta," Sanageyama nodded.

"Second form?" Ryuko asked.

"Real big trouble...I've only seen them use it once...against one another…" Gaim explained, "It's like a super form for their uniforms. Unlike others who are always empowered by theirs, the Student Council's have multiple forms with more power. It's super cool!" he shattered the tension of his warning with the last part.

Sanageyama's eye twitched, "Oh, you are really in for it."

The three stars on his jacket's collar flashed once before he was engulfed in a green energy that formed a star shape for a moment before shattering. Sanageyama now stood before them wearing a massive green suit of armor resembling the armor meant for kendo. Gold detailed his armor with spikes emerging from his belt and three gold stars on his left shoulder armor. A gold mask covered his face while his eyes looked out between the grates, glaring at Gaim. On his back, two green and gold containers resembling missile pods were attached.

"Three Star Uniform: Blade Regalia!" Sanageyama declared.

"...You take him," Ryuko said, pushing Gaim towards Sanageyama's new form as she jumped into the boxing ring where the boxer had gotten into, doing small warm up exercises while waiting.

"About time," the Two-Star student huffed, "Now if ya don't mind, I need to do one last thing."

"Oh? Beg?" Ryuko asked before Fukuroda slid his larger glove down the side of his waist...where it caught a small hook on the belt and broke the strings holding its cover together, letting it fall and expose a thick, solid black fist littered in spikes, "EH?!"

"I would have gone easy on ya, but considering your mockery of all things I hold high with that outfit of yours, I've decided to take off the padding I have to wear for competitions outside of Honnouji," Fukuroda explained calmly before adopting a goofy excited expression as he grabbed a ripcord on it and pulled, causing even more spikes to grow out of it, "BEHOLD! These are the real Honnouji Academy Boxing Club Athleticism-augmenting Two-Star gloves!" he cleared his throat, calming down, "Sorry, don't really get to use these that often since if I don't keep these wrapped up, students from other schools would be too terrified to fight." he switched back to his giddy expression, "But having them out for all to see like this fills me with EVEN MORE STRENGTH! THIS IS! A! GOKU! UNIFORM!"

"Hentai da!" Gaim shouted as he ducked under a swing before clashing blades with Sanageyama, "Sugoi...I can block that?!"

"Gah...What is with that stance?! Are you just wanting to mock what I train everyday on?!" Sanageyama growled, "Men!" he swung, "Dou!" another swing, "KOTE!" a third swing.

"I felt it…" Gaim spoke as the third strike slammed on his helmet, "But it didn't hurt as much as you wanted." he said as his visor flashed brightly.

"Why is he shouting and then striking?" Mataro asked, still trying to look but Yuya kept firm to covering his eyes, "And what is going on that you won't let me see?!"

"When you're older," Yuya replied, "And as for the other...um…"

=In Kendo, you have to announce your attacks= DJ Sagara informed =Despite it not being it at the moment, Sanageyama holds true to his sport!=

"Gh!" Gaim grunted, taking another blow before swinging his orange slice sword and cutting through the giant shinai Sanageyama used as his weapon, "Ore no turn!" he shouted as he copied the stances Sanageyama took before.

"Omae…" he gawked, seeing how well he copied.

"Men!" Gaim shouted swinging down and lancing his armor via his shoulder, "Dou!" his next slash left a scratch across his torso, "KOTE!" he shouted, stabbing his sword and pushing the Student Council member skidding back across the ground and making a path through the students.

"Now Kouta's shouting it? Mou...Come on, Yuya~! I wanna see!" Mataro whined.

"Older," Yuya remained firm.

"Nani...how…" Sanageyama muttered, standing back up, "He copied my stance...what kind of person can just do that? It might have looked bad...but to my eyes...it was a perfect stance!"

"Kouta's good at only physical things...it make sense he's natural at fighting somehow…" Yuya spoke.

"Huh? Whuzza…?" Rat moaned as he started to get up before a boxing bell ring made him look at the ring to see Ryuko blocking the punching barrage of Fukuroda's left fist, the punches blowing up her tiny skirt, "...GUWAH!" he collapsed once more, blood flowing freely.

"What happened to Rat?" Mataro asked, hearing his cry and mistaking it for one of pain.

"Ah! Rat's down again!" Mako panicked.

"Do I still have credit for your dad?" Yuya asked.

"Yeah, why?" brother and sister asked.

"We're gonna need a lot of blood in the future…" Yuya realized.

"Oh, Tou-chan has a ton of that!" Mako beamed, "But, uh...we can't tell you where he gets it for legal reasons."

"I don't want to know…" Yuya sighed.

"Ha!" Gaim and Sanageyama roared, clashing swords and sending out a shockwave. Both backed away and began swinging again as they blocked one another endlessly.

"Oi...is he really a novice at kendo?" Gamagoori asked as they watched them clash relentlessly.

"He is...but...somehow, his body can quickly memorize combat stances and how to execute them." Inumuta spoke, "It must be...that armor." he paused as Gaim blocked another swing, "Kazuraba Kouta must have a high compatibility with it."

"It's the shiro melon all over again…" Jakazura noted as she began hugging herself, trying to repress shivers.

"Could...could Kazuraba...become like...him?" Gamagoori gulped.

"..." Satsuki said nothing as she continued to watch the fight.

"Senpai!" Gaim grunted, blocking another swing from Sanageyama, "You...know what this belt is, don't you?"

"Ah?" he blinked backing up a step, "So what if I do…"

"Do you know how it works?" he asked, blocking another swing.

"I'd rather forget," Sanageyama muttered before shouting, "Like hell will I just tell ya!"

"I figured, but might not hurt to ask…" Gaim sighed, as he grabbed his other sword, "Ikuze!" he shouted, resting one sword on his shoulder and pointing with the other.

"Cheeky brat," Sanageyama muttered.

"Corkscrew!" Fukuroda roared as he slammed his massive, spinning fist into Ryuko, "TEN! KEN! FUN! SAI!"

Gaim prepared for Sanageyama only to blink. Looking around, his eyes widened.

"Why isn't anyone moving?" Gaim asked, seeing no one was moving despite them all being in states of movement, as if the world had simply frozen in time. He looked around as he relaxed his stance slightly, "Eh...eh?" he blinked, "Did...did I break some kind of something…?" he panicked while looking around, hoping to see something to explain this.

"If you proceed, then there's no turning back."

"Ah!" Gaim jumped and turned to see a figure step out from behind Sanageyama, "Eh?"

The figure was a shapely young woman around his age. For a moment, he could've sworn it was Ryuko, but her hair was a platinum blond and her skin without blemish. She wore a pair of black boots and a white dress of sorts that exposed her shoulders while a silver and gold necklace covered her neck. Around her waist were two belts, one thick and black and the other thin and silver.

"Ryuko…?" he blinked, looking at the woman and then the real Ryuko, "No...who are you?"

"Till the very end, you shall fight," the woman continued, opening her eyes to reveal one was grey and the other was a vivid red, "You shall dye the world in your colors."

"I don't understand…" he spoke, walking over towards her, "But...if with this power I can protect my friends...with this power, I can protect everyone from this unfair school…" he spoke, looking at his sword, "If I can do that...then I'll fight!"

The mysterious woman sighed at that. She walked up to Gaim and took his hands. Gaim let out a confused noise before she turned the wrist of the hand holding the blade that he had on his belt and brought the handles of the two weapons together, creating a naginata.

"Oh…" he awed, seeing the new option available to him, "Naginata ka…" he awed excited before she grabbed the Lockseed on his waist, "Eh?" she unlocked the Lockseed and put it in his now-free hand before walking away, "...Huh...why didn't she close the Lockseed?" he asked before looking at the slot on his weapon, "Masaka…" he realized.

"AH! M-MY GLOVE…?!" Gaim jumped and looked to see Fukuroda stumbling back, his massive glove shattered.

"Your glove isn't the only thing that turns into steel! So does my outfit!" Ryuko declared.

"HA...ah?" Sanageyama paused, realizing Gaim was no longer where he use to be, "Nani?" he turned around only to be slashed by Gaim's new naginata, "Gh! How did you...I couldn't even see you move!"

"Eh...well I don't know!" Gaim declared honestly as Fukuroda comically punches and even kicked at Ryuko to no effect, "Wow, without his secret weapon, he's totally at a loss for what to do…"

"Oh, I'm getting vibes from back then…" Jakazure admitted, getting a bad feeling from seeing Gaim seemingly teleport from Sanageyama's path and now had a naginata, "And what's with her outfit?"

"A modified Goku Uniform? ...Masaka...did Yggdrasil figure out how to make them?" Inumuta asked in surprise.

"Sugoi! I didn't know you also knew how to box, Ryuko-chan!" Mako cheered, play boxing before a stray punch bopped Yuya, causing him to release Mataro.

"Ah, finally!" Mataro cheered as he saw Gaim, "Sugei! A samurai!" Fukuroda's punching and kicking made him look at Ryuko, "...GUWAH!" he joined Rat on the floor, a happy smile on his bloody face, "Heaven~"

"Gomen, Mataro," Yuya spoke as he chopped his neck and knocked him out, "Let your childish innocence last longer."

"So…" Ryuko spoke as she trembled in growing anger before her eyes snapped open, "It's my turn, right?!" she grunted as the outfit grew tighter on her, letting out steam as the blood-red began to shine like hundreds of stars.

"Uh-oh…" Gaim spoke as he used the length of his naginata to stab Sanageyama and keep him from getting too close, "...Maybe…" he plugged his removed Lockseed into the slot on his Naginata.

=LOCK ON!=

"Oh, nice!" Gaim smirked as Ryuko evaded the punching barrage unleashed by Fukuroda as she got in close, "Like Ryuko said...Koko kara wa ore-tachi no sutēji da!"

"Teme!" Sanageyama roared as he charged, 'Not again! I won't lose to that belt again!'

=Ichi, Jū, Hyaku, Sen, Man!=

"Left Jab!" Ryuko shouted, smacking Fukuroda across the face with the hand guard of her scissors, "Right Hook!" she shouted, jabbing the tip around and into his back; she then swung her weapon down and let the blade point between his legs, making him panic at how this attack could go, "And then Uppercut!" she shouted, smacking the guard of her scissors into his chin and sending him flying up into the air.

"Ha!" Gaim roared, spinning his Naginata around and blocking multiple stabbing thrusts from Sanageyama, who attached multiple shinai to his fingers.

The Naginata seemed to form an energy barrier as it spun, deflecting everyswing. He swung to the side and knocked both of the Goku Uniform user's hands away. Gaim swung as he sent several energy slashes of orange light, which slashed through Sanageyama's suit, leaving a large glowing X in the center. After a few moments, his body ignited with orange fire, taking an orb-like shape with a flashing green light at the top. In all honesty, it looked as if he was inside of a orange made of flames. Nearby, Fukuroda crashed face-first into the ring before bouncing up, revealing his eyes blank and several teeth breaking out of his mouth. Ryuko spun her blade around on her wrist before clenching it tight in her right hand.

"And then a right straight to finish you off!" Ryuko declared as she and Gaim charged at their respective opponents.

"ORA!" Gaim roared as he swung his blade.

=ORANGE CHARGE!=

"Seni-Soshitsu!" Ryuko's uniform named her attack, the uniform of Fukuroda exploding into strips of fabric and leaving him bare to the world.

"Naginata Musou Slicer!" Gaim roared as he slashed the flaming orange in half, causing a powerful explosion.

Sanageyama screamed as he was hidden within the explosion. For a moment, the fabric of Fukuroda's uniform merely stayed in the air. Then, it seemed as if Ryuko's attire began to act like a vacuum and the fabric went straight to it, unravelling the moment it touched the armor and became intertwined within the armor, giving no visible change to it outside of a faint glow that soon faded once the last of the strands, a glowing red one, entered.

"Oh…" Gaim awed as the results of their attacks, "Wait...who shouted Ryuko's attack?" he blinked.

"A Goku Uniform…" Gamagoori began.

"...was defeated?!" Jakazure finished.

"So that's the power of the Scissors Blade, eh?" Inumuta pondered, adjusting his glasses before looking at Gaim, "And it's happened again, but with another fruit."

"AH! He's naked!" Gaim shouted as he punted Fukuroda away, "Oops…" he realized where he kicked him towards...right at Ryuko, "GOMEN!"

"Kouta!" Ryuko barked as she slammed Fukuroda with the flat end and sent him right at Satsuki, "Don't throw naked people at me, dammit!" she tugged and released one of the straps on her, "This thing's enough issues!"

"AH! Sorry! WAH!" he panicked, seeing the new trajectory for their punching bag.

A wall of One-Star Students quickly blocked Fukuroda. However, several splatters of blood still headed for her. The three members of the Devas quickly blocked it, but a single drip of it still managed to hit Satsuki. The trio and the wall of One-Stars froze at hearing the minute impact of the tiny drop on their leader's cheek.

"Uh-oh…" Gaim and Yuya gulped.

"Well, we're dead. It was nice knowing you, Yuya. You too, Kouta!" Rat began as he wrote down a will, "And one of my last sights being a shapely woman in a skimpy armor like in video games…Perfect."

"He did it," Gaim pointed to Sanageyama whose uniform was torn to shreds after the explosion subsided.

"..." Satsuki simply wiped the blood off with one wipe.

"Y-You…" Sanageyama grunted.

"Enough," Satsuki ordered, "You, transfer student. Where did you get your hands on that outfit? And you, Kazaruba, where did you get your hands on that armor?"

"Yuya!? Where did you get this thing!?" Gaim panicked.

"Sid!"

"From Sid! Blame him, all him!" Gaim replied, "Uh...Ryuko...your response?"

"..." Ryuko stomped the floor, kicking up Fukuroda's dropped mic into her hand, and spoke into the mic, "...This is a keepsake from my father."

"Nani?" Satsuki narrowed her eyes.

"And this Scissors Blade was left behind by the person who killed him," Ryuko continued, pointing her blade at Satsuki, "Now you're gonna tell me who this Scissors Blade belongs to, Kiryuin Satsuki!"

"Welp...we're dead." Rat spoke.

"Totally…" Yuya sighed.

"Well...I'm probably dead anyway...Neechan is gonna murder me when I get home." Gaim sighed, "We at Team Gaim side with Ryuko! We will fight you guys!" he declared proudly, earning a surprised look from Ryuko which turned to a smile, "So bring it on!"

"Yeah!" Mako agreed from the audience.

"We're gonna die..." Yuya and Rat groaned.

"Nanda...kono chikara…" Kaito spoke, staring at Gaim, "That...is power I want." he spoke, holding his hand out towards Gaim before gripping his hand closed.

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Z0: *stuffing his nose with tissues* well...we finished chapter one...with only minimal nose related blood loss. Right GT.

GT: *twitching facedown on the floor, a pool of blood emanating from my face*

Z0: Hope you liked it as we give you a hint of next chapter...we'll...we need to go to the hospital for...reasons. So be sure to read and review! *drags off GT as the screen drops*

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Jikai~Gaim La Kill!

Kouta: Eh...I can use the armor in Inves games too! Woohoo this things awesome!

Mako: Kya! It's Kumon Kaito, he's here to start another fight with Satsuki...EH! He's coming towards us!

Ryuko: Eh? Oi, why aren't you changing? Senketsu, change!

Kaito: I stayed to watch what your strength amounted to, but I guess I chose right in what kind of power I desire...Henshin.

Mako: OH! Giant Banana~!

Kaito: It's BARON!

Mikisugi: This is truly an interesting turn of events. It's as if a true Sengoku Era has begun in the modern day.

Lock 2: Europe style! The Rival Banna appears!

DJ Sagara: Let's begin the battle for supremacy over Honnouji City!

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GT: *tissues in nose* Well...I think this will be our first M-rated Kamen RIder-related fic...due to bloodloss.

Z0: It can't be denied, I mean...we have to accommodate for Mikisugi alone…

GT: Oh very true...We had to make special exception to him for security to do his scenes in later chapters after this one...AKA starting next chapter.

Z0: Get ready for unneeded amounts of male nudity to counter the female nudity. And for you lady fans...we know how it's supposed to go...don't worry we'll keep fair to Kill La Kills equal opportunity fan service.

GT: Eeyup…*walks out* Now if you need me, I need to stock up of Brain Bleach for the male nudity bits.

Z0: Don't forget the extra pints of O Negative...let's try not to mix those up…

GT: Got it! So please, readers, leave a review!