"Ahh that was rough…" the Archer Inferno sauntered back into the command room last, having been bringing up the rear while the group retreated to the Shadow Border. "Are the others alright, Master?"

Ritsuka sat cross armed, staring into the void once again. It was only when Tomoe clapped her hands in front of her face that he snapped back into reality.

"Huh? Oh yeah, Musashi and Okita are both recovering in the infirmary…" Ritsuka sat back in his seat.

Mash walked in with a cup of coffee for Ritsuka, who gladly accepted it, and began taking a sip from it.

"Senpai…" Mash sat down beside Ritsuka. "Musashi and Okita are both recovering quickly, and should be back up-"

A sudden sound coming from outside set all three on high alert. Them and Da Vinci were the only ones that would be moving in and out of the command room, and Da Vinci was holed up in her lab at the moment. No one should have been at the door to the command room, and yet there was.

Mash summoned her shield while Tomoe readied her blade, preparing to intercept the intruders.

"Now now, that's no way to treat guests, is it?"

A flamboyant man strolled into the command room, appearing unarmed, with a slightly meeker man walking strictly behind him.

"Who are you two?" Ritsuka asked them.

"My name is… Oren Pierre Alfonzo! And this is my assistant pattisier, Jonouchi Hideyasu."

"O...k?" Tomoe lowered her sword out of confusion. "So how did you get in here and what do you want?"

Oren stood there, dumbfounded at the audacity of the group.

"Well if you insist… we just walked in through the front door. It wasn't exactly hard. You people didn't even bother to lock it!"

Ritsuka turned his head at Tomoe, who was supposed to lock up once everyone had entered.

"Weellll… You see…" Tomoe quickly dropped her guard, embarrassed at her major screw-up.

"As for what we want… well I'll be honest. We tailed you back here after we saw you guys coming back from the area where that hideous Overlord was." Oren explained. "If you guys had the guts to stand up to the Overlords, even if you wound up losing… well needless to say we admire that."

"We?"

"Yes, we. The resistance." Oren signaled to Jonouchi, who pulled out a business card to give to the group of Chaldeans.

"The resistance was formed to stand up to the Overlords… but well we haven't exactly had much luck." Jonouchi had a sadness in his eyes that Ritsuka almost immediately recognized.

"I see…" Ritsuka walked over to the duo to speak more personally with them. "Well, I'll tell you that these Overlords appear to be one of the reasons we were sent here, so it looks like we are on the same side at the very least."

"Yeah, it does appear that way." Oren said. "Say, why don't you come visit the resistance base? You can meet the rest of us and we can include you in our plans to take down these monsters."

"Listen, until Musashi and Okita fully recover, I don't think it's smart for us to go anywhere-"

"Oh you won't have to worry about those Overlords, we have some tunnels that I don't even think they have found yet. We can get you to our base without any major fights- although there's no guarantee there won't be some small Elementary Inves to tackle along the way. But we can take care of those for you."

"Oh well in that case…" Ritsuka had to consider for a moment, but before he could answer Jonouchi spoke up.

"Hold on - did you just say Musashi? As in Miyamoto Musashi?"

"Uh… well, yes. But… not in the way that you'd think."

As he said that, Musashi and Okita both walked back in, wrapped up in bandages, with a fire in both of their eyes.

"Master! Let's go back out and take down that Overlord!" Musashi grabbed Ritsuka and shook him as she told him this, rattling him.

"Musashi! Calm down" Mash pried the swordsman off of Ritsuka. "That man killed the Overlord, remember?"

"Can you all stop for a minute?!" Jonouchi piped up once again, stunning the servants. "I have… various questions about this whole situation. First off, are you really Miyamoto Musashi? As in the famous swordsman who used the Niten Ichi-ryu style? The one who lived hundreds of years ago and should be long dead by now?! Not to mention a man?!"

"Ah… well," Ritsuka sat down in one of the chairs behind him, "I guess it is about time we explain who exactly we all are, now isn't it? Mash?"

"Ah, yes senpai! We are from an organization known as Chaldea. Formerly based out of a remote location outside of the command of any country, we worked to repair the singularities caused by the Demon Goetia. After that… well I'll just say our base is no longer operational. We've been going around to what we have found out are called Lostbelts, fragments of human history that have diverted from the normal human history. This place… your world, is one of these Lostbelts. However, what is quite interesting about this place is that, although being a Lostbelt, it is not one controlled by one of the crypters that we knew. The 7 former masters of Chaldea… and now there is an 8th under the rule of the Alien God that we are fighting against."

"Ok then. And this… Alien God, you said? Is what is creating these Lostbelts?" Jonouchi pressed Mash for more information about their situation.

"Well… creating isn't the right term. I guess it could be described as the Alien God bringing them back into existence?"

Jonouchi and Oren stood silently for a minute, trying to comprehend what Mash had just told them.

"So what you're saying is that this timeline isn't the 'proper' timeline for humanity?" Oren asked. "I suppose that's sort of a relief to know but I guess that also means all of our lives could be considered void."

"It's not an easy situation to grasp, I'm sure..." Ritsuka continued, "But you must believe us when we say this. Would you happen to know anything about a massive, ethereal looking tree somewhere around here?"

"Yes, actually!" Oren exclaimed. "The Yggdrasil tower back in the day, but recently it sort of… exploded? Well, something grew out from within it that's super big and kind of scary. Like it's sucking the life out of the surrounding area."

"That… sounds about right."

"Ok, so that answers one of our questions. But how the hell do you have Miyamoto freaking Musashi alive and here?! And as a woman?!" Jonouchi seemed to be getting quite frustrated.

"Ahahaha" Tomoe chuckled a bit. "Yes, what you all wouldn't know about true history."

"True history?"

"Yes…" Ritsuka facepalmed at his comrades jesting. "All three of these people here in the… not so modern clothes are, as you'd expect, not modern. They are heroic spirits - heroes from the past, both real and supposedly fictional, who ascended into the throne of heroes after they died. We summoned them forth from there to help us with our endeavor. These three are the Niten Ichi-ryu style user Miyamoto Musashi, the Archer Inferno Tomoe Gozen, and the Sakura Saber, also known as Okita Souji."

Jonouchi stared at the three servants with almost a deadpan expression, speechless to find himself in the presence of such legendary figures. Oren on the other hand, was all over them.

"Oh my! Such marvelous people in front of us! It all sounds… slightly far-fetched, but well, we also are in a world of monsters like the Inves."

Oren chuckled at the situation before continuing.

"Well, with that out of the way, what say we go to our hideout? I'd like for you people to meet our friends."

With that, Oren turned towards the door. As the door slid open however, the short figure of Leonardo Da Vinci stumbled right into the patissier and fell backwards, dropping her staff.

"Oh are you alright, little kid?" Oren said as he helped Da Vinci up.

"Little kid? Ah, I guess no one would be able to recognize me like this!"

"Hm? What do you mean by that?"

"Haahh…" Ritsuka let out a sigh, "That's another one of the heroic spirits summoned to help Chaldea. Leonardo Da Vinci"

Once again, Jonouchi was flabbergasted at this reveal, but this time Oren joined him. Both stood, mouths agape as Da Vinci brushed herself off.

"What, you've never seen a pretty young gal before?" the genius asked.

"Ritsuka…" Jonouchi turned and placed a hand on Ritsuka's shoulder, "It's one thing to tell me that you have the real Miyamoto Musashi with you… and I suppose it's fine that Musashi may have been a girl… but if you really expect me to believe that Leonardo Da Vinci, the greatest genius of all time was not only a woman, but also a small child, you've got another thing coming!"

Ritsuka could only sigh as he directed the two members of the Resistance back out of the Shadow Border. He had agreed to go with them, but he had a nagging feeling in the back of his head, so he took Da Vinci with him to go to the Resistance's base. After all, having a genius with him couldn't bring the group any trouble, right?

After the two Resistance members easily took out a few waves of the Elementary Inves, they finally reached the base and were able to relax. Oren showed them inside while Jonouchi stood guard to make sure they weren't being watched, as well as to lock up after they all went inside. There were several other people within the base doing various household tasks, while others were sitting around, reading books, dancing, or playing video games.

"This… this is it?" Tomoe stood, holding back tears. "This is all that's left of humanity in this realm?"

"Well, if you could even call us humanity anymore." Jonouchi turned to the Resistance members. "Oy! We've got some guests here. They are here to help us out! Treat them with the same respect you'd treat each other."

The Resistance members scrambled to their feet, coming over to greet the Chaldeans.

"Wooaaahhh, those clothes are cool! Where did you get them?"

"Are those real swords?"

"What's with that tattoo?"

As the day went on, the two groups got acquainted with each other, quickly becoming friends. However, there were a couple of members that sat silently still, in the corner of the room discussing with each other. They were all dressed in business suits and had serious looks on their faces, all of them looking over a map of the city.

"Don't worry too much about them, they are always over there discussing strategies about how to strike back at the Overlords."

Ritsuka couldn't comply however, wandering over to see how he could help.

"What do you want, kid?"

Ritsuka stepped backwards, frightened that one of them had noticed him walking up without the man having even looked at him. He took a deep breath, like he did when he had faced Gorgon back in Babylonia, and marched forward to greet the group.

"What are you guys doing over here?" he calmly asked the group.

"Same as always," another piped up, "Planning how we can survive another day."

"How bleak!" Da Vinci popped up from behind Ritsuka. "Do you never have any fun?"

"Tch… what would a kid like you know anyways-"

The woman speaking quickly shut up as Da Vinci fired a bolt from her staff right past her, slightly skimming her ear.

"Just a small hint…" Ritsuka placed his hand on the shoulder of one of the woman's accomplices, "You don't want to get on Da Vinci's bad side."

As the group slowly attempted to recover from the stun they received, a siren blared.

WARNING: AN OVERLORD HAS BEEN SPOTTED NEAR THE PREMISES

"Shit…" Zack, one of the Resistance members that had been talking with Musashi stood up, taking out a belt and placing it around his waist. "Alright guys, let's go! We aren't giving this base up yet!"

A few others ran outside with Zack, each placing a belt around their waists as well. Ritsuka and the group of Chaldeans quickly picked up on the situation and ran outside behind them. Once they got outside, they encountered their enemy. A red Overlord Inves who held a sword, and had several horns growing out from various portions of his body, notably his shoulders and wrists. Once the group of Resistance members came into view, he turned towards them, screaming in rage and charged towards them.

"Alright everyone!" Zack took out an object from his pocket, twirling it before raising it up to the air. The others followed suit, taking the strange trinkets out from their pockets before each doing their own signature poses.

KURUMI

DURIAN
DONGURI

MELON ENERGY

LEMON ENERGY

They all placed the trinkets on their belts, shouting out together.

"Henshin!"

A/N - This... took a while. This is sort of a side project though, so I guess don't expect chapters much more often than this?