Mei Suudo was walking down the street. While to the people of the city, it was another day for the rest of the city's people, but for the assistant editor at a small town publishing company, it was a rather special occasion. For three months, her friend Touma had been separated from his allies in Sword of Logos by a manipulative conspiracy by the higher ups in the organisation they represented to seize all the Seikens and Wonder Ridebooks that were necessary to recreate the world. But now, thanks to a little time, patience, Touma proving his points and the conspiracy beginning to unravel as Master Logos's agents began to act more and more suspicious. Sure, there were still two noticeable absences - Kento was still acting out on his own trying to seal away all the Seikens, and Ren had left SoL a while ago when Kento had resurfaced, or so Rintaro had informed them - but otherwise, it was still something to celebrate.

"Well now, aren't we happy?" Mei was snapped out of her reverie by an uncomfortably familiar voice. She turned around to see the Megiddo executives, Storious and Zooous standing there. "Ah yes, you're those pesky little swordsman's… pet?", Storious asked.

"I'm not just their pet.", Mei yelled defiantly. "I'm fully capable."

"Oooo, this little kitten has claws.", Zoous howled. "There's a reason I've always liked this one."

"Remember why we've chosen this one.", Storious chided his compatriot. "With the swordsmen reunited and our power reduced by a third, we need to be more intelligent with our selection methods." He then took out what Mei recognised as a blank Ridebook, identical in shape to Touma's Emotional Dragon book and Calibur's Jaou Dragon book. "I'll permit you to do the honours."

Mei had a look of horror on her face as she realised what was happening. "No. Stop!", she cried out.

But it was for naught. Zooous took the blank tome and inserted it into the chest of his victim. As Mei cried out in pain, she felt her body contorting, changing into a different creature. As the process completed itself, Mei Suudo was gone. In her place stood a humanoid creature resembling a skeletal cat with a scar through one of its eyes, fangs born from its mouth and multiple collars dangling from its chest. The voice of the book uttered its new name, as it began to write itself. "Fukuokita Neko!"

"Excellent.", Storious commented, seeing Zoous's new servant in detail. "This one will prevent those swordsmen from taking action against us."

"What?", Mei was able to call out, as she felt the effect of the book's corrupting influence overcome her. "I won't be your servant." She gasped, realising her voice had already changed. Instead of the usual, high-pitched tone she had, she was now speaking with a lower voice, almost boyish.

"Your transformation is almost complete, my servant.", Zooous growled at her. "Soon, you and I will take out that water swordsman together and take his Suiseiken Nagare."

"I -." Mei tried to protest, but she was shocked again. Her pronoun had changed from "atashi" to "boku". "I-. Zoous-." Mei tried to fight the confusion in her mind. This world -

This world could stand to be recreated, she decided. What was the point of preserving it? Her home was the Wonder World now. And if she could help to alter reality, then what did her friends matter? "Master Zoous, I will help you recreate the world.", the Neko Megid stated.

In another timeline, all of this was witnessed by Kento Fukiyama, as part of the curse inflicted upon him by the Ankokouken Kurayami. While he knew he had altered some of the details of this encounter, a version of it was still fated to happen after he had freed Sophia from the clutches of Southern Base. It didn't matter to him though. Unless an opportunity to seal one of the Seikens away came about, he would ignore this.