7:46 AM, March 7th 2016.

We start in an office that has a Neon sign reading out 'Devil May Cry' Inside the office was a familiar man with white hair and a red coat. Under the coat was a very nice black vest and shirt combo. He was of course wearing a nice set of leather pants.

Said man was currently looking at his very empty wallet. He had been hit by some hard times, there weren't any jobs coming in. And that damn woman had made sure that he wouldn't be able to order any pizza until he gave a payment for the months he had missed. Right now, he didn't even have any electricity! It was really bad honestly.

Then, someone walked in through the shop's doors. A man in an immaculate black suit, white shirt, and red tie combo. Something that Dante was not very familiar with seeing, if his raised eyebrow was anything to go by. "Hello there… my name is Shell." Dante raised an eyebrow at the name, but chose not to say anything about it. The suit then walked all the way over to the Devil Hunter's desk and set down a file. "I'm looking for someone to deal with a problem of mine."

Dante grabbed the file and opened it up. He then raised an eyebrow "That's a pretty weird looking ghost. So he's been messing with your town?"

"Yeah, what's worse is that he's drawn in a strange organization. They go around, kidnapping people in broad daylight!" Dante only nodded his head "Right, right. You want me to take care of both of them then?"

"Yes, and if you can. I'd like for us to leave right now. If you need any motivation to do so, please look at what's behind the paper." Dante then took the file out of the folder and saw something he never thought he would see in this lifetime.

A blank check…

(Cue Lit Waffle Opening.)

"Mr. Waffle!" Waffle's desk was then hit, and the teen quickly jumped from out of his chair. He looked at the guy who did it, an old guy who looked to be pretty angry with him. "This is the third time this period that you have fallen asleep. Would you like to share with the class the reason why?" Waffle just looked away from the teacher.

"Oh, you know." "I know what, Mr. Waffle?" "It's just, poems aren't really my style. Especially not these old timey ones. I don't hate them it's just…" "You think that you have something better to do?"

Waffle proceeded to shrug and sheepishly smile. "You said it, not me." At that moment, the bell rang and all of the students including Waffle grabbed their stuff and started to get out. It was lunch period and they did not want to stay any longer. However, just before Waffle got through the door.

"Mr. Waffle, a word please." The teen stopped to look at his teacher, but the other students didn't like this and proceeded to push him away from the doorframe. Eager to not get involved in whatever detention that Waffle was sure to be sentenced to. Waffle sighed and walked over to the teacher's desk. "Yes?"

"I can understand not liking literature." "What? I don't hate literature, I wouldn't be writing if I did." "You write, Mr. Waffle?" "What were you going to bring up?"

"Well, I wanted to give you something as extra credit. Something to maybe help lessen your dislike of poetry." The teacher then pushed a book forward and Waffle looked down at it. He raised an eyebrow at the title. "William Blake? Have we been covering this guy in class?"

"No, he's actually not in the plans at all. These works are some of my personal favorites. All you have to do is read this book and then come back to me." "With what? A report?" "No, not at all. Just tell me what you think about the poems." Waffle just nodded and grabbed the book. "Sure." The teen then put the book into his bag and walked out.

As soon as Waffle walked out the door, someone came up to him. A very pretty girl. "Hey Waffle, get in trouble with the teacher?"

"Eh, not really." "That's good, hate to see someone like you get tangled up in something like that." Waffle then nodded his head at that. "Right, right. So… I'm about to head to lunch, would you like to join me?"

"I'd love to, but I actually have to go do something. Maybe next time though." With that said, the girl then started to walk away but she then turned back to Waffle. "By the way, give Tori my regards."

Waffle nodded and waved as she started to walk away again. "Who is Tori?"

One jump cut later, Waffle sat down at one of the tables in the cafeteria. There, his good pals Bryan and Calvin were sitting. "Well boys, I was approached by a hot chick today." "Didn't you and Taco just start going out?"

Calvin then laughed at that "Bry-guy it's fine, won't be a problem if she doesn't find out." Waffle immediately started to shake his head side to side. "We haven't started anything yet. Where would you even get an idea of something like that?"

"You literally told me she kissed you a little while ago." "No one else is supposed to know that Bryan." Calvin raised an eyebrow and leaned in closer. "You wanna let me in on this little secret Breakfast Boy?" Waffle turned away and suddenly exclaimed. "Oh boy, I wonder where Ivory is. He does not seem to be here."

"Waffle, that's not a good excuse, he's your bat." "Yeah but I actually don't know where he is." Calvin looked at Bryan, who proceeded to shrug. "Well it shouldn't be a problem, you got your Ghost powers right?" "I guess." "So, tell me about this cute girl Waffle!"

"What cute girl?" All three boys turned to see Taco, who had just walked over with a tray of food. "Um… Welll…" Waffle continued to make weird sounds as he visibly shrunk in his seat. Calvin was mimicking this for some reason, perhaps he was afraid of the girl. "Waffle's got the hots for some random chick." Waffle and Calvin then whipped their heads around to look at the man. "Dude?!"

"I didn't want to hear you two bicker anymore." Taco then slammed her food onto the table and sat right next to Waffle. Which caused Calvin to look at Bryan. He then went to stand up but then Bryan grabbed his shirt and pulled him back into the seat. The resident girl then started glaring at Waffle, who started to get up. But was then pulled down by Taco. Not back into the chair, but so that he was literally face to face with her.

"Tell me about her." "Not much to tell, she was pretty. Wore this cool coat and shirt thingy." Calvin quickly interjected with "A blouse?" "Yeah, a navy blouse. And she told me to give her regards to some chick named Tori? Do we know a Tori guys?" Calvin and Bryan shook their heads, and Taco proceeded to let go of Waffle at that. Calvin was quick to pick up on that?

"Do you know who Tori is? Is she some sort of evil Foundation X member?" Bryan raised an eyebrow at this "Why do you care?"

"I haven't really been able to do much. Let me have this." Both Bryan and Waffle just nodded their heads at that. "I don't know who Tori is, but I definitely know who that girl is."

"Is she evil?" "Yes." "Aw, bummer. Hey Waffle do you think we could-" "No." Calvin looked over at Taco confused. "No? You don't even know what I was going to ask."

"If we could get her to join our side. The answer is no."

"Why not? Is she like some sort of super high evil monster? You were like what, the resident Dark Rider? That meant you had to be pretty up there. We were able to turn you, what makes her so different?" "I'm not having this conversation right now." With that, Taco picked up her tray and started to walk away. Waffle looked at Bryan with a 'what the hell' look. "Sorry for pissing off your girlfriend."

"She's not my-" "Waffle, let's not start that now. Calvin no." "What was I going to say?"

"You were gonna say something about Dark Riders again." "Well I'm right." Waffle then sighed. "Well, that could've gone better. Now she's gonna be mad for who knows how long."

"If you don't like it, do something about it. Go after her." Waffle was silent for a moment before sighing again and standing up and leaving to go after Taco. Who had apparently left the cafeteria. Calvin then looked at Bryan. "It's okay since he left it, right?"

"Waffle knows our rules by now." The two boys then started to take from Waffle's tray.

Waffle walked through the halls, there were no signs of Taco anywhere. Which was really concerning but he would pull through. The teen then walked around a corner and came face to face with a man with white hair and a guitar case. "Hey."

"Hey." The man then pulled out a black pistol and put it up right against Waffle's skull. Suddenly, the Boosted Gear appeared on Waffle's arm.

[WAFFLE MOVE!]

The Boosted Gear arm then swiftly pushed the gun away, making it so that the bullet Dante fired missed. It then tried to punch the man in the stomach, but he jumped away. Waffle then yelled out "Wow! You're Dante from Devil May Cry!" Dante chuckled at that "The one and only."

"I can't believe you're here! To kill me… Oh my god you aren't like a weird Demon or Capcom Dopant right?" The Devil Hunter raised an eyebrow at that "No. I don't think this Donphan could imitate someone like me." "It's a USB, not an elephant."

[Waffle, can we not fool around with YOUR ASSASSIN?!] Waffle chuckled at that "Come on man, I'm getting a chance to banter with the legendary Dante."

"It's not something you get to do every day you know? Especially since you're about to die." Dante then brought out both of his guns and started to rapidly fire at the teen. Ddraig let out a frustrated yell before he said [WELSH DRAGON BALANCE BREAKER!] In a flash of red light, Waffle was now in his Balance Breaker armor. I'm not describing it right now because I'm tired. The armor managed to easily absorb the bullet's impact. This caused Dante to whistle. "Not bad."

"Well Dante, what do you think of my-" [My] "Our cool Balance Breaker form. It's like, Wish Dragon Super Booster." [Welsh Dragon Over Booster, and that's not even the name of the armor. It's just Scale Mail, Waffle.] "Alright, alright. Let's not get our non-existent panties in a twist, Ddraig."

"EEEYAH!" Waffle was then hit with a sword and got thrown out of the building. Conveniently not hitting any walls, and he ended up in the school's courtyard. "Ow… Ddraig do you have any ideas on how to beat him?"

[You ask that when you are wearing something that is known as a Longinus?] "Touche." Waffle then got back up and watched as Dante slowly walked out of the school. He now had his familiar sword strapped to his back, in place of where his guitar case was. "Alright, you want a sword fight? You got one!" Waffle then summoned the Ascalon blade. "This baby is a holy sword, more than enough to hurt you!"

"If I remember right, Ascalon is also known for its ability to slay dragons. I wonder what would happen if someone took it from you." "Hmm." Waffle then looked down at his gauntlet before deciding to just run forward. He then slashed at Dante, who easily moved out of the way. The Devil Hunter then disappeared in a red blur.

[What?! He can just do that?]

Waffle was then knocked away by Dante and he was sent helmet first into the grass. [Okay Waffle, I know I'm hard on you sometimes-] "Sometimes?" [Not the point, you know this person right? We'll use your knowledge of his fighting style and my millennia of experience and we'll beat him.]

"Okay but I haven't actually finished any of his video games. By the way, isn't it weird how a video game character just showed uuuuu-" Dante then kicked Waffle in the stomach, sending him close to another wall. "Y'know, I wish you wouldn't just ignore me kid." Waffle coughed before suddenly standing up. "Listen, me and the dragon were having a conversation."

Dante then aimed one of his pistols at Waffle. "As much as I'd like to hear more of your comedy routine, I'm on a bit of a schedule here." [Evasive Maneuvers! BOOST!] Waffle's armor then sprouted wings and he flew out of the way of the bullets. Ddraig started to repeat the boost phrase over and over again, which caused Dante to raise an eyebrow. [TRANSFER!]

Waffle then flew over Dante's head, and the sword in his hand started to glow a bright green. "Have a taste of this!" He came down with the blade, the Devil Hunter's reaction was to bring his arms together milliseconds before getting it. Which caused a red shield of energy to appear and block the slash. [WHY?!] Waffle then started to slash at the man in the red coat again, and again, and again.

Each time, Dante blocked the attack and he was looking pretty happy about it. "C'mon kid, why don't you take a break? Don't want to burn yourself out." "I'd worry more about you! You'll run out of stamina eventually!" Dante chuckled in response "Oh please, I have got stamina for days!" The hunter then pulled something out of his coat and threw it at Waffle, who jumped back on instinct.

He then watched a rose explode into tiny fragments, none of which hit Waffle. "That was cool." [Don't admire your enemy!] "Lemme have this! You don't get to have fights like this every day!" Dante chuckled at that "He's not wrong y'know!"

"Alright Ddraig, throw out a bunch of boosts! I know what I gotta do now!" Waffle then jumped high into the air, his armor started to glow a dark green color. [EXPLOSION!] The wings of his armor then appeared, and he flew down at Dante with his right hand extended! The Devil Hunter thrust his own arm forward in response, which released a small burst of red energy. Which managed to block Waffle's attack and knock him into one of the school's walls. Then Waffle's armor disappeared.

"Ddraig? Are you okay?" [I don't wanna go to school today…] Waffle proceeded to pat the Boosted Gear and then made it disappear. "You rest up, bud." Waffle then stood up and summoned his Ghost Driver. He then pulled out his Phantom Eyecon and inserted it into the belt.

[KAIGAN! PHANTOM!]

The parka then flew out of the belt and then went onto Waffle as he proceeded to pull out and push the Driver's lever back in. The Phantom suit then quickly formed and the rider summoned the GanGanScythe. "Alright Dante! Let's do this!" The Devil Hunter responded with a come and get me motion with his fingers. Waffle then ran forward with his weapon raised.

Meanwhile, back in the school's cafeteria. Bryan and Calvin were calmly eating lunch while the school's emergency alarms were going off. All the other kids were looking kinda nervous, especially since they heard some gunshots going off earlier. Calvin then looked at Bryan "Waffle?"

"Waffle. I'll make sure no one gets hurt." Calvin then proceeded to walk out of the room, a few seconds later Kamen Rider Oushi suddenly rushed in and started escorting people off the premises. Calvin then proceeded to stuff the rest of his food into his mouth and get up from his seat. "Might as well go check out this fight." Calvin then walked out of the cafeteria and towards where Waffle and Taco went earlier.

"Actually wait, are they having a lover's spat? Should I be doing this?" Calvin then came across a large hole in the wall of the hallway he was walking through. He could see Kamen Rider Phantom swinging his scythe at a man with white hair and a massive sword. The man with white hair then pulled out a sawed off shotgun and sent the ghostly rider flying. "Oh thank god this is different." Suddenly, another person ran into the hallway and looked out of the hole in the wall. It was Taco!

"Okay I left for five minutes what the heck happened?"

"Oh hey. Um… Sorry about earlier." "Let's not get into that right now. What happened?"

"I'm pretty sure this guy just attacked Waffle after he left to go after you." Taco's lips curled into a frown at that last part. "Oh." The two then watched Waffle get knocked away again. He then shifted his scythe into it's rifle mode and started to shoot at Dante. The hunter rolled out of the way and returned fire with his onyx pistol. Which hit Waffle's shoulder. "Ow!"

Dante then suddenly punched the ground and then was surrounded with orange glyphs. A pair of gauntlets then appeared on his hands, which caused Waffle to raise an eyebrow under his mask. "Wow! Those look like they're really cool!"

"It's the opposite actually!" Dante replied with a smirk. He then jumped up into the air and performed a sidekick, his left leg now being covered in flames. "Wait wha-" Waffle was then kicked in the chest, and knocked onto the ground from the force of the blow. Dante then brought his fist back and proceeded to hit Waffle with a fiery punch that singed the grass that were surrounding the two. "What's wrong? Heard you were tougher than this. Starting to think the client overcharged me."

"Oh yeah… Just wait until I get my second wind…" Dante chuckled and then hopped away from Waffle. "I'll give you a chance then. Let's see this second wind…" The Devil Hunter then brought one of his fists back and started to gather energy into his palm, which coalesced into a fireball. Waffle then propped himself up by his elbow and he looked at the fireball. "Man it sure would be a good time for Ivory and Phenex to show up!"

Dante then thrust his arm forward and launched the fireball at Waffle. It exploded on contact and created a pillar of fire. "Waffle!" Dante then turned to see Taco and Calvin sticking their heads out of the hole in the wall. "Hey." Taco proceeded to growl and pull out her Lost Driver. Calvin elected to grab her arms and attempt to pull her back. "Wait for Bryan, he has super speed and should be here and literally any second." Dante then turned to look at the fire pillar again.

"I feel like that should have gone out by now…" Suddenly, the fire then shook before shifting to a green color. Dante smirked, "Here's that second wind."

The holographic image that usually accompanied the activation of an Eyecon then burst forth from the flame, a green face that resembled Phantoms. The pillar then exploded outward before suddenly all of the fire flew back into a humanoid figure.

[BATTLING KAIGAN! BLAST! HERE WE GO! BLASTING THROUGH! ~PHANTOM IS GO~ GO BLAST! GO BLAST!]

The rider didn't look drastically different from Phantom's base form. The suit was mainly done in a bright emerald color, with black and silver detailing that appeared almost as if there were explosions breaking out of the green. The rider's hoodie was also mainly back, with emerald coloring the articles outline.

Waffle then held out his hand and summoned a new weapon from his belt. It was a sword with a gunmetal grey blade and a handle that looked like it was made with some high quality wood. In-between these two features was a large black block that held what appeared to be two waffle irons. "Hmm… I'll call it the Ironblader!"

Calvin and Taco stopped for a moment at that, stunned at Waffle's new form and the rather lackluster name for his weapon.

"I get it!" Dante yelled out.

"Oh yeah… Well get this!" Waffle then dashed forward, faster than he was as base Phantom, and swung his sword down onto Dante. The Hunter raised his sword in a lazy block. "So I see that it's more than just a new coat of paint. Feel like telling me more?"

"All you need to know is that you're playing by my rules now! One of the biggest cliches in Toku is that whenever the hero gets a new power, they always win!" Dante just shook his head at that and proceeded to aim a punch at Waffle's stomach. Which connected and got the rider off of him. Dante then quickly moved forward and stuck his white pistol into the rider's face. "Y'know, I've always been a fan of a good cliche dodge." He then pulled the gun's trigger, and Waffle narrowly avoided getting shot in the face.

The Rider then spun around and slashed at Dante's side. Who blocked the slash with his gauntlet. Waffle then glowed and started to awkwardly float backwards. Kind of like what a ghost would do. He then dashed forward and performed a spin slash, which Dante ducked under. Waffle then spun around and aimed a kick at Dante's face. The Devil Hunter proceeded to teleport and appeared over Waffle's head.

A red glyph appeared under Dante and he jumped off of it. He then pulled out both of his guns and opened fire on the ghost rider. Phantom quickly swung his sword and deflected a few bullets. Waffle then hit the ground. He then grabbed the blade of his weapon and flipped it so it was now pointing forward. The Rider then aimed the weapon upwards and pressed a button that was on the hilt.

This of course caused the weapon to unleash a bullet made of pure energy. One that Dante barely dodged after creating another glyph to kick off of.

"That thing's a gun too? Maybe you should change its name then. Blader implies just a sword y'know?"

"Nope! Too late! I already named it!" Waffle then continued to fire at the Devil Hunter. Dante then once again turned into a red blur and re-appeared on the ground. "I mean, c'mon. It's not like you already put in the trademark."

"I did put it in actually."

"Didn't you just name it like a minute ago?"

"No. I put a lot of thought into the name of this baby."

"Not a lot of thought if it doesn't mention how it's also a gun."

"Okay you know what? You wanna give it a better name?!"

"I will!"

While the two combatants started to argue, Kamen Rider Oushi ran in and stopped right next to Calvin and Taco. "Alright, I got everyone out of the school. What did I miss?"

"What's wrong with just the Waffle Iron?"

"It's too bland!"

"It's better than going for a name that is also a description. That also isn't fully accurate!"

"I bet you're only saying that cause your weapons aren't as well named as mine!"

Suddenly, Dante's gauntlets suddenly lit themselves on fire. The hunter's response was to shush them. "Listen it's fine, he doesn't know better."

Oushi just nodded his head and then turned to Taco. "So. Have they just been fighting over the name this whole time?"

"They just started." Taco then pulled out her Lost Driver again and slapped it onto her waist. The girl then brought out her Gaia Memory and pressed it.

[Aquarius!]

Taco then transformed into her blue rider form and then turned to Oushi. "Are you ready?"

"Were you waiting for me?"

"Yeah."

"Oh. Neat. So does that mean you have a plan to beat this guy?"

"I just kinda figured we could all rush him."

"That's not really a plan."

"I know. Listen it'll be fine though, it's been like five minutes and Waffle's still alive."

"Isn't he a Ghost? He's probably not exactly easy to kill."

"No, he got his life back after killing the robot Waffle."

"Wait then how does he still have his powers from when he was specifically a ghost?"

Taco started to say something but the words were quickly lost in her throat. Were the powers specifically linked to his current state of existence? Why could he use them while alive?

That train of thought was quickly interrupted by a gunshot, which spooked the two riders on the sidelines. They turned to look at Dante. "Consider that a warning shot. I wouldn't get involved if I were you."

Oushi scoffed at that. "Oh yeah! Well let's see you handle this!" The ant rider then hit the side of his belt.

[CLOCK UP!]

Dante proceeded to snap his fingers which caused something to happen. Bryan noticed that the people around then were basically frozen. Moving what appeared to be one frame at a time. Normally they were just in regular slow motion, not a power point. However, there were more important things to be focusing on.

Oushi ran at the devil hunter and went for a punch, which Dante dodged which was a small surprise. "You also have speed powers, huh?"

"More like time powers, but that's besides the point."

The Kamen Rider then pulled out his kunai gun and slashed at the devil hunter. Who casually dodged the attacks and retaliated with a shot from his black gun. The bullet was batted away by the kunai and Oushi broke into a run and attempted to roundhouse kick Dante. Who literally caught it. His gauntlet then proceeded to light itself on fire.

"Hothothothotho- AAHHH!"

Dante then proceeded to throw the ant-themed rider away. After hitting the ground, Oushi propped himself up by his arms. "Dammit, looks like this level of speed isn't going to cut it…"

The Devil Hunter thought to himself 'He can go faster? That's gonna be an issue. Better finish this up.' The Hyper Zecter then appeared in Oushi's hand. Suddenly, there was a flash of red light and then….

[CLOCK OVER!]

Bryan was then knocked into a wall and was forced out of his transformation. Waffle blinked. "WHAT- WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED?!"

Calvin finally decided to cut in. "I'm pretty sure Bryan just got clobbered at super speeds. Maybe now would be a good time to get out of he-"

Waffle then pointed at Dante "How dare you! I'll make you pay for that!" The Rider then pulled out some eyecons from out of nowhere and loaded them into the Ironblader which caused the weapon to start to glow.

[Aquarius Maximum Drive!]

Water started to surround the other rider's feet, and she shifted her stance. Looking ready to unleash some sort of kicking attack. Meanwhile, Waffle brought the sword to his side.

Dante aimed both of his guns at the riders. A double attack like this wouldn't be impossible to deal with but the fight had been dragging on for a while now. The Legendary Devil Hunter figured that now was a good time to clean up and clock out. Considering how the Ant Rider went down, the water girl should go fast if he applied enough force.

Then a red flash occurred and a Devil stood in place of Dante. Which elicits a gasp from Calvin because he had no idea what was the deal with that. "Hah! Finally realized how screwed you are huh?" Despite his bravado, Waffle grimaced under his helmet. Danre was starting to take this seriously.

Suddenly, a figure appeared behind Dante. It appeared to be a ghostly version of his demonic form. The Doppelganger then dashed at Waffle. The rider was ready though and brought his sword forward!

Waffle cleaved the Doppelganger in too and caused a massive explosion. At the same time, Aquarius broke into a run. Intern on nailing the strange swordsman with a kick. Dante then dashed forward, fast as lightning, and literally batted away the blue rider.

Aquarius was knocked into the wall next to Oushi and her suit disappeared in a flash of blue light. Dante turned to look at Phantom, who was now shaking with anger. "How dare you…"

Despite the venom in the young rider's voice, Dante replied with a smile as he hefted his sword over his shoulder.

"Look, they got in the way. This is a one on one session." His voice echoed, a strange side effect of unleashing his power.

"Waffle now would be a really good time to gather the gang and get out of here!"

Before Dante could quip in response, a white light appeared in front of Waffle. "No… This guy has gone too far." The light quickly formed into a light blue eyecon, which caused Dante to raise an eyebrow. "You really like your eyeballs huh kid? What's this one do?"

Waffle didn't answer as he snatched it out of the air and clicked it. He then quickly opened up his ghost driver and dropped it in. This caused a hoodie that looked like a very nice blue leather coat to come out of the belt. The sight of the jacket caused Dante to pause. It looked oddly familiar to the Devil Hunter…

Waffle then grabbed the lever and pushed and pulled it. Causing his green Blast Hoodie to disappear.

[KAIGAN! VERGIL!]

Dante's eyes widened at that. "What the hell is this?!"

[THE DARK ANGEL! FOOLISH… DANTE!]

The hoodie then attached itself to Phantom. The rider then held it's hand out, seemingly waiting for something. Meanwhile, Dante had started to grit his teeth. This new form seemed to really be grinding his gears. "I don't know what you're trying here but-"

Then, a katana flew in from seemingly out of nowhere and into Waffle's hands. Waffle's arms then moved at superhuman speeds, and a flurry of slices appeared at Dante's location. An attack the Devil Hunter didn't block out of shock. The Devil Hunter was trying to connect the dots in his head. What the hell just happened in front of him? A sprout with vague ghost powers calling upon his dead brother?

Then Waffle dashed forward and tried to lop Dante's head off. This time the Hunter was ready and he dashed to the side. Dante then raised his sword and proceeded to rapidly thrust his sword at the Rider. Who countered with rapid slashes from his own blade. Waffle then pulled the lever on his belt, while Dante charged some energy into his sword.

They then proceeded to stab each other and both died. The end.

Then Waffle woke up with a start, he immediately grasped his stomach. The spot where he had been stabbed. There wasn't an injury there though. "Was that all a dream? Kinda messed up…" Then, a familiar head of white hair appeared in Waffle's vision. "It would be messed up if that was a dream huh? I'd say it would fit right into the realm of nightmares." Waffle whipped his head up in shock. There he was, Dante from the Devil May Cry series. He was holding two slices of pizza.

"You want one?"

"Of course, who would turn down a free slice of pizza?"

"My kind of guy."

Dante then handed over the pizza to Waffle and sat down next to him. The teen took a moment to look at his surroundings. They were in Castle Irony's entrance. None of Waffle's friends were here. However, there was a pizza box.

"I already ate the rest by the way."

Dammit. Waffle then quickly devoured his slice and turned to Dante. "Let's talk then."

"About what specifically? This town's got some good pizza. How do you think they make it?"

"Last guy who tried to learn died. Let's talk about something else."

Dante just shook his head in response and took something out of his coat. The same Eyecon Waffle used in their fight. "Alright… Can you explain what this is to me?"

"In general, that's the soul of a guy. I don't know which one it is though, I honestly kinda zoned out during the last part of the fight. Did a katana actually appear out of nowhere?"

Dante just sighed and proceeded to toss the eyecon over to Waffle, who caught it with a small fumble. "Just take care of that one. It's important." The Devil Hunter then went back to chewing on his pizza.

Then, Ivory came flying into the room. "Waffle you're awake! I'm so sorry I wasn't there to help out! I was uh… watching an important program."

"What kind of program?"

"...Danmachi."

Waffle just gave a silent thumbs up, There would be no bad blood between the two. Dante then chimed in with "So like, I was told you were a ghost. How does the bat fit into your belt?" Ivory flew over to the Devil Hunter "Well you see I can bite people and give them a cool belt! Completely different from the Ghost Driver!" The Hunter nodded and then finished off his pizza.

"So how did we end up here anyways?"

"Well you see after you got stabbed…"

Castle Irony appeared above the school and used it's weird ball powers to suck in all the combatants. Also Calvin and some other guy.

"I guess it just sensed you were in trouble."

"Everyone else is alright? Managed to get some medical attention?"

"Yeah. Turns out the other guy's really nice and even helped out!" Waffle then raised an eyebrow. What other guy was the-

"Dante!"

Waffle turned his head to see a man who looked a lot like the Legendary Devil Hunter. They had matching hair but while Dante had somewhat long hair, this person had recently cut theirs into a buzzcut. They were also wearing a red and blue jacket and had a cool looking demon arm. If Waffle recalled correctly, that was Nero! Some guy who was apparently related to Dante, he hadn't played much of the series after all. Dante greeted the other Hunter with a two fingered salute "Hey kid."

"You said you'd explain yourself after Waffle got up. So start talking." Nero sounded pissed about something. "You better have a good fucking reason for going after high schoolers." Ah.

"Well you saw the check I cashed this morning. Got a lot of money for accepting this job." Waffle's eyes widened at that, someone had paid Dante to try and kill him?

"Figured it was for a stupid reason." Nero growled before pulling out his customized revolver.

"Cool it, I wasn't actually planning on killing him. Just a spot of fun. My business has been dry and the kid looked interesting. You don't see people transform using the spirits of the dead all that often. Especially one that let him summon the Yamato."

Nero's eyes widened at that "What…? Is that why?"

Dante shook his head "Naw, just sorta happened during the fight. Reasons are bullshit but I figure we can put it behind us. Play nice and all that."

Nero then sighed and proceeded to shoot Dante, knocking him straight to the floor. There was blood everywhere and Ivory immediately flew behind Waffle. Moments later, Dante sat up looking right as rain. "You got that out of your system?"

Nero huffed and holstered his gun and then turned to Waffle. "Listen… I'm sorry about that asshole. Guy doesn't really have a brain."

"Rude!"

Nero then shot Dante again.

Waffle just shrugged "Well I'm alive now and my friends are okay. So I guess we're cool. Plus now I know the Foundation is getting ready to outsource to kill me."

Both Nero and Dante raised an eyebrow at that. Before they could ask what Foundation Waffle was talking about, Taco walked into the corridor. Waffle was immediately at her side and gave her a quick once over. Looked like she didn't suffer any lasting injuries from the fight. "Waffle we have trouble. Monsters showed up in the city."

"Aw man! Ivory, Phenex, you're up!" At the call of their names, both miniature monsters flew next to Waffle. Then, Bryan ran into the room. Nero and Dante immediately went into alert stances. The Older Hunter then asked "So how are we gonna get the-"

All of the people in the entrance were then spat out of Castle Irony by way of it's weird glowy orbs and onto the battlefield. Dante nodded "Not bad." The three Kamen Riders and Nero then turned to see a bunch of monsters. Some were familiar to the Devil Hunter and made him grimace. Those were from Fortuna Island! How the hell did they get here?

Waffle grimaced because he noticed that apparently some Riotroopers had shown up. The Foundation really had to throw EVERYTHING at him? Although, these guys were just small fry in comparison to the actual monsters they were facing so it wasn't that big of an issue. Waffle then grabbed Ivory out of the air and let the bat bite his hand. His belt and brace appeared and Ivory and Phenix attached themselves, transforming Waffle into his super form.

Similarly, Bryan and Taco transformed into Hyper Oushi and Aquarius respectively. Dante then ran past all of them with his guns literally blazing. "Let's get this party started!"

Waffle pulled on Phenix's head and an image of a familiar wyvern appeared on the bird's back.

(WYVERN FRENZY!)

The Wyvern Katana then appeared and Phenix attached himself onto it. Waffle grabbed it and was immediately pulled forward by Phenix releasing a torrent of fire from his end of the weapon.

Oushi hit the Hyper Clock Up button and was gone, leaving only Aquarius and Nero. Nero immediately ran forward and grabbed his sword from its place on his back. Immediately joining the massive brawl that was starting.

Before Taco could join the fight though, she got eaten by a dimensional wall.

Waffle and Dante were both cutting down monster after monster. The Bat Rider was pleased to see an undead explode after Dante threw a rose at it. No sealing was needed here! Wouldn't need a whole new rider system after all. Dante pulled out a new weapon, a dark purple guitar. Dante started to play a song and a bunch of electric bats were drawn to it.

Ivory then came off Waffle's belt and circled Dante, infatuated by the tune. Ivory then bit the guitar and it released an epic wave of electricity which fried all the enemy creatures. Dante whistled at that. "Ivory get back here!"

"But the cool guitar!"

Meanwhile, Hyper Oushi was speeding in and out of focus. Knocking around various monsters and troopers as he did so. Occasionally the Rider set up a monster so that Nero could finish them off with a slash from his sword, the Red Queen. The Devil Hunter was making short work of any monster that got too close. Whether it be from a slice from a sword or a fierce punch from his demonic arm.

Another wave of troopers showed up, and Nero decided now was the time to up the ante. The Hunter pulsed with blue energy which coalesced into an armored figure which hovered behind him. Hyper Oushi stopped to comment "Hey is that a Sta-" The Rider then quickly dodged out of the way of a demon's scythe. Seeing this, Dante quickly morphed into his demon form. The older man laughed, his voice distorted by his transformation. "Alright kids! Let's see who can get the highest score?!"

Dante grabbed the Rebellion and charged it with as much energy as he could. Kaiser Ivory grabbed Phenix's head once more and invoked the Wake Up Frenzy. Hyper Oushi slowed down to show him pulling the Hyper Zector's horn. Nero summoned the Yamato from out of nowhere, having recovered it while Waffle was knocked out.

The Legendary Devil Hunter broke into a run, slashing his sword along the way. Each attack released dark red energy which decimated the opposition.

Waffle jumped into the air and performed his rider kick, Kicking one demon which was sent into a crowd and then proceeding to explode. Causing a chain reaction that killed a bunch more.

Oushi hit his clock up button and suddenly explosions happened. It would be epic if we had a speed camera.

Nero also broke into a run, slicing through various demons as he did so. His spectral friend copies the action and doubles the Hunter's current kill count. Nero then found himself next to Dante, who had grabbed both of his pistols and started to pump them full of energy.

Nero grabbed his revolver and copied the action. The two fired in sync.

"Jackpot."

Meanwhile…

Taco was surprised to find herself suddenly on a rooftop. She looked around and saw something weird. A rider that looked suspiciously like one of the SMART BRAIN riders. It was immediately obvious as to why the other Riders were fighting Riotroopers now. That rider then pulled out a replica of Kaxia's Blaygun, however it was shaped like a Z rather than an X, weird.. "You're coming with me." The voice belonged to a female, one that Taco recognized.

"Like hell you are!"

Aquarius summoned her trident and took a defensive stance. The other Rider moved first and went for an overhead slash which was blocked. Aquarius then aimed a knee strike at the other rider's abdomen. The other rider was quick to disengage and moved out of the attack's range. The blue rider then followed up with a series of quick stabs. Each attack was easily deflected by the faux Blaygun.

The blue memory rider then let out a yell and went for a stronger thrust. The other rider bats the weapon away with their sword and forces it into the concrete beneath the two. The spear is now stuck. The other Rider then pulled out the mission memory from their driver and inserted it into the hilt of their weapon.

=READY!=

The Rider speeds forward and hits Aquarius with a powered up slash of their sword. Forcing the blue rider to abandon her weapon and knocking her over to the edge of the rooftop. "Don't make it too easy for me now! I wanna have some more fun." Aquarius then stood up and looked down. Waffle and the others looked like they were just about to finish up with the various monsters and demons.

There's some audible buzzing coming from the other Rider's helmet and they let out a disappointed sigh. "Guess we'll have to finish up later then." They pulled the trigger on their weapon. "But as a parting gift…"

=EXCEED CHARGE!=

Their sword glows a bright periwinkle as they send a Z shaped slice into Aquarius and knocks her off the building. This is followed by a chorus of explosions from below.

Aquarius is then caught by Kaiser Ivory before she can hit the ground. Afterwards, both Riders cancel their transformations. "Hey."

"Hey."

The two touched the ground and were approached by Oushi. "Hey! Why did you come from up there?" "Foundation happened. We're… gonna have to talk about that. Did you guys finish up here?" The three then turned to see Dante stomping out a stray fire. No more monsters to be found on this street. "Just about."

Sirens then started to ring in the background. "Looks like that's our cue. Castle Irony!"

Castle Irony then swooped down and grabbed the group.

Later…

Dante and Nero were packing stuff away into a red convertible. "Well, that was a nice gig. Got plenty of moolah for it." The Legendary Devil Hunter then grinned at a cartoonishly large sack of cash sitting in his lap. Nero just rolled his eyes in the passenger's seat "You sure you're gonna be able to drive like that?"

"Of course I am!" The Devil Hunter then slammed on the breaks and got the car moving. Nero then looked back at the city behind them. "Do you think those kids will be alright?"

"Probably. They seem like they're used to crazy stuff happening."

Nero let out a grunt at that and then turned his head to the side. Dante shrugged and focused on the money in front of him. "By the way… here's how we're gonna split this."

Dante then slammed the entire bag onto Nero.

Meanwhile!

Waffle and friends sat in Waffle's room. The boys surrounded Taco, who was sitting on a beanbag chair. "Alright so… You guys know that I used to be a part of the Foundation…" The three boys nodded their heads. "You see… it's kind of a family affair." The three blinked for a moment.

Then Calvin yelled out "Nepotism!"

"Yeah sure. Anyways, I got jumped by my sister during that fight. She's part of the reason why they sent those Riotroopers, they must've gotten a brand deal with Smart Brain or something."

"I see… Is she Tori?"

"No."

Waffle then looked at Brian "Who's Tori again?" "Remember this morning?" Waffle then remembered the girl he encountered that morning in school. He also remembered something else "OH SHIT I WAS GIVEN A READING ASSIGNMENT!" The teen then went into his backpack to grab the book, but found it missing instead.

Waffle blinked.

"Wait, I can just look them up on the internet! Haha, crisis averted."

His three other friends looked at him with blank stares.

Meanwhile!

A cloaked figure stood outside of Waffle's home, holding the book of poems. "That boy, he was able to wield my sword. However, he's not of our blood.." The figure flipped the book open as he began to walk away from Waffle's home.

"One thought, fills immensity. Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.."

Meanwhile, again!

The periwinkle lined rider stood atop a building in the city, staring at it. They seemed like they were waiting for something.

A figure appeared from behind them, as they walked closer to the rider, their form was shown more closely. A tattered black leather jacket, black pants, white and blue shoes, and a dark blue shirt.

"You're early." The figure said. The rider turned around.

"No you're just late, Shinigami."

To

Be

CONTINUED!

A/N

Yeah hey it's been, been awhile. I'm not sure what to say other than i've just been busy.

To be perfectly honestly, I lost the will to write after a decent amount of drama occurred relating to it. I also began college so it did and is gonna take up a decent amount of time in my life, but I'm gonna try to work on this stories regardless as, they've been my longest on-going project so I really wish to continue and finish them. I have a few ideas kicking around for new stuff, but I'm not too sure how willing I am to start a new project when I still have two things to finish, but we'll see.

Speaking of my other project, I'm definitely going to try and continue Anomaly, but as I said it all depends on time.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you all continue to.

Laters!