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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FIC CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR EDGE OF TIME: ROAD TO THE KING, CINDERS AND ASHES: THE CHRONICLE OF KAMEN RIDER DANTE AND KOIHIME MUSOU: ARMORED WAR GODS SAGA
Deep within the halls of a mysterious chamber, there lied a collection of golden tag-like objects. These tags had an orange sun, a blue swirl, a red heart, a grey cross, a purple pair of glasses, a green waterdrop, a yellow shooting star, a pink star, and a pale rose. Amidst these tags were Keychains of various worlds that surrounded a Driver.
The driver itself was a purple and light blue, with the numbers 5 printed on the left slot for some kind of device, and 0 on the larger port that looked to flip out. There was also a grip on the right.
In the middle of the room was a statue of a draconic humanoid with it's arms crossed. Suddenly, the statue began to glitch with various blue pixels and red binary codes before finally breaking free as he spread his wings.
With a smirk, he walked towards this display, unknowingly stepping on a pressure plate that sounded off an alarm. He soon snapped his fingers and destroyed most of the room's security systems before dispelling this form to become a man wearing a long black leather jacket over a similarly black shirt and pants.
Looking towards the chains in his hand, he soon began to concentrate a rainbow-esque aura before reaching out towards the Keychains and beckoning them to his side.
"This time, I will be the one to control this story." The man declared as the Keychains began to unlock a hidden barrier, "Heed my call! O'Ancient Keyblades! O'Crests of Light! Grant my wish and bring forth chaos to all worlds!"
"Hey, you!"
The man soon turned to find a young man around the age of 18 with scrawny black hair with green accents, a pair of white-rimmed goggles around his neck, and wore a simple blue uniform with black sneakers and white fingerless gloves. He was also accompanied by a smaller blue dragon-like creature with blue skin, a white underbelly that reached his snout, yellow marks on his forehead and cheeks, and red eyes.
"What do you think you're doing here?!" the young man demanded from the man.
"So, you two wish to stop me?" he responded with a scoff, "Very well… stop me if you wish, Digimon tamer…"
He soon created a portal using the Keychains and walked through it with the tags in hand.
"Get back here!" the young boy roared before running after the man, grabbing the Driver in turn.
"Oi! Shirou, wait for me!" the little dragon cried out as he ran in pursuit.
As the two ran towards the portal, a young woman around the same age with pink hair done up in a flaring ponytail and in the same uniform as the boy, Shirou, but lacked the gloves arrived with her partner, a sentient plant creature with long arms, a pink flower atop it's head, and green eyes. Not long after, a young man around the same age as the woman and Shirou with long brown hair and red eyes, and a version of the uniform that was more torn up arrived. He was joined by a larger bipedal Digimon with black scales and yellow eyes, alongside two wing-like ears and red lines around limbs, neck, back, and tail
"What the?! What is this?!" she gasped.
"Hey, Sakura-san! Someone's stolen everything in the room!" the plant creature pointed out.
Momoka Sakura, the girl tamer, saw that the Keychains, tags, and even the Driver were missing and quickly turned to the portal that Shirou and his partner leaped into.
"There's no way…" the other male tamer muttered, his voice having a bit of anger and confusion in it.
"Murasaki, you think that idiot stole the DigiRevice?" the black dinosaur digimon, BlackGuilmon, guessed.
"Not likely, but it's a start..." Murasaki Sekai noted to his partner.
Momoka then turned towards her partner, "Palmon, Murasaki, BlackGuillmon, we need to go after them! If Shirou and Veemon were the ones who stole them, then it's our job to bring them to justice!"
The plant monster, Palmon, nodded before all three leaped into the portal after them, right as the portal closed and took the Keychains with it, scattering them across the multiverse.
CURRENT WORLD: Kamen Rider no Sekai 2019-B
"Ugh, I'm finished…"
"Come on, dude. It can't be that bad…"
"You don't get it, we screwed up! My life is over…"
A young girl with purple hair that reached her shoulders wearing a long white shirt, a light purple cloak over a similarly colored jacket, a red tie, a long navy blue plaid skirt, black dress shoes, and a light green Watch Holder sighed as she looked towards the young boy with jet black hair that had silver streaks that neared the crown wearing a male version of her clothes apart from the black hooded jacket with gray sleeves and light gray lining, black and white sports sneakers, a black and white flannel scarf with a red line across, and a gray version of the Watch Holder, who was slumped down on the table in frustration.
"Come on, it's just preparing for the showcase opening. It can't be that bad." The purple-haired girl reassured him.
It had not been that long since Rex Wells, aka the hero king Kamen Rider Zi-O, had finally settled things with his ally Grant Myson, the prophesized savior Geiz Revive, after they and the rest of their friends helped avert a major event in Oma Day. Now, with L'Aviner's upcoming Club Showcase event, it was natural that the Gaming Club, the club that Rex was a part of, would join to secure victory for their respective club.
What Rex did not expect however was that the student council had expect members of the clubs to plan the opening ceremony of the festival, including himself and Henrietta Tristain, Rex's childhood friend now girlfriend who would help represent the Debate Club.
"But what if I screw this up? We're going to be the laughing stock of the school!" the young king bemoaned.
Henrietta rolled her eyes before petting the young king as a way to calm him down.
"I'm sure that we can think of a way to make this worthwhile. I mean, it can't be harder than fighting time-altering monsters. Can it?" she reassured him before noticing that he wasn't lifting his head up from the table.
The couple soon heard the door open as two individuals, another couple, walked into the room. One was a young man with dark green hair and a combat vest over a red and black version of the L'Aviner male uniform, while the other had a white version of the female uniform with a cream white cloak and grey gloves.
"Hey…" Rex greeted in a deflated tone.
"I see that you two are already discussing plans about the festival?" Grant asked the young king.
"Not yet, I'm still waiting on the other representatives before we can discuss the plans." Rex told them.
"I guess so. I'm just surprised that we're the ones chosen to represent our respective clubs." Weiss Tsukuyomi, another Kamen Rider and Grant's girlfriend, commented when she noticed a strange object on the table.
It almost resembled the bullet chamber of a revolver, but was also a vibrant orange in color while the holes in the chamber resembled fireballs.
"Say, what is that?" she asked.
"I have no clue…" Rex commented, "But it looks familiar."
Digging through his pockets, he took out a red bullet with the exact same symbol engraved into it. Suddenly, the two objects began to glow, much to the quartet's shock.
"What's going on?!" Rex gasped as the light began to shine brighter and brighter before blinding the quartet and warping them away.
What remained was the meeting room left in tatters as several people rushed to the scene, noticing that the quartet had disappeared and in its place was the young girl from before, Momoka alongside her partner and three more individuals.
The first was a young man with long black hair and chocolate eyes wearing a long button up shirt under a white t-shirt and jeans, the second was a young man with short blackish gray hair, and a long white brown winter jacket over a gray shirt with short sleeves, blue scarf, and jeans, and the last was a woman with long blonde hair and an elaborate set of armor with a large blue gauntlet adorn with a dragon skull, and a red cape.
CURRENT WORLD: UNKNOWN 20XX
The quartet were left unconscious, with several civilians looking at the quartet as the young king slowly began to awaken.
"Hey, wake up!" a voice called out.
When the young king opened his eyes, he was greeted by the dragon Digimon Veemon waving his hand over the face of Shirou, who was right by his side alongside Henrietta holding on tight to the young king.
Rex panicked at this as the quartet began to look around their new surroundings, spooking some of the civilians starting at them as they dispersed. Rather than the school building they were in, they were instead on the side of the street in a plaza filled with anime and video game merchandise and cosplay.
"Wait, are we… are we in Akibahara?" Henrietta realized.
"I don't know, but wherever we are, I don't think we're in Hagukumi anymore." Grant noted.
"Ugh… five more minutes…" Shirou grumbled before opening his eyes to see his new surroundings. "Eh?! Did we… is this a new place in the Digital World?"
That was when they noticed a young man with red tuffs on his hair wearing a Kamen Rider Ex-Aid t-shirt reaching out for him.
"Um, excuse me. Are you guys alright?" The young man noted before he got a better look at the quartet, "Wait… Rex, Grant, Henrietta, Weiss?! Is that you?! Wow, it's been so long since we've last met!"
The young king was curious, "Wait, who are you and how do you know our names?"
"Right, it's been a really long time since we've seen each other but…" the young man noted before suddenly, a large crimson red crow-lime monster left his body, taking away the red tuffs in his hair, "It's me! Shingo Hisanaga! You helped Fuutaros and I when I was a kid!"
"It's a surprised to see you kids in this world again." Fuutaros greeted the group.
…
"EEEEHHH?!" the quartet gasped
"S-Shingo?! Is that you?!" Rex questioned him before he looked towards the Keychain and bullet in his hand.
"Don't tell me, we're in the Origin World again?!" he gasped.
(SONG: Merry-Go-Round – Man with a Mission)
/WOWOW it's all right
Everything will be all right/
As the camera focused on the symbol it soon began to transform into the inside of a barrel then transforms into the time vortex.
/WOWOW it's all right
Everybody now we're here/
Suddenly, several symbols of the different series involved began to fly through the vortex, ranging from the 46 Sentai icons to the 30 Rider symbols. Suddenly, it soon jumps to the Keyhole as two Kingdom Keys clashed; creating a wreath of Rider eyes alongside summoning two of the Sentai symbols, all before the logo was created.
KAMEN RIDER X SUPER SENTAI CROSS CHRONICLES
CROSS GENERATIONS II
/Oh hey brother, listen
Yeah fate can be hardhearted
Saigen mo nai yume wo mite
Dare yori mo kizu tsuita/
The logo then burns away as we jump to the different Keychains falling down across the worlds. As each of the Keychains reach a world, they transform into a multi-colored shooting star that soon lands in a random location.
/Kankei ga nai koto to itte
Nigedashi takaminokenbutsu/
We soon see the demon arrive as he lifts his hands and creates two dark portals, a pair of glowing eyes appearing from both of them.
/I couldn't be a shell
Son'na fū ni wa dekinai/
The demon smirks before two figures step out from the portals, both of them kneeling to their new master as he sees various ribbons form across the various worlds.
/Holding my strength and weakness
Sā koko kara mata hajimeru/
Meanwhile, a large control board is panicking as various Tamers and Digimon scrambling around a control console, which is displaying the different worlds in some form of danger.
/I'm standing by myself
Face the world to grieve no more/
A scruff man with a long overcoat soon arrived alongside a woman with short dark hair with aviation goggles on top of her head and a scarf around her neck and a similar uniform, and a young man with glasses and wore a labcoat over his navy blue uniform, as well as a humanoid lion Digimon with a white main and what seemed to be a bancho outfit and a white-armored dragon Digimon with dark blue claws, golden eyes, two large horns on the ears and a horn on the snout, a metal jaw, and a red cloak with a hood that has goggles embedded in it. The three pairs looked like they just went through a war as they saw the various screens showing the chaos.
/The carousel goes up and goes down
The carousel runs around so fast/
It soon jumps to a montage of the different heroes noticing the ribbons enter their world, starting with a travelling party of one boy and four girls spotting an orange ribbon across the sky, next was a young woman looking out the window of a monestary as a yellow ribbon flew across the sky, and finally a young man in a rural 90s town spotting a white ribbon in the sky.
/Your existence sparking more than
No one, no one, no one else/
It then jumpcuts from that young man's face to Rex's as he sees two ribbons, one red and one silver, fly across the sky.
/Merry-Go-Round Revolving around
Zutto senaka wo mite/
Afterwards, it showcases a young boy running through the school as he is followed by an anthropomorphic dog and duck, heading towards the flash of light that appeared. As they passed by Rex's friends in the hallway, two in particular were wondering why the trio was in such a rush.
/Itsu datte akogarete
Demo chikadzukenai/
In an old club room, an older man looked on as a black ribbon appeared in the sky, he felt threatened as he looked towards a dusty skull-like mask on his desk.
/Ushinatte aragatte
Itsu no hi ka anata no yō ni waraitai/
Returning to the demon, he began to laugh as more ribbons flew out to appear in more worlds. The camera soon pans out as we see the ribbons flying out of the Origin World and towards many of the worlds in the Realm of Light.
/And now it's our round/
It then begins to travel back to Kamen Rider no Sekai as it returns to the quartet of heroes.
Palmon began to struggle as she could feel the weight of the others keeping her pinned to the ground.
"C-Come on, guys! You're so heavy!" she complained.
"What?" Sakura grumbled before noticing where she was, "Oh, sorry about that Palmon!"
She tried to get up but soon noticed the others hadn't woken up yet.
'Oh you gotta be kidding me!' she thought before getting up and throwing the other three out of herself and her partner.
"Ow!" the young man grumbled as he got back to his feet and noticed his new surroundings, "What in the?! This place doesn't look like any plane I've been in."
That was when the writer turned to the woman in armor as she was just as confused as he was.
"This place… this doesn't seem like either of our worlds." She observed, "It looks more... colorful?"
"Colorful? Like a magical girl-kind of colorful? Yeah, it seems like that." the other young man noted before seeing the young man in black was with them, "Hold on. You're here too, Hoshi?"
Hoshi Fujioka was confused by this before turning to see the pair.
"Alice-san, Yuichi-san…" he realized.
He looked away in shame as he did not want to be back in the chaos so soon. There was a reason why he was planning to fly back to Osaka after everything that had happened to him, namely having become the Great Destruction that Altair had hoped.
Hoshi began to think back as what happened before arriving to this new world.
EARILER…
Hoshi sighed as he looked out of the window. In about thirty minutes, his plane will take off and he'll be taken to Osaka, the home where he grew up. He looked to the ground of which he would leave. He had to think to himself… Was this really the right call?
It had been at least twenty-four hours since he had been brought back to life via the power of Revision and Audience Acceptance. It had been standard for a Rider to come back from the dead with a new form, especially a 'main' Rider like himself, but at the same time… He was a real person. As such, he fell within the rules of his world…
Namely, that the dead cannot come back to life.
Now, Hoshi was a living paradox. Someone who should have stayed dead and yet had to be revived due to his story dictating it so.
As a result, his world… His universe, would now undergo the Great Destruction.
As the harbinger for the Great Destruction, his presence and power would only accelerate the process of which the other worlds would collide with his. And so, being sent far from the others would be the only way to stall it…
"Is something the matter?" Hoshi saw a flight attendant approach him.
"No. Just starting to feel homesick, you know?" He said.
"I understand. Travel can be anxiety inducing, especially with how airline security is. Don't worry, when we're in the sky, we'll be supplying the plane with lunch." The attendant bowed before she walked off. Hoshi sighed. As much as he wanted to help the others, he knew the other reason he was being sent away…
Because of how Dante's IP was used, he was effectively under the owner ship of Toei's representative, Shimazaki Yuusuke. So long as Dante was inside the story of the Elimination Chamber Festival, Hoshi would be following his whims. He'd be a pawn for his plans.
As much as he wanted to protest and find another way… This was the best, optimal scenario.
As he heard the jet engines whir to life, he could see the sun grow brighter…
And brighter…
And brighter…
Until it blinded him…
Alicetaria Scarlet swung her lance at Yuichi Shirayuki, who parried it with his sword. The Icipicle shattered as Yuichi loaded a new blade and continued swinging swords. The two were at small training facility that was mainly used by soldiers to practice their firearms and CQC. Now it's being used to train the four Riders.
"Those two are really putting in their all, huh?" Kotoha Hanamori, a young girl with long black hair wearing a fleece pink jacket over a hospital gown asked Souta Mitzushino, a young man with brown hair and glasses, as they sat on the bleachers.
"They have to. Hoshi entrusted us to finish the fight with Altair. Though… finding her will be harder." The young man said.
Souta remembered how, during the last battle, Altair left the world to its fate of a slow but gradual destruction. Not even their attempts to summon her via the Bird Cage worked. Not to mention that their ace in the hole had suddenly disappeared and they had to worry about the Great Destruction.
All they have now is their team of Creations and four Kamen Riders, with all of them having just begun being Riders little over a month ago. If there was any time to get experience, it was now. Alicetaria had her experience on the battle field, but being the next Dante was something new to her, especially in a new form: Magratz Mount. As the person who had the most experience as a Rider, Yuichi, aka Kamen Rider Verge volunteered to spar with Alicetaria.
"Alright, now we see how much damage your new form can do!" Verge said as he invoked his Overhaul to shift into his Solid state.
Alicetaria shifted the Volcannik Driver into its hammer mode and spun the revolver, unintentionally stepping on something metal.
MEGA-BURST! GIGA-BURST! TERRA-BURST!
She then pulled the trigger and swung her hammer right at Verge's body.
SURTRUPTION!
As the hammer portion of the Draconnik Loader slammed into Verge's icy shell, it caused a large explosion that engulfed the two. The lights began to grow brighter and brighter before fading. As the smoke cleared, Alicetaria and Yuichi were gone.
"W-What!?" Souta stood up and rushed down to see if there was anything left. There was no way Alicetaria just destroyed herself and Yuichi… Kotoha held her mouth in disbelief as all they could see is smoke.
Returning to the present, the quartet was confused as they turned to Momoka and Palmon, who was a bit more curious about being deposed than them.
"So, we've entered another world?" Momoka observed.
"It seems like it. This place looks nothing like home." Palmon noted before Sakura turned towards the trio.
"Excuse me, ma'am. But do you know where we are?" Yuichi asked the female Tamer.
"Us? I'm sorry, but I'm completely clueless on where we are either." Momoka replied as she shook her head, "I'm Momoka Sakura. I'm a Digimon tamer connected to the Tamer Union. This is my partner, Palmon."
"Hi there!" the plant Digimon greeted the group.
"Normally, we would help protect the Digital World from most who try and abuse their power but now?" she soon looked around where she is, "We're now just travellers along for the ride."
"I see, so we're not the only ones transported to this world then." Hoshi noted before the quartet heard the door open.
They then saw a young boy with large spiky brown hair, blue eyes, a black and white version of the school uniform, two black gloves with white on the inside, a crown necklace, and a pair of large black and yellow shows with silver soles arrive alongside an anthropomorphic duck in a suit and an anthropomorphic dog with a gym teacher's uniform and an odd-looking hat.
"What happened here?!" the boy asked aloud.
At first, Hoshi could not believe what he was seeing. But after rubbing his eyes, both he and Aliceteria knew who had just appeared to them.
"Wait, Sora?!" Hoshi gasped.
"Hoshi? Aliceteria? What are you two doing here?" Sora, wielder of the legendary Keyblade, gasped as he recognized the trio.
"Sora, the main protagonist of Kingdom Hearts?" Yuichi asked, "How does a Creation know of both of you?"
"Back when I was a part of Altair's faction, she sent most of us out to quell a rather bothersome tyrant's army." The knight explained to him, catching the ice Rider up on previous events.
"Wait, I'm lost. What's going on?" Sakura asked the trio.
"It appears that, if what Aliceteria said is correct, Sora, Donald, and Goofy helped us during an initial Crisis that involved the event of worlds colliding." Yuichi recalled.
"Crisis?" Palmon asked, "So like those cool stories in manga?!" she asked her tamer with a smile.
"I think so. I guess that means that whoever stole the Crests must have caused a second instance of this Crisis deal to occur." Sakura guessed before she groaned, "Oh, when I find you Shirou, you are SO going to get it for causing something THIS bad to happen." She snarled under her breath.
Yuichi sighed, "Well, it's not like we have any leads as to who's causing it now." He then turned to Sora, "It's very nice to meet you, Sora-san. My name is Yuichi Shirayuki, Kamen Rider Verge."
"Nice to meet you too. I'm Sora!" the Keyblade wielder said before introducing himself.
"I'm Donald Duck!" the duck mage greeted.
"And I'm Goofy!" the dog knight finished last.
"Huh, so these two aren't Digimon?" Palmon asked, being unfamiliar with the affairs of other worlds.
"No, they're classic cartoon characters." Hoshi explained to the plant Digimon, "I've seen how strong they were." He then decided to ask the trio something, "So, did you guys get warped here too?"
"Uhh, no actually." The Keyblade wielder confessed, "This is actually Kamen Rider no Sekai, Rex's home world. We just came here because we saw a bright light appear in the meeting room."
"Wait, Kamen Rider no Sekai?!" both Hoshi and Yuichi gasped.
They looked to Sora to see that he was lying, but the fact that he looked pretty serious about that declaration shocked them even more.
"But… how the heck is this the world of the original Kamen Rider series?! This looks like something out of Precure!" the writer questioned the trio.
…
"You watch Precure?" Yuichi asked him, bewildered that he would know something from a magical girl show.
"I-I saw an episode or two with my sister when she was a kid…" Hoshi tried to say in his defense.
The two Creations were not convinced in the slightest, shaking their heads as they turned to each other.
"That's because this isn't the same timeline as the main one." A small cricket wearing a top hat, a fancy suit, white gloves, and brown shoes answered as he leaped onto Hoshi's shoulder, "This timeline is what's known as the Manga timeline. I'm Jiminy Cricket by the way; it's a pleasure to meet you Hoshi-san."
"So… that means that this timeline is based on the manga from the Heisei Riders?" the writer guessed.
"It seems like that is the best explanation we can get." Aliceteria noted before noticing the scraping sound her shoe made.
When she lifted her shoe, Sora recognized the object underneath her immediately. It was a Keychain in the shape of Zi-O's personal symbol.
"Is that a Keychain?" Sora asked as he picked the object from the knight's shoe.
"I wonder how that got there?" the writer pondered as he looked at the object.
He could recall the Keyblade doing many things, but completely transporting people to another world was a new one.
Back in Hoshi's world, the group was wandering through the streets of Akibahara with Shirou holding Veemon as a 'plushie', while Fuutaros returned to Shingo's body in order to hide. Veemon was just surprised to see so many humans walking around alongside all the plushies, figures, games, and other merchandise in the various stores they passed by.
"I can't believe that you've made your own web novel, Shingo! Congrats!" Rex complimented the boy, the young king and friends catching up since the last time they saw each other.
"Well, thanks. I tried my best to alter the names and designs of everyone since I didn't want to look like one of those PicLive users who just placed random character JPEGs over a background." Shingo chuckled.
"I still can't believe that Digimon is a fictional story in this world." Shirou observed as he saw various posters for a film based on Digimon.
"So, you two are Riders now?" Shingo asked the girls as he noticed the similar Watch Holders on their arms.
Henrietta nodded as she looked towards her Watch Holder, smiling.
"Yeah, we are." She confirmed, "I'm Kamen Rider Lady Woz and Weiss is now Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi."
"That is awesome." Shingo cheered.
"Wow, a lot certainly has changed since we last met." Futaros observed, "Especially since it seems that you two have finally started dating one another."
The crow Imagin soon pointed towards the fact that Rex and Henrietta were holding hands during this walk, embarrassing the couple a bit as they looked away bashfully. However that name caught the ear of Shirou as he turned towards the four.
"Wait, Kamen Riders? You four?" he asked in surprise.
"Yeah. There are Riders in your world too, right?" the young king guessed.
"A couple but well…" Shirou soon tried to word what he was about to say next delicately. However before he could give his answer, the group spotted several ant-like monsters roaming the streets and causing trouble, all being led by an orange raptor-like monster snarling at people.
"A Kaizo-Majin!" Shingo gasped, "Crap, gotta call Souta and the others!"
"There's no time, we have to help those people!" Rex shouted before all took out their respective Ziku-Drivers, all of which large silver devices that looked very much like a watch and placed it around his waist, causing a silver belt to appear.
ZIKU-DRIVER!
The quartet then charged into battle as they fought off the Durants. After knocking them out of the way, the raptor snarled at them.
"Alright, who are you four supposed to be?" he questioned them.
"Simple, just a bunch of time-hopping Kamen Riders" Rex answered with a smirk as took out their respective Ridewatches from their Watch Holders, "Got it memorized?"
Rex's Ridewatch was black with a silver dial and button, a stylized version of the katakana for Kamen and the year 2018 printed on the inside. Grant's on the other hand was and red black button and a black square-like dial that had an image of a helmet that had butterfly-shaped eyes which were the hiragana characters for Rider. Weiss' Ridewatch was cream white with a pearl white dial and button that had a moon-like Rider with the same hiragana letters. Finally, Henrietta's Ridewatch was silver with a bright green Ridewatch that displayed a futuristic Rider with katakana letters.
The quartet then activated their Ridewatches as several people began to gather to watch the battle.
ZI-O!
GEIZ!
TSUKUYOMI!
WOZ!
"What? What kind of Kamen Riders are they supposed to be?" one onlooker asked.
"Are they from Ex-Aid or Dante?" another theorized.
As the four placed their Ridewatches into their respective devices, four holographic clocks appeared. Rex received a large clock that had several gears decorating the sides as he placed his left hand towards the upper side of his body, his palm stretched outward with his right hand to his hip. Grant had a holographic digital clock behind him before he jutted his hands forward and crossed them together to grasp the sides of his Driver. As Weiss unhooked the belt with both of her palms, she splayed her hands outwards as a moon-like clock with constellations and a moon behind it manifested itself while she grasped both sides of her belt. Finally, Henrietta had a green holographic wristwatch with various letters flickering between English and kanji appeared as she brought one hand into the air in a clockwork motion.
"Henshin!"
With that word, all four Riders spun their drivers, causing the world to spin around them before their clocks showcased the word Rider spelled out in hiragana and katakana as they flew out and struck the raptor Kaizo-Majin while several watchstraps formed around them to create the quartet's Rider suits.
RIDER TIME! KAMEN RIDER~! ZI-O!
Rex was now in a black bodysuit that had a watchstrap going down the middle, a chest piece which looked like the centerpiece of a Rolex watch, pink ascents on his gloves and other areas, and two black objects strapped to his forearms to the arm guards of the suit that held two stopwatch-like objects on each side.
RIDER TIME! KAMEN RI~DER! GEIZ!
Grant's meanwhile looked similar with a red bodysuit with grey shoulder pads that had pointed crimson red tips, a rounded chest plate that included a 'watch strap' that went down the middle of the suit in the front and back, four more watches strapped to his forearms, and black gloves with yellow tips. His boots were crimson red with black knee pads, silver anklets, and black tips.
RIDER TIME! KAME~N~ RI~DER~ TSUKU~YOMI~! TSU~KU~YO~MI~!
Weiss was left in a blackbody suit that had white armor, two white and gold pauldrons, a long sash that went from her right shoulder to her left leg, two cream white Watch Holders, gold-plated gloves and kneepads, and finally a white gold-lined cape to complete the look.
RIDER TIME! KA~MEN~ RI~DER~ WO~Z~!
Finally Henrietta received a silver bodysuit that had blue accents on the sides and elements of black on the sides, a chestplate that had a black and lime green watch strap on the front, two shoulderpads that displayed the same touchpad symbol as the Despears, black gloves and boots that had blue pads, and light green highlights, two lime green Watch Holders holding blank versions of the same futuristic Ridewatches, black, and a helmet that had the same 10 o'clock/2 o'clock style as Zi-O on a front portion of the helmet while the 'screen' displayed the katakana in a wavy pattern.
They were the four Warriors of Time, Kamen Rider Zi-O, Geiz, Tsukuyomi, and Lady Woz.
"Woah! New Kamen Riders!" the crowd cheered as the four Riders stood tall against the Kaizo-Majin.
"What the?! You don't look like any Riders I've seen before!" the raptor monster cried out in shock.
"Alright, no matter what happens, the future is ours to decide!" Zi-O declared before all four charged into battle.
Zi-O began to grapple with the raptor Kaizo-Majin, the pair glaring at each other while Geiz ran in and cut down several Durants with his axe, small and one-handed with a red and silver blade and the hiragana for axe printed on it.
ZIKAN ZAXE!
OH NO!
As the Riders fought against the raptor Kaizo-Majin, Veemon and Shirou were skeptical of their new friends.
Shingo however had a glint in his eye as he stepped forward.
"I'm not gonna let you guys have all the fun." He said as he took out a simple belt that had a strange symbol on it alongside what seemed to be a fingerprint scanner. Once the boy scanned his thumbprint on it, a standby noise rang out.
"Hold on, Den-O is here too?!" one of the onlookers gasped as they recognized the belt the boy was wearing.
Shingo responded to this by taking out a black passport-like object.
"Henshin!"
He then swiped it past the buckle to create his bodysuit.
SHIELD FORM!
This caused the belt to summon several pieces of armor on a train track, each attaching themselves to him before a crow-like train slid down his helmet and transformed into his helmet.
Shingo had soon donned a black bodysuit with silver gloves and boots, a red and silver chestplate with golden plates on the front and a golden train track-like scarf, red shoulderpads with golden lines, and a helmet that two large horn-like 'eyes' and a golden line down his helmet. This was Shingo's own personal Den-O form, Kamen Rider Den-O Shield Form.
"You're gonna have to try a lot harder to be me, ya know?" Den-O declared as he snapped his fingers.
"Shirou, think we should trust them?" the dragon Digimon asked.
"To be honest, I'm not so sure." The Tamer answered, "I mean they seem nice but, remember, they're Kamen Riders, so we can't get too attached."
The two groups soon fought as Den-O took out a large shield-like weapon and began to block and swing it around. The crowd was cheering the Riders on while Shirou and Veemon were completely confused.
'Why are these people cheering these people on?' the Tamer thought, 'Aren't these guys supposed to be the baddies?'
Zi-O on the other hand quickly summoned two swords, one that was silver and pink with a watch strap design, a clock with movable hands on the hilt, and the name of the weapon written in katakana on the base of the blade, the other was grey with a pink dial, gold at the center, a blade made of quartz, and finally a centerpiece based on his regular helmet.
RIDE HEISEI-BER!
SAIKYO GIRADE!
The silver clock Rider then started cutting through several of the monsters with his sword while Geiz was fighting with his axe. He then spun around, cutting through several of the Durants like butter. As several more Durants came close to him, a large yellow orb of light flew around and knocked them away before returning to Tsukuyomi, a smile across her face.
"I'm always picking up after you boys." She quipped as she turned back towards the Neoshadows appearing before her.
"What the?! Heartless?!" Den-O gasped, heading towards the moon clock Rider.
"Looks like they found themselves in this world again…" Zi-O commented whilst he fought the raptor Kaizo-Majin.
"Don't worry, I got this." Tsukuyomi reassured them as she used the orb to knock the Heartless around before bringing it down on the ground, creating a burst of light that destroyed them. "See?" she said with confidence.
However, Geiz soon saw his body briefly glow before getting zapped away.
"Geiz!" Tsukuyomi cried out as a young girl with short, cinnamon brown hair done in a single ponytail brought to the side, a plain white shirt and jeans arrived.
"What's going on?" she pondered before the raptor Kaizo-Majin leaped towards the pair.
"You two! How dare you just watch nonchalantly!" the raptor monster roared.
"Look out!" the girl cried out.
Veemon spotted this and quickly leaped into action, swinging his arms whilst leaping into the air.
BOOM BOOM PUNCH!
This knocked off something from the monster as Shirou grabbed a black stamp-like object with an amber gold base and a black t-rex on it.
'Wait, this looks like one of the stamps meant for this Driver!' the Tamer realized as he looked to Veemon, who had the same look of shock on his face, 'Maybe that demon guy must have dropped one while we were chasing him.'
With a look of determination, Shirou stood up and placed the belt he had gotten before arriving to the world and placed it around his waist, creating a light blue belt around his waist.
"I'm feeling it… I'm on a roll now!" he declared, "Veemon, let's go!"
He then thrust the stamp forward and pressed the button on the top, causing a red light to emit from the device.
ReX!
He then breathed on the stamp, as if to moisturize it, before pressing it down on the screen of the driver, causing a large digital egg to appear around himself and Veemon.
VEEMON VICE DIGIVOLVE TO…!
"Henshin!"
After placing the stamp on the side and tilting it to the left, the screen spun around to reveal the stamped image before the egg exploded.
BuDDy Up!
SeALinG! dEAliNg! RolLINg! Go~Ing~!
KameN R~i~De~R! Re~Vi-vi-vI! Re~Vi! ReVI! rE~vI-vi-Vi! rE~Vi!
VICEVEEMON!
Shirou was now donned in light blue and pink armor, with a T-Rex themed helmet as he had a purple '5' on the side of his chest and a t-rex symbol, alongside four blank versions of the stamp on his belt, while Veemon had transformed into a large blue dragon around the same size as Shirou with a large 0 on his chest, black jagged armor on his shins, forearms, chest, and his head was now much larger with a distinct T-Rex-like quality to it with white horns across his larger blue ears.
"Wow, this feels almost like Armor Digivolution." ViceVeemon commented as he looked at himself before he turned to his partner and soon became a bit concerned, "Uh… Shirou? You might want to look at yourself."
"Wait, why?" the Tamer now dinosaur Rider asked.
It was then that Shirou noticed the change as he checked himself and suddenly, he snarled at his transformation.
"George… I am going to wring your little fanboy neck once this is all over…" Revi growled under his breath.
After calming himself down, Revi charged in with his partner by his side and knocked the Kaizo-Majin away with a single kick.
"What the?! Another new Rider?!" the girl gasped, "And he's even got a new Veemon Digivolution."
"How dare you!" the raptor Kaizo-Majin roared as he tried for a jumping kick, only to get grabbed by Revi and tossed towards ViceVeemon who delivered a spinning lariat that launched the monster… right into Lady Woz who was fighting another Durant. The green clock Rider's eyes widened as she leaped out of the way, leaving the ant mook to be flattened by the impact.
"Are you crazy! You could have killed me!" she roared at the dinosaur Rider.
"You're welcome!" Revi responded with a bit of snark before he and his Digimon partner grappled with the raptor Kaizo-Majin.
"Hey! Get out of here! This is dangerous!" Zi-O shouted to the audience as they quickly left, "Guys, on my mark!"
He then dismissed one of his swords and activated his finisher alongside girlfriend and the moon clock Rider.
HEY KAMEN RIDERS!
FINISH TIME!
Den-O, Revi, and ViceVeemon soon nodded before they initiated their own finishers, with the former scanning the pass while the other tilted the stamp twice.
FULL CHARGE
ReX! Sta~mPI~ng Fi~Ni~sH!
With their powers at the ready, the remaining two clock Riders delivered a cross-slash made up of cards that had the symbols of the Heisei Riders and green energy.
BAKERETSU DELANCE!
TIME JACK!
D-D-D-DECADE-HEISEI RIDERS SCRAMBLE TIME BREAK!
ZI-O GANBARIDING SCRAMBLE!
WOZ LA PUCELLE!
Meanwhile, Den-O's shield transformed into a fuma shuriken for the train Rider to use, tossing it towards the Kaizo-Majin and knock it further into the air. Finally, Revi, ViceVeemon, and Tsukuyomi leaped into the air and performed a triple spiraling kick that finished off the raptor Kaizo-Majin.
A salaryman soon fell from the sky as Zi-O rushed to catch him.
"Gotcha!" he declared after catching him and placing him on the ground.
"Nice work, guys." Den-O complimented the group before dismissing their transformations.
"Ha ha ha ha! Did you see us there, Veemon! We went wild!" Shirou said with a beaming smile before looking towards the belt, "I wish that we didn't have to use this, but I guess beggers can't be choosers.
"Maybe we'll be able to grab the Crest thief after all!" Veemon suggested.
However, as he looked at the belt, Rex's face started to pale.
"Where… where did you get that?" he asked him.
"The DigiRevice? It's the Union's secret weapon. A belt that can create a Tamer-Digimon combo that can deal with any Rider!" the Tamer said.
"But that's the Revice Driver, that's Ikki's belt." The purple-haired girl corrected him, recognizing the device as the belt of one Ikki Igarashi, Kamen Rider Revi.
"Yeah, that's not a toy." Weiss agreed.
"Wait, Revice Driver? Ikki? Are those more Kamen Riders from the future?" Shingo asked.
Before either Weiss or Henrietta could answer, the girl from before got in between everyone.
"Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!" she shouted, "Hold on! I am completely lost here!" She then turned towards the outworlders, "First of all, who are you people and how the heck did you make your fanfic Riders real?!"
"Fanfic?" Veemon and Shirou asked as they looked at each other.
That was when Shingo got a call, "Hello?"
"Hisanaga-san, we have a problem!" Souta shouted from the other line, "Aliceteria and Yuichi are missing!"
"Yeah, about that…" he noted, "Looks like some old allies just came back along with some new friends."
"Who?" Souta asked.
"Do the names Rex Wells, Weiss Tsukuyomi and Henrietta Tristain ring any bells?" the young man said.
"Unbelievable!" Yuusuke, a man with short, combed over black hair in a business suit muttered as he watching the fight finish. "To think, that concept art from Toei had actually taken form!" He observed the fight through binoculars.
"Hmm? Am I to assume that these Riders are part of the Festival?" Blitz Talker, a grizzled man wearing a detective's uniform was next to him, smoking a cigarette.
"No. This was to celebrate twenty years of Heisei Kamen Rider. Toei wouldn't have been able to fully conceptualize him though. They were busy with the other one… Build, I think his name was." Yuusuke focused. "The others are new, however. While I can recognize an alternate form of Den-O, the other Riders seem similar to Zi-O and the dinosaur ones are unique."
"He might be a Rider made from fanfiction, like with Dante." Blitz said.
"No. There's a lot more bells and whistles to this one. I can't believe it but… I think this might be another creation of Toei's… But… how… did these creations come to be? Surely Toei didn't just share the designs with the government." Yuusuke asked.
"Hmph… Perhaps we should ask them personally." Blitz took out his gun.
"You saw how they manhandled that Kaizo-Majin… If we go in now, we'll get killed and Altair's plans will be for naught." Yuusuke said.
"So, what's your plan?" Blitz asked him.
"Let's observe the situation more. There was definitely something suspicious going on earlier… I don't think this has anything to do with the Elimination Chamber Festival, but I could be wrong." Yuusuke said.
"Very well." Blitz put his pistol away. "But if they come close to undoing the story Altair intends to tell, I'll send them back to their world in pieces."
Returning to Rex's world, the out-worlders were welcome into the rooftop by three individuals wearing variations of the same uniforms as Sora, Rex, Grant, Weiss, and Henrietta. One was a young man with spiky blonde hair and heterochromatic eyes who wore a gray version of the uniform, another was a young man with curly silver hair and dull green eyes with a black and maroon varsity jacket as his variation, while the other was a young girl with a blonde boyish haircut and green eyes.
They decided to ask the trio to make a stop at the empty club room of the Gaming Club. Luckily, Sora was able to convince the club leader to postpone the meeting until tomorrow which opened the room up to allow Hoshi, Yuichi, and Aliceteria to have a place to stay for the moment.
"Ugh, of all the days that red eyes and Henrietta choose to get isekai'd, it had to be today…" the young man, Junichi Yoshida, sighed.
"I know right…" his friend, Aguri Shirai, agreed.
"And we're fresh out of luck with creating a portal back to the Origin World too." Sora finished.
Hoshi was surprised, "So, you two are Rex-san's… friends?" he asked the pair.
"We go way back with Rex and Henrietta to put it lightly. Guess you could call us childhood friends." The playboy explained, "We were kind of the fab four before Grant and Weiss changed everything."
Hoshi smiled, it was nice to meet a couple of Rex's friends. As he thought that, the writer then turned towards the gray-haried teen, who was watching him carefully. And it was then that Hoshi quickly got on guard.
"Sora, why are you standing here with that maniac?" he questioned the Keyblade wielder.
"Who? Wally?" Sora asked.
"It's fine. We met before." Wally Kakogawa reassured the group.
"Met? You tried to kill Souta!" Hoshi roared at the former bully.
Before any blows could come between Hoshi and Wally, a flash of light soon appeared as Geiz found himself back in their world, unmorphed.
"Grant!" Sora called out.
"Ow… that blows…" Grant groaned before taking note of where he was, "Huh, I'm back." He observed.
At a government building, Rex, Henrietta, Shingo, Fuutaros, Shirou, and Veemon arrived as they saw several older figures standing before them alongside the young girl from before.
"Nice to see you again, Rex-san!" an older man wearing a short vest over a long blue shirt, Takeshi Matsubara greeted him.
"It's nice to see you again, Matsubara-san." The young king greeted him as an older business woman arrived alongside Kotoha.
"So, you kids are the ones with the future Rider tech?" she noted while looking at the trio, "You know I heard that the Toei higher-ups are pretty peeved at what you four had done. If Kikuchihara didn't vouch for you guys, I'm sure you three would have ended up in the slammer!"
"Oh, right. Forgot that we're still in Ex-Aid's time…" the young king realized before chuckling, "Guess that was to be expected."
"How so?" Veemon asked, "Why would a company be mad that you guys used your powers?"
"It's a lot more complicated than you think, pal." Shirou explained to his partner before he introduced himself, "My name is Shirou Kuroki, and this is my partner Veemon."
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Kuroki-san, Veemon-san." She thanked the pair before she soon took note of the ribbons, "Now then, have you all seen the strange ribbons in the sky?"
"Who hasn't at this point?" Junichi stated as he saw the ribbons in the air, "Almost everyone's been talking about the sudden appearance of these things."
"Honestly, I'm surprised that the ribbons reached here." Grant agreed before the soldier turned towards Momoka, "So, what's the story with those things?"
"Well, recently the Tamer Union discovered several mysterious objects across the Digital World." The female Tamer explained, "These objects were initially thought of as similar to the Crests once used by the legendary Tamers, the Digidestined, but thanks to Sora-san, I can conclude that they were more likely dormant Keyblades whose Keychains suddenly appeared in our world rather than splitting themselves across the different universes."
"That was where we kept a dangerous demon known as Asmodeus, but something happened to free him and now, he's taken the Crests and likely the Keychains with them." Shirou continued back at the Origin World before looking towards the DigiRevice, as he called it.
"Asmodeus…" Souta grimaced, "I remember Yuichi's explanation on who that guy is. He's said to be the beast who resides within the well of infinite emotional energy itself, the Aether, and guarded the ancient tree Giff. To think that demon is now running free, this is far worse than we thought."
"Just great, as if things weren't shitty enough." The male Tamer reassured him, "Hell, I'm still kind of angry that I have to become the very monsters that terrorized our world to do it."
"We're Kamen Riders, it's kind of in the job description of 'use our enemy's powers against them' kind of deal." Shingo pointed out, which made Shirou roll his eyes for a moment.
While most people didn't catch it, an observant Rex did. In fact, the young king felt something was off about Shirou had said after the transformed.
'Why did he and Veemon look angry that they transformed into Riders? The fact he mentioned George and called Riders monsters doesn't exactly sound right to me.' he thought before taking out the Keychain based on Dante, "Well given that this Keychain brought Etta and I to this world, and warped Grant and Weiss back home, I wonder if Hoshi has the one for my world?"
"These Keychains feel a lot different from the ones Riku, Kairi, and I have." Sora observed as he examined the Zi-O Keychain, "There's definitely more power in them than a regular one."
"If I had to theorize on what happened, likely our places were swapped around once my foot touched this Keychain just as your friend touched the other." Aliceteria could only theorize, "Perhaps because of Asmodeus freeing them, they reacted to whoever held that title."
"If that's the case, then likely Sougo is around here too." Henrietta realized as she recalled the original Kamen Rider Zi-O's name, "He and Rex are dimensional counterparts so likely he could have been brought to this world as well."
"Well if Sougo was summoned, why wasn't he with us?" Shingo noted, "And Grant disappeared earlier too. What's up with that?"
"Only a Keyblade wielder or a world traveller can pass through the barrier between worlds." Fuutaros soon explained to the group, "But likely because these special Keychains were unsealed, they have the power to throw the world order into unrest. I believe that is why this incident happened."
"So basically, if we don't find and re-seal all of these Keychains and find the Crest Thief, then all life goes bye-bye." Rex summarized before sighing loudly, "Why is it that when we think one world-ending threat is over, there's another one just around the corner?" he asked whilst shaking his head.
"I don't know, you tell us." Matsubara commented.
"Alright, first big mission for the combo of Shirou and Veemon!" the dragon Digimon cheered, "I can't wait!"
"Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no…" Momoka muttered, "This is far worse than I thought."
"Momoka, calm down. I'm sure that we can fix this somehow." Palmon said as she tried to help her Tamer calm down.
Hoshi on the other hand, groaned in annoyance. He felt almost angry that fate chose to bring him back into the fold much sooner than he thought. He could almost hear Yuusuke laughing at him in the distance.
"I just wanted to get away from this craziness. I just wanted to put all of this behind me, and make sure he doesn't get his wish." The writer snarled, "And what do I get? I get caught in yet another crazy mess where, if I don't fight, then none of us will survive."
As Hoshi felt anger in his heart, Grant and Sora couldn't help but feel worried about the writer. Just what happened to him since they last fought together?
Soon, Weiss recalled something, "So, what did you exactly mean by fight Riders with Riders?"
Shirou took this well, "Well simple, this should be able to destroy the bastards who hide behind suits of armor and masks just to get what they want. To be honest, none of you deserve your powers, fakers."
*SCREECH!*
The group could tell that what the Tamer had just said did not sit well as Rex had his suspicions confirmed.
"Excuse me but… what?" he asked in the most polite tone he could muster, but the flaring pink eyes said otherwise.
"You heard me. You all should be ashamed of yourselves for even taking up those tools of destruction. What good is to come of people like you just waltzing in on some other people's business and claim that 'you're the hero of this story'?" The boy stated firmly, even getting up to Rex's face.
"Wha?! Dude! Are you insane?" Shingo shouted, "Kamen Riders are heroes!"
"Heroes... What a fat load of shit." The Tamer scoffed, "Most of them are looking to turn some of the Digimon and even their tamers into either their slaves or as a part of their harem. They abused their powers for so long that we were working on a way to fight back against them. But since this world is apparently the source of all the pain we've been through, I think it's high time I capitalize on that."
Shingo and Rex looked towards each other as they knew what Shirou was talking about, 'Dark Riders…'
"That's why I need to say this calmly…" Shirou stated before turning towards Shingo, Rex, Weiss, and Henrietta with a stern look, "Stand down and hand over your Drivers in the name of the Tamer Union, you are hereby under arrest for the usage of such unstable powers. If you resist, I'm afraid I'll have to take them by force." He warned them before turning to Kikuchihara, "And to you ma'am. I'd like to have a meeting with the people behind all masked and armored heroes, because I want to give them a piece of my mind." He threatened the woman.
Veemon look concerned, he had never seen Shirou act with this kind of rage and it scared him.
Rex however chose not to back down, readying himself for a fight, "You're talking mad shit for someone in fighting distance. You sure you can back up that statement?" he stated as a dark aura started to form around him, his eyes flickering between red and a dark pink.
The tamer, in response, prepared himself for battle as well, "I'm not the kind of Tamer to just stand by and let my partner do the fighting for me, Wells." Shirou stated as he cracked his knuckles.
As the two glared at each other, the rest were trying to defuse the situation before a fight broke out between the pair. Unfortunately for them, things were about to get worse…
From atop his perch, Asmodeus turned towards his two generals and smiled as he held a tattered ribbon.
The first general greatly resembled Zi-O, sharing his base black bodysuit alongside the helmet, bodysuit and chest armor, but not only did the suit's colors remind one of Dark Decade with it's usage of black, gray, gold, and blue, but it also had the raised golden shinguards of Zi-O Trinity, the fuchsia sideguards and armored gloves of Zi-O II, and even the spiked feather-like shoulderpads, large pair of silver clock hands, and even the stylized katakana eyes of Oma Zi-O. His driver was also a strange hybrid as while it had the same shape as the regular Ziku Driver, it shared the same color as the Mirai Driver with the right side was blocked off by a demonic hand-like side-cover, and the remaining Ridewatch slot having a regular Zi-O Ridewatch with the same purple and black color scheme of an Another Ridewatch. Overall, it was almost like a dark amalgam of all forms of Zi-O.
The second was a tall slender woman with short white hair, tan skin, and hetero chromatic eyes. Her outfit consisted of a seductive black dress with long flowing sleeves, a short skirt that has a red coattails and white belt wrapped around her waist, a larger black cape that was topped by a blue feather, long black socks that reach the thighs, and small black shoes. She carried with her a strange book that resembled an olden version of the Future Note, complete with a pencil attached to it to allow her to write or draw on it.
"I can feel it; the seeds of discourse have been planted thanks to their stories intermingling." The demon chuckled, "Do you know what will happen to them all?"
"No, my liege." The evil Zi-O sighed.
"All manners of beautiful colors shall be mixed, but in the end they shall all become as black as the night." Asmodeus stated.
"Does this mean we are ready to move onto the next phase, master?" the seductive woman asked.
"Indeed, and know this, you must disintegrate their bonds even further once it begins." The demon ordered before grasping the ribbon and turning in a deep black, causing all of them to appear across the two worlds.
When Shirou saw the ribbon, he and Veemon saw their bodies begin to glow white.
"Here we go again!" Rex groaned.
"Hey, you're shining!" Honoka gasped before all of a sudden, Rex, Weiss, Henrietta, Shingo, Kotoha, Souta and Futaros' bodies did the same.
"It's just like before!" Weiss gasped.
At the same time, this phenomenon was occurring in Hoshi, Aliceteria, Yuichi, Momoka, and Palmon.
"We're getting warped again!" the plant Digimon cried out.
"The rifts are opening further!" Grant gasped.
"This can't be good!" Wally agreed before seeing his, Sora's and the soldier's bodies glowing as well.
"I think we're about to be warped too!" the Keyblade wielder shouted, "Guys! Get Tsukasa and Zero's help! We might need them!"
"Got it, just don't keelhaul in whatever world you guys end up in!" Junichi said.
"You, are you doing this?!" Shirou questioned Rex as the pair was horrified by the glow.
"Does it look like I'm capable of something like this!?" the young king yelled in response.
"Well whoever's doing this, bring it! We're ready for ya! Take us wherever you want!" Veemon declared as he shouted at the black ribbon.
And just like that, both parties across both worlds were whisked away from their current locations to parts unknown. As the heroes were warped away, a mysterious man observed the lights fly away.
"So, which party do we follow first?" a voice asked as a young boy with tattoos across his body, a white toga, eight wings on his back and two wings on his blonde head asked.
"Isn't it obvious, we spread the chaos where it's needed, if our boss will allow it." The cloaked figure chuckled before brandishing a green and black device with a purple blade at the end of it.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Happy 23rd birthday to me, and happy anniversary to a lot of series.
Once again, we're doing the year end crossover, but this time it's gonna be a bit bigger than before. Now full disclosure, I initially intended to release this chapter and start this event after I was done with the Forgotten Future arc, and Psyga being done with his Cinder Fall arc. However due to 2022 coming to a close in a month or so, and with IRL issues preventing either of us from finishing, I thought I'd bite the bullet and release the first arc here and now. You'll still expect the others to come around later (likely either in December or in 2023 at most) but for now, this is going to be mostly non-canon until both of us are done.
With that said, yeah I can imagine that I have some explaining to do with bringing in two infamous works in the KR fanfic community. Well for one, I've been wanting to do something AWG related for a long time now, and to do one minor confirmation for those who know AWG, yes the Oda family does exist in Rex's timeline and yes, Rex basically ended up beating the shit out of the people who would have mind broke Karasu (don't ask what mind break is. Trust me, it's terrible)
As for Shirou Kuroki? Well, to do one behind the scenes fact for Cross Generations, I mostly added Game of Zi-Os into the story just so that I could basically break the story due to already established lore from Zi-O. Shirou's story however mostly left a bad taste in my mouth, as I revealed in a post on the KRC thread on SpaceBattles, so I'm mostly using this Shirou as a personification of the decon idea Jet and the others made.
Before you ask, like with CrossGen, yes I got permission to use these characters and in particular with Shirou's cast, I had to rework their entire world from the ground up just to fit them in as well as fill in the currently empty hole left behind by cutting the Super Hero Senki version of Shotaro Ishinomori from the story (rules against real person fics don't allow it after all). This is understandable since Shirou, his mentor Masao, and his love interest (who didn't even have a name in the original) didn't have that much characterization to begin with.
Don't expect the story to be too meta as while I love Senki, the meta nature of it did kind of throw me for a loop a bit. Like with CrossGen before it, I mostly want to incorporate the film's themes of heroes into the story into the narrative itself without making too many Leaning on the Fourth Wall nods.
Anyways, next time we're going to see a route split for Act 2 as Shirou's crew ends up in Fodlan, while Momoka and company end up in Ancient China.
Until next time, see ya!