"The takoyaki is as good as ever," Alain said with a smile as he ate some more. He wasn't alone. Everyone that had been the Paranormal Phenomena Investigators was gathering again after a few months of being apart.
"Alain-sama." Fukami Kanon said, smiling as she wrapped her arms around his arm that was not eating. The two had recently started dating. Her brother Fukami Makoto smiled at this. It wasn't like he loved the idea of his little sister dating someone. But if it had to be someone he was glad it was Alain.
They had been through hell and back quite literally. They met in what most people would have called hell. Gamma World was pure hell until they turned it into a paradise. Now Alain, Kanon, and Makoto were helping the people of that world actually build a world they could be proud of.
"It has been hard with only Onari and Takeru." Tsukimura Akari said with a smile.
"Yes, yes...Wait, what do you mean by that Akari?" Yamanouchi Onari said with a smile at first then shifting to a look of anger.
"Now, now you two. You don't need to fight like that. We haven't been together for a while. So let's enjoy this while we can." Tenkuji Takeru said with a smile.
"STOP MOVING EVERYONE! I want to paint a picture of this." a man said. It was hard for Takeru and Kanon to see it but this was a human version of a very dear friend called Cubi-chan. A Gamma monster that loved to paint. They all smiled at him. Even Alain. He was really happy that he had done what his father had told him to. He followed his heart and led him to this life before his eyes.
At that moment they all heard a bunch of explosions. Alain, Takeru, and Makoto looked at each other and as one they got up and went running toward the sounds of screams. It was at this point that Akari looked up into the sky and saw spaceships flying overhead.
"Are they metal ghosts?" Onari said, looking at them holding up his prayer stick.
"No, you baka, they are spaceships. I wonder if they are going to-" Akari started but then the ships started firing at the city. Blowing up some buildings.
"Come on, we need to see if there are people we can help," Kanon said as they rushed to the same area that Takeru, Alain, and Makoto were heading.
"But my painting..." Cubi-chan said as he went off with the rest of the gang.
They found their way to the fight scene where they could hear fighting. They turned the corner and saw something they never thought they would see. An army of robotic soldiers...and their friends and loved ones on the ropes fighting these robots.
As they watched in stunned silence as one of the robot army grunts slash at Takeru as he fought as Kamen Rider Ghost. Sending them flying into the side of a building. "TAKERU!" Akari, Onari, and Cubi-chan screamed as they went over to him.
Akari reached him just as his body hit the ground. She rolled him over. "Takeru," she said, trying to be there for him. "Takeru," she said again, shaking him. "Takeru! " she yelled but he wasn't moving. " TAKERU!" she screamed as the tears started to fall down her face. Everyone knew the truth. Tenkuji Takeru was dead.
Kanon heard this but she couldn't take her eyes off of the fight that was still happening. Her brother and boyfriend were still fighting as Kamen Rider Specter and Kamen Rider Necrom. And they were getting their asses handed to them. "Don't let a single one of them get away with standing up to the Kikaitopia Dynasty Tojitendo." the leader said, holding up his weapon.
They then threw both Necrom and Specter on the ground in front of the army and all the soldiers charged up their weapons and fired all at once at the two of them. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" Kanon yelled as she watched the explosion happen, falling to her knees. She knew both Alain and Makoto's fighting styles and strengths. They weren't going to be able to block a single jolt of that blast or explosion. She just watched both of them die in front of her eyes.
"Now that we have those little pests taken care of, handle the rest of this parallel world for our great leader." the leader said coldly.
"SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH! " Kanon yelled. Everyone stared at her. Some were hovering over Takeru's body others looking at the army. But she has taken center stage right now. " THEY WEREN'T PESTS. THEY WERE WARRIORS! WARRIORS THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO FALL TO THE LIKES OF SCUM LIKE YOU!" she yelled letting her emotions out as she stood on her own two feet.
As she spoke, the Eyecons that Takeru had gathered glowed. The 15 Luminary Eyecons started floating around her. Four became Damashii. Spirits that looked similar to Kamen Rider Ghost but based on the Luminaries: Musashi, Edison, Robin, Newton, Billy the Kid, Beethoven, Benkei, Goemon, Ryoma, Himiko, Tutankhamun, Nobunaga, Houdini, Grimm, and Sanzo hovered around her. " That's the fighting spirit I liked in you kid. " Billy the Kid Damashii said to Kanon.
" And the woman who made mine fall for her. " Sanzo Damashii said.
" And the sister of mine. He would be so proud of her right now. " Nobunaga Damashii said.
" And proved mine wrong in thinking that she was some porcelain doll. " Musashi Damashii said.
"Why are you here?" she asked them.
" This might be useless but if we don't try and avenge them we will regret it, " Nobunaga said, looking around at the fallen Kamen Riders. And a Ghost Driver appeared in front of her. And then another Eyecon. A pink one. She reached up and grabbed it. She read the mark on the top. Kanon Specter.
" Fight with that same spirit I have been attracted to all this time, girly. " Billy the Kid said.
She looked on as the Eyecons returned to normal. She strapped the Ghost Driver to her waist. She then pressed the button on the side of her Eyecon. "EYE!" it said after she pushed the button. She then placed the Eyecon inside the Ghost Driver just as she had watched her brother and Takeru do for years.
" Henshin, " she said, she closed the front panel and pulled the switch. She stood there as a new ghost floating around her as she became her Transient form. Then the ghost landed on her and she grabbed her collar before she flipped down her hood. She then went in, running at the monsters that had killed everyone that had ever truly mattered to her. Takeru, Alain, and Makoto.
The others watched in surprise as she started to handle herself. Not sure if it was just her passion that was driving this fight forward or that she had taken everyone by surprise with this henshin.
" Use my power girly. " Billy the Kid Eyecon said as he went flying into the fight. She grabbed it and quickly inserted it into her Ghost Driver. And out came the Billy the Kid Ghost which quickly landed on her swapping out her normal pink and white Damashii for the Billy the Kid Damashii. She then grabbed the guns that appeared in front of her and she started to fire both of them at once pointing each one at enemy after enemy.
She didn't know how she was managing to make it this far without being taken down. All three of the Riders that fought and died here today were better than she was in her mind. She had been learning how to fight thanks to Alain and Alia. But right now she knew she was going to die and she just wanted to take down the scum that killed them.
She then grabbed the next Eyecon that came flying at her. It was Musashi. The guns disappeared but a sword appeared in front of her and she quickly split it in two and took down more of the footsoldiers. She realized that the remaining attacking army was standing in a clump together. And so did the Eyecons. Suddenly another Eyecon appeared. It was the Mugen Eyecon. Kanon was shocked by this. This was the highest level Eyecon Takeru had. How she managed to get this far in the fight she wasn't sure. She placed that in her Ghost Driver. And she became the highest level she had ever seen someone fight at. She pulled the henshin switch again.
" Goddess Omega Drive! " the Driver said. And she jumped into the air and launched a Rider Kick with as much emotion as she could at the general standing there. She landed just behind them as she possessed, with them exploding behind her.
She undid her henshin and looked up into the sky. "This isn't over yet...but we can't keep fighting here. Let's get out of here. Maybe if we are lucky Takeru became a ghost again and brought Alain and Makoto with him. And we can bring them back with the Luminary Eyecons." Kanon said, trying not to faint with the fact that she had gotten away with this fight. And the group of them rushed to safety carrying Takeru's body with them.
"Are you doing alright?" Akari asked Kanon. It had been six months since that day. Kanon had gotten so used to her new powers that she had pushed the Kikaitopia Dynasty Tojitendo back. But it wasn't easy. They lost more than they won most of the time. Onari, Cubi-chan, even Hachioji Shibuya and Kisarazu had died. Who they had just lost the day before.
"I'm fine," Kanon said as she went back to training.
"You're not fine sweetie. Let it out." Alia said to her. She had traveled here when the Tojitendo had destroyed Gamma World and its people with her just managing to getaway.
"I'M FINE!" Kanon said forcefully.
"You miss the boys, it's understandable," Akari said, looking at the spots where Takeru would sit as she talked about her newest scientific breakthroughs.
"Why would I miss them? They aren't here, they're never here." Kanon said. But she started tearing up. "And they're never going to be here." Kanon cried falling to her knees. Alia went to her side.
"Why can't we see them? I never wanted to just see someone more in my life." Kanon sobbed.
"I don't know." Akari sighed. She had taken that hard herself when she walked into the Daitenku Temple expecting to see Takeru, Makoto, and Alain. But they weren't there. And they tried to get the Luminary Eyecons to work...but they didn't seem to want to.
Kanon was their rock during all of this. But you can only lose so many times without breaking down and the two girls left knew that. That's when there were explosions near the temple. Kanon looked to the sky. Tears still wet on her face but knowing if she didn't go out there people might die...or that if she did people she knew might die.
She stood up. And headed for the door. "I'm going too. And I am not going to stay here and protect Akari schtick this time." Alia said to her. Kanon smirked a little. She hadn't smiled in six months but right now she was able to smirk at her teacher and friend.
"Be safe," Akari said knowing that if she went too it might make Kanon a nervous wreck. And went to the Monolith to stare at it thinking about everything that this thing had taken over the years as she heard the only friends she had left leave her there alone.
"Oh, there is this little pest we have been having trouble with within this world." Plex Shujin said, looking at Kanon as she and Alia came to the scene.
"A new general? Is the Tojitendo running out of you guys? I have beaten, what, three of you?" Kanon said, looking at him.
"Yes, you have taken down three of my fellows. I am Plex Shujin. And I am usually reserved for worlds with Sentai. We have only run into a few Kamen Riders in our travels. So we barely have the fun of killing you guys. So I was called in to take care of the pests." he said, firing a blast past them and it hit the temple blowing it apart.
"AKARI!" Kanon yelled, falling to her knees.
"You'll pay for that. Henshin. " Alia said as she inserted her Eyecon into her Proto Mega Ulorder. And transformed into Kamen Rider Dark Necrom Pink. And went in to fight them. Kanon turned her head away from the blown apart temple still crying. To see Alia fighting the footsoldiers just as Alain and Makoto had done that day six months before.
"NOT AGAIN! " she said, bringing out her Eyecon and pushing the button. " HENSHIN! " she groaned through clenched teeth. As she went into the fight. She quickly went to her go-to Eyecon: Billy the Kid. " TAKE THIS YOU BASTARDS!" she yelled as she fired off both of her guns at anything that moved that wasn't wearing pink.
Just like that day six months ago she was winning. And for a brief moment, Alia thought they might win today. And possibly the war if they could just turn the tide. But then she was run through by Plex Shujin weapon. A sword with a dinosaur built into the hilt. Kanon didn't drop to her knees. She didn't cry. She just lost the last person she cared about. The world was dark now.
She never understood why her brother did some of the things he did for her when she was an Eyecon. He went so dark and it just wasn't the Oniichan that she knew and loved. But right now if the option to bring everyone back was presented to her if she killed a little old lady crossing the street she would take it. But before she did anything this bastard was going to die.
"You like my sword?" he asked her, seeing her looking at her friend as she fell to the ground as he pulled the sword from her. "I got this from one of my other conquests. A Sentai Red that thought he could take us on with borrowed powers. But I showed him...and his team." he said with a chuckle.
"Not all of them you bastard!" Kanon heard as a yellow warrior came onto the fight scene. Swinging a sword just like Plex Shujin's. It was Asuna in her Lupin Yellow form. Fighting the Tojitendo on this world just like her team died fighting on her own.
"Who are you?" Kanon asked her.
"Later. While I would love to make this bastard a scrap yard reject, we aren't strong enough for him yet. CHIBI POWER ME UP!" she yelled and out popped Chibi.
"Hai," she said brightly. She then kissed the tips of her fingers and blew a heart towards Asuna. It hit her and she glowed as she pulled out one of her old RyuSouls.
"MistSoul," she said, flipping it into its Knight Mode and inserted it into her sword. She then opened and closed the mouth of the sword making the chomping sound as she did. She then got an armored arm from the Ryusoulger over the Lupin Yellow suit for MistSoul.
" DAMP! " the soul said as she fired off a steam cover for them to escape.
"We'll be safe here." Asuna said after a minute finding some space under an underpass that looked like the Tojitendo hadn't bothered with this part of the city yet.
"Who are you?" Kanon asked undoing her henshin. She was broken and she could tell so was the woman that stood before her. She could tell by the look in her eyes after she undid her henshin.
"I'm Asuna. I am the lone survivor of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger. I use the powers of Kaito Sentai LupinRanger using this LupinSoul they gave us while fighting a mutual enemy...then the Tojitendo came to my world. Killing the LupinRanger, Ryusoulger, and PatRanger. A third team that was involved." Asuna explained. And Chibi came in and hugged Asuna.
The bubbly personality that Kanon saw earlier was replaced with concern for Asuna. "And this is Chibi. She is the daughter of one of our mechas. Robots that fight these monsters that can grow into giants." Asuna said, holding her close.
"Robots?" Kanon asked, looking at the woman who looked to be in her early thirties. There was a flash and then Chibi turned into her mech form.
"You got a problem with that?" Chibi asked in a huff.
Kanon looked at the little Chibi and couldn't help it. "HAHAHAHAHAHA." she busted a gut laughing. Looking at Chibi. Asuna smirked as she turned Chibi back into her human form.
"I'm sorry," Kanon said calming down.
"Don't be. I remember when we got away with stealing that tech to get us here. I couldn't stop laughing for a solid few minutes. We both lost our lives to these assholes. And...you find something and you let it out. So do you want to join us and gather more and turn every inch of the Kikaitopia Dynasty Tojitendo into a scrap yard?" Asuna asked.
Kanon thought about everyone and the things she lost. And that there was something about these two. She liked them. She wanted them to fight by her side. But she thought about the Eyecons. Could they work outside of this world? "Don't even stop for a second, girly." Billy the Kid Damashii said, appearing alongside Sanzo, Nobunaga, and Musashi.
"We can exist with you." Sanzo Damashii said to her.
"And I want these bastards to pay even more." Nobunaga Damashii said.
"And we have gotten to know her well over these last six months. You have our spirits with you knight thief." Musashi Damashii said.
"Can't break up a winning team. So where do we go from here?" Kanon asked with a smile. Asuna smiled back.
"Who knows," she said with a smile.
