Woz smiled to himself as he read the book he carried. He liked reading it. Seeing how his Demon King had come into power. Even now that he had "broken" the chain making it so he would never become the "Demon King". But he looked forward to some of this new history on the way to his King's rise to power.
"That isn't right..." Woz said looking at the history of OOO's. It was saying that he died bringing Ankh back from the grave. But in history, he just brought him back. They shared a body for a short time afterward but he was still more or less alive. Ankh kept him alive like he had someone else. He couldn't be bothered to look up who at the moment.
This was the third case of someone dying before they were supposed to. The first time when the HumaGear died he thought it was just a mistake in the history books somehow. Time is always in flux after all. But then Kamen Rider Vulcan died. Now, this.
"Timejakcers?" he asked himself more than anyone else. He knew that they liked to mess with time. And with time being a fluid thing, something that can change at the drop of a hat, like a writer changing their minds halfway through writing anything. He knew that this could be them messing with the natural course of things hoping that it would lead to a new King. "Now how do I fix this?" he asked himself thinking about if he had to awaken one of his friends' memories to straighten out this mess.
At that moment he heard something overhead. He looked up and saw ships flying overhead. "Huh?" he asked looking away from his book. But as he closed the book it showed that the world as he knew it came to an end here today. But Woz wasn't reading it as history changed.
"Time travel?" Asuna asked walking up to Chibi to look over her shoulder. She read a little and wasn't sure she wanted to use him. He seemed a little wimpy. "How is that kid a 'Demon King'?" Asuna said out loud.
"Demon King?" Urara asked not taking her eyes off the ships. Neither was Fuuka or Kanon. Fuuka with clenched white fists.
"It says here: Kamen Rider Zi-O would take over this world and become a Demon King known as Ohma Zi-O...but the only proof of these 'false claims' are from the Kamen Riders Geiz, Woz, and Tsukuyomi. They came from this 'false future'. Geiz and Tsukuyomi to stop the Demon King from ruining the world with his power as Ohma Zi-O. And Woz to celebrate the history of his Demon King with every new power. Their claims can not be proven however since the Kikaitopia Dynasty Tojitendo arrived one day and destroyed what is believed the only time travel tech available by killing Kamen Rider Zi-O, Geiz, and Tsukuyomi. Making this future a 'false future' in the eyes of the survivors of this attack. Only Kamen Rider Woz is still alive with the Tojitendo hunting through the world to find him…Does that mean they are still searching?" Chibi asked reading the passage.
"Yes," they heard and they saw a man staring daggers at the book in the Chibi's hands.
"Kamen Rider Woz?" Kanon asked him. She could almost sense the pain and loss of a warrior in the man standing before her.
"It's just Woz," he said storming up to them and yanking the book from Chibi's hands roughly. He glared at the book in his hands. He hated every page of it now. He wanted nothing to do with it anymore. But no matter what he did it would come back to him. He summoned his Zikan Despear in Yari Mode. He threw the book into the air and blasted it. He knew the book was destroyed...but he also knew that the book would show up again somehow.
"Unless you want the bastards to come and kill you you might want to leave. They have my energy on file I guess you could say. Using my weapon is like a beacon. They'll be here in a few minutes," Woz said stalking away.
"You're not going to throw everything away are you?" Fuuka asked him.
He rounded on her fury in his eyes. "WHAT EVERYTHING?!" he demanded of her. "They killed my friends. They destroyed my King...TWICE GOD DAMN IT!" he breathed out in a huff. "I have nothing to lose anymore. Maybe I can escape that fucking book if I were to die," he said to them then turned to face the ships again.
"Do you want to see more people die?" Asuna asked him. Everyone looked at her.
"What do you mean?" Woz half-turned to her as drones were being fired off from one of the ships in the distance.
"We're here and we aren't going to fight if you don't," she said looking at him. The girls that she had gathered as the Hakaiger saw what she was doing. She was giving him a reason to live right now. But the question was is it going to work.
"Why should I care if you die with me or before me?" he asked her.
"Because of that look in your eyes Woz. You still care," she said to him.
He turned away from her as if to show that he didn't. "GOD DAMN IT!" Woz growled and turned to the Hakaiger. "This way," he said leading them to a secret cave. "We will have to hurry but they won't come down this cave right away," he said as they fast-walked through the cave.
"Why is that?" Urara asked.
"First couple times I was caught I still had the will to fight I guess. They sent those Kudakks after me. But...I found a way to win each time. To stop wasting the footsoldiers they started sending drones...I want the footsoldiers back." he said to everyone. As they walked through another passage with him blocking it behind him with a bolder that looked like he had moved it before.
"Because they give you an outlet to vent your frustrations...or to join your friends in the afterlife?" Asuna asked him. He looked at her with a sneer.
"This way," he grumbled out and they found themselves in a make-shift base.
That was when Chibi spotted the book that Woz had destroyed. She didn't know how it was there. She could tell it was the same exact book too. She picked it up and started reading it again. But this time she focused on the day that the other Riders died.
"Who are they?" Sougo asked Woz after he awoke all of them from their "new lives".
"No idea my King. They just appeared out of nowhere," Woz said to him.
"They are starting their attacks," Geiz said looking out the window at the ships starting to destroy the city.
"How are we going to get past this?" Tsukuyomi asked them. She knew that this was beyond anything they had ever faced as Riders.
"That's something I have been thinking about," Woz said bringing up the book he had been reading. "History has changed again. It says the world that we know is going to come to end...today." Woz said trying to show them how bad it really was.
"So...what did you have in mind?" Heure asked him. As he and Ora looked at the collection of Riders they had fought against stared out the window not sure why they were woken up from their preferred lives.
"We are time travelers. We can travel multiple timelines at once. Get Ohma Zi-O," Woz said to them.
"We stopped Ohma Zi-O!" Geiz said looking at him.
"Time is a fickle friend my friend. Time can be changed and changed back again. You may never be the TRUE Demon King my King...but that doesn't mean that he still doesn't exist in another timeline. The three of us can still travel to that timeline where he is the Demon King that rules that world...and we need him now. GO BRING HIM HERE." Woz said the explosions hit nearby.
"I guess we are playing distraction for you two," Tsukuyomi said as she pulled up her Ridewatch.
"Don't take too long," Woz said as he did the same.
"There is nothing that can be helped...but this won't stop me from stopping Ohma Zi-O from taking this world after we stop them," Geiz said.
"Good luck with me," Sougo said and they went into battle.
"I was just topside getting more food. I have nothing here for you so as soon as they are gone you need to shove off and find a new hidey-hole to live in," Woz said to them as Chibi read the book unknown to Woz.
"We don't plan on staying. We just want to find strong fighters to join us," Kanon said to him. She was sure that he was one such warrior.
"Good luck with your pointless search," Woz said to them sitting down.
"How can you summon one's older self to the past?" Chibi asked thinking out loud.
"Huh?" Kanon asked. That was when Woz saw the book again and bowled anyone in his path between him and Chibi over yanked the book from her hands and started to tear pages out while yelling. He threw the remnants of the book itself into a corner.
Everyone looked at him. Chibi went to pick up the pages but Kanon stopped her. And Urara used magic to burn the pages. Woz turned to her. "Does that make you happy? Seeing them burn like that?" she asked.
"It'll be back," he said sitting back down.
"Frustration," Asuna said looking at him.
"Huh?" he asked her.
"You want the Kudakks back for frustration. Drones mean that there isn't hope to smash something. And they might just blow you off the Earth. You don't want to die. You want revenge," she said looking at him.
"Just shut up," he said to her.
"You can get revenge if you join us," Chibi said to him.
"I don't want revenge. I want to DIE!" he yelled.
"Each of us lost something too ya know," Fuuka said to him.
"Like I care," Woz said looking anywhere but her.
"You do Woz," Asuna said looking at him.
"Oh is this more wisdom from the woman that has read me like I used to read that damn book?" he snapped at her.
"You can try and deny it Woz but you aren't heartless. Just heartbroken. And that is all," she said to him.
"They should be gone now. So get the fuck out of my little home...or stay and I will Will it to you when I die," he said.
"We'll leave...but Chibi is right, you want to fight for revenge you should come with us," Asuna said and the girls gathered again and they left Woz in his home. And almost on cue, the book appeared before Woz again. Woz started tearing up looking at the book.
"TSUKUYOMI!" Geiz yelled as she was killed in the attack. Woz was beside himself seeing her fall but he knew that there was still a chance to save her. To save them all. All they needed was to win this and he could go back in time and pluck her from a point in time and she would be alive again.
"My my. You are in quite the pickle," they heard and they turned and saw Ohma Zi-O standing with the two Timejackers that had been redeemed in the eyes of Sougo. Both looked like they were going to cry seeing Tsukuyomi's unmoving body.
"Just help us bastard...before-" Geiz started and then a sword went through his body killing him almost instantly.
"G-Geiz..." Sougo said seeing his friend being held aloft only with the blade sticking through him. A jagged blade, Koh's blade. And Plex Shujin's laugh was heard shortly thereafter.
Ohma Zi-O looked at the man that was his younger self's best friend and he knew what came next. "ARGH!" Sougo yelled as his Ziku-Driver started to spark and gave off lightning. Before long it was a different driver altogether. The Ohma Zi-O Driver was around his waist. This surprised everyone but Woz. He had seen this event happen because of the death of Geiz before.
"Henshin," Sougo growled.
"The blessed time! Greatest! Kindest! Maximum strongest king! Ohma Zi-O!" everyone heard. And there stood a second Ohma Zi-O standing there.
"Shall we dispatch them my youthful self?" Ohma Zi-O asked him.
"Yes," Sougo growled. The two Ohma Zi-O walked into battle. It was almost like they were beyond such things as the Kudakks. They batted them aside like they were nothing sending them flying destroying some of them with a flick of a wrist. And Sougo sent a stream of bat-like things from his hands at a ship overhead and it was destroyed.
Plex Shujin didn't react as anyone would normally see something like this. He wasn't scared. He was laughing. "You dare laugh at the Demon King of this world twice over?" Ohma Zi-O asked him looking at him.
"Yes..." and that was when he showed more power than he has in the past and used near-light speed to breach Ohma Zi-O's defenses and slashed through him. "Because I have never had to show off some of my true power before now!" he laughed as he ran Ohma Zi-O through too. "How else am I going to sneak up my pray without my speed?" he asked with a laugh beyond anything he had let out yet.
"MY KING!" Woz yelled as he went to his king. He never thought he would see this. He never thought he could see this. He knew that in parts of his timeline he had turned against his Demon King. But to see his king fall to the ground bleeding with an opponent easily striking him down.
"Woz, you will IWAE upon this bastard's death," Sougo said to him. "Because I have the powers of all Kamen Riders," he said as Ridewatchs appeared around him. Then a new one appeared that of Ohma Zi-O himself. "That includes my older self. So this-"
"You were saying?" Plex Shujin asked with a cold sneer in his voice as he ran him through from behind. The Ridewatches slowly fell to the ground as he laughed. "I knew finding a few Rider Worlds might be a fun little excursion after having that bitch in Yellow escaped with my little ghostie pray. Then that blue witch bitch got away thanks to that genie kitty. I needed this. Now there is only one more little pestie to deal with," he said turning to face Woz.
"PLEX SHUJIN!" there was a roar in the sky and Woz saw a hologram of someone so massive that he looked bigger than the biggest building he had ever seen.
"Great King Boccowaus-sama," he said turning to face the leader of the Tojitendo.
"We may have found those pests that escaped you. They are calling themselves the Nagurareta Sentai Hakaiger now," he said.
"Hakaiger...a new Sentai for me to kill. Good. I shall find these Hakaiger," he said to his master.
"You better. Start with the world where they made themselves known. It is a Ninninger World. From where you are right now it should take six months to get there. Leave at once!" Boccowaus said.
"Yes, Boccowaus-sama," he said and the hologram faded. "Looks like I'll have to leave you little pestie. But before I do," he said and sent two projectile weapons that he had...not at Woz, but at Heure and Ora. Who fell over dead. "Enjoy. We will be right back for you little pestie," he said and opened a portal to one of the ships that were overhead and it flew off into a bigger portal.
"ARGH!" Woz yelled as the henshin was undone and he kneeled among a field of bodies. His Demon Kings and his friends. His whole world was destroyed by someone that seemed to enjoy torture. That was when he spotted the book he would read...and he hated seeing it. He picked it up and started smashing over a rock destroying it.
After he finished he turned to his dead friends and started to cry again. As he fell to his knees the book he destroyed reappeared before him. "Fuck," he moaned as he cried.
Six months later the Hakaiger appeared in this world in a macabre sense of irony. Plex Shujin left to find them when they were heading toward him at the same time. And Woz was sitting in his base made of things from his Demon King's home staring at the same book he kept destroying crying just as he had that day.
But for the first time since that day he opened it...and he saw a picture of the Hakaiger as it appeared in the book with a caption beneath it. He was in disbelief as he saw it. He got up and chased after the Hakaiger. He found them at the bolder.
"You ready to admit that you want revenge?" Asuna asked seeing him.
"Never. Just thought it might get me closer to the grave if I followed you losers is all," Woz said to them.
"Whatever. Welcome to the Hakaiger." Kanon said with a smile and the group known as the Hakaiger left the cave home. With the book left open to a picture with two dozen people in it with Woz, Asuna, Kanon, Chibi, Fuuka, and Urara among them. And the caption said: The hope for those that had been hurt by the Tojitendo Nagurareta Sentai Hakaiger.
