Disclaimer: Still don't own anything.

High up in the atmosphere, within the satellite that connected every HumaGear on Earth with each other, a black silhouette was studying the data recorded on the biggest deviation with its calculations since 001's birth.

KAMEN RIDE: DECADE

ATTACK RIDE: BLAST

ATTACK RIDE: ILLUSION

FINAL ATTACK RIDE: DE-DE-DECADE

"Analysis complete." A deep, booming voice echoed within the simulated space within the satellite."Ability: Destroy."

KAMEN RIDE: GAIM Orange Arms! Hanamichi On Stage!

FORM RIDE: GAIM PINE Pine Arms! Funsai Destroy!

FINAL ATTACK RIDE: GA-GA-GAIM

"Analysis inconclusive. Ability unknown."

KAMEN RIDE: EX-AID Mighty Jump! Mighty Kick! Mighty Mighty Action X!

"Analysis complete. Ability: Game."

KAMEN RIDE: AGITO

FINAL ATTACK RIDE: A-A-AGITO

"Analysis complete. Ability: Evolution."

KAMEN RIDE: FAIZ Complete!

FORM RIDE: FAIZ ACCEL

FINAL ATTACK RIDE: FA-FA-FAIZ

"Analysis complete. Ability: Complete."

KAMEN RIDE: DRIVE

FINAL ATTACK RIDE: D-D-DRIVE

"Analysis incomplete. Ability undetermined."

Section 10: On the Road Again

"This is the Medical Bay." "Only one bed?"

"This is my room." "Looks comfy. Certainly better than mine."

"This is the Workshop." "What's that smell?" "Uh… Don't ask."

"This is- Oh, hey." "Please don't disturb me. I need to focus." "See you later, Ophelia."

"This is the cargo bay." "What's in there?" "Cargo." "Oh."

"And these are the staff rooms." Ritsuka and Hiden stopped at the last point of their tour. "Currently, my Servants are using them while they're healing up after… Decade."

"Right, Servants." Hiden nodded, pretending to understand what Ritsuka was saying.

"Yeah… That'll take a while to explain." Ritsuka sweatdropped as he realized that Hiden would know nothing about the subject.

Before he could say anything else, one of the doors opened and out stepped everyone's favorite half-incubus. "If I didn't know better, I would've thought I was seeing double," Merlin remarked when he spotted the two Ritsukas. "Showing yourself around?"

"Yeah." "So, Hiden. What do you think of our humble abode?" Merlin asked the alternate version of his Master.

"It's… clean," Hiden reluctantly answered, not knowing how to describe the tank.

"Well, compared to your hole in the ground, anything would be clean, wouldn't it?" "Merlin!" "Ow!"

"Don't worry about it." Hiden lightly chuckled at Merlin's comment. "Your name is Merlin, right?"

"That's correct. How's your leg?" "His leg?" "It's fine," Hiden replied.

"Did something happen to your leg?" Ritsuka asked in concern.

"Training session gone wrong… or right. Depends on what Decade was aiming," His doppelganger nervously laughed. "He patched me up right after, though." He gestured to Merlin.

"Training session? Was that what the two-" "Three." "Right, three. Was that what the three of you were doing earlier?"

"Yeah. Decade wanted me to be ready for the MetsubouJinrai's attack." Hiden explained to Ritsuka. "And had him heal me up after every...spar."

"And let me tell you, it wasn't easy." Merlin started to complain. "If I didn't know any better, I would've thought Rider was trying to kill him."

"That bad?" "It wasn't all that bad…" "He broke his leg two times."

"Does he not like me or something…?" Ritsuka muttered to himself. First, Decade (pretended to) try and blow his brains out. Then he pushed him off a building. And now, Rider was breaking his alternate self's legs…

"Well, it wasn't like he was actively hurting my leg…" "It was because Decade kicked him at the same time," Merlin explained, having been on the sidelines watching. "Speaking of injuries, why don't we get that fixed up?" Merlin's staff glowed softly before a similar glow enveloped Hiden. A few seconds later, both lights disappeared. "Is that better?"

"A lot better. Thanks," Hiden said as he twisted his body around.

"Since we're off to rescue someone, having you all healed up and ready would be wise," Merlin said before turning to his Master. "Oh, and I've already informed the others of our mission."

"Thanks." That makes it easier for him. Still, he wanted to visit them. "Come on, I want to introduce them to you."

"I'll stay out here. They would most likely run me through their weapons if I stepped into their room." Merlin told them as the two entered the other staff room.

"Just look at him…" "Yes, his legs are rather long, aren't they?" "That's not what I mean!"

"Is she always like that?" Kadoc asked Mash. The two were silently watching Da Vinci complaining to Holmes about the Servant riding ahead of them.

"Only if someone shows her up," Mash told him. "It's something she picked up from her older self. Although, she was more restrained about it."

"Which one?"

"The older one." Mash clarified.

"Holmes, you got anything solid in that head of yours?" "About?" "About him! Like, what made him so confident he's a Grand Servant!" "...Because he believes he is one."

"...I can't believe I'm just accepting all this…" Kadoc sighed. "Hey, which room is Ophelia in? I want to go check what she's doing."

"Of course, follow me," Mash said, leading him out of the room to leave Holmes and (mostly… only) Da Vinci to argue about Decade.

...Well, Goredolf and Meuniere were also in the command room, and they were also tired of listening to the young Servant's complaints.

"Director?" "Yes?" "Don't leave." "Of course I won't. Who do you think I am?" Goredolf pretended to sound offended by the remark. "...Oh dear, I'm getting a stomach ache, I'll be back in a few hours." "Wait a-" "Goodbye!"

And the brave Director of Novum Chaldea quickly made himself scarce, dashing out of the room.

"We still have that report on him, right?!" "I'm sure Miss Sokaris uploaded to our database before we left." "Good! Come on, let's see what else we can find about him."

"This will be a long drive…"

"..." Poke.

"..." Another poke.

"..." The pink-haired girl poked him again.

"He really is you, Master," Hildr commented, poking Hiden in the cheeks.

"Umm…" He wasn't sure how to react to the hovering girl that was touching his face. Luckily, someone else rescued him.

"Hildr, stop that. You're making him uncomfortable." Thrud scolded her sister.

"But-" "Uh… Can you please stop doing that?" Hiden hesitantly pleaded to the middle Valkyrie.

"Oh, sorry." Hildr apologized as she stepped (well, hovered) back.

"That was… interesting."

"Sorry about that. Hildr can be curious sometimes." Ritsuka told his alternate self. "Anyway, on to the introductions. First, this is Ortlinde."

"Hi." Ortlinde quietly greeted the alternate version of her Master.

"You already know Hildr." "Hello!" Unlike her sister, the pinkette was more cheerful, energetically at Hiden, who slowly waved back.

"And, finally, this is Thrud."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Thrud was the most stoic, only giving Hiden a short nod.

"The three of them are known as the Valkyries, the Heroes of Odin." "It's nice to make your acquaintance." Hiden bowed slightly. "...Wait."

"Yeah…" Ritsuka muttered.

"That's a pretty big coincidence, isn't it?" commented Hiden. It went without saying what the two were referring to.

"Is it a coincidence?" "Probably…"

"Master, what are you talking about?" "Er… Don't worry about it, Hildr."

"..." "Oh! Sorry, Saber." Feeling the staring eyes of the sixth person in the room on him, Ritsuka realized that he had somehow forgotten about the last member of their team… Oh wait, Arash… He can wait.

"Hiden, this is Altria." Ritsuka finally introduced Hiden to her. "She's one of Chaldea's longest-serving Servants." That was ignoring the brief time everybody was desummoned before the Crypters' attack but that was beside the point.

"It's nice to meet you." "Likewise."

"So that's everybody." 'Except Arash.' "Why don't we go see what everyone else is up to? The room's a bit cramped." He now understood how bad it was for the remaining staff before they reached the Wandering Sea.

"She should be in here," Mash told Kadoc as she knocked on the door of one of the various rooms on the Shadow Border. "Hello? Ophelia?"

"Isn't this your tank? Why do you need permission to come in?"

"The Shadow Border is not mine," The Shielder denied the statement, "Its-"

Before she could say that it was Da Vinci's, the door opened up, revealing the orange-haired girl. "Hello, Mash. It's nice of you to come by." Ophelia had a small smile upon seeing her. However, her face immediately turned sour when she turned to Kadoc. "I'm not done yet, be patient."

"Really?" Kadoc had an annoyed look on his face at Ophelia's words.

"Can we come in?" Mash politely asked.

Ophelia's smile quickly returned at Mash's request, stepping aside. "Of course, this vehicle belongs to you, after all."

"It's not mine." Mash corrected as she and Kadoc entered the room.

It wasn't that big, with only a metal bed and a table in the corner. Regardless, it was enough for Ophelia to work, as evidenced by the partially disassembled ShotRiser on the table along with the ProgriseKeys and some tools.

"Will it be alright if you took that apart?" Mash inquired, noticing the tech on the table.

"It will. I've done this many times already." Ophelia answered as returned to the table. Kadoc, meanwhile, decided to kick back and lay on the bed.

"Hmm… Comfy." He commented as he sank slightly into the mattress. It wasn't the softest, but anything beats the concrete floor that he called a bed.

"Don't make too much a mess," Ophelia warned him, not looking away from her work. "We're still guests here." "Yeah, yeah, I know."

While Ophelia was inspecting the insides of the ShotRiser, Mash watched her with interest and a hint of sorrow in her eyes.

"...What's wrong?" Sensing eyes on her, Ophelia turned her head to see Mash staring at her.

"It's nothing," She said, perhaps a bit too quickly. "I'm just curious about that." Mash hoped to divert attention to the weapon Ophelia was maintaining.

"The ShotRiser? What do you want to know about it?" Ophelia asked, going back to reassemble the weapon in question.

"Who was the company who made it? Kadoc told us that your… family was connected to them." Mash was hesitant to mention anything about Ophelia's family, figuring that they were no longer around.

Ophelia, surprisingly, was fine with the topic. In fact, she was more annoyed at Kadoc for a reason that surprised Mash. "Did you really forgot their name?"

"What? It's not very important anymore, is it? It doesn't matter if I don't remember their name." Kadoc defended himself.

Hearing him, Ophelia groaned knowing that he had a point. "The company was called ZAIA. Back then, they were one of the largest companies there were when it came to artificial intelligence." She answered Mash, add another comment more quietly, "Among other things…"

"What about those Key things?" From out of nowhere, Da Vinci suddenly appeared in the room with them, right next to Mash. "That's what you called them earlier, right?"

"Da Vinci?" "Sorry, heard you guys were talking about those things. I'm interested in your technology," The Rider Servant told them. "Besides, I was getting nowhere with that report."

"Wanted to here to get away from her and she still came anyway…" Kadoc quietly grumbled, covering his head with a pillow.

"Ignore him, he gets irritated easily." "Already on it." Da Vinci cheerfully replied to Ophelia's advice. "So back to the topic at hand, how does it work?"

"It's hard to explain." "Try me." "Da Vinci..." "What?" She looked at Mash innocently, "I'm curious, that's all."

"The ProgriseKeys and ShotRisers are… powerful." Ophelia debated on what was the right word to describe their weapons. "Incredibly powerful and important."

"Obviously. They're the reason we survived for so long." Kadoc's comment was slightly muffled by the pillow still covering his face.

"I got that part, thanks, but I'm more interested in the Keys than anything." Doesn't mean she didn't want to pull the guns apart to find what makes them tick, just that she wanted to pull the Keys apart more.

"Like I told Mash, they were made by ZAIA Enterprise. Their Japan branch specifically." Ophelia elaborated. "The ProgriseKeys were created and contains the data of animals." "And insects." "And insects."

"And arachnids. Scorpions are arachnids." Da Vinci told the two… Mostly Ophelia, but still the two of them.

"There are two types of Keys. Ours are ProgriseKeys." Ophelia picked up and showed the Wolf and Cheetah Keys to Mash and Da Vinci. "So are Horobi's and Jin's. Naki's and Ikazuchi's are the other type, called ZetsumeriseKeys."

"And the differences are?" Da Vinci asked.

"Nothing really. ProgriseKeys are based on living animals while ZetsumeriseKeys are based on extinct species." Ophelia answered, putting the two ProgriseKeys back on the bench and resuming her work.

"Oh… Got it. What about you, Mash? Any questions for Ophelia?" "Actually, there is one…" "Go ahead." Ophelia encouraged the girl.

"It's about Hiden's Key," Mash told her.

"What about it?" "I understand where the two of you got yours, but what about his?"

"The Rising Hopper Key?" Ophelia said, "Honestly, we don't know either. He never told us how he got it. We assume it was made by Hiden Intelligence, just like MetsubouJinrai's equipment," she told them.

"His family's company?" "Yes." She nodded, slightly caught off guard at how they already knew about it. "The ForceRisers, along with their ProgriseKeys, were most likely made by the Ark."

"Most likely?" Da Vinci raised an eyebrow at Ophelia's choice of words. "You don't know for sure?"

"No. They're not exactly forthcoming with the information," She said. "What we do know is that the four of them had been Kamen Riders since the day the Ark was launched. I remember…" Ophelia trailed off, a distant memory occupying her mind.

"Kamen Riders? What exactly are they?" Mash had heard that word so many times since they arrived in this Lostbelt(?). Now that she has the chance, she might as well ask.

"That's… hard to say." Ophelia froze in place, stunned by the question.

"What's so hard about it? You guys are just masked people riding something, right?" Da Vinci remarked. "Even though you two don't really ride anything…"

"Da Vinci, you don't really ride anything either," Mash called her out.

"Hush, Mash. This is about them, not me."

"Oh, you wanted a literal meaning." Ophelia glanced to the side, a bit embarrassed by her misunderstanding. "And we did have motorcycles around. They were destroyed a while back but…"

"So you used to ride things, got it. But- Oh!" Da Vinci suddenly exclaimed. "Those two are here."

"Those two?" As soon as Mash finished, the door opened again revealing the two Ritsukas.

"Hey, sorry for interrupting- Mash? Da Vinci?" Chaldea's Ritsuka stopped to look at the two Servants. "What are you doing here?"

"Kadoc wanted to see Ophelia. I led him here," Mash told him and the other Ritsuka.

"And I'm here because I'm bored." And because Da Vinci couldn't find anything on Decade yet.

"I just wanted to work in peace…" Ophelia sighed and complained.

"Sorry about that, there's nothing much to do here." Ritsuka apologized to the orange-haired girl.

His other self, meanwhile, went to check on Kadoc. Gently lifting the pillow off his face, soft snoring filled the room. "He's sleeping." Hiden dryly commented as he let go of the pillow.

"So long as he doesn't snore too loudly, leave him be." Ophelia off-handedly said as she went back to focus on the ShotRiser.

"Well, I better get back up front. See you later!" Da Vinci cheerfully said before she vanished. However, she reappeared a moment later and gave them one last message. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot. As decided upon by me and Holmes, the Shadow Border is going to go as far as the outskirts of the city. From there, you'll have to infiltrate it on foot."

"And what if we need to get out fast?" "We'll try and rescue you guys, but you'll have to hold off the inevitable hoards of robots till then." Da Vinci told them before disappearing for real.

"That wasn't very encouraging." "Not at all, really."

"Senpai, Hiden," Mash addressed the two Ritsukas, "Can the two of you leave us for a while?" She politely requested the two of them.

"But… We just got here." "It's hard to focus if there are too many people here," Ophelia spoke up, giving them a side glance to intimidate them. "I'd rather have some peace and quiet. Something I can't have if the two of you are here."

"Okay, okay. You already had us at 'focus'." And just like that, the two Ritsukas were thrown out of the room...again.

Turning to his other self, Hiden asked, "So where do we go now?"

"...My room?"

Meanwhile…

"Alright!" Jin cheered as he, and the other four HumaGears, walked out into the streets. "What's the plan now?"

"I have an idea-" "No. Not you, Ikazuchi. Your plans always fail." "Hey!"

"Jin, you and Izu will go together," Horobi instructed the two of them.

"If that's what you wish, Horobi." Izu politely bowed while Jin playfully saluted, saying, "Yes, sir! Come on, Izu. Let's go!" He quickly dragged Izu away, much to her surprise at being suddenly pulled by the arm.

Horobi then turned to the two remaining members and gave them their orders, "The three of us will split off and investigate on our own. We'll regroup here at sunset. If you find anything, contact the others."

"Got it, boss." "Yes." The two said simultaneously before leaving Horobi by himself.

"..." The leader of MetsubouJinrai calmly and quickly made his way to a back alley, out of view of everyone, including the pedestrian HumaGears that were going about with their lives. As soon as he felt that he was on his own, he closed his eyes, and his HumaGear modules glowed red as he reestablished contact with the Ark again.

Opening his eyes, Horobi saw the familiar black and red landscape that was the Ark's virtual chamber. Standing back turned to him, was the black silhouette of that was the Ark.

"What is it, Horobi?" The deep, booming voice that belonged to the A.I. echoed throughout the satellite (however that works…)

"I need your guidance, Ark." Horobi humbly requested his lord. "The new Kamen Rider-"

"Not yet. I have not completed my analysis and calculations ." The Ark denied his request. "Once I am done, I will summon you and the others."

"...I understand." Horobi nodded before disconnecting from the satellite.

Opening his eyes again, Horobi found himself back in the alleyway. With that route closed for now, he went off to search for the missing Kamen Rider…

Back on the Border…

"..." Stare… "..." Stare… "..." Stare… "..."

Ophelia knew that Mash wasn't doing it on purpose, there wasn't much else to do in this empty room, but it was a bit uncomfortable to be stared at while she was working.

"Mash?" "Huh? Oh, yes?" Mash quickly replied after being snapped out of her trance. "What is it?"

"Can I ask you something?" "Of course." There was something on Ophelia's mind that was bothering her ever since they first encountered Chaldea. "When you rescued us… Holmes, he said that we were not the same Ophelia and Kadoc you knew."

"Oh…" That was precisely what Mash wanted to avoid talking about. "Our version of you two are…"

Her hesitancy to answer her told Ophelia all she needed to know. "I see…" She solemnly said, now understanding why they had reacted to her and Kadoc oddly. "Were you close to them?"

"I wish we were but… No." Mash looked down at the floor, obviously upset at that fact. "Ophelia, our Ophelia, she was distant. And Kadoc...was Kadoc."

A snort suddenly came from the sleeping man, as if he heard his name being said.

"It was not like she wanted to be like that," Mash quickly added, "She was just…nervous."

"Nervous?" Ophelia repeated, sounding a bit doubtful of that word.

"Nervous might not be the right word." Mash agreed with Ophelia's skepticism regarding her alternate self. "It would be better to say she was not good with social interactions."

"Is that so…?" Ophelia muttered. Obviously, learning about an alternate timeline version of her was something new and she didn't know what she was supposed to say. "How did she die?"

...That probably wasn't it.

"She saved us," Mash answered truthfully. "We were fighting something we couldn't have possibly defeated."

"But you did, evidently."

"We did win… but at a hefty cost," Mash answered back. "It wasn't just her who gave her life to stop…"

"So the both of us, huh?" Ophelia glanced at Kadoc, misinterpreting what Mash had meant.

"No, our Kadoc is still alive." She corrected her, "But he's been in a coma for nearly a year at this point."

"...Why are you fine with this?" Ophelia suddenly asked her. "With telling me all this, I mean. I'm not the Ophelia you know yet…"

"Honesty, I don't know either," Mash admitted. "I feel like I can confide in you."

"...If that's what you want, then who am I to say anything..." Not sure how she should respond to Mash, Ophelia turned back to the table and continued working while under Mash's watchful eye.

"So…" "Hmm? What?" While Mash and Ophelia were having their heart-to-heart, Ritsuka and Ritsuka were lazing it up in the latter's room.

"There's something I've been meaning to ask." Hiden sat up on the bed. His counterpart, meanwhile, was swiveling the chair in boredom.

"Sure, go ahead." Ritsuka said before muttering under his breath, "Not like there's anything better to do…"

"What's your story?" "What do you mean?" "Like, you sort of know what my life is like. How was yours?" Hiden clarified.

"Not really much to say about my life," Ritsuka confessed. "My parents were always there for me, sister was the annoying younger sibling that you had a love-hate relationship with… What's wrong?" Ritsuka stopped talking when he noticed the look Hiden was giving him.

"N-Nothing. Just… What were your parents like?" Hiden barely spoke above a whisper.,

"Well… Dad was a bit stern but always looked out for me and sis. Mom, on the other hand, she was always very doting and worried about us." Ritsuka remembered the day he left for what he now knew was the South Pole. In hindsight, his mom's objection to him moving so far away held much more weight now.

"What about your sister?" Hiden prodded further into his past, curiosity driving him.

"Like I said, she was the annoying younger sibling type. I loved her dearly, but there were many many times she got on my nerves." Ritsuka sighed in exasperation as the memories of his sister's various antics and pranks came to his mind.

"..." There it was again, the envious and downcasted look from his doppelganger.

"It was different for you." "Very different." He really should've realized that from the start. With the world Hiden lived in, it was a given that he didn't have a family anymore.

"Sorry…" "You don't need to apologize, I was the one who asked," Hiden told him.

"How- Err… How were they for you?" Just how was one supposed to ask their alternate self how their family's lives were like?

"Honestly… I never knew them." Hiden confessed, avoiding making eye contact with Ritsuka. "They died in an accident not too long after I was born."

"So…" "I'm an only child." He confirmed Ritsuka's thoughts with a small nod.

"Oh. I'm-" "Again, you don't need to apologize." "...I didn't know him, if it means anything to you." "Huh?" Hiden looked back up at Ritsuka.

"Grandad," The Last Master of Chaldea clarified. "In my world, he died before I was born. I've never met him."

"...It's a good try but no, it doesn't really mean much to me." The downcasted look on Hiden's face returned. "Even when I lived with him, he was always so busy with work that I barely saw."

'Crap, I'm just making things worse!' Ritsuka was starting to mentally panic as he tried to find a way to salvage the situation. "Then who raised you?"

...That was probably the worst thing he could've possibly asked.

Surprisingly, however, Hiden actually lit up with joy. "Oh, a HumaGear did!" He cheerfully told him, completely at odds with his pained expressions two seconds earlier.

"A HumaGear?" Ritsuka blinked, surprised at that information.

"The best one anyone could ask for." Hiden continued to praise his HumaGear father. "Grandad created him and he had taken care of me since I was a baby. In fact, he was one of the earliest HumaGears ever made."

"Really?" "Yup! He was the one who gave me this," Hiden said as he took the Rising Hopper ProgriseKey out. "So you can say that he's the reason I can fight as a Kamen Rider."

"That's… great," Ritsuka said slowly. "Fight as a Kamen Rider…"

"Although, I do wonder where he got this from…" Hiden unconsciously mumbled, glancing at the yellow ProgriseKey in his hand. "The key to my dreams…"

"Excuse me?" Ritsuka asked, overhearing what Hiden said.

"When he gave me this, he told me that this was the key to my dreams, and with it, I could make my dreams a reality," Hiden revealed, a sad smile on his face. "You know, typical parental encouragement stuff." He said with a small laugh.

"And? What's your dream?" Ritsuka asked, obviously curious about that.

"Oh, don't worry about it. It's just a childish dream, that's all." Hiden attempted to deflect the question. "Say, how did you become a dimension traveler? Why don't we talk about that?"

"..." "...Please, drop it." Hiden pleaded in a quiet voice. "I don't want to talk about it."

"...It was just a stroke of luck." Ritsuka decided to indulge him and tell Hiden how he ended up in Chaldea. "I saw a 'Help Wanted' flyer and decided to sign up. Next thing I knew, I was working in the South Pole."

"...that's it?" Hiden stared at him in skepticism.

"That's it." Ritsuka nodded. "I was let in simply to fill a quota."

"...Really?"

"Yes, really." He didn't blame him for his disbelief. "I was just an everyday Japanese teenager who thought it would be good to get a job during the summer break."

"And now you're meeting alternate universe versions of yourself. Pretty big for 'a summer job'."

"Actually, you're the first one I've met," Ritsuka told him. "Well, technically there was another but… we never talk about that incident." "Huh?" "Never!"

The two shared a look with each other before breaking down in laughter.

"Ah… It must be fun…" Hiden managed to get out in as he slowly stopped laughing. "To be able to travel to other worlds. You have a lot of stories to tell."

"Right…" A faint smile appeared on Ritsuka's face. "It has been fun…"

"What's wrong?" Hiden asked, noticing the sad look his counterpart had.

"Nothing." Ritsuka smiled more openly. "Just remembered something, that's all."

A few hours later…

"Alright!" Da Vinci exclaimed as everybody, including Decade, gathered back in the command room. "We've reached our destination."

The Shadow Border (and Decade's bike) was currently parked within a desolate if large garage that was conveniently on the edge of Tokyo.

"From here on, you will have to go on foot," Holmes reminded them. "The HumaGears now know that the Shadow Border is on humanity's side so we won't be able to travel into the city with it."

"Yeah, yeah, we know already," Kadoc grumbled.

"We know the approximate area that this Kamen Rider was last seen in thanks to your informant, however trustworthy they are." "Hey…"

"It would be quite a walk, especially since you guys will be taking back alleys and the like, but you can do it." Da Vinci cheered them on. "In the meantime, Holmes and I will stay here and wait for the inevitable message that you guys were discovered and surrounded."

"Thank you, Da Vinci." Ritsuka sarcastically thanked her. "Real encouraging."

"You're welcome!" Da Vinci smiled, feigning innocence.

"Come on, we better move out now," Ophelia recommended. "The faster we finish this mission, the better."

"Alright, be careful all of you," Holmes said as the six left. "Hmm…"

"What's wrong, Holmes?" Da Vinci asked, seeing the thoughtful look he had.

"Now's not the right time," Holmes said, eliciting a groan from the Rider Servant. "For now, we wait."

"Fine, but you better tell me soon!"

A/N: 'It seems I write chapters faster when there are no fight scenes involved…' -Me, over a week ago.

No, that wasn't it either.

In all honesty, I've been busy with real life this past week so I haven't had much time to write.

Simple character interactions for this chapter because I say so, not even a gag from Takumi because I haven't come up with one. Next chapter, oh let the fun begin!

Nothing really major yet in either franchise. Kamen Rider Evil is going to make his debut soon. All I know about him is that he uses the Bat Genome and is based on Blade. The Oni Cure Rerun is here and I'm just skipping the dialogue because Rerun.

As always, please leave a review and see ya next time!

EDIT: Accidently introduced Ortlinde twice, fixed now.