Below the old school building, Mukuro cut down another guard in a sterilized hallway. Behind her nearby, Junko ate her takoyaki. "What was THAT?!" She spoke up as her sister gasped. "You realize you're just making more work for yourself. Moron. God help you if I get blood on these boots."

The soldier whirled around. "Oh. Sorry, Junko, I'll clean it up." She apologized.

"Damn right." Junko remarked as she walked past her twin. "Make it look like they decided to just drop us over their pay grade. Worry about it later though, we're on a schedule." The fashionista sighed.

"What, I'm supposed to do that all by myself?!" Mukuro asked frantically, looking at all the bodies around her.

"It's what we call a 'you problem'!" Junko called cheerfully before she returned her voice to its normal tone. "We've been through this, Miss Prissy-Pants, grunt work is your domain."

"Oh...okay. You're right, of course." Mukuro accepted, hurrying to catch up with her younger sister.Using her phone, Mukuro lead Junko down the halls of the secret part of the school. The only sounds that echoed through the corridor was the sound of boots on stone. Mukuro's face was as stone while Junko continued to idly eat her takoyaki, neither of them were the least bit intimidated by the dark atmosphere that hung around them.

Finally, they arrived at a sealed door with a scanner on the side. However, it didn't look like the type of scanner which you would swipe a card at to unlock. Mukuro walked over to it and inspected it before turning back to the fashionista. "Um, this is a retinal scanner. It's not gonna open with a card." The soldier clarified.

Junko put a piece of takoyaki in her mouth and looked at her sister undeterred. "No problem, I've got just the thing!" She stuck her eating toothpick into her bowl of takoyaki and pulled out an eyeball. "One of the trustees was nice enough to let me borrow it for a while."

"Ah?" Mukuro looked in concern at the bowl of takoyaki, wondering why her sister decided to hide it in there.Junko walked over to the retinal scanner, holding the eyeball in front of it and continuing her rambling. "Didn't even have to debase myself to get it. The lolita aesthetic doesn't mean I'm easy." Once the sisters heard the sound of the door unlocking, Junko idly threw the eyeball as well as the rest of her takoyaki bowl to the side. "Open sesame!" Junko called with a giggle as the maximum security door opened.

The two sisters stepped inside the locked room and stopped when they caught sight of a shark-like statue on a third-rate bed, the look on his face blank as if he was bored of the world, devoid of emotions, or both. Junko and Mukuro stopped with a gasp as 'the shark from hell' rested before them.

"Shut up, it's really the legendary Dor'sall!" Junko gasped in excitement. "OMG! This is awesome!"

"So THIS is the one we've been looking for all this time." Mukuro looked him over. "For someone who is supposed to be a bringer of death, destruction and evil, he doesn't look particularly intimidating."

"Dor'sall, Dor'sall, yas queen!" The fashionista fangirled. "Gah, I'm such a big fan! Not to sound all suckery, but can I get a hug?!"

Mukuro took a small step back, sensing darkness emanating from it. "Uh, Junko? Seems like he might be a little dangerous." She cautioned.

"Yeah, I know! Duh, dangerously kickass, dangerously awesome!" The fashionista continued, ignoring her sister's warnings.

"That's not really what I meant..." The soldier protested.

Junko turned around and glared at the older twin. "Fat, stupid, ugly people need to SHUT UP." She snapped, her voice low and commanding.

"Fat? Stupid? Ugly?" Mukuro counted on her fingers. "That's me in a nutshell!" She awkwardly complied, stepping aside.

"Anyway..." Junko walked up to the bed with a smile on her face. "Dor'sall, good sir, please to meetcha. I'm Junko Enoshima from the 78th class. This may sound weird, but you've been on my mind a lot lately. The muckety-mucks have you squirreled away in here like a third-world quarantine, baby. So not your style, fishy." Junko turned away with a huff.

Once again, Dor'sall kept putting Mukuro on edge. The soldier worried for her sister, who she thought was recklessly flying too close to the sun.

"I mean, look at this!" Junko turned around. "You're practically oozing with potential! So, like, say..." Junko's sweet smile turned into a nightmarish one, and she lunged towards it with an ice pick. "You could be free from your tomb, LEAVING THE WORLD AWASH IN DESPAIR-"

Before she could even scratch him, the fashionista somehow ended up with her head on the floor and her body flat on the ground, separated.

"Junko!" Mukuro gasped, getting out her army knife and dashing towards the statue. "You son of a-" Before she could finish her sentence, Dor'sall merely deflected her with a backhand, leaving her stumbling until she fell against the wall, as she saw now, Dor'sall stood before her, his body colored blue and silver with red eyes, sharp white teeth and with two scythe-like hands.Dor'sall lowered his hand. "This is boring." He said with a sigh. "You do realize that nothing you do has any meaning?" Then he began to laugh. "Man, it is good to be back, I sense you are a fellow nihilist! This is marvellous! I've reached an all-time low! But the thing is, baby doll, no one person should claim a monopoly on despair, it belongs to everyone! Now see, the idea that humans experience hope every day is a fallacy. From day to day humans are, at best, apathetic. Life is naturally cynical and prone to despair, while hope is more of a survival instinct. Despair only leads to annihilation, while hope can turn out either good or bad, to me, they're both dull, uninspired, the only constant is death and destruction, now that is something amazing."

Mukuro started trembling, seeing this thing calmly prattle about how despair and hope are meaningless.

"Aw, you really don't get it? Guess when it comes to mortals, not all roads lead to Rome." Dor'sall smirked. "You see, death is the great unknown. One can only be this smart for so long before ennui sets in, that's diversity and bright. Everyone goes on and on about hope and despair, but what they REALLY mean is 'status quo'. Ah, but death is the big ol' mystery box! There's nothing like it to get the blood pumping, the synapsis firing, the senses tingling! It straight-up shatters the status quo and paves the way for chaos!" He rambled, the words echoing off the walls of the room.

Mukuro sat up, panting and watching him with a look of worry on her face. Nevertheless, the monster continued to monologue. "Think about it: when a single assassin's bullet can plunge humanity into world war, none of us are as far from the abyss as we'd like to tell ourselves! Embrace that simple face, and voila! You're in for the ride of your life! Look at her corpse, every nerve ending is at eleven! The thought of dying did that! Come on, pumpkin pie, some part of you has to understand."

"They called the corpse over there the world's hope, Izuru Kamukura, and who am I to say you're not the saviour? Therein lies the rub. Hope and despair only gets us as far as what we THINK we want: safety, tranquility, boredom." The shark looked down at Mukuro with a sparkle in his eyes. "C'mon, both nirvana and hell looks great on paper, but for someone like me, it's more like purgatory. Humanity's better than that."

Suddenly, an alarm began to sound throughout the room, and red lights began flashing. Mukuro shot up immediately. "They know we're here! We have to make a break for it, now!" She cried.

"I'm a god among insects; of course you're bored, the world's an ant farm!" Dor'sall yelled with insanity in his eyes. "Embrace death, and we'll shatter the glass together! I am Earth's salvation! It's FATE! We were destined to walk hand-in-hand, tell me you don't FEEL it!"

Then, Dor'sall dragged Mukuro through a portal, laughing all the while, Mukuro wondered what she was getting into.

"This isn't a good idea."

Iroha hears Hibiki sigh from the opposite end of the TV room. "You said that already."

"It's true."

Yuri glances down at the poster Hibiki sent her to show what their class is watching. The poster detailing 3 people and the words 'Grave Encounters' under them. She quickly averts her eyes, not even ignoring the chills that are running down her spine. "Are you sure you're okay with this?"

"Why wouldn't I be? I've watched horror movies a hundred times before, trust me."

"I haven't," Iroha mumbles under her breath, low enough so that Hibiki doesn't catch her words. In truth, she's kind of ticked off that Hibiki is acting completely relaxed about this when she, on the other hand, is having a mini-panic attack. Louder, he says, "I don't like this. It's about some kind of TV show, you said?"

"Mmm hmm. What, you scared?"

Iroha turns a shade of red. "Nope, of course not, sheesh."

"Surrreee. Whatever you say. Damn DVD player," Hibiki growls, jabbing on the power button. Iroha prays to whatever god's out there that it remains stubborn and refuses to turn on so the class could do something more pleasant for the rest of the night.

"Got it!"

Hibiki gestures at her with hurried hand motions, flailing about all over the place. "Quick quick, hand me the DVD player before it dies again or something."

Iroha fumbles with the case, dragging out the process as long as he possibly can without looking like a fool, and passes the small disc to Hibiki with trembling hands. Kanade grabs it, slams it in the tray, and drags them to the couch where a herculean bowl of popcorn awaits them.

They sit shoulder to shoulder with the bowl in between the sixteen of them. The warmth of human contact isn't exactly reassuring (comfortable, yes, but not reassuring), but Syobai does his best to try and relax into the touch.

'It's just a movie,'

Iroha chants to herself.'It's not real. Everything is just CGI or some actor wearing a costume. None of it is real, you don't need to get scared.'

This gets her through the first fifteen minutes without as much as a wince. The first fifteen minutes were just scenes introducing the characters and the basics of the show, yes, but that's not important. She still considers it a victory.'Yes, I can do this.'

She's brimming with confidence now. Her hands, which have been pinned to the side this whole time (trying to brace her for some kind of impact, maybe?), bravely dart out to snatch some of the popcorn Kanade's been munching away at.

The main character decided for episode 6, they were gonna check out an abandoned asylum, probably the one the summary in the back of the case was boasting about. It doesn't seem like much- nobody is suspiciously evil, there's no blood, weird deaths, nothing. It's actually a rather weird, eerie place. Huh. Iroha wonders if it's actually a horror movie.

"Something's gonna happen," Hibiki whispers to her, teeth crunching away at the popcorn with vicious anticipation.

"In this place?" Iroha raises an eyebrow, skeptical. Maybe, once you watched enough horror movies, you started to get paranoid during perfectly-normal scenes. Because the place showed on-screen certainly doesn't look like a place of blood. Or murder.

"Definitely."

"Yeah, right."

Her ego flies out the window when, yes, something bad does happen. That something is when the ghosts start to kill off the cast and the whole asylum turns into a giant maze of carnage.

Most of the class flinches every few seconds because oh my god is that blood on the walls and where did TC go to why are there corpses hanging from the walls what was that shadow on the ceiling-

Hibiki and Kanade, however, seem to be totally unfazed by all the violence and gore on the screen and provides amusing commentary, examples being 'Wow, that guy needs a shave, really' and 'It's pretty obvious she could just get the flashlight from the bag they left in the entrance'. If she didn't know that Hibiki was as dense as the rest of them are, she would probably be fooled into thinking that the vocalist was trying to calm her down, or make them feel better.

But the Hibiki she knows? Not a chance. She needs more of a signal that mesly flinches and winces for her to understand that Iroha is…. afraid. Sort of.

When the demon materializes out of the shadows behind the medium Iroha yelps and latches onto Kanade's arm, almost knocking the popcorn over in her hurry. Her heart is racing and her breaths are coming out way too fast and turn around turn around turn around-

"Roha?"

"Just run, get the fuck out of there-"

"You're kind of-"

"Why the fuck would you fall over in a place like that, just keep going-"

"You're kind of squishing me," Kanade shouts in her ear, above the panicked breaths. Iroha looks down, and realizes that her arms are constricting Kanade's arms very tightly.

"Ah, sor-"

"Yahhhhhh!!"

Iroha's eyes jerk back toward the screen, just in time to see the medium yeeted into a wall. Kanade's complaint forgotten, she squeezes even tighter.

(Later she would realize that she had stayed in that position- pressed into Kanade and cutting off the former serial killer's arm from circulation- for the rest of the movie and hadn't heard anything from Kanade, not even once)

"That was horrible."

"Geez, I didn't know you were such a scaredy-cat!"

"Shut. Up."

"The Setsuka Chiebukuro- the cool, calm and collected-scaredof a cheesy horror movie."

"It was kind of…"

"Scary?"

"No."

Hibiki grins. "They have a happy ending at least, right?"

'Considering most of the characters died, no,' Iroha thinks, but merely nods in real life. "Yeah, sure. Have a good night."

"Unless you'd like to sleep in my room with me, if you're scared?"

Then, as they looked at the TV, they watched as a small blue fuzzy ball burst out of it and clocked Hibiki straight in the face, knocking her to the ground. The ball shuddered and jolted as it turned into an anthropomorphic shark, its hands and feet were webbed and had yellow eyes with thick black iris. It cast a toothy grin as its' eyes looked out at the class before him.

"So... you's the schmucks who opened the door to Horrorwood, are ya?" The fuzzball asked as it watched Hibiki getting back onto her feet. "Well, I've gotta thank you, kid. For setting my people free, you've just condemned this town, heck, the entire world beyond to a darkness unlike any other! At long last, the Shark King, Danzo, is back in business!"

"Shark... King?" Kanade asked, as she looked at the shark at her feet. "Wh-where's this king?"

And just like that, all of the tension in the air disappeared as the shark demon tilted its' head to the side, with Hibiki doing the same.

"What do you mean 'where's this king?' He's looking right at you, kid!" The shark bounced up and down, swatting its' arms against its' chest. "It's me! Danzo! Ya never heard the tales of the Shark King before?!"

"You're a demon king?" Iroha just blinked at 'Danzo' with raised brows. "But you're so small... and you're so... fluffy as well." She picked Danzo off of the ground.

"H-hey! Hands off of the merchandise!" Danzo started thrashing and flailing around in Iroha's grip, but however much he struggled, it was no use. Iroha was holding him tight as she brushed his body. "Get off of me! Get offa me! Is this any way to treat a king?! I can have you fed to the Flesh Gods, y'know!"

Hibiki just chuckled as she brushed Lucifer from top to bottom. She even gave his head a stroke or two; the feeling of scales soothing against her body. "You're pretty adorable, y'know. It's hard to imagine that you could ever be a demon king."

"Yeah, well, life stories suck. Long story short, I lost my body. I'm trying to find a replacement, but I'm still a king, y'know!" Danzo's eyes bulged as Hibiki squeezed him. "G-gyaaaaaaaaaah!" He choked under her grip until she squeezed him so hard that he popped out of her body. "H-hey! Just what is your problem?! Did your mother raise ya to be the most disrespectful girl on the planet?!"

"Nope, besides, there's a showing of 'The Mean One' today at Starlight Theater, and I'm gonna go see it." Hibiki said, dragging Danzo along.

At the movie theater as Hibiki and Danzo chatted about where Danzo was and the history behind it. A young girl named Mifune could only watch, as thousands of emotions and questions ran through her head. By all accounts, none of this should have made any sense; let alone the fact that one of them was a real monster in the human world. And yet, as Hibiki and Danzo continued to chat, it all became more real for her. Now, everything that Hibiki had been known for was called into question and the validity of her bad reputation was at stake. Had she truly been doing these bad things and getting into trouble because she secretly craved it? Or was it all just accidental happenstance?

She was just about to take a step forward when something caught her eye off to the left. "Huh? Is that…" she asked, as Mifune could see a girl with cream-coloured, wavy hair sitting on a bench beneath the shade of a tree. "Chiyu?"

Chiyu was dressed in the same schoolwear as Mifune, even down to the red ribbon on her collar and the patch on the left breast that showed the kanji for Wesburrow High between the moon above and the sun below. On her lap was a school workbook and some sheets on top of it. There was a green pencil by her side, but she couldn't find the strength to pick it up. Her face was also bereft of any joy or concentration, as a frown could be seen; one that was followed by a sigh. "What's the use? I'm going to fail…"

"Chiyu?" Mifune called, which caused Chiyu to jump in fright.

"O-Oh! Mifune-chan!" Chiyu scrambled to take her pencil as her mind spun into overdrive. "G-good day! I didn't expect to see you out here!"

"Hey, hey, calm down. I'm not in my disciplinary head role anymore. Not outside of school, at least." Mifune sat down by Chiyu's side and patted her shoulder tenderly. "What's the trouble?"

"Well, uh, it's, um… this worksheet." Chiyu tapped the sheet in question. It was all to do with advanced mathematics; more specifically, calculus. With all of the 'x's, 'y's, and brackets that made calculus as demanding as it had always been. Some of the boxes had been been filled with Chiyu's notes and workings scrawled in near the side of the paper, but the vast majority had been unfilled, or has been scribbled out repeatedly. "I've been trying so hard to get this work done but every time I try to focus, I always come up short in my thinking."

"Mathematics, huh?" Mifune asked as she looked over the worksheet and the work she had done. "Well, I'm no teacher, but I think you've been doing a good job already."

"But it's not enough." Chiyu shook her head. "This is a remedial sheet; meaning that I had to take it home from the remedial classes. And if it's not completed by tomorrow, then I'll be in big, big, trouble!"

"Well, you can do it. You know how to do it, and you've got plenty of time to get the rest of these answers filled in." Mifune just kept up her smile as she looked at the rest of the questions. "Plus, you're much smarter than me, Chiyu. I don't think I'd be able to get one of these, let alone four of them. If it were me in remedials and it was this, I'd be doomed."

"But, um… this isn't the first time. In fact, it's the fifth time I've had to take remedials because of super-hard mathematics…" she moaned as she clutched the book and paper. "Oh, I wish that I could just be braver. Brave enough to do these maths problems without being so scared that I can't even answer…" she held her hands together and looked to the sky. "If there's a god up there, then I pray to him. Please set me free from these troubles and woes…"

And then, her prayers were answered by something else, as a translucent black spotlight shone down from the heavens above as the skies turned cobalt blue, as Mukuro, now wearing a fusion of Jason Voorhees' ensemble and a black knight armor, leapt down to her. Mifune was pushed to the edge of the bench and straight off of it as Chiyu was basking in the light. As Mifune stood up, she watched as Chiyu stared at Mukuro, gasping at the sight of what was happening.

"It's a knight?!" Mifune let out as she stood there transfixed as Chiyu stared back. Then, she remembered something that she had heard earlier. "Wait… could this be the work of… oh, what did they call it, the Imagigraveyard?"

"Young soul, who suffers from the burden of educational stress; so overwhelmed by standards that they are prevented from being free."Mukuro, now Lady Voor, said to Chiyu as she spread her arms out."Your prayers have reached the ears of my master. On the blessing of Dor'sall, I give you the liberation you seek. In return, hunt down those who defy the Imagigraveyard's will."

"Y-yes." Chiyu nodded as she lowered her brows. "In the name of our lord and saviour, in Dor'sall's name…" she made her hands into fists, "I will save this world from their existence, as you saved me from my own!"

The light shone brighter and brighter around Chiyu, until it completely enveloped her. Mifune's eyes had been blinded by the overwhelming light, and the display was enough to make Hibiki and Danzo stop dead in their tracks and stare at the light as well.

"Wh-wh-what is going on?!" Hibiki yelled.

"Oh, no. It's happening again…" Danzo's eyes widened. "That's them, Hibiki. The Imagigraveyard. And they've just anointed a Nullreel!"

The ray of light carried Chiyu higher than the trees and houses, then a silver shark spirit ate her, cocooning her entirely. When it burst, Chiyu was gone. And in her place stood a colossal snake monster made of film reels with angel wings sprouting out of its' back, with smaller bat wings below it. It was brandishing sharp teeth in the shape of green pencils and had a gargantuan parchment serving as the tail. "Nullreel!" It bellowed in a demonic, crackling voice as it crashed to the ground, sending stones, dust, and smoke up into the air.

Mifune started running away from the oversized monster that had appeared before her, but it was no use. With a single bound, Chiyu's Nullreel had coiled around Mifune and carried her up to the face of the snake made of film reels.

"Mifune! Isn't this a ring a ding ding?" The Nullreel spoke in Chiyu's voice, but its' face remained still and the voice had an old timey vibe to it. "The boss has answered me and now, I'm back and better than ever! And you can be free too if you choose to join up!"

"What ARE YOU?!" Mifune was unable to keep a straight face at the sight of this… thing. She could not believe for a second that it was Chiyu.

"Lady Voor spoke to me." Chiyu went on as she looked into the shaky eyes of her classmate. "Aww… but you're scared. I guess that means I have to fix it."

"What?!" Mifune replied.

"Lord Dor'sall wants all of the world to be wiped out, so they can head to the Imagigraveyard and truly be free from their woes," Chiyu explained. "You are being scared, but worry not, that means I'm allowed to ferry you. And the master will still be happy because I'm acting for the greater good!"

"H-how?!" Mifune's entire body went pale. But she could see the snake showing her giant pencil-teeth. "Chiyu! STOP! PLEASE STOP IT!" But whatever she said, it was no good, as the teeth got higher and higher, ready to bite Mifune. "SOMEBODY SAVE ME!"

"Hey! Get off of her!" Danzo flew through the air directly towards the Nullreel and planted itself on her face. As Danzo landed, he pushed his hands against the face of the Chiyu-Nullreel and, as he did, he funnelled ethereal black flames against the body of the giant monster. The flames rushed across its' body and caused it to open its' arm as Chiyu let out an anguished scream. Mifune fell to the ground and landed harshly on her butt as she scrambled away as fast as she could, taking some refuge on the corner of a turn-off to another road. "Hey, Hibiki! If you know what's good for you, you'll be able to stand up to this thing!"

"Me? Be brave against THAT?!" Hibiki jabbed a finger at the massive creature as it stumbled backwards, swatting Danzo to the floor violently. He created a small hole when he landed and bounced directly into Hibiki's chest, knocking her over. "Are you kidding?! That thing's going to destroy everything!"

"It will if ya stay afraid!" Danzo barked, jabbing one of his stubby arms towards the snake slithering towards her. "Look, that thing is a Nullreel. The Imagigraveyard turned that girl's fear into bravery and confidence. And that's what they're using as the catalyst for the monster she's become. The only thing that can stop a Nullreel right now is someone tapping into Horrorwood's good old-fashioned horror values."

"So why don't you do it, then? You looked like you were really hurting that thing..." Hibiki remarked.

"Ya think I can just break Nullreels while I'm looking like this pudgy mess?! Trust me, if my real body was back, this'd be a cakewalk but right now, it's taking all of my energy to even try the stuff that I just pulled; let alone having to use it to fight, full stop!" Danzo barked. And by the time he had finished, the Nullreel was hanging over their heads.

"Found ya." The Chiyu-Nullreel raised the pencil-teeth over Hibiki and Danzo's heads. Their eyes shrank to pinpricks as the teeth went up, then they just narrowly dodged out of the way as the pencil-teeth struck the floor and uncovered a water pipe that burst, sending water spitting out in a powerful stream upwards. The water washed against the snake-monster's body and it didn't even react to the water.

"Well, what do you want me to be, huh? I'm scared, alright?!" Hibiki retorted. "Not like I can change myself now! Not after... not after everything that's happened." Hibiki's mind cast itself back to everything that had happened. Between all of the trouble she had been facing in school to the stuff revolving around herself and her sister, she felt like there really wasn't anything else left for her. "But that's okay! For what it's worth, I'm happy that I'm such a wreck! I wouldn't want to change a thing about me. Not just because changing myself is too hard, but because when I try to change, I end up getting kicked around because of it!"

"Hibiki..." Mifune muttered under her breath as she watched Hibiki standing up to the monster looming over her and Danzo. The fact that she was brave enough to stand before this monster even when faced with the idea of certain death had struck a chord in Mifune. And with everything else that she had secretly heard and been witness too, she was holding out for a miracle to save Hibiki from this grizzled fate.

"All this time... I thought that I was living a failure of a life; that I was just slaving away and throwing everything away after every single mistake. But now? After seeing this—" she pointed out herself "—this—" she showed off Danzo second "—and now this? I'm convinced. All of these mistakes? Trying to fix them? That's not gonna work. If we wanna be who we want to be, then we've gotta accept who we are instead of trying to change. Right now, I am a mess. I'm always getting into trouble, my life's a complete disaster, and I don't have a functional social life. But those are all qualities that make me who I am and who I can be. I... am Hibiki Otonokoji!" She threw her elbows to her hips and craned her neck towards the skies.

"You are not Hibiki Otonokoji." The Nullreel remarked. "You are a threat to the Imagigraveyard. No mercy shall be given." Then, the snake lunged at Hibiki and Danzo. Closer, closer, and closer the teeth were as time seemed to slow around Hibiki.

Then, Hibiki jabbed her arms up at the very last second in an attempt to block it. As she did, a black bubble formed around her as lightning crackled around her. The pencil-teeth could not pierce the barrier that had been erected around her and, with enough tension, the bubble burst as the shrapnel burrowed into the Nullreel and made it topple onto its' back. Hibiki's eyes widened at the sight that had just occurred. Then, she looked up and found something else peculiar above her.

There, right before her, was a small clapper board that had already been unfurled. There were purple and red flame patterns on portions of the board, with dull points sticking out of each end with the poster of Nightmare on Elm Street on it along with a sort of black and silver belt with a crank. Hibiki took the board and belt and blinked at it. "Huh?" She asked, holding them in her hands. "What do I do with this?"

"Holy... Now there's a sight I've not seen in eons..." Danzo gasped at the sight of the item. "That's... a Horror Clap and the legendary Horror Driver!"

Hibiki blinked. "What's this going to do to change things?"

"Don't you see? With this power, you can actually fight back against the Imagigraveyard! Oh, this is so exciting! I've not had a Kamen Rider for my people for a long time now!" Danzo's eyes twinkled as a toothy grin appeared on his face. "Hibiki! Quickly! Lock the Clap in and say, 'Henshin'!"

"R-really?" Hibiki asked, before she saw the Nullreel gnashing its' pencil-teeth towards her. "G-gah! Alright!" She stood ready and took a deep breath.

HORROR DRIVER!

WELCOME TO HORRORWOOD!

The Horror Clap shifted and reconfigured itself, folding and compressing inward to create a vaguely cube-shaped object with two plugs on the underside. It flew into the air and landed in Hibiki's hand, and she inserted it into the slots on her Driver.

YEAH! YEAH! ALL THE YEAH!

KRUEGER! ELM STREET NIGHTMARE! ARE YOU READY?

"Yes," she said. "I am. HENSHIN!"

She started rapidly turning the crank on the side of the Driver, causing the miniature Freddy Krueger in the clap to start slashing, the gears to turn, and the reconfigured Horror Clap to glow brilliantly. Red, green, and black film reels extended from the sides of her Driver, twisting through the air at non-Euclidean angles before digging into the theater floor.

The image of Freddy Krueger appeared around her in a flash of light, then slashing forward.

KRUEGER! KRUEGER! KRUEGER! NIGHTMARE MADE FLESH! FUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

In a tremendous explosion, the entire theater dimmed down, revealing what Hibiki had become. She was now clad in a suit resembling Kamen Rider Ghost, but primarily black and silver in color with her hair turning silver and face being shown, covered in stars and dream clouds. A cape covered in slashes flowed down her back, with the interior shimmering and resembling a dream world. A crest resembling a fedora was on top of her head, and her blood red and cobalt blue eye modules (covering her eyes) flared out to resemble burns.

THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE! THE MAN OF THE DREAMS! THE SILVER SCREAM! CUREMEN RIDER KRUEGER! WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE!

"Well now, there's a little added bonus on top of that whole package." Danzo's smile stayed on his face as he walked around Kamen Rider Krueger's sides. "You're not just a Kamen Rider, Hibiki, but now, you're a Precure! Hah! What are the chances of that?!"

"Pre... cure?" Hibiki parroted.

"Usually, they're warriors usually of light who fight for virtues, good and true. But you're a Precure and a Kamen Rider born from darkness who fights against the forces of light!" Danzo nodded. "Hah! SUCK IT, DOR'SALL! We've got a Precure and Kamen Rider in one package now, and you've got nothing!" Danzo barked towards the sky, before whooping and hollering to himself.

"Precure?!" Mifune gasped, her phone already out taking video footage, as she hit the tinier white circle in between moments to snap pictures of her. "Hibiki's... a Precure and a Kamen Rider?"

"You are a nuisance." Chiyu remarked, baring her pencil-teeth again. "Just stop trying to be brave and accept the father's judgem—"

"REJOICE!"

Suddenly, a man with a brown long coat and a very long scarf clutching a large steampunk book appeared as if from thin air. "The one who will carve her dreams from scratch, and defies the will of malevolence in all forms. Her name is Kamen Rider Krueger! Witness her power!"

With that, he turned and walked away, much to everyone's bafflement.

"What?" Chiyu finally asked.

"I am just as confused as you are," Hibiki confessed, dumbfounded.

Mifune blinked. "Wait, what's the steward of King Tokiwa-"

"May he reign forever," everyone else except Danzo reflexively spoke up.

"Doing here?" The girl finished.

"Is that who that was?" Lady Voor asked, surprised.

"What was that weirdo doing there?" Danzo wondered.

"Now that his master has fulfilled his destiny to become king of time, Woz occasionally travels through time to rejoice at the advent of significant transformations in Rider history, since he no longer needs to do it as much for King Tokiwa. And I might've become a significant transformation." Hibiki began.

"May he reign forever," everyone else reflexively spoke up.

"Why does he do that?" Danzo wondered.

Hibiki shrugged. "Everyone needs a hobby, I guess."

Krueger jumped against Chiyu's chest and delivered a harsh punch to it. The punch was so deep and had so much force behind it that Chiyu-Nullreel's entire body collapsed in on the point of the punch, with purple flames shooting around Krueger's hand to the point where her knuckles met the monster's body. The fires built until they erupted, as a miniature explosion blasted out of Krueger's hands and sent the Nullreel flying with tectonic force towards the wall.

"Nice!" Danzo fist-pumped.

"Such incredible power..." Mifune added.

"Ugh..." Chiyu-Nullreel got up as she looked at Kamen Rider Krueger glaring at her. "Lady Voor... What is this?"

"An inconvenience. Nothing more." Lady Voor said."Remain calm. You will persist through this strife. Now, resume your duties. The master will be happy regardless."

"As you wish. It will be done." Chiyu-Nullreel gave a nod as she held her parchment-shield tight to her body. "Kamen Rider Krueger! Your existence is not permitted in this town; nor the rest of the world!" She charged forward with the pencil-teeth ready to chomp.

"You want some more, eh?" Kamen Rider Krueger just grinned, her confidence shooting through the roof as she ran for the Chiyu-Nullreel. As fast as she could, she slid on her side and slipped underneath the Nullreel. She then pushed her hands against the ground, channelled dream power through her body, and as two more mini-explosions went off, her body was catapulted towards the Nullreel. Kamen Rider Krueger flipped mid-launch and drove her feet straight into the back of the monster's neck, pinning it to the ground. She then performed a series of lightning-fast stomps with her feet, with a final overhead heel strike landing straight on the back of the Chiyu-Nullreel's head. A strike with such power that it caused cracks to appear in the road around it.

"Get off of me!" Chiyu's voice roared as the Nullreel viciously pushed itself back up again. As it swung the parchment-tail into Devil's body, ethereal light shone from it. "No life must be allowed! All of humanity must be removed!" The pencil-teeth, which was also glowing, struck the ground to create a slender wall of orange and yellow fire travelling from the sword's point towards Kamen Rider Krueger.

"Whoa!" Krueger jumped out of the way and, as she did, mini-explosions went off by her feet giving her jumps much more power. With a yelp, she saw a house approaching. A last-minute flip saw her feet pressing against the walls. She jumped off of said walls as another micro-blast went off and with the same force, she flew at the Nullreel again. "Let's see… can I…" she thought of fireballs and as she did, her suit turned into a Kamen Rider version of Super Freddy. "Oh yeah! This'll do it!" Kamen Rider Krueger slashed her scissor gloves at the Nullreel; who got slashed in the chest, pushed her hands forward to create more mini-explosions to avoid a swift head-butting, and finished by jumping off of the ground with another final tiny-blast as she delivered a sickeningly fast and powerful uppercut straight to the Nullreel's chin, launching it into the stratosphere.

"Alright! There's no way that it could come back from that! Deliver the coup de grace, Krueger!" Danzo jabbed a finger upward as the Nullreel crashed down into the middle of of the grassy patch; its' body leaving a large imprint on the ground.

"A finisher too? This stuff's pretty fun; like somethin' out of a disaster film." Hibiki clapped her hands together and lifted them above her head. Then, they extended and grabbed the Nullreel.

"Krueger Blitzslash!" Krueger called as she started slashing, cutting up the Nullreel as it started disintegrating.

Fortunately, Chiyu's human body was released from the suit of armour as the Nullreel was completely torn beyond repair and sucked down into an abyssal portal. The sound of a large belch could be heard as the portal closed itself up, with Chiyu slowly drifting down onto her side and landing as lightly as a feather on the floor.

"So that's a Precure and Kamen Rider… wow…" Mifune's eyes sparkled. Then, she shook her head and snapped out of her state. "What am I saying? This is too much to take in all at once! That thing's a demon, Hibiki's dressed.like Freddy Krueger, and Chiyu became a giant snake! How does ANY of this make any sense?!"

"Nice job, Krueger." Danzo bounced over to Krueger's side. "The Flesh Gods haven't eaten a Nullreel in ages. That'll make all the people of Horrorwood very happy." He hopped onto her shoulders. "Y'know, I might have been wrong about you all this time. You're not a peon; you're a champion. My champion. And together? We are going to make sure Dor'sall is toppled!"

"Sounds like fun." Krueger nodded her head with a smirk. "So, uh… I guess we'd better head home now. Oh! One more thing. I gotta get out of these threads first. Can't exactly be a superhero and wear this 24/7, can I?"