Okay, so I got around the whole First POV thing by making the first chapter the only First POV (for the foreseeable future). I mean, it's not like I have that big of a problem with First POVs, it's just that I prefer Third POVs because that way I can bounce around the thought processes of each character.

With First POVs, I would be stuck with that character's POV, and anything regarding other characters would be the former character's thought of a situation. Like say, we're in the first POV of a boy and there's a girl who blushes in front of him. The boy wonders why the girl is blushing, like is she embarrassed over something? Does she have a fever? When in reality, the girl is just blushing because she likes the boy and he just said something super nice to her.

First POV, I can't really type in the reason why the girl is blushing because that would mean the boy would know when in-story-wise, he shouldn't have known. Third POV, I can say that she's blushing because she likes the boy and the boy would be none the wiser.

Plus, I feel like I just plain suck writing in First Person.

… .

… Why the f*ck am I saying all this to you all?

… Good God I'm weird.

Anyway, this took a helluva lot longer than expected. Wrapping up the semester, then unintentionally doing a lot on research so I may better decide on what direction to take this story… .

Ah… that came out wrong. What I mean by that is I was figuring what might be good to bring into the story and leaving out story plots that have too much shenanigans going on to be taken seriously or too dark to the point it'll cause a majority of you readers to call out my blood, etc.

Enjoy the second chapter folks!


Glynda Goodwitch's day had started off with a fairly annoyed note.

It all started when Team RWBY suddenly woke up the entire academy through their screaming.

Soon, it evolved to Miss Belladonna along with Miss Schnee beginning to chase around an unknown young man throughout Beacon, with Miss Rose and Miss Xiao Long in tow to keep the two calm and not accidentally murder the young man in their (apparently justified) anger.

Honestly, she expected people like the two half-sisters to be the sources of such trouble, but instead; it was the heiress and one of her more reserved students.

Now she stood within Ozpin's office, her signature frown in place, as she and Team RWBY were being informed of the backstory of the young man.

Who was nervously standing behind Ozpin's chair, as if he was afraid they were all going to pounce on him.

… He wasn't wrong. Glynda was fairly sure the only reason Miss Schnee and Miss Belladonna hadn't continued attacking him with Miss Xiao Long holding him in place for them was because they were in the presence of their headmaster with his highly competent right-hand woman right next to them.

"Ozpin, do you honestly expect us to believe such a ridiculous story like that?" In order to keep up appearances, Glynda had to scorn such a story. In reality however, she was merely taking the story with a grain of salt.

After all, with her hiding underneath Beacon for safekeeping, along with the existence of others like her, it was hard to completely deny such a story no matter how absurd it sounded.

Ozpin, playing along as well to keep up appearances, merely replied with a sigh. "While I understand how farfetched it sounds… ," he began, though Glynda cut him off.

"Farfetched? He's clearly lying!" Let it be said that if teaching didn't worked out for Glynda, she could always go into acting. "Ghost Eyecons? These are nothing more than toys!" She said in 'disbelief', pointing at the 31 mechanical eyeballs which had been positioned on Ozpin's desk. They seem to come into two sets, one where the sclera were white while the other set there was an assortment of coloured sclera.

Not to mention their numerical system. The white sclera set had a normal numerical system whereas the coloured sclera had an stylised 'R' to go with the numbers.

Glynda didn't know why they were numbered like that, though she believed she would get an explanation soon enough.

After all, with Ozpin actually defending the boy in public, it showed that he was indeed telling the truth.

At first glance.

It never hurt to doubt, regardless if you're considered paranoid for doing so. You never know when someone that you trust is keeping secrets, regardless if they were benign or harmful, from you.

"What if I prove it to you?" The young man finally spoke up. All eyes turned to him, and even though he seemed a bit put off at being in the spotlight, he nevertheless was able to stand his ground.

Perhaps the Arc boy could learn something from him. They both seem to have some confidence issues yet the young man seemed to be able to handle his well enough.

In fact, they even seem to share a similar fashion sense. They both wore hoodies and jeans, with their choice of shoes being similar as well. However, there were key differences between the two.

The young man was wearing a long-sleeved hoodie, whereas Mr. Arc was wearing a short-sleeved one. And their colours seem to be reversed, as the young man was wearing bright orange hoodie with black trimmings whereas Mr. Arc wore a black hoodie with orange lining. The colours of their jeans were different as well, as Mr. Arc wore a standard blue while the young man wore black. And while Mr. Arc wore black sneakers with white soles, the young man was wearing black running shoes with white soles that had orange laces.

Another clear difference between the two of them were their bloodlines. If anything, the young man resembled Mr. Arc's teammate, Lie Ren, more in the facial department. And unlike Mr. Arc's unruly mop of blonde hair, the young man had black hair that was cut short and styled similarly to Mr. Winchester. And as expected, another difference between the two were their eyes. Mr. Arc's were a royal blue, whereas the young man's was a chocolate brown.

Also, the young man wasn't wearing armour over what is clearly civilian clothing, unlike Mr. Arc. Glynda may not be one to talk but she was a teacher at an academy, she was expected to be dressed like a businesswoman just like the male teachers of the academy were expected to dress like businessmen.

"Excuse me?" Glynda prodded the young man, wanting him to explain himself.

He seem to let out a small groan of discomfort, he didn't seem to like the spotlight all that much did he? Another thing he shared with Mr. Arc then. Yet just like with their clothes, the young man seemed to have no problems showing his discomfort (in anything, he seemed a little bit annoyed) whereas Mr. Arc would try to save face by acting confident when it was obvious that he wasn't.

"I mean, I'm already dead remember?" He said, as he summoned his belt through spectral orange energy. The Ghost Driver, he called it.

It was a bulky belt that had orange straps. The buckle was an creepy-looking cybernetic cyclops with an eerie smile, covered by some translucent cloth reminiscent of a bed sheet. Sprouting from the right side of the belt was a black handle with an orange grip.

Reaching out to the buckle of his belt, a glyph not unlike Miss Schnee's or her own appeared and summoned a double-edged mechanical black sword that had cyan edges. Half of it's grip was also cyan, though the other half was orange. It's hilt was circular, hinting at it's ability to switch different modes as well as having an eerie eye symbol on it.

To everyone's surprise, the lengthy blade actually shrunk into a far more comical size (compared to what it was before anyway). And further to their surprise was that this was so that the young man would have an easier time de-attaching one end of the blade before re-attaching the opposite way. He finished off the transformation by pushing the grip of the sword downwards in an angle.

Now, the blade bore a passing resemblance to a handgun.

He gave the group an alarming smile, as he shakily raised his weapon towards his own head. Ozpin quickly got up from his chair as he understood what the young man was trying to do.

"Lucas, please-!" Ozpin didn't even get to finish as the young man pulled the trigger.

*BANG!*

… !

… .

… Nothing.

… No blood.

Just whimpers of pain.

Kneeling and using Ozpin's desk as support, the young man named Lucas whimpered in pain. He dropped his weapon as he used his now free hand to clutch the bullet wound he had given himself.

Glynda's instincts kicked in as she rushed towards him. Ozpin soon joined her as they got on their knees as they tried to check on him.

… He was crying, they realised.

The tears weren't just flowing from the pain, they could also something else in his misty eyes.

"I… ." Lucas hiccuped out as he continued to cry. "… really am dead… !"

Pity soon entered the two teachers of Beacon. This was something beyond them. Beyond anyone. Never in all their years did they ever expect themselves to comfort a technically deceased soul. Ozpin arguably felt worst compared to Glynda, seeing that he knew what happened to Lucas and why he hadn't passed on to the afterlife yet.

And there was nothing he could do to help him with this matter. This was something Lucas himself needed to overcome. All Ozpin could do was try to make the journey easier for him.

And Ozpin had no idea how to go about that.

But that didn't mean he couldn't try.

"Lucas… ." He tried reaching out to the hurting ghost.

"Just leave me alone!" He shouted, suddenly disappearing from their view. As a ghost, it was only natural that he had invisibility.

As well as intangibility.

Ozpin had no doubt that Lucas was using these two powers to get away from the group as far as possible. And he knew that there was no one in Beacon right now that could stop him from running.

He shared a look with Glynda, silently communicating with each other as they stood up. Eventually, Ozpin gave out a weary sigh.

Why did he had to be the one who dealt with situations like these… ?

The two teachers turned to Team RWBY, silently reading their expressions.

Originally, their faces were stretched out into looks of horror at seeing Lucas shoot himself in the head. Then at seeing him cry as well as his tone of voice when he realised that he was truly dead, they felt… pity.

The W and B of RWBY felt something else though.

Shame.

They had spent the morning hunting down Lucas under the assumption that he was a pervert. Well, that was Weiss Schnee's reason anyway.

For Blake Belladonna however, she hunted down the ghost boy because she needed to confirm whether or not he had found out that she was a Faunus. The bow she wore on her head in fact concealed her Faunus heritage. Being a cat Faunus, she had developed cat ears on top of her head. The reason she hid her extra ears was because of current Human-Faunus relationships.

Humans… the more bigoted ones viewed the Faunus as animals. They degraded the Faunus, see them as worthless beings who were a waste of space. They would rather feed the Faunus to the Grimm if they could get away with it.

She didn't want to deal with that anymore. Not after dealing with it for most of her childhood. So, she hid her extra ears with her bow.

Even if it was for a short moment… she wanted everyone in Beacon to see her as Blake Belladonna, not as some other "Faunus trash".

Due to their respective circumstances, both Weiss and Blake had grew up around people who would sooner take advantage of them than be honest with them. Hence, they remained quite skeptical of Lucas's story when Ozpin told it. ('Skeptical' was putting it nicely)

They drew the line when Ozpin said Lucas was dead though. After all, if Lucas was dead, how could he possibly standing before them, hiding behind Ozpin's chair like a coward?!

And then he shot himself in the head.

There was no flash of Aura rushing in to prevent the bullet from piercing his skull. Heck, the bullet tore through his head and left a burn mark on the wall. Team RWBY didn't know if it was some trick of sort, but his reaction showed them that perhaps what they just saw truly was the truth.

And it made them sad to see someone suffer such a fate. It made Weiss and Blake ashamed for their accusations against Lucas earlier in the morning.

Ruby wanted to go out and find him. Comfort him as best she could. She didn't want him to suffer by being alone when he needed to be surrounded by people who wished the best for his well-being, regardless if they were strangers.

Yang… .

… .

… Yang had developed a super freaked out expression on her face, for some reason.

"What's wrong Miss Xiao Long?" Glynda asked her student, regardless if she was one of the more troublesome ones. It doesn't matter who they are and what they did, they were still her students and she cared for them all.

So to see such an expression on Yang's face was quite concerning… .

"Um… ." Yang shakily pointed a finger on Ozpin's desk, and everyone followed. "I could've swore they all moved. I mean, they were staring at the elevator and now it looks like they're staring at Ruby, right?" Yang explained, her finger still shaking.

Frowning, Ozpin and Glynda looked at the Eyecons and indeed; they were looking at Miss Rose's direction. The rest of Team RWBY adopted confused looks on their faces, wondering why Yang of all people was freaked out. She probably just mistook them looking at the elevator when they were in fact, were positioned in a way that they were looking at Ruby the whole time.

… And then they blinked at them.

… .

Then they began glowing and floating.

… .

… Did one of them just disappeared in a burst of confetti?!

"They really are sentient?!" Ozpin cried out as the remaining Ghost Eyecons began flying all over the room.

"You knew they were sentient this whole time?!" Glynda shouted at him as everyone began to comically dodge and weave between the flying Ghost Eyecons.

"Lucas told me they were, but they didn't react at all so I thought it wasn't worth mentioning at the moment!" Ozpin said as they all took cover by lying on top the floor.

It would seem that some of them were able to use the powers Lucas had described to Ozpin regardless of the fact they were in Eyecon form, as evident by one of the blue Eyecons disappearing in a burst of confetti and blue smoke. Further proof was shown when the Eyecon with a magenta sclera suddenly disappeared through some sort of curtain that varied between shades of grey.

A pink Eyecon even disappeared in a burst of pinkish smoke, whereas a black Eyecon that had a shiny metal sclera summoned a surprisingly detailed red glyph and disappeared into it.

However, it would seem the rest of the Eyecons preferred to go out the old fashion way.

However, the only known way out of Ozpin's office was through the elevator.

… And that's what they did.

… .

… No, seriously. They were taking the fucking elevator. Like, one of them tapped itself against the down button and they all patiently waited for the elevator to arrive. When it did, they all got in before another Eyecon tapped itself against a button inside the elevator before they all went down to a level below.

… .

If Yang wasn't too busy freaking out, she would've definitely laughed at such a scene.

"Are they all gone… ?" Ruby asked, having put her hood up as if it would help deal with the flying Ghost Eyecons. She was clutching her hood over her head, plus she had closed her eyes so she couldn't really see anything even if she wanted to. (Not that she wanted to…)

"Well, most of us." A warm voice stated, causing the group to freeze in caution.

Looking up, they saw a young man in his early 20s with a navy blue hoodie with gold trimmings, armed with orange-coloured armour that had odd shoulder guards. He wore his hood up, said hood having gold fins extending from it.

Like Lucas, the young man seemed to resemble Ren in the facial department. Though, he had Jaune's hairstyle yet he had black hair and brown eyes like Lucas, though they were in a slightly different shade.

Underneath his hoodie was a white T-shirt with a symbol and the words 'GAIM' plastered on it, with brown baggy pants as well blue sneakers with white soles and laces.

He gave them a warm smile to the group, the sheer genuine force behind it being enough to make Team RWBY blush a bit while Ozpin and Glynda couldn't help but believe in that the young man was a good, honest soul.

To Ozpin, the young man in front of him had the type of soul that could convince her in humanity's potential.

"Ano… Kami-sama? Maybe it would've been better to stay in Eyecon form for a few more minutes before introducing ourselves… ." Another voice spoke up, this one a bit nervous and more polite tone of voice.

As the group got up, they saw that this voice belonged to a slightly taller young man, who was also in his 20s, who was wearing a bright red hoodie with black trimmings along with white stripes at the sides. Like the previous young man, this one's hoodie had armour on it. The armour was bright red, with matching red pointed shoulder guards. Also, sticking from the left side of his armour was some sort black circular object with had a red stripe over it.

This young man also wear his hoodie up, though it some more black and white stripes on it, as well as some sort of race car spoiler sticking out of it as an ornament compared to the previous young man's gold fins.

Underneath his hoodie, this young man wore a black coat over a white buttoned up shirt with a red tie, matching black pants as well as black shoes. Around his waist was a silver belt that was similarly bulky to the Ghost Driver, this one having a red strap that seemed to be themed after a seatbelt. Protruding from upper right corner of the belt was some sort of ignition key with a red tip, with the belt having what seemed to be a large black circular screen sandwiched in-between speedometers.

Like the previous young man and Lucas, this young man had a face that indicates that he was from the east. His black hair was short like Lucas and Cardin Winchester, though it was swept to the side instead of (in Lucas's naturally spiking) upwards.

"Yo!" The first young man grinned with a raised hand in greeting as he walked back to his comrade so they could stand side by side. "I'm Kazuraba Kouta, and this is my friend and successor, Tomari Shinnosuke! Nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you!" The second young man, named Shinnosuke, repeated with a polite bow.


Lucas didn't know where he was going as he skulked through the grounds of Beacon. He just wanted to get away from everything.

Of course this was how it went. Of course this was how his wish came true.

The cost being his own fucking life.

Yeah, he really should've expected that. His luck had always been like this. Why would it change over something like this?

His mother must be cursing her heart out at hearing the news. She always did held him back from going out. Always afraid that something might happen to her precious baby boy.

Thinking about his mother made Lucas stop in his tracks. His face scrunched up as he remembered his family. How would they take his death? How would his friends?

Sadness, regret, guilt… .

Lucas snorted to himself. They're probably feeling the same emotions he was feeling right now. After all, they were good as dead to him at the moment. They were literally on another world for God sake! A world he probably could never go back to.

… He died, after all. Shot in the head. Doesn't get deader than that. If he was shot in the heart, at least he would've held out a bit… . But he was instead shot in the head.

Instant death. The last thing he remembered before waking up next to Blake was seeing the bastard who shot him pointing the gun, a loud bang and then darkness.

He felt nothing at that moment. He could barely say that some part of him was even conscious at the time. The darkness was cold, unforgiving, merciless.

Lucas shuddered as he remembered that brief moment. It was too cold, it felt like he was getting mangled from every direction. It was a feeling he didn't want anyone to suffer through.

He let out a shaky breath as he tried to calm himself down. The experience was that horrifying to him.

He needed to sit. He needed to sit somewhere to collect his thoughts.

Luckily, Lucas soon realised that he was in the courtyard. From where he was standing, there were some wooden benches for him to sit on. Walking over, he slumped onto a bench as he tried to drift his thoughts away from his death.

… His body was probably still on Earth. Going through his funeral and everything. The news was probably reporting the incident too.

… He couldn't go back. No… it's not a matter whether he could, it was a matter of whether he should.

People don't come back from the dead. Not on his world anyway. If he came back, who knows how much political bullshit he might have to deal with.

What right did he have to be brought back to life? Why him over everyone else, people who actually deserved to be revived and get another shot at life? People who did great deeds, people who would've led the world into an era of true peace that were unfairly assassinated… babies who died at birth… .

It would bring unnecessary trouble to his friends and family. Humans were animals too, after all. Predators… , beasts… .

And the thing about beasts is that they have no hesitation. They would chase down their prey till the ends of the earth all for the sake of life.

He could bring them to Remnant… but he didn't want to.

It wouldn't be fair to them. They all have their own lives on Earth. His time there had ended. Theirs' hadn't yet. He couldn't just wish to bring them all to Remnant just because he wanted to show them that he was alive and continue living with them.

Would they even survive here? Could they survive here? The Humans of Remnant seemed similar to the Humans of Earth. And Lucas could already imagine all of the horrible things the less than respectable people in positions of power would do to him, his friends and family.

All for the sake of science, discovery, and whatever bullshit excuse to justify the evils they commit… .

"You know, thinking about depressing thoughts like that all the time only brings you closer to despair." A familiar voice said in Japanese.

Yet despite being in another language, Lucas could understand what the man was saying perfectly. Looking up, he saw a man who was commonly referred to as the "Ring-Bearing Wizard" to his enemies.

He was a young man of Japanese descent who was in his early 20s, having a mop of light brown hair with matching brown eyes. He was wearing a bead necklace with a grey shirt with red smudge-like designs all over it. The shirt was underneath an open black leather jacket, along with being tucked into bright red jeans that were tucked into his black boots.

Over this ensemble was a black coat with silver trimmings which also had a black hood. The coat had similarly coloured shoulder guards that had some dragon-like being spouting fire engraved onto them. Also attached to the chest were large rubies, positioned and cut in a way to give the visual illusions of muscles.

The young man gave Lucas a kind smile that effortlessly said "I'm here. And I'm willing to listen."

It was the type of smile that could give someone hope, even when they're in the deepest of despair.

"Haruto Soma… ?" Lucas mouthed out the young man's name in disbelief. How could the 14th Heisei Rider possibly be standing right in front of him right now?


"I see… ." Ozpin muttered in a grave tone of voice after taking in Kouta's and Shinnosuke's explanation.

To hear it from Lucas's side of the story is one thing. Being the victim in this scenario, all Lucas could do was make theories on as to why he was in Remnant.

But to hear it from the source was another matter entirely.

The young men in front of him weren't the actual Kazuraba Kouta and Tomari Shinnosuke. They were backups that were created to revive their respective original selves in the event something happened to them, such as if they perished against a powerful foe. A secondary reason they were created was that they were to be used as replacements whenever their Rider personas, Gaim and Drive, were needed to be called while the real Kouta and Shinnosuke were too busy with other matters or have retired from their lives as Riders.

Kamen Riders were the legacy titled they shared, along with many others. They were a symbol of hope, justice and freedom.

Yet, they were humans as well. They had their own lives to live other than fighting monsters day in an day out. Hence, the necessity of the backups. With them, the original Riders could live their civilian lives in peace as they grow old and weary. In the event their successors (if they have any) required the originals' assistance or wisdom, the backups would answer the call instead for they were copies of the originals in their prime.

It was quite fascinating actually, in Ozpin's eyes. Lucas had told him a very general history behind each individual Luminary Ghost Eyecon. However, it was the Rider Eyecons that he was able to give greater detail due to them being infamous fictional characters in his own world, Earth.

In particular, he spoke of the Kamen Riders in a similar way to most children like Ruby Rose do when talking about Huntsmen and Huntresses. But his appreciation for the Kamen Riders was more… sincere, honest.

It was because he actually saw the people behind the titles.

When most people think about Huntsmen and Huntresses, they only consider the Grimm and criminals the only enemy that Huntsmen and Huntresses needed to worry about. That this life was full of romance and adventure, an escape from boring civilian life.

They were wrong. Oh so very wrong. Life didn't work that way.

There was so much more to being a Huntsman and Huntresses then going on an adventure, capturing criminals and wiping out the Grimm. That was only the basics. People didn't seem to consider all the things one needed to consider in this occupation. All of the necessary skills that were required if one wanted to survive out there. And then there were the skills one needed to learn so that they were able to take care of the people they were hired to protect.

But Ozpin was getting off topic due to his annoyance at the common mindset for first year students.

They had absolutely no idea what in the world they were getting into.

But in Lucas's case, he couldn't help but admire how the youth had a very good idea what he was getting into by entering the life of a Huntsman. Thanks to Kamen Rider various kinds of media in his world, he had been successfully exposed to the cruelty of the world while remaining in a safe environment.

He had actually asked the young man on what he would do with his newfound power. Lucas answered he would use it to become a Huntsman and live as a Kamen Rider.

As a test, Ozpin had called him a fool.

His answer surprised Ozpin. Lucas had responded "And what's wrong with being a fool?" in a way and with a smile that made it look like he had came to the same conclusion a long time ago.

"If being a fool means to believe in someone, even when they blinded themselves with the deepest of darkness… . Then yeah, I want to be a fool. Because fools, actual fools, have true friends don't they?" Was one of Lucas's reply to him when they had their discussion as Lucas was hiding from Team RWBY.

It was one of fondest conversations Ozpin had in quite a while. It brought a smile to his face, because it made him believe that the future was still in good hands despite the darkness lurking within the shadows.

It was too early to say, but perhaps Lucas, like Ruby, could help convince her in humanity's potential. Perhaps Lucas and Ruby could become the person Kazuraba Kouta had become.

One day.

As such, Ozpin found it a shame that Lucas had 99 days before he disappears from Remnant, forcefully taken to the afterlife because the energy the Riders and Luminaries had given him, the energy that was sustaining him in the living world wasn't going to last forever.

It was apart of the Riders and Luminaries' tests for the youth. Would he be able to collect the 16 Legendary Riders or the 15 Great Luminaries in time before his days are up?

Or perhaps he could reach within and use his own power to sustain his existence on Remnant?

Only time will tell.

"Excuse me… ." A certain disguised Faunus spoke up, seeing an opportunity to have a very important question answered. "But, can you tell me why you all decided to place him on my bed, right next to me as I sleep?"

A very important question indeed. Everyone else in the room that couldn't turn into an Eyecon was quite curious themselves.

Of all of the possible locations in Remnant that the Riders and Luminaries could put Lucas in, why put him on Blake's bed, right next to the girl just as she was about to wake up?

"Ah. That's because Tsukasa-san managed to convince the majority to vote for his suggestion." Kouta gave a goofy grin as he answered Blake's question.

… What.

"Apparently it's because Lucas-kun considers you his waifu." Shinnosuke gave more context with an equally goofy smile on his face.

… What.

"… Waifu?" Blake tested the word, her gut telling her that she wasn't going to like meaning of the term at all.

It was quite strange actually. Both Kouta and Shinnosuke were speaking in an entirely different language, yet the group were able to understand them just fine. It was like the Riders' native language were automatically processed within their minds.

Kouta and Shinnosuke explained that it was because of their statuses as Eyecons. Due to Ghost Eyecons essentially housing backups of the original soul that they were based after, with said soul might be coming from another country or a time when such languages hadn't been invented yet etc, the nature of the Ghost Eyecons allowed the soul to communicate with people of modern times without forcing anyone to learn dead languages or catch up with the currently used language just to communicate.

The Ghost Eyecons could also pretty much serve as the ultimate translator really, with specific terms and honourifics like "-san" or "-kun" being left untranslated so that they could be properly explained.

As such, Ozpin, Glynda and Team RWBY knew that the word "Waifu" was a term.

… A term that's suspiciously pronounced like the word "Wife".

"Ah, it's a play on the word 'wife' due to our native accent." Kouta began explaining, his face conveying his feelings clearly.

He was enjoying this. A little bit too much it would seem.

"You know how Remnant is just a fictional series on Earth?" Shinnosuke began adding context, with the others nodding. It was quite strange to accept this fact, but when the Riders explained how it goes the same their favourite books or movies, the group had a better time adjusting to this fact.

Especially when Kouta cheekily said that they could always have Lucas wish for a portal that would take them to another world where their favourite series were a reality. (Shinnosuke was appropriately exasperated when Kouta said it)

Already Team RWBY were making mental plans on what world they would like to visit and what they would do there. (Even Ozpin and Glynda were entertaining the thought.)

"Well, the term 'waifu' refers to a 'fictional'… ," Shinnosuke continued, adding air-quotes to "fictional". "… female character that a young male like Lucas would like to have as a significant other." Like Kouta, it would seem Shinnosuke is enjoying explaining the term a little bit too much.

The mortified faces of Team RWBY and disturbed faces of Ozpin and Glynda only added to their amusement.

"W-W-W-WHAT?!" Weiss was the first to react, and began sputtering out nonsense that the two Riders ignored.

"He's quite faithful to you, you know?" Kouta grinned at Blake as he continued the subject. "Considering the average otaku have more than one waifu due to so many series existing within Earth. The closest contender you have is actually Weiss, and even then he leans towards you most of the time." He smiled at Blake, to the point that his eyes were closed.

Out of embarrassment, Blake's face went red as she tried to wrap her head around the information. The same went to her team leader, Ruby, due to having a more innocent mindset than everyone else in the room.

It didn't need to be said that Yang was starting to find the conversation entertaining like the Riders as she watch the normally stoic Blake show such an adorable expression on her face.

As for the Schnee heiress… . "M-M-Me?! H-How dare he-?!" Weiss stuttered out at hearing that Lucas would also like her to be his 'waifu', her face even more red than Blake's.

"Oh it's not that bad." Shinnosuke waved it off. He supposed they better defuse the situation now before they bring unnecessary trouble to the poor boy.

Would it be hilarious? Definitely. Something they could use since being cooped up in Eyecon form for so long made the Riders and Luminaries a little bit stir-crazy. But would it make the technically deceased young man a bit harder than it already is? Yes, and it made Shinnosuke a tiny bit guilty for doing this to him.

It made Kouta a little bit guilty too, Shinnosuke was sure. But Kouta was a bit more carefree compared to himself, and Shinnosuke was sure that Kouta would place faith in Lucas, confident that the young man would be able to handle the outrage of a tsundere.

… Well, the boy was going to be a Kamen Rider… handling people with tsundere characteristics seemed to be apart of the job-description these days… .

"Not that bad?! He's objectifying us!" Weiss argued quite loudly.

"Well, to be fair, you were just fictional characters to him until today." Kouta deadpanned.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure you all have some favourite characters you would like to imagine being married to." Shinnosuke deadpanned as well, making Team RWBY cringed a bit since he was right.

… A girl can dream can't she?!

Unnoticed by Team RWBY, a slightly red-faced Glynda had let out a suspicious cough at Shinnosuke's words.

"Well, his friend was the one who bought our Eyecons. Our older senpai knows Lucas more than we do, as well as Musashi-san." Kouta decide to change the subject as he reached into one of his back pockets to take out one of the Luminary Eyecons, one that had a bright red casing.

"Another Eyecon?" Ruby stated the obvious.

"Yeah." Kouta nodded as he respectfully set the Eyecon on top of Ozpin's desk with everyone else staring in curiosity.

Kouta and Shinnosuke got out of their Eyecons forms, so why didn't this one do the same?

Just what kind of person was this… Musashi?

"Everyone else wanted to explore Remnant, to satisfy their own curiosity of this world as well as to make it harder for Lucas to gather us all, Musashi-san seems intent of staying with Lucas and judging his worth through an extended period of time." Kouta explained why the Musashi Eyecon also stayed back with both him and Shinnosuke.

"However Kouta, from what Lucas told me and what you just told us, Musashi was one of the Eyecons that were in Lucas's care the longest. Why would he continue to judge him further instead of connecting with him immediately?" Ozpin interjected, quite curious as to why this powerful dual-wielding swordsman wanted to stay back.

Ignored by the two Riders and Ozpin, Ruby began poking the red Eyecon to see if the spirit inside would come out to introduce himself. She was appropriately disciplined by Glynda for being disrespectful to the Eyecon.

Yang snickered at her sister before trying to do the same thing without being so obvious about it.

She failed too.

Weiss and Blake could only sigh at their teammates immaturity as they were quietly reprimanded by Glynda as the Riders and Ozpin continued their conversation.

"Because, there are somethings in life that would push a person over the edge." Shinnosuke explained calmly, showing off an aura of discipline, authority and respect. He was a police officer, after all. "Take my father for example." He began.

"Your dad?" Ruby and Yang's attention was immediately back to the conversation, much to Glynda's displeasure. Yet even she couldn't deny on wanting to learn more about the personal lives of the Riders and Luminaries.

"Yeah. He was super-cop." Shinnosuke said with a small fond on his smile. A smile Yang and Ruby couldn't help but recognise as it was a similar smile someone had on their face when they described their mother, Summer Rose, to the two. "One of the best. I was so proud of him. I wanted to be like him. And when he died on the job, it devastated me. And it's quite the touchy subject to me before me and my friends managed to solve the case revolving around his murder. It made me lose my cool, and practically let my enemies string me along like a puppet."

Ruby and Yang could relate, Yang more so. Their mother, Summer Rose, had disappeared when the two were young. She was super-mom, slayer of monsters and baker of cookies that were to die for. One day, Summer went on a mission and never came back. It devastated the family, so much so that their father shut down.

Then Yang found out that her and Ruby were half-sisters and that Summer wasn't her biological mother. Yang stumbled upon a picture of her real mother, and foolishly believed that her father's broken heart would be healed if she went and find her biological mother so they could be a whole family again.

The little adventure almost got her and Ruby killed by the Grimm. Luckily, their Uncle Qrow came in and saved the day.

Yang constantly beat herself up over that. How could one forgive themselves so easily at almost getting themselves and their younger sister killed? Yang's heart may have been in the right place at the time, but it almost caused her father Taiyang to suffer another devastating loss.

Don't get her wrong. She still wanted to find her biological mother. To get some answers mostly. But she was not going to let that search consume her. She was going to be there for her family first, her own desires second.

"That's what Musashi wants to judge." Kouta continued for Shinnosuke. "All it takes is one bad day to drive the sanest man alive to lunacy, after all." Kouta said, quoting someone who suffered one bad day, and became one of the most demented beings in the entire universe. Kouta soon made a face as he remembered a very close friend who too suffered a bad day, multiple bad days in fact, and it caused him to wish to destroy the unperfected world he lived in with his own two hands.

Shaking his head, Kouta continued from where he left off. "He wants to judge Lucas's worth from start to finish. That's why he's refusing to connect Lucas at the moment." He finally finished explaining Musashi's reason for staying.

"The same goes with us." Shinnosuke added. "We're not the type to leave a minor hanging like this. Stranding him on a similar yet different world without any kind of backup… at the very least, we'll allow him to lend our power when he needs it." He flashed a group a smile that was naturally charming, making the women in the room have their hearts skip a beat.

The two were just too good looking dammit. They must have modelling as a side-job or something.

Ozpin however, rolled his eyes at this. It would seem that no matter how old one gets, one would always be surrounded by pretty boys who would steal the girls' attention away. "I see… ." He said as he digested the information given to him. It was fair enough, in Ozpin's eyes. These people were heroes after all. It wouldn't be very heroic of them to leave a child to die when they could help by lending their power to the child for a moment.

He found himself wondering if Musashi, Kouta and Shinnosuke were the only ones who stayed back to watch over Lucas… .


"Why me?" Lucas asked Soma Haruto, the 14th Heisei Kamen Rider who goes by the name of Wizard, along with two extras as they sat on one of the many benches around Beacon's courtyard.

The first one of the extras was a young man in his early 20s who had black hair styled in a pompadour, and was wearing a grey suit that was unbuttoned, revealing a white buttoned shirt and striped black tie. Over his suit was some sort of rocket-themed hoodie, being mainly white and having black trimmings yet there were large parts that were grey (among them being the shoulder guards) plus orange lining. Attached to it's hoodie were rocket-shaped fins.

The second one was another young man, though seemingly in his mid-to-late 20s who had a mop of black hair whose ends curl outwards. His clothes were far more exotic in design compared to his companions, as he was wearing rainbow coloured shirt under another shirt that was striped grey, orange, yellow and red. He wore light brown pants and darker brown boots, with some wristbands on his left hand as accessories.

Like his companions, he was also wearing a hoodie, though it was similar to the Haruto's and the pompadour-haired man's. It was mainly black like Haruto's… though was coloured like a traffic light for some reason. Literally, as the bottom half had green trimmings, the upper half had yellow trimmings along with black shoulder guards with a yellow edge, while the hood had red trimmings and red fins sprouting from it. Attached to the chest area was some sort of emblem that was cut in half, corresponding the hoodie's colour. The red part seems to be modelled after a hawk, the yellow after a tiger while the green one was modelled after… a grasshopper perhaps?

… What is this, the hoodie club? Why on Earth were these young men wearing similarly-styled yet individualistically different hoodies? They were… actually quite silly in design when you compared them to each other and more normal hoodies. And they didn't particularly look useful due to a lack of pockets and no zipper to close them up on a chilly day.

"Well, we couldn't just leave you to die." The traffic light-wearing man answered Lucas's question. "Not when you were right there in front of us and we had the power to give you a chance." He flashed Lucas a smile similar to Haruto's, much to Lucas's dismay and embarrassment.

It just made him want to curl up and die in a hole somewhere.

"Hey! Don't be all doom and gloom! You shouldn't be wasting your youth thinking about the nasty stuff all the time!" The pompadour man tried to snap Lucas out of his self-loathing by delivering a hard pat on the back.

Well it worked, the surprising amount of force was enough to make Lucas lose some balance and almost fall off the bench they were all sitting on.

The older men laughed at this, which only made Lucas wish to die into a hole even more. But more out of embarrassment this time instead of self-loathing.

Haruto looked at Lucas, who really didn't want to make eye contact with either of the older men.

They were beyond him. Out of his league. They were men who were greater than what he could ever hope to be. They were people who save countless of worlds on a daily basis.

And here they were, talking to little ol' him. Small, worthless, pathetic little him.

"You know… ." Haruto began, still with that smile of his that just naturally gave you hope somehow. "You should really stop beating yourself up like this. You're not as worthless as you think."

Lucas merely stayed silent, not wanting to talk. If anything, he just wanted to get this conversation over with so he can collect his thoughts in peace.

"You have two choices now, really." The traffic light man spoke up. "You could just stay at Beacon for 99 days and then truly pass away… ." He didn't finish his sentence, leaving it hanging for Lucas to connect the dots by himself.

Lucas frowned at hearing the man's words, and realised what he meant. "You mean, if I gather the Luminary Eyecons, I can get a wish granted?" The fact he had 99 days before being taken to the afterlife was filed away for later reference. Right now, the most important thing is that he had a chance at coming back to life.

"Yup! You either collect the great senpai-tachi or collect us Riders, and then a wish will be granted!" The pompadour man grinned. "You can even wish yourself back to life if that's what you want!"

Lucas minds raced with possibilities. In the Kamen Rider Ghost show, the 15 Luminary Eyecons scattered after the titular character had used his wish to bring Specter's little sister back to life. Similar to the Dragon Balls from the series of the same name, the Eyecons could apparently be recollected and have another wish be granted if all 15 are together again.

And now he was in Remnant, the world where RWBY take place. Volume 3 showed how dark Remnant could truly be, something that had most of the fans cry in outrage (mostly because of the deaths of fan-favourite characters).

He could save them. He could use a wish and prevent the tragedies that occurred in RWBY Volume 3 from happening. He could prevent an unknown amount of death from occurring.

… Even if he was worthless and the least capable person to perform the task. He'll do it. He'll make sure no one suffers.

No one will die on his watch.

"Oh, look Eiji-senpai! He's got some fire in his eyes!" The pompadour man got excited at seeing how Lucas had gain a resolve.

"That's great, Gentaro-kun… !" The traffic light man, named Eiji, was in agreement with the pompadour man who was apparently named Gentaro. Except… . "Can you stop shaking me now?" Eiji asked Gentaro, as the pompadour-haired man had slung an arm over Eiji's shoulder and began bouncing around in excitement.

Haruto merely let out a cheeky grin at seeing Lucas finally get out of his funk and about to go out there to gather the Eyecons. Good, now their tests for him won't end in absolute failure… .

However, the good feelings the three had went away when they sensed unwanted company. Lucas himself felt something approaching them, and turned around to find a surprising site.

"Gamma?" Lucas asked in disbelief, whereas the leading Gamma, the Katana Gamma, was in disbelief himself at noticing that the Humans before him were able to see his kind. "Why are they-?!" Lucas didn't get to finish as he was interrupted by the older men behind him.

"Well, what do you expect? There were 31 Eyecons in this location." Haruto said, as he, Eiji and Gentaro got in front of Lucas almost protectively.

"So, there are Eyecons here after all… ." The Katana Gamma muttered out, after getting over his initial shock. "Give them all to us!" He ordered to the group, as he was willing to give the group a chance to resolve this matter without any bloodshed. Should they refuse, nothing will get in the Gamma's way of getting those Eyecons.

Nothing.

"Heh. You want them, you're gonna have to get through us!" Gentaro declared hot bloodedly, which caused Haruto and Eiji to realise something.

"Ano, Gentaro-kun?" Eiji asked, causing the pompadour-haired man to look at him. "Perhaps we should let Lucas-kun handle this." He said, much to Lucas's shock.

"Eh?!" He cried out, as Gentaro thought it over.

"Ah, you're right. He should." Gentaro nodded in agreement.

"Eh?!" Lucas cried out again.

"Well, we'll leave up to you then, Lucas-kun." Haruto said, putting a hand on Lucas's shoulder before giving the young man a small push.

"EH?!" Lucas let out a final cry at seeing the three encouraging him to fight the Gamma.

For God's sake, they were Kamen Riders! They were far more capable than he was at handling monsters like the Gamma!

"Oi. You're Remnant's Kamen Rider now, aren't you?" Haruto asked at seeing how unwilling Lucas was at the prospect of fighting the Gamma. "It's your job to protect the people's freedom and enforce justice. Isn't this what you want? To have the power to finally take your life into your own hands and live it the way you want?" Haruto questioned the young man as Gentaro and Eiji looked on.

Lucas stayed silent, finding the ground suddenly interesting as he looked back on his life, his hopes and his dreams.

"… Yeah." The young man stated, looking Haruto in the eyes with a firm resolve burning behind his own eyes.

Haruto grinned at Lucas, as well as Gentaro and Eiji. "Go get 'em!" Haruto told Lucas with a grin before he reverted into a black Ghost Eyecon with a metal sclera which featured a red iris. Gentaro and Eiji gave Lucas a nod before they too reverted into Eyecons, Gentaro's being a white Eyecon with a black sclera with an orange iris whereas Eiji's was a black Eyecon with a red sclera that had a green iris.

"Those three Humans are Eyecons?!" The Katana Gamma said in disbelief at seeing the three men converting into Eyecons.

The three Eyecons floated for a moment before landing themselves onto Lucas's open palm, with Lucas staring at them for a minute before pocketing them.

'Yeah… I'm a Kamen Rider now… !'

Lucas thought to himself as he reached into one of his pockets.

'A Kamen Rider who will protect the smiles of the people around me… .'

Taking an item out of his pocket, it was revealed to be a black Ghost Eyecon which had a normal white sclera and a black, almost grey, iris.

'… regardless of the pain thrown at my way!'

Summoning the Ghost Driver, Lucas pressed the Ghost Liberator button on the Ghost Eyecon, switching it's Quad Iris from the black Standby Time to it's G-lettered Startup Time.

"I will be… a Kamen Rider who will protect everyone!" Lucas declared the first thing that came to his mind as he inserted the Ghost Eyecon into the Ghost Driver.

EYE!

~BATCHIRIMINA!~BATCHIRIMINA!~

As a standby loop played from the belt, it's 'eye' released a living hoodie jacket. It was a black hoodie with orange trimmings, with it's collar being pull back to reveal orange lining that had black trimmings, seemingly held back in place through the use of silver buttons at the edges. It had black straps extending from it's short sleeves, serving as it's arms while the hood itself served as it's head. It had eyes, angry cartoonish glowing orange eyes that had no sclera or irises, as well as having belt-like straps on it's shoulders and a small coattail reminiscent of a classic ghost tail. Sprouting where it's chin would be was a blue whisp-like horn that had a silver edge, with a red gem embedded near the base.

While the Gamma took a step back out of surprise and caution at seeing the Ghost Parka before them, Lucas took a moment to admire the Ghost Parka. His Ghost Parka.

He couldn't lie, he was starting to enjoy himself, despite everything.

"Henshin… !" Lucas softly declared with a soft smile as he pulled out the black handle bar that had an orange grip before immediately pushing it back in.

KAIGAN: ORE!

The transformation begun, with orange lines forming all over Lucas's body as an eye symbol appeared before his chest and summoned light blue particles that enveloped his entire body. In a flash of light, standing in Lucas's place was an armoured warrior.

The warrior was wearing a black suit underneath his armour, with the armour being coloured black. The orange lines that appeared on Lucas's body before were used as decorations for the armour, with the way they were styled and positioned made it them resemble the bones of a person's body. On the chest and back of the armour was the same eye symbol that appeared before, though scaled smaller so it would fit onto the armour. Unlike the orange lines, the eye symbol was glowing light blue.

The armour had shoulder guards, though they were transparent for some odd reason. In fact, even the chest armour had some of this transparent armour over it. The hands also had small pieces of armour at the back of the fingers as well as the palm. The knees also had silver knee guards to protect them, with similarly coloured bands on the warrior's wrists and ankles.

However, the transformation wasn't complete yet. This was evident by the warrior's helmet, being a simple black helmet that has a silver blank face.

LET'S GO! KAKUGO! GHO-GHO-GHO-GHOST! GO! GO! GO! GO!

The Ghost Parka summoned before flew around the armoured warrior in a circle before fusing itself with the warrior. Appearance-wise, it merely looked like the warrior was wearing the Ghost Parka like a jacket. At the helmet however, fusing with the Ghost Parka caused the Ghost Parka's horn to bring itself upwards, covering the blank silver face with an orange one that had large, soulless black bug-eyes.

The red gem of the horn briefly flashed along with the orange face, to indicate the transformation had completed itself.

"… Ore wa Kamen Rider Ghost… ." The now transformed Lucas spoke, the transformation had distorted his voice a bit to make it mostly unrecognisable. "Kisama taosu!" He declared in Japanese as he summoned the Gan Gun Saber in Sword Mode, the weapon he had just shot himself with minutes ago.

"Get him!" The Katana Gamma ordered the Gamma Commandos, with them all charging towards Ghost.

This made Ghost a bit nervous to the sheer number of the Gamma Commandos. But he steeled himself and charged at them as well, because he believed that he didn't deserve to be a Kamen Rider if he couldn't even get past a few mooks!

The Gamma Commandos were slow, swinging their dagger-like weapons in wide arcs and slowly. Ghost had little difficulty with dodging the swings, though it noticeably became more difficult for him when he was completely surrounded by the Gamma Commandos.

When one swung, he ended up landing in the arms of another Gamma Commando when he dodged, and they all began to pile dive on top of him. "Get off me!" The firefly-themed Rider roared as he pushed them all off, at the cost of disarming himself from the Gan Gun Saber.

"God damn you guys are endless!" Ghost declared as he was once again being pushed around by the Gamma Commandos. The sheer number of them were making it difficult to wipe them out. He might have to use a finisher to make the fight, if it could even be called that, more manageable.

"Having trouble there bud?" Ghost heard the voice of Gentaro speaking up, much to his surprise. It caught him so off guard, that a Gamma Commando actually got a good hit in. "Argh!" Ghost cried out as took a few steps back to collect himself.

"Ah! Sorry, sorry!" Gentaro apologised at distracting the new Kamen Rider.

"I-It's fine… ." Ghost grit his teeth and began shrugging the pain off. He was used to the constant emotional pain he gave to himself, physical pain may be a bitch but it was nothing compared to what he felt every day while he was alive.

"Well, if you're having trouble with this guys, why not use my power?" Gentaro offered, much to Ghost's surprise.

"Gentaro-san no chikara… ?" Ghost muttered out in his surprise. Well, if Gentaro was offering… . "Yeah, arigato, Gentaro-san!" Ghost agreed to Gentaro's offer.

Grinning to himself, Gentaro the Ghost Eyecon floated out of Ghost's Ore Ghost Parka. Ghost grabbed him in midair before pressing the Ghost Liberator button, switching the Quad Iris from the orange Standby time into the "1R3" or rather, the "R13" Startup Time. He opened up his Ghost Driver before switching out the Ore Ghost Eyecon with Gentaro's Ghost Eyecon, with the Ore Ghost Parka dissipating into orange particles, taking the Persona Pantheon and Face Pantheon orange bug-eyed faceplate with it.

EYE!

~BATCHIRIMINA!~

The belt only managed to chant once before Ghost pulled and push the lever.

KAIGAN: FOURZE!
SWITCH OSHITA! UCHU KITA~!

Coming out of the Ghost Driver was Gentaro, or rather the hoodie he was wearing, which featured similar angry orange eyes and the same horn where his chin should be. Gentaro, or rather the Fourze Ghost Parka, soon merged with Ghost and gave a faceplate reminiscent of Gentaro's own Rider helmet, having a black face with a white outer ring, orange eyes with twin antennae sprouting near the eyes.

"Uchu~ ki-!" Ghost began, about to blurt out one of Gentaro's signature catchphrase as loud as he possibly could before he caught himself.

The Gamma, both the Katana and Commandos, froze out of confusion as Ghost himself froze for an entirely different reason. His body language betrayed his embarrassed emotions. Hell, he even took a few steps back because of his embarrassment!

"A-A-And… that's as far as I'll go with that… !" Ghost managed to stutter out despite his embarrassment.

"Eh~?" Gentaro whined out. "Don't be like that, Lucas! Enjoy your youth! Shout to the world how space is here!" He tried to convince Ghost to finish the catchphrase with much gutso.

"I rather not Gentaro-san!" Ghost was firm on his stance on not doing the catchphrase with it's associated pose.

"You… . Are you mocking us?!" The Katana Gamma was getting annoyed by the conversation.

"No! I just don't want to do one of Fourze's signature catchphrase and poses!" Ghost defended. "And besides, you're one to talk, hiding behind your minions. Let's do this man-to-man!" Evidently, channeling a fellow Rider cause Ghost to take in some of their habits, seeing that he just bumped his fist against his chest twice before pointing it at the Katana Gamma.

"Hn! Like I'll waste my time against a brat when the Gamma Commandos are more than enough to handle him! Go!" The Katana Gamma ordered the Commandos, causing them to resume their attack.

"Just try it! This time I'm armed to the teeth!" Ghost declared as Fourze's signature Module came to his mind.

ROCKET ON!

Orange light formed around Ghost's right arm, manifesting a small rocket onto it. The Gamma were obviously shocked at the development, pausing in their tracks as Ghost powered on through with the power of the Rocket Module.

And then he lost control over the powerful rocket and ended up flying way~ into the sky.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ghost's screams could be heard despite being nothing more than a twinkle star to the Gamma at this point.

"… Is he… an idiot… ?" The Katana Gamma said in disbelief as he stared at where he saw Ghost last.

The Gamma Commandos themselves were confused what to do at this point. Should they just stay in their positions or what… ?

Well, the Gamma didn't need to wait for long as Ghost soon came to a literal crash, sending the Commandos nearby his landing point flying. When the smoke cleared, it showed Ghost had crash landed headfirst into the pavement, his head bending in a way that a normal Human's head should never bend lest they were already dead.

Luckily, Ghost was already dead. In fact, after lying on top of his back for a moment he quickly sat up in lotus position and began clutching his head and neck in pain. "Ow ow ow ow… !" He chanted, as if it'll help ease the pain.

"Oh, are you okay, Lucas-kun?" Ghost heard Eiji spoke up in concern over him.

"Ah, yeah… ." Ghost lied, in fact he was in immense pain and would rather sleep it off.

"Well, if Gentaro-kun's Modules are too much for you, perhaps you can try my power instead?" Eiji suggested.

"Eh?! Eiji-senpai, don't just steal the spotlight just because he's having trouble with the Rocket Module!" Gentaro spoke up, not wanting to be switched so fast when all Ghost did with his power was summon the Rocket Module.

"I distinctively remember the first time we met, Gentaro-kun." Eiji's voice was firm. "You too landed on top of your head because you haven't mastered the Rocket Module yet."

"But I mastered it now!"

"Well Lucas hasn't. Even with your experience is being transferred to him, it's better if he had some practice before he uses some of your other Modules."

"Are you seriously having this conversation right now?!" The Katana Gamma was seriously annoyed at how casual the Eyecons and the newbie Rider was being.

"Don't look at me, they're the ones who's messing with the tenpo of the fight… ." Ghost sweatdropped at the argument the Rider Eyecons were having.

Huffing, the Katana Gamma ordered for the calvary to show himself. "Oi! This idiot is seriously pissing me off! Bring them out already so we can end this idiocy!"

Chilling laughter followed suit. "I don't know, I kinda like this guy! This is the first time I've seen you lose your cool like this, bro!" The voice noted before continuing to laugh.

Showing himself, another Gamma called the Yari Gamma appeared before the group.

However, what caught Ghost's and the Rider Eyecons' attention was that the Yari Gamma was holding two people by the neck. One fashionably dressed Human and one adorable rabbit Faunus.

Ghost knew those two. They were Coco Adel and Velvet Scarlatina from Team CFVY. But what were they doing outside of class?! If it was for a mission, where were their teammates Fox Alistair and Yatsuhashi Daichi?!

As Ghost wondered, Coco decided that this was the last time the two of them did Professor Peach a favour, this she swore to herself. She was doing herself and Velvet a favour when stuff like this was going to happen every time they helped Professor Peach out!

"Co… co… !" Velvet managed to choke out as she struggled to get free of whatever was holding onto them, only for it to be in vain.

"It's… going to be… fine… Vel… !" Coco said as she herself struggled to escape. Dammit, what the hell was holding onto them and why can't they see or grab it at all?!

"Hn." The Katana Gamma grunted at seeing the Huntresses-in-Training struggle as well as Ghost's hesitance, knowing full well that they had Ghost cornered unless he was heartless enough to sacrifice the Human and the Faunus. "If you value their lives, cancel your transformation and hand over your Eyecons, boy." The Katana Gamma gave his ultimatum as he positioned his large sword arm over at Coco's neck, with the Yari Gamma giggling at how they had Ghost on the ropes like this.

Ghost gritted his teeth as he forced himself to calm down so he may assess the situation calmly and think up of a good solution to get out of this situation.

Alright, about a dozen Gamma Commandos (he could've swore there were more, then again maybe he had wiped out a few with the Rider Rocket Punch), the leading Katana Gamma with the Yari Gamma holding Coco and Velvet hostage… .

He had access to the Gan Gun Saber, his Ore Damashii, the Fourze Damashii that he was currently in, the OOO Damashii along with… Wizard Damashii.

… Perfect.

"Well then, shall we go?" Haruto grinned as Ghost took out the Wizard Ghost Eyecon.

EYE!

~BATCHIRIMINA!~

KAIGAN: WIZARD!
YUBIWA NO MAHOU! SAIGO NO KIBOU!

The Gamma blinked in surprise at seeing Ghost not surrendering, but instead switching Eyecons. Now he was in Wizard Damashii, armed with Kamen Rider Wizard's ever so faithful WizarSwordGun, a silver sword that can switch into a gun mode along with having a black device outlined in the shape of a hand called the Hand Author.

"Oi! Don't you see the situation you're in here?! Cancel your transformation and give us your Eyecons if you want these two to live!" The Yari Gamma roared in outrage at Ghost. "Or was that whole 'I'm a Kamen Rider who will protect everyone" thing a lie, huh?!" He tried provoking Ghost, who merely switched the WizarSwordGun into Gun Mode and pointed at it the the leading Gammas direction.

As the Gamma wondered if he was actually serious, Ghost faced another problem.

"I get it. You're afraid, right?" Ghost could hear Haruto whisper to him. "However, if you don't take the shot, those two are going to get hurt, more likely they're going to get killed." Haruto gave Ghost a reality check as Ghost's grip on the weapon's handle tightened. "Even if you're afraid, is it going to stop you from doing what's right?" Haruto asked. "Right now, you are those two girls' final hope, even if they don't realise it themselves. That's why… that's why, go past your fears and become the hope they need!"

Haruto's words seem to have their intended effect, as Ghost seemed to got over his fear. "Ore… ore ga shinjiru… ." Ghost whispered to himself as he channeled his own and Wizard's power into the WizarSwordGun before he took the shot.

Multiple shots in fact.

Annoyed at this Human's behaviour, the Yari Gamma positioned the two Huntresses-in-Training in front of the bullets heading his way. Only to cry out in shock, surprise and pain when the bullets curved around the Huntresses and hit their mark.

"What the-?!" The Katana said in disbelief before he too was showered with some bullets from the WizarSwordGun.

The Gamma Commandos were confused at the sight, leaving them wide open for Ghost Wizard Damashii to slice them into pieces with the WizarSwordGun. With an outrage cry, Ghost tore through the remaining Gamma Commandos before the only Gamma that were left were the Yari Gamma and the Katana Gamma.

Meanwhile with Coco and Velvet, they wondered what on Remnant had freed them from whatever that was holding them as Coco rushed towards Velvet and made sure she was okay. They felt a sudden chill of something going through them, and yet; nothing was there at all.

"Miss Adel, Miss Scarlatina! Come over here at once!" The powerful voice of Glynda Goodwitch made the two cringe, as they couldn't help but wonder if Professor Ozpin's right-hand woman had gotten Professor Peach's note excusing the two of them from classes for the day.

Hey, they may had to deal with an invisible enemy just a few minutes ago but Glynda Goodwitch was far scarier than whatever it was that had it's hands on them.

… Probably.

The two quickly scrambled to Professor Goodwitch's location, just a few feet away from they were actually. For some reason, Professor Ozpin was with them along with a first year team. Team RWBY, if they weren't mistaken. Then again, the Schnee heiress was with them so it wasn't that hard to identify the team.

"Quick, hold onto us!" The silver-eyed leader of the group, the youngest one in Beacon currently, told the two. Much to their confusion.

"Trust us. You'll understand soon enough." The disguised Faunus of the group pleaded. While Velvet was disappointed at seeing a fellow Faunus hide her heritage, she understood full well the reason why she did so. In fact, a small part of her wish she could do the same. Unfortunately, bunny ears were a lot harder to hide than whatever-ears the Faunus girl in front of her was hiding with her pretty little black bow.

Seeing both Professor Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch nod at them, the two complied with the request and held onto the shoulders of the Schnee heiress and their blond team member (since those two were holding onto the leader and disguise Faunus).

And what they saw completely baffled them.

Ghost was having some trouble keeping up with both the Katana Gamma and Yari Gamma. Not only did they have good teamwork, but Wizard had a far more flexible fighting style compared to his fellow Heisei Riders, seeing that Wizard had the tendency of constantly doing flips and cartwheels mid-battle to dodge and attack his opponents.

Ghost… definitely wasn't as flexible.

So the incompatibility issue was making this fight even harder than it already is.

"Then, why don't you use me instead?" Eiji suggested, ready to fight alongside the new Kamen Rider.

"Yeah, it's better if you switch with Eiji. You're going to have do some more flips if you want to use me more often." Haruto noted as he prepared to fully return into his Eyecon.

"Wakata." Ghost muttered under his breath as he prepared to switch Eyecons.

Then he felt something land itself into his free hand.

"Huh?" Ghost muttered out in confusion as he looked at his hand, only to find a certain bright red, white-sclera, black iris Ghost Eyecon in it.

"He's going to change Eyecons again!" The Katana Gamma cried out.

"Don't let him!" The Yari Gamma prepared to strike Ghost with his spear.

"Urusai!" Ghost snapped at the two Gamma, blasting them with the WizarSwordGun to keep them at bay. "Musashi no Eyecon… ." Ghost muttered as he stared at the Eyecon his hand.

Unnoticed by anyone in the are was Eiji crying crocodile tears as he muttered out how no one wanted to be dressed like a traffic light, with Gentaro trying to calm his senpai down while Haruto just sighed at the wackiness certain Riders displayed.

"Yosh! Lend me your power, Musashi!" Ghost politely asked the Eyecon before inserting it into his Ghost Driver.

EYE!

~BATCHIRIMINA!~

KAIGAN: MUSASHI!
KETTO! ZUBATTO! CHO KENGO!

With biwa chords and slashing sound effects, Musashi's Ghost Parka form flew out of the Ghost Driver. It was a striking red sleeveless hoodie which had black trimmings, with silver prongs sprouting from it's chest. Sprouting from it's shoulders were two sword-like decorations that served as it's arms, with it's hood/head having sheathed-sword handle sticking out of it like some sort of topknot. It also head a silver headband around it's hood/head, with angry red eyes matching it's main colour scheme. It also had like similarly-shaped coattail to the previous Ghost Parkas.

Merging with Ghost, the Ghost Parka gave the Rider the Persona Sword Master along with the Face Dual Wield faceplate to cover the Rider's blank silver face. The Face Dual Wield faceplate, unlike the Face Pantheon, was mostly a reflective black surface with two red swords crossing over in the form of an X, with there being a gap on the Ghost Parka's bow to allow Ghost's Whisp Horn through unopposed. The two sword-like decorations also now served as super long coattails.

The two Gamma prepared themselves as they waited for the newly transformed Ghost to approach. However, before that Ghost slowly approached to his fallen Gan Gun Saber, picking it up before separating into two components that served as two single-edged swords that were to be used in a dual-wielding fashion.

Ruby could clearly be heard squealing at seeing this, though she was promptly ignored by the combatants that were about to engage in a life-or-death battle.

Her fellow audience members on the other hand… . Well, let's just go back to the fight, shall we?

"Tenka musou… ." Ghost Musashi Damashii declared to the two Gamma, pointing one of his swords towards them. "Kakatte koi!" He told them before he got into a dual-wielding stance. A stance belonging to Musashi Miyamoto.

"Bastard… ! Don't underestimate us!" The Yari Gamma growled before charging at Ghost with his companion, Katana.

Yari went in with his spear, yet Ghost was able to easily dodge the strikes due to Musashi's fighting experience being channelled into him. Katana went in with a swing, though Ghost blocked it with one his blades before quickly shifting around to ensure that he didn't get hit by one of Yari's strikes or lunges.

Yari went in with another lunge, though Ghost deflected with a swing of his blades before striking Yari across the midsection with the other blade. He managed to slice Yari at the back a few times before kicking him away, allowing Ghost time to block Katana's swing with his giant arm-blade.

Channeling Musashi's upper body strength, Ghost managed to push the Katana Gamma's arm-blade upwards, making the Gamma lose balance and allowing Ghost time to activate his finisher.

He placed the main component of his Gan Gun Saber across the Ghost Driver, allowing the eye symbol on the Gan Gun Saber to make eye contact with the Ghost Eyecon within the Ghost Driver.

DAI-KAIGAN!

~GAN GAN MINA!~GAN GAN MINA!~

While his sword began chanting, Ghost pulled out the handle of the Ghost Driver before pushing it back in again.

DAI-KAIGAN: MUSASHI!
OMEGA DRIVE!

OMEGA SLASH!

Ghost began channelling power into his blades, a giant glyph forming behind him. As the two Gamma regain their bearings, the glyph finished forming before breaking itself apart into Ghost's two blades, giving them a bright red aura that was itching to be unleashed.

With a animalistic roar, the two Gamma charged at Ghost, intent on sandwiching him with two simultaneous strikes. However, thanks to his added power, Ghost was able to block the two strikes with his blades. The red aura covering them soon reformed itself into the air and became bright red swords not unlike the ones on the Face Dual Wield, and took the chance to slice the two Gamma apart as they were too surprised at seeing the swords' formation to protect themselves.

Suffering from vicious strikes from the two energy blades, the two Gamma stumbled away from Ghost before exploding with a painful scream, their respective coats, Parkas, flying a short distance away from them before exploding along with their wearers.

A spear and katana soon landed where the two Gamma used to stood, along with two Eyecon-like devices landing near them before exploding themselves.

Seeing his enemies had been defeated, Ghost let out a sigh of relief as he dropped his two swords before dropping flat onto his back, tired from the fighting.

OYASUMI!

The Ghost Driver announced as his transformation canceled itself, his willpower too drained to sustain his transformation any longer.

Lucas began panting as his mind replayed the entire fight in his head. And he couldn't help but smile at the fact that he had successfully defeated the Gamma, even though he had some help through the spirits of the Ghost Eyecons.

Nevertheless… he did it. He won this battle.

And he was going to win the war too.

For their sake.

Someone soon approached the downed Lucas, causing him too look up.

Despite the sunlight making it hard for Lucas to see, Lucas realised that it was Ozpin who was looming over him.

Ozpin gave Lucas a small smile, as he said. "Well done, Kamen Rider Ghost."

At hearing that, Lucas managed to let out "Glad to be of service." before the battle took it's toll and exhaustion caused Lucas to fall unconscious.


Unknown to everyone, however, was that a mysterious youth had also been watching the entire fight. From the very beginning in fact. And he was quite displeased at seeing the Gamma fail.

This mysterious youth was a young man that seemed to be around 20 years of age, having short, wavy black hair that had blonde tips. He was wearing a sleeveless grey shirt over a darker grey short sleeve shirt. It was mostly hidden by the super long high quality scarf he had wrapped around his neck, the scarf being so long that it could serve as an improper sleeve for his right arm. He wore matching baggy gray pants, along with black boots. For accessories, he tied some gray rope to serve as a wristband, along with small white feathers for earrings.

"Tch. We were too late… ." The youth was annoyed at seeing Ghost succeed in defending his Eyecons. "Well, it doesn't really matter." He said to himself, despite the annoyance in his tone earlier. "The other Eyecons had left him. I'll start with them first before returning to take his… ."

With that, the mysterious youth left.


"Did you planned this, Kadoya Tsukasa?"

"Eh~? I have no idea what you mean."

"Are you sure about that? This Remnant is a world far different from Earth. It's only natural that everyone in the group, especially us Luminaries, would grow curious of this world and seek to explore it at our own pace."

"Well, it's not everyday you get to explore a whole new world. People aren't me, after all."

"… I suppose so. I assume that this is merely part of your test for the boy?"

"Well, that would be spoilers wouldn't it? And most people aren't like the kid. Spoilers don't make them more excited to see the next scene for themselves."

"Hn. Do as you wish, so long as it doesn't interfere with our own tests for the boy. However… ."

"Hm?"

"… The Grimm brothers and Sanzo would be trouble, in the event they are captured. They are not like the rest of us."

"Ah. You're talking about that. Well, those guys are long gone by now. And I'm sure they know how much trouble they are compared to everyone else. Whatever happens, happens."

"… Yes, I suppose so. Very well then. Until the day we meet again, Destroyer of Worlds."

"… ."

"… Man, I'm retired from that. Why can't I leave that dumb name behind?"


Days Left: 99

Current Eyecon Count:
[Musashi]
[OOO, Fourze, Wizard, Gaim, Drive]

Missing Eyecons:
{Edison, Robin Hood, Newton, Billy the Kid, Beethoven, Benkei, Goemon, Ryoma, Himiko, Tutankhamun, Nobunaga, Houdini, Grimm, Sanzo}
{Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva, Decade, Double}


T_T

This is way~ longer than I thought it would've been. And it's giving me the feeling that I'm not going to ace this story as much as I like… . Sue me, this is for a good friend and talented guy, of course I want it to be as perfect as possible!

I guess one of the problems is that I didn't write out physical descriptions for certain characters, such as Glynda and Ozpin. I mean, Team RWBY at least has the excuse of being on the cover image for this story, so desktop users who don't know the RWBY series at least have an idea of how the girls look like.

Then there's the Katana and Yari Gamma, along with Velvet and Coco… but I talked with Stranger about this and his advice saved me some time. Hey, it's past freaking midnight when I finished and posted this, cut me SOME slack would ya? Hell, I didn't even get the chance to read the final product for any mistakes. (Will edit the chapter later. But for now, enjoy what you got and let me sleep first)

Still, I'll admit writing this chapter was pretty fun (even though it became super~ long than originally planned). I've encountered a few setbacks as I wrote the chapter (since a few scenes felt wrong or incomplete to me despite looking like it was alright) but I has fun overcoming those setbacks. … Though, the chapter was slightly different from how I imagined it how it would go. Well, I suppose it's because what I imagine was just a basic outline compared to the final product.

But man! This took forever to finish! It felt even worst when all that's left was to finish the scenes leading up to the fight scene as well as the fight scene itself. It was agonising because I kept getting distracted by searching RWBY stuff around the internet to help inspire me.

Anyway, see you next chapter folks!

Edit:

Well, I did some edits. And though I'm a bit annoyed then I didn't get around to describing the appearances of the Katana Gamma and the Yari Gamma, along with some more detail to Coco and Velvet… eh… that could always be done next chapter or other future chapters.

Again, cut me some slack. Especially since I'm writing around my semester's study week, and need to study for my finals. *Sigh* I freaking hate school man… .

Further Edits:

Oh look, reading the chapter again I realised that I forgot to add in the Omega Slash after the Omega Drive.

*Grumbles about tests*