Gentaro found himself away from civilization judging from the luscious green forest that greeted him as soon as he exited the dimensional veil following after Foundation X.
He reverted to Base States from Cosmic States and equipped the rocket module on himself. Using the rocket in his hand, he flew in the direction of where he thought the forest's exit was, hoping to figure out where he was in this universe
As soon as he had found the forest's exit before he could even increase the rocket's thrust to exit the forest in a timely manner, something red washed over him and his surroundings. The luscious green forest he found himself in when he entered this universe was replaced by tall buildings and street signs, revealing that he was in the middle of a city all along.
"Phantom?" Gentaro couldn't help but ask himself. "An explanation from Kengo, Miu, or even JK would be great right about now." He mused to himself as he walked towards the sidewalk, de-transforming in the process.
While Gentaro has a hard time pinpointing what power set belonged to what group, he knew that this wasn't the Helheim forest because the weird fruits that grew in that forest were absent.
Gentaro shook his head as he continued to walk in a directionless manner when he saw a very famous landmark.
The Eiffel Tower.
Gentaro was a long way from Japan.
It was a while later when Gentaro went inside a bakery to at least get something to eat. He didn't think he had eaten anything since he started chasing after Foundation X from the last world he was in.
"Good afternoon," Gentaro was greeted by the person at the register taking payment from buying customers. "Please look around and get anything you like."
Gentaro nodded and browsed at the loaves of bread for sale within the bakery.
A few moments later, the last of the customers left the bakery when someone else entered the store.
"Marinette," The woman left her station. "Are you okay, I heard about the recent Akuma." She gently fussed at the girl, trying to see if she has any injuries.
Gentaro frowned upon hearing the word 'Akuma', the word just sounded different to him, even when things were automatically translated to Japanese for him.
"I'm fine Maman," The girl, Marinette, assured her mother. "Ladybug and Cat Noir managed to save everyone before everything could go wrong."
"Oh, I hope Ladybug and Cat Noir aren't too exhausted."
"Do not worry, Maman, I'm sure they're fine." Marinette smiled at her mother.
"Akuma? Like demons?"
The mother-daughter pair looked at Gentaro in shock before finally realizing the kind of situation they were in.
"You must be a tourist." Marinette's mother deduced. "I'm Sabine Cheng, and this is Marinette, we own this bakery."
"I'm Gentaro Kisaragi, I'm the man who'll befriend everyone in the world." Gentaro returned the favor and introduced himself with his usual flair, ending with slicking his hair backward, maintaining his pompadour.
"You're funny, Monsieur Kisaragi," Marinette's mother chuckled. "Marinette, please catch Monsieur Kisaragi up to speed on what he needs to expect while in Paris." She returned to the register just in time for the next customer to enter the bakery.
"So, Akuma…"
Marinette told Gentaro about what the Akuma business was all about, some of the customers even chimed in their personal stories from being turned into one to being targeted by one. She also told Gentaro what their goal was and who was sending them.
"To stop an Akuma, one just needs to destroy the thing that was possessed by a purple butterfly?"
"It's not that easy, even moreso now than before." Marinette sighed.
Marinette, with the customers chiming in a few times, about Paris's heroes and how they work so hard to protect Paris from Hawkmoth, no Monarch now.
"So Ladybug and Chat Noir are heroes?" Gentaro grinned. "Can I meet them? I'm the guy who will be friends with all heroes around the world."
"I'm sure they would love to meet you, M Kisaragi." Marinette smiled.
As soon as Gentaro was fully caught up with what was happening in Paris as if on cue, multiple devices started ringing.
"Akuma Alert"
Everyone, barring Marinette, looked at the holographic screens their respective rings were displaying.
It displayed the journalist reporting live at where the Akuma was located. From the looks of everyone's shocked faces, the Akuma was dangerously getting closer to the bakery.
Outside the bakery, people could be seen running away from something.
"Everyone, please stay calm, Marinette let the fleeing people in," Sabine immediately took charge. "Look out for your father, he went out to deliver cake to Mme Chamack."
Marinette immediately heeded her mother's orders and beckoned the fleeing people to get inside the bakery.
That was when everyone got a closer look at the Akuma, and it looked like one of those Roidmudes Inspector Tomari fought against.
He was able to immediately confirm it when the slowdown phenomenon happened, something he was familiar with. Everyone's senses were still functioning properly but everything else was slowed down to the point of stopping, not even a speck of dust moved during the phenomenon.
Gentaro's eyes widened when he saw the Roidmude transform into a different kind of monster, which returned the flow of time back to normal.
Marinette did not hesitate to get back up and drag the people who had fallen down near the bakery's entrance inside the store.
The former Roidmude had transformed into a Bugster, one of the minor Bugsters that Dr. Hojo and the other Doctor Riders fought against. The Roidmude-turned-Bugster began firing orange beams at the people who fell on the road as a result of the slowdown phenomenon the Roidmude form caused.
The people, who were hit by the beams, vanished from where they stood.
Gentaro shook his head and helped Marinette drag more people inside the bakery, to prevent any more casualties, and closed the door behind him, as soon as Marinette was inside.
Gentaro flicked the switches on his belt.
"Three, Two, One." The belt counted down.
"Henshin." Gentaro called out as he pushed the lever on his belt.
Gentaro transformed into Kamen Rider Fourze.
"Uchuu Kitaaa!" Fourze exclaimed before equipping himself with the radar and rocket modules.
"Kamen Rider Fourze, I see you've even followed us to this world."
"Launcher on."
Fourze equipped his foot with the launcher module and launched a number of rockets at the enemy, all of which vanished as soon as they were hit with orange beams from the Bugster.
"Foundation X, what are you doing in this world, there are no Riders here!"
"All the more reason to be here, no pesky Super Sentai or Kamen Riders to thwart our plans."
The Bugster transformed into a pink monster with wings, an all too familiar form for Gentaro.
"Virgo."
"I may have taken Virgo's form, but you can call me, Shifter," The transforming monster introduced himself.
Gentaro immediately went into Cosmic states, changing his white suit into blue, and began trading blows with Shifter as Virgo.
It came as a surprise to Gentaro that Shifter fought a lot like the Virgo he once knew. The way his opponent utilized his wings and staff, even the way he threw projectiles at him was very similar to the Virgo that helped him and his friends behind the scenes.
Gentaro shook his head and focused on the fight at hand.
Even if this Foundation X member was very good at copying Virgo down to his fighting style, Gentaro himself has fought Virgo a lot of times, copies of the original Virgo, and beat them.
"Giant Foot on."
Fourze's right foot was equipped with a red boot and used it to kick the air in front of him.
A giant red boot materialized in front of Virgo before he was slammed into a nearby building after it mimicked Fourze's actions.
"Not bad."
Shifter used his wings to shrug off the debris and fly before using his staff to summon a number of projectiles and threw them towards the Kamen Rider.
"Don't mind if I drop in," A person in a black cat costume, complete with cat ears, landed in front of Gentaro and spun his staff, and defended themselves from the projectiles, disintegrating them in the process. "To whom do I have the pleasure of protecting?"
"Ha! I didn't know that this world's heroes are so naïve!" Shifter laughed. "Foolish cat, that's my Sentimonster!"
"Senti-wha?"
The black cat hero immediately retreated from Gentaro.
"Now, Fourze grab Chat Noir's miraculous!"
"What? Eeeeeeh!" Gentaro exclaimed at the order.
"Not happening!" The black cat hero, identified as Chat Noir, assumed a defensive stance.
"You've got it wrong!" Gentaro tried to explain. "I'm not that guy's senti-something." He pointed at Shifter's form.
Chat Noir rushed towards Gentaro and attacked him with his staff.
Gentaro didn't hesitate to defend himself and attack the cat hero.
"Listen to me!" Fourze ducked from a horizontal staff strike to his head. "I'm not that guy's senti-something!"
"Likely story," Chat Noir growled. "You villains are all the same, you trick people into trusting you and then you stab them in the back." He split his spear in two. "You lie just to get what you want."
"Like I – whoa!" Gentaro jumped over the compacted spear thrown at him.
Suddenly, Shifter, still in Virgo's form, grabbed hold of Chat Noir's wrist, the one that has a silver ring on his finger.
"Crap!"
"Oh so naïve, kitty cat, you left yourself wide open for me."
Shifter raised Chat Noir's arms so high that the cat hero's feet hovered over the ground.
"Hold it, Monarch, what do I get once I give you the Miraculous?" Shifter talked to no one in particular. "Aside from keeping my powers permanently."
Before anyone could even hear a reply, Shifter was hit at the back of his head. He angrily looked in the direction where it came from only to see nothing. As soon as he returned his attention to his captured hero, he was greeted by a whack on the face, courtesy of the same cat hero.
"You!"
"It was pun-tastic to know that you cared enough to meowsearch about the Miraculous," Chat Noir flipped backward until he was standing side-by-side with Gentaro. "But you've made a meow-jestic error."
"Chat Noir's right," Ladybug landed between Fourze and Chat Noir.
"Thank you for dropping by, Milady." Chat Noir grinned as he gave a bow to the ladybug heroine.
"Monarch doesn't have the Peacock Miraculous anymore." The Ladybug hero smirked.
"Which would mean, this new hero here isn't a Sentimonster." The Cat hero gave a cheshire grin.
"Hero kitaaaaaaaa!" Fourze suddenly exclaimed, overjoyed at meeting the heroes of the world.
"Sorry for the catty greeting," Chat Noir apologized. "I'm Chat Noir, purr-eased to meet meow."
"You and your puns, kitty," Ladybug rolled her eyes. "I'm Ladybug, we're the heroes of Paris."
"Kamen Rider Fourze, Gentaro Kisaragi, the guy who will befriend every hero in the world."
Gentaro introduced himself with his usual flair of pumping his chest before pointing at his conversation partner.
"Eh? You're just willing to give your identity, away?"
"I don't think he's hiding it in the first place, I saw him transform by the Dupain-Cheng's Bakery." Ladybug informed her partner.
"Still, where is the Akuma?" Chat Noir pondered.
"STOP IGNORING ME!" Shifter bellowed out as he inserted something square in front of his waist and changed forms.
Shifter's form changed from Virgo into that of a weird plant-like creature in red with a weird sword in hand.
As soon as Shifter's form changed, various vines started attacking the trio of heroes.
The heroes themselves were busy defending themselves from the attacking vines. Ladybug and Chat Noir cut the vines rushing at them by spinning their respective weapons, a yoyo, and staff.
Gentaro had equipped his left hand with an oversized pair of scissors and cut the vines coming for him and the heroes he just met.
Suddenly, vines sprouted from the pavement where they stood, separating the three heroes from each other, all the while covering the surrounding area with foliage.
"Ladybug! Chat Noir!" Fourze called out, but no reply came.
"Fire on."
Gentaro was extremely worried that he immediately equipped his right hand with a flame thrower. He started burning away the offending vegetation in the area as he advanced to where he thought the other two heroes were.
He continued his advance forward, burning the attacking vines to ash, when he realized something and then faced his enemy.
"What's this? Abandoning our friends?" Shifter taunted.
"Scissor on."
Gentaro re-equipped himself with his scissors and let his flame thrower disappear.
"I should not worry about my buds, they've been at this since long before I came here." Gentaro pressed another thing on his chest.
"Fire on."
"Is that so?" The Akumatized Foundation X member jumped and slashed the air with his staff, sending a sharp gust of wind toward the astronaut-themed hero. "They're not Riders like you."
"They're still heroes," Gentaro flipped backward and retaliated by sending a flaming arc towards his opponent. "I can trust them to fight their battles."
"Isn't that touching?" The foundation X member scoffed and stabbed his staff on the ground, as more and more vines erupted from the ground and surrounded the whole area.
Vines had wrapped around buildings, cars, and even helicopters, keeping everyone inside them captive.
"Gentaro-"
"O-oh!" Gentaro jumped back when he saw two beings, red and black, approaching him.
"Gentaro, we entrust you the Miraculous of Creation and Destructio-"
"Ha! Those Kwamis are what gives Ladybug and Chat Noir their power!" Shifter cut off the small red being's spiel. "Don't mind if I do."
Acting instinctively, Gentaro immediately grabbed the jewels the beings carried.
Gentaro found himself floating in a black void, not unlike the void of space, in his civilian attire, and before him was an ethereal pink winged-being that towered over him.
Gentaro found himself back into the fight, just in time to dodge an attack from Shifter's vines.
"Miraculous Kiiitaaaa!"
"Give me those Miraculous!" Shifter sent more vines towards Fourze.
"Fat chance!" Gentaro ducked from an incoming vine. "If you're not giving these to Monarch, you're using them yourself."
"Of course!"
Gentaro switched off his driver and de-transformed out of his Rider armor. His belt glowed white before it transformed into a white globe, not unlike the transformation trinkets of the Kyurangers, a Kyutama.
"What are you planning?" Shifter questioned.
"Just this, Tikki, henshin!"
"E-eh, Gentaro, that's not how you transform using my powers."
"E-eh?!"
"You need to say 'Spots On' to transform using me." Tikki informed.
"Well then, Tikki, Spots On!"
Tikki fused with the earrings that Gentaro put on his ear before he glowed red. As soon as he glowed red, his appearance changed almost immediately.
Shifter had to use the vines to cover his eyes in an effort not to be blinded by the red glow his enemy was giving.
As soon as the red glow subsided, Gentaro sported a new look, something that's pretty familiar to the Foundation X member.
"Who are you supposed to be?" Shifter scoffed. "Are you supposed to be a fusion of Stronger and Riderman?"
Gentaro was now wearing a black chest plate with a silhouette of a ladybug sporting white spots, on its center.
Under the chest plate was a white-spotted red cloth that covered his entire body while sporting black gloves and boots.
His head was only covered by a regular helmet with two antennas sticking out from each side that completely exposed his face, if not for the domino mask that surround his eyes.
A black belt wrapped around his hips and the buckle was adorned with a sculpture of a ladybug that housed a complex symbol in red.
He also wore a white scarf that flow freely against the wind.
"So, what's your name?" Plagg floated in front of Gentaro.
"Hmmm, I'm Male Ladybug!" Gentaro declared proudly.
"No!" Plagg shook his head as he recovered from the very bad name this new hero gave himself. "And just so you know, Mister Bug is already taken."
"Hmm, well then…" Gentaro hummed. "The Luck powers remind me of Lucky and the red reminds me of Super Sentai…" He trailed off as he decided on his name. "I'll be Miraider, because I'm using a Miraculous and I'm a Kamen Rider."
Gentaro shifted his attention to the monster he was facing.
"Excuse you, I'm a fusion of Kamen Riders Stronger, Riderman, and Tackle!" Gentaro pointed at Shifter. "Now let's do this man to man."
"Fourze, Stronger, Tackle, Riderman, Miraider, whatever, it doesn't change the fact that you're giving me those jewels."
"Not a chance, Shifter!" Gentaro's white scarf transformed into ladybug wings and lifted him into the air. "You're not getting these."
"Miraider, not a bad - " Plagg started to praise when he noticed an incoming projectile. "Look out!" He immediately called out.
Shifter, in frustration, transformed back into the form of Virgo and chased after Gentaro, however, the vines remained rooted in their positions. He fired several energy-based projectiles in the hopes of slowing his enemy down.
Miraider dodged all the projectiles that Shifter threw at him, big thanks to Plagg for alerting him of them.
Growing more frustrated by the minute, Shifter used Virgo's power to levitate various objects and threw them in Gentaro's direction.
"You know, you could get more mileage if you summon a lucky charm." Plagg piped beside Gentaro who continually dodged the physical projectiles coming his way.
"Lucky what?"
"Lucky Charm, it creates an item that would be beneficial for you to defeat the opponent."
"How do I summon that whatever charm?" Gentaro asked as he flew higher up in the air.
"Would you stop moving?!" Shifter growled as lifted two trucks and threw them toward Gentaro.
"Just call it out, Lucky Charm." Plagg replied after Gentaro cut the two trucks with his yoyo, causing them to explode behind the two of them.
"Okay? Lucky Charm?"
A loveliness of ladybugs congregated towards Gentaro's yoyo and revealed a small red ring with white spots, which landed on Gentaro's palm.
"Can it be?" Plagg hummed before whispering in Gentaro's ears. "You need to unify mine's and Tikki's powers, just say Tikki, Plagg Unify." He instructed. "Fair warning, unifying mine's and Sugarcube's powers takes a lot out of the user."
"Don't worry, I can handle this." Gentaro assured.
"Ha! What can a ring do for you, Fourze?" Shifter threw two more energy-based projectiles.
"This!" Gentaro opened his guard and put on both rings on two of his fingers. "Tikki, Plagg, Unify!"
Gentaro found himself back in the presence of the being. He was still in awe of the presence of the gigantic pink winged-being and he vowed to befriend them, as he always does.
Gentaro momentarily glowed green before his appearance changed once more. He now sported a black belt with green accents around his hips and his black chest plate gained a silhouette of a cat in green.
He now has a belt extension that hung freely behind like a cat tail as all black parts of his outfit sported green accents. The black chest plate he has now has a green outline of a cat towering over the ladybug with white spots.
His helmet's ladybug antennas were replaced by two cat ears.
"And it's still Miraider, Shifter."
Gentaro used his yoyo to latch it onto a nearby balcony rail and swung from it, kicking Shifter's chest in the process, and landed on the roof of the same building.
In Shifter's ever-growing frustration, he uprooted two pieces of park equipment: a monkey bar and a slide; and launched them toward Gentaro, who simply used his staff to bat the large projectiles away from him.
Gentaro used his yoyo to catch some of the debris from the uprooted equipment and threw them toward his opponent before he launched his staff toward Shifter's waist and hit the small black box that fell to the ground.
Shifter immediately reached for the falling box as its contents spilled out. He was only able to grab one card, which he immediately inserted into his belt buckle.
Gentaro jumped from the roof, used his scarf-wings to control his descent, and landed before the fallen box and cards.
"Another Decade"
Shifter's appearance shifted into a monstrous version of Kamen Rider Decade.
"Another Rider," Gentaro panted.
"Let us see how the Miraculous handle the power of the Destroyer of Worlds." Shifter declared as he opened a number of aurora veils.
"Cataclysm." Gentaro stated as the black box and the cards he had gathered turned into black ash.
Various monsters and villains exited the veils and surrounded Gentaro, leaving no way out of the predicament.
"Lucky Charm!"
The black-spotted red ring on Gentaro's finger vanished as another loveliness of ladybugs congregated on his yoyo and conjured a black-spotted red replica of his staff that he had thrown earlier.
Gentaro looked at his new staff curiously before looking around him. That was when he noticed the damage the summoned vines took as the battle progressed.
He immediately searched for his own staff, which he found under the rubble just a few paces behind Shifter.
The summoned villains did not give Miraider a chance to get his staff and rushed at him. Gentaro effortlessly slammed them to the standing vines with the spotted replica of his staff in his hands, used his yoyo and grabbed his staff from between Shifter's legs, and swept his legs, knocking him down as a result.
Miraider threw his staves in two different directions, cutting down the vines that surrounded the area in the process, causing them to fall down on the summoned villains, taking all of them out of the fight.
"You may have taken out the Dark Riders, Fourze, but you still have to fight me." Shifter stood up.
"Without your cards, you can't transform into other monsters." Gentaro pointed out.
"Another Decade is plenty powerful." Shifter rushed towards Miraider and began attacking the new Miraculous holder with a flurry of punches and kicks.
Miraider managed to block and parry all of his opponent's attacks.
The constant blocking and parrying of his strikes frustrated Shifter even more than before. He kicked Miraider's stomach and jumped back, getting some distance from his opponent. He gave his belt a single pound before jumping back in the air positioning himself with one foot in front of him.
Multiple translucent cards appeared in front of Shifter before he passed through them, his kick gained more power with each translucent card he passes through.
Gentaro braced himself from the obvious Rider kick that Shifter was doing when the staves, he threw earlier to knock the spires of vines that erupted from the ground, taking out the summoned warriors from the fight, hit the back of Shifter's head, derailing his opponent from the trajectory.
The hit canceled the attack, so to speak.
Thinking fast, Gentaro immediately used his yoyo and latched onto one of Shifter's wrists and pulled the Akumatized villain to him before twisting his opponent's arm on his back.
"What are you doing, Fourze?" Shifter growled.
"This," Gentaro raised his finger in front of Shifter's face. "Cataclysm."
Black energy surrounded Miraider's finger before it made contact with Shifter's belt buckle, turning it to black ash.
A purple butterfly emerged from the black ash as black goo surrounded Shifter before it dissipated and revealed a man in a white uniform.
As if he knew what to do next, Miraider opened his yoyo, for lack of a better term, and threw it at the flying purple butterfly.
"Come here and be my friend, Akuma."
Miraider caught the purple butterfly with his yoyo and pulled his weapon back to him. He opened said yoyo and released the caught butterfly, this time it was white, purified of the purple taint it had earlier.
"Let's be friends pretty butterfly." Gentaro grinned as he raised his fist in front of the butterfly.
Gentaro gently bumped his fist onto the butterfly's small form, thrice from three different starting points: the front; above; and below, much to the onlooker's bewilderment. Even more bizarre was the fact that the butterfly mirrored his actions and intentionally flew towards the enclosed fist as if it knew that they were doing a handshake.
Once the butterfly flew away from him, Gentaro looked at the damage the fight against Shifter had brought to the city and sighed.
Gentaro's battles before didn't do this much damage to the city. He has deliberately led his opponents away from potential victims of crossfire and property damage whenever he can, either by getting himself hit by the opponent's attack and rolling into a specific direction or simply hitting his enemies forcing them to move to a specific location.
Which would often lead to one of these locations: an abandoned warehouse, a forest, or an abandoned quarry.
Gentaro shook his head and started picking up the long and thick vines that he had deliberately dropped on the Dark Riders that were summoned.
"M. Ki- Miraider!" Gentaro heard a familiar voice.
"Ma-marinette?"
"You need to do one more thing," Marinette shouted. "You need to throw your lucky charm in the air and say Miraculous Miraider!"
With nothing to lose from following a civilian's suggestion, Gentaro followed Marinette's instructions.
"Miraculous Miraider!" Gentaro threw his spotted staff in the air.
The red staff glowed red before it turned into a loveliness of ladybugs and flew everywhere, reversing the damage done by the battle against Shifter. The vines disappeared, and the holes that the vines had sprouted from disappeared.
Even the people who were unfortunate enough to be struck by Shifter all came back, standing, in the places where they were struck.
It's as if the battle against Shifter did not happen at all.
The only evidence that there was a battle at all was the fact that Gentaro was still using the Miraculous of Creation and Destruction.
"So that's what made the forest earlier disappear!" Gentaro remarked. "Well, that takes care of that." He grinned.
That was when he noticed a white van speed away from the scene, the Foundation X villain that was possessed by an Akuma missing from where he was lying earlier.
"He got away." Gentaro sighed.
Marinette and a blond boy approached Gentaro, and he waved at them.
"You're using the Miraculous of Creation and Destruction." The boy commented. "What happened to Ladybug and Chat Noir? He asked.
"I'm sure they're fine." Gentaro assured the kids.
"Would you give the Miraculous Back to them?" Marinette asked, fidgeting.
"Of course!" Gentaro grinned. "I just need to figure out how to transform ba- Oh!"
Gentaro was back in front of the gigantic being he's been seeing lately. This time he was able to interact with the ethereal being by doing the same thing he did with the butterfly earlier to the being, his signature handshake.
"Oh?" The blond boy tilted his head.
"I just learned how." Gentaro smiled. "Tikki, Plagg divide."
A black being exited the ring on Miraider's finger, taking away anything relating to cats, as well as any shade of green from his appearance.
"Tikki, spots off."
The ladybug-themed suit disappeared, leaving Gentaro in his civilian clothes, as a red being exited from the earrings he was wearing.
"Y-you…"
"Happy to help, Tikki." Gentaro grinned at the red being.
"Have to say, Sugarcube, he's not half bad," Plagg commented. "Not many people can do what he just did."
"But, but…" Tikki wanted to press the issue further but opted to sigh instead. "Still, thank you for assisting."
"What buds are for." Gentaro grinned as he offered his enclosed fist to the red being.
Curious as to what the gesture was, Tikki flew towards the enclosed fist and bumped it. Before Tikki knew what was happening, Gentaro gently bumped Tikki's head and then their feet.
"Oh! That looks fun!"
Plagg flew towards Gentaro's fist and bumped into it, unlike Tikki, Plagg met with the fist with their head and their feet.
"We should return to our holders now."
"You're right." Plagg agreed.
"Here you go," Gentaro gave Plagg and Tikki their respective Miraculous. "Thanks for lending me your powers."
"It was our pleasure, Gentaro-san." Tikki bowed their head before they flew off, maybe back to Ladybug.
Plagg merely waved one of their tiny paws at Gentaro before following Tikki's lead, flying back to Chat Noir.
"We should go," The blond boy suggested. "You could be mobbed by people asking what happened to Ladybug and Chat Noir and ask you a lot of questions."
"Agreed," Marinette nodded. "Let's go to the bakery before everyone realizes that you were the hero who saved the day."
"I can run a distraction," The blond boy. "I can just say that Miraider went somewhere."
"No, that lie could backfire, Adrien." Marinette shook her head.
In the days following Shifter's defeat, Gentarou was able to: find himself a place to sleep; and give Paris's heroes minimal assistance knowing they could handle themselves.
He was even able to subject both heroes to his signature handshake, which left both of them slack-jawed, for what reason, he doesn't know.
He was also able to learn that he was using magic when he was using the Miraculous to fight Shifter and apparently, the magic that he was using ensured that no one, who wasn't watching him as he transformed and de-transform as the heroes would be able to connect him to Miraider.
Even Gentarou and Kamen Rider Fourze would not be connected, at least in this world.
During peaceful times, he was able to tell both Ladybug and Chat Noir how he came to their world. His story was corroborated by the surprise appearance of the Rabbit Miraculous holder, Bunnyx, two versions of her.
To Ladybug's and Chat Noir's surprise, both the young and old versions of Bunnyx were also subjected to Gentaro's signature handshake.
Days had passed after the fight against Shifter when Gentaro found a lead about Foundation X. That lead was them summoning an Aurora Veil, so tall that he could see it from his room, to hop to another world.
Immediately transforming into Fourze with the Decade module equipped, he stopped the decay of the summoned Aurora Veil and met up with Ladybug and Chat Noir.
"So this is goodbye, Fourze?" Ladybug asked.
"What are you talking about, milady?" Chat Noir lazily leaned on his staff. "This is not furr-well," He grinned. "I'm sure we'll be able to meet Fourze in the future, Bunnyx said so."
"Right, I know that," She mirrored her partner's grin. "Still I wanted to make use of your Radar module to locate Monarch, but we'll be fine."
"I don't know if it could locate him, but I think you got the idea."
"That is a missed opportunity," Chat Noir nodded.
"How so?"
"Monarch is able to communicate with his Akuma victims, either by goading them or forcing them to do his bidding." Ladybug shared her theory. "I was thinking the Radar module could hack us into the frequency, for lack of a better term, and give us his location."
Chat Noir nodded.
"And we can take back the Miraculous he stole."
"Still, you have your brand of villains to chase and I won't get in the way of that."
"Best of luck pal."
"Thanks."
Gentarou bid farewell to Paris's duo of heroes, but not before subjecting Gentarou with his signature handshake at the same time, which Gentarou was more than happy to reciprocate.
Kamen Rider Fourze waved once more to the heroic friends he made in this universe before propelling himself into the Aurora Veil with his Rocket module.