Fire Emblem Awakening was chosen to be represented first mainly due to my familiarity with it… though, like with Decade, these will be alternate versions of the stories. Partly for creative freedom… and partly because I'm not familiar with all of the worlds… the only ones I knew decently are Awakening, Fates and TMS.
Speaking of that crossover game… the song 'Reincarnation' will officially serve as our Hero theme. Though, getting the theme here was a bit tricky. I did end up needing to use the Shin Megami Tensei Wiki to get the lyrics here and then editing them wasn't the easiest… since they don't exactly match up. Anyway… let's just go ahead and begin.
Fire Emblem belongs to Nintendo, Intelligent Systems, etc. Kamen Rider belongs to Toei, Bandai, etc. All OCs belong to their owners.
Previously on Kamen Rider Hero…
Takeshi: Here we go… *clicks 'Yes' option* Henshin!
=HERO!=
Mystery Woman: What is your name, young man?
Takeshi: Takeshi.
Mystery Woman: It's nice to meet you, Takeshi. As Kamen Rider Hero, your task is to go into the worlds of Marth, Roy, Ike, Micaiah, Robin and Lucina and repair the damage…
Takeshi: Ok… but what about Kamui's, Celia's and Itsuki's worlds?
Mystery Woman: Those worlds… are to be destroyed.
Takeshi: You're kidding, right?
Mystery Woman: Good luck, Kamen Rider Hero.
Takeshi: ...I'm in… Awakening… no Sekai…
Takeshi ran towards the top of a hill and got a better look as the Ylisse army was in the middle of battle, "Hmm… looks like Plegian forces at blame here…"
Before Takeshi could say or do anything more, he ended up nearly getting hit by an arrow and going tumbling down into the supplies for the Ylisse side. When he got back up, he was in standard military wear for Ylisse soldiers. Takeshi let out a groan as he got back up and looked towards another soldier.
"Soldier! What are you doing lying around?" the soldier demanded to know.
"Sorry sir, I was just looking for a replacement blade and I fell down," Takeshi responded quickly.
The other soldier quickly tossed him a blade and motioned for him to get out into the field of battle. Takeshi quickly began to look around and saw Chrom was alongside Sumia in the air and they were attacking some enemy Pegasus Knights, Frederick was blocking attacks and allowing other members of the army to move in and attack themselves.
"Alright… so then where's…?" Takeshi muttered as he evaded arrow shows from some of the opposition. Before Takeshi could take out his belt to transform, a horse's whinny stopped him from doing so and in charged a man in a black cloak. The man had what appeared to be a white helmet with a silver jewel in front of where his face would be. He got off the horse and revealed he was a Kamen Rider similar to the White Wizard, but his Driver wasn't hand shaped, thought Takeshi couldn't make out all the details, and he was carrying a tome in his other hand, "...Robin…"
Kowashitai daijisou ni kakaeta watashi o zenbu (I'm breaking down all the walls I've built up around my lonely heart now) *Takeshi held his phone in his hand before he was seemingly absorbed into it.*
Kimi ga kono kodoku o itami o iyasu no (You're the one that takes it all away, my solitude and all my pain) *His phone was now attached onto his wrist and his Driver was in position.*
Reincarnation Realization *The Kamen Ride Hero card slipped out and into the phone insertion.
Reincarnation kiete shimaitai (I want to disappear…) *Takeshi now stood on the ground as Kamen Rider Hero.*
Kamen Rider Hero
Nemuranai machi no zawameki aisouwarai no yuutsu (I walk alone through the city of lights, I see the same fake smiles every night) *Takeshi was now back in the real world and had his phone in his hand, playing Fire Emblem Heroes.*
Honne nante itsuka doko ka mienai furi (Cause everyone hides...they run and they hide from their real feelings.) *The game then had all of the characters seemingly vanish. Takeshi then took his phone and put it into position*
Dare datte fuan nante sonna (And everyone's got their stresses too, yeah I know) *Hero was seen punching and kicking various Risen foes, knocking them away, before he turned to see the fractured stained glassed windows of the nine worlds.*
Iwarenakutemo wakatteru (But I already get that's the status quo. I'm breaking down…) *Kamen Rider Marth, Ike, Robin, Micaiah, Roy and Lucina all stood and seemed fractured as well. Hero stood in the center of the six, glancing towards the three without representation.*
Kowashitai daijisou ni kakaeta tsuyogari nante (All the masks that I wear to hide my lonely heart now) *He took the six cards and loaded them into his card scanner, now being armed with the Fire Emblem itself. The cloaked woman walked over to him and simply smiled.*
Demo sunao ni narenai (But what if I'm just lying to myself?) *Takeshi stared at his phone for a moment before he was joined by a small green orb, who smiled at him*
Mayottemo nayan demo kimi ga motomeru nara (If even now, you still want me when I am hurt,wandering lost in the rain) *Takeshi and the green orb both stood between the worlds, looking towards the six Riders and three silhouetted figures.
Semete kono kodoku o itami o kowashite (The at least help me destroy it all… My solitude, and all my pain) *Takeshi now stood as Kamen Rider Hero and reached out to them, trying to save them.*
Reincarnation Realization *Takeshi was now back in his base and held out the Kamen Rider Hero card.*
Reincarnation umarekawaritai (I want to be reborn) *He then turned towards the reader and gave a simple smile, showing off the Hero card.*
Emblem 02: Ylisse Soldier
Takeshi stood in awe at Robin in his Rider form, noticing the resemblance to the White Wizard, before watching as Kamen Rider Robin easily beat the foes back with a blast of Elthunder. Robin turned towards Takeshi and made sure he was alright. Robin then headed off on his horse to continue the battle, which was won in the name of Ylisse after a while.
"Alright men," Chrom began as Sumia's pegasus landed, "Back to base. We're near the Arena Ferox and must make preparations,"
"Sir yes sir!" they all responded as they headed back towards the base.
Takeshi began to look around at the members of Chrom's army, seeing, beyond the ones he's already seen, Virion, Sully, Stahl, Vaike, Miriel, Kellam, Lon'qu, Ricken, Maribelle, Panne, Gaius, Cordelia, Gregor, Nowi and Libra, 'Hmm… no sign of the stalker and no sign of Lissa,'
"Ano… you're alright, right?" a timid voice asked Takeshi, making him turn to see Olivia.
"...oh. Yea, I'm fine," Takeshi assured her as she nervously walked over to ask the same question to a few others, "...Lissa and the stalker should both be here if Olivia is here…"
"You must be new around these parts," another soldier spoke as he walked over to Takeshi, "The Exalt's younger sister was kidnapped and last sighted in Ferox."
"And his older sister?"
"Dead."
'But… Lucina would've warned Chrom and Robin about the attack and stopped her from being assassinated. And… when would Lissa have been kidnapped?' Takeshi thought as they had arrived at the base and he was guided to the room for recruits, "...oh. We're here?"
"You've been spaced out for a while, so… here we are. I'll find you a barrack to sleep in," the other soldier told him.
Takeshi simply nodded as he took off some of the armor and plopped down by a wall, "How'd I end up as a soldier here?"
"Leave the explanations to me!" a small voice told him, making him look to see what looked to be a tiny fairy with green hair, "Hiya."
"...Tiki?"
The small fairy floated over, wearing a pink dress that looked like a flower, was barefoot, and had her hair in a ponytail, "Hai. Watashi wa Tiki-chan!"
"...ok…" Takeshi nodded.
"And I'm the assistant to Kamen Rider Hero!" she cheered, pulling a small party popper and letting the streamers fall onto Takeshi, "Nice to be around you!"
"...so… boss lady wants me to get rid of the Tokyo Mirage Sessions world… yet my assistant is clearly based on that version of Tiki…" Takeshi noted silently, "Anyway… you said you would explain things to me? Alright. Tell me what's different with this world from the game."
"Rightio!" Tiki-chan giggled as she handed Takeshi his phone and pulled up a video "I'll explain things along with those visuals there."
Takeshi was simply silent as he looked at his phone, seeing chibi icons of the Fire Emblem Awakening characters, as he saw Robin's icon and Chrom's icon move alongside the icons of Lissa and Fredrick.
"So they met up with most everybody as they should've, but one thing happened that made things not happen as you know them," Tiki-chan began as the visual showed a chibi-icon of Lucina before it was given a giant red X, "Lucina doesn't exist in this world."
"...how?"
"Because of the damage caused to reality, silly," Tiki-chan pointed out, "Her timeline got split off from this world, so she isn't in this world. And because of that..."
"The original Exalt is dead and Chrom got pushed up earlier,"
"Ping-pong," Tiki-chan giggled as she booped his nose, "And he married Sumia."
"Ok…" Takeshi nodded as he saw the chibi-icons of Chrom and Sumia being married. Next the visuals showed Robin alongside Lissa, but Frederick drove Robin back a bit and then chibi-Risen grabbed Lissa and ran off, "...what?"
"She was taken captive. It's been several months since then and her being spotted in the now Plegian controlled Ferox is the only lead."
"How'd they take it over?"
"Since Lucina and Chrom's forces weren't there, the Plegian forces managed to win the battle at the Arena,"
Takeshi let out a small sigh as he set his phone down, "So… is my job to help rescue Lissa?"
"I dunno," Tiki-chan shrugged, Takeshi facepalming in response, "I'm only your advisor. I don't know what the damages are, I just know the background of the worlds and can explain things. But, anyway, as for why you're a soldier, it's so you can get near Robin and Chrom to help out."
"Oh," Takeshi nodded as he watched Chrom and Robin walk in, "Sirs,"
"At ease, soldier," Chrom told him, "I don't recognize you. What's your name?"
"It's Takeshi,"
Chrom thought for a moment, "Oh yea. I think I remember seeing you apply…"
"Yea," Takeshi nodded.
"Neat wrist-band there," Robin commented.
"Oh, thank you," Takeshi smiled as Robin simply looked at it, "Uh… thanks for letting me serve you all. It's an honor,"
Chrom simply smiled as he headed off to speak with Sumia, while Robin also headed out though paused to glance back at Takeshi for a moment. Robin then continued onward.
"Neat."
Tiki-chan giggled as she sat on Takeshi's shoulder, "Oh. Also, anybody who's isn't a Kamen Rider can see me. Just so you know."
Takeshi simply gave a nod in response.
Later that evening was a gathering of the soldiers and they all stood at attention as Chrom and Robin spoke of their plan.
"We will be taking the town just outside the Arena so that we have a close fallback point in case we do need to fall back," Robin spoke, "And then we take the Arena and see if Lissa is there."
"We must rescue her…" Chrom stated determinedly, "Soldiers, move out!"
"Sir yes sir!"
Thus they began to head for their horses, Takeshi and Tiki-chan heading in as well, and they began to make their way to the Arena Ferox.
They had managed to hide out in the village just outside of the Arena. Robin was working on planning out some ideas to get to the Arena and hopefully find Lissa. Takeshi was carefully watching Robin work on his ideas, but quickly hid behind the corner he was in as somebody had entered the room from the other end.
"Konichiwa, Robin," a familiar sounding voice greeted.
"Hi, Olivia," Robin responded as he continued to look over his plans, neither seeing Takeshi poke his head back over to watch, "Something up?"
"I just wanted to come and see you…" she informed before she nervously backed away, "W-why…? Did you not want to be bothered?"
"It's fine," he assured as he hugged her.
Takeshi simply watched carefully before he had a jawdrop upon seeing Robin and Olivia kiss, "You've gotta be kidding me…"
"Why say that?" Tiki-chan asked as she teleported in atop his head.
"...he's with Olivia and not Lissa?"
Tiki-chan gave a meek shrug in response as Takeshi simply walked off in an annoyed huff.
The bluenette sat in his bunk in the room for the soldiers and was simply more than a bit irritated about how Robin had ended up with Olivia.
'I understand she got kidnapped and stuff, but they could've gotten together before then. ...unless Olivia ended up joining them earlier than she would've in the game…' Takeshi thought.
"You're really hung up on that?" Tiki-chan asked Takeshi.
"...no. Mildly irritated, but still…"
Tiki-chan simply giggled a bit as she floated down to him, "Well… if she's in the Arena, you can go look for her…"
"And get in trouble? No way…"
"You technically aren't actually a part of this military, remember?"
Takeshi blinked for a bit before he got up and slowly snuck out.
He arrived in the Arena Ferox and slowly began to look for any sign of Lissa being around. The arena seemed to be abandoned apart from a few soldiers that were sleeping so heavily that they didn't see Takeshi roam. He soon entered the main room and saw that it had a light of sorts glowing.
"Man… this is bigger than Smash and the main Fire Emblem games made it seem…" Takeshi gawked as he walked around a bit.
"So you're a spy?" Robin's voice asked as he entered the room.
Takeshi yelped and backed away a bit before regaining his composure and looking at Robin, "I just decided to scout ahead."
Robin rolled his eyes a little bit at Takeshi as he held out his tome.
"Mind my asking you something? Why did you hook up with Olivia?"
"...because I fell for her… she was simply wonderful to be around and pretty and… just somebody I simply love. Why?"
"What about Lissa?"
"Chom's younger sister? ...she's cute and stuff, but somebody else liked her and I really don't want to get on that guy's bad side…"
It didn't take long for it to come together in Takeshi's head that Robin was talking about Fredrick.
"I wouldn't leave the woman I love, if you're even thinking about that."
"I wasn't!"
"I can't just leave her!" Robin yelled as he took out what resembled the belt buckle used by the Ryuki Riders, but the insertion slot was on the top.
Takeshi took out his buckle and quickly put it on in self-defense, "I don't want to fight you."
"Are you on my side or what?"
"I am."
Suddenly, some Risen soldiers charged in and began to attack the two. Robin began to blast some with his magic, while Takeshi quickly took out the phone, put it onto his wrist and then took out the Hero card.
"Henshin!" he declared, loading in the card and pressing the activation button.
=KAMEN RIDE: ...HERO!=
Takeshi transformed into Kamen Rider Hero and began to battle the Risen as best he could. Robin managed to knock a few away, proceeding to flip through some pages in his tome, before glaring a bit at Takeshi.
"...Henshin." Robin muttered as he loaded his book into the buckle and pressed a small switch on the top of it into position. He then had a black ring of energy surround him and transformed into his Rider form. Robin then charged at Hero and began to punch him.
"What the heck?! I'm on your side!" Hero yelled.
"No you aren't… I'm certain of that now…" Robin responded as he charged forward to continue the battle…
*As the instrumentals slowly began, Takeshi stared at the dark room with the inactive portal.*
Embrace the dark you call a home, *Takeshi held out the Hero card and was joined by Tiki-chan.*
Gaze upon an empty, white throne *They looked to the portal, which was inactive and then slowly showed Kamen Rider Robin's image*
A legacy of lies, *The two were being watched by something in the shadows*
A familiar disguise *Takeshi turned and then saw the mysterious woman before he was again shoved into the portal.*
Sing with me a song of conquest and fate *Takeshi, now Kamen Rider Hero, was standing in between various worlds and seeing the fractures to all nine of them.*
The black pillar cracks beneath its weight *He could see the nine Riders all facing away from him before they faded as if they weren't even there.*
Night breaks through the day, hard as a stone *Hero and Tiki-chan stood in a dark room in confusion before they slowly walked out of it*
Lost in thoughts all alone *The two simply continued forward.*
"Hello!" Tiki-chan cheered as she was now in front of the hypothetical camera, "Tiki-chan here for a special segment for Kamen Rider Hero! Tiki-chan's Explanation Corner!"
The camera was moved over to a curtain of sorts, but there was nothing there.
"Uh… where's my title card?" she asked somebody off-camera.
"It hasn't been designed yet."
"Alright," Tiki-chan shrugged as she twirled around like a ballerina, turning her attention back to the audience, "In this little corner I have, I'll explain certain elements of the story and certain things about the history of the two franchises."
She giggled and gave a smile to the camera, "So today, let's begin with something basic. A bit more info about our hero… Kamen Riderrrrrrrrrrrr… HERO!"
A picture of Kamen Rider Hero appeared next to her.
"This is a very lovely rendition of our hero done by the writer's main buddy, so thank you for the picture," Tiki-chan smiled, forming a small heart with her hands, before turning to the picture, "So, statistically speaking, Hero is rather middle of the road. He does have some slight accents in defense and power, very slight, while the rest is rather average. He's 205cm in height, weighs 97 kgs, which is 213.8 lbs for that system, can punch with 7.5 tons, kick with 10.2 tons, jump 43.1 meters into the air with a single bound, and run 100 meters in 3.0 seconds!" Tiki-chan summarized as she flew around joyfully, "Kamen Rider Hero is a strong and powerful force that is going to save the Fire Emblem realities. Though, as of now, he lacks any sort of weapon. He does have Attack Ride cards that can summon certain weapons, but where the weapon will spawn from is something I don't know. Ah well."
Tiki-chan then turned to the camera with a smile, "Tune in next time for Kamen Rider Hero!"
She then winked and giggled a bit.
Jikai, Kamen Rider Hero…
Hero: I'm not your enemy Robin!
Kamen Rider Robin: Don't lie to me!
Takeshi: If this will prove I'm on your side…
Frederick: Lissa!
Chrom: We will save you… I SWEAR IT!
Takeshi: Ikuzo…
Emblem 3: Awakening A Heart
Alright… let's get some questions outta the way first before they're asked. I personally do pair up Robin with Olivia, the reason Tharja is never referred to by her name is simply because Takeshi doesn't like her, the ending theme is only that verse because… because, and Takeshi's annoyance at who Robin married is simply just that, annoyance. Shipping can be a very headache inducing thing. Heck, in Fairy Tail, there's one character who most of the fandom hates simply because she 'gets in the way' of another ship. ...I'm not kidding.
I felt like there needed to be a character to explain things to Takeshi, as well as the audience, because of how the worlds have altered, and to explain things that aren't made apparent. The bonus corner seemed to be a great idea to have these things explained in a fun and cute way. As for how she acts and how she looks? Well, she's basically Tokyo Mirage Sessions' version of Tiki in terms of personality, and her looks… it's basically the appearance of Yui from Sword Art Online in the ALO Arc. She's technically a pixie like that, but Tiki, from a distance, looks like a green colored Navi from Ocarina of Time. If she comes off as annoying as many see Navi, I do apologize in advance.
The sketch that was mentioned is indeed something KKD drew for me (major props to you and thanks for also agreeing to draw other characters for this story), though… I uploaded them to my DA account, and then he uploaded them to his. ...I dunno why he did that.
As for Hero's statistics, I used Kamen Riders Gaim and Ex-Aid as a reference point for how middle of the road forms work. Hero does have slight accents in power and defense, but they're only slight. Just making sure you guys get that.
Hope you guys enjoyed this. As for my favorite parts? It's when Tiki-chan showed up and when Robin was in his Rider form. Really cool stuff.
Just Live More.
