Galactic Shift Extend

by Seanzilla1988

A familiar Beastkin goes through a familiar abandoned Cauldron. However, she doesn't end up in another timeline, but Bellwood, home to a teen with a watch he wears on his arm that can change his shape to save the world from harm.

73. If the Clothes Fits

SZ: Well..we got another chapter for you folks, and if last chapter's ending was any indications...you know what's coming.

GT: Eeyup. Prepare for shenanigans, nonsense, insanity, little to no clothing, and blood.

SZ: Lots...and lots of blood.

Z0: *walks in and sees what's going to happen* Hmm...yall need help…

GT: Hey, not our fault the people who made part of this sekai had people capable of spewing out copious amounts of blood from their nose without repercussion unless it's used for urgency.

Z0: You didn't deny needing help though…

SZ: He got us there...ahem! Anyway...you all know the deal. We don't own jack squat aside from original content.

Z0: Oh right I need something from you guys, *now wearing a black suit* I kinda owe some friends of mine in hell...some...interest...so I'm gonna borrow your souls for a bit. *horns sprout from my head as eyes begin glowing red*

SZ: ….oh shit…

GT: We don't own nothing here, folks. And, apparently, not our souls, either.

Z0: You don't want to see what...happens next *screen goes black*

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"I knew it'd be a good one," Tsukasa chuckled, looking at some developed photos before pocketing them, "Alright. Fair warning, this world is one of my 'on duty' ones, so you may or may not see me as much. Just be ready for your 'roles' in this world."

"Gotcha!" Makoto replied, a nice tan to her.

"So...now you're taking us with you on a work mission." Ben chuckled, "This means it's another Kamen Rider-like world, right?"

"This time yes," Tsukasa spoke, "It's a special Xross World. For a variety of reasons, I try to stay away from worlds involving this goober...but this one...well it's very special."

"...Special how?" Naoto asked.

"Well...these two branches stem from two drastically different trees...and the resulting new world has...made everyone from both...exponentially stronger compared to the main versions," Tsukasa explained, "In some worlds...certain things have chain reactions and have volatile combinations...in this such one...we can say...two alien invasions are happening at the exact. same time…"

"..." Ben opened his mouth.

"It may be a normal Tuesday for the majority of you, but I suggest you look at the ones that aren't having a normal Tuesday," Tsukasa gestured to Rex, Bobo, Naoto, Funkfreed, and Bluey...who were all sporting dropped jaws and wide eyes.

"Fair point," Ben agreed.

"The way you say it...seems like it's not as simple as an invasion," Makoto noted.

"Well...it isn't…" he sighed, "I think you're all best off seeing the kind of world it is...all for yourselves." he grunted as he stretched, "I'm going to have to go looking for the anomalous threat that popped up. You guys...try and stay out of the literal freaky street wars happening."

"We promise to try and if we fail, we blame shenanigans," Makoto promised, hand over her heart and hand raised.

"...You remind me of quite a few cheeky folks I know," Tsukasa sighed as he went to the door of the shop, "Alright, and we're heading out."

"Ah, wait! Gotta do one thing before I leave the place," Makoto advised...before stripping down to her panties.

"Makoto?!" Noel freaked as the men covered their eyes.

"What? I love the clothes we got when we got to Shantae's world, so I'm not losing them to that veil that comes when we go out," Makoto argued.

"You could have gone into the bathroom and done it…" Tsukasa replied, the only one not covering his eyes, "Also...wow…" he replied simply.

"I'm onto that veil's nonsense," Makoto stated as she walked out and the veil covered her before it went away to expose a female sailor-like uniform now donned her, "Huh? A uniform? I'm not in the navy, am I?"

"I believe that is a school uniform," Rook noted.

"...School?" Makoto repeated as her ears and tail began to droop...before she quickly shook her head, "What am I worried about? For all I know it could be like Hope's Peak!"

"Hahahaha!" Tsukasa laughed, "Oh wait. You're being serious…"

"Do you just talk in memes?" Makoto frowned.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" he cackled.

"Oh, wait. I forgot who I was talking to," Makoto sighed, facepalming.

"...Um...Mr. Kadoya?" Noel spoke up, "What does happen to our clothes when the veil does what it does anyway?"

"I don't know. I never bothered to check," Tsukasa explained, "Sides, I can control it to change my clothing on a whim. So it's not like I bothered trying to stop it."

"...Right, you boys all go out," Noel ordered.

"Wha…?" Ben began.

"Go," Tsukasa spoke, kicking Ben out the door.

"Yipe!" Ben yelped as the veil went over him and Makoto caught him, the teen now in a male version of the uniform with a matching cap, "Well, guess we're students together, huh?"

"Looks like," Makoto noted.

"You two, Larry and Curly," Tsukasa said as he punted Rex and Naoto out, the veil giving both of them the same male uniform.

"I'm guessin' yer Moe?" Bobo noted in amusement.

"If it at all helps, I got some spare clothing from a girl I know and my sister in the back," Tsukasa spoke up as he stepped out, the veil washing over him as he was now wearing a professional suit, glasses, and his hair braided into cornrows. He pushed his glasses up before pulling out his wallet, "Don't be late to homeroom, because Sensei is not forgiving." He smiled to the others.

"...He's our teacher, isn't he?" Rex asked with a sigh.

"More than likely," Ben replied.

"Hmm…" Rook removed his supplies before stepping out, replacing his outfit with a uniform as well, "It appears to be a common trend." he walked back in and pulled out an ID mask from his supplies, putting it on to have his normal appearance be replaced with a teenager with his eyes and short black hair with periwinkle highlights, "It is fortunate that Gunvolt's world had enough items I could use to make this ID Mask."

"...Huh. I always wondered what you'd look like as a human," Makoto admitted.

"I am glad to have answered that then," Rook nodded as the girls came in from the back in mismatched shirts and skirts.

"Is it just me, or were there just skirts back there?" Sari asked before they exited and had female school uniforms replaced.

"The veil has a sense of humor with my sister and that friend of mine; mainly the latter because she loathes skirts," Tsukasa chuckled in amusement.

"Let's hurry onto the school for now," Mai suggested, "Besides...it might be cl-"

"Tall…" Lambda spoke up.

"Hmm?" the others blinked as they turned, seeing Lambda looking up at something. They then followed her line of sight...and saw that they were on a slope leading to the top of a very...very...VERY tall and large city. In fact...they could barely see the top thanks to all the buildings and clouds blocking the sight of the top, "..."

"...Oh what the actual hell…" Naoto and Rex whispered with wide eyes.

"That's school, Honnouji Gakuen." Tsukasa explained, "Enjoy~" he walked ahead.

"...Yeah, I ain't climbing dat," Bobo stated as he walked back into the store, "I'm staying...still workin' off dis sunburn…"

Bluey let out a sigh of content, patting his normal blue tummy. He didn't like being pink and stinging for the while he was...but did like all the attention and the nice smelling stuff that made the stinging go away.

"Right, I'm just gonna go on ahead of you all. The train for school will be coming this way so don't forget to get on or you're running all the way up," Tsukasa warned as the veil formed beside him and moved along his side to reveal a sleek Honda DN-01 motorcycle with the front resembling his mask.

"The Machine Decader!" Makoto awed.

"Your bike is magical, too?" Ben asked.

"It can drive on water and air…" Tsukasa replied, "And I can drive it with my mind."

"Wow," Rex whistled slowly in amazement.

"Heh. See you up there," Tsukasa smirked as he got on and drove off towards the school.

"I'm kinda surprised how no one's blown up at him with his personality," Mai noted.

"Oh, trust me, there's probably a lot of folks that have blown up at him and tried to blow him up," Makoto replied, "And I'm sure Sari knows well, hm?"

"..." Sari cringed, "That belt is insane. It's like a Celestialsapien or something like it was turned into a stone inside of it that turns his thoughts into reality."

"Seriously?" Ben raised a brow.

"There's a very very good reason why he's known as the 'Destroyer of Worlds,'" Makoto stated before her ears twitched and she looked towards the tracks, "And I think our train's coming." a trolley filled to the brim with students came along, "...Um...We'll get the next one?"

"This is the only trolley for the tracks," the conductor of it, a student with a bowl haircut that hid his eyes while wearing a formal school uniform with a black star on the chest informed.

"Seriously?" Rex raised a brow.

"I call the roof!" Makoto declared as she picked up Ben and jumped atop it.

"Wh-?! Hey!" Rex complained as he and the others climbed after them.

"This seems really unsafe," Noel whispered, "...then again...a lot of things have been unsafe with us lately…"

"Oh come on! It's not like there's nothing we can't handle!" Makoto smiled before blinking on hearing an explosion, "Huh? What's blowing up?"

"AH! It's happening again!" a student shouted as an explosion went off ahead of them.

"Masaka...Kazuraba and Kumon are at it again with two of the Shitennou!" another panicked.

"HA!" sword slashing could be heard within the smoke.

"Hya!" clanging soon followed.

"Kazuraba! I won't let you get away scot free this time!"

"The same with you, Kumon Kaito! Your disrespect shall come to an end!"

"...Wait...Kazuraba...Kumon Kaito…" Makoto whispered as a pair of blurs shot past the trolly, "...Ahhh~~" she began to squeal out in pure excitement as her eyes became stars, "Kamen...er...Armored Rider Gaim and Baron~!" Ben looked at her, "They're called 'Armored' Riders here, not Kamen. Blame DJ Sagara."

"I thought we settled this...I beat you fair and square, one on one!" the one known as Gaim, who was clad in a blue samurai like armored suit with orange -the fruit- themed armor over his torso and as a samurai kabuto added to his helmet, complained. In his hand were two swords, one a gun/katana fusion and the other looked like an orange slide.

"Hmph...They are nothing but lap dogs with zero ambition," the one known as Baron, clad in red and white knight themed armored suit with banana-themed chest and shoulder armor, with matching themed horns on his helmet, sighed. He held a silver lance with three yellow guards, making it look like a peeled banana.

"Oi Kaito...that's just harsh...I'm sure they have something interesting about them besides being Satsuki-senpai's lackeys!" Gaim complained.

"But you agree they are lackeys with nothing interesting about them?" Baron asked.

"Oh totally…" Gaim sighed.

"OI!" said 'lackeys' snapped, one donned in a massive green kendo suit with gold detailing and the other resembling a mummy with an orange ball in the mouth.

"I mean...We've already surpassed you. Your master herself should be coming down to deal with us…" Baron added, stabbing his lance into the ground, "That is...unless she's intimidated by two men with actual power?" he taunted, "Not surprised she surrounds herself with such weaklings."

"You're just using a very long winded way of calling them Beta's, aren't you?" Gaim sighed, "That is a dick move, Kaito...dick move…"

"Urusei, Kumon Kaito!" the mummy roared.

"Ah geeze...They're gonna break the tracks again," one of the students groaned.

"Why can't they dance or use those Inves things instead of this insanity?"

"I blame Matoi showing up that caused these shenanigans!"

"Shut up, Mikey."

"This is a normal thing around here?" Mai blinked with wide eyes.

"Yep," Mai turned her head a little to see a girl around her age with short brown hair in the uniform with a blue hoodie over that, "You're transfer students, right?"

"Um, yeah. Natsume Mai."

"Just call me 'Chucky,'" the girl introduced, "But, yeah. This has been the norm since our team's newest member came to town. I don't think anyone's ever gotten to see them use their Three Star Uniforms in their transformed states until this school year began."

"Three Star?" Noel repeated.

"Hoo boy, this is gonna be a bit of an explanation if you want it in detail, but the short of it is that the uniforms of the school-as well as how you live in the city-are divided up into how many 'stars' your uniform has. Us in this trolley? We're No-Stars and live at the lowest."

"...So we're basically the undesirables," Naoto noted with a sigh, "Great...it's one of my old schools all over again…."

"...Wait. What was that about the tracks being destroyed earlier?" Rook questioned.

"Emergency stop," the conductor informed, pulling on the breaks just before they came to a crater where the tracks had been before he pulled out a flip phone and dialed, "...Yes. This is the Trolley for No-Stars. ...Yes, it's the Armored Riders fighting Gamagoori-senpai and Sanageyama-senpai. ...Yes, the usual rate is fine. ...Arigatou." he hung up, "The Railroad Club Captain will be arriving shortly to perform emergency repairs to the line in a few minutes...again."

"Ha!" Baron shouted, thrusting his spear rapidly as he pushed Gamagoori back and into a wall, "Doshta? Is all you can do? Take damage? What a pointless fighting style!" he spoke punching him through the wall, "Bring me someone who actually knows how to fight next time, Masochist-senpai,"

"I am...not in the mood for you!" Gaim spoke as he swung one sword, deflecting Sanageyama's swing before slashing him across the chest with another, "I got more important problems then some macho rivalry! So if you're just gonna bother me for these play fights, find someone else!" He thrust his sword forward into his armor and pinned Sanageyama to the ground, "I could care less what Senpai wants...I have real problems to deal with...why don't you guys just grow up?" he sighed, pulling his sword and walking past him.

"Hmph...it seems like neither of you are worth his time anymore," Baron taunted the two, "It seems the world of adults is much too strict for you to join us there."

"Gh...How did you both grow so strong...so fast…?" Sanageyama demanded, "What gives you the right to claim our goals are so trivial you don't have time for them!?"

"Your inability to understand...is why you can't grow stronger." Baron replied as he walked ahead.

"The real world has real problems...I don't want to play pretend with Satsuki-senpai anymore," Gaim replied, stopping for a moment, "Maybe...it's time you guys grow up, too."

"Gh…" the two growled at that.

"Again they lost…" some of the students sighed.

"Why even bother at this point...Kazuraba and Kumon are way too powerful for Goku Uniforms to ever hope to beat." one No-Star replied.

"What good even are they anymore...if two No-Stars are now stronger than the Shitennou, this system is more or less a joke."

"Wow...those guys got their butts handed to them!" Rex awed as Gaim chose to stay behind and help fix the track while Baron rode off on a motorcycle.

"Alright...just…" Gaim spoke as he used his suit to help fix the metal tail of the track, "And just line this up…"

"Kouta!" Chucky called out, "Why do you keep letting them challenge you like that?"

"Ah, I can't help it...At this point, they don't even ask anymore! They just jump me!" Gaim spoke, "It's getting kind of old. I got more important stuff to do, Yuya is still missing! I don't have time to worry about these silly fighting games." he grunted as he smacked the last dent out of the track with the back of his sword, "That's one...ish…" he sighed, looking at the rest.

"...we're gonna be a while…" Sari sighed.

"First day late at school…" Makoto noted, "...oh Tsubaki would have a conniption if she were here….and we'd pay the price."

"..." she, Noel, and Mai shuddered, haunted looks appearing in their eyes.

"May as well make the most of it," Sari shrugged before turning to Chucky, "Um...Sumdac Sari. What was that about the stars again?"

"You're foreigners?" she blinked, "I just assumed most of you were Gal types…"

"That is fair," Makoto noted their tans.

"We actually spent a bit of time on some sunny beaches before coming here on our transfer," Rook explained.

"Oh! Ah mou…" Chucky sighed, "It's been so long since I went to the beach…" she shook her head, "Anyway, the uniforms are special with the stars representing their power. One Stars, like our conductor here, are physically stronger and tougher than a normal No Star, but the uniforms always cause them to look...um...uniform."

"Say wha?" Rex raised a brow as the conductor took his his jacket and shirt...before his bowl cut and chiseled jaw seemed to 'bleed' away, revealing a scraggy beard forming, messy green hair, and a grin revealing he was missing a tooth, "Whoa! That's pretty insane."

"Don'tcha know it, laddie," the conductor spoke in a thick Irish accent before redonning the upper half of his uniform and spoke in his 'normal' voice, "Arigatou for the assistance, Kazaruba-kohai."

"Ah, no problem! I made the mess after all. Well...me and the others and well, the sempai are kinda stuck so they can't help at the moment and we all know Kaito…" Gaim sheepishly rubbed the back of his head, "Hopefully Densha-sempai is working on the others spots we broke ahead. ...Ah! I gotta get back home for my uniform!" he panicked.

"Are you naked again?" Chuck demanded.

"No! I'm in my pajamas," Gaim defended.

"Your armor's your pajamas?" Sari giggled.

"No! I'm wearing my pajamas under my armor! Onee-chan and Aunty forbade me from wearing my armor as pajamas after I slept-stabbed Uncle in the side when I rolled in my sleep."

"You realize you have some kind of problem…" Chucky muttered.

"My only problem is that I keep getting dragged into pointless fights…" Gaim argued, putting his hands on his hips.

"Your uniform?" the conductor reminded.

"Ah! Right! I'll take my bike, so meet you at school!" Gaim panicked as he ran off down towards the No-Star District.

"So...this is normal?" Ben spoke up, motioning to the two Three Stars still trapped in a wall and ground respectively.

"At first, they were really hard...but over time...Kouta and Kaito just became way stronger. Not even the other members seem to be a match for them. At this point, we think only Satsuki-senpai has the power to actually fight them."

"Well, her and Ryuko-chan," a male teenager with messy blond hair chuckled, "Speaking of, did you see her or Mako-chan today, Chucky?"

"No, Rat," Chucky shook her head, "Mako must have had her ears plugged by her pillows again."

"Ah Ryuko should be fine, she's just as strong as Kouta by now," Rat shrugged, "Honestly, the two of them could probably beat anyone!"

"Ryuko?" Noel repeated.

"Really tough gal," Rat explained, "One day, she just showed up, and since then...things have been crazy." he started to list, "Armored Riders, a transforming sailor fuku that can apparently talk, an increase in Mako's dad's business for blood transfusion from all the blood people lost from their noses…" he shuddered, "Traumatising from a sensei that knows more than he lets on…"

"What was that about a transforming sailor fuku?" Naoto asked.

"You'll see what he means if you manage to see Ryuko in action," Chucky explained.

"...great. That's gonna be bothering me all day…" Naoto muttered before noticing the looks the others were giving him, "...not for the reasons you think! Because that honestly sounds like magical girl nonsense."

"...How so?" Lambda pondered with a head tilt.

"I...Ya know what? Nevermind," Naoto sighed as he laid on his back, "Just let me know when we get to school..."

---

A bird landed on the electric line leading to a back alley house. The bird hopped along the line before giving a few chirps for the morning. It chirped for a bit longer before…

"EEEEEYAAAAAAIIII!-!-!" a scream erupted from the home, "WE SLEPT IN! WE SLEPT IN!"

"Snkr?! Wh...AHH! AGAIN?!" another voice screamed, "DAMN IT, MAKO!"

"GOMEN! GOMEN! MY EARS GOT PLUGGED BY THE PILLOW!"

"UGH! KOTA, M….wait. WHERE'S KOTA?!"

"...Oh he must've gone ahead, or got into another fight with Kaito…"

"I NEED MY UNIFORM~!" Gaim shouted as he ran towards the house and jumped in through the second story window.

"EEK!"

*SMACK!*

"ITE~!"

"Gomen nassai!" Gaim apologized, "AH! WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!"

"NOT LATE! HURRY, HURRY! DRESSED NOW! Ah, wait! We need food, too!"

"No time, Mako! We gotta hurry! We'll take my bike!"

"Which one? The normal one, the neat flying one you got last week, or that one that's just a pair of legs?"

"Not the time! Just go with the fastest that can get us there in time!"

"Ahh! Right!"

"Kids, no summoning motorcycles from tiny locks in the house. We're still fixing the hole from the last time."

"Hai, Mrs. Manshankou/Kaachan/Aunty..."

"Your uniform, Kouta."

"Ah, arigatou, Oneechan."

"Anything new on the way here?"

"Hm? Oh, new transfer students I think."

"Oh! You think one will have a Senketsu and get naked like you can, Ryuko-chan?"

"Mako, not everyone who transfers here is like me…"

"Huh? Well of course not! Then we'd be getting lots of clones of Ryuko-chan if we did! We can barely keep up with one!"

"...Wait a second. What was that?!"

"WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!" Gaim and Mako's voices shouted.

---

"The warning bell is a siren?" Ben raised a brow.

"Sounds like it…" Makoto groaned, holding her ears.

"What an odd choice…" Rook whispered, cringing a little from his own ringing ears.

"Don't get me started on odd," Sari noted, a hand on the wall to the classroom, "This school's reminding me of when I was with Macadam and him helping me understand my powers a bit more by having me discover the secret to his oil house."

"...You mean this school's a…" Makoto began before Sari shushed her.

"There are cameras and audio recording equipment everywhere except inside the actual stalls in the bathrooms," Sari warned.

"Ooh...good call," Makoto whispered.

"Well this place is just all kinds of weird…" Ben muttered, looking at his Omnitrix.

"Which is pretty much the norm for us," Rex added as he looked around, "Still...wonder wh-"

"HOLD IT!"

"Gh?!" the group jumped as they quickly turned..and looked up at the massive, muscular giant of a man glaring down at them.

'HOLY...HE'S HUGE!' Ben mentally exclaimed...and quickly slid Skurd back underneath the Omnitrix before he could come out.

"All of you…" the giant spoke ominously...before opening up a tiny book and looked into it, "Ah...Tennyson Benjamin, Nanaya Makoto, Vermillion Noel, Vermillion Lambda, Natsume Mai, Rook Blanko, Salazar Rex, Kurogane Naoto." he nodded before closing the tiny book and putting it into his pocket, "Welcome new transfers. I am Ira Gamagoori, Disciplinary Comittee Chair. Considering it's your first day, I will allow this sleight on regulations."

"Sleight?" Makoto repeated before he pointed at her.

"Your cosplay is in direct violation of article 57 subsection C!" Gamagoori informed, "Unless you are a member of the Cosplay Club, which needs a new leader, you are not authorized to wear those ears or tail!"

"Um...Actually, I was kinda caught up in a teleport experiment and a squirrel was in the other pod," Makoto explained, moving a bit of her hair near one ear as Gamagoori looked closer at it.

"Hmmm...Graduating from Honoujii would be good prestige to allow one to see past those," Gamgoori admitted, rubbing his chin before nodding, "Very well. My apologies for the accusation."

'Oh my god, do they not have the movie The Fly here?!' Makoto thought in relief.

"You may proceed to your respective classes," Gamagoori said as he began to walk off, "You all have a good day, but heed my warning….if you violate any rules outside of being late…" he paused as glared back at the group, who swore they heard a whip cracking as they saw the fury in his eyes, "There is no palace in all of Hanouji you can hide from my wrath…"

"Ulp...Y-Yes, sir," Rex assured.

"Furthermore…" they all yelped, barely avoiding the large casket-sized books that dropped near them, "These are your student handbooks which double as emergency bunkers. Good day to you all."

"...Ah geez," Makoto sighed once Gamagoori was out of sight and hearing..

"How..are we supposed to read these?" Naoto asked, "These are the size of…"

"Finished," Lambda spoke up, closing her book as Rook was already reading his.

"Good job, La-chan!" Makoto gave a thumbs up.

"I also advise we head to class," Lambda added, "Multiple accounts of tardiness in a single day is a penalty..."

"Seriously?"

"Oh, yes. That is true. Three penalties and we'll be fired out of a cannon into the lake," Rook informed.

"...What?" Makoto blinked twice.

"I get the feeling we're in the middle of the Sengoku if it were brought to the modern day…" Naoto muttered.

---

"Huh? Sensei's got the flu?" a perky brunette with her hair done in a bowl cut pondered, sitting between a young man with messy black hair in the male uniform and a pale-skinned shapely teen with short black hair with a single red highlight and unique gear-like irises in her eyes wearing a black sailor fuku with red detailing with the scarf of it resembling a pair of eyes with one covered in an 'eye patch.'

"Seems like it, Mako," one of the students noted, looking over their shoulder at her, "So a substitute is coming."

"Ah mou~I gotta stay awake now," Mako whined, hitting her head on her desk in sadness.

"And all the extra seats?" the young man asked, glancing at the several empty desks in concern.

"New transfers today, Kouta," the student replied, giving him reassurance that no one else was missing in the class.

"Transfer students?" Mako repeated as she shot her head up.

"Mako, no going for a tackle or a hug or a glomp until after they get introduced to you," the short-haired girl warned.

"Aw, but Ryuko-chan~!"

"Iie! Someone needs to be on Mako Duty while Yuya is missing," Ryuko replied with a frown, "And that's me. So no!"

"You're rather good at it." Kouta added, "Still what a lot of weird coincidences. It wasn't that long ago we got Ryuko as the new student."

"Oh! You're right!" Mako beamed, "Boy, today's a buncha firsts, ain't it?"

"Still not gonna jump 'em," Ryuko stated.

"Boo~!" Mako pouted.

"Oh…" everyone turned to see Tsukasa, "So this is the class...this place is hard to figure out."

"?!" Ryuko tensed up.

"What's wrong?" Mako whispered.

"Senketsu feels like he turned into sandpaper," Ryuki hissed under her breath.

"Ryuko...That man...don't fight him…" Ryuko glanced down to see the visible 'eye' of her sailor fuku looking up at her.

"Huh? That guy?" she blinked.

"I can't explain it...but the difference in strength...I can feel it. That man is strong, like the White Rider who beat Kouta."

"?!" Ryuko and Kouta tensed as they looked at Tsukasa as he wrote his name on the board.

"Alrighty, I'm your substitute today. Name's Kadoya Tsukasa or Tsukasa Kadoya in Western Countries," Tsukasa informed, "I am a temp while your normal teacher…"

---

-Flashback-

Tsukasa's arm reached and grabbed a man with thick glasses before dragging him into an alley. After a few moments, Tsukasa walked out while texting on a stolen phone. A smirk on his face as he left the teacher bound and gagged in the alley.

-End Flashback-

---

"...Is indisposed at the moment. I'm sure he'll feel better in no time. But 'till then, I'll be your new teacher," Tsukasa explained, "And as my first act...I bring you the exchange students from another country and not another country. You guys get in here." he ordered to the open door.

"Mmm…" Mako wiggled in her seat as Ben's group entered and began to do introductions.

"Mako, stay," Ryuko whispered.

"Most of them are foreigners…" Kouta muttered, "How much more anime does it get?"

"Alright...now then introductions are out of the way, you kids take your seats," Tsukasa stated to Ben and his group. He then held a hand up, "You, hyper one who looks ready to explode with boundless positive energy...anything you wish to say before you literally explode into confetti like a cartoon?"

"..." Mako looked to Ryuko, her eyes pleading with her.

"..." Ryuko sighed before looking at Ben and the others, "I'm sorry in advance. Mako's an excitable friend and likes to greet people in a...er...unique way."

"Ah, it's alright. Quirky's kinda good when it's a good kind," Ben assured.

"We know tons of people like that!" Makoto smiled.

"...Alright. Sensei, sorry for the disturbance, but...Mako, you can go."

"...Eeee~~!" Makoto began to squeal happily as she began to visibly shake.

"Oh geez!" Kouta panicked as he and most of the other students shot underneath their desks.

"MINNA~!" Mako shouted as she proceeded to pounce at the group, who all quickly ducked, causing Mako to sail over them and tumble out the classroom through the open door before skipping back in and into her seat, "Hiya!"

Tsukasa chuckled, "Ah, this is pretty normal for me."

"You are just an agent of chaos, aren't you?" Naoto asked.

"Yes...yes I am," Tsukasa smiled, "Now, back to class!" he spun to the blackboard with an open book in hand and started to lecture.

"He's fast to adapting to this," Ben whispered with wide eyes.

'He's done this so much, it's probably just perfectly normal for him,' Makoto thought, glancing over at Mako and gawked, seeing her rapidly eating a bento lunch with her textbook set up on the table before her...before the girl fell asleep the moment she ate it all, 'She's asleep?!'

"All of these new kids feel strong. Like nothing compared to the Two Stars...and maybe even stronger than the Three star weirdos." Senketsu spoke as he looked them all over, "The kid with the watch gives me the creeps though...I don't like that watch...I sense something...from it...wait...is that?" he saw Skurd poke most of his head out with a little yawn, "SLIME!"

"Wah!" Ryuko panicked at that sudden shout from her sentient uniform.

"Hmm? Wh…" Skurd began before he noticed said sentient uniform., '...Well now. This is quite interesting..'

"No shouting in class," Tsukasa ordered before a piece of chalk nailed Ryuko in the forehead, "Alright. Back to the lesson."

"What's wrong?" Kouta whispered.

"SLIME! Keep it away from me!" Senketsu exclaimed, "I've seen the shows! Slimes dissolve clothing!"

"What are you on about? Where?" Ryuko whispered/hissed.

"Under that Ben kid's watch thing!"

"...It could just be a booger," Kouta noted.

"IT HAD EYES!"

"Okay, no more anime for you," Ryuko quietly deadpanned, looking down at Senketsu.

Senketsu looked back at Skurd...who was now fully out and waving with his little pseudopod. A very cheeky expression visible in his eyes. Senketsu narrowed his eye at him in suspicion and annoyance.

---

"Ugh...I forgot how painful desks are…" Ben grumbled, stretching his back as the group sat out in the courtyard, "And how boring classes are."

"Tell me about it," Makoto agreed, rubbing her back with her tail, "I thought I was done with stuff like this, but no…"

"Seriously, what were those desks made of…" Naoto muttered as he rolled his shoulder.

"Reinforced titanium," Sari replied, "Bit of tungsten mixed into it for good measure to handle heat to a certain point." everyone looked at her, "What? I grew up in a robotics company. If I can't identify an alloy from interacting with it, then I'd be worried."

"Why are desks made from reinforced metal?" Naoto asked.

"I mean...it's not like those…" Rex paused as they heard something falling from the sky, "Ah dang it…"

Suddenly, two figures crashed into the ground, kicking up a giant dust cloud. It soon dispersed to show Gaim and Baron clashing weapons.

"Again, Kaito!?" Gaim complained.

"This morning left a bad taste...give me an interesting fight, Kazuraba!" Baron grunted.

"Again!?" Mai shouted.

"Does this happen often?" Noel asked.

"Well...they are fierce rivals…" Makoto whispered, "In the original show, they almost always fight against each other if it's not together against a bigger threat. They were even the final battle~"

"...Are they on one of those desks?" Ben asked, looking at their feet to see a desk embedded in the ground under their feet.

"I'm guessing one, Baron, attacked the other, Gaim, while he was at his desk still," Makoto guessed.

"So...this is nothing like the actual show, right?" Ben asked.

"Well in the actual show they were like twenty something," Makoto explained, "Here, they are clearly still in high school."

Lambda tilted her head at that. So this world had them younger? She blinked twice as she looked down, realizing Bluey was not in her lap after having spent the class invisible. She looked around before spotting Bluey hiding behind her, covering his eyes with his paws. Gaim and Baron roared as they swung their blades…

*CLANG!*

...only to tense at Lambda between them, armored up with her 'wings' blocking their swords/spear.

"What the…?" Baron began before both moved back quickly as she spun around, barely avoiding her bladed legs.

"What the…?" Gaim blinked, "Oi...what now?"

"Who the hell are you?" Baron demanded.

'LAMBDA/LA-CHAN!?' the others mentally exclaimed in panic.

"Targets sighted...proceeding to eliminate," Lambda whispered as her visor glowed.

"Targets?" Gaim blinked, "I'm not a ta-ah crap…"

"Assassin? Has that woman really run out of cowardly options to deal with us?" Baron sighed.

"What is she doing?!" Rex gawked.

"Why would she attack them and consider them targets?" Rook pondered before looking at where Lambda had been, seeing Bluey covering his face with his paws while shivering, "...Oh. They spooked Bluey."

"...Oh scrap," Sari whispered in realization.

"D-Didn't Tsukasa warn us...that they are stronger 'cause of how this world worked?" Naoto asked as Baron swung his lance around, "Oh shit…"

Baron rushed and stabbed at Lambda...only for Gaim to knock it away. Baron grunted as he swung around and clashed with Gaim's sword.

"What is this Kazuraba?" Baron growled.

"I don't know...but I don't get a bad vibe from this girl...she's in my class…" Gaim grunted, "I don't get what's going on...but this is our fight...so leave her out of it."

"That's nonsense...she attacked us." Baron grunted, putting more force into his push.

"That still doesn't'...!" Gaim began before Lambda's Ancient Flails grabbed his and Baron's sword and lance, snatching them out of their hands as she produced hard light copies of them, "?!"

"La-chan wait, stop!" Makoto shouted.

*CLANG!*

"?" Lambda blinked before her visor as her copied weapons were suddenly blocked by a black katana.

Standing there, blocking her weapons, was a young woman with long black hair, a very stern glare on her face as she wore a rather...revealing all white and blue attire.

"Ah!" Makoto panicked, covering Ben's eyes.

"Holy…!" Rex and Naoto gawked.

"Oh my…" Noel whispered with a heavy blush.

"Just what is this…?" the young woman demanded the two Riders, her gaze not once leaving Lambda.

"How the hell should I know? I assumed it was another of your cheap little tricks," Baron sighed.

"This is not my doing, but…" the young woman began as her eyes narrowed, "I can sense great bloodlust within this...thing."

"Ah! Satsuki deta!" Mako shouted in the same hiding spot as the others.

"Mako!?" The Omni-team and Gaim gawked.

"So it's not yours?" Baron chose to ignore that, "How very annoying." he brought out another Lockseed, "But if that's the case...I just need to crush it first."

"...Screw it. That's our cue to step in!" Makoto panicked.

"Should we?" Ben muttered.

"It can't get any worse!" Makoto argued before everyone blinked as Gaim moved in and separated Lambda and Satsuki with the sword he had at his hip.

"Kazuraba?" she blinked.

"I told Kaito...I don't know what's going on...but that's not happening," Gaim pointed his sword at them, "Those guys in the bushes care for her...so I can't let you hurt her."

"Your bleeding heart moves me...but you can just bleed," Baron replied, messing with his belt.

=MANGO ARMS! FIGHT OF HAMMER!=

Baron's armor changed as he now had a cape, and in his hands was a giant serrated morning star themed after a diced mango. He slammed it into the ground...causing a giant crater to form in the floor. Gaim grunted as the shockwave sent him and Lambda flying back.

"HA!" Baron roared, swinging at Satsuki and making her flip out of the way, "How rare for you to step down from the ivory tower, Princess...but also foolish of you!"

"I sensed a threat to my school, so I decided to take care of it personally," Satsuki argued as she used her katana to block Baron's swing, resulting in a shockwave that nearly shook the area for a moment.

"You almost sound like you actually give a care. Color me impressed," Baron replied, "Now if only I could believe a single word of it." he pushed his hammer up, knocking her off balance before he swung around only to be blocked again.

"Things just got crazier!" Ben shouted.

"Oi, oi, oi! What did I do to upset you, flying blade-covered lady?!" Gaim yelped, his two swords combined into a naginata to parry Lambda's flying blades.

"You spooked her pet bunny!" Mai called.

"Eh?! I spooked a bunny again?!" Gaim exclaimed in disbelief.

"...Again?" Mai repeated, looking at Mako.

"I have a pet bunny he spooked once. He didn't like what happened," Mako fumed at the memory.

"Who brings a bunny here?! This place is dangerous!" Gaim snapped, "Did you not know what kind of place this is!?"

"What's wrong with bringing a bunny here?" Mako demanded.

"...Forgot who was around when asking that," Gaim muttered as he pushed another swing from Lambda away, "This place is dangerous! You should leave something like a Bunny somewhere safe! And not a word, Mako-chan!" he pointed at Lambda, "Do you know how irresponsible that is!?"

"To be fair, she found the bunny in the wild and protected it from a big beast roaring at it," Makoto muttered, "So it's probably used to dangerous places and doesn't think twice about them until he does get into danger."

"You're not helping! Join Mako in the silent corner!" Gaim complained as he pointed with one of his swords to a random corner.

"That's fair…" Makoto chuckled sheepishly.

"...uh...eto...oh!" Noel gasped as she looked up at Lambda just as she was about to charge at Gaim, "La-chan, we can hold a corgi party later!"

Lambda seemed to skdi to a halt at that, her hard light copied weapons vanishing as her visor's glow began to die down, "...Corgi party…" she whispered as she landed, her armor vanishing as a small smile was on her face.

"Ah! You're just a Mako with super powers!" Gaim shouted.

"Mmm…" Lambda seemed to just ignore him as she walked back over to Bluey and picked him up, giving the Blupee a comforting hug while keeping her neutral, yet calm smile on her face, "There, there." Bluey squeaked as he peeked out from behind his paws, "No scary things coming for you."

'WHAT KIND OF BUNNY IS THAT?!' Gaim thought, gawking under his mask, before shaking it off, "You guys best skedaddle. Crazy people fighting right now."

"And you're going to join in on fighting said crazy people," Sari stated.

"...You've already met Chucky, haven't you?" Gaim deadpanned.

"Roof of the trolley on the way here," Rook answered.

"Well I'm one of two people who can stop them," Gaim explained, "Those two will fight forever if no one stops them. And someone will get hurt if that happens. Also...I kinda helped things escalate to this level by always fighting Kaito...so I gotta take responsibility." he pulled out a Lockseed with a strawberry on it, switching the orange one on his buckle with it.

=ICHIGO ARMS! SHUSHUTTO SPARK!=

Gaim jumped to the side as the giant strawberry fell and bounced off the floor before it opened, letting him slide back in place to let it drop over his head. Once in place, he ran off as a blur of speed. Gaim stopped before swinging his arms and began raining kunai on the ground around Baron and Satsuki...before they all began exploding. The explosions made them stop before they clashed again.

"Oi! That's enough!" Gaim spoke, "Fight's over! I'm tired and not in the mood for your nonsense!"

"Kazuraba?" Baron frowned.

"That goes double for you, Senpai!" Gaim complained, "You're acting very spoiled about this today...and frankly, the fact that I have to be the mature one...is not funny!" a tense pause followed for a few moments, "Plus, I already defused the situation with the angry student because her bunny got spooked by us falling out of the eighth floor window on my desk. ...I'm serious. She brought a bunny here. Well, either that or the bunny followed her here if what I heard about her bunny is right."

"Does it look like I care why this happened?" Baron replied, "If you're gonna fight, then fight Kazuraba!"

"For once...I agree with the Banana," Satsuki replied.

"Baron da!" he snapped.

"I still don't get you guys…" Gaim sighed, "Why am I the one forced to be mature about all this stuff." he flipped up two more Kunai, "I guess this is happening...bye!" he shouted, tossing the kunai at their feet, making them explode into dust clouds...as he ran off, "Feet don't fail me now!"

"Kazuraba!" two voices roared from the dust clouds.

"Oh, they're really in the mood to fight him," Mako cringed, "He'll be chased all day and then all night and he'll be cranky because he didn't get to sleep and he has work after school today, too."

"..." Lambda had the decency to look embarrassed because she had, inadvertently, caused it.

"So any chance they could get distracted from him?" Ben asked.

"Well, there was this one time he got them fighting each other, then he was only an hour late for work that he got off for due to 'Act of Satsuki,'" Mako explained, tilting her head in recalling it.

"...Well, since Lambda already caused a ruckus…"

"You did not just say 'ruckus,'" Rex snickered as Ben turned on his Omnitrix.

"One distraction coming right up," Ben continued, "Huh...Haven't used him in a while."

"Hm?" Mako tilted her head before a green flash went off as Ben was replaced with Swampfire, "Erk?! S-Stinky~"

"I know," Swampfire snorted as Bluey covered his nose with his paws as his blue bled to a pale green.

"Oh god...I forgot how nasty this form smelled," Makloto gagged, using both hands to cover her nose.

"Hence why I've been using him less often," Swampfire noted, nodding at his girlfriend before grabbing some seeds in his shoulders and tossed them just as Gaim ran by.

"Eh? Was that a muscle guy in a plant costume?" Gaim pondered, refusing to stop on the chance the two would jump him.

"And then…" Swampfire released a gas from the palm of his hands at the seeds, causing them to dig into the ground as Satusuki and Baron turned the corner, focused solely on Gaim.

"GET BACK HERE!" both roared as they took a step...before a large cluster of vines erupted from the ground and tangled them up into a large ball.

"And now, while they cut out of it…" Swampfire changed back into Ben, "We run before they notice us once they cut themselves out in a few seconds."

"PANIC!" Gaim shouted, "Satsuki and Kaito on a rampage!" he shouted for all the other students who took a second before panicking like it was the end of days, "Yosh! Now...RUN!" he shouted, tossing another Lockseed as it unfolded into a hoverbike.

"...Good idea," Makoto whispered before the group became literal blurs and ran out as fast as they could.

---

"Oh, we are in trouble when Tsukasa comes back," Makoto sighed, "We're all gonna get a boot to the head for sure."

"Why?" Tsukasa whispered, suddenly appearing behind the group a subtle dimensional veil vanishing behind him.

"Gh!? Mercy on us for Lambda!" Makoto pleaded, bowing repeatedly.

"...You got involved with a fight between Gaim and Baron, didn't you?" Tsukasa asked, looking at the blonde.

"Bluey got spooked and she went straight for the attack," Ben confirmed.

"I thought you left the bunny at home," Tsukasa sighed.

"..." Bluey nibbled on a carrot in Lambda's arms.

"It won't be safe if you carry him around in this world. Those hormonal idiots are the only dangers here." Tsukasa sighed, "Trust me...something much worse is out there."

"Ah!" Makoto realized, "You mean…"

"Bingo," he snapped his fingers and pointed at her.

"...Those alien invasions happening at the same time?" Ben guessed.

"In a sense," Tsukasa replied before pointing to the alley nearby that had a few strange plants growing, "There's some of one of the invasions now."

"...Plants?" Ben pondered.

"PAON~!"

"EEEK! F-Funkfreed?!" Noel yelped as her elephant-sword turned into his elephant form and quickly pulled her away from the plants with a panicked expression in his eyes as Bluey took one look at the plants before crying and covering his eyes.

*SLASH! SLICE! SLICE! SHING!*

"Neutralized," Lambda coldly intoned, the shredded plants at her feet as Bluey peeked out of Makoto's tail, shivering.

"No...not really." Tsukasa spoke, taking the blades she used and chucking them into a dimensional veil, "Best you not use those again. Those are the plants of Helheim, an infectious life form that takes over worlds and causes rapid mutagenic evolution. Only way to kill them is fire. Think...oh wait. Do you have Stranger Things in your dimension yet? 'Cause man, that show is great...and helps explain this a lot to those who haven't a clue what is happening...oh trust me…"

"Tsukasa!" Makoto spoke up to make him focus.

"Oh right~" he nodded, "Don't interact with them, and if you see a purply white fruit that looks like it's made of mochi or jello...don't eat it...or I'll have to kill you." he looked at them with a serious look, "That isn't a joke."

"...Said fruit mutates you, doesn't it?" Rex asked.

"Yes," Tsukasa spoke, "But that's just a byproduct...the real threats haven't appeared yet." he spoke as he ushered them back as they heard what sounded like roaring fire; after a moment, men in hazmat suits ran by, spraying the plants with flames from a flamethrower in the form of a handheld rifle, soon a White Armored Rider walked past overseeing the burning, "Try not…" he turned to them, "Not...to get involved in this as best as you can...When I say this is delicate...I'm underselling it. But...it might already be too late for that. Satsuki is probably already spying on you." he pulled out a card and flicked it, the card cutting through a tree branch before a One Star fell out with the branch and into a garbage can, the card flying back to Tsukasa's hand shortly after, "And that's just the physical spying and not hidden security cameras and mics."

"Well...She's probably just spying on Lambda," Mai noted.

"Oh sweet baby child…" Tsukasa sighed, "You have to learn to realize...once you did something stupid...it's all over."

"...We're gonna get a boot to the head later, aren't we?" Mai cringed.

"One of you for sure," Tsukasa spoke as he took Bluey from Lambda and handed him to Noel before a boot suddenly dropped from the sky on Lambda's head.

"Ow…" Lambda cringed.

"That's for letting your Blupee follow you to school and not taking him straight home the moment you realized he was there," Tsukasa scolded, "Now...what did we learn?"

"You can make boots hit from anywhere," Lambda replied.

"..." Tsukasa chuckled, "There's always a comedian. Anything else?"

"I need to work on my reactions to Bluey getting scared?"

"Bingo."

"So now what?" Ben asked.

"Try not to die in school, look out for dancing street gangs, try not to die of nosebleeds...I got a force of evil to fight." with that he walked off...and jumped down a manhole, "Don't follow me~"

"Are you ditching us?!" Ben shouted.

"Dude!" Naoto snapped.

At that, two boots shot out and hit them in the face.

"Ow!"

"So...I guess we just try and survive Highschool Battle Royal," Makoto sighed.

"Seems like it," Ben shrugged, "And what was that about dancing street gangs and dying of nosebleeds?"

"Oh, the former is easy to explain," Makoto noted as she looked around before grinning at a nearby flatscreen hung up nearby, "And easier to show." she pulled Ben over to the tv with the others following.

=HEY-O~! DJ SAGARA IN THE HOUSE! Well, TV, but you know what I mean!= a peppy man laughed on the screen as a video in the feed was showcasing a group consisting of Kouta, Ryuko, Mako, Chucky, Rat, and another girl dancing with a single commonality in their clothing beng a blue jacket sporting a samurai wearing armor resembling Gaim's on it =Right now, we've got a pretty tight performance going on in the No Star District by Team Gaim! While their leader Yuya is still MIA, the rest of the team is picking up the slack in keeping the show rolling with the Beat Rider scene!=

"Beat Rider?" Noel blinked as they all watched.

"Yeah. Beat Riders are called that because they 'ride to the beat,'" Makoto explained, "They're originally dance teams made to express freedom in the oppressive environment of places like this, but then...Yggdrasil came with Lockseeds that gave them another way to fight outside of dance battles."

"Wait...Yggdrasil? Like...the world tree?" Mai asked.

"That's what the company calls itself that distributes the Lockseeds through a Lock Dealer called Sid," Makoto replied, "He sells Beat Riders the Lockseeds with the higher ranks being more pricey."

"...There's more to these things," Ben noted.

"Yeah. Those little fruits that spooked Bluey and Funky? Those were Lockseeds before someone with a Sengoku Driver harvests them," Makoto quietly explained, "And Tsukasa's right in the danger those unrefined things can do. They have a hypnotic effect on humans that make them want to consume the fruit and, well…" she gestured to the TV, showing two Beat Rider teams standing across from one another with their leaders pulling out Lockseeds and clicking them, causing a zipper to appear before them and release a small green creature from them that started to fight one another, "Those things? They're the result."

"WHAT!?" everyone shouted in shock.

"Shh-shh-shh!" Makoto sushed them, looking around, "Not so loud! This is a major bomb, so don't be telling anyone!"

"If those were human, I could…"

"No. This is more magic than science, Ben," Makoto countered, "It may seem like science, but this transformation is not science, but a magic of some sorts. And magic does not mix with the Omnitrix, or does the story Gwen told me about Azmuth turning into a Way Big when she hit you by accident with a spell while you were Upgrade ring any bells?"

"So...what...nothing can help them?" Rex asked.

"...Gaim is kind of a tragedy…" Makoto replied, her ears and tail drooping, "The story was divided into three arcs that represented 'growing up' in a sense. The first as kids, playing a game while dancing in teams and being together. Then teens with angst in the form of dangerous enemies and the revelation I just gave you all. And then adults when the invasion goes into full force and people start to die or be turned into Inves."

"So...then...we can't help?" Ben asked, trying to understand it, "But...then…"

"Well...it's like Tsukasa said…" Makoto pointed to Kouta on the screen, "You're not the hero here...he is." she smiled.

"So...He's the one who will save the world?" Naoto asked.

"Yep," Makoto smiled that didn't fully reach her eyes, "He finds his own way to save everyone."

=Now that we've covered some awesome Beat Rider dances and an Inves Battle, let's get things rolling with today's Armored Rider Battle of the Day! And in a big ol' upset, it ain't between Gaim and Baron this time!=

"Huh?" everyone looked at the screen to show Ryuko standing across from Baron.

On the screen, Ryuko bit a pin on her red glove and pulled it out. Senketsu turned crimson before he exploded off her and then engulfed her in a 'mouth' of sorts before reforming into a skimpy outfit with a tiny skirt sporting white spikes along the bottom, suspenders connecting her black panties/skirt to the armored chest that exposed the underside of her breasts with Senketsu's eyes becoming armored horn-shaped guards on her chest with a red vent on her back as more red grew in her hair. In her hands, a large red sword shaped like half of a scissors was grasped tightly. Naoto and Rex paused for a few seconds before they shot off away, yelping as blood shot out of their nostrils with enough force to rocket them away. Ben managed to pinch his nose before blood could spurt out.

"Seems this world has a 'rule' like when we were in the pirate world," Ben noted, "Nosebleeds are a lot more powerful here…"

"Given it looks like this is a normal thing here...I'm gonna hold back the jealous girlfriend bit…" Makoto muttered more to herself, "I don't have the energy to do it all the time."

"Actually...I was thinking of you in that since it reminds me of your old uniform," Ben whispered so only Makoto could hear it, blushing a little.

"Aw...I knew you were a good boyfriend," Makoto smiled, "But...still...I don't know this world...If it even is a show back home…" she muttered, "You figure I totally would watch it 'cause...dang...If I wasn't in a super committed relationship...those girls would so be my types…"

=I know it was you who tied me up with that woman earlier= Baron growled, pointing his spear at Ryuko.

=Hah? The hell are you talking about, Banana Boy?= Ryuko demanded as Makoto's ears twitched.

=Don't you lie to me, Striperella!= Baron complained.

"...They're near us," Makoto's eyes widened, looking around.

=I'm not lying, ya idiot! If anything, you're lying here. Especially with your weapon of choice. Compensating for something, are we?=

=The fact you are so obsessed with dick jokes clearly shows you've never even seen one…= Baron deadpanned =Clearly I misunderstood what you and Kazuraba do given you always complain about him and nudity…=

=GH!? W-Why you…!= Ryuko growled before shooting at him, swinging her sword as Baron blocked, causing an explosion to go off on-screen...and at a spot a few houses down the road.

"Oh shoot. I think people were near there," Mai gasped.

"And me without XLR8 or Fasttrack," Ben muttered, looking at his current roster.

"Hmm...Perhaps this one?" Skurd suggested.

"Good thinking. He might be fast enough to get people out of the area," Ben agreed as he pushed down and Garumaru replaced him, "Minna, ikuze."

"Seems that man was thorough in making sure this was locked down. I can only get ten samples at the moment and all of them are the ones we have available," Skurd sighed, "Sorry, my boy, no speedsters to boost you further."

"That's fine. This form is plenty fast," Garumaru stated.

"Remember; ten steps in an instant," Rook reminded.

"Huh?" Makoto raised a brow before he vanished, "?! ...That was one of those techniques Rook has in those notes of his, wasn't it?"

"Some of us did spend a day or two in Shantae's world practicing those techniques," Mai noted, "I think those days were the ones you and Ben were on dates."

"HAH?!" Makoto gawked at that.

"So…" Garumaru muttered before he vanished in a blur, "Huh...just like Carrot said...this guy is good at this." he spoke, appearing behind them.

"Ah!" Noel and Mai yelped in surprise.

"What? Just testing him out more," Garumaru argued.

"...Well since we're going to be helping people from wreckage…" Makoto began, tapping her pendant as she gained her Proto-Armor, "Let's go, guys!"

"H-hai!" Noel and the rest nodded...before the shy blonde looked over at the unconscious Naoto and Rex, "Ano...what about them?"

"Allow me," Sari deadpanned before snapping her fingers, causing green lightning to hit the two.

"EEYOW!" both yelped, shooting up with their hair now afros.

"People in danger, get going and don't pass out again, pervs," Sari ordered.

"Wh-?! Hey!" the two complained.

"We're not the ones who shot blood out of their noses," Mai added with her own deadpanned stare.

"This is all kinds of unfair!" Naoto argued.

"You just don't get how difficult this is for us!" Rex added.

"Not touching that!" Garumaru said as he blurred off.

"Wait up!" Makoto called as she ran in the direction of the fight.

"We'll be discussing later the proper thing to do when a lady is in garb like Ryuko's," Noel stated, brokering no arguments with the tone she gave.

"Aw man…!" both groaned.

"No groaning," Lambda spoke, rapping both with the back of her fist as she got on Funkfreed with Noel as the elephant ran off to assist.

"...This is gonna stick with us for a long while, isn't it?" Rex asked Naoto.

"Eeyup," Naoto sighed.

"...Rats," Rex slumped with Naoto.

---

"Seriously, did we ever fight a gardening club president?" Ryuko questioned Senketsu as she jumped out of the dust cloud.

"No. The only one that we've heard about was the one that man took down with his needles," Senketsu replied as Baron erupted from the dust cloud, aiming his spear at them.

"Service!" Ryuko called as her free arm glowed and turned into an oversized tennis racket that she used to catch the spear fighter and throw him away from her, letting him land on a roof on the house opposite of the one she landed on, "I'm never going to get tired of this trick."

"And mine is this!" Baron retorted as he jumped off and stabbed his lance into the ground as rows of energy bananas erupted from it and towards the house Ryuko was on, breaking apart its foundation and causing it to start collapsing.

"Aw sh…" Ryuko began before she jumped off at Baron and swung her sword at him, causing him to parry with his spear, causing the ground to cave under them into a crater while letting out a shockwave that shattered the windows of the surrounding houses.

"If it wasn't you who messed with me and the Princess...who did?" Baron demanded, "As it stands...I already don't like you...but the fact someone interrupted my fight with her and Kazuraba...will not be forgiven!"

"Who gives a shit?! I'm getting pissed off when you show up when we're trying to give a performance all the time! So this is good venting for me!" Ryuko argued.

"On that, we can agree, Stripper…" Baron grunted leaning forward as he pushed her back, "If I can't beat Kazuraba...beating you will have to suffice 'till our rematch!"

At that, both reared their arms back and punched the other across the face/mask, sending them both sliding back across the ground. Senketsu was keeping an eye on Baron before something caught his eye in the dust clouds surrounding them.

"Something's disturbing the clouds," Senketsu advised.

"Eh?" Ryuko blinked at that...before she glared at Baron, "Are your boys trying to cheat again?!"

"Don't be ridiculous! My men would never disgrace a battle like that again!" Baron argued, "Team Baron follows my rules; those who disagree with my methods can take it up with me in a fight."

"More movement. It looked as if they were carrying objects."

"...Wait, are people robbing places in our fight?" Ryuko asked.

"...What?" Baron scowled at that. He turned and swung his lance, sending out a gust of air and blew away the dust clouds, "Come out here now, Zakudomo."

"Uh-oh…" Noel gasped as Funkfreed paused in his walking, several people laid across his back with Noel and Lambda keeping them on him.

"Eh? Zou?" Ryuko raised a brow.

"Nani kore…?" Baron asked, "What nonsense is this...huh!?" he demanded, making both girls yelp at the intimidating aura coming off him, "You disrupt my battle for nothing?!"

"Evacuating civilians caught in the crossfire," Lambda replied calmly, pointing at said civilians.

"They should have left on their own," Baron replied simply, "I never asked for spectators."

"Well they sure weren't asking you two to start smashing their homes," a voice noted, making them look to see Garumaru holding a few kids dirtied up from the dust cloud.

"...Nanda kore...a Hentai?" Baron asked, "First strippers...now furries…"

"This is real," Garumaru deadpanned before jumping off and landing beside Funkfreed, letting the elephant take the kids that were looking at him in awe, "Get 'em away from here, Funkyfreed."

"Paon~!" Funkfreed saluted before running off.

"What is even with today…?" Ryuko muttered.

"One pervert after another is this city's problem," Baron replied.

"I'm not a pervert!" Ryuko and Garumaru snapped in unison.

"Whatever...perverts…" Baron muttered.

"You said it again!" they snapped.

"I calls 'em as I see 'em…" Baron replied with a huff as he turned his head away, angering them even more with his attitude and high ground bit.

"...Truce until we kick this guy's ass?" Ryuko offered.

"Agreed," Garumaru replied.

"Hmph," Baron flipped up a Lockseed, "The beast can play with this." he clicked it open as a zipper opened in the sky...and a Lion Inves jumped out and tackled Garumaru over.

"Gh!" Garumaru grunted, kicking off the Inves and getting up onto his feet, "Shishi da?"

"Looks like it," Skurd noted as he stretched down to Garumaru's hand and produced a sword resembling Rath's claw, "We're in for a catfight, it seems."

"...Did you really just say that?" Garumaru groaned.

"How can you even control that thing and fight at the same time?!" Ryuko demanded.

"My will supersedes its own. It obeys its master...without fail," Baron glared at the Inves as it froze before growling and charging at Garumaru.

"?! That slime…" Senketsu whispered before Ryuko blocked Baron's stab attempt with her sword.

"You...are really annoyingly strong willed!" Ryuko complained.

"Silence!" Baron shouted, spinning around and swapping which hand he held his lance in, now holding it in a reverse grip before swinging it around and striking her back.

Baron grunted, spinning around before launching her into another building. Ryuko grunted as she came out the other end of the building complex. She looked up in time to see Baron rush out and thrust his lance at her rapidly 'till it looked like dozens of them were being thrust forward.

"What is this guy's problem?" Naoto asked.

"Kumon Kaito...Armored Rider Baron...he's the living embodiment of Darwinism…" Makoto explained, "The strong survive...and the weak...don't…"

"So...he's just a dick!?" Naoto grunted, moving some debris.

"Well...if you know his story…" Makoto muttered, "You can understand why he is who he is."

"I get the feeling we'll be asking you a lot of the questions for Rider stuff," Rex noted as his Smack Hands scooped up from debris, exposing some injured civilians, "Rescue team here to assist, folks."

"Ah...thank god…" several groaned.

"It took all day to get out after Kaito-san went on a rampage," one noted.

"Remarkably...people don't seem so hurt by all this chaos…" Mai noted, helping an old man...who looked more cranky then hurt.

"People in this town...must be stronger than they look," Sari offered.

"Gotta be with the nonsense that comes from the school," the old man grumbled.

"Gh! Why does he summon monsters now?!" Garumaru grunted, kicking the Inves off with a bit of Electro to stun it, "This is the monster Tsukasa warned me of...what do I do with it?"

"Obviously...we need to defeat it...but can we?" Skurd asked.

"I mean…"

=BUDOU SQUASH!=

At that, purple energy blasts rained down and peppered the Inves, ripping through its armored hide before it suddenly exploded. Garumaru turned to see a Green and purple Rider with grape cluster-themed chest armor. His armor looked like a Chinese warrior and in his hand was a pistol sized gatling gun resembling a cluster of grapes.

"Who are you?" he asked, aiming at Garumaru, "You don't look like a Goku Uniform user...and you don't act like an Inves...so...you're an unknown party...a danger to my friends." he walked closer not once lowering his weapon, "So...I ask again...Who are you?" an overwhelming intensity came off this Rider as he glared through his mask at Garumaru.

"Just someone trying to help folks that got caught in the crossfire by those two," Garumaru replied, thumbing over at where Ryuko and Baron were locked in their battle, making another crater from their weapons colliding.

"That didn't answer my question," he responded, still aiming his weapon, "I don't care for your intent; I don't know what or who you are. And in this town...that makes you a danger to the people I do care about."

"I swear, something must be in the water here," Skurd muttered.

"Boku wa Garumaru, a traveller that prefers to help the innocent along with my companions," Garumaru informed, making Skurd dismiss the sword and holding his hands up to show he had no intent to fight.

"..." after a long moment he slowly lowered his weapon, "Leave…" he responded, "You're not wanted here." he walked off towards Ryuko and Baron.

"Intense…" Garumaru muttered, "He was so intense...it was almost kinda scary…"

"I feel like we were staring down Jin when he was in his tranquil fury," Skurd compared.

"That was Ryugen!" Makoto awed, running over, "His character arc was the deepest...AH! That's right...he has a face-heel turn...he's dangerous!"

"Okay, you are giving an emergency lesson on who else is involved in this when we go home tonight," Garumaru ordered.

"Oh don't worry...in the show he did it 'cause of the female lead and feelings that he couldn't get across...but...so far...she's not here," Makoto pointed out, "So chances are he won't do that here. And even then, Gaim saves his soul and lets him get the chance to redeem himself by the end." she quickly explained, "It's...all very deep and you need to see it to understand, but it's still amazing! It's one of those shows that makes me cry but in a way I love~" she promised, "Plus, I can only give what I know of their show counterparts...so far...they are not like their show counterparts...perfectly." she turned to see Ryugen helping Ryuko fight Baron, "That girl mostly is the odd thing out...and this city."

"Hm?"

"For one, the city wasn't in the middle of a giant lake like this and certainly wasn't shaped like a mountain but a forest with Yggdrasil being a giant 'tree' in the center of it all," Makoto explained.

"So...the people from that show are...like in another world almost?" Garumaru muttered.

"My best guess is...in this world, all the events of Gaim...are happening in this other world's setting...so things are wild and random and I don't know who these half naked ladies are...but...they do rock the bikini super fighting look," she grinned before shaking it off, "And in the show, there was a female lead who acted as the brains for Kouta/Gaim, was Mitchy/Rygen's crush, and was the only person Kaito/Baron respected. Yes, they all loved her..." she cut him off, "But...nope...she ain't here. So she doesn't exist in this dimension...which makes me wonder and theorise so much...cause oh boy..."

Garumaru sighed, his ears drooping as Makoto just went off on some wild tangent of fan theories and speculation. He was about to speak up when a familiar beeping went off, making him look down at his Omnitrix to see it flashing red.

"...He even put the shorter timer back on it?" Garumaru questioned in disbelief before he timed out, "Oh geeze. Not good."

"Very not good!" Makoto agreed, grabbing him and jumping out of the way of a wall falling over, "Whoa nelly!"

"Hmph...so Kazuraba sent Junior to fight with his woman…" Baron taunted.

"I am not his woman!" Ryuko snapped.

"So what...you're top then?" Baron asked.

"Well that was mat-...Ruko-san!?" Ryugen blinked, seeing her blush, "I-I had no idea you and Kouta-san...did that sort of…"

"AS IF!" she snapped at him.

"I mean...you do live together...but I just assumed with Mako...you never had privacy," he muttered as if suddenly things made more sense than ever to him.

"Get your mind out of that gutter this instant!" Ryuko demanded, stomping a foot in frustration.

"Your blood is getting a bit bitter, Ryuko," Senketsu advised.

"Ugh...Where'd that dog guy go?" Ryuko sighed, changing the subject.

"Hmm? He actually left?" he muttered under his breath, "What even was that thing?" he pondered.

"What weirdness has come upon us ever since those transfer students appeared…" Baron noted before he turned away, "I've lost interest in this battle. I'll be back another time for a rematch, Striperella."

"You can count on that, Banana Boy!"

"Baron da!"

"Haa…" Ryuko sighed in exasperation, waiting until Baron was gone before Senketsu changed back to his sailor fuku look.

"That dog has the Slime."

Ugh...again with the slime?" Ryuko groaned.

"I saw it, I swear! It can become a weapon! It has powers! It must be some sort of Life fiber creation...only its green!" Senketsu argued, "I wouldn't make this up Ryuko, that boy and that dog man are connected! He must have some form of ability!"

"Are you drunk on fabric softener again?" Ryuko asked.

"That only happened seven times…" Senketsu replied with a neutral deadpanned tone.

"Eight…" Ryuko deadpanned back.

"My point still stands!"

"I don't know," Ryugen spoke, "Something weird is going on with those new students...lets not forget what ended up happening with your normal homeroom teacher and how weird his last friend was."

"Don't remind me…" Ryuko sighed.

---

"Mmm~ What's wrong with this thing…?" Makoto muttered, still in her Proto-Armor as her pendant sparked while she tapped it a few times, "...Skurd, did you make sure to get all of Tesoro's gold out of it?"

"Of course I did," Skurd argued as Ben was riding on top of Funkfreed with her, Lambda and Noel.

"Then why does it feel like it's gonna give out and go kaput any second now?" Makoto asked, "...Did the battle with CP0 damage it, or did Baron's lance manage to damage it?"

"Maybe it used a piece made of gold," Ben suggested.

"Rook and I will give it a look over later." Sari offered as she and the others were walking near Funkfreed, "It's probably just used to having a Genius tune it up for you all the time."

"I guess Sento...did take better care of our stuff then we did…" Makoto admitted.

"Well no one knows more about Proto-Tech than me, and Sari is an amazing mechanic with technopathic abilities. We might be able to fix it." Rook offered, "But until then, you might need to retire your armor."

"Ah nuts…" Makoto pouted as she looked down at her suit, "This thing has gotten me through a lot too..maybe try and invest something new when we get to the next world..."

"Probably a good idea," Mai stated.

"Easy for you, Mai...you basically got yours upgraded to look like your old outfit back when you and Kajun fell out of that Clockwork Hole," Makoto argued as she, Noel, Lambda and Ben hopped off Funkfreed, letting hte elephant change back into his Sword mode..

"Sorry…" Mai sheepishly chuckled.

"Least the day is done with…" Naoto sighed as teh group walked back into theri temporary home, "...right?"

"Yo~" Tsukasa greeted as they walked in the door, a bandage on his face as he ate some cereal, "You should see the other guy."

"So you were off fighting someone too?" Makoto asked.

"Several someones…" he explained, "People in this town are not receptive to outsiders. And you try to take care of an undead cult terrorist for them too, what gratitude."

"What was that about an undead cult terrorist?" Rex blinked.

"Shh...its not something for you to worry about." Tsukasa shushed, "Don't worry, this is normal work for me." he munched on another spoonful of his meal, "Your issue is dealing with Satsuki and her eventual interest in what the heck you are...and how she could use you for her schemes...which will drag the attention of Banana-boy…" he paused.

"...baron da!..." was faintly heard in the distance.

"His attention as he will try to attack her...via attacking through you guys...all so he can dethrone Satsuki...cause he defies her ways and thinks she is wrong." Tsukasa went on, "Then it will cause more chaos and rampages across the city."

"So...we're screwed." Naoto sighed.

"I told you to try not to get involved. My warning was made, your mess...your fix." Tsukasa replied.

"Well we couldn't just ignore what was happening…" Ben argued.

"To be fair...here you kind of can. The humans in this dimension are a lot sturdier...they have to survive in this crazy place where girls in revealing stripper outfits can swing a sword so hard they rip up an entire city block and cause vacuum pressure that blows up the ground around them…"

"...That...explains why they seemed so nonchalant about the destruction abd being rescued…" Noel blinked.

"Still...we kinda just reacted…" Mai added.

"It still felt good to help. But knowing we have a target on our backs…" Sari sighed.

"It can't be that bad…" Ben began.

"The Big guy from earlier just pulled up in a pink cadillac." Tsukasa spoke up.

"Me and my big mouth…" Ben muttered before a knocking could be heard, "..."

"Domo," Tsukasa spoke, already answering the door, "Ah sorry no solicitors and no mormons."

"H-" Gamagoori began before the door was closed on him.

"Dude!" Rex called out.

"Oh right…" he opened the door, seeing an already seething mad Gamagoori glaring down at him,, "Please come back when people aren't busy for the night, Adults have harsh lives I'll have you know."

"Ah cut it out!" Ben panicked, moving in front of him.

"What...as the adult I figured it would be wise to let me answer it." Tsukasa spoke, slamming the door shut as Ben opened it.

"Will you cut it out!?" Ben complained as Tsukasa slammed the door again, "Ah!" he panicked opening it again.

"Look...he's already red? Do you think if I keep doing it he'll erupt like a cartoon character?" Tsukasa asked.

"...I tried to be civil..but now…" Gamagori began, his uniform glowing for a moment before he was engulfed in the mummy-like suit once more...before it suddenly unravel as he towered over the door way, "I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO CORRECT YOUR HORRID MISBEHAVIOR!"

"What the…" Ben muttered as the others joined him in staring up in awe.

"Wow...kinky…" Tsukasa blurted, "I knew he was into S&M...but man…"

"Stop it! Seriously stop it!" Naoto panicked before the group jumped out of the way of thorned whips that cracked the floor.

"Be silent!" Gamagori shouted.

"Now look what you did!" Ben and Rex complained.

"I am an agent of chaos...I can't be expected to play nice unless you have emotional control over me!" Tsukasa declared as he side stepped all the thorned whips without even looking.

"Yeah but we're caught in the middle of it!" Naoto exclaimed before yelping when one of the whips hit him, tearing a bit of his uniform, "Ahh!"

"Da heck's going on o-!" Bobo began as he poked out from the backroom, only for a throned whip to nearly hit him, "...later," he blurted as he closed the door.

"Wa...was that a monkey?" Gamagori blinked, only for Tsukasa to kick him back, sending him sliding across the ground, "AH!?"

"Okay...I played along…" Tsukasa sighed, "Now please leave, I have had a long day of dealing with an overbearing older brother, a mad scientist...and a nut job who thinks he's going to be the next messiah...while really he's more like the damn antichrist...so I would like a night of cartoons, unhealthy surgery cereal and sitting around in my boxers to the annoyances of others." he reached for his back and summoned his buckle.

"Grr...still y-"

"H-hold it!" Sari yelped as she jumped in font of Tsukasa, "Wouldn't be detrimental if the students aren't 100% for the next day of school, and also making sure ot keep up to dress code?"

"...mm. You make a fair point," Gamagori nodded as his suit changed back into his normal uniform, "Fine..I'll overlook this and the earlier transgression for now, but…" he paused as he glared at the group, "Starting tomorrow...I'll be watching you all like a mother hawk."

"Why a mother hawk…" several whispered.

"Great…" Tsukasa put his transformation device away, "So can I go inside and relax now? I am the only adult here so I'd like to relax…" he yawned.

"We are done here, so..you have a good night," Gamagori stated as he walked back over to a pink cadillac.

"...hoo!" Makoto sighed in relief as she and the others plopped onto their knees, "Nice save there, Sari…"

"Thank Lambda," Sari said as she pointed at the second Vermillion sister, "She was the one who whispered that to me…"

"I mean if anything...I think you saved him…" Naoto muttered, pointing out how Tsukasa could hit him with so much force while untransformed.

"Why did you antagonize him?" Ben asked.

"Because if I let you talk to him...you'd all be kidnapped and dragged to that tower…" Tsukasa replied, "You would have opted against fighting...and let yourselves get kidnapped and brought to them on their rules… This way when you meet with them...it'll be on neutral ground and you won't be kidnapped captives of a crazy girl with manish eyebrows…" he put his fingers over his own eyebrows for emphasis.

"...once more the man makes a point," Skurd spoke up, "If anything...he saved you lot from such a dire situation."

"...true, but he didn't…" Makoto began before her suit sparked more frantically, "? What the…"

"Ano...Makoto," Noel spoke up, earning the Beastkin's attention as she pointed...at a lone thorn that was stabbed into the pendant as more sparks came off it.

"...ah cr-" Makoto began before her Proto-Armor suddenly exploded in a flurry of cloth, mesh, and metal...leaving the squirrel girl standing there with barely anything on, "..."

"Eyes!" Sari snapped-literally and figuratively-, shocking Naoto and Rex.

"AH!" they panicked, running inside with their hands over their eyes.

"Oh right...one more thing." Tsukasa held his finger up as he changed his voice to sound like a grouchy old asian man, "This world has a habit of making people-mostly women-end up naked," he spoke while walking in. He raised his index and middle finger and thwacked Ben upside the head as small trickles of blood fell from his nose.

"Ow!"

"You deserved that," Skurd deadpanned.

"I mean...he can look…" Makoto muttered sheepishly as she used her tail to cover herself.

"Yes...but only if you're alone," Mai pointed out, "Ugh...it's the Golden Angel all over again…"

"Hey...it is not that bad...bad would be if for some reason suddenly all your clothing just exploded cause someone sneezed," Makoto argued.

"You stole that from a manga!" Tsukasa shouted from the kitchen.

"Oh y-"

"C-can you please go get dressed?!" Noel shouted as her face was a beet red..all while Lambda covered Bluey's eyes as she had her own blush.

"Hentai Risu-da…" Lambda muttered.

"Oh don't give me that...you've seen me naked tons of times, Noellie," Makoto huffed as she went inside finally.

"Never by choice!" Noel argued.

"And you took advantage of gym class…" Mai added.

"I have no regrets!" Makoto shouted.

"The school bath," Mai and Noel deadpanned.

"...still no regre-"

"JUST GET CHANGED!" both girls snapped so loud, they ended up sending Makoto flying into the backroom.

"...someone slap Ben, he's probably lost in hormone wonderland!" Tsukasa ordered.

"Wait no I'm…" Ben began before Noel, Mai, Lambda and Sari all slapped him one after another, "Ow!"

"Again, you deserved that," Skurd deadpanned.

---

"Huh so far...no explosions…" Mako noted, riding the trolly with Team Gaim, minus Kouta, and the Omni Team.

"Yeah...that's….suspiciously odd," Ryuko muttered as she cautiously looked around.

"He must have left early to search for Yuya again." Mitchy replied.

"Again…" Ryuko spoke, "He goes to school, work, and he spends all his dang free time looking for Yuya in that freaky place…"

"Kouta is very determined, Yuya was his partner. You should try understanding his side of it, Ryuko."

"Yeah I know…" Ryuko sighed, "Just...can't help but think of what might happen if he runs into that white armored bastard again…"

"White armored?" Ben whispered to Makoto.

"The single coolest character from the show...Zangetsu...totally the best character after Kouta…" she whispered into his ear, "But also the first arc 'antagonist' of sorts...it's complicated."

"I really need to catch up on Kamen Rider stuff…" Naoto admitted quietly.

"I feel like 'it's complicated' will be a recurring thing…" Ben whispered.

"It's a deep character driven show." Makoto shrugged, leaning her head against his.

"Still...it feels like some crazy stuff is going on…" Ben added, "I wonder what will happen to us...now that this Satsuki girl knows we have...abilities."

"Meaning she or one of her cronies might attack us at any moment," Sari quietly added.

"And we're trying to not look for trouble either...and yet it follows us anyway," Rex muttered.

"Alright...let's look at it from Tsukasa's style." Naoto offered, "He just causes chaos wherever he goes...and things work for him. What if instead of playing it safe...we just...go with the flow?"

"That sounds potentially very dangerous." Mai spoke up.

"Yeah I know...but...given how things normally go for us? What's better...letting us get sucked into nonsense...or fighting our way out before it escalates to us being kidnapped again?" Naoto argued, "I mean..how many times have we tried to relax and something chaotic happens?"

"...well…" Noel muttered as she tapped her cheek, "There was the trip in Hawaii...then New York...then the casino...and then there's what happened on Paradise Island and Tan Line Island…"

"Exactly, and I wasn't even a part of your guys' group in the former two," Naoto stated.

"Plus...Tsukasa is looking pretty relaxed through all this stuff…" Rex argued.

"He really is…" Sari muttered in agreement, "Maybe...his way does have merit?"

"Okay...so...we fight?" Makoto asked.

"I mean...what more trouble can we get in at this point?" Ben sighed.

"...life signs detected," Lambda spoke, her visor out as it scanned the area, "Multiple in the empty buildings...aimed at us specifically…"

"Aww~man…" Ben groaned.

"The foot in mouth...it no longer happens to us...but it still happens in moments such as this." Makoto sighed, hugging Ben and patting his head, "I still love you though."

"It's not a thing…" Ben comically sobbed with waterfall tears running down his face.

"...What's got them so upset?" Mako pondered as she looked at the group.

"...Heads up," Ryuko frowned, Senketsu transforming as she got up, "We got company…"

"...Ah come o-" Mitchy began before the windows shattered, a large group of Inves leaping out as they dogpilled the trolley.

A purple flash went off as Ryugen and Ryuko pushed the Inves off. They all fell before Ryugen began to shoot them, making them all explode. Ryuko grunted, swinging her scissor blade and slashing through several, leaving a red streak in the air before glittering flashes went off just before they all exploded.

"What the hell!" Ryuko complained, slashing another one.

"Could a Crack have opened in that building and no one noticed?" Ryugen huffed as he shot at more of the Inves.

"That's impossible...I would've heard a zipper unzipping," Makoto whispered to herself, using her seat to block an Inves trying to attack her, "Also easy! I am not in a good mood right now, so shoo!" she snapped as she grabbed it and punted the Inves away.

"One that big...the White Rider and those hazmat guys would have found it!" Ryuko argued, "What's going on!?"

"AH!" two voices screamed as two riders fell onto the roof, one clad in black pinecone themed armor, the other brown clad in acorn themed armor.

"...That explains why," Makoto and Ryuko deadpanned in unison.

"What the...who are...?" Ben began.

"Kurokage and Gridon...the two stooges of Gaim's early arc…" she whispered.

"We didn't do it!" both of them snapped at the glare Ryuko gave them.

"LIARS!" Ryuko snapped, making them yelp in response.

"We were just trying to see if we could do the thing Kaito does!" Kurokage shouted in panic.

"So we bought a bunch of cheap sunflower lockseeds from Sid!" Gridon argued, "But we opened...too many at once…"

"...Dai bakas," Lambda stated in her usual, neutral tone.

"Hai," Noel added with her own neutral tone.

"Urusei!" the two snapped.

"You seriously didn't think opening so many at once would result…" Sari began before snapping her fingers, causing the Inves to be shocked by neon green lightning, "In an army of monsters coming out?!"

"We just figured if Kaito can do it why not us!" Kurokage spoke using his spear to hold several back.

"It was all Hase-kun's fault!" Gridon sobbed, "I tried to stop him really I did!"

"Shut up Jounouchi!" Kurokage snapped.

"See? Chaos…" Naoto sighed to the others as he kicked an Inves back.

"...and my suit had to go poof too…" Makoto muttered...before she turned her Proto-Gauntlets on as she punched away an Inves, "Fine...I'll just use these guys to vent anyway!"

"How many did you open!?" Ryugen grunted, kicking another Inves away.

"I don't know...we got like fifty...and we left them all open!" Gridon explained.

"Are you clinically stupid?!" Ryugen snapped, aiming at Gridon, making him panic before shooting an Inves that was behind him.

"There are so freakin many…" Ryuko spoke, slashing another dozen in one swing, "We gotta find those lockseeds and close em!"

"But how?! It's just the two of us!" Ryugen spoke while shooting.

"Hey…" the other two Armored Riders spoke.

"My comment stands…" Ryugen grunted, he then blinked as he heard an engine sound, everyone turned to see a bike riding up the track before tackling into the Inves knocking them over.

"Ha!" Baron grunted kicking another Inves before holding his hand up to summon his lance before swinging it around to slash several all in one go making them explode. He landed on the trolley as his bike folded up and fell into his hand. He looked around before swinging and thrusting his lance past Ryuko to stab an Inves directly in its face making it gurgle before falling over and off the trolly to explode, "Hmph…" he turned away as he kicked an Inves away from other students, "Consider this an emergency stop, classes are canceled!" he shouted to all of them, "If you have a problem with this, I'll take it up with Satsuki herself on your behalf...now LEAVE!"

"AHH!" the other students panicked as they ran.

"...hoo that guy is scary," Rex whispered before ducking under an Inves' swipe, "Oh that's it bug...plant...er...that's it!" he shouted, bringing out his BFS as he slashed it away.

"...guess this is what we're doing then," Noel and Mai sighed as Lambda was already in her armor, become a blur as she cut down a large line of Inves.

"May as w-" Mai began as she reached for something, "...Oh right….I still don't have that replacement for my spear…"

At that, a spear suddenly sailed through the air and went through an Inves to stop before her.

"...not looking a gift horse in the mouth," Mai muttered as she pulled the spear out, letting her swing it a few times as she used it to smack some Inves away.

"Ah my spear!" Kurokage panicked as an Inves pinned him to the ground and was slapping him.

*BANG BANG!*

The Inves pinning Kurokage stayed still for a moment...before it collapsed with two noticeable bullet holes on its side. Kurokage blinked before his helmet as he turned, seeing Noel standing there with the barrels of Bolverk smoking a bit.

"You're welcome!" Noel shouted as she quickly turned and pistol whipped an Inves.

"...why is every girl we encounter lately so scary?!" Gridon freaked.

"And hot…" Kurokage muttered.

"So...you all know how to fight…" Baron noted, stabbing another Inves, "If you can fight you can hold a line!" he shouted, swinging his lance around to slash through several Inves leaving a banana projection that made them explode, "I'm going for their Lockseeds!" he jumped through the air into the building.

"Ah! Wait Kaito!" Ryuko grunted, slashing down another Inves.

"Ryuko-san, leave him be! Kaito is the only one we can trust to actually handle this!" Ryugen spoke as he pistol whipped another, "If you go after him they could get past us into the city!"

"Tsk...your right Mitchy!" she spoke swinging her blade through another Inves making it explode.

"Well seems things have gone really chaotic," Skurd whispered from Underneath the Omnitrix as he watched on, "...shall we partake in it, Ben my boy?"

"MAy as well. Just gotta…" Ben began as he got up, only to yelp when surprise when Ryuko accidentally bumped into him as he staggered near a group of Inves, unaware of his Omnitrix flashing yellow for a moment, "Ahh!"

"Hey watch it!" Ryuko snapped at him.

"Sorry I…!" Ben began before he noticed the Inves near him, "...screw it. Going random!" he shouted, activating and slamming down on the Omnitrix just as the Inves prepared to jump at him. A green flash soon went off as the Inves and everyone stopped for a moment, the light down down to see Ben replaced with….a black and green version of Senketsu in his Sailor-fuku form, the Omnitrix on the eyepatch.

"...well…..this is new," Skurd noted.

"Ahh! RYUKO!" Mako exclaimed in shock and awe, "He turned into a copy of your uniform!"

"Eh?" those of this world all blinked, "EH!?" they all shouted.

"What is happening?!" Rex, Mai, Sari and Naoto all shouted.

"Oddly...still not all that weird…" Noel whispered to Lambda who nodded.

"Ahh!" Makoto panicked, quickly snatching the other Senketsu up while smacking the Inves away with her tail, "Back! Back I say!"

"I am sorry...but what in the name of Amber Ogia...is this?" Rook asked with a look of pure shock as he kicked an Inves away, blasting it off with a wind slash from said kick.

"What the fuck!?" Ryuko, Kurokage, Gridon...and Ryugen all cursed in shock.

"I am honestly curious myself," Skurd admitted, "In fact...Ben? Hello~ Ben my boy…?"

"I can hear you just fine...hello? HELLO!"

"No need to shout, I hear ya just fine!" Makoto huffed, "But most importantly...how?! How did y-" she began before grunting when an Inves managed to slash her, spilling a bit of her blood onto Ben's new form, "Ow! Oh you little…!"

"?!" Ben's new form tensed up the moment her blood spilled onto him.

"Is...is he actually another Senketsu!?" Ryuko gawked.

"A Kamui…" Ryugen spoke, "AH! Wait! Whatever you do, try not to get blood on him!" he shouted shooting at another Inves, "When a Kamui is allowed to absorb blood, it awakens and bonds with the blood's owner as their host!"

"Say what?" Makoto blinked at that before yelping when she was suddenly forced into an empty building, "AHH! H-hey! Ben wh-AHH!"

"MORE! I MUST HAVE MORE!" the new Kamui roared, his visible eye bulging with veins.

"Ben what the hell's gotten int-ahh! MY CLOTHES!"

"I know exactly how she feels!" Ryuko spoke up, "I feel for you Risu-neechan…" she cringed, "It won't get any easier from there either…"

"OI!" Senketsu snapped at that before a massive green flash went off inside the empty building.

"The hell's going on out there?!" Baron snapped from the building the Inves came out of...just as a pair of larger ones charged out and prepared to attack the trolly.

"AHH! Kai..!" Mako began in a panic before a blur shot before her and deflected the two Inves away, "?!"

"Makoto, are you okaaaaaaaaaaaay?!" Mai began in shock as Makoto stood there, now wearing Ben's new form as he was in a complete Copy of Senketsu's armored form, only his 'scared eye' was replaced with the Omnitrix symbol while Makoto held a green version of Ryuko's Scissor Blade.

"...again, what the fuck?!" Ryuko exclaimed.

"NANI?!" Senketsu gawked in equal shock before he noticed Skurd, "...AHH! RYUKO, THAT'S IT! THAT'S THE SLIME!"

"So...I'm the sword...how humiliating…" the Scissor blade spoke.

"H-how do you think I feel?!" Makoto argued, "I'm literally wearing my boyfriend here!"

"The shame...I had no control over myself...I can never look anyone in the eyes again…"

"It...it really is the Gaijin…" Kurokage muttered.

"What the hell?" Gridon blinked.

"I...this...and...that's not…" Ryugen muttered, holding his head.

"Th-that...should not be...physically…" Rook muttered, now feeling the same way as Ryugen as the two were crouched down in a corner holding their heads.

"…I think Ben's new form broke them," Sari muttered, hitting an Inves with the back of her hammer when it tried to sneak attack her.

"I mean...I'm all for getting close and intimate with my Ben...but...this is not what I had in mind," Makoto muttered, "But well...I'm just glad it was me and not some other girl...so...I'll try to be happy about that."

"The shame is so strong...I had no control…" Ben's Kamui form sobbed, "What kind of life is this?"

"Ah don't worry, Ben...I don't hate you or anything," Makoto assured, "Was just...taken by surprise is all. If anything this is almost the closest we've ever been."

"I STRIPPED YOU OF YOUR CLOTHES!"

"You've seen me naked before…" she whispered.

"...Well yeah but…n-nevermind. Let's just fight these guys while I'm….what do I even call this form?!"

"We can worry about that later. So…" Makoto began before blinking, "...Skurd. You can channel Ben's other forms through you, right?"

"...Yes…"

"And I'm currently wearing him…" Makoto continued, "...Does this mean I can channel Ben's other forms through you while like this?"

"I...Huh...To admit, I honestly do not know," Skurd replied.

"...then what say we test it out?" Makoto offered with a grin.

"This is the weirdest transformation ever...of all time…" Ben spoke.

"Weird?!" Senketsu snapped at that as he forced Ryuko over to glare at him eye to eye, "You steal my appearance and call it weird?!"

"I'm...wait. You're alive?!" Ben gawked.

"Wait...you can hear him!?" Ryuko and Makoto blinked, "Ah well no...I just mean I can hear my own…"

"We can hear both!" the Armored Riders all declared.

"This is officially the weirdest day I've ever had," Naoto muttered while kicking back an Inves.

"Uh, Makoto!" Mai shouted, struggling to keep back a Lion Inves as it pushed back her spear, "A little help here please!?"

"Right!" she called out as she rushed over and kicked the Lion Inves, sending it flying away into the distance...before it explode, "Holy crap! Did you power me up that much!?"

"That hit even harder than me…" Ryuko gawked.

"Makoto was already super strong." Noel spoke, "She was strong enough to bring down a building and launch things up into the atmosphere."

"Seriously?" Ryuko blinked.

"OF COURSE!" Mako shouted as she jumped up on top of the trolly.

"Where did that light come from?" Rex blinked, seeing a light shining down on Mako while crossing her hands in the air, "...Also, did anyone else just hear the 'Hallelujah' just now?"

"It's Mako...we try to ignore it." Ryugen spoke, kicking another Inves as Makoto seemed to be exclaiming something about how squirrels are mighty in great numbers, "Honestly, I turn off my helmet's audio equipment most times."

"Ah! I thought you were suffering with us!" Ryuko shouted as she slashed down an Inves.

"I never agreed to that…" he muttered sheepishly before spinning around and pistol whipping another Inves.

"Rook's still reeling from the fact Ben turned into transforming clothing," Sari stated, using her hammer to strike the Inves away before they could get to Rook.

"It's all super weird." Mai added.

"So many questions!" Rook shouted, standing up as he punched an Inves before kicking it away, "We shall settle this later!"

"Agreed, we both have questions for one another that need to be answered." Ryugen spoke while shooting another Inves, "Let's call it quid-pro-quo. You tell us what the heck is up with all of you...and we'll answer your questions about what your friend just...turned into."

"Wait, the way…" Sari noted.

"Deal!" Rex and Naoto spoke, punching another Evolved Inves away.

"Mitchy...you're good at this deal making stuff, huh?" Ryuko whispered.

"One of us needs to be with Yuya-san missing…" he whispered back.

Everyone then froze as the ground trembled. Everyone paused and looked as the building cracked apart, the roof exploding as a giant green serpent dragon themed Inves rose up. It roared, breathing out blue fire as they saw Baron hanging onto its back with his lance stabbed into armored dorsal plates that formed wing-like shapes.

"Ahh! Inves Kaiju-da!" Mako exclaimed while Gridon and Kurokage hugged each other in fear.

"It ate all your stupid Lockseeds, you dumbasses!" Ryuko shouted, "They get big off eating one high class one...I guess a crap ton of cheap ones was just as good!"

"So now we have giant monsters to deal with…" Mai muttered, "...Noel, La-chan, Sari Rex, Naoto, Rook, help me try and get some civilians out before any casualties happen! Makoto, you and Ben...figure out how to help take that thing down!"

"I can handle it!" Baron shouted as the giant Dragon Inves flew off.

"Yeah, he can't handle it…" Ryugen muttered, "We fought a Dragon Inves before...their skin is harder then steel...it took three of us, and Kouta and Kaito using their power type forms. This is a giant Inves...last time we fought one was when…" he patted his suit, "Kouta had Suika…"

"Ah...man of all the times he's not around." Ryuko groaned as she jumped up, the vents on her back pushing her through the air even further to catch up with the giant Inves.

"You two coming?" Ryugen sighed, looking to Kurokage and Gridon.

"Ah...well we would...but...somebody…" Kurokage began.

"Needs to help keep an eye on the civilians! Right?! So me and Hase-kun will do that, while you of Team Gaim handle the giant monster with Kaito." Gridon cheered, "Ne?" he turned to Kurokage.

"Oh! Yes thats right! We are going to protect folks! There has to be some straggler Inves left! And we can deal with them! Leave it to us!" Kurokage cheered.

"Right…" Ryugen replied along with the rest of the Omni Team, "Can I please trust you guys to actually do that?" he pleaded to the Omni team, he put his hands on Mai's shoulders, "Please...I don't want to trust them...you have no idea how stupid they are…"

"Oi!" the two snapped.

"Trust us...we know how to deal with stupid," Sari assured with a sigh.

"Thank you…" Ryugen sighed happily as he ran off and tossed out a Lockseed which turned into a Rose themed motorcycle.

"I'll go help!" Makoto spoke as she crouched down...before jumping so far through the city it looked more like she actually took off with flight, "THIS IS AWESOME!"

"We're gonna have to deal with this now, aren't we?" Mai asked.

"I don't know...it's pretty ecchi...but I mean...Makoto and Ben are in a committed relationship…" Noel muttered.

"True, but...how do you think Tsubaki's gonna react when she sees it?" Mai countered

"Well I never said that wouldn't be a problem…" Noel admitted.

"..nevermind," Mai groaned as she and the others ran off

"Come on you two…" Rex grunted as he and Naoto dragged off Gridon and Kurokage.

"So.." Makoto began as she landed on a nearby rooftop at the same time as Ryuko, "Any tips on how to fight in this form?"

"Considering your complexion doesn't show embarrassment, you're wearing him properly."

"Hey yeah, that's right...you're not embarrassed by this look?" Ryuko asked.

"Well...I mean not really…" Makoto muttered, "If you want to be like super technical...it covers up more of my skin then that old stealth uniform I had to wear for my job as a stealth operative of a splinter cell taskforce…" she muttered, "It is a lot more sexy though...but if we're talking pure skin coverage...the boots and gloves are much longer...and the skirt look shorter, but it's frilly so it actually covers more than that old miniskirt...the boob reveal ratio is the same though…"

"Seriously?"

"Oh ho yeah," Makoto nodded before the Giant Inves' roar caught their attention, "Oh right..giant Inves attacking…"

"AH!" Baron roared, still hanging on as he stabbed at its neck multiple times.

"He is very determined…" Makoto blinked.

"You have no idea." Ryuko sighed.

"Fight me!" Baron shouted as it tried to shake him off and flew towards Honnouji Gakuen.

"Kaito! Make it crash into the school! It might be the only building that can survive its thrashing!" Ryuko shouted.

"Shut up! I do what I want!"

"That guy really pisses me off!" Ruko growled.

"It could just be you don't know how to talk to men given you went to an all girls school." Senketsu muttered.

"That would explain it...all the girls I know are crazy good at tricking guys into doing what they want." Ben muttered.

"But that awkwardness is one of her charming points as well." Senketsu cheered.

"What are you saying about me!?" Ryuko complained.

"Wait Ryuko-san...do you not know how to manipulate men to your whim?" Makoto blinked.

"I am the one who's manipulated~" Ben chuckled.

"That's a thing?!" Ryuko asked.

"This is a great travesty! How do you not have the single greatest ability all women have!?" Makoto shouted.

"AH!" Baron screamed as the giant Dragon Inves slammed him into the side of the tower that held up Honnouji Gakuen, "You steel skinned green bastard! You will fall by my hand!"

"It's not that great is it?" Ryuko asked with a slight blush of embarrassment.

"Nonsense! Think of how easy life could be for you if you know how to manipulate that Jerk...or even Kouta into doing what you actually want or need them to do! Think how easy life would become! This is a skill all women must learn in a world filled with pig headed idiots! Even if some are cute and worth the time!" Makoto declared proudly.

"Hey~" Ben replied, "Well Aw...but mostly Hey~!"

"...I'll consider it," Ryuko whispered before Baron was slammed into a nearby empty building, "?!"

"Well I do believe the muscle-headed knight has been knocked off his 'steed'," Skurd joked.

"Whoever said that can bite my well toned ass…" Baron grunted as he pushed himself up.

"Joke's on him, I have no mouth to do said task," Skurd whispered.

"Let's just focus on dealing with the giant monster attacking!" Makoto declared, swinging her sword a bit as she jumped up at the Inves.

"Are you insane?!" Baron snapped, "Taking on a Giant Inves like that w-" he began as Makoto's sword became engulfed in diamonds as she slashed the underside of the Inves, making it cry out in pain as it flew back, "?!"

"Huh...so it does work," Skurd muttered, "...now my curiosity has peaked!"

"Did her sword talk just now?" Ryuko blinked.

"I TOLD YOU! IT'S THAT SLIME!" Senketsu argued.

"Indeed I am."

"WAH!" Ryuko jumped, "Da hell is that?!"

"Well...I guess in short an alien symbiote bonded to my boyfriend...who is now a sentient D&D Bikini armor, so is now also bonded to us...he's like...your thing...but he puts more clothing on...then he takes away…" Makoto explained.

"That's unfair! Trade me!" Ryuko complained.

"I am not a Pokemon!" Skurd argued.

"Ehhh?!" Senketsu exclaimed in shock at the same time.

"This is almost as stupid as listening to Kazuraba try and explain a movie plot…" Baron groaned, "Where is he anyway!?"

"Wait...if he's not here...and Tsukasa is already gone...Aw nuts...an even bigger, more amazing fight must be happening somewhere!" Makoto complained.

"WHAT!?" Baron and Ryuko snapped at that.

"Best not ask, because our serpentine fiend is coming right at us!" Skurd shouted.

"I got it!" Makoto held up the Skurd Sword, "Yes...I've only imagined how I'd abuse my boyfriends powers if by some chance I could...now Skurd...Heatblast Sword!"

"J-just like that?!" he gawked.

"Do it~" she cheered with stars in her eyes.

"Aw...she's so cute when she's power hungry~" Ben sighed happily.

Sure enough the Skurd Sword flashed before turning into a long Heatblast themed knight's longsword. Makoto lifted the sword up and used it to block the blast of fire from the Dragon Inves, as the blade absorbed all the flames and head into itself.

"Hahaha! Yes!" Makoto cheered, "Now Shock Rock Sword!"

"D'oh...very well!" Skurd shouted, flashing before turning into a large Shockrock themed Buster Sword.

"Its every daydream ever all in one and I love it!" Makoto cheered raising the sword up as it began drawing in electricity from the city around them, making it glow brighter. She then swung down as the sword fired off a large blue arc of light that struck the Dragon Inves and zapped its metallic skin causing it to cry out in pain as its defense now became a weakness, "Ahahahahah!"

"I think she's gone mad with power…" Ryuko sweatdropped.

"Women are always mad going off your example…" Baron grunted. pulling out his Mango Lockseed again.

=FIGHT OF HAMMER!=

Baron slammed his mace into the ground...and used his strength to flip and launch himself into the air. He spun around before slamming his hammering weapon into the Inve's jaw, denting its cheek in with great force and knocking out several teeth.

"I'm not gonna sit back and let someone else settle the fight I started!" Baron roared, spinning around and striking the Inves again knocking its head around.

"Hey! Wait your turn!" Makoto shouted, swinging her Shock Rock sword and sending out another electrical sword beam that struck the Inves.

"This is no RPG!" Baron roared spinning in place and swinging his hammer low and scraping it along the roof before launching a volley of debris like shrapnel that struck the Inve's face with enough force to knock its head around.

"Screw you! You cause more problems to us then this stupid freakin Dragon!" Ryuko shouted jumping and slashing the Dragon across its torso, "Let some real fighters deal with this!"

"What did you say?!" Baron growled as he jumped and smashed his mace into the right side of the Dragon's face.

"She said we can handle it!" Makoto shouted, punching the Dragon in the left half of its face.

"So back off!" Ryuko shouted, kicking its jaw from below and knocking its head back.

"Annoying and bossy women like you tick me off!" Baron shouted, slamming his hammer down on the top of the Dragon's skull, slamming its jaw shut, as more teeth flew out.

"Da hell you say!?" Ryuko and Makoto snapped, swinging their right and left arms forward respectively as spikes extended from their knuckles just as their fists collided with the Dragon Inves snout, sending its head rocketing back.

"I said...you…" Baron grunted, spinning his body around and slamming his mace along the Dragon's back, like a spinning top he grinded his way down its back, "Tick me off! You nosy loudmouthed women!" he roared, swinging his hammer into its tail, the blades cutting into its skin before ripping a good section of its tail off.

"You are so annoying!" Ryuko complained.

"I already told you, you're not my type so just leave me alone!" Baron shouted, landing next to Ryuko.

"What makes you think I'm flirting with an ego fueled maniac like you!?"

"Hmph." Baron scoffed.

"Wah...I'm getting Triangle vibes…" Makoto whispered to Ben and Skurd.

"No kidding…" Ben muttered.

"The other one must be the balancing point…" Skurd muttered, "It's best we try not to fill the spot lest nonsense follow…"

"Agreed," Makoto and Ben agreed.

"What are you whispering over there?!" Baron and Ryuko snapped.

"Bah!" Baron groaned as he jumped off after the Dragon Inves.

"Tsk...that bastard just knows how to piss off anyone!" Ryuko grumbled.

'Trust me girl, you've seen nothing yet…' Makoto thought as she and Ryuko jumped off after the Inves.

The Dragon Inves hissed weakly as it tried to move back into the air, only for a slash from Baron's mace caused it to hiss in pain as it collapsed onto the ground.

"It's weak, we can work with this." Baron replied, landing in front of it.

"'We we', or the 'royal we'?" Ryuko asked as she and Makoto landed nearby.

"Yes…" he replied simply while looking away.

"As long as it doesn't suddenly...no...not saying anything…" Makoto shook her head.

"Then I suggest you finish it with a combo attack," Ben suggested.

"Sounds a bit overkill, but given today...I'm all for it," Senketsu added.

"Combo move?" both girls asked before smiling, "Combo Move!" they cheered, high-fiving.

"Oh great they bonded," Baron muttered as he hefted his weapon up.

The Dragon Inves roared out as it lunged at the trio, intent on swallowing them whole as its near fangless mouth was wide open. However, Baron slammed his mace hard on the monster's upper jaw, an audible crack going off as the beast's mouth was forced shut while its head was slammed hard into the ground. It only grew worse for the Dragon inves as Baron did an upward swing that sent it reeling back, exposing its underside.

"There! Attack now!" Baron ordered as he messed with his belt by pushing down on something three times.

"Hissatsu…!" Ryuko began as she reeled her sword back, a section raising up as it flipped over the tip and extended it.

"Skurd, let's go Shadow Edge!" Makoto shouted as she reeled her own sword back, "But with a touch of Shockrock!"

"I think you're enjoying this too much, but you keep increasing my curiosity about this form!" Skurd shouted as he shifted to form a long, thin black katana themed after Shadow Edge with bits of Shockrock's electricity.

"Jupiter/Sen i…!" Makoto and Ryuko began as their jet vents shot them forward, leaving a streak as they reeled their swords back.

=MANGO SPARKING!=

"Gh…" Baron grunted as he lifted his mace up as its head began growing in size till it was nearly the size of a house, the ground under him buckling as it flashed with bright energy.

"Sabre/Soushitsu!" Makoto and Ryuko shouted as the two delivered a passing cross slash on the Inves, causing it to groan out in pain as electricity coursed through its body as a geyser of energy shot out of it's chest.

"HA!" Baron roared, swinging his mace around before throwing it into the Inves, the head of the weapon exploding upon impact as the blast wave tore through its body.

A few moments of silence passed until the Dragon Inves began to fall over onto the ground, groaning weakly as it exploded in a flash of multiple lights.

"And Strike a pose~" Ben chuckled.

"Thank god that's over…" Senketsu sighed.

"I hate the fact I'm the only one who can hear both…" Baron spoke with a sigh.

"Well least w-" Makoto began before a familiar beeping sound began to go off, "...uh oh."

"Oh no!" Ben panicked.

"Stop beeping...don't change back while this is a thing!" Makoto complained, smacking the Omnitrix a few times, "Skurd, do something!"

"What do you want me to do!? The only person to ever unlock master control by their own merit was Sento!" Skurd complained.

"CRAP!" Makoto panicked, "I need some clothes fast!"

"Here ya go!"

"BWAGH!" Makoto yelped as she jumped back from Mako, who was holding a set of green and black school clothes similar to Ben's current form.

"I had a feeling someone might lose th-" Mako began before the clothes she offered were snatched as a black and green blur shot off into a nearby empty building, "?"

"...where did you get those?" Ryuko cautiously asked.

"The New Substitute Sensei left them for me and said: You will know when you are needed, Mako," Mako explained, trying her best to copy Tsukasa's deep voice, "Not sure what he meant...but I figured this looked like a great chance to use them!"

"Soka…" Ryuko muttered as a red flash went off, making the trio turn to see Makoto-now wearing the outfit-stepping out with a slightly heavy blushing Ben walking behind her.

"Hoo..that was a close one," Makoto muttered as she sighed a bit in relief.

"I hated many things about today…" Ben muttered, "Did Tsukasa know this would happen?"

"Most likely," Makoto shrugged before picking up a piece of what was once her Proto-Armor, "Mmm...gonna miss this...the pendant was really nice too."

"We can probably get a new one once we get home." Ben sighed, patting her shoulder.

"But its the only outfit I ever owned that let me do all my crazy nonsense and didn't rip or tear…" Makoto cried small comical tears.

"So the weird couple...have a weird secret…" Baron spoke up, getting their attention, "First of all...what the hell is he?" he pointed to Ben.

"Oi they helped! Doesn't that count for something?" Ryuko complained.

"Why does it matter to me if they helped? I could have handled it myself." Baron replied.

"You have to be kidding…" Ryuko gawked.

"You do realize who we're trying to argue with, right?" Senketsu deadpanned.

"Sh-" Ryuko began before Mako shot up to the duo.

"He's right! What are you?!" Mako asked as she excitedly looked at Ben...REALLY close up at that too, "Are you a failed lab experiment, an alien...some type of…!?"

"..." Makoto pushed Mako away so she wasn't so close to Ben, "My boyfriend, you keep your distance." she spoke while hugging Ben.

"Then tell us what the hell was up with him becoming a Kamui?" Baron demanded, "So far only 2 of those things exist...and frankly I want to know ahead of time if this…" he pointed to Ryuko...more specifically Senketsu, "Is gonna suddenly wake up one day as a full grown man…"

"I too would like to know this...cause frankly I'd hate it. I am happy as a uniform and am happy to be worn by Ryuko!" he declared.

"Well see thats a bit of a story…" Ben muttered.

"You have till Satsuki herself comes down to collect and torture you for information." Baron replied simply, "After that...you're as good as dead."

"...give us a moment," the couple muttered as they huddled up.

"What do we do?" Makoto quietly asked...while using her tail to move Mako away when she tried to overhear them.

"Well...this guy is kinda intense...but that girl from the other day scares me…" Ben muttered, "And now they saw me turn into something that is the rarest commodity in this world...so...I'm boned…"

"This is bad...well we only have to hang out till Tsukasa finishes his super epic save the world fight with whatever monster he's fighting." Makoto argued, "Then we are free to get the heck out of dodge."

"How long does that take?" Ben asked.

"Two episodes at max…" Makoto shrugged.

"You realize that's not a proper measurement of time right?" Ben chuckled sheepishly at how little that helped.

"All I got for ya babe...my only guess is tell these two the truth and hope they hate Satsuki enough to help us escape." Makoto offered.

"Okay..but how much of the truth?" Ben asked.

"Just the 'what you do, what I do, and where we come from.'" she explained, "Don't you dare spoil nothing of what I told you...hear me. That is a bad...very bad idea!"

"Don't worry babe. I'll just tell them as much as I can, but I won't spoil anything."

"You better cause you don't realize how scary that guy can be…" she motioned to Baron with her ears, "He's just in his very early arc stage…"

"Are they actually talking about stuff...or making out?" Baron questioned.

"I'm willing to bet both." Ryuko muttered, holding Mako back.

"Heard that!" Makoto shouted, making Ryuko jumped back a bit in surprise, "Ahh..sorry. We'll explain as much as we can for you...but you gotta promise not to tell anyone!"

"Not like anyone will believe it…" Baron argued.

"He has a point…" Ryuko muttered, "But it can't be th-"

"Aliens," Ben, Makoto and Skurd blurted out.

"...excuse you?"

"I knew it! Aliens are invading!" Mako shouted.

---

"Okay...that should be the last one," Sari muttered as she and the others finished evacuating people from the wrecked part of the city.

"I knew those blasted lock-thing-a-ma-jigs would be a pain when they announced those for them Beat Rider kids," an elderly man grumbled, "Especially them dagburn creatures they make..."

"Least you people are safe now," Mai spoke up...before shooting a deadpanned look at Noel as she was surrounded by multiple dogs and cats, "And of course you went for the animals first…"

"It was sister or them," Lambda pointed out as she pointed at Kurokage and Gridon.

"Oi…" said 'them' groaned.

"That's fair." Mai nodded.

"Can I have my spear back?" Kurokage asked Mai.

"...I think it's safer if I held on to it." she poked him away with his own weapon.

"Hey!" Kurokage growled.

"You can always redon your armor to get another," Gridon reminded.

"Also, you're an idiot…" Ryugen spoke, "Face it...The only time you've ever gotten a win was when, me, Kouta and Ryuko all weakened Kaito enough for you to land a dirty hit."

"T-That was strategy!" Kurokage shouted.

"It was something…" Ryugen muttered, turning away from him.

"Since when did you become this sassy!?" Gridon demanded.

"I never had reason to point out how lame you both are 'till you became daily problems to me…" Ryugen replied, making the two slump with a depressing aura around them.

"Ooh...I felt that burn," Rex cringed with Naoto.

"No kidding…" Naoto muttered, "...Well, least the monsters are gone..and I don't hear any loud roaring, so Ben and the others must've taken care of the 'boss'."

"Meaning they somehow got Baron to cooperate," Ryugen added, "But still...once Satsuki learns of a third Kamui...and a third user…"

"I've been meaning to ask...why do you refer to Satsuki-sama so casually…" Kurokage muttered, only for Ryugen to kick him away, "OW!"

"..oh scrap. That's right," Sari whispered as her eyes widened in realization, "The moment she hears about what happened…"

"She'll interrogate us…" Lambda muttered.

"...perhaps someone should go and retrieve both Ben and Makoto before…" Rook began.

Everyone paused when suddenly a Red Rope tie suddenly opened in space before them. After a second, an explosion went off as several figures all spilled out into the street. First to note was the white Armored Rider from before, followed closely by a blue Armored rider with lemon-themed armor and a rapier. Third to jump out was actually Satsuki herself...followed by...Two Gaim's.

"We're back?" the white Rider asked, looking around.

"So the dimensional singularity opened just as all those energies collided together…" the blue rider muttered.

"What was the meaning of all that, Kazuraba?" Satsuki demanded the two Gaims as they pointed at one another before slapping each other, "Will you stop that…?"

It was then everyone noted that the other Gaim...had a different belt with a black and magenta colored buckle. The two sighed as the second flashed with pink light and turned into a Magenta, white and black Rider with green eyes, a barcode themed mask, and a large X on his left shoulder.

"I told you it wouldn't work," Kamen Rider Decade sighed.

"Dang it!" Gaim groaned.

"What the heck is going on!?" Ryugen, Naoto, Rex, Sari, Mai, and several others all shouted.

"Hey guys!" Gaim cheered, "We just fought an evil me and some guy who called himself Saver...but was totally an evil cult leader lunatic in an alternate dimension version of Japan!"

"Told you things get weird," Decade told them.

"I refuse to accept that was an evil you," Satsuki looked at Gaim.

"But it was totally an evil Gaim!" Gaim argued, "Everyone even called him Gaim."

"Bujin Gaim…" Decade and the White Rider corrected.

"Well Satsuki-chan, this is the parallel world theory we are talking about. How do you not know that goober could become a worse monster than Oda Nobunaga?" the blue Rider replied, "Honestly...you're so bad at this science stuff...it's almost cute. Do you need more tutoring like in middle school?" he continued to tease.

"Grr…" Satsuki growled as she slowly raised her katana up at the blue Rider.

"Ooh~ Ooh~ Satchan is mad again~" he continued.

"That's enough," the white Rider spoke.

"So now that we're home...I guess that truce is over?" Gaim asked, pulling out his sword.

"I said it before...but I'm here to support this one." Decade spoke, standing next to Gaim, "If you're looking for a fight...I'll be happy to give it to you, Mr. White Day."

"Let's do it, Zangetsu...I want data on that one~" the blue one cheered, looking at Decade, "His system...it's amazing! I need to know how it works!"

"Is it too much to hope you're on our side for this, Senpai?" Gaim muttered, looking at Satsuki.

"..." Zangetsu said nothing as he began to walk off.

"...Guess not," Gaim slumped.

"Well, I'm no match for any of you without that guy...so...Stealth Mode activate!" the Blue Rider declared as he suddenly turned invisible.

"...I will take my leave as well," Satsuki shouted, her uniform changing back to normal as she began to walk off, making the Omniteam blink a bit, "Today was long, and I need to see if anything happened at Honnouji Academy."

"...What...did you do?" Rook asked Decade once Satsuki was out of hearing distance.

"A basic Thursday. Ended up in an alternate reality filled with multiple Riders with a different title from 'Kamen' and teamed up with a fellow Rider," Decade shrugged, "Nothing big."

"It was crazy! We were there for weeks! What did we miss?!" Gaim demanded of his friends.

"Kouta...we saw you last night…" Ryugen spoke.

"NANI!?" Gaim panicked.

"It's better this way," Decade chuckled, "Two great threats destroyed for good."

"It feels like my life in the other world was for nothing! You mean I had to become a Shogun for nothing?!" Gaim complained to Decade.

"More or less…" Decade nodded.

"AH!" he cried while hugging Decade and letting his feet slide back.

"...I strangely feel like a lemur king being hugged at his royal feet by someone he doesn't want to touch his royal feet," Decade joked, causing Naoto to snicker, "And someone gets the reference. Nice. Now..." he began as he clapped his hands together, "Where's the local couple?"

"They went that way after…" Mai began.

"Oh, did Ben touch Senketsu?" Decade asked...excitedly.

"You planned this," Mai realized.

"What? Moi?" Decade motioned to himself.

"You planned it; I know you did," Mai countered.

"How could I ever plan something like that?"

"The fact you're denying it more just proves it…" Sari deadpanned.

"Well...I wanted to see what would happen if I introduced him to a symbiotic life form...and it's not like I can take him to a world where Spider-Man is real and have him turn into Venom…" Decade grumbled as he kicked Gaim away.

"I had to do...so much work...I had to be responsible for others…" Gaim groaned, "I almost had to do a stupid arranged wedding before we finally beat evil me! It was horrible!"

"Least today is over with…" Ryugen sighed as both Gridon and Kurokage began to crawl away while everyone was looking.

"You didn't help with a wedding?!" Noel exclaimed in shock, suddenly inches from Gaim's face.

"AH!" Gaim yelped, jumping back.

"He also called it 'stupid,'" Decaded added, amusement in his tone.

"I..!" Gaim began before tensing up...when Noel aimed Bolverk in its rocket launcher form at him, "..."

"Take that back," Noel whispered, her eyes a cold dull azure as she glared at him.

"...Oh, I'm in trouble, aren't I?" Gaim asked.

"Yes…Yes you are," Rook, Mai, Sari, and Lambda sighed.

"Ryuko is thataway," Ryugen informed, scooting away.

"Mitchy?!" Gaim exclaimed.

"She is giving me flashbacks to when I angered Sukuyo-san the only time I pushed a button by accident!" Ryugen defended before both of them shuddered on recalling it.

"...uh...BYE!" Gaim screamed as he bolted off.

"HALT!" Noel shouted as she prepared to give chase, her eyes back to their normal...yet currently an angry color, "You're under arrest for mocking l-!"

"No…" Decade replied, grabbing her when she tried to pass him before tossing her over his shoulder, "None of that…" he sighed as she struggled and flailed her arms and legs to get free.

"...Wait. What just happened?" Rex and Naoto blinked with wide eyes.

"Yeah….we don't say anything bad about love around Noel," Sari muttered.

"Several of what we call Ben's B-List know very well not to do that when she's in the area," Mai chuckled sheepishly while rubbing the back of her head, "I think we just barely avoided a lawsuit from the Billions on one occasion and she's had to go to mandatory therapy for it."

"She knows arranged weddings aren't out of love, right? ...It's more so a political thing so no one fights one another…" Decade muttered.

"I think the word 'arranged' went right in one ear and out the other," Mai sighed as she walked over and tapped Noel's head, making her look at the bluenette, "It was arranged for a power play."

"EH?!" Noel gawked, her Bolverk clattering to the floor in her shock.

"That's how things work in a Sengoku era style world…" Decade muttered, "Back then, weddings were just another tool for political power. Also you can't just force your ideals of love on someone who is in a stage where it's the last thing on their mind." he put Noel down, poking her nose with a finger, "People are ready for love at different points in life. Your friends worked out 'cause they wanted someone to love and understand them. But most people still don't grasp how love even works...let alone if they want it right now or not."

"...Oh~" Noel noted as she nodded a bit in understanding.

"And for that little blow up just now? No corgi plushies from this world," Decade stated.

"EH!?" Noel exclaimed, "B-B-But there was a plushy in the No Star District wearing a felt fruit hat for sale at Druper's!"

"Should've been better behaved. Lambda, take her home. No stopping for anything."

"The corgi~!" Noel sobbed as Lambda picked her up and walked off.

"Wait...you can be mature?!" Rex shouted.

"Of course. Someone has to be the adult in these situations," Decade answered, "And technically, I am an adult. I'm not even sure how old I really am given how odd my body is. My personal theory is that I work on Elf logic from D&D...but you know that's just my inner nerd."

"Oh…"

"Yeah...Anyway, time to…"

"Hey! Sorry we're late!" Makoto shouted as she and Ben ran into the area, "We got..caught up in something."

"Ah, good. You got the outfit from Mako," Decade chuckled.

"I knew it was you!" Makoto exclaimed as she gestured to her current outfit, "How did you even know Ben could turn into this outfit anyway?"

"It was him making a big speculation that, apparently, worked," Sari replied.

"And boy it certainly did…" Skurd muttered, "...and the woman went power crazy for a bit."

"I…"

"You kinda did, babe," Ben interjected, "And you found a bit of a loophole in that lock of Tsukasa's, too."

"Wait, what?" Decade quickly asked, looking at the squirrel girl, "Her...finding a loophole in my schemes?"

"Yep-yep-yep! But I ain't gonna tell ya~"

"...Oh, I'll find out eventually…" Decade stated as he began to walk off, "I won't say when or how...but it will happen."

"Wait...we're leaving?" Rex asked.

"I mean...this was a work trip...and work is done. We could stay if you want...but I think once word gets out there is a Third Kamui user...with even more abilities then the first two...Satsuki and her entire army will come marching." Decade spoke, "I just spent an entire time displaced for a month or so with Gaim and her...She's not easy to deal with…"

"...Yeah. Probably best we head out," Ben agreed.

"Presumably someplace with no school," Makoto added.

"...Oh you are gonna love and hate the next world then," Decade stated in a cryptic manner.

"What are you planning?" Makoto demanded.

"...It's a present trip. I want to show you a place where you can enhance your gear, and enjoy some fun for a bit." Decade explained before he turned and pointed at Ben and Makoto in a dramatic way, "Don't worry…" he suddenly pointed to himself, "I am Here! Or so he says~"

"?" the group blinked in confusion at that for a moment...though Ben and Makoto had a slight feeling they knew...well...they assumed what he was talking about.

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"AH!"

"OI KUSO-NERD! The hell is with that face!?" Explosions could be heard from the grounds of a certain High School.

"Katchan! It's not the time for that! We're on vacation! Can't you just be happy for once?!"

"What do you have to be happy about, Deku!?"

"I have plans!"

"Eh?"

"It seems he assumes everything revolves around him again…" a third voice sighed.

"Da fuck you say, Icy-hot?!"

"I wasn't talking to you."

"Don't act all high and mighty, bastard!"

"I don't have time for you...I'll talk to you later, Midoriya."

"Oh, enjoy your trip, Todoroki!"

"Don't ignore me!"

"Can't we all just get along?"

"Not with him…" both replied.

"Ugh…"

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GT: Oh poor Ben and Makoto...but you folks honestly thought we wouldn't add Omniketsu of all forms via this sekai?

Z0: You'd be a fool if you said anything other…

SZ: Very much so...but yes...given that preview, you all KNOW what world is coming up next~

GT: Very true. And don't worry, folks...we couldn't figure out a way to do a crossover with this one so it's just a vanilla world. And also one of the last three worlds that remain for this big ol' Arc.

SZ: Eeyup. We're finally approaching the end of this arc, folks! Only 3 worlds left!

Z0: That's all you Get from us! *turns into a giant azure dragon again* Enjoy or be burned! *breathes fire at the screen and my co-writers*

SZ: AHH! READ AND REVIEW!

GT: MERCY!

Z0: Now off to Korea for authentic food...Dragon Z0 Away! *flies off as the fires engulf all*