RFD: Konnichiwa to all Fanfiction readers! Your usual newbie, Red Flame Dragon here will bring you the next chapter of Symphonic World today! Haaaah, last time was really intense, right, Aibou?
RFD's Sidekick: I'm agree. The last Chapter 3 was the cruelest one we've really think of, especially the fight with Zero-One and Tsubasa.
RFD: Yes, sure is. But in that chapter, we've finally create the first OC form for Ryouga to use, which was Blazing Dragon. *Sigh* Only the problem is we don't have the talent in drawing, which is suck… It would be easier and more exciting to know what my imaginations would look like in the picture.
RFD's Sidekick: For once, we finally have the same suggestions. But grieving about it later, how about we let Ryouga have some 'supporters' in the future chapter as some extra scenes?
RFD: Oh yeah. I almost forgot about 'that'! *turns back to the readers* In the future chapter, we will put in some new 'supporters' for Ryouga after the conclusion, which means we'll be putting some hidden final scenes of near future chapters like in the Anime, depending on the situation, so be sure to read till the end. Now, without further ado, let's bring out the disclaimer!
RFD's Sidekick: Aye, sir! *Ahem* We don't own TOEI, BANDAI or anything that's related to TV shows or Anime. We also don't own any songs and BGM's. They all belong to their respective owners, including the characters. We only own the Fanfic story and OC's. Please take your time and Enjoy till the end.
RFD: Thank you, now appear, the gate that will lead us to the unveiled future! Let's RISE! *VRAINS Link Circuit SFX*
Episode 4: The Shattered Frozen Blade! The No Way-Out Nightmare!
(Wareta Koori no Yaiba! Nogarerarenai Akumu!)
第四話: 割れた氷の刃! 逃れられない悪夢!
(Last time)
Ryouga (narrator): Koremade no Kamen Rider Zero-One: Symphonic World…
Ryoko: "Relics are ancient artifacts documented in legends from all around the world."
Genjuro: "The Relics are activated by the power of songs."
Hibiki: "Th-That's my injuries from two years ago!"
Ryoko: "According to our research, they are fragments of the third Relic, Gungnir, which Kanade here once possessed."
Tsubasa: "I'll take them on!"
Kanade: "And where do you think you're going?"
Hibiki: "Only a Symphogear user or a Kamen Rider can fight against the Noise, Right? Then it's also my duty to help, too!"
Zero-One: "Omae… What the hell do you think you're doing?"
Tsubasa: "Isn't it obvious? I'll never accept that girl as Kanade's REPLACEMENT!"
Zero-One: "Get up! I'm not done with you yet."
Tsubasa: "I'LL KILL YOU!"
[ZETSUMERISE!]
Zero-One: "I'll rip that darkness out of your body."
[BLAZING IMPACT!] ブレイジングインパクト!
Zero-One: "From now on, I'll continue my duty as a vigilante, so don't expect that you'll get a second chance."
Tsubasa: "I am truly sorry for what I have done."
Zero-One: "Get the fuck out of my way, Kazanari Tsubasa."
Kanade: "Tsubasa, what's wrong? Are you okay?"
Tsubasa: "What… What have I done…?"
(Nighttime, Lydian Academy Dorms, Tsubasa's Room)
At this quiet night, everyone has already gone back to their homes for deep slumbers after the fight. It was supposed to be a peaceful night for everyone, except for one person…
In Tsubasa's room, sleeping on the bed was Kanade and Tsubasa, since they were best friends. Kanade was sleeping while snoring lightly, Tsubasa was squirming on the bed with cold sweats dripping from her head, her body was shaking in fear while gripping the blanket tightly like she was having a worst nightmare of her life…
(Tsubasa's Dream)
Tsubasa opened her eyes slowly, trying to adapt to her surroundings, before her eyes widened at the sight. She was now standing on the ground what looks like a horrendous battlefield. The ground was cracking with small flames, several people were lying on the ground, battered and bruised, with blood on their clothes. In those people were her acquaintances: Genjuro, Ryoko, Sakuya, Aoi, and other scientists and staff members. She instantly ran to her uncle in worry.
"Uncle! Uncle, are you okay? Please wake up! Uncle!" Tsubasa asked, shaking Genjuro lightly, pleading for him to wake up. Seeing no hint of Genjuro waking up, she then went to Ryoko and the others. "Ryoko-san! Everyone!" As to be expected, no luck of waking up either. "Just what had happened…?" The bluenette then widen her eyes, gasped. "Oh no… Kanade!"
She then ran to the front, trying to find where her best friend is while calling out. "Kanade! Kanade, where are you?" After running for a while, she stopped running to catch her breath. She lifted her head up, gasped in shock when she found two people lying on the ground.
"Kanade?" Tsubasa said in worry, ran to where the two people lying. She then gasped in horror when she looked at the two people. It was Kanade and Hibiki, covered in blood and bruises.
"Sonna… Kanade!" She ran to her best friend, cradling her in her arms. The bluenette girl shed tears, shaking Kanade's body with distress, calling out for her. "Kanade! Please wake up! Who did this to you?"
The battered Kanade then opened her eyes in pain, muttered: "Tsubasa… Why… How could you…?"
"Eh? What do you mean?" Tsubasa asked in confuse.
Hibiki also woke up, lifting her head to look at Tsubasa. "Why… Why did you... Kill everyone…?"
Tsubasa looked at Hibiki in confuse, didn't know what this girl was talking about. "Wha… What are you saying…?"
Both Kanade and Hibiki muttered in unison. "It's your fault…"
Tsubasa widen her eyes in horror, repeating what they had said. "My… my fault…?"
Both girl's eyes then opened widely, their eyes turned into pitch black, giving a haunting expression like that of a dead person's spirit, resurface in their dreams to remind them of their committed sins. They repeated in unison, making Tsubasa step back in fear. "It's your fault… It's your fault…"
"N-No… no… NO! IT'S NOT TRUE! I DON'T KILL ANYONE!" Tsubasa shouted in denial, gripping her head with frightful expression over her face.
Both of them suddenly stood up, walking to Tsubasa like zombies, said in unison with a haunting tone: "Everything is because of YOU!" The dark red flames suddenly erupted from the ground, aiming at Tsubasa, causing her to scream in fear at the upcoming fire, shielding herself before the fire engulfed her vision for a minute. After the fire finally died down, she lowered her arms slowly, breathing rapidly because of the immense fear, especially what Kanade and Hibiki had said. She tried to calm down her shaky breaths by grasping her frantically beating heart, but then gasped in fear again, her heart then stopped beating for a second.
As she then saw the person that appeared in front of her was Zero-One, who had his eyes glowing in anger, red lightning streaks erupted from the visor, giving him an appearance of a devil. He snarled at Tsubasa with immense murderous intent: "You… You bastard…" Hearing Zero-One's tone filled with anger causing her to step back.
"Why did you kill EVERYONE!?" Zero-One roared.
"No… No, no, no! I don't kill anyone! I'm not…" Tsubasa said with tremble, then stopped for a moment, looking at her hands, now turned into black armored robotic hands, soaking in blood. She gasped loudly in fear when she looked at the river of blood, now acting as a mirror's reflection, showing her reflection as Proto-Vicarya Magia.
Zero-One then let out a beastial growl at the now transformed Tsubasa, as Proto-Vicarya Magia with hate. "Yurusane (I won't forgive you) …" He then roared at Tsubasa, intensifying red lightning streaks on his eyes.
"You killed HIBIKI! YOU KILLED EVERYONE!"
As the sentence had ended, Zero-One instantly shifted into Blazing Dragon form, his aura then manifested as a huge red silhouette of a winged humanoid dragon, hidden by the shadows. Both of its draconic wings emitted lava cracks like flames, two orbs on its wings glowing with red and green light respectively. The dragon's red and green dichromatic eyes then lit up with lightning streaks, steams coming out from its opened mouth.
PS: You can imagine this silhouette dragon as Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon from Yu-Gi-Oh series.
It then let out a threatening roar at Tsubasa, who was paralyzed in fear at the dragon, couldn't even move her body. Zero-One's emerald visor glowed threateningly in the hellish ground, filled with nothing but dark flames, rotten trees, and the haunting dark red moon filling the night sky. He then ignited his right hand, said: "You'll pay for everything you've done to them…"
"N-No… Please don't…" Tsubasa can only pleading hopelessly, asking for forgiveness. But Zero-One didn't care about her pleadings and just keep walking as he then roared.
"You'll pay for what you've done WITH YOUR LIFE!" The silhouette dragon then roared, mimicking his actions, ignited its right claw with dark red flames. Both of them brought down the ignited hands down to where her heart is, making her scream with the flames engulfed her, nothing but endless pain…
(Dream End)
Tsubasa woke up with a loud scream, back to reality, causing Kanade to snapped out of her slumber with a startled cry and fell down to the floor painfully. Kanade then stood up, turning her head around wildly: "What was that!? Are we under attack!?" The red-haired girl then snapped out of her thoughts as she heard some mumblings, but with a fearful tone, turned her head to Tsubasa, who was gripping her hair, almost drawing out blood, keep mumbling to herself while shaking uncontrollably.
"I'm sorry… I'm so sorry… Please forgive me…"
Hearing that makes Kanade really worried, as she went to her best friend, grabbing her shoulders with comfort. The red-haired girl then asked with concern: "Tsubasa! Tsubasa, calm down! What's wrong?" The distraught bluenette then looked at Kanade with fearful expression, like she has gone through hell and back.
"I… I killed everyone… I killed everyone…" Tsubasa mumbled, still in fear, making Kanade confused. "Huh?"
She then started broke down crying, hugging Kanade tightly as she continued to cry, soaking Kanade's shirt with tears. She couldn't forget that pain, that menacing red flames when Zero-One attacked her. It was full of rage, directed at her heart like a molten knife cutting through her skin. Kanade could only hug her back, stroking her back for comfort, also shedding tears in silent.
'Damn it, Zero-One. I told you not to be this 'brutal'…' Kanade said in her mind, cursing at Zero-One for making her best friend a paranoid.
(Inserting REAL x EYEZ by J x Takanori Nishikawa)
[01! 01! 01! 01! x 5]
The song starts with an instrumental, with many numbers appeared from the screen nonstop, starting with Ryouga, who had his eyes closed in the shadows, then shifting to Zero-One with his back turned and looked back at the screen with glowing red eyes. The scene then shifts quickly to Hibiki, Tsubasa and Kanade with their civilian identities and their Symphogear armors respectively, along with some Riders like Vulcan and Valkyries but without their civilian identities; the same goes for unidentified three Riders, showing only their silhouettes with purple, pink and teal blue colors respectively, and shifted back to Ryouga, who had his eyes snapped open with his now dragon-like eyes, punched at the screen. The screen then cracked, changed to the blurred yellow digital background with zeroes and ones hitting the screens, forming the title with burst of red flames and cybernetic streaks, followed by a grasshopper's croak and a dragon's roar at the background.
(Kodaina Archive Access shite) From the start, the screen showed Ryouga went to the junkyard, finding for some useful, recycled metal objects, and shifted the camera to some kind of secret room, with him wearing protective black shade iron mask, heatproof gloves along with a worker's orange uniform, work his magic on some unfinished objects, then suddenly the object flashed with a BOOM from the opened average-sized microwave-like fridge, he got startled and ran to check the finished object with satisfied expression, opening up the mask and wiped off sweats with a 'Phew'.
(Kensaku shitatte I don't think it's right) The scene then changed to Hibiki hanging out with Miku while eating a vanilla ice cream, but they then heard a distressed 'Meow' from a nearby tree. Hibiki then swallowed the ice cream with a big gulp and started climbing to the tree to help the cat, but then suddenly slipped her footing and started waving her arms wildly, causing Miku to ran quick and hold her back from falling with struggles.
(Data wa kako Words wa Sign Kotae wa 404 NOT FOUND…) The scene then changed once more to Kanade, who is hiding behind Tsubasa drinking tea with a calmed sigh, then she made the blue-haired girl spitted her tea with a pranked scream and there goes started a Tom & Jerry comedic chase scene, with Tsubasa screaming angrily at her friend for disrupting her moment, while Kanade is running away with a big laugh; then shifted to the 2nd Division Base, we then saw Genjuro observing the surveillance monitor, and Ryoko who is doing some experiments with other scientists before glancing towards the screen.
[01! 01! 01! 01! X2]
The screen then continuously shifted, from Yukine Chris who is taking a soda can from a vending machine, opened and drank it while glancing at the camera; to a hooded person who is watching Ryouga walking on the road, where Ryouga then turned behind to saw everything is red and ruined, with the Psychogears and Noises army surrounded in a circle, he quickly latched the Zero-One Driver on his waist, then inserted the Hopper Key into the Driver, instantly transformed into Zero-One.
(REAL X EYEZ! Hajimari no AIZU) Ryouga, now transformed into Zero-One, is retaliating against a large army with blurred speed, holding the Attache Calibur in the right hand, destroying them with waves of energy slashes. He then ran to Hibiki and Tsubasa, both are already transformed with their Symphogear armors; with Hibiki fight back the Noises with punches and kicks, and Tsubasa letting out a combo of slashes with accuracy.
(Atarashii jidai wo) The screen then shifts to Vulcan and Valkyrie, in their Shooting Wolf and Rushing Cheetah base forms, with Vulcan holding the Attache Shotgun, using Gatling Hedgehog's ability to bombard the Psychogears with rapid bullets, and Valkyrie, who is leaping in the air, shooting the upcoming enemies with Rushing Blast attack, the energy bullets comes from all angles, destroying them; Zero-One then arrived from behind, hitting a Noise with Rise Hopper's front wheel, and skidded back to the ground with the others catching up to him.
(We gotta SUNRISE! Burning like the FIRES!) The screen now shifted to three unknown Riders with their respective silhouette auras on their bodies with glowing visors, slashing at the screen, making the screen shattered, replaced with Zero-One in his other Trial-Forms, letting out attacks with signature abilities, before shifted to Zero-One with a new armor, but hidden by the black silhouette, leaving only red aura and his glowing green visor, like he was glaring at the screen, before unleashing a fire punch, shaped like a roaring dragon's head.
(Kirihirake unmei wo) The hidden Zero-One then execute some kind of flame tornado slash, with the fire tornado reveals to be an energized swirling dragon, roaring at the screen then headed forward; before holding his hand out to Chris, who is falling into a black void, trying to reach for his hand.
(You wanna REAL X EYEZ! Egaita MIRAI) The screen then shifted to Zero-One Driver, two Shotrisers, two Forcerisers and a Cycloneriser lying on the nearby rubbles with rain pouring down on them; and shifted to Ryouga with battered clothes, some blood leaks from his body and dirts, soaked by the rains. He was trying to walk with struggles, but eventually exhausted and fell down, closed his eyes, thinking it was the end for him.
(Buchi nuite Ikeru no wa) But luckily for him, Ryouga suddenly felt a person's hands hugging on his left arm and head, making him opened his eyes, and started to smile as he saw Hibiki looking at him with a teary smile, her tears falling down on his face, glad that he was alive and safe. She then helped him get up and they both looked toward the blue sky, enjoying the view with a smile, hoping for a promised future.
(You're the only ONE!) [01! 01! 01! 01! 01!]
The screen finally shifts to Ryouga, Hibiki and Tsubasa standing on a colorful cybernetic background, before they glowed, transformed with their respective armors, the screen then splitted in two sides diagonally, with the upper left showing Hibiki and the 2nd Division Base members looking up with determined expression, and the lower right showing Ryouga and Zero-One in Rising Hopper form standing close, looking at the screen with intense gaze.
(End Opening)
(Eyecatch 1)
The scene showing Zero-One riding on his Rise Hopper, zooming across many steel piles left and right with amazing skills, and turning to the right direction, ending the eyecatch.
(A Few Days Later)
After the 'brutal' fight between Zero-One and Tsubasa, the peaceful daily life continues. But for some person, especially the 2nd Division Headquarters, was a gloomy day. As because of the aforementioned 'skirmish', no one had talked much, just merely silent and focusing on their job to track down the hiding Noises. The ones who's been shocked and saddened by the yesterday talk are perhaps Genjuro, Ryoko, Kanade, and mostly Tsubasa, who was mentally crushed. She now almost looks like a living zombie because of her slightly skinny body, like she hasn't eaten anything for days, except for the puffy red eyes. Her hair was disheveled in a mess, locks of her hair curved up in disorder, only emphasizing her poor appearance. Kanade and Genjuro has been there for her all the time, comforting her when she was having a mental trauma.
Because of the mental trauma Tsubasa is now having, as a result, she was banned from going to academy until she recovers completely. Kanade has been the saddest one when she saw her best friend is now in this pitiful state, no longer have the strength to lift up the Relic pendant. Every time Tsubasa looking at the pendant, she then threw herself up in the bathroom and screamed frantically when she saw her reflection in the mirror for a moment. She then threw her pendant away to the closet, not wanting to see it anymore, as the horrible nightmare resurfaced in her mind, making Kanade and Genjuro came to calm her down. Genjuro has Ryoko and other doctors come to check her condition every 3 hours, giving her some alone time and try not to mention anything about the Noise, not even Zero-One.
And now, Tsubasa can only sat in her bedroom, curled herself up in solitude, don't even want to go outside, but welcomed Kanade and Genjuro since they were spending time taking care of her. While rubbing Tsubasa's back for comfort, Kanade couldn't shake off the anger within her. She had told Zero-One about making Tsubasa back to normal, even told him to not go over the line, but he broke the promise after his statement to the 2nd Division. She vowed to herself at the next time they even met, she'll give him a piece of her mind. But for now, she can only stay with Tsubasa as she kept rubbing the bluenette's back.
For Genjuro, he's also upset at this relevation. He didn't really expect the situation to be this worse. He's been mad at Zero-One too for hurting his niece, but a piece of his mind told him that it was his fault too, so he decided not to protest. He actually asked Zero-One's civilian identity for contact, not knowing that would trigger the armored man's nerve. And this was the result he must take! So he can only relieve his sorrow by drinking some wines.
Ryoko went to the commander, asked with concern: "Are you alright, Commander?"
Genjuro stopped drinking his wine, then said with a deep sigh. "I'm fine, Sakurai. It's just… I didn't know that it would end up like this."
The lab woman gave a solemn expression, said: "It's not your fault, Commander. We also didn't know that our questions would triggered his emotions, because of our curiosities."
The man then sighed again, said in wonder: "What should we do to fix this…?" Tsubasa has lost the will to fight, can't even lift up the pendant. The one who can fight was only Hibiki, but the young girl didn't have enough fighting experience, so they could only ask for Zero-One's help, but who knows he will accept, because of his distrust towards military organizations, especially adults. Of course, they have realized from their interaction with Zero-One the first time, so they wouldn't want risking their lives at his wrath again.
(Meanwhile, with Ryouga)
Today was Sunday, so he didn't have to go to Flower as the restaurant's schedule only works from Monday to Saturday. Right now, he's walking to the park while eating a vanilla-flavored ice cream. He was wearing a short-sleeved red jacket over a long-sleeved grey shirt, with the monochrome picture of Slifer the Sky Dragon in front. He also wore navy blue jeans that reach down to his ankles, with simple black jacket wrapped on his waist this time, along with black and white Converse sneakers.
After a 5-minute walking, he went to the park and sat on the swing, enjoying the breeze with deep thoughts in his mind.
'It has been a few days since 'that' fight. There hasn't been any Magia appeared, except for the Noise. Have I gone too hard on them?' Ryouga thought, now doubting his decision that day, but shook his head. 'No, I mustn't think about it! It was their fault for asking about my identity, which got me boiled! Like hell I'll trust the military, after what they've done!' He then wolfing down his ice cream in anger, like he was eaten a bunch of sour grapes, memories of the past flashed in his mind.
At his world, he has deep hatred towards military, decided not to follow them to become a heartless soldier. What good would that be anyway? He doesn't want to be involved in a warzone, nor touching those weapons. He started to paralyze in fear and almost threw up after he passed by a toy army knife, causing his friends to lead him away from the store quickly, thinking it was too much for him to get out of the hospital. Speaking about his friends…
'I wonder if my friends are okay… They would be sad if they knew I'm labeled as a missing person now…' Ryouga thought with a silent sad sigh, already missing his world. But he couldn't even find a trace of the wormhole, so he officially stuck in this world for eternity. He could only look at the sky with sorrow, like an astronaut whose spaceship has been destroyed and stuck in the Moon, could only looking at the Earth with no way-back. He snapped out of his sorrowful thoughts when he saw Hibiki, coming to the park with a sad face.
"Hibiki?" Ryouga said, making Hibiki snapped out of her trance and say hi to him. "Oh, Fujiki-kun."
Ryouga looked at the remaining space, gesturing for her to sit. "Come here. It's not taken." Hibiki nodded lightly with a small smile, went to sit beside him, swung back and forth lightly. After a long silence, he decided to ask her. "So what's prompting you to come here?"
"Well, I just came here if I was having sad things, you know." Hibiki said softly, looking at him. She then asked him back: "You came here too?"
Ryouga lowered his head a bit, said: "Well… yeah, kinda. Just having some thoughts." The cream-haired girl nodded, looking down at the ground, the atmosphere turning silent again. After another few minutes later of the agonizing silence, he decided to broke the silence with a question: "Did something bad happen?"
Hibiki looked at Ryouga with a nervous chuckle, said in protest: "Huh? Oh, haha, it's nothing big, really. Just…" She then sighed, realized that she couldn't lie to him, since he also involved in that fateful day. "It's about Zero-One." That caused Ryouga to raise his head and looked at Hibiki.
"After you said you'll left to find more survivors, the agents from the 2nd Division started to came, and pulling me and Zero-One to their secret base. To be honest, I didn't know that my school has a secret organization below the ground." Hibiki said, reminiscing the day when she first transformed. "When I thought they were gonna do some forceful interrogations, it turns out they were asking for our help in the fight against Noise. I also got surprised that Tsubasa-san is a member of them."
Ryouga nodded while listening, obviously already knew about what she said, as he's also been there, too; but decided to hide his identity, not revealing anything to Hibiki because that would make her more upset at him and felt betrayed. He then continued being innocent, asked: "Well, that's one heck of a surprise there. Your school actually has a secret base underground, and that Kazanari Tsubasa was one of them?"
Hibiki nodded. "Yeah, and you know what? It was an embarrassing encounter for me! After I asked them to let me know about the armor I'm possessing right now, that woman scientist then took me to another room for examinations! And she even told me to take off all my clothes, nonetheless!" She exclaimed with an extremely red face, still remembering that embarrassing moment, causing Ryouga to turn away a bit, stiffed his laugh inside his mind, replaced with a cringed face. He then turned his eyes back to her.
"Pfft-Oh, is… is that so? That's truly embarrassing…" Ryouga said, cringed, trying to keep a straight face, not wanting to upset the poor girl. He then shared his sympathies by rubbing her back to ease her tension, causing the girl to snap out of her ranting and blushed a bit at his actions.
"H-Hey… I know you want to relieve me, but you don't have to do this…" Hibiki stuttered a bit, but felt pleased when he rubbed her back, making her somehow relieved. Ryouga just smiled and kept rubbing her back softly, said:
"I know, but my mom said this could help relieve them of their stress, so just relax a bit." Hibiki complied, letting Ryouga rub her back for a few minutes, couldn't help but smiled softly and unconsciously shifting her body next to him, putting her head on his shoulder, causing him to widen his eyes a bit, and lowered his head in shame, not knowing what to do in this situation since this is the first time he'd been in an awkward situation like this and just keep rubbing her back softly. After finishing his relieve treatment, he stopped rubbing her back, but put on her shoulder, making the girl disappointed a bit, but she then buried those thoughts and continuing the talk.
"Anyway, after those 'examinations', they decided to answer my question from earlier. The truth is my injuries from two years ago was a fragment of the armor Kanade-san once possessed, and now the fragment in my body is the proof that I'm now its bearer." Hibiki said, and then lowered her eyes. "It was scary, to be honest… Never thought I had to fight against those aliens in a life-or-death situation… But I also felt motivated, knowing that I had the power to save people."
Ryouga nodded in understanding. He himself also thrilled about having the power to protect people, but also reminded himself about the responsibilities he must bear. Putting those memories behind, he asked: "And what happened after that? Has the aliens ambushed you?"
Hibiki nodded. "Yeah, there were two locations, though. Zero-One has already gone to the location that has a bunch of Noise with the strange robot leading." At this time, Ryouga interrupted.
"Wait, was the robot you telling a Magia?" The question caused Hibiki to widen her eyes in surprise, didn't even know that he also knew about it.
"Um, yeah… But how did you know about it?" Hibiki asked.
"That's because I've been saved by Zero-One in the past, and I accidentally heard the name of that psycho robot." Ryouga lied, recalling about one of his memories two years ago when he met Proto-Berotha again, but that Proto Magia was better a little bit than the first one he met.
Hibiki nodded with a "Oh", then went back to her talk. "Back to the talk, after Zero-One went to the first location, me and Tsubasa went to the second one, which is near the campus. We successfully destroyed the Noise army, but of course I can only help Tsubasa-san by holding the huge one back, since I'm still a novice. I went to thank Tsubasa-san, but…"
"But…?"
"Tsubasa-san… pointed the blade at me, went to kill me…" Hibiki said in stutter, tears falling down slowly, still in disbelief that Tsubasa has those immense hatreds towards her. Shifting his eyes down to Hibiki, who had her tears fallen, Ryouga widen his eyes and scowled, gritting his teeth in anger, gripping his hand on her shoulder lightly, memories of that cold-hearted bluenette still embedded in his mind.
He hissed angrily: "Nani?" Hearing the anger in Ryouga's tone causing Hibiki to look at him with concern. "How dare she!?"
"F-Fujiki-kun, please calm down! I'm not hurt or anything…" Hibiki said, grabbed Ryouga's right hand in concern, not expecting this violent side of him. He then snapped out of his anger and looked at her, now calmed down. She wiped out the tears and continued.
"As Tsubasa-san was about to attack me, I got saved by Zero-One in a second. Apparently…" Hibiki said with slight shaky tone, still remembering the battle, but then shuddered. "He was really angry at her for trying to attack me because of her hatred towards me, calling me Kanade-san's replacement, and give her a beating she'll never forget. Mostly when he got his dragon-like form…"
"Dragon?" Ryouga asked, getting a nod from Hibiki.
"It… It was brutal… she can't even get a dent on him… it was a one-sided fight. Until she got some kind of belt in her hands and… transformed into that same robot…"
"What? Is that possible?" Ryouga asked, pretend to be surprised. The cream-haired girl nodded.
"Yeah, it is… I was so shocked that Tsubasa-san would do something like this…" She then lowered her head. "Now I… I don't know what to do anymore. And Zero-One doesn't even want to cooperate with them either, after what Tsubasa-san had done…" Hearing that sentence caused Ryouga to looked at Hibiki in concern, as he was about to say, but then shut his mouth back, thought in his mind. Should he give them a chance to redeem themselves? But his distrust towards military still remaining, and yet he let out his anger at the 2nd Division because of his personal reasons. That sentence came from Hibiki made him confused about his past actions in a loop, not knowing what to do either. After done making a conclusion, he decided to say.
"You know, Hibiki… I don't think Zero-One hate them at all." Hibiki raised her head with a "Eh?".
"Of course, it's natural for anyone to have distrusts towards each other at first. Most people would recommend actions than just by talking. As a wise man had said: 'Action speaks louder than words.'. But that doesn't mean that we should do the actions all the time to prove ourselves. Some can understand each other through conversation, and some usually proved themselves with their skills; especially men who always talking with their 'fists'. Comrades or enemies doesn't matter. If both of them had the same goal, by the time goes, they could reach an understanding someday and move forward together to achieve the goal." Ryouga explained. "Just give them the time to think and never stop believing in your ideals, and when you do that, you'll have the power to make your wishes come true."
Hibiki looked at Ryouga in awe, wondering what did he do to give her an understandable speech like that. He looked back at Hibiki, and scratched his left cheek in slight embarrassment later. "But of course, that was my experience when I was in my past school life, and I'm not sure if you could understand, so…" Yeah, even though he's smart, that doesn't mean he's a good talker, either.
Hibiki shook her head lightly, and smiled in appreciation. "It's okay. I understand." Ryouga relaxed a bit after hearing her answer, and asked.
"So what are you going to do now?"
Hibiki pondered in her thought in a few seconds, then said with determination: "I'll continue to fight. I'll keep believing in my dreams and help many people as possible. As you had said, that someday everyone can understand each other through conversation; and that's why I'll use this power to protect everyone!" Ryouga nodded with a soft smile, knowing that Hibiki's desire is strong-willed and felt that she could go further and achieved her dream.
"Well that's good to hear, but don't overdo yourself either, alright? You gotta take care of yourself, too." Ryouga advised, making Hibiki nod in return.
"Wakatteru." She then got off the swing and gave her thanks to Ryouga. "Thanks for having a talk with me, Fujiki… no, Ryouga-kun." Hibiki then scratched her cheek shyly. "Is it alright if I called you like that?"
"Nah, I don't mind. Just don't calling me '-san' is okay, though." Ryouga said. Hearing his response somehow caused Hibiki to smile brightly, giving him a hug, making him surprised, widen his eyes at her sudden action for a moment. She then released him and ran out of the park, but not before waving goodbye. "Sayonara!"
Ryouga waved back, and then looked at his right hand, thinking about Hibiki's words. 'Maybe… I should give them a chance…' He then stared at the sky, felt an unease pulse by the direction of the wind, and that direction was where the 2nd Division is. 'Time to go.'
(With Kanade and Tsubasa)
After feeding the now bedridden Tsubasa a bowl of soup, Kanade said with care: "I'm going to take a glass of water, okay?" She was about to leave when Tsubasa grabbed her hand, looking at her with fragile expression, don't want Kanade to be away from her.
"Don't go…" Tsubasa pleaded in a raspy voice.
Kanade grasped the bluenette's hand softly, said: "Don't worry, I'm still here. I'm just taking a glass of water at the kitchen." She rubbed her friend's hand for a moment, making Tsubasa felt relieved for a moment. "So just sleep, okay?" The bluenette nodded her head slowly, closing her eyes and slept. After waiting for Tsubasa to sleep for 3 minutes, Kanade gently removed her hand and went to the kitchen, taking a glass of water. But unbeknownst to the red-haired girl, Tsubasa has already in her comatose state when she closed her eyes, drifting to her dream…
(Tsubasa's Dream)
Slowly opening her eyes, Tsubasa gasped in horror when she saw the familiar hellish ground again, but this time, she was alone, with only cracking flames surrounding the ground with few rotten trees, ominous red moon on the night sky, and haunting howling winds in the air, fueling her fear even more.
"It can't be… Why… Why am I here again?" Tsubasa muttered in disbelief. But a chilling feminine laugh echoed at the back, said:
"Of course you'll be here again. That's what your heart wants."
Tsubasa frantically turned around, trying to search where that mysterious voice at. She asked with a shaky voice: "Who… who is it? Who exactly are you?" The mysterious feminine laugh then chuckled evilly, answered.
"Why do you need answers when you're already know who I am?"
At that time, the bluenette then widened her eyes in realization. "That voice… It can't be…!" She turned sharply where the voice echoed at. The surrounding flames suddenly leaped from the ground, gathering together to become a small-sized black fire tornado, then faded out slowly, revealing a female human surrounded by dark red aura.
"O-Omae wa…" Tsubasa said in horror, recognizing the person in front of her. That human was none other than Tsubasa herself, but her skin was pale as a ghost, clad in black clothes and had raven hair and scarlet red eyes instead.
The dark version of Tsubasa then smirked with cruelty, said: "That's right, Tsubasa. I… am YOU!"
"Y-You… are me!?" Tsubasa was now shaking in fear, never felt anything horrendous than fighting against Noise. Sensing Tsubasa's fear went up, the dark Tsubasa chuckled.
"Yeah. I'm your darkness who has awakened recently, by you, that is." She then walked to the still shocked Tsubasa slowly, but with menacing atmosphere around her, causing the bluenette girl to freeze up in fear, couldn't even move a muscle.
The dark counterpart then sneered. "Surprised? Keh, of course you should be. Because you used the Zetsumeriser to transform into Proto-Vicarya in the fight with Zero-One, after all. It was a humiliating defeat, isn't it? Kuhahahahaha…" She then gave a mockery laugh at the frozen bluenette, enjoying her being frozen in fear and shock.
Dark Tsubasa walked around in circle, taunting at the bluenette while shaking her head with mock disappointment. "Oh, Tsubasa, Tsubasa… Even now, you're still a crybaby, always wanting Kanade for yourself while shunning everyone away, including your 'dear Uncle'. You really are pathetic!"
Tsubasa shook her head in denial, gripping her head, hoping the nightmare to go away. "No… It's not true… It's not true… I'm not-" Dark Tsubasa then rudely interrupted.
"Oh, shut your rambling. Even if you're trying to deny it, what you have done is real. You can't deny it forever. Every actions you've done, will always engraved in your mind for eternity." She then stepped near to Tsubasa, face-to-face with an evil grin. "And it will remain as a never-ending loop of nightmare till you die."
The bluenette's eyes widen in shock, her arms dropped numbly, both of her legs then dropped into the ground in despair, her blue eyes had already turn blank.
"But… there is a way."
Dark Tsubasa lowered her knees to the bluenette's level. "Accept me."
"Ac… cept…" Tsubasa muttered in a monotone.
Dark Tsubasa nodded with a sultry grin. "That's right. Once you do that… you can get out of this nightmare. We could make your unfulfilled wish come true." She then wrapped one arm around the girl's shoulder. "Your best friend, Kanade could have her power back to fight alongside you, again. Isn't it wonderful?"
Tsubasa's blank eyes widen a bit. "Kanade… could have… power back…?"
Dark Tsubasa nodded. "Yes. That's right. We could obtain the greatest power that no one could get in your way." She then lifted up Tsubasa's chin to made the girl look directly in the eyes, slowly reaching to her face with the other hand, covered with dark red aura. "Now… accept me…"
Tsubasa was about to lift up her right arm until suddenly, a voice shouted in her mind. "DON'T!" The sudden shout made Tsubasa stopped in her tracks, causing Dark Tsubasa to narrow her eyes a bit.
"Don't listen to her! The one in front of you is an imposter! She's not you!" The voice shouted, making Tsubasa widen her blank eyes, realized that was her own voice. The voice then shouted again. "Do you think Kanade will be happy if she saw you like this?" The sentence caused Tsubasa to gasp in realization, memories of her time with Kanade started to resurface in her mind, along with Genjuro and the others.
While Tsubasa was having thoughts in her mind, Dark Tsubasa narrowed her eyes in confuse, wondering what made the girl hesitated. 'What just happened? This girl was supposed to be fell into my trap… What makes her suddenly stopped?' She then shook those thoughts away, focusing back on infusing the bluenette's mind with the dark red aura, but then suddenly got her hand swatted away by Tsubasa, making her step back a bit.
"Nani?" Dark Tsubasa said with bewilderment.
Tsubasa started to stood up slowly with her head still lowered, her eyes shadowed by the hair bangs, no longer shaken in fear.
"I see… I finally get it now, Kanade. What you were trying to tell me…" Tsubasa muttered lowly.
"Huh? What are you muttering about?" Dark Tsubasa asked with some annoyance, couldn't felt the fear inside the bluenette girl.
Tsubasa clenched her fists, gritted her teeth with determination, slowly raised her voice. "I now understand…" She then lifted up her head, her eyes regained the brightness. "That you are not me!"
Dark Tsubasa widen her eyes in shock, but composed herself with an arrogant tone. "Hah!? What the hell are you blabbering about!? I am your darkness! Which means I'm also YOU as well!"
Tsubasa said back, unfazed by the dark counterpart's lie. "Do you really think your lies will work against me now?"
Dark Tsubasa said: "Nandato?"
"You're just a monster born from my fear! A devil who can only tell lies to make people succumbed to their own sins!" Tsubasa then pointed a finger at the dark counterpart. "And you will not take control of me again!"
Dark Tsubasa could no longer hide her surprise at what the bluenette just said. "Y-You… how did you…" She then having a frustrated scowl all over her face, screamed with a demanding tone: "HOW DID YOU KNOW!?"
"That's for me to know and you to find out." Tsubasa said. "Kanade doesn't want this! Besides, how can I trust someone like you to bring back Kanade's lost power? She already entrusted her wishes to Tachibana Hibiki!" She then stopped, reminiscing the conversation in the 2nd Division. With a deep exhale and lowered her head down, staring at the river of blood, she then continued.
"It took a long time for me to realize what Kanade and Zero-One trying to tell me… If that's what Kanade wants, then I should respect her decisions as her friend." Tsubasa gripped her fists, regretting what she had done to others, letting a lone tear fall to the ground, feeling a heavy weight of guilt had been lift off from her. "I'm still frustrated about the cold fact, but… I couldn't always just lash out my selfish anger to others because of it. And that's when I swore to myself… I won't let myself to be succumbed to devil's whispers anymore." She then wiped the tears away with her hand.
"I will accept everything… and move forward." Tsubasa rose her head, now with renewed determination. "So don't think you can easily manipulate me!"
Dark Tsubasa now snarled with anger. "You little brat… You're just an impudent human being…!" Her face then distorted with insane expression. "YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME!?"
Tsubasa narrowed her eyes. "So you finally decided to reveal your true self… That proves you as nothing more than a fake!"
Dark Tsubasa sneered hungrily at her. "I was about to have my plan succeed… but it seems like I have to use force to take over your body." She then materialized a dark red energy blade and roared. "I'LL HAVE YOUR BODY OFFERED TO OUR LORD!" She instantly charged at Tsubasa with uncontrollable hunger, who was now in a statemale, leaning against a boulder, cursed at herself for throwing away her pendant, shutting her eyes tightly for the incoming attack.
"SHINEEEE (Die)!"
As the dark counterpart was about to reach Tsubasa, she then got kicked in the stomach by a sudden attack, causing her to spat out saliva and got blown faraway, skidding in the ground and crashed into a huge boulder, shattering in pieces, creating smokes.
After the smokes started to fade away, Tsubasa slowly opened her eyes to see what just happened. She then gasped in surprise to see her savior was Zero-One, who suddenly appeared out of thin air in his Blazing Dragon form. He looked back at her and asked nonchalantly: "Ikiteru (You're alive)?"
"Zero-One…" Tsubasa muttered. "But how did you…"
"I had a little help." Zero-One said.
(Flashback *BEEP* START UP!)
After the conversation with Hibiki, he went to an empty alley with no people there, hiding himself with his hoodie. When he hidden himself in the shadow, he then took out two cards. The first one has an image of a creepy ghost with white tattered cloak over its body, leaving only its mouth filled with sharp teeth to be seen; while the second one has an image of a small green caterpillar with black lightning stripes on the body, twelve legs and a stinger on the end of its abdomen.
"Bakemon, Dokunemon, activate!" Ryouga muttered, instantly activating Dragon Soul, channeling the aura into the cards, causing both cards to glow with white and dark green aura respectively, turning into data particles, surrounding him for a moment, making him invisible, including his shadow.
Bakemon (バケモン) is a Champion Virus-type Ghost Digimon. Judging by its name, it is a wicked being born from darkness like old horror mythologies involving spiritual worlds. Everything within its cloth is wrapped in mystery, and it's also rumored that a portion of the shadow of its true form has become a black hole. In terms of fighting strength, it's extremely low in direct attacks, but instead an expert in indirect attacks like curses or magical abilities.
It first appeared in Digimon Adventure Episode 11: 'The Dancing Ghosts! Bakemon'.
Dokunemon (ドクネモン) is a Rookie Virus-type Larva Digimon. Its appearance is similar to a Kunemon, and it's also being studied in order to solve the mystery of Insect Digimon, but only with the difference is that it has a timid personality. It usually lives hidden in forests, so it is difficult to find, and so research has not progressed. In addition, it carries a very potent toxin, and it is dangerous to even touch it.
It first appeared in Digimon Adventure was when it helps Takaishi Takeru to push ElDradimon to Cloud Continent. (Sorry because I didn't know what the episode was.)
After done making himself invisible, Ryouga then jumped to roof after roofs, rushing to Lydian Academy Dorms, and went to where the malicious aura was. Thankfully, no one heard the footsteps nor saw his shadows thanks to Bakemon and Dokunemon's invisibilities. After walking for 3 minutes, he discovered the room that has the malicious aura leaking from. He then tapped into Bakemon's transparent ability to past through the door, seeing a bedridden Tsubasa and Kanade sleeping on the bed while sitting on a small chair with a small pot of raw water and a towel. He lowered his eyes a bit with a solemn expression, realized Kanade has been taking care of Tsubasa the whole time after he express his dislikes to the 2nd Division. Putting those thought aside, he then looked at the bedridden bluenette, seeing the dark red malicious aura emitting from her body, especially her heart and brain, thanks to Dragon Eye.
'This malice aura… it's trying to take over Kazanari's body. And this aura reminds me of the one when she used the Zetsumeriser and Proto-Vicarya Key… This could be dangerous.' Ryouga narrowed his eyes in thought. He then took out another card that has the image of a tapir with a trailing smoke in place of legs, making it resemble a genie, wearing a golden ring on its left leg and a gray metallic helmet with golden symbol on it.
"Bakumon." Ryouga whispered, even though no one could hear him because of the invinsiblity, making the card floated out of his hand, materialized into data particles. The particles then faded, revealing a floating tapir from the image. It then looked at him, waiting for his command.
Bakumon (バクモン) is a Rookie Vaccine-type Animal Digimon. It is thought to be a being that was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and seems to use the data from humans in REM sleep as its nourishment. In recent studies, it has been proven that it has the power to purge particularly bad nightmares and malignant computer viruses.
It first appeared in Digimon Adventure 02 as a waiter in Digitamamon's Chinese restaurant.
"Can you help me entering into her mind?" Ryouga whispered to the tapir named Bakumon. The tapir nodded its head, closing its eyes to focusing its energy, and releasing smokes from its trunk's nostrils. The smokes then grew up, equal to Ryouga's height, emitting a bright light from the smoke, resemble a gate. It then nods to him, telling him to go in. He nodded back to the tapir, giving it a headpat, getting a pleasant appreciation from it. He then went into the gate, entering Tsubasa's mind, letting Bakumon to guard the gate for him.
Succeeding in entering Tsubasa's mind, Ryouga saw a hellish burning wasteland, making him remember what would the Underworld or Hell look like if people were dead. He then felt Tsubasa's Ki not too far away (Aura, dubbed in Japanese), and immediately equipped Zero-One Driver, took out the Blazing Dragon Key.
[RAGE! AUTHORISE!]
"Henshin!" Ryouga said calmly, inserting the Key into the Driver, emitting a bright red light.
[*Short transformation* PROGRISE!]
[BLAZING DRAGON~!]
(Flashback End *TIME OUT!*)
"I sense the malice aura coming from you after the fight, so I use my power to went into your mind to destroy it, in order to not letting it take over your body." Zero-One said.
Tsubasa looked at Zero-One in awe, he just kept surprising everyone with another unexpected plans. She then looked down in regret, remembering what she had done to him and Hibiki. "But why… I had done horrible things to you…"
Zero-One looked at her for a moment and sighed, said with a slight exasperated tone: "Is there any reason for that question?" Tsubasa looked at him in confuse.
"I decided to save you because you've finally realized your past actions and decided to redeem yourself. To be honest, I admit that I was a bit cold to you and the 2nd Division, so I think I should give you a chance." Zero-One said. "You really heating your brains up to realize that for a long time, huh? Usually people would have realized it in just one or two days."
He then continued. "Besides, you owe me a fight." Tsubasa just stared dumbfounded with wide eyes. Their conversation then got interrupted with a loud roar, with an explosion erupted from behind, revealing Dark Tsubasa, but her skin was ripped in some places, exposed mechanical parts from the body.
"Oh? So this was the faker, who proclaimed to be the inner darkness, eh? What a pathetic bastard." Zero-One said, mocking the fake Tsubasa, which is the disguised mechanical android. He then revealed the faker's identity. "Or should I say, Psychogear?"
The fake Tsubasa, now called as Psychogear, snarling at Zero-One with a feral expression. "Kisama…" It then roared with insane expression. "ZERO-OOOOOOOOOONE!"
Zero-One gave a smug smirk at the disguised Psychogear underneath the helmet. "Hmph. You think you can hide yourself from my sixth sense? Shame on you."
The Psychogear gritted its teeth in anger, wanting to rip Zero-One to shreds right now. It took out the Zetsumeriser out of thin air and put it on the waist, forming the belt. It then took out a Zetsumerise Key, pressing the activation button.
[VICARYA!]
It then slotted the Key down into the Zetsumeriser, slammed the button on the left side with its left fist.
[ZETSUMERISE!]
The Psychogear then arched its body back and screamed insanely, thick brown wires vomited out of its mouth, shredding the human skin on its body, revealing a mechanical body, making Zero-One raised an eyebrow, realized that was a blank Humagear body, especially the wing-like headphones that has a dark red ring. It then transformed into a Magia, but more completed than the prototype one. It wears a black robotic bodysuit with pale yellow metal straps wrapping around both arms, with the now longer three cone-like drills; two on both arms, fully covered and one on the head with spikes, along with brown and orange stripes, a light brown/tan chest piece with a snail's eyes protruding outwards, the head was a metallic silver with two large lengthy octagonal visors.
This was Vicarya Magia, a complete version of the prototype.
The Vicarya Magia roared savagely at Zero-One for thwarting its plans to take over a human, emitting a deadly dark red aura, filled with malice, both Dris Nailers spinning with max speed.
Zero-One looked at Tsubasa, wordlessly signaling her to step back with his right arm hold out, which the bluenette obliged and hide in the boulder. He then turned his attention back to the Vicarya Magia, taunting it with a challenging flick with his index finger. "Kagatte koi (Come if you dare)."
The Vicarya Magia roared: "I'LL RIP THAT SMUG GRIN OUT OF YOU!" Both then charged at each other, with Zero-One jumping through a boulder and slashed at the Magia with his ignited right claw, causing sparks to be erupted from the chest armor, making the Magia stumble back a bit. It then returned with fast swipes with the cone-like drills spinning with high speeds at Zero-One, but he blocked back with his ignited fists, creating some sparks. Both then slashed at each other with their right arms, the Vicarya then gave a thrust at Zero-One's head, but he foresaw the attack and grabbed the spinning drill with his bare hand, causing it to stop and making sparks erupted from his left hand. He then pulled the drill in his hand, forcefully rip it out of the Magia's arm, making it scream painfully from losing its weapon, causing heavy sparks erupted from its right arm. He then kicked the Magia away with a kick, making it blown back a few meters to the ground.
Zero-One flicked his left hand a bit because of the spinning cone drill, feeling minor pain thanks to the armor, but it makes him felt like he was stung by a bee's stinger. He said: "Drat, that was close…"
The Vicarya trying to get up, ignoring its smoking armor, but couldn't because of the extreme pain from its right arm being forcefully ripped out one of its Dris Nailer. It looked at its now exposed right arm, its fingers didn't stop trembling, small electric sparks coming from the right arm. "FUCK! THAT HURTS!" The Magia grunted painfully.
Zero-One looked at the Magia, then an idea flashed in his mind in an instant. "Well, since it's Vicarya…" He then slid the cover back to its normal position, removing the Dragon Key and put it back in his right holder; and then took out Flaming Tiger Key from his Rider Space. "It's time for this guy's proper debut now." He flicked and double-tapped the Key in his right hand like a card (Decade style), and pressed the button, scanned it on the Authoriser.
[FIRE!]
[AUTHORISE!]
The Driver flashed a red light, the RideModule Tiger leaped out from the light, let out a fierce roar, standing near its partner. Zero-One looked at the red tiger and said: "Ikuzo." The mechanized tiger nodded. He then flicked open the front cover and inserted the Key into the Driver.
[PROGRISE!]
The tiger roared, then proceed to running around him in a circle for a moment, and leaped in front of Zero-One, turning into data particles and formed over him. The metallic red dragon armor dissipated into light particles, replaced by Flaming Tiger's red armor.
[GIGANT FLARE! FLAMING TIGER~!]
[Explosive power of 100 bombs.]
(Inserting Kamen Rider Zero-One OST: I'm the only one who can stop you!)
Zero-One's blue visor flashed, red flame aura bursts out, surrounding his body, caused a small shockwave to blew away the dust. He looked at his left hand, felt that the pain is completely gone and somehow boosted his stamina. He then turned his attention back to the Vicarya, who is now getting up, despite the pain, but its eyes then flashed with anger when it saw his Flaming Tiger form, memories of its demise at the tiger flashed in its mind.
The Magia screamed hysterically: "THAT FELINE ASSHOLE! YOU DARE HUMILIATE ME WITH THAT FORM AGAIN!?" It then opened its metal jaws and roared, reared back its left Dris Nailer and thrusted forward, creating a dust tornado.
"Muda da (Useless)." Zero-One said, as he then holding out both arms forward, releasing a straight beam of fire, easily overpowering the dust tornado and slammed at the Vicarya, making it screamed in sheer pain, causing the remaining cone-like drills on its left arm and the head overheated and melted with no traces left.
Tsubasa, who is now hiding behind the boulder, looked at Zero-One in amazement. "Amazing…"
Stopping his attack, Zero-One then pointed at the naked Vicarya, who lost all weapons and stated. "Now you'll never be able to possess her again!" He glanced at Tsubasa for a moment then looked back at the Magia, pressed down the Tiger Key, activating the finisher.
[FLAMING IMPACT!]
A cybernetic ring of fire appeared before him, he then leaped into the ring with red cybernetic streaks, striking the Magia with the speed of a bullet. He then jumped into another ring, gave an uppercut to its chin, making it got blown in midair. He then charged his right fist in fire, let it near his left arm, performing a cross while gathering all of the flames in the ground, and reared back his ignited fist back and punched forward, shouting his attack.
"GARNATE BUSTER!"
An extreme blast of fire burst out from his ignited fist, incinerating the Vicarya with scorching flames, making it screamed in pain. He then ceased his attack and jumped high, performing his Rider Kick with his right leg engulfed in flames, pressing the button on the Dragon Key from the right holder, empowering the kick.
[Dragon's Ability!]
A silhouette of a dragon's head appeared on his ignited leg, opening its mouth and roared.
"DRAGON RIDER KICK!"
The flaming dragon kick then slammed into the Magia with a loud bone-cracking sound, making the Magia spat out its data from its mouth like saliva and went past through its body, exposing its robotic wires. He then landed on the ground, the Magia screaming out its last word to him. "O-ONOREEEEEEEEEE!"
フ
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フレイミングインパクト
[FLAMING IMPACT!]
*SKZZZZZZ-KABOOOOOOM!*
His blue visor let out blue lightning streaks, shining in the night with the dramatic explosion behind him, shadowing his body. The explosion died down, making the hellish ground disappeared, replaced with a night sky and the yellow moon, grass blooming from the ground, making the background look more calm and peaceful.
(End BGM)
Tsubasa then ran to Zero-One and asked with concern: "Are you alright?"
Zero-One nodded. "I'm fine." He then stood up and looked at his surroundings for a moment, and commented. "Now this is more life-like." The bluenette nodded, agreeing with him, admiring the night sky for a moment. Both of them then stared at each other, with Tsubasa broke the silence first.
"Ano, can you tell me about that robot who was impersonating me?" Tsubasa asked.
"I don't know myself yet, since this is the first time I've seen it myself. All I can say is that after you use the Zetsumeriser, some remaining malice aura had entered your mind and make you experience a nightmare based on your fear. And if that succeeds, you could be disappeared forever and the Magia will take over your body as the host." Zero-One said, making Tsubasa gasped in horror and shock. But he then calmed the bluenette down with a finger, signaling her to calm down and continued.
"Thankfully, I got here in time since I had sensed the malice aura faraway earlier, and went into your mind successfully with my power. Now that the Magia is defeated, you won't have to experience that hellish nightmare again. You can have a good sleep now." Hearing that caused Tsubasa to exhale in relief, and she bowed with gratitude at him for saving her life.
"Thank you." Tsubasa said with honesty.
Zero-One nodded back. "Hm." He then turned his back to Tsubasa, and gave his last words to her.
"Get ready for a fight the next time we met. Don't disappoint me again." Tsubasa nodded with determination, said: "I promise."
Satisfied with the answer, he then disappeared in a flash like a wind with red cybernetic streaks behind, leaving Tsubasa alone. She then vowed to herself, with thoughts in her mind.
'Zero-One… he really is a mysterious one… I mustn't let this chance go to waste. I'll prove my redemption to him at tomorrow!' Tsubasa thought with determination, vowing not to disappoint him again. Then a bright light flashed out, causing the bluenette to shield her eyes.
(Dream End)
Tsubasa slowly opened her eyes, trying to adjust to her surroundings. The first thing she saw was the white ceiling and the opened window, then she felt a hand on her left side, prompting her to shift her eyes to Kanade, who is sleeping on her bed while sitting on a small chair. Tsubasa called gently with a slight raspy voice: "Kanade…?"
Hearing the call causing the red-haired girl to squirm a bit and groggily opened her eyes, muttering incoherent words. She then rubbed her eyes a bit and then widened her eyes in shock, seeing her best friend awake, no longer had the frantic expression on her face anymore. Kanade muttered shakily: "Tsu… Tsubasa…?"
Tsubasa nodded lightly with a soft smile. "Umm. It's me."
Kanade let out tears of joy and capturing the bluenette in a bear hug. "Oh, thank goodness! Tsubasa! You're normal now!" And of course, Tsubasa was now having a silght pale face by the 'affectional' bear hug by her friend.
"O… Okay, okay… Please let go of me… Need air…" Tsubasa said with a raspy voice.
Kanade then released the bluenette and glared back at her, said: "Oh no young lady! I have the right to kill you after you were having a bad PTSD! Do you know how badly I was worried about you?"
Tsubasa said with a deadpan. "Are you giving me a payback for what I said when you were in the hospital?"
Kanade said loudly: "OF COURSE IT IS!" She then hugged Tsubasa again, but this time was more nicer. "Don't make me worry too much…" Tsubasa looked at the red-haired girl for a moment then smiled, returning the hug. After a 3-minute hug, the two then released and laughed lightly.
"Again, I'm glad to have you back, Tsubasa." Kanade said with an affectionate smile, making Tsubasa nod back with the same smile. At this time, the sound of running footsteps coming closer to the room's door, then got slammed open by Genjuro, who was panting a bit from the run.
The man looked shocked for a moment, then said: "Tsubasa… You're awake?" Tsubasa nodded lightly in response. He then exhaled in relief, then walked to the bedridden bluenette. Genjuro then proceed to ruffled her hair slowly, glad that his precious niece was alive.
"You sure gave us a jumpscare…" The man said with an affectionate tone, making the bluenette nod.
"Sorry for making you worry, Uncle." Tsubasa said softly. Kanade then gave her a glass of water, making her nod in thanks and drank slowly. After drinking all the water, she then said to Genjuro.
"Zero-One saved me from the nightmare." The sentence caused Kanade and Genjuro to widen their eyes in utter shock.
"Wait a second, did you say Zero-One!? How's that possible!?" Kanade asked with shock.
Tsubasa exhaled a bit, then said: "It turns out that when I was having a nightmare, he told me that he got into my dream by using his power, and destroy the malice inside me."
"The malice inside you?" Genjuro asked.
Tsubasa nodded. "It was the enemy Zero-One was talking about earlier, a Magia." That makes both of them gasped a bit in surprise.
"Unbelievable… Who would expect that the Magia could be hiding in a human's mind…" Genjuro said with utter shock.
"So if it wasn't for Zero-One…" Kanade muttered.
Tsubasa finished for her with a grim tone. "The Magia will successfully killing me, and take over my body." That sentence caused everyone to looked deep in thoughts, making them gulped down in dread, don't want to think about the possible consequences if Tsubasa was taken over by a Magia.
The bluenette gripped her chest tightly where her heart is, said with determination. "He had saved me from the despair… I won't throw away my emotions anymore." She then looked at Genjuro and Kanade. "I'll prove my redemption to him in the next fight!"
At the far distance, we can see Ryouga is standing on a nearby tree with his body still invisible, looking at Bakumon for a moment, giving it a thank-you. The tapir nodded back before dissolving into data particles, returning itself into the card. He then put the card back into his deck holder, and turned his attention back to the Lydian Academy. He then saw Tsubasa chatting with Genjuro and Kanade, now freeing from her nightmare, and said to Tsubasa, even though she couldn't hear him.
"Don't waste my second chance tomorrow, Kazanari Tsubasa. I'll see to myself whether your renewed determination is real."
He then turned to the setting sun, with the winds flowing around the leaves, waiting for the upcoming fight.
The scene then closed with the Blazing Dragon Key closing down the front cover, spinning and bumping with Flaming Tiger Key for a moment, then get in line in front of the screen with the blurred yellow digital background.
(Eyecatch 2)
The scene showing Zero-One appeared from the shadows, walking to where Rise Hopper is standing, with the neon yellow armor of both Zero-One and the bike shining in the darkness with the eyes glowing in the dark.
RFD: AAAAAAAAND DONE! Phew, that sure was heating my brains up! This is my first time writing a redemption episode, so I wasn't sure if this was good or not, but I tried my best, so leave a review for this chapter, okay? And finally, Flaming Tiger has a proper debut in the fight with Vicarya Magia, so it's perfect for the storyline. Next time, I'll try to create an OC Magia form for Zero-One to use in his upcoming fights, so stay tuned for the next chapter!
This is Red Flame Dragon, signing out. Until the next Ride!
This chapter's new info:
Bakemon (バケモン): Well, since it's based on a ghost, so why should it only have transformation ability? I decided to give it an invisibility.
Dokunemon (ドクネモン): This guy's invisibility is quite good, so it could be compatible with Bakemon's transparent ability, so Ryouga can use it for investigation, or could use for some jumpscare pranks.
Bakumon *Tapirmon, dubbed in English* (バクモン): Since its abilities can make nightmares and viruses back to normal, I think it would be useful for Bakumon to create a warp gate, allowing Ryouga to enter a person's dreamland, just like how Kamen Rider Wizard use the Engage Magic Ring to enter the Underworld.
Garnate Buster: Ultraman Zero's attack when he's in Strong Corona Zero form.
Dragon Rider Kick: Well, normally, this is Ryuki's signature kick, but since Ryouga has Dragon Key, I would like to do my own version, hehe…