Cousin Giffrey Gets Schooled

by Ri2

With the rest of the Igarashi family busy on a rescue mission, it's up to Giff to attend Family Day at Lovekov's school and spend some quality time with his favorite great-grandchild. But of course, he can't simply attend as his true self, which means it's time for everyone's long-lost relative, Cousin Giffrey, to make his big return! Absolutely nothing will go wrong.

9. Field Trip

Disclaimer: I don't own anything that doesn't belong to me. Kamen Rider Toboki was created by kivathedcwizard. The design for Magi Messiah comes from Spidey Viewer.

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The Igarashi family (and Associates) raced to where Georgina had fallen in a panic. The Kong Deadman was already shrinking back to her regular size, a desperate Chic trying to wake her up, while a dazed Yukimi was staggering away from the couple.

"YUKIMI!" Genta shouted, rushing towards his wife.

"MOM!" Their children shouted, chasing after him.

Yukimi was nearly knocked off her feet when Genta slammed into her, the rest of her family joining them, the weight of the combined embrace so much they wound up falling to the ground, laughing and sobbing in relief.

"Honey! Are you all right?!" Genta demanded.

"Do you want us to kill Chic and Georgina? Because we can totally do that!" Vice offered.

"I'm okay, just… Kind of shaken up," Yukimi assured them. "And no, I don't think that's necessary at this point. Hasn't there been enough fighting already?"

"No," Kagerou said, predictably.

"Look, you've utterly beaten them. They've lost everything," Yukimi said. "And Georgina got hit in the head by a flying school – which, by the way, we should probably deal with in a minute. I don't think we need to kill them… Especially since a far more appropriate punishment would be to give them to George so he can lock them up in his lab and do all sorts of horrible science experiments on them forever."

Everyone agreed that this was, indeed, a much more suitable punishment.

"You're the best, mama Igarashi!" George said giddily.

"Hana, Tamaki, come over here," Yukimi beckoned to the former Deadmans, who were standing a brief distance away, looking at the family pile with longing. "You're family too."

Eyes lighting up, the duo ran over and joined the big hug.

"It truly is wonderful to be a part of a family," Astarte said wistfully.

George suddenly hugged his father. "George?" Masumi asked in surprise.

"Should've done this sooner," George blubbered through tears. "I missed you, dad."

"… I think I should call my folks when we get back," Ryu murmured.

"A good idea," Azuma agreed.

"Yeah," Hiromi agreed, eyes wet. "You… You never know how many days you have left with them until…"

A dazed and beaten-up Hikaru sat on the ground next to Ampaz, staring at the Igarashis in jealousy and confusion. "… I don't have any family. I'm not a Kamen Rider. I've got nothing left. What now?"

"You start over," the Pythonian encouraged, causing him to look at her with hope. "From behind bars."

His face fell. "… Yeah, that's fair."

"I miss anything?" Akaishi asked as he staggered over, dripping with blood and ichor.

"Yes, Georgina turned into a giant monster only to get knocked out by a flying school," Azuma informed him. "Also Daiji and Kagerou seem to have made up."

"Ah. Par for the course for an adventure with the Igarashi family, then," Akaishi said, taking this in stride.

"Where were you?" Azuma asked in concern.

"You remember that terrifying demon that kept asking us if we knew how we were going to die?" Akaishi asked.

"Yes."

"I killed it."

"Huh. How'd you manage that?"

Akaishi stared off in the distance for a long while. "It had a spine. I broke it."

Azuma clapped him on the back. "Good man."

Without warning, a familiar red and gold Dragon snake shot through the air and slammed into the family heap, bowling everyone aside as it slammed into Sakura.

GOD UP! DRAGON UP! WOW! THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN! KAMEN! RIDER! ARC! JA! JA! JA! JA! JA! JA! JA! JA! ARC JEANNE!

"MOMMY!" Lovekov, now in her God Dragon Genome form, hugged her mother, also in her God Dragon Genome form.

"Lovekov! What's going on?! We've been so worried!" Sakura cried, embracing her daughter. "Also, why is the school here?!"

"Well-" Lovekov started, only to be pulled away and kissed full on the lips by an incredibly amorous Astarte, causing Lovekov to pop a foot and moan sensually. "Love love," she murmured in a daze when Astarte finally broke away.

"I missed you, beloved," Astarte purred before passing her off to an ecstatic Hani. "And so did she."

Sakura was polite enough to let the demons make out for a few seconds before pulling her daughter away. "Okay, that's enough! Lovekov, you owe us an explanation!"

"Where's your great-grandfather?" Hana demanded, hugging her future wife and daughter. "He was supposed to be looking out for you! It was supposed to be a simple day at class! What the hell HAPPENED?!"

"There is a very simple explanation for that," Giff said, approaching them from the direction of the relocated Moraboshi Elementary, which was somehow miraculously intact. A variety of transformed people and monsters were staggering about, throwing up, and desperately hugging and kissing the ground, grateful that the terrifying flight was finally over. The rest of Lovekov's class were out in the open, watched over by their parents and a worried monster which vaguely resembled their teacher, and the rest of the students, faculty, and visiting parents were cautiously or not so cautiously rushing out of the building for fear it might collapse on them or explode after everything else that had happened that day, only to stare in horror and disbelief at their surroundings. More than a few turned around and went right back inside.

"That's Giff!" Ryu gasped in horror.

"You get used to him showing up without warning after a while," Hiromi said dismissively.

"Everyone, it's wonderful to see you all, though the situation could admittedly be better," Giff admitted. "And oh, Doctor Karizaki, I wasn't expecting you to be here too."

"I was committed to destroying this wretched place once and for all," Masumi said grimly.

"I can see why. So much evil has happened here… Delicious, delicious evil," Giff murmured, salivating. "Don't worry, I'll help clean this up. This place is saturated in my cells, I should be able to reabsorb them easily enough."

"That would be very much appreciated, master," a relieved Akaishi said.

"Oh, and I see Kagerou has finally chosen to join us!" Giff remarked, pleasantly surprised to see Daiji's demon out and about. "I was wondering when you would decide to finally come out of that Vistamp. Have you finally reconciled things with your brother?"

Kagerou nodded. "Yeah, though I let him win."

"You did not! Wait, you knew he was there all along?!" Daiji asked in disbelief.

"Of course I did," Giff replied in surprise. "You didn't?"

"No!"

"Huh. Next you'll be telling me that none of you knew Yukimi was pregnant, either!" Giff remarked.

"We didn't," Yukimi said flatly.

Lovekov gasped in delight. "I'm going to have a new aunt or uncle?! Love love love love LOVE!"

"Pair of aunts or uncles, the kid will have a demon of their own, naturally," Vail said proudly.

"Even BETTER!" Lovekov gushed. She paused. "And they're going to be younger than me. That's… Weird, right, Kobu?"

"Honestly, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out dad was his own grandfather, our family tree is nuts," Kagerou pointed out.

"You had no idea? Truly?" Giff replied in bafflement, scratching his head. "You humans are incredibly unobservant."

"Not unobservant enough to miss that our granddaughter's entire school is somehow here," Genta pointed out.

"Yeah, unless this is some kind of weird field trip thing, which I don't remember signing any permission slips for," Sakura added.

"Would be an awesome field trip, though," Vice commented.

"It's not a field trip, Kobu," Lovekov said tiredly.

Giff nodded. "Indeed. As I said, there's a simple explanation for what's going on. Basically, an incredibly amoral reality show from the future decided that Lovekov's teacher and her entire class needed to die, so hired a group of demons led by Lilim's evil – now former – boyfriend to do the deed, and we heroically battled them and some of the children got involved and Lilim has finally become a true Angel again and Lovekov attempted to break the barrier keeping us contained using the power of familial love, but it proved to be stronger-than-expected, so she instead wound up inadvertently dragging the entire school here to Area 666 where we crashed into the head of a gigantic monster and so here we are."

Everyone stared at him, then at Lovekov. "That's what happened, love."

"You call that simple?!" Vice asked incredulously.

"Vice, we just fought an army of demon monkeys, clown mercenaries, and mime assassins dispatched by a mad scientist who wanted to steal our unborn baby brother to turn it into a freakish gorilla/demon hybrid by a mad scientist demon and his superintelligent genetically engineered and cybernetically augmented gorilla girlfriend because they can't have kids on their own," Ikki pointed out. "Also, said girlfriend turned into a giant monster only to get knocked out by our niece's flying school."

"Oh, good point," Vice admitted.

"He tried to do what," Giff asked slowly, literally smoldering with rage.

"Wait, dad, you can't kill him," Genta protested.

Giff gave him an incredulous look.

"I mean, yes, you can, but you shouldn't. It'll… Kill Masumi? Maybe? And/or George?" Genta asked, uncertain. "The rules on this are kind of inconsistent."

"If I must die to fully atone for my sins, then so be it-" Masumi started.

"Yeah, no, we aren't doing that," George interjected. "We're taking him back to my lab and locking him up so I can do all sorts of horrific experiments on him. And get family counseling because I'm starting to think that we probably could use it."

"You really do," Daiji agreed.

"We probably could too, come to think of it," Yukimi admitted.

"Oh, very well, I shall spare their lives, but only because you, my best friend, asked me to," Giff relented.

"Thanks!"

"… Why is he our master's best friend?" A rather put-out Akaishi grumbled to Azuma, who rolled his eyes.

"Also, I got a new super form!" Tamaki pointed out, Ampaz fawning over him.

"And it looks really good!" Hana added, causing him to blush.

"Wonderful! You truly are proving yourself to be a worthy slave – er, menial – for my family with every day that passes!" Giff said in approval. "I am certain you and Ampaz's offspring will create a perfect bloodline to serve my descendants loyally for many centuries to come."

Tamaki looked weirdly happy about this.

"And… Oh, I see you've made a new friend," Giff said, noticing Hikaru. "What's he doing here? Was he a prisoner of Chic and Georgina as well? Did you rescue him?"

Tamaki fidgeted. "Well… I did rescue him, yes-"

"He's a former member of Weekend who betrayed everyone and helped Chic escape and abduct Yukimi," Ampaz said flatly.

"… Did he now," Giff said coldly.

"But! He's very sorry and won't do it again! Right, Hikaru?" Tamaki said quickly.

"I only did it because everyone kept forgetting my name, and then that I even existed," Hikaru complained. "And because Akaishi murdered my father and a lot of other people and it's like nobody cares about that anymore!"

"Akaishi! Is this true?" A shocked Giff asked Akaishi.

"My Lord, I've murdered lots of fathers in your name, and you never had a problem with it before," Akaishi pointed out in exasperation.

"Oh, true. Well. Don't do that again," Giff said sternly.

"I've already resolved not to," Akaishi said wearily.

"And to apologize for my subordinate's actions, here, I will give you a new father, free of charge," Giff declared, opening a portal and summoning a Hell Gifftarian.

"Hello, son," the demon said warmly to Hikaru.

Everyone stared at Giff blankly.

"Is this a fucking joke?!" Hikaru shouted.

"I do not understand. Did I do something wrong?" Giff asked in confusion.

"There are… So many layers of wrong here I don't even know where to begin," Ikki said in exasperation.

"Yeah, for one thing, Hikaru's dad wore glasses, this guy looks nothing like him!" Vice agreed.

"That's not what I was talking about-"

"Oh, an easy fix," Giff said, snapping his fingers and conjuring a pair of glasses for the Hell Gifftarian to wear. "There, problem solved!"

Everyone facepalmed. Hikaru's eye twitched. "Are you serious-"

"Son, I love you unconditionally," the demon said suddenly, opening his arms. "Give me a hug, and we'll play catch."

Hikaru burst into tears and ran into the Hell Gifftarian's arms. "I love you, daddy!"

"You're welcome!" Giff said cheerfully as everyone stared at the scene in disbelief.

"… I don't know what's more fucked up, the fact that this is actually working, or that they just met and this is already better than his relationship with his real dad ever was," a bewildered Hana said.

"In retrospect, I should probably have assigned him to a family who might actually be willing to love him," Masumi admitted.

"You think?" George snorted.

"And with that settled, I do believe it's time for us all to go home!" Giff decided.

"What about the school?" Azuma pointed out.

"They can go home too," Giff said obliviously.

"No, I mean the building."

"Oh. Eh, we'll build a new one, or offer them membership at the classrooms in ARARAT," Giff said dismissively. "Anyway, since we've tied up all the loose ends and there's nothing more to do here-"

"Weren't you going to clean up this place?" Daiji pointed out.

"Well, yes, but after that there's nothing more for us to do-"

"GIIIIIIIFF!"

Giff blinked, and everyone glanced at a nearby pile of debris, where the outraged, heavily wounded Barbatos was standing.

"Oh, right, I forgot to kill him," Giff realized.

"Who's that?!" A startled Ryu cried.

"A bad guy, kuzu!" Lovekov hissed.

"That is Barbatos, Lilim's ex-boyfriend and the powerful demon I was battling earlier," Giff said. "Was that not obvious? I thought it would have been clear from context."

"Our boy here isn't very good at context," George teased.

"Hey!"

"Giff! You and that whore of an angel have humiliated me like never before!" Barbatos slavered, eyes glowing with hatred.

"Oh, we haven't even begun to humiliate you, darling," Lilim sneered as the other parents rushed over to join them, the kids watching from a safe distance.

"Mrs. Cheng, are you aware there's a giant wolf monster beside you?" A concerned Yukimi asked.

"Don't worry, he's friendly," Nushi assured her, petting Marchiosias on the snout, the Marquis happily wagging his tail.

"Marchiosias! You dare betray me?!" Barbatos snarled.

"Mrs. Cheng promises she can get me into heaven. That's all I've ever wanted, 'master'… To go home!" Marchiosias growled.

"You know, I think my sister can help with that," Lilim pointed out.

"Yes, but she offered first," the demon replied.

"I did," Nushi confirmed.

"It's over, Barbatos! We killed the rest of your army once we finished throwing up all over the place and remembering how to walk!" Goro said, gun pointed at the demon.

"I did not know one man could produce that much vomit," Izu remarked.

"I did!" Jinx said cheerfully.

"Heh! You think it'll be that easy? Now that we're no longer stuck in that Jyamar Area, my full power has returned to me!" Barbatos bragged.

"Yeah, but so has ours, and a lot of us are way stronger than you," Misora pointed out.

Barbatos grinned. "Not for long… Because now that we are out in the open, I can use my ultimate technique!"

Lilim and Marchosias gasped, eyes widening. "No… He can't mean…"

"That's right! Forget what your almanacs say, because today we're having a BLOOD MOON!" Barbatos howled, snapping his fingers.

And the sky shattered.

Horrific screams filled the air, a foul miasma pouring out from the giant crack in the sky, a crack which only got wider as half a dozen huge burning chains ending in clawed anchors shot out of the rift, pulling out what could only be described as a colossal crimson moon about the size of Area 666. The sky kept breaking and splintering apart as more and more of the moon was pulled through, and it didn't come alone.

Hundreds, thousands of demons crawling on the surface of the moon jumped down, falling to land in the area below, blanketing the ground with their bodies. The miasma swirled around them, causing them to cackle in malicious glee as they bulked up, gaining more claws and horns and limbs, infernal runes burning into their flesh as the baleful light of the moon shone down on them.

Mutated demons began crawling out of every nook and cranny, drawn out by the moon's gaze, shrieking and howling and tearing themselves apart, empowered and driven mad by the infernal body.

And if that weren't bad enough, the bodies of the dead demons lying around outside Moraboshi Elementary started getting back up.

"GODDAMN!" George shouted.

"What's happening?!" A horrified Nana demanded, desperately trying to comfort the terrified children.

"Big sis, I don't… Feel so good…" Cherubi gasped, wavering and collapsing right into the arms of her sister, who was also flagging.

"Mistress!" Courtney cried in dismay.

"It's Barbatos' ultimate technique, the Blood Moon," Lilim whispered in dread. "When he calls it forth from the bowels of Hell, not only can he summon his armies without limit, not only are they strengthened greatly by exposure to its malefic gaze…"

"But all infernals and evil souls will constantly be revived, without end!" Marchiosias growled.

"Pico!" Pico shouted.

"Pico says he stole that from the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," Hazu reported.

"I did not! I came up with the idea first!" Barbatos insisted, a sinister glow engulfing his body as all his injuries began to mend themselves.

"He did, actually," Lilim admitted, irritated that all the damage she and Giff had inflicted on him was already regenerating… Though all of the wounds caused by holy weapons left nasty scars, and the horn she'd cut off refused to grow back, much to her joy and her ex's consternation.

"Wait… But that means…!" Daiji gasped.

A horde of mutated demons, Giff Juniors, True Gifftarians, Hell Gifftarians, demon monkeys, and zombie clown mercenaries and mime assassins stormed out of the remains of Chic's headquarters. Several of the children shrieked and hid behind their parents, and Vice and Tamaki screamed in terror at seeing the undead mimes and jumped into the arms of their respective partners.

"Are those zombie mimes?! Okay, that does it, I'm destroying the planet-evo," Evolto-Chan decided, reaching for the handle of her Driver.

"No you aren't!" Misora snapped. "… Though I can see why you're tempted to."

"Wait, mime assassins? Really? And you call us evil?!" An incredulous Barbatos laughed. "Wow, it's shit like this that makes me think Lucifer was right to get into a hissy fit over humanity!"

The ground shook, and a familiar abomination emerged into the scarlet night (even though it was actually the afternoon still). "Oh come on, I just killed that thing! Do you know how hard it was?!" An outraged Akaishi demanded.

The horror gazed at them. "Do you know-"

"NO! FUCK YOU!" Akaishi shouted.

"Brat, you are never to use words like that," Asagi ordered Masaki.

"But you use them all the time-"

"Do as I say, not as I do!"

"Now, return to me, my Noble Kings, and Kings-in-waiting!" Barbatos commanded.

In bursts of flame, Raum, Agares, and Paimon appeared beside him.

Barbatos did a double take. "Wait, hang on, where are Purson and Caim? And Paimon… What are you wearing?!"

"What? Who said that?" Paimon, who was still wearing the ridiculous outfit Jinx made him wear and facing the wrong way, said, looking around in confusion. Raum conscientiously turned him around to face Barbatos. "Oh! There you are, Miss Barbie! You're everything, and Ken is… Ken!"

Everyone stared at him in bewilderment except for Jinx. "Paimon," Barbatos said slowly. "What are you wearing?"

Paimon blinked at him, dumbfounded. "Who's Paimon?"

"You are!"

"I am?"

"Yes!"

"Oh, well, if you say so Barbie," Paimon said happily.

Barbatos stared at him for a long while and slowly said, "What are you wearing?"

Paimon looked down at his clothes in confusion. "Now where did those come from?"

Barbatos' twitched. "What the fuck happened to you?!"

"Lightning round!" He said happily, causing all the demons to get struck by lightning.

"… Jinx, why do I get the feeling this is your fault?" Nana asked the Gangler tiredly.

"Because it is!" Jinx said proudly.

"Nom-nom!"

"Did you break my minion?!" An outraged and incredulous Barbatos demanded.

"Broke him… Or made him better?" Jinx asked, waggling her eyebrows.

Paimon slowly extended his neck until he was only millimeters away from a very disturbed and alarmed Agares' face. "What do you-"

"Rock candy," Paimon whispered very loudly before licking the demon's face very slowly.

"Yes, you absolutely broke him!" Barbatos snarled. "And again, where are Purson and Caim?!"

"Dead," Evolto-Chan said proudly. "I killed them. It was easy. In fact, it's a shame I killed them so thoroughly they'll never come back, or else I'd get the chance to do it all again-evo!"

Barbatos recoiled. "That's… Impossible!"

"Clearly you've never faced a member of the Blood Tribe, the most feared and powerful race in the entire universe-evo!" Evolto-Chan bragged.

Misora and Kaseihime coughed.

"Okay, second most powerful, but still the most feared-evo!" She insisted, which they agreed was probably true. "And you thought you'd scare us by bringing out some big ass moon that makes zombies? Hah! I eat moons for breakfast, literally! And that's exactly what I'm going to do to that eyesore up there-evo…"

She reached for the handle of her Driver, then hesitated.

"… Right after I check to make sure I can actually eat that, anyway. Never saw a moon like that before-evo," she admitted. "Gotta be sure it doesn't give me indigestion… This will take a minute. Nobody try to blow it up or erase it or anything until I'm done examining it, depending on the composition destroying it might have devastating consequences… Other than making me hangry, that is. Wouldn't want that, after all-evo."

"We really wouldn't," Misora admitted.

"You won't have time to decide whether or not to eat it… Before it kills you all!" Barbatos declared, snapping his fingers.

The infernal chains trembled, and the Blood Moon slowly began to get larger and larger as it descended on Area 666.

"Pico!"

"Pico now says you are ripping off the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask," Hazu translated.

"I TOLD YOU, I CAME UP WITH IT FIRST!"

"So we must fend off against an army which will resurrect every time they are put down, with more constantly being summoned from hell, all the while a giant mass is descending towards us, and we dare not engage it until Evolto-Chan finishes her analysis," Izu stated. "The odds are not in our favor."

"Can't you use Zea to figure it out?" Nushi asked.

"Unfortunately, the Blood Moon is proving particularly stubborn to analyze," an irritated Izu admitted. "It's not entirely in phase with our reality since it's a conjuration from another plane. It's here, but also partially elsewhere."

"I don't suppose you know what it's made of?" Nana asked Lilim, who shook her head in apology.

"I'm sorry, no, Barbatos never told me," she confessed.

"He always kept it a secret," Marchiosias agreed.

"And for good reason!" Barbatos laughed.

"Do you think we'll have an answer before that thing falls and kills us all?" The Bishop asked.

"Unclear," Izu said.

"So!" Parasoleil said brightly. "Who wants to run away?"

Raum cackled. "You can try, but you'll never be able to escape our forces or flee the vicinity before the moon falls!"

"I can open portals," Misora said flatly.

"As can I," Giff added.

The Noble King hesitated. "Well… Perhaps so, but can you take that entire defenseless school with you?"

"Yes."

"I think so."

The bird demon sulked.

"If we leave, Barbatos will just send his forces after us and put countless lives in danger, and there's no telling the sort of damage the Blood Moon crashing will do to the surrounding area," Goro pointed out.

"Everything for miles around will be destroyed," Lilim said.

Marchosias nodded. "We've seen it before."

"Maybe even more, the collision of hell energy and the evil and Giff cells saturating Area 666 could have a catastrophic reaction," Masumi said grimly.

"I mean, this eyesore kind of looks like it needs to be destroyed," Slavi admitted. "But not like this!"

"Then we have to kill him before that happens," Vail reasoned. "That should eliminate the Blood Moon, right?"

Barbatos laughed. "You think so? Well then, what if I speed things up?"

And then, to their horror, the Blood Moon stopped with the slow, ominous descent and straight up dropped from the sky…

When suddenly a Goram, a Terrible Terror, a Heavy Industrial Machine resembling an Abretrex, and Revolver Tenrai Senpuujin reached up and caught the Moon.

The demons did a double take. "WHAT?!" Barbatos demanded.

"Heh, it's my wives!" Jinx squealed happily. "Look, Nom-Nom, it's your other mommies!"

"Nom Nom!"

"Ah, my company's latest model! I do hope Abrella won't mind it being field tested," Parasoleil said proudly.

"My students! They're here to save us all!" Mugensai cheered, weeping tears of joy and relief.

Barbatos growled, but Agares chuckled. "You really think they can make a difference? There's no way those four will be enough to stop the moon! This isn't Majora's mask!"

"Pico!"

"Nobody asked you!"

"Make it SIX!" The Bishop shouted ecstatically as Castle Doran and a Six-Pillar Sabbath flew in to help, pushing against the Blood Moon as hard as they could…

And making no noticeable difference whatsoever.

"You were saying?" Agares asked smugly as Bishop huddled in a corner in despair, Neycombe awkwardly patting his back.

Yoshi and the robots started creaking and groaning, trembling and beginning to buckle as the moon's immense weight – and the demons crawling onto them from the stellar body's surface to claw and bite them – begin taking their toll. At this point, only a miracle could stop the moon from falling.

Which is why it was very appropriate when trumpets blared, several golden gates manifested in the sky and opened up, hundreds of angels flying out and engaging the demons filling the air, giant golden chains launching themselves through the portals and wrapping themselves around the Blood Moon. The chains pulled taught and started to retract…

And slowly, the moon began to rise.

"What the heaven?!" Barbatos cried.

"Look, pretty birdies!" Paimon cheered. "Hang on birdies, I'm coming!" He flapped his arms eagerly.

"Paimon, you can't fly," Raum said in frustration.

"Oh." The demon cheered up. "Wait, you're a birdie-"

"NO!"

Cherubi gasped. "Big sis, look! It's bigger sis!"

"Oh no, not her," Barbatos groaned as the furious Serafina flew towards them, only to be distracted by several hundred demons flying in her path.

They weren't going to last very long.

"And is that…" Lilim squinted, then gasped. "I don't believe it… It's MOM!"

"WHAT?!" Barbatos cried.

A supremely beautiful woman wearing a blindfold with white and gold robes, six wings, two halos, and body length hair flew through the sky in a golden wheelchair with wheels of fire, smiting any demon that got in her path.

"Wait, why is that Angel in a wheelchair?" Asked a confused Sakura.

"Don't be silly, granddaughter!" Giff scoffed. "It wouldn't be heaven if it weren't handicapped accessible!"

"That's… That's not even remotely what I meant."

"Oh crap, Ofanina is here too?" Agares said nervously, licking his lips.

"So what? We can still win this!" Barbatos insisted, though there was a hint of doubt in his voice. "They can't destroy the Blood Moon, and so long as it exists, we can't die and can call in nearly unlimited reinforcements!"

"It's not like the Heavenly Host is short on numbers," Raum pointed out.

"No, but they don't have the benefit of resurrection," Barbatos pointed out as every demon struck down by an angel regenerated moments later and returned to the fight. "And it will take more than those chains to stop the Blood Moon!"

The infernal chains began burrowing into the ground, pulling on the moon. The heavenly fetters groaned and started creaking as the Blood Moon began its descent once again, forcing its way back on the Goram and robots…

When suddenly a huge red rift in space tore open, revealing a tunnel covered in spiderwebs which disgorged a purple and black mecha resembling a very attractive humanoid arthropod with very shapely legs ending in pointed feet, pincers on the ends of her arms with hands ending in sharp, dainty claws, a voluptuous purple and black torso with an ample chest covered in spiderweb motifs and a red hourglass crest on the stomach. Its beautiful face had arachnid features, sizable fangs growing from her mouth framed by chelicerae, a monstrous helm covered in glowing red eyes, and a scorpion tail hanging to the ground from the back of the head like a braid terminating in a stinger blade.

"Who is that?!" Mei yelled.

"And who designed that thing? I can think of a lot of people who'd pay through the nose for a Heavy Industrial Machine like that!" Parasoleil exclaimed greedily.

"That's Arackaiserin, my big sis Aranea's personal mecha!" Philia cried eagerly. "Oh, and her bodyguard Antares', too."

"Wait, your sister? The beautiful spider bounty hunter princess?" Nushi asked, trying not to sound too eager.

"Yeah!" Philia said happily.

"What's she doing here?" Mugu asked in confusion.

"What are you talking about, I told you earlier!" Philia said in confusion.

"When?" The baffled Amazon asked.

"A few minutes ago!" Philia insisted.

"… Philia, did you tell her verbally or did you forget that none of us can communicate with you through the Buzzing again?" Nushi asked slowly.

"… Oops," the Princess murmured, blushing. "Well, uh, anyway, when I lost contact with the Hive mom panicked and tried to get here even faster. The fleet is still a ways away, though… But thankfully, Aranea and Antares happened to be a lot closer, so were able to come to the rescue just in time!"

"How very fortunate," Shitsuki said.

"… Yes," Neycombe said slowly, eyeing the innocent looking Kaseihime suspiciously. "It is."

Just before the rift closed, a spaceship looking like a cross between a spider and scorpion shot out. As it flew by, Arackaiserin fired a web line at it, and, despite being much larger than the ship, was lifted by the vessel into the air, flying up and over the battle between angels and demons and positioning herself right above the Blood Moon. With her free hand, she fired a massive web net down at the moon, covering a sizable percentage of its top. The ship's thrusters fired, lifting Arackaiserin higher into the air…

And, impossibly, the Blood Moon began rising again.

"No! This can't be happening! I won't allow it!" A desperate Barbatos shouted, reaching a claw out towards the Blood Moon, eyes glowing.

The moon's weight increased again, once more straining against the holy chains, the Giants supporting it from below, and the webs woven by Arackaiserin. One of the strands of webbing snapped, followed by another, and some of the links in the divine bonds began stretching to their breaking point…

"Maagi Magi Go Gokai!"

Multiple magical seals opened in the air, chains made of pure magic shooting out and wrapping around the Blood Moon. A pillar of pure magical energy erupted from the ground and struck the underside of the Blood Moon, solidifying into a magnificent – and very flattering – Crystal statue of Nushi.

"Everyone, rejoice!" A gorgeous figure cried as she flew around the statue, riding sideways on a Sky Hokey. She wore silver leggings and white heeled boots with tops that had pink trimming and faint pink marks on the tips reminiscent of fox paws. Her very buxom torso was white with a silver and pink trimmed M, the M also forming an M on each of her shoulders that lead to an M on her back, a white and pink-trimmed waist length cape coming out of it, a white pink trimmed skirt at the bottom with 5 fox tails that had silver and pink tips growing from her rear. She had silver arms with white elbow length pink trimmed gloves and pink marks on the palm reminiscent of a fox's paw, along with claws. She wore a white helmet with a black, pink trimmed visor in the shape of a fox's head, fox ears incorporated into the helmet, and a white pink trimmed witch's hat on her head. "Everyone's favorite Savior and superstar is here! The dazzling star element, Magi Messiah!"

"Oh my gosh it's Heavenly Saint Stargel! She's here! In the flesh, Kobu!" Lovekov squealed eagerly, throttling her mother.

"Shitsuki wants her autograph," Shitsuki said.

"I think a lot of us do," Hana gushed. "Oh my you Sakura, isn't she amazing?!"

"I think watching one of her shows on TV is the first time I realized I was gay," Sakura agreed.

"Hooray! Mom's here!" Mugu cheered.

"Your wife must love you very much," Giff remarked, looking at the statue.

"… She really does," Nushi whispered fondly as Ariel blew a kiss, using her magic to manifest it as a pink heart which struck her cheek and caused her whole body to turn pink.

"… My Lord, our victory is beginning to look… Less than certain," Raum said hesitantly. "If anyone can seal the Blood Moon's power of resurrection, maybe even banish it and us… She very well might."

"It doesn't matter!" Barbatos snapped. "Even if the Blood Moon won't crush them all, with the power boost and our overwhelming numbers, we should still be able to wipe out our targets-"

And that's when the tanks started rolling in alongside marching troopers, Giff Juniors, True Gifftarians, and Deadmen.

"Fenix! Finally, they've come!" Akaishi exclaimed, before frowning. "What took them so long? I called them ages ago!"

"Well, maybe they'd have gotten here faster if someone hadn't blown up the Skybase," Hiromi said bitingly.

"Yes, most inconsiderate of them," Giff agreed.

"It was you!" Hiromi snapped.

"It was? When did I do that?" Giff asked in confusion.

"When you first revealed yourself to humanity!" Hiromi yelled at him.

"Oh. Sorry. I didn't realize that was important," he apologized.

Hiromi's eye twitched.

"And look, some of our boys are here too!" George laughed, pointing out several Demons Troopers fighting alongside Fenix soldiers.

"Both our factions, truly fighting side-by-side… I never thought this would ever happen," Masumi admitted. "Perhaps… There is hope for the future after all."

"It's not just Fenix and Weekend, but the JSDF! My friends have come to help!" Goro said excitedly, pointing at another phalanx of troops and tanks.

"Yes, and to be wiped out, like the military always is," an unimpressed Vail stated.

Demon started rushing the tanks. They opened fire, their artillery blasting the demons away, while infantry moved in and started mowing the legions down with submachine guns.

"I stand corrected," Vail admitted as Goro's children cheered.

"Wait, the military is actually being useful?! The hell kind of the story is this?!" Vice demanded.

"One where our armed forces are actually equipped to handle supernatural threats, thanks to decrees from King Tokiwa-"

"May he reign forever," almost everyone chanted.

"And legislation passed by Minister Hino's party," Goro said proudly.

"It still won't be enough-" Barbatos started, only for a small army of Fangire to appear as well and start attacking the demons.

"At last! My countrymen have arrived!" The Bishop declared.

"And that's not all who's here," Izu said happily as the revving of motorcycles filled the air, and Kamen Rider Zero-Two rode into battle on the Rise Hopper, joined by Valkyrie on her own motorcycle as the spirits of Vulcan, Horobi, Jin, Ikazuchi, and Naki flew alongside her, accompanied by A.I.M.S. Raiders. They were quickly joined by Build and Cross-Z on Machine Builders, with Grease, Rogue, Mad Rogue, In-Q, the Three Hokuto Crows, and a small army of Guardians and Guardian-Unions on foot, followed by Ex-Aid on a Bike Gamer and Poppy, Brave, Snipe, Lazer, Fuma, and Knockout, with Nico Snipe flying in her Metroid-based gunship and a group of friendly Bugsters and (government approved) Ride Players eager to level up. Everyone stared in awe as a gigantic Para-DX stepped over them to assist the others trying to hold the Blood Moon aloft, joined by his girlfriend Escape in a Zeta Megazord. "The Kamen Riders have arrived."

"Izu! Hazu! We're here to help!" Aruto shouted at his family.

"Hello, husband," Izu said fondly.

"Everything will be okay now," Hazu said with a fond smile.

"Don't worry, sweetie, we'll win this with no continues!" Emu promised.

"Mommy's here, so everything's pipopapoperfect now!" Poppy sang.

"Pico! Pico!" Pico chirped happily, ecstatic to see her family.

"MIITAN! WE'RE HERE TO SAVE YOU!" Kazumi yelled.

Misora sighed and facepalmed. "He never changes," she said with a hint of fondness.

"Kaseihime! We're coming!" Sawa shouted.

"Those who tried to harm you will become a sacrifice for this country!" Gentoku declared.

"You know, even though I was never in any actual danger, and never will be, it's nice that they care so much about me," Kaseihime admitted to her mother.

"That's family for you," Misora replied. "Even if they're 'just' mortals compared to you, that doesn't make their love for you any less real."

"I know," Kaseihime said with a smile.

"Son! You came for me-evo!" Evolto-Chan cried.

"FUCK YOU!" Ryuga shouted.

Evolto-Chan laughed. "That's my boy-Evo!"

"Wow, look at all those senpai," Ikki noted in awe.

"We come from a long, long line of Riders," Daiji agreed.

"Some better than others," Kagero said, specifically glaring at him.

"George is probably loving this," Sakura observed.

"I AM!" George moaned, sounding like he was on the verge of orgasming.

"You're really in for it now," Asagi cackled, then sighed wistfully. "If only he were here too…"

"You think this frightens me?" Barbatos growled as the Riders started fighting their way through the endless horde of demons and other monsters. "No matter how strong they may be, we'll just keep coming back no matter how many of us they put down! It's only a matter of time until we overwhelm you, you can't win!"

"All this time, and still you have learned nothing."

"What?!" Barbatos demanded, glaring at Giff, who shook his head in disappointment.

"You still don't see? Every time you think you have the upper hand, every time you believe you have us right where you want us, you have always been wrong," Giff stated, folding his hands behind his back. "Every step of the way, you have underestimated us. Our power, our resolve, our courage. Strong you may be, yes, but so long as you refuse to see us as anything other than lesser, you will always fail. Even your trump card, the Blood Moon, has proven to be less than effective because you forgot something very important: we have friends, loved ones, powerful allies. An attack on us is an attack on them as well."

Barbatos groaned. "Oh Lucifer, please don't tell me you're going to give me a lecture about how I've been underestimating the power of friendship."

"No, that would be a waste of both our times," Giff said dismissively. "The simple truth of the matter is, you're not as strong as you think you are, or as clever, or else you would have remembered an important thing: with this Blood Moon, and your legions, and the undead hordes, you have brought a great deal of malevolence to a place already soaked in it.

"Now, what is it I eat again?"

Barbatos' eyes widened. "Wait-"

"Your armies, though vast, are not as infinite as you may claim. Already, those in the air are occupied by the hosts of heaven, and those on the ground have their hands fuller than you expected," Giff said. "And in a moment, there's about to be a lot fewer of them, and those that remain will be much weaker."

He produced his stamp. "Students! Friends and family! Adversaries! Total strangers! Pay close attention! The demon king Giff is about to teach you a little something."

He slammed his stamp into the ground, causing his geoglyph to form beneath him…

And suddenly expanded outwards, getting bigger and bigger until it encompassed the entirety of Area 666. As the lines of the geoglyph glowed red, red particles began rising off the ground and flowing towards Giff. The mutant demons, the Giff Juniors, True Gifftarians, Hell Gifftarians, demon monkeys, Deadmen, and all the other horrors and atrocities that had been created in this place paused, turning in the direction of Giff…

And dissolved, turning into more red lights which were carried on the wind towards the demon king.

Those who had faces were smiling peacefully.

"What's… Happening?" A confused Ikki asked as more and more lights flew by, coalescing around Giff.

"I feel… Good," Vice murmured. "Really good."

Lovekov hugged herself. "I feel great grandpa Giff's love, love! It's like a warm hug!"

"I wouldn't put it that far," Vail murmured. "It's not… Unpleasant, though."

"What's… Happening?" Yukimi murmured, wincing as she felt something pulse from inside her. Was that the baby?

No… There was something else…

"… Of course," Masumi realized. "Area 666 and all the demons born here were made using Giff cells. Given Giff's nature, it's no stretch of the imagination to conclude that he has the ability to not only control all matter that has his genes in it, but he can also reabsorb it all back into himself."

"Ha! I've used that trick a time or two myself-Evo," Evolto-Chan bragged. "Bet he can't regenerate from anything with his cells in it, though-Evo!"

"Stop using me as a phylactery!" Ryuga shouted, punching a demon's face in.

"No! And might I say, I'm impressed you even know what that is-Evo," Evolto-Chan remarked.

"We bought him a word a day calendar," Misora explained.

"Oh, that makes sense. Wait, he can read-Evo?" Evolto-Chan asked, genuinely surprised.

"FUCK YOU!"

"Love you too, son-Evo!"

"… You know, I'm glad that, as messed up as our relationship is, at least we aren't that bad," Vice admitted to Vail.

"I prefer Kagerou to you," the older demon said bluntly.

"Oh, come on!"

"Wait, but what about our demons?" An alarmed Tamaki asked, glancing down worriedly at the precious baby snake cradled in their hands.

"Don't worry, I can control which ones I eat and which I don't," Giff assured them, to their relief.

Ryu frowned at his demon. "You know, you can eat mine if you want."

"Preposterous! I wouldn't dare rob you of the experience of bonding with your new partner," Giff scoffed.

Ryu stared at his demon, who was still playing games on his phone and ignoring everyone. "Bonding. Right."

"Wait… We have Giff cells," a horrified Ikki realized. "Does that mean you can control or eat us too?"

"Of course not!" Giff scoffed.

The Igarashis sighed in relief.

"You're family, that would be impolite."

They blanched.

"Hang on, why are the mimes still here?!" Tamaki demanded, hiding behind Ampaz.

"Oh, those aren't demonic at all, they're just completely normal mimes trained to be skilled assassins brought back from the dead by dark magic," Giff said dismissively.

"Oh."

Barbatos frowned as all the Giff demons around them began to dissolve, Akaishi cheering and spouting invectives as his monstrous nemesis disintegrated, Chic crying in relief and hugging a very confused Georgina as her Deadman form was stripped from her. "Okay, so you're eating your spawn. Whatever. I don't see how that's going to make things that much harder for us-"

"Then you still aren't paying attention. Remember, I eat malevolent energy," Giff pointed out. "Now remind me, what are your kind made out of?"

Barbatos' eyes widened in horror, and he looked down at himself, suddenly noticing red particles were beginning to rise from himself as well. "WHAT?!"

"Sire, I am… Starting to feel lightheaded…" Raum murmured, wavering as red lights began flaking off him.

"Ooh, pretty lights!" Paimon cheered, chasing after the particles floating through the air, accompanied by Jinx with a butterfly net.

"You said the Blood Moon can revive you and your kind indefinitely… But can it continue to do so to those who have been devoured?" Giff queried, a smirk on his face.

Several of the weaker demons who'd been fighting the heroic reinforcements abruptly dissolved into red particles and drifted away, much to the confusion of their opponents.

"… My Lord, I'm not sure I want to stay to find out," a worried Raum quivered.

"I do!" Agares said eagerly.

Everyone gave him looks of disgust. "What?"

"Dammit, no!" Barbatos snarled, looking truly panicked now. "… I can't… I can't lose now! If we retreat… I could lose everything!"

"And we should care because?" Hana said dismissively.

"Get lost already, you big stupid dog!" Hislava yelled.

"Yeah, go back to the kennel where you belong!" Rayco jeered.

"I hope they put you down. Shitsuki wants to watch," Shitsuki said.

"So do I," Courtney said giddily.

"…Heh. Fine. You know what? You're right, Giff!" Barbatos snarled. "It's hopeless! We can't win!"

"Well, it's good that you recognize it, so why am I not particularly reassured?" Azuma wondered.

"If I'm going to lose… Then I'll do my blessed best to take as many of you with me as I can!" Barbatos barked, grabbing the startled Raum and Agares. "Blood Moon! I beseech you! Grant me the power to surpass God!"

He howled to the heavens…

And the Blood Moon responded, shaking, shrieking, unleashing a blinding flash of crimson radiance which engulfed everything. Most of the light shone on Barbatos and his minions, the demons laughing and screaming as their forms blended together, intertwining, getting larger and larger, accompanied by the sickening crack of bones and the tearing of flesh…

And finally the light ebbed, revealing a new horror.

Floating above them, backlit by the Blood Moon, was the severed head of an enormous hell hound with a bit of spinal cord and viscera hanging behind it like a tail. The flesh of the head was rotted and muscle and bone were exposed in parts, with jagged crystal growths glowing with the light of the Blood Moon growing like tumors all over the disembodied cranium. The entirety of the right eye was a crystal bloom, while the left eye was hollow and burned with hellfire. Its broken jaw was hanging wide open, the jaws of a crocodile jutting out from them, the beak of a bird inside of that, and an enormous metal and stone cannon covered in hell runes, crystals, and lava channels jutting out of those. Blue and yellow wings spread from behind it, covered in eyes.

The enlarged upper torso of Barbatos himself grew from an open wound in the forehead of the giant head, his body now a solid black mass covered in hell runes, lava channels, red crystal spikes and horns, and eyes, looking even more muscular and fearsome than before, though his broken horns still were not mended. His torso had become a dog face, mouth open to reveal the fires of hell, and numerous cables and cords and spinal columns grew from his back and into the flesh around him.

"Pico," Pico whispered.

"Yes, Pico, he does look like a final boss," Hazu agreed.

"Did… Did you know he could do that?" The surprised Marchiosias asked Lilim.

She huffed. "Well, he never did for me."

"Get ready," Barbatos snarled, reveling in his new power. "Because this is the last face you'll ever see!"

"Yours or the giant dog thing?" Courtney asked.

He hesitated. "… Both!"

"Speaking of which, what's with the giant dog head anyway?" Slavi asked. "Is there a body it's supposed to go with?"

"What? No, that's…" Barbatos stammered, confused and suddenly wondering why was it just a severed head?

Lovekov gasped. "Oh no! That poor doggy!"

"Pico?" Pico suggested.

"Pico suggests that maybe the dog's body will show up and he'll attach to it for his final phase," Hazu translated.

"Ooh, that would be awesome!" Mei gushed in excitement.

"No it wouldn't," Rayco said.

"There's no giant dog body!" Barbatos snapped, privately admitting to himself that actually sounded like it would've been pretty cool. "What you see is what you get!"

Most of the kids (and some of the adults) groaned in disappointment.

"Lame!" Asagi booed.

"What the – why aren't any of you afraid of me?!" The demon demanded.

"I think most of us have seen worse by this point," Tamaki said.

Hikaru nodded. "Like the thing that kept asking us if we knew how we would die."

"Or me-Evo!" Evolto-Chan said gleefully. "I'm way worse-Evo!"

Veila hesitantly raised her hand. "Would it help if I said I'm absolutely terrified of you?"

Barbatos puffed up at this. "Yes, actually-"

"Don't get your hopes up, Veila is afraid of everything," Neycombe said. Veila nodded in agreement.

Barbatos' eye twitched.

"I think you're very scary," Jun said politely.

"DON'T PATRONIZE ME!"

The kitten squealed and hid behind his siblings.

"His power level has risen exponentially," Izu reported. "He may actually prove to be a threat to us now, even at full power."

Barbatos grinned at this.

"However, the odds are still very much in our favor."

"QUIT MOCKING ME!" Barbatos shouted as most of them pointed and laughed at him.

"No," said Shitsuki.

"All right, I think we can do this," Ikki said, nodding his family. "One more fight?"

"One more, and then I'm soaking in the bath when we get home," Sakura spoke up. "I'm bushed." The rest of the family nodded in agreement.

"Can we get in on that?" Parasoleil asked.

"Sure, we'll even give you a discount," Genta promised.

"Then let's-" Daiji started, only to be interrupted when Yukimi suddenly cried out and fell to her knees, clutching her chest.

"MOM/HONEY/GRANDMA!" Her family cried, immediately crowding around her, everybody else immediately turning their attention to them and completely forgetting about Barbatos.

"… What?" The demon murmured, nonplussed.

"Yukimi! Honey! What's wrong?!" Genta demanded.

"It's… Coming…" Yukimi hissed through gritted teeth.

"It's…" Ikki gasped. "MOM! The baby?! Already?!"

"What? No way! Isn't it way too soon for that?" Daiji protested.

"Maybe the half human physiology is making it come early?" Kagerou suggested, uncharacteristically panicked.

"No, that can't be right, all of us were full-term!" Sakura argued.

"Mama Igarashi has been under a lot of stress, what with the kidnapping and all," George pointed out, looking far too excited about the prospect of witnessing a live birth in the middle of a battlefield. "Maybe that's causing it to come super early?"

"It shouldn't be this early," Masumi countered.

"Hold on… Are you… Are you serious?"

"Wait… YOU!" A furious Vail shouted, whirling on Chic. "This is your doing, isn't it?!"

"What? ME?!" Chic stammered.

"Hey yeah, that's right, he had her strapped to an operating table with all sorts of mad science gizmos pointed at her!" Tamaki realized. "Maybe he did something to her before we got there!"

Chic gasped, offended. "How dare you! I did no such thing! I didn't have time, I was still warming everything up by the time you all showed up."

"And you expect us to believe that?" Akaishi demanded.

"Ook."

"Oh, yes, that makes perfect sense, Georgina."

"Download of midwife protocols complete," Izu announced. "I am now ready to deliver the child and can even perform a cesarean operation if necessary. The CR Riders have been notified, but there's no guarantee they will be here in time. Everyone move aside so I can sterilize the area. Mr. and Mr. Igarashi, please find some hot towels."

"Right!" Genta said.

He and Vail paused, looking around at the heroes and demons battling all around them.

"… Where the hell are we supposed to find hot towels in all this?" Vail wondered.

"Do… Do any of you remember I'm even here?"

"I can help, I think," Lilim offered. "Though I'm admittedly a little out of practice…"

"I have delivered countless babies over the eons, many of them my own, I will assist as well," Astarte promised.

Giff sighed in exasperation. "None of that will be necessary! Yukimi isn't giving birth now!"

"She's not?" Everyone echoed in astonishment.

"No, I'm not!" Yukimi shouted. "It's not the baby that's coming out, it's my inner demon!"

"Ohhh," they all said, her family sighing in relief, George and several of the children groaning in disappointment that they wouldn't get to watch a live birth.

"Wait, her what now?" Ampaz asked.

"My inner demon! Just like the ones my kids and husband have, and, well, I guess technically everyone potentially," Yukimi admitted. "I've felt it stirring inside me ever since Chic blasted everyone with his Demon Extractor."

"Oh yeah, that was a thing I did," Chic remembered.

"Oh, of course! And it must not have manifested at first because it must have gotten mutated because of having borne four children with Giff cells in her womb as well as an unknown amount of intercourse with her husband," Masumi realized.

"… Do you really have to put it like that?" Genta complained.

"Giff activating his stamp to begin extracting cells from all over Area 666 must have been the last push her demon needed to finally be born!" George concluded. "Goddamn!"

"Yes, that makes absolutely perfect sense," Azuma agreed.

"It does?" A confused Ryu asked.

"Hush."

"Ah, so we will not require any medical practitioners," Izu concluded. "Doctor Hojo, it seems we do not require any of your services at the moment after all, especially not for giving birth," she shouted at Emu and the other CR riders.

"Awwww!" They complained.

"Hello? I'm still here! Pay attention to me!"

Lovekov squealed in delight. "I'm getting a new grandma, love!"

"Mama's giving birth to another mama?! And here I thought our family couldn't get any weirder!" Vice wailed.

"Oh boy, where are we going to put her? It's crowded enough in the bathhouse already, I don't think we have enough room for a bed to fit all four of us!" Genta pondered.

"… Wait, four-" Daiji stammered.

"I don't think we really need to know more about mom, dad, and father's sleeping arrangement," Kagerou said, strained.

"You really don't," Vail agreed.

"Maybe she'll be a small demon?" Sakura suggested.

Yukimi cried out, her body glowing, and a colossal entity emerged from her back, made of multiple components made of some luminous white substance with a crown-like pelvis with a dagger-shaped piece hovering beneath it, two huge jagged wing frames going out to either side with six headless armless statue torsos growing from the parts close to the pelvis, eight floating bladed feathers, and a pair of quite sizable breasts attached to the bust of a beautiful woman with several wings for hair and a pair of free-floating pieces floating next to her neck.

"Okay, I guess not."

"So big, love!" Lovekov gasped.

"Is she an angel?" Cherubi gasped.

"No, little sister, just a demon who looks angelic," Lilim corrected her.

"Okay, I'm actually starting to get a little worried here. Can you all just not hear me? Am I invisible? A ghost? Hello?"

Vail stared at the angelic being in awe as Genta rushed to help up the exhausted Yukimi. "… You're the most beautiful being I've ever seen, aside from your host."

The demon screeched, radiating holy light, and the Igarashis were immediately overwhelmed by a deep, bottomless well of unadulterated, unconditional maternal love. Vice was bawling and hugging a very uncomfortable Ikki, but none of them had dry eyes.

"My children," the demon spoke in their minds and hearts. "I am Matrice, born from my sister/other self's boundless love for her family. Human, demon, it matters not, she loves you all the same, and so do I."

She spread her wings and sang a perfect note which would fit right in with the chorus of the high heavens, flapping her wings and radiating a pulse of holy light which washed over everyone, healing them all and replenishing their energy completely.

"Hot damn! I feel like I could go another 50 rounds!" Vice said ecstatically.

"Yeah! Kind of hope we don't have to, though…" Ikki murmured.

"Don't worry, something tells me this is going to be the last one," Sakura said with a grin.

"You are correct. Especially with the gift we are about to give you. Husband?"

"Yes… Of course," Vail whispered dreamily, transforming into an orb of volatile red energy and flying into his wife's bosom.

Matrice sang again, and a ball of light drifted from her chest and touched the Revice Driver. Startled, Ikki removed the glowing Thunder Gale Vistamp, staring in wonder as it transformed, turning white with a gold device resembling the eyes of his whole family's Rider forms laid on top of each other within a frame resembling a stylized 50 with Matrice's wings growing from the sides covering the turbine. The Genomic Stamper looked like a 50 framed by similar wings.

"With this… Our family's true power can be unleashed."

Ikki grinned as everyone else stared at the modified Vistamp in wonder – and in George's case, envy. "I'm the only one who's supposed to be able to make Vistamps," he complained as Masumi patted him on the back sympathetically.

"So… Another one of our family miracles, huh?" Ikki asked with a grin.

"But of course," Giff said proudly. "As if my descendants were capable of anything else!"

"You know, I don't think she actually counts as one of yours-" Astarte started.

"Hush."

"Hey. HEY!"

Startled, everyone glanced up at Barbatos, who was still hovering there impatiently. "Did all of you forget about me?!"

"You know, we kind of did," Hana admitted.

"You guys kind of do that a lot," Hikaru said from where he was riding on the shoulders of his new father. "It's not cool."

"Sorry," Tamaki apologized.

"Don't apologize to him!" Hana snapped.

"I was apologizing to Hikaru, not the demon."

"Yes, I'm well aware."

"Hey!" Hikaru whined.

"Let's go out for ice cream later, champ," the Hell Gifftarian suggested, causing Hikaru to squeal and clap giddily.

"Ooh, let's all go out for ice cream, love!" Lovekov suggested, and all the children and some of the adults cheered.

"Are you fucking kidding me?!"

"We should probably deal with this guy first," Kagerou suggested.

"It'll be easy squeezy lemon peazy!" Vice bragged. "Come on, Ikki, hit it!"

Ikki activated the Vistamp, causing the turbine inside to start spinning.

FIFTYMILIA!

Ikki breathed on the Vistamp, then slammed it on the Ohinjector.

FIFTYMILIA COME ON! FIFTYMILIA GO! GO!

All of the Igarashi family, including Yukimi, struck poses.

"HENSHIN!"

Ikki slotted the Vistamp into the Vistamp Go Slot as Matrice floated behind him, spreading her wings and shining her light down on him, Yukimi floating in the air and being absorbed into her body.

TORNADO UP! UNITY! THE 10 OF US ARE FAMILY!

As Matrice shone even brighter, Ikki, Vice, Daiji, Kagerou, Sakura, Lovekov, and Genta stood side-by-side, sliding together, their forms overlapping as Matrice folded her wings around them, transforming into a Vistamp, an armored figure submerged in the liquid within.

WE'LL STIR UP THE GREATEST STORM YOU'VE EVER SEEN!

A cobra, a colony of bats, and a pair of T-Rexes manifested one after the other around the Vistamp before dissolving and flowing into the armored figure, its color shifting rapidly before the Vistamp burst to expose the warrior within, who spun about, capes, wings, and ponytail flying around it.

KAMEN RIDER IGARASHI!

The new Rider had a bodysuit resembling Ultimate Revi, but red and black on one half, and blue and white on the other, with gold down the middle. Armor resembling black-and-white bat wings curled over the hips. The gloves and boots shared the color scheme of whichever side of the body they were on, with spikes growing from the sides and the Fiftymilia seal on the soles. The upper chest was covered in an armored mantle resembling the front of the Fiftymilia Vistamp, with a stylized five over one shoulder and a zero on the other, beetle horns rising from the Pauldrons. A rectangular plate came down from the mantle to cover the stomach with a grid resembling a stamp card on it, each square filled with the seals of one of the Vistamps used by the Igarashi family, the primary Vistamps filling the top row while the auxiliaries filled the ones underneath. A black and white cape hung from the right shoulder, and a blue and red cape from the left. Enochian script was written on the armor in serpentine patterns, as well as the interior of the capes. Matrice's wing blades were folded behind the back. The helmet was red and black on the left, blue and white on the right, and gold down the middle, with a huge mouth full of T-Rex teeth and bat and cobra fangs across the entire color gradient, and eyes similar to Den-O Climax Form in that they were an overlapping series of lenses resembling the eyes of each of the family's Rider forms in their original hues. A horn resembling Destream's grew from the forehead, while horns similar to Revice's grew from the sides of the head, Evil's horn rose from the top, and Jeanne's ponytail hung down the back to the ground.

The new Rider was also somewhat androgynous, with a masculine build but clear breasts and hourglass figure.

"… Goddamn," George whispered, which was pretty much what everyone else was thinking as well.

"Uh… Is that a man or a woman?" Asked a confused Ryu.

"Either way, I'm still attracted," Hana confessed, Astarte and Hani nodding in agreement.

"Wait, not being attracted was an option?" A surprised Ampaz and Slavi asked.

"What are your pronouns, if you don't mind us asking?" Nushi asked politely.

"They/them," Igarashi replied in a layered, overlapping voice. "But mainly because there's a lot of us in here. We think we're a hermaphrodite?"

"How exotic," Astarte murmured, aroused, while Ampaz and Slavi looked even more interested now.

"Respect," said Rayco and Shitsuki.

"Ms. Takayama, what's a hermaphrodite?" Masaki asked his teacher.

"Someone with both male and female sex organs and other sexual characteristics," the Jyamato explained.

"… Wait, then does that mean they have-" Mei started to say, only to be cut off by Goro.

"Heh, Igarashi, now that you're here, want to take care of Barbatos?" The soldier asked loudly.

Igarashi nodded. "That is why we are here."

Barbatos perked up at this. "Wait, so we're finally doing this? For real? No more distractions or diversions or pointless conversations and asides? I can finally kill you and then everyone else?"

"We are doing this," Igarashi said. "But you aren't going to be killing anyone."

PTERA!

The Pteranodon seal on their chest lit up, and the Vice Ptera Genome hover bike materialized beneath them, minus the Vice head. "Let's quickly settle to go at once!" They declared as they took off towards Barbatos, who flew up to take their battle higher into the air.

Everyone stared after them as they went. "That's certainly… A catchphrase," Hiromi said after a moment.

"Goddamn," George said again.

"So… Are the rest of us, are we just going to stay here, or…?" Hana wondered.

---

The Ptera Genofloater and Genovector rotors spun loudly as the hover bike carried Igarashi into the sky after Barbatos. The demon grinned. "I don't really know who you are, or care… But one of the demons I've been contracted to kill is a part of you, so at least I can take you out if nothing else!"

His wings spread, dozens of feathers launching off and unfolding into demonic one-eyed birds which shrieked as they swarmed towards Igarashi, firing lasers from their eyeballs. The merged Rider responded by opening fire with their bike's Ptera Cannon, photon bullets flying through the air and blowing the wicked avians to shreds, filthy feathers fluttering around them as they flew through the cloud of bird remains, the bike scratched and smoking in a few places from where the lasers struck, but otherwise unharmed, much like its rider.

Barbatos was unsurprised. He hadn't expected that attack to really do anything, but it did give him time to plan his next move. The mouth on his chest opening wide, he spat out over a dozen fireballs so big they might as well have qualified as miniature suns, the burning orbs quickly filling the air between him and Igarashi. The Rider quickly maneuvered around one of the forms before they could crash into it…

And the fireball exploded anyway, the blast scorching the bike, severely damaging one of the main rotors, and nearly knocking them out of the sky. As Igarashi struggled to regain control of their vehicle, the other orbs started exploding as well, filling the air with a labyrinth of flames they had no chance of escaping…

JACKAL!

No chance, that is, except for the high speeds of the Jackal Vistamp, increasing the output of the bike's rotors and allowing them to rapidly navigate through the massive conflagration just before they could be consumed by the flames, coming out the other side just before they could be engulfed in the cluster of explosions, though two of the bike's rotors were now on fire and the vehicle had been badly scorched. Their armor was charred and smoking in places, but otherwise fine.

And then Barbatos fired the giant cannon nestled in his mount's triple jaws, firing a colossal energy beam at least three times the size of the head itself, and even with the Jackal Vistamp's speed they only barely dodged in time, but in the process lost all the rotors on the right side. The vehicle started going down…

"Not yet!"

And the swords on their backs spread, a few of them flying off and attaching themselves to the wrecked rotors, spinning and causing them to lift back into the air.

Barbatos snorted. "That's not going to keep that hunk of junk in the air much longer!"

"It doesn't need to," Igarashi said, managing to maneuver the bike above Barbatos and point it downwards, firing their cannons again. Barbatos grew a crystalline dome to protect himself, and Igarashi leapt off the bike, recalling their swords and kicking the damaged vehicle at the demon.

PTERA STAMPING FINISH!

Blue energy blades resembling wings formed from the sides of the bike as it was launched at the dome, smashing into it and exploding spectacularly. When the smoke cleared, the dome was still intact…

CROCO! IGARASHI NOVA!

But not for long, as Igarashi smashed into it with the Croco Wizarolling, shattering the damaged crystal, giving them a very close up look at the astonished Barbatos' face.

KONG! IGARASHI NOVA!

The Kong Astro Breakers forming on their hands, Igarashi threw a punch at the demon's face…

Only for him to catch it in one hand, gripping the gauntlet with such force it started cracking. He grinned. "Not gonna be that easy."

A fireball blasted out of the mouth in his chest, striking Igarashi and flinging them away. They flew through the air, driving a sword into the top of the giant dog's head and using it to anchor them before they could be flung off the oversized cranium. Unfortunately, a crystal spike abruptly shot out of the flesh beneath them and drove into their chest, knocking them and the blade off the head…

EAGLE!

Only for Igarashi to rise back up, their swords fanning out behind them like wings and keeping them aloft.

"You can fly?! Then why did you bother with the hover bike?!" The confused Barbatos demanded.

"It looked cool!" Igarashi replied, telekinetically flinging a few of their swords at the demon.

Barbatos spat fireballs at the swords, but they masterfully wove their way through the flames, even as they exploded all around them, flying unerringly straight for the demon. Again, he raised a shield of crystal in front of himself, only to be startled when the first sword drove into the wall hard enough to crack it. The second sword drove itself in the pommel of the first, pressing it further, as did the third and fourth, causing the blade to break through…

Only to stop inches away from the demon's chest. He blinked, then laughed in relief…

Until Igarashi kicked the pommel of the last sword, driving the first blade right through Barbatos' heart. He howled in agony, his frenzied cries shattering the crystal and flinging Igarashi and their swords back…

And then he started laughing, ripping the sword out of his chest and gripping it between both hands. "A nice try," he sneered, exerting pressure to try and break the sword. "But not good enough! With the power of the Blood Moon not only am I more than strong enough to take anything you can throw at me, but I cannot be killed, and since we're out of range of Giff's influence, there's nothing you can do about it!"

"Then why can't you break our sword?" Igarashi asked. "And why isn't the wound we just gave you healing?"

"What-" Startled, Barbatos glanced down and was shocked to see the hole in his chest wasn't closing. Not only that, but it also seemed to be getting slightly larger. "What… How?!"

"When we fuse together, all of our Giff cells coalesced and multiplied, giving us finer control over them," Igarashi explained. "Allowing us to, for instance, infuse all our attacks with cells which we've infected you with, cells which are damaging you faster than you can regenerate.

"And that sword? No matter how strong you think you are, you can't break it. It's made from a mother's love."

"Oh for-" Irritated, Barbatos held the sword to his chest and exhaled fire over it, setting it ablaze. "I might not be able to destroy it, but I can keep you from using it-"

Igarashi opened a hand, and the sword flew out of his grasp and into theirs. "Oh bless it all."

"Thanks, now we look even cooler," Igarashi bragged. "Let's try this again, shall we?"

Roaring in fury, Barbatos had numerous eyes on his body and wings all lock onto Igarashi and open fire, sending dozens of homing lasers streaking towards them.

JACKAL!

Moving at high speed, Igarashi started dashing across the top of the dog head towards Barbatos, the Vice Jackal Genome skateboard manifesting under their feet as they zigzagged across the rotted skull, sending several of their swords out to spin in front of them to deflect the lasers while thrusting two into the ground, carving through flesh and bone as they went.

Bellowing, Barbatos slammed his hands into the surface of the head, causing new crystal growths to erupt from the decomposing flesh, forming a series of deadly new obstacles in Igarashi's path. The merged Rider flung all their swords forward, commanding them to cut through the crystals, then conjured the Rolling and Crimson Vistamps, rolling them across the ground and leaving trails of red and black paint as they went, forming graffiti resembling the Fiftymilia Vistamp's seal in the process. They snapped their fingers, and the graffiti lit up and exploded, taking a big chunk out of the head in the process.

"Bless you… Bless you bless you bless you!" Barbatos howled, opening his chest mouth wide as he started building up an incredibly powerful blast of hellfire, secretly launching a few feathers from his wings and sending them right into the skateboard's wheels, breaking them and violently flinging Igarashi off the board. "Got you!" Barbatos shouted, preparing to fire…

TURTLE! LIBERAL SMASH!

The Lovekov Turtle Genome materializing in their hands, Igarashi pointed the bazooka at Barbatos' chest, sighting along the Mieru Hopper to lock on target.

Barbatos' eyes widened. "Wait-"

Igarashi did not wait. Igarashi fired, a winged blue spiked turtle shell firing from the Kirimomizooka barrel, spinning into Barbatos just as he released his fire blast. The resulting explosion was catastrophic, engulfing the entire top of the dog's head and flinging Igarashi back, swords quickly forming up behind them to reassemble their wings-

And that's when the dog head lunged forwards, slamming its triple jaws shut around the Rider.

MAMMOTH! BRACHIO!

Only moments later, however, it yelped and found its mouth forced back open, the immense combined strength of the Mammoth and Brachiosaurus Vistamps allowing Igarashi to keep from being crushed in the rotted corpse's jaws. It also helped that they had driven two swords apiece into the roof and bottom of the mouth, while the remainder sliced and chopped at the prehensile tongues all around them, filling the mouth with caustic, molten blood.

And then the cannon at the back of the mouth started powering up. Igarashi's eyes widened. "Oh-"

The cannon fired, the beam nearly destroying the non-fully open mouth and successfully blasting Igarashi out of the maw, the dazed Rider tumbling through the air, losing control of their flight. Laughing triumphantly, Barbatos formed a massive fireball over his head and hurled it at Igarashi, ready to finish them off…

Only for three blasts of light to strike the fireball, causing it to explode prematurely. "What?!"

"You didn't really think you'd gotten away from me that easily, did you?" Lilim snarled, flying into view along with her sister.

"Barbatos! We have unfinished business to settle, especially where my sister is concerned!" An angry Serafina declared.

"Bless it, of course you two are here," Barbatos snarled in frustration. "Which also means…!"

"Young Rider, are you all right?"

Igarashi looked up and found themselves in the lap of Ofanina. She was even more beautiful up close, and they couldn't help blushing despite themselves. "We are, thanks. We weren't expecting you to help!"

The angel laughed, causing them to feel all dizzy and happy inside. "But of course! Did you really think you would have to face this fiend all by yourself?"

"… Kind of, yes," Igarashi admitted, feeling embarrassed.

Ofanina smiled, becoming even more beautiful. "Then it is a good thing that is nowhere near true."

"You know what? Good! I'm glad you're here! That means I get to kill you all as well and rid myself of your family once and for all!" Barbatos growled, spreading his wings, the eyes glowing as they prepared to fire lasers.

"Ah, but they are not the only angels who want a piece of you!"

"PHENEX?!"

On the ground, Marchiosias' head shot up, his jaw dropping in amazement. "Phenex?!"

"Yes, it is I, Phenex!" A majestic white bird with gold-tipped feathers, four wings shimmering with the colors of the rainbow, a magnificent plumage made of solid light in the seven colors of the rainbow, a very long tail of the same material, literally golden talons and beak, shining white eyes, and gold armor around his chest and neck covered in Enochian and angelic symbols.

"… Should… I know who that is?" The confused Igarashi asked.

"A fallen angel who served Barbatos, then managed to escape Hell and rose back to Heaven, where he was redeemed in the eyes of the Lord," Ofanina explained.

"Oh, like Eden."

"Yes."

"You traitor," Barbatos snarled, trembling with rage.

"No, Barbatos, I was a traitor when I followed you and the others against my own kind," Phenex declared grandly. "Now I am back where I belong, on the side of light! Behold!"

He spread his wings and flapped them hard, sending four waves of blue and white flames shooting across the sky towards the demon.

Barbatos laughed. "Fool! Have you forgotten? I have no fear of fire-"

The flames engulfed him.

"Oh, wait, bless it, it's holy fire, of course it is," Barbatos said calmly, burning alive. Then he started screaming and flailing about.

The holy fire ravaged the demon, burning and shattering crystals, causing flesh to boil and melt, and the eyes in his wings started exploding as they flapped around frantically to try and put out the flames consuming the feathers.

"Looks like that's my cue," Igarashi said, awkwardly balancing on top of Ofanina's wheelchair and nodding at her. "Ma'am."

She smiled beatifically at them. (Was she capable of anything else?) "Go get him."

NEO-HOPPER!

Igarashi leapt through the air, yellow lines of lights trailing after them as they shot towards Barbatos.

MEGALODON!

As they landed on the flaming dog head, they sank into the burning flesh, a sword pointing out of the ground like a shark's fin as they rapidly swam through muscle and bone like water, dodging explosions, erupting crystals, gouts of holy flame, laser blasts, and hellfire flung about by Barbatos' anguished flailing. Finally, they reached the wound the demon rose from and jumped out, launching themselves at him.

MANTIS! STAMPING FINISH!

They extended a hand to the side, all their swords forming a ring around it and spinning, turning into a buzz saw crackling with energy. In his frenzy, Barbatos still managed to see the deadly attack coming at him and then, at the very last second, managed to do something that even he thought impossible.

He dodged.

Not very far, given that he was literally rooted in place, but still, he dodged, and so the attack only severed one of his arms instead of cleaving him in two…

Oh, and also kept going, dismembering all the wings on his right side as well as slicing off a good chunk of what was left of the dog head.

So, while the attack wasn't lethal – at least, not immediately – it did horribly wound him, and had the unwelcome side effect of rendering him unable to fly any longer, causing the horrified Barbatos to begin plunging towards the ground, spinning wildly as his remaining wings frantically flapped to try and keep him airborne, only making things worse.

"NO! NO NO NO NO!" He howled as he fell.

"You missed," Lilim said disappointment as the Angels gathered around Igarashi.

"Not for long," Igarashi said, reaching for their Vistamp to initiate the finisher…

When suddenly, flaming chains burst from the surface of the Blood Moon above them and shot downwards, forcing them to scatter in surprise as one of the chains nearly impaled them. The chains latched onto the falling Barbatos, arresting his descent with a rather painful-looking yank. The moon's ominous light grew brighter, and red energy crackled down the chains and into Barbatos, causing him to howl in pain, pain which soon turned into deranged laughter as the chains retracted, pulling him back into the air.

"I TOLD YOU…"

Barbatos and the head grew five times their original size. More crystals as well as bone spikes and horns burst from the surface of the head, disfiguring it even further. A massive wing made of blood burst from the stump of the wings Igarashi had cut off, and red energy crackled all around the demon. Spinal cords and tubes burst from the gaping hole that was the head's neck and pierced the surface of the Blood Moon, channeling even more power into the grotesque demon.

"I… CAN'T… DIE!"

"…Whuh-Oh," Igarashi uttered.

Several of the crystal growths shattered, fragments flying through the air and assembling in front of the wings. The eyes of the wings opened and fired lasers into the crystals, which refracted the beams, multiplying them exponentially and causing a veritable rainstorm of photonic death to rain down on the Rider and their angelic allies. They braced for impact…

"Jinga Majuna!"

A shimmering magical barrier formed before the five of them (or is it 14? 16 if you include the unborn infant and its nascent demon?), the laser bombardment striking it with resounding fury… And ultimately failing to penetrate.

"Everyone okay?" Ariel Ozu asked, flying into view.

"Thanks to your timely intervention," Serafina said gratefully.

"That's my wife!" Nushi cheered, grabbing Marchosias and pointing at Ariel.

"And my boyfriend!" The demon said, having eyes only for Phenex. He stiffened, realizing what he had just said. "Um…"

Nushi nodded smugly. "I thought so."

"All right, let's put this dog down-" Ariel began, only to be interrupted by the demon's maniacal laughter, and they turned to see that the dog's triple jaws had stretched open impossibly wide, the cannon telescoping out to become longer than the head itself, and given all the energy flowing into it from the Blood Moon, it was clear it was about to fire. "Whuh-oh."

"Mrs. Ozu, you are the most powerful sorceress in this world and many others," Lilim said worriedly. "You… Can stop that, right?"

"… Yes…?" Ariel murmured, not sending entirely certain.

"TOO LATE! HELLSTORM CANNON, FIRE!" Barbatos roared.

The cannon prepared to discharge-

MAGNUM TACTICAL BLAST!

An orange energy bullet lanced through the air and pierced the cannon's barrel. Barbatos' eyes widened in horror. "OH SHIT-"

The cannon exploded, taking most of the head with it.

The chains shattered. The wings burst. The entire lower jaw of the head and most of the top vaporized, the remaining chunk of charred and scorched flesh, a flailing and screaming Barbatos sticking out of the top, plummeting out of the sky.

"… Holy shit! Who did that?!" Ariel cried.

"Look, down there," Serafina said, pointing at the ground below, where a mysterious figure wearing a black bodysuit with white armor on the upper half and red on the lower was seated atop a red motorcycle resembling a kitsune. He was holding a smoking white rifle in one hand and wearing a red and white mask with red-orange eyes resembling a fox. He had a device similar to Nana's Driver on his waist, two strange items plugged into either side.

"Who… Is that?" A baffled Phenex wondered.

Seeming aware that they were staring at him, the stranger made a fox sign with one hand, then revved up his motorcycle and drove away.

"A mystery for another day, it would seem," Igarashi noted. "But now… It's time we finished Barbatos and put an end to this for good!" They spread their sword wings. "And this time… We won't miss!"

They dove towards the plummeting demon, the Angels flying after them. "BARBATOS!"

"WH…WHAT-"

SHOEBILL! LIBERAL SMASH!

"It's time," Igarashi said as the Lovekov Shoebill Genome scythe formed in their hands. "To face the reaper!"

They dashed past Barbatos, swinging their scythe as they went, leaving a trail of purple energy in their wake.

There was a pause, and then Barbatos was sent flying, wailing as he was flung and over and upwards, the remains of his mount crashing on the ground below.

"And now… It's our turn!" Ofanina declared, her daughters and Phenex forming up around here.

"Don't start without me!" Cherubi cried, quickly flying into view, a rather ill-looking Courtney on her back. "I want a piece of him too!"

"Heh, sure, why not? Make it a family thing!" Lilim cracked a grin.

"It seems to be working for them," Ofanina concurred, nodding at Igarashi.

"Family is one of the greatest magics of all," Ariel agreed, powering up. "Light em' up! Magi Magika!"

Spreading their wings and glowing radiantly, the Angels shouted something in Enochian and fired incredibly powerful blasts of holy light which combined with a plume of holy fire from Phenex and a star storm from Ariel which engulfed Barbatos, drowning out his howls of agony as the light consumed him.

"NO… I… WILL… NOT…" Barbatos gasped, struggling to keep from being overwhelmed.

"Yes," Igarashi said as they flew into the shining blast. "You will."

STAMPING DARKNESS JUSTICE LIBERAL VAILING DESTREAM FINISH!

Allowing themselves to be carried by the flow of power, they shot towards Barbatos, right foot covered in magenta energy. A yellow construct of Sakura, a blue construct of Lovekov, a green construct of Daiji, a red construct of Kagerou, an orange construct of Vail, a purple construct of Genta, a silver construct of Yukimi, a gold construct of Matrice, a magenta construct of Ikki, and a teal construct of Vice appeared around them, each performing a flying kick motion, the energy around Igarashi's foot rapidly changing between those colors. The constructs merged back with Igarashi, causing the fused Rider to rapidly shift between all their colors, before finally landing a kick right in Barbatos' chest, the attack so powerful it slammed him into the surface of the Blood Moon and exploded, leaving nothing behind but a crater shaped like the number 50.

Igarashi dramatically turned their back on the Blood Moon. "You messed with the wrong family."

Lilim sighed in relief, her shoulders sagging and her wings fluttering as if a great weight had finally left her shoulders. "He's gone… At last, he's gone…"

Serafina nodded. "And now, at last, you can come home."

Lilim smiled. "Yes…" She hesitated, then glanced fearfully at her mother. "That is… If I'm still welcome?"

Ofanina replied by hugging her to her chest. Lilim stiffened, then began sobbing, tears of her own streaking down Ofanina's cheeks. "Always."

Serafina and Cherubi quickly joined the hug, with Courtney enthusiastically shouting, "Yay, I have a family now!"

Phenex smiled proudly at them… Then frowned, glancing up at the Blood Moon. "Wait… If Barbatos is dead… Why is the Blood Moon still here?"

Everyone paused, staring up at the very much present demonic body.

Ariel facepalmed. "Oh hell, it's not over, is it?"

As if in response, the Blood Moon started screaming, its baleful glow increasing, a tremendous pressure nearly knocking all of them out of the air. The chains holding the moon in place shattered, and the Giants holding it up gasped as its weight suddenly multiplied, the crystal pillar Ariel had created cracking.

"NOW. WHO. ISN'T. PAYING. ATTENTION?"

Four eyes and two mouths cracked open on the surface of the moon.

"I. TOLD. YOU. I. CAN'T. DIE!"

---

Jun wordlessly glared at his sister. Mei sighed. "Okay, fine, I'll never make fun of you for being scared of the moon again."

"Now I have another horror to add to my endless nightmares," Veila said morosely.

Hugging her, Neycombe bit her lip and shot Kaseihime an anxious look. "Kaseihime, are… Are you certain-"

"Everything will be fine," the Martian princess said gently. "And if not, I'll make sure it is."

The children had been relocated back to their classroom, along with Ms. Takayama, Asagi, Parasoleil, Mugensai, Hikaru, Hikaru's father, Jinx, Chic, Georgina, and oddly enough Paimon. Once again, the school was trapped beneath a barrier, but this time it was to keep the monsters out.

None of them were certain it was strong enough to withstand a falling moon.

"Children, everything will be fine," Nana said with such certainty nobody believed she actually felt that way. "We just… Have to keep hoping."

"… Giff did say faith could be enough to change the world," Mugu recalled. "And if we can't have faith in them, and everyone out there fighting… What hope is there?"

"I believe," Hazu said calmly, with absolute conviction.

And everyone found that perhaps they could believe as well.

"Go fish!" Paimon declared, throwing his cards down.

"Nom Nom!" Nom Nom chirped, chewing on her cards.

"I play Dark Magician in attack mode!" Hikaru's father cried dramatically.

"Yahtzee!" Jinx yelled, throwing dice in his face.

"Ook," Georgina grunted, squinting at a picture Chic had drawn.

"No!" He shouted in exasperation. "For the last time, it is not a banana!"

A bewildered Hikaru scratched his head and looked at the board game they were all playing. "I thought this was Monopoly?"

Mugensai scowled at the board angrily. "Can't believe I got stuck with the wheelbarrow…"

An ax suddenly buried itself in the board, snapping it in half. "Eat the rich," Shitsuki said dully.

Everyone except Hikaru cheered.

"As from the One, are all things born!"

Suddenly, everyone in the classroom except Masaki found themselves flung against the walls, bound by chains and metal bands made from their desks and chairs. "Hey! Masaki, what gives?!" A terrified Rayco demanded.

"That… wasn't me," a pale Masaki said as a somewhat dumpy man with large jowls, a sour expression on his face, and uniform like his own but in black and gold stormed into the room, the ring on his finger glowing. "Professor Itami?!"

"Professor – hang on, that's the alchemy teacher guy you were trying to tell us about?!" An outraged Asagi demanded. "The one who keeps brainwashing us?!"

"Not only that, but he's also the school janitor!" Nana realized. "I always thought he was stealing my lunch from the fridge, not something as sinister as this!"

"Actually, I was also stealing your lunch," Itami admitted, not even sparing her a glance.

"Did you really need it, though?" Mugu snarked, looking at the teacher's waistline.

"Masaki! What have you got yourself into this time?!" Itami demanded, ignoring the Amazon as he glared at the cowering boy.

"Mr. Itami, I hardly think the demonic invasion is his fault-" Hazu protested.

"Not that!" Itami said dismissively. "That's nothing to do with us! I'm talking about how Masaki has, once again, broken the law by revealing the existence of alchemy to outsiders!"

Everyone stared at him.

"I'm sorry what," Hislava said.

"But… I think most of us already knew alchemy existed?" A confused Jun pointed out.

"I mean, it's basically common knowledge?" Neycombe agreed.

"There's tons of magic schools all over that teach it, dedicated alchemy schools, my mom uses it in her acts all the time, and I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of regular universities that teach it as well since it's something even people with no magical spark or aptitude can use," Mugu added.

"There are several hundred websites dedicated to teaching alchemy, a significant fraction of which are legitimate," Hazu reported. "The Hiden App Store even has an app to allow the usage of alchemy. I am literally downloading it as we speak."

"Silence! This is about Masaki's infraction, you have nothing useful to say!" Itami angrily dismissed them.

"What infraction… Professor, are you talking about how I used a formula to save my friends earlier?!" Masaki asked incredulously.

"Yes! You used alchemy in front of the unworthy and didn't erase their memories afterwards!" Itami practically shouted at him.

"But… You haven't taught me how to do that," Masaki protested.

"That's no excuse!"

"Hey, if he hadn't done that, demons would have killed a bunch of us!" Hislava protested.

"Then he should've let you die," Itami snapped, much to their horror.

"I would've died too," Masaki whispered, aghast.

Itami sneered. "No great loss there. You're a terrible alchemist."

Everyone gasped at this.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH! NOBODY TALKS ABOUT MY BABY BOY LIKE THAT BUT ME!" Asagi screamed, struggling against her bonds.

"How dare you! No teacher should ever speak like that about a student!" Nana cried.

"What do you know, you're nothing more than an overgrown weed," Itami said dismissively.

"You can't talk about our teacher like that!" Philia shouted.

"This is why I hate children. You don't even belong here," he spat in disgust.

She stared at him, trembling. "Because I'm an alien, or because I'm not human?"

"Take a pick." Itami glared at Masaki. "Boy, I may be a janitor in my side job, but I'm tired of cleaning up after masses. Erase their memories this instant."

"But I told you, I don't know how-"

Itami furiously slapped Masaki to the ground, his ring drawing blood from his cheek. "I said DO IT!"

"I'LL KILL YOU!" Asagi shouted, and she was not the only one who shared that sentiment.

Her bonds started to creak…

And she started to gasp, choking as suddenly the metal band around her neck began constricting her.

Masaki gasped in horror. "Mamataros!"

"You bastard-" Nana began, only to be cut off when she started getting choked as well.

"None of you try anything, or I will kill them," Itami said to the other angry and frightened adults and students harshly. He glared at Masaki, blood dripping down the boy's face as he stared up at the older alchemist in sheer hatred. "Just as I will do if you do not erase their memories this instant-"

"Grit your teeth."

Itami blinked. "What-"

Suddenly, a black armored fist punched the alchemist in the face so hard his jaw broke and his teeth shattered, blood and tooth fragments flying as he was hurled off his feet, crashing into the wall several feet away.

Everyone stared at their unexpected Savior in disbelief. He was a towering figure in black armor with sculpted muscles on his chest, Wolf claws on his shoulders, white fur on his elbows, clawed nails with three protrusions resembling claws on his feet and knuckles, a spiked collar, a white fur loincloth under a belt with a round buckle with a symbol resembling a tomoe on it, a spiked collar, a black facemask with white claws on the sides, claws growing from the sides of his head, horns vaguely resembling wolf ears with a wolf-head crest on his forehead, and a long white mane flowing down his back.

Masaki gasped, staring up at the man in wonder and disbelief. "Dad?!"

"DAD?!" Everyone else shouted.

"DARLING!" Asagi squealed, eyes turning into hearts, forgetting about her current predicament.

"Your dad's a Kamen Rider?!" An incredulous Rayco demanded.

Masaki frowned in confusion. "Yeah. I said as much, didn't I?"

"You said he was an oni!" Mei protested.

"That is an oni," Shitsuki pointed out.

"An oni Rider, I thought he was a literal ogre," Mei admitted.

"Oh, I guess I should have been clearer," Masaki admitted. "If it helps, he's actually part wolf Makamou?"

"… He's a werewolf?!" Neycombe cried.

"In a sense," the man admitted. "I am Kojiro Oogami, also known as Kamen Rider Toboki. One moment."

He raced over towards Itami, who'd been starting to recover, and stomped on his hand hard. The janitor and alchemy teacher howled in agony as Kojiro broke his hand, and then stomped harder and harder, shattering his ring, cracking his bones, and rendering the appendage permanently useless. "That was for my son," he said darkly as the transmuted bonds fell apart, freeing everyone. "And this…" He grabbed Itami by his collar, hefted him up, and slammed him into the wall. "Is for my wife!"

He started punching Itami very hard very fast, blood splattering as he slammed him into the wall again and again.

"Is it bad that I see this much violence and I feel nothing?" Jun wondered.

"It's been a very long day," Mei said. "And I think most of us were already a little fucked up."

"Speak for yourself," Shitsuki said.

"Veila, don't look, you don't need any more nightmares," Neycombe told her friend.

"Too late," the Worm said morosely.

"Mom, would dad ever do something this cool?" Rayco asked their mother.

"I wish," Parasoleil grumbled.

"Darling!" Asagi gushed as Kojiro finally dropped the bloodied, hardly breathing Itami to the ground, glomping her husband. "I can't believe you're here! I thought you were supposed to be up in the mountains killing Makamou!"

"I was," Kojiro said as his helmet dissolved, revealing a rugged face with truly impressive sideburns and eyebrows and incredibly intimidating eyes, like the protagonist from Lone Wolf and Cub. "I killed them."

"All of them?!"

"Yes."

Shedding hearts, she kissed him full on the lips.

"Mr. Oogami. We are gratified for your timely rescue, but what are you doing here?" Parasoleil asked.

"After I finished slaughtering the Army of 108 Makamou, I heard what was going on and rushed right over," Kojiro explained. "I wanted to be there to protect my family, and, if necessary, die beside them."

"Darling!" Asagi swooned, kissing him again.

"Dad!" Masaki cried, hugging his father's leg.

"… Nobody will be dying today," Nana decided, staring out at the Blood Moon again. "I think… Yes, I believe that somehow, everything will turn out all right."

She paused, then glanced at Itami's almost-corpse. "Also, I'm starting to wonder if this is really the right environment for me to work in. The reality show watching everything I do is bad enough, but a principal willing to sell my class out to demons and a janitor who's secretly been abusing and grooming children in an underground alchemy facility? This school really needs to clean house or I might consider leaving."

Her students immediately started begging her to reconsider.

Rather suddenly, Paimon hugged Kojiro, earning him a furious glare from Asagi which he completely ignored. "You saved me. I love you! I'm hungry. Can I marry you?"

"I am… Already married?" Kojiro said, nonplussed.

"I'm not sharing!" Asagi hissed.

"Oh. Will you be my new mommy?" Paimon asked the increasingly confused Kojiro.

"… Is there something wrong with him?" He asked hesitantly.

"Lightning round!" Jinx and Paimon shouted, causing everyone to get electrified.

---

"Yeah, I think Pico was right, he's totally ripping off Majora's Mask," Hana muttered, staring up at the menacing moon.

"That's my girl!" Emu declared proudly.

"So… Anyone have any bright ideas on how to stop that thing?" Ryu asked anxiously as his demon continued playing on his phone and ignoring everyone.

"Good news, everyone-Evo!" Evolto-Chan abruptly announced. "I finished my analysis, and that moon isn't actually a moon, but-"

"A solidified mass of crystallized damned souls held together by torment, malice, and a massive amount of demonic energy," Izu interrupted him. "When Barbatos merged with it, the Blood Moon phased completely into this reality, allowing Zea to properly analyze it," she explained when Evolto-Chan shot her an affronted look.

"Well, does your fancy giant space eye tell you whether or not I can digest it? Because the answer is no, I can't-Evo!" Evolto-Chan said quickly, before Izu could reply.

"You can't?!" Misora demanded.

"Well, technically, I could, but… You know how the bathroom looks after Banjo eats a burrito? Well, imagine that, but for the entire planet-Evo," Evolto-Chan explained.

Everyone made shocked and disgusted sounds, while an irate Banjo shouted "HEY!"

"Yeah, explosive diarrhea is no small thing for a member of the Blood Tribe-Evo," Evolto-Chan said somberly.

"I'm not sure it's a small thing for anyone?" Slavi said hesitantly.

"Master, can you eat it then?" Akaishi asked Giff, who was standing up and putting his stamp away, the giant geoglyph fading away.

Giff shook his head. "Normally I'd say yes, but regrettably, I'm rather stuffed after consuming all the evil in Area 666, the legions of hell, the energy I siphoned off of Barbatos already, plus the malevolence I've been nibbling on from Evolto-Chan all day-"

"You've been doing what-Evo?!"

"So suffice to say, I have no appetite," Giff apologized. "And there simply isn't room in my larder for something that big."

"I told you you should have expanded it millennia ago," Astarte chided him.

"It's not like I expected to run into another living evil moon!" Giff protested.

"Space is full of them!" Astarte pointed out.

"She's got a point there-Evo," Evolto-Chan admitted.

Hiromi sighed. "Well, if it cannot be devoured, we will simply have to destroy it-"

"Further analysis indicates that if we attempt to destroy the Blood Moon, especially in its current state, the resulting explosion will annihilate half of Japan and leave behind a permanent hellgate, rendering most of the country completely uninhabitable and infested by a never-ending horde of demons who would sweep out, unstoppable, across the globe," Izu reported.

"… Oh. That would be a bad thing," Hiromi admitted.

"Metal as fuck, but bad," Hana agreed.

"It would certainly create a hell of a vacation spot!" Aruto joked. "And that's how you know it's an Aruto!" He and Izu cried at once, causing everyone to groan and the ghost of Vulcan to burst into laughter.

"Maybe we could send it elsewhere?" Akaishi suggested. "Mrs. Cheng, is your wife capable of such a feat?"

"I absolutely am!" Ariel declared as she flew down along with Igarashi and the Angels, an elated Marchiosias bounding over and tackling Phenex while Nushi happily hugged her wife. "I need a minute, but I can totally whip up a banishment spell to send that thing back to hell before it kills us all!"

"No, you can't," Lilim interjected as everyone sighed in relief. "If he lives, he'll just keep coming back, angrier and stronger and more determined. We need to get rid of him once and for all."

"Well… I suppose I could banish him somewhere else, and then we blow him up there," Ariel admitted. "Except I'm pretty sure I could get in trouble for annihilating a subdimension or three. And, you know, destabilize the planes."

"What about the sun?" Igarashi suggested.

She scoffed. "What, and give Phoenix company?"

"It could also have a negative impact on the sun," Izu pointed out.

"What if we sent it to Pluto and blew that up?" Goro suggested. "Not like anyone would miss it."

"No! Hasn't that poor dwarf planet gone through enough already?!" Ampaz protested.

"I'd suggest throwing it into a black hole, but… Well, we don't want another reality-eating horror to find its way into this universe, that giant version of myself is bad enough-Evo," Evolto-Chan admitted.

"There has to be some spot in this universe we can use to dispose of this cretin-" the irritated Bishop began, causing Misora to gasp.

"Wait… Spot… That's it! I know what to do!" She declared.

"I would not advise this course of action," an alarmed Izu said.

"Nor would I. Are you certain of this?" A concerned Giff asked.

"Unless anyone has a better idea?" Misora asked.

"We probably could think of something, but hot damn, I want to see where this goes-Evo!" Evolto-Chan said eagerly.

"I… Feel like I'm missing something. What's going on?" Tamaki asked.

"We need to move everyone as far away from the Blood Moon as possible," Igarashi said urgently.

"As fast as possible," Akaishi agreed.

As orders were relayed and a call to pull back was sent out, Misora took a deep breath, focused on her connection to Mars, and gripped the handle of her Driver. "Mom… Kaseihime… Please watch over us."

She started turning the lever.

…

Barbatos cackled madly as the Angels quickly flew back into the portals they'd emerged from, the Giants abruptly let go of his colossal form and started running away, and all the troops and heroes on the ground below started withdrawing. "FOOLS! RUN! ALL! YOU! LIKE! IT! WON'T! BE! NEARLY! FAR! ENOUGH-"

READY, GO! MARTIAN BREAK! YEAH!

"WHAT?"

And that's when the sky tore open once again.

If the screams from the damned when the portal to hell had been opened were the worst things any of the mortals had ever heard, what came through now was infinitely worse, an absolutely deafening psychic howl which would have immediately killed the minds of all baseline humans present by liquefying their brains and rendered almost everyone else incurably insane were they not protected by the efforts of the very, very powerful individuals protecting them, and even then it was a close call. The screams of countless souls being subjected to torments more agonizing than anything in Hell melded together to create a never-ending chorus of unspeakable torture and suffering. Red light poured through the rift like a blazing crimson sun, brighter than the Blood Moon had ever been.

"What… Is that?!" A terrified Hana screamed.

"The Red Spot of Jupiter," Azuma whispered, horrified.

"And my big sister," Misora said through gritted teeth and she kept cranking the handle to try and keep the portal open.

"Hello, auntie," Kaseihime said softly as everyone else in the classroom recoiled in horror, save for Jinx and Paimon, who were already mad, and were gushing about the pretty light.

"That's your sister?!" An incredulous Ampaz cried.

"I'm adopted," Misora grunted.

"I don't know, I think I see the family resemblance-Evo," Evolto-Chan jeered.

"I'll cut you."

"Don't threaten me with a good time-Evo."

The howling intensified as tendrils of red lights and smoke made from constantly shifting screaming faces reached out from the portal and began to wrap themselves around the Blood Moon.

"WHAT. IS. THIS?! STOP. STOP! NO! NO! NO NO NO NO NO!"

Screaming in terror, Barbatos thrashed desperately, waves of power and arcs of energy blasting off him, but all they did was temporarily dissipate the tendrils before they immediately reformed, multiplying to wrap themselves even tighter around him. He summoned demons to aid him, only for them to be immediately sucked into the tentacles and joining the faces already there. He tried digging more chains into the earth to anchor himself, only for them to snap.

"STOP! STOP! THIS!" Barbatos shouted desperately as the tentacles began lifting him towards the waiting portal, which now seemed far too much like a gaping maw. "ASTAROTH! ZITT! HELP!"

But his benefactors did not appear. Not that there was much they could do if they had.

"LILIM!" Barbatos shouted. "SAVE! ME! WE! CAN! TRY! AGAIN! I'LL! BE! BETTER! THIS! TIME!"

The ascended demon clenched her fists, shaking, tears running down her cheeks. "You always say that. And you never do."

"LILIM-"

The tentacles pulled him through the portal. He started screaming. He didn't stop.

He never would again.

"Close it!" Giff shouted at Misora as the hungry tendrils started reaching for them next. "Close it now!"

"I… Can't!" She gasped, struggling to hold onto the lever. "She's… Fighting me! Sister… Please! Mother!"

Everyone started screaming in panic as the tentacles shot towards them.

In the classroom, Kaseihime raised a hand as a tentacle shot towards school. "Auntie. Stop."

And just like that, the portal slammed shut, severing the outstretched tentacles, which shrieked for a while longer before fading away completely.

Misora collapsed into the arms of Sawa and Gentoku as the rest of her friends rushed to her side.

A sobbing Lilim was embraced by her family.

Kaseihime sighed regretfully.

And on her throne, the Queen of Mars wept for her lost daughter.

"… Will someone please tell me what just happened?!" A frantic and terrified Ryu demanded.

"Jupiter's Red Spot is actually a vortex of infinite torment older and far worse than the deepest pits of Hell created when a Princess of Mars was driven mad by torture and imploded, and we just sent Barbatos there," Azuma explained.

"Oh," Ryu said faintly. "Is that all."

"Goddamn," George whistled.

"And… There's no way he can come back from that, right? We aren't going to have to redo this further down the line?" Nushi asked anxiously.

"No. He's gone," Ariel said with absolute finality.

"He may not have been able to die… But he will rather quickly wish he could," Ofanina noted.

"Good," Lilim said darkly.

"Then… Is that it? Is it really, really over now?" Tamaki asked hopefully.

As all the soldiers and allies that had rallied to their side set up a ragged cheer, Giff nodded. "Yes. Barbatos and his demons have been vanquished and the school has been saved."

There was a loud rumble as part of the roof caved in.

"More or less. We can fix that," he said dismissively.

"And, you know, relocate it," Goro pointed out.

"That too. The important part is that we thwarted the plans of the DGP and their demonic mercenaries, sentenced Lilim's evil ex-boyfriend to a fate worse than any of you can imagine, nobody died-"

"Actually, I think rather a lot of soldiers died-" Hiromi started.

"Nobody we care about died, Yukimi was rescued, my progeny have assumed an impressive new form," Giff said, nodding proudly at Igarashi. "The hordes of the undead have been quelled, and Area 666 has been finally purified of the evil that has festered here for so many decades. There are absolutely no more loose ends to tie up, so it's time to go home-"

Rather abruptly, a livid Astaroth and Zitt teleported in.

"This game," Zitt snarled, flicking open his baton. "Is far from over!"

"Oh right, I forgot about them," Giff realized.