Super Hero Time!

Rui: Symphogear X2!

Kyoko: Nothing, but the Truth!

Rui: So with Yukiko on your side, you've gained a new ally.

Kyoko: Correct. But how will you explain what happened to Miku?

Rui & Kyoko: Super Hero Time, start!

Maia had called several members of S.O.N.G. to escort herself, Rui and Miku to safety. The three of them got into the back of a car, driving in silence for a few minutes. To say Miku was nervous was an understatement, but she tried to keep herself composed.

"Are you okay?" Maia asked her.

"Yes, but..."

"You're worried for your friend, right?" Maia said. "Don't worry. I'm sure Hibiki can handle herself fine."

Miku turned to Rui, but the girl didn't say anything.

"Is there anything you want to know?" Maia asked. "I can try to answer your questions as best as I can."

Maia regretted saying that immediately after. The whole trip to consisted of question after question. Most of them were the same that Hibiki herself had asked during their first meeting.

"And you... why do you look so much like Tsubasa Kazanari?" Miku asked at last.

In any other situation, Maia would have said one of her cloning jokes. But not this time.

"I'm her older twin, Maia Kazanari." She said.

"Her twin sister?" Miku asked, quite a bit startled.

"Yup."

"But how come no one else knows about this?" Miku asked.

"My true identity was always kept as a secret." She explained. "It would make both of our lives easier from paparazzi and crap."

Secret. There was that word again. Miku looked down, causing complete silence to be in the car once more.

A beeping noise went off, breaking the tension. Maia pulled out her phone and put it to her ear.

"What's up, Ogawa?"

"A bit of a status update. Tsubasa backed up Hibiki and managed to help fend off the girl."

"That's good."

"But there's some more issues now. We found out that the girl was actually Chris Yukine."

"Hold on." Maia sat up. "The girl that Uncle was supposed to take in years ago?"

"Yeah. Not only does she have the missing Ichaival relic, we got a new issue with this person calling themselves Finé as well."

Maia groaned. It seemed like the situation would just keep getting worse.

"You can drop off Hibiki's friend and then come back." Ogawa said. "A few things happened with Tsubasa recently too. Good things, for once."

Maia raised a brow as Ogawa ended the call. She looked at the other two. Miku was still looking down while Rui looked out the window. She sweated at the thick atmosphere.

They pulled into Lydian Academy and stopped.

"Alright, this is our stop." Maia said. "Miku-"

The girl had wordlessly gotten out of the car and started walking off to the dorms.

"I'll make sure she gets back to the dorm." Rui said, stepping out.

"Alright." Maia said. "I'll tell you about anything that happens, alright?"

"Got it."

"Kay. See you tomorrow, buddy." Maia said with a smile.

The two went their separate ways. Maia back to HQ, while Rui walked behind Miku.

Honestly, Rui didn't know what to do at the moment, now that the secret was out. Miku didn't even acknowledge that she was behind her, until they were in front of the dorm room.

"How long?" She asked.

"What?"

"How long have you kept this from me?" She said, turning to Rui with hurt in her eyes.

"...a little over a month."

"Why?" She asked, walking up to Rui. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"It was for your own protection-"

"I don't care about that!" She yelled. "You and Hibiki were doing this dangerous thing for so long?! And you promised not to keep any secrets!"

"Hibiki promised you." Rui reminded. "I never made that promise."

Being unable to argue with Rui anymore, Miku went back into the dorm and slammed the door shut. Sighing, Rui turned around. She knew when she wasn't wanted. She had no plan on heading to HQ either.

Maia entered HQ, wondering just what Ogawa had meant about Tsubasa. She was quite curious.

She didn't expect that Hibiki would bump right into her.

"Ah! Sorry, Maia-san!"

"You're awfully chipper." She said. "What happened?"

"Tsubasa-san said she'd help me in battle!" She said with a smile.

"Oh? So my little sis finally lightened up?" Maia said with a grin. "That's great!"

"Well, I got to go now. See you tomorrow, Maia-san!"

She zipped out of the base just as Maia said goodbye.

"Man, she really is something, huh?" Came a voice. "Rui's got one hell of a sister."

Maia turned to see Ogawa standing there.

"So Tsubasa's gonna work with Hibiki for real this time around, huh?" Maia said.

"Seems like it. I was pretty surprised, but your sister's always been full of surprises." Ogawa said. "But still, both Chris Yukine and Ichaival turning up... I got a bad feeling about all this."

"You and me both, Ninjaman."

"Maia-san, I thought I asked you not to call me that?" He said.

"Well I would stop if I was wrong."

Rui mind was in such a blur, she failed to realize that she had gone back into the city park, despite how late it was. She looked up at the night sky, seeing all the stars shining. The sound of cars rushing by somewhat ruined the image, but didn't deteriorate it too much.

Though what did interrupt the moment was the sounds of kids shouting and crying.

Turning, she saw two kids by a park bench, a boy and a girl. A teenage girl with white hair and a red dress was confronting them. The teenager had her hand raised as if to strike the boy, but the little girl had her arms out protectively, though she had tears in her eyes.

"Oy! The hell are you doing?!" She shouted, running towards them.

"Back off!" The teenager said, whipping around. "Don't butt in- YOU!"

The teenager threw a punch, but Rui caught it, twisting the teenager's arm behind her back.

"That's one way to introduce yourself." Rui said. "But I've never even met you."

Rui pushed the teenager back, who was rubbing her sore arm. She looked closer at Rui.

"But you look just like that idiot..."

"Hibiki did something again?" Rui sighed, putting a hand on her forehead. "I don't know what happened, but she probably didn't mean it."

"How do you know her?" The teenager said, flicking her sore wrist.

"She's my sister." Rui said. "But stop changing the subject, why were you about to hit these kids?"

"Because that kid was bullying his little sister!" The teenager said.

"No!" The little girl said.

"Dad vanished." The boy said. "We were looking for him, but my sister said she couldn't walk anymore."

"You're lost? Why didn't you just say so?" The teenager asked, throwing up her arms.

"B-But... but..." The girl sobbed.

"Stop crying already!" The teenager said.

This naturally caused the little girl to cry even more, as the brother held his arms out protectively. "Don't make my sister cry!"

"What did you expect would happen, genius?" Rui snarked at the teenager.

"Man, I swear you three will be the death of me!" The teenager said, putting a hand to her hair. "I'll help you find him, so just shut up!"

"R-Really?" The girl said.

"Yeah, just stop crying!"

"Who knew. You had a heart of gold after all." Rui said with a smug smirk.

"You shut up too!"

"Might as well ask you what your name is." Rui said.

The teenager scoffed. "So we're all buddy-buddy now? Hah. I'm not here to make friends with you."

"What a coincidence, neither am I. But I don't think you'd want me to call you "bitch" the whole time, hm?"

"You're an absolute pain in the ass." The teenager said. "Chris Yukine."

"Rui Tachibana." She said. "Restrain yourself until we finish helping these kids."

"Oh, so I'm the one who needs to restrain myself?" Chris said. "Look who's talking, asshole."

"You know, maybe I should stick with calling you "bitch" while we help the kids."

"Fuck off with that shit!"

The boy just covered the ears of his sister as the two teens bickered.

After finishing their little argument, the four were in the city. Since the little girl was tired, Rui had offered to carry her in a piggyback, while Chris held the hand of the boy.

The little girl looked at Chris, who was humming a tune. Feeling the eyes on her, Chris looked at her. "Something wrong?"

"Do you like singing?" She asked.

Chris looked forward. "I hate singing."

"Why hate something you're good at?" Rui asked.

Chris didn't answer her. Getting a bit annoyed at the silent treatment, she was about to ask more forcefully, before the boy yelled out. "Dad!"

They looked over to see a man at a police station, who walked up to them. "Where were you two?" He asked, concerned.

"The two girls there got us lost!" The little girl said.

"No, they didn't. They helped us look for you." The boy said, as his sister took their father's hand.

"Regardless of what happened, I'm sorry you had to do this." The father said, bowing to Chris and Rui.

"N-No, don't worry about it." Chris said, holding up her arms.

"We were happy to do it." Rui said, though her small frown almost said otherwise.

"Did you thank them yet?" The father asked his daughter.

The two bowed. "Thank you!"

"Heh, you're suddenly getting along well after fighting." Chris noted. "Kinda reminds me of my own sister."

"You too?" Rui said. "Huh, how about that."

"We should go now, your mother is worried sick too." The father said.

"Okay, bye bye!" The little girl said.

"Thanks again." The boy said.

Chris and Rui waved goodbye to the family.

"Must be nice, having a father." Rui noted.

"Yeah..." Chris agreed.

The small registration of what they both said made the mood a bit awkward, but Rui did have an exit already.

"I'd better go now." Rui said, looking at the time on her phone. "It's getting late."

Chris didn't say anything as Rui started walking. But she stopped, before turning around.

"Hey... whatever my sister did, I want you to know that she was doing the best thing to try and help."

Chris didn't respond.

"It's stupid, but she always reaches out her hand to try and help whoever needs it." Rui said, looking at her hand. "She's much stronger than me."

"Well, what she did wasn't helping, so just tell her to back off." Chris said.

"That wouldn't work since she's stubborn as hell." Rui said. "Once she sets her mind to something, she won't stop."

"Guess that just makes you different kinds of idiots then." Chris snarked.

Rui smirked, before walking away while flipping the bird behind her. Chris just sighed.

It's weird that they have the same face, but they're so different.

"I'm home." Rui said, walking into the dorm.

No one answered. Not really a surprise, with how late it was. Walking forward, she saw that Hibiki was lying on the bottom bunk, while the curtains were drawn over the top bunk, where Miku was presumably sleeping.

She saw that Hibiki had dried tears on her face, as she went to sleep. She had made a good call, leaving when she did.

Knowing herself, she'd only make the situation worse.

Not even bothering to change into more comfortable clothes, she simply laid down on the couch, giving Hibiki the full bottom bunk.

There wasn't any point in going to school tomorrow. Nothing big was happening, so she'd probably just ditch.

It would take one troublesome thing off of Hibiki's mind.

It was nearing dawn, as Chris stood outside the huge double doors. Behind them was a certain someone that she had to confront herself after what she had said earlier.

If things go South... I'm taking Shuri and running as far away from here as possible.

Chris kicked open the doors with a bang. On the other end of a room was a blonde woman, who was almost completely naked and holding a phone.

"What do you mean, you have no business with me anymore?!" Chris yelled. "You don't need me, so that's it?! You were just using me like an object?!"

Finé didn't say anything, as a voice kept asking from the phone.

"My head is a mess! I have no idea what's right or wrong anymore!" Chris screamed.

Finé hung up the phone. "Why won't anyone do what I tell them to?" She said, before turning around with a cane and firing.

The blasts summoned Noise, which all loomed over Chris. The girl grabbed her pendant.

"I guess it's time to say goodbye." Finé said, stepping forward. "You know, you never had any chance of stopping a war. Not with the way you do things. Every time you crush someone, you sow a few new seeds of discord."

"But you told me... you told me I could end pain and suffering with what you-!"

"You wore the Symphogear I gave you, yet you were no more useful than a flea." She said, golden eyes piercing Chris, before her hand started glowing with energy. "Shall we close the curtains now?"

Chris gasped, as Finé started to chant.

"I am immortal, my armor eternal. I will live until the stars die." Finé said, before her body was covered by the Nehushtan Armor. "My Kadingir is almost complete. I have no more use for what little strength you have to offer."

"Kadinger? You mean..."

"I'm afraid you learned too much." Finé said, raising the staff again.

Gasping, Chris out the mansion and dove to the ground to avoid getting struck by the Noise, who all shot out of the mansion into the sky.

Chris didn't even know how to feel anymore, but she turned angrily towards Finé.

"Where's Shuri? Where's my sister?!"

Finé shrugged. "She disappeared while you were gone. She made the smarter decision than you."

"Wha-?! Shuri...?"

With a sadistic grin, Finé raised the cane again.

"Damn you..." Chris cursed. "DAMN YOU!"

Rui found herself in the park once more. She had a feeling that whatever was going on between Hibiki and Miku at school wasn't pretty at all. She wondered if she should text Maia, ask if she wanted to hang out.

But then she looked at one of the benches to see a white haired girl sitting there. Her eyes were almost closed, as if she was about to fall asleep.

"Chris?" She said. "Why are you here again-?"

She stopped herself. Looking closer, the girl was noticeably different. Her hair was much longer, and her eyes were much kinder.

Wait, could she be the sister Chris mentioned?

Before she could say anything else, the girl fell over on the bench.

"Hey!" Rui ran up, shaking her. "You alright?!"

Putting a hand on the girl's forehead, she felt a noticeable fever.

"Shit..."

Rui pulled the unconscious girl onto her back. She didn't know why, since she could have easily called emergency services, but something told her that she shouldn't. The dorm was out of the question, so...

"Looks like I'm gonna have to make a small trip home." Rui sighed.

A/N: I don't have much to say this time.

Once I finish Season 1, I'll be taking a bit of a break porting this fic to AO3 and cross-posting it there.

I've also been helping out Nurse Amiya with their Kamen Rider Noizu fics. Check it out when you got time.

Not much to say, feel free to leave a review.

With that said, see you all next time.