Hey guys and gals, welcome back to Gotcha! ChemyXSympho and this around, it's going to be a major shake up for the chapter.
If you know about the Symphogear story then you should know the fact that we have officially arrived at the Durendall chapter.
There will alot of big moments going on in this chapter, so if you guys are looking forward to seeing it, just wait.
But for now, let's get this chapter started
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Third person P.O.V.
"So, Solomon's Cane…How did the activation test of the holy relic we handed over go?
In an abandoned Castle, we see a blonde woman sitting in a room with a lot of technology. With the Nehushtan user hooked to one of the machine's while the woman was on the phone.
"As reported, the test shows that the power of the complete relics need a considerable amount of Phonic Gain" Finé explained, holding up the staff "So what I'm saying is that it won't be easy."
'What are they talking about…Damn English' she frowned, not being able to understand the language.
"The Black Arts…We need to restore those pieces of technology of the lost civilization and make it our own by any means necessary"
"It's all give and take my dear, I do appreciate the aid your country has given" She smirked, sitting down and crossing her legs "I'll be leaving today's duck hunt and later developments to you."
"Heh, so you are appreciative of our services. I expected you be upholding your end of the deal"
"Well of course, do you think so little of me that I'd break my promise?" She asked, with a seductive smirk, "Obedience is the key to longevity, after all."
Finally hanging up, the woman stood back up before making her way towards the girl hooked up to the machine "Oh my dear Chris~"
"U-Ugh…" The now named Chris grunted, as she shakily opened her eyes to look at the woman "F-Finé…"
"Don't worry Chris; I'm not mad at you. I'm just disappointed you failed with the task I gave you." The now named Finé told her as she held Chris's cheek.
"I-I'm sorry…" Chris mutters, making Finé smirk as she slowly walks back and turns on the machine.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Chris screamed, as volts of electricity were shot through her body before Finé soon turned it off.
"Don't worry, even I didn't know that there was another Kamen Rider running around that would show up out of nowhere," Finé told her before smirking. But I need to discipline you because I don't take failure lightly..."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Chris screamed as Finé turned on the torture device again, after a short while she turned it off.
"But do not worry, I won't abandon you." Finé told her, before hugging Chris. "After all, I still need you for the plan to be a success."
Chris looks at her, before smiling. Finé smirks before turning the torture device back on.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Chris yelled, before Finé turned it off again, leaving Chris unconscious.
"Tch, fucked up bitch" Finé heard, making her frown before she look over to see Atropos, Clotho and Lachesis.
"Well well, didn't expect to see you three here" Finé sighed, turning to them "What do I owe the pleasure to you three?"
"Wanted to know how the repairs for the Dread system was going" Atropos asked, walking up to her.
"Oh they're almost done, it was quite a challenge to upgrade the systems" Finé explained, with a smirk.
"I'm surprised you're taking so long, after all you made it for us" Lachesis sighed, crossing her arms.
"Well I might be a bit more motivated if you get me more data on those cuties" Finé told them before tossing a drive.
"Hmph, this should be enough then" Clotho told her, making Finé snicker.
"Ah thank you my dear, I'll get those done for you in a moment…after all, I owe you for lending me these cuties to study" Finé smiled, as she held up a Chemy card.
"S-Sun…"
Opening: Nibun no Ichi by Back On, lyrics by Jadenday Zero
I'm never alone, I know that our hearts are connected by fate
In a dark void we see Yuya standing in the city at night with his eyes closed.
Knowing that makes me want to see ahead
His eyes slowly open up and widen at what he sees
Come on and let's go, and connect all the colours in our dreams
Turning around, Yuya grins as he offers a hand whoever's he's looking at
And make up a rainbow that shines, so brilliant in the sky
We move past him to see a beautiful rainbow next to the blue sky.
Giving up saying that nothing will change… Even losing my own strength just to move.
We see Hibiki on a park bench looking down while Tsubasa was in front of a dojo training with her sword.
"What's so fun thinking that all the time?" You said smiling as you walked ahead…
A light then shines as the two look up with determined looks in their eyes.
(YEAH)
Feeling lonely as my heart sub comes to FLASHBACKS
The scene cut's to Hibiki while transformed punching one of the noises in the face.
Synchronising with you and having no MASH UPS
It then switches to Tsubasa slashing another in half while also transforming.
I know that we can make it in RIGHT NOW, READY SET GO!
Finally we see Kamen Rider Gotchard running ahead before jumping into the air.
I'm never alone, ever since the day you said that to me Everything seems so possible and free
We see Gotchard on Goldash driving off a ramp into the sky, before landing on to the street and driving ahead.
Along with your, everlasting smile so big and happy So grab onto my hand so tightly,
We then switch Elpis looking up as she saw Gotchard driving towards her while reaching his hand out making her smile as she took it.
Together as we are, there's nothing that we can't overcomeI feel that way since you are here with me
Elpis was now on the back of Gotchard's bike as they drove through the street passing by several Chemies along the way.
You make the strength that is missing on the right side of me Our strength as one I know that we, We'll take off to sky!
The two then looked up to see three dark figures looking down on them before looking at each other and nodding.
Don't stand there, never DON'T STOP (Don't stop)
Gotchard and Hibiki were doing a double punch attack towards a group of noise together.
I'll never leave you DON'T CRY (Don't cry)
Switches to Tsubasa swinging down towards Gotchard who blocked the attack with his arm, as the two glare at each other.
You'll never be alone right here 'cause EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT
Yuya then pumps his arm as he and Elpis look up at the blue sky and the rainbow.
Section 2
Third person P.O.V.
"AAAHHH!" Hibiki cried, as she flopped onto the couch of the Section 2 Headquarters "Doing this every morning is serious."
"Well hey, you and your brother are getting better," Houtaro smirked, sitting down next to her and handing her a drink.
"OOH! Score! Thank you!" Hibiki cheered, quickly taking the drink.
"Don't forget we're counting on you, Champion in the making" Genjuro huffed, sitting down on the couch opposite of them.
"By the way, I've been curious this whole time but aren't there other ways to fight the Noise, like how Gotcha-Senpai and Valva-Senpai do things? Heck I'm surprised you haven't tried getting them to join."
"Those two are completely new mysteries we have yet to solve, so we're waiting for them to come to us first to show that we are equals" Genjuro explained, crossing his arms "And besides those two, nothing official, the Symphogear themselves are supposed to be classified along with the Kamen Riders and the Chemies."
"Eh?! But wait, those two fight outside all the time! I-Is that bad" Hibiki gulped, worried for her two Senpai's.
"Well Luckily the Chemies are invisible to Cameras, so recording them is impossible" Houtaro told her.
"And when it comes to witnesses, keeping word from spreading is part of our job," Aoi answered.
"But sometimes that involves stepping on a few toes," Sakuya added. "So by now most cabinet members and ministers dislike us. They don't even call us Section 2 of the Disaster Relief Squad anymore, just the Disaster Squad."
"The government's upper echelons swore us to secrecy, you know," Aoi admitted. "But we can't keep up."
"I'm pretty sure they want to use the Symphogears and those two as a diplomatic ace up their sleeves," Sakuya guessed.
"The EU and the US are just waiting for a good opportunity." Aoi continued to speculate, "The development of Symphogear is based on theory and technology that was born from a field that didn't even exist in science before."
"Not only that but they are starting to get interested in these new Kamen Riders, even tried to see if they can Harvey Industries and Blue Bird to start developing new Rider systems based off Daybreak back when he first showed up"
"So basically everyone is having a lot of issues," Hibiki groaned as she slumped back down to laying on the couch.
"Yeah it might be best if you leave all of the logistics to us in the support team" Houtaro told her as Hibiki.
"Actually, speaking of the Support team, where is Ryoko?" Hibiki asked, looking around.
"She's away on official business," Genjuro explained, confusing Hibiki.
"Official?" "A government big shot summoned her," "OOOOOHHHH" Hibiki nodded at Houtaro's clarification.
"She's there to fulfill her duty to report to the minister in charge with regards to the security of HQ and the various defense mechanisms. It's part of her job." he explained.
"This is all so complicated," Hibiki sighed, flumping back onto the catch.
"The people who never want to take responsibility are the ones who make the rules complicated," Genjuro replied with crossed arms, "At least Defense Minister Hiroki is a better man than that."
"Although…it is weird how late Ryoko is." Houtaro pointed out, standing up "Maybe you guys should give her a call."
"Ah, where are you going Ichinose-san?" Hibiki asked, as Houtaro made his way towards the door.
"Just going to get some air."
Road
Third person P.O.V.
On the road to school we see Elpis looking down at the ring that she had gotten from Daybreak when he had helped her back home.
'I still haven't been able to use this at all, I mean it's an alchemist ring isn't it? So what's keeping from using it…' she thought, examining the ring.
"AH! Look!" "A Limousine!" "It's gotta be him." "Let's take a look!"
"Huh?" She blinked, looking over at a large limousine stopping in front of the school as the front door opened.
Coming out of the door was a woman in a maid uniform who was about the same age as her, who had short white hair with two long strands going down the front with purple highlights and yellow coloured eyes. She was currently wearing a traditional maid uniform that you would usually only see in some anime.
As the girl got out of the car, she locked eyes with Elpis and gave her a sly smile, surprising her.
'Huh? What was that about?' she thought, watching the girl as she opened up the passenger door.
"Ah, good morning everyone." A young man greeted, as he walked out of the limousine with a smile on his face.
Walking out of the car was a young man that had dirty blonde hair with green coloured eyes that was wearing the school uniform. All in all he had an aura around him that would catch anyone's eye.
'Oh right, he's that rich kid isn't he…Ryuzaki right?' Elpis thought, looking down, 'He's been gone so long I almost forgot about him.'
"My my, well this is a surprising turn out. I'm glad you all came back to greet me" The now named Ryuzaki greeted, as the large crowd of students rushed up to him.
"Ryuzaki! We're so glad you're back!"
"Oh god, you're back thank god! We need your help with the football team!"
"No way! He's gonna help us with our basketball training!"
"We need him to review our routine for Gymnastics!"
"NO! He needs to tutor us please!"
"Now everyone, I'll be happy to help you all" Ryuzaki assured his classmates "After all, everyone deserves to write their story the best that they can."
The students cheered as they all moved to the school leaving Ryuzaki and the maid alone.
"Still filling your plate as usual sir, do you think you can fit it all. Especially since you just got back from the hospital" The maid asked, making Ryuzaki snicker.
"Of course I can, you should know not to underestimate me Alice. After all, my story is going to be the greatest of all" he confidently stated, as they made their way towards the school.
A bit behind them we see Elpis walking down the road with an exhausted look on her face 'Ugh, I do not think I can be friends with that guy…'
"Elpis!" she heard, looking back and smiling when she saw Yuya running up to her.
"Ah Yuya" She smiled, looking back at him "Did you manage to find Hibiki the other day?"
"Huh, oh yeah. Turns out she's been training with some guys from the government thingie she's a part of" Yuya explained "I ended up joining them after a Malgam attacked the Commander."
"Eh?! A Malgam, why didn't you tell me" she frowned, as Yuya rubbed his head.
"Sorry, he just showed up out of nowhere and I didn't get a chance" Yuya apologised "Oh but I did manage to get some new Chemy's."
"You did?" Elpis blinked, as Yuya proceeded to introduce her to the new Chemies.
As they did though, we see Ryuzaki looking back at them with a smirk on his face.
Hospital
Third person P.O.V.
Within the hospital, Tsubasa was in and out of awareness when it came to her dreams.
We see her floating downwards, her body covered in her Symphogear armor though damaged like it was at the end of her Swan Song.
'I'm… alive?' she thought before shaking her thoughts as she slowly opened her eyes, 'No… I just failed to die, but Kanade… what did she live and die for?'
"You take this too seriously, Tsubasa,"
Tsubasa's eyes widened as she felt the familiar touch of her best friend's arms wrap themselves around her.
"A reed before the wind lives on, whereas oaks fall."
"Kanade…" she gasped as she looked back at her friend as tears started welling up in her eyes "I worked even harder since I was alone. I stared into the eyes of death as I annihilated countless Noise, and I never sought to find meaning in it, content simply to fight. I realized my life had no meaning or value."
"Tsubasa…you really are a dummy aren't you" Kanade snickered, as Tsubasa's eyes widened "I fought believing that there was something beyond this… and now I know for sure."
Those words rang through Tsubasa's mind as she was no longer falling into an endless void, but now at the destroyed concert hall.
She was sitting back to back with Kanade, both of them clad in their Symphogear Armor.
"What is it?" Tsubasa asked, looking down at the ground who Kanade looked up.
"You have to find that out yourself,"
"Don't tease me, Kanade." Tsubasa pouted, before continuing to look downwards, "Then again, you're not even really there to tease me anymore."
"That's a good thing, isn't it?" Kanade asked with a light laugh.
"Not at all!" Tsubasa argued as she stood up, soon finding herself in the void again but with a bright sun hovering above her, catching her attention before she winced at the brightness.
From within the sun, she could see the silhouette of a pair of wings inside of the sun, "I want you by my side!"
"It's up to you to decide whether I'm close to you or not,"
"It's up to me?" Tsubasa asked as her eyes widened in realization, "Then I…"
Outside in reality, Tsubasa's vitals began to spike in steady pace as she began to awaken from her comatose state as we see her arm twitching a bit.
The Doctor and Nurses gasped at the sudden change in her condition as they rushed to her side.
"Doctor, the patient's conscious!"
"Perform a full medical check, quick!"
"Yes, sir!"
Tsubasa's eyes slowly began to refocus themselves as she glanced around the area before noticing a small light floating through the window towards the familiar Lydian Building.
'I-Is that…' she mumbled, seeing a Orange silhouette with a flowing scarf.
Tsubasa tried to refocus her eyes to confirm her theory, but by the time they did the figure was now gone. 'Oh…guess it was just in my mind.'
She then began glancing around the world, only being able to control her vision 'This feels strange. It feels like I'm cut off from the world and time slowed just for me,'
Looking over she noticed the calendar, showing just how long she had been asleep for,
'I see. I only skipped school for work or business-related events before. There goes my perfect attendance record…' She sighed before mentally shaking her head 'Still, you don't worry, Kanade. I'm not as serious or inflexible as you think I am. I won't fall, I'll continue to live, with my disgrace in plain sight for all to laugh at."
"Looks like you were able to bring her out of it." We hear as up on the Bell tower we see Daybreak standing there holding up a card "Thanks for keeping her company all that time and letting her say goodbye."
"Carery!" A small orange Fairy-like Chemy nodded as it flew around before entering into the card.
He was about to leave but then looked down as he saw Ryoko entering the door to the Section 2 base.
"Looks like today's the day…" he said, before pulling out a Chemy card "Think you can deliver a message to them?"
"Hawk! Hawkstar!" An orange version of Hawkstar nodded as Daybreak freed the Chemy before giving him a note.
The Chemy then flew off while Daybreak jumped off the building.
In the base
Third person P.O.V.
"I'm back~" Ryoko sang, walking into the base while holding a briefcase only to be met by a gloomy aura "Woah! What did I miss?"
"Ryoko!" Genjuro gasped, as he turned to her with a surprise expression on his face.
"Daw, did you miss me that badly Commander? I didn't know you cared that much" Ryoko teased, but Genjuro just stared at her with a serious expression.
"Defense Minister Hiroki has been assassinated,"
"EH?! No way, really!" She gasped, her face showing a shocked expression.
"Multiple 'revolutionary' groups have claimed responsibility, but we don't know anything with certainty yet, so we've put every man on the investigation." Genjuro explained as the screen several images that they had found
"We were so worried because we couldn't contact you either!" Hibiki told her, running up to the older lady.
"You couldn't contact me?" She blinked, taking out her phone and pressing it a few times "AH! Looks like I broke it."
"I do appreciate the worry though," Genjuro and Hibiki relaxed a bit as Ryoko placed the case onto the Couch before pulling out a glass holding two SD cards "I've got some classified orders from the Government here, so let's follow the Defence Minister final request and make it a success."
"Good, I'll get into contact with everyone so we can brief them" Genjuro nodded, taking the SD cards as Ryoko spun around.
"And I'm going to head to my lab to grab some print out of the plan for everyone" Ryoko smiled, grabbing the briefcase, turning around and leaving the command room to go to her lab.
As she walked down the hall on the opposite side was Houtaro making way to the command room "Oh! Hello Ichinose-kun, back from your break."
"Heh, yo Ryoko-san. Yeah, just checking on a few things and delivering something" He told her with a nod "You get that from the Defence Minister."
"That's right! He may be gone but we'll make his final request a success."
"Yeah, I'm sure it will be…by the way…" Houtaro said, before moving up close.
"You should've probably wiped the blood off of the Briefcase."
Ryoko's eyes widened as Houtaro began walking off, looking down to see that indeed, there was a small bit of blood left on the Briefcase.
She then looked back with widened eyes but Houtaro was now gone, as she gave the young man a scowl.
School Roof
Third person P.O.V.
"Phew! We finally finished it" Yuya sighed, stretching a bit as he and Elpis worked on their homework.
"You really should have done the homework sooner, then I wouldn't have had to help you the weekend before" Elpis told him while Yuya pouted.
"I know, I know. I've just been so busy training with Hibiki that I kinda lost track of time" Yuya explained before sighing "Mou, now I know what it's like to be Hibiki."
"I've been meaning to ask by the way, why haven't you told Hibiki that you're Gotchard" Elpis asked, "Like I personally think getting her and the group she's working with to help us it would make things a lot easier, we already know they're collecting Chemies as well and we know they're trust worthy since they've been training you."
"Yeah…I know I probably should have told her sooner, it's just hard to find the right moment to tell her you know." Yuya admitted "I mean how am I supposed to tell her something like this, do I just go up and be like 'Hey Sis guess what, I've actually been that you've been fighting alongside this whole time and I've been lying to you this whole time' She's already freaking out about how she has to lie to us, how do you think she'll react to us lying to her this whole time."
"Well now, this seems interesting."
"Huh" The two blinked, as jumping down from the roof above the door was Ryuzaki who looked at them with a smirk on his face.
"Eh?! You're that rich kid we've been hearing about" Yuya blinked, pointing at him.
"And you two are the one's my dear siblings have been telling me about, I wanted to thank you for befriending them." Ryuzaki told the two walking up to them "I just wanted to thank you for befriending them, those three have been through a lot."
"Ah, no problem but why were you up there?" Elpis asked, with raised eyebrows before realising something "Wait, siblings?"
"That's right, let me introduce myself. My name is Ryuzaki Shirogane." He introduced himself with a bow. "Masaki, Chisaki and Daichi were adopted into my family since they were orphaned by the Noise."
"Oh right, I think I remember them mentioning something like that-wait…" Yuya muttered, before checking his head only for his eyes to widen "Eh?"
"Looking for this?" Ryuzaki asked, holding up Yuya's goggles "Have to admit I always wondered why you wore these."
"H-Hey! Give those back!" Yuya yelled, running after Ryuzaki as he put on the goggles.
"Woah now, what's the problem? They're just a pair of Goggles" Ryuzaki teased, moving around while Yuya tried grabbing him.
"Ryuzaki-san, listen. Those Goggles are- huh?" Elpis blinked, as something was dropped next to her "A Note?"
"Hmm?" Ryuzaki blinked, before looking up to see the Orange Hawkstar up in the air as the Goggles analysed it.
Chemy Name: Hawkstar
Type: Animal
Level: 6
Ability: Fast Flight and Wind Manipulation
Fusion Partner: Saboneedle
"Fusion Partner?" He muttered, reading the analysed report of the Chemy 'So that's why it didn't work before…'
"GOT IT!" Yuya yelled, quickly grabbing the Goggles from Ryuzaki "You shouldn't take something off of people! Especially something this important!"
"Important?" Ryuzaki questioned, with a raised eyebrow.
"It was given to him by my father before he was…" Elpis couldn't finish the sentence but the message was clear.
"Ah, my dearest apologies. I didn't realise how important they were" Ryuzaki apologised before turning around and heading to the door "I'll leave you two alone, see you later."
"Geez, what was up with that guy?" Yuya frowned, before hearing gasp, as he noticed Elpis reading a Note "What's that?"
"A note, it was just dropped near us. I was going to throw it away but…just listen to this" Elpis said, as she began reading the Note out loud.
"Gotchard and Valvarad. At 0500 tomorrow, a transport operation will be going down to move a very powerful artifact. However there is a high chance that it will be attacked by the Nehushtan user so that they can steal it, Hibiki will also be at the scene but I'm worried it won't be enough. You two need to be there to make sure the artifact won't be stolen by the Nehushtan user."
"Who's it from?" Yuya asked, but Elpis shook her head.
"It doesn't say who it's from…, but my best guess would be the group that Hibiki is working for… what do you think about this?" Elpis asked, holding up the letter.
"Well it's certainly fishy, like how did whoever sent this to us know about our identities…" Yuya admitted "But if this artifact really is important as it says it is… and if Hibiki really is there, then I do think we should go in to back her up."
"Yeah, I agree," Elpis nodded. "I do wanna know who this person is…but this may be our chance to find out more about this group Hibiki is working with and we could even learn who that Nehushtan user is."
As the two were agreeing to this, Ryuzaki was on the other side of the door with a smirk on his face as he made his way down the stairs.
"So did you find out anything sir" he heard, looking over to see Alice waiting for him.
"Actually yes, I found out why the test resulted in that incomplete form. Seem's using two isn't exactly an option for us right now." He explained "Seems we will need to make a new system using only one."
"I'm sure I will be able to develop a suitable system, Shirogane-sama. I didn't sneak into that Oroboros Realm to get the notes for nothing" She nodded, making Ryuzaki frown.
"Hey now Alice, I told you to call me by my first name and none of those add ons" Ryuzaki made Alice snicker.
"Very well, Ryuzaki." Alice nodded, as the two walked down the hallway of the school.
The next morning
Lydian
Third person P.O.V.
It was early in the morning when the mission was to begin, as we see several cars lined up, notably with a Pink car in a different make in the middle, with the suited agents standing in front of them alongside Hibiki.
"You all are being deployed under the pretext of investigating the assassination of the defence minister, this is your only chance so you must make haste to the parliament" Genjuro told them, while Houtaro and Ryoko stood next to him.
"Oooh! I know! Let's give it a cute code name!" Ryoko smiled, pumping her arm "How about the 'Personal Highway Plan!'"
Everyone in the area sweatdropped at Ryoko's little joke as they quickly made haste to the cars to begin the mission.
Hibiki was about to head into one of the black cars but then Ryoko grabbed her hand "Ah ah ah, you'll be coming with me Hibiki-chan."
"Wait really-wah!" Hibiki yelped, as she was pulled into the pink car before all of them drove off.
A bit later we see the cars driving down the highway, with four of them driving around all of the sides of the Pink car.
Inside Hibiki gulped, as she sat next to the driving Ryoko. Looking back, she saw the silver case that held the artifact inside.
Hibiki as she looked back in front suddenly a part of the bridge in front of them started to suddenly crack up and fall off, Ryouko quickly drove to the other line avoiding it, but one of the cars wasn't so lucky as it fell through the crack towards the water below.
"Oh no!" "Help them! Renkingrobo!" Hibiki then blinked as she saw light before a large robot appeared next to the bridge and caught the car.
"EH?! A-A-A MECHA!" Hibiki gasped, and even Ryoko was surprised as the robot placed the car back on the bridge before disappearing.
"Surprised Hibiki?" They heard, before looking over to see Gotchard in his Steam Hopper form riding Goldash with Mad wheel driving behind him.
"Gotcha-senpai!" Hibiki smiled, as he rode up next to the pink car "How did you know we were here?"
"What do you mean? You contacted us?" Gotchard said, holding up the letter.
"Huh? We did?" Hibiki questioned while Ryoko scowled.
'This wasn't meant to happen…how would they have even gotten in contact with those two…' She thought, before smirking 'Good thing we've prepared for this.'
Above them a Helicopter was flying high with Genjuro and Houtaro inside, with the two of them looking at each other with a nod.
The escort's cars continued driving on the bridge to the city, with Gotchard and Elpis in Mad Wheel following them.
However when one of the cars went over a manhole a geyser of water burst out sending the car flying.
"Flayrose!" Elpis yelled, inserting the card into her sword before having it shoot out several vines to catch the car before setting back onto the ground.
Up above, Genjuro and Houtaro were examining the situation below as they saw more manhole covers bursting "The sewers…The Noise must be travelling in the sewers."
"Things are getting a bit bad," Ryoko said from the comms "That chemical factory we're heading towards is one huge pile of Dynamite, the means…"
"I'm aware, but the Noise have only destroyed your transports and not you, meaning that they must want the Durandal." Genjuro stated.
"Meaning the Noise is being controlled by someone…" Houtaro frowned, "Our best bet is to go somewhere dangerous and settle there."
"And our chances are." Ryoko asked from the comms.
"We have no idea, we're playing this all by ear" Genjuro told her as they drove towards the chemical plant.
As they drove towards the factory some Noise burst out of the manhole cover and began rushing towards them
While the pink car was able to move out of the way alongside Gotchard and Mad Wheel, the last black car got hit by the Noise.
This caused the car to swerve around as the driver jumped out before crashing into the building.
"Ah! You were right! They did begin showing up here!" Hibiki smiled, before blinking as the car they were in was blasted at, causing it to swerve around before being knocked into the air.
"OH NO!" Gotchard yelled, as he jumped off the bike which returned to its card before inserting two cards into his driver.
GOTCHANKO! BURNINGORILLA!
Skidding on to the ground as he changed into his new forms which were equipped with large fists, Gotchard quickly caught the car giving Hibiki and Ryoko the chance to get out.
"You two okay?" Gotchard asked, as he placed the car on the ground.
"Thank you Gotcha-Senpai." she nodded, looking over as a large group of Noise marched towards them, however among them were three Dread Riders "Oh no, those black riders again."
"That's not all, look up there!" They heard, as Elpis who was now transformed into Valvarad pointed out before changing their attention to the transformed Chris on top of one of the buildings looking down at them.
"Oh my this is getting pretty bad, perhaps we should just leave the case and get out of here" Ryoko suggested.
"There's no way we can do that!" Hibiki yelled, running up and picking up the case.
"Hehe, I suppose not." Ryoko smirked, before Gotchard and Valvarad moved up.
"We'll keep them busy! Protect the case no matter what!" Valvarad told the two before they rushed towards the three Dreads and the Noise.
The Gun Dread spun its guns around and began firing at Gotchard, however he blocked the bullets with his large gauntlets.
He then rushed forward and punched the riders a few times before pulling his fist back, which ignited into flames, and delivering a power punch sending the dark rider flying back.
"Heh, haven't seen this form before, have you?" Gotchard grinned, pumping his fist before the Scarf Dread jumped on his back.
"H-Hey! What're you doing!" Gotchard grunted, trying to break free from the Scarf Dread's lock on him while the Poncho Dread got back up and began firing away at him.
"Gah! Geh! Fine, then how about this!" Gotchard yelled, as he reached for the driver before pushing and pulling it.
This caused him to split apart out of the Dread's lock before reforming into a mechanical Gorilla.
Landing on the ground, the Wild form raised its arms before firing them like rockets which grabbed the dreads and lifted them up into the air.
Reforming back to his rider form Gotchard uses the form's power to create two large stone fists.
"Go and get 'em!" Gotchard yelled, before the fists burst into flames and shot towards the Dreads as they began falling to the ground.
Bur~ning Go~rilla! Fe~ver!
However before the fists could hit them, the two Dread riders closed the doors on the Drivers before opening them causing energy to charge up into the legs and spikes to pop out.
Dre~ad! Brea~king!
Sending two energy charged kicks towards the stone fists causing large explosions which forced Gotchard to cover his eyes.
"Oh no…" Gotchard frowned, as the two landed on the ground before dashing towards Gotchard to continue the fight.
"Geh!" Valvarad grunted, as she blocked the slashes from the Coat Dread who was striking her with his two knives.
"So fast!" She frowned, jumping back a bit before rolling out of the way as some Noise rushed towards them.
Valvarad quickly switched out Mad Wheel with Gekicopter in the sword while dodging the attack from the Coat Dread.
GA-KIN! GEKIO-COPTER! GO-KIN!
"Have to make this quick." She said, readying herself before the Noise all fired at once creating a large explosion of smoke and dust.
TUNE UP! GEKIOCOPTER!
From the smoke Valvarad flew out with the Helicopter arm equipped to her right arm allowing her to fly and avoid the attacks.
Dropping down, she slashed at the Coat Dread who tried blocking the attack but its knives were slashed in half.
She then followed this up by kicking the Dark rider before turning around and firing at the Noise surrounding them, killing the monsters.
GA-KIN! GUTSHOVEL! GO-KIN!
TUNE UP! GUTSHOVEL!
With a bright flash, Valvarad equipped herself with the new shovel arm before rushing towards the Dread rider to continue fighting them.
Over with Hibiki and Ryoko the two were watching Gotchard and Valvarad fighting while Hibiki was holding on to the silver case.
However Hibiki then noticed some Noise rushed towards them as she grabbed Ryoko.
"Look out!" She yelled, pulling Ryoko out of the way as they rammed into the car causing a large explosion which knocked Hibiki to the ground.
"Damn…" "Can't see a thing!" Houtaro and Genjuro frowned, as they watched from above.
"Ugh…huh?" Hibiki grunted, shaking her head before looking up only for her eyes to widen when she saw Ryoko holding up a barrier that blocked the advancing Noise.
"I guess the time for alternatives is over" Ryoko told her as her hair came undone and her glasses flew off "So it's best for you to go all out."
"Alright! I'm going to sing!" Hibiki declared, before closing her eyes and taking a breath.
"Balwisyall nescell Gungnir tron…"
FLASH!
Suddenly, a bright orange light erupted above Hibiki's chest as her clothes were replaced with the Symphogear armour which equipped itself onto her.
(Play Gekisou Gungnir)
Hibiki then opened her eyes before entering a fighting position while beginning to sing.
The Noise darted towards her forcing Hibiki to move out of the way and accidentally trip on the pipe.
Getting back up, Hibiki looked over as the Noise surrounded her while she reentered her stance but could feel something was wrong.
"These heels are in the way…that's why I'm not faster!" She gritted her teeth before stomping her feet at an angle, the high heels of her boots snapping off and giving her more even footing with the ground.
Taking a deep breath, Hibiki readied herself as the Noise surrounding her were watching her.
One Noise darted toward Hibiki as she slammed her foot on the ground before throwing a punch which caused the Noise to explode.
Another one came in but Hibiki moved out of the way before slamming her fist down on its head causing the monster to crash into the ground.
She then elbowed one that moved in behind her before spinning around and throwing a kick at another Noise.
Dodging a few slashes from the Noise before retaliating with punches that sent them flying, Hibiki rushed forward and punched and kicked through any Noise that got in her way.
(End song)
"She learned how to fight?" Chris asked, utterly baffled that this was the same girl that tried to stop her and Tsubasa from fighting only a few days ago.
"Nice going Hibiki!" Gotchard cheered, watching the fight as he fought off the two Dreads.
"Wow, the training really did help her!" Valvarad smiled, as she blocked the strikes from the Coat dread.
Ryoko was baffled watching at just how much better Hibiki had gotten in only a few days.
"Huh?" She blinked as she heard a noise before looking over at the case which was now glowing.
"The signal…" She muttered as she looked towards the fight with Hibiki "You've got to be kidding!"
Back with Hibiki she was punching through the Noise before jumping back as a purple whip was swung at her.
"You're not getting away this time!" Chris yelled, jumping down while throwing a kick at Hibiki.
"Gah" She grunted, as she was hit by Chris's foot 'No…I'm still not in perfect control of my Symphogear, if only I can use my armed gear!'.
"Hibiki no!" Gotchard yelled, pushing the two Dreads back before quickly switching forms.
Got~chanko! Ste~am Ho~pper!
"I got you!" Gotchard said, jumping forward and catching Hibiki before she could crash into the ground "You okay?"
"Y-Yeah, thanks." She nodded, while Gotchard placed her on the ground next to Ryoko and the Case.
"Reeee….Reeeee…."
"Huh?" Gotchard blinked, looking over at the case right as Durandal broke free all by itself and launched into the air.
"A sword?" Valvarad blinked, looking as the stone sword gained a soft gold glow around it.
"It activated by itself?" Ryoko questioned, looking up at the sword with a confused look.
"Reeee….Reeeee…."
"Wait…" Gotchard muttered, before pulling his goggles as they began analysing the sword.
Chemy Name: X-Rex
Type: Ancient
Level: 10
Ability: Memory reading, Telepathy, Power Multiplier and Pocket Space Creation
Fusion Partner: None.
"IT'S A CHEMY?!"
"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!"
Suddenly the sword began exploding with unbelievable power pushing everyone in the area back a bit.
"Is that Durandal?" Chris asked before grinning and leaping towards the blade to claim its power.
"NO!"
"HUH?! GAH!" Chris yelled, being shoved out of the way.
"It's mine!" Hibiki had launched after Chris, elbowing her in the back to force her away before grabbing the hilt of the blade.
BA-DUMP!
An invisible force suddenly rocked the area, everyone feeling chills as Hibiki landed.
BA-DUMP
Hibiki was hunched forward, both hands gripping Durandal as everyone, even Chris and Ryoko, looked at her worried.
BA-DUMP!
"Hibiki…Sis?" Gotchard asked as he held out a hand.
Hibiki's eyes began to shake as her teeth canines began to grow sharper, it wasn't long before a beam of light was unleashed from where she was standing.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXXXXXXX!"
(Play Power To Tearer from OOO)
A huge burst of wind pushed everyone back as Chris glared at the out of control girl.
"Hibiki! Hibiki stop!" Gotchard called out, only for her to hear nothing "Why isn't it working."
"Hahahaha! THIS IS MARVELOUS! ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!" Ryoko gushed, utterly delighted.
"Don't you dare flaunt your power in front of me!" Chirs yelled, using Solomon's cane to summon several Noise to attack the girl.
"Grrrrrrrrrr" A dark shadow covered Hibiki's body, only her red glowing eyes could be seen as she held the sword diagonally
"Oh no!" Gotchard yelled, before grabbing Ryoko.
"Oh my! WOOOAAAHHH!" Ryoko yelped, as Gotchard jumped high into the air and towards the Helicopter.
"GRAAAAAAHHHH!" she yelled, spinning around and performing a mighty spin slash sending a giant energy wave.
This destroyed all of the Noise surrounding her, slicing the Dread riders in half which revealed machinery inside and sending both Valvarad and Chris crashing into the wall.
Gotchard landed just outside of the factory, he dropped Ryoko and looked down at her "You need to get out of here! Now!"
Turning back around, Gotchard then dashed back into the battlefield towards Valvarad to help her back up "You okay?"
"Not really…but Hibiki's still berserk…what happened to her?" Valvarad asked, looking at the out of control Hibiki.
"I'm not certain…but I think there might be a Chemy sealed inside of the sword…a level 10 one!" Gotchard exclaimed, making Valvarad look at him in shock.
"What! A level number 10!"
"I don't give a shit if she's level 0 or 100! We need to stop her!" Chris yelled "You two, stay here or help me! I don't care which!"
"AH!" The two exclaimed, as Chris dashed towards the rampaging Hibiki and swung her whip.
Hibiki grabbed the whip before it could hit her, which pulled Chris towards her.
"GRAH!" Hibiki yelled, throwing a kick right at Chris's stomach causing her to stumble back.
"Bastard…" she growled, before rolling out of the way as Hibiki swung the sword sending out a large energy wave.
(End song)
From above Houtarou and Genjuro were watching Chris fight the rampaging Hibiki.
"She's completely out of control…and I don't think anyone can stop her…" Houtaro muttered, closing his hand.
"You aren't actually going too…" Genjuro muttered "You just got her back! Why would you want to kill her!"
"You think I want this!" Houtaro yelled, glaring at Genjuro "This is the last thing I wanted! But we both knew that if Hibiki lost control she could ruin everything!"
He then looked down at both Gotchard and Hibiki before removing his glove revealing an Alchemist ring "This is the only way..."
Pulling out a red Gotchard driver he slapped it on to his waist before taking out two Chemy cards "I'm sorry we have to do this…and that you didn't get to meet her properly."
"Hopper…" "Steam…"
"GAAAAAAHHHH!" Chris yelled, as she was sent flying back by Hibiki before being caught by Gotchard and Valvarad "Little…brat…"
"Grrrrrrrrrr…!" Hibiki growled, raising the sword causing a huge beam of light to shoot out.
"If she swings that here she could destroy the whole city!" Gotchard gasped, before moving in front of them "HIBIKI NO!"
"GRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed, swinging the large beam light down towards the three.
"HENSHIN!"
Got~chanko! Fire! Ste~am! Hop~per! Achi~!
The beam of light was sliced in half and dissolved away as a fiery figure landed in between Gotchard and Hibiki.
"Day…break…" Gotchard muttered, as the Orange rider stood in front of him before looking back.
"...I'm sorry…" Daybreak told him before walking forward, confusing Gotchard and the others.
"GrrrrRRRAAAAHHH!" Hibiki yelled, swinging the sword sending a large energy wave towards Daybreak who pushed and pulled the driver.
Splitting apart to dodge the attack, he reformed into a kicking motion as his body was covered in flames.
Ste~am Hop~per! Burning! Fe~ver!
"DAARRRYYYAAA!" Daybreak yelled, throwing a flame charged kick at the berserking Hibiki causing her to crash into one of the tanks.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
The tank then erupted into a huge explosion which completely engulfed Hibiki much to everyone's shock.
"Hibiki no…" "Holy shit…he actually did it…"
"HHHHIIIIBBBBIIIKKKIIII!" Gotchard yelled, running past Daybreak and just staring at the huge fire ball "Why…why did you do that…"
"...It was the only way to stop her…if I didn't she would have destroyed the city" Daybreak explained, as Gotchard turned to him.
"That's no excuse! You could've tried to save her! You could have done something!" Gotchard yelled, while Daybreak gripped his hand.
"How can you call yourself a Kamen Rider if you didn't even try!" "IT'S NOT LIKE I WANTED TO DO THIS!"
Gotchard starred as the orange rider stared at the ground before turning away
"...Here's something…for you to learn… there are times where you just can't save someone… even if you try everything to change their-""GRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The two then looked over and saw that Hibiki was alive, the aura coming from the sword having protected her as she roared out on top of the rubble.
"SHE'S ALIVE!" Gotchard smiled, as Daybreak got ready.
"...But she's still out of control…I have to stop-" "Oh no you don't."
"Huh?" Daybreak blinked, as the purple whip wrapped around his body before he looked back at Chris and Valvarad.
"Sorry, but I still need her around!" Chris declared, before dashing away while pulling Daybreak with her.
"Yuya, I'm going to help her keep him busy! You're the only one that can snap Hibiki free" Valvarad told her as Gotchard looked at her.
"Elpis…" he muttered, before smiling under his helmet and nodding "Alright, use these and stay safe."
Gotchard then tossed her some of the vehicle Chemies which she caught and nodded "Thank you Yuya."
Spinning around Valvarad then dashed forward until she arrived at Chris, currently fighting Daybreak as he broke free from the whip..
"Hmph!" He grunted, firing at Chris with his gun but the blasts were easily deflected by her whip.
"HAH!" Valvard yelled, swinging her shovel arm at Daybreak who pulled out the arrow blade and blocked the attack.
"Stop getting in my way." he told them before firing Valvarad forcing her to jump back next to Chris.
"I should be the one telling you that! I had things handled before you dropped in" Chris growled, pointing at Daybreak.
"Who even are you! How do you have copies of the Chemy's! And why did you try to kill Hibiki" Valvarad asked, as Daybreak stared at Valvarad for a moment.
"That's none of your business, but I do know things about you" Daybreak said, pointing at Chris "Like how you're fighting to end violence in the world, word from the wise, Finé doesn't give a shit about you. She's only using her for your own goals."
"Finé?" Valvarad questioned, looking over at Chris who had a shocked expression on her face.
"How did you…" she muttered, before scowling at Daybreak "How dare you! Don't talk like you know me!"
She then pulled out a staff that was attached to her back before pointing at the two and pulling the trigger.
"WWwwwWWIIIIIIIiiiiIIIII" A green laser was shot from the staff summoning Noise that surrounded the Daybreak.
"Hmph" he scoffed, before jumping into the air and inserting a Chemy card into the Gotchard Tornado and pulled the bow back as the card began spinning before finally letting go.
TOR~NADO! ARROW!
Daybreak then freed the bow, sending a rain of arrows towards the Noise below him killing them
GA-KIN! GOLDASH! SKEBOWS! GO-KIN!
TUNE UP! GOLDASH! TUNE UP! SKEBOWS!
"Huh!" Daybreak blinked, as two claws moved in and grabbed his body before being swung down to the ground.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Valvarad yelled, dashing in with the Skebow's roller skates on her feet.
She then raised up her helicopter and began firing away at the Orange rider as he grunted in pain.
"ORAAA!" she yelled, charging up energy into her shovel arm and delivering a power slash then sent Daybreak skidding.
"Heh not bad" Chris smirked, landing next to her while Valvarad removed her weapons and drew her sword.
"Let's finish this," Valvarad said, as she held her sword in front of her before she twisted the black bolt on the hilt.
SCRAP!
A manifestation of Mad Wheel then appeared around her before absorbing into the armour which was covered in a purple aura.
"Heh, alright could be fun" Chris smirked, readying her whip as a large ball of energy then charged up at the end of the whip as the two of them swung their weapon towards Daybreak.
VALVARA BREAK!
NIRVANA GEDOH!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
A large explosion occurred which engulfed Daybreak's body, the two of them watching the smoke cloud.
Valvarad gulped as she placed her sword back on the hilt before the smoke disappeared revealing Daybreak no longer there.
"Not bad…but not good enough." Daybreak said, standing behind them.
"What!" Valvarad gasped, turning around only for him to take her sword and remove the Chemy.
"Oh no! I- guh" Elpis gasped, before being knocked out by Daybreak as she collapsed into Daybreak's arms.
"Tch, you just won't stay down" Chris growled, jumping back a bit.
"Because… unlike you." he said, placing a Chemy card with the picture of a Sun on it inside of the Valvarusher before pulling the chord
COSMIC! SCRAP!
"I know what I'm fighting for…" he frowned, getting ready as energy began charging up into the sword.
The two glared at each other, ready to strike at a moment's notice…but before they could.
SHINE!
"Huh?" The two blinked, looking over at a bright light shining in the area Yuya and Hibiki were.
A few minutes earlier
"Hibiki…" Gotchard muttered, as he looked up at his out of control sister on top of the rubble.
"Hah…hah…" Hibiki huffed, before crossing his arms and roaring out loud "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!"
She then swung her sword, sending a large energy wave as Gotchard jumped out of the way from the explosion.
Gotchard landed on the ground and looked up at Hibiki "She's so strong…how am I supposed to help her…I can't do anything…"
"I…Can't do anything…"
(Play ChemyxStory Piano version)
"Huh?" Gotchard blinked, looking around "That was Hibiki's voice…"
"I couldn't do anything to save Tsubasa…I just stood there being useless…and caused her so much pain…
"Are these…her thoughts…no…her memories…"
"It's all my fault…now Miku hates me…Tsubasa-San hate's me…I bet even Yuya and Elpis hate me…"
"No…No that's not it! Hibiki!"
"It was all my fault…it was my fault that Kanade died…if only I ran with Yuya… we would have escaped and she could have lived…but now I'm running around in her armour…in her place…"
"This is what she's had to live with…for months…while I just refused to be with her…support her…"
"I have to constantly lie to everyone I love…to Mom…Grandma…my friends…Yuya…Miku… it was even my fault that Dad disappeared…"
Gotchard's eyes widened under his helmet before he looked up "That's it."
He walked forward as Hibiki continued swinging her sword, sending energy slash after energy slash at her brother.
"Gah!" Gotchard grunted, as he was hit by one of the energy slashes and stumbled back.
"Hopper ho!" Hopper1 gasped, as Gotchard looked down at his belt.
"I'm fine…this is the only way…" he assured his partner before looking up as Hibiki raised the sword again.
"Hibiki! Do you remember what happened…what happened after the concert two years ago!"
"Guh" Hibiki froze as she looked down at Gotchard walking towards.
"What happened…after…"
"Dad lost his job…and he started drinking…getting angry…at Mom, you…and me…"
"It hurt…it was scary…"
"On the day that went missing…we were in our room…sharing the bed because you couldn't be alone…but you were crying…"
"I…just had a nightmare…of the incident."
"It was…if I had died during the Zwei Incident…if Daybreak was there to save me…" Gotchard remembered, looking down.
"I…I didn't wanna be alone…"
"To help…I made a promise with you…that I'd never let you be alone again" Gotchard told her as he finally arrived in front of Hibiki.
"But…I broke the promise…" he admitted, as he removed his Driver and returned to normal.
"I knew you were fighting all alone this whole time…I could have joined you…helped you through this…but I didn't cause…I thought I was protecting you." Yuya admitted, before wrapping his arms around her as the Shadowy Hibiki slowly looked up at him.
"...Yu…ya…"
"I'm sorry Hibiki…I'm so sorry…for letting you be all alone…can you forgive me…"
Tears welled up in her eyes as the glow in the sword shined brightly for a moment before disappearing with Hibiki returning to normal and dropping the sword.
"Heh…you really were…with me…this whole time…Yuya…" Hibiki mumbled, passing out in his arms.
From afar Daybreak and Chris were watching this, with Daybreak holding Elpis "He really did save her…"
"Tch" Chris blushed, wiping away some tears "Even I'm not stupid enough to ruin a moment like that.
Daybreak watched as she teleported away with the staff's power before looking down at Yuya and Hibiki.
"Heh…Good going…young me."
From afar, we see Ryoko watching this with a frown on her face before she turned around and walks off.
See you next chapter