And so, with the P-1 Special ended and Battleworld 52 destroyed, everything is rebooted back. With her true nature - a humanized Rift Butterfly and a goddess in her own right - exposed and the Darkbolts still on the run, Ms. Continuum awakens in Oninoshima, and is welcomed back by Pechy Comet and her Shadow. Stripped of all paracausal powers and mutations, the collective Starstorm team gathered back and up to date. But as everyone learned, the Singularity had gone insane and had to resort to digging deep down into the history of the Trinity of Realms, Kamen Rider Chronicle is getting updated with the biggest patch ever - one that won't ever shut down or allow anyone to stop playing, and a false salvation...
Location: the Reality of Society. That's better. But it's in ruins. The Singularity had razed this Island. Many of the Loopers found themselves turned into a fabricated faction of armored characters in literal brown, armed with a strange gun-blade that can change.
"W-w-what the hell?!"
Ride-Players! We may have lost our kingdoms together, but us alone are gods! Welcome to Kamen Rider Chronicle! Fuck your "home", this is the game to play! And you will never quit or cancel, because we've patched it! Kamen Rider Chronicle is a game all of you should play! You should like it, no matter what! Kamen Rider Chronicle will be loved eternally! This is published by the disgraced Darkbolts, the last chance to be... beloved. Abandon all hope, ye who desecrate the passage of fate. Play well, and salvation shall come. Desire Royale is the way, and you are the travelers. Good luck!
"Oh hell no!"
The newly-reestablished Ride-Players panicked out of paranoia.
"This is... Kamen Rider Chronicle?"
Two identical-looking men, each with their own Decadriver: one original with white shell, and one magenta/pink (*1) Neo Decadriver.
"Ride-Players. Not the first time I saw them." The Neo one spotted the Ride-Players.
"Ride-Players... aren't they from the World of Ex-Aid?"
"Nope. Not as it appears. Look at them. They're acting weird. I knew there identities from the CXA files (*2) and... none of those Ride-Players seemed to match what the real Ride-Players had done, unless..."
"They've just suddenly become Ride-Players when they didn't know initially?"
The Neo one showed the other some of those CXA files. (*2)
Turns out, the Neo one is the same alien that helped out against the Order of the Pariah, having disguised himself as the Tsukasa Kadoya - who's with the original Decadriver.
"You know of the Order of the Pariah?!" Kadoya is surprised to see those very specific CXA files.
"But I don't think we've seen Kamen Rider Chronicle on the scale this landscape implied." The alien looked up. "Rift over there!"
Yuu... duun... goof...
A bunch of of strange black-devil-winged pale women descended, attacking the Ride-Players all over the place. Each of those women is an otherwise beautiful body with long black hair, but with uncanny literal inverted black left eye, seemingly normal amber right eye, dresses made of literal miniature houses crushed into normal-ish proportion around her, and feet and palms made of human-shaped tumors.
"What the hell?" The alien noticed.
"Yu are losing! It's a rule!" The women gleefully twisted the Ride-Players' beings, destroying them in eldritch ways possible.
"We are passing-by Kamen Rider... no, we are passing-by Double Riders!" The two came forward. "Remember that!"
Both pulled out there own Kamen Ride: Decade card, and put it...
"Anguish is rejoice... no, what are yuuu doing, strangerz?"
KAMEN RIDE: DECADE!
Two sets of planes of dimensions in a moment later, and the transformation gave two warriors: Decade and Decade.
"We, of the Gentry..." The uncanny women then tried to attack the two.
ATTACK RIDE: BLAST!
The two shot down a small horde of uncanny women each - but of course, many more spawned.
"They just won't stop coming, huh?" The alien reached for his Ride Booker.
FORM RIDE: GEIZREVIVE SHIPPU!
Rider Time! Kamen Rider~ Geiz! Revi-Revi-Revi! Revi-Revi-Revi! Revi-i-ve Shi-ppu! Shippu!
The alien then blitzed the uncanny women and struck them down with the appropriate weapon: Zikan Jaclaw in Tsume (つめ) claw mode. This kept the hordes from furthering the attack and forced then to target the alien instead.
A Ride-Player recognized everything. He looks saavy, but is in shock at what's happening.
"Two Decade! You're here!" That Ride-Players hugged Tsukasa.
"Huh? You're?" Tsukasa noticed.
The Ride-Player gave Tsukasa a strange futuristic book, chronicling the Zerobreaker war. Tsukasa doesn't have the time to treat it thoroughly because of the crossfire, but he read the end to refresh. He got a bit confused at how this book came.
They showed knowledge of the reality of their mind. It's actually the same genre-saavy Looper once accompanies some godly characters. They knows the alien Decade - they have worked with him before.
Thus, the suspicion that the Anti-Imagine Equation having been unleashed again appears to be justified. It seems the genre-saavy might be onto something.
"Ah, I see." Tsukasa got it.
FINAL ATTACK RIDE: G-G-G-GEIZ!
Finish Time! Revive! Hyakuretsu Time Burst!
The rift has closed, and the alien finished off the uncanny women. Unbeknownst to anyone here, something has... landed down the Island.
Goretsu!
Huh? What's with... Nitrodrome?
The alien flew down the former Nitrodrome, where that something that just blared "Goretsu!". The alien is spotted by the saavy one, so they and Tsukasa went to the Nitrodrome as well.
"Hey, you!" Tsukasa rushed.
Cue that something grabbing the alien's Shippu form. This is a monster resembling GeizRevive Goretsu form, complete with shattered yet held visor - showing a flayed man with literally empty eyes - and the theme and imagery of frozen hourglass with burning sand. It's shown with hard orange muscles around the shoulders and the chest, evoking the silhouette of Goretsu form in a twisted way. It has "20XX" written on the waist-
FORM RIDE: GEIZREVIVE GORETSU!
Powered Time! Re-vi-i-ve Goretsu~! Goretsu!
The blue wing collapsed back into orange armor - the alien as GeizRevive Goretsu knocked the monster away with Zikan Jaclaw in Noko (のこ) saw form, freeing himself.
"Friend!" Tsukasa called.
The monster noticed there's two Decadrivers...
"Who the hell are you!?"/"貴様! 何者だ!?" The monster is pissed.
Shippu!
The muscles opened into soft blue pair of wings, and the monster tried to fly away.
FORM RIDE: GEIZREVIVE SHIPPU!
Speed Time! Revi-Revi-Revi! Revi-Revi-Revi! Revi-i-ve Shi-ppu! Shippu!
The alien chased the monster, while Tsukasa and the saavy had to leave Nitrodrome.
"Damn it... Couldn't this be... Another... GeizRevive?!" Tsukasa figured it out.
"An Another Rider? But it was so last era!" (*3) The saavy complained.
Other Ride-Players noticed the chase, which infuriated the monster. So they decided to crash down to take down a few Ride-Players...
Goretsu!
The muscles closed back, and the monster crashed down at The Raft, crushing a Ride-Player and horrifying all nearby. The alien arrived, and defended the Ride-Players. Just as Tsukasa and the saavy arrived, the monster laughed.
"This is Kamen Rider Chronicle! And nobody in any existence will ever quit anymore! So how about... enjoy it."
The monster shedded the Another Rider form, much to the saavy's ridicule. A dark fallen angel with white feather wings and a silver mouth. His disposition seemed... more calm.
"What!?" Tsukasa noticed. "Isn't...!"
"Could this be...?" The saavy recognized...
Brajira of the Messiah, a fallen Gosei Angel, who completely absorbed his own teammates to gain all the innate powers - and once tried to carry out his own twisted version of the angels' duty. (*4)
"Messiah is back. Kamen Rider Chronicle has saved me, and I seek to return the favor. You are two Riders, Decade... Double Decade?"
"Brajira!?" The alien is baffled. "You're Another GeizRevive!?"
"This is but a game. If- no, once I win, my Earth Salvation Plan will be revived, and I shall-" Brajira explained his motive to the three.
"Spoilers." The saavy shrugged.
"Turn the World of Super Sentai into your own? Natch." Tsukasa scoffed. "We're passing-by Double Riders! Remember that!"
"I am... Buredoran of War!"/"私は…戦国のブレドランだ!"
"Buredoran of War?"/"戦国のブレドラン?" Tsukasa is confused.
"Oh hell no... You don't get to terrorize people!" The alien is pissed.
KAMEN RIDE: GINGA!
Gin-gin gira-gira galaxy! Uchū no kanata no fantasy! Kamen Rider Ginga!
Cue a galactic blast right on Brajira. The power of GeizRevive prevented him from taking damage, however.
"Damnit! You're Another GeizRevive!" The alien stepped back.
Zenrin Shooter!
Deep Slasher!
"Wait... that's Mach's and Specter's-" The alien suddenly got shot...
...by Brajira using these gun mode. Thankfully, Ginga is tanky enough, so he's able to handle the bullets.
"Enough of all this baffling theatrics!" Brajira of the Messiah quickly fired a white-hued or yellowish white-hued blast from his wings (*5), overpowering the Ginga form and forced the alien to revert into Decade.
Goretsu!
Brajira abandoned the weapons as Another GeizRevive Goretsu, and stomped down on the still-morphed alien.
"No! Stop!" Tsukasa went for a Rider Card.
He ended up pulling out the Multiverse: Dimension card.
"This... is forbidden." Brajira noticed the card.
A flash wave emitted behind the original, while he is confused at the card. He never used this before.
"The Dimension Card. But why?" The saavy recognized it.
"This is Zein's property. If you use it, you're cheating." Brajira called Tsukasa out.
"I briefly used it once, but in Battleworld 52!" Ron Davis shouted. "Sounds like a debug confirmation!"
"Huh?" Tsukasa noticed.
The entire Starstorm team has arrived. Pechy Comet, Hope and Ms. Continuum are rallying.
"You... how did you...!" The alien noticed.
"It seems Ron confirmed that Zein Cards are usable to Decadriver." Pechy figured it out. "So this is the home, right?"
"You are unworthy ones who dare cross me!" Brajira went Shippu!
Brajira attacked as Another GeizRevive Shippu, blitzing the members of Starstorm. An old Ballistic Shield (*6) without a pistol, Jones used to try blocking Messiah - but it was destroyed by Brajira's own twisted Jaclaw, shredding the shield and knocking Jones down.
"Shut up, you!" Amaya Shadow swung her scythe.
Goretsu!
Brajira immediately threw Amaya away.
"Dreamcatcher Warrior Smashing LIGHT!" Pechy blasted dream magic at Brajira, point blank. "Return to your darkness!"
Brajira took the blast like it's truly nothing. Pechy is shocked. But she couldn't just leave it at that and be done with this fight. This is deadly. Brajira summoned Garren's King Rouzer and tried to shoot down Pechy's friends and Fantasy Dreamer and Hope...
"Leave us alone!" Amaya rises up again, transformed into enlightened nightmare, complete with golden accent.
"Last wishes!" Pechy straight out transformed into her goddess form.
Brajira dropped the King Rouzer and grabbed both with his hands. "Hmph. You're an annoying bunch. Not even halfway worthy of survival."
"YOU!"/"貴様!" Tsukasa turned around and raged against Brajira.
"You do care about those strangers, do you?" Brajira noticed.
"Saavy friend, step back and stay away. This will burn." Tsukasa warned the saavy.
"You? They? You mean... the one knowing the Godmodders?!" Ms. Continuum is baffled. (*7)
"Hey you, pretty... may I rape you?" Brajira slipped up, only pricing his continued villainy.
"EWWW!" Pechy's friends are disgusted. "Rape!?"
"You perverted fallen angel!" Hope is pissed.
Cue an OG rocket launcher (*8) from Hope right to Brajira. The Another Rider/fallen Gosei Angel threw Pechy and Amaya away, and tanked the blast. However, this only served the two to blast the fallen angel with their own "Smashing Light" and enlightened nightmare respectively - Brajira simply crushed the blast both with his hands. (*9)
"Goseiger-ahhh moment!" (*9) The saavy is shocked.
ATTACK RIDE: ARC LIGHT!
Kyon as Next Decade casted Stormtrance on Brajira...
Shippu!
"We won't let you!" The alien rushed in.
KAMEN RIDE: KABUTO!
Change Beetle!
ATTACK RIDE: CLOCK UP!
The alien clashed against Brajira, forcing a slowdown and Clock Over to prevent excessive stress and exhaustion as Riders.
"Interesting."/"面白い" Brajira scoffed. "But I, a messiah-"
"You're no messiah! You're a monster!" The alien refuted.
"Oh, really?"
Goretsu!
Brajira whacked the alien away, leading to the Neo Decade crashing to Fantasy Dreamer, knocking Paige and Beta down.
"ENOUGH!"
Tsukasa had enough. He inserted the Dimension Card and pushed...
MULTIVERSE: DIMENSION!
Suddenly, Tsukasa is wreathed in flames and electricity. He jerked out and writhes in agony.
"Decade!" Pechy noticed.
"Oh no!" Ron noticed.
"AAARRR..." Tsukasa kept himself standing, but in a struggle.
"I told you, this is Zein's property." Brajira scoffed. "You cannot use Zein's power. Not only it's not compatible with you, despite using the same technologies... it's too powerful. Only Zein and related associates and compatible stuffs can use this card. Big mistake, old human."
Decade stabilized himself, still wreathed in fire and electricity. His Rider Cards flew out of the Ride Booker, and...
MULTIVERSE: DIMENSION! The Decadriver declared again.
"Henshin."/"変身"
Dimension Time!
All the non-Final Rider Cards flew and grouped together to created an energy screen resembling a compact Aurora Curtain, while the Final-level Rider Cards continued to fly together, slowly forming into glowing saturated blades to fly to his visor just like this normal transformation.
Dimension Dai-Dai-Dai-Shogun! Dimension Dai-Dai-Dai-Shogun! Dimension Dai-Dai-Dai-Shogun!
The announcement from Decadriver sounded pretty bombastic and somewhat hammy while still retaining the usual electric and beeping tones of the normal transformations and actions, including even Complete Form transformations.
The screen passes by Tsukasa, transforming his existing suit and armors into one based on both shoguns (warlords) and barcodes and the Great Leader of Shocker (*10) all in one, with the helmet simultaneously mimicking both the Ku Klux Klan-inspired head and shogun helmet of warlords' (looks like Gaim Kiwami Arm's helmet with Decade's faceplate) overlapped with the Decade stripes (the Ride Plates), and the armors between a literal mix of Great Leader's robe and shogun armors and designated barcode structures all around, as if (said Ride Plates) is now spread over the entire suit and injected his old nature as the Great Leader into all that in the process. Decade retains the same basic and usual color palette, but now gains the slightly-demonized eyes of Violent Emotion form and the accents of his Complete Form (normally his final form) and the Signal Pointer now glowed magenta/pink (*1), as well as the cape of the Complete Form21 but with barcode repeated patterns instead of embedded Rider Cards - formed from the energy screen itself - and finally a black plate on his right palm with the graphics of Final Kamen Ride: Decade Complete card. The crossrails in his armor became symmetrical, a la Kamen Rider Kaixa.
Dimension Dai-Dai-Dai-Shogun! Dimension Dai-Dai-Dai-Shogun!
Those Final-level Rider Cards as blades became the new Ride Plates (dubbed Dimension Plates), going through Decade's helmet in place of the originals, slicing the visor with magenta accents on the inner remaining edges and giving those plates transparency and gray hues outside the visor, resembling the Violent Emotion green demonic inserted into the face of Decade Complete forms with Signal Pointer completely substituting the Rider Card head (Decade Crown).
Dimension Dai-Dai-Dai-Shogun!
The transformation is completed with the visor briefly glowing dimly and the Signal Pointer indefinitely glowing.
"He's transformed!" Ms. Continuing noticed.
"How... How?!" Brajira couldn't believe it.
"I'm just a passing-by Kamen Rider... Remember that."/"通りすがりの仮面ライダーだ。覚えておけ!"
The Final Kamen Ride: Decade Complete graphic in the right palm got popped out and morphed into an auxiliary smartphone: a new K-Touch, resembling the K-Touch 21 without the number-21 graphics and a black screen that come to life with an actual operating system (OS) and not just crests.
K-Touch Dimensions!
"What the!?" Brajira is shocked.
"This is..." Amaya noticed.
"Kamen Rider Decade..." Hope noticed.
"Dimension." Brajira called the form.
Tsukasa put the Decadriver to the right side and the K-Touch right in the center, just like with Complete forms. He then scrolled through the screen and touched...
BLADE! EX-AID! ZI-O! (*11)
Then Tsukasa pulled a GrandZi-O...
FINAL KAMEN RIDE: GRANDZI-O!
Rider Time! Kamen Rider Zi-O! Grand Time! Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Bla~de! Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva, Deca~de! W! OOO! Fourze~! Wizard, Gaim, Drive~! Ghost! Ex-Aid! Build~! Iwae! Kamen Rider~! Grand Zi-O~!
The demand inputted on K-Touch has-
"Enough! I'm done with this confrontation! A waste of me, a messiah!" Shippu! "You will be-"
Brajira crashed onto the fist in the face by... a summoned Blade King Form.
Kimewaza! Hyper Critical Sparkling!
FINAL ATTACK RIDE: Z-Z-Z-ZI-O!
Finish Time! All 20 Time Break!
Zikan Girade! Saikyo Girade! Saikyo!
"Everyone, stay out!" Tsukasa summoned Saikyo Zikan Girade, pre-assembled.
Goretsu! "No!" Brajira tried to defend himself.
Saikyo Finish Time: King Giri Giri Slash!
Everyone else stepped back except Brajira, who's combo-slashed by Tsukasa and Blade King Form with King Rouzer. Continuously, for a few dozens of seconds. Brajira ended up clutching down in the ground as the two stops and then Blade disappears, and- HIT-HIT-HIT-HIT-HIT-HIT-HIT-HIT-HIT-GREAT-...
"AAARGH! NO!" Brajira is fragged out by the effects of Muteki Gamer.
Kanzen Shori! (Perfect Victory!)
Brajira exploded violently, causing fireball bursts at radius.
"GrandZi-O Dimension, done. Now I..." Tsukasa reverted to Kamen Rider Decade Dimension Form. "Now it's over!"
ZERO-ONE! Tsukasa pulled out something just as shocking to Brajira.
Brajira barely survived the finish, clearly bleeding corrupted Gosei Angel essence and blood.
"Do it!" Liam Shadow called.
FINAL KAMEN RIDE: ZERO-THREE!
Zero-Three Rise! One: One prediction! Two: Two intelligence! Three: Three circles! Go! Beyond! One two three! Kamen Rider Zero-Three! Is there arc?
"Get lost, false messiah!" Kyon picked Brajira up...
ATTACK RIDE: DARKNESS STRAND!
Kyon launched Brajira up to the sky with Strand.
FINAL ATTACK RIDE: Z-Z-Z-ZERO-THREE!
Zero-Three Big Bang!
In a blink of an eye, Tsukasa as Decade Zero-Three Dimension did a Rider Kick on Brajira. This instantly fatal and exploded the fallen Gosei Angel into ludicrous gibs inside flames, killing him once more.
A hour later, the teams were able to calm down the Loopers turned Ride-Players.
"The Darkbolts have relaunched Kamen Rider Chronicle. It's playing on all realities ever." Jones announced. "We cannot let that slide. We have to end the Darkbolts and their game! And with that mission in mind, welcome... Pechy Comet!
"I am Pechy Comet, the Dreamcatcher princess, and the Goddess of the Wishing Star. We came back here. We know this place. But it has been targeted, and so is every 'verses ever." Pechy announced. "We have just survived the Battleworld 52, a patchwork multiverse built by the Darkbolts themselves using the Big Bang and sacrificing our Rift Butterfly girl and our commander, Ms. Continuum of the Continuum Exploitation Authority. The mascot. Look at the naked woman with Rift Butterfly wings of you remember - that's one of the logos. And now, we're... wait... Why don't you remember anything about the Battleworlds?"
Aurora Curtain is used as an improvised screen, showing what happened in Battleworld 52, including its destruction.
"Magnifico?"
"King? The king?"
"Wait... P-1 Special? Where was I?"
"Oh no..."
The Loopers finally realized the rumor's truth and how the P-1 Special got rigged to give birth to Battleworld 52.
"Oh hell no!"
"Of course he is!"
"That king's Shatter's benefactor!"
"Did he help plan the second Hyper Genesis Wave?!"
"Kamen Rider Chronicle is just his latest plan?"
"He's a liar!"
"A tyrant on the run!"
"I knew it!"
"If only Magnifico stayed on the specter..."
"King Magnifico went too far!"
"He isn't sympathetic enough anymore!"
"I'd prefer watching 'Wish' over seeing him in person... not that that movie was exactly good aside from him being a very good villain."
"Seriously? A movie character terrorizing all of existence, dragging real life down to-"
"Can't believe we dealing with him..."
"That rumor's disgusting when one look back on it..."
"Ridiculous!"
"Who let this crap take over!?"
"Jones is right. Magnifico's gotta go straight back to the dungeon!"
"Who would've thought a king would go so far for a petty revenge?"
"Disney! Once we're done with him, lock him in the dungeon!"
"That forbidden book did it?"
"I dunno... just hated what he's become."
The Loopers is fed up with Magnifico's revenge. They agreed with the Starstorm, and wants Kamen Rider Chronicle to be shut down once more. The Darkbolts immediately became targeted.
"Of course Magnifico and his Darkbolts would never let down and give up! But so, neither will we!" Pechy pointed the sky. "Make a wish! We will lead you to victory and salvation!"
BGM: This Wish
"Isn't truth supposed to set you free?" Sang the Ride-Players.
"Well, why do I feel so weighed down by it?"
"If I could show them everything I've seen"
"Open their eyes to all the lies then"
"Would they change their minds like I did?"
Initially unbeknownst to everyone, the singing Ride-Players started getting turned into floating dust flying away as they sing.
"But when I speak, they tell me, 'Sit down'"
"But how can I when I've already started runnin'?"
"Oh, this is where we've been"
"But it's not where we belong"
"And I may be young, but I know I'm not wrong"
"Pechy! The Loopers are being automatically dusted as they sing!" Amaya noticed.
"So I look up at the stars to guide me"
"And throw caution to every warning sign"
"If knowing what it could be is what drives me" But Amaya quickly panicked.
"Then let me be the first to stand in line"
"So I make this wish"
"PECHY! THE LOOPERS ARE BEING DUSTED!" Amaya screamed.
At the same time, the Loopers started get a bit confused while singing - they're slowly being dusted, one by one. Literally.
"To have something more for us than this"
"So I make-" BGM suddenly stopped.
Amaya assaulted Pechy with her scythe, forcing everyone to stop singing. Nearly one-third of the Loopers turned Ride-Players had just been dusted away to death, akin to the Decimation by Infinity Gauntlet.
"What!?" Pechy is baffled at the sight.
She isn't alone. The Loopers are shocked at what just happened to some of their friends and rivals.
"Kamen Rider Chronicle won't let us sing that song." Akia pointed it out. "It's a taboo, based on the effect. Magnifico's pissed."
"Magnifico hates everyone he do for all that happened at Rosas since Asha wished up." Earla pointed it out.
"We can't sing anymore?" The Loopers are confused.
"Magnifico hates that song. Sorry." Pechy apologized.
"It's not your fault, Pechy. The Darkbolts hates your guts." Paige reassured her daughter.
"I think we can connected the two Islands using something unobtrusive." Kyon suggested.
"Oh yeah! The main Loopers!" Miranda noticed.
A small plane of Aurora Curtain connecting the Nightshift Forest and Restored Reels together, allowing for extremely-easy reality hopping, made possible with the setup by the three Decades. Unfortunately, by that point...
"What?" The Night Rose is baffled.
There are Ride-Players trying and killing each other as well. There's only two left untransformed: the main ones, formerly Mecha Strike Navigator and Defender.
"Loopers! What's going on!?" Jones cut to the chase.
"They've transformed into armored browns that automatically fights like true Loopers! Builds and Zero-Build overshield and all!" Former Defender immediately pointed at a created building. "Now the those armored can one-pump demons in forced bloodshed!"
"These have become Ride-Players." Tsukasa then quickly explained what's happening right now. "We're in Kamen Rider Chronicle. That Gashat has just been patched."
"And who did it?" Former Navigator suspected.
"The Darkbolts. We saw you as would-be attack dogs of theirs, freeing yourself to help us." Gary recalled. "You were... infused with Magnifico's magic?"
"Yes." Said the male. "They tried to Take us." (*12)
"They've Taken me and forced me to kill my friends." Luna recalled. (*12)
"Now they're hosting Kamen Rider Chronicle... They most likely have the Singularity and his son working for them." Hope showed the way. "You know what to do."
Soon, the Ride-Players at Oninoshima stopped fighting each other. An alliance has been formed, and the war against Darkbolts will continue. However...
If they could use Zein's property and wild cards together...
The woman with heterochromia and with blonde hair making her skin-tight clothes is spying on them.
Absurd. They're going to attack the levels itself! And they have those... willpower. I have to be wary. Heck, my dear boy could be in danger. I will not let them thrive. We will not. We pull them down to death. They're just animals, nothing more. I am a god... they must not get to defy us. Darkbolts eternal. All hail Darkbolts...
The woman sneaked out of Oninoshima.
Location: Night City
Ride-Players! We may have lost our kingdoms together, but us alone are gods! Welcome to Kamen Rider Chronicle! Fuck your "home", this is the game to play! And you will never quit or cancel, because we've patched it! Kamen Rider Chronicle is a game all of you should play! You should like it, no matter what! Kamen Rider Chronicle will be loved eternally! This is published by the disgraced Darkbolts, the last chance to be... beloved. Abandon all hope, ye who desecrate the passage of fate. Play well, and salvation shall come. Desire Royale is the way, and you are the travelers. Good luck!
And so the city of dreams went to hell. Criminals and fighters, as Ride-Players, gained a noticable advantage in term of combat because of their brutality and combat experience respectively. The police weren't spared - they too became Ride-Players and is pitted off against the cyberpsychos who also have become Ride-Players as well.
In short, excessive chaos erupted all over not only the city, but the entire world. And that's where a strange director comes in...
"The curtain has risen again." It's Angela.
Angela looks... different. She still have the light blue hair and yellow eyes, but the hair's messy. The librarian outfit have been scratched and torn, and overlaid by a simple ballistic armor. She's been attacked by someone from nowhere and had to come out damaged. She's holding a red tone physically disguised as medical book: The Almighty Book (全知全能の書, *13). She doesn't know who gifted this book, but she has to get around all the fighting that the Ride-Players are in.
"Sandevistan." A neon book from her memories with a crossing...
Angela blitzed the scene while the Ride-Players are fighting each other. At this time, somebody has arrived to collect some spoils...
"Heh... Clean it up."
It's that girl with the elements embedded into her uniform and her body again.
"Huh!?" A cyberpsycho Ride-Players stoked upon her. "Who... Who are you?!"
"The daughter that you now forgot. So remember this name..." The girl gleefully revealed. "Hortus Zankyo."/"残響ホルタス"
"What!?" The cyberpsycho is shocked. "How did you-"
"You thought I died in the P-1 Special?" (*14) "X-Alliance and my parents nursed me back and gave me a special gift in need..."
A strange, physically plasticky but very ominous book. And so Hortus inserted it. The cyberpsycho quickly ran away.
"HELP! HELP! I FOUND! STOP FIGHTING!"
"Nobody will."
Open the Grimoire! The End of the Story! Kamen Rider Storious! Fuhahahahahaha!
"I am... Neo Storious. Hahahahah!"
Cue the cyberpsycho frozen by Stasis. Hortus used Void Light to crush the cyberpsycho, killing him instantly. Nearby Ride-Players saw all this, and immediately fled for their safety.
Meanwhile, Angela finally found the same multiversal communication device used to contact Tracking Error and the City Founders. (*2) It's been hidden by the Arasaka (*15) due to its potential dangers - having known of the device from the Anti-Imagine crisis, Angela now gets to use it to help everyone...
"It's still working." Angela turned on the device.
The device is active. It's time to call someone.
My people! My people! A ruler panicked.
"Greetings, dear guest."
You... Who are you?
"I am Angela, the Library director."
I, Doom.
It's Doctor Doom speaking. My people has transformed into humanoid armored monsters, going insane over time, and threatening even my own life.
"Mr. Doom-"
It is Doctor Doom.
"I see. So... you seems to be facing the same problem as I'm currently seeing right now..."
I do not know what these monsters are. I only know that they were transformed from my people.
"I'm using this... strange yet familiar device... one that helped preparations for one time the existence is saved." (*2) "By that point, I have a book that can turn me into a cyberpunk. Cyberpsycho, even. This device is in the Night City... You cannot reach it in normal ways. You'll need to-"
Hop between realities, am I right?
Angela confirmed.
Very well. I'll arrange- ARGH!
Doctor Doom has been attacked by Singularity Jr.
"What?!" Angela heard the smack.
Hello, librarian. We meet again. You remember my empress, didn't you?
"You... you... that god-scientist!"
So you remember me too. My father have relaunched the Kamen Rider Chronicle. The only game anyone in existence should live, ever. Other games maybe optional, but Kamen Rider Chronicle is mandatory. So we updated it so nobody can leave! No shutdown, no way to rage-quit - not even Godmodders are safe! They're to play it for eternally infinity! You librarian want to shut down? Shut yourself down, this game is eternal-
"Shut up."
I could throw Doctor Doom and spawn your associates to wherever you are! Heck... but first... I'mma hotfix this.
The device suddenly shuts down.
"Huh? Why did it?" Angela fiddled around in confusion.
She couldn't turn it on anymore. Angela is shocked.
"This thing is now broken...!"
Angela gave up the device and ran away. A rift appeared in the sky, spitting Doctor Doom down.
"Haaaaarh!" Doom fell down.
And then he handed like a meteor feet, crashing the ground and easy to get up. Doom has arrived! But!
"Is this..." Doom realized. "Those wannabes' doing?"
RIDER TIME! KAMEN RIDER BLACK! ZI-O!
George Kurai of Century King Zi-O. Jouji Minami. As Kamen Rider Black Zi-O. "These Ride-Players..."
"Ride... Players?" Doom is confused.
"Y-yeah, they're all over the place. And..." Black Zi-O then looked at Hortus as Kamen Rider Storious executing some of the Ride-Players with paracausal tricks.
There, a guy is walking by. He is now on the sight, which attracted the two's attention. Meanwhile, Angela rushed and stumbled upon a team of refugees, who all recognized her - they're actually the Sephirahs, the Patron Librarians.
"The Night City. But it's been overrun by forced slaughter." Ms. Continuum arrived with the Aurora Curtain. "Mr. Decade and Kadoya."
"I'll do it." Laelynn suggested.
"Seriously? You're in my way." The man immediately...
ZI-O!
A Ziku-Driver was now seen on the young man's waist. But the HUD had a different color from Black Zi-O's. It was emerald green. The driver had the colors of silver and black colors. On the right side of the belt, there was the image of a Kamen Rider and the numbers "1987" dyed in emerald green. Automatically, a giant holographic clock would form right behind him, with several different clock gears that were turning, as well as the clock hands spinning counterclockwise. A visual of a digital clock would be seen in the middle of the clock, with the numbers "1987" dyed in emerald green.
The belt would tilt by itself and decide to automatically spin over 340 degrees counterclockwise until it went back to its original position, and the world almost felt like it was hanging upside down. A smoky white aura would suddenly cover and glow throughout Souta's body. The holographic clock behind him would spins together at the XII, with both of its arms in the same direction, forming the twelve and twenty-fourth hour.
RIDER TIME! KAMEN RIDER SHADOW MOON! ZI-O!
"Rider Time!" were announced normally, in a male tone, from the belt. Then "Kamen Rider Shadow Moon!" were heard in a solemn, sober tone, from a voice of Kohtaro Minami himself. Then "Zi-O!" were uttered a little differently, with a solemn tone.
Emerald green katakana letters that spelled "Rider" (ライダー) on the clock would change into red colors as they pulse outwards, launching them forward as three holographic watch bands would encircle around the guy, forming into a suit of armor that looked like a mixture of advanced cybernetics and industrial age technology, with strange beeping sounds. The bands would disappear a moment later as the armor had completed its formation. The year of the belt's visor was showing the words "1987" in glowing emerald green colors.
The armor was a jet-black suit, with noticeable black sharp edge blades protruding on the arms, legs, and neck, where steams likened to fuel provided for old trains were rising out of it, creating a semi-fog-like atmosphere. It was donning a full body armor of black and dark-green colors. He had black and dark green shoulder pads, black gloves, and black boots. On both of his forearms, attached were holders carrying two black watches on his right, and one blank watch on his left. A silver watch said "Bike" (バイク) in Japanese, carried by the left watch holder.
His helmet looked like a classic grandfather-like clock with a white clock piece, that had the symbol spelled "Kamen" (カメン) on the forehead, along with a metallic V-shaped horn on the forehead, with a black visor that would gain color once the katakana letters flew back and slam into the visor, shining brightly into an emerald green.
"Kamen Rider Shadow Moon Zi-O... Souta Mizushino." The guy introduced himself.
"Souta?!" Black Zi-O heard it.
"Who are you?" Doom asked.
"He's Black Sun." Shadow Moon Zi-O pointed at Black Zi-O while saying that, and then relaxed the gesture. "I'm Shadow Moon. We're the Century Kings."
"Century Kings... Hmph." Hortus scoffed.
Hortus removed the Doom's Driver Buckle still with the Grimoire Wonder Ride Book in, partially detransforming into a flicker of herself and the Kamen Rider Storious overlaid into her, akin to opacity effect on the overall suit. By this point, the Starstorm have arrived.
Pechy and Amaya and friends saw this, and "Shit!"
They couldn't believe Hortus survived the Persona attack (*14) and got to become a Kamen Rider.
"Hortus Zankyo."/"残響ホルタス" She revealed herself. "You all thought I was killed by Sho Minazuki... but my parents and the X-Alliance saved me. Not only that... they gifted me..."
The Dooms Driver with Grimoire then shrunk down into... a Vistamp. A Vistamp based on Kamen Rider Storious.
Juuga Driver!
"What's happening?" Angela and the Patron Librarians arrived.
"Doom? Minami?" Pechy called. "Why are you here in Kamen Rider Chronicle?"
"Mr. Doom!" Angela noticed.
And now Hortus is surrounded. She inserted the Vistamp...
Almighty DOOM! Storytime's End! Almighty DOOM! Storytime's End!
The looping standby is both ominous and frenzied. The Vistamp is forcing the driver to blare that, and it gave everyone suspicions.
"What the?!" Tsukasa is confused. "What's this Vistamp?"
"What's this power?" Black Zi-O have no idea.
"How in the hell is this thing?" Shadow Moon Zi-O suspected.
Hortus then laughed like a maniac. "This is what you all get for killing my beloved!" *droops down into a solemn expression* "Henshin."/"変身"
Scramble! Open the Grimoire! Subete no monogatari no owari da! Kamen Rider... Neo Storious! Fuhahahahahahahahahaha! Go over.
The "Scramble" is announced as normally for Juuga Driver, and then "Open the Grimoire" announced in the tone for the Grimoire Wonder Ride Book used to transform. Then "The end of all stories!" in Japanese sounded extremely deranged, and so is the psychotic scream of "Kamen Rider... Neo Storious!" The following laugh returned to the tone of the Grimoire Wonder Ride Book and finally, the "Go over" has the same tone and energy as the Juuga Driver.
The transformation is the combination of Kamen Rider Juuga and Kamen Rider Storious, with black miasmas running into the Juuga smoke around, resulting in the same reveal effect as Storious, complete with amber hues and black feather wings that turns into the same cape as normal Storious. The resulting form has the same suit and lower armors and wrists as Juuga, but the rest - shoulders, chest and helmet - are the same as Storious, up to the identical face that also glows similarly, only with gold and green hues together instead of just green.
"Kamen Rider Neo Storious?" The alien Decade squinted.
"What the...!" Black Zi-O couldn't believe it.
"You're...!" Shadow Moon Zi-O couldn't believe it.
"Kamen Rider Neo Storious. Powered by the Storium Vistamp!" Hortus revealed. "The ultimate grimoire. A fitting story meant for the daughter of the Second Knife."
ATTACK RIDE: BLAST!
ATTACK RIDE: SOLAR LIGHT!
Kyon turned his Ride Booker into his makeshift Golden Gun, and rapid shot the Golden Gun projectiles onto Hortus. As both Neo Storious and the experiment No.14, she's immune.
"Get lost." Hortus blasted Kyon away.
FINAL KAMEN RIDE: DECADE COMPLETE 21!
The alien became Decade Complete Form21 and engaged with Storious. The alien were easily intercepted and got grabbed by Hortus, whose superior Rider capabilities combined with paracausal blessings easily take the metaphorical cake.
"No!" Black Zi-O rushed.
"Stop!" Shadow Moon Zi-O rushed.
"Jouji Minami, Souta Mizushino!" Ms. Continuum warned. "Black Zi-O! Shadow Moon Zi-O! Step back, you're no match for her!"
ZIKAN REVOLCANE! SABER!
ZIKAN SATAN! SABER!
The two managed to land a salad and a slash on Hortus. While she isn't hurry, she's briefly stunned, and so...
FLASH! *beeps*
"Huh? Somebody used this watch before?" (*16) Black Zi-O recalled. "Very well... Time to..."
It was a Ridewatch that had the image of a scarlet-masked individual with two thunderbolts on the side. The year "1940" (*17) was present on the watch. The powers of the Flash and his Flash family, packed with the full power of the Speed Force.
REVERSE-FLASH! *beeps*
The elusive Shadow Moon, too, would draw out a Ridewatch. It had the image of a yellow-masked individual with two thunderbolts on the side and red nefarious eyes. The year "1963" was present on the watch. (*17)
"Black Sun. Go do it."
"Well... mass times acceleration equal force!"
Instinctively, he, as well as Shadow Moon, respectively placed their Ridewatches on their respective sides, as the belts tilted and turned to a completed 360-degree angle.
ARMOR TIME!
"What're you doing?!" Hortus noticed.
Then various pieces of armor would sprout from the belt as they both attacked one another and Hortus at the same time, before coming back to their respective owners, and attaching themselves to them.
FASTEST MAN ALIVE~! I FORGIVE YOU~! THE FLASH~! Kamen Rider Black Zi-O FlashArmor. The same kind as the one who busted Magnifico and the lost Zerobreaker. (*16) Themed after the Flash, most specifically Jay Garrick, Barry Allen and Wally West.
FASTER THAN FAST~! IT WAS ME~! REVERSE FLASH~! Kamen Rider Shadow Moon Zi-O ReverseFlashArmor, the counter to the FlashArmor. Themed after Professor Zoom and Eobard Thawne.
Their armor now had several parts that were crimson and yellow, with each having the thunderbolt logos and horns attached to the center and headpieces.
With yellow and crimson lightning erupting, both Postive and Negative Speed Force energies emanating from them...
"Speed Force!? But prolific super-speed are cheating!" Hortus complained.
"We're not Ride-Players!" Black Zi-O corrected Hortus.
Hortus blitzed with all the speed Neo Storious can get - Neo Storious is much faster Juuga or Storious, rated 100m per 0.24 seconds - but that wasn't nearly enough, both Zi-O can now run several marathons (42.195 km / 26.219 miles each) in mere milliseconds.
"AAARGH!" Hortus as Neo Storious is easily out-speeded.
Either way, the three is far too fast for most to even keep up, so Pechy and Amaya and friends, and Hope and Jones didn't even bother catching up with the fight.
This... is Speed Force in... action? Hortus didn't account for it, and is now being given her ass out.
The terrifying new Speed Force Users that were displaying their prowess in the blink of an eye. Hortus tried to use the powers of Light and Dark, but the two were far too fast.
A speed of force.
That was what Hortus was feeling as she was being ceremoniously dragged through what people intimately understood was the Speed Force, one of the most fundamental energies within entire multiverses. She could hear various echoes of voices, familiar and unfamiliar, including images from both past and future, from this strange tunnel as she was being dragged along, and at the same fighting against the Century Kings, who were tagging along for the ride.
And then... Hypertime.
"Yikes..." Malkuth exclaimed and tired.
"What happened?" Doom stepped down.
"Doom!" Pechy noticed.
Everyone gathered while the Night City's Ride-Players are still fighting each other. And so, the information exchange, leading to learning everything from the how the Hyper Genesis Wave is related all the way to the end of Battleworld 52 and the relaunch of Kamen Rider Chronicle. And finally...
"Bang!" Black Zi-O crashed Neo Storious back down.
The Century Kings of alternative A.R. have brought Hortus down. She's too tired and overloaded, but she's too stubborn to let the devices in the driver cancel the transformation.
"Hortus? Oh stars." Pechy scoffed. "Mr. Kadoya, end her. We cannot stand her anymore!"
MULTIVERSE: DIMENSION! Dimension Time!
Tsukasa transformed straight from his base into...
Dimension Dai-Dai-Dai-Shogun!
"Wait... DECADE!?" Black Zi-O is shocked.
"Decade Dimension." Tsukasa moved his Decadriver to the side.
GEATS!
Tsukasa pulled out a GeatsIX...
FINAL KAMEN RIDE: GEATSIX!
Dynamite Boost! GeatsIX. "GeatsIX Dimension." Ready, fight!
Geats Buster QB9! in Railgun Mode.
Tsukasa shot Hortus repeatedly, forcing detransform(ation). The QB9 is loaded with the power of the God of Genesis (創世の神, *18), and so...
"HEEEEELP!"
The blasts destroyed Hortus, just like a Dread being slain. Decade killed her. All that's left is the Juuga Driver and the Storium Vistamp.
"Experiment No.23 was terminated by reboot, and now... No.14 terminated by Decade." The Night Rose smug, while her inner mind is merely relieved. "Please, don't look. I'm being honest."
Tsukasa reverted back to the normal Dimension, and the Century Kings reverted back to their base as well. The two were however exhausted, because they've genuinely exerted themselves just to grind down with the Speed Force.
"Doom. You've called a library?" Hope called.
"I picked it up while I was being attacked by my people turned Ride-Players. I didn't know they were automatically transformed." Doom reported. "Hope... You talentless artist... How did you..."
"Meet us us." Kendo revealed the Oninoshima gang. "And we are here to save all. Including our dear Island."
-*sobs* "Can you please..."
A beggar is crawling towards the teams.
"Enough of my torture... I saw... it... all..." The beggar pleaded.
"Who are you?" Black Zi-O asked.
"You... Storious? The real Storious?" Ms. Continuum recognized the beggar.
The beggar - Storious, former Story Megid - reached for the Storium Vistamp on the ground.
"He's reaching for his powers!" Pechy is surprised.
"Who did it to you?" Shadow Moon Zi-O asked.
"Dark... bolts..." Storious finally touched the Vistamp.
A hour later...
"What did we..."
All the Ride-Players in the Night City has stopped fighting each other. Meanwhile, Storious is nursed back to health with Jade's help.
"Uhhhh..." Storious woke up.
"Mr. Megid, got ya!" Pechy tagged Storious. "Are you alright?"
"Much better..." Storious sighed in relief.
"Now you can use Slurp." Ivy Jolicoeur brought Slurp Juice to Storious. "Welcome to our fight against the Darkbolts."
"Drink it. It's safe to use." Ivy Comet called. "Mister, just drink it. You don't have to hesitate."
Storious drank the Slurp Juice, which massively improved his recovery. Letting him get back to fighting shape.
"That driver Hortus has used... a Juuga Driver... it's yours now." Jones gave Storious the driver and the Vistamp. "This Vistamp has your powers. In case of combat, use it."
"Oh... thanks. Can you help me with the Wonder World?" Storious asked. "An army of Zein... hunting us down..."
Storious accepted the driver and retrieved the Vistamp. Some ripper-docs calibrated the former Megid and entrusted the alliance.
"So this is a very pressing matter." Yesod recalled. "So much so, that we have to find Roland and... Angelica?"
"Yawwwwwnnn... How about coffee?" Netzach reached for Chesed's mug.
"Sephirahs. I want a favor." Ivy Comet suggested.
The Patron Librarians noticed.
"We're going to raid Reality-616 and its variants. We're going to seek help from variants of the Time Variance Authority." Ivy Comet declared. "This way, we can catch every levels of Kamen Rider Chronicle, free the existence and end Darkbolts. We need all the help we can get."
Hokma and Binah pointed at the evidence board, pointing at where to start.
"Where we droppin'?" Storious got back up.
"Here." Ivy Comet pointed at that.
Location: House of Heroes
"They killed my goddaughter!?" The woman got the report.
"Dad... I saw that Kamen Rider finish her off..." Singularity Jr. reported. "And they're going to hack everything!"
"If this reach the Second Knife, they'll..." A strange magician in girly body kneeled down.
"Dono, please upgrade the security!" A male machinist kneeled.
"Please spare us all!" A little bunch of the Prismatic Fleet kneeled.
"How about... you use your nature. Enforce the Phenomenal Affirmation." A beast suggested. "The teams will eventually get over the Ride-Players and bypass the security eventually. We have to make sure it's safe. The likes of Pechy-"
"Huh? Really?"
The woman with a digital breath. "You're telling me to do the trick?"
"It is because you've adapted! Now you can do what you think you're supposed to!" The beast noted. "If you don't, them clear you out and you'll die!"
"You... Phenomenal... Affirmation?"
This is what Singularity is meant to do. After all, it's been integral to his conquest. He's in his best state ever - why wouldn't he do it? Besides, Kamen Rider Chronicle is working very well - the Darkbolts wouldn't let rebels break it down.
"Phenomenal Affirmation... Yeah... I had already planned to make use of it..." S/he said.
"It's a good thing you decided to infect both Eyes of the World, spreading your effects into the Chaos in full and then..." The magician sighed in brief relief.
"Now I'm Arch-Eve Origin and Lukaon in one with both Eyes! I am the most powerful! I deserve Phenomenal Affirmation!" Yes.
It's really Singularity, in a new female body made of Chaos' most prolific and greatest. This and the lingering effects as well as the Eyes are what's needed for this Phenomenal Affirmation for real. He in her body thanked the bunch, and then called Magnifico for some planning. Unfortunately for them...
I'm a ghost now, I can freely intervene...
A Parka Ghost (*19) themed as a Watcher has been eavesdropping everything. He also saw Fire God Liu Kang, Geras, Nix Uotan the Superjudge and some other, all hostage.
Poor ones... I need to intervene know, but if the Darkbolts spot me... no, no, no... I have to get a way...
The House of Heroes is greeted by a stolen mass-starship - no, a mothership - and there...
Location: Miss Continuum's mothership
In the war room...
"In the honor of our dear platonic girlfriend and my beloved Amaya, we've unleashed the Anti-Imagine Equation to create our mass-produced Gentry." Magnifico spoke. "We've also confiscated the shards of hundreds of versions of the Zero Point for our use."
"We have calcified all the off-limit areas so the players would fight more safely across all environments." The Arch-Titan reported. "This includes sealing every nooks and crannies that can be taken advantage to break the game and threaten us."
The Singularity in the Arch-body arrived at the war room.
"Sorry! I'm late!" The tyrannical AI took a seat. "I have one good new and one bad new."
"Singularity, what's up?" Magnifico noticed.
"The good news is I, having infected the two Eyes of the World to get around the willpower that created temporal feedback loop that drove me insane... Can you help me with Phenomenal Affirmation?" Singularity smiles. "Gaoza, GoGoi and Magini suggested me to take advantage of my new body and powers!"
"Bad news? Seriously?" The Godhunter squinted.
"The Second Knife, my friends..." Singularity droops down. "Kamen Rider Decade... killed your daughter."
This utterly shook the Second Knife trio. An unbelievable trauma to them - they finally learned the final fate of their beloved daughter, a.k.a. experiment No.14.
"We've lost No.1, No.14 and No.23 now..." A Darkbolts-loyal Dalek emulated the cries of sadness and mourning.
"No... No..." The Great Warlock couldn't believe.
The Great Warlock's trembled at the news. Some rebels managed to take her life, now they're horrified.
"Ahhh... no... Fuck no!" The Godhunter left the room in despair.
The fist of the very evil Warlock ended up clenching in rage.
Note: Welcome to 2025! This is the first chapter of 2025, a whole new ride for this time to come! (Unless you're reading this at least a full year after this was originally posted... oh hoh hoh, time flies!) After the end of Battleworld 52, the entire extended omniverse got rebooted, and the main days resumed. The exposes Ms. Continuum and the extended Starstorm got to the Society reality from Chapter 5 - the "Helios" Island - and of course, it's really Kamen Rider Chronicle in action! The Loopers are horrified and became paranoid, and it took Riders to end it.
Speaking of which, this chapter started mixing lingering plots of the previous fictions to this Dreamcatcher: Warzone, with Singularity Jr. and the Anti-Imagine Equation being very much on the stage. It starts with the Kamen Rider Chronicle turning the Loopers in Chapter 5 world into Ride-Players, and spawning a bunch of special Gentry - I've looked into the Gentry of DC Comics, and came up with ideas of the hybrid between all 5 main components: Intellectron, Same Merciless, Demogorgunn, Hellmachine and Lord Broken. The Gentry are normally led by the Empty Hand in the carcass of what would later be dubbed Multiverse-2. For more info about the Anti-Imagine Equation, see Successor of Anti-Life and O.R.A.C., but the Anti-Imagine Equation corrupts existence itself, even the Gentry which would further the horror they are. Now the horror angels, the mass-produced Gentry, came, and on the reality No.5, both Decades - the alien Decade that fought alongside the CXA in SoAL, and the original Decade - Tsukasa Kadoya after his cameo in Kamen Rider Gotchard vs. Kamen Rider Legend (2023, web) - to strike these down. "We're passing-by Double Riders" therefore became attached as a cross-reference to both Decade's phrase and the Double Riders as a whole, complete alongside recognition and continuity nods (the saavy Looper returns too).
The conflict within Chapter 5 post-chapter confines this time is Brajira of the Messiah from Tensou Sentai Goseiger (天装戦隊ゴセイジャー, 2010) as Another GeizRevive, an Another Rider based on GeizRevive altogether but also with the ability to summon secondary Riders related stuffs like GeizMajesty (akin to Another Zi-O having Zi-O II's clairvoyance, or Another Zi-O II capable of summoning Another Heisei Riders like GrandZi-O do normal Heisei). Dubbed Buredoran of War (戦国のブレドラン), Brajira seeks to properly execute his original plan from home series that the Goseigers themselves had ultimately completely thwarted. Too bad, the alien ended up holding the line as Decade GeizRevive, and then Tsukasa ended up with Zein's Dimension Card. Since I wrote that Ron has become Kamen Rider Decade and then used the Dimension Card himself, I explained that into this scene with the context that Ron had used the cards to confirm its compatibility, which worked. Since Tsukasa and related ones are the most qualified, they get to handle the power of the Dimension Card, which ended up initially seeing him on fire and electricity.
For Decade Dimension Form, I wrote it as a full league above Decade Complete forms (including Decade Complete Form21 which was somewhat overpowered in its own right) and Violent Emotion, just as Decade Complete and Violent Emotion were to base Decade: The functions of Complete forms and Violent Emotion combined into a shogun-inspired Battlizer-styled upgrade with same base color palette as Decade's base form's overall color palette, as well as having some Shocker-inspired rob-ing and helmet on top of that (referencing Tsukasa's old job and nature). The transformation jingle takes some cue from normal Decade stuff, Gaim (15th Heisei) and Zi-O (20th Heisei) while adding "Dimension" in both wording and tone, while the henshin sequence is a mix of Blade (5th Heisei) and typical Decade and Zero-One (1st Reiwa). 224 cm (2.24 meters) tall and weighing 116kg (255.7 lbs), Decade Dimension Form is rated with 428.1 tons of punching power, 1,474.6 tons of kicking power, jumping up to 386 meters high and running 100 meters at down to 0.06 second. In addition, Decade Dimension Form has access to K-Touch Dimensions, a version of K-Touch with actual OS to access the power of all Kamen Riders ever, especially from primary (accessing Decade can spawn a Diendriver, accessing Ex-Aid gives powerful Gashats for free, etc.), as well as transform into most extreme variations of any primary Riders and so on (Zero-Three, Almighty (Xross) Saber, Gotchard Daybreak, etc.) at same height and weight but barely improved stats and skills. Fitting for both the Dimension reset and King of Kamen Riders himself.
After Brajira died again, the Loopers got to sing "The Wish", only to slowly getting dusted in doing so, showing that rage-quitting isn't an option either. Everyone's going to play, no matter what. So the alliance decided to do it the hard way, recruiting the now-free main Loopers (us in Fortnite!) and the now-rogue Ride-Players against the Darkbolts. Which leads to us Angela the Director in the Night City - a nice continuity callback to Beyond the Edge - and the return of the communication device from O.R.A.C. Doctor Doom is back, Black Zi-O is back, Shadow Moon Zi-O (Souta Mizushino) arrives and... HORTUS!? Yes! She survived Sho Minazuki's attempt at her own life back in chapter #11! Surrounded by the Starstorm and gang's, Doctor Doom, the Century Kings, the (also returning) Patron Librarians and co., turns out Hortus has become a Kamen Rider thanks to Bad End Shocker-Zangyack X-Alliance without the Great Shocker (who's now executed already).
Kamen Rider Neo Storious starts out as the new Storious but she removed the Doom's Driver Buckle with the Grimoire Wonder Ride Book in, which turns into Storium Vistamp for her to use Juuga Driver, hence the mixture of transformations in both sequence and henshin announcement. Neo Storious is 214.9 cm tall and 136.1 kg (300 lbs), and is rated for 136 tons punching, 360.9 tons kicking, jumping up to 240.6 meters high and running 100 meters down to 0.24 second (0.6 times 0.4 equal 0.24), as well as Juuga's physique (no dedicated Genome though) and all of Storious' abilities in one Rider. The Storium Vistamp stays after Hortus is killed, and it and the Juuga Driver is given to a recovering Storious.
Century King Zi-O bears Hortus using both the Flash Ridewatch and the Reverse-Flash Ridewatch - Jouji and Souta floored with 32.195 km (26.219 miles) per 10 milliseconds, or 100 meters per 3.10607E-8 second! Over 10 times the speed of light, which is only possible because of the Speed Force! Even if we don't account for the F-equal-ma (force-mass-accel) that Newton's Second law of motion dictates, Hortus is doomed because not even she could out-speed anything when Speed Force gets locked in. Hortus vulnerable, Decade becomes GeatsIX, shoots down the Second Knife's daughter. Poetic stats.
And with that, Night City is freed, Storious is nursed back to health, and everyone's ready. Meanwhile... turns out the woman in hair clothes is actually the meat suit for the Singularity, who had to infect the Eyes of the World from the ancient past to get around the temporal feedback loop that Arch-Eve Origin nature and Jeanne's resolve created back in Jeanne's Tale DLC. He got reminded of Phenomenal Affirmation and his multiversal conquest, and so he arrives... Miss Continuum's mothership? Actually, the Darkbolts managed to steal the mothership as their own, so now they got a new war room. The news of Hortus' demise triggered the Second Knife and traumatized them, though... The Prismatic Fleet is pissed.
Next stop: Marvel! Be sure to promote the entire crossover project as well! Confused? Here's how you can do it: share the project and the fanfiction to social media, TV Tropes pages, appropriate forums and conversations, and get everyone to know and help! (No drama please!)
Until next time...
Cross-trivia:
(*1) - "It's not pink, it's magenta!"
(*2) - See O.R.A.C... Oh wait...
(*3) - To quote a Fridge Brilliance: "In addition, while not the last Another Rider, Another #1 does symbolically represent the end of Another Riders as the main villains, and they are also a link between the Showa era with the Reiwa."
(*4) - Brajira of the Messiah (救星主のブラジラ), also known in his numerous aliases as Buredoran (ブレドラン), was the true main antagonist of Tensou Sentai Goseiger (2010). He spent the majority of the series posing as a general for the various enemy factions of the Goseigers before revealing himself as the series' hidden mastermind and a fallen Gosei Angel.
Brajira was once one of the most powerful Gosei Angels, able to use all three elements at once. But this wasn't because of his own strength—he killed his teammates to steal their powers. He did it to seal the Yuumajuu leaders, Makuin of the Blob and Kinggon of the Bigfoot, using the Erurei Box, which needed the combined powers of Skick, Landick, and Seaick to work. Brajira thought it was better to take all the power for himself rather than rely on his "weak" and "inexperienced" teammates.
After sealing Makuin and Kinggon, Brajira became obsessed with his mission as a Gosei Angel. He conceived the Earth Salvation Plan (地球救星計画), a scheme to destroy the Earth and remake it in his own image as its Messiah. Brajira was punished for committing murder to seal the Yuumajuu. To escape punishment, he used an incomplete Tensou Technique called 'Time Travel' to travel forward in time (to year 2010, when Goseiger took place), losing his humanity in the process and becoming hideously deformed.
(*5) - Messiah's Judgment attack, performed by Brajira of the Messiah in his true form. (*4)
(*6) - Ranger Pistol is an uncategorized item in Fortnite: Battle Royale (2017), added in Chapter 5 Season 1: Underground (2023).
Ballistic Shield allows the player to block attacks. It includes a pistol that deals good damage (19 per shot) with a decent rate of fire (396 RPM), that uses light bullets and has a headshot multiplier of 2x. The Pistol included with the Ballistic Shield is a Projectile weapon without First Shot Accuracy. While sprinting, the holder can use the shield as a weapon, allowing them to charge at an enemy player or building pieces and inflict damage. It has unlimited durability, but if it takes 150 or more damage, it will temporarily be knocked from in front of the holder and stun them.
(*7) - She definitely remembers the events of Successor of Anti-Life.
(*8) - The Rocket Launcher is an Explosive Weapon in Fortnite: Battle Royale (2017), added pre-season. The seasonal version of this weapon is the Pumpkin Launcher, which usually replaces the regular Rocket Launcher during Fortnitemares.
The Rocket Launcher shoots out a single large, slow-moving projectile. When this projectile comes in contact with a surface, or stays in the air long enough, it detonates, dealing high amounts of explosive damage. It damages the player who shot it if they're too close, alongside enemies. Rockets deal more damage to structures than they do to players, but it is impossible to land headshots with this weapon. Rockets are not affected by gravity, and won't drop if they go too far.
The Rocket Launcher uses Rockets and shoots slow-moving projectile weapon, that cannot inflict headshot damage. It has First Shot Accuracy enabled, but as it is a Rocket Launcher, it is largely irrelevant. There is no damage falloff on the Rocket Launcher's projectiles. The Rocket Launcher can reload whilst being aimed.
(*9) - References to the final battle between the Goseigers and Brajira's true form at the climax of their home series.
(*10) - Tsukasa Kadoya used to be the Great Leader of (Dai-)Shocker. Remember that!
(*11) - Kamen Sentai Go-Rider (仮面戦隊ゴーライダー, 2016) and Kamen Rider Zi-O (仮面ライダージオウ, 2018) are both written by Kento Shimoyama, and are both crossovers between Riders throughout history. Go-Rider already has Blade (2004) and Ex-Aid (2016), so...
(*12) - Darkbolts knows how to corrupt people. Just look at the previous chapters of Dreamcatcher: Warzone.
(*13) - The Almighty Book (全知全能の書), also known as the Great Book (大いなる本), is a powerful tome of history that contains everything known to man; myths, creatures, stories, science, technology, and the evolution of human civilization. However, its pages were ripped out and scattered, with some becoming the Wonder Ride Books, which became the source of the Sword of Logos' powers as Kamen Riders in the World of Saber.
(*14) - See chapter #11.
(*15) - The Arasaka Corporation (アラサカ社 or 荒坂社) is a world-wide megacorporation dealing in corporate security, banking, and manufacturing. It is one of the most influential megacorporations in the World of Cyberpunk. The company is also the largest distributor of Japanese-made merchandise throughout the American, European, and Asian markets in its homeworld. Arasaka-branded weapons and military vehicles are among the most sought after by police and security firms. Over the years, it has developed a dark reputation as a corporation that is to be feared and one which covers its tracks using assassins, an army of lawyers, as well as an alleged connection to the Yakuza.
The Arasaka Corporation maintains the largest and most powerful armed forces of any corporation in the World of Cyberpunk, with their guards renowned worldwide and feared by many. Most firms will look to licensing from Arasaka corporate security guards, couriers, or mercenaries to protect their assets. However, Arasaka assets take priority if they are at risk and the troops themselves are loyal to death to the Japanese conglomerate.
Arasaka has made a habit of buying up other companies worldwide, and bleeding out the competition of other Japanese corporations. They also give a heavy amount of support to Japanese communities all over the globe, despite their business practices and overall history being considered unethical.
(*16) - See chapter #15.
(*17) - As can be noted, the Ridewatches showcasing individuals who's never officially/canonically any Kamen Rider (Super Sentai, many magical girls, Marvel, DC, etc.) have their respective years indicating the first official/canonical appearances of said individuals. For example, Reverse Flash first appeared in The Flash #139 (August 31st, 1963), hence the year 1963.
(*18) - A God of Genesis (創世の神), or its feminine title Goddess of Genesis (創世の女神), is a title given to a being with reality warping powers in Kamen Rider Geats (2022). A God of Genesis is able to re-shape the world to their desire. However the more ambitious the wish, the more Gira Gira it requires for fuel, as sole willpower alone can only do so much. When their powers activate, a bell ringing can be heard. As a God, they are also granted several other sub-abilities.
(*19) - The Parka Ghosts are hoodie-like ghosts that appear when the Ghost Riders transform using their respective Ghost Eyecons. All of them are based on a famous/infamous figure in history with abilities based on their accomplishments. They can also assist Kamen Riders Ghost, Specter and Necrom in their fights.
The Parka Ghosts are unsealed from an object connected to the historical figure and enter a Ghost Driver to create a Ghost Eyecon. Once a Ghost Eyecon is created, the Parka Ghost resides in there until their power is called upon by the Kamen Riders. These Parka Ghosts retain the personality of the historical figure they are based on, and are able to communicate with who they fight alongside with, either when they are unsealed or when the Eyecon user is brought into the Eyecon. While inside a Ghost Eyecon, these Parka Ghosts assume a humanoid-like form.
There are 15 heroic Parka Ghosts which can grant the wish of a Ghost Driver user when their respective Eyecons are assembled together. They are also required for Ghost's transformation into Grateful Damashii. In this way, the Parka Ghosts can be summoned to battle alongside Ghost. The Parka Ghosts can also possess anyone they want, in order to communicate with people other than Takeru/Kamen Rider Ghost.
Alain/Kamen Rider Necrom has demonstrated the ability to subjugate Parka Ghosts to do his bidding. These subjugated Parka Ghosts have purple eyes when they are summoned, different from their usual eye colour. Later, the Parka Ghosts retain their usual eye color when they assist Necrom of their own free will.
When a Parka Ghost is defeated by a Gamma (as seen in episode 38), it reverts back to its Eyecon form rather than being destroyed, and will still be able to battle at the next time.