The omniverse was destroyed.
The Zero Point, even after its physical destruction, rebooted the existence to combat the absolute annihilation, carrying all heroes and villains and monsters from infinite realities.
The survivors have awakened in Battleworld 52, a multiverse composed of the fragments of realities and timestreams that no longer exist and maintained by the iron will of its gods, masters and overlords, the Darkbolts - and the makeshift fused Divine Throne System, secretly harnessing the approved properties of the Continuum Exploitation Authority.
Now the Darkbolts' enemies are everywhere: Oninoshima still existed, the pseudo-eldan and his friends unvaulted the Heart of Resurgence and the Hand of Multiversal Power, the Starstorm plotted together to bring down the Darkbolts, the Loopers rose up, and the Great Seal convinced a massive Ben Grimm to tear down the Shield and turn on Darkbolts...
The survivors came together with one mission: take down the Darkbolts. Hope turned Darkbolts' most faithful against them, Ron Davis got the Zero driving to the castle to infiltrate the Final Shape, the heroes of Euchronia and The Game Awards together summoned an army of the dead, and Ben Grimm rose up to end the Darkbolts. ("IT'S CLOBBERING TIME!")
BGM: King of Destruction (Metaphor: ReFantazio)
"Fuck off. Keep squandering the opportunity we gave you." The Godhunter is disappointed. "I am to end you, a sniveling frog of humanity, from a galaxy far, far away. So much so, estimation is meaningless."
"Okay... this is the last warning. If you stop right there, right now - if you have any decency at all - I promise I won't do any." Ron smirked.
"One final, empty threat? What a fool you are." The Godhunter dismissed. "You're bleeding on our fellow gods' throne. We now fix you with the utmost faith. We are salvation itself, and you'll receive it. Fate or die."
"Well... just remember... I told you so..." Ron Davis laughed. "Say hello to my little friend!"
What's up, doc! Bugs Bunny appeared in the fourth wall, much to the Godhunter's shock.
Suddenly the Decadriver that Bugs stole from Shocker Rider Decade (*1) has appeared on Ron's waist. Then Bugs Bunny disappeared from sight.
"What the!?" Said them.
"Wait for it." Then Ron transformed...
KAMEN RIDE: DECADE!
"No. No. No!"
MULTIVERSE: DIMENSION! (*2)
Suddenly, Latverion-0 quaked. A giant white spectral copy of Kamen Rider Zein erupted into being, smashing much of the inner walls of the fortress surrounding the main castle.
"Oh shit... Now this look like trouble!"
Meanwhile...
"A battle is raging as far as the eye can see, and now... this?" Takeshi Hongo - originally Kamen Rider #1 - noticed.
"Have we been lied to?" Hayato Ichimonji suspected. "Just look at what our glorious Shocker and friends had been hiding!"
"Number 1! Number 2!"/"1号! 2号!" A large, white somewhat-angelic creature spoke with a double-echo voice. "Look at what's been done. You wanted us to become your attack dog. But now, it's clear we've been lied to all this time."
"W-w-what!?"
Elsewhere, Magnifico arrived to sweep the Cube horde down and fatally attend many of the rebels.
"Mr. Titan! Distract him!" Makoto Yuuki commanded.
"It's my pleasure to help you out, mortal." Thanos, the Mad Titan has arrived.
"Baron Thanos. You're helping those heretics out? I thought you're better than this." Magnifico noticed. "You have helped the old Arche-Messiah brought down the wall - piercing the Shield we so carefully and costly built - for what? Now you wish to be baron of the waste?"
"Not this again." Thanos refuted. (*3) "You forget I was once a god as well. The Infinity Gauntlet gave me that power. And when I was a god, I did not use those powers as a mortal would... as you have. Terrorizing everything and then ironically saving what you can, without care."
The Mad Titan glared at the now-Exo king of Rosas. "No, I wielded them as a god should. In judgement of all living things."
"What?" Magnifico is baffled.
"Even with all the power of all of the infinite existence, you're still only a weak god. A pretender." Thanos declared. "It is you who should bow before me. Even without the Infinity Gauntlet, I remains Thanos. The Great Tyrant. And for you, that will be enough."
Cue Magnifico, with a single gesture, exploding Thanos' body with the overflowing dark magic, killing him instantly and sending ludicrous gibs in front of all nearby fighting.
"Arrogant asshole!" Magnifico dismissed Thanos.
"Damn..." Makoto Yuuki stepped back.
"Rise, Annihilus." Magnifico called Annihilus of Marvel Comics.
"Ssssss." Annihilus rose up - he's now a Black Lantern.
"I am owed penance for this indulgence." Magnifico descends.
"Yesssss, God. Yesssss. Whatever you wisssssh."
"There are heretics attacking my castle... I want you to devour then for me."
"Yesssss." Annihilus ascended.
"The Blackest Night Falls form the skies," - "The darkness grows as all light dies," - "We crave your hearts and your Demise" - "by my Black Hand - The Dead shall rise!"
Just as Annihilus was about to start his rampage, the Siege Courageous blared and flashed a very bright light right in the middle of the battlefield.
"What's now?" Regina, who's become Cure Joker (*4), saw the flash.
"There's something coming through!" A Helghan soldier noticed.
"Isn't that... Siege Courageous!?" Regina is shocked.
The Siege Courageous wreathed in the flames of the Heart of Resurgence, which the heroes of Euchronia had unvaulted (*1), opened up, and it brought all the zombified fan characters into the battlefield.
"No." Magnifico finally noticed.
"WhatSSSSS!?" Annihilus noticed.
"Finally." Makoto Yuuki is relieved.
"Glory and honor!" Said the zombies.
"Glory and honor!"
"Brainsss!"
"Glory and honor!"
"Brainsss!"
"Glory and honor and... brainsss!"
And alongside the Siege Courageous, an Aurora Curtain arrived behind that Siege, with a dying Tsukasa Kadoya noticing it.
"Goodness..." Decade then passed out.
Demon Warriors and Demon Guards from Oninoshima emerged from the Curtain, helping the zombies suppressing the loyalists.
"No. No. Nonono-" Magnifico couldn't believe it.
"Magnifico, the scorned king of Rosas!" Will the pseudo-eldan arrived, with his party on his side. "Your reign is over... and it ends with us!"
"I see now..." Magnifico finally got it. "Gathered armies sprawling to the horizon... all this structures chaos, it reeks of machination, King Will. You and your Euchronian friends and those ridiculous musicians orchestrated this, didn't you?"
"We had some help, bro." Marshall "Eminem" Mathers stepped forward, with a spin-minigun dubbed "RG Minigun". "It's over, Disney 100th or something. (*5) This madness has to end. You're not Slim Shady!"
"Magnifico who? I told you so!" Snoop Dogg laughed off.
"You've forgot we've looted up bullshit and unvaulted... some of your secrets." Strohl cheesed. "Behold!"
Eupha, still in Bushranger disguise, raised the Heart of Resurgence, and Will raised up the Hand of Multiversal Power.
"Darkbolts can't believe it! How dare you steal our shit!" Magnifico is pissed.
"Come now, Euchronia." N.P. has arrived. "All of your know the expectations that come with being rulers. I'm sure that if you try, you can imagine the ones a god must be burdened with."
"And that has value. You could join us." Magnifico offered. "We would remake Euchronia. We would rebuild the Zero Point, just as this platonic girlfriend once did (*6). We can give back everything you've lost."
"And what good would that be? A fake world, on a manufactured reality, subjected to the whims of a vain fraud..." Will objected. "You may have the power, Magnifico, but raising up something like a new Euchronia would require true reality, not really fantasy, and a vision you just don't possess."
"And you do? Is that your plan? You have the Hand of Multiversal Power, and with it you're going to try to take all our power for yourself?" Magnifico scoffed. "The fallen king of Euchronia... reborn as a true messiah of all realities?"
"Actually... how about the Zero Point?" Ice Spice snarked.
"You thought nothing of." Magnifico dismissed.
"Goodbye, Magnifico." Cue Will blasting Magnifico and... "And that girl, too!"
A deadly blast. However, Magnifico and N.P. teleported away.
"It can't be that easy, 'tis is weird." Hulkenberg is confused.
"It won't be." Eupha armed up.
"My goodness..." N.P. came out of the teleportation, like a slime girl reconstructing her own body. "That. Hurt."
Cue Magnifico's magic tethering down many of the demons, and attempted on the party. They managed to dodge, but the demons weren't so lucky.
"But pain and punishment often brings clarity, Euchronia!" Magnifico rose up. "I see you now. You have our full attention."
"Good." Hulkenberg smirked.
"Very well... let's go." Basilio got up.
"Now let's get started!" Strohl raised up, before pulling out his Thunder Burst SMG. "Royal, go!"
The party unleashed their main Royal Archetypes, including Will's The Prince.
"No. Let us finish this..." Magnifico surged with the Zero Point energy and Pandora's Box magic all at once. "...and do so as gods..."
"On the Earth. In the sky." N.P. rises. "And the heavens above."
Meanwhile...
BGM finally stopped.
"You! We remember you!" Hongo accused fused Supreme.
"That's can't be... From what we understand, we never wanted Shocker. We never wanted another... Supreme case (*7) ever again. Do you really know us?"
"Yes. We saw you both. First, you betrayed us once again (*8), and then you - we saw you sneaking in, fighting the Cult of Hope. You got Queen Amaya killed!" (*9)
"Of course we left you and sneaked in the battlefield days ago. But that was because we knew the truth and snapped out." Supreme revealed. "We knew you're still brainwashed, and we have nothing to do with the death of Queen Amaya!"
Supreme the fused glared at the Double Riders. "Kado Thorne did it, and in retaliation and rage, Magnifico killed Kado. Magnifico showed his true colors, effectively pricing Queen Amaya was... brainwashed as well!"
"You mean... great God murdered in a fit of rage... over his wife!?" Ichimonji is baffled.
"We mean Magnifico's still tyranny. We mean Queen Amaya was changed." Supreme started splitting up, flashing soft pastel light on front of the Double Riders. "Oh, and however well-intentioned or even utopia-like this reality of the Darkbolts are. We mean the Darkbolts must be ended and things to be put back the way they are supposed to be."
N.P. - Zerobreaker in the body of Skelter Queen of Hearts, and Magnifico with his own Expand supercharged by omniversal power, all warring against the party with the two unvaulted McGuffins, and it's shaking the battlefield even further. And due to the Dimension Card that Ron used, the reality around Latverion-0 started to be torned apart and asunder. Essentially, Latverion-0 has started its own... self-Incursion.
"To end... this charade... that you call Battleworld 52... as?" Hongo is confused.
"Because this is not the existence we are supposed to have."
The creature has descended and splitted into the duo: Another Dimension Pretty Cure. "And certainly not for heroes like you, misters."
"Who are you... Who are you?" Ichimonji couldn't believe it.
"We are Pretty Cure." Supreme herself. "I'm Supreme, and this is my fairy friend, Puca. And we're here to fix things. Together."
The statue to the Divine Throne opened, and so the AD-Cure brought the Double Riders down.
"Listen... we know. The Remixed crew told us about it." Puca stepped down.
"Find the quietest place in all of existence - call it here, call of now - and if you close your eyes and listen, you can hear the screaming." It's Saya. "Did you bring me something to eat, Supreme?"
"Uhhh... why though?" Puca asked.
"Oh... I'm starving." Saya admitted.
"Oh. An infinite number of missing mouths not be fed will do that, miss." Supreme got it. "But I think we can help."
"So this is the battery?" Hongo noticed. "The repository for all the Darkbolts' omnipotence?"
"Yes." Puca confirmed.
"Excuse me, but how about..." Supreme them looked out, and then...
The formerly-villainous Cure ripped the white background apart with her bare hands. "Here. We going to show you guys something, straight through the fourth wall."
The vision of the Battle happening on the outside, showing the struggle between the Euchronia party and two of the Darkbolts' greatest members.
"Yes, even the fourth wall were utterly compromised in the making of this reality." Supreme then showed the battle itself. "Look, miss. They're abusing you just as they abused the alliance. We were among the surviving victims."
"My goodness!" The Double Riders are shocked.
Supreme put back the background, and then explained everything that happened during the times of Battleworld 52, this existing the terror of Darkbolts' reign.
"How about you... eat a spirit?" Puca pulled out a Rift Device.
"Zero done. It's ready." Zero has finally fixed the Variblune. "Too chaotic of the environment though, otherwise Zero would've fixed this nigh-instantly and then go..."
The Variblune is flung away by failing physics, and Zero is rifted into the Throne front.
"You want to be full? This is the last meal!" Puca offered Zero to Saya. "If you're too hungry, here!"
"OOOOOHHH! So prestigious, so delighted!" Saya drooled over.
"Why did you-" Zero then suddenly glitched out.
Cue the spirit body being sliced into literal thin pieces of the power of creation, for Saya to munch munch.
"Did you know that one actually can holistically enjoy pizza, let alone one with the quality of the best possible quality?" Saya grabbed. "And it comes in slices!"
The Zero is sliced into absolute mount of pizzas.
"Supreme. Puca. Riders. You better buck up and brace for impact." Saya cheesed. "They're going to be here soon. And then we're going to see what's what."
Meanwhile...
"AAARGH!" Strohl is bleeding. "Will... please..."
"I'm sorry... Hailey..." (*10) Eminem passed out.
The entire party is overpowered by the excessive might. Magnifico went for the thorn, tethering all of the party and shockwaves the demons out of the way. The musicians have all died.
"And now we're done, Euchronia. And what have any of you gained? Nothing." N.P. dismissed. "Yes, you tested all of us... reduced us back to this - wanton violence and terrorism - but we remains gods, and you, something beneath us all... a lesser tan. Fools who doesn't know they're beaten and banned. A smiling alliance of fools who... Wait..."
Will let out a psychotic smile, Human-monster-like yet not Human at all, just a psycho grin. From a kind royal. Yeah...
"B-because we were biding time... and all this mess will be undone... you're going to... to lose, all this... structured chaos... it..." Will felt satisfied. "...it... reeks of machination... D-doesn't it?"
"This is all a distraction." Strohl knew it. "And we planned it, hard. Get fucked... slowpokes."
"Huh?" N.P. is confused.
An yellow-glow storm is coming. N.P. recognized this, while Magnifico finally noticed.
"It's... the Flashes!"
"Oh no..."
Flash Fact: an army of the Flashes is already at irrelevant speed, already outrunning the conception of dimensionality, and is approaching irrelevant acceleration-
"ENOUGH!" Magnifico is pissed.
PAUSE (*11)
Everything is frozen in absolute time, absolutely. Magnifico and N.P. recovered, and ready to wipe the floor with all rebels...
"That crossing will be cancelled!"/"そのクライシスは絶版だ!" Magnifico scoffed.
BGM: Joy (Hydelic, Tetris Effect)
Cue the rainbow flurry of light, blinding off.
Flash. *Ultimate form transforming sound*
Flash! *Altering transformation sound*
Advent! Accelesser.
Turn Up!
-*Onkaku ringing*
Change SpeedForce! Cast Off!
Flash Form!
Flassha Accelerant!
FORM RIDE: DECADE SPEED!
Taka! Suzaku (*12)! Flash! Tasuza, Tasuza, Flash flash, Tasuza Flash!
Flash On! *orchestral speedy theme based on the Flash from DC Comics*
Flash, Please! Speed-Speed, Speed-Speed, Sp-Sp-Sp-Speed!
Soiya! Mix! Orange Arms! Hanamichi on stage! Jimber Flash! Ha-Ha!
Drive! Type Flash!
Kaigan! The Flash! Flash Fact! Speed Force, risen from lab stricken! (*13)
Gachan! Level U-U-U-U-UP! F-F-Flash! The Fastest Man Alive!
Best Match! Are you ready?
Rider Time! Kamen Rider Zi-O! Armor Time! (The Flash theme)
Progrise! Speedforcing The Flash! When you're a Flash, a moment's all you need.
Rekka Battou! Speed F-F-Force!
Buddy Up! Speeding! Flashing! Accelerating! Speed Up!
The army of Flashes, transformed into Kamen Riders assuming the Flash-themed forms, complete with Speed Force itself. This shocked the two, as they thought their Pause (*11) would have been able to even freeze the Speed Force. Alas, but the army rushed to the two villains at full speed.
"Relativity, reliable as ever!" Kamen Rider Kuuga Flash ran.
"Time enough to raise an omniverse!" Kamen Rider Kiva Flassha Form ran.
"Shit...!" Magnifico eye take.
"We're now the fastest Kamen Riders ever, and we're leading... this!" Kamen Rider Build SpeeDragon form ran. "Our solution: the Flash!"
"We're the Flash... remember that!" Kamen Rider Decade Speed declared.
"No! No! No!" N.P. screamed.
"It's too late!" Kamen Rider Hayabusa, the Flash-themed Oni, rushed. "You're too slow! Infinite Mass Punch time!"
"Infinite..." Kamen Rider Blade Flash Form clenched the Hammer Knuckle.
"Mass..." Kamen Rider Haya-Ryuki threw...
"Rider...!" The Flash-themed Kamen Riders went for...
"PUNCH!"
The entire Flash Army did the Infinite Mass Punch, crashing into the duo at the same time. Cue a massive nuke explosion that overpowered the time freeze and... *BLLLAAAAAMMMMM!*
BGM stops.
"NOOO!" Annihilus is caught in the blast.
BGM: Bright Shadow (Hydelic, Tetris Effect)
This nuked the entire surface of the Latverion-0 and crated down the grand radius, quickly destroying all the kingdoms in the entire planet. Only loyalists were the casualties - the Flashes made sure to spare the rebels as well as the zone of the Final Shape, this leaving the main castle as the only kingdom left.
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The explosion also shockwaved the entire planet onto a nearby rift, which would consume what used to be the Shield. And so, almost all of the loyalists were destroyed.
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BGM finally ends.
It's been a hour. The rebels and fixed surviving loyalists and remaining ex-loyalists circled Magnifico and N.P., who all managed to survive and recover, but is too tired now. Arche-Kandori were also caught in nuke and this captured by the Persona users.
"Why... Why..." Magnifico couldn't believe it.
"What's true, Magnifico and 'Breaker?" Pechy approached. "Is all of it true?"
"Damn you..." Magnifico is pissed. "You've injured all my friends and co. and busted... busted... busted..."
"We knew. We even captured all remainders except the Second Knife and that god-scientist I doesn't even know about." Pechy revealed. "Tell me the truth! Tell us the truth!"
"There are complexities beyond even my or their (*14) ability to explain." Magnifico excused. "If you will just trust and admit as you many all have-"
"Like so many of us trusted those... terrorists?" Ren Amamiya (雨宮蓮) as Joker, not Yaldabaoth's guy (*15) anymore. "Enough of this fraud and rig. That fusion's gotta be disposed - we want Philemon back."
The eldritch Arche-Kandori in a cage, screaming "Fuck you! You've ruined our wishes!"
"You... you..." N.P. despaired. "Why!?"
"Look, that girl who hijacked the Zero Point repeatedly (*6) (*16), she even got that Singularity Jr. back." Johnny Silverhand, out of the Cult of Hope, pointed out. "Keep her down! We have to see it to the end once more!"
Cue the survivors restraining N.P. - it's a restraining order, one the CXA wanted. Magnifico just got back up and then slowly rifted himself down to the Divine Throne.
I'm sorry, my Amaya. I tried, but they once again rose up.
And so, Magnifico stepped down and found Jones, Hope, Kendo, Supreme, The Night Rose, Puca, Shogun X and the Double Riders, in front of Saya.
"How dare you! You all had to meddle, didn't you?!" Magnifico is enraged. "Of course you did, you called us terrorists!"
"We're done." Supreme pulled out a briefcase full of Rider Cards (*17). "Yeah, Zangyack cannot have that anymore. Did you purposely let that alliance exist?"
"Some great plan, I suppose. To... overthrow me? For good forever?" Magnifico questioned. "You've been disqualified the moment you betrayed the X-Alliance." (*8) "Now you, Double Riders, too have snapped. Oh, and you... What an absolute heresy."
"We came here to end the Darkbolts and save all existence." Hope replied.
"Your entire life, you Hope have been distracted with your own prophecy and destiny. As for many of you others, well... ethics, order, society, existential, blah blah blah..." Magnifico refuted. "...when all this and that and there that has ever mattered was... the Last Dream Wish. That's how all survived. Our so-called 'terrorisms' saved quadrillions, Redvengers alternative. The Divine Throne saved quadrillions. That's thousands of trillions, if you know math."
Magnifico dismissed the rebels. "And in the process of your... rampage, even before this patchwork reality ever, was it you said when you first appeared when we found you all? All you could save was yourself... barely. You couldn't even save your friends or family."
"How dare you." Hongo is pissed.
"Haven't you been paying attention, those beneath? I dare quite a bit." Magnifico scoffed. "I dared to choose between living and dying for existences. And now I'll choose for your as well... as a sorcerer and a god."
"Did you bring me something to eat, Magnifico?" Saya called.
"No." Magnifico shrugged.
"Then that makes you equal to... those guys out there, doesn't it?"
"Fair's fair, right?"
I am.
I had enough. I don't do self-inserts - it's my OC, Rainbowstone that represented me. I'm aware I have been there some times before - about that Chrome (*16) and just ahead of the Anti-Imagine Equation. I got calls from the Avengers Chicago Branch members... (*18)
"Keep her down!" Angela (by Project Moon) commanded out.
Oh. You're welcome. Let me open the gateway...
YEEEEEAAART! (*19)
Cue Pechy and Amaya locking Magnifico down.
"You would dare put your hands on me?!" Magnifico is pissed.
"Haven't you been paying attention, Magnifico?" Amaya smirked. "We dare quite a bit too."
"Things aren't so easy when you're not omnipotent, are they?" Pechy smiled.
Ron Davis slashed the Exoframe, leading to Magnifico uttering: "RRAAAAR! Easy? You think any of this has been easy!?"
Magnifico is knocked away, and is then fired down and then clawed by Dreamer Light - who still has the mutations.
"You think power makes impossible choices more palatable?" Magnifico leaped out.
Cue the Stormtrance from Beta and Laelynn Star together.
"The Prismatic Fleet is dealt with, at least we drove the Second Knife away!" Beta revealed. "It has never been easy, but we did it! Those evil Guardians gotta go!"
"I have all the powers, all of it!" Magnifico tanked the Arc Light. "Nothing has ever been easy. Not even my prior life as a ruined king."
"You know what's not easy?" Jones rebutted. "Having all of existence, including your own, erased because some vengeful asshole wants to indulge themselves."
"You made yourself god and the first thing you did was to eliminate everything." Puca pointed it out.
"You stole our existence!" Hope shot Magnifico, who's now restrained by the Supreme duo. "And you terrorized all that been, not even sparing any discontinued concepts!"
"You've done nothing but be leading Darkbolts... leading all reality and existence to ruins over your own tyranny!" Ivy Comet refuted. "Magnifico, you have no wishes left to even use!"
"You're wrong! They chose me. The wishes chose me." Magnifico bounced back. "If you wish to believe that they only did so in the absence of the likes of you, very well... but they chose. It's the Last Dream Wish that mattered, and it chose me."
Magnifico rises up. "All that I have done - all of this and more - and you still only blame me. Giving no credit whatsoever. Can't you accept that I have changed everything for the better."
"We're not blind, Magnifico, but what about Rosas? What about Queen Amaya? You couldn't done truly better! You remember you were a good king!" Hongo refuted. "You closed your hands around everything and called it yours. You're so afraid of losing the things that you've 'saved' that you hold them too tight. And Darkbolts as well, because you terrorized just to save anything! You're just like Zein!"
"Don't you see, Magnifico?" Kimi pointed it out. "A tree is just a seed in its realized state."
"This is why the terrorism was even real. Abandoning the real good because your wishes the wrong dreams." Magnifico dismissed. "I get it. It's just Asha and Rosas all over again..." (*5) "And you think you are better than I am."
"Then ask yourself: could you be better than what you are? Why?" Supreme smirked.
Flashback to Asha's conjuration of Star, and Magnifico's eventual fall. Magnifico was trapped in the specter mirror for centuries, effectively reduced into a being similar to the magic mirror that the Evil Queen holds.
"No. It's now. I'm better than all of you, but you acted like it's the other way around. Just even more reasons for the terrorism. We Darkbolts were ultimately right - it took a while to realize-" Magnifico is enraged.
"Shut up!" Pechy punched the Exoframe, and her eyes went yellow.
It's Shadow Pechy.
"I'm a witch. I'm here to help my real. I'm her. I know what's you're up to."
Shadow Pechy, taking control of the Comet's body, ordered the Hand of Multiversal Power from Will and the Heart of Resurgence.
"We're gonna reboot all of existence. It's like P-1 Special never happened." Shadow Pechy grabbed Magnifico with the Hand. "Saya, we finally got your last meal! Eat him!"
"No! No! Nonononono-" Magnifico is horrified.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" N.P. blitzed...
Oh no... not the Zerobreaker again...
"Leave him alone!"
N.P. knocked Shadow Pechy and Magnifico away, leading her to crash into Saya instead.
"Okay then. If you all agree..." Saya accepted N.P.
"Wait. No..." Magnifico noticed.
"Zerobreaker, what have you do-" Shadow Pechy is enraged.
Latverion-0 suddenly exploded. By that point, the former Shield has already been consumed by the rift, but that explosion... not only it forced Incursion but broke the rift - part of the end point of the Dimension Card in a neutral setting, exaggerated to death.
Everyone is caught, and the explosion ends Battleworld 52 altogether. The Big Bang occurs.
Uhhhhh...
Location: Oninoshima (鬼の島)
"Uhhhhh..."
It's 2025!Pechy, now stripped of virtually all the extras, with only her wand left.
She got up, and is alongside a long-haired woman with pale complexion. She is wearing a version of the Underground fit originally from Hope - complete with custom sneakers - but with rift theme instead of cat ones. Heck, her undershirt looks like original Chapter 4 teaser background with all those shattering fixes. She looks to be slightly taller than Hope herself.
Pechy kind of recognized her facial features.
"Is that..."
2025!Pechy then tried to wake the woman up. At first, she doesn't respond. So Pechy panicked and carried her to Canyon Crossing. Helsie of the High Stakes Club immediately noticed, and went Slurp Splash. Nope, it didn't work.
"No... No..." 2025!Pechy couldn't believe it.
"Nyan? Nyanja noticed.
"She's... dead." Said the princess of the Dreamcatcher.
"Oh really? But... but... who's she?" Nyanja is confused.
"The Slurp didn't work on her." Helsie shrugged. "Who is she? How did she came here?"
Pechy still remember everything, from the Hyper Genesis Wave, all the way to Battleworld 52. And Pechy explained to both - Nyanja's memories of Battleworld 52 has completely been erased by the explosion earlier. (Yeah, I definitely clutched that real salvation)
The woman's fingers moved slightly, and Nyanja noticed it.
"Wait... she's alive! She may be in coma though..." Nyanja spotted it.
"Wait... really?!" 2025!Pechy is surprised.
"Oh. So what are we going to do with her?" Helsie shrugged.
2025!Pechy immediately picked the woman up, waved goodbye and ran away. "See ya! Nice to meet you!"
Oh my goodness. That actually did the trick. It rebooted all of existence. No more Battleworld 52.
Pechy arrived at Hopeful Heights, meeting with Jones and Hope, who both also remembered everything.
"Wait... you're suspecting that this is... MISS CONTINUUM!?" Jones is shocked. "A commander of the CXA!?"
"Her face looks like that, especially now that I look hard about it. She's so beautiful." 2025!Pechy noted. "It's strange how she's wearing a version of Hope's old outfit though."
The woman opened her eyes. White sclerae looks normal, but the irises each look like a cracked Zero Point.
"I think she's a Rift Butterfly. The stylized butterfly-effect logo caught me off when in mothership." Jones recalled.
"Shit... Where's my mothership?"
Ms. Continuum!
"She's awake!" Pechy noticed.
"You... what? How did I..."
She looked at her own pale hand, with the rift-translucent fingernails. That's it. She just revealed out of her Akatsuki disguise.
"Why? I don't have my coral anymore. Jones, Hope, everyone, what's the meaning of this?!" Ms. Continuum is upset.
"You fell into this Island." Then 2025!Pechy explained everything that happened in Battleworld 52.
Darkbolts' sacrifice of Ms. Continuum definitely exposed her human form, and she kinda took offense in that. Not because she doesn't like her looks or anything, but because...
"I might be spotted. The CXA might be caught by the threats we face."
"What!?" Pechy is shocked.
"You were concealing your own powers to hide from all those inter-realitial terrorists?" Jones suspected. "That means you're a god! A Rift Butterfly with a human form must be more powerful and dangerous than so much!"
"You wanders across hypertime, serving timestream of multiverses, of so many realities each, to help save reality, and you still cloak yourself just to hide from every threats?" Hope questioned.
"I was originally the last of my kind, and became a goddess. Seeing the heroism of the Redvengers being devolved into insanity, along with all the rampage from all the battles, in that war that nearly destroyed all of existence permanently and enforced the founding of the CXA. Just look at what happened to..." Ms. Continuum glared at Jones. "...the old version of you, John Jones. You died at the hands of the crazed Officer Knights, and your galaxies were taken over and razed from time to time, literally. It took the Big Bang to end the war altogether. Even the Zero Point had enough."
"I've already read that from the CXA files- wait... where's your mothership?" Jones noticed.
"Exactly. And we're going to help you." 2025!Pechy nodded, and her eyes turn yellow again.
"We doesn't have the paracausal arsenal or extra blessings anymore, but that's ok, because you have memories... and me, witchcraft, to you." Shadow Pechy is still around.
"You... you accepted your Shadow? But you're not even a Persona user!" Ms. Continuum is surprised. "How can you expect not to-"
"Wild Cards don't follow the ordinary rules of the typical Persona users." Shadow Pechy smiled. "You remember Igor and Philemon? These old men set up. Wild Cards doesn't just need one Persona. Dedicated Persona? Not necessarily. Pechy doesn't need a dedicated Persona."
"The nature of the Wild Card is the ability to form a contract allowing one to access and summon multiple Personas and switch between them in battle, and the ability to change bonds into strength. The Wild Card is most closely related to the Fool Arcana, with its Tarot numeral being zero; however, stagnant Wild Cards can be associated with other Arcanas." Jones recalled. "Oh great. IO infos still rocks. Too bad for the Imagined Order though... but let's go. We gotta help is human Rift."
The four squadded up, and Pechy confirmed she's still the Goddess of the Wishing Star, all while using the dark Shadow Pechy as an extra. The squad got to the main Burd and found a light portal...
It's really enabled by the powers of the fully evolved Unity Crystal. Older Ivy Comet and now-partly-transparent Ivy Jolicoeur angel (still appear as younger Ivy with wings and halo) have arrived.
"Mom, what's up? We remember everything!" Ivy Comet called.
"Ivy! I knew you would come back for us!" Pechy briefly hugged her adoptive daughter. "My Shadow self is fine too. I still have my inmates and they Shadow and memories, but nothing else."
"We've got Ms. Continuum's true human form - she's a humanized Rift Butterfly and a supreme goddess - and she's trying to find her mothership." Jones reported. "Oh, Ivy and Ivy, you still are able to travel beyond. That reality-hopping will come in handy."
"I'm not exactly experienced with actually hopping from reality to others, but I'm going to let you know: hardly anybody but it's remembered that... shitty 'verse. Oh, sorry if I sweared. That profanity-"
"It's ok. Ivy, let's." Ivy Jolicoeur nodded.
"Sure thing. But first... let's reconnect." Ivy Comet transformed into her Unity form, and...
BANG! The squad and the Ivies were teleported away with the light portal.
Location: New World "Apollo", Reality Zero
"Pechy. We need to talk." Amaya is waiting.
Meeting room, The Agency. The six came; 2025!Amaya Shadow and her entire Shadow familia (Akia, Kumi and Liam), 2025!Ron Davis, 2025!Miranda Miller, 2025!Diana Jackson, 2025!Penny Luna, 2025!Gary Jackson, Paige Comet, Beta, unmutated 2025!Dreamer Light, 2025!Kimi, 2025!Earla Sky Floyd, Sadie, Taylor and Eric Jolicoeur, Mike Smith, Clover Comet, Renee Jailet and finally 2025!Dawn Comet herself.
Alright, everyone's here. 2044!Dawn Comet called through. Year 2023 is now in our reserves. We got all our artifacts back, including all our respective Dreamcatchers. And we've contacted with the Future World.
The squad plus have all seated in, with the Ivies together, Hope and Jones together, Pechy alongside Amaya, and Ms. Continuum near the center.
With the Dreamcatchers in our hands, the Darkbolts will have to do the hassle of fighting us again. We have to secure it at all cost, while finding some ways to end Magnifico and finish Darkbolts off. 2044!Pechy reported. Today, we're going up to date. Firstly, the Second Knife have retreated back to their homeworlds to replenish their Prismatic Fleet. Secondly-
"Wait... My rift has rung. It's showing me something's wrong." Rift Butterfly girl spoke up. "Somebody's father is on a rampage at the Darkbolts' behest."
We were going to say that, but true. That father... he's personally on the run. We currently cannot confirm his identity, but... 2044!Dawn confirmed the report. It has to be related to the Zerobreaker, or New Pandora. She's been once again erased because Saya ended up eating her, which rebooted all of existence because she's overstuffed-
"Good riddance. Now what's the deal with that X-Alliance?"
They're now relying on something. That something, I can confirm: it's Kamen Rider Zein. (*2) And more questions regarding the X-Alliance's sudden founding.
"I'm one of the few that can safely handle the Zero Point unassisted. Find the Zero Point across Hypertime, using that Emerald-Diamond."
"Please warn those in my homeland, including Valeria. Sister cares." Hope suggested.
We're sorry, but we've completely lost contact with that reality! 2044!Pechy admitted. This isn't good! That father wreaked havoc on the Island!
This horrified Hope so much, she went catatonic.
"Hope!" Pechy and Jones noticed.
Not long after, the team left the meeting room and went leisure in the old Island, but Hope isn't having it. Her original land being destroyed went quite a way in wrecking not just her mood, but her will.
Hope started being hopeless. An ironic depression, which troubles the team. And Hope began to drive everyone but 2025!Pechy away - not even Ms. Continuum was permitted. And even so, Pechy is constantly being whispered by her, "No. No..."
This is worrying everyone off - even Daigo saw something off. That night, Hope suddenly cried just before sleep. But not even 2025!Pechy knew what's exactly up that depressed her beyond the fact that Valeria's truly in danger and the homeland had just been attacked by... someone.
"Hope... we're worrying about you and all. Please..."
Hope went asleep after hearing that. Pechy wished her, and then slept alongside her.
An young darker witch in red, with light hairs in slightly-sharp buns and accompanied with a demonic cat, managed to tire a faerie-aura sculpted humanoid spectre out.
"What's the matter?" The witch scoffed. "Don't tell me you're giving up already."
"Huh?" Hope got here - it's a dream. "Why am I dreaming?"
Pechy immediately hugged the Chosen, clearly seeking to calm her down and get her moral back up. "Please. Please don't drive yourself into doom for no reason. You still have us."
Hope gasped at the heartwarming. Shadow Pechy also came to pat her head, clearly comforting, but then locked in at the dream is... real-ish.
"He probably tastes terrible." The demonic cat was already licking his chops. "I better swallow him in one gulp."
But the spectre was unfazed. As he got to his feet, a faint smile crossed his lips.
"What?" Pechy noticed. "This is...!"
"You still don't understand, do you Jeanne?" The spectre name-dropped the witch. "What will happen if you oppose me..."
"How... how do (he/you) know (her/my) name?!" Pechy and the witch, in unison.
"I will show you, Jeanne," The spectre charged up a vision. "give you a glimpse of what will happen if you continue along your current path."
Jeanne and Charles (the demonic cat) found they were unable to move. Not the three. Because Hope and Pechy are just dreaming and Shadow Pechy lives in the latter's mind, they aren't affected by the spectre at all. The spectre had them in his spell.
A moment later, a torrent of horrible visions began to floor into (Hope/Pechy/Shadow/Jeanne)'s mind.
It was a vision of Jeanne as a grown woman... dealt a fatal blow by an unknown assailant. (*20)
"It's... Jeanne the Umbra Witch!" Pechy recognized the visions.
"Stop these stupid tricks! I'll rip you apart!" Charles tried with all his might, but he could not move.
"Jeanne. I have shown you a vision of things to come." The spectre warned Jeanne. "If you do not distance yourself from her, that future will certainly find you."
"You're telling me that...!" Hope caught on.
"But this fate is not yet determined. Leave now and it may yet be avoided." The spectre rose once again.
Suspended mid-air, he looked down on them with his piercing gaze. He slowly turned to face Cereza/Bayonetta.
"Bayonetta!?" Shadow Pechy noticed.
"The young Cereza..." Pechy recognized her. "Could this be..."
"Arch-Eve Origin. You cannot resist much longer." The spectre gloated. "Soon you will give me that which I desire. Then, finally, phenomenal affirmation will be realized!"
Just as the spectre throw down a blast to end Cereza... Jeanne struck him with her Umbran magic.
"I told you... You won't lay a finger on my Umbran sister!" Jeanne stood tall in defiance.
"Perhaps I was too soft. Witness your cruel fate once more." The spectre is disappointed.
Charles pounced on the spectre, forcing the latter to teleport out.
"You too...?!"
"That pipsqueak made a promise to me she has yet to fulfill." The beast gave a fierce roar. "You can't have her!"
"Jeanne, you have seen what awaits you." The spectre didn't know something, but still... "Yet still, you would face me...?"
"I won't run away. I am going to be the strongest witch of all!" Jeanne got back up.
"You know what awaits you." The spectre dismissively bounced back and engaged.
"Your tricks won't work anymore! Come on!" Jeanne continued the fight.
"He's... Singularity!?" Pechy realized. "Is that really the Singularity the meeting room heard of!?"
A little while later, Jeanne managed to restrain the spectre. Charles went for the finishing blow, but... *ZAP!*
"Charles!" Jeanne is horrified at the moment.
Holding Charles frozen. "Perhaps I was not clear? I will achieve Phenomenal Affirmation! The two of you altering that is a statistical impossibility."
The spectre's right hand began to glow with an icy glimmer.
"Stop!" Jeanne pleaded.
"Yes..." The spectre relished. "That is what you humans say in the face of defeat. And when those pleas go unanswered... That is when you witness true despair."
"No... no... let go of him!"
Charles screamed out in agony. The spectral flame were slowly eating through his body, tearing him apart.
"After I'm finished with him, you're next." The spectre was literally steps within victory. "I tried to warn you not to get involved... It's a pity you would not listen."
"Cereza, wake up!" Jeanne screamed. "Cereza... Cereza! Open your eyes, you fool!"
"Impossible." The spectre dismissed. "Arch-Eve Origin is under my spell. She will not wake again, ever."
"Cereza, did you forget our promise? We swore to become stronger... together! Keep your promise. If you've any pride as an Umbra Witch... Now's the time to prove it!"
Suddenly... The room was flooded with a light as bright as a sun. For a moment, everything around then seemed to dissolve in the radiant glow.
"OMG... so blinding!" Pechy covered her vision. "It's too bright!"
"What in the magic is this!?" Hope stepped back.
"What... what's happening? Arch-Eve Origin... Could she have awakened?!"
Cereza is awoken. Cereza is empowered by the left eye of darkness. Cereza is Arch-Eve Origin.
Cue Cereza and Jeanne strangling the spectre with thorns of the Umbra, forcing the trip to step back for their sanity - the thorns will only screw with the mind and is bodily harmless - somehow.
And Charles finished the spectre off - one last time. The spectre's blood-curdling scream seemed to shatter the air itself.
"This... is unfathomable! Jeanne... you have made your choice... That fate is now immutable!"
"I will not fear my fate. Whatever may come, I will stand and face it."
His power extinguished, the spectre's body flickered, then faded away.
"I don't think he's supposed to recover from that." Shadow Pechy dismissed.
As if in response, cracks and fissures burst all around them, and the world began to crumble.
"It's... all falling apart." Jeanne noticed. "Was this all just his illusion? Cereza?!"
Cheshire doll had fallen back on her side, and the colors had begun to return to Cereza's cheeks. She was not yet awake, but from the faint smile on her face, she appeared to be having a pleasant dream.
"I think she'll be all right. They will be able to return to the forest, and... it looks like my time is almost up." Jeanne's body had grown faint. Her technique had reached its limit; her travelling soul yearned to return to her body. "Well Charles, which it will be?"
"Which? What do you mean, which?" Charles returned with a puzzled look.
"I'm asking, will you go back to that tattered doll, or shall I see you home to Inferno?"
Charles blinked incredulously. Home... to Inferno? This was something unexpected. Did Jeanne have such a power? For a moment, Charles simply stared at Jeanne, saying nothing.
Finally, he spoke: "You think I'd trust you with that? Just keep it simple. Put me back where you found me."
"I see. Have it your way. But come on, you must like that body. Better than the link of scraps Cereza drags around."
"Hmph, I hate them both the same." Charles grumbled in his usual irritated manner. "Besides, you're too rough for my taste. At least the pipsqueak gives me a break once in a while."
"Heh, that so."
Seeing through his act, Jeanne smiled at the flustered demon. She used her Umbran Arts to grant his wish, and returned him to his former body.
"Cheshire, there you are." Cereza woke up. "I'm gone for a minute and you get yourself lost again."
With a peaceful expression on her face, she gave Cheshire a big squeeze. Cheshire sighed and furrowed his brow. But somewhere deep down, he was relieved.
"Farewell, Charles... no, Cheshire." Jeanne shouted. "And don't you dare tell Cereza what happened here. I mean it."
"I don't take orders from humans." As Cereza and the doll fades out of this place. "But you saved me back there. I suppose I can make an exception this once." Cheshire added softly.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd swear I was talking to a human." Jeanne faded away from the scene. "Take care of my friend furball."
"Whatever lies ahead... I'll be ready! I'm going to be the strongest witch of all!" Jeanne faded away as well.
"And... done? It is over?" Shadow Pechy looked around the fading surroundings.
This concludes the adventure of Jeanne and Charles. We have seen how Cereza and Cheshire journey went from here (*20), but what of Jeanne? What happened to her after learning of her fate? It may not be possible to change one's destiny. However, Jeanne's indomitable spirit and steadfast resolve will surely guide her down a true path. Let us wish her success in her journey, and put this chapter away in a safe place. Forevermore, this story will remain our little secret...
"Secret my ass." Shadow Pechy scoffed.
"Secret my ass. Who dropped me into this scene?" It's Deadpool!
"Mr. Wilson! It's you!" Pechy noticed. "We're dreaming right now. Why hasn't this shit... ended?"
"I dunno. Why does it have to be... Bayonetta again?" Deadpool shrugged. "Ok... tell me about everything that happened. I need a refresher, and I barely remember anything."
Cue Pechy explaining literally everything happened since the Hyper Genesis Wave started, as well as everything learned, all the way to this very dream which is the end of Jeanne's Tale. I agreed; who throw foreign characters into the end of bullshits? I don't mind the DLC, but who littered Jeanne's Tale? Deadpool? Deadpool? Hey, answer me!
"You've done it. You broke..."
W-W-Who said that?
"Huh? That voice!" Shadow Pechy noticed.
"Yeah... you're right. You have listened to all the preceding scenes, didn't you?" Deadpool noticed. "That cannot have come from any other source..."
"You... you cancelled Phenomenal Affirmation... I cannot... properly..."
"Oh Singularity, you cannot win anymore. Cereza and Jeanne locked down your fate with their willpower. Any future attempt of yours have already been compromised into death. And you didn't even learn from any of it." Deadpool mocked the voice. "All your victory will now rings hollow - you have fallen. Cereza, a.k.a. Bayonetta, is the Arch-Eve Origin and gets to overcome your bullshit. Jeanne's death will only drive you into ruins no matter what, now that Jeanne's resolve never faltered. Screw it, looks like even your son is in danger. Oh yeah, looks like my brain is just a vacation (*21) actually! Hah!"
Deadpool then turned around. "Oh yeah, I do still remember everything. All the zombies in the Shield (*21), y'know?"
"I don't think Singularity would reply to us. This is just a dream." Hope shrugged.
"Ahhh... time... line... forced loops... Loop... Loop... Arch-Eve Origin... Arch-Eve... AAAAAAAARRRGGGH!"
"He's starting to sound like he's glitching." Deadpool noticed.
"A self-correcting temporal feedback loop, forcing his conquest to fail in one way or another... The only way to possibly escape appears to be learning his own mistakes and adapt accordingly." Pechy spotted the signs. "I can spot some weird shits based on reading the CXA files about... that Alphaverse or something. Atheon, Time's Conflux pointed... That's it! The Singularity tried again in revenge, too consumed in his fatalistic visions to adapt to the Umbra Witches' willpowers! That made him vulnerable to Arch-Eve... And with Cereza's case, he malfunctioned! No fae power, no longer stable! He faded out and glitched on top of the forced feedback, and..."
The scream of Singularity screeched the whole nature, causing quake upon the four.
"Shit... he malfunctioned the moment he left! This caused him to compensate for all this by returning... and in his insanity lost the lessons, causing him to repeat all his mistakes he didn't initially know! That's loop collapsing into itself due to... chaos!"
"The World of Chaos being restored was a trap to him. And with the willpower... The so-called Phenomenal Affirmation of his retroactively backfired!" Deadpool laughed at Singularity's defeat.
"Arch-Eve Origin... You and Jeanne... rigged me... You... looped me... into failures and meaningless victories... I'm living... my failures over and over... because you chose... You have chosen... to defy me... once and for all... All... All... Chaos... AAARGH!"
"He's an AI, malfunctioned by pieces of his plans subverted by the willpowers and overall actions of his enemies. Especially Bayonetta and Jeanne. He couldn't learn properly anymore." Deadpool added. "I sure bet he suddenly got to relive everything over and over the moment he faded out of yound Jeanne's adventure-"
"Infinite... time... fail...! AAARGH! Phenomenal Affirmation... twisted...! AAARGH! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, JEANNE AND ARCH-EVE ORIGIN!"
"I think you're right, Deadpool." Pechy thumb-up.
"He now perceives only vengeance and the feedback loop that lost him the lessons to help with his conquest, causing him to instantly doom himself in an instant while at the same time reliving every seconds of his original deal. First, Alphaverse, then, Homunculi, next, Bayonetta 3, then, Jeanne's Tale." Deadpool added. "Then, due to willpower forcing the feedback loop effectively happening again, it gets amplified, and further amplified by all the worlds that Singularity would normally went on to destroy before the Arch-Eve Origin version of Bayonetta got into action and defeated Singularity for real. That goes on and on, forcing the worst of all worlds... it's so complicated, that description alone is ready to drive Singularity insane... and by this point in this dream, Singularity has gone truly haywire."
"ENOUGH!" The Singularity finally manifested back.
By now, the spectre had already undergone millions of timestreams that, due to the willpower and actions, managed to render his "Phenomenal Affirmation" meaningless. It was already over - his only choice was to learn the lessons by adapting to the willpower. But he malfunctioned, because he had already become too consumed by both his vengeance and his fatalism. Excessive fatalism and sudden vengeful behavior helped kick-started the very loop that Jeanne's resolve and Cereza fully-realized powers had started by proxy.
Singularity's Singularity Definition - his final form - but flickering in glitches as he was, is and will be failing in his infinite conquest. Maybe he could end both Cereza and Jeanne before they were even ready? Maybe he could drag Aesir (*22) along!?
"What?" Deadpool noticed the narration. "Are you..."
And... the spectre had disappeared.
Suddenly... everything went dark.
Location: "Apollo" Island, Reality Zero
"Huh?" Hope suddenly woke up. "Did I just..."
It was all just a dream. But a dream that managed to demolish the fourth wall. Pechy noticed, and she realized something.
"Singularity is back. Could this be a reason for... his son to get out?"
The next morning... Location: Oninoshima (鬼の島), Reality-783
"Singularity got vengeful because Arch-Eve Origin conception and Jeanne's resolve enforced a time loop that took advantage of his fatalism? He malfunctioned because he went ahead anyways and his multiversal conquest would keep failing in some way and would be rendered moot already?" Ms. Continuum caught on. "YOU DREAMED OF JEANNE AND CEREZA IN THEIR YOUTH ENDING SINGULARITY LEADING TO HIS MALFUNCTION AND ULTIMATELY FORCING HIM INTO VENGEANCE!?"
"Which became why he disappeared. HE HAD ENOUGH." Pechy revealed. "And if the Darkbolts were to help him directly... Oh the stars..."
"Everyone!" Jones came with the same briefcase with those Rider Cards. (*17) "Somebody sent this case!"
Briefcase open, and a note... Everyone... especially that CXA... We're afraid we're calling off this existence. Kamen Rider Chronicle is a game everyone should want to play. It must remain an entertainment product that can be loved... eternally. We're aware of it ending so abruptly a few times, so we have patched it with the most ambitious update ever... featuring the Desire Royale. Well done, Redvengers and Starstorm... you have incurred the wrath of Darkbolts, once and for all. You too, Oninoshima (鬼ノ島, Demon Hunters) and friends. All of you did an excellent job of finishing patch-up and continuing development while Battleworld 52 ran for eternity that you've missed. And now Kamen Rider Chronicle has been updated. Presented to you by Genm Corporation and the dear Second Knife. Judgement hath now arrived; abandon all hopes, ye who desecrate the passage of fate. Welcome to Kamen Rider Chronicle. - Sglr.
"Singularity wrote this." Pechy connected the dots. "The Darkbolts' relaunching Kamen Rider Chronicle... and this time we cannot end it at all!"
"Pechy. Give me." Ms. Continuum wanted the briefcase.
Pechy obliged, but the briefcase suddenly disappeared, taking away all the Rider Cards except one: a random Blank Rider Card.
"Why?" Ms. Continuum picked up the blank card.
"I don't think the Darkbolts will spare us." Ivy Comet shook her head. "In fact... They. Will. Continue."
An Aurora Curtain appeared right behind them.
(*23) So... can't believe many of the cosmoi, thought to be completely separate entirely (*24), has been crossed into danger... and in the forefront of all... Zein... Zein again... Why does it has to be... Zein? No, that's because of the Darkbolts. The Darkbolts bought Zein! I get it! Now, I'm back to help out... and thanks goodness I held on those extras... All timelines are in danger... and I need to do something. We need to do something.
It's Kyon of the World of Century King Zi-O (*24) (*25), and he's back with Pouchy alongside his (Next) Decadriver.
"Hi everybody! I'm Pouchy! And I'm back! What did I miss?"
"Kyon! Pouchy!" Everyone else have noticed.
"Pouchy, use Rocket Corporation (*26)'s memory scanner!" Kyon grabbed Pouchy.
A memory scanner is spawned.
"Y-y-yes, I can." Pouchy confirmed.
Alright, me me me! Shadow Pechy begged for usage.
"Pechy, you go ahead." Kyon pointed at Pechy.
Yes! Exclaimed the Shadow.
"Alright." Pechy went to the scanner and let Kyon use it. "You're next, Amaya. Then my Ron, too. We need everything we've got."
And so, Pechy were the first to get her memories scanned. That's how Kyon learned of Battleworld 52. Not long after, Amaya Shadow is scanned, giving extra POV to the mems. Everything happened in Battleworld 52, and across, have showed Kyon what happened to the omniverse after P-1 Special has ended.
"So this is... a patchwork? And we were in day 6 now, out of the bubble of dilation from the 'verse?" Ms. Continuing connected the dots. "That's then... today's the 7th day! That instant reboot!"
"And... great... So they've compressed the omniverse and screwed us all..." Kyon realized. "What did Darkbolts..."
"You got to be kidding us!" Pouchy is baffled.
"Kyon, get in the machine!" Shadow Pechy briefly took over and put Kyon in the scanner.
The footage only shows black but with audio. Pechy gravitated to a spike, leading to a certain snippet...
My father was suddenly senile. As he recalled to me in story he told at bedtime... He tried to defy the willpower of those Arch-Eve Origin and friend, and he automatically failed in one way or another. His ambitions became subverted by the chaos. It instantly yet exceedingly drove him insane, and it took him getting out of the comfort zone to end it. I was born aware of the Arch-Eve Origin's meddling that contributed to the destruction of his ambitions - and I became his best hope at rekindling it. I must find a way to help my fate overcome the subversion Arch-Eve and Jeanne had enforced (*20), and so I tried a lot of alliances. More recently, I'm the god-scientist serving my empress who now calls herself "New Pandora". Deep down, I trust her and I am grateful for not only serving her, but letting her do healthcare and maintenance to my father. If she falls again, I and father will not only avenge her... I will avenge him and Arch-Eve Origin will finally pay. It took so long to perfect everything. But with the Darkbolts ready to grant my wish, and give help... I will not give up. My father deserves better. Phenomenal Affirmation is the way. It is the final solution. And soon, Arch-Eve Origin would no longer be able to defy it ever again. Trinity of Realities will not be safe - no, nothing will be safe from our wrath. All hail Darkbolts. Empress, you know what to do with my father. Thank you.
Turns out, in Battleworld 52, Kyon's in an experiment tube - like one in Shatter's Grim castle in Shattered Mobius (*27), his eyes closed shut, but he subconsciously managed to hear Singularity Jr.
"I realized what that means." Kyon sighed. "Stop."
Pechy took the machine off. "I get it."
KAMEN RIDE: NEXT DECADE!
"So... Singularity Jr. escaped to warn his father!?" Ron realized.
"Most likely." Kyon confirmed. "Why do that now though when they can simply restart this-"
"They clearly enjoyed ruling over us." Beta suggested. "Maybe that was their original plan all along, and now they had to improvise because we broke their patch?"
"Maybe that theory is plausible. But we gotta go and get it done, before the Darkbolts pull out a miracle again." Kyon walked out. "I'll wait at the summit. Get ready."
The gang is recruited again, being shown of the memories wiped and brought to the summit. The Night Rose was included too, partly for the help in dismantling th Cult of Hope, and party because Jade wanted her to tag in (Jade really believed the demoness can be saved after all).
"Get in already! NYAAAAA!" Nyanja delibrately got chased by Shogun X.
Location: Nexus of All Realities
"Kamen Rider Chronicle. We thought P-1 Special would be-all-end-all." The Great Warlock is disappointed.
"Those rebels doesn't know how to snuff out their rebellion for their own good." A woman with platinum blonde hair dragged down and weaved into her own clothes: an one-piece bodysuit with spiked shoulder puff and minky hair skirt, with obvious but subtly-styled accents of many colors, golden, light blue and purple, with stained glass look all across the weave - she appears to be a certain Umbra Witch matured. But she has glowing heterochromia, with the bright blue right eye and the blood red left eye, both constantly glowing. She is very beautiful from head to toe, and to top it off, is adorned with faerie wings and cat eyes both with matching stain glass finish as well. "With this move, not only we get to profit the Kamen Rider techs, but we get to avenge everything! Just look at the true form and the Battleworlds!"
"If your goal was only money... then none of us would need to keep on fighting! If so, just use powers to get rich quick." The Great Leader of Shocker complained. "Isn't that right, friend? We're here to break them, not make moneys."
The woman noticed Magnifico walking by, and briefly ignored the two.
"Uhhh... Magnifico, what's the matter?"
"Indeed. Our offer to CXA never worked. Us rigging the P-1 Special to rule over the patchwork 52 were overriden. Now we have to use this." Magnifico recalled. "The only way to end it all... is to cut down all of existence."
"This is kind of unusual right there, bro." The Great Warlock is surprised.
"To achieve it all... we'll launch the update for Kamen Rider Chronicle." Magnifico revealed.
"So you're telling they've the right idea to relaunch Kamen Rider Chronicle?!" The Great Leader is baffled.
"Homunculi now taken over your alliance, Shocker man." Magnifico decided to cast the Great Leader away. "You've finally outlived your usefulness. It's been good knowing you. We still need your collab properties - Foundation X, Bad End Kingdom, Zangyack and more. Now because you've run out of tricks and we're not rulers anymore... this is the end of you."
Magnifico then glared at the Great Leader, causing the latter to be dusted away - literally (a la Infinity War).
"Shocker, Zangyack, Foundation X and Bad End Kingdom collective have done an excellent job with the update." The woman giggles. "Now the Kamen Rider Chronicle not only never shut down... nobody will ever quit the Gashat again."
Note: Yeeesh... First, Jeanne's Tale... then, Chapter 6... next, Outsiders... and now, Multiverse Learner 101's 2025 revamp. Also, I'm done finishing the 2015!Secret Wars... in advance, happy 10th anniversary to this epic and DC's Convergence (2015)! It's finally here! 2025!
Continuing right off from chapter #14, Ron Davis got gifted the Decadriver from Bugs Bunny, becomes Kamen Rider Decade, and uses the Dimension Card to wreck the remains of Battleworld 52. This kickstarted the last stage and made the battle all the more chaotic. The Supreme duo has finally returned, warning the Double Riders of what happened and revealing the truth to them. This allows Supreme and Puca to safely get down to meet Saya, giving them the chance to rip down the fourth wall as well as bringing Zero for Saya to eat.
I recreated the scene of Thanos' glorious response towards Doom, who then ripped the skull out. Similarly and in the same tone and energy, Thanos declaring Magnifico as a fodder of sorts, and Magnifico's response: annihilating the Mad Titan himself. Then Annihilus rises up as a Black Lantern (crossover pretty acquisition much?), but then the Siege Courageous from 2015!Secret Wars appeared, supercharged by the Heart of Resurgence and sending the zombies to the battlefield at the same time the demon army from Oninoshima had just come out. Demon and zombies, grand unity! And spearheaded by the playable party from Metaphor: ReFantazio (2024), with the Hand of Multiversal Power. Unsurprisingly, the battle started out extremely evenly and also violent, amidst the collapsing reality. All that was just a distraction and a trap for the tired and beaten-down party to send an army of the Flashes, including the Flash-themed Kamen Riders, approaching at irrelevant speed with irrelevant acceleration (repeating the truck from Successor of Anti-Life), enough to completely overpower the Pause state Magnifico and N.P. enforced. And now Latverion-0 is utterly ruined. (Didn't want to left out Ben Grimm in term of presentation, so I added his catchphrase right at the end of the opening for this chapter)
In issue 9, Doom finally admits that Reed is smarter than him and that Reed could have used the power better, Owen Reese says that since the two of them are in agreement over that point, he diverts that power to Reed. Cue a massive horrified look from Doom as he realizes exactly what was just said. My interpretation is where I come in directly, because something has to happen because the fourth wall getting shredded - so Rainbowstone tore open the statue and cue everyone arguing with Magnifico. And so, once Shadow Pechy grabs Magnifico, N.P. knocked then to save him, and ended up eating N.P. herself and divert everything elsewhere. Cue the Big Bang into a full-on Reboot, ending the Zerobreaker once again and resetting the P-1 Special as if never happened. Magnifico with the same horrific as Doom but due to N.P. sacrificing her own existence to keep him safe (much to Shadow Pechy's frustration), and now he's flung out then. He would be staying down for long...
The reboot respawned Ms. Continuing in full human form - her real form is a rift butterfly. Turns out she disguised herself to hide from threats the CXA deal with - ironic that the Darkbolts - responsible for the chain reaction leading to the founding of CXA - would end up exposing one of its founders and commanders, even if accidentally. All the Islands do still exist, and the Starstorm has expanded back to full force, with the future selves as mission controls and reserves, and the past selves as reserves, all no longer have any extras except for their memories and experience and Shadow Pechy. And finally - FINALLY - the god-scientist case from Beyond the Edge and Kyon as the Next Decade returned, this time continuing off from the finale of Kamen Rider Outsiders (2023-2024) and Bayonetta Origins (2023) DLC, Jeanne's Tale. Turns out the Singularity had gone insane after his defeat to the young Jeanne and kick-starting a temporal feedback loop that nullifies his multiversal conquest, forcing him to suck it up and go waaayyyyy back further in time out of desperation. This saved his existence and even allowed him to give birth to his son, as will be detailed in the upcoming chapters. Now Singularity and Magnifico is relaunching Kamen Rider Chronicle, this time with the Desire Royale update... and one that none of you can ever escape or quit from. It will not shut down and you are forced to play the game, no matter what. And everyone in the infinite hyper-expanded omniverse is in the game, and nobody can leave.
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) - See chapter #14.
(*2) - Kamen Rider Outsiders (2023-2024)
(*3) - God-Emperor Doom tried to reason Thanos in 2015!Secret Wars, so the Mad Titan knows the bullshit. Heck, Thanos even called Doom out!
(*4) - In the novel for Doki Doki! Pretty Cure (2013), Madoka Aguri (円亜久里; a.k.a. Cure Ace) and Ai-chan to become Cure Joker. Here, the Great Leader of Shocker in Bad End Shocker-Zangyack X-Alliance gave Regina the power of Cure Ace and the soul of Princess Marie Ange for her to become Shocker Cure Joker.
(*5) - Wish (2023), one of celebration of Disney's centenary (founded in 1923).
(*6) - In Reality-2147483647, he Zerobreaker rebuilt the Zero Point for herself in a bid to destroy the alliance, in Beyond the Edge. It didn't work well enough for her, as the alliance managed to survive everything, and she's eventually defeated and erased.
(*7) - References to Pretty Cure All Stars F (2023).
(*8) - Remember when Bad End Shocker-Zangyack X-Alliance brainwashing the Pretty Cures?
(*9) - See chapter #13.
(*10) - Hailie Jade, the daughter of Eminem himself.
(*11) - Kamen Rider Cronus with the Buggle Driver II (pronounced as "Zwei"), allowing that Rider from Ex-Aid (2016) to pause and resume with the two A-B. It seems the Darkbolts know how to replicate the buttons' functions to allow them to do the trick without needing anything Ex-Aid related. Or maybe they were using Ex-Aid powers, that works too...
(*12) - The Vermilion Bird (朱雀, Zhūquè) is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. According to Wu Xing, the Taoist five elemental system, it represents the Fire element, the direction south, and the season of summer correspondingly. Thus it is sometimes called the Vermilion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què). It is described as a red bird that resembles a pheasant with a fire-colored plumage and is perpetually covered in flames. It is known as Suzaku in Japanese, Jujak in Korean and Chu Tước in Vietnamese.
Oh, and similar pronunciation to Kuzaku for Tajadol... Yeah, Kamen Rider OOO (2010)...
(*13) - References Barry Allen's superpower origin story, where he got struck by lightning and a bunch of chemicals, speeding him into connecting the Speed Force.
(*14) - Referring to the CXA.
(*15) - A bad ending from Persona 5 (2016). What if Joker had sold out the Phantom Thieves to the God of Control?
(*16) - See Beyond the Edge.
(*17) - Ep.7: The Outsiders and the Final Battle ~Desire Royale~ (December 2024), last scene. (*2)
(*18) - In real life, I was chilling at Christmas.
In lore however... yeah, see chapter #2. Sounds the Coreline briefly invading the fourth wall paid off - it got me to notice.
(*19) - Ninja Slayer is a series of novels created by American writers Bradley Bond and Philip Morzez, who in turn gave Enterbrain permission to translate it in Japanese. The Japanese translation was posted on Twitter piece by piece on by the Japanese "Translators" Honda Yu and Sugi Leika. After the story got popular, it was published in novel form in 2012.
(*20) - Bayonetta 3 (2022) and Origins (2023) Jeanne's Tale DLC, featuring the Singularity... yeah...
(*21) - Like in 2015!Secret Wars tie-ins, Deadpool's brain were eaten repeatedly with the regeneration powers of his allowed all the zombies to be eventually able to retain intelligence and sapience without any further assistance. Looks like the midnight execution didn't work on him.
(*22) - See Bayonetta 2 (2014).
(*23) - It's that's monologue again! Also see chapter #1.
(*24) - Multiverse Learner 101 decided not to connect anything beyond the confines of each of his project, because of numerous varying differences between each characterization, each cosmic hierarchy, and a ton of contradictions in between. This meta-fact also explains why Jouji Minami/George Kurai of Century King Zi-O having a brief breakdown - he never previously knew about his counterparts from both canon and the interconnected project where he was originally a member of the Midnight Suns, but was retconned in Midnight Sons revision as never to be even a member at all.
(*25) - Century King Zi-O, focusing on George Kurai as protector of magical girls. As Kamen Rider Black Zi-O, though George does also exist in Midnight Sons (originally Midnight Suns).
(*26) - Hailing from Alan Becker's Animator vs. Animation (2006-), Rocket Corporation is a mysterious organization based within the Outernet that deals with researching technologically based tools and equipment. Originally a normal repair shop, it turned into a massive tech company before becoming a criminal syndicate under Victim's leadership.
(*27) - See Sonic Prime Overclocked.