The Ivies' solution? Donbrothers and the Divine Throne pantheon. These people were recently liberated and now stands united alongside Pechy's alliance. Crota and Atheon rose together one last time to destroy the rebooted Exo Stranger, and the Prismatic Fleet were filled with Kombat Rage. With the gods' rescuing, the Second Knife and their armies were finally defeated - the leaders' Ghosts captured, and fission? No, Kiramagers and Kikainoids had another plan: attacking the alliance as robots. The Donbrothers finally brought Murasame into a "Gattai", and Zenkaizer once again leveraged his god to hijack the Kikainoids, so the myriad dawn can purify them and the World of Light...
Location: World of Light (灯火の星)
"HAAARGH!" Juru woke up, untransformed.
"Cheese! Now you're going to be fixed!" Nijica taunted the still-corrupted Kiramagers.
The night of the 10th day, with the entire realm fixed out of the Final Shape. The Kiramagers are before the entire pantheon, currently led by Momotaros.
"Get a hold of it, Kiramai team!" Karizaki called the Kiramagers out. "The Zenkai team are in the process-"
"What did you do to boomer?!" Sena immediately tried to break free.
"Stop!" Shiguru shouted.
The Zenkaigers and their god came to face the corrupted. These are a normal human, a god and four robots in human form, acting rather serious though without muting down their colors.
"Kiramagers, it's time you return to us." Kaito himself pointed. "It's fallout time."/"転墜だ"
Suddenly, a wave of pain spiked the Kiramagers. They writhes in pain and agony in excruciating response to something. Something only certain kind of gods can do.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Dark miasma forcibly expelled from the body of the shining senshi, and erupted into a spiked cross that gradually dissipated.
"Tentsui, the reversal of alignment. And you were of opposite alignment to what you were meant to be all along." Kaito explained how it worked. "Finally! We're going-"
"Thank the Avesta." Momotaros laughed.
"Eeeee?" Spoke the Kikainoids.
Noticeably, the Kikainoids doesn't have red eyes anymore, and they also ditched Greatozingers for Geartlingers. Turns out Hirume the Dawn and family were successful, the god were successful, and the Kikainoids were back to normal. Now, they called for the Tentsui on the Kiramagers, undoing the corruption that took toll on their beings by the X-Alliance.
The Kiramagers limps down, unconscious.
"Bravo, Nadare!" Karizaki applauded... a trap boy, who looks like a girl.
This boy actually are monochromatic and completely colorless, pale white skin and long black hair, and all. His rapier just stopped vibrating...
"This one is very useful for manipulating the line between good and evil. Records called it: Nadare." Momotaros explained how it works. "Ferdows, you're the final Nadare. Seems the Kiramai team has been fixed."
Ferdows the monochromatic is embarrassed at not only that, but also his looks. Mitra didn't bat an eye.
"Ugh..."
The Kiramagers woke up, all the miasma gone. "What... happened...?"
"Kiramai!" Kaito hugged Juru, Zyuran hugged Sena, Gaon hugged Tatemoto, Vroon hugged Shiguru, and Magine hugged Sayo.
"We missed you!"
"You're back! You're finally back!"
The first thing the core Kiramagers found after the wake is just a reunion made possible by literal emanation. Takamichi is left confused initially...
"Here." 2025!Pechy offered Takamichi a hand.
The sixth Kiramager got back up. "You... you freed us..."
"I'm Pechy Comet." 2025!Pechy introduced herself. "And inside me is my own Shadow self, of the witchcraft."
"I'm Pechy Comet!" 2023!Pechy hugged Takamichi.
"I'm Pechy Comet." 2044!Pechy waved.
"I'm Pechy Comet. Nice to meet you." 2027!Pechy bowed.
"You've saved us all. They've turned us into dark killers!" Juru confessed. "They experimented on us, indoctrinated us and used us to murder people!"
"Guess what? We too were turned into killing machines!" Gaon whined.
The Donbrothers and the King-Ohgers are watching the reunion from afar.
"Yeeesh! I'm still muscular as ever! Watch!" Jiro showed off in front of Kaguragi.
"It's mine, it's my work!" Cue Hymeno laughing like a selfish noblewoman.
Sonoza cringed at the Sonic the Hedgehog comics (*1)
"So you've dealt with an alternate timeline of yours?" Taro just learned. (*2)
"There was a me who became a true tyrant. An evil king of horrific levels. Hell, more recently, I even faced him and his goons... IN PERSON!" (*3)
"I've become a mutant."
"Mutant?" Gira is dumbfounded.
"Mutant. Thought I've escaped along with my comrades. Them." *points at the other Donbrothers* "Especially her, the demon girl. She's literally an oni now, isn't she?"
Cue Haruka throwing Kaguragi into a bunch of question blocks (Super Mario). With her bare hands.
"Hey! Foul play!" Jiro roared, scaring Haruka.
"I also have one more player alongside me: a lover of the others." Taro pointed at Natsumi. "A fellow pheasant for fun. And sh-"
"Pssst! Hahahaha! You got me!" Gira laughed. "Then again... how about we-"
"You still want your bugs back?"
"Shugods!"
"Shugods. I know where's they are."
"Oh really? Very well... bring us to-"
"You want to find your bugs- uh, no, my lord, uh..." Ivy Jolicoeur came to.
"Ah, what do you want?" Taro noticed.
"Apologies for our indecency!" The guardian angel bowed. "May we help you with the Shugods?"
"I get it, my extras. We've been locked out of our dear Shugods." Gira admitted. "Everyone!"
"So you're now going to find your Shugods." Ms. Continuum picked up.
"Commander!" The Donbrothers and King-Ohgers bowed before Ms. Continuum.
"Momotaro, can you please tell us where the Shugods are? It helps that you cannot lie yourself." Ms. Continuum asked. "Tell me, Momotaro..."
A streak of lightning arrived. It's this speedster once again.
"Good news! We've rescued half of the missing Ride-Players!" Barry Allen of Flashpoint. "Bad news: may..."
"More updates?" Ms. Continuum noticed.
"Oh, so you have the monarchs in the fray." He spoke. "The Shugods are now in monsters' possession!"
"What!?" The monarchs are shocked.
Kuwagata, Tombo, Kamakiri, Papillon, Hachi, Tentou, Kumi, Ant! Rolling, Snail, Pede, Cicada, Kabuto, Scorpion! Hopper, Tarantula! Heracles, Caucasus Kabuto!
"What the fuck!?" The extended alliance noticed everything.
God-God-God-God! God King-Ohger!
"Our Shugods!" The monarchs are caught off-guard.
The combination towers over all except Galeem and Dharkon, and vastly larger than each of all members.
"It's been long enough!" The other Gira called.
It's Galactinsect King Gira again, along with his King-Ohgers. The real articles couldn't believe their mechs were actually stolen right after they defected from X-Alliance.
"You are merely strangers! We are kings! WE ARE KINGS! We are judgement!" Uchu!Gira declared. "You shall be exterminated with your very own subjects!
The mecha glowed all around and entirely by itself - what's with gathering the powers of the Shugods.
"Day of wrath and doom Impending, David's words with Sibyl's blending, Heaven and Earth in ashes ending."/"怒りの日終末の時天地万物は灰燼と化し - ダビデとシビラの予言のごとくに砕け散る" The golden rises up. "Oh what fear man's bosom rendeth, when from heaven the Judge descendeth, on whose sentence all dependeth."/"たとえどれほどの戦慄が待ち受けようとも審判者が来たり厳しく糾され一つ余さず燃え去り消える"
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, blonde, German high-ranking SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.
"Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth, through earth's sepulchers it ringeth, all before the Throne in bringeth."/"我が総軍に響き渡れ妙なる調べ開戦の号砲よ皆すべからく玉座の下に集うべし" Reinhard continued. "From the dust of earth returning: man for judgement must prepare him. Spare O God, in mercy spare him."/"彼の日涙と罪の裁きを卿ら灰より蘇らんされば天主よその時彼らを許したまえ"
The God King-Ohger was about to strike down...
"Lord all-pitying, Jesus blest, Grant them thine eternal rest. Amen!"/"慈悲深き者よ今永遠の死を与える - エィメン!"
Reinhard's throne flashed.
"Atziluth――Du Söllst - Dies Irae!"/"流出――混沌より溢れよ怒りの日!"
Zenryoku Zenkai Gattai! (全力全開合体!) Kirameki! ZENKAI! (*4)
Dai-Gattai! (大合体!)
Kirameki! Zenryoku Zenkai-Oh! (*4)
Toradora Onitaijin Murasame!
"Shurado Shikoten: Don Zenkai Fantasia Kiwami!"/"修羅道至高天・ドンゼンカイファンタジア極!"
The five Zenkaigers and all the Donbrothers became transcended by Reinhard's law, fusing the Zenryoku Zenkai Sword and GolDon Lance Kiwami (ゴールドンランス極) into a crystalline copy... of none other than the throne's iteration of the Longinuslanze Testament - Covenant, the Holy Spear of Destiny.
"AAARGH!"
The King-Ohger(s) are stabbed by the crystal lance.
"Curse you, Decade!"/"おのれディケイド!" Uchu!Gira screamed. "WE HATE LOOSE ENDS!"
The King-Ohger immediately exposed into its components, the Shugods, all burning. No more alternate King-Ohgers?
"Good." Samiel smirked.
Teirei just laughed.
"You just emanated your very being!" Yanma caught on. "You're a full god. If my calculations are correct..."
"Oh my, gotten back your dear properties already," A divine NEET squinted. "You're quite a bunch of... dare I say, buggy?"
The monarchs have already rushed to the Shugods.
"Loose end?" He realized. "Does that imply something personal?"
"Let me." 2025!Dreamer followed.
A wide swath now occupied by overheating Shugods, crushing down much of the ground. 2025!Dreamer and the King-Ohgers immediately approached the scene, and that's where she used Strand on the scene to detect...
"I knew it! Something extreme happened to...!" 2025!Dreamer uncovered something horrible.
A flashback of an apocalypse in the monarchs' homeworld - Tikyu (*5), and its people... being turned into Ride-Players, suddenly and against their will.
"It's our people! Look!" Gira noticed the flashback.
"This is what you get for defying, King-Ohgers." Supreme hovering in the sky, see the people of Tikyu forced into Kombat Rage and slaughter each other and slowly destroying the world. "You too shall be judged for your betrayal. Ironic. You get your people killed by your own defiance. This is the end! You'll be replaced by perfect kings-no, gods!"
"More, more, more!" Puca shakes entire continents with her latent powers to "spice" up the slaughter.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Gira screamed in horror.
"Why... Why!?" Gira broke down. "ENOUGH!"
"Stop trampling them!" Hymeno was then stopped by Rita, for safety.
"RUN! The damage is done!"
"That's... why we left. Our people were forced into slaughtering each other." Jeramie revealed. " Shugoddom, N'kosopa, Ishabana, Gokkan, Tofu... even Bugnarak... all gone."
"All because someone save us before we could... well, act like those alternates!" Hymeno recalled. "They replaced us just as we effectively replaced them!" (*2)
2025!Dreamer noticed Jeramie's bug-spray-shaped gun (*6) in his hand. "Oh, you used that to..."
"They remembered what we first did to us. I was a king, not a rigged wrestler!" Kaguragi recalled.
"I never ate my flowers, I gave them to my patients." Hymeno recalled.
"I would've become an actual idol... ah, nevermind." Rita recalled. "At least I still have what it-"
"Pretty sure your business saved you so many times." 2025!Dreamer was also able to confirm everyone's memories. "But..."
"Don't worry, slack-jawed tanuki, your team are rad and great."
"Uh-huh, but Supreme and Puca..."
"Before Battleworld 52 ended, we were tyrants. But now, they became... Shocker Cures. The X-Alliance got these two back!"
"They saw through us, and decided that because we rebelled for our people's sake..." Kaguragi added.
"I see." 2025!Dreamer then sighed. "Everyone!"
Day 11, morning. All the Shugods were brought to the Islands to be fixed by Yanma and healed. With the magics and imaginations in place of the N'kosopa infrastructre save for his ultra computer: Tenjou-Tenge-Yuiga-Dokuson (天上天下唯我独尊).
"Thanks goodness! You're all alive!" Gira is so relieved at the progress.
Later, at noon, the Shugods are ready. Because Pechy decided that Magnifico must pay for everything he has done thus far, she decided the next destination would be...
"The Pale Heart." 2025!Pechy looked up in the World of Light. "We'll deprive Magnifico of the sources of paracausal blessings, just as Sonic took away the shattering from him."
The Traveler are still floating up there, in space, barely visible to the naked eyes.
"It's time for your return!" The monarchs aims for the entry. "Descend! God King-Ohger!"/"降臨せよ！ゴッドキングオージャー!"
"Let's do this." Momotaros snapped vessel's fingers.
"Do I even care-" Hajun suddenly disappeared.
The Divine Throne pantheon suddenly puffed into thin air.
"My hierachy, my rules!" Momotaros rushed to the King-Ohgers. "Oh! I heard that you've conspired with the Kyoryus. (*2) Me too!" (*7)
Mashin Gattai! (魔進合体!)
Oh, Excellent!
"Hirameking!"/"ひらめキーング!" Juru shouted. Cue the Kiramental.
Zenryoku Zenkai Gattai! (全力全開合体!)
Dai-Gattai! (大合体!)
Great Shugod Formation! (シュゴッド大集合!)
The Pechies and the Ivies used both their magics and the Unity Crystal to create a massive star platform for the rest of the alliance - including the Riders - to ride on. The Gotchard duo are even explicitly told to transmute any debris on the way out of their way.
Kiramaizin!
Gigant Driller!
Zenryoku Zenkai-Oh!
Toradora Onitaijin Murasame!
Suddenly, the Don Robotaro's head started glowing under the visors. "What're you doing, our kings?"
"Ask Momotaros!" Jiro scoffed. "Don-O!"
Kuwagata, Tombo, Kamakiri, Papillon, Hachi, Tentou, Kumi, Ant! Rolling, Snail, Pede, Cicada, Kabuto, Scorpion! Hopper, Tarantula! Heracles, Caucasus Kabuto! Don-O!
It's God King-Ohger again, only this time the Shugod Sword (God Tombo + God Papillon + God Ant) out of the back and instead, the superbike EnyaRideon twisting into the left-hand half of Don Zenkai-Oh directly attached in the back, complete with limp arm and flaing leg akin to cape and tail respectively, as well as the DenLiner - Den-O's personal train - extending God Kamakiri and God Hachi upwards with the fronts of the Den-Liner in each leg, connection the two soles with said two Shugods, making it even taller. Then a copy of the GolDon chestplate for Onitaijin are stacked right on the armor made of God Hopper and part of God Caucasuskabuto, complete with the head of Omikoshi phoenix at the forefront. The mouthpiece of Kiwami flew off Saru Brother and attached right into King-Onger's head, spawning a sunglasses themed after that of Toradora Onitaijin. The Avatar Sword and Avatar Shield from EnyaRideon are transferred to the Shugod Sword, with the former extending the blade and the latter shielding God Ant.
ShuGolDon King-Ohger! (シュゴールドンキングオージャー!) Superior royalty unmatched! (よっ！王様極無双!)
ShuGolDon King-Ohger, featuring Den-Liner.
"I have cross-formed!"/"俺、合体!" Momotaros exclaimed. "Yes! Cool Hirameki!"
The bulky gestalt quickly flew up, with the mechas following. Except for Gigant Driller, which had to be accounted for by the same platform co. spawned.
Location: The Pale Heart
"Yo-ho-hoy! It feel good to be ourselves again!"
A cross-dimensional pirate similar to the now-late Gokaigers are shooting down a bunch of god-monsters vaguely resembling Don Momotaro.
"Avataro-Ki."/"暴太郎鬼" The pirate's pastel-pink sister scanned those monsters. "The Rampaging-Avatar-type demon, that of our... dare we say-"
"Nope!" An Avataro-Ki shoved her out.
"Stop it! Don't mess with us!" The pirate shot that Avataro-Ki down. "Cutanner, let's 'chanbara'!"
Cue a Sentai Gear, with number 33 at front and the kanji for fire (火) on the back.
Turn it! (回せー!)
"Change two-please!"/"チェンジ痛快!" Spins some.
Shinkenger! (シーーンケンジャー!)
Sore-sore! (ソレ!ソレ!) Sore-sore! (ソレ!ソレ!)
(ソレ!ソレ!ソレ!)
Keep it steady! It's a Shinken-Revolution! (ヨーソロー!シーーンケンに、レボリューション!)
A golden pirate with a samurai coat. He turns his gunblade, the Geardalinger (*8)
"The cool samurai, ShinkenForm. Going forth!/"クールに侍、シンケンフォーム…いざ参る!"
More Avataro-Ki unsheathed their swords, each of which are twisted and horrific rendition of the original. The pirate switched his gunblade to sword form to fight.
"Ricky, take care with Flint!"
Two Avataro-Kis accidentally destroyed each other, thanks to the Geardalinger with a flick of the wrist. True swordsmanship. (*9)
"I am a world-pirate, searching for treasure from sea to sea... I am a world-pirate, searching for freedom from world to world..." Cue the shanty. "I'll definitely obtain them! Then I'll feel thrilled! Yo-ho-hoy!"
Turn it! (回せー!)
"Sis, do it!" Said the blue one - the red one has already been assumed by the pirate.
"Well!" She turned the same way as her brother did.
Ohranger! (オーーレンジャー!)
Ole! (オーレ!) Ole! (オーレ!) Ole! Ole! Ole! (オーレ!オーレ!オーレ!)
"Change two-please!"/"チェンジ痛快!"
Keep it steady! It's a Super-powered Revolution! (ヨーソロー！チョーーリキにレボリューション!)
The sister became a rose-tinted silver copy of the pirate's gold base but with the primarily blue ornaments, as well as... that five symbols... of Zeo? (*10)
"Twokai-Flint presents..." She leapt. "Hot-blooded superpower! Ohran...Form! WATTAAAAAH!"熱血超力!オーレン!フォームだ!ワタァ!"
Both forms proceed to mow down hordes of Avataro-Ki.
"Zocks! Flint! It's a trap!" A senshi in purple with swept helmet. "As for me..." *sequence* "Dark power... Stacaesar!"/"暗黒のパワー...ステイシーザー!"
"Stacey, what's the matter?" Flint Goldtsuiker noticed.
"This place's too far gone even from its absurd and messy nature. These demons are looping!" Stacey warned the two sib- ummm, actually, the entire team of Goldtsuikers. "If you slay them, they'll just respawn!"
"Ah, so to sap our energy, aren't they?" Zocks Goldtsuiker fled to Stacey. "Sorry. We were carried away."
"But they'll chase us, so make sure we cut them off!" Flint followed.
Dear god... Where's Kaito... our Kikainoids...? Stacey is secretly worried, not knowing a god had to empower Kaito and save the Kikainoids from corruption. "Let's go. Don't let them-"
"Too late, Twokaizer! You too, Stacaesar!"
Shocker Cures, Sky, Precious, Summer, Tomorrow and Shocker Riders, Double and Accel. (*11)
"Enough is enough, traitors!" Accel scoffed.
The Shocker Cures surrounded the three, while the two super-deformed-machines spewed out from the armors, reverting both elder siblings back into being base Twokaizers.
Before the three could react, the Shocker super-soldiers strangled them with Strand.
"Where's the Wonderful canine!?" (*12) Maximum Drive! "WHERE! IS! HER!?"
"We don't know where she is!" Stacey confessed! "No, really! We don't know where she is!"
"Stop asking us, we can't answer because we DON'T KNOW!" Flint confessed.
"Ok then."/"わかった"
Just as the super-soldiers about to perform their finishers...
Hirameking! (ひらめキーング!)
Cue a golden jet, a crystalline phoenix and a bunch of shining trains to interfere, starting with noises interrupting the super-soldiers. The phoenix shockwaved the super-soldiers away and saved the trio.
Let's Mashin Gattai!
"Brother, back at it for us! Let's go!" The phoenix blared.
Cue two sequences at the same time. The trains combined into a dark-limbed mecha wielding a shark-themed big gun, and the rest involved the golden jet morphing into a humanoid mech for the phoenix to dock in, resulting in a grand face with red ornaments symmetrically on the face. The super-soldiers are pissed.
King Express, featuring Zabyun!
Grateful Phoenix!
"Oradin! FUCKING GALZA!" Tomorrow is enraged at the mechs. "HOW DARE YOU!?"
"I feel much better, mister, brother." The phoenix as Grateful then glared at the super-soldiers. "And you... you won't turn me or Galza into darkness again!" (*13)
"We are not Yodonhelm. We are-" Then Double got knocked away with a finger.
"Should've used giant mecha!" Sky then fled. "That's it! We're out!"
"Wow, these people are unprepared for these Mashins." A rose-skinned crystalline man chuckled. "Brother, we still-"
"AWWWWW, we came too late and reinforcements left!" A humanoid beast resembling Onitaijin appeared.
This beast have the almost exact (same) head of Avataro-Ki, over with larger sunglasses and an oni mask in place of normal mouthpiece. The shoulders are covered in pink pheasant feathers, also adorned with a pheasant head. The best has blue furry muscle-arms of a macaque, and the legs are completely mismatched: a black twisted dog for left, and a yellow demon in spikes for the left.
"A giant! It's a giant!" Flint scrambled to summon. "Our robots, now!"
"Battleship CrocoDai-Oh!" Zocks fled.
Cue a golden-n-silver battleship, a hybrid of hovercraft and motorcycle that can split into these, and themed vaguely after a crocodile.
BIG BANG. Zocks immediately inserted a kaiju-themed oversized Sentai Gear. "Super-changing two-pleasure!"/"スーパーチェンジ痛快!" *chomps gear*
Kaiju...Kaiju... (カイジュウ...カイジュウ...) Super! (スーパー!) Say! Say! Say!
Twokaizer himself is armed with battlizer-type armor themed after some Kaiju and certain quantum-saurus' (*14) robot form, with a golden cape to cap it off. The helmet stayed "35" though.
Keep it steady! Super! Twokai-Revolution! (ヨーソロー！超！ツーカイにレボリューション!)
"World-pirate powered up! Super Twokaizer!"/"海賊のパワーアップ！スーパーツーカイザー!" Zocks them jumped out of the battleship. "Flint, pilot me! Ricky, Cutanner, bring me!"
Zocks them shrunk down into his super-deformation, losing the cape and most of the red colors. But then he enlarged up, then let himself be eaten by the "crocodile", which spits out the chest armor.
"Super Two-ka-combi!"/"超痛快合体!" Flint activated the combination.
The SD Twokaizer emerged as the head, and the golden Shiken side becomes the front side, albeit with it's "炎" tore off and then grafted into a kaiju-based lance - Zenkai Tenlance - while the motorcycle becomes the legs as usual. Cutanner and Ricky are both combined into the left arm, with both Super-Ricky Gun (超リッキーガン) and Cutanner-tou (カッタナー刀) merged into an extended version of the latter. The chest armor is now where "炎" used to be, while the head of the SD head opened...
Super Twokai-Oh! Operation!
"Super Twokai-Oh!" The entire Goldtsuikers struck first.
"Dear Kiramagers, please come back!" Galza shouted.
"You're once again alone. You're dead!" The Avataro-Kis charged towards Stacey.
Netsiv Melakh!
Suddenly, the Avataro-Kis, one by one, exploded into pure-white salt.
"What?" Stacey is confused.
"No. Stop!" The beast kicked Twokai-Oh down. "Die! ONI KICK!"
Twokai-Oh rolled to the left, and barely evaded the drop-kick.
"That's... Avataro-King!" Flint steered away.
Our sixth-co. reacted too late, and the -King slashed. A direct hit!
"Hahahahaha! You're done!" Avataro-King gloated. "I'm the only one..."/"俺こそオンリーワンだ..."
"Where's your robo!" Zocks called.
"Uhhh... I defected so I cannot!" (*15) Stacey admitted.
Galza and Oradin... and Hakobu (both's mentor and elder) the golden, all restrained Avataro-Ki with both Mashin-combis. Galza has to free Zabyun the shark train in order to use the hands of Mashin Jouki - the royal train of Crystallia.
"Get away! GET OUT! FUCK OFF!" Avataro-King the tantrum.
Both Mashin-combis flew the beast up - Grateful Phoenix with the natural flight, and King Express riding Mashin Zabyun.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Exactly half a minute later, Oradin and Galza dropped Avataro-King down the ground.
"Ab ovo usque ad mala. Omnia Fert Aetas."/"始まりから終わりまで――時はすべてを運び去る"
Avataro-King immediately exploded.
"Time Paradox of Elementary Particle!"/"素粒子間時間跳躍・因果律崩壊!" It's Momotaros, in divine vessel, in the King-Ohger. "I have arrived!"/"俺、参上!"
The alliance of Pechy and CXA has arrived.
"Express, Hakobu! Oradin!" The Kiramagers squeeed.
"Zocks, Stacey, everyone!" Kaito and the Kikainoids, gleeful at reunion, and split themselves.
"Curse you!" That one Avataro-Ki also exploded into salt.
"Yo-ho-hoy!" Zocks left the formation, as the Twokai-Oh dis-formed back into CrocoDai-Oh and the Goldtsuikers. "We're back!"
"We've been finding all of you!" Kaito hugged Zocks. "We recently saved Zyuran, Goan, Magine and Vroon! They were scary!"
"Kaito! You're still strong!" Stacey hugged back.
"Thanks goodness..." Oradin descends, still figuratively meat-riding his own mentor. "Ah, everything turned out all right!"
"Thanks goodness! But..." 2025!Pechy braked, stopping the entire platform.
It was moving at high speed, causing everyone on the platform to be whiplashed by the inertia, with some (including Takamichi) nearly falling down.
"Pechy, careful!" Takamichi complained.
"Whoops." 2025!Pechy, nervously.
"Everyone, we were turned into murderers filled with Jamental! We're so sorry for-" Juru bowed.
"No no no, we forgive you for all that, especially since we saved you." Taro called it off. "Instead, hear!"
"We're inside the Traveler of the time of the Second Knife. It was already attached to the Veil, first used by the Witness of their world to do the Final Shape. Twisting the lifeform of its universe into a frozen abomination by design first, all in the name of simplification. In timelines we audience are remotely familiar of, the Guardians and their coalition undone it all and saved their universe, destroying the Witness altogether." (*16) 2025!Pechy explained it all. "But we're in a timeline and alternative universe, where not long after the victory, the Young Wolf of this version became obsessed with their new powers, and that... corrupted them, leading to the previously averted Second Collapse, and the corruption of both the Traveler and the Veil. Look!"
The landscape around everyone is no less twisted than what was in when the Witness tried the Final Shape before the end. (*16) The Final Shape at its finest, but decorated with the sprouts left over through.
"Those excessive sprouts that make the part of this landscape gaudy is the Lucent effect, the opposite of the Final Shape."
And then 2025!Pechy explained literally everything that happened since the second Hyper Genesis Wave was originally averted, in the collective perspectives given from alliance themselves to the Goldtsuikers and the rest, assisted by Strand weave.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" The Mashins got hit by the Hyper Genesis Wave.
...
"Tonight, who will win the ultimate title of champion!? Who will be crowned with the last Victory Royale!? Whose tale of glory will resound all eternity!?" (*17)
...
"The Hand of Multiversal Power. Use it wisely, and if you must, use it quickly... For it is a true game-changer in far more ways than one or two." (*18)
...
Mugunghwa-kkochi pieot-seumnida~
...
"You're saying... that we're guinea pigs to ZANGYACK!?" The Goldtsuikers caught on.
"Dai-Zangyack." Ms. Continuum corrected.
"Where's Galeem and Dharkon?" Deadpool noticed.
"Let them destroy here." Ms. Continuum scoffed.
"Now, we destroy this timeline's Traveler and Veil. Both, at the same time." 2025!Ron floated. "Broken Ghosts!"
The Ghosts of the Second Knife emerged.
"Thank you... we regret the corruption..." The Godhunter's Ghost pleaded.
"Wow, they're being cooperative." Bayonetta smiles, then bounces without saying any further.
"She'll be checking the surroundings. Let's me see..." 2025!Pechy checked the Mobilates (Ultima).
What's up, showy alliance? Captain Marvelous checked in.
"I'm aware of your Greater Power, but... was the Kanzen Soul a.k.a. Ultimate Engine Cell, all your... only..."
What?
"The Kanzen Soul was your ultimate then why enough to symbolizing the desire to seize their dreams? Given your nature as world-pirates, you must have some more tricks up your sleeves with your Greater Power!"
"That's it! You know what we're using." Ms. Continuum figured it out. "Lets summarize something. The Kiramental is obviously Kiramagers' Greater Power. The King-Ohgers' Greater Power is obviously the King's Proofs. The Power Rangers' actual Greater Power are the Morphin Grid. And... Zenkaigers and Donbrothers share the same Greater Power... the gears!"
"What!?" The Zenkaigers and Donbrothers are all shocked.
"Both your devices use gears!" Deadpool pointed it out. "In fact, almost all your gears are compatible with each other!"
"I got them back with sleeping rifts. Here's your Victory Super!" Ms. Continuum took out a VS Gear (Victory Super) and thereby, summoned a gear-in-sunglasses blade named: DonZenkai Blade! (*19)
The humanized rift butterfly then pulled out a crystalline-color version of the gear Zocks used to assume Super-Twokai. (*4) "Now I've just extracted the Kiramagers' Greater Power and the shared Greater Power. Now!"
She hovered the backside of the gear in DonZenkai Blade with the Kirameki gear.
"Mercurius, try it!" Gira goaded.
"Supreme Hirameking!"/"太極ひらめキーング!" Juru, Momotaros, Mercurius and Oradin, in unison.
Cue a gigantic flash blinding the whole of the Pale Heart.
"What's is this?" Someone picked it up from afar. "Could it be... my fellows!"
Location: Retconnian
We're still stuck in the Hourglass, a punishment only terrorists would enact!
"Liu, I am sorry for all the mess of all ages." That someone has bowed down.
He's an elder dressed in a white robe and sand throughout. He wears a demon mask similar to the ones mask makers from Oninoshima used to make. "It's been so long. Our time is running up, even though I am the Keeper of Time. I have to avenge my lost home... the Warrior World, world of warriors."
Have you located where Uotan, Harbinger, Ingrid, and others? The black one.
"Yes, I have." The Warrior King revealed. "They've been used... as test subjects."
To be expected for the Weapon Z program. Fire God Liu Kang sounded furious. (He is.) Waging war against infinite realms, and pulling the rugs of every timelines for sakes of it...
"Got it."
Oh... what's with it? Anything else you've found?
"It appears our allies are still alive and kicking. As long as they survives to fight another day, there's still hope."
We don't have much time left. It's Armageddon (*20) for all, infinite-... uh, -tillion of multiverses in the making.
"Infinities upon infinite of timelines are in mercy of the dreaded Darkbolts... or should we say, neo-Darkbolts, for they have the spirit and intentions of the original, just under different memberships."
Indeed. The more time we waste, the more likely Darkbolts win. We, us Titans included, will be erased forever. (*21)
"Not just you Titans... all of your people, light and dark. All will die unless Darkbolts are stopped." Warrior King stood up. "First, my home died, then, my existence got invaded, and now this... I will continue to carry this Hourglass. We will continue helping Pechy and co. until the Darkbolts are stopped."
The fates of all Armageddon rests in all us. If we fail, we get destroyed.
"I feel Pechy's still living. Let's go." Warrior King has telekinesis to move the Hourglass. "This is for my orb! This is for New Era! This is for Zero! (*22) This is for everything!"
With a fire portal, the Warrior King left the realm of discontinuity. Meanwhile...
Location: The Pale Heart
"Behold! The Zen-Kassiopeia Gear!" Deadpool revealed a newly-created, multi-colored Sentai Gear.
This gear has the classic red, blue, yellow, pink and green color scheme, along with a modified version of the downwards Zenkaiger logo: one with stylized "ZK" at the top instead of number 45 or color zags. On the back is the normal Zenkaiger logo (with said color zags) turned upside down relative to the front.
"So this is your and our shared Greater Power forcing a whole new set?" Jiro noticed.
Deadpool threw the gear to the CrocoDai-Oh, that received by Flint. "Stacey, take over Zenkai-Oh! Kaito, Zocks, combine into a beast!"
Big Bang.
"Stacey, take care of Zyuran, Gaon, Magine and Vroon!" Kaito left the cockpit. "Super-worlds' change!"/"スーパーチェンジ全開!"
Stacey jumped right into the Zenryoku Eagle body, while the Super Twokai-Oh separated and got rid of SD Twokaizer, leaving CrossKai-Oh the hover for Cutanner and Crawling-Oh the cycle for Ricky. Zocks and the Tenlance flew...
Kaiju...Kaiju... (カイジュウ...カイジュウ...) Super! (スーパー!) Kaito becomes a beast made of armors, revealing only his helmet to outside now - it's like a Dragon Caesar or Dragonzord (*23) in human form...
BA-BANG! BA-BANG! BA-BANG! BA-BANG! BA-BA-BA-BANG! (ババン！ババン！ババン！ババン！ババババーン!) Super-Zenkai! (超！ゼンカーイ!)
"Secret power-up! Super Zenkaizer!"/"秘密のパワーアップ！スーパーゼンカイザー!" Then Kaito grew giant. "Zocks, let's go!" *stadium dance sequence with Zocks*
Cue the two getting merged with the Zenkai Tenlance, with the lance becoming the tail and torso, and Kaito turned into a monstrous body with Zocks stuck on top, dinosaurs by the chest piece of the SD form forming the actual head in place of Zenkaizer visor. The form, armed with both the drill for tail and a bunch of cannons, resembles the kaiju form of said Dragon Caesar or Dragonzord. (*23)
"Super-worlds' combi-beast Zenkaiju-Oh!"/"超全界合体獣ゼンカイジュウオー!" The kaiju roared. "Flint, now!"
"We need as much firepower as we can, so do it!" Stacey shouted.
Flint inserted the new Sentai Gear into her Geardalinger. "Got it! Let's see..." *instead of 3-spin, rotates to 5-spin in Geardalinger* "Unlocked!"
Kyuu-Kyo-Ku! (キューー…キョー…クー!) F-F-F-Full throttle! (ゼゼゼ全力!)
"Ultimate two-K all-world super formation!"/"究極痛快全開大合体!" (*24)
Zen-Kassiopeia! ULTIMATE BIG BANG! (ゼンカシオペア！究極ビッグバン!)
A mechanical system physically resembling both a meteor and the white aircraft Varidorin (particularly the color scheme) as well as visually vaguely resembling the Cassiopeia star system (*25), which itself then splitted into glowing, flying pieces for the Zenkaigers' mech to attach to.
"Stacey! You deserves it!" Ms. Continuum snapped her fingers, summoning a Battle Caesar Robo. (*26) "Full-throttle and go!"/"全力全開!"
First, the rest of Zenkaigers' robots splitted out. Cutanner merged with Zyuran, and Ricky merged with Gaon, creating both enhanced arms that's decorated with Magine's wings. The legs that are from Magine and Vroon are both enhanced with the joint coming from Super Zenkaizer a.k.a. the ZenKaiju-Drill, then what normally would be the body of Twokai-Oh - the CrossKai-Oh and Crawling-Oh - are folded in a way connecting to the legs and increasing the height with some more pieces and joints to both fill and reinforce them so they can all support the eventual weight of the gestalt. The Kikainoids' mecha-emblems and the golden-with-red-dots piece from the Zenkai Tenlance merged together with two symmetrical yet random grey wing-pieces, Zyuran's shield, Gaon's claw and a few of the larger pieces from Zen-Kassiopeia mecha-meteor, all of which goes to the chest and front of shoulders, covering the central gear of the Zenryoku. The legs of Zenkaiju-Oh attached on top of shoulders, while the rest of beast's Super Zenkaizer portions folded right on top of the back, acting as the backpack. Battle Caesar Robo turned upside down and stretched, then attached with much of the rest of the extra pieces so the equivalent of groin touch what would otherwise be the trigger of Zenryoku Zenkai Cannon, and right under the "remains" of Zenkaiju-Oh, acting as the coat for the gestalt. And finally, the last of the extra pieces are grafted with SD Twokaizer, giving a very large helmet for the Zenryoku Zenkai-Oh, giving it a new face resembling a combination of the helmets of Zenkaizer and Twokaizer's, with the once again split beast-head acting as part of the Gokaigers' pirate hat. Cue the central gear spinning back in place.
ULTIMATE... ZENKAI-OH! (究極ゼンカイオー!)
Ultimate Twokai-Zenkai Dai-Gattai Ultimate Zenkai-Oh (究極痛快全開大合体究極ゼンカイオー, *24), dual-wielding the simplified version of Zenryoku Zenkai Sword and the drill tail.
"Over there! Save us, liberate all existence!" The Ghosts of the Second Knife pleaded it all.
"Om-"/"――唵――" Cue a chant. "Praise be to the flawless, all-pervasive illumination of the great Mudra, turn over to me, the jewel, lotus and radiant light."/"Abokya Beiroshano Makabodara Mani Handoma Jinbara Harabaritaya Un."/"阿謨伽尾盧左曩 摩訶母捺囉摩抳 鉢納摩 人嚩攞 鉢囉韈哆野吽"
"Earth, water, fire and wind are ubiquitously emptied from Vajradhatu realm."/"Vajra Thathuvan."/"地・水・火・風・空に偏在する金剛界尊よ" It came from the Den-Liner. "Homage to all Buddhas, o' all-pervasive one, so be it!"/"Naumaku Sanmanda Bodanan Abila Unken Sowaka!"/"今ぞ遍く光に滅相し奉る!"
The whole alliance finally got back, having scanned all the nearby areas and confirmed potential interference. So they gave Momotaros the color...
"Heaven and earth, mysterious power of separation and change!"/"Tenchi Genmyo, Shinbe Hen Tsurikiji!"/"天地玄妙神辺変通力離――!" Hajun's law shines through. "Manji Mandala - Muryou Taisuu!"/"卍曼荼羅――無量大数!"
The entire landscape darkens; cue screams echoing around the alliance of Pechy and CXA. The threats are being turned into rabid lunatics slaughtering each over, partially bypassing paracausality and preemptively weaken the resistance of the Traveler and Veil, so the actual resistance themselves can freely go about.
"Now go! Any explanation goes while running!" And Pechy's platform flew ahead, with everything else of alliance following closely.
With the guide of the regretful Ghosts, Pechy and co. all went straight to... SALVATION'S EDGE! (*16)
Finally... we can be free... The Great Warlock's Ghost felt liberation. No more Collapse... Wish you the best, other time...
Surprisingly, despite the Ultrazords' clusterfuckery and massive size each, Takamichi as Gigant Driller turned out the slowest of all mechs - even King-Ohger(s) have propulsion and Hrozvitnir's boost to make up for the cumbersome bulk, and Galza's King Express riding Zabyun again. Thankfully, his adoptive father, Oradin (still meat-riding Hakobu) actually carried the poor sixth on the journey.
"Oradin, we're doing author's work, do you know?" Galza smirked. "We've already got our 'Mages back. Now all we have to do is-"
"Oh no... It's not like our Guardians have no back-ups or contingency or something! They and the 'glorious' Darkbolts anticipated this!" The Godhunter's Ghost realized. "We're about to go to either a dead end or a looping round!"
"Damnit! Thank you for notifying us!" Deadpool and Bayonetta struck unison.
"So they're going to trap us, ever after demise?" 2025!Amaya scoffed. "Knew it! Now we have to overpower the way!"
"Ellie, guys, time to bless these guests!" The orange-spike-haired Observer and his era love, Ellie Strife a.k.a. Erii Honjou (本城恵梨依). "Ren, do it!"
"Vast is the sea, its waves reaching horizons far and wide; Eternal is the radiance of its azure womb."/"海は幅広く無限に広がって流れ出すもの水底の輝きこそが永久不変永劫たる星の速さと共に今こそ疾走して駆け抜けよう" Ren Fujii chanted. "And so let us ride this moment and dash forth, swift as light, quick as a star eternal."/"どうか聞き届けてほしい"
The whole alliance glowed a bit extra an hue-ful glow, and they started going faster and faster, quickly overshadowing (not merely surpassing) the speed of sound and while the time around them forcibly dilated, simultaneously slowing time around all down and speeding all the members and robots up, both at an increasingly significant rate.
"Hear my plea, and grant this one wish: the world longs for an era of peace; days that know not strife."/"世界は穏やかに安らげる日々を願っている" Ren Fujii continued. "In a world where only peace is lord, and men join hands in liberty…"/"自由な民と自由な世界でどうかこの瞬間に言わせてほしい"
They just surpassed the speed of light, and is approaching... Speed Force. Yes, there's the loophole. I would've used Flash Facts, but uh... Hey! Flash! Where are you? (*27)
"Allow me to sing this: Halt, O time. for thou art fair beyond measure... I wish upon your unending star – guide me to heights unknown!"/"時よ止まれ君は誰よりも美しいから永遠の君に願う俺を高みへと導いてくれ!" Cue the emanation. "Atziluth――Res novae――Also sprach Zarathustra!"/"流出――新ゥ世界へ語れ超越の物語!"
Suddenly, the entire run becomes a bullet propelled by a combination of Speed Force and Ren's law, and ignited by the sheer speed itself.
It shot the entire realm down, shooking the entirety of the Pale Heart, shattering a reality. Cue a colossal explosion.
"Oh fuck! We've been outsmarted!" Someone from Dai-Zangyack panicked. "Not only did they repel their salvation and infiltrate its Traveler and Veil, but it... broke... the realm! OH MY FUCKING GOD!"
"Que boom." A bunch of dinosaur-leaning knights immediately went ahead. The pink guards followed suit.
The forces were quick to catch in. But by the very time they discovered what just went on, all the mechas disappeared. Ms. Continuum has stored them with the rifts, and the members all went ahead, entering the now-ruined shrine in the wake of Speed Force.
A bunch of Taken Subjugators and a Taken Torment came to block.
"More reshaped trash!" Deadpool complained. "Guardians, only you were familiar to such Taken Dread. Y'know, such as the Resonant Knife. (*28) Now let's-"
"They're not the only one!" Hunter and Hope together...
...as a bunch of no-less-monstrous Dire Taken and the Prismatic Lucent Hive attacked the alliance.
"Rider Kick!" The Flashpoint performed this.
A blitz-kick knocking the Taken Dread back, with resulting shockwave also briefly stunned the Prismatic forces. The alliance members immediately started fighting the forces.
"Oh wait!" While fighting, the Flashpoint himself got memo. "I just got back to the Warrior King. He's the Keeper of Time now. Also, all Titans are all trapped in the Hourglass! Good thing we have reinforcements!"
"Oh, really?!" Pechy is so relieved.
"Who?" Hajun while swatting a Taken Tormentor.
"No, Rindou! They don't have any loser status to be abused!" Habaki Sakagami (坂上覇吐; the red one) warned this. "Even if you know their true name, they won't be affected! It doesn't work like that anymore!" (*29) "It'll only hurt them, and no more!"
"I know. But this is still what it is." Rindou Koga (久雅竜胆鈴鹿, Rindou Suzuka Koga) still fires.
A big piercing hole struck through, blasting an entire line of Hive. It really is still the Longinuslanze Testament.
"You won't be meddling with us for much longer." Hope sicced Splinter Blades on a Taken Harbinger.
"Dreamcatcher Warrior Smashing Light!" 2025!Pechy finishing off a Taken Tormentor.
"Guardians, strangle these Ghosts just in case!" Amaya sliced down a Taken Omen.
The Young Wolf trapped their respective counterparts' respective Ghosts so they can't respawn the Second Knife.
A Taken Subjugator got tickled by pure alchemy. Rainbow Fever! Houtaro and Nijica destroys it with a Double Rider Kick.
"You've grown too powerful...!" A Lucent Wizard goes insane.
"Hi, Light." The Hunter headshots said Wizard with their Golden Gun.
That Wizard's Ghost immediately got sliced down by 2023!Amaya.
"Nooooo..." The last one Taken Subjugator fell down the ground.
Cue the three Amaya's slices down the Taken with their scythes and 2025's enlightened nightmare form. The alliance members advanced.
"Hey yo-" A Ren Fujii is headshotted by Jones with a pump-action.
"Not even their illusion will be spared." Hope nodded at the quick act. "Let's go."
"Pouchy, locate... someone were familiar with for now." 2025!Pechy freed Pouchy.
"Ahead on!" The alliance moved ahead.
Meanwhile...
"Ahhh... Finally." The Warrior King dropped the Hourglass. "Well... this Sundial sure is the system."
The Second Knife's current home, after the Second Collapse in their timeline. Liu noted. I feel that... our crossover friends are still alive.
"Oh Pouchy!" The Warrior King shouted. "Yes, I miss him."
Cue Pouchy appearing, wearing by the warrior.
"My goodness!"
"Pouchy missed you!"
Pouchy?
"Finally you're back!" Cue a relief.
"Virtually everyone's alive! We have more allies!"
"We got all back! We're back!"
"Hahahahaha!" Taro arrived at the scene! "Mission is festiv-ized! Yo, are you some familiar that I didn't know my guest bonds had?"
"Experiment no. 108, the expedition mutants?" (*30) "How did you free yourself?"
"We retained our memories and mental compass."
"Uh. Very well. I am the Warrior King, from the world of warriors. I have to avenge my home and end all the madness the omniversal terrorists has unleashed."
"Looks like we've made a bond."/"縁ができたな"
"Who are you, experiment no.108?"
"Taro Momoi."/"桃井タロウ"
"Ah, so you're the Donbrothers."
Taro then laughed it off. "Too correct, we are Don, Don - Don-burako!"
"Burako-yield! We are kings clad in crowns!" Gira came into the scene.
"This is a story of solving madness." Storious then bowed.
"Finally! We're here!" 2025!Pechy gets giddy.
"W.K.! Where has you been!?" 2025!Amaya get relieved. "How did you become a Titan? Keeper of Time?"
"Liu Kang!" Jones saw the sands.
Forgive us. It's a miracle we actually survived.
"Oh my god, what happened?" Deadpool braked.
The members all surrounded the Sundial, finally getting to meet the transcended Warrior King and the gods trapped within the Hourglass.
"I have arrived!"/"俺、参上!" Momotaros - still possessing the pantheon leader - made a dramatic show-up.
"Everything happened." 2025!Pechy calming the infos.
A 22-minutes recap of everything since the Hyper Genesis Wave all the way until now, as assisted by Strand, so more members can catch up. Much of it is the same as what's used on the Goldtsuikers and Stacey, albeit with the pre-P1 portions adjusted for nostalgia to hammer the fact that it's been so long since last meeting the Warrior King.
"Oh my god, just what I have feared, have been weaponized. Forced recreation and patchworks. Forced game. And now... all the mess..." The Warrior King gruffs off in somber. "Very well... I'll tell you what happened since P-1 Special."
Flashback from P-1 Special onwards: The Warrior King was kidnapped by Hortus, the daughter of the Second Knife. He was brought to the Darkbolts, who promised him that they would restore my home, the Warrior World. But knowing what the Darkbolts really are up to all this time, he merely feigned accepting the offer... only to fool the terrorists, and running to get the goddamned orb that he should've been retrieving all those years before, and rescuing all the allied (and trustworthy) Titanic Keepers of time. Fire God Liu Kang and his ascended allies and their respective champions came to fight down some terrorists, and in the process accidentally re-enacting their Armageddon (*20), complete with horrific amount of bloodshed and gore. Magnifico had to wipe out the Armageddon from his way and forcibly seal every single Titans, Keepers of Time, all into a single one Hourglass, and ordered the Darkbolts' forces to destroy the timelines and associated realms... but all not before the Warrior King receiving the powers from these Titans and their notable champions through both sharing and willpower, resulting in him becoming the supreme Keeper of Time, and was about to save the Code Holders and co., but all else were taken away from him. For safety, the warrior fled back to some world...
The flashback ended with exactly how the Warrior King found out how he noticed Pechy and co. are still alive. "And now, we're here. Oh, and by the way, this talk took us 16 more minutes."
"Oh no. Die!" Magsarion immediately went for a surprise attack into seemingly nothing.
It's Nijigaoka Mashiro (虹ヶ丘ましろ), (Shocker) Cure Prism the Prismatic Hive God again. (*31) She blocked Magsarion's blade, and no-sold his perfect weakness-busting strike as a result, to the point there's simply no weak point at all, not even created.
"Look at what you're doing, you anti-prisma'!" Prism kicked the Paradise Lost away. "Oh, you all kidnapped our dog?"
"You mean... Komugi the Wonderful!?" Deadpool noticed.
Bayonetta immediately went Witch Time, but Prism morphed into her Hive form and whacked the witch down. "Useless."
"Crap. Another hostile Hive God?" Warlock turned around.
"We've gotten Preme and Puca back... or should I say: Supreme?" Prism grinned with tithes. "You know the telltale signs of absolute heresy, do you? Guess what? Both's betrayal were a massive case of it."
"Oh fuck." FINAL ATTACK RIDE: D-D-D-DECADE! "Skrull Kick!" (*32)
"Don't!" Jouji horrified.
Mashiro/Prism blocked the Rider Kick, knocking the alien away.
"ENOUGH!" The Warrior King is pissed.
And just like that, time is frozen. Only the members are free to go. "Don't waste anybody's time further. Let's finish this."
We had such hope... you would understand.
"No... no..." The Great Warlock's Ghost cowered. "Please... stop..."
"They're totally corrupted by their own powers. Light and Dark, twisted to their own accord." Lily shook her head.
"Dump this Sundial and fix the Corridors of Time!" Taylor squatted. "We have to destroy the Second Knife! Don't let those fools reshape all!"
Everything unfroze, and Prism found herself horrified... at what the alliance is about to do.
Swordsman Soujiro Mibu (壬生宗次郎), martial artist Kujou Shiori (玖錠紫織) and Malleus immediately pressed their emanations down to Prism to keep her from getting up attack back. Mashiro screamed in horror, with her voice distorted by the formation that is as a Hive God herself.
"Mashiron! Snap out of it!" Said Black Zi-O. Jouji himself felt the horror of the extent of the brainwashing the X-Alliance performed on the likes of her.
But you choose... Armageddon.
Suddenly, the three cowering Ghosts are suddenly floating away, seemingly hijacked. Malleus, Bey and Kyon tried restraining the Ghosts, but their tetherings simply fit calcified and then crumbled right away.
You revel in chaos... and in your wake, there is only TERROR! The voices of each of the Second Knife overlapped into one booming burst of anger.
Oh no. Not this. Liu scathed.
You are unworthy of salvation!
Everyone, now!
Magic users other than the trapped Titans quickly tore the Sundial into an opening, just as the corruption's Ghosts fade away into twilight. The alliance managed to suck themselves and their mechs into the resulting crack.
"HALLELUJAH!" 2025!Amaya jumped down.
The entire realm being overpowered by an immensely colossal flash of light, bursting down resonance throughout both the Traveler and the Veil - the Second Knife has officially started trying to revive themselves.
Location: Corridors of Time
"Amakasu Masahiko. Hiiragi Yoshiya. Fan Jinron. Kriemhild Heihelm Lebenstein."/"甘粕 正彦. 柊 四四八. 黄 錦龍. クリームヒルト・ヘルヘイム・レーベンシュタイン." An elderly beggar calling the Rosei (盧生, *33) for true salvation. "O Rosei, please bestow us the power of Alaya."
"Sup?"
A squad of four in black-uniform-plus noticed this beggar limping around.
"A sorcerer who absorbs souls and rampage from the shadows, aren't you?" The green one noticed.
The white pacifist used a bit of his powers to view the beggar's memories for the other three to see.
"It has begun..." The beggar confessed.
"Darkbolts are a just a bunch of bad role models. May we bolster this one up and give him hope?" The black one suggested.
"Not like we have any other choice." The blondie said herself.
"Very well." The black one nodded. "Let's hope he doesn't get to deny us at the very end."
"This traitor sounds like a good addition, despite his nature. It helps we've been hunted down." The green one noted.
The white pacifist blinked.
"Looks like we've made a bond."/"縁ができたな"
Note: This continues right from the last chapter, and the Kiramagers have undergone Tentsui (転墜) since there was no longer any other option available since Hirume already took care of the Kikainoids. So now, the Kiramagers, Zenkaigers, Donbrothers and King-Ohgers are in the alliance now, and gets certain new formations as well. The new combinations are made possible thanks to the Kiramental, and as it turns out later - after the alliance got to the Pale Heart and got Stacey and the Goldtsuikers and the rest of the Mashins - that there are some more Greater Powers. How they got here: Kikainoids and Kiramagers all reverted back to normal - alternative King-Ohgers turned out alive, hijacking the Shugods and had to be killed by mecha-sized Longinuslanze Testament - King-Ohgers retrieves the Shugods and clarify their involvement - Shugods fixed - alliance goes to the Pale Heart - Oradin, Galza (yes, he was revived after the finale), Stacey and Goldtsuikers vs. Avataro-Ki (previously stage-exclusive) - Greater Power discovered and weaponized!
Unlike the extra gestalts (not even King-Ohger armed with both Den-Liner and EnyaRideon), the four Guardians of Crystallia (who all got liberated after the Kiramagers' purification) cannot combine together (akin to canon; unlike the Zenkaigers' Zen-Kassiopeia, Murasame additions and the Den-Liner and EnyaRideon together). However, the combined force of those Ultrazords (plus four Megazords) and the emanations from the Divine Throne pantheon (provided by Momotaros possessing the Pantheon protagonist himself) are sufficient to overcome the looping and bastardized maze towards the shrine, with the help of the Speed Force - but the Speed Force portion in this chapter isn't scientifically interesting enough to warrant a Flash Facts snip. The next set of scenes are in the same shrine as in The Final Shape expansion, albeit with the remorseful Ghosts of the Second Knife guiding, not to mention this bus-come-back moments: the Warrior King has achieved Titanhood out of desperation after the Armageddon is briefly redone, and Nijigaoka Mashiro (虹ヶ丘ましろ), still the Hive God(dess) and Shocker Cure Prism, trying to stop the alliance. And finally, welcome back...
Next up: Pechy and co. will seek the core and to destroy the Second Knife, not only ending their terror on the entire reality of paracausal that is the Destiny games, but also deprive Magnifico of yet another benefactor!
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Cross-trivia:
(*1) - Depicted: both Archie run (1994-2017) and IDW run (2018-).
(*2) - Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger VS Kyoryuger (王様戦隊キングオージャーVSキョウリュウジャー) crossover.
(*3) - See chapter #18.
(*4) - Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger VS Kiramager VS Senpaiger (機界戦隊ゼンカイジャーVSキラメイジャーVSセンパイジャー) crossover featuring all the main red Rangers from Gokai Red up till the two main teams.
(*5) - "チキュー", an alternate rendering of "chikyu" (ちきゅう), the Japanese word for the Earth.
(*6) - The Venomix Shooter (ヴェノミックスシューター) is an insecticide-themed gun that serves as the personal weapon of Spider Kumonos, and is his mother's last gift to him. Its special attacks can take the form of real venom, or simply be illusions to trick Spider Kumonos' opponents, in which case the gun announces "Fake!" after the reveal.
(*7) - ToQ-Oh Kyoryuzin feat. DenLiner is the combination of ToQ-Oh Kyoryuzin with DenLiner. Originally, it was ToQ-Oh Den-O as Momotaros docked DenLiner in Red Ressha's position. However Kyoryu Red wanted to do what Momo had done and literally rams the DenLiner out of position with the Gabutyra Ressha, forcing him into the legs, something Momo resents. The combination's ultimate attack is the "ToQ Brave Sanjou Slash". Its callsign, given by Momotaros, is "Ore Gattai!" (lit. "I have Combined")
This form is exclusive to Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai (平成ライダー対昭和ライダー 仮面ライダー大戦 feat.スーパー戦隊) crossover.
(*8) - The World-Thief Transformation Gun Geardalinger (界賊変身銃ギアダリンガー) is the main transformation device and sidearm of Twokaizer.
The Geardalinger is Zocks Goldtsuiker's personal weapon and transformation device. It has two forms, a Gun Form and a Sword Form. As Twokaizer Zocks prefers to use the Gun Form, but in his Shinken Form he uses its Sword Form. Transformation is regularly performed with the Gun Mode, though form change can be performed in either form. The Geardalinger also doubles as a tambourine when struck by the ship's wheel's center. It has different sounds depending on the form being transformed into, though it regularly says "Hey!" on its own. The device can also be used to control Battleship CrocoDaiOh, with the device's ship wheel acting as an actual steering wheel.
(*9) - Uh, actually, Zocks is pretty pragmatic, he in ShinkenForm evaded and got two Avataro-Kis to slash each other down by accident.
(*10) - It actually represents Chouriki Sentai Ohranger (超力戦隊オーレンジャー, 1995), which was adapted into Power Rangers Zeo (1996).
(*11) - These are the same brainwashed fighters as the ones appearing in the epilogue-prologue hybrid that started this fic.
(*12) - Komugi/Wonderful is still tied up and locked up in one of the Islands of Fortnite (2017), as Pechy and co. didn't get to find any way to cure her. The Goldtsuikers and Stacey, however, neither have any idea where the Cure is (no pun intended).
(*13) - Galza was previously corrupted by Emperor Yodon to weaken Crystallia. With Yodonhelm gone and Galza redeemed, it's fitting that if and when Galza somehow get revived, he's going to be a good guy instead of a forced traitor - in fact, Galza never wanted to become evil - blame Yodon.
(*14) - The V-Rex from Mirai Sentai Timeranger (未来戦隊タイムレンジャー, 2000).
(*15) - With Stacey's defection in episode 40 of Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger (機界戦隊ゼンカイジャー, 2021), he cannot use Battle Caesar Robo anymore.
(*16) - Destiny 2 (2017): The Final Shape (2024).
(*17) - See chapter #7.
(*18) - See chapter #14. By the way, Lily got this dialogue towards Will's party. (Lily Pilgrim note: Yup, stop forgetting the fourth wall! Coreline people kept it safe as long it could as much as they could!)
(*19) - Avataro Sentai Donbrothers VS Zenkaiger (暴太郎戦隊ドンブラザーズVSゼンカイジャー) crossover.
(*20) - Complete total doomsday term used by Mortal Kombat (1992-) franchise.
(*21) - Canonically, Titans as Keepers of Time cannot be revived at all - once they truly dies, they are permanently gone and can be erased from existence (examples: Kronika, Shang Tsung, Havik of Khaos Reigns DLC for Mortal Kombat 1 (2023)).
(*22) - Referring to the omniversal nature of the collective settings of Fortnite (2017), especially the Zero Point itself.
(*23) - Guardian Beast Dragon Caesar (守護獣 ドラゴンシーザー) from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (恐竜戦隊ジュウレンジャー, 1992), and the Dragonzord from the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (1993-1995).
(*24) - Romanization goes something like the "official" name, hence the difference.
(*25) - Cassiopeia is a constellation and asterism in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia, mother of Andromeda, in Greek mythology, who boasted about her unrivaled beauty. Cassiopeia was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations today. It is easily recognizable due to its distinctive 'W' shape, formed by five bright stars.
Due to the names of the members of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (秘密戦隊ゴレンジャー, 1975-1977) and nearby the said constellation resides the Black Cross Fuhrer as well as the cosmic energy it possesses in the Super Sentai (スーパー戦隊, 1975-) franchise as a whole, Cassiopeia is used!
(*26) - Ms. Continuum can summon stuffs like the mechas, obviously by spawning a quick rift. She did this deus-ex-machina to help the Zenkaigers complete the combination. Also, Stacaesar is already a member of the Zenkaigers at this point.
(*27) - Once again, the fourth wall bites back!
(*28) - The Resonant Knife, First of the Reshaped (originally known as Keit'Ehr) is a Taken Subjugator seen commanding the forces of the Dire Taken aboard the Dreadnaught. It would be responsible for killing Eris Morn when she and Drifter went aboard to investigate the resurgence of Taken activity. Debuted in Episode: Heresy (2025) of Destiny 2: The Final Shape. (*16)
Keit'Ehr was the first attempt by the Witness to create Dread using the Light within the Traveler's Pale Heart in combination with its own Resonant Darkness. The resulting being was too weak to move and remained dormant following its creation, forcing the Witness to abandon it as a failure, but not before giving it a name and instructing it to seek them out should it manage to survive, claiming that they would be recognized for their strength if they did so. From their resting place, Keit'Ehr would watch the creation of the other Dread and the death of the Witness. Only afterwards would it awaken and go on to prove its worth as a Subjugator.
(*29) - Tenma Fukumetsu (天魔覆滅) is Rindou's special, using Reinhard's Longinuslanze Testament turned into an arrow that she fires from her bow. By twisting space and bypassing the concept of distance, the weapon is able to strike her foes in a literal instant. This method of attack, combined with the true names of the Yatsukahagi, fully enforces the status of "loser" upon the Tenma, crushing said Tenma's law and by extention, the rest of the Tenma's (other) laws, including even Yato's if so be happened.
Habaki is technically right, in that not only these Prismatic Fleet forces have no "loser" status that can be taken into (due to all of them not having any emanation, unlike much of the Divine Throne pantheon), but they're not even from the same multiverse. So Rindou's Fukumetsu in its canonical form cannot work the way it really does normally - it'll be just the lance destroying these.
(*30) - Previous chapter shows off mutations, specifically what happened to Taro's body, as well as Haruka being a demon girl. Well, confirmed!
(*31) - Prologue #2 and chapter #1 both had Mashiro/Prism herself as a Hive God. She has returned!
(*32) - In case you've forgotten or you didn't read O.R.A.C. (which functionally predated the real Tsukasa's cameo in Kamen Rider Gotchard (仮面ライダーガッチャード, 2023)) before, the impostor is actually a Skrull.
(*33) - The Rosei (盧生) are humanities' representatives before Alaya, universal collective unconsciousness of humanity and the source of all of existence from the Senshinkan Academy chronicle (相州戦神館學園, 2014-2015). They are metaphysical existences, they are incarnations of their own ideals, embody countless possibilities of the future, and they are indexes for all of humanities' dreams. Becoming a Rosei after reaching Alaya means effectively shedding your physical body. They all possess 10,000 years' worth of experience engraved into their brains, as an effect of the trials they underwent in the Dream World of Kantan to obtain their abilities and their current status.
In the Senshinkan Academy chronicle, basic powers consist in materializing dreams and making them appear into reality, basically lucid dreaming applied to reality. Their skills are separated into multiple categories:
- Attack: Dream which boosts physical stats of raw power and speed. The Rosei can surpass the speed of light bybusing it, Amakasu used it to gain speed that disregarded causality entirely.
- Defense: Dream which boosts bodily resilience and adds healing capability.
- Magic: Fires ranged attacks. Usually used to expand the range of their other dreams, although weaker characters than the Rosei have used it to burst space itself open with explosive power.
- Cancel: This dream is divided into transmission type and ruin type. Transmission type lets the user to become intangible via becoming a dream himself, and grants teleportation. Ruin type just "cancels" anything. Abilities, the opponent's existence, even whole "worlds" created via the Creation dream can be cancelled with it.
- Creation: Most powerful of the standard dreams. Divided into matter type and world type. Matter type can materialize objects the user has knowledge of into reality. World type creates whole pocket dimensions, with their own custom physical laws. It can also manipulate things like time.
They can also do the inverse of their ability. They can banish material things into dreams. Plus, they can travel through dimensions, time and alternate universes. As conceptual existences, they can move to metaphysical spaces like dreams, memories, etc... and their access to Alaya means they can access the thoughts, memories, and history of anyone. And their personal skills are another beast altogether. They start without Kenzoku, but retain their ability to create them.