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Kivat and rio walked into the room. Rio was in his normal form, a large bandage on his cheek as he looked at all the new faces. "Umm..uh..hello."

"Oh so this must be the Kiva rider..yo" Kio said cheerfully.

"Umm..yes..hi.."

Rio blushed deeply and looked down. "N..no its okay, realy. Besides..this will heal fast. They always do."

"Ever since he was a child he always healed fast..its quite remarkable." Kivat chipped in.

*During the story, Hiraku had managed to slip away unnoticed as everyone was distracted by the details of what had happened. Interested, but more concerned on other things, he had left the studio to go back to the place he was fighting before. Curious about something with the battlefield, he continued to walk until he arrived there. Seeing the area blocked off by local authorities, he knew he wouldn't be able to find it anymore.* Too public an area I suppose, it was bound to have this happen...

Walking around the city, Hiraku sighed deeply. He knew that he would have to find a way to fix his belt soon. The only way to do that, however, was to find someone who could actually understand it. Going through a park, he paused in walking and drifted into remembrance. Thinking to his teacher/mentor and when he was taken in shortly after having lost his memory. His thoughts changed quickly to his mentor handing him the Era Driver and at the time having no idea of what it meant or what it could do. Then, his mind went to his mentor being killed shortly after that moment, the numerous battles Hiraku had to go through as Era, and multiple other images that would confuse anyone who tried to mentally pry at that moment. Clutching the driver he had hidden away, his resolved strengthened at that moment to find a fix for it, no matter what.

Walking away from the park, Hiraku headed to a still populated, but slightly less, area that he could do what he wanted without too much attention. Opening up a candroid, he shook it around pretending to have an extra soda on him.* I know your following me and that you want this. Come out, we need to talk.
*Eiji walked over to him, shaking his head while holding a soda of his own.*
I know that isn't really soda. I'm not an idiot.
I figured the sound would get you.
What do you want? I'm busy.
Surprised your passing up a chance to taunt me or threaten everyone living here.
And why do you think I'm busy? I'm going to kill every single one of tho-
Listen, I need your help.

*Eiji paused for a moment, then a dark smirk crossed him.*
My help? Why should I?
Part of our agreement and your situation. You need the driver fixed, so why don't you repair it?
I don't know about that technology. *Eiji sipped his soda, a bit annoyed that he didn't.*
I know you can replicate them though. *Hiraku took out the cell medal that Eiji created earlier while taunting Hiraku.* If you can do this, you can fix my belt
The coin is alchemic in nature. Simple overall. Your belt on the other hand... I don't know what it is.
So you can't fix it?
No.
What about someone who would know dimensional drivers? Like Decades, or DestrOys?
No, yours is a different type than those are. DestrOys is different too, but yours was made by something entirely else. Though, your already aware of that.
*Hiraku hesitated a bit, recalling his history briefly at that statement before answering.* Then how are we supposed to fix this situation. How will we be able to leave, resume our battle, and find out who threw us here?
It will come to you in time. Just be sure to hurry. I'm getting restless and I will begin killing those humans soon enough.
I won't let you kill them, or anyone else innocent.

*Eiji just laughed, drinking the rest of his soda after his laughter had died down.*
If your so intent on that, then why bother talking to me when that boy you keep running into is about to be eaten by the failed rider?
Dalton?? Dammit... that kid gets into too much trouble...
*Going to use the candroid he had in his hand, he stopped and realized that he couldn't call on the other kamen riders right now. After the last fight, many of the others were worn down physically and mentally. Sighing deeply once more, Hiraku rushed off to find a spot where he could summon his motorcycle.

Dalton was trying to have a normal day after watching DestrOy's assault on the riders. Feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the things happening and how he still had little to no contact with his parents, he was trying to figure out what he could do to fix everything. Resting out on a bench, he enjoyed the fresh air before the people around him screamed and ran away in terror. Jolting him out of his temporary relaxation, Dalton sprang to his feet and looked around. A slow moving, mutated looking creature shambled towards Dalton, obviously intent to kill him as it allowed screaming people to flee all around him. Dalton hesitated, stumbling back a bit shaking and caught off guard a bit.

As the monster drew nearer to Dalton, Hiraku arrived on the scene. Leaping off his motorcycle, he allowed it to ram itself into the monster and knock the creature over before landing on the ground in front of Dalton. The motorcycle continued to drive itself, heading away from the battle a bit to not get damaged, but provide support if needed. Dalton backed up a bit as Hiraku removed a card and put his driver on. Hesitating for a bit, he slotted in the card.* Henshin! ((Insert annoying commercial break here))

*Going through his transformation sequence, Hiraku once again became the teal rider known as Era.* Lycid eh? Well you mutated more. I thi-- *Before he could react, Lycid let out a strange noise and clocked up, rushing over and smashing Era over. Grabbing Dalton by the shirt and rushing away with him, Lycid tossed him a few feet away. Dalton rolled on the ground, immediately bruising up and getting hurt. Era got to his feet quickly and took out two cards.* I'll have to try to remind you of who you were, even if it has to be beaten into you.

*Slotting both cards in at separate times, Era summoned Kamen Rider Lycid as well as another zecter based rider, the red colored and wasp based Kamen Rider Hawk. The rider Lycid clocked up, rushing forward to lock into battle with the real Lycid who now was a mutated husk of it's former self. The creature Lycid clocked up as the rider version rushed in to attack, side-stepping it and allowing the monster version to spit a large glob of acid. Going to block and absorb the toxins a bit, the rider Lycid braced itself for the move. On impact, the data clone completely dissolved and went away. Hawk, rushing in to try and help, pulled out a spear with a wasp-stinger tip. Stabbing forward to impale the monster, Lycid took the hit in it's shoulder. Hissing out, the creature once again spit out a large amount of acid and completely dissolved Hawk's clone.*

So you've evolved to kill my summons easier? I can't get a break with this sort of thing... *Having no real choice, Era took out another card, as well as getting his gun weapon out. Readying to fight Lycid, Era got ready to move in when he suddenly froze up. The idea passed his mind from the last fight alone, being forced to fight the creature in his usual form until the risk became too great and he nearly couldn't escape.

As he hesitated, the creature took it's opportunity and rushed in, unleashing multiple slashes with it's claws and bashing into the armor of Era's suit as much as it could. Sparking and being knocked back by the attack, Era flew in the air sure to hit the ground before Lycid clocked up. Grabbing Era by the head, Lycid smashed him into the ground, then dragged him on it as Lycid clenched his helmet even more. Trying to smash it off Era, the blood lust in Lycids DNA began to surge with more strength as the creature that made Lycid the way it was now continued to have the want to see Era and Dalton killed.

Letting go and leaping up in the air, Lycid came down with both legs and heavy force, trying to smash Era deep into the ground. The clock up attack ending, Era winced in pain as all the attacks caught up to him. Taking the pain and reacting to the attack, Era quickly tried to raise his gun to shotgun the creature in the face only yo have it grab the gun and toss it away. Laying in multiple punches and slashes before picking Era up by the neck, it was about to clock up again when Era slashed the monsters arm deeply with his sword.

Stumbling a bit as he fell onto his feet, he quickly reacted by kicking the monster away from him and going to use his card. As he did, he felt himself hesitate again. In that split moment, Lycid recovered and rushed forward, it's claws becoming larger and more stinger-like before it tried to stab into Era's suit and kill him. Blocking just barely with his sword, Era resisted being impaled and poisoned.

Having recovered a bit himself, Dalton could only watch in horror once again as Era was being beaten around on his behalf. He gulped a bit, unsure of what he could do that wouldn't end up horribly as before. Remembering what he was mysteriously gifted and hesitated to use earlier, Dalton pulled out the strange looking handgun weapon that was left for him. Trembling as he held it in his hand, unsure of if he should even use it, he looked to the battle to see Era being hit around by the monster and roll to avoid the impaling claws. His hesitation broke when he noticed Lycid about to clock-up. Unsure of how he could tell such a thing, but simply reacting to the situation, Dalton quickly rose his gun as he took a deep breath, then fired at the monster.

The recoil knocked Dalton off his feet, almost dislocating his shoulder in the process. An unnatural energy hissed through the air, hitting into Lycid with enough force to not only knock the creature off it's feet, but also injured it's arm to the point that it could only attack with one anymore. Era looked over to Dalton, then the creature, before stumbling a bit to keep up after the multiple attacks. Putting the pieces together, Era began to laugh a bit at the situation.*
So... that's how things are, huh?
*Era looked up to the sky, then down to the planet, before focusing on the creature as it slowly got up to charge again. Switching the card he had, he took out two other cards.* I'll just have to finish you quickly with the original cross henshin and risk things a bit.

*Slotting both cards in at once, his belt responded and he began to Cross Kamen Ride. Changing into a mix of Atlas, the orange atlas beetle based zecter rider and Zeta, a blue colored Faiz type rider. Dalton got up, watching as the two ran at each other, then vanish into nothing. The two having clocked up, Lycid went right into attempting to slash it's good arm towards Era, trying to stab into him and poison him. Blocking the attack with the large double-sided axe weapon Atlas uses, Era pushed the monster back a bit to get some distance. The creature tried to spit acid at him, but he spun and avoid it while also shifting the axe to go past blocking the stinger-hand and go into the monster itself. Slashing into it, Era proceeded to try and follow up with a kick attack. Before the kick could land, large wings burst out from the monster and reflected Era's kick, nearly knocking him over.

Taking to the air, Lycid gained distance from itself and Era. Hissing a bit in pain, it's damaged arm fell off and regrew quickly, forming a slightly larger arm with a large stinger-blade for it's hand. Changing it's sights to Dalton who was frozen in slow-motion time, it aimed it's new arm towards the boy with the intention of launching it's new stringer into the helpless human. Era attached something and quickly hit a button on the Zeta phone, initiating the Install Zeta sequence. The blue aspects of the combined suit shifted, turning into silver as the phone said "AERO ZETA".

As the changed happened, the Zeta-Atlas crossed Era suddenly blasted up into the air quickly, with no obvious propulsion. Heading up towards the flying Lycid, Era threw his axe to smash the first launched stringer due to not being able to reach it himself in time. While the axe collided into the stinger and knocked it off course, Era rammed his shoulder into Lycid and dis-engaged the silver mode. Falling with his full weight, Era tackled Lycid into the ground and damaged it's wings in the processes.

The two fell out of clock up as Dalton got scared from the falling axe weapon and stinger that landed almost right near him, and the battle which had shifted place entirely. Changing his view to see what was going on, Dalton shook a bit and tried his best to keep standing. The crossed form Era moved away from the crater where he had smashed the Lycid creature into. Lycid suddenly sprang up and rushed towards Era, stabbing with it's hand stringers and it's new bladed-stringer arm, which had re-spawned the blade it shot off earlier. The two clocked up again, leaving Dalton to stand there, wondering just what would happen next. After gulping a bit, he saw the two land, smashing a bunch of trees down in the processes and a building that was situated near by. Clocking up again, the two disappeared from Dalton's sight.

Standing back a bit, Dalton gripped his gun a bit more. Looking around, he noticed the two had come to a stand still of sorts. They were blurring, so it was hard to tell what was going on, but he could easily make out that the worm was blocking with all it's ability and digging into the ground a bit to help take the impact of something. Noticing the other flurry to be orange and what was either some shade of yellow or green at any given moment, Dalton quickly rose his gun* I'm sorry you died on my behalf, but at least I can help you be free now... *Firing the gun one more time, Dalton fell backwards from the recoil. Despite missing, the unnatural energy curved itself, smashing into the intended target and causing them to be pained enough that it broke it's guard a bit.

In the clock-up bubble, Era had initiated the Install sequence again. Despite mostly being on the offensive assault, the form he was in would begin to power out and need to go into another form which would guard the attacks and take the energy from it. The two were locked in a back and forth, Lycid using it's strengthened stringers to block the powered attacks, while the guarded form of Era would take the attacks and restore the other form.

Things not letting up, Era continued to push the attack before clock-up would disengage and give the enemy a chance to use it again before he could. When Dalton's shot injured Lycid enough and broke him off his guard, Era unleashed the full attack. Punching and kicking Lycid multiple times over, each hit caused the yellow energy flares to light up, getting progressively lighter from a very dark yellow color. After multiple hits, a Z symbol appeared behind Lycid just before he fell over fully. Exploding in a large green explosion, he had finally been laid to rest.

The crossed form disengaged, and quickly Era took off the belt as he fell over. Collapsing to the ground and getting his breathing under control, Hiraku laid there for a moment before getting to his feet and looking to Dalton. Dalton, who also had to lay on the ground for a while, got up slowly. He wasn't horribly injured, but the two seemed similarity beaten from the fighting.*

Thanks for the assistance. However, where did you get that gun?
It was just there in my house all of the sudden. Its more effective than the other ones I used, but I will have to practice with it.
It seems dangerous, especially if it just appeared....
It helped, didn't it?
Yeah, this should hopefully be the last of those monsters that have been attack us too. Just in case though... *Hiraku took out the duplicated teal grasshopper candroid from the other night, handing it over to Dalton who looked over it questionably.*

That is a candroid. One for communication. Pull the tab, talk to the grasshopper it becomes and you'll be able to call me. Use it in emergencies only though, alright?
*Dalton was busy looking it over, pulling the tab, then compacting it back to a can several times over.* Yeah yeah, I got it. This thing is pretty amusing.
Be careful with that gun, kid. I don't think its safe to use it. At least not often.
If it is my only option to fight with, then I'll use it. I don't want to sit around when these monsters keep attacking. Much less if they keep killing me or others... *Dalton reflected on Lycid as well as others he had seen attacked and assumed killed like Decade.

Hiraku had already called his bike over to him again, getting back on it before waving a goodbye to Dalton. Hiraku took off to head home and think a bit on things, as well as to go recover from the fights of the day. Despite having multiple things weighing in on his mind, Hiraku could only focus on one thing: the repair of his driver and ability to fight fully once more without risk. He knew that if his belt wasn't malfunctioning and the risk of that, the fights would be much easier and he could probably save everything by himself.

Dalton also returned home, or to what he had to call home now. As he returned, several armed soldiers were there to greet him. Hoping that something wasn't wrong, Dalton approached the men who immediately took him inside to see an official who had been waiting. Worried that the news was about his parents, he sat down cautiously as he was filled in on something important. His eyes widened as what he feared was true, but not what he had expected. Afterwards, Dalton was ushered out by the military, loaded into a vehicle, and taken to an unknown location outside the city limits for the rest of the day.

Meanwhile, Noburus crossed their arms, hiding out in their secret area which no one could find, not even Eiji/Kisekiri. They had witness the events that unfolded during the fight, and seemed a bit irritated.*
Thhey.... hhave a piecce of it....
Thhat Kisekiri.... whhy would hhe do thhat?
Never thhe less.... I must obtain it immediatly....
*Turning away from their current work that they had begun, they returned to working on an earlier project. As they adjusted and worked on something, multiple Pawns moved around, helping do little tasks in the processes. These Pawns looked different than the ones used by Foundation X's earlier attack, the detailing slightly different and their colors being silver. Other creatures could be seen being in stasis and waiting to be worked on in the background.

Later that night, Hiraku looked to his collection of items before turning to bed fully. Looking over several cell medals he had kept from the batch collected for Kio, the one Eiji made, his candroid and his new item, the Weather Memory and the Fury Memory which he had taken for safekeeping at the moment. Not knowing why, he felt an urge to collect more of these items and use them to find the person who could fix his belt. Taking the Weather Memory into his hand, Hiraku looked it over very carefully. As he looked it over, he smirked a bit and noticed something with the memory. The smirk quickly vanished however, as he suddenly got a headache and several odd visions. Putting the memory on the counter, he shook his head a bit and sighed one more time.*
If only it had been that path instead... but I have to keep going forward. I must. *Hiraku put down the memory, looking to his Era Driver which sat on a small table away from the other items.*

Ryan, after being by Shoutaro the final time, had been sitting there, quietly absorbing all that had happened in everyone's respective fights. He realized that with Decade and Ozu now both gone, they had less support and have a harder time dealing with the multiple factions they faced.
Finally noticing that Era had left quietly, Ryan got up and leaned himself on a door frame. Shoutaro noticed this but didn't do anything for the time while Philip walked over towards him.
"I'm worried Philip-san." he said, answering the question he was sure Philip was about to ask. "This has got to stop."
Philip looked him, "Well, your scared aren't you?"
"Of course I am, I'd be a fool saying I wasn't." Ryan answered. "But I swear to you and Shoutaro now I will stop DestrOy, even if I have to do it alone."
"You know you wont be alone, Ryan-kun."
"Of course I wont be. But even if I am, I will stop him. Philip-san."
Philip and Shoutaro who were the only ones apparently listening smiled.

((Epic foreshadowing of two things that will go down. Can you guess what they will be? O_O))

((That's Itami for you. Get used to it. xd
Also love at your character's interest in Kiva. Reminds me of something I have in mind for Psycho. O_o))

After getting a reassuring pat from Shoutaro, Ryan walked to Kio, Kira, and Rio were.
"Thanks for helping them out back there you two." he said with a warm smile.

Ryan laughed. "Glad to have you and the team!"

((lol. Alright. I'm surprised you haven't figured it out though. O.o))

((and that weird stalker demon of Yellow's. How'd you guess? O.o))

Ryan laughed again before putting Kio in a headlock.
"Anyway," he said, "next time you try something reckless like Burst form again I'm going to kill you."