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"Your right. We need a base of some sort. Did you use see anything? Like a cafe or something like that?"

*When the other person arrived, he observed how they reacted to the fight. Thought he couldn't hear them from where he was, Hiraku could understand the situation. He took the card out from before once more, looking at it before putting it away. After witnessing the dopant be taken down and knowing the fight was over, he watched the dragon rider un-transform and turn the vending machine into a motorcycle. Knowing he had seen what he could of this encounter, he turned and began to leave as casually as he approached. Many things began to weigh on his mind as he walked through the city.*

Kio drove his bike, fallowing ryan. He sighed trying to think about who might be doing such a thing. All he knew was that whoever did this was powerfull, or had lots of money, or maybe both. It would help if he knew more but for now all he could do was try to gather as much information as possible.

*As Hiraku walked through town more, he was lost in thought. Not noticing he crossed paths with the people he watched before even. As would sometimes happen, his brain wouldn't shut up about all the various things it was trying to work out. The shouting and debating going on in his own head over many things, including the events pulling things to this place, disrupted his awareness slightly. He hadn't noticed he was straying towards a more abandoned area of town, leaving the "safety" of being around multiple people.

When his brain quieted down a bit, he looked around and noticed that no other people were around. This was bad to him as people caused commotion if something was wrong, and the panic could help him be aware of others. It also allowed him to blend in more, but out in the open he knew it wasn't long before something attacked. Turning to head back towards a more populated area, he was blocked off by two monsters which had been waiting to ambush him since the cafe. One was an mole imajin, the other a worm which was ready to molt. The mole imajin smacked the worm upside the head, as if to say "do it already" to which the worm responded and molted, becoming a spider-type worm. Hiraku sighed a bit, he was in this situation because he had zoned out trying to think on everything that has lead him to where he is now.*

Well, I was hoping to avoid having to fight anytime soon... but since you both seem so eager to attack me I guess i'll do you the honor of being defeated by me. *Hiraku took out a belt driver, similar to Decade's but different in several aspects. Putting it around his waist, the belt looped out and fit around him. Taking out a card that was different than before ((and works in any Ganbaride arcade machine)) Hiraku readied himself a bit.* Henshin!

*Slotting the card into the belt's side, the belt activated and began to transform him. Multiple angles of various silhouette forms appeared and fluxed in space, seemingly "dancing" around him despite not moving in action, until they converged onto him and multiple dimensional rifts formed and collided into him moments later. The mass of lense-flare and special effects found only in most final fantasy games finished with a teal, decade/diend looking rider standing in the same pose as Hiraku was in when he entered the card into the driver.*

*His first instinct was to rush right into battle and fight the two head long. However, he hesitated a moment then took out two cards* I suppose it would be better to handle things like this for now. *He tossed the cards up into the air then stood defiantly towards the imajin and worm. The two side slots of the belt reached out with a rail-type energy which caught the cards as they fell on either side of his waist then pulled them in. With a slight second delay of inserting the cards, the belt activated in succession.

Declaring "KAMEN RIDE" then "MAGNOS" a gray rider with little armor on appeared, looking much like Plat Form Den-O. The belt once again spoke out, "KAMEN RIDE" then followed with "ATLAS", summoning an orange atlas beetle based kabuto rider which was still in masked form. The summoned riders reacted instantly, Atlas casting off his armor into the more sleek Rider Form and immediately charging the worm monster, punching it several times over before it clocked up and fled, with Atlas following suit and chasing after it. Magnos meanwhile swiped a charged pass in front of it's belt, which had a compass on the front. The pointer turned red and changed direction as red armor appeared and formed over Magnos while his own belt declared "PARA FORM". His stance and personality changed, becoming much more empowered and justified.

Forming a weapon from essentially two sticks and a wheel, Magnos formed a glave weapon which he immediately began using to slash into the mole imajin. The mole reacted quicker than the worm did and began using it's metal claws to try and block the strikes. However, Magnos had more power behind his weapon and caused the mole to begin to buckle a bit, before swirling the glave and disrupting his blocking. While the mole was off guard, he quickly began slashing into the mole and with one large swing knocked him back, causing sparks to fly from the monster and launching him forward.

Meanwhile, in clock up, the spider worm and Atlas battled. Atlas went to punch the worm again but it grabbed his arm then began to spray him with webbing, trying to slow him down. With his free hand, he pulled out his large hammer weapon and smashed into the monster until it let go of his arm and stopped spraying him with webbing. As he worked to get it off, the spider quickly charged in and began to kick and punch Atlas, knocking him around a bit and making him drop the hammer weapon. The spider then ran to do a dropkick but Atlas reacted swiftly, grabbing him by his legs and spinning, letting go at the right time to toss the spider monster into a nearby tree. The tree splintered slightly, but didn't fall due to the effects of clock up. Rising up and brushing aside splinters frozen in the air, the spider worm rushed Atlas again.

By this time, Atlas had removed some of the webbing and was moving towards his hammer. He managed to pick it up and smash the worm head on in a split second, knocking the worm with such force it flung it out of clock up and into the path of the mole imajin, causing them to collide in the air. Atlas came out of clock up as well, then went to cast off his hammer weapon into a double sided axe. Rushing in, Atlas went to slash the spider worm before it could try fleeing again, however it spit more webbing which dulled the blade a bit and only caused it to impact instead of cut. The worm was knocked by the impact and stumbled back.

The mole imajin attempted to flee as well, knowing the odds were against them even with taking the worm to ambush Era while he was unprepared. As he attempted to dig underground, Magnos' glave lit up with red slightly and the mole was drawn from the hole he dug. Magnetically drawn into the blade, the mole imajin was smashed away, then brought back, only to be cut and knocked away again. This combo repeated several times before the mole blocked the glave and slashed Magnos and causing him to stop the attack. Magnos reacted by kicking the mole over, then attempting to stab down into it. The mole quickly fled underground when this happened only to spiral up through the ground and smash into him from below. The attack launched Magnos back with several sparks and the mole spun upwards in the air.

Turning in the air, it spun down like a drill towards Magnos. Reacting as fast as he could, Magnos changed forms again. The belt called out "FERRO FORM" as the armor arranged itself into a blue color. The weapon rearranged too, becoming an umbrella-spear combo. The umbrella opened up and glowed a faint blue, repulsing the drill and pushing it higher into the air. This action caused it to lose it's attack stability and stunned it a bit. "PARA FORM" the belt said as he changed form back to the red, glaved rider. "FULL CHARGE" the belt said once more as the pass was swiped. Energy flowed from the belt into the glave, which he threw like a javelin into the mole as it was in the air. It exploded and faded away like the Dopant did before, with Magnos catching the weapon on the ground.

At the same time, the spider worm had been beaten back quite a bit. The webbing fell off the axe after having been used to smash into the worm several times with great strength. The worm attempted to do it again, but Atlas blocked with his free arm as he went in to slash him several times over. The worm fell back, barely able to stumble onto it's feet after being hit so much. Putting the axe down and holding it with the webbed up hand, Atlas hit a button on his Zecter two times. "RIDER CHOPPING" was said from the belt as he rushed in and chopped downwards with the tachyon powered axe. The chopping motion went through the worm easily, causing it to explode in a large blue flame then vanish like the other monsters.

Magnos and Atlas both vanished away as easily as they were summoned. Era, who stood and watched the whole time, felt unsatisfied with this way of fighting. He knew this is how he would survive this incident though, with caution instead of carelessness as he had once fought like before. Taking the driver off and storing it away, the form disappeared and Kamen Rider Era returned to being Hiraku. Trying not to zone out again, he took his walk back into town.*

*For the past two hours, Ryan had been shifting through files, using his detective skills to their fullest.*

Nothing, he thought. True the history of this reality was different, but nothing really stood out.

"Guess we'll have to this the old fashioned way," he mumbled bitterly.

...
He then heard Kio's complaint. "I doubt it, but if its true, this reality in for a surprise."

"Luckily, I'm a detective in my world, or at least an apprentice of one.

And who knows? You and I come from two different ones. Maybe even offshoots of others. The number is un-comprehend-able. "

"Might as well." Ryan said, getting up. "And I have a feeling we're not the only riders or heroes that are here."

They left the cafe as the sun was starting to set.

"The real question is, were we brought here on purpose or just by an accident of some kind. The more answers we give, the more questions appear. This is going to be one tough case."