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Because I'm an OSM procastinator. XDDD So I got stumped on the current Hidarime muse (that aside from the fact that Reproach and Contemplation kinda trying to divert me from Stay with me) and decided to try at least completing the other chapters that I had left half-finished from ages ago. That aside, you can always check the tags in case you missed any of my updates. And reviews are always appreciated.
Title: Rippled Dimensions
Universe: Original, Decade and AR Rider worlds (Heisei Universe)
Fandom: Kamen Rider Decade
Rating: G, probably PG13 later
Genre: Supernatural
Summary: Before it all started, before the journey ever begins... strange happenings had started happening in the nine Rider worlds. Once again the nine Kamen Riders have to again take upon their Rider lives in order to save their worlds. AU.
A/N: Because it's been a while... I'm probably a bit rustic at writing some people, I'll check this later.
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Hajime picked up the tray full of empty glasses and plates as he handed it to Haruka-san. He sighed. It had only been four years since he had lived in such a peaceful time. Four years, yet it had felt dreadfully long.
He wondered how Kenzaki would be doing. It had been so long since they last saw each other on that forest hill, that time when they had last fought. That time when he thought would be the last day he would be free. (Unless of course somebody else unsealed all of them all over again.)
Since then, Hajime occasionally could feel Kenzaki's presence... yet either if it was just illusions, he never had met Kenzaki again. Kenzaki... really hold his vow stubbornly. He really did tried very hard to stay as far as possible from him to avoid either of them starting another Battle Fight. Not that Master will not draw them towards each other any more...
Suddenly Hajime froze. This sensation... this feeling, there cannot be any mistake about it--!
Amane entered the cafe, just back from school; as she noticed his peculiar behaviour right away.
"Hajime-san? Something wrong?"
Hajime blinked several times before looking down towards her.
"Ek? Eeh... nothing, it's nothing. I'm alright." he said unconvincingly. He turned to look outside the windows as he saw the very thing that he had sensed earlier.
"Amane-chan! I'm sorry... something came up. I see you later!" Hajime hastily told Amane as the girl and her mother watched him leave in surprise.
Mutsuki who had happened to walk into the cafe, brushed pass him as Hajime seemed to have not noticed him. He then frowned when he saw Hajime riding his bike away as a black metal slab nearby just went up and followed him. Mutsuki blinked again in disbelief. What was that?
Shaking his head, Mutsuki went inside the cafe as he asked Amane.
"Amane-chan, did Nozomi-san arrived already?"
Amane shook her head before showing him his table, as she teased him again over his relationship with Nozomi...
xxx
Tachibana Sakuya ran up the stairs hastily as he deftly made his way past the security system of the rebuild BOARD Headquarters. It did not take him a while before reaching the president's office. Sure enough, Aikawa Hajime was inside with Karasuma-san.
"Hajime, what are you doing here?" he cried as Hajime turned towards him. Karasuma-san turned towards him as well.
"Aikawa-kun wanted to ask if the machine that had been used to unseal the Undeads were still around."
Tachibana stared at Hajime in surprise.
"Even without the machine we could still use Leangle's Remote card to unseal any Undeads. But why? Didn't the Battle Fight ended in a stalemate already? Why do you need to--"
"I need to find Kenzaki."
Tachibana fumed.
"Why? Did you want to risk the destruction of the world just so you could--"
"Tachibana-kun... calm down."
He glared towards the old man in disbelief. But before he could fume some more, Hajime spoke.
"This world would be in danger again... something much worse than before. But if either Kenzaki or myself should leave this world... the roaches would appear again to destroy this world and reset. Battle Fight would restart again after everything was destroyed. There would be nothing left to be saved."
Tachibana frowned.
"What are you talking about?" he asked as Karasuma suddenly got a call. He turned his attention towards the old man as Karasuma hastily rushed back towards his desk. That caught his attention as Tachibana came up beside him to look at the computer.
It appeared some strange creatures had suddenly started to terrorize certain cities around Tokyo as Karasuma accessed the network system that had been used to monitor the city. Tachibana looked up towards Hajime as he nodded.
"Those are called Fangire, they came from another world."
Karasuma and Tachibana rose as they gave him questioning him.
"What are you talking about? How did you know about this?" Tachibana inquired as Hajime kept his silence.
"It's what... Master had told me."
Karasuma frowned.
"And what does this having to do with finding Kenzaki and releasing the Undeads?"
Hajime shrugged.
"Something... outside of this world was trying to merge everything into one. But every world have its own set of rules for it to exist. If all were to merge, that includes everything else living in those worlds. Humans, animals, whatever creatures that had existed in each worlds like this one. It was almost the same as this world's Reset. As much as this would mean that even the Battle Fight would also be no more, so would be the rest of everything else."
"Regardless of our choices at hand, this world would still face its destruction."
Karasuma and Tachibana were silent, speechless at hearing the words that Hajime had spoken. To think they had only able to leave in peace again for several years only since that dreadful day when the Undeads were released.
Hajime took a moment of silence before continuing.
"I would also like to ask for you to give me my deck, Kenzaki's deck as well as his Blade Rouser, Karasuma-san."
President Karasuma frowned at him. "Why? You'll only need to unseal some of the higher level Undead to ensure we didn't provoke the restart or reset of the Battle Fight so why—"
Hajime stared at them incredulously.
"Didn't you two saw those creatures from the other worlds? Aside from the other Undeads, those creatures cannot be stopped unless we used the Rider strength! When Kenzaki leave this world, I would be the next strongest Rider in this world! And who knows how strong the other creatures that came here are—"
"You forgot that we still have Garren and Leangle." Tachibana argued. As well as Kerberos card, he added silently. Despite the fact he and Karasuma had never considered to use that card.
Hajime turned towards him.
"Leangle aside, since we probably need to only unseal his King and Queen; can you use your Fusion King abilities?"
Tachibana took a step back. When putting it at that angle, what Hajime said made sense. Kenzaki aside, Hajime was the next best thing they had. Joker's powers were indeed powerful but unstable. Though as Wild Chalice, Hajime's powers were somewhat stable. He and Mutsuki never attempted to use their King cards before... seeing the effect the fusion had with Kenzaki. If now, for some reason should he tried to use that card... how would the risk be for him? Of course he wouldn't get the same effect as Blade's King form considering his fusion ratio, but he saw how powerful Kenzaki's King card was; setting aside his other cards. Would his own King lend his powers to himself or would he be controlled by his King card instead? Knowing Kanai's personality...
"Still, how do you think you can find Kenzaki now? Who knows where in this world he could be hiding right now. You can't expect to travel to every corner in this world to—"
"He's in Japan."
Tachibana swore aloud as he almost bit his tongue in surprise.
"H-how... how did you know?" he asked as Hajime shrugged.
"Master told me. Master itself had stopped the Battle Fight and ceased its action to try bringing both Kenzaki and me to fight against each other. The threat on this world's destruction took precedence over Battle Fight. There are no use for the Battle Fight if the world would be erased regardless."
"But still... that doesn't mean anything that Kenzaki would come back here—" Karasuma argued as Hajime shook his head again.
"He would come... because those intruders would aim for him as well. Knowing him, he would come back here to see what had caused all of these new incidents; even if it meant to get closer to my reach."
"Doesn't that also mean that Kenzaki could also have come here himself?" Tachibana argued before shaking his head. "No, Kenzaki wouldn't come any near to this place... he would have still kept his distance."
Hajime nodded again. "Kenzaki would not be able to understand Master's words so he wouldn't have been able to find out what was the cause of all of this. I need to relay Master's message to him. Please."
Tachibana bit his lips as he exchange looks with Karasuma. Seeing the older man nodding his head at him, he went towards the vault and took out a large metai case before returning towards the other two men. He sighed as he opened the case to pass Hajime's deck, Kenzaki's deck and his Blade Rouser to Hajime. Hajime quickly grab the things and kept in inside his jacket pocket as he nodded to them.
"Thank you. And I believe... you would tell Mutsuki about this? I've passed him earlier, but then I haven't found out about this until much later—I'm not sure if I'd meet him again any time soon."
"I'll tell him. Don't worry."
Hajime nodded as he bid his leave. Tachibana hastily called out towards him as Hajime turned around.
"Be careful. You and Kenzaki—if you meet him, tell him that. Tell him also to take care of himself."
Hajime smiled.
"I'll tell him that."
xxx
Umeda district. Osaka.
Kenzaki hurriedly kicked off one of the strange monsters that had suddenly emerged from the nearby railway station as he urged the people he saved to run away as fast as they can. So far, he managed to get a lot of people away from this place—though he had some misgivings about changing into hi Joker form and fight these monsters by himself. Despite—Kenzaki changed his form in a split second to attack another monster to prevent it from hurting a pair of school children before reverting back. He bit his lips as he realized the futility of his actions.
If only he had his Blade Rouser—fighting as a Kamen Rider wouldn't feel as awkward compared to that of Navy Joker—but he couldn't go back to get it. He wouldn't risk meeting Hajime again despite these circumstances...
A shrill cry alerted him as he turned to find one lunging towards him to attack him. Kenzaki prepared a stance to deflect the attack before a blast of light pierce through the monster as it fell to the ground. He frowned as the monster suddenly became all glassy like a stained glass before it shattered into nothing. He turned towards the person who had saved him as he cried aloud.
Chalice cocked his head at him as he stepped down from his bike.
"As I expected, I was right to find you right away—" he said as Chalice threw the Blade Rouser and the Spade deck towards Kenzaki. Not allowing Kenzaki to speak, Hajime brushed past him to attack two more of the Fangires.
"Explanations later," he said briefly as Kenzaki transformed. Half an hour later, all of the attacking monsters were defeated as both Undeads remained standing.
Kenzaki released Blade's transformation as he glared towards Hajime.
"Why are you here? Didn't you care about what happened if we meet again? Or did you came—"
Hajime shrugged.
"You saw those Fangires just now, didn't you? There are more at stake right now than you think, Battle Fight is the least of our concerns right now."
Kenzaki frowned.
"What did you mean?"
As he spoke, a huge metal slab that he recognised as the master of the Battle Fight landed beside Hajime. Hajime stared at him, unsmiling.
"You'd understand better if you see it yourself. There would be someone who would explain to you about everything. Right now... it's best if you leave this world."
Kenzaki blinked at his friend, unable to comprehend his words as he stuttered.
"W-what? What did you mean—Hajime? Go where—how can I... won't this world be destroyed once I leave?"
"There would not be only me being the Undead in this world—" said Hajime cryptically as he grabbed Kenzaki's hand to confront Master. Kenzaki stared at him in surprise before noticing that he was not hearing or having any urge to attack Hajime, despite the close proximity.
Hajime smiled at him.
"My job here is done. Everyone sends you their regards, take care. Our world—as well as the rest of them—would depend on you and your comrades."
"Huh?"
Kenzaki only managed to let out a gasp as Hajime suddenly pushed him towards Master. Unexpectedly, his body did not touch the metallic surface of the object that supposedly being the Master of this world as he went through it—entering a whole new different dimension as he fell flat on the 'ground'. The 'hole' in front of him quickly dissolved as Hajime; as well as his world, disappeared from his sight.
He frowned as he turned around to find that he was not alone. One of the few people who were standing before him turned towards him as he sighed.
"Finally... another one have arrived."
Title: Rippled Dimensions
Universe: Original, Decade and AR Rider worlds (Heisei Universe)
Fandom: Kamen Rider Decade
Rating: G, probably PG13 later
Genre: Supernatural
Summary: Before it all started, before the journey ever begins... strange happenings had started happening in the nine Rider worlds. Once again the nine Kamen Riders have to again take upon their Rider lives in order to save their worlds. AU.
A/N: Because it's been a while... I'm probably a bit rustic at writing some people, I'll check this later.
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Hajime picked up the tray full of empty glasses and plates as he handed it to Haruka-san. He sighed. It had only been four years since he had lived in such a peaceful time. Four years, yet it had felt dreadfully long.
He wondered how Kenzaki would be doing. It had been so long since they last saw each other on that forest hill, that time when they had last fought. That time when he thought would be the last day he would be free. (Unless of course somebody else unsealed all of them all over again.)
Since then, Hajime occasionally could feel Kenzaki's presence... yet either if it was just illusions, he never had met Kenzaki again. Kenzaki... really hold his vow stubbornly. He really did tried very hard to stay as far as possible from him to avoid either of them starting another Battle Fight. Not that Master will not draw them towards each other any more...
Suddenly Hajime froze. This sensation... this feeling, there cannot be any mistake about it--!
Amane entered the cafe, just back from school; as she noticed his peculiar behaviour right away.
"Hajime-san? Something wrong?"
Hajime blinked several times before looking down towards her.
"Ek? Eeh... nothing, it's nothing. I'm alright." he said unconvincingly. He turned to look outside the windows as he saw the very thing that he had sensed earlier.
"Amane-chan! I'm sorry... something came up. I see you later!" Hajime hastily told Amane as the girl and her mother watched him leave in surprise.
Mutsuki who had happened to walk into the cafe, brushed pass him as Hajime seemed to have not noticed him. He then frowned when he saw Hajime riding his bike away as a black metal slab nearby just went up and followed him. Mutsuki blinked again in disbelief. What was that?
Shaking his head, Mutsuki went inside the cafe as he asked Amane.
"Amane-chan, did Nozomi-san arrived already?"
Amane shook her head before showing him his table, as she teased him again over his relationship with Nozomi...
xxx
Tachibana Sakuya ran up the stairs hastily as he deftly made his way past the security system of the rebuild BOARD Headquarters. It did not take him a while before reaching the president's office. Sure enough, Aikawa Hajime was inside with Karasuma-san.
"Hajime, what are you doing here?" he cried as Hajime turned towards him. Karasuma-san turned towards him as well.
"Aikawa-kun wanted to ask if the machine that had been used to unseal the Undeads were still around."
Tachibana stared at Hajime in surprise.
"Even without the machine we could still use Leangle's Remote card to unseal any Undeads. But why? Didn't the Battle Fight ended in a stalemate already? Why do you need to--"
"I need to find Kenzaki."
Tachibana fumed.
"Why? Did you want to risk the destruction of the world just so you could--"
"Tachibana-kun... calm down."
He glared towards the old man in disbelief. But before he could fume some more, Hajime spoke.
"This world would be in danger again... something much worse than before. But if either Kenzaki or myself should leave this world... the roaches would appear again to destroy this world and reset. Battle Fight would restart again after everything was destroyed. There would be nothing left to be saved."
Tachibana frowned.
"What are you talking about?" he asked as Karasuma suddenly got a call. He turned his attention towards the old man as Karasuma hastily rushed back towards his desk. That caught his attention as Tachibana came up beside him to look at the computer.
It appeared some strange creatures had suddenly started to terrorize certain cities around Tokyo as Karasuma accessed the network system that had been used to monitor the city. Tachibana looked up towards Hajime as he nodded.
"Those are called Fangire, they came from another world."
Karasuma and Tachibana rose as they gave him questioning him.
"What are you talking about? How did you know about this?" Tachibana inquired as Hajime kept his silence.
"It's what... Master had told me."
Karasuma frowned.
"And what does this having to do with finding Kenzaki and releasing the Undeads?"
Hajime shrugged.
"Something... outside of this world was trying to merge everything into one. But every world have its own set of rules for it to exist. If all were to merge, that includes everything else living in those worlds. Humans, animals, whatever creatures that had existed in each worlds like this one. It was almost the same as this world's Reset. As much as this would mean that even the Battle Fight would also be no more, so would be the rest of everything else."
"Regardless of our choices at hand, this world would still face its destruction."
Karasuma and Tachibana were silent, speechless at hearing the words that Hajime had spoken. To think they had only able to leave in peace again for several years only since that dreadful day when the Undeads were released.
Hajime took a moment of silence before continuing.
"I would also like to ask for you to give me my deck, Kenzaki's deck as well as his Blade Rouser, Karasuma-san."
President Karasuma frowned at him. "Why? You'll only need to unseal some of the higher level Undead to ensure we didn't provoke the restart or reset of the Battle Fight so why—"
Hajime stared at them incredulously.
"Didn't you two saw those creatures from the other worlds? Aside from the other Undeads, those creatures cannot be stopped unless we used the Rider strength! When Kenzaki leave this world, I would be the next strongest Rider in this world! And who knows how strong the other creatures that came here are—"
"You forgot that we still have Garren and Leangle." Tachibana argued. As well as Kerberos card, he added silently. Despite the fact he and Karasuma had never considered to use that card.
Hajime turned towards him.
"Leangle aside, since we probably need to only unseal his King and Queen; can you use your Fusion King abilities?"
Tachibana took a step back. When putting it at that angle, what Hajime said made sense. Kenzaki aside, Hajime was the next best thing they had. Joker's powers were indeed powerful but unstable. Though as Wild Chalice, Hajime's powers were somewhat stable. He and Mutsuki never attempted to use their King cards before... seeing the effect the fusion had with Kenzaki. If now, for some reason should he tried to use that card... how would the risk be for him? Of course he wouldn't get the same effect as Blade's King form considering his fusion ratio, but he saw how powerful Kenzaki's King card was; setting aside his other cards. Would his own King lend his powers to himself or would he be controlled by his King card instead? Knowing Kanai's personality...
"Still, how do you think you can find Kenzaki now? Who knows where in this world he could be hiding right now. You can't expect to travel to every corner in this world to—"
"He's in Japan."
Tachibana swore aloud as he almost bit his tongue in surprise.
"H-how... how did you know?" he asked as Hajime shrugged.
"Master told me. Master itself had stopped the Battle Fight and ceased its action to try bringing both Kenzaki and me to fight against each other. The threat on this world's destruction took precedence over Battle Fight. There are no use for the Battle Fight if the world would be erased regardless."
"But still... that doesn't mean anything that Kenzaki would come back here—" Karasuma argued as Hajime shook his head again.
"He would come... because those intruders would aim for him as well. Knowing him, he would come back here to see what had caused all of these new incidents; even if it meant to get closer to my reach."
"Doesn't that also mean that Kenzaki could also have come here himself?" Tachibana argued before shaking his head. "No, Kenzaki wouldn't come any near to this place... he would have still kept his distance."
Hajime nodded again. "Kenzaki would not be able to understand Master's words so he wouldn't have been able to find out what was the cause of all of this. I need to relay Master's message to him. Please."
Tachibana bit his lips as he exchange looks with Karasuma. Seeing the older man nodding his head at him, he went towards the vault and took out a large metai case before returning towards the other two men. He sighed as he opened the case to pass Hajime's deck, Kenzaki's deck and his Blade Rouser to Hajime. Hajime quickly grab the things and kept in inside his jacket pocket as he nodded to them.
"Thank you. And I believe... you would tell Mutsuki about this? I've passed him earlier, but then I haven't found out about this until much later—I'm not sure if I'd meet him again any time soon."
"I'll tell him. Don't worry."
Hajime nodded as he bid his leave. Tachibana hastily called out towards him as Hajime turned around.
"Be careful. You and Kenzaki—if you meet him, tell him that. Tell him also to take care of himself."
Hajime smiled.
"I'll tell him that."
xxx
Umeda district. Osaka.
Kenzaki hurriedly kicked off one of the strange monsters that had suddenly emerged from the nearby railway station as he urged the people he saved to run away as fast as they can. So far, he managed to get a lot of people away from this place—though he had some misgivings about changing into hi Joker form and fight these monsters by himself. Despite—Kenzaki changed his form in a split second to attack another monster to prevent it from hurting a pair of school children before reverting back. He bit his lips as he realized the futility of his actions.
If only he had his Blade Rouser—fighting as a Kamen Rider wouldn't feel as awkward compared to that of Navy Joker—but he couldn't go back to get it. He wouldn't risk meeting Hajime again despite these circumstances...
A shrill cry alerted him as he turned to find one lunging towards him to attack him. Kenzaki prepared a stance to deflect the attack before a blast of light pierce through the monster as it fell to the ground. He frowned as the monster suddenly became all glassy like a stained glass before it shattered into nothing. He turned towards the person who had saved him as he cried aloud.
Chalice cocked his head at him as he stepped down from his bike.
"As I expected, I was right to find you right away—" he said as Chalice threw the Blade Rouser and the Spade deck towards Kenzaki. Not allowing Kenzaki to speak, Hajime brushed past him to attack two more of the Fangires.
"Explanations later," he said briefly as Kenzaki transformed. Half an hour later, all of the attacking monsters were defeated as both Undeads remained standing.
Kenzaki released Blade's transformation as he glared towards Hajime.
"Why are you here? Didn't you care about what happened if we meet again? Or did you came—"
Hajime shrugged.
"You saw those Fangires just now, didn't you? There are more at stake right now than you think, Battle Fight is the least of our concerns right now."
Kenzaki frowned.
"What did you mean?"
As he spoke, a huge metal slab that he recognised as the master of the Battle Fight landed beside Hajime. Hajime stared at him, unsmiling.
"You'd understand better if you see it yourself. There would be someone who would explain to you about everything. Right now... it's best if you leave this world."
Kenzaki blinked at his friend, unable to comprehend his words as he stuttered.
"W-what? What did you mean—Hajime? Go where—how can I... won't this world be destroyed once I leave?"
"There would not be only me being the Undead in this world—" said Hajime cryptically as he grabbed Kenzaki's hand to confront Master. Kenzaki stared at him in surprise before noticing that he was not hearing or having any urge to attack Hajime, despite the close proximity.
Hajime smiled at him.
"My job here is done. Everyone sends you their regards, take care. Our world—as well as the rest of them—would depend on you and your comrades."
"Huh?"
Kenzaki only managed to let out a gasp as Hajime suddenly pushed him towards Master. Unexpectedly, his body did not touch the metallic surface of the object that supposedly being the Master of this world as he went through it—entering a whole new different dimension as he fell flat on the 'ground'. The 'hole' in front of him quickly dissolved as Hajime; as well as his world, disappeared from his sight.
He frowned as he turned around to find that he was not alone. One of the few people who were standing before him turned towards him as he sighed.
"Finally... another one have arrived."
