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After a long hiatus, finally this came out.
Title: Rippled Dimensions
Universe: Original, Decade and AR Rider worlds (Heisei Universe)
Fandom: Kamen Rider Decade
Rating: G to PG13
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
A/N: This plot had been lingering in my head for a long time, and finally the muse arrived.
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Wataru opened his eyes towards a vast clearing. There was not much in terms of greenery all around him and the area around him did not seemed familiar. Wonder if the person we're looking for was here, he thought to himself.
"Wataru, over here!"
Wataru looked up towards Kivat the third as he followed the mechanical bat towards another area, where he later found a group of people around what seemed to be, a dig site.
"Ano... can I ask something?" Wataru cautiously approached one of the group leaders of the site as she took a break towards her own tent. The woman turned towards him in surprise.
"Eh? Who—I'm sorry, I haven't expected to see anyone—did you get lost? Are you looking for someone? Oh, sorry for my rudeness... may I help you?"
Wataru let out a sigh of relief. Thank goodness this woman was a Japanese! If she was a foreigner... how on earth would he be able to talk to her?
Wataru shook his head at her slightly. "Ah no, I'm not lost. I just... is there a Godai Yuusuke here?"
Sakurako blinked suddenly. "Eh—I mean, sorry? Don't mind me asking, but how did you know Yuusuke was here? He only happened to be in this country this time by chance, and just arrived at this site this morning. Is it something important?"
Wataru swallowed nervously as he noticed the woman was eyeing at Kivat who had been perching on his shoulder very still. Did she know?, he wondered.
"Ah... it's not something bad, umm... someone happened to tell me where he went," he explained, as Sakurako did not seem to believe him. Then again, what else could he say? He cannot exactly say that someone had sent him to this exact location to find this person or that he was from another dimension. Explaining all that... not going to turn out well and he was not that good at mincing words that much...
"So, can I see him? There's something I needed to talk to him about."
Perhaps it should be fine to reveal his purpose to this woman or perhaps not. He did not know how the Kamen Riders of this world worked, especially this one called Kuuga. Then again, he did not know anything about the other Riders that appeared shortly after he arrived at that blank dimension where the lone man—should he be called that—who called himself the Overlord of the Light, had taken him to.
From what he had briefly heard from the others, it seemed that most of them had been told of this disaster by people whom they had thought to have already died. Well, except that man named Tendou Souji and the other person; somehow things had been revealed to them without any supernatural aid. The Overlord later told them that he was the one who caused some of those strange phenomena—the reappearance of the ones already gone; whether in spirit or physically—in order to call all of them to stop this destruction. Still, he did not understand why must he instead be the one to approach the last two Kamen Riders that would become his new comrades? This world, was the very world from which the Overlord of the Light came from. Why shouldn't he himself call on them?
Wataru shook his head as he pushed the thought aside. Could there be some reason why the Overlord cannot do that?
"You looking for me?"
Wataru started as he turned to find Miss Sakurako returning with another man, presumely the man called Godai Yuusuke. Apparently when he had been so deep in his own thoughts, the woman had gone to find the man he had been looking for. Well, at least he did not have to find the man himself.
Wataru turned towards the man. "Pleased to meet you, I am Kurenai Wataru. Godai-san, may we talk somewhere in private?"
xxx
The expression on Yuusuke's face immediately changed as soon as Wataru finished explaining.
"No. Even if the world was destroyed, I will not become Kuuga ever again!" Wataru blinked, he had not expected the man to have reacted like this. Unlike the new comrades that he had briefly met, none of them had reacted strong against this like this person did. Even if some of them had been living peacefully after a while before this, none of them had hesitated to fight again in order to protect the ones important to them. So why this one...
"Godai-san, I don't understand. Why not? This disaster would not affect just this world but many others—the people that are living in those worlds, as well as this one; all of them will die if we did not stop this. Then why don't you want—?"
"Then why should you try to stop it? If the worlds were meant to be destroyed so let it be. Why should you be the ones to stop it?" Wataru started to frown as Godai's expressions had changed to that of sorrow. "I had enough of that life already, I've had it with fighting alone by myself as other people regarded me the same as those things—creatures that I've been fighting against. I've had it with people trying to justify what is right or wrong, of who should be wielding those powers that could either be good or bad. I've had it with the life of killing or be killed. I wanted to live my life in peace now, I don't even want to relive that life I used to live as Kuuga."
Yuusuke looked up towards Wataru. "I don't even know if I could still use that power again to turn into Kuuga. Ever since my last battle with Daguva many years ago, I did not try to see if I could still transform into Kuuga. Still, even if that power was still alive inside of me... I would not want to test if it was. My days as Kuuga had long past, I no longer wish to have anything to do with fighting. I hope you could understand that. That life... those painful memories of when I had been Kuuga, of being called the Unidentified Lifeform Number 4; I don't even want to remember all of that."
Wataru was silent for a while. Somehow, despite the circumstances they were facing right now, he begun to understand the man. Were it not just a few months ago that he had thought of changing the past in order to erase his own existence? Even if he did not know what kind of life had Godai Yuusuke had lived through during the time he had been Kuuga, from the man's expression and words; he could sense that his life had not been any different than him... or any of his other comrades. Perhaps that was inevitable, since they had been chosen to live as a Kamen Rider; they could not avoid fighting enemies and facing many obstacles in their lives in order to protect what was important to them. In that sense, even with the dire situation in their hands right now, Wataru could not force Godai Yuusuke to fight again. Wonder if that was why the Overlord of Light had sent him to meet this person. Wataru let out a long sigh.
"Very well then, I'll take my leave. I guess the rest of us would have to make do without Kuuga of this world." Wataru glanced to the sky before turning to Yuusuke. "By the way... have you heard about someone named Agito?"
Yuusuke slowly shook his head. "Not that I remember. Then again I've been travelling a lot these few years... I might have missed reading it on the news. Perhaps you could ask someone about it back at home, I used to have a friend who worked as a detective back in Tokyo. Right now he might still be working as a police officer back in Nagano, who knows. Sakurako seemed to have told me something before in the past. It was around two years after I stopped being Kuuga, she said something else had happened there. Might be related to this Agito you're looking for. But I don't know anything else past that, I rather not dwell on it. Since in the end, whatever trouble happened back then had also ended well."
Wataru nodded as he bowed to take his leave. As a new dimensional gate opened in front of him, he turned towards Yuusuke.
"I don't think that it was wrong for me, and the others to try to save these worlds we came from. If our world, our lives were meant to end as it would be; of course I would not try in vain to stop it when the time comes. But right now, someone was out there trying to create this early end to suit their own purpose. I feel whoever it was, the Higher Being that had given us life in this world, the God who created as all... would have wanted us to use every means to save ourselves. He would not lend a hand, yet providing the means for us to do so; to allow us to protect ourselves and the ones we loved. If that was what I'm supposed to do, what my comrades needs to do; I'd do it. Farewell, Godai Yuusuke-san. Even if you would not be fighting with us, we would also be fighting for your sake. We will also be fighting on your stead, to protect your world as well as ours. Farewell... Kamen Rider Kuuga."
Yuusuke held his breath as he watched Wataru disappeared into nothingness. That was it. This was truly the end. Perhaps that other person, the one who might have succeeded Kuuga after him, would protect this world instead. That was fine with him. Whatever fate that would fall into this world, he would face it regardless. If it should happen, it would. He wished all of them well.
Godai Yuusuke sighed as he turned back towards the direction of the excavation camp. There was no regret, he was fine with this life already.
xxx
Kurenai Wataru looked up towards the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department building in front of him. So it seemed things in this world were not that different than his own. Perhaps it was the same with the rest of the parallel worlds that connected all of them in this universe. Hah, and he had been worrying that he would not be able to fit in. Very well then, from what he had gathered, the policemen in this world actually do interact and worked together in the past. Like Godai-san had said, he might get a clue as to where to find Agito.
Perhaps this journey would not end in vain after all...
Title: Rippled Dimensions
Universe: Original, Decade and AR Rider worlds (Heisei Universe)
Fandom: Kamen Rider Decade
Rating: G to PG13
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
A/N: This plot had been lingering in my head for a long time, and finally the muse arrived.
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Wataru opened his eyes towards a vast clearing. There was not much in terms of greenery all around him and the area around him did not seemed familiar. Wonder if the person we're looking for was here, he thought to himself.
"Wataru, over here!"
Wataru looked up towards Kivat the third as he followed the mechanical bat towards another area, where he later found a group of people around what seemed to be, a dig site.
"Ano... can I ask something?" Wataru cautiously approached one of the group leaders of the site as she took a break towards her own tent. The woman turned towards him in surprise.
"Eh? Who—I'm sorry, I haven't expected to see anyone—did you get lost? Are you looking for someone? Oh, sorry for my rudeness... may I help you?"
Wataru let out a sigh of relief. Thank goodness this woman was a Japanese! If she was a foreigner... how on earth would he be able to talk to her?
Wataru shook his head at her slightly. "Ah no, I'm not lost. I just... is there a Godai Yuusuke here?"
Sakurako blinked suddenly. "Eh—I mean, sorry? Don't mind me asking, but how did you know Yuusuke was here? He only happened to be in this country this time by chance, and just arrived at this site this morning. Is it something important?"
Wataru swallowed nervously as he noticed the woman was eyeing at Kivat who had been perching on his shoulder very still. Did she know?, he wondered.
"Ah... it's not something bad, umm... someone happened to tell me where he went," he explained, as Sakurako did not seem to believe him. Then again, what else could he say? He cannot exactly say that someone had sent him to this exact location to find this person or that he was from another dimension. Explaining all that... not going to turn out well and he was not that good at mincing words that much...
"So, can I see him? There's something I needed to talk to him about."
Perhaps it should be fine to reveal his purpose to this woman or perhaps not. He did not know how the Kamen Riders of this world worked, especially this one called Kuuga. Then again, he did not know anything about the other Riders that appeared shortly after he arrived at that blank dimension where the lone man—should he be called that—who called himself the Overlord of the Light, had taken him to.
From what he had briefly heard from the others, it seemed that most of them had been told of this disaster by people whom they had thought to have already died. Well, except that man named Tendou Souji and the other person; somehow things had been revealed to them without any supernatural aid. The Overlord later told them that he was the one who caused some of those strange phenomena—the reappearance of the ones already gone; whether in spirit or physically—in order to call all of them to stop this destruction. Still, he did not understand why must he instead be the one to approach the last two Kamen Riders that would become his new comrades? This world, was the very world from which the Overlord of the Light came from. Why shouldn't he himself call on them?
Wataru shook his head as he pushed the thought aside. Could there be some reason why the Overlord cannot do that?
"You looking for me?"
Wataru started as he turned to find Miss Sakurako returning with another man, presumely the man called Godai Yuusuke. Apparently when he had been so deep in his own thoughts, the woman had gone to find the man he had been looking for. Well, at least he did not have to find the man himself.
Wataru turned towards the man. "Pleased to meet you, I am Kurenai Wataru. Godai-san, may we talk somewhere in private?"
xxx
The expression on Yuusuke's face immediately changed as soon as Wataru finished explaining.
"No. Even if the world was destroyed, I will not become Kuuga ever again!" Wataru blinked, he had not expected the man to have reacted like this. Unlike the new comrades that he had briefly met, none of them had reacted strong against this like this person did. Even if some of them had been living peacefully after a while before this, none of them had hesitated to fight again in order to protect the ones important to them. So why this one...
"Godai-san, I don't understand. Why not? This disaster would not affect just this world but many others—the people that are living in those worlds, as well as this one; all of them will die if we did not stop this. Then why don't you want—?"
"Then why should you try to stop it? If the worlds were meant to be destroyed so let it be. Why should you be the ones to stop it?" Wataru started to frown as Godai's expressions had changed to that of sorrow. "I had enough of that life already, I've had it with fighting alone by myself as other people regarded me the same as those things—creatures that I've been fighting against. I've had it with people trying to justify what is right or wrong, of who should be wielding those powers that could either be good or bad. I've had it with the life of killing or be killed. I wanted to live my life in peace now, I don't even want to relive that life I used to live as Kuuga."
Yuusuke looked up towards Wataru. "I don't even know if I could still use that power again to turn into Kuuga. Ever since my last battle with Daguva many years ago, I did not try to see if I could still transform into Kuuga. Still, even if that power was still alive inside of me... I would not want to test if it was. My days as Kuuga had long past, I no longer wish to have anything to do with fighting. I hope you could understand that. That life... those painful memories of when I had been Kuuga, of being called the Unidentified Lifeform Number 4; I don't even want to remember all of that."
Wataru was silent for a while. Somehow, despite the circumstances they were facing right now, he begun to understand the man. Were it not just a few months ago that he had thought of changing the past in order to erase his own existence? Even if he did not know what kind of life had Godai Yuusuke had lived through during the time he had been Kuuga, from the man's expression and words; he could sense that his life had not been any different than him... or any of his other comrades. Perhaps that was inevitable, since they had been chosen to live as a Kamen Rider; they could not avoid fighting enemies and facing many obstacles in their lives in order to protect what was important to them. In that sense, even with the dire situation in their hands right now, Wataru could not force Godai Yuusuke to fight again. Wonder if that was why the Overlord of Light had sent him to meet this person. Wataru let out a long sigh.
"Very well then, I'll take my leave. I guess the rest of us would have to make do without Kuuga of this world." Wataru glanced to the sky before turning to Yuusuke. "By the way... have you heard about someone named Agito?"
Yuusuke slowly shook his head. "Not that I remember. Then again I've been travelling a lot these few years... I might have missed reading it on the news. Perhaps you could ask someone about it back at home, I used to have a friend who worked as a detective back in Tokyo. Right now he might still be working as a police officer back in Nagano, who knows. Sakurako seemed to have told me something before in the past. It was around two years after I stopped being Kuuga, she said something else had happened there. Might be related to this Agito you're looking for. But I don't know anything else past that, I rather not dwell on it. Since in the end, whatever trouble happened back then had also ended well."
Wataru nodded as he bowed to take his leave. As a new dimensional gate opened in front of him, he turned towards Yuusuke.
"I don't think that it was wrong for me, and the others to try to save these worlds we came from. If our world, our lives were meant to end as it would be; of course I would not try in vain to stop it when the time comes. But right now, someone was out there trying to create this early end to suit their own purpose. I feel whoever it was, the Higher Being that had given us life in this world, the God who created as all... would have wanted us to use every means to save ourselves. He would not lend a hand, yet providing the means for us to do so; to allow us to protect ourselves and the ones we loved. If that was what I'm supposed to do, what my comrades needs to do; I'd do it. Farewell, Godai Yuusuke-san. Even if you would not be fighting with us, we would also be fighting for your sake. We will also be fighting on your stead, to protect your world as well as ours. Farewell... Kamen Rider Kuuga."
Yuusuke held his breath as he watched Wataru disappeared into nothingness. That was it. This was truly the end. Perhaps that other person, the one who might have succeeded Kuuga after him, would protect this world instead. That was fine with him. Whatever fate that would fall into this world, he would face it regardless. If it should happen, it would. He wished all of them well.
Godai Yuusuke sighed as he turned back towards the direction of the excavation camp. There was no regret, he was fine with this life already.
xxx
Kurenai Wataru looked up towards the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department building in front of him. So it seemed things in this world were not that different than his own. Perhaps it was the same with the rest of the parallel worlds that connected all of them in this universe. Hah, and he had been worrying that he would not be able to fit in. Very well then, from what he had gathered, the policemen in this world actually do interact and worked together in the past. Like Godai-san had said, he might get a clue as to where to find Agito.
Perhaps this journey would not end in vain after all...
