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Rippled Dimensions - Chapter 10 (Complete)
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: Finally... the headache inducing crossover is DONE. Now what's left is to write the off-plot on Tsukasa and Kaito's side that I can't include in this chapter without sounding off.
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The situation is getting worse. The Fangires that had been living in the city had become out of control completely. Not even his own presence had been able to subdue them any more. Almost every single Fangire had been affected, regardless whether they were those renegades and rebels; or the obedient Fangires who had agreed with Taiga's new policy of living in peace with the normal humans.
Wataru glanced up towards the sky. It had been night on this side of the world for quite some time already. He wondered if that had been half the reason why many of the Fangires had been greatly affected by this dimensional instability this world and many others had started to face. Time was getting shorter. But at least he and the others had been able to keep this world to continue existing a bit longer.
Wataru was almost glad for until now, he still kept his sanity and not fall like many of the Fangires whom he had no choice but to subdue. He was also glad that nothing had been affecting Taiga as well. Nor did the rest of his Arms Monsters. He wondered if the Kiva powers were somehow protecting them from these changes. Nago-san had also been busy. Megumi-san even insisted to Shima-san to allow her to use IXA's old model in order to help out with the fight.
His mother, Maya, had placed herself in a deep sleep. So far, she had not reawakened yet from her slumber. Wataru hoped that she would stay like that for now, at least until they managed to restore this world's order to normal. It would break his heart and his brother's, if they had to kill their own mother in order to protect everyone. His mother would not have forgiven herself either if she had destroyed the very thing that his father has held precious. The very thing his mother had grown to treasure, because of her love towards his father.
Because of that, Wataru had been working himself hard. He would not let this world to be destroyed. The others would also not allow their worlds to be destroyed either. If he had to join hands with them in order to protect everyone, he would gladly do it. Even if it meant gambling with his own life... and the lives of his other comrades.
He had not told his brother and the others the whole truth after all. He had kept it to himself that all of these chaos had been caused by a ripple in dimensions because of a certain group trying to connect all of the worlds into one. He never told any of them about this slow destruction was another sign that the worlds were getting even closer to each other for them to start merging.
The only time he had been talking about this openly aside from the time he saw his father's spirit, had been when all of them had met for the first time. It was then when he had found out who was it that had instigated their unlikely encounters, but since then he and the others had been able to move between and out of their own dimensions to oversee the situation.
He would never forget that first meeting. Even when they had never known each other before, he had felt a certain bond between each and every one of them. They were all the same, if one can set aside the obvious differences.
All of them had their reasons to fight. All of them had people that they wanted to protect. People whom they loved and cherished and vowed to keep safe.
When it came down to it, they were all the same.
All of them were Kamen Riders.
xxx
All of them had been standing on the plains. Facing each other. Neither of them have been wearing their armours. At that moment, the only thing that the eight of them had managed to do was staring at each other.
Some of them had been wearing their Rider belts. A young man, who had called himself Sakurai Yuuto; had told him that he would stand in for his comrade for now. Until then he would fight alongside the seven of them, before his comrade would join them. Sakurai had been holding a card on his hand. He said that it was his ticket back to his own time and world. But right now, he could not go back to that world without straying aimlessly in the streams of time. Wataru had felt a bit for him at that time, he wondered how he would fare had he faced a similar predicament.
The aloof one had called himself The Man who walked the heavens, the one to rule everything. It had sounded a bit conceited to him but Tendou Souji turned out to be a decent person. The title he had given himself turned out to be a kind of his motto; that he would stand to be better than his adversaries and enemies, allowing him to protect the ones he had called family... and dear friends. Tendou had been holding something that had looked like a red mechanical beetle. He had called it his zecter.
Wataru saw another man who looked much older than most of them and more mature; he did not seem so alarmed over the situation they're in despite the strangeness of the moment. He had been holding some sort of a fancy tuning fork on his hand. He was mostly quiet, talking only when he had anything he wanted to talk. He introduced himself as Hibiki. Wataru doubted that it was his real name but he did not press further. Hibiki-san seemed to be very calm, perhaps he had trained himself to be able to remain calm and composed when faced with any kinds of situation. Perhaps he could ask for his opinions about what they should do.
Kenzaki-san seemed a bit agitated. Wataru had asked him earlier about what had bothered him, but he did not seem to want to talk much about it. From the way he had heard Kido-san told him later, it sounded like Kenzaki's arrival to their 'meeting place' was a bit unannounced. Kido said he literally fell out of a hole. Whoever was it that sent Kenzaki here must have been the type to just do something without explaining the details.
Wataru turned towards Inui Takumi. Among the eight of them, he found the man to be intriguing. Inui used to be a normal human... who later was reborn into an Orphenoch due to a terrible accident. Even if Inui's circumstances were a bit different from him, who was born from a human and Fangire; Wataru felt he could get along with this man. He could recall their earlier conversation when they had initially met. Inui had been troubled when the Overlord had explained the situation briefly. He was worried that once the order of the world had been set back right again, he would never meet again his old friend whom he used to think had been dead before. Wataru thought about his father at that time, so he could understand his feelings.
Well, he might be assuming things so soon... but it seemed it might not be so bad, having all of these men as his comrades.
Wataru glanced back towards Shouichi-san, as the man he had been sent to find in the world of Kuuga and Agito was talking softly to Overlord of Light. So they did know each other! Although it alarmed him a bit before, when Shouichi exclaimed aloud to reassure himself that the man was indeed the Overlord of Light and not of Darkness. It would be strange if all of them who were the protectors of their own worlds to be guided by someone like that. Still, he was relieved to find that the Overlord had not expected him to drag Kuuga along as he had thought at first. Wataru knew he would feel uncomfortable if he had to do it anyway, he wanted to respect Godai-san's wish to not fight anymore.
Everyone suddenly went quiet as the Overlord turned his attention towards all of them. Wataru held his breath, finally everything would be explained. About what was happening to all of their worlds and what was it that all of them needed to do in order to protect it.
In the end, things did not appear as they seemed to be.
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"Strange... I could never imagine there would be someone who would have such power that could change so many lives..."
"You think so?" Kenzaki spoke aloud, as Inui turned his glance towards the man. "You're saying in your world there was no one you've met who would have had any such powers that could affect many people?"
Inui shrugged. "Not like this. I just can't imagine this guy to have some kind of power—once it was misused—would affect the universe so greatly."
"Troublesome... isn't it? Then again I came from a world where a slight change in the past could change so much of the future, something like this is sli—ghtly not surprising."
A number of them gave Sakurai a look as Sakurai ignored them. Wataru smiled weakly at him. Come to think... he used to have met Sakurai's friend, Nogami... wasn't it? It was still a brief encounter though. Suddenly now he was curious to know about Sakurai's world. The world where Kamen Rider Den-O existed.
"Ssh." Tendou suddenly urged all of them to be silent as suddenly the city square several kilometres in front of them, came into life as hundreds of civilians scattered around in fear. A number of strange creatures appeared as they went around attacking people at random. He frowned. "It seemed we're right on track. Decade should be amongst them."
"Right. So we'll do as we had planned. The five of you would take on those other kaijin and separate them from Decade as much as possible. The four of us would handle Decade." Shouichi immediately spoke up as Tendou nodded to him.
Kenzaki stepped up to Shouichi. "Decade's only one person, do we need the four of us to tackle him? I could handle some of those creatures just as easily—"
"No, Kenzaki-san. Remember, we weren't supposed to kill Decade in this mission. The Overlord said—"
Wataru took the cue from Kido as he spoke, "The Overlord said Decade's power is needed in order to restore everything to its original state."
"Very well, then," said Kenzaki as the eight of them faced each other. They briefly exchange words with each other before parted with their own separate missions.
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A great explosion shattered the land as Decade crashed into a building and his armour cancelled out. The young man looked up towards them as Wataru, Kenzaki, Shouichi and Kido surrounded him.
"What did you want now? I'm already defeated, finish me off then!"
Shouichi shook his head. "No. The four of us are not here to kill you. All of us needed your power. You're the only one who could set things right with everything that happen in these parallel universes."
"Don't tell me that this is what you yourself had wanted to do! Don't you have anyone close to you? Do you want them to die without knowing anything?" Kido asked aggressively as slowly the expression on the young man's face started to change.
"I..." The young man started to frown as if started to remember something, "What... have I done?" He glanced down towards himself before noticing the pink camera slung over his chest. He gently ran his hand over it as he seemed to have remembered something.
"Sayo?" Wataru and the others could hear the young man whisper the name softly before picking himself up from the ground.
"But what should I do? What can I do to set things right?" asked the young man again as Kenzaki spoke.
"You need to destroy all of the other Kamen Riders that you have caused to come into existence, as the result of the parallel worlds that you have unknowingly created when you had allowed those evil ones to cross between worlds."
The young man immediately paled. "What did you mean... destroy? Isn't that the same as what DaiShocker had made me do? Then why did all of you come here to stop me and telling this to me?"
Shouichi shook his head at him. "No. What we wanted you to do is not the same. Kadoya Tsukasa-kun, you have a strange power living inside of you. You have the ability to cross between different worlds and you also have the power to change their order."
"I know this was hard to take in but I've known people who had that kind of ability like you, even though those powers were not as great as yours." Kido suddenly spoke. "I know this might sound a bit radical, but sometimes in order to undo something in order to recreate it; something of equal value needed to be sacrificed."
Wataru nodded to himself as the young man turned to him. "Yes, creation and destruction... those two things cannot be separated. In order to restore things as it used to be, you needed to destroy it before you could recreate it."
The young man shook his head. "You're all mad! What bullshit are you telling me, and how did you know my name?" Tsukasa asked as he turned towards Shouichi. "Why are you telling me this—how did you even know if I have that kind of power that you said I had? How did you even know that destroying everything would fix it all?"
"Because you are Decade!" Shouichi suddenly raised his voice, before his expression softened. "I know this was hard to believe at first but I'm sure one day you will be able to find the answer you're looking for. Tsukasa-kun, without realising it you have affected our existence simply by crossing into our worlds. Because of your ability to cross dimensions, you've unknowingly tied the worlds' fate with its Riders. It was unfortunate that the evil ones that made up that DaiShocker organization had found out about your powers and used it for their own purposes."
Wataru sighed. "It was unfortunate for things to become like this, but the fact remained that your powers had been the one responsible for these changes and your powers as well that could set it back to what it used to be."
"Right now, because of the existences of the new parallel worlds... the order of everything had been unbalanced. The worlds are gradually merging into one." Kenzaki said bitterly. "And who did you think is the one at fault?"
Tsukasa bit his lips. His head started to ache, trying to make sense of everything he had just been told. "Then what did you want me to do?" he cried out as some of the DaiShocker generals had arrived to retrieve him.
Kenzaki snorted at him. "Didn't we just tell you what that was?" he said before putting on his Blade Rouser and transformed.
Kido grinned as he walked towards a broken glass pane before transforming into Ryuki to fight off the incoming enemies. "Don't worry about us, we could handle this by ourselves!" he said, just as Kabuto appeared to fight the ones heading towards them.
"Go now," said Shouichi as Wataru nodded to Tsukasa.
"I'll be seeing you again, when the time comes."
The two Riders immediately joined their comrades to tackle the enemies as Tsukasa watched them in disbelief. It seemed so unbelievable, to suddenly be confronted by these men and be entrusted with something important.
Tsukasa looked down as he picked up his Decadriver and Ride Booker from the ground. Strange how things had come to this point without him realising it. Tsukasa looked back towards all of the Riders before him as he finally turned around to make his escape.
Noticing his departure, Kiva paused as he impaled a Rhino kaijin onto the ground with his Zanbat sword. A small batlike creature flew to his side as he spoke softly to her. "Go now, Kivaala. You must not forget your own mission."
The little one giggled before flying in small circles. "Of course, I'll do everything that I could do to help. Finally there would be a purpose to my own existence!" said Kivaala before giggling softly.
"You take care out there, don't overestimate your own ability. Unlike father and me, you're very small. Any carelessness you'll—"
Kivaala flew lower as it met Kivat the Third's line of view. "I'll certainly remember that, big brother. I'll take care of myself well, you'll be sure of that!"
Wataru snorted as Kivaala flew up towards him again. "You can leave everything to me, Wataru-sama. I'll find the person who was meant for me and help everyone to ensure this mission will succeed. You can count on me!"
He nodded to her as Kivaala opened a gateway to allow her to cross into another world and left.
Now, the pieces had started to move...
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The world he had entered this time was a world that he did not recognize. It was not his world nor had it been any of the worlds his eight comrades had came from. Wataru frowned. Why have he been taken suddenly towards this place? This must be a sign. Would the true beginning to the destruction of the worlds begin now?
Another dimensional wall had appeared not far from where he was standing. And night fell again. A young man appeared to be slamming his fist on it, crying for the girl on the other side of the wall in alarm.
"Natsumikan! Natsumikan!" The young man cried.
Immediately after hearing his voice, Wataru recognized the owner. He took a closer step towards him as a Makamou passed through the wall into this side of this world. Wataru just watched the creature pass by before it disappeared on its own. He turned around towards Kadoya Tsukasa as the young man gasped in surprise. Wataru smiled.
"Decade... this would be the day." Of the destruction of the worlds.
Wataru walked slowly towards him as Tsukasa gave him a defiant look.
"You! Who are you?" he cried as Wataru smiled, lifting his hand to point towards the dark skies.
Tsukasa stared at him confused, before looking up towards the sky. The single moon that had been adorning the night sky, suddenly changed into a seemingly small Earth that expanded into a ring of nine different Earths; each having slightly different surface appearances as if they were all nine separate planets. The nine planets then started to fall onto the world they were on as one of the Earths crashed into this one.
Wataru blinked as he was back in his own world, looking up towards the other world; still visible to him as Kadoya Tsukasa shouted at him.
"Hey! That was dangerous!"
Wataru continued walking on the empty flyover as he kept looking upwards towards Tsukasa.
"Where are your buckle and cards?"
"It's been a policy for me not to use a credit card!"
Wataru suddenly had an urge to want to laugh at him. So it seemed the rumours that Decade had lost his memories had been true.
"To save the world... your power is needed," said Wataru as the dimensions between them started to shift again. The world had returned to normal as the apparition of the other dimension had disappeared. Wataru walked away, satisfied that he had finally started the ball running before returning towards Castle Doran to continue observing the lad.
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"What's going on? This power... will not last!" gasped Tsukasa as he flipped through all of the cards on his hands.
Wataru smirked. It seemed he still needed to point this person towards his proper direction. He started walking closer to the mirror he had used to monitor Tsukasa's movements as he spoke.
"That's because... in the past you've lost them all."
He watched as Tsukasa and the other girl ducked from an approaching Makamou before looking away to see the different creatures climbed a building and attacking each other. The ruckus caused by the various Makamou made the building instable as it collapsed. The death of the many Makamou dying at the same time, brought forth a chain of reactions leading towards a great explosion as the flames threatened to consume that world. Wataru immediately summoned his ability that he had somehow gained during these dimensional rifts to stop the time of that other world as he stepped into the mirror.
The feeling of walking into the Mirror World had been strange. He could not believe these phenomena had been happening in Shinji's world for quite some time. Mirror World certainly had a different feel to it. But then again, this was the first time he himself had been using this method to cross onto another different dimension. Wataru stepped out in front of the flames as if it had been mere decorations before staring back towards Tsukasa.
Tsukasa looked at him bemused before recognizing him.
"You!"
"There's still some time," said Wataru as he continued walking.
Tsukasa looked at him defiantly before approaching him closer.
"You... said that I could save the world, right?"
"Yes." said Wataru as he snapped his fingers aloud. Everything became dark as Tsukasa looked up to see many different Earths hovering all around him.
"Isn't this a wonderful view? So did you remember anything yet?" Wataru spoke again as Tsukasa turned towards him.
"No. Just how to fight. What are those?" Tsukasa cocked his head towards the Earths. "They looked like Earth."
"Yes. It is the Earth."
Tsukasa seemed surprised as he looked back towards the Earths.
"W-why did the Earths-?"
Wataru turned his attention towards him.
"In the nine worlds, nine Kamen Riders had been born. They were independent and had different, separate stories. But now the stories are merging, that's why the worlds are becoming one. Eventually, all of the worlds would be destroyed."
"Decade, you must travel to those nine worlds. That is the only way, to save the world."
Tsukasa looked down towards his cards before facing him again.
"Why me?"
"You are the one who will destroy all of the Kamen Riders. Creation cannot exist without the destruction of everything first. Unfortunately."
Wataru closed his eyes in deep thought. When he had opened his eyes again, he was back in Castle Doran... staring towards the seeing mirror to see Tsukasa and Natsumi Hikari looking around, clueless.
"Until your journey ends, my comrades and I will keep this world alive a bit longer." Wataru spoke again, before waving his hand over the tall mirror as the images from the other world started to fade. The seeing mirror looked just like any other mirrors now.
This would be all that he could do for now. Decade needed to recover his memories by himself in order for everything to start moving into action. Neither of them would interfere. For now, the eight of them would just observe him from afar. Should anything go not in the way they were supposed to be, only then the eight of them would start to take actions.
Hopefully, the Destroyer of Kamen Riders would not disappoint them.
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: Finally... the headache inducing crossover is DONE. Now what's left is to write the off-plot on Tsukasa and Kaito's side that I can't include in this chapter without sounding off.
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The situation is getting worse. The Fangires that had been living in the city had become out of control completely. Not even his own presence had been able to subdue them any more. Almost every single Fangire had been affected, regardless whether they were those renegades and rebels; or the obedient Fangires who had agreed with Taiga's new policy of living in peace with the normal humans.
Wataru glanced up towards the sky. It had been night on this side of the world for quite some time already. He wondered if that had been half the reason why many of the Fangires had been greatly affected by this dimensional instability this world and many others had started to face. Time was getting shorter. But at least he and the others had been able to keep this world to continue existing a bit longer.
Wataru was almost glad for until now, he still kept his sanity and not fall like many of the Fangires whom he had no choice but to subdue. He was also glad that nothing had been affecting Taiga as well. Nor did the rest of his Arms Monsters. He wondered if the Kiva powers were somehow protecting them from these changes. Nago-san had also been busy. Megumi-san even insisted to Shima-san to allow her to use IXA's old model in order to help out with the fight.
His mother, Maya, had placed herself in a deep sleep. So far, she had not reawakened yet from her slumber. Wataru hoped that she would stay like that for now, at least until they managed to restore this world's order to normal. It would break his heart and his brother's, if they had to kill their own mother in order to protect everyone. His mother would not have forgiven herself either if she had destroyed the very thing that his father has held precious. The very thing his mother had grown to treasure, because of her love towards his father.
Because of that, Wataru had been working himself hard. He would not let this world to be destroyed. The others would also not allow their worlds to be destroyed either. If he had to join hands with them in order to protect everyone, he would gladly do it. Even if it meant gambling with his own life... and the lives of his other comrades.
He had not told his brother and the others the whole truth after all. He had kept it to himself that all of these chaos had been caused by a ripple in dimensions because of a certain group trying to connect all of the worlds into one. He never told any of them about this slow destruction was another sign that the worlds were getting even closer to each other for them to start merging.
The only time he had been talking about this openly aside from the time he saw his father's spirit, had been when all of them had met for the first time. It was then when he had found out who was it that had instigated their unlikely encounters, but since then he and the others had been able to move between and out of their own dimensions to oversee the situation.
He would never forget that first meeting. Even when they had never known each other before, he had felt a certain bond between each and every one of them. They were all the same, if one can set aside the obvious differences.
All of them had their reasons to fight. All of them had people that they wanted to protect. People whom they loved and cherished and vowed to keep safe.
When it came down to it, they were all the same.
All of them were Kamen Riders.
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All of them had been standing on the plains. Facing each other. Neither of them have been wearing their armours. At that moment, the only thing that the eight of them had managed to do was staring at each other.
Some of them had been wearing their Rider belts. A young man, who had called himself Sakurai Yuuto; had told him that he would stand in for his comrade for now. Until then he would fight alongside the seven of them, before his comrade would join them. Sakurai had been holding a card on his hand. He said that it was his ticket back to his own time and world. But right now, he could not go back to that world without straying aimlessly in the streams of time. Wataru had felt a bit for him at that time, he wondered how he would fare had he faced a similar predicament.
The aloof one had called himself The Man who walked the heavens, the one to rule everything. It had sounded a bit conceited to him but Tendou Souji turned out to be a decent person. The title he had given himself turned out to be a kind of his motto; that he would stand to be better than his adversaries and enemies, allowing him to protect the ones he had called family... and dear friends. Tendou had been holding something that had looked like a red mechanical beetle. He had called it his zecter.
Wataru saw another man who looked much older than most of them and more mature; he did not seem so alarmed over the situation they're in despite the strangeness of the moment. He had been holding some sort of a fancy tuning fork on his hand. He was mostly quiet, talking only when he had anything he wanted to talk. He introduced himself as Hibiki. Wataru doubted that it was his real name but he did not press further. Hibiki-san seemed to be very calm, perhaps he had trained himself to be able to remain calm and composed when faced with any kinds of situation. Perhaps he could ask for his opinions about what they should do.
Kenzaki-san seemed a bit agitated. Wataru had asked him earlier about what had bothered him, but he did not seem to want to talk much about it. From the way he had heard Kido-san told him later, it sounded like Kenzaki's arrival to their 'meeting place' was a bit unannounced. Kido said he literally fell out of a hole. Whoever was it that sent Kenzaki here must have been the type to just do something without explaining the details.
Wataru turned towards Inui Takumi. Among the eight of them, he found the man to be intriguing. Inui used to be a normal human... who later was reborn into an Orphenoch due to a terrible accident. Even if Inui's circumstances were a bit different from him, who was born from a human and Fangire; Wataru felt he could get along with this man. He could recall their earlier conversation when they had initially met. Inui had been troubled when the Overlord had explained the situation briefly. He was worried that once the order of the world had been set back right again, he would never meet again his old friend whom he used to think had been dead before. Wataru thought about his father at that time, so he could understand his feelings.
Well, he might be assuming things so soon... but it seemed it might not be so bad, having all of these men as his comrades.
Wataru glanced back towards Shouichi-san, as the man he had been sent to find in the world of Kuuga and Agito was talking softly to Overlord of Light. So they did know each other! Although it alarmed him a bit before, when Shouichi exclaimed aloud to reassure himself that the man was indeed the Overlord of Light and not of Darkness. It would be strange if all of them who were the protectors of their own worlds to be guided by someone like that. Still, he was relieved to find that the Overlord had not expected him to drag Kuuga along as he had thought at first. Wataru knew he would feel uncomfortable if he had to do it anyway, he wanted to respect Godai-san's wish to not fight anymore.
Everyone suddenly went quiet as the Overlord turned his attention towards all of them. Wataru held his breath, finally everything would be explained. About what was happening to all of their worlds and what was it that all of them needed to do in order to protect it.
In the end, things did not appear as they seemed to be.
xxx
"Strange... I could never imagine there would be someone who would have such power that could change so many lives..."
"You think so?" Kenzaki spoke aloud, as Inui turned his glance towards the man. "You're saying in your world there was no one you've met who would have had any such powers that could affect many people?"
Inui shrugged. "Not like this. I just can't imagine this guy to have some kind of power—once it was misused—would affect the universe so greatly."
"Troublesome... isn't it? Then again I came from a world where a slight change in the past could change so much of the future, something like this is sli—ghtly not surprising."
A number of them gave Sakurai a look as Sakurai ignored them. Wataru smiled weakly at him. Come to think... he used to have met Sakurai's friend, Nogami... wasn't it? It was still a brief encounter though. Suddenly now he was curious to know about Sakurai's world. The world where Kamen Rider Den-O existed.
"Ssh." Tendou suddenly urged all of them to be silent as suddenly the city square several kilometres in front of them, came into life as hundreds of civilians scattered around in fear. A number of strange creatures appeared as they went around attacking people at random. He frowned. "It seemed we're right on track. Decade should be amongst them."
"Right. So we'll do as we had planned. The five of you would take on those other kaijin and separate them from Decade as much as possible. The four of us would handle Decade." Shouichi immediately spoke up as Tendou nodded to him.
Kenzaki stepped up to Shouichi. "Decade's only one person, do we need the four of us to tackle him? I could handle some of those creatures just as easily—"
"No, Kenzaki-san. Remember, we weren't supposed to kill Decade in this mission. The Overlord said—"
Wataru took the cue from Kido as he spoke, "The Overlord said Decade's power is needed in order to restore everything to its original state."
"Very well, then," said Kenzaki as the eight of them faced each other. They briefly exchange words with each other before parted with their own separate missions.
xxx
A great explosion shattered the land as Decade crashed into a building and his armour cancelled out. The young man looked up towards them as Wataru, Kenzaki, Shouichi and Kido surrounded him.
"What did you want now? I'm already defeated, finish me off then!"
Shouichi shook his head. "No. The four of us are not here to kill you. All of us needed your power. You're the only one who could set things right with everything that happen in these parallel universes."
"Don't tell me that this is what you yourself had wanted to do! Don't you have anyone close to you? Do you want them to die without knowing anything?" Kido asked aggressively as slowly the expression on the young man's face started to change.
"I..." The young man started to frown as if started to remember something, "What... have I done?" He glanced down towards himself before noticing the pink camera slung over his chest. He gently ran his hand over it as he seemed to have remembered something.
"Sayo?" Wataru and the others could hear the young man whisper the name softly before picking himself up from the ground.
"But what should I do? What can I do to set things right?" asked the young man again as Kenzaki spoke.
"You need to destroy all of the other Kamen Riders that you have caused to come into existence, as the result of the parallel worlds that you have unknowingly created when you had allowed those evil ones to cross between worlds."
The young man immediately paled. "What did you mean... destroy? Isn't that the same as what DaiShocker had made me do? Then why did all of you come here to stop me and telling this to me?"
Shouichi shook his head at him. "No. What we wanted you to do is not the same. Kadoya Tsukasa-kun, you have a strange power living inside of you. You have the ability to cross between different worlds and you also have the power to change their order."
"I know this was hard to take in but I've known people who had that kind of ability like you, even though those powers were not as great as yours." Kido suddenly spoke. "I know this might sound a bit radical, but sometimes in order to undo something in order to recreate it; something of equal value needed to be sacrificed."
Wataru nodded to himself as the young man turned to him. "Yes, creation and destruction... those two things cannot be separated. In order to restore things as it used to be, you needed to destroy it before you could recreate it."
The young man shook his head. "You're all mad! What bullshit are you telling me, and how did you know my name?" Tsukasa asked as he turned towards Shouichi. "Why are you telling me this—how did you even know if I have that kind of power that you said I had? How did you even know that destroying everything would fix it all?"
"Because you are Decade!" Shouichi suddenly raised his voice, before his expression softened. "I know this was hard to believe at first but I'm sure one day you will be able to find the answer you're looking for. Tsukasa-kun, without realising it you have affected our existence simply by crossing into our worlds. Because of your ability to cross dimensions, you've unknowingly tied the worlds' fate with its Riders. It was unfortunate that the evil ones that made up that DaiShocker organization had found out about your powers and used it for their own purposes."
Wataru sighed. "It was unfortunate for things to become like this, but the fact remained that your powers had been the one responsible for these changes and your powers as well that could set it back to what it used to be."
"Right now, because of the existences of the new parallel worlds... the order of everything had been unbalanced. The worlds are gradually merging into one." Kenzaki said bitterly. "And who did you think is the one at fault?"
Tsukasa bit his lips. His head started to ache, trying to make sense of everything he had just been told. "Then what did you want me to do?" he cried out as some of the DaiShocker generals had arrived to retrieve him.
Kenzaki snorted at him. "Didn't we just tell you what that was?" he said before putting on his Blade Rouser and transformed.
Kido grinned as he walked towards a broken glass pane before transforming into Ryuki to fight off the incoming enemies. "Don't worry about us, we could handle this by ourselves!" he said, just as Kabuto appeared to fight the ones heading towards them.
"Go now," said Shouichi as Wataru nodded to Tsukasa.
"I'll be seeing you again, when the time comes."
The two Riders immediately joined their comrades to tackle the enemies as Tsukasa watched them in disbelief. It seemed so unbelievable, to suddenly be confronted by these men and be entrusted with something important.
Tsukasa looked down as he picked up his Decadriver and Ride Booker from the ground. Strange how things had come to this point without him realising it. Tsukasa looked back towards all of the Riders before him as he finally turned around to make his escape.
Noticing his departure, Kiva paused as he impaled a Rhino kaijin onto the ground with his Zanbat sword. A small batlike creature flew to his side as he spoke softly to her. "Go now, Kivaala. You must not forget your own mission."
The little one giggled before flying in small circles. "Of course, I'll do everything that I could do to help. Finally there would be a purpose to my own existence!" said Kivaala before giggling softly.
"You take care out there, don't overestimate your own ability. Unlike father and me, you're very small. Any carelessness you'll—"
Kivaala flew lower as it met Kivat the Third's line of view. "I'll certainly remember that, big brother. I'll take care of myself well, you'll be sure of that!"
Wataru snorted as Kivaala flew up towards him again. "You can leave everything to me, Wataru-sama. I'll find the person who was meant for me and help everyone to ensure this mission will succeed. You can count on me!"
He nodded to her as Kivaala opened a gateway to allow her to cross into another world and left.
Now, the pieces had started to move...
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The world he had entered this time was a world that he did not recognize. It was not his world nor had it been any of the worlds his eight comrades had came from. Wataru frowned. Why have he been taken suddenly towards this place? This must be a sign. Would the true beginning to the destruction of the worlds begin now?
Another dimensional wall had appeared not far from where he was standing. And night fell again. A young man appeared to be slamming his fist on it, crying for the girl on the other side of the wall in alarm.
"Natsumikan! Natsumikan!" The young man cried.
Immediately after hearing his voice, Wataru recognized the owner. He took a closer step towards him as a Makamou passed through the wall into this side of this world. Wataru just watched the creature pass by before it disappeared on its own. He turned around towards Kadoya Tsukasa as the young man gasped in surprise. Wataru smiled.
"Decade... this would be the day." Of the destruction of the worlds.
Wataru walked slowly towards him as Tsukasa gave him a defiant look.
"You! Who are you?" he cried as Wataru smiled, lifting his hand to point towards the dark skies.
Tsukasa stared at him confused, before looking up towards the sky. The single moon that had been adorning the night sky, suddenly changed into a seemingly small Earth that expanded into a ring of nine different Earths; each having slightly different surface appearances as if they were all nine separate planets. The nine planets then started to fall onto the world they were on as one of the Earths crashed into this one.
Wataru blinked as he was back in his own world, looking up towards the other world; still visible to him as Kadoya Tsukasa shouted at him.
"Hey! That was dangerous!"
Wataru continued walking on the empty flyover as he kept looking upwards towards Tsukasa.
"Where are your buckle and cards?"
"It's been a policy for me not to use a credit card!"
Wataru suddenly had an urge to want to laugh at him. So it seemed the rumours that Decade had lost his memories had been true.
"To save the world... your power is needed," said Wataru as the dimensions between them started to shift again. The world had returned to normal as the apparition of the other dimension had disappeared. Wataru walked away, satisfied that he had finally started the ball running before returning towards Castle Doran to continue observing the lad.
xxx
"What's going on? This power... will not last!" gasped Tsukasa as he flipped through all of the cards on his hands.
Wataru smirked. It seemed he still needed to point this person towards his proper direction. He started walking closer to the mirror he had used to monitor Tsukasa's movements as he spoke.
"That's because... in the past you've lost them all."
He watched as Tsukasa and the other girl ducked from an approaching Makamou before looking away to see the different creatures climbed a building and attacking each other. The ruckus caused by the various Makamou made the building instable as it collapsed. The death of the many Makamou dying at the same time, brought forth a chain of reactions leading towards a great explosion as the flames threatened to consume that world. Wataru immediately summoned his ability that he had somehow gained during these dimensional rifts to stop the time of that other world as he stepped into the mirror.
The feeling of walking into the Mirror World had been strange. He could not believe these phenomena had been happening in Shinji's world for quite some time. Mirror World certainly had a different feel to it. But then again, this was the first time he himself had been using this method to cross onto another different dimension. Wataru stepped out in front of the flames as if it had been mere decorations before staring back towards Tsukasa.
Tsukasa looked at him bemused before recognizing him.
"You!"
"There's still some time," said Wataru as he continued walking.
Tsukasa looked at him defiantly before approaching him closer.
"You... said that I could save the world, right?"
"Yes." said Wataru as he snapped his fingers aloud. Everything became dark as Tsukasa looked up to see many different Earths hovering all around him.
"Isn't this a wonderful view? So did you remember anything yet?" Wataru spoke again as Tsukasa turned towards him.
"No. Just how to fight. What are those?" Tsukasa cocked his head towards the Earths. "They looked like Earth."
"Yes. It is the Earth."
Tsukasa seemed surprised as he looked back towards the Earths.
"W-why did the Earths-?"
Wataru turned his attention towards him.
"In the nine worlds, nine Kamen Riders had been born. They were independent and had different, separate stories. But now the stories are merging, that's why the worlds are becoming one. Eventually, all of the worlds would be destroyed."
"Decade, you must travel to those nine worlds. That is the only way, to save the world."
Tsukasa looked down towards his cards before facing him again.
"Why me?"
"You are the one who will destroy all of the Kamen Riders. Creation cannot exist without the destruction of everything first. Unfortunately."
Wataru closed his eyes in deep thought. When he had opened his eyes again, he was back in Castle Doran... staring towards the seeing mirror to see Tsukasa and Natsumi Hikari looking around, clueless.
"Until your journey ends, my comrades and I will keep this world alive a bit longer." Wataru spoke again, before waving his hand over the tall mirror as the images from the other world started to fade. The seeing mirror looked just like any other mirrors now.
This would be all that he could do for now. Decade needed to recover his memories by himself in order for everything to start moving into action. Neither of them would interfere. For now, the eight of them would just observe him from afar. Should anything go not in the way they were supposed to be, only then the eight of them would start to take actions.
Hopefully, the Destroyer of Kamen Riders would not disappoint them.