Shiori, with Rikka

Shiori said nothing. Instead, she calmly reached down to Rikka on the ground, grabbed her by the back of her jacket, and quietly yanked her back to her feet with one hand. She was not unnaturally large or strong-looking... It was a different kind of power that allowed her to so easily lift another person. But it was hers. It was always hers, and the fact that it wasn't physically a part of her changed nothing at all. "They have no intention of harming you unless you are foolish enough to attack them. Now cease wasting my time. I have business to conduct here."

The black-haired girl folded her arms tightly.

"And I have no use for some delusional fool."

Ignace attempted to doge attack but one of blades tore throw the hydraulic line causing him to stumble. He felt his prosthetic slowly failing and with it pumping out hydraulic fluid onto the Museum floor. Ignace glanced at his lasgun that was a few feet away, he moved as quickly as possible towards it two Nanashi tried to block his path but he quickly shot both. USing the last bit of power in his prosthetic he launching him self towards the lasgun landing next to it. The Guardsman dropped his laspistol but focus trying get his right hand back to normal. After a few unsuccessful tries he mange to get his hand back to normal he grabbed his lasgun pointed it at Ayakashi. He flipped the switch to full auto "Ave Imperator, fracker," he said before pulling the trigger.

Asuka and Lili:

Seeing the Nanashi go to attack the guard and how coordinated the attacks were from a distance Lili looked at Asuka. "Something must be hidden in there if that strange light is any indication." She said gesturing to the light that came from the door the Nanashi opened. Asuka clenched her fists to try and hold back her urge to help the guard. They were spying and not wanting to get involved.

However once they saw the guard was outnumbered Asuka decided to give away thier position as she came out of thier corner they were crouched down in. "Asuka .." Lili said but Asuka had gathered up the courage to attack the Nanashi doing a quick combination of punches and kicks also dodging the bullets the best she could. Noticing the Nanashi shielding one another she slid down on the ground with a leg sweep.

Lili took Asuka'a action as a planned distraction while as she was sure the Nanashi would be focused on her and the guard to pay attention to her she used this as a opportunity to follow the Nanashi that entered the room with the light but she stayed a good distance awaytho she did shield her eye from the bright light which was still apparent. "Maybe they were looking for this?" She mumbled to herself not really understanding why they would be here in the Museum.

Mio

After witnessing Danny and Mikoto's attacks, Mio couldn't help but be a little...disappointed. She didn't want anyone to get hurt, but at the same time, she had hoped to get a decent warm-up out of the Nanashi. After all, she hadn't exactly had much of a chance to fight since she arrived in this world, and here these two were, blowing things up from the get-go? Frowning, she jumped back from the now-prepared fishman and placed a pair of arm-guards against the backs of her hands. Once they were in place, fingerless black gloves materialised to keep them on.

"Well, if we're just getting down to business, then..."

The brunette extended her arms to the sides of her body, before bringing her hands out in front of her body with her thumbs and index fingers extended. "Come Forth! Power of the Beast!" She announced, clenching her right hand into a fist and pressing it against the open palm of her left. "Beast On!"

As Mio threw a punch at the empty space in front of her, ribbons of light extended from the Wild Changers, wrapping around her body and forming into her costume. Grinning beneath her helmet, she took a combat stance again and threw a few quick jabs.

"A heart burning bright with justice! Passionate Heart! Wild Amber!"

Wasting no time, Mio donned a pair of green boxing gloves which seemed to have appeared out of nowhere shortly after her transformation, before charging towards the Nanashi. With one strike, she shattered the mook's sword and sent it flying backwards, collecting several of its comrades before crashing through one of the crevices they had emerged from. Moments later, a burst of fire emerged from the crack as the fishmen exploded.

Yuuka, the most morally-rich person ever

The flower youkai turned her head towards Nepeta, who seemed quite troubled. She must be a rather kind girl, if simply leaving didn't sit well with her.
With a casual glance at the Nanashi ignoring them, Yuuka merely replied, "From my point of view, it doesn't matter too much, I suppose. My desire is to see you girls off safely, after all."

As a youkai, it was practically in her nature to spare no thought for humans, especially the ones in distress. Sure, living in Gensokyo had softened her quite considerably, and had even met some humans she could consider 'interesting', but those were individuals that had impressed her in some form. She had no problems with humans, but Yuuka also did not often feel the need to assist them. Even after all this time, old habits could be hard to break.

...Well, maybe she could take the opportunity to break them now.

"If you wish, I may rout this whole silly group~" Yuuka suggested brightly, shifting her hanging umbrella to her hand, "It should not take long to eliminate the fodder, after all~"

---

Rikka, ready to give the poutiest pout ever

Rikka was not exactly a stranger to being effortlessly lifted - The Priestess' power was frighteningly high, after all - but even so, this mean person seemed insanely powerful all on her own. She was also very mean.

"I am under no delusion," Rikka defiantly stated, knees totally not shaking from the fact they were surrounded by strange monsters, "A-and maybe you are the one wasting my time! The Tyrant's Eye should not be bothered by the unworthy!"

Rikka had the feeling that maybe Yuuta should have been around to keep her mouth shut.

Meowrin - Inside the museum now I guess

"Fiiiish~! Yay!"

It hadn't taken the being possessing Moerin long to burst into the museum, having noticed just what had appeared inside. Possession was hungry work, after all, and those beings that had emerged from the cracks... Sure, they looked kind of like people, but they looked enough like fish to not make her question it. And she did love fish, so very much. With little restraint, she jumped into the fray, grabbing one of the fishmen by the arm and...

...And swinging it so hard against another three of them that they went flying across the museum, the bonecrunching sound of them impacting against something large and metal echoing through the halls. Thankfully, they didn't suffer long, as soon after the impact they inexplicably exploded.

...Wait a minute, weren't those the mooks from Shinkenger? Moerin pondered, as her body chased after the flying fish. This is weird... And the thing in my body claimed she was an Imagin too...

"Awww, they went boom! No fair!" Her body pouted for a moment, before a wide grin spread across her face as she saw what they had hit. "...Awesome! That is... Nyahahah, that is the most awesome train ever! ...Why do they have a train here, though..."

I dunno, maybe because it's a museum? You find all kinds of stuff in museums... Moerin couldn't help but agree with the Imagin, though. After all, the train seemed to be modeled after the head of a tyrannosaurus. You don't really get much more awesome than that.

"Heeey, cute girls! Um, melons and peaches! Um..." Rain and Anno. "...Rain and Annyan! C'mere! Come on, come on, come on! This is amazing!"

---

Raiko - With Chris

"Fish? Ugh..."

Not that she didn't like fish. But Raiko couldn't help but find them... Disgusting. At least they didn't seem to be approaching the musclebound girl dragging her for whatever reason.

"Search for this egg all you like, I suppose," she complained, as she was dragged along. She realized she could probably descend if she so willed it, but... Well, whilst she was a superior being, something told her that arguing with Chris right now probably wasn't the best idea. After all, she was rather curious about this boss of hers...

"Very well, take me to your... "Boss". I suppose I should meet him at some point." After all, it was good to get to know your future subjects.

Mikoto, with Mio and Danny

... Was this real? A few moments ago, Mikoto hadn't been questioning it. It was when the weird girl turned out to be super sentai that she was questioning it. That was not even slightly what she had been prepared for and it pretty thoroughly threw her off. ... Not enough to stop her from swiftly electrocuting another of the fish-monsters as it approached until it, too, erupted into flames. There wasn't too much time to question things, she just had to keep up what she was doing. Keep the fish monsters from being able to get close to attacking her, and keep them away from any innocent bystanders. The... super sentai was doing a good job of that, really, smashing so many back into one of the strange cracks.

Electricity crackled around Mikoto. There were still so many... she had to make sure to clear them out fast...

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Shiori, with Rikka

"... Don't talk to your betters in such a manner."

Shiori's tone was cold. As cold as the iciest winter. This girl believed she had some kind of power? That she was worthy? She was worthless. But there was no need to hard her. No reason to hurt a random person. The black-haired girl's goals did not call for pointless violence. So instead, Shiori turned her back on the smaller girl, facing away from her. "Leave."

With that, she began to walk away. The Nanashi wouldn't harm the girl, and if she had even the tiniest scrap of sense she would go away. Shiori did not think that the foolish girl was enough of a fool to pursue her.

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Anno, with Meowrin and Rain

Anno... Anno had followed Moe. And Anno had... well, she couldn't really believe what she was seeing. There were... fish people. And... and there were tons of them... and... Moe had just thrown one into others and she was pretty sure they had just exploded. Was... was this... were those really things coming out of those cracks... did that mean that the thing in Moerin's body really was one of those Imagin things?! Anno wasn't sure what all this meant but the part of her that wasn't scared of what was happening was worried about what might happen to the other people in the museum. Those monster things weren't getting to them, right...? As she tried to catch up to... Meowrin... the... the imagin that was in Moerin's body, she slipped on something and fell to the ground.

"Oof!" all the air left her body as she hit the floor hard. It hurt, but... nothing serious had happened. Pulling herself to a sitting position, Anno looked down and...

...

... Was... that...?

... Not sure what she was doing, Anno reached down and wrapped her fingers around the key, raising it up...

... And then she got to her feet and tried to catch up to Meowrin. It was... the only thing she could do right now, really... she looked back over her shoulder to make sure Rain was still with them.

Mio

Grinning at her own handiwork, the Beast Fist user turned to look at the tour guide, then at Danny. She pondered for a moment before responding to the man's question.

"I know you weren't asking me, but..." She faced back towards the mooks. In her experience, small fry like these would usually just randomly attack civilians until she and her comrades showed up to stop them, but these...these guys seemed almost like they were ignoring the people fleeing from them. "Even if these guys were worth avoiding, it doesn't look like running would be necessary. Then again, it might be better if we go to make sure no tries to play hero without the proper gear..."

She hated to leave the first fight she'd gotten into since arriving in this world, but at the same time, with opponents like these, it was only a fight in the broadest definition of the word anyway.

Hibiki, somewhere in the Museum...

Hibiki was a little bit surprised by the fishmen that surrounded her.

"Well, they don't look a lot like the Noise."

And then she started to sing...



Before the light had faded, she lunged at the nearest Fishman, delivering a punch to its gut as her song echoed through the halls.

Shinji

Yes!!! Random fish people attacking, finally something that made sense. Pulling out a compact and his Advent Deck, he held the Advent Deck in front of the compact's mirror and then he transformed. He took a few shots at the fishmen before pulling out a card and putting it in his gun's visor

"SHOOT VENT"

He now had two shoulder mounted rocket launchers on him. "Take this!" he fired a few rounds, blowing up the fish mosnters in front of him. "Okay, first order of business; evacuate the civilians. This isn't the mirror world, people could get hurt" he ran through the opening he had created and turned into another hallway. His attention was quickly caught by the sound of something impacting against metal. When he looked at the source of the sound, he saw three girls and a train "h-hey. It...it's dangerous here" he told them as he approached

Todoroki

"Time for some fun!" Running at one of the hat wearing mooks, he jammed his guitar into it, changed it from it's weapon for to it's instrument form, and began to rock out. Waves of Pure Sound rolled off of the unlucky target, causing harm to anything evil that they reached. On top of that, electricity was also arcing off of his guitar, although it was firing off randomly

Katsumi, with Yui and Roxy and Todoroki

Katsumi, noticing that the second of the stylish monsters trying to fire on her ally, Yui. She flipped her sword, flicking her wrist to drive the gleaming black blade through the creature's gun to stop it from firing. There was the shearing sound of breaking metal-It worked, but the tip of her sword had snapped off, tumbling to the ground with a sharp thud. But that didn't matter. Katsumi broke into a grin as she used what remained of her blade, embedded in the sword, to yank the fedora-wearing monster forward and draw her fist back all at once, before sending her fist rushing forward to drive directly into the creature's face, wrenching the gun from its hand and at least attempting to send it right into the course of Roxy's shots.

"Go get those bastards, OOO!" declared Katsumi, casting a glance back at Yui as she readied herself to cover her ally.

Rain

Rain followed close behind the odd not-Moerin, accidentally leaving the (considerably slower) Anno behind. It was, after all, better than letting the mad girl run off with her friend's body or... whatever the hell was going on. Even if this did seem to be just a dream, though... she was worried; if the fishmen came after her, then she was in trouble, and whilst they didn't appear to be all that threatening right now, there was absolutely nothing to say that this wouldn't change in the immediate future. Like if not-Moerin got injured, or any sort of similar unfortunate circumstance.

"I-I'm not a fruit!" was the busty girl's indignant reply to being called 'Melons', temporarily skipping over the innuendo of the line and taking it literally. Whilst the other girl had gotten attached to the train at first sight, Rain had instead started looking around the stuff scattered on the floor. It looked like the odd oceanic entities had smashed the glass and just thrown stuff around... and, lying close to her feet, was something that seemed oddly familiar.

The excessive belt buckle was less familiar than the Double driver would have been, seeing as the latter got showcased a lot more, but it was nevertheless clearly identifiable: the Lost Driver, from Kamen Rider W. And, equally beside it, a purple, translucent USB memory stick with a stylised white 'S' on it. Seeing no harm in taking them with her--it was almost certain that somebody had just left their collectables behind, and she could hand them in later--and not wanting such expensive-looking stuff to get damaged, Rain picked the pair of them up. Only to realise that, in fact, there was no attached belt. Surely this couldn't be a real driver...?

A large part of the girl's mind had already concluded that this was, in fact, a dream: people didn't normally change appearance like this. This part of Rain's brain took over, and reflexively moved the buckle to her waist. If this was a dream, it could actually be a driver, and that would mean that she could transform into a Kamen Rider! Sure enough, a belt sprouted from the buckle, snugly fastening it. Now for the key part: off came the hat, press the memory gently...

"Skull!"

... and put it into the slot! Knock that aside...

Rain was engulfed by a whirlwind, completing the transformation into Kamen Rider Skull pretty much immediately. She was rather aware that it lacked much in the way of chest room...a long with the sculpted muscles that she didn't even begin to possess.

... and finally put on the hat again!

---

Yui

The girl was knocked back from the hat-wearing nobody, bullets doing little more than cause sparks, though in the long term it would certainly affect her durability. These enemies, though... they were nothing next to her normal opponents. Maybe like a waste Yummy? Dangerous if she didn't expect them, but otherwise completely ineffective.

Her current medal setup wasn't particularly good for melee, and she had to get past these things. That left one option: Kougami's original gift to Kamen Rider OOO. In other words? Yui drew a sword.

It was a pretty good sword. A Cell Medal powered special attack, and when that wasn't needed, it was strong enough to damage Greeed and Yummies. Not that she had much swordsmanship skill, but against enemies like this...

Yui charged and slashed, moving as fast as she could to try and get past the hat-wearing irrelevant enemies to get the escaping criminal.

---

Chris

"You'll have to wait a little," Chris answered, looking around, "He's not even on this world and I think I forgot to bring an easy way to get off it."

A vending machine caught her eye.

"Say, you thirsty?"

Rachel

Rachel was still somewhat scared by the strange fish-men that had appeared suddenly, though they didn't seem to be attacking at least. Looking back over her shoulder, she couldn't help but think they seemed familiar. Wait...were those sentai mooks? If that were the case, then...Almost immediately after she realised that maybe the green-haired woman being the real Yuuka might not be quite so farfetched in this situation, her suspicion was as good as confirmed. It was kind of hard to believe that a cosplayer would display that level of dedication to staying in-character, after all. The realisation that there was magical artillery right next to her came as something of a relief.

One of the museum's employees, clearly panicked by the situation rushed over to the trio. Panting, the employee thrust a strange device and a handful of crystals towards Rachel. The brunette stared in confusion for a moment before hesitantly taking the items. Looking over the device, she couldn't help but notice that it looked like some kind of phone.

"Um, what am I meant to do with these?" She asked.

"Put...a thing in the thing. Then press the thing and the thing...it'll do a thing." The employee responded, gasping for breath. Whether through a lack of personal knowledge of the item, not wanting to confuse the person on the receiving end with names they might not get or because they were too panicked to explain properly, the instructions ended up being...less than useful. Before Rachel could ask for any clarification, the employee rushed off, leaving the brunette staring blankly and wondering what the hell that was meant to mean.

After a moment to process what had just happened, Rachel looked down. Well...chances were good she wasn't meant to put the phone in one of the crystals, so that was the first two things sorted. She flipped it open, revealing a familiar interface. What was she meant to do with a Pokegear though? Call youngster Joey and pray his Ratatta would come and help? Looking at the lower screen, she saw the familiar symbols for the Pokegear's assorted functions, accompanied by a 5th that she didn't remember being there. Near as she could tell...it appeared to be a pokeball with a domino mask on.

After she pressed the symbol, a message appeared on the screen. "Choose next Pokemon". Guessing that it was probably referring to the shards she'd received, Rachel examined the Pokegear, looking for somewhere she could do something with them. Soon enough, she noticed the slot in the bottom of it and chose a random shard, one with a reddish tint and inserted it. The text on the screen vanished, in its place was an image of a pokeball. The button in the middle of it seemed to flash red briefly every so often. Hesitantly, she touched the button.

"107: HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITMONCHAN!" The Pokegear announced.

Rachel was engulfed in a bright light as the device went to work. Seconds later, the light dissipated and she was left wearing an outfit identical to that of the punching Pokemon. Looking over the new getup, Rachel was...surprised to say the least. She definitely hadn't expected something like this to happen. She also hadn't noticed until now just how short Hitmonchan's skirt actually was.

The Nanashi Part 1

The Nanashi that spooked Rikka looked at her with a menace. It gave her a grunt, seeing if she'd react to it.

Meanwhile, the Nanashi explored the room with the glowing light. The light grew more and more colorful. There they saw a staircase leading downwards to a purple light. Some of the Nanashi went to there and examined what lied inside. It was a giant statue of a large gray and metallic hand clutching a purple egg. One of the Nanashi went to touch it, but was zapped by a powerful aura, blowing it up. The Nanashi scoured and scurried about.

The Nanashi at the door reacted to Asuka's attack on them with one plan: Rush at her and try to attack her all at once. The guard put away his normal gun and got out the golden dinosaur gun, loading the same battery as the tour guide did.

GABURINCHO! ALLOMEEEEEEEERUUS!

"GET DOWN!" The guard shouted to Asuka, firing a stream of fire at the crowd of Nanashi. VALOMA MUUUUUCHO! MERA MERAAAAAAAAAAAA! The Nanashi were straying from the flames, with some of them exploding in the process.

The Nanashi around Mikoto, Danny, and Mio's location began to thin out. Soon, only a dozen or two Nanashi remained with them. Meanwhile, the Nanashi that Hibiki engaged was punched so hard that it caused a slight boom, causing the other Nanashi near it to fall as well, with all afflicted exploding.

---

Black Cross King Part 1
The Black Cross King focused on the Kuros fighting the Zyguard members, when he suddenly heard the screaching of a Pteradactyl.

"Dinosaurs? In this time period? That can only mean one thing..." He turned to the Black Starforce Ranger rolling into his view. He announced his intents of turning him in.

"My fears are confirmed, it seems. I shall confirm your fears too. I am not to go down without a fight, especially to a Ranger like you!" The Black Cross King said. He prepared to fire a bolt of dark energy at the Ranger. That's when he heard the Kuros being defeated by Zyguard's members. Not only that, but there was also the matter of the Nanashi finding the egg.

"Perhaps we'll have our fight next time, Ranger. And trust me, I will enjoy it as much as you will." The Black Cross King said. He turned around and snapped his finger. A portal of inky blackness formed from behind him as a monster rose from the portal. The monster looked like an ice sculpture forged in the shape of a saber-toothed tiger. "Have some fun with him until then." Was all the Black Cross King said before he faded away into a ball of dark purple and flew off. The Debo Monster leaped up into the air as soon as it was done rising and tried to strike Jan.

---

The Bakeneko Ayakashi
The Bakeneko tried to deflect several of the laser blasts with his armblades, but soon, the lasers manage to chip one of the blades off.

"OW! WHY YOU!" He screamed. He then ran and swung his remaining blade at him, trying to slash him.

---

Danny
Danny smiled as Mio transformed into Wild Amber. For some reason, it felt... nostalgic. Her insistence that they head off and protect the others caused him to nod.

"Alrighty!" Danny fired a few more shots at the Nanashi to slow them down.

---

Nicholas
Nicholas pushed some of the Nanashi and roundhouse kicked them. That's when, throughout the halls, music played. The song was something Nicholas hasn't heard of before, but it sounded almost Megaman-like, even with the bagpipes, before Hibiki began to sing. Nicholas grabbed one of the Nanashi's swords and slashed at two Nanashi.

"Alright, follow me!" Nicholas said to Jon, taking another sword and cutting his way through the Nanashi. He ran in the direction of the song.

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The Black Cross King Part 2/The Gaia Memory User/The Cloaked Figure
The remaining Kuros were soon slain and soon, with only the cowering Gaia Memory user remained. He got up and saw OOO closing in on him. He saw the zipper-like crack and the endless forest. He tried to run to it but...

ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip

"NONONONONONO!"

It closed and disappeared just as he was about to touch it. He landed in the sand as the tide reached his face. He turned around and saw that the Zyguard members were gunning for him.

Up above, a dark ball was hovering about. It was about to swoop in to the user, but a ray of light stopped it, pushing the ball away to a different location on the beach.

The Black Cross King stumbled about, wondering just what attacked him. He looked forwards and saw a ring of light shining. A figure stepped through the ring of light. The figure was cloaked in a black robe and the only thing that showed from the hooded darkness was two blue eyes with black x's in them.

"Who dares to interfere with the Black Cross King?" The Black Cross King said. The figure stepped forward and held her hand out.

"You are at war with life itself. You're declared an enemy of the Multiverse. Your army is doomed." The figure spoke. Its voice was female.

"Life? The Multiverse? Everything will fall once I lay my hands on the Cocoon of Destruction!" The Black Cross King said. The figure froze for a bit.

"So you ARE after that. In that case, I must stop you." The figure said.

"You're too late! My Nanashi have already found it..." The Black Cross King chuckled. He then sent a telepathic message to everyone aligned with him, his Nanashi, the Ayakashi, and even his recruits.

My Nanashi have found the Egg, however, the Heretics cannot touch it. Recruits, I order you to head to where the Nanashi have found it. I shall send you a telepathic image of where they are.... Along with the message, the recruits also received a mental image of where the location of the Egg is and a rough estimated route of where it is from where each of them are standing. The next message he sent to only the Nanashi. To the disposables I say this: eradicate the witnesses, but spare my own recruits.

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Nanashi Part 2
With that message, those who simply passed by the patrons of the museum instead turned to them, drawing their swords, and rushing to attack them.

The Nanashi overseeing the egg turned to Lili and ran to her, swords drawn.

The Nanashi that was staring at Rikka didn't even need to run. All it had to do was raise his sword and gurgle out a war cry.

The tour guide went to the employee that gave Rachel her gear and tried to help them up.

Mikoto, with Mio and Danny

There were only a few of the monsters left. About a dozen of the creatures remained... But they had to get out of here and see if the other people in the museum were okay. They had to help them out! Mikoto's eyes narrowed as one of her hands dove into her pocket, gripping a coin. They didn't have time to just finish off the rest of these monsters so they wouldn't be able to hurt anyone. The girl's fingers clamped down on it. A simple metal token, one that would be used for arcade games. Mikoto pulled it from her pocket. The only thing in her sights were the monsters. It would cause some damage to the surroundings, but she'd wipe them all out in one shot! She swung her hand, faint blue electricity crackling around her arm as she did. The intensity of the bursts grew, her hair even disturbed, caught in the current of blue lightning surging around her.

Mikoto directed her power to a single purpose.

The girl's arm shook slightly, and there was a sound like an explosion as the air erupted in front of her, a burst of light filling the area momentarily. All that was visible was a thin beam of orange, which almost instantly reached the monsters and tore through them. They weren't powerful, to the point where the coin didn't even have to touch them. They fell the the side and were engulfed in flames just as the beam passed by them. It left a groove in the ground beneath it, the heat rippling off it scarring the floor as it tore through the fish creatures.

One of the final monsters took the shot to the chest, and it blasted right through.

Mikoto's railgun finally stopped, leaving a crater in the wall behind the smoldering ashes that were all that was left of the fish monsters.

Mikoto lowered her arm, electricity still crackling around it.

"... They really were ticking me off," she said, simply. She swiftly turned to face the others, "Now let's go see if anyone else needs help!"

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Shiori, with Rikka for a little bit longer

She heard it behind her. It wasn't too hard to figure out what was going on. Shiori wasn't some useless idiot who couldn't tell what a weak waste of space was trying to do. And so, the black-haired girl turned. Her coat fluttered as she spun on her heel, raising one hand up. The back of her hand slammed into the side of the Nanashi's face. For a moment, the creature was suspended in the air, and then there was a resounding crack as it was catapulted end over end, slamming to the ground and sliding across it several feet, away from the tiny, useless girl.

Shiori calmly walked over to it just as it was rising from the ground. Her hand snapped out and her fingers wrapped around its throat as she yanked it up from the ground, eyes narrowing in disdain.

"Don't you have something better to do?" she spat, her grip tightening around the creature's neck. She could keep squeezing... and squeezing... she felt nothing but derision for the violent cannon fodder, even if they were on her side. However, she stopped short of breaking the monster's neck, tossing it to the ground, hard. "She's a worthless target. Don't waste your time."

What was the point in going after some defenseless, delusional girl? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. There was no point in attacking random civilians. Shiori could even hear actual fighting going on, and this idiot was attacking the pathetic girl who thought she was in a fantasy?

Asuka with the Guard:

Asuka smirked and was about to retaliate when she noticed the guard take out a strange gun. Hearing him order her to duck she did just in time before the flames erupted. "Never saw a gun like that before. Guess it's going to be fish fillet city.." She said as she stayed away from the flames projectory. "I wonder how Lili is doing.."

Lili spying:

Lili cursed as the Nanashi spotted her. "Hey guys listen I was only trying to find out what you were after..no need to get hostile..." Seeing them draw their weopons she took a stance anyways hoping she could survive thier assult. "But if it is a fight you want..you surely don't believe you can beat me!" Having said that she rushed them.

Meowrin, near the Dinotrain

It happened in an instant. The being possessing Moerin had heard someone yell that it was dangerous, and... And the moment she looked at him, she felt a twinge of fear in Moerin's heart.

She'd never actually seen Ryuki, after all, so she had no idea whether Zolda was good or not. She had, however, quite enjoyed Dragon Knight, and when she saw what she recognised as Kamen Rider Torque rushing out with giant cannons strapped to his shoulders, well... From what she remember, Torque was a villain, right? And that meant-

H-hey, what are you doing!? She mentally yelled in frustration as her body pulled open the doors to the train, before slamming them behind her as she entered. What was she doing? If she hid like this, her friends... This stupid Imagin was going to leave her friends to die! She couldn't... She wouldn't let this happen... She... She wouldn't...

...A few moments passed, as Rain completed her transformation and Anno tripped over and found something. And after those moments had passed, the door to the train opened again and out stepped Moerin.

Notably, it actually was Moerin now. Her hair, eyes and clothes were back to normal, and in her hand she held a strange looking train pass. Holding it to her waist, a belt suddenly appeared around her.

"I'll go along with this, I guess," she said, to seemingly no-one in particular. "But I swear, if you try and save yourself at the expense of my friends again, I'll sever this contract in the most final way possible. You hear, you damn pervert cat?"

She must have gotten the answer she was looking for, as she clicked the belt together and swiped the pass over the buckle...

PLAT FORM

...And around her formed a black suit of plain, unadorned armour, as she took on a fighting stance. Whether it be the Nanashi, or an evil Rider, she was ready and willing to protect her friends from anythi- Wait, what the hell?

"...Sk-skull!? Kamen R-rider Skull!? Wh-what's he doing here!?"

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Raiko, with Chris

"I... You say you'll introduce me to your leader, and then... Ugh, are you the most unreliable member of your little association?" Raiko didn't seem to have much patience for the musclebound girl. However, as they passed the vending machine...

"...If there's some iced tea, perhaps..." She said dismissively, as she slowly floated back to the ground. There wasn't any real reason behind it, other than to show she could... And that it would be much easier to take her drink if she was on the floor.

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Tanaka from Accounting, near Shiori and Rikka

As Shiori tossed the Nanashi to the ground, the piscine creature tried to scuttle away. However, it was all in vain...

PINECONE SQUASH!

...It hadn't even gotten a foot away from Shiori when a mysterious Rider, wearing black armour modeled after pinecones, lept into the air and buried their spear into its chest, causing it to explode. Dusting themselves off, the Rider folded up the Lockseed attached to their belt...

LOCK OFF!

...And detached it, their armour dissipating and revealing the wearer to be a short, green haired woman, possibly in her mid-twenties.

"Ah, good, good, you look okay!" She said with a smile that couldn't possibly be perkier. "We get billed extra if there's any injuries caused to civilians, see! And you would not believe the amount of paperwork we'd have to do to cover the charges, hahah!"

Anno, outside the Dinotrain with Moerin-W-wait, Kamen Rider Den-O?! What about Rai-KAMEN RIDER SKULL?!

Anno... could do little more then watch in confusion as Moe ran into the train, disappearing from view. She looked around nervously. Were there more of those fish things... she thought she saw some of the creatures in the distance. What was going on?! Why were so many fictional things turning out to be real?! However... the situation proceeded to get even more insane. She saw Rain, who had gotten ahead of her, put on a belt... and... and all she could do is stare in stunned silence as armor formed around her friend's body. She had only seen part of the series that the armor came form, but she could recognize it. It was... was...

"K-Kamen Rider... S-Skull...?" Anno couldn't believe it. The only thing that would be more insane, more confusing, would be if... if... Moerin was back from the train! And she looked normal again! The brown-haired girl was relieved at that, at least, in spite of the strangeness of the situation, stepping towards her friend... and watching as she transformed into a Kamen Rider too. And she was pretty sure it was Den-O.

Her mouth hung open for a moment in shock. At least Moe seemed surprised by Rain being Kamen Rider Skull too... but... but...

...

Anno raised the key. Was it... was it real...? She glanced back over her shoulder. There were... dangers, those fish monsters. There was even someone else who looked dangerous...

... Would this key... would it work?

The girl took a deep breath.

And then the key was engulfed in an orb of light.

Anno's eyes widened in shock, but suddenly her surroundings had... changed. They had been the museum... and she was certain the museum was still there, but there was... she was an a platform, gigantic metal hoops rotating upwards and downwards away from her. The key abruptly flew into her chest. It was painless, and yet she still clutched at the place it had entered, sinking to her knees... and then covering herself frantically as her clothing burned away into red energy, which simply drifted into the air, leaving her in nothing but her plain, white underwear. She... it really was a Vivid Key! It really was the Red Vivid Key! There was a surge of light around her, and Anno couldn't see anything. She was vaguely aware or something happening to what little she was wearing... and then when it was over... she was in it. The shorts, the skirt, the sleeveless jacket, the boots... they were plain white, but she knew from memory that the feather-bearing hat atop her head was now red. Black gloves reached her elbows, as well.

Two red blurs surged towards her, and she thrust both her hands out. The machines circled her arms, and in a flurry of motion clamped mechanical devices onto them. They shifted and changed as fabric covered them as well, until they were simply... different gloves... She felt the additions to her boots affixed to them by the machines as well. The finishing touches, the fabric unfurling over her chest, kept in place with a glowing belt...

It... really happened!

The museum surrounding abruptly returned, and Anno looked herself over in shock and wonder.

"It... i-it really happened... th-the k-key was real... Wh-what's going on...?"

Nepeta nodded up towards Yuuka eagerly, "That would be purrfurible, yes."

The troll girl glanced at the Nanashi then towards Rachel. She wasn't sure if this human had a strife specibus and didn't want to leave her all on own, but she didn't want to stay out of the fight either. It was then something strange happened. After receiving what the cat troll assumed was an odd strife specibus, Rachel started to transform. "Pawsome," She gasped, her eyes twinkling with excitement.

Of course, her awed staring didn't last long as their choice to fight the Nanashi was quickly changed to a need to fight them. She turned towards her aggressors with a hiss, long deadly looking claws slipping out of her coat sleeve to fit firmly on to her knuckles. "AC purrowls around her new found purrey, ready to strike at a moments notice! AC also thinks they wouldn't taste very good so she would rather not take them back to her cave to eat... so maybe not prey? Blah, whatever, I'm gonna kick your butts!"

"Very well," Yuuka replied with a smile. It certainly wasn't going to be the first time she'd plowed through what might as well be faceless drones (and these ones were probably incapable of firing even an ineffectual bullet pattern), so it wouldn't take her too long. Beat up one and the rest would probably think they had a chance against her or something.

"Ah, yes,would you like to fl-" Yuuka began to speak to Rachel, assuming that she wasn't exactly a combatant, but a tour guide had given her a strange item that had then proceeded to transform her appearance. The flower youkai raised an eyebrow.
"...Ah, would this be that 'magical girl' thing I've heard about?" Yuuka asked brightly, her attention now seemingly caught up in Rachel's new toy, "I thought you had to say a more... I don't know, cutesy phrase? I don't think there's enough white or pink either."

The Nanashi started attacking innocents of their own volition, which indicated that she should probably focus on dealing with the monsters now. Nepeta seemed ready to go. With her umbrella held tightly, Yuuka continued her earlier query, "Well, fight or flee, which one is it? You could also stick close to me, if you'd like."

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Rikka almost shivered with the chill she felt from Shiori's words. Yeah, she was angry, maybe it was better to just let her be on her merry way...

And then the freaky fish thingy from earlier made a strange noise, which startled Rikka once more. She took a few shaky steps back, umbrella raised ineffectually with the hope it would be terrified of her power and run away or something. And when Shiori suddenly returned to brutalise the monster, Rikka could only stare, her visible eye wide with shock and a hint of fear. Just what was going to happen next in this not-so-normal-worl-

...

Rikka stared wordlessly as a green-haired woman de-armoured after finishing off the monster, looking way too cheerful about this whole situation.

Somewhere in her head, she was aware that this situation was way over her head, that maybe she should approach the matter differently. But... if she did, that would be accepting her powerlessness, and giving up on her goal to find the Horizon. That... wasn't something she could do, but on the other hand...