Another Strange New Land (open)

[nintendonut1]

Jack swiftly raised his sword to block the advance, but it never came as once again they were inturrupted. After their breif exchange, he regarded Kevin's reaction. "Do you... know these people?"

[gantzgun74]

At Den-O's words, Shantotto let out her trademark laugh, as if deeply amused by them.

"Climax you say?
I must admit that sounded quite pretensious.
Which shall make your defeat all the more delicious."

She jumped down from the spire and landed on the future scene of the battle, a knowing grin on her face.

"For here is a factor, that you should know,
Just in case your strength fails you toe-to-toe.
If you should take, with all fairness and counts, a tally,
You'd find where your the 'Climax', I'm the 'Grand Finale'!"

[In otherwords, Shantotto just shot Den-O's comment out of the sky. I figured I'd bring this up, since Shantotto usually has the more hillarious lines in Dissidia. ANYWAYS...]

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However shortly after that left her mouth, Decade made the scene, where Kevin looked nervous, Shantotto looked excited.

"Hohohohohoho! More opponents to squash, what fun!
Though I'll defeat them even if they number 101."

At Jack's question she turned to Kevin as well, still a snide grin on her face, but curious even so.

"Yes do tell us who they are, if you please,
Knowing their reps, makes the fun increase.
Kicking the butts of the losers I don't know can be fun of course,
But knowing their names will bring more joy with the force."

[42zombies]

"Oh, no..." Decade muttered. He knew what was coming-- he met it in almost every world he traveled to.

With no warning, Kevin attacked Decade, screaming angrily. "You... YOU DEVIL!" Kevin yelled, swinging his sword down at Decade. However, the Kamen Rider quickly produced a sword of his own and blocked the attack. "You're the destroyer of worlds; you think I'm going to let you live?!"

Tsukasa quickly parried Kevin's attack, jumping back to prepare. "Bad rumors spread so fast." He responded jokingly. "Maybe that's because idiots believe anything they're told."

Daiki laughed. "Well, well, Decade; it looks like you've gotten yourself into another mess." He quickly loaded a new card into his gun and fired it forward.

Attack Ride
INVISIBLE!

In a split-second, DiEnd seemed to completely disappear.

"Kaito, you self-centered idiot." Tsukasa muttered, blocking another attack from Kevin. "Jeez... you'd think he could focus on something more than being a petty thief."

[nintendonut1]

'Destoyer of worlds?' That was never a title to be proud of.

With much happening all at once, Jack for now left Kevin to his duel with Decade. Watching DiEnd disappear and catching Decade's words, he tightened his grip on his sword and watched his surroundings for anything abnormal, listening for the slightest slip of sound that would hint his enemy's approach. An invisible opponent was difficult to face, but not impossible.

Hearing metal cut through the air behind him, he swiveled and blocked with a metallic kling!

(ref. to "Jack and the Three Blind Archers")

[42zombies]

"Ugh... this is the worst!" Momotaros growled, crossing his arms in childish frustration. "I can't tell who I'm supposed to be fighting!"

"You could always help me out." Decade pointed out, parrying another of Kevin's attacks. Momotaros seemed to think it over, rubbing his chin. "Maybe... but you have to treat me to pudding afterwards!"

Decade groaned as he pulled a new card out of his... sword, apparently. Dodging Kevin yet again, he placed the card in his belt and slammed it shut.

Kamen Ride
[glow=red,1,300]FAIZ![/glow]

Paths of glowing, neon-red energy covered Decade's armor and, in a small explosion, his armor changed into a high-tech, silver, black, and red form. His helmet, now with large yellow eyes and two small antennae, became rounder. The only thing that remained the same was the belt-buckle Decade wore.

Producing a red, lightsaber-like blade, Tsukasa casually stepped back.

"Momo, I'll buy you all the pudding you can eat if you help me with this big-chinned idiot." He offered calmly.



Daiki chuckled as he watched the fight from just behind the Samurai. Tsukasa always seemed to get himself in fights. The question now was whether or not he should help or just take the Samurai's sword and--

kling!

Daiki barely dodged the attack-- whoever it had been aimed at, it nearly took his head off. That pretty much eliminated that option. He might as well just save his comrade from embarrasment.

[nintendonut1]

Figuring he had grazed his armor, Jack figured he had scared his assailent off, seeing as there was no grab for his sword. Swiftly, he was up back-to-back with Kevin, keeping his eyes on the strange fighters.

"I do not know what has happened between all of you..." he told Kevin. "...but three against one is cowardly. Do you need assistance?"

[42zombies]

"I didn't start this fight!" Tsukasa exclaimed. "Man, what a pain. I'm just defending myself!"

"Yeah, right." Kevin scowled. "He told me what you are-- what you're capable of!"

"Please. Tsukasa couldn't destroy a world." Daiki chuckled, cocking his gun. With that action, his armor disspeared, along with Momotaros. "He can barely save them."

"I do a better job than some idiot thief." Tsukasa pointed out, his armor disappearing as well. He looked at Jack, his face showing the quiet frustration he felt. "Listen, I'm not interested in pointless fights. All I want is to find out why I was brought to this world."

[nintendonut1]

Jack only stared back, his sword lowering slightly. Only because their armor, weapons, and demons were put away.

"That... is precisely what I would like to know as well," he replied, sheathing his blade. "I still am not sure what this place is either."

[42zombies]

"You're not actually trusting them, are you?!" Kevin exclaimed, shocked at the very idea.

"Oi, chin-boy!" Tsukasa exclaimed. "I... wait... am I speaking English?" He asked, shocked. "Maybe I need to to save this world..."

"Save it?!" Kevin repeated, pointing his sword at Tsukasa threateningly. "You could save the world just by leaving, devil!" "I'm getting a little tired of people calling me that." "Shut up!"

Kevin narrowed his eyes and clenched his teeth. "It's because of you that I'm in this mess... it's because of you that-that--aaaaahhhhHHHGGGHHH!!"

Kevin's scream shook the forest, sending birds darting away in every direction. In tremendous pain, Kevin dropped his sword and fell to his knee, clutching at his bandaged arm. "No..." he hissed through clenched teeth. "Not NOW, damn it!"

[nintendonut1]

Jack regarded Kevin cautiously as he began to grow angrier... angrier than what he deemed reasonable. "Please, I can understand your righteous anger, but--"

When he collapsed in pain, Jack went right back on alert, drawing away from Kevin. "What is happening!?"

[Felix Falora]

Melleanna acted quickly and, for some reason, she had believed Kevin. Why was simple; Tsukasa's aura was bad to her, meaning he was bad. As a result, she seemed to dissapear into the air and reappear behind him before attempting to gut him with a blade of ice. Though she, herself, could not speak, the wind itsself seem to whisper the word she wanted to say.

"Die."

[42zombies]

"Trump, you bastard..." Kevin whispered. His pain and anger reaching a new height, he screamed: "YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THIS!"

His bandage slowly unraveled, revealing a strange, red scar that pulsed with a foreign heartbeat. The scar was slowly opening, blood trickling out.

"Sorry, Kev! I made a serious investment in you!"

With a sickening, popping noise, a long, sinewy tissue emerged from Kevin's scar, dancing about in the air like a puppet's string. Slowly, something began to push itself up the tendril from the inside. It moved like a snake having eaten a whole mouse, until finally it popped out of the top;

A small, sharp piece of metal, stained with Kevin's own blood. The metal began to grow and extrude more pieces of metal until, finally, it became a long blade with a single, red eye in the center.

Tsukasa quickly darted out of Melleanna's way and fastened his buckle and book back on. "What the hell is that?!" He asked when he saw Kevin's growth. Kevin, still kneeling on the ground, clutched his arm and sobbed lightly.

The sword suddenly darted Melleanna and Tsukasa's way, dragging Kevin behind it. Thinking fast, Tsukasa quickly tackled Melleanna to the ground to avoid the sword's attack.

"Damn it... I've never seen anything like this..." he muttered. He looked at Jack hopefully. "Hey, you; where are this world's Kamen Riders?!"

[nintendonut1]

Jack unsheathed his sword once again at the voice, cringing slightly at the hideous growth that sprouted from Kevin's hand. He swept aside to avoid the first attack, giving Tsukasa an exasperated look.

"I already told you, I only just arrived~!" He was inturrupted by another attack, standing before Tsukasa and blocking the attack with his own sword, knocking Kevin's weapon to the side.

[42zombies]

While Jack stood between Tsukasa and Kevin, the Kamen Rider quickly slid his card back into his belt. "Henshin!"

Kamen Ride
Decade

His transformation quickly occuring, Tsukasa stood up beside Jack. However, instead of drawing his own weapon, he produced what looked like a small touch-screen. Quickly, Tsukasa produced a new card and slid it into the touch-screen-- ten symbols appeared, eahc one some sort of emblem.

"Now, then..." Tsukasa muttered. "I bet you want to ask who I am."

"Not really." Trump's voice resonated from the sword calmly and quickly. Tsukasa seemed a bit disappointed by the answer.

"O-Oh." He replied. "Um... okay." Without another words, Tsukasa began to press the symbols, seemingly in random order.

KUUGA! AGITO! [glow=silver,2,300]RYUKI![/glow] [glow=red,2,300]FAIZ![/glow] BLADE! [glow=red,2,300]HIBIKI![/glow] KABUTO! DEN-O! [glow=crimson,2,300]KIVA![/glow]

Finally, Tsukasa pushed the last button-- one which displayed an emblam similar to his helmet-- and pushed open his buckle.

Final Kamen Ride
DECADE!

In a tranformation too complex to describe, Tsukasa's entire armor changed-- his card, the Decade card, decorated the center of his forehead while nine other cards alligned on his chest. The touch-screen was now on the front of his belt, having replaced his buckle (Now pushed to the side.)

"Alright..." Tsukasa said, "I bet now you want to ask me who I am."

"Nope!"

"Oh." Tsukasa sighed, dropping his battle-pose in embarassment.

[nintendonut1]

Jack only watched the transformation out of his peripheral, keeping his eyes trained on Kevin and the talking sword. What truly intrigued him was the fact that the sword remained still as Tsukasa went through his procedure, as if watching, even if it expressed its disinterest.

The point was, it was distracted. A perfect opportunity lied in wait.

And so, smirking smally to himself, Jack turned to Tsukasa. "I will admit, you have me intrigued. Do continue, please."