Walking the path of shopping

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Souji had been on a rather large shopping trip. First, he had gone off to buy food. Even if this was a strange, multi-dimensional island, one needed to eat, after all. Unfortunately, the space he had rented was woefully under prepared, and he needed to buy some supplies as well. And even after that, he needed to buy a present for Juka. After all, one did not go on a shopping trip without buying a present for your little sister. It just wasn't done. Hence, he was in the mall. In fact, he was just leaving the mall. Unfortunately, the exit was on the other side of the building, and he had too many bags for one person, even the man who walked the path of heaven.

The obvious solution? Time travel.

There were two people carrying Tendou Souji's bag, and yet, in another way, there was a single person carrying his bags. After waiting for a moment, Hyper Kabuto had appeared from a portal, stepping out into the mall and probably attracting some attention. Since he would need it for later, the non-transformed Tendou took the Hyper Zecter, turning the transformed Tendou into his regular Rider Form. Wordlessly, the future Tendou nodded at the present Tendou, picking up a few of the bags.

Present Tendou, completely unfazed, picked up the rest of the bags and followed himself. Tendou Souji and transformed Tendou Souji from the near future walked through the mall, carrying quite a few bags filled with food, cooking supplies, and a few presents.

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Hazama hadn't woken up in the mall, but he had walked there. It was by far the largest building he could see when he woke up so as he walked through the doors he did the next thing any visitor would do.

He asked directions.

"Yeah. Hi. I'm kinda.. sorta.. new here, do you have any idea where kinda sorta new people go?" He kept a hand on his fedora, almost as if a wind was constantly blowing around him.

"Uhh yeah, its like, you go to the station, or see if you can't get yourself some living space."

Hazama smiled and as the man turned he would find that his neck had been sliced by a pair of butterfly knives. "Thanks!, I would give you a tip or something... here's a protip: Don't give directions to someone with a pair of knives. He's more likely to kill you." He gave a sigh as he kicked the man's bleeding corpse.

"Well that's not going to help him. He's dead. Oh well, I guess trash has its uses." Summoning Ouroboros the snake hooked its jaws around the body, with a flick of his wrist the body sailed a good few feet before bouncing against the floor twice.

"Well that wasn't fun at all. Usually I can get a good four with some speed." He tipped his fedora down over his eyes and walked with his hands in his pockets. Everyone that had saw him throw the man's body stayed silent for a moment until one woman screamed.

"Good GOD!, It is ALWAYS the women with the screaming. Am I really that terrifying?, Well, I suppose I am!" After one scream came the stampede of people leaving. Terumi gave a sigh and looked around. "Well this place cleared out quick, what was it early closing?, Don't tell me, some washed up singer is about sing on stage?, I can't stand those."

It would be obvious to the Kamen Rider who started this.

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There were a few things that didn't happen every day. A disoriented teenage girl being unceremoniously dumped on the floor of a mall by a magical, dimension crossing portal was one of them.

Hamuko, not expecting the hard ground beneath her, collapsed to the ground. Right. Clothes were present. Ground was cold and hard. It was loud and very bright. Paulownia Mall? It was loud enough to be there. Nothing like before, where it was rather dark and quiet.

Speaking of which, where the hell was she and why was she here?

Hamuko slowly pushed herself up. She looked around her, and saw that a few people were standing there and staring at her. Most of them began to move away after a few moments, leaving Hamuko alone. She moved to a standing position. She could tell just from taking a quick look around that she was not at Paulownia.

She didn't get much time to muse on her surroundings after that, as suddenly there were screams and people running. Instinctively, Hamuko reached for the Evoker at her waist and ran against the flow of escaping people, eventually making her way to the suited man who had caused the mess. The way he was just casually walking away from the flung body meant that he'd been the one responsible.

"Stop!" Hamuko yelled. She put her Evoker to her head and pulled the trigger. Glass shards fell from her head before forming into a robot-like being carrying a harp. It felt good to do that again.

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And then some guy started slitting throats. Tendou sighed. Why did trouble like to follow him? Oh wait, the answer was obvious. He was the sun, the lord of the light. Wherever he went, the shadows would follow. Which was why it usually fell on him to cast out evil. Of course, this was just a man. Would he need Kabuto's power for this? Magical energy snakes aside, Tendou was perfectly capable of fighting without his Rider System. Of course, he was carrying these bags...

A teenage girl, wearing some kind of school uniform, stumbled onto the scene, apparently wanting to confront the man. Maybe they were connected? Of course, taking the nature of the island into account, it was entirely possible that they had never even met before. The girl appeared to have odd powers as well, pulling out a gun and shooting herself to summon an odd creature. To be fair, Tendou had seen odder things. Neither of the two currently appeared to be riders. Perhaps Riders were far less common in this world than he initially expected?

Tendou placed his bags down, crossing his arms. "Ohoh..." Either way, it would be good to watch for a moment. If the girl easily outclassed the criminal, there would be no need for him to interfere. Otherwise, he supposed he would have to help. The Hyper Zecter in his pocket twitched. He would probably have to go help himself soon.

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Terumi turned to see the girl shoot herself in the head. It was quite the scene as a robot emerged from her brain. He placed his own finger by the side of his head and mimiced what she had just done.

"Yeah uhh, when you shoot yourself in the head like that, a robot isn't meant to appear. Why did you shoot yourself in the head?, Life really that hard?" Then she asked him to stop. Really what is it with these people, always getting in the way and demanding he stop.

"Stop?, Stop what?, I'm just standing still. You want me to stop moving?, Stop breathing?, I'm getting mixed messages here, you might want to elaborate." Noticing the school uniform he gave a chuckle. Not anything Hazama would have seen in Kagusuchi but it was intriguing none the less.

"Shouldn't you be in school?, Don't want to be tardy now. Its only one time you're tardy and then that's it you're tardy for life. Better get moving." Ouroboros curled around the Intelligence Officer, then shot out towards the girl.

As the snakelike tendril extended outwards to the Persona user Hazama was running towards her. His foot began to glow with a green energy, and he span on one heel to boot her in the face with the glowing foot.

It was a risky move that could be dodged.

This place was already so fun. Kagusuchi had that shitty vampire and that no fun Jin Kisaragi walking around in his suit. This place had neither of them, it was nice.

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Hamuko ground her teeth in frustration. She'd just met this man 30 seconds ago and she already hated him. He had to be intentionally trying to get this reaction out of her. In fact, she was pretty sure that was it.

He shot some kind of snake at her and moved to kick her in the same movement. Hamuko ducked under the kick, and for good measure, aimed a kick toward the heel Hazama had spun on to kick her.

While she did this, a ball of fire shot from Orpheus' harp at Hazama, managing to catch the snakelike tendril and incinerate it.

Whether Hamuko managed to knock Hazama off his feet or not, she moved out from under him and toward a sports store. There was a display of hockey sticks in the front. How convenient. She pulled a hockey stick from a barrel and held it in a fighting stance, waiting for Hazama's next move.

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Tendou sighed. He supposed that the girl could fight well. Then again, the man could shoot snakes out of his hands. If it were just a normal murderer, then he supposed that he would just leave the girl be. Juka was probably hungry, after all. Of course, he appeared to have magical powers, so Tendou just wouldn't feel right leaving a child to fight. Then again, he probably wouldn't have felt right even if the man didn't have magical powers.

He sighed. He'd have to leave it up to himself, though. He proceeded to grab the Kabuto Zecter off of his own belt, putting it onto the belt he currently had around his waist. He then did a variety of things, what with pushing buttons, pulling levers, transforming into karate bugmen and what not.

"HENSHIN. CAST OFF. CHANGE BEETLE. HYPER CAST OFF. HYPER CLOCK UP."

Present Tendou disappeared into a portal, going back to the past to become future Tendou and help himself. The Tendou that had been from the future but was now from the present sighed. Pulling the Kabuto Zecter from this time out of nowhere, he placed it onto his belt, pulling levers and other such things.

"HENSHIN. CAST OFF. CHANGE BEETLE.

Kamen Rider Kabuto calmly walked into the fight, arms at his side in no foreseeable fighting stance. He raised one hand into the air, pointing upwards. "Grandmother said this: if you talk too much, you will drown in your own words."

He began calmly walking towards Hazama.