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“Thanks for helping out with this, Hina-chan,” Date Akira said with a smile. They had just gone through a lot with the King of 800 years ago. Getting Ankh back at the same time as losing Eiji. The world is rebuilding right now. The Greeed were gone and the people were happy again. Well...most of the world. Ankh had locked himself in the ruins of the Cous Coussier.
He wouldn’t let anyone into the Coussier but Hina. She was only taking a break from helping him right now. They were upgrading the Birth X Core Medals used by Shintaro Gotou during the battle. With Ankh refusing to battle the remaining Yummies that were left without a King someone had to do it. Gotou wanted to protect his wife and child more than anything and agreed to step in for the dead Eiji.
“It is nothing,” she said as she looked over some data being inputted into the Core Medals. “I am happy to help.” She had a smile that told everyone clearly she was working through her pain.
“Don’t you want to get back to making dresses, Hina-chan? That was your dream after all,” Satonaka Erika asked her with a smile.
“...Maybe when this is all over.” Hina turned away from the others as a tear formed in her eyes. They looked at each other as she whipped them away. “Anyway, maybe all this time taking care of Ankh will be more worth it in the long run?” she said returning to the computer.
“He was the one that taught you about all this, Hina-chan?” Gotou asked.
She smiled at them. “Mhm. I-I think he needs to just talk some of it out. Especially when he got his own body back.” she said looking away from them typing something in very fast.
“What does your brother say to all of this?” Satonaka asked.
“He keeps wanting to go with me to talk to Ankh. To get to know the man that takes his face most of the time.” She thought about it for a second looking off into the distance not really seeing anything. “...But I can’t put Ankh through that right now...”
“One must deal with loss in their own ways,” Kougami Kousei said as he made yet another birthday cake.
“Kougami-san?” Hina said with a smile looking at him.
“Hm?” he asked adding another dollop of frosting on the sides of the cake.
“Shouldn’t you wait to make sure that the test is going to be a success before you make a birthday cake for celebration?” she asked looking at him.
“Ah, well...” he said with a smile looking at her. “I like to be prepared to surprise the person with the cake...even if they see it coming.” He chuckled seeing Gotou standing in his office. “And I have a good feeling that this is going to lead to something that would be a cause for celebration...plus I really love to bake.” He smiled brightly.
They all smiled at him as they hooked the Birth X Drive to some wires to test the energy that would be given off. Kougami set aside the frosting dispenser with a sigh looking at the unfinished cake. “Looks like I have to finish this after we are done after all,” he went up to Gotou. “As you know these are not Cell Medals but artificial Core Medals that Kougami Foundation created to work with this Birth System.”
Gotou looked at him. “We had some success during the conflict with the King of 800 years ago and my own Greeed creation Gouda. I am truly sorry that that went so wrong in the end...” He looked down in shame that something he had made could have fallen that far. When he found out that he was possessing Eiji's near-dead body, he hoped they would be able to save Eiji this way. Similar to how they saved Hina’s brother Shingo. But it did not work out that way.
“But if we can completely upgrade Birth X, it will surely give us the firepower that we need!” Kougami said, hopeful for the future.
“But there are no guarantees with this. Everything that we are using is completely experimental. Even with all the help that Hina-chan is giving,” Satonaka said. “Be prepared for anything. You good with that?” Gotou just nodded. He knew that this upgrade will give them the power that they might need in the coming days.
“Gotou-chan, you ready?” Date asked his partner in crime sometimes but best friend all the time.
“Of course. This was my decision, after all,” Gotou said to him.
Date chuckled a little and held up the Core Medals that he was going to be using for this. “Counting on ya.” Gotou took them.
“Beginning the test,” Hina said with a nervous smile. “Reactivating the Birth X Driver.” Hina hit the enter button and some beeping could be heard. And she looked oddly hopeful beyond what you would think she would be.
“Now begin!” Kougami yelled. And Gotou inserted the Core Medals into the Birth X Driver.
“ Ebi, Kani, Sasori! ” the Driver rang with each coin. He took a deep breath.
“Here I go. Henshin! ” Gotou yelled and twirled the nob on the side of the Brith X Driver. There was a bright light. And in a flash, he was gone. The wires laying on the floor. Hina felt her heart beating in her throat right now. If she had done everything right she hoped she knew exactly where he was. But everyone else was freaking out.
“Hey...what happened?” Date asked the room at large. Hina stood up and started to the door.
Satonaka thought that was odd in itself she went to the computer and checked the readings. “The Core Medal energy went out of control! Hina?” she asked as Hina opened the door.
“...I’m sorry. I had to.” Hina said as she left them.
“ HAD TO DO WHAT?!?! ” Date asked. This was not like Hina. She would never betray any of them.
“Eiji-kun...” Kougami muttered lower enough for neither of them to hear him looking at the door that Hina had walked through.
* * *
Gotou was transported to a parallel world. One where Hina became Kamen Rider OOO and not Eiji. It was hard for him to understand some of the changes, like how Uva was her partner and not another version of Ankh. Or seeing Eiji again so close to his death. Let alone finding out that Uva was in the body of Eiji’s brother.
His Core Medals were out of juice and needed the power of the Greeed to power them up again so he might be able to return to his normal world again. He noticed something when they found out about this. He was going to check with her to find out why. But she disappeared for a minute.
“Where is OOO?” Dr. Ankh asked looking around after getting into another fight with Uva.
Uva and Gotou looked around and tried to find her. “Where is she?” Uva asked.
“And you call yourself her ‘partner’ , bug?” Dr. Ankh asked with a smile almost gloating that he lost track of Hina. Gotou was wondering where she had gone.
“DON’T CALL ME BUG!” Uva said and then regretted his decision when Dr. Ankh pulled out his coin. Causing the rest of his coins to fall to the floor.
“Maybe I will do some experiments on this one?” Dr. Ankh said looking at the coin in the hands of the puppet sitting on his shoulder.
“Ankh...I mean Dr. Ankh...” they heard and turned to see Hina at the door of the lab. “Please return that,” she said nervously. Gotou was wondering why she was acting this way. Maybe it was the fact that they were going to have to ask the other Greeed for help?
“Tch.” Was Dr. Ankh’s response as he flipped the coin and Uva reconstructed himself.
“T-Thank you Dr. Ankh,” Hina said nervously seeing Uva.
“Thanks for that partner,” Uva said putting his hand on her shoulder. She then grabbed it and twisted his wrist. And pushing him back.
“S-Sorry,” Hina muttered.
* * *
A little while later they were walking outside the lab and Gotou thought it was safe enough to start investigating what was going on with this Hina. “Is there a problem with borrowing their powers?” he asked looking at Hina. Then realized that it was a stupid question, to begin with. If this world was indeed like his own the other Greeed would be enemies of OOO.
“What am I saying? An enemy would never agree...” Hina looked down not answering.
“Nope. Let me explain.” Uva said.
“The Greeeds are fighting over Hina-chan,” Eiji said from behind a pillar. “Isn’t that right Hina-chan?” he asked walking out from behind the pillar.
“Wait! I said I’d explain!” Uva said getting annoyed.
Hina looked surprised a little too but there was something else as well as she saw Eiji. Gotou thought about what this could mean. They didn’t have much of a chance to think about it though. They all heard three voices saying the same thing. “HINA-CHAN!!”
They turned to face three faces the Gotou didn’t want to see right now. The other three Greeed that Eiji had taken down. Kazari, Mezool, and Gamel. Gamel eating something.
“Have you made your decision? I’m the only partner for you,” Kazari said.
“By the way, Kazari is using my little brother’s body,” Eiji whispered into Gotou’s ear. Hina’s eyes narrowed.
“You’ll pick me as your partner, right?” Mezool asked.
“Mezool is in my little sister’s body,” Eiji said.
“Eh?” Gotou asked and Hina eyed Mezool.
Then they noticed Gamel pointing at himself happily. “Pick me. That best!” he said then ate something with a smile.
“Gamel’s is an old man that lives in the neighborhood,” Eiji said.
“How does that even make sense...” Hina whispered.
“Wait! I’m Hina’s partner!” Uva yelled. He seemed to ignore what Hina had said but Gotou didn’t.
“You’re the only one saying that,” Kazari said with a smile. “You don’t respect what Hina actually wants.”
“Wait you two,” Mezool said with her smile fading slightly looking at Hina. “Who are you?” she asked looking at Hina.
“I-I’m Hina...” she said looking at them.
“See this is why I am the best one to be your partner,” Uva said with a smile. “Can’t even tell who Hina-chan is. You are losing it Mezool.” He smiled at her.
“No, she’s not. I should know who Hina-chan is. I spend enough time thinking about her to recognize her in a crowd. Like a REAL partner,” Mezool said with a seductive smile.
“ OH, THIS IS SO WEIRD! ” Hina said and then grabbed Eiji.
“Hina-chan?” Eiji asked.
“This will only take a minute...baka boy!” they all heard. Gotou recognized the voice right off.
“ ANKH?! ” he yelled as Ankh landed in front of the Eiji being held in place. But this wasn’t Dr. Ankh. This was Ankh in his Greeed form.
“ I’M SORRY FOR DECEIVING YOU! We can explain when we are finished...” Hina yelled.
The other Greeed transformed to their normal forms but then they saw something they didn’t expect. Ankh pulled up a very special Core Medal that was red, yellow, and green, Taka Eternity. He tore off the bandana covering his forehead. He placed it on Eiji’s forehead. “What are you doing?” Eiji asked.
“Just getting a small sample of living DNA, it shouldn’t hurt,” Hina said as he struggled. The Taka Eternity Core Medal glowed. There was a flash and Ankh caught it as it fell from his forehead. Hina let Eiji go as another Hina came up to him to make sure that he was alright.
“ YOU DIDN’T NEED TO HOLD HIM STILL LIKE THAT! ” the Hina that walked up to them said.
“ I PANICKED! Why didn’t you tell me all of them were after you?” the Hina that held him still asked.
“Enough of this!” Ankh said turning into his normal form. The face of Hina’s brother. The same face as Dr. Ankh.
“You both are MY Ankh and Hina-chan...” Gotou said and everyone looked at him. Then Ankh shot out a bunch of Cell Medals.
“Please work...” he moaned and with shaking hands he tossed the Taka Eternity Core Medal into the pile of Cell Medals. They glowed and then clumped together in bright light. And laying there was another Eiji. But Gotou recognized this Eiji right away. This was his Eiji.
“ EIJI-KUN! ” Hina yelled and dashed to him as his eyes opened.
“H-Hina-chan? Where are we?” he asked.
“That doesn’t matter. What matters is I love you!” she said a tear running down her cheek as she kissed Eiji.
“ EH?! ” everyone yelled. And Gotou was the most shocked out of all of them. He would never have thought he would see that out of everything else today. Hina helped him to his feet only barely breaking the kiss.
“Baka! Don’t ever leave us again!” Ankh said and kissed Eiji himself.
“ EH?!?! ” everyone yelled again. Then Ankh turned to face Hina who was smiling with tears in her eyes.
“I shouldn’t have to say this...but thank you for lying to everyone,” Ankh said to her.
“Just shut up and kiss me, baka!” she said and pulled him into a kiss. At that Gotou fainted.
* * *
“Whaappn?” Gotou asked groggily.
“You fainted,” Eiji said. Then it all came back to him. Being sent to another world. Finding everyone there but different. Then his Hina and Ankh showed up and revived his Eiji...and then they all kissed each other. This caused him to jump.
“Easy Gotou-san,” Eiji said. He then noticed the bandana.
“Y-You’re their Hino right?” Gotou asked.
“Y-Yeah...yours is...over there,” he said and Gotou looked over and saw the three of them. Hina, Ankh, and Eiji happily kissing or holding hands. Ankh on Hina’s right and Eiji on Hina’s left.
“I’m not sure they are mine anymore...” Gotou said seeing this.
“We ARE yours, Gotou-san,” Hina said with a smile. “It’s time we explain.” She held Ankh’s left hand and Eiji’s right.
“Tch. He was so much easier to deal with when he was unconscious,” Ankh said.
“Ankh. He is our friend. He has the right to know...besides, I would like to know why there are two of me and Hina too,” Eiji said with a smile.
“We aren’t in our world Eiji-kun,” Hina said looking at him.
“After the battle with Gouda...I felt you in the Taka Eternity Core Medal,” Ankh said looking into the distance. “It was maddening. To feel you but to know that you weren’t there. That was when I locked myself in Cous Coussier. Hina came by to care for me...and that was when we admitted we were in love.”
“I didn’t tell anyone about us because it’s a bit weird ya know,” she chuckled. “He was in my brother’s body for so long that it is his preferred human form now. I was never attracted to my brother. He was a bit of a dork growing up. But Ankh...I fell in love with him throughout the adventure together. Same for Eiji.” Hina held on to the two loves of her life hard. Never wanting to let either of them go ever again. “But I never told them...until it was too late. I watched both of them die.”
“When we admitted that we loved each other. I started to talk about how I could feel Eiji in the Taka Eternity Core Medal. She then brought up something. What if he was in there?” Ankh said.
“We remembered what Gouda said. Eiji had some control over the Core Medals. What if he left a piece of his soul IN Taka Eternity?” Hina said.
“It made sense to me...but there was nothing I could do. If it was true that he was in there I couldn’t do anything. I needed a sample of his DNA to make it stronger. And a living sample to make him a Greeed like me,” Ankh said.
“So I am a Greeed now?” Eiji asked.
“Yes...are you mad?” Hina asked.
“Baka girl why would he be mad? He is beyond a normal human now.” Ankh said in a huff.
“Our girlfriend is human Ankh,” Eiji said with a smile. Hina smiled and kissed his cheek. “And I am not mad. I thought I was done. I saved the little girl. I brought Ankh back. I was happy about that...but there was more I wanted to do. I wanted to tell both of you how I felt. I wanted to watch the water holding Hina’s hand again. I wanted to fight with Ankh over something stupid. And I just wanted to be with them.
“B-But I couldn’t put Ankh through keeping me alive the same way he had with Shingo. I wanted him to be happy and not worry about me and to keep me alive,” Eiji said.
“Baka!” Ankh yelled. Eiji looked into the eyes of his boyfriend of a few minutes. “I’d have done it gladly...for you.” The two shared a kiss as Hina smiled at her boys biting her lower lip.
“This brings us to when I started to have to lie to everyone,” Hina said as they broke apart. “I found out that because Ankh wasn’t really in a place to fight the remaining Yummies and Greeed they were looking into upgrading the Birth X Driver with more powerful versions of the Core Medals they had used before.”
“Core Medals can do almost anything you could want. Even travel the multiverse. It just takes a lot of energy to do so. But it was at random normally...unless we used man-made ones to seek out something specific...like OOO,” Ankh said looking at the Hina from this world. “I assumed that other versions of me would only trust my baka boy. So I taught her how to make those Core Medals seek out OOO from other worlds.”
“And the Core Medals would send a beacon to Ankh to know where to travel to. When we got here and found out this world’s version of me was OOO...it changed our plans a little,” Hina said. “I planned to pull Hina aside and have her help us. If she was anything like me she would understand and help. I could swap with her and get to Eiji for Ankh to get the living sample of DNA to turn our Eiji into a Greeed pseudo-clone...but for me to do that I had to take center stage if you will and pretend that I could henshin into OOO.”
“Wait YOU’RE OOO?” Eiji asked looking at the other Hina.
“Yes, I didn’t really believe him when he told me you were OOO,” she said looking at him.
“And she also didn’t tell us about this lot,” Ankh said looking in disgust at the other Greeed. “When Hina was caught she knew that her time was limited. So she grabbed ahold of this world’s Eiji. For me to put the Taka Eternity on his forehead for it to get the living DNA. The rest you were there for.” Ankh said.
“So now all we have to do is get all of you to power up these Core Medals,” Gotou said.
“Stop!” President Date said walking down the steps nearby not really noticing how many Hinas and Eijis were there just paying attention to the Core Medals that were in Gotou’s hands.
“President Date?” Hina from this universe asked seeing the man that was their benefactor.
“Izumi-kun, I can’t let you form an alliance,” he said.
“Why?” their Hina asked again.
“Because...” he said his face getting darker. “...that would get in the way of my desire!” His body glowed purple and he became the Dinosaur Greeed. Everyone stared in disbelief and horror seeing this. Everyone but three. Hina, Eiji, and Ankh. They just looked at each other and smirked. Hina gave both of her guys a kiss as they stood up.
“I think you are a little out of your league,” Eiji said with a smirk.
“What? Do you think you are capable of doing to someone like me?” he asked clearly thinking that he was talking to this world’s Eiji.
“The Eiji you’re thinking of is over there,” Ankh said with a smirk as both held out their hands and three Core Medals shot into the air. One from Eiji and two from Ankh. Eiji put the OOO Driver in place while they were still in the air. He snatched them out of the air with a smile.
“Ankh, let’s go!” he said. Ankh grunted his approval and glowed as Eiji put the Core Medals in place. Ankh disappeared in a flash and look like he went into Eiji even changing Eiji’s appearance to show that they were now together in more ways than one.
They flipped the Force Drive down and picked up the Core Scanner. “ HENSHIN! ” they said together and scanned each Core Medal. And then held the scanner over his heart.
“ TAKA, KUJAKU, CONDOR! ” it rang but in both Eiji’s and Ankh’s voices. As it did they lowered the scanner to their sides and a flaming phoenix surrounded them causing everyone from this world to watch in awe. “ Tajador Eternity! ” it rang as the henshin was complete.
“Amazing...” Hina from this world said.
“Wait until they get started,” Gotou said with a smile looking at his friends.
They went in to fight and punched the Dinosaur Greeed. It was pushed back a little. And then there was a bright transparent ghost-like figure that looked like Ankh and it kicked him as OOO walked up to the Dinosaur Greeed. He kicked him as Ankh’s ghost disappeared and Eiji’s appeared and punched him.
“ WHAT IS THIS POWER? ” the Greeed complained.
“Simply put...” they said together as the Core Medals in the OOO Driver glowed and they opened the circular disc. “... THIS IS OUR POWER!!! ” And the Eternity Core Medals and the normal Taka, Kujaku, and Condor Core Medals flew into their own slots into the disc.
“ ETERNITY SCAN! ” it rang as they scanned the disc. A massive fire blast shot out of the disc. Sending it flying.
“Now the finish,” they said almost chuckling.
“ SCANNING CHARGE! ” it rang as it scanned the Core Medals that had returned to their slots after the attack. They jumped into the air.
“SEIYA!” they yelled as they kicked the Dinosaur Greeed. He landed a little ways away as the Dinosaur Greeed blew up leaving President Date laying a few feet away. Hina went running up to her men as they undid their henshin. She grabbed their hands and kissed their cheeks.
“H-How strong are you?” President Date asked heavy breathing.
“Stronger than you or I ‘Date-san’ ,” Gotou said with a smile going up to him and then punching him unconscious. “Sorry about that...don’t take being double-crossed too well.” He smiled as he walked up to his friends. The Greeed looked at one another and nodded. As they glowed Ankh and Eiji smiled. They sent the energy to Gotou’s Core Medals and their colors returned.
But as the glow faded everyone but the unconscious Date found themselves in Kougami’s office. “Gotou-chan?” Date said seeing him standing in front of him.
“Are we back in our universe?” Gotou asked.
“Tch. Of course we are. Now I am going to get an ice pop,” Ankh said trying to get out of the room. But Hina held him by the hand.
“No you don’t, baka boyfriend! You aren’t leaving me alone to explain everything again,” Hina said holding him there.
“ ‘Boyfriend’ ?” Satonaka asked.
“Yup boyfriend!” Eiji said happily.
“ HINO!! ” Date yelled seeing him.
“Yes, that is the real Hino, our Hino anyway. He is a Greeed now and is also dating Hina-chan and Ankh,” Gotou said looking at Hina and Ankh having a little lover’s spat until she kissed his cheek and he sat down on some boxes looking grumpy.
“ EH?!?!?! ” Date and Satonaka yelled hearing this.
“Uh...hate to break up this lovely reunion,” they heard and looked over and saw Hina, Eiji, Uva, Kazari, Mezool, and Gamel standing there looking confused. It was Hina that had spoken. “ WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?! ” she yelled.
“Good question. But first,” they all heard. They turned in time to get showered with party confetti by Kougami. “ HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Eiji-kun is back with us and more friends and allies have come with them.” He was smiling again and then turned around and picked up a Birthday cake that had the Taka, Tora, and Batta Core Medals in frosting in the center with dollops of frosting all around the edges. “ TODAY IS A DAY FOR TRUE CELEBRATIONS! ”
“I get the distinct feeling he might have known...” Mezool said looking at him.
“He’s Kougami, he always seems to know...or he has a baking problem and stacks of cakes lying around waiting to celebrate things,” Satonaka said looking at her.
“And you were confused by our world,” Hina from the other world said with a confused smile. And everyone laughed and enjoyed the party. Celebrating a new start for this extended family.