Soon, we were all packed up and ready to continue into the next dimension. "You guys ready?" I asked. "When wouldn't we be ready, Onee-chan?" Ryutaros asked me with a cute little giggle.

"Naturally, Des!" Erik replies, soon pulling one of his usual reference/impression quips, "What's the Next Stage?" his Imagin nod in agreement with the asked question.

"Then, as you would say, Momo, Ikuze, Ikuze, Ikuze!" I said with a cheerful smile, as I jumped into the Quantum Rift, the Taros, Erik, Crash, Coco, Lani-Loli, and the Draconic Imagin following after me.

We all pop through the rift, Crash faceplanting in the sand of this area. "Well, this place appears to be very, deserted." quips Erik, making the motions for Zero-One's 'Hai! Aruto jaaaaaa... Naito!' joke-catchphrase. "Home.. This place makes me think of home..!" Ryuta said, his hands over his heart, thinking about the Sands of Time, where the Denliner was. "Wrong color of sky tho', but just about as hot..." Comments Koori, briefly appearing uncomfortable with the area. "Coby no like Sands of Time... Very empty... no caves... no gems..." comments Cobalt, clearly not having the same exact memories of the Sands of Time as the Taros. "Though it's a different color, it's still connected in some way, I'm sure of it!" adds Sora, naturally linking up with the character he has traits of. "We're not here to have nostalgia for that place, we're here to fix a mess!" reminds Drake.

"So, we need the other masks to close the Rifts?" asks Coco. "From what Erik told me when we found him, it makes sense. I dunno if it's true or not, but, you can sense wherever Akano is, right, Lani?" I affirm Coco's question, and then ask the Quantum mask of Phasing. "Correct, and my brother, who is indeed named Akano, is around here somewhere..."

Here comes N. Gin! "Welcome to the show, vermin! ...And... Sandbags. Looking for your precious mask?" "Aaaaand behold, the aforementioned Putz..." states Lani-Loli, concerned. "Don't worry, We have a thing where we fight and he loses. It's a very well established dynamic." reassures Coco, prompting a quip of 'Nice(Knight) Dynamic' from Erik and the Draconics. "In other words, there's no need to worry. We'll be able to beat the putz quicker than you can say Putotyrannosaurus!" I reaffirmed to the blue mask, giving him a confident, brave smile. "Not this time! I've got a backstage pass for you to get up close and personal with my weapon of mass percussion! Come ready to Rock!" retorts N. Gin before blasting off back to where he came from. "You ain't Bunk Bed Junction, Missile-Brains!" Erik calls, absolutely unimpressed. "Well, no point in waiting around, trying to not save Akano. Let's go fight N. Gin, and save Akano!" I cheered, much more ready like I've never been before. "Indeed! Sitting around doing nothing will get us nowhere!" Quips Erik, having somehow found a sword-sized stick.

[Timeskip- 5 hours later..]

"All right you bloodthirsty lunatics! Put your freaky little hands together for... RAWKET-HED!!!" Proclaims N.Gin as he starts his drummer mech up. Soon, the battle began, resulting in us dodging countless sound waves from N. Gin's speaker. "I really don't think we can do this with just the both of us, but I know we have to try, no matter what!" I semi-worried as I spoke to myself, until I heard a BANG-like sound.

We turned around and saw that a little robot was shot by a black and green Imagin's finger gun, sending it flying to a speaker. "Is that you, Deneb?" "Odebu? What are you doing here?"

"I had a plan, you guys," said a familiar voice walking up behind Deneb, "I was gonna complete the pinnacle activities for this week and then do some writing for our campaign before getting something to eat. But NO, you guys need my help for this." It was Peter, AKA Dax, the D&D nerd of our group who we often saw playing Destiny 2 when he was online.

"Sorry we had to ruin your night." I said sarcastically, yet also kindly. "Yeah, well need I remind you that I also don't exactly have an infinite supply of my cards?" He replied. Then he wrapped a black belt around his waist and pulled a green card out of the side holder. "But since it's gone to shit, I'll help."

"Please! Your language!" Deneb immediately reacted. Peter paused for a moment then grunted out of frustration. "That's your concern, Deneb? Not N. Gin?" "W-well, I shot the little robot so that did something." "Never mind." He pushed the switch on the top of his belt. "Henshin." Then inserted the green card into the buckle.

ALTAIR FORM

Green armor and yellow train tracks covered him up, followed by two green cows down the mask which formed the eyes. Having transformed into Kamen Rider Zeronos, he combined his weapon into the sword mode, stuck it in the ground, then pointed at Rawkithed. "Saisho ni itte oku. Ore wa ka-na-ri tsuyoi."

"Bunka! Junka! Shakalaka-SCREW YOU, Rawkithed!" Erik comments, pointing at the robot piloted by N. Gin as he puts his belt on and hits the second button. "Ikuzetto, Koori. Henshin!"

BUSTER FORM

"Hm, well, considering the situation, mainly because of the freaking GIANT ROBOT that N. Gin is using, I say we may be in need some strength that could make somebody... You guys know what word I mean to say but won't say it to take it down." I calmly spoke while thinking it over, yet sorta lost my cool upon saying Giant robot. "In other words, Kintaros, let's do this!" I smiled, as I pressed the yellow button on my belt. "Henshin!" I shouted, before scanning the emblem on the Den-O Belt.

AXE FORM

The soundwaves kept coming, so we kept dodging. Deneb seemed to be having quite a bit of fun listening to the music staying out of our way. When the red waves started coming it got a bit tricky, but we did our best until we could spot more of the little robots like the one Deneb shot, and making the little robots hit N. Gin's speakers. Alt.Den-O smashes some of the little robots into the speakers with the flat side of his Buster sword. "Behold, for I shall deliver a powerful strike as grand as the Great White North!" he calls, sending a li'l robot flying into the speaker and breaking both robot and speaker. 'Go for it, Koori!' I mentally cheered to him. "I shall, and then maybe we can beat some opponents into submission in a game after all of this is over?" replies Koori, showing a hint of being a nerd and a gamer. 'Depending on the fact if we can find a gaming system while we're here, maybe.' I kindly reply from within my mind. "That would be a most favorable outcome." "STOP BEING SUCH A FANCIFUL GAMER NERD AND FOCUS ON GIVING THAT MISSILE-BRAINED CYBORG AN L!!!" calls Drake, who immediately gets patted by Sora.

"What's wrong with being a gamer nerd?" I heard Peter say when N. Gin was hit with enough robots to be exposed. "Just watch this move!" He ran up to the glass head N. Gin was protected in, twisted his body up and then spun around with his sword, getting more than one good hit in before he got sent back. "The spin attack is a pretty bread-and-butter move in most hack-and-slash games but see what it did to him?" I gotta admit it was pretty cool. I could hear Momotaros in my head saying "Wow. Enjoy never getting a girlfriend." "Hey, give him a break. He's got a life you know." "And you're saying I don't?" Then Kintaros spoke up "Enough, Momonoji! We can discuss your hobbies and habits when the world isn't in danger."

And with the little argument Momotaros and I had said and done with, we went back to the routine. Dodge what we could and hit back until N. Gin was up to his last chance. "Nice move back there, Peter!" Erik shouted out. "But here's something cooler!" 'Something tells me this Full charge attack is gonna be epic~!' I mentally told myself, a little squee of excitement heard in my mental voice.

"This is the end of your story..." states Alt.Den-O as he scans the Alt. Rider Pass on the buckle.
FULL CHARGE!
The Buster blade gets encased in ice in such a way as to make it even bigger as he gets right in front of N.Gin's creation, lifting the enlarged blade over his head. "Dai Dan-Dan!" aaand down comes a grand judgement strike that's made of cold hard Justice. {It's really made of hard-frozen ice, but you get the idea, right?}

'Knew it. That. Was. AWESOME!!'  I mentally cheered, amazed. "You were right. That was a lot cooler than what I did." Peter added on, giving him a thumbs up. And N.Gin's creation shuts down before ejecting him and the sleeping Akano via an explosion, sending them skyward. A few seconds later, and N.Gin drops right back down, bouncing off of several of the giant drums before faceplanting in front of the busted giant bass drum. He slowly starts getting up, looking somewhat sorrowful as the STILL sleeping Akano returns from being launched into the atmosphere. "My beautiful creation...." he whines before getting knocked out by Akano, who is completely unresponsive still.

"Igothim-Igothim-I--AAH~!" Ryuta screamed, trying to grab Akano, which, Good news, he did, but bad news, he and Akano got knocked into a newly-opened Quantum rift! 'MY BABY~!' I mentally shouted, and then burst into tears, worried about the one and only Imagin I knew in my life who saw me as, and called me his big sister. "RYUU-KUN!" calls Alt.Den-O upon seeing Ryuta being sent into the rift. "AH! AKANO!" calls Lani-Loli, prompting everyone to give chase into the rift, Sora hugging Den-O in an attempt to comfort Des.

'Thanks, Sora.' I mentally smiled, happy for the sentimental comfort. "You're very welcome!" replies Sora, "Let's find my bro." 'And Akano.' I mentally replied, as Kin took off the Den-O belt. "Of course!" adds Lani-Loli as everyone is heading for the rift."You and Deneb coming?" I turned to ask Peter. "Cuz, I dunno if you both know, but all of time, and Reality is on the brink of destruction because of what's going on.."

"Yeah, I realize what's at stake now." Peter replied "So let's forget about that... attitude at the start there. I kind of hoped whatever this was wouldn't require my assistance. Not because of tonight's plan, but because-" He stopped for a moment. Deneb was coming up behind him, still humming the music that Rawkit Hed was playing. "Because-" Deneb's humming got louder, and I could see him clenching a fist with his armor still on. This is probably the part where he hits the Imagin. "Deneb, that's a little bit distracting, so just quiet down." "O-oh. Sorry. It's just so catchy." Or maybe not. Deneb stepped back, looking a little sheepish.

Peter sighed and took out the card he put into the belt, causing his armor to disappear. Then the card disintegrated in his hand. "How many of those do you have?" I asked, knowing he could transform a limited number of times. "Well, when I left to help, I only took four normal cards and two red ones. With that battle, that four is now down to three. You think that'll be enough, Des?" I had to think for a moment before giving him a yes. "Well, then what are we waiting for?" and I jokingly, but kind of seriously replied "Deneb to stop dancing." Deneb was completely into the music. He was the one distracted now. "DENEB!" I was mistaken. This was the part where he hits the Imagin. Right upside the head. "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK OF THE MUSIC! PLEASE, JUST PAY ATTENTION!" "I thought you were still talking, but then I drifted because of the music. It's stuck in my head now." "Oh you can be so annoying. Just stop it. We have to go now." Deneb stood up and nodded, then went into Peter's body. He wasn't possessing him yet, but that was the most efficient way for both of them to tag along. "Shall we?" And he followed me into the rift.

'Don't worry, Ryuta- We're coming to save you, and Akano!' I thought in my mind, determined to rescue my purple Imagin partner, and the second Quantum mask.