A/N: …You know what, I'm not even gonna bother with any excuses, I haven't been feeling up for writing any of my current stories, so I decided to shit out a chapter for a little plot bunny I've had in my head for the past few weeks. That being said, I'll probably end up abandoning this story too eventually, so don't expect frequent updates after maybe the third chapter, if I even get that far. Still, I hope you guys enjoy in my self indulgent side story, so without further a do, let's get to it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kamen Rider Gaim or Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Henshin! The Raspberry of Justice!
It was late at night in Zawame City, though the activity in the streets has calmed down compared to the morning, Yggdrasil Tower was as active as ever, workers and scientists scrambling from room to room as an alarm sounded all throughout the facility. A tall and serious looking man, whose very presence demanded respect, marched down the halls to the main security office for the R&D department, of which he was the head. As he barged in he was met with the sight of multiple uniformed men and women frantically looking at monitors and passing papers and thumb drives between each other, very few stopped what they were doing at the sound of someone entering.
"What is the meaning of this, what happened?!" The man demanded, finally gaining their attention, everyone recognizing the man as their superior.
"Well, that is what we are trying to discern, sir." Someone who looked like the lead security officer said as he stood and faced the man, as he began to gesture over to the monitors. "We were going through out routine security sweep when suddenly multiple different alarms from multiple different sectors started going off." He explained.
"Any sign of the intruders?" The man inquired as he began examining the monitors himself.
"None sir, we have yet to find any trace of any unauthorized personal anywhere within Yggdrasil Tower." Another security officer replied.
"Was the system tampered with from the outside?" The man suggested.
"Not likely, there is no trace of any hacking or spyware in our security mainframe." Another officer stated.
"Then how…?" The man said with frustration, but decided to leave the how for later and focus on the why. "What sectors have been breached?"
"Looking at the alarms that were tripped, there's a clear path of entry from the top floor, and the trail ends at a storage room in the R&D department." The head officer explained.
"Storage room, don't tell me… was anything taken?" He asked with a hint of urgency in his voice.
"We have confirmed… 8 items missing from storage." An officer replied, bringing up the files of the items stored in the room, with ones confirmed to be missing colored red.
"I knew it, they were here for…" He stopped his train of thought and stood up straight to give an order. "Continue monitoring the building and send some officers to check the area around the tower, we must find the thief at all costs!" He ordered with no small degree of urgency, before marching out of the room. 'If they knew about that, just how much do they know about Project Ark?' He thought to himself as he made his way to his office.
Meanwhile, outside on a rooftop with a panoramic view of the city, a young girl, no older then fourteen, stood in the shadow of a water tower as she gazed at Yggdrasil Tower in the distance, before looking down at the strange device she had procured from it, a black "belt buckle" with a yellow knife attached on one side of it. Her mind flooded with thoughts as she began to clutch the device in her hand, before putting it away in what seemed to be a round, silver shield and then disappearing.
"So, so, how are you going to respond this time?" A blue haired middle schooler asked in a teasing manner to a green haired girl who seemed to be her friend.
"Mmm, I'm really not sure," The green haired girl replied, her voice unsure and frustrated, yet retaining an air of sophistication rare for her age. "This one's anonymous too, so I can't really judge him until we meet face to face."
"Hitomi-chan really is popular, this is your second love letter this month right?" A third friend, a petite pink haired girl with pigtails, added, a certain degree of admiration in her voice. The three girls were students of Mitakihara Municipal Middle School and were currently on the school's roof eating their lunch and discussing Hitomi's dilemma.
"Yes, and this one is so eloquently written, he must have really tried hard." Hitomi replied before taking a bite of her food.
"Well no sense brooding over it, after all you're just going to turn him down anyway, right?" The blunette Sayaka said after she swallowed the food in her mouth.
"That doesn't make it any easier to turn them down, especially when they show this kind of effort, and they always look so sad after words." Hitomi replied, recalling the last boy she turned down.
"Well then maybe you should give this one a chance," The pinkette Madoka suggested. "I know you don't have much time after school with all of the classes your taking, but if he likes you so much maybe he'll just be satisfied with seeing you on the weekends."
"…Maybe you're right." Madoka had tried to sound as optimistic as possible but it didn't seem to do much to ease Hitomi's worries, in fact the thought of actually going out with this boy seemed to distress her slightly. Just then, they heard the chime of the bell echo throughout the roof, signaling that lunch break was ending. "Oh, there's the bell, we better get going." Hitomi said as she and her friends packed their leftovers and headed back to class, Hitomi secretly relieved.
The rest of the day went by as usual, their teacher incorporating stories of her boyfriend all throughout the lesson until the final bell rang.
"See you tomorrow." Hitomi said as she grabbed her bag from her locker and took her leave.
"Yeah, see ya." Sayaka replied with a wave.
"Have fun at your piano lesson." Madoka added.
"So I guess it's just you and me today Madoka, you wanna stop by the mall or something on the way home?" Sayaka asked as they made their way to their own lockers.
"Yeah, that sounds great." Madoka replied with an enthusiastic nod. "I heard the café there is having a special on parfaits."
"Oh yeah, I've been meaning to check that out, let's go, let's go… hm?" Sayaka complied as she opened her locker and reached for her bag, however, before she could grab hold of it, she noticed two unfamiliar objects sitting on the shelf. The first was a strange black device with a yellow knife protruding from one side, and the other, the one that held most of Sayaka's interest, was a black and silver padlock with a strange pinkish red design where the dial should be and three black screws on the side of it. Sayaka took the lock in her hand and inspected it, up close the design looked vaguely like a mechanical raspberry, with a few small rivets bordering each side to represent the drupelets, and what seemed to be green leaves still attached to the top as if freshly picked. The lock also had black stylized letters and numbers that read L.S.-17 right in the middle of the raspberry. "…What's this?" She wondered out loud as she examined the lock.
As they planned, Madoka and Sayaka went to a café they frequented at their local mall, and as they waited for the parfaits they ordered Sayaka showed Madoka the strange devices she found in her locker.
"This is… a raspberry, right?" Madoka said as she looked at the lock.
"It looks like it, doesn't it, weird right?" Sayaka replied.
"Mmm, well it is a little strange, but I kind of like it; it's a cute little fruit lock." Madoka said with an amused smile as she cradled the lock in both of her hands.
"Cute… mmm I guess," Sayaka reluctantly conceded. "But more importantly, what the heck is this thing?" She said as she held up the black device. "I mean, what is this weirdly shaped black thing supposed to be, and what's with this knife over here?" She wondered out load before pulling the knife down on its hinge, the device making a stylized cutting sound. "Oh, it makes a sound!" She exclaimed at the new discovery, pushing the knife down a few more times as if to confirm it.
"Hmm… ah, you know what, it kind of looks like a cutting board, like the ones my papa uses when he cooks." Madoka realized.
"Huh, cutting board." Sayaka considered the possibility, looking between the black device and the lock, a blank look appearing on her face. "As in, that thing you use when your cutting fruit?"
"Yeah, that would explain why the lock is fruit shaped, right?" Madoka replied proud of her deduction. However, Sayaka seemed disappointed.
"I see, so it's just a toy then, "cut open the fruit on the cutting board" or something." She said before letting out a disappointed sigh. "Geez, Hitomi gets three love letters, and I get some weird toy put in my locker, what's up with that?" She complained as she sat back in her chair.
"Speaking of which, who would give you something like this Sayaka-chan?" Madoka asked as she handed the lock back to her.
"Don't know, I doubt it's a secret admire or something, and they didn't leave a note either." Sayaka said as she took another look at the lock. "Come to think of it, how do you even open this thing, it doesn't have a keyhole or a dial for a combination or anything. Hmm, maybe you hit these screws on the side in a specific order?" She suggested before instinctively pressing the top screw, the lock immediately popping open, accompanied by a sound effect. "Oh, it already opened!" She said with surprise, however, suddenly they heard the sound of a zipper opening and looked over to see that a giant zipper was in fact opening in mid air, splitting open and letting a strange glowing creature with extravagant antlers leap through it into the café. "EHHHHH, wh-what the…!" Sayaka exclaimed nearly falling from her chair.
"A monster!" Madoka cried as well. The other patrons at the café noticed the appearance of the creature as well and many began panicking, rushing for the exit or cowering in fear. Madoka and Sayaka were doing the latter, before Sayaka realized that all it was doing was standing in place looking menacing, breathing in and our fiercely as if waiting for a battle. Curious, Sayaka slowly stood from her seat and walked over to the creature.
"S-Sayaka-chan, it's dangerous…" Madoka warned but Sayaka just seemed to ignore her as she reached out to the creature. She tried to touch its shoulder but her hand just passed right through it, the monster not having noticed her at all. She waved her hand passed its shoulder a couple more times before calming down. "Hey, it's just a hologram." She realized. "It's ok everyone, look, see, it's not real!" She said as she frantically waved her arms through the creature, distorting its image momentarily. The patrons seem to calm down upon this realization, some of them continued to admire the "hologram", while others just went about their business as usual. Madoka regained her composure as well and stood up.
"Is it… really not real?" She asked hesitantly.
"Apparently, look, I can't even touch it." Sayaka assured, once again waving her hand through it.
"Wow, it looks so life like though." Madoka said as she looked at it with amazement.
"Right?" Sayaka agreed. She looked down at the lock that was still in her hand, a curious look on her face before she closed it, the zipper portal closing as a result. "Ohh, I see, so this lock made it appear!" She said, suddenly holding the lock in much higher regard. She then looked between the "hologram" and the lock before pointing the device at the creature dramatically. "Sit!" She ordered, the creature immediately obeying. "Stand!" She ordered again, the creature once again complying. "Turn!" The creature turned. "Walk to that table!" The creature complied, stopping once it got to the table. "Sit!" And of course the creature sat.
"Amazing, it's listening to you!" Madoka said.
"I know right, maybe this is one of those, you know, virtual pet things, but taken to the next level!" Sayaka said, enthusiastically gripping the lock. "Maybe I won some sort of contest and they're letting me test it or something!"
"But, who are they?" Madoka wondered.
"Don't know, but whoever they are, I accept this gift wholeheartedly!" She declared.
"U-um, customers…" A slightly nervous voice called to the girls, they turned to see a waitress was addressing them. "You're parfaits are ready." She said, holding a tray with two colorful looking parfaits on it.
"Oh yay, our Parfaits!" Madoka exclaimed with glee.
"Those look really good!" Sayaka added as both girls sat down to eat. The waitress set their respective deserts down on the table and left them to enjoy. "Alright, let's dig in!" Sayaka proclaimed before setting the lock down to grab her spoon.
As soon as the lock left her hand, the "hologram" began to twitch a little before standing at attention, regaining the girl's attention as it walked over to the table it was next to. It gave out a loud gurgling noise before the yellow glow around it dissipated, the creature becoming much more solid looking before it grabbed the table and flipped it over violently, letting out an intimidating cry. The patrons were in a panic again as the creature then began to rampage around, throwing tables and even hitting away people.
"EHH, i-it became real, S-Sayaka-chan, what's happening!?" Madoka cried.
"I-I don't know, I didn't tell it to do that!" Sayaka asserted as she gripped the lock again and stood up pointing it at the creature. "Hey, stop rampaging!" She ordered, but was completely ignored. "Hey, I said stop, STOP, come on, listen to your master damn it!" She desperately tried to order it, but it was useless. "Grr, why isn't it working?!" She asked frustrated. She examined the lock to find something to help, and then noticed the hexagon shaped plug on the back of it, and then remembered the other device also had a shape similar to it. "Oh right, the cutting board thing!" She said as she picked it up and examined it. "Maybe I have to put it in here to fully control it or something!" She suggested before opening the lock and trying to place it into the device.
However, this seemed to get the monster's attention, as it stopped attacking a bystander and sniffed at the air, as if it picked up a scent.
"Oh come on, it's not staying on!" Sayaka complained as the lock refused to stay in the belt, and erroneous noise sounding every time she tried to put it in place. The monster turned to her and began to eye the lock, growling and slowly approaching.
"S-Sayaka-chan, the monster…!" Madoka said as she hid behind her friend and pointed at it. Sayaka looked up and saw that monster begin to charge at her.
"Ahh, no, stay away!" She cried as she pointed the lock at it in a desperate attempt to stop it, but it simply lunged at her, the two girls ducking under it as it crashed into their table. "Madoka, run!" Sayaka exclaimed before closing the lock and grabbing her friend's hand and running away.
They ran as far as their legs could carry them, ending up in a storage area inside the mall, trying to distance themselves from the audible cries of the monster.
"S-Sayaka-chan, I-I can't run anymore…" Madoka stated as she suddenly stopped and dropped to her knees, trying to catch her breath.
"We can't stop now Madoka, that thing's right behind us!" She reminded as she tried to help her friend to her feet.
"I-I'm sorry, I just can't…" Madoka lamented. "Forget about me… just go on ahead…"
"What are you saying Madoka, you're my best friend, I can't just leave you!" Sayaka stated before examining the devices again. "There has to be something, anything… what even are you cutting board thing!" She asked as she gripped it tightly and shook it, she turned it around and suddenly she noticed that it wasn't a flat board at all, in fact it was slightly curved, as if it was supposed to fit around something… like a waist.
"Wait, could this be…" Sayaka took the black device in her right hand, taking one last glance at its curvature and placed it on her waist, a bright yellow belt strap appearing and wrapping around her waist with a click, the blank plate on the left hand side of it flashing and an image of a figure wearing a blue helmet next to some musical Staff with notes on them appearing. "Ohh, so it really is a belt!" Sayaka said, happy she finally figured out what the device was.
Right at that moment, the monster turned the corner, eyeing the two girls menacingly and growling at them. Madoka cowered a bit but Sayaka seemed a bit more determined.
"Madoka, get somewhere safe." She said.
"Eh, but Sayaka-chan, what are you going to…" Madoka replied with great concern, but Sayaka just cracked a comforting smile.
"It's ok, whatever this thing does, I'm sure it'll help us, I'll… definitely protect you." She assured. Madoka still looked worried, but she had complete faith in Sayaka, so she just nodded and went to hide behind some boxes. Sayaka then turned her attention back to the monster; it seemed to be squaring up for a fight. Sayaka gripped the lock one last time before pointing it at the monster. "Alright, here goes nothing!" She exclaimed before opening the lock.
"Raspberry!" The lock exclaimed along with the opening sound effect. Right above Sayaka, a round zipper portal opened up and down from it came what seemed to be a metal raspberry, the sides made of three fused domes to represent the drupelets and the top having two green leaf-like slabs. Sayaka didn't notice it right away, but Madoka looked at it quizzically. The blunette then placed the lock into the belt and closed it.
"Lock On!" The belt exclaimed before standby music began playing, it sounded like a modernized Chinese tune.
"Oh, that's pretty catchy." Sayaka remarked.
"Um, Sayaka-chan…" Madoka tried to tell her about the Raspberry above her, but wasn't heard.
"Alright, place the fruit on the cutting board, and then… cut it open!" She stated as she pulled down the blade, slicing through the lock, opening it.
"Hai!" The belt exclaimed, the image on bottom lid of the lock glowing and expanding, revealing an illustration of what seemed to be a Raspberry themed sword.
"Sayaka-chan, above you!" Madoka warned as the Raspberry began falling.
Sayaka looked up just in time to see the Raspberry before it landed over her head, spilling out juice like energy that covered her body and turned her clothes into a light blue and black undersuit with gold rimming that looked vaguely like the suit of a Chinese soldier. On the gauntlets and loincloth were gold waving musical staffs with a few notes on them.
"Ehh, what, what is this, huh?" Sayaka said from inside the metal raspberry. Suddenly, she was cut off by a full faced mask and helmet appearing on her head before a second pinkish red helmet fell onto her, changing the color of her two visors from clear to red.
"Raspberry Arms: Ji, an, HA-HA-HA!" The belt exclaimed as the metal raspberry began to fold out and form a pinkish red chest plate, back plate, and pauldrons. Finally, two identical weapons, the Raspberry Jian, appeared in her hands, they were duel Jian swords with a guard made up of pinkish red cylinders to form a raspberry like hexagon. The blade was green and leaf like halfway up before becoming a more common silver color. Her helmet was also revealed to be the same pinkish red with two green "leaves" placed on top for aesthetics, and on either side was a golden fortissimo symbol, in line with her musical theme.
"Huh, whoa, whoa, WHOA!" Sayaka exclaimed as she admired her new attire. "No way, this is… Henshin Hero, right!?"
"Sayaka-chan…Henshined?" Madoka was shocked about as much as Sayaka was, but all it did for the monster was make it angrier.
It let out a loud roar as it leaped toward Sayaka, the armored girl noticing just in time to duck out of the way. She then dodged a few swipes from the creature before she finally remembered that she was armed and slashed at it with her right sword, sparks flying from where the blade met its chest. The force was enough to make the creature take a few steps back, giving Sayaka the opportunity to land two more slashes on the creature, sending it tumbling to the ground. Sayaka looked at the smoking swords in awe, blown away that she was actually fighting as a Henshin Hero.
"Alright, I can do this, bring it on you bastard!" She cried as she charged towards the monster once it was back on its feet.
Sayaka tried to slash at it again, but this time the monster stepped to the side to avoid it and then ducked under a second slash from the same sword, leaving Sayaka open for a front kick to the chest that put her on her back. The monster tried to leap onto her, but she quickly rolled away and stood back up, entering a defensive stance in preparation for the creature's next move. The two squared each other up for a moment before the monster lunged forward, Sayaka swinging her sword at it but it blocked it away and leaving her open for a strike to the face that made her stumble back, however, she regained her composure just in time to block a strike to her head with her swords and landed a kick to the creature's stomach, sending it back a few feet. The two then began trading blows, the monster managing to block most of Sayaka's slashes though it didn't have that much luck landing attacks of its own.
Eventually, Sayaka managed to block a double palm strike to her chest and thrusted both of her swords into the monster's gut causing it stagger, and just as it regained its composure, Sayaka advanced and landed two slashes with each blade before striking with them both at the same time in a powerful twin vertical slash, the monster falling to the ground and rolling a few feet away, struggling to get back up from the pain.
"Alright, time to finish it… wait, how do I do that?" Sayaka wondered, looking down at the belt for an extra switch or button or something to initiate the finishing move this form surely had. However, the only thing this belt had was the knife. "Maybe I push this down again?" She said as she used the pommel of her right sword to push the knife back down on the lock.
"Hai! Raspberry Squash!" The belt exclaimed as the guards of the Raspberry Jian began to glow with pinkish red orbs of energy and then flew off and collected into the blades of the weapons.
"Whoa, ok, TAKE THIS!" Sayaka cried as she charged the weakly standing monster before landing a powerful cross slash, the swords leaving behind musical staff after images. The creature's wounds glowed with the pinkish red energy before it took a few steps back and exploded in a brilliant blast of drupelet shaped energy. Sayaka couldn't help but breath heavily as she began to come down from the adrenaline rush she had experienced the whole battle. Once she finally caught her breath she slowly began to realize that the battle was over, and that she had won.
"I won… I… I did it, I WON!" She exclaimed, raising her twin blades in the air in celebration.
"Sayaka-chan!" Madoka called as she trotted up to her from her hiding spot.
"Did you see that Madoka, huh, did you?" Sayaka prodded almost playfully.
"Yeah, you were amazing, Sayaka-chan!" Madoka replied with a bright smile.
"I know right, he was pretty tough, but he was no match for my, um, Raspberry Jian!" Sayaka said as she brandished her weapons, recalling the driver announcing the type of blade they were during the transformation. Madoka couldn't help but giggle at how giddy Sayaka was over her transformation, however mention of the creature brought up an important question.
"…But, what was that monster, and more importantly, what is that form Sayaka-chan?" The pinkette inquired, bringing Sayaka out of her gushing daze.
"Hmm, I dunno." Sayaka replied casually.
"Eh, Sayaka-chan, aren't you being a little too lax about this, I mean, you transformed into a fruit hero, you just fought a really dangerous monster, shouldn't you be the one asking questions, like who even gave you that thing, and why?" Madoka seemed rather distressed, after all her best friend could've gotten killed, and she seemed totally unfazed.
"Mmm, well, I guess it would probably be smart to be wondering about those things, but…" Sayaka paused before closing the lock, cancelling the transformation, and removed the lock from the belt, gripping it in her hand and looking at it with a determined smile. "All I can think right now, is that I was able to protect you with this power." She said, surprising Madoka. "It's true I don't know who gave me this and what their intentions are, but you know what, I don't really care, I was able to protect you, that's reason enough to fully except this gift." She asserted with a bright smile, which Madoka couldn't help but return.
"Sayaka-chan…" She said warmly. As the two shared their friendly moment, they failed to notice someone watching from around the corner, the same girl from the roof, face just barely hidden by the shadows of the dimly lit room. She seemed satisfied with what she saw and turned to make her leave, revealing that she was carrying what seemed to be the carcass of a dead white furred animal in her left hand.
A/N: Well, there's the first chapter, I don't know what I suddenly got the urge to write this, I guess I was just getting back into Kamen Rider and I remembered that Gaim and Madoka Magica were both written by Gen Urobuchi and I haven't really seen any full scale crossover between the two on this site so I thought I'd try my hand at it. If I get far enough, the PMMM characters will definitely interact with the Gaim characters, but for now all I'm really doing is dropping Sengoku Drivers in the hands of the Puella Magi and seeing what happens, so yeah. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, the next one will probably be out soon, we'll see, so see you guys next time and don't forget to R&R please.