A/N: Hello and welcome to this little side project of mine! I'm taking a break from writing Voyager since I'm still waiting for the continuation of the mini cross-over event between my story and dfox300's Kamen Rider Kagura for me to actually continue with Voyager's main story. So in the meantime, I would like to work on this side project of mine.
The idea behind this project came after I watched the Heisei Generations FINAL movie. Now bear with me, I would probably drop some massive spoilers in this, but in reality, the synopsis had already scratched a little bit of what I'm trying to say here.Kamen Rider Build is the first Kamen Rider series since Decade to take place in a universe completely separate from the canon. While Kamen Riders Double-Ex-Aid shared the same universe, along with a few Riders on this site who I have asked to collaborate in my shared universe project (presumably with the Showa Riders as well), Build took place in a universe of its own, where Japan has been split into three by the Skywall Disaster. The main plot point of Heisei Generations FINAL is the merging of the main Kamen Rider universe (where my shared universe project and the main KR canon continuity takes place) with Build's universe, resulting in the destruction of both. That, and the fact that Build had travelled between these two universes before, got me thinking.
What if I write an alternate rewrite of Kamen Rider Build that takes place in the main canon universe?
Kaisei Mogami, the main villain of Heisei Generations FINAL, had a counterpart living in the main canon universe, so I was thinking of giving Sento, Ryuga, Misora, and everyone else in Build their own counterparts in the main canon universe. I'm also planning to write this as a crossover with an anime series that I've been following for a while, thus having them as the counterparts of Build's characters in the main canon universe. And that anime would be Love Live! Sunshine!. The reason? Simple – I simply fell in love with them. Their story, their personality, their characters, their songs, their determination, their tenacity, everything. That and the fact that Dia Kurosawa's voice actress has worked in tokusatsu before made me choose them to be a part of this project. And also because I was visiting Uchiura in Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture (where LLSS took place) when I got this idea for this story.
Bear in mind that for artistic purposes, the ages of the girls has been bumped up:
Third years: 22 years old
Second years: 21 years old
First years (except for Ruby): 20 years old
Ruby: 19 years old So without further ado, here we go!
Disclaimer: I don't own neither Kamen Rider or Love Live! Sunshine!. They're owned by their respective owners.
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Prologue: A Prefecture Divided
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They say the world is a small place. But in reality, it is also a huge one. We cannot now everything that's happening with the world right now and some news may slip through the cracks, with the world unaware that such events had occurred.
The first manned mission to Mars in early 2014 was a prime example. At that time the world was left shocked and in disbelief by the Global Freeze, an event occurring in the northern region of East Asia that saw a race of sentient robots going berserk and literally froze time in the area, using that to their advantage as they wreak havoc across Japan, China, the Korean Peninsula, and Russia. The world was so concentrated in that event; they were unaware that a mere 24 hours before the Global Freeze, the space shuttle Prometheus had landed on Mars.
In a joint-collaboration between space-faring organizations NASA, JAXA, and INSET (Institute of Space Engineering Technology), mankind has successfully performed a manned exploration mission to Mars, in hopes of terraforming the planet someday in the future. However, no one would expect what would happen after the mission...
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2014
Somewhere on Mars
A male figure wearing a white spacesuit wandered on the red, dusty surface of Mars. His features obscured by his helmet's tinted visor, the astronaut explored his alien surroundings for a good five minutes before he saw something that caught his eyes.
A large entrance to a cavern.
Following his curious instincts, the astronaut made his way towards the entrance. Stumbling his way into the cavern, the astronaut activated his built-in flashlight on his helmet and immediately to his amazement; he saw an array of strange-looking hieroglyphs engraved on the cavern's walls.
"Holy moly..." the astronaut gasped, before he quickly reached for his helmet's intercom, "Hello, Mission Control?"
The astronaut only received static as his reply.
"Mission Control, can you read me? Over."
Static.
"Mission Control? Are you there?"
More static.
"Explorer 01 to Mission Control, can you hear me?"
Even more static.
Sighing in dismay, the astronaut realized that something's must be jamming the communications within the cavern. With that in mind, the astronaut went deeper into the cavern, hoping that he could somehow find the source of the distraction.
However, what the astronaut found next astonished him even further.
In the heart of the cavern was a small pedestal of stone, with a black, cube-shaped stone resting on it. Slowly the astronaut approached the cube out of curiosity, his right hand touching the cube's rock surface. Suddenly a flash of light appeared from the cube, forcing the astronaut to shield his eyes. After the light died out, the cube-shaped stone was no more...it has been replaced by a black, metallic box.
Speechless, the astronaut slowly picked up the box and carried it away from the cavern with both hands, eager to show it off to his Mission Control and to the people of Earth.
However little did anyone know, the box's discovery was a sign of something catastrophic that's about to happen...
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Approximately one year after the box's discovery, the crew of Prometheus finally arrived back on Earth, specifically the Japanese archipelago. With Tokyo still recovering from the Global Freeze and the attempts of reenacting the incident, it was decided that due to security reasons and the box's sensitive nature, the newly discovered box would be unveiled at the city of Shizuoka, where the INSET headquarters was located. The box, dubbed Pandora Box by INSET due to its mysterious nature, was packed into a truck at JAXA's headquarters in Tokyo, before being brought to Shizuoka. NASA, JAXA, and INSET all believed that the box was a remnant of an advanced alien civilization that once lived on Mars and could hold the answer behind the age-old question - are we all alone in this universe?
However, the day of the historic press conference would not be remembered for the box itself, but for something much, much bigger...
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2015
INSET Headquarters, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture
A crowd of eager onlookers and journalists gathered in front of the INSET Headquarters building in downtown Shizuoka. There, the newly discovered Pandora Box was displayed triumphantly within the protection of a fiberglass casing on a nicely decorated table, with high-ranking officials from NASA, JAXA, and INSET standing behind it.
"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for taking your time off your day to attend this press conference," the INSET official opened the proceedings, "Today we are gathered here for a very historic moment in human history. For ages humanity has asked the question of whether we are or are not alone in this vast, vast universe."
"This very box in front of us may hold the answers to that question," continued the JAXA official, "It was discovered by a member of our joint exploration team on Mars one year ago. Preliminary research has suggested that this Pandora Box contained high levels of energy that was created and held within the confines of this box by technology that none of us has seen before. Will this energy solve the ongoing energy crisis that the world's facing right now? That's the main focus on our current research of the box."
As the NASA official spoke with the help of his interpreter, a man suddenly barged through the audience, clad in a janitor's uniform and with a cap covering his head and features. Immediately the INSET guards mobilized themselves, standing between the barging man and the Pandora Box.
"Halt, whoever you are!" one of the guards called out, however he soon found himself being shoved away by the barging man.
The man's strength was unnatural, as he managed to shove away several guards off him with little effort, despite the man's somewhat average-looking figure. As the officials of the three organizations as well as everyone in attendance looked on in shock, the man easily punched through the fiberglass protecting the Pandora Box before laying his right hand on the box's surface.
A bright flash of red light suddenly appeared from the box, before the box fired off three beams of red energy. The beams of energy penetrated the ground before seconds later the entire area began to shake. Everyone in attendance were still unable to comprehend what's happening when suddenly gigantic gray walls bursts out of the ground, a haunting reddish aura surrounding them. Coming out from where the red beams from the Pandora Box had hit the ground, the walls destroyed buildings and threw people up into the sky and down to their deaths as it made their way through Shizuoka City and into the villages, towns, and cities surrounding it.
Within five minutes, the walls had reached the borders surrounding Shizuoka Prefecture. There, the walls converged together and created a perimeter wall that literally cuts Shizuoka Prefecture out of the rest of Japan, while the walls that had reached the waters of Suruga Bay simply went underwater and continued the perimeter wall good 20 kilometers away from the shoreline. Shizuoka Prefecture itself was split into three thanks to the walls, with countless lives lost and countless properties destroyed all over the prefecture as the result of the walls' creation.
And that, was the day the Skywall Disaster shocked not only Shizuoka Prefecture, but also Japan and the world.
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Five years later
2020
Numazu Institute of Advanced Matter Physics, Numazu City, East Shizuoka Prefecture
"...and that's how the Skywall Disaster happened five years ago, Matsuura-san," said a gruff-looking 30-year old man with slick and short black hair that has been combed to the back and a thick goatee on his face. This was Kensei Himuro, the head of the Numazu Institute of Advanced Matter Physics and also aide to the governor of East Shizuoka, "Ever since that day, our beloved prefecture has been permanently isolated and fractured, being split into three. This is East Shizuoka, with Numazu as the capital, while the other regions are North Shizuoka with Shizuoka City as the capital and South Shizuoka with Iwata as the capital. The Japanese government has been doing their best to break through the walls isolating our prefecture, but to no avail. Their available technology is unable to place a single dent to the Skywall. Besides...I doubt the leaders of the other prefectures would want Shizuoka to be one again..."
Kanan Matsuura, the 22-year old purple-haired journalist in front of Kensei, lets out a nod as she took notes of what the aide had told her, before proceeding to ask him, "And why's that, Himuro-san?"
"Please, just call me Kensei," Kensei smiled, "Basically, during the Skywall's emergence, the Pandora Box emitted a mysterious radiation that showered everyone in the audience, the leaders of all the villages, towns, and cities in Shizuoka Prefecture included. This radiation increased the aggression of everyone exposed to it permanently, making cooperation between the divided prefectures almost impossible."
Kensei then led Kanan to window that overlooked a large, heavily guarded chamber within the Institute building. The chamber housed the Pandora Box, protected by a transparent, airtight container. Heavily armed guards stood by the box 24/7, while a number of CCTV cameras were seen observing the chamber.
"The other two prefectures are the least of our problems. The other nations of the world are also circling like vultures above our head, ready to strike and take away the Box from us when the moment's right," Kensei said, stroking his goatee a few times as he spoke, "The only party that we're willing to give the Box to is the Japanese government, but they still need a lot of information regarding the Box from us. Which is why we're safeguarding it here. We're currently trying our best in researching the Box's contents and nature and relaying the data to the Japanese government, with hopes that someday the Japanese government would find a way to break through the wall and end the isolation."
"I see," Kanan nodded, dotting down a few more notes before continuing, "By the way, on another note, what are your thoughts of the mysterious masked hero that has been sighted around East Shizuoka throughout the past year and a half? Recently we've been seeing a number of mysterious creatures attacking our citizens, only for this masked hero to show up and save the day. Many speculate that this...Kamen Rider...is the only one capable of handling these creatures. What do you say about this, Kensei-san? Are you going to deploy more of your Guardian robots in order to handle this threat? Is this Kamen Rider a friend of East Shizuoka? Or instead a foe trying to gain our trust only to strike when we least suspect?"
Kensei laughed, wrapping his arm around Kanan much to her slight discomfort, "Ah, an interesting set of questions indeed. Let's talk about your Kamen Rider privately, just between you and me. I can book us a room at a hotel nearby, you know, just for...our conversation."
The two then headed towards the Institute building's exit, only for Kanan to suddenly stop in her tracks, prompting Kensei to stop as well. The two looked at each other awkwardly for a few seconds, before Kanan, without warning, slapped Kensei in the cheek before storming off the Institute building, leaving behind a bewildered Kensei and an equally dumbfounded crowd of the Institute's visitors that had saw the entire event with their own eyes.
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Later that night...
Numazu Port
"What a fucking creep, that aide," Kanan muttered as she walked alongside Numazu Port, "Can't believe I'm actually willing to sign up for this story..."
After that awkward ending to the interview that she had with Kensei, Kanan decided that she should go back home to take some rest. Taking out her phone with the soothing marine breeze and the calm splashing noises of the Suruga Bay waters accompanying her every step, Kanan decided to give her editor a call.
"Hello, this is Matsuura-san. I would like to talk about my assignment with Aide Himuro. Apparently, the aide had asked me to go to a hotel with him for some privacy time...but I felt uncomfortable so I left. What do you mean go back to the hotel? Damn it, he wanted to have a one-night stand with me! How do you expect me to stick around much longer?!"
Sighing in frustration as she hung up her phone, Kanan leaned herself against the iron fence overlooking Suruga Bay, her purple eyes gazing at the calm chilly waters crashing against the shores as well as the clear night skies above the bay, the stars twinkling ever so beautifully on it.
Truth to be told, Kanan missed the ocean. Throughout most of her life, she was raised by it, with her family running a diving shop at Awashima Island, a small offshore island located within the Uchiura neighborhood of the city. Kanan's father and grandfather used to taught her how to swim and dive, as well as appreciating the ocean, and she was set up to continue the family business. Being a journalist that she is right now was not on Kanan's plans initially…
…that is, until the Skywall Disaster happened.
The Skywall's presence caused the number of customers visiting the diving shop owned by Kanan's family to plummet dramatically, forcing them to shut it down. Kanan and her parents moved inland to downtown Numazu in order to make ends meet, with Kanan discovering a passion for writing in the process. Kanan's grandfather, however, decided to stay behind in Awashima Island, living out his days as a fisherman there. It seems like Kanan and her family would adjust to the new lifestyle forced to them quite easily.
However, one year after the Skywall's sudden appearance, another tragedy struck Kanan and her family, when Kanan's parents died mysteriously and suddenly.
This forced Kanan to once again move back to Awashima Island to live with her grandfather, however she commuted frequently downtown to both attend school and her journalism internship. Honing her skills as a journalist, Kanan hoped that the income coming from the occupation would be enough to sustain both herself and her grandfather, with the whole ordeal that she had to experience turning her into the independent young woman that she is today.
And last year, Kanan finally got her big break, earning a job with a stable income at the city's local newspaper. This allowed Kanan to rent an apartment in downtown Numazu for the sake of convenience, although once in a month Kanan would visit her grandfather at Awashima Island.
After she had finished admiring the ocean in front of her, Kanan decided to continue her walk home, when suddenly she bumped into a figure standing in front of her.
"Ah! Sorry!" Kanan spoke out spontaneously, however her eyes went wide upon seeing the figure in front of her.
It was a tall humanoid figure, with a predominantly white torso and sleek, black metallic legs with white boots. Blue accents adorn the figure's torso, with an assortment of white and blue needles sticking out from the figure's shoulders and forearms as well as the back of the figure's head. The figure's face resembled a sickening mix of a hedgehog's and a gas mask, with a pair of sullen, triangular black eyes staring straight at Kanan's purple ones.
Immediately Kanan clenched her fists, knowing all too well that the figure in front of her was one of the mysterious creatures attacking the people of East Shizuoka of late.
"A Smash..." Kanan muttered.
Immediately Kanan's journalistic instincts kicked into overdrive. Grabbing her phone, Kanan attempted to take a picture of the so-called Smash, only for the creature to quickly smack the phone away from Kanan's hands. Annoyed by what the Smash had done to her phone, Kanan decided to swing a punch at the Smash's face much to the creature's shock. Having practically grown up doing rigorous physical activities and being raised to be brave in handling any situation, it was no surprise that Kanan had decided to courageously confront the Smash head-on instead of running like everyone else that encountered such similar creatures.
Clearly surprised that its target was resisting more than it expected, the Smash tried to retaliate with punches of its own, however Kanan easily dodged them and punched the Smash twice, with an uppercut to the chin and a jab to the creature's chest, before finishing up with a couple of kicks landing straight on the Smash's stomach. However, try as Kanan might, the Smash proved to be a stronger adversary and the young woman was quickly headbutted to the ground with a surprise attack.
Groaning in pain from both the headbutt to her chest and her fall that made her bum sore, Kanan could only watch as a white blade extended itself from the Smash's right hand, the sharp blade glistening underneath the moonlight. Closing her eyes, Kanan prepared herself for the worse...
"Trying to attack a woman, I see? Man, you Smashes are getting more and more low by each day."
A red fist suddenly appeared out of nowhere and punched the Smash in the face, causing the creature to stumble back in pain. Realizing that the killing blow meant for her did not come at all, Kanan slowly opened her eyes before she lets out an amazed gasp upon seeing her savior standing proudly in front of her.
Kanan's hero was an armored warrior, colored red and blue in an asymmetrical manner. The right side of the warrior's helmet was blue with a translucent tank sticking out from where the eye was supposed to be, while the left side of the warrior's helmet was red with a translucent rabbit's head extending out from where the eye was supposed to be. However the warrior's right arm was red in color, while the left arm was blue. Adding more to the asymmetry, the warrior's right leg was blue in color with what seems to be tiny tank treads beneath the warrior's right boot. The warrior's left leg was red in color, with what seems to be a metallic right spring installed on the left shin. Last but not least, on the warrior's waist was a strange, black device with a pair of yellow straps that secured the device on the warrior's body, with a crank on the right hand side of the device. Next to the crank was a translucent silver circle; while next to the circle were two slots, each of them having a translucent bottle inserted to it, one red in color and themed after a rabbit and one blue and themed after a tank.
"A Needle Smash I see," the warrior said with a female voice, her fists cracking and brimming with confidence, "Bring it on!"
(Cue BGM: Be the One – PANDORA feat. Beverly)
The Needle Smash lets out a screech, seemingly accepting the warrior's challenge. With Kanan watching on in awe from the sidelines, the two quickly exchanged punches, with the red and blue warrior clearly proving herself as the more superior one. Before long the Needle Smash was sent reeling by a quick jab to the creature's face, which clearly enraged the creature.
Retracting its hand blade, the Needle Smash unleashed a barrage of needles from its back, which the warrior deflected away easily with her bare hands until one somehow embedded itself into her left elbow. A feeling of numbness soon started to set in, forcing the warrior to quickly pull out the needle from her elbow.
"Neurotoxin..." the warrior muttered, realizing that the needle had just injected her with a small dose of said venom that caused her left elbow to go numb slightly, "One might not be enough to slow me down…but I'll be a goner if I let myself get hit too much!"
Seeing that its opponent was distracted, the Needle Smash fired its needle barrage once again, this time heading straight towards Kanan!
"Shit!" the warrior cursed, knowing all too well that Kanan's unprotected self would meant certain death to her should those needles hit their target.
Quickly the warrior took out another translucent bottle, this time cyan in color and themed after a diamond. Twisting the bottle's lid, the warrior quickly took out the tank-themed bottle from her waist device and inserted the diamond-themed bottle into the vacant slot.
RABBIT! DIAMOND! ARE YOU READY?
"Build Up!" the warrior yelled as she quickly spun the crank on her device.
Suddenly the warrior's blue half was replaced with cyan; a large diamond now resting on the warrior's left shoulder while a translucent jagged diamond was seen on the warrior's right eye. Wasting no time, the red and cyan warrior jumped in front of Kanan, conjuring a shield of diamonds with her left hand that stopped the venomous needles on its track. Before the Needle Smash could fire more of the deadly needles, the warrior gently pushed her shield at the Needle Smash, sending the needles back to their owner. The Needle Smash immediately collapsed on its back, squirming in pain as it felt the full effect of its own venom.
"Now, the winning formula have been decided," the warrior said, taking out her tank-themed bottle and replacing her diamond-themed bottle with it.
RABBIT! TANK! BEST MATCH! ARE YOU READY?
"Build Up!"
HAGANE NO MOONSAULT! RABBITTANK! YEAAAAHHH!
Reverting back to her red and blue form, the warrior conjured a yellow sword in front of her, the sword's glistening silver blade resembling that of a drill's. The sword's hilt and handle were black in color, with a red and white pressure gauge embedded on the hilt. Present next to the gauge was a small slot, big enough for a bottle on the warrior's waist device to fit into.
As the Needle Smash groggily stood up, the warrior quickly took out the rabbit-themed bottle from her waist device and inserted it into the slot on her sword.
READY, GO!
The warrior gripped her sword tightly as its drill-like blade spun violently; red energy began to swirl into the sword's blade. A small tornado began to make itself known on the warrior's sword as she prepared herself for her final attack.
VORTEX BREAK! YEAAAY!
The Needle Smash, having recovered from the effects of its own venom, extended its right hand blade once again in a vain attempt to attack the warrior. Instead, the Needle Smash received a devastating energized slash from the warrior's sword that sends it flying a few meters away, landing on the ground with a loud thud with green flames bursting out from random parts of its body.
(BGM ends)
Setting aside her sword, the warrior dusted off her palms, clearly pleased with her good work. Taking out an empty translucent bottle, the warrior opened the bottle's lid and placed the open bottle near the downed Needle Smash, sucking in the Smash's entire physical form in a flash of green light. What remained of the Needle Smash was a middle-aged man lying in the Smash's place, clad in white from head to toe. Despite being unconscious and subjected to quite a beat down, the man was pretty much unharmed.
"Nice," the warrior commented as she saw the bottle in her hand, which now has a spider web-like design engraved on it, "This should be a great addition to the collection."
The warrior then saw Kanan standing behind her, unharmed and in complete awe. Sighing in relief at Kanan:s safety, the warrior lets out a gentle smile underneath her helmet.
"You okay?" the warrior asked.
Kanan nodded, "T-thank you...Kamen Rider. I cannot believe that I'm actually seeing you in person..."
The warrior chuckled, "Stay safe, okay? Things can be quite dangerous at night."
And with that the warrior vanished into the darkness of the night, leaving behind a still very much awestruck Kanan, who quickly took a few snaps of the warrior with her phone before she disappeared completely.
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And thus, this starts the story of an amnesiac young woman's quest to not only unite Shizuoka Prefecture together once again, but also uncover a dark conspiracy involving the governments of the three prefectures, as well as finding out the truth about herself and her past. But she won't be alone. A disgraced heiress, the woman's adoptive sister, a journalist, and even a dissident of a prefectural army with a case of delusional grandeur and a talented pianist turned biological weapon will join the woman in her cause...but will this ragtag bunch of misfits succeed, or die trying?
It's time...to Build Up to the Sunshine!
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A/N: And that's it! The prologue to this little side project of mine. I hope you guys like it! Feel free to leave your reviews but please, no flames! Also feel free to inform me whether one or more of the LLSS characters are OOC. I'm trying my best to retain their original personalities while at the same time establishing themselves as counterparts for Sento and co. Plus, from the prologue, you would probably guess who's going to be Sento's counterpart as Build, Ryuga's counterpart, Misora's counterpart and so on, since it's pretty obvious that Kanan's going to be Sawa's counterpart in this story. As usual, don't forget to follow and favorite this story!
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