Welcome to the rewrite of the ever devolving shit fest that was Date A Dreamer! Now to be clear here, I'm skipping all flashbacks to the Tengu City Fire unless completely nessacery to the story. Also, I'm cutting Alfonso out of this version, completely. He was the sole reason the OG Date A Dreamer went to shit.

Also, a HUGE thank you to Tohka Yatogami, the author of the absolutely brilliant Date A Re:Live for helping me out with this chapter.

Thanks, again Tohka!

Now, onwards with the show!

Prologue

Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott.

He was a tall man wearing a jet-black suit with a white tie. He had smooth, long. dark-ash blonde whitish hair. His eyes were a sharp as if someone used a knife to cut a slit on his face.

He was many things, uncaring, cruel, sadistic, intelligent. He was also a sociopath that wanted the world to burn just for his amusement.

Right now, his plans had progressed to such a degree that he couldn't help but feel giddy.

He had captured the Spirit, Princess, and was about to start experiments to awaken the Demon King.

Not only that, but there was nearly every Spirit right outside the building fighting against his own Wizards. Hermit, Nightmare, Angel, The Children of Typhoon, the Berserk Twins, and the formally captured Material A, Sister. Hell, Diva was coming right to him if the Spirit signature detection was correct.

Everything was progressing so fast. After tonight, a good portion of his enemies would be crushed, and he'd have all these Spirits captured, then he would do everything in his power to Inverse them.

After all, some of his most powerful Wizards were out there combating the Spirits. Ellen and Jessica always brought him results.

Suddenly, the building shook as a large explosion went off in one of the lower floors.

"That shouldn't have happened," Isaac said as he brought up the live feed of the security cameras.

The smoke covering the some of the cameras cleared as he finally got a good look at what in the world just happened. Blood and body parts were everywhere, it was like a scene out of some kind of gorefest horror movie.

Out of the smoke came a blood covered, blue-haired teenager, sixteen or seventeen if Isaac had to guess. He looked really injured, a few gunshots and stab wounds littered his body, he had some kind of strange scythe in his hands.

Isaac narrowed his eyes at the teenager.

"Isn't he that kid that fought Ellen on that island?" he asked no one in particular.

Isaac saw the Spirit, Diva walk up to the teen, the two looked like they were bickering.

"Computer, unmute sound," he said.

The moment the words left his mouth, he could hear what the two were saying.

[What the hell were you thinking!?] Diva shouted.

The teenager sighed, [I was thinking 'Fuck the stairs, I'll make my own way up.', it's quicker.]

[Who knows how many more people you just killed with that stunt?]

The teen looked up at the hole in the ceiling and Isaac looked through the cameras on some of the higher floors. Whatever that kid did blast a hole through nearly the whole building, just three floors down from him.

[Eh, only sixty or so people got killed from that.] he said.

[Only sixty people!?] Diva repeated with an incredulous expression. [What is wrong with you?]

[Many things, but I believe I've stated my number fucks and willingness to give them.] the boy snarked.

Diva grit her teeth in anger. [How the hell do you even know where Tohka is anyway?]

Just as she finished her sentence, a group of Wizards rushed them. The boy was quick on the uptake and dealt with them swiftly, leaving only one alive. He shot out her kneecaps and forced her to tell him where they were holding Princess before shooting her in the head.

"Kid knows how to get results, I'll give that," Isaac said, mildly impressed.

He had to admit the kid seemed familiar. Where has he seen him before?

[There, that's how I know.] he said as he jumped through the hole in the ceiling.

[You didn't have to kill her!] Diva shouted.

[Probably,] he said. [But I don't have the time for mercy.]

[Oh, yeah, sure. You're a big loser, you know that?] she said with a condescending smirk. [Are you that obsessed with rescuing the tragic heroine? Look at all the bodies you left in your wake, you're not some kind of superhero, Shido. Now that you're confronted with the reality of the situation, that you're nothing more than a monster. Are you going to take back what you said about Tohka being more important than your own life? Tell me the truth, it won't make me more disgusted with you.]

[No, also, I'm a monster with class thank you very much.] he said as he straightened out his bloodied shirt and continued on his way.

[A monster with class?] she repeated, disgusted. [I got an idea, drop to whole anti-hero act and give up on saving Tohka?]

The boy, Shido if Isaac heard correctly, turned around and glared coldly at Diva. It looked as if the Spirit was greatly shocked by this, seen as she took a step back and looked a bit pale.

[Now, Miku, you're right about me being selfish. I'm a selfish person, I won't deny that. Now, at this moment, my only concern is making sure Tohka is safe, and if my methods are too brutal, too disgusting, too immoral, then so be it. I don't care, I'm selfish enough to do what it takes to get what I want, and what I want, is Tohka safe.] Shido jumped up to the next floor. [If that makes me a horrible person, so be it! Besides, not like you're any better.]

[And what's that supposed to mean!?]

[You call me disgusting for being selfish, yet you mind control the whole fucking city for your amusement, and your reason for being here is so you can add Tohka to your collection of Spirits. Not to mention that you're a total sore loser in the worst way possible.]

[Listen, plans change.] Diva tried to defend herself.

[Plans change!?] Shido gave her a disbelieving look. [You spent every interaction we had telling me what awful person I was because I was a selfish man, and when you lose, you decided to turn the whole damn city into your mind slaves! Aside from the body count, how is this any different?]

[L-Look, not everything is a black and white as you-]

Shido cut her off. [Because I had no idea that the archangel Gabriel was a biblical double meaning for Giant Fucking Hypocrite.]

Diva growled in rage, she looked as if she was ready to start beating him with her bare fist.

"Wow, this kid might make her Inverse if he keeps pissing her off so much." Isaac mused.

He pressed a button on the control panel. "Have firing squads stationed on floors sixteen and seventeen, bring the Spirit to me alive, the boy is expendable."

Isaac smirked. "I wonder how you'll handle this, boy."

[Team, fire at will!] yelled the firing squad as they gunned down Shido.

The bullets ripped through his body like tissue paper, a few of his limbs were sent flying during the storm of bullets. The of shock on Diva's face was priceless to Isaac.

"Ah, too bad, I was considering offering him a job if he managed to get through," Isaac said dismissively. "Oh, damn, she's already here. Well, time to introduce myself."

He walked into the room with the passed-out Spirit, Princess.

To Isaac's surprise, both Diva and Shido, who he saw gunned down walked up the stairs. Granted, Shido's clothes were riddled with holes, but unless you're Nightmare or Efreet, you do not survive getting turned into swiss chess.

"May I call you a friend of the Princess?" Isaac asked. "Seems like a safe assumption."

Shido smiled as if he was seeing an old friend.

"Isaac, my buddy, it's been so long!" the blue-haired teen exclaimed.

"Um, who are you exactly?" Isaac asked, a bit taken back by how familiar Shido seemed to be with him.

Shido gave an exaggerated sigh. "Isaac, don't tell me you're going senile already. Don't you remember me, it was only thirty years ago. You remember, don't? You kidnapped my sister and shot me through the heart."

"Thirty years ago?" Isaac repeated as he took a closer look at Shido.

Flashback

"Mio, run!" a teenager shouted.

"Shinji, you can't do this!" the First Spirit Shouted back.

"I can, and will, now you need to get out of here," he said as he turned to face Isaac and the small army he brought with him. "I'll handle this."

"...Shinji." The Spirit called out softly.

"Mio, please, run. If he gets you now, Mana and I will both die for nothing." The boy, Shinji pleaded.

Everyone there knew the last thing Mio wanted to do was leave Shinji to his fate, but to Isaac's surprise and frustration, she flew away.

"Don't let her get away!" Isaac shouted.

Two Wizards chased after Mio.

Bang! Bang!

Only to drop out of the skies like flies.

All eyes fell back to Shinji, two odd-looking flintlock pistols in his hands, smoke pouring out of the barrels.

"Christ, I really need to upgrade my firearms after this all said and done," Shinji said dismissively, his eyes turned to Isaac. "Westcott, you're going to have to get through me to get to her. You have better brought your A-game"

Then all hell broke loose that day.

Bullets whizzed in every direction, blood was splattered everywhere, limbs flew through the air, and so much screaming.

By the end of it all, Isaac had just one question.

How in the world did this all happen?

Those were the words that rang through Isaac's head as he looked at the scene around him. He had just kidnapped Mana Takamiya in order to use her as a bargaining chip to get his hands on Deus from her brother.

It was simple, the boy would come, hand over the Spirit, then the group of Wizards he had would gun down both him and his sister, killing the only two people outside of his group who had any idea of what she really was.

So then why was every single Wizard he was dead in a bloody heap on the ground? How was a seventeen-year-old able to bypass Territories made by CR-Units? But the biggest question he had was, how the hell was this boy still moving.

The teenager before in, practically dragging his broken body towards him was stabbed at shoot so many times that any lesser man would be writhing on the ground in agony, much less standing. He had his left leg broken, his cheeks cut blown out by a stray bullet, one of his arms were sliced off.

So, how can he still be alive right now?

Isaac took aim with his pistol and shoot the boy in the chest until the clip was empty.

As the boy fell to the ground at long last, his eyes stayed in contact with Isaac's. Even with his cheeks blown out, Isaac could practically make out the deranged grin on his face.

Isaac let out a sigh of relief, this was one of the most intense things he's had to deal with since he summoned Deus.

Isaac put a finger to the com in his ear.

"Ellen, pick me up, we've run into a setback," he said, looking over the bodies of the dead Wizards.

[On my way sir.] she said before the transmission ended.

"Wait, where did the boy's body go?" Isaac asked as he looked over all of the corpses, it was like the body just disappeared. "What the hell was he?"

Flashback End

Isaac's eyes widened as he looked at Shido's grinning face.

Isaac grinned like a madman. "Shinji Takamiya."

"Bingo!" Shido yelled.

On that night, two monsters reunited.

Prologue End