Facing the Piranha Spawn, Akai slowly reach out to his Holy Blade but stops when he hears something approaching from the corridor, it is Historia. His footsteps echoed as the Spawn turns back.
"I can feel it... You have what I need." Historia slowly walks closer.
The Spawn pounced with its claw out, Historia simply swing his arm which send the monster out to the window, breaking it. He follow it outside and started to beat it up, he was dominating it, the monster cannot retaliate.
Akai looked out to the window then back to Sayuri. "Sayuri, evacuate with the others, I'll stay here to investigate."
From the corner arrives Yui. "Akai! Was a Spawn really entered the school?"
"Yes, but stay on hold for now, we shouldn't engage in any fight involving Historia yet." He explained. "For now, we need to find out how that thing get here so keep your Holy Blade ready."
Akai's phone starts to ring, he picks it up, it was Haruto. "What is happening!? I can hear some commotion from your school!"
"A Spawn was able to enter our school, I need your help to investigate it—"
"A-Asagao-San!" A familiar voice can be heard from a distance.
"Shotaro?"
"T-There's..." Shotaro is trying to catch his breathe. "I... I saw more spawn emerging from the ocean...!"
"What do you mean there are more!?" Akai exclaimed.
"The Yamato Industry are holding them off but I don't think they will last." Shotaro explained. "I haven't seen either of the Yamato Kamen Riders yet, so things could escalate quickly."
"I see. Haruto, Shotaro, I will give you permission to transform and help them, I will send another signal if Historia decided to head there as well." Akai hanged up and started walking toward the stairs. "Yui, for now, take Sayuri away from here, if things are getting worse call me immediately."
Akai left, Sayuri wants to say something but she can't, Yui holds her hand and they left the area together. As this is happening, Historia has the Spawn under his feet, he's stepping on the monster's glowing crystal chest. It is struggling, clawing it's way to retaliate.
"Are you sure that it has a fragment?"
"I am sure of it," Historia pulls out a card with an empty frame and shoves it between the eyes of the monster. "This Qrio had fought my previous incarnation, thus, it has my memory."
Historia pulls the card out but now it has the image of the Historia Driver, he inserted it to his belt and it gets absorbed by it. Inside his mind flashes different memories, combat, families, losses— all sort of memories flood his mind.
"How was it...? How many memory had you regained?"
"Not a lot... It's not the one that has a Key Memory." Historia pulls out his Quaking Atlas card and transforms into it. "I swear, I sensed something."
"What do you mean?"
*†‡["Gachanko! Gotcha & Go! Rainbow Liner-1!"]‡†*
Historia summons his motorcycle and rode it. "It's not the only Qrio that is currently here. I need to find the actual Qrio that holds my memory."
Using the back wheel, he grinds the head of the Spawn before jumping over the school fences, on his way to the shore to kill more Spawns. Seeing that Historia left, Akai sent a signal to Shotaro and Haruto to retreat immediately.
At the shores of the city, both Haruto and Shotaro are fighting off more monsters, the entire area is infested by Spawns of varying sizes. Shotaro's suit resembles that of a typical archer, an asymmetric coat with the right side being longer, long gloves with pauldrons on the right shoulder and armour on the left hip and long boots. His helmet bears a resemblance to a bow with an arrow with protrusion on his temples that resemble elf ears, he wears a cloak that seems to make his body somewhat blend in the background.
"Haruto, Shotaro, leave immediately! Historia most likely arrive there!"
Haruto smashes two spawns' head together. "We want to but the situation is very tough right now." He swinged his sword at a group of Spawn that was about to charge him.
"What?"
"The Piranha Spawn you talked about, there's a lot of them!" Shotaro stabbed a Piranha Spawn with one of his arrows and jump back as he shoot three other spawns.
"We would want to retreat but we can't just leave the area, there are still civilians the Yamato Riders hasn't reached."
Akai shoved the Emblem back to his pocket and calls Yui with his phone. "Yui, sneak out of the school if you have a chance, we need help at the coastal area." He hangs up and headed out.
Everyone is inside the gymnasium. Yui turns to Sayuri and tap her shoulder. "Sayuri-Nee, I will need to go, just stay here." Yui went ahead to sneak out.
"Wait, Yui!" She grabbed Yui's wrist. "I..." Her voice is trembling, she's staring at Yui's eyes.
"I understand." Yui smiled.
After a few minutes, Historia arrived at the coast and ram on every Spawn he in his path, it is a complete slaughter. The two sees this and they quickly hid behind a corner. Historia doesn't seem to notice them as he continue to run over Spawns in his way, they remain quite.
"Dayspring, I think it's safe for us to transform back." Nightfall whispered. "Let's leave while—"
A projectile of some sort blasted through the wall they used for hiding, the attack missed both but it did reveal their location.
"I know you are hiding there, little knights!" Historia's voice echoed as the cannon on his back aimed towards the two again.
The two quietly moved to a different direction, another attack was done again but this time from above. The two were able to dodge just in time, they keep on the move, stalling until they have time to escape. The place is getting swarmed by Spawns, Historia is clearly getting annoyed by this and blasted them all away with a single attack.
"This seems bad, we really need to leave!" Nightfall said.
Another shot was taken, it didn't hit but it's close. Historia keeps shooting rapidly until all three of them hears something. It was a roar of a Spawn, Historia looked back and saw a Red Piranha Spawn with a belt buckle. It pulled the handle of it and out came a metal rod.
"You're the one who has it...!" Historia's voice becomes more clear and menacing.
The monster attacks, swing his weapon but Historia simply catches it. However, this monster is different, it went to bite his arm. It has such a strong grip that Historia is having some trouble getting rid of it. He kicked the monster and it finally let go. As this is happening, Akai finally arrived, fully suited. He went to check on the two.
"Situation seems to be neutral for us." Daybreak peeked from the corner to see how the fight is going. "This is generous, let's move—"
A severed arm was thrown at their direction, it was of the monster Historia is fighting. Looking at the situation, Historia is certainly getting roughed up by the Spawn as there are a bit of scratches on his armour. It keep scratching and biting and not letting go, soon enough, more Spawn appear and begins dogpiling him.
"Let's go." Said Akai.
More spawn are being thrown at them by Historia who had transformed into his Thorny Almanac form. The Piranha Spawn with a belt is being choked by Historia, he snapped its neck and a card slides out of the monster's head. It disintegrates and got absorbed inside his belt.
As the three was about to leave, they all felt a sensation throughout their body. It was like a shock of electricity, a command to go back.
"A-Akai...?" Nightfall looked back.
Despite wearing a helmet, once can sense dread on Daybreak's face. They can hear hard stomps from behind, Historia is getting closer. Daybreak unsheathes his sword and turn back.
"We're gonna need to fight...!"
"What? Why?!?" Nightfall readied his weapon.
"Osa— Daybreak... Is he really...?"
"Yes... And now I'm sure of it... The Calamity."
The dust cloud subside and Historia is just standing there, menacingly. He is back to his base form but something is different; his mannerism seems to radiate total domination despite not moving. He pulled out two cards and inserts one of them on the slot on the top of his belt and the other from below. He transformed into his Quaking Atlas form and immediately pounces at them. He jumped up and prepared a dive kick.
"Here it comes!" Daybreak raised his shield, it glows red and another layer of ethereal shield covered it.
Dayspring starts shooting at Historia with radiant arrows, he is hitting his shots but the force of the incoming kick is minimizing the damage. Nightfall does an upward swing at the trajectory of the attack in an attempt to counter. Historia's eyes glows as he then grab his belt from the grip... And rotates it 180°. In that instant, Historia switched from Quaking Atlas to Thorny Almanac.
"What!?" Caught off guard by this, Daybreak unintentionally lowered his shield a bit. "Shit!"
Historia curved into a ball and crashes down on Daybreak. Nightfall gets in between and blocks it with his sword, he was able to redirect the impact but it does pushed them away. As they are about to stand up, Historia already lunges at them already change again. Dayspring shoots an arrow that splits into multiple arrow with a line of light connecting them like a net. Historia was caught by it and was pinned on the ground, however, he simply switches back to Thorny Almanac and breaks free.
Nightfall came for an uppercut which did stagger Historia a bit, he followed it with a downward slash directly to his head. Historia caught it but before he could do anything, Daybreak charges with his shield and bash him on the head. This causes Historia to flinch and losses grip making Nightfall's sword hit him on the shoulder. He switch once more to manoeuvre over the sword standing on it, he kicked Daybreak but it was blocked by his shield. Three arrow consecutively hit Historia from behind, Nightfall then tosses him with his sword. He was however able to land perfectly.
"Troublesome." Historia slides a card over his belt.
*†‡[Elec-Strong Beam]‡†*
The cannon on Historia's left shoulder moved to aim at Dayspring, the other protrusion on his shoulder planted itself on the ground to act as a support. Electrical charge burst from the nozzle of the cannon and fire off a powerful surge of electricity, Daybreak stepped in with his shield raise casting four layers of barrier spell. The beam breaks all four but with each hit, the attack gets weaker thus Daybreak easily shrug off the attack.
Nightfall came charging, his sword is being dragged on the concrete and making an upward slash. Historia tried to switch but the attack already went through, he suffered a huge laceration on his chest and breaks off a portion of the chest piece. Nightfall was panting from using most of his stamina on that one attack.
"Impressive. However, I can't let you get away with that." Historia switched form once again to Thorny Almanac, he scanned two more cards afterwards.
*†‡["Gachanko! Gacha & Go! Rainbow Liner-1!"]‡†*
*†‡["Master Over —
Before his second card fully scanned, a ball of flame hits him from the side and knocked him to his knees. Looking to the trajectory of the attack was Sunrise together with a pink individual; Pink Midnight. She has a hat reminiscence of that of witches, long flowing coat with a simple suit underneath, thigh high boots with a black body suit, a small cloak and a staff with the symbol of a crescent moon. Her visor is a crescent moon that goes past the brim of her hat.
"Sorry! It took us a bit to figure out how she can cast magic!" Sunrise carried Midnight and joined them.
"It's alright, all that matters is that you came."
"Aka—"
"Daybreak."
"Sorry... Daybreak... You've been helping me a lot since we first met, I should've at least try repay you—" Daybreak places his finger over her mouthpiece.
"No need to feel bad, I totally understand why you don't want to." Daybreak turn back to facing Historia. "All that matters right now is that you put up your courage to fight."
Historia reverts to his base form with the Quaking Atlas and Thorny Almanac card in hand. He looks at it as with images on the card fade. "Damn it... I can't believe I was pushed on the edge by that..."
"It's better for you to surrender now, we have you outnumbered." Daybreak said as he sneak in a whisper to Dayspring. He nodded in response.
"Surrender? Don't make me laugh, I will not lose that easily." He stand straight up with his hands on his hips. "I will admit, I should not be underestimating you but eliminating you is my job, anomalies must be taken out."
Dayspring is moving the members to a specific place as they are talking to one another. The order goes: Sunrise, Dayspring, Daybreak, Nightfall and Midnight. He then whispered something to them which confuses them, but Dayspring is determined about what he told them.
"I guess I have no choice." Daybreak put his shield on his back and planted his sword on the ground. "The Knights of Asvanheimr has finally gathered to pass down judgement, let the evil burn brightly to rid this world of darkness."
Wind starts to blow which sends chill to Historia. He wants to stop them but he is also intrigued to what might happen.
"Knights of Asvanheimr— this world is thine to protect, let thy presence bring hope, have thy foes tremble of thy name." He raised his sword, holding it in reverse. "Today, is our time... Shine bright and gracefully... Seikishi Sentai, Knight Ranger!"
Daybreak stabs the ground with his sword as a bright light flashes behind them, each one of them strikes a remarkable pose, doing a hand sign, pull the string of the bow on a low stance, pointing their staff up front while standing straight, sword over the back while slouching, and standing triumphantly with his hand on the pommel of his sword.
Although a bit janky for Historia to see this, he can feel a strong surge of energy emitted by each one of them. Under his mask, he's smiling but one of worry rather than mockery. Everything is about to get interesting for him.
<=/|‡Episode Ten, End‡|\=>