#idk the ideal scenario would be to just have the two Raids up at all times but I doubt Capcom

[helladventurers]

hmm looking at their health, it looks like kulve taroth has HP comparable to alatreon 🤔 I think what I'll do is kill kulve first since her raid is up, and then after I've killed her in the raid and in her solo quest, I'll take on the Black Dragon boyfriends

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

Won't time travel darkling just go ahead and adopt alina as a child? Then raise her with his morals (or lack of).

I mean I hate that for a variety of obvious reasons! But also how and why is he getting time travel powers?

Anyway if he gets a free do over, with full knowledge of the canon timeline, I could see two scenarios tbh. First one is the plan as it was always meant to be, she gets taken to the little palace early on and is raised there with all the other Grisha children. I don’t think he’d raise her like… as an adopted child?

Like first of all he’s incredibly busy and incredibly arrogant. I think he’d just foist her off to whatever regular system they have, thinking that it would be adequate. I mean all the Grisha seem to pretty much come of age completely loyal to him, and he probably wouldn’t have lost most of them in canon if not for The War Crimes and Alina existing as another prominent Grisha to flock to. I think he’d think that her being raised with other Grisha for long enough for that to be part of her identity and to form a sense of community, and the sense of gratitude towards him as the person who made this all possible and who facilitated her being rescued from her lonely peasant childhood to this luxury and security would be a good enough strategy?

Also… I mean he wants to hook up with her real bad, so I think he’d want to avoid positioning himself as a familial figure lmao. Granted, he almost definitely wants to fuck his own mom. But uh. I think he’d be wary of ruining his chances with Alina that way, and he’s probably intimately familiar with inevitable rebellion against parental figures. So that’s another thing to be avoided! So… yeah, I think she’d just regularly grow up in the Little Palace, and probably be doted on as the favorite the way we see with Zoya.

Anyway the second, more spiteful, scenario for a do over would be to just ignore her tbh. Make sure her powers aren’t discovered in such a public way, and then just sit back and do nothing for a couple decades to a hundred years. (I don’t usually interpret Alina as immortal without the amplifiers, but canon isn’t explicit about that. So let’s say she is immortal in this case.)

She’s so dedicated to her own obscurity, he could be confident that she’d try to fight tooth and nail to remain anonymous and avoid being conscripted into the Second Army, or anything that might separate her from Mal. I could see Malina running away together really easily, and then scraping by trying to remain anonymous. If the Darkling had the patience to genuinely play the long game, I think he would reasonably be able to manufacture a situation where she is living out something resembling his own formative years. Allowing him to then sweep in after some time and graciously be like “It doesn’t have to be like this! Eye am also immortal and there’s a way better option!” and she’s eternally grateful to him or whatever.

In reality, I think Alina would probably be thriving for the first few decades at least and it would make him really mad lmao. But outliving Mal/anyone she grows to love will probably take a huge toll on her and eventually push her towards the Darkling’s intended outcome of being so lonely that she’s grateful to him. Idk if he’s feeling particularly devious he could manufacture a druskelle raid or whatever that gets Mal killed while protecting her, which would ideally both give her a sense of righteous anger and dedication to the Grisha/Ravkan cause against other countries, but also conveniently bring the first of Morozova’s amplifiers into play.

It all just hinges on whether he can rein in the insanity long enough to convince her to his side… which he’s not been great at historically! She’s also had way longer to form her own identity and has much more experience under her belt, so it’s really a scenario where he loses again but way worse ☺️

[ojirominaj]

Hey Sage! Can I get some first kiss scenario lets say ,makki, atsuma, kuroo and anyone else you wanna add!

Love your work 💕

—FIRST KISSES WITH HAIKYUU BOYS

featuring: hanamaki takahiro, miya atsumu, kuroo tetsuro, tsukishima kei

content warnings: timeskip!characters just to be safe. i guess you could count this as suggestive? idk sksksksk. swearing too!! not proofread.

KUROO TETSURO

“kuroo.” you looked towards your boyfriend as you sat on the opposite side of his bed. he looked up from his laptop with a smile on his face. “um..i’m just gonna go ahead and say it. can you be my first kiss?” you blurted out. your blunt manor came in handy today because on the inside you were. what for? you didn’t know. this was your boyfriend, why were you so antsy. kuroo chuckled and closed his laptop and took his glasses off of his face, placing them on his nightstand. “yeah, c’mere.” he signaled you to sit in front of him with a ‘come hither’ motion. “relax kitten, i’m not gonna hurt you.” he smirked before leaning closer to where you could feel his breath on your face. your eyes were closed because you were too anxious to look him in the eyes. his lips connected to yours and the kiss was sweet. no ulterior motive behind it. you wanted the kiss to deepen but you didn’t want to go too far your first time so you pulled away the same time kuroo did. you pursed your lips together trying to hide the smile that wanted to appear on your face. “how was that?” he moved away from you with a blush adorning his cheeks. “it was good.” you nodded. “can we do it again?” you both asked simultaneously, before busting out in laughter.

HANAMAKI TAKAHIRO

you and makki were doing your weekly store runs where you’d get up around 2 am and raid the convenience store of their snacks. college was hard for the both of you and you found your comfort in these routines where you’d watch movies and crash on the couch until noon the next day. “y/n don’t forget to grab my blueberry pocky.” you grabbed it from the bottom shelf and tossed it to him. he shot you a smile that had a cage of butterflies rumbling in your stomach. you don’t know what had come over you all of a sudden but these late night store runs caused a tension between you two. you two soon paid for the stuff, leaving the store walking back towards the bus stop. just as you were about to cross the street, rain poured hard onto the both of you. this week had been so shit and this was just the icing on the cake you needed. “bro are you fucking serious?!” you groaned while running, makki following behind you with the loudest laughter. once you had reached the bus shelter, you huffed as you tried to catch your breathe. “hm, come closer we can huddle together like penguins.” makki joked and you giggled before smiling with a shiver. you inched closer to him until he pulled you into his chest and he rested he face into your neck. “um makki?” you called out to him and he peeked his head out to look into your eyes. you leaned forward giving him a small peck on the lips, getting ready to pull away but he pulled you back for a longer one. the kiss was an amazing and left you breathless. “that was..wow.” he breathed out. “that was my first kiss.” you smiled and he smiled back. “it was mine too.”

MIYA ATSUMU

“you make me so sick.” you rolled your eyes at atsumu while sitting a few desks away from him. atsumu miya always managed to get on your nerves in the best way. you two never went a day without bickering, throwing snarky comments back and forth towards each other each hour that passed. your professors had gotten exhausted, seeing that you two also had each class together. so they had come up with a plan for you two: detention. so now here you were, 1 hour later, sitting in the same room with the boy you hated the most. “wouldn’t say this is the ideal way i want to be spending my day sweetheart.” he threw that shit eating smirk your way and you wanted to wipe it off of his face so badly. “oh go to hell miya. bad ass dye job.” you muttered the last part before quietly giggling to yourself. “what’s so funny, huh?” his face dropped and your laughs got even louder. “you’re fucking insufferable miya.” all he could do was scoff before breathing out a dry chuckle. “i know you’re using these insults to hide the fact that you want to kiss me so fucking bad but ya don’t have to make it so obvious, angel.” now it was your turn for your face to drop. confusion plastered against your face. “shut it miya.” you turned to face the other side of the classroom but atsumu soon appeared in front of you, sitting on your desk. “you didn’t deny it.” he cocked his head, looking dead into your eyes. “so what if i did?” he crashed his lips into yours and you moved yours in sync with his. you pulled back away, your heart beating fast out of your chest. “that was my first..kiss.” atsumu couldn’t contain the smile he had on his face. “rookie.” “oh shut the fuck up miya.”

TSUKISHIMA KEI

“here take a look at this one.” you pointed out to tsukishima as you two walked hand in hand through the art museum. “it’s really pretty. the colors mixed with the contrast makes this painting enigmatic.” you smiled up at him as he rambled on and on about the paintings. you had come up to his job as he was about to get off because you two had met at this same exact museum, and he had promised to take you on an official date here. he was meant to close so it was just the two of you, alone. it was just as you liked it. the peace and quiet as you two walked the halls full of different pieces. pieces that spoke to you in different ways. you two came across one where it felt as if you were listening to it being painted. it was impressionistic and the colors on the canvas seemed to mesh so perfectly. “we call that one autumn’s glory.” kei spoke, he must’ve seen how it caught your eye, the glimmer in them told it all. “it’s enticing. like i would love to have this in my place.” he smiled at you. “okay shakespeare.” he joked and you playfully nudged at his arm. you two walked around for another half hour before he drove you home. “thank you for this date tsukishima. i really enjoyed it.” you said genuinely as he walked you to his door. he leaned in closer towards you and your breath hitched. “kei, this is my first kiss.” you confessed because you became nervous all of a sudden. “i’m sorry. i can go-” you pulled him closer before giving him a small peck on his lips. “goodnight kei.” you gave him a small smile before you walked into your apartment, closing the door.

author’s note: hi nonnie!! i hope this is good enough for you and what you wanted lol. thank you so much <33

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[taraknowless]

if they ever become a thing again, I might have to set myself on fire - Interesting. If you don't mind: is there any scenario, keeping with canon up to 3x6, that you could imagine for Rio/Beth happening in a satisfying way? I'm not trying to be "gotcha." I'm genuinely curious because I've thought about it and don't really have an answer for myself.

I honestly love that your initial reaction to me setting myself on fire is „Interesting“. You gave me a good laugh here so thanks for that!

Oh boy - what a question. I’m gonna give you two scenarios - how I would’ve done it after 2.13 and if any of that could still happen now. Also, please keep in my mind that this only applies to the long term plan of getting Beth and Rio back together. If the writers wanna keep them apart, as „enemies“, then perfect - proceed as usual, but what I’m mostly scared about is that they’re randomly gonna hook up in idk three episodes even though we got zero build up for that and something like that really, really wouldn’t work for me at all. It would not only be character assassination for Rio (she shot him, god dammit!!!), I don’t even think it would work particularly well for Beth either.

I thought about how to save these two after 2x13 long and hard and here’s how I would do it involving somewhat canon things we know now. We definitely need a better reason why these two have to work together - what we have right now is paper thin, at least if you factor in what we know about Rio’s business and how he operates. For a long time, I thought the perfect reason for them to work together would involve their kids, but I honestly couldn’t come up with anything that would work longer than one or two episodes. I mean, what can you really do in such a short period of time? The kids get kidnapped? Ok cool, but it shouldn’t take like eight episodes to get them back.So what I came up with instead is that Rio does in fact need her to print money, but make his motivations clearer and better. I would’ve introduced his bosses very early on and establish that he’s indeed in a lot of debt and that if he isn’t able to deliver, Rhea and Marcus are on the line. Raise the stakes. I would also establish that all his other operations - if they were ever his to begin with - have dried up or that there was a big FBI raid and all of his contacts got busted. Create a narrative where the viewer immediately understands that he really, desperately needs her. I think something like that would be enough material for a few episodes. Beth and Rio would have to work together again - she doesn’t wanna die and he needs the money - and I guess that would be a good start to develop their relationship again. Another big thing I would change - and I guess that really is my biggest problem with the current narrative right now - is that Beth needs to be actively sorry. We’re six episodes in and I’m not convinced that she actually feels bad about what she did. I think there’s a big difference between feeling guilt about taking a father away from his son and actually regretting that she shot Rio, the person. The shooting is this big elephant in the room and it’s just not really being addressed right now even though it needs to if these two are supposed to move forward. @riosnecktattoo wrote a wonderful one shot where Beth and Rio are forced to have a conversation about what happened and how they’re feeling and I really need a scene like that before there can ever be something romantic/sexual again between them.So that’s basically the dynamic I would go for this season - raise the stakes regarding why they have to work together and actively show that Beth is sorry. But since 2x13 was such a big thing - such a massive betrayal - Beth needs to do something major for Rio so that we get a foundation where they can start trusting each other again. I know that many people like the theory that Beth jumps in front of a gun to protect him from a bullet, but I am honestly not that into it. I don’t want it to be this spur of the moment decision, but an active one. I guess my ideal arc here would be that she takes the fall for him in the season finale. Let’s say the FBI is on their backs again (because it seems quite funny that they’re just gone now). They both pulled a job that didn’t go that well so now Rio is on the verge of getting arrested. Let Beth take the fall for him. Let the final scene of the season show Beth in handcuffs, getting arrested and then the bars close on here in prison. That not only would be a big thing she does for Rio, but she would finally accept this life and her role in it. She would finally hold herself accountable and become the Boss Bitch we all want her to be. I think this would also be a great way to then reintroduce Rio’s lawyer in S4, because obviously Rio would try to bail her out.

Now the big question - could any of that still happen after 3.06? I am not sure. I feel like the show is going in a very different direction from what I just mentioned, but I guess it could still happen in some shape or form. I mean, we know we have yet to meet Rio’s bosses and that he does in fact have „his own debts to pay“ so I can definitely a see a bigger storyline there. But besides that, the show would need to do some immediate course correction, especially regarding Beth’s attitude. Seriously, why is she acting so damn ballsy? Why does she have a death wish?Other than that, a deep and honest conversation could do a lot of damage control. But the writers have a history of not letting these two talk so I don’t know. I’m on the verge here - what do I want to happen vs what can I actually see happening? Because Beth and Rio opening up about their feelings and talking about 2x13 more than in a throwaway line is something we will never ever get from these writers. One thing I could see happening - if the writers even want Brio back together and that’s still a big if in my opinion - is that Beth does something major for him and that’s how they build their relationship/trust again.

All of this being said, I’m not sure if the writers actually want them back together. I think it’s safe to say that nothing is gonna happen up til episode 10 (considering what Manny said in an interview), but I guess they could still throw in a random hook up in episode 11 or 12 - if we even get to see those. Personally, I hope they take their time and build it up properly - or they just keep them away from each other. 2x13 destroyed so much and they unfortunately cannot take that back or make it less bad.

[stuffandsundry]

Arc 1: The Beat Riders

Premise

Most of the early episodes don't need to change all that much, compared to later--

Ah. Shit. I forgot to address my beef with Kaito. ok gimme a sec uhh. Ok. Okokok so here we go. I'm not gonna do this for all the characters because mostly, character introductions are fffffairly okay. Some are better than others but like, they're all at least workable… except. HIM. Kaito, the most out of all the gaim characters, makes zero sense so im gonna throw EVERYTHING out and try to extrapolate something based off of backstory given from Gaiden and canon and a little bit of real riders. Hope it makes sense. So, recap of backstory: Kaito's family used to be decently middle class and he played near the shrine tree, until Yggdrasil came in and bought them out. Kaito's dad didn't really know what to do after losing his purpose in life and turns to drinking/gambling, and they rapidly lose whatever money they had gotten from the corporation, dad becomes abusive, parents kill themselves and Kaito is left at an orphanage and grows up bitter and vaguely traumatized. Gets into a lot of fights at school, is a history nerd, etc. Cool, that's workable. Extrapolation from that for this scenario (oh yeah also, I did say girl now, it's Keiko now)

Keiko rreally hates Yggdrasil. If they had never moved in, maybe her family could have stayed together.

She's always looking for something to challenge her- she saw her family "give up" early on, and she doesn't want to end up like them. Struggle as proof that she's alive? No sympathy for people who've given up fighting, in her eyes.

Related to Point 2. Believes in a fair fight. There's no use in beating down someone clearly weaker than you, and anyone who does that is a coward and a bully. And if you need to lie to someone to beat them, then that doesn’t count as an actual victory. Wants to be acknowledged as the best by her own power.

A lot of pride. Doesn't like accepting help or depending on others/seeming weak. Talks big but also has a lot of like. Self-worth issues, thinks that people have to be "worth" something to be allowed to live, which comes from being abandoned by family so young.

Listen I know that this is a Very Standard anime rival lone wolf archetype but it didn't get to be a standard because it /Didn't/ Work, also I got really attached to Keiko halfway through typing this just let me have this please, I rarely if ever see it applied to girls,

Actually, the soccer episode also gave me the idea that Keiko would be the type of person that just. Rolls with things, no matter how vaguely ludicrous they are. Re: canon soccer episode. What are you gonna do when you get punched in the gut, sending you to an alternate dimension where the city wasn't destroyed and everyone uses the power of the drivers to play soccer? Clearly, become the best damn armored soccer player ever. That's such a funny trait I'm keeping it. It would be such a good source of deadpan comedy. Example: in high school Keiko was a delinquent who got into fights, how did she end up captain of a dance team? Nobody knows. (Most likely: somebody tried to insult her by saying that she couldn't dance for shit and she decided that the best way to rise to this challenge was to… take over a dance team and make them teach her.) Simultaneously zero chill and weirdly chill. Chill about all the wrong things.

Okay, back to plot. Only minor changes for the first 14 episodes, which I'm collecting into an arc--

Instead of Micchy becoming Ryugen, I wanna say that Micchy shows the rest of the Beat Riders the driver he got from Sid ahead of time and Mai sees her chance and asks him to give it to her. Because on one hand, Mai's grateful that Kouta's staying behind because Yuuya's gone missing and Mai isn't sure that she can handle being the final word of authority in Gaim, but on the other, Mai's kinda annoyed that Kouta stayed behind because it's like he doesn't trust her to be able to protect the team. Just because she's doubting herself doesn't mean that he should! She wants to stand on equal level with Kouta, so the driver. Micchy does give Mai the driver, because he cares a lot about Mai.  However, subconsciously or not, he was looking forwards to being the one of the people that the team relied on, so a seed of resentment is also planted here. This colors his decisions in favor of keeping things secret from the rest of the team moving forwards as well.

Within the team, Mai and Micchy more-or-less switch roles, except that Micchy is also finding out a lot of Yggdrasil's-- and his sister's-- secrets in the meantime, so he's still extremely relevant. This way, there's a character arc set up for both Mai and Micchy-- Mai needs to learn that Gaim will follow her (like they did when Yuuya was around) not for her fighting ability or anything, but because she cared about people and wanted to make them happy. Mai realizes that she didn't need to change in order to become a strong leader, because she was already a strong leader and she just needed to trust in herself. On the other hand, Micchy's going to eventually realize that staying quiet about things that upset him is actively working to make his life worse because his friends and family aren't mind readers and they can't tell if they did something to upset him if he doesn't verbalize it. And if his friends and family really, truly care about him, then they'd be upset at THEMSELVES about hurting him, not at him. His secretive martyrdom is a ticking time bomb for everyone.

Ah yeah, one plot change I have to mention here: Keiko doesn't want the other teams to be her vassals because what's the fucking point, Team Baron is the best anyways. (That entire thing was a little. Hm. Idk how much sense it made, man. And it only lasted like two episodes so there was no point to it except to show that Kaito was an asshole even???) So in this 'verse, the reason that she gives Hase and Jo more powerful lockseeds in the first place is because. Gaim is the only real challenger to Baron, which means that theres only one person that she can fight meaningfully and that’s boring as shit. Raid Wild and Invitto still want to fight, they're just lacking the means. The only real surprise is that they come after her with drivers, which she didn't know they had. She has mixed feelings about the sneak attack. On one hand, maybe Hase and Jo are stronger than she thought they were! On the other, those motherfucking SNAKES,

Oh wow I just realized that having Keiko instead of Kaito makes that scene where Mai goes into the forest alone and Baron finds her… really gay. Mai bandaging Keiko's arm and they talk about their childhoods together… Mai remembers that Keiko would always watch her dance and Keiko tells her she was too shy to go up and say hi… Mai's deal wanting to protect those that she holds dear and all that jazz, while Keiko's a cynical SOB. ( By the by, Kouta's not super concerned with Mai being in there until he remembers ah. Mai doesn't have a Lock Vehicle so she can't get out, and the white armored rider is in there, which is when he rushes in like a fool. Except he's on his own while Mai is with Keiko, so it ends up being Kouta who has to get rescued, etc, etc. a lot of early stuff goes this way tbh. Small changes, but overall plot stays same so im not gonna outline it all.)

Takako's thing is a lot more. Okay. Bear with me here. I feel she'd def be far more defensive than Takatora was, because she's got a lot more to prove, and she's pretty isolated-- again, handing out the drivers wasn't her idea, and she's not getting the respect someone else might get at her job level, it's really stressful but Takako's kept going because the people around her-- Ryumi and the other scientists-- say that this is all going to work. Enter Akira. (YEAH. YOU HEARD ME. KAZURABA AKIRA DESERVES A BIGGER ROLE FUCK YALL)

Akira works for Yggdrasil-- she used to be part of a subsidiary, but her last project just got wrapped up, and she was reassigned to Takako's division as junior project manag-- what the fuck. Oh my god?? Is THIS what Yggdrasil's doing? WAIT THAT'S HER LITTLE BROTHER, SHE RECOGNIZES THAT SUIT. If you have Akira and Takako working together I feel that a lot more is viable here, you could compare and contrast Akira's ideals and Takako's. You can def. challenge Takako's ideology that a little risk and loss now is worth the gains that studying Helheim will grant in the future. Akira can act as audience substitute, basically. She's here to yell "SUPERVISOR KURESHIMA, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, WHAT THE HELL" as takako eventually realizes that… possibly… maybe Akira has a point. She's spent so long chasing the company's bottom line she forgot things like, you know, empathy. The problem is, does she realize this too slowly to do any good? Also, what does Ryumi think about Takako's convictions wavering?

So while we're getting introduced to the main players of the Yggdrasil corporation through Akira, the Beat Rider side asks the questions: Who made these drivers, and why give them out to us? And whats with the strange forest? Which eventually leads us into the Christmas game, and the Yggdrasil base camp incident. Kouta learns considerably less than he did (seriously, how did those scientists not get suspicious) but he does learn: this forest is called Helheim, the scientists here work for yggdrasil, and that the Sengoku is the scientist in charge of this project. And then they realize that kouta isn't a yggdrasil employee and raise the alarm except oh no, that’s the moment that the inves attack and suddenly they have more to worry about. Again, minor changes. Kouta sees his sister at the Yggdrasil base but doesn't get the chance to talk to her, everything else can basically go as it did… incluuuding Hase.

Okay. Hase.

Here's how this works. His driver gets broken, okay, fine. Jo doesn't abandon him right away. Even if he's kind of an aggressive musclehead, they've still been working together for a while. But she's not enough to fight alone, and Hase can see that it's really only a matter of time before Jo's goodwill runs out. So he eats the fruit! And does not turn into a monster right away. Instead, it gives him the power that he was looking for this entire time-- he is able to fight on even level as the rest of the armored riders, even though his belt is broken, and it looks like everything is okay. With this, some of the other Beat Riders are considering eating the fruit too. Why's everyone so worried anyways? Besides, they look delicious… however, Micchy points out that Yggdrasil handles the fruits with the utmost caution, and that just because there are no visible harmful effects doesn't mean that they aren't dangerous, etc.

Kouta and Akira also sit down to have a talk about the driver over dinner one night-- they've both been kind of keeping secrets from each other. Akira tries to convince Kouta to stop using the driver because she knows that it's dangerous but isn't sure if Kouta knows that (remember, last time she saw Kouta using the driver in person was Episode 2 shenanigans) -> Kouta shows his sister that yeah, he knows that this isn't a joke, but he wants to help people like she raised him to do. Right now, they need the drivers to fight. Akira relents because he's right, but promises him that after the immediate crisis is over, they're going to have to have another talk about this. Kouta plans to bring his sister to the Gaim garage so that she can brief everyone on everything she's overheard in her the short time she's been working as Takako's assistant, but that'll have to wait until the weekend when she's free. Meanwhile, important stuff is going on in the rest of the city. Show that the beat riders have been losing their audience because of a sudden string of disappearances in Zawame (caused by ppl eating the fruits), and the police are encouraging most people to stay home. Not a lot of people are willing to go outside anymore-- they're scared, and rightfully so. Inves attacks are growing more frequent.

This is pretty frustrating for most of the Beat Riders, especially because people are telling them to break it up and just go home too. More and more Inves are showing up, too… And then some official or something shows up one day and says that until ZPD solves the mystery of the disappearances, the stages are going to be closed. And this is when Hase snaps. See, Hase has been using the belt for a while, so he's built up some immunity to the Helheim fruit's effects. (He doesn't lose it immediately like Yuuya did) But it's still not enough. He'd been acting erratically. More aggressive, recently. And today's the last straw. Hase gets into an argument with the official, it starts getting ugly, Jo steps in between them and…. Hase transforms into an Inves. People are taking pictures of it and everything-- even though the Beat Riders Hotline shuts down the live camera feed quickly, its not fast enough. And Hase goes after Jo. Kouta and Mai run over to pull him off of her and he runs off and everyones going???????

Hase holes up in a warehouse somewhere and mostly transforms back except for hand and he's terrified, he doesn't know what's going on. Jo finds him first and yells at him HEY WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT, DUDE which, while totally understandable, does nothing for Hase's stress levels. He transforms into an Inves and runs out onto the street, where the others, still searching for Hase, stumble onto him. They end up fighting near Charmant and Oren comes out to see what the fuss was all about, he ends up joining the fight. Hase's lashing out in fear and pain but also he's putting civilians at risk, so the Beat Riders are forced to fight him even though they're well-aware that they can't just like, do a murder. Meanwhile, Keiko gets cornered in Helheim by Youko and Takako, and she is captured. Takako leaves halfway into the battle because she gets word that they've tracked down a Beat Rider that became an Inves and she has to take care of it ASAP. Kouta, Mai, and Jo are still fighting Hase (and also Oren, who doesn't really know what's going on and is trying to kill the inves) without actually trying to fight Hase when Takako shows up. She tells them that that Inves is no longer human and tries to put an arrow right through him, with intent to kill. When the smoke clears…

Jo falls to her knees, because she protected Hase. In the shocked silence afterwards, Jo tells Hase to run. She doesn't know whats going on! And maybe Hase can be kind of a jerk sometimes, and really annoying, he's still her friend, and she doesn't want to see him die. Hase regains some degree of control over his transformation and he backs away, runs off. Takako tries to go after him but is blocked by Kouta, who tells them to get Jo out of there and he'll handle the white armored rider. Spoiler alert: he can't handle the white armored rider, but he bought enough time for the rest of them to get out. Kouta is taken in by Yggdrasil.

I think this is a good place to stop for now, so I'll do more later. Okay, see you around!