Alright. We’re finally going to finish this... thing. I don’t know what to call it. Soapbox, crossover, fanfic, it shifts between those three. So anyways, they’re traveling to Cross World City and Davey is mindmelding his memories with Serena. Will this finale tie everything up and close off the series? Considering how this is a bad fanfiction, I highly doubt it.
As a certain magical girl once said...
And we start off with Davey saying that Serena can sleep through the Hiroshima Bombing. Considering how I just got past the Davinator Incident, the Hiroshima joke is the least offensive joke I read. And no one called out Davey for the joke. Not even Darien, who is usually set to “douche” mode in this fic. So yeah, Serena’s still in Mobius... Did Davey put her in a Lotus-Eater Machine? If he could do that, why can’t he do it on himself if he loves Mobius so much? Anyways, they wake Serena up by questionable means as they arrive to Cross World City. After they hammer the “he’s my brother” thing and cat fight, they come across Katlin, one of the VR Troopers, who tells them to stop arguing. Other than that, there’s nothing important to note. It’s back to its comedy that it had in a first few chapters, so that’s saying something. Oh, and it’s Dojo, not Dogo. They bicker and bicker. At this point, it’s more of the same. Davey and Darien bicker on who gets to love Serena even though Davey is still her brother... Wasn’t this supposed to be played platonically?
Oh good. Zitkor’s here after so much foreshadowing. Good.
Zitkor: I wonder what she (Beryl) was smoking when that Meatball Headed Ditz and her squabbling friends kicked her ass.
Heh, I chuckled...
So Zitkor decides to set up a Let's You and Him Fight moment by sending some gossip but first he sends down some mooks to see how tough the scouts are.
Oh good. Davey and Darien are arrested for their constant fighting. This would actually be interesting, if it weren’t for the fact that they go the Chandler route and make the cops bad guys. Yeah, the cops go Skug the moment Artemis says they’re not cops. Why shed the identity? Wouldn’t it make more sense to keep going with the masquerade you set up? Why reveal yourselves when someone says you’re not a cop? If there were a guy wearing a wire to a mafia meeting, he wouldn’t reveal that he has a wire the moment someone asks if he does.
So they try to fight the Skugs, thinking they will go down like the putties, but it turns out that they are stronger than the putties. That’s actually interesting to hear. The scouts decide to morph... HERE WE GO!
So they morph, and Darien whines on how he doesn’t have a Transformation Phrase. Uh, what about Tuxedo Power? It’s not hard to come up with one on the spot. Oh wait, Darien’s the Butt-Monkey. I forgot. The Troopers decide to sit in the background and watch the fight unfold. And... wait...
Katlin: I heard that those bitches killed Rocky, the best friend I've ever had!! I'm gonna kill them!!
What?
Davey: Did I just step into someone else's FanFict here?
... Oh fuck no... Is this referencing to Sailor Moon Vs. Saban? It is, isn’t it? It is... Fuck! Sailor Moon Vs. Saban makes all the bad moments in American Kitsune look decent! Okay, in the infamous Sailor Moon Vs. Saban series, the Sailor Scouts killed the Power Rangers in cold blood, only to turn out that they were fakes sent by Lord Zedd. The only problem is that only the audience knows that and not Katlin, so she’s a bit pissed. Okay, fair enough. It does derail her character faster than all the other badly done Sailor Moon fanfics, though.
The Scouts never have heard of a Rocky, or even fighting him. Okay, that’s interesting, so that’s the gossip Zitkor was planning. So they begin to fight the Skugs and BLOW UP A CITY BLOCK? SINCE WHEN DID THIS BECOME KAMEN RIDER KUUGA? Oh, and despite the entire block blowing up, apparently the “dogo” is still intact, as are the VR Troopers. Jeb, the talking dog, enters and talks a bit on what happened. Luna and Artemis leave, because it’s a dog, and we actually have the Conflict Ball moment. Again, I don’t think Katlin was this much of a bitch, but then again, I never watched VR Troopers. Ryan seems to be more in character (again, I don’t know the show, but I’m following my instinct) as he tries to ask one of the scouts out on a date. Katlin, going Alpha Bitch mode, calls him out for asking the girls out. Tuxedo Mask then does another non-dick move and tells them that they are not the enemy, with Davey saying that someone must be spreading lies.
Ryan: Well, I think they're cute, but work first, sex life later.
Katlin: What was that we had last night then?!
Ryan: Let's not talk about it now...
... Yes, let’s. So they fight. And during the fight, it turns out that Katlin is Actually a Doombot. Okay, logical. I Knew It!. So after the Katlinbot blows up, Davey mentions some more racism and how he’s no racist. Actually, he’s pretty right. If anything, he’s a victim of racism. The author, on the other hand... but In-Universe, he’s a victim. JD says he feels sorry for him (doesn’t everyone?) and Darien tells him not to be. He them mentions the fact that he’s trying to get him off Serena and and it ends with the Darien and JD laughing.
KAMEN RIDE: DIEND!
Wait... WHAT? THAT’S IT? WHAT A RIP-OFF! Well, at least it ended with a whimper and not a full-blown rant.
Now to say what I think of it. It starts off very well done. We’re introduced to Davey who’s an anti-hero, and I liked that bit. Despite him being a Mary Sue, he actually feels developed. In a nutshell, he’s a Defrosting Ice King. Much of the humour is well written; even if I don’t laugh, I know I should. Even some of his poor tasting jokes are sometimes funny. The other original characters like Edward and Old Man Coyote are also fun to read and I liked them too. The first six chapters are good, with some flaws in the middle, but not enough for me to consider them crap. It feels very 90’s and I like it like that, as it feels nostalgic for me. It was a well-written crossover and I didn’t really see what was so bad about it...
...Until I got to chapter 7. Chapter 6 was a taste of what’s to happen: the author was going to turn this story into a soapbox to vent all his frustrations. There were moments that made me feel very uncomfortable, because it was nothing but him ranting and made me consider stopping the story. Sure, I read this for the Bile Fascination, but when I got past the six chapters, they weren’t that bad, and I actually got interested in the story and wanted to read more. If I wanted to read a rant, I would have googled for a rant. The characters, while some are portrayed well; some are either derailed or made butt monkeys. Because it ends with no conclusion, there are loose ends all around, especially the Molly/Nephrite subplot and the disappearing rangers. It really makes me sad because it was just returning to the kind of quality from chapters 1 through 6 after diving into the abyss with stupid plots like the Davinator Incident which I thought I could get past that. But hey, you take the good and the bad. And yes, Davey becomes a more obnoxious Mary Sue, going all “LOVE ME BECAUSE I HAD A CRAPPY LIFE!”, not to mention that whole “We’re going to play the Davey-Serena relationship platonically. Not.” thing.
It’s a good crossover, but several issues bog it down. Personally, I recommend reading just parts 1 through 6 alone, or read the whole bloody thing in a MST. Well, this is Psyga315. May the power protect you.
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