History Fanfic / HorseshoesAndHandGrenades

* UnexpectedCharacter: In chapter 6, anyone wanna guess who's the owner of the cosplay shop of the end? [[spoiler:[[Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger Luna Iwashimazu!]]]]

** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10023805/1/Blue-Eyed-Boy Blue Eyed Boy]]'' takes place after the events of Month of Sundays, focusing on Jun and Quetzie after meeting with an unexpected visitor.

* CallForward: Yayoi's pal on the forums goes by the name of [=KRSwan=]. In the 2nd Intermission [[spoiler: we meet up with Kit and Maya looking up a website regarding the War of the Stars]].

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** In ''A Month of Sundays'', the Cosmic Hunting Dogs encounter [[Series/KamenRiderOOO most of the OOO cast]] (and one [[Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger Yumeria Moegi]], and Part 1.25 focuses on characters in [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Zaname City]] (and one Luna Iwashimizu), with unexpected appearances to [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger the Kyoryugers]].

* AnyoneCanDie: Gentaro dying and resurrecting was the start. [[spoiler: When Shun Daimonji and Misa Torizaki gets killed ten chapters later, all bets are off]].

** ''Imagine Dragons'', based on the titular band. Chapters are titled after their songs.

** ''The Birthday Massacre'' is named after the titular band, with songs from their albums.

** ''Summertime Sadness'' is named after the Lana Del Ray song, and Erin's chapter is named after the Enya song "Orinoco Flow"

* ShoutOut: Midnight (Luna) sends a photo to Souji dressed up as [[Anime/Yugioh5DS Carly Nagisa]], and the Kyoryugers prepare a cosplay for Souji to wear one based off Jack Atlas. WordOfGod puts it that this was in dedicate to [=MasterDramon=] and his fanfic, "My Dark King".

* FirstPersonPerspective

* FirstPersonPerspective: This time with Haruto, which goes through his thought process as he interacts with Yayoi. Interesting to note is that his perspective is in the present tense, while Yayoi uses past tense.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each chapter is named "Black [something]" relating to the character or the situation at hand.

* UnexpectedCharacter: Outside the Akibarangers, there have been no Super Sentai representitives. Hence, who appears but [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryugers the Kyoryugers]]?

** In ''A Month of Sundays'', the Cosmic Hunting Dogs encounter [[Series/KamenRiderOOO most of the OOO cast]] (and one [[Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger Yumeria Moegi]], and Part 1.25 focuses on characters in [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Zaname City]] (and one Luna Iwashimizu).

** ''Horseshoes and Hand Grenades'', ''A Month of Sundays'', ''[=SplitxEnd=]'', and ''Quick to the Trigger'' have titles based on the last word or syllable based off the previous chapter. ''[=SplitxEnd=]'' has its chapter titles be named "Split"

* FunWithAcronyms: Take the first letters of chapters in groups of four and they each spell words. So far, there are: "Stir"[[note]]if you read it from bottom to top[[/note]], "Fame" and "Loss".

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each chapter is called "Split".

* TitledAfterTheSong: Named after the band Music/ImagineDragons and each chapter has been named after one of their songs minus the prologue which is named after the "Night Visions" album.

* TitledAfterTheSong: The title is named after the song from ''[[WesternAnimation/CorpseBride Corpse Bride]]''

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every chapter is called Melody, to fit with the TitledAfterTheSong theme.

* TitledAfterTheSong: Each chapter is named after a song from the band Music/TheBirthdayMassacre.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: It follows Horseshoe's naming of chapters.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each chapter is called "Summer".

* TitledAfterTheSong: The title of the fanfic is based on the song by Lana Del Rey. Erin's chapter has "Orinoco Flow" by Enya.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each chapter title is called "Bite" and the titles are named after idioms.

** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10430376/1/Confessions-on-a-Dance-Floor Confessons on a Dance Floor]]'' is a first person perspective of Cherry Picking starting at chapter 7 of ''Cherry Picking'', dealing with Luna Iwashimizu's backstory and her investigations in Zaname City.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The chapter titles are based on either the last syllable/word of the previous chapter before it.

* FirstPersonPerspective: This time with Luna Iwashimizu.
* HowWeGotHere: The first scene reveals Luna at arrow point by both Kamen Riders Sid and Malika, as she watches a man and a girl talking (the girl trying to get the man to remember that he's her father), and something about people fighting against Invase. The scene ends as she considers how she got involved.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each chapter title is called "Dance".
* TitledAfterTheSong: The story and its chapters will be named after the Music/{{Madonna}} album "Confessions on a Dance Floor"

* MeaningfulName: Cherry Picking is an idiom that means "to choose the best for a specific task". This relates to [[spoiler: Professor Ryoma brainwashing Kota, Kaito, Ryoji and Hideyasu and using them for his own nefarious schemes.]]

* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Luna asks this to [[spoiler: Kota and Hideyasu in the changing room as she just explained in Chapter 6 that she had to barricade Kota at the beginning because Kota would just the time to make out with Hideyasu as he got dressed.]]

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* BerserkButton: Several.
** Hayami hates it when one calls him weak, (or in the case of Ophiuchus, calling him a "Master of One".).
** [[spoiler: Brainwashed!Kengo hates it when anyone mentions his father, the same with Emoto.]]
** Gentaro is angry when anyone reminds him of his friendship and his human life.
** Yukina gets pissed over any mention of a girl related to Gentaro. Likewise, Yuki doesn't like it for anyone who belittles Gentaro's stance on friendship.

* ForWantOfANail: The story's plot comes from Kengo not reviving Gentaro with the Cosmic Switch, but rather has Ophiuchus do it instead.
** Moreover, this story comes to fruition due to Ryusei's DealWithTheDevil. The prequel "Who Decides?" states that he was trying to follow the fortune-reading laid out for him.

The series is currently being written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/702830/Green-Phantom-Queen Green Phantom Queen]] completed with 28 chapters (plus three intermissions) written so far. It can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8719616/1/Horseshoes-and-Hand-grenades here]]. The stories biggest strengths is the focus and backstories on all the characters in the Kamen Rider Fourze mythos (big and small), the development of Gentaro becoming an evil, malicious character through the influence of Ophiuchus, and the consequences of one's actions. Moreover, the author has also added the combined strength of [[Series/KamenRiderAmazon three]] [[Series/KamenRiderV3 different]] [[Series/KamenRiderDenO Kamen Riders]] to even the playing field and more are destined to come as the story unravels.

!!This Fic Provides Examples Of:

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* ActionGirl: Yuki Jojima, Miu Kazashiro, Tomoko Nozama...basically all female characters in the show can kick ass.

* AdultFear: Your child died without you knowing how, then was resurrected by an ancient Serpent to enact revenge. There are other moments shown throughout, though.
* AmazonBrigade: Pun aside, this is the Kamen Rider Club Girls in a nutshell.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Virgo Zodiarts, big time. Considering what [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Ryusei caused]] though...
* AnimalMotif: Ophiuchus, and by extension Gentaro, is represented by snakes.
* AnyoneCanDie: Gentaro dying and resurrecting was the start. [[spoiler: When Shun Daimonji and Misa Torizaki gets killed ten chapters later, all bets are off]].
* ArcWords: "Death shouldn't be the answer." or variations of it. "Who are you? No, what are you?" is also common place.

* CameBackWrong: Gentaro, thanks to Ophiuchus. [[spoiler: Ryusei, Shun, Shotaro and Haruto also count.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Prominent throughout the story.

* {{Crossover}}: Three different Kamen Riders--[[Series/KamenRiderAmazon Amazon]], [[Series/KamenRiderV3 Riderman]], and [[Series/KamenRiderDenO Den-O]]--get involved in the events and decide to help out. The end of XIV "Shadows of the Damned" reveals that [[spoiler: [[Series/KamenRiderDouble Gentaro is heading off to Futo in the future.]]]] In Intermission 2 "Voodoo Child", [[Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight Kit and Maya]] find someone talking about the 'War of the Stars'.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Fourze was more of a VileVillainSaccharineShow with a healthy dose of CerebusRollercoaster at the most, but this fic pushes Fourze into areas that it usually wouldn't go. [[spoiler: The ending of XI Team Spirit, for example, implies that a minor character was ''forced into suicide.'']]

* FollowTheLeader: As stated above, the author was inspired by [[FanFic/MyDarkKing My Dark King]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Fourze's boasted a ''huge'' amount of named characters in the Kamen Rider universe, so it's no exception that many of them will come up sooner or later. Plus we also have two Showa Riders, five Imagins and the [=DenLiner=] crew making appearances. There is already ''50'' characters as of the first Intermission.
** And in the other fics below, more and ''more'' characters are named and introduced. We're gonna need a character sheet in the near future...

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Where it's headed. The story can basically be summed up to: "Thanks to Ryusei killing off TheHero, he gets resurrected and hell breaks loose."
* WesternZodiac: Notable in that Gentaro's birthday falls on November 30th. This usually means he's a Scorpio, but he is considered an Ophiuchus in the story.

"Horseshoes and Hand Grenades" is a Series/KamenRiderFourze {{Alternate Universe Fic}}. Taking place near the climax of the Aries Zodiarts arc, it starts with one simple idea. What would've happened if Gentaro wasn't revived by the Cosmic Switch? What if something else revived him, and what if said something was evil? From [[ForWantOfANail this]], the world of Fourze has gone downhill. With a being known as Ophiuchus involved in Gentaro's resurrection and FaceHeelTurn, all factions involved in the plot change, and some not for the better. The Kamen Rider Club have to live with the fact that they caused this whole mess to happen, the bad guys have to resort to a new plan now that Gentaro has derailed theirs, and Ryusei is going to have to go through hell thanks to his decision to kill Gentaro.

The story is currently being written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/702830/Green-Phantom-Queen Green Phantom Queen]] with 27 chapters (plus three intermissions) written so far. It can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8719616/1/Horseshoes-and-Hand-grenades here]]. The story's biggest strengths with the story is focus and backstories on all the characters in the Kamen Rider Fourze mythos (big and small), the development of Gentaro becoming an evil, malicious character through the influence of Ophiuchus, and the consequences of one's actions. Moreover, the author has also added the combined strength of [[Series/KamenRiderAmazon three]] [[Series/KamenRiderV3 different]] [[Series/KamenRiderDenO Kamen Riders]] to even the playing field and more are destined to come as the story unravels.

The author is also working on many other works that are in the same universe, revolving around other characters in Kamen Rider Fourze--and [[Series/KamenRiderDouble characters]] [[Series/KamenRiderOOO from]] [[Series/KamenRiderWizard other shows]]--that get involved with this madness because of Gentaro's death, some of them happening around the same time as the main conflict. These are:

** ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9036604/1/Wheel-of-Fortune Wheel of Fortune]]'' is the sequel to ''Who Decides'' that follows up on Ryusei's friend, Mei Shirakawa and her struggles to understand why Ryusei did what he did. This also explores her backstory and her struggles to learn about Yamada Tatsumori's history that caused him to invoke Ryusei's DealWithTheDevil in the first place.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9142839/1/SplitxEnd SplitxEnd]]'' tells of Yayoi Tokuda investigating Gentaro's death after seeing him attend his own funeral. Along the way, she meets up with [[Series/KamenRiderWizard Haruto Souma]] and must balance her feelings for him and the danger that is looming as she delves deeper and deeper into Gentaro Kisaragi's past. Crosses over with ''Month of Sundays'' later on.
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10004700/1/Imagine-Dragons Imagine Dragons]]'' takes place in the same events of ''[=SplitXEnd=]'' with Haruto Souma's observations about how he somehow got involved in both the mystery of Gentaro Kisaragi and developing feelings for Yayoi.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9005292/1/A-Month-of-Sundays A Month of Sundays]]'', during the second day of the Kyoto Arc in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, a group of Amanogawa High Students hurry to Futo to stop Foundation X from transforming former Switchers into Zodiarts. They also get involved with other Kamen Riders who accidentally got in the crossfire.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9909036/1/Summertime-Sadness Summertime Sadness]]'' is a collection of shorts detailing the lives of female Amanogawa students prior to the events of Horseshoes and Hand Grenades.

** When Yayoi meets up with them in ''Sundays-8''

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each title is called "Bite".

* ThemeNaming: The titles of the chapters are fruit based idioms.

** "Apple Polishing" means "Giving flattery and praise to obtain support."

* ThemeNaming: Every title starts with the word "Black".
* UnexpectedCharacter: In chapter 6, anyone wanna guess who's the owner of the cosplay shop of the end? [[spoiler:[[Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger Luna Ishwamizu!]]]]

* NamesTheSame: Yuki Jojima and Yuki Joji. Justified due to Jojima's ShoutOutThemeNaming. For convenience, Yuki refers to Jojima, Joji refers to Riderman.
* [[spoiler: {{Ouroboros}}: Ophiuchus' prime objective is to resurrect King Ouroboros from his slumber.]]

* RescueRomance: Haruto saving Yayoi in ''Split-6'' seems to play off this. Yayoi notes that she shouldn't be mixing up Haruto saving her as an act of true love, though.

* FirstPersonPerspective: This time with Haruto, which goes through his thought process as he interacts with Yayoi.

* TitledAfterTheSong: Each chapter is named after a song from the band TheBirthdayMassacre.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Virgo Zodiarts, big time. Considering what [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Ryusei caused]]...

* AnyoneCanDie: Gentaro dying and resurrecting was the start. [[spoiler: When Shun Daimonji gets killed ten chapters later, all bets are off]].

* ABoyAndHisX: Soushi Motoyama, Shun Daimonji, Ban Chosuke, JK and Norio Eguchi with their Imagin partners.

* BreatherEpisode: Zigzagged. The Intermission chapters are breaks from the heavy fighting in the main story...but they also reveal scenes that are being influenced by said fighting.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Ryusei's IDidWhatIHadToDo mentality to kill Gentaro affects ''everyone'' and it's shown that it was stupid to begin with. Likewise Gentaro's sacrifice to Ryusei has become essentially [[SenselessSacrifice useless]] because it now means that he could be used for something even worse.

* FirstPersonPerspective: This time with Haruto.
* TitledAfterTheSong: Named after the band Music/ImagineDragons and is said to have titles based off of their "Night Visions" album.

* {{Flashback}}: Used to explain what happened inbetween moments of the story. For example, Chapter 6.5 explains the fight in the [=DenLiner=] when the previous chapter ended with Mari and Jun escaping said train.

* IronicName: The title refers to an idiom that means "a significantly long time". The story takes place within a 48-hour time frame.

* OnThree: Mari states this in ''Sundays-5.5'' when she and Jun have to jump out of the DenLiner and into a portal to land in the Narumi Detective Agency.

* ThrillerOnTheExpress: Chapters ''5'', ''5.5'' and ''6.5'' deal with Naomi, Hana, Satonaka and Satake-sensei fighting off against Sonada and Kijima.

* WaxingLyrical: Yumeria starts singing the chorus of "Masquerade" when she starts packing up costumes in ''Sundays-12.5''
* WeaponOfChoice: Abe's is a ''tanto'' blade, Ibuki has a ''kursarigama'' and Taira has an axe.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Forbidden Fruit takes place in Zaname City and (supposedly) has no other relationship to any of the other stories.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each title is called Bite.
* LovePotion: The Berry Sweet Love parfait is said to be this, binding the couple who eat it into eternal happiness.