This is inspired by a dream I had the other day. I'm not sure if I'll continue with it, but if it starts to catch on I will. I will also say this. I don't know much about Kamen Rider. Gaim is the only series I have regularly followed, but I'm pretty sure I know enough to get through this.
This story will be (hopefully) unique, because all of the riders featured are creations of different authors. Many of these characters have already been shown in my story "The Accidental Gokai Change". These are different characters to those ones, and NO there will not be a crossover with that story.
Kamen Rider is owned by Toei. Nothing is owned by me.
Many believe the world to be one built on facts. But this is only half of the story. For there is always more then what goes on in the world.
A building explodes, a fire erupts, something terrible happens without warning. Are these just accidents, or is there more to it?
Monsters do exist, not just in actions, but in form, as they have many times before, and no doubt will many generations later.
Over time, the Legend of the Kamen Rider has become synonymous with disasters. And this is the story of the most terrible disaster of all, the one no one saw coming, yet lasted for months.
This is the tale, of the Secret Kamen Rider Wars.
Kamen Riders: Fact or Fiction
"I'm telling you, we have proof of it. Just look." Billy said excitedly as he showed a photo on his cell phone. One of his classmates, Ryan, takes the phone and looks at it, squinting his eyes.
"I don't see much, just a green thing in the distance." He said, handing the phone to someone else.
"That green thing is obviously the leg of the Kamen Rider as it runs away." Billy says, unhappy that they don't obviously see it.
"I don't know it doesn't seem very definitive." Another classmate, Mac said. "It's taken from pretty far and could just be green pants."
"Where did you get this anywhere?" Ryan asked.
"By the bridge. I heard an explosion and managed to get that pic before the rider got away. And look, there's a pic of where the explosion was" Billy told them, showing a picture of a large black burned spot.
"If it was at the bridge how did no one else see it? Kamen Riders are supposed to be big armored monsters or something." A girl said.
"Plus, that burn proves nothing. Probably just some homeless people who built a fire. It's been cold all week." Another boy said.
"Why won't anyone believe me?" Billy said exasperated, seeing that most classmates aren't so sure of the photos credibility.
"It's because no one has ever seen a Kamen Rider before, let alone gotten a photo. You always hear about these pranks and stuff. It's just not a good enough shot to base anything off it." Another girl in the class replied.
"Fine. I'll go back to the bridge and find proof. I'll look all around the city if I have to." Billy said, taking his phone and taking off. No one noticed one classmate in the back giving a thoughtful look.
"He does realize class isn't over right?" Mac said, looking at Billy and shrugging.
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"Man, where could it have gone?" Billy wonders. He had searched the bridge, found nothing conclusive, and had began a search at the old warehouses in the direction the rider had gone. However, there was a reason no one had ever gotten proof of the riders before. They were notoriously hard to track and cleaned up after themselves impeccably.
Suddenly, he heard the sounds of footsteps on gravel, quickly and quietly hiding. Wouldn't do to get caught trespassing or something before he found a rider. However, to his amazement, he saw a strange lion like monster walking by.
Billy was about to run away, when he realized if a monster was nearby, a Rider would certainly show up to stop it. He followed the monster into a ruined building, but accidentally kicked a rock, causing a cascade of rocks to fall, giving away his location. The monster spun around and held out its hand, unleashing strange lightning bolts from it. The bolts blasted the area around him, flushing him from cover. Before he could pick himself off the ground and run, a dozen strange creatures arrived and grabbed him, dragging him to the lion monster.
"What are you doing here?" It growled at him. Its breath smelled terrible, he thought.
"N-N-nothing!" he stammered out.
"An ordinary human would have run away at the sight of us." The lion told its troops. "So obviously, you must be a Rider Spy!"
"No, I was following you because I wanted to get a photo of a Kamen Rider." Billy said before he could think about it.
"Oh really? How stupid do you think I am? I don't think you're a rider spy, I think you might be a rider yourself! I can smell it!"
"On the contrary, I think you're much stupider then you look." A new voice shot out. Everyone spun to get a look at the speaker.
It was Kyle Howell, a student who kept mostly to himself.
"Who are you?" The lion snarled at him.
"Oh come on Leyn Togabito. "The creature seemed to stiffen at the name. "How could you smell he was a rider, when the wind is coming from," Kyle smirks and points behind him. "That way?"
"You mean!?" Leyn Togabito exclaimed.
"Yep." Kyle cheerfully said, holding up a small rectangular belt and affixing it to his waist.
"Degerado's, get him!" Leyn Togabito yelled. The creatures, which resembled augmented humanoid animals immediately let go of Billy and charged at Kyle.
For his part, the loner student didn't seem worried. He slide two coins, one red and one green, into the ends of the device on his belt followed by a yellow coin in the middle slot, before tilting the device. He then took a circular object from the side of his belt and side it down the coins. A strange sound came as it passed each coin, and Kyle held the device in front of his chest, just as the Degerado's reached him.
Henshin
One of the creatures tried to grab him, but several large coins appeared in the air protecting him. The coins started spinning around him until they joined into three coins, same colors as the ones he placed in his belt.
Taka Tora Batta
TaToBa TaToBa TaToba
A voice called out the first three words before singing the last three. In Kyle's place was a black armored figure, with green lines on its legs and waist, yellow lines on the shoulders and arms, and red lines covering the face along with large green eyes. On the chest was a large coin, also with the green, yellow, and red motif.
A Kamen Rider.
"Rider OOO! We suspected you had interfered in operations in this area, so I came prepared." Leyn Togabito boasted as the mismatched colored rider began fighting the Degerado's, with some minor difficulty.
OOO was grabbed from behind, but ducked under a massive punch, allowing it to hit his captor. A buzzing sound was heard as the green on his legs glowed, followed by a tiger's roar and the yellow glowing. Leaping into the air, the reverse claws on the forearms of OOO properly attached themselves, slashing the Degerado off its back and onto its allies. With its new claws and sudden increase in leg speed, OOO was having a much easier time dealing with the hoard of enemies.
Letting out a snarl of anger, Leyn Togabito grabbed Billy, holding him close.
"Stop right there Rider! Unless you want this human's death on your hands!" It spun around and took a step forward to charge, but stopped once Leyn tightened its grip on Billy. "HAHA, human compassion, that's what's makes us stronger!"
Unable to do anything for fear that the innocent bystander might get hurt; the Degerado's began an assault on OOO, hurting him.
"HAHA, you made a mistake crossing the Devil's hand." It boasted, watching OOO get punched and kicked.
Orange Arms!
Spinning around, a blue figure with a giant orange on its head leapt down from the nearby window. The orange struck Leyn Togabito, forcing him to let go. In one fluid move, the figure spun, grabbing Billy and moving him out of the way, and completed its spun, striking the lion monster once again, sending it flying back, landing on the ground hard and sliding away.
The Path of Blossoms to the Stage
A voice called out as the orange on its head "peeled", forming chest armor. In a bright flash the transformation completed, and the figure is now holding a sword whose blade resembles an orange slice.
"Kamen Rider Gaim is here to steal the stage!" The new Rider said, slashing at Leyn Togabito several times. "We may not have been able to destroy you, but we've always stopped you from your conquests, and this time will be no different."
Taka Kamakiri Batta
No longer worried about Billy's safety, OOO began fighting back, switching the yellow medal in its belt with a green one. Once the change was done, the yellow in the arms was now green, and it now had curved blades on the forearms, enabling it to begin slashing at any Degerado's close enough, which was all of them. Within seconds, they all fell to the ground and exploded, freeing OOO to join Gaim in fighting.
"Hey, took you long enough." Gaim said, pulling the handle on the back of its second sword and shooting their enemy.
"I had to take care of some guys who wouldn't take no for an answer." OOO replied, changing back into the Red, Yellow, and Green combination
"I know what you mean. Let's take care of this guy for now." Gaim said placing his orange lock seed on the sword and activating the Orange squash as OOO began running at Leyn.
Gaim charges his Daidarimaru sword with energy before unleashing a series of slashes on Leyn as OOO leapt into the air, flying at Leyn with a sidekick at the same time. The combined attacks destroyed the creature in a blast of fire.
The two riders talked briefly before turning their attention to Billy.
"Are you ok?" Gaim asked.
"Y-Yes. I better go!" he said, trying to flee, but was stopped by OOO, who reached into Billy's pants pocket and took out his phone. "Hey give that back!"
OOO ignored him, bringing up the pictures, confirming his hunch. Billy had taken pictures of the fight. Dropping the phone, he stepped on it, breaking it.
"I have advice for you. Don't speak a single piece off what happened here to anyone, or the Devil's hand will start coming after you next." OOO told him.
"They couldn't do that without exposing themselves? Right, because people would see the monsters." Billy said hopefully.
"Sure, if all they had were monsters. But it'd be no sweat for them to arrange for you to get hit be a drunk driver or killed by a mugger. They've been committing worse atrocities for a century. Killing a teenager to shut him up would be the least of what they've done this week alone." Gaim told him. The two riders turned and took off.
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"Not that I'm not grateful, but what are you doing here?" Kyle asked Tommy, the user of the Gaim armor once both of them had changed back to normal and arrived at his safe house.
"I've been hearing some chatter from the other Riders. Devil's hand is stepping up its game. Not only is it developing new creatures like the Degerado's, but they've even began to sell its mutations to corrupt governments and terrorist groups." Tommy told him.
"Your kidding." Kyle said, taking out some energy drinks and tossing one to Tommy.
"I wish I was. Kabuto is on his way to North Korea to investigate a possible Togabito sighting, and Kiva was nearly when a hoard of Degerado's ambushed him while in South Africa. A bit of good news is that Wizard and Den-O managed to destroy a Convert development station in Egypt last week, so that might take some pressure off. " Tommy tells him, taking a long drink after.
"I don't like it. The only times the hand has made such big moves in the past has been during Wars, what's changed?" Kyle wonders.
"I was wondering the same thing, and everyone I've talked to hate my answer. New leadership: I think Leonardo gave up his seat to someone new, someone with a lot of ideas." Tommy says. Kyle began tapping his counter in thought.
"Well that trend keeps going. It makes sense and I hate it too." Grabbing the remote he turned on the news.
"-continuing our coverage of the deadly accident, 17 year old William Baxter was sadly killed in an industrial accident earlier today. William, often known as Billy, was apparently trespassing on private property belonging to the ExoGeni chemical Corporation, when he was struck by a tanker truck that was departing. The Driver called 911, but tragically Baxter was already dead by the time they arrived." The newscaster reported, showing a picture of the young man.
The same kid Gaim and OOO had just a few hours ago warned about The Devil's hand.
"Look at that scroll on the bottom!" Tommy said. "The accident was only 20 minutes after we left him. They were watching us!"
"Damnit!" Kyle said, smashing his can against the counter.
"We'd better pack up and bail. If they followed us here we could be next." Tommy said. Kyle nodded.
An hour later, the building was firebombed.
The two riders had left 15 minutes prior.
To be continued.
Author's notes: As I said, originally this was inspired by a dream and after some suggestions from other authors I think this could be a great series. It will be different then The Accidental Gokai Change, which I say again will not crossover with this story. I hope everyone likes it.
Next Episode:
Gaim and OOO are on the move, trying to stay one step ahead of the evil working of the Devil's Hand. Traveling in search of the other Kamen Riders, they seek to learn what has changed within the organization, and during this search, the history between both Riders and the Hand is explained.
Mission 2: Strawberry Fights Forever
OOO Medals:
Head: Taka
Body: Tora, Kamakiri
Legs: Batta