The Start of the Paradox
A man is seen walking in a group around a garden. He is looking around the place, looking at the beauty of the flowers.
An older man walks out from the group as the man asked, "Dad?"
"Wait a minute, there's a phone call," said the old guy as he walks away.
The group continues walking around the place while chatting to each other.
A scream is then heard as the man quickly goes toward the scream. He the stops as the old man just now are lying on the ground with a lot of people are standign around the place.
"Dad?" the man asked, shivers. The body is covered with blood and a knife is seen stabbed into the old man.
"NO!"
The same man is seen walking around the place, just like the scene earlier. The old man is still there, walking with the group.
The old man then walks out from the group as the teen asked, "Dad?"
"Wait a minute, there's a phone call," said the old guy as he walks away.
He is about to go with the group when a voice is heard, "Psst, over here."
The teen walks toward a statue as he whispered, "I must be out of my mine. Heh, a talking statue, eh?"
"Your dad is about to get stab. Save him," the voice is heard again.
Is this some kind of joke?
The teen walks around the place alone as he search for his father.
He then saw a man wearing a brown coat rushes toward his father with a knife in his grip.
The teen quickly rushes toward his father and pushes him away. He then got stabbed by the man at his rib.
The attacker is shock as he runs away from there.
The teen takes out the knife forcefully and throws it toward the attacker. The knife is then got hit on the head as he fells down.
The teen is shock as he looks around the place. What was that voice just now?
It has been years. The same teen, namely Zakri Aiman bin Hashim, wakes up on his bed. He then looks around as he walks out of his room.
Zakri appears in a dining room minutes later as a girl on a wheelchair greets him, "Good morning, abang (big brother)!"
"Hi, adik (little sister)," the teen greets her back.
Zakri walks toward the girl as he rubs her hair, "I'm sorry I can't spend my times with you. I have to go meet my friends. But, I promise that I will as soon as I get home, okay?"
The girl smiles as she happily nods.
The teen is walking toward a building as he recaps back everything in his life.
Years ago, a mysterious voice appears inside his head several times, telling him to do something. Like a robot, he did what has been told and gets no answer of what happened.
His younger sister, the girl earlier, namely Aminah Rashikah, is having a mysterious disease. She is paralyzed when she is stillborn and forced to stay on the wheelchair for her life. He is the only person care for her.
"Yo, Zakri!" a voice is heard.
A Malay man is walking toward him.
Zakri glares at him, "Dude, we are still civilized citizens. And 'yo' is not how we greet each other."
A Japanese girl appears beside him, "I told him before, but he is not a kind of people who would learn to others..."
Zakri sighs as he tries his best to run away from them. Those two are his friends, Arip and Hikari. There are always arguing and playing around him. Their michievous attitude makes him wonders, how did he ended up with them.
The two actually catch him up as Arip says to him, "Owh, sombong ye? (too much of an ego?)"
Hikari quickly interferes, "How's your sister?"
"Same old, same old," I replies after letting out some sighs..
His sister, the girl in the wheelchair, Nora Syikin binti Hashim, has been paralyzed ever since she was born. She was diagnosed by a mysterious disease unknown to a lot of people. Her legs stop functioning without any reason after she is pushed out from the womb.
Nora has to stay on the wheelchair for years. It's not just her feet that isn't moveable, but also her hands are hard to move. The bones inside are weaker and more fragile than people normally have.
Because of her disability, she always become the subject of arguement between his mother and father. They are now divorced and live separately from each other. Zakri decided to stay with his mother because she insist to take care of Nora, which something she never did at all. It was him, his big brother and his big sister who take care of the girl.
"It must be hard," Hikari responds. "Living with a burden on your back."
Zakri interferes, "Hey, at least I'm happy with my life."
They suddenly knock a blonde haired Japanese girl, who is carrying books. The loads then fell on the ground.
"Owh, I am so sorry!" Zakri quickly helps the girl lifting the books.
Their eyes meet for a moment. She then quickly grabs her books and runs away from there, without even look at him.
Moving separate ways, the girl finally turns around to see him for a while. She then sighs, "He can never remember me anymore..."
She walks away from there when he decides to look at her one more time, "I wonder where did I met her before? She does look familiar, though."
Zakri suddenly senses something as he looks around him.
A small young girl is running on the middle of a street nearby. A black sport car rushes fast toward the girl.
He quickly runs toward the girl and pushes her out of the trouble. The car is getting closer to him. Without any thoughts, he punches the front of the car as it gets closer to him. The vehicle flies above him and lands somewhere on the roadside. A lot of people gathers around the car.
Zakri is shock with what just happened. He never felt that strog before.
"How did I do that?" he asks himself. He never active in any outdoor sports or doing any exercises in his entire life. Just where did the super strengths came from?
The girl he knocked earlier appears beside him, wrapping her arm around his, "Follow me. I know the answer."
She pulls him away from there, while been watched by Arip and Hikari from the crowd.
Hikari asks Arip, "Did he just got kidnapped by a girl?"
Arip replies, "Just like in Superhero Movie. With great powers come great bi-"
The girl quickly smacks his lips, "No foul language please."
Zakri is following the girl from behind at a city. "Can I at least know your name please?" he asked her.
"Tina. Tina Kurosaki."
"Tina?" Zakri asks again. "Tina, the number one student in my batch?"
"I don't like how people love to call me that," she replies, aggreing.
They then enter a skyscraper and goes to the highest floor there, the 20th floor.
Elsewhere, a group of people wearing different colour robes with hoods are seen somewhere strange. The place fills with rocks and the sky is violet.
A black haired dark brown eyes girl in a red robe suddenly says, "Red feels great power. Red is curious."
A red haired girl in yellow robes responds, "Red, you are always like that."
"But she is right," a blonde man in green robes replies, "There is someone with great powers. It's like his power is at the same level as ours."
A man in brown robes interferes, "Bullshit! No one is better than us, Timer. No one!"
Nearby, a man in black robes smiles. He then takes out a needle and throws it into a vortex.
Zakri and Tina ended up in an office. The office is white with a lot of stuff in it, showing authority by its look. There is a 30 years old-like man in a black coat at the corner of the room.
"Welcome, Mr. Zakri. I've been expecting you," he said as he sits on a chair nearby. "Please sit down."
The two of them grab two chairs and sit o them.
Zakri proceeds to ask him, "Who are you? How did you know my name? Why did you wanted to see me?"
The man smiles, "First thing first. My name is Riku Aikawa, the CEO of Time Port Corporation. Now, did you know about time machine?"
Zakri responds, " You mean the one that people bury into the ground and dig it out some time later?"
"That's time capsule," Tina corrected her.
"A machine that people used to travel back through time?"
"You actually know that, didn't you?" Tina smirks.
Years ago, a group of scientist have found a way to travel through time, thus creating the first time machine. Due to a war, the project have been buried and gone for decades. A year before, the blueprint of the machine was found by archeologist and the copies were sold to a lot of people using eBay. Time machines-related companies were then built and people are free to travel to the past or future.
Zack sighs, "It's just doesn't make any sense. If people can go into the past, aren't they might causes some changes in the history? Would it be bad?"
"Indeed it is," Riku replies. "A lot of history has been changes before. Those changes create paradoxes, creating new timelines with new memories. All the staffs in the companies were been given a device that could help them remember the last timeline."
Tina continues, "This world have been facing with a lot of timeline. Japan and Gerany succeeding in winning the war. The Nanking incident were never happened. Soviet Union and America never split up and the Cold War never happened. Heck there is a history about the world is covered with tacos as the land and orange juice as the sea. It doesn't turn out very good."
Zakri shocks. Taco as the land and juice as the sea? That is a dream come true for some people.
Riku then says, "You see, we here have policies of our own. If a timeline is too dangerous for this world to bear, we are going to contribute in changing the world back to its order before. And because huma bodies cannot take a lot of pressure, one person can only time travelling three times only."
"The changes made might causes harmful effects to the one who changes the history. Because of that, we can only allow them t use three times only, regardless what company they used before."
"And that's where your part is," Riku says to him.
Zakri is shock, again. "What did you mean?"
Tina sits closer to him, "You are one of the time travellers that are supposed to be banned from using the time machine due to the policy."
Zakri responds, "I have used it three times, huh? I don't think I ever wanted to travel again."
Tina corrects him, "Not three times, but million times."
"Wait, what?" Zakri looks at her.
"Yes," Riku replies. "Million times."
"But, the policy..."
"You ignored the policy before and travelled with a lot of reasons," the girl interferes.
Zakri is still shock, "But...I thought...people can't use more...their bodies might be harmed..."
"But nothing happened to you," Riku responds. "Out of the people, you are the only person who isn't effected by the harmful effects. Your body instead getting healthier and healthier."
Zakri looks at a window, thinking. If he is not mistaken, he never feel sick before. When a lot of his friends are caught in the infamous H1N1, he is the only person who survived without any traces.
"That's not all," he says again. "You are getting stronger with each paradoxes you made."
"Remember the accident just now? That's the prove of the paradoxes you made," Tina explains to him.
Zakri sits there for a while. "What should I do now?"
"Be the Paradox."
He is shock once more. "What?"
Tina opens her mouth, "Recently, a being appears from people that used to make some of the paradoxes. The being is known as Tokijin. They act bsed on what the travellers had changed before. If that person changes the death of someone, the Tokijin will commits homicide. They will continue those acts until they are destroyed."
"To counter the threats, our company assembled a team called Time Corps. They are a dedicated team that fight the Tokijin," Riku continues. He then points at Tina, "Tina here is the Time Captain, the leader of a group of Time Corps."
Tina takes out a box and opens it up, reveal a belt with a some kind of spinner on it. She then puts it on the table, "This is Paradox Driver. It was created by us to fight those being more efficiently. A whole team of Time Corps is needed to fight a single Tokijin. With this belt, one can fight even three Tokijin at the same time."
Riku then explains some more, "This belt is so powerful, that almost no one can use it without harming themselves."
"Why me?" Zakri asks them. "If it is so dangerous, how can I use it?"
Tina sits closer to him as she puts her left palm on his arm, "If you can did numbers of paradoxes without harming yourself, you surely can use it better than us."
Zakri thinks for a bit. If he is forced to help in fighting those Tokijin, isn't that mean he would not live like a normal teenagers? That also mean he won't have free times for himself. What about Nora? He cannot take care of her if he is busy...
"I refuse."
Zakri stands up as he walks away from there.
Tina's facial expression changes from calm to sad. She sighs. "I knew he won't say yes..."
"He might never be like him...like that person..."
A black needle, possibly the same needle shot by the black robe man appears from a clear vortex and ended up into a man. The man stops suddenly and shouted in Malay, "Mati! (Die) Semua pergi mati! (Everyone dies)"
A tiger-like red creature appears out of him forcefully as it attacks everyone around it.
Back to the office, a ringtone is heard as Tina takes out a green iPhone 4. She looks at the screen for a while, "Jaguar Tokijin appears."
She runs out from the office. Riku looks at his table as he notices something, "Where is the belt?"
A group of green armored people are seen shooting the Jaguar Tokijin.
Tina is running toward the scene as she wraps her iPhone around her left wrist. She outs something on her phone and pulls out a lever from it, "Henshin!"
Pieces came out of the brace, Time Brace, and lands on her body, giving her a reddish green suit.
"Captain!" shouted one of the armored people.
Tina shouts, "Corps, attack!"
All of them takes out their combat knives as they charged toward jaguar. Tina takes out a SMG and attaches the same knife on it. She then attacks the Tokijin.
Zakri is now sitting on a sofa inside his home. He is spacing out while looking at the floor.
Nora appears at his side on her wheelchair. She had hard time moving her chair.
"Abang, what's wrong?" she asked her brother.
Zakri is shock as he replies, "N...Nothing..."
Nora lets out a pure, innocent smiles, "Abang, don't let yourself burden by me. Kakak (big sister) is still here taking care of me. If you want to do something, just do it."
"But..."
"It's okay. I trusted you..."
Zakri smiles as a bright skin, black straight-haired Malay girl appears behind Nora, "Nora, be careful with your surroundings, will you?"
"Can you please take care of her, kakak?" Zakri said to her as he runs out of the house.
The girl confused, "Where is he going ?"
Nora whispers, "Fight, Kamen Rider Paradox."
The team minus Tina is already knocked out by the strong Jaguar Tokijin. Tina is still fighting the feline monster.
She takes out the knife from the gun and stabs it on the neck. The Tokijin screams as it pushes her away. Angered, it slowly walks toward her, readying its claws.
A side kick is hit onto the knife as it goes deeper into the monster. The jaguar is pushed away from there.
"Are you okay?" Zakri asks her as he helps her stand up.
Tina smiles, seeing her saviour, "I knew you would come. I always knew that."
"Seems like you know me," he responds, smirking.
Tina takes out the belt as she gives it to him, "Fight, as the Paradox."
Zakri nods as he grabs the belt and wears it around his waist, "Omae wa paradox kara jikkō suru koto wa dekimasen (you can never run from the paradox)"
"Why in Japanese?" she asks him. He replies, "I don't know."
Zakri takes out a stopwatch on the side of his belt and inserts it into the spinner. He then spins it 90 degree. He then shouts, "Time, Henshin!"
TIME!
Number 1 until 12 appears holographically in front of the belt and the numbers fly away. They then becomes pieces of armor and attach itself onto him, giving him a grey and white suit.
The suit is motived on a stopwatch. The helmet has a straight black visor and a blank mouthpiece covering the whole of his mouth. A tiger feature is seen on the helmet.
The Jaguar Tokijin is shock as it is trembles in fear.
"I am, Kamen Rider Paradox," Zakri says as he readies with his fighting stance.
He then charges toward the monster as he jumps and punches it on the head. The jaguar tries to fight back by gives out a punch, but Zakri is faster in dodging. He punches on the stomach again and again and again, several times until the monster thud away.
Zakri spin the spinner 360 degree as the belt announces, "TIME UP!"
He then jumps high as 12 numbers appear spirally in order toward the Jaguar Tokijin with the number 1 is in front of him and the number 12 is on the chest of the jaguar. Paradox then lets out a side kick toward the monster as he kicks through the numbers one by one.
The kick hits it as it explodes into thin air. A black flame is seen on the site.
Paradox de-transforms as he looks at the flame for a while.
Tina walks toward him as she taps his shoulders, "Welcome to the team."
Back to the colored robes people, the man in brown robe, Brown Timer, says, "That man just defeated a Tokijin all by himself! How can this be!"
A man in violet robe, Violet Timer, responds, "Kamen Rider Paradox, heh? Interesting."
The yellow robe girl, Yellow Timer, looks at the red robe girl, "Hey, Red Timer. What are you going to do about him? He is possibly our biggest threat right now."
"Red wants a new toy! Red wants him!" the red robe girl, Red Timer, replies cheerfully.
The green robe guy, Green Timer, looks at the black robe guy, Black Timer, "Yo, Black Timer. What now?"
"Learn more about him, shall we?" Black Timer smiles as he walks away.
Far from them, a figure in blue robes looks at the violet sky. She takes off her hood, reveals to be Nora(?). She then whispered, "It's time to fight, Kamen Rider Paradox."
Finally finish this super incredibly hard thinking story. Came from my dream of travelling through time using machine and changing history along the way.
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Next: More about Zakri and his life. Why did he fight? Why must he fight? Also Tina's role in the story. At the same time, Bear Tokijin is seen crashing through traffics.
Omae wa paradox kara jikkō suru koto wa dekimasen!